The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-15 00:00:00

MALT TAX.

At the January meeting of the General Committee
a the Central Agricultural Society, held on Tuesday, at
No. 17, Old Bond-street, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted :
" I. That this society entertains a strong sense of the
impolicy and injustice of the malt tax—interfering as it
does most mischievously with the profitable cultivation
of the soil—and is of opinion that it is alike injurious to
the morals and comfort of the labourint, classes. This
society, therefore, pledges itself to use all constitutional
means within. its power to obtain, as soon as shall ap-
pear practicable, the total repeal of the malt. tax.
"2. That a deputation be appointed to wait upon
Lord John Russell to express the opinion of this society,
as conveyed in the foregoing resolution.
" 3. That Ilia Grace the Duke of Richmond be re-
quested to communicate with Lord John Russell for the
purpose of ascertaining an early day on which it will be
convenient that his Lordship should-receive the depu-
tation."

WITHDRAWAL OF SIR CULLLNG SMITH, AND Dis-
10.15FTION OF HIS COMMITTER.—SUNDAY TRAINS.—Some
time since we disinterred an extract from a speech made
by Sir Culling Smith after the late election, in which he
expressed manly and liberal sentiments in opposition to
such doctrines and practices as those of the four directors
and their. abettors. We also attempted to show the
leading members of his committee the indecency they
were committing in denouncing with so much violence
the principles of their own candidate ; and pointed out
that Sir Culling was too good for them, and that they
must forthwith proceed to look out for somebody worse,
and more suitable. This advice has been acted upon
sooner than could have been anticipated. The commit•
tee took up the question some time since, and had, we
hear, many meetings on the subject, a great difference of
opinion being found to exist. At last it was proposed,
as a compromise, that the question should be made matter
of forbearance—a proposition which would have been
carried, had not the party opposed to Sir Culling's
views asked and obtained a delay. At the next
meeting of the committee there was a • large
muster of members not formerly in the habit of
attending; by whose votes a motion to the effect that
Sir Culling Smith should be pressed to retract
his opinion regarding Sunday trains was carried by a
considerable majority. The majority, we believe, then
proceeded to put it to Sir Culling whether he would
" legislate against railways being permitted to run trains
on Sunday," making an affirmative answer the condition
of their support. Sir Culling, to his honour, positively
and firmly refused to give the pledge demanded ; and a
long correspondence has now ended in his committee's
dissolving. their connexion with him, and also, we
believe, dissolving themselves. The whole correspond-
ence is about to be published (at Sir Culling's request,
we understand), when we shall be better able to see the
whole extent of this curious "calamity." Really, it is
painful to think that Sir Culling should have only one
good article in his creed—one intelligible and well de-
fined principle—and that it should have proved one too
many for the majority of his Edinburgh committee. As
to the minority who approved of Sir Culling's views on
the point in dispute, we believe that although the others
are exerting themselves to conceal the names, we may
safely say that it included all, or nearly all, of those
whose temporary secession from the Liberal ranks caused
either surprise or regret.—Scotsman.
BLACK MAN'S DREAM.—A number of years by-
gone a man named Peter Cooper happened to marry one
of our fair . townswomen, who did not use him with that
tenderness that he conceived himself entitled to. Having
tried all other arts to retrieve her lost affections in vain,
Peter at last resolved to work upon her fears of punish-
ment in another world for her conduct in this. Pretend-
therefdre, to awake; one morning, extravagantly
alarmed, his helpmate was full of anxiety to know what
was the matter ; and having sufficiently, as he thought,
whetted her curiosity by mysteriously hinting that "he
could a tale unfold," at length Peter proceeded as fol-
lows :—" IL—ll of a dream last night. I dream Igo to
hebben and rap at the dos, and gent'man came to de
w
dos wid black coat and o dahair. Whoa dere ? Peeta
Coops ! Whoa PeetaP Coopa ! Am not know you.
Not knows Peeta Coopa
e boo
de book, an he look d ►
l,t
!lad
de book sa. He take
book, and he couldna find Pests
Coopa. Den I say, oh
!look again, finds
Peeta Coops in a coma. lie
de book an he look
de book, an 'at last he finds
Peeta Coopa in Lilly, !illy
(little) coma. Peeta Coopa cook ob d
Royal Char-
lotte, ob Gisenock.' Walk in sa. Den I in, and
e too,
Ir n
there was every On all kind of vittal, eZakili)
(
and
,I eat, and I drink, and I dant, and I Ling, andw
be done ; segar, too, by gum. Den I say, Oh lad, oelvil
look for Peeta Coopa wife. He take de book, and' he
look all oba do book, many, many, many a time, Corm
an all, and he couldna find Peeta Coopa wife. Den
say, Oh ! lad, oh ! look de black hook. Ile took de
black book, and he findna Peeta Coopa wife first page,
;Peeta Coops wife, buckrawoman, bad to her husband f"1
OUTCHER'S CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—Last even-
ing; the 18th annual general meeting of the members of the
aboe e institution was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great
Queen.-street, John Sharp,- Esq. (the president), in the chair.
The rei sort read by Mr. Ness (the secretary) announced that
the sock 'tY now had 1,100 subscribers. Since the last meet-
ing eight new pensioners had been elected on the funds, in-
creasing th 0 number to 123. The committee had invested
4031. more ill the Three per Cent. Consols,. making the pre-
sent amount :if stock 9,827/. The total rebeipts daring the
past year amounted to 2,062/, and the expenditure, of which
.f 1291. went for the support of pensioners, left a balance in the
hands of the treasurer of 4941. The report having been una-
nimously adopted, and the officers for She ensuing ye
elected, the tneetinterantedo