The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-29 00:00:00

GREENOCK.-,OPENING OF THE RAILWAY.

_Monday two locomotives with twelve waggon• loaded
with coke arrived at the terminus, direct from Glasgow.
At Paisley the arrival of the train was hailed with cheers,
and on arriving at Bishopton the workmen and villagers
turned out and welcomed the unexpected ♦isitors by tre-
mendous cheering. The trains, in coating over the line,
were stopped on every arch, and thus tried the stability of
the works. The first train ran over the whole line of the
railway the very day that the Ptupendous and magnificent
water-wheel of the cotton-mill performed its first revolu-
tions. Tuesday next the Directors and Shareholders are
to proceed from this town to Glasgow by the railway ; and,
on the following day, the line is to be open to the public.
We congratulate our readers on the near completion of a
work fr,2rn which we confidently anticipate much conve-
nience to individuals, and great benefit to the town.
Glasgow Chronicle.
SHAMEFUL AND UNFEELING FRAUD.—We
have received a number of communications, in reference to
the scandalous fraud perpetrated upon mechanics and others
by offering them engagements in New York, on condition
of their sending a sovereign each, to secure registration ;
but, as these do not add materially to the facts detailed
in the Guardian on Wednesday, we do not think it neces-
sary to publish any of them. From what has come to our
knowleige on the subject, we are inclined to think that
many of those who have been imposed upon by the letters
of Mr. Washington Percival, and induced to send a sove-
reign each to No. 2, Oxford-street. will recover their money;
as he seems to have taken alarm at something which ho saw
or heard, and discontinued his ,:sits to the house,
before any large number of letters had arrived. One
communication which we have received, states that there
were in the care of the police as many letters as a man
could hold in both hands, many of them evidently contain-
ing money or orders. We believe it will turn out that no
letters which arrived in London after the ltitk instant
would fall into the bands of the swindlers; and those
parties who transmitted money on or after that day would
do well to address letters to the head Commissioners of
the Metropolitan Police, Scotland Yard, London, re-
questing that their money may be returned; taking care
at the same time, to give very careful and clear directions
as to the mode in which letters are to be addressed so as
to find them.-21fanchester Guardian.
CHARTIST VINDICATION.—Mr. Hethering-
ton, in a letter to the Chronicle, attempts a vindication of
the wrong-headedness of the Chartist'. Failing in novel
argisateate, he introduces the story of the cock. " The
working classes who attend public meetings are Leginning
to take a right view of their position. They view the
parties calling a public meeting, for any purpose nut in-
cluding the suffrage, in the light of the rustic who was re.
presented convoking the poul'ry of his barn-yard, with this
opening address;—' Dear animals, I have assembled von
to advise me what sauce I shall dress you with ;' to which
a cock responding, We don't want to be eaten,' is
checked by You wander from the point.' Just so with
you, Sir. When we demand political justice and protec-
tion above all other things, you tell us that we wander
from the point,' and ' deprecate' public meetings, called
for the express purpose cf asking the cocks what sauce
they shall be dressed with—being thus violently thrust
into abeyance,' "

REVISION OF OUR COMMERCIAL CODE.—
On Wednesday morning, at eleven o'clock, pursuant to
notice, the Mayor presided at a public meeting held for the
above purpose in the Town-hall. Mr. T. H. Higgin
then moved the adoption of a petition, praying Parliament
to revise the whole of our Commercial Code. Mr. J.
Armstrong seconded the adoption of this proposition. A
mechanic of the name of Lund,seconded by another named
Addison, moved an amendment, to the effect that the work-
ing classes were much interested in this discussion, and that
therefore it should be adjc urned until half-past seven, in order
to give them an opportunity of attending. Agreed to.
At the adjourned meeting Mr. John Greg made a few re-
marks. Thomas Lund, a Chartist, said the Chartists
are favourable as any man con be to free trade, yet we
differ from many things the last speaker has said. The
W^nigs have given us some good measures, but they have
also with them given us bushels of Evil. Look at the
COE tinuance of the war system. Is it right to increase
Dirt commerca and extend the Gospel at the point of the
bayonet ? He despaired under the present system of ever
sitting the rights of the people attended to, land therefore
should move, as an amendment, that the charter,
as a means to an end, take priorlty of all other measure:.
'lbis amendment was seconded by another Chartist. The
Weyer said that the amendment proposed by Lund could
nont be put. Mr. T. H. Higgin agreed with what the
Mayor had said. The original motion was carried. Af er
tbanking the Mayor the meeting separated.—Lancashire
Guardian.
We hear that some curious discoveries of old
c Dins, bones, &c., have lately been made in pulling down
the French Protestant church in Theadneedle-street, by
Mr. Moxliay, the purchaser of the ground from the City.
One of the coins appears (although the image and super-
scription are almost entirely effaced) to be one of
Cha rtes I. 's reign. From a reference to old books and
rece,rds, the space in the immediate vicinity of the French
church, which is enclosed on one side by Threadneelc-
stre et, and on the other by Old Broad-street, was for-
meely laid out in garden?.