The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-20 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE ELECTION.

On Friday evening last that old and excellent Reformer,
Major Revell, gave a splendid entertainment to the two Mem-
bers, and the elite of the Liberal interest of that wealthy and
populous borough. Among the company present we observed
Colonel Leicester, Professor Key, lessrs. Ivimey, Drake,
Bacon, Dyke, Charnock, Stockton, Potter, Willson, and many
other highly respectable and influential gentlemen connected
with the borough. The dinner and wines were of the choicest
description, and did great credit on the taste and liberality of
the worthy host. On the cloth being removed, Major Revell,
who at " three score years and ten " possesses the fire of youth,
and the energy of manhood, addressed his.guests in a strain of
manly and vigorous eloquence, of which the following
is but a faint outline :—" Friends and brother Re-
formers" (said the Gallant Major) " this is one of the
proudest days of my long life, for I have lived upwards of
seventy years, born in an out-and-out Tory family, brought
up with Church and State passive obedience, and 'non-resist-
ance ever ringing in my cars, I bid fair to become as furious
and bigoted a Tory as ever galloped upon an unarmed and de-
fenceless mob, or shouted with the zealot Gordon " No Pa-
pery !" But, gentlemen, my father, like myself, had a library,.
and 1 read the works of Bacon, Locke, Milton, Russell, and.
others, and I soon became etnbued with an almost holy enthu-
siasm for that cause for which Hampden died in the field, and
Sidney en the scaffold.—(Laud cheers.) At that time, gen-
tlemen, to be even a Whig, was unfashionable, but
to be a Radical Reformer—to fearlessly express our opi-
nions, as we may now—(Loud cheers)—was to become a.
marked man - many and many a tough fight have 1 had with
that worthy old gentleman (pointing to his father's portrait);
he fancied the scaffold, Botany Bay. or the dungeon, must be,
the end of my foolish conduct. But, gentlemen, the seeds of
liberty were sown, and had taken deep root, and I. had no
more power to check their growth, even within ray awn bosom,
than Canute had to control the ocean ; on, and on, the tide of
Reform rolled, with a torrent irresistible; not the banishing
0,. some of the brightest patriots—not the remorseless butchery
of insiustrious citizens, peaceably assembled to petition for their
right,not the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act—not all
the gaggin,... of Castlereagh, nor the base system of espion-
r"rosryfoarraismtoco rma ceyn—t. t h All
this
slie di tbsyptrhoeg
cf ye,:te:day- thoie servile tools of a mentalle-
this time, too,
Age of Siftn6i:vrtl6l,,,,eno:ulodppstoi
mushroom Peers
afflicted monarch • fur nee "r let us forget that the ancient
nobility of England—men
we'o add grace and dignity to the
peerage, have ever been the pe.°Ple's friends. Witness: he
Norfolks, the Devonshires, the Su.mersets, the Bedfords, the
Fitzwilliams, and many others I might name.—( Loud cheers. )
Well, gentlemen, the Whigs wished to•seassist the people, but
George the Third hated them ; George the Faarth, false to all
his early friends and principles, detested them ; William the
Fourth took them, not out of any love for theist or their prin-
cieles, but as men take physic—the country was rick, and the
King had to swallow the Russell purge.—(U'eers and
laughter.) And now, gentlemen, this brings me to Ilk,' imme-
diate object of my risina--our young and lovely 0
_osaen.
(Immense cheering.) Born when the sun of liberty was ri,,ipg
on the country—bred with the utmost care by a mother—(% e -
hernent cheering)--the bare mention of whose name, I per-
ceive, is sufficient to elicit your warmest approbation, and not
without cause, for to tLat lady England owes an everlasting~
debt of gratitude for the tducation of her Royal daughter
—the brightest gem that ever graced the Imperial
Crown of England. The Queen has nobly done her
duty to her people, will the people do. theirs? You have!
Would that every place had answered the Queen's appeal as you
have done. I, Gentlemen, am getting somewhat old. Time
has laid his rude hand upon me, and cramped my energies ;
but though I envied the friends around me their activity, yet
my heart was just as warm as theirs be; and in inviting
you here this evening, to meet your'\rorthy Representatives,
and to honour the toast. I am about to teeopose, have I sought
out the high and wealthy only? No,
Gei, tlemen. I see be-
fore me the blood, the bones, the thews, the :inews of the Re-
formers -of Al arylebone. And now, Gentlemen,-
don my having detained you. I see the impatience you display
,
Re-
you will par-
at being kept so long from the toast." A bumper to the Queen,
with nine times nine and one cheer more, was then gi:Yen, after
which " God save the Queen" was sung by the wholeof the
company upstanding.
The CHAIRTIAN, after recapitulating all the public act! of
Sir H. Hall and Sir Charles Napier, concluded by pro,v§wg
4, The health of our Represent atives."—(A pplati‘e. )
Sir B. HALL and Sir C. Nartett returned thanks.
Professor KEY proposed " Mr. Dyke and the glorious majo-
rityh of electors favourable to Reform principles in thehs.vt ,
where the Tories most miserably overrated their sthreenev
certain Tory lawyer) arose,
ma-
jority in his district (notwithstanding the proud boas
ogf
our
Committee, Mr. DYKE, in returning thanks, observed that
boasting
oaCommittee, but from the excellent
ftmfaoterrithe Tories" let the
"t from riValssui\v e had to work-
upon. How far " the south was
Polleds m* ore than two to nee—
po.l-books testify.
635 against 311!--(NAVhpyr,
laussae)d we will wait at home till be-
many more in reserve, h" and more than that, I: had
without us, do; and I am most happy to
ready for you ; but, for God's
sake, if
ft hylovue
can do
dfoouwrito'voloock,
votes all good men and true, who
of three hundred and fifty
and
have polled for the
would have increased our majority,
add, that throughout the borough we had a reserve of upwards
Reformers more than s,ooo.—(Cheers.)
3:, delighted with the intelligence and hospita-
m
litylobfetch(eir.sa.enn-erable host, did not separate till a late hour,
FALL OF THE FACTORY 'N.A NCOAT.S.--1. he
adjourned inquest on the four bodies of the unfortunate
men who were killed by the fall of part of a factory itt
Ancoats was resumed on Tuesday, and after an investiga-
tion which lasted upwards of seven• hours, the jury re-
turned a verdict " That the fall of the building was
caused by one or more of the caps of the beam-boxes
breaking ; but that no blame was attributable to any
one, and thitt the deceased came to their death acct.-
' dentally." A subscription has been opened to relieve the
families of the sufferers, and several gentlemen have
kindly consented to act as a Committee for the above
obj ?ct.—Manchester Paper.
GERMAN MANNERS,—" The English race,
root and branch, are, what with their natural shyness
their conventional reserves, and their radical uncourte-
ousness, cold and repelling. The politeness of the French
is conventional. It seems in part the result of their seas •
of personal grace, and in part of a selfish calculation or
making the most of what costs nothing; and partly, 30
doubt, it is the spontaneous effect of a vivacious naturit.
There is a deep-seated humanity in the courtesy of the
Germans. They always seem to be.feeling a gentle pres-
sure from the cord that interlaces thorn with their spe-
cies. They do not wait, as Schiller sap, till you' freely
invite' to friendly stretch you a hand, but the hand is
instinctively stretched out and the kind deed ready to
follow it. This suavity is not limited to any rank or con-
dition. It extends all the way down from the prince to
the poorest peasant. Some of our party driving out in a
hackney-coach yesterday, met some German ladies in a
coach with four horses, postillions, foOtmen in livery,
and other marks of rank and wealth. What would Ame-
ricans have done in a similar position? Probably loobeti
away and seemed unconscious. And English ladies would
have dohe the same, or, as I have seen them in
111
park; have. leaned back in their carrtres, and stared N..: .;,
an air of mingled indifference and insolence through. tlr
eye- ;lasses, as if their inferiors in condition could 1),..0
to be stared at. The German ladies boWed most eourtv.,
oitsly to the humble strangers in the haaney-coach."—
Miss Sedgwick's Letter from Abroad,