The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-31 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION.

doom Liverpool to the fate of Tyre and Sidon, not be-
cause the, people of Liverpool had risen up as an abomi-
nation by their sins, but they would reduce Liverpool to
ashes in order that they, the proud aristocrats, might sit
in state a little longer.—(Hear, hear.) There was
another fallacy always used in advocating this sub-
ject. They said, "We have no objection to a little corn
corning in when it is wanted, but why deluge this coun-
try with foreign corn when it was not wanted ? There
was just one little misconception in this, and then all
would be right. Who was to judge whether it was
wanted? Was it to be the man who sat in his silken palace
receiving enormous rents from the poor, or the starving
hand-loom weaver, and those • miserable wretches of
whose miserable state they had heard so much ?
After showing the evil effects of the 'sliding scale, he
said that the only'two extensive corn dealers who had
gone, so far as he knew, from the first for a total repeal .
of the Corn-laws, was their own noble President and
Mr. Joseph Sturge.—(Tremendous and continued cheer-
ing.) He then alluded to Sir Robert Peel and his slid-
ing scale. There was a time when that person was run-
ning about Lancashire a white-headed boy. His father
was only a calico printer like himself ; and was it not a
shame that a man so fostered should go forth merely to
be the advocate of a selfish and feudal aristocracy ?
(Cheers.) Yes, Lancashire had nursed him and fostered
him in its bosom, and he had turned round and stung it.
But what would Lancashire do now ? It would pull
him down again. He was a Churchman, and
lie learned his Anti-Corn-law creed from his prayer-
book, and he did not • see how any Member of the
Establishment could, with consistency, or with safety to
his own salvation, assist in upholding the bread-tax.
What said the Liturgy ? In the time of dearth and
famine, the following was appointed to be read : "0 God,
our heavenly Father, whose gift it is that the rain doth
fall, that the earth is fruitful, beasts increase, and fish
do multiply, behold the desolation of thy people, mid
grant that the scarcity and dearth which we do most
justly suffer for our iniquities, may, through thy good-
ness, be turned into cheapness and plenty." Here
scarcity and dearness are spoken of as being the same,
and plenty and cheapness. Now what was the meaning
of the Corn-laws ? Was it not to make corn dear ? for
how could they make it dear unless they made it scarce?
They had an Act of Parliament to make corn scarce,
and yet they had a prayer in the Liturgy of their Church
which made the clergy of their Church mock the Deity
by using it.—(Hear, hear; and loud applause.)
The Meeting shortly afterwards broke up.

TORY-CHARTISTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir—Having, for twenty-five years, joined' every so-
ciety of Reformers but that of the ToiT-Chartists; which
no honest..man will join, I solicit the insertion of a few
remarks in your liberal columns. I see by' yesterday's
papers that the above-named enemies of the working man
have issued an :address to the labouring classes, . urging
them on to elect none but Tories in the approaching
contest. Base, scoundrelly turncoats ! What, send men
to Parliament who sanctioned the Manchester massacre,
—who passed the. Six Actswho suspended the Habeas
Corpus—who estahliSbed military law—who were com-
pelled by the people and the Sovereign to allow the
Whigs to pass the Reform Bill—who, even now, declare
that the people of. England shall eat dear bread, dear
sugar, and dear everything, while tens of thousands are
without employment, 'and dying for food ! SUpport
men like these ? Yes ; the dirty, Tory-bribed O'Con-
norites avow it. But, mark, Sir, all that the M`Doualls,
Martins, Walls, &c. can do, is—nothing ! Talk of the
Tory-Chartists influencing an election ! How ? In
Great and Little Bolton there is not one of the base crew
can give a vote—not one. I dare them to prove that there
is. I have heard that in Manchester and Salford there
are not 70. The people now perceive, by the speech 'of
Joseph Surface, that the Tories, in all kinds of cippresion
and monopoly, are the same yesterday, to-day, and, ifthey
• can, to the end. But, Tory-Chartists, Surface-men,
humanity-mongers, and all the herd of banded monopo-
lists, must now be crushed. The :Arades- of England,
who first support the agriculturists, and then export fifty
or sixty millions to every corner of . the globe, will not
perish for want, merely to haVe. added, in forty-five
years, 300 per cent. to the rent rolls of a few hard-hearted
aristocrats, who care not if the bulk of the people die of
starvation if they can preserve the plunder. -
Reformers, in the coming struggle, will be triumphant.
Tory-Chartists, who never speak of lowering any of the
necessaries of life, will be as dust in the balance.
I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
CHARLES BAKE WELL.
Moor-lane, Bolton, May 26.

WOOLWICH—FRIDAY.
• 1
ROYAL ARTILLERY.
GENERAL ORDER, MAY 26.
Two instructors in fortification being required at the Royal
Military Academy, the Master-General has desired the same
to be made known in General Orders, that thote Officers of
the Royal Artillery who may be desirous of filling the situa-
tions may offer themselves as candidates.
The salary will be ss. per diem, with quarters, or the usual
allowance in lieu thered, according to the military rank of the
individuals holding the appointments.
Officers who are desirous to propose themselves as candi-
dates will signify their wishes to Major-General Sir George
Whitmore, K. C. H., the Lieut.-Governor of the Academy.
(Signed) H. D., ROSS, Colonel,
eplity Adjutant-General.
• GENERAL ORDER, MAY 26.
The Master-General has, approved of the following-akera-
tions in the dress and necessaries of the Royal Artillery, viz.,
1. The white trowsers to be discontinued on home service,
but on Companies embarking for warm climates two pair of
white drill trowsers are to be supplied to each soldier as a part
of his kit, and for use at the station to which the Company
may be sent.
2. The present soap-bag to be replaced by one of oiled silk.
3. A hair-brush to be added to each soldier's necessaries.
4. An improved set of straps for the knapsack and great
coat (to supersede those now in use) to be supplied; patterns
of which, and the foregoing articles, are lodged in the office of
the commandant.
5. The badge on the knapsack to be done away with, and
the knapsack in future to be plain. black.
(Signed) H. D. ROSS, Colonel,
Deputy Adjutant-General.
GARRISON ORDERS, MAY 26.
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield is much gratified in
conveying to the garrison Lieutenant-General Sir Hussey
Vivian's perfect satisfaction and high commendation of the
troops in the performance of the several duties yesterday, a*
well as their soldier-like appearance on parade.
The general court-martial, of which Colonel Cleveland, royal
artillery, is president, have closed their proceedings, and the
officers have been placed on garrison duty.
GARRISON ORDERS' MAY 27.
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield was honoured by his
Royal Highness Prince Albert's commands to express to the
garrison her most gracious Majesty's high gratification at the
appearance of the troops at her reception this day,
MAY 28.—The regiment was paraded under arms this mcrn-
ing to witness the sentence of a general court-martial carried
into execution on Gunner and Driver E. Gale, of the Ist bat-
talion, who received a corporal punishment of 150 lashes for re-
peatedly making away with his regimental necessaries. Ws,
man will shortly be discharged as unworthy to'rentwiu to the
corps.

A HAUNTED HOTAR."...-OH Wednesday
afternoon, the ancient house of 139!garran, famous in the
history of Scotch witchcraft:, Was stniek with lightning.
After striking the top of one of the vents, displacing the
cope-stones, and tearing up a portion of the roof, the elee-;
tric fluid descended theeltiitnuey, and broke to pieces a Car,
ron grate in one gfii 01. Q, moms. Mr. Win. Houston, farmer,
the occupallli IN* kitting in this same apartment at the
time, an was so much stunned with the shock, that a eon-
aiderable time elapsed before he recollected himself. After
this damage, the subtle fluid twit along a passage, and ;-,tp •
peared to have got colamunication with the same staircase
along which the c.onous maid ofßargarran was represented
as beiniq carried by the invisible Muggy Lang, without
tpuc.hing the steps. In this passage of the electricity one
otihe steps wm blvlken. As was to be expecttA,
4.011.00,11'ti %wily and the neighbourhood 'kayo . been
vri:4tly-alarmed, and as the superstitio* of their fore-
fathers is not yet altogether eradicated from the
minds of the people 'e.t this district, a glimmer-,
ing fear that the extAit. 3a connected with older deeds has
pasted over. WOO minds than either one or two in. Ers-.
1(AllCt fill'&ll. Glasgow Chronic],;,,
I cannot but think OlAr f4iend the Standard
is "coming it rasher, won g,' when he speaks of the;
ladies of holt, INkairstes household as " the worth:Ass.
feinglp atgolpf.4.4T.s.' of Ministers. Considering the
4-11:Ac1w** tlll'.-erland, as well as other ladies corn-
p:,sing her Majesq-'s household, are of the very highest
order of the English nobility, , I think the Editor intyt.
have spoken of them in this manner from want of retice-
tion, rather than from malice prepense. Should a Tory
oxorninent succeed, with the exception of the Percys,
the Scotts (Buccieugh), and a thin sprinkling of the
ancient chivalry of England, the ranks from which the
female attendants on her Majesty must •be selected are -I
of what foreignors term "the. dunghill Peerage," the
Pitt aw Castlereagh creations. Now I presume our
Nwohy friend the Standard • would. be highly indignant
were the same epithets he has made use of, to be applied
to the Tory ladies who may succeed, although those who
live in glass houss: ought not to throw stones."Ecening
Paper. --,
The !Standard, which olaiins for its ,party the
character of " the Christian gentlemen of E 9 land,
some short time since poured out the vials of its ahwe,,in
language suited to its own character, upon a member of
the Administration, for voting on an important diviSion
acme days after the funeral of his child. - But the. Stan-
dard can conveniently shut its eyes to the fact that .within
two days aNr. the death of his son, and before tho tinnit
had oloaed over his remains, Sir Edward Sugden was to
10,a seen as usual in his place in the-House of Commons ;
and no doubt will be equally blind to the fact that Lord
Granville Somers zt was as usual popping about the Tory
benches its site House last night, although his - mint died
on vile day before I—Globe.
PAVIORS EXTRAORDINARY.—Three or four
large mushroms in their anxiety to emerge into the
visible world, actually performed the novel feat ofdis7
placing a large paving stone„in one of our most crowded
thoroughfares, on Tuesday /Ml.—Cheltenham Exam_
t.le
HAY-MA I NO.—This important portionhe
joiefigib_
farmer's duty has partially commenced in
day
hourhood of Sherburne, and in a few
moat will
lundant itsbe-
come
their very general. . The crops are_ have
InTolise crops of their yield, and superior in quality.
a lv good, and the
Clo-
ver were never known to be so universally good,
flower
fragrance imparted from the twain'.
iruly delightful.
of this plant to the passing traveller is
—Ssherborne Journal. ,
Mr. CORN-LAws.—ln m Slade's Travels in Ger-
many Odessa) will be found an
and Russia (chapter on law,
with reference to the
important artiok on the.sCeoarn_-_orts
and from Germany,
mkt*. from the Black
which our Legislatures
would do well to peruse.
THE GREAT WEsTERN.—
This noble vessel sailed from in
DEPARTURE OP THE
road at half-past one o'clock
on Thursday. She hue 42
ssetigers, chiefly ladies, who were
all in the highest spirits. !D
a
he hab a valuable cargo of silks,
and 24,0001. in specie. The day was beautifully fine, and the
in
wind fair, and bets are made that she Kill make the voyage
131 days- ' , . •

THE RESOLUT

ON OF WANT OF

CONIIDENCE,

Another interminable debate On a most puerile mo-
tion, treated on one side at least in a most elaborately
childish manner, has just set in in the House of Com-
mons. What an edifying spectacle it is to witness the
Prime Minister expectant and the would-be saviour of
his country, spending four mortal hours in an endeavour
to prove that two instances of Parliamentary- crises, each
of which was absolutely sun genesis and unlike any-
thing that ever went before or after, do not in all
points resemble a third Parliamentary crisis, itself
wholly special in its circumstances and unprecedented
in its possible results.
If ever mortal man or Minister created a precedent
for himself which required a bold and sanguine tempe-
rament even to conceive the possibility of its success, it
was Mr. Pitt in 1784. If ever there was another in-
stance of a Parliamentary crisis which deserved the
epithet of unprecedented, it, was that created by
.Sir
Robert Peel in 1834-5. If there ever were circum-
stances that justified a Ministry in stepping a little aside
from precedent, and following,-the example of Mr. Pitt
and Sir Robert Peel, by creating, precedents for
themselves, they are the circumstances of this present
crisis, in which an aypeal isp be made to the people to
choose whether they will be 'siltt'vv,d by one party or fed
by another. And yet the time ''
n.ons is to be taken up night al i•k; .i! I lit with historical
disquisitions on what Fox sal t ,io. :5, and what Pitt
did in 1784 ; and worst of all, w a Peel did in 1834,
vnd what Hobhouse said in 1835: Of a truth, it must
le a great blessing to be ruled by a man who is so great
a master of form, so great a lo • of caudour, and so
profound a student in the vote '. + ';.'•ta- alf a century
ago, as the great Sir Robert. ,4i .0';•,4.;:, :
4,0
Of course it cannot be sup .. n '.. ii'..,.` . ment that
the motion will have any result at -. '7'2... gas it ends in
the defeat of its proposer. In that case, in eed, it would
be dearly seen to be a false move, and it would there-
fore refound with shame upon the heads of its authors.
If it succeeds, Sir Robert can hardly expect thereby to
deter the Ministers from a dissolution. The debate would
seem to be nothing more than—
" Much Ado about Nothing."

Tablet.

THE MOVEMENT. - PROGRESS

IN STAFFORDSHIRE.

This county well performs its duty in the present
crisis. Agitation—the struggle to revive waning pros-
perity—the vital effort against personal starvation and
national ruin—is bravely, zealously, and heroically sup- .
ported in the county of-Stafford. Despite the ltypocri- •
' tical cant of prefessing ministers of Christ,—despite the
sophistry and plausible falsehoods of pretended " far-
mers' friends,"—despite the tyranny of genes-aim land-
lords, kind masters, and merciful authorities,—the work-
kg men of Staffordshire are boldly and energetically up
and doing, in the present holy crusade against the Bread-
tax -the present hopeful campaign against monopoly.
We, last week, had to record glorious proceedings at
Wolvsrhampmn,Walsall,Lichfield, and other places, We
had previously narrated similar movements at Darheston,
and in other parts of the county. In our present number,
still more numerous instances are recorded. Bilston
has assembled the largest meeting remembered there.
Wednesbury has nobly seconded her neighbour's demon-
stration. The Potteries have beheld their thousands
arrayed on the same side. Willenhall is active and
almost unanimous in petitioning. Rugeley and Alrewas
(the very centres of agricultural influence) have shown
themselves of one mind. In short the whole district is
roused from one end to the other, front the border where
Copeland lords it over the poor workman's state of 'de-
pendence, to the extremity_ where Gladstone enjoys a
temporary
,triumph at the expense of slave-gotten eold.
An important responsibility devolves upan the h tiding
Reformers at - the present crisis. It is their first. and
most imperative duty, a duty far more uris,ent...Atan all
other considerations to convene public meetings, and
get up petitions, without: delay. Men of" Superior station
are as much interested as mere labourers. Ihe landlord
who is wise enough to know that, the interest of.
the labourer is his , interest, inasmuch as labour
gives to land its only value, must perceive this ; the
matter who has sense enough to be aware that the rros-
perity of the workman is -his prosperity, inasmuch as
domestic content cheers and stimulates the workman's
daily toil, must see it also ; and those in public authority,'
who are capable of 'discover:l7 that public order is--
never•so easily maintained as alien discontent has no.
eXistence, cannot fail to admit The fact. But, above all;,
ministers of religion are called upon to be foremost in
promoting the proceedings reeommended. Christianity
and the common dictutes-of charity and humanity leave
them- no alternative. We cannot expect anything from the
majority of clergymen of the Established Church ; as a..
body they are opposed to every measure which has r.or
its aim an extension of the privileges and cornfor,s of"
the people ; and it would be strange indeed, if, upon a:
question which may be said to ttffect' their' own in-
comes, they were to act ditli,trently from their usua)
course ; but from MiniSters of other churches—chili-oes
which exist by virtue of their own merits, rather thr:n by
tyrannous exactions—we do expect every cflOr,, to be.
made. They must rouse their respective floi Ks—their,.
must offer up public prayers to the Great 'Disposer ;''
all events.?. If. our Bishops . (to their eternal dissg .e)
v
haYe nOt seen fit. at this crisis, to order that payers be
offered up in lair oluirches•entreating the - ..,t h.; ight" so to
disposeThe'llt'artiof °lir orrtew :'s, n, to cause them -ir>.'
'
longer to withhold from his people the daily I,,eadi
whiA•hc. in his infinite. bounty had. prcivided 'ln; then
—let tit?. 11.0..im ! •'.1.1; )110 :lad Dissenting past',rs Shaw,,
these fattimers imp in so riligio:i; .'47 ttA: exair'..de
111 No ono can ,b‘i,! .slial•eti from th. eawie. Aligh itr', lo :
rich ;Ind poor, must, caeh and all, 5e..,..en eve"
1" .
serve it.—Staliordshire ExaluinPr, . . nerve t'

PROPOSED OPV;S
!'..NTI-CORN-LAVT
Ait;ETING.—A reciikWann. was
Presented •to the Mayor,.
signed by 5,300 te,-esuns, g men, inhabitants Off
o
the .borough 0? " workin
SlP'..eliester," requesting that the Mayer
would call Ir:A preside Over a public meeting of the work.
ing classes, to be hold in the opeit sir. We believe that.
the Mayor, haling, received the requisition as he wts,s
about htiv.n,r.; home for I.tuidOn, promised that he wouU
take tbci matter into, consideration, :and return an answer.-
front The Mayor declines to call such arheedar,
uncle; e.X.tating circumstances, on the ground a pubi.,c
meeting of the borough hna been kohl a few .nos P",o for
the satne object, and that a petition agreed iht that.meeting
was now in course of oirmture; therebje ifford:_ng
to every
inhabitant of tho •Weviugh an °Pll.(w.unity
.eecording his
opinion 01031:ion to those laws. ilk requisitionists, as fur-
/ V 'slt, on ree'...iving the Mayor's
they haVefrorSt,
the mcetin,•-• nevertheless ; and
IPtpea y the a vertise
•edtnlied to
it for Wednesday -next, at eleven
o'clock, to be
tieitl in Stevensotl's-square, " for the pur-
pose of ":otesting against the bread-tax." The requisi-
ti°r.staeld frineeting last evening, in Carpenter's-hall,
Which was nearly full, Mr.-Warren, the president of the
Operative Anti-il'Qrn-law Association, in the chair ; when
it was determined that, ten of the requisitionists, on
behalf oK. the whole, should eonvc.ne the, meeting, to be-
heldu# above. stated. • They also agreed upon a form of
protest against The Corn amt. Provision-laws to be sub-
mitted to th, public meeting, and, if 'approved of, to be
sent to all the temporal 'unit spiritual peers, and to all the
Mendvers of the House t.ir Commons ; and it was deter-
Wined that the tnecting should adjotrn till the effects of
the protest, had btiZ4l seen -in the' cotes on Lord Fitz-
william's and Mr. Villiers' uu,titms on the Corn-laws. It
was also tesolved, that Mr. Cobden should be requested
to take the chair on Wednesday-.-3/"Onchester Guardian.
For the borough of Leeds the Anti-Monopoly
party have called out Mr. Hume and-Mr. Wm. Aldam,
jun. • and the Monopoly party have invited Mr. Wm.
lit4ett and Lord Jocelyn. The Reformers have wisely
Ooren a Whig and a Radical, and the men they have
!selected do theth honour. Mr. Hume is one of the most
valuable public men in the kingdom ; and Mr. Aldam is
a young man of excellent talents, high principle, and
most liberal yiews, closely connected with the trade of
this boreugh. Some'of the more ardent Radicals had
t•onceived a prejudice against Mr. Aldam, in consequence
of his nrit being decided on the Ballot.; but the explana-
tion. glieni in hiS-Address of his views on this subject,
and' tlti.iii,rsonal explanation of his principles at a meet-
ing tsf thk Liberal electors yesterday morning, have quite
removed every unfavourable impression, and won the
respect and confidence 'of the electors. After he
had
hiad.
an
many qtte,stions put to him by those who 1
been most inclined to doubt, the vote of approbation was
passed with perfect unanimity and the most zealous cor-
dialitv.—Leeds Mercury.
The contract for conveying out the Brazilian
mails has been taken, we learn, by a firm at Bristol. ILtisisboinn:
tended that the steamers shall run to the Brazil: f
to which port the bags and the passengers vi ill Le conveyed by
the Peninsular steam-boats.
BIRTH of A G t RAPFE.—On
Thursday after-
noon-the Giraffe, at the Zoological Gardens,
andthe R
the offspring
,
Park, brought forth a fine male. The moth
are doing remarkably well.
Since the opening of the
Greased over it,n and the
way, about two million passengers forty-three
pas
-e
millions, and this
t Wester
number of of miles travelled exceeds
has been performed without fatal accident to a single passenger
-,Bath Herald.
'rued four horse coach,
A new and well- p
is the only coach on this route
don:to Cheltenham.
rh:
he rail," and it and the Defiance
calThtl just 81DB.eieP,a:Istarted on the road from Lon.
which altogether avoids
are,
Benson, to Oxford.
we believe, the only twot that now pass ria Henley and
Hfs HANDs _
FULL.—A man is supposed to be
tolerably well occupied when he has a wife on One arm a
baby on the other, carrying a basket and aeane in his hands
a cigar in his mouth, and a hopeful Heir
holding on to the skirts
of Ins coat.
DEATH OF AIR. COOKE OF LUDLOW..--..
Cooke, landlord of the Angel Inn, Ludlow, wasso horror stricken with the attempt on the life Of Mr.
Vv. Maekreth, by Josiah Mister, which occurred in
his house, that in a few weeks after the event he was
deprived of Lis reason, and sent to a lunatic asylum.
As his last hours approached, his reason was fully re-
stored, and he was, enabled rationally to supplicate the
mercy of his Saviour.—Staffordshire Examiner.
THE CROPS.—The wheats are growing beauti—
fully, and are very forward. Some of them last week begin
to acquire a tint of yellow, but the last few Warns days have
so greatly revived them, as to excite hopes of an abundant har-
vest. Lent corn of all descriptions never looked better, and
the green crops are heavier than they have been for several
years. The grass land is equally luxuriant; indeed, the hay
crops may be said to cover their respective patches of country
as closely as a fleece.—Maidstone Gazette.
The contract for conveying out the Brastbaza
mails has beers taken, we learn, by a firm at Bristol. It is in-
tended that the steamers shall run to and from the Brazils front
Lisbon, to which port the bags and the passengers will be con•
veyed by the Peninsular steam-boats.
We are authorised to state, that in consequence
of the excitement which at present prevails in the country.
the Installation of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, as
Chancellor of this University, has been postponed until nett
year.— Cambridge Chronicle.
Lord Brougham is expected in town next, week;