The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-15 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS

PARIS, JUNE 14.
Our private advices from Constantinople of the 26th ult.,
; state that the Imperial firrnan regulating the questions of tho
heredite, the tribute, and the military promotions, had been
forwarded to Alexandria. The tribute was said to have been
fixed at 80,000 pur-cs. According to letters from Beyrout of
the 14th ult., the plague continued to ragein Syria.
News from Crete up to the 22d of May have arrived by way
of Ancona. Tahir Pacha had landed on the 16th with 5,000
men and a park of artillery. On the 18th he issued a procla-
mation, in the name of the Grand Seignior, to the Christian
authorities to lay down their arms. The European Consuls
recommended them to submit.
The " Directoire" of Angokorona replied, that he was in-
clined to reject the proposals of the Sultan, but that he woeld
consult the Legislative bodies. They were preparing for de-
fence, and there existed great irritation against the Turks.
An order of the 20th calls upon the inhabitants (if Crate for a
general armament.
According to accounts from Syria, the Druses and the Ma-
ronites will not acknowledge any Hatti-Scheriff, nor any de-
crees not already recognized by them. They have a corps of
observation at Jerico, and au advanced post at Ascalon.
MADRID, JUNE 7.—The Ministry has just experienced
another defeat on the vote relative to the heritoges alienes.
(Retracto.) The Commission for the Guardianship of the
young Queen and Ministers have had their last conference to•
day. This important question will be forthwith laid before the
Cortes. The weakness of the Ministry checks any improve-
ment in stock, which remains at 26g.
BERLIN, JUNE .5.---The inhabitants of Breslau have ad-
dressed a letter to the Kinn- of Prussia,
renewing the
assurances of their devotion. It was known that the pro-
vinces of Silesia had refused to comply with the de-
mand made by those inhabitants for the establishment
of a constitution throughout the entire monarchy. The same
request made by Prussia has met with similar opposition. The
Rhenish provinces have made the same application, the result
of which is not yet known.
STOCKHOLM, JUNE 3.—The close of the session will be an
nounced on the 24th inst.

CITY ELECTION

(THIS DAY.)

GREAT MEETING TO RETURN FOUR
LIBERAL MEMBERS.
A meeting of the electors of the City of London who had
signed the requisition to Lord John Russell, took place this
day at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, to take mea-
sures for securing the return of Messrs. Alderman Wood,
James Pattison, William Crawford,, and Lord John Russell, as
representatives for the City of London at the ensuing election.
Long before the hour appointed for holding the meeting all the
avenues leading to the tavern were crowded to excess, and the
thoroughfares in Cornhill, Bishopsgate-street, &c., were so
crowded with persons anxious to obtain a sight of Lord John
Russell, that business was almost entirely suspended.
On the arrival of his Lordship, at a few minutes before two
o'clock, there was a loud and tremendous burst of cheering
from the assembled multitude, which continued long after his
Lordship had entered the tavern. A strong body of the me-
tropolitan police, under the personal superintendence of Mr.
Harvey, were stationed at the entrance, but their efforts were
quite ineffectual in repelling the dense multitude, and nut only
the great room of the tavern, but the staircases and passages
were crowded to suffocation.
Among the gentlemen on the platform we observed—J. A.
Curtis, Hobhouse, John Travers, E. Buxton, R. Cunliff
( Banker), B. Hawes, M.P., Fearon E. Wilson, Hankey,
Mr. W. Wilkinson, Sir John Rae, I. Loyd Jones (Banker),
Alderman Humphery, M.P. Crawford, M.P., Pontifex,
E. Turner, M. P. i Pattison, M. P., A. Hastie, M. P. ,W.
Ellis, M.P.,— Roberts (Banker), A. A. Smyth, M.P., J.
Morrison, M.P., Sir John Guest, M.P., Isaac Lionel Gold-
smith, Williams, M.P., S. D. Salomons, Alderman Weod,
M.P., Commodore Napier, George Robert Smith, M.P.,
Baron Rothschild, Rothschild, Mr. Gurney, &c. &c.
The crowd was tremendous, more so than we ever remember
on any former occasion, the street in front of the London Ta-
vern being absolutely blocked up for some time;' but such
were the admirable arrangements made by the Commissioner,
D. W. Harvey, that the utmost order prevailed. The Police
were extremely civil, and Mr. Harvey superintended the ar-
rangements in person.
Lord John Russell, on arriving at the platform, was most
enthusiastically received. The cheering upon his taking his
seat lasted for several minutes.
Mr. ROBARTS, after silence had been in some measure re-
stored, came forward, and stated that having been selected as
Chairman of the Committee for conducting the election
of Lord John Russell and the present three Members for
the City of London, he could only say that he wished that
task had fallen upon some much more influential individual
than himself. This, however, he would say, that no one
among the large meeting assembled could be more hearty in
the cause than himself. As time was valuable, he would at
once move that Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq., should take
the Chair upon the present occasion. He hoped that
every elector would be found stanch at h;s post, and would vote
in favour of the Liberal candidates who offered themselves.
They were all mixed up in the prosperity of this City, and he
thought that, having that object in view, they could not
do better than carry out those highly Liberal views which
had been propounded by the Noble Lord who now did
the City the honour of appearing amongst them as one of their
candidates. He would now conclude by proposing that Samuel
Jones Loyd, Esq., should take the chair.—( Cheers.)
Mr. TRAVERS seconded the motion. Ile congratulated the
constituency of the City of London that they were on the pre-
sent occasion honoured, not only by the presence of Mr. Loyd,
but by that also of Mr. Roberts. They had on the present
occasion a constellation of mind, talent, and influence, that
he believed had never been congregated together en any pre-
vious occasion in the City of London.—(Great cheering.) The
motion was carried unanimously, and
Mr. JONES Love. took the Chair amidst the most tre-
mendous cheering, which lasted for several minutes. In
taking the Chair on the present occasion he would endeavour
to preside over the proceedings of that mighty meeting with
fairness and impartiality. In taking the chair he did it, not
relying upon his own competency, but under a deep sense that
in an emergency so important as the present it was the duty of
every man, without any hesitation, at once to step forward,
and by his efforts and exertions, to endeavour to support
the great cause which they had met that day
to advocate. He trusted that the meeting had come together
with one united feeling in favour of and for the furtherance of
one common purpose. Undoubtedly a cause more important
or candidates more distinguished--(Great cheering)—had
never been brought before even the constituency of that
great city. (Great cheering.) On the cause for which
they had assembled, he should not think it necessary to detain
them by making many remarks. Their presence in numbers
so vast, and with a zeal beyond all doubt, convinced him that
they had well considered the nature of that cause, and that they
had justly estimated it. He should content himself, therefore,
with the brief but emphatic observation that it was his delibe-
ra'e and deep conviction that it was the cause of wisdom and
of justice.—( Great cheering.) It was the cause of reasonable
liberality and enlightened legislation.—(lncreased cheering.)
With respect to the illustrious individual to receive whom,
and to recognise whom, in the proud character of
their Candidate, they had met that day, he must be permitted to
make a few observations.—( Great cheering.) On any other
occasion than the present it would be impossible for him to
speak of that individual without first alluding to the high an-
cestorial honours and great historical associations which must
ever attend upon the name he bore.—( Great cheering.)
It would have been still more impossible to have refrained
from adverting to that long series of distinguished personal
services—( Cries of " Hear, hear," and cheers)—by which
he had added further and greater honour to that name,
and by which he had established an irresistible claim to
the high gratitude of his country. —( Loud cheers.) But con-
sidering the magnitude of the special purpose for which they had
that day assembled, he (Mr. Loyd) should not detain them with
reference to these topics. It. was sufficient for them on the
present occasion, considering the object for which they were
assembled, to know that that distinguished individual came
amongst them that day as the Minister of free commerce,
as the declared enemy of the principle of monopoly—
(Cheers)—as the organ, and as the representative of that
wise and liberal Government which proposed gradually
to approximate to the principle of free trade, and
bring back the commercial legislation of this country by well-
considered steps to the straight and simple line of wisdom.—
They all knew that, in accordance with those views and with
the object of effectually furthering them—a series of mea-
sures had been proposed to Parliament, and they were also
well acquainted with the fate which attended them.
Those measures had been met by the House of Commons
with a hasty and contemptuous rejection.—(Loud cheers.)
After the decision, after the monstrous decision of the
present House of Commons, her Majesty's Government
had declared their intention of making an immediate
and solemn appeal to the people. They, the electors
of this great City, must now earnestly, prepare for
those duties which await them, and they must con-
sider seriously who were the candidates to whom
they could, satisfactorily to themselves, and safely for their
country—( Cht )—entrust the high duty, the solemn trust,
of speaking their seittiments, and of upholding their country's
nterests, in the Parliament which was about to be elected.
--( Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was under those
circumstances that a requisition bearing 5,000 signatures
—( Cheers)—had been presented to Lord John Russell, re-
questing his consent to be put in nomination as a Candi-
date to represent this great City in Parliament.—(Cheers. )
To that requisition his Lordship had returned an answer which
he (Mr. Loyd) trusted they had all read, and the Noble Lord
had made a stilt more emphatic reply by his honoured pre-
sence amongst them.—(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. Loyd)
would say on the part of his Lordship that he had sustained
and further eonfirmed his high character for undaunted reso-
lution—(Loud cheers)—and for the most generous self-devo-
tion, which he had ever exhibited when his country required it.
Let them not talk to him (Mr. Loyd) in the present crisis
of those ordinary rules which taught them to suppose that
a representative for this great City must possess, as his
qualifications, a knowledge of the local interests of the City
on an extensive personal acquaintance with the constituency.
Such qualifications, no doubt, on common and ordinary occa-
sions, were requisite ; but the present, as the Noble Lord, in
his address, had stated, was no ordinary occasion—( Cheers) ;
in a great emergency, and, most assuredly, if ever there was
such which deserved the character it was the present—in a
great emergency great and extraordinary efforts must be made.
Where, he would ask—when a liberal Government of a liberal
and enlightened country proposed to unswaddle the mighty
giant—the Hercules of English industry—( Hear, hear, and
cheers).--to restore it to its true strength and legitimate powers--
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would ask, ought the first Minister of the Crown
—he meant of course the first Minister of the Crown who
derived. his legislative powers—not only from hereditary rights
—(Cheers)—but by direct delegation of the people—
(Cheers)—where ought the first Minister of the Crown, so cir-
cumstanced, and at such a moment—where ought he to
be found ? Was it not in the arms of the constituenty of
the first commercial city in the world ?--( Cheers). such
were the circumstances under which Lord John Russell
then appeared before them. He would ask them
to allow him to occupy their time for one
or two minutes by alluding to circumstances which belonged to
the history of the family oftehsetirdialylusstorfioEusnavliissihtorin.deTpehnedehnicse-
torian of former times, in speaking of the ancestor of
the Noble Lord, who will remain celebrated in his.
tory as long as the b
and English public spirit under any circumstances were re-
membered. The historian, in describing the solemn circum-
stances under which the most distinguished ancestor
of. the Noble Lord laid down his head on the block
as a penalty, for his exertions made
to protect the
civil and
beautiful, so affecting, said, " The
illustrious martyr passed through the streets of this city in his
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religious
language rights-ofs o this country—( Cheers)—The
Carriage to the place of execution, and the people imagined
that they saw virtue and liberty seated by his side."—(Cheers.)
The same guardian angels hovered over the Noble Lord—
( Cheers.) With the same spirit of self-devotion, with the same
generousgenerousmagnanitti;ty as that which led his ancestor to lay down
his life on the block for the people, had he (Lord John Russell)
in better times and better days done his duty by showing him-
self generously awl unhesitatingly before the constituency