The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

t at the next election the juvenile question would be
tied in the Western Division.—( Laughter.) That
showed how mach intellect and experience s' ould sal-
flee to govern the mighty interests of this gre, t nation.
He knew what their answer was. They said they had-
a host in Mr. Ksanble, who was an old and an exoe-
rienced Member, and that ho was to be the nursing fa-
ther of the young gentleman.—(Loud laughter.) Why.
if they returned boys for the county, Mr. Kemble
would have enough to do, and he would carry such a
weight in his own-person by those boy members, that
he would at last have as many joints in his tail as Mr.
O'Connell.—(Roars of laughter.) Mr. Kemble was,
no doubt,a gentleman of high respectabilityond of sound
knowledge, but that gentleman must pardon him for saying
that, sufficient for the Member was the wissiona there-
of.—( Laughter.) He (Mr. Coates) had had the
good fortune to hear the greater part of Mr. Barclay's
speech, and he respected Mr. Barclay as a very honour-
able public man ; but he collected from that speech
that Mr. Barclay objected very much to centra-
lization, and certainly his speech proved the truth
of that statement, for it was very diffused and very
rambling.—( Laughter.) Mr. Barclay, however, came
there as the advocate of Mr. Antrobus and dear bread.
—(Hear, hear.) Some one near him had asked whe-
ther the Hon. Gentleman was an advocate for dear
beer? But he should think not ; because, when bread
got up to a starving price, what they should do with
" I3arclay's Entire" he knew not.—(Renewed laughter.)
If Mr. Barclay's politics were as good as his beer, he
(Mr. Coates) would not have been there to have op-
posed him. Mr. Barclay's speech, however, as far as
he could collect, was much unlike his beer, for it was
greatly diluted—had much of browns at the bottom, and
considerable froth at the top.—(lmmense laughter.)
But Mr. Barclay let slip, by mistake, an impor-
tant point —be made one admission, the value
of which to his opponents he did not at the time, with
all his dexterity, seem to be exactly aware of,—he had
deliberately told them that in Last Surrey a Liberal
candidate had little char.ce of being returned ; so that
Mr. Antrobus was not a Liberal candidate. What,
then, by their own admission, was he ? Why, an illi-
beral candidate.—(Cheers and laughter.) There was
no half-way house between; and therefore the electors of
East Surrey had now to decide the battle between libe-
rality and illiberality—the battle between justice and
oppression—the battle between the rights of the many,
and the corrupt and selfish interests of the few.--(Great
cheering.) Mr. Antrobus had declared himself to be a
friend of the Church and State, but he did not use those
terms in the same way as others did, for by the Church
he meant a corrupt job—(Cheers)—and by the State,
pounds, shillings, and pence.—(Cheers.) In conclu-
sion, he had only to say, that he trusted the county
would shake off the Tory trammels, in which it was at
present involved, by returning a Liberal to the Com-
mons House of Parliament.—(Cheers.)
A show of hands was then taken by the Sheriff, and
declared by him to be in favour of Mr. Alcock. A
poll was demanded by Mr. Antrobus ; and, alter a
vote of thanks had been carried, cn the motion of Mr.
Sergeant Gaselee, to the High Sheriff, the meeting
separated.

RETIREMENT OF MR. JUSTICE

LITTLE DALE.

During the early part of Saturday, either from the cold-
ness of the Court, or the want of interest in the proceed-
ings, there were not more than eight or ten gentlemen
of the bar in attendance, but about two o'clock gentle-
men were entering the Court at every door, and it was
soon whispered about that the judicial career of Mr.
Justice Littledale was drawing to a close, and that
those we() had so long practised under him, who had
fir many a long year been in the habit of receiving
his kindly smiles, and of looking up to hira as a pro-
found lawyer—a most upright and impartial, most at-
tentive, pains-taking, indelatigeble Judge—most amiable,
considerate, and kind man—were anxious to show their
respect and regard for him by being present on the
occasion of his levying the Bench for ever. It may
be said of this Learned Judge that he overflowed
with the milk of human kindness, and that it was
impossible for him to do an unkind act. Until nearly
three o'clock the Court rapidly filled, and five mi-
nutes before that hour the Attorney General took his
seat. The following gentlemen were then sitting in the
front row ,—The Attorney-General (Sir John Campbell),
Str Frederick Pollock, Sir Wm. Follett, Mr. Cresswell,
Mr. B. Andrews, Mr. Crowder, Mr. Erle, Mr. Kelly,
Mr. Alexander, Mr. Armstrong, Sergeants Beinpas,
Goulburn, Acherley, Ludlow, andTalfourd. The Learned
Gentlemen were occasionally talking together, but we
fancied w e could perceive in their manner a feeling of re.
gret for the cause that had at that moment so completely
tilted the Court, fot every inch in it was occupied. We
also imagined that the Learned Judge himself, for the first
time, did not appear to be at all attending to the subject
then under discussion—there was a little restlessness of
manner about him that bore a strong contrast to his usual
patient demeanour. Between three and four o'clock Lady
Denman and a large party of ladies entered the Court.
Her Ladyship immediately presented her hand to Judge
Littl!da'e, who had been so completely absorbed that he
had not at first seen her. Some of the arguments being
brought to a close,
. _

Lord Denman said—We had determined not to sit after
four o'clock this afternoon ; we have sent to my brother
Coleridge, who is anxious to be here.
The whole bar and the spectators then rose, and the
Attorney-General, in a most clear and distinct manner,
though evidently labouring under very strung emotion,
said—

" Mr. Justice Littledale—lt having been intimated to
the bar that we are not to have the satisfaction of again
seeing you on the bench, I am deputed by their unani-
mcus voice to express to your Lordship the deep sorrow
they feel at this separation.
" Notwithstanding their entire confidence in the residue
of the Court, they most sincerely regret that they should
be deprived of'a Judge of such profound learning, distin-
guished acuteness, and spotless integrity, who, during the
many years he has occupied the judgment-seat in this
Court and on the circuits, where he has uniformly dis-
played the utmost impartiality and independence, yet, from
the kindness of his nature, has never given any offence to
any human being.
" Though still in the enjoyment of those high faculties
which it has pleased God to bestow upon you, they are
sensible, from your eminent services to your country, that
you are well entitled to that dignified leisure to which
you now gracefully retire.
" In that retirement wo earnestly hope you may long
enjoy health and happiness.
" We rejoice to think that you will find occupation and
delight in the renewed pursuit of those abstruse as well as
elegant studies in which yen early gained distinction, and
which have been interrupted by your devotion to your pro.
fessional and judicial duties.
" We beg leave to assure your Lordship that you carry
along with you the gratitude and good wishes of every
member of the profession of which you have been long
a distinguished ornament, and that we shall ever speak
and think of you with respect and affection."
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALs the❑ addressed the Bar as fOl-
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Mr. Attorney-General and Gentlemen of the Bar—
I beg to express my most sincere and grateful acknow-
ledgments for the favourable opinion you have been pleased
to express of my conduct during my judicial life.
Iu retiring from my present situation I have deeply to
regret that I quit my professional intercourse with the
members of the Bar—gentlemen of the greatest learning
and knowledge of their profession, as will as conduct and
liberality in the practice of it. From the kindness and
attention they have MA ays evinced towards me, and from
their great ability, 1 have always derived the greatest be-
ntfit end assistance in the investigation and discussion of
all the subjects which have come before me.
" It is now upwards of fifty-three years since I first be-
gan my legal studies, and I have been in my prevent situ-
ation upwards of sixteen years. At the advanced period
of life to which I have now attained I am dcsircus of
being relieved from the labour attending it, as I am greatly
afraid that neither the mind nor the body will longer be
equal to the exertion. Permit me, however, to express
my gratifiertion that in thus retiring I carry with me the
esteem and kind feeling of the gentlemen of the bar, who
have been so kindly pleased to express their good wishes for
my future happiness. And now, Gentlemen, permit me to ex-
pr,s‘ to you my great desire that every good may attend
you, and that the bar of England may always maintain
that high character for integrity and learning which has
ever distinguished it. Gentlemen, I now leave you—
Farewell.

The Learned Judge then left the Court, bowing to the
last, the same courtesy being returned by the whole bar.

RYE HARBOUR.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Being a subscriber to your paper ituko the li-
berty of troubling you with an account of an arrival hero
to-day, the early information of which, if worth your in-
sertion, you may in your own way, my only object being
to make known a little the merits of our harbour.

The steam-packet the Dcvor left Ostend yesterday at
noon, with a strong wind, easterly, for Dover, but on ar-
riving there found so much sea at the entrance of the har-
bour as to deem it unsafe to make the attempt to enter.
They accordingly bore up for Rye harbour, which they
entered to-day, at eleven o'clock, with the greatest ease
and safety, thus giving one proof of the favourable and su-
perior situation of Rye harbour over any other upon this
part of the coast for a harbour of refuge. The little
money lately laid out upon woiks at the entrance of the har-
bour, by the recommendation of Mr. Cubitt, has improved
the entrance to it so much as to show clearly that a very
small sum indeed (compared with the estimated expense
of making a harbour of refuge in the sea) expended in
continuing the works further out, would soon make it a
harbour of refuge for all descriptions of vessels, except of
the very largest class, at nearly all times of the tides, and
in all sorts of weather.
The packet had about 20 passengers on board ; amongst
them were two servants o the King of Belgium, with a
quantity of luggage
e, and a f person with Government de-
spatches who was immediately forwarded to Dover.
Rye, Feb. 7. 1841. J. M.

THE SMALL-PDX IN THE METROPOLIS.--
At a meeting of the Royal Medico- Chirurgical Society
Sir Benjamin Brodie in the Chair, a
was read, from the pen of Dr. Gregory,
afewevenings since,
paper on smallpox
physician to the Smallpox Hospital, from this
paper it
appeared that during the last month (January), there had
been more patients admitted into that Institution than in
any month since tt•.e formation of the Establishment, a
period of n. taly 100 years, the first 60 cf o rich were pre-
vious to the discovery of the protective influence of vacci-
nation.