The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-29 00:00:00

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NO' TINGHANI ELECTION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sl3 N.
Sir,—Corruption in Nottingham,:: I am of opinion, has been
carried out to the fullest extent. The poor considered their
own interest to he cf.paramount importance-61.,10/ , 151.,
`so/., and even 251. r a vo• 0. The returned M.P. very k'ndly met
their wishes, and Lied freely. .Formerly 800 used to be bought—
at thls election 'twas said 1,500 ; and there is a strong suspicion
that ChartiA!o And leaders were bought altogether. 'Tis said
15,0001. to 20,00 W. will pay for both candidates. Purity of
elections ! Surely we merit schedule A.
To-day Mr.. WaltJr, 31. P., Was chaired, but poor Chari..'
ists ! as their green flag, with its motto, passed Tor/ houses'
with ladies at the w ndows covered With - blue, it passed in ).
silence To-day's coritempt proves the sincerity oflesterday's 9
friendship. ~Ltt
This evening the Tory gentlemen of the town and country ,c:
dine together, hut I hear of no Chartist leaders invited—Mr. "
Sweet to be in the Chair, and Nr. Whitehead Vice, llow-
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ever, they may have been comforted another way. I hone and
trust that further agreeable tavOtlig Marin future be conferred.
Nottingham, April 2S, 1641. r 8 •

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On Monday evening test a meeting of the rate-
payers of St. Cutliberre pariSti, York, was held, fier the
purpose of add:essingetlid • Dean ou the subject of the late
visitation proceedings against him. Tae address was
unanimously aoreed to, and the Dsan returned a suitable
answer of thanks.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GREVILLE-
STREET. —The increasing demands upon the acconinteda-
lion afforded to the sick and destitute poor, at this excellent 9-5.„314
iusitution, has induce i the Committee of the BOldiag
Fund to proceed forthwith in the erection of a new and atii?i9a
commodious hospital in one of the most healthy Fubvbs T 04;
of the metropolis, teser‘ iag the present building in Gre-
ville-street as a dispensary and receiving-house. Most of )
the metropolitan hospitals are at present situated in densely ill9L
populated and confined districts, and there can be little , ary
doubt that the benevolent intention of founding a hos-
pital in a healthy district, a few miles from tote, will
prove a valuable blessing to the sick poor.. Upwards of 's
7 000 patients have note ived medicine and relief since r,
Cbristmas last at this over-crowded iestitution.
FOSSIL REMAINS FOUND NEAR WHITBY.
—A few days ago a very splendid specimen of the Plesio-
saurus Doluchodeirus Ras discovered in the cliffs in the
neighbourhood cf Whitby. It measures in length 15 feet,•
the neck is 6 feet 6 inches long, exclusive of the head,
and 8 fset 5 inches across the fore paddle. The specimen'
i 3 entire, without, we believe, a single joint wanting,. and
has been very cleverly excavated from the strata in which
it was found ; it is the only perfect specimen of the kind
in this country. 'The council of the Whitby Literary and
Peilosephical Society have been making overtures for its
purchase, but we ale sorry to say without success ; exorbi-
tance of price is stated as• a reason.— Yothshirenian.
JEREMY WHITE'S COURTSHIP. —Jeremy'.
White uee.of Oliver Cromwell's domestic chaplains, paid .
his addresses to Lady Frances, the Protector's youngest:''
daughter. Olivet was told it by. a spy, who followed the
matter so closely that he hunted Jerry to the lady's chem.
ber, and ran immediately to the Protector with the newt.
Oliver, in a rage, hastened thither himself, and, going in
hastily, found Jerry on his knees kis.leg the lady's hand.
In a fury he asked what was the meaning of tbet
posture before his daughter ? White said, " May it
please your Highness, I have a long time courted
that young gentlewoman :Lev, my lady's woman, •
and cannot prevail ; I was these fore humbiy praying her
ladyship t I intercede for me " e Protector, turning to
the young wormy, said, " What is ,be meaning of this.
busses ? Why do you refuse the honour Mr. White ,
would do you ? He is my friend, and I expect you should.
treat him as such." My lady's woman, ,oho desired
nothing better, with aI mi curtsey, repliod, If gr. White
intends me teat honour, I shall not be agsiest him." " Say
you se, my lass?" cried Cromwell, " call Godwye'; this
business shell be done preeetly, before I go our of the
room." iLlr. White had gone too far to iretie,:t; the
pars came—and Jim, and my lady's woman were• mar-
ried in the presence of the Protector.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 27.—The Moniteur Bell;
has the following at title :—" A letter from the Hague ot► •
the 20,,h of Apr.i, siya—A geeersl subject of conversation
here it the audience given by his Majesty while he was at
Amsterdam, to the clergy of the Calvinist Church, who
came to remans:rete against the execution of the Con-
cordat. A stetson who ,ays that be heard himself the coneer-
satioe, says that the King, answering to one of the clergy-
men who reminded the Kieg that, being himself a Pro-
teealt, he ought not to favour the Catholics to.the dee
meat of Pi otestantism, exsr •ssed himself merely in t;.ie fol-
lowing terms: —Yes, Gentlemen, I am a Protestaat,
know it, and eicibedy is more at'ached than I am to the re-
ligion winch my ancestors professed and defended by all
the means in their pow es. J, toe, am proudly resolved to
tolerate nothing which ca I injure the interest or dignity-
of their religion, but, above all things, Gentlemen, I ern
King. I reckon ameng my subjects a considerable num-
ber ef Roman Catholics, and they have an equal claim to
my Royal solicitude; they, too, have rights guaranteed by
the faedamental law, which is my only guide. I will rot
suffer them to be deprived of them, and nothing shall
binder me from doing what I think conformat.'le to try
conscience and my duties as King."—Moniieur Bilge,
April 20.
HAMBURGH, APRIL 10.—We hear that the
commercial treaty between the German Customs Union an• 4
the isles of Harnhurgh and Bremen has been renounced by the
former, and consequently will not he renewed when it expires!
BRUSSELS, APRIL 27.—The Marquis
veira, Envoy Extraordinary of the Emperor of Brazil to
the Russian Court, has arrived here from London with bill
family and suite.
BRUSSELS,
.APRIL 27.—A. letter from Arlin
announces that the Baron de Steenhault, Governor of the
province of Luxemburg, died on Saturday afternoon cf at
apoplectic stroke. The crisis was over in five minutes.
All c nfeavours to rest are animation were entirely fruileee.
Tbe Baron expired without being able to utter a single word.
FATAL EFFECTS OF A QUARREL.—An in-
quest was held by Mr. Canter, at the Oakley Arnie, Lam-
beth, touching the death of Richard Humphreys, aged 27,
a coach spring maker, living at No. 32, Baker-eti est,
Lambeth. Tee deceased went to a beer-ship, called the
Rose and Crown, in Charles-sirset, Weterlon-road, on
Saturday night, in a half-drunken state, when he Isid the
wager of a penny with a man named Joseph Hunt, that the
person then playing at skittles would not knock them down
at twice. He did so, whets Hunt asked him to pay his'
penny, which be refused, and used much foul language, at
the same time making a drive with his head at Hunt, who
get off his scat to push the deceased sway, when they
both closed and fell together, the deceased being under-
most, when his neck came in contact with the ridge of the
boarding across the skittle ground, and he was so injured
that he was obliged to be carried home tie his lodgings,
where he shortly afterwards lost the use of his limbs from
the neck downwards, and died about half-past four on
Monday morning. Mr. Avery, a surgeon, said the death
of the man was caused by his neck having bean broken,
the bones of which pressed upon the spinal chord. The
Jury gave a verdict that:" the death of Richard Humphreys
was aceiden ally pr )(laced by hit own imprudence."
A German Botanist, who some time ago accom-
p nied the English Colony to the Swan River, discevsred
there a plant, the flower of which, warmed by the rays of
the sun, gave out at int, reels e smoke similar to that ex-
haled by persons who smoke tobacco. The !earned travet:er
was at first very much alarmed when he saw the smoking
flower, and thought he bad fallen into an ambuscade` of
savages.

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PENITENTIARY.-The number of prisoners
confined in the Penitentiary, Mllank, in the course of the
last five years, was 4,255. Tac uumbars were rsseec- .
lively as follow, commencing wi h 1836:-617, 736, 780,
715, and 1,407; of these thirteen %sere iamoved to Beth.
km Hospital, on the ground of insanity, fit o of whom were
derangel previous to their admission to tt c Penitentiary.
EXTRAORDINARY FACT.-- During the late
vere winter, most of the sheep on the high lands ba-
tsmen Buxton and Cromford, on the line of the Buxton
and Cromford Railway, were so affected by the weather,
as to cause temperary blindness in most of the flocks, and
more or less injury to the eyes in all. On the return of
the mild and genial weather, however, even such as had
lost their sight immediately showed signs of returning
vision, and which has gradually, though slowly, improved,
and at present there are few if any traces left of the injury
produced by the inclemency of the late severe aeasor.
TIIE MAY MEETINGS.-The folio ming is a
list of the religious meetings for the remainder of the pre-
sent and the whole of the ensuing month :-Baptist Mis-
sionary, at Exeter Hall, April 29, Chairman Mr. Gur-
ney; Colonial Church, at Hanover-square Rooms, April
29 ; Newfoundland Schools, at Exeter Hall, April 30,
Chairman Lord Bexley; Royal Naval Female Schools, at
80, St. James's-street, April 30, Chairman Admiral Sir
G. Cockburn; Wesleyan Missione, at Exeter Hall, May
3, Chairman J. E. Tennant, Esq., M. P. ; Female, Sera
vants' Home, at Exeter Hall, May 3, Chairman Jolla;
bOuchere, Esq. ; Aged Pilgrim's Friend, atthe,Lora492A,4;
Vint, May 3, Chairman Hon. W. F. Cowper a
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May
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Hall 3.1
Church Missionary, at Exeter Hall,
Earl of Chichester; Church Misaioaary.
at Ege
Chapel,
Any 4; Christian Instruction, at Finsbury. ;
at atter Hall, 1. ;-"
May 4, Chairman Hon. W. F. Cowper,
;ish and N.'
tarian Bible, at Exeter Hall, May 4; F
Sn'airtaan o'rci.
rcign Bible, at Exeter Hall, May b" - E . -"
Bexley ; Suppression of IntcmperrierY
May 5, Chairman Lord Stanhope
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Rooms May airman Geo.
Reforma-
tion, at Hanover-square neom:,d Homily, n at Freemasons'
Finch, Esq. ; Prayer P°°;Fal Bexley •
Hall, May 6, Chairrriark , bp:
6, Chairman j
YSunday School • '
(In Labou-
Union, at Exeter 1-101.',.0-Z *for Jews, at Exeter Hall,
ehere, Esq. ; Lender,
• Sir '1: Baring. ban, • Religious Tract.
May 7, Chsirman _ 7. Lord'' D
at Exeter Hall,' 13:h , ay, at Freemasons'
a; 'and Fora
Hall, May 10; 13`:7: elgil Schools, at Exeter
chairman Lord John Russell, M.P. ; •
Hall, May 10,
Aid, at F a
Church Pastoral, d 4x ter Hall, May 11, Chair-
n's "lei', ; Naval and Mir- ita/",
man Right , 1;3
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taryßible,
at Hanover-square Rooms, May 11, Chair- .a "1,9 t
Ch I
man Marquis
° m"th=ley ; Irish Evangelical, :at osilo ,
aTiS
Finsbury Chain %IqY 11, Chairman W. A. Hankey, ja•
Lech irk Hanover-square
, at Rooms,
Ch i•
May 12, , • ,alaa Marquis Cho!mondeley ; Protestant
Association, at Exeter Hall, May 12; Prevention of
~Cruelty to Animals, at Exeter Hall, May 12, Chairman
44p Earl of Carnarvon ; London Missionary, at Exeter
Ball, May 13, Chairman Viscount Motpeth; Irish Sc-, ' oasa
Ciety of London, et the Hanover. square Rooms, MaYaNal
13, Chairman Earl of GaToway; Colonial MissiouarYarn tad
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at Finsbury Chapel, May 14, Chairman .1. R. Milltaaaola °lva.
„;,1 .6' - Esq. ; Foreign at Exeter Hall, May 14, Cl.airclall,iw
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Marquis Cholmondelcy ; District Visiting, at Hanover-. slid
square Rooms, May 14; London City Mission, at Exeter
it,
Hall, May 17 ; Aborigines Protection, at Exeter Hall,
May 17, Chairman Sir T. F. Buxton, Bart ; New Bri- ".
tish and Foreign Temperance, at Exeter Hall. May 17;
Home Missionary, at Exeter Hill, May 18; Peace So-
ciety, at the Meeting-house, Houndsditch, May 18, Chair-
man C. Hindley, Esq., M. P. ; Indigent Blind Visiting,
at Exetc r Hall, May 19, Chairman Lord Ashley, M.P.;
Britidt and Foreign Temperance, at Hanover-square
Rooms. May 20, Chairman Lord Tcignmouth, M. P. ;
Sailors' Home, Destitute Sailors, &c , at Hanover-square
Roorns, May 21 Suppression of Intemperance, at Exe-
ter Hall, May 31, Chairman Earl Stanhope.

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