The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THuRSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1841.

WALSALL.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
We scarcely know how to believe the implication in Mr
Gladstone's speech, at the Wolverhampton Conservative
Association, that he is supported by Wesleyan Methodists
and other Dissenters. Mr. Gladstore's wealth has on it
the stain which these classes have been accustomed to
hold most in abliorrenr,e-..that df the tears and blood of
slavery. Ile may not, like his brother, defend the Chinese
mode of making war by poisoning wells, but the Ann_
Slavery religionists of this country nave commonly regarded
money derived from the enforced toil of the scourged limbs
of our fellow human beings as a poison sufficient to pollute
the well-spring of religion itself. Few Methodists, it is to
be hoped, arc so weak as to be cajoled by being flattered,
from such a quarter, as "the tried and best friends of the
Constitution." They need not be told, by the son of a slave.
owner, what " the venerated John Wesley himself, if he
were alive," would think of " our revered Establishment
as it is now constituted." There can be little
doubt of the feelings of the Patriarch of Me thodism
had he lived to see the formation of a papistical party in
the Church ; he would not have heard calmly of " the
crimes of the Reformation ; strenuously would his voice
have been upraised against the Puseyite priesteraft that
makes void the Gospel by the exaltation of forms and cere-
monies; nor would he have forgone his Protestant faith
and simplicity for afl the s Thistry of all the Gladstone,.
The deservedly "venerated John Wesley" was practically
a most energetic Church Reformer in his day, and the
modern symptoms exhibited in the Establishment would
have neutralized none of his ardour fur the vitality of re-
ligion.
Mr. Gladstone is a Church Extensionist. He desiie-
rates an increase of churches adequate to the increase of
the population. We ail know what this comes to—an in-
delirote plan of taxation. Is it conceivable that there

should be Dissenters in Walsall prepared to advance this
object by their votes ? It' so, they must be deeply in love
with slavery and apostacy. In Mr. Gladsto le's brother's
book, on " the State i❑ its relations with the Church," the
notion of other religioniAs than those of the Estab-
lishment being equally tit for the functions of civil office is
scouted as belonging to " the false philosophy of Liberal-
ism." Will Mr. J. Gladstolie carry his hoaxing upin
Methodists and Dissenters so far as to disclaim the identi-
fication ? We repeat, that we cannot credit his having
found or nt dc, amongst Nonconformists of any class in
Walsall, so foul a traitorousness as his speech implies, to
the cause of religious liberty.
But Mr. Gladstone pretends even to be a Reformer.
He draws upon electoral gullibility fior credence in the
readiness of the Tory party " to repair and reform the
glorious Constitution." Is this holiest or manly ? In a
Conservative Club the rournbcrs may wink at each other,
over their wine, at the cleverness of such professions; but
beyond that circle they are delusive and fraudulent. It is
aga'nst Reform that Mr. Gladstone's vote is wanted.
should be be returned ke will vote with, and take his seat
by the side of, men who have frankly avowed that they
hate the very name of Reform. A similar declaration
would have been more creditable to himself.

Why should Mr. Gladstone be a Reformer, when, ac-
cording to his own avowed views of the present state of
things, " the interest, the comfort, and the welfare of the
poorest subject are equally protected and studied with
those of his more fortunate neighbours ?" If so, nothing
i; left to improve or amend. Mr. Gladstone's political
doctrines do not hold together. He fishes with different
baits for different classes. He avows himself at once a
Reformer and an Optimist. However, we may congra-
tulate his poor supporters in Walsall on being so well off
as he describes them to be. We should like to see their
laces as they vote such falsehoeds against themselves at
the hustings.
The great practical assertion of a vote for Mr Glad-
stone will be, that the poor have a preference for dear
bread. Every vote will be a petition to keep on the tax
upon food. Every elector who supports him does so at the
expense of his wife and family. He gives away a portion of
their meals. He votes the bread out of his children's
mouths. And should he pocket Tory money for his suf-
frage, let him not suppose that it is clear gain. He will
refund in bread-tax. Bribing must run high, and the Par-
liament conic to an untimely end, or he may pay back
much more than he receives, especially if his family be
large. We say nothing of the effect of his conduct upon
others : nothing of the desertion of those who toil, and who
have a moral right to the bread, untaxed, which they earn
by the sweat of their brow ; nothing, of the unrepresented
millions on whose scanty subsistence this infamous impost
is laid ; nothing, of the diminution of employment to the
manufacturing workman by the food monopoly, which is
driving the products of British industry out of the conti-
nental markets : let a sordid soul and a scared conscience
give the go•by to all such considerations ; we say still,
that the elector who, even for a bribe, helps to rivet the
bread-tax is eventually the plundered party, while cajoled
into believing himself the plunderer.
At this Wolverhampton Club, which did its best to
grace and strengthen Mr. Gladstone, a curious caution
was given by Lord Dartmouth. His Lordship remarked
that " another of the terms w hich was particularly agree-
able to Englishmen was that of cheap bread." It is agree-
able to most Englishmen, but not quite to all. To the
toiliag classes it is naturally very agreeable. To the trad-
ing and commercial classes it is agreeable also. But to
Mr. Gladstone and his party it is not agreeable. 'l'o
every elector who polls for Mr. Gladstone it is not agree-
able ; or his vote is a falsehood before God and. man,
Whether cheap bread be agreeable to him or not, is the
point on which the voter has to express his opinion by his
suffrage. And so, Lord Dartmouth strivcsto mystify the
matter by adding, ‘• But if they found that under that
pretence was concealed an attempt to render the coun-
try dependent on foreign nations for subsistence,
then there was another reason for cautious procedure."
One of the London Tory journals suppresses this portion
of his Lordship's speech ; justly ashamed, we presume, of
its imbecility. Do not the workmen of Wolverhampton
pnd Walsall know that not free trade, but monopoly, is
the cause of dependence? The labsurer can earn a large
loaf from the foreigner. No, it is argued, you must not
take it; you will be dependent on the foreigner far sub-
sistence. And will those who so persuade him against this
dependence sell him food at the same rate ? Nut they, in-
deed ; nor at less than 30 per cent. in addition. Will they
grow corn enough for hint at any rate ? If they can, they
will not ; they want no more of his manufactures; lie
may starve, while the land lies unfilled to the ex-
tent of millions of acres. such is the case at this very
moment, and has been for years. The growth of corn is
below the average consumption. And those who keep up
rents by a monopoly price and a voluntarily insufficient
produce, have the effrontery to tell the manufacturer not
to be tricked into dependence on foreign nations for sub-
sistence I These are the doctrines which the electors of
Walsall have to affirm or deny by their suffrages. Tne
Tories really expect them, by voting for Gladstone, to im-
precate the curse of dear bread on themselves and their
posterity. The eyes of all England are on them also;
and " England expects every man to do his duty."

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MANCHESTER—TUESDAY EVENING.
The appearance of the Chester entry to-day seemed to
be more attractive than any absolute desire for business.
There really was nothing done. 500 to 10, twice over,
against Morning Star for the Derby, and (rather sub rosa)
200 to 8 against Sir Hans, appeared to us the extent of the
hettiogs. Offers, however, were numerous; 15 were pro-
posed to be given agaiMtt the field for the Chester Cup ;
20 to 1 offered against any horse. 500 to 20 was offered
in a sterling quarter against either of Mr. Collett's) 200
to 7 was asked. Nothing was said upon any of the other
events. The general opinion was that Bloomsbury will
have the top weight, with not less than Oat. 10Ib. So
much depends upon the handicapping, that nothing like
business Can, in reason, be expected until after the 14th.
THE OAKS AND Sr. LEGER ...Nothing done.

HURRICANES AND STORMS.

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BOULOGNE, JAN. .._About four o'clock on S'anday
morning, two French vess2ls ran on shore within 100 yards
of the Northern 13,er, in an attempt to hit the mouth
of the harbour. The wind at this time was Wowing a
perft ct hurricane, and the lightning was as vivid as any I
ever saw. The larger of the vessels, a fine West India-
man, of from 200 to 800 tons, laden with sugar and
coffee, fired minute guns for a considerable time, but it
was impossible to render her any assistance. The crew,
upwards of GO in number, remained on board until it was
nearly low rater, when they all walked ashore in
s ifety. The smaller vessel, which was in some degree
protected by the other, was a brig of about 150
tons, laden with wine and brandy, from Bourdeaux,
and bound for Boulogne. Her crew and cargo are
saved, and, were English sailors employed, the vessel,
in my opinion, might be recovered, but it is absurd to
expect much from French seamen. The pier all yes-
terday was crowded with persons waiting to see the
West Indiaman go to pieces as all were assured she
would ; indeed, the crew themselves seemed to be of
the same opinion, for they spent the short time the
tides alluded them in cutting off blocks and ropes. Tne
captain of the brig set the foresail, in the hope that his
vessel would drift farther in under the protection of the
pier, which she did ; and there seemed to me to be
gross mismanagement or cowardice, in taking this
course. It was perfectly possible to work the brig
out towards the buoy for 50 yards, when she would,
of herself, have blown into the harbour; and which,
I think, Deal boatmen would have done ; but the
Frenchmen, however, never made the attempt, their only
object seemed to be to get nearer the shore. At about
o'clock the West Indianian parted, anti the next instant
the sea was covered with coffee and splinters of wood
for a considerable distance. This morning the strand for
half a mile towards W imereux was thronged with per-
sons collecting fragments of the wreck that lay strewed
upon the beach. A ;large detachment of Douaniers
were stationed to guard the copper bolts and the ropes,
that were eagerly sought for by the Poissardes.
counted as many as thirty sugar tubs lying about, but all
empty. Several logs of mahogany have been saved, but
that is, I believe, the only part of the cargo that is
not destroyed. One large fragment of the wreck re-
mains near the pier, and another has drifted down to near
the spot where the Amphitrite was lost. The owners
have been engaged all to-day in getting the cargo out
of the brig. None of the wine is, I believe, injured.
If the French instead of going to a great expense in
building forts, had expended the same amount in build-
ing a harbour, all this would have been spared, and much
more beside. I waited until a late hour for the
Boulogne Gazette, which is not yet out, and have
only had time, in consequence, to give you the above
very imperfect account.—Evening Paper.

IRELAND.

Subjoined are some extracts from the Dub Evening
Post received to-day :
ATROCIOUS MURDER IN AIiNIAGII.
The following appears in the Newry Telegraph, an
; Orange paper. We must wait for further accounts before
pronouncing decidedly upon the motives of the villains en-
gaged in this shocking and cold-blooded murder. The
paper from which we quote seems to be more than usually
guarded upon this point :
We have this day the painful duty of recording a mur-
der which has occurred within a few miles of this town—
and which, in point of daring and savage atrocity, is per-
haps unparalleled in the North of Ireland. The facts, as
communicated to us, arc as follow :
On Saturday evening last, between five and six o'clock,
six men, armed, approached the house occupied by a
Mr. Powell (land surveyor to Mr. Quinn), situated
convenient to the Roman Catholic Chapel of Newtown_
hamilton, in the county of Armagh, and about a quar-
ter of a mile distant from the latter village. On
rapping at the door, it was opened by the servant-
maid, who, in answer to their inquiries, said her mas-
ter was at home, but that he was engaged. Four
of the party then rushed forward, and, entering the
parlour where Mr. Powell was at the time sitting with his
two daughters, peremptorily demanded what he was doing;
" about the school-house in the planting ?" We under-
, stand that a school-house—tor some reason or other, uncx-
' plained to us, obnoxious to certain parties, had been in
progress of erection on Mr. Quin's estate, under the su-
perintendence of Mr. Powell.] To this interrogatory Mr.
P. replied, by asking the fellows how they dared to enter
his house in the manner and at the hour they did? Upon
which three of the ruffians, the fourth having been courage.
ously hold back by one of the young ladies, seized hold of
Mr. P., and notwithstanding that he, being a powerful man,
struggled desperately, they at length succeeded in dragging
him outside of his hall door, where, deaf to every appeal for
mercy, they inhumanly shot him through the heart ! The
ruffi in who remained inside struggling with the daughter,
at length freed himself from her desperate gripe by bru-
tally striking her on the forehead with the butt-end of his
pistol, fracturing her skull, and prostrating her senseless
at his feet ! This horrible tragedy occupied but a few
moments ; in the interim, however, the second daughter,
having escaped by a back door, ran to the adjoining vil-
lage and alarmed the inhabitants. But alas ! assisrance
carnet 00 late. The assassins had decamped. The body
of the unfortunate father was found, where it had fallen, at
the door ; his death, from the nature of the wound, must
have been instantaneous. The heroic daughter, though
still in a state of insensibility, was, by surgical aid, re-
stored to consciousness—her life is not considered in
danger.

These are the only particulars that have as yet reached
us. We understand, however, that four fellows are now
in custody, charged with having been concerned in this
find and cold-blooded murder.

BOAI.D OF EDUCATION.

His Grace the Duke of Leinster has been succeeded as
Commissioner of toe Board of Education by the ntrquis
of Kildare, his son. We regret, in common with the
public, his Grace's retirement—but we should remember
that he stood manfully and perseveringly by the Board
when it became the object of such shameless vituperation
from the utter extremes of the parties into which the
country is divided. The trust he held as Commissioner of
Education has devolved upon his Grace's heir—Lord Kil-
dare—the son of es honest and as true an Irishman as ever
lived. The Fitzgeralds were always Whigs, and the Mar-
quis of Kildare. we may be sworn, will not belie the high
principles and the political creed of his lineage.