The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-20 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

WEALD OF SURREY AND SUSSEX

AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting and ploughing match of the above
Association took place on Friday, at Ockley-green, near
Dorking, on the borders of the county of Sussex,upom
the estate of Walter Calvert, Esq., of Ockley Court..
There was a very good show of stock, which also exhi-
bited a decided improvement upon that of last year.
When the ploughing-match had terminated, the com-
pany adjourned to dinner in a spacious marquee..
W. J. Denison, Esq.' M. P., presided, and there
were also present C. Barclay, Esq., W. H. Sumner,
Esq., the Rev. Mr. Dawson, iee Steere, Esq.,
J. S. Broadwood, Esq., A. Spotiswoode, Esq., J. Small-
peice, Esq., Larpent, Esq., Arbuthnot, Esq., E.
Calvert, Esq., and nearly three hundred farmers and
others, members of the Association.
After dinner the prizes were delivered to those ser-
vants ix husbandry who were considered entitled to them
by reason of long and honest servitude. This portion of
the proceedings was most gratifying. Some of the reci-
pients of the prizes had been in the scene of employ-
ment for a period verging towards half a century, and
although their grey hairs and venerable appearance
bespoke their advanced age, they. still appeared'well and hearty, and the cheering position in
which they found themselves placed, seemed almost to
make them young again. The Chairman, in award-
ing the prizes, said he hoped the example of the
honest men he •saw before him would be followed by
their neighbours, and that the Association would have to
award many such prizes on future occasions.
When this interesting, portion of the day's proceed-
ings was concluded, and the usual loyal and patriotic
toasts had been proposed and responded to,
The CHAIRMAN, 111 a short speech, then proposed
" The Weald of Surrey and Sussex Agricultural Asso-
ciation."

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A number of other speeches were made on the occa-
sion, but they possessed little public interest.

THE CORN-LAW KING.
(From the Tablet.)
There rules a king in the depths below,
And a sullen king is he ;
The name he bears is " the poor man's foe,"
And care and want, and despair and woe,
Are tools of his tyranny.
Full oft a song from his fiendish throng
Is heard like th;s to spring :
Long life to those who are poor men's foes,
And hurrah for our Corn-law King!!
Yet not alone near that tyrant proud,
There arise such strains of mirth—
They come from many a pampered crowd
That sits, 'midst rejoicing lung and loud,
In the lordly domes of earth.
Therein again, like foul fiends, do men
This savage chorus sing :
Success to those who are poor men's foes,
And hurrah for the Corn-law King !
With glee satanic the depths resound,
When men thus with fiends unite ;
Their common king upsprings with a bound,
And boasting-Iy through the vast profound,
Thus exclaims he in his might :
My banner so black shall friends ne'er lack,
Whilst men thus to it cling ;
So joy to those who are poor men's foes,
All through love of the Corn-law King !
But let to despots of earth still bend
To him of the nether world ;
Soon his sway and theirs shall have an end,
For justice, the poor man's guide and friend,
Has her peaceful flag unfurled.
With this dread threat 'gainst th' unhallowed set
Both earth and sky now ring :
Woe, woe to those who are poor men's foes,
And sworn friends to the Corn-law !
J. IL K.

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The number -of persons engaged in fabricating
ancient gems in Rome, at the present day is, we believe,
considerable ; and there is consequently great difficulty
in ascertaining the genuine from the imitations, when
thejatter are finely executed. But the appearance of
antiquity—that must be copied too ; and ingenuity has
devised a very curious and interesting process for pro-
ducing the effect. The fresh-cut cameo is crammed
down the throat of a turkey, and left in its intestines for es
sufficient length of time, when the fowl is killed, and iG
is found that the stone, subjected to the trituration of the
gizzard, presents every semblance of a Grecian treasure
which has been buried two thousand years.—Literary
Gazette.
Reprieves have been sent to Mr. Cole, Governor
of the Devon County Gaol, for Wm. Major, 74, sentenced
for death, on a charge of administering poison, at the
last Devon Assizes ; and for John Clarke, 26, convicted
at, the same Assizes of an unnatural crime, against whom
sentence of death was recorded. In both cases the sen-
tences are commuted to transportation for life.— Western

Times.
MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—An old lady is
said to have thu; expressed her opinion of Ministerial
changes :—" In my time, there was Lord North and the
South Sea bubble, and Billy Pitt the Tory, and Charley
Fox, Mr. Percival. and Bellingham, and Lord Liverpool,
and Castlereagh, and Canning. Oh, dear ! I forget who
they all were, and what they talked about ; they talked
a great deal, and made a great noise, and all the
time the people cried, Change me the Ministers,'
and grumbled ; and then, after one change, ' Change
me them again,' and they grumbled • and so, change
and grumble, change and grumble ; and the only thing
they did not change was their grumble ; and so it has
been always. Ido not hear as much as I used, but I dare
say they grumble all the same."
The excavations for the viaduct of the railway
over the Cann, in Chelmsford. have been already com-
menced. This viaduct will be about 700 feet in length,
and consist of 18 brick arches of 30 feet span each ; and
the height of the viaduct from the ground to the top of
the parapet will be about 45 feet,.—lnventor's Advocate.
A tunnel, two miles in lengh, for the transit of
coals from the Spital Tongues colliery, near Newcastle,
to the River Tyne, is nearly completed, and will be
opened early next year.—lnventor's Advocate.
UNFOUNDED REPORT OF A DUEL.—A re-
port was current about town last night, and has
found its way into one of the morning papers of to-
day, relating to a duel which it Iva.; alleged had
taken place between the Earl of Cardigan and
Colonel Wood, M.P. for Middlesex. The paragraph
circumstantially adds, that the Gallant Colonel
had received a wound in the head from the ball
of his antagonist. The statement, we have good
reason to believe, is a pure fiction, and has not the
slightest basis of truth to rest upon. Colonel Wood
was himself alive and well in the House of Commons
last night, until the adjournment took place, and he
then returned to his house in Cavendish-square, whence
he this morning took his departure for Littleton, one of
the seats of the family. Not a word of the matter has
been beard of at the Clubs, which is good prima facie
evidence of its being devoid of truth.
Despatches for Sir George Gipps, Governor of New
South Wales, were sent off last evening from the Colo-
nial-office.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock
on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-
street.
THE AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF FRANCE.—
Mr. William Kennedy, the distinguished author of a late
able work on Texas, has been proposed by the Com-
mittee of the Supreme Council in Paris, a Member of
this Institution. Mr. Kennedy is worthy of any lite-
rary distinction that the learned societies of France, or
his native country, may confer upon him.
MORE STEAMING.—We are told that the
above bridge Iron Steam-boat Company have now three new
iron boats on the stocks, which, when finished, are intended to
run every hour from London to Putney.
A HlNT.—Filberts and walnuts will be as
fresh at Christmas as now, if put in jars and covered with sea-
sand, or made air-tight with a bladder in a similar manner to
pickles.
F. S. Murphy, Esq. M.P. for Cork, paired off
on Friday night with Lord Arthur Lennox in the division on
Mr. Fielden's amendment.
THE LATE PICCADILLY FIRE.—The Direc-
tors ef the County Fire-office, as a tribute of respect to
rt the
worth of their late servant, William West, who was nfou-
nately killed at the Piccadilly fire on Sunday night last. have
ordered the sum of 12s. and free house-room to the Widow dur-
ing her life-time, to be paid weekly.
Lord Monson, we are happy to bear, is
seriously indisposed as stated. His Lordship was, by
the accounts received from Brighton on
Fridas.' illness
better than on Saturday se'nnight, but then
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was not not so serious as to alarm his familjh%
his not
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Lordship.
tess of Warwick is staying at Brighton with
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newßll itanted Mr.ony
We believe also
the day before the old Ministry wen!
1" r;cl American Steam
esntLracltNwEit.h—t‘hVe LINE.—We
that this was the reason Vk h y the Britti4soteaeo.
This system of
Navigation Company sold the British_
obstacle
to the progress a
contracts will prove a most seriouos.ob
DRIGHTON.--0,
:Irdninertesntta
ALLEGED MURDER
steam navigation, as all bounties dA•
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Atkins, a painter, and Thomas
Magazine.
Thursday morning, William
aEt
stbqc, bar of the Police Court,
and Major Allen, the
lasciciou of having murdered a man
chargedielsey, a labourer,before
George w e were placede,
sitting Magistrates, on
i them, fte
and t h
• it appeared that the prisoners rented
statements of the police,
St. Thomas's-street! and that a house of the deceased :not
to.
in aenr t at yester-
dayila app red iftoyr
named Hunt, late in the evening of yesterday. From the
evening his h desponl'
of a person who had
Hunt's house. After she had been there some roW
lodgings in
u 's the two men being indebted to her husband :or rent,
minutes,
;aid he thou
i wreosided wiltuh
thought it was a mere excuse, and that she had
really come to ask for the sent. Mrs. Hunt replied she did
intend to mention that, and some angry words ensued, which
induced her to go in search of her husband. In the meantime
he had followed her, but they missed each other on their way.
On arriving home, not finding Mr. Hunt, she returned, and to
her great horror found him lying dead at Atkins's house.
Elmer, the superintendent, said he found the mark of a blow
under the left ear, and had no doubt the deceased had been
knocked down in a scuffle. Atkins said the man hadfallen in
a fit, and that neither of them had touched him. Kelsey also
denied having used any violence, and the prisoners were re-
manded until after the Coroner's inquest. An inquest was
held on the body on Thursday, when the Jury, after alengthened
enquiry, returned a verdict of Died by the visitation of God.
MEETING AT TAMWORTH.—On Wednesday
evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Tam'
worth was convened in the Market-place of that town,
for the consideration of the propriety of petitioning the
Queen not to prorogue Parliament until the Corn and
Provision monopolies shall have been abated by the Le-
gislature. The attendance far exceeded any previously
witnessed, and, after an address from Mr. Acland, the
petition suggested by that gentleman was unanimously
adopted. On Thursday the petition received the signa-
tures of a decided majority of the whole adult popu.la-
tion of the electoral borough of the Monopolist Premier,
and will be forthwith forwarded to a Peer of the realm
for presentation to her Alskjesty.