The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-21 00:00:00

1841

PROPOSAL FOR. A NATIONAL RE-

MONSTUANCE AGAINST SLAVERY.
From the People's Journal.
The abolitionists of America have always coveted the ex-
pression of sympathy from abroad. Subject, as they con-
stantly are, to the deadly hostility of the slave-holding
interests, they are cheered and invigorated by every voice—no
matter how remote its source—which pronounces a condem-
nation of slavery, and demands the liberty of the negro. The
cause of emancipation in America depends, in a greater
degree than may be supposed, upon the bearing assumed by
the friends of -freedom in England. Reciprocal influences
prevail between nations as among individuals, and one nation
may determine the conduct of another nation, as effectually
as one man may exercise a suasion upon the mind of his
fellow-being.
See how the flame kindled by the Anti-corn-law League
lights up a kindred element in European nations—they have
caught the spirit of anti-monopoly, and are " up and doing."
The applanse with which the champion of free trade has been
everywhere greeted, attests that the eyes of Europe have been
upon England curing the reccnt struggle—and that her ex •
ample has extended its int uence wherever mis-government
exists. The struggle for free trade will also inflnence future
revolutions with a tremendous power. It has demonstrated
that the earnest but peaceful assertion of truth and right is
sufficient for the t.verthrow of the harshest tleal otism, and that
the power of mind is more potent than that of the sword.
The world has b •en taught the grand lesson—that civil
anarchy is not the necessary prelude to the establishment of
civil right.

If the g.,od works of Englishmen may excite emulation in
the breasts of their brethren of France. Germany, and Spain,
how much greater will be their influence upon a people
speaking the same tongue, having the same common origin,
and united to each other by links or the most inseparable kind?
Who amongst us but has some tie—in addition to that of the
common brotherhood—up n the extended soil of America ?
Who has no friend, no schoolfellow, no relative within the great
boundary of American rule ? England, perhaps, more than any
other nation, owes a duty America ; and certainly no other
people can perform such a duty so effectively as the English. We
owe it then, as a duty to God and to man, and to Americans espe-
evilly to speak out against the dreadful oppression of which
the black slave is the victim. And there are many reasons
why the voce of England should be heard now. The spirit
of emancipation is just taking deep root, and it becomes every
lover of liberty to foster and encourage its growth. The
American Abolitionists have been led to expect a loud and
untuis. akable expression of sympaihy , from England—they
lank for it, and they must have it—and it must be equal to
their expectations • not a weak puny murmur that shall die
away upon the wind, but a voice ,that shall strike t'-;e ear of
humanity throughout the whole civilised world, and quicken
the blood in the hearts alike of the doers of evil and of good.
There must be a stir in the moral elements that shall excite
each one to ask of himself—. Am I on the side of right or
wrong?"

But how shall this voice be 'expressed ? Shall it be by a
word now, and another then ; one uttered here, and another
there? Or shall the voice of England against American sla-
very be one loud, united, and earnest protest against the prac
tires of the oppressor?
It, as we are told, an address signed by 300 English people
encourages and invigorates the American abolitionists, t y that
mysterious influence which sympathetic feeling never fails to
impart—how much more the voice of 3,000? how grew the
expression of 300,• 00 voices? or, one glorious step further—
say how mighty in its effect the united declaration of three mil-
lions of men, women, and youths of Great Britain, against the
enslavement n, the negro race I There are three millions of
slaves in the united States—are there not three millions of
people in Great Britain who will sign a friendly remonstrance
against American slavery ? Will not every man assert the
right of his fellow-mao—every woman the right of her fellow-
woman—to freedom ? Yes; all this may be done—it only re-
mains to set about it with an earnest resolution.

The writer may be said to he sanguine,at;dhe has reason to
be so. A few years ago, he sat with five others in a room in
Manchester, and there he proposed a National Petition to
Parliament, praying the right of suffrage fur the British adult
male population. Yes—when it was proposed there were only
five persons present—and he afterwards betook himself to soli-
tude to frame the prayer of the British people to their rulers. A
few months afterward., and his was the joy to see that petition
borne down to the House of Commons upon the shoulders of
sixteen sturdy men—the monster petition, banded around with
thick ropes—signed by three millions and a half of the British
people—cheered by the assembled multitude as it passed along
—obliged to be parted in twain ere it could be passed through
the doors of the House of Commons (a full House of Members
had assembled to meet it), and though they granted not its
prayer, still within and without the doors of that House, it
created a conviction and a power which have imperceptibly
swayed the subsequent work of peaceable and just legislation.
He would like to see a remonstrance against slavery, ad-
dressed to the American people, through their President,
signed by three millions of the British people ! He hopes to
look upon the grand spectacle of this remonstrance being
borne through the streets of Liverpool; and then committed to
the Great Western for its transatlantic passage. Such a do-
cument will find willing recipients on the shores of New York;
and its undoubted effect will be the creation of an irresistibie
moral power, that shall ultimately effect the freedom of the
slave ? Englishmen—we can do it: and why not?

LUCILE GRAHN AND THE VENETIANS.—A letter
from Venice of January 3, says :--" Nothing is talked
of here but the sudden departure of the celebrated dan-
seuse, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn, who had been engaged for
the three months of the carnival, at the sum of 40,000
livres, and who, on quitting the Venice Theatre, has
given up that amount. Mrille. Lucile Grahn, having
wished to overthrow the old system of Italian panto-
mimes, in order to introduce the kind of French ballets,
the artistes employed in the choregraphic department
united together to defeat this project. A cabal, similar
to that of which Marie Taglioni was last year the victim
at Milan, was organised against Lucile Grahn, and when
that charming artiste came on the stage fir the first time
in the ballet of the Gipsy, a dozen individuals in the pit
received her with shouts and threats. The young lady
remained a moment as if thunderstruck, and then with
a gesture full of calmness, ordered the curtain to be
dropp,d, and, in spice of everything which could he done
to retain her, quitted the city immediately. V.-nice will
long suff r from this ever.t, for what f -reign artiste of
celebrity would come and expose herself to a similar
cabal ?" According to an account given in a Venice
journal the disturbance was partly caused by the prices
of admission having been unexpectedly raised.
THE REPRESENTATION OF BATH.--At a meeting
of electors, held on Wednesday, the hillowing resolution
was passed among others:—" l'hat Lord Ashley having
c!:nsented to be put in nomination as ono of the repre-
sentatives of this city, at the next Parliamentary elec-
tion, it is desirable to raise a fund to defray the legiti
mate expenses of such election, and that a subscription
he forthwith commenced fur that purpose."—Somerset
Gazette.

DEATH OF LORD KINGSALE.—The Exeter Flying..
Post announces the decease of this nobleman, whose
family name is so familiar to those interested in heraldry
and genealogy. His Lordship died on the 7th inst , at
Ringrone House, near Kingsbridge. The deceased John
Stapleton de Courcy, Lord Kingsale, Baron Courcy of
Courcy, and of Ringrone, Premier Barin in the Peerage
of Ireland, was born September 17, 1805, and succeeded
his uncle, the twenty-seventh Lord, in 1832. In Oc-
tober, 1825, he married Sarah, second daughter of Jo-
seph Chadder, E,q., of Devonshire, by whom he had
issue five children, including the Hon. John Constantme
(born in 1827), who succeeds to the title and estates,
which latter lay in the county of Cork, Ireland. The
De Courcys came to this country with William the. Co-
nqueror. The first holding the above title was Sir John
de Courcy, who was distinguished in the wars of Eng.
land and Ireland in the time of Henry 11. Having been
champion of England in a dispute with France, and
having vanquished the greatest swordsman of the period
in the latter country, King John granted him and his
descendants the privilege of remaining covered in the
presence of the Sovereign. We may add, that up to the
present time, the right has been exercised by members
of the family.
SOHAM.—ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT FIRE, AND COM-
MITTAL OF THE SUPPOSED INCENDIARY.—We have to
record another attempt at fire in this unfortunate parish,
which, providentially, like the last, was unsuccessful on
the part of the incendiary. About a fortnight since, it
was discovered that the buildings opposite the Baptist
Chapel had had a most narrow escape of fire, a hand•
kerchief with turf ashes, and a box of Inciters, the former
partly consumed, being found in a barn bel •nging to
Messrs. Owers. Suspicion had for some little time
rested upon an individual named Munson, as being con-
cerned in other fires, although no actual clue could be
obtained, and on the present occasion that suspicion was
strengthened by several circumstances; on inquiry being
made, it was ascertained that the handkerchief 'had been
in Munson's possession only a few days previous. This
act led to his being taken into custody, and after an
examination before John Dobede, Esq., he was remanded
for a week, and on Tuesday last again underwent a more
lengthened hearing before the Newmarket bench, when
the evidence adduced was found sufficient to justify
them in fully committing the prisoner for trial. As the
different witnesses gave their evidence, they were cross-
exam:ned by Munson at great length, but without any
other result than that of strengthening the ease agains
him. Cambridge Independent Press.
SHOCKING AFFAIR.— U EDER AND SUICIDE

STCCKPORT, JAN. 14.—Yesteroay a coroner's inquiry
was held at Heaton Yorris, a parish a short distance
from this town, concerning the death of Amy Cokel3
and her infant daughter, aged eight months As will
be seen by the following facts, the unfortunate parent
conn•tted suicide by throwing herself into the rivet.
Mersey, with the infant in her arms, which periA,,i
with the mother. The unhappy woman cohabited with a
man named Barlow, and lived in Sheppard's buildings.
to quarrel, and in conse-
und on her body
qwh(n taken out of the water, it was generally supposed
They
Yce w
of r e
some heard
violent i oflrevurbernuttisY es being to
in the neighbourhood that her death had really resulted
trom the ill trratmi.r.t she had receive d from him.evidencesof young girl.
however, was set at rest by the evidences
of the name of Garner, at d the toed:cal testimony. 'ft,
female stated that she saw the dec, used in the court,
"f last Saturday afternoon. She tern d exceedingly
depressed i,t ~er spirits, and r,marki.d. " 0 my G,t(i!
I wi,h I was out 01 this world; for there is nothing
but trook,,e in it." Late in the day she appear. o
more troubled in her wind. and she so continued unt:l
la-ft fhP,TI alive. 01: Sunday eveeing she le,t htr
taking witty h,r the chili. A ft., hors a‘terwar,ts
was se.di near prec pice lead 11 to tf., river, on t
Heaton N rris site, :ill(' I,lj to tt, Cotton T
public-house. On the same night the bodies were dis-
covered in some shallow vial, r n, ar the. previously
described. The corpse of the mother was considerably
brui,t,d. Mr. Cheethain a sure, ott. d. pos d that thr,
eyes of the i:tirent were deepiy girged with d,
whieh Til7ght he rr,,,itc-d ,-r a hi'ou.
the head, or bye fall ; or corp. coo, e"td mi -;•-
catis, thoip zipp,arat•ces. •sev,•r.ti i sees w
exami!wri, vv,lo ,poke to 13•-trl•,w havii n seen •1
usiew the deceased, but none of thew s tne able to fix a
late date. The jury returned the following verdict,
there being no conclusive evidence of the deceased hav-
ing thrown herself in the river:—" That the deceased
were found drowned in the Rive 7 Mersey, with divers
iejtiri...s noon their bodies, but how those wounds were
,•0(10 loti, d Ihore was no ”ri,racN•ry evutmee to 5h00,."
The I !erener severely censured Barlow for his conduct

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to tho deceascd.
The Conde de Afontf-molin was pres.n,f, by invita-
tion, in the, liuuOr of Lords on Tuesday during t tic „,.erring 01
Parliament. His Royal Highness and suite occupied the
gaga in the gialgy generally allotted to TiaiWra