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A WORD OF WARNING TO I was, a fellow, who lam told rents a farm under
ELECTORS. ' ! the city of Lincoln, in the other division of
The vis inertia of Government is at length overcome. the county, was actually leading on the bludgeon m
A power stronger than the wishes, an authority more men, and beating poor freemen of Lincoln, who
imperative than the demands, of the peop7e, has laid our were his own landlords. This caps all. • Af
rulers under obligation to move. Events which no human ; There is an old saying, " seeing is believing;" A.
sagacity could foresee, which no conventional arrange- I saw people with their heads streaming down
raents could resist, have unexpectedly and happily sin. in I with blood: I have since heard the names of
motion, once again, the chariot-wheels of reform. Hope, people whd were thus violently abused. I have P(
resolution, and vigilance make up the state of mind most .
fitting to e cherished by the country at this crisis—hope I asked the question, but I find that the Castle- de
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which will nerve resolution, resolution which will realise , yard is not within. the jurisdiction of the City
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hope, vigilance which will guard both against delusion. i Magistrates; it is a part of the especial domain A
of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, as Duchess of in•
The time has come when the silent people may again
speak, and speak with effect. The aristocratic barrier Lancaster; it therefore belongs to the Magis- cc
which stood around monopolies, guarded by which they trates of the County, some of whom witnessed, th
have sucked the life-blood of the ration, begine to yie:o. I and more than one applauded, the shameful he
beneath the preseure of eircemetaneee. The moneeat is : treatment of these (indiscreet if you like) half- ha
auspicious for one earnest, baarte. r amate, troited exer- starved, unarmed people, who called out "cheap sti
lion of strength, and the noinstet:breaad may be destroyed. i sugar I' B
Three cheers the the oeurthro aof yeenepoli,- s, and then, , Some professing Reformers have since called in
with British prowess, forward to the conflict ! these ill-used people "fools Ihr their pains lit .I" m
"ris something to chain injastice-'tis better far to kill
there
is not. much hope of getting any redress; ar
it. The realisation of the Ministerial project would no ..
doubt prove a great relief to burdened industry. The I taut it is I:ght that the people of :England should m
languishing interests of the country, however, cry aloud , know that the only public meeting that has been re
for somethiing more. Toe move is in the right direction, held in defence of the Corn-laws was called at at,
though it fah far snort of the wished-for goal. If the Lincoln, on the only day of the week when it was 7t,
electors are now true to the mighty trust devolved upon impossible that the citizens of Lincoln could al
them, we believe they have it m their-power to give attend, and the few opponents were driven out p(
such an impulse to the present movement as to push it of the Castle-yard by bludgeon-men; after ti
right beyond the point of protection, and force it for- which Ipswich-Dunclas-Christoplier had the im- of
' ward to complete repeal. Aiming at this, they can lose pudence to declare that it was a public meeting, tr.
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nothing, they may gain much. for them it is always which gave the lie to the Anti-Corn-law Leamue. ni
safest to attempt great things. - who said that the bread-taxers dare not holdir
-" He that withholdeth corn, the purple shall curse him."
Happy will our legislators be, it, before the curse lights a meeting in the open air ! it
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-upon them, enters their bones and eats up their marrow, - ---- a-- - it
'they hearken to the dictated of justice and compassion. THE WEATHER.-Noos, MAY 27
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A record is lodged against them in that Court from ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREF.T.
which there is no appeal even for the proudest of our Barometer
aristocracy, which may well make them pause and. Thermometer... 77-- Highest 79 1 Lowest
tremble. f rom the abodes of squalid penury, from the Wind N.E. -Freezing Point 32 Deg. ll
crowded and steaming haunts of the unfed poor, for aaaseassaasassaswaaessmaaaseas. c
years past, there have gone up to the ear of Heaven, the NAVAL INTEL L t GENCE. 0
sobs of unnumbered hearts wrung with anguish by op- (From the Brighton Gazette.) c
pression, the wailings of untold misery, if not created, PoaTsmouni, MAY 26.—Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas,
aggravated ten-fold by the laws of selfish and grasping C. 8., the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief in the Pacific, :1
monopolists. Supreme vengeance sleeps not though it has hoisted his flag (blue at the mizen) on bard the Excel- ?
I;nt, and again departed to Plymouth. The Dublin,. 51J, is I
may seem slow. The history of all countries, and em-
phatically that of neighbouring France, is but one proof ,:tainfT,eout to convey. Rear-Admiralthe- to his destination, and I
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I ready in about two months.
long drawn out, that if ever the wrath of the Omnipotent Captain Edmund Boxer, C.B. ,of the Pique, 36, is to sue- t
is let loose upon man, without restraint, it is against coed Commodore Douglas at Jamaica, as second in command 1
those who " grind the faces of the poor." in the West Indies. T
We quoted the sentence, however, for the benefit of The Gnmwallis, 72, Captain P. Richards, is nearly manned '
electors. Ere long they are to occupy a position (and for at Plymouth, to proceed to the East Indies as the flag-ship of P
this we praise the Govemmentand give them thanks) to Rear-Admiral Sir William Parker, K.C. 8., who will-proceed 1
avert, it may be from thoughtless or heartless legislators, to Egypt in the Great Liverpool steamer, and thence overland I '
the fearful curse, or to bring it down upon their own heads. Bombay. to
There appears no doubt that Vice-Admiral Sir Charles '.
Would that the sentence were burnt into the conscience of
Adam, K. C. B will tueceed to the command in the Mediter- o
every- man of them ! Would that it might ring in the ears rancor, and that. the Queen, 110, will be forthwith prepared to i:
of every elector when he goes up to the poll, to re- convey him thither as his flag-ship. a
cord his vote ! "Will you rob the poor-rob them of The Bellerophon, 72, Captain Austen, is to be paid off in t'
their daily breed-of that bread for which they toil be- this harbour, ;nd may be hourly looked for from Plymouth as t
yond their strength, and prematurely wear .out the soon as the Court-martial on Lieut. Morris, of the Trinculo,
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powers of nature ?"-is a question which we could wish shall have terminated.
might haunt every man who has the franchise, through The brig Reindeer, 6, Lieut. Bisson, is at Spithead, on her t
the day of the forthcoming election. Whether for good way to Gibraltar, to lie as guard vessel there.
• or evil, whether in wisdom or in folly, the constitution of 'the brig Pelican, IS, Commander Napier. will proceed to
Lisbon in a day or two, to be stationed in the Tagus, pro I
the empire commits to the guardienshin of •a cornpara-
temnore. I
tively small body of electors, the rights of Inillions"One St. Vincent, 120, will bear the flag of Admiral Sir Ed-
They are trustees on behalf of the people-and to the
people they are morally responsible. Let them under-ward Codrington, G. C. 8., at this port, in lieu of the Quee'n :
110, which will proceed to the Mediterranean. , i
steal aright the question at issue. Every shilling of The Fair Rosamoml, schooner, Lieut. Bulman, is ready to I
-fixed duty abstracts from the common stock upward:: of sail for the Cape and African station.- I
2,000,000/. worth of bread, for the benefit of higher A Court-martial has been held at Plymouth for the trial of '
prices th the landowner.. The question is, 16,000,0001. Lieut. Abbott, of the Trinculo, 16, for alleged contempt and '
of bread more or less per year, for the poor, the chief con_ disrespect to his Commander (Coffin), which ended in his being '
smilers. • The electors are now invested with a power admonished to be more careful in future. A. Court also assem- 1
equivalent. to that of the seasons. They are called upon to bled here on Monday, to try Mr. Hobb, assistant-surgeon of the !
Indus, 84, on charges of drunkenness.
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g years shall be years of
decide by vote, whether comic.;
Tortoise store ship, has been commissioned at Chatham •
ealenty or of scarcity—whether fulnese or famine shall
e • by Mr-. James Woed, master, R N.. who commanded the
prevail. Not for all that earth could offer would we Buffalo, at the time she went ashore on the coast of New Zealand.
voluntarily choose the latter, in preference to -the former. AT SriTHEAD.-Indus, 84, Monarch, 84, Pelican, 18, Ver..
No greater foes to our country's peace should we be, if non, 50, Nautilus, 10, and Reindeer, 6.
possessing, we used the power of breathing a blight over 1N H A RBO UA. --,. Queen, Victory, Dublin, Fittern, Fair Rosa-
the waving corn fields of Old England. mom], Royal George, Excellent, Echo, and f,ag tenders.
e., We have spoken of the corn monopoly only, and the
position of electors in regard to that. We do not Under.; COURT CIR.O UL AR.
rate -the mischief inflicted by all other monopolies. But Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
the same blow which destroys the parent, will kill the off- Queen and Prince Albert' yesterday at Buckingham
spriag too. The removal of all commercial restrictions Palace, and remained to lunch.
must follow close upon the heels of the Corn-law repeal. It Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in the garden
would be the commencement of a new era of prosperity of Buckingham Palace yesterday. .
—the dawn of brighter and of happier days.—Noncon- Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen
formist. yesterday.
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The Roval dinner party, at Buckingham Palace, last
THE PRO-CORN-LAW MC VE MEN T evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of
• (r roar a CORRESPONDENT.) Kent, their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
For a few days past I have been in Lincoln- of Leiningen, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lady
shire, and I beg to forward you a few particulars Elizabeth Leveson Gower; Lady Anne Maria Dawson,
of the two great meetings that have occurred in Baroness Spaeth, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Morley, Via-. '
this county. count Melbourne, Sir George Couper, and Mrs. Geo:ge .
Edward, and the Hon. Mrs. Anson.
On Monday, the 17th instant, a meeting of the
The Bawl of the Coldstream Guards attended at the
Southern Division of the county was called at Palace during the ereninc.
Sleaford; the day selected was a most auspicious The Ma-Aimless of Nbo.rmanby. has succeeded Lady_
one for the agriculturists ; it was a market day, Portman as' the Lady in waiting on the Queen ; and the
it was the day of the fair, it was also the day on Earl of Aboyne and Maier the Hon. George Keppel
which the agricultural labourers were keeping have succeeded i.,ord Peltrenore and the Hon. W. Cowper
their annual holiday ; to have attempted any as the Lord and Geeoom in waiting on her Majesty.
movement, without a population to back it, would Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited the Duchess
have been madness; .the Town-hall was well of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Her Ma-
filled
with wealthy landowners and their tenants, jesty, rAtended by the Hon. Sophia Wheatley and the
and all went off most tamely, for, from the open-
11... n. Charlotte Hudson, afterwards took an airing in an
open carriage and four.
ing of the doors to the hall being closed, the
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
time did not exceed half-an-hour. The expected Leiningen visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yes-
division kept away Messrs. Handley and Heath- terday, at Marlborough House.
cote, the "Whig" Members for that part of the The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta
county, and all was mere formal business and the of Cambridge, honoured the Archbishop of York with •
adoption of a petition. their company at dinner last evening, at his residence in
And now for the great Lincoln meeting. On Grosvenor-square. His Grace, with his Royal and Noble
Friday, the 21st instant, the High-Sheriff had Visitors, afterwards went to the performance of the Con-
convened the meeting, to be held in the Castle- cert of Ancient Music, at the Hanover-square Rooms.
yard. Some symptoms of opposition had-been
observed, for hand-bills from the Anti-Corn-law FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
league had been distributed the previous day, ARRIVALS.
and a taxed loaf and an untaxed one had been General Marriot and family, at Hathaway's Hotel, Brook-
carried, side by side, on the top of poles. Still street, Grosvenor-square ; Mr. Kebble, at ditto, from Brighton;
J. E. Gray, Esq., at ditto; J. W. Whyte, Esq., at ditto; -
a general opinion was entertained that in a Basidington, Esq., and family, at ditto, from Northampton
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place so dependent on the agiculturists as Lin- shire ; the Bishop of Derry, the Hon. Mrs. and the Misose;
coin is, no offence should be given to the county, ' Ponsonby, at ditto ; Cynric Lloyd, Esq., at ditto • Lady
especially when it was impossible for the oppo- Harriet De Maguire, at Bryanston-street ; the Rev. irederic
nents of the bread-tax to summon even a re- Leicester and the Lady De Tabley, in Sussex-place, Regent's- .
park, from Hampton Court Palace ; - Franks, Esq., and
spectable minority on a market clay. Lady, from Hatfield, at the Waterloo Hotel; Earl and
The High-Sheriff did not make his appearance. Countess of Miltown, and Lord Rossborough, at Winterbourn's
In the coarse of the week he had taken unto London Hotel ; Earl of Roden, at ditto; Lord Godolphin, at
himself a wife, and he was on his wedding tour. ditto ; Lady Bloss and family, at ditto ; the Hen. Orde Pow-
He. was represented by his Under-Sheriff, a Mr. lett and son, at ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, at ditto ; Mr.
and Mrs. Clive and family, at ditto ; Mr. Brooke, at ditto ;
Godfrey Tallents, of Newark (not even in the Alr. Tyartet,eatwdaitteoi;
„the Right Hon. Lord Ora= ore and
county of Lincoln), the son of the late agent sett •r o, Hotel, Jermyh-street;
.Cnvendish Tay-
the Duke of Newcastle, who commenced that se- lor, Lady,sq., and Lady, at ditto; Captain John Vivian, at ditto.
ries of ejectments which the Duke attempted to DEPARTURES.
Captain John Vivian and Lady, from Waterloo Hotel ; Sir
defend, in his celebrated declaration, '' Have I
not a right to do as I will with my own'!" William G..ary, Part., and Lady, from ditto; Mrs. Patterson
Doubt-andAnl,r.l.d Talbot Patterson, from Somerset-street, for County
Dow
less this young gentleman inherits the name, Wm. Angerstein, Esq , from the Watelleo
without the talents of his father. Hotel, Jermyn-street.
The muster in the Castle-yard was highly re- --- —
spectable 4 on the hustings appeared the prinei-
CORN AVERAGE 6.
pal Whigs and Tories of the Northern Divi-
- sion, all, for once. united; the one party led nENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRICISH CORN,
.' by the Earl of Yarborough, the other by For the Week ceded May 21. lei-11, made up from the Returns of
,
the Inspectors tit the -Ittterent cities and Tawns in Englait.. and
the Earl of Winchilsea-; the County Mem- . Wales. per Imperial Quarter.
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hers for this division, Lord Worsley and Mr. 25dd.
R. A. Christopher, for the first time, too, in A vEItAGEs OF THE LAST sIX WEEKS.
amicable conjunction. Doubtless, ere this, some Week ending wia EAT. BARLEY. OATS. 1 RYE. I BRANS. I PEAS
of the London papers will have had some notice Aprill6..- ..... 63 8' 32 6 23 5 36 5 at) ; 376
of the speechifying.. That lam not going to de-
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alternately, Whig and Tory. The mere matter- MIMS ON FOREIGN C 013.14•
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of-fast talkers were heard very patiently; but Barley ' !N.' 4d. I Rye
about the time that Lord Worsley thought pro-
per to address the meeting some few of the me- THE MARKETS.•
chanics of Lincoln had strayed into the Castle-
yard, -ots
dining their dinner hour, and not being sas COAL MARKET.
Ships arrived since last market day, Fa
tisfied thSt all should go off without some op-s. d.
Adair's
position, for want of a leader to advocate Hebblirs Main 1 s Walla End LaMbton
their cause, raised a cry Of " cheap sugar." Lord. 9.olywell Ma ii 8 f W. E. North Hetton Lyons 111 0
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lie experienced a W.lll.
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like interruption. Instead, ilowLiver, of mild and
conciliatory conduct, as had before succeeded, a
Oats. 1 Beans. P.:-.se. -
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- like Bray-forth, began lustily to bray forth Boston - 31i ' ''' to 5. I''tos' I 5 '. 5•
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" Turn them out," whereupon a
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farmer. Perhaps it was indiscreet in a few Hacinii 53 64 30 37 ,2 30 ?.31 40 34 36
operatives 'of Lincoln to be interrupting • Iprvich .....
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The muster in the Castle-yard was highly re-
spectable; on the hustings appeared the princi-
pal Whigs and Tories of the Northern Divi-
sion, all, for once, united; the one party led
by the Earl of Yarborough, the other by
the Earl of Winchilsea; the County Mem-
bers for this division, Lord Worsley and Mr.
R. A. Christopher, for the first time, too, in
amicable conjunction. Doubtless, ere this, some
of the London papers will have had some notice
of the speechifying.. That I am not going to de-
tail, for I have no gift that' way; but I may re-
mark upon a few particular facts. From what I
learned, the speakers paired off as they pair
rabbits, fat and lean; that is, in order to avoid
any particular appearance of politics, they came
alternately, Whig and Tory. The mere matter-
of-fact talkers were heard very patiently; but
about the time that Lord Worsley thought pro-
per to address the meeting some few of the me-
chanics of Lincoln had strayed into the Castle-
yard, during their dinner hour, and not being sa-
tisfied thk all should go off without some op-
position, for want of a leader to advocate
their cause, raised a cry of " cheap sugar." Lord
Worsley is popular with them ; and still, by his
good humour, he was heard patiently without
any great interreption. Out
,the
‘great
Christopner, formerly Dandas of I.ld::.enrga and
Ipswi^h notoriety, 1t3'1..,C COWe lie had not
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uttered three seiteiv e:; o experienced a
like interruption. instead, iiowever, of mild and
conciliatory conduct, as had before succeeded, a
Tory land-cormorant, who has a name something
like Bray-forth, began lustily to bray forth
" Turn them out," whereupon a lot of fellows,
who had clustered themselves under the hustings,
just where Christopher had taken his place,
pushed their way out, and began indiscriminately
to beat every person who did not look like a
farmer. Perhaps it was indiscreet in a few
operatives ' of Lincoln to be interrupting
a county meeting with their few words
of disapprobation ! But these valiant agri-
cultural heroes fell foul of every body that
did not seem to be of their own class,
and most savagely and cruelly beat with their
hooked. sticks and their heavy whip-handles,
many inoffensive parties, who had taken no part
whatever in the proceedings. Not more than
forty or fifty persons had trade the slightest ex-
pression of any opinion, even that of holding up
a hand; but these valiant heroes, armed with
bludgeons and with heavy whips, beat out of
the Castle-yard some hundreds of inoffensive
people, half-starved mechanics, and apprentice
boys, while Magistrates of the, county were not
only looking on, but actually applauding, from
their places on the hustings.
However, it is to be hoped that this most
abominable outrage will not pass unnoticed. I
was told that one gentleman, who stood near,
but outside of the crowd, was the Town Clerk
.of the City of Lincoln, and I am quite sure
that the gentleman in question, whoever he was,
by his kind interference prevented more than
one poor fellow- from. being savagely beaten. I
also observed that -the Governor, or some other
officer of the county gaol, gave shelter to a
serable wretch who fled to him for protection,
Slid lie was obliged to call for his
• vent thise Valiaiithe ..pistols to pre-
roes breakinginto the prison
to drag forth the half-starved mortal who had
so audaciously shouted . out for "cheap su ar."
But, perhap6, the moat- • •
g
impudent thing of all

MYSTERIOUS CASE.---An inquest adjourned
from Saturday last was resumed and concluded before Mr.
Baker on Tuesday at the Kin,ces Head, Commercial-row',
Whitechapel. It was on Caroline Collins, a woman of the tcn, n.
So far back as the evening of the 4th of March last, deceased
was knocked down by some man in Leadenhall-street, and her
hip seriously injured. She was taken to St. Thomas's Hospital
by a policeman, but the surgeon who saw her did not think
there was any danger, and said a. at if she were taken home and
had a good night's rf st she would recover. She was then taken
to her home in King-street, Commercial-road, and frequently
afterwards was beard to say that the injury done her by her fall
would hasten her death. Eventually she took to her bed, in
which on Wednesday morning iast she was found dead by one
of her unfortunate companions. Mr. Salter, a surgeon, who
had opened the body, said that the abdominal muscles and intes-
tines were much inflamed, sufficiently so as to cause death ; and
he w as eertanly of opinion that it was accelerated by the injuries
deceased had received from the fall. The Coroner recommended
an open verdict, which the jury returned, as follows :—" Found
dead in bed, but how death was caused there was no evidence to
show."
" l'uaN AND TURN ABOUT."---A college
friend of ours, when.nsked at a university examination
whether the earth turnivd:round the sun, or the'sun round
the earth, gravely answered, with considerable reflection,
Sometimes one and sometimes the orher."—Provine;
:Medical and Surgical Journal. '