The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-23 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE ELECTION.

Yesterday a large body of the electors of Mary-
lebone dined at the Eyre Arms Tavern, to cele-
brate the return of Sirham Horne as one of the
representative, of that borough.
Mr. G. A INSLIE YOUNG %%as in the chair, and
amongst the comnany were the Vice-Chancellor,
the Lord Mayor, Dr. Southey, Mojor Carmac, and
con,iderable number of b,aristers.

The usual toasts having been drunk, Sir 'William
Fiorne's health was proposed from the chair, and
drank with four-times-four.

Sir. WILLIAM HORNE rose, and said he felt the
present to be the proudest moment of his life. As
they were assembled for the good old English pur-
pose of ho-pitality and cementing the relations which
should exist between a representative and his con-
stituents, he would touch very slightly on political
matters. Among the many kind acts which the
electors of Marylehone had done him, that which
pleased him most was the returning of him without
exacting from him, according to the fashion of the
day, pledges, with which others had been sent to
Parliament.—( Applause.) He wished not to avoid
performing any duty which was due to his consti-
tuents, but he rejoiced that he should not pa.s the
threshold of the House of Commons a puppet and a
-lave.—(Applause.) He would enter the House an
independent representative, unfettered by pledges.
Perhaps he was wrong in saying that he should go into
the House of Commons unpledgrd and unfettered,
for he carried with him the fetters which the
proudest and first men in England bore, and which
hound him to the holiest discharge of his duty.—
( Applause.) He would discharge his duty and.-r
the restraints which morality imposed upon him. He
was pledged to discharge his duty to his country to
the utmost of h:s ability. He would not dilate on
the subject; the electors of Maryh-bone knew him
as well as he knew himself. He would •pare no labour
and he would bestow his anxious a tention on all
the momentous questions which pressed on the con-
-ideration of Parliament, and he hoped to receive
occasionally the advice of his constituents. He
was the representative of the most wealthy and en-
lightened borough in the kingdom, but tie should
,ever forget that the interests of his constituents
were bound up and identified with those of the na-
tion at large —(Applause.) Without detaining
hem further from the soctal enjoyments of the
evening, he would conclude with once more de-
claring, that from the bottom of his heart he
thanked them.—(Cheer- )

The health of Mr. Portman was then drank with
four times four. •

The health of the Lord Mayor, as returning officer
of the borough, was then drank, and he returned
hank,.

Amongst the other toasts were—His Majest,'s
Ministeis; the Electors of the Borougl4 of Maryle-
hone; Lady Horne; and the Vice-Chancellor. The
last toast was warmly applauded, and Lis Honour
returned thanks in a short and appropriate address.

EAST SURREY ELECTION DINNER TO
MR. BRISCOE AND MAJOR BEAUCLERK.

A public dinner wa• given yesterday evening at
the Spread Eagle Tavern, Wandsworth, by the el. c-
loy; of the hundred of Brixton to A. W. Beaucli-rk,
Esq., M.P., and to J. I. B. iscoe, M.P to
celeb,ate their triumphant return to a reformed Par-
l.ament. Nearly ta 0 hunched persons sat down.
'the Hon. Colonel L. STANHOPE took the chair.

Jost as the cloth was being removed, a large
nu►nber of ladies, distinguished by their dress and
~xterior, entered the gallery. The whole company
rose and welcomed them in the warmest manner.
Immediately after which, _ _ _

Major BEAUCLERK, M P., rose and begeed to
propose, before they went to business, " The Health
of the Ladits of Surrey." Diank with nine times

nine.

The CHAIRMAN then warmly eulngized his pre-
sent Majesiy,comparing him to the greatest Monatchs
of any age or country. He was, in fact, a modern
Alfred. He concluded by g, ving " The Health of
the King of England, and may God bless him."
The toast was drank with tne greatest enthusi4sm.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Queen and
Royal Fandy." Drank with the usual honours
After which he proposed " The People, and may
the Reform Bill afford the greatest happiness to the
greatest number for the longest period of time.
(This toast was drank amid repeated rounds of
cheers and huzzas.)
He then proposed, " May Justice neither be
bought, sold, nor dented to any man."
After which he proposed, " Church Reform, and
may no one be furred to pay the Pastor whose creed
he did not follow."—(This toast was drank with
transcendent and apparently heartfelt acclamations.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave, " The Freedom of
the Press, and the Abolition of all Taxes upon
Knowledge."—(Drank enthusiastically.) The next
toast was that of " His Majesty's Minister-." In
eiving which the Gallant Chairman said, that Lord
Grey, who was at the head of the Ministry, was the
greatest and most patriotic Minister that the country
had produced since the time of Charles the First.
—(Cries of " That's true.") The toast was very
warmly received.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " Mr. Briscoe."
—(The health was drank with repeated huzza.u.)
Mr. BRISCOE, M.P., sincerely thanked the Gal-
lant Chairman for the handsome way in which he had
propie;ed his health. He still remembered his motto
of 1830, which was " Deeds not Words ;" and
he now thought that the only way he could re-
pay the electors of Surrey, was by acting up to his
former motto. '1 he county had in 1830, instead of
eleven Members as it had now, fourteen. Out of
the fourteen, six were chosen by the people—two
for the county ; two for Southwark; and two for
Guilford. But what did the six elected by the
people avail, when the remaining eight were the
nominees of Garton, Ryegate, Hazlemere, and
Bletchingly ? The people were then in a minoriy,
bgt they now return eleven Members freely elected
by themselves. He believed that the great ma ority
of the new Parliament would be composed, with a
few unfortunate exceptions, of men to whom the

mass of the nation might safely intrust the guardian-
ship of their interests, property, and lives. He felt
confident that the new Parliament, in the very first
Session, would accomplish much, though all that
the country required could not be done in it.
The CHAIRMAN again rose, and said that he was
about to propose the " Health of Major Beauclerk."
—(Loud cheers.) The health was then drank
amid long-continued huzzas.
Major BEAUCLERK, M.P., believed, nay, he was
sure of it, that the industrious classes of the country
could no longer bear the burden that goaded them,
and that they looked with an anxious and dilated
eye to the new House of Commons, as if it were
the last plank of their salvation. May the people
be not disappointed ! He did not hesitate to pro-
claim that he would support the Grey Administra-
•ion, provided it took, as he ardently hoped it would,
the lead in obtaining the ameliorations the people
wanted. In quieter times he would have preferred
the tranquillity of private life to the vortex of po•
litics ; but circumstances had thrown him into it,
and he would buffet it while he had a nerve to
strain. He would endeavour to carry economy into
every branch of the State, and would not begin
with clerks and understrappers, but with the Crown
itself, descending to the Royal Dukes, and from
thence to the Adminis ration, the pensions, the
army, and the navy. The tinsel anti gaudy trap-
pings of the Crown ought to be cut down, for they
did not strengthen it. The army should he re-
duced. But an army was necessary to keep down
the Irish, and he had, a day or two since, heard that
the Mili,ia would be called out to re-conquer the
Sister Isle. He, though no Irishman, knew the
hearts of the Irish people well ; and would
say, that the only arms that could subjugate them
were kindness and justice. Let the tithes be con-
verted into poor rates—the Crown and Church
lands be d spored of—arid there would be plt-nty of
money to pay the pastors of every religious persua-
s:on.This was the only way to do jus,ice to the peo-
pleof Ireland. After the Hon. Gentleman sat down,
the whole room rose, and cheered him fur several
minutes.

After several toasts, the company separated.

PUBLIC DINNER, TO MR. HUME, AT

STAINES.

Yesterday Mr. Home's Committee, at Bedfont,
celebrated the triumphant return of that gen,lemau
to Parliament, by a public dinner at the Clarence
Hotel, Staines. At three o'clock, the hour ap-
pointed for dinner, Mr. Hume arrived at Staines,
and the company, amounting to upwards of 140
gentlemen, ,at down to an excellent dinner. The
chair was taken by C. Francis Barkley, of Sudbury,
Esq.

After the cloth was removed, the CHAIRMAN pro-
posed "The King," which was drunk with gift,
applause; " Tne Queen, and the other Members of
the Royai Family ;" " The Duke of Sussex;"" The
People, the source of all legitimate power;" drank
with applause.
The CHAIRMAN then rose, and called on the corn-
party for a full bumper. Gentlemen, said the chair-
man, I have to propose to you " The health of our
tried, faithful, and eminently efficient Member, Jo-
seph Hume, E-q." The toast was drank with
cheers, and a scene of the most indescribable ap-
plause followed, which lased for several minutes.
Mr. HUME rose amid loud cheers. If he under-
stood the object of the present meeting, it was to
celebrate a triumph of principle—not that of an in-
dividual. Reform in Parliament was but a trifle of
what was wanted. A reform was wanted in all the
iustitutions of the country—a reform must pervade
the whole; but, above all, there must be a reform
in the Church.—(Loud cheers.) In the House of
Commons all had been managed:by Members who
had a direct interest in perpetuating existing abuses.
Ir was of no avail that the weliare of the people was
appealed to. He, as a Member of the Legislature,
had too many opportunities of witnessing how inef-
fectual arguments were against men interested in an
existing state of things.—(Cheers) He need not
tell them that the extension of the suffrage was nut
less necessary to the willare of the people than to
the securing of their own rights.—(Loud cheers.)
The people merited this extension of the suffrage to
protect them in the exercise of this privilege. He
was aware that a system of intimidation was prac-
tised towards those who dared freely to express their
opinions. I; had not been done to the same extent in
Middle-ex as in other parts of the country; yet he knew
that many had not qualified themselves to vote,because
they were aware that intimidation would be used.
He must, therefore, say that there was nothing to
secure a perfect independence to the people but the
ballot.--t Loud cheers.) He was proud in being
the first, five years ago, to bring the question of the
ballot regularly under the consideration of Parliament.
Lord Althorp then supported the ballot and as-
cribed to it the preservation of the liberties of
Europe. He then had said, that hail it not
been for the ballot in France, M. Villele would
have destroyed the liberties of the people. What
was there now to prevent his Lordship en-
tertaining the same opinion ? Without the
ballot Reform would be incomplete; and he was
happy to inform them, that a gentleman of acknow-
ledged abilities—one interior in intelligence to none
in the new Parliament—was pledged in the course
of a few weeks after they came together, to truing
the subject regularly before the House. He spoke
of Mr. George Grote, one of the representatives of
the city of Loudon.—(Cheers.) He had himself
for some time past, as well as Mr. Warburton, who
had acted with him on this measure, been obliged to
decline pre-sing the question, as they wished not to
embarrass the Ministry, so long as they were labour-
ng in the popular cause; Gud knew he had no
wish to put obstacles in the way of the Go-
vernment, if they did their duty. He bad sup-
ported them in all they had done, which he
thought right. He opposed them, and would
oppose them again, whenever he thought them
wiong.—(Loud cheers). One word as to the ex-
tension of the suffrage. His opinion was, that every
man who rented a house and contributed to taxation
ought to have a vote.—(Gi eat cheering) It was
ridiculous to suppose that the marl whose rent was
nine pounds nineteen shillings would not be equally
careful in preserving the Constitution as the man
whose rent was ten pounds. Was not the man who
had little to pre,erve, and when that little was his
all, more in erected in preserving good order than
the man whose property would enable him to sus-
tain losses ?—(Loud cries of " Hear" and cheers.)
This was the doctrine of Mr. Pitt in 1786, and
E trl Grey had expressed the same opinions in Par-
liament on the 3d of October, 1831. [The Hon.
Gentleman here read extracts from the speeches of
Earl Grey and Lord John Russell in support of
hat had fallen from him, proving that representa-
tion and taxation ought to go hand in hand.] He
would beg the indulgence of the Chair whilst he
referred to one or two topics.—( Hear, hear, and
" Go on.") There were reductions in the army re-
quired immediately. It was shameful that a coun-
try like England should be clogged with the sup-
port of 90,000 standing army, besides 9,000 marines
and 30,000 of a naval force. The King Heeded not
such a force as a protection to his Throne,
whilst he could rest secure in the air, c-
oons of his people, whose devotion to him he would
tied to be his best protection, He was not against
;he existence of a standing army, but against the
numbers uselessly employed. In the present state
of society it was better that there should be some to
bear arms trained regularly to their use, than that
citizens should be subjected to be separated from
their families to discharge military &yr. He would
rlso put an end to all usele-s places and unmerited
perisions.—(Loud cheers.) He would not employ
two men to do what was the duty of one.—
(Cheers.) The public revenue ought to be ex-
pended as housewives manage their affairs—study to
make each shilling go as far as pos-ible.—(Loud
laughter and cheers.)—The Refoim of the Church
was the next obj ct to which the attention of the
Legislature ought to be directed,—(Cheers.) He

had long devoted his best endeavours to effect Re-
forms in the ecclesiastical establishment of this
country, from a sincere conviction, that by such
means the best interests of religion would be pro-
moted. He would put it to all present, if the present
system was calculated to satisfy any religious
mind ?—(Loud cries of " Hear.") He was sure it
(lid not. It was from a conviction, that until the
Church was_ reformed, religion—true religion—would
not flourisi; that in 1819 he brought forward his
motion for a reform in the Irish Church, satisfied
that the Irish Church reformed, the English Church
would of necessity soon follow. He was for ex-
cluding the clergy from the office of Magistrates ; it
was placing them in collision with the people, whom
they were bound to cherish.—(Loud cheers.) He
had now to thank them for the patience arid the
pleasure with which they heard him, and before
sitting down, would only say that what he had done
in Parliament he would continue to do so long as he
was honoured with a seat in that House. He hoped
the people would do their duty, as he intended to
do his. He trusted that they would not, as many
of them had done, neglect, like the foolish virgins,
to trim their lamps—(Loud laughter and cheers)—
they had all heard of the parable of the foolish vir-
gins, and some of his friends had acted like them in
neglecting to register their votes.—(Loud cheers.)
He was now about to sit down ; hut before doing
so, be would beg to propose " The health of the
3,238 who placed him at the head of the poll."
Dank amidst thunders of applause.

A g.-ntleman here (Mr: Charles Sloman) was
called upon for a song, and rhymed the whole of
Mr. Hume'- speech.
The CHAIRMAN next rose, and proposed " The
Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments," which he pre-
faced with a very eloquent and very able speech,
in which he adduced proof,,, from the public re-
cords of the kingdom, that triennial Parliaments
were in unison with the principles of the Constitu-
tion, and in accordance with the Act of Settlement
passed in the reign of William and Mary. His ar•
guments in favour of ballot were clear and con-
clusive. He showed them that without it the Bid
was was worth nothing. The toast was drank with
great entinFiasm.

Mr. HUME then rose, and after warmly eulogizing
the conduct of Mr. Barclay during the recent con-
test foi the county, proposed " His Health."
Mr. BARCLAY leturned thanks.
Mr. SEXTON proposed, " The abolition of the
Taxe- on Knowledge, and the Repeal of the Howe
and Wo.dow Tax."

SEYMOR proposed " The Liberty of the
Pre,:s."—( The toa..t was drank standing, with long,
loud, and r. p. wed cheers.)
Mr. CARPENTER prop,i-e.l " The greatest happi-
ness to the greatest number."—(Drank with ap•
plause.)
The CHAIRMAN next rose, and proposed " The
Health of their distingti.shed visiter, Sir John
Scott Lillie."—(Drank with three times three,
and great applause.).

Sir J011;7 SCOTT LILLIE returned thanks.
Other toa.ts were given, after which the meeting
separated.

IRISH HIGH SHERIFFS.

(From the Dublin Gazette of Saturday.)

DUBLIN CASTLE, JANUARY 19, 1883.--His Excel-
lency the Lord Lirut• nant has b en pleased to appoint the
following Gentlemen to he High Sheriffs for the present
year
ANTRlM—Charles O'Hara, Esq.
AR3IAGH—James Eastwood, Esq.
CARLOW—Philip Bagnel, Esq.
CAVAN—Charles James Adams, Esq.
CLARE—Hugh Dillon Massey, Esq.
CORK—William Henry Moor Hodder, Esq.
DoNEGAL—.John Creighton, Esq.
DowN—Robert Gordon, Esq.
DUBLlN—Richard Manders, Esq.
FERMANAGH—Henry Richardson, Esq.
GALWAY—Robert Bodkin, Esq.
KERRY—Charles Fairfield, Esq.
KlLDARE—Honourable G. Colley.
KILKENNY—John H. Jones, Esq.
KING'S COUNTY—John Tibeaudo, Esq.
LElTRlM—Francis Nesbitt Cullen, Esq.
LIMERICK—Thomas Lloyd, Esq.
LoNGFoßD—Samuel Blackall, jun., Esq.
LOUTH—Edward Tipping, Esq.
MAYO—John Gardiner, Esq.
MEATH—Sir William Somerville, Bart.
MONAGHAN—James Rose, Esq.
QUEEN'S COUNTY—Robert Hamilton Stubber, Esq.
RoscommoN— Daniel Kelly, jun., Esq.
SLioo--William Phibbs, Esq.
TIPPERARY—Richard Long, Esq.
TYRONE—Samuel Galbraith, Esq.
WATERFORD—WiIIiam Villiers Stuart, Esq.
WESTMEATH—Edward Briscoe, Esq.
WEXFORD--LOrd Viscount Stopford.
Wicimow—William Kemmia, Esq.

IRELAND-DUBLIN, JAN. 20.

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL.

Saturday was chiefly occupied with the discussion of
four resolutions on the abolition of tithes, which had
been previously agreed on at London last session, by a
mee•ing of Irish members, viz. " That it is essential to
the people of England that the system of tithes in that
country should be extinguished, not in name only, but in
substance and reality."
This was proposed by H. Grattan, and passed unani-
mously.

Ale.;srs. David Roche, and Dr. Baldwin, then called
for the second :

" That in coming to this resolution we recoenise the
right of persons having vest-d interests, and declare that
it is the duty of Pailiiment to provide for those persons,
by making them a just compensation."
➢lr. A. C&REW O'DWYER declared his view to he,
That even the widows of present incumbents should be
provided for, but this was net approved of by any one
else.

HENRY GRATTAN, WILLIAM FINN, and P. LALOIt
did not like the words " vested interests," and could not
acquiesce in th • " right" of " compensation."
Mr. BLACK NEY set the counsel al iughing by his hypo-
thesis that the words " just compensation" would be
translated by the lawyers and parsons to mean " equal
money value," and so the resolution was finally adopted
nem. con.,

Mr. F. O'ConNon. declaring that it was evident " just
ciimpensation" might, after that translation, be made to
mean anything, and was in ftct a most convenient open
phrase for futur- lejslation.
The following 3d and 4th resolutions occasioned a
great diversity of opinions, and their future consideration
was postponed till to-morrow, when Mr. Steil is to bring
forward some plan for the appripriation of church pro-
perty. the support of the clergy, &c
" 3. That we also recognise the liability of property in
Ireland to contribute to a fund for supporting and pro-
moting religion and charity ; but. that such fund, may and
ought to he quite different in the mode of collection and
much lighter in effect than that rii,ed by the system of
tithes

.6 4. That we are also of opinion that the mode of levy-
ing, and the application of such 'und and its distribution
ought to be left to tt e decision of a reformed Parliament.'

ANTS OF THE TROPICS.—The ants and
termites of tropical courvries are infinitely more numerous
than those which inhabit more northern Irti,udes, and so
large as sopoetimes to measure an inch or an inch and a
half in length. The bodies of these ants are, besides, of
a soft, unctuous nature; and travellers intorm us that the
Hottentots themselves frequently collect them for food, and
even prefer them ro mo,,t other descriptions of meat. PAT-
TicKSON affirms that pr, judice alone prevents the Europeans
from making a similar use of them ; and says that, in his
different journeys, he was often under the necessity of eat-
ing them, and found them Ix from disazreeable. How-
ever this may be, their importance in fattening poultry is
well understood at the Cope, and the farmers c beet them
by bushels for this puroose.—Penny Cyclopedia.

INDIAN .JUSTICE.—GRIM. CON.—(From
the Bombay Gazette, September 12.) On Sunday
evening an ass•mb y of the caste of Lohars, or ironsmithe,
was held near Aluomb.iravies tank, to take into ronsidera•
tion the scandal brought upon them by a beautiful Lahti-
reen, who the previous day had gone into the fort and
held criminal conversation with a Shravuk (or Jain Prie.,)
for the cinsii'eration of two rup:es. The caste, judging
that the penalty should be in the ratio of a hundred fold to
the Coruu Cpia, sentenced the husband to ply a fine of
200 rupee...for not looking more carefully after his wife,
an I threatened bath husband and wile with final ex-casta.
tioa in case of a recurrence.