The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-20 00:00:00

ROCHDALE NEW TORY MAGIS
TRATES.

It appears that soon after the present Ministry came into
power, some consultations of the Rochdale Tories took
place, as to the best means of obtaining additional magis-
trates of their own political opinions, and as to the fittest
persons to be recommended to the Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster for that purpose; and it very soon
became apparent, that they were divided into two parties;
one composed of Mr. C. Royds, with one or two hangers-
on of that gentleman; the other comprising the great
bulk of the Tory party, with whom (as indeed we
scarcely need tell our readers) Mr. Royds is by no
means a favourite. After some preliminary discussions
and consultations, a meeting of the party was held, and
a list of names was pretty unanimously agreed upon, con-
taining, if we are correctly informed, those of Mr. En t-
wisle, Mr. Bearden (the Lord of the Manor), Mr.
James Fenton, and Mr. Roby. These names were, we
believe, forwarded by the Chairman of the meeting to
Sir Robert Peel, who, in reply, desired that they might
be submitted to the proper authority (we presume,
the Chancellor of the Duchy), from whom, no
doubt, the recommendation. of the meeting would
receive due attention. Owing to some cause
which we do not exactly understand some
little delay took place in complying with Sir
Robert's request ; and, in the meantime, Mr. Royds
and his three or four friends, who had been on the alert,
forwarded to the Chancellor of the Duchy another list of
names, wnich they had privately agreed upon. The
Chancellor, Lord Granville Somerset, who had moit
probably heard of the list that had been laid before Sir
Robert Peel, and concluded that it was identical with the
one forwarded to him by Mr. Royds, proceeded, we be-
lieve, without delay, and with little or no further in-
quiry, to make an appointment of Magistrates from it.
The parties so appointed are, we understand, Mr. Ent.
wisle (whose name, almost as a matter of course, was iu
both lists) ; the Rev. George Cotton, curate at one of
the churches ; and a Mr. Butterworth, better known in
Rochdale as Capt. Butterworth.
As soon as these appointments were made known to
the members of the Conservative party in Rochdale,

they excited the strongest feelings of disgust.— Man
chester Guardian.

We are happy to hear, on good authority, tha
the old-establishectfirm of Hector, Lacy, and Co. bank,
ers, Petersfield, will shortly resume business.—arnp
shire Independent.
ANTIQUITIES IN THE TEMPLE.—At the
west end of the hall are considerable remains of the
ancient convent of the Knights Templars. A groined
Gothic arch, of the same style of architecture as the
oldest part of the Temple Church, forms the ceiling of
the present buttery, and in the apartment beyond is a
groined vaulted. ceiling of great beauty. The ribs of
the arches in both rooms are elegantly moulded, but are
sadly disfigured with a thick coating of plaster and bar-
barous whitewash. In the cellars underneath these
rooms are some old walls of immense thickness, the re-
mains of an ancient window, a curious fireplace, and
some elegant painted Gothic arches corresponding with
the ceilings above ; but they are now, alas I shrouded in
darkness, choked with modern brick partitions and stair-
cases, and soiled with the damp and dust of many centu-
ries.—Addison's History of the Knights Templars.
CORN-LAWS.—Mr. Richard Taylor, of the
City, desirous, at a time when a crusade against the
Corn-laws is general, of contributing his part towards
the statements which exhibit their gross fallacy and
wretched effects, has published a letter, which he has
just received from a correspondent, engaged in extensive
' business at one of the principal sea-ports of France, and
addressed it to the inhabitant householders of the Ward
of Farringdon Without, for the purpose of pressing an
additional proof upon their notice of the devastation
they occasion at the time when the annual election of
their representatives in Common Council occurs. The
subsequent paragraph, which we extract from it, exhi-
bits the operation of the monopoly laws in a strong
light •.—" From this port we have been sending you an
enormous quantity of wheat, but how stupidly you go to
market ! When you could buy it advantageously, you
cannot import it. Then all on a sudden you come into
the market, and, buying one against the other, like mad-
men, raise the price to double what you might have had
it for. Ido not exaggerate, for the price has been thus
advanced within a short time from Is francs to 40 francs
per charge. And this is not the whole of the folly.
You want all this mass conveyed in the shortest possible
time, to accomplish which ships are engaged at any
price, and you have paid 8 francs per quarter freight
instead of 34- to 4 francs. You give yourselves no chance
of our taking iron, coals, copper, tin, or manufactured
goods in payment ; for we are not disposed to buy like
madmen, because you do. You must therefore pay in
cash. This will cripple you, and do more harm to those
suffering from want of employ than our corn will do them
good ; for after all it will be dear bread which you have
bought for them, when you might with less trouble have
had cheap bread, and orders for goods instead of orders
for cash to pay for it."
The ~Carlton Club, according to some of the
Irish papers, have given the sum of 4,0001; to the testi-
monial to Colonel Bruen, " the exterminator" of the
Roman Catholic tenantry of the county Carlow.
KING ERNEST'S HATRED OF SONGS.—Ad-
vices from Hanover state that a seizure of a collection of
political songs, termed " Songs of a Cosmopolite," has
just been made in the capital by order of Government.—
' Galignani.
The King of Sweden has created the Viscount
Beaumont de Vassy a Knight of the Polar Star, for his
work entitled Les Suedois depuis Charles XII.