The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-03 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY CORRESPONDENCE."

Under the above head, the Mail of this evening pub-
lish, s the following strange correspondence between Mr.
T. Jefferson Hogg and Sir Robert Peel. Why Mr.
Hogg should select a Dublin journal as the medium for
communicating these documents to the public, or why
their publication should be withheld for a period of
nearly 18 months from the date of his last letter to the
Premier, cannot be well divined :

" Temple, July 20, 1844.
" Sir,—l shall be sorry to be obliged to make public,
because, although it relates to public affairs, it is, in its
nature, private, my correspondence with yourself, with
the Lord President of the Council, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the Lord Chancellor. The last having,
as he states, obtained the permission of Field-Marshal
the Duke of Wellington, continued to write two or three
notes to me every session, until a majority of 92 enabled
you to turn your back upon your friends, and with many
other good Conservatives of great respectability, but in-
ferior note. With so many, indeed, that selection is
difficult.

" But are the remainder of my reports on municipal
corporations, allow me to ask you, to remain unpublished
fur ever ? Are my services in composing these volumi-
nous reports to be always unpaid ? Is no remuneration
or recompense whatever to be awarded for my vexations,
labours and losses ? Am I tamely to submit to slights
and indignities which, most certainly, I do mot deserve,
and which no honourable man ought to bear ? Be
pleased to consider these matters.

" I am, Sir, yours very respectfully,
" T. J. H. HOGG.
" To the Right Hon. Robert Peel, Bart., &c."
" Whitehall, July 25,1844.
" have received your letter of the 25th of July.
You state that you shall be sorry to he obliged to make
public a correspondence with myself and others, which,
although it relates to public affairs, is, in its nature, pri-
vate. You proceed to ask, Is no remuneration, or re •
convense whatever to be awarded for my labours,
vexations, and losses ?' And you desire me to consider
this matter. I beg leave to inform you that I have con-
sidered it, and that my opinion is, that you have received
the amount of remuneration which is due to you. Your
intimation that you may be obliged to publish corre
spondence in it, nature private, will have very little
effect in inducing me to add to that remuneration. If
you think fit to publish any correspondence with me (and
I leave you at entire liberty to exercise your own discre-
tion in that respect), I must desire you will include in
that publication your letter of the 20th of July, and this
answer to it.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" T. J. H. Hogg, Esq." " ROBERT PEEL.
" Sir,—Your tter of the 25th of July pretends to be
en answer to mine of the 20th: that it is not; it is
merely unhandsome and improper,
" I have never been paid one farthing for my reports;
neither for those that were printed, nor for the remainder,
which are still unprinted, and in my hands. For seven
months' inquiry I was paid at the appointed rate, 700
guineas; but for my reports I have received nothing.
Whereas, a commissioner, who was engaged with mean
the inquiry less than four months in all, had 9001.; for
his reports, therefore, 500 t., and so with the rest. If
this matter were referred, as it ought to be, to some im-
partial person acquainted with such services, as one of
the Learned Judges, for instance, I would show him, in
a quarter of an hour, that the assertions which you have
been instructed to make, that I have received the
amount of remuneration which is due to me,' is utterly
false. Your informant knows that it is false, and you
must suspect that it is, if you will not submit to the arbi-
trament of some respectable person, to be named by
yourself if you a ill.
" But this is the least considerable part of my letter;
you do not touch the more important. matter. I ask you,
first—' Are the remainder of my reports to remain unpub-
lished for ever ? ' You are mute, so I must answer the ques-
tion myself, and say—' that I shall be sorry tto be obliged
to make public a correspondence with yourself and others,
which, although it relates to public affairs, is in its nature
private.' Nevertheless, I will, through a sense of duty,
publish it at once, rather than permit my reports on
Great Yarmouth, Saffron Walden, Sudbury, Colchester,
Carr.arvon, and other boroughs, on which no report has
been made, to be unlawfully suppressed. I was appointed
a Commissioner under a Commission issued by the Sove-
reign, at the requisition and petition of the House of
Commons ; and was commanded to inquire and report.
I did inquire, and most diligently, and I made my re-
ports. The like reports have always been printed, as of
course, and laid before Parliament. There is no pre-
cedent for withholding such reports ; and I will do my
utmost not to furnish one, and it signifies nothing that
the Ministry have been changed.
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deserve.' Your answer is money
money I' what are
slights and indignities, so that a man fill his pockets ?'
Such is the tone of your letter, and the temper of your
mind. You can see nothing in my letter, but a demand
for money. Nor can a worshipper of wealth discern any
Ptinoiple in opposing the rule, that an unpriucipled Ad-
ministration shall reward their base taols, but he who
was honest in the worst times shall remain for ever un-
paid. Fear not that, in the exercise of my discretion, I
will suppn sa your letter of the 25th July, in which you
address me as if I were a robber, because, in stating my
determinati,n to do my duty, I also ask for my own.
You shall be gratified by the publication of it, if you still
desire it, and of these poor lines.—l am, Sir, most re-
spectfully your servant,

" T. JEFFERSON HOGG.

" Temple, 27th July, 1844.
" To the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., &e."

DARING BURGLARIES.—On Thursday information
was forwarded to the po 'ice of the following daring burgla-
ries:—At the dwelling-house of the distillery, Albany• street,
R. gent's-park. The thieves effected an entrance, it is sup-
posed, at about tw lye o'clock at night, and succeeded in
cam ing off a valuable gold repeating musical watch, a
massive gold chain, several silver mugs, twelve silver gravy
spoonr, eighteen silver table spoons, twelve silver dessert
spoons, twelve silver tea spoons, six slyer egg spoons, eight
silver sauce ladles, one silver dish, twelve silver dessert
forks, twelve silver dessert dishes, one silver fish slice, a
massive silver teapot and silver coffee-pot, a double sovereign,
one guinea, two half-guineas, &c. From the p emises of
Mr. Drainy, pawn, roker, Church .street, Greenwich, a num-
ber of watches, and a large quantity of plate were stolen,
the thieves forcing open an iron plate-chest to get at the
property, which they carried off. The articles wer.: chiefly
unredeemed pledges. The thieves also helped themselves to
371. 10s. in gold, and 121. 10s. in silver.
A fine dish of white currants was gathered on
Christmas-day, in the garden of William Ford, Esq., Yeo,
near Yeannpion.— Western Luminary.

YORK, JAN. 1.
STOCK ExcuANGE.—The sales are—York and North
Midland Extension, 43—Newcastle and Berwick, 2134—North
Briti4a (Dalkeith), 6%—Ditto, New Carlisle Branch, 33g-
-London and York, 41. 18s. 9d.—Axholrre, 23/4—Grand
Union, 21. ls.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, i74—Lei-
cester and Bedford, 2%—Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry,
Birmingham, and Trent Valley Junction, 3—Liverpool, Man-
chester, and Newcastle Junction, s—Manchester, Buxton,
Matlock, and Midland, 5% North Staffordshire, 61h —North
Western, 4—Welsh Midland, 314—York and Carlisle, 214.
HULL, JAN. 1.
The following are the sales—Hull and Selby, 102—North
British, Half Shares, B—Ditto (Carlisle), 314—North
Wales, 33/4—Cambridge and Lincoln, 3%—Grand Union, 176
—Great North and South Wales, 10s.—Hull and Barnsley
Junction, 48s.—Leicester and Bedford, 21/B—Leicester and
Tamworth, 20s. p.—Liverpool and Leeds, 21. 13s. 9d.—Lon-
don and York, 4%—Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham,
214—North Westerns, 4—South Midlands, 4 p. No Ex-
change to-day ; the above transpired at a meeting of a few
of the brokers.

SHEFFIEL,
STOCK ExamA/calm—The sales D
are— A
Grimsby, 12—Sheffield
and Linecln, 4%—Wakefield and Harrogate, 21. 13s. 6d.—
Grimsby Extension, 81. 14g. 6d.—Manchester, Midland, and
Grimsby, 21,—Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 3%—Sheffield,
Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, lA—Leeds and Dews-
bury, 2134—North Western, 31. 1 la—Derby and Gains-
borough, IN—Sheffield, Wortley, Silkstone, and Wakefield
2/. 2s.