The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00


No. 16,850.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, SErrttinEn 16, 1846.
Fr HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice,

That a PROPRIETOR of EAST INDIA STOCK has POSTPONED
until the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY,
appointed to be held at their House in Leadeahall-street, on WED-
NESDAY, the 23d instant, the MOTION of which he had previously
given notice, viz , that be will
" Call the attention of the Proprietors to the conduct of the Court
of Directors, and prefer certain charges agaInq that body in con-
nexion with the case of the deposed Raja of Sattara."
J. 1). DICKINSON, Deputy Secretary.

HALL OF ROME, GREAT WINDMILL•
STREET, HAYM tRKET.

Professor TURNOUR begs most respectfully to Inforn the Noblily,
Subscribers, and Public, that he has produced that novelty never
before attempted, viz., the introduction of FEMALE MODELS of
COLOUR, who will appear every Afternoon and Evening, in varied
groupings, expressly arranged for them.
Stalls, 2s. 641.; Boxes, '2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors open at Half past
Two in the Afternoon, and commence at a Quarter past Three
punctu.illy. Evening performance, Half-past Eight o'clock.

Venus will rise from the sea till further notice

T HEREBY give NOTICE and request that no
GOODi may be sent to our house at Glasgow, or without my
special order, as the business will in future be carried on at Laic
alone, and on behalf of the subscriber,

Leek, Staffordshire, 17th September, 1846.

JOHN GAUNT.

BIDEFORD AND TAVISTOCK RAILWAY
COMPANY.

The Shares in the above Company, with the exception of a very
few, have been sent in, and the return of IN. per Share made
thereon.

Such parties as may still be in possession of these few remaining
Shares, are informed the Company's Offices will FINALLY CLOSE
on FRIDAY next, the 25th instant, and that, until that date, attend-
ance will be given every Tuesday and Friday, from Eleven to Three
o'clock, to receive and examine Scrip, and pay the said 10s. per
Share now due.

By order, YEAS. CLOWES, Secretary,
24, Finsbury-pavement, Sept. 9, 1846.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.
The period for receiving TENDERS for the STRATFORD WORK-
SHOPS, has been extended fropi WEDNESDAY, the 23d, to WEDNES-
DAY, the 30t1finstan', at Eleven o'clock, a.m.
By order, C. P. RONEY, Secretary.
Offlecs, Bishopsgate Station, Sept. 19, 1846.

LEICESTER, TAMWORTH, COVENTRY,
BIRMINGHAM, AND TRENT VALLEY JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

The Directors bare already announced to the Shareholders that
arrangements were pending with the London and Birmingham
Railway Company (now the London and North-Western), having for
their object the transfer of the line to that Company, and the return
to the Shareholders in this undertaking ofthe whole of their deposits.
The Directors recommend the proposed arrangements to the Share-
holders, as being much to their advantage, and most calculated to
ensure the speedy completion of the line, and to afford the best
guarantee of its being efficiently worked for the public convenience.
Those of the Shareholders who are desirous of receiving hack, in
conform'ty with these arrangements, the full deposit of 21. 2s. on
each share, are requested to transmit their scrip to Mr. Henry
Cassin, the Accountant to the Company, at the Company's offices,
at No. 3, Church-court, Old Jewry, London, at any time between
the hours of Ten and Three, from Monday, the 21st instant, to
Monday, the 5th of October. .
On the scrip, or bankers' receipts, or secretary's receipts for scrip,
being delivered up the holders thereof will receive back the full de-
posit of 21. 2s. upon each share. Those parties who (as holders of
shares in the original Coventry and Leicester and Coventry, Nun-
eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Companies) have only paid a de-
posit thereon or 11. 5s.. may in like manner receive back IL 5s. on
each such share.
Sept. 17, 1846. (Signed) EDMUND PEEL, Chairman,

EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAILWAY.
REGISTRATION OF SHARES.
All persons holding scrip Certificates for SHARES in the EX-
ETER and EXMOUTH RAIL WAY COMPANY are requested to
transmit the same to the Secretary at Exeter, on or before Saturday,
the 17th day of October next, with their names, professions, and re-
sidences distinctly written, in order that the same may be correctly
entered in the register of the Company.
All shares Set c aimed by the actual holders of Scrip Certificates
will be liable to be registered as the property of the persons to whom
they were originally allotted.
An acknowledgment will be given by the Secretary of the receipt of
the Scrip Certificates, and notice hereafter will be given of the time
when the Sealed Certificates will be ready for the proprietors.
As a precaution in forwarding Scrip by post, parties are recom-
mended to write across the face of each certificate " For Registra-
tion," and also their name and address.
By order,
EDWARD WOOLMER, Chairman.
JOHN CLENCH, Secretary.
Office, 13, Bedford Circus, Ex ter, Sept. 17, 1546.
FORM TO ACCOMPANY SCRIP.
To the Directors of the Exeter and Exmouth Railway
Gentlemen,—I hereby request that you will register me as the
proprietor of shares in the Exeter and Exmouth
Railway, and will issue to me sealed certificates la exchange for a
like number of scrip certificates which I herewith forward.
Name (in full) • • .... • • • • • •
Res dente • • ..... ..........
Profession or description • • .. • • • •
Numbers of Scrip ......
Date.• • • • ....... ..... • • • • • • -
Signature.. • • .. • • .. •• •
•

HOT WEATHER.- TRAVELLING.-SEA-
SIDE.—The REGISTER]) PALETOT in London, only at
22, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange ; and the chief Llama
Cloth Warehouse, 114, Regent-street. Do not be deceived by a
similarity of name, placed in the windows of a few petty shops in the
neighbourhood of the Patentees. Each Paletot is stamped " Ii. J. and
I). NICOLL, 114, Regent-street."

AS.-FROM FORTY TO SIXTY PER
%if CENT. SAVED.
Conftacts taken for lighting Towns, Villages, Mansions, Mills,
Fac*ories, Railway Stations, Signal Lights, Dockyards, Lighthouses,
Churches, Colleges. Hospitals, Theatres, Public Institutions, Prisons,
Barracks, Schools, Unions, Poorhouses, Public Gardens, &c. &c.,
with pure and brilliant Gas, by FRANCIS'S PATENT GASLIGHT
APPARATUS, either by purchase or rental.—Applications at the
Offices and Factory, 112, IIigh Holborn, and Eagle-street, Red Lion-
square, London, where the Gas can he seen. manufactured on the
principle of this invention, from 10 till 4 daily.—Prospectuses and
every information may he obtained. •

THE UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER.
30 to 50 per Cent. Saved !
To be had at the Patentees, 60, St. Martin's-lane, Charing-cross.
The Patentees beg to call public attention to the following facts,
fhe advantages resulting from the invention are various and
striking. Independently of a saving of 30 to 50 per cent„ the com-
bustion is perfect, and the brilliancy produced superior to any light
hitherto discovered. It emits neither smell nor smoke, and burns
steadily for any period ; and such is its purity, that it neither affects
or soils the most delicate colour or the lint at fabric. Objections have
made to the Introduction of gas in dwelling-houses, to the expense of
fittings, to its destruction of furniture, draperies, gold moulding, &c. ;
these are entirely obviated by the " PATENT UNIVERSAL GAS
BURNER." As the cost of laying on gas is muck lower than is com-
monly supposed, it is adapted for private dwellings, as well as for
club-houses, hotels, manufactories, and public buildings. One of the
small burners is amply sufficient to light a good-sized room, at a sum
immeasurably lower than spirit, oil, or candle, with the avoidance of
waste or trouble.

The merits of the " Burner," its brilliancy and economy surpassing
every other known light, are shown by the annexed authentic
opinions of the qualities of the UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER.
Extract from the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers,
Tuesday, 26th May, 1846, Sir JOHN RaNNIE, President, in the Chair.
" A gas burner of a novel and ingenious construction was exhibited.
The principal nevelty was the introduction of a stream of air to the
centre of the flame by a hollow button in the middle of the burner.
The air passing up through the hollow stem of the button, was
heat ed, and passed out by two series of fire-holes around the pert phery,
and impinging with force on the flame of the gas curved it outwards
in the shape of a tulip, while the oxygen of the air, mingling with
the carburetted hydrogen gas, produced a very ptrf.,.ct combustion,
The flame was quite white down the top of the burner, was very steady,
as was amply demonstrated by the excellent light of the Institution,
where these burners have been used. In comparing the consumption
of these burners with that of the concentric ring burners, and trying
the power of the two lights by the photometer, the new burner gave a
better light, with a saving of rather more than one-third."

POLYTECHNIC CHEMICAL ScnooL.—" In testing Clark, Mc Niell,
and Co.'s Universa iGas Burner with one of the best shawdowless
`turners, it gave a more pure and brilliant light, with a saving of 20
to 25 per cent." GEORGE CRISP, Engineer,
ROST. LONGBOTTOM, Secretary,

" In a series of experiments made upon Clark, Mc Niell, and Co.'s
Patent Universal Gas Burner, its superiority was satisfactorily esta-
blished in economy and the quality of the light. Tested against
argand burners, Nos. 4 (12 holes), and 6 (15 holes), it afforded a
saving of at least 25 per cent., and against three fish-tail burners,
Nn. 4, 48 per cent. The colour and brilliancy of the flame is supe-
rior to any other burner."
T. W. KEATES, Consulting Chemist,
J. D. PALMER, Mechanical Inspector.
. .

The UNIVERSAL GAS BURNER Is used nightly at the Poly-
technic Institution, and may he had and seen from 11 till 4, at the
Patentees. 60, St. Marttn's-lane, Charing-cross ; aLd of all Gas Fitters.

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`VEST WHEAL JEWEL MINING COMPANT.—Wed-
nes a special meeting of this company was held at the
office in Old Broad-street. Mr. Heron took the chair.
The object of the meeting was tor forfeiting a number of
shares on which the last call remained unpaid. After
some discussion it was agreed unanimously that all
shares on which the last call of 10s. remained unpaid
should not be forfeited till the end of October. In con-
sequence of some of the Cornish shareholders having
disapproved of this meeting, a resolution in its favour was
passed unanimously, so as to justify the directors in their
proceedings. As regards the mine, the chairman said
they had diminished the extent of the workings in the
northern part, which had reduced ,the expenditure from
80b1. or 9001 to 400/. or 5001. From the last report it
would appear that they had about 9,0001. worth of cop-
per ore in prospect. The prospects of the tin lodes were
also favourable. A shareholder observed that this was
the most favourable news they had received for the last
four years. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the
meeting adjourned.
Mr. Thomas Score, of Okeford-Fitzpaine, Dorset,
has, in consequence of the failure of the potato crop,
with his usual liberality, again reduced the rent of his
land one-third, for the benefit of his poor tenants. It is
sincerely to be hoped that every wealthy landowner will
follow so praiseworthy an example.—Salisbury Journal.
DREADFUL FIRE IN SWEDEN,—The whole of the
buildings, tools, and inaterials for working the silver
mines of Salts, about 20 leagues north-west of Stock-
holm, were destroy( d by fire in the night of the 26th
ult., causing a loss estimated at 3,000,000 francs, and
putting 2,000 men out of employ.—Galignani.

PARIS ACADEMY OF -SCIENCES
SIFTING OF SEPT. 14.
A communication was received from Mr. Morse, giv-
ing an account of the extent of the telegraphic lines
already established in the United States of America. It
is as follows:— Miles.
Alba" v to Buffalo 350
York to Boston 220
Ditto • to Albany 150
Ditto • to Washington 230
Washington to •P,alhimore 40
Baltimere to Philadelphia 97
Philadelphia to New York .. 88
New York to Newhaven • 84
Newhaven to Hartford 30
Hartford to Springfield 20
Springfield to Boston 98
Albany to Rochester 252

Mr. Morse states in his letter that the electric tele-
graph is now the chief mode of transmitting all the news
of the Government and the important correspondence of
merchants, and of the public generally. Its influence
has, he says, been already felt by the press. The journals
of the large towns, which were taken in the. -ountry on
account of their giving the most recent news, have lost a
great number of their subscribers, whilst there has been
a very large increase in the circulation of the journals of
the small towns near the extreme points of the electric
telegraphs. The extent of the lines of electric telegraphs
in France is •very small, as compared with the account
given by Mr. Morse, and from the very slow progress
made by the comtnittee on telegraphs appointed by the
Government, and at the head of which is M. Arago, a
long time must elapse before we reach here the total
given by that gentleman. We have not heard that the
committee has as yet sent any report on the various
systems of telegraphic communication, particularly those
of Mr. Morse and Mr. Bain, of Edinburgh, which have
been submitted to it. It is quite time, however, that the
report should be made, and that whatever is good in
each should be adopted, and the nuthors handsomely
remunerated, instead of resorting to the unworthy pla-
giarism which is said to have been recommended, and
which would almost amount to piracy.
An important question in chemistry has been raised
by a communication from M. Malagutti. By a decision
of the Marine Department, the manufacturers of sail
cloth for the navy are bound to bleach their cloths with
alkalies, and without the use of chlorine, and to stiffn
them with gum arabic, and without starch. The mode
of testing the cloth delivered for the use of the navy is to
put a drop of the tincture of iodine on it, and if it turns
blue the cloth is refused. M. Malagutti proves that in
certain cloths, although only gum arabic should have
been used, the blue colour may result from the test, as
the starch used in the preparation of the thread is some-
times left in by an imperfict process of bleaching.
A paper from M. Jobard was received on the Chinese
system of boring wells by means of a rope instead of
metallic rods. He states that M. Goublet Collet has
adopted this system with the best results in Champagne,
and that the cost is only 3£ per foot, without any in-
crease according to depth. The whole of the apparatus
costs only 500f.
M. Biot, in his own name, and in those of Messrs.
Babinet and Pouillet, read a very favourable report on
an apparatus constructed by M. Rumkorff to facilitate
the exhibition of the optical phenomena produced by
transparent bodies when they are placed between the
opposite poles of a magnet of great power.
M. Velpeau presented, in the name of M. C. Sedillot,
of Strasburgh, a summary of a work on cancerous affec-
tions. The object of M. Sedillot is to show the advan-
tage that may be derived from the use of the microscope
in the examination of tumours supposed to be cancerous.
He is of opinion, however, that the diagnostic of a great
number of tumours is now sufficiently established with-
out the use of the microscope.
A letter was received from M. Forster, giving an ac-
count of his having discovered, on the night of the 13th,
a meteor, leaving the constellation Cygnus, and taking a
westerly direction. It left a train, which was visible
only for one second.

FRANCE, ENGLAND and ,SPAIN.
(From El Espectedor.)
What a surprising contrast is formed by the conduct
which England has observed towards us in these latter
times, in comparison with that simultaneously observed
by France ! It would lead to nothing merely to examine
at this moment if the difference with which we are about
to acquaint ourselves, only proves the greater skilful-
ness of the English policy ; or if, in reality, it de-
pends on the circumstance that there is, in this same
policy, a certain foundation of morality which obliges
her to respect onr nationality and independence. It
suffices us to Fay that this difference exists, and that
Great Britain succeeds, by her manner of proceeding,
in attracting as many sympathies amongst us as the di-
pl-macy of Louis Philippe alienates by its mode of
acting. We are doing nothing more than exposing a
fact that is palpable to all of us, and it would even be
indecorous to seek in the conduct of England, which so
highly favours us, the motive of self-interest which may
have actuated that country. In spite of this, we shall
not deny that selfishness m ty partly instigate the modus
operandi of the, policy pursued on the banks of the
Themes ; but if every one who received a benefit—be it
a man or a p.ople—strove to discover the intention and
the motive of self-convenience which animated the bene-
factor, the word " gratitude" could not have been in-
vented, and assuredly the dictionary would not contain
another so utterly superfluous.
Supposing that England and France, in their acts,
exclusively consult their own private convenience, we
shall inevitably he forced to admit that the interests of
England are not found in hostility to our own, and that
those of France are ; and through selfishness also, we
declare ourselves the friends of the former, and the
enemies of the latter. What matters it to us that when
France does us an injury she may not do it in order to
prejudice us, but only to favour herself ? It is equally
certain that she does prejudice us. What matters it to
us that when England renders us a benefit she may do it
in order not to prejudice herself, and not for the sake of
favouring us? It is equally certain that she does favour
us, and this is what we require : we look to results, and
care nothing for anything else.
We know not if France, through the medium of-her
own private convenience, could give us an explanation of
all the acts which constitute her policy towards us, but
it is positive that these acts are atrocious, and that
they render her odious to the hearts of all Spaniards
who are not Afrancesados. We know not whether,
through the medium of her own private convenience,
she could hit upon an explanation of the ferocious
treaty of which the Spanish Liberals are the vic-
tims, who, ejected from their country for political causes,
have the misfortune to seek an asylum in her bosom.
We know not in what point it can suit our generous ally
to compel these poor proscribed wretches to pass from
one point of her territories to the other on the slightest
requisition from a vindictive consul, or in what point it
can suit her to confine the unhappy victims to districts
where it is impossible for them to find an honourable
means of subsistence, or in what it can suit her to make
them walk leagues and leagues with chains around their
necks, naked and bare-footed.
We could cite many similar acts, and if France
commits them in the consultation of her con-
venience, we, consulting our own, ought to
entreat Almighty God to divest Franco of all her
conveniences. Her conveniences and ours are diame-
trically opposed to each other. In the year 1823 it
suited her to invade our soil with an armed force, to
wrest from us our liberty, and to leave the Liberals in
the clutches of absolutism. At a subsequent period it
suited her convenience, when war began to blaze in the
provinces, to add fuel to its flames ; and she finally ad-
ministered a narcotic to the whole of her police, in order
that Don Carlos might cross the French frontier without
being seen. It afterwards suited her to overthrow
Espartern, and now it appears that it suits her conveni-
ence to marry the Duke de Montpensier ,to the Infanta,
after it had suited her to marry the Queen to Montemo-
lin, to Trapani, or to whomsoever else it did not suit our
convenience that she should be married

Fortunately, Providence has ordered for some years
that whatever suits us should also suit England. It
suited this powerful nation, as well during the "Liberal"
emigration of 1823 as during that of 1843, to conciliate
the affection of the emigrants neither more nor less than
it suited France to gain their hatred. Thanks to this,
the political outcasts who at these two distinct periods
had the good fortune to gain the shore of England, met
on those shores with abundant sympathies, which greatly
alleviated their condition. It suited England, as well as
ourselves, that the cause of Don Carlos should succumb,
and her valiant soldiers participated more than once in
the dangers and glories of our own.
It suited England that the regency of Espartero should
issue victorious from the blow which destroyed it in the
year 1843, and Espartero would not have fallen had
England paid as little respect as France to the inde-
pendence of our nation. In all these capital points the
interest of Spain and England was synonomous, and
hers as well as ours was opposed to that of Fance. To
England it is owing that, on the marriage question, none
of the candidates which the instinct of Spain has re-
pelled has trinmphed until now. It is rumoured that
even now she is opposed to the Montpensier match, al-
though in this the will of that nation is equivalent to
our own. If this match does not take place, it will be
because the men of the present situation will not
have been able to conquer the repugnance of England.
We know these men, and we know well enough how
little their acts are influenced by the will of their
country. But what matters it that if Louis Philippe's
marriage scheme is not realised, it is owing to the
influence of a foreign nation? Spain will not be the less
con tented.

What matters it that in thwarting this match England
may only propose to herself to weaken or hinder the
strengthening of the fatal influences which make of our
country a mere French colony ? It suits us to expel
these influences • we ought not to perceive that it may
squally suit England to expel them. When the will of
a country is not respected, we ought to desire that those
who are at its head may see themselves compelled ta re-
spect the will i,f another country which is comformable
with that of our own.

From an authority, on which we can entirely rely,
we are enabled to state that T. W. Bramston,
intends to retire from the representation of the county,
whenever a dissolution of the present Parliament may
take place.—Chelmsford Chronicle.

PUBLIC DINNER IN CORK TO

MR. SERGEANT MURPHY.

On Thursday evening the friends and admirers of Mr.
Sergeant Murphy entertained him at a magnificent din-
ner at the Imperial Hotel. with a view to testify their
esteem and admiration of the high abilities of the IIon.
and Learned Gentleman, as also to mark their strong
approbation of the admirable and etliciPnt manner in
which he hail, during the period of his representation of
the city of Cork, conducted the mercantile and other
important interests committed to his trust. All ranks,
all classes, all creeds, all parties were represented ; and
mingled together in unity and barmony were to be seen
the ultra Tory, the uncompromising repealer, the honest
Whig, and the unflinching Radical ; no petty difference
existed ; no narrow distinction was suffered to inter-
pose. At seven o'clock precisely the company sat down
to dinner. Francis B. Beamish, Esq , presided. The
vice-presidents acre--Andrew Snearinw, J.P.. Thomas
IL Ilewitt, John R. Burke, and Julius Besnard.

Among the letters of apology was )ne from Lord John
Manners, now travelling in the south of Ireland.
After the usual loyal toasts had been duly honoured,
The CHAIRMAN rose and, after some prefstdry ob-
servations, said—Gentlemen, we are here not as apolitical
party.—(lIetar.) It is to me highly gratifying to find so
many of my fellow citizens, entertaining as they do, ho-
nestly and sincerely, their different political and religious
opinians, assembled in this room to pay a well-merited
compliment to a distinguished fellow citizen. He came
amongst us here not as a political man; he has been one,
and, whilst so, no one doubts that he acted the character
of an upright man.—(Hear, hear.) It may be permitted
to me to state that I had the high gratification of pro-
posing our distinguished guest as a representative for
his native city in the year 1841, .and whilst I did so I
proposed him because I felt a confidence in the man ;
and though parties supposed, in consequence of his hav-
ing passed a great many years on the other side of the
channel, that the national feeling which ought to belong
to an Irishman was altogether lost sight of, the result
proved that my, anticipations were correct, that my ex-
pectations
were fulfilled.—(Hear. hear.) Gentlemen, he
was returned for your city, he filled the position of re
presentative for four years.—(Hear, hear.) I will not
allude to any political matters ; he has ceased to be your
representative, but during the period that he filled that
position I will venture to say there is no man in the
community who will assert that he was an inefficient
member—(Hear, hear)—and whilst he supported the
political views which he professed at his elevation, he
never lost sight of the position he filled when once ele-
vated—that he was one of the representatives of the city
of Cork, and that his duty was to attend to the wants
and interests of a commercial community, without refer-
ence to party politics.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, his
voice, as a party man, of course he gave with the party
whom he supported ; but in his duty as a repre-
sentative he never lost sight of the interests of those
whom he was bound to protect—the great commer-
cial body of your city.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, we
never ought to forget the services of such a man, and I
cannot help believing, for I am rather railway inclined,
that there is a feeling abroad at present that such a re-
presentative, distinct from mere party politics, would be
looked to by the united voice of the people of Cork, and
that we should not be upbraided with the taunt that,
because a representative voted for this party or that, we
deprived him of his position; but when we find a man of
real and substantial merit, he should be continued in
that capacity; and that we yet may hope to see Sergeant
Murphy filling the proud position he once occupied.
—(This anticipation was responded to with enthusiasm
which no words can express, every gentleman present
exerting his voice to the best of his ability to testify his
approval of the chairman's aspiration.) Gentlemen, I
will now give you " our distinguished townsman, Fran-
cis Stack Murphy—we feel proud of his talents and suc-
cess—we are grateful for his services while representing
our commercial community, and we hail his arrival in
Cork as affording an opportunity of tendering to him our
acknosledgments and certifying our respect and es-
teem."—(This toast was received with expressions of the
most ardent and unanimous enthusiasm, each one pre-
sent disregarding the narrow prejudices of party poli-
tics, and the petty trammels of sectarian feeling, and
vieing to do honour to the distinguished object of their
attention in the most emphatic and gratifying manner.
It was truly such an occasion as has been seldom, per-
haps never, witnessed, and which will not be readily ob-
literated from the memory of those who had the pleasure
of participating in its proceedings.)
Air, " Doth not a meeting like this make amends."—
(The appropriateness of this air elicited the laughter of
the company.)
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY then rose, and the acclamations
with which his name was received were renewed, and,
if possible, increased with tenfoli vigour. The bursts of
cheering were loud, prolonged, and continuous; and for
at least ten minutes there was no cessation of the enthu-
siastic demonstration of feeling that hailed the rising of
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. When at length
order had been finally restored, Mr. Sergeant Murphy
proceeded to speak as follows:—Mr. Beamieh and Gen-
tlemen, it would indeed be affectation in me, accustomed
as I have been by the usages of the profession to which
I have the honour to belong, as well as the Parlia-
mentary position which, by your favour, I enjoyed, to
say for one moment that I should bring myself to plead
guilty, under ordinary circumstances, to any feeling of
embarrassment in addressing an ordinary assemblage.
But, sir, I do feel that I am under the influence of extra-
ordinary circumstances; and I do feel that this is an
extraordinary assembly. Gentlemen, it is my duty, as
it is also my inclination, on the present occasion to avoid
all topics that might for a moment interfere to interrupt
this, which I will denominate, a night dedicated to con-
cord and harmony, and as one selected for the purpose
of paying to me a distinguished compliment.—
(Hear, hear.) Such is my intention; but it would
be an ill return if I did nor, as it were, in a sort of
common feeling with you all, recapitulate to you
the years that have passed since I had the honour to
know you; the feelings I entertained, the sensations
I experienced, and make you, in fact, part and
parcel of the elevation I have derived from your
favour, and show you the impulses that agitated my
mind when I rendered you with efficiency my services.—
(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, mine was a peculiar position.
efy esteemed and excellent friend, our chairman has
alluded to it; and I will not disguise from you, for Ihope
it is no disgrace to an individual in my present position
to state that long, long antecedent to the period when
you honoured me with the distinguished and eleeated
position of your representative, these matters of ambition
had crossed my youthful mind, with the belief—perhaps
an idle and dreamy one—that some day I would have
the honour of representing you; and, gentlemen, I am
now proud to feel that the realisation of that which then
seemed but a dream has ere now been accomplished.—
(Hear, hear, and cheers). I felt, gentlemen, when I had
selected another land for the pursuit of my professional
duties, I had in some measure estranged myself from the
circumstances that might lead to such a distinguished
honour had I remained amongst you; but though I felt
so, I also felt that I had ties at home that bound me in-
separably to you; and that I could draw upon the un •
tarnished met its of others besides my own, paltry as they
were—(No, no)—as an earnest of the sincerity of one
who was otherwise unknown to you.—(Cheers.) I be-
lieved, as far as I was concerned, I could appeal to asso-
ciates amongst you, without reference to politics or sects,
and I considered that however wayward my path I could
still trust to the pledge of true hearts ; and I am
proud to say that I met and received that pledge in a
moment of, what I may term, ambitious presumption.—
(" No, no," and cheers.) When I heard of the retirement
of my excellent and esteemed friend, our chairman, I
was attending to my professional duties on circuit, in
Liverpool, I immediately tendered my services.—(Hear.)
I felt the course I was about adopting would involve me
in deep and serious controversy ; but I had the sanction
of my own feelings, which, however insufficient my
abil.ties, told me my heart was in the right place, and
also that my intentions were honest.—(Loud cheers.) I
came amongst you, and I must confess I was received
with much more welcome and cordiality than I had an-
ticipated.—(Renewed cheers.) I was vouched for, and
my sincerity and rectitude guaranteed, not, I must say,
from my own merits, but by the integrity of those who
had lived long amongst you, and whose merits were
known, I am proud to say, and also appreciated by you
--(Cheers)—and I went to represent your interests in
the Legislature with a deeper sense of obligation on me
than if I had been one long known and highly trusted by
reason of long and faithful services.—(Cheers.) I am
aware that with regard to your mercantile concerns I
was ignorant ; but I also knew that I had ever, by a
mere request, an overflowing fund of information in your
intelligence and capability, and freely and generously it
was tendered to me.—(Hear.) I have been spoken of
by my excellent friend in relation to another state of cir-
cumstances in connexion with myself, that is with regard
to the position I hold elsewhere—in England.—(Hear.)
As I said before, I knew it was a venturous thing to
leave my own country with a view to labour for the
impressed--thoroughly and deeply
acquirement of a station which I sushas3e?qtuheisTlwyhaetotaIinleedft.
ever actuated, ma eet,u at
hteadt I possessed a pride of
Sitiri,mIprceassnedtil
impressed—(Bear, ir7esuasnreldri—lye a(Iriefat r, hear)—with thea strongod
hope
warm
ever
)—and with me it was a leading
country—(Loud
feelinghooa ol shall continue nit iaLut
oe
ohdt to
cheers`)—and
e r
principle of my resolve and determination never to dis-
grace by any possibility the country I was leaving for
another.—(Renewed and prolonged cheering.) Sir, I
believe I had to encounter strong prejudices—but, at the
same time, prejudices not incapable of being overcome.—
(Hear, hear.) I felt, sir, that I had to come in contaet
with persons less sensitive than my own countrymen ;
but yet I relied on my culture here.—(Hear, hear.) I
believed that good breeding and good manners to the
extent of a man's position were also favourable qualities.
—(Hear, hear.) I believed that a fair and honest exhi-
ebritciios(neEdn‘'(l—ofale
any
in ability was a quality which in that coun-
try (England) would not be overlooked if honestly ex-
r, h e a r) —an d, finally, I believed there
was there presented to me a guerdon of approbation and
reward for the perseverance and assiduity which I should
exercise.—(Hear, arid cheers.) But if I hold a position
and cheering)—to what do I owe:it
in that country—which indeed it would be affectation in
thetwhich I occupied.
butme tot“ denyo—(Haar,
my
fellow-citizens, which enabled
me r
ag t: s enteril
from shish distinction can spring? Yes,
to those sa
f-
that
placedthrtt a arena,
in which
is
stationhe only one, after all,
often one of antagonism with men of great distinction,