The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-16 00:00:00

TALLOW.

Our market, from the accumulated stock, still con"
tinues in a very inactive state, and prices are with diffi:
culty supported. P. Y. C. on the spot is quoted .at
45s 3d to 46s per cwt., the latter being for very sucorior
parcels of new. For forward delivery very little is doll
at 45s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow, 45s per cwt
cash. Rough Fat, 2s 7d per 8 lbs.

JOIN BRIGHT, ESQ., M.P.—The Hon. Member for
Manchester is at present sojourning at the Wharfdal°
Hydropathic Establishment, under the professional Care
of Dr. Macleod.—Manchester Times.
The Jews are now permitted to reside in Erlangli
to possess property to the value of 20,000 guild( Ts, an
to purchase a dwelling in the town.
MESNIERISM.—At Tiverton, last week, aftela
lecture en mesmerism bad been delivered by
()warn, upwards of forty individuals, who had receiveo
relief by means of the lecturer's manipulations, were
separately introduced to the meeting, and stated thes
beneficial results which had been realised in their cases
in chronic rheumatism, tic doloureux, palpitation of
heart, spinal complaints, paralysis, So.—Exeter Gazeg!`.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY).

Ann Benfield, a middle-aged woman, was placed be-
fore Mr. Bingham, charged with having stolen from the
shop of Mr. Litchfield, china and curiosity dealer, 21,
Hanway-yard, a silver casket, value 31.
The prosecutor stated that on Thursday morning last
the prisoner came into his shop and asked the price of
some china cups and saucers. Witness showed her seve-
ral, which she said were too dear, and wished to see
some cheaper. lie then showed her a great many dif-
ferent pstierns, but the whole of them she said were too
high-priced, and would not suit her. She the❑ left the
'flop, and shortly after her departure he missed a silver
casket from out of a glass case, close to where the priso-
ner was standing, and which he had seen safe in the case
just before the prisoner came in. Witness then gavo in-
formation to the p.liee, who succeeded in apprehending
Vie prisoner on Sunday morning.
Oetavius Falkland, assistant to Mr. William Whistler,
silversmith, Strand, said, on Thursday afternoon last the
prisoner came into his shop and offered a silver casket
for sale. It was a filagree casket, inlaid with enamel,
and had a torquoise stone at either corner, and one on
the top. Witness told the prisoner that he would pur-
chase it of her if the would bring him a memorandum
from the person to whom it belonged. She then took
up the casket and ran out of the shop.
West, 7 F, proved taking the prisoner into custody
on Sunday morning, ut her lodgings in Long's-court,
Leicester-square. Ho told her that she was charged
with stealing a silver casket from prosecutor's shop.
She denied all knowledge of the robbery, and said she
never was in the shop in her life. He then took her to
the station. The casket had not been found. _

The prosecutor said ho could swear to the casket from
the description given of it by Mr. Folkland.
The prisoner, in :defence, said she never saw the pro.-
'mentor before in her life. She had a witness who, if
present, would prove that she never left her house du-
ring the whole of Thursday last.
Mr. BINGHAM remanded her till Thursday next.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
PERTH RACES.—THURSDAY.
The Member's Plate of 50 sow., three yrs old, 7st 51b;
four, 9st 91b; five, 10st 21b; six and aged, lOst 51b.
Twice round.
Mr. Carter's The Premier, 4 yrs... ...(W. Oates) 1
Mr. Ryan ns Tom-tit, 4 yrs ... ... 2
Mr. Knoll's Baronet, 5 yrs ... 3
Mr. Merry's Pilot, 6 yrs ... ... 4
Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each, with 25 added, for hunters;
four yrs old, 7st 21b; five, 1 Ist 11lb; six and aged,
12st 31b; half-bred horses allowed 71b, &c Heats,
once round and a distance.
Mr. Merry's Inglewood, 5 yrs 2 1 1
Mr. Campbell's Waverley, aged ... 1 3 3
Mr. Knoll's The Baronet (h b), 5 yrs ... 3 2 2
A Plate of 50/. for three yrs olds, 7st [4lb; four, Bst 51b;
five, Bst 121 b; six and aged, 9st 21b; mares and geldings
allowed 31b, winners extra. Heats, once round and a
distance.
Mr. Carter's Premier, 4 yrs ... , (W. Oates) 1 1
Mi. Ramplin's Headsman, 5 yrs „. 2 3
Mr. Ryan's ns Tom Tit, 4 yrs ••• •• 0 2
Mr. Knoll's Tenby, 4 yrs ... 0 0
Mr. Merry's Glitter, 3 yrs. .., „ 3dr
Lottery Stakes of 5 soya each, with 25 edded; three yrs
olds, Bst; four, gat 71b; fire, lOst; six and aged, 10.4
51h, Twice round and a distance.
Mr. Hendesson's Louisa Newell, 4 yrs (W. Oates) 1
Mr. Mc Keuzie's John Harris, 6 yrs ... 2
Mr. Robertson, us Shakspeare, 4 yrs ... 3
FRIDAY.
Plate of 501., three yrs old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 71b; five,
9st llb; six and aged, 9st 61b, mares and geldings
allowed 31b. Twice round.
Mr. Ramplin's 'leadsmen, 5 yrs .(11. Robertson) 1
Mr. Ramsay's Hornpipe, 3 yrs ... 2
Mr. Binnes Titus Oates, 5 1 rs 0
Mr. Merry's Glitter, 3 y rs 0
Mr. Knoll's Tenby, 4 yrs ...
A Challenge Cup of 7 5 sot's. added to a sweepstakes of
5 soya. each for hunters. 12st 71b each. Once round
and a distance.
Mr. Merry's Pilot, 6 yrs ...(Col. Richardson) 1 1
Mr. Knoll's Baronet, 5 yrs ... 2 2
Mr. H. Johnstone's Turn Tit, 4 yrs ... odr
A Handicap Stake of 5 soya. each, with 25 added.
Heats. Once round and a distance, was won, in three
heats, by Mr. N. Johnstone's Tom Tit, 4 yrs, Bst 11b,
beating Louisa Newell, 4 yrs, Bst 101 h; The Premier, 4
yrs, Bst 71b; Headsman, 5 yrs, Bst ; John Harris, 6 yrs,
7st 121 b; and Inglewood, 5 yrs, Bst 71h.
The Hurdle Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 20 added.
Once round and a distance, was won by Sir Charles,
aged, beating Magpie, 5 yrs, and The Don, aged.

On Saturday forenoon the British and North Ame
rican Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, took
her departure from Liverpool for New York, vitt
Halifax, having on board the usual weekly mails, and
a fair complement of passengers.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—About ten o'clock on Satur-
day morning last an intelligent little girl, aged about
four years, whose name was Alice Baugh, the child of
poor but honest and respectable parents, who reside in a
cottage at the back of Bye-street, was missed by her
mother ; and, throughout the day, the most diligent
search was made for the missing one, which proved of no
avail till about five o'clock in the evening, when the of
flicted mother's worst anticipations were realised. Hav-
ing made the most diligent search, in every direction,
for her lost one, and having been to the crier to proclaim
her loss, a thought struck her that perchance sho might
have fallen into the privy, which was in a most dangerous
state of dilapidation, and which belongs to three other
cottages, in common with that of Thomas Baugh, the
deceased child's father. She accordingly went thither
with a hoe, and on searching thought she could feel
something heavy. Eliza Fuller, a woman who
(accom-
panied her, took the hoe and commenced searching, and
shortly afterwards saw the poor child's hand appear
above the surface of the soil. The body was
imme-
diately got out by a baker, but life was extinct. 0n
Monday morning last Peter Warburton, Esq., and
lre-
spectable jury, of which Mr. Thomas Frederick
was foreman, held an inquest at the Coach and Horses,
in Bye-street, on the body of the unfortunate child,
when a verdict of " Accidental death " was recorded.—
Liverpool Times.
SHIPWRECIC.—A correspondent at St. Margaret's
Hope sends us the following :—On Sunday night, the Ist
of October, the ship Penang, of Liverpool, from Cron-
stadt, with a cargo of 500 casks of tallow, 100 bales of
hemp, and 270 quarters of wheat, struck upon Strose
Head, in the island of South Ronaldshay. She had been
endeavouring to make the passage of the Pentland Firth,
but owing to a dense fog she lost the Skerry Lights, and
struck at ten o'clock. In half an hour she was on her
beam ends. The crew, consisting of twenty, including
the captain and mate, were all saved. Three of them
got into the long boat when the ship went over, and
were tossed about in her until morning; another swam
ashore, and the rest were clinging to the side of the
ship, expecting every minute to clinging
dashed to pieces,
until eight o'clock next morning, when they were
brought off by boats with much difficulty. Whether it
was owing to the heedlessness said to be natural to sea-
men, or to joy at having escaped a watery grave, it was
striking to observe the cheerful aspect of the poor fel-
lows when they came into the village of St. Margaret's
Hope, although barefooted and half naked, after having
lost their all. The ship was a splendid vessel of 370
tons burthen. She is breaking up fast, and little, if any,
of her valable cargo will be saved.—lnverness Courier.
AThENZUM SOIREB.—This annual festival is fixed
for Thursday the 16th of November next, in the Free-
trade Hall. The president for the evening, Lord Vis-
count Mahon, eldest son of the Earl of Stanhope, has
already attained a high position in English literature, by
his " History of Europe, from the peace of Utrecht to
the peace of Paris," and other works of eminence ; and
it is gratifying in the highest degree, to see a nobleman,
a descendant of one of the greatest families in England,
and a distinguished writer, thus coming forward and
supporting an institution thoroughly popular in its cha-
racter, and destined, we trust, to produce a most bene-
ficial influence upon: the characters and fortunes of the
large class of young men who mainly support it. No
less gratifying is it to see so distinguished a list of Vice-
Presidents; for, in addition to his Worship the Mayor,
the Members for Manchester and North and South Lan-
cashire, we see a long list of the names of parties who
have always been amongst the foremost to promote
everything having for its object the good of our city.
Amongst the guests, including his Grace the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, the ardent and tried friend of educa-
tion, we notice some of the greatest of our English
writers—Archibald Alison, the distinguished author of
the History of Europe during the first French Revolu-
tion; Lord Nugent, author of the Life of Hampden ;
George L. Craik, one of the authors of the Pictorial
History of England ; and many others of deserved
celebrity.—Manchester Guardian.

METALLIC LAVA FOR STONE, BRICK, TILE, CE-
SENT, &c.—A patent has been taken out by Mr. J. Orsi
for a composition of gravel, or stone broken into small
pieces, 3 parts; pounded chalk, 2 parts; tar, 1 part; wax,
1-10th. The tar is first melted in a cauldron, and the
wax, gravel, or broken stone, chalk, and mineral colour
are successively added. The artificial stone, or metalie
lava, thus formed, is cast in moulds, either into solid
block of any required form, or into hollow vessels, as
troughs and tanks. It is also made into pipes, by roll-
ing on a circular core of wood, enveloped in paper, three
or more iron ribs being attached lengthways above the
first elating, by winding wire round them, when a second
coating is added, by rolling as before. Also for orna-
mental tiles, bricks, and quarries, a combination of
firound flint, 2 parts ; marble broken into small pieces,
8 arts; resin 1 part; wax, 1-10th part; and some mine-
ral colour, 2-10th parts.—Also for cement from either
combination in a comminuted state, and used while
DEPRECIATION OP NEWSPAPER PROPERTY AT
SHEFFIELD.—On Saturday was published the last num-
ber of the Sheffield Mercury, a newspaper which has for
the last, forty-three years been the able advocate of
Conservative principles in Sheffield. A few weeks ago,
the Sheffield Iris, a Liberal paper, expired in the sixty-
first year of its age. -
FRESH HERRINGS.—The herring harvest in the
Solway continues. No exertions are spared to make ihe
most of opportunity, so rarely vouchsafed, so long as the
finny nations are pleased to patronise by peopling our
waters. The barn yards, as the bard of Annan says—
we beg his pardon, sings—are literally rinning o'er; and
now that the sea is rivalling the earth in fertility, we are
ill pleased with the tubers for not growing better, seeing
mealy potatoes and thumping herrings are viands that
not only gratify all palates, but appear to have been
formed by nature to mense one another. Apart from the
large quantities salted, and lesser that find their way to
different markets, four cartloads of fish brought every
day to Dumfries are sold readily at the marvellously
low price of eighteen for a penny. More herrings have
been caught at lowness in the last two or three days than
RI the last twenty-fire yearn.--Dumfries Courier.

TILE NOBLE WHIG STATESMAN'S

SOLICITA'T'ION OF REBELLION.

(From the Examiner.)
The three black crows hive been reduced to the
small atom of truth which serves as the foundation of
every well-built lie. It turns out that no nobleman
high in office wrote to Colonel Napier, inviting him
to put himself at the head of 150,000 men at Birming-
ham, and to march on London ; but that Mr. Thomas
Young, then private secretary to Lord Melbourne,
the Home Secretary, having given a frank to Mr. J.
Parkes, which he was afterwards informed was in-
tended for a 1,-tter on the sulkct of the leadership of
the Union in the event of extremities, had the curiosity
to write to the Colonel to know what answer he
would have sent to the proposal had it been made to
him. And this inquiry was accompanied by the
avowal of the dissuasions which Mr. Young would
have interposed had Mr. Parkes's letter been forwarded.
The passage runs thus :
" Ate you aware that, in the event of a fight, you
were to be invited to take the command at Birmingham.
Parkes got a frank from me for you with that view, but
had no occasion to send it. Had lie written I should
have fired a dispatch at you with try friendly and
anxious counsel and entreaty to keep you quiet, and not
to stir from Freshford. It is Lot well to enter early into
revolutions; the first fall victims. What do you think
would have happened? The Reformers (Place, &e.)
talked big to me, and felt assured of success. The run
upon the banks and the barricading of the populous
country towns would have brought matters to a crisis,
and a week they—the Reformers—thought would have
finished the business. They meant so to agitate here
that no soldier could have been spared from London,
and the army is too small elsewhere to have put down
rebels. In Scotland, I believe, the most effectual blow
would have been struck, and it seems difficult to have
resisted the popular movement. The Tories, however,
say the Duke would have succeeded. No doubt the
discipline under which soWers live might have proved a
stronger element than the public enthusiasm, un•
less the latter was universal or extensive, and then it
would have carried all before it. The task would have
been to bring back society to its former quiet state!
Thank God, we have been spared the trial; but, as a
matter of speculation, tell me what you think would have
been the result. Am I right in my conjecture that you
would ,have refused the Birmingham invite, and kept
your sword in its scabbard?"

Now we assert upon sure grounds that Mr. Young
did not know the use intended to be made or the
frank, and that it was not till the crisis was passed
that Mr. Parkes informed him of the purpose in-
tended. Mr. Young's part in the affair is then re-
duced simply to some knowledge of the talk of the
Radical agitators, and an idle curiosity as to how
Colonel Napier, then a reel-hot Reformer, would have
dealt with an overture which might have been made
to him.

As for Mr. Parkes, it is notorious that he did
much, very much, to keep the political unions within
bounds, and to control the disposition to violence ;
but at the same time it is not to be denied on his
part and the part of many other Reformers, that
there was the firm resolution to carry the Reform
Bill, and that their measures would have been
adapted to the extremities to be dealt with. The
Reformers had with them two of the three estates
of the realm, and they would not have succumbed
tamely to the obstinacy of the Lords interested
in the corruption of the Commons. In the last
resort grave resolutions were contemplated un-
doubtedly, and we believe the least fervid and de-
termined at the time was not the present Lord Stan-
ley. But it was not the Reformers only who con-
templated the possibility of a struggle out of the
bounds of the laws. The Tories, too, talked freely
of fighting—the Duke of Newcastle proclaimed re-
sistance by force of arms to be justifiable, and set
about fortifying Chamber and arming his retainers.
The Tories denounced the Reform Bill as a revo-
lution fraught with greater revolutions, the Liberals
accepted it as a revolution estopping greater revolu-
tions; but a revolution in the view of both contend-
ing, it was not to be effected without irregular means
and exertions. Many things were said and done in
tsius
the struggle, the justification of which is only to be
found in the peculiar circumstances and the success—
b ,th immediate, and in the beneficial consequences—
the great criterion in all such mighty junctures.
Upon the breaking out of the French revolution of
February, and the subsequent and consequent Char-
tist attempts, the prevailing sentiment of the Conser-
vatives was one of thankfulness that the Reform Bill
had been carried. But it could not have been carried
without the organizations and threatening demon-
strations; to which they are now reverting back with
a prudish horror. To the bloodless revolution of '32
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the country plunged in commotion, or torn with civil
war. To complain now of the means by which the
peaceful revolution was effected, which has averted
violent and extreme revolution, is like the impeach-
ment of Gulliver for having saved the city of Lilliput
from destruction by means not in conformity with the
strict laws of etiquette.
The argument that the extremities to which Whigs
went or were prepared to go to carry Reform in-
capacitates them morally for the prosecution of trea-
son or the suppression of rebellion is of monstrous
absurdity. Did the expulsion of Tames afford
carte blanche for treason in the reign of William, or
were the hands of Cromwell tied against revolt
because he had waged war againit a king ? Or to
put a nearer case—have we held the Provisional
Government of France bound to submit passively to
insurrection because its members had overthrown the
authority of Louis Philippe ? We have cited these
extreme examples for the broadest 'trial of the ques-
tion. If the Whigs had carried the Reform Bill by
force of arms, the fact would not a whit have inca-
pacitated them morally for the suppression of rebellion
and the punishment of treason. To hold the contrary
is virtually to contend that revolution once begun is
to he revolution without end, the right to resist re-
bellion being forfeited by whatever party through
force has obtained ascendancy.
But the parity alleged between the proceedings of
the Reformers in '32 and the Irish Confederates in
'4B is utterly false. There is no parallel or approach
to parallel. The Confederates have not a cause
sanctioned by two of the three estates. The object
they have proposed has not been one sanctioned by
one of the two Houses of Parliament, and approved
by the Sovereign. The means have differed as much
as the end. The Reformers did not invest the Duke
of Newcastle in Clumber, or besiege the Duke of
Wellington in Strathfieldsaye. They had organiza-
tion, and had their resolution in the event of extremi-
ties; but the might of a just cause, and the might
which could belong to none but a great and just
cause, enabled them to carry their object by peaceful
means. If Ireland had the same sense of grievance
which moved England in '3l-'32, the will of nine
millions of people would prevail without any overt
act of rebellion ; and it is because the cause is so
weak that it has endeavoured to prop itself precipi-
tately with arms, and has so abjectly fallen.
It is curious to observe how the Conservative or-
gans have fastened upon and distorted the purport of
this letter to Colonel Napier to discredit political op-
ponents, even at the cost of sanctioning and encourag-
ing Irish rebels.

-The loyal Morning Post enriches its columns with
an extract from an Irish paper, in which it is asserted
that the Whigs dzompremised, as alleged, in seditious.
incitements, dare not punish Mr. Smith O'Brien,
who, it adds, "is never pretended to be guiltT,4iiave\-
as the great, the good, 'the ;llustrious are,rguilty."
The great, the good, the 'illustrious, thenAefy the
laws, and at the head of an armed rabble call upon
the police to ahandoritheir allegiance and desert from
their duty, and upon refusal, attempt to murder them,
and failing, run away and hide.
Upon the conduct of General Napier in disclosing
the contents of a letter written in the indiscretion of
confiding friendship, we need not offer one word of
remark—every one knows what to think of it.

MR. J. PARKES'S PART IN THE STRUGGLE
FOR TIIE REFORM BILL.

The Birmingham Political Union was constituted on
the2sth January, 1830, at a Town's Meeting, Mr. Muntz
in the chair. Mr. Joseph Parkes attended that meeting,
and opposed the organization of the association. leis
speech, we see, stated that the object of the then local
leaders was an action on the currency; and that tfic
Marquis of Blandfoid's proposed Bill of Parliamentary
Reform, the Union programme, was not the proper creed
of the Reformers. Mr. Parkes also urged that " Politi-
cal clubs were generally composed of the extremes of
different parties, with different ends in view. Excepting
the Catholic Association, an exception to the general
rule, they did not succeed in their pretensions. They
were landmarks of division among common friends; they
were always perverted from their original intent; and
they had this general effect, that they tempted Govern_
merit to make laws which invariably abridged the liber-
ties these clubs intended to promote."
By the subsequent proceedings of the Birmingham
Reformers, we find that Mr. Parkes first took any part
in their proceedings in December, 1830 (after the French
Revolution and the Duke of Wellington's " unfortunate"
declaration against all Reform), and when on the 13th
of that month he moved the adoption of the Ballot by
resolution at a Town's Meeting. Mr. Parkes never ad-
vocated Parliamentary Reform as a demagogue. %\T
extract his words on that public occasion :
" He would now merely say, that they must not de-
ceive themselves, even on the value of Parliamentary
Reform. It was only a means for an end. It cannot
with a talisman cure at once, direct?y, accumulated
evils. A Reformed House of Commons would be only
the means of obtaining reformed and now institutions ;
of the difficulties of the country being met like the em-
barrassments of an honourable individual, boldly and
equitably ; of establishing municipal institutions for
local justice ; restoring and improvin. g corporations,
those dens of stagnant corruption ; of carrying on the
reformation of the Church, and of commutation of its
tithes ; in short, of fearless and general reforms."
In November, 1831, we find Mr. Parkes attending a
meeting of the Union Council, though not a member,
honestly and toldly contending against a plan of arming