The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-01 00:00:00

SOUTH DEVON ELECTION.

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PLYMOUTH, Nov. 29.—Sir Ralph Lopes has accepted
the invitation of the electors, and has now placed him-
self at the service of the county. The Hon. Baronet ex-
pres,es his determination to oppose Catholic endowment,
and he then proceeds to say—Although I feel that this
subject is the one at the present moment most vitally
affecting both our interests and our feelings, yet there
are other subjects on which the electors ought to under-
stand the views and opinions of any gentleman invited
to become their representative. I will, therefore,
shortly state to you my opinion that protection should
be given to all branches of native industry as fully
as, under the circumstances in which the country
is now placed, it is possible to preserve that prin-
ciple; and that I am strongly impressed with the neces-
sity, in the present financially-embarrassed state of the
country, of enforcing the most rigid economy in all
branches of the public service; accompanied by a re-
duction of our establishments as far as is consistent with
maintaining them on a footing becoming the honour and
dignity of this great country. The Honourable Baronet
also says that he participates in the general desire that
the administration of the poor-law should be watched
and considered, with a View, if possible, of introducing
such improvements as may render it less burdensome
to the rate-payers, without interfering with the due
provision for the calls of humanity, from which none of
us would desire to shrink. Mr. Kekewich awaits a re-
quisition, without which he has stated that he shall not
come forward.

HUN GE R FORD MA. RKET
COMPANY.
The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
company was held yesterday at the offices in Villiers-
street, Strand, for the purpose of receiving the directors'
report and other business.
The chair was taken at one o'clock by Martin Stutely,
who briefly addressed the meeting upon the im-
proved condition of the market property.
The report stated that a most satisfactory arrange-
ment hid at length been made with the Charing-cross
Bridge Company for
,terminating all legal disputes be-
tween the two bodies. The report also adverted to the
extensive improvements now making in the fish market,
and congratulated the proprietors on the fact that the
profits of the year warranted an increased dividend on
the pres,nt occasion. The report was adopted nem. con.
A dividend of 21. 10s. per share was afterwards de-
clared, when a vote of thanks to the chairman and direc-
tors was carried unanimously, and the meeting separated
apparently
highly gratified with the improved condition
and prospects of the company.

ALLEGED FASHIONABLE SWINDLING.---A person
has been apprehended in Edinburgh, on a charge of
forgery, who during the est few months mixed freely
in the higher circles of society there, and lived in a
fashionable and expensive style at one of the principal
hotels in the city. It appears that he had assumed high
military rank, and had extensively patronised various
establishments, chiefly clothiers and mercers, from whom
he obtained a large supply of articles, at first by paying
cash down for the goods he purchased; but having suc-
ceeded in establishing his credit, he then transacted
business upon a more enlarged scale, and suddenly left
the city without settling the numerous claims against
him. The immediate cause of his abrupt departure was
however, the discovery of a forgery of which he had been
guilty, for a limited sum, the person whose name he em-
ployed being at present on service in India. He was
traced to Hull, and having been apprehended there
through a telegraphic message transmitted thither by the
superintendent of police here, he has been conveyed to
the gaol in Edinburgh.
ENDOWMENT OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIEST-
nooD.—A large meeting of Dissenting clergymen and
laymen was held in Glasgow, on Tuesday, for the purpose
of opposing the proposed endowment of the Roman
Catholic priesthood, and also in opposition to existing
endowments of every description. Mr. A. llaetie Ism
for the city, was called to the chair. A series of r!esolu-
dens were proposed by the Rev. Drs. Eadie, Wardlaw, ,
in lengthened
Taylor, Anderson, and other gentlemep
eo-
speeches, in which they commented in the strongest
terms upon the opinions of the Church of Rome. It
lotions were unanimously passed against endowments of
every kind, but especially against that likely to br, pro-
post d for the support of the Roman Catholic priests in
Ireland. It was resolved that a memorial founded on
these resolutions should be transmitted to Government.
WAR WITH CHlNA.—Constant war with China is
inevitable, unless we are permanently established at
Chusan, from whence a single war-steamer could in a
few hours stop the whole internal navigation of the
empire. The imperial grain ships (6,000) must pass near
it on their way to Pekin; their cargoes are valued at
24,000,000 taels (5,000,000/. sterling). It
requires no
great foresight to predict whether this would nut be more
efficacious than blowing up a few mat-forts, or sending
our brave soldiers from liong-Eong, which is at the
extremity of u line of seacoast of 2,000 miles.— China,
Political, Commercial, and Social.