The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8, 1848.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

The strung gales of %hl having prevented the arrival
of several vessels laden with grain, the show of English
Wheat samples in to-day's market was very limited;
while the quality of the supply was by no means first-
rate. As, however, the attendance of both London and
country buyers was small, the demand for all kinds of
Wheat of home produce was in a very sluggish state
at prices about equal to those paid on Monday. The
quantity of foreign Wheat on sale was not so extensive
as of late. Selected qualities of both red and white were
taken to a moderate extent at full prices. The middling
and out-of-condition samples were a mere drug. Very
little Barley was on show, yet the supply was quite
adequate to the demand. The maltsters purchased with
extreme caution, All kinds of Malt, the supply of
which was small, moved off heavily, but we have no de-
cline to notice in prices. Oats were tolerably steady at
fully late rates. In all other kinds of grain, as well as
Flour and Meal, exceedingly little business was trans-
acted.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley.
"I'.
Va. qrs. 2.680 qrs. 1,110 4ra.

Flour.
5130skt.

English ......
Irish. • • •• • • ••
Foreign ......

10/60 I 9.300
Malt. 1.620 qrs.
sivcrrsrxELD.

4,360

In to-day's market the supply of Beasts on offer was
very limited, the time of year considered, and of inferior
quality. The few prime Scots, &c., on sale were mostly
disposed of at prices fully equal to those paid on Monday
last, viz., from 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. per 81bs. In all other
breeds of beasts next to nothing was doing, at almost
nominal currencies—a total clearance of the supply not
being effected. There was an increase in the number of
Sheep, compared with those exhibited on this day se'n-
night. Generally speaking, the Mutton trade was in a
depressed state, at barely Saturday's prices. Calves—
the supply of which was limited—moved off steadily, at
fully late rates. In Pigs only a moderate business was
doing, at our quotations. Mulch Cows were selling at
from 14/. to 181. each, including their small calf.

Per Sibs. to si

Enithe offal.

s. d. to e. d
Inferior Beasts..... 2 8 2 10
.3econd quality • ... 3 0 3 4
Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 4 0

s. d. to s. d.
Second quality iitte 3 6 4 0
Coarse-woolledditto 4 1 4 6
SouthdownWether 4 8 I 0

Prime Scots ...... 4 2 4

Ditto eut of the wool 0 0 0 0

Large coarse Calves 3 6 4
Primesmall ditto .. 4 4 4

guekling Calves ..17 0 24
Inferior Sheep •••_._•...3 0..„3

Quarter old Pigs •.16 0 21 0
Lambs ..••.•..•. 0 0 0 0

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I
Sheep.
I Calves.
I Figs.
918 4,540 140 250
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. Pigs.
274 910 23
NEVITGATIi AND LEADENNALL.

These markets were very dull, at barely stationary
prices. The supplies were again extensive.

At per stone by the Carcase.

s. d. to s. 8. d. to s. d.
Ileef,inferior.• .• .• 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 3 2 3 4
middling ••.. 2 6 2 10 middling.. 3 6 3 8
primelarge .. 3 0 3 2 prime .... 3 10 4 4
prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, 1arge........ 3 6 4 4
Veal.• •• •• •• •• 3 4 4 4 small 4 6 4 8

The LOAD CHIEF BARON, interrupting the Learned
Counsel, said it appeared to him that there was no
case to go to the jury. It had been proved by the only
witness called, that for several years the plaintiff had
been in the habit of having his dividends paid into
Deacons to the credit of Knapp and Co., with whom
he banked, and it must, therefore, be taken that the
party really liable to the plaintiff was the Abingdon
house.

Mr. WATSON reminded his Lordship that the de-
fendant did not advise the Abingdon house of the re-
ceipt of the money till after it had stopped payment,
and said he distinctly remember( d that the late Lord
Chief Baron held in a similar case to this that the
plaintiff could recover.
The Lott') Cum, BARON said the plaintiff might have
recovered had there been but one single instance of the
transmission of money, but hero it was proved that for
a long time the plaintiff bad been in the habit of paying
his dividends into the defendants' bank, and was content
to hold Knapp and Co. liable for the due payment of the
amount. The course of business, therefore, in this case,
independently of the law bearing upon it, manifestly
showed that the plaintiff must be looked upon in the
light of a creditor of Knapp and Co., and not of the de-
fendants.

The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited.
Mr. WATSON intimated his intention of tendering a
bill of exceptions to his Lordship's ruling.
(Sittings in Banco.)
EHRENSPINGER 11. ANDERSON.

Mr. Baron PARKE gave the judgment of the Court in
this me, which arose out of a mercantile transaction
between Cruikshank, Melville, and Co., of London, and
Campbell, Dallas and Co., of Bombay, relative to the
sale of a quantity of cotton. Some time ago the London
house made a consignment of cotton to the Bombay
house. Subsequently the defendants succeeded to the
Bombay business, and they had applied the proceeds of
the cotton to paying some bills which Cruikshank, Mel-
ville, and Co. had drawn upon the Bombay house in re-
ference to an earlier transaction. There were two
questions involved in the case; firstly, whether the form
of action for money had and received was correct; and
secondly, whether under the circumstances such an
action could be sustained. The Court did not think it
necessary to decide the first point; and with regard to
the second it was clearly of opinion that no action could
lie, and therefore a nonsuit must be entered.
Large Hogs
Small Yorkers 4 i 4 8

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
THE SAPPHIRE.-CATTLIN V. HALL.
This running-down case was resumed at the sitting of
the Court.
Evidence was adduced on the part of the defendant to
show that no blame was attached to the captain or sailors
of the Sapphire in the collision which took place be-
tween that vessel and the Sons of the Thames.
Mr. Sergeant Wuaurra replied.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL summed up, and directed
the jury, who retired at half-past ono to consider their
verdict.
The jury returned into court at twenty minutes to
three, with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 9001.

SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
There was only one cause tried " Friske v. Tompkins,"
to recover the sum of 90/. 4s. for goods supplied under a
guarantee given by the defendant in favour of a person
named Saul. There was no defence, and the jury found
for the amount.

CAUTION TO JURORS,—In consequence of the non-
attendance of jurors, the Secondary directed the absen-
tees to be called on their summonses, and fined them 40s.
each. The foreman of the present jury apologised for
his previous absence, and pressed that the fine might not
be enforced by making a return to the Exchequer. The
Learned Secondary at first refused, but ultimately con-
sented, on the jurors attending on every jury till the full
time had expired. He was bound to do this, as it was
most unfair to many of the jurors on whom the heavy
duty fell.

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.)
IN RE PITT.
IMPORTANT JUDOMENT.—The bankrupt had carried
on business as an engineer, in York-place, Pen tonville,
and to day his Honour gave judgment on the question of
certificate.
His HONOUR said that one of the questions in the case,
whether, as there was no creditors' assignee appointed,
the Court had power to grant the certificate
at all, as no notice could be given to the as-
signee or his solicitor according to the Act. He
had fully considered the subject, which had also
had the consideration of the other Commis-
sioners, and he thought that he was not bound to refuse
the certificate on that ground, the official assignee
acting for the creditors, but on looking at all the facts
of the case, he did not think the certificate ought to be
granted without a suspension. The bankrupt owed
5001, and came to this court without assets, and simply
to get" whitewashed," and therefore was not deserving the
protection of the Court; he should, therefore, suspend
the certificate for six months from this date.
The bankrupt's solicitor applied for protection.
Mr. Commissioner SHEPPARD refused, observing that
the bankrupt must be punished, and six months' impri
sonment was not too long.

SURREY SESSIONS—(THIS DAY.)
Daniel Buckley, 30, was indicted for stealing a sove-
reign from the person of Stephen Flynn.

The robbery was committed a year ago, but the pri-
soner has eluded the vigilance of the police until a few
days since, when ho was apprehended for committing an
assault. It appeared that the prosecutor was in a public-
house in High-street, Southwark drinking with a female,
while there some conversation took place between him
and the latter, when he was suddenly hustled and robbed
of all his money. On his attempting to secure the pri-
soner, several of his associates surrounded him and al-
lowed him to escape. The prosecutor was quite certain
he was the man who robbed him, as he had an opportu-
nity of looking at him for some time.
In defence the prisoner contended that he was not in
the Borough on the night in question; but several po-
licemen proved otherwise, and the jury found him Guilty.
It being proved that' he was an old offender, the Court
sentenced him to seven years' transportation.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
Again a small attendance, and a very moderate amount
of business. Enough, however, was done to admit of a
quotation, the prices being in most cases the same that
have been current for some time past.
WOLVERHADIPTON STEEPLECHASE.
7 to 2 agst Mr. Moseley's Jerry—taken
The following are the acceptances:—Proceed, British
Yeoman, Victim, Peter Simple, Alfred, Prince George,
Equinox, Richard the First, Thurgarton, Khondooz,
Justice to England, Jerry, Venom, Verix, Profligate,
Vindictive, One-eyed Malian.
CHESTER CUP.
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—taken
2,000 to 40 agst Mr. Eddison's lletman Platoff colt—t
2,000 to 40 agst Lord Howth's Peep o'Day Boy—taken
:1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Merry's Limestone—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Howth's Eagle's Plume—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Lillie's Great Western—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Disney's Cawrouch—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Lowther's Glutton—taken
2,000 to 30 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou—taken
2,000 to 25 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken
1,060 to 10 agst Mr. Skerratt's Egret—taken
DERBY.
1,000 to 30 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade
1,000 to 25 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—taken
400 to 10 agst Mr. Bowes's The Knout—taken
400 to 10 agst Mr. Macdonnell's Saucy Dick—taken
2,000 to 40 agst Mr. Watt's Chatterer—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken
1,000 to 15 agst Mr. W. Jones's Magician—taken
The bet agst Magician, quoted from Mancheste'r,
should have been 3,000 to 45, not 3,000 to 15.
THE NEWMARKET ' CHAMPION COURSING
MEETING.—TIIURSDAY.
Four-mile Stables.
:The All-aged Stake.—Second Ties.
Amina beat Hotspur—Bramble beat Rocket—Ma-
gician beat Am-I-to- win—Roulette beat Dorou.
The Puppy Stakes.—Second Ties.
Locomotive beat Anticipation—Turquoise beat Bum-
per—Approbation beat Rex—Wicked Eye beat Tristram.
The Exning Stakes for Puppies.—First Ties.
Fairtoes beat Racer—Agnes ran a bye—Drift beat
Becky Sharp—Glentilt beat Abbess.

Robert Houdin resumes his entertainment at the
St. James's Theatre:early in the ensuing week. During
a stay of some weeks in Paris, he has composed or per.
fected a variety of new and most extraordinary experi-
ments.

WELSH MUSIC—A most interesting lecture on
this subject was given at the Westminster Literary and
Scientific Institution, last night (Thursday), by Mr.
Jones (Talhaiarn), assisted by Mr. Ellis Roberts, the
Welsh Harper, and Miss Ellen Lyon. Mr. Jones proved
the high antiquity and honourable character of the
minstrel's art in ancient Britain. He showed that the
science of harmony was cultivated at an early period;
and stimulated, in practice, by the construction of the
harp, with its triple row of strings, two rows being um.
sons. The character, so full of fire, sportiveness, and ten-
derness, of the Welsh airs was most tastefully exemplified
by Ellis Roberts, who, if he be a fair specimen of the
Welsh harper, proves that the artist who takes nature
for his model, may take little account of the rivalry of
mere tricks of execution. Mr. Roberts throws his whole
soul into the expression of his native melodies. Several
of the most effective of the Welsh airs were sung by Miss
Ellen Lyon, with great taste. The sprightly tune
"Llwyn Onn," better known as " Cease your funning,"
in the Beggar's Opera, and in which the legend of the
Rock of Ceder Idris is told, elicited an encore, as did
two other charming Welsh ditties sung by the same
young lady. And our old friend, " Poor Mary Ann,"
was sung with feeling and character by Miss Vaughan.
Mr. Jones gave the audience a specimen et the Penillion
singing, in which the singer is expected to extemporise
a stanza to any tune that is played. The lecture, with
its illustrations, was most unique and highly successful.
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.—Last evening M.
Guizot and the Chevalier Bunsen were admitted hono-
rary Fellows, on the introduction of the Marquis of
Northampton and Sir George Staunton. The President
(Viscount Mahon) was in the chair, and addressed the
illustrious foreigners with remarkable grace and pro-
priety, referring to the excellent labours of both in the
field of antiquities, and especially to the Chevalier Bun-
sen's late learned work on Egyptian History. M. Guizot
returned thanks with great energy of manner, promising
to attend the meetings of the society frequently; and the
Chevalier Bunsen expressed how happy he should be at
all times to contribute to the progrLss and prosperity of
the Eociety. They were received with lunch cheering.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, THURSDAY.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked as usual
about the grounds this morning.
The younger branches of the Royal Family took
their accustomed exercise.

The Earl de Grey arrived yesterday afternoon on a
visit to her Majesty.
The Countess of Gainsborough, Lady in Waiting
to her Majesty, leaves Osborne this afternoon.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge ar-
rived in town yesterday, from his residence at Kew,
and visited and inspected the exhibition of the Smith-
field Cattle Club.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at
Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square. The Ministers
present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chan-
cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,
Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Auck-
land, Sir John liobhouse, the Right Hon. H. Labou-
chere, Lord Campbell, and the Marquis of Clanricarde.
The Council sat two hours and a half.
Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General
to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt, had an interview with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Secretary at War had an interview with Lord
John Russell on Wednesday.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a general meeting yesterday, at their office, in White-
hall-place.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne ar-
rived at Lansdowne House on Wednesday, from their
seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
Earl Grey had a dinner party on Wednesday, at
his residence in Belgrave-square. The company in-
cluded Lord and Lady John Russell, the Earl of
Minto, Sir George and Lady Grey, Sir Charles and
Lady Mary Wood, and the Hon. H. Grey. The
Countess Grey had afterwards a select evening party.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DIORNING PAPERS OF THIS DIY.
TIMES—There is a fatality this year about emi-
grants and emigrant ships. We have scarcely recovered
the shock of the Ocean Monarch's loss, and now there
has come upon us another calamity more appalling, more
heartrending, more sickening than even that. There,
indeed, wherever they turned, the wretched creatures
who embarked a few hours before from the quay of
Liverpool so full of life and hope saw before them but
an election of two modes of destruction. Fire or water
—their option must be made. It seemed impossible to
match the horror of such a scene. The reports spoke of
mothers who held their little children aloft from the
fiery storm that raged around them, until life departed,
and with it hope; and then mother and child fell to-
gether from the burning wreck into the sweeping tide
below. All circumstances considered, we then thought
that in our memory nothing so sorrowful had occurred.
The burning of the Ocean Monarch is, however, outdone
now. In the cabin of the Londonderry steamer, on the
night of Friday last, there happened a scene so fearful,
that the mind instinctively recoils from dwelling, even for
a moment, upon human suffering in so intense and agoniz-
ing a form. If we here repeat the details of what occurred,
it is with no wish to harrow up the public feeling, nor
even of signalizing to public indignation the persons by
whose gross indiscretion and most criminal carelessness
the tragedy was brought about. It is rather with a view
that Government may be at length compelled by public
opinion to look more closely into the condition, not only
of emigrant, ships, but of all vessels licensed to convoy
passengers from one port to another throughout the
Unite Kingdom. What security have we now for the
skill and competence of the commander to whose care the
lives of so many human beings are for a time confided?
What precaution is taken that steamers such as the Lon-
donderry should convey no more passengers in each of
their compartments than their means of accommodation
will justify? Is a storm of such rare occurrence in the
Irish Channel, in the month of December, that the con-
tingency of the deck passengers being compelled to
take shelter below ought not to have entered into the
calculations of the proprietors and commanders of !
such vessels? These are general points, and are appli-
cable to the entire system of the coasting conveyance
of the three kingdoms. In the case of the Londonderry
we must, however, go further. It will be no answer
for Captain Johnstone to say that the steerage cabin
was but 18 feet long, 10 or 12 in width, and about 7
feet in height. We do not know yet with precision the
exact number of human beings ho caused to be crammed
into this space. We are only told that 70 were found
dead when the door was opened, and air was admitted
into their prison. A storm levels all distinctions. It
matters not much whether an ante-chamber to the tomb
be a state-cabin or a fore-cabin. If the weather were
so rough that danger really existed, was there no other
part of the vessel where a section of the emigrants
might have been sheltered until the decks were opened
to them once more? The state-cabin of the London-
derry was occupied by three persons on the fatal night
of Friday last; the steerage cabin by about 150. Why
not have let the poor creatures remain on deck? Had a
score of them been washed away, what would it,
by comparison, have signified? Of bullocks, twenty
only were killed ; of passengers, on board
the Londonderry, seventy perished, and by
a most frightful death. The Londonderry, it seems, left
Sligo about four o'clock on Friday afternoon. There
were on board her three cabin passengers, a number of
sheep and oxen, and about 150 emigrants who were to be
conveyed to Liverpool on their way to America. As the
night wore on the wind and sea rose. Most people who
have crossed the Irish Channel have seen at one time or
another the strange gaunt figures of the deck passengers
crouching about the deck wherever the) can find shelter
from the spray. This, no doubt, was the case at first on
board the Londonderry, but as the gale freshened they
' were probably found to be in the way of the working of
the ship. Captain Johnstone, in an evil moment, gave
the order that they should all be sent below. We must
here pause for a moment, and ask how could the mind
of that man be constituted who, knowing the
number of deck passengers on board his ship,
and being necessarily acquainted with the
extent of the accommodation forward, could
issue such an order ? How can such a mandate be ex-
plained away ? It may be accounted for, but never ex-
plained. There was no intention of deliberate murder,
but there was indifference, there was incompetence, there
was brutality. The sufferings of these poor people mat-
tered but little to the crow, so they could find room to
work their ship without interruption ; so with oaths and
blows they drove below the unfortunate beings, so many of
whom were never destined to see again the light of
day. And now the story becomes unintelligible. We
cannot, on the one hand, attribute to Captain John-
stone and his crew the deliberate intention of murder,
but, on the other, is it possible to conceive
upon any known principle of human action how a com-
manding officer in such a situation could issue an order
that the only aperture by which air could enter into
the fetid hole in which he had confined his passengers
should be hermetically sealed ? The companion
WAS closed, a tarpaulin was nailed over it, and further,
the entry was secured by ropes, so as to make
egress almost impossible. Captain Johnstone was afraid
of the water getting in! But did the water get in in
any quantity to endanger the safety of the vessel,
when the cabin door was at length opened? Had
the weather undergone any notable change between the
time of their imprisonment and the moment of the re-
lease of the survivors? We think not; first, because it
was not by the free act of the screw the wretched crea-
tures were at last released; and, secondly, because ne
very great interval could have elapsed, or not one would
have survived to tell the tale. Be this, however, as it
may, it needs but a slight effort of imagination to con-
ceive what must have passed in the shambles of the
Londonderry from the description of the scene which
met the eve of the mate, when at last a steerage pas-
senger had forced his way out, and communicated to him
the terrible intelligence:—
" The mate instantly became alarmed, and obtaining
a lantern went down to render assistance. Such, how-
ever, was the foul state of the air in the cabin, that the
light was immeliately extinguished. A second was ob-
tained, and it, too, was extinguished. At length, on the
tarpaulin being completely removed, and a free access of
air admitted, the real nature of the catastrophe exhibited
itself. There lay, in heaps, the living, the d) ing, and
the dead, one frightful mass of mingled agony and death
—a spectacle enough to appal the stoutest heart. Men,
women, and children were huddled together, blackened
with suffocation, distorted by convulsions, bruised and
bleeding from the desperate struggle fur existence which
preceded the moment when exhausted nature resigned
the strife. After some time the living were separated
from the dead, and it was then found that the latter
amounted to nearly one-half of the entire number."
Captain Johnstone appears at length to have been
made aware that he had become a main actor in a scene
of the most horrible atrocity within the memory of man.
But he was uncerta'n what to do. He put his steamer
into Lough Foyle, but it was twelve hours before he
could make up his mind to pass up to the quay at Derry.
Lest it should be supposed that the former extract might
convey but nn impression received amidst horror and
confusion, here is how wo find the condition of the
steerage cabin described when entered on Sunday morn-
ing by the mayor and magistrates of Decry:—
"The scene on entering the steerage of the steamer
was perhaps as awful a spectacle as could be witnessed.
Seventy-two dead bodies of men, women, and children
lay piled indiscriminately over each other, four deep, all
presenting the ghastly appearance of persons who had
died in the agonies of suffocation; very many of them
covered with the blood which had gushed from the mouth
and nose, or had flowed from the wounds inflicted by
the trampling of nail-studded brogues, and by the frantic
violence of those who struggled for escape. For it was
but tco evident that, in that struggle, the poor creatures
had torn the clothes from off each other's backs, and
even the flesh from each other's limbs."

We have nothing, more to add to this brief but tragic
tale save that the coroner's jury have found Alexander
Johnstone, captain; Richard Hughes, first mate; Ninian
Crawford, second mate, of the Londonderry, guilty of
manslaughter, and have expressed in the strongest terms
their abhorrence of the inhuman conduct of the other
seamen on board throughout this unhappy transaction.
We will not anticipate any defence these persons may
advance at their trial. But upon such an occasion as
this we must remind the public that their lives are con-
fided every day to the ignorance and indifference of per-
sons of Captain Johnstone's class. Suppose a storm had
come on in good earnest, and a question had arisen of
saving even the chief•cabin passengers, or of the crew
making good their escape, which course would Captain
Johnstone and his men have adopted ? Even if we can-
not secure proper persons in command, at any rate for
the future let some proportion be observed between the
passengers and the accommodation and shelter the vessel
can aftbrd.

POST.—Many persons have felt and expressed some
surprise that Mr. Barkly, M.P. for Leominster, a
thoroughgoing Peelite, should have found such favour
in the sight of Earl Grey and the Colonial•office as to
have been appointed to a Colonial Governorship. That
surprise will not be lessened when we inform them that
Sir Robert Peel's second son is already in the field, or in
the town rather, to secure for himself the seat in the
House of Commons which the appointment of Mr.
Barkly will make vacant. This is, no doubt, a very
cunning arrangement, and well calculated to impress the
public with a sense of the high-minded sincerity with
which this young gentleman's father accepted the new
system of the Reform Act as one which should thence.
forward form a part of the British Constitution. Mr.
Faederick Peel has addressed the worthy and indepen-
dent electors of the borough of Leominster, and says
flint he has been " induced respectfully to offer them
his services as their representative in Parliament."
We do not marvel that it should have required some
inducement to cause a modest young man, like Mr.
F. Peel, to offer himself for the representation of
Leominster, especially as he proceeds to state, at the
very outset, a very sufficient reason why he has no
business to intrude himself upon the worthy and inde-
pendent electors of that town. " I have not," he says,
" the advantage of local connexion with your town or
neighbourhood, and my claim upon your confidence
must therefore mainly rest upon your general approval
of the course which it is my intention, if returned to
Parliament, to pursue." Nov, we are far from saying
that, under the existing circumstances of the representa-
irti;:)cuyngwias
man,w
representa-
tive system of this country,. .any man desirous of serving
his country in l'irliatnent is noattipmeirtfteinegdytiaiits,li‘bveerdtye.itty,,.
ask the favour ot• a seat frutbitih:at,et.:l:ity:
1117 that has
st
no i
fair or c c'
reasonablenncl °n
who
has no public character—no public services to appeal to
—who is as destitute of any general as of any local
claim to the favour and consideration of a constitu-
ency, should thrust himself forward as Mr. F. Peel does
at Leominster: lie would not dare to do so except ho
had expectations bused upon some underhand ar-
rausement7some plotting in the dark—which is not a
whit more in harmony with open and independent eke-

tion than was the old system of nomination by great
proprietors. Mr. F. Peel but the other day completed
his twenty-fifth year, and, of course, our readers will ex-
pect to hear something of the enthusiasm of youth which
tinctures his first political address. We shall, therefore,
give them a specimen of this " flow of his youthful
emotion;" but we confess that, judging from this com-
position, Mr. Frederick Peel requires something more
than " the accomplishment of verse," in order to make
him a poet. He says—
" I am deeply impressed with the necessity of a search-
ing inquiry into every branch of our expenditure, and
of every retrenchment which may be compatible with
the public safety—with the adequate protection of our
widely-extended commercial interests—and with the firm
maintenance of the national credit.

" The necessity of a wise economy is the more urgent,
in my opinion, because I shall feel it incumbent upon
me to resist any attempt (if such be made) to re-impose
taxation upon those articles of foreign import which con-
stitute
the materials on which our manufacturing indus-
try is employed, or which enter into the subsistence, or
administer to the comfort of the great mass of the com-
munity, unless it should be deemed prudent, on more
extensive experience of the effects of free-trade measures,
to adopt a different line of policy, a result, however,
which I do not anticipate."
Such is the glowing and patriotic effusion by which a
young gentleman of five-and-twenty seeks to move the
hearts of the independent electors of Leominster in his
favour. The elaborate profession of devotedness to the
principles of free trade, with the significant proviso
thereto appended, is laughably characteristic of the pa-
rental instruction under which this address was, no doubt,
penned. Mr.-Frederick Peel will support free trade, un-
less he find it expedient not to support it! Who will
deny that this new political aspirant is a chip of the old
block? Upon the whole, it seems to us that the Parlia-
mentary representation of Leominster has become the
subject of very discreditable political huckstering. We
are not surprised to find the Peel people mixed up in
this, but we beg the public to observe that it is the Whig
Government which affords the opportunity, by making a
placenaan of a Peelite.