The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-02 00:00:00

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.

(FRost OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT )
JANUARY 1. —Arrived the ship Crescent, John Domaille,
fro n Rio Janeiro to Cowes, for orders ; with coffee.
The blrqiie Rhode Island, C. Burgess, from Virginia to
Cowes, for orders ; cargo tobacco.
The Bremen barque, Now York, John Wachton, from
New York ; cargo tobacco, oil and rum, for Bremen.
Two other Bremen barques coming up.
The frost, which has been very severe in the Isle of
Wight, since the night of the 14th of December, broke
up on the evening of the 30th, and has been followed by
a fine thaw without rain, which continues, (Jan. 1), the
barometer being at 29.80, wind, West.

THE CHARTISTS AT NORWICH.

Three of the Chartists, who have of late been most con-
spicuous, namely, Messrs. Dover, Hewitt, and Pain,
gaited this week upon the Mayor to present a memorial
which they stated was signed by 140 rate-paying in-
habitants, requesting the use of St. Andrew's Hall 'or the
purpose of meeting their friends, and " publicly discussing
the propriety of memorializing her Majesty for the imme-
diate liberation of all political offenders." The Cltief
Magistrate, not considering that the Hall was required by
ti.e memorialists for a legitimate object, declined comply.
ing with their request, and we are sure the respectable
portion of our fellow-citizens will approve of Mr. Edward
Willett's determination that the venerable old Hall shall
not be again disgraced by such scenes as have been enacted
under the guidance of the Chartists.

The Chartists are parading the city this morning with
flags and banners, and a band of music, the procession being
partly in mourning-. They are perhaps 400 or 500 strong,
a great portion of whom are boys and women. The fol-
lowing notice has been circulated in the city for the last
few s, which marks the course of the procession :
" Attend I attend I ! attend ! the meeting on New
Year's day, and show your sympathy for the true sons of
liberty. The procession will start at half-past nine o'clock
in the morning from St. Paul's Plain, and proceed by Pea-
cock-street, St. Edmund's, &e. to the Market-place, where
he friends of the incarcerated victims will lay before you the
circumstances by which they are surrounded. Gentlemen
from distant parts of England are expected to address
you."

At the time of going to press they had arrived :n the
Mark, t-place, where they are haranguing eac72 other. Mr.
Dover is amongst the leaders, and there are said to be
some btrangers arrived, many of whom, with flags and
banners, are from Yarrnouth.—Norwich Gazette.

THE HON. COL. MOLYNEUX

AND THE POLICE.

In consequence of the complaint of Colonel Molyneux
to the Magistrates of Norwich, that the policema►: in that
borough did not salute the officers in her Majesty's s:?rvlce,
the Magistrates thought right to forward the following
letter to the Home Office :

Norwich, 21st December, 1940.
My Lord,—Colonel Molyneux, of the Bth Regiment of
Hussars, now quartered in the Barracks of this city, has
complained to the Mayor and Magistrates that the men of
the police force in the city do not salute, or cap, the mili-
tary officers in the same manner as private• in the army,
and alleges that the metropolitan police force, and the men
of the rural police force, have instructions to salute on all
occasions in the manner required by the Colonel.
The Mayor and Magistrates are desirous of testifying
all courtesy to the officers of the army, but the police force
are, in virtue of the Municipal Corporations Act, under
the management of the Watch Committee, who think that
no formal order or regulation should be entered on the
books of the police force, making it punishable in the men
not to salute the military, but that they should be in-
formed it is expected they will behave respectfully to all
classes.

I am directed by the Mayor and Magistrates to ask the
favour of your Lordship to inform them whether it is a re-
gulation required by the Home Office, that the police con-
stables should salute the officers cf the army (being igno-
rant that such a rule existed), in order that they may if
necessary communicate with the Watch Committee on
the subject.
The Colonel states that unless the men are ordered to
salute, he shall make a report thereof to his superiors at
the Horse Guards.

I have the honour to be, your Lordship's most obedien
servant, _ _ _

JOHN R. STAFF, Town Cle,k.
To the Right lion. the Marquis of Normanby, &c. &c.
To this application the following answer has been re.

ccived :

Whitehall, Dec. 26, 1840.

Sir—l am directed by the Marquis of Normanby to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your letter of the 21st inst., and,
i►i reply to the inquiry of the Mayor and Magistrates of
Norwich, to inform you, that the Metropolitan Police con-
stables have no orders to salute military officers, and that
it is not the practice of that force to do so.
I am also to inform you, that no such order has been
made by the Secretary of State with respect to the officers
appointed under the County Constables Act, or the Me.
tropolitan Pulice Act.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
S. M. PIIILLIPS.
John R. Staff, E.A., Town Clerk, Norwich.
The Nlayor instantly forwarded a copy to Colonel Mo
lyneux.

EXPULSION OF ANOTHER MA-

NUFACTURING PROCESS.

Those of our readers who are connected with the cotton
trade are aware, that in order to render cotton yarn fit for
the process of wearing, after it has been made into the
warp, it is indispensable that it should be boiled, to expel
any latent impurity, and afterwards immersed in a solution
of the finest flour in a fermented state—a process which is
called sizing.
The foreign merchants have been accustomed to take
from this market large quantities of sized warps, ready for
the weaver to put into his loom ; but latterly the sizing
process has been cut off, the foreign manufacturers having
discovered that there was a large saving betwixt the use
of the bread taxed flour of this country and the untaxed
flour of the Continent.

Warps arc, therefore, now exported in an unsized state.
Thus the English food taxers, after having almost expelled
the weaving trade, and given the few remaining hand-loom
weavers the boon of dear bread and low wages, and thrown
this starved and distressed body of respectable artisans
upon the Legislature for compassionate inquiry, have now
proceeded to deprive the sizers of employment also, leav-
ing in our hands the present profitless trade of spinning,
until they shall became able to take up that also, the only
advantages now accruing from this branch of business being
the brokerages upon buying and selling, and the profits to
our carrying conveyances across the country from the Mer-
sey to the Humber; but we must except the unrighteous
and,perhap;, transient benefit derived by our monopol;zing
landowners, in their exactions from, and almost total ab-
sorptions of, the wages of labour.
Some idea may be formed of the amount of gain to the
foreign manufacturer by avoiding the use of our Corn law
flour, !rein the fact that, in one small concern alone, which
has been established upon the Continent for the purpose of
sizing English warps, an avowed saving has thus been
effected of up cards of 1,000/. per vear.—Labourers !
Spinners ! look out !—Anti.Corh-law

CHARTIST MEE'fING IN BIR-
MINGHAM.

BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY.--.The Birmingham Chartists
have celebrated the first day of the new year by making a
" dlrnonstration" at Holloway Head, for the purpose of
adopting, a petition to Parliament in favour of Frost,
Junes, and Williams.

There was a large posse of police in readiness, should
their services be required during the day ; and a good
many of them were recognised dressed in plain clothes
amongst the crowd. There was nothing, however, to jus-
tify the extensive preparations made by the Government
Commissioner, who has had little to do beyond the catch-
ing of a pickpocket during the last twelve months, and
who, doubtless, looked forward with riot a little anxiety
for an opportunity of displaying his zeal and the utility of
the force.

The meeting consisted of about one thousand persons,
men, women, and children, and they conducted them
selves well throughout the day.

M ANA-14 EST E ti—DEc. 31.

POOR LAW UNION —The voting papers for the election
of Guardians were distributed on Monday, and collected
)esterday. Although between 200 and 300 nominations
had been sent in, and the number of Guardians to be elected
was only 13, there was no serious opposition, the bulk of
the respectable rate-payers acceding to the recommenda-
tion of the Churchwardens and Overseers, to vote for a list
comprising gentlemen of all parties. There is no doubt
those gentlemen are elected, but the result will not he
finally known till to-morrow or Saturday.

PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON BONA
PARTE TO LORD DUDLEY STUART.

The following letter addressed by Prince Louis Na-
pol• nto Lord Dudley C. Stuart will probably interest
our readers. It records an act of generosity on the
Prince's part, and shows a disposition to alleviate as much
as lays in his power the misery which his ambition Lai
entailed upon one of his humblest and most ignorant
followers. It proves also that Louis Philippe is equal')
generous, as he allows his prisoner to correspond with
his friends, and even to make use of his pecuniary re.
sources :

My dear Lord Dudley —Knoxing the interest which
you feel for the Poles, I request that you will be my sn-
terpreter with the person named V. W., living in Dukc..
street, St. James's, and whose leg was amputated in con-
sequence of wounds received at Boulogne. I sent him
provisionally one thousand francs ; but I should wish to
grant him a mall pension until he finds himself in a Atua
non to get employment. I
beg you to state, therefore,
how I am to transmit the money to him, and whether he
has really forfeited his allowance as a refugee. In both
cases say what I ought to give him,
" I ask your pardon, my dear Lord Dudley, for the
trouble I give you, and I beg that you will receive the as-
surance of my distinguished sentiments.
(Signed) " NAPOLEON LOUIS B,"

MALTA, DEC. 17.—The Britannia, 120,
Captain Drake, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir P. A.
Omrnanney, and the Howe, 12(), Captain Sir W. 0. Pell,
arrived off the great harbour last night from England.
Owing to a strong head-wind they did not enter the har-
bour till this morning. P. S.—lbrahim Paella, I hear, h d
arrived with his army (reported 30,000 or 40,000 strong)
at Goza, so it is clear Mehemet Ali sent orders for evacu-
ating Syria before Napier's Convention,