The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-29 00:00:00

APRIL 29, 1848.

AI?TER_DINNER -CONVERSATIO.'
(From Punch.)
Parli
cOLONEL SIBBY an Erglish Gentleman and Member of
SIB. ,
MIL BENJ.kmtN Dizzy, ditto dlitO.
Ma. Y.. DOODLE, a Gentleman from Philadelphia,.
CU.FEEE, a Delegate.

Gentivmun from Philadelphia--That• Cider we had at
(!!!).:ler was carnation good, but d— your pickles, Colonel.
‘‘ y, the stones oa 'em 's fit to choke a body.
Colonel —Cider Pickles The eider was champagne,
an and the pickles are olives, Mr. Yankee. (Aside.) What
jy rtiorant sort of a gun it is !
. Benjamin—I never could understand, Mr. Coffee,
why an oily
po.bute-e,,.tre.retsih,aould have been selected as an
Worn
age, and a bittur fruit
s ungainly trunk, a scanty fa -
sai•(iilQlsgrow ; havel .
seen
it,lt grows where no other trees
Sibby, lining the bleak hill
of my native Syrovi hills, and speckling the mangy
mound.; which they call 'bills in Attica. B
vates oil yard, at his roto, a
wherern culti-
place in Provence—a comfertable
box enough
he and I have speared ti boar many,
iamtaigmeer.v. Brrthite3theeaGil Greeks were were tools in their choice of
gives shale nor truit fit to speak tree
peaceful, which neither
wise. which only knows hos‘hsprtetao vv:ihfo;a;s" call an owl
is a beast unfit for day.lig in the dark, and
. I eace is a palm tree,
Wisdom the sun.
Colonel—What the deuce ar y driving at, about
suns, palm trees, owli, arid emblems
and give MrinBCuoffferaegele?ss.Pass
round th claret, Dizzy,
Cal/ea—Thank ye, Colonel ; I stickt tot; la'ort . And
eavesuare.regtly;
yours is uncommon rich and stron
service to you, gents. I suppose not o
as we ad, and winouevery day?
fish and soup dinner,
Colonel—Ha, ha ! Here's Mrs. Cuffeee's
Cififee—Thank ye, gents,
shc, health.
gone out engaged
professioaally, with Miss Martin, or I'm sure she would
like to ave ad her legs under this mahogany,-asharnmetds
the use of keeping the cloth on it ? You aiu
on it, Colonel, are you ?
Coionti—Gaod tor washing, you know. Ha, ha
had him there. How are you off for soap ?--Has your
mother sold her maugle ? Good for trade, don't you see.
Mr. Dizzy—We wrap up everything in this country,
my worthy Coffee. We put a wig on. my Lord Chan-
(Aloes head as we do powder on the pate of that ser-
vant at whom I saw you winking at dinner. We call a
man in,,the House an honourable gentleman ; we dish
up a bishop in an apron. We go to Court dressed in
absurd old fashioned bags and buckles. We are as
lavish of symbols as the Papists, whom we are always
abusing for idol worship. And we grovel in old-world
ceremonies and superstitions of which we are too stupid
to :.ee the meaniug. the fully, ar the beauty. Do you
apprehend me, Coffee ?
• Cuffee—l'll take a back hand at the Port—hey,
neighbour ?
American Gentleman (shrinking back)—l wish that
man of colour would know his place
Mr. Benjamin—You complain that the cloth is left
for dessert ; why was it on at dinner ? The Colonel'.
soup would just have been as good on a deal.table.
Sibby—But where would Mrs. Cuffee and her mangle
have been ? No table-cloth, no washerwoman.
Cuff:e—Washin and luxuries be blowed, I say. What
I want is that every man should have a bellyful, arid
(here's my health to you, Colonel) that there should be
no superfluities. I say we ave ad victuals and drink
enough to support twenty men. Look at this table and
all this your plate. This year gilt fork (don't be afraid,
I ain't a going to prig it, Colonel) would keep a family
for a week. You've got a dozen of 'em. Why should
you ? I once ad two teaspoons marked with aC. ; but
that was in appier times, and they are separated now.
Why are you to are dozens ? What eve you done for
'em ? You toil not, neither do you spin. You ain't a
Solomon in all your glory, certainly. You are no better
than me; why should you be better hoff ? And not you
only, but those that is higher than you. The time has
come for doing away with these superfluities, and that's
the great Principles of Freedom. Your heal-h, Citizen.
Mr. Dizzy—lt our friend, the Colonel, had no security
for his spoons, those articles, which are indeed very ele-
gant, would lose half their worth. My horse way be
worth twenty pounds in London now; but if I acn certain
that the Government will take possession of him to mount
the cavalry, my tenure in the brute becomes hazardous,
and his value instantly drops. And suppose you were to
make a general distribution of all the spoons in the
kingdom—what would happen next ? He would ex-
change his silver for bread; that is, the man who had the
most bread would come into possession of the most
spoons, as now. , Would you commence the process over
again? You propose an absurdity, Mr. Cuffee. No :
our friend and host has as good a right to his forks us to
his teeth; and may he long use both in the discussion of
his meals.
Mr. Culfee—The law of man and nature • is—that a
moan should live, and dust he is as good as his neighbour.
No honest Chartist wants your rights, he 'only wants his
own. The Aristocracy have managed matters for us so
badly: have made themselves so rich and us so poor, by
managing for us, that now we're determined to manage
for ourselves. We can't be worse—
Mr. Dizzy—Yes, I say you can.
Mr. Cuffee—l say, again, we can't be worse: and
that we are the stromte.t, and mean to hava it. We'll
come down in the might of our millions, and say we
will be heard—we will be represented—we will be fed—
or if not—

Mr. Dizzy—That's your Convention talk, Cuffee—
don't talk to us in that way.
Sibby—No, no, you may wish it, and you may wish
you may get it; but since the 10th, I think that cock
won't fight—Ay, my boy? I say, wasn't that a glorious
,ight, Mr. Doodle, to see a people rally round their
Queen in the way that the citizens did?
Gentleman from P.—Rally round the Queen 1 You
would Lve had to go to Osborne to do that,
Cuffee (with a satirical air)—Where his Royal High-
ness, the Prince, was a taking care of her Majesty.
Dizzy—Fish ! The flag. staff was here, on Bucking.
ham Palace arch, with the crown on the top—What
matter that the flag was down? My dear sir, Monarchy
is but a symbol, by which we represent Union, Order,
and Property.
Sibby—Our Glorious Consitution, dammy!
Dizzy—And we can rally round a stick just as well as
a living sovereign. The times are gone by when kings
turned out with white panachea, and tilted against their
enemies like so many dragoons. Would' you have had
her Majesty, on a side saddle, haranguing the police, and
his Royal Highness the Prince carrying a baton? •
Cuffee—He is a Field-Marshal, ain't he?
Siboy—Ha, ha! Had him there, Cuffee!
Dizzy—His Royal Highness is, so to speak, only an
august ceremony. He is an attendant upon the Ark of
Monarchy; we put that out of danger when commotions
menace us.
Cuffee—lf a stick would do as well as a sovereign,
why not have one? It don't cost so much—it never
dies. It might be kept in a box lined with ermine, and
have a stamp at the end to sign the warrants. And
it might be done for less than four hundred thousand a
year.
Gentleman from P.—We can do it for less in our
country—our President, Mr. Polk, for instance.
Dizzy—Your President, Mr. Polk, cost you a Mexican
war; how many millions of dollars is that? If in this
country we were to have an electicn every year, a strug-
gle for the President's chair every three years, men
taking advantage of the excitement of the day, and out-
bidding each other on the
Popular cry, we should lose in
mere money ten times as much as the Sovereign costs
Cuff .
us. Look over the water to your beloved France, Mr.
ee
Cuffee—Veeve la liberty.—(Drinks
Dizzy—They Lave already spent two.) hundred millions
of Our money in getting rid of old Ulysses. What is
the value of the daily produce of a nation? When Mr.
Cuff,* is professionally occupied, he earns—how much
shall we say ?
coffee—gay five bob ada
and here's your health, y, you wont be far wrong;
Dizzy— tie loses thirty shillings every week, then.
that he does not work; and either of free will or neces•
sity spends it. If he does not work himself,
if be pre-
vents others frOm working, if he frightens customers, our
worthy friend ties the hands of labour, and stops the
growth of bread.
Cutlet —You mean by all these grand phrases that
there will be a convulsion, during which the labour of
the country will stop temporary ?—of course, there will then see how much better we shall be after, and how
much freer to work! Why, give us our six pints (and have
'eln we will) and this country becomes a. regular
Butropia.
The Colonel—Explain—Mr. Cuffee—explain!
Mr. Cutfee—l will, gents, I will; but the bottle's
empty, and, if you please, John shall bring another, so
as not to interrupt me.—(The Colonel rings for more
wine.)

_:TOCKBRIDGE AGRICULTURAL MEETING AND FAT
CATTLE SILOW.—SALISBURY, FRlDAY.—Yesterday the
customary exhibition of prize cattle, sheep, &c., took
place at Stockbridge, in a field near to the Grosvenor
Arms Hotel, and was fully equal in extent and quality
of competing animals to that of any preceding anniver-
sary. Notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather, there being a very heavy hail storm about noon,
the attendance was unusually large. The Hampshire
Down rains might be said to excel any of that far-famed
breed brought forward for competition since the'estab-
liahment of the society. C. E. Rombold, Esq., carried
off the prize against Messrs. W. Saunders, W. Edney,
(second prize). The cows and heifers shown by Sir
Thomas Baring, Bart., R. Etwall, Esq., J. Sadler, E: q.,
Mr. W. Dean, W. Busigny, Esq., &c., were all fine ani-
mals. The annual dinner was attended by about two
hundred persons. In the absence of C. Baring Wall,
Esq., M. 1?,, the chair was taken by Charles Edney, Esq.,
of Whitohurch. W. Busigny, Esq., of Stockbridge,
vice-chairman.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, APRIL 28.—The
weather has been, on the whole, more favourable this
week for the crops. Our arrivals are moderate of allor
articles. We experienced a fair and steady demand f
wheat, 1111 d prices are Is. per quarter higher.
ng as
Barley
is
scarce, and brings full rates. Oats and shelling
before. Beans are held more firmly, and fine hand par-
cels Is. per quarter dearer. Malt attracts
to be
ifttoteond:
tion, and there are now few cheap setu_e7, IA
We quote an advance of fully Is. Per7.'l.l3leu'ans4:l2l4s.; peas,
Wheat, 8,151 ; barley,- 838; data,' 567;
100; tares, 30; shelling, 20; Ina"'

[PRICE on.

.
EiTHRON IZATION of the . ARCH-
•- . BISHOP OF .CANTERBURY.
• CANTERBURY,. FRIDAY.—This day being appointed
for the entbronization of the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the gentry of Kent began to pour into the city at au
early hour, it being known that the new Primate proposed
to !word in person, and 'not to be enthroued by pr.,.xy
The doors of the cathedral were opened before ten
e'clortk, and the epaciou• choir. nearly 200 feet long, was
tilled silliest immedian ly by those who had secured
tickets of afmission. We observed present the
Marchioness of Conyngharit, Lord A. Conyegham, M.P ,
the Earl and Countesa Delawarr, Lord and Lady Sondes,
Sir B. Bridges, Mr. Deedes, M.P., Mr. Rice, Mr. S. R.
Lushington, Mr. B. Hope, Colonel Finch, tile High
Sheriff, and some members of nearly all the great county
families. About eleven o'clock the procession entered
the nave, headed by the choristers, saw were singing
ths 148:h, 149th, and 150th Pse.lons, and the Hallelujah
chorus; producing a singularly solemn effect in
the choir, as the Hallelujahs from the voices of
singers not yet seen wandered among the forest of
pillars, and came roliing in louder and louder, whilst
the train approached the gate of the choir. The Arch-
bishop was attended by the Dean of the province (the
Bishop of Lichfield, as proxy for the Bishop of London),
the Sub-Dean (the Bishop of Winchester), the Dean and
Vice-Dean, and other officers of the Cathedral church,
and about 200 clergymen. His Grace having passed up
the choir, and taken his seat in a chair placed on the
north side of the communion-table, morning service was
begun. At the end of the first lessen. the Archdeacon
went down froin his stall and conducted the Archbishop
to his throne, on the south side of the choir, opposite to
the pulpit. The mandate for the enthronizition was
then produced by the Vic sr-General, Dr. Burnaby, and
read by the Auditor, and the Archdeacon said:—"l,
James Croft, Master of Arts, Archdeacon of Canterbury
do induct, install, and enthrone you, the. Most Rev.
Father in God John Bird Sumner, Doctor in Divinity,
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, into the archbishopric
and archiepiscopal dignity of the see of Canterbury, and
Into the real, actual, and corporal possession of the same,
ewimt.h all and singular the rights, dignities, honours, pre-
prfizseneerronrrcefehs,foarieldvEnore.appurtenances
Morning
nthereof, and the Lord
your. going out and your coming in, from this
table, just outsideowthP
the
in-
duction was repeated;
service then proceeded; and on its conclusion
Placed in front of the communion-
chair,
whichArchbishopisriwas conducted to the ancient marble
Dean's stall, at the raanidkhis Grace then passed to the
,:viertiitern end of the choir, and was
Ile ,e the same form of
and having real and actual possession
rights I:ossession of
and token of his taking
placed in that seat,
terhury, and of all th
and privileges thereof."
and a prayer for the
file Te Deum was next sure the see of Can
aving worthily fulatillpeily to rule this
Archbishop was read---" thatn'ii
od his course, at
ge.f„righteousness
Ged in his office, and long live 'la,' fuithfully serve
The
Church, and that, h
the latter day hem iy receive the crown
laid up by the Lord the righteous Jud
bishop pronounced the blessing, and the Arch-
proceedings
the choir thus terminated. His Grace went then into in
Chapter-house, where he was placed in the chief seat
the
a
and took the oath " to maintain the rights and libertiesset
of this Church, and to observe the approved custoass 1
thereof, avid, as 'far as it concerned him, to cause the
same to be observed by others, so far as such customs
are not repugnant to God's word, the laws, statutes, pro.
visions, and ordinances of the realm, or to her Majesty's
prerogative, and not otherwise." The Archdeacon,
Deans, and other authorities, having next severally
" promised to pay canonical obedience to his Grace," an
act of the proceedings was signed, and the assembly was
dismissed by the Dean. This closed the whole cere •
mony, and the congregation then dispersed.

ST. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK.
Yesterday a meeting of the select vestry of St. Ste-
phen's, Walbrook, was held in Alderman Gibb's private
residence, which has resulted in again throwing the
parish into all its former excitement.
Pursuant to the announcement of the select vestry,
four of that body, via, Mr. Alderman Gibbs, Mr. Alex-
ander, Mr. Whittaker, and Mr. Lucking, with Mr.
Pearce, the clerk or legal adviser, entered the vestry-
room of the parish There were also in the room Messrs.
Hock and Fiighr, the parishioners' churchwardens, Mr.
Cunliffe, the banker, Mr. Unwin, Mr. Harrison, Mr.
Murrell, Mr. Kendrick, Mr. Crosbie, the vestry clerk,
and many other influential gentlemen of the parish.
After a brief pause,
Mr. ALEXANDER observed, that there were persons
present who were not members of the select vestry, and
he, therefore, begged of them to withdraw.
At this period of the proceedings the Rev. Rector
entered the room, when
Mr. ALEXANDER addressed him, and drew his atten-
tion to the circumstance that there were persons present
who were not of the select vestry; at the same time
begging him to request those parties to retire, as chair-
man in his right of rector.
Br. CROLY said, the only person he saw there whom
the parish recognised as a select vestryman vas Mr.
Alderman Gibbs; but he understood that they met there
to bring about an amicable arrangement of their affairs.
That was the nature of the communication sent to him.
The parishioners joined in the feeling, and were anxious
to promote the close of the struggle.
Mr. ALEXANDER then moved that the select vestry do
adjourn to Mr. Alderman Gibbs's private residence, and
the four of the tody approving of the resolution took
up their hats, and, with Mr. Pearce, lett the church
and proceeded to the Alderman's residence in Walbrook,
where we understand they went through their business.
A very warm and spirited discussion here ensued
amongst the parishioners as to the manner the select
vestry had treated them.
Dr. CROLY observed that it was a very unhappy
result for the parish, and he was deeply afraid they
woulu fail in getting any satisfactory arrangement
from the gentlemen terming themselves select vestry-
men.

Several gentlemen suggested the laying of the whole
facts before her Majesty's Government, which might
induce them to support a Bill in their (the parishioners')
behalf.
Mr. CROSBIE fancied that an application to Parlia-
ment would have little effect in the present position of
their proceedings.
Dr. CROLY thought if the case was introduced in an
able manner it might have some beneficial effect. He
would suggest' s, meeting of the united parishes to con-
sider the subject.
Mr. ROCK then joined in the general opinion, and re-
marked that he would seek an audience with Lord John
Russell or Sir G. Grey relative to the grievances they
laboured under.

A conversation having ensued as to the locus standi of
the three colleagues of the.alderman in the select vt.stry,
in the course of which Dr. Croly loudly protested
against Mr. Lucking, who is a butcher living nett door
to the alderman, being put down as one of the " se-
lect," a general meeting of the parishioners was deter-
mined on. .

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and 11th of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 22d day of April, 1848,
1831311 DZPAITMINT.

Notes 155ned........ 26,621.920

Z.
Government debt • • 11,015,100
Other securities .. . • 2,944.900
Gold coin and bullion 10,750,852
Sliver bullion ..... • 1,871,061

£26.621,920

M. MARSHALL 128,421,920
, Chief cashier.
Dated the 27th day of April, 1845.

RANKING DEPARTMENT.
Z.

PropVetors' capital. • 14,553,000
Beat • . 3,40,092
Public &wilts (in-

Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Dl-

vid'end accounts).. 2,321,338
Other deposits •• •• •• 11,435,742
Seven day and other

bills ••••• • • • •• • • 1,021,500

432,736,672

Dated the 27th day of April, It

Government securi-
Z.
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity) .. 12,268,630
Nother securities •• • • 12,001,566
otes ••••••• • • • • • • • 7,60,055
Gold and silver Coin..
606,4g1

„l £32,736,672
a' MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

INSOLVENT MEbrought in by
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Messh;"Miti Moffitt anaduLtoatatheErNtorn.---,
eAntißtleidll
" A Bill to enforce and render more effectual the laws
relating to the qualification of Members to sit in the
House of Commons, and to provide for the exclusion
therefrom of persons who shall be proved to be unable
or unwilling to satisfy their just debts," proposes to
enact that after the passing of this Act no person shall
be qualified to serve as a Member of the House of Com-
mons if he shall be proved to have suffered any judg-
ment, decree, rule, or order, for the payment of money,
to remain unsatisfied, or not sufficiently secured, for the
space of six months, unless such judgment shall affect
him solely as a trustee or an executor. The complaints
of unsatisfied creditors against Members of Parliament
are to be referred to a Select Committee of the House of
Commons, and if a report be presented to the Hume
unfavourable to the sitting Member complained .of,
it
will be received as final ; the sitting Member will be
declared disqualified, and a new writ issued for the elec-
tion of a More "honourable" Member in his room. The
re,
preamble of the Bill affirms the
the dignity and independence of
by some such enactment. ntheceelissoituyse ofof"
Commons
pservinF
3uicinu OF A YOUNG LADY.— On Thursday
evening last an inquest was held by Mr. Thomas Higgs,
at the Crown and Horse Shoe, Chase Side, Enfield, on
the body of Miss Sarah Freeman, aged 27, the daughter
of a highly respectable farmer, residing on the Hadley-
road.l t appeared from the evidence, that for the last
an attempt
fortnight the deceased had laboured under excessive
lowness of spirits • and ill-health. Mr. J. Asbury, of
Enfield, surgeon, prescribed for her, and fearful
from
as usual, and
her desponding state, that she might make
on her lite, a watch was kept on her actions,
her chamber,
nesday morning she partook of breakfast On Wed-
tsohe was found
about nine o'clock she went up stairs to
Verdict---"
and in about half an hour afterward
f the
eoubnd in her throat
i th b weltering
100 d w'
sin
s
lying on the floor at the foot o
blood, which was flowing from
three inches in length. A eraraz co.Terededw,
found near.her right hand •
Temporary 'in-
sanity."l