The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

four or perhaps six sugar canes; but they were always
singing, and were merry. Now, what is the case with
me ? I am a slave to the classes above me. I work
hard and cannot get food for myself and children, and I
have no one to own me or to care for me. Every one
with whom I deal is endeavouring to take all he can from
me: they have all an interest in cheating and not in
feeding me; and I therefore lie down on my pillow with
an empty stomach. I am, therefore, whipped in the belly,
while the black slave was only beaten on his fat back.
HEIVETT.—I know a man who has only had fire
dinners since last Easter, and you cannot produce a
parson in that state. Several others said they could find
many in similar distress, and if Mr. Croft would go
round with them they would take him to them.
HE wErr.—And while your Church has an income of
ten millions a year.
The Rev. C. MORSE said, that many of the working
clergy had not so much as a well-paid mechanic--501.
a year.
IlgwErr.—The greater the shame on those who grasp
the property.
The Rev. C. Monstc —lf you had a living would
you give it to me, or if I had a living should I give it
to you ?
HEwErr—You are all paid better than a working man,
and you are only a set of idlers. Did you not call us
ignorant ?—(No.) Hewett then complained that but
30,0001. was granted for the purposes of education,
while 70,0001. was voted for building the Queen's stables.
The parties then left the Hall, the Chartists assuring
them they would come again and have a look at them in
the evening.
In consequence of the interruption in the morning, it
was announced that the evening meeting would not take
place.

I - CLARKE, who was taken to the Hall, was brought up
before Captain Money, and was charged by the Rer.
Mr. Chapman with combining with others to disturb the
meeting.
Captain MONEY remarked that he had done so, and
Clarke asked him if that was the information he had
received, or his own opinion, for he had not heard it so
stated. Captain Money said it certainly was his own
opinion. Clarke replied that he was not correct in his
surmisings, for he went there alone, and had not con-
sulted any one. He was voted, he believed, unanimously
into the Chair at a public meeting in St. Andrew's Hall,
and all lie did was to presume to take it, when he was
given into custody by the Rev. Gentleman, and taken
away by the police ; and he was ready to answer any
charge. There was no evidence against him, and he was
discharged on giving his word to appear to answer any
charge when called upon ; and he returned
.back to the
Hall, where the meeting had just- broken up, and where
'he was cordially received and warmly cheered by the
Chartists assembled on St. Andrew's Plain.

PALMERSTON'S PROSODY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR-My dog Belcher ran two dead heats against a
bitch of the name of Hermione. I want to know how
the word is to be called—for at the wrangle which I al-
ways has—one gent. calls the bitch Hermyown—another
kind of a dog-stealing sort of a chap says Hermine ;
but the Londoner as owned the same called her Ermione.
There was an Irishman there, who kept screeching,
Arrah, my honey ;" but whether he meant anything
or not, I don't know. I thinks myself the Cockney
must be right, as I see my Lord calls Ilione, Hillionnee.
So I guess, whenever you can't get one in of your own,
you clips the H.—Your's, Sir, A FARMER.

Died, Sept. 14, at Cuckfield, Sussex, Mrs. De
Poggi, in her 97th year. Mrs. De Poggi was a descend-
ant of the ancient family of Lewis, of Yorkshire, now
merged into that of the Earl of Huntingdon. She had
known intimately Sir Joshua Reynolds, Garrick, Hannah
More, Paoli, the Corsican patriot, &c. ; and her nume-
rous and pleasing anecdotes of these and other cele-
brated characters will long be remembered by those
who had the privilege of hearing their recital.—Here-
ford Times.

LONDON MOBS IN THE LAST CENTURY.
—ln the Annual Register for 1765 it is emphatically
stated in the notice of the election of Stephen Theodore
Jansen, Esq., to the Chamberlainship of the City of Lon-
•don, that " ho was the first Sheriff for a long time that
ventured to see justice executed at Tyburn even in cases
that seemed to require it most, without the aid of a
military force." In 1763 we learn from the work that
"as soon as the execution of several criminals, con-
demned at last session at the Old Bailey, was over at Ty
burn, the body of Cornelius Landers, executed for steal-
ing about 501. out of the house of Mrs. White, in Lamb-
street, Spitalfields, was carried and laid before her door;
where, great numbers of people assembling, they at last
grew so outrageous that a guard of soldiers was sent
for to stop their proceedings, notwithstanding which
they forced open the door, fetched out all the salmon-tubs,
most of the household furniture, piled them on a heap and
set fire to them, and, to prevent the guard from extin-
guishing the flames, pelted them off with stones, and
would not disperse till the whole was consumed." Next
year a similar scene was enacted :—" The criminal,
condemned for returning from transportation at this ses-
sions, and afterwards executed, addressed himself to the
populace at Tyburn, and told them he could wish they
would carry his body, and lay it at the door of Mr.
Parker, a butcher in the Minories, who, it seems, was
the principal evidence against him ; which being ac.
cordingly done, the mob behaved so riotously before the
man's house that it was no easy matter to disperse them."
In lighter matter the easily assembled and excited com-
monality of London seems to have been animated with a
reckless self-willed spirit of contradiction. Nothing
delighted it so much as to take the punishment of a pick-
pocket or similar delinquent into its own hands, and duck
the offender ; except, peiliN3s, to rescue its victim from
the police if they chanced in some moment of unwonted
vigilance to lay hold of him, and offended at the inter-
ference of the officers iof regular justice with those of
irregular justice, to allow him to escape.—. Knight's Pic-
torial History of England.
A letter from Hamburgh, in the Constitutionnel,
relates the following traits of benevolence on the part of
M. Solomon Heine, the Jewish banker of that city. The
Lutheran church of the parish in which M. Heine resides
being much out of repair, it was resolved to raise a sub-
scription to repair it, and M. Heine was waited upon by
the three churchwardens, and requested to open the sub-
scription list with his name. M. Heine, after having
inquired what the expense of repairing the church would
be, and having been informed that it would amount to
30,000 current'marcs (about 44,000 fr.) declined heading
the list, but told the churchwardens to call upon the most
wealthy of their parishioners of their own religion, and
said he would give the same amount as that per-
son, -whatever it might be. The churchwardens
called upon M. de Bauer, who put down his name
for 22,000 fr., being half the estimated expense, and,
returning to M. Heine, that gentleman imme-
diately gave them an order upon his cashier for
the same amount, thus completing at once the entire
sum which was wanted. The other instance of gene-
rosity in M. Heine is the following :—A few days ago,
before the date of the letter from which we take this
account, a tradesman of great respectability called upon
M. Heine, and entreated him to lend him 33,000 bank
mares (45,000 fr.) to take up a bill which was due,
adding, that, if the bill were to be dishonoured, it
would be his ruin, and offering to prove to M. Heine, by
his book, that lie was really in the position which he
described, but wanted only time to meet his engage-
ments. The banker went home with him, and, having
examined his books, remonstrated mildly with him for
having over-speculated, but immediately afterwards
gave to him a paper, folded as a letter, saying, " This
is all I can do for you at present." He then took his
leave hastily. When he was gone, the borrower un-
folded the paper, and found his own acceptance for the
33,000 mares, with the receipt for the mares at the back.
THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN ; OR,
THE FIELDS AND THE WOODS.—" Though unlike any
other novel with which we aro acquainted," observes the
Naval and Military Gazette, " this work is a novel,
nevertheless, and a most lively and entertaining one, full
of character and humour, and still more full of those
true and vivid pictures of rural life with which the fields
and the woods abound." " The Old English Gentleman,"
in short, fills a hiatus hitherto left in our novel literature.
This is a sporting romance ; and there is no sport, per-
taining to the fields, the woods, or even the flood, that
has not its chapter, describing its characteristic features
and its appropriate incidents and pecularities ; nor is
there one which does not give birth to a racy and original
character; from the huntsman, the whipper-in, the game-
keeper, the trapper, the poacher, and all their several
auxiliaries, up ,to the " Old English Gentleman" himself,
the spring and presiding genius of all.
NAVAL STATIONS.—
There is a report that it
is the intention of the Admiralty to replace the Admirals
on the South American and Cape stations as they for-
merly were ; that is to say, that Admiral Thomas is to
be stationed at Rio Janeiro, and Sir Edward King to
have the Cape and African' command as before. Lord
John Hay is to go into the Pacific with a blue broad
pennant in the Warspite. It has long been deemed
proper and right that the West India command should
be divided above all others, as it is far too large for any
one flag officer, extending as it does d
latitude There ought to be a C overommofifty -
dore to- egres of
e intend our our South Australian colonies and New Zealapnd,
&c., more particularly so as the French have a force in
those seas.—. Navel and Military Gazette.
Two evenings ago, a man, by his seditious vo-
ciferations, collected a crowd round him in the rue Saint
Martin, and led his auditors to the rue Vertbois and the
rue Saint Appoline, continuing his senseless exclama-
tions, but without being able to excite any sympathy in
his auditors. At length a police-officer came up, and,
without any opposition, seized the agitator, and took him
before a Commissary. He proved to be an old offender,
who had a sort of mania for rendering himself notorious,
and had before been in custody for similar proceedings.
The insurrection in Navarre will probably delay
Prince Francisco de Paulo's visit to Madrid.
" The Duke of Orleans," says the Temps, ,1 in
turning from Chantilly stopped at Champlatreux, and
took breakfast with Count Mole, and made an engage-
ment to dine with him three days after. It is said that
another ex-President of the Council is invited tomeettie
Prince Royal. This invitation gives ground for belief
that the Prince is willing to bring about a reconciliation
between two heads of Cabinets, who have long
rivals. We confess we do not anticipate any great re
been
place."fromais meeting, and even doubt much if it will take
SEIZURES OF SLAVERS..—Capt .A. Ward, of
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Mr. Hatch,
afternoon, informed of the
passengerwfrhoi
Head yesterdayfrom
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nedamtoe this port!
Express, that when the ship left St. Helena, there were
seven vessels, with seven hundred slaves, at that place,
prizes to her Britannic Majesay's cruizers. The last of
the seven arrived on the 2d of Alarcb, and had thrown
overboard sixty dead slaves in sight of St. Lielena.—Ja-
ktaica Paper.