The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-21 00:00:00

petty was given to the Corporation t give to their friends ?
, " Mr. Starmer—lt is bona fide the property of the
Corporation, and I think they have a right to it. My
idea is that they have a right to do what they like with
their own property."
Mr. STARMER forgets that if his predecessors
had had the same notions of duty towards the
town, there would long ago have been no pro-
perty to deal with, and that 999 years must have
passed before future STARMERS could have
played the game into which he appears to have
entered with so much zest. It is but fair to
add, before we close this article, that some of
the corporators expressed themselves greatly
scandalised at this open confession of their
brother dilenquent. Mr. Alderman WILLI-
MOTT thought it necessary to say that he dis-
approved of Mr. STARMER'S evidence, and
was confident that he was never actuated by
any such motives as those avowed by him.
Unluckily speaking of a fine he had himself paid
on the renewal of a corporation lease, he said,
that it was " too much for an old corporator,''
an odd sort of expression to he used by a man
professing to make no difference between corpo-
rators and strangers. We must close from
lack of space, not lack of matter, for we might
fill columns with similar details of rascality
which only do not excite unmixed indignation
because we feel that the reign of corruption is
now over—that the people will shortly have the
control of the property which belongs to them,
and that place hunting Mayors, and gorman-
dizing Aldermen, will not be able to use for
their own benefit funds intended for the ad-
vancement of public objects. It is this thought
enables us to laugh where otherwise we should
only feel disgust and indignation.

Another public Meeting for the repeal of the
Union and abolition of church cess, took place
on Wednesday last at the St. James's parish
school-room, Dublin. Messrs. O'CONNELL
and FERGUS O'CONNOR were both present,
and each tried to out-do the other in the
fury of his advocacy of Repeal. DANIEL
was the more energetic, but FERGUS was the
more vituperative. DANIEL talked of the "poor,
paltry creatures" about the Castle ; FERGUS
of the " intellectual cripples" in the House
of Lords. Each fractured his metaphor,
each knocked down his man, DANIEL flooring
KINGSTON, and FERGUS, SPRING RICE. Un-
willing, of course, to be behind-hand, when such
fine, rollicking, Donnybrook-fair play was going
forward among " the boys," " honest JACK
LAWLESS," sprung forward, and with a generous
ambition to outdo his two great Repeal rivals,
remarked with singular polish of phrase that Mr.
HILL's statement was " a base and deliberate
falsehood—a downright lie," adding with a pith
and energy that must have carried dismay to the
hearts of DANIEL and FERGUS, that "if he
(Mr. HILL) informed him of his author, he
would retract the offensive expression, and ask
pardon for using it ; but were he a Member of
Parliament, he should fog him from one end
of the House to the other, until he surrendered
the name of his informant." What a pity JACK
is not an M.P. ! Nothing else of moment took
place at this Meeting, except the discovery made
by a Gentleman named O'KEEFE; to the effect,
that O'CONNELL was a Cicero ; SHEIL, an
Hortensius : and STEELE a Cato !

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, DEC. 20.-During last night it blew very
heavy from S. W. to W. S. W., with severe squalls, and
has continued all day from W. S. W.—Arrived the
Lightning, from Smyrna. Remain, with the Jupiter,
the Lord William Bentinck, the Ocean, and the Exmouth,
with an American, from the westward.

PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 20.—1 t has blown trernendouey
all list night and to day from S. W. to W., and several
of the outward bound drove during the night. 7p, m.—
The gale continues from W.

Dzc. 19.—A strong gale from S. S. W.,
with heavy gales.—Arrived the Eliza, Pile, from Prince
Edward's Islands.

FALMOUTH, Disc. 19.—A violent gale all last night
and to-day, from S. W. to W. S. W.—Arrived the Eve-
line, Friend, from Messina.

PENZANCE, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Fountain, Ainslie,
from Messina.

BRISTOL, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Janetta, —, from
Lisbon.

STANGATE CREEK, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Castilian
Maid, Scott, from Albea.

TORBAY, DEC. I9.—Arrived off port the Aurora,
Swaffim from Bilhoa.

DARTMOUTH, DEC. 19.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
Sparrow, from Lishon—sailed Bth lust.

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Sandbach, Birp.
ham, from Demerara ; C. R. C., Braid, from Messina ;
and William IV., from Cadiz.

NEWRY, DE% 19.—Arrived the Agnes, Malcolm, from
St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

DUBLIN, DEC. 19.—Arrived the Ward, Ennis, from
St. Andrews.

WATERFORD, DEC. 18.—Arrived the Sarah Maria
Booth, from London.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK.
We are without any foreign arrivals, with the excep-
tion of a Lisbon mail of the 7th instant, which is an
old date.