The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In your paper of Thursday evening, a paragraph ap-
pears in rather a prominent situation, and conspicuously
headed " Preparations for Disfranchising the Freemen of
York." It purports to come from a correspondent, who states,
that measures are in preparation for disfranchising the Freemen
of this city, measures which he insinuates, originate with the
Tories ; and the name of Mr. Lowther is also most offensively
introduced into this communication, as if he were connected
with the measures which your correspondent says are in
progress.
As far as the Tories are concerned, there is not one word
of truth in your correspondent's communication ; which is only
part of a system of deception and falsehood, commenced by a
correspondent of the York Herald of Saturday last. It is,
however, true, that a petition, or rather two, have been hawked
about is this city for signatures, praying the House of Com-
mons to disfranchise the Freemen. Those petitions, instead of
originating with-the Tories, have been drawn up, and pro-
moted by Liberals; and one of them was concocted by par-
ties, who won an election a few years ago entirely by dealing
largely in promises to the Freemen, the nonfulfillment of
which have put them in bad odour with that body ; for which
reason, they now seek in a secret and cowardly manner to pro-
cure the disfranchisement of men who have more indepen-
dence and political honesty than themselves ; and who, the
Tories think, have as much right to retain their franchise, as
the proudest Peer in the land has to exorcise his hereditary
privilege.
The attempt to throw the odium of their own measure upon
their opponents, is equally dishonourable and dishonest; and
the real ground for their proceeding is to be found in the fact
that, so popular is Mr. Lowther, from his conduct on all
points, since he was elected for York, and so increasingly po.
pular also are Conservative principles among the Freemen that
the Whig radicals find they have no chance of returning a
Member in future, unless they can, by some such means as
these, either disfranchise a large number of Conservative
voters, or excite an unfounded and unjust prejudice against
the Conservatives or their representative.
I send you my name and address, which you are at liberty
to mention to any ono who requires your authority for this
letter,
And remain yours, &c.,
A CONSERVATIVE ELECTOR OF YORK.
York, June, 6, 1835.

. Yesterday and the preceding day, Finchley, High-
gate, and the northern parts of the metropolis, were visited by
a severe thunder-storm.

RESPITE OF THE CONVICT WlLLlANlS.—Yes-
terday evening a respite of the execution of Thomas Williams,
convicted of rape at the March Session, and who was ordered
to suffer death this morning, arrived at Newgate, but its term
only extends to fourteen days. This morning, as early as five
o'clock, crowds of the holiday people had assembled in the
Old Bailey, in order to witness the expected spectacle, and
although they saw there was no preparation for the event, they
remained fixed. Before eight o'clock the concourse was im-
mense, and, we are sorry to state, composed in a great measure
of well-dressed females. In order to divert their attention, it
was stated that the culprit had been removed over to Horse-
monger-lane to suffer, and hundreds flocked thither. Another
report was that the execution would not take place until noon,
so that throughout the morning large groups collected toge-
ther. It is thought that the pending investigation will termi-
nate in a final respite.

SUICIDE IN HYDE-PARK.--About three o'clock
on Saturday afternoon a man of respectable appearance shot
himself in Hyde-Park. The unfortunate individual had, for
some time previously, been observed sitting in a large tree,
close to the foot-path leading from Cumberland-gate to
the foot-barracks, reading in a prayer-book, and sing-
Ing hymns. Immediately on the report of the pistol being
heard, several persons ran to the spot, when they discovered
him lying across the roots of a tree, a pistol-shot having en-
tered ender his right ear and come out at the top of his head,
splashing the blood and brains of the unfortunate man all over
the tree. The bearer was immediately procured from the
Receiving-house of the Humane Society, on the banks of the
Serpentine, and he was conveyed on it to St. George's Hos-
pital. On searching his person, nothing was found that could
give any clue as to his connections ; nor Nvt.i,s, any money, ex-
cept fourpence, found in his pockets, it was reported that a
betting-book was found in the Park near the spot, by which, it
would appear, the owner had lost to the amount of several
thousand pounds at the late Epsom races ; but whether it lop-
longed to the deceased cannot yet be known.