The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-28 00:00:00

MINSTER

aad success with which he has hitherto, with .the aid, of hc_
nest hearts, foiled him in every such attempt.
The Corporation of Carnarvon has hitherto been a close
Corporation, but has been in the hands of the Reformers.
The New Municipal Constitution Act has led to Mr.
Assheton Smith making one other oppressive and reckles
attempt, through his agents and dependents, to obtain a step-
pia f,-stone to that political influence, of Which we as 'yet
have been able to deprive him, by constituting; the Town
Council of his creatures and adherents. .

The Reforming party, wishful to carry the purposes Of
the Municipal Reform Act into full- and complete
were anxious that the Town Council should be compoised
of influential men of all parties, such as were most inte-
rested in promoting the real interests of the borough. For
end all party 'feeling was wished to be put an end to,
and an accommodation was proposed. Lord Newborougl,
as a Nobleman posiessed of cons:Affable property in and
near
.the borough, and of independent principles, on solici-
tation, came forward in the capacity of. mediator, but on the
principle that the independence of the burgesses should be re-
served sacred, and no political patron's views and purposes
encouraged. His Lordship's friendly and disinterested inter-
ference was refused, and that in the most contemptuous man-
ner, by the Tory party, at the instigation of Mr. Assheton
Smith's agents ; and that, but not to then, did he with, his
usual decision of character, declare unreservedly for the
Reform party, emphatically saying, " that as the party
anxious for peace and fair pla could not have it they-'must
be prepared for war." 'The Reformers immediately had. his
cordial co-operation, and all the benefit that could result
from his active interference ' • and which was the more ef-
fective from the sympathy of political and personal feeling
between them and his Lordship.
This step, so unexye2ted by the Tories, who had at least
calculated on his Lordship's neutrality, excited their bitterest
rancour, and the.' immediately assailed him with the most
ribald abuse; and•none were more active in levelling at him
the most pointed and undeserved insults, than the agents
and personal depend nits of Mr. Assheton Smith.
In the contest the Tories have resorted, more than ever, to
all the fierceness of party rancour, and of coercion, inti-
midation and misrepresentation : the effects of the latter
seem even to have reached you, or you would not have so
assailed tha adherents of the Liberal party for setting them-
selves against the unconstitutional views of as inveterate an
oligarch as any the' Carlton Club can furnish.

That contest has ended in the complete triumph of the Re-
formers. The Constitution, the law, and independence, have
again defeated Toryism. The battle was- nobly fought and
hardly won. Mr. Assheton placed the issue on his enmity to
Doctor Owen Owen Roberts, thus making the affair personal
as well as political ; and his rank, his wealth, and his power,
have shrunk before the honesty and public principle of the
latter. The Reformers have at least two-thirds of the
Town Council, and probably the whole : the Alderman
and Mayor will be in their interest also as a matter of course.
With respect to Lord Newborough's interference, I defy
any one with truth to charge him 'with having acted impro-
perly, unconstitutionally, oppressively, or coercively. !laving
taken an ardent interest in the contest, he has conducted him-
self as a freeman among freemen ; and in strict consistency
with Reform principles, has used no influence but such as his
personal character and his political independence have

'given him.
His esteemed coadjutor, Colonel Macgregor, alas! has not
lived to sec another triumph of the cause he so dearly loved.
A sincere and devoted Reformer, who had stood bythe Reform
cause in the most trying times. and one who (to use his own
expressive language) had '° rallied the Reformers against their
opponents, like his own Highland clans—shoulder to shoul-
der ;"—he entered into this contest with all his noble and elm-
racteristiC chivalry : he, one of the most intrepid of soldiers,
and who had braved death in one hundred battles, met him in
this bloodless struggle—he was suddenly cut off when in the
bosom of his family, and is gone to his rest, leaving the re-
membrance of his virtues to animate us in future struggles.
No man had more of the amor patrice—none by the Reformers
of North .Wales will be more regretted.
I trust to your love of fair play towards the Reform cause.
to insert this vindication in your next Journal,

Your's, &c.,
A CARNARVON REFORMER.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There were moderate arrivals of most kinds of Grain to our mar-
ket-last week, and a fair return of Flour. The trade throughout
the week showed very little inclination to improve, and the buyers
purchased sparingly. This morning the fresh supply is not large,
and the trade dull. For the finest samples of Wheat the factors:
fully obtained last Monday's terms; other kinds are very difficult to
quit. Good Malting Barley has met a steady sale, but thin par-
cels are lower in value. Beans continue unvaried. Pease as last
noted. The Oat trade is not so lively as of late, but prices have
not declined. Flour, fair sale, at the currency of last week.

ritICES ON El
~.363. 40s.
~.408. 4tis.
345.
~.358.
...34x.39..
...315. 275.
..,325. 42a.
...40s.
...30s. 355.

Wheat, Red (old)
-White (old)
- Red X 1835)
-- Fine
Supertke
-Wh to (1835)
--- Fine
-- Superfine
--Foreign free
Rye

A RD OF sarr.
Beans, Small (new)
- (old)
- Tick (new) 3,ls 32
(old) 355:375.
- Harrow (new) 335.34 -
- (old) • aSs.4os.
Brank 3os. 345,
Oats, Feed
--
New 175.211
- Poland '22s '25,

Barley .
- Grinding
Malting
Malt
- Fine New..
Pease, Grey, New
- Maple New
Wli•te
----- Boilers

..21s 235.
...21s. 265.
...445. 503.
.50s.
...30: 32i.
~.32.5. 344.
...30i.
31s.

--Now 0..245.
- Potatoe, '4; 42/14.
-- New ..... 242 i, :241.
- Scotch 42, ;s. 283.
- Irish 16;. I7A.2>s.
Flour Town i)or sack) 35,.
- Soconds "l4, 35%
- North Count! y . c2B,
Bran