The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-22 00:00:00

DUDLEY, OCT. 20.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE S UN..
SIR,-Yesterday afternoon Mr. Packington, a Tory
candidate for the eastern division of the county, made
his public entry into this town, attended by above one
hundred horsemen, consisting of Magistrates and yeo•
manry cavalry, not in uniform. At Stourbridge, in their
way hither, the Stourbridge Magistrates, as it can be
proved, ordered the horsemen to gallop over the people,
who had assembled in great numbers.
Opposite the hotel at Dudley, which is the head.
quarters of the Tory faction, the Liberals placed two
waggons, in which they might have an opportunity of in-
terrogating the candidate and addressing the populace.
These waggons were filled with people, but no sooner had
the cavalcade reached the hotel, with the Magistrates at
their head, than they made ;:n aFsault, having prepared
horses to draw the waggons away ! Resistance necessarily
followed, and a scene ensued of which the result would
have been more disastrous than the Manchester massacre,
had these infuriated horsemen been armed. They charged
the unoffending people with the ferocity of savages, beat-
ing them most unmercifully with sticks, and trampling
them down, even upon the footways, in all directions.
They drove off the waggons with the utmost difficulty,
and to the imminent d anger of the lives of hundreds. The
waggons were rescued and brought back, and the battle
was continued with increased fury. All this time the
Magistrates continued indffirent spectators ; and al-
though one of the cavalcade, an official person, who did
not lift up his arm against the people, and who has ex-
pressed himself ashamed of the conduct of his party,
went to a Magistrate and told him, that if he would re-
strain the horsemen he would insure instant tranquillity;
yet this Magistrate would do nothing to prevent the mis-
chief, which on all sides was terrific.
I was at a house as an impartial witness, and finding
that the Justices of the Peace did not do their duty, and
dreading the most awful consequences, I went myself to
the barracks to implore the aid of the military; but not
an officer was to be found, though the men told the their
pieces were loaded ready for action.
In the evening several gentlemen of the town and my-
self attended, with a highly respectable solicitor, at the
hotel, where the Magistrates were sitting, to give bail for
two lads who had been taken into custody; but the Ma-
gistrates would make no answer to our application, and
we were all, by brute force, ejected, by the party with
whom the Magistrates are identified, out of the hotel, and
my son was most severely beaten with a heavy stick, by a
certain scoundrel who is called a gentleman.
This affair, Sir, demands au immediate and strict in-
vestigation ; for to carry it before the Magistrates would
be altogether fruitless ; and to prevent the people from
taking the law into their own hands, I trust Ministers will
see the necessity of immediate interference. If the peace
of this part of the country is to be preserved, we must
have very different Magistrates from what we have at pre-
sent.

A meeting of the inhabitants will take place on Tuesday,
relative to this business, and the result will doubtless be
communicated to you.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
THOMAS PARKIN.
One life was lost,and many persons were severelywounded.

The Havre Journal of Thursday asserts that
a large armed ship had arrived at Oporto, to reinforce
SARTOMUS'S squadron--an acquisition which would place
him on an equality with his opponents; he must wait,
however, the arrival of the sixty-gun ship from the river
Thames, before he can attack with effect. AltanEL's
squadron was in Vigo harbour on the 3d inst. together
with a Bri.zilian ship, which they had detained, and SAII••
TORIUS was blockading the whole of them. MicuEL's
Admiral complained much of the inconvenience of an eight
days' quarantine, which the Spanish Governor had im-
posed on him—interfering, as he affirmed it did, with his
obtaining supplies and repairing his damages. He had
saluted the Spanish flag with seventeen guns when he an-
chored, but the compliment was not returned. It is asserted
in the same Journal that the Miguelites had retreated from
the city of Oporto, having suffered so much in the attack
on St. Michael's day, that they could not maintain their
ground. The army of the South hid gone to Oliveira,
and that of the North to Arantante. It is also said, but
we doubt the truth of it, that Admiral PARACER had landed
an English force at Villa Nova, to protect the British pro-
petty there, and that, subsequent to the retreat of the
Aliguelites, Don PEDRO'S troops made a sortie on the few
of their opponents who remained, and put them to the
rout.—Hampshire Telegraph.

The Lord Wellington, now called the
" Don Pedro," arrived at Cherbourg, after being be-
calmed for two days off that place, on Friday. She has
proved herself a capital sailer. The William, laden with
powder and military stores, arrived at that port on the
same day.
On Saturday the King of the Netherlands
and Lord Wellington steamers sailed from the river with
300 seamen and 60 marines, to he put on board the Wel-
lington at Cherbourg, and, finally, for Oporto.

✓The damage done to the ,Soho, by the late
accidental fire, appears to have been greatly over-rated, as
it was all repaired in less than twelve hours. One of (if
not the very) largest steamers in England sailed on Satur-
day, with 400 men, the greatest part old soldiers, and 20
officers, and the Royal George steamer, on the same day,
with 350 men and 15 officers, both for Oporto. Accounts
had also been received of the sailing front Ostend of two
brigs, with 300 of the Foreign Legion, fur Oporto. The
t tal accession which Don PEDRO'S forces will obtain by
the end of the month will be 2,000 men and 400 horses.
Uniforma, accoutrements, and muskets for those troops
have been already forwarded.
Count DURNIIOFF is on his return from Ber-
lin, via the Hague, to London, since the 13th instant.
Of this, in fact, Baron BuLow, the Prussi in Minister,
was informed by a courier, who left the Count, in the
middle or early part of the week, at limerick, on the
right bank of the Rhine, opposite Cleves, which is no
more than one day's journey from the Hague. Appre-
hension, are, however, entertained here that the Count
may, nevertheless, not reach London before the middle of
next week ; as, in the first place, the King of HOLLAND
will probably ask fur a few days' grace, to enable him to
gi e such an important matter due consideration ; and, se-
condly, because the Count may choose to await the arrival
of another courier from Berlin, in answer to the further
communications which Baron Bur.ovv has made to his
Court, and which Baron MainzairN, the Prussian Arn-
bissador at the Hague, had before pressed on his Dutch
M.jesty. The Count was followed by a Dutch Cabinet
courier, who left Berlin on the 14th instant—though,
perhaps, not laden with further proofs of " the sympathy
of Foreign Powers." Count Pozzo DI BORGO, who
moved heaven and earth to rekindle the embers of this al-
most extinct sympathy, had his audience of leave from the
Emperor of AUSTRIA on the 2d instant, and was about to
leave Vienna re infecta. The British Cabinet having an
unbounded confidence in the sincerity of France, and tie-
ing determined to cultivate the friendship and close union
of that power, which determination is of older date than
the Whig Ministry, having been formed in 1830 by the
Duke of WELLINGTON, Count Pozzo displayed all his
diplomatic skid to sever asunder this union of the two
greatest Powers in the civilized world but all his endea-
vours proved hitherto a complete failure, and now that
old fox, Prince TALLEYRAND, has quite outwitted him
by inviting Prussia peaceably to occupy inure fortresses
than she could have hoped to conquer by a whole twelve-
month's hard fighting. This, of course, must remove
every objection the great continental Powers could have
against the military interference of France, as it places
them on a perfect footitag of equality, and shows that
France has no after-thought of incorporating Belgium
with its dominions. Our Ministers were much twitted to
1831 about the impossibility of getting the French Go-
vernment to evacuate Belgium when once they had got
their foot in it; but the event proved their confidence in
the good faith of France not to have been misplaced, and
a similar issue may be expected now, a fortiori, after the
fair and candid offer made to Prussia, to occupy what parts
she liked, and join the peace-making mission of the French
army.—Morning Paper.

CARDIFF.-EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM
Ax ELECTOR.—Cardiff is now agitated by the bustle of an
election canvass. Lord JAMES STUART, the present highly
popular Member, has addressed the electors, stating his re-
solution not again to take a seat in Parliament; the steadi-
ness with which he has on all occasions supported the Mi-
nisters, in opposition to his brother, the Marquis of BUTE,
is the reason of his resignation, which was communicated
to the voters on Monday night ; and on Tuesday morning
a nominee of the Marquis was canvassing, with all the
strength and influence of that Nobleman at his back. He
is a Tory, and yet highly objectionable even to many of the
Tory party, as they consider it to be an attempt to place in
I'arliament any individual the noble Marquis thinks pro-
per. I wish you could get the editors of the liberal papers
in Brist,l to notice it; for, I verily believe, if any inde-
pendent man, who was known to be respectable, and of
good standing in Society, were to come forward, he would
easily defeat the Marquis of BUTE'S interest, which is not
near so extensive as he is led to suppose, or at any rate it
would oblige him to induce his brother again to come for-
ward.—[This is one more argument added to the number
daily increasing in favour of the Ballot.--Ed.]--Bristol
Mercury.