The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-24 00:00:00

COLONEL LEICESTER STANHOPE.

Last night the electors of the Tower Hamlets, residing
in the parish of St. G orge in the East, Wapping, and
precincts of the Tower and Minories, had been invited, by
advertisement, to meet the friends of Col. Leicester Stan-
hope, at the National School-house, Old Gravel-lane, in
consequence of which intimation by seven o'clock there
was a large assemblage of electors. Altman. SCALES,
Esq., took the Chair amidst acclamations.
Colonel STANHOPE was then introduced by the Chair-
man to the Meeting.
Colonel STANHOPE (from a table in the front of the
pulpit) commenced by stating that be was more especially
desirous to represent the Tower Hamlets, because he con•
sidered it to be one of the most numerous and most civi-
lised boroughs in England. He had been made to under-
stand that there had been an objection raised to him in
some quarters on account of his being a soldier, alleging
that soldiers were no men of business. He would ask them
if Frederick the Great was not a man of business? and
he was a soldier. If Bonaparte was not a man of busi-
ness ? who dispensed the destinies of empires, and strayed
the affairs of Europe ; and he was a soldier ; and even
coming to the great General of their own country, however
much they might be divided from him in principles or opi-
nions—the Duke of Wellington, if be was not a man of
business?—(Cries of " No, no," accompanied with hisses
—" You had better leave him out"—"Don't name him")—
still be was a man of business—(from the crowd, " He
did plenty for himself," and " He might be a soldier,
but he was no statesman")—well, if they did not agree to
the last example adduced, would they take Mr. Hume as
an in►tance as a statesman ?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.")
Then, said the worthy candidate, he was a soldier, and
they must confess that he bad exhibited industry and close
application of business habits for years, by which the
country bad benefited, and which needed only to be named
to be acknowledged by every one. The Candidate then
proceeded to say that he was a friend to the Constitution,
and a fi iend to the King, wbo had given them the Reform
Bill.—(From the crowd, " Only because he could not
help it.") He was a respecter of property in every de-
gree, even to the property the labouring man possessed in
his capability to labour ; be was a supporter of ships,
commerce, and colonies—(Cheers)—and he would urge
the strictest economy in the expenditure of the state. The
revenue of the country at present was, indirectly and di-
rectly, somewhere about 87 milions, and lie would endea-
vour to show how 27 inilllions might be saved. The
present real expenditure of the country amounted to 52
millions, and it was his wish to bring it, not at once, but
by degrees, to the same scale of expenditure as in 1792.
There was no tax taken from his own pockets that he paid
so cheerfully as the poor•rates ; because he felt that it
ought to be the first impulse of every person to
endeavour to obtain for every person three meals
a day; but be objected to the poor laws, because
he thought they increased the population and the

poverty of the country ; be would have these
laws revised if possible, the accomplishment of which,
perhaps, might be attended with some difficulty, but
there were other remedies more effectual ; namely, the
abolishing of the Corn Laws, tithes—(Cheers)—and fee-
gathering in courts of law, which amounted to as much
as tithes. He would have tithes reduced two millions
annually—(" Take them away altogether")—nor would
he have dissenters taxed to pay the established clergy of
this country.—(Cheers.) The tithes of England and
Ireland amounted to seven millions ; but he would re-
commend the clergy to be paid as they are paid in Scot-
land, where the duties where no where else better per-
formed ; and a saving would then be effected that would
reduce the amount to four millions. Vestries he considered
as village Parliaments, equally in want of Reform with
the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) The late Bills, added
to former corruptions, had only male a hodge-podge mat-
ter of the concern ; he would contend for the right of
every one rated at 101. having the power to vote in the
election of officers, and that the police should be placed
under the control of those officers.—(Loud cheers )
He next noticed the operation of the registration regnla •
lion, which, he said, defeated the intention of the excel-
nt Lord Grey to extend the franchise. There had been
in the Tower Hamlets twenty-three thousand electors, but
by circumstances of persons not paying up their rates and
taxes at the day epecified, or neglecting to register them-
selves, that number had been reduced to ten thousand ;
and those devils in black gowns, the barristers, who were
appointed as the judges, had since set to work, and by
other technical objections, were likely to reduce from that
a quarter, so that there would not be left a constituency
of more than 6,000 or 7,000. Lord Tenterden, who
was, he believed, a Tory, had the appointment of those
inspecting barristers; they would amount to 2,000, and
each of them would have about 2001., so that the gross
sum amounted to 200,000/. ; and this 200,000/. was to
he paid by the people for depriving them of their franchise.
He was convinced that a fair representation could never
be obtained until vote by secret ballot was adopted.
Castlereagh's Six Acts ought all to be repealed. He was
for annual Parliaments ; but as the next resource, being
the shortest period, be would do all he could to support
triennial Parliaments. Flogging in the Army and Navy
he had written against as a boy ; and he still retained the
same sentiments, that secondary punishments would be
preferable.—He likewi,e stated, in answer to a question
from an elector, that he was of opinion it would be desir-
able to procure the repeal of imprisonment for debt.
Mr. MORRIS, in rising to move the first resolution,
purporting the fitness of Colonel Stanhope to be their
candidate, made a clever speech on behalf of the Colorant.
Mr. BURFORD seconded the motion.
The resolution was put from the Chair, and carried
unanimously.

A Committee was appointed, and the uEu3l forms of
meeting gone through, and the company dispersed quietly.

The Worcestershire County Treasurer, in his
report to the Magistrates, lately gave the pleasing intelli-
gence, for the first time, that there was a balance in
hand, after all bills were paid, of 571. 14s.

LAKE OF VITRIOL.— There is, in the island
of Java, a volcano, called Mount Idienne, from which the
Dutch East India Company have been often supplied with
sulphur for the manufacture of gunpowder. At the foot of
this volcano is a vast natural manufactory of that acid com-
monly called oil of vitriol, although it is there largely
diluted with water. It is a lake about 1,200 French feet
long; the water is warm, and of a greenish white colour,
and charged with acid. The taste of this liquid is sour,
pungent, and caustic ; it kills all the fish of a river into
which it flows, cives violent cholics to those who drink it,
and destroys all the vegetation on its banks.—Lardner's
Cabinet Cyclopedia.

It is already generally known that Mr. GALT,
author of the Annals of the Parish, &c., about three
months ago had a severe attack of paralysis, which excited
considerable alarm in the minds of his numerous friends
and admirers. Subsequently, he recovered so far as to be
able to resume his literary avocations, although the effects
of the stt ohs upon his limbs were such, as in a great mea-
sure to confine him to his apartment. We regret now to
he obliged to add that, according to letters from London,
about a fortnight ago, he had another attack of the disease,
of so serious a description that his recovery is completely
despaired of.—Scotsman.
THE POWER OF SATlRE.—Severe as was
the satire of Jumus, it produced no such effects as the
bitter iambics which ARCHILOCHUS, stimulated by re-

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BULE, who had accepted the hand of a wealthier lover;
they did honour to the eenius of ARCHILOCHU3, by hang
ing themselves.—E. 11. Barker on the Authorship of
Junius's Letters (a book replete with interesting and cu-
rious literary anecdotes). In his Anthologia (1. iii, c. 25)
we are told that three daughters of LYCHAMBES killed
themselves in consequence of AnctinocHtts's satire. He
was so fond of slander, that when he had no other person
to abuse, he satirized himself. The satire of HarvoNnx
is reported to have produced similar fatal results. JELIAN
informs us that POLIAGRUS committed suicide in conse-
quence of his having been abused in a comedy. Well
might PLATO advise those who are tender of their reputa-
tion, to avoid exasperating the poets.

If any thing were wanting to sicken one of
law quibbles, it would be supplied by the futile objec-
tions which are making, and appear to be in some in-
stances received, against registering votes under the Reform
Act.

MERTHYR.--The iron trade here is uncom-
monly bad. A great number of miners and colliers are out
of work, or getting such very small wages that they are
obliged to apply weekly for parochial relief. The Dow-
lais and Ebwvale works are, however, exceptions. At
these works all are fully employed, in consequence of large
American orders for railway iron.—Hereford Times.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 22.
—The sales of cotton to-day are 250 Bahias, at Id. to
; SO Egyptians, 8 d. ; and 1,200 in American de-
scriptions, from 6,4 d. to SI
NOVEL WOODCOCK TRAP.-011 Monday,
the 15th inst., a remarkably fine woodcock was taken in
the following extraordinary manner :—A young man,
named TOWERS SEATLE, was angling in a brook in
Lowick, near Ulverston, and, finding it necessary to shift
his station, was swinging round his line to keep clear of
some bushes, when suddenly a woodcock sprung, and the
hook catching it by the wing the bird was fairly captured.
Our informant describes it as one of the finest cocks he ever
saw.—Lancaster Gazette.

A PRUDENT RETREAT.—There were se-
veral English settlers of note in the various Prairies situ-
ated near the river Ohio (United States). Among them
was Mr. HUNT, brother to the Member for Preston. Un•
like his brother be had the misfortune to be dumb from
his infancy, but a man of tremendous muscular power and
a scientific boxer. Among the backwoodsmen the supe-
riority of the system of boxing over their ferocious method
of gouging and biting was much disputed, and a trial
with Mr. HUNT was very eagerly coveted by " the best
men" among these worthies. One day a very famous
man of this description, in passing near the cabin of Mr.
Ilursx, perceived him in the act of ploughing in a neigh-
bouring field, and thereupon he got across the fence for the
purpose of provoking a quarrel. As he advanced, it hap-
pened that some derangement in the tackle of his plough
compelled HUNT to stop the team, and, being a man of a
very passionate temper, he was seen to level one of the
horses with a blow of his fist. Upon this the back-
woodsman hastily withdrew and recrossed the fence ; and
from that time it was observed that nothing more was said
upon the superiority of the gougers.—Monthly Magazine.
On Monday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, as the
Essex and Eclipse steam-vessels were proceeding from
Gravesend to London, a boat containing four persons was
run down by the former steamer off Dartford Creek, below
Frith, as it was crossing the river from the Essex to the
Kent shore, and the passengers were all immersed in the
stream. The Essex immediately brought to, and the en-
gines were stopped, but, owing to their not having a boat
in readiness, could render no material assistance. The
Captain of the Eclipse, the sternmost vessel, instantly low-
ered his boat, and succeeded in saving two, while a collier's
boat picked up a third in a most exhausted state, but the
fourth sunk before aid arrived, and met with a watery
grave. The boat also sunk.
Yesterday forenoon a young female, fashion-
ably dressed, named SUSANNAH LISTER, whose parents
reside in the Edgeware-road in great respectability, called
at the house of a friend in East-street, Marylebone, and
Irequested a little warm water, as she wished to take some
salts; the water was brought, and she mixed what was
thought to be salts, and swalLiwed the draught ; the mo-
ment she had done so she pointed to the paper which had
contained the drug, and her friend then perceived " Poison
—oxalic acid"—marked upon it. She lost no time in
procuring assistance ; a coach was called, and the sufferer
was conveyed to the hospital, where the stomach-pump
was immediately resorted to with success. After she had
partially recovered she was carried home to her parents,
who, on herring of the circuanstaupe, were greatly dis-
tressed. The following lines were found in her bosom
when at the hospital:—" Dear Father and Mother,.--.
RICHARD has proved false to me, aid I shall never be
happy again—so adieu for ever. " SUSANNAH."