The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-19 00:00:00

STAFFORD COUNTY ELECTION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—As you may be glad to hear something of the
electioneering in the country, I will endeavour to supply
~ome information as far as respects Staffordshire. This
county returns two additional Members under the new
Reform Act, and is divided into districts, North and
South. For the latter it is considered certain the old

county Members (Sir John Wrottesley and E. J. Littleton,
E4q.) will he returned without opposition. For the
former, three c indiddtes are in the field—Sir Oswal,

Mosley, Edward Buller, Esq., and J. W. Russell, Esq.
This county has not been subjected to the uproar and con •
fusion of a contested election for many years. Sir 0
Mosley and E. Buller, E.q. are both reformers, and for a
long time after their announcement there was no prospect
of opposition ; at length, after much prayerful solicitation
on the part of a knot of individuals representing them-
selves the organs of the Tory party, Mr. Russell suffered
himself to be put in nomination. He announced himself
disqualified by habit and inclination, and general character
for public business, and, as his subsequent addresses have
it, silent upon principle. It is fair to say he is fully I orne
out in this description of himself by what has hitherto
transpired in the course of his canvass. One or two ludi-
crous specimens of his oratorical exhibitions your readers
have probably noticed in some of the London papers, with-
out knowing to whom they were indebted for their merri-
ment. Mr. Russell sat in Parliament for the deceased
borough of Gatton, and from being accustomed to pay a
fair price for his parliamentary dignity, cannot be expected
to grudge a handsome contribution towards the dernorali-

zation of the county. Already has he expended in a mere
preliminary canvass a sum not far less than eleven thousand
pounds. Eleven thousand pounds upon a constituency of
less than ten thousand ! Mr Russell's party have de-
:hared over and over again that they must win, because
they have the command of money. But, in spite of all,
Reform triumphs. In the Staffordshire Potteries, c.,n-
taining sixty thousand inhabitants, the votes in favour of
Reform are as twenty to one. In Leek, Cheadle, and Uttoxe-
ter, they are as ten to one. In the country, except where
under the influence of landlords, the Reform candidates
are most successful. Neither love of money, nor love of
drink, nor respect of the hierarchy, nor fear of the
squirearchy reign omnipotent any longer. The shopkeeper
knit. his brow at the name of Tory ; the farmer walks
away with his bands in his pockets, squeezing his money-
bag ; even the veriest bumpkin pricks up his ears, and
dares to stick in a question instead of returning an obedient
answer. Mr. Russell has some warm supporters among
the clergy ; they complain indignantly of those who would
deprive them of their share in the contest. I do not say
they have no stake at issue in a reformed Parliament ;
hut if I wanted an argument to show that a minister who
values his usefulness, should not enter into collision on
wen Idly topics with those who desire to submit themselves
to his teaching in spiritual things, I would take it from
the fact of all really good, and pious, and useful, respected,
influential ministers who have the cure of souls, having
abstained on this occasion front active interference. Your
clerico-political zealots, your party men, are mostly sports
men, dancers, gay livers, non-residents, and the like.
Hand-bills fly about by the score—money at least stirs
them. Mr. Russell is represented in them as any thing
and every thing. One hand-1111 says Mr. Russell is the
only friend to Protestantism, and recommends every poor
and honest man to vote against Sir 0. Mosley and Mr.
Buller, because they want to introduce Popery ! Sir 0.
Mosley has long been Chairman of the Quarter Sessions ;

more kind-hearted, honest reformer does not exist : he is
universally respected. Mr. Buller is a Magistrate of rising
popularity, a good public speaker, and likely to do well
in St. Stephen's. The feeling throughout the country is
so strong in favour of Reform, that Mr. Russell would
hirdly came to a poll but for the madness of his friends :
he is the tool of a party, nervis alienis mobile lignum.

His private character is unimpeachable ; but the public
look to his public acts and intentions, nor will they place
confidence in a man who, sitting for Gatton, paid a price
for the degradation of offering himself as a tool of iniquity
under a Wellington Administration.
Your obedient servant,
A STAFFORDSHIRE MOORLANDER.
P.S. Mr. Russell being asked the other day, what
form of Government he considered most tfficient, is re-
ported to have made answer " Petticoat !"

A table of some importance is given in the
Carlisle Journal ; it is a return of all claimants to vote
for the eastern division of Cumberland, divided into its
various townships, and exhibiting, where known, the way
in which the new electors will vote at the coming elec-
tion. We select a few of the most remarkable contrasts in
the division to show Otis feeling :—Dalston, 6 townships,
claimants, 121 ; for the reform candidates, 111 ; for the
conservative party, 5. Wigton, 4 townships, claimants,
218 ; for the reformers, 166 ; for the conservatives, 31.
Arthuret, 4 townships, claimants, SS ; reformers, 86,
anti-reformers, 1. Bewcastle, 4 townships, claimants,
60 ; reformers, the whole number; and of twelve other
townships in tl,e same ward (Eskdale), having 224 clai-
mants, there is not a single anti-reformer nor doubtful
amongst them. The summary of the three wards of the
district gives Cumberland, claimants, 1373 ; reformers,
1006; conservatives, or Lowtl-,etites, 231. Eskdale,
11 claimants, 1114 ; reformers, 1055, conservatives, 47.
Leith, claimants, 1528 ; reformers, 1053, conservatives,
303. The total of the division returning two members
stands thus . Claimants, 4045 ; of which reformers,
3114, anti•reformers, 303—a proportion of nearly 7 to 2;
doubtful, 350. And this in a county where, only a few
pests since, the LOWTH Eft family could do as they pleased
w,th the representation.

HAMBURG PAPE

GOTTENBURG, SEPT. 5 —Thaio-ki
tended to be presented to hi-
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tranle.e
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published.
Expressing their great satisfaction at his Majesty's pre-
sence, they observe that they are convinced his Majesty
desires, in his journeys in the kingdom, to make himself
acquainted with the real state of the people ; and they,
therefore, b g to draw his attention to their foreign trade,
which is chiefly dependent on foreign capital, to the un-
favourable state of their inland trade, to the imperfection
of the state of their manufactures, compared with the pro-
tection afforded them, to the distress of their artisans, the
depreciation of landed property, the large amount of the:
taxes of the poor, and the enormous expenditure compared
with the income.
" We have certainly enjoyed seventeen years' peace, hut
in these seventeen years our prosperity has declined to the
lowest ebb ; but a few representatives of it still remain,
and truth obliges us to confess that even this number
would, on close examination, be perhaps greatly reduced.
Our situation must not be judged of by the splendid edi-
fices, the sad memorials of better times.
Our mercantile navy, which before the year 1816
consisted of about 200 ships, the tonnage of which was
15,000 lasts, is now reduced to 73, in all only 6.825 lasts,
most of which ships are now old, and perform their annual
voyages to a loss. For several years past not a ship has
been launched in our dock yards, the owners of which now
look upon the day as a festival on which an old ►hip is
given them to repair. We cannot more forcibly describe
the decline of our trade in a few words than by stating
that the reserved revenue, which in 1811 brought to your
Majesty and the Crown 134,000 rix dollars banco, left
last year on!), 56,000, while the expenditure for the poor
amounts to more than 36,000. The course of exchange,
which at the fall of the King, who was deposed for his in-
capacity to govern, was at 55 schillings only on Hamburgh,
is at this moment 148. How are we to account for such
circumstances, which unhappily, with few exceptions may
be said of the whole kingdom."
They proceed to state that they by no means ascribe all
this to his Majesty's Administration, knowing that much
of it proceeds from the injudicious measures of the Estates
of the kingdom, from the improper measures taken in some
places against the prevailing disorder, and from the illibe-
ral commercial regulations of other countries. But still
truth obliges them to say that a great part of their distress
proceeds from the want of liberality and judgment of the
Administration of the kingdom. They think that the
persons who have the arrangement of these matters want
either good will, or knowledge, or time ; and they declare
that they make so many mistakes, so often vary and fluc-
tuate in their proceedings, and interfere without any rea-
son, that great injury is done to the merchants, and his
Majesty's good intentions frequently counteracted. They
also represent the very deplorable condition of the farmers
and peasants, and implore his Majesty to introduce such
changes and reforms in the representation, and in the or-
ganization of the public administration, as may promote
the welfare of his Majesty's faithful subjects.
BERLIN, SEPT. 11.—His Majesty has conferred the
Order of the Black Eagle on Count Pozzo di Borgo.
The Military Commission of the German Confederation
continues its labours here at Berlin. Several superior
officers of different States have lately arrived here.
HAMBURG, Sara. 14.—Private letters from Finland
say that the cholera has again appeared at Sveaborg.—
Haniburgh Papers, Sept. 14.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.

HAMBURG, ; two months, 13 12.
CHRISTIANIA, SEPT. s.—Three months, 6 44.
BERLIN, SEPT. 11.—Three months, 6 29%.
STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 7.—Ninety days, 14.
BREMEN, SEPT. IL—Two months, 616 615.
HAMBURG, SEPT. 1 4.O•BORSEN.• HALLE, HALF-PAST
Two o'CLocK.—Wheat—the prices of wheat have de-
clined ; good upland wheat, however, being scarce, might
command the quotations.
During the last eight days of September forty-eight car-
goes of coin passed the Sound, of which five were bound
for British and twenty-five for Dutch Port,.
Rix-dollars.
Wheat, Auhalt, white
-- red 100 to 108
- Magdeburgh
--- Marks lOO to 110
- Mecklenburgh
-- Lower Elbe 95 to 100
Stocks were higher to-day in consequence of better
prices from Amsterdam, Paris, and London, and business
to some extent was transacted.—Discount 2A per cent.
End of September.

Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent Y 68
Anglo-Russian Loan 98%
Hamburg, Russian
Russian Inscriptions, 5 per cent. asyi
Ditto, ditto, 1831
112
Polish Bonds
Prussian Bonds, 1832 103%
Austrian Bank Shares 1146
Ditto Metalliques
New Austrian 4 per Cents 76%
hamburg Reporter.

FALMOUTH, SEPT. 15.—The Marquis PAL-
xeLLA arrived here this morning, in the mail, from Lon-
don. It is expected he will embark to-morrow in his
Majesty's ship Echo, now lying in our roads, for Oporto.
Mr. WILSON, the Consul-General for Peru,
will sail for that country the week after next. This will
be a departure of some interest, as he is instructed on the
subject of various British claims on the Government of
that State.
A letter just received from Abbotsford says,
that " All here is darkening to a close." We fear that by
next week our illustrious countryman, Sir WALTER Scorr,
will be no more. Mortification has taken place.—Edin-
burgh Evening Post.
We understand that the Commissioners of
the Insolvent Com t intend to close that Court for a vaca-
tion of six weeks, commencing from to-day.
Mrs. NisBETT, late Miss I‘IO3RDAuNT, who
returns to the stage, making her appearance the opening
night as the Widow Cheerly, is the widow of Capt. Nits-
!SETT, whose snelaecholy death some time since created so
much sensation. It occurred shortly after their marriage.
The family of the Marquis Of LONDON-
DERRY have been put into mourning by the death of his
Lordship's brother-in-law, EDWARD MICHAEL WARD,
Esq., Minister Plenipotentiary at Dresden, who died at
Brighton on Wednesday last, in his 44th year. Mr. WARD
W.. 8 introduced into public business under the auspices of
the late Marquis of LONDONDERRY, and, after filling seve•
ral diplomatic situations at different Courts, was appointed
to the Embassy at Dresden, whence he had lately returned
on leave. Mr. WARD was the eldest son of the late Right
ROD. ROBERT WARD, brother to the late Viscount RAN-
cox, and was united, in 1915, to Lady MATELnA. CHAR-
LOTTE STEWART, sister to the present Marquis of LONDON-
DERRY, by which lady be has left a son and a daughter.
On Friday next, being St. Matthew's day, ac-
cording to annual custom, the Lord Nlayor, Aldermen,
Sheriffs, and Governors of the several Royal Hospitals, will
attend divine service at Christ Church, Newgate-street.
After a sermon by the Rev. THOMAS BROWNE, M.A., of
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, they will repair to the
great hall in Christ's Hospital, where two orations will be
delivered, that in Latin by NATHANIEL KEYMER, and
that in English by EDWARD WILLIAM MILNER, the two
senior scholars of the grammar-school.
We understand that in consequence of repre-
sentations having been made to the Committee of the Stock
Exchange, as to the inconvenience of marking the price
of 1,0001. bargains in the Consols and other Stocks, that
permission has been given to mark all hatpins amount-
ing to 5001. and which, in fact, was acted upon yester-
day. This arrangement wi I be found very useful, a!-
though we thick that even this amount might have been
reduced to transactions of 1001. without imposing any
additional trouble.

Accounts were received yesterday from Paris,
stating that the British and French Governments were
now making the freedom of the Scheldt navigation an
English question, and that Lord PALMERSTON had taken
up the matter very seriously, the British merchants re
siding at Antwerp having petitioned their Government
against suffering any duty being laid upon British ships,
as the treaty of Vienna guaranteed the Scheldt remaining
open, without reference to whom Belgium might belong,
and the 67th Protocol of the London Conference recog-
nising this principle, which cannot be invalidated by the
resolutions of Mentz. France is said to be cordially sup-
porting this view of the question, though her individual
interests would be promoted rather by the shutting of the
Scheldt, as in that case a great proportion of the Ameri-
can and Brazil trade of Antwerp would find its way to

Havre. PI it is said, will not suffer Holland todis-
turf) the peace of Europe for the sake of toll.
LORDS ELDON AND STOWELL -JOHN

SCOTT, Lord ELDON, was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
and is the third son of WILLIA3I Scorr, of that town. Hi,
father was by trade what in the langu ige of the place i,
called a " Fitter," or agent far the sale and shipment of
coals. He had by indust y and habits of close saving
accumulated rather con-iderable means from small b.-gin-
flings. It is said that the singular variety in the talen'
of these two remarkable youths was manifested at a very
eat ly age. When asked to " give an account of the ser-
mon," which was a constant Sabbath custom of theii
father, WILLIAM, the eldest (now Lord STowELL), gay,
at once a condensed and luc:d digest of the general argu-
ment and points of the discourse. JOHN, on the other

hand, would go intp.4ll the minutice of the hari.ngue,
whe-
t)SEir or shorpf',,O., failed in producing the lucid ge-
tre:.aView ern.: ein:half,theisSt,mber of words by his
Nil/6r, An . thtirjx,4racters through life;
'so ahnrism of WORDS..
WORTH " The boy's the father of the man." WILLIAM
was from the beginning destined to the study of the law.
JOHN, however, was at first intended for the church, a
destination which his early marriage was the fortunate
means of changing ; and he, together with his brother, set
out to fight his way in the world as a young lawyer. The
issue of the encounter was not long doubtful, for not only

were big education and character, but every previous in-

cident of his life, admirably calculated to fit him for
the scenes in which be was destined to act a part.— Tait's

Magazine.

Miracles will never cease. Sir GEORGE
MURRAY has avowed himself not only a Reformer (for, as
the work is done already, the declaration costs little), but
a Church Reformer, which means a good deal. In can-
vassing the county of Perth, he declared, it seems, at a
Catechetical Meeting at the Bridge of Earn :—" My
opinion of Church property is, that it is the property of
the State, and that every State has to regulate all the
establishments which belong to it, either of a religious or
(idler nature, in the same way that our Government regu-
lates the pay of the Army and the Judges." He added,
that he considered Church property " to beat the disposal
of the State." This is pretty well for a Tory of yesterday.
The Aga de la Charte, of Nantes, of the
11th instant says—" We are assured that the Duchess DR
BERRI passed through 'Nantes yesterday. Some persons
assert that police agents are in pursuit of her ; others say
that she is proceeding to the place where a congress is to
be held, which shall decide upon the definitive and non-
hostile retreat of CHARLES X. and his family, either into
Savoy or Styria, or to Vienna."
The maritime importance of Perth seems to be
rapidly increasing. During the present week, no fewer
than one brigantine, three schooners, and a sloop
have been launched from the building yards. Within a
few weeks past, some others have also been finished, seve-
ral of which were of considerable burden, and all of beau-

tiful mould and workmanship.— Glasgow Courier.
A most effectual method of cleansing public
sewers was last wefk put in practice by the Board of
Health in this town to a considerable extent. The instru-

ment made use of was one of the fire•engines, by which a

copious supply of water was driven through the gratings
with such force as completely to wash away the filth
which had accumulated. We trust the whole of our
sewers will be cleansed in a similar manner.— Whitehaven
Pacquet.

It is gratifying to perceive, on reference to the
returns from the country, that the cases of cholera are
daily diminishing. We understand that the metropolitan
returns made to Government, are also extremely favourable,
and that within the last fortnight the malady has consider-
ably abated both in its malignance and fatal effects, and
is likely, in a short time, to disappear altogether.
More than 100,000 quarters of wheat, and
58,000,cwt. of flour, have recently, it appears, been en-
tered for home consumption. At the present high rate of
duty, they will produce nearly 150,0001. to the revenue,
and will prove a very unexpected aid to Ministers, who,
in consequence of the abundant harvest, had not calculated
on any accession through the duties on grain and flour.
The holders of the corn, thus brought forward for home
consumption, will, of course, suffer a heavy loss, but they
have no doubt found, in the present low price of grain all
over Europe, that this was the only mode left them to ob-
tain a market for ir.
BRISTOL CHANNEL.--The lights on the
Nash Point, which were exhibited on the Ist instant, will
be invaluable to the trade in the higher ports in the Bris-
tol Channel ; for, previous to their exhibition, every ship-
mister and his crew, no matter how experienced they
might have been, were required to he on deck nearly the
whole of a dark winter's night, to navigate that narrow
part of the Channel, having strong tides and dangerous
sand banks to contend with ; whereas a single bearing of
the present lights will enable masters to ascertain their
exact position, and thus allay the anxiety of those on
board, and often, no doubt, save from destruction valuable
life and property. —Fabnouth Packet.
The clergy of the diocese of Durham have
not begun to bestir themselves too soon. The public, in
every direction, are giving them warnings not to be mis-
understood, that if great care be not taken, the edifice of
the establishment will fall to pieces. The Birmingham
Journal of Saturday last, contains a report of a meeting
on the 12th instant, at Aston, at which the chair was
taken by the Rev. Mr. ll&aatsos. Every one of the
speakers hail a fling at Mother Church. Mr. PIERCE,
Who opened the business by moving a twopenny rate, ob-
served, " That at the last vestry a committee was appoint-
ed to cut down the parish expenses to the lowest amount
which the law compelled them to pay." In moving the
adoption of the report, Mr. P. contrasted the pure and
unalloyed religion of the apostles with the modern plan of
rating and ceasing the people. Mr. D. B. Sarin! pro.
posed an amendment, to the effect, " that it was unscrip-
tural to support religion by compulsory payments—that
Church-rates are anti-Christian in principle, and oppres-
sive in practice—that a voluntary subscription be com-
menced amongst the frequenters of the Church, and that
the meeting adjourn to the 31st October, to receive the
report respecting the said subscription." Mr. MASSEY
moved an amendment, proposing the refusal of any rate,
and adjournment for a twelvemonth. Ultimately, the
twopenny rate was agreed to, the mover, Mr. PIERCE,
" declaring that he agreed with Mr. SMITH that national
religious establishments were national evils, and it was
his decided opinion that that garpous establishment, the
Church of England, was calculated to tarnish, not to
adorn—to destroy, not to invigorate, religion." These
are ugly symptoms.—Morning Chronicle.
It is undeniable that the political institutions
of a country have a remarkable influence in forming the
character of its inhabitants—witness the upright bearing
of an Englishman, and the booing Scotsman. Our lately-
acquired privileges will soon produce a change that will
redeem our countrymen from a reproach they have hither-
to deserved, for now the time is come when they may stand
erect, with advantage to themselves. Motives of pru-
dence, which have hitherto been the juatificstion of their
conduct, and have even obtained praise with worldly men,
will invite them now to eFhibit independence of spirit—to
sift and discriminate between the pretensions of public men
—and to mark their preference of right and virtuous prin-
ciples, by bestowing upon the possessors of these the ho-
nours in the people's gift. As the taste is formed by stu-
dying superior works of art, so is the moral character, by
contemplating instances of uprightness and independence.
We hear, therefore, with great pleasure, of the many in-
stances of noble conduct which have been brought to light
during the canvass for the election of this city. As yet,
subserviency, which has been so necessary to advance-
ment in Scotland, has, through habit, a strong hold
upon the minds of all men who have been within its
influence. Such men look no farther than to what may
be the present value to themselves of the politician who
addresses them. Although an adventurer only, and he
boldly declare his doctrine to be " quid pro quo," and self
his god, they vainly flatter themselves he will honouredy
practice his own doctrine towards them. But it requires
little knowledge of human nature to predict their disap-
pointment. We have seen that the imputing to candidates
the use of such low and contemptible means in their can-
vass, as the threatening to withdraw custom from any in-
dependent tradesman, has elicited very bold denials of such
practices. This is a good sign, and we hail it as a proof
that we have been found to have " the right spirit"
within us. 'Tis true, indeed, there are not wanting those
who, to justify themselves in the eyes of their neighbours
for a dereliction of principle, perhaps of character, to
which they may have been drivers by some secret influence
or by a wish to gratify some low passion of the mind, will
stand forward to defend the very practices which their
proteges have thought proper to disclaim. But the argu-
ments and sophistical excuses of such persons may safely
be left a prey to the natural sagacity of the people ; and
their example, we have no doubt, will produce an effect
diametrically opposite to that which they may have flat-
tered themselves it would have. —Aberdeen Herald (a
new Journal, started on Liberal principles).
Last week, a most daring robbery was com-
through I
onet ap-
pears
of
'flitted by some villains at the residence of the Bishop of
Hereford, near ntheeartiCo,ievlneesyeffHecittecd an
itch, in
entrance Hertfordshire.
the back kitchen windows, which had been carelessly left
open ; they then packed tip every thing portable they
could lay their hands on in two sacks, and, after having
broken open the cellar and larder, and regaled them-
selves wide the best the house afforded, they departed.
As soon as the servants came down stairs in the morning,
they were astonished to find the tables laid out with
several plates covered with clean picked bones and a
number of empty bottles ; that the house had been
robbed during the night was soon observed, and that
the thieves had regaled themselves plentifully was evident.
Fortunately, as some labouring men were going to work
hs the morning, they discovered two sacks, filled with pro-
perty, concealed in a deep ditch near the Bishop's house,
and which proved to contain the whole of the property
which had been stolen, no doubt placed in the ditch by
she thieves, to be carried off at a more convenient oppor-
tunity, The property was immediately restored.