The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-01 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

SI lt,—The system of exclusive dealing is now carried
on by the low radical party in all. the newly-created ha
roughs of this populous county, with the villages in their
immediate neighbourhood, to so great an extent that it
becomes quite necessary for the press to take the matter
up, and use its most strenuous exertions to put down so
tyrannical a system. Below I send you a copy of one of a
long string of resolutions passed by the Political Union of
Rochdale. Similar ones have been adopted at Bury, Bol-
ton, Tottington, &c. The principle and spirit of the re-
.olution have been so literally and closely carried into effect
in Bury, that a considerable number of our Whig can-
didate's friends have had but one alternative, viz. either
to hoist the radical colour, or suffer a serious diminution
of business.

The doctrines of universal suffrage, wiping off the na-
tional debt, the seizure of church property, the adoption
.f a republican form of government, and general levelling
principles, are so openly advocated, and so much incul-
cated and insisted upon by the radical demagogues, that
they necessarily draw to them a majority of the physical
strength of the country.
The great engine which their haranguers urge the radi-
ells to use is the system of exclusive dealing; and unless
the press take up arms against it most strenuously and un-
remittingly, and the mill-owners and manufacturers, and
All friends to social order, use the most decisive means in
their power to put an end to it, the whole political power
of this part of the country will become vested in the Poli-
tical Unions, which in this neighbourhood are under the
entire control and direction cf three or four of the leading
Teakars. The great body of the members are machines,
mere tools, in the hands of their leaders.
As a proof of the extent to which the system is prac-
tised here, and the regularly organized plan which is
adopted, it may be well to state, that at each meeting of
the Political Union one or two individual shopkeepers are
marked out as objects of particular attack. On the Satur-
day following, two or three of the radicals station them-
selves near the marked shops, and if any one attempt to go
in, stop hirn, saying, " That's a pink shop, don't go
there " (The Whig colour is pink.)
The right and fairness of the system is openly asserted
by the orators, who, about three times a week, harangue
the people in the Political-Union room in speeches of the
most violent tendency.
I am, Sir, yours very obediently,
Bury, Lancashire, Sept. 27. R.
COPY OF RESOLUTION.

" We publicly declare that we are determined, indivi-
dually and collectively, without any evasion or mental re-
mervation, that we will not expend one halfpenny with any
medical man, grocer, publican, butcher, baker, flour-dealer,

I inkeeper, draper, barber, joiner, builder, or, earpenter, or
any other person whatsoever, being an elector of Rochdale,
who shall refuse to pledge himself to vote for Mr. James
Taylor, and we hereby promise that we will use all our
influence with our friends to induce them not to expend
one farthing with any elector who shall refuse to pledge
himself as aforesaid."

The manner in which the inhabitants of the
Mauritius have effected their purpose in the case
of M. Jeremy, who has been sent back to Eng-
land, is bold in the extreme, but it does not sur-
prise us. We were aware that the planters of
that island had evinced a determination to suffer
no interference with what they deemed their
property—that they had threatened to bury
themselves under the ruins of their plantations,
rather than submit. It may be said, what a lesson
this for the other colonies ! We may observe here
that Mauritius is a French colony, and that the
planters in the French colonies are in general bona
fide planters, and not mere managers for English
mortgagees. The French planters live constantly
on their estates among their slaves, and though
they may not allow them more than is allowed to
slaves in the English plantations, they behave
more kindly to them. There is, therefore, a far
better understanding between masters and slaves
than in the English colonies. It is this feeling
of security which emboldens them to brave the
power of the Government of Great Britain.
Barbadoes, perhaps, is the one of all our colo-
nies which most approximates to a French colony,
in the number of resident planters, and some
other circumstances. But taking the English
West India colonies in general, it would be the
height of madness in them to think of imitating
Mauritius.—Morning Chronicle.
A paragraph, taken from the Dublin iliail, is
going the round of the London Papers, stating
that " the Duke of Richmond, as Postmaster-
General, has granted to the Scripture Readers'
Society, as well as to the other religious and
charitable institutions in Ireland, the privilege of
sending and receiving letters at the reduced rate
of postage of twopence per letter, provided each
letter or packet does not weigh more than an
ounce—not containing any matter relative to
money—and the sum so to be paid on putting
the letters into the respective post-offices." With-
out meaning to question the proptiety of every
thing being done that ca❑ consistently be done
to foster and promote the diffusion of religious
principles, we must be permitted to doubt where
the dispensing power resides which is thus said
to be assumed by the Postmaster-General. The
same thing has been frequently done in England
with quite as little shadow of authority ; and
societies, we believe, could be named whose
communications have been allowed to pass free
of postage altogether, to the great detriment of
the revenue, who possess, nevertheless, ample
funds wherewith to maintain sleek honorary
secretaries, and various other snuggeries with
which charity is sometimes accompanied. Be-
sides, is it not absurd, as in this instance, to talk
of the nature ofthe contents ofpeople's letters being
the condition upon which they shall pass free ?
This imposes either an impossible condition, or a
very offensive one, viz. either that the Post-office
authorities shall take for granted that every letter
with which twopence is tendered shall pass free for
►hat sum, or else that the contents of every let-
ter be read to discover whether it relates wholly
to one of the charities in question, or whether
the fatal word " money" is to be found in its
(perhaps many) pages. But it is the principle
we object to—that any officer at the head of any
department shall have the power of dispensing,
on his own mere authority, with the payment of
any part of the public revenue which it is his
duty to collect and account for. The Duke of
Richmond, we know, is only following prece-
dent ; but why may not the Commissioners of
Customs or Excise do the same ? The revenues
of the Post-office have been for some time de-
clining, owing to various causes, principally from
the fatal decline in the internal trade of the
country, but not a little from the abuse of offi-
cial franking, and such licenses of exemption as
those to which we have been alluding. Persons
connected with charitable or religious institu-
tions, though glad enough, of course, to avail
themselves of the exemption if it can be obtained,
know very well that postage forms a very trifling
charge, at most, in their outgoings. At any rate
we know of no authority which exists to make
the concession ; and public functionaries, how-
ever amiable and praiseworthy their motives may
be, might as well bear in mind the adage which
prescribes to them, as well as other people, to be
"just before they aregenerous."—Morn.Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Mrs. Every, the wife of a little man who has the
mark of a violent cut across the mouth, arid is
called " the chubby Apollo" of Bishopsgate, sum-
moned her husband before the LORD MAYOR for
having threatened to murder her.
Mrs. Every, a tall fine-looking woman, with dark
eyes, stated that she had been five years married to
the defendant, the proprietor of an eating-house,
irnd that her peace of mind had a few days ago
been suddenly broken by the inattention of her
husband. She suspected that some nasty woman
was at the bottom of the business, and she told her
servant maid, who appeared to be shocked, and
promised to have a look out for any such under-
mining hussey. The maid, however, watched in
vain ; but the mistress, whose injuries had sharpened
her vision, actually caught him and the very girl she
had confessed her distress to, poking their noses
together over a glass of hot gin arid water in the
one-pair back. Upon being upbraided with his in-
fidelity, the defendant called her a great —, and
told he would drive her to the d—l.
The LORD MAYOR—Is that what you call a
threat to murder you? Complainant—He swore
that if I ever interfered with his consarns, he'd do
no more but " spifflicate" me at once.—(A laugh.)
Defendant—Please you, my Lord, I never said
I'd spifflicate her. She knows it's false. It was her
as said she'd spifflicate me ; and so I told her I'd
see her drived to the d—l before I'd be spifflicated.
Mr. Hobler—But, my good Sir, you had no right
to insult your wife by taking liberties with her ser-
vant. Defendant—Never thought of such a thing.
I'll tell you how it was. I was rather baddish in
the bowels, and I was just having a drop of warm,
when the girl comes up ; and so I lays my hand
just upon the small of her back, without thinking of
any thing wrong, s'elp me G—d.
Complainant—The small of her back !
Jem, you know it wan't the small of her back, nor
no part of her back at all.--(Laughter.)
Defendant—Please your Lordship, if you heard
the names she called me you wouldn't wonder at
what I done, for to show 1 was a different sort of a
hanirnal from the sort she said as I belonged to.—
Please you, my Lcrd, begging your pardon, she
called me a old bass, and a son of a
The LORD MAYOR—I am surprised that you could
be offended at words of so nonsensical a descrip-
tion. Why, if you were the first, it is impossible
you could be the last.
This assurance gave but little consolation to the
defendant, who said that he would sooner give up
the eating-house, and indeed eating altogether, than
live with his wife again.
The complainant seemed as willing to separate
for ever, and declared that she would never submit
to be " spifflicatee by any man breathing. A re-
gular deed of separation was then signed by the

parties, who both went off, determined not to be
" spifflicated."

BOW-STREET.

ELOPEMENT IN Low LIFE.—Mr. Dunn, a boot
and shoemaker, residing in Chapel-street, Grosve-
nor-square, come before G. R. MINSHULL, Esq., and
complained of his wife Mary, who had eloped with
one Mr. Sarbutt, and had taken his two infant chil-
dren with her, on Saturday morning. The com-
plainant said, that his wife had been very intimate,
sub row, with a Mr. Sarbutt, and that morning they
eloped together. He had discovered that Mr. Sar-
butt had taken a certain description of house in
Newcastle-court, and he was anxious to get pos-
session of his elder boy ; he did not care
much about the youeger, as he suspected that Mr.
Sarbutt or some other person, who had been inti-
mate with his wife, had more to do with the
production of the young one than himself.
Mr. MINSHULL directed Cisardiner, the officer, to
fetch Mrs. Dunn, and in a short time she and the
children made their appearance before the Magistrate.
Mr. MINSHULL asked Mrs. Dunn why she did
not live with her husband ? She replied, that her
husband had not been able to support her and her
children, and for some time he had not earned more
than 3s. 6d. per week. As a last resource, she had
determined to get a living by keeping a certain
house ; but she was riot under the protection of
her friend Sarbutt, who had lent her 2/. to pay her
rent ; and she denied that there was any criminal
intimacy between them.
Mr. MINSHULL condemned her for taking such a
house, and directed her to give up the elder child
to her husband. She positively refused to do so,
as the child was under five years of age; arid she
walked out of the office with the two children in
her arms.
Mr. MINSHULL told the husband that he had no
power to force the children at so early an age from
the mother, who was bound to nurture them. The
husband left the office very much dejected.