The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-24 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slll,—The unfortunate man Crouch is, on Monday,
to suffer by one of the most un-Christian slaws that
ever disgraced a Christian country; and it may be
said, with truth, that it is almost the only relic we
have of the darkest ages—ages when the foulest
crimes that human beings could commit stained our
national character. Those flagrant vices have long
since ceased—enlightenment and religion have eradi-
cated them--and yet -this most obnoxious and de-
grading law still retains its place upon the British
statute-book. What are our Government ? Are they
Christians ? Did ever Christianity sanction death ?
Let them examine the Sacred writings. They say
the laws of England are based upon the laws of God.
Is this a fact ? Can we dare assume that, when an
individual renders himself amenable to the laws of
society, society is invested with a power to take away
his life ? Did that Being, who was the most merciful
that ever visited the abodes of man, contemplate, when
he said " the laws are a terror to evil doers," that
those who should profess to be his followers should
enact such as to deprive a human being of existence ?
If mercy was extended to the " vilest of the vile,"
by the mighty Jehovah and his dearly-beloved Son,
shall man extinguish so noble an emotion and yet
escape with impunity? What is the object of punish-
ment but to benefit the criminal ?—this was the
primary cause for its institution. But what good can
result to the doomed to death by his execution a few
days subsequent to his conviction ? He is frequently
not in a state to receive spiritual consolation, and he
is hurried into the presence of his Maker with all his
guilt upon his head. Is there not some responsibility
attached to those who framed this law ?—some re-
sponsibility to him who puts it into force ? Yes ;
that God before whose bar both judge and judged
shall appear, will not hold those guiltless' who have
been instrumental in the murder of an immortal
creature.

Humanity sickens at the bare contemplation that
man has doomed his brother to die. Christianity ever
has, and does condemn it, and repudiates with disdain
any attempt which is made to charge it upon her ;
and, let it be remembered that a time is not far dis-
tant when these barbarous and wicked acts will re-
coil with fury upon the perpetrators, and whelm them
with confusion—with torment—with despair. May
this attract the attention of those in authority, that
they may not add another crime to the many they
must inevitably be charged with.—Yours truly,
May 23, 1844., - BENJAMIN.

Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Lieutenant-General the Right Hon:
Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.R., was sworn in as Governor-
General of India.

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The munificent donation of 80/. has been presented
by her Majesty the Queen Dowager towards the erection of
the new parish church of South Hackney. The amount was
transmitted to the Building Committee through the medium
of the Rev. H. H. Norris, Rector. _

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SOUTEAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.--The • Royal Mail
Steam Company's packet Clyde, Captain Symons, is just
arrived. She has experienced strong easterly gales since the
14th inst., and reports many ♦essels about the chops of the
Channel. The latest dates she brings are as follows :—St.
Jago de Cuba, 19th April; Jamaica, 23d April; Carthagena,
17th April ; Demerara, 19th April ; Trinidad, 20th April ;
Barbadoes, 24th April ; Grenada, 26th April ; St. Thomas,
30th April ; Santa Martha, 4th April ; Jacmel, 25th April ;
Bermuda and Porto Rico, 27th April ; and Fayal, 13th May.
The Clyde brings 63 passengers, and the following freight :-
57,815 dollars, 168 ounces gold dust, 532 ounces silver, 408
ounces platina.

GRESHAM LECTURES.—Wednesday, being the first
day of Trinity Term, the above lectures were commenced in
Gresham College, Basinghall-street. The attendance, though
small, and during no part of the day exceeding forty persons,
was more numerous than usual, for before the erection of the
new building, and when the lectures were delivered in the
theatre of the City of London School, it was seldom that an
audience of above ten persons assembled. The Rev. J. Pullen,
M.A., yesterday continued his course of lectures on astro-
nomy, the first of which were delivered last Term. The sub-
ject of the Rev. Lecturer's discourse was the theory of the
measurement of the earth, with the manner of obtaining its
form and dimensions. Diagrams and illustrations of various
kinds were given.
ACCIDENT ON RETURNING HOME FROM THE
RACES.—On Wednesday an accident of a dreadful nature
occurred near the Cock, at Sutton, to three gentlemen who
were returning home in a coach and four from Epsom Races.
It appeared that, as the above carriage was returning home
with several gentlemen, at an easy rate, another carriage with
three postillions ran against the other's leaders, and
frightened them, which caused them to run off the road,
whereby the coach was upset upon a bank, Mr. Punchard,
the landlord of the White Hart in the Strand, who was sitting
on the box, was thrown off with great violence, and broke his
right leg, in two places. A friend of his, sitting behind, had
his left eye completely knocked out. Mr. Ing, the landlord
of the Essex Head in the Strand, was thrown off, and re-
ceived severe concussions on several parts of the body. Mr.
Punchard, whcjs not likely to survive the accident, was con-
veyed to Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, in a surgeon's car-
riage, which happened to be near the spot.

COURT. CIRCIMe4g% f-i• 1111
t s.
The Queen held a Privy Council,at one..( (.1
o'cloce Ye g
terday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.! ',The iffeneF
was attended ►
by his Royal Highness PrinWAlbert, the
Lord Privy Seal, the Commander in Chief,- the _Ft ^; t
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of, State for.sf_r,
Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the
cellor of the Exchequer' the Paymaster of the 14' ;
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,' thf .
Steward, and the Lord Chamberlain. :
Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, Bart., Secretatti,.. -0
War, was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her 41T"
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took"vP
place at the Board.
Some Church Orders were submitted 'to her
in Council, and were approved of. Ole
The Hon. William Bathurst was the
Clerk-
Council in Waiting.
At the Court, Frederick Thesiger, Esq., her Maieltf2
Solicitor-General, was presented to the Queen,. at 'll'
audience, by Sir James Graham, her Majesty's Prittdr;
Secretary of State for the Home Department, villa% 0.
Majesty was graciously pleased to confer the boner.-
knighthood upon him.
Sir Thomas Freemantle had an audience of the Queen. , •
and kissed hands, upon his appointment as Secretary* ,
War.
Her Majesty gave audiences to Sir James Grahateau7
Viscount Combermere. •
The Court was attended by the Vice-Chainberlefi
Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting;
Byron, Lord in Waitin the Comptroller of the 0011;
hold, and Colonel ;Berkeley Drummond, Greent
Waiting. 01(10111
The Royal Family were taken their accustom
airings yesterday in the royal gardens of Buckingw'r",
Palace.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by rd.;
Princess Royal, left Buckingham Palace at ten
past three o'clock, yesterday afternoon, in a carriegP--w •
four, escorted by a party of Lancers, for Clare„
Their Royal Highnesses, the Prince of Wales
Princess Alice, and the Dowager Lady Lyttelwu 11"°0,
in the next carriage. Colonel Arbuthnot, Ecla,..„erf/-iii
t 1".
Waiting to the Qneen, and Colonel Wylde, E,ffe
Waiting to Prince Albert, occupied the third is
and four. And the Viscountess Canning! f;gbie
Waiting; Lady Caroline Cocks, .and the Ate.,,..11"...;-;tiggk
Miss Frances Devereux, Maids of Honour in 176....
miether
and Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting, followed in -rt..'
carriage and four. Ane.tiol°-
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were cos—
Par
their carriage by the Vice-Chamberlain, Carnet:pa
cis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to Prince Ale''''4er
Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Groom in Waiting. b"'
Majesty.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an,airirg Yosier.
terday afternoon, in a carriage. Her Royal 111,4,
the Duchess of Gloucester paid a visit to her N' •
at Marlborough House.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge beneaitio,
the Archbishop of Canterbury with his companY z 4 • •
ner yesterday evening at Lambeth Palace. .4,141,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridgeter
the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at • Glom
House.
His Excellency M. Dedel transacted business Yelr-,
day, at the Foreign-office.
Sir Thomas Esmonde had an interview witli 914,
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. rA
Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, bad an in,' 40
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday,
official residence, in Downing-street. 't of
Dispatches for the Earl of Elgin, Govelodic
Jamaica, and the Governors of the other West/ Ice
Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial-erty.
The Governor of the Bank of England, an
Deputy-Governor, had an interview with Sir P• '-
yesterday. _rag
The Duke of Buccleuch had a dinner party yesr-,=;;.
evening at Montague House, Whitehall-garden*

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DUNCOMBE TESTIMONIA_refoI'
ADDRESS OF THE METROPOLITAN DUNCOMBE IT
NIAL COMMITTEE TO THE WORKING CLASSES OF -
BRITAIN AND IRELAND. rrio'

Fellow Working Men,—The Metropolitan
~e sotse
Demonstration Committee was called into existe°- 001
few weeks since, for the purpose of arousing the ni'o, ar
London into active and determined opposition W nt err
famous Masters and Servants Bill, alias Labours: 0.
dation Bill. A petition against the Bill was adopt
its first meeting. and a resolution, carried unalff..u.ni see, ,
that, should the prayer of that petition be refu_„ia. 0
the Ministry press the Bill, the whole of the tTP-pois
London should be invited to assemble in their thrt°nosiresir
on Kennington-common, and demonstrate te:tlie
ment the folly of trifling with a nation's will. 17,-,- le
enthusiastic manner in which our proposition Iv which
ceived, and the universal feeling of indignati°: 04
was entertained against the measure, we hay" aier
reason to believe that it would have been one of the
tor,
splendid demonstrations of public opinion that ba .
the But 0.
t
taken place in this or any other country. ..-n- esists'
cessity for such a meeting. happily, no longer doll
The "strong Government" has been defeated. Th.__,Oei'',
has been crushed. Labour has, for this time; trn"...eie
over capital. Mark, we say for this time ; flr as 13;,1,
this attempt has been made, so sure will Rather at,...ite_ 0'
be made to prostrate labour at the feet of ca Pit'''"
make the labourer a serf—a slave. „t
Fellow-Men—To what do we owe this trienklie.,
Partly to the loud and unanimous expression of, rod
opinion against the Bill, but chiefly to the untirintgs,
disinterested exertions of labour's champion, the '
the patriotic Duncombe I Yes, working men but fora.
you would now have been bound hand and 'foot, aai:.
livered over to the tender mercies of grasping SI bi
But for him the trades' unions of this country welfff ,the
this time, have received their deathblow. One ° al-,
proposers of the Bill admitted in the course of lest-, .
bate, that it was brought in, in consequence of the stlit
decisions in the Court of Queen's. Bench in favour &coy
Union Coal Miners in the North ; thus virtuailighali ,
fessing that the real object of the Bill was to c 'ii—ve
combinations of working men which had for the de
ject the attainment of a " fair day's wages for a felebt OC
work." Surely, then, we owe to him a lasting to. $111;
gratitude. Surely it is our bounden duty to show.cer of
world that we know how to appreciate the se...i;dieeo
such a man—who, soaring above the vulgar P"dmstr
of class or creed, and, despite the sneers of to s,/
rants, or plebeian money-grubbers, fights the batii;sed
labour's sons, almost unaided and alone--en„ Jeer,
only by the cheers of what class legislators her by ta'
minated " the swinish multitude," rewarded 0014ellor,
love and confidence of the toiling millions.i 'd ape°'
or '
Working-Men, the Trades of London have ree'reiliel ,';
raising a sufficient fund to purchase an estate t°l'd
an imperishable testimonial of their thanks e3of tb.%
tude for his uniform and unswerving suPP°r" to
rights, and especially for his successful opposon , -
Masters and Servants Bill. , Def.,„o".
For this purpose the Metropollitari Tre-r,„' Ova-,
stration Committee has resolved itself into a 1,-,00, on ,
Testimonial Committee, and we now call upon ) Oslo'
fellow working-men, throughout the country IA)
w-
c -orbit
• and co-operate with us in this good work. " for etl'
l amongst you will refuse to subscribe his itat43 Vai"rt
an object ? What class of men is there in theersices„
Kingdom which has not been benefited by ilis 5 iit4 1
Englishmen! subscribe to the Duncombe Testl"ir,. shrift
Duncombe is England's brightest patriot. .Ibesidl,
subscribe to the Testimonial, for Duncombe it the falli
pate of Justice to Ireland. Welchmen! Scetees -
scribe to the Testimonial, for Duncombe atlY__rol i'''of
Rights and Liberties of all. Trades ifilieltiga,ts ,
scribe, for Duncombe is the champion of the for Imo'
Labour. Factory slaves of England! subscribewoooo
combe is the advocate of the Ten Hours' Bill. iiittlim
England! subscribe, for Duncombe would de . ,:,I._,,Pr
from the horrors of the mine and the druderi 8001
mill, and elevate you to your proper position 111 of 015
wDuuunledoinreberlaisce tihnefafurtiebnyd
adultalso l
as the friend and companion, but not the slave',,jal; i,
arid denfLe ser,
talists the right of accumulating millions from tu
and blood blood of infant children. ottfb otuhre,
gierno
.--trii; the-n, -and be doing,-Men of the United et
Let us have a Testimonial worthy of the teell(l6•7
have no isolated efforts—let it be indeed a Na., Wit;
timonial. Form your Committees in every e'v;ne.„,
factory caw 01)4
and village. Collect from door to door, froraTeeird
shop, and send your contributions to the Ceeccrco ros
mittee. Show yourselves to be worthy of siz..itS,,si
as Thomas Slingsby Duncombe : show the tYlt-be tALs,
he has your confidence, and they will fear hi of the l',",st,
show him, that, though his present defence,:',...,oso,
ple's cause will not ensure him the smile of oui_ -be le
the honours and emoluments which faction cautv, 0,:
yet that he will live and reign triumphan J
hearts and affections of a grateful people.
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-On beha fof the Central Committee. . _....Ui. t s
-JAMES SYME, joiner, ./ Secret'''.
JOHN ROSE, currier, Chalrff.,,s,.'
JOHN KELSEY, hatter,
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THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENE/AL '°l of tii° fifo/
SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 22.—The heavy hagee, dayt. foiri
Governor-General of India is expected her' .m de aii
for shipment in the Great Liverpool, wken
.Gerivr;seeii,l;
Alexandria on the Ist of June, The GoYern: to P coo')
suite do not, however, embark here. TheY testes° bile,
vid France, to Marseilles, where a Governzaen fro WIA, ,I
be in waiting to convey them direct to EeprarOeroar:
they will embark at Suez, on board the
and.
orb.- 0.,
steam-ship the Hindostan, for Calcutta, an,,'„.,":,:e wi; 40 _en
about the 20th of July. Sir •Henry Har"."'2„'sedee-,, OP_
first Governor-General of India who hasp 71,-„;o‘).',4,ps.
government by what is called "the °vett hasl;o4l, Jeff:;
a question whether Lori! Ellenborough w
_. his su _ Ds_
to make arrangements for his departure nay, aftf;!_c 5!:
arrival, which will take place only
faction 4 illaste
Ellenborough receives his recal. It
Henry will have entered upon his high . from the lesitir
within little more than a couple of in"all!street ; ' cies/
his appointment being made in Leadenhal
.fair; blbsi:
of movement which the history d Indian
) for il' 0 Dee'
yet been able to record. The arrangenleq,,„t, er,4110;
to Calcutta, as well as his journey through„ 2salllerlaiif
made with the Oriental SteiraCorapany. A-a7ital cote Of
it is expected, will leave 'Calcutta by the (Al's vill Pr° , ,
irj/re
steamer Bentinck, about the nth of July. and
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arrive in England about the end of Augusts.......we . . 0
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT AT LAB___, descrLtot,
to state that one of the yOung midshiPtule i7thir,A
lost off Largs on Friday afternoon lasi? 1"
ii igateenore'
aisfeicls.lculated Wolof
was _Mr. Charles Digby Cayley, ill ~r for the , "11
son of E. J. Cayley, Esq., Me.mvris fp,Eliii:(oo,l
Riding of Yorkshire, who, with degpest $ll ,he
this awful event thrown into the
e..,essest'_gtot
poignant sines', 014 . Q
distinguished himself in the Ro
wit ~.„ .
_7o,e,
Syria, and had, with others, been a
one
eofis!s,..s_.
state of distress. IPI 'A—the
it:iaroer
the victories at Acre and other places
_rfj-esey:ll;so
sailing-boat in which he and his coteßae.l_°". 'opal
se
to
lost seems to have gone down suddenlY 1,ff.,5-,, der 4;00.
foremost, taking these two promising. Yirl ney'eT lit.,. 011
the service of their country, down wit sl4 yenta ,_es
be removed to Brompton, in Yorkshir lffu ,
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again. Mr. Casley's son,
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of the family.--Glasgoto I:erakl.
if the rental: 2,Lbe_.„ccv, ri,