The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

POOR PRISONERS.

This morning, on the return of the State prisoners
to Richmond Prison, Mr. O'Connell called for a list
of all the prisoners confined for the non-payment of
fines, and discharging the claims against them, had
them liberated. The joy of the poor fellows was ex-
cessive.—Nation.

ELECTION FOR THE CHAMBER-
LAIN SHIP.
Yesterday the polling was recommenced at nine
o'clock. It was a most tedious concern all through
the day, to all except to Mr. Heppel, who appeared to
be delighted with the pastime, and the advance he had
made to.vards victory, having polled six votes within
the six hours. The good humour of Alderman Brown
was, notwithstanding this formidable rivalry, quite ,
impurturbable. He however, considered that he
might very fairly make an appeal to the courtesy of
his antagonist at the conclusion of the day's proceed.
ings. At three o'clock the following numbers were
exhibited :

Brown 1,966 J Heppel 59
Alderman Brown had, during the day, polled 160
to Mr. Heppel's"6.
Mr. POTTER, the presiding Secondary, having
announced the state of the gross poll,
Alderman BROWN exhibited himself on the hustings
amidst cheers, with a little of what is called " goose"
amongst them. He hoped the meeting would do him
the justice to believe that he felt the most lively
gratitude for the manner in which the Livery con-
tinued to come forward with their votes in favour of
his claims. He was, indeed, most grateful. Mr.
Heppel had declared, and he (Alderman Brown) be-
lieved that such declaration was sincere, that he was
acting in favour of a principle—the principle that the
members of the Court of Aldermen had no exclusive
claim to the suffrages of the constituency, and that a
Liveryman had a right to set up for any office the
Livery had a riht to bestow.—(l-Tear, hear.) Upon
that principle sir. Heppel and he perfectly agreed.
There was, however, another principle upon which
gentlemen were seldom at variance—the principle of
courtesy, by which a losing candidate, finding
that there was an unequivocal demonstration of
the Livery against him, and that he had not
the slightest chance of success, was influenced to
cease from increasing the expense and the trouble of
his opponent.—(Hear, hear.) In that principle he
could not tell whether Mr. Heppel agreed with him,
but he hoped to hear from that gentleman that they
held the same opinion upon that, as well as upon
the other subjects on which they had expressed their
acquiescence.—(Cheers and laughter.)
Mr. HEEPEL then stepped forward, amidst applause
and hisses. The Alderman had, he said, made an
appeal to him as to the course he meant to pursue
under the present condition of the poll, and stated
that courtesy required that a candidate, against whom
the intentions of the Livery were unequivocally de-
clared, should retire from the contest. He agreed in
that opinion, but he differed from the Alderman in
thinking, that while the poll boards exhibited not so
many as 2,000, out of 15,000 votes, the demonstra-
tion could be called unequivocal.—(Hisses, laughter,
and a faint cry of "Hear, hear.") If the Alderman,
indeed, should, next day, bring up as many voters as
would make his number of supporters 8,000, there
could then be no just or reasonable ground for pro-
longing the contest.—(A roar of laughter and hisses.)
The Hall was then adjourned till nine o'clock to-
, morrow (Tuesday) morning.

NORTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION;--100.,rtdchbeoesnShisdteaernsvlaehtyiavlse
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London papers wonder what this may portend ;
n,idttl,iylit.o his elevation to the house of Lords. S:Pm-er-
Upper -
whatever may be his motive for going into the
admission his fiery andof 1
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Member being elected for South Lancashire, may have
troenetnfeyti n
must
tshterasiolgne,oaf
ntdh,eacso ttthoenirspoisn, el.,
el his Lordship's decision to secure a seat in Per-
o! his own p
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nstqscsetsrurtnnsSthueeoeeeieshls:,nmerntete etneaaoe
t for himinsehlfi,swohwile there r€mains a probabilityd
a better represenntati
obfeehnisrehssvphirnegd,
not have the divisionrepresentative
tohte* thdeivicsoiuoinltyth,
aansuheis-
olitics. Nothing, we believe, hai yet
upon by the parties thus taken by surpris 3.
Lordship was, but we may safely say that a mere Whig,
without the 'shheaadrotywcoor
apecirlaatnioen,. ofLfc.rede-strtaadiielerp, liln'ouhlsl
ttedress to the electors of North Lancashire, says it be-
comes him gratefully to ti ark them, and return into
their hands the trust they had honoured him with for
_twelve years. It is curious to refer now to the mat nu.
''in which he lost his seat for Preston, and took refuge in
the county. On his acceptance of office under Earl
Grey he l.ad to vacate his seat. He offered himself
again, but had Henry Hunt a, his competitor, and, as his
Lordship refused to pledge himself to vote against the
corn-law, tr. Hunt, always a zealous toora-law repealer,
was retained Member for Preston. The time is ap-
Manchester !Vines.
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MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT—On the forenoon of Tues-
se
x tthiiiimee boy m
day, while some boys were employed with a hurleyt.:
Mr. Boyacles mill, North Lindsay-street, Dundee, one of
them. a lad of about fifteen years of ago, got entangled
by the feet, and tumbled into a shallow pond, in the
iniest of which is a deep well for supplying the boiler
wmiitthiuwteastehar.d
eHavingiapsed, struck cwkhhieilis headtijne ilinfethwe fall,
insensibly rolled into the well. Assistancea
was
diately obtained ; but lefore he could be got eut ten
Edinburgh Witness,