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 TOR 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. Heppe], who appeared to
be delighted with the pastime, and the advance he had
made towards 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 I 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 Baows 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 right to bestow.—(Hear, hear.) Upon
that principle Mr. 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. IlnerET. 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. Ile 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.—(r the Alderman,
Hisses, laughter,
and a faint cry of " Hear, hear.") f
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.

GUANO TRADE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—There lately appeared in the Liverpool il/bion
and Glasgow Courier, an article on tilt guano trade,
in which the sovereignty of his Highness the Imaum
of Muscat over Latham Island, is attempted to be im-
pugned. As the article above referred to might lead
parties to enter on the rash and fruitless speculation
of attempting to retnove without authority the guano
from the said island; I take the liberty to request you
will give publicity to the following facts of the case,
for the information of your numerous commercial
readers :

the Imaum of Muscat t ? and where does he live ? &c.
I would remark, in
article in question asks, who is
The writer of the
represents the that the Imaum of Muscat
ex-
isted for the last two
of that name, which has reply,
for many general:,
Cape Delgado,
and whose authority
south latitude to tw'
East Africa, Athferiicsala,nfdrosman
of Oman,
dobpast has extended over the pro-
vincein
CAAr:oaabfoika,s as well as on the coast of
degrees
n 0 ri ten
tnhaboofutth e Edgengarteners,
Imaum
ea, Latham Islands, &c. The
Zanzibar, Pemba
dominions, is
min.maum of Muscat, and the in-
tegrity
Imperialwithth e
Governmentand Europe,defensive
of the United States of
America :he concluded
a convention of amity and
commerce in 1832. He
with the has Government
talso treaties of some an-
tiquityovernme of France, the dates of
which lam unable to specify, Hence the identity of
the Imaums of Muscat as • mde cident
can-
not be disputed by the subjects sovereigns
of any of the contract-
ing parties.
The writer of the said
article labours under a mis-
take, when he insinuates " that Latham
under the protection of a Sheik, Island is only
who governs the
island of Zanzibar. The fact i
s, the palace wherein
his Highness the Imaum has
es
(which is his principal naval rided at Zanzibar
station) for the last
three years, is within forty, miles
of the island
of " Fungel Rhuviel," which
is the ancient Arabic
name of this guano island, that vas discovered to the
English many years back by the Latham, East India-
man, and introduced on our charts as Latham Island ;
cons luently, from its proximityand connexion with
the 'mantis's dominions, it is as
much (by inter-
national law) his property, as any
oyster-bank, island,
or shoals, in the vicinity of Biit.shor other posses-
sions, and his Highness i British
as competent to transfer
the deposit on the said island to other
parties, as he is
competent to make a resent to th e Crown of Eng-
land of one of the nineteen sail of pendants belonging
to his Government.
It consequently becomes a consideration for the
owners of the Alan Ker, or any vessels employed on
a similar adventure, how far her peedings will be
r
legitimate, and how far they maysubject their vessels
to confiscation abroad, and s
sel
t nem ves to the conse-
quences of litigation at home.—I am, Sir, your obe-
dient servant, VERITAS.
London, Sept. 9th, 1844.

T trs, r it
andra the Hon. Miss Byng,
agffeorbde,tGwe.Cen.B.l,Lis, we un-
Tufnell,
derstand, fixed to take place on the 22d of the ensuing
month.
CONTEST FOR THE OFFICE OF VICE-CHANCELLOR
OF OxFOßD.—This office is held for three years ; it
dEasurig. h,heiltl„.r contemplated
t e nrPDi
Generalat e
evoa
Lordnpi) lroa
generally falls on the senior of the six doctors, but this
year it has been determined to oppose the party whose
name stands at the head of the list. The Puseyites are
resolved on a grand push, and intend to nominate one of
their own party'.