The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-23 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH

LANCA SHIRE.
MANCHESTER, MONDAY EvENING.—Mr Brown, the free-
trade candidate, continued his canvass this morning, accom-
panied by Mr. Cobden, Mr. Thomas Potter (son of Sir T.
Potter), Mr. Thomas Bright (brother of the Hon. Member
for Durham), Mr. Scholefied, of Rochdale; and our first
movement was to the beautiful vale of Todmordeb, or the
"liappy Valley" as it has been called. We proceeded by
the Manchester and Leeds Railway; and the journey, which
is little more than twenty miles, was accomplished in an
hour. Mr. Brown was received by a host of friends here, in-
cluding the following eminent manufacturers:—Wm. Haiti-
well, Esq. ; Abraham Ormerod, Esq. ; Royston'Oliver, Esq. ;
John Veevers, Esq.; Greenwood Stones, Esq.; William Bar-
ker, Esq. ; W. Ormerod, Esq. ; Peter Ormerod, Esq. ; John
Greenwood, Esq.; James Greenwood, Esq.; John Earnshaw;
Esq. (Bacup); William Chambers, Esq.; Charles Chambers,
Esq.; Robert Howarth, Esq. (Bacup); Robert Greenwood,
Esq.; William Fielden, Esq. (Clough); and James Fielden,
Esq., brother of the Hon. Member for Oldham. lam told
that Peregrine Edward Townely, Esq., father of the late
candidate for the representation of the division (Charles
Townely, Esq.), had been here till within a few minutes
of our arrival, intending to introduce Mr. Brown to the elec-
tors, but the train being behind its time, he was compelled to
leave before it came up. Mr. Brown, on his arrival, at once
proceeded to address the large assemblage of people (between
3,000 and 4,000), and was received with most enthusiastic
cheering. Mr. W. Halliwell occupied the chair, and after
Mr. Brown had finished his address, a list of not less than
twenty questions were put tolim by a Chartist, and most of
them answered apparently to the satisfaction of the meeting.
Mr. Cobdenfollowed in one of his most telling speeches, after
which a resolution was put, to the effect that Mr. Brown was
a fit and proper person to represent the southern division of
Lancashire, and carried by a large majority. There are from
170 to 180 voters at Todmorden, and out of these the free
traders calculate on a majority of at least 100 1 After the
meeting, they adjourned to the hotel.
The next place in the route was Rochdale, and as Mr.
Brown entered his carriage, the whole neighbourhood seemed
to have sent forth its entire population to greet him, and
he left umidat the cheers of more than 6,000 people. The
distance from Todmorden to Bodidate by the turnpike is
about ten miles, and with thaitid of four good horses the
first half of this road, which gases through one of the most
romantic and picturesque voted, in England was performed
in little more, than twenty minutes. The journey forward
from this point, however, was much slower. arties of gentle-
men on horseback, and groups of carriages werO in waiting
at the junction of the different roads with that along which
the route lay, and as we neared the town of Rochdale still
more, a procession on foot, with bands of music, and colours
flying, joined, so that considerable time was consumed. /51r.
Brown entered Rochdale about one o'clock. At this time
there were in the procession not less than one hundred and
fifty gentlemen on horseback, a string of open carriages
reaching a third of a mile, and there could not be less than
from 15,000 to 20,000 people on foot, who greeted the candi-
date with deafening cheers, until he reached a plot of ground
called the Butts, behind Tweedale's Hotel, Rochdale. Here
the hustings had been prepared, and Mr. Brown was formally
introduced to the electors by John Fenton, Esq., late Mem-
ber for the borough. The chair was taken by Mr. Fenton,
and. Mr. Brown at once proceeded to deliver his sentiments. He
was afterwards interrogated by some of the extreme Radicals;
and though not coming exactly up to their "mark" in all his
answers, he went through his facings with a success equal to
that which had attended his catechising at Todmorden, and
was loudly cheered.

Mr. LIVESET, the chief questioner, said they had put the
same questions to Mr. Brown as they had a few days before
to Mr. Entwisle ; and though Mr. Brown did not go so far
as he could wish, there was a degree of toleration about his
sentiments much more deserving of their applause than had
been displayed by the Conservative candidate.
Mr. COBDEN was called for afterwards, and was received
with great cheering. He said Mr. Brown did not come up
to his point on many questions; but he was a free trader,
and he believed him to be an honest free trader. This was a
free trade contest ; and as the result of the contest went in
favour of Entwisle or Brown, so would the rest of the coun-
try set the people of Lancashire to be free traders or mono-
polists.—(Loud ,cheers.) The Chartists, who had come for-
ward here, had said first that free trade was humbug, and
then they said, " Give us the Charter, and we'll repeal the
corn-laws and all other monopolies." But bow could they
with any honesty call upon him to support the Charter, in the
hopes of getting free trade through it, when the Chartists
professed to be against free trade ?—(Cheers.)
A resolution, pledging the meeting to support the free-
trade candidate, was carried unanimously, and amidst im-
mense cheering.
A cold collation had been prepared at Tweedale's Hotel,
and to this the candidate and his friends were invited, im-
mediately on the termination of the meeting.
The chair was taken by John Fenton, Esq. (magistrate of
the county), the vice-chair by William Chadwick, Esq.
(magistrate of the county); and the following gentlemen
were also among those who took seats at the table :
Henry Kensall, Esq. (county magistrate), Robert Schofield,
Esq., James Schofield, Esq., James Gibson, Esq„ Thomas
Turner, Esq„ James Chadwick, Esq., George Ashworth, Esq.
(county magistrate); Robert lleape, Esq., Robert Taylor
Ilene, Esq., Thomas Bright, Esq., James Schofield, jun.,
Esq., Benjamin Schofield, Esq., Robert Pagan, Esq., Robert
Leach Tweedale, Esq., James Leach, Esq., Robert Tweedale,
Esq., R. Kelsall, Esq., James Hoyle, Esq., John Hoyle, Esq.,
James Hoyle,
,jun. Esq., Thomas Hoyle, Esq., James Holt,
Esq., Tomas Booth, Esq., Thomas Holland, Esq., W. Molt,
Esq., John Ashworth, Esq., Thomas Ashworth, Esq., Andrew
Steward, Esq., and James Howard, Esq. Refreshments hav-
ing been partaken of, the health of the candidate was given
and responded to with enthusiasm.

Rochdale has 1,465 voters on the list (the district of
which it is the polling place), and here, in ' 1837,
the Tories polled 510 votes, and the Liberals 509 ; on this
occasion there will be a great majority against the Tories.
Oldham was the next place of meeting. The free trade
candidate left Rochdale as he entered, accompanied by an
immense procession, the greater part of which were left be-
hind at the outskirts of the town, but the horsemen and car-
riages went on to Oldham, a distance of nearly six miles.
About midway between the two towns the escort was in
creased to nearly 500 horsemen and about fifty open
carriages; and this splendid cavalcade entered Oldham
about four o'clock, where it was received by a con-
course of people lining both sides of the road, amounting
to many thousands, and extending nearly two miles. A.
meeting in the spacious Town-hall of this borough was
awaiting the arrival of Mr. Brown, and by this meeting,
which was densely crowded, he was received with loud
laudits. The chair was taken by Horatio Nelson, Esq.,
(county magistrate) ; and amongst the principal gentlemen
present were—Jonathan Mellor, Esq., (county magistrate);
Elijah Hibberts, Esq., (magistrate of the county); Josiah
Ratcliffe, Esq. ; John Platt., Esq. ; Joseph Platt, Esq. ;
John Lees, Esq. ; Samuel Lees, Esq. ; Jesse Ainsworth,
Esq. ; Esau Lees, Esq.; Job Lees, Esq. ; Thomas Robinson,
Esq.; J. Cheetham, Esq. ' • Jonathan Hague, Esq. ; J.
Scholes Hague, Esq.—[ This list of gentlemen includes none
of the escort who accompanied Mr. Brown into the town on
horseback and in carriages, these gentlemen being shut eut
by the meeting having previously assembled.] The candi-
date addressed the meeting for about half an hour, after which
some questions were put, and though the latter were not of
much interest, both his answers and speech served to create
a decidedly favourable impression. His sentiments on free
trade were received with unanimous aid enthusiastic ap-
plause. After Mr. Cobden had' addressed the audience the
usual resolution of fitness, &c., was passed, and the meeting
adjourned. .
The party left for Ashton about a quarter to six o'clock,
where another meeting had been called to receive the free-
trade candidate. The distance is about four miles, and Mr.
Brown was escorted the whole distance by a large body of
gentlemen on horseback, who had come over on purpose.
from Ashton. There were also about a dozen open carriages
in the escort here. Almost the whole line of road was lined
by people who cheered the party as it passed. A crowded
meeting had already assembled in the lown-hall when they
arrived, and the proceedings were at once commenced, not-
withstanding loud cries foran adjournment to the open air.
Among the principal freeholders present were—John Cheet-
ham, Esq. (county magistrate) ; John Whittaker, Esq.;
William Bayley, Esq. ; James Lord, Esq. (county magis-
trate) ; Samuel Robinson, Esq. ; Oldham Whittaker, Esq. ;
Ralph Kershaw, Esq. ; T. B. Potter, Esq. ; Henry Bayley,
Esq. ; Nathan Lees, Esq. ; George Higginbottom, Req. ;
Nathaniel Buckley, Esq. (county magistrate) ; Watkins
Lees, Esq. ; J. H. Southern, Esq. ; John Knott, Esq. ; Hugh
Mason, Esq. ; J. S. Buckley, Esq. ; Samuel Earnshaw, fEsq. ;
Henry Gartside, Esq.; John Buckley, Esq. ; James Kershaw,
Esq. ; W. H. Sutcliffe, Esq. ; Dr. Campbell ; Charles Jos.
Buckley, Esq. ; Frederick Rayner, Esq. ; Alfred Rayner,
Esq.; W. Peacock, Esq.; James Dean, Esq. ; Henry tees,
Esq. ; Edward Davies, Esq.; Samuel Peacock, Esq. ; John
Woolley, Esq. ; and Dr. Strange.
John Cheetham, Esq., was called to the chair, and intro-
duced Mr. Brown, who spoke for about forty minutes, and
was loudly cheered. Mr. Cobden followed, and the usual
vote, pledging the meeting to support the free trade candi-
date, was carried unanimously.
Mr. Brown and his friedds returned to Manchester at a
late hour; and he is to address a meeting of freeholders here
to-morrow.
Mr. Entwisle, the Conservative candidate, has been at
Bury and Bolton to-day, where the spirit manifested on his
behalf was very tame, and the proceedings of little interest.

THE DESTRUCTION of NAWORTR

CASTLE.

IifONDAY, MAY 20.—The fasts mentioned in our communi-
cation of Saturday are all confirmed. The beautiful Castle is
a ruin, and all its relics of antiquity are destroyed.
By the untiring exertions of Mr. Ramahay, the Earl of
Carlisle's steward, and some of the principal tenantry in the
vicinity, the family papers and muniments were rescued,
and some unimportant parts of the furniture are preaerved,
but from its extreme antiquity the greater part of it could
not bear removal, and what the fire spared has been hope-
lessly damaged. The books, furniture, &e., in Lord William
Howard's apartments were thrown from the window, and
of cotuse destroyed ; but the apartments themselves have
escaped, although the lower part of the tower is much burnt.
The fire, it appears, was first discovered about half-past
three o'clock, and not at noon, as before stated, by a son
of Mr. Orridge, the governor of Carlisle gaol, who happened
accidentally to be present, and it was owing to his presence
of mind that assistance was procured in time to save any
of the property. Thera were none but women in the Castle
when the fire was discovered, and the young gentleman ran
not less than two miles to Kirkhaus, where there are some
collieries belonging to the Earl of Carlisle, to procure as-
sistance, and also dispatched messengers to Carlisle and
Brampton.
The fire is supposed to have originated in the Porter's-
lodge, in consequence of the flues being out of order or too
much intersected with wood ; and although there was an
impression at first that it was the act of an incendiary, this
is certainly not the impression now.
The Castle is said to have been insured to the amount of
10,0001., and it is gratifying to be able to add that there was
neither life nor limb endangered by the fire, although there
were thousands present.

THE -LATE RIOTS IN THE ISLE OP MAN.—The
house property of Douglas has been valued at 356,7814, and
on each 1001. a levy of ls. 3d. has been made to defray the
wages done to property by the copper aud potatoe rioters

IMPORTANT TO FOREIGNERS.
(From the Boulogne Gazette.)
GRIEVE V. LUDDY.
This is perhaps one of the most important cases for
foreigners that ever came before the tribunal of France.
It shows to perfection the hardship of their position, and
the robbery and plunder that may be committed, and for
which the unfortunate foreigner has no redress from the
French law. That our readers may perfectly understand
the whole case we shall give a summary as stated by the
, counsel for the defendant at the trial.
Mr. C. R. Broughton died in Boulogne, 1832, be-
queathing all he possessed to Mrs. Luddy, and appointed
Messrs. Kirkham Fowell and Samuel Heyward Budd,
two Englishmen, his executors. The defendant was then
in America; on returning to Europe he called upon the
executors for their accounts. These they refused him.
Fearful from this that everything was not right, he insti-
uted inquiries, and after, in vain for three years, en-
eavouring to get an account from them, he called upon
' he Tribnnal of Boulogne to compel them to give an
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' France he had no remedy in England. In 1838,
however, he got a sort of account from them by which
they acknowledged to have received upwards of 6,000/.,
as a chancery suit existed, vi hich had been com-
menced against the deceased and was carried on by a
bill of revivor against Mr. Budd, who alone had proved
the will in England. lle found, therefore, he was at
their mercy, as they might prolong the suit of chancery
till lie was in the grave. Ile agreed then to their terms,
insisting, upon one thing, that they should not meddle in
any of the affairs of the estate, that they should hand
over to him all papers, and give him an irrevotable
power of attorney to transact all the business of the
estate, to receive all moneys due, and settle and com-
promise all demands. Armed with this power he has-
tened to England and commenced a correspondence
with Mr. Grieve, the plaintiff in the action before the
Court last week, and who was Trustee for the parties
plaintiffs in the chancery suit. After four years it was
agreed between them that the suit should be compro •
mised on the payment of 2,375/. which was to be paid
out of a fund in Court, consisting of 1201. a year long an-
nuities and 900/. interest due thereon, the defendant ex-
pecting to touch 6001. of that, and to be enabled imme-
diately to call upon the executors either to pay the
money which they held, or to give security for it.
Fowell and Budd were partners in a bank in Boulogne ;
no sooner was the above compromise made, than Budd
separated himself from the firm, which shortly after be-
came bankrupt. Fowell fled to England to escape his
creditors here, and his conduct there was the occasion of
the suit before the Tribunal last week. On arriving in
London he went to the attorney of Grieve, stated his
name, and his sorrow that the affair was not settled with
the executors, and offered, if the parties would agree,
not only to hand them over the whole of the fund in
Court, but also to pay them eleven hundred pounds be-
sides, being seventeen hundred pounds more than they
had previously agreed to take, the deed for which had
been already prepared and should have been then signed.
Without informing Mr. Luddy of what was passing, the
offer of Fowell was accepted and reduced to writing,
Fowell still farther binding himself, that if the eleven
hundred pounds was not paid within a month, that all his
commercial establishment in France was liable for the debt,
and that he empowered Mr. Joseph Woollett to dispose
of it, and hold the funds accruing from it, for the benefit,
of Mr. Grieve to the extent of 1,100/., although he was
then a bankrupt, and knew that nothing in France be-
longed to him. On this agreement, to which Mr. Budd
consented, the parties obtained an amicable decree from
the Court of Chancery forthwith, and after this decree
was obtained, the defendant, for the first time, knew the
shameful and disgraceful proceedings that had been car-
ried on, evidently to injure him, for both Fowell and
Budd knew that they had made away with all the funds
of the estate, and had nothing wherewith to pay the
1,1001.
On the failure of Fowell, the defendant had applied
to the assignee and had his claim allowed. But no sooner
was a dividend declared than the plaintiff Grieve ap-
plied to the Tribunal for the dividend of 6,000 francs—
not a shilling in the pound—to be paid over to him,
in consequence, Ist, of the agreement with Fowell, anti,
2d, of the Decree in Chancery against Budd to psy
the eleven hundred pounds, not one farthing of which
he had paid, although he had received upwards of 6,000/.
This the defendant resisted, Ist, declaring the Court in-
competent to act, as all the parties were foreigners, and
he read to them their former decision ; 2d, from the
iniquity of the whole proceeding, which he proved by
the letters of the attorney agreeing to take from him
2,375/., and he had already received much more than
that sum ; 3d, that Powell had no right to make such an
agreement, as it was fraudulent ; 4th, that the decree in
Chancery was a dead letter, so far as he was concerned;
inasmuch as it was a decree against Samuel Heyward
Budd, who ought to pay the money he had agreed to pay,
out of the 6,0001. he had received for the benefit of the
estate, one farthing of which the defendant hail never
seen ; and that the decree was not against the defendant,
and that therefore the Court had no right to consider it
for one moment ; sth, if the decree had any force in
France, it was against Budd, and against him they ought,
to proceed.
Such are the facts of the case, which were ably argued
by Mr. Martinet fOr the plaintiff, and by Mr. Cannier
for the defence. The judgment of the Court was as fol-
lows, upon which we shall, with all due deference, make
a few observations next week :
"That Mrs. Luddy by the death of Mr. Broughton
was entitled to his property and proved on the bank-
ruptcy of his executors for one hundred and forty-four
thousand eight hundred and eleven francs, as being due
to her by the bankrupts, upon which she was entitled to
a dividend exceeding 6,000 f.
" That Mr. Grieve, a pretended creditor, placed a
saisie arret upon that dividend in the hands of the
syndic ; that the French tribunal is competent to take
into its consideration the judgments of a foreign tribunal;
that Grieve produces such a judgment, but not as ren-
dered against Luddy, and this tribunal not being able to
decide between Luddy and Grieve, still is bound to look
after the interest of both parties, and it therefore gives
Grieve six months to obtain the decision of an English
tribunal'against Luddy, at the end of which time the
Court is to be again applied to, when the expenses will
be considered."

STATISTICAL SOCIETY, May 20.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sykes, F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
The subject for the evening was entitled " A Third Con-
tribution towards a knowledge of the Influence of Employ-
ments upon Health, by Dr. Guy." On this occasion the at-
tention of the members was confined to the disease-known,
unfortunately too well in this country, as pulmonary con-
sumption. The number of deaths from this dreaded and
dreadful malady occurring in every year in England and
Wales, is in the round numbers 36,000, being rather less than
one-ninth of the mortality for all cases, at all ages, and one
in less than six of the total deaths occurring above fifteen •
years of age. Dr. Guy classed his patients under three heads,
gentry, tradesmen, and artisans, and found, the result of great
labour, that the per centage proportion of deaths was far less
in the gentry than in the artisans, the tradesmen holding an
intermediate place. Dr. Guy inquires, "is it possible to place
the tradesmen and the artisans in the same favourable cir-
cumstances as the gentry?" It would be a great stretch of
imagination to suppose that it could be done at once.
In all great ameliorations time is an essential element—
time for the reformation of bad habits—time for the
widening of streets, the enlarging of houses, the re-
constructing of workshops, the shortening of hours of
labour, for drainage and ventilation, for the more abundant
supply of water, for !public baths, for the increase of open
spaces, for exercise and recreation. Habits of intemperance
will not suddenly grow into disease, nor will a desire for
pure air be created in a day. As in the case of temperance,
so in that of ventilation, the example must be set by the
higher classes, before the contagion can be expected to spread
to the lower. So long as the rich shall be content to endure
the stifling atmosphere of crowded places of assembly, whe-
ther public or private, the poor may be expected to remain
indifferent to the foul air of their workshops, and to submit
without a murmur to the manifold inconveniences of their
places of residence. It is only, then, after the lapse of years,
that the condition of the tradesman and artisan can be ex-
pected to be so improved as to reduce their present fearful
mortality from consumption to the low level of the more for-
ward classes. Much, however, may be done at once. Some
provision at least may be made for the ventilation of houses
and workshops, and for the shortening of hours of labour.
Such a provision would save, in the metropolis alone, many
hundreds of lives every year. This is not a matter of conjec-
ture, or a loose estimate merely, but admits of demonstra-
tion. A very spirited and interesting discussion followed the
reading of the paper, and the meeting, which was very nu-
merous, separated at a late hour.

BlRTH.—Yesterday - morning the lady of Captain
John Rhodes Pidding, of Sydenham, of a son.
DEBTORS AND CREDITORS—=LORD BROUGHAM'S
BILL.—The Bill introduced by Lord Brougham, which has
been read a second time, contains only fourteen sections.
It is entitled "An Act for facilitating arrangements be-
tween Debtors and Creditors." The preamble declarek that
"it is expedient that trust deeds, and other amicable modes
of arrangement between debtors and their creditors should
be facilitated, and that better means should be provided for
carrying the same into effect." After the passing of the
Act, "it shall be lawful for any debtor who is unable to
meet his engagement with his creditors, such debtor not
being a trader, with the concurrence of one-third in
number and value of his creditors, who shall sign a peti-
tion, petitioning the Chief Judge of the Court of Bankruptcy,
setting forth all his debts, property, &c., and praying to be
protected from imprisonment, and he shall make a pro-
posal to pay the creditors, to which one third shall
consent. A commissioner is to examine in private the
mode of contracting the debts, and then to appoint a se-
cond meeting at which an official assignee may preside, and
the resolutions adopted to be reported to the commis-
sioner. The first meeting to be called by notice, and at the
second a certain number of creditors must agree to accept
the arrangement proposed, the resolution or agreement of
such meeting not to be valid unless one-third in number and
value of all the creditors were present either in persOn or
by an authorised agent. The resolution is to be confirthed,
and a temporary protection afforded: The property is to
vest in a trustee without any deed, as fully as if such trustee
were an assignee in bankruptcy. Examinations may take
place if it is suspected a full disclosure has not been
made. Trustees to be freed on performance of their duties, and
a "certificate" to be granted to the petitioning debtor, which
shall have the same effect as a certificate of conformity in
bankruptcy. The Court of Bankruptcy is to make rules
and regulations to carry the Act into operation. This
measure will probably be considered at the same tine as
Lord Cottenham's Bill, but the Bills clash considerably,. and
render the law of debtor and creditor very perplexing. A
Government measure is expected to be brought forward on
the same subject.

. Several workmen are busily employed in making
additions and alterations at the loyal Observatory, Green-
wich, for the purpose of facilitating the scientific labours of
the Astronomer Royal.
The ship Louisa; Captain C. McCabe, arrived at
.Lima, on the 15th of February, with loss of boats, &c., in a
severe gale of the Falkland Island—passengers and crew all
well,