The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD. SEPT. 14.—The following members of this
University have been ordained Deacons by the Lord
Bishop of Banger :
James Hughes, commoner, and Hugh Norris Lloyd,
scholar, both of Jesus College.
The Principal and Fellows of Jesus College have pre-
sented the Rev. Richard Pritchard, of their Society, to
the Rectory of Newbold-upon-Stour, Worcestershire
value 415/. per annum.
The Lord Bishop of the diocese has instituted the
Rev. J. S. Broderip, of Balliol College, to the Rectory
of Cossington.
The Rev. J. B. Dykes, of Queen's College, has been
appointed Surrogate in the diocese of Carlisle.
The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has collated the
Rev. J. M. Echalez, of Trinity College, to an Houo.
rary Canonry in Peterborough Cathedral.
The Rev. A. Clements has been appointed to the
incumbency of Trinity Church, Rode, near Lawton,
Cheshire.

The Ilev. J. Gattey has been appointed to the curacy
of Chard, Somersetshire.

The Rev. J. C. Harris has been appointed to the curacy
of Ninehead, Somersetshire.
The Rev. George Thornton has been presented by the
Lord Chaccellor to the Vicarage of Sharnbrook, Bed-
fordshire, value 1441. per annum.
The Rev. Griffith Williams has been appointed to th•
curacy of Butcome, Somersetshire.
The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has licensed the
Rev. Edward Sleep, of Pembroke College, to the curacy
of Syresham, Northamptonshire.

FIRE IN THE CITY-ROAD.—Yesterday morning,
soon after one o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of
Mr. J. Farrents, surgeon, at the corner of Regent s-
terrace, near the canal-bridge, City-road. It was nearly
half-past two o'clock before the fire was completely ex-
tinguished, and not before the whole of the stock in
trade, fixtures, and utensils in that portion of the build-
ing where the fire commenced were destroyed, and the
remainder of the premises and contents seriously injured
by fire and water. Mr. Farrents is insured in the Al-

lcance Office. llow the fire originated could not be as-
certained.

A SCENE IN A JURY-ROOM.—Whilst the jury were
discussing their verdict in the late case of alleged riot at
the Essex-street pier, tried on Thursday last at the
Westminster sessions, a singular scene took place in the
that one
candle,ofthem or food,
room to which they retired. It will be remembered that
the case lasted the whole day, and the jury were unable
to agree as to the guilt or innocence of the parties in•
dicted. They consequently were shown into the bur-
gessod
ad
j
court,
urt,dtiod beagr tehee.re
It
tepits without fire,
formed a very strong opinion on the sub
pened to have a quantity of peas in h. subject,
, and hap-
until t
Is pocket, whic ,
report says, he observed would last him till
the morning.
It soon became evident there was
agree-
ment, for several of them. op little chance of an
eted one of
.the windows et
which they sat, and repeatedly
them some half-and-half, their egged the passers-by to get
fellow jurors being engaged
in anything but a conciliatory
manner in different parts of
the room. These proceedings coming to the knowledge
of Inspector Morgan, of the V division, who was on duty
in the Court, he directly r
becatlyplaced a constable before the
window, which is not
wooved two f
easy,th
be
eet froman d
Then isroz
render t
ings, by which escape ul
the trial nugatory, in order to prevent such aproceeding„
which happened once before, and also to see that no con-
versation took place between strangers and the jury, or
that refreshment was supplied to them. This surveillance
continued about three hours, but it did not prevent the -
window-men having their jokes at the passers-by. At
nine o'clock, however, some concession was made, and
the worthy magistrates, who had had three hours for
their dinner, were called in to receive the verdict, which
amounted to nothing.—Sunday Times.
LADY CIGAR SMOKERS OF MEXICO.—Of all the
petty vices practised by the New Mexicans, the oleic
inocente of smoking among ladies is the most intolerable;
and yet it is a habit of which the loveliest and the most
refined equally partake. The pure or cigarro is seen in
the month of all; it is banded round in the parlour, an&
introduced at the dinner table. Even in the ball-room
it is presented to ladies as regularly as any other specie%
of "refreshment;" and in the dance the senorita may
often he seen whirling round with a lighted cigarrito in,
her mouth. The belles of the southern cities are very
frequently furniAied with trloi:dos de ore (little golden,
tongs) to hold the cigar with, so as to prevent their deli.
cote lingers from being polluted either with the stain or
scent of tobacco, forgetting, at the same time, its dis.
agreeable effects upon the lips and breath,--Gregg
Northern Mexico.

S PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—The Standard, of last night, devotes
yr t another column to the bootless task of attacking
tk a decision of the majority of the law Lords, by
which the judgment against O'Connell was reversed,
and to impugning the motives of the three Noble
and Learned Lords who constituted the majority.
If the slightest advantage, even of a party descrip-
tion, could be gaiked by thus pertinaciously assailing
the decision—if lie result, instead of being final
and irreversible, were open to review and recal,
w;iatever we might think of the reasonings of
our Contemporary, we should, at least, have a clue
to the object sought to be attained. But, seeing
that things are as they are—the judgment re-
versed—the order for O'Connell's discharge from
prison issued and acted upon—the prison-doors thrown
open—and the great agitator at large, and again at
the head of the movement, which he animates and
guides—what imaginable object does the Standard,
and those who prompt its attacks, propose to them-
selves by keeping up an incessant wailing against the
"three Whig law Lords" and their votes? The
disappointment and chagrin which the failure of the
prosecution has inflicted on the Government, and on
the Ultras who counselled the ill-advised proceed-
ing!, would excuse, for a time, the impotent rage of
a party whose favourite scheme was frustrated at the
very moment they were anticipating triumph from
success. But to continue the howl of misery, " from
eve to morn, from morn to dewy eve," is rather too
bad. We admit the violence of the blow—we concede
that the effects are stunning—that the mischiefs it
produces to the policy and hopes of the party are
great, and are likely to be ruinous. But "it is not
in mortals to command success." The Government
and its employes did what they could to secure it.
No one can say that they allowed the trifling consi-
d'erations of justice, or even the semblance of justice,
to operate against the attainment of their preconcerted
designs. They made a bold push for a complete
triumph over a political opponent. If O'Connell be
not now a prisoner; if he be not now under the lock
and key of the gaoler, and held under the yet more
effectual and tremendously heavy recognizances to
keep—what the law designates, but does not define—
the peace; recognizances which he might be unable
to find, and thus his imprisonment be continued for
years—if these desirable results be not secured—this
" consummation, so devoutly to be wished" by every
Tory helot, be not realised ; the blame is neither with
the Government, nor with those to whom it commit-
ted the conduct of the proceedings. The indictment
was of enormous length; a very monster—the jury was
sliscreetly selected; all "good men and true"—the wit-
nrsses were well trained—the Attorney-General did all
that an unscrupulous advocate could do to " make the
worse appear the better reason"—the Chief Justice
charged the jury to the very top of the bent even of
those most anxious for a conviction—the motion for a
new trial was refused—the motion in arrest of judg-
ment shared a similar fate. Everything was done
just as it ought to be. The protracted proceedings
at length terminated. The sentence was deter-
mined on. " The law allows it ; and the Court
awards it." The impatient Tories, who had
pr nted for the fulfilment of their predictions as
to the amount of punishment on the " convicted
conspirators," and who had complained bitterly
of the delay in the proceedings—were at length
satisfied. The Court had, upon the whole, done
its duty. The rock of Carrickfergus was not,
it was true, selected by the judges as the
place of O'Connell's confinement—the term of im-
prisonment was not certainly quite so long as their
notions :of justice inclined them to desire and to name
—nor t as the fine quite so heavy as they conceived
ought to have been inflicted. But there was still
much to be thankful for. They would, at least,
have the positive delight derived from knowing
arid feeling that O'Connell was safe in custody for
one year ; and might be kept so for much longer—for
who would venture to become bail for his good be-
haviour ? Repeal was, of course, crushed by the sen-
tence passed on its leader. There might be a struggle
for life ; but it would be the convulsive throes which
precede dissolution. A coercive policy having been
commenced, who would undertake to say tha£ it
would not be continued ? The Catholic population
would be kept under the iron heel of despotic rule—
their wretched condition unmitigated; and their
complaints and remonstrances disregarded. If they
abstained from venting their griefs in the language
extorted by calamity, their silence would be con-
strued into the indulgence of the gloomy revo-
lutions of implacable revenge, which watches for
a favourable opportunity to gratify its propensities ;
and must, therefore, be intimidated by the pre-
sence of military force. If dissatisfaction with
t}ir condition were shown by overt acts, and
tFey proclaimed their injuries to the world—
they would then be seditious—insurgents—rebels—
traitors; against whom the military ought to be em-
ployed, and the sword should be commissioned to de-
vent.. A new crisis has arrived. The unexpected
release of O'Connell, by the reversal of the judgment
against him, has placed the Government is a new
position toward him and the Irish nation. We wish
that there existed grounds to hope that Ministers were
prepared to act in this new position with discretion, if
not with magnanimity, We had almost said, we wish
that the example set them by O'Connell were likely
to be imitated by them. We are not disposed to
scan with severity the expressions, strongly vitu-
perative against persons, as they doubtless
were, with which O'Connell's speech to the popu-
lace on the day of his liberation from prison, and
hie address on Monday at the Conciliation Hall, were
disfigured. Something must be conceded to the class
of persons he addressed on both occasions ; and also
to the necessity, which he doubtless feels, of feeding
the excitement with suitable aliment, by which he,
and the agitation, are sustained. Still a tone of
Aeration pervades his speeches. So far as the
future operations of the Repeal Association are
alluded to, there is a marked abstinence from all im-
plied, much more expressed, counsel to any extreme
and dangerous measures. If we understand the
coarse indicated by the address Mr. O'Con-
nell delivered on Monday, there is a disposi-
tion to check, rather than to excite, the ardour of
his followers ; to wait for, and watch the policy
of the Government; not to anticipate and embarrass
it ; to give Ministers no advantage by his indiscretion ;
but to avail himself of any false movement which their
policy may afford to him over them. The formidable
elevation to which the defeated prosecution has raised
him—the increased confidence in his legel invulnera-
bility which is felt by his followers—the immensely-
increased
influence which he now wields over their
aff,ctions, enable him to move the masses at his will.
ill the Government seize the critical moment ? By a
mixture of prudential caution for the preservation of the
pence, which a momentary influence on the part of the
multitude may peril, combined with abroad and well-de-
fined system of conciliation of the popular feeling, and
amelioration of the present oppressed and wretched
condition of the peasantry, they may avert a national
cal unity. If they are unable or unwilling to adopt
the only policy which can preserve Ireland from com-
motion, if not from the dissolution of its connexion
with this country, let them at least have the virtue
to resign their posts, and leave to other hands the
work of counteracting the evils, and diminishing the
,clangers, which they have increased and exaspe•
sated by the means they employed to diminish and
subdue them.

STANDARD.—Two of our pseudo-Conservative
Co ltemporaries, one following in the wake of the
cAI er, like the parasitical fish that derives its sub-
tristence from picking the teeth of the shark and is to-
aerated for the sake of the humble service it performs,
)ear to be greatly disappointed that the Conserva-
tive candidate for North Lancashire, Mr. Talbot
'Clifton, is likely to walk over the course; and
have accordingly done their best to encou-
rage the drooping spirits of the League to take
the field against him. Both are agreed in opinion,
!kat Mr. Clifton has not been sufficiently explicit
-Inhtis addrest to the constituency he aspives to repre-
sent.
„Re„ Re promises, to be sure, "as a paramount
duty,
to devote his best exertions "to the mainte-

LCe of our
institutions in Church and State ;" to
.endeavour
~tprotection for his capital,
for the agriculturist that full
arise, to
which
the burden
his industry, and his enter-
rdene he has to sustain entitle
111;-;" to consult, ~ uattea matter of the first import-
ance, the welfare of to give his " general
support to
,a, Conservative
securing
apcoGnto'itvinernment," as the best
means of
institutions
of those ines-
timable blessings, which our
the
eutions in Church
and State have conferred upon
(nation ;" and to
attend to the varied commercial) "interestso of his
constituency." All this would seem t
aff oisius-
be explicit
enough for any ordinary, Conservative, and is, we
pea, a little too explicit for Mr. Clifton's met
ro
critics. At all events, it ords a pretty to
Indication that his mind is made up on those
leading questions which appear to be the objects of
eo much doubt and uncertainty to his assailants.
Re does not profess to be a Conservative of the
family of " Young England," or after the manner of
the Times; one who will give a feeble and hollow
support to the Minister on points on which his
adhesion is comparatively unimportant, and then
watch with feline vigilance for an opportunity
of turning round, upon him at some more cri-
tical moment of his career. With a profession of
Christian sympathy for the poor, he does not pro-
pose to make a simulated devotion to their interests
• an excuse for incessant attacks on the Government,

• and incendiary attempts to work upon their miseries
until he has-stimulated them to acts of sedition and
outrage. He does not prbfess to make an affected
. sympathy with suffering a lever for attacks'on the Mi-
• tasters. With this class of Conservatives he claims no
manner of alliance. Hinc ilia lachryma ! Hence it is
that he has failed to make himself understood to that
ipecluliar order to which it is the glory of our caring
dissatisfied Contemporaries to belong. it is

the Queen's Government, and not the ideal Go-
vernment of the Morning Post and Times, to
which Mr. Clifton promises his general sup-
port. He seems to be a sensible man, content
with the language of common sense, and
avoiding alike the mock heroical phraseology of
the gascon and the empty but noisy verbiage of the
Young Englander. Sir Robert Peel is the last man
in the world to desire to impose degrading conditions
on his supporters, or to require them to " wear his
livery." The apprehensions of the Morning Post,
which discovers that Mr. Clifton is not sufficiently
intelligible in his exposition of his Conservative
principles, will, we are satisfied, prove fallacious ;
for if report does not greatly belie him, he will
be found in every respect worthy the support
and esteem of the large and important constituency
to which his political manifesto is addressed, and one
whose practice will more than keep pace with his
professions. We are glad to see that, notwithstanding
this combined attempt to throw a wet blanket on his
exertions, and the invitation to the League to oppose
him, Mr. Clifton is likely to have no rival. The
election is fixed for the 20th instanst, and the League
is too low in credit and in pocket to enter upon an-
other contest, even in Lancashire, and all their efforts
to obtain a scapegoat to undertake the burden have
miserably failed. After two unsuccessful attempts to
obtain a rival candidate, therefore, they have been
compelled to adopt the resolution that " it is not de-
sirable in the present state of the register to bring
forward a free-trade candidate."

ELECTION OF CHAMBERLAIN.

DECLARATION OF THE POLL.
Saturday being the day for declaring the result of
the poll for the office of Chamberlain, there was a tole-
rably numerous attendance at Guildhall to witness
the proceedings.
At twelve o'clock precisely Mr. Sheriff Musgrove
announced that Alderman Brown having polled the
greater number of votes, that gentleman was duly
elected to the office.
Immediately after this, the Lord Mayor, Alder-
men, and other City authorities came upon the hust-
ings, when
Mr. Alderman BROWN, who was evidently labour-
ing under considerable excitement, addressed the
livery in a brief but neat speech. He said they had
just emerged from an eight days' contest for an office
to which they had done him the honour to elect him,
and he thanked them for the confidence they had re-
posed in him. It had been a matter of surprise to
many that he had put up for this office, but he should
state as a reason, and which he should not be ashamed
of avowing, that he was not what would be termed in
this commercial city a man of wealth ; therefore the
situation to which he had been chosen would come
very acceptably to him at his period of life ; and he
trusted that he should give satisfaction in the per-
formance of its duties. The worthy Alderman again
thanked the livery for their support, and concluded
amid loud cheers.
Mr. SHOOBRIDGE had to thank the livery on behalf
of Mr. Alderman Brown, but entering subsequently
into matters connected with the foundation of the
City Almshouses, which were considered irrelevant to
the present proceedings, he was received with disap-
probation.
The meeting was then dissolved.
The whole affair only occupied twenty minutes,
and there was a manifest disappointment in the hall
at the brevity of the proceedings, some lengthened
speech-making having been expected upon the oc-
casion.
It is a matter worthy of remark, as one of rare oc-
currence under similar circumstances, that all the ex-
penses of Alderman Brown contingent upon the elec •
tion were discharged by him previously to the poll
being declared.