The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

THE STN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1844.

ART-UNION.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. EWART, M.P., moved a vote of thanks to Lord
Monteagle and Mr. Wyse, M.P. He would not de-
tain them with many observations, as they were then
on the stage and about to perform the comedy of
" The Wheel of Fortune."—(Laughter.)
Mr. CHRIsriE, M.P., seconded the motion, which
was carried unanimously.
Lord MONTEIGLR, after passing a high eulogium
upon their conduct, moved a vote of thanks to the
Committee. The Noble Lord, in alluding to the Bill
which he had introduced into the House
of Lords on the subject of Art-Unions,
stated, that he had received, with respect
to that measure, the most strenuous exertions
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.—
(Hear, hear.) His Royal Highness had not only
attended on every occasion that the Bill came before
the House, but he had thrown in the weight of his
exertions and of his high experience of the subject.
He had also received great assistance from the Mar-
quis of Northampton, who was the president of the
first scientific Society in this country. The Noble
Lord then proceeded to eulogise the Society, and to
express the pleasure he felt in its having been so
largely supported by the public, and concluded by
moving the vote of thanks.
Alderman J. Jonrisox seconded the motion, which
was carried unanimously, after a few observations
from Mr. Wyse, bearing testimony to the great exer-
tions of the Committee.
Mr. T. L. DONALDSON, as Chairman of the Com-
mittee for General Purposes, returned thanks, and
concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the Ho-
norary Secretaries. The motion was carried, and
thanks having been returned by Mr. Gordon,
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE said, he must now re-
quest the meeting to permit him to vacate the chair
in favour of Lord Monteagle, as this happened to be
the Queen Dowager's birth-day, and he had to go
to Bushy Park.
His Royal Highness retired amid much cheering,
and the chair was taken by Lord Monteagle, when
the drawing commenced.
Among those who were most successful, we may
mention :
The Countess of Arundel and Surrey ... £3O
The Countess of March ... ..

Lady Lushington .......
The Earl of March ......
The Right Hon. Earl Grey
A. Cooper, R.A. ...
Miss C. Hennington, near Lonsdale, a prize of 400
Mr. P. W. George, 92, Cheapside
Mr. Saunders, of Barton-on-Trent

Mr. J. Flamanck, of Tavistock
Silentio

Edward Hazlitt, Hounslow l5O
Mrs. Watlington, Upper Bedford-place lOO
Mrs. W. H. M'Queen, Tottenham-court-road lOO
Mr. Stephen Maberley, Dublin Post-office
Mr. W. Collingwood, Liverpool lOO
Charles Gildon, Port Philip, Australia Felix
Joseph Chandler, Pipe-lane, Bolton
H. L. Leod, Columbia ... 80

H. Luscombe, Andover
A. Scott, Nova Scotia
P. Morris, Lombard-street .. BO
John Gliddon, Camden New Town ... 80
Thomas Rawlings, Stourbridge .. BO
A. J. Symington, Paisley ..
Henry Hill, Wolverhampton
Wm. Davis, Wincanton • • 7O

T. SambroOk, Arundel Wharf . .. 7O
Samuel Walker, Leeds
Mrs. P. Cruickshanks, Hyde-park-gardens. 7O
Charles Coombwell . 70
.

Rev. C. Parker, Epsom . . 70
Rev. Mr. Bacon, Norfolk
O • ••••• 70
Dr. Callum, Dartford ......

Dr. Smyth, Glasgow ..... .

Branstone, Old Change
John Keat, Croydon . . ..
Musgrove, Mount Pleasant, Leeds ... 6O
H. Stridfield. .... .
____

R. Winter, Bedford-row .
Thomas opwood .
W. E. Walmslev, Adam-street, Adelphi.
E. Pritchard, Montgomeryshire••••••
A. C. Turbot, Reading
Buckley Ward, Leicester •• ***** •• • • 50
E. H. Brady, Suffolk . ••
Edward t i Branch, Islington
. _

D. Rawlings, Stourbildge..
Greig, Plymouth .... ......... . 50
E. S. Tyson, Bradford ......

Cockshot; Clitheroe

E. W. Hazlewood, Bridsnorth
Hawkins, Royal Society ......

Minor priZes -varying in amount from 401. to 51.
were also declared. The total number of prizes, 283,
in the drawing occupied two hours and a half. -
At the conclusion of the proceedings a vote of
thanks was carried unanimously to the two young
ladies who had officiated at the wheels, and who were
each presented with a copy of the exquisite engraving
of "Raffaele and the Fonarina."
Thanks were also voted to Alfred Bunn, Esq., for
the use of the theatre, and the meeting broke up at
four o'clock.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—The close of the session produced at
least one measure of considerable promise. Though
long delayed, it will—if perfected in conformity with
the outline, as explained by Sir James Graham—be
the means of obviating a host of grievances that are
now inflicted on the poorer classes of society in the ad-
ministration of justice. We allude to the Bill which
Sir James Graham laid on the table of the House of
Commons on Thursday evening, for regulating the
appointment and mode of payment of clerks of the
peace, clerks of petty sessions, and other officers of the
inferior criminal courts. The Bill was read a first
time, and was ordered to be printed. It will, we
presume, be introduced early in the next session. In
the meantime it will be considered by Noble Lords
and Hon. Gentlemen, who, as members of the Legis-
lature, will be called upon to discuss, and determine
upon, the principle and provisions of the measure,
as well as by the public generally. Every class
of society is deeply interested in whatever re-
lates to the purity and impartiality of punitive
justice. The substitution of salaries for the present
mode of paying magistrates' clerks, and similar func-
tionaries, by fees, will be regarded with satisfaction.
'The disproportionate amount of fees on summary con-
victions, upon which fines are inflicted ; and the de-
mand of fees by clerks of the peace, clerks of the
arraigns, and other functionaries, on the charge of
defendants who had been tried and acquitted on in-
dictments for misdemeanors, have been often adduced;
and shown to be as unjust in principle, as they are op-
pressive in practice. Lord Worsley has applied himself,
with praiseworthy diligence and perseverance, to bring
this subject under the notice of the Legislature and
the Government; and has developed the fearful extent
of oppression which the existing system has caused
throughout the kingdom. The returns his Lord-
ship moved for and obtained, by a vote of the
House of Commons, furnished evidence so con-
clusive as to the character and extent of the evils
complained of, that the Government was induced
to take the subject into its own hands. A promise
was given by Sir James Graham that the Government
would prepare a measure, which should place the
whole of the functionaries alluded to on a basis at
once better calculated to ensure competency for their
duties ; and at the same time relieve the public from
the fees they were in the habit of exacting. The
measure we have alluded to is the tardy ful-
filment of that promise. If we are not greatly
mistaken, Sir James Graham will have to encoun-
ter strong, if not formidable, opposition in car-
rying his measure through Parliament. The emolu-
ments derived by clerks to justices, both in boroughs
and in counties, from the present system, are
very considerable ; and their endeavours to prevent a
change from fees to a fixed salary will be great. The
greater number of these magistrates' clerks are active
electioneering agents in the Tory interest. They wield
extensive influence in their respective localities. The
Parliamentary representatives, to whom they have ren-
dered material services in contests for the seats they
hold, will be applied to. These Honourable Gentlemen
will be urged to bring the weight of their influence to
bear against the Bill ; which, if it become law, will
curtail the emoluments of these functionaries. To
this influence, partly from gratitude, and partly from
hope of future benefits, the Members will yield, and
will endeavour to prevail with the Government
to abandon, or mutilate the measure. We, therefore,
thus early, invite the attention of the Liberal
Members to this proposed beneficial change in
the existing law. The Bill will, we presume be
printed without delay. Let its provisions be consi-
dered ; and every effort used to render it complete,
as a remedy for the evils it is designed to cure.
When it comes before the Legislature, it will, we
trust, be watched and guarded with vigilance against
the intrigues that will be in motion to defeat the ob-
jects it is designed to accomplish.
STANDARD.—A statement, evidently ex parte,
which appears in a rabid Popish Maltese newspaper,
has been greedily seized upon by a contemporary,
as a pretext for a truly jesuitical attack on the
Bishop
of Gibraltar and. the Governor of Malta,
for an imputed disregard of the feelings and preju-
dices of the Roman Catholic portion of the inhabi-
tants of the latter dependency. The facts of the case
appear to be these, and we derive them, be it under
stood, from the very suspicious authority above
referred to. Some ten or twelve months ago Don
Michael Angelo Camilieri, about 35 years of -age,
having become a convert to the Protestant religion,
left Malta for Gibraltar, for the purpose of being
married to a lady—said to be the widow of a Maltese
Roman Catholic, who had also embraced the Pro-
testant religion—according to the rite., of the