The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-25 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF BIRMINGHAM.

(From Aris's Birmingham Guzette of this day.)

INVITATION OF CHARLES TENNISON, ESQ.
M.P. TO A PUBLIC DINNER.

It will be recollected, that at a numerous and highly
respectable Meeting of Rate-payers of the town of Bir-
mingham, held on Friday the 22d of June last year, - the
HIGH BAILIFF in the Chair, the following Gentlemen
were appointed a General Committee to forward the objects
of the Meeting in obtaining a Parliamentary Representa-
tion, and to furnish to Members of Parliament such local
information and aid as might be required :
The High Bailiff (Geo. Attwood, Esq.), the Low Bailiff
(J. T. Lawrence, Esq.), the Magistrates acting for the
town of Birmingham, Messrs. Thomas Attwood, J. Y.
Bedford, W. Blakeway, Win. Beale, George Barker, John
Cope, R. W. Gem, S. 'Tertius Galton, Benjamin Guest,
Rice Harris, Clement Ingleby, P. M. James, Chas. Jones,
Chas. Lloyd, Thomas E. Lee, J. F. Ledsam, J. L. Mail-
liet, E. 'l'. Moore, George Nicholls, Thomas Osler, Joseph
Parkes, James Pearson, Wm. Phipson, Joshua Scholefield,
Charles Shaw, Timothy Smith, W. H. Stewart, Thomas
Small, R. Smith, John Turner, Thos. Turner, Thomas
Tyndall, Jas. Taylor, J. W. Unette, John Yale, Joseph
Walker, and J. W. Whately.
The Committee having been recently informed that Mr.
Tennyson was at Leamington, held a General Meeting on
the 6th inst. convened by circular, when it was unani•-
mously resolved to invite Mr. Tennyson to a Public
Dinner in Birmingham, as a mark of respect for his disin-
terested Parliamentary exertions in the House of Commons,
in behalf of the town, on the East Retford Disfranchise-
ment Bill. The invitation was accordingly conveyed to
Mr. Tennyson, through the medium of the present High
Bailiff, Charles Shaw, Esq. Chairman of the Committee,
and the following Answer was received, which the Com-
mittee have communicated to the public.
"My dear Sir, " Leamington, August 11, 1826.

" I have received your most obliging letter of the 9th
instant, communicating a resolution of the Committee at
Birmingham, and proposing to me, conformably to that
resolution, the honour of a public dinner.
" An invitation so flattering in its nature is most gra-
tifying to my feelings. Although my humble efforts on
the subject to which you refer failed to accomplish their
object, it affords me great satisfaction to perceive, that
disappointment has not influenced the town of Birming-
ham to measure the anxiety and sincerity of those efforts
by the result. We must recollect, however, that I shall
have to resume them in the next Session of Parliament,
when, on every account, it will be most desirable that I
should still be found standing, unequivocally and exclu-
sively, upon public and independent ground.
" To accept the compliment so kindly offered me could
not indeed justify the charge already insinuated, that per-
sonal views actuate my conduct ; but yet it might give
some advantage to those who would encourage such a be-
lief, and, at least, it might so identify me with the town,
as to afford a pretence for imputing to me, hereafter, the
language of delegation or of local partiality, when, in the
discharge of nay Parliamentary duty, I would rest your
claims upon the broad foundations of Constitutional prin-
ciple and national utility.
" It has, by other means, been effectually demonstrated
that persons of all parties and political feeling at Birming-
ham earnestly desire representation in Parliament. The
country is not only satisfied of the urgent necessity from
which this desire springs, but a general conviction prevails,
that the peculiar and extensive interests connected with
your town, and now totally unrepresented, are so import-
ant to the kingdom at large as to require an early compli-
ance with your wishes upon every consideration of justice
and expediency. I am persuaded also, that if the Go-
verntnent should still, for a time, exert its influence to op.
pose your fair pretensions, it must, and will, very shortly
yield to the paramount authority of public opinion.
" With these impressions---satisfied that the present
condition of things is such as to promise a favourable issue
at no distant period--and alive to the danger that a misin-
terpretation of any sentiments uttered at the proposed en-
tertainment might seriously affect our future proceedings
—it is impossible for me, by accepting this invitation, to
allow such an exercise of kindness towards myself to em-
barrass the cause in which we are engaged. Having thus
explained the grounds upon which, for the sake of that
cause, I am compelled to forego the high honour and gra-
tification within my reach, I beg you will accept for your-
self, and convey to the other Gentlemen from whom the
invitation has proceeded, my sincere assurance that I shall
ever remain deeply sensible of a distinction, usually destined
to celebrate the achievement of some great public benefit,
but which, by a generous impulse, has, in this instance,
been awarded to an attempt hitherto unsuccessful.
" I have the honour to be,
My dear Sir,
Your much obliged and most obedient servant,
" CHARLES TENNYSON.
" To Charles Shaw, Esq., High Bailiff
of Birmingham."

SUDDEN DEATII OF THE ADJUTANT-GE-
NERAL.-Sir HENRY TORRENS teas riding out on Friday;
he had not proceeded far from his country seat (where be
was residing), when his horse threw him. Sir HENRY
was instantly conveyed home, when it was discovered he
had burst a blood-vessel, and notwithstanding all the
efforts made to save him, he expired on Saturday.

MARRIED.—On the 20th inst. at Willing-
den Church, Sussex, by the Rev. HENRY MOORE, Mr.
WM. Rose, third son of Mr. RICHARD ROSE, late of Sand-
wich, Kent, to Miss HANNAH SEYMOUR, eldest daughter
of Mr. J. SEYMOUR, of Willingden.
The Earl of JERSEY is now on a visit to
Lord Duricasnox, at Besborough House, in this county.
—Leinster Journal.

The salmon fishing on the Tay has continued,
during
many years
the great part of the summer, more successful than
for
past. About a week since, several very
heavy draughts were taken, some of them enclosing, it is
said, upwards of 100 fish at a time. At present the fish
are not so numerous, but still considerably above the aver-
age of late years.--Perth Courier.
Harvest may now be said to be general, in the
strictest sense of the term, in the county of Elgin ' • and
the weather during the past eight days, with one or two
exceptions, has been all that the husbandman could wish
for his labours in the field. The recent heavy rains have
not proved injurious to the crops to any extent. They are
excellent in quality, and abundant in quantity.—Elgin
Courier.
SHOOTING SEASON.—Provided the present
fine weather continues until the Ist of September, we
doubt not game will become extremely plentiful in most
parts of the West of England.—Devonport Telegraph.
This season has been very unfavourable for
securing of the bog hay. All around Dumbarton Muir
the
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prove favourable, they will be abundant. A more unfa-
vourable year for peaty has not been fur upwards of twenty
years ; and, except in a very few instances, scarcely a single
cartful has been got home.--Glasgow Chronicle.
The Fermanagh Reporter states, that there
are at present TWENTY- EIGUT THOUSAND enrolled Orange-
men in that county, and that upwards of eighty thousand
persons attended the procession on the 12th instant.
At the agriculturist dinner, which will take
place at Lincoln on Wednesday, at the Rein Deer inn, the
Duke of Sr. ALBAN's has, we understand, signified his
intention of presiding as chairtnan...Sh•ffield Mercury,