The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVEN ING NOVEMBER 2 184 k.

HASTINGS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
EAST WARD.—G. Scrivens (R), 422; W. Gunier,
(R), 399; T. Ross, Jun. (R), 376 ; A. Harvey (T),
351 ; J. Barfield (T), 350; G. Clement (R), 324.
The four first returned as elected, but a scrutiny be-
tween the two Tories for the single place won by
them.

WEST WAnD.— All Tory candidates. C. 11.
Southall and G. A. Alert() elected by a majority
over J. Troup of six votes.

OXFORD.

Nov. I.—Since the passing of the Municipal Bill
we have never had so quiet a Ist of November as the
present, nine out of ten of the burgesses being hardly
cognisant that an election was going on. It was over
by eleven o'clock in all five of the wards, there being
no contest in either of them. The following is the
return : _ _ _

Central Ward—Messrs. T. Sheard and T. Randall
(Conservatives), re-elected.
North Ward—Messrs. John Cox (Conservative),
and S. Steane (Radical), re-elected.
South Ward—Messrs. R. Spiers (Conservative),
and J. Grubb (Radical), re-elected.
East Ward—Messrs. R. Wall (Conservative), and
H. D. Hoskins (Whig), re-elected.
West Ward—Messrs. J. Chaundy and J. C. Dud-
ley (Whigs). The former re-elected; the latter in
place of Mr. James Turner (Whig), who retired.

MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED.)
HOOD'S MAGAZINE.
Mr. Hood here furnishes us with one of the most
spirited sketches that have ever proceeded from his
pen. It is called the " Lay of the Labourer," and
describes a visit which he paid to a rustic way-side
ale-house, where he met with a party of agricultural
labourers, who were bewailing their physical and
mental sufferings over a can of cold water in lieu of
strong beer, with which they were all too poor to pro-
vide themselves. The account which our author
gives of their woe-begone appearance is painfully
afflicting, and the reflections which it suggested to
him are of the kindliest and most catholic character.
In the course of this sketch he relates the sad story
of poor Gifford White—a youth, aged eighteen, who
was transported for life by Lord Abinger for having
sent a threatening anonymous letter to some farmers
in the neighbourhood, announcing his intention to set
fire to their barns unless they provided him with
work. Mr. Hoo.l justly observes that the sentence
was a most harsh one, and pleads the poor fellow's
cause with infinite force and feeling. The " Streets
of Paris" alludes to the historical associations connected
with some of the principal streets in the French
capital. The " Brace of Birds" is a vigorously told
story, referring to the death of a poacher who fell a
sacrifice to the flagrant injustice and inhumanity of
the game-laws. The " Acorn" is an elegant poem,
but we prefer quoting the melancholy chaunt which
Mr. Hood has introduced into his " Lay of the
Labourer :"

A spade ! a rake ! a hoe !
A pickaxe, or a bill !
A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow,
A flail, or what ye
will—
And here's a ready hand
To ply the needful tool,
And enough, by lessons rough,
In Labour's rugged school.
To hedge, or dig the ditch,
To lop or fell the tree,
To lay the swarth on the sultry field,
Or plough the stubborn lea ;
The harvest stack to bind,
The wheaten rick to thatch,
And never fear in my pouch to find
The tinder or the match.
To a flaming barn or farm
My fancies never roam ;
The fire I yearn to kindle and burn
Is on the hearth of Home ;
Where children huddle and crouch
Through dark long winter days,
Where starving children huddle and crouch,
To see the cheerful rays,
A-glowing on the haggard cheek,
And not in the haggard's blaze !
To Him who sends a drought
To parch the fields forlorn,
The rain to flood the meadows with mud,
The blight to blast the corn,
To Him I leave to guide
The bolt in its crooked path,
To strike the misers rick, and show
The skies blood-red with wrath.
A spade ! a rake ! a.l hoe !
l
Ascythe to mow,
A flail, or what ye will—
The corn to thrash, or the hedge to plash,
Ahopok pickaxe,
to axe,
reap, or
aor b
a t
The market-team to drive,
Or mend the fence by the cover side,
And leave the game alive.
Ay, only give me work,
And then you need not fear
That I shall snare his Worship's hare,
Or kill his Grace's deer ;
Break into his Lordship's house,
To steal the plate so rich ;
Or leave the yeoman that had a purse
To welter in a ditch.
Wherever Nature needs,
Wherever Labour calls,
No job I'll shirk of the hardest work,
shun the workhouse walls ;
Where savage laws begrudge
The pauper babe its breath,
And doom a wife to a widow's life,
Before her partner's death.
My only claim is this,
With labour stiff and stark,
By lawful turn, my living to earn,
Between the light and dark ;
My daily bread, and nightly bed,
My bacon, and drop of beer—
But all from the hand that holds the land,
And none from the overseer !
No parish money, or loaf,
No pauper badges for me,
A son of the soil, by right of toil
Entitled to my fee.
No alms I ask, give me my task :
Here are the arm, the leg,
The strength, the sinews of a Man,
To work, and not to beg.
Still one of Adam's heirs,
Though doom'd by chance of birth
To dress so mean, and to eat the lean,
Instead of the fat of the earth ;
To make such humble meals
As hermit labour can,
A bone and a crust, with a grace to God,
And little thanks to man !
A spade ! a rake ! a hoe !
A pickaxe, or a bill !
A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow,
A flail, or what ye will—
Whatever the tool to ply,
Here is a willing drudge,
With muscle and limb, and woe to bin
Who does their pay begrudge I

ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE.
The illustrations to this Magazine—more especially
those for the present month—are of the choicest
character, the landscape sketches in particular, which ,
are as true to life as one of Copley Fielding's. Nor
is the literary portion of the work less carefully
attended to, whether as regards selection or variety of
subject. The " Old House at Home" is the com-
mencement of a tale from the pen of a writer who
signs himself " Craven." It opens well, but we must
see more of it before we can venture on a decided
opinion. " Louis Philippe and the. Irish Tutor" is a
whimsical dialogue, which is supposed to have taken
place between the King of the French and one
Doctor O'Toole, during that Monarch's recent visit to
Windsor Castle. It is accompanied by a clever em-
bellishment of an Irish peasant flirting with two
coquettish young girls, who seem bent on making a
fool of him. The " Life and Writings of the Swedish
poet Vitalis" contains some ingenious criticisms on,
together with translations from, the songs and ballads
of this popular author. A " Sketch" is an affecting
story of a wife's desertion by.her husband, and her
own consequent lapse into vice. The subject is a
hacknied one, but it is well treated. In the article
headed " Some Points for a new People's Charter," we
find the following allusions to " Young England:"—
" Malthus is dead in philosophy as well as in the flesh;
and Young England is born a vigorous, right-hearted
youngster, worth a dozen dead philosophers, even if they
were all real ones. How he bustles and rattles about.
What excellent things he does, though it must be ac-
knowledged, not always aware of the ulterior con-
sequences of his doing. How he brings forward a ten
hours hill, and revolutionises a whole system of legisla-
tion; rates a minister, and breaks to pieces a party;
forms societies for the mental improvement of working
men, and thus, by removing all fair objections, forwards
might and main the advent of the people's government
that he so abominates; abolishes distinctions of classes
in the formal worship of God in our churches, and thus
prepares the way for a similar abolition in that grander
gystegt of prayer and praise, which has the wide world
for an altar, and which makes life itself an uninterrupted
series of Sabbaths and holidays. Young England has
faith. Let this belief be a part of his faith—that what
is begun in good,lhat is to say, with good motives for
good objects, cannot end in evil, Let him, therefore,
pursue, rejoicingly, his endeavours to promote the well-
the people. will be
the people
Vine°Pheeirins;tohalsn.do'ewrino79oanybt the
. issues' will be
just what they
bgeriantegfuolffotih
whether in the form of a
lar regime—whether more or less popu they exhibit a
vast improvement or entire reconstruction of society.
To be sure, in any case Young England will make these
issues triumphs. It stands upon the old ways ; and g
very skilful but
peculiar use it makes of its position.
Does 15niversqlprevail? Su. rage why Young England
will show you how at was
_ the principle that taxation
ought
and representation should be co-extensive. Are An-
' nual Parliament! law ? why Young England says Of
rsformer times, was it not?' Very true;
,
caonudfoeit was so
r,our parts we don t despair yet of seeing poems
from Mr, Monckton Milnes, written to revive the old spirit
of democracy, or Mr. D'lsraeli taking a tour through the
provinces during a Parliamentary vacation to give a series
of lectures on the People's Charter, expatiating in due
in
sucecessiou on the antiquity of its different points with
amilamthmey7ction of an antiquarian who publicly unrolls a

tical notices on new literary publications, which, for
the most part, are drawn up with care, and penned in
a concise, impartial spirit.

NEW SPORTING MAGAZINE.

We have here two embellishments—one, a portrait
of the hone that won the last Doncaster St. Leger;
and the other, representing a pheasant in the act of
falling to the ground, having been just shot by a
sportsman, who appears in the back-ground of the
picture, in the midst of a thick copse. This last is a
very spirited engraving, all the details of which are
worked up with great tact. The literary department
of the work is devoted, as usual, to subjects of a sport-
ing character.

COLONIAL MAGAZINE.
The " Journal of a Voyage to Port Philip in
1842," which is the most interesting article in the
Number before us, contains some intelligent remarks
on the town of Melbourne, its present state, and its
future prospects. The " Colonial Intelligence " is
various and circumstantial, as usual.

BANKERS' MAGAZINE.
A periodical, as may be surmised from its title,
exclusively of a practical, monetary character, and
appealing to the tastes of men of business. The ob-
servations on the "Extortion of Money-lenders,"
which are penned in a bold, decided spirit, are calcu-
lated to be of much service to the commercial portion
of the community.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

SIR,—My name is Yangfang; I was born at
Wangfong, in the province of Quangtong, and I am
a diitant relation of the poor Keshen that was killed.
I learned some English at different ports, as Canton,
Macao, Hong-Kong. I came to England about the
fifth moon this year to learn better the language, and
some of your customs and religion. But lam much
confused with those things I see and hear, and must
ask your kindness, or some of your correspondents,
before I believe, as I am told yours is the largest
gazette of these western countries. I shall then be-
lieve what you write to me, for I know you will
speak nothing but true, and shall thank you for in
Pray answer some questions for me.
Do you call our inner land, the flowery country of
Cathay, by the name of China? Do you say the
needle of the magnet we use for guiding ships in their
courses on the great sea points to the north ? We
discovered it many ages before you knew it, and con-
sider it rather points to the south.
You are Christians by religion. Do you put a tax
now on the food and corn for the poor people
which is so big that the food cannot come to the
poor people ? for in Cathay, and all its countries)
we are pagans, and worship different gods, which
you call idols. 1, like most of the other Chinamen,
am a worshipper of Budh ; but our good Emperor,
the Brother of the Sun and Moon, gives a reward to
all the big ships which bring in enough rice, or he
does not order them to pay the dues of the port where
they come, which is a great help to them ; this is to
make the food cheap and plenty for the poor men ;
but tell rne, do you want to make it dear for the poor
men, and very little of it ?
Do your good Christian priests give help to make
the food dear, that they may get more money, and
do they act for our proverb that the full stomach
never thinks for the empty stomach ? Is it true
that the poor really drop down dead for hunger, as I
have read -in your great paper of news? In our
inner land, when people are crying for want, we
think it best to give them some work to do and pay
them, then with the money they buy the food; but
I am told you think it best to give them baths and
warm water. In your country is water good for the
hunger? Do the kind priests always give the water
for the hunger ? In our country we find it takes
away the thirstiness, but we do not drink it when we
want the food. Does the climate here make any dif-
ference in this, or is it only in the customs of the
English Christian people ?
When people are very poor in our land we give
them work to do that they may buy the food and eat
rice ; but you give them what you call charity, or put
them in prison, where they must not see their friends;
wife must not see husband, husband must not see
wife nor children,—is it so ? This very bad. Pray,
,Sir, tell me if it costs more money to put them
in the prisons than it does to let them work and pay
for their own food out of the prisons ? I think it is
in England, but not in Cathay, that the big fish eat
the little fish, the little fish eat the shrimps, and the
shrimps eat the mud.
_

But the Mandarins in our country are very bad,
and do the people much harm, and steal their food
and money, and then they say Mandarin very good
indeed to poor man. Are your Mandarins like ours ?
Pray tell me this plainly, with your own real English
honest word.

I hope you will pardon me for asking one more
little question. Is it true that you put all your ma-
nanure and nasty things, not on the lands, but into
the rivers? What fur do you this? It makes the
water not good to drink, but very nasty, and we could
not drink it so; but is this why you give water and
the bath to feed the hungry people ? Let me under-
stand.
In our inner land we save it all and sell it all, even
the hairs from shaving the head, and put it on the
land to make the rice, and many other things, grow
well and fast.

Is it true that you send big ships to the other side
of the world to get the manure of birds to make the
corn grow in the place of what you have, and put
into the rivers ?

Pray forgive the faults I make in English, and all
the mistakes of another land, and give me a true
answer to all these doubts which I ask-you, that I
may tell my countrymen when I get home, which I
intend soon to start.

From your humble slave,
YANGFANG.

Gloucester-place, Kentish-town.

CONSUMPTION OF PORTER AND
ALE IN LONDON AND ITS VICINITY
DURING THE LAST AND PRESENT YEAR.

An accurate Statement of the Number of Quarters of Malt
used by the under-mentioned Brewers, from the 10th of
October, 1843, to the 10th of October, 1844 ; distinguishing
those whose Consumption has Increased and Decreased :

I .°

Names, Signs, and Situations.

Barclay and Co., Anchor, South-
wark ' 108,510
Truman, Black Eagle, Spital-1
fields
Whitbread, Hine's Head, Chis-!
well-street I 51,706

Reid,* Griffin, Liquo ond-5t...1 51,830
Meux," Horse-shoe, St. Giles's 44,956
Combe, Wood Yard, Long-acre 42,524
Hoare, Red Lion, E. Smithfield 29,326
Calvert, Hour Glass, Thames-st. 29,923
Elliot, Stag, Pimlico .. 26,694
Thorne, T., Harrow, Westmin
ster. . 19,652
Charrington, Anchor, Mile-end 19,328
Goding, Lion, Lambeth ...... ... 16,465
Taylor, Barley Mow, Limehouse , 19,350
Gardner, Cannon, St. John's sti 15,350
Mann, J., Albion, Mile-end...i 14,895
Broad
wood, Lion, Golden-5q....1 15,141
Courage, Anchor, Horselydown 11,641
Wood, Artillery, Westminster 8,004
Moore, Scottish, Old- street ...... 7,332
Tubb, Castle, St. George's-field& 5,865
Manners, King's Arms, White-1
chapel ...... ..• •• 5,397
Strong and Co., Ratcliff 5,520
Kempson, Star, Mortlake
Abbott, 80w.....

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110,480

94,448

53,265
51,205
46,467
42,202
31,001

30,375

27,204

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1970!

138631

15591

625
1511
322
1675:
452

20,655
20,243
18,110
16,995
16,830
16,186
15,553
11,994
8,461
7,409
6,364

10031
915
i 16451

5,833
5,545
5,412
5,275

2355
1480
1291\
417
358,
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