The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-05 00:00:00

SOCIETY OF DANCERS.

Yesterday evening a general meeting of the theatrical
dancers, and of the professors and teachers of dancing, was
held at the Western Literary and Scientific Institution, Lei-
cester-square, for the purpose of fortning a society, the ob-
ject of which would be to afford relief to aged and infirm
members (both male and female) throughout the United
Kingdom.
J. Buts, Esq., having been unanimously called to the
chair, read a series of rules, for the purpose of carrying out
the intententions of the meeting for the regulation of the
society. He then addressed the meeting at considerable
length, and expressed his hope that those members of the
profession connected with the theatrical world, as well as
those engaged as professors, who possessed wealth and in
fluence, would come forward with liberality in favour of their
less fortunate brethren.
After a short but able address from Mr. ROBERT HOLFORD,
Mr. W. OXBERRY, of the Princess's Theatre, moved that
the rules then read by the Chairman, be adopted, printed,
and put into circulation, by advertisement and otherwise.
He expressed his regret, that although almost every other
profession had its benevolent fund, upon which the members
could fall back in case of sickness or misfortune, yet, up to
the present moment, a class of persons so numerous as those
composing the meeting, had wholly neglected such an im-
portant and benevolent subject.
A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the
meeting, which was most respectably attended, broke up.

FIRE IN OXFORD-STREET.--Wednesday night a fire
of somewhat an alarming character broke out in the exten-
sive range of premises known as Stratford House, situate at
No. 161, Oxford-street, in the occupancy of Messrs. Taylor
and Morel, jewellers and dealers in fancy goods. An instant
alarm was raised, and in the course of a few minutes a great
body of the D division of police were on the spot, as well as
the St. Marylebone parish-engine. That part of the premises
where the fire originated was, with its contents, destroyed,
the adjoining apartments much dainaged by fire and water,
and the ceilings underneath greatly damaged by water. The
loss is fully covered by insurances in the Sun and Guardian
Fire-offices.

THE CONVICT DALMAS.—On Wednesday Drs.
Sutherland and Monro again visited the convict Dalmas, by
the direction of the Right Hon. the Home Secretary. Neither
his daughters nor any other visitors had been admitted to see
him. This, perhaps, was the more necessary, as at the time
of Dr. Sutherland's visit on Tuesday, the convict was natu-
rally excited. Dalmas was again conducted into the pre-
sence of Drs. Sutherland and Monro, by the principal turn-
key, Mr. Stiles, and he was dressed in the same manner as
on the preceding day. The interview lasted nearly an hour.
Several questions were put to the convict, the whole of which,
we are informed, he answered in the most composed manner.
Dalmas, if possible, appeared more cheerful than at the in-
terview on Tuesday, and conducted himself with the most
remarkable fortitude. Both Baron Gurney and the Home
Secretary are now entirely satisfied with the evidence, which
has undergone the most searching investigation since Satur-
day last at the Home-office. Sir James Graham having
stated that he would recommend the convict as an object of
the clemency of the Crown, provided sufficient and justifiable
grounds were produced to warrant the Right Hon. Gentle-
man in so doing, Drs. Sutherland and Monro again examined
the authorities of the prison, who had been in attendance on
the prisoner both before and after the trial, relative to his
genermil conduct and behaviour. The physicians would
make their report to the Home Secretary yesterday,
and it• is not improbable that the result would be communi-
cated to the High Sheriff the same evening. At any rate,
the fate of the convict will be early determined and an-
nounced to him to-day.
IMPORTATION OF GOODS .FROM MYSORE. —The
Lords of the Treasury having had under consideration a
letter from the East India and China Association re•
specting the admission of sugar and other articles from
Mysore, their Lordships have directed the Commis-
sioners of Customs to be apprised that Mysore produce
is legally admissible as produce of Madras. A copy of
this order has been furnished to the various departments
in London, and also to the collectors and comptrollers at
the several outports of the United Kingdom, for their
information and government.

Thai whenever prices expand in this country to a remu-
nerating level—namely, to that just and proper level which
permits of taxation being added to natural or gold prices—
then, under our present system, gold, not being permitted to
rise, becomes the cheapest commodity in the British market,
and is sure to be exported in preference to our manufactured
goods.
That the large sum of taxation in this country, levied first
by Customs and Excise on the producing classes to the ex-
tent of about thirty-five millions annually, enhances the
price of all commodities produced, and consequently requires
a circulating medium so expansive i❑ its nature as to permit
taxation, indirectly levied, to be added to natural price;
without such a medium, the taxation, for the most part, rests
upon the producing classes—an end never contemplated by
the Legislature when this form of taxation was imposed.
That, in 1797, the nation, under the administration of Mr.
Pitt, adopted a legal-tender paper-currency, convertible into
gold at the market price ;—that it became possible by this
means to extend the National Debt and taxation, and at the
close of the war to discharge a large portion of the debt
so .. created. That what was . called depreciation of
the paper-currency in that •day was really nothing
more than the just operation of the symbolic currency,
not intrinsically valuable, allowing the indirect taxation ex-
isting in this country to be added to natural price—that is to
say, the pound to become less available in the purchase of
commodities in exact proportion as the price of such commo-
dities had become enhanced by indirect taxation. This state
of the circulation, which is calculated to facilitate foreign
trade, existed from the year 1797 to 1819, when the system
of such symbolic money was abandoned, .and it became im-
possible in future, to any just extent, to add inch/sect taxation
to price.

That from its scarcity, and limited extent as a commodity,
gold is not desirable, and will not suffice, and indeed is unfit
as a medium of internal circulation in this country ; while
experience and the nature of things abundantly prove that
it is a most suitable commodity for measuring the transac-
tions and interchanges of nation with nation. That to adopt
gold at its natural value as the national currency, is a retro-
gression from civilisation—is indeed to revert to the ancient
and rude system of barter, admitting of no modification aris-
ing from circumstances as they exist in this nation. That the
gold equivalent currency, proposed for the future to rule in
this country, can only admit of a range of prices on the level
of gold—namely, the continental level.
It is only right, therefore, that Sir Robert Peel should show
how, in this country, prices are to be kept down, as he has
publicly avowed he designs they should be, to the level of
gold, and the taxation incident to the National Debt is to be
defrayed. It is right, toe, the Minister should show with what
ustice—until the National Debt is paid off or extensively re-
duced—the Government of this country can confine the inter-
changes of the nation to a currency that has the effect of
throwing so heavy a sum of taxation as that of the Excise
and Customs on the industrious classes of the nation—an
effect most unjust and oppressive to those classes, leading to
the overstrained, because underpaid, employment of the fac-
tory and to the insufficient remuneration of agricultural
labour.

Till these objections are satisfactorily answered the Com-
mittee of the Society for the Emancipation of Industry con-
sider it is due to the agricultural, manufacturing, and indus-
trial classes of this country that the Bill now before Parlia-
ment should be stayed. Delay would not interfere with the
proper notice to the Bank of England, and, if there be rea-
son or truth in the objections now advanced, they ought to
be submitted to the consideration of a Committee of the
House of Coinmons, when the Committee of this Society
would be ready to find parties willing and capable of proving
what is here alleged.
With these views, the Committee trust you will be in-
duced to take such a course as will have the effect of ascer-
taining the truth or error of the averments made ;—if true,
they should have an important effect in the regulation of the
currency; if untrue, it is important for the quiet and satis-
faction of the nation, and the industrious classes generally,
that these rapidly extending opinions should be disproved.—
I have the honour to remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, Chairman.
22, Parliament•street, July 3, 1844.

POLAND.
THE LATE THOMAS CAMPBELL.

THE COMMITTEE OF THE POLISH EMIGRATION IN LONDON
TO THE COUNCIL OF TIIE LITERARY ASSOCIATION OF THIS
FRIENDS OF POLAND.

38, Great Pulteney-street.polden-sonare_
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lii Lurcla and Gentlemen,—Poland has lately lost several
of her most devoted friends in this country, and that loss has
vga.s nu
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ThAssociation.
It is with the most painful feelings that we have received
the intelligence of that sad bereavement which has afflicted
the hearts of all our countrymen. Mr. Campbell was one of
the oldest friends and warmest advocates of the cause of our
country. His noble sympathy with her misfortunes begun
when lie began to think, and ended but in the grave. A
youthful bard, he bewailed the fate of Poland, and in the
most sublime lines he gave to the world "the bloodiest pic-
ture in the book of time," when " Sarmatia fell unwept,
without a crime ;" and to the Poles he gave the consoling
" Pleasures of Hope."
When the recent efforts of the Poles to regain the inde-
pendence of their country proved unsuccessful—when she
became anew a "victim of the tyrant's rage," and when her
sons were forced to seek an asylum in foreign lands, Mr.
Campbell stepped forward as an old friend of our father-land,
became one of the first founders of the Literary Association
of the Friends of Poland, and devoted his talents and his
means to the promotion of the cause, of which he was a
faithful defender. His ardent wish was to see the triumph
of the cause—

" Come but the day when Poland's fight is won,
And on my grave-stone shine the morrow's sun."
Such were his sentiments. Providence has not allowed him
to see that day. He has departed this life, carrying with
him to the grave the affection of the Poles, who will pre-
serve his memory, and will bequeath it to posterity.—We
have the honour to be, my Lords and Gentlemen, your most
obedient servants, L. JABLONSKI, President.
COUNT M. GRABOWSKI.
T. OLIZAROWSKI.
V. F. KUIZYNSKI.
_ . . .

John Terlecki, Secretary. - -----
Literary Association of the Friends of Poland;
Sussex-chambers, Duke-street, St. James's, July 3.
Gentlemen,—We are anxious, before the tomb closes on
the remains of our mutual friend, to express our unfeigned
regret at the loss we have sustained in the death of Mr.
Thomas Campbell, and to testify our .admiration for his ta-
lents, and respect for his memory.
This sad event has deprived us of a venerated and much-
esteemed colleague, and the Polish refugees of an ardent and
zealous advocate. -

And though this proffered testimony of respect to a de-
parted genius is unavailing—though praise can no longer
strike the ear of him who unfortunately is no more—still it
is a melancholy gratification to recal- to remembrance his
strenuous exertions on behalf of a people distinguished for
their patriotism, and the indomitable courage they have uni-
formly displayed in re-asserting their national independence
against the northern despot and his brother-spoliators.
Our lamented friend, as is well known, was early imbued
with a sense of Poland's wrongs. The conflicts which she
has been forced to sustain in fighting for her rights and liber-
ties, against a conspiracy of odious tyrants, fired his youthful
temperament, and roused his just indignation. How pathetic
and soul-stirring are those inspiring lines from that celebrated
poem, which will give perpetuity to the memory of his taste
and genius :
" Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell,
And freedom shrieked, as Kosciusko fell ! "
Nor did Mr. Campbell content himself with a mere ab-
stract feeling of sympathy for the friendless and destitute
Poles. No, his purse was open to them with a liberality
far more in accordance with his generous nature than with
the extent of his means; and early in the year 1832, in
conjunction with the Polish poet Niemcewicz and the celebrated
Prince Czartoryski, he founded this Association for the pur-
pose of diffusing and keeping alive in the public mind a lively
interest for ill-fated Poland. His pathetic, eloquent, and
fervid address to our countrymen, throughout the empire, as
our first President, on behalf of that unfortunate country, was
eminently effective and successful. By imparting a knoW-
ledge of the objects of the parent Society, he conciliated much
powerful support from men of all parties in the State. -
It will be needless to dwell further on the merits of a man
so universally known and beloved as Mr. Campbell. This
brief allusion to his beneficial labours for Poland, will suffice
to record our opinion of his virtues, and our sorrow for the
loss of a colleague, whose bright name sheds so much lustre
on our Association.

We have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your very obedient servants,
(On behalf of the Association),
DUDLEY COUTTS STUART, Vice- President.
CHARLES SZULCZEWSKI, Resident Sec.
To the Executors of the late Thomas Campbell, Esq.

WOOLWICH, JULY 3.—lt has now been decided
that a body of the metropolitan police force shall be ap•
pointed to do duty in the Royal Arsenal, and they are ex-
pected to commence to-morrow. The present gate-keepers
received notice last evening that their services would not be
requred in that capacity in future.
FURNITURE BROKERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.
'—The fifth anniversary dinner-of this Society took place on
Tuesday evening, at the Canonbury Tavern, Islington, J.
Shuttleworth, Esq., in the chair, supported by Messrs. Toplis,
Price, Stranson, Phillips, and other distinguished members of
the profession, The object of the Institution is to relieve
aged and decayed tradesmen in the above branch, who have
become reduced through misfortune in business, by gifts of
15/. annually. From the report read, it appeared that the
funds of the Institution are in a very prosperous conditlon,
nearly 1,0001. being already invested in the funds. After the
cloth was removed, and the usual loyal toasts had been dis-
posed of, the Chairman proposed " Prosperity to the Furni-
ture Brokers' Benevolent Institution," which was responded
to with great enthusiasm. Mr. Winter, the founder of this
charity, was prevented from being present by severe indis-
position.
SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CON-
DITION OF THE LABoURINO CI,AssES.—HiS Royal highness
Prince Albert has been graciously pleased to accept the office
of President of the Society for the Improvement, of the Con-
dition of the Labouring Classes, which has already been
trellised by. the Queen and the Queen Dowager.

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