The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

CLEANING THE PAVEMENTS, and
EMPLOYING THE PO3ll.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,-Why has not the desirable plan for the above object,
made public by the Lord Mayor a week ago, been taken up by
any one 2 Our streets are in a miserable state as regards con-
venience and the credit of our metrorelis, and thousands of out
distressed poor would be thankful for employment, which, as
there stated, could be obtained during the winter by a sub-
scription of a few shillings per house. Surely this is a double
state of things which ought not to go on a week longer I Every
body I have met approves of the hints there offered to the judg-
ment of readers. Surely some public-spirited and benevolent
persons should set them a going.—Your's respectfully,
Jan. 6, 1844. BENEVOLENS.

MEETING IN TOXTETH PARK.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE.

A meeting of the Anti-Monopoly Association was
held in Toxteth Hall, Mill-street, last evening, for the
purpose of affording an opportunity to the electors of
the North Ward to discuss the question of free-trade
with Mr. Murray, one of the lecturers of the League.
The public are already aware that the Anti-Monopoly
Association called a meeting of the electors of North
Toxteth for a similar purpose last week, and that,
owing to the extraordinary conduct pursued by Dr.
llarbord on that occasion, no expression of opinion
upon the all-important question could be arrived at.
e have now to state that the Doctor's conduct last
night, was anything but what we should have expected.
In the first place, the ship-carpenters elected him to
the chair ; and, no sooner did he become the presi-
dent, than he also became the partisan. He com-
menced by saying that Mr. Murray was a hired
lecturer, by asking whether there were any ex-
trumpery speakers to address the chair, and by en-
deavouring, as far as in him lay, to throw an air of
ridicule and burlesque over the proceedings. And not
only did he thus evince his partiality, but he also took
upon him to reply to Mr. Murray, and to advocate at
some length the cause of the monopolists, while ever and
anon his political adherents, by whom the hall
was crowded, commenced the Kentish fire, and scenes
of uproar, such as we have not space to allude to
in detail, but certainly such as we have seldom wit-
nessed on former occasions, occurred. Mr.
Murray addressed the meeting, in the first instance,
in an able speech of three quarters of an hour's
duration, in which he showed the evil effects of
monopoly upon the inhabitants of England generally.
Three operatives affected to reply to him, and so also,
as we have said, did the Doctor. The latter, in the
course of his remarks, called upon the Tories never
to aid the Radical newspapers, by sending them ad-
vertisements or increasing their circulation. Mr.
Hughes moved a resolution to the effect, that it was the
opinion of the meeting that all the monopolies, whether
agricultural, manufacturing, or colonial, were unjust in
principle, injurious in practice, and ought to be to-
tally and unconditionally repealed. Mr. Jones se-
conded the motion. Mr. Robert Inman proposed an
amendment to the effect, that the meeting strongly
deprecated the conduct of a body of men calling
themselves the Anti-Monopoly Association, in agi-
tating the minds of the people, and endeavouring to
set them against the Ministry of the day under the
specious pretext of bettering the condition of the
people, while their,only objects were to recover their
lost political influence and to further their own selfish
views, to the great detriment and ruin of the best
interests of the country. Robert M'Clay seconded
the amendment, which was carried amidst great up-
roar by a small majority. A vote of thanks was then
passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated
by giving " three groans for the League ;" each of
the groaners seemingly felicitating himself on the
success of this discreditable trick and paltry outrage
upon the freedom of discussion.—Liverpool Journal
of Saturday.

LIEUTENANT AfuNßo.—An accredited agent on the
part of Lieutenant Munro has been three or four times at the
Horse Guards, to know the feeling of the Commander-in-
Chief towards his principal, and the answer which he has inva-
riably received is that when his present leave of absence ex-
pires his Grace will consider him as " absent without leave,"
and remove him from the service altogether ; an application
for an extended leave of absence was met with a blunt refusal.
In this dilemma stands the accused duellist—he will either lose
the price of his commission, the regulation value being 1,6001.,
or have to take his chance of a trial. I have also heard, from
another source, that since the verdict of the coroner's jury, he
resided in lodgings in one of the streets off the Strand (Ce-
cil, I think), under the assumed name of Captain Johnson, for
several weeks, and that it was the accidental use of his name
by bis own wife, when visiting him there, that betrayed his in-
cognito, and forced him to leave the place, and in two days
after he had done so, Inspector Aggs, of the police, got scent
of his " whereabouts." So much for the vigilance of this over
puffed body.—London Correspondent of the Hampshire Inde-
pendent.

NOVEL DEER HUNTING.—The inhabitants of
Woolwich were surprised, between two and three o'clock on
Saturday afternoon to witness a fine full-grown deer run down
the New-road, and along Thomas-street and Wellington-
street, into Lower Market-street, and shortly afterwards fol-
lowed by a field of sportsmen, with a pack of hounds. The
deer took refuge in a timber yard, in Lower Market-street,
where it was secured and taken to the Earl of Chatham public.
house, until a cart was procured to take it home. The run
after this fine animal must have afforded excellent sport, as it
was started at Lock's Bottom, near Tonbridge-wells, by the
subscription pack hunting in that quarter.
A letter was received in Liverpool on Friday,
stating that Parks, formerly a constable in the Liverpool police
force, and well known on London-road, where his walk was
for four or five years, was murdered in Carmarthen by the Re-
beccaites, who threw his body into the river. He was a very
resolute, daring man; was dismissed, some time ago, by the
Watch Committee, but subsequently was admitted into the
county constabulary in the Welsh disturbed districts. His
head, it is said, was literally smashed in pieces.
THE ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETINGS.—THE LEAGUE
FUND.—During the present week, a number of spirited meet-
ings have been held in various parts of the country, to promote
the cause of free trade, and to aid the great League fund of
100,000/. That at O.dham, on Tuesday evening, we noticed
in our last, and accounts of others appear in our columns this
day. The subscriptions at these meetings were as follow :
Bacup, 2151. (in all 1,315/.) ; Bolton, 5051. (in all 1,2051.) ;
Bury, 800/. (in all 1,1001.) ; Oldham, 860/. ; Ossett (York-
shire), 50/. ; Pudsey (Yorkshire), 1121. ; and Leek (Staf-
fordshire), 371. Total of these amounts subscribed in the
room, 2,5791. ; and, including former amounts subscribed this
year to the same fund, 4,679/. There was to be a meeting last
evening at Burnley, which would be addressed by Mr. Cobden,
M.P., and Mr. W. J. Fox, of London ; and another at
Otlev, Yorkshire, to be addressed by Mr. Flint and other
gentlemen; and almost every evening for seine weeks will ho
similarly occupied, the great difficulty being to gratify the
general desire to have a deputation from the League to address
the meeting.—Manchester Guardian of Saturday.
THE RUN-AWAY LADY.—The girl whose myste-
rious appearance amongst us recently caused considerable ex-
citement, and who so adroitly escaped from her watchers, has
again emerged from her obscurity. We understand she is now
staying at an inn in Linton, East Lothian, where the impression
is the same as that formed at other places, that she is decidedly
insane.— Scotsman.

Upwards of 400 horses, purchased by dealers from
the south at the late Christmas shows, were forwarded by rail-
way from York last week to London and other southern desti-
nations. —Hull Packet.

A Rur.E 1111SAPPLIED.—On the entrance to the
chief constable's office in our watch-house are painted, in bold
italic characters, the words, " Magistrates only admitted by
this door ;" the door in question being that by which all
thieves, drunkards, and other offenders are ushered in. We
believe the solution of the absurd puzzle to be, the removal of
the door from:the Justices' consulting-room to its present situa-
tion.—Banner of Ulster.
A very beautiful sword has been transmitted to
Captain Sir George Sartorius, of the Malabar, by General
Espartero, in commemoration of Sir George's services in Por-
tugal, which so powerfully influenced the establishment of
Spanish freedom. The sword was presented to General Espar-
tero by the province of Santander.—Devonport Telegraph.
We are assured that up to a late hour yesterday
afternoon no final determination had been come to at the Home-
office on the case of the four unhappy men now under sentence
of death for the brutal murder of Lord Derby's gamekeeper.
The applications in their favour were still undergoing most
anxious considerat ion. Observer.

LovE AND SUICIDE.—Some weeks ago, a young
woman, called Mary Whiteley, who had lived as housekeeper
with Mr. Hay, surgeon, in Park-square, was missing, and,
from the circumstance of her clothes being found on a post near
the river side, there could he little doubt that she had sought a
watery grave. Day after day, however, the river was searched
in vain for the body, and hopes began to be entertained that
she was still alive. These hopes have proved to be groundless.
On Wednesday last, upwards of three weeks from the day when
she was missed, her body rose to the surface of the water, and
was discovered floating down the River Aire, betwixt the flood-
gates and the dam, at Knostrop. From the investigation which
toop place at the inquest, held on the same day, it appeared
that an attachment had subsisted for some time previously, be-
twixt the unfortunate woman and a fish.dealer' called Robert
Armstrong. The intimacy, however had been broken off, and
Armstrong was going to be married in a short time to another
woman. The 'jury gave in their verdict—" Found drowned,
but by what means there is not sufficient evidence to show."--
Leeds Times.

THE MURDER NEAR WEST CALDER.—We learn
that a clue has been obtained by the county police, which is
likely to lead to the detection of the murderer of the old man
Geddes, near West Calder, to which we referred in our last ;
but at present it might be injudicious to give particulars.—
Scotsman.

DEATH OF LADY GREY, OF GRODY.—Her Ladyship
died at the Earl of Stamford and NI arrington's seat, Dunham
Massey, Cheshire, on Thursday, after a long illness. She was
Lady Katherine Charteris, fourth daughter of the present Earl
of Wemyss, and married 20th of December, 1824, Lord Grey,
of Groby, eldest son of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington,
by whom, who died 24th of September, 1835, her Ladyship
has left issue two children, the present .ord Grey, of Groby,
born 7th of January, 1827, and the Hon. Margaret Grey, born
12th of December, 1835.

Sir Robert Peel gives a grand Parliamentary
dinner on the eve previous to the assembling of the House of
Commons. The entertainment will be to a party of about
forty. The Right Hon. Baronet does not return to Drayton
Manor, as his presence will be required in town from the press
of public business.
HOBUOUSE AND Co.'s BANKRUPTCY.—In the Bris-
tol District Court of Bankruptcy, on Thursday last, dividends
were declared on the separate estates of Hobhouse, Philloit,
and Lowder. Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. Phillott's private estates
paid 20s. in the pound. On that of Mr. Lowder a dividend of
3s. in the pound, in addition to 9s. in the pound already paid,
was declared. At the meeting on the joint estate, which is
fixed for to-morrow ( Tuesday ), it is probable that a dividend
of Is. 10d. or 2s. in the pound will be declared; and it is
expected that a further and final dividend will be paid, snaking,
in the gross, 9s. 6d. in the pound.
A " JOLLY NosE."—The following, copied from
a provincial paper, has been going the round of the Paris
journals :—" At the Hure, in the department of the Upper
Saone, may be seen a man who was formerly an under cook,
who has had his nose cut off by M. Camot, a surgeon of
Hure, and replaced by the ramp of a living fowl. This en-
grafting has perfectly succeeded, and M. Camot has only the
trouble of, from time to time, plucking the feathers from the
restored pose."