The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-28 00:00:00

SEVERN NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENT,
1,7 WORCESTER.
Mr. BENTLEY has the honour to announce that (in con-
sequence of the Union of the Establishment of the late firm of
Flight, Barr, awl Barr, with that of Me:srs. Chamberlain,
Porcelain Manufacturers, and the determination of the pre-
sent firm of Chamberlain and Co., to carry on the whole of
their Ipines, at the works in Diglis-street), he has received in-
structions from the Proprietors, and will shortly have to sub
mit to PUBLIC COMPETITION one of the most eligible
RIVER-SIDE PROPERTIES in ENGLAND, situate in
the very CENTRE of the CITY of WORCESTER, and oc-
cupying the only available site for BONDED or other
'WAREHOUSES, on that extended Icale which the contem-
plated improvements in the Elver will demand.
The premises are FREEHOLD, lie compact, and comprise
various buildings of large dimensions, including four dwelli:-.g-
houses, with coach-houses anti extensive under-ground cellar-
age, .ncenpying a surface of nearly an acre, and extending to
the water's edge.
Further particulars will appear in a future paper; an& in
the meantime application to view, &c., may be made at the
Counting-house, at the Works, lliglis-street:—Letters to be
pre-paid'.

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surpassing every article hitherto introduced, possesses the fol-
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(even to gliss). It is perfectly impervious to wet Or. damp.
The more it is expo4ed to the atesplii,r.; the harder anitnert.
durable b*oiries It is .-fectiy free from any of the caustic
qualities of lime, and it may therefore be painted up3n as soon
as dry, as it is impossible khatit can vegetate or change colour,
nor can it be affected by frost or heat, or crack chip, or
peel off. To Merchants and Shippers, it must form a mot
important item of commerce, as it will keep for any length of
time, as fresh as delivered from the.manufactory ; with regard
to price, it is cheaper than any other Cement, and its lasting
qualities, render it a fortune to builders and others investing
capital in building speculations.
The Patentees have appoinad Messrs. Mann and Co., 5,
Maiden-lane, Queen-street, Cheapside, their sale agents, at
whose warehouses any quantity may be had, specimens may be
seen, and every information afforded.

, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FRO3I THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We anticipated the decision to which the
House must come on Mr. Wynn's motion, if it desired
to preserve a decent reputation for impartiality. Our
readers will observe that though parties on both sides
the House did not exactly coincide in the nature of their
objections to that motion, the arguments brought against
it from either side were sufficient to deprive it of all
support. We are sorry the House has not acted in equal
consistency with common sense in the larger matter, af-
fecting the other recently-questioned eleCtiOns. We
are totally at a loss to understand with what colour
of consistency the writ for Ipswich is issued, while the
writ for Nottingham remains suspended. We look upon
Sir Robert Peel's contrary conduct, in these two cases,
as one of those exceedingly shallow sacrifices to plausi-
bility,. which the Right Hon. Baronet's habit of mind
prompts on so many occasions. If there is anything
inure personal in it ; if there is the hope to harrass a
leading opponent by pursuing a particular inquiry', then
we can only say we are astonished so poor a motive can
commit a Minister to. such opposite courses. But Sir
Robert Peel thinks F,entlemen should not be subjected to
imputations on their motives. Well, then, we will
forbear from investigating those of the Right Hon.
Gentleman himself. But our forbearance from doing so
renders it still more difficult for us to account in any way
for what we must deem the palpable contradiction
between his treatment of Ipswich and Nottingham.
Whit is. the plea the 'Right_ lion. Baronet alleges for
tlie continued-suspension of the writ for Nottingham?
"He had voted for the suspension of the writ in the
case of. Nottingham, and. he did so upon this gropnd
the. lion. and Learned Gentleman charged certain
Members of the House with what he called a corrupt
compromise, for the • purpose of preventing inquiry
into bribery, and he stated that he should be able
to establish certain facts, and would undertake to
prove them if the House would give him the oppor-
tunity by instituting an inquiry. It was needless for
him (Sir R. Peel) to refer to the other four cases in-
cluded in the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's motion.
In the case of Nottingham, the Hon'. and. Learned Gen-
tleman said it was alleged that money had been lodged,
and that it had been stipulated that 'no opposition
should be offered in the event of-a vacancy of the seat,
and of a new election. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman
further stated that this allegation did not rest upon his
own mere unsupported assertion, but he adduced in
corroboration of the statement the fact, that although
the Committee had declared that the sitting Members
were entitled to their seats, yet, notwithstanding this,
one of the sitting Members immediately after accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds; and vacated his seat. Under
these circumstances the House assented to appoint the
Committee, and it was under these circumstances also
that he (Sir Robert Peel) gave his vote in favour of the
suspension of the writ."
Now, assuming any, or all these circumstances to rest
on evidence, instead of hearsay, what is there in any, or
all of them, to implicate the entire constituency ? What
can they even be conjectured to amount to, beyond a
compromise between certain individuals, not, by any
means, so extraordinary as to call for extraordi-
nary and exceptional procedure against the constituency
with reference to which it is alleged to have taken
place ? Nothing is proved against anybody—nothing
even alleged against the constituency of Nottingham,
taken as a body. What is done ? Why, the representa-
tion of that constituency is suspended indefinitely, be-
cause a Member being seated, and accepting the CO-..
tern Hundreds, is a circumstance—of suspicion ! So,
then, on suspicion—on hearsay, as to the substance of
the thing suspected—Sir Robert Peel concurs in inflict-
ing a deprivation which he regards as a serious one
(for so he told us last night, in the case of Ipswich) on
third parties, who are not even alleged to be implicated
in this suspicion.
COURIER.—The inquiries of Mr. Roebuck's Com-
mittee, will
.produce precisely the same impression on
the public mind as legal prosecutions for bribery in spe-
cially selected cases. The inherent vice of such inquiries
is their exclusiveness and partiality ; the supplementary
defect is the want of belief in the exceptional purity of
the members composing that Committee in the matter of
their own electioneering. Persons exercising judicial •
functions should not only be consciously clear of reproach •
but, like Caesar's wife, above suspicion. We are not
at all believers, any more than other people, in
the exclusive purity of Bath, Lambeth, &c. ; nor, to
take a wider range, do we think Leicester, Sheffield,
Wolverhampton, or Stockport, _one whit more cor-
rect of election morals than Nottingham, South-
ampton, Norwich, or Ipswich. We could give rea-
sons why, but we are quite satisfied they would be
.• rogatory. It is singular enough that the
• .gh purists never hint now at the county
e ection corruption, once so fertile a theme for their
oratorical displays. The county constituencies, the
" pig-headed" agricultural electors, as the Chronicle
delighted to stigmatise them, with "intellect as heavy as
their own acres," according to Lord John, are now by
tacit and general consent admitted par excellence to be
the special class, endowed with the electoral franchise, in
whims alone the absence of corruption and purity of elec-
tioneering morals may be sought for and met with.
STANDARD.—In the House of Lords last night Lord
Kinnaird manifested his good :taste and good feeling by
more ways than one, in a reference to the Queen's
letter, inviting contributions for the relief of her
Majesty's suffering subjects. First, his Lordship
took occasion to triumph in, a slight seeming lapse
of memory of the Duke of ellington, who had, on
a former occasion, intimated a doubt whether
such a letter had been issued ; and, next, he affected to
treat the object of the letter with levity, as if the occa-
sion for it were trifling, or that the possible relief that it
could call forth must be undeserving of consideration.
The public will know how to appreciate these manifesta-
tions of Lord Kinnaird's taste and feeling—will think, that
if the Duke of Wellington had forgotten for a moment
an act in which he had been a party, his Grace's
advanced age and inappreciable service through a life
devoted to his country's safety and honour, must have
forbidden any Englishman, with a man's heart in his
bosom, to make the circumstance the occasion of an ex-
ulting sneer—will think, too, that-to damp the exertion
of national benevolence by treating it as uncalled-for or
necessarily inefficient, is not the part of a patriot or a
philanthropist. The Duke of Wellington gave a manly
and a satisfactory explanation of his mistake, which did
not arise in any respect from forgetfulness, but from the
fact that the letter had been issued during his absence
from town, although determined upon at a meeting of
the Cabinet, at which he had assisted. This is gratifying,
because it removes an impression which, while it would
not in the least justify Lord Kinnaird, would be painful
to the whole nation. Supposing that the Duke of Wel-
lington bad, in the 74th year of his age, and after nearly
50 years of services such as no other man has ever rendered -
to a people, given proof that he too suffers by those
effects of time and labour which spare none of our race—
with what sense but that of filial reverence and filial
sorrow could the melancholy admonition be received ?
Happily, it is not so ; but this does not in the least exte-
nuate the conduct of the Scotch lord. Upon the other
part of Lord Kinnaird's offence, for such it truly
was, he was sufficiently rebuked by the replies of
Lord Ripon and the Bishop of London. What.
matters it the cause by which thousands of our fellow-
subjects arc subjected to eve' privations ? Are they
who are able to relieve them to glint up their hands until
' satisfied that affairs might have been so managed as to
obviate distress, or until they are assured that the relief
' which the.contribute will be effectual ? By imposing
such conditions kelief must be postponed uatil the list
friend'ot the poor removes them from the want of it..