The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

=►MEETING AT LINCOLN.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
I enclose jou a requisition, to the Mayor, calling a meeting
on the sit' ject of the Corn-laws. It took place in the Guild-
hall, and was one of the lar: est meetings ever known in this
city ; scores went aw..y unable to gain admittance. A resolu-
tion for their otal and immediate repeal, and an extension of
the suffrage was carried by a large majority. Mr. Cobden was
unanimously requested to present the petition, wince is al-
ready numerously signed. Distress exists here to a grievous
extent among the labouring population, and the trade never
more depresed.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We have seen with considerable as-
tonishment, not umningled with disgust, an account
in a contemporary paper of the committal to prison,
by a Magistrate in Gloucestershire, of two boys
under the age of thirteen, for the truly juvenile
delinquency of stealing a few apricots. The ino-
rance of country Justices is often a subject of re-
mark, and sometimes ofridicule ; but when the obsti-
nate stupidity of these persons has an effect so awful
as the ultimate destruction of all Moral principle
in the youthful mind, it becomes a matter no longer
for sarcasm or contempt, but for vigorous interference,
in order to check an evil so dangerous to the best in-
terests of society. It may be considered a grave accu-
sation that we are about to make, but we hold respon-
sible for every crime that a boyish culprit may in his
riper roguery commit, the Magistrate who has doomed
to the contamination ofa prison a child who has perpetrat-
ed some juvenile offence which the rod would have suffi-
ciently punished. To say.nothing of the undue harsh-
ness of sending to gaol the son of a poor person, for an
offence which in the child of richer parents would be
regarded as venial—to leave out of the queition alto-
gether the odious practice of dealing out punishment
to high and low by a most unequal measure—there is,
beside the temporary injustice, a deep and permanent
wrong in dooming to moral destruction the youth in
whom the seeds of error have begun to show them-
selves. But the wretched individuals themselves are
not the only persons injured by the severe and injudi-
cious manner in which they are dealt with ; for society.
also suffers by the great additional amount of crime that
is thus nurtured into maturity from the early seeds of
vice, which when transplanted into the soil of a prison
are sure to spring up in rank luxuriance. That such
will be the case is no mere supposition, but a proved
and admitted fact ; for all who have paid attention
to the subject of prison discipline agree in testi..
fying to the truth of our assertion, that the at-
mosphere of a gaol communicites a deadly: contamina-
tion to the mind of youth, which, whenonce infected,
seldom regains a state of purity.
STANDARD.—We have received a copy of the
Manchester Guardian, containing a report of a mill-
owners' meeting, at which it seems to have been agreed
to assail the House of Commons with a forty-
Cobden power, and, failing that instrument of
dull aggression, to commence a civil war.
Madness is a mild name for the furious
distemper into which the millowners have been thrown by Mr. Ferrand's speech. The raving of
the millowners can be so properly compared to
nothing as to the agonies of the Domdaniel, when
visited by the destined destroyer--
" An anguish yell ensued,
And sure no human voice had scope or power
For that prodigious shriek,
Whose pealing echoes thundered through, tile den,'
Dim grew thy dying light."
Aye, and dimly. burns the light of the factory
Moloch. An inference from Mr. Perrand's ex-
posure seems to have reached every one—it is,
less
than the sake of the manufacturing trade itself, no less
than for the honour of the country, a much stricter
attention must be given by the Legislature to the
millowners. It will probably be thought necessary to
examine, and to brand manufactured goods, intended
for exportation, as some kinds of provisions are exa-
mined and branded, •in order to save the character of
the sountry ; but more of this hereafter, when we
can examine a little more in detail the Manchester.
Guardian report.
.COURlER.—Elsewhere we copy from our able
Weekly. Contemporary, the Conservative Journal, a
remarkable case of pauper felony which lately
curred at Stockport, and of which the de-
tails are given, as they transpired in the Police
Court, in the respectable and leading Paper of that
locality, the Stockport Advertiser. The facts briefly
are, that an unhappy pauper girl was taken before the
Mayor on a charge of felony, by the authorities of the
workhouse, she having audaciously adventured, out of
her own poor pittance, to hoard up 21bs. of bread in one
week, which, considering it to be her own property,
as being the creation of her own savings at the ex-
pense of her own craving appetite, she carried out of
the house, as a mite for the relief of a sister,
Still more wretched and in want than herself; and
she carried it away not clandestinely, but openly,
and with the full knowledge of the matron •at
least, to whom she exhibited the miserable prize
she was bearing away. After a solemn hearing upon
the merits before his honour the Mayor, this extraor-
dinary culprit was discharged with an injunction to go
and sin no more, and the penalty of imprisonment
to which she was liable, according to the strict
construction of the law, was beneficently remitted.
We however should rather have considered this kind-
hearted subject of New Poor-law mercies richly en-
titled to a civic crown, not only as a tribute demanded
by such a noble and disinterested example of self-
sacrifice to the charities and affections of kind, but as
the record of so remarkable and almost unparal-
leled an achievement, the forlorn hope of economical
enterprise, as the accumulation and abstraction
of a positive surplus of 2lbs. of bread out
of that- hard measure of supply which, after long
and puzzling calculations and endless • paring
down, has been determined by the new Poor-law sages
of Somerset House and their cunning secretary, to be
somewhere about the exact point of demarcation where
soul and body may possibly be kept together; but the
merest line beyond which enters within the domain,
and is the incipient stage of quasi starvation.
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y t. &sties the King and the
ate Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the late
Princess Augusta, the Princess Sophia, her Serene Highness the
Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses Mary and Rosa, her' Grace the
Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and the Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire, Argyll, Man-
chester, and Marlborough, Lord Hill, &c. In addition to the
above distinguished patronage to the Newly Invented Spectacle
Lenses and Sound Magnifiers Invisible Operative Voice Conductor,
Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly,
observe directly opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King William-
street, City, state that their valuable inventions have also gained
the sanction and unqualified approbation of above 400 of the prin-
cipal members of the Medical profession. Immediately these
NeWly Invented Spectacle Lenses are placed before extremely im-
perfect vision that mist and dulness which appear before the eyes
is at once removed, every object becomes clear and distinct, so that
the most aged imperfect sight is brought to its youthhil, natural,
and original state. Their Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Mag-
nifiers, give immediate relief to old standing extreme cases of deaf.
ness, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe directly opposite the
York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City.--No connection
with persons of the same name.
The young Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, wh•
lately married the heir to- the throne of all the Hussies, was
surprised by the following ruse on the art of her imperial
father-in-law :--On being conducted to leer apartments, she
found them completely furnished, even to the most minute
details of footstools, &c., exactly in the same sty's as the suite
of rooms of her own Castle of 'Darmstadt. On the drawing..
rosin table was placed a small silver bell. The Emperor re-
quested the Princess to try , whether the bell had the same
sound as that which she had at Darmstadt. The Princess
shook the bell, when suddenly the doors were thrown open,"
and all the old and faithful servan s to whom she had hid adieu,
and whom she thought were then in the Castle at Darmatadt,
rushed in, and overshelmed the Princess with their ace-lama,
tions of joy, being still allowed to serve her.

the present toll, together with affording more accomods-
tion to the public, would be of advantage to the Proprie-
tors. He also thought the Directors were entitled to the
thanks of the Company and public for giving the matter
so much consideration, and for making the suggestions
contained in their Report.
Mr. MORGAN concurred in the obserTations4hich had
been made by the proposer of •the resolution, and se-
conded its adoption.
Mr. SANGSTER was opposed to the !notion. He was
very sorry the toll had ever been reduced at all. The
Company were going on safely and well until the toll
was reduced to one halfpenny ; they were induced to do
so, having been told that they would not only-double,
but treble,- their revenue, and, in fact, that they would
hate then had 250,000/. more in their pockets if they
had imposed a halfpenny toll from the commencement ;
all that calculation was untrue ; instead of their revenues
being doubled, or at all increased, they were several
hundred pounds less this year than the receipts for a
corresponding period during the penny toll. The
public had no right to think or expect the Pro-
prietors- could continue a system which caused such
losses, and certainly it could not for a moment be sup-
posed that the Proprietors were called upon, in justice,
reason, or equity, to keep the toll lower than Id. The
Proprietors had expended a very large sum in the erec-
tion of one of the most beautiful and ornamental struc-
tures in the world, and all they expected was a moderate •
interest for their money. They did not get anything
like that ; they scarcely got 1 per cent. for their capital.
The loses sustained were enormous, and certainly the
Proprietors had every reason to complain that the public
(lid not support them, instead of the public having reason
to complain or inveigh against them for returning back
to the penny toll. Surely the public could not expect to
put 'Waterloo Bridge on a level with a petty, pittiful,
beggarly hatch.--(Laughter.) On the whole, be was' of
opinion that the original toll of one penny should be re-
sined from .and. after the 15th of March next, and he
would propose an amendment to that effect.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH seconded the umendxnent-
an Act of Parliament was passed for the purpose 'of
purchasing the Bridge, as he believed it was in the con-
tAaplation of (3 owrinnent to do—it would be the in-
terest of the Proprietors to increase their receipts as
much as possible, and he thought that the beet mode of
effecting that object was to resume the penny toll.
Mr JENKINS thought that recurring to the penny toll
would be a very hazardous thing.
Mr SAVAGE and other Proprietors having expressed
their opinions in favour of the existing toll,
The resolution, adopting the Directors' recommenda-
tion, was carried by a large majority—there being only
five in support of the amendment.
The meeting adjourned at half-past two o'clock to
Thursday, 2d of June next.