The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-10 00:00:00

re-157(1-e-, WINDSOR ELECTION.
~,N<=7";l/4-, ~..,,d AA 21. accordance with the proclamation made in the course of
:el ''.-..'ree'V;,,.Zl . , past week by Thomas Clark, Esq., the Mayor and re.
i>sisr
or, ;._.;_-14:4i, r ing officer of the borough of Windsor, of the receipt by
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..ee 1:' Al , from the Sheriff of Berkshire, of a precept to held an
e- t ‘ e Lion of a burgess to serve in Parliament, in the room of
- ....,;" 0" n Ramsbottom, Esq., deceased, the nomination of the
;) ''.,,v— e', eet I le didates to supply the vacancy took place on Saturday at the
,ei 7; egoi :, •, n Hall. Notwithstanding the retirement of Mr. Walter,
;'!-,i.e.._,.,,.te,, ;, independent electors who bad supported him, determined
Jfie'seeP• ..,:0" -f__ ..6 : t Colonel Reid should not walk over the course, and on
%.4ef;47:4,eGe morning of Saturday the walls of Windsor were pla-
carded with the following address from Mr. Rupert Kettle, a
Barrister of the Middle Temple, offering himself as a can-
didate.
" Gentlemen,—l have heard this evening, with inexpres-
sible regret, of the scandalous victory achieved by the mi-
nions of the Court and of the Government over the man of
your free choice, Mr. Walter. So long as he was a candidate
for your suffrages, I determined to yield to his superior
claims on your support; but now that he feels compelled to
retire from the field, owing to the unprecedented combina-
tion of evil influences against him, I can no longer resist the
Wishes of my friends, and I feel it my duty as an honest and
independent Englishman, to appear among you on the day of
election as the champion of your independence, and as the
unflinching opponent of the arrogant attempts recently made
to dragoon you into submission, and to convert you into
the slaves of an overbearing faction. I have no time at
present to enter into a lengthened detail of the politi-
cal principles on which I claim your support. On the
hustings I will explain them at length, and give an ex-
plicit answer to any questions which may be asked on the
subject. Indeed, the chief value of the preliminary
ceremony of nomination is that it enables the constituent to
catechise the candidate on every point of his political creed.
It is the duty of the elector to make every candidate undergo
that ordeal. I submit to it with the utmost cheerfulness,
and I have no doubt that my honourable opponent will do the
same. In oneshort paragraph, I declare myself the determined
antagonist of all equivocating, temporising, and vacillating
Ministers, the advocate of free institutions for all classes of
her Majesty's subjects, the supporter of all useful reforms, the
upholder of civil and religious liberty, and the determined
enemy of the existing corn-laws. But my chief claim to
your support, at present, I rest upon my determination to
rescue your borough from the oppressive domination with
which it is threatened, and to establish its independence for
the future on a secure and permanent foundation. With this
brief statement of my political opinions, I apply to you for
support."
The surprise which the announcement of a new candidate
caused was enhanced by the appearance of that gentleman in
propriu persona.
Shortly after 10 o'clock the Town-hall was opened, and
the Mayor, accompanied by Colonel Reid and Mr. Kettle,
and their respective supporters, appeared upon thehustings.
The usual formalities having been gone through,
Mr. Alderman BANNISTER proposed Colonel Reid as a fit
and proper person to represent Windsor in Parliament.
Mr. Alderman SNOWDEN seconded the nomination.
Mr. Moss, a resident surgeon in the borough, then proposed
Mr. Rupert Kettle; and the nomination of that gentleman
was seconded by Mr. MILLARD.
Col. Rene then addressed the electors, and most strenously
denied that any undue influence had been exercised in his
behalf. Ile declared that he solicited their suffrages on
Conservative principles.
Mr. KETTLE in the course of his address said, that the
Castle influence had been exercised in behalf of his opponent,
who had even canvassed the cooks in her Majesty's kitchen,
and brought the Eton boys into the hall to swell the number
of his supporters. He well knew what was meant by the
appellation Tory. There was a good, honest, straight-
f award, John Bull manner about a Tory; but he was
ashamed to hear any man wearing her Majesty's uniform
link himself to the phrase " Conservative."—(Loud groans
and hisses.) He professed himself an uncompromising op-
ponent of the New Poor-law, and of the Corn-laws. After
passing a high eulogium on the public and private character
of Mr. Walter, wha would been triumphantly returned, but
for the exercise of the castle influence in favour of Col. Reid.
Under these circumstances, he had come forward at the
eleventh hour, to rescue the borough from petty domination.
The learned gentleman retired amidst loud, and general and
long-continued cheers.
The Mayor then took a show of hands for each candidate,
when, accordhig to our judgment, and that of several gentle-
men in our locality, the exhibition was decidedly in favour
of Mr. Kettle.
The Mavon, however, declared the choice of the electors
to have fallen by the show of hands upon Col. Reid.
This announcement led to considerable uproar and confu-
sion, and loud were the shouts that the decision of the re-
turning officer was wholly without foundation.
Vir.Moss, tUe proposer of Mr. Kettle, handed in a written
prof( st agains he decision to the following purport :—" I
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William Moss, an elector of the borough of New Windsor, do
hereby enter my solemn protest against the return of a
M tuber to serve in Parliament for the said borough on the
show of hauls this day."
The protest was handed to the Mayor, and by him deli-
vered to the Town-clerk.
Proclamation having been made three times for the nomi-
nation of any other candidate, and no poll being demanded on
behalf of Mr. Kettle,
The 'Mayon declared George Alexander Reid, Esq., of Bul-
strode Park, in the county of Bucks, to be duly elected a
bine,ess to serve in the present Parliament for the borough of
New Windsor. This announcement was received with tumul-
thoue plemlite.
Colonel ilEto returned thanks fsr the honour conferred
upon him, and moved a vote of thanks (carried byacclama-
tion'—to the Mayor for his urbane, dignified, and temperate
conduct in presiding over the election.
The court was then dissolved, and the gallant member for
the borough wee escorted to his head-quarters at the Castle
'll eml, by a squadron of his adherents. Thus ended the pro-
ceedings of the Windsor election. 'We have only to add a
f tct, which may be inferred from our report, that Mr. Walter
tie day did not appear in the Town-hall.

SEIZURE OF TWO THOUSAND
POUNDS WORTH OF ILLICIT SPIRITS OF NITRE.
. A seizure of an almost unprecedented character was, on Satur-
day last, c.ineuded and communicdted to the Commissioners of
Excise, by Mr. C. A. Davis, one of the deteztive officers of her
Majesty's Customs. It will be in the recollection of the public,
that, iu the month of July last, the same indefatigable officer made
a capture in the Globe-road, Stepney, of a most complete and ex-
tensively fitted distillery, together with upwards of 1,000 gallons
of spirits, .52 over proof; :Ind the materials alone, exclusive of th'e
spirits, amounted to forty waggon loads. In the course of his

search certain documents fell into the hands of Mr. Davis, from
which a c!ue was obtained that some thmsand gallons of spirits
had been recently removed from the premises ; and from that time
to the present his exertions have been unceasing to discover where
this i,ninetise stock bad been deposited.
It appeared that 1544 this °Meer found a large still on the
previnses of persons going by the name of " Berkeley and C 0.," of
Grove-lane, Holloway ; but in consequence of the still being onset
be could not legally SeiZ2 it, but before leaving the house he wrote
histnarne upon it. This still was afterwards found on the premises
in the Globe-road. The solicitor of Berkeley threatened the
officer with actions for trespass, but none were ever entered. On
searching the premises in Gmbe-roa4, several documents were
found from the same solicitor to the parties there, clearly showing
that Bayley, Brothers, ( the name they went by in the Globe•road)

were identical with "Berkeley and C 0.," of the Holloway-road,

This solicitor had drawn up certain legal documents, by which
Bayley, Brothers, had been enabled to mortgage the spirits to
various persons for large sums of money, and the possession of
them at oeca pointed out to whom the spirits had been consigned.
After watching the removal of the spirits from place to place,

Mr. Davis proceeded to the premises of Mr. George Firmin, tar•

taric-aced maker, in Rupert street, 6looantan's_fields, where he
found 57 carboys, containing ; S gallons each, of spirits of nitre,
which he seized. He also font.] 36 empty carboys, which, from
marks upon them, proved to have been received from the same
source. He then went to the warehouse of Foote and Co., of
Battersea, where he got 19 carboys of the same kind of spirits.
From Foote's he went to Price's, also, of Battersea, where he
found 9 carboys more. As each seizure in some degree assisted
the officer in his seirch, be proceeded from place to place,
with the fullest confilence. In the stable of a man
named Smith, in the Mazo, Tooley-street, concealed
in some straw, he found 10 carboys and 2 casks of mo-
lasses ; and from thence he proceeded to St. John's Wood-road,
where, in a stable belonging to Abraham grey, he found a similar
number. At the house of a cornchandler named Hastte, in Wap-
ping, he added 12 carboys to his already valuable prize, consisting
of 12 5191b5, of this costly spirit, which, exclusive of duty, has
been valued at no less a suns than 2,000%.

In addition to the seizure made by Mr. Davis on the premises of
Foote and Co., the Board of Excise have given directions to seize
the whole stock of spirits on the premises, as, from documents in
the officer's possession, these parties, it appeared, have been the
-principal dealers, although they only professed to carry on the bu.
siness of vinegar merchants. It also appeared that some time
since the board received notice that a great increase of the article
of nitre was on sale in the market, and sold at a much cheaper
rate than it cou'd be legally manufactured for, but their officers
were unable to account for the fact of it being so. This defalcation
of duty is now apparent, and there is every probability that the par-
ties will soon be brought to justice.
Proceedings are already commenced against the parties for pe-
nalties to a most:enormous extent, for harbouring this illegal article.
Had the duty been paid on merely what has now been seized by
Mr. Davis, it would have amounted to upwards of BON.
To avoid suspicion in the removal of the spirits from the die.
tillery the carboys were taken out separately, and deposited in the
warehouses of a common carrier, near the City-road Basin, and
from thence removed by the carrier's carts, as ordered by Bayley
1111mseit, the more securely to ensure their delivery unobserved by
any district officers.
To show that a visit from the Crown officers had been antici•
pated, as a precautionary measure each workman employed upon
the premises of the distillery was provided with a blank letter,
with the exception of the signature of the holder, and the receipt
of it was at once anderstnod that the sender was " in trouble,"

or detected in an illegal act; and if either bail or money was
required for his liberation, he had nothing to do but date the
same, and send it to the before -named member of the legal pro.
fession, when every assistance would be rendered him, the advo-
cate ostensibly only attending in his professional character.
Other important details of this original system of smuggling will
appear in a few days, comprising some of the largest firms in
London.

IBE CORN-LAWS.

No one connected with railways can shut his eyes to the broad
and staring truth, that the corn-law is the greatest foe he has to
battle with. At the present price of wheat one year's consump-
tion of the nation would cost some twenty-four millions sterling
more than it did at the price. which ruled in the market some
twelve months back. The manufacturing and trading inter.
eats will no doubt suffer from the high price of wheat, and
the accounts from Manchester tell us already that trade is begin-
ning to suffer, but the railway market suffered first and foremost.
The blow was nearly as severe as if some twenty millions of money
had been alitkletely lifted from the pockets of the shareholders.
Tie railway market has been robbed of that amount by the corn-
law. The sliding-scale is the real cause of the " falling sickness"
which has attacked all descriptions of railway shares and scrips.
It Is the fear of high prices and the drain of bullion which the
Directors of the Bank of England anticipate to pay for food, that
hat caused them to increase the raie of discount, and may cause
them to increase those rates still snore. Letters of allotment in
railway companies are no longer in demand. Scrips which were dealt
In for the " coming out " at 31. and 41. premium are no longer
" paid upon," and when they are " come out" no money will come
in. The public have shut their breeches pockets, and will not
rea4lly open them until they know what is to be the upshot of all
thelneetings and consultations of the Cabinet. We are afraid
• that the d'>-nothing policy is for the present to be the game, but
it cannot long continue, for the price of corn will soon advance, in
spite of the rascally system of averages, to such a height as wil
rouse the people to a sense of the iniquities of these corn and pro-
vision laws, and compel the Ministers to do something effectual.
The English people are slow to move ; they are animals that take
a deal of kicking ; but once they really suffer from the cravings of
as empty belly, they are not to be trifled with. The mischief
which has been done to so many of the small shopkeepers and
funnies-0111 m middle classes, by the sudden depreciation of rail-
way property, will increase the general dissatisfaction, and in-
duce the great bulk of the electoral body to clamour for
free trade. Some tightness of money may be experienced
at first from
the change, because, in this case, as in every other
connected with our system of Government, a bad code has been
Maintained against all reason and common
sense,
until the remedy
.could npt be resisted from a fear of consequences. The change is
thus abrupt and startling, and, like all such rapid and atugracittpe
movements, even from bad to good, the process of transition will