The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-06 00:00:00

MEETISG OF MR. FILCHER'S FRIENDS.

T'
he friends of Mr. Pitcher held another meeting last
evening, at seven o'clock, at the Literary Institution,
Borough-road, Mr. Charles Shaw in the chair. The
admission was by ticket, and there was a very full at-
tendance of electors.

The CH.IIRMAN, on opening the business, was received
with loud applause. He was about to proceed, when a
person in the gallery asked if he had been appointed by
the meeting.—(Great uproar.) The Chairman answered
that he had been elected by the unanimous sense of the
meeting before that gontleu an came in.—(Cries of
" No, no, it is a packed meeting.") He wished it to be
fairly conducted, and now he asked that gentleman to
stand up and say what he had to advance against him.
The person alluded to then got up and protested
against the course taken. It was the usual course to
wait till the meeting had assembled, and then to appoint
the chairman. In the present instance a select few had
been admitted by a private door, and Mr. Shaw had
taken the chair before the regular door was open to the
electors generally. It was evidently a scheme to pack.
the meeting.—(Uproar.)
The CHAIRMA.I4 said he would now proceed to open
the meeting.--(" No, no," hisses, and great uproar, in
which the speaker's voice was drowned.) After a few
minutes, comparative order was obtained, a hen the
Chairman resumed. He was in the chair by right, and
he would keep it.—(Uproar.) The person who had in-
terrupted the meeting would have every oppor!unity of
having his say before the meetiug had closed. What,
he would ask, was the occasion of the present meeting ?
It was one of a series of gatherings greater than any
that had previously taken place. 'I hey were in the
midst of a contested election, and they had to consider
the claims of those seeking their franchises to r: present
in the ;louse of Commons this great intelligent corn-
inorcial community. There were three candidates: the
first was a learned man, and some said a reverendn-
tleman, and he asked them to elect him because head

no rank, claim, or reputation by which he was entitled
to command their respects.—(Cries of "Read it right,
you are misrepresenting it.") Ile had none of those things
which candidates are expected to posses .. He said he
was plor, and though poverty was sometimes a virtue, yet
when a man was placed in a high office he ought to be
in circumstances to pay his debts. They would, therefore,
consign to the tomb of the Capulets this gentleman,
without rank, property, or reputation, who wanted the
title of M.P. to protect himself against his creditor.
Mr. Miall said votes by ballot.-(Very good.) The
gentleman says very good, but they had tried it in
France for many years, and found it very bad. It had
been there only a mask for corruption. Would English-
men submit to this—men who had been in the habit of
meeting in political di,cussion fats to face, and inde-
pendently stating their convictions ?—(Uproar, which for
some time arrested the proceedings of the Chairman.)
lie would leave the ballot and go to universal suffrage.
He would enfrarchin the honest anti industrious man,
but he would not give votes to the thief and the
beggar.—(Cheers and uproar.) The Chairman then
went at some length, and amidst considerable uproar, to
dissect the political and religions principles of Mr.
Miall and Sir William Molesworth, in doing which ho
declared the latter to be an infidel for editinr, Hobb,s's
works, and concluded by calling on Mr. Filcher to ad-
dress the meeting.
Mr. PILCIIER begged a patient hearing from the
meeting, as he was sure they must all be tired with the
interruptions that had already taken place. He was
happy to stand before his brother electors ; and, in call-
ing them brother electors, he considered that he enjoyed
a privilege beyond the ether candidates. He had a still
further claim upon their indulgence, because it so hap-
pried that he was born in the borough, and if they re-
turned him as their Member he was sure is would reflect
no disgrace upon them that they returned one of them-
selves.—(Cheers and cries of " Never.") He was a com-
mercial man, and, therefore, fitted to represent a com-
mercial borough. Ile was anxious to maintain all
their hospitals, dispensaries, end other charities.
He was intimately acquainted with the navigation
of the River Thames.—(Great laughter.) lie wished the
electors to consider the vast advantages that would
arise from making docks for the steamers, which would
increase the amount of labour and the rate of wages.—
(Cheers.) These were some few of the subjects which,
if returned to Parliament, he would promote. He would
always maintain PitYestant ascendancy. He would op-
posl any measore similar to the Maynooth grant.
He would do all he could to obtain a cheap loaf for the
working man, and he hoped before long to see the four-
pound loaf sold for fourpence.—(Cheers.) From the
result of his can, 11-53 he felt confident of being returned,
and he would always vote for measures and not men.
A resolution in Mr. Pilcher's favour was then pro--
posed by Mr. Palmer, and seconded by Mr. Dare, atter
which thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting. separated.

THE LATE W lIIRLWIND AT ROUEN.—M. Arago
has communicated to the Pa.. is Academy of Science the ob-
servations of some of its correspondents upon the extraordinary
meteor which caused such dire effects at Rouen. The disas-
trious visitation commenced in the valley of Malauney and the
valley •f Monville, about half-past twelve o'clock in the day.
by the rapid shock of winds and clouds striking in opposite
directions, preceded by gusts of an extraordinarily hot wind
equally remarked at Paris, and so burning that the mit--
tress of an inn, although standing before a kitchen fire, felt it,
as well as many other persuus, on all of whom it produced a
most oppressive effect. Similar electrical phenomena soon
followed. It was remarked that the whirlwind presented the
shape of an inverted cone, of which the point looked red. It
did not proceed in a right line, but z;g-sag, and particularly
in the direction were there were ma-sea of iron or steel,
such as factories, leaving untouched the intermediate
spaces. What is more extraordinary, it only struck parts
of the same house, those parts having quantities of ironwork,
leaving untouched the parts which had little or none. Trees
of a century were in some places twisted, in others torn up,
and in other places broken. But the most remarkable feature
of the whole eas this, that a quantity of substances, some of
great weight, such as planks of wood, five feet in length, were
sucked up into the air, and carried to a distance of nine leagues
after a journey of seven hours. While the tempest was at its
height, the barometer fell 17 millemetres, a fact proved by
Professor Preisser. The philosopher does not doubt that the
phenomenon was essentially electric. During the
passage of
the whirlwind, from which flashes of lightning played, some
persons smelled a sulphurous odour, and heard a rollnaes g
workmen felt felt themselves moved to and fro, while flam flashed
before their eyes. Bits of burned cotton and oilier materialss
were found, although there had been no co.-flagration.everal
cooking spits were magnetised. Of the killed' some Several
cookingshowed no
mark of external injury; many showed rapid signs of decom-
position ; and altogether there can be ntodooru,blin
ttahrayt theeasceauosef
11100wAY Ronneßic.---An exrl
highway robbery occurred on T uesdaynight, just beyond the
Sussex Pad, on the Lancing side of the Adur. Mr. Charles
Alfred Trill, of South Farm, Broadwater, while on his return
from Brighton on horseback, about twelve o'clock, was stopped
while the other two dragged him from
ground, when they by three rnen dressed as " navvies." One of the men seized
hishis strdseleb,.yantchlethb.rrelwdleh'im on the knelt on
him and rifled his pockets of a purse containing' between 71.
his hand upon the
and 8/. in gold and silver, and a bunch of keys. One of them
attempted to draw out his watch, on which Mr. Trill placed
lob, and exclaimed. " Pray don't take the
watch ;" and with most extraordinary forbearance, aided, per-
haps, by an apprehension of intertuption if they remained any
longer, the thieves made off, leaving the watch safe in the
owner's fob. One of them expedited his departure in riding
away with their victim's horse. From inquiries subsequentl y
made, it appears that the thieves did not cross the bridge ; and
it is hence inferred that they made the best of their way ova r
the hills at the back of the Sussex Pad. About nine e'elo tk
on the following morning the horse strayed home alone.—
Brighton Gazette.
SHOCKING WAGGON ACCIDENT AT BAYSWATER.—
On Thursday afternoon a man. named Vincent, was getting o ff
the shaft of Johnson's Uxbridge waggon at Bayswater, i n
doing which he slipped and tell to the ground and befor e
it was pos-ible for the driver to stop his horses the fron t
wheels passed over his legs, fracturing both of them in a
shocking manner, and the hind wheel passed over his body. H e
was removed to St. George's Hoipital, and without hopes of
recovery.
STATE or TRADE.—The favourable change of
weathar has produced a beneficial effect upon our market.
Both goods and yarn are in better request than last week, a nd
prices are very firm.—Manchester Guardian.
NEW ARMY I)EroT.—As we gated sovcral months
ago, Government having completed the purchase of 21 acres of
land, the property of the ti ustees of Erasmus Smith, near t LQ
town of Tipper.ry, military barracks to accommodate 2,0 (0
will shortly be erected. They are intended for a genera 1
army depot in that part of the south of Ireland.—Linter
Chronicle.