The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-29 00:00:00

About eleven o'clock General Sir George Murray and his
staff proceeded to the upper common and inspected the Royal
Horse Artillery and field batteries. These branches of the ser-
vice marched past at slew and quick time, and the Horse Artil•
levy at full gallop, and performed the other usual evolutions in
a manner to the entire satisfaction of their Colonel. The time
occupied in the various manoeuvres of the Horse Artillery and
field batteries was about an hour and a half. At the conclusion
of the exercises the Master -General expressed to Col. Dyneley,
C. 8., who commanded the Horse Ai tillery, and to Col. Cleve-
land, who commanded the field batteries, his approbation of
the soldier-like appearance of the officers and men, and the
precision with which they acquitted themselves in their various
duties. At half-past twelve, General Sir George Murray, ac-
companied by his staff, and several of the officers relieved from
duty, with the female relations and friends, of the Master-
General and the officers, in carriages, proceeded to the Rotunda,
to examine that extensive depositary of ancient and modern
arms and models connected with naval and military warfare.
The Master-General, after leaving the Rotunda, visited at the
residence of Major-General Sir Hew D. Hess, and then re-
turned to town.

EXPERIMENTS IN THE MARSIIES.—At nine o'clock in the
morning of yesterday, Colonel Cockburn, Colonel Lacy, Lieut.-
Colonels Dansey, C. 13., W. B. Dundas, C. 8., H. G. Jackson,
J. A. Chaliner, Major Hardinge, and A. \V. Hope,
and Captain Grant, of the Royal Artillery, Colonel Love,
C. B. and K. H., commanding officer of the 73d Regiment,
arid a number of officers of the Royal Artillery and the 73d
Form, assembled in the Marshes to witness the firing at a
target erected at the butt, eighteen inches in thickness, and
of considerable dimensions, behind which was erected an iron-
ease box, holding try wards of thirty tons of coals. The orders
issued by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to place
boats, for the purpose of warning vessels not to anchor within
the range, will net come into operation until arrangements are
made for that purpose, which will cause a delay of a few
days, and on that account a difficulty was experienced yester-
day morniug by a brig havinr, anchored in a direct fine with
the target. After warning her off, arid waiting patiently until
nearly twelve o'clock, practice commenced, and some excel.
lent shots were fired from a range of DO yards distant, under
the direction of Colonel l)ansey. Four shots out of the
fire fired at that distance entered the tarr,"et, and one of them
passed through the whole of the coats, about six feet in thick-
ness, and indented the furthest part of the iron case. Various
other dista,ici's were tried with 32-pounder guns, and two of
the point blank shots at 400 yards distance went through the
target and coal-box, with considerable indentations on the
furthest side, but not of such a nature as to have had the
slightest effect in injuring the machinery of steam vessels pro.
tested by the plan against which the experiments were made.
It was at one period of the day intended to fire with red hot
shot, and a lire was lighted in the morning, and six 32-pounder
shot kept at a red heat all day, but the other firing having oc-
cupied until half-past three o'clock, the firing with red hot shot
was deferred to a future day. In the afternoon Lieutenant-
General Lord Bloomfield, Brigade-Major Cuppage, Major
Anderson, Captain Burnaby, and the Gentlemen Cadets be-
longing to the first class stadying in the Royal Arsenal, and a
great number of naval officers were present, and appeared to
take considerable interest in the result of the experiments. The
entrance, and various part of the marshes easy of access, WkS
kept by detachments of the 73r1 Regiment.

MEETJNi IN THE CITY.
SIGNAL DEFEAT of the TORIES and CHARTISTS.
Wednesday, pm suant to announcement by placards and ad-
vertisement, " a public meeting" of the electors of the City of
London took place at Bourk's Assembly Rooms, 'Change-
alley, Cornhill, for the purpose of memorializing the Lord
Alayor to convene a Common Hall, for the purpose of calling
on Lord John Russell to resign his seat as Representative of
the City of London in Parliament, on account of his " factious
opposition to the tariff and other measures of Sir Robert Peel
Administration."
The hour appointed for taking the Chair was seven o'clock,
but at half-past seven there were not 100 electors present, and
great impatience was manifested.
Shortly before eight o'clock an elector mounted. the platform,
and said be would move that Mr. Nicholson, of Fenchureh-
street, do take the Chair.—( Cries of " No, no," cheers, groans,
and laughter for several minutes. )
An Ear:croft—Three cheers for Lord John Russell.—
( Cheers, waving of hats, groans, and hisses.)
Another Eat:ea-on—l move that. Mrs Chilcott, of Fencharrh-
street, take the Chair.—( Cheers and groans.)
This motion having been seconded, was put and carried.
Mr. Cittacorr took the chair, and said he was no speaker,
nor did he know by whom the meeting was called.—( Cheers
and laughter.) Ile believed, however, that a gentleman who
had received money from the Carlton Club to figure at Leo-
minster was at the imittoat of it.—( llear, bear, and "Oh !")
But it was very strange that they could not provide a chair-
man.--s( Chee:s and laughter.) All he could say was, that he
hoped all parties would have a fair hearing.
• Beams said that he knew nothing, whatever of that
'
meeting, but by an advertisement in the public prints and by
placards paraded throup,li the city—(" Oh," and laughter)—
but it appeared that they. were called together to give expres-
sien to their disapprobation of the course Lord John Russell
had thought it proper to pursue in opposition to the measures
of the present Ministry. Now he was one who approved of
the course which the Noble Lord had pursued in opposi-
tion to such infamous measures.—( Loud cheers, groans,
and uproar.) lle had expected to have seen that room
crammed to suffocation, and those who had got up
the meeting came boldly forward and declare their
object. —( Loud cheers and groans.) He (Mr. Brooke)
would maiatain that the conduct of Lord John Russell had
been strictly correct.—(Oh, oh, and cheers.) He believed
thst the City of London generally was of that opinion.—
( Cheers, and no, anu)—and that if Sir Robert Peel were to
dare tb contest it with him, even upon his Income-tax ques-
tion, his Lordship would beat the Premier by a majority of a
thousand.—(Cheers, roars of laughter, and confusion.) He
would move—" T hat the cordial thanks of the meeting be pre-
sented to Lord John Russell, highly approving, as they do, of
the course he has pursued in opposition to the Income-tax, and
other measures introduced by the present Administration."—
( Cheers. and great uproar for several minutes. )
Mr. WHITE seconded the resolution. He applauded the
determination of Lord John Russell in resisting the infamous
Income-tax and other obnoxious measures proposed by Sir R.
Peel.—( Cheers.) He contended that Lord John Russell had
taken up the cudgels for the people, and deserved the thanks,
instead of censure, of his constituents.—( Cheers, laughter, and
uproar. )
Mr. WILKINSON rose to move an amendment. He was no
party man.-7-(" Oh, oh," and laughter.) He knew nothing
of who hail got up the present meeting—( Cheers, and " Oh,
oh")—but he considered that the measures proposed by the
present Administration were calculated to do good for the
working classes, who were ground to the very earth by priva-
tion.—(" Oh, oh," cheers, and laughter.) Mr. Wilkinson
concluded by moving as an amendment, " That the meeting
approved of the measures proposed to Parliament by the Mi-
nisters of the Crown, being on the whole to better the condi-
tion of the working people, improve trade and commerce, and
increase the revenue. That they regret the retarding their
accomplishment by futile and factious opposition, and deprecate
the conduct of Lord John Russell, who, as one of the members
of Parliament for that city, ought, to the utmost of his power,
expedite rather than retard so great a good, and thereby put au
end to the state of uncertainty which at present paralyzes the
trade and commerce of the count ry."—( Cheers and groans. )
Mr. WEBBER. seconded the amendment.
Mr. MonroN at great length called upon the meeting to
pause before they supported either the motion or the amend-
ment. He did not think the time had 3et arrived when, Lord
John Russell should be censured for the course he had pursued,
nor were they certain he was entitled to praise. If they at.
lowed the measure to come into operation fast, they would be
better judges. Cheers and laughter. )
Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and the
resolution was put amidst a scene of the most indescribable
uproar.
The CiaatamaN declared the resolution in favour of Lard
John Russell to be carried by a majority of :20 to 'l. The
Tories and Chartists disputed-the decision, and great clamour
ensued. Ultimately a vote of thanks was passed to the Chair-
man, and the meeting separated at a late hour, after giving
three cheers for Lord John Russell, and three groans for Sir
Robert Peel's ministry.

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A SOLIYIER'S REWARD,
Arles Scarlett, an Irishman, about 40 years of age, WaS
charged at Guildhall on Wednesday with begging in St. Paul's
Church-yard.

The policeman said that when he desired the prisoner to
move on, he peremptorily refused to do so. He said he was
destitute, he had no friends, and he had determlited to beg
there, or be taken into eus'ody. He found the prisoner had
served the. East India Company eleven years,
and had been sent
home invalided for deafness, without a pension. No pension
was panted for less than fourteen years' service. He had lost
his hearing by sleeping on the ground on his way to Candahar,
and through the noise of the cannon at the taking of Ghuanee.
He had his discharge about him.
The prisoner, in answer to the inquiries of the Magistrate,
sail he had been sent to Dublin by the East India Company,
and discharged with .Bs. to take him home, but he wanted to
go back to India. He should starve in England or Ireland,
but he knew he +Amid do very well if he could get to Calcutta,
where he had a wife living in the service of a Eteneral, and a
injury in that service, that he
son in Bishop lleber's school.
Mr. Alderman KELLY thought that it was rather hard, after
so anhdystZetaiCnolpany to sink fir want of a little
be allowed
a letter to be addressed to the Secretary,
shouldr
begging his itonsideration of this poor man's case,
The policeman returned with a dry reply from the military
secretary's office, that the pension did not become payable for
less than fourteen years' .service, and that tae prisoner was
discharged at the end of eleven years.
Mr. Alderman KELLY said he knew all that before, and he
did nut send him as a man who had a legal claim, bur one who
had a strong claim on their sympathy and kindness. However,
he would send him to the Canon-street:Union,
and perhaps the
Guardians would renew the application to the Company, or do
something for him.
A 1

letter from Ancona of the 15th inst., the truth
which is attested by the British Consul resident in that
lace, states that on the night of the Mt') of February, a Bri-
sh seaman, who was peaceably proceeding along the streets,
was attacked and severely wounded by some assassins, of which
Rounds he lingered till the l2th inst., when he died. The man
declared that he was unconscious of having given offence to
any person. All attempts to discover the murderers prosed in-
effectual. When the funeral of the poor man was about to
take place, an order came from the Vicar-general that he, being
a Protestant, should not be buried by daylight, which is al-
lowed, it seems, to the Jews. This order was enforced under
the protest of the Consul against it. These facts, of which we
have been specially desired to make public mention, exhibit,
certainly, an extraordinary state of things for an age and coun-
try pretending to lie enlightened.
The General Steam Navigation Company's British
ship, Wilberforce, Captain Stranack, arrived from Antwerp yes-
terday morning after a tine passage of nineteen hours.

WOOLWICH.
MitiCTION Ct' Tint ROVAt, AIITILLRAV MO> f4I4I.I4NIID:kiP'"
IH THE MA RiniEk.
At late hour on Tuesday evening intellige r Wait
ceived at the garrison that the Master-General of th
General the flight Hon. Sir George Murray, ,212 . i:rd -
G.C.11., would visit Woolwich on Wednesday_ fewiC
inspect the whole of the gallant corps of which lie s C9)1.#4.::.,
At an early hour yesterday morning the garrison tip a' '
s,:ene of activity, orders having been issued that tti.l4.l;a7v-,--.,:'-
tached for experiments in the Marshes should been the Airtimit't ,
at nine o'clock, and the battalions of the Royal Artillery,
heavy marching order, on the parade ground by ten o'clock,
and the three troops of Royal Horse Artillery, and the three
field batteries, by eleven o'clock, on the upper common, where
they were to be stationed in readiness to receive the Master-
General.
Shortly after ten o'clock Sir George Murray arrived on
the parade ground, attended by Lieut.-General Lord Bloom-
field, G. C. B. and G. C. H., Commandant of the garrison and
Colonel of the Royal Horse Artillery ; Major-General Sir
Hew Dalrymple Ross, K. C.B. ; Colonel J. E. Jones, Arsis-
taut Adjutant-General; Colonel R. Jones; Lieutenant-Colonel
Blaehley ; Major Sandlands ; Brigade-. Major Cuppage, and
Captain Henry Wrn. Paget, 56th Regiment, Aide-de-Camp
to the Master-General. On the approach of General Sir
George Murray, the whole of the battalions previously formed
in line, received their Gallant Colonel with the usual salute ;
he afterwards, aecompartied by his staff; rode along the whole
extent of the line in front and in rear. The battalions then
marched at slow and quick time, and afterwards returned to
their barracks.