The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1842.

TORY LOYALTY at PORTSMOUTH
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sni,—This, of all the days of a public character, has
been the most extraordinary with us. The shops have
been closed for a holiday, the employed paid their day's
wages by their masters, the gun-wharf, the Customs, and
the convicts have observed the christening of the Prince
of Wales; the heads of departments celebrate the occa-
sion by a dinner this evening, the corporation and bur-
gesses dine together, a tradesman's ball to-night, the
poor of Portsea and Portsmouth workhouses have been
regaled with roast beef, plum pudding, and liberty, the
felons and prisoners of the gaol feasted ! but not a
Union Jack or Royal Standard, under the orders of the
Admiralty, have been hoisted—a salute fired, troops
paraded, or any demonstration of the event suffered to
transpire, whilst the whole of the people and officers of
the Dock-yard have been the whole day at their duty
as usual !

Surely inquiry ought to be made how it is that these
precious exclusively loyal Tories have dared to act in so
marked a manner on an occasion that fills every loyal
Englishman's heart with increased attachment to our So-
vereign and the Royal dynasty. So marked an insult to
Royalty never was known at Portsmouth. No—
" Not a gun was heard, not a joyful note,
As the Prince to the font was carried -
Not a labourer allowed to retreat to his cot,
At Portsmouth, whose mirth seemed buried."
Yours, &c., TRUTH.
Portsmouth, Jan. 25, 1842.

ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.

Happily for the best interests of mankind, the gloomy
anticipations of the colonists have, in a great measure,
been dispelled. The dangerous experiment of conferring
freedom on a race of men ten times out-numbering their
European masters, * has been accomplished with perfect
safety. In dealing out this measure of justice to the
long degraded African, not a single life has been sacri-
ficed, not a drop of blood has been shed in anger.

THE RECENT HISTORY OF THE ISLAND OF PUERTO
Rzco.—T.his island, while Spain possessed her magnifi-
cent continental empire in South America, was entirely
neglected by the mother country. It was used as a pe-
nal settlement, and merely supplied its own wants. It
had no European trade, and the chief occupation of its
inhabitants was smuggling to and from the Spanish
Main. The fertility of the soil, however, and the fa-
vourable situation of the island for the contraband trade,
attracted by degrees a considerable population, by far the
greater number of whom were adventurers of European
origin. Its growing importance at length attracted the
attention of the Spanish Government, and in the year
1815, its trade was established under a new code of re-
gulations of an extremely liberal kind. The unoccu-
pied land, of which there was great abundance, was
granted to settlers free of all charges, according to their
capital and means of cultivation. Produce was freed
from export duties ; tithes were remitted for fifteen years ;
other local taxes were remitted for a similar period ;
and all direct commerce with Spain or Spanish colonies
was declared free. The astonishing (progress of the
island, under this liberal system, will appear in-
credible to those unacquainted with the mighty
influences of commercial freedom. The popula-
tion of the colony doubled in the space of twenty
years ; and it must be remembered that, in the
same period, that of the French and British West India
islands, either remained stationary, or decreased. The
value of its exported produce rose in a still more extra-
ordinary degree. In 1810, it amounted to 65,672 dollars ;
in 1832, it exceeded three millions ; or, in other words,
in the space of twenty-two years, it increased in value
more than forty-fold. A memorable instance of the en-
ormous powers of unrestricted industry.f

The emancipated negro has advanced, not retrogaded,
in the scale of beings. His wants have increased with
freedom ; and in order to gratify these wants, he must
be content to labour. The comforts of European life
are within his reach ; and he has shown himself ambi-
tious of attaining them. His dress and personal appear-
ance have greatly improved ; and the feeling of self-
respect evinced in his deportment, both to his equals
and superiors, is not the least pleasing feature of
the change. His moral condition has been amelio-
rated in a still greater degree. The marriage
tie, which was formerly quite disregarded, is
now assuming its just and civilising influences. The
blessings of education have begun to be appreciated ;
and the attendance on the ordinances of religion has
been most exemplary. It may, in short, be .safely af-
firmed, that no peasantry in the world are, at the present,
time, in a more prosperous condition than those of our
West India colonies. t.—Letter to Lord Stanley on Afri-
can Immigration.
* The slave population of the British West Indies,
.previous to the Emancipation, amounted to about
800,000 ; the free, to about 80,000.
t See the late work of General Flinter, ou this inte-
resting island, page 271. Since the publication of his
work in 1834, the exports of Puerto Rico have increased
considerably.
See Mr. Gurney's Winter in the West Indies, 1840.

TORY FAIR PLAY.—MORE OF IT.—We
understand that Mr. James Hope, jun., W.S., was some
time ago appointed agent for the officers of State, by Sir
William Rae; and he has recently also been appointed
agent for the Treasury in Scotland by the Government.
This last office was held by a respectable professional
gentleman (a Whig), who has been displaced to make
way for Mr. Hope, although the office was understood to
be a permanent one.—Caledonian Mercury.
THE REGISTRY OF . THE BIRTH OF THE
PRINCE OF WALES.—Considerable discussion has lately
taken place at the Board of Guardians and other meet-
ings of the parochial authorities of St. Martin-in-the-
Fields, in consequence of the Registrar of Births, Deaths,
and Marriages of St. George's, Hanover-square, having
attended at Buckingham Palace,and registered the births of
the Princess Royal, and his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, in his register, consequently making their Royal
Highnesses parishioners of that aristocratic parish. That
proceeding the St. Martin's officers contend was illegal,
the Heir-Apparent and the Princess Royal, as they as-
sert, being born in their parish ; the accouchement of
her Majesty, in both instances, having taken place in
the northern wing of Buckingham. Palace, which, accord-
ing to the boundary line, is in St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
A very amusing contest is likely to take place on the
subject, between the two parishes.
The parties at Wolverhampton who petitioned
the Privy Council to permit the importation of foreign
corn at a nominal duty, tobe paid for them from a fund
raised to relieve the distresses of the poor in' that
town, have received a reply to their memorial, to the
effect that although the Privy Council deeply regret the
distress prevailing in Wolverhampton, they do not pos-
sess any authority enabling .jhem to comply .with their
request.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADY.—An inquest
was held on Tuesday before Mr. Wakley, at the Crown
Tavern, Pentonville, on view of the body of Mrs. Ann
Fincham, aged 51, a married female, who died under
awfully sudden circumstances. It appeared from the
evidence that the deceased's residence was at No.
14, Queen's-row, Pentonville. She had enjoyed good
health up to Thursday last. Between eleven and twelve
o'clock on the forenoon of the above day she had given
her orders to the different tradespeople who called,
at which time she appeared as usual. Having occa-
sion to go into the kitchen to speak to the servant, she
was returning up stairs, when she was seen to stagger.
One of her sons, a youth, about fourteen years old, ran
to her, into whose arms she fell apparently lifsiess. She
was carried into the parlour, and placed on the sofa.
Mr. Hunter, surgeon, of Claremont-square, was sent for,
and promptly attended; but before his arrival the unfor-
tunate lady breathed her last. Air. Hunter gave his
opinion that the deceased's death was probably occa-
sioned by the rupture of some important vessel in the
region of the heart. Verdict—" Died by the visitation
of God."

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—A very
full meeting was held on Monday evening, amongst the
company being the Bishop of Norwich, Sir R. H. Inglis,
and several other distinguished members. Amongst
the presents were 22 charts of the coast of France, and
several other maps from the Depot de la Marine at Paris,
and the communications read were of a very interesting
character. The first was the result of a new chain
of observations made to determine the depression of
the Dead Sea, by Lieutenant . Symons, in which
he proved that this was at least 1,400 feet below
the Mediterranean. A letter was read from Captain
Simons, dated Aut;kland, New Zealand, October 4, 1841.
He had traced the sources of several rivers on the north-
east part of that island, where he found the natives very
different to what they had been described to him at
home. In their behaviour they are fickle and'captious,
and rob only in anger, but will not attack Europeans.
He also described the chain of hot springs running
across the north-east part of the island. A paper
from. Sir James Alexander gave an account of the
sandy plains to the west of the Rocky Mountains in
North America, where he had been engaged in fixing
the boundary line between this country and the United
States. He described having heard of a tribe of Indians of
fair complexion, who possessed a superior knowledge of
the arts, and speak a language of their own. Those
were supposed to be the remnants of the Welsh colony,
who, if they existed. anywhere, would probably be found
about the 42d parallel of latitude. In the August of last
year Mr. Evans, a Welsh gentleman from New York,
had set out to go to Santa Fe, from whence he Would
start with the first caravan across the Rocky Mountains,
in order to endeavour to find this lost race of his coun-
trymen, who left Wales under Prince Madoch in 1169.
An interesting communication was next read from the
Rev. Mr. Yetta, on three singular nomadic tribes in-
habiting Asia Minor.
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FIRE AT THE Hozso RN UNION WORK.
ROUSE.—Tuesday night, at nine o'clock, the inmates of the
Holborn Union workhouse, Little Gray's Inn-lane, were
much alarmed in consequence of the discovery that a
fire had broken out in the kitchen. Upon the master
being informed of it, 'he proceeded there, where he
fotind a dense smoke issuing through the walls ad-
joining the steam apparatus for cooking, and above
the kitchen range. Ile instantly despatched a mes-
senger to the engine station, upon which the Holborn
engine promptly arrived, which was followed by other
engines, and that from I'Vatlitig-street, with Mr. Braid-
wood. The firemen cut into the wall with their axes,
i
when the cause of the fire_
irougli the kitchen flue, wasand
found to proceed from a
piece of timber that passed t
which was in a short time taken out, when the fire was
extinguished. That part of the building has been built
about 100 years. H t
ad h fire have broken out later,
the effect would have possibly been the destruction of the
entire range of the edifice.
ANY MUTTON FOR MARINERS.--A few days
since, some mariners belongij2g. to this port, were driven
by stress of weather into .Tilbury Fort. Wishing to
make the most of the few hours they remained there,
they proceeded to a butchersh
i' shop to purchase a joint
iveight or quality by the
of meat. A particularly fine looking leg of mutton, and
i
which lost nothing either n
eloquence of the butchers _ wife, struck their fancy, and
they inquired the price. This was found to be so
ae
exor-
bitant, that they
expresecland mon g
curiosity about the
particulars of the leg, other very pertinent
inquiries, when the sheep was killed. "It warn't kilt
at all," said the good dame ; " it died yestere'n in the
fields, and that's good enough mutton for mariners."
Our worthy mariners, it appeared, had too much re-
spect for the dead to desecrate it by pot or spit, and left
the good dame in possession of the only leg she had to
stand on for the next comers.—lpswich Express
ARRIVAL OF CONVICTS.--
Tuesday morning
the York mail train arrived at the Euston-square
terminus of de London and Birmingham Railway, at a
quarter-past nine (it ought to have come in four hours
earlier, but its progress was impeded by frost and snow),
bringing up thirty-three convicts, heavily ironed, and in
custody of constables, for the purpose of being conveyed
to Woolwich, preparatory to their leaving the country
for various periods ; and on the previous day several
other convicts arrived by the same railway, from Coven-
try and other places.
ST. JAMES'S,
WESTMINSTER.---At a meet-
ing of the parochial authorities, held in the vestry-room,
Piccadilly, on Monday evening, it appeared that in the
last three days upwards of 500/. had been collected from
house to house through the parish, for the relief of the
numerous necessitous poor suffering from the general
scarcity of employment and the inclemency of the season,
which was ordered to be forthwith distributed, chiefly in
coals, and food, and clothing, ia cuts of emez:gsacf.

MISERIES OF EDITORS.

1. A kind visitor, whom you would make almost
any sacrifice to rather than offend—without the
least ill intention in the world, but merely moved
and instigated by mother Eve's fatal vice, curiosity,
rumaging your private desk, if it happen to be com-
modiously open, examining your letters and other
correspondence ; resorting to your composition
drawer, on the ground of intimate acquaintance;
deranging and inspecting manuscripts, when you
had as lief he had intruded into your wife's dress-
ing-room ; or peeping over the cases, and inter-
rupting compositors, to see the original articles,
which you did not intend to show him, or anybody
else, except through the medium of the press.
2. Receiving a manuscript, of which it seems
doubtful whether the writer intended to represent
European, Chaldaic, or Chinese characters ; and,
after patient attempts to decypher the hieroglyphics,
resorting to the author, and hearing his unfeigned
expression of astonishment that you did not find all
as plain and legible as a new tin pan.
3. Just as you are in the busiest part of your
daily duties, in preparing your paper, having an
obliging call, with a very verbose communication
of a private nature, which you are required not only
to receive, but to hear read, amid the din of other
calls—;" Proof is ready 1"—" Waiting for proof,
Sir !"—and the prospect of a late paper, and sub-
sequent complaint in anticipation grinding on your
feelings.
4. Inquiries—" Who wrote that article ?" when
you have no fair right to inform, when it seems un-
kind to refuse, and incredulous to say you do not
know.

5. In a busy moment receiving a personal lam-
poon, which you are resolved not to publish, yet
wish to give your reasons, without time to explain
them. N.B.—The writer, full of the justice of his
cause, and perfectly incredulous that there are two
sides of a question.

6. A modest request from a good friend, just as
your paper ought to be at press, that you would
prepare a special article for his particular view.
7. And lastly, for the present, a quick succes-
sion of complaints, such as—" Why was our ad-
vertisement omitted ?—That communication will be
too late next week.—The other papers have that
news more in detail—l wonder you should publish
so many light articles, and leave out commercial
ones—This is an important time, and politics ought
to be your principal object—Literary articles ought
to claim a part of your attention ;" till, with forlorn
gaze, you measure with your eye the extent of the
columns of your paper, an wistfully exclaim—
" Ye Gods ! annihilateut time and space,
And make us printers happy."
POSTSCRIPT Anotherdreadful misery.—While
you are collecting news from a dozen or twenty dif-
ferent papers, when you have to keep in your mind's
eye the leading features of all, to have your papers
misplaced, and your arrangements all broken in
upon by the busy interference of half-a-dozen good.
natured, friendly loungers, who after having ago-
nised your feelings into a high fever, retire, one
after another, humming a tune, " What's this dull
town to me ?" or giving some other indication of
their idle propensity or negligentaire.—Neu York
New Era.

GRAY'S INN, JAN. 26.--llr. Samuel John
Partridge was this day tailed to the Degree of Barrister-
at-law by the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn.
ENCROACHMENTS OF THE SEA.—It is well
known that there have been extensive and extraor-
dinary encroachments of the sea, washing away the
Suffolk coast, and if they continue Heaven knows
what will become of this snug little island. In
this month's number of the Philosophical Magazine
there is an account of further inroads of old Nep-
tune in this quarter. A letter was read before the
Geological Society, from Captain Alexander, F.G.S.,
" on the annual destruction of land at Easton, Ha-
vent Cliff, near Southwold, on the Suffolk coast."
From careful observations made during the last
five . years, Captain Alexander states it to be his
opinion that the local representations of " 350 yards
in breadth having been destroyed (or washed away by the
action of the sea) at Eastern Cliff in about 35 years, are not
much over-rated, as, during that period, a nearly square
field, containing 121 acres, has been entirely removed by
the sea, and only three acres remaining of another which
consisted of 18i. This ratio of loss, he adds, has ex-
tended along the whole range of the Cliff. According to
Captain Alexander's observations, there has been an
annual loss of seven yards in breadth.

AWFUL VISITATION.—On Friday forenoon, at
ten o'clock, a Coroner's inquest was held at the
Crown, Museum-street, Bloomsbury, before Mr. Wak-
ley, M.P., on the body of George Hopkins, aged 47,
who died under the following awful circumstances
It appeared from the evidence of the widow, who is
left with four young children, that the deceased had
been above thirty years in the service (as foreman) of Mr.
Spencer, mattrass-manufacturer, Holborn. He had been for
twenty years asthmatical. On Monday night he went
to bed about nine o'clock, not making any particular
complaint. About six o'clock, the following morn-
ing she awoke and found him in convulsions. He was
then insensible. Mr. Hunter, a medical gentleman who
was sent to, arrived, but said he could do nothing for
him. Her unfortunate husband died between nine and ten
o'clock. Mr. Wakley said that the deceased was the first
witness he examined after he became Coroper. It further
appeared that the inquest was held upon a relative of the
deceased's master, and that the landlord of the Crown
was the foreman of the Jury on that occasion. Verdict,
" Natural death."

Two mornings ago, about two o'clock, a porter
of a diligence office, in the Rue de Bouloi, was found lying
senseless at the entrance of the Passage Vero-Dodat,
in the Rue Montesquieu. He was taken to a guard house,
but before medical assistance could be obtained he ex-
pired. He was an habitual drunkard.

POOLEWE, JAN. 15.—DISTRESSING OCCUR-
RENCE.-4 young man of the name of Macphail, from
Portlair, in Torridon, having gone in company with two
of his neighbours on Old Christmas-day, with his gun,
in search of ptarmigan to Benaligin, while attempting to
cross a narrow come over a wreath of snow, lost his foot-
ing, and was precipitated over a rock, upwards of 200
feet high, and was found by his companion (one of whom
was his father) in a dreadfully mutilated state, and life
quite extinct.—lnvernass Paper.
Buckingham-house, on the site of which Buck-
ingham Palace now stands, was purchased by Queen
Charlotte, the Queen of George 111., in January, 1775.
It was built in 1703, and after being rebuilt was in-
tended to be converted into a Palace by George IV.
Buckingham-house %as generally occupied by the King
and Queen at those times when drawing-rooms were held
at St. James's Palace.

An order has been issued to the authorities of
Greenwich Hospital to make immediate arrangements
for the reception of his Majesty the King of Prussia,
who, together with several members of the Royal Family
of England, has expressed his intention of paying a visit
to that noble institution, for the purpose of inspecting its
many attractions.
MELANCHOLY DEATHS OF A MOTHER AND
CHILD.—On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Payne held an in-
quest at the Commerial Tavern, Sherborne-lane, City,
on the body of Elizabeth Lindsey, aged 38. In our im-
pression of Thursday last appeared the report of an in-
quest on the body of deceased's infant, the probable
cause of whose death was exposure to cold in travelling
by railroad from Bristol. At that inquest deceased was
to appear as a witness, and whilst waiting to be called, 1
in a room next to that in which the inquest was held,
she suddenly expired. On the assembling of the Jury
last evening Mr. Payne and the foreman read several
letters from relations of deceased. By them it appeared
that she was a native of Hereford, and had married
about eleven years ago a travelling groom, whose domi-
cile was at Ackworth, near Pontefract. Five years ago
he left her, and has not since been heard of. She sup-
ported herself by nursing sick persons, and in September
last, without assigning any reason to her husband's re•
latives, she left Ackworth, and proceeded to Bristol,
where, about a month ago, at her aunt's house, she gave
birth to an illegitimate child, now, as well as herself, dead.
On account of her seeming neglect of the child on her
arrival at the above tavern from Bristol, on Sunday
week, and the agitation she manifested when she found
that an inquest would be held on the body of the infant,
the Jury considered that they could not come to a satis-
factory decision unless a post mortem examination of the
body were made. Adjourned for that purpose to Thurs-
day ne'x
A dreadful accident happened at Stubbington,
a short distance from Fareham, a day or two ago. A
poor woman, who went out to daily labour, left three
very young children locked in a room. One of them, by
some means or other, obtained possession of a lucifer
match, and set fire to some stubble which was lying about
the room, and all three children were suffocated.
NOVEL MODE OF PROVING IDENTITY.
When the last overland mail arrived from India, a son
of Neptune, still in receipt of her. Majesty's pay as
purser in the Royal Navy, and now a flourishing ship-
owner and merchant at Liverpool, happened to be in
London. He was most anxious to take time by the fore-
lock, and get possession of his letters without waiting for
them to travel to Liverpool and back. For this purpose
the son of the deep presented himself at St. Martin's-le-
Grand, and made known his wishes. The letters were
found and tendered to him on condition of the payment
of the postage, with the fee for stopping them in transitu,
and proving that he was the real veritable person he re-
presented himself to be. The latter point was the diffi-
culty. He knew plenty of people who could easily do
this if the Post office would allow him time ; but the
clerk said, Twenty minutes, Sir, and the letters must
be re-bagged, and on the way to Liverpool." " Twenty
minutes !" echoed the merchant purser, "if I were to
set all sail I could not fetch a friend and be back in time.
Twenty minutes !" he exclaimed again, striking his hand
against his forehead. After a moment's pause he tri-
umphantly cried out, " I have it ! I can prove my own
identity !" when he forthwith drew out and presented to
the astonished man in office the tail of his shirt with his
name and address thereon in clear and distinct charac-
The clerk could not deny such evidence, and the
letters were immediately delivered.

THE BLOW-UP.
The herald of the Kirk rebels has announced,
in a demi-official paragraph, that "the liberum
arbitrium may be regarded as now fairly and
finally set aside. Any proposal (it says) for a
settlement on that footing, has never been enter-
tained, except with extreme reluctance, on the
part of those intrusted with the management of
the Church's affairs, and only when it seemed
to be pressed upon them, and they could not
avoid giving a deliverance regarding it."
Now, this is positively one of the most perfect
specimens of sheer impudence that we recollect
to have met with in all our experience. It is
only a short week ago that we proved, by
extracts from Dr. Chalmers's Letters, and the
minutes of this same Non-Intrusion Committee,
as recorded in the published Correspondence
with Lord Aberdeen two years ago, that the
liberum arbitrium was brought forth by Dr.
Chalmers, then the Convener of that Com-
mittee—that it was swaddled and cradled by
Messrs. Dunlop and Candlish, as the leading
members and secretaries of the Committee—
that the Committee adopted it as their own
bantling—and that instead of being pressed upon
its godfathers and godmothers (for some men
wear petticoats) it was by them pressed upon
Lord Aberdeen with a pertinacity and petulance
which could only be found exemplified in a co-
terie of self-sufficient parsons and their Waristons.
It is not many weeks since this identical Committee
published a supplementary statement to their
former memorial to Government, in which the
liberum arbitrium was explicitly brought under
the consideration of Government, as one of three
modes in which they proposed that an adjust-
ment of all controversy should be effected. 'Tis
true that they intimated that they preferred the
veto and the call to it; but they declared their
readiness to work the liberum arbitrium,
if Government would bring it forward, " upon
its own responsibility," (a phrase which
we do not pretend to comprehend), be-
cause it would constrain them to give up
their benefices ! This to be sure, was a most
pious and praiseworthy motive, which their
countrymen will estimate at its true value ; but
until these worthies bring forth evidence that
this monstrous proposition to establish a naked
and atrocious system of clerical tyranny was
pressed upon the Non-Intrusion Committee ab
extra (as Dr. Chalmers has it), we repeat our
asseveration, that the statements now put forth
by that body are a finished specimen of unblush-
ingaudacity and falsehood.—Edinburgh Observer.

MORNING SUN

ANTI-CORN-LAW METING AT

DERBY, J. 24 . _DA E
most
YnLerous meeting was
held to-day, pursuant to requisition the -
to Mayor, to
petition for a total and immdiate repeal of the Corn-
laws. The Lancasterian School, in which the great
Midland Counties meeting was held, was filled to the
roof with nearly three thousand persons. The platform
was occupied by the principal manufacturers of the
town, and our respected Member, Edward
Strutt,
Esq.,
among them.
The Rev. Mr. JONES proposed the petition. Although
their former appeals to tile Legislative body had been
treated with so much disrespect—although they had had
disregard and contumely thrown upon their petitions, yet,
for the sake of their wives, their children, and them-
selves, he begged of them to make one more effort to
rouse the Government to some state of activity and
earnestness on the subject.—(Loud cheers). He need
not detail to them the ill working of the Corn-laws. His
only object was to beg that they would make one last
effort for a repeal of laws which were fast sapping the
foundations of the institutions of the country—ruining
the peace of all classes—starving the poor, and which
threatened, ere long, to involve the whole country in
one mass of ruin and desolation. He concluded by
moving the adoption of a petition to both Houses of
Parliament for the immediate repeal of the Corn-laws.

The petition was then read.
Mr. MORLEY, a large manufacturer, seconded the
motion for its adoption.
A working man, named HENRY KNOTT, then stood
forward, and wished to move an amendment before the
motion was put. He was handed up to the platform by
the gentlemen present, and put in a conspicuous position.
The Chartists immediately received him with loud
cheers. He did not oppose the petition on the ground
that it was needless, or that he believed the Corn-laws
were a good to the country ; far from it, he believed
that they had done material injury ; but the reason he
stood forward with an amendment was, because he
deemed that greater injuries first demanded their atten-
tion, and in the attainment of which the Corn-laws
would be involved.—(Cheers.) If the Repealers would
join us in obtaining the Charter they would at once
gain their object. Mr. Knott concluded by moving as an
amendment, " That although this meeting deeply and
sincerely regret the evil workings of the Corn-laws, and
believe them bad and iniquitous, yet theydo not believe
they, shall obtain their full measure of justice till the
People's Charter becomes the law of the land."

JOHN
_Moss, another working man, seconded it.
Mr. JOHNSON, a manufacturer of Derby, addressed
the meeting in refutation of the arguments of Knott.
A working man wished to correct the Chartists in
one great error. They said machinery had caused all
the distress ; now he denied it. He had for forty years
worked a stocking frame ; that species of frame had not
been altered by machinery during that whole time—it
had not been touched in the march of steam—it made
only one stocking as it did forty years ago—it employed
one man to each frame as it did 40 years ago.—(Cheers.)
How was it, then, that he himself did not earn one-third
of what he did 40 years ago—that the wages of all
stockingers had fallen to starvation prices ? It could
not be from machinery ; it was for want of a market.—
(Vehement cheers.) Let England have the world for a
market, and the whole of its inhabitants for customers,—
the change would bring peace and joy to every town and
hamlet—to every fireside, and to every English heart.
(All the meeting immediately cheered the old man,
who had evidently turned the tide of public opinion by
his plain open eloquence.)
The MAYOR said he could not, consistently with ht
duty, put the amendment, as the meeting was caAed for
a specific purpose—namely, to adopt a petition to Par-
liament. The Chartists might negative the petition if
they liked, but he could not put any amendment. The
petition must stand or fall.
KNorr inquired (amid great uproar, and cries of "Put
the petition—No Charter—Down with the Corn-laws")
whether, if he withdrew his amendment, the meeting
would agree to support the Charter next year, provided
that the Parliament refused the prayer of their petition
this session ?

This the leaders of the meeting declined.
The MAYOR then took a show of hands on the peti-
tion ; a forest of hands rose for it—not one against it,
and it was declared carried unanimously amid a volley of
cheers that shook the very building.
It was then agreed that the Members for the tom,
present the petition and be requested to support its prayer.
EDWARD STRUTT, Esq., M.P., expressed his willing-
ness and the honour he felt to do both, and said that km%
before the Corn-laws were considered to weigh so mate-
rially on the country he had opposed them in the House,
and ever should do so while he had a seat in it.—(llear.)
The meeting then separated.

1 RE LAND.
CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION.

DUBLIN, JAN. 24.—The nomination took place this
norning. Bad as were the arrangements last election,
they are now infinitely worse. The increase of the con-
stituency rendered it necessary to increase the booths,
six hundred voters being allowed bylaw to each. At the
last election there were sixteen booths, there are seven-
teen at this.. But what have the Government Sheriffs
done? They have given the additional booth to the Tory
freemen! The last booth in the list is 0. 2. The great
majority of voters in that booth are Tories ; and only
444 are to poll in it altogether. In another freeman's
booth (T. U.) there arc but 475 voters, almost all Tories.
Upon the other hand, the smallest and the most incon-
venient booth of the entire is letter M, in which there
are nineteen hundred and sixty-six voters!
This booth has been placed in the open street, and in
a filthy and narrow street, in the depth of a severe win-
ter! Sixteen hundred of those voters in letter M are Li-
berals. Not one half of them can poll ! The law pre-
scribes COO voters fur each booth ; there should, there-
fore, have been at least three booths for the voters in
letter M. But ingtead of three booths, the Government
Sheriffs have given the very worst booth, fitted up with
every possible regard to inconvenience, obstruction, and
absence of defence against the weather ! It is under such
circumstances that the Reformers enter upon the contest.
This scandalous partisanship gives the Tories fearful
odds against the friends of Lord Morpeth ; but they are
animated by a most determined spirit, and rendered for-
midable by the most thorough union, and they are con-
fident of victory..
At half-past nine o'clock the Court was opened to the
public, and in two or three minutes it was crowded to
excess. Cheer after cheer arose for Lord Morpeth ; for
some minutes the most deafening acclamations. resounded
through the Court, whilst the " Kentish fire " of the
Tory party was scarcely heard at intervals in the tumult
of applause.
At ten minutes past ten the Lord Mayor appeared,
when enthusiastic cheers were given.
A rumour was heard that the Hon. Mr. Howard.
brother of Lord Morpeth, had arrived in town. The
mention of his name acted like a spell upon the multi-
tude, and loud cheers were given. In the Tory gallery
the Rev. Tresham Gregg, who has been denouncing the
Roman Catholics as idolaters during the past week, oc-
cupied a conspicuous place, and took a chief part in the
demonstrations of the faction.
The lion. HENRY CAULFIELD, brother to the Earl of
Charlemont, rose amid long continued applause. When
silence was obtained, he said—The vacancy in this city,
which you have been called upon by her Majesty's writ
to fill up, has occurred by the demise of your former re-
presentative, and when he mentioned the name of Mr.
West it was for the purpose of expressing his deep re-
gret at the loss sustained by his family, his friends, and
the profession with which he was connected.—(Hear,
hear.) It was now his duty to recommend the Noble
Lord who would be put in nomination as their represen-
tative. He could not claim him as his countryman ; but
if he was not, he did not apprehend that a single politi-
cal opponent would be found to deny that his Lordship
had a thoroughly Irish heart.—(Cheers.) From' the
first time he came into public life, his constant object was
the amelioration of the condition of the Irish people—
(Cheers)—and this course he followed up from one step
to another until he accomplished much that he sought
for.—(Applause.) He need hardly remind the meeting
that the manners of the Noble Lord are most amiable,
and that he was accessible at all times to those who
sought him. His talents are of the highest order—his
extensive knowledge and profound skill rendered him a
most desirable person to represent the important inte-
rests of this great city in the Imperial Legislature.—
(Cheers.) Theta were the grounds on which he recom-
mended the Noble Lord to the consideration of the elec-
tors of Dublin, as a fit and proper person to represent
them in Parliament.—(Continued cheers.)
The Right Hen. the LORD MAYOR rose, and when the
cheering with which he was greeted subsided, he said he
rose with feelings of unalloyed pleasure to second the
motion made by the brother of the living Charlemont—
(Cheers)—the son of the late Charlemont—(Renewed
cheers)—a name that will live in the memory of Irish
patriotism long as the island is surrounded by the sea.—
(Applause.) The name of that man who was foremost
in the gallant band that set the foreign enemy at defiL.
ante—that secured the stability of the Throne against
the combined armies and navies of Europe—that pre-
served Ireland to British connection, and gave to Ireland
legislative independence.—(Protracted cheers.) He could
assure all present, that it was not affectation when he
proclaimed that he felt deep sorrow for the occasion
which brought them here. if lie had an angry feeling
towards their late representative, it was purely on poli-
tical grounds, and now that he was in his cold grave he
recollected only his most amiable qualities, and in his
sorrow for the individual he buried every portion of poli-
tical feud, which a long opposition may have created.—
(Hear.) He now came to the immediate subject for
consideration. Ile might be asked whom he wished to
fill the vacant scat. To which lie would reply, a Re-
pealer certainly—no doubt of that—(Cheers)—next, he
would prefer an Irishman.—(A voice, from the Conser-
vative side, " There's one behind you.") There is a
crooked finger to that—(Laughter)—ever man is not an
Irishman that is born in Ireland.—(Hear.) If I thought
that in this contest there was a chance of rallying together
the friends of Reform of all shades of opinions ours
thorough Irishman of talent, I would feel it muy.:ie)not
support him in preference to Lord Morpeth; but now
believe at present that could be accomplish_c_
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