The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-21 00:00:00

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Saturday her itoval tie Dueness of
Bent, attended by Lativ Charlotte Dandas and Sir
,G,_eurge Couper, went to Canford House on a. visit to
le Queen Dowager
Her Royal Highness proceeded by the- railway from
Farnborough to Southampton.
Air, Moore, Advocate-General of the Swan River
netnent, had an interview with Lord Stanley on
oaturday, at the Colonial-office.
Count Reventlow, the Danish Mini.,ter, transacted
tu
'lnVss at the office of the Board of Trade on Sa-
turday.
ITr.'John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancel:or of the Exchequer on
"turdaY, at his official residence in Downing-street.
."'sPatches from the Governor of the West India
ofteh.ies were received on Saturday, at the Colonial.

worth notice.—(He r, hear.) He had that day seen I
the architect, who declared that he could erect a gra-
nite column which would be an ornament to the parish.
Ile hoped the Vestry would confirm the motion, and
that, as sincere Reformers, they would be able to point
to this monument as a beacon of those principles with
pride ; that it would, in after ages, remain a monu•
Rent to tell the recreants who passed by that they once
held similar opinions to those men it honoured, and
become a lasting sting to them to the very end of
time.—(Loud cheers, amidst which the Hon. Gentle-
man sat down.)
Mr. KIRBY (a barrister) would defy Mr. Hume, or
any other member of the Vestry, to point his finger to
any single clause of the local Acts of Parliament,
under which it was constituted, to give it a political
tendency. The Hon. Gentlemen had offered no argu-
ment whatever to show that such was the case.—
(Hear, hear.) It was proposed that the designs should
be laid on that table for the choice of the Vestry. If
that was done, the Vestry would identify itself with
the whole affair, and would become responsible and
amenable for all the acts of the Committee.

q„' DRURY-LANE THEATRE.
thine Comedy of Love for Love, was revived at
theatre on Saturday with complete success.
broad is Play, which is excellent in its kind, is rather too
d; . for the present day, and has therefore been ju-
'4l°usly stripped of the more objectionable passages.
ei,°, 'characters were in general well sustained, espe-
84"Y br the female performers. Mrs. Nisbet repre-
to ,ti,"lrs. Frail, and Mrs. Stirling Mrs. Foresight,
ii,`;'! admiration of the audience. The acting was
11:7„.atid chaste, and of the purest comic character.
Keeley, as Prue acquitted herself in her usual
hicellent style, and was not surpassed even by her
husband, who represented the Sailor Ben,
Ikenx;eiltiedea,in:.axstinguishable laughter. Miss Faucit,
perfectly lady-like, but her acting
as deficient in the airiness which is inseparably
awiated with the heroine of Congreve's comedy ;
wh• It seemed too grave for the circumstances by
)41!°11 the creature of the poet's fancy is surrounded.
tot:Anderson's Valentine was a more correct per-
atl4l2l,ee than he generally exhibits, though we can-
pro uell) remarking that it might be considerably im-
Plavve4' if he would remember the time in which the
%afil Was written, and the peculiar character of the
friol°,..r. The scene in which he feigns madness and
tile% 'ns to death the scrivener and his father, when
wit want him to sign away his estate, was given
wa great effect. Scandal, as performed by Phelps,
will the chief character of the piece--an eminence to
keaci.:: it was raised by his good acting—and only
this;, , :t° it Was Compton's Foresight, a part in which
sentlital actor reminded some old playgoers pre-
"` the best days of poor Munden. The dresses
sceneryaa were unexceptionable—no cost, indeed,
rs to have been spared in getting up a piece once
to
tiit favourite litwh the public, and which promises
ong a favourite.

POTTER said it was through the political move-
ments of parochial bodies that the principles of libe-
rality had advanced during the last ten years—(Hear,
hear)—while the strongest bar to improvement in every
shape was the old select system prior to that period in
power. If that Vestry were about to erect a monument
to William Pitt or Lord Castlereagh, the Times would
call them worthy representatives, and excellent and in-
telligent men ; but because they were about to honour
Inen of far more intrinsic value, they were designated
by the very worst epithets that could be found in the
English vocabulary.—(Hear, hear.) The fear of the
Attorney-General had been held before their eyes.
All he (Mr. Potter) could say was, that he was pre-
pared to take his share of the responsibility in the
erection of this tribute to men who deserved equally
of their country with Russell, Hampden, or Sidney,
and who were as honest and sincere as any other men
in power at the present day.
Mr. ANDERSON said if he believed these men bore
the slightest comparison to the Hampdens, Russells,
and Sidneys alluded to, he would support the motion.
But, believing the contrary, he could not give his vote
for conferring on them such an honour.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GOMM, throughout his reply, was assailed with
hisses. He said Pitt and Castlereagh had been re-
ferred to. It could not be said they were transported
felons.—(Confusion.)
Mr. HARDUTT—No ; but they ought to have been.
Mr. Gomm concluded by again calling on the Ves-
try not to commit themselves by doing the illegal act
proposed, and declared he was determined to do his
duty, be the result what it might.—(oh, and laughter.)
The question was now put, and the non-confirma-
tion declared to be negatived. A division was de-
manded, when there appeared—
For the confirmation
For non-confirmation .. 8

M SCOTCH REFORMERS OF
114/, , 1793-4.
It...ECISION Or THE MARYLEBONE VESTRY TO
"r4Vr TILE MONUMENTAL COLUMN IN THE REGENT.-
Clacvs. '
lVQeran,, Saturday the Marylebone Vestry were occupied
or no: hours discussing the propriety of confirming
Satur2mlfirming the minute passed on the preceding
?tient an granting a site for the erection of a monu-
-41:1 column to the memory of the Scotch Be-
te the Regent-circus,
"f 1793-4, Muir and others, on the north side On Saturday the Committee of Aldermen whom
Atr._ Oxford-street. Alderman Thomas Wood requested to investigate the
Lowe having been called to the Chair, charges brought against him by certain parties, as-
h,*int G°l%tai moved for the non-confirmation of the sembled at the Guildhall.
44- He cared not for the abuse which had been There were thirteen Aldermen present, and Alder-
* k upon him during the debate on the previous man Brown, the senior Alderman present, was, upon
taoeen 'by gentlemen who were the supporters of this the motion of Sir Peter Laurie, seconded by Alder-
lia4 lipental affair. The Hon. Member (Mr. Hume) man Farebrother, unanimously appointed to the Chair.
othe laboured to show that these men—Muir and Some desultory conversation took place upon the
sheil.lswere of precisely the same opinions as Fox, forms by which the Committee were to be regulated.
his 'lan, and Lord Grey, but he had failed to prove Alderman BROWN said it struck him that the
ryosition. IVoold he venture to stand up in his most advisable course that could be adopted was,
iko,e in that Vestryand assert that Lord Grey, Fox, that Alderman Thomas Wood should lay down a
Suffrage and
were the advocates of Universal statement in writing detailing the various charges,
th and Annual Parliaments ? He called upon referred to in his request for investigation by his
hem oard to pause before they did an act which was brother Aldermen, particularizing any which might
Inei, inasmuch as they were not a political, but have been brought into a Court of Law or Equity,
thi eY a parochial body.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") If and the consequence. The Committee were, it was
ea;' not hear his (Mr. Gomm's) warning, he to be perfectly understood, as had been intimated on a
of th upon the Vestry to listen to the warning voice former occasion, not bringing any charges themselves,
and e leading journal of Europe.—(Loud laughter, and would, he was convinced, act with the utmost
torecries
otk,
" Oh, oh.") Mr. Gomm here proceeded impartiality in a case of so serious a nature to one of
uf tha-d,Lhe following extract from the leading article their own body. He had come, to the Committee with
~,,'„l"nes of Thursday : the hope that Alderman Thomas Wood would show
,w e will venture to say that no functionaries in . that there was no foundation for the charge to which
of rand ever before contemplated so insolent a breach allusion had been made ; but he considered it to be
t,br!lat as this—to give away land belonging to the absolutely necessary that the Committee should have
üblic,
tic
..lic: a portion of the greatest thoroughfare in the a distinct statement in writing.—(Hear, hear.) Since
''4611 metropolis, of which they are trustees the Court had granted the Committee of Inquiry he
otb, for
t_
...4.10 . he purpose of superintendence and repair had thought much upon the subject. The importance
Mr. Joseph llandof the situation in which hejustplaced
11 give this away to Hume
°-'ls, as a site for a monument to certain added to the serious nature of the duty he had to per-
(ij• victed and transported felons, whose crime form. The present would, he thought, be more of a
asititate their only title to distinction ! At the preliminary meeting for the future proceedings than
BLik" expense, the Marylebone Vestry proposes to anything else. They would proceed gradually and
ti °Y 'the principle of anarchy and confusion, revolu- temperately, and nothing would be said of the past.
of tiliand bloodshed, and conspiracy, for the subversion Alderman T. Wood had referred to certain charges
it.,:
laws, by a laudatory memorial in the Regent- which had been made against him ; but upon the jour-
‘6l.4.est.(, Cries of ' False, false !" Hear, hear,' and nals of the Court there was no record of the kind to be
tad ray 9. The honours of Nelson, and Wellington, found, except what was comprehended in the subject
Vestry
tria--;,"'g, are to be shared by Palmer and Muir. now before the Committee. The Alderman had called
.ov estrylreisently expect to hear of the St. Prancras for a Committee of the Court.
,'lrraln.- D.--L°eicin up the approach to the London and Alderman T. WOOD denied that he had called for
rai' -0•""n Rgailway, with a colossal statue of Tom a Committee. He left it to the Court to decide upon
image or of the Whitechapel Vestry sticking the their own plan of inquiry.
media °f u°llll Thorogood, in congenial brass, im- Alderman BROWN said the Court had, upon being
trybeelo-v-e-YlaateTyve the altar of their parish church. called upon, granted the request, and the Committee
spoken freely of what we conceive to be had a right to call upon Alderman T. 'Wood to repre-
jaclec Uses of the Court of Chancery ; but really, when sent what the charges were to which their attention
toto he„ncies like these are attempted, we have reason was to be called. He (Alderman Brown) had
thankful that there exists such a jurisdiction. The sketched a resolution which, had he not been in the
is ,z, Inhabitants of Marylebone ought to know that it Chair, he would have submitted to the Committee.
initten:te any of them to apply to that Court for an Perhaps some other member would propose it. It
eieuget'" against the proposed erection in Regent- was as follows :—" That Mr. Alderman T. Wood be
June
°r any similar nuisance and that such an in- requested to furnish the Town Clerk, on or before the
a Veri°ll would be speedily and certainly obtained at 31st day of December, 1842, with a statement in
triad moderate expense. If no such application is writing, for the purpose of the same being laid before
tai, "t will become the duty of the Attorney-Gene- this Committee, detailing the several charges referred
rof the Board of Woods and Forests, to inter- to in his request for investigation, made to the Court
re • and
the Lwe trust that Government will look well to of Aldermen on the 3d inst., distinguishing in such
*iiiiillses which haVe inspired these sedition-mongers statement which, if any, of such charges bath or have
ulterk,nt the
idea that they had the power to put this public been brought under the consideration of any of her
44, e (-1411 P on the laws of their Country." Majesty's Courts of Law or Equity, and the mode
had st-rri Gomm) knew that many gentlemen present (whether by motion or otherwise) of bringing the
called 'lug reasons for not liking Chancery, and he same before, and the result of the investigation
on_er'"
tin-
r 7-4 them to take warning lest the Attorney- thereof by, any such Court."—(Hear.)
al , .
11 ,1n ants matter, did not lead them into it. Sir PETER LAURIE said he highly approved of the
non-Confirmation
Air. H having been seconded, resolution, and felt much pleasure in seconding it.
In the mumE, ALP., said, that from a report he saw Alderman WILSON stated that he attended the Com-
cour rl'er of Sunday last, he found that in the mittee greatly against his own wishes, and not a little
manseho the oliservations of Mr. Gomm, that gentle- to his inconvenience, having made his arrangements
applied to these unfortunate men to whom for taking his family to the country. Saturday was
" ,I,_
orTluent wa-..proposed to be erected, the terms definitively fixed, but his brethren would not allow
hat blatelb.:ll;thb'ei
r:P Pa
Revolutionists," and other epithets him to go. He was told the honour of the Court de-
inapplicabil. In support of those terms he manded his attendance, that his own personal honour
I.Ql,4morrs
)henleeading
ty— t.referred to the nines which he was pleased to required it, and that it was due to Alderman Thomas
journal 7of Europe. Now he (Mr. Wood that he should not absent himself on such an
"rh eed not attempt to impress upon the Vestry occasion. He replied that he was neither prosecutor
The utterlywis, unworthy of credit such a source was. nor accuser. He had stated on Midsummer-day that
polie:°le doctrine set up by Mr. Gomm, and that certain charges had been made against a member
a tics :f_ of the press which opposed this measure, was of the Court, who had moved for a Committee of in-
of ~ ;lee of falsehoods from beginning to end.-(Cries' quiry, which was refused. He could then have at-
ari") it
Vestry- was utterly false that the parish or tended the Committee. He stated from whence the
n Aislarylebone were about to do any such thing charges came, and they might have been in-
nstioerc3e:tith
monument themselves, or to grant a por- quired into without delay, and their truth or falsehood
purpose. which monument
len did not belong to them for such a ascertained. He was anxious to abstain from allusion
V°t for They
were merely asked to assign a certain to the past, but as he had taken a prominent part, and
expense
tothe erection of this monument, without any might say with Alderman T. Wood, that his charac-
-BtElllee th the parish whatever.—(Hear.) In every ill- ter had been traduced for so doing, he could not
times rough life he (Mr. H.) had found that a lack of come to a vote upon the matter without alluding to
aviTnt brought a lot of abuse, and it was that the observations made by Alderman T. Wood upon
Nrc,,,t had induced the attack upon himself and the his conduct, in addressing the Livery on Michaelmas-
' li,l'in the Times and other journals.—(Cries of day. The present was the first opportunity he had of
rsitiorh' hear;') He did not blame the Times for the replying to these observations.
vb.. G.O-,,,1t had taken, but, in justice, he thought that Alderman COPELAND rose to order. He hoped Al-
"clea 4'4,1 ought also to have quoted the leading ar- derman Wilson would adhere to the suggestion of the
13;001 tUe Chronicle upon the subject, which were Chairman. Alderman Wood had moved for the Com -
ttlat more,,i, constitutional, and a complete antidote to mittee, and it was but fair to hear what were his
illNve— the former journal.—(Cheers.) He hoped, wishes. He (Alderman Copeland) had determined
14471'1 the Vestry were not to be swayed from not to attend the Committee or take any part in the
The atltl:Y as Reformers by this or that man, or by proceedings, but, like Alderman Wilson, he had been
ftiear.) ell of any portion of the public press.— told that his presence was indispensable. He came to
'Poe:in.. that -- gross error had been fallen into in sup- know what the charges were which Alderman Wood
: Polrtic the
Iv
inuV Poaftrtyh• that great parish was not wished to have investigated.
'Lhe administrationft b'cl.Y. It was not the fact. The whole of Alderman WILSON said he would, if it were the
eofparish of Marylebone was wish of the Committee, abstain from any remark upon
the coon Political as the State and Administration of the past ; but, if it were intended by the resolution
..._
eurtevsestry
tir ,`r_linry. (Ix
lweforntlzi returned as
--kLAear, hear) The whole character of that the Court should confine itself strictly to what
was that those who were returned to it Alderman T. Wood might desire with regard to the
the advocates of full and efficient Talacre Iron Company—if they were merely to read
lxlch t (Hear, and cheers.) Let them refer the affidavits and decide upon them, without taking
istro 0 the years 1831 and 1832. It was the the opportunity of inquiring further and examining
'trs. Ile for, and the attainment o.f,ref.orm in the Ves- witnesses—he for one would be no party to the in-
.l.....inmegitgthat parish, that was mainly instrumental in quiry, but would withdraw from the Committee. He
parish w that day. g the Aa . about the Reform Bill, notwithstandinunderstood Alderman T. Wood to have asked for the
• .__nlnifyin
Press of $ slanders put forth against them by the Committee in consequence of certain charges brought
The present constitution of the against him, that he might have an. opportunity of
ikted to as founded upon politics They were associ- clearing himself. If he. were sincere in his statement,
~ tie
%I, , conduct its affairs upor.tbe principle- of re- the' inquiry would not avail him unless it were carried
Ing and
:evert,
.._ , remedying every abuse, and therefore out to the fullest extent
1)0141417 of the Vestry was political, and must be Alderman T. Woo]) said he wished for the most
the Vest (Hear.) With this fact before them, were rigid in but he could not see why he should be
our trY acting out of the strict line of duty in (It log called upon to specify charges which he came to an-
reform
under
ondthe
mat
ili at day
Voted at th•er men who were the pioneers of that saver. He had already answered, by affidavits, certain
which they, as a body, sat, acted, and statements made to his prejudice; and he had dam-
?—(No, no.) Their crime had been menta
- (Irev, ?,c°lY of holding similar opinions with Lord no foundation for any of the accusations brought
r matter which went to show that there was
lihnseif,
hutagainst
two or three years before their persecu- Alderman FAREBROTHER said he had received a
trophie
e would not, upon this topic, fur- printed hook, containing charges of a very grave na-
i.ecord the Vestry. ilistory had placed on ture aainst Alderman T. Wood. He did not know
•ao,x,„ what these men reall v were. With regard to from whom it it had the
~, oense 1.,_., .
Was being incurred by tile Vestry, that assertion and who could
equal' , names of those who made the charges,
' Humes \i 3 untrue. The money was in his (Mr. be made resonsible It might be necessary to bring
luiTin...2( !minds, to defray the eritire cost of the co. forward testimony ..
support of the documentary-
',7B wered, itlear, hear.) These two points being an. matter. in suppo
• v estry tt ley came to the question of the power of the - A MEmnmt havin observed that a barrister had
If they.
17 grant the contemplated site for the erection. ' put into his hands an ga
t. against Alderman T.
the in'att had
not the power by law, there was an end of Wood, ccusa ion
1,-„,
.er. Tie_(..llr. Hume) would contend that the Alderman BROWN
, ,try h.. 3 the deprecated the accumulation of
to thels. "u. power to erect ornamental buildings idle tales; nothing should be entertained but what
,a, , parish.—(Hear,
"7 'Ur hear, and No.) The autho- regularly before
came the Committee.
. Clorw, bacl cited to tie contrary was not i Alderman T N
T. S99D declared that he lia4 a doca•

Majority, finally determining to place the
column in the Regent-circus 33
The Vestry then separated.