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

THE “BRIGHT EYE'S" LAST.

The following edict, taken from the Pekin Gazette,
was published in the Hong kong Gazette of July 7.
It will be seen that the Emperor's brave troops have
made short work of Sir Henry Pottinger and a Bri-
tish General called Pa, and wounded a great many
barbarian chiefs, among others General or Admiral
An-tih-che. It is needless to say that Sir Henry
Pottinger, according to the last accounts, was alive,
and actively carrying on operations which truly
arouse the imperial ire :
" The Imperial commands have been received as
follows :—Yinhing, upon clear investigation, has sent
up a document relative to warlike engagements, the
attacking and capturing of traitorous natives, their
examination and accusations. It appears that the
rebellious barbarians have captured three cities,
basely exciting confusion and disturbance. They,
moreover, have leagued themselves with traitorous
banditti, who prowl about spying into our military
affairs. This verily is sufficient to cause the hair
of the head to stand erect through indignation.
It had also been represented that the rebel
leader Pottinger attacked Tinghae during the sixth
month of last year, but was killed by a gun fired by
Howanfe. It is now said that this turns out to be
false. It still appears, however, that during the at-
tack upon Tseke there was a barbarian British chief
killed, and the barbarians dwelling in the city of
Ningpo went into mourning for him. It was re-
ported that. the name of the barbarian chief killed was
Pa (?) The rebel barbarian An-tih-che (?) received
a wound on the arm, and a great barbarian chief re-
ceived some very severe wounds. There were five
ship-loads of the dead bodies of the barbarians taken
back to Tinghae, and there interred. There was
further an important capture in the person of the
traitorous native Chin-pan-keun and four others,
who were clearly adjudged and executed. Besides
the above, the report states. that a barbarian chief
was caught, and many traitorous natives. At
present there are well-known names of important
personages among the rebellious barbarians who
have either been killed in their ranks, or who have
been slain by severe wounds. Those traitorous na-
tives who aided the rebels in their outlawed wicked-
ness, Yihking succeeded in capturing at different
tunes. The barbarians employ those abandoned
traitors as :spies and guides, and the traitors cram
themselves with the profit of the barbarians ; and thus
villany existing both within and without, arouses my
Imperial vengeance and ire. The people and the mi-
litary being aware of the calamities being poured upon
us, let them combine their energies and increase their
exertions for defence; and let Yihking and his col 7
leagues lead on our forces to the extermination of the
enemy, and the rigorous seizure of traitors. Let
there he no remissness or delay, until the last traces
of the rebels are swept clean from the face of the
land, and traitors brought to submission, all of which
will accord with the righteous vengeance of heaven.—
Respect this."

BRIDPORT-W EDNESDAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Siu—l thought I would info rm you of the election
of Mayor for the Borough. lam happy to say that
Joseph Gundry, Esq., our highly respected and ta-
lented townsman, a Reformer, a thorough " good man
and true," was re-elected without opposition.
Proposed by T. C. Hounsell, Esq., and secondedby
A. Nicholetts, Esq., a vote of thanks for the able man-
ner in which he had filled the Chair the past year,
was carried unanimously, and the compliment ac-
knowledged by Mr. Gundry in a neat and appropriate
speech, amid general approba ion.
Mr. Hounsell, in proposing Mr. Gundry's re-elec-
tion, observed that he was led to adopt the rather un-
usual proceeding of proposing his re-election from the
circumstance, that during the past year, when a va-
cancy occurred in the magistracy of the town, the
Council proposed a list of names to fill the vacancy,
including that of Mr. Gundry, the Mayor, and sent
them to Sir J. Graham, when the appointments were
made, and it was found that all the names sent from
the Council, including the Mayor, than whom it were
impossible to find a better man to fill the bench, had
been passed over, and the appointments made from a
list privately furnished. He (Mr. H.) considered the
conduct of Sir J. Graham insulting to the Town
Council and to his excellent friend the Mayor; and it
was to mark his sense of such conduct that he came
forward to propose his friend's re-election to the post
of honour for the year ensuing he had so ably and
satisfactorily filled for the year now ended.
I may add that two of the gentlemen appointed by
Sir J. Graham have not yet even qualified themselves
for the magistracy. Such is the fact. W. S.

A LESSON FOR SIR J. GRAHAM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

am happy to inform you that the Town
Council of this borough has to-day taught a lesson to
the home Secretary with reference to his late ap-
pointment of Magistrates, which it may cost him
some extraordinary brass to prevent his feeling,
heartily ashamed of his renegade conduct. The bur-
gesses of Hull, as you will be aware from the pro-
ceedings in Parliament, had the right, prior to the
Municipal Reform Bill, of electing the Magistrates,
though, as the burgesses were generally Tories (or
were made so by Tory " Jacks of rum" and money
bribes), few but those of that kidney were eligible to
the Bench. When the Tory leader of the Lords do-
prived the Municipal Bill of the clause empowering
the Council to nominate Magistrates, Lord John
Russell avowed that the Crown would always take
the recommendation of those bodies. Disregarding
this fair dealing, Sir James Graham, as everybody
knows, tried to swamp the Magistrates (so to speak)
popularly appointed, and by so doing was the utensil
of those intriguing Tories in Hull who, in 1818,
when he contested this borough a red-hot Radical,
were his most violent opponents.
Well, Sir, the Town Council to-day has taught Sir
James a lesson, by electing as Mayor of Hull, John
Atkinson, Esq., a stanch Reformer, but a gentleman
not in the Commission of the Peace. Heretofore it
has been the practice to select a Magistrate as Mayor,
but this year the rule has been departed from, and
thereby a Liberal Magistrate secured for two years in
spite of Sir James Graham.
May duplicity and recreancy ever meet their
deserts. Yours,- in haste,
Hull, Nov. 9, 1842. REFORMER.

THE NEW TOWN OF SWINDON, ON TIIE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY.—The new town of Swindon, si-
tuated in the vicinity of the station of that name on
the Great Western Railway, has recently been making
rapid progress. Out of the 300 houses Intended to be
built for the use of the Company's officers and ser-
vants at this, their central establishment, a consider-
able number are already tenantable. Accommodation
reitilrea for betwben 1,000. atd- 2,oopersons,tin-
eluding guards, policemen, porters, &c., about half of
which number will be employed in the engine factory.
The whole of the arrangements are similar to those at
the central station of the London and Birmingham
Railway, at 'Wolverton.
MAXIMS WORTHY OF PUBLIC ATTENTION.—" Men
can bear hunger for a long time under the equator,
but ,cold and hunger united very soon exhaust the
body." The cooling of the body, by whatever
cause it may be produced, increases the amount of
food necessary." " The time' 'which is required to
cause death by starvation depends on the amount of
fat in the body, on the degree of exercise, as in labour
or exertion of any kind, and on the temperature of
the air." "As an immediate effect of the manifesta-
tion of mechanical force, we see that a part of the
muscular substance loses its vital properties, its cha-
racter of life; and all experience proves that this con-
version of living muscular fibre into compounds des-
titute of vitality is accelerated or retarted according
to the amount of force employed to produce motion."
" With the external cooling the respiratory motions
become stronger, in a lower temperature more oxy-
gen is conveyed to the blood; the waste of matter in-
creases, and if the supply be not kept in equilibrium
with this waste by means of food, the temperature of
the body gradually sinks."—Liebig's work on Animal
Chemistry .
A meeting of the Westminster Reform Society was
held on Wednesday at Stannard's Hotel, Charles-street,
Covent-garden, for the purpose of receiving the Report
of the Registration Committees. Mr.Charlewode in the
chair. Several new members having been admitted, the
Secretary, Mr. G. Huggett, read the Report, by which
it appeared that the number of claims and objections
made and sustained by Reformers this year greatly ex-
ceeded that of any previous year, as will be seen by a
comparison' of the last three years. Reform objec-
tions 1840, made 255, sustained 185 ; 1841, made
657, sustained 492 ; 1842, made 788, sustained 594.
The Committee likewise stated in their report that the
cause of failure in many of their objections arose from
the decision of Mr. Arnold in the " Chamber cases,"
he having decided, after mature consideration, that
persons occupying chambers, though 'not in any of
the inns of court, are entitled to be on the register.
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that if these decisions are fully carried out, it will be
. highly beneficial to the Reform cause.
CIIURCII-ItATES.—A brief letter in another column
announces the fact that the dwellings of some respect-
able parties in this city have been forcibly entered
during the past week, and a quantity of goods carried,
off, to support the richest .religious establishment in
the world. The amount demanded was 1/. 15s. lid.,
the estimated value of the ;goods seized 6/. 12s. Is
not this very like religion being " wounded in the
I house of its friends."—Worcester Chronicle.

AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—In consequence of a dispute
at the Union Club between Poingdestre, Esq., and
Thomas Carvick, Esq., a hostile meeting took place
near 'Kilburn on Wednesday; when; after an lex-
change of shots, Mr. Poingdestre withdrew the offen-
sive observation he had made to Mr. Carvick, where-
upon Mr. Carvick retracted everything he had said
derogatory to Mr. Poingdestre'‘ honour.