The Sun.
London, England, 1829-12-12 00:00:00

MR. MUNDEN'S RELATIVES.

MR. EDIToR,—At a meeting of the Select Ves-
try for the Liberty of Saffron-hill, the attention of
the Board was directed to a paragraph in your
Paper of Thursday last, calculated to excite undue
sympathy in favour of two very worthless persons,
and equally tending to create a prejudice in the
public mind against a respectable individual.
The subject alluded to is the application of the
pauper, Munden, for admission into the workhouse
of the above liberty, the notice of which is contrived
so as to convey an idea of the pauper's general re-
spectability, and particularly of his aged wife's
anxiety to fulfil to the utmost her religious duties.

The Board thought it due not only to themselves,
but also to Mr. Joseph Munden, the pauper's bro-
ther, to authorise the undersigned, as chairman of
the meeting, to state the manner in which the pau-
pers availed themselves of the order given by the
overseer, which, be it observed, was delivered to
them at noon of the day in question, to make their
entrance into the house.

The Curate of the parish, the Rev. Mr. Hoole,
was engaged at the time, seven o'clock in the even-
ing, in performing divine service to the assembled
paupers, and found the same interrupted by the en-
trance of Munden and his wife, both in the most
disgusting state of intoxication, almost fighting with
each other, and their demeanour so offensive that
the other inmates put them out of the room. The
Curate, on leaving the house, perceiving that the
struggle still continued between Munden and his
wife, interested himself to ascertain the ground of
their quarrel, which, on his using a little peremptory
authority, proved to be, that the man was in pos-
session of a gin bottle, which the woman was en-
deavouring to obtain.
The undersigned aware that, although the pau-
pers had long received occasional relief from the
parochial funds, the brother, Mr. Joseph Munden,
had also repeatedly assisted them, called this morn-
ing at that gentleman's house, and found that he
was unconscious of any particular distress pressing
upon the parties at the moment, and expressed his
entire readiness to contribute, in any proper man-
ner, towards the maintenance of such burdensome
and unworthy relatives.
To follow up the resolution of the Vestry, Ihave
then to express my reliance that you will give pub-
licity to this qualification of your correspondent's
statement, which, doubtless, your sense of justice
will induce you to comply with.
SAM. OLIVER,
Chairman of the Select Vestry for Saffron-hill,
Dec. 11. Hatton-garden, and Ely-rents.

REPRESENTATIVE PEEL—Lord DONE-
RAILE is, it is said, to be the Representative Peer, having
the interest of Government. In answer to the customary
circular or political mandate from the Castle, Lord Ross-
MORE has declined voting for a Representative Peer, con-
sidering it at variance with " the case of the ex-Parlia-
mentary Peers," which his Lordship intends soon to lay
before the public.—Dublin Morning Register.
WATERFORD ELECTION.—We understand
that several gentlemen, now in town, interested for the
independence of the county of Waterford, have ordered
two thousand copies of Mr. O'CoNxxu.'s address to be
distributed among the freeholders.—Dublin
_Morning
Register:

The conflagation of Ramsgate Theatre is said
to have preseAted a splendid but alarming appearance to
ships in the Downs, and to those passing
up and down
Channel.

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT. )

The Thirty-first Annual Adjudication of Prizes
for Fat Cattle was made on Thursday, at the Show-
yard, in Goswell-street. It must be in the highest
degree gratifying to the lovers of improvement to
find this Metropolitan and Patriotic Institution not
my maintain its ground for 31 years, through the
crosses and adversities which have at different pe-
riods afflicted our agricultural community, but, from
the superiority and numbers exhibited this year,
proves the leading characters in this Club to be true
veterans in the cause of agricultural improvements.
The motto at the commencement of the Club was
to encourage improvement in all those breeds of
animals which were best suited " for supplying the
Cattle Market of Smithfield, and other places, with
the cheapest and best meat.". The proof of this motto
having been strictly adhered to, is to be found in
the gradual increasing excellence and quantity of
good cattle that abound in every market in the
kingdom. Even in these critical times, British en-
thusiasm in the cause of improvement seems un-
abated; for I am given to understand the funds of
this Club are not in the least diminishing, but rather
in7easing. The Noble President and the members
appear now as alert as ever to the framing and class—
ing their premiums, so as to ensure the fairest and
most disinterested competition and encouragement
to all the numerous breeds of animals which we by
such exertions are happily blessed with.
Too much cannot be said in the praise of their
noble-minded President, Viscount Althorp, who, it
is well known, devotes so much of his valuable time
to the improvement and encouragement of every
branch of agricultural pursuits, and who is ever
steady in his Parliamentary duties to serve the
community at large. Can we wonder at the gra-
dual improvement that has taken place in the breed-
ing and feeding of animals, when we find that this,
and other similar sciences, has been headed by the
talents and bounty of such noblemen as the late
illustrious Francis Duke of Bedford, by his worthy
successor, by the late Lord Somerville, by Sir J. S.
Sebright, Bart., and others; arid can we feel sur-
prised that this Club receives new life to exertions,
under the extensive patronage and liberality of such
Noblemen and Gentlemen, surrounded and supported
as they each have been by all the most intelligent
practical breeders, graziers, and agriculturalists in
this surprising community ?
The metropolis never could boast of a greater
number of the first-rate agriculturalists being as-
sembled, than this year's exhibition seems to have
brought together; and they appear, with their usual
interest, to examine into the minute merits of the
several animals.

We observe there is a beautiful black Scotch Ox,
sent here all the way from Scotland, at the request
of " The Highland Society of Scotland," and which
justly attracts his fair share of notice. It is asto-
nishing to notice the high estimate placed by each
successful candidate on the prize that he has gained
—trifling in its amount ; but the gain is in the ho-
nour of having produced the best animal in such a
competition as this great Metropolitan Club► offers,
and the fact of that prize being made known to the
public, with the full particulars of how he fed his
animal, with all the minutiae of his competitors, and
this honour being conferred on him by the most ex-
perienced judges of animals that the country can
produce. The Sweepstakes this year do not fail in
conferring an additional emulation and honour on the
winner of them.

The public must look on these individual animals
exhibited as phenomena only calculated to convince
the practical breeders and graziers of the goodness
of the breed, and also of the discretion used in
choosing that food which would soonest make the
generality of such animals, as regards size, fatness,
quality and cheapness, most suitable for the public
consumption. We observe that the butchers who
kill these animals are required to send their:nett
weights to the Secretary, which we hope he will in
due time lay before the public, as they cannot fail
to be useful.

The Stewards—viz. Mr. John Buckley, Mr. John
Beasley, and Mr. Samuel Bennett, and the Secre-
tary—appear to have been very active in the ar-
rangement of the show, and they placed numbers
over the head of each animal.

The Judges are gentlemen of well known :prac-
tical experience—viz. Mr. Thomas Chapman,grazier,
of Stanley, near Coventry ; Mr. Charles Stokes,
grazier, of Kingston, near Kegworth, Leicester-
shire ; and Mr. Thomas Edward Pawlett, grazier, of
Stamford, Lincolnshire; and they made their award
of the prizes to the Nos. over the animals, while in
entire ignorance of the names of the owners of the
stock. The competition was very close in some
classes, and they spent the whole day in deciding.
At a late hour the labels were put up—we were
only enabled to procure the following copies of
them:—