The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

DAILY WEATFIEIt TABLE.

tit .te of the Wind and Weather at each of the following
plat es at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—The stations
are arranged in order of latitude.
PLintorrrn—Wlnd S., gentle breeze—overcast.
BruGuron—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
HzeTnvaz—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
SocTsAmpron—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast.
FOLKESTONE—Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
TUNBRIDGE.--Wind S., gentle breeze- overcast.
GREENWICH—Wind S., gentle breeze—partially cloudy:
sTßoo,_wind W., gentle breeze—cloudy.
Swmpow—Wind S.W.. gentle breeze-_partiauy_ cloudy.
Cowan:grim—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy.
cayx E--Wind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy.
YA oirra—Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
morning at nine
he wind and weather on Saturday

o'clock :
Lmaraticx—Wind S.W., calm—partially cloudy.
CARLOW—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudy.
liutuwaAß—Wind S.. gentle breeze--overcast.
PLYMOUTH—Wind S E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy,
P°°,-E--Wind S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless.
Poßxsztourn—Wind S.W. gentle breeze—overcast.
13,TP:T'IT0=4--Wind N.E., gentle breeze—rain.
—4lartsGs—Wind S. E., light airs—rain.
ani"l'Tot—Wind `Ai., gentle breeze—rain.
F'"'"o-'l9.--Wind S.W., light breeze—overcast.
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IBRIDGE—Wind S., gentle breeze--rain.
GREENWICH—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain.
&MOOD —Wind N.W., gentle breeze—cloudy.

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LoNDoll, TUESDAY-, JULY 20, 1852.

Bribery is already in too many instances the
charge directed by the unsuccessful against t
successful candidaties recently elected as represen-
he
tatives. Petitions are, in all directions, in active
preparation. The Opposon is in this manner
scarcely less frequently accused than the Government.
Deifeated first at the hustings, and afterwards at the
p oiling booths, Hon. Gentlemen appear to be deter-
mined to allow their triumphant antagonists but
little time for exultation, and but small chance of
enjoying the sweets of tranquillity. Considering
the remarkable facility afforded to the
chptious for
directing against their
f.r
means for
'the imputation
of
having employed un
the circumstances
the purpose of obtaining
here alluded to cannot bat be matter for any astonish.
irreet. It Can only force upon the recognition of
every impartial judgmenf• a sense of the ahsolute aed
'
imperative necessity existing for the national adop.
tion, of the ballot as a security against both corrupe
Übe nless the ballot very
tion and intimidation.
'
speedily accepted by the beg"ature as a portion,
'
?.nd a vsry essential portion, moreover, of
the representative system, but
but
little.. peace
will he attainable by the
little satisfaction secured by constituency,
thceandulate!,
and but little facility be afforded the
leg; 3lators kr entering at once upon their duties asf
newly elected
.I-V embers of Parliament. A considerable portion o
t'ne first session in every new
Rouse of Commons
must be occupied in pronouncing upon the validity of
the various elections petitioned against on the ground

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of unfairness. The accepted of pocket boroughs and
'family counties—those who are snugly returned as
a matter of course by their hereditary constituencies
—will have to sit in Committee in the Legislative
Pslace at Westminster, to take into cons.deration
the farce and value of toe charges preferred against
the crowd of unfortunates who happen to have been
placed in other localities at the head of the poll after
some severely-contested struggle with the candidates
brought forward against them by their political an-
tagonists. All this, we repeat, will prove inevitable
with the present state of the law in reference to
elections—unless the difficulty of the position be
obviated by the speedy acceptance of the ballot by
the Imperial Legislature.
The illustrations recently furnished of the accuracy
of the foregoing statements are unhappily too nume-
rous to require their being specified individually.
After a-couple of months have elapsed the new Par-
liament will assemble, according to Ministerial
promise, for the purpose of being inaugurated by a
brief session—when it will very speedily
appear bow
many of the members recently returned are accused
by their unsuccessful opponents of having employed
bribery as the means for elevating themselves into
the lower branch of the Legislature. Several of the
petitions here referred to,
as already prepared and in
active course of preparation, are, it must be confessed,
on the very face of each as imperatively demanded
in the name of justice as others are shamefully un-
justifiable, being traceable only to party spleen and
private animosity. That matters should have become
thus confused in several places during the course of the
recent elections can scarcely be matter of surprise
when it is remembered how much has been at stake
between the belligerents, between the candidates of
the Government and the candidates of the Opposi-
tion. There can be no question, for example, that
is perfectly correct
in its surmise, that in such places
our contemporary, the Examiner,
as Dartmouth,
Chatham, Devonport, Greenwich, Sandwich, Wind-
sor, and Rochester the influence always powerfully
in favour of those who are in office has been na-
turally employed in behalf of the interests of the
Administration. This is but precisely what might
have been expected in the reverse direction, supposing
the Whigs had still continued
to hold in their grasp
the reins of the Government. The result of the elec-
tions in these quarters is not so much, we repeat,
to be surprised at, or to be regarded as a source of
chagrin and disappointment. But feelings of
that poignant description cannot but be aroused,
on the other hand, when it is observed that seats have
been here and there gained, it is to be feared, by in-
dividnal efforts somewhat unjustifiable in their
character. Yet, that these efforts should some-
times have been adventured upon was only what
might rationally have been expected at a time when
party passions had become so very painfully and, in
occasional instances, so very manifestly exacerbated.
How far this irritation became apparent in the course
of the electioneering movement may be indi-
cated by allusion to such incidents as those
in which from one hustings the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
exclaimed that he wished the cheap loaf had stuck in
the throat of one of his free-trade interruptors, and in
whicb, from another hustings, the SECRETARY at
WAAt addressed the assembled multitude as the vilest
rabble he had ever seen, and one that he, in conse-
quence, most heartily despised !
It would have been well for the credit of both can-
didates and constituencies if all the contested elec-
tions throughout the United Kingdom had resem-
bled the contested election that took place in the
borough of Lancaster. There the struggle which
took place between the rival candidates could scarcely
have been more energetic in its character. Yet,
although such was the case from first to last, the
gentlemanly bearing of those who were principally
engaged in the contest appears to have been not for
a single instant interrupted. The two Liberals, Mr.
SAMUEL GREGSON and Mr. BAYNES ARMSTRONG,
were returned, in lieu of the Derbyite Mr. JoHN
Eua,s and of the Peelite Mr. Tunas GREENE,
thereby securing a gain of one, in that quarter, to the
cause of her MAJESTY'S Opposition. Yet, al-
though the analysis of the votes at Lan-
caster reveals the excitement provoked among
all parties in the course of the polling-227 votes
being divided between Exxis and GREENE, 52 be-
tween ELLis and GREGSON, and 60 between Exaas
and ARMSTRONG, while 13 plumpers were given for
GREGSON, 56 for GREENE, no less tban.74 for Enms,
and as many as 81 for ARMSTRONG—the good feel-
ing was preserved up to the last moment among all
the individuals interested in the agitation. This
honourable circumstance we regard as mainly,
if not exclusively, attributable to the gal-
lant bearing of the defeated candidates—
but more particularly to the gentlemanly and
straightforward course pursued by Mr. JOHN
ELLts, both towards the local possessors of the fran•
chise generally, and to the two newly-elected repre-
sentatives. While we rejoice in the triumph of Mr.
GREGSON and of his colleague, Mr. ARMSTRONG)
we cannot but lament that a Peelite, such as
Mr.' GREENE, formerly the respected chairman of the
House of Commons, should have been altogether, at
present, deprived of the opportunity of entering
again within the walls of the Legislature ;
while we cannot but consider the defeat
of Mr. JOHN ELIO, formerly , •
M P• for the borough
of Newry, a matter o. regret c to the Free-traders in
the House, while it must necessarily be felt as a
severe loss to the supporters of her MAJESTY'S
Govern-
ment. Fortunately a variety of opportunities will
soon be afforded once more to the electors,
by availing themselves of which the " pick " of the
defeated candidates on both sides may still be re-
turned to the new Parliament. Under these cir-
cumstances we should rejoice to witness the
return by some Radical constituency of a
distinguished Reformer like Colonel PEYRON•
NET THOMPSON, and of an eloquent and ener-
getic Free-trader like Mr. JOHN alas by some
constituency devoted to the cause of the Derby
Government—upon the same understanding that the
country is now looking forward to the return for
King's County of Mr. JOHN REYNOLDS, the rejected
°L.,
t, f Dublin, and to the return for Ayrshire of Mr.
.e..nwAßn
CARDWELL, the rejected of LiVerpool.

Relieving officers,
and other parochial authorities,
do not appear full
, Yto understand the responsibilities
attached to their situations. In many instances they
act as if their only a
-11tY was to repel every claimant
on the funds, and to disregard the most urgent cases.
If the unfortunate applicant be reduced to the utmost
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extremity of destitution, ,
is rudely turned from
the door—if he declare that he must die if relief be
much longer withheld, there is always one at hand
ready to " dare the rascal to
might, however, prove a more inconvenient
Flo it.,, Such a
odeecauthrrence than the " porochal" philosopher imagined,
when exercising his wit on the obstinate pauper.
Proceedings at inquests cannot always be bushed up :
B conviction for
if manslaughtermatters shouldula be
noret.thplcelle d
quite -
Pleasant ; and even
extremity, the voice of public opinion
the act in unmistakable
to that
may be heard denouncing
terms, and compelling the board to notice the trans-
action in a very disagreeable manner. Magistrates,
too, Will occasionally
11 interfere ; and the press will
give publicity to matters
which bad better have been
Altogether the life of a
kept in the back ground.
poor-law official is not entirely coleus de rose, nor is
aye
such magistrates
it likely to prove so while we h
on the bench as Mr. ARNO". I looking woman,
Yesterday morning
up at the West-
a miserab e-
with her two children, was brought ---`
high minister Police-court charged with thecrime
and misdemeanor of being destitute (4, •r •/
i) It ap-
peared that the miserable creature had on the pre-
ceding evening applied at the station-house, stating
that she was extremely ill and destitute, having eaten
nothing that day, and but little for several days
previously. Mr. SIMONS, the inspector on duty, who
acted throughout in an exceedingly creditable
manner, ascertaining from his personal observation
that she was suffering from illness and exhaustion,
sent with her to the workhouse of the united parishes
of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, a police-
constable, who mentioned all the circumstances 'of
the case to the porter. The latter functionary co,_
municated with some person in the interior of the
bu:lding, but on his return positively refused to re.
ceiv eher, or even to supply a small portion of bread
for Ler starving children. The inspecf or, therefore,
gave
the miserable• family the food and other refresh-
meats which were most urgently required, and