The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-05 00:00:00

GERMANY'

A letter from Wie,baden, of the 28th ult., states
that the KII4G of -be BELGIANS was living there in so
retired a manna, that had not his arrival been an-
nounced, no one would imagine that he was in the
town.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.

Traffic—Week ending July 3, 1852 ... £12,096 19 2
Traffic—Week P u ding July 5, 1851 ... 13 097 12 10
Total of the hail-year, to this date, 1852 ... 12,096 19 2
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 13,097 12 10
Total number o' Passengers—Week ending
July 3, 1852 ... 91,613
Passengers £9,717 19 0
Goods 2,379 0 2

Total ... ... £12,096 19 2
Total milsx open, 1952. 1731,4 ; ditto, 1851, 173%.
London Terminus, July 5. 1552.

THE STOCKPORT RIOTS.
The only conclusion which a contemporary thinks
it necessary to draw from this atrocious outrage is,
that the Irish are very bad mob fighters, and that they
had better keep quiet, because they are sure to be
"thrashed." If this it to be the high-minded tone
adopted by English journals, every man who has the
misfortune to think with the minority on any parti-
culer question ought to lose no time in providing him-
self with a brace of Colt's revolvers. If fourteen thou-
sand Roman Catholics are to have their houses gutted,
and their altars profaned, simply because they happen,
under the pressure of famine and distress, to have
sought work and wages among their Protestant fellow-
subjects, we had better at once exchange the Statutes
of the Realm for the Institutes of Lynch, and ask
Lord Campbell to undertake the execution of the
summary jurisdiction. Iu ltely, or in Spain, such a
justification of the violence of the majority may be safe
enough, because the majority for the time being is
secure from retaliation. Bat in an empire like that
of Great Britain, where the pcpulation is composed of
different races and religious communities, and where
parties are more equally matched, it is by no means
certain that the game will ba altogether one-sided.
The English Protestants may have it all their own way
in Lancashire, but if Roman Catholics are to be chal-
lenged to a war, literally pro aris et fen's, what is to
become of the Protestant; in Tipperary ? Are the in-
signia of as " alien" Church less obnoxious to the
Irish Roman Catholic than doves and crosses to the
cowardiy,tinnuwt;:e'
Stockport Protestants? Our contemporary may think it
efoarre stop it of opinion that it would
be most
snmption that Iris:
,sttterestnan to act upon the es-
te be thrashed. Sorely papists„ are always easily
picksi wale little sect Y Lord Derby might have
tent Associ-ti " or -'l° out of
al on on which be
cised his taste for the " Protes-
pemeiit. '?aiallt have exer-
danger to life, property, and the with far less
It has been ingeniously sugge rt-"'"e Peace.
Stockport was s drama enaaesded
enttat, .the riot at
men for thsir own amusement—kb -7
fog bY ' Irish-
explained -rea4on, they sacked their -;s°lla,e- Inl-
and burnt their own chapels. Butr own "clues,
given at the coroner's inquest , seems hthe evidence '
out this extraordinary hypothesis. Theardly to beer
ness found the deceased lying half d chief
ground, and and went out to fetch a doctoread upon the
' ' When,"
he adds, "we gut outside, another m.
with a piece of wood, and, saying 'Can came up
look at tis head,. to see if he is
an ensile, let us
is man,' he
struck him with his weapon on the left aide _of
head. on which the deceased cried out 'Oh de the
are
done,' and never spoke again." We Prot, I'm
EaglisLmen .have certainly good right to congratu-
lateAt
ou!,,lves that we are " not as other men are"—
not ev,Catholicrisman as t!iis poor Roman I• h n,—
Chronicle.

CITY ELECTION.—We ere authorised to announce
that there is no foundation whatever for a statement put in
circulation this morning, through a circular, to the effect that
Sir James Duke had r,:sigoied.

------
RqTAL COLIAG£ cr Scrr:GEoNs.—The following
gentlemen haring nyttl
"gone the necessary examinations for
the diploma were admitted members of the college at the
meeting of the Court of Eaernin‘i, on the 2,1 inst. :—Messrs.
Edward Augustus George
Albert Ua,4Bey,
Luis Lundy, Hon. East India
Company's service;
Smith Hewitt, Nottingham; John Thom„ Muriel, Ely ;
'oimberwell ; Turn
Richard Bird Mason. Nuneaton, Warwickshire ; Charles
White, Doncaster,
Yorkshire; Benjamin Godfrey, Rornsey,
rants; Robert Taylor, Botesdale, Suffolk;
Timothy Doyle,
Kilkenny; and William Mitchell Firth, Army. At same
meeting of the Court Mr. Henry Crocker passed his
nation torrtaval surgeon. This
- gentleman had preexami-
viously
been admitted a member of the colli.,ge, 144 ciphaina bearing
date Ju'y 25th, 1845.
SHIELDS, Ana. 2,-Wind W.—Std. Rose of Sharon, 1
Calcutta; Gila-Alan, Alexundrb; For3y al, ()deals.

THE ELECTIONS.
BERKSHIRE AND MR. PUSEY.
Mr. Philip Pasey &gain offers his services as one of
the Members for Berkshire, and though ho is a
landed proprietor of old family, and one of the first,
if not the very first, of our agriculturists, the Tory
squires are opposing his re-election. Several years
ego Mr. Pusey introduced a Bill to give to
tenant farmers ample tenant rights ; and when
that was rejected by the landlord interest of
the House of Commons, he brought in various
modified Bills intended to effect as much of
the same desirable objects as landlord prejudices
would admit. He was also the means of procuring
the Select Committee of inquiry into the agricultural
customs of England and Wales, by which a mass of
evidence has been collected which will hereafter be
used on behalf of the farmers whenever they shall
have any real representatives in Parliament. Mr
Pusey has also introduced and promoted various
measures for enabling the owners of settled estates
to expend money in improvement and charge it on
their property. That he has not accomplished more
decisive good in this direction, is accounted for by
the fact, that he stood almost alone in the House of
Commons as the advocate of the farmers' interests.
The votes, if not the goodwill of the farmers,
have hitherto been given to the glib professors
of "Protection," while Mr. Pusey last year of-
fended some of his constituents by declining to
join them in an agitation for the revival of
protection to agriculture, which he told them was
hopeless, and could only end, as it has ended, in
disappointment. And now the politicians who ex-
cited opposition to Mr. Pusey because he would not
join in a wild goose chase which they as well as he
knew to be hopeless, have abandoned Protection with
the greatest facility. It was because Mr. Pusey
would not march through Coventry with the loud-
lunged Protectionist crew, that Mr. Vansittart was
set up against him ; but if there be any power
amongst the Berkshire farmers of distinguishing real
friends from false—a practical improver in politics
and in agriculture from a shallow pretender to the
performance of an impossibility, there cannot be a
doubt that Mr. Pusey will be re-elected by a decisive
majority. . _ .

The following circular, which has been issued by
Mr. Vansittart's committee, is a piece of the grossest
impertinence which has come under our notice :
Berkshire Election,-Maidenhead, 19th June, 1852.
Sir,—The committee for conducting the election of
George Henry Vansittart, Esq., will feel particularly
obl.gcd by your signing one of the declarations on the
other sLie, and returning the same as addressed at your
eaxliait convenience, to enable the committee to compleite
their returns.—l em, sir, your very obedient servant,
FRED. T. WARD.
Appended to this is a fly-leaf, with Mr. Ward's
address printed at the back, which is in these terms :
Berkshire Election, 1852.—T0 the Committee for con-
ducting the election of G. H. VANSITTART, EN :
I intend to vote for Mr. VANSITTART.
Signed

I do not, intend to vote at all.

A more impudent electio ' gSigtnriecdk—
ne was never
I
perpetrated. Surely the peopleeroinf Berkshire will not
allow themselves to be used in this way without re-
-1 renting the insult. Going infinitely in advance of
Mr' Pusey in general politics, the sympathy of the
Daily News must yet be strongly in favour of his
re-eiection—tince he is an agricultural reformer ;
whilst his opponents aro obstructives of the most in-
tolerant class.
No man deserves the support of the farmers as
muchUs Mr. Pusey, for the decisive blow he has
dealt t.t the system of game preserving in the evi-
dence he gave before the Seltct Committee on the
Game•laws. Mr. Pusey toll the Committee he once
preserved game, but that observation hail satisfied him
that his tenants had suffered so much loss from his
game, that 133 gave up preserving, and discharged
his gamekeepers. The following passage from his
evidence on vie, occa.iion ought to secure him the
vote of every Berkshire farmer who dares to call his
vote his own. Mr. Pusey said—" One of the points
which made me come to the determination of giving
up preserving was, finding that my own gamekeeper,
who bad got three or four acres of land near his house
in the covers, after cultivating it for eight or ten years,
said at last he must give it up because it did not pay
him ; it would ruin him ; and then it occurred to me
to consider what was the case with my keepers'
neighbours round the covers."

That was a lesson to landlords, and the man who
read it deserves the grateful support of all the tenant
farmers.

Then who stands higher amongst the practical im-
provers of English husbandry than Mr. Pusey ? Who
has done so much by his sound and rational treatment
of agricultural literature, to disseminate, compare,
and elucidate the best practices of the various rural
districts ? Who has done more to vindicate the
tenant farmers from imputations of want of enterprise
or intelligence ?
Look at his report to the Royal Commission on
the agricultural implements of the Great Exhibition,
which is at once an exponent of the triumphal
progress of agricultural mechanics and a most
judicious lecture on improvements in husbandry.
He has marked how good implements enable the
farmer to perform his work more cheaply and
more effectively ; shown how rapidly the cost of
these implements has decreased, while they have be-
come more and more perfect every year ; that the
rural implements in the Exhibition " afforded not
the least conspicuous testimony to the advance of
English skill in devising mechanical means for the
abridgment of labour ;" and, though last not least,
that modern machinery has given to farming what
i; most wanted—comparative certainty. Truly may
it be said that Mr: Pusey is the most apt repre-
sentative of the progressive agriculture of the day ;
and though doubtless Berkshire will, as she ought,
claim as her own his :services in the next Parliament,
yet, if there be any man who can be said to be the
appropriate repre,entative of the collective tenantry
of England, it is Mr. Pusey ; and for such men
there will be work to do in the next Parliament.
The law of landlord and tenunt—tne landlord power
of distraint—the want of security for the tenant
farmers' capital—the game-laws—and a variety of
similar topics, in which the farmers are deeply in-
terested, will all require the aid of such calm and
reflective minds as Mr. Pusey's to accomplish the
amendments so urgently needed. Surely, then, Mr.
Pusey must be re • electecl.—A PRACTICAL REFORMER.
—Daily News.

RAILWAY BILLS.
On the last day of the late session the House of
Lords passed a resolution altering the Standing Order
No. 185, known as " Lord , Wherneliffe's," which re-
quired that incorporated companies promoting Bills in
Parliament should at a Certain stage prove before the
Standing Order Committee of the Lards that such Bills
had been approved by four-fifths of the proprietors,
present at a general meeting specially convened for that
purpose. ;The alterations in the standing orders referred
to are :to -the effect that on giving tbo usual ten days'
notice by circular to the proprivors of such meeting
blank proxies are to be inclosed for the use of such
proprietors, and that on holding the meeting proof be
given that such Bill was submitted
and approved of by
proprietors present in
person, or by, proxy, holding at
least three-fourths of the paidelp capital of the com-
pany represented at such meeting by qualified pro-
pr •
ietors The alteration was
made with the view of
doing away with the practice of dividing stock among
numerous persons, so as to obtain the largest number of
states out of a given amount of stock, and thus, by a
comparatively small amount of stock, to enable adverse
parties to outvote the proprietors at a meeting. This
was alleged to be the case in respect to the meetings of
the Shrewsbury and Chester, and Shrewsbury_aael Bir-
mingham Railway Companies, and in, coeeequeeme these
companies Were prevented ,compteang with the standing,
order of the Lorelse.efter baying passed the ordeal of
the Commons; and the result was, that the Amalgama-
tion Bill
.wa s rejected, and the arrangement Bill for se-
curingw, railway (viii the Great
frsormeouLdonrdoounteanbdy
the South of England to
Liverpool, Birkenhead, did Manchester, was mutilated
stern) a
by striking out ail that related to the Shrewsbury ctahme-t
consequence of a non compliance with _
panies in
Great disappointment on public
standing order. . u
..4
.on
o_
grounds was felt with regard to them
the House
the latter Bill, and the refusal of .
this
of Lords to suspend the standingd orderr
originally
ease, particularly as this_ standing order
the pre required a majority of only ll
and
f Bill, that subsequently
'ureters to approve 0- a to
without proper investigation of inquiry, it was altered.
fi,""ftl". This was considered a great hardship by
Le pull,*
thei*oniotingßills, as the majority in each
ca"
was
nacre thaw - fifths of the proprietors, repre-
sented three.-
seated at tbe ' Iteration requires that
three-fourths of 'meeting.
The a
resented at the meeting
shall vote in favour eepital represented t
pass the Com-
mittee, s 0 that insZaa 13111 in order o 40,0001. of stock
divided among s large of 30,000/. or .
n the em-
vote or.oPPosiintutelr'lrtef young m"
-I tto out-
vote the bona fide propriewers 8'
being sufficient
quire a much larger amount oaf at
ameeting, it
will
same
re-
object, and at the same' capital to effect tbe
t acted on, will enable
two or three persons to doe'
it
quire as many hundred persons tomeltient bg what would re-
tion. Persons acquainted with the efore the altera-
and powerful railway companies knozesources of large
siderable amount of capital may be borrtohat a very cen-
time to enable the directors or officials, :at,
for a short
be, to upset the votes of the proprietors of A 1.4 Zs: may
pany, and thus frustrate the passing of a 1311 i cal stand-
ing
orders in a more complete manner than before, d
less liable to detection. arid
Then with respect to the shareholders of the.company
promoting any Bill, the standing order, as anunded,
will, by menus of the proxies authorised thereby, cora-
-1 pietely take the power out of the hands of the shareholders.'
It is well known that in utmost every case where
the directors have the power to apply to the great body
of shareholders fur proxies in support cf any measure,
good cr bad, they are'errtaha to obtain tl,e majority of
votes 6t any Met tit/ff.: --The-standing order, as amended,
j_ will have just the opposite effect to that originally in-
tended—viz., to protect the minority and enable them
to prevent the passing of injurious measures. It
will enable directors to car/ any Bill they please in