The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-09 00:00:00

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FINAL.

YAR AI 0 tall.
FINAL,

••• 616
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554
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524
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SUNDERLAND,. 1.30 P.M.
.. 487
Napier

Hudson ...
Seymour
Fonwick

b 63
658
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457
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FINAL.
:Hudson and Seymour returned.
SOUTHAMPTON, Foun
Wilcox ... .•• ••• ••• ••• 1,062
Cockburn... Ipl7
Cochrane ... 797
Vansittart 767

FLNAL.

Annesley ...
Heneage ...

.... 341
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283
... .40

GLOUCESTER.
Price and Berkeley returned.
LEICEST
Walatalay arid Girdner returned.
LEEDS.
Baines, Goodman, Sidney, and Hall. Nomination this
day, The Tories have demanded a poll for Friday.

RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
TELE WHAUNCLIFFE ORDER.

The following communication has been addressed
,o Earl Derby by the representatives of the Great
Western, Great Northern, and Shrewsbury in-
terests :

"My Lord,—We have given the most attentive and
Lordship at the close of our inteiisiew on Monday, that
respectful consideration to the views expressed by your
in any modification of the Wharncliffe Order the object
to be obtained is to ensure that the minority shall consist
of proprietors having a bona fide interest in the capital of
the undertaking itself, and not of proprietors represent-
ing the adverse influence of some other company.
" The means by which Lord Redesdale suggested
that this end might be accomplished was to require that
specifiedtwhebaerhri shareholders eitffhi
emo lemd ehereesftoi
meeting
.ti
theyul dphe shouldasivres
b beenlb entitled e s registered
to vote at some
}our Lordship's
purpose unquestionably is, we tear there are insuperable
precticll obstacles to this mode of attaining it.
"It the period that a sharehdder is required to hold
his shares were a long uric, he might einnliltiln, with
some ress•ni, that he was kept out of his I,gititn4Te right, G
in the management of his own property; and some I et
even may be produced to his prejudice on the flake
val'ulefutfhehipsefirlioadTa.s suggested hyllLord RedeAdle, were
the transfer
a short one, it would have no other effect than to in-
duce those who desired to obtain an influence in 1103, par-
ticular e irnpany to commence their operations a few
months suon,r, Am,,ng many plans for evading the
purpose, there would be no difficu4y in purchasing
shares, and I,4lving. them, as is frequently the case, by
fide hold-
agreement, in the names of the former proprietors, ob.
;fining their proxies, and only registering
after toe shares shall have been so used for detesting a
PinaPnertih°edreis
weisure at a Wharncliffe meeting.
Would be
"In either case it is to be apprehended that the effect
would be rather to increase than diminish the evil. If it
were once determined hat the possession of a share for a
4ilwOrdtd,' gad that - WIO 612a061 openly
.
tie
eo
su.y dh constituteuht tthhaet
,testi other
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has
beenrse toiethreesitnetderieesttshoefubeednedrfitadkeipegar?tners whose capital
means to accomplish purposes
sive`4llytismtich to be feared that any mode of establish-
ing the bon&
fide interest of a minority must to a great
extent be impracticable; but we are satisfied that conside-
rable good might be accomplished if the Standing Order
Committee were not only permitted, but were required,
to institute inquiry into any allegation, complaining by
order
mode of correcting
obtained.
Tevotes
beneficialhad
eimproperly a
standing
no odlileug-
su
hviraweetosual di persons
tebretthoeydehtearve been
ee a c
committed.
We to those
nitudepisretpoebrraientl
acts by the fear of
g investigation,anevil a d
m itratheradmitted
t to
be than
of
f g
great
detectt m a
.
"lP
are convinced, however, that the only effectual
back the Wharncliffe standing order
to the
of three fifths, instead of four-fifths, of
proprietors present to unction the admission of a
shi' House.
d Bill
thea
e tTi nbot R: t your
tohr
ed e aaslt. introduced in the first instance,
rotecting a considerable minority
shareholders against the indiscreet con-
that even the Parliamentary any
majoritycontemplated
engaging in other objects
reasonaobileabplyurpose. We do not know
by the Act of Incorporation
oftabwPohfouhroayt
bans,
the
oastp neetjustfiouerdipesec themselves
ri
induced
—such was unquestionably
not only a legitimate
the alteration.
question on the suabtitcet.
at. We cannot learn that
diona
inquiry was instituted, or
and grievance, or that
agents, who were the per-
sons most conversant
with in such complaining
matters,
weref p oppression
es
t.lt is understood that
it was a spontaneous
debatea ion, determined upon
without previous inquiry (7g
r in the House of
Lords, at some meeting of a
committee on standing
orders, and the alteration mil
y became known after it
had been adopted.
" There exists no proof that the ' •
of three-fifths bad been found forinsumeioereie•t original l proportion
single
plated perper, or that-'111:11- considerable the
minority.'°ritein.
been prejudicially affected by the conduct of their 'had
co-
proprietors or by the acts of their managing body-
" With great respect, we must controvert the posi-
tion of Lord Redesdale, that the injudicious arrange-
ments of the Caledonian, and other instances of the 1
same period, had been
aorccasioned, or could have been '
prevented, by the Wh ncliffe standing order. These
in the
prejects had their origin
.. distempered state of
isl speculation in the years 1845 and 1846,
commercial
and were the acts of the body of the shareholders
The Public, and even the Legislature,
themselves.
were more to blame than the directors of railway com-
panies, who in
many instances did all in their power to
stem the torrent•
.. In the case of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham, on
which Lord Redesdale chiefly relied, it was admitted
that when the directors of that company found that the
North Western had been establishing a
London and
controlling influence in their company by the possession
of shares, they did, in order to protect the property of
their bond fide shareholders against such sinister in
whatever lay in their power to extend the
finance, do
number of the votes which could be commanded in sup-
port of their own policy. Without seeking to justify
such proceedings, even under those peculiar circum-
stances, your Lordship cannot fail to observe that the
Wharecliffe standing order in its present form, so tar
from affording any protection to bond fide shareholders,
was in that instance the means of provoking the retalia-
tion which is now condemned as so objectionable.
" It is by no means our desire,
however, to withhold
the proceedings of directors from investigation, which
should, in the same manner as those of all other parties,
be subjected to the rigid scrutiny of the committee, as
suggested during our interview with your Lordship.
4. We state it not only as the deliberate conviction of
our minds, but es the result of actual experience in
many cases, that the Wbarncliffe standing order does
(nibble rivt:l and hostile companies to acquire, by the
small minority which is now sufficient to detest a mea-
sure, a preponderating influence over the great body of
proprietors.
" The effect, particularly upon small companies, is to
place them at the mercy of powerful neighbours, who
nave the means of obtaining an undue influence over
their property for their own purposes, which some do not
scruple to exercise.
"The result upon the public interest is to defeat many
measures of the highest importance. After an agree-
ment has been entered into and a Bill has received the
sanction of a majority cf the proprietors—after it has
passed not only the standing orders of the House of
Commons, but has also been submitted to the scrutiny
of a Committee of that House—after the preamble has
been proved, and it may therefore be assumed that the
measure is of some public importance, the Bill is now
were
re emppresented o fet
rh e
met at the threshold of your Lordship's House by a
standing order which enables a rival and hostile com-
pany to set at defiance all these prima
.facie proofs of
public expediency, and prevent the House of Lords even
trom proceeding to investigate the advantages or public
merits of the measure itself.

" Such being the obvious consequences of the Wharn-
cliffs Order, as now in operation, it is with great confi-
dence we appeal to your Lordship to sanction the sug-
gested alteration, tending, as we AL &Lily believe, to
tm-
prove the practical working of it, without departing
from the principal or relaxing the object for which it
was originally instituted. They consist—
" Firat,—Of restoring the proposition to an approval
by a majority of three-fifths of proprietors present.
Secc'ndlY,—Of rendering an investigation impera-
tive, instead of permissive, as to the bona fides of' the
parties voting, whenever complaint be made by petition
from either party to the House of Lords.
•` We have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lord-
ship's obedient servants, " R. H. Cuvz.
" C. RUSSELL.
" EDMD. DENISON.
" BARRINGTON."

FRANCE.
A letter from Vichy, of the 4th, says—" Two days
' back, as General and IVladatne de St. Arnaud and M.
de Rochefort, the sub-prefect of La Foliose, were
riding on horseback to St. Germain des Fosses, the
place intended for the future station of the railway,
they suet a group of individuals who, without know-
ing who they were, attempted to stop them, using
insulting. language. The Minister, with the help of his
servant, speedily extricated himself and the persons
with him from the party of rioters, but in doing sr,
received a vident Low in the head from a stone.
Tnis aggression on the part of those men, who were
ently in liquor, was not intended against the Ge-
neral in his official capacity, but agai❑st him as be-
longing to a superior class of society."
The Pattie states that a series of statistical commis-
missions are about to be organized for the whole of
France.

Workmen are at present employed at Algiers in
digging the foundations for the monument to be
erected to the memory of Marshal Bugeaud. The
Governor-General has given orders that there shall
be placed under the foundation stone a cedar-box,
containing a medal bearing the effigy of the de-
ceased, a number of coins of the present period,
and the following inscription :—" This monument,
destined to perpetuate the memory of Marshal Bu-
geaud, Duke d'lsly, and formerly Governor-General
of Algeria, has been erected by means of funds
raised by subscription among the people and the
army, and assisted by the Treasury of the State,
tinder the Government of Prince Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte, President of the French Republic—
General di Saint-Arnaud being Minister of 'War, and
General Bandon Governor-General of Algeria." The
blocks of porphyry for the monument have been ex-
tracted from the quarries of Cap de Fer, under the
direction of M. Belliard, Engineer of the Ponts-et-
Chaussees, and brought to Algiers by vessels of the
French navy. The statue, which was executed by
M. Dumont, member of the French Institute, has
been cast is bronze by MM. Eck and Durand, of
Paris. The monument was commenced on the Ist
June, 1852, and it is hoped that the statue will reach
Algiers in time to be inaugurated on the 14th August,
the anniversary of the battle of Isly.

ITALY.
In its sitting of the 3d, the Chamber of Deputies at
Turin adopted up to the 29th article of the Civil Mar.
riage Bill, including the 20th and 21st, which more
particularly contain the principle of the measure—
viz., that marriage may be celebrated before a civil
magistrate.
The Risorgimento of Turin quotes a letter from
Cagliari of the '29th ult., stating that the harvest pro.
wises to be excellent, and that the grape and olive
crops will be abundant. The National Guard has
been nearly re- organized at Cagliari, and the Col-
lege, which had been closed in consequence of last
winter's disturbances, is to be shortly re-opened.
Public tranquillity has been completely restored in
the north of the island.
Letters from Milan,
.in the Corriere Mercantile of
Genoa state that a great number of political arrests
have just taken place there ; and a telegraphic dis-
patch trom Venice of the 30th ult. states that similar
measures have taken pla,se in thlt city also.
A letter from Rii,ll.-•, 111 the tissentblie Nationale,
states that his Holiness the POPE wee present at all
the religious ceremonies which:annually take place in
that city on St. J,ihn's day, and on the subsequent
27:h, 28th, and 29'h June. On the 27th tior.i7
I.4k.ss officiated in person, and on the 28thhe iiiiparty,
l
the customary ab.olution to the King of NAPLES, for
the tribute of 12.5,000 f. the latter is bound topay
annually to the Holy See. The cupola of St. Peter's
was illuminated in the evening.

SWITZERLAND•
Letter from S irzrrland announce that M. Thiene,
has decided on proceeding to Piedmont, but that he
would not in all probability reside at Turin. He had
hired a large apartrw-nt at Vevey, where he though!.
of residing with all his family+ when he received the
order to quit the lielyetio territory. His friends ssy

SWEDEN.
The King of SWEDEN returned to Stockholm, on
the 21st ult., from his visit to Scania, and the Go-
vernmental commission established during his absence,
to take charge of public affairs, has in consequence
been dissolved.