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

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CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.
FORGERY.
. . .

" 4, Charlotte-row, London, sth July, 1852.
Dear Sir,—The contest anticipated by me for the City of London,
has been terminate 1 by the Ites!gnation of Sir JAMES DUKE,
Bert., and that your attendance at the Meeting of the Chairmen,
Deputy-Chairmen, and Honorary Secretaries of the Liberal Electors'
Committees, at the Guildhall Coffee-house, King-street, Cheapside,
this afternoon, will not be required.

" I am, dear Sir, yours truly,
" 6IONEY SMITH, Secretary."

The above 13 a RANK FORCEST.

SIDNEY SMITH.

TATTERSALL'S.—THIS EVENING.
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WORCESTERSHIRE STAKES.
5 to 2 agst Butterfly
4 to 1 agst Lindrick
4 to 1 ags; Ephesus
to 1 agst Tonic

JULY 5T,17119.
2 to 1 on The Reiver

LIVERPOOL CUP.
4 to 1 agst Pocdle—taken
7 to 1 agst Colsterdale
10 to 1 agst Ciinehin

GOODWOOD sTAILES.
12 to 1 agst Chief Justice
13 to 1 apt Haricot
15 to 1 agst Don Pedro
15 to 1 agst Champion
9.0 to 1 agst Backbite:
GOODWOOD Cu?.
5 to 2 agst Stiltoa
4 to 1 agst l'ing!ton
20 to I apt Heroine—taken

fpfc,AN CE.

A decree in the Moniteur announces several judi-
ciary appointments in the departments.
Ttva Moniteur announces in a communicated note
that the President, having been informed of the in-
tention to
give banquets in his honour during his ap-
P'roaehir g tour in the departments, has resolved not
'to accept any, however touched he is by these kind
attention`.
The Presse has commenced publishing a series of
letters on the state of Er gland. Three have already
been given ; and the following extracts are not a bad
specimen of tl:e sort cf information communicated,
and of the writer's knowledge of the country, whose
habits and manners, as well as institutions, he assumes
to describe :

" In England," he begins, " every one knows
that the whole of the land belongs to the nobility, and
that it is inalienable. Thus, in the immense augmen-
tation each day of the city of London, you must not
believe that the builders of houses purchase the soil as
complete property—they pay a rent to the lord pro-
rietor, and the concession of the ground is only for 9
9 years. Thus the nation is the guest of the nobility
—it lodges with

" These guests of the nobility' are, it seems,
divided into three classes—the agricultural popu-
lation, who are farmers of lords ; the middle
class, which devotes itself to trade, and forms what
is called the gentry ; and, lastly, at the lowest
step of the ladder, the salaried and poor work.
men—the mobility. Of these three classes of guests
the dearest to the nobiiity is the agricultural popula-
tion. This is easily understood; if the farmers da
gocd business more money must enter into the cash-
box of the lords. If commerce is restrained by the
laws, if, for in,tance, the impor'stion of corn is bur-
eened with a high duty, the English farmers sell
their produce with more edvantge, and all goes on
for the best in the eyes of the aristocracy. it is true
that the gee'r7 will see its commerce destroyed—it is
true that the mobility may die of hunger, Stc:'
"The intention of the nobility is obvious, viz., to
annihilate this laborious gentry, that is, the inde-
fatigable people of Lor.don, Manchester, Birmingham,
Liverpool—to kill the real English nation, the flood
(still meaning the gentry) which mounts each day,
in\ ading Greet Britain, and carrying the vessel of the
States"
After so accurately defining the different classes
into which the English people are divided, and ex-
citing our compassion on behalf of those oppressed
tradesmen and manufacturers, the gentry, he says
that

" There are immense quarters in London that count
30,000 inhabitants, but do not send a deputy to Par-
liament. There are in England four or five classes
of electors. The constitution of these classes reposes
on reasons the most absurd and ridiculous—on usage,
on a bit of parchment, on the arbitrary will of the
Lords, &c."
The name of this accurate correspondent who thus
enlightens M. Emile Girardin, and who bids fair to
outstrip M. 14<tdru Rollin himself, is Erdau. It was
in the Presse that, in an article on penitentiary re-
form in England, the treadmili was seriously spoken
of as an article of dietary. AL Erdau's lucubrations
on the "gentry" and the voting by parchment, &c.,
beat the treadmill hollow.