The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-28 00:00:00

COUNTY ELECTIONS.

Governnaent has achieved another triumph. The for-
midable Mr. Locke King, who beat Lord John Russell
last year by two to ono, and drove htna thereby several
days from power, has this year been 13,,aten by Lord
John Manners and Mr. Disraeli in a divisioa of 202 to
149. The majority lest year was 48 against the Minis-
ters; it is this year 53 against Mr. Louhe King. Can it
be denied any longer that the Constitution is Safer from
rash changes in thu haudo of a Derby than. of a Russell?
But the truth must be spoken.. Like most othsr twrial
triumphs, the one before us frides:unOr scrutiny. Why
Lbelte King beaten this.sear,_. after having made
a Tilinisterial crisis last year? The man is the same,
the measure is the samo, the Whigs are the .same, the
Conservatives are the same. and there is no very
striking uoveity in the condition of the people at
large. All the difference bet.een the division this
year and last year is,. that on ,February 20, 1851, the
Conservatives not being in power, but- having _imbibed
an immense draught or encouragement frp,n their small
minority on Mr. Disraeli's recent motion, left Lord
John Russell to tight his own !Lanni() wi!h his own re-,
fractory followers. They had no objection to see the
Minister in a-raiiii.irity, even in whist; ttu,y believed to be
a good eaute„ Tots year the mice,: pr ivithei the se.i•
dents of the ease are coat) diff4rent. The of the.

Constitution, as they ueeua it, happens to be their, owa
csuseas well; so they are alts, their .Nv.s. More the❑
a hundred and fifty gentlemen who last year colleivLd
by their absence as- the- proposal to swamp, as they
think it, the county constituencies, have this year
rushed to their rescue. Last , year - they regarded
with compl,zency the proap--ets of some hundred
thousand 101. householders returning the so called
county Members. This year they are once more true
to the Chan,los voters. The victory, therefore, which
we have trumpeted wish all due formality consists in the
trifling little fact that the gentlemen now la office and
their friends will do for the sake of themselves ,what
they would not do for their country; that before they,
take the trouble to vote they ask what interest they
have themselves in the question, and be. the cause ever
so bad, if it answers their purpose that it should gain a
temporary triumph, they will even let it so prosper. It
is surely uenecoseary to observe that such conduct is
factious and dishonest; still less necessary to observe
that all parties now-a-days are guilty of it. Whig or
Conservative, it matters not, people will not- do their
duty unless it answers their purpose to do it.
There is, perhaps, much greater agreement on the
motion discussed last night than would appear at
first sight. It is advocated by nobody as an insulated
measure, and condemned by nobody on its-own merits.
The gentleman who makes •it his - autatal checal

de bataille would associate it with other measures neces-
sary to its beneficial operation, while there is probably
not one of his opponents who does not think that the
county 101. householders would be a very respectable
addition to the constituency. That rate of .holding in
the rural districts generally indicates a much higher
level of character and position than in a large town, for
in most villages and small country towns a 101. house-
holder is a roan of some little property, or of great in.
dastry, or of superior education. This is evident from
the much smaller. proportion of houses rated at that
amount in rural districts than in large boroughs. The
rural 101. householder is usually more fixed, better
known, and altogether under stronger pledges for
'his good behaviour than the man who pays that
rent in a largo town; and though village shop-
keepers, trattestnen, carriers, and hucksters ale
not always vary devoted to the aristocracy
or the Church, they will stand a favourable
comparison in these respects with the prosperous classes
of our manufacturing towns. Taking, therefore, Mr.
Locke King's clients on their own merits, it is scarcely
possible to deny their very strong claims, not merely on
the justice of the Lsgislature, but even on the sympathy
of the agriculture.l interest.- But it is not for a. moment
imagined, either by Mr. Locke Icing or his opponents on
this question, that were the county constituencies to be
augmented by the addition of this class, they would or
should be loft with no further alteration. All parties
would then agree on the necessity of extracting from the
county constituencies tossns of more than eight or ten
thou.and inhabitants, and giving theta representatives
either singly or in greupa according to their importance.
This would be nece,sary in order to prevent ono or two
teems from returning the so-called county Members.
For Members of thew own, too, these towns would be
well content to lose their share in the wider constituency
of the county. Thus it is that though, as a matter of
caaveidence. and for the subdivision of politiuil labour,
Mr. Locke King moves the enfratichisetnent of the
county 101 householders, and nothing more, that is not,
and cannot badi4cussed as an insulated m-thure.-

The debate, such as it was, consisted chiefly of allu-
sions to the political topics of the day, apparently with
a view to call out the opposite parties. Neither of
them, however, seemed very anxious for close quarters,
and the occupants of the Treasury bench were evidently
well content with a silent victory. Mr. Hume reminded
them of their." militia franchise," and challenged them
to stand up and say how far they would go in that three-
don. Lord John Russell left no sore nnprobed. He
began by taunting Government with the little pressure
it applied to the business of the session. • Seeing the
Solicitor-General opposite, he reminded him of some
passages in his Harwich speech on the necessity
of deciding our commercial policy at once, and
on the ruinous effects of free trade. lie then
touched successively Lord John Manners, Sir John
Pakington, and ocr old friend Mr. G. F. Young,
evidently in the hope that they would affird him a little
sport. As the topics of allusion had nothing whatever
to do with the measure before the House, and as any
debate that could have arisen out of his remarks must
have been of the most episodical character, their wis-
dem at that particular moment is at least questionable.
The victims of the sport, however, refused to show
fight, and, with the exception of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, maintained a judicious silence, even though
Sir Benjamin Hall brought his heavy artillery to bear
on the foe. Both sides contented themselves with
throwing out hints of what they would do, if
events only favoured their generous designs. But
for the trifling difficulty that whatever is pro-
posed -by one side will be infallibly opposed
by the other, we might congratulate the coun-
try on the vast quantity of popular measures an-
nounced for performance at the earliest opportunity, in-
cluding, of course, the complete enfranchisement of la-
bour by Mr. • Disraeli. That gentlemen, however, we
greatly fear, will neither be allowed to enfranchise
labour himself, nor will he allow anybody else to do it
if he can possibly prevent it. Much the same may be
said of various suggestive intimations thrown out in the
course of the debate. But is it not high time that our re-
presentatives should be sent back to their constituents
when they can do nothing- bnt hid for pepularity? The
soe,e3hes last night were little more than hustings ad-
dresses, as will • probably now be the case every night of
the session. This cannot be regarded as a normal and
healthy condition of the Liislature; nor can it be pro.
longed without impairing its credit. This session is
already lost to business and wasted on faction, and we
doubt whether it will bear any other crop than idle
quarrels and electioneering•promises,—Times.

A Tr
' AMER:TC.AN PIRACY.--LEA AND PERRINS'S il, OR..
CESTERSHIRE SAUCE.—The proprietors of the far-famed
Worcestershire Sauce, which is now consumed in all quarters
of the globe, as a relish which no other provocative of the
palate can supply, have had occasion to prosecute a store-
keeper in New York, named Raphael, for counterfeiting
their labels and selling his mixture as the genuine sauce.
The case was tried at the Court of General Sessions of the
Peace of the city and county of New York, on the sth of
Merch. It was proved by a person who had been in
partnership with Raphael that he compounded a can e of
his own, which he put into bottles in which the Worces-
tershire Sauce had once been, or into others made some-
what in imitation of them, and that the labels so closely
imitated the originals, even dawn to copying the names of
Lea and Perrins, that purchasers could scarcely fail to be de-
ceived. Messrs. Duncan and Son, grocers, of New York,
who are the sole agents for genuine Worcestershire Sauce in
America, gave evidence of the immense sale which the sauce
bad in that country, and pointed out the particul rs in which
some bottles which had been purchased at the prisoner's
store, under the United States Hotel, differed from the true
ones. The prisoner's counsel made an appeal to the preju-
dices of the jury against British manufacturers, and after
they had consulted for some couple of hours they found a
verdict of acquittal—having evidently among them some
who had a spite against the Britishers and probably thought
that Mr. Raphael was only a laudable exemplification of
Yankee cleverness.— Worcester Herald, Aprd 24, 1862.
Ictwlligence has been received from Adelaide,
South Australia, to the 10th January, being several days
later than that already published. The discovery of gold in
the colony had turned out to be a fabrication. The Govern-
ment Commissioners had a second time proceeded with_Mr. G.
61. Stephen, the party by whom the reward had been claimed,
to the spot indicated, and upon testing the soil were unable
to procure the smallest portion of metal. Upon a previous
trial every spadeful had been found to yield gold, and the
Commissioners in their report subsequently assert that'
pieces must have been introduced on that occasion for the
purposes of deception. With regard to the general state of
the country, it appears that the disorganization caused by
the departure of the inhabitants to Sydney and Port Phillip
had been much exaggerated. Out of a population of 67,000
the total emigration was not more than 5,000, and it is as-
serted that much of the prevailing commercial panic
was to be attributed to the natural collapse of the
worthless mining and building speculations which had
been carried on for the past year or two. The success of the
Burrs Barra, and the discovery of the Kapunda mine,
caused 250,0001. to be squandered in delusive-companies, and
now that the fancy for these had been destroyed, and a
slight pressure had arisen for the demand for coin in the
neighbouring -colonies, the inevitable results could no longer
be averted. Already, however, there were symptoms of re-
Action. The market price of Barra Burra shares, instead .of
beingqpb
ulu efi before."
eerder. ,6:" or 80, was 100, and so far from the works having
been abandoned, they are represented as in full operation,
with no symptom of 'pause or discouragement. " A corn
and'hay harvest," it is added, "of unprecedented abundance
betrtemrd.r_roo.nudgihttionot:
and
pnireuvchioums
is noW secured, while the promise of fruit was never so fair
aochr"nTtehhaerelw37eosiego,lhasthooidiptmihaf,entotwosi,i'n'tghitetoipsrt,aehiveslo.osuosmsa
isedewl
season,
:a'
nta length-
enedi
teiosrnin
-0-rseumeamreefrull3t,hgeot culpi
tbadonesevnero.t.
during the past' week show
The reports of the state of trade in the provinces
Bank _rate of Ltirevails, little .alteration. A healthy
change in the eveathertaiNill impart additional firmness.
to which the reduction in. the
although the
business
cause increased activity. so,Awhenever it shall take place
t Manchester prices have 'been
to
thoseof plumber of transactions has
of orderasstii7eek. A
favourable demandland. Stocks continue
The' Binning-
rade from the United
well maiuteined,
lbm n
light,
as ccwaci rot:hen'
ayt 3
foileciqe equal ac describe
supplyb e
a
Pauperism still
with the
States, as well as a satisfactory home trade.
shows a remarkable diminution, even as ci;
diminished returns of the corresponding pertnaorr
of the usual purchases. The Woollen marketa
There has been little variation at Nottingham, the
il)ast year.
achward-
ness of the season, both here and in America, tending to
dull; but notwithstanding the long- continued
1.- ints the ekport i f cloth this year has exceeded
comp e ,the
first four months of 1851: In the Irish linen trade there has
dhealvaey manybeen
been no important change, although the indicatim bay_
botiuyou
_t9ll WO= .