The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-04 00:00:00

I-SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

It will be seen from our Parliamentary Report that Mr.
Horsman, who was much complimented for the able manner
in which he brought the question before the House, succeeded
in carrying his motion for a Committee to inquire into the dis-
franchisement of bona fide electors by the creation of fictitious
votes in Scotland. Several Members suggested that the in-
quiry should he extended to England and Ireland; but the
Honourable Gentleman very prudently confined it to Scotland.
The evil in Scotland is more pressing ; and, besides, were a
committee to enter on such an interminable field of inquiry as
election abuses in the two other countries, it would be unable
to terminate its labours. The abuses in the three kingdoms
under the Reform Bills differ in each. In England the land-
owner intimidates his tenantry at will. In Scotland, again,
the land is generally under lease; but by the device
explained by Mr. Horsmann, land let, say for 1,0004
a year, may give one tenant only a vote, while it may
give 100 fictitious votes. The expense, tgo, is
trifling. One conveyance will serve for the whole 100. Against
a wholesale fraud like this, the bona fide elector can do no-
thing. Elections become complete farces. There is not only
an economy of money in the constitutien of the fictitious title,
but an economy of labour in the exercise of the pretended
franchise. The counties of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, Had-
dington, Peebles, Selkirk, and Roxburgh, all polluted by this
abuse, are contiguous, and the same fictitious non-resident
voter may easily vote at the elections of all of them. The
very dregs of society have been put in requisition to give effect
to this wholesale system of abuse. It is not a little honour-
able to the people of Scotland that, by their spirit and stub-
born honesty, they have driven the Tories to have recourse to
this abominable expedient. Mr. Horsman said—" He
did not require the House to go beyond the Reform
Bill ; he did not ask for the Ballot, nor demand an ex-

tension of the suffrage. The people of Scotland, by
their conduct, bad shown that they ought to be protected
in the enjoyment of the elective franchise. In their eyes the
franchise was so valuable and so sacred that intimidation was
tried in vain to influence them ; they braved it, and defied the
power exercised against them; bribery was then resorted to,
but to no purpose. It was then that. this system of creating
fictitious !votes was acted upon, and those who were too
brave to regard threats, and too honest to be bribed, could not
help being sacrificed by the steps taken against them.—( Hear,
hear.)" To put a stop to this evil will no doubt be attended
with some difficulty. But the people of Scotland must not be
suffered to fall without a struggle in their behalf. Their
needy aristocracy had earned for the whole nation a reputation
for base cringing which was not deserved by the people, and
the independence they displayed under the Reform Bill suffi-
ciently proved that the iron had not entered their souls. In
no case have the electors prostituted themselves for a mess of
potage, or shown themselves base enough to receive bribes.
They merit a better fate than to be sacrificed to a vile and
sordid aristocracy.—Morning Chronicle.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 3.

4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. J. Miller, from the
Bth Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Huband, who ex-
changes, Feb. 3.
Lieut. T. Lloyd to be Adjutant, vice Gordon, who resigns the
Adjutantcy only, Sept. 6, 1.836. .
Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. G. J. Huband, from
the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Miller, who ex-
changes, Feb. 3.
Cornet G. Brown to be Adjutant, 'rice Reilly, who resigns the
Adjutancy only, Feb. 3.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. General S. Need to
be Colonel, vice General the Earl of Rosslyn, G. C. 8., deceased,
Jan. 30.

16th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet R. Downie to be.
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kemp, who retires ; H. D. Sweten-
ham, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Downie, Feb. 3.
Coldstream Regiment of Poet Guards.—Honourable A. E. P.
Graves (Page of Honour to the King) to be Ensign and Lieute-
nant, without purchase, Feb. 3.
Bth Regiment of Foot—Brevet Lieut.-Col. C. B. Turner, from
the half-pay Unattached, to be Major, ♦ice Powell, deceased.
Feb. 3.

Lieut. J. Pringle, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Westenra,
who retires, Feb. 3.
Ensign J. E. Wrest, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pringle,
Feb 3. _ _ _

E. iavec, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice West. Feb, 3.
Quarter-master Serjeant J. Aldrich, to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice St. Leger, deceased, Feb. 4.
Assistant-Surgeon P. Fraser, to be Surgeon, vice Cardiffe, de-
ceased, Fcb. 3.

'Staff-Assistant Surgeon W. H. Anderson, M.D., to be As-
sistant-Surgeon, vice Fraser, Feb. 3.
13th Foot—Ensign W. A. Sinclair to be Lieutenant, without

purchase, vice Se?,-ell, deceased, Aug. 2 ; Ensign G. Wade, from
the Ist West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Sinclair, Feb. 3.
39th Foot—Ensign J. S. Atkinson, from the 77th Regiment of
Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Innes, promoted ;
Lieutenant 111. G. Nixon to be Adjutant, vice Jones, promoted,
Feb. 3.

54th Foot—Lieutenant E. Wells to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Mandilhon, deceased, July 1,1836.
Ensign R. H. Dyke to be Lieutenant, vice Wells, July 1, 1836.
Gentleman Cadet H. J. Warre, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to be Ensign, vice Dyke, Feb. 3.
63d Foot—Lieut. W. M. arew to be Captain, without pur-
chase, vice Young, deceased, Aug. 22, 1836.
Ensign V. Berdmore to be Lieutenant, vice Carew, Aug. 22,
1836.

dFntlernan Cadet J. It. Lysaght, from the Royal Military Col-
lege, to he Ensign, vice Berdmore, Feb. 3.
77th Foot—Gentleman Cadet R. Baillie, from the Royal Mili-
tary College to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Atkinson, pro-
moted in the 39th Itcgiment of Foot, Feb 3.
let West India Regiment—A. W. Mackenzie, Gent., to be
Ensign, without. purchase, vice Wade, appointed to the 13th Regi-
ment of Foot, Feb: 3.

BREVET.
Captain O'Hara Baynes, Fort Major at Alderney, to be Major in
,e Army, Jan. 10.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 2, 1837.

The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed
under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United
Kingdom of Groat Britain and Irelandunto the Right Hon. Francis
William Earl of Charlemont, N.Y., and the heirs male of his body
lawfully begotten, by :.he name, stile, and title of Baron Charlemont,
of Charlcmont, in the County of Armagh ; with remainder, in de-
fault of such issue male, to the Hon. Henry Cauldfield, of Hackly,in
the said County of Armagh (brother to the said Francis William Earl
of Charlemont) and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 3, 1837.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
COUNTY OF RENFREW.—George Houstoun, jun., of John-
stone, Esq., in the room of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., de.
ceased. •

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Wilts.
Royal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry—Chippenham Troop of Yeo-
manry Cavalry—W. Money, Gent., to be Cornet, ♦ice Wm. Earl
of Kerry, promoted; Lord H. P. Fitzmaurice to be Lieutenant vice
William Earl of Kerry, deceased, Jan. 23.
Everley Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—Sir E. Antrobus to be
Captain, vice. Wroughton, resigned.; Lord E. Bruce to be Lieute-
nant, vice Fowle, resigned ; E. Antrobus, Gent., to be Cornet, vice
Lord E. Bruce, promoted, Jan. 23.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Sussex.
Royal Sussex Regiment of Militia—H. W. Freeland, Gent., to
be Ensign ; Jan. 24.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.

JOSEPH JOHNSTONE, draper, Widcombe, Somersetshire.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

JOSEPH HUDSON and THOMAS RUSHER, silk-manu-
facturers, White Lion-street, Spitaifields.
JOHN WALKER and JAMES WALKER, cloth-merchants,
Leeds.