The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-15 00:00:00

A great mass of intimidation, of perSecution, of ex-
clusive dealing, of threats offered and vengeance executed
against those who conscientiously discharged their duty to
their God and to their country by giving an honest vote at
the late elections, has been forwarded to us for publica-
tion, accompanied for the most part with earnest prayers
from the sufferers that Ministers would save them from
ruin, either by taking away from them the franchise or
protecting them in the free enjoyment of it. No man, how-
ever hard his heart, could read this heap of papers without
sharing the emotions of the writers and (flinging aside his
prejudices), 'joining with them in a demand for protection.
As most of the cases before us would expose to just and
almost universal hatred and contempt the doers of these
dark deeds, and as they are for the most part men moving
in respectable spheres of life, some of them being Ministers
of the Gospel of Peace and Love, we hesitate to publish
the statements.—Soincrset County Gazette..
On Monday last, as a pony belonging to Mr. C.
Bennett, butcher, of Baptist Mills, was feeding in Mr.
Hobbs's garden, at Lower Easton, close to the mouth of
an old coal-pit, he accidentally fell in. The pit contains 90
feet of water, and the depth from the top to the water is
00 feet, The accident happened at about a quarter past 6
in the morning, and nearly two hours elapsed before the
animal was drawn up, to all appearance dead, but after
rubbing its neck for a few minutes it rose its head, got
upon its legs, and next day was sufficiently well to go its
round in a cart. It was pulled up by the-neck by a rope
with a noose at the end, into which he instinctively slipped
his head, a collier having descended to one of the stanchions
for the purpose of directing it' towards him.—Bristol
Noy.
A young woman who was living as a cook in the
family of Mr. Bird, druggist of this place, obtained some
laudanum on Saturday, for the purpose, she stated, of re-
lieving the tooth-ache, but swallowed so large a quantity of
it as to occasion her death on Wednesday evening.—Cant-
bridge Chronicle.
FRENCH ORTHOGRAPHY.--A .French Paper, in
reference to the death of the Duchess of St. Alban's, fa-
vours its readers with a list of actresses who have married
in high life. It concludes with the following observation
upon Mademoiselle Mercandotti —" Miss Monaudote,
devenue la femme de M. Ball, cc farneux richard de Lon-
dres surnonmul Goluen Bull (boule d'or)."
ExEcuTioN OF AYLWARD—AWFUL SCENE.--.

(From the Carlow Sentinel.)—At one o'clock the elder
Aylward left his cell, accompanied by the Rev. Messrs.
Maher, Hume, and Nola. He appeared to be a man of
sixty years of age. He was by profession a shoemaker, but
had also practised as a butcher. He walked with some
difficulty, and was greatly exhausted on reaching the scaf-
fold. To those who were near him he seemed perfectly in-
different to what was passing. The executioner having
adjusted the rope about his neck, and withdrawn the bolts.
the unhappy man fell to the ground, and received a slight
contusion on the forehead. This awful scene occurred in
consequence of the executioner having omitted to put the
check on the windlass, and, consequently, the rope wound to
the ground, and occasioned the fall. The horror of those
who were near the spot may be easily imagined ; but the
yells of execration from the crowd against the executioner,
on his attempting to raise him up again with the windlass,
exceeded anything we ever heard. The unfortunate man
was not hurt, and in a few minutes he was again brought
inside the gate, when he walked with considerable firm,
ness up one flight of stairs a second time into the press,
room. The rope being again adjusted he was launched into
eternity, and died without a struggle.
On Tuesday last the infant daughter of Mr. Byrne,
of Marvport, was left sleeping in one of the beds of a
double-bedded room, when a member of the family unaware
of the fact, came into the room to make the beds, and
threw the clothes, &c., from the one on to that bed in which
the child was sleeping. On removing the clothes the little
girl was found smothered to death.—Cumberland Packct.
The Menagerie in the Garden of Plants has lately
been enriched with; numerous donations. Among them are
two lions given by Youssouf Bey, several gerboas, two royal
vultures, with other birds of prey, and several antelopes of
different species. In the pheasantry arc placed many new
birds, most of which have been sent from Guadaloupe by
M. Lherminier. In addition to these attractions visitors
are highly interested and amused by two young monkeys,
born a few weeks ago, and to whom their respective mo
thers pay the most assiduous and tender attentions.
About three weeks ago the remains of a young wo-
man were found concealed in a dry pipe, on the road be.
tween this town and Ballintra, within a mile of the latter
place. For some time previous the most offensive smell
was found ; and a few persons, to ascertain the cause, exa-
mined the place ; when, lifting some stones, they were
shocked by the appearance of a human body. They dug
up the corpse, and found it to be the remains, as they sup-
posed, of a relative of theirs. The hole in which the body
was concealed was so small, that the wretch who perpe-
trated the murder had to break her legs to crush her into it.
An inquest was held by John Miller, Esq., Coroner, which
was adjourned for a fortnight, in order to be able to detect
a person on whom suspicion rested, but the proof was not
sufficient to convict. After examining several persons, a
verdict of wilful murder, against some persons unknown,
was -ruturned.—Balshannon 11044

We have heard a great deal of Sir R. Peel's mihty se-
cret for converting England from a Whig to Tory repre-
sentation and policy by the magic word " register." At-
tend to registration as the one thing needful ; the antithesis
to " agitate, agitate, agitate."
This, of course, meals something., and it can hardly mean
that registration either would alter the real number of
qualified persons who ought to be registered, or that it
would change their opinions. What the wily politician
(whose boast isithat he is practical, and who knows as well
as any one how a clever scheme of tactics may be played
out) meant is, in fact, the great and irredeemable vice of
the registration system.
By this system there is very rarely equality of justice.
One party is in a particular year better organized than the
other, or has a candidate who has money while the other -
has none, and it is now plain that by bold and dexterous
management (especially if a surprise can be made) an imf
'rime difference can often be made in the lists. There
are men now who are up to all the chicanery of this busi-
ness, which they folio x as their calling, and Which, in some
of its details, often disgraces the worst of Old Bailey prac-
tice. They know well that not only by objecting widely
enough you must to a moral certainty strike off some, even
good votes, but that if you are lavish enough of dexterous
and impudent claims (anti especially if you can effect a little
prudent management with parish authorities), some cer-
tainly will pass, whatever be their merits. I have heard all
this bossted of as seducible to complete certainty, and I be-
lieve that any one taking the trouble might get a vote in
every county in England, without, in fact, being entitled to
a single one, and that he is equally sure of destroying a cer-
tain number of good votes in every district he chooses to
apply himself to.
Sir Robert Peel knows well enough that, with the natu-
ral negligence of men in attending to matters of this sort,
in the long run, and with the superior facilities given to the
Tory party by the possession of the clergy and aristocracy
(and, with them, of the greater part of those professional
aids, without whom little can be done, and with whom every
thing), and with various other circumstances, it was per-
fectly certain that a sedulous, connected attention on his
side to such a matter of tactics, by the co-operation of so-
cieties with funds, must throvir a very great preponderance
in his favour, as the event has proved.
" The battle could be won in the registration courts" the
wily leader prophesied, and with truth ; as I have little
doubt that by tactics there his success has been secured.
But. this was no more than saying to a man with a long
purse, a crafty lawyer, and a cause full of tricky points of
litigation, that it be works the matter out he has a capital
chance of being too much for a poor neighbour. with whom
he is at law. Our present system of registration, in fact,
sends us all to law every year, and to law of the most
tricky and uncertain character, as connected with complex
and varied qualification : it is, in short, a scheme adapted
for fraud and cunning, and supplies at every turn the means
for both. Its yearly recurrence naturally wearies out all
not well paid for or interested in its pursuit, and the conse-
quence must be perpetual oscillations and uncertainties in
the lists as one or other party is in force. It supposes for
its due working to produce a just result, equal attention by
two watchful and equally-furnished parties. This it seldom
has) in the long run the aristocratic party has always long
odds), and even where the tactics of two equally active par-
ties may together produce an equal result, it is quite an ar-
tificial one ; the result of chance.or skill, not the real result
of the true facts. A worse code resting on more unsatis-
factory and more impure sanctions for its execution never,
I believe, cursed a country and destroyed its peace.
Meantime the honest bystanders get disgusted, and
abandon the matter sooner or later ; yet men cry out, why
do not the Reformers bestir themselves about the registra-
tion ? They cannot keep up a fever heat every year of
their lives, or spend their time in an occupation which, un-
fortunately, many of the clergy find pleasant and deem a le-
gitimate parochial duty, that of picking holes in their
neighbours' coats. Society is in some parts of the country
utterly destroyed by these yearly heartOurnings. The com-
plexity of the qaalitication questions seems to throw every-
thing into doubt, and all concur in cursing a system that
keeps the country in a ferment and annoyance full two
months every year, and after all leaves you only the conso-
lation of beginning again the same disgusting work of
watching and opposing trickery and fraud, and probably
against the numerous mischances that, without incessant
care, attend ad honest votes.
What is the remedy ? There must be some registration,
if we want votes taken quickly and cheaply ; though this is
an advantage now dearly purchased every four or five
years by the labours and turmoil of every year. The only
remedy that went to the root of the matter, and attained
the end of equal and fair justice for all parties, would be
one which could point out a list of voters forming itself,
without caprice or intrigue, on sonic simple principle, or
from documents above suspicion, as being formed for other
purposes ; for the formation of which some public officer
would be aaswerahle, with no excuse for going astray, and
with no necessity for the interference of any other persons
whatever, except on points which would be settled in a mo-
ment even by the local authorities, but certainly by a very
simple system of revision.
Now, I see not how this is to be done otherwise than by
sweeping away all the rubbish of special qualification, and
taking rated householding as the sole qualification for coun-
ties as well as boroughs, improving, however, the details of
the household qualification, as we easily may.
I should desire, on all occasions, to turn to account the
excellent domestic municipal machinery now established in
the unions, with their guardians, clerks, and other officers.
Their clerks have already been also made superintendent
registrars, and these staff of district registrars, ac., now
give them further efficiency. I believe that through this
department, under the superintendence of the guardians, all
might easily be done that is wanted in the way of vote re-
gistration, and with the care and impartiality to be expected
of responsible officers of character and education.
I would at once form, in every union, a list of the rated
houses, say 51. value, that are to give the votes, numbering
each house with a permanent number ; so that thencefor-
ward, for voting, the only question would be, who is the
resident holder of the vote ?—about which, as a matter of
fact, in the neighbourhood, there could never be much con-

troversy.
The creation of the first list of houses might give some
little trouble, but not much. The clerk should make it
out from the rate-books (the Legislature, of course, set-
tling what must be the character of the component parts
of the household occupation to make up the value); he
having the sanction of the guardians and the assistance of
the overseers. This list should then be exposed to public
view, after the principle of the present lists, and subject to
claims, objections, &c., which would merely turn on the
point of value, and there must be a sensible revi.Cion court.
This list might, I think, fairly last for five rears, at which
time it should be again revised, Changes, new erections,
&c., would of course ar,zo in the meantime ; but there there
is less mischief in waiting a little while than there is in in-
cessant contest about revising. If, however, it is found, as
I expect, that the lists are easily adjusted, the mischief di-
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