The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-25 00:00:00

LAMBETH.

STATE OF THE POLL AT NINE O'CLOCK.
Hawes ... ... 706
D'Eyncourt ... 691
Baldwin ... 533

TEN O'CLOCK.

D'Eyncourt ... ... ... ... ..
Baldwin— ... ... ... .•• ..
ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

1,372
1,343
931

Hawes ... ... ... • ... ...
D'Eyncourt ... ... ... ... ...
Baldwin .. ... ... ... ... ...
TWELVE O'CLOCK.

1,792
1,750
1,171

Hawes ... .
D'Evneourt .
Baldwin... .

2,052
2,010
1,336

ONE O'CLOCK.

Hawes .
D'Eyncourt
Baldwin .. .

9
••• ••• 242
... 2,192
1,448

Lord Dundas had an interview with Viscount Mel-
bourne yesterday, in Downing-street.
Lord Acheson had an interview with Lord Glenelg
yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Viscount Palinerston and the Right Hon. C. Pou-
lett Thomson have left town to attend their elections.

HOPS.—The accounts from the hop districts vary,
but upon the whole are looked upon as very favourable.
THE TEA TRADE.--.The clearances last week
were
.410,5801b5. This day (Monday) the free trade sales
. berran, but there were scarcely any buyers. About 54,000
packages T 1 ill be offered at the present sales.
It is not generally known that, by provision of the
Post-office Act passed at the end of the Session, the Pceri'
privilege of franking and receiving letters ceased at the disso-
lution of Parliament. The privilege does not again com-
mence till the 3d of August, forty days before the return day
(11th September).
_

There are no less than three sheer hulks, with steam-
engines, this at time stationed on the Thames, all within a
short distance of Westminster-bridge, apparently for the pur-
pose of cleansing the bed of the river, and removing obstruc-
t►ons ; but it is seldom that any one of them is seen at work,
so that they constitute a greater obstruction than they profess
to remove.

On Saturday a splendid entertainment was given in
in the Albion Tavern to Owen Rees, Esq., of the great pub-
lishing house of Longman and Co., on his retiring from busi-
ness. About forty gentlemen were present. Several excel-
lent speeches were made ; and every individual seemed anxious
to bear testimony to Mr. Rees's great merits as a man of busi-
ness, and to his worth as a private gentleman.
Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Leiningen, and the. Princes Ernest and Edward, with their
suite, left Kensington Palace yesterday morning for Dover, to
embark for the Continent. •

Lady Caroline Wood's fancy fair at Littleton, for
the benefit of the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, is
unavoidably deferred in consequence of the election.
PHILOSOPHY OF MORALS.—An attachment to
literary pursuits—a desire for the acquisition of knowledge in
general—will, for the most part, be found to co-exist with a
virtuous turn of mind. Every species of literary, as dis-
tinguished from scientific composition, is directly or indirectly
didactic ; for, though vice may be propagated by books as
well as virtue, there is no branch of literature of which this is
the nature, though it may be the perversion ; and he who has
a relish for immoral productions, has not a taste for literature
(any more than a merchant, in calculating his profits, has a
turn for mathematics), but merely for literature, so far as it is
a means of pampering his debased propensities. A taste for
literature, then, is in general a taste for the lesion of virtue.
A man was found banging on Sunday morning in
one of the arches in the Belgrave-road, Pimlico, by some boys
who were playing, when they instantly called to a man that
was passing, who cut him down, but life was extinct. Ile bad
been in the Guards, and served under the Duke of Wellington
all through the Peninsular war, and proved himself an excel-
lent soldier. He has been for the last ten or a dozen years a
porter in the House of Commons, and was well known to many
of the lion. Members of that House. His name was Richard
Smith. His body was taken to the George, near Eccleston_
bridge, where it awaits the coroner's inquest.

Every real improvement must, in the very nature of
things, benefit sooner or later the human race—despite the
partial evil, which, guide it as we may, is unfortunately in-
separable from a state of transition.
A " DISCONSOLATE" Housr..—A man being
asked by a neighbour how his wife did, made the answer,
" Indeed, neighbour, the case is pitiful ; my wife fears she
shall die, and I fear e will not die, which makes a most dis-
consolate house."

POLITICAL RIGHTS OP WOMEN ASSERTED.—
One of the fundamental principles announced in the decl.ra.
Lion of independence is, that Governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the governed. How can thu po-
litical condition of women be reconciled with this ? Govern-
ments in the United States have power to tax women who
hold property ; to fine, imprison, and execute them for cer.;
tain offences. Whence do these Governments derive their
powers ? They arc not " just," as they arc not derived from
the consent of the women thus governed. Governments in
the United States have power to enslave certain women, and
also to punish certain women for the inhuman treat-
ment of such slaves. Neither of these powers arc " just,"
not being derived from the consent of the governed.
Governments decree to women, in some States, half
their husband's property : in others, one-third. In
some, a woman on her marriage is made to yield all her pro-
perty to her husband ; in others, to retain a portion, or the
whole, in her own hands. Whence do governments derive the
unjust power of thus disposing of property, without the consent
of the governed ? Children, idiots, and criminals, during the
season of sequestration, are the only fair exceptions. The
case is so plain that I might close it here ; but it is interesting
to inquire how so obvious a decision has been so evaded as to
to leave to women no political rights whatever. The ques-
tion has been asked, from time to time, in more countries
than one, how obedience to the laws can be required of
women, when no woman has either actually or virtually given
any assent to any law? No plausible answer has, as far as I
can discover, been offered—for the good reason that no plausi-
ble answer can be devised. The most principled democratic
writers on Government have, on this subject, sunk into falla-
cies as disgraceful as any advocate of despotism has adduced.
In fact, they have sunk, from being, at the moment, advocates
of despotism. Jefferson, in America, and James Mill, at
home, subside, for the occasion, to the level of the author of
the Emperor of Russia's Catechism for the Young Poles.—
Miss Martineau's Society in America.
FASHIONABLE FRIENDsIifPs.-A share in an
opera-box, similarity of pursuits, a knowledge of each other's
liaisons, which precludes embarrassment in those quarters
that invariably occur whenever these female Pylades and
Orestes appear, arc the motives of half the friendships exist-
ing among ladies of fashion. They herd continually together,
address each other by the most loving epithets, pour into the
ears of their admirers a thousand secrets of the concealed per-
sonal and moral defects, and the numberless artifices of their
dear friends, to which they have recourse in order to supply
their want of beauty. It is thus we learn that poor Lady So
and So, or Mrs. So and So would be the most delightful
person in the world, only that she happens to have every phy-
sical and almost every moral defect that ever fell to the lot of
woman, but the greater part of which, owing to the blindness
or stupidity of the world, are left to be discovered by the
discriminating eyes of her dear friend, who relates them with
such professions of regret at their existence.—Lady
singion.