The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-13 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF SUN.

Ate,•—•As the question I put to the Vice• President of
the Board of Trade yesterday eve is not reported in the
Newspapers to-day, I request you will he so good as to
state, for the inforntivion of those who may be interested
in the subject, that his Msjesty's Government have no
intention of proposing any alteration in the existing Du-
ties on Foreign Lead. I am, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
Dreember 11, 1830. WM. POWLETT.

FORFAR ELiF.CTiON COMMITIEE•

HOUSE OF COMMONS—SATuanAy.

When the Committee met this morning,
Mr. Sergeant &AIM= addressed them on behalf of the
petitioner, Colonel Ogilvie. He contended that there was
no evidence to support the charge of treating or bribery.
The fact of • colonel Ogilvie having, in a few instancy',
treated the electors with roasted potatoes, champagne, and
claret, wee not sufficient to bring the case within the Treat-
ing Act. And with respect to the accusation of bribery,
the entire evidence went to show that none of those to
whom a bribe had been dived had accepted it, or voted
in the interest of ColonelOgitvie ; consequently, the charge
of bribery was not made out—for there was no instance of
a decision, where the mere offer of a bribe, unless accepted
and agreed to by the person to whom it had been offered,
was held to be bribery. Ile admitted that the offer, of a
bribe to a voter, with a view to influence his vote, was
misdemeanour; but it was not sufficient to bring the case
within the Statute 2 Geo. 11.

.......
The Learned Sergeant Laying concluded his case, Mr.
Sergeant !team replied.
The room was cleared ; and the Committee having deb-
berated for two hours.--

The Cumitstan observed that 46 theta wee a general
impression in Scotland that the Statute of 7th and Bth of
William lit., commonly called the Treating Act, did not
extend .to that country, the Coinnatee; fur the information
of 'their Northern neighbours, were anxious to have it made
known that they had resolved--" that Colonel Ogilvie had
been' guilty of treating, contrary to that Statute."
,He
then pronounced the decision of the Committee to be—
.' That John Stuart Wortley, EN., was nut duly elected;
and that the lust election wee void."

The election of a Member for the city of Chester, in
consequence of the aecepttnce of a place in ma Majevy's
household by the Hon Robert Grosvenor, commenced at
Thursday. It was expected to Passover quietly ; hut th.
worthy freemen of Chester had too much test, for the
sweets of a contested eleetion to suffer Mr: Grosvenor to
be re-elected without a struggle. Before Mr. Grosvenor's
nomination, a person named Bowden, a tailor, proposed
" Mr. Offley Crewe, Esq.," a nomination which was re
ceived with loud laughter, partly from the terms in which
it was made, and partly because there is no such person
as Mr. 011ley Crewe. The Hon. Robert Grosvenor was
then proposed by the Mayer, seconded by Alderman Fran-
cis, and supported by Mr. Swanwick. A long and tut,
hulent discussion then took place, at the conclusion of
which Mr. Cunliffe Gilley was proposed as a candidate,
and, a poll being' demsnded, the voting commenced by hi-
lies ususl in elections for Chester. At the close of the
at half-past four, the numbers were 70 for each of
the candidates. It is not supposed that the contest will
last mote than a d.iy or two, as all the, respectability and
influence of what is called "the Egerton party" keep
aloof. Indeed the contest appears to be got up, nil kept
up, solely by the lovers of election ale.—r.ifanthester
Gvardian.
PRESTON ELECTION.

PRESTON, SATURDAY MORNINU.

This morning at nine o'clock the polling re-commenced
and continued till eleven o'clock, at which hour the votes
were nearly equal. Mr. Stanley is straining every nerve
to bring up voters, but without success. It is reported
that many country votes have been polled this morning
for Mr. Stanley. Mr. Hunt is expected this evening or
to-morrow morning. The number_ of votes at eleven
o'clock were said to be about 300. At two o'clock a
statement of the state of the poll will be published by
authority. Mr. Hunt's friends are in high glee::.—they
feel confident of success ; and Me. Stanley'■ friends are
completely in the dumps. This morning a procession
passed through the town, led by a chimney-sweeper,
mounted on an a.s ; in his hand he held a brush, with a
small loaf stuck on the handle of it. Two men carried large
new brooms, en►blematical of the alleged contemptuous
expression which Mr. Stanley used towards the eleetors.
Subscription* are pouring in from all quarters ; Blackburn
ha• sent 131.4 Bolton has sent word they will remis.3o/.
A large subscription is expected limply from Liverpool.
The town is all alive; go where you will the cry is " Hunt
and Liberty.t* At two o'ckick I will write again. The
band of music has just brought up twenty-five men to
vote for Mr. Hunt.

HALV.PAST ILEUM
Mr. Henry Hunt 3,168
lion. Mr. Stanley 2,662---Times.

A considerable sensation has been excited by the noes-
p .cted position of Mr. Hunt at the Preston election. He
is still greatly a-head of Mr. Stanley. We wish we could
account 'for ,this in a way creditable to the electors of
Preston; but we understand the real secret of this&t-
periority is the determination of Mr. St inky not to t ro
the public-houses open during the election, and that e
o'lect of the votes for Mr. Hunt is to compel him to
Bulge the electors in their beloved potions. We suspect
Mr. Hunt is well aware of his being played off againt.
Mr. Stanley's purse, and that his determination not to re-
pair to P,reston, except he is returned, is grounded on thig,
suspicion..Mornin9 Chronicle.

ESSEX AND NORFOLK.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

We have received the following accounts, the result of
inquiries on the spot in Essex and Norfolk, during the
past weak, from a nentleman., of high character in. the
country, possessed of considerable property in the dis-
tricts which he describes, and whose opinion is entitled to
great weight. What he says respecting the understanding
between the farmers and labourers, applies, we believe, to
most of the disturbed districts, and constitutes the most
dangerous part of the business. We have beard, indeed,
of plans intended to be acted on with regard to tithes,
which we are afraid to mention
STATE or Essex, IN The TEEMED HUNDRED.—
Every thing was quiet, and no dread or idea of rioting or
mischief, when on Tuesday, the 7th, at Ramsay, three
miles from Harwich, a wheat and a pease stack, belonging
to Mr. Palmer, were set on file, and consumed.
On the same day, at Clacton, the labourers assembled
in numbers, and broke seven or eight thrashing machines ;
and some machines of Mr. Nichols, were also broken, at
Little Clacton.

On Wednesday, at Kirkby, the labourers again met, and
broke the thrashing machines of Mr. Baker and Mr. NV&
son,'and then called the farmers together to demand more
wages than they now received--2s. ; come. demanded
2s. Sd. and 2s. 6,1. per day. The farmers regent agreed
to give 2s. a day to those in work ; and 7e. a week to
single men not employed. Other demands were made,
which convinced all present that unless checked, the men
tv. uld soon become mist, s.

A very general and well-founded alarm spread over the
hundreds, of the necessity of immediate exertion to put an
end to such lawless proceedings, and on Thursday morn-
ing, one hundred yeomen, chiefly farmers, met on Tendring
Heath, under Mr. Hardy, the head constable, and pro-
ceeded to Kirkby, where they seized seven of the ring-
leaders in the destruction of machines, On Friday others
were taken, and on Saturday the yeomen in much greater
numbers met at the same place, and proceeded to Kirby,
when five more of the linters were taken, and it was the
determination to take from every parish every man that
they. could prove had broken the machines. On Saturday,
when our informant left Colchester, twenty-seven rioters
had, in all, been secured, and sent to Colchester, viz., three
from Holland ; three from Clacton ; nine from It unsay ;
twelve from Kirkby. The rioters broke also implements
of husbandry, and their objection seemed to be to every
cast iron implement. Great praise is due to Mr. Hardy,
of Tendring, the chief constable, for his exertions in all
their proceedings ; and it is expected that the determined
manner in which the Yeomen have acted, will, with the
immediate punishment of the rioters, secure peace and
quiet in that district. It was understood at Colcheiter
that three or lour of the first arrested had been tried at
Chelmsford Assizes, and sentenced to transportation.
In Suffolk all was quiet, but the objections to tithes
everywhere lead many to fear that, unless something is
done to commute them, soon no tithes will be paid with-
out the aa►ue kind of military force as was too long used
in Ireland.

In Norfolk the labourers seam chiefly to want food, as
all have been quieted on a promise of 2a. a day.
The unwillingness of the farmers and others to be
sworn in as as special constables has left the Magistrew
in general without support, and they have been obliged to
yield to the detruinils in themselves reasonable. The
breaking of machines and firing of farm produce have
been the acts of starving peasantry, at the instigetion of
the few bad men who are found in every district, to terrify
the landlords and parsons. !litany well-informed men, who
have watched the late proceedings of the labourera, are
decidedly of opinion that the farmers have in too many in-
stances stood aloof, and, if not abetting, have not exerted
themselves to put down the riots and stop the mischief.
The usual course has been for the peasants to ask more
wages than the miserable pittance which many of the
farmers have been paying to their workmen, and, in many
cases, from entire inebiliey to pay more. The answer
has been ,f we cannot pay you more," as the rents and
tithes are so high—you must go to the clergy and land-
owners, and get. them to reduce their rents and tithe*,
and we will then pay you higher wages." And in this
way, set on by the farmers, the poor men have been led
to expect relief alone from scab proceedings. They know
their condition has never been much attended to.
There can be no doubt, that the manner in which the
tishes are collected render the clergy very obnoxious, and
have led to much of the present disturbance of the country.
It is indeed quite astonishing
that any Government
should persist in a system so injurious to the cause of re-
ligion, to promote which tithes were granted, and likely
to endanger the peke of the country if not altered.
Governments never seem to kern from experience—
force alone affects them.

King's &siesta, in Ireland, hes,
The appointrnent of M H
r. 0 LOUGLIN as
we understand, given
greet satisfaction to the Catholics... Morning Chrtrnich.

PA MS, DEC, le affirmed that the Minister of
War has just addressed to the Lieutenant-Generals com-
►nanding the military division a very important letter to
hasten the, training of the young calibers, who flack from
all p►rts to the army. Ranged under the national colou►a
which recall the memory of splendid victories, they must
prepare themselves betimes' for the labours of war. In
consequence our young solilierit will be diligently exercised,
but in such a manner that they will nut he discouraged by
the exertions. which will be required of them. The Ali-
nister, it la said, recommends, among other measures, to
take advantage of the resources which may present them-
selves to exercise their men during the winter under cover,
and their first instructions may be without any unnecessary
details.

The application of the young soldiers is to he especially
directed to the movements which are most frequently used
in the fie:.d. Lieutenant-Generals and Major-Generals will
be present at the exercises, and thus excite the seal of the
officers and men. It is also said, that General Officers
will be immediately appointed to make an extraordinary
inspection; that they will have to cnnvince themselves of
the progress made in training the corps,
„and that an ac-
count will be given to the King of their situation, in order
that the officers may receive the favours br incur the dis-
pleasure of his 111.jesty, as they may have deserved the
one or the other.

Lastly, it is said that the Minister adds to these impoc•
cant instructions the.'mosi powerful encouragement, by
engaging the Lieutenant-Generals to tell the troupe that
Louis Philip, the King whom France has chosen, will
place himself at their head, if it should be necessary' to
march against the enemy, and this hope will suffice to ea-
cite ardour and rapidity in all ranks.
(From the Monitaur.)

A letter from Bayonne says—" It seems that *great
movement is now taking 'place among the troops on the
Spanish frontiers. The regiments, it is said, at first re-
ceives orders to proceed to the interior, but have received
counter-orders, and will be reinforced. It seems to be the
intention of the Spanish Government to form a cordon
ready to act at the first signal, and which will extend
along the whole line."
Nets, Dn. 10. A courier who arrived last night,
has brought the news that an insurrection leas broken out
at Warsaw among the Polish army.
The following are the details that we have collected'
and which we are very far from warranting as authentic :
" The army and the population of Waraaw have united
to effect the revolution of Poland, in the capital of the
kingdom. Four Russian Generale, one of whom is the
Minister of War, Henke, a German by birth, who was
particularly bated by the nation, have lost their lives.
" The Grand Drake Constantine has retreated to the
right bank of the Vistula, with four Russian regiments.
lie in pursued by General Chlopicki, famous for his ex-
plaits in the war in Spain, whom the nation has placed at
the head of the army, The provisional Government is
confided to Colonel Adam Curcoriaki, Michael Radziwil,
and the Minister of Finance, Lubecki."

(From the Gazette do France, dated Saturday.) •
PARIS,,Dge. 10.—M. geriyer &livered yesterday, in
the Chamber of Deputies, 911 e of those speeches which will
long be remembered. 11% convinced every body of the
injustice of the measurniroposed by the Ministry. He
proved that it tended to establish the principle of confis-
cation.

A Deputy of the extreme left, after having heard M.
ilerryer, exclaimed that no answer could be made.
It was observed that Nl. Cassimir l'erier proposeol to
suspend the discussion, after the speech of M. Derryer.
Th., accused Ministers were removed this morning, at
eight o'clock, from Vintynnes to Luxembourg, escorted by
the cavalry of the National Guards.
FliztiCts re Dkc. 10.-Five per Cents.
90f. 60e. 65c. 75e, 65c. 70c. 60c. 50c. 20e. SOc. 90f.
25c. SOc. Ssc. SOc. 25e. 20c. 10e. 20c. 10c. 90f. 15e. ;
Four per Cents. 761. ; Three per Cents. 60f. Mo. 60c.
sc. 10c. 15c. 10c. 60f. sc. 60f. 601. be. 10e. 601: ;
Bank Stock, 1,580 f. ; Rente de Naplca. 621. 621. 15c.
62f. 61f. 80c. 61f. 50c. 75e. 80e. ; Rente d'Espagne,
121 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 56 57i ; Route Perpe.
todle d'Eepagne, 16 464 46} 46 46i
4 a lExchangeIExchange on London, one month, paper, 25f.
25c. ; money, 25f. 25c. ; three months, 25G lbc. ;
paper, 25f. lbc.-Cours Authentique.