The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-11 00:00:00

REGISTER—REGISTER_and OBJECT !

"The tattle of the Constitution is to be frmg,ht in Ai
Registration Courts," was the advice of an able instruct°
to the Tory party two years since ; and of the zeal will,
which they have acted on this advice we have but too abut).
dant proofs during the late elections. We hear from al;
parts of the country that the Reformers have been grossly
neglectful of this great duty ; and everywhere we are toh'
that fictitious votes, left unobjected to at the last revision,
have swamped the bona fide constituency. For the past
there is no remedy ; but now is the time to remedy for the
future this defect and provide for a purification of the lists.
If any bad votes are on the overseers' lists for towns or
counties, they may be objected to by any other person on
the register ; but written notice of such objection must hr.
given on or before the 25th day of August instant.
In counties, a notice signed by the objector, and with his
place of abode inserted, must be given to the overseer of the
parish in which the person objected to is registered, and
another notice must be served upon the party objected to,
either by delivering it personally, by leaving it at his place
of abode as described in the register, or by delivering it
personally to the tenant in possession of the property for
which he pretends to qualify. No notices sent by the post
will do ; they must be served by some person, and a dupli-
cate of each should be kept & prove the service.
The following are bad votes in counties, and should be
objected to :

Persons who previously to the 31st of July last have
parted with the qualXcation for which they are reffecred
or claim.
Freeholders of less than 40s. a year, clear of all ineum-
brances.

Parish Clerks and other persons holding ffi ;es for life,
who have not an income of 40s. a year arising from lard
4tached to their office.

Copyholders of less than 10/. a year, clear of all rants
and charges.
Freeholders and copyholders claiming for property occu-
pied by themselves within the limits of a borough, or who
were not in receipt of the rents and profits for their own
use on the 31st day of January last, unless the same shall
have come by descent, marriage, or promotion to a benefice.
Leaseholders who hold for a term originally created of
GO years of the yearly value of less than 101., or for a term
originally created of 20 years of the yearly value of less
t. a r .50/.
Tenants at a less annual rent than .50/.
Leaseholders and yearly tenants, who were not less es
or occupiers of the same property on 31st July, 1E36.
Trustees not in the actual receipt of rents and profits.
Aliens (unless made denizens or. naturalized), officers of
excise, customs, stamps, and taxes, and persons employed
in the Post-office.
In boroughs no notice need be given to the party objected
to ; but a notice signed by the party objecting must be duly
delivered to the overseer.

In boroughs, also, if any person entitled to vote, has
not been entered in the Overseers' Lists, he may be put on
by giving a written notice to the Overseers of the Parish
in which he is entitled, to be inserted on or before the 25th
day of August.
The following arc bad votes in boroughs, and should be
objected to

Householders who occupy houses of less annual value
than 10/.

Householders who did not occupy any 101. house in the
same borough on the 31st July, 1836, or who have during
the last year for any time, however short, ceased to be 101.
householders.

Householders who have not been in every rate made
since the 31st of July, 1836, did not pay on or before the
20th of July last all poor's-rates and assessed taxes made
previously to the 6th of April last, whether demanded or not.
Scot and lot voters, who were not so on the 7th Juno,
1832, or who have been off the register for two successive
years, unless on account of parish relief, or who have not
since 31st December last occupied and been rated in every
rate for a house within the borough.
Scot and lot voters who had not on or before the 30th
July last paid all the poor's-rates which had been made and
demanded of them up to that day.
A10.._ oilleei 5 of
excise, customs, stamps, and taxes, and persons employed
in the post-office.

Al! -persons are disfranchised in boroughs who have re-
ceived parish relief since 31st July, 1836.—Morn. Chronicle.

SECRET SERVICE MONEY.

The following paragraph has been paraded by the Tory
journals, and has been deemed by the Times worthy of the
distinction of large print and a favourable position :
" A QUESTION FOR THE CHANCELLOR OF THE Ex-
CHEQUEK.—In the time of war, and during the dreadful
reign of the Tories,' the Secret Service Money averaged
about 12,0001. a•year. The Secret Service Money for
the year just ended, being a year of peace, amounts to
35,0001.! How is this?"

We had at first determined to overlook this paragraph,
thinking that the extravagance of the lie would render it
innoxious. But there seems such a determination on the
part or the 'fory journals to cram this falsehood down
the throats of the ignorant, that we have changed our
nand on the subject.
So far from the Secret Service Money during the war
being 12,0001: a-year, it amounted to the large sums—

In 1810 of £175,000 0
1812 of 137,489 16
1813 of • 155,892 14
1814 of
The war period is out of the question, therefore, in a
comparison with the present.

But let us compare the expenditure of the Tory and
Reform Governments in periods of peace.
In the year 1823 there was voted for secret service
money 50,00/., and actually expended 38,299/.
In 1824 voted £38,000 expended £33,678

. __ _.........
1823 56,000 - 46,732 7 9
1826 46,000 55,000
1827 53,003 46,000
1828 49,000 42,000
1829 45,000 44,000
1830 63,000 44,600
This brings us down, to the administration of Earl
Grey. It must be borne in mind that the Whigs found the
country in a state of the greatest confusion. Sir Robert
Peel told the country gentlemen that he could afford them
no relief, and that they must put down the insurgent labourers
and the rickburners as well as they could, as Govern-
ment had not the means. France was still agi-
tated, Holland and Belgium were convulsed, many of
the German States were threatened, and the Poles were
engaged in a deadly strife with Russia. Notwithstanding
all these calls on the Reform Government It appears that
the sum voted,,for 1831 was 41,0001., but that the sum ex-
pended was only 29,7751. ; just 15,000/. less than was ex-
pended by the Tories in 1829 and 1830.

From 1831 down to the end of 1833, there was voted
44,3251., and expended 20,0001.

In 1831 there was voted 39,4001., and expended only the
small sum of 5,5001.
But mark the influence of the short interregnum of the
Tories.

In 1835 the sum voted was 37,3601., and the amount ex-
pended rose to 24,5001.
In 18f::6 the sum voted was 36,8001., and the sum ex-
pended fell to 16,850/.
The sum voted for 1837 is 35,900/. ; and we have no
doubt that the expenditure will be as moderate as in other
years of the Reform Government.
The adage says those who have houses of glass should not
throw stones. How the Tories contrived to spend so much
more on secret service: than their successors is a secret
which they themselves can best.explain.—Morn. Chronicle.

•t gives us pleasure to be able to state, that the
Grand Junction Railway is already paying handsomely, al-
though the Company have not yet begun to carry goods,
and although the London and Birmingham line ie not yet
open. The receipts from the 4th to the Bth of July were
3,1891. ; the receipts during the week commenced on the
9th and ending on the 15th were 4,8981.; and the receipts
from the 15th to the 22d, 5,4491. The total cost of form.
ing the line has been a► million and a half ; and, allowing
one half of the gross receipts for expenses, the present rate
of receipts vi ill leave a profit of between eight and ten per
cent. It is probable that when the whole line from Liver-
pool to London is in full work, this profit will be nearly
doubled. We fear, however, that the business from Man-
chester is yet very much less than was expected.
At Beaugency, a few days ago, two tame ferrets
got into the cradle of an infant left in a room by itself, and
bit the child in upwards of one hundred different places,
sucking the blood from each orifice. The eyes were so
much injured, that it is doubtful whether their sight can
be preserved.
One of the Dorchester labourers, George Loveless,
has reached this country, and it is probable that the rest
of the men will be home in two or three months, though
they had not received their free pardon when he left
Hobart Town,

THE INDIGO TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian.)
As a raw material, indigo cannot strictly be eonsideret
to constitute the primary basis of any branch of manufar
cure ; but, as an auxiliary, it has become one of the mos
valuable and important productions in the commerce
Europe. Previous to the discovery of America, it wa.
produced in comparatively small quantit:es' in those dig.
tricts of Europe the most favoured by soil and climate, and
sold at very high prices ; and after that event, nearly tl:e
whole supply was drawn from the Spanish colonies on that
continent and the West India Islands. The transitions
which the cultivation of indigo has undergone offered, in an
agricultural point of view, a forcible illustration of the ad-
vantages derived by society from as long as possible con-
fining their operations to soils of the highest degree of fer-
tility ; and, commercially, of the increased enjoyment which
results from giving free scope to the investment of capital,
and an unshackled interchange of the productions congenial
to the different parts of the globe.
To raise the indigo plant to the greatest perfection in
quantity and in quality, requires a soil of the first degree of
fertility ; and the alluvial accretions made by the tropical
rivers have been found by experience the best adapted situ-
ations for the purpose. In the early period of our occupa-
tion of India, indigo formed 'a permanent branch of
the commerce of the Company ; but the unskilful cultiva•
Con of the nat;ve population was now compelled to give way
to the competition of the productions of the European co-
lonists of America. The narrow principle of colonial po-
licy pursued by the Government of Spain, through the
whole of their career, was however not adapted to give free
scope to skill and capital, and develope the resources of
the country. Upwards of fifty years ago, this error was
perceived by the Directors of our East India Company,
who had the sagacity to relax the exclusive system which
characterized their proceedings during the whole period of
their monopoly, by permitting the introduction of British
capital and skill to try the cultivation of indigo on the allu-
vial deposition of the Ganges, in the province of Bengal.
That experiment has been so successfully followed up, and
brought to such maturity, that the products of the inferior
soils, with all the assumed advantages of the slave labour of
the %Vest Indies and America, have long ago been driven
out of the market. The hitherto unsettled state of the Go-
vernments of the ci-devant Spanish colonies in South
America has prevented them from deriving any advantage
from their natural resources for the cultivation of indigo ;
and the province of Bengal continues to supply the five-
sixths of the immensely increased consumption of the civi-
lised world, at least forty per cent lower than in the middle
of the last century. •
According to the papers lately published by the East
India Company, illustrative of the progress of the cultiva-
tion of cotton, wool, silk, and indigo, in their Indian pos-
sessions, they appear to consider that the production of
the latter might be almost indefinitely extended. The
crop in Bengal is, however, subject to considerable vicisi-
tudes, both in quantity and quality ; as, like the Delta of
Egypt, it is in a great measure contingent upon the perio-
dical inundations. The plant requires to be a considerable
time in the ground ; and if the inundation is premature,
a great part of the crop is frequently destroyed ; and, on
the contrary, when the inundation is late in the season, it
seldom rises to a sufficient height, and the surface fit, for cul-
tivation is limited, the following year, for want of the neces-
sary depositions. From one or the other of the above-
mentioned causes, it is a rare occurrence that two abun-
dant crops follow each other in succession from the same
extent of surface, and hence the frequent speculation upon
prices. For a considerable number of years, the consump-
tion has averaged about 22,000 chests, distributed in nearly
the following proportions :

Great Britain
France
Germany an& rest of Europe
Persia
Calcutta and other parts of India
America ... l,OOO

32,000

The consumption has certainly not, of late-years, in-
creased in a ratio with the eT ;
of manufactures,ATmanufactures,which is, in alt narm
probability, attributable to the introucp.ou
of cheaper substitutes suggested by our advance in chemi-
cal discovery.
In the earlier stages of the culture of indigo in Bengal,
it gave a very profitable return to the planter ; but on
the arerage of the last 20 years, it has not done more than
pay the average rate of profit on the cost of production.
For two or three years prior to 18p5, the price of the ar-

tide had been fdepressed .below the average rate of profit
on the cost of production ; but by the measures adopted by
the Bank of England to extend the circulation consequent
on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's colonial loan, it re-
ceived a stimulus which probably carried it as far above as
it had been previously below a fair remunerating rate of
profit. This gave an additional degree of interest to the
last and the present quarterly sales, as a test of the amount
of the depreciation in the value of the import of the last
season, together with all the previous stock on hand. The
sale consisted of 6,567 chests, and the following is the ac-
count given of their disposition by one of the principal
brokers :-2,175 chests were withdrawn, and 1,400 bought
in, which reduces the actual sales to 3,000 chests. On
the first day's sale a depression took place, compared with
the prices obtained in April of from 3d. to 6d. per lb. ; and
good and middling ord. from 6d. to 9d. on the ordinary
qualities. On the following day the quantity withdrawn
inspired the bona fide buyers with more confidence, and
purchases were made at higher rates, until the computation
established an advance of 3d. per lb. on the prices of the
first day's sale. The purchases have been chiefly made for
exportation ; the contracted state of the commercial credit,
and the limited demand for manufactured goods, prevent-
ing the home consumers from laying in stock. The ave-
rage depression of prices compared with the April prices is
estimated at 2(1. per lb. on fine and good ord. 4d. per lb. on
middling and ordinary qualities, including all descriptions,
5,250 out of the 6,567 chests put. up, being Bengal. Ac-
cording to the present prospect of the United States
market, no advance on the price of the article can be rea-
sonably expected during the remainder of the year, and at
these rates the loss.; sustained by the importation of the past
season is estimated at not less than from 800,000 to 900,0001.

DISGRACEFUL NUlSANCE.—Yesterday the inha-
bitants and passengers of the Pentonville-road were greatly
excited by tle infamous conduct of two drivers of Pad-
dington omnibuses, in consequence of which the lives
of several persons were placed in imminent danger. The
ruffians drove their horses at a frightfully furious rate, racing
against each other, and every moment the vehicles were
expected to overturn : they contained ladies and gentlemen,
and the screams of the former were terrific. At length
they were stopped, and the passengers quitted their seats
and refused to proceed further. The conductors and,
drivers demanded their fares, but on being refused they
offered threats and abuse of the most vile and blackguard
description, and had it not been for the interference of
passers by there is no doubt hut personal violence would
have been inflicted. The ladies, some of whom had childte.n
under their protection, took refuge in the neighbours'
houses, and after a riot and disturbance the fellows mounted
their omnibuses and drove off at an equally rapid rate.
Several ladies and gentlemen offered their cards, promising
to come forward and support a prosecution, and Mr. Gadhy,
merchant, of Broad-street, City, one of the passengers, in-
stantly proceeded to the magistrates of Hatton-Garden, for
their advice how to proceed against the parties, he having
taken the numbers of the vehicles. He stated that. they
drove so furiously that the passeng.ws were jerked from
their seats, and huddled together, and they every moment
expected to be upset and killed, and he deemed it a duty
he owed to himself and the public to prosecute the case.
The Magistrates informed him it was necessary to lay an
information, and have the names of the drivers, in order to
adopt legal proceedings. Mr. Gadby said that he had as-
certained that the person who belonged to the omnibus had
sold it to the person who acted as conductor, but still the
omnibus retained his name on its sides. The clerk sug-
gested that a complaint to the Stamp-office would have the
desired effect. Mr. Gadhy said he never witnessed more
disgraceful conduct, and he was determined to punish the
offenders. The Magistrates conceived that a more daring,
blackguard, and reckless set of fellows never existed than
the cabmen, omnibus drivers and conductors through the
metropolis, and .they (the Magistrates) would render every
assistance toslusekethenuisance. Mr. Gadby then left the
office, for the purpose of procuring the materials for a pro-
secution.

Mr. Bushell, engineer, has
For some days past,
been engaged in. surveying the lands between this t0..-at and
Lytham, with
a vier,to report upon t 1 eligibility of con-
structing a railway bet weeti the two places, and also as to the
eligibility of forming a junction with tho projected Wyre
way. We understand that Mr. B. thinks very Eivourably hue-
gard to either undertaking, and it is certain that a more eligible
tract of country is seldinn to be found, being both very level,
and of little productive value. Should either of the un-
dertakings be matured it is supposed that the funds will
chiefly be raised in.thc neighbourhood of Lytham.