The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-08 00:00:00

WELLS RACES.

TH nein AY, Jut r 1.--The Corporation Stakes, a Sweep-
stakes of b soya. each, with 25 added. Heats once
round the course and the distance. .
Mr. C. ',niche's Benefit, 4 yrs 4 1 1
Mr. Wreford's Will Watch, 3 yrs
Mr. Knatchbull's Pencil, 3 yrs
Mr. Cavell's Windfall, 4 yrs 3 4 3
The Town Plate of 50 soy.. for all ages. Heats twice
round the course and the distance.
Mr. W. Wyndham's Colleger, aged 4 1 1
Mr. Finche's Benefit, 4 yrs
Mr. Barrow's Toughstick, 6 yrs h dr
Mr. Dundas's Honest Robin, 4 yrs

A curious question of " privilege" is agitating
at the Mouse of Lords. One of Sir THOMAS TYRWHITT'S
(Black Rod) officers, while his pocket was laden with
papers of deep import to their Lordships, and connected
with their Lordships' business, was suddenly arrested in
his progress by one of the Sheriff's attendants'; and, in-
stead of being allowed to convey his summonses to White•
hall, he was summoned to Whitecross-street, where be
now remains in " durance vile," "pleading privilege," but
hitherto pleading in vain. fhe official personages there
term it a "sham plea." Will high privilege prevail over
mesne process? The person arrested is a foreigner.
POLITICAL R EFL EcTioN.----,There are
three epochs in history, signalized by the total extinction
of national morality. The first was of the successors of
ALICIANDKR, not omitting himself. The next, the tme-
, cessors of the first Casale. The third, our own age.
This was begun by the partition of Poland, followed by
that of the treaty of Pilnitz ; next, the conflagration of
Copenhagen ; then the enormities of BONAPASTE, par-
titioning the earth at his will, and devastating it with fire
and sword : now the conspiracy of Kings, the successors
of BONAPARTE, blasphemously calling themselves the
Holy Alliance, and treading in the footsteps of their incar-
cerated lender ; not yet, indeed, usurping the government
of other nations, avowedly and in detail, but controlling
by their armies the forms in which they will permit them
to he governed ; and reserving, in petto, the order and ex-
tent of the usurpations further meditated.—Mensoirs of
Thomas efejArson.
Nothing can exceed the demonstrations of
surprise and joy which were manifested by the criminals
under sentence of death in Newgate, when the Rev. Mr.
Corms, accompanied by the Sheriff and other municipal
authorities, visited their cells on Saturday evening, to com-
municate the result of his Maaerery's Council upon the
RECORDIMIS Report of their respective cases. When they
were informed that all their lives would be spared, some of
them burst out into frantic exultation others in silence
wept for joy, while others again ejaculated a prayer to
Heaven on behalf of the merciful King WILLIAM. Among
the motley group, which consisted of thirty-seven indivi-
duals, there were those who have long been adepts at
crime, and the offences of others were marked by cruelty
and other aggravated circumstances, so that they looked
forward to an awful crisis, which they considered inevit-
able ; and it is pleasing to :observe, that they were, to
all human appearance, in some degree prepared to meet it.
To those the sound of respite must have been peculiarly
grateful. It is to lie hoped that the clemency of his MA.-
JIISTY towards his erring subjects will snake a lasting
im-
pression on their minds, and induce them, by their future
conduct, in some measure to atone for the crimes which
they have not only committed against individuals, but
against society at large.
Tito French Papers of Monday, which ar-
rived last night, contain the result of a few of the eke-
lions of the Great Colleges which were convoked for Satur-
day last. This series consists of the Great Colleges of
sixty-five departments, those of twenty departments being
postponed from the 3d to the 19th inst. The number of
Deputies to be elected by these sixty-five departmental
colleges is 122. It has been always admitted by the Libe-
rals, and has often been ostentatiously announced by the
organs of the Ministry, that the greater, or aristocratic
electoral assemblies, are more favourable to Ministerial can •
didates than the colleges of arrondissement, in which the
smaller proprietors predominate. The object of the
Government in creating the former was to render them
a counterpoise to the democratic influence of the latter.
Being composed of only one-fourth of the landed
proprietors who pay direct taxes above twelve pounds
a year, they are generally persons who move in the
upper walks of society, who mix with the higher
class of official functionaries, anti who expect the favours
of the Ministry, or pride themselves in being considered
the friends of the Court. Hence they have generally
elected Deputies of ancient families or of great wealth,
disposed to support the Government, and attracted by a
kind of magnetic influence to the right aide of the Cham-
ber. Hence the Liberals, who had a decided majority in
the last assembly, did not possess one-third of the De-
puties returned by the aristocratic colleges. Among the
122 members elected by the series of colleges which met
on the 3d instant, only 33 voted the hostile address which
led to the dissolution of the last Chamber. lf, therefore,
thia proportion, or about one-third of the present returns,
were in favour of the opposition, the latter would lose no
ground in the greeter colleges, while its triumphs has heels
decided and complete in the smaller. But this, probably, is
too low an estimate of the Ministerial defeat and the opposi-
tion victory. , Already we have accounts from nine of the
great colleges, end in six of these the Ministry had been
discomfited. Tito departments of the Lower !thine, of the
Aisne, of the Oise, of the Alaurthe, of the Gironde, and of
the Somme, have declared against them, By the next
arrival wo shall have the returns from nearly all the other
departments. lied they been in favour of the Ministry,
the telegraphs avoithl hare already announced theist. When
we mentioned with praise, some days ago, the order end
tranquillity with which the elections in France had been
conducted, we had not reveler(' the account of a disgracefOl
riot whirls took place at Montauban in the South, in eon.
sequence of the election of a liberal candidate,---a riot Ilse
more disgraceful, as it was rather encouraged than sup.
pressed by the authorities of the town. The Mayor had
been appointed President of the College, and was likewise
a candidate for the representation. The. Constitutional
candidate, M. De PAIUSSAC, succeeded against WM. An
assemblage, consisting of the lowest rabble, unrestrained
by the authorities, attempted to break into the room where
the votes were taken, and were only prevented by the mili-
tary guard, over which the Mayor had no influence. Not
having succeeded in preventing the election of M. Da
PAXISSACi, they proceeded to his house and attempted his
siaassinatioa. His windows were broken, his doors forced,
and had he not escaped by a back-garden, he would have
been messaged. The military force alone protected
The Maier, A two uays afterwards, only thought proper to
give the pnpulace a gentle hint, that however much at•
teehed:to their principles of loyalty and religion, they
must tint massacre a Liberal. In this town' and neigb,
bourhoOdi it will be remembered, fanaticism displayed
itself in the most frightful manner on the return of the
Bov aotift, by the murder of the Prutestants..-- rams.