The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-05 00:00:00

PERSONATION OF VOTERS AT CITY ELECTIONS.

Mr. GRESHAM said I;;;;;lcifeerObliged if the City
Solicitor would inform the court what had become of the
directions given respecting three men, namely, Thomas
Penny, James Penny, and Laurence Shaw,, who on the
16th June were convicted at the Central Criminal Court
of personation at the election, he believed, of Chamber-
lain. The court had then directed a reward to be of-
fered for the detection of the persons who had been in-
strumental in procuring the bribe. There had been two
or three elections since the period in question, and the
same practice had been found to be in existence. .
The CITY SOLICITOR replied that, in pursuance of the
orders of the court, advertisements had been generally
circulated through the City, as well as in the districts
where the parties resided who had been instrumental
in procuring the bribe, and also on the river side,
the low neighbourhoods from which it was sup-
posed the practices complained of generally pro-
ceeded. He had not received any information
in answer to these advertisements calculated to throw
any additional light upon the subject, was
per-
fectly well known who the man was that hired th,
t
parties to personate, but he had no means of obtaining
evidence against him, except the oath of
f the
not credi-
ble witnesses. He (the City Solicitor) could
not go
into a court of justice with any
opfarties
themselves, who, although competent, were
con-
victing a man of inciting them to the commission
when they themselves stood of
crime,convicted of the,
•me of perjury. He had no
en.
,doubt that the party
whom it was well known employed
con-
ducted a sort of trade in mattersthese parties
of the men found guilty had of this sort, for two
can-
didates, and another, hired voted for one of the
had voted for the other and paid by the same man,
the same source that candidate. It was, therefore,
Mr. ANDERSON-1 believessud both elections.
the man who found the greatest criminal is
laughter.) the money. (Hear, hear, and
Mr. GRESHAM W
alludes
ho is the party to whom the City
Solicitor
as being well known ?
THE CITY SOLICITOR—The name was stated in
answer to a question at the trial at the Old Bailey,

THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SIDENHAM.—On Monday the
whole of the firemen selected from the London Fire En-
gine establishment left the brigade, and took up their
new quarters at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. The
works being sufficiently advanced as to be renderad in-
secure without a body of firemen to be present to ren-
der assistance in the event of a fire breaking out in such
a vast etablishment, more especially as so many carpen-
ters and builders are constantly employed in the build-
ing. As yet no residence or sleeping apartments have
been formed in the Palace for the use of the firemen, but
a house has been hired for their temporary accommoda-
tion near the building.
THE STATUE OF SIR ROBERT PEET, AT MANCHESTER,

—The bronze statue of the late Sir Robert Peel, Bart.,
to be erected at Manchester by public subscription, and
which has been cast by Messrs. Robinson and Cotton,
07 the •Pinilico bronze works. from a design by Mr.
Marshall, A.R.A., arrived in that city from Londcn on
Saturday evening. On Monday afternoon it was re-
moved from the railway station to the site, in front of
the Royal Infirmary, and was successfully raised and
fixed upon its pedestal. The inauguration, it is under-
stood, will take place next week, and Wednesday is
mentioned as the most probable day. This is the third
statue of Sir Robert Peel which has been cast by the
above firm in one piece—the first having been for Leeds,
and the second that for Bury, Lancashire.