The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1853.

time, we should still be disposed to attach all but
implicit faith in the testimony of such a gentle-
man as Mr. COPPOCK. If he cannot instruct us
on this subject, we should like to know who can.
Mr. BROWN, perhaps, or W. B. and his agents.
We are quite sure their testimony would be
as decided as Mr. COPPOCK'S, if they wished to
give it. Now Mr. COPPOCK distinctly told the
commissioners at St. Alban's, and he adheres to
this day to his opinion then expressed, that the
Ballot is the only thing which offers a chance of
purity of election. He believes it would put an
end to bribery. We repeat, what can the opi-
nion of a Cabinet Minister or an Edinburgh
Reviewer be worth on this point compared
with that of a man to whom information,
unreserved confidential information, information
at first hand, flows freely from every borough in
the kingdom ; who knows the price at which each
may be secured, and the persons to whom to
apply ; and who has been consulted as to the
legality or feasibility of a thousand schemes and
dodges ? We should almost be willing to legislate
at once upon the honest opinion of one such a
thorough master of the subject as Mr. COPPOCK,
and our Reform Bill framers may be assured that
the country will put much more faith in the
firmly avowed conviction of such a man than in
all the paltry evasions by which twelve-thirteenths
of the Cabinet will, doubtless, excuse their con-
signing the other thirteenth to Reform Bill
insignificance.

MONEY MARKET NEWMARKET RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL)

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

£5O PLATE. A. P.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The
market was flat, and prices had a downward tend-
ency. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 30
Pernam and Maranham at Gad. to 6d., 20 Bahia
6d., 500 Egyptian at 6d. to 6g., 500 Surat at 31d.
to 40., and 30 Sea Island at 2s. to 2s. 2d. per lb.
Railway Shares were flat.
In the Produce Markets this week less has been
doing. Tea, however, has been brisk owing to the
last advices, and the purchases of this article will
have to be made chiefly for cash, British goods
being difficult of sale. In tallow there has been
less doing, and the firmness perceptible in the week
has not been maintained. Iron is in demand for
actual wants. Sugar and coffee have been dull and
cotton is quieter.
The arrival of the Argo steamer from Australia
in 64 days, is justly regarded in the City as another
triumph of steam navigation, and will go far to
dispel the prejudices that have been fostered among
old hands by previous mishaps. It is exceedingly
important too, that the attempt to come home by
way of Cape Horn has proved as successful in the
case of a steamer, as of some of the clipper vessels
that have made the passage, and that the Argo
appears to have had scarcely any need to use her
coals, having sailed the greater part of the distance.
The voyage is not at all seasons of the year agree-
able for passengers, owing to the excessive cold when
Horn,iore but due provision being
made,ss of the time occupied being
rounding a
and
dCtahpee
shortness
in some respects compensatory, we may look ere long
for a removal of the objections entertained, and
which were the cause of the Harbinger coming by way
of the Cape of Good Hope. A circumstance that will
afford great satisfaction, because of the large capital
embarked by the shareholders, is the arrival out of
the new steamer Victoria, owned by the Royal
Australian Mail Company, in a shorter period,
reckoning her departure from Gravesend as op-
posed to that of other vessels from Plymouth, than
has yet been recorded. The Australian, another
steamer, having gone out very quickly to the Cape
of Good Hope, there was some prospect of the com-
pany not only standing higher in public estimation,
but likewise recovering its pecuniary status. The
overland letters from Australia will hereafter be
very likely to be as long reaching us as by steamer
direct.

St. Faith
Waverley
Five ran.
HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES.

Seahorse
Assault gelding
Thirteen ran.
NURSERY STAKES.

Orson
Dead heat for second between Punch Box and St. Spiro.

Fifteen ran.

HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. D.M.

lanthe
Hunca 11funea

Eleven ran.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY--(THIS DAY).

THE ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET.-IN RE KIRK.

This bankrupt was one of the directors of the pro-
posed Islington Cattle Market, and having been arrested
in consequence of his liabilities, had been made bank-
rupt, and a petition had been presented in this matter,
and bankrupt applied for his discharge.
His Honour said he would give his decision at the same
time as on the petition in re Westbrook, who had also
been a director in the same company, who has dis-
puted his liability under the bankrupt law. His Honour
expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the bankrupt's
evidence, and would order his discharge as soon as the
case admitted.

The desirableness of some extension of the suf-
frage seems to be acknowledged byall. Even ahot-
headed Tory clergymen at a public dinnerthe other
day declares for enfranchising all his peasants ! The
Derby leaders, some of them, openly avowed their
readiness to grant a large extension of the suf-
frage. We apprehend, therefore, the fight for real
Liberals will have to be on behalf of an indepen-
dent and unpurchaseable extension of it—for
large constituencies, voting, on the one hand, in
freedom from fear, and, on the other, without
the power to prove to the corrupter that they
voted as they were paid. We do not, however,
wish to imply that we are indifferent to enlarging
the electoral constituency to the utmost possible
extent. The old maxim, that taxation and re-
presentation should be co-extensive, is both sound
in itself, and consonant with English habits ; and
as every man pays taxes, it is hard to evade
the inference that every man should have
a vote. There would be, too, the great
convenience of a clear principle. if this
course were adopted, and if, as we once be-
fore suggested, a small poll-tax were made the
condition of registration, and the receipt for it
the proof of the claim at the hustings, it would
most advantageously simplify registration, and
verification of right to vote at the poll. We do
not at all object, however, to household suffrage,
or a rate-book suffrage, provided some exact and
stringent regulations were made for registering
the names of all persons on the rate-book who
virtually, as well as actually, pay rates. Legal
men can tell us what an imperfect register they
often find the rate-book to be of the actual
occupant of a tenement or property. This, how-
ever, would not be difficult of arrangement ; and
if all persons' names stood in the rate-book who
held property for which rates were paid, it would
approach near enough to universal suffrage to
satisfy even the remnants of the Chartists them-
selves.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY,

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Justice Williams.)

WILFUL MURDER.

Elizabeth Widgery, aged 25, a married woman, was
ndicted for the wilful murder of her male child. The
prisoner had been in the service of a gentleman residing
at Tulse Hill, and towards the close of August her fel-
low servants suspected and taxed her with being in the
family way, but she denied it. Some time later, on the
16th of Sept., the prisoner complained of pain about her
body, and said she had the toothache, She was advised
to go to bed, and she did so about half-past 8 o'clock in
the evening, when she was supplied with medicine and
gruel. At a later period of the evening, two of her
fellow-servants, who slept in the same room, retired to
rest, and directly they got into the room she gave a
sudden shriek. One of the other servants asked her
what was the matter, and she replied that she was very
ill, at the same time requesting her to put her hand under
the bed-clothes. The other servant did as she was re-
quested, and was surprised to find her hand upon, the
head of an infant. The prisoner upon this burst into
tears, and confessing that she was in the family-way and
about to be confined, she asked what she had better do ?
Her fellow-servant very naturally thought that the only
thing to be done was to send for a medical man, which
they did after consulting with their mistress, and
when the surgeon arrived he found a new born
infant in the prisoner's bed. The child was a healthy
one, and thrived for the next two or three days, but on
the following Sunday the medical man discovered an
appearance upon the throat of the child as if some liga-
ture had been drawn tightly round it. The prisoner
denied all knowledge of it, but the child dying shortly
afterwards, a post mortem examination took place, the
result of which satisfied the medical man that the child
died of suffocation. The prisoner had made no prepa-
ration for the birth, nor had she evinced any disposition
to nourish the child, and the latter circumstance, coupled
with the red mark round the neck of the child, led to
the prisoner's being given into custody on the present
charge.

The following are one or two colonial items, but
the letters are not yet delivered.
A Port Philip journalist states :

" The agitation among the diggers for a reduction of
the license fee, is assuming a formidable aspect. So
long as the gold fields were highly productive, there
was little to be feared from any movement of dissatis-
faction ; but now there is a large mass of disappointed
men, who are not only unwilling, but unable, to com-
ply with the demands of the tax collector. The re-ad-
justment of the license-fee appears to us to be imperative.
The truth is, we believe that during the last six months
nine-tenths of the license-fees have been paid, not out of
the profits of (Told digging, but from the funds brought
to the colony by new arrivals, or from funds the pro-
ceeds of labour at other pursuits. This cannot last long,
The revenue from license-fees is certain to fall to a low
figure during the present quarter."

Mr. Ribton, who defended the prisoner, insisted, in
his address to the jury, that the case depended so much
upon circumstantial evidence, that it would be inhuman,
if not unjust, to convict the prisoner of the capital offence.
The jury found a verdict of not guilty.

NEW COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
A RUNAWAY BANKRUPT.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

The Emperor, on Wednesday at 10 o'clock, passed
in review, on the open space in front of the Palace
of Compiegne, four squadrons of the 7th regiment
of chasseurs, a battalion of the 36th regiment of
the line, and four brigades of gendarmery, and
distributed several decorations. His Majesty was
followed by Marshal Magnan, General de Monte-
bello, Colonel Fleary, and the Aides-de-Camp on
duty. The Marquis of Worcester joined the Im-
perial suite in a hussar uniform. The troops, and
the population assembled around, received the Em-
peror with the loudest acclamations.
Yesterday the Emperor and Empress returned
to Paris from Compiegne.

The Moniteur Publishes a note on the Eastern
question. It is the first time that the official organ
of the French Government has made any allusion
to the Russo-Turkish quarrel ; and the article in
question may be taken as an official programme of
the intentions of the French Government. The
article is to the effect that the French Govern-
ment is fully determined not to abandon Tur-
key in the struggle with Russia, and that
the eventuality of war is not only looked upon
as probable, but as a matter which France
will in case of necessity not avoid. The impres-
sion in Paris is that the note is an announce-
ment that the period for negotiation is at an end,
and that the period for action has arrived. It is
also remarked that this note affords clear evidence
of the displeasure felt by the French and English
Governments at the attitude assumed by Austria
and Prussia in the affair. Notwithstanding the
evident caution and studied moderation of the
language of the Moniteur, it leaves no further
doubt of the part which France will take in the
affair, and we may look forward forthwith for
vigorous measures befitting the occasion. The ex-
plication of the Moniteur, coming as it does with
the announcement that the squadrons have passed.
the Straits of the Dardanelles, is considered a com-
plete triumph for the Sultan, who declined to grant
a firman till he had received assurances of active
assistance from the two Powers.

A severe struggle took place at the Bourse yester-
day, between the speculators for a rise and those
for a fall, in which the " bears" ultimately obtained
the advantage. The Three per Cents. were first
called at 72f. 30c., but on a demand for the de-
livery of 200,000 renter, sold for the end of the
month, they rose to 72f. 55c. Heavy sales made
subsequently forced them down to 72f. 35c., at
which they closed for the end of the month. The
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 10c. ;
Orleans Railway shares, 1,146 f. 25c. ; Rouen,
996 f. ; Havre, 480 f ; Great Northern, 836 f. 25c. ?
Paris and Strasburg, 891 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons,
887 f. 25c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 722 f.
50cc. ; Western of France, 685 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cette, 575. ; Great Central, 513 f. 75c. ; Lyons
and Geneva, 475 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit
Mobilier. 690 f.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.
COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES.

The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the follow-
ing despatch from Bucharest, dated Oct. 22:--
" Two Russian steamers and eight gun-boats
forced a passage on the Danube on Sunday, and
were encountered by a smart fire from the Turkish
forts of Isactcha, between Reni and Ismail. The
Russians had a lieutenant-colonel, three officers,
and twelve men killed, and fifty wounded. They
pretend having set fire to the fortress of Isactcha."

Advices from Moldavia state that fresh Russian
troops are still pouring in and marching to the
Danube.

The town of Jassy has a garrison of 6,000 Russian
troops.