The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-01 00:00:00

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all the tradesmen depended upon the custom of the sur-
rounding farmers, and where both tradesmen and farmers
were completely under the influence of a few landed pro-
prietors—why, they could not expect people to vote
against their own interests. With respect to the efficacy
of the ballot in doing away with bribery, a variety of
opinions were entertained. There might be some room
for doubt whether it would effectually do away with
bribery. Many were of opinion that it would. But he
was convinced that it would entirely do away with co-
ercion. If they adopted the ballot, he believed it would
be, necessary to do away with canvassing. It would be
necessary to make it a penal offence. He did not mean
that it should be made a felony, but that it should be an
offence to which a severe penalty would be attached.
(Hear, hear.) They could thus protect parties in-
fluenced by intimidation. Of course, if a man chose to
proclaim to the world how he voted, that could not be
helped, and if he injured himself by doing so, it was his
own affair. As to the observation frequently made that
voting by ballot was un-English, .why that was a simple
piece of absurdity. They were not obliged to publish all
their opinicins and all their transactions in the ordinary
affairs of life. Why should they be obliged to do so in
the choice of a representative, especially when, by means
of secrecy, they did away with serious moral evils.
(Hear.) They were every day engaged in affairs in which 1'
concealment was perfectly necessary. He likewise fully
agreed in the opinion that an extension of the franchise
would be of very little, if any, utility, unless such a
measure were accompanied by the ballot. If a ten
pound householder was liable to intimidation or bribery,
a more needy man would be the more liable in propor-
tion to the scantiness of his means. The poorer a man
was the more liable he would be to coercion or bribery.
(Hear, hear.) In many boroughs a large number of the
present electors voted under the influence of coercion,
and if they were not coerced, they were bribed. He
therefore very much doubted the expediency of extending
the franchise under the present system of voting. If it
were done, they must largely increase the area of many
of the constituencies, but very little good would be done
unless thexprqtehn yAer. fieaaiie..coultl
not say that -fi:V'aullrbe prepared to support in Parlia-
ment an extension of the suffrage to a lower class of
voters, unless such a measure wei e accompanied by the
ballot. This was, however, one of those difficult subjects
which required further consideration. He did not be-
lieve that the adoption of the ballot would cause organic
changes in the constitution of the country, or that it
would tend in the slightest degree injuriously to effect
our existing institutions, .or that the balance of power
Would be disturbed. The wheels of Government would
roll on quite as well, at any rate, as they now did, and
whereas they now rolled eccentrically, they would then
do so more smoothly. (Hear.) Feeling that the pre-
sent system of voting at elections was pregnant with in-
famy and injustice, he was fully prepared to support the
ballot. (Loud cheering.) After thanking the audience
for the attention• which they had given to his observa-
tions, Mr. Vivian resumed his seat amidst applause.

THE CASE OF CRUELTY IN THE GREENWICH UNION.—
Yesterday Mr. Carter concluded the inquest on the body
of John Gaywood, aged six years, whose barbarous
treatment by a nurse lately created so much public hor-
ror. It will be remembered that at the last sittings of
the Central Criminal Court, the woman Oldham, who is
about 50 years of age, and was an inmate of the union,
was tried for assaulting the child by placing a piece of
red hot coal in the palm °fits right hand, 'and keeping
it there, for some five or six minutes, for which offence
she was sentenced by the Common Serjeant to 14 days'
imprisonthent. Sometime elapsed ere the cruel act was
communicated to the authorities, and medical aid was
afforded the little sufferer. A few days after the trial an
unfavourable change took place in his state; he gradually
pined away, and died. After nearly,an hour's absence,
the jury returned into court, and the foreman announced
that their verdict was, that the deceased had died from
water on the brain, accelerated by the injury inflicted by
the nurse, Mary Ann Oldham. Coroner—That, gentle-
men, amounts to a verdict of manslaughter ; is that your
verdict ? Foreman=lt is, The coroner then issued his
warrant for the committal of the woman Oldham to
Newgate, and bound over the witnesses to appear at the

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SureipE.-,--Last. Saturday
the family of Mr. W. H. Hart, - East India mer-
chant, residing at 7, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-
gardens were thrown into the most fearful state 'of
terror from the following tragical occurrence. Between
7 and 8, a.m., Mary Mitchell, the cook, finding that
Marian Griffin, the hougemaid, did not make her
appearance, went to her bed-room, when she found
her rather agitated, and she also heard a smothered
noise in Griffin's box, which induced her to approach
it for the purpose, of. ascertaining whence the noise
originated •, but Griffin endeavoured to prevent hez..
The cook, however' seeing a pair of scissors
smeared with blood, lying near the. box, she insiste
upon opening the box, where she found a newly
born. infant alive, and bathed in blood, which
issued from a wound in' <its throat that e'xtend'edfi-oin ear COZir. Sho instantly Rished down stairs
and gave the alarm, when Messrs. Pollock and
Galiando, surgeons, were instantly sent for. Upon
those gentlemen entering Griffin's room, they found the
unfortunate woman in the act of cutting her own throat
with the scissors. Having disarmed her, they applied
the necessary remedies to her wound, and then so se-
cured her that she could not repeat her suicidal attempt.
After which they turned their attention to the infant,
whom they found in a moribund state, the wound Wing
of so extensive a nature, that upon the body being raised
the head fell backwards. Singular to say, although
death is inevitable, life still lingers in the body. There
is no doubt that the wound was inflicted on the infant
with the same scissors with which the mother attempted
to cut her own throat. The mother, who hitherto bore
an irreproachable c)aracter, had been only two months
in Mr. Hart's service. Last evening she was removed
to the infirmary, where she remains under the surveil-
lance of the police.

THE JEW MONEY-LENDER--Beware of him, young
men at the Universities, or young men just emancipated
from academic control. Beware of him, half-pay cap-
tains, country clergymen, unprotected females, and all
others of the Queen's lieges who have not gained that
kind of experience which stockbrokers and detective
police officers can acquire. You may despise the half-
educated, infirm little atom who smooths down the bill,
and complacently dips the pen for you in the ink to save
you all unnecessary trouble, but in his vocation he is a
giant, while you are but simpletons and dwarfs. Little
Moses will prove too strong for you in the end. His
grasp is on you, and you cannot escape him if you would
fly to the four corners of the earth. Lord Campbell and
his fourteen yoke-fellows of justice are little Moses' paid
agents. The French army and the British navy are there
to enforce his claims. The electric fluid at his bidding
will follow you from the Pole to the Equator. From
the moment you have signed your name to that bit of
paper which he crumples up in his pocket, you are
Moses' own—his property—his Uncle Tom—his mere
chattel and thing. Beware of him, we say, and do not
match your inexperience against his abundant know-
ledge. He has only two or three facts at the utmost to
remember, and upon these his memory never plays him
a trick. There is the bill,—there proof of your signa-
ture—there a witness to the fact that the security was
passed into his hands for a valuable consideration, and
the inevitable result is "judgment with speedy execu-
tion." We earnestly entreat any one who may behesi-
tating on the brink of the abyss to spend but a trifling
sum for the advice of any competent person who has
been in the habit of conducting bill causes, either for the
plaintiff or the defendant, and he will soon find that
within the whole range of legal experience there is no
testimony so simple, or so impossible to be shaken on
cross-examination, as that of a tortuous bill-holder.—
Times.

HORRIBLE FATE OF A BOAT'S CREW.—Letters received
at Lloyd's report a most shocking catastrophe having
happened on the Great West Hoyle Bank, off the Che-
shire coast, near the mouth of the Dee, to six mariners
who had gone to examine a vessel which had been
wrecked upon the shoal in the course of Sunday last.
Reaching the edge of the sand, which extended many
miles in circumference, the ill-fated men had secured
their boat by fastening the painter round the boat-hook,
which they threw into the sand. Like those of the
Goodwin, they are hard and dry when the tide is out, in
which state of apparent security they found them on
landing. Having gone to the spot where the wreck lay,
they were about returning, when they were not
ttle
alarmed at observing the boat adrift, and the tide ra-
pidly covering the sand. One account states that some
boatmen a considerable distance off observed the un-
happy fellows rushing about holding up handkerchiefs
and other things in the hope of attracting attention.
None came, however, and in little more than an hour
the sea swept over the entire range of the bank,and the
poor fellows thus miserably perished.

EMIGRATION OF WATERMEN.—Last week no less than
eleven watermen of Greenwich emigrated to Australia.
This number, it is expected, will very shortly be consi-
derably increased, as much activity prevails among that
body to better their condition, which has of late years
deteriorated in remuneration. Most of them were young
men, just served their apprenticeship, who had been at-
tracted thither by the high wages being now paid to that
class in Australia.—Kentisk Mercury.

THE FRENCH EMPRESS.—A gentleman in this city
(Glasgow), who was for many years very intimate with
Mr. Kirkpatrick, of Malaga, the grandfather of Na-
poleon's affianced bride, informs us that the current re-
ports respecting the family are, in some particulars, in-
correct. Mr. Thomas Kirkpatrick was the Swedish
consul at Malaga, and not the British. Mrs. Kirk-
patrick was a Swedish lady by birth, but her parents
were British, and she was universally allowed to have
been the handsomest lady in Malaga. A sister of Mrs.
Kirkpatrick's married Lieutenant-Colonel G. Thomson,
of the Royal Engineers. Mr. Kirpatrick had several
children, one of whom married the second son of a
Spanish duke, who, on the death of his elder brother,
succeeded to the family honours, and is the father of the
French Empress. It thus appears that, except through
her father, there is no Spanish blood in her veins ; and
this will account for her fair complexion and blue eyes.
—NO/14 Bride& .Daily