The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-01 00:00:00

RADICAL REMARKS.

The following passages are taken from Colonel Thomp-
son's last letters to the Hull Association :

THE BALLOT.—" Why does Mr. Grote insist upon the
phrase, " that Votes be taken secretly by the way of Bal-
lot ?" In the first place, it is tautology ; iu the second
place, the aristocracy, when they employ the ballot, as they
always do, for their own convenience, know better than
to thrust forward unnecessarily the word which gives the
cue to the opponent to revile. Truly, the " children of
light," in some degree maintain their old character. I took
occasion for the first time I believe, in the House of Com-
mons, to put in the strong facts displayed in the military
law. Lord John Russell says voting: is a trust, and there-
fore cannot be done secretly ; and there is staring him in
the face all the time a law he has helped to pass in twenty
successive years, by which men discharging the most serious
of all trusts are directed and obliged to give their votes
secretly. Tell our friends to buy, borrow, or beg, a copy
of the Rules and Regulations for the Better Government
of His Majesty's Forces, and read in Article 90 the oath
required to be taken by the President, Members, and
Judge Advocate at General Courts Martial ; not forgetting
to look at Article 88 for the Declaration required from
Medical Officers constituting a Military :Medical Board.
These last, in addition to declaring that they will not dis-
close the Vote or Opinion of any particular member, de-
clare in express words that they will not disclose or disco-
ver their own."

TITHE COMMUTATION BILL.—" Lord John Russell
will go down to posterity as the man who tried to get rid of
the evil of Tithe, and could not. He will be pointed at
as the Legislator who knew all the mischief of Tithe, but
found hops and cabbages too strong for him. We are told
that the object of the removal of Tithes was to secure a
great benefit to the agriculture of- the country now de-
pressed by them. But it appears the agriculture of hops
and gardens is to remain as it was. Every man who has
land which he could profitably cultivate in hops or garden-
ing if it were not for the institution of Tithe, is to remain
as it was. The Home Secretary has no bowels for him ;
he had a week ago, but since that, he has had a joke
against Mr. Hume.'

• Sturges Bourne's Act is a piece of insolent injustice.
It is one of the slave's collars slipped on our necks in the
Tory times, and which the existing Government refuses to
remove. When all have equal suffrage, the rich have pre-
cisely the quantity of influence which is their due, neither
more nor less. Suffrage, is the right of entering into the
great market of political influence ; and to say that if all
men enter equally, the rich will be defrauded of their due,
is the same fallacy as to say that if all men enter the gate
of a market alike, the rich will be deprived of the proper
influence of their wealth. The question is net of their en-
Wino., but of %hat their respective influence will be after-
wards.' A rich man, if he is not a bad man, can always
carry with him the votes of some dozens, or it may be hun-
dreds, of the poor ; just as he can obtain the venison and
the pine-apple which may cost as much as a hundred meals
of the poor man who enters by his side. And what would
he thought of him if he maintained, that the only way for
him to enjoy the privileges of his wealth satisfactorily, was
that the poor man should be kept out of the market alto-
gether. If anything could hasten the alteration of a rule
which kept the poor man out of the market to help the
rich, it would be the addition of another rule which de-
creed, that of those who , did enter, the guinea of the man
who had two guineas in his pocket, should buy twice as
much as the guinea of the man who had only ono."

Mcn have been for some time employed in boring
an artesian well at the abettoir of Grenelle. They have gone
to the extraordinary depth of upwards of 1,000 feet, constantly
brierring up chalk mixed with flint. The director of the
work, however, expects that they will soon reach water, as
the chalk has become greenish and sandy, which always indi-
cates an approach to water. •
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—An ac-
tion of this nature was tried before a special jury in this city
on Wednesday, in which Miss Maria Boulter was plaintiff, and
Mr. Samuel Workman defendant. The jury found 751. da•
mages for the plaintiff, stating at the same time that, had the
circumstances of the -defendant permitted, they would have
awarded greater damages, in order to prevent similar breaches
for the future. The Judge, in summing up, stated that it
was the first action of the sort that he had ever known to be
brought before the court within his experience, a period of 30
y cars. —Montreal Paper.

Among the railroads projected by the Company, the
chief office of which is at Rome, is one from Naples to
Otranto, a distance of 180 miles, which will be divided into
three stases, and will have branches to towns of lesser im-
portance. It is said that one is also to be carried from Na-
ples to Reggio. A vary great number of the shares of the
Company have been taken by the English.—French paper.