The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-17 00:00:00

DORSET ELECTION,-(FOURTEENTH DAY.

DORCRESTER, SATURDAY.
Every exertion was made by the friends of both candi-
dates to bring up voters to-dey, but they came up slowly ;
the polling, however, was in favour of Mr. Ponsonby, who
has reduced the majority.
STATE OF THE POLL AT FOUR O'CLOCK.
Day's Poll. Gross Poll.
Lord Ashley IH 1,821
Mr. Ponsonby 25 1,796
Majority for Lord Ashley - 25
Forty-five votes have been tendered to-day which were
sent before the Assessor ; twenty votes were for Mr. Pon-
sonby and fifteen for Lord Ashley, giving Mr. Ponsonby a
majority of five.
We understand that Mr. Ponsonby has a niajol
nearly 100 votes before the Assessor, and his friends have
the utmost confidence in his success.

Lord WITARNOLIFFE6S effigy was burnt at
Lane-Delph on Wednesday night.— Staili)rdshireMercury.
DRURY LANE THEATRE.—Mr. and Mrs.
WOOD (Miss PATON) made their first appearance here for
the season in the agreeable opera of Love in a Viliaga,
and were received with much applause. Mrs. Wool) was
in as delightful voice as ever.
SADLER'S WELLS.--Vs e visited this
theate on Saturday evening, and were much pleased
with the pieces selected for the ertuing's entertainment,
viz. Montralto or the Mountain Pass ; Inchcape Bell,
and Baron De Trench ; with the latter piece we were
delighted. The plot is admirably conceived, and the
situations ludicrous in the extreme. This theatre is
greatly improved since the accession of Mr. W. 11.
Wmuams to the management. Lie Las produced many
novelties since the short time the enson has commenced,
and has also made such arrangements in the order system
as will render the boxes as respectable as they have ever
been on any former occasion. An entirely new grand
wido-draine, called the Poisoned Chalice or the Knights
of Castile, which has been above a month in prepara-
tion, will be produced this evening ; it has been got up
at a considerable expence, and is supposed to be the
most splendid piece that has been brought out here fear
many yearn.

BS the judgment in favour of C. KEMALE,
delivered by Lord BROUGHAM in the house of L,a•ds
on Thursday, in the appeal case of HARRIS versus
KRMBLE, by which the lease is declared null and void,
Mr. KEMBLZ is released from the payment of one-third
of one hundred and fifteen thousand pounds, the accurnu-
Lition of rent for which be would have been liable, had the
judgment of Lord LYNDHURST been reversed.

YEOMANRY CAVALRY.—.We perceive by
the Kent Papers, that several troops of yeomanry in that
county, on hearing of the rejection of the Reform Bin,
sent in their resienations, refusing any longer to serve
under the Anti-Reform commanders. The contagion is
spreading in all directions. We have heard that the
Cumberland yeomanry (hitherto little more than a body
guard to the Earl of LONSDALE) r.,can to follow the ex-
ample..., ecirlisle Journal.

Lord NortßEYs lits been doing duty with
two troops of the o:;iordshire Yeomanry at Bicester and
Islip, disturbances having again broken out at Otmoor.
On the arri%al of his Lordship and his co/1)s tranquillity
was reetwied•

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STEAM NAVIGATION.—AgreeabIy to what
we stated in our journal of Monday week, the Select
Committee appointed by the House of Commons " to
take into consideration the frequent calamities by steam
navigation, and the best moans of guarding against their
recurrence, and to report their observations to the House,"
met on Tuesday last, and continued their sittings on the
three following days, during which they were fully oc-
cupied in considering their report, which was finally
agreed upon, and, together with the minutes of the
deuce taken before them, presented to the House by Co-
lonel Surruonrx, the Chairman, on Friday, when both the
report and evidence were ordered to lie on the table, and
to be printed. ha order that the public may have con-
fidence in this report, we think it is only necessary that
we shoula give the names of t'hose Members of the
Coln-
mittee who have taken part in its consideration—vis. co-
' load SIBTHORPE, Admirals Sir GEORGE COCKBURN and
Anita', Captain Lord viscount INaEsratr, R.N., Lieu-
tenant CtmlitSTEß, R.N. Mr. DAYIEs GI BERT,
Mr. 'WARBURTON, F.R.S. Aldermen Wool) and VE-
SABLES, Messrs. WALTER CAmeninn, HITCHES HUGHES,
JEPHSON, ilEJtkttsim, MACKIE:WS, SHAW, and Witxx.
It is our intention, during the approaching recess, to lay
before our resdere the report and extracts from the evidence.