The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-10 00:00:00

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Times of this morning observes, in allusion to the
Perthshire election :—" It will bo seen that a considerable
portion of the non-intrusion interest has been exerted in
Perthshire in favour of the Whigs. Are we to conclude
from this that non- intrusionism, as illustrated by the actual
issue of the election, is really unpopular in that extensive
county? By no means: but the truth is, that the
character of the Ministry is at such a low ebb among
the constituency, that their unlimited professions upon
the Church questions have not been trusted."—The Morn-
ing Post, referring again to the Privilege question, remarks
as follows :—" As nothing can be imagined so detestable
as mere naked unreasoning tyranny, we are glad, as we
stated yesterday, to see the change which has taken place
in the House of Commons with respect to the privilege
question. We are certainly much better pleased to see
the House trying to establish its privileges by legislation
than by thrusting the officers of our principal Court of Law
into prison. The mere attempt to get out of the course in
which it had so unfortunately embarked is, in comparison
with the recent proceedings of the House, a good thing."— '
The Morning Chronicle, in a leading article on the subject
of the Corn-laws, says :—" The motion on the Corn.
laws, of which Mr. Pryme has given notice for to-morrow,
is one of those awkward attempts at compromise which are
sure neither to please any party nor materially to benefit
any party. He proposes to lower the price per quarter at
which w heat may be imported duty free, front 735. to 645. ;
and to effect this change by annual reductions of 3s. each,
in three successive years. Neither the farmer nor the
manufacturer, the producer nor the consumer, will be
disposed to acquiesce in such an arrangement."—The
Morning Advertiser thus speaks of the present tactics
of the Opposition :—" Motions for the production of pa-
pers concerning all possible matters—notices of absurd
and frivolous questions to Noble Lords and Right Hon.
Gentlemen—demands of useless and voluminous returns--
objections pertinaciously urged in cases of the most trivial,
as well as of the most important description—complaints
about everything, and tedious orations about nothing !
Such are the weapons of an offensive Opposition !"

The Sowerhy Bridge Anti-Corn-law Petitior
has received 1,690 signatures.

The Halifax Anti-Corn-law Petition has re-
ceived upwards of 5,600 signatures, and measured upwards of
fifty-nine feet in I,,ngth. The petition to the Commons has
been forwarded to C. Wood, Esq., M. P ; and that to the Lords
to Earl Fitzwilliam.

Anti-Corn-law Petitions have been forwarded
to London, this week, for presentation, from the following
places in the parish of Halifax :—Barkisland, with 495 signa-
tures ; Fixby, 71 ; Skircoat, 341 ; Bradshaw, 535 ; Stainland,
610 ; 845 ; Mixenden, 596 ; Wheatley, 465 ;
Southowram, 531; Rishworth, 273.

On Monday a tide-waiter, named George
M'Kinnon, was examined before Mr. Rushton and Mr. Harvey,
on a charge of having violated the person of a girl 13 years of
age, named Mary Boon. The girl on yesterday week entered
the service of the prisoner at Is. 6d. a week wages, to take
eare of his three children, who lodged with him in a house in
Price's-court, Great Howard street, kept by James Emmett
and his wife. On Saturday night, the girl being asleep in bed,
and Emmett and his wife out of the house, the prisoner took
the opportunity to perpetrate the offence charged against him.
The girl instantly left the he use and acquainted her mother,
who resides in Vauxhall-road. Mr. Gray, house-surgeon of
the North Dispensary, was called in to her, and from his evi-
dence it appeared no doubt could be entertained of the
completion of the crime. When asked what he had to say,
the prisoner replied—" I do not know what to say ; but I hope
you will be kind enough to take care of my three children, as
there is no one to take care of them." He was committed to
take his trial at the ensuing Assizes.—Liverpool Chronicle.
BLENHEIM, NEAR WOODSTOCK, SUNDAY
The Duke of Marlborough, accompanied by his eldest son the
Marquis of Blandford, arrived here express last evening from
town in consequence of the demise of his Noble Father the late
Duke, on Thursday evening. His Grace was staying at the
mansion of his mother, now Dowager Duchess, in Park-lane,
when he received a letter dated from hence on Thursday, in-
forming him of the late Duke's dangerous illness ; the next post
brought a second, informing him of the Duke's dissolution.
The obsequies of his Grace are fixed to take place on Friday
next, at the mausoleum of the Churchill family, built by the ce-
lebrated Duke of Marlborostgh. The late Duke had lived in
comparative retirement for some years on a wing of his noble
mansion, seldom quitting it except for a short visit to on• of
the watering places every year. The present Duke, by his mar-
riage with a sister of the Earl of Galloway, Ims four children,
the Marquis of Blandford, in his 18th year, Lady Louisa
Spencer Churchill, and Lords Alfred and Allan Spencer
Churchill. Lord Churchill, formerly Lord F. Spencer, bro-
ther to the late Duke, and his son, the Hon. J. G. Spencer,
Lord Galloway, and Lord Charles Churchill will, it is expected,
attend the funeral. Lord John Spencer Churchill, will be ab-
sent, having sailed in command of the Druid frigate for the
East India station. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough is
now in town.

CHARGE OF PERSONATING A VOTER.—At
the Leeds Borough Sessions, held during the present week. a
true bill was found against Joseph Pearson for a misdemeanour.
It is understood that the charge alleged against the defendant is
that he gave false answers to certain questions put to him on
tendering a voting paper at the election of a Town Councillor
for the South Ward of the Borough of Leeds, in place of the
late Mr. Hobert Derham, on Thursday, the 23d of January
last. There is also, we believe, a count charging the defendant
with having personated one William King, whose name appears
on the Burgess Holl for a house in Lee's-yard, Meadow-lane.
This prosecution has been instituted by Mr. Eddison, the Town
Clerk, who happened to be in the polling booth at the time
the occurrence took place. There is little reason to doubt that
William King was personated, but from what we know of the
circumstances we have great doubt whether Pearson can be
convicted of the offence charged in the earlier counts of the
indictment.
DEATH FRONT FRIGHT.—fiII Saturday an in-
quest was held before Mr. Baker and a Jury, at the Marquis
of Granby public-house, Commercial-road, St. George's, on
view of the body of Hancell, a boy, aged four years, whose
death was brought on by the sudden fright he sustained upon
seeing his father brought home ill.
TRICKS OF THE ENEMY.—The Tories are
desperate, and are plying all the arts of deception and misrepre-
sentation, with a degree of unscrupulousness perfectly in keep-
ing, we admit, with the character of the party, but which must
6.1 the mind of every honest man with disgust. Among other
‘, tricks," parties on behalf of Mr. Home Drummond are in-
dust: iouslv representii g that the sentiments of their candidate
on the Church question are exactly the same as those professed
by Mr. Stewart! This falsehood cannot, by this time, mislead
any elector who chooses to inform himself on the subject; but
wg linow that several pledges to vote for Mr. Drummond were
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