The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-19 00:00:00

EVENTING EDITION.

not incapacitated by statute, immediately disallowed his
vote, because it was the vote of a Peer, he being, pur-
suant to the resolution in question, a Peer of Ireland ;
and by the Reform Act, if a party is incapacitated by
law, though not by statute law, from voting, his name
is tb be expunged on the revision. The only question
remaining is, is there any difference in the case of an
Irish Peer, inasmuch as he may, before the election, be
elected to the House of Commons, and choose to serve ?
If he is actually elected, and does not decline to serve
for a county, city, or borough, of Great Britain, he
may no doubt vote in the election of Members of the
House of Commons ; and it was said non con-
aka, but before the election, he may be so elected,
and choose to serve. But the period for the
Revising Barrister to look at is the 31st July, in
the year of revision ; the words are very distinct
on this point, if proved to be then incapacitated,"
and it would be impossible to know then whether, before
the next election, facts would arise, on which the inca-
pacity to vote would cease ; and, to act on such a prin-
ciple, would be entirely to do away with those words of
the 42d section, as to expunging persons incapacitated—
for there is scarcely any case of acknowledged incapacity
where the disqualification might not by possibility cease
after the revision, before the election. An alien may
become naturalized—an infant of age—a criminal par-
doned, or completely undergo his punishment—and so
of others ; and thus this provision of the Act as to ex-
punging and incapacity, would be rendered perfectly in-
operative. In case of statutory incapacity the question,
it is clear, may be gone into before the Revising Barris-
ter, and the committees of New Windsor and Roches-

;er have so held—Knapp and Orobler, p. 96 George
Wilkinson's case ; and p. 178 Edward Williams' case.

Upon the whole, therefore, I am of opinion that the
Earl of Mexborough, whose name is on the list of

voters in the parish of Buckland, and has been ob-
jected to as a Peer of Ireland, and not having been

elected to serve in the Commons House of Parliament,

had no right to vote, and is as incapacitated by law,
on the 31st July last, from voting in the election of
Members of the House of Commons ; and that it is

therefore imperative on the Revising Barrister to ex-
punge his name from the list. The name of the Earl
of IVlexborough is therefore expunged.
(Before Mr. SUGDEN.)
THE NEW RIVER SHAREHOLDERS.

William Astell, and 28 others, claimed in respect
•of a " New River share and redeemed land tax" in the
parish of Great Amwell, and were objected to by the
overseers. _

Mr. George Philips Foster Gregory, of St. Swi-
thiri's-lane, London, appeared for the Tories to defend
these claims, and rigidly examined the assistant over-
seer n respect to the objections, who stated
they were made by :Erection of the overseers, and the
words " objected to " were written opposite each
name previous to the list being stuck up on the church
doors, which list had been delivered by him to the high
constable to forward to the clerk of the peace, and that
the list now in Court, and sent by the clerk of the peace

to the Revising Barristers, had been mutilated by the
margin being cut off, on which the words " objected to"

had been written.
The Tory Agent objected to the Revising Barrister
going into the revision of the list upon the overseers'

objections.
Mr. SUGDEN, said that as the overseer had
sworn that the words " objected to" were written on the
list placed on the church door, he would revise such
list ; at the same time ha considered there was very
great blame in the mutilation of the list ; that he had
had some others on the Circuit in a similar state, and
he should write to the Clark of the peace on the subject.
Mr. Inglis, Clerk to the New River Company,
proved that the claimant had a whole share in the
New River, which was freehold property, and pro-
duced upwards of 7001. per annum. Upon cross•
examination he said that the Company were incorpo-
rated under charter, that Mr. Astell was a Director
and Member of the Corporation ; that there was a
Governor, Deputy-Governor, twenty-six Directors, and
a Treasurer—in all, twenty-nine—who were severally
sworn, or rather now made a declaration, that the
Treasurer received all rents and profits, and paid all
disbursements ; and the net balance of profits was paid
by him to the Shareholders, who, individually, had no
control whatever either over the landed property of
the Company, their water-rents, or their officers.

Mr. Harris, on behalf of the Reformers, opposed
the claim. Under the statute of 3d James 1., c. 18,
the Lord Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London
had the power " to have and take the use and liberty
of such and so much ground, as should contain ten
foot in breadth, and not above, during and by
all the length, as the new channel, cut, or
river should pass for tha conveying of the
water from the springs of Chadwell and Amwell, and
other springs in the cuunty of Hertford, to the City of
London, leaving the inheritance of the new cut in the
owners thereof." He argued that the freehold of the
land did not pass thereby, and that the use of the water
was a mere easemmt, ar.d could not confer a qualifica-
tion to vote. He then showed, by the charter granted

to Sir Hugh Myddleton and others, that they took
thereby no greater interest than the Lord Mayor and
Corporation of London derived under the statute.
After which he cited fully every clause in such charter
constituting the New River Company a Corporation,
and insisted that; as the New River was vested in them
as a corporate body, the law would not permit a Cor-
poratiun aggregate to vote, and therefore every member
of the corporate body must be struck off the list ; and
that, as to those Shareholders who were not member_of the body, they were in the position of a cestuique
trust, not in possession, and therefore, under the 23d
section of the Reform Act, were not qualified to be on
the list. He cited the judgments given in several suc-
cessive years by Mr. Coventry, and ity Mr. Sbadwell

last year, in Middlesex, and by other Barristers in
Flerts, who had struck out the names of these Share-
holders from the several lists.
Mr. SUGDEN said he would consider the case, and
give his judgment on Tuesday next ; but be would wish
the parties to arrange the claimants into cusses, so
that the decision in one ease might govern the others.
This was done by the evidence of Mr. Inglis, the clerk,
and is as follows :

IRECTORS.—W. Astell, King's share and Adsentur.

er's share ; R. Appleyat d, Adventurer's share; 11. Bow
part King's and Adventurer's share ; Henry Dennis
Berners, Adventurer's share ; R. Benyon De Beauvoir.
three Adventurers' shares ; Charles Edmund Keene,
Adventurer's share ; Jeremiah Olive, Adventurer's
share ; Thomas Alexander Raynsford, Adventurer's
share.

SHAREHOLDERS not DIRECTORS.—W. Rous El

combc, Adventurer's ; Joseph Grout, King's Share ;
Henry George Horton, part King's, and part Adven-
turer's ; Charles Hake, King's share ; John Jackson,
do. ; Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise, Bart., part King's ;
George Knight, do.; Sir Charles Ogle, Bart., King's ;
Thomas Penrose, do. ; Charles Henry Pilgrim, do. ;
James Craubourne Strode, do. ; Isaac Walker, do.
The following being merely Trustees, without any
beneficial interest, were expunged from the list :
Henry Danton, George Philips Foster Gregory, John
Edward Honeywood, Walter John Kernich, George
Kinderly, Claude Edmund Scott, Edward Janion Tol-
ler, Arnold Wallinger.
DEAD.—Robert Holford.
IN BROXBOURNE PARISH.
John Jackson.

IN CHESHUNT PARISH,
Thomas Penrose.

IN lIODDESDON PARISII.

Henry Bilke claimed in respect of an annuity granted
to him by the New River Company for a term of years,
as a shareholder in the late London Bridge Water
Works, who had sold their works to the New River
Company. An Act of 3d. Geo. IV., under which the
arrangement was entered into by the two Companies
wus produced.
Mr. Harris agreed that this annuity was for a term
of years, and payable out of the water rents in London.
Mr. SUGDEN had no doubt whatever that this did not
confer a qualification to vote, and expunged Mr. Bilke's
name.
Thomas Edgar, 71, Cornhill ; 'William Morgan, 3,
Pope's Head, Alley ; and W. Mich°ll's, 79, Lombard-
street, who claimed for " Freehold Land," were all ex-
punged, being merely naked trustees for the parish of
St. Mary Woolnoth, and held the land for the benefit
of the poor of that parish.
This closes the Revision Court in Herts.
We hope to give the judgment of Mr. Sugden on
Wednesday next, in the New River cases ; and with it
the final result of the registration for this county.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—TIIC Paisley "laver-
tiser states that about four o'clock last Saturday morning
one of the engines was coming westward on the joint rail-
way with a train of seven empty soil waggons that had
been to the eastward with ballast and stones. The engine
was last, and was driving the waggons before her at the
time of the accident. At the moment when the engine
was about to clear the west end of the tunnel, the foremost
was driven off the rails by some means unaccounted for,
and all the other six and the tender were thrown off and
crushed together in a heap. There were about 27 men
in the waggons, a considerable number of whom
sittingwer e thrown among the wreck. There were about twelve
or fourteen hurt. Of these four or five were able to come
to town with some assistance, the other nine were laid care-
fully on straw, and were brought to the depot in two of the
waggons. There are only two cases considered very se-
rious, but the extent of the injuries was not known. The
engine itself wasnnotAtt,7Gn.o_ff tyheesrtaeirlsday
morning an
extraordinary
SUNDAY
T
scene of confusion prevailed in the
arish of
St. Giles, in consequence of the parochial authorities
inspector of
en-
forcingparish. a
Astrict
eleven
o'clockdiscontinuance
the
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nuisancesaddivini
sgioinn, ti hii at
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pro-
ceeded, with some
where
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Monmouth-street,
posed outside of Jew's they
shops,
minately into a cart, drawnnpbs
ceeded into other streets, all
green grocery
cart, to the goods, and .
sale, and conveyed them, cleared away all clothes ex-
, and threw them indiscri-
minately a horse ; they then pro-
ore they seized butchers' meat,
other commodities, exposed for
authorities have r
Sabbath, and with the clothes, in the same
Green_yard,l followed by a mob. The parish
uteso resolved to enforce the observance of the
down Sunday trading during the hours
of Divine Service.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR,SUNDAY.—.The(2-44.teen and Prince
Albert and the Duchess of
attended by the
Royal Household, attended Diviae_Service this morn-
ing in the private Chapel of the's-rfistie. - The Rev.
T. Vane officiated.
__

In the afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert, with
the Royal suite, walked on the Terrace of the Castle
through the Slopes, returning to the Castle by the South
Gateway.
The Rev. T. Vane will have the honour of joining
the Royal dinner party this evening.
Yesterday morning Viscount Ebrington, Viscount
and Viscountess Palmerston, Lady F. Cowper, and
Lord John Russell took their departure.
The service of plate recently manufactured, as a tes-
timonial to Sir Thomas Phillips, the late Mayor of
Newport, was submitted to the Queen's inspection yes-
terday, at the Castle, by Mr. B. Smith, and her Ma-
jesty was graciously pleased to express her approbation.
The Hon. Col. Molyneux had the honour of joining
the Royal circle at dinner last evening.

Sir John Scott Lillie and Mr. French had interviews
with the Alarquis of Normanby on Saturday, at the
Home-office. _

The Marquis of Lansdowne left his residence, Lans-
downe House, Berkeley-square, on Saturday morning,
for his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
Lord John Russell arrived in town on Saturday, from
a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Despatches for the Governor of Gibraltar were sent
off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office.
Viscount Palmerston returned to town on Saturday
from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Dr. Phillimore has returned to L)ndon after aasi -
dence of some weeks at the baths of Wiesbaden.

MEHEMET ALI EXTERMINATED
BY THE TIMES' INFERNAL MACHINE.

On the 12th the Chronicle informed us that Syria
was virtually restored to its rightful owner, and the
next day, the 13th, the Times announced that Syria was
in possession of the Sultan, and that the rights de facto
and de jure at that moment coincided. Great advances
had thus between the 12th and the 13th:—

--;; Syria is now in possession of the Sultan, its lawful
Sovereign, as is Acre. Mehemet Ali never had any
right in either but the de facto right of a tortuous and
lawless possession. Since that was wrested from him,
he has no right at all. The rights de facto and de jure
at this moment coincide. They are both in the same
hand. By what an atrocious and monstrous act of in-
justice must they now be separated."
The Times has always been famous for its early in-
telligence, but this beats all its former successes in that
way.

That the thing has been done, that the stolen terri-
tory has been recovered, is quite certain from the au-
thorities quoted ; but how i t has been effected we are
unable to explain to " Modestus."

The Latin proverb says that he who begins has half
finished ; and, carrying this maxim a step further, it
may be, that when the Allies make a beginning they
make an end too. The first blow used to be half a
battle, it is now the whole battle.

_ .
On the 9th ult. operations commenced at &Trout,
and on the 13th instant they were crowned with coin
plete success both in the Chronicle and Times in Lon-
don, not a foot of ground remaining to Ibrahim is
Syria in the columns of the latter Journal.
Ibrahim, in all human probability, was quite unaware
at that date he was no longer in Syria, and that the
Allies had swept him out of the Sultan's territory.
Where ignorance is I:liss, 't:s folly to be wise, and Ibra-
him is fool enough to fancy himself in Sylie. The
dolt! he would know better if he read the Chronicle
and Times ; the one would teach him that he was vir-
tually vanquished ; the other, that he was actually ex-
terminated.
Oh ! that the allied forces could beat him half so ra-
pidly as the allied journals.
But now a secret is out. For months past the Times
has been writing about a certain invention slighted by
Lord Melbourne, which is of such mighty potency that
it can destroy fleets and armies at the distance of miles.
As no nation, no power could resist it, the Times has
upbraided the Ministry for not buying the secret
of this invention for the preservation of the
balance of Europe. It is now clear that the
Times has turned this instrument against Mebe-
met All's forces in Syria with annihilating effect,
and the great secret is now revealed. The simplicity
of it is as beautiful as the power is irresistible. It is a
:.%.ertain combination of the letters of long primer, the
technical term for the letter in which leading articles are
set. At the distance from Printing House Square to
Syria the limes brought down Ibrahim and his whole
army ! At one shot, a long shot certainly, the Times
annihilated the Pacha, and restored Syria to the Sultan.
And this wonderful exploit was accomplished by the
simple means of one compositor's fingers. Lord Mel-
bourne may now feel that the secret of this invention
was worth 100,0001. A galley of the Times so worked
will do in a minute more than the United fleets of the
Allied Powers can do in a month. For an Infernal
Machine there is nothing like the types of the Times
newspaper.—Examiner.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES IN MAN-

CHESTER.

About half-past six o'clock on Thursday evening, an
alarming fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Hobson,
in Peter-street, Manchester, which in the short space
of half an hour were burned to the ground.
The contiguous buildings of Messrs. Mu fin, Lee, and
Glover all sustained more or less damage. Two horses
and a pony in Mr. Hobson's stables could not be got
to move a single step, and were, of course, burnt to
death. Three other horses were saved.

As to the occasion of this lamentable catastrophe, it
is at present utterly unknown, and will probably remain
so. Although, from the inflammable nature of the ma-
terials, it was at first generally supposed to have origi-
nated in the oil-cloth manufactory, we understand there
are reasons to b,2li2ve that it commenced in the place
used for dressing and purifying feathers.

Mr. Hobson, we arc told, was insured in the County
Fire Office to an amount which it is thought will cover
his loss, viz.-3,000/. on the building, 5001. the stock,
and 300/. the furniture of the house. Mr. Hobson was
at Leeds at the time of the occurrence. Mr. Lee, it is
stated, was not insured, and it is supposed his loss in
feathers, and the furniture of the place, will be from
100/. to 1501. The executors of Mr. George Glover,
were insured in the County Office to the amount of
1,000/. which is supposed to cover the loss there.
We arc glad to havo it in our power to add that no
accident to We or limb, as far as we have heard, took
place on this serious occasion. The police were on the
spot, and acted very effectually in keeping order. A de-
tachment of the 10th Foot also arrived soon after the
fire broke out, but their services were not required.

MANCHESTER,_ SATURDAY EVENING, 10. O'CLOCK.

—This evening, about five o'clock, one of the most
alarming fires took place here that has occurred for
many years past. It commenced in the cotton and
twist warehouse of Mr. John Shawcross, Half-moon-
street, and which raged with undiminished fury for
about three hours, tin eatening destruction to an im-
mense property in the vicinity, arising from the
very confined situation in which Mr. Shawcross's
premises were situate. The alarm was excessive when
it became generally known where the fire had com-
menced, arising from the general conviction that it
would be impossible to stop its progress by any ex-
ertions that the most efficient fire-engine establish-
ment could afford, and of such an establishment we can
boast. Besides Mr. Shawcross's warehouse and shop,
those of Mr. Matchctt, cotton-merchant, and Messrs.
Hilton, paper-makers, were completely destroyed, with
their respective stocks. The supposed loss is estimated
at 30,0001., but whether the parties are fully insured,
or insured at all, is matter of doubt, time not allowing
to make the inquiries in the proper quarter. Tho
narrow street in which the property was placed, as
well as the narrowness of the avenues leading to it,
rendered it impossible for the fire-engine force to be of
the least service. The contiguity of the principal ha-
berdashers' shops in St. Ann's-square, was cause of
great alarm to the respective owners and tenants, and
considerable damage has been done to the stocks of
many parties in the attempt to save them, the parties
fancying that the flames could not be arrested within
any moderate limits. At nine o'clock all further danger
\vas over.

INSULT TO THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN
CONSULS AT MARSEILLES...m.IIC Sud has the following :
An act worthy of the South Sea savages was committed
on Sunday night. A rabble of men, strangers to the town,
went to insult the Russian and English Consuls in their
houses. This violation of the rights of nations has been re-
probated by all honourable citizens. It is incredible that such
scenes which arc condemned when enacted against us can
be re-produced in France, where the well-known miniayseim
the
force est unc chose sacree—is admitted to have
whichia
force of law. This conduct shows the mannerhisoceasion, in
some men comprehend patriotism. 0
addition to the law of principle,
persons. These two Consuls enjoy
peo-
ple of Marseilles, and are regarded more
men than foreigners. The English
amongst us for twenty-six years, and havet the question of
ore as fellow- countey.
Consul has resided
his family are natives
. m..p., Privates Se-
wethe esteem of the
of our city."
Melbourne, arrived in town on atur-
cretary of Viscount
other
Private Secretary, the Hon.
day. His Lordship's
the absence of Mr. Howard,
Fortesene, who, during
The Hon. Charles Howard,
Hugh . his attendance at Downing-street, ia
in a day or two.
expected to leave town
of
The following curious calculation the average
hadBs:9rse ,t Napoleonui
nr nA:lw6cBldo"l3isa2aBnan:9tdel6sla:P'4ogai7oanr :ii
value of the French .
Five per Cent. Rentes, during some
modern '
omenteus periods of history, will probablw
has been constant in
of,n theestrn. In the year 1799 the average was 10:75, in 1 goo
n572d32:
in the
ditnbilrad3 wheno
91r1i,s,XinViIsI3Ii
:3-3t5r6, in 1804 55:50, in 1806 64:92, in 1807 74:55, in
retlhaled9ers know, they
1812 80:30, in 1813 70:20,in 1814 51:25, in 1815, when
nssalsot. M ephue%egt Athlei, the extremepresent
no
riptri:: prices
have been still lower.
quarter of 1840,
afterwereour