The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-09 00:00:00

PERSONATION OF VOTERS.

Alderman FIX;;PIIEP.Y said that the motion he was
'.o make had reference to a matter of considerable
in,,port,nce. It had been reported, and he believed not
switt out good cause, that at the late election for tile Mayor-
salty persons voted in the names of individuals who were
-not in existence at ail. His object in rising was to sug-
gvst r'Je means of preventin,;r the recurrence of a practice
of so reprehensible a nature.—( Hear, bear.) All Livery-
men villo resided within seven miles of London were ern-
pow ~red to vote for a Member of Parliament, but those
e.rno resided beyond that limit were deprived of :hat privi-
lig 1, while every Liveryman, wherever his reridence
Vt he, had the power of voting fur a Lord I,iyor.
IC ow the latitude given in the latter case was such as was
C dpiAVJIC of being taken advantage of to a very serious ex-
-1 sot, fer a person living in the country could easily
ailopt the name of a Liveryman lately decv.ased, and
mote ,ith vary little hazard of detection. He, therefore,
l'iiong.ht that' it the Court made application to the Livery
Coiiii,)ities to aid in preventing so nefarious a practice,
the, ,• could loe-no doubt of their being able to check it in
o iie,,cy c.,,reattifi-e7reo--
.11ti,,o'filik BROWN thonght when notice was given o' the
Aldinnuan 1-iumpher. that it would be lotto
• spotty from the maty &Li)." lie feared that
pot con::.
TnolitA3 'Arocn was of opinion that the fn-
formation and :ts,dstanee sought by Alderman Humphery
obt, and, it necessary, compellable.
',,VnotyraortrE—C,!rai.aly, by preeept.
flumeHEßt then moved—That precepts he
• ei to the Neste r and Wardens of the several Livery
,nipa,,,•s of tens. City, requiring them to return to this
court, on or before the Ist day of January, 1841, a cur-
re,:t list ot,the whole of the Livery, with their residences."
Meru it Lucks said he knew that if any member of
the Court of Assistants of any Comoany died it was soon
fur the place was soon filled up ; but he believed
'tint in very few Companies indeed accurate accounts of
-the deriths (-4 the Liver:, men were kept.
REconcEtt thought that by a precept the object of
t4amphery could be accomplished The Court
J^ A •:ne Livery Companies had an interest in counteract-
ing trawls of the sort described.
Parsec Lanais said he was quite sure that all the
C ',Panic>, would most willingly assist in preventing :uch

Try: motion was then agreed to.
The; 'Jour:. proe,:.eacci to disf.!tiss some matters connected
witit 111 c police with closed doors, af%cr which it adjourned.

ritOOPS OZ: FOREIGN STATIONS.

TOt THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sir.,—By giving I.i.e subjoined a place in your next
p4.;:ie i(io, you wit; oblige
70ce. 2, 'lB4O.

AN OLD SOLDIER.

The 2.11 Regiment, now under orders for Bombay,
'rcturtwd frorp, the East in 1819 after twenty
sertiee ;from Jamaica, in 1837, after a service of
el. yen ytars ; and have to go back to the East for
anurfter ,o,jourri, of twenty or more years.
Way tVere riot one, or icor.., or all, if necesiary
th:4. a. necessity of sending out troops to India
rclid ex;st for many months, 1 fancy the authorities can-
:not deny) of the, corps which I shall enumerate for
you, selected, and anon, corps lately returned from bad
stations to take a turn of good ones ?
The 4=2d, Colonel Sir G. Murray ! last station,
Corfu, returned, August, 1836, again 'going to the Me-
lliterranean ! Head-quarters still at Cork, and avail-
Able for any duty.. 88th—Ireland's font corps, Colonel
Sir J. A. Wallace, returned from Mediterranean in
S,:ptcarther, 1836, returning to same place, 1840!
Head-quarters still at Cork, equally available for any
w.ner station, although the Ist division of both these
aorps. fare sailed, still they are not past recal. 97th—
las7. station Ceylon (a good one), returned, September,
Co'otiel Sir H. Hardinge, under orders for the
List lot;e-triontbs toe the Mediterranean, now in Lime-
rick, and -Perfectly available for Bombay, instead of the
22d. Rift s, Ist battalion—returned from America,
Sept ember, 1836, Colonel-Commandant Sir A. Howard,
and. just sailed for the Mediterranean, in a ship of the
within reach of having their destination changed by
,teaurtu.ki 79th Highlanders, from Canada, October,
1636, Gttlonel Sir R. C. Ferguson, at this moment
reauy.tos sail for the Mediterranean, and stationed at
their very door ? Why should not they change places
with the 22d Regiment? I have here enumerated
five corps, who could not consider it a hardship to go to
a bad station, and who might have expected their pre-
sent tour would have been such. Lest it might be
Ar.ia that the destination of these corps, being under
orierS, cannot now be altered, I will enumerate for you
a few mere,
the who could not consider it a hardship to re-
place e 22d, although the latter returned to Europe
a few months earlier,' and is now, unfOrtunately, first on
the roll fhr foreign service. 98th, from the Cape, June,
1837, Col. Sir W. Cotton ; Rifles 2d battalion, lonian
line, 1837, Col. Sir J.' S. Barnes ; 99th, from
Mauritius, counted a good station, Oct., 1837, Col.
Sir T. Arbuthnot ; and 10th, from lonian Isles, Dec.,
lez37, Col. Sir J. Lambert.
There is here
a report that t
are
ee
toform 86th, last
part of the from the
West Indies in April, 1837,
force destined for India, and the 20th, also last from
Bombay, May, 1837. Why the very bungaloesof the
latter will have scarcely cooled before they re-inhabit

tlicm.
Now, nut of 12 regiments, why should the only
three, .which came last from a bad station, be selected
for othirs equally bad ? Probably, you may divine
the cause. I throw these rough memoranda together,
teleetett .from the new Army List, to endeavour, and
induce you to use your caustic pen in the aid of justice.
IAY w npoor fellow, like myself, might imagine that fa-
vi
ouritisnt.overrulei right. I suppose it is not so ?
:when
o dattis of the British Army will ever hold back
takeountryshare calls, but
out loPtii ionalevery corps will look
Horse !ME-ad or of still
justice. Which is it, the
the Quartermaster-General's office,
that or `e tte
...4 sq things?
S d 1

,U1,,---,0; ---Lasteven—ing, about six o'clock, a
respeotAlgAreised female eoni-Mitted suicide by jumping'
from one of the recesses of Waterloo-bridge, on the Sur-
to,/ and immediately ; 1
tsappeared. The unfortunate
4(;r an was seen to leave her bonnet and cloak on the ba-
lustrade of the bridge, by a gentleman who was passing at
the time, previous to committing the rash act.