The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

MEMBERS RETURNED.

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Peelites ... ... ... ... ... 113
Protectionists ... ... 191

MR. ROEBUCK AND THE ELECTORS OF BATH.-
Mr. Roebuck has published the following address to
those of the electors who supported him in the recent
contest for the representation of this city:—" London,
August 5, 1847. Gentlemen,—My warmest thanks are
due to those of you who, in the late contest for the re-
presentation of Bath, marked by your votes your con-
tinued confidence in my faith and honour. I beg of you
to accept my thanks—my gratitude is not the less
because I was unsuccessful. The result has naturally
given me great pain—on public as well as on private
grounds. Levity in constituencies will inevitably tend
to lower the morality of those who represent them. If
public favour cannot be retained by honourable con-
duct, it will be used as a means for the promotion
of private interests. And this baseness on the part
of the representation will be excused, if not justified,
by appealing to the unworthy, because oscillating,
conduct of the constituent bodies of the country.
If wretched feelings of personal spite, and hollow
professions of pretended scruples, are to be rife
among these last, venality and self-seeking will
quickly be manifest amongst those who may win, and
wish to retain their favour. Old connexions, friendships,
of many years, are not severed without regret. My
whole political life has been passed in connexion with the
constituency of Bath, and I do not pretend to that
stoical philosophy which would enable me to say fare-
well without many painful emotions. This, however, is
the last time that I shall address you. What my future
career may be time only can determine, but it will be
impossible for me again to form the same intimate rela-
tions with any other constituent body as those which
bound me to you. The majority of you have determined
that these should not continue. If, then, lam again to
take part in politics, I must apply to others, and ask
them to award me that confidence which you have as a
body withdrawn. Whether I shall be tempted to make
the experiment—whether, if made, it is to prove sue=
cessful, the future will disclose. In the mean time per-
mit me to express to you, ray faithful friends, my most
sincere and heartfelt gratitude. That you may all, whe-
ther friends or opponents, find worthy representatives in
those who may hereafter act in your behalf, is really the
desire of, gentlemen, your obedient servant, J. A. ROE.
BUCK."—Bath Chronicle.

SINGULAR CONFESSION.—ATTEMPT TO OYERTURN
A RAILWAY Taatx.—An extraordinary case came on
for hearing on Thursday, before the magistrates at Bir-
mbeingham, namely, the confession of a man that he bad
Mllll !3o.rtieipator in an attempt to upset a train on the
aria, Railway two years ago. On Monday evening
a mon named John Gardiner, who was drinking in a
ptsielic-house with some of his companions, expressed a
'Nish to speak with one of them, as he had something
on his mind. On going to the door Gardiner confessed
that on the night of the 4th of August, 1845, he had,
along with another man, deliberately attempted to over-
turn a passenger-train on the Midland Railway. He
expressed a wish to be taken into custody, and a con-
stable was sent for. The substance of his confession
was, that on the night in question he and a man (since
dead) went to a spot on the line, not far from Birming-
ham, and put bricks on the rail, at four or five inches
apart, and a few feat further on they placed a hurdle.
They hid themselves by the railway till the mail train
came up, which they expected would be thrown off the
rails and upset. It was not upset, however, and they
ran off. They had no motive except the gratification
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A CHILD BURNED ALIVE BY ITS PARENT.—A
military pensioner, named Darmody, rider to a posting
establishment at Bird Hall, near Nenagh, returned home
one night this week in a state of beastly drunkenness,
when he went into the bedroom where his two children
slept, and taking one of them, a little girl, out of bed,
put her on the fire, and there kept her until she was
burra.td to death. The other child rushed screaming oat
of the house to the police barrack, and gave information
of the dreadful act her father had pc rpetratLd.
stupidly gazing
the -police entering the house, they saw the wretch
and
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brlitelflfs been eommitted to Newish gaol.