The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-15 00:00:00

" What is to be remarked in the foregoing state-
ments is the disproportion between the number of elec-
tors in Scotland, England, and Wales.

" Scotland has one elector for every thirty-one of the
total population; and England and Wales one for every
eighteen to nineteen of them.
" The whole political influence of Scotland is neutral.
ised by thirty-one English boroughs returning the same
number (fifty-three) of Members to Parliament, thus—

Electors. Male aduls. diem.
Scotland 85.244 630,328 53
Thirty-one Eng. boroughs
" We find in the same manner, the legislative votes of
Ireland neutralised in the House of Commons by 66
English boroughs, returning the same number of Mem-
bers as Ireland.

Electors. Male adults. Mem.
Ireland ••• ••• ..• 117,448 1,890,743 105
Sixty-six English boroughs 26,443 122,500 105
"But a very extraordinary and alarming part of the
electoral system of Great Britain is, that the thirty-one
boroughs that are able to neutralise the whole political
weight of Scotland in the legislature, are almost
powerful enough in votes to give check-mate to all the
most populous and influential cities in England and
Scotland together ; including London and the metro-
politan boroughs. The abstract is this :
Electors. Male adults. Mem.
Twenty-seven large ci-)
ties and boroughs 203,945 916,923 53
Thirty-cne small bo-}
s 9,862 41,560 53
" It thus appears that a Minister who possesses the
means, through money or place, of controlling the thirty-
one boroughs with their fitty- three representatives, can,
on questions affecting Scotland, neutralise the Scottish
votes, and, turned in another direction, can defeat the
representation of the most important cities of the empire.
On looking into the representation of counties we
shall discover similar results of equal numbers of votes
representing very unequal constituencies. There are
eighteen counties, partly in England and partly in Scot-
land, with 21,027 electors, that have twenty members or
legislative votes, against ten English counties with
140,457 electors returning only twenty members.
"JAMES J. MACINTYRE."

THE BOOKBINDERS' PENSION SOClETY.—Testerday
evening a meeting of the Board of Directors was held at
the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane, for the transaction of general business.
The report congratulated the members on the favour-
able state of the society, as, notwithstanding the depres-
sion of the past year, the funds had increased. Thereare now ten males and eight females on the funds; the
males receive from 7s. to Bs., and the females from ss. 6(1.
to 6s. per week. The total amount of the invested ca-
pital
is 1 117/. 33 10d. The report concluded by call-
ing upon the members of the trade to assist in aiding the
institution. _ _

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MURDER. AT SHIELDS.—On Monday last, at the
Shields races a quarrel took place between two men in
one of the tents frequented by loose women, with some
of whom the belligerents had been drinking, and a fight
ensued, when one of the men, named Moody, stabbed
the other with a knife. The wound proved fatal in a
few minutes. The quarrel originated in the attentions
paid by the deceased to one of the women, which excited
the jealousy of Moody, who was soon afterwards appre-
hended.

SALE or THEATRICAL PORTRAITS, AND RELICS
or GRlMALDl.—Yesterday a collection of theatrical
portraits, originally forming part of the gallery of the
late Thomas Harris, Esq., for many years lessee of
Covent Garden Theatre, and a quantity of theatrical
property of the late inimitable pantomimist, Joe Gri-
maldi, was sold by auction at Mr. Robins's rooms,
Covent-garden. The novelty of the sale attracted many
persons. The portrait of IL B. Sheridan went for
21. 2s. ; C. Young, by Harlowe, 2/. ; two full-lengths,
and one three-quarter, of Fawcett, in the respective
characters of Frippon, Dr. Pangloss, and Jerry Sneak,
sold for 11. 10s. and a guinea each ; a portrait of Liston,
by Clint, 2/. ; of Suett, by Northeote, 1/. Bs. ; a whole
length of Barry, as Macbeth, by Hogarth, IL Is. ; and
of J. P. Kemble, as Penruddock, ; a whole length
of C. Mathews, sen., as Obadiah, by D. Wilde, 21. 4s. ;
the full length portrait of the celebrated Miss Foote,
now the Countess of Harrington, as Maria Darlington,
by Clint, A.R.A., an exquisite painting, sold for
5/. 7s. 6d. The portraits of Grimaldi produced from
Is. 6d. to 11s., his coat of arms, Is. 6d. ; a water-
coloured drawing by Bologna, the celebrated harlequin
of " Joey's " cottage at Finchley, 20s. The manuscript
volume a, written by himself, of all the pantomimes in
which Grimaldi performed, sold for 30s. ; his songs, in
his own writing, "Hot Codlings," " Tipity witchet," &c.,
sold for ss. 6d., and the identical silver watch, by
Abrahams, representing on its face the celebrated clown
mounted on a donkey, familiarly termed by him " Me
and my Neddy," and of which he was plundered by
footpads on his way to Finchley, and which was re-
turned by them on finding they had ret.rbad their fa-
vourite, sold for Si. ss.
AN OTTER CAUGHT IN THE EDEN.—An otter
hunt was advertised to take place at Armathwaite on
Monday last. A fine male otter had been captured a
little above the bay in the river Eden, but it died on
Sunday evening, so that it thereby est aped a more vio-
lent fate, at Blackmoss Pool, where he was to have made
sport on the following day. Great numbers of persons
from Carlisle and other places, with a medley pack of
allsizes of otter hounds, asst mhled at Armathwaite on the
appointed morning, and despite the pelting rain, deter-
mined to seek for another otter. Accordingly the Eden
from Armathwaite to Hazonby was duly scoured; and,
although the search proved fruitless so far as otters were
concerned, the magnificent scenery, even in unfavourable
weather, compensated such of the pedestrians as could
appreciate it. It is perhaps not saying too much to
assert that no river in Europe can equal the Eden for
the sublimity of its scenery, especially in the above loca-
lity, when either the Armathwaite, Nunnery Walks,
Coom's Peak, Cat Clint, or ;Sampson's Chamber, would
separately repay a day's ramble.—Durham Advertiser.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
CONSISTORY COURT, June 14.
(Before 1)r. LUSIIINGTON.)
BIALBABLOTZKY V. BIALBABLOTZKY.
This was a suit of divorce, promoted by the wife
against the husband, on the ground of cruelty. There
was no defence offered by the husband.
The Learned JUDGE said the case was evidently esta-
blished as one of legal cruelty, the husband having on
two occusions inflicted upon his wife severe punishment;
on one occasion with a horsewhip, on another with a
cane. He had read all the evidence, and he was sure, by
the manner in which it was given, that it established the
fact. There was no inducement on the part of the wit-
nesses to deceive the Court. The whole course of cruel
treatment to the wife was there confirmed. The Learned
Judge pronounced for the divorce.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
John M'Gee, aged 32, sailor, was indicted for felo-
niously' being at large without lawful excuse before the
expiration of a sentence of transportation passed upon
him at a general court-martial, held at Woolwich, on the
11th of May, 1840.

Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Clark prosecuted for the Trea-
sury. The Learned Counsel, on opening the case for
the prosecution, said that it might be as well for him to
explain how the law stood with regard to the peculiar
circumstances under which the prisoner was indicted.
He had been tried by a court-martial, and sentenced to
fourteen years' transportation, under the Mutiny Act;
and the law required that when a prisoner was so con-
victed the particulars of the trial and the record of the
conviction should be laid before one of the judges; and
upon his certificate the sentence was carried into effect,
and the production of the certificate at any subsequent
period was deemed evidence of its contents. He then
proceeded to state the circumstances of the case as they
were detailed by the following witnesses:—
Mr. John Hayward, the clerk to the solicitor to the
Treasury, produced a certificate signed by Mr. Justice
Coleridge, confirming the conviction of the prisoner by
the court-martial.

William Carr deposed, that in 1840 he was a drummer
in the 29th Regiment of Foot, and the prisoner at that
time had been a private in the same regiment for seven
years. On the 11th of May, while the regiment was
stationed at Woolwich, the prisoner was tried for deser-
tion and general bad conduct, and sentenced to be trans-
ported for fourteen years. The sentence was read upon
parade, and the prisoner was marched out of the bar-
racks under an escort. He (lid nut see the prisoner
again until a fortnight ago, when he was in custody.
Devereux, a police officer at Portsmouth, said that
in February last the prisoner came to the police station and
gave himself up as a returned transport, stating at the
same time that he had been a soldier, and was sentenced
to transportation for desertion, and had made his escape
from New South Wales. The prisoner added that he
had worked his way to England in the hope of seeing
his wife, but that he found her and all the rest of the
family were dead, and this being the case he wanted to
get back again to New South Wales. The prisoner was
taken before a magistrate at Portsmouth, where he made
the same statement, and it was taken down in writing,
and the prisoner signed it.
The prisoner, in his defence, stated with great vehe-
mence that the story he had told the officer was false,
and ho asserted that he had never been a soldier, but
that, in point of fact, he was a seaman, and he said he
could prove that during the period in question he had
served on board several vessels in the whaling trade.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
The COMMON SERGEANT, in passing sentence, said
that, as the law formerly stood, it was compulsory upon
a judge to pass a sentence of transportation for life upon
persons convicted of this
hoaffdenhceet;taerndpaalstshotuhgeht
sentence;by asuh-
sub-
sequent statute a power appeared to be given to reduce
that punishment, yet, as he knew nothing of the circum-
stances, he thought he
but, as he considered there were some mitigating cir-
cumstances, he thought they should be laid before the
Government, who would ultimately dispose of the case as
they thought Lit. The prisoner was then sentenced to
one month's imprisonment, and to be afterwards trans-
ported for life.
Mr. Bonxist said he would take care that the obser-
vations of his Lordship, and all the circumstances of the
case, should be laid before the Secretary of State, and
there was no doubt that due effect would be given to any
mitigating circumstances in the conduct of the prisoner.
The prisoners Elliott and Phillips, who were yester-
day convicted of a street robbery, were brought up for
judement, and sentenced to be imprisoned fur twelve
months.
ROBBERY AT TOE HOUSE OF iTHE RUSSIAN AM-
BAssADoß.—Jarnes (Wive, aged 21, a servant, was in-
dicted for stealing a purse, containing five sovereigns,
the property of Christian de Koudriaffsky, a gentleman
attached to the Russian Embassy, in the dwelling-house
of Baron Brunow. He was also charged, on a second in-
dictment, with stealing a pencil-case, value 21., the pro-
perty of the same gentleman.