The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

MINORITY-NOES, 39.

Ansley, T. C. Edwards, Henry Newdegate, C. N.
Archdall, Captain Godson,lß. Pakington, Sir J. S.
Baring, Thomas Goring, C. Palmer, Robert
Barrington, Viscount Grogan, E. RoHeston, Colonel
Benbow, John Gwyn, Howel Sibthorp, Colonel
Berescord, William Hall, Colonel Smyth, J. G.
Bourke, Richard S. Heneage, G. 11. Spooner, Richard
Bruce, C. L. Henley, J. W. Stuart, Henry
Buck, L. W. Ilildyard, R. C. Taylor, Thomas E.
Buller, Sir J. Y. Hildyard, T. B. T. Urquhart, David
Burrell, Sir C. ilobliouse, T. B. Vivian, J. E.
Christy, Samuel Hood, Sir A. TELLERS.
Dodd, G. Ingestre, Viset. Rankcs, G.
Duueombe, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. Hudson, G.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
The following letter from Earl Stanhope has beam
received by the Secretary of the West London Anti-
Enclosure Association:—
" Cheveneny, near Seven Oaks, Kent, Juno 12.
"Sir,—ln reply to your letter, mustl refer you to the
' Resolutions on the General Principles of Representa-
tion,' which I prepared several years ago, and recently
published in some of the newspapers. They would es-
tablish triennial Parliaments, the
think
of voting by
ballot when any electors should t to exercise
and an allowance to Members of fit to exorcise ix,
and an allowance to Members of Parliam
hfor their
expenses, if any of them chose to receive it. T
abolish all property qualifications, both for Membersey would
of
Parliament and for electors; and would attain a most im-
portant object, in preventing elections from being expen-
sive to the candidates or profitable to the voters They
would also give a vote to every citizen of the state, and
would secure a full and fair representation of all classes
of the community. These resolutions were the result of
long and deliberate reflection, but they have received
very little support, and, therefore, at present, I have no
intention or inducement to propose them in the House of
Lords, where I had some years ago an opportunity of
stating my opinions upon the subject.
" The msde of representation which I recommend is, I
that every citizen of the state should irate in the class
or classes to which he belongs, each class having its own
representatives, and this principle seems to me perfectly
safe as well as salutary. I disapprove very much of
universal suffrage in the common acceptance of the
term, astthe votes would be given collectively, and the
numerical majority would thus acquire a prepon-
derating power which no class of the community
could justly claim or could properly exercise. Every
class bas a right to be fully represented, but no
class, not even the labouring class, though it is of all
others the most valuable and useful, has any right to be
exclusively represented. Although every citizen of the
state has a right to a vote, he has no right to give it in
such a manner as to render of no weight the votes or
others. For the same reason I disapprove of household
suffrage, which is liable, though in a lesser degree, to
the same objection, and would, besides, be very partial.
The present representation appears to me very objection-
able in many respects, and, among others, in excluding

the labouring classes, and in giving too great a share oc
power to the la voters. Its operation has shown
defects, and I am thoroughly couvinz..cd that a Hons.? o.
Commons in which all classes of the community war
fully represented would not have arloptc(l such an in
human meTzsuro as the new pnor-law, or a system o•
free trade which is unjust and injurious to the labouring
classes.—l am, Sir, yours, &co
To 11. D. Griffiths."

"STANHOPE.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business.
The Lord Mayor placed the following letter before the
Court:—

" Whitehall, June 5, 1848.

"My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 24th ult., trans-
mitting to me, at the request of the Common Council of
the city of London, the declarations of loyalty subscribed
by the citizens with reference to the proceedings on Men•
day, the 10th of April last.
" I have received with much gratification this addi-
tional proof of the loyalty of the citizens of London, and
of their firm attachment to the throne and constitution
of this country.
" fler Majesty's Government relies with the greatest
confidence on their zealous and efficacious co-operation
in maintaining the public tranquillity and upholding the
supremacy of the law, in which all classes of her Jla•
jesty's subjects have so deep an interest.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's
very obedient servant,

" G. GREY."
The letter was ordered to be entered upon the minutes
of the Court.

EXEMPTION FROM ARREST.

Mr. ANDERTON said he had cut out of a newspaper
a paragraph which he considered it was necessary to
read to the Court, as the subject was ono which con-
cornA the Corporation in no ordinary
-degree. The pa-
ragraph stated that application was made at judges'
chambers to Mr. Justice Coleridge, to discharge an
officer of the City of London Small Debts Court, whose
case, upon an application to the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, appeared on the 6th inst., and who was refused
the protection of the Court and taken in execution on a
writ of fi. fa.; that the arrest was made in the court
where the cases were tried; and the defendant, at the
time he was arrested, contended that, under the 98th
and 99th sections of the City Small Debts Act, he was
not only exempted from arrest, but that the mere laying
hands on him to effect that arrest was an assault, he
being at the time in the execution of his duty; that the
officer, however, demurred to that interpretation of the
clauses, and conveyed the defendant to Wbitecross-street;
and that Mr. Justice Coleridge made an order directing
the defendant to be discharged out of the custody
of the Sheriff. Now, he was not aware that officers
appointed by the Corporation were free from arrest.—
(Hear, hear.) He could not see how, when honest
creditors felt such difficulty in getting their money, or
any part of it, the officers of the Corporation were to be
considered entitled to exemption, and he moved that the
subject be referred to the Officers and Clerks Committee
for inquiry.
Mr. R. TAYLOR said, the Corporation owed it to
Lord Shaftesbury that the protection was introduced
into the Bill. _ _ _

The subject was then referred to the Committee.
It is proper to state, that Lord Shaftesbury- required
that the City Small Debts Bill should be similar in every
respect to the County Courts Bill, and thus a protection
is given to some of its officers, without which it is con-
tended the business of tho court could not be carried on,
any more than could that of Parliament without a similar
exemption.
Mr. SNELLIN-G (the chairman of the City Lands Com-
mittee) brought up a report recommending the grant of
a piece of ground belonging to the Corporation to the
parish of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in lieu of a
piece of ground to.be laid into the public street, near
Puddle Dock, for the purpose of widening the same.
Agreed to.

THE SUN, LOW DON,

DDAY EVENING, JUNE l6, 1848.

or on one Shelley—" SheHet', knew little of the art
of compoiition ; his poetry lacks repoe .
the general reader becomes wearied with a singl
nage, &c. ;" or on one Alfred Tennyson—" If Mr.
Tennyson aims at readers who have vacated the
nursery, he should remember that they will probably
require something more than that he should lisp in
numbers, &c.'" How terse, how racy, how senten-
tious, is Mr. Anno Domini Toovey ! y Yet, notwith-
standing the book before us, we cannot but doubt
that the cloak of a Gifford, a Johnson, or a Dacier,
has descended upon such shoulders as his.

LAYS OF THE DEER FOREST. 2 Vols. By
John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart.
To every one who is acquainted with the publica-
tion of this work merely through advertisement, we
can imagine that the signature of its Tithors must he
somewhat enigmatical. Many will regard the
names on the title-pages as mere pseudonyms, as-
sumed for the nonce, as Mr. Dickens assumed the
mask of Boz, Dr. Walcot that of Peter Pindar, Sydney
Smith that of Peter Plymly, and Mr. Lever that of
Harry Lorriquer. Briefly, however, the supposition
would prove to be erroneous; for the names are writ.
ten down in sober earnest, like the names of the merest
John Smith in Whitechapel. The fact is, the authors—
JohnLaysb o
o okf, theb tu Deerfor
the Forest,"
Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart—are two
brothers inhabiting a little river-island given to them
by the good Lord Lovat, and who have penned these
flowingf
writing "
unaffected not
or
love th
of song
and for their simple narrative. The assumed rela-
tionship with the Jolair Dheirg—the son of Prince
Charles Edward and his wife, the Countess D'Al-
bani?—may be better understood by consulting their
e song
sakeo
previous work, called " Tales of the Century."
ALISOIV

jc v'SomiiriosSitTioonßhYas
° cEu
mr7 uRI aOt ePd uponE.
of thi-sitol:le
Gradually, from month to month, the new edition
our bookshelves, until we have now before us
eighteen elegant and handsome volumes, together
with fourteen parts of the new illustrative " Atlas."
We have watched the progress of the republication
with some interest, and with no little attention, from
the time of its commencement ; and we have great
satisfaction in averring, that, with a very few unim•
portant tnisprints, we have not detected any diminu-
tion whatever of the care with which the new edition
has been revised. The work is laid before the public
in as cheap a form as could, by any reasonable man,
be desired ; and, certainly, in as admirable a shape as
could be wished even by the most fastidious. Of the
"Illustrative Atlas" we shall only remark, that as it
contributes an absolutely essential accompaniment
to the narrative of European history, from the com-
mencement of the French Revolution in 1789 down
to the treaty of peace in 1815, so it is literally in-
valuable to every one who remembers the master-
p;ece of Alison among the classic gems of his library.
The edition is altogether one of the most remarkable
productions of the British press during the present
century.

FINE ARTS.
THE ART-JOURNAL. No. CXX.

Notwithstanding the slight modification in the
name of this enterprising periodical, it would be im-
possible not to recov,nise it at once as our old fa•
vourite, the Art- Union Journal—and not so much
from the light-brown cover with the disc, the candle-
sticks and the goddesses, as from the beauty and
profusion of the embellishments. " The Golden
Age" is an exquisite engraving by Hunter, from the
painting by Magnus, copied from the original en-
graving by Mandel. The " Prince Alfred as
Autumn," again, is a continuation of the charming
series of statuettes by Mary Thornycroft. And
" The Nymph of the Waterfall," taken by F. Bacon
from the painting of Daniel Maclise, in the posses-
sion of Charles Dickens, is a brilliant and elaborate
production. Of the curiosities contained in this
number the specimen of the compound plate-print-
ing is decidedly the most remarkable—it sets the
forger entirely at defiance. It is quite impossible to
praise too highly the original designs given in pages
187, 188, and 189, for our manufactures. There is
a poetical gracefulness about some of them (such as
the marmalade pot with its circle of oranges, and
sprigs of orange leaves and blossoms or the salad bowl,
consisting of an opening lettuce, or the butter-dish,
composed of a king-cup) that is really admirable.
These are the designs which have made the name of
Felix Summerley pleasant in the popular ear, and
which has lately pr.ovoked the pencil of Doyle to the
embellishment of Punch with his droll suggestion for
a milk jug. The exhibition of the Royal Academy
for 1848 is criticised with considerable care and
ability ; and the country abodes of Teniers and Rubens
are represented by excellent wood engravings.