The Sun.
London, England, 1833-04-19 00:00:00

Manchester to Birmingham, last night passed
the House of Commons. Both that, therefore,
and the Bill for the railway from Birmingham to
London, now rest with the House of Lords.
We trust that that House will not, by again re-
jecting a measure fraught with such immense
advantages, and offering both immediate and pro-
spective employment to large numbers of the
People, place itself before the country as the
stumbling-block in the way of all improvement.

We have before us a return moved for by
Mr. fIUME, of the amount paid by the Trea-
surer of each county, out of the public money,
for expenses incurred by the Clerks of the Peace
and Returning-officers, in preparing, &c. the
list of electors, and the sum charged by
each officer for a copy of the list, but it
is so defective and so confused, that we
are unable to lay before our readers the
abstract of it as we wished to do. The only point
clear from it is, that some general regulation
must be made with respect to the charge to
be made for the list of electors. In some coun-
ties it has been as low as five shillings; in
others it is much more ; and in one (Hants),
we see that the charge was 3/. for each copy of
the list, an enormous sum, which few who have
not some strong personal motive to actuate them
can be willing to pay.

We are happy to hear that Mr. ELLICE, the
new Secretary-at-War, is about to adopt mea-
sures with respect to the corporeal punishment
in the Army, in consonance with the feelings
displayed by the House of Commons on that
subject. The disgust felt by the Right Hon.
Gentleman at this description of punishment
in the Army, has been manifested on more
than one occasion, previously to his coming
into office as Secretary-at-War.

M. DEDEL has resumed. his official inter-
course with M. de TALLEYRAND, but nothing
satisfactory has yet transpired. The King of
HOLLAND remains positive in his refusal to
treat separately with France and Great Britain.

We have received a file of Oporto papers
to the 7th inst. What portion of them is not
taken up with decrees and proclamations, is
filled with accounts of the atrocities of the Mi-
guelites towards their Constitutional prisoners.

Letters hare been received from Poland by
Prince CZARTORYSKI, and other distinguished
Polish refugees, stating that the Emperor of
RUSSIA, alarmed at the indications of resistance
to his sanguinary decrees against the Poles, had
ordered the execution of several of them to be
suspended. Other accounts impute this tem-
porary forbearance to the interference of the
Emperor of AUSTRIA.

The trial of the Editor of the Tribune for
calling the Chamber of Deputies a " Prostituted
Chamber" has at length been brought to a close
—and, fortunately, without occasioning the
slightest public tumult. The penalties, both of
fine and imprisonment, are the severest—the
maximum of punishment—that could legally be
inflicted, and hare given great offence to the
more liberal Journalists. On the sitting of the
Chamber, on the 16. h (the day on which the
trial was concluded)

When all the names had been called over, the President de-
sired the urns to be handed up to him; and, having deposited
his vote, declared the ballot closed. The following was the re.
suit of the scrutiny :
Guilty
Not Guilty

Majority

The President, therefore, declared M. Lionne guilty of the
offence for which he was summoned to the bar of the Chamber.

The President then distributed a bulletin to each Deputy,
on which he was to write the punishment he wished to be in-
flicted, and deposit it in the urn when his name was called.
As before, the President deposited his vote last; and after
declaring the ballot closed, drew by lot the names of 24 exa-
miners of the votes. Messrs. Mauguin and d'Herambault, who
were among those nominated, declined to act, and also refused
to use their bulletins, by which means the number of voters was
reduced to 304.

When the ballot was closed, the examiners placed them_
selves at five green tables, brought for that purpose into the cir-
cular space before the tribune, and took down the various votes.
This operation (including the voting) occupied an hour and a
half. The numbers voting for the following punishments re-
spectively were—

For three years' imprisonment and 10,000 f fine (the maxi.

mum of the punishment) ...
For the minimum of the fine only
For the minimum of the imprisonment only

For various intermediate punishments

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Blank bulletins

The maximum of the punishment was accordinglypronounced.

It was generally rumoured that immediately
on leaving the Chamber, after the verdict of
Guilty was communicated to him, the accused
took his departure for England. On reconsider-
ing the matter, the whole proceedings strike us
as being of the most trumpery character, and
wholly unworthy of a Government sprung from
the barricades.