The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-17 00:00:00

Sweepstakes of 200 each, h. ft. ; colts, Bst. 71b. D. M.

Honeymoon ; brother to Kate ; Dick ; Olympic ; and c. by
Redgauntlet, out of Ada.

500, h. ft.—Mr. Greatrix's Trulla, c. Bst. 61b., agst. Mr. Wood's

Leila f. Bst. 21b. D. M.

Sweepstakes of 50 each, h. ft., for two-yr. olds. T. Y. C

Col. Peel's c. Weathercock, by Whisker ; Mr. G. Edwards's
Wellington, by Cannont.all ; Mr. Bett's c. by Shakspeare ; and
Mr. Gun's f. Chance, by Patron.

.11 UNTING APPOINTMENTS.

The Brighton Harriers meet on Monday at Patoltam ;
nesday, at the Racecou tse ; Friday, at the Dike—at halfpast 10.
The Brookside Harriers meet on Monday at Newmarket-hill;
Wednesday, at the Racecourse and Kennel, alternately; Fri,
day, at Telscombe Tye—at half past 10.

The Hove Harriers meet on Tuesday at Whitelock Bottom ;
Saturday, at Erritigham—at half past 10.
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The Cheltenham Harriers meet on WednCiday at Shipton ;
Friday, at the 014 Race Course.

Mr. Meynell's Hounds meet on Monday at Chart* ; T 111,145,
day, at Drake'ow ; Saturday, at Holly Bush—at half past 10.
The Shropshire Hounds meet on Monday at Dorrington
Village; Wednesday, at Halston ; Thursday, at Wolf's Head
Gate; Saturday, at Battlefield--at half past 10.
The Albrighton Hounds meet on,Tuesday at Lizard; Thurs-
day, at Castle H 111; Saturday, at Stew Pony—at half past 10.
Mr. Wickstead's Hounds meet on Friday, at `Wore—at half
past 10.

Mr. Portman's Hounds meet an Friday at Stock House.
The Herefordshire Hounds meet on Friday at Dormington
—at 10.

The Craven Hounds meet on Wednesday at the Cross Keys,
Frox field ; Friday, at Beedon Park; Saturday, at Welford
Wood—at 11.

The:Vine Hounds meet on Wednesday at Clap Gate, Bradley
Wood ; Saturday, at West Serborn Church—at half past 10.
Sir John Cope's Hounds meet on Thursday at the Fence;
Friday, at Burnt Hill—at half past 10.
The Duke of Cleveland's Hounds meet. on Friday at the
Grove—at 11.

Lord Harewood's Hounds meet on Wednesday at cock
Bridge; Friday at Wethersome—at halfpast 10.
Lord Middleton's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Ilowsharn
House; Friday, at Noth Grimston—at half-pa 4 10.
The York and Ainsty Hounds meet on Thursday at Cayton
Gell; Saturday, at Skipwith Bridge—at half-pist 10.
The Galewood Hounds meet on Wednesday at Barmoor
Whin; Friday, at Preston, near Mindrum—at 10.

The Bedal Hounds meet on Wednesday at Blow Hall; Fri.
day, at Patrick Brompton—at half past 10.
The Cleveland Hounds meet on Friday at Skelton—at half
past 10.

The Lambton Hounds meet on Thursday at Coxhoe; Satur-
day, at Embleton—at 11.

The Sandbeck Hounds meet on Wednesday at Down Village;
Saturday, at Tickhill Spital—at half past 10.
The Badsworth Hounds meet on Thursday at Doncasterßar ;
Saturday, at Felkirk—at half-past 10.
The Hurworth Hounds meet on Friday at Girsby Scere—at 10.
The Sinnington Hounds meet on Friday at Ness—at 9.
The Boroughbridge Harriers meet on Friday at Great Ouie_
burn—at half-past 10.
The Northumberland Hounds meet on Wednesday at Net her-
witten ; Friday, at Long Witten Inn—at half-past 10. -
The Haydon Hounds meet on Wednesday at White Chapel;
Saturday, at Wood Hall Hills—at 9.
The Duke of Rutland's Hounds meet on Wednesday at Her-
ring Lodge; Friday, at Broadwater—at half past 10.
The Newent Harriers meet on Thursday at Redmarky Pa-k;
;:►turday, at the Kennel—at half past 10. _

Mr. Barnard's Harriers meet on Friday at Embridge Court.
The Llantillio Hounds meet on Friday at Graig Hail—at 10,

213 in favour of Sir John Beckett, at eleven
o'clock, continued to diminish regularly through-
out Friday, vet at the close of that day Mr.
Baines was still 69 behind him. On Saturday,
at two o'clock, Sir John was still four a-head
of Mr. Baines. Immense importance was at-
tached to this election at Leeds by the Tories.
They had, as they thought, made their prepara-
tions so skilfully, and brought their whole force
to bear on what they considered vulnerable
points of their opponents, that they were con-
fident of victory. Our contemporary (the
Standard) had already sounded the Io Pearl
of victory. But the good cause has triumphed ;
and the House of Commons will have in Mr.
Baines an honest and intelligent advocate of the
rights of the people, intimately acquainted, from
long experience, with the interests of the great
commercial town for wl ich he is returned. This
election will not be without its use ; and we
cannot help calling, in a most earnest manner,
the attention of Ministers to the danger to which
they are exposed, by whatever resembles indiffer-
ence to popular interests. The Tories exert them-
selves throughout the country to produce an im-
pression OR the people, that were they in power
they would he as anxious to promote measures
of economy and retrenchment, and to protect
the rights and liberties of the people as the
Whigs, and they have cunningly availed them-
selves of the deference which Ministers have
shown to the House of Lords, to produce in
the minds of the people a notion that Ministers
only wish to keep themselves in office, and hav-
ing obtained what they want, they will do as
little in the way of substantial reform as they
can. Their sneers and insinuations have not
been altogether without effect. There is little
doubt, notwithstanding the small number of
votes obtained by Mr. Bower (only 24), that
Mr. Baines did not find among the electors that
enthusiasm for the Whigs which would have been
manifested a yearago. He was sharply catechised as
to the extent he would go in the way of reform,and
obliged to declare—" A gentleman in the other
box has said lam a nominee of the Whigs.

I deny it.—(Hear, hear.) I will support the
Whigs when they support the country, but I
will oppose them whenever they oppose the great
interests of the country.—(Loud cheers)" Mr.
Baines will no doubt, in his place in Parlia-
ment, endeavour to impress on Ministers the
danger of even appearing for a moment to
identify themselves with the Conservatives. They
may be sure that the Conservatives are too old
birds to be caught by chaff, while the simple-
minded people are disheartened by what they
may not comprehend. The Tories are lying
in wait to avail themselves of the first moment
of desertion of the Whigs by the people,
the people by the Whigs, and we know
that if their arts had been successful at
Leeds just now, they would make their ac-
count of it. The Whigs must never forget
that nine-tenths of the clergy of the Established
Church are Tories ; that four-fifths of the
Aristocracy are Tories, and that without the
middle classes they are not much. They have
now been three years in office ; and yet, not-
withstanding the tendency of office to draw the
great towards it, such is the inveterate Toryism
of the Aristocracy, that at the late election for
Berwickshire, perhaps the richest and most im-
portant agricultural county of Scotland, in
which there is a numerous resident gentry, a
Tory was returned, because there was not one
Whig squire, though a majority of the electors
are Whigs and Reformers. What did Mr.
Baines say on his nomination day ?
" But, gentlemen, it is said that we have a very un-
fortunate combination against us. I admit it. We have
,he aristocracy and all the landed interest of the neigh-
bourhood, the Leeds Corporation, the Trusties of ' Pious
Use' Property—(Laughter)—the clergy, and, in reality,
we have arrayed against us all of what may be called
' the privileged orders.' But white these are all against
us, what have we for us ? The unhought suffrages of
the electors of Leeds.—(Enthusiastic cheering, waving of
hats, &c.) I have no claim to nobility, I have no claim
to title—(' We like you all the better')—but I have a
claim to your support on another ground, and that is—
lam one of your own body.—(Cheers ) If you elect
tne, you elect the man who is taken from your own com-
munity, and who is least likely to abuse the confidence
you may repose in him."
Thus we find all the aristocracy, all the
clergy, all the corporators, and men who have
to handle the money of the people, arrayed
against the man, whose defeat would instantly
have been proclaimed in every quarter, by hun-
dreds of tongues, as a triumphant proof of
the loss of influence by the Whigs. We look
on the conduct of Ministers, on Friday night, in
consenting to the motion of Mr. O'Connell, as
calculated to do them infinite good, by strength.
ening the conviction in the minds of the people
that the distinction between Whigs and Tories

is not an imaginary one, and that the Whigs
sympathise with the people. The speech of
Lord John Russell breathed an excellent spirit.
It was due to the people to show that they will
not protect every foolish and impertinent Tory
who abuses his privilege to attack the Go-
vernment, and foment divisions and factious
heats, and that while they wield the powers
committed to them in protecting the lives
and properties of all classes of subjects,
and in repressing violence and disorder, they
will not countenance a Tory Judge any more
than a brawling Repealer in his tnischievous
endeavours to produce disaffection. The true
way to destroy the influence of agitators, is to
manifest a sympathy with the people ; and we
therefore cannot sufficiently applaud the wisdom
of the determination of Mr. Littleton and those
who sided with him on Friday night. The
people, we ;-.dini!-, ought to be slow to suspect
the honourable intentions of the Ministry, who
obtained for them the charter of their rights and
the bases of all possible ameliorations ; but more
allowance ought to be made for the mistakes of
the people than the mistakes of their superiors.
The people would soon find out that there was
a very serious difference between V's and
Tories, were the Tories once fin possession of
power. Mr. Bower, the Ultra Radical at
Leeds, observed, " You have heard me say that
I admire the Whigs. They gave us the Bill ;
but what is it without we put it into execution ?
Sir John wants not to let the Whigs have their
own way. But if the Tories should happen to
slip in, we must make them carry it forward.
—(Cheers.) I wish to argue the question
fairly, but I do not wish to throw out any slurs.
I will say this—that the Tories do the thing
freely, when they are made to do it. My Noble
Duke, with Sir Robert Peel, carried Catholic
emancipation manfully. I say Peel, though lie
is a Tory, is a man of girt abilities, and I
should love to see him take an active part in the
afftirs of State.—(Cheers from the Tories.)"
Mr. Bower and his friends would soon feel to
their cost that a Tory Ministry would not be so
easily spurred on as he supposes to effect a
reform of many important abuses, such as those
in municipal corporations and courts of law, &c.
We defy the Tories to act as they did before the
Reform Bill ; but Tories in puwer might de-

price us for years to come of many important
consequences of the Reform Bill necessary to
the welfare of the people. We repeat it, the Leeds
election ought not to be a lesson lost on Minis-
ters.--Morning Chronicle.

In order to point out to the mercantile world
the extreme irregularity and impropriety of the
conduct imputed to the official assignees, in
keeping large balances in their hands, we solicit
attention to the following exposition of the law.
By the Bankruptcy Court Act, it is provided,
that if any official assignee do not make his pay-
ments, in such manner as the Lord Chancellor
and Court of Review direct, he is to be charged
twenty per cent. on sums improperly kept by
him. By the same Act, the Lord Chancellor
and the Court of Review may make orders to
regulate the conduct of these gentlemen, and by
virtue of such powers they have, by one of their
general orders, dated the 12th ofJanuary,lB32,
directed that each official assignee shall give a
bond in the sum of six thousand pounds; one of
the conditions of which is truly to observe and
perform all the regulations of the Court, as far as
their duties are concerned. Each assignee has
entered into such a bond with two sureties. In
further exercise of the power given to them by
the Bankruptcy Court Act, the Lord Chan-
cellor and the Court of Review have by the
same order directed that each official assignee
shall pay into the Bank of England all sums
received by him as soon as they amount to 1001.,
and that he is to take the receipt for the money
to the Accountant-General, who is to give him
a voucher for it, which voucher he is to take to
the Commissioners, to whom in any case of
doubt or difficulty he is to apply for advice. So
much for the law on this subject. How far it
has been complied with, and how far the condi-
tion of the bond has been fulfilled, the balances
in the hands of the official assignees not paid
into the Bank will show. There is yet another
point, namely, the allowances made to these
gentlemen, which appear to have been enormous.
The Lord Chancellor and the Court of Review

have, in the order before referred to, recom-
mended the Commissioners to allow those
gentlemen one per cent. on all their receipts,
and one and a half per cent. on all the
sums of money they divide, which per
centage is, nevertheless, subject to be in-
creased or diminished, under special circum-
stances, to be referred to the Court of Review.
That this per centage is sometimes greatly in-
creased no one can doubt ; we never heard of its
being diminished, and we believe that there
never has been any reference, under any such
special circumstances, to the Court of Review.
We think it right that the merchants and
traders of this country should be put in pos-
session of the facts above mentioned, and

leaving it to their own good sense to stir in the
matter or not, as they may be advised, we take
our leave, only adding that we apprehend that
any creditor might successfully petition the
Court of Review to charge any one of the
official assignees with the 20 per cent. penalty
given by the Act of Parliament on all sums re-
tained by him, contrary to his bond, the law, and
the regulations of the Lord Chancellor and the
Court.—Morning Post.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 1.6.