The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1858.

t is remarkable that in Australia, though the
elections by Ballet have several times been decided
by small majorities, in one case by a single vote,
yet none of the elections have been impugned, or
a scrutiny required.

We have sometimes thought that in any wide
extension of the suffrage it would be quite fair to
require the voter to sign the register opposite to
his own name. It would, at the same time, facili-
tate the proof, if wanted, that the true voter's name
had been fraudulently used, and be a stimulus, so
far as it went, to education. A voter ought now to
be able to do something better than make his mark.
In the last generation many substantial yeomen
could not write their own names. At the present
time no operative or labourer need want that qua-
lification for an elector. It might be fairly assumed
that the man who would not take the trouble 'to
learn to write could not care much for the privilege
of voting. Some curious scrawls we should have
at first, no doubt, almost as illegible as used to be
the frank of an M.P. on a letter. As, however, the
Post-office put a liberal construction on the writing
of Members of Parliament then, so should we be
disposed to put a very liberal one on the writing of
farm labourers and town mechanics—we should be
but too glad to encourage them to write at all.

LATEST NEWS

The following telegrams have been received Iv

Mr. Reuter's office :

ST. PETERSBURG, MONDAY.

The Northern Bee, of this day, publishes an ac-
count of the trial of Count Montalembert ; and also
a translation of the speech of M. Berriger. The
Company of Amver intend establishing a telegraph
line from Amver to Nigninewgorow.

MARSEILLES, MONDAY,

According to ad` ices received from Naples to the
2d, the King has suspended, by royal decree, the
sale of the property of those emigrants who had
not appeaci before the Neapolitan authorities
since five years.

The grantee of the railway of Tarento has com•
me need a trial against the Government.

MADRID, SATURDAY, Dec. 4th

The Senate, on the proposition of General Sanz,
has brought forward a vote of censure against the
Government, on the subject of the rectifications
made in the electoral lists. The Marquis de
Miraflores has re-presented his bill relative to the
elections.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

The Minister of Marine has just received de-
spatches, announcing that Baron Gros has succeeded
in concluding a treaty with the Emperor of Japan
similar to that signed by Lord Elgin, and published
in the English papers.
It is stated that the inauguration of the immense
barrack lately constructed at the Chateau d'Eau is
to take place with great pomp on the 15th of
December.

The Minisfer of the Interior is said to be making
preparations for great changes which are to be
made among the Prefects and Sub-Prefects on the
occasion of the new year.
The speech delivered by the Queen of Spain at
the opening of the Cortes is very slightly com-
mented on by the Paris journals, which seem to
attach but little importance to the document. They
in general merely point to the chief subjects spoken
of by the Queen, and compliment the Spanish na-
tior on the prosperity which it is represented as
enjoying. Their congratulation has all the appear-
ance of an epigram in disguise.
3oußsE, Dec. 6.—The market has been flat;
Mobilier shares being particularly affected by the
projected new financial bank. Threes have been
done at 74f. 15c., and are now at 74f. ; Mobilier
varied from 975 f. to 950 f.; Austrian 642 f. 50c. to
641 f. ; Orleans, 1,382 f. 50c. to 1,377 f. 50c. ;
Northern, 992 f. 50c. to 990 f. ; Southern, 577 f. 50c.
to 575 f. ; and Lyons, 877 f. 50c. to 875 f. The
following were the last quotations

4i per Cents. 96 60
Po. end month --
3 per Cents. 73 80
Do. end month 74
Bank Shares 3lBO

Credit Fonder 675
Belgian 4f —
Piedmonteso (5)
Roman 93
Austrian

Credit Mobilier .. 957 50
Do. Account ..... 960

Spanish Threes 47
Home Debt 42 88

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern -
New ditto. 835 -- .. 835
Lyons and Mediterranean 876 25 .. 875 _
New ditto
Geneva 620 . 618 75
Midi - -- • .
Southern
Western 602 50 .. 602 50
Eastern
Grand Central — • •
Sardinian
Austrian

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money,
25f. 10c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f.
90c.

PRUSSIA.

A comparative analysis of the present and the
last Chamber gives the following results. Of the
231 members who composed the Right in the last
House, only 43 have been re-elected into the pre-
sent ; of these several only secured their election by
announcing their willingness to support the new
Ministry. Of fresh recruits, to compensate its losses,
the Conservative party has obtained none. Of the
ex-Ministry seven had seats in the Chamber, and
two only have been re-elected, Manteuffel, sen.,
and Von der Heydt. The Von Gerlach fraction of
the Right—the nucleus of the Ifreuz Parteiwhich
counted 39 members—is now cut down to nice.
Further,—

Chamber of Chamber of
I 1855. 1858.
Employes of a superior order 39 29

Landrathe
Judges of all degrees
Advocates, &c.
Military officers
Large landed proprietors..
Merchants, manufacturers,
and" capitalists
Clergy

77 27
40 68
17 21
15 4
91 99

19 22
16 19

THE lONIAN ISLANDS.

The following is the text of the protest forwarded
to Sir E. Bulwer Lytton by the ten representatives
of Corfu :

" A feeling of deep aftliction and irritation has
been caused in this country by the perusal of the
Lord High Commissioner's letters of June 10,
18
Julythat 14, 1858, in which the abomi-
nable assertion the inhabitants of the islands of
Corcyra
y,a and
cfu
r
and Paxo desire to be incorporated
r(Corfu)
with Great Britain, is attempted to be proved by a
memorandum of the Procurator-General, who is
considered by the Lord High Commissioner as
perfectly informed of the sentiments of his fellow-
countrymen of Corcyra.' The undersigned repre-
sentatives of Corfu, being the interpreters of the
wishes and desires of their country, and witnessing
the general bitterness excited by these documents,
fulfil a sacred duty in giving a solemn denial to the
sentiments deceitfully attributed to their fellow
citizens, and protesting against all machinations,
they again raise their voices, as they did on th

of July, 1857, in
,the Assembly, declaring once
more that the only wish and desire of the inhabi-
tan& of Corcyra has been, and still is, to be united
to free Greece.
" Corfu, Nov. 13-25th, 1858.

" Signed: D. Dandolo, S. Curi, S. Aavanitachi,
A. Bisi, S. Bulgari, S. Lascari, A. Polila,
T. Ventura, S. Padovan, A. Gialina."

THE EAST.

Accounts have been received froth Alexandria to
the 27th ult. At that date the situation of the
country was satisfactory. General Seid Pacha had
arrived from Constantinople on his way to Djeddah
to act as Imperial Commissioner. He has the most
formal and precise instructions from his Govern-
ment to give his whole energetic co-operation to
the commissioners of Prance and England. Letters
had reached Alexandria from Djeddah to the 20th,
which stated that the investigation into the affair
of the murders was going on with the greatest
care.

A letter from Lisbon says :—" The indisposition
under which the King of Portugal has been labour-
ing is the measles, but his Majesty is now going
on well."

DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN.—Mr. John Burton
died at East Barkwith, Lincolnshire, on the 2d inst. The
deceased was born on the 25th June, 1760, and thus lived
in the reigns of George 11., 111., IV., William IV., and
Victoria. For 75 years he was tenant of the glebe farm
under six successive rectors of East Barkwith. Ho was a
man of remarkable strength and industry, being known,
oven after ho was an old man, to work in the fields all day
and remain up nearly all night threshing corn for the mar-
ket. When more than 96 years age he would walk to
church and back, a distance of nearly three miles, and less
than two years ago he took the plough and ploughed for
about two hours. His hair was still black at the time of his
decease, and his eyesight was so good that he could read
small print, in church always following the service and
joining in the responses with great precision. He was mar-
ried, and leaves three children, born with an interval of ten
years between each.

7118 BALLOT,IN THE UNITED 'STATES.