The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-19 00:00:00

Tilt', SUN, LONDON

of how the money was used—by asking no ques-
tions for conscience sake—Mr. LEATHAM tried to

make himself believe that he possessed moral as

well as legal innocence !
But Mr. CIiARLEsWORTH, the Conservative can-
didate's, case is stranger still. He could tell the
Commissioners—that he only provided the £025
10s. shown by the auditors account ; that no
money was spent improperly on his account,
with his knowledge or consent, that he
had published that if his election were
not won by fair means he would retire, and
placard the town to that effect ; that he did not
give the slightest authority to any person to provide
money for improper purposes ; that it was entirely
untrue that the money came from him which was
:said to have been spent improperly, and so forth,
—but by degrees the strange truth leaks out.
It could not be denied that an immense amount
of money had been spent—who then did find it?
" I believe it was my cousin JOHN BART CHARLES-
WORTH." Oh, oh ! a cousin one who was
just then on the Continent! "But he never had
talked with him about it. In fact, he did not mind
saying, he did not wish to hear anything about it."

And this cousin who are his bankers ? the

Messrs. LEATHAM and the Messrs. BECKETT, o:

Leeds.

And now follows the unaccountable sequel to
those statements—two days afterwards. One of
the Leeds Bank partners gives in evidence the
account of "my cousin" with the firm. It
will seem hardly credible that the cousin
was introduced to BECKETT'S Bank just before
the election by the candidate cousin, J.D. CHARLES-
WORTII introduced by a note introduced
with no money to deposit, but with a railway
debenture, the property of the candidate, for
£5,000 as a security for the bankers, and that the
cousin, J. B. CIIARLESWORTH, rapidly drew from
the bank advances to the tune of £4,750 !
Let the reader compare these facts with
the slight summary given above of Mr. CHARLES-
WORTH'S story, his asseveration of ignorance
whence the money came, and of the entire
untruth of the statement that it came from him.
What must be the morally blinding influence of
electoral practices on an honourable man, when he
can solemnly affirm, that it was wholly untrue that
money raised on property of his ow n, and at his
own request, was money which came from him.
Last Monday the Commissioners felt bound to
see Mr. CHARLESWORTH again; and after telling
him in plain English that the money must be re-
garded as emanating from him—asked into whose
hands it passed from those of his cousin. Again Mr-
CHARLESWORTH did not know ; however he could

conjecture, and gave, we are not sorry to
see, a Spanish name, M. JOSE FERNANDEZ.
But he, it turned out, was at Hamburg; and Mr. -
Sergeant PIGOTT had openly to complain that other
persons summoned were now in Scotland, Paris,
Jersey, Brussels, and Naples ! !—and also, still
worse, that though "nearly £5,000 had been spent
in bribery on Mr. CHARLESWORTII'S behalf, his
supporters came and swore, one and all, that they
had never heard of such a thing !" Mr. CHARLES-
WORTH was obliged to own that it was more than
ought to have been spent even if bribery was re-
sorted to. On which Sergeant PIGOTT replied, " We
want some one to come forward on your side and
tell us the truth about this matter. It must be
from a mere love of falsehood that the facts are
kept from us. We have the great broad fact of
£4,750 being spent, and to divide it up into de-
tails is of comparatively small importance."
On the face of all the facts which have transpired
at Gloucester and Wakefield, we must blush for
the demoralising effect of election law and
practice, as it stands, on our gentlemen. Setting
aside fur a moment the awful fact that they
arc as nearly guilty, legally, as they can be, and
really guilty, morally, as Lord BROUGHAM showed
at Bradford, of subornation of perjury, in regard to
the bribed electors—what are they guilty of in
regard to their own practices? Here are men,
many of whom bitterly denounce secret voting for
an honourable purpose, now confessing to sec,.et
paying for votes, to secret remittance and obtaining
of money for that purpose—to keeping all the
deeds of their agents as secret to themselves
even as possible, being ashamed or afraid
to know of the secret deeds to which their
money has been applied, and then pretending an
innocent ignorance, ten times worse than any pre-
tence which a voter by ballot could make, of hav-
ing voted for one candidate, while he had really
voted for the other.
These gentlemen practise concealment and secresy
for a purely immoral—indeed, criminal—purpose to
corrupt electors. The secret voter would practise it
for at least a moral purpose—that of securing his righ t
to vote for the man he approved. And yet these men
these secret, equivocating corrupters of voters—these
suborners of perjury, as Lord BROUGHAM would
style them—these are the men who will affect a
sanctimonious concern to save the voter by ballot
from the temptation to equivocate and dissemble
as to the vote he has given ! The CHARLESWORTIIS
and CARDENS know full well that secret voting
would render useless their secret corruption of
voters by the secret flow of gold from them to the
poor elector.

His Excellency Count d'Apponyi has returned to
the Austrian Legation from a tour of visits in Scotland.
The Countess d'Apponyi is at present in Hungary.
The Duke of Newcastle arrived in London on
Monday evening.
The. Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford, and
a select family circle, are staying with the Archbishop of
Armagh, at the Archiepiscopal Palace, Armagh.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are enter-
taining a distinguished circle of friends at Eglinton Castle,
N.E.
The Earl of Elgin has arrived at Fenton's Hotel,
from Scotland.

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Viscount Palmerston left Cambridge House yes-
terday afternoon for Broadlands.
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss
Copley have arrived at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, from Cowes,
Isle of Wight. We are happy to learn that the noble and
learned lord is in the enjoyment of good health.

Lord and Lady Aveland and family are pasving
the season at Normanton Park, where a succession of visi
tors are enjoying her ladyship's hospitality.
Lord Cranworth has left Mount Trenebard,
where the noble and learned lord hasbeen on a visit to Lord
and Lady Monteagie, on his return to his seat in Kent.
MARRIAGES IN HIGH LIFE.—WC undelstand

that a matrimonial alliance is arranged to take place be
tween Lord Cliatles'Bruce, youngest son of the late Mar
quis of Ailesbury, and Miss Augusta Seymour, youngest
daughter of Lady Augusta Seymour. We also understand
a marriage will shortly take place between the Hon. Cecil
Duncornbe, second son of Lord and Lady Faversham, and
Miss Eleanor Mills, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Mills, of Camelford House.
NEW BATTERY ON 'I lIE CLYDE.—Her Majesty's
Government, we understand, have resolved to erect a new
battery on the Clyde, on the shores of Itoseneath, nearly
opposite Gourock; and this week some offices of the Engi-
neers have been inspecting the grounds, and holding con-
sultation with the Duke of Argyll, who is lord of the manor.
With this battery at Itoseneath, and the other one already
erected at Gourock, both sides of the Clyde will be com-
pletely protected, and rendered inaccessible to any foe.
TILE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Lady Franklin has
resolved to sell the steam-yacht Fox, which so successfully
conveyed Capt. Nl‘Clintock and his brother heroes to the
fulfilment of their mission The sale is to take place at
Lloyd's, by Rayley and Ridley, early in November, and
will no doubt create much interest.
ACCIDENT TO ME. SAMUEL WARREN, Q.C.—We
regret to hear that Mr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., who with
his family has been spending the recess at Lynton, North
Devon, a few weeks ago fell heavily on the rocks, while
stepping into the water to bathe, and received a severe in-
jury to the right shoulder, which was violently wrenched.
He is now, however, nearly recovered, and is again able to
write, though not without some effort.—Ase, jamas
Chronicle.