The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—In your paper of the 22d instant it is stated that the
ex-Chancellor for Ireland, Lord Plunkett, voted at the recent
election for Dublin for O'Connell and Ruthven. As this state-
ment has created some discussion in the News-room here, will
you have the goodness to inform us, whether Peers of the realm
can legally vote for Members of the House of Commons, or
whether the Reform Act has made any alteration in that re-
spect ? In a former paper it was stated that the Duke of Nor-
folk had voted in another instance.
Bakewell, Jan. 27. J. W.

We beg to inform our correspondent that no Peer
can vote at an election for a Member of Parliament,
except an Irish Peer who has himself been elected, and
who has not declined to serve, for any county, city, or
borough of Great Britain. The reason of this excep-
tion seems to be, that Irish Peers being eligible to sit
in the Upper House, are considered as virtually Mem-
bers of that House, until an election to serve as Mem-
ber for a county, &c. has invested them with the cha-
racter of commoner.

The Paris Papers of Monday, both Morning and
Evening, have been received ; but in none of them do
we find more than anticipations of the debate fixed for
that day in the Chamber of Deputies, for discussing
the claims made by Russia on France, which is now
the ell-engrossing subject of conversation in that
Capital. The Ministers are reported to be
greatly alarmed at the present aspect of public
affairs, and the more timid of them would re-
tire, if an opportunity was afforded them of doing so
with honour. Notwithstanding the proffered readiness
of Admiral DE RIGNY, the Foreign Minister, to ex-
plain the particulars of the Treaty with Russia, and
the nature of her claims, at the first moment the ques-
tion was mooted in the Chamber on Friday last, his
colleagues were so fearful of his breaking down under
the cross-examination of the Opposition, that it was
seriously debated in Council whether it might not be
safer for the Gallant Admiral to feign indisposi-
tion for a day or two, and leave the explanation
to devolve, as if by accident, on M. TRIERS. We
do not know to what conclusion the Cabinet arrived,
but it is quite certain that the Ministers are placed in
a predicament from which they would be glad to extri-
cate themselves at any sacrifice short of a resignation
of office. We regret to say the accounts from Spain
which appear in these Journals are unfavourable to
the QUEEN'S cause.

Letters and papers from Madrid, up to the evening
of the 19th inst., have been received. On the 19th a
remarkable discussion took place in the Chamber of
Procuradores, on the occasion of an address to the
QUEEN being moved by Senor CARASCO, praying her
MAJESTY to remove her Ministers, they not pos-
sessing the confidence of the Estamento. M. MARTI-
NEZ DE LA RosA defended himself and his colleagues
in a speech of great length and power, which pro-
duced a great sensation in the Chamber. After several
members had spoken for, and against, the motion,
.the
debate was adjourned to the day following. We shall
wait the conclusion of the discussion, before pronouncing
an opinion upon it.

AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.—One of the ablest of
the North American newspapers, the New York Courier and
Inquirer, contained, in a late number, nearly twelve thousand
advertisements. It is printed on an exceedingly large sheet,
but the price does not exceed three-halfpence of our money.—
Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.

On Monday evening Dixon's pair-horse Henley
coach, in its journey towards town, was upset at Kensington,
by the fore-axle breaking close to the near side wheel. The
splinter-bar and pole were broken from the under carriage by
the concussion, and the horses gallopped off, dragging the
fragments at their heels. After gallopping some distance, one
of the horses becoming entangled with the traces, fell on a part
of the road covered with fresh granite, and the other was
stopped by the fall. One passenger was said to have been
hurt, but the coachman escaped with a few bruises ar.d a roll
in the mud. The horse that fell was lacerated by the granite
and the blows from the broken part of the carriage.