The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-04 00:00:00

TI-ILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1835.

a voluntary proceeding on the part of tliti Bank, but done
in the case of the Ekthequer-bills at the suggestion of the
UeVerninent, to whom it is a immense importarleo tc, keep
those securities above par;
.ii?,st a itiglief of interest
should be called for on the whole of the floating debt. In
regard to the East India Company, the Bank are probably
merely acting as the bankers to that corporation, for which
they hold large deposits, and which could not find better
employment than in taking up their own bonds at par or at
a small discount. The jealousy with which the proceedings
of the Bank are watched on all such occasions is, however,
useful both t 3 that establishment and to the public.
SURREY RADICAL ASSOCIATION—The second
meeting of this Association took place on Monday even-
ing, at the Chapel, High-street, Borough, and was most
numerously attended, Fergus O'Connor, Esq., in the chair.
The Chairman strongly urged the necessity of the work-
ing classes joining the Association, in order to frustrate the
attempts of the Whigs and Tories, and the despotic powers
now exercised by the two Houses of Parliament. He ad-
vised them immediately after the appointment of their offi-
cers, to propose some question for public discussion, upon
their weekly meetings, so that their sentiments should be
known, and be an inducement to the formation of similar

associations in all parts of the kingdom. He entreated
every man to consider the cause as his own, and so long as
he (the Chairman) found they were united in one common
object—the salvation of their country—he should never des-
pair. Several resolutions were then agreed to, and some
new members were enrolled, after which the meeting
separated.

THE REV. MR. GRIMSHAW'S COMPLETE EDI-
TION OF COWPER.—" The very beautiful edition of Cowper
is now completed. In our notices of some of the volumes

as they issued from the press, we have in a great measure
forestated what we should have said at this time, for we see

no reason to restrict the praise we have already bestowed
on the work in its progress ; on the contrary, it appears to
be every thing the Editor promised, and that we could de-
sire. The public have now a complete and accurate edition
of the Life, the Correspondence, and the Works of this
tender poet, delightful epistolary
,writer, and amiable man."
—Asiatic Journal.

EXTRAORDINARY PIKE.—The finest jack that
has been caught in the Thames for many years was taken
a few days since by B. B. Williams, Esq.,-of Formosa, near
Alhid'aithead: ' weighed and-Measured round
the'sl odldeWl9l4l6ll6t.'-' Wiiki'forviarclediminediately to

;he King at Windsor, by whom, and by the inhabitants of
he Castle, it was declared_ttr,he .as.lne -a fish: of the' kind

as they had ever seen.

EA R TII QUA KE.—About three o'clock on the
morning of Saturday, the 3d inst., a slight shock of an
earthquake was felt in Dunblane and the adjacent country,
but particularly to the north of that place. 'We understand
the concussion and peculiar subterraneous noise continued
upwards of a minute, while the shaking of the shieling roofs
of the shepherds became so alarming, that they fancied them-
selves about to be buried in the ruins, and, to use their
own words, they felt so awe-struck that they had not power
to move.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

A meeting has been held at Battle, the object of
which is to organise an effective opposition to the newly-
projected road by which the town of Battle is proposed to

be avoided.

A joint-stock company has been formed for carrying
a railway between Dundee and Arbroath.
All the shares in the Gloucester and Birmingham
Railway are appropriated ; and the directors will be under

he necessity of refusing applications which have been

made to them for many shares beyond the number required.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILROAD.—TWO
more lives have been lost in the progress of the works. A
man named Wayland Richards was killed on Monday by
the falling in of a mass of earth ; and another called John
Robinson, by the tumbling of a large piece of plank. In-
quests will be held this day.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—WC
some time ago noticed the suspension of a survey of this
railway, owing to its interference with the crops ; and we
are now authorised to state the general outline of its course,
as fixed by Messrs. Stevenson of Edinburgh, who have
lately been requested to complete their survey. The line
of railway alluded to proceeds from the Wet Doch of
Leith to Granton, in the direction shown on the plan of
Granton Harbour, from which branches are to be projected
to depots in different parts of Edinburgh. It afterwards
crosses the river Almond between Carlowrie Bridge and
Craigiehall, and passes Linlithgow on the north and near
the town of Falkirk, much in the ,same direction as that
surveyed by Mr. Stevenson in 1814, for a canal on one
level. From Falkirk, the line proceeds on the north side
of the Forth and Clyde Canal, along the lowest tract of
ground which the country affords between Campsie and
Shotts. It then crosses the river Kelvin, and terminates
in two branches, of which one enters Glasgow by the Cow-
caddens, and the other goes to the Broomielaw. This line
appears to have many advantages. While it embraces the
trade of the considerable towns of Falkirk and Linlithgow,
it is also well calculated to answer the great end of forming
a rapid communication between the Friths of Forth and
Clyde, and thus to preserve and extend a traffic which
seems in danger of being lost to us, by the establishment
of a railway between Liverpool and London. Another im-
portant object obtained by this line, is its connection with
the most vi,luable districts of the counties of Lanark, Stir •
ling, and Clackmannan. The prospectus and farther parti-
culars of this measure will soon appear in a more matured
form.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.

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HIGHLAND ESTATES.-11. striking instance o
the increased value of Highland pastoral districts occurred
list week in the sale of the Cromarty lands in Ross-shire.
The Fannich lot, which rents at 180/. per annum, sold for
6,5501., being about 37 years' purchase. The Lochbroom
lot sold for 9,2001. being a 34 years' purchase. The sale
took place on Wednesday, in Edinburgh, and was pretty
sharply contested. The upset price of the two was
13,1501. ; it rose 2,6001. higher, when they were knocked
down, the two lots at 15,7561., to Murdo Mackenzie, Esq.,
late of Ardross, now of Dundonell. The principal cause of
this high price (which a very few years ago would have
been considered ruinous in the Highlands) is undoubtedly
the spirit and intelligence with which sheep-farming is pro-
secuted in the north, and the present prosperous state of
the country, particularly of that branch of our national
trade. The improved means of communication, the excel-
lent roads which traverse the country, and the steam-boats
which approach its remotest shores, have also, though not
particularly applicable to the case in question, contributed
generally to produce these favourable results. Before the
opening of the Caledonian Canal, the Glengarry property
did not produce above 1,0001. a-year, and it now approaches
to 8,0001. The property of Redcastle, in Ross-shire, in
1790, sold for 25,0001. ; in 1824 it was re-sold for 135,0001.
Instances of a similar kind might be multiplied in scores.
The present system of sheep-farming was introduced, roads
were made, and immediately a change was effected. Trade
and agriculture began to revive from their languishing con-
dition ; the plough was driven into many a new soil ; lakes,
streams, and bays were well finished for the southern mar-
kets, and belts of planting began to encircle the hill sides.
At the present moment, we believe, many Highland proprie-
tors derive a greater revenue from their moors alone, for
grouse shooting, than their whole rental amounted to " sixty
years since."—lnverness Courier.
MAD DOGS.—The greyhound which passed
through this town on Saturday week, and was supposed to
be in a rabid state, found its way on the same day to
Gwynfryn, where it attacked Major Nanny's groom and bit
one of his dogs, The groom was neither bitten nor seri-
ously injured, and both the dogs were immediately destroyed.
The number of these animals that have been killed through
apprehension in Carnarvon and its neighbourhood within
the last fortnight, is scarcely credible.—Carnarvon Herald.
On Wednesday, about mid-day, the body of a young
man, a country servant of the name of Gilbert M'lntyre,
was found in the Slate Quay, Paisley. The presumption
is, that the unfortunate man had missed his way, and that
he had incautiously fallen into the river.—Glasgow Herald.
Within these few days the bodies of two young wo-
men have been found in the Paisley Canal, near Paisley.
They were both natives of Paisley, but no certainty exists
whether their death had been accidental or intentional.—
Glasgow Herald.
On Wednesda.y morning last, James M'Ghee, an
old coal-driver in Paisley, was found dead on the road lead-
ing to Glasgow. It is supposed he had fallen off a cart
with which he had been to Glasgow, and that he had been
killed by the fall.—Glasgow Herald.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.---AS some scholars
attending the school at Lower Fenwick (Scotland) were
playing about and amusing themselves, one of them, named
Graham, about eight years of age, had leaped into a dung-
hill and soiled his feat. The other boys in consequence
began laughing and hissing at him, and one boy, named
Jack, about the same age with Graham, had joined and
been rather conspicuous in the hissing. Graham being irri-
tated at getting himself dirtied, became highly, incensed at
the ridicule of his companions, and at the boy Jack in par-
ticular ; he made a run towards Jack, who was making his
escape, when he was seized by another boy named Dun-
lop, aged eleven years, a cousin of Graham's, and held
till
the latter came up. This boy's passion seems now to have
been raised to a dreadful pitch, for immediately on coming
near, he put his hand into his pocket, took out a large clasp
knife, which he opened, and run into the belly of the poor
boy
.Jack, who was still firmly held by 'Dunlop, inflicting a
large Wound, through Which the intestines protruded. He
lingered in much pain till Wednesday afternoon, when he.
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BRISTOL REGISTRATION.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Bnt,—lf the stAternents in the Tory paper's relative to
the general results of the Rcgisfration `throughorit the
country may be fairly tested by the accuracy of the State-
ments put forth by them with regard to Bristol, then fatal,
indeed, must he the prospects of that party in the event of
a general election.
The Tories, it is true, have manifested some tact, if
they have evinced but little scrupulousness in printing their
statements first ; for by so doing, they have managed to carry
their figures through the press, as yet, without contradic-
tion ; but falsehood may run too fast for its own purposes ;
and in this instance, taking time for inquiry, I am enabled
distinctly to state, that the impression founded upon the
figures put forth by the Tory party—that the result of the
Registration was favourable to them and unfavourable to
the Liberal cause—is in every respect unfounded in fact.
Indeed I am enabled to state most distinctly, from an in-,
tirnate knowledge of every circumstance connected with the
struggle, that the truth is decidedly the reverse of what the
Tory papers have stated it to be, and that it is the Libe-
rals who have gained, and the Tories who have lost by the
result of the Registration at Bristol.
The Liberals have substantially 101 claims—the Tories
.55. On the other hand, the Tories have failed in 164
claims—the Liberals is 68 only. The Liberals have struck
out 187 householders and freeholders of the opposite
party ; the Tories have succeeded in their objections against
131 Liberals. The Liberals have struck out 549 freemen ;
the Tories 302 : there have also been 455 freemen struck
out in addition, who were objected to by both parties.
These the Tories have, with singular modesty, counted up-
on their own aide of the account only, and this constitutes
one of the greatest fallacies in their statement. The total
number of freemen struck out is thus, 1,306, of which num-
ber, there is not 50, perhaps, whom the Liberals, would
wish to see retained, for they have no interest in keeping
fictitious votes upon the Register, which is more than can
be said of them upon the adverse faction.
But the most promising fact to the Liberal cause in
connection with the. Registration, is the large increase of
.the household and freehold constituency upon the numbers
registered the previous years. The registered number of
freeholders and householders in 1834, contrasted with that
of 1832, presented a dedrease of 417. On the other hand,
the registered number of 1835 contrasted with that of
1834, presents aniincrease- of 1,496, Now, at both the
preceding Elections, the majorities against the Liberal
Candidates were composed of the venal freemen ; for at
both these Elections, the Liberal Candidates polled a ma-
jority of householders ! The decrease, then, upon the free-
men, contrasted with the increase of householders, is fraught
with the most hopeful consequences to the cause of Reform ;
and so shaken are the Tories with this fact, that in the
Registration Court, points were avowedly raised by their
professional agents with a view to a scrutiny—they fear
that their majority of corrupt freemen is already broken
down ; that permanent bribery clubs will no longer avail
them ; and that in future they must adopt some other
methods of securing success, than those to which their pre-
vious success is fairly attributable.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your very obedient Servant,
Bristol, November, 3, 1835. J. B. KINGTON.

THE FRENCH POST OFFICE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.
Sir—A paragraph has gone the round of the papers re-
pecting the losses of British property in the French Post-
Office, which, it is said, Mr. Poulett Thomson values at,
10,0001. per annum. I have great respect for Mr. Thom-
son's talents, and I am therefore surprised that he has
suffered so silly an use of his name in silence. If the para-
graph has appeared by his authority it proves that he knows
very little of his subject. Nearly all the ameliorations that
took place in the French Post Office from 1818 to 1830
originated with myself, as the documents in the archives of
the Ministry of Finance will prove. Formerly the post left
Paris before the hour of the Exchange; so that merchants
and bankers could not give an account of the operations
of the day to their correspondents until the following day.
The merchants, being always accustomed to this inconve-
nience, did not think of applying to Government to delay
the departure, but at their own expense established an
estafette to Havre. I represented the matter to the
Government, and the system was changed, and the post
left Paris at six, instead of two, as formerly.
In Napoleon's time a cabinet noir was established at the
Post Office for opening suspected letters. The systetti Was
carried on under Louis XVIII. This furnished the oppor-
tunity of abstracting remittances from letters, and not a
week passed without a robbery of English bank-notes. I
lost 501. in this manner. I collected a great number of
facts and laid them before the Directeur des Postes. He
replied that I calumniated the Post Office, and that all
the robberies were committed at the English Post Office.
I did not let the matter rest there, and by a well7timed
douceur I got initiated into the mystery. The thief was
made known to me—l followed him to Joseph's, money-
changer, at the Palais Royal, and saw him get change for
an English bank-note of, I believe, 100/. Possessed of this
fact, I applied again, and threatened a public exposure of
the fact I had witnessed. My information was attended
to. The very next day the same clerk was observed to
secret several letters about his person ; he was suffered to
go out with them, was arrested, searched, and the stolen
property found on him. He was sent to prison, tried, con-
victed, and sent to the genies, and the robberies ceased.
At that period all letters missent, or of which the ad-
dress could not be found, were sent to the dead letter office,
where they remained unopened, and much property was
consequently lost thereby. I suggested the adoption of
the English system of opening the letters to discover the
writers. It was done, and from that period all letters have
been opened, and when the writer's address could be dis-
covered, a printed notice of the fact was sent to the writers ;
many probably remained from the writers merely dating
Loudon, &c., but wherever the writer could be found he
has always been apprised that a letter is lying at the Post-
office for want of payment of postage, or inability to find
the person it was addressed to. The assertion, therefore,
in the paragraph which has occasioned this letter can only
have been made in utter ignorance of the subject.
The English Treasury arrangements, and the mode of
collecting the revenue, were felt by the French to be far su-
perior to their own. M. Lafitte appears to be the only
Minister of Finance who was ignorant of this fact, and it
appears from a statement of Dr. Bowring, that Lafitte told
him so perfect were their Treasury arrangements that a
fraud was impossible ; this was re-echoed in the English
House of Commons, but a rather awkward commentary on
the fact appeared in all the papers a few weeks afterwards.
A clerk in Lafitte's office, named Kcestner, went off with
upwards of .50,000/., and it was proved that the abstraction
of the money had been made two months before. It was
for collectiag correct and valuable information like this, re-
lative to the French system of finance, that our Liberal
Government, the Whigs, paid Dr. Bowring 9081., as we
find in the list of civil contingencies for the year 1831, or-
dered to be printed by the House of Commons, February
6, 1832, the item runs thus :—" The amount issued to Dr.
Bowring in reimbursement of the expenses incurred by him,
and in remuneration for his services in reporting upon the
public accounts of France, 9081." All comment is unne-
cessary.---I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
J. BYERLEY.

AN ELECTIVE HOUSE OF LORDS.

(From the Examiner.)

We return to the article in the Edinburgh Review, upon
the " Last Session of Parliament and the House of Lords,"
which common report attributes to Lord Brougham. The
writer's objections to some plans of reform that have been
suggested, are stated in the passage we quote, in which
difficulties are cleared as fences are cleared in hunting—by
a flying leap :
" It being perfectly manifest that a second House, some-
thing in the nature of a House of Lords, is necessary for
sound and safe legislation, the only question is, how it shall
be composed—and first of all, shall it be elective or heredi-
tary ? or if hereditary, shall the members sit by individual
right, as they now do, or by election among and by the nobi-
lity, as the French nobles did in their States-General? Let
us begin with the last plain and most obvious change.
Would it avail us anything in remedy of the present evil ?
Certainly it would have the directly opposite effect—for if
all the members of the House of Lords were chosen by the
Peers as a body, or even divided into any conceivable
chambers of election, instead of two-thirds, or it may be
three-fourths, anti-Reformers, we should not have a
single Member of the House a Reformer. The Scot-
tish Peers are an example of this, of whom fifteen six-
teenths are Tories. Then, shall the Crown select Peers
among the nobility as in France ? The consequences
would be the same, with this addition, that the Upper
House would be, the mere creature of the Crown. The
only other course tien is to have the House elected, but
not by the Peers—in other words,- that the people shall
elect. Are they to elect by the same qualification by
which they choose their own representatives? If so—the
Upper House will be a mere duplicate of the Lower ; and
after all difficulties are overcome as to how a local appor-
tionment of the elected shall be made, we shall only have
obtained what would be more easily and just as effectually
obtained by dividing the House of Commons into two, and
making one half revise the proceedings of the other. But
we hold it to be quite clear that more than a mere dupli-
cate chamber is necessary in order to insure an effectual
revision. Such a duplicate will, in Most cases; only rtlieat
the same errors -which the first has committed. That
which secures discussion and gives the probability of real
revision iatim4, correqtiorti-is mona %chamber being 'clic.
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