The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-24 00:00:00

RESOLUTION.

" The Courts of France, Great Britain, and Russia,
having invited the German Confederation to recognise
as King of Greece Prince Otho, second son of his Ma-
jesty the King of Bavaria, who has been called to the
Government of the new Christian kingdom founded i❑
the East, the Sovereign States and Free Cities consider-
ing that the Ottoman Porte has formally and solemnly
renounced its rights to Greece, and has agreed to recog-
nise the independence of that country ; considering that
his Majesty the King of Bavaria, according to the notifi-
cation made to the Confederation, has accepted the crown
for this Prince, who is yet a minor have resolved, and do
resolve by these presents—
" That his Royal Highness Prince Otho, of Bavaria,
be recognised by the German Confederation as King of
Greece.

" The present resolution shall be communicated to the
Ambassadors of the three Courts accredited to the Ger.
man Confederation, in reply to their notes of September
11th, this year, by the President of the Diet; and to his
Majesty the King of Bavaria, by his representative i❑ the
Diet; and at the same time with the expression of the
joyful hope that, under the protection of Divine Provi-
dence, his Majesty the King of Greece may succeed in
establishing order, tranquillity, and prosperity in that
country, and thereby realise the beneficial intentions of
the three Courts in the foundation of this Christian king-
dom.—Frankfort Papers, Oct. 18.

A question of some importance has been
raised before the Registering Barristers for the
county of Middlesex. It is, as to what is to
be done with respect to persons who have got
upon the register of county voters without being
objected to, but really having no good claim.
The twenty-fifth section of the Act expressly
says, " that no person shall be entitled to vote
in the election of a knight or knights of the shire,"
&c. in respect of any premises which can give
him or any other person (unless the premises be
freehold) a right of voting for a borough. If a
party claim to vote for a county in right of pre-
mises (hot freehold) giving, or capable of giving,
a vote in a borough, and that party be objected
to in any of the forms required by the Act, the
Barrister will not put him upon the list ; but if,
through ignorance, negligence, or connivance,
the Overseer should admit such a party's
name upon the list, and no one else should
object in due form, the Barrister is deprived,
by the forty-second section of the Act, of the
power of striking the name out. Ministers, no
doubt, calculated upon the watchful activity of
political partizanship to prevent parties being
improperly admitted into the registry, and pro-
bably in small boroughs that check will be effi-
cient ; but in a large town it is obviously impos-
sible that every man can know what his neigh-
bour is about, and that hundreds, if they be so
disposed, may get their names both upon
the borough and county list of voters. Being
there, without having been objected to, the Bar-
rister has no power whatever to strike them
out, and we much wonder at Mr. SANDYS ex-
pressing any doubt upon the subject. Two
questions now present themselves :—lstly, how
the parties who have so improperly got upon
the list are to be prevented from influencing
county elections ? and 2dly, how they are to be
got off the list ?

The closing words of the fifty-fourth section
unfortunately render it doubtful whether the
first of these objects can be effected in a direct
way. They are g, and every such book," &c.,
" shall be the register of electors to vote at any
election which shall take place between the Ist
day of November inclusive in the year wherein
such respective register shall have been
made, and the Ist day of November in the
succeeding year." This seems to give autho-
rity to all on the register, no matter how they
got there, to vote, notwithstanding the words
of the twenty-fifth clause already quoted.
But the register is not absolutely conclusive,
for the voter's answers to certain questions at
the poll may exclude him from voting, so
that the register need not be considered as a
list of persons who are to vote in despite of
other disqualifications. Now, the twenty-fifth
section disqualifies from voting for counties
all parties whose claim rests upon pre-
mises (not freehold in other persons' oc-
cupation) which may give a claim to vote
in a borough ; and we should imagine that such
persons voting at elections, notwithstanding that
they get upon the register, as much contravene
the provisions of the Act as an alien, or any
other disqualified person, would, who contrived
to get upon the list. If such be the case, it
behoves the parties who are seeking to obtain
double votes, to learn the penalty attached to
wilful violations of the Act. The seventy-sixth
section says, " that if any sheriff; returning
officer, barrister, overseer, or any person
whatsoever, shall wilfully contravene or dis-
obey the provisions of this Act, or any of
them, with respect to any matter or thing which

such sheriff, returning officer, barrister, overseer,
or other person is hereby required to do,
he shall for such his offence be liable to be sued,
in an action of debt in any of his Majesty's
Courts of Record at Westminster, for the penal
sum of 5001., &c., with costs." No one could
plead ignorance who had the 25th section pointed
out to him. Supposing, however, that the
number of voters of this description should be
so large, and so entirely on one side, as abso•
Intel), to turn the election, probably they might
lie struck off by a Committee of the House of
Commons, although the words of the 60th
clause throw some degree of doubt upon that.
In all likelihood, however, Parliament will in-
clude this among the amendments which all
agree must in its first Session be made in
the Act. Should not that be done, candidates
will next year have the opportunity of objecting
to those opposed to them, for although the pro-
viso to the 37th clause saves parties already on
the register the trouble of sending in a fresh
claim, they are still open to objections made in
due form.

'We have taken some pains to explain the
state of the law upon this question, as it is one
which must arise in many parts of the country ;
but such is the contradictary nature (in some
instances) of the clauses relating to it, that the
only point on which we venture at present to
pronounce a positive opinion is, that the Bar-
rister has no power to expunge a name on the
overseer's list which has not been objected to in
due form.

A pamphlet has recently been published by
Mr. J. SISSON, in the shape of a letter to Lord
GREY, the ostensible object of which is to
obtain the appointment of a " Board or Council,
at Dublin, for the internal interests of Ireland."
We say that such is its ostensible object, but the
writer would be little contented with such a
board (which, in fact, the Irish local government
is) unless it pursued, or persuaded Parliament
to pursue, certain measures which Mr. SISSON
sketches out. What do our readers fancy these
measures are ? Nothing less than the imposi-
tion of duties on English and Scotch manufac-
tures, in order to give encouragement to those of
Ireland. In plain, naked English, such is Mr.
Sissox's modest wish, and consistently enough
he makes a great lament over the Acts which
have reduced the duties on certain articles in
England, and states that had such a Board as he
wishes to have established, existed during the
late administration, the " so called Assimilation
Acts" would not have been passed. The follow-
ing extract will afford a fair specimen of the
author's mode of arguing. Speaking of the
cholera preventive measures, lately taken at a
place called Ringsend, in the neighbourhood of
Dublin, he says—

" The population were formerly supported by Glass-
Works, Salt-Works, Fisheries, and Ship-Building. The
two former pursuits are extinct there, since the assimila-
tion of duties between England and Ireland ; the fishing
boats are getting into decay, all encouragement ceasing
for Fisheries ; and Ship Wrights'etoployment being much
connected therewith, is suffering in the general injury
which has been inflicted on remunerative labour.

" The Liberty of Dublin, at the opposite end of our
City, which was formerly the seat of manufacturing indus-
try, is reduced by legislative enactments made in a sudden
manner, for which the manufacturers were not prepared,
to a similar state of suffering; its houses are falling into
ruins. As one of the Mansion House Commistee,.l also
visited that part of Dublin, and found that its sufferings
were equally severe under the Cholera, and an extensive
building, erected at a considerable expense by a late
patriotic individual, as a Tenter House for the woollen
weavers, being entirely idle, was converted into an hospital
for patients !"

The facts stated here may be, and we believe
are, all very true ; but are the people of England
and Scotland to pay heavy duties on their glass
and their salt, in order to prevent manufactories
being established in Britain, and to encourage
those at Ringsend ? It would be much better
for us at once to pay a given sum out of our
pockets to the Ringsend capitalists than to have
such a tax imposed upon us. As regards Ireland,
she can derive no permanent benefit from any
measure which operates unjustly to others. This
is now so well understood a principle, that we
are astonished at Mr. SISSON, or any one else,
advocating the robbery of one class of producers
that others may gain by it. Supposing that any set
of Ministers could be so imbecile as to reimpose
taxes upon British glass, salt, and woollens, in
order to promote their manufacture in Ireland, is
it to be supposed that the people on this side of
the water would not constantly struggle to shake
the burden off? They would, and must at last
succeed ; and the Irish manufacturers would be
in a worse position than they are now, from want
of employment for the labourers who would
have been called into existence whilst so unjust
a preference was given to their produce. Mr.
StssoN makes the same complaint with regard
to the silk manufacturers that he does with re-
spect to those of glass and salt, but runs his head
against the same wall as his brethren on this side '
of the channel, namely, quarrels with the im..
portation of French goods. Of course Mr. Ro-
BINSON of Worcester, and the other English re-
strictionists, will here join with Mr. SISSON ;
but it would be curious to hear them answering
his arguments for the imposition of duties on
English manufactures going into Ireland. They
are, in fact, the very same arguments which they
themselves advance for the imposition of duties
on manufactures entering England. With re-
spect to the silk question in Ireland, the Dublin
manufacturers may receive the same answer as
those of Spitalfields :—" It is true, Gentlemen,
that you manufacture less than you did, but there
are now in the United Kingdom at least ten silk
weavers where there used to be one, and the ma-
nufacture, instead of being confined to one or
two places, now extends to Manchester, Mac-
clesfield, Congleton, and a hundred other towns
where it was before unknown." Mr. SISSON
makes a very grave attempt—and we believe him
sincere—to persuade us that it would not only
be no injury to us, but a positive benefit, to pur-
chase dear flax and hemp from Ireland, instead of
getting
it cheap from abroad. This is one of
his most
plausible plans, and is that upon
which he most dwells ; but nothing can get over
the fact, that the article can be procured cheaper
from abroad than Ireland can furnish it to us.
Mr. SissoN quotes a number of great names in

EXETER 11A I
Beef Cd. 9,6 d.
Mutton (16.)—.-0 5i 0 6
Veal and lamb-0 6 0 7
Pork 0 4 0 6
Geese (each) —...4 0 5 6
Ducks /couple \ 4 0 5 0
Fowls 0 4 0

KETS —Oct. 19.

Wheat (bushel) —Ss. Od. Bs. 6d.
Barley .--..---...4 6 4 9
Oats . n 3 2 5
Beans 5 6 6 0
Butter 0 1 3
Eggs (12) 0 0 I CI
Potatoes (peck) ...0 6 0 7

THE FANCY SALE AT THE MANSION-
HOUSE.—The Fancy Sale at the Egyptian Hall, for the
beni-fit of the British Orphan Asylum, opened this morn-
ing with great eclat. The LADY MAYORESS was con-
ducted round the Hall, to the stall appropriated for her,
by APSLEY PELLATE, E•q., and another of the Stewards,
at 12 o'clock, after which the company entered very
rapidly, and in a short time the Hall was crowded with
persons of the first respectability. A military band
is stationed in the saloon, and Mr. WIEPrERT'S band in
the centre of the Hall. The display of fancy goods is very
splendid, and with the banners which adorn the Hall, and
the delightful music of the bind, renders the Bazaar highly
attractive. The sum of 301. was taken in the first half
hour for tickets at the door. The Duchess of KENT and
the Princess VICTORIA, though expected, were not present.
The arrangements are highly creditable to the Committee.
CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 25.—The Turk-
ish fleet, consisting of 30 sail, besides steamers and gun-
boats, had returned to Rhodes, previous to the 10th inst.,
from Marmora. A frigate and three smaller vessels, it is
acknowledged, have fallen into the hands of the enemy.
No precise accounts as to the position of the Egyptian
force.

FECUNDITY OF THE ONION.—It was re-
cently stated that a gentleman in Lancashire had raised
8,000 ounces of onions from 12 ounces of seed; Mr.
CROSSLEY, the engineer of the Macclesfield Canal, residing
at Bollington, having seen this statement, was induced to
weigh his own crop, when he discovered that from two
ounces of seed, the produce was the amazing quantity of
2,496 ounces, or 156 pounds, being nearly double the
produce of the former in proportion to the quantity of
seed sown.—Alacele..field Courier.

The house of Mr. HOSTLER, the Notting-
ham Arms, Nottingham-street, Marylebone, has within
these few days been besieged by numbers of men, most of
whom have been in the British service and discharged
without pensions, anxious to enlist in the service of Don
Pima() ; and since Saturday last upwards of 300 effective
men have been enlisted. They were paid on the spot,
and their:comforts immediately attended to. On leaving
the house the recruits gave three cheers for the cause.
Most of them have been in the cavalry regiments, which
are in great request in PEDRO'S army.

THE BEAR WITHOUT A BRIDLE.—Among
the early settlers of Worcester county, in Massachusetts,
was a German by the name of FounrEcx, or FOUTECIC.
The wild tenants of the forest had not yet given place to
man, and FOUKFECK being employed on a certain time with
some others in the manufacturing of maple sugar, saw a
large bear coming among them, and without counting the
cost, threw himself on the bear's back. Bruin, unaccus-
tomed to this mode of salution, began to make off as fast as
his load would permit—perhaps thinking, like the man
in the play, if that was the way his new acquaintance
" backed" his friends, " the devil take such backing !" hut
he could not help turning round now and then to bite the
leg of his daring rider. Nevertheless, the hardy German
kept his eeat, in spite of the smart and streams of blood
which were trickling down his legs, till one of the com-
pmy came up, knocked the weary bear on the head, and
despatched him. The German was justly proud of his
exploit; but when the excitement which bad carried him
through his perilous adventure was over, be exclaimed,
" dar tyfil ! I'll never ride a pear again midout a pridle !"
—Berkshire (American) Republican.