The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-10 00:00:00

DUBLIN ELECTION PETITION.

Yesterday, on the meeting of the Committee,
Mr. AUSTIN rose to reply to Mr. Thesiger's arguments,
impeaching the formality of the lists of objections put in
by Mr. O'Connell to the voters on the other side. The
Learned Counsel contended that the lists were made out
agreeably to the Act of Parliament, and that the objection
to every voter was fairly set forth. As to the objection
to those veters who were in connexion with the Post-office
of Dublin, they were fairly described as letter-carriers and
mail-coach guards ; they were classified within a bracket,
and the language of a bracket was, all that was contained
within its arms bore the same description as that which
was written at the point in its centre. Therefore, all that
class which was in connexion with the Post-office, were de-
scribed in that bracket as mail-coach guards and letter-
carriers.

Mr. WRANGHAM thought they ought to be more parti-
cularly distinguished. Such as were letter-carriers should
have been described as being so, and have their imputed
avocation before their respective names.
Mr. YOUNG said that it was possible that a voter might
be both a letter-carrier and a mail-coach guard.

Mr. O'CONNELL replied that such was the fact, that
they went as a guard three times a-week, and acted as
letter-carriers the remainder of the week.

Mr. YOUNG was of opinion, that being the case, it was a
fair description.
Mr. AUSTIN said common sense showed that the descrip-
tion was a right one, though law might decide otherwise,
for it too often appeared that law was opposed to common
sense. His Learned Friend (Mr. Thesiger) had relied on
the Waterford case as to the obligation of furnishing correct
lists, but only so far as answered his purpose. He forgot
to state the Barnstaple case, the Newry, and the Wootton
Basset cases. With regard to the charge of personifica-
tion, could it be doubted that one person might not personate
another, while a third party was personating him, though it
was denied by his Learned Friend ? Yet when the proper time
came, proof would be given that it had been practizrA. To
deny that one voter bribing another did not deprive him of
franchise, was another fallacy. The Southampton case
settled that question. The committee there decided that
the party had been guilty of corrupt practices, and had for-
feited his franchise. He must say that the present lists
did the greatest credit to the agent who had prepared
them. It was true that they were multifarious , but it
was a recognized principle of law, that multifariousness
was not fatal to any declaration or plea, though there
might be a great deal of unnecessary matter in it, even re-
pugnant ; yet it could not vitiate the substantial matter de-
scribing the issue, in the language of Mr. Justice Holt,
who said, " that all repugnant matter should be struck out,
in order that utile per inutile non vitiatur." If the com-
mittee refused to amend the lists, it would, in fact, be a
denial of justice—it went to deprive the sitting members of
their defence, and prevent them from entering into the pe-
titioners' case, and occupy the committee eight-and-forty
days. If that were the case, it had been far better for the
sitting members to have given up their seats, if they had to
contend against a combined purse.
Mr. WRANGIIAII—ReaIIy I must interrupt my Learned
Friend. This is quite irregular. I deny there is any com-
bined purse.
Mr. AUSTIN—I ask my Learned Friend, will be attempt
to deny there is a combined purse ?
Mr. WRANGIIAM—I do.—(Cries of Oh, oh! from Mr.
O'Connell.)
Mr. AUSTIN said that his Learned Friends on the other
side had thrown the first stone, and if they would abstain
from throwing any more, he would empty his pockets of
those he had for his defence. Yesterday he had been se-
verely pelted.—(Laughter.) The Learned Counsel con-
cluded by calling on the Committee to amend the lists, or
direct the Commissioners in Dnblin to inquire into such
parts of the case as in their opinion justice demanded.
The Committee retired for an hour, and on their return
announced that it was their opinion that the lists should be
amended, but at the same time there should be assigned
the specific objection to each voter.
Mr. O'CONNELL said that he would wave the present
opportunity of opposing the lists of the opposite party, re-
serving to himself the power of an investigation in case the
question of costs should arise.
Mr. AUSTIN would not, on the part of Mr. Ruthven,
agree to such a proposition.
The Committee then adjourned.
The expense of this petition, it is said, during investiga-
tion, costs the- parties a guinea a minute, or 300 guineas
a-day each, the Committee sitting five hours each day.

The Bishop of Derry has been pleased to collate
the Rev. Robert flume to the living of Urney, vacant by the
death of the lamented Rev. James Jones; the Rev. George
Smithwick to the living of Leckpatrick, and the Rev. James
Smith, Chaplain to the Free Churcli of Derry, to the living of
Strabane ( Camus-juxta- Mourne).

The Rev. Dr. Maddy, Rector of Somerton, in
Suffolk, has been lately collated to a Prebendal Stall in Ely
Cathedral, vacant by the death of the Rev. Benjamin Parke.
—Cambridge Chronicle. [lt is true, then, that this holder of
five pieces of preferment has added a sixth to the number, in
these piping times of Church reform.]

On Saturday, a meeting with swords took place in
the wood of Meudon, between the Count de Langle, Captain
of the National Guards, and the Duke de Rovigo, Lieutenant
of the Ist Regiment of the Chasseurs of Africa, in conse-
quence of some offensive expressions uttered by the latter re-
lative to reeompences granted to the National Guards. The
Duke de Rovigo received a wound in the chest which pre-
vented him from continuing the combat, but it is hoped it will
not have a serious result.

We have great regret in announcing the sudden
demise of Lady Isabella Thynne, which took place yesterday
morning at six o'clock. Sir Henry Halford had been in
attendance for some time on her Ladyship, but entertained no
expectation of her danger being great ; but in the night a
rapid change for the worse took place, and there was no time
to summon medical aid ere she expired. Lady Isabella Thynne
was daughter of the late, and sister of the present, Marquis
of Bath. She was one of the Ladies in Waiting of the Duchess
of Gloucester, and well known for her amiability and urbanity
of manner.

About half-past five o'clock on Saturday afternoon,
two men and three horses were ploughing in a field occupied
by Mr. James Tweedale, Lowerfold, Rochdale, one side of
which was bounded by a stone delph. They had the hardihood
to attempt ploughing within 18 inches of the very brink, when
a sod gave way, beneath the feet of the hindermost horse, and
which slipped over the edge of the precipice. The other
horses exerted themselves to keep their ground, but were even-
tually dragged after the other, and tumbled headlong upon
the rocks beneath, the height of which is about 50 feet. Two
of the horses were killed on the spot, and the other so mangled
that it was necessary to put an end to its existence. The two
men were saved, but very much shaken. The horses were very
valuable.—Bolton Chronicle.

At Greenwich Petty Sessions, on Wednesday, Mr.
Hart, of Blomfield-cottage, Regent's-park, waited upon the
magistrates to prefer a charge of felony against Captain Swin-
ton, who was committed a few days ago for want of sureties to
keep the peace for a violent assault upon a carpenter, named
Holford. Mr. Hart stated that the captain, about a year ago,
took two houses belonging to him in the Regent's-park, and
having gained possession of them, he brought nearly forty
sailors up to the dwellings, and almost entirely demolished
them, and afterwards sold the materials. He then absconded
and applicant heard no more of him. The repairs actually
cost above 7001. The magistrates said they had the evidence
of medical men to prove that the captain was insane, and they
determined to send him to a lunatic asylum.

The explosion which took place, this week, in
Pickering-place, St. James's-street, is the third that has oc-
curred there within a few months. The hand-grenade, which
exploded, was not thrown into the area of the notorious gam-
bling-house, as that would have destroyed the fuse, but it was
fixed to the knocker of another house, and the explosion shat-
tered the windows of all the houses in the place, it was so
very violent. When the frightened gamblers fled from their
den it was observed that " hell had broke loose."

CURIOUS DERIVATIONS.—The " pound" is de-
rived from the Latin word " pondus ;" the " ounce" from
" uncia," a twelfth of a pound troy, also " inch," from the
same word, being the twelfth of a foot. The " yard," from
the Saxon word " gyrd," or " girth," being originally the
circumference of the body, until Henry I. decreed that it
should be the length of his arm—a fact mentioned by our early
English historians. A. D. 1066, when William the Conqueror
began to reign, the penny, or sterling, was cast with a deep
cross, so that it be broken in half, as a HALF penny, or in quar-
ters for FOUR things, or farthings.

Earl Grey was never in the enjoyment of better
health than at present. Towards the end of last year his
Lordship experienced much inconvenience, resulting. from the
fatigues of office, and an ardent and extreme devotion to the
consummation of the great object which, from early life, he
had resolved to accomplish. A quiet; undisturbed residence
at Howick Hall, in the bosom of his much-attached family,
has entirely renovated his Lordship's health and spirits.

It is not perhaps generally known that Mr. Pitt was
called to the bar, and went the Western circuit, where, as well
as in Westminster Hall, his success was any thing but encou-
raging. He is represented by his biographer as having
" dangled seven days with a junior brief and a single guinea
fee, waiting till a cause of no sort of importance could come
on in the Common Pleas."

REDUCTION IN THE AIIMY.—WC understand
that it has been determined to disband six infantry regiments,
from the 94th to the 99th inclusive. We have also learned
that the :27t1i, now in this garrison, is likely to replace the
98th at the Cape of Good 1-lop;; and that the 90th, also sta-
tioned in Dublin, is to proceed to Ceylon.—Dublin Register.
The Turkish Paellas are not satisfied in their
journics with consuming all the provisions of a peasant, but
after cramming themselves and their numerous retinue, are
so inhuman as to exact from them what called tooth-money,
by way of acknowledgment for wearing away their teeth in
doing the peasants the honour to eat them out of house and
home.