The Sun.
London, England, 1859-07-30 00:00:00

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ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the sianagement of Mr. Charles Kean.
TEIS EVENING, DYING FOR LOPE.
After which, _will be revived Shakspeare's Tragedy of
SHN RY VIII. Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Chas. Kean ; Queen
Katharine, Mrs. C. Lean.
Co conclude with IF THE CAP FITS.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
ge. DAUGHTER TO MARRY.
CHE CONTESTED ELECTION.
After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER.
To conclude with HALLOWE'EN.

Right Honourable, one of her MAJESTY'S Privy
Councillors. By his bold and admirable speech of
last evening, upon our National Defences, Mr. Cog-
DEN vindicated his capacity to assume high place at
the Privy Council board of his SOVEREIGN. One
fragment alone from the speech of the member for
Rochdale will be sufficient to justify this assertion.
"France," observed Mr. COBDEN, " was undoubtedly
a great country, with an extensive seaboard, and
she was therefore entitled to maintain a large navy,
but it did not follow that she should wish to have as
large a navy as ours. Indeed, she ought not to
have so large a navy. Nay, more than that—
if he saw any disposition on her part to have as
large a navy as ours, and especially if she did not
yield to a fair explanation, then he should suspect
some sinister design. He would tell the house
candidly that if it came to a rivalry between
the two countries, and if France refused to
listen to explanations, he would as cheerfully vote
£500,000,000 as £5,000,000 to maintain our mari-
time superiority." We shall not forget those words
of Mr. COBDEN'S. They are worthy of him—they
are worthy of a true-born Englishman.

Moralists have reminded us from the days o
SOLOMON " how short-lived are human pleasures,"
bit of all pleasures, compared with the cost, that
of being a member of the British House of Com-
mons will now serve for a text to our monitors.
" See yonder gentleman. He is a member for -,
member of the first representative assembly in the
world." Yes, he was yesterday ; but an election
committee sat in solemn inquest on his proceedings
or those of his agents ; it has made its report, and
forthwith the place that once knew him knows him
no more, the M.P. is struck from his name, he be-
comes as one of us, and well for him if the brand
of bribery do not take the place of the coveted
initials. It is the descent from Solferino to Villa-
franca. The victor of the hard-fought borough
oontest retreats to his own house with the honour
of that contest only, or rather with a position
lowered by his previous triumph.
Two Liberals figure as the first of the cashiered.
Mr. BRIGHT'S brother-in-law, Mr. WM. HENRY
LEATHAM, at Wakefield, and Mr. E. W. H.
SCHENLEY, at Dartmouth, are the first to lose
their epaulettes. Four of the thirteen who helped
to displace the late Ministry now follow them,
and two others followed them yesterday, into yet
more private life than those whom they displaced.
Not that the minority on that division may yet
venture to boast. In nothing are the deserts of
the two parties more equally balanced than in
the matter of electoral corruption. Both sides
may very likely receive ultimately the same
measure of punishment from the judgments of
committees, and it is notorious that the with-
drawn petitions are generally " arrangements " be-
tween the hostile parties. Nor has any device been
yet discovered by which such arrangements can be
prevented. If the committee, or the House itself,
should no longer permit petitions to be withdrawn,
who could compel reluctant petitioners to produce
the evidence which would unseat the member who,
by a bargain with the other party, is to be left in
possession of his seat ? There is no prey ention of
such well-understood withdrawals, but the one
measure which would cut up, root and branch, the
bribery which gave rise to the petition. We believe
that these compromises generally indicate the
greatest depth of corruption on both sides. The
winners and the losers have so equally com-
mitted themselves, as we understand for in-
stance, to be the case at Norwich, that either could
gain easily a decision against the other ; hence the
suggestion, " let us save ourselves the expense and
exposure, and by one member resigning, and an
unopposed election, let it be one and one." In the
cases yet decided it is remarkable that the petitions
do not pray for the seating of the opposing candi-
date, though the majorities were, in both cases,
very small indeed. The inference seems in-
evitable.

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Both the deposed Senators are acquitted of guilty

knowledge, although one furnished forty•five £2O
notes to obtain a majority of seven in the petty
borough of Dartmouth, and the other £l,lOO to
gain one of three, in the larger, but certainly not
less corrupt borough of Wakefield. Mr. LEATHAM
also was so constantly in and out of the real com-
mittee room, when the election work was transacted,
that we must assume most marvellous simplicity

on his part, if he had no idea of what was being
done with the large sum beyond the legal expenses
which he had to pay. It must be owned, however,
that parties at elections are not personally vindic-
tive. They want merely to win. If beaten, they
are satisfied with beating their opponent in return,
but there is nothing Asiatic in them. To conquer,
not to torture their opponents, is their only object ;
indeed they would rather not bring legal penalties
on the heads of others, at whom it cost them some
squeaks of conscience to throw the first stone.
Hence, no doubt, the lenient measure commonly
dealt to the fallen ex-member.
The revelations of the committees thus far fur-
nish the usual amount of startling or amusing facts
and inventions. At Wakefield, where very large
sums were given, such as £lO, £25, £35, and much
more demanded, notes of hand and bills of sale were
signed by the receivers, with the understanding
that they should never be enforced. What is
most remarkable is that they never were,
though several of the receivers voted afterwards
for the opposite party. Indeed, such money seems
to vanish quickly. One Mistress Jackson, for in-
stance, who had come down in her terms from £5O
to £35 as the fee for using her eloquence in favour
of Leatham, could not prevail on her husband not
to vote for Charleswortn ; and when asked about
the " sugar," as such money seems to be termed in
the West Riding, she replied—" The sugar had
melted long ago." Another lady received £25,
because " then it would be impossible to say it had
been given to her husband ;" but as this was only
half the fair value of a vote in the husband's esti-
mate, he did what he thought equitable, by doing
half what he was asked—he did not vote for
Charlesworth, but neither did he vote at all. What
became of the " sugar" in this case we are not
told. _ _ _ _

At Huddersfield votes are purchased by buying
pigs at a profit of £lO to the seller. At Ashburton,
by paying large debts ; but then the Ashburton
was a case of all others presenting the strongest
temptation. The Tory candidate, according to the
evidence, had purchased a vote or two, and the
numbers then stood ninety to ninety. One vote
would decide, but that one vote could only be forth-
coming by the payment of a debt of altogether
£134. The sheriffs' myrmidons were watching the
polling booth till within a few minutes of four-
o'clock, and still the voter dared not appear—in-
deed, had he done so, he could not have voted.
This, of course, was too strong a trial for electoral
virtue. The debt was paid, and the debt-free
elector proved himself a free and independent
elector, not by voting on the side for, which he
had always voted before, but, as became him, on
the side of gratitude to Benefactors. We refrain
from comments just now. It is obvious, however,
that Mr. BED,KELEY will not want illustrations
next session from the records of the House itself.
The worst is that impressions are evanescent, and

that he may find all forgotten after the shooting
season, and the roast beef and plum-pudding of

Christmas.

The aggregate of the information obtained
through the operation of the Income-tax possesses
a peculiar interest if only as the result of an
agonizing guage of the wealth scattered over the
United Kingdom. It appears from the return or-
dered upon the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE of
Brandon, a return recently placed in obedience to
that order upon the table of the Upper House of
Parliament, that the grand total amount of pro-
perty assessed under all the five schedules of the
Income-tax reaches the enormous sum of
£327,146,845. Of this extraordinary aggregate,
Ireland claims £22,863,099 as her assessment, and
Scotland £29,558,899 as hers—England and Wales
carrying off the lions share to the marvellous tune
of £274,724,847. Upon a further analysis of these
remarkable statistics, it appears that the last men-
tioned sum total, namely, the aggregate amount of
the English and Welsh assessment is unequally
apportioned thus : under schedule A, £109,978,265
—under sehedule B, £42,777,237—under sche-
dule C, £2B,oB3,ol7—under schedule D, L 77,503,022

and under schedule E, £16,383,306. The assess-

ment under these five sections, namely, that under
Schedule A in Englacd and Wales, being again
thus subdivided—£42,6B4,s77 in land, £47,438,766
in messuages, £209,960 in tithes, £203,479 in
manors, £366,801 in quarries £3,485,150 ii
mines, £1,249,531 in ironworks, £17,959 in
fisheries, £802,765 incanals, £10,450,401 in
railroads, and £844,060 in gas-works—the re-
maining £1,378,653 being miscellaneous. The
wealth of the United Kingdom is thus weighed in
the balance. From the reliable figures brought
together opportunely enough in this singular Par-
liamentary return, we may appreciate at a glance
the money value alone of what it is we have to
defend against the risk of spoliation. Through the
few leaves of this " return" we may understand at
once how far it is worth while multiplying our
defences, whether by land or by sea. It is, of
•ourse, the very lowest plea that could be adduced
—a simply material reason for reorganising our de-
fensive armaments. Yet it is a plea nevertheless,
and one in its way sufficiently forcible, and instantly
and universally comprehensible. We have besides
our wealth, our sacred, political, social and reli-
gious liberties to guard from subjugation we have
to shield our hearths and families, the Crown and
the Constitution. But remembering, apart from
these paramount considerations, that in reorganising
the extent and character of our military and
maritime armaments we have to do battle first
of all with those very stubborn obstructives the
political economists—it is fortunate that we can
bring to bear against the shallow arguments of
thrift, in our apparently warlike but in reality
pacific expenditure the irresistible counter-argu-
ments derivable from these returns in regard of the
Income-tax revelations. The mere money value of
the property alone to be defended from the
pillage of the invader, makes in the United
Kingdom, as we have seen, that stupendous
total of more than £327,000,000 sterling. The
assessment in England and Wales alone
—an assessment made, as already observed, upon
property very nearly amounting to a grand total
of £275,000,000—yielding a net amount of income
tax, for the year last passed, the year ending on
the sth of April, 1858, under all the five schedules,
of £6,682,999. The amount under the first
schedule being £2,965,528 ; under the second,
£383,595 ; under the third, £819,088 ; under the
fourth, 72,064,4443 and under the fifth, or schedule
E, £450,344. It requires but a momentary glance
at this timely Parliamentary return to convince us
how fully it is worth while, under• the most sordid
pecuniary point of view, to reorganise, as proposed,
our defensive armaments.

THE SOUTH-WESTERN DIVIDEND.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—l am desired to intimate that the directors
of this company have resolved to recommend to
the proprietors, at the general meeting on the
4th of August next, that the dividend for the
half-year ending 30th June, 1859, be at the rate of
41 per cent. per annum on the capital of the com-
pany.—l am, &c., L. CROMBIE, Secretary.
Secretary's-office, Waterloo-bridge Station,
July 29.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA

NROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
COWES, JULY 29.
The members of the Squadron have this year given three
prizes for vessels not belonging to the R.Y.S. We hope
this will induce numbers to enter their vessels.
Ist Day—Tuesday, AuguFt 2.
The Prince Consort's Cup, value 100 guineas, will be
sailed for by schooners of the R.Y.S. under 200 tons.
2d Day—Wednesday, August 3.
The annual dinner of the Squadron will be held this day.
A prise of £lOO will be sailed for by vessels of 50 tons and
upwards, belonging to any Royal Yacht Club.
_ _ . .

3d Day—Thursday, August 4.
Her Majesty's Cup, value 100 Guineas, will be sailed for
by cutters and yawls of the R.Y.S. under 80 tons.
A display of fireworks in the evening.
4th Day—Friday, August 5.
A prize of £5O will be sailed for by yachts under 50
tons of any Royal Yacht Club.
The annual R.Y.S. ball will take place in the evening.
sth Day—Saturday, August 6.
On this day the Isle of Wight Pilot Boats will contend
for a prize of £2O ; the second vessel to have £5.
The vessels are to start from the Royal Yacht Squadron
Castle, thence round the Warner Light-vessel, thence to
the northward of the Calshot Light-vessel, passing to the
northward of the Brambles, thence round a mark vessel
moored off Egypt House, thence to pass between the station
vessel and the Castle. Twice round.
There is a very large fleet of yachts in the Roadstead—
quite a forest of mast, bearing the flags of almost every
yacht club in the United Kingdom ; a very pretty sight by
day, but still more pleasing by night, when they fiave their
lights at the mast heads.

The Queen drove through the High-street of 'West Cowes
and by the parade and esplanade, to Egypt, on Tuesday.
The Prince Consort rode through on horseback on Wed-
nesday.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred dines with the offi-
cers on board the Victoria and Albert, this day (Saturday).
He paid a visit to the Duke of Mecklenburg. at Aris's
Hotel, on Friday.

We hear that her Majesty will remain at Os-
borne until the 27th of August, the Duchess of Kent, pro-
longing her visit for some time after the Queen's de-
parture.
A deputation of the supporters of the Measure-
ment of Gas Bill, now before parliament, had an interview
with Sir G. C. Lewis on Thursday, at the Home-office.
The deputation consisted of Lord Henley, M.P., Lord
Ashley, M.P., Mr. H. B. Sheridan, M.P., Mr. Garneat,
M.P., Mr. Bristow, M.P., Mr. Foster, Mr. Firman, Mr.
Collinson, Mr. Donald, Mr. C. H. Minchin, Mr. J. T.
Stanesby, Mr. Octavius Symonds, Mr. Marriott (parlia-
mentary agent to the bill), Mr. Mansell, Mr. Chaplin, and
Mr. John Lilwall (secretary to the committee).
A deputation on the subject of ratino. Govern-
ment property had an interview with Sir G. C. Lewis yes-
terday at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of
Mr. H. Ford (Mayor), Mr. Howard (Town Clerk), Mr. C.
B. Hellard, and Mr. Alderman Styant, accompanied by Sir
Francis Baring, M.P., and Sir James Elphinstone, M.P.,
from Portsmouth; Mr. Woolcombo (Town Clerk), and the
Right Hon. James Wilson, M.P., from Devonport ; Mr.
Thomas Henry Field, from Alverstoke ; Mr. Ruegg and
Mr. J. R. Jolly, from Woolwich ; Mr. Buchanan and Sir
Frederick Smith, M.P., from Chatham ; and Mr. Yonge
(Vestry Clerk), from St. Mary-le-Strand.
At a meeting of the Mariquita and New Grenada
Mining Company a dividend of ls. 6d. per share was agreed
to. The yield at the Santa Ana establishment continues
satisfactory, the amount of silver obtained in 1859 being
160,036 oz., against 158,519 in 1858.
A confident impression is entertained that the
differences which have so long prevailed between the Lon-
don and Brighton and the London and South-Western
Railway Companies are about to be amicably adjusted.
The Trieste Gazette announces that General Ur-
ban, commander of Verona, who, the English public will
remember, distinguished himself by his atrocities during
the Austrian invasion of Piedmont, has been placed on the
retired list, and has been succeeded by General Baron
Wernhardt.
A Paris correspondent of the lndependance Beige,
writing on the 27th, says :—" You may rest assured that all
which has been announced in relation to interviews of sove-
reigns—the arrival at Paris of Alexandet 11. and Francis
Joseph, the Journey to London or to Vienna of Napoleon
111., &-c., is devoid of all foundation and of all probability."
The correspondent of the Nord says that Prince
Napoleon is at present engaged in selecting the persons who
are to accompany him to Vienna for the purpose of bringing
to France the remains of the Duke of lteichstadt. the son
of the first Napoleon. The arrival of the body in France
will be accompanied by a magnificent funeral ceremony.