The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-30 00:00:00

F;UN, DON, TUESDAY EVENING,

be written to the Speaker at the last
moment, telling him that it is not the intention of
the petitioner or petitioners to prosecute the pe-

titian ! The matter thus falls to the ground,
without the party who has occasioned all the
vexatious proceedings, or who possibly may have
received a considerable sum of money, or some
other corrupt inducement, being liable to any de-
scription of punishment.
Again, the system is often resorted to in the
hope that the petition may be set off against one
of greater importance on the other side, or as a
makeweight in some bargain to be entered into.
The Hon. Member for Bodmin pointed out an-
other use to which it might be and has been con-
verted—namely, a medium of advertisement
for an ambitious boot and shoe-maker,
who could not rest satisfied with the
ordinary means of obtaining notoriety. Under
any view of the subject the House of Commons
should take care that the parties guilty of such
gross contumely should not escape with impunity,
and the manner iu which Mr. ADDERLEY'S Elec-
tion Petition Bill was advanced a stage last night
iu opposition to the Government, indicates that it
will take care of its own privileges.
Some guarantee should be enforced for the bona
fide prosecution of the petition. It is not enough
that recognisances are entered into, unless the
amount be strictly enforced, and a severe penalty
paid in the event of the petition proving " frivol-
ous and vexatious," not in the Parliamentary,
but in the plain and obvious interpretation of the
terms. We are by no means friendly to the
multiplication of oaths, but there Could be no
oLjection to a statutory declaration that the party
was advised and believed that he had good grounds
for anticipating that he could establish the
accuracy of his statements, and that in the event
of failure, he should be subjected to such fine, pay-
able by his sureties, as the Committee should im-
pose. This course, and this alone, would correct
the evil, and it should be adopted before the piss-
ing or rejection of the promised Reform Bill ren-
ders another "appeal t, the country" indispen-
sable.

The Leviathan Stock Jobber stands revealed !
The Ursa Major is exhibited in all his gigantic
proportions. It appears that it is the Chancellor
of the Exchequer who " operates" in Cspel-court
to the extent of millions, where ordinary "bulls"
and "bears" aro contented to risk thousands !
No wonder that there should be a con-
siderable deficiency—a hiatus valde deflen-
dus in the Savings' Bank funds. They
constitute the capital wherewith he " rigs the
market " from time to time, selling in the cheapest
and buying in the highest market. No wonder
that the private secretary of a former financial
Minister should try his chance at the tempting
game, but very wonderful that while playing with
" marked cards" and " cogged. dice," he should
be a serious loser to others, who were supposed to
possess no such advantages.l It seems to have
been a case of " Greek meeting Greek," when
the tug of war became so terrific, or possibly
the rashness of the official speculator, more than
neutralising the advantages arising from early in-
firmation.

Sir H. WILLOUGHBY last night detailed the
amount of operations in 1855 and 1856. They
amounted, in round terms, to 10,036,0001. Ex-
chequer Bills purchased, and 5,414,0001. stock
and 4,449,800/. Exchequer Bills sold. Why
the mere turn of the market, as it is termed, on
this amount, assuming it at but -kth per
cent., must have amounted to 125,000/., and
the fees to the Government broker, if he
were as liberally remunerated as other brokers,
would have amounted to a like sum—or, even at
Is. per cent., would reach 50,000/. stz.‘rling! It
is possible that the increased duties on tee, coffee,
and sugar may only suffice to gratify the cervine
propensities of the Financid Minister, and enable
him "to make his game" to the satisfaction of
the frequenters of Cape'.-court.
From January to April, 1856, 2,491,0001.
Exehedner-hills were bought, and 2,380,0301.
stock sold at low prices, averaging from 85 to
91. In July 287,6001. stock was purchased at
from 95 to 06. The deficiency of more than a
million in the Savings B ink funds is thus easily
accounted for. Indeed it is only surprising that
it is so little as it is. A "sporting financier "
would knock clown d3uble the sum, even in a
single year, whilst playing what the Governor of
the Bank of Eegland terms " dummy," against
the Whole of the Stool{ Exchange. Taking
into consideration " the turn of the market,"
brokers' fees, and tho die vivant tge of playing with
his cards on the table, it may amount to a very
serious aggregate in the long run.
Bat it is not merely the amonnt of loss that
renders the transaction's objectionable. Sec!)
nitride influence on the value of marketable secu-
rities should not be tolerated for a single moment.
ft is the creation of a fictitious market, calcu
lated to deceive the public, and t) induce
money to be invested at prices that cannot be
sustained when the abnOrmal action ceases. Be-
sides, it is utterly unconstitutional that any Mini-
ster of tlae Crown sh3ull exercise uncontrolled
authority over so vast a sum as 35,000,0001..
sterling. It creates a power that should not,
under any circumstances, be entrusted to the
Executive, and which might be used very injuri-
ously to the national freedom, should any colli-
sion unfortunately occur between the SOVEREIGN
and the Parliament of Great Britain.

As we intimated yesterday, the more energetic
supporters of the Ballot without the walls of Par-
liament, prepared the way last night for the im-
portant work to be adventured upon this evening
by its more resolute advocates within the walls of
Parliament. Mr. BERKELEY has therefore been
happily inspirited, at the last moment, as it were,
prior to his bringing forward his annual motion in
the House of Commons. " Happily," we say, not
that the, hon. member for Bristol required—but
that lie deserved—to be thus inspirited. And
the occasion was in truth, in its way, to say the
least of it, eminently encouraging. It was the
occasion of the aggregate meeting of delegates
(favourable to the Ballot) from all parts of the
United Kingdom—an aggregate meeting held
where ? At the King's Arms Hotel, New Palace-
yard, Westmins'er I—and when ? Upon the very
eve of Mr. BERKELEY'S annual motion being sub-
mitted to the New Parlament, the Reform Par-
liament, the Ballot Parliament ! The character
of the meeting, which took place yesterday, " over
against" the House of Commons, may be most
readily and satisfactorily indicated by reference to
the two principal resolutions passed by the as-
sembled delegates nemine contradicente. The
first was simply to the effect :—" That this
meetinq, composed of the electors and other per-
sons who took part in the late general elections,
looking to the accumulated evidence of the evils
inherent in the open voting system afforded by
the intimidation, bribery, treating, and other
undue influences exercised at such elections,
desire to record their conviction, that without
the vote by ballot a full, fair, and free represen-
tation of the people in Parliament can never be
obtained." The abstract principle was here,

will be seen, sententionFly and forcibly enunciated.
The second resolution being of a more practical
kind than its precursor, averred That this
"meeting has heard with great satisfaction of the
adoption of the Ballot in the British colonies of
Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, and of
ins triumphant and undoubted success in these
colonies, as well as in tha kingdoms of Belgium,
ILiland, and Sardinia, and this meeting respect-
fully urges the liberal members of the newly
elected House of Commons to use every influence
to induce Lord PALMERSTON to make the vote by
ballot part of his promised Reform Bill." It will
be at once perceived from what we have here said,
and especially from what we have here quoted, that
the advocates of the Ballot " outside" the walls
of Parliament have nobly done their duty. The
responsibility now devolves upon the supporters
of the Ballot " inside" the walls of the Legisla-
ture.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

The Meeting last evening at the King's Arms,
preparatory to the debate to-night on the Ballot,
will not be without its weight with the friends of
the movement, nor altogether insignificant to
Lord PALMERSTON. It consisted chiefly of dele-
gates from all parts of the kingdom, persons, who
for the most part had been hard workers at elec-
tions, and who could bear testimony, and did
bear it most cordially, to the numberless corrupt
influences under which the constituencies had to
vote, and their determination not to let the sub-
ject rest till the Ballot was the law of the land.
Each had some facts to tell of—some cases chiefly
of undue influence, though examples of bribery
were not wanting—which showed that in their
boroughs, at least, the Ballot was a necessity.

Mr. MILNER GIBSON introduced the most
important practical view, in which he was sup-
ported by all the Members of Parliament present,
and, of course, by the Meeting. He observed
that as the time for argument was confessedly
gone by, and the time for action come, they had
now to consider how the point was to be carried.
They had to compel Lord PALMERSTON to concede
the ballot, and to make it a part of his new Re-
form Bill. His doing so entirely depended on
whether he could have the support of the liberal
party without the concession. Every ono knows
that ho would never yield if he could help it ;
they might be equally certain that ho would yield
rather than quit office. Al!, therefore, depends
on the course adopted by the liberal members after
the division of to-night. Suppose Mr. BERXELEY
is in a minority, yet if that minority contains a
large majority of the liberals, let that majority at
once have a meeting and send a deputation to
Lord PALMERSTON, assuring him that they will
not support his Government unless he adopts the
ballot. As the majority of his supporters they are
entitled to have their policy carried out, or to
leave the Premier t) get his supporters among
the Tories if he can.

We quito agree with Mr. GIBSON, and could
wish that on this subject he could make his voic3
heard again in the House. lie is a practical man,
and knows, as well as any Member of the House,
how to put the screw on a Minister. However,
the Manchester Tories, in voting for Mr. POTTER,
have sent a very decided supporter of the Ballot
to the House, and Manchester retains its votes
for the Ballot ; if we cannot say that it will be
supported with equal eloquence or parliamentary
knowledge. There is no doubt that if Lord PAL-
ILERSTON thinks the Liberal Members in earnest,
he will yield. Will they be in earnest ? The
Division list to-night will test that. Absentees
and pairs will be all open to more or less suspicion,
and will by their conduct encourage the Minister
to hold back. They must all, if men who have
promised or pledged themselves, be dealt with
rigorously by their constituencies, and a
full account of their stewardship exicted from
them. Something more, must, however, be now
required than voting right this evening. Many
will de that., who, we are sorry to think, would
be thankful to be let off with a right vote. The
next thing to the vote is the necessity of the
hour ; the forming one of a deputation to compel
the PRE.IIIEIt t) obey the vote of his prefesoed.
supporter:. This will now becomo the test of
a really liberal member.

We were glad to see Mr. BaRMELEY in as good
spirits as ever after his twenty years service, and
to bear him avow his determination to he
" obstinate" on the question, if they pleased to
call it so. 113 intended to yiel Ito no blandish-
ments, and no suggestions to pat it off till ner;
session, or to shirk a division, or to take his
chance for another day; he intended "obstinately"
to press the ;notion to a division t )-morrow. We
should ad' that Mr. NichoLsori's statements of
the conversions wrought, in Australia by the suc-
cess of the first elections under tie ballot, pro-
duced a strong and most hopeful impres-
Individuals, communities, corpora-
tions, who hal opposed it out and. out
till it had been tried, were now for-
ward not only to avow their changeof opinion, but
to act upon it. The ballot is now all but univer-
sal in each of the colonies in the Great Maud of
the-South. The Sydney Legislature is not indeed
yet elected by it ; all the other legislatures and
corporations are, however, and the Government
at Sydney has propcsed it for
.the corporation
there ! Gin Englishmen at home be long denied
the liberty conceded to Englishmen in the colo-
nies ?

sion.

HER MA•TE3Trs VISIT TO AIANCTESTER.

Her Maj..sty the Queen, the Prince Consort, the
other members of the Royal Family, and the Prince
of Prussia, arrived about ten o'clock last evening,
at the Patrjcroft station of the Loudon and North
Western Railway, whence they immediately pro-
ceeded in the royal carriages to Woreley Hall. The
royal party left London at five o'clock in the after-
noon. It was originally intended to start_ much
earlier in the day, so as to arrive in the afternoon at
the Earl of Ellesmere's residence, but the arrange-
ment was altered,
,owing to the extreme heat of the
weather, which rendered it much more agreeable to
travel in the evening, and a telegraphic message
to this effect was received at Worsley Hall on
Sunday.
Notwithstanding the lateness of the hour at
which her Majesty arrived, there were a conside-
rable number of people assembled at the station,
who welcomed her with much cheering. In prepa-
ration for th 3 royal visit, a large pavilion, one
hundred and twenty feet long, had been erected
over the station platform by Mr. Rainford, of
Liverpool. The interior was gaily adorned with
different coloured tapestries, and with stands of
flowering plants. Over the entrance to the stair-
case leading from the station was placed a crown
of flowers, constructed by Mr. Noyes, nurseryman.
The royal party passed under a triumphal arch near
the station, past the Bridgewater Foundry and
Menton-green, to the private carriage drive to
Worsley. The road was kept by 100 men of the
county police, under Captain Sheppard, the chief
constable ; and in the private grounds a number of
Lord Ellesmere's tenantry were engaged to assist
in. preserving order, but their s?rvices were not so
much required as they might have b.,en if the ar-
rival had taken place as early as was at first con-
templated.

In Hamburg the rate of discount lans risen to 71
per cent.
The provincial trade reports for the past week indi-
cate generally a steady business, the recent reduction
in the Bank rate of discount having created confidence.
The specie by the America yesterday is 247,500/„--an
unusuolly large amount, considering that the port of
departure was Boston. A portion of this will probably
be taken to the Bank.