The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-20 00:00:00

THE SUN,I "LONDON, WEDNESDAY ENV ENING, FEBRUARY P 20, 1861.

choose pu' c themselves on a line with him, his
importance
on the question he takes up increases as
rapidly rls the figures in our numeration table.
Now, t4erefore, is the time for popular action.
t
Petition ought to flow in rapidly, if sincere
reformers are not to receive a severe check.

We e.dmit a difference in what may be expected
from the unenfranchised in the counties and the
unenfranchised in the town. The former have
nisch less inducement to petition than the latter.
They are, as a body, so entirely at the disposal of
the landlords, except, perhaps, in the casual case
of a large town extending its suburbs beyond the
boundary of the borough, that they could gain
nothing by the fratchise. We do not indeed object
to Mr. KING'S Bill ; so far as it is even nominally
an extension of the suffrage, it must be supported
by Liberals ; but it will have no effect, we fear,
beyond increasing the per-centage of votes through
which the landlords express their sentiments.
The votes of both Whig and Tory landlords
will each have ten, fifteen, or twenty per cent.
added to the numbers they can drive to the poll ;
the relative positions of the two aristocratic parties
will remain unchanged ; but the advanced Liberals
will nowhere have the slightest chance.
With the boroughs it is somewhat different.
Working men, who there, will be the next
stratum of electors to the present one, although
much needing protection for their votes, are, we
believe, more independent by far than the county
voters vould be. Their numbers and power of
combination give them strength ; they are as neces
sary, as a body, to their employers, as their em-
ployers to them: To thousands of them, we
know, an unprotected vote would be a curse,
but on tens of thousands it would confer
the privilege of voting, as they always do
at the show of hands, for the right man.
Mr. BAINES' Bill is, therefore, a summons to the
working men of all the great boroughs to say what
they wish.

We confess we look with some interest on the
result; Hitherto, while Governments were many
years offering working men the franchise without
trouble, it was hardly to be expected they would
put themselves out of the way to get it. The
case is changed now. The Government is not
hostile, far from that ; it would probably
not dislike some proof that it was not so far wrong
last year ; but it says we are powerless. A mem-
ber who has taken great pains to show that the
working men of his own borough are deserving of
the franchise, brings forward a bill in their favour.
Left to himself, he, like the Government, is power-
less ; supported by the £6 renters, he could, we
doubt not, carry his bill even over the bar
of the House of :Lords. Will the working
men petition ? We cannot predict. If they
do not they must not expect enfranchisement
for many a long year. If they do, they can so do
it that opposition will cease. Mr. WARNER told
the house that Norwich had begun ; Leeds and
Newcastle will almost certainly follow ; should the
movement spread to Manchester, Sheffield, Bir-
mingham, Glasgow, and other populous towns, it
would then become general. On this we believe
turns the fate of Mr. BAINES' Bill.

THR BALLO7 IN AUS7RALIA.

LEN E W

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TURIN, FEB. 20.

The number of troops who were made prisoners
at Gaeta was 11,000.
The Sardinians found between 700 and 800 can-
nons and 60,000 muskets.
Three generals accompanied Francis 11. to Rome
—25 ere prisoners.
General Chiabrera has been ordered to summon
the Commander of the fortress of Messina to sur-
render.

PESTH, FEB. 20.

The municipality of Pesth has forwarded an ad-
dress to the Emperor demanding the dismissal of
the Ban of Croatia, and the appointment of a Hun-

garian in his place.

• The Congregation of Croatia has been transferred
from Fiume to Buccari, on account of the state of
siege at the former place.

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 13.

A meeting of the Hasne tavileholders has been
held, at which it was resolved to address protests,
through the embassies, against the renewal of these
bonds,

ROME, FEB. 16 (via Marseilles).

The Giornale di Roma gives a denial to the
rumours of an arrangement between the Holy See
and Piedmont.

The departure for Paris of Mgr. Sacconi, Papal
Nuncio to the Court of the Tuileries, has been

postponed.

At the demonstration on Thursday last the
crowd shouted, " Long live Victor Emmanuel !"
" The Unity of Italy for ever !"
Some priests were even seen cheering with the
multitude.

Some French patrols at length requested the
crowd to disperse, and were obeyed.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 19

In to-day's sitting of the Council of State the
convocation of the Holstein Diet was fixed for the
6th March next.

The purport of the communications to be made
to the Diet is not yet known.

PARIS, FEB. 19.

An ordinance of the President of the Tribunal of
the Seine appoints M. Germiny provisional Admi-
nistrator of the Bank of the Railways (Caisse des
Chemins de Fer), with the most absolute powers.
The Conference on the Syrian question held a
sitting to-day.
The Patrie and the Pays say :

" The latest news from Cochin China announces
that fresh persecutions had been commenced
against the Christians."

LAW .1117TELLIGENCE—( This Day.)

COUAT OF CHANCERY.
(Before Vice Chancellor Kindersley.)
MORNINGTON V. MORNINGTON.

His Honour delivered judgment at great length, detail-
ing minutely the circumstances of the case. On the three
questions submitted to his consideration his Honour was of
opinion that the rents and profits of estates -were_ liable to
pay the interest and arrears of the annuities respectively
due by late and present earl. That the surplus charges of
£102,000 charged by £lOO,OOO on the Irish estates were to
be carried to the £5,000 charged on the English estate.
And he approved of the chief chief's certificate in not
adopting the master's report, but ordering an inquiry
into the costs, charges, and expenses properly incurrred.

POLICE 1377ELL1GENCE—(This Day).

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

A THEATRE THIEF.—THE ADVANTAGE OF AN OLD
CONSTABLE.—Wm. Tring, a young man, was charged be-
fore Mr. Boadon with being at the St. James's Theatre for
the purpose of picking pockets.

William Parsons, fireman at the theatre, but formerly in
the police, said that on the previous night, just as the com-
pany were leaving the theatre at the close of the per-
formances, he saw the prisoner at the grand entrance,
leading to the dress circle, try several ladies' pockets.
Distinctly seeing the prisoner draw his hand from one
lady's pocket, he gave him into custody.
In answer to Mr. Beadon, Parsons said he had been
watching him for five minutes.

In answer to Mr. Wontner, who appeared for the pri-
soner, Parsons said he did not exactly remember what he
said to the lady, but he distinctly saw the prisoner's hand
in the lady's pocket. He allowed him to try three pockets,
and was waiting to see him take something. He had been
in the police 20 years, and it was not the first time he had
met him (Mr. Wontner). (Laughter.)
Brown, 304, said he had the prisoner in custody in Feb.
1860, for a similar thing at the Haymarket Theatre, and he
then was sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment.
Sergeant Cole said he also had the prisoner in custody
for stealing a purse on the night the Princess Royal was
married, and he was then committed for 3 months.
Prisoner was, again committed for 3 months.