The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-10 00:00:00

ITALY.

NAPLES, July 5..—A supplement of the official
journal announc% that the insurgent band of
Saphir was attacked at Padula by the civic guards,
the gendarmerie, and the
7th regiment of char.
seurs. One hundred insurgents were killed, thirty
wounded, and as many taken prisoners. Almost
all the insurgents who had fled were in custody.
Calabria was traqui]. The official journal con-
tains a high eulogium addressed to the civic guards,
who had left the
a
labours of the harvest to take up
arms.

of Turin, says :—..it
A letter from Genoa of the sth, in the Opinione,
Small deposits of gunpowder
are found daily 11. the police, especially in the
Sestiere Pre. .Arrests still continue. Miss White
is kept wider arrest at her owp, residence. A. house

SPAIN.

MADRID, JULY B.—The Budget has been pre-
sented to the Congress. The insurgents have been
severely chastised (it is no said where). A trea'y
for the mutual protection of literary property be-
tween. Spain and Eugland has been signed.

The King of Prussia arrived at Vienna on the
Bth with the Emperor and the Archduke Ferdi
nand. Their Majesties immediately proceeded to
Schonbrunn. The King wore the uniform of the
Austrian hussars and the Emperor that of the
Prussian grenadiers."

The Opinione of Turi❑ states that the present
session of the Piedmontese chambers will close next

week.

Intelligence from Leghorn of the 2d states that
the squadron of Admiral Lyons had left that port
for the Gulf of Spezzia, where it was to remain
three days, and proceed to Toulon.

The Echo Agicole publishes the following infor-
mation respecting the prospects of the Yin age :
"The season has been hitherto very favourable to
the vineyards, and this year's wine will probably
be much superior in quality to that of the last four
or five. The oidium has appeared but in few
places, and its ravages have been restricted by the
use of sulphur. Some surprise is manifested that
the price of wine should not have fallen to some
extent, but attention is not paid to the fact that
many months must elapse before the new wine, how-
•ver abundant.it may be, can come into the market.
No sensible &eine in prices can be hoped for until
the cellars of the trade are full, and this is far from
being the case at present. Nevertheless, a decline
is certain, though good wine will always msintain
its price. In the:South the formation of the fruit
has passed over with complete success. The, harm
said to have been inficied by the recent rains has
been greatly exaggerated. Letters from Bayonne
state that the vintage will be small in that neigh-
bourhood in consequence of the limited number of
bunches on the vines. At Bordeaux everything
pronounces a splendid vintage. At Nautes the rain
has done harm, and the proprietors are somewhat
alarmed for their vintage."

Mr. Abbott, election auditor, examined by Mr. Ser-
geant Ballantine—Mr. Wilkinson's expenses were re-
turned up to the day of nomination, at 5221. 163. 10d.
Mr. %Villains's at 7531. 18s. 5d., and Mr. Roupell's at
2,6101. 17s. He found in the latter account cbarges
for canvassers, clerks, messengers, fire, committee-
rooms, stationery, and cab hire ; 201. was charged for
Swan, but he was unable to give the details. He had

not yet been furnished with the name of the person
to whom it was paid, nor had he been furnished with
any details of the whole account. He had applied to
Mr. Murphy for them. The same applied to 181. 10s.

for the Queen's Arms ; 15/. for Prince Regent ; the
Tankard, 3/. is. ; St. Paul's Tavern, 151. 2.. ; Sur-
rey Canal Tavern, 51. 7s. 6.1. ; the Pilgrim Tavern,
71. 2s. ; Waggon and Horses, 61. 13s. 6d. ; Bee Hive,
Si. 7s. 6d. ; William IV., 171. ;,Creorge, 8/. 154; Free-
masons' Arms, 1/._ 15s. ; Black Horse, 51. 17s. 6d ;

Kentish Drover, 11/. ss. 6d. ; Duke of Suffolk, 151.

Crown anti Anchor, 51. ; Falcon, 2/. ; Prince of Wales,

41. 9s. ; Royal Veteran, 15s. There were similar charges
for the 21st, 24th, and 27th of March, the particulars of

which had not been supplied to him.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied by a
consideration of matters of detail connected with Mr.
Roupell's expenditure during the election.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (This Day.
was yesterday searched, in which the police found' a -Er ECTIO*I COMMITTEES.—(This Day.)
-copy of the instructions given to the consi-iTaturs.
They are of so atrocious a nature thAt one is se'zed
with horror at the idea of what would have beau
the fate of Genoa, had the insurrection succeeded."
The Monitore Toscano of the 4th st-itea that since
the proclamation of the state of siege at Leghorn,
public tranquillity has not been again disturbed in
that city.

LAMBETH.
The committee assembled ter the first time this morn-
ing in No. 17, committee-roor.a ; Mr. Ingham presieed,
and the other members of the committee were Sir A.
Matheson, Mr. Colville,Vr count Bandon, and Major
Wortley. Tire netiriety attending the return of Mr.
Roupell for the boreingh of Lambeth by so I.rge a
I majority drew together a large number of persons to
hear the p'roceedings. Great interest was mani-
fested throughout the day. The petitioners
were Messrs. Nieholls and Briscoe, and the
allegations in the petition were that the sitting
member (Mr. Roupell) had been returned by bribery,
treating, and undue influence. The suit was not prayed
for by the defeated candidate, Mr. Wilkinson.
Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, and Mr.
Atkinson, appeared for the petitioners. Mr. Slade,
Q C.; Mr. Phinn, Q.C., acid Mr. Johnson, appeared for
the sitting member.
Mr. James, in opening the petitioner's case, said that
the allegations against Mr. Roupell were, that he had
obtained his return for the borough of Lambeth
by a system of bribery, undue influence, and treating.
As the allegations involved the right of a large consti-
tuency, and as the facti to be brought forward were of
a novel character, he entreated the earnest attention of
the committee to the facts he should lay before them.
The constituency embraced a large number of clerks,
and working classes, the majority of the latter being in
comparatively humble life, and an influence by the most
lavish expenditure of money by Mr. Roupell was brough t
to bear on the lower orders of voters in this borough
who, out of a proportion of 250,000, had the electors
power in their hands. In 1852 Mr. Wlleinson was at
the, head of the poll, and polled 4,700—a larger number
than bad ever been polled before by one candidate in
the borough. On the 10th March, 1857, Mr. Wil-
kinson issued his address, and on the 13th Mr. Ron-
pell issued his. Mr. Roupell was a gentleman new
to the political arena before this election, but he
possessed what was of great value in the borough of
Lambeth, a large purse, and the influence of a numerous
tenantryfif small householders. Several streets of small
honees in the borough belonged to him, one of which
bore his name. Toe nomination for the borough took
place ou Saturday, the 28th of March, and the polling
on the Monday following, when Mr. Roupell polled the
unprecedented number of 9,300. Mr. Williams, finding
during the period before the election that Mr. Roupell
wasga,inlng ground, judiciously left Mr. Wilkinson in
the lurch, and attached himself to the skirts of Mr. Rou-
pell's mantle, A more prudent and economical course the
bon. member could not have adopted. (Laughter.) Mr.
Williams polled 7,600, and Mr. Wilkinson 3,230. As
soon as Mr. Roupell issued his address to the electors,
he commenced a system of bribery, by engaging public
houses under the guise of committee rooms, and from
100 to 150 were so engaged as a bribe to the publicans
for their votes, who in return were, under the pressure
of open houses, to exercise an undue influence (as
was done in a number of cases), on the hum-
bler classes of voters. So numerous were these
committee rooms, that two Cr three were to be found in a
street in closer proximity than was necessary for the
legitimate conduct of the election. In many cases the
publicans were also paid chairmen of the committees as
well as paid canvassers. The case the learned counsel
quoted as an example of the system, and with which he
connected Mr. Roupell, was that of the Surrey Canal
Tavern, Kent-road, kept by a person named Gillen.
About a week before the election Mr. Roupell, accom-
panied by Mr. Doulton (who acted as chairman of Mr.
Roupell's principal committee as well as his chairman at
the large gatherings in the borough), and by Mr. Mur-
phy, clerk to Mr. Roupell's agent, went to this com-
mittee room, the chairman of the committee being
Gillan's father. Mr. Roupell, on seeing Gillan, said to
him, " Well, how are yon getting on." Gillan replied
" Not so well as I could wish—this is Mr. Wilkinson's
strong ground." Mr. Doulton said to Gillen, " Well,
what would you recommend to be done." Gillan
replied, " Open some more public houses."
(Laughter.) Murphy then said, " I'll come down
in the course of a day or so, and see which are
the next to be opened." Mr. Roupell on that imme-
diately said, " Open them all, and we shall then he sure
of them." (Laughter.) It was a remarkable fact, to
be borne in mind in connexion with this conversation,
that up to the day of nomination only 42 public-houses
had b!en opened, but between Saturday and Monday
(the days of nomination and election) they had increased
to between 100 and 120. If they were opened before
the nomination, Mr. Roupell was in this diffi-
culty, that in returning the number of public-
houses to the election auditor, his agent, by returning
only 42 had made a false return under the Act of
Parliament, and the payments beyond that were illegal.
In addition to the public houses and paid chambers of
committee, 200 paid committeemen were appointed, and
from 300 -to 350 paid non-electors as canvassers, and the
committee were called on for the first time to
decide the legality of the latter appointment. The
fourteen days' expenses up to the day of
nomination were—For Mr. Wilkinson, 5221. ;
for Mr. Williams, 7531. 18s. 3d., and for Mr. Roupell,
2,6101. 17s. That charge gave them an insight into Mr.
Roupell's lavish expenditure, for out of it,' 1,1551.
14s. 3d. was paid for public-houses as committee-rooms,
but to whom no mention was made, which was a viola-

Mon of the Act of Parliament, and of itself invalidate I
the election. During the election the borough presented
a kind of saturnalia, flags, banners, omnibuses, and such
like met. the eye at every corner, and it was with
difficulty persons could pass up and down the streets.
The expenses of the election after the nomination had
not been furnished by Mr. Roupell, as required by the
terms of the act of Parliament.
The usual formal notices of the issue of the writ and
the return of Mr. Roupell, as member of Parliament for
the borough of Lambeth, were put in and Few%
Mr Onslow, the returning officer, stated there were
20,276 voters in the borudgh, which extended over an
area of 10 miles. To his knowledge the election was

MA RL BO ROUGH-STRE ET.
CLIIIICLTY TO A HORSE. —John Carter, cab driver, and
owner of badge 10,129, was charged, before Air. Bing-
ham, at the instance of the Rlyal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, with crueFy id-using a
horse, in Park-lane.
The prisoner, who was summoned a few days ago, and
who was in the service of Mr. Nash, an extensive cabs
proprietor, in the parish of St. Marylebone, did not ap-
pear to it, when he was apprehended by Love, an active'
and intelligent officer of the s
Mr. J. Grea;bead, No. 134, Piccadiry, said that, on.
the 25th of June, he was in Park-lane, when he saw the:
defendant there driving a one horse cab at a very furious•
rate. He was lashing the animal in a violent manner
with his whip.

Love said that he had examined the horse after the
treatment it had received from the prisoner. He found
between 40 and 50 marks upo❑ it, the effect of the lash-
ing it had received. Toe animal was in a very weak
condition.
The prisoner said that the animal was not able to go,
and that in ordtr to 'age it to proceed he was compelled
to use the whip. The horse would not go at a speed
of mon. than four miles an hour.
Mr. Grear.head observed that when he saw the horse
in Park-lane it was going at a greater speed than four
mile-, an hour.
Mr. Nash, who appeared the previous day, as the
driver did not attend when the warrant was ordered to
be issued, stated that his father had discharged the Pri-
soner in consequence of the ill treatment that bad heel
mentioned.

conducted with the utmost propriety and credit ; no
complaints were made to him when he visited the poll-
ing booths from time to time during the day of elec-
tion.

Mr. Bingham made some strong remarks on the up'
feeling conduct of the prisoner, who was fined 245., costs
includtd, of 14 days imprisonment. The fine was paid.

SOUTH WARK.
WATCH ROBBERY.—James Mahoney, a ticket-of-1001e
man, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing'
watch from Mr. Trotman.
From the evidence it appeared that the prosecirtor
was standing opposite the Town-hall, when the prisoi.nsf
snatched the watch from his waistc.,at pocket.
He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. I'be
magistrate remarking if it was true that he was a ticket
of-leave man, the Government could then detain hint if
they thought proper.

THAMS
This morning Edward Smith, , the landlord of ;the
Hayfields public-house, was fined ss. for obstructing tb•
pavement on the occasion of the shipwrights' process/DO
to Fairlop, and was also ordered to pay a poor womall
named &Well' 2/. for the injuries she had received in
corssequence of his doing so.