The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1868,

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there are still arguments there sufficiently respect- LATEST INTELL MENGE
able to deserve confuting, not sweeping aside
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
as simply idiotic, but demonstrating to be clearly
fallacious— it cannot but appear to us simply ab-
surd to look for the settlement of the whole question
instantaneously, at the dictum of any one, within the
brief interval between the meeting of Parliament on
the 10th of December and its prorogation be-
fore Christmas. Parliament will meet, the
newly-elected =embers of the House of Commons
will be sworn in, Mr. Speaker will be
inducted into the Chair, the Speech from the Throne
will be read and answered through the Addresses,
but the great struggle of parties, we may rest per-
fectly well assured of that, cannot by possibility
come on until after the reassembling of Parliament
at the usual time in February.

TURKEY.

CoNsTANTINOPLE, Nov. 19.
Musurus Pacha is likely to prolong his stay here
for another fortnight.
The Minister of Public Works, Daoud Pacha, is
expected back tomorrow.

RUSSIA.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20.

The St. Petersburg journals assert that the
Porte in view cf the position of affairs in
Roumauia is arming, and that the necessary
military conferences are taking place at the
Turkish Ministry of War. The same papers allege
that the Porte intends next spring to station on the
Danube a corps of observation of 100,000 men.
The Tobacco Loan has failed.

WHILE the metropolis was in a state of turmoil
on Tuesday, and candidates in various of the boroughs
were running a neck-and-neck race, there was one
metropolitan election taking place of which neither
eye nor ear had any token. The wayfarer passing
along Piccadilly would have seen plentiful signs of
the impending defeat in Westminster. The
public-houses blossomed with true-blue posters,
exhorting the electors to
." plump for SMITH,"
and the streets were hung with banners
in which the name and the colours of that eminent
newsagent were displayed ; yet no one would
have had the smallest idea that the man who two
years ago was the best-abused and most unpopular
man in England was being elected without a contest.
Within the walls that hide the courtyard of
Burlington House, Mr. LOWE was returning
thanks for the honour that had just been
done him by selecting him as the first
representative of the new constituency. The
speech which he delivered on the occasion is quite
'sun geizeris, just as. the constituency is. The con-
stituency used to be "an airy nothing;" even now
that it has just got into its new rooms .it has very
little corporate unity, and is the least defined con-
stituency in the kingdom. In that respect Mr.
LOWE is an admirable representative. It is
impossible to assign him to any party. Told by
Mr. BRIGHT that he ought to be in sackcloth and
ashes, he replies with a sneer that asceticism is not to
his taste, and that he leaves that kind of garb to
others. As for himself, he will not recall a single
word that he has uttered. He will not, indeed, undo
the legislation of the last two years, but he would
guard against it by drawing a hard and fast line at £4,
and so exclude the class which receives from the rates
instead of contributing to them. But even with this
line, even keeping out Mr. BRIGHT'S residuum from
the franchise, there is still a large class of electors
whom Mr. LOWE dreads because of their ignorance.
They must be educated. Not that Mr. LOWE cares
much for education on its own account. Addressing
the constituency by which, as he admitted, cultivation
had been carried to the highest pit3h, far higher than
at Oxford, he yet adhered to those low utilitarian
materialist views of education which Mr.
COLERIDGE denounced with such eloquence during
the Reform debates of 1866. Mr.LowE declared thathe
went almost as far as COBBETT, who, when a great
man said that he wished every man in the country to
read BACON, replied that he had rather that every
man could eat bacon. And yet, so full of
contradiction is Mr. LOWE, that he declared
if it had not been for a physical impedi-
ment—weak eyesight—he should have given
himself up wholly to study for its own sake, for the
pleasure that he took in it, and would never have
entered upon political life. Believing that the
instruction of the lower class is necessary for the
safety of his own class, Mr. LOWE is for
compulsory education. For culture he has
not only no sympathy, but no patience.
Educate a working man, because he is less dangerous
to the community educated than ignorant ; educate
him, too, because education will teach him to earn his
bread and to buy bacon ; but as for imparting the
refinements of the intellect, they are as much out of
place as sending ruffles to .a man who wants a shirt.
So, with regard to politics, Mr. LOWE sees in the
Reform Bill only an alteration of the balance of
power. He believes that the alteration is for the
worse ; but he is not going to cry for shed milk, and
he will simply do the best he can under the altered
circumstances. A wise resolve, no doubt ; but the
question is, can a man do well who has no sympathy
with the new reginze, who looks upon it as a change
fraught with mischief which has to be neutralised ?
What can we hope from a man who, instead of feel-
ing a single ardent aspiration now that the people
are for the first time called upon to legislate instead
of being legislated for, views them as unwelcome
intruders to be kept at as great a distance as possible ?
If he has no confidence in them they certainly will
have no confidence in him ; and it becomes a very
serious question whether Mr. GLADSTONE can
include Mr. LowE in the new Administra-
tion. But materialist though Mr. LowE
is ; hating, as he says he does, to talk cant
about intellectual culture ; suspecting the newly-en-
franchised people—he has yet preserved a conscience
and a sentiment.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Nov. 20.

A Royal decree, which is dated the 26th May,
1868, has been published authorising by virtue of
the law of 15th August, 1867, a second issue of
bonds upon the ecclesiastical property to the extent
of 250,000,000 lire.
Prince Carignano has arrived here.

THE CAPE MAIL.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 20.

The Union Company's steamship Briton, with
the above mail, has just arrived here after
a flue passage of thirty days and seven hours,
ineuding stoppages. She brings 27 passengers,
32 sacks of mails, and the captain, officers, and
crew of the Bremen barque Joachim, which was
burnt at sea.

The Briton's dates are—Natal, October 10th ;
Algoa Bay, 14th ; Cape Town, 20th; St. Helena,
28th ; Madeira, Nov. 14.

Her Majesty's ship Galatea, with his Royal
Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, arrived at
Madeira at noon On the 14th of November. All
well.

The Bremen barque Joachim was burnt on the
10th ult., in lat. 37 S., long. 3.30 E.
The Dutch ship Zeelandia was also burnt in lat.
34 S., long. 2.38 W., on the 19th September.

In Natal there had been more heavy rains, and
some further d.unage had been done in Durbar by
flooding the low parts of the town, but it was not

serious.

A new temporary bridge had been commenced
over the Umgeni.
What little further news had been received from
the gold fields was satisfactory. More diamon6
bad been found in the Transvael.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Nov. 19.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :-
4j per Cent.

End of month
3 kor Cent

Bank Shares 3215
It&Fan Loan —
End of month..,
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt 32j
Deferred
Cash.
... 912
1290_

End of month... 71 80
Credit Mobilier ... 292
End of month_ 290
Credit Fonder ...1517 50
End of month...
RAILWA'

Orleans
Northern

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 623
Western

Eastern

Sardinian
Austrian ~

47
617 i

Lombard 331
North of Spain

POLICE IN7'ELLIGEIVCE-- This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

WHOLESALE ROBBERY. —C 0311HTTAL —J. Oliver,
a rag merchant, and W.. Wallace, a man in his em-
ploy, were ag till brought before Mr. D'Eyncourt,
charged with stealing a large quantity of cloth cut-
tings, of the value of £l6, the property of Mr. Fred.
Kitchen, Cross-street, Regent-street.
Mr. Sayer, from the office of Mr. Edwin Lewis,
Great Marlborough-street, appeared for the prose-
cution, and Mr. W. Sleigh for the defence.
From the evidence of Mrs. Kitchen, it appeared
that the prisoners were in the habit of calling upon
her to purchase mixed- rags, and that, in conse-
quence of having missed a large quantity of cloth
cuttings at different times—to the value of nearly
£2oo—after the prisoners had called on her, she
engaged the services of a constable to watch them
on their next visit. The result was that the
prisoners, after they had placed six large bags
of what they supposed to be mixed rags in their
cart, were stopped by the officer, and on the bags
being examined it was found that they had inge-
niously forced in their bags one of Mrs. Kitchen's
bags of cloth cuttings, and then filled up the vacancy
with mixed rags, the cloth cuttings being of much
greater value, and having been taken out of a
kitchen where they bad been safely secured previous
to the prisoners' arrival.
The prisoners were committed for trial.

ALLEGED MALPRA7 ICES AT MARYLE-

BONE ELEC7ION.

Last night a meeting was held in Cleveland
Hall, Cleveland-street, Marylebone, convened for
the purpose of inquiring into certain malpractices
alleged to have taken place in connection with the
election for the borough. Mr. Warren was called
to the chair. 11r. Verey said that, at a meeting
held at Nutfurd Hall, on Tuesday last, so many
malpractices had been brought to light by the dif-
ferent speakers in reference to the Marylebone elec-
tion, that he had been requested to convene another
meeting for the purpose of collecting further evi-
dence, with the view of taking the necessary steps to
obtain redress, and to prevent the repetition of such
abuses. He had consequently called the present
meeting, and would be glad to hear any speaker
who had any facts to give bearing on the question
at issue. The chairman read a letter, signed John
Wallis Brown, 45, Upper Marylebone-street, con-
taining a statement to the effect that the writer re-
corded his vote for Sandwith and Grant, and the
poll-clerk entered it Grant and Chambers. Ano-
ther letter,- signed "-R. M. Morrell, 13, Francis-
street," made a similar allegation, and recommended
a scrutiny of the poll-book. Mr. Verey said that
he himself recorded his vote for Sandwith and
Grant, and, accidentally looking over the poll
book, he saw the entry made as a plumper for
Chambers. He drew the poll-clerk's attention to it,
and it was altered,the vote for Chambers being erased.
He believed it to be a deep-laid scheme to deprive
them of their rights. A speaker, named Jones,
complained of the undue interference of some of the
vestrymen, who dictated to voters how they were to
vote when they came to the poll. This he thought
was illegal. A working man, named Leech, said
ho voted at No. 5 Booth, for Sandwith and Grant,
and accidentally saw the poll-clerk enter for Cham-
bers and Sandwith. He protested, and Mr. Grant's
name was added, but he had some difficulty in get-
ing the clerk to erase Mr. Chambers's name. Mr.
Gibson, 6, Upper York-street, drew attention to a
case, No. 1,030 on the register, where the vote
was recorded by the son, who personated his
father, voting for Chambers and Lewis. Dr. Mason
said that he accompanied to the poll a friend who
voted for Sand with and Grant. He happened to
louk over the poll-book, aid found the clerk had
entered for Chambers and Grant. Ile had some
difficulty in getting the names altered, the poll-
clerk telling him not to make a fuss, and he would
take care that the vote should not be counted for
Mr. Chambers. A speaker named Evans, of 12,
Upper Dorset-street, adverted to a similar irregu-
larity at No. 6 polling-booth. Mr. Shouldram said
he voted for Grant and Lewis, and the vote was
entered a plumper for Leis. Several other electors
gave information to the meeting in reference to
other malpractices during the election ; and a com-
mittee was eventually appointed to obtain evidence,
and take legal advice in the matter, with the view
of ensuring a thorough investigation.