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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1850.

than Provincial Grand Master for South Munster,
and he thus obtained very many votes which might
otherwise have been recorded in favour of his op

ponent.
But these advantages, important as they un-
questionably were, would still have been
insufficient to have placed Colonel CHATTEATON
at the head of the poll, bad it not been for the unfor-
tunate division that occurred among the Liberal party.
Had Sergeant MURPHY been a candidate the result
would have been very different. The Learned Ser-
geant was an especial favourite with all classes in
his native city, where his family had long deservedly
maintained the highest character. During the time
he represented Cork he had won golden opinions
from all sorts of men, and there was ans universal
feeling of regret when he resigned the trust he had
so faithfully and efficiently discharged into the hands
of those by wham be was selected. It is enough to
say, that his successor did not give equal satisfac-
tion. It was said that he did not bestow
very great attention on the local and commercial
questions about which the citizens of Cork felt deep
interest, and that he did not respond so promptly to
the various communications addressed to him by his
constituents as Sergeant MURPHY was accustomed
to do. It is certain that at the next general election
he was defeated, and that when he again came for-
ward, on the death of Mr. CALLAGHAN, there was a
general feeling of dissatisfaction expressed by some of
the staunchest Free-traders and most uncompromising
members of the Liberal party. Sergeant Mußrier
was the man for the people. They would have him
and no other, and when Mr. M'CARTHY refused to
submit his pretensions to the decision of the most in-
fluential electors, and declared his determination
to go to a poll, the discontent and dissatis-
faction greatly increased, and many refused to
go to the hustings. It was not that they desired the
return of Colonel CHATTERTON, but they were de •
terniined to have any representative rather than Mr.
ALEXANDER WCARTHT. This election, then, could
not be received as a fair test of public opinion in the
south of Ireland on the important question of free
trade or protection. It arose solely from local causes,
wholly unconnected with topics of general interest.
If Mr. BUTT—we should, perhaps, say Professor
BUTT, for by that title he won fame and his
present distinguished rank in his profession—should
be elected for Mayo, it will also be owing to per-
sonal and not to political causes. There is, per
haps, no individual in Ireland of greater ge-
neral popularity than the Learned Gentleman

It is not - merely his eminent position
as a barrister, his legal lore, benevolent disposition,
and brilliant and persuasive eloquence, that would
gain the suffrages of the electors; but he has the re-
putation of being an ardent Nationalist, enthusiasti
cagy attached to ,his native land, and anxious to pro-
mote her welfare and prosperity at any risk and at
any price. Many may believe that he is mistaken in
questions of detail, that he is mistaken in many
points, but his heart is supposed to be in the right
place, and when,that opinion is entertained inlreland all
minor errors are regarded in a very favourable light,
and looked upon as venial faults, which each man
hopes that time will remedy. His disposition is
essentially Irish ; he has many of the virtues and
some of the faults of the national character,
and we can easily conceive that an enthusiastic and
warm-hearted people would prefer such a man as a
representative to even respectable mediocrity, where
there was no diversity of opinion.
But the strongest recommendation of the Learned
Gentleman will be the able, zealous, and disinterested
services which he rendered on the occasion of the
state trials to SMITH O'Baluer and his unfortunate
companions. llis conduct on that occasion gained
him the good-will and respect of every member of the
young Ireland party. His successful defence of Mr.
G.tvls Durrr aided to that feeling; but the
generosity to poor O'DoNaGunu completed
the charm. When he discovered that
his client was unable to defray the heavy expenses of
the trial, he not only placed his gratuitous services at
the disposal of the prisoner, but also, we believe,
afforded considerable assistance from his private purse.
the letters breathing thanks and gratitude that have
arrived from the antipodes—from O'Bniteri, from
MEAGHER, from McAliNus, and O'DoNoGnuE—are not,
and cannot be speedily forgotten. It is owing to these
causes, and not to a coincidence of opinion in favcur of
protection that Mr. BUTT'S election far the county of
Mayo is rendered extremely probable. Neither
should it be forgotten that the Mayo constituency
cannot be considered as fairly representing the
people. The state of the Irish county franchise
has recently been brought under public notice.
Perhaps in no part of the kingdom are
deficiencies more remarkable than in Maya. That
county has an area of no less than 2,130 English
square miles, and a population, according to the last
census returns, of 388,887 persons ; but the regis
tered electors only number some 350 voters, or rather
less than one elector for every 1,000 persons. Under
such circumstances, then, we are entitled to protest,
and we do earnestly protest, against the result of the
approaching election for the county of Mayo being
accepted as a test of public opinion in Ireland on the
great question of free trade, or in favour of restric-
tive imposts of any description, whether for purposes
of revenue or of protection.

We refer our readers to a letter which appears in
another part of our impression, and which we have
extracted from the columns of our able and spirited
contemporary, the Leader, on the subject of the "il-
lustrious obscure," who, last week, bad the
modest assurance to wait Ilion Lord JOHN
RUSSELL and the Marquis of CLANRICARDE
and to arrogate to themselves the character of " the
representatives of the weekly press of the metro-
polis." It is really amusing to find these
pious persons straining at the gnat of the postman
and complacently swallowing the camel, in the
shape of men, and horses, and boys, and country
agents, who carry the Sunday newspapers to the
railway and distribute them over the country for the
especial and, pecuniary benefit of these "1111C0 guid."
These men, horses, boys, and agents, are, it
is clear, engaged in a work of necessity. Some of
these gentlemen bare the modesty to suggest that the
Gazette should be published earlier (that is to say
that the London Gazette should not contain the pro-
ceedings of Friday) for their especial convenience; of the
feasibility or advisability of such a plan we leave those
to judge who remember 1844 and 1845, when the
Gazette contained the reports of the Railway Commis-
sioners; on the various schemes submitted to them,
many of which bad not been agreed on until
late on the Friday afternoon. The pro-
posal that Saturday and Sunday papers should
publish on a Friday afternoon is as outrageous a plan
of confiscation as was ever propounded. The Sunday
papers go to great expense to procure the latest and
most accurate
to b
accurate reports of the proceedings of Saturday,
so
are to every other Saturday
day whatn thethe dailyw ee
k.jour
Thenal
journals s
represented byr
thedeputation are published
o
on Thursday, Friday, Monday, and are made up
entirely from the morning pars,and it is to bring
the Sunday papers, in
thryperstod deal of money producing of which a
vast deal of labour and a
has been expended, into competition • with those cheap
products of scissors and paste which are published on
Friday that these gentlemen aim.
The Sabbatarians boast of the number of
signatures which they have obtained to their
Petitions. The exposé before the c •
ommittee
of the House of Lords on the Liverpool Water
Works Bill will enlighten the minds of the public as
to the manner in which these monster petitions are
got up. It appears that a petition, purporting to he
signed by 19,000 ratepayers, was presented against
that Bill. It was represented to their Lordships that
the greater number of these signatures were forge-
ries, an investigation was ordered, and the fol-
lowing evidence was taken :
" Duncan Al'Arthur was called, who stated that he
had been employed by the rate-payers' committee to ob-
tain signatures to their petitior. He had only three days
to obtain those signatures. He had written many of the
signatures to the petition himst lf, clad when he had got
the various sheets filled up with tames he then carried
them to the committee. Out of the whole number he
n3i[..ht have obtained thirty genuine signature,. He
had, upon one occasion, gone to a public-house,
where be had sat down and written about 300 of the
signatures which arpared attached to the petition.
Whilst he was at that public-house three others of the
agents and himself bad dipped themselves into a water;
butt, so that the committee, when they arrived at -their
place of aslembly,should believe that they had been
walking about alf day in the rain.—(Loud laughter.)

They walked in the streets in that state. Never called
at the houses cf the ratepayers at all.
"Cross-examined by Mr. James—Was in no regular
employ; called himself a bookkeeper; kept his own
books, This did not give him a livelihood. Had been for
years employed in getting petitions stned. Assisted in
getting signatures to the late petition in favour of the
navigation- laws.
"The Chairman—Had you a sheet to get signed for
that petition? Witness--I had, my Lord.
" Mr. James—Have you not stated that that petition,
which purported to be signed by above 50,000, was not,
in truth, signed by 5,000? Witness—l have, and it is
the troth.
" Mr. James—Did you, then, treat those gentlemen
in the same way as you have treated this ratepayers'
committee, by taking in a list of false signatures
to their petition? Witness—Yes, I did ; in the
present case I certainly received instructions to
get no names but of those persons who were rate-
payers; but we adopted the course we did, cf writing
signatures ourselves, in order that the committee should
feel that we had well earned our money, by getting a
long list of names to the petition. The witness then
went on to say that he had been paid by the day, and
not according to the number of signatures he obtained.
" Three other ' agents' then made similar statements,
and the nonchalance with which each admitted that he
bad forged a large number of signatures excited much
astonisha en t."

Will the Sabbatarians inform us how many agents
of the M'Anxnua class they have employed to get up
the petitions presented by Lord ASHLEY, and how
many times, and in how many different capacities,
each pious postman and righteous Post-office clerk,
anxious for a holiday, has signed each petition ?

du►y of five centimes political pamphlets containing
less than three printed sheets by 326 to 272 ; and se-
cond, an amendment of N. DE RIANCY, laying a
stamp duty on the Roman fcuilletons, by 351 to 252.
The remainder of the sitting was taken up with a
stormy discussion on an article offensive to the cha-
racter of the Assembly publish(d to-day by the
Povoir, the responsible editor of which is to be sum-
moned to appear at the bar of the House on Thursday.
The Bourse was firm with little business doing.
The Five per Cents. opened at 95f. 95c., and closed
at 96f. Sr. ; the Three per Cents, closed at 57f. 5c.;
the New Roman Loan at 77if.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LOINDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JULY 15.

-- -
Boulogne and Amiens, VA Luxembourg, 2%—Northern
of France, 104 Orleans and Bourdeaux, 3—Paris and
Rouen, 23 %—Rouen and Havre, 91/B—Tours and Nantes, 31A.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived.
Their contents are unimportant.
11ADEID BOLSA, JULY 10.—There was no business
done to•day : nominally the Threes were 33i ; the
Fives were 12 13-16 money.

LLO YD'SSHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, JULY 16 —Wind, at noon, S., light breri3
and fine clear sultry weather.—The remainder of the
crew, thirteen in number, and six passengers, were
taken from the Madeira, for Batavia to Rotterdam,
vchich vras abandoned on the 27th of March last in Ist.
21 S. and long. "6 E. by the Columbia, of Newbury
Port, from Arracan to Antwerp, which vessel was in a
leaky state, and it was supposed would proceed to the
M auritius.

I'LY3IOUTII, JULY 15. Wind E.—Sld. British Tar,
Natal; Worcester Cape, Calcutta. The Anne, from
Bangor, for Goole, went on shore on the Longship Reef
13th inst, but came off, and proceeded after temporary
repairs.
JULY 14.—Wind S.S.E.—Sld.Vivid, Demerara;
Um, Nevis.
DEAL. JULY 14.—Wind E. to E.N E.; 15, easterly.—
Arrd. Toiro, Rommand, Rio Jandro for Hels;ngfort;
Sophie Walkin, New York for Amsterdam. Arrd. from
the River, Agewina„Launceston, Van Diemen's Land.
Arrd. from the River end aid. Alpha, Sidney, New
South Wales; Calcutta, Hobart Town; Investigator,
Horg-Kong; Northumberland, New York.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 14 —Wind E.S.E.; 15, S E.—Arrd.
Gatifillo, Arica; A. F. Moore, Jamaica; A 3, Chandler,
New York; Sld. Susan, St. John's, New Brunswick;
Siddons, New York; Sirius, Loando and Valparaiso;
Anoraica, and Madagascar, Havannah; New Warier,
Charleston; Martha J. Ward, New York; Gannet
strainer, Boston; Hebe, Quebec; Salacia, Adelaide, South
Australia; Onward, Cape of Good Hope; Science,
Africa; Bosphorus, Buenos Ayres; Googerat Arichat,
Montezuma, Monti eal; Britannia, ditto.
SUNDERLAND, JULY 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Ilaw•
thorn, Burnell, Richibucto; Clarissa, Headley, Quebec.
The Algenora, of Newport, the Baltiel to Dublin, was
spoken on the 12th inst., with mainmast sprung.
HULL, JULY 15.—Wind N.E., light.—Arrd. Aspland,
Harding, St. John's, New Brunswick; Luton°, Clark, St.
Andrew's, Nov Brunswi k.
LOWESTOFT, JULY 15.—The Two Friends run on
the Helm Sand this morning, but was assisted off with-
out apparent damage.

Russell, Vikenunt Palmerston, Lord Torrington,
ViscouLt Jocelyn, and the principal officers attached
to her Mvjesty's household. The clock if Kew church
had scarcely done striking ten before the coffin was
withdrawn from the hearse. It was covered with mag-
nificent c ioason Genoa velvet, fringed with gold trap-
pings, and ornamented with a coronet end other devices
of a similar material, and bore the following inscription:
Deposit=
Principis
A DOLPHI FREDERICI
de Brunswick-Lunenburg,
Ducis Cantatrigim,
Comitia de Tipperary ac Baronis de Culloden;
Nobilissimi Ordinis Perkcelidis

Honorabilissimi Ordrnis de Balneo
Equitis;
Patrui Augustissimm et Potentissimm
VICTORIZ
Dei Gratia Britanniarum Begirt;
Fidei Dtf,nsorip.
Obiit die octavo Julii,
Anno Domimi MDCCCL.,
Mafia sum LXXVII.

The funeral procestion was then re formed in the fol
lowing order:—
Servants of his late Royal Highness.
Pages of his late Royal Highness.
Medical attendants upon his late Royal Highness.
Chaplains to his late Royal Highness.
Equerry of Equerry of
the Duchess H.R.11 the Duchess
of Kent. of Gloucr ste r.
Equerry of his The representative
Majesty the King of of the Hanoverian
Hanover. Embassy.
Equerries of bis late Royal Highness.
Eqnerry to H.R.H. Prince Equerry to the Queen, in
Albert, in Waiting. Waiting.
Groom of the Bedchamber to Groom in Waiting to the
_
H.R H. Prince Albert,
in Waiting.
Lord of the Bedchamber to Lord it. Waiting to the
H.R.H. Prince Albert, Queen.
in Waiting.
Groom of the Stole
to H.R.H. Prince Albert.
THE BATON

Queen:

of his late Royal Highness, borne upon a black velvet
cushion.
THE CORONET

of his late Royal Highness,. borne upon a blEek velvet

cushion.

The Lard Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household.
The Gentleman Usl.cr (.1 The Vice-Chamberlain of

the Sword of State. her Majesty's Household.
Pall-bearers. TILE BODY, Pallbearers.
Borne by Eight N,n-commissioned Officers of the
Coldstream Guards.
THE CHIEF MOURNER.

Royal Highness Ilis Royal His Rnyal Highness
the Hereditary Highness PRINCE
Grand Duke of Prince George, ALBERT.
Mecklenburgh now
Strelitz. DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE,
attc nded by
His two Supporters
and
His Aide-de• Camp.

From the entrance to Cambridge Cottage to the
church door the ground was lined on either side by the
Coldstream Guards, who presented arms as the coffin
passed, which was carried into the portals of the sacred
edifice uncovered, and then leant their heads upon the
bottom of their inverted muskets in a mournful attitude,
which gave the whole scene an exceedingly affecting
arpearance. The coffin having arrived in the church
it way placed upon trestles in front of the
communion table, ai.d the coronet and cushion and
baton and cushion laid on the top. His Royal
Highness the Chief Mourner, his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, and his Royal Highness the Heriditary
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Streli!z, took their places
at the head of the corpse, the Lend Chamberlain and
Vice-Chamberlain, and the Gentleman Usher of the
Sword of State, at the foot of the corpse.
The other persons composing the procession retired to
the royal gallery and to the pews which had been set
apart for them.
The pall-bearers were Sir William Gomm, Sir Alex •
ander Woodford, Sir James Macdonald, and Sir Henry
Boavorie.

The burial service was read by the Rev. Mr.
Hutchinson, in a most impressive manner, while the
Vicar of the parish occupied his place at the communion.
The part of the service before the interment being
read, the body was borne to the vault at the
entrance to the church, followed by his Royal
Highness the Chief Mourner, his Royal 'Highness
Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Hereditary
Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, the Lord
Chamberlain, &c., where it was finally deposited. The
vault is not a new one being in fact as old as the church
itself, but it is intended only to serve as the temporary
tomb of his late Royal Highness till a hand-
some mausoleum can be erected on a piece
of ground contiguous to the church. The
Royal mourners after taking a farewell glance at
the gorgeous coffin in its earthy abode, quitted
the church, and with the other elevated personages, they
immediately returned to town. The morning was in-
tensely hot, end what rendered the occasion still more
gloomy and depressing was the circumstance of numbers
of the Coldstream Guards fainting from fatigue, and
being carried away in an exhausted state.
The green and neighbourhood of the church was
thronged with weli•dre.sed people, who seemed some-
% hat disappointed that the funeral was much
divested of the pomp and splendour which
has hitherto characterised the funerals cf England's
Princes, but though the majority expected more
than they saw, no doubt there were not a few present
who must have felt gratified at the absence of every-
thing like unnecessary ostentation at the funeral obse-
quies of a Royal Duke whose character and virtues,
and not his great deeds, had endeared him to his
countrymen.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The adjourned July Eessions for the county of Mid-
dlesex were commenced this morning, before Mr. Ser-
geant Adams, at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell.
James Gilmoor, who was found guilty last session of
petty larceny, was placed in the dock and sentenced to
seven years' transportation.
Eliza Layer, who has been four times convicted of
petty larceny, was sentenced to 12 months' imprison-
ment in the Westminster House of Correction.
The JUDGE, in passing sentence, said that at the ex-
piration of her last sentence the Ladies' Committee
had given her money to place her in a respectable posi-
tion of life, and here she was again.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
As the Lord Chamberlain has issued orders for
closing all the theatres on this (Tuesday) evening, a
performance took place at her Majesty's Theatre last
evening. The opera was I Puritani, and Madame
Frezzolini sustained the character of Elvira for the
first time in this country. The Elvira of Madame
Frezzolini is one of the most charming of her perso-
nations ; her vocalization was exquisite, and her ren-
dering of the far-famed Polacca delicious—it
commanded an unanimous encore. She looked
and acted the " Vergen vezzola" to the life.
In the last act her Singing and acting were
full of expression and feeling. Baucarde was
the Arturo, Lablache the Georgio, and Coletti the
Riccardo. The superb " Suona la Tromba" was
never more superbly rendered than it was last even-
ing by Coletti and Lablache. Between the second
and third acts of the opera, Carlotta Grid danced the
" Truandaise" in the most piquant manner imaginable,
and was, as a matter of course, rapturously encored.
After the opera the celebrated Donna Maria Loretto
Martinez, the Black Malibran, made ber first appear-
' ance before an English audience in a divertisse-
ment composed expressly to introduce her, entitled
Les Delices du Serail. The scene represents the
interior of a harem, and the various Sultanas are
dancing to amuse the lord and master, who is seated
on a musnud. After the performance of several
dances (one of which, a pas de deux, by Mademoiselle
Amalie Ferraris and Madame Petit Stephan, is de.
serving of especial commendation), the Donna Mar
tinez is introduced veiled. The veil having been re-
moved, we saw before us one of the most handsome,
negresses in the world, attired in a superb Spanish
costume. She was led to an ottoman,
on which she took her seat, and a Spanish
guitar having been handed to her, sho
struck a few notes as a prelude. It was evident from
the first that she was dreadfully nervous—she
trembled exceedingly as she took the guitar—but it
was also evident from her manner of touching the
instrument, and of stopping, that she was a first-rate
guitar player. She then commenced one of her
Cuban melodies. It was full of character, and not-
withstanding her highly nervous state, which pre-
vented her from exhibiting the full powers of
her voice, and acted evidently as a pain-
ful restraint upon her, there was something so quaint, so original, so characteristic in her style
of singing and acting, that she elicited loud ap-
plause, and at the conclusion of her performance
(she sang three songs, in one of which she was en-
cored), she was called on. The performance of the
Black Malibran is a perfect musical curiosity, and
we shall very much like again to witness her per-
formances.

FREN CH PLAYS.
The tragedy of Andromaque, in which Mademoi-
selle Rachel first made her appearance before a Lon-
dor public, was performed last night. Ilermione,
the character which she assumes, is well known as
one of her greatest parts, though perhaps it is less
indelibly written on the memory than Camille in Les
Horaces. The Greek beauty, slighted by Pyrrhus,
in favour of a Trojan captive, but occasionally in-
spired with false hopes, has to exhibit all the morti-
fication of wounded pride, while she renders it equally
evident that her love has never ceased. The emotions
of scorn and of ever-reviving tenderness are exqui-
sitely balanced by the great tragedian throughout
the piece, but the grand scene is in the fourth act,
where she at first insults Pyrrhus, by recounting in a
strain of her own peculiar irony the exploits he has
performed, and then, unable to preserve a calm ex-
terior any longer, bursts out into a torrent of grief.