The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-31 00:00:00

ELECTION PROSECUTIONS.

Mr. H. BAILLIE asked the right hen. the Home
Secretary if the Attorney-General had been authorised
to prosecute all those persons who bad been reported by
election committees to have violated the laws of the
country, or whether it was to be confined to the offen-
ders in the county of Mayo I
Sir G. GREY said that the Attorney-General only
prosecuted such cases as the committees considered
were of sufficient importance and magnitude fir such
a proceeding. The chairman of the Mayo Committee,
with, as he (Sir G. Grey) understood, the unanimous
approbation of the members of that committee, made
a motion in that house for the prosecution of two per-
sons in connection with that election, to which the
house had acceded. He did not know the other cases
to which the hon. gentleman referred, but he had no
doubt if the cl-airnian of any other election committee
made a similar motion, that the house would deal with
it when made according to its merits.
PROBATE AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA-

TION (IRELAND) BILL.
Tnis bill was committed pro forms, for the introduc-
tion of amendinent4.
REVISING BARRISTERS (DUBLIN) BILL.

On the motion for going into committee on this bill,
Mr. NA PIER, at considerable length, stated his ob-
jec.ions to this bill. It would have the effect of depriv-
ing one of the present revising banisters of Dublin (Mr.
Shaw) of his office without compensation. He moved
that the house go into committee on this day month.

Mr. J. FITZGERALD resisted the amendment.
(LEFT SITTING

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, July 3L—Wind this day at noon, W.,
light pleasant breeze and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, July 30.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Whirl-
wind, for East Indies.
FALMOUTH, July 30.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Her-
mine, for Rio Janeiro.
SWANSEA, July 30. Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—Daven-
port, and Lord Riversdale, from Quebec.
BELFAST, July 29.—The Choice, from Constantinople,
put in yesterday, leaky, and must discharge. Arrived—
Richmond, from St. John's, N.B.
OFF SALCOMBE.—IeIen, from Hamburg, for Bayne.
OFF PENZANCE.—Fleetwood, from Moulmien, for Sun-
derland.
SHIELDS, July 30. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—Traveller,
from Dalhousie.
PLYMOUTH, July 30.—Wind W.—Arrived—Lanark-
shire, from Quebec. Sailed—Victory, for Melbourne.
CARLISLE, July 30.—A quantity of wreck, apparently
of a vessel's cabin, which has been picked up, and a seaman's
chest, containing clothes, marked "H. B." and a large
number of foreign books and papers, which seem to have
belonged to the master.

(PER ZLECTLRTvETREpt.OEOGLI: FridayAPH
Morning.

Wind N.W.
Arrived.—Gerzina, Scala Nova, Westminster.
QUEENSTOWN, Friday morning.

Wind S.
Arrived.—Pietro, from Odessa; Nino, Ismail; Fidget,
Ibrali ; Waldensian, (s.), Odessa.
Off.—Pactolus, from Barbadoes.

WATERFORD, July 29.

Wind W.S. W.
A rrived.—lstamboul, from Galatz
(BY 81:1131dARINE AND BRITISII TFCLEGRAEH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday, :►.30 a.m.
Wind W. ; tide two hour's ebb ; cloudy.
Arrived, July 30— Nile, from Hong Kong.
Arrived, July 31—Duchess of Northumberland, from
Mongoorcottah ; Lansdowne, Colombo ; Renda, Tnisted;
Perseverance, Medinbleak.

Sailed, July 31.—La Hogue, for Sydney; Primede, for
Guayaquil. _ _ _

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DEAL, Friday, 9 a.m.
Wind W.N.W. ; moderate ; weather fine.
Passed.—Britannia (e.s.), from Cadiz, for London ; Pan-
mare, from Sunderland, for Constantinople ; Bermondsey,
from Bombay; Norma, Quebec; Stamboul, Barbadoes—all
fur London.

The General Screw Steam Shipping Company an•
nounce a repayment of 103. per share.
The cholera has assumed a rather severe type at St.
Petersburg, there being twenty cases aday, half of which
are fatal.

It is confidently reported that the forthcoming divi-
dend on the North Eastern Railway stocks will be as
follows, viz. : Berwick, 5 per cent. per annum ; York
and North Midland, 4 per cent, per annum ; and Leeds
Northern, 2 per cent, per annum.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The direc-
tors of this company have resolved to recommend to the
proprietors at the general meeting on the 6th August
next that the dividend for the half year ending June 30,
1857, be at the rate of 41. 15i. per cent. per annum on
the capital of the company.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAIL-
WAY.—The receipts of this company, including the
Stourbridge Extension Canal, for the period from the Ist
to the 19th of July, have been 12,2081. 108. 6d. ; and
the expenditure, also including that of the Stourbridge
Extension Canal, 5,3061. 4s. 11d., being at the rate of
43.45 per cent.
SENTENCE OF DEATH ON 1 WIFE BEATER.—At New-
castle-upon-Tyne Assizes, John Harris was tried for
cutting and wounding his wife. It appeared that the
prisoner constantly beat his wife, and on the occasion
for which he was indicted, he used the poker. He was
found guilty, and sentence of death was recorded. The
punishment will be transportation for life.
THE LATE CASE OF SHOOTING AT NORTHFLEET.—At
the Maidstone A-sizes yesterday, George Parker was
indicted for shooting at Mary Ann Taylor, with intent
to murder her. It will be recollected that the parties
had been keeping company together, and in conse-
quence of a disagreement the prisoner shot the prosecu-
trix in the shop of her father at Rosherville. The jury
found the prisoner not guilty. The judge ordered
Parker to enter into reoognizances to keep the peace
towards Taylor for two years.
TEE ARMY WORKING CoRFS.—A meeting of the mem-
bers of this corps was held yesterday evening, at the
Coachmakers' Arms, Robert fatted, Blackfriars, to adopt
measures for the redress of their alleged grievances. Sir
J. Paxton, who had raised the corps, was the special
object of condemnation, and resolutions were passed in
which his conduct to the men was spoken of in the
strongest terms of censure. Their principal grievance
appeared to be that, although the Governmenment in-
sisted the contract was for two
years, they can get
neither payment of what they claimed to be due, zror an
effective dated discharge.
CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.—An ex'raordinary meet-
ing of the proprietors in this undertaking was held yes-
terday, at the Bridge House Hotel, for the purpose of
receiving the report of the committee appointed at the
last meeting, on the 16th June, to inquire into the
affairs of the company. The report, among other
things, stated that the Peace Festival entailed a loss on
the company of 1,2801., that the prosecution of Robson”
cost 2,000/ , that a penny programme for " the million"
should he issued, that the sale of two-guinea tickets be
abolished, that the grounds should be thrown open to
shareholders, and, finally, that the admission on Satur-
days should be reduced to Is. The, consideration of the
document was postponed until the Me of August.
COMMITTAL OF A POLICE CONSTABLE AS A DESERTER.
—At Greenwich Police-coon, yesterday, Richard
Walker, 29 years of age, a police-constable in the R
division of metropolitan police, was charged with being
a deserter from the sth battalion of Royal Artillery.
The prisoner had deserted from Woolwich about twelve
months since, and during the time he had- been in the
police force his duties had brought him into close proxi-
mity to the barracks from which his desertion Lad taken
, had attached to him,
place.owing
in poi uniform ; but
to his
some one gave information to the Commissioners of
iss unsi pwiscyi osn ,a
phpoowaei vnegr
Police, who caused the prisoner to betaken into custody.
He admitted the charge, and was ordered to be conveyed
to hea,!-quarters at Woolwich,
AGGRAVATED MANSLAUGHTER. -Yesterday, at Maid-
sten, Samuel Baker, the publican who had been found
guilty the previous day of killing a young officer of the
44th regiment, at Deal, was sentenced by Mr. Justice
Wines to penal servitude for life. The learned judge
said, supposing that the unfortunate deceased young
man had made use of improper language to his wife, it
was no justification for his deliberately taking a deadly
instrument, such as a poker, and beating him about the
head with it in the savage manner that he had been
proved to have done, and his conduct in leaving him
upon the sea shore in the State in which he was found,
and evidently net caring what became of him, or whe-
ther he lived or died, was brutal in the extreme.
TEE NORTHERN Moons,—The shootings in the High-
lands are in brisk demand this season. Fully an average
number have been let, and there is every prospect that
all the moors to let will find tenants against the advent
of the 12th of August. Many noblemen and gentlemen
have already arrived at their shooting quarters, espe-
cially where rod fishieg is attached. We have little to add
to our last report on the state of the moors. They will be
found, we believe, to contain a fair stock of grouse on the
low grounds, but a deficiency on the high shootings
generally, caused by the want of au adequate number
of old birds from last year. Some of the best moors have
not yet, however, been examined by dogs, the pro-
prietors wishing that the young birds should obtain the
justice of not being disturbed at this early period
of the season. To compensate for any disappoint
meut in the upland districts on account of the falling
off in the grouse, there were never more favourable 2C-
counts from the deer forests. Stags are abundant, and
far heaVier at this time of the year than they have almost
ever been seen before. The horns are well formed, and
gm velvet easily removed..—lnverness efouner.