The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-12 00:00:00

STRAND THEATRE.

A regular one-act "screamer" was produced here
last evening, under the title of Out on the Loose.
The gentleman who is out on the loose is one Mr.
Clapperton Chisel (Mr. Henry Farren), the husband
of Caroline (Mrs. Leigh Murray), who, in conse-
quence of the wild propensities of her fast husband,
has taken refuge in the house of her uncle Capias
(Mr. Turner). Hither Chisel flies for sanctuary from
certain bailiffs, and his wife forgives and conceals
him. A certain Mr. Calico (admirably acted by Mr.
W. Sbalders), a dapper linendraper, has become
smitten by the charms of Caroline, and is
engaged in pressing his suit when the bailiffs enter,
and seeing Calico engaged in a tete-a•tete with Mrs.
Chisel, naturally conclude that he is their man, and
arrest him accordingly. The fun is well kept up for
half an hour, when mutual explanations take place,
and of course all ends happily. Mr. Henry Farren
acted the part of Chisel with muchnch bustle and vi-
vacity, delivering the dialogue capitalcapitally,ap ,
and
applause amuask. be-
stowed every point tell. if we may ju.dge
from
on Mr. Farren last night, be will be Out on the
Loose for many nights to come. The house was
crowded.

Ma. BUNN ON THE STAGE.—Mr. l3unn's popular
entertainment continues to attract crowded houses, com-
posed of all the literary and fashionable circles of the
metropolis. The senator, to learn elocution—the actor,
to study his art—the student, to understand his author
—and, at the same time, the whole community, to have
an evening's hearty laugh—constitute the assemblage
every night Mr. Bunn appears at the St. James's.
We are glad to hear that the artistes at the Theatre
Royal, Drury-lane, have unanimously resolved to give
Mr. Anderson a complimentary benefit on Thursday, the
21st inst., for his exertions in restoring the drama at
Old Drury to its former glory, whoa we anticipate lie
haTe an nTeel9l7ing audwace.

THE 4AL LOT.
Mr. Henry Berkeley has brought forward his an.
nual motion for vote by ballot with his usual ability,
and has been excellently supported by Lord Dudley
Stuart and Mr. Milner Gibson.
Sir George Grey undertook the gracious part of
opposing the motion, and handled it as if it were one
of the most ridiculous propositions ever made to the
House, though he himself had once voted for it, to
humour his then constituents, as he explained.
Sir George Grey repeated all the hackneyed *ld
inconsistent objections to the ballot. Secret voting
would not be secret ; the publicity would remain
the same as ever, but the elector's execution of his
trust would be withdrawn from the public view
under which it should be kept. Bribery would be
carried on under it on a larger
_scale, and with less
chance of detection.
So we are told in the same breath that the ballot
would make no difference at all, and that it would
make the greatest and most pernicious difference.
As for the increase of bribery, or rather the in-
creased scale cf bribery, which Sir George Grey an.
ticipates, we cannot pretend to understand the art
of bribery so well as the gentlemen who oppose the
ballot, and we must yield to their superior knowledge
of what may be done in the practical business of cor-
ruption. But granting, then, that bribery would be
conducted on a greater scale with the ballot—is that
an evil ? The greater the scale the fewer must be
they who have the means for the offence, and the
greater the penalty in the cost on the practice of it.
Next to preventing bribery altogether, is the advan-
tage cf forcing it to the large scale within the weans
of few, instead of the small within the means of
many.
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Vie police protects our houses against the burglar,
but the police could not protect a house against a
banditti ; but a banditti is not easily formed and
organised, and hence houses are safe. To make the
scale of arrangment for any offence large, is of neces.
sity to make it difficult and rare, and by so much to
increase the public security.
But Sir George Grey farther thinks the ballot,
which he condemns as inoperative, unnecessary, inas-
much as public opinion has grown into a more power-
ful check against the foul influences :
" Of late years the growing influence of public opinion
had produced a much more powerful check than formerly
existed against the use of those undue means which had
been frequently exercised with a view to induce electors
to vote contrary to their opinions. He hoped the Hon.
Gentleman would see that that was a totally different
thing from extolling political virtue and purity. He
(Sir G. Grey) had spoken of public opinion as expressed
through the press, in the country. and in that House,
and of the exposure which followed attempts to intimi-
date or corrupt electors; and he believed that this afforded
a better security than any law that could be adopted by
the Legislature."
What check has public opinion been on the cor-
ruption of Yarmouth, Horsham, Sudbury, and two
or three score of places that could be named, and
whose infamy is recorded in the blue books ? De-
fendit numerus. The rogues are many enough to
keep each other in countenance, and they are under
worshipful auspices. Had not a law-officer of the
Crown a very narrow escape of being connected with
very ugly malpractices in the last general election ?
Corruption is not abated a jot in the small consti-
tuencies ; and if there were any mode by which it
could more effectually practised under the ballot, that
mode would be equally practicable in open voting, and
would full surely be adopted.
We do not believe that the ballot would be as
effectual in preventing bribery as in checking intimi-
dation, but it would to a considerable extent dis-
courage bribery, and render it rarer, in the pro-
portion that it would render it more cumbrous and
expensive.

It is curious to see the arguments pressed into the
opposition to the ballot. The Times says we are " a
forward people," eager to declare ourselves before
asked. We laugh at the Americans for their inquisi-
tive and communicative habits ; and reserve, we always
thought the most marked peculiarity of the English-
man. Wherever we have the opportunity we naturally
wrap ourselves up in reserve. In clubs who ever talks
of how he voted in the ballot ? and a man's talking of
how he intends to ♦ote is rather considered as an im-
propriety, and is decidedly unusual. There are people,
however, addicted to boasting ; and whatever virtue
there may be in boasting would not be completely
extinguished by the ballot for Parliamentary candi-
dates. Electors would be free to talk of their votes
if so minded, but the practice would be discouraged
by a suspicion which would arise—that of a want of
correspondence between the action and the vaunt
of it. The boaster would soon discover this—that the
man from whom he claimed gratitude for his suffrage
would have his chilling distrust of the service, while
the one he had opposed would be quite sure of the
hostility. He would not make the one his friend, but
he would perfectly succeed in making the other his
enemy, by his blabbing.
We do not contend that the frankness of open
voting has not its recommendations ; we acknowledge
that it has, and rate them highly. If open voting
consisted with honest voting, open voting would be,
out of all doubt, preferable. But we prepo.fe re-
course to the ballot because the openness of the vote
is fatal in a multitude of cases to the sincere
choice. The ballot is the crypt of conscience, the
refuge against the foul influences. The resort to it
is stigmatised as cowardly. It is precisely as
cowardly as the resort to bolts and bars against the
thief—strictly analogous in this, that though not
complete securities, they are important obstacles to
attack.—Examiner.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—l read in The Sun of yesterday that one of
the balloons dispatched from the Admiralty on the
3d of March dropped near the workhouse, Bishop's
Stortford, on Thursday afternoon. I beg to inform
you that the balloons alluded to were not sent from
the Admiralty, but were dispatched by some private
persons from the Vauxhall Gardens, and in no way
connected with those dispatched by me from the Ad•
miralty.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
G. SHEPHERD, C.E.

London, March 12.

SUBSTITUTE FOR IV INDOW TAX.—To those who,
like yourself, are seeking for the speedy abolition of the
window-tax, I would submit for consideration, that a
tax equitably adjusted by scale to the assessed rental of
each house, so as not to impose any additional burden in
any instance, might bo advantageously and fairly substi-
tuted for that obnoxious impost on light and ventilation.
The Government is already in possession of all the in-
formation required to carry the scheme into execution,
and collects, indeed, at this present time, a tax on that
very basis. Those who respectively pay the present
window-tax should, of course, pay the proposed substi-
tute. In the course of working out the details of the new
impost, it might, perhaps, be possible to create some-
thing of a surplus sufficient to allow of the total remission
of the excise duty now levied on the manufacture of
bricks. Any partial remission wonid be, I think, of
little benefit to either manufacturer or consumer, bat
only so much lost to the revenue.—Correspondent of the
Builder.

LION HUNTING IN ALGERIA.—M. Jules Gerard,
the sub-lieutenant in the Spahis, who has gained such
great celebrity as a lion-hunter in Africa, writes from
Constantine, that on the 29th ult. be went to the hills of
Zerazer, in the district of Semuia, where he had been
told that lions might be found.* Having discovered that
the lions were in a clump of trees surrounded by rocks,
be placed himself on an adjacent rock, and presently saw
two lions among the trees. The animals appeared
greatly irritated at having been disturbed, and one of
them frequently issued from the trees as if to recon-
noitre. At length M. Gerard sent away all the Arabs
who had accompanied him except one, and loaded his
rifles. Presently the two lions came forth, one about 50
steps in advance. On seeing M. Gerard the first lion
rushed towards him, and leaped on the lower part of
the rock, looking at him fixedly. The animal having
turned towards his companion, M. Gerard fired, and hit
him on the shoulder. The lion fell with a fierce howl ,
hors de combat. The other lion then rushed to the at-
tack with tail extended, and roaring furiously. Gerard
shot him in the shoulder. The lion gave a tremendous
spring, and alighted on the very rock on which Gerard
was. The brave man calmly took a second rifle from
the Arab by his side, aimed at the animal's temple, and
killed him on the spot. A coup de grace was given to the
other lion, and, as Gerard said, " the job was done.r In-
cluding these two, Gerard has killed altogether 17 lions.
—Galrynani's Messenger.
I JUDGE'S TESTIMONY TO FRES T&ADB.—It was
with great pleasure that we read the following paragraph
in Baron Alderson 's charge to the grand jury at the
ot be necessary, he was glad to say, them very
opening of the Lancaster Assizes last week.
dt. '`lt would
longn toeam
on this occasion. Under every circumstance, this
was highly creditable to this division of the county.
Really he was very glad to observe that there wag
not a case of importance in the calendar, and it was
small in point of number. He had no information to
account for this good symptom, except it was front
cheap food and plenty of labour, and causes of that
description, which generally prevented the commission
of crime." Let our legislators ponder over this voice
from the Bench, and lay aside their efforts to mar the
fair prospect which is rising for the country. This evi-
dence is the more important as nobody can cavil at it as
a Parliamentary case got up for the atmosphere of the
House of Commons.—Lciccstcr Mercury.
DUTY ON BfticEs.—The amount of duty collected
:obtehfeowrheyiecatra Parliament, is showne
nt,toh,
mbey a
been
448,8261.
recently,llß2b6i.ckl9s s :1 3u laid
iridu .g,f 422,8121. 18s. 84d. is for
the country, and 26,014/. Os. 7d. for London. The
largest items in the account have been furnished by Sur-
rey (37,2831.), Rochester (32,2841), Manchester (32,034 L),
Stourbridge (25,3881.), and Hertford (20,8534) The
lowest figure is that for Cornwall (98L)
TILE HOTEL DE VILLE AT PABIS.--AYOUDd this
noted spot a number of houses are being taken down,
in order completely to isolate it. And a little to the
west
fetsht is a
enarrnOwnessstosftra
enectise ancient i
n the
town,building, i
an t
consrseci
dt eedr
abbyl e a
poomre_
tion of which is about to be removed, not for mere pur-
poses of health, although that is one consideration, but
also while forming an open space, to build a caserne for
the rotection of the Hotel de Ville, which in ernharrassad
by the number of troops lodged within is prociacts.....

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
• ROLLS' GOLTR-Z, .Iranch 11.
OBD V. PAT.ti;IN.
This molim, for an injuetioa to restrain the de-
fendants from consuming, within the township of
WakAeld, any flour or meal nut ground at the mills
of the plaintiffs, was again resumed, and
Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Chapman Barber were heard
for the defendants against the injunction ; after which
Mr. Turner, for ir, replied.
Lord. LANGDALE said he must look at the cases
which had been cited, and compare the, customs al-
leged in them with that in the present case. He
loped he should b' able to do so to-night.
Judgment deferred.
11.1; WILLIAM COBBETT.

M. RourELL moved that a return to a writ of
habeas corpus might be quashed, that Mr. Cnbbett
be discharged out of olts'ody with costs, and for an
attachment against John 11 Lison, the keeper of the
Queen's Prison, for making a false return.
Mr. Oldfield appeared in person; but
Lord LAEGDALE, without hearing hirr, refused the
motion.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, March 11.
(Before Sir L. SLIADWELL.)
SCARTD V. CUADITICII. AND 0111ERS..
Mr. Bethel!, Mr. Rolt, and Mr. Glasse, appeared
in support of a iuorioe to dismiss this bill upon th-
defendants undertaking to pay the plaintiff his deposit,
interest, and costs.
. The bill was filed by the plaintiff on behalf of him-
self and all otier the shareholders in the Madrid and
Valencia Railway Company, a project in which
nothing had been done since February, 1846, and
which never was taken before the Legislature, pray-
ing an account against the directors up to February,
1846, and for a declaration that the plaintiff and all
other the subscribers might be declared liable to contri-
bute such proportion as the Court undtr the circum-
stances should think just, and that the residue might
be paid to the plaintiff. The bill alleged that the
shareholders were 30 numerous, and their interests
so fluctuating, that it was not possible to make them
parties, and that the plaintiff was, in fact, ignorant of
their names and addresses; and then charged the de-
fendants generally with having offered 235. a share
as the whole amount that the assets of
the company would afford, and after such
offer bad been accepted making offers of 304. and
40s. to other parties ; that by such first conduct
the shares were greatly depreciated in the market,
and then purchased by the defendants at 2s. 6d. per
share, or some such small sum. Affidavits were
made by Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey and others in
support of this case, arid charging wilful expenditure
in Journeys, and otherwise an improper conducting of
the company's affairs. It appeared that Mr. D. W.
Harvey had himself been the purchaser of such depre-
dated shares, and it was submitted, in support of the
motion to dismiss, that there was nothing to take the
case out of the ordinary rule, whatever case was sought
to be made by the bill, to which no answer had yet
been put in. •
Mr. Bacon, Mr. Malin?, and Mr. Welford opposed
the motion upon the above case made by the bill, and
contended that the plaintiff, asking no more than an
account, was entitled to go on with the suit.
The VICS-CIIANCELLOIL said that the plaintiff had
filed his bill so that he was the dominus litus, and there
was nothing to show that it should not be dismissed
immediately. Be stated that the number of share-
holders was so great that it was impossible to make
them parties, and that he was, in fact, ignorant of their
names and addresses. The last reason might cer-
tainly make it unnecessary to consider the first. Bat
he thereby assumed that they were persons over whom
he had the complete dominion. It was not the case
of a creditor's suit, but might turn out for the benefit
of other persons. Application was now made to the
Court on tithe footing that it the face cf the bill the
plaintiff was the only person to be dealt with. His
Honour did not see why the defendant might not
make such an application es in any other suit.

A SSIZE l TELLI(ENCE.
MID Lil.s D CI 1:C I L—Lincoln, March 11.
The Right lion. Lord C2:mpbell took his seat on
the Diai prim side of the Ctstle-hall at ten o'clock this
morning ; Mr. Baron. Parke presided in the Crown
Court.

Ur. K. Macaulay took his seat in the Nisi Prius
Court as one of ber Majesty's counsel.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Liefore Lord CAMPBELL.)
PENISTON v. DAWBEa AND OTDEBS.

This was an action of debt to recover the price of a
boiler.

Mr. Whitehurst, Q C.; and Mr. Mellor were the
counsel for the Dlaintiii, and Mr. klumfrey, Q.C., and
Mr. Willroore, for defendant.
The plaintiff was a steam-hoiler maker at Newark,
and had supplied to one t:f the dvfendantE.7, Mr.
Hovritt, a boiler for a steam flour-mill in this city.
Mr. Howitc had been the owner of the mill, and the
other three defendants in partnership with him in the
trade of millers ; but the defence was that Mr. Howitt
had ordered the boils-r on his own sole account and in
his capacity as owner of the n,iii, and not on behalf
of the firm. Mr. Howitt had been a bankrupt, and
pleaded accordingly to this action. He had given an
acceptance in hh own name to the plaintiff for the
price of the boiler, and that had been dishonoured..

Mr. llovvitt was culled, but the jury, as it would.
sew, disbelieved his testimony, and returned a ver-
di'Vr the plaimiif for the amount claimed, viz.,
93 ..

OXFORD CIRCUIT, Worcester, March 9.
CROWN COURT.—(l3e!ore Mr. Baron PLITT.)
Edwin Matthews, Samuel Hash, and John Addams,
were indicted for a burglary committed on the, pre-
mises of Henry Stibbi, a small farmer, residing about
five miles from Tardebigg, on the line of the Worces-
ter and Birmingham Cmal.
Mr. Self conducted the prcsecution, and Mr. E. V.
Richards appeared for the defence.
Another man, named Wytheforcl, had been con-
victed at the lest assiwA for being concerned in the
same burglary, and had been transported for ten

year/.
The question was One entirely of identity, and the
fact that the prosecutor's evidence varied in some ma-
terial particulars from the account which he gave
when before the megistrates creati some doubt at
first as to the guilt of the prkoners. Tne prosecu-
tor's hoesekeeper ?entirely swore that Addems had
entered her room and demanded her money ; and a
farm servant, who had watched the proceed!ngs of
the men from au u'eper window. gave his evidence
very clearly, and swore that Matthews and Masb,
together with Wythefeel, had blindfolded the pro-
secutor, threatened to .olovv his brains out, and finally
ransacked his boxes.
The counsel for the defence called witnesses to
prove
_an alibi, • who wete cross-examined at very
If reat length, anil alter an hopartial summing up the
jury returned a verdict of Gailty :against all the pri-
soners, who wereetereupea sentenced to 15 year,'
transportation.
Before leaving the doe -Matthews adiressea the
Learned Judge, and in very essergetie terms protested
his in aooenef,..
(I.lFf ire Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
James Drury, !ahearer, aged 39, was indicted fa.
burgi,try. Mr. E. 'V. Richards prosecuted, and Mr.
Powell defended the prisoner.
Trie evidence war, that in the middle of the night
of the 21st of November, an old women named Nancy
Pearsall, who keeps a henhouse at Halesowen, was
surprised by the entrance cf two men into her bed-
room. • She aroused her granddaughter and her
grandsons, who slept in the saine'room, and one of
the yonni.; men got up and lit a candle. One of the
men hie* out the candle, and held out something in
his bands which they thought were pistols, and
threatened, if they made the least noise or disturb-
anoe, to blo er their brains out. They then demanded
the old woinan's money, and took from her
about ten shillings, in silver, which was all
she had, and, an old silver watch, belonging
to her grandson, which was hanging up in the bed-
room. One of them then ransacked the house, while
the other kept"guard over the inmates, and then went
away, ihreatening to return and murder them all if
they made any Outc7y. The prisoner lived about
half a ' mile froni the prOsecutrix, and was well
down to her and her family; but neither she, nor
her eldest grandson, nor her granddaughter recog-
nised him. The youngeq grandson, however, ap-
pang to have donhso, and upon his information the
prisoner Plan apprehended the next day, with the
watcli, which had a paper with the owner's name and
address in it, inlis fob, and some silver in his pocket.
The other offender has not been apprehended.
The jury returned a verdict of Gailty, and the
prisoner was sentenced by his LORD3IIIP, who 'said
it was a very bad case, te fifteen years' transportation.
Joint Horton was indicted for a burglary. com-
mitted on the preinisei Of Matthew Henry Dodd, a
watchmaker, at Bromsgrove.
Mr. Haddleston conducted the prosecution and
Mr. E. Y. Richards appeared for the defence.' '
On the part of the prosecution it was established
that the prosecutor carried on his business on the top
oor of a
house I'h the principal street of Broms-
grove ; that on the evening of the 21st of November
last the prisoner, with two other;, iva3 obierved loi-
tering about in th,:l nelghbourhow: of ,the prosecutor's
Ivwset.: teli_st, p qv...o'clock on ear! rnernieg of the
22(1,4-11bv. ASKlrtosecutor was avveke by the
brit
_:g.asileile, e indoor of his workshop, and
olilla. ruritiin_e<iPe ' * observed a man'a arm pro-
gulled through, the•.wis9lE
".e
of his workshop. The
presecutOr deadAestifikApt . through the window, and
sdkirth by thee,Zreiir ;hi-Wm-en who was !standing on
Sheq•ge-of the. vri,...., ~ The ins" Contrived: to un-
butt( eels ft:93ooli: ''a", - (,irsped, leaving his inexpres.
sik:l.s in-the piteviesan of the prosecutor. Tile prose-
cutor was unable to swear that the prisoner was the
man whose trovvaers he had secured, bat several other
witnesses were called, whe
positively swore to havi 1 lo*
known tha prisoner before, and to having tract Mal