The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

ELECTIU.V ME' FIES.

We truly predicted that the election amenities
in England would, when the chance offered, soon
put Columbia to the blush, compelling her to ac-
kaowledge that she was whipped out of creation by
her English cousin li.itatinia. The director of a
Loadon, Chatham, and Dover Railway, or of an
Overeud-Gurney discount house, turns up his eyes
with horror at the proceedings in Wall-street, at a
Dr,w or a Vauderbilt, till the thief himself stands
convicted, and his ample cloak of respectability is
stripped off. But even then he scarcely sees and feels
his own villainy while the foreign one is in his eyes,
a glaring fraud, and he thanks God that lie is not
as these men. So with the electors. Save us, ex-
claims our English Tory from the disgraceful
scenes daily occurring in America—that, pointing
to the United States, is what your model insti-
tutions co►ue to. But the moment the man
is himself tried, no matter whether a bloated aris-
tocrat, whether a servile worshipper of things old, or
a sturdy Radical, be proves the same. Indeed,
judging from the samples before us, the most bitter,
the most ill-bred and unscrupulous are among the
Tories, and those of the higher ranks. A dislia-
guished Radical candidate for a metropolitan
borough, with many similar letters, received this
" I have never yet given my vote to a ruffian or a
revolutionist, and ido not intend to do so now. I
return your Fenian address, and am with the
greatest contempt for yourself, the maniac Goldwiu
Smith, the Jamaica Committee, and your Fenian
supporters in the borough—An Elector." Colonel
Somerset, at Abergavenny, accused his opponent,
Colonel Clifford, of having coerced voters in 1847,
on which Clifford called him a liar, and his son-
i❑-law put his fist in Somerset's face, while another
gentleman, who was standing by, struck him twice.
At Rugby, Dr. Temple, the learned head master
of that great public school, was violently thrust from
the Town Hall, as he was considered to have no
right to hear the address of his Conservative op-
ponent, Mr. Newdcgate. Nor were the Liberals
far behind, as the case between Lord Enfield, eldest
son of the Earl of Stafford, and Mr. Henry Labou-
chere proves. His lordship plumply told the com-
moner that he did not believe him in some dispute
touching how the expenses for their joint election
as Liberals for Middlesex were to be apportioned.
" Enfield," retorted the commoner, " you were
always an incurable sneak," and thus they settled
the little money difference, but not without, the in-
fatuation which induces these people to publish these
stories. Enfield says he is the scion of good stock,
and he regards Labouchere as a snob. Labouchere
says he is as goo I as Enfield, whom he calls to his face
au incurable sneak, evidently believing it. Yet both
they and the electors desire to see the union of snob
and sneak, as their only appropriate representatives.
A. Tory would reply that this is the effect of lower-
ing the franchise, although the actors are not only
old members, but some of them lords, and the luau
who appears to have behaved best was the working
man's candidate, Odder; who sacrificed his own
chance freely to benefit his party, working heartily
for another. On the whole, however, there is an
evident improvement, as those who remember the
elections of a quarter of a century ago can testify,
both in England and in America, which proves the
steady march of education, as intimidation was
little used except in the benighted districts of the
Southern States and of Wales and Ireland.—Anglo-
American limes.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australis. and New Zealand, via Southampton Dee. 5.
Ditto, via 'weenies D2c 28
Ditto, via Pi....aula Dee 29.
brazil. Buenos Ayres, and .lloute Video Dec. 4.
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unto, via Maraetiles
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Portugal . . ... Dee. 4.
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Ditto ditt t ( Baltimore)
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Cuba and Mexico Dec.....
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Bermuda. via .......

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The price of Gold.

Tto quota i)n of gold at Paris Is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 251. per £1 sterlln,.
On co liparing these rater with the Euglisii Mint price of
C ILs. toid. per ounce for staulard gold, it alppeArs tiIAG
gold La about thc mune pried in Loudon and Paris.
'The co./L*Be of exchange at :New York on London for ill
at tO days' sizht was ou the last date about 1 01 percent.
At this rate there is profit on the importation of gol
rom the Uni cu ;•_.tates.

The San Francisco Bulletin says :—" More farms
have been cut up and sold in this state during the
present year, probably, than in any three previous
years."