The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-02 00:00:00

THE ELECTORS OF FRANCE.

The Journal (les Debuts publishes the following
statistics relative to the increase in the electoral body
throughout France since the revolution of 1830 :
In July, 1831, when the elections were about to
commence, the number of electors inscribed amounted
to 166,583 ; in June, 1834, the number increased to
171,015 ; in November, 1837, to 198,836 ; in March,
1839, to 901,271 ; in July, 1842, to 220,040. " The
conclusion to be drawn from these numbers," adds
the Debats, " is, that the electoral body obeys
a law of progression both significant and rapid.
Thus, by the simple force of the law and
the natural development of property, 53,000
new electors have been added to the list since
the revolution of 1830—nearly one-third of the num-
ber of electors inscribed at that period. In 1831,
125,000 electors took part in the elections of that
period ; in 1834, 129,000 ; in 1837, 151,000 ; in
1839, 164,000 ; in 1842, 173,000. We find by this
return that the development of public spirit follows
the same law of progression that is observable in
the development of wealth and prosperity. The fol-
lowing changes have taken place in the composition
of the Chamber : At the elections of 1831 there
were 222 old Members re-elected, and 200 new
Deputies. In 1834 there were 392 re-elected, and
142 new Deputies. In 1837, 310 re-elections, and
,353681Dreep-eulteicetsi ornes.,eal
elected,
and newl3 fi newnriebtetrus 1.1 s .
1n1n1814823,9
and but 94 new."

GREAT NORTRERN RAILW A y.---We have great
pleasure in announcing, that it has been definitely set-
tled that the great Caledonian Railway shall proceed
from Lancaster, by way of Kendal, to Carlisle; and
that the London and Birmingham Railway Company
have come to the resolution to promote it by every
means in their power. The several engineers are now
upon the line, making such corrections and alterations
in the plans as more minute surveys may have shown
to be necessary, to be ready to go before Parliament
at the earliest period of the ensuing session.
That an Act will be obtained, there is little
doubt, and with the aid of the London and Bir-
minglmm' the Grand Junction, and the other
Railway Companies interested in the line, and the
assistance which the landowners along the line are
prepared to give to the undertaking, no fear is
entertained of the requisite funds being supplied. -B's
soon as the Act has been obtained, and the proper ar-
rangements made, it is understood that the work will
be commenced simultaneously from Carlisle to Pen-
, rith, and from Lancaster to Kendal. The second por-
tion of the great project, from Carlisle to Glasgow
and Edinburgh will also, it is understood, be prose-
cuted as early as possible; though we are not-aware
that it is contemplated to go to Parliament fur this
portion in the next session.—Carlisle Journal.
MEETING OF LORD ASHBURTON AND Louts Pm-
LIPPE.—In the year 1798 Lord Ashburton, with one or
two friends, paid a visit to the Falls of Niagara,
Upon their return they stopped to visit the Falls of
Genessee. It was late when they had finished their
examinations, and, as there was no house in tl-.,e neigh-
bourhood, they encamped out for the r!,ght. They
were somewhat fearful that the Indivis might try to.
plunder their camp, and they kerb,',, a good look-out.
In the early part of the night they heard a rustling
among the leaves and a crackling among the dry
branches, but whether they proceeded from the tread
of Indians or wild beasts they could not tell. The
footsteps were, however, approaching their tent. They
kept strict, silent, and anxious watch for some view or

sound that should reveal the character of their visitors.
Soon they distinguished human voices; and saw the
shadowy outline of human forms. As the party came
nearer they heard them conversing in French, and, in
a few minutes Lord Ashburton gave Louis Philippe and
his companions a cordial welcome to his tent. They
had before met amidst the artificial splendour of Euro-
pean courts—and now, surrounded by the sublime
and stupendous natural scenery of the American wil-
derness.—Rochester Post.

DEATHS EST FIRE.—On Monday Mr. Higgs held
two inquests on the bodies of persons whose deaths
were caused by the accidental ignition of their wear-
ing apparel. The first was at St. George's Hospital,
on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Cheese, aged fifty-five.
It appeared from the evidence of the deceased's
brother.in-law, Mr. H. Cheese, of the Flora Gardens,
Bayswater, that on the night of the 22d August, as
she was going up stairs to bed, with her gown, which
she had taken oft; in one hand, and a lighted candle in
the other, she struck her foot against on© of the steps
of the stairs, and fell forwards. The fall caused the
candle to come in contact with a muslin kerchief she

had round her neck, and set it on fire. which commu-
nicated to other portions of her dress. By the advice
of Mr. Feld, a surgeon, she was the next morning
brought to that hospital. Mr. G. A. Davis, house-
surgeon, said the deceased was admitted on the 23d of
August, very much burned about thehead, shoulders,
and back. She went on well to the 6th of Septem-
ber, when she was attacked by erysipelas, under
which she gradually sank, and died on Saturday last.
Verdict, "Accidental death." The second inquest
was held at the Duke of Ormond, Prince's-street.
Westminster, on the body of Mary Ann Garlick, aged
fcur years. The deceased's parents reside at No. 6,
Providence-row, Westminster, and on the morning
of Thursday last, during the momentary absence of
her mother, she set fire to her clothes while standing
on the fender to reach a toy from the mantle-shelf.
She was forthwith removed to the Westminster Hos-
pital, in which she died on Friday last, Mr. Reginald
James the house surgeon, said, from the effects of the
burns. Verdict, "Accidental death."
At the late Middlesex Sessions several persons were
tried for keeping disorderly houses in the parish of
Marylebone. In one of these the Chairman, in his
charge, said, it was not enough to prove that women
of bad reputation resided in a -house, or that men and
women were seen going into it at late hours of the
night, to constitute it a disorderly house, and, as such,
subject to indictment. In the present case there was
no proof that the house was a nuisance to the neigh-
bourhood, but the evidence was, in fact, altogether
to the contrary. It was quite possible in those cases
to be over-wise, and he thought that it would be as
well not to interfere with those people whilst they
abstained from committing any act against pubhc
decency and order.
TH3 DUKE WIIO THINKS ALOUD.—A Royal Duke
is no more distinguished for the graceful urbanity
with which he presides at any public dinner, given
for any purpose, at any hour, and at any place, than
for a constant habit of thinking aloud. You are
in the pit of Covent-garden theatre : well, five minutes
before the overture begins you hear a voice above
your head, thus communing with itself :—" Whenever
I come to the theatre, I make it a point to dine at
five o'clock !" The Royal Duke, having addressed this
information to his playbill, takes his seat, and, throughout
the play, keeps up a running accompaniment of assent or
dissent to the speeches entrusted to the actors. At the,
Chapel Royal his Royal Highness is equally audible,
and equally faithful to his habit of commenting uptia
all he hears. A few Sundays ago, the Minister and
the Duke proceeded as follows :—Minister From al
evil and mischief, from sin, from the crafts of the
devil—(Duke—To be sure : very proper—very Pro-
per.) Minister—From all sedition, conspiracy, and
rebellion—(Duke Certainly, : very right very
right.) And thus Parson and Duke proceeded togs-
ther almost to the end. However, the worthy clergy-
Ministe The
this pious task, he thus commenced: •
tl desired
man had to offer a prayer for the sick.
_ Proceeding in
prayers of this congregation are earn Y
y
for—(Duke—No objection—no objection ...
such
.
SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS.—Of course all
.....
innfissu.
sociations exhibit marks of human
t.frailty. It
time of the
or verifications of old ones,
°ccul!,)uyilt on uncertain
assembly with crude hypotheses'
iedged that they have
ential members, instead of cornmunicathmeg new facts,
premises, it must be acknowledged
pursuits,
the abuse of the thing, not the . loff.theßuadtmthixisturise
tsuch ' unions, it
of evil were a Strong argument agrinsscientific
wasted the stuff which life is
umsea.de
the practice of the
_ arts of ordinary
or even against
life. Yet we continue to eat bread, even baker's
would be equally valid against al
bread, though at the risk of swallowing alum as vrell
flour. To deny that any advantage results from such
associations, is to deny the superiority of united over
individual efforts.—Annals of Chemistry.
SALUTARY AND RAPID CHANGE OF OPINION. Su
weeks ago, at the annual session, Mr. Marshall, a Ma-
gistrate, residing in one of the northern hundreds of
this county, opposed the proposition of Mr. H. Ash-
worth, for the exemption of unoccupied buildings,
&c.,
from the county-rate, and stated, upon the authority
of his commercial friends, that trade was about to re-
vive, and therefore it would be unnecessary to make
any reduction in the rate for that sort of property, 0
very soon it would again be fully occupied. Last week,
session, the same gentleman at the adjourned i oPPO3 ed
Colonel Austin's motion for an increase of p 37 to
the rural police ; adduced the prices of wheat in the
markets of Lancaster and Preston for the last three
Years to show that the reduction of 324 in the price
of this description of food ought to be ;teemed addi-
tional salary ;—reminded the Magistrates that every
interest was suffering, arcultural and commercial ;
quoted from ‘, passages in e Life of &Radical," by Ram.
ford, who, he said, had well observed, "that unless every
interest was willing to make a sacrifice, this country
would, like others, be swept away from the face of the
earth ; and, after some allusion to the frightful increase
of the poor-rates, heirhe Mr. Marshall) inquired how
rents, and how landlords
tenants were tog=
ter Guardian.
were to five ?
A Pursausr.—The Rev. Joseph Birch, who hold,
the living. of Bywell, in Northumberland, has just
been appointed to one at Brighouse, near Hudders-
field. How is this pastor to look after these two
flocks, separated as they are by such a distance ? Can
he minister to them as a,parson ought to minister to
'
his parishioners ? " No, we fancy we bear someono
say, ' but he can shear them at the tithing season.
Leeds Times.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The notice which the Globe has
already taken of the extraordinary prosecution
instituted by the Right Honourable Viscount
Frankfbrt de Montmorency- against Alice Lowe,
the unfortunate object of his Lordship's tempo-
rary " protection,' will lead our readers to ex-
pect that the trial of the prisoner •and the ver-
dict of the jury will not be allowed to pass with-
out some parting remarks upon the extraordinary
case as now ,presented by the proceedings. The
trial of the. prisoner appeared
.in the Globe of
yesterday. Accustomed-as Courts of Justice are,.
to. exhibitions of human vice and folly, we aro'..
not overstating the fact, when we say that those
Whom long experience has familiarised touch
scenes were surprised by the account, 4iven by
the, noble prosecutor himself, of. his . share in
the disgusting transactions he was compelled to
narrate in attempting to establish a Case against:
the prisoner. There is certainly, no standard .by'
which to ascertain the degrees by which indul-
gence in depravity renders the
inrlici Tail' im-
pervious to shame; but until' the instance yes-
terday supplied by Lord_ 'Frankfort, it would
have been regarded a. a stretch .of malicious
invention to have imagined that A. Peer—the
representative of a hing line of hbnourable ark;-
cestry—a Montmorency, whose proud boast
was, in the days when chivalric honour was
cherished as the life-blood of nobility, that they
'were " lea premiers baroni Chretiens de 'Ea-
rope"—that such an one'vrould have entered a
Court of public justice, and have become the
narrator of his own heartless profligacy—the
herald of his own' shame, while the finger of
public scorn was pointed at his person, and shouts
of plebeian exultation, which the authority of
the Court could not restrain, hailed the defeat of
the ignoble object for which this nobleman con-
sented to make himself a spectacle -by the ac-
quittal of the less guilty and far less contemptible
victim of his lordly persecution.
• STANDARD.—We find in the columns of the
Opposition journals, and in the columns of some
journals too that generally support the Govern-
silent, loud complaints of the new orders issued
by the Judges in Equity. We at once disclaim
the pretence that we are qualified to form a cor-
rect judgment upon these complaints as respects
the question of detail, hut we think we see suffi-
cient to justify a doubt wh2ther they are really
as well founded as at first sight they may
appear. On the one side, the complainants
are solicitors,- who, like . all other men, must
dislike a departure from the routine that
they are accustomed to, and must be thought
naturally to. regard unfavourably the new or-
ders, because they are new, without illiberally
Opposing (what would be, we believe, unjust
as well as illiberal in reference to the great body
of solicitors in equity) that a tendency to dimi-
nish the amount of bills of costs renders the
novelty still more unpalatable. On the other
side, we have the authors of. the new orders;
men of talent, learning, and experience, and of
Unspotted integrity, men who must be conscious
that the public is earnestly bent upon an
economical, reform in the administration of
every department of the law, and who have,
in fact, as is notorious, for. years directed
their attention to the subject. Such men may
no doubt be mistaken in the remedies they pro-
pose, but surely they are less likely to be mis-
taken than a solicitor whose attention has been
properly limited to the conduct of suits, it may
be of a particular class, and it must be in a single
office. The presumption, too, that the Judges are
in the right, and the remonstrants in error, is

greatly strengthened by the grounds of com-
plaint alleged—these grounds all concern the
augmentation of particular fees or payments.
Now this augmentation may, according to cir-
cumstances; be a great additional expense, or a
*.e.ry great saving to suitors. If it leave the ag-
gregate of items in a bill of costs unreduced—if it
be accompanied by no provision for the abridg-
Inent- of the duration of suits—if it leave all other
items undiminished or unexpungcd—it is, of
.cOurse, an addition of expense: but if, on the
pthei side, it be a necessary part of a system, di-
minishing materially the number of heads of
.charge, and much accelerating the decision of
causes, the
m augmentation must be extravagant
deed should not the whole system effect a con-
.
.siderable saving.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

The New York papers state that money is plentiful,
and that there is an increasing disposition to invest in
the better sort of stocks. Much of the Government
loan has been disposed of at par and interest. There
had been much business transacted with the stocks of
the dividend-paying States, but with those of the non-
ming, States scarcely anything had been done.
he mercantile business was small, but safe, and
piices continued low, while the supply of produce was
extensive.

The Canada papers give a statement of the probable
revenue and expenditure of the province for the year
ending the 31st of December next. Under the head
of expenditure, the interest on the public debt isstated
at 80,0001., and the amount of the civil list at 83,3331.,
which, with other items described—such as the main-
tenance of schools, public works, and the several dis-
trict courts—forms a gross total of 299,5401. 14s. 9d.
sterling. The sources of revenue show net Customs
duties as 280,000/., net Excise as 32,000/., net terri-
torial 31,0001., with bank imposts of 10,0001., the in-
stalment of the American Land Company of 11,111.1,
revenues from public works of 21,0001., and other
items, forming a total of 352,494/. 18s. sterling.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVE.NT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 1.

The Court resumed its sittings this morning, at the
usual hour. In consequence of the death of the late
lamented Mr. Commissioner Bowen, Mr. Commis-
sioner Harris presided.

IN RE GEORGE lIUMPIIRYES.
TllO insolvent's petition was opposed by Mr. Wood-
rutle, on the grounds of fraudulently making away
with property.
It appeared that the insolvent had executed certain
assignments of his property, and, upon receiving the
money, expended a large portion of it in defending an
action brought by the opposing creditors, and the
rest, according to his schedule, he lost also in law ex-
penses. He had been now in prison upwards of six
months.

Mr: Commissioner HARRIS said the insolvent's con-
:duct rendered him amenable to the 76th section only
of the Act, by which a remand of six months could
.herinflicted. As he had been in prison since his
vesting order fora much longer time than that the judg-
ment of the Court of course could be only nominal,
,and he regretted this more, as in his experience few
'cases came before him which exhibited more fraud
and villainy. Ile was then declared to be entitled to
his discharge in six months from the date of his vest-
ing order.

IN RE JOSEPH JOETT.

The insolvent, who was described as a wine mer-

chant, applied on his petition to be discharged. He
had been a bankrupt a short time back when all his
property was sold by the assignees, and nothing was
available now to his creditors.—Discharged.
IN RE THOMAS BODGER-LOAN SOCIETIES.

. The insolvents' schedule showed the greater part of
his liabilities to have been incurred either as principal
or security to Loan Societies.
Mr. Commissioner lamas in ordering his dis-
charge said, those transactions with Loan Societies
Were always very doubtful, and in the Loan Societies
themselves his daily experience in that Court taught
bim there was much which required to be set right.

IN RE JOHN MARSHALL.
,The insolvent had carried on business at South-

ampto-a as a manufacturer of steam-boilers, and sub-

sequ'ently as anengineerand general founder in Col-
cheiter-street Whitechapel. In 1839 he became
bankrupt, when the amount of his debts was 4,0001.
The sum from which he now sought to be relieved was
nearly 2,000/. Al number of creditors opposed.
After a number of cases were heard against his
discharge, the Court ordered the further hearing to
be adjourned to produce two witnesses.

LAW NOTICES.
Sittings at Nisi Prius appointed in Middlesex and
London, before the Right Honourable Sir Nicholas
Conyngham Tindal, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of
her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westmin-
ster, in and after Michaelmas Term, 1842 :