The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-21 00:00:00

EAST RETFORD.

This place, whose representative profligacy 15
now under the consideration of Parliament, is $
town in Nottinghamshire, situate on the river
Idle, and is seven miles from Tuzford, and 001
hundred and forty-five from London. It con"
tamed at the last census, 421 houses, and 1,94'1
inhabitants ; and has a good market for bops,
corn, malt, and provisions. It first sent Mow
bers to Parliament in the 9th Edw. II.; but
never returned any after, till the 13th Queen
Elizabeth, when it was again summoned, though
the right was questioned. The Corporation
consists of twelve Aldermen, from whom the
Senior Bailiff must be annually chosen, and the
Junior Bailiff from among the freemen, who 15
also an Alderman during his rear of office'
Committees of the House of Commons have
been occupied eight or nine times within the,
last century, and the Court of King's Bench
as often, in determining what constitutes
freeman of this notable borough ; a poi°
which remains just as open to litigation now O
it ever has been. It has not, for instance, as Yet
been decided whether the son of a freeman born
out of the borough had an equal claim to be ad'
mitted with one born in the borough, nor wile'
ther the apprentice of a journeyman shoemaker
(which description of persons forms a majority
of the electors) has the same right to his freedom
as the apprentice to a master. This borough
was generally supposed to have been under the
influence of the Newcastle family. Three Noble
Dukes of that name having been successively its
High Steward. But the worthy electors have
gen erally preferred a full purse to empty honour, and
patron
whenever regularly flown in the face of their
whenever it has been most their interest so to ci°;
The price of each man's vote has generally bee!,
known to be forty guineas, though in 1820
rose to one hundred and fifty. However, these
golden realities must now resolve themselves into
dreams ; and the worthy Crispins of East Ret:,
ford, instead of manufacturing Legislators, mt'
stick to their lasts, and be contented with more
moderate gains, and those more honestly ac!
quired.

HEN-PECKING.—Fair and gentle readers, ye
whose smiles are to us worth all else beneath the sun, u4',
us candidly, did you think or dream that in Persia there
existed such a pastime as—Hen-pecking? Why, it 10
flourished all over the East time immemorial. Then thit
oh ! only think of some unfortunate polygamist being dal'
pecked by five—ten—twenty—forty Hens ! Curtain lee'
tures too, in that country, must be severe indeed,—folio
ing each other in constant succession, every night a fret
female professor at him with a discourse, probably, 0° "
same endless theme ! In this less unhappy land, the 01,
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ried man, we can suppose, may get inured—hardeneu:„
bomb-proof. There, yonder, in the eastern clime, ,'",„
land of the rose and the nightingale, the polygamist
shuts an eye all night long, so endlessly bewildered
with some new variety of the same torment. A wan of
one wife merely—such is the constitution of the droll,
the ear—absolutely cannot hear her voice in all aboYurpess
hour or two at most,—it seems to degenerate by deglyd
into an unintelligible hum, not even unpleasant, scimete'i,
t
like the swarming of bees ; and in the very acme 0' "bee
eastern clime, the land of the rose and nightingale,
11°11
anger, just as she sits up in bed in a towering passion, e
monogamist is stretched in a snoring sleep. But in the
begs
1 '1
his pardon, the bulbul, the poor Persian hands
over, night after night, to a tormentor armed with a tongue
sharp in novelty, of which custom has not taken off th,e
edge, and that cuts like a knife that never has been UAW!
shaves close as a razor that is used perhaps only otl
a-month, and then carefully laid by after a few strops o 0
packwood.—Blackwood's Magasins.