The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

changed the said note at the Banking Company's

Belfast

Braneli, into one 51. note and fifteen 11. notes.

The money so ill got did not thrive. A mob broko
CROPPER'S windows, insulted his wife, and the Liberal.,
who before suppor:ed his house, abandoned it altogether.
Ruin began to stare him in the face, and knowing that
it was brought upon him by his vote, he addressed a let-
ter to Mr. EMERSON TENNENT. praying that he might
be appointed to some small place under the Government.
In the words of a Contemporary, " as you have obtained
a Government situation for yourself," very naturally wrote
this injured may, " I hope you will obtain some small
appointment for me—for me who, by accepting your
twenty-pound bribe have brought ruin upon myself and
family." In some such style, CnorrEn, of course, wrote
V) the Secretary of the Board of Control. That gentle.
man was then in Liverpool, and replied promptly am
courteously as follows :

Liverpool, August 16, 1841.
Dear, Sir,.—Your letter followed me here. In reply to
I I have but to say that if you will point out to me any situa-
tion vacant wl•ich you could be qualified to fill, and inform me
the quarter la which to apply fur it for you, I will with plea-
sure exert any little influence I may possess in your favour.

• "Most truly yOurs,
" J. EMERSON TENNENT."
Mr. CROPPER'S embarras:•ments increasing, he again
wrote to Mr. TENNENT, who being " most truly" his
friend, he fancied he could not trouble too often. The
Secretary had then arrived in London, shaken hands
with the Premier and the Mcnnbers of the Board, and,

of course, acquired a wonderful accession of dignity. Ile
therefore directed the transmission of the following ofg-
ci.2l reply to his quondam " Dear Sir" Correspondent :
" London, March 14.
" Sir—l have received your letter this morning, and the
test:m.•nial which it enclosed, and which I shall present to the
Treasury should any vacancy come to my knowledge that you
would be qualified to fill.
" Your obedient servant,
" J. EMERSON TENNENT."
Nothing disheartened, Mr. CROPPER made a third
application. Mr. E. TENNENT'S letters arc such models
of an intermixture of friendship and business, that we
give his concluding reply :

" The India Board, April 29,1842.
" Sir,—l have just received your letter of the 26th, and
1 am sorry to say that I have not anything to report to you as
yet, but it is almost too soon to expect it. I will, however,
renew my application.
" I remain, yours obediently,
" J. InIMERSON TENNENT."

Driven to utter destitution, poor CROPPER now

thought him of coming to London to stimulate the zeal
of his official friend, the Secretary. In due time he
found hiawlf in Cannon-row, and obtained an interview
with Mr7TENNENT. He was then made to dance at-

tendanee daily at the door of Mr. TENNENT'S office, up
to the very day when the petition against the return for
Belfast was compromised, when Mr. TENNENT, no

longer apprehensive about his disclosures, sent him ton
shillings by a porter, with orders to return to Belfast, or
in other words to go about his business.
This narrative needs no comment. Its force would
be weakened by any attempt to heighten the colour of
the system of villanv which it discloses. Will the
House of Commons refuse an inquiry with respect to
Belfast ? Hear the facts which the petitioner pledges
himself that he will be able to prove :
" That an extensive conspiracy existed and was carried into
effect at the last election for personification of deceased and ab-
sent voters, and for the bribery of numerous voters by bribes
varying from la to 501., such conspiracy being arranged and
perpetrated by the Committee and agents of the late sitting
Members. That sets of clothes and Quakers' apparel were
procured for the personators, and that the arrangements for
personation and bribery were made in the Committee-rooms
of the sitting Members.
" That the said system of fraud was notorious throughout
the days of poll, and must have been known to the said James
Emerson Tennent and William Gillilan Johnson, although
they may have contrived to be personally unconnected with
the acts of their agents and Committee ; and that the said sit-
ting Members must have been parties finding some portion of
the money thus expended, or cognizant of the means of provid-
ing for such corrupt expenditure."
Whether an inquiry into this iniquitous system be
ordered or not, any influence which the Secretary of the
Board of Control ever had with the country is
gone, and the sooner Sir ROBERT PEEL gets rid of
him the better for the character of the Government,
indifferent even as that character is. Mr. EMERSON
TENNENT can be easily replaced at the Board of Control
by a Secretary of more talent, more modesty, snore
regard for the purity of Parliament, and more political
consistency. There will be political renegades enough
in the Ministry to endear it to the wavering, without the
support of Mr. JAMES EMERSON TENNENT.

There is no political news of interest in the Paris
Journals of Sunday. We must, therefore, confine our •
selves to the following brief extracts from them :
The chamber had its last sitting to-day ;it will only meet
to hear the ordinance for closing the session read. The sitting
was not completely unimportant. The Minister of Con merce
ppeated his promise to increase the duty on English thread.
' The Chamber of Peers received to-day the Budget of the
Ways and Means, adopted yesterday by the Chamber of De-
puties. It retired almost immediately to its bureaux to pro-
ceed to the examination of it.
It is generally supposed that the Chamber of Peers will have
got through all the business before it on the 12th or 13th of
this month.
In this case the ordinances for the dissolution and for the
convocation of the electoral colleges will be promulgated on the
14th in the morning, and the elections may take place on
Saturday the 9th of July, says the Moniteur Parisien.
Marshal Soult will go, as he did last year, to pass the fine
season at the Chateau of Meudon, which the King has placed
at his disposal. It is thought that the Marshal will go thither
as soon as the session is closed.
The Duke of Mecklenburg, uncle to the Duchess of Orleans,
makes but a short stay at Paris ; it is said he will leave to-

morrow.
It is said that the Duke de Montebello has brought to Paris
the Convention relative to the postage of letters, concluded
between France and Naples.
This afternoon there was a great diplomatic conference at
Lord Cowley's.
A report is again spread of the approaching abdication of the
King of llanover. It is added, but less confidently it is true,
that his Majesty thinks of allying himself by marriage with the
family of a Sovereign Count of the German Confederation.—
Commerce.

Sir Robert and Lady Peel left town this afternoon for
Windsor Castle, on a visit to the Queen.
The Earl of Aberdeen continues at Windsor, and is
expected to remain at the Castle during the stay of the
Court.

Lord Wharncliffe, the Puke of Buccleuch, and Count
St. Aulaire, also remain at Windsor Castle.
LIGIITHOUSES.—A return has been made to the
House of Commons by the Corporation of the Trinity
House, of the receipt and application of all monies re-
ceived ,as tolls for lighthouses in the year ending 31st
December, 1840, pursuant to Act of Parliament. . The
net revenue during that period was 134,7171., the charges
102,6551., and the surplus 32,062/. From this surplus
have been deducted payments for repairs, insurance,
wages, salaries to superintendents, &c., leaving a clear
surplus of 28,4651., which has been applied to the
" charitable," and other uses, purposes, and intents, for
which the Corporation of the Trinity• House has been
established and maintained.