The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-28 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

St. James's parish was concluded, and here, as in
every other parish which has yet been revised, the
Liberals have gained a very considerable advantage
over the Tories. The Reformers have succeeded in
establishing 6 claims and in expunging 17 Tory
names from the register
.they have failed in 10 claims
and 2 objections. Two Liberal claims yet stand over
for judgment. The Tories had only entered' 3 claims
and 3 objections, and of these they have established
but 1 claim and 1 objection, having failed ' in 2 claims
and 2 objections. This statement shows a clear gain
to the Liberals in this single parish of 21 votes.
The parish of St. Martin was next entered upon.
In this parish the Liberals make 9 claims and 137 ob-
jections, and the Tories have given notice of 3 claims
and 63 objections ; in all 212 cases to be gone into in
this parish.

DEVONPORT.
(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
DEVONPORT, MONDAY. - The Revising Barristers
for this district, C. Saunders, Esq , and C. 0. Day-
man, Esq., opened their Court at the Townhall for
the revision of the list of persons entitled to vote for
Members for the borough.

The objections on the part of the Liberals amount
to 342 ; the objections by the Tories 240.
Mr. R. B. Oram appeared on behalf of the Libe-
rals ; the Tory objections were defended by Mr. J.
Beer, and Mr. Ramsay. The advice of Sir R. Peel,
that the battle of party should be fought in the Re-
gistration Court, has been fully acted on by both
sides here.

The Tories are especially active, and will leave no
means untried to reduce the majority of the Liberals
on the list.

The only objection of any importance taken during
the morning by the Tory Advocate was a preliminary
one to the form of notice of objection sent in by the
Liberals. He contended that it was not such a no-
tice as required by the 39th section of the Act, as the
date was not part of the body of the instrument. He
rested his objection on the law as it affects date; of
deeds of conveyance. The Court doubted if the
point could be gone into, but expressed its opinion
that the objection was a perfectly valid one.
One objection by the Tories was made to the guard
of a coach, not that there was the slightest doubt as
to the validity of his vote, but on the speculation that
his avocation might have compelled him to be absent
on the day of hearing, and thus a Liberal vote would
have been struck off. The ruse, however, did not
succeed. •

The revision of the list is expected to occupy the
whole of the week. Equal, if not greater interest is
excited by the state of the burgess list of votes for the
Town Council, which comes on next week. The To-
ries regard the turning the balance in the municipal
election as likely to be decisive of the next political
struggle.

Juzirrus's DuKE OF BEDFORD.- Lord John Russell
has been occupying his leisure, consequent on free-
dom from the cares of office, by preparing for publi-
cation the correspondence of John, fourth Duke of
Bedford, from originals at Woburn Abbey. This is
Junius's Duke of Bedford; and it is, therefore, not
altogether improbable that some curious new proofs
or confirmations may be given to conjectures as to the
authorship of Junius.—Sunday Times.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE AT THE HAVRE THEATRE.
—On Sunday evening there was a crowded house to
witness the performance of an opera called La Dame
Blanche. In one of the scenes the stage had to be
left vacant for a moment or two. On perceiving this,
an Irish gentleman who was behind the scenes in a
state of intoxication coolly walked •on to the stage.
lie was attired in a gaudy plaid shooting jacket,
with huge leather gaiters, &c., and carried a great
thick stick. The audience was for a moment lite-
rally astounded at the intrusion but anon rose a per-
fect storm of yells and hisses. he Irish gentleman,
therefore, stood still, looked fiercely at the audience,
and flourished his stick. • Some of the audience,
thinking fun might be got out of him, gave him a
round of applause, whilst others stormed more than
before. At length there was a pause, and—will you '
believe it ?—the gentleman began singing one of his
national melodies, something about
Oh ! Teddy's the boy for bewitching 'ern.
Whoop ! Hullaballoo ! Hullaballoo !"
And as he sung he whooped, and yelled, and danced,
and flourished his thick stick right gloriously. Was
there ever such an exhibition ? • The' people roared
again with laughter, and our friend the Irishman ap-
peared perfectly happy. But, alas, for Paddy! the
stage-manager called for the assistance of the gens-
d'armes, a party of whom rushed on the stage to ap-
prehend the Irishman ; but he resisted, and many of
the audience took
his part. Some English sailors
who were present, called out "Go it Pat—go it
Paddy," and Paddy did go it, for he did considerable
damage to the heads of his opponents by his terrible
shillelah. At length, however, he was overpowered
and lodged in the station-house ; and so ended one of 1
the most extraordinary scenes ever witnessed in a
theatre.—Dublin Paper.