The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-17 00:00:00

THE QUEEN V. QUAYLE.

Sir W. Follett was instructed to move for a rule tiiri for a
quo warrant°, commanding the defendant to show by what
authority he claimed to exercise the office of town councillor
of the borough of Liverpool. It appeared that two candi-
dates, a Mr. Shand and Mr. Quayle, tried for the office. At
first the majority of votes was declared to be in favour of Mr.
Quayle, but ultimately it was discovered that both parties
had polled the same number of votes. It was subsequently,
however, discovered that a system had been adopted of per-
sonating the votes of voters who were not at the time in the
country, and thus Mr. Quayle appeared to have more votes
than he really was entitled to. Under those circumstances,
the majority was in favour of Mr. Shand. It was further
discovered that the vote of a person named Evan Jones, who
had voted in favour of Mr. Shand, had been struck out,
through a mistake which he had made in answering affirma-
tively the question put to him, whether he had betore voted
at the election. It was held, that having once voted, he
could not vote again, and accordingly hicNote was struck
out; but he entirely mistook the question, as he meant to
convey by his answer that he could not vote again.
Rule granted.

H UNGARI AN NATIONAL PRIDE.—The pride of the Ma-
gyar, which is one of his strongest train, leads him to look
down on every other nation by which he is surrounded with
sovereign contempt. All foreigners are either Schwab (Ger..'
man), or Taly tin (Italian) ; and it is difficult to imagine the
supercilious air with which the Magyar peasant pronounces
those two words. As for his more immediate neighbours, it
is worse still ; for the most miserable Paraszt-ember (poor
man, peasant !) of Debreezen would scorn alliance or inter-
course with the richest Wallack in the country. I remember
the Baroness W telling me, that as she was going to
Debreezen some years ago with vorspann, she was accom-
panied by her footman, who happened to be a Wallack ; and,
in speaking to her, he was overheard bythe Magyar coach-
man using that language. The peasant made no observation
at the time; but, as they approached the town, he pulled up,
and desired the footman to get down ; assuring the lady at
the same time, that. he meant no disrespect to her, but that
it was quite impossible that he, a Magyar, should endurei the
disgrace of driving a Wallack into Debreczen. Entreaties
and threats were alike vain : the peasant declared he would
take oat his horses, if the footman did not get down—which
he accordingly did.. The Germans are scarcely bettei treated :
it was only the other ,day,' when Count an Austrian
officer of high rank, was calling on Madame Its-J,lliat her
little son happening to let fall some plaything helad in his
hand, the. count applied fils—glaes.• to his eye, and politely
offered to find it for hit h. 1 The child, hocrever,though it
could hardly speak, had -alreaclY learned to hate ;- hrid in.its '-
sparing vocabulary it- found the words " blinder Schwab 1"
which it launched forth with all the-bitteiness it could mils
ter, in answer to theAaolite, offer of the astonished count—,
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