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

COURT OF QUEEN'S. BENCH.


. .TJ E. QUEEN v. AUAYLt. •
Sir W. Follett was instructed to move for a rule nisi for a
quo warraizto, 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 hid-candi-
dates, a Mr. Shand and'Mr. Quayle, tried for the office. At
first the majority of votes was declared to bein 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 ito'have more votes
than he really was entitled to. Undeithok circumstances,
the majority was in favour of Mr. Shand. It 'wes.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 before voted
at the election. It was held, that haVing once .Voted, he
could not vote again, and accordingly his vote. 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.

HUNGARIAN 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 Talydn (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 Pararl-ember (poor
man, peasant !) of Debreezen would scorn alliance or inter-
course with the richest Wallack in the country. 1 remember
the Baroness W telling me, that as she was going to
Debreczen some years ago with vorspann, she:was accom-
panied by her footman, wholappened to be a Wallack ; and,
in speaking to her, he was overheard by the 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 endure the
disgrace ,of driving a Wallack, into Debreczen. Entreaties
and threats were alike vain : the peasant declared he would
take out his horses, if the footman did not get down—Which
he accordingly did. The Germans are scarcely better treated :
it was only the other day, when Count M—, an. Austrian
officer of high rank, was calling on Madame R---, that her
little son happening to let fall some plaything he had in his,
hand, the count applied his glass to his eye, and politeli
offered to find it • for him. The child, however, WA-Iw%
could hardly speak, had already learned to hate ;•flnd itt-4
sparing vocabulary it found the words "blinder Schwirr
which it launched forth with all the bitterness it Could inns-
ter, in answer to the polite offer of the astonished count.--
Pagees Hungary and Tranoydvania,