The Express. — London, England, 1853-05-02 00:00:00

tut 02Iprtiso. TO CC ItESMINOEN fa. •kecma ram= Exprews." tontatabsg tbs. rum ow's'. ts Gazette," pabliabed csszy Nada? aad rstday to t, a t one tar pos6 Istdesteatstate^ 4o, t tof " • Itxfres,"Laist , a Ifterdap paw, alt be at ki t Wltte, east bp Two o'docla W day of pabLiwalosa. 111 GB WATZU AT LONiION BSIDGL T Dss—Wnikeq. 9a. 3io I .acestis—Jiossisit. Ns. 3 %* Aftcrisous. 3.2 z, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 2. LORD ABERDEEN on Thursday night startled the House of Lords by an announcement which really amounted to this—that the Government have vir tually abolished transportation, and are now consi dering the subject of the release , before the expiration of their sentences, of a first batch of 1,050 convicts. It is really almost necessary to read more than once the debate that followed this important admission of the home Misisree before any one can realise to himself the vital importance of this impending change iu a system of punishment which has existed AO lung. Because justice to our colonies forbad the sending of any more convicts to Van Diemen 's Land, the PRIME MINISTER talks all if transportation must be abolished altogether. He seems to think that England will stand idly by whilst lie empties the gaols of those on whom sentence has been formally pronounced of " transportation beyond the seas." What are we to do with our convicts ? That is the question we must ask ourselves very seriously. Onething isoertain—we cannot,we dare not, keepthem at home. Wo dare not, on the limited space of these Wands, where the passport regulations of the Conti nent are rendered impossible by the habits of the people, turn loose annually from every gaol as their terms expire, recruiting parties of finished ruf fians, to form in every great town a disciplined army of burglars. The people of Surrey know what rapine can be effected unchecked, until wound up by some crying outrage like the Frimley murder; in Leeds, in Manchester, and even London, mortal terrors have been inflicted on honest men by the transplantation from France and India of Tbuggism or garotte robbery ; in the parish of Cam berwell several policemen maimed for life are wit nesses of the impunity long accorded to the brutality of CANNON. Whatever Utopians like Mr. ADDERLEY may urge ; whatever credulous and consistent philanthropists like that gond Quaker I who refused to receive back his stolen watch from the Birmingham pol ice because they carried arms, may say, the common sense of the country, conservative of life and property, will not take any course of prison edueep tion us a security for the good behaviour of conviete, and consent to the annual emancipation in London et three or four thousand destitute and desperate rogue& For what can convicts do in England but return to professional plunder ? A boy who had taken kindly to the reformatory course of a model prison, said on the day before his discharge, " When I go out I shall have breakfasted, but have no money to buy a dinner or ploy for a bed. A handkerchief issoon got—that's eighteenpence. And you know, air, no one would give me work without a character." That is the candid evidence of a mild, favourable, specimen of our criminal population. Again : two bays were overheard talking over their adventures in a bark hut in Australia. " Bill," said the younger, "do you know once I tried to work and be iouest?" "No !" said the other, in a tone of incredulity." " But I found it uncommon slow, so you see I got lagged." But a lame proportion of the tenants of the comfortable abodes provided for felons are not so amiably disposed as to be content with a handkerchief for a dinner. After deducting the per centage who are made criminal by accident or by destitution, there remains a numerous class in a population so dense as oars who are educated to crime from their earliest years, who take to stealing before well-fed children take to their letters, and another who select felony for their profession because they like luxury and they do not like work. They are fond of liquor, and women, and gambling, and tramping about the country; they are to be found at all the fairs, races, prize fights, and other scenes of outdoor excitement. They cannot bear confinement except in cold weather, and they have not been born to such fortunes as would enable them to indulge their tastes without further intro duction to magistrates than 53. fines for drunken ness, or 3/. fines for assaults. They have been edu cated in such associations that they are no more ashamed of a robbery or a burglary, than more re fined rogues are of a Stock Exchange swindle, or racing " pot." These people when they reached a certain point of crime have been sent utterly away. Are we now to endure their villanies without any hope of release ? Our commonest interest and our highest duty alike urge us to cut off the source of crime at the fountain head, to lay hands upon the rising generation and drag them from the normal schools of iniquity which fester in our towns and villages—to extirpate ignorance, to raze to the ground those warrens of felony which disgrace our great cities, and replace them by buildings where space. air, water, cleanliness afford the first ele ments of decency. Thus we may save one section of the rising generation by schools and with soap and water, and we may snatch from destruction another which has been already slightly inoculated with the virus of crime by the sad of ragged schools and refor matory farms under the charge of men at once zealous and intelligent like the Rev. SYDNEY TURNER, of Redhill, and Mr. ELLIS, of Birmingham. We may, we must, do all this, and not in a diteltarili style but in earnest. But, having overcome the selfish indifference of one part of the tax-paying com munity and the sectarian jealousy of the other; having (let us imagine for argument's sake) done an impossibility and extended the pro tecting influences of education, and a healthy home or a reformatory school, over all the "dangerous classes" under thirteen years of age, we have still, until some substitute for transporta tion to Australia has been invented, to deal with an enormous mass of ignorant and desperate adult crime, which either will not or cannot work for wages. Model Prisons, where the discipline consists of solitary or semi solitary confinement, religions in-' struction and sedentary trades, with such hard labour tests as collating passages of Scripture, are a costly' failure. They are not preventive, they are not re formatory, and they unfit their inmates for ucdertak. ieg theonly sort of rough unskilled hard labour that men without a character are likely to get in this country. The aim of punishment should be the reformation of the prisoner, and the protection of the honest against the wicked. It is a notorious fact, which it would be absurd hypocrisy to attempt to conceal, that the proportion of actual felons reformed by , any syatem of penal discipline as yet adopted in this country is infinitesimal,—it is not ap preciable. We must not judge of the terrors of imprisonment by its effect on our own educated minds. To the professional thief, imprison ment is not more disagreeable than the monotony of a long sea voyage is to us. It is a school in which he gethers a few new professional ideas, and a hospital in which he often recruits a frame generally exhausted by dissipation and privation. If im prisonment loses its terrors and cannot cure a hardened criminal, and as transportation to Van Diemen 's Land has been most properly abolished, the question arises with double force—What shall we do with our Convicts ? Must we not find some other spot in our vast Colonial Empire where convict labour on the assignment system would be acceptable ? Admitting freely the serious defects of the assign ment system—admitting that fearful crimes were perpetrated by prisoners and cruelties by masters, historical facts which cannot be contravened show that thousands were reformed and became demist citizens, and the fathers of honest families in Aus tralia,—although they had been shipped without classification, under the lof prisoner overseers, and utterly neglected c ii l i ar tt e e matter of religious and educational instruction for upwards of fifty years. The statistics of population afford evidence infinitely more strong than any of the evidence col lected, massed, and marshalled by the ingenuity of Mr. Ginti?x WAKEFIELD iB 18313, for the purpose of withdrawing white slave labour from competition with the hired labour of South Australia. Up to 1131 t's- %thole maps nf ;Ix opol.:tion of Few South Welts consiqed i.f prisoners and the descendant of prisoners. For fifty years now applies of convicts were poured upon the shores at sa average of 400 a year from nts)J to IN; laud, an average of 1,600 a year from 1813 to 132"; ; while during the whole of that period, with the exception of a few score farmers and shoi,keep . ers, - the only dta tainted colonists were officals or descendant, of officials, having charge of the convict population. In lt/28 a stream of free emigration began to flow, but for five years did not reach an average of 400 souls a year, wW,le during the same period two thousand convicts were annually imported. Thus the community which between 1831 and 1840 had sufficient elements of prOsperity to invite a vast influx of capital, la bour, and enterprise from the mother country was, in fact, a convict community. A small free caste who lived among a mass of convicts and the descendants of convicts, accumulating property, enjoying life in a colony, even in 1830 began to claim to enjoy free institutions. Whatever crime may . have prevailed (and considering that neither discipline nor virtuous example, nor religious teach ing, nor common education, had been secured in any adequate manner for the prisoner population, it is net surprising that crime did prevail as well as low tone of morals), it is self-evident that a very large proportion of the transported convicts must have taken to honest courses, and brought up families in habits of virtue and decency, in order to till the ground, to feed the flocks, to fill the shops, to freight the ships, and carry on suc cessfully the vast mercantile transactions which at length called the attention of English speculators to the resources of Australia. It, as some would have us believe, all the men were robbers or pick pockets, how could capital accumulate and credit grow?—how could stockowners leave their flocks and herds for months together under the charge of pri soners and the children of prisoners ? The simple fact is that in New South Wales pri soners were removed to a country where it was less troublesome and more profitable to work than to steal —where there was very little property that would bear rapid transfer; and as there is not innate hereditary felony even in the hearts of all children of burglars, they grow up in a new country in an honest frame of mind in industrious usefulness, which would have been impossible, had their parents remained in their native British haunts. Are there no other spots where the same beneficial process may be gone through ? When we sum up the horrible list of crimes that appalled the Committee on Transportation in 1836, we ought to consider the circumstances of the people, and think whether there would have been such a vast difference in the moral condition of the ill-paid English and well-paid Australian labourers, if punish ment and classification had preceded transportation —if the masters of assigned servants had been made responsible, and subject to supervision—if moral and religious education had been provided, and enforced o all the children of the settlement—if a decent ex- ample bad been set by the governing officials—and if, above all, as was then possible, an equality of sexes had been maintained? At any rate, it is quite certain that since the abolition of the assignment system we have been going from bad to worse in our attempts at criminal reform. Road gangs, Norfolk Island, exiled Parkhurst boys, Reading Gaol, Silent Penitentiaries, have all been failures, more or less costly—more or less disgusting and atrocious. But although Australia is destined in the future for something better than a convict gaol, we have other remote fertile unpeopled territories which the labour of convicts would render in a few years fit for the foundation of great free colonies. And when we begin to feel the influence of the annual crop of ruffianism consumed at home, with which the Earl of ABERDEEN now more than threatens us, we shall be glad to reconsider transportation and to insist upon its application to some hew settlement. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAE EVENING. Letters from Belgraie state that the re-instate ment of M. Garaschnin, the ex-minister, who was dismissed by Prince Alexander of Scrvia, on the peremptory demand of the Russian consul, is a very probable contingency. Daniel Petrovitsch, Vladika of Montenegro, ar rived at Vienna on the 26th ult., and has been received in audience by the Emperor. The Man iteur contains the following announce ment of an event which has hitherto been spoken of only in whispers: Her Majesty the Empress, who for the last two months has been enceinte, and who has been unwell for several days, miscarried in the evening of April 29. Is other respects her Majesty's health is as satisfactory as possible. On the subject of railway concessions the Moniteur contains the following important caution : It frequently happens that companissmerely because they have sent in proposals to government for a line of rail way, and have been authorised to make surveys, consider themselves, and are very generally considered, as being actual grantees of their proposed Hue. Government has never neglected to contradict this mistake. It feels it a duty in the interest of the public, as well as in the interest of the companies themselves, to prevent such an opinion from being accredited. When the government thinks that a line of railway is called for, it submits the various pro. positions laid before it to a careful examination, as well with regard to the line to be taken as to the financial pros pects of the undertaking, and the security offered fur its fulfilment. It does not admit that apart from considerations of public interest any priority of demand, or any surveys that may have been made, give any right to a preference. Surveys are always made at the risk of the company making them. The State is only bound by a decree of concession. No company, therefore, has a right to represent that a con cession has been made to it, until, after hearing the opinion of the Council of State, the Emperor has signed the decree. General Canrobert, the favourite aide-de-camp of the Emperor, who has been so often designated by public rumour as the probable successor of Marshal St. Arnaud in the ministry of war, is to command the camp of 8,000 men at St. Omer, which is now ex pected to be formed about the middle of the month. There can be scarcely any doubt that the Emperor will visit the camp. It is said that the committee on the Corps Legisla tif now sitting on the budget have proposed reds°. Sons to the amount of two millions, to which the Council of State have consented, and that they in tend to endeavour to strike off two millions more. The session ends on the 13th of May, and it is abun dantly evident that no sufficient time remains for any serious public discussion of the most important btlsi nese of the session which yet remain undone. Accord ingly there are rumours of an extraordinary mks being convoked. But I attach no credit whatrne to these reports. Last year the SIM Ma d 1111111111M1 were current, but in the result the budget was her. ried through in the last two days of the sitting, the members protesting that it was impossible for them to understand it. Now if all one hears be true, the budget commission is really working very had is private, but you may depend upon it no facilities will be given for a bona fide public discussion. That is abhorrent to the whole system of the present government. The following telegraphic despatch, dated Brussels, this day, has just been received: Brussels, Sunday, May 1. The King of the Belgians being about to visit Berlin, the Kii.g of Prussia has invited Inns by telegraph to go either Se the royal chlteau of Berlin or that or Potsdam. It ID. thought that the King Leopold will provisionally stay at the Belgian legation, and then go to Potsdam, where he is expected on Tuesday next. The Second Prussian Chamber has adopted the treaty of commerce concluded between the government of Frederick William and that of the Emperor o. Austria. It has also adopted the treaties re-constituting the Zoll-srein. The Prussian government has promised immediately to present a bill for reducing the import duty upon iron. In the Moniteur of to-day there is a decree of the Emperor, conceding the railway from Lyons to Geneva, with branches to Bourg and Macon, to the Duke of Gallicra and Messrs. Bartholony, Jayr, Benoist d'Azy, Blount and Co., Hely d'Oissel, Glad stone, De Monicault, Kohler, and General Dufour. At the Bourse yesterday, the market fur govern ment securities was firm, though no improvement took place in prices, there being at the conclusion of business • decline of 15e. in the Three per Cents., and of 10e. in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for the account; the final quotation of the Three per Cents. for cash, also showed a decline of 10c.; Bank shares fell sf. Final quotations :—For money : Three per Cents., 80f. 50c.; Four-and-a-Hulf per Cents., 103 f. 23e. For the end of the month: Three per Cents., 80f. 45e. ; Four-and-a-Hal per Cents., 103 f. 10c. Bank Stock, 2,710 f. There were no transactions in credit fonder shares; they of the credit mobilier declined 2f. 50c., closing at 985 E In the railway share-market prices have been well maintained, with a decided upward tendency at the close of bu.iness, there king an advance gew ally of hum Jt. to 7f. In Bordeaux and Cute shares, however, there was a decline of Bf. ; whilst Paris and Lions remained unchanged. The quotations THE EXPRESS, MONDAY are :—S4rtberris, 017 e. Me' . ; Orisaa, 1,072 f. wt. i Paris adiStrabourgs, 8117 f. 60e4 Paris and k en o,' 9.55 f. ; Parts and Rouen 2 1,1651.; Lions t o th e Western Mediterranean, 845 f. ; of For ce , 797 f. 500.; Roan and Havre, 547 f. 50e. ; Bo r d eaux an d Cette, 650 f.; Caen and Cherbourg, i i . tt PARIS, SATIIILDAT EVTNING. The Bulletin de Paris announcer that several in fluential members of the Legitimist party are about to visit Frobsdorf. A difference of some importance has broken out lately between the master house-psinters and their journeymen. The men require two hours for dinner instead of one, which has hitherto been cus tomary. Most of the masters in a large way of bu siness hare conceded the point, but the smaller tradesmen resist, and the discontent in consequence is considerable. _ A general meeting of the Lyons and Mediterra nean Railway Company was held this afternoon at the offices in the Rue Laffitte. It was very fully attended. The report of the managing council, which was of extreme length, and occupied nearly two hours in the reading, explained in detail the financial state of the company and the treaty made in March last with the old Lyons and Avignon Com pany. The council represented the prospects of the line as highly favourable. In their opinion the steam-boats on the Rhone would be auxiliaries, and not opponents ; and, although some of the Rhone companies were still very hostile to the railway, others shared the views of the council and were pre pared to treat. The government had already ap proved the whole course of the proposed line except that part which went through Lyons; but the diffi culties in regard to this section raised by the military engineers would, beyond all doubt, be speedily removed, and the line would proceed according to the original plan. After the report was read, two or three shareholders men tioned instances in which, as it appeared to them, cessions disadvantageous to the company had been made to some of the minor southern branch lines. That of Beeler' and Graissessac was particularly alluded to. The objectors, however, admitted that upon the whole the proceedings of the council had been moat advantageous. The chairman, in explana tion, said it was true that the company had entered into certain engagements, which, considered in an isolated point of view, might turn out to be disad vantageous, but this was the price paid to govern ment for those privileges and advantages which, u a whole, were by general consent recognised as ex tremely beneficial. It would be impossible to re model the scheme piecemeal. It must either be accepted or rejected in its entirety. These remarks were very favourably received by the meeting, and ultimately the following resolutions, proposed by the council, were carried unanimously: • - I. The general meeting approving the report sad the ac counts presented for 1852, fixes the dividend at Bf. 2. The treaty entered into on March 29,•1853, between the Lyons and Mediterranean Company and the liquidators of the old Lyons and Avignon Company, is approved of in every respect. 3. In execution of the treaty of March 29 last, approved of as above, the general meeting authorises the following measures:—The call of 25f., originally fixed for October 1, 1853, shall be paid by anticipation from the 15th to the 30th of May next, deducting a discount of 3 per cent. for the time which may elapse between the day of actual pay ment, and the original date of October 1, 1853. Every share having paid up the five first tenths (in all 250 f.), shall be exonerated d'office of the sixth tenth (50f.), by the appropriation ors sum ef 50f. to be taken from the five millions paid to the company by the liquidators of the old Lyons and Avignon Company. This appropriation will be made subject to a deduction of 4f. representing the inte rest at 4 per cent. upon the said payment of 60f. during the two years remaining to run from the period ef the construe tion. By means of the above deduction the 75f. remaining payable upon the shares from and after the 15th of May next, as well as upon the 2251. already paid up, will also bear interest at 4 per cent. Jouissana of April 1, 1853. 4. From and after the 15th of May next no shares can be negotiated but shares to bearer with 300 f. paid up and ex die, 5. The general meeting confers upon the managing coun cil all powers necessary to organise a service of correspon dence by steam - boat. between Lyons and the points on the in Rhone connexion with the different railway stations. The council is for this purpose authorised to treat, if need be, witk one or several of the existing steam boat companies in the form and upon the conditions which they may think lit, subject to the approbation of the government. A general meeting of the shareholders of the Dieppe railway company was held yesterday, and a dividend of 9f. 30e. per share was declared. The amalgamation with the Norman lines, with a fixed revenue of 12f. per share, and the reimbursement of the shares at 400 f. when paid off, was approved of, after some opposition from a certain number of shareholders. SPAIN. By decrees in the Gazette of the Vahnit. the govern ment suppresses a number of useless offices in the de partment of finance. Motives of economy are assigned for this measure, and it is stated that a similar course will be taken by Ministers of other de partments. SWITZERLAND. The government of Freiburg continues to receive moral and material support from all parts of the can ton : it has not however neglected precautions against any new attempt. The Argots Gazette announces that the Federal Council is about to submit to the sanction of the Cantonal Councils a decree to the following effect: " It will not be permitted to any political refugee without an express authorisation to establish himself in a canton, and to reside there, as for instance French refugees in the Orisons, the Italians in Schaffhausen, and the Germans in the Valais. Any refugee who shall quit his canton without the authorisation of the Federal Council, shall be banished from the Swiss territory." GERMANY. A Frankfort journal communicates the substance of the declaration made in the Federal Diet by the Prussian pledipotentiary, when the propriety of ad dressing complaints to the English government on the subject of refugees, was under deliberation : it is to the following effect. However natural it may be to feel indignant at the crimes ascribed to the refugees resident in London, there is still wanting a collection of consistent facts in evidence of those crimes, without which the Prussian government would not feel justified in assuming that the British cabinet is not disposed to do all in its power to pre vent revolutionary enterprises on the Continent. The Prussian government believes that the English cabinet is resolved both to punish and prevent crime, and is satisfied, from its knowledge of English pub lic opinion, that any manifestation which should give ground for the suspicion that the action of the British government was under the influence of foreign powers, would create new obstacles to the accomplish ment of the duties which that government is anxious to discharge. 'rho Prussian government has thought worthy of contradiction a paragraph in the Kral.: Zcitung, affirming that one of the Prussian police who lately visited London, had proved that the sockets disco vered at itotherhithe were ordered by Kossuth. In its organ the Prussian Gazette, the government states :—" It is true that a commission of investiga : Lion was sent to London relative to certain official discoveries, but thew discoveries have no connexion with the Kossuth affair." It was understood in Berlin that M. Niiener and his associates were sent to London to make discoveries in connexion with the late seizures of arms at Berlin and Rostock. TURKEY. Telegraphic despatches, as well as adviees of less recent date, continue to arrive from Constantinople, and attest, somewhat superfluously, the continuance of tranquillity in the Turkish capital. The correspondence of the Daints contains some information relative to the convention proposed by Russia on the subject of the Holy Shrines, which, if accurate, is important. A draft of this convention has been laid before the French ambassador by the Porte; and, according to the D. , Guts, ltussia will not be contented with a simple lirman, but an oiler to be put on an equal footing with France with regard to the protection of Christians, at Jorastiletn, she dr manibi a special convention, withdr.vaing in the first place from the Lathes the custody of the keys of the church of Bethlehem, ex cluding the Latins from the tomb of the Virgin, and authorising the Greeks exclusively to restore I FthNiNG, MAY 2, 1853, the grand cupola of the Holy Sepulchre. Finslly, the Porte is required to make no changnat Jerusalem ' without the consent of Russia. The Debate observes that this latter elapse would be practically to annul the treaty of 1610, and that, therefore, it may be easily guessed that M. de Laeour protested against these pretensions. The fitting out of the Turkish fleet still continued, and preptrtione at other points of the empire were said to be making. Prince Menechikoff had an nounced in a kind of official manner, that Russia had discontinued her armament', but it was soon found that they were continued with the same acti vity. On explanation being demanded from the Russian embassy, the reply is said to have been that the change was the natural consequence of the news transmitted to St. Petersburg of the sailing of the French and English fleets for the Levant. Lord Stratford sent off the Tiger steamer in the night of the 13th, with pressing despatches to Admiral Dun dee, and so unexpected was her departure that several of her officers and crew, who were on shore on leave, were left behind. The last accounts from the French squadron at Salamis, state that Rear-Admiral Romain-Besfoesks, had joined it with the Gomer, steam frigate, and the Heron, steamer. The steam corvettes Chaptal and Caton, were at Constantinople. Vice-Admiral La Busse, Rear-Admiral Jacquinot, and other officers of the squadron, had dined with the King and Queen of Greece, who treated them with great attention. THE MEDITERRANEAN. (lIT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY Moss's°. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's screw steam-ship Bengal, Captain Powell, has just arrived here with the heavy portion of the East Indian, China, and Mediterranean mails, and dates from Aldxandria April 19; Malta, 23rd; Gib raltar, 27th. She brings 170 passengers, and on freight specie value 12,0001.; jewellery, value 40,0001.; and a large cargo of flax, cotton, wool, silk, Her Majesty's ship Vengeance left Gibraltar on the 23rd ult. The British freight ship Thomas Ar buthnot and Joseph Soames left on the same day, for Quebec, with the head-quarters of the 26th Regiment. The screw-steamer Taurus arrived at Gibraltar on the 27th ult., at noon. A division of the 76th Regiment, from Malta, bound to Halifax, arrived at Gibraltar, in the ship Ann Maria, on the 25th ult. THE AFRICAN COAST. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY NIGHT. The Cygnet, 8, Commander R. 1). White, arrived at Spithead this evening from the coast of Africa. She left Lagoe on the Ist of March, where were the Penelope (with the commander-in-chief on board), the Alecto, the Britomart, and Ferrett. The Ad- miral was to leave for the South Coast and St. Helena shortly after the Cygnet's departure. She called at the Island of Ascension, leaving again on the 22nd of March. She left there the Poly phemus, which was about to sail for Sierra Leone and the Bight of Benin, and the Tortoise, receiving ship. The Bloodhound, Plato, Linnet, and Firefly were on the north coast ; the last-named vessel was to leave for Ascension and England on the 10th of May. The Waterwitch, Volcano, Harlequin, Myr midon, and Spy were on the sout h coast. The Sygnet met H.M.S. Rattlesnake five weeks since from this date, bound for the Arctic regions, all well ; and on the same day the I)uteh ship Europa, which wished to be reported. The following officers have come home by the Cygnet : Dr. Nelson, from the Penelope ; Mr. Brown, master, from the Penelope; Mr. Riccalton, from the Po lyphemus;: and Mr. Snell, chief engineer, from the Alecto. She reports the slave trade as being nearly extia guished, and the health of the Kivadron very good, with the exception of those engaged in the river service. Large quantities of palm oil were ready for exporta tion, bat there were no vessels to receive it; other wise commerce would be very flourishing. There was also a great inclination on the part of the chiefs to enter on the cultivation of the cotton plant. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. By the arrival of the Hotspur we have papers from the Cape to the 18th March inclusive (a fortnight later than those brought by the Calcutta). The news they contain is brief, but important, as it fully confirms the fact announced by the last mail, that the war was at an end. The present journals add the no less satisfactory intelligence that Sandilli, Macomo,_ and the whole of the Gaika chiefs, had submitted to every one of the terms imposed upon them by his Excellency General Cathcart, and that the ratification of the Chief Commissioner Maclean, which wits fixed to take place immediately, was only wanting, when the proclamation of peace would be officially proclaimed throughout the colony. We subjoin extracts: (From the Cape Town Mail of March 8.) We have the happiness of being able to announce, on unquestionable authority, that Banditti, Macomo, and the whole of the Gaika chiefs, have definitively agreed to all the conditions imposed upon them by his excellency the governor. The next poet may be expected to bring the pro clamation of peace, which only awaited (on the lit of March) the ratification of the Chief Commissioner Maclean. Most sincerely do we congratulate the colony on this happy event. (From the Zuid African's of March 7.) A government notice has been published, stating that his excellency is taking steps to populate the territory which the Gaika chiefs have justly forfeited by their treachery, and that an European village is to be established in the Keiskamma Hoek, the scene of the first collision between the enemy and the troops in 1850, and now the site of a permanent barrack and fort. The plans of his excellency will, we think, give general satisfaction, and be a great tierce of future protec tion to the colony, that is, if they can be effectually carried out by populating the forfeited territory with the proper sort of defender,. The post of the future settlers in the new country, will, however, be one of extreme danger, and the most judicious management will be required to prevent the scheme from being a failure. The condition, character, and fate of the military villages, will serve as a warning in the construction of the new defensive barriers. In connec tion with the plan of protecting the colony by expelling the Gaika tribes from their territory and filling it with colonists, it is understood that his {Excellency has strongly recom mended that a large military force should be stationed in British Kaffraria for some years, lest the Kettles, em boldened by the withdrawal of the military, should renew their hostilities before time shall have been given to can• solidate his protective arrangements. The representations of his Excellency on this head will, no doubt, have due weight with her Maje.ty's government ; end by cheerfully and vigorously supporting . the measures which his Excel lency is adopting for their protection, the colonists will only be taking the most effectual means in their power of advancing their future interest in the preservation of peace. (From the Eastern l'rovince News of the lot March.) Private letters, received by us on Friday last, announce that the Gaika under Sandilli and Macomo are now effec tually expelled from the Amatolas and about to be located an the Thomas and Upper Kei Rivers—the Galeka chief Kreli having declined to admit them to a location in his territory in any other character than that of subjects, which the Gaikas would not consent to be. Our readers will know that the Kaikas and the Basutos are now con terminous tribes, and we by no means relish the prospect of an alliance between them ; either tribe is sufficiently for midable in itself—joined together, they will prove a force not easily withstood. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Europa, Shannon com mander, from New York direct, arrived in the Meracy . this morning, bringing the usual mails from America and the British provinces up to the time of her departure on the 20th ult. The Europa brings . about 100 passengers, and nearly 200,000 dollars in specie on freight. The American steam-ship Pacific arrived at New York on the 17th ult., the screw steam-ship Alps on the 18th, and the steamer Arabia on the 20th, all from Liverpool. The steam-ship City of Manchester, from Liver pool, arrived at Philade Vic lphia on the 17th ult. The decease of Mr. e-President King took place at Selma, in Alabama, on the 18th ult. A destructive conflagration had occurred at the Navy Yard at Brooklyn, resulting in the loss of a large stock of timber destined for billy building. The value of the property destroyed is estimated at 150,000 dollars. _ _ _ Spring, the tuardercr, had received Fen tcn ce of death; he had preeiou,ly made a speech repeating his former asseverations of inuoe.mce, and accueing his son of the crime. The late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Corwin, was expected to leave for Europe in the course of the present month. By the screw steamer Andes, Captain Ilutchens, from New York, we have received papers to the evening. of the 18th ult., the date of her departure. The Andes arrived here on Saturday evening, having made a very quick voyage of 11 days 22 hours : her news, however, is eclipsed by the arrival of the Europa. Mexican advices state that, on the day succeeding his entry into Vera Cruz, General Santa Anna pub lished a manifesto addressed to his countrymen urging them to co-operate with him in his attempt to extricate them from their present state of anarchy, and stating that he entirely forgave his former enemies and presented to all the hand of friendship. Oa the 6th April he commenced his journey to Mexico, whence an escort of 1,000 men bad set out, to assist in rendering his arrival in the capital worthy of the occasion. General Arista, the former President of the Mexican Republic, had arrived at New Orleans in a brig, the captain of which had been induced to render him that service by a large bribe. A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans states that a rumour was very prevalent at Vera Cruz that another invasion of Sonora had been made by Count Parusoa, and that 1,000 men bad joined his standard. From the Havannah there is little news of import ance. On the 9th ult., 45 of the prisoners tried and convicted for alleged revolutionary attempts against the government, were sent to Cadiz, to await the decision of the Queen of Spain. Amongst them were those reprieved at the place of execution on the 6th ult., and several distinguished persons in the island. It was reported that a cargo of slaves had been landed at Mariel, about 20 miles to the westward of Havannah. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. There was a general improvement in the condition of business in America at the time of the Europa's departure. In the New York money market a marked alteration for the better had taken place ; and the movement in monetary affairs was much more considerable than was reported in our last advice,. The stock market at New York evinced considerable firmness in prices, with a decided upward tendency. Owing to advice' received from England, the market for breadstuff' was in a very fluctuating condition. The number of transactions reported was small, and prices showed an inclination to recede to the extent of about 12e. per barrel. Western Canal flour was quoted at 4 dols. 50c, to 4 dols. 62ic. per barrel. Of Indian corn we have no quo tations. In the New York cotton market a tolerable amount of business had been transacted, the previous quotations being steadily maintained, notwithstanding the recently received advice, from England. At the time of the Europa's de parture the following were the rates; New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 12c. to 12jc. per lb.; Uplands, mid. fair to fair, lids. to 12c. per lb. The excess in the receipts was still decreasing. In provisions the market was less active, though the prices previously quoted had been maintained. Freights were easier than was reported by the last steamer. E:change on London, 109} to 1001; Paris, 5.12} to 5.132 ; hamburg, 361 to 36} ; Bremen, 791 to rdi. AUSTRALIA. By the Admiral, which left Hobson's Bay on the 27th of January, we have advices from Melbourne down to the 25th of January. The commercial accounts by this arrival arc satis factory. The yield of gold from the diggings con tinued. The produce market was high. The pro vision market was falling rapidly, especially as re garded flour, and the price of labour was rather lower. _ -- --- There was no political intelligence of any im portance. The Admiral has on freight 22,000 ounces of gold dust. Mx Court. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen: on Saturday. A deputation from the City of Glasgow, consisting of the Lord Provost , Bailie Gour ley, Dr. Strang (chamberlain), and Mr. Forbes (town-clerk), had an interview on Satur day morning with Prince Albert, to present an address with reference to the establishment of a National Library snd Museum of Inventions in that city. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Prince Arthur, and the infant prince, left Buckingham Palace at eight minutes before two o'clock on Saturday afternoon for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The royal suite consisted of Lady Caroline Bar rington, Hon. Mary Bulte..l, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Colonel Wylde, the Master of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were conducted to their carriage by the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Wellington, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Byron, Lord George Lennox, Colonel the Hon. A N. Hood, Major- General Buckley, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. Tire Queen and the royal party were escorted by a detachment of Light Dragoons to the Nine Elms Station of the London and South Western Railway, and left by a special train for Gosport. OSBORNE, SVNDAY. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family, at tended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, arrived at o.borne yesterday evening at 10 minutes before six o'clock. The Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday at Gloucester House. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade laide of Hoheolohe and the Prince Ernest of Lelningen, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, honoured the Royal Italian Opera House with her presence on Saturday evening. The Duchess of Kent attended divine service yesterday morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Prince Ernest of Leiningen has left Buckingham Palace for the continent. A deputation relative to Jamaica, consisting of Sir H. Luskington, Mr. Dawkins, Mr. J. Carson, Mr. W. Beek ford. Mr. S. Cave, Mr. W. Sterling, Mr. H. Davidson, Mr S. Hibbert, and Mr. T. Mulkey, J uar., had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle on Saturday at the Colonial. office. _ . . A deputation on the subject of the Pilotage Bill had au interview with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell at the Board of Trade on Saturday. The deputation consisted of Lord Chelsea, Captain Shepherd, Mr. James M'Gregor, M.P., Mr. Enron, and Mr. Peter Hardy. A deputation from St Nicholas, Deptford, consisting of Sir Edward Filmer, M.P., Mr. Masters Smith. M.P., Mr. Molt, M.P., Mr. Sanders, M.P., and Messrs. Davies, Fan. chon, W. Maslen, W. Smith, B. Roberta, and Tilham, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston on Saturday. Despatches were sent from the Colonial•office on Satur day to the Governors of the West India Islands. A Cabinet Connell was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday. The ministers present were :—The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmer ston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat two hours and a quarter. The Chancellor of the Exchequer waa prevented attend ing the Council by indisposition. LETTERS FOR THE ARCTIC SIIIPS.—AD3IIRALTT, APRIL 30, IB33.—Letters for officers, seamen, and marines serving in the Arctic ships will be in time for her Majesty's ship Phcenix if sent to the Admi ralty before the 9th of May. ARRIT AL OF THE (OURT AT OSBORNE. youTsmounx, APRIL 30. The special train conveying the Queen, his royal highness Prince Albert, and the Court, arrived at this port, en route to Osborne at 4.27 this afternoon The fol lowing officials of the South-Western Railway accompanying the Queen from London:—The Hon. F. Scott, M.P., chair man; Mr. Serjeant Gazelee, one of the directors; Mr. Crombie, secretary; Mr. Scott, traffic manager; Mr. Beattie, and Mr. Godson, of the locomotive department. A guard of honour from the Royal Marines officered by Lieut. Colonel Helacombe, Captain H. Kennedy, Lieute nant H. Davies, John Collwell, and Driver (adjutant), was in attendance with the band of that corps, and on alighting her Majesty was received by the Commander-in- Chief, Vice-Admirrl Sir T. Cochrane, K C.B; Admirals Sueerintendent A. Fanshawe, C.D. ; the Lieutenant- Governor, Major-General Simpson; Rear-Admiral W. 11. Johnstone, Superintendent of Hasler hospital; Colonel- Commandant Menrics, 11111., K.H., A.D C. to the Queen ; Commodore Lard A. Fitzelarence, G.C.H. ; Cant. Crispin, of the Victoria and Albert ; the flag and staff officers of the ' port and garrison, and Messrs. Davies and ?inborn, of Clarence-yard. Ou the Royal Standard being hoisted in Clarence-yard it I was saluted by the Victory, Neptune, and Blenheim in harbour, and subsequently by the garrison from the Plat ferns Battery and the fleet at Spithead. Her Majesty em ' barked on board the Fairy, which left the Jetty at 4.37, and, after a fine run through Spithead, landed at East Cowes, reaching Osborne at 5.32 p.m. ; the ships in I commission dr, ssed in e, fours on the occasion and manned yards, presenting a rs marl:ably fine spectacle. MAvoit of lIR.IIIFORD and Mr. Hailstone had an interview with his Royal Ilightuss Prince Albert a few days since, to submit the view and plan! of the new Mmic Hall, recently erected at Bradford, and the qcbeme for the forthcoming musical festival. ELECTION EXPOSURES. HARWICH. TETITION AGAINST 311l....WAIThINGTON AND 31n. COME. On Saturday, the committee appointed to inquire into the allegations contained in the petition ssainst the return of Mr. Waddington, the chairman of the &stews Counties Railway Company , and of Mr. G. W. Ptacocke, met for the fist time, The chairman is Mr. Thomas Emerson !Indians; Lord George Manners, Lord Charles Pelham Clinton, Mr. Jo. aeph Locke, and Mr. Ferguson, being the other mimben. Both Mr. Waddington and Mr. Peacocke, the sitting members, were present. Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, Q C., and Mr. Itodwell, ap. peered for the petitioners ; Mr. Edwin James. Q.C., Ballantine, Mr. Montague Smith, and Mr. Hall, appeared for the sitting members. Mr. derjeant Kinglake opened the case for the pe. titionen at considerable length. Mr. G. W. Peacocke, the sitting member, was the best witness called and examined by Mr. Rodwell—You are one of the sitting members, I believe, Mr. Peacocke, against whose return there is a petition ?-1 am. When did you first enter into any communication with , any one with reference to the borough of Ihrwich?—f have no notes of dates at all, and can only speak to the best of my recollection about the time. Mr. M. Smith here took an objection in /Usable to this line of examinttion. He said there was no allegation in the petition relative to the subject of corrupt barter or sale of the borough provided for.under 48 Geo. 111., and that it could not be gone into. The committee, however, overruled the objection. . . Mr.Peacocke, having been recalled, said—l first contem plated standing for Harwich after a communication that was made to me about April, 1852, from Sir Fitzroy Kelly, then member for Harwich. Sir Fitzroy told me it was his in tention at the next general election to stand else where, and that it I thought I should like to go down to Harwich, it was a strong Conservative borough. and that the tory party were strong. I am not personally acquainted with Mr. Attwoed. lam not aware that ho had any influence. I did not then make up my mind to stand for Harwich. I was told that Attwood was likely to stand himself, though Mr. Attwood thought other wise • but if he did, having of course had a prior claim upon the borough, be must be successful. But, in the event of Attwood not standing, Sir Fitzroy advised me to go down. Previous to this I hail no intention of standing for Harwich. I have never seen Mr. Attwood. I did not put myself in communication with him. I did with Mr. Lloyd, a bar river. I had no previous ceimmunication with Mr. Lloyd, except, perhaps, meeting him at dinner. I called en him, and wee introduced to him by Sir F. Kelly. I went to Mr. Lloyd, to know whether Attwood was likely to stand for the borough. I had a long conversation with him, but I knew nothing about the state of the borough. I asked Mr. Lloyd if, in the event of my standing, I should have Mr. Attwood's influence in the borough. By Mr. Rodwell : What passed between you and Mr. Lloyd with reference to your coming forward for the borough ? Mr. James objected to the question, and slid he should, as counsel for Mr. Peacorke, take on himself the whole of the responsibility of objecting to the question. If it were desired to be proved that Mr. I'eacocke had unguardedly made any arrangement it could bo proved by calling Mr. Lloyd. He advised Mr. reacocke not to answer the ques tion, as it might render him liable under the set to penalties of 5001. for the loss of his seat, and subject him to criminal proceedings, and be was bound not to criminate himself. After considerable discussion, the room was cleared, and on our readmission the committee decided that the question might be put. Mr. Peacocks recalled and question put : I decline to answer that question, because it might be perverted to cri minate myself. About three or four days after my interview with Mr. Lloyd I published my address, Mr. Lloyd having told me that Mr. Attwood was not going to stand, and would support me. I wrote my address myself, and showed it to Sir F. Kelly and Mr. Horsley. I did not know Mr. Attwood ; I have never seen him ' or had any communication with him direct or indirect. Mr. Horsley went with me to Harwich, recommended by Sir F. Kelly, to whom, I believe, he was solicitor at a forme election. I never saw Horsley except with Sir F. Kelly on this subject. The last election cost me 1921. is. 8(1.; I will not be certain to IL or 'V. I paid it to Horsley. I have not paid one farthing with respect to the election beside. I think lam under no liability with respect to the last election. Horsley told me the bills for the hustings had not been sent in, and excepting that I consider I am under no liability. I ' have entered into no undertaking to pay any one. I have distinctly repudiated all sorts of promises, understandings, or arrangements, directly or indirectly, and have not en tered into any. It has never been brought to my know ledge that any money arrangement has been made with respect to my becoming member for Harwich. I have en tered into no arrangement either directly or indirectly, for any payment of money, in consideration of my return. Certain conversations took place between me and Mr. Lloyd ; but there was no arrangement on the subject. There was a conversation on the subject; but I decline to give any other answer, because it might bo perverted into criminating myself. On my arriving in Harwich I saw the mayor and Mr. Haste, and then I was met by a concourse of people and a band, and I canvassed with Mr. Wadding ton. We had no committee; but Mr. Waddington had a room, and I had one. Mr. Daniel and Haste canvassed with us. After a few days Mr. Daniel came to me, and said he wished that a coalition should take place between me and Mr. Waddington, and thought that the best means of securing bath candidates. Mr. Horsley made the arrangement for this coalition, and it was carried out. I do not recollect Mr. Ileseltine canvassing with us. I have never been out late at night at Harwich ; but there is a habit there of going to address the electors at public houses in the evening. On such occasions it was expected that the candidates should make a speech. I and Mr. Waddington on one occasion went to canvass the voters at a public-house at Dovercourt, where there were several of the electors, the night before the nomination. Mr. Setjeant lii4lake—Can you tell me the names of the voters who wero there ?—No. I remember I had to sing a song for the gratification of tke electors. (Laughter.) I drank a bottle of soda water.—Did the electors drink soda water ? No; I think they drunk beer. We were there for an hour and u half, and I think I was smoking.—That wee rather a curious mixture, smoke and soda water. (Laughter.) I sang to kill the time, though lam not a very good vocalist. (Laughter.) What did Mr. Wadding ton do ? Did he smoke, and sing, and drink soda-water ? No ; I think Mr. Waddington substituted a sentiment. (Loud laughter.) I should like to know that sentiment ?—I don't remem• ber the sentiment. Since the election have you applied for situations for any of the voter*? Yes, for two voters, Adam Pratt and Nal borough. I don't know who Pratt was, but the shortest way will be to tell you plainly what I did. 01 course, as all persons do when starting as a candidate to support the government, I received a great many applications for places. It was impossible to give them to ell who applied. I called on everybody, and said I should be glad to know the situation to be given They said no places but excise places, which ware placed at my dis posal. I wrote over to Mr. Daniel, to see if he would recommend me two persons qualified for the situation, and I would have great pleasure In forwarding the recommen dation. Pratt was one and Nulborough another, but I did not know either of them. I got a place for Nalborough in the excise in November. 1 presume that when Mr. Att wood spoke of me and recommended me to the electors as his " friend," he meant his political " friend," for I had not the honour of his acquaintance. I saw Mr. Elmslie, of Moorgate.street (solicitor to Mr. Attwood), in London, on the morning of my going down to Harwich. Ile told me I had Mr. Attwood's support, and wished ma success, and that my seat was certain. Mr. John Attwood was then called and examined at great length by Mr. Serjeant Klnglake. He said—l was at one time member for Harwich in 1811. I was a candidate in 1817, but was unseated in 1848. I have acquired house property in Harwich from 1841 to the pre sent time. Mr. Haste is the manager of sae part of my property there, and Mr. Henry Barnes of the other. Sir Fitzroy Kelly did not go to Harwich under my auspices particularly. I gave him wy interest there, and afterwards to Mr. Butt and Mr. Peacock°. All I knew of Mr. Pea cock° was from considering him a friend of Sir Fitzroy Kidly, and a person of the same politics as myself. I gave him my legitimate Influence. I don't know him personally. I think Mr. Elmslie, my law agent, introduced hia name. Mr. Elmslie has been my attorney for some time. Mr. Elmslie went down with me in a certain way, in former elections for Harwich. He did not go down to conduct the elections, but merely because there was a good deal done, and I was determined to take some one down with me to bear what it was. I did nothing that was not right. Mr. Serjeant Kinglakc—What do you mean, Mr. Att wood ?—There had been a good deal of levitation, and a good deal done, and I said I was really afraid to go down among them without some one. I mean there was a great deal said about me—mixing me up with various thing', with all manner of things, witn bribery, and all sorts of things ; and Mr. Elmslie went with me on my canvass, in going to my friends and tenants, and asking them for their votes, but not in any improper way. When 1 made up my mind not to go to Harwich, Mr. Elmslie mentioned Mr. Peacacke's name, and, understanding that he was a re spectable man, and of the same politics wills myself aid Sir I"i'zroy Kelly, I consented to give him my legitimate support. 1 have seen Mr. Lloyd once or twice. I think Mr. Elmslie mentioned to me that he had seen Mr. Lloyd about the election ; it was not about making arrangements about it. I understood Mr. Peacock° had consented to go; hut Ido not know upon what terms. It bee never been communicated to me, eithsr directly or indirectly. Da you know of any terms at all ?—What do you mean by terms ? Mr. Serjeant Kinglake—Da ysu know of any ?mange.. ment ?—No ; I do not. Have you incurred certiVn expenses with reference to the election of 18.51, between Mr. Prinsep and Mr. Craw ford upon the trial of the petition?—Mr. Elmslie was to manage these expenses. Have you never paid them ?—1 have paid my s tEcitor on account, hut for no particel.r business. I paid him money from time to time. Do you recollect the second Harwich petition, when the hustings came down, and when you were made answerable fur the costa of the petition ?—I made myself answerable to Mr. Elmsdie. I have paid no cc*ta on account. I paid him on sec punt. I did not pay him particularly for 'lilt or for nn3tYll eto. I did E. , 4 I( ice it t i Mr. Elaisli •tt 1.1 .ke an i y4 ortranA or emocirnth, o s he r - plaC. s- with reference hi a c indi.l itc go that he might make any arrangement with a candidate; and it never came to my knowledge that be had done so, directly or indirectly. Do yen expect to be paid, any sign of money, titbit d t reetiv or indit (oinly - not. Did you expee No- Do you know Where was tht or two ago.—(Tl fluently said he day or two ago.) about my pavan of this inquiry tc eg L o ect t c o nr pi di :ix aclyt-131 nlact—l tt olllae i habkalr b o n Cfi ctAi I : a hohbgnl:o. ispina e nhice e r g uhel CU e l en g thleeu:e: 11°oelu‘'. 4 t ns i Ihr seatiiypsa'rritiereatarrVo'nloTit three le°icire' twi°t i a(?! i w y s h rait h e 'iletttaiSihi gtr relat A berw p Ycduw , noi. e e lf o 0 “y 8 e o eel on° , i ns I r e cnte t oeM;t L la s i o.t)a fa ccomr k 'n t : licgr a t.°hht°at o l d wfr rl l Yrrn .t r. i t‘t°l n othin g;icenuelrrfotoestteteur,rlVlaellieleyr can n ot i :the o ': o ttood r lED'ese y s ehn : :lbcleesne r i teuSenew4ndi r : ti n s i t fseyielahr i c f ycmohv e enttl:tdi'usnoir t I ha ler e. ive d I it r t ty we hi od w fa as viev Mr. Peacock° (continued the certain expense of some petit° think in what i was a consider thought, if N he contemplat any person f upon himself Elm•lie what maximum, and but afterwards would be 2,000 for, to tell the I the proposal, o any legitimate 630, bat he sa sidering that a men; that if I NM would be more, but that there was no into considerat extent of 2,000 net been paid tl to whom to la the proposal, t scat in psrlittn stand on iildei By Mr. Jam IP far as you a Mr. Attwood I would not I knowing that never saw Mr. By the Cita Mr. Elmshe o sion ?—I Mut account, but The commi John Elmslie This corm venor, lion. Mr. T. P. Wi petitioners we Mr. Cross; fo Mr. March, a Mr. Serjear the allegation return of Mr. ground of h that Mr. GI date, Ghoul* Con polled as 717; Ainswor agents acting went on to sta voters. Sere Dank of En voting. Mm member. Ar should receis upon a promi iwarehou , e. plied with di cover from th the election. visited by MI keepers, and bers they w system of tre the public-hi Evidence c journed. The corn , Lascelles, N Sir J. Whin The petiti View, Turq Hon. Edwal Seymour, 1 petitioner, • Oared that 1 petitioner to be retur Mills writte wicked " lit and giving I had recover Court of Er the author. agents of NI reasons the It appear witnesses w to this day. THE AI