The Express. — London, England, 1847-08-13 00:00:00

2 thereby do their beet to perpetuate the pound for • rate. Under the present qAem the mischief is irre mediable. If this be really the deliberately-expressed verdict of the rate-payers of St. Oeorge'a and St. An drew's, the poor mud wait till they grow wiser. There is no contleory power vested in any band to compel them to do their duty. But we weed fain hope that this decision does not represent the real feeling of the parishioners, and that they will yet make or find an opportunity to convince the dirtocrats that they are not to have things their own way, even in these unsavoury and filth-favouring localities. So many eccentric choices have been made at our own elections in England, that we must refrain from taunting the Irish constituencies with their conduct in some instances. Nottingham has chosen FEARGUS O'CONNOR, and Edinburgh hearejected . Nlr. MACAULAY. Bath and Lambeth have dope strange things. When Englishmen begin to show signs of unsteadiness, we can hardly be surprised if our mercurial neighbours forget what is due to public services. Making every allowance, however, we are nevertheless surprised at some of their strange doings. At Waterford, as we anticipated, the claims of Mr. WYSE have been passed by. One of the '• O'Connel leans" has been put in his place. The present gene ration of electors at Waterford have evidently not availed themselves of the system of education founded by Mr. Wise. I. future years there may be more gratitude felt fee his devotion to the intellectual im provement of his countrymen. The candidates for Dundalk were Mr. TORRENS M'CULLAGH, and Mr. CARROL WTAVISH, two gentle men of very opposite characters. Mr. TORRENS M'CUL LAGH is an ast hor whose works are rapidly becoming known. His " Lectures on History," though disfigured with the affectation of German criticism, deserve the special attention of every earnest student. Though a young man, Mr. M'CULLAGH has for many years been honourably identified with liberalism in Ireland. Educated for the bar, he distinguished himself at Dublin University by his love of letters. The only Irish periodical which has ever obtained permanent sane's, the Dublin Unirersity Muyazine, owes its existence to Mr. Tortaxes M'CULLAGH, who was in no wise responsible for the politics of that clever but bigoted journal. In that well-known academic institution, " the College His torical Society," Mr. M'CoLteen was eminent for his eloquence. His " History of Commercial States" obtained him rapid appreciation, and his appointment as private secretary to Mr. LABOUCHERE Was warmly approved of by the Irish liberals. He has earned a reputation for talent, and established a political char acter in a very few years. He was opposed at Dun dalk by a Mr. CARROL M'TAvIsH, described in some of the Irish journals as "an American Scot." The moat distinguished thing about Mr. M'TAVISH was the fact of his being a relation of the Marchioness of WELLESLEY. Mr. *Tamil, however, swallowed the repeal pledge, and was elected by a majority of three over his accomplished opponent. At Youghal Mr. ANSTEY has been returned. The conservatives refused to support Mr. PONSONBY, the whig candidate. The -tory wiseacres of Youghal preferred seeing their town represented by a poli tical visionary and Roman catholic partisan. Mr. A.NSTEY, the new member, is a concert to the Raman catholic church. Although an Englishman, he professes repeal politics' The income ef Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE at Drog heda, and of Mr. Slim at Dangarvan, is very grati fying, when we remember the efforts made to unseat For several months the Young Inlanders have been disparaging the public character of Mr. SHELL. They failed for a long time to procure an earnest candidate who would put himself in contrast with the first public speaker that Ireland now messes. Mr. Xiamen., the proprietor of the Cork, Examiner, and Mr. DENNY LANE, the leader of the Southern Young Irelanders, strained every exertion to oust Mr. SHEIL. Although rejoicing at their failure, we feel bound to admit that Mr. MAGUIRE seems to have borne himself on the huatings in a very manly way. His conduct at the Cork election, in vigorously supporting Mr. FAGAN, the proprietor of a rival popu lar paper, obtained for him much credit. The Young Inlanders, indeed, have been signally defeated at the present elections. In the city of Cork, where their party mustered in greatest strength, Mr. CALLAGHAN, an Old Inlander, was re turned. At Limerick, their candidate, Mr. RICHARD O'Gocusair, one of their foremost men, could only poll a handful of voters ; and his proposer, Mr. KENTON, although a Roman catholic priest, was nearly torn in pieces. He was preserved from popular indignation by the police and his brother clergymen. While dis approving of the conduct of the Young Irelanders, we cannot lend our sanction to the base means employed by the Old Irelanders to injure them with the people. The Messrs. LYONS of Cork, by printed pla cards u well as by declarations at the hustings c harge d the Young Irelanders with having " the blOod of 'CON NELL on their heads." Such pandering to political passion is in the last degree loathsome and revolting. It is but justice to the Cork Young Inlanders, to say that they number in their ranks citizens who, on the score of humanity, patriotism, or respect for an op flt, have nothing to learn from the Messrs.LToNs. The Cork journals,• tory and liberal, describe the conduct of Dr. LYONS at the hustings, during the recent election, as scandalous in the extreme. It is always disagreeable to hear the language of the sham bles; but, when it comes from the lips of a member of a learned profession, it is more particularly odious. As the sheriff did not accept of Mr. FAGAN'S re signation in favour of Mr. M'CanTnr, it is probable that Mr. FAGAN will remain the sitting member for Cork. There appears to be some ancertaina ara onZ r e point. Mr. FAGAN is gentleman of high mid reputed to possess considerable attainments. He b ma* respected in the south of Ireland by men of all penile. His Mends claim for him the possession • telmds. His speeches, however, appear to be very deslassetery and diffuse, without brilliancy or point. Hs may, however, settle down in the House of Com mune into being a useful and practical member of par- Ilement, though an attempt on his part to play the make in the House of Commons will be perilous. Mr. FAGAN, however, has strong claims to a fair hear b(, as a man of high moral character, possessing mash moral ialbostoo. He entertains liberal views cm almstiom is independent in mind and parse, and is no plseaboater. It was hoped that certain disreputable persons would have been excluded from the representation, but by means of shameless impudence working on popular fanaticism, some maureis mfjets have again squeezed themselves into par li ament. The expectations that the Irish members would exhibit an improvement are, however, on the whole likely to be realised. While we write, several elections are proceeding. In Clare, Limerick, and Kerry, Sir Lucius O'BRIEN, Mr. Mow sam., and Mr. HERBERT, are likely to be returned; and any of those gentlemen would be acquisitions to the legislature. They have been supported in their canvass by men of all parties. In Tipperary, also, Mr. BAGWELL, the liberal candidate, and a man of family and fortune equal to the post he claims, stands a fair chance of rebutting the pretensions of Mr. SCULLY, an adventurous English atirister, who pro fesses repeal polities. Mr. M.CARTHY, Row, we believe, the ex-member for Cork, made one speech in the House of Commons in dicating considerable talent. He did not, however, become active as a debater, notwithstanding the augury of Sir R. PEEL. From the feelings enter tained towards Mr. M'CaßritT by many of the lead ing liberals, it is likely that his absence from parlia ment will be a cause of regret. He is an Irish gentleman of spirit, intelligence, and refined tastes. His love of the fine arts may possibly have recom mended him to the complimentary notice of Sir R. FEEL. There can be no doubt that Mr. M'Csarnit powwows very many of the qualities most desired in an Irish representative. He his a fine fortune, which renders him independent of any minister ' • and al though a repealer, he has too heavy a stake in the It=to commit himself to a course of politics at with violence. He gracefully said, in his speech at the Cork hustings, 'lt has pleased the Almighty to confer on me a competency ; bat I feel that a competency is in the words of the poet— - - " Not to tide It Is a hedge, Or pin a nits Wends:et, Hut for the glorious privilege Of beteg In. ••t." Why should not the county of Cork liberals rally round such a man u Mr. WCARTIIT, in preference to a candidate like Dr. MAURICE Pow au? A Mont accomplished necromancer has not made his appearance in these days of electioneering exhi bition than Mr. Jour; WALTER. His speech at the public dinner at Nottingham, on Tuesday, is one of the most perfect things of the kind on record. The crowd gathered strong around the tables, with great anxiety to know what kind of a member they had got ; for their votes had teen evidently more a than • choice. The constituency of Nottingham determined, as the chairman of the dinner confessed,' to have nothing more to do with their old members,' one of whom refund to go on purchasing votes, whilst the other had no money to pay for them. Annoyed at this clomp-drawing of wing purse-strings, the in dependent electors of Nottingham resolved, in re venge, to elect such members as would most annoy their too parsimonious friends. They selected Mr. JOHN WALTER and Mr. FEAROBS CYCONNOR, as whig-eaters. Having triumphed, the victory was celebrated on Tunday and the chairman, Mr. Bowtev, opened the festivities with a most whir devouring speech, and then challenged Mr. WALTER to respond. To his credit, the latter declined altogether to adopt the carnivorous style of his chairman and proposer, and, with much dexterity, the new member refused to enter into the merits or demerits of that whiggism on which his chairman had des canted, but merely picked out that smallest speck in whigpolicy, viz., their resisting aclauee which would re lease from the penalty of sleeping in separate rooms the fifty pauper couple which are at present to be found in English workhouses, past the age of sixty. It would certainly require a microscope to fix the view on this infinitesimally small point of the policy of a party actually in possession of the government of the country. But on this point alone did Mr. WALTER deign to touch, leaving the gaping crowd of Not tisghamites, and their Whig-eating chairman, astounded to find that Mr. WALTER had no other sin than this infinitesimal one to impute to the horrid whigs. Having thus very eloquently explained his opinions on a pin-point of whig policy, Mr. WALTER passed to unburden his heart of its opinions on a pin-point of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy. The member for Notting ham had nothing to say against the honourable baronet's actual policy. He agreed with it fully, both when it opposed protection, and when it ceded protec tion. The only fault lay in the manner of doing it, in the taking office of trust on one set of principles and then acting upon another set. Mr. WALTER can never be accused of sash an act of self-sacrifice; for on what set of principles he has taken the trust of Trepresentative of Nottingham he takes goad care that i l :Zs himself shall not find out. Having i =emed of whigs and Peelites, Mr. s WALTER of the liberals, and vows he is none o their body, because be is deter mined to support the old institutions of the country, and merely to modify them, so as to suit the altered circumstances of the times. Why, every man of the six hundred and odd members of parliament elected would just say the same thing. Talking to the conservatives, they harangue for the institutions of the country, and " all that sort of thing," as poor Mathews used to say ; whilst the readiness to cobble them, or alter them to meet the times, is announced to satisfy such enlightened and moderate liberals as those of Nottingham. The only party for which Mr. WALTER expresses anything like aversion and contempt are the protec tionists. And why? Because "what they aim at is as impracticable as the restoration of Queen ANNE." Mr. WALTER says that his father was a protectionist, and so was he. That finding absolute protection impos sible, he was for a compromise, or fixed duty. And that this having been found impossible, he went the whole hog ; and he scouts the protectionists for not having been equally , nimble. He will have nothing to do with a worsted and defeated party ; connexion with such is not possible. He treats or bears with whig, Peelite, and liberal, for what they aim at may become imperative, and then Mr. WALTER will adopt it. But he cannot bear the idea of being in a minority—he will have no Quixotism—no policy of resentment—no breaking up of a party for a dead principle. Mr. WALTER is wise in his genera tion, a very shrewd and practical man. And he has got through the difficulty of an election speech at Nottingham with very great address. The following appeared in a second edition last evening Paris journals of Wednesday, with our usual letters, have arrived. The royal family, with the exceptions of the Princess de Joinville, who awaits the arrival of the prince, and the Duchess d'Aumale, who awaits her acconchement, went on Tuesday to Eu. Serious riots have taken place at Troyes, in cons equence of an alleged combination of the bakers to g ive a fictitious price to bread. The Prince de Joinville, who is seriously indisposed, was daily expected at Toulon, from whence he would immediately proceed to Paris. The maritime authorities at Toulon were ordered to prepare to receive an ambas sador from Persia with the honours paid to a marshal of France. The ambassador was expected from Con stantinople. Rear-Admiral Hernoux, chief of the staff of the Prince de Joinville, has been appointed to the command of the Levant station, in place of Ad miral Tnrpin, who is coming home. The Mediter ranean squadron is disorganised. MADRID, Au°. 6. The Queen set out on the 4th for El Paular.— Pacheco is said to have gone to La Granja with the intention of persuading the Queen to return to Madrid; bat she is amusing herself so heartily there, that most people think he will have very little chance of succee di ng in his mission. In that case it is said that he will resign. In fact I hear from a good authority that Pacheco's resignation is almost certain. If he resign, the Queen will, in all probability, charge Salamanca with the formation of a ministry. Some say that vi s sertions are making at present to reconcile the ' and Queen ; and the Correo declares that Benavi will have an inter view with the King to-day. But I rather incline to think that there is not much sincerity at the bottom of these appearances, and that they are merely thrown out to make believe that the ministry are doing some thing to bring the royal couple together. No one who knows the real state of affairs has the least hope that such a reconciliation can be ever effected. I have to-day to signalise a fresh atrocity of Gen. 'Pavia's. He has had the members of the Ayunta, I miento and the meet respectable inhabitants of San Pedro de Rindevilliss, seized and transported to the island of Cabrera. The ground of their deportation is that, finding their position between the orders of the captain-general on the one hand, Carlists on the other, they determined on abandoning the place. You may remember that in and after the aides of Lluvet de la Torre, or Vidrieraa, near Osraaa,aa the 23rd, 16 of the rebels were taken primers. Pavia ordered D. Manuel Havens, the caltadfla, and the two others who were captured with him at Vidrieras, to be shot. Meanwhile they were put in the con demned chapel ( puestos in capillo). These and the 13 prisoners of the same di Tweed band, who were taken on the days succeeding the fight, would, with out any doubt, have been all shot bat for the surprise of Llacana, which occurred two days after the affair of Lltivet de la Torre. As soon as he heard of the capture of the 16 soldiers, Pavia ordered the execu tions to be suspended • and with the excuse of the rebels having been tsien on Santa Christina's day, gave out that he had applied to the Queen for their pardon. Now the Queen is known to abhor these murders which . go by the name of military executions. In the meantime a committee, composed of the curate, the tortes deputy, alcalde, regidor, in fact all the respectable inhabitants of the pl ace, pre sented a petition to General Pavia to spare the condemned. The pardon was despatched from Barcelona, and communicated to the five pri soners, with the precautions observed on such occasions. The reprieved men were bled, to' avoid the frequently fatal effects of the sud den expansion of the depressed vital powers. The whole town was filled with festivity at their re lease. On the 31st, the prisoners were taken back to the condemned chapel, and then shot, " to appease the manes" (according to Gen. Pavia's expression), of the victims of Llama. This is the language of a general-officer in the 19th century, and a governor of a province. And all the leading organs of the Madrid press let each things pass in silence. The Barcelona diligence was robbed on the 31st, a little on the other side of Frage, on the confines of Arragon and Catalonia. The robbers, who are sup posed not to be Carlists, were six in number, two armed with blanderbusses, three with daggers, and the other with a scythe. They relieved the pas sengers of 200 dollars. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 1847. FRANCE.—THE F11.6.14CH OCEAN &mamma.— The pre* which has been bestowed on all hands upon the shape ask head of:Slpe nner__Fmneh Itens.Athatio Thelier, has Una airliabOt set Why an aceemnirri r ri s hider float •gnassitalse ea -least that 64111101114 to the .illsarwof sk Hasov - of the sammar whisk the measles and internal srmaltemenli ef this teed ms farriaim This r deellEigg the erinnwituat. manner in Otis meld woe :tutte d at New York, begins bp al luding to a remark, whisk be* says was generally made that the mug wee &painted end to in order ; but all th is, he says, was issemod as beks muck by the haste in which the vttesel wm rig up. The seesaw started well, and alter a fair passage issued Olterhemp ha thirteen days. So far all was wdL Ualssemilleiy k tomapkeii at New York, that a threader bed edam bagmen the agent of the company nil Ste enpeek of the steamer, and this led to a bailniems enbilkik mrelesnassa The . gen t (saya tho 011111111.11.1.4 it dill Awes. at Havre) do of act speak a west ef Englkb. lasbeligas In a display of ain which is anything . bat peeper. Ms deputy speaks a little English, but he u untrequainted with the customs of the country, and though he tam a greet dad, what he says is never to the point. On the day of the departure of the steamer, as the passenger were sitting down to their dinner, the captain roes to apologise for the ahem. of one of the neemearice of life in the vessel, viz., the artiste of sugar, and he asked the passengers whether they wished him to return to New York and get some, or Fooled without any ? How. ever disagreeable such an omission might be, it was agreed to continue the voyage. This, however, is net all. The dinner, though good, was always insufaCient, and none of the delicacies whs.* are to be obtained on such steamers generally wen here to be bad. There were no refreshments to be had on board. The waiting was bad, and instead of a steward, that indispensable director of all, the Union poseasses an old gentleman decorated with the woes of the Legion of Honour, a person, no doubt, of the greatest respectability, but wh om attributes are evidently ill defined. This gentleman, and the other authorities on board, had the best rooms in the vessel ; they occupied the best @eau in the centre of the table, whilst the passengers were placed at the extremities. They got the first helps without any regard for their neighbours; they spoke exceedingly loud, and were wanting in that decorum which is so amen tially required. All this was very offensive. On deck the service was scarcely better performed. The officer on the watch walked the deck with his hands in his pockets and • cigar or a pipe in his mouth. carrying en conversation in • loud vole, with the passengers, and payiag no attention to the man et the helm, who generally steered very negli gently. And here it may to proper to *beave that the fact alone of the vessel being ill steered is considered to have caused the vessel to lose, on an average, 16 miles per diem, that is, the loos of a day upon the whole voyage, besides an immense increase of expense to the pro prieton. The correspondent of the Journal du Havre con cludes by saying, " I think that in general the alters of the French merchant ureice attach an exaggerated importance to the theory of their profession, and are too apt to neglect its practice. This is the difference between them and the Americana. I prefer the American method." The Journal du Ilavre appends some remarks to this letter, and says that most of these defects may easily be remedied, and that already the company has provided for • change in the agency at New York. Sr. Omen, Auo. 9.—The inauguration of the statue of the Duke of Orleans, at St, Omer, took place on the Bth with great pomp. The morning was ushered in with salvos of artillery and ringing of all the church-belle The 69th regiment of the line, the 4th battalion of the' Orleans Charmers, and the pupils of the military school of the town, in all about 6,000 men, had taken up their place cm the square and along the Rue de Dunkerque. The Cardinal Bishop of Arras arrived at ten o'clock, and, pro. needing to the cathedral, celebrated mass in honour of the deceased prince. After the mar, a wrap was then formed, and the mina ipal persons present with the clergy proceeded to the place where the statue was erected. The mayor then having struck the last stone of the monument, the statue was uncovered amidst the acclamations of an immense crowd. When the excitement had subsided, addresses in praise of the deceased were delivered by the mayor and by General Nigrier. The ceremony concluded by the troops defiling before the statue, whilst a body of a hundred singers chanted a cantata comp ered for the occasion. In order to do honour to this event the King commanded nine persona, condemned to various terms of imprisonment for corn riots, to be set at liberty, which was accordingly done by the prefect, who also presented the cam of the Legion of Honour to the two oldest mayors in the arrondissement. In the evening the town was illuminated. BELGIUM.—BEussELs, Auo. 11.—THE BELGIAN Minirray.—The list of the proposed members of the new cabinet has been finally approved of by his Majesty. The new ministers took the oaths of office on the afternoon of the above date. At the demand of the new premier, three governors of provinces will be replaced by other function aries, and that the official nomination of the ministers would appear in the Monileur of the 12th. The nominations (it is said In well-informed circles) would have been published in the Moraine of the 10th, if that day were not a cher ire in the annals of modern French history. The new ministers are M. Rogier, interior; M. Veydt, finance; M. d'Hoff schmidt, foreign affairs; M. D'Orban Frere, public works; N. de nanny, justice ; Gen. Chazal, war. HOLLAND.—THE HaouE, Au°. 11.—During several weeks put, the /ndepeadance of Brussels, and other journals, have published various a rticles announcing the approaching abdication of the King of Holland, as well as other events of importance to that kingdom. The Journal de la Have, of this day (the 11th inst.), contradicts those assertions in the following semi-official terms:" We declare in the most formal manner that there has never been the shadow of truth in all the statements respecting the plan or intention of the King to abdicate ; the renunciation, on the pert of the Prince of Orange, of his claims to the throne ; the appointment of a regency, &c. It is equally false that the King intends to be absent fr om the country during a long time. On the dose of the session his Majesty will go to' Weimar and Silesia, and thence return by way of Luxem bourg. As in 1846, he will not be absent longer than six weeks. SAXONY.—DREBDEN, AUG. 6.—By a royal de cree permission is given, on and after the 16th last, to distil brandy from grain and potatoes. The abolition of this tem porary restriction which was generally adopted by the Ger man states will no doubt shortly take plat* in all the Ger m= states. _ _ . ---- ELUNGARY.—PESTII, JULY 31.—The Allgemeine Presseeieche &Wm, states that the ceremony of the instal lation et Agelseale Stephen , as governor of Hungary, will take plow ix /ether or October next, at Ofen, the vice regal aity. trbt Court. The Dake de Broglie, the French Ambassador, and Baron de Moncorro, the Portuguese Minister, visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Fors ign-oPice. Mr. Edward Thompson, of Jamaica, transacted business at the Colonial °Mee yesterday. The Reel and Countess Grenville left town on Wednesday afternoon for the Continent. The Right Hon. B. Strutt hes left town for his seat, Kingston Hall, near Derby. HANOVER.—The Duke of Cambridge arrived on the 4th inst. in this capital. Viscount and Viscountess Massereene, Sir James Annesley, Bart., and Capt. Walker, embarked at Blackwell yesterday morning, on board the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship Soho, marmot* for the Rhine.. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY ON HER SCOTCH TOUR. Cowes, MM. 12 Lii;n;; ; Z;k yesterday after noon it wee rammed that Her Repay and Prime Albert would dine on board the royal pea and Mart for Basdend in the foam of the evening. frees after six o'clock the royal fleet left Osborne meek and ems whited by the g at the amthi erg Chaim* as they ask/ was eiaew- LissiittMless. T slue Nweethe ere/ in whisk/Le aseasse OM Sant: they and Albert, Black Re*, Paha and /merge. A more impos ing date lee Mims hem witnessed *An was enigma to the eggelassg—ihe royal squadron proceeding rapidly SO the weetweld, thew/ems batteries pounsg hulk their loud fare well, the pawls arena with the 6srtital gad high in birth, all fel of mem mid gamer aim he the eaf of their megbAseed egareige, preeseed a sea alike sec mated aid impressing. It was Wendel that they should nacho, in Yawata roads for the night gel pressed on their tour early this waning. Plyageik. Pelage/h i Milford, Dou t k and Leek Ryan, or are spoken a as liar st which the ro yal fl eet woad anch at night. The Priem stWeles i and • Princess Ropal sesompagia their magnet peants. The other royal meek at Rebook odor lie are of Lady Lytteltee. Its tear, ft k emceed, will soapy about five weeks. The sky leakei showy during the early part o f t o d a y, and there were a dirty weather, but it cleared off at mid-day, and ler Xejesty's voyage down channel the latter part of the day meet have been delightful. The royal amebae were heisted at the Club-howe and East Cowen Castle emiwthe pamage of the royal fleet from Osborne creek into tie Went. CHARING-CROSS BRIDGE COMPANY. Yesterday Do fewer than three special general udervg=siss=drere consecutively held a t their , under the preskiesey ef the Mef Dem& 11111111MILII named in the set kg whkh Nor anima i s bearreified. The first Inte seamoseed tee peoeselloge at twelve o'clock, and wee hell to resolve a report of the committee ted on the 12tk ultimo " for the pewee of SawssNpffg the accounts of the meapay, and to Mgt melt menaces thereon as might be dosed expedient" The aged of this committee having been brought up sad read. it =leafed by Mr. Barbs diet as two el die upon the commilles (Mr. Stably awl li 1 .0 .6 : 1 ) hst prior to their appealing* re fused is fet, die pressedimee of the remaining them were decree• salty. On these E l i gli etigekii to du resepdas of the repo& A mended, stormy, sad ore dimension seemed, m the course of whke fie report we Ueda sm beat wholly meatideetemy isememeek se It did lot week ia formation se is the deliblem K do impowt Nei wee tually, after Om meshes et the sousaime (Mum Pew, Bleat, esti Leseseesr) MI defended WI mepeut as lir se it welt, red that tie abort time allowed th en lad act New to ease astotandieg claims sad le mai it as perfect as they meld desire, tie queen that " Ne mart be received and entered opus the mimeos" was ralmilled to a show of heads, when it was declared that the ossimme ware _Fo r the reception of the report, 2.5 ; naiad it, 36; leaving a majority of 11 against the views entert a i ne d by the I directors. The business of the second meeting, convened by the directors, was then opened. It was for the purpose of con firming the resolutimos and order tracts es the 12th July lest, that a sum of 10,0001. be Mend by the issue of shares of IL ss. each, to be called "quarter shares." The deputy theism's' of the eiony (Mr. W. Hawes) moved the con irmation of the restios, whirls motion was strenuously by Mr. = Stet*, Mr. Elkins, Dr. Moore, and several " propristers. At length a show of hen& was taken', when the numbers were declared to be—Foe the resolution, 27 ; against it, 30; majority, 3. Upon this the deputy 'barman demanded • poll, which was granted, as a matter of ernerse. Darin Its progress, a question was raised by Mr. W. Hawes se to the admissibility of prosy votes tendered on behalf of indieidasls whose names stood on the register as proprietors in coonanion with the Hungerford Market Company. He said that on a former ocession, acting upon the . opinion taken from Sir Fitzroy Kelly, be bad, in Ms capacity of chairman, refused to admit throe votes. — Alter a desultory conven•tion, Mr. Fledgate cited a contrary opinion, obtained from Mr. M. D. Hill.—Argu atents on bath sides were conducted with much personality, and an exhibition of acrimonious feeling, which the noble chairman, to some extent, succeeded in curbing. His lord ship, alter hearing most patiently the discussion, decided upon admitting the vete* of proprietors in the Bridge Com• pan y who were registered by name, but in connexion with the Market Company, leaving the party who quarrelled with that decision to set it right either in the Court of Chancery or the Court of Queen's Bench. The poll then pro ceeded, and at its doss the result was stated by the scrutineers to be, that there appeared for the motion, 142 ; against it, 199 ; majority, 57.—1 n answer to hit. W. Hawes, it was stated that of the votes given against the motion, 70 were those of proxies admitted by the declaim of the noble chairman, upon which Mr. Hawes handed in, on behalf of the directors, a written protest against the opinion of the presiding authority and the Ad amson of the votes. The third meeting was then commenced, for the purpose (as announced) of receiving the report of the directors, and to - elect three directors in the room of Mersa Christie, Cory, and Rhodes, who retired by rotation. The report of the directors, as read by Mr. W. Bawer, stated that ' the tolls received during the put half year justify a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, per • annum; and that the receipts, which decreased for a time after the interest excited by the opening had abated, and which were further temparardy injured when the penny boats began to run from the Surrey aide of Westminster-bridge, are now gradually improving; and there can be no doubt, when the railway terminus as completed in the York-road, the traffic, and consequently the tolls, will be very much augmented. In consequence, however, of the decision which had just been arrived at against the raising a sum of 20,0001., the directors could not propose to pay any such dividend. To prepare for the increased tra ffi c the directors propose imme diately to commence the access to the bridge from the York road, and they hope, in conjunction with the railway com panies, to make arrangements very beneficial to the share holders. No exertion shall be spared to secure, to the fullest extent, all the advantages which should arise from one end of the bridge being contiguous to that which will probably be the largest railway station in the kingdom, and the other in the centre of this vast metropolis." The report then set forth various complaints urged against the want of mope ration on the part of the Hungerford Market Company, which can only be interesting to the parties concerned. The subjoined statement of the present traffic on the bridge may, however, be thought curious. The revenue account showed the following results. The toll collections on the bridge were— For the month ending Fehnotry 29, 1647 £OO9 4 For the month ending March 31 OB7 17 1 For the month ending April 80 Far the month ending 148 31 637 4 2 For tie month ending June 30 For the month ending July 31 667 9 1 Total 13,405 3 0 The report was received and adopted without a dissentient voice.—Mr. Christie, a retiring director, was re-elected with out much opposition; but in the place of Mr. Cory and Mr. Rhodes, the names of Messrs. Coles Child and English were proposed to be substituted. On this proposition a poll look piece, and at its close the numbers were announced to be —for Messrs. Cory and Rhodes (the late directors), 120 ; for Hewn. Coles Child and English 202: majority, 82.—Mr. W. Hawes again protested against the admissibility of the joint votes of those connected with the klungerford Market company ; but on its being ascertained that only 65 vete* of that description had been recorded in favour of Mr. Coles Child and Mr. English, those gentlemen were declared by , the chairman to be duly elected directors. Thanks were pawed unanimously to the noble eh 'airman for his conduct on this occasion ; and thus terminated one of the most noisy meetings it was ever our lot to attend. UNITED HILLS MINING COMPANT.—Teeterday, ' an adjourned meeting of the directors and proprietors of the above company wee held in the board-room of the offices of the company, Adam's-court, Broad-street, for the purpose of receiving a report of the directors as to the present state of the mines, and to determine upon the continuance or due -1 luuon of the company, in pursuance of a resolution passed at • enteral meet in g held on the 10th of JUDO last; E. Clarke, Esq., in the =air. The secretary then read the re port, which stated that, since the lest meeting, the direeton, in pursuance of the resolution, lost no time in taking the opinion of Capt. John Richards as to the course to be pur sued with the mines, and his report being of a satisfactory nature, they were induced to hope that the mines might be prosecuted to advantage ; and a new boiler was pur chased, and the directors were prepared to have incurred the fur ther expense recommended by Capt. Richards, if that would have entirely sufficed, and the indications of the mines in other respects, would have warranted it. The directors, however, lamented to say that, from the concurring testi mony of the captain and agents at the mines, as also the re -1 ports of Capt. N. Vivian and Capt. R. Eunice, of Shay park, who, within the la st few days, inspected the mines on behalf of one of the oldest adventurers, they felt satisfied that the adventure could no longer be prosecuted with advantage, regard being had to the limited resources of, the company. A considerable debt already existed by the company (to the extent of between 4,600 and 5,0001. the se cretary stated) upon the mines, which every month greatly added to their monthly average lore of 2501., and 18 months would be necessary to sink the Sump 10 fathoms, whilst 1 great additional outlay and expense would be necee eery ; the directors had, therefore, come to the opinion that it was advisable without delay to ease the expenses of the mine, and at once to authorise the suspension of the working of the mines, except so far as the lame might be necessary for winding up the concern with a due regard to the interests of the company.—The chairman said it was a hopeless task with their capital to continue the speculation; they had been 22 years in operation, and could not make the speculation succeed. The tact was they were beaten by the Sowing of the water from other mines, and they never would be able to overcome it; and the best course wu to give up the speculation altogether, and dissolve the company.— Several of the directors and proprietors expressed the same opinion, and ultimately resolutions were moved by Mr. Desborough, seconded by Mr. Campbell, "That it was not expedient to paneeente the hardier working of the mine, and that the direatese be astborised to abandon it as noon as they demsol ii:D eed aim is memos et the emptily, and eel a =Miss et is oberebelibee mirk avian to an 'adze et the eompany."—The oesolatkos having I been adopted, and a vote of thanks passed to the chairman, the meeting broke op. THE SAILORS' Homn.—Testerday, the directors of the Sailors' Home held a meeting at the institution in Wells- I street, London Docks. The report stated that during last year 4,567 boarden were received, and 136 vessels had been manned. The sum of 22,4801. had been remised and paid by the cashier dur t ing the year on the privet* accounts of the seamen; 4,1951. has been sent to themselves or their families at their own homes; while in the savings bank 2,2881.195. 7d. stood to the credit el the boarden of the institution. The I receipts last year Mon all OHMS ware 6,6391., and the ex penditure left a beinase of 68411. 14• Id. MODEL LODOINO-HOUSE. —The committee of this establishment, in George-street, St. Giles's ' which was opened on Monday last, have just added for the use of its occupants a valuable library, consisting of four hundred volumes of books, comprising history, travels, biography, and other well-aelected works, amongst the contributors to which were the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Kaowledge, and the Bishop of Norwich. Lectures will also be given bb d • committee a sixteen gentlemen, who will alternately dis cuss on some interesting and pop ular subject. The reading room is also furnished with newspapers, magazines, and other periodicals. A Use FOR FATiIINGDON MARKET.—A proposition bee been made to the civic authorities to convert the west side of Farringdou market, next Shoe-lane, which for up wards of four years has been totally unoccupied, into public baths and wash-houses for the labouring dames. The site is admirably adapted foe an establishment of the kind, and only requires the internal fittings to convert this used= pro perty to a benevolent, sanitary, and profitable use. STEAM-TUGS FOR THE MEDFIERRANF.AN.—It IS suggested that the attention of the Admiralty should now be called to the probability of westerly gales setting in in the Mediterranean, .by which vessels from the Black Sea and the comets of Italy and Egypt, hound to this country, are often detained many days, sometimes weeks, in the Out of Gibraltar, to the great damage, and not =frequently total destruction, of their cargoes. Many hundred vessels may thus be shortly collected and stopped there. Two towing steamers, plated in the gut to render assistance, might be t h e means of sparing much lose to merchants and under writers. _ _ FIRE AT Nzw BRENTTORD.—Yesterday afternoon, shortly before 3 o'clock, whilst Lord Robert Grosvenor's and Mr. Osborne's processions were passing along Righatmet, New Brantford, at the close of the official diiration of the poll, flames were seen mounting over the root of the houses, nearly faring the Castle Inn. Without delay the Brantford and Chiswick county engines arrived, closely followed by one from Mewl. Booth's distillery, and a fourth from Ealing. The disaster occurred in the workshops of Mr. Hall, a car penter, and owing to the closely pecked neighbourhood it was at one period feared that the Era would prom of a most disastrous diameter ; for the Ruck in the workshops being of that highly ignitable nature, in the epee, of a few minateenot only was thelmilding in which the fire commenced levelled w ith the ground, but a spacious billiard-room and the back parts of two or three houses in Catherine Wheel yard were bl .sing away with great violence. Finding that the flames were pragmatist's° fearfully, an express was seat to London for additional aid. The moment the news arrived in town a body of the ariebrigade and two engines were des patched. Daring the interval the engines of the town were kept at work, and by that means much property was saved from destruction; the &wen, however, were unable to get the mastery over the cos 'an until the workshops of Mr. Hall, and the men's working tools, together with • large quantity of prepared timber, were totally consumed, the billiard-rooms severely damaged by fire, and the roofs partially destroyed. The workshop belonging to Mr. Wil liam., boot end shoe maker, is also severely damaged by fire, and three house., let out in moments in Catherine Wheel yard, have the back windows burned out, and the roofs damaged. The whole of the buildings were understood to be insured in the County Fire-oflios ; and Mr. Hall was in sured in the Sun-olloe. The precise cause of the outbreak is unknown ; the parties who been working in the shop left fora few minutest* witness the pouring by of the pro cession., and whilst standing at their door the alarm was given by some of the neighboun. IN QU YESSERDAY.—FATAL ACCIDENT.—Be fore Mr. W. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Charles Toombes, aged 26, a carpenter employed in the erection of two houses at Canonbury. On Tuesday after ' noon he was seen to pass from the attic window of one house lend to enter that of the other. Shortly after a loud crash ing noise was heard, which alarmed the other workmen, they being opprehensive the scaffolding was giving way, when it was diswvered that the deceased had fallen through thesen joists of the attic fisor upon some loons flooring boards on the second floor, and was precipitated down the well intended for the staircase to the basement floor, a depth of 35 feet. The deceased was picked up in en insensible state and conveyed to the above hospital, where, on exami nation by the house surgeon, it was found that the skull was fatally fractured end that the deceased had sustained other severe injuries. He died within half en hour after hie ad mission. Verdict—" Accidental death." SIIAKSPEARE'S BIRTH-PLACE. SIR, When accompanying the Archreological Association in their recent visit to Stratford-upon- Avon, I very carefully examined the ancient strat i tura said to be the birth-place of Shakspeare, and fully participated in the feeling, generally enter tained, that an edifice associated with so many recollections dear to Englishmen, ought not to be lost to the nation, or suffered to fall into utter ruin and oblivion. But difficulties appeared to me to present themselves in carrying out the views of the advocates for its preservation, with the recital of which I was unwilling to damp the enthu siastic ardour of the company assembled en that day in the Town-ball of Stratford. I have therefore reserved my opinions for what perhaps mgy be a more fit place (should they be thought worthy), the columns of your wide,y circulating newspaper. The house or cottage in which Shakespeare is said to have been born is an exceedingly frail structure, principally of plaster, held together by wooden framing; indeed, it is only one-hilt of an erection, which must have been considered rather of a plebeian character in its primitive days. To separate Us decayed fabric from its companion, and to remove it without destruction, appears to be impossible ; therefore, any idea of transporting it in its integrity to America must be Abend. Without questioning the identity of the spot as the birth-place of Shakespeare, it is proper to consider how much of the original residence re mains in our day. The furniture contained in the house at prevent has no pretensions to have belonged to the Shak speare family: the casements and glees of the windows are not of the poet's time, but have been placed there at a much more recent date ; the roof, which, in my recollec tion, was of straw thatch, now consiits of modern tiles, and the plastering of the walls has no doubt been restored many times within the three hundred years that the house is supposed to have stood. The only parts, therefore, which can be considered original are the old oak floors, and the framing timbers, some of the latter of which are continued uninterruptedly through this and the adjoining cottage. From these considerations, I am induced to doubt the practicability, or even propriety, of preserving the old house in its present state as a relic ; and with the most sincere feelings of respect, I say veneration, for the memory of so great a genius— aright a star in the annals of our nation—l would, with great deference to those gentlemen who have taken up this cause, suggest that a more fitting memorial of our inimitable bu d would be the erection of some quaint allegorical structure upon the iden tical spot on which he was born, formed, if practicable, partly from the materials constituting the present old, dilapi dated house. The promptitude and liberality with which the idea of preserving this venerable structure has been met by the public, induces me to think that • fund of very considerable amount might be raised from small contributions, which would furnish the means of constructing • noble structure worthy of the bard and of the nation. With such funds in anticipation, I would presume eti'l further, and propose that upon the site of the birthplace of the Immortal Bard of Avon" an elegant erection should be constructed, in the decorative style of old English, or Elite bethan, architecture. The form best suited to this purpose would be that of • polygonal temple or pantheon, in the centre of which a statue of the poet might be placed, and around him, near the walls, a series of figures, the size of life, representing all the principal characters of Shakspeare's plays, with cartoons behind, exhibiting the scenes to which the haracters refer. These figures should be of wood or composition painted, and might with great propriety be por traits of the most eminent players who have filled those cha racters in bygone days. Such an erection is, I think, completely,withici the means that may be readily available, and such a novel kind of structure, when completed and opened for gratuitous exhi bition, would not only form a suitable memorial of our ad mired bard, but also reflect credit upon the English nation. W. N. THE ELECTIONS. MIDDLESEX. Tim DECLARATIOX.—Tbe proceedings of the Middlesex election terminated yesterday with the formal declara tion by the sheriffs of the exact Mate of the poll, and the anaouncement of the good and true knights who are to re present the county in the next parliament. From an early hour Brentford and its environs presented an appearance of excitement which cheerfully contrasted with the drowsy pro- - ceedings of the two polling days. Green boughs were in plentiful munition, perambulating bands again showed themselves in the streets, and flags that looked as if they had " braved the battle and the breeze " for at least • thousand years, streamed here and there across the principal, indeed only, street of the ancient town of Brentford. At 12 o'clock, a procession, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor's committee in open carriages —horses, carriages, and committeemen profusely decorated with blue and yellow ribbons—mounted free holiers, the " unrepresented" on foot, and a dense phalanx of the softer sex, drafted from the neighbouring market gardens, started simultaneously from the Castle Inn to meet his lordship and his friends from town, at the Star and Garter, about • quarter of a mile distant, at one. The two cavalcades having joined, proceeded in order to the hustings, where they were quickly followed by Mr. Osborne and his friends in similar array. Col. Wood arrived about the same time, unattended, and was received with con siderable cheering. The scene at Brentford Butts, at this moment, was gay and exciting in the extreme. The ' mounted freeholders, deoorated with the colours of their respective candidates, occupied their usual poets in the trout, theme were flanked by numerous carriages filled with ladies; and among the carriages and between the horses, and s far ead wide over the external space, a dense crowd filled w lade area of the polling ground. The bands bad gathered all in a duster in one corner, and eon dorosiityingoed vigentedy, and Its various keys, " See the Ines ONIIISI," long de all the heroes. con. 9 sad asagemei, li M Wawa their stations on the hitst nra( Inge, A bright sunshine over ell, all look pleasant, and many feel exceedingly hot, aml out in full re lief Usenet° glades of SIMI sheriff% which occupied a ereasaahog rem fa the iv i i =t has the crowd ware waking for the badmen of the day, anar eld usuessinsat was tweeted by the apperaam el a am dreamed la maw. Oei. Weed's bang the preva il wham, who sabred, mounted on a may old chair •stl by a half demo swaps, and who bowed his acknowlodgmeatej gm the Obillit with which he wee received with much saga vtv*, ad in the mat approved candi date faeltien. Ma Gm ddY sod several other lefts came on the haningssed ranked tmeidgthe main preasedings. At about a curter_ past OM ilalleffCiALLlS NM Ibrward to =nowise the 'Mid mama Are a fur ehesseations thanking the sectors for the plessable demerineur they had hitheasidareved, and asking • otatkausmse of It to the end of the peoesedings, Yr. Challis anneeneed the number to be—Lasel Z. Cherreear, 4,944 • Mr. Gelnese, 4,176 ; Col. Weed, SIMS ; end sued tha t on the two first named can didate the &Mu idea flukes bad Whs. (The announce ment was ressivell with load and general cheering.) Lord IL. Ciacinattoa them, as senior nerabsr, proceedeite address the conaliteeasy. He mid that he hit it to be • sir gular beam that he should have Ira te ahem the eiestars 1 on the pressed sessidea. About eight days beim, elly bed all met ea the same aget, hr the of cabman SO dna asst et the leglidamits drama walla bed bees fa proem of pararamee sear sinse. They bad mods en basset I WOMB at Pelly—(Largkear bad hem assiamilly mill es the high mead, in )—they sapping the asseash.., a me nd makiag them need old deliver Miele vote; sad now be supposed die mutual trim& summbled to me the maple hessarably united mad senfortably *shied. ( I VZ sad laughter.) Es had been UM in public e at a ti ftia Avele, NM although it wee hue that six months damn he had been elected without oppo- action, that we owing to the peculiar abicaustancee of the time, and that his popularity would not stead the teat of • disputed election. His answer we, tie porkies en the poll that day. (Loud cheers.) Thirteen times dazing the last twenty-six years h,ad he presented idmeelf at the bar of public °plaice, and Wrtea WINS had be had the leaser of being returned to perlimeat. Osseo* Milo steed mead on the poll, sad ea that memisa he wee be Goaded with another candidate, whisk citeusinermes would pasha& ac count for the objection he had estertained ever limes to coalitions. Three times within tho lest twelve menthe had he been a candidate. He was not had of making lliga , but such a circumstance almost inbred him to pin him self to vote for mesa parliaments, If it was may to WO his friends so much trouble. But in Ws coatedte he had notonly been fortunate himself, but he bad brought some good luck to other people. They would recollect that at the last occasion on which he appeared before the electors of Middlema, his 1 proposer and esesatiar were Sir Edward Nadi limbs and Mr. Bouveria dime dm, aso bed surfed the aged manly of Essex b a coop* aegis, and Kr. Heave& au easaidag for Wort w 111; sway peefrest et ampbee mem (Hear, hear.) The lank 0 the parent eisetka did mat make bin is the melba dopes adaidedeas. He did net affect to be *um* of the foreasabie eiressmehmea mile which be hat head the ormaseti amil Atli _wee time nay pleasurable used& be WOO id we ~ld by dr ear sciousness of hew Ma i be asnet disupgialmt the ow pectatioos of hie veggem la MOW limit firm bars undmisksa the intik -- he met had the Saw re liance es the bidelymee et Ms difeds, and sieve all, in the divine bigwig en his vadertaking. (Hear, bear.) Well, the contest was mew over, and this fac tat least was established, that the greet county of Middlesex had spok en out for progressive reform. (Loud cheers.) tip to the pee. sent election it had been his duty to carry on the representa tion of the county in conjunction with his honourable sea gallant friend on his left hand. They had always carried an die war with the greatest cordiality and good feeling, and he could now enure his honourable friend that. he paned from him with sincere regret. (Cheers, blues, and " Don't me, e) He was sure his hon. and gallant friend would forgive 'hin if be said that, considering he had had ten years experience of the men of Middlesex, he had made a great mistake in fighting under the flag of perpetual finality. (Cheers.) Henceforward he should have to act with his honourable friend near him (Mr. Osborne). (Cheers, and cries of " You have mended your company.") He must say of him that through many difficulties and disappointments he had fought his way gallantly to the proud petition he now held. (Loud cheers.) Even his individuality had been called in question, (The noble lord alluded to • placard posted extensively during the election, on which was inscribed " Who is Mr. Osborne I") But they had given him a famous handle for his name, as he could now describe himself O. the membe r for Middlesex. (Cheers.) And although his hon. friend had attached his car of progress to the brood gauge of e n express locomotive, he was sere he would still find time to attend to the business of the county. (Cheer,—" You must get an express train too.") Express trains were rather dangerous, and he should center% himself with expressing the high sense he entertained of the services of that army of unpaid supporters and canvasser' who led traversed the county in all directions to keep the poll going in his favour. (Hear) One word more, and he bad done. Not long since they had summoned him to their genies to succeed one of the most remarkable men who had OM represented the county of Middlesex. He knew he must suffer by comparison when named with the late Mr. Byng, but the electors had since confirmed their first choice, and he trusted that time would only have the effect of confirm. ing their good opinion. (Hear, hear.) Ile should not trespass further on their time than by bidding all present a cordial and respectful farewell. (Loud cheen.) Mr. OSHOUNI came next, and was received with every demonstration of welcome. He said that in appearing before the electors of Middlesex on that day, he did not think he could take a better model than his hon. friend the sheriff, because, if the language of moderation and humility became a man at any time, it more especially became him in the hirer of triumph. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, be for one, well knowing the fable of the fly upon the wheel, and feeling that it was not his own humble person that had kicked up the dust, should not use any language of exaggerated tri umph, or say aught to wound the feelings of his foe. (Cheers.) But if his noble colleague had thought proper to thank those who had labourel in his cause, how much more incumbent was it on him (Mr. Osborne) an humble in dividual, without local connexions, to thank that gallant body of men who, in all quarters of the county, had assisted him throughout the present contest. (Cheers.) He must be permitted to say that in proportion to the humbleness of the instrument was the greatness of the triumph achieved. (Hear.) He knew it was admiration of pricciples so inadequately represented in his person, that had produced the present triumphant result. When he thought of four days back, when he remembered the oppo nent he had had to deal with--his great respectability, his local connexion snd standing in the county, and above all the gallantry which would have graced a better cause—he could not but feel the greatest surprise at finding himself in a majority of 715. (Cheers ) If any man's head could be turned by • triumph, surely his should be turned on the pre sent occasion. (Loud cheers.) But great and important as he felt the honour to be, he was not, at the same time, insen sible to the great responsibility attached ; and they might depend upon it he should never forget either the honour or the responsibility. He felt and knew he had duties to per form ; and that they could beat he performed by the exercise of moderation. (Hear, hear.) There were a few subjects to which he felt it necessary to refer on the present accession; because, although he could make great excuses for strong language in an election contest, be did not think he should be doing his duty if he declined giving some answer to some reports whieh had been circulated to his discredit. ( Hear.) If they bad only affected himself, he should have been content to treat them with silence ; but as they not only affected the great body of his supporters, but also the great body of her Majesty's ministers, he felt that it would be impossible to pass them by without some allusion. It had been said by the com mittee of his gallant adversary that he was the advocate of doctrines which tended to the destruction of the monarchy, and the insecurity of the church, and that, to use the well. worn figurative expression, he was about to lay the axe to the root of our most cherished institutions Why, if one man more than another felt the blessings of the limited monarchy under which he lived, he was that individual. if there was one man more than another who thought that the throne of these realms had been filled with a more gracious sovereign than at present, one more anxious to meet the wishes of her people, again he was that man. (Hear.) (Col. Wood made some observations.) His hon. and gallant friend thought to catch bits on the hip, by alluding to the sovereignty of the people. He should not shirk that word. (Loud cheers.) He would still say. and it was no hustings claptrap, that the sovereignty of the people wee what the best of them must bow down to. (Loud cheers.) When gentlemen of opposite politics, the scared dowagers of both sexes, shuddered at the word, let them recollect that at all their symposia, from the days of Fox downwards, the toast bad been pledged. (Hear, hear.) But he was not surpreed, for it bad always been a maxim with the tory party that the great body of the people were an inferior ele ment in the social system. They had also been told that to I support the ballot was to endanger the monarchy—that it was an un-English system. True, if every elector was as independent as his gallant adversary, he should say that the ballot was unnecessary, because he was sure that no screw could be placed on him, that he was too independent to yield to intimidation, and that he would never yield to bribery. (Cheers, and laughter, and cries of " We don't know that.") But take a body of equally independent men, the licensed victuallers for instance. If there were a certain class of Middlesex magistrates who were in the habit of en ing licenses—how might not the screw be put on those men? (Hear, hear.) He was tamely putting a eau if he could prove his case, he should bring their names before the Home of Commons, and perhaps some time or other he might have the opportunity. (Cheers.) But for such men the only protection was the ballot, and if the ballot was • ftT0111• tionary system, he had the proud satisfaction of haowing that is the year 1842 eighteen of her Majesty's present ministers voted for it, two of them cabinet ministers. They were Sir G. Grey, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Ward, Sir W. Somerville, Mr. Byng, Lord Marcus Hill, the trossurer of the Queen's household, who was accused of pulling down her throne, Mr. Sheil, Mr. F. Malik, Mr. Y. Gibson, Mr. Hawes, Mr. C. Buller, Captain Berkeley, Colonel Anson, Mr. Parker, Mr. Tufnell, Sir 1 hos. Wilde, the present Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Mr. H. Bellew, now • lord of the treasury. (Hear, heir.) Mewls content to take a revolutionary station along with so many ministers, and he hoped, with • little gentle persuasion, to get his noble colleague into the lobby with him also. (Cheers and laughter.) They had also been told that secular educe ' don was opposed to the church. He considered that the worshippers of Lord Stanley did not recollect that it was Lord Stanley who, in 1831, introduced a system of water education. Last week, also, Lord Morpeth gave his I opinion that in a mixed nation of eleven millions of church men and sixteen millions of dissenters from the church, it I would be impossible to carry on any system of educed°. which went to instil any peculiar religious opinions. Be (Mr. Osborne) agreed with that noble lord that the beet re legions,, education • man could receive was not at school, but at home in the bosom of his family. (Hear, hear.) But when he thought of the sudden desire for educedim evinced by the tory party, he could not help going back to history to see what exertions they had made to fur ther it. It was not until the whig revolution of 1688 that ' the public worship of dissenters was permitted, and in 1714 the tories brought in the Schism Bill. Now, what was that bill ? It was an education bill, by which no dissenter was allowed to send his children to a echeol es cept it was kept by a church of England schoolmaster. (Hear, hear.) Great strides had been made since then ; but, had it depended upon his gallant opponent's party, they would have had a very abort stride in the way of education. Bat his opponent's committee went farther, and told them the, in voting for the abolition of church rates, he (Mr. Osborne would be doing away with the church itself. He that, in giving a vote for the total abolition of church rates, he had done so because he thought he was material stimegthening the interests of the established church and he was Ihrligedia that opinion by finding that twelve member, of dm prowl government, four of them in the bed voted, in 1842, for the total abolition 91 Mi. Therefore, if he was revolutionary on the poke,: wee Lced Palmerston, so was Mr. lAbouchare, so were . Macaulay and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Cheers and laughter.) Really, on reflection, his opponents meet see that this cry had served its day, and that it was nu e fee the future to trade on the cry of " the chards is r." The intelligence of the people had in fact reached to such a pitch, that any appeal to bigoted feelings mould be of no use, (Cheers and cries of What do you think of that, Col. Wood ?") Another cry of his opponents was " Protection to agriculture." He saw a great many farms presoak and to them he said that they should raise the ay of protection, but not such protection as had hitherto been understood. The protection the farmer wanted was proalMos for the capital he invented in the land, and there was bat one way of securing that, and that was by an situates sys tem of Col. WOOD—You'll extend that system to Ireland. Mr. Oseoatez —His friend said they should have that system for Ireland, but he asked his hearers were there say distinctions to be made between the two eounuies ? (No.) If they were real friends of the union, they mint _adenoid equal laws and equal rights. (Cheers.) His with was the greatest happiness to the greatest number, and his belief wee MIX the real reform was the truest conservation. He agreed with that great man who had said that although thes e were many men of warm feelings and enthosusest minds, who wished society otherwise constituted, still your trite patriot was the man who was preluired to I make the best of existing circumstances. A disposuou to l eavened) and improve was the real criterion of a liberal Duna. ' Such were the sentiments of Edmund Burke, and us those sentiments he participated. Saving thanked his colleague he Ids maistanos, and his oppmet for his courtesy, the hes. mesh iwashodat *wit Malay thanking the electors, tad withdrew amid Lei one genus] cheering. COL WOOD came ilellllll4. C: i =ohoer for Col. Wood.") Re ail he came there mot to with the triumph of wpowii, not to centend idiot their principles, comely lesetely to lay do son his arms. Rs (assisoa, he Mut there to othwowioloo seL) H ted and o belle d OD *oak the moll bet imiroldo bogy of oxen who lit tottportst Ida by ids( isle wwwwittoo. Ho bowel do to disk Ow waft, orl isiottoodoot electors who lad romwthad their wit la hi flavour, end surely even their number mould be depend ripootable when he steel that they included 2,381 good and honest pluropers ( Half. hear.) Ho thanked hi ourable opponent for the candid L