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PA. 2. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUG. 10. THE Irish elections, as usual, provoke very mingled sentiments—much disgust, not a little amusement, and some little satisfaction. The gentry and aristocracy come off worse and worse. Respectability is more and more out of place on the hustings. And even where the whig gentry had a chance, the tory gentry have joined the repealers, either with indifference or hostile votes, to oust them. Not all the landlord sea/ of such a man as Sit WINSTON BARRON COUld save him ; nor could the first rank in eminence as en Irish statesman tell in favour of Mr. WYSE. A PONSONBY is ejected from the Duke of Dovoresiimes town of Youghal, whilst at Mallow and Minorcan Mr. SMELL and Sir Denims NORRETS escape by miracle. Even in the towns on the east coast of Ireland, whose very existence is the export trade to England, to be moderate or honourable is almost sure to lead to exclusion. We have alluded to the result in Wa terford. In Drogheda Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE'S seat was perilled by a repealer, improvised from the streets of London. An American, with coarser Bil :insgate than his countrymen would tolerate, and with avowed dishonesty of principle, is member for Dun dalk. Still, as we have said, there is some cause of - T+W When we say that the circumstances of West Olen oestershire and Monmouthshire are similar, we must nut do Lord GRANVILLE Souses= the injustice to compare him with Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY. Un popular and supercilious u he is said to be in manner, and liable perhaps to many obLections on the ground of his political opinions, Lord URANTILLE SOMERSET has never been denied the credit ef industry, acute ness, and official aptitude. He has acquitted him self with reputation in several high situations, and has long exercised in the House of Commons an inffuenee which can only be acquired by the display of genuine talents for business. He has also for many years discharged the duties of chairman of the Mon mouthshire Quarter Sessions with remarkable vigour and ability. On the whole, although he owes his position to his rank, as the son and brother of a duke, it is impossible to dispute his personal supe riority over the average body of county members. If the blood of independent Englishmen is stirred when even a rude and pugnacious blunderer receives notice to quit the representation of a county from an offended patron, a deeper feeling is excited by a claim like that of the Duke of BEAU FORT, to thrust a young and unknown nominee on a constituency in the place ef an able and tried representative, who, although his brother. will not submit to be his tool There is only one point in which the dictation of the Duke of BEAUFORT appears at first sight less extravagant than that of Lord FITZRARDINGE: the pretext for dismissing Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET is founded on his public conduct, while Mr. GRANT LEY BERKELEY was discharged in consequence of a family squabble. How far the duke prefers even protectionist politics to the assertion of oligarchical claims may be conjectured from the countenance which he is understood to have afforded to Lord FITZITARDINGE'S proceedings in Gloucestershire. It is not the first time that a holy alliance has pre ferred the private interests of a privileged order to international or local jealousies. The professed reason, however, for the opposition which has been set up against the old member for Monmouthshire arises from his ooaduct with reference to the corn laws, though he might probably have voted with impunity against protection if; in doing so, he had not disobeyed the lord protector. If the Duke of BEAUFORT condescended to recognise public opinion so far as to defend his conduct, he would, probably, assign his brother's tergiversation as his reason for turning him out of parliament; and we might be disposed to give him credit for his Spartan firmness if he contented himself with passively withdrawing his support. By assisting in the return of a follower of Sir ROBERT PEEL he might seem to be an accom plice of his free-trade heresies; while, in forbearing to exert his influence in favour of a heterodox kins man, he would appear to make a certain sacrifice to principle. But the conduct of the Duke of BEAUFORT suffi ciently shows that it is not the inconsistency of the politician, bat the disobedience of the nominee, which he resents. The opposition which is set up is well known to be his own. It is not merely a tory in place of a perverted tory, bat a SOMERSET who is substituted for a rebellions SoMERsST. The BEAU FORT tenantry, who might have been left, if politics only had been considered, to vindicate their own claims to protection, have received peremptory orders to vote for the new ducal delegate. In the debates on the corn laws, the Duke of BEAUFORT boasted that there were families on his estates who had lived under his ancestors from the time when the BEAU FORTS of Somerset sprang from JOHN OF GAUNT : yet he has not been ashamed to break the old con nexion, where his tenants have voted for his brother, for whom six years ago he would have compelled them to vote. If it is only protection which he wor ships, it cannot be necessary to make farmers martyrs to the cause of agriculture. Boroughmongers are bad ; but countymongers are more offensive. When Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord ARTHUR LENNOX, and others, were dismissed for voting against the corn laws, or Mr. ASELLEY COOPER for supporting them, but little indignation was excited. No one sup poses that the members for Newark, or Chichester, or Dorchester, or Caine, represent any constituencies ex apt their patron. ; but when a large body of electors chooses a member of a noble house, it is at least de cent and prudent to assume that they exercise a dis cretion of their own. A connexion of thirty years might naturally lead Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET and his constituents to think that they bore some re lation to each other, in addition to their common de ference to the Duke of BEAUFORT. A judicious patron would conceal his influence, and strengthen it by allowing others a share in its exercise; but to the, true oligarch the consciousness of power is nothing unless it is felt and recognised by all. congratulation. Young Ireland has not shone forth with much brilliancy or strength. Repeal, indeed, has still its magic influence; but it is the repeal of the great Liberator, which signified a menace to England rather than a defiance, a demand of justice and equality rather than of irrevocable separation. The repeal of Young Ireland is at once a visionary and a sanguinary purpose, unattainable by common sense or common conduct, and only to be wrung from con quered England by some warlike descendant of BRIAN BOROEME. O'CONNELL'S repeal was in nowise Ossianic, but a very shrewd system of opposition, annoyance, and pressure, conceived in the brain of a lawyer. There can be no doubt that Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN'S idea of repeal was the more poetic and heroic of the two, and one that would have told far better in a remote age. The idea of electing Irish representatives to stay at home was certainly very dignified, end . espe cially digni fi ed for a body of members whose &catty was bait oonsulted by their silence. The new member for Dublin, the latest expression of the repeal enthusiasm does not read his duty thus. He is to attend parlia ment, and to divide it each session on a motion for re peal. That great duty performed, be is to do inces sant battle for not only Irish but local interests—in short, to perform the part of a true, vigilant, and zea lous member of parliament. This avowal of the practical, this approval of it, by a democratic constituency, is, in the present times, a good and potent sign. Not a km significant one is given in Limerick, where Mr. flaunt O'BRIEN, the very hero and prophet of Young Ireland, has reigned in consequence of insults from the Old Ireland parV, which the latter have refused to atone for. A ft,- vourite candidate for the same county is Mr. MONSELL, of Tervoe, who may be considered the very chief of the practical reformers of Ireland. Mr. MONSELL'S ideas may not be always just, but they are practical. And if Ireland would but send representatives of each interest, who would be straightforward and plain exponents of the wants, views, and grievances of each interest, instead of idle ransackers of history and declaimers about imaginary wrongs, there might then be some prospect of under standing and improvement, instead of outpourings of abuse on both sides, and a whetting of swords upon one. The support given to such men as Mr. MONSELL, at Limerick, and Mr. M'Cru. ton, at Dundalk, by the catholic priesthood, is another not unimportant sign. Wherever, indeed, there are catholic gentry, the antagonism to England is not more than true patriot ism warrants. It 'bows that in the destruction of the catholic aristocracy, the prohibition of catholic landed proprietorship, and of the political rights of the catholic., England was her own enemy.. For she thereby reared in Ireland an envious and hostile democracy, whose naistance seldom takes that rational turn, or admits of that rational explanation which could offer the means or the information requisite far satisfying it ; but which, on the contrary, L fit se brute passions and purposes, an animal superiority at race being its only aim, a thirst for violence and Mead its chief propensity. This is the result of tory policy—this the state of things and of society brought about by the SnAws and the ascendancy party. The tree remedy for it lies not in arming protestant landlords and clergy with extreme power of position or of right, but of reconnecting the catholics with the land—with the pesos and prosperity of the country. It is evident, from the favour shown in many places to repealer. by omservatives, that the more rabid of this party with to continue or renew the evils which they themselves have generated, and are resolved, like their proto types in France of 1789, to precipitate evil, in the hope that good may come. The lowest democracy, even an American regime, is more welcome to them than the anion of a liber al gentry with the enlight ened of the middle classes. Seim tuum ulhil est, nl.l to mire Doe .cat The duke's ostentatious interference with the inde iendence of Monmoathshfre has not been w•ithoat its good effects. A general feeling has been excited in favour of Lord GRAN 'MLR SOMERSET which we hope will place him at the head of the poll. It is to be re gretted that the family of his late colleague, theMOR GARS of Tredegar, so far prefer their political party to the independence of the county as to th row the in fluence of their wealth and popularity into tho scale of the intrusive candidate. On the other hand, the gantry and independent freeholders are generally favourable to Lord °MANVILLE SOMERSET ; and the great body of his former political opponents have come forward to support him against the Duke of BEAL:PORT. We hope that those of them who yet hang back from a probably well-founded belief that the independent candidate is still widely from themselves in opinion, will come forwa ar b, t d el t- prive their professed adversaries of a triumph. The old Welsh catholic families of Monmouthshire must be well aware that their rights are more likely to be respected by the party which Lord G. SOMERSET now follows than by that of his opponents ; and the advocates of enlarged commercial policy can scarcely consent to trust to a protectionist nominee the great and grow ing importance of their county. The question of in dependence, however, is more important than any political difference. Except in West Gloaceetershire, no equally daring attempt to assert the right of nomi nation has been made et the present election. That populous district has shaken off the yoke of the castle; and we hope that Monmouthshire will follow its example. CONTRARY to all expectation, the West Gloucester shire election has been decided in favour of the un friended, ill-provided, and undeserving candidate, who, for the time, represented the cause of in dependence. Bribery and intimidation have done their worst. Mob violence has not unnaturally allied itself to the oligarchical coalition ; but Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY has been returned for the sole reason that he was no longer the nominee of the castle. A less wise member the freeholders of Gloucestershire TIME are two classes of remedies applicable to social disorders. One reaches the root of the malady, the other deals with the outward manifestation of its virulence. The great difficulty of legislators is to time the applications of one and of the other. Edu cation, in that most comprehensive sense of the word, which includes the use of all available means of sill ritualising the gross, and refining the brutal and ignorant, is the one great agency through which alone the lower class of our population can be materially and permanently benefited. But the fact that all legiaLtion is, by comparison with this, superficial, by no means gives legislators a dispensation from the se dulous preparation and judicious employment of minor measures. could scarcely have chosen; bat his very want of personal fitness makes the triumph of the principle with which he was casually identified more con spicuous. The old loyalist vowed allegiance to the crown, even though it hung on a bush; and the right of election may be vindicated even by supporting the advocate of " punches on the head." In the adjoining county of Monmouth a contest remains to be decided, which is strikingly similar in its eirciunstanoes. There, as in Gloucestershire, the There are many and painful signs of barbarism and brutality among the peasantry and artisans of Eng land. This period of the year is rife in them. The assize lists and criminal calendars admit us into a gak lery of dark end ghastly pictures. Crimes are per petrated in cottages which rival the courtly atrocities of the Bain - num? and the BORGIAM. The insidious and appalling offence of poisoning seems to be grow ing more and more common every year. Perhaps this increase of such crimes is only apparent. The chemical test discovers what the autopsy le ft hidden. The earth no longer covers the decd. While a portion of the body remains undecayed, science can detect the poison, and the murderer is not safe so long as hie vic tim's dust can be separated from the common earth of the churchyard. But whether it be more or less com mon than it used to be, this is a crime which indi a deen.rooted and fearful recklessness in the perpetrator. It is one, iiii,gt;irer, which is seldom committed once only. There is a terrible tascimition in the knowledge that You hold in your hand the lives of households. If this were not sufficiently proved by such cases as those of ANNA MARIA ZWAN ZIGER, the German poisoner, whose deeds FENERBACH has chronicled, the confession of MARY ANN MILNER, who lately crowned her quadruple poisoning with suicide, in the gaol at Lincoln, actually avows this horrible passion. Nothing ministers to it so effectually and fatally as the ease with which poison may be procured in this country. There is no restriction whatever on the sale of deadly drugs. Not always is the petty precaution observed of writing "poison" on the phial or packet. A suggestion was made to Mr. Baron ALDERSON, by an Oxford grand jury (we believe), that some restrictions should be imposed on the sale of poisons. inhume d a powerfid hinny has long secured one of the mats to itself; and there also the head of the house threatens the late member with dismissal, in punishment of political disobedience. The Duke of BEALTORT might be satisfied if he was a moderate man ; and if he was a prudent man, would conceal his dissatisfaction with the share which he possesses of the representation of the commons of the realm. His DM is returned without a contest for East Gloucester- shire ; the member for Breconshire !fits by ducal permis sion; and all parties in Monmouthshire are willing to recognise the preponderance of the house of 8031 EnS ET. But the duke, like his friend Lord Firzitsmnsor, is not contented with limited Monarchy. The electors counties are plainly told that their choice is not, even 1 2e free. They propose to return SOMERSET, whom, 1u: years, they have con curred with his family in choosing a; ►heir represen tative; and they Aid that the member , ' With whom they are satisfied is discarded by his imperious chief. They must still choose a SOMERSET, but one who will be the professed nominee and delegate of the Duke of BEAUFORT. Their servitude bad been concealed and overgrown in the lapse of time. In choosing an old and experienced representative, a laborious and use ful man of business, the freeholders of Monmouth shire might feel something of the satisfaction of independence, and forget that their member had first en appointed by a duke. On a sudden they find themselves pulled up short, and rudely re minded that their member is chosen neither for his own merits nor in pursuance of their wishes, but because he is presumed to be the tool of the owner of Troy Howe and Ragland. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1847. The learned Baron treated the recommendation very cavalierly, observing that many of the commonest ingredients of medicine were poisons, and that any restriction on their sale Lwould be troublesome and vexatious. This may be, although the precaution might rea dily be adapted to each a neoeseity, if it exists. But even granting the annoyance suggested by Baran ALDERSON, whit ie it compared with the g ood that would follow from a measure which wo uld expose the poisoner to almost certain detection? In Prussia, and, we believe, in other German provinces, poisons can only be sold in the presence of a third perek, known both to buyer and seller. We do not mean to recommend a precisely similar regulation for this country, bat something analogous should, we feel con vinced, be applied to stop a practice so hideously common, amongst our rural population especially. This is, of course, only the superficial remedy. The real mischief is in the state of mind which stir such deeds and fortifies the will which goes through with them. For this we must go to the root of the national character among our lower class. In its coarse and animal brutality, unchecked by religion, uninformed by intelligence, uncontrolled by virtuous activity, unsupported by self-respect, he in their germ the savage violence of the ruffian who beats his wife to death, tho un natural cruelty of the mother who starves or , strangles her child, and the craftier, bat more I dangerous, malignity of :the poisoner who mixes arsenic with the household meal, or the cup of medicine. Unless speedy and determined recourse be had to every agency through which educational influences can be brought to bear on the poor and ignorant, we shall only vary the forms of crime, by t hr owing difficulties in the path which the criminal has hitherto followed with ease and impunity. But it is not the less our duty to throw these diffi culties in his way, while we assail him with more deep-reaching instrumentalities from another side. ' It would be an easy thing to forbid the sale of poisons except uader special restraints. What these restraints should be is another question, which expert persons might best answer. But that no time should be lost in erecting a barrier between the means of death and him who is eager to use them is, we apprehend, a matter beyond dispute. The end might be attained by a short and simple act. We beg to recommend the suggestion to the notice, if not of government, at least of those who hare it in their power to en force such matters on government attention. We learn from the Paris journals, that the health of the Ring of the Belgians begins to inspire much un easiness. His Majesty accompanied by the Queen re turned on Saturday night to Laecken from Paris, in a very weak state. M. Rogier had an audience at the palace on Sunday afternoon, and laid before the King the list of the members of the new cabinet. It is generally believed that that list will be approved of, unless M. Rogier should impose certain objectiona ble conditions, for undertaking the government of the country. Letters from Rome of the 26th inst., quoted by the Nuremberg Correspondent, say that Minardi (whom the Times calla the Cardinal Minardi), and who is now a prisoner in the Castle of St. Angelo, having been known to be one of the chief agents in the conspiracy which has been detected and defeated, has been offered a pardon on the condition of his surrendering the names of his fellow-conspirators, and ;giving to the government a full confession of the plot. It is further stated that he has already made some revelations, in consequence of which several arrests have been secretly made. In general, the greatest eecresy is observed resting the investiga tion which is in prog re ss, and hence the many con tradictory reports which are in circulation. It is known that the Pope has conferred the most exten sive powers on M. Morandi, the pro-governor of Rome, to prosecute this affair. MADRID, Avocet 3. Since the Queen returned from a Minting excur sion to Rio Frio there have been goings to and fro of ministers between Madrid and La Oranja, and some important business has been dispatched, of which anon. The Duke of Oluckeberg returned to Madrid on Sunday (the Ist), having presented a letter from the Duchess of Montpensier which relieved the Queen's apprehensions concerning her sister's health. Beravidee appeared at La Oranja on Saturday night: he was followed by Salamanca, who arrived early on Sunday morning. The latter proceeded straight to the house of Serrano, where he took up his quarters. Some hours later both went together to the palace, where they had an interview with the Queen. Semmes and the Minister of the Interior returned to Madrid yester day ; the former promising to return to the court to join an excursion which has been fixed by the Queen for Thursday to El Paular. The road winding through difficult passes, and being exceedingly rough and pre cipitous, the Queen has bought for 20 dollars a nag of the country for the occasion, that will carry her more safely than one of her Andalusian barbs. In riding, the Queen puts the courtiers to their mettle, declining few leaps that fall in her way. It appears that Senor Salamanca went to La Oran ja to obtain the Queen's signature to two very important decrees which appear in to-day's Gazette—the first rescinding the contract with the Bank of St. Fer nando, and exhibiting the mode in which the govern ment's debt to the bank will be liquidated ; and the second abolishing custom-houses in the interior. Instead of the latter,there will be a double line at the frontier, comprising a zone varying in width from 1 to L leagues, once past which, no merchandise is to be subjected to any further overhauling by carabiniers. However, the Madrid corps of cara biniers, and those of Burgos and Logrono, are not to be done away with yet, the latter keeping the line of the Ebro, to prevent the monopolies of salt and to bacco, from which the Basque provinces are exempt from being invaded in the unprivileged region. There is another decree drawing a distinction between the duties to be paid upon silk goods, and those which are mixed silk and wool or cotton, which have hitherto been the same. The Minister of War puts forth a decree precluding all who in future embrace the career of arms from the enjoyment of the retiring pensions established in their favour by the law of August 8, 1841, and referring them to the provisions of the old law of June 3, 1828, which ie not quite so munificent in its arrangements. The re-elections of Cortes-deputies for the seats said to be vacant by the acceptance of places under the government, will not, as has been stated by some of the papers, take place yet, for the very good reason that the deputies in possession must be first pro nounced by the Cortes incompetent to retain their seats before they can be ejected. And, as the first business is the election of the President of Congress, by issuing new writs at present 35 votes would be lost upon that occasion to the ministry. Great numbers still repair to the Bank of San Fernando to have their notes cashed, and the system of paying in pesetas and reals still continues, so that persons have to remain several hours before they can be attended to. A friend having received some of these notes from his hanker sent his servant to get them cashed, who returned, after waiting some time, with the paper unchanged. Upon having recourse to his banker to give him more current coin, he was obliged to pay lj per cent. for gold. The Faro says that the Union Bank have addressed a document to Senor Salamanca, desiring the disso lution of their exchequer-bill contract with the government. It is certain that of the 15 millions they were to furnish in July not a penny has been paid. The Correo has an article in favour of the free importation of grain . Free exportation was esta blished by a decref) which I menticamd eope time back. The troops on their march from Portugal, that were approaching Madrid, have been ordered into Navarre. Gen. Iriarte went on Sunday to pay his respects to the Queen, at La Granja. Colonel Rios, having pursued the bands of Bon and Estartss for several days in the high mountains, came up with them on the 25th, near San Pedro do Tamil°. In the action which ensued three of the rebels wero killed. A second action was fought the same day by the same parties, in which two rebels were killed. The troops sustained no loss on either occasion. A band of insurgents entered Banolas on the night of the 26th. The commanding officer ordered out his men, twenty in number, from their quarters, to engage Om rebels; oue of the soldiers was killed, but the Culls!' in the end were driven out. arty of rebels weredislodged from Santa Felice de on C the 28th di , and three killed, among them a cubes:ills. A band of robbers has been dispersed by the sol diers at Alava, and their chief killed. The Captain-General of Estremadum reports his arrival 'with the troops ander his command at general highly encloses a despatch from a Portuguese general highly . complimentary to the conduct of the Spanish troops in Portugal. An earthquake shook the south of Spain at half past eleven on the night of the 28th. Letters from Seville, Cordoba, and Jaen, report shocks at the same moment. A chocolate vender m Madrid, I believe, is the only person who noticed any earth tremblings here. A house or two has been cracked at Seville. The Cbrreo tells us to expect the Queen at Madrid between the 10th and 15th of the present month. COLONIAL. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—From Cape Town we have papers to the 9th of June. The intelligence from the frontier was gloomy. On the 26•11 of May an attempt was made by the Kaffirs, at the Goolith height", to carry off the horses from Mr. Need's carp, and a simul.aneous attack made near the same spot on some discharged commissariat waggons returning under escort to the colony. Both assaults were repulsed. On the 27th, 50 Kaffir', armed with guns, attacked a 'mall party escorting two mule waggons, near the same camp. The 8 Englishmen (Lieut. Benet, 2 civilians, and 5 soldiers) took up an advantageous position, and kept the enemy at bay till Mr. Need sent a strong party of the Cape Corps and Fingoes to their relief. A letter from the outposts, dated the 29th, states that heavy and continuous firing of cannon and small arms was heard that day in the direction of the Cabousie. On our side the disbanding of the burgher levies and of the Fingo corps was in progress. The former were so much gratified by their release from duty, that slender hopes were entertained of any of them being persuaded to volunteer again. The latter had positively re jected solicitations to enrol themselves once more. With these renewed symptoms of activity on the part of the enemy, and reduction of the armed force on our side, a tense of depression naturally crept over the frontier settlers. It is, indeed, impossible that any isolated family within '2O miles of the frontier should feel secure. The following important inuendoes are thrown out in the South African Commercial Advertiser:—" Complaints are made of the treatment of the natives that have lately served so faithfully is the war. These natives have their distinctive peculiarities of character, which must be studied if their services are to be again invited or demanded. One pecu liarity Is, that they are entirely insensible to threats. But to just and considerate treatment they are as yielding as wax. . . . . One of the main distinctions between commanders is in the faculty of gaining the confideuce and affections of men even in armies, where discipline supplies so many personal defects. Among the suddenly !lased and semi-barbarous livers on the frontier, nothing can make up for the absence of this conciliatory faculty in a commander." There is more than • mere abstract pro position meant to be eneunced here. We add as a corollary. ' that the important faculty ef conciliating was shown to be possessed in an eminent degree by Colonel (now Sir Harry) Smith when in command on the Cape frontier in 1835. The goventor.in-chief and his staff were expected to arrive in Graham's Town, from Fort Peddie, on the 9th of June. The arrival of the steamer Pliceniz at the Cape afforded a pros pect of the re-establishment of regular communication be tween the seat of war and the seat of government. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—By way of the Cape of Good Hope we have news from this colony to the 20th of March. Three vessels from Europe had just arrived, two of them with emigrants, to the number of 400. The emi grants in the Princess Royal were, with the exception of one Irish family, all English, and of a better class than usual. Those by the other vessel (not named) were German peasants of the better class, who had all paid their passage, and were understood to bring more money with them than any emi grant ship had imported for years. The emigrants were all healthy. The official return of exports for the year 1840 ahowed a total value of 287,0591. against 131,8001. in 1845. The value of exports for the last quarter of 1846 was 123,6811. — not much short of the total value for 1845. The legislature was busy revising the Pound Regulation Act. The news that the " Royalty " on minerals was not to be insisted on, had given general satisfaction ; but a hint from the govern ment about the repayment of the debt of 83,800/., had been less graciously received. Int Court.. - - The Earl of Dalhousie and Lord J. Russell have arrived at Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. The Queen will hold a Privy Council at one o'clock this afternoon at Osborne. The ministers and officers of state attending. the council will travel from town to Gos port by a special train of the South-Western Railway. COLONIAL APPOINTIIENTS.—We are glad to learn that Major-Oen. Sir H. Smith, the hero of Aline], has been appointed to succeed Sir H. Pottinger as governor of the Cape of Good Hope. We also understand that Major-Gen. Stareley succeeds Major-Oen. D'Aguilar on the staff at lioag•Kong. Sir John and Lady Richardson, the Hon. Mr. Ashley, Captain Fetheretonkaugh, Count Benin, &c., em barked on Sunday last for Antwerp and the Rhine on board the steamer Antwerpen, Captain Jackson. THE GUN COTTON EXPLOSION AT FAVERSHAM. The adjourned inquiry was resumed yesterday morning, before Mr. Hinde, coroner for East Kent. Robert Chessman—Wu in the employ of Messrs. Hall, at their marsh-work factory, and was there when the scci. dent took . place on the 14th of July last. He had charge of the fires in Nos. 3 and 4 stoves. The temperature he was directed to keep up, and which was the temperature on the morning of the accident, was 120 deg. for No. 3, and 110 deg. for No. 4. Mr. William Hall, the proprietor, and Mr. Topping, the manager, were both at the works from as early hour in the morning, and neither of them complained of anything being wrong. Was engaged in his usual duty about half an hour before the accident oc curred, and was quite sure the heats were US he had stated. He was in No. 3 stove when the accident occurred. Heard no explosion—it was momentary ; and he could not tell how it took place. Did not know where the explosion fiat oc curred—whether in No. 3 or No. 4. Was buried in the ruins of the weighing-room of No. 3, about four or five feet from where he had been standing—was greatly injured. The instructions as to working the stoves given by Mr. Hall and Mr. Topping were, so far ache wu able to say, carried out in every particular.—By Mr. Sheppard : Ascertained the heat of the drying-room by means of self-acting thermometers, placed there for that purpose. No other person had control of the fires.—By a Juror: A woman named ki'llwen was employed in i te o st n ov t e h s ; t:oogreco overheating of her having spoken e ce u rtstnly m never told him " that if he rli t d m not th e etor t e b s e fires lower they would all be blown up.—By the Coroner: His wife (since deceased) was employed in the works on the morning of the accident. She made no complaint to him on the subject of the heat. He had been in the employ of Mean. Hall during the last 15 years and perfectly under stood the dangerous nature of the occupation. Could attach no blame to any person in connexion with the accident —By another Juror: When he last saw the fire in No. 4, it was nearly oat. The coroner, addressing the jury, said he should be vny happy to examine all the witnesses that could be obtained, but after what the last witness, who, he supposed might be considered the principal one, had stated, he thought it would be better before swearing any other individnals of the game clan to ask them what they knew. By so doing much valuable time might be saved. The jury assented; and Thee. Stringer, George Wraight, and one or two other of the injured parties having been brought forward, were asked as to the information they were able to give. They severally declared themselves wholly unable to account for the acci dent, or to give information likely to throw any light on the subject. The court was here cleared for some time, and from subsequent proceedings it appears to have been greed among the jury to request the coroner to proceed to the resi dence of the woman MeEwen, in the town of Faversham, for the purpose of ascertaining whether she still persisted in the statement she was all eg ed to have made, to the effect that she had warned Chessman on the morning of the acci dent not to overheat the stoves. The coroner and the fore man of the jury, together with the Mesas. Hall end accordingly proceeded to the residence of the party eel= , to, the proceedings having been meantime adjourned for an. hoar. - The reporter requested permission to take the state ment of Mrs. Marren, but his request was refused by the coroner. From another source he obtained the following copy of her deposition : , Mary bl'Ewen said she was employed at Mesas. Hall's works, and attended at 7 o'clock as usual on the morning of the accident. Her general employment was picking dipped oaten in No. 3 stove. On that morning she was making starch from half-past eight to half-past ten close by the stoke-hole fire, which is quite away from the room where the cotton is dried. No fire was ever kept inside the build ing, the heat arising from radiation from the " gloom pot." The fireplace, or stoke-hole, was outside the building. ness returned to the drying-room about half-past ten. Cheesman, as he usually did alter breakfast, shovelled ca , about five or six shovels of coal whilst she was making the g zc h, tiothins more than ti mtel ;;;;;;;,-;1 tAtween them. The heat *al het leo great that messing AS it had been oa other mornings. Wes speaking of No. 3 stove—had nothing to do with Ne. 4 . The heat was usually 120 deg. in No. 3 It might exceed it 2 or 3 degrees sometimes, and sometimes it was lees. Did not understand the working of a thermo meter ; judged of the heat by what she heard others ' say. lithe heat had been much greater than it was, she could not have told it from the thermometer. When the explosion took place she was in the stove just by the side of the bench. When the door of the drying-room flew open, the bricks and rubbish fell about, and she was blown out ' side. Never heard any noise; the first she knew of the accident was when she saw the stove-door fly open. Nerer made any observation to Chessman that morn , inF respecting the heat of the stove. Might have said something by way of joke about a week or a fortnight before, such as 0 Why, Cheesman, do you want to send US all adrift ?" when the heat was very great ; but never meant anything serious. There bad bete a great many false reports made of what she had said. It was very sultry on the morning of the accident if she ever felt the r heat too oppressive, he opened the door, and it lowered it two or three degrees directly. Asked Mrs. Clarke on that morning to open the door and she was just going to do so when the accident occu r red . Mr. Hall was himself fre quently in the stoves, and had been there twice that mornieg. Had heard him once or twice complain of the heat in the winter time, and he then always gave instructions that it should be lowered. He said nothing about the heat that morning. He was always very particular, and would allow a bit of cotton, or '` dough," to lie about. She had no fault to find with any one. Always found Chessman very careful and attentive. On the return of the coroner to the inquest room, the pro- I ceedings were resumed. In reference to Mrs. M'Ewen's statement, Mr. Hinde informed the jury that it was im portant in one respect—vie., that it completely contradicted the hearsay evidence on which some anxiety had been expressed. The coroner then read over Mrs. M'Ewen's state ment to Messrs. Hall. Mr. White, chemist, deposed that a much greater temperature than that at which the stoves were kept would have been unattended with danger. The Coroner said, by a memorandum which he had pro. served, he was able to say that the thermometer attained 120 degrees on the 14.11 of July, the day when the explosion There being no further evidence the coroner summed up. lie said, it appeared that Messrs. Hall had been engaged for some time pant in the manufacture of gun-cotton, Mr. W. Hall himself being constantly present in the works, and an efficient superintendent, Mr. Topping, being always in attendance in his absence. He thought the evidence of Cheesman, who had charge of the tires, satisfactorily proved that he was at hie poet when the accident occurred, and that his duty had not been in any way neglected. It appeared that an explosion had occurred from some cause or other not at present ascertained, though the best means had been used to determine it. lie could not fail again to express his great satisfaction that the statement of the woman M'Ewen had entirely contradicted the heaesay evidence which had been referred to, as to Chessman having been cautioned that he was overheating the stoves on the morning of the accident. From all the evidence they had heard he thought the jury would agree with him that the factory appeared to hare been carried on upon the best principle, every care and precaution being taken to prevent accident. The learned gentleman said he was not aware that the case required any further observations Iron him, nor did it appear to him that fresh light would be thrown on the inquiry by any further evidence they might obtain. He should, therefore, leave the case in the hands of the jury, reminding them that their simple duty was to determine how, and by what means, Henry Topping and the nine other deceased persona, whoee cases they had been sworn to investigate, came by their deaths. —The court was again cleared, and the jury remained in deli. beration about half an hour, when the public were re-admitted, and the Coroner annout.ced that the jury had unanimously agreed to the following verdict : "That the deceased, Henry Topping, was killed by the explosion of a certain gun-cotton factory, but how that explosion arose no evidence appears." —ln reply to Mr. Bathurst, the coroner said the jury attri buted no blame whatever either I. Messrs. Hall, or to any other person employed in the factory. Before the court broke up, Mr. White, whose experience as a practical che mist in the conduct of powder mills has been very great, re marked to the jury that unastisfactory as it no doubt was to them to be unable to solve the cause of the explosion, such a result was the rule and not the exception. During his lengthened Experience he had never known the cause of a powder-mill explosion to be ascertained, except in ene in stance, and it was therefore no matter of surprise to him that a mystery surrounded the origin of the present accideat The total number of deaths resulting from the accident has been 21. Only 11 bodies have been discovered, the remaining ten having been blown to atoms. l'ortione of the bodies are still found in the oorn fields, at a great distance from the scene of the catastrophe, and it is a disgraceful fact that some inhuman persons, since the accident, have actu ally possessed themselves of mutilated fragraents, for the purpose of exhibition. At Sittingbourne and Whitstable portions of limbs were exhibited for some days to a depraved crowd, at so much per bead. The disgusting affair was, however, promptly put a stop to by the local magistrates. REVISING -The Lord Chief Justice Denman has been pleased to appoint Lancelot Shadwell, Francis Bailey, and Thorns, Young M'Clsristie, Escies., to be the revising barristers this year of the lists of voters for members to serve in parliament for the county of Middlesex, the cities of London and Westminster, the boroughs of Mary lebone and Finsbury, and the Tower Hamlets. SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.— The Lords of the Treuury have caused Mr. Trevelyan, one of their lordahips' secretenes, to state to the commissioners of customs, that with reference to their lordships' letter, dated July 21, 1846, desiring that the board would take the necessary steps to have early information given to the Foreign-office of all shipment of arms destined for the ports of Spain and Portugal which should be made at any of the ports of the Unitediineom, he has been cemrnanded by their lordships to acquaint them that they da not consider It necessary that the returns is question should be continued to be prepared and forwarded as directed in the order alluded to. __ _ _ OPENING. OP THE MODEL LODGING -DOUSE, ST. GlLEB . B.—Yesterday the society for the improvement of the condition of the labouring classes opened their new model lodging house in George-street, St. Giles's, which they have just completed eta coat of 5,0001. It is exclusively intended to accommodate single men of the working clan. The building covers an area of about 2,000 square feet, and is six stories from the basement • the ground-floor is partly occu pied by the manuter, and the remainder fitted u a living room for the use of the lodgers, having tables and settees similar to a coffee-house, with crockery and cooking uten sils. The upper floors are divided into eight dormitories, each separated by wainscot 7 feet high into 13 separate berths each berth furnished with decent furniture. The entire building is thoroughly ventilated, and lighted through out with gas, the common staircase being fire-proof. The total number that can be accommodated is 101, each paying 41. per night, or 2.. per week. It is intended to fit the base ment with baths, and provide a library for the use of the inmates. _ _ _ REPORTED DEATH OF MR. RARNARD.—We are glad to be enabled to Mate that there is no troth whatever in the reported death of Mr. Barnard, who was last week re elected member for the borough of Oreenwich.—Staidard, SALE OF STOW.—It ie now Settled that Stow is to be sold to pay off the debts of the noble owner. Messrs. Christie and Manson are the auctioneers engaged ; and so pressing are the necessities of the proprietor, that the furni ture will be sold in the course of the next six weeks. The valuable collection of books, prints, and pictures will be re served till the next season. Among the pictures is the ori ginal " Portrait of Shakspeare "—the only portrait in oil of Shakspeare, with a genealogy attached. It belonged to Sir William Davenant, and afterwards to Betterton ; and was copied by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The copy was given to Dryden, and the poet repaid the painter by an epistle in verse. INTERCOURSE WITH THE CONTTNENT.—The pas sellers between England and Boulogne in the week eulog ist inst. were 2,438 against 2,266 us the corresponding week of last year ; at Dover, they were 467 against 678. Of the Boulogne passengers 1,304 were from En g land ; viz from Folkestone 752, front:Dover 135, from London 340, and from Ranagate 77 ; 1,124 were to England ; viz., to Folkestone 496, to Dover 230, to London 343, to Ramsgate 55. THE " GREAT BRlTAlN."—Notwithstanding the heavy pie of Wednesday, the stones and wedges contrived by the Mews. Bretaaer Ad their day wall. Considerable apprehension was eakerlakisd mil the storm subsided, when, upon examination, It was Mal that the ship had altered her position only in a Might drips ; this was to be attributed to the *petting of Se ensulde lever, and the displacement of SOW - Oir the end probably the stones also, which latter has happened after a heavy Bea. From the tints Cagesindiem adopted the plan, early in April, ON dais kwes been unfavourable for the outside work, in cousequeuie of the weather not allow ing them to ebb to their surest atone. However, at the farthest, the ship is expected to be Basted off on Saturday next; perhaps a day or two sooner, lithe ebbing of the tides will enable the workmen to proceed with the .00tening of the vessel more expeditiously. EMIR though the Odes should be unfavourable for this purpose, so anxious is Capt. Claxton to have her away, that he is aster mined to meet any leakage by the aid of pumps. One of these, allied • Marsh pump, ! capable of discharging three tons in a minute, has been already shipped, and two larger ones on the same model are being prepared ; and it is expected they will be completed by Monday, so that by our next publication we hope to have the pleasure of announcing that the Great Britain has been floated off under the triumph of superior skill, indefatigably applied.—Downpatriek Recorder. INQUEST, YESTERDAT.—DEATII IN NENVGATE.--- Before Mr. W. Payne, in the gaol of Newgate, on the body of W. H. 0. Baugh, aged 23, clerk to Mr. Lewis, one of the coroners for Boma ' who was committed on a charge of forging a cheque for 2201.—Mr. Macmurdo, the prison surgeon, said that the deceased first came under his notice on the 13th of July, when he was placed in the infir mary of Giltapur-etreet Compter, by order of the Lord Mayor. He was then evidently suffering from a long-stand ing disease of the lungs. On the 21st of July he was com mitted to Newgate, and was in a state of great mental excitement, uhe expected to have been set free. He was immediately placed in the infirmary, but gradually grew worse, until he could hardly breathe, and died on Saturday last. His state of mind ha d an injurious effect on his health. A post mortern examination made that morning disclosed two cavities in the upper part of each Deng. In answer to the coroner, Mr. Macmurdo said the prisoner was not likely to have recovered, but he might have lived days, or weeks, or months ; it was uncertain.—The Coroner : That being the case, and the deceased being there only on suspicion, why was not a representation made to the eommittiog ma fri!rate to cadent Mm to bail I—Mr, Macmurdo did not think it necessary ; he hid done ill that could hairs been e2ne fc? hins.—The coroner said that, as • medical man, he most know that the best, and almost the only remedy for disuse of the lungs, was placing the patient where he could enjoy fresh air.—Mr. Macmurdo said he did not know that the' . offence was bailable.—The coroner observed that all offences were now bailable. The coroner then summed up the evi dence, and said that if the proper steps had been taken to procure the liberation of the deceased, he would, in all pro- Debility, have been alive now. All necessary formalities might have been gone through in five minutes, and he much regretted that the deceased's liberation had not been pro cured. It seemed to him that there had been a great want of consideration on the part of the medical officer, and of the authorities of the prison . generally. After a short consulta tion, the foreman of the jury said they agreed with the coro ner that the deceased's life might have beet prolonged if he had been liberated on bail. The verdict they had come to was, " That the deceased died of consumption accelerated by confinement." -THE CITY MARKETS. " A Statistical Account of the Markets of London " was recently read by J. Fletcher, Esq., before the , tatistical Society. From an abstract of this paper, published in last week's Adtenalun, we take the following facts—netts wkic h are in themselves stronger than the strongest arguments that could be directed against the continuance of thew nuisances. The corporation markets (says Mr. Fletcher), are now reduced to five—Smithfield, Newgate, Leadenhal , , Fairing. don, and Billingsgate. From these the City devices a nett le se of upwards of 9,0001. per annum; and from that of illeskideld alone about 6,6001. In 1833 the numb:, of cattle said IA Smithfield market was 152,093, and of sheep 1.167,820; is 1844 the number of cattle was 186,191, of sheep 1,609,130, sad of calves 19,011. The claim maintained by the corpora tion of the City of London—the municipal government of one-tenth of the town—to 'a monopoly of market- , , so fir as they shall choose, for the whole of it, because the outlying portions occupy the formerly rural districts, over which its common law right ofexclusive market extended, has r ecestarily been on successive occasions relinquished. But in non pa cular it is still used, to continue the infliction .tpon the whole metropolis of the dangerous and diagustinA nuisance of Smithfield cattle market. Beyond the interest , of a few local tradesmen, the only ostensible ground for draw,ting into the centre of the metropolis the whole of the vast ter fit 'alive cattle for the food of its inhabitants is that the corpor. .tion may secure its profit el 3,700/. to 4,0001. per annum from this source. To obtaining compensation for thin, the corporation e-ould find not the least difficulty ; but it would appear almost though it were the nuisance itself, and not the public revenue, which they defend ; for they did not hesitate to spend 6,997/ 15s. 3d., or two years' act income, is opposing the Isliegton Market Bill in 1834-5 ; or 29,66.5/. es. Id. more in enlarging the market, and thereby enlarging the nuisance, in 1836 B—being a tote/ sacrifice of about ten years' revenue, or half die whole value —rather than permit relief to the inhabitants of the metro. polls from absolute danger in encountering the drovers with their goaded cattle—when they might have effectually Se cured, by an amngement in parliament,their own lull reve nue, and even the private vested interests in the nuisance. The legal claim of the corporation to levy tolls as they do on the ground newly thrown into the market is doubtful. In deed, opinions hare been given against it by their own officers, Exclusive of this ground, there is but an area of less than four acres and a half—originally, as its name implies, an open field outside the town, but now inclosed in its very heart, and accessible on almost every side only through the narrowest and most constantly thronged streets in the metropolis. It is occupied partly by pens for sheep and pigs, and partly by open thoroughfares in which the cattle stand ; and is surrounded by a wooden rail, to which as mane cattle as can stand er lie side by side are bed by the neck. But its entire area is often insufficient to accommodate the vast numbers of cattle which are seeking to press into it and much of the time even of the butchers themselves is taken up in the market in providing for their penmen] safety Four times the space would be required for the proper dir. pout of this vast amount of animal life without injury to it self, and consequently to the wholesomeness of the con sumers' food. The cattle receive more injury in pecuniary value on the day they are taken to market than during their whole journey to reach it ; the total loss thus inflicted on the community being probably ten times the value of the City's nett profit from the market. Did there exist in the metropolis even any such authority as a Board of Health, which should place this nuisance before the legislature in its true light, there would be same hope of the resistance of the Common Council being effectually overcome. The markets of Newgate and Lead( nhall are places dis graceful to any large city at the present day. They are, in fact, great slaughtering places as well as markets; in which the cattle are killed and flayed in dark, confined, and filthy cellars, in some of which from fifty to a hundred sheep toge ther will be confined in the closest possible spat*, until the working butchers shall have successively despatched the whole of them. The influences upon the public health from these sinks of garbage, precisely at the places to which so much of the population resort for traffic, will become ob vious to any one who shall visit the totalities, more by olfac tory indications than by any evidence to the eyes in the thoroughfare,—sinee the whole labour is performed under ground, in a space still more confined than that into which the business of these markets is itself with great inconve nience compressed. The whole of the slaughtering business ought to be expelled from the heart of the town, at what ever oat ; and the market of Newgate might then, supposing the live cattle market also removed, occupy the fine space afforded by Smithfield,—while thst from which it was re moved would, with some small contiguous properties, present the means of accomplishing the much desired enlargement of Newgate Gaol. It requires no disquisition to apply these facts to the nota ble scheme now before the public for adding a subterranean slaughter-house to the existing nuisance. THE ELECTIONS. MIDDLESEX. Tits stranger entering Brantford yes terday would hardly have imagined it to be the focus of a hotly-contested election. A few groups of idlers in the streets, calculating the chances, and regretting the good old times of Burdett and Mellish and kfainwaring, when the poll was kept open for fourteen days, and the town in a state of uproar for the whole of that time, an occasional cab hastening to the polling place, and the shouting of a few ' market women, decorated with the favours of the respective candidates, formed the only symptoms that the metropolitan county was selecting its parliamentary representatives. The polling commenced punctually at sine o'clock, and continued Wignidly until four, the liberal candidates, however, steadily maintaining their majority all through. All specula tion respecting Lord Robert Grosvenor has ceased, and the race remains between Mr. Osborne and Co lonel Wood, the latter being considerably distanced in every district except Bedfont, where it is understood his family influence predominates. Mr. Osborne's friends are quite sanguine of success, the most important districts being nearly polled out ; but, on the ;other hand, Col. Wood ex pects to do a good deal to-day by means of the out-voters whose aid he has called in, cautioning them at the same time that if they expect their expenses paid, they must plump for him. A notice to that effect was posted at bin committee room—we believe on the presumption that a coalition had tacitly taken plate between the other candidates. Towards the close of the proceedings a little stir was created at Brentford, by a very clumsy attempt at swindling, which was practised on an honest publican by some fellow evidently but a bungler in his art. Between three and four o'clock a man come to the bar of the White Swan, and presented a cheque for 6/. 10s., drawn on Contra and Co. on one of their own cheques, and signed Lord Robert Grosvenor. The acute landlord thought there was something wrong, and called one of Lord Robert's committee into consultation ; but meanwhile the man vanished and the cheque remained impounded. At four o'clock Col. Wood rode up to tho hustings, but did not address the crowd. Neither of the other candidates made his appearance. Ws subjoin the day's poll as announced by the various candi dates. A considerable discrepancy will be observed, but all agree . in placing Mr. Osborne considerably ahead of Col. Lord GrOITCIIOOI amount. Colonel Wood's Mr.Osbaroe's. Gross coot Osborne 2,467 1,556 3,607 Wood 2.136 2,202 2,153 Majority fur Mr. Osborne over Colonel Woad by Lord R. Grosvenor's account, 352 ; by Colonel Wood's, 384 by his own, 424. Lord It. Grosvenor is so far ahead of both as to render the exact figures unnecessary. Theilling places are Bedfont, Bethnal-green, Brantford, E ware, En fi eld, Hammersmith, Hampstead, King's-cross,City of London, Mile-end, Uxbridge, and Westminster, in all of which, ex cept Bedfont and - Hampstead, the liberal candidates had large majorities. CAMBRIDGE (COUNTY). The election of three members to serve in parliament for the county of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, took place yes. terday morning in the county courts. A hustings had been erected outside, but so little interest wee excited by the Nisi that the parties assembled barel y . fi lled the Nisi Prise Court. The usual preliminaries having been gone through at the Town Hall, the high sheriff (Mr. R. F. Pate) having commenced the proceedings in the usual form, Mr. I. H. St. Quintin hod great pleasure in proposing for the fourth time the lion. Eliot Thomas Yorke as a candi date. Mr. R. D. Fyson seconded the nomination.—The Rev. Algernon Peyton, on presenting himself, was re ceived with deafening cheers. After contrasting the different political aspects of the years 1841 and 1847, he pro ceeded to say that being in the former year the chairman of Mr. Townley's committee, he bad calmly withdrawn that gentleman's name from the list of the candidates, in obedi ence to the expressed opinion of the freeholders, acting in a way he knew to be congenial to Mr. Townley's feelings by not carrying on a factious opposition. He now met with his reward. An 81. fixed duty had been proposed that duty would probably have advanced to 10s.: it was refused by the country, and Mr. Townley retired rather than join the ranks of Sir Robert Peel, knowing that Lord John Rowell was to be trusted in preference. Shortly before this, Sir R. Peel end the Duke of Buckingham, meet in at the entrance to the Carlton Club, " 1 wish," said the duke, you would do something to turn out these whige." So I will," replied Sir Robert, "if you will give up the corn laws." (Laughter.) It was unnecessary for him to dwell at length on the qualifi cations of Mr. Townley. If he were a new candidate like the noble lord before them, they would of course expect it; but his feelings, his principles, and his conduct as their se preeentstive for a period of 12 years were well known to them ; they knew the reason of his retirement, end it now remained for them to say if he was to be again trusted. If words meant anything, Mr. Yorke had declared in his ad dress (producing it) that Sir Robert Peel was not to be trusted like Lord John Russell ; there he quite agreed with him; and he. was sure that Mr. Yorke would offer no factious opposition to the measures of Lord John Russell's government, if he felt them to be just end good. The other noble candidate ( Lord G. Manners) said he sought rnee women iris ;;;;; Fteiples his family had always advo• as cated— a loyal subject,. a true c.:?.?estant, end a friend tO the industrious classes. (Mr. P. went on to show that is these respects Kr. Townley was no way inferior to the noble lord.) Mr. Townley had, in fact, displeased some of his own party by voting against the appropriation clause some years *go. With ,espect to their late members, he would say but few words ; the one who more immeeliately made room for Lord George Manners was Mr. Eaton, now de ceased, and the old motto said Lte =mia nil nisi haulm. If at the retirement of Mr. Attie any tears fell, they cer tainly would not proceed from him ; however, he came there neither to speak ill of nor to eulogise Mr. Allix. "He came to bury Caner, not to praise him. (Laughter.) He came, at the close of Mr. Allix's political career, to raise Mr. Townley upon his ashes. (Cheers.) He returned them his sincere thanks for bearing so patiently with him, and bad much pleasure in proposing their old and tried representa tive, Mr. Richard Greene Townley. (Cheers.) Mr. Julian