The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-05 00:00:00

distribution of the endowments and the eojoymeut of the proprietary rights which attached to them ; but the right bon. gentleman had &dared that be was ready to unsettle that distribution and to reconsider it from time to time. lie (Mr. Gladstone) thought that there was great force is that which fell with great simplicity from his hon. friend the member for Staffordehire when he said that he did not lotted to maintain the present law on the geniud cf impossibility. He (Mr. Gladstone) thought that impossibility was • topic which was entitled to sone w e ight, sue: lie would recommended boo. gentlemen to consi der, before they commenced this conllct, where it was to end. (ilers', hear.) If there was one thing more than &an ther which was essential to the dignity of the British parliiment it was the taking care that we did not play epic the game of the American war. (Hear, hear.) Let us not enter into • contest with the colonists unless the arguments in its favour were not only such a. could be produced in debits in that house, but such as would stand the brunt of conrroversy . when it was to be m a int a i ne d out of doors, with an indignant community demanding its rights. Let us not enter into the controversy like the lion and come out of it like the lamb. 'the house had to consider to-nitht whether they were prepared from year to year to repeat their vote. If it was said that it was a sacred oh.igation to meanie:it the funds devoted to religious in. struction in Canada she would ask for the title deeds of that appropriation, and you would show her that i n 1791 those endowments were made fur the maintenance of the protestant religion, and that, though in 1810 you essentially altered their distribution, you yet deny to the Canadian legislature • power which you thought yourselves entitled so exercise on her behalf. As a member of the church of England, and one nut indifferent to her wilier?, he (Mr. lentstone) most earnestly &sired the passing of this bill. (Cheers and counter cheers.) He could conceive nothing more detrimeutel to the church of Eoglind than her en paging in a nliaious struggle ; not only a hustles.' one, but in hi. convicti ,r. 'Ale as void of justice as it was of hope. He agreed lustily with thou who said that whatever the voluntary princoe may be, it was miserably ill-adapted to the circumstances of Canada. His right hon. friend (Sir W. Itilesworth) had takes a very desponding view of pub lic opinion in America with regard to religious establish mints. There was, perhaps, too much foundation fur what he mad ; but still there was reason for some expectation that those endowments would not be diverted from their original purposes. Bat if it was asked to ensure their confiscation, if it was wanted to make that catas trophe certain, let the house reject this bill. (Hear, hear.) If it was desired that the position of the church of Eng- Lead now happily revered throughout Canada should be rendered weak and odious, let her ClitilllB le combined with the denial of the rights of the colonists. He would defy any enemy of the church of England to devise for her a mor pinioned gift than that of mixing her up with a course of policy now utterly at an end—the denial of their privileges to our ( c how-subjects in distant lands. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. gentleman (Sir J. Pakington) had thought pro per to assail • right rev. prelate, because he had brought forward what the right hon. gentleman chose to designate some plausible fallacies in support of this bill. It was at best an objectionable practice to introduce subjects in debate from statements made in another place—they had, in that house, enough fur themselves. There might, however, be causes fur such a proceeding, but he must say he was astonished to hear the light hon. gentleman designate as plausible fallacies that which had been stated to be one of the most brilliant orations ever delivered by one of the fist public speakers of the day. He (Mr. Gladstone) could not lay so much stress on the power of that speech, but would express how glad he was to see that a bishop of the church of England had the courage to defend what was right, and to declare him. self a supporter of • bill like this, notwithstanding the obloquy which some of his profession attached to it. He (Mr. Gladstone) believed that the miserable remnant of property which it was by some wished to preserve would ha dearly purchased by the odium it would bring on the body of which they sought to be the champions. But teenier on • struggle without • hope of success, with such facts as had been disclosed with regard to the justice of the cue, and the intelligibility of the principle on which it was founded, was a proceeding which passed his comprehension. Nor did he, in alluding to what must be the issue of the eouffiet, mean to say that the people of Canada were headmen( and rebellious. There was nothing he lamented so much in the speech of the right hon. gentleman as when he said that we appealed to the wrong part of the population. (Hear, hear.) He bad hoped the time had come when we should hays done with appealing to one part of the population. (Cheers.) It was known of old what was the meaning which attached to those words, and the disastrous effects they pro duced; creating knots and cliques of partisans, who stirred up among the people of the colonies a spirit of dbeatistaction and discontent which pervaded the whole mars of the eommunity. For that tremendous evil, the mistakes of this country and r f parliament were responsible. Too much of the error of these times had arisen from a departure from the plan pursued et old, of allowing the colonies the control over thorneelves. He (Mr. Gladstone) had Wanted with surprise to his right hon. col league when tee quoted the preservation of endowment' by the United States—not that he did not rejoice at it. He knew that in Canada there were those whose opinions were entitled to great weight, who believed that the endow ments with which this bill proposed to dad would be pupated. He believed that the companion to Om& of he: tight to deal with her own affairs, welesiispened by a respestful expression of the British feel endowents, would gird the best slants fee their security. But It was not Wanes of the. ahem, thee he would carry this bill. It his right hee. bind misrred le the endowments in New York wild' had been maintained, eel pointed to that es an example which he thought Canada would imitate, he (Ms. (ladstene) would ask whether it washy an act of the legidature which hound the hands of the lesidatiere, that those endowment* acre enrialeigeL No! it was became New York was 1111111111111 Ilessatiollod Medea ; because, having gives Mr *se institutions essibienee in their work ing rtes felt ; and it was es OM mount that there grew spla *see missies that us* isdependeate, that mush mese Se sesmellseseal beakem, and Oat imlisene some ef pi=mg bowie which bad bees the mesas of Obese saimmests. If It ibasld be the ewe Ash these eadeeniesei timid set be caulaspd is Canada, ft wed& be Ile sursgaiss• at the madame of AS ar= tibia had sods thou sinus in Ask eyes, ad le sot be bums the Ossadisns wen boadarwai nod rebellious, bums they • would be dais that which we said, if we were is Saar They think Oat the& institutions, their wealth, peisdeu and Ihmk wsr, 'stifle theta to Mir *Ms, and that when tbe Almyfaty pot 3,000 salts of seems between this essitiy, that be intended that they theausbss, not we, slab. uslast their affairs. (Hear, bara.) While he (Mr. Oiedames) said that the of this bill, by which jea mshackled the Yntlu of Canada with regard he these eadariamate would be the last thence his that eisimseses be lid not found ia its Meer en that gessad, but on the emesined in the words of the Mbep of Oman* siWithltOrt. "Be just and fear not." If tbe Canadians • nom *added te the at of their own affairs, any satiation Matta set do that which was right tIN not lordly** Wig timeradal of those rights ; -end if be (Mr. Gladstone) iseassesdad this bill to the hoes, because it was wise and pen*, above ell things did he re commend it bee's'. it was rightness and just. (Lead cheers.) Mr. NAPIER, who rose amidst cries of "Divide," said the reserves in question were the comma property of our sauna ancestors. He took his stand upon the net of 1791, sad contended that, as the church had perpetual duties to decharge, it ought to have perpetual means of apart. Alter a few words from Sir IL. mandible in the tear for • division, The house divided : Far the seeped readies 276 Against it l9l-83 GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH BILL. This bill was read • third time and passed. OFFICE OF EXAMINER (COURT OP CHANCERY) B LL. After some remarks from ! Mr. Dialing, Mr. Villiers, and Mr. Mullinp, this bill was read a third time, and passed. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS (REPAY MENT OUT OF CONSOLIDATED FUND) BILL. On the motion of the CHILIOCELLOZ of the EXCNZQUILA, this bill went into committee pro _forma, in order that am nia amendments which had been introduced might be Dented. OATHS IN CHANCERY BILL. This Dill abo went into committee pro foetal. WAYB AND MEANS. la committee of Ways and Maws Tote of 8,000,0001. oat of the C onso lid ate d F on d was a rmed to. COMMONS INCLOSIIRE BILL. This bill wu read a third tints and paned. The houe adjourned at ono o'clock. la consequence of the Wooer of the debate on Thursday evea"L Mr. Oliveira postponed his motion for the redac tion of the duties on Foreign and Colonial Wines till Thursday, 17th Wit. Patna —CLERGY RUBILVILS.—Mr. Baldoek for, with Mr. Huidley against. Mr. P. Bennet has paired with Mr. M. Duane for all slit week. COMPTIMLEILSIIIPS or CusToms.—The Collector and Comptroller of the Southampton Customs hes resigned as amount (Aare. Mr. Sparrow, the Comptroller of Cu tting at Leith, has been appointed collector at Southanip ba• The situation of comptroller at the latter port haa not yet been filled .p. Arcryiteemites' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who pieces their eitsminetion in the science and practice of me. diejav, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday, March 3, 1833 :—Frederick Dalton; George Edward Ni e4lB9, Royal Nary ; Fled Flowers Sutton, Barton, Lin colnshire; John Wilde, Islington. PAALIAIIIVITART REFORM.—YoSteedlly evening, a Eablie soiree of the Chatham, Rochester, Strood, and Srmapton Parliamentary Reform Association, held at the Tny u Tn.', British School. The chair was occupied by Mr. P. Wheeler, of Strood. An inaugural address upon the objects of the emaciation war delivered by its newly •:ictcd president, Mr. G. Thompson. In the course of the Proceed ices. several allusions were made is the intimida tut", and other improper influences, brought to bear upon the poorerelamew of electors in the boroughs of Rochester and Chatham, at the last election, as evidences of the necessity fw an extension of the suffrage and the protection of the ballot to secure purity of election in those iocilities. THE EXPRESS.. SATURDAY EVENING MARCH 5._ 1853. FRANCE? PARIS, Fatmsv RIMMING. The ifonitetir contains the following important explanations from the French government, concern ing various political questions which have lately agitated the public mind on both sides of the channel : " The Itheniteur would not suffice to contradict all the erroneous reports which are in circulation, prin cipally in foreign journals. However, there are certain errors whi ch the government considers it a duty not to allow to gain credence. Thus the public j ournals have announced that Austria hid re fused the mediation of Prams:. and England in her differences with Turkey ; that France had joined with other powers in making representations to the British government relative to political refugees ; that she was negotiating at St. Petersburg a conven tion relative to the Holy Places ; that the Emperor of the French had himself transmitted from the tele graphic office a dispatch to Vienna, on the occasion of the attempt against the life of the Emperor of Austria ; and lastly, that the Emperor had written a confidential letter to the Federal government rela tive to the complaints addressed by Austria to Switzerland. The truth is, that in the dif ferences between Austria and Turkey, the mediation of France was not offered, and con sequently could not have been refused. With regard to the refugees, France reckons on the straightforward dealing of the English government, having no doubt that it will fulfil towards her alt the duties of good neighourhood. But she has not joined in any collective step, if indeed any such proceedings have taken place. With respect 'o the Holy Places, friendly explanations may have been exchanged at St. Petersburg, but the negotiation on that point opened with Turkey must follow its course to Constantinople. Is it necessary to say that in the afflicting circum stance of the attempt on the Emperor of Austria's life, the communications between the two sovereigns kive been conducted by the ordinary mode and accord ing to the ordinary forms. The Emperor of the French, penetrated with horror at so odious a crime, handed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs an auto graph letter, which was presented to the Emperor of Austria by the Minister of France at Vienna. As *ta Switzerland, the councils of the French govern-' meat to the federal power, dictated by the desire to contribute to the maintenance of good relations be tween the Helvetic government and the neighbouring powers, are marked by a sincere sentiment of kind ' nese, but they have not been produced under the form supposed." In reference to the charge against foreign journals as being the originators of the reports now affirmed to be false, I may remind you that one of the most important of the above statements—namely, that Austria had refused the mediation of France and England with regard to the Turkish question was first circulated here by the Constitutioneet. I understand that M. de Seim', the husband of the Emperor's cousin, the Countess de Selma, has this morning received orders from the Minister of Police to leave France immediately, and it has been inti mated to him that should he delay his departure he will be forcibly conducted to the frontier. The Peerie of yesterday evening says :—" The Asscinblee Nationak speaks of a great outrage at Vienna on the residence of the English ambassa dor. We are assured that there is nothing in the de spatches from Vienna which arrived to-day to confirm this statement."—'fhe rumour mentioned by the Al setnblee Nationale was current here at the Bourse threedays ago,and since then there have been several despatches from Vienna, in not one of which was such an affair mentioned. I have just heard of a shocking event, which will place the imperial family in mourning. The young Count Camerata, son of the Princess Bacciocchi, has blown his brains out. A love affair is said to have affected his reason. Additional troops left Milan on the 28th ult., to reinforce the blockading cordon on the Swiss frontier. A deputation from Ticino arrived at Milan on the 21st, and was received by the military commander, Count °inlay, who sent them to Radetzsky. The deputation left the next day for Verona. The Moniteur this morning declares the statement that Austria had refused the mediation of France and England in the affairs of Turkey to be totally des titute of truth. The mediation of France was never asked, and never proffered. There has been a quiet, steady business going for ward on the Bourse today, without much excitement or fluctuation. The only variation worthy of notice has been a rise of 20c. on the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rentes. The last prices called for cash were : Three per Cents., 801 r. 70x; Four-and-a-Half ditto, Mfr. 70c.; and Bank Stock, 2,797 fr. 60c. The telegraphic reports of 'prices to-day were:— Amsterdam Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 65; ; Me talliques, 87 13-16ths. Vienna Fives, 941 • New Loom, 105 #; Lombards, 99; ; Bank, 1,408 ; Ex change on London, 10.48. Brussels: Belgian Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53; One per Cent. Spanish, 24 1-16th; Threes, 43 5-16ths. PARIS, TRUIIDAY Evaxnto. In the late edition of the Presee of to-day, M. Emile de Oirardin expresses his gratitude to a go vernment which, possessing unlimited power, might have suppressed hi•journal, has contented itself with giving him a warning. He will do his utmost to conform to the rules of combat, but will fight to the last. He Is prepared to be suppressed, and thus alludes to the contingency : Whit, to put things at the worst, Is the extent of what might happen Ito the Presort It might receive a second warning, it might be suspended for two months, and it might be suppressed, and two millions of property would thus be lost. Bet it so. 'lite Press* is prepared. It is not yesterday only that its inventory has been ready, its warm decided upon. Every morning the Prase expects to disap pear in the evening. All that it an do ie to endeavour to postpone the hoar as long es possible. The Aesembiee Nationale, in defending itself against the warning, complains that a trap was laid' for it by the Cbsetautionseel, which, by initiating in the arena of public discussion an historical parallel between Bonaparte and the Bourbons, led to the natural inference that the lists would be fairly open to all comers. After the overpowering intervention of the minister of police the Assemblle can only leave the Constigutionnel muter of the field. The warning given to the Mode was for certain passages of a letter signed by the Viscount d'Arlin court, • legitimist, which are regarded as an outrage on national sovereignty. M. Boubier de l' use is determined to be a mar tyr to his own opinion of the true construction of the constitution in the matter of the oath. He declares he will only be expelled from the Chamber of Depu ties by physical force. Orders have, however, been given, that at the next sitting he shall not be ad mitted into the house, so that the question to be decided by physical force will be slightly varied In form. --- The long-talked-of ball to be given to the Empress by the Corps Legislatif is now fixed for Thursday ►fter Easter,--Euter Monday, the day originally selected, having been objected to by certain strict catholic* on religious grounds. More than 3,000 applications foe tickets have already been sent in. Meanwhile, notwithstanding the imperial example of strict observance of Lent, many individual members of the Corps Legislatif have been giving balls at their houses. Today being the Mi Carone, there will be a ball at the Tuileries, the only one daring the Lenten /0111100. __ . SWITZERLAND. Letters from Bern* of the 27th state that on the previous day the Federal ministers resolved in an extraordinary sitting to draw up, for tranamiesion to the cabinets of Europe, a memorandum upon the Ticino dispute, in which it will be shown that the complaints of Austria are without foundation. The Federal Council has not yet decided what answer @lull be made to Austria. The Emperor has ordered of Mears. Young and Dcicambre, for his own private use, two typograpical machines of their invention, by which any one may perform the compositor's work by simply touching keys like those of a pianoforte. The prefect and a general division of the Gard made a military demonstration at Alain on the 26th, in conse quence of symptoms considered alarming in the move ments of some old members of secret societies. Twelve arrests were made. A letter from Aire (Pas-de-Calais) states that a woman who appeared to be a diaper to the place distributed revolutionary proclamations at an early hoar in the morning of Thursday last, at several houses in the place. One of them was immediately handed to the police, and orders were given fur her arrest. erpresso. II TO CORRESPONDENTS. .4esed UM= " The Ypres," thra sm• setelsg's Ossette," i. published every Iseday sad tw.y Ant is hag Sse gest. tnitiameutaiateuded ter "Th. Esprese," boles Itemalass p.m sec be et the u6.c, IC, fiesvorsagrest, by Tye Weisel es she fey et pal, iodise. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BUDGE. for Di.i—Noroost, too. 1a.........After0055. OIL IS.. rewelliao.—lisealmi. Ila $4a.........akerawa. St. Om. LONDON, SATURDAT, MARCH 5. LAST night another heavy debate took place on that very important, though not very interesting I subject—the Bill for allowing the Canadians to ar range their own Clergy Land Reserves. The Tories made a great muster of their forces under the whip of Mr. Polices MACKENZIE, determined to risk even an important colony upon the chance of winning some partisan advantage. Their success was u bad as their cause. The question at issue is simply, whether Canada shall be governed by a majority of its representa tives in local Parliament assembled, and by the QUEEN, their and our Sovereign, or whether it shall be ruled by a small minority of the province is league with Toryism, Bigotry, and Selfishness, at home. In the fate of this question is involved the continued connexion of that great colony, and its two millions of people, with the mother coun try, or its early, and willing separation from the British Empire. For in Canada the progress of self-government has reached a point at which no re striction or limitation, under any pretense, ecclesiastical or political, is possible; when, to reuse full colonial freedom, is to preci pitate its independence. The responsibility of any such rupture of their SOVEREIGN'S dominions the ABERDEEN Cabinet has refused to assume ; but the road which statesmen shrink from treading, Sir JOHN PAKINGTON has boldly rushed into. From the conclusion of the capitulation of Mont real down to the Union of 1840, the religious policy of Canada and of England towaris Canada was that of perfect equality. The first Quebec Act passed in 1774, placed :all sects in Canada on the same footing; and it was to carry out that great principle that, by the second Quebec Act, in 1791, the proportion of the waste lands which form the gist of the present dispute wu reserved for the maintenance of its Protestant clergy, the Romish priesthood having been previously provided for. At first those Reserves were of little value, and the other Protestant ,linisters being entitled to tithes, they were appropriated to the clergy of the Church' of England. But in 1829 the law officers of the I Crown advised the then Colonial Minister that this I exclusive appropriation was illegal ; and, in 1840, the QUEEN'S Judges informed the House of Lords that the Church of Scotland had as much right to participate in the fund as the Church of England ; adding that they could not deny other sects might lawfully advance claims thereto. Historically it is therefore indisputable that the object of Lora Oa`NVII.t.E, who introduced this provision about the Reserves into the second Quebec Act, was to provide for the Protestant Ministers of all denominations in Canada. Now who so fit to appropriate and distri bute their proceeds amongst them as the Canadian Parliament ? But, says Sir lons PANINGTON, the Imperial Act of 1840 has made the appropriation, and what it made it only can alter. Now the appropriation it made gave ono half the proceeds to the Church of England, though its members only form one fourth of the population of Upper Canada, and one-fourth to the Church of Scotland, whose members constitute but a sixteenth. And this distribution which Lord SYDENUAII at the time termed " ninnstrous " is now asserted to have been a compromise that cannot be parted from. I But a compromise, between whom? Not between the contending parties of Canada—not between the Colony and the Mother Country. It was a compro mime forced by the heads of the Church at home, by the Tory leaders of the Imperial Parliament. on a Liberal Administration too weak to resist; but which in accepting it warned the powerful who thus coerced it, that in such a compromise, there could be no permanence and no peace, because there was no justice. And so it has proved. The Canadian Parliament never accepted the com promise. Year by year, as its strength has grown and its confidence in itself has clothed its proceedings in moderation, it has protested against this act. Ses sion after session, majorities after majorities, have claimed the right to deal with the question. Nor have these majorities been made up of Roman Catholic elements; for last night Sir WILLIAM MOLKSWORTII, in his valuable speech, showed that in the local Parliament there was as absolute majority of its Protestant members in favour of the claim ; and that out of Parliament there was a positive majority of the Protestant people. What, then, is to be done ? Not even Sir JOHN PAKI4OTON dares to say that the "monstrous " distribution of 1840 should be per severed in. He admits a change must be made. But not, he exclaim., by the provincial Parliament. If mgive them the power they will secularise the And so fear and apprehension of what may be the oonseijuence of an act of justice, and a conces sion of constitutional right, are to induce the Imperial Parliament to disregard colonial entreaties, and to perpetuate a just ground of complaint against the mother country, until there is no door open to the colon but freedom in independence . No : answer s Sir WILLIAM MOLLSWORTII; give the local legisla ture all they ask; trust them with all their own con cerns ; and be assured that even if the fund be secu larised, no harm to religion will be done, whilst British supremacy will be secured. . _ Whether the fund will be secularised is a ques tion which the mother country has not the smallest interest in. We do not force the Australians to amortize one-seventh of the proceeds of their waste lands to ecclesiastical purposes. Why then compel two millions of Canadians to do anything of the sort ? If they think proper to apply the fund to educa tional, and not to ecclesiastical purposes, they will not degenerate into Paganism ; they will provide out of their own individual pockets for the public wor ship of the faith they profess ; and in so doing they will improve the condition of the province—by extending education whilst providing for religion. In this respect what is called the secularisation of the Clergy Reserves will be a most happy result for Canada. But it is not clear that secularisation will be the consequence of this bill passing the Imperial Leicis lature. That was the gratuitous assumption which ran through the speeches of the members of the late Cabinet last night. Hitherto, however, all resolu tions having that tendency have been rejected by the Canadian Parliament; hitherto, the provincial ad ministration has declined to say it has any suchpur pose; and if that be at last the result of Canadian legislation, it will be so because it is the convio tion and the desire of the Protestants of Canada, who form a large majority in its Legislature. But secularisation, or no secularisation, is not the question just now. That is their affair. Our duty is to acknowledge in them the right to deal as they please with what is their own, with what we have no possible interest or concern in; with what we can be sufficiently well informed and instructed about to deal properly with; and with what it is positive, downright tyranny in us to wish to dispose of. It is our interest, as it ought to be our glory, to keep and preserve Canada. We have now the oppor tunity—we can now do so. By keeping it, we shall show an example of well-poised, just, and honest con nexion ; of mutual rights both understood and prac tised, such as the world never saw before. In pre serving it, we shall prove to those who envy our renown and hate our strength, that the lessons of colonial revolutions and of provincial rebellions have not been lost or thrown away upon us. In conceding this power to Canada, we may wound some old and obsolete prejudices; but in disregarding them for the sake of justice and right, we shall purify still more our own minds, befit ourselves still more for that high destiny which it is lour privilege to fulfil here on earth ; and, in found ing and rearing noble colonies, we shall at last have discovered the way to retain them in their greatness. The opinion of the House of Emmons last night was shown in the division that closed the I debate, when 275 voted for Justice to Canada, and only 192 for Toryism and Intolerance. ITALY . On tho lith the gates called Porta Orientate, Toes, Tioneae, ltomana, Vercellese, Tanaglia, and Nuova were opened at Milan, and passage was al lowed through them to all inhabitants of the pro villa) of Milan having certificates of inscription and regular passports. GERMANY. A Vienna despatch, dated Wednesday, reports a rapid improvement in the health of the Austrian Emperor. On Tuesday, as another despatch an nounces, the Emperor received the foreign ambas sadors, and also heard mass in his chamber. Not withstanding this amelioration, it had been thought necessary to appoint an adjunct, or alter Ego, as the despatch de*ignates him, to his Majesty, in the per son of his cousin the Archduke William. This prince is a major-general, and 26 years of age. The Augsburg Gazette states from Pesth, 23rd ultimo: It is fully believed that an mode was to have broken out here on Monday lea, but wrs prevented by the energetic measures adopted by the authoritiia. It is said that 600 persons were arrested on that dry. To-day all the garrison, which has been considerably reinforced, occupy the streets of the town an d t h e bank of the Danube. Archduke Albert is to peas them in review. It is thus wished to show the rioters what force can be brought against them if they should dare to move. The Voss Gazette has the following from Vienna of the 26th ult. :—" To-day it is announced in the city that a number of seditious individuals , among whom were several Italians, have made an attempt on the fortress of Comore. Their intention was to seize the fortress and liberate the political prisoners. The attempt failed through the fidelity of the soldiers." A vehement debate arose in the Second Prussian Chamber on the 28th ult., the subject being the abolition of the exemption fro m land-tax at present enjoyed by the feudal proprietors. The representa tives of the landed interest opposed this pro position, which emanates from the government and includes an indemnity to the parties affected by it, as essentially revolutionary, while the liberal members demand an unconditional abolition of an unjust principle, and oppose the grant of any indemnity. The ardour of one of the leaders of the feudal party led him in the course of the debate to speak of the western provinces as territory conquered by Prussia, but he was reminded by M. Vincke that there were men in that chamber from the Rhine who had shed their blood to rescue it from the foreigner. M. Settler added, "If we are called re presentatives of conquered provinces we must cease to sit here." The Chamber broke np amid great agitation. THE EXECUTION OF LIBENY. A letter from Vienna of the 26th of February gives the following account of the execution of Libeny, the attempted assassin of the Emperor of Austria :—" The condemned culprit was, at 7 o'clock this morning, brought out of the prison in the Sterugaase, under a strong escort, and taken through the Fischergate by the giacis and the Wisden faubourg to the place of execution, in as open vehicle, occupied also by the priest, the hangman, and three soldiers. Three closed lines of troops were drawn up round the scaffold. Libeny cast a heal glance at the gibbet; his appearance was haggard in the extreme. He kept his eyes fixed on the priest, and repeated after him the prayers he said in the Hungarian tongue. His fetters having been taken off; his sentence was read aloud. The officiating offi cer then in aloud voice declared that ' mercy now belongs to God alone.' The hangman and his aids then approached. They took off the unfortunate man's coat and laid his neck bare. The priest continued to pray. In another moment the lifeless corpse was dangling in the air. The body was cut down at 6 in the evening, after sunset, and buried by the hangman and his assistants in a trench dog about 30 yards b.hind the scaffold, in presence of an immense con course of people. SPAIN. The Nation Clamor Publico, Esperanto, and Diario Espanol, were again seized on the 25th nit. On the same day a cabinet council was held, at which the Queen presided, when it was definitively decided on that her Majesty would not open the Cortes in person. Securities of every kind have risen at the Bourse. The Three per Cents, were 43i. GREECE. The lately contemplated alliance of Prince Adal bert of Bavaria, heir presumptive to the crown of Greeee,With a Spanish princess, will not take place. The German journals connect this announcement with another, to the effect that a direct heir to that crown is expected. TURKEY. Count Leiningen arrived at Vienna on the evening of the 28th ult. The most explicit statement yet pub lished concerning the result of his mission to Constan tinople is given in the following letter, which has the advantage of being confirmed by the Journal de Con stanlinopk, of the 14th ult.: CONSTANTINOPLI, Fill. 12. Last evening the Sublime Porte delivered its answer to the demands of the Austrian envoy extraordinary, the Count de Leiaingen. The note of the Turkish government is couched in the most conciliatory terms. The Porte ac cepts the majority of the claims of Austria; on some points it claims the mediation of Franco and England. All that concerns the private interests of Austrian subjects has been granted by the Parts The Hungarian refugees now in Bosnia and the Esnosowine are to be sent into the pro vinces of Ada. The lunation of the amelioration of the condition of the Christmas in Ennis is solved by the execu tion of the Tunisia is that /province. By the charter of Galan& the inhabits,' ed all the countries 'pith. Empire enjoy without diallslien the same privileges and the same toleration. As to tbir deism of Austria relative to the ports of Klink and Satbmins the Porte refen the subject to French and English sedialies, bet it maintains all it, rights as minsde WAlWragf& The apprehensions of war, which at bet eased alms ondisesent in the public mind, have eemgdetely disappeereL The Russian vessel which bi. d'Oreseffkad ordered to be in eradiates to start for Odessa, is ewe of a rupture, bee atoned a counter order. Der Lloyd has the !snowing from Constantinople, of the 12th ult.: The Ottoman Porte having informed the chargé d'affaires of Ragland that from the let of March foreiln vessels would so longer be allowed to; navigate in the Basphosrus, the latter replied that he would communicate with his go vernment. The French and Russian ambassadors made no otwiervation en the subject. The reply of the English Foreign-oflce arrived yesterday. Lord John Russell state' that if France, Russia, Austria, and the other powers should withdraw their vessels from the Boephortu, England will follow the example ; but until thee the British government will consider the notification of thisiTurkish government as if it had not been made. MONTENEGRO. The Vienna Press* brings intelligence of a battle between Osman Pacha and the Montenegrins, which took place on the Bth ult., the day on which Omer Pacha is said to have sustained a mishap through the rising of the river Zeta. The battle partook largely of a decisive character, and left the Turkisk General master of strategetio positions, which would have been most important, supposing the war not to have been interrupted. FEARFUL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. MANCHISTER, FRIDAY NIORT. The express train from Preston to Manchester, on the Lancashire and Yorksh re line, got off the rails and ran up an embank= nt between Dixon fold and Clifton, this evening. The engine driver, another man, and a child, the son of Mr. Barbour, of Edinburgh, were killed; eight others were se verely wounded. Mr. Karrati, a Greek merchant, it is feared, is fatally injured. Several other pas sengers sustained hurts of less seriousness. DETERMINED SUICIDE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.-01 Thursday afternoon last, a man named Tennant, the keeper of • low beer-shop in Abbey-street, Barnwell, Cambridge, fell out witk his wife, and finally left the house, saying that be and she would never have words more. He then proeeded to divers public-houses and drank deeply ; he left the last of these shortly before eleven o'clock, and then appeared well able to take care of himself. About half.past eleven, p.m., a luggage train from Hunting don arrived at Paper Mills-bridge (shout a mile from the Cambridge Station), and the engineer perceived what he took to be a sack lying by the side of the line; he got down after passing the object, and discovered the body of the deceased lying parallel with the line, and the head at some distance off. It is presumed that he had deli berate!, lain down before the Norwich up trail, which pasAd about half an hour previously. The body was warm when found. The driver of the Norwich train perceived no shock. An inquest is to be held on the body, which lies at the Cambridge station. gOt &Ma. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a drive in an tapes landau and four yesterday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie and Captain the lion. Dudley de Bus, attended on horseback. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Captain the H on . Dudley de Res, went yester day afternoon to the Society of Arts, in John•street, Adelphi. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Desart, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the lion. Beatrice Byng, the Marquis of Ormonde, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros, honoured the performance of the French Play at St. James's Theatre with their pre sence last evening. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Captain the Hon. Dudley de Rm. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlobe, and attended by Lady Fanny Howard and I.")rd James Murray, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with her presence last evening. A deputation from the National Amociation of United Trades, consisting of Messrs. Fleming, Winter% and Often, accompanied by Mr. Charles Sturgecu, bad an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Home-office. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday. The Lord Advocate had also an interview with the noble earl, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. George D. Street and Dr. Rolfe had interviews yesterday with the Duke of Newcastle, at the Coloaial oftice. The Earl of Shaftesbury had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the Nome.oflice. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Ciionial•offce to the Gnernor General of Canada, and the governors of the other North American provinces. The Duchess of Gloucester has been recommended by her medical advisers not to leave Gloucester-how:, during the winter, for although the general health of the venerable duchess is good, yet her constitution is delicate. The Duchess of Kent pays almost daily visits to the duchess, mid the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal also frequently visit their grand aunt. The Earl and Countess of Wilton hare returned to Eger ton-lodge. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and the Ladies Grosvenor have arrived at Grosvenor-house, from Motcombe-house, Dorsetshire. The Marquis and Marchionesi of Londonderry and the Lord Ernest Vane have arrived at Holderneste-house, from Wynyard Park. for the season. We regret to learn that the Bishop of Ely (Dr. Turton) is in a very delicate state of health. (PROM LAST NIOHT*II GAZETTE.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 17.—Notiee is hereby given, that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will, by the desire of her Majesty, hold a levee at St. James `a Palace, on behalf of her Majesty, on Wednesday, 9th March nest, at two o'clock. It is her Majesty's plea sure that presentations to his Royal Highness at the levee shall be considered equivalent to presentation to the Queen. Addresses to the Queen may either be forwarded to her Majesty through the Secretary of State for the Home De partment, or may be reserved until her Majesty shall hold a levee. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 3.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Robert Edward Boyle to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Captain the Hon. William Stuart Knox, M.l'., resigned. FOREIGN -OFFICE, FEB. 18.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Benjamin Campaell, Esq., to be her Majesty's Con-ul at Logos. FOHEION-OFFICE, MARCII 2.--The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Louis Power as Consul at Gibral tar for his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Hussies. DOWNING -STREET, MARCH 2.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Vega y FitsOerald Foster,Esq., commonly called John Fitzgerald Leslie Foster, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the colony of Victoria ; also been pleased to appoint Francis Tortell, Esq., to be Comptroller of Contracts and Purveyor of Charities for the island. of Malta; also been pleased to appoint Richard A. M'Heffey, Esq., to be a Member of the Legislative Council of the pro vince of Nova Scotia ; Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint Francis Blida Dubois, Esq., to be a member of the Council of the Virgin Islands. WHITEHALL, MARCH 2.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Charles Baillie, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of the shire or sheriffdom of Stirling, in the room of Robert Handyaide, Esq., resigned. WAR-OFFICE, Mama 4. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards.—Cornet Thcmas Leslie to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord Otbo Augustus Fiteaeral3, who retires. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards.—Battalion Surgeon James Mons, M.D. to be surgeon-major, vice Robinson, deceased; AisistantAiurgeon Joseph Skelton, M.D., to be battalion-surgeon, vice Monro. 14th Foot . — William Renwick, gent., to be assistant-our- i geon, vice Carte, promoted in the 67th Foot. 16th Foot.—Fiat Lieutenant Robert Baillie, from the Ride Brigade, to be lieutenant, vice Flower, who ex changes. 17th Foot.—Lieutenant James Alfred Caulfield, from the 69th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Lawson, who exchanges; Ensign Roger Bwire, from the 63rd Foot, to be ensign, vice Clerks, appointed to the 21st Foot. 21st Foot.—Lieutenant Christopher Banko, from half-pay 88th Foot, to be first lieutenant, vice John Patrick Stu art, promoted, without purchase, to an Unattached Com pany; Second Lieutenant Alfred Templeman to be first lieutenant, by purchase, vies Banko, who retires ; Ensign Shadwell Henry Clarke, from the 17th Foot, to be second lieutenant, by purchase, vice Templeman; Lieutenant John Millar Bannatyas to be adjutant, vice John Patrick Stuart, promoted, without purchase, to an Unattached Com 64th F oot.-Captain Bowland Moffat to be major, without purchase, vice John Norman, who retires upon full-pay; Lieutenant John Stevenson Ferguson Fowke to be cap min, without purchase, vice Moffat; Ensign William Fermor Ramsay to be lieutenant, without purchase, vies Ferguson Fowke Ensign Robert James Hardinge, from the 77th Foot, to be ensign, vice Ramsay. 69th Foot.—Lieutenant Jamas Lawson, from the 17th Foot, to be lieutenant, vies Caulfield, who exchanges. 83rd Foot.—Brevet Major Henry Lloyd to be Major, with out purchase, vice Brevet Lieut.-Col. Joseph Bwinburne, who retires upon full-pay ; Lieutenant Thomas Adams to be captain, without purchase, vice Lloyd ; Ensign Marmaduke Nelson Richardson to be lieutenant, without purchase vice Adams. Rifle Brigaile.—Lieutenant Cook Sibbs Flower, from the 16th Foot, to be lieutenant, vice Baillie, who exchanges. Urearracnin.—Lieutenant John Patrick Stuart, from the 21st Foot, to be captain, without purchase. Mamostaxnum.—The Christian names of Ensign Clarke, of the 60th Foot, are Montague de Sales McKenzie Ger don Augustus. NEW DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS. -- --------- John Mona Carrow, Eaq., aad Hoary Dauby Seymour, Beg• Thomas Ainsworth Crocki, - /aq., Richard Ashton, Eq., and Edmund Grundy, _- lib/Four. John Horrid', Esq. Honoretua Leigh Th-o-maa—,-14-q. SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY. An alarming accident occurred near the Meratham station, on the South Eutern Railway, at an early hour yesterday morning. The goods train from the Bricklayers Arms Terminal to Reading left town shortly after 5 o'clock and proceeded safely u far as the llerstham station, a few yards beyond which it ran into a ballast train which was in the act of starting at the moment on its downward journey. The collision was a very serious one. The engine of the luggage train and several of the ballast trucks were thrown over on to the up line of rails, and a number of " nevi pion," who were riding in one of the trucks, were seri ously hurt. Intormatiea of the disaster was immediately telegraphed to London, sad assistance in the shape of engines and carriages was at ono, sent down to the spot. Nine poor fellow, more or less injured, were placed in carriages, and sent off to London. On reaching the ter minus, they were conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital. Five of them, after having bad their wounds dressed, were sufficiently well to proceed to their own homes. The other four are more seriously hurt. Theit names are—William Thompson, aged 22, concussion of the brain and injury to the head; Thomas Patmore, aged 51, laceratitk of the left leg ; Samuel Hamner, aged 31, injury to the back and contusion on the log ; John Knight, injury to the knee and scalp wound. Mr. Macgregor, M.P., managing direc tor of the railway, having received information of the acci dent, left Loudon by special train, and arrived at Mentham at eight o'clock. The traffic up to this time bad been stopped on both the up and down lines, but under the active superintendence of the hon. member, the passengers in the delayed up trains were transferred into the carriages brought down from London, and conveyed to town. The trains on the down line were delayed for a considerable period owing to the injury the rails had sustained, but by dint of great exertion the usual traffic both on the up and down line was unitized before 12 o'clock. The accident is stated to have occurred thus : —lt is usual for every ballast train to be accompanied by a signal-man, who rides in one of the trucks. When the train comes to a stand this man goes back a few hundred yards and exhibits his red lamp or flag, as the cue may be, to pre vent any succeeding train from running into the ballast trucks. When the work fur which the ballast train stopped is completed, a whistle from the driver hails the sigaal man, who hastens back and jumps into one of the trucks, in order to travel with the train. fhe signal-man belonging to the ballast train to which the accident happened had been performing his deity in the rear of the train, yesterday morning, and having been summoned by the driver's whistle to rejoin the train, he left his post, and was in the act of getting into one of the trucks, after giving the signal to start, when the Reading goods ran into the ballast train with terrific force. The escape of the driver and stoker of the goods train was ex traordinary; and the wonder is, that the men in the ballast trucks were not more seriously injured. There is only one case—that of concussion of the brain—on the subjtc! of which any anxiety is felt. The accident occurred '• b. - tween the lights," just as day had broke, about a mile beyond the Clay-cross tunnel. ELECTION EXPOSURES. DERBY. The select committee in the cue of Derby met yesterday for the first time in committee•room No. 9—oonsining o f Mr. Ingham (chairm an ), t h e Hon. A. Kinnaird, Mr. . Stirling. Mr. W. 31. E. Milner, and Mr. B. Stanhope. In this eau there was a cross-petition —o n the one side, against the return of Mr. Hornell, and, on the other, against that of Mr. Base. The counsel for the petitioners against Mr. Honfall were Mr. E. James, Q.C., and two others ; for Mr. Honfall, Mr. Serjeant Wrangham, Mr. Montagu Smith, and Ur. Forsyth. Mr. E. James said he had the honour of appearing an counsel in support of the petition to inquire into the lest election for the borough of Derby, so tar es the return of Mr. Hornell, one of the sitting members, was involved. The petition charged an organised system of bribery and tresting on the part of Mr. Hornell by persona fur whose conduct he was responsible. It charged also a rather unusual charge in there petitions—the introduction of strangers, hitherto unknown in Derby, and who he was charged with so introducing for the purpose of earning on that organised system of bribery a n d t rea ti ng . 'The :est election for the borough of Derby and the proceedings con nected with it hate obtained a very considerable degree of notoriety as hon. members must he aware, having them , selves heard of the inquiry whi c h s u b sequen tly t oo k pl ace; I and he (Mr. James) would endeavour now to coctioe him self to matters strictly relevant to this question. At the last election for the borough of Derby, there were three eindidatee, Mr. Bus and Mr. L. Ileyworta (who had been connected with the borough, as its repr. sentative, for several years), a,.d Mr. T. B. Horsfall, who was on that occasion for the first time a candidate, and who was introduced net entirely as a stranger, but as having some connexion with the borough through family con nexions, several parties of whom would be prominently brought before the committee—he meant a tuinily of the name of Cox. On the 18th of June a circular was issued by a person named Josiah Lewis, calling FE meeting of the conservative electors for the 19th, to consider the propriety of i.upperting Mr. Horsfall, and who at that meeting w.ui for the first time announced as a candidate to the conser vative electors. At that meeting Mr. Lewis wan in the chair. Mr. William Thomas Cox was in the room ; also Mr. George Henry Richardson Con and Mr. henry C.ix, taking • very active part indeed, and promoting the eh eet of Mr. lionfall's appearance as a candidate in the borough. A committee was formed to pro mote his success, and he was formally acuounted as a candidate. Mr. John Heins, whose name weekd be frequently mentioned in the course of this inqu.iy, was the principal legal agent of Mr. Ilonfatl, and Mr. Foraball, an attorney of Liverpool, was brought also as an agent for Mr. llonfall, and took up his residence at the King's Head Inn, at Derby. tp to within a few days of the nomination nothing more than the usual stir before au election was ri‘ible at Derby; but it transpired that, on the Monday before the electiuu, Mr. George llenry Richardson Cox had an interview with Major Beresford at the Carlton Club, and upon that occasion the major wrote, in the presence of Mr. Cos, a letter, which had siuen obtained a world-wide celebrity—the famous " W. B." letter. That letter was now in his (Mr. James's hands ; it was addressed to a person of the name of Frail, at Shrewsbury, a person whose name was intimately connected with this transaction. The learned counsel then read the letter, as follows :—" A good and safe man ' with judgment and quickness, is wanted immediately a t Derby. 1 suppose you cannot leave your own place; if nut, send some one whom you can trust in your place, let him go to Derby on receiving this, and find the County Tavern, in the centre of the town, and send his card to Cox Brothers, lead merchants, as cooling from Chester. That will be enough. Yours, W. B." That:letter was written by Major lieresfurd at the Carlton Club, and was given to Mr. G. H. R. Cox to be transmitted to Mr. Frail, end it wad transmitted almost immediately, and that letter brought a person named Morgan Irina Shrewsbury to Derby. The learned counsel then went on to detail the remainder of the proceedings connected with the election, which will be found detailed in the following evidence. Mr. Naylor, of tne Crown-office, having proved the writ and return fur the election, Mr. John Flewker was sworn and said—l am a solicitor at Derby, and have practised there for 30 years. I went prior to the election to the King's Head, the chief hotel. Mr. Horsfall had appeared there iv a candidate. I met there several of his supporters, Mr. Whatmore, Mr. H. Radford, butcher, Mr. Newbold, Mr. Ashworth, and mine others. I heard a good deal about the election on the Friday night before the election. I heard a good deal slid about •• We mean to win—we have lots of money." I know Mr. J. Lewis very well, and have worked with him at many elec tions. He is a large silk manufacturer, ono of our railway directors, and chairman of the conservative club. [The witness here read the circular calling the meeting at the Ring's Head, and a letter from Lewis to witness telling him they were getting fairly to work, and asking witness to call upon him at Penrose's, the committee-room ; ales a letter expressing regret at witness not joining them, as he had refused doing so, and then continued thus—l did not accede to the proposal, and wrote to him to that effect, and stating that I thought another defeat awaited the good cause," from the same reasons as before—namely, inactivity and carelessness. Mr. Forshall afterwards wino to me, asking me to be an agent at one of the bo o th s , w h ic h I declined. Mr. Cox afterwards came to my house to soll.it me to act for Mr. Horsfall. I saw the other Messrs. Cox canvassing ; also Mr. Alderman Mouseley. I know Henry Radford, a butcher, has been a very active partisan at ,d 1 the elections at Derby for some years, on the conservative side. I saw Radford on the night before the nomination, at the King's Head. Radford called me on one side, and said, " I told you the other night we meant to win—we have plenty of money, and mean to win." Mr. Montagu Smith objected to conversations of this sort being received as evidence. Mr. James contended they were here now on the questim of bribery or no bribery, and how could that be proved ex cept by oonversitiou ? If A called on B, and said, I'll give you IM. for your vote," how could you prove it except, by the eon TTTTT tion being proved ? The committee decided on hearing the evidence, and Mr. Flewker continued—This conversation was late in the evening, towards 10 or 11 o'clock. It's understood the lower working-classes at Derby are subject to bribery. I know Mr. Huish ; he has conducted home of the elections at Derby. [The letter from Huish, alluded to in Mr. James's opening statement, was read, and identified by witness to be in the handwriting of Rajah.] I have seen Mr. Frail many times. I have seen him at Derby, in com pany with Mr. Huish. The first time, I think, was in 1818, when the petition was going on against Mr. Strutt. He came with a letter of introduction to me from Major Beres ford. I saw hint also at the election after that, in 1818. Frail sent for me to a hotel near the station. He was afterwards at the Royal Oak. Huish was with him. Frail remained two er three days in Derby then. I never saw Frail at Derby since then. He wrote to me to meet him subsequently, but I was too ill to go. I had not seen Morgan, nor ever heard of him, before the loot election. Heard of his being in ;Derby the night before the nomination. Radford said to me that night, at the King's Head, " I told you we meant to win ; we have got a chap come to do the trick ; he's at the County Tavern. I wish, you'd see him. This is his card that he sent to Cox's." [The card was produced, and on it was written, " T. Mor gan,:Chestarl Radford said he was unwell, and he wished me to see Morgan. He described the room in which I should find him, and said I would not see Morgan un less I used his (Radford's) name and produced the card. Radford said a man named Rice was to bring with hint some lists that he (Rice) had made at Cox's. That was the same Rice mentioned in a letter I received from Frail in 1818. I went to the County Tavern and asked for a:person in the first room on the left-hand side, and the landlord asked who sent me. I showed him the card, and he asked who sent me, and I said Mr. Henry Radford. The landlord then showed me into the room, and I saw Morgan. I said to him, " Is this your card, sir ?" and he said " Yes, but I don't come from Chester, I come from Bhrewhoury." I asked him if he knew Frail, and be said, " Yes, do you know Frail ?" and I said, " Yes, I do ; Frail sent me here." I said, " If Frail sent yau, perhaps you have a letter ?" He said " I have," and pulled a letter out of his pocket endgame it to me. [The witness here identified the famous " W. 8." letter.] As soon as I saw the letter I said, "Why this is Major Berehord's writing." Morgan said "Yes, it is; do you know Majer Beresford ?" I said I did, and asked him if he knew Major Beresferd, aad he replied ho did very well. At the same tint* I noticed the seal ; it was the same seal I frequently had from Major Beresford on his letters—it was the Carlton Club seal. I gave the letter back to Morgan, and asked him what his plan was. He said he was to have a room at the back of the house, with an entrance front the back of the yard. The was to make it as dark as he could, and voters were to be brought there to him, and that he would have a sentinel at the door. He said he had selected a room that would suit his purpose extremely well. He said he had seen Radford—that he was a very nice fellow, and had promised to give him (Morgan) 100 guineas. I then left and wept to find Rice. I also saw Radford afterwards, and told him that Morgan told me Frail had sent hint. Radford said yes, he seemed a smart fellow, add he had promised to give him 100 guineas and his expenses. Radford wished me to go to Nottingham to see Hibbert to ask him to come to Derby. I afterwards found Rice and Simpson. I told Rice Mr. Radford wished to see him at the King's Head. I told him Radford wished him to bring some lists of voters with him that were made out at Cox's. Rice said he had not got them, that Ackerman, a clerk in Mr. liorsfall's committee room, had them. I went to Nottingham neat morning and found Hibbert in Mr. Walter's commistee.room, and told him Radford wished him to bring some men • o Derby. It i h but said he had promised Simpson (Cox's brother-in•law) the day or two before, that he would do so, and Simpson said he (Hibbert) would receive a cheque or post-office order, and he had received a letter from Huish without any money and he would not go. I asked to see the letter, telling hint I would probably expose it. He gave it to me. Hibbert atter . wards did Pend some men to Derby. Some of them were Mr. Walter's messengers at Nottingham. Among them was a man named Kailoe. I then returned to Derby. 1 hese men .:id not act as pull clerks, nor in shy of the legitimate purposes of the election. On the evening of the nomination day I went to Cox's office, where the wine faults are, to see Radford. After waiting a good while I saw a man named Lund, a ea: tle-dealer, come out with Radford. Ho Wes dressed in a drab suit. I told Radford the men were come from Nottingham, and were at the King's Head, and that he bad better order them some refreshments. I saw Lund go straight from the mark , t-place to the County Ta vern. 1 saw which direction he was going, and tv....;..d quick, and, through a side-door. I got into the room ith Morgan before Lited arrived. When Lund came auto the room wo three Put looking at each other for Berne time. with out speaking. 1 said to Morgan, " rerhaps you have some: -,~ 11l