The Express. — London, England, 1847-07-07 00:00:00

i e mt, questionable step, Lord MELGUND lent himself to the gratification of the personal piqwe of some very small local great men. The liberality . of Mr. DUN- L op's principles, the soundness of his judgment, his uns uspected integrity, are not questioned. - But at the het election for Greenock some of the electors thought hiss. DUNLOP a mere eligible candidate than the gen *num su?ported by the parties who hare now invited Lord MELGUND, and ran him at the poll within some half-dozen votes. The leading wipporters of the late member cannot bear the th ou ght that the gentleman who was so near being „t urn ed, despite their most vigorous and virulent im pomtion, should become member for their town, and have brought forward another candidate, solely to punish him and his abettors for former rebellion wont their authority. And the heir of the House of Minto has condescended to become the tool of therm offended dignitaries. Conscious that their personal influence was unable to turn the scale against Mr. DUNLOP, they endeavoured first to persuade Lord J. Hat to throw in official patronage as a make-weight, an d now they get Lord MELOUND (as a pis-alte r ) to throw in his title. No pity is due to his lordship for t h e awkward position into which he has got himself : h seems precisely such a position as his tastes and talents qualify him to occupy. Er. yr. As K M as Mr. DUNLOP, who, though perfectly inde pendent both by sentiment and social position, te, from pr inciple, of whig inclining, learned that it was in contemplation to bring forward a rival candidate, in office," or in yet closer bonds with minis terl3:ealaturally enough wrote to his friend, Mr. Fox Maur , to inquire whether he was to understand that his opponent was recognised as the govern ment candidate; reminding Mi. Manx that should this be the case, his (Mr. Dunt.oe's) antagonistic re lation to government would be forced upon him spinet his will. On receiving this communication, MAULL naturally represented to his colleagues the bad effects of a near connexion of the head of the government lending himself to oppose a liberal and friendly candidate. Remonstrances appear in consequence to have been made to Lord MELGUND, but without avail. lie has summoned a meeting of his "friends and supporters," to whom, in the pre sence of those most trustworthy keepers of secrets, reporters from the newspaper press, he has un bosomed all his grief. He has told them in magni loquent phrase of the efforts made to prevent them from obtaining a candidate who might be supposed to bare it in his power to divert towards them some drops of the stream of official patronage. And to make the enormity of the treatment he and they have experienced fully felt, he has entered into a minute explanation as to the officials upon whom devolves the delicate duty of bringing forward such candidates as are likely to be 'weft!, and keeping back detrimentals. With singular simplicity and lack of discretion, Lord Met, GUND has laid open all the details and working of that delicate machinery by which party interests are pro moted in elections—universally known to be worked by all parties, but out of conventional decorum openly repudiated by all : and, in doing this, he has named so many names that ears must be tingling in every ogre of Whitehall. Whether Lord MRLGUND be re turned for Greenock or treated by the electors as he deserves, this is certain, that in future the bare ap pearance of his shadow cast before him in turning the corner of Downing-street, will be enough to check the flow of confidential conversation in the offices. THERE are many indications that the questions in volved in the demand made by Ihrmers for a legalised tenant-right will have some, perhaps - considerable in fluence at the coming elections. It is certain considerable, wherever farmers can exercise their independent votes, they will strenuously support the candidates who advocate the legal recognition of the tenant's right to enjoy his own " floating capital." That the advocacy of any such measure of mere common honesty should form a merit in would-be legislators, bespeaks the strangely anomalous condition of English bpi culture. let although the simple a:premiss of views favourable to tenant-right will enlist on the behalf of the candidate who neer express them the warmest sympathies of the tenant-farmers, it is by no means probable that many candidates for rural districts will be found favourable to the enactment of a tenant-right. The representa tion of such districts is to a great extent in the hands of landholders, of whom the major part are unwilling to concede such an obvious measure of justice. It is plain from what has passed in the House of Commons on this subject, from the little which has been said, and that which has been indicated but not spoken, that the landowners teel that a movement towards the enfranchisement, social and political, of tenants has commenced; and that the instincts of feudal ism will induce a strenuous resistance. We intimated from the first that Mr. PUSEY had but slight chance of carrying his bill as first introduced, by which a right to be paid for unexhausted expenditure was at once conferred upon all agricultural tenants ; and the amended bill, which rendered such payment dependent upon the consent of the landlord, was not received by the landocracy with mach less disfavour. Under the pressure of an opposition, not loud but deep, on the part of the landlord interest in the house, Mr. PESEY was obliged to withdraw his bill, and to intimate his intention of moving in a future parliament for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the subject. The observations made by Sir ROBERT PEEL, upon that occasion were instructive. He believed the measure had been introduced from a wish " to encourage the application of capital to the land, and to ensure ajust remuneration to those tenants who might expend their own capital on its improrement :" yet his hon. friend had met with "unexpected difficul ties," and had "exercised a most wise discretion in not attempting to carry the bill at present, and in not provoking angry feelings between those two great clam," the landlords and the tenant-farmers. And the cautious ex-minister suggested that, after "de liberate consideration" and " mature inquiry into the customs of different parts of the countri, it was pos sible something might be done." And Sir ROBERT concluded by expressing his approval of the principle of compensating tenants who had expended their capital in the improvement of land. When the right hon. baronet's cautious approaches towards free trade are remembered, no one can doubt that he foresees that ere long the just demands of tenant farmers to protection from confiscation must be conoeded. Yet that such concession will not easily be made, is clear from the passionate ebullitions with which some of the less discreet landowners received the Tenant-right Bill. What is it that farmers demand when petition icg, as they have done, by thousands, for the prin cmle of legalised tenant-right ? Some owners of land have affected to believe that it implies some interfer race with the right of property in their estates, a orb cf legislative enmordruos to grant leases. It is, however, nothing of the sort. Tenant right is altogether irrespective of leases. It is true, that until the practice of granting leases has become Meral, and a good law of tenant-right exists, hus bandry will not undergo that improvement of which it is capable ; but the granting or withholding leases is a question with which the legislature cannot inter fere. That must be left to the sense of self-interest entertained by landlords. The question of tenant right, however, is altogether different. It is, in fact, as alteration in the general law of landlord and tenant—applicable alike to yearly tenan cies and to leases —which is required by the altered circumstances and customs of modern husbandry. And the change must be. in the end, as advantageous to landowners as to tenants, for it will lead to im mediate and extensive improvements of land used for agricultural purposes. At this moment there are in all districts certain acts of husbandry for which the "going tenant is entitled to be paid by the landlord or his sucxrding tenant. These allowances vary in !lament counties, and are singularly capricious, hay 'be probably grown up in the infancy of husbandry, red have not kept pace with the progress of that art. Bit they are all founded upon the assumption that t certain I re ire acts of til6ge, and so forth, proper , 15 he done in one year as preparations for tEr crops of another and subsequent year. Of course, be Rho is to quit this year would not, in the absence lone such custom, or of a special contract, make r e / Preparations for next year's crops. That would to him just so mach waste outlay. The custom, *e 'rfore, of receiving payment for such work scald not benefit the outgoing tenant, and Zid be valuable to his successor, grew up. But ha custom has stood still, while agriculture Farming which can only be ,1 1 , 11 r g moderately good is now so conducted that ,_expenditure of one y ear i s only . gradually 'grid back, in the form of produce, during the nue- Deeding three or four years. Take, for indance, the Norfolk four-oonrse system, under which one-fourth of the farm is heavily maimed for turnips every year at a very serious expense ; but the farmer is not re paid that expense until he has gathered the barley, the clover, and the wheat crops which follow in three suocessive years of the turnip crop. And let it be distinctly understood that it is only by conducting that, or any other rotation, which may be adopted properly, that a farmer ha s any hope of making a living profit. Whatever his tenure, therefore, he must always farm as if he bad the certainty of at least four years' possession. The majority of tenants being occupiers only from year to year, may, at any time, be turned out by a six months' notice, and, if so turned out—supposing them to have farmed on the four-course system—they will have one fourth of their land on which they have made all the outlay for a four years' course and received no return what ever ; they will have another fourth on which they will have had the barley crop only—that is, one of the three crops necessary to remunerate them for their outlay ' • another fourth on which they will have gathered the barley and the clover crops, but not the wheat crop, that is two only out of the three remunerating crops ; and on one fourth of their farms only will they have gathered the three paying crops of barley, clover, and wheat. Now, it really seems to require no great extent of aericultural knowledge to perceive that it is only common justice to an ejected tenant that, upon the first quarter of his farm, he should be paid a fair proportion of his outlay, by which the landlord, or his next tenant, will profit for two years ; and upon the third fourth part, for three years ; and, where any extraordinary outlay has been made, which will require a greater number of years' possession to get back than is required to recover the routine expenditure, that the same principle of pro portional payment for "unexhausted improvements" should be adopted. And this is all that is demanded by farmers as tenant-right. They ask that by law they may be entitled to demand a valuation of their unexhausted improve ments. Can anything be more reasonable or more just ? Yet this la resisted by all the weight of land lord influence. Now such a law should be made to apply to all land, ander whatever tenure, because the effect of the present law, which denies all claim to be paid for such unexhausted expenditure, operates upon yearly tenants as a simple confiscation of a certain portion of their capital ; while the leaseholder takes care to reduce his outlays so far as he can, as the end of his term draws near. In either case the com munity suffers from diminished production : in the one case, from the insecurity under which the fanner carries on his business; in the other, from the re duced fertility of the land during the latter years of the farmer's term. There is thus the strongest mo tive for others, as well as farmers, making this tenant right question their own at the next election. TIMES VERSUS CHRONICLE. WE certainly never, at any time, expected that the Tunes would be greatly enamoured of our "cheap paper" project, or its progress; but we gave "the leading journal" credit for worldly wisdom enough to make it avoid any very extravagant or childish display of its mortification and affect the indiffer ence which we know it could not feel. Self-pos session is a quality so important to a cause artificially and falsely constructed, and the Timex had already suffered so seriously in the way of exposure by a former yielding to the temptation of its own dishonest temper, that we had calculated on greater caution for the future in the management of its own weak points, and a more careful affectation of the dignity which is essentially wanting to its cause. But the Times is grievously beset. No man or corpora tion learns with equanimity the secret of its own powerlessness ; — still less that its want of discretion has helped to betray the secret to others. The absolute failure of the Times, with the aid of all the forces it could rally round it, to arrest our steady encroachment on the ground which 'it had so much interest in maintaining, was alresuly a sore sufficiently irritating to a vain and brag gart influence ; —which the overt confession of that failure on the part of an ally has driven into madness. The defection of the Morning Chronicle, concurrently with the setting in of sultry weather, has induced a fit of raving before which common newspaper humanity shudders. The Jove of newspapers, who will not "thunder" under fivepence, tau up, on this occa sion, a rattle for his thunderbolt, and so, forfeits for the nonce his last argument for high prices. Jupiter becomes " a very foolish, fond old man"—" and, to deal plainly, we fear he is not in his perfect mind." "The first journal in the world" feels the influence of the dog days: and, seeing that we care not for its barking, turns on its less fortunate comrade in the spirit of a cur, and tries to worry it. Seen in that peculiar moral atmosphere with which the Times surrounds itself, how strange and anomalous are the relations of its cause and effect ! What great consequences flow, with it, from what little things ! In no world that we know of are the accidents of the ground so various and the atmospheric changes so sudden. The standard of measure, like all things else in that not very reputable world, is a curious one. A penny difference, for instance, has converted an old and. "respected contemporary"—the " fivepenny" friend who had clungto the 7Ymes and to high prices— the worthy ally in its honourable warfare and co-heir to its golden dreams:—into a twaddler dealing in "an saleable wares,"and offering what, since ho declines to shame fivepenee for them, are insinuated to be unworth fourpence. "Ingeniously fabricated as they undoubtedly are," says the Times, with playful irony, they have ceased to " take with es,"—ever since the day before yesterday! " We can conceive that we might perhaps want them, or might relish them, in some other [threepenny or fourpenny] state of being than that [fivepenny] one in which it is our fortune, or misfortune, to live."—ln a word, the "g ood shop" has suddenly become a " cheap shop, says the Times, with the soul of a shopkeeper in the meanest sense—and can have nothing good to offer since it has ceased to overcharge. " A first-rate ma nufactory " the figure by Which the Times describes papers in its own category—has soddenly taken to " dealing in second-hand goods" in the person of this seceder; and one of the Great Combined has turned honest and become, it avers, a "Cheap John."—ls it possible that a nation which prides itself on intelligence and emamon-sense can be mystified and galled after so poor and profligate a fashion? Why should the Morning Chronicle —which for half • century has been conducted on principles higher and purer than were ever contemplated by the Times—change its character, hey presto, because it lowers its price, and besome, in a rattle of the than derer's money-box, as mean and unprincipled a thing as the paper which thus sordidly denounces it ? The virtue and inte llige nce of the Morning Chronicle, it should seem, ra.. in the dropped penny. It were to wrong at once the common sense and morality of the age to suppose that jugglery like this can much longer be practised with success ! The Times is most unfortunate in the perpetual betrayal of its meanness even where it purposes to be most dignified. The dirt is for ever showing through the tinsel—the motive peeping over the boast. What, says the Times with great insinuated majesty, is the true ideal of an independent press—in contradistinction to a " poverty-stricken journal ?"—A press that can " rebuke and expose kings, lords, commons, bishops, clergy, magistrates, functionaries of all sorts, landlords, manufacturers, farmers, mar -1 chants, railway directors, speculators, and every other class" at fivepence a copy, "while by its adver tising columns it can turn their folly or their wicked flees into gold." But the Times is as unfortunate as it is mean. The " advertising columns" which it forgot to mention where honesty required it, have here avenged themselves by making their mischievous appearance in the paragraph only to convert a piece of grandiloquence into bathos and a vaunt of magnificence into an exposure of avarice. It is an instance of judicial blindness. We are reminded of the madman playing king in a crown of filthy straws. If the Times were a paper which it could ever be safe to interpret strictly, it would not be unfair to infer from its argument that some virtue is supposed to reside in the particular fivepenoe—that there is no salvation for • newspaper out of that exact amount of per contra—that fivepence is a principle with it rather than a price. At any rate, however, the Times repeats, as an axiom, that "there can be no doabt that a really good paper cannot be published for leas than five pence." This it delivers easily—jauntily, as an accepted truth ; without betraying the slightest con sciousness of that being the vei proposition which in volved it before in such irretrievable perplexity and ruined its character for arithmetic. The Times cannot afford thus wantonly to sport with its cha racier for shrewdness; for, that gone, what has it te fall back upon but the fivepences ?—and they mat fail. Every copy of " a really good paper, says the nines, without the slightest baits tion or confusion, costs the proprietors 4td. ; so that only three-eighths remain " out of the price of a paper for the other expenses of its production." What monstrous duplicity is this! Why is no men tion made of the 100,0001. a year received for the advertisements—and for the sake of which the ma chinery is cheaply worked and the three-eighths in question a needless surplusage ? The Times is beyond all shame ; and repeats its facts and figures as if their falsehood had not been already exposed or was not so glaring as to expose itself. Then, the Moss says,—" The cost of paper for each copy of this day's publication" is two pence, —of the stamp three halfpence. Even this simple statement is not true. Threepence halfpenny is not the cost of paper and stamp—but of papers and stamps: and why does the Times give two papers and two stamps? Simply that it may find room for that mine of wealth—its advertisements. The cost, however, of these advertisements is thus to be blazoned abro ad,i and not a hint given of their profit !—We have had the advertisements in yesterday's Times calculated : and we suggest to the reader that to the 3-tithe of a penny profit on each copy he should add about 3201. for the forgotten profit upon the whole— though the Times, shrewd in its own narrow kind, has taken care to have fewer advertisements than usual in "this day's paper." Three hundred and twenty pounds is a tolerably large daily item—whose weight alone can in any way explain its having slipped out of the account : but we have thought it right to pick this up again, for the comforting of our readers against that painful and importunate cry of the limes —" only three-eighths of a penny !" The morality of the Times is worth a farther illus tration out of its own unconscious argument. That journal, still seeking to enhance the cost at which its columns are produced, till in its eagerness it forgets the advertisements which pay it back—assures its readers that not only has it to pay for talents and industry, but it has also to buy its integrity. It has no protection against the bribery of those whom it employs but that of paying them liberally itself. It makes its liberality a 'bribe—bribes its awn men not to let themselves be bribed. According to the Times, there can be no honesty unless men are highly paid. A poor man must be corrupt. " To render the channels of intelligence proof against continued attempts at bribery " "the most liberal scale of payment is required." We presume the Times has worked out its own argument,—and has no objection to the consequence. It is simply and logically this :—bribe high enough, and you may bribe the Times itself! Again, pay the Times less than five- I pence, and it cannot answer for being incorrupt. Every paper, the Times would insinuate, is open to a bribe. Our safety (ours of the fivepenny school), says the Times, consists in this,—that in proportion as we pay highly the bribe must be higher that would tempt our servants to betray us. Their dishonesty is in the market,—and we (of the Myles) buy it up. Now, we, of the Daily News, deny the troth of this proposition—at least save in so far as the Times claims an exception for itself and its servants: bat we mean to assert that, had it been true, the honesty could still have been purchased, with all other n material, at the reduced price of our paper. The gentlemen engaged on the Daily News are as well paid as three on the Times:— we will go further, and assert that they are better) paid. The Times specifically refers to those who contribute to its lea din g columns—editors, we pre sume—correspondents, and reporters. Now, in tome instances it may be impossible to institute a compa rison ; but, in others the comparison may be made without difficulty by a simple reference to the books of the cashier. At once, then, we challenge the Times to proof. The whole argument is ridiculous ; and has been taken up by us simply that the Times may not have the benefit of its falla cies even where they do not expose themselves. But we challenge the Times to submit the facts to third parties for their decision: and we affirm, for instance, that the reporters on the Daily News have higher salaries than those on the Times—and the Times knows it. The journals of Paris and oar private letters of Monday have arrived, but contain nothing of in terest to the English public. A letter received from oar own correspondent at Bayonne, dated the 2nd inst., says that government has pdsitive information that the Carlist General Arrays has not yet left France. Ho adds that the report circulated at Madrid that this chiefs in Old Castille at the head of a body of cavalry is without founda tion. On the lst four companies of the 60th regi ment, in garrison at Bayonne, were suddenly marched for St. Jean pied de port. The cattle of the French farmers were seized and driven over the frontier by the Spaniards, and a general conflict was expected to ensue between the border populations. On the 2nd another battalion was marched to reinforce those sent on the preceding day. MADRID, Jona 30. St. Peter's Eve (28th) is a famous festival at Madrid, and the Prado is crowded all night with parties dancing, frying and eating borauelos, and toss ing off 'rasqtatae. On Monday a full moon, with a bland and serene sky, favoured the amusements of the people. All Madrid turned out—the simple folk with guitar and castanets, the gentle looking on. The Queen drove up and down in an open carriage, attended by one of her ladies and a chamberlain. She remained from half-past 12 till past one. Next morn ing the following paragraph appeared in large print at the end of the Erpectador, under the head of ‘, A ultima ora ." " It u t o'clock in the morning, and her Majesty is retir ing from the Prado, where she has been driving up and down in an open carriage, drawn by six hones, attended only by a footman, from half-past 12 to about 1 ; at which hour three officers of the palace, who followed the carriage, began to escort her home. Among the persons who excited most at. tendon, wu a gentleman in a frock-coat, with white trowsers, who retired, at the same time as her Majesty, ins brougham, which was drawn up opposite the fountain of Cybele." The gross outrage against the Queen, conveyed by this creeping insinuation, excited universal iad*nation. To-day the E.rpectador has not been published. But a little notice bas been printed instead, signed by the two editors of the E x pectador, Manuel Ruiz de Quevedo, and Ambrosio Gonzales, which informs the public that they have read with the greatest surprise and indignation the paragraph in question, which was i presented in the office without their knowledge by a person completely foreign to the establishment, and admitted in spite of the repeated orders Mated t• pre vent similar abuses. The editors have, in consequence, entirely dissolved their connexion with the printing establishment of Hernandez de Fuentes and CO., and cannot allow a single copy more of their paper to issue from the same press. The Commandant-General of Cadiz, on the 24th, sent to order General Prim to leave that town imme diately. The general, whose passport was en rigk, and who bad been despatched by the government, refused to comply with this order, or to leave the place till he received commands from the Queen or from the minister of war so to do. Those who have undertaken to act as pacificators in the royal family of Spain must be rather sa tisfied with the success of their endeavours. There is Maria Christina at Malmaison, the king Consort at the Pardo, Don Enrique at Tolosa, the Duchess of Montpensier at Paris, and now Don Francisco de Paula and his danshter are going to the baths, while Isabel 11. is alone in her palace at Madrid. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1847. Hon. Edward Smolt yesterday at the Am of the Commis- Menem of Railways, in Great George-street. Deepatehee were received yesterday at the Colonial oaks from the Governor of Gibraltar. (From LA night's Gazette.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY s.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint C. F. Engstrfun, Esq., to be her Majesty's consul at Gottenburg, and to approve of Mr. J. Mitchell as consul at Jamaica for the Xing of the Mosquito territory. CROWN -OFFICE, JULY S.—The Queen bag appointed W. S. Ayttot, of the Middle Temple, Esq., barrister-at-law, to be .me of the commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to ut in the p;oseeTatTonoflats in bankruptcy in the csuirtri. BUCKINGHAM -PALACE, JULY 2.—This day had audience of her Majesty, his Excellency the Count de St. Aulaire, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of the French, to deliver his letter of mall; also the Prince Walde- mar of Prussia, first cousin to the King of Prussia, attended by the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister. JULY 3.—This day had audience of her Majesty, his Excellency the Dike de Broglie, Ambassador E' xtra ordinary from the King of the French, to deliver his ere dentials. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM.—Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of the governors of this charity was held in the Bridge-house Hotel, London-bridge, Mr. Batton in the chair. The report spoke io the highest terms of the int:Tossing prosperity of the asylum. The eubscriptions figured 2,0001., and the funded property amounted to 6,6871. 3 per cent. consols, 6171. reduced annuities, and 2,0001. for which Messrs. Reid and Calvert pail 6 per cent. Upon the motion of Mr. Lathy, the report was adopted. In answer to a question, the chairman stated that the profits of the fancy fairs daring the past eleven years avenged 1684. a year. The vacant offices were filled up ; thanks were voted to the damn for the past year, and also to the chairman of the day; after which the meeting separated. DERBY AND ST. LEGER SWEEPSTAKEL-011 Mon day, at the Marylehone Sessions, which were held at the Court House, Marylebone-lane, for the transfer of linnets, before Sir P. Laurie, lint., (chairman), Sir Jas. Hamilton, Bart., and Mr. Hector Rose, • letter, which was dated July 16, 1847, and written by the late Mr. John Rawlinson, one of the magistrates of the Marylebone polico-eourt, was presented to the chairman by an inspector of the D divides of police, (the letter having been addressed to the com missioners of police) in which the attention of the com missioners was directed to the number of Derby, St. Leger, and other sweepstakes allowed at the houses of licensed victuallers. The chairman directed the Inspec tor to bring all cases before the bench at the general licensing day of the licensed victuallers, who, after having received notice, cautioning them against allowing them in their houses, should continue to do so. Mr. H. Rose said that in the licenses granted to licensed victuallers, particular allusion was made against all gamb li ng, and it ba d been stated by Baron Alderson that sweepstakes were a species of gambling . —The chairman observed that as far u the power of the bench went the magistrates would direct their attention to the subject.—Several of the applicants received a caution not to tolerate sweepstakes. „ INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—FATAL FlGllT.— Be fore Mr. W. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of George Rodaway, aged 31. John Wilson, baker, of Pepper-street, Borough, said that on Tuesday morning List, at four o'clock, he went into a coffee-house in Union-street, Borough, and saw the deceased quarrelling with • young man named Wm. Johnson. In a dew minutes they went out to fight, and in the first and only round the deceased gave Johnson a blow on the eye which knocked him down. The deceased said that he had put his knuckle' out of joint by the force of the blow, and complained much of the pain. A policeman then came u p . and parted them. The next morning he told wit ness again that he had hurt himself very much. Both men were intoxicated. Mr. George Hotter, the house-surgeon, said the deceased was admitted on Friday with inflammation of the veins of the left arm, and died on Sunday last. A post mortem examination disclosed matter in the lungs and the veins of the left arm, and pleurisy of bith aides of the chest. This limn from an injury to the arm and hand. The jurrreturned a verdict of "Accidental Death."—Farai ACCIDINT.—Before Mr. W. Baker, at the London Hospital, on the body of Eliza Blyth, whose death, caused by the turn ing over of a cart on Friday night last, appeared in our paper of Monday. A. Mr. Owen and his wife and daughter, who were injured by tke same accident, were stated to be in im minent danger, and not expected to survive many hours. The jury retu r ned a verdict of " Accidental Death.' THE INSTALLATION OF PRINCE ALBERT AT CAMBRIDGE. CAMBRIDGE, JULY 6.= r iii;prit; b c i yal business of to-day was the installation ode, which been announced to be sung in the Senate House at 10 o'clock this morning, but as early as 8 o'clock it was found necessary to open the doors, so crowded was every avenue, even at that early hour, by those who had succeeded in obtaining tickets of admis sion, which, by the way, appeared to have been issued rather Iprofusely as compared with the capacity of the building; and ong before 9, every accessible spot, including staircase', window seats, and recesses, from whence the gratification of the ear was all that could be hoped for, was densely packed. Nearly all of the most distinguished of those who took part in yesterday's proceedings were present to-day, and, in addi tion, we observed Sir R. and Lady Peel, Rogers the poet, Sir J. Herschell sad Sir R. Inglis. Sir R. Peerwas almost the only one of the more distinguished visitors who did not wear the university robe. Along the short route her Majesty and the Prince had to traverse, between Trinity and the Senate House, was, if possible, even more densely crowded than was any equal distance of the line through which the procession of yesterday passed. The windows, roofs, towers of churches, and every spot from which even a doubtful glimpse of the front of the Senate House could be obtained was tenanted, and within the enclosure which surrounds the building in which the business of the day was to be transacted, hundreds of doctors in their scarlet gowns, students of various de grees in the proper costume of their rank, together with many elegantly dressed ladies promenading on the green, sad seated near the building, many, in fact, holding on by the window-sills, temporary hand rails, and every projecting ornament which offered for /grasp, in the hope of catching from the outside some slight idea of the music, added an interest to the scene, and gave probably a greater degree of interest to that without than but for the presence of the sovereign and the royal chancellor the inside could have boasted of. At all events, those who from nece , sity or choice —and there were many of the latter—remained on the out side of the building, avoided the inconvenience of the most crowded audience it was ever our lot to see brought together within the walls of any room on a sultry July day; while as far as the ode was concerned they heard as much of it as probably three-fourths of those whohad been occupying their seats, or rather stands, from eight o'clock in the morning. Not the least interesting incident of the day was tke re spectful attention paid by the ex-premier to the venerable poet Rogers, who being very soon exhausted with the in tense heat of the interior of the building, was compelled to retire, which he did loaning upon the arm of the right hon. baronet, with whom, after taking a turn round the walks, he left the place shortly after the °commencement of the ode. At flee minutes past 10, H.R.H. the Chancellor, preceded by the Require Bedell*, and followed by his suite, entered the senate Louse. The exercises for the Chancellor's medal, Sir W. Browne's medal, and the Poison prize , were then recited, and the prizes delivered to the prize men by his Royal Highness, who said a kind word to each. Before this part of the business of commencement day had been completed, via., at 8 minutes put ten, the Queen arrived, attended by the lords and ladies in waiting, the foreign princes. &o, The Queen was received by the Chancellor in the same form as yesterday. Of the merits of the ode, musical or literary, and its gene ral effect, we have little to add to what has been already stated in the notice which appeared in the Erpress of Monday. of the rehearsal at the Hanover-square Rooms. The most effective passages in the composition, and those which were most loudly applauded, at this the grand per formance, were the chorus, " War is mercy, glory, fame," the soprano solo and chorus, " A guardian angel fluttered ;" the recitative " That eve the star of Brunswick," &c.; the ben air, "Albert, in thy nos we cherish;' and the conclud ing chorus. " What shield nice sublime," the last words of which " the pride:of the Weak Victoria the Queen," raised the audience to such a pitch of enthusiasm that the exhaus tion of the singers only prevented an ewer& The national anthem which was called ter taw goes mad which was ad mirably given, terminated the =miler. Her Majesty and the Prince Chancellor as were net with the most lively demonstrations of exuberant loyalty. To-day, as yesterday, Sir Harry Smith was an object of general attention, and he and the Duke of Wellington were loudly cheered both on entering and leaving the Senate Home. The duke was muted to his residence in St. Ca therine's Hall by a body guard of townsmen and townsmen, whose attachment and respect to his grace were exhibited in the most noisy but hearty vociferation/. Hoaricomataz. INTR.—Amongst the more remarkable incidents which characterised the visit of Queen Victoria and her consort to the university was a grand horticultural fete, prepared for her Majesty by the Cambridgeshire Horticul tural Society ; and to encourage florists and others engaged in similar pursuits to send their rare and beautiful plants to be seen, prizes to the amount of 2001. collec tively Were offered to the different competitors. The result was highly successful, and severs] large marquees were filled with the rarest and most costly flowers, as well from the greenhouse as from the parterre. Fruit, also, there was in abundance, and of a very line description. The fete Was held in the grounds attached to Downing College, which are very vicious, and although not possessing the advantage of having the river paining through the domain, the sylvan character of the scene wailextremely effective and pleasant. The marquees were decorated with banners, on which were emblazoned the armorial bearings of the different col leges, the royal standard floating in the centre of the grounds. An elegant though small pavilion was raised in front of the Master's lodge, through which it was arranged her Majesty should par in order to avoid the pressure of the crowd, which has mere than once proved highly inconvenient. Under this canopy were placed two fauteuils, and a small richly gilded table, o n which were placed some strawberries, such as were pronounced by judges to have been rarely if ever excelled for colour, size, or flavour. Two prize bouquets completed the simple prepara- I tons made for the royal couple. The company began to arrive at 12 o'clock, but, owing to some unfortunate oval-ar rangement, they were not permitted to enter the grounds until very shortly before the hour appointed for the Queen's arrival—viz., at half-past 2 p.m. The consequence was, that the accumulation of ticket-holders at the iron-gates separating the floral fete grounds from the public promenade was so great sa to occasion the most serious struggles, in which many ladies lat their jewels, got their laces torn and their gowns demolished ; in short, confusion and riot pre vailed around, when, fortunately, the gates were forced open by the pressure, and the whole dense mass entered the grounds without let or hindrance, to the loss, probably, of the parsons responsible for the expenses of this sadly pre partition. However, after this all went smoothly, and the bands of the let Life Guards and Fusiliers 100 n restored the spirits of the company, and imparted the customary gaiety to the scene. The Duke of Wellington preceded the Queen in his arrival some minutes, and was received by the bend playing "See the conquering hero comes," though some attributed this honour to Sir H. Smith, who was also in the grounds. The Queen and Prince arrived at half-past two, and promenaded one or two of the marquees, followed by such an escort es seldom is observed. The struggles of red, blue, black, and white gownonen, and the ladies hanging on their arms, to keep up with and get a glimpse of her Majesty, occasioned the most dire confusion ; and it was with the utmost diffi culty that the crowd was prevented from bunting the line which was formed for the seclusion of royalty. However, matters passed over without any serious damage being done ; the greatest harm that happened being, perhaps, the ruffling ' of the tempers of some of the visitors. The examiners having awarded the prises to the different exhibitors; their names were aunched to their respective lots of flowers. Amongst them were several specimens of very fine roses, and in this class of flowers many persons gained the awards; amongst them were Messrs. H. Green, Burs ham, Dillaston, professedflorists ; and Mn. Ashton Profe ssor Clarke, Mr. Nice, and many others, amateur florists. In the grounds, amongst the general company, might be per ceived, traversing the different tents, men of the highest rank, as well in society as in science and learning. Of the latter may be specially noticed, M. Le Verner, the discoverer of the new planet Neptune, and his almost equally merito rious second in the discovery, Professor Adams, the astro nomer. It was a highly enlivening scene to listen to the martial bands stationed on the lawns, and in the intervals of their performances to hear the distant thrushes and blackbirds singing in the groves of the adjacent col lege grounds. The mixture of rural and highly artificial life was at once striking and pleasing. Refreshment booths occupied • very conspicuous part of the festivity, the more so as the refreshments were handed to the guests or visitors by elegantly dressed ladies, who performed this office in aid of a charity to which the funds raised by the fEte were appropriated. In the course of the afternoon, a new balloon, styled the Installation Balloon, was sent up, the veteran aeronaut Greta, being the oriel speculator in this case, as he has in so many pre vious instances. _ _ The Queen and the Prince left the grounds soon after five o'clock, and repaired to the royal lodge at Trinity College, where they remained during the interval that elapsed pre vious to the summons to the banquet, prepared in the dining hall of that royal foundation. THE BANQUIT.—At half-past six o'clock her Majesty entered the magnificent gothic hall, in which the tables were laid. The master of Trinity, Dr. Whewell, had the distin guished honour of conducting his sovereign to her seat at the banquettiag board, and the Prince Consort conferred a like honour upon Mrs. Whewell, the master's wife. The other guests poured into the hall in such profusion uto render it a matter of difficulty to separate each from the brilliant mass of jewelled heads and gorgeous uniforms, to the aid of which, in point of colour, the sprinkling of crimson, scarlet, black, white, and blue robes, came very opportunely. It was when the Queen was seated that the general arrangement of the banquet could be best noted. The table at which her Majesty sat was arranged across the hall on a this, five tables being placed at right angles with the regal one along the whole length of the building. Her Majesty was supported on her left by the master of the Royal College ; on the Queen's right was placed the Duke of Saxe- Weimar. On Dr. Whewell's left was seated Prince Albert, the chair to whose left was occupied by Mrs. Whewell. The other most distinguished guests at the dais board were the Duke of Wellington, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lord J. Russell, the Marquis of Lanedowne, et alio qua rime, &c. In the general loam of guests, it was an interesting occupation for the few privileged spectators behind the gallery screen to search out and distinguish the more celebrated of them. Casting the eye down one table, the countenances of Sir R. Peel, the poets Rogers and M. Milne', Sir H. Smith, and the Marquis of Northampton, could be selected, as charecteriaing the mixed nature of the convivial association; at another, the astronomers, Le Verrier and Adams ; the geologists, Buckland, Murchison, and Sedgwick, might be discovered ; a third group coasinted of judges and bishops ; • fourth of military gownsmen ; and so on throughout the whole area. Before the company sat down the Dean of Ely brought the customary form of prayer observed at these high cere monials to the master, who, having recited the Versiclea, and received the responses from the dean, repeated the Lord's Prayer (all in Latin), and then begged a blessing on the meal. The whole of e pe re uesta then applied themselves to the various viands pre for them, the appearance of the tables being enrich and enlivened by massive pieces of plate of an ornamental character interspersed with vases filled with flowers. The rich and varied aspect of the hall whilst them convivialities were proceed ing may be fairly pronounced to have been rarely, if ever, equalled for its gorgeous and novel effect. Indeed, a person present, who had witnessed many of the most reeherchi banquets at which Queen Victoria has been the honoured guest as well as hostess, in France, Belgium, and at Windsor, confessed that the scene presented at Trinity.hall, Cambridge, excelled them all, not only in point of beauty and elegance, but also in point of the high intellectual and mural as well as social worth of the various guests who had the honour of sitting at the hospitable board of Dr. Whewell. After the " grace of fulness," to use an old puritanical phrase, had been pronounced, the master sod bait rose from his seat between his sovereign and her consort, and in a brief but emphatic manner proposed the health of the royal couple, which was responded to in decorous but not the less energetic and i heartfelt silence by the entire assemblage. The band of the Fusilier Guards performed several pieces during dinner, and a guard of honour of the Horse Guards was stationed in the College green. Her Majesty returns to Buckingham Palace this day starting from Cambridge at half-past three o'clock, p.m. Last night (Monday) Parker's-piece, which those who are not acquainted with the topography of Cambridge it may be necessary to inform is a large suburban common, a short distance from the railway station, was the scene of the concluding amusements of the day. A number of booths for dancing, theatrical, and other performances pertaining to rural fairs were erected, and until a very late hen were suf ficiently attended to ensure a considerable profit to those who had embarked in this speculation. Of course the long celebrated Alger's Crown and Anchor was not wanting, and most of the names which are familiar to the habitues of Green wich ,Wandaworth, Stepney, &c., were to be found. A brilliant pyrotechnic display, which would have done credit to Vaux hall in its paluxiset days, was the last of the numerous sights with which the people of Cambridge and the innumerable visitors, who have increased its population to such a density, that habitations can scarcely be bound them, must have been satiated during the day. fair Court. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager yeeerday at her residence, Bushy-house, Bushy- Park- The Marchioness of Douglas (née Princess Mary of Baden) paid a visit yesterday to the Queen Dowager and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Saxe Weiraar, at Bushy-house, Bushy-park. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester-house. The Duchess of Cambridge honoured the perform ance at the Royal Italian Opera-house with her presence yes terday evening. • The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Treasury. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Governor of the Bank of Ragland, and the Deputy-Governor, were present. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General, was in at tendance. Lord John Russell left town yesterday for Cam bridge. Mr. G. Harter, M.P., and Mr. Field, had an inter view with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Birch= had an interview with the Right ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. HetAmea. enaservative, has gives notice of his retfremeat, Mise. J. W. Portman@ has addremed the &Rees, oath( bis services as a free-trade representative of **borough. Brantrioasm.—The latest on ditia, that Mr. Matthew Davenport Hill, Q.C. intends to else himself as a car& date at the ensuing election. Col. Thompson is also spikes of. Mr. Serjeant Allen has visited the etwe twits* vier in the last few days. BRADPOILD.—The retirement of Colonel P. Thump= from the contest for the representation of this= followed, as it promptly by the tion of an influential portion of the electors pose the gallant author of the Corn-law C at el notwithstanding, has not feted the liberal party of the electors from the embankment/at which they have suffered Mass a seam of **party endeavoured to set aside the rearikka r lik. Busfeild and Col, Thompson, in con- Kna uer ef Mr. ainind's views on the question of state educing& Oa re egreary, the determination of Mr. Barak* is go to the pak erupted with his refusal to pledge himself es the rom of tile endowment of the Irish Ream Whelk priembeed, boa segmented the complicity of their ere. Mosartake, the amerretive_perty are actively prosecuting Ibelr mem kr Meesa Rank end Wick ham. No eimmillie bee psi ban Mimed le pesseot. Mr. Basfeild'e rebus; ma, In order Is voilipe tie tree and united action of the party, mods* alimart le le be made to leder Mr. Busfeild to withdraw Ids BCCILINORAMBIIII/11.—Yesterday algal market dinner day at Theme, on the border, of and Oxford shire, Mr. Memel', an the invitatioa of govern of the leading farmers of tiss eakkbearbasi, allosisd the dinner, and addressed by Skim eamikaiMa Aker which Mr. Fame proposed a remiatioa, &theft Beejeade Disraeli • fit and proper person to represent the county of Bucks, sad, it having been seconded, it mu carried with but three or four dissentient voices. Coueseraii.—A requisition L in amuse of signature, inviting J. A. Mardi:sale, Esq., of Writtle, to come forward as a candidate. It is stated that the political principles of Mr. Hardoistle are in accordance with those of the great body of the liberal electors. Devouroar.—The Devonport Independent says that Mr. Gurney, stock-broker, of London, has been named as a can didate for the representation of Devonport in the conserva tive interest._ . . --- EMMEN (Noant).—The contest in this important eon ' stituency has now commenced. Mr. Liddell, the sitting member, has met his general committee at Durham. Col. , Beckwith has nearly completed his general morass, which is mid to have been unexpectedly succeestal, and Mr. Shafto is prosecuting his census, attended by a very influential party of the old Whig gentry. It is the universal opinion that Mr. Liddell and Mr. Shaft* will be returned. The in fluence of the Marquis of Londonderry will, it is now under stood, be given *gaunt Mr. Liddell; but all the members of the Conservative Society, founded under his lordship's patronage, will give him th eir active support. DCBLIN UNIVERSITT.—Professor M'Cullagh El pushing forward his claims with earnestness and success. Among the many friends who have come forward with their support is a name not undistinguished in our own university or in the literature of England—Dr. M. Cooke Taylor. DUBLIN CITT.—Up to this moment it is more than doubt fal whether Mr. John O'Connell will go to the hustings in this city. No announcement of his retirement will, how ever, be made earlier than Thursday next, nor will the fed be known before that_day. DUNDELIC.—Lord Roden, not content with his son, Vis count Jocelyn, will put forward it is stated a Mr. It. D. Herne—a Roman catholic solicitor, of Dublin. Another candidate, Dr. O'Reilly, of Cavan, ill start on the real re peal interest, in opposition to the M'Tavish affectation while a moderate conservative candidate is talked el in the person of a Captain Moore. GLOUCESTER Ctry.—Mr. Price, of Tibberton Court, has accepted the invitation of the electors to come forward to succeed Mr. Philippa. DALITAI.—We have now five candidates in the field, offering the electors every variety of choice. The respective friends of each party have been assiduously canvassing the - - town during the week, but with what relative success pen baps nothing but the poll booth may publish. The addre of Mr. Ernest Jones was placarded in the town oa Tuesday • but that of Mr. Miall is not yet issued. HCLL.—We are informed that Sir James Graham has withdrawn his pretensions to the representation of this ' borough. conservatives of this county meditate • mooed candidate with Mr. Herbert, to eject M. J. O'Con nell. They rely on the diserdercd state of the registry, but their hopes of success would prove slight. Mr. Herbert would combine his strength with M. J. O'Connell, which would defeat any other combination. MARTLIBONIL—Lest evening a great public meeting of the electors of the borough of Marylebone took place at the Marylebone Theatre, in Church-street, Portman-market, for the purpose of hearing the political sentiments of Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, as a candidate to represent the borough in parliament. The Chairman having opened the business of the evening, Mr. D. W. Reeves- came forward to address the vast assembly, and was again received with the must tremendous cheering, which lasted for several minutes. The applause having subsided, Mr. Harvey said this was the fourth meet ing of the electors of Marylebone he had had the honour of addressing, and the more be was amongst them the more he was convinced that he possessed the feeling of the vast ma jority of the reformers of the borough his (meet (Cteen.) Although he had been out of parliament for seven years, the reception he (Mr. Harvey) had met with that evening, and from the electors of Marylebone generally, showed that his past parliamentary services in behalf of the people were not forgotten. (Hear, bear.) Ho was aware that they had a noble lord 'before the borough—(" Oh, oh," and laughter) —but he (Mr. Harvey) thought, in the first place, if the people wished to preserve a proper balance of power in their own hands, they would not select a men who wag likely to give to the House of Peers a double representation. (Hear, hear.) The time had arrived when the people of this country should no longer submit to be represented by the nominees of territorial aristocrats, but by men who would be representatives of the intelligence and industry of the people. (Cheers.) It was not to be expected that a great borough like that could either be allowed to be made a school for politics or a college for political conversions. (Hear, hear.) It ought rather to be made a reward for those whose parliamentary career rendered promises unnecessary, and their acts above suspicion—for those who had stood up for the rights of the people, and who had advocated the principles of reform, when to do so we/twitch rod to suffer persecution. (Hear, hear.) It was to the record of past times that he (Mr. Harvey) would refer the electors of Marylebonc for his character. (Cheers.) He had himself recently referred to the old musty records of Hansard, and amongst the entire stock there was not a single vote or speech that he would wish for one moment to retract or modify. (Hear.) There was no one could ever charge him with having given a single vote adverse to the interests of the people, or with having shard his conduct in the House of Commons for his own individual interest. (Hear, bear.) He (Mr. Harvey) was the only man who dared in the House of Commons to oppose the pension to the widow of Canning, notwithstanding his ' transcendent abilities, because all his acts had been adverse to the interests of the people, as exhibited in the Manchester massacre. (Cheers.) He also opposed the grant of 10,0001. to the Duke of York for supporting his own father. (Cheers.) He had laid the foundation of the destruction of the pension list, which, instead of being swallowed up by the undeserving aristocracy, was cow being distributed amongst such deserving persons as the poet Hood'. widow and family, the widow of that light of Christianity, Dr. Chal mers, an d Father Mathew. (Cheers.) With respect to the claims of the various candidates before the borough, Sr B. Hall, the present member, was well known to them. (Cheers.) , With regard to Serjeant Shea, all that could he said against him was that he was an untried man, and that a borough like Marylebone ought to be represented by a tried man. , (Cheers.) With regard to Lord Dudley Stuart, it would • have been well for him if he had been squally untried with the learned serjeant. (Hear, hear.) Whilst in the House of Commons the noble lord had proved him , self a very backsliding reformer. (Hear, hear.) Had such men as Joseph Hume or George Grote, both residents • of the borough, been before the electors, he (Mr. Harvey) would not have appeared before the borough; but in the r absence of such men, and when a gentleman who had no . parliamentary conduct to refer to, and a noble lord whose parliamentary conduct as a reformer would not bear the light of day, were the only candidates, he (Mr. Harvey) felt he had a far greater claim on their support. (Loud avers) I The hon. candidate then declared himself a supporter of ens , versal suffrage, of the vote by ballot, of triennial parliaments. a decided enemy to centralization, but at the same time en , advocate for responsibility. With regard to the church, he was desirous of teeing the funds properly distributed, and the r poor hard-working curate properly paid out of the enormous revenues of the bishops and sinecurists. (Cheers.) After further referring to his parliamentary conduct. Mr. Harvey proceeded to detail the persecution he had suffered in a clause being introduced by parliament to disqualify him, as polio. commissioner, from sitting in the House of Commons. He came before the borough a free man bound in fetters, and he asked the men of Marylebone to strike his fetters off. (Cheers, and " We will.") The hon. gentleman at much further length showed the advantages which would result from the removal of the bishops from the House of Lords, and said he would vote against the endowments of an established church, whether catholic, protestant, or non conformist. Mr. Harvey then resumed his seat amidst loud and continued cheering. In answer to various questions put to him, Mr. D. W. Harvey said he would resign his police-commiesionership as soon as he could ascertain tiat the majority of the liberal electors of the borough were in his favour. He would support a mere extended scheme of go ' vernment education, one that would not interfere with the principles of religion.—Mr. H.C. Wilson moved a resolution: " That this meeting, taking into consideration the long tried services of Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey in the cause of the people, consider him especially and pre-eminently qua lified to represent the electors of Marylebone in the Com• mons' House of Parliarneat." (Tremendous applause.)—Mr. Potter seconded the resolution, which, after some tette re marks in eulogy of the hon candidate, was put from the chair, and carried unanimously, amidst the most vociferous cheering.—A vete of thanks vine subsequently been passed to the chairman, nine c were given for Mr. D. W. Harvey, end the proceedin inated. MEATSL—Mr. Henry Grat Mad Mr. Corbalty will t o undyposed. NEWCASTLE ON-TT/111.—A COD ,bas somewhat ones peat city arisen in this borough. Thomas &ammo& Headiest', a barrister, son of Ar n Headlam, of Wycliffe, Yorkshire, and nephew of r. Headlam, of New castle, has issued an address to the elertors. He is • free trader, and will be supported by the extreme liberals. hl Hodgson Hinds and Mr. Ord, the sitting members are ame - candidates, and it will require extraordinary influence ir, favour of Mr. Headlam to defeat Mr. Hinde, against who., the opposition is chiefly directed. Mr. Dellis very popular with the old whig party, so that Mr. Headlam has two very powerful opponents to encounter. M Q r. , T z al l Talbot is New Ross.—Mr. J. H. Talbot will start for this borough. He is father-in-law to Mr. Redington, the under secretary. ja C a oe rePe are al .— er Th . e resignation of Sir Charles Coots, and the substitution of Mr. Wilson Fitzpatrick, will give an additional supporter to the whig government. SCARBOROCOH.—Sir John Johnstone, tart., and the Ear& of Mulgrave, are in undisturbed possession of the field, anti there is little doubt that both will be elected without a pelt Sr F. W. Trench retires. . STOCILPORT.—After an saturate scrutiny of the Matt of the canvass, we are informed by a gentleman, in whose veracity we have entire confidence, that Mr. Kershaw's i return s pertain. We cannot conceive of any free trade elector, after reading Mr. Cobden's address, voting for any other candidates than Mr. Cobden and Mr. Kershaw. The latter gentleman is a free trader of tried convictions, and, in the language of Mr. Cobden, is one " who will guard with firmness the great measures of last year from the dangers to which they_may.be exposed in their transition state."—Manchester Guardian . SOUTH SHIELD/.—There will be a very severe contest in this borough, between Mr. Wawn, the sitting member, and Mr. Whiteley, the new candidate on the conservative in terest. It is admitted at present by both parties that the result is uncertain, as the strength of each candidate is be lieved to be nearly balanced. Torszse.—The liberals intend bringing forward Mr. Sampson Ricardo, a brother to Mr. Ricardo, II P. The I Hon. Edwd. Petre has given up the idea of contesting the seat with Mr. Barry Baldwin. Wact.e.—The Bristol Mirror states that there is no pros pect of any opposition to the re-election of the present itesiben. WISTISCKY.—Mr. Higgins, of Lowndes•street, Belgrave square, has addressed this - constituency, as a liberal conserva tive, in opposition to Mr. Wilson, of the Iloonomitt. Wicitow.—Bir Ralph Howard having retired frem this county, Colonel Acton and Lord Milton will be returned pro bahle without opposition. WIXTOILD B01101)011.—Sir Thomas Esmovide strenuously urges his claims, and bids the electors remember pest times, when be made sacrifices in their behalf. Mr. Richard Reve nue, brother of the nominee of the Repeal Club, addressee the constituency in behalf of his brother, now in Belgium—. of course as a repealer. WICK B011.01:111.—Mr. Loch has issued his circular an nouncing his intention of again standing. No opposition. Tuneorni.—A meeting of the liberal electors of this borough was held on Monday evening, convened by Mr. Alderman Cobb (the chairman of the committee appointed at a previous meeting), to find a candidate for the representa tion of the borough, in the place of Mr. Willahere, retired, the sudden illness of Mr. Wynn Ellis, who engaged, if approved by the electors, to come down and declare his political opinions, having again left them without a candidate. R. Bagshaw, Esq., had promised to offer himself to the electors ; but, in the meantime, proceedings were going forward which operated injuriously, by tending to produce dimension in the body. And a pretended intima tion from Mr. Willehere that he would willingly withdraw his resignation and again come forward, was made use of to multiply differences ; the consequence of which was, that Mr. Bagshaw resigned. It was ultimately agreed that a public meeting of all the electors of the borough be con vened on Thursday evening, and that any gentleman who might choose to offer himself as a candidate, be invited to attend and address the meeting. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JoLy 5. The country papers of Saturday report on the state and prospects of the harvest, and all without excep tions are favourable to a fortunate issue. Some be gin to apprehend injurious consequences from the . excessive heat, which gives a dried and shrivelled ap pearance to the leaves of the potato stalk in very close and heavy soils. But in years before disease was known these appearances afforded very little un easiness, and in no degree affected the crop. How-