The Express. — London, England, 1853-04-13 00:00:00

Ott: service, as woU as ft the 'things in the o;)inions etre WS NI to living with their families. W:iIEESIDE rose, amidst loud cries of " divide," w issidly from his own side of the house. After alluding h a dr overt:wee of preserving ancient institution*, he , said die pig as ongioally devised for the destruction of odamaaptil, was one of nothing less than coonication. • Is was raw Kilinaig ham was useless ; if so, eh, :sea was' o gdess; m.:13 also be abolished. (Hear, hear.) UMW .....;antint in favour of the scheme, was economy; be belie". •1 it sack erinniniets were dissected, neither blood sofbaai . would be found in them, but a considerable itodd itty ..1 red tape. (Chien and laughter.) The late mi ;four• b.o. wi a charred wi , hearctioning this scheme ; but they hail - • .y nhipti.t the estimates oftheir predecsmors. I.irds: 'olol' It hoped hon. members would not be led seat :: • talLuious arguments th gt bad been use,), bat wou ld e t government on (hi* question. (Hear.) Mr. ,•,I.Lit:b said that when be was Secretary at War 2 , 1 pear , ~ t!... suhject eras pressed on his attention. At t u t um ions I smoke's of this establishment was the d a ughter of a noble lord with a 'Miry of 4901. a year, ()eard.. •) 11.. brand staff (dicers of all descriptions masimusi tine eetehlUtymens, not adjutants pselen fate Irish forces rieClVlag pay and euvolunonts Out of tl. • 4.. nay vote.l for it, aad that, instead of the in. mates • ne servine old soldiers worn out and ili , abled in , c rap • at ties country. be found jobs of all kind, were perpetret . by eologiels of 'militia end yeomanry corps in fa .", a P. si wnu had sever seen service abroad during their Luc ••14 hie, ) 110 thou,;ht at the perod when be at a, ta t . . ^num. 'Waggon that the eetablishoteut was me ws, sad ...1 it toted, il an unnecessary exp.-eise on the am mtly, an.l be •Inocibt so now—titter, bear)—and he hoged.ll .1 le, that the hour. would not assent to the pee wit i t Col. Li .r 4 AI7, who spoke unlit loud and repeated calls far a il - • ~ quoted the eviiionce of Col. 'Collie to show that man.. t th, pinsioners in Kihusinhons would, if they were tut . out a that establishment, become chirpeaLle t o the I -rate, as they could not possibly exist on the t r ,th oit p u..a of thriepeuee, (maw nee, or livepence a day. Tbt a ts, ut ae to the •t expense uf Kilmainham was over. h ued, s was to be recollected that those otßeer. who hem al a i i• that establishment were not receiving their ha ; .y. The I. .:ilea divided— For , motion A z ,~, ' The at onammiment of the numbers was followed by load chew Ii• the opsition. DK po UIMAL COINAGE. dion of Mr. W. Bsowte, the following select to take into consideration soil report to the iiractica' ility and advantages, or otherwise, that 'ruin ad-nting a decimal system of coinage, was -Mr. William Brown, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. John • A L III .1, Mr. Alderman Thompson, Mr. Dunlop, o F.vster, Lord Stanley, Mr. Moody, Mr. ' , lir John B-njarnin Smith, Sir William Clay, Cliandoe, Sir William Jolleffe, and Mr. Oa th atandat , bow tt foil! or appw.t. m. the bl Kinaair. Mr. 11 forred to RYE ELECTION. LEIS atoned that both the Rye petitions be re o., committee on the Rye elseion to be inquired retd to. MALDON. Lord It. GROSVENOR moved that no writ be issued for tilt 1 .•IPlldh of Mahlon before the let day of May next. REC.: L.t'l lON OF ROUSES OF EN fEitTAINMENT. Mr. ‘V BROWN moved for the appointment of a select commit* , to examine into the system under which public bosses, hotels, beer shops, dancing saloons, coffee houses, thesgasa, tensper.ince hutch, and plates of public entertain ment, by w tesiever name they might be called, were sane tweed, Rini were now regulated, with a view of reporting to this 1,w., wilethi.r soy alteration or amendment of the law cuuld he ro.ide for the better preservation of public morale, t'.e protection of the revenue, and for the proper acenmn.o.latiou of the public, with power to send for per sons, p Jr.,e and records, so far as they might deem it necesssr.—Avreed to. 111INATION OF WORKMEN BILL On ii minion of Mr. Discxxoxo, this bill passed through 13CRODIS (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the . - .,onion turconsidering the amendments to this bill, Mr. E. ELMS moved, sad My. EWART seconded, the &losing case : "And be it enacted, that the provisions of the lire: before recited act, as applicable to burghs not included 'n Schedule C annexed to said act, and also the provisioe- of an act passed in the fifteenth and sixteenth ran of the reign of her present M ijesty, intituled • An set to alter anti amend certain provisions in the laws relat ing to the :amber gad election of magistrates and coon eillers in the burghs of Scotland,' shall be and are hereby ext.•nded to the burghs contained in Schedule Fof the fint-rentA set, and so much of the said fint-recited act as excepts tl i said burghs from the said provisions is hereby repealed; provided always, that no burgh shall be held to come wir..ia the provisions of this act where, at the time of the paseiev .4 this act, the number of elector a registered in the registi i of such burgh as qualified to vote in the elec tion of a el ratter of parliament is less than thirty." Mr. De %we end the LORD ADVOCIIIII opposed the clause, aria recommended its withdrawal, which was com plied with The azue , idments were thee agreed to. _ AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS BILL. This bill passed through committee. The hou adjourned at 12 o'clock. PAILS UN CLNILOT RUIRTZS BILL —llOll. W. H. B. I'ortailau !or, with Mr. Sturt against; Mr. G. H. Vernon for. with Cilonel Harooort against. We err ri.quested to auto that Mr. Deedes was prevented by inditpu.itiun from voting sgiinat the Canada Reserves Bill on Nto.iday last. Lord Newport paired off last night with the lion. F. Leveson .wer. Vbe Court. HEALTH OF II ER MAJESTY. The following Bulletin of her Majesty's health was boned tin. morning " Buckingham Palace, April 13, 1843, Nine o'clock, a m. "The Queen is convalescent. ." 1 be lama l'riscs continues win. Jsr'e CLUE. M.D. CHALLIS Locock, M.D. " ROST. FIIOCSON, M.D. M sksty's recovery is to far 'dumped that no further bullitine w be issued.' The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yester day. at Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert reds out on horseback yesterday, atteaded by Lieut C.luael F. N. Seymour. Ths V.ecountesa Canning has succeeded the Countess of Ousabowougli in her duties as the lady in waiting to the Queen. No Bulletin el berMajesty's health was issued yesterday. Thu Bucher of Kan viWutd the Duchess of Gionoaster, yesterday, at Olemesetim-house, Piccadilly. • depat Won frsue Um Epidemiclogien] Society, on the subject or the VISChIIII6IIB Extension Bill, had an interview with Earl Granville, pmherday, at the Privy Conneil-olico. The deputation minniMnil a Dr. Bahia/ton, Mr. Orsini/sr, Dr. Walser Loa* ned Dr. Seaton. A &ptyalin* Bum Hyde, miniisting of Dr. J. Bell Baiter sod Mr. B. istrow, had an interview yesterday with the (lemma lisseiletallith, at their dam, Whitehall. ,;= A --- tisTa lie; esiFigistori; -- el We' Fester Na Ommpagy MI sa laurels, with Mr. Wilma, at the ransary,=. The deputation conairtedef Mr. H. T. Nape ), Mr. E. L. Betts, Mr. J. Bathe, Mr. itishart M'Caltnert, Mr. R. J. R. Campbell, aad Mr. P. W. 8. Miles, Mr. J. K. Brunel and Mr. Yates (Secretary). Mr. J. (gird bed an interview with the Duke of New castle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A deputatioa frees the ratepayers of the borough of Ply mouth bad an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health at their cam, Whitehall. The deputation now. noted of Messrs. Hill, Stephens, Mortimer, and Elwortby. The J atheist Committee of the Queen's Most Hon. Privy Council eat yesterday at the Council-office, Whitehall. Present . Lord Justice Turner, Lord Justice Knight Bruce, the Jude of the Admiralty Court, Sir Edward Ryan, and Sir J. Pettifog. After two motions to fix hearing " Tem pleton's Patent " and " Robertson's Patent ." a petition— " Birley's for Extension of Bodmer's Patent (Tools)"—wu part heard. A Cabinet Council ins held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-oalce, Downing-street. The Ministers present were :—The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir Wil liam Molesworth. The Council sat two hours and three-quarters. Mega last night's Gosette.) LORD CIANDERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 11.—Notice is hereby given, that his Royal Higlmese Prince Albertwill, the desire of ha Majesty, hold levees at St. James's ralme, on behalf of her Majesty, oa the following days, at two o'clock :—Wedneeday, the 20th instant ; Wednesday, the 27th Instant. It is her Majesty's pleasure that prows tatmes to his Royal Highness at these levees shall be con sidered equivalent to presentations to the tlaven. Addresses lis the Queen may either be forwarded to her Msjestv through the Secretary of State for the Home Department, or may be reserved until her Majesty shall hold a levee. ADMIRALTY, APRIL 8. Corps of lt!tyal Marines.—First Lieutenant and Adjutant in °tge Wentworth nab,* to be captain, vier H. D. krsome. deceased; First Lieutenant Edmund Charles Dotaville to be adjutant, vire Forbes, promoted ; &&- road Lieutenant Richard John Hardy Douglas to be first lieutenant, vice Forlus ; Seisond Lieutenant Jacob Itichsr , :s Lloyd to he first lieutenant, vier It. F. Tucker, placed on half-poy. NEW DEPUTY-LIEUTENANTS. CARDIGANSHIRE. David Davin, Esq , Owynet Tyler, Eeq., Thomas DES . and William /Suck, Esq. •t erpre,ol3. TO CORI:UPON 6ENTS. k -"Mid Mitten ;f 1 . 4 o•eah . g's a 11 *.wt*," pubtlikal over/ Twriday ■ fad Inds , a.4:a, a.: fcr pl4t. A aczusomputo 'Mended !CIT "'MO Ewers," Leo-las r•eniag 'ma; 7 .At tau the °diet., 10, Bouvarfooaroot, by lag 0'00... as tin fay of rabilostios. 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIMS. 701. DAT —Manua,. 4e. Afterr nom. Se. Om. to.romanw—llorMag, 34. 17... Arum...A. Se. 34... LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL )3. profit of full 5 per cent. It is agreeable to see the array of names of men of title and distinction who met at a convivial table to forward such a work. It is a sign of the times more pregnant with meaning than many a showy political contest. Ir a merchant or trader hired a collecting clerk to gather debts, and the clerk received all the money, and then out of the sum total set up for himself houses, and assistants and servants, paying away for the purpose 5,622,2571. sterling before he handed over a shilling to his employer, what would that employer say ? Either the merchant would insist upon receiving the full amount of his own property,—paying back what was agreed on fur the cost of collection,—or his neighbours would say ho was idiotic, and his relatious might even sae out a commission de lunatico. Either the clerk must be honest on demand, or the matter would at once fall within the jurisdiction of ' the Old Bailey. The owner of private property has the right of deciding how the ptocceds of that property . shall be spent, and accordirg to the constitutional theory of the English govern ment JOHN BOLL is supposed to enjoy, in ielerence to his public income of some fifty millions a year, the same salutary power which Ilitows, JONES, and ROBINSON invariably exercise over their smaller revenues. According to the writers on con stitutional law no money arising from taxation can be spent in England without the supervision and centre' of Parliament, but every-day experience and Parliamentary documents demonstrate that in 1851, six millions of the public money " never reached the Exchequer ' • of which amount 5,622,2571. was deducted from the gross rezeipte of the taxes by the various Ittivenue Departments— and expended by the said departments for tho pay ment of their officers and for other purposes." In short, JOHN Bei.t. has a chief collecting clerk, who never pays into the good gentleman's bunker what he takes from the people until he has first helped himself to the round sum of nearly six millions for pay ment of himself and his officers. It is almost needless to repeat, that the only legal, proper and business-like mode in all such cases is for a gatherer of money to pay it all to the account of the owner of the cash, receiving in due and proper time a cheque for the cost agreed upon for the la bour of collection. Yet honest, regular, and proper as this mode will on all other hands be admitted to be, successive Governments have denied the proposi tion. For generations the opposite system has been permitted to continue, and Minister after Mi nister in the House of Commons has ignored the shameful breach of constitutional law, and snubbed those honest and independent Liberals who have called for reformation. So distasteful was the subject to House of Commons sensibility, that none but men of strong will and great firmness of purpose ven tured to moot the topic at all, and year by year the only recompense they had was the sense of having done their duty to the Country amongst whose repre ntatives they were. Yet in all these cases the truth of the old proverb, usogna est reritas, &T., is vindizated at last. For how many years, was Vii.uutts's Motion " looked on in the ' House of Commons as a Quixotic bore ; in how many successive Parliaments was it jolted about, and postponed, sod " dropped through " and snubbed in all possible Parliamentary ways. Yet now we see VILLIMS'S motion resolved into law and Ministerial programmes and policy based on its Free-trade principle. So with the motion of the in defatigable Mr. WILLIAM WILLIAMS, on the payment ! of all taxes into the Exchequer. Again and again has he had it " on the paper." Sometimes he has been counted oat—sometimes has had a somewhat Though we cannot admit Lord SHAFTESBURY'd proposal of a legal compulsion to provide abodes for all lodgers turned out of their dwellings by metropo litan improvement, it becomes more evident, from month to month, that what cannot be done by law will be done as a matter of social expediency, and most . probably of commercial profit. Times and circumstances have changed remarkably sinoe improvement iu the dwellings of the working classes ! was first taken in hand; but, unless we are much mistaken, there are still greater changes impending, which will compel yet more striking improvements. As far as we know, the first clear practical design to improve the character and condition of the working man by improving his abode was HOWARD'S—before he began visitin/ pri sons. On And about his estate in Bedfordshire, the labourers were living in mud huts, under rotting thatch. He could not bear to see this; and he chose good ground, and built good cottages, and put people into them, whom he expected to make goad by the process. It is true he was ill rewarded. His charity was bestowed, in this and other particular ways, so as to tempt the people in one direction, as much as it retrieved them in another; but all great reforms have their admixture of error and infirmity at the outset ; and that outset is what remains for posterity to be grateful 14,when the error is discovered and expiated. Howaito be gan to improve the dwellings of the labouring class iu his rural district ; sod at the end of nearly a cen tury, we are finding out how to accomplish his aim on a large scale, without the drawback of his natural mistakes. Haifa century atter him, Dr. FERRIAR addressed the operatives on the state of their health, and the advice he gave discloses something of the condition of the people's dwellings. He warned them against pollution from slaughter-houses; against damp ethers and unaired Bleeping-places. And now, at the end of another halt-century, we have a PRINCE CONSORT exhibiting model cottages, and presiding over the opening of model lodging houses, and announcing the inte rest felt by the SOVEREIGN in the enterprise of improving the dwellings of the working men and women of the kingdom ; and, what is yet more im portant, we are finding that the enterprise is not, like HOWARD'S, mischievous in one direction while beneficial in another; but good for everybody, be cause it is economically sound, as well as socially just and kind. This is the bright side of the matter. The dark one is very dark. It may be that in How AHD'S time the labourers' cottages were as bad as env we have now; and we believe it really was so; but in the towns there was hardly anything to compare with the horrors of our crowded cellars cud garrets at this day. Though the poverty may not have increased, the numbers have, and far beyond the increase of house accommodation ; so that the scenery of our low lodging-houses is ghastly and horrible beyond everything conceived of by the HO WARDS and. the FERRIARS who began the reform. They could hardly have seen what we may see now—beds in a crowded room, with a corpse in one and a young mother and infant in another, with swearing men using the foot of the bed for a card-table. They could hardly have imagined (for it was before Ilowaau visited prisons) how vermin may multiply in such places, how infants may pine in an atmo sphere which the pet canary of some novice cannot survive for a single night, or how closely sleeper* may be packed under the inducement of paying threepence instead of fourpence for their shelter. We have had abundance of warning about the condi tions of health, as well as morals and manners. We have. known that in certain airless localities, in all parts of the world,' cretinism springs up as surely as the appropriate vegetation. We have known of it, not only in the close Swiss valleys, but in Pennsylvania, where the residents on ono side of a hill near Pittsburg sank into such a state of cretinism as to abandon the place degrees; and all who turned the shoulder of the kill began at once to recover. We had plenty of evidence of this; yet we allowed cretinism and kin dred diseases to be bred in the cellars of Liverpool till a very recent time. We know that on the breezy Alps, where health dwells, if anywhere, the herds men become scrofulous, with few exceptiors, from the time that they begin to sleep in their close chalets, where, if there are windows, they will not open; and men, beasts, dung, arid sour milk are shut up together for eight hours in the twenty-four. We know how the case is the same with the French shepherds on the Vosges and the slopes of the Pyrenees—carrying about with them, as they do, their huts which have no window but only a door that is always kept shut. We know how the case is the same in St. Kilda, where eight out of ten infants die before they are twelve days old, and where those who can continue to breathe the air of a St. Kilda hut have a great struggle to go through to reach manhood. Yet, knowing these things, we have still, in tho neighbourhood of almost every one of us, places as bad as chalet or Wand hut, and much more crowded. Instead of the manure being on the floor, as in St. Kilda, it is under the floor, through whale cracks the vapour steams up ; and there, side by side, or huddled together whichever way a foot of room can be found, are human beings bedded on filthy straw ;—how much less cleanly than the beasts among the fern in the thicket ! how much more brutish than the cattle in their stall, and the hounds in their kennel ! It was this state of things which led to the legislation of 18Z1, in regard to lodging-houses—pro- viding for the supervision and control of existing lodging-houses, and permitting the erection of new ones, or the adaptation of old ones to new wants, in parishes or boroughs containing not lees than 10,000 inhabitants. We observe that Lord SHAFTESBURY, in a letter to the newspapers, declares himself beset by anonymous correspondents who petition for new legislation on the subject of lodging-houses, feeling the pressing need, and being unaware of what has been already done. This is a good sign. encouraging, but generally what to other men would have been *very discouraging modicum of sup port. Still, on he went until last year, in a moment of unguarded candour, Mr. DISILIELI said something which made men think he might some day accom plish the reform which Mr. WILLIAMS'S motion Lad so often shown the need of. Since then a twelvemonth has gone by,—another Budget, from another Chancel lor of the Exchequer, is impending, and, true to his self.imposed duty, the honourable member for Lam beth last night once more had his motion on the paper and the House of Commons by the button. The motion ran as follows : That it appears, by a return ordcred by this Home in the present session, thet an enormous amount of the public massy is actually intercepted on its way from the people's pockets to the Treasury, and expend( d without the sanction and control of this House, and in violation of the oonstitu tiond principle, that an taxes shall he imposed upon the people, or the p roduct thereof expended, without the autho rity of their representatives in parliament. That the said return shows, that "the amount intercepted and expended in the year 1851, which never reached the Exchequer, was 6,072,1517. 9e. 9d., of which amount 5,622,2671. was deducted from the gross receipts of the taxes by the various rename departments, and expended by the said depasumats fee the payment of their officers, sad other wpm% without the supervision and control et Pastimmmat ; That, for the security of the public monies, and ammo keeping of the public accounts, it is indispeor. abbe that*, whole of the pubic income should, without any detiveiliew whatever, be paid into her Majesty's Exche quer, sail that ao portion of it should be is ued therefrom, on any pins we pretence, without the sanction of Parliamenti as it was Tessumsaded by the Commission, which consisted of Miamian of this House, appointed by the Crown in the year 111131. In hie speech supporting the view thus expressed Mr. WILLIAMS pointed out the real importance of the subject,when—to the great surprise of many who listened, and to the certain satisfaction of all Re formere—Mr. Otmairrome made the Ministerial an. nouncement " that the duty he had to discharge on the present occasion—both as regarded himself and u regarded the Government—was an extremely simple one. As regarded himself, many years ago he expressed an opinion that the charges connected with the collection of the revenue ought to be brought under the control of Parliament. As re spected the Government, since he had been in office he had thought it right to inquire into the practica bility of effecting a great change in this matter, be cause he was aware that an abstract opinion as to the necessity of a change was of little avail; and it had been the subject of consideration with him and his colleagues. They were of opinion that effect ought to be given to this principle, and they should not desist from their endeavours until they had arranged the measures which would be necessary for carrying it into effect." ...." Everything that properly belonged to the collection of the public income most unques tionably ought to be brought before the control of parliament, and they should never attain a right system till those terms were clearly fulfilled.".... " His view was, that bringing this expenditure under the control of parliament, would very greatly strengthen the hands of the heads of those depart ments, and would lead to a great deal of retrench ment" Corer OF ALDERMlDC—Yesterday a court was held, which. was numerously attended. A number of gentlemen were admitted se brokers. Mr. Thomas Pillow and Mr. John Dudin were elected members of the Court of Assistants of the Watermen and Lightcrinen's Company instead of Mr. James Ligon and Mr. Thomas Hill, re signed. A discuujost of some length took place upon the report for the appointment of governor and chaplain of the prison at Holloway, and it was sent back for farther consi deration upon the motion of Alderman Wilson. It was ordered that the names and addresses of all persons apply ing to the court to be admitted as brokers of this City be put up in some conspicuous place in the Guildhall one week prior to the date of the holding of the court at which such application is intended to be made. BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL.—The house committee of Bethlehem, at a recent meeting, resolved that in conse quence of the appointment of a resident physician it was not necessary to continue the Ake of visiting physician, but that instead of holding that office Dr. Monro should be elected consulting physician to the hospital, receiving the usual remuneration wiz called in. To this confession of Ministerial views and in tentions Mr. GLADSTONE appended certain remarks on hereditary pensions, and on some other points, to which we beg to hike objection ; but still the point remains, that the Taxes are all to come under Parliamentary control. Mr. DisitAxii might per haps have done this—Mr. GLADSTONE is about to do it. The Derbyite his lost the laurel the Peelite is likely to pluck—and wear. This is a great triumph in its way for the Member who has been the pioneer of the reform, and whose motion induced the announcement. It will be no METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION.—Yesterday morning a general court of commissioners was held at the branch office, Alie street, Goodman's•flelds. The following rates were ordered to be advertised :—Ranelagh district—a rate of 6d. in tke pound would produce 24,5001., and the present cash credit of the district was 7,3801., giving a total of 31,*-.801. Against this amount there were—present lia bilities 4,3121., works in course of construction 20,9,531., general works 7,0001., showing a total of 32,2631. ; contin gent works were also required. Richmond district—a rate of tkl. la the pound would produce 1,0501. ; and against this sum was—cash overdrawn 8761., works to be executed. 9751., liabilities existing 6551., showing a total required of 1,6301., besidesminor works. Finsbury district—a rato of 6d. in the pound would produce 24,0001., and the sum avail able, with the present cash credit and uncollected rates, would be 27,5301. ; avaintt this there were present liabili ties 5,2161., end works required 2'2,7731, and showing a total of 28,0191. The court having made the necessary orders proceeded to hear summonses and appeals, hone of which presented any feature of public interest. Adjourned. leas gratifying to the country. We now see Mr. WILLLUVI in a fair way for the consummation of a reform he has long striven for. Jois . BULL is likely to have all his income paid honestly to his banking credit; and when this proper reform is accomplished, a debt of public gratitude will be due to the man who has striven through good and evil report to bring the reform about. SHIPWRECK AT JEtturs.—A Dutch galliot, named the Groninger, was wrecked off St. Ouen's, in the island of Jersey, last week. She was bound from Dutch Guiana to Rotterdam. The commander had not seen the sun for three days, and mistook Guernsey for Scilly. The whole of the crew, nine in number, perished, except the mate, who was washed ashore before life was extinct, and who, by the kindness and attention of the inhabitants of Jersey, reelvered. The erew were seen from the shore clinging to the epars of the wreck, but no ii,is.anee could Do ren dered them. A floc tie ciptaiii swam ashore. This noble animal had es iiieiiti) Cu s..vu its matter, for portions of the c tptain's clothes were hanging about its jaws when it reached, in an exhausted condition, the land. The inhabitants lichavcd kindly to the brave and devoted creature, and it soon recovered. IT is with a hopeful confidence that we record, this day, the proceedings of another society, formed ex pressly to promote the improvemmt of the dwellings of the working classes. Acting upon tree economienl principles they have laid, in the must expensive part of London, the first stone of buildings calculated for the accommodation of 64 families, or full 300 souls, and propose upon the requisite outlay to nail,* a THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1853. FRANCE. PARIS, TOZSDAT ETZNINO. The Moniteur contains a copy of a circular letter addressed to the prefects respecting the strict super vision of cafés and concert rooms. The Emperor still continues confined to his apart ment, in consequence of indisposition. The Paine of yesterday evening says : A recent despatch from the Levant gives some fresh de tails which have not yet been mentioned. On the 27th ult., there were in the port of Constantinople an English war steamer of 450-horse power, three Russian despatch vessels, and the French steam frigate the chaptal. The Turkish squsdron was at anchor at the Gulden Horn; and they &a -1 posted to be making arrangements for • start in • few (Ilya. The news of the approaching arrival of M. de la Cour, the new French ambassador, was current in the city, and had produced an excellent effect, and the news in cir culation in the bestliffurmed circles was of a very tran quillising character. Another despatch from Egypt an nounces that two Turkish vessels of war, a sailing frigate of 60 pans, and • brig of 16 guns, were at anchor off Alexandretta. The Emperor has received the reply of the Grand Duke of Hesse to the notification of the marriage of his Imperial Majesty. At the Bourse to-day tho market for public secu rities was dull, and the business transacted was at a decline on yesterday's quotations. The Three and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for cash, fell 50c., and for the account 50e. each. Bank Stock remained unchanged. The following are the closing prices:— For cash—Three per Cents., 80f. 25c.; Four-and-a- Half ner Cents., 1031. 25c. For the account—Three per dents., 150 E 45c.; hour-autl-a-Hai r per Cents., 103 f. 45c. Bank Stock, 2,735. In the railway share market, with the exception of Westerns of France, and Paris and Rouen, the former of which advanced 10E, and the latter SE, all the leading lines declined in value, and closed heavily. Last quotations : —Northern, 903 E; Or leans, 1,048 f.; Paris and Strasbourg, 830 E 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 947 f. 50c.; Paris and Rouen, 1,062 f. 50c.; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 807 E 50c.; Western of France, 765 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 513 f. Credit Foncier advanced 17E, and closed at 919 f.; and Credit Mobilier declined 11 f., closing at 930 E Latest quotations by telegraph : Frankfort— Metalliques Five per Cents., 971; Four-and-a- Half per Cents., 77k ; Four per Cents., 75. Rusaian, Four-and-a-Half per Cents. (Baring), 1031 : Four per Cents. (Hope), 93; Four per Cents. (Stieglitz), 921. Polish Bonds, 5001, 921. Spanish Three per Cents., Interior, 44 ; One per Cent., 25. Dutch Four per Cents., 961; Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 64t. Hamburg, 931. Exchange on London, 1194. Hamburgh—Austrian Five per Cents., 95. Prussian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102. Russian Five per nts., 105,1; Four-and-a-Halt per Cents., 98 ; Four per Cents (Stieglitz), 911. Sardinian Five per Cents., 91. Spanish One per Cent., 231; Three per Cents., 411, 41. GERMANY. The Berlin newspapers complete the telegraphic despatches respecting the railway tax, which the Second Prussian Chamber has sanctioned. The im post, which is to be levied on the net receipts of the lines, is to be progressive in its ratio. Much objec tion was made to the principle of progressive taxa tion, which the government sought to apply, and the ministers were compelled by the prevalent opinion to stop at a lower figure in the scale of aug mentation than they originally proposed, but the bill passed the first reading. When the net revenue from the capital employed shall not exceed 4 per cent., the tax will be one-fortieth ; when the revenue exceeds 4 but is under 3 per cent., the tax will be one-twentieth; beyond this point the tax will be two-tenths. The popular Berlin newspaper called the Uncalider ("primary elector ") has ceased to appear, being suc ceeded by another from the same press called the Vuaueitung. The first number was published on the 9th, but by 10 o'clock the same morning the copies, 12,000 in number, were seized by the police, and the editor was imprisoned. DENMARK. A despatch, dated Copenhagen, April 7, states that the ministers had accepted the amendment of the 4orisconsult Oersted on the succession question. Phis tact does not concern the point really at issue, as the amendment of M. Oersted admits the principle of the royal message, and refers the settlement of the succession to the King. SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch dated Madrid, April 8, states that the Cortes were suspended on that tiny. The Three per Cent. Interior had fallen to 43: Deferred, 2315.16 ; Coupons, 31. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. A letter from Rome, of the 31st March, in the Cor riere Mercantile of Genoa, states that the nominal capital of the loan contracted by the Roman govern ment with Messrs. Rothschild is eight millions of scudi at 4 per cent. interest and the price of 70. RUSSIA. • The Trieste Gazette states that according to 'times of the 25th of March. from Odessa warlike prepara tions are carried on with great zeal, so that all may be in readiness to start towards the end of April. The preparationii were hardly on such a grand scale in 1812 ; they extend even to Great Russia, and eight steamers are employed on the Wolga in con veying troops to Kertsch. Even old soldiers, who have served 20 and 25 years, are again called under arms. GREECE. The Trieste Gazette reports from Athens that Gen. Macryanni has been found guilty by a military court of conspiring against the lives of the King and Queen. Upon hearing the sentence the General en treated that he might be speedily executed. The judges, however, have earnestly recommended him to the royal clemency. MONTENEGRO. Letters from Zara state that Omer Pacha has taken his stand with the main body of his troops at Podgoritza, just on the frontier of Montenegro, where he can observe all the movements of the Petrowitchee. THE OVERLAND MAIL. (IIT ILICTAIC TILIORAPH.) MARSEILLES, APRIL 12. The mail from Calcutta arrived here this day. AFRICA. ARRIVAL OF THE FAITH. (Br ELECTRIC TELIOILIPTO PLYMOUTH, WIDNZSDAT MORNING. The African Steam Navigation Company's steam vessel Faith, Capt. Parsons, arrived this moraing. Her homeward dates are : Fernando Po, Marsh 5 ; Cameroons, 6; Old Calabar, 7 ; Bonny, 9; Lagos, 11 ; Badagry and Whydah, 12 ; Accra, 13 ; Cape Coast, 15; Monrovia, Liberia, 18 ; Sierra Leone, 23 ; Bathurst, 27; Gorce, 28; Teneriffe, April 3; Ma: deira, 5. - . • She has a full cargo of palm oil, ginger, camwood, pepper, arrowroot, gum, cochineal, wine, ivory, bees wax, and nineteen boxes of gold dust. Feb. 28, at Lagos, H.M.S. Ferret. March 12, off Grand Pope, passed H.M.S Alecto, standing to the eastward. The ateam-ship European, with the African math, sailed from Sierra Leone March 19, at 6 p.m., bound to leeward. March 23, a t Sierra Leone, H.M.S. Bloodhound and Pluto and two French men-of-war. _ ._.._.. The screw steam-ship Antelope left Madeira for Australia April S. LANCASTER ELECTION. LANCASTER, TrItsDAT. The polling took place this dap. The proceedings were throughout very peaceable and orderly ; but from the comma/anent it wu apparent that Mr. Greene would be returned. Tue gate of the poll each half hour was as follows: Greene. Armstrong. SI .58 9 231 10 10i 11 iti 11 12i 1 1} • 2 2i 3 3i Close of the poll at your o'clock : Green Armstrong 654 Majority 132 CAPTURE OF AN EXTENSIVE SWINDLER. A young man of respectable connexions, whose name is John Steeple Kitchen, is in custody in Sheffield on a charge of having obtained 3001. from Messrs. Eyre, Ward, and Co., of that town, merchants, by means of n forged letter. The prisoner is only 19 years old, but he is an adept at fraud. Some time s"o he was a clerk in the respectable house of W. IL Dunes and Kitchen. of Liverpool, shipping and general merchauts,and it a relative Of the junior pe;:sier of that firm, whose name he boars. Having left their em ploy he commenced a bold career of fraud upon their mer cantile connexions, in which he has been only too successful. We may mention one or two of the main transactions. Some months ago he drew 6101. at the Royal Dank of Liverpool in the name of his late employers by means of a forged cheque, we understand, and afterwards succeeded in eluding a most vigilant and cleso pursuit. It was believed, and no doubt hoped, that ho had left his country for his country's good," and emigrated to Australia, but last week he called upon Messrs. Sanderson, Sandiman, and Co., the extensive bill-broken, of King William-street, Landon, with whom he well knew that Mews. Duncan and Kitchen, his late employers, had dealings, and on their account either requested payment of a sum of 3001., or asked for a temporary loan to that amount. In conversation he stated that ho was in London on business, and that he hail received by that morning's post a letter from his employers, instruct ing him to draw the 360/. in question. He was asked to show the letter, and he said he would go to his hotel and fetch it. Ile returned in a short time with the pretended letter of instructions, but it was discovered on examination, from the appearance of the ink, that the letter was newly written. Finding himself detected, he confessed that he had forged the letter for the purpose of fraud, and im plored to be set at liberty. lie was given into custody, and the circumstance telegraphed to Duncan and Kitchen, of Liverpool, who, by the same day's pest, (last Thursday) apprised Messrs. Eyre, Ward, and Co., of Sheffield, of the capture. Mr. F.; re thereupon went to London with a police-officer rind a warrant, and brought the young prisoner down to Sheffield. Mr. Eyre having satisfied the authorities in London that he had a perfectly clear case against the prisoner, it was deemed preferable to proceed upon that case rather than upon the mere at tempt at fraud in the City. The imposture on the Sheffield firm was effected on the 10 , h of March last, in the following manner : On the limning of that day they received a letter, apparently in all respects genuine, purporting to be from Messrs. Duncan and Kitchen, of Liverpool, stating that young Mr. Kitchen, from their establishment, would , call upon them that day, and that they would feel obliged if the Sheffield fires would advance him on their account 3001., to facilitate certain business transactions in Shef field. Young Kitchen presented himself a few hours after the letter was received, and Mr. Eyre imme dietely recognised him as a relative of Mr. Kitchen, of Liverpool, from a close family resemblance, and therefore the stranger had no noisier said a few words to identify himself with the letter, and stated that he was Mr. Kitchen's brother (he is, in fact, his nephew), than Mr. Eyre gave him a cheque for 3001. upon o.le Sheffield and liallainshire Bank, at Sheffield, having full confidence in the Liverpool firm, after a long course of mutual business dealinge. It was now after banking hours, however, Mr. Eyre being out of the way when the young man called. lie expressed anxiety to procure cash, as he had to pay the money in Sheffield to several persons, and wished to leave the town that evening, but he went away, saying he thought he could manage the matter. Next morning ho got the chutes cashed in gold as soon as the bank opened, paid his bill at the Commercial Hotel, and left the town. Mr. Eyre wrote to Liverpool with reference t., the 3001 transaction, and re ceived a prompt answer informing him that the letter requesting him to advance the money was a forgery. Mea• sures were taken immediately for the prisoner's apprehen aion, but be was not found till last week nutlet the circum stances above stated. The forged letter is an admirable counterfeit, both as to penmanship, signature, paper, and everything. The prisoner has been carrying on this system of fraud for a year or little less, and has resided in the interval chiefly at lloinford, in Essex, under the assumed ' name of Henderson. He was brought before the Sheffield ' beach of magistrates on Monday last, and after a statement had been made by Mr. Eyre, the prisoner was remanded fur the production of evidence that the letter of the 9th of March was a forgery. He did not make any statement. COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON MR. FEAROUS O'CONNOR. Yesterday the mental condition of Mr. O'Connor was investigated by a jury of Middlesex freeholders, under the presidency of Commissioner Barlow, at the Roebuck Tavern, Chiswick. Serjt. Shee stated the ease, and after reviewing Mr. O'Connor's career until the period when he was entrusted to the care of Dr. Tuke, which he now en joys, said that there was remaining of Mr. O'Cunuor's pro• pert], about 1,1001., for which it was desired to obtain, by means of this inquiry, the protection of the Court of Chancery, so that by securing a proper maintenance for him, the alleged lunatic might be saved from a future dependence on public support. The first witness called was Mr. Ernest Jones, who de posed to the decay of Mr. O'Connor's formerly vigorous faculties, commencing, in his opinion, about the time when a committee of the House of Commons was appointed to report on his land scheme. His speeches, writings, and social conversation then underwent a great change, being marked by wildness and sometimes by indelicacy. When visiting witness Mr, O'Connor would occasionally burst into a violent fit of laughter, and then into a (hod of tears, with out the smallest perceptible reason for either. Occasionally he would declaim on the ingratitude which he said bad been shown to him by those whom he had befriended, but never in a connected manner. He sometimes put his band to his head and said, " Oh, my head !" and again he would roar like a wild animal for an hour at a stretch. Mr. Dougsl M'Gowan, of Great Windmill-street, deposed to similar facts, and confirmed the accuracy of the reports of the proceedings before the Muter in Chancery, which were published in 1852. Mr. Jacob Bell also deposed to the eccentricities familiar to the readers of the parliamentary reports of the period. • Dr. Tweedie proved having been called in with Mr. Lowrance to see Mr. O'Connor last year, and was decidedly of opinion that he was of unsound mind. He considered him to be suffering under what physicians distinguish as " moral insanity. Dr. Conoliy gave similar evidence. At this stage of the proceedings the jury paid a visit to the asylum of Mr. Tuke at Manor Rouse, and had an interview with him in the garden. Upon seeing Mr. Bell, Mr. Jones, and several of his acquaintance, Mr. O'Connor broke oat into extravagant expressions of delight, praising his friends as the handsomest set of fellows in the world. lie further indulged in singing a political song once popular with his followers, but could not be brought to talk rationally upon any subject. As the learned commissioner and jury passed out Mr. O'Connor appeared anxious to accompany them, but a whisper induced him to return, and he stood in the door way as the company departed exclaiming to each as he passed—" What a handsome fellow you are! What a hand some fellow you are ! " Dr. Tuke states that Mr. O'Connor amuses himself with the other patients very satisfactorily, and plays cricketand whist with comiderible skill. He invariably asks Dr. Tuke to take him to town each morning, and is always satisfied with the doctor's promise to do so next day, if he is better. _ _ On the return of the court Dr. Tuke wgui ermined, and deposed that Mr. O'Connor was put recovery and had ao lucid intervals. The jury, without troubling the commiasioner for any remarks, at once found " That Mr. Feargua O'Connor was of unsound mind, and was incapable of managing his affairs," dating the lunacy from the 10th of June, 1852 the day on which he was committed to the custody of the Sergeantat-Arms of the House of Commons. Mon- NEW MAGISTRATES FOR LIVERFOOL.—,... _ day a communication was received in Liverpool from the Home-office, announcing the appointment of the following gentlemen (on the recommendation of the Select Vestry) as magistrates of the borough, via.: the Venerable Archdea con Brooks, the Rev. Rector Campbell, Me T. D.Auderson, Mr. Francis A. Hamilton, Mr. James Still, and Mr. James Daniel Mather; throe liberals and three conservatives. Thole recommendations took place last summer, when the Town Council were asked by Mr. Walpole, then home Secretary, to name six gentlemen also. They named the preownt mayor (Samuel Holum, Req.), Sir John Bent, Mr. J.Aspinal Tobin, Mr.W. It. Sandboch, Mr. J. B. Brancker, and Mr. Francis Shaw:, all gentlemen of conservative opinions. WRITS OF DISTRINGAS.-A Parliamentary paper has just been printed, showing that in the last five rata 3.593 writs of distringas were lodged at the Bank of ling lantl.l The number of these di/trim/sus warned otf was 331, and the number of irjunctious °Malin d 31. It uppelr , In n is the same doeumNlt that the manv:er of a..connts et stuck et he 1; s.k is 261,17:1, and the roamher of le:counts in the banes of two or more holders, 117:325. IMPORTATION or Foos.—The number of eggs im ported into the United Kingdom in the month ended the lith ult., was 6,630,725, being a decrease on the like period of thtireceding year, when the number was 8,633032. ELECTION EXPOSURES. 11 LONE. UR. KRlllneti CARL After the decision in this cue, which was given yeAterday, Mr. James „ there never wa s a more ma li c i ous or meagre case brought before a tomca t tee, and th at i t h a d failegroun d , applird to the co mm it tee to report to the house th a t t ht the petition was f r i vo l ous an d vexatious, can tendingd in all its allegations. lie grouh d to e in ppliratiou for this and for costs under 5 and 6 and 11 and 12 Vi e . Th ese alle gations of the petitioners, he contended, w ere not on l y un founded, bnt wilfally untrue, and the motiv es th at h a d prompted the other party to the arrest of Mr. Keogh were not only indecorous Litt disgraceful. The harmed counna proceeded to characterise the proceedings of the other ride as unprecedented iu their vindictive animus—a. (wing levelled, he b. lieved, not so much against the qualification of Mr. Keogh as with a view to destroy hie prospects. lie (the learned counsel) undenduud that Mr. Keogh's oppo nent, Mr. I.awcs, was a person of considerable wealth. The Chairman—We h .ve not had that stated. Mr. James had understood so, but at any rate he was a bill-broker u ith 4 butter —(lumr.it, r)--t ho latter having pointed out Mr. Keogh for arrest, and Mr. LAWCS ha l made himself uncommonly bus, in hu)ing up other people's sit bts for the purpoie'of wresting individuals. Mr Lawn polled only ten votes at the election, and then set himself to work to harass Mr. Keogh, and a warrant having been issued culling on Mr. Keogh to attend before this committee, a meeting with Cox was held in Birchen-lane. and it was re solved on Mr. Keogh's corning over from Ireland 14 arrest him on his leaving the Howe of Commons. If ever the right of petitioning the house had Men abused on any occa sion it had !.ceu iu the present one. The right of petition ing in this case had been exercised in the most frivolous and unfair spirit against Mr. Keogh, not only spitefully but to oppress, and in such • way as entitled M:. Keogh to ha;.: his costs of the proceedings paid by the petitioner. •-••• • • ' r :. Amin.** having bee n beard in reply, The committee decider) the Pet""'n of R. P. 'Awes is not frivolous and 'caution', and that tne entnmittea sae no reason to give cots in any matter arisie4 out of the pre sent care. The committee they broke op. TAUN TON. CASE FOR THE FENTIONERS CLOSED. Yesterday, on the rc-assetubling of the commit tee, Sir George Grey in the chair, the committee Melded that nu proof hail been given of Mr. Marshall Leiag an agent for Mr. Mills. . It harm,: been announced that the case for the petition ers was closed, Mr. James, Q.C., and Mr. Macaulay, summed up the evidence on either side. After a r long discussion, the consinitteo intimated that they would, on re-tusseinbliug, this 414 y, resoivo as is ther they would comp to a decision on the petition against Mr. Mills, at this stage of the proceedings, or whether they would go into the urea petition against Sr E. Colebrook., and then into the scrutiny prayed for; or re.erve their de cision in each case until the evidence in all had been ad duced. LEICESTER. The increasing interest, arising from the total change of tactic,, amounting to contradiction. in the peti tieners. ease, attending this committee, was evidenced, yes. terday, in the large attendance bo th of members and strangers. The evidence offered, however, was, on this day, quite of an eaplanalory cliarset•r; and nothing what ever was elicited either to throw a new leslit on the case, or to carry it a single step further. The tint witness was Henry Goodrich, who had been examined the previous day, and who was now crow examined by Mr. Serjeant Wilkins. Ile was one of the subordinate persons who had been employed by Holyoake to obtain evidence, after the general eleation, against the silting , members; and the object of the searching nod severe 1 cross-examination to which he wan exposed, was to obtain from him, contradictions of the previous evidence offered on the part of the petitioners ; and, nonentity, to damage the witness's character. It appeared that he had been ern / played by the Midland Railway Comoany as a eheektaker at the Leicester station, and he admitted that he had been discharged for the non-entering in the proper book of an 2 excess tare. It was also evidenced by this witness that one l of the previous witnesses had declined making any commu nication before a Mr. Greatore: on the ground that he (the deelining witness) had been so often before that gentleman for poaching. The witness (11. Goodrich) obstinately an swered all questions as to (Afars lee had made to tee confess ing voters of money for their inforrention by a direct denial. lie himself had received ISt. a week while employed by Holyoake ; with about 3s. more altogether, for his expenses; but being pressed, he admitted that he might have further expectations for his agency iu the business. Ile could not trace the money by which he had been paid farther than his father. liolyoake had else been paid by his father. It he knew anything about the matter it was that his father had been paid by Mr. Greaten:. Red there been any misunderstanding between ilia father and Great. ore: regarding the amount of ruon..v expended for the pro ' motion of the petitioners' Cabe ? Nu.-- Would he swear that ? Well, there had been a dispute. (The equivocating manner of the witness, although the paint was of secondary importance, hero pr alueed a decidedly unfavourable im pression.) The witness, in continuati,in, was cross-sx amined at great length in the endeavour to ti: him upon I the admissions of pr. ceding witnesses us to the induce , incnts to confession which he had offered ; but although he ; equivocated and hesitated, he persisted in his general de , Male. He was re-examined by Mr. Muttram, with the view of vindicating his character so far as it was affected by the fact of his basing been t'i-miased by the Midland Rail way Company ; but the counsel did not succeed in eliciting more than assertions that the cause of the dismissal con sisted in a fault of routine. The next witness was the brother of the last, viz., James Goodrich (examined b 3 %Ir. Muttram), whew evidence was of a general character, end only emit to the effect that he had heard Ludlam state that hu (Ludlam) knew all about the election. Cross examined by Mr. Serjeant Wilkins—He stated that be had been employed for the purpose of watching Stainee's agents (Staines was the agent of Walmsley and Gardner). That was his " job ;" and the r.bject was to gain information to unseat the sitting members. (This answer was obtained by the counsel after a reluctance on the part of the witness, which called the remark from the chairmen (Mr. Divett), that "There is no doubt that he did.") Win. Goodrich, father of the preceding witnesses, was next called—He had been employed with Holyoake to ob tain a ease against the sitting members. He had seen a man named Kirk who professed to have received 41. 10s. for the purpose of dist ibuting among voters for Walmsley and Gardner ' • these apocryphal voters getting 101. a heed. Kirk said that his evidence was PO important that the other side (Walmsley and Gardner) would give him 401. to keep quiet. He had seen Kirk and Ladino together, Ludlam -speaking to the same effect ; and it had been understood that one would not go into any statement unless the other joined. Ludlans's hesitation, in his " poacher " capacity, to speak before Mr. Greatorex, was also spoken of by this witness. The witness proceeded to refer to the " statements " which Ludlam and Kitk had made and signed respecting their own supposititious corrup tion ; and the counsel was about to read these statements, when, Mr. Serjt.Wilkins interposed, and made a strong objection to so irregular a proceeding, adding his opinion that the course pursued on this committee was unprecedented in the annals of parliamentary committees. The learned serjeant was entering on a general argument, when, The Chairman said—lt is as clear as possible that these witnesses have given two different statements about the same fact; and the only question for us is, Which is the true one. Mr. Mottram thought it would be for the convenience of the committee that they should hear these statements. The Chairman—The whole tenor of the thing induces a belief that these statements have been cooked. In fact, the fact which has previously come out, that these wit nesses get los. a day while they arc in London, is in itself very suspicions in its influence on the credibility of the evidence. Mr. K. Macaulay (who at this moment entered the committee-room) addressed the committee with a view of inducing a hearing of the signed statements. The Chairman, however, declined hearing the learned counsel. It was best to speak openly on such occasions. Hie conviction was, from what he had heard, that the agents of the petitioners had been suborning witnesses. The evidence which had been recently offered left the mat ter just where it bad been on the previous day. After some further discussion of the point, the room was cleared ; and when re-opened, the committee announced that they declined hearing the written statements read. The cross-examination of the witness continued. He was asked in reference to the characters of the subordinate agents he had employed ; and, after some equivocation, ad mitted that in several instances they were disreputable. Ile was also questioned as to his own character. lie had been dismissed from the collectorship of a parish in Leices ter, but he attributed the circumstance to causes discon nected with his reputation for probity. Oue main cause, however, was an apparent deficiency of 2071. old. Between October and April, the period when the agitation against the sitting members had gone on, he had not spent more than 162/. This included Holyonke's payment and ex penses. iiolyoake had been paid by him. !Isere might be SI. or an more owing to the landlord of the White Lion. Holyoake was then milled and examined by Serjeant Kinglake—This witness (who was the principal, or at least the most active agent of the petitioners) spite to interviews with Kirk and Ludlam, their declarations that they had been bribed for their votes (as given in former evidence), and, then, his evidence turned, and ho directly and in the i most emphatic terms and time, contradicted the assertions of the previous witnesses that he had balm:a the confes sions by promises of money and rewards. The emphasis (proving perjury on his side or on the sides of Kirk end Ludlam) with which he gave this part of his evidence made a distinct sensation in the resbro. lie had seen young George Ludlam, who had said that lie' had received money to pay Walmeley'a and Gardner's votes with. Mr: S rjeant Wiliam., at tie . point, observed that no inflater would be safe if so extraordinary a mode of exami nation was allowed to go on. Why, the person stated to have said that he had received money to bribe voters had newt been examined ! . . The examination, however, enntinued, but eliciting no further points; and the cro,•-csamhwei,,,,, ',nen prme, deJ , :iad a arrst impression untryourahle to the squibs, was ptodurei by the counsel usaing him to write a sentence, " to cash paid," &c.; this writing being contrasted with the entries in a memorandum-hook which the witness hail prr viously sworn hail Arca kipt by himself in account of hit disbursements to subordinate agent., and the twu