The Express. — London, England, 1849-09-04 00:00:00

inend was Faust, alone, surrounded bT the symbols ei exhausted knowledge, and racked with the dark problem of human existence. The clamically-draped skins of four acted se Cicerones to this intfreking gallery. Lastly, the Corypbseise stepping forth pro seacced the epilogue, and, amid enthusiastic bursts et applause, the drop curtain asemided. 'UNITED STATES. Yesterday's Express contained $ lengthy summary dt►e sews brought by the Anti rice: &Aar additions) details will be found in the letter dour New York =respondent Nam Yoga, AUGUST 21. There is se materiel to bore! ha Mt moth r gram mart. Mosey le shanart, made m d" se WV' st 4 to Nits ems.; le diewared . = uet re. Ye= tee of , est et 11 to per sir. per amass tee Mater dela This ehmieie of awry his his, however. hat Ittde Wear sa the spreethae at He Sleek Ma erre& The Inmassimm, map. Is pyramid Irak hem be epd sew mieldlows remela samtie=ol at Ms degarture et the lid itaima. The resole at the pert et ear NOW- Iste aid smeller him the city, se wed ifthig re erremsr msalhoomil the prwealtdie et the Melee% assent tor Wit err d Wags. The amedsdemat ear mweremad lad state dere ahead LAMlnadinak miss Is the Lewis molest, per UM editor re Veit, there hem beta gray porehres nays ei tedely ea Gomm ari l assomt. earter ming Seth Mae het, sr Sere hr mil as mama of the primipsl ad the pales debt M1,41$ der Ille. ire has bre sired by thoperelmes el the ltd IMO, eat of the rearm derived Mew Me ear et Me parr s. Now York City less et Is7o ham hem add at IN. This city ad slob Wes esallase la reeved hi pert mead lavalimat, iml oemerell MIL The tadimgedis the resside et sum et mg mgada, esmewares the agaredra et Urethra._ hes k ammo awindipmehere l d i Ude sin et seseddr; bet this stets el Mips ma saly he trip& rery. Limp imeMs ef tosight mall, he lear pat es gamy et re girt Ire et emommis sse Br rim Ms ream me& =aalders et lie rapid dimpionlaes. the morreeds 6sm the blot* e aro ledledhs le II 11111 *milk aid Mee reaseted 116 eat sada Is the Miaow perigee it the earrea ay. Tap promprele its pod 61 lode re men hied, hossielde as Woe meant tole so probandlty Mat sr modish Ns year will to Mewled with hedge pods to be slid a heolda seaseat. The 61 0 1061604 at parrot, shregli Weed.% am is the legitimate wey soledeslasse. a tendand set aftwed sorb braat my ra resdrai IM rewrap so the Cr sem Hsu% dried the Peet work, bate tam mmastly heavy, sad es- melsrat Deemer pow holds LIMAN der Me. I. epode. The rads r dee he Imre esehaege an somewhat higher than at the departure of the Let deemer. loodcw, Mt to 1011; Perk 3.13 to 3.274 ; Onsms, Teg Se reg ; Ilaistourg, adj to Sig ; sod letter dry Mg to 40. The trasemeleas, howeor, to,. bra te egret only. la Dees" the./earooleam, them has lessalamerldty lathed& is tar massy shwe eeriest report, wed pager Mena bola so shod mt. ardstteem twerweer. esawda abed re amm MI nisi et II to per mat. kr the bast wear, drama Med YOB On UAW te most liestudisas are amsdeld wllb sere Millealty.= 10 to 1 t per amt. A little member is preedilie aalma et Ss Mears la nekanee, merger Illessise - limihe to dsemarat hem ft le fp foe promm ity of doss Mee leas spade pert Yeses Me fear of an exportation .1 mots, sod ends he .mate Ow Wigwag of the market, by acting upon the rpm if ennienutelW se peemmest mar flaannal operators. No semi% Itewewe. was Algid the Ids t elsonsor, sad It isms immeends doubtful whirr tie c r uet rates of exchange he mortar ed 16r say length et Wes. To lame ammo et dream geld it at the tutees-Im. within the hat Wes 52,5(111 Mb dellars) *ow. zoom smartly In the imports hone, sad the sell he spade on this amount, has tome disturbing r atters cm the ram* merket. Cana.—We irked la or bat, per Cambria. 14th inst., that the demand woo ram end rime tending upwards. Oa Wednerday, 15th, 1,800 is 1, bales were sold at full rates to ic. cleaner. On Thursday Use reedit of the Ittbernii's advice. checked the demand, and toe raft. hemlines averaged 3eo hale. per day. Mailers, although willing sellers, have shown no anxiety to realise, and the quantity caning being moderate, the sales effected have been et previous goslings% tin. : Florida and N. 0. Texas Uplands. and Mobile. Inferior (Minter, to gcod ordinary. .St to 9 0 1 Middling to good middling... 9 0 1 to 10 Middliog fair to fair Tully fair to furl fair 1 to II Among the sato to-day (which amounted to about 8,000 bales) We ard of the following-57 middling Mobile, 16c. ; 36 good ;81 middling fair fisanash, 104 e.; 118 good middling Charles ton, 10 8.160.; 121 raddler Thuds. Sic. NEW YORK, AVOUIT 23. In my last I communicated to you what appeared to be the termination of the abduction of the Cabin, Roy, from New Orleans. He was reported to have admitted that he went to the Havana h of his own free will and motion, and that our coastal refused any further interference. Since then, however, it has been pretty well ascertained that this confession was made under duress, and oar consul his again taken up estt subject. At the interview la which Rey made this admission, a file al Spanish soldiers was present • and soon after the American consul withdrew , 114 was carried ci to prison. Th. re he contrived to write two letters informing the consul of the facts, and imploring tie protection of the United States government. Oar functionary again applied to the authorities for per mission to visit Rey. the account states it was re fused, another soya it was granted, but with the un derstanding that the governor-general should be pre sent. While these negotiations were going on, abun dant testimony arrived from New Orleans to prove the abduction. So you perceive the storm has not blown over, as at one time we had reason to believe. To heigf.ten the interest of the affair, the American sloop-of-war Germantown suddenly and accidentally made her appearance in the harbour of Havana, and this alarmed the Spanish officials not a little. They sent oa board to inquire the cause of her appearance there at d ascertain the object of her visit—rather a singular elmse of procedure; and bring informed that there was nothing extraordinary in it, they were highly dclghted. The Germantown only remained twelve-hours and nailed for the United States. By the Falcon our consul sent home a bitch of despatches, which, before this have been considered at Washington, and just as surely as there ie any just cause for action on our part, so surely will our American squadron be sent to Cuba to demand satisfaction. " A 'rely pretty quarrel is it stands," it may increase in interest. Let me add that a paragraph Las just appeared in the .Republie, the o ffi cial organ dale government, which is decidedly belligerent, and threaLns Spain hard. ?Aromas. as, or Como; To lOrs ntsT.:— We hear nothing more of the secret expedition to subjugate Cuba, against which the president issued his proclamation. We certainly have a great advantage over Spain at this moment. The expedition is doubt- Isss,one of Creole origin, and is sustained by money from Cubs. Tne Americans enter into it only ass spe culation. The president shows his determination to maintain not only our neutrality, bat to give every discouragement to the enterprise. At this juncture the Ciptain General with the detestable spirit of Spanish rule steals away a man from New Orleans, who has committed merely political offences. With what force, and with what eff-et must our appeal now be made for satisfaction at this violation of our territory. We shall not only be right in our demand, but we shall have the opportunity, if it comes, of vindicating our claims to better treatment than our citizens usually receive from these captains-general. Should a few shots be tired, should the Moro be taken, as taken it will be, if we assail it, perhaps the cause of humanity would be benefited. The Cubans themselves would rejoice if a rupture took place. They all visit the United States, and are familiar with our habits and customs. They enjoy themselves on these visits, they are under no surveillance, they express their opinions freely, they mingle in our s witty at the watering places and fashionable haunts, and Had themselves in a comparative paradise. There is no denying the faet, that they return home with new desires and would gladly see Cuba independent. Nor is this all. They send their moos to the United States to be edu cated, and then) are hundreds of them now at the seminaries around this New York. Total moils . .... .... ....-- -. .- ... . 3,100,068 lAA or . . ......... ...-.--...... ... —...-......„... 1,1111.000 TIN Man -......-.---- ...„..-...... 1,197,0u0 To Groat Ilelatio ........ 1,332,000 loa! e 7 hge ......---- 1,2.00! Lam ... Teat \ ••••••••••••••••• •••••• •• ••••• •••••• • • ....ea..* . MAO .. ..... . WAN „ —. 4191.110100 Year= r... .....-. .... ...._ . ......- ..... -.-.-.. I. MGM Moab. ... .—... ....". . 151,000 T l4.l olrri r olll Btoek, 11,117 hake. Famonts.—To Liverpool, 7k. per hale; to Havre, dull at a hat Cent. GROWING Cane.—The [MOO, to which we alluded in our last, have taken up In Alabama and lii-alstappla and great complaints now reach us of the scarcity of boils. to this respect, thi a season differs from that of 1047—the rains of that year ceased ;thou: the came period, but the plant being full of bid* and more matured, with a late and open fill, produced a peal crap. It Is yet too early to form my correct es timate of the profehk yield of the present newton, eau much depending on the weather dorm the neat three month. The destruction, however, of so large a portion of the crop by frost in April, and the unfavourable weather which has since prevailed in the valley of the flivissippl, Texas, Alabama, anti portions of the Atlantic states, are causes salllcient for the assertion that a " full yield tamed be astieiparst," and by many well-informed parties the opinion la now entertained that an average mop, or 2,260,000 bales, cannot he made. The local nem from Cuba is not important, farther than that the railroad between Havana and Carden Lae been opened to the public. The yellow fever pre vailed there during the last month to some extent, but the greatest apprehmaron was felt about the cholera. A law has been passed, for bidding the cir culation of the gold cans of Equador, issued sines 184-1. We have late information from Nicaragua, which just now is particularly interesting. It appears that some native partisan leader, named Sotooso, on the Bth of July last attacked 0 e t 'yen of Nicaragua, de stroyed its dwellings, and killed a large number of the inhabitants. The amount of property sacrificed was over two millions of dollars. A government general, Mona, had raised a body of 730 soldier., and marched to MCA( the invaders. Wbat concerns your country in this matter is, the general impression of the Nicaraguans, that English agents have insti gated the hostile movement. A proclamation had been issued, calling on all inhabitants between 15 mad 30 years of aze to take up arms against Somoso and " the usurpation of the English government in the name of the Mosquito king." I quote the very words. We also learn that the English authorities on the San Juan had declined paying any more subsidies to the Mosquito king, and that the British consul, Mr. Christy, left his post, in a British brig of war, on the 25th of Jane last. Ido tilt believe the American company, which bas obtained the grant of a right of way from Nicaragua, will do much with their pro- 1 Jed. It is too costly. fU - e 01 our letting houses writes or follows- respecting the pro. specie of the trade : The opeoina of the trade of the autumn has been much retarded by the prevailmg epidemic. Anil* the last two wen., however, a better belief has been evinced in the various branches of the dry Roods hostiles.. The spirits at the commbsios and importing mer chants are quite buoyant, and le most descriptions we can mkt) , quote a fair busines.. We cannot, however, see a sufficient promise for the miedle and elming sake 4 the season to duplicate orders, or even cause any regret IA: a short eupply of former ones. Dont stic cotton have advanced, parUcularly cloths for printing. Woollens have not as yet experienced any decided improvement, and unless a new bedew le their favour is made t within a short period, there will be great dillimaity in wstetnmg the raw matenai, which ha. bruit, emu to a stand sill es a moderate advance on pekes which were met by the wool growers. Continental woollen. have a decoded flfertletlol over all other descriptions, earalfestly growing out of our inability to produce gouda of as emeptabk fabric and flni-h out of the material grown on soil tending to a less manage. able and rank character. the warehouses ere well stowed with all docriptions of 'merchandise, waiting fie the WWII demand. which le confidently expect el by the holders generally. Then ban been no deportent ewes of dew moods at sulks as pet. This wonting the Bollard 'tale Company nike their entire Meek at waif goof, sciapribeg about 2h' cases. They will be sold by Nome a. Ilanterty, Draper, and Jones, without reserve. There are senral forgoes often dubbed to take piste within the next two wen., end we leek he a busy month of **plainer. Our eimmtry friends are meltbif their way to our city, with a full coal deem In the abatement of the ilOillfll, whisk km or rapidly decreased as to make It an bum a barrier Sothis wad sad regular wants of our merchant, Amen neighbriewbg cities or well as distant purchasers. We believe it le generally conseded that the tit, in in all respect, se desirable a point be health sad safety trim the effect, of this diseam as any in the country. Our bridnen men generally have absolutely escaped its ravages thou he he an extent beyond • Just expecte tbs. There has been next to nothing heard of it in their circle, which is a fact era lees true than reinerkeble. iAT;l7l l ;;Tizarresteeili. We notice sales of 2.000 barrels mei turpentine at 2 dots. 7 ; PpUlti at turpentine in lots at ; 1,500 barrels common resin at I. to 1 dol. Tar is ineetive. Mavaut.--Yoreiga Mad as hes saki at 4 dola. 35c. per 10011 a. hatch tag Iron I la fair at WO dots. 500. to 21 dot.. Sales of Iral..liat bunt have bean at $0 &b..; tlwedea, 00 dole. to dl tlaia. Sawa Um, 161 to 17. Ilattr.—llantlla to Arm at Ilia, ad Russian at $OO dole, with Mr demand. _ _ _ ThiL-Selected whose oil is to demand, and large lake have been made at He. to 45e. Common all for shipping is rather dull, at 40e. Sperm Is Pe Wee, and Crude is held Arm at I dol. 15e. Lord oil mile heel, at 63te. to 63e. 1710•1111.011,-Pork is in moderate request. 800 barrels meat sold Melee at It dots. 7.5 e., and 700 ditto prime at 0 dole. Lard, 60.00 7e. WIIIIIKET IS hell at 26e. to 36te., with light supply and small rake. Now York Awe. 21. Wynn revert ow under date of the 7th inst., per atemweer Boma, awl 11* the lair market eery Arm end with en upward tendeney. *nee then the Improvement he. been 36 ann. per barrel on maul kinds, *Meg Ws Arm than net week, the deemed bring chiefly for hems VDT and mann machete-the dock and supplies being both Nothings., se regard' the owing crop of wheat has transpired. The Infenoriteof the seep in Ohio la still feared, bat from other parts the hornet We kilt to field Wee If sot abundantly. The Enrolees to Oreet Britain and Ireland from this port for the forte , ght maks( es the 14th inst. were 41,870 tibia. lour, 0,360 bushels sheet, 162,313 bushels Indian core. 11111l011T- to Liverpool for the last two weeks have been dull, and priers arc now quite nominal. The rant are Is. per Dbl. on Som, and 3d. to 311. per bushel on eons. Fwea.-The export demand he this article having nearly subsided the operations since the 7th inn. have been chiefly (or the city trade and eastern markets. As meted atone, the market closes with an ad verts ea previous rates mostly wpm the better articles of Ohio and Omen The prima tuna are 4 dole. to 4 dole. 62ie. for sour ; 4 den. AAA to 4 dein lin. kr uniensened owl Ise ; 5 dole. 374 e. to dein 44e. be comma Westin sod State; 3 del. 44e. to .5 dids. 3614 tor roil& grab awl goad Wesel's; end 3 dela. 824 e. to 3 dna 7.5 e. tor pure Often& lye Geer is selling at 3 don. ilia. to 3 doiL 8741. Chas Mum is aeoae, and Wisp 3 dots 44e. to 3 don. Ina Gesno.-Onaseme Viols head et 123 e. to 1300. gee 30Ibe. wltkoetselm Osed Olds, Ilee. to Ilk. The new southern, 103 e. to reordiag to gritty sod condition. Aye briefs 63e. to 64e. Oen have &edited to Ms. to 40e. per bushel. brow, Coax hes teem ht light supply. without materiel change Is prim (the export demand Meng cea-ed l , coned yellow bringing He. to 64e.; wined western, tfa to 63e. ; white, 6e. to 635. pee 5010 e. _ Sine* my last letter, the steamer Falcon has arrived from Chagres via New Odeon; with a very large amount of gold from Calitornie. Her mails, which were heavy, came on by the way of New Orleans. The news from the gold regions is rather decided. The waters in the rivers were subsiding rapidly, and the miners wire making calculations of a great yield. New places were being constantly ex twith success. A gentleman who came with Falcon gives me hie opinion that fifty millions of dollars will be realised this season from the mines. Noels be the only one who entertains this opinion. It is believed that all the rivers ;and their tributaries are rich in gold, and that this will scon be apparent. Merchandise of certain descriptions is very low, and great lassie will be experienced by American ship pers generally. On the other hand, articles of neces sity keep up, and afford a large profit. Several cargoes of China goods had arrived direct from Canton, and will find their way in part to this city by the isthmus. The house of Livingston, Wells, and Co., have requested their ceereepandeal hones at San Francisco to send by return steamer a quantity of fine teas. Thus American enterprise takes the lead in the new and direct trade about t 3 commence with China. SYMPATHY WITH HUNGARY. The emigration to California continues to be brisk; many persons are preparing to go out as soon as the rainy season on the isthmus is over. One fact is worthy of notice, and commendable notice. A great natty persona who left this city deeply and appa ready hopelessly in debt, have remitted home money to discharge their obligatioes. Debts which were considered worthless have been paid off to a consider able amount. I have always entertained the opinion that in nine cases out of ten in this country every man pays his debts as long as he has or can acquire the steams of doing so. Cholera is evidently on the decline in this city, and we hope that its departure is near at hand. It has greatly affected our internal basins as ; and has had a serious effect on the commercial prosperity of the tat,. Nevertheless, great expectations are enter tained with reLtard to the fall trade, and our importa tion at this moment are enormous. The bustle at the Custom-house is unusually great. Kr. Barringer, our new minister to Spain in place of Mr. Saundsee, who amass to have been a diPlO - nonentity, sails to-day in the America. He is prepared to talk strorglw about the New Orleans abdurtion case if the affair is not *lewd to our satisfaction. On reflection, I should not be surprised tf 4 :Jeneral Taylor's cabinet attempted to flatter the bride of the American people by making a noise about this case of kidnapping. We have an idea that wo are been to humble some nations; and having none in hand at present, Spain presents a suitable oppor tinny for a blockade, a small invasion of Cuba, and a number of proclamations. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, .1849. Childers were more hardly worked than black list see an Ward other ships. The eight hours' drill at knape•ek was eentinuou, except at dinner. I recoll ic t • boy called Sanger on board the Childers, and know he was scrubbed on the heed. I believe only by the ordm of the Comm an d er or Lieutenant Trended. The scrubbing must have been or dered by the commending ogler. The boy never could be kept dean. Ido sot remember seeing that boy naked be fore the gully firs after he bad beam scrubbed, but I do re collect suing a boy naked before the gaily Ire, bat I can not tell if It was Sanger. The amistent-earmson was not attending the boy when I saw W. I reediest a midship man's steward of the name of Matthews. I remember he was punished at the gangway mos. He was drowned. He committed suicide I suppose. I was not in the ship, but was alongside. I can't say how long this was after he received corporal punishment. He had not been very frequently on the black list. The prisoner said there had base a question asked the answer to which had net bees taken down. It was with reference to Hammett. The question was—" Do you reed-- leU how lug Ed. Hammett was on bread and water ?" and the an•wer was that "It could not be more than seven da,"—that was for three crimes The witnes s confirmed this, and the primer said he had no more questions to put. The witness was then re•examined by the prosecutor. Witnees—l remember on one weed= the bey Cleverton having his head out open, and its being dressed by the as aistant-surgeon. The cause of the est Ido not recollect. By the Court—Haveu any reason to suppose that the bos's head was cut open the unienander ? Witnees—The boy w ould not tall me how it was done ; I asked him. He never would tell me anything. I don't know his reason. He might have Ism afraid. I have asked him several times. I thought it my duty, when I raw him crying; but he would never tell ma what was the matter. I have asked him at different times. Samuel Bailey, private R. M., late of her Majesty. ship Childers. I remember the boy Cleverton. I remember kis being punished with stripes of the cane across his hands. I remember his having to keep the fi rst watch with his ham mock on hie shoulder on the quarter deck. I have heard the boy cry coming out of the eimmander's cabin, nod say ing the captain had been beads, Ida : I heard him say that the captain had struck Ida on the head with a shot, which caused his had to blood. I do not remember if the boy's head was dressed on the masion by the assistant sur gem. I remember the boy ea one occasion having • black eye. lie said the captain had struck him. My grog was stopped I. December for 32 days, as appears by the delauites's book, on account of my mesernate, Michael Day, being drunk. I did not commit any offence that I am aware of. I knew that my grog was stopped for 32 days, for a crime which I did not myself commit. When Doyle got drunk, Ido not know that themes' secreted their grog. 1 drunk my own. The pros of nine or ten men of our mess was stopped for 32 days for the offence of Doyle. The punishment was by the commander's orders The men who said that Matthews's body had shots slung around its waist were John Maoartney and Wm. Oliver. boatswain's mate. They did no t find the body ; it was found by the Chinese, while fishing ; they took it up in their net, they cadet to the ship, and those men went in the jolly boat to fetch it. I don't know that any person was aware at the time of' what had become of Matthews, before his body was found, but several of the ship's mimpany had strong suspicions that he bad gone overboard. I have served as a supernumerary in the Cove of Cork twelve months and twenty-three days, during which time I was on board six different ships. I consider the punishments on board the Childers more severe than on board the others in many cases. I knew a boy of the name of Sanger on board the Childers. I remember an act of severity towards that boy. I am aware he was often punished by carrying his hammock, and being kept on broad and water on the quarter-deck, and likewise his being *crabbed for being dirty. Ido cot remember at any time seeiiir that boy lying naked before the galley fire, and the assistant-surgeon attending him. When the boy Sanger was on bread and water I do not remember if he was obliged to carry his hammock. I was in the ship on the 2nd of May, 1849. The non-eommissioned officer then in charge of the Marines was Colour-Sergeant James Rues. I remember James Reid being confined in solitary confinement about May, and fed on bread and water. He was sent on shore for his punishment. He was confined for being drunk and for mutinous conduct towards Lieutenant Tremlett. By Cont. Pitman—Do you remember, when the hands were turned up on one occasion, Reid w found in Lieut. Ore ham's cabin drunk?—Witness—Yes; the conduct of Reid was mutinous after he left the cabin. Before he was sent on shore he drew his bayonet, but was stopped from making any use of it. James Row, sergeant of Blvd Marines, Ist, of her Ma jesty's ship Chihien, was next examined by the prosecutor. lie said: I kept the Defaulter? Book of the Childers from the 151 of Nov., 1818, to the 29th of July, 1849. The tc. counts of the punishment inserted by me are correct. They were severally executed by the order of Com. Pitman. . _ By the Court—l joined her Majesty's ship Childers at Roug-Kong. During the time I was on board the Childers I am not aware of an. act of cruelty committed by the com mander. Ido not ccinsidt r that Com. Pitman performed his duty in a harsher manner than is generally done in the ser vice. I considered the marines on board the Childers were generally an orderly set of men during my command of them. I had the same opinion of the ship's company gene rally. There were no men flogged while I was un beard the Childers. I remember there was one marine flogged, his name wee James Reid. He was flogged about the 26th of July, 1642. The reason there were so few corporal punish ments was, I suppose, the good behaviour of the men ; the crime which James Reid had coos milted wee using threatening and abusive language to Lieut. Tremlett on the quarter-deck. I did not consider the punishment fur the offence, from n.y knowledge of the service. it, id did not draw his bayonet when on the quarter-dick, !or he was without arms. I was in the ship when Corporal It :Hey was reduced. I do not know that at that time he was found skulking while the hands were on deck exerci.ing. I entered the crime of Corporal Bailey. I cannot say that the crime stated there was tally proved against him when he was reduced. Commander Pitman desired me to make the entry in the defaulters' book. /Seery punishment noted in this book during my time was ordered by Commander Pit man. When Corporal Bailey was reduced I did not see nue warrant. From the crimes stated against him by the eoni sander, I should think them deserving the punishment; but I thought Com. Pitman was a little too harsh. When be was reduced the crime wss not proved more than what Cora. Pit man said against him that I am aware of. It was only proved by tne evidence of Commander Pitman. The man was not punished for skulkinit below the lower deck. but he was punished for skulking on the upper deck, and fur in solent conduct to Commander Pitman on the quaver-deck. The court are to understand this was Bailey's offence. The court adjourned at fire o'clock to Monday morning at nine. MEETING AT GREENWICH. Yesterday a meeting was held at the Institution, Greenwien, in order to sympahise with the Hungarians in their peered 1111,M411. T. GRAILIII, Eq., in the choir. Lted D. STUART said they were met there to consider the state of Hungary and to pay • tribute to the glorious puriots. The Hungarians had played a part the memtry of which would be headed downs to the latest posterity. When we look at what they have done the lint two years every kind sympathy is called into play. The Hungarians had beets a free people lo • gee than our ' selves, although they had lived under Os sceptre of a despot —thty never would eansent to be treated as slaves. No sore. reign had ever raled over them without swearing to observe their constitution. Their constxution was not ; bat was the English constitution • perfect one ? The Hunga rian constitution was like ours—a constitution which was capable of reform, without being overthrown. He then en tered more et length late a description of the country, and concluded an eloquent Fresh by proposing the first resolu tion : That the destruction of Hungarian independence by the combine I army of a sovert ign not legally entitled to the crown, and of a foreign foe, only renders it more imperative on Englishmen to express their sympathy with the oppressed patriots, who have, in common with all mankind, an lade ialtle right to a government of their own choice ; and , whose liberties ate, moreover, confirmed by pmitive compact, and are consecrived by time and historical records." Seconded by Mr. Grottos Taostrsos, and carried unani mously. Lord ricoparr this proposed the second resolution. That an address Pe presented to lord Palmettoes, in the hope that English diplomacy may successfully in terfere to secure for the Hungarian station its own liberties, ',steed of mere forint with the remainder of the Austrian territories " Seconded by Mr. Tansies DPEterlisa, and carried unani mously. Thanks of the meeting were then voted to Lord D. Stuart, Lord Nugent, and the chairman, niter which the meeting separated. Int court. &Lwow., Ban. I.—Her Majesty and the Prince walked out this moralog. The royal Mauer party this evening will Melo& Mr. sad We Fargohereon, or Inveneauld, and Sir Charles Lyell. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Wedeueday), the 6th instant, at Balmoral. Bammonses to the ministers sad Alan* of state to attend the council were issued yesterday, from the Privy Council aloe, Whitehall. THE QUEEN AT BALMORAL. BALLATER, Titunenax. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the royal children, were le have left Balmoral ea Friday, for the porpoee of visiting the shoetiag-lodge at Loch Match, where it is pro posed Sewed a few days. This intention, however, was net aided oat, bat It was expected that the royal party would entre ea Batarday. It i. understood that their stay will last far three days, after which it is rumoured that the will visit Buskin Cutler, Lord Paulus having given his Royal Highnom an invitation to shoot over his richly. stocked moon, which has been accepted. Though reports to this effect are very rife, they do ant meet with general ae septum ; and in all likelihood the suspicions of the lucre dWona will be justified by the result. Duda; the last two days, there has been no groat variety in the proceedings of the royal household. Oa Tuesday, Prince Albert, accompanied by the Premier &Mothers, went oat on Craigesgowaa. They had good sport. Viscountess Jocelyn, one of the ladies-inuaitios, has left Balestral ; Lady Douro having arrived to supply her plaeo. In the evening, Prince Albert drove out the royal family is an open phaeton down the mirth road, passing through Ballater, and returning op the opposite bank of the river. The youthful Prince of Wales occupied a mat on the box beside his father. They were preceded by a single outrider. The good folks of Ulmer were thrown into a sad state of excitement by the occurrence. The visit was totally unexpected, and it was hut ere many of them were aware. The carriage drove leisurely along and through the village, without let or an noyance etf any sere. As the street was well-nick deserted while it passed, her Majesty, on Puking back from tie bridge, could not fall to be amused with Ore coteries of ex ci she beheld assembled at every door. All had on the instant quitted their employment, the majority being too late, and then they stood guing at the vvhick with a mixed feeling of astonishment and clugrin.—Olargow Daily Mail. COURT-MARTIAL ON COMMANDER PITMAN, R.N. In the Express of the Slat of Aorta appeared the report of the proceedings of the soart•martial at Devon port oa Commander Pitman, for the tint two days of its sitting, .is., Tuesday and Wednesday. Ow Thanday morting the Court was opened shcrtly after 9 o'doek. The entire time waif occupied in the croes-examination of the muter, Mr. Elliot, by the prisoner, Commander Pitman. Many of toe questions tended to criminate the witness, who was excused by the court horn answering them ; others were of no great importance, only wearying the members of the court, and all concerned, and several were merely repetitions of the same questions asked in a different way. Regarding the marine, White, who jumped overboard, the prisoner's questions tended to show that White was threatened with prospective and not immediate punishment. Witness, how ever, still persisted that it was tear of instant flogging which caused the wield.. On the production of the original order book, witness was desired to point out any order which he considered cruel, inconsistent, or severe. He considered none severe, but some were inconsistent—for instance, one dated Hongkong, December 16, 1846, when a positive order was inserted that no officer should sleep out of the Childers ; and another, Hong-Kong, December 25, 1845, no officer to leave while the ship was at single anchor, without permis sion, and then to return by 10 p.m. After considerable ices of time to the court, several suit able orders for securing the comfort of the ship's company were read by the judge advocate. Witness said that Fint-Lieutenant Tremlett was present when Commander Pitman th reatened to take witness'. com =Wiwi from him for refusing to draw • hammock elo le, On the request of whinier' of cases of oppression towaide Mr. Elliott, he laid they were so numerous he cLuld not give them all, but referred to two in which he had been publicly reprimanded, the first for not Firing exact chron— meter time ; and the second, when piloting the ship by night through the passage at Fisherman'. Group. The weather was thick and foggy, ship going over the ground very fast, under all plain sail, except royals and flying jib, water about five fathoms, current at bast four or five hugs. Te prevent destruction it war requisite to alter ship's course, when he was reprimanded for not having first consulted Commander Pitman, who was below. Another act i f se verity was when witness was brought before the commander in.chiet in China for having, 18 months previously, gone ashore from the Childers without leave, and for being absent several &aye. Prisoner produced aI. tter from Sir F. Collier, in which Mr. Elliott was admonished to be more circum spect, but that no further notice need be taken in conse quence of the great exertions which he used during the ship's perilous position at the Prate Shoals. To Commander Pitman's questions on another charge, Mr. Elliott said that when their ship struck on the occasion referred to, he was not below through intoxication, but had left the ship's deck because the commander refused to adopt hie advice with regard to her being moved before the pin mince was sent to sound the depth of the water. FxiiiAY. - ----..-. The court resumed its lotting this morning, elortly after 9 ✓cluck. Lieutenant Graham, the prosecutor„ and Mr. Rlliotr, the witness, complained of the length of the cross-examination. Commander Pitman requested, with consent of the proem. tors, that as part of the eels' nee war in print, the publica tion might be continued; bat the court determined to adhere to their former decision. Mr. klliott was cross-examined Lieutenant Graham, the court, and the primer, with regard to the marines Haigh and White, the boy Clevertan, the midshipmen's steward Matthews, and the false entries in the log. Matthews, the midshipmen's steward, jumped overboard in the river Himpoo. The officers of the watch signed the log, knowing it to be incorrect, within the knowledge cf Commander Pit man. The officer of the watch occasionally did not sign the log. The fact of White's jumping overboard is so in serted in the log. John James Smith, master's assistant, was @trying in the Cnildm when she ran on the Prate Shoals ; the day pre , Musty he had, by reckoning, ascertained the ship's posi. tion to be within 50 miles of the shoals ; had kept the log during the illness of Mr. Elliot, and entered the ship's posi tion the day before in pencil (fearing at the time that it was incorrect), but altered it the nest day when the ship struck. He believed the entry as it now stands to be correct. It was La Plata Island, 38 miles south, 50 west. The first awry was incorrect, but he (witness) attributed the unser@ getting on the Fiats Shoals to the weather, and the ship not tieing under control. The subsequent entry was made alter the ship struck. There was another erasure in the log about the " force of the wind on the 9th of October," which he had made at the order of the commander, who, in his cabin, said, he should be lorry for any one to read the log and see that the ship was in such a state, with the wind blowing at only such a force. He then altered the force of the wind from 7to 10. Another erasure occurred under the words " bearing " and " distance," 28 being altered to 38. He did it himself, the captain having found an error in the work by a mistake in taking the distance out of the traverse-table. On the 9th of October Lieutenant Graham gave him a espy 'on halt a sheet of paper, and not on the elate. The force of the wind, as altered, is correct. They had no observation for two days. Commander Pitman examined witness relative to his dis missal from the Childers, which took place on the 10th of February, 1849, at the order of Sir F. Collier, the com mander-in-chief. Witness spoke ta the oppressive treat meat he had received from Commands? Pitman, who placed him ander arrest for striking a seeond.clase boy. The letter of the commander-in chief stated that he was to be dis- charged, bat Commander Pitman entered in the iogan his pay-ticket that be was discharged from the service in rite die- Commander Pitman, in th is instance, exceeded his instructions, added to which, he at one time recommended his meeentates to turn him out of the mem, which they, however, 'Vol not do. Ti;eOu;tarlicunled at 6 o'clock to Saturday morning, at 9 o'clock. SATURDAY. The court resumed sts sittings this morning, at halt- past 9 o'clock. t Crowdy, A.M., derosed that he kept the de faulters' book, now produced. On turning to the memorandum of the punishment inflicted on the marine Haigh, to found the following entry 2nd Sip., 1846, 22nd company, William Haigh, private, for stealing candles, punubment he received 48 lashes ; the same day, and in the same year again, for stealing pork, be had his grog stopped for 14 days; and on the 4th September, 1848, he was placed in irons for mutinous conduct, and he was invalided home from Hobart Town afterwards. la reference to the punish. ment inflicted on Henry White, a marine, witness found the following entries: "42nd company. Henry White, private, 27th Jane, 1846, for leaving a dirty shirt on deck, seven days of watered grog and black list." On the 12th August, 1848, " for being dirty at divisions water grog and black list until farther orders." He went sick on the 16th, and came to duty mein on the Bth September ; and on the Ilth Sep t( mbar, 1848, " for being ragged and dirty at quarters," he was pat in the report and ordered to be scrubbed. He then jumped overboard and was drowned. Mr. Graham asked for leave to see the defaulter's book, which was granted, and then asked—Was White not ordered to be finggod on the occasion when he jumped over board ? _ _ _ Witness—He was ordered to be placed in the report. I don't know what he might have been done to afterwards. When Whits was reported, I heard Commander Pitman say he would give him fear dozen to-morrow morning. This "MI not entered in the defaulter's book, because he never received the punishment. The extra work which men La the black list had te do was, instead of having as hour to dinner, they had half an hour; they had to came sad drink their grog on the quarter deck, and to stand there until the watch was called up, and their hands turned up. When Bright was ordered the punish ment, I confider that he had extra work to do ; it is usual to put men to extra when they are only fed on bread and water. I do not remember this being done in other ships I have been in. Bright refused to do duty as cook after he had volunteered to do it, because he said it did not agree with his health. During the five days Bright was on bread and water he dad not keep his regular watch or any watch. Ido not consider the black list men on board the RAILWAY MEETING. EASTERN COUNTIES. Yesterday a general meeting of this company sus held at the London Tavern. Mr. GLYN in the chair, in the ab sence from indisposition, of Mr. Betts. This wu a meeting to receive the report of the scrutineers appointed to ,eruti niee the votes on the resolution proposed at the nu eting on Friday for amalgamating with the Norfolk Railway. Mr. Lows asked whether this was considered by the chair man an adjourned meeting ? The CHAIRMAN said It was a meeting adjourned only for a specific purpose, to receive the report of the scrutineers, and for no other business. (Hest, hear.) Mr. Wasox said that he regarded the meeting, then, as an illegal one, and he protested against it. Mr. How+s declared the result of the scrutiny to he : For the directors' report, 4,230 votes, held by 137 share holden, and representing 305,1601. stock; against it 828 votps, held by 39 proprietors, representing 3,4041. stock. The thanks of the meeting having been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated. OILIAT NORTHlll7l.—Onumits Or ?KZ Lutz 11011 DONCASTIS TO RITFOILD.—The opening of this portion t f the line of the Great Northern Railway takes place this do) (Tuesday). It will be in conjunction with the East Lincoln shire lines of railway, and will open a direct communication between the manufscturing and agricultural districts of the north and south of England. The Great Northern com mences abut five miles north of Doncaster, where it runs to Arliern and Knottingley, joining at the latter place the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole line. Leaving Don easter southward the line will come in a direction across Pot ! terick Car, and so on over the river Terns Dr Piper Wood and King's Wood, crossing the Great Nortl.sroad. At Rossington, a village about five miles from Doncaster, • station is built. The next station is at Biwtry, • market town on the borders of the county of Nottingham, w►ere the line leaves Yorkshire and proceeds in the former comity, through the villages of Scrooby, Renskill. and Tor worth, to Retford. Here the Great Northern fa the precept terminates, but forms a junction with the Manchester, Shef field, and Lincolnshire line. By this it proceeds to Geits• borough, and so on by the East Lincolnshire lines to Saxelby, Lincolo, Tattenhall, Boston, Peterborough, Huntingdon, and Cambridge, arriving in London by the Eastern Counties or the London and North Western. The length of line e7eued to-day is about eighteen miles. It will &dent a s'irect eommanniciation from London to Leeds and York, and also to several other large and influential towns and places in the north. As at present arranged only two trains arrive in London daily, and those nearly at the same time in the evening. It is thought, however, that some alterations will take place during the present or next week. LANCASHIRE AND YORKBHIRE —The accounts for the half-year, whisk will have to bs submitted to the mertir.g of shareholders of this company on Monday, aro in the hands of proprietors, from whic's it appeara that the net re• ceipta applicable to dividend amount to 169,7931. 16" 9.1. The directors propose to divide only 4 per cent., which will take of this amount 71,6311., leaving, atter the payment of interest and guarantees, a surplus of 22,8681. to be carried to the remarried fund. UNWISE EXPENDITURE POE BRITANNIA-BRIDGII.—Cm you inform an ignoramus what reason can possibly be given for fanning the approaches, u well as the bridge itself, of the enormously expensive tubes To me, I must own, it appears that this is a stupendous instance of the witless manner in which directors often waste the funds intrusted to them. The bridge consists (as you know) of eight tubes, laid in pairs, side by side, four of which will span the "hole water-way; sad the four others, two at each end, will form the approaches over the steep banks of the B;raie. Now, it appears quite obvious that the tubes over the dry land or hank possess no advantage whatever over approaches made in the usual manner bye viaduct; consequently the excess of the cost of these tubes at each end above the cost of corns moo arches must be just so much money thrown away.— The Builder. THE CHOLERA, Return of death. from cholera and diarrhoea re ported to the Cienend Board of Health, yesterday, Sip. 3 : IN TM 1122NOPOLIS. Superintending Registrar's Deaths. District : Cholera. Diarrhea. Holborn St. Gibis and St. George West London Bt. George, Sosthwark lO 2 Greenwich Beth Bermony St Olave Lambeth Whitschapel 24 3 Stepney . 2 3 St. George-in-the-Basa St. Mary, Newington Marylebowe St. Pancras Poplar Strand St. George, lassemammus 2 St. James, Westminster 1 Clerkenwell 1 St. Luke Camberwell St. Saviour, &mime* Islington Kensington Wandsworth Lewisham Rest London Shoreditch Rotherbithe 1 Chides' ' 3 2 City of London St. Mutin in•the-Fields Westminster 4 Hampstead —no return General total 324 ENGLAND AND WALES. Return of deaths from chokes and diarrhea reported to the Genaral Board of Health the 3rd day of Sept, 1840 : Superintending Registrar's Deaths, Datriet : Cholera. Diarrl•cct. Liverp00l Clifton Cardiff Carmarthen 1 Swansea Pongee 1 —. Salisbury Newcastle-under-Lyme 6 Tystasouth Bllghtow Heath Bradford, York Sculcoates 22 4 Bristol —.. Uravcsend 4 1 St. Oerssaa's Rochford .. Dewsbury Derby Presece Dive. Hunslet l4 3 Hastings Nantwich 1 Holy well Wolverhampton and Seisdon Bridgwater Barnstable 4 2 Nast Stanehouse South Shields Shepton Mallet 3 Newbury i Penzance Hull Salford Pentredge 1 Bolton Pontypool 3 1 Tavistoe..k Worcester 1 Bury 1 Preston Madeley Wrozherst Shippey Widstantow Manchester Clainsborough Ashbourn Aaliton-under•Lyste(fteas August 13, t September 1) Abingdon 2 tit:Alban's Aldermanbury 3 3 Bedford — Billericay Barnet Bath Bedale Bedminster Barnet Cleobury Chard Chcrteey Chichester . Chesterton Whitstable . 1 1 417 96 In Scotland : Dundee Perth Arbroath Beth Ahordeen — Ilawick 4 Kirkwhien, Wigton Total General Total—Country 417 96 Metropolii London and V•cioity Scotland 33 -- General Total The above returns include 361 deaths from cholera in the Metropolis, and 203 in the country, returned by the union officers. Toe number of attacks reported are far the metro polis, 6.62, and for the country, 615, but these numbers do not comprehend the css-s that otcur in the private practice of medical men. IRELAND. DUBLIN, S TTTTT BIZ 3. On Saturday afternoon this city was visited by a thunderstorm. Some of the flaghes of lightning were fearfully bright, but I have heard of no damage, and op to the prrsent the reports from the country con tinue to be favourable. Since the Queen's visit corporate honours arc coveted more eagerly than before. For the mayoralty of Limerick there are five candidates and an active canvass is going on for the mayoralty of Cork. The Rev. William O'Connor, parish priest of Courciem, has been appointed Dear; of Residence at the Queen's College, Cork. The erecti-n of new churches is proceeding in the diocese of Cork with c3nsiderab'e energy. A very large and handsome church near Bandon was conse crated last week, and in the course of a month seven more churches are to be consecrated. Whether this increase of churches is eviderce of any increase of the number of protestants, msy be doubted by some persons. Of late years the clergy of the establish ment have become extremely zealous, and the exami nation of divinity students in Trinity College has become very severe se compared with former times. There is a new school springing up amongst some of the Irish conservatives. They wish to pee the connexion be•ween church and state sundered in this country, believing that protestantism is injured by the union. I would not be surprised if, before another twelvemonth, this opinion was put forward and ad vocated with some energy. Most parties here con sider that the church is sure to be attacked before long, and intelligent conservatives are most anxions that it should be settled so as that it should cease to be a causeof contention. Since the famine, there has been a cessation of controversy, except in some few places in the souls west, and several catbolica most opposed to the church in its preac nt state, yet do not like to stir the question, as it will cause a severance of parties. But the question will be stirred in spite of them. Yet, from the fact of its being so hacknied a I topic, the agitation will not have the freshness that is desirable. I may mention, in connexion with this subject, that it is rumoured that in high quarters there is a great dislike to a renewal of the agitation on the church question, as it is supposed that it will be a very diffi cult matter to 8$ bounds to agitation, once that it is renewed here. ARRIVAL OF THE lIRRYANN.—The Ocean Steam Nariset.on Company's steam-ship Hermann, Captain Crab tree, from New York, arrived et Cowes ywiterday afternoon, with mails for Frame, England, and Bremen. She had a fall valuable cargo of general merchandi e, withspecie to the amount of 45,000 dollars. ANT traneerriog her mails on board a small steamer awaiting her arrival, she at once pro- ceeded to Bremen. The Hermann lett New York on the 20th ult., consequently the news from America by her has been forsslaled by the arrival of the steamer at Liverpool, which left two days after. OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM. LEOMINSTER. Every one who knows anything of electioneering will shake his head at the name of Leominster. Many who have been concerned in the system have came enough to heave a sigh over it. There are few bo roughs in which a greater number of electioneerers have been plundered. The oldest hands have been bitten here. Members who have represeatecl the moat corrupt constituencies have gone to Leominster to buy themselves a seat, and, confident of knowing every thing, have themselves been sold. To number up the political pigeons who have been plucked in this town would be no eai.y task. It seems to have been cur ternary with club-men to resort to the place as they would to a roulette-table—to play their stake, lose it with the consciousness that they were cheated, but nevertheless to treat the matter with indifference, and submit without a murmur. Leominster, before the Reform Bill, was a mot and lot borough : its population 3,700, the number of voters between 800 and 1,000. The price of a vote was understood and fixed. It was tire guineas tor a split vote, and ten for a plumper —money down, and to mistake about it. From such conditions as them, it resulted that the candidates must be tolerably reh. Hence we fiud that the m tubers were generally parties better known in the City than they were in Herefordshire—men whose credit en 'Change was unexceptionable, whatever might be their repute in society political. Leominster, however, is a poor place, and the very nature of its constituency rendered it easy for a local man to deal with them. At elec. tions antecedent to the present century, the successful candidates had generally been in troduced to the town by parties connected with the old corporation. But, in 1796, there 'occurred a contest which resulted in the return of a tory candidate by a majority of only one. TI is made some parties in the town look about them, and one of them very soon succeeded in making the town par tially his own, under extremely advantageous Mr cumetances. The individual referred to was a banker at Leomin ster, of the name of Coleman. Mr. Coleman, as wo may suppose, opened an account in his ledgers with the borough of Leominster. lie did not require, as most hankered°, 'deposit to be made with him; on the contrary, he commenced the account by items placed upon its debit side, well knowing that by and bye the total would be morethan balanced. What he did, in fact, wee this. Knowing the constituency and their various necessities, he offered such as re quired it advances to the amount of ten guineas, with out any other security th an th e i r notes of hand, payable at the next election. When the next election came ho had in his attong box a suffi cient numb2r of these noes of hand to ensure the return of any candidate he might bring forward. Rarely did any man secure a corrupt constitceney so easily or with so little cost. Coliman's bank drew on Lubbock's. A country banker is usually inclined to be on good terms with his London agent; and probably this was the more necessary when banking was comparatively a mono- poly then now the business has been thrown open. It is nut, therefore, surprising that the candidate Mr. Coleman should have selezted for Leominster should have been his own London agent, Sir John Will:all Lubbock. In 1:402, Sir John was re turned at the head of the poll. It was well for Leominster that the ruling influence brought so good a man. The town might have been sold much less to its own ad vantage. Sir John Lubbock's money passed through Cole man's bank, and at each succeeding election Cole man's bank took care to wipe off with the heed money the advances on the notes of hand. This system continued up to 1820, when Sir John LubSeck, tired of politics and of Leominster, resigned the seat in parliament. 'the borough, during the time he held it. is believed to have cost him a con siderable sum of money. but Moser.. Culeinan'te book, probably alone could fully show bow Meters. Lubbock and Co.'s gold was sweated. In 1820, Lord lintham, of whom we shall have hereafter to speak, was first brought down to the town by a solicitor who filled the office of town clerk. The election of this year was rendered remarkable by en occurrence very rare indeed in the annals of Leo minter election.. Besides Lord Hotham there were two other candidates in the field,— Sir William Cuniogham Fairlie, a Sc dch baronet, and Mr. John Ilarcourt, who had represented Leominster in a pre vious parliament. On this nation Sir William Fairlie was returned. He heti the seat six years, hit to the infinite disgust of all concerned he never paid his expetises."lhe voters were determined to take care that euelt a thing should not occur again. The general election of 1826 was brought about not by any politico' exigercy, but by the natural de mise of the Septennial Parliament. Amongst a cor rupt conetituney an election of this sort is venally preceded by a protracted canteen. T o eareEdittes Came down to Leominster, who were quite willing arid abl to gratify the electors in this re speed. Both were re markable men. The one was Mr. Binh, ef the " lucky office," the other Mr. Rowland Stephenson, the banker. Lord Hotham being safe, the contest lay between these two candidates. It was conducted " regardle es cf c xpe nse." For months previous to the election, the constituency was placed upon a s stem of '• sub sist." Beef and bread wag served out twice a week to every voter, ar.d all the public-howes were thrown open, not only for beer, but for what were called "canvassing ieuppe re." Cor ruption at this election was, in f et, atits highest pitch in Leominster. Mr. fish alone spent nearly 12,0001. in one way or another. "We have never Been such days as them since, air," said an °id scot and lot voter; "the town was prosperous then, surely." The price of a vote, in fact, would at that time have risen to anything, but for a circumstance that considerably affected the result. One of the lest acts of the expiring parliament was to authorise a new lottery. It was to be the last. Mr. Bish was too deeply interested peculiarly in these state spe culations to fre go his share in the eeheme. Ile en tered into it earnestly, bat without foreseeing the consequence. When the day of election came, Mr. Stepheneon's friends took a legal objection to Mr. Bish's nomination. lie was, they said, a government contractor under the Lotteries' Act. On the poll, Lord Hotham and Mr. Biel' nerd returned, the .atter by a majority of nearly 100 over Mr. Stephenson, who, relying on the validity of the objection, spent as little as he could. The matter was referred to a committee of the 'Lowe of Common, who decided that a contract did exist, so Mr. Bish was unseated and Mr. Stephenson declered the member. The poll at this elceion was as follows.—For Lied Hotharn, 557; Thomas Bish, 115 ; Howland Stephen son, 251; Firdetick Cuthbert, 57. Who, it will be asked, was Mr. Cuthbert ? Thereby hangs a little tale, very illieniteive of Leuin'oeter elections. We have spoken of " Pigeons." Mr. Cuthbert was a bird of that unhappy clam As already mentioned, the election bills of Sir William Faiths had not beat paid. The solicitor who had acted for him was de cidedly in stew with the voters. Ile could only ex cuse himself with them by affirming that he was equally out of pocket himself. The election of 1826 was thought to be the Sting opportunity cf making up the deficit. The attorney posted off to Loncle.n, and met with Mr. Cuthbert, whom he persuaded to come down "to fill Sir William F irlitt's glace." When Mr. Cuthbert arrived " the Ittlo difficulty about the bills" was mentionel to him. Ile was given to uoderstand that it was "always usual" for the incom'ng member to pay the arrears due to his own party. Mr. Cuthbert was persuaded, with out much difficulty, to deposit a sum of mohey to meet a demand which was "always usual." The bait had taken. During the day or two which fol lowed he was skilfully played with; and ultimately he was :ended, as we have seen, with 67 votes out of upwards of 1,200. No sooner were the ?Ws known, than all these to whom Sir William Faidie was in arrear tent in their claims to Mr. Cuthbert's agent. The y received a reply, exeeedingly polite but by no meats satisfactory. It was to the simple effect that as the amount in his hands was in adequate to sa•isry every demand, he meat rel,ect fully declined to attempt the liquidation of am ! The electors of Leominet r were doubly " sold." A circnmstar.c: occurred at ibis titre of h,lltits. imporance to tJat town of Leonsincer. Ia thr panic of 1826 Coleman's bank br...ke! Suck an occurrence threaterel utter ruin to such a little place. Mr. Blab, however, saw in this circumstance an opportunity of establishing connexion with the town. He issued an py,1.% • 1 . address to the elector, offering tr let them i i 4" 411711.• -r• ...',. rk.... rd. . •, .z., s