The Press. — London, England, 1853-05-21 00:00:00

• Abingdolt--Lord 'Surreys elected in the room of General Caul feild, deoessed. Barisataple-141r W. Fraser and Mr. it. 11remridge declared not duly elected, no the ground of bribe; y and treating. Ilerwiek•spon-Tweed—Mr. M. Forster and Mr..l. Stapleton un seated--a fresh election, and Mr. Matjorilmuks and Mr. Forster elected. Blackburn—Mr. W. Eccles unseated ; Mr. M. .1. Feilden re turned in his room. Britlgnorlis—Sir h Pigot unseated ; Mr..l. I'riteinu . .l seated iu his stead. Bury M. Ettatanots—Mr. Oakes elected in the room of slr .1. tituart, now Vire-rhaneellor. Cassloridpe—Mr. K. Macaulay and Mr..l. IL Astell unseated. Canterbury—The lion. li..lullUntolsu gout Mr. 11. I'. Gipps tut- seated. tliatkonet—Sir F. Width itinteated. I,ld/woe—Mr. M. Wilson unseated. /bertip—Mr. Ileywurtli limited in the room of Mr. 1'01141411. Durkaist—Lord A. Vane elected lu t h e rismi of 51r. Granger, deceased. Peacoeke unseated. lismbierifteki—Mr. Intannttehl uti waled ;turd 6oderieli returned Instead. Cloy and Lord floderieli unseated. Mutresbonatuls—A triple return ; Mr. Werthetul ejected, and Mr. Dent and Mr4Woodil seated. La netiter—Mr. Armstrong unseated ; Mr. Greene elected In strati. MoldAlone—Mr. I►ald unseated; Mr. bee since elected. Meshbots—Mr. I)ueitne and Mr. Miller nuseuteil. Morprik—Sir Grey eleeted. Oldham --Mr. W. J. Vox returned in the room 4,f Mr. Ibineurt, deeramtml. Orford (City)—Mr. K. Cardwell elected. Peterborosiyle—Mr. Whalley elected in the room of Mr. Watson, &erased. Phottottfh—Mr. Charles John Mere declared not duly elected, on the ground of bribery both by himself and agents. This it the only case sit personal bribery by the candidate. Ifyo—Mr. Mackinnon unseated. Totostos—Mr. A. Mills unseated; Sir .1. W. Itamsden, Bart.. elected instead. Tariatoek—Mr. PhiHintons seated in the noun of Mr. Carter. Totitex—Mr. 'l'. MIIIs unseated. Tynetuouth—Mr. unseated. West Worremterohirr—loird Elulley returned instead of Genend 'oxen ?tow I red Beauchamp). For t le Welsh Borough of Merthyr Twirit—Mr. Bruce returned its the rosins of Sir .1. thirst, thin., deceased. The following are the changes in 'lrish boroughs : Athlone —Mr. W. Keogh, the Soliettor-Oenertd fur Irel I, re elected April 22. eifflow—Mn Alexander elected in the room of Mr. Sailleir. Liabarw—Mr. Smyth elected in the none of Sit .1. E. 'rtlittent, Bail., who vacated his seat by the iteeeptimett of office. County Corlose--Captain Butabury elected April 25, In the reign of Colonel Bruen, deceased. APPOINTMENTS. HENRY FRANCIN HOWARD, Neerentry to her l'ilikledly . dl Legation at Berlin, has been appointed Envoy Extraordinary asul Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil. .11tHN GARDINER Alma's, Ks+, hart iippoitited luunigra tun Agent General for the colony of British tinitota. The Queen Imo been pleased to approve of Ntr..l. C. 14Ni:to:U ntil as Consul at Belfast for his Majesty the King of Hanover, end of Mr. NATHANIEL HOLOWON ar Clllllllll at St. Helena for the Free Ilauseatie City of Lubeck. fltrtiou AMSTOM—The official declaration of the poll which was made on Saturday last was looked for with much interest, the contest having been exceed ingly close, and the statements so conflicting on the slay of the election as to occasion some doubt as to the real issue. The numbers, after a minute exami nation, were declared by the Mayor to he :—For 3lr. Lee, 747; Mr. I). Martin, 737. Majority for the Liberal candidate, 10. IIARNSTAM.E.—There arc already three candidates for this borough, both seats for which have been declared vacant. Lord Ebrington has again come forward, as an avowed Ministerialist. Mr. Tite, the architect, has also issued on address, in which he declares him self a supporter of the Government. The only Con servative candidate is Mr. Guinness, who comes forward on the same principles as those which were advocated by the late members. HAMVICH.—Sir William A. Frazer, the late un seated member for Barnstaple, and Mr. Montague Peaeocke, have put forth addresses to the electors of this borough. Tim 'Nemirow . En SOCIETY for Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches and Chapels held their annual meeting on Monday. The I,ord Bishop of Oxford took the ehair. Among other members present were the Earl of Powis, the Bishops of Bangor, Salisbury, t iloncester and Bristol, St. Asaph. and Hndon'. The customary formal business having been transacted the meeting pro ceeded to consider applications received, and granted assistance for the following objects Building churches at Itranston, in the parish of Burton-on- Trent ; Northam, in the parish of St. Mary, South ampton ; Mithian, in the parish of St. Agnes. Cornwall ; Holyhead, Willaston, in the parish of Neston, Cheshire ; Idridgeliar, in the parish of Worksworth, Derbyshire. Rebuilding churches at Burbage, near Marlborough. and Pontyreh, near Cardiff. Enlarging, &v., churebes at Brompton Regis Somesetshire ; Southbonrne, in the parish of Eastbourne, Sussex ; Leigh, near Sherborne, Dorset ; East Loekinge, near Wantage, Berks ; Brighston, near Newport, Isle of Wight ; Shottesbmoke, near Maidenhead ; and Langhorne, Cormarthenshire. The grants formerly made for building a church at THE PRESS. Brightside, in the parish of Sheffield, and for enlarg ing the churches at Little liallingltry, CreNem, Great Crosby, and Manilla, were increased under the peculiar circumstances or those cases. THE thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Peice Socirry was held on Tuesday evening in Finsbury Chapel, Mr. Henry Pees, of Darlington, in the ab sence of Mr. C. Hindley, M.P., presiding. THE twentieth annual general meeting of the BRITDI AND FOREION SAILOIDi . SOCIETY was held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, Rear-Admiral C. It. Moorsom, V.P., in the chair. The report stated that, in consequence of a donation of 501. having been given for the purpose of providing additional mis sionaries to labour on the Thames, two had been added to the staff, which now amounted to eight. By this means a more efficient system of ship visitation had been established, and the major part of the 15,000 sailers who are said to he always within the port of London are brought into contact with Christian men and Gospel truth. During the past year 1,130 Bibles had been sold by the society's agents to sailors in the port of London alone. In connection with the Sailors' Church, in which three services are held every Sabbath and two during the week, a Sunday School and a Relieving Society have been established, and are in efficient and useful operation. The re ports from auxiliaries in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland are of a very satisfactory nature. The total receipts from all sources unmounted to 2,0010. 4s. sd. THE annual meeting of the BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-ShAVERY Smiewri drew a crowded audience to Exeter-hall on Monday. The Earl of Shaftesbury took the chair, and Professor Stowe and the Bev. Charles Beecher sat close at hand. Much excitement was manifested by the audience in consequence of its having been intimated that Mrs. Stowe would be present. So dense was the throng that many hun dreds were unable to obtain admittance, and at an early stage of the meeting a holy who ;tad fainted was removed front the hall by the policemen in attendance. The report gave a satisfactory account o f the progress and prospects of the society, and stated that increased interest was being manifested in the free-labour movement, but nevertheless the efforts which the slave power in America was making to extend and perpetuate the system demanded increased watchfulness and unabated exertion on the pan of the society. The second resolution having been moved by the Rev. W. Brock, - - -• • • "That the meetinc, impressed with a conviction of the inherent ainfulness of Isllll.l , llOhling, and of the doctrine that a human being may Ie made a chattel, and become property to his fellow- Mall, deem it incumbent ittsM them to 11101441 L to the principle of imusettiate and unconditional emancipation, as the only one that. is Vllll4OOll with the r i o l utaof the KIM'S', Mill the ditty of the master. And regarding' the litililitelOttlet , of slavery In t'lu•istian communities as a disgrace ►o humanity, a distentior to eirilisa that, and MI 01*trap upon reliq , would affirm it as their con viction that it is the duty of elinstions, of all denominations, and in all countries, to lift up their voices in imeompromising con demnation of an iniquity so iniinstriiiis: and to employ all nutt•ul and pacific Illealla W ethict 11:4 re al ;" the 'Rev. Samuel Ward,of Canada, a negro. seconded it. He urged that slavery in America was sanctioned more by t.l►e conduct. of the people of the northern states than by the acts of the inhabitants of the southern. The north always had a majority in Con gress, and had assented to all the laws relating to slavery which had been passed in that assembly. The eonduet of the people of the north anise from the feeling of pre.',ltilice which existed against all negroes in the United States ; and this feet he en deavoured to prove by various anecdotes illustrative of the state of degradation in which the black race was kept. Another resolution was moved by Profes sor Stowe as follows : " That. with a view to the correction of publie sentiment on this atlitieet siMe-lioblilig Eton iiiiiii hies, it is of the first impornume that those who are earnest in eonklemnation of slavery should ob serve consistency; nutl therrfore that it is their duty to elleoll ntge the tic‘clopment Of the natural resOltrees of t eountries a here slavery does not exist, and the soil of which is adapted to the oroalli of the prthinet +—especially lii eotiou—noa partially or chiefly raised by slave labour; and this Meeting would ear. nest)) revottimend liatt, lu itil eases Where it is pria•lleable, a tie 'idea 10444 . 1141 re Attalla lie given to the pnalnrta of free labour. by all who enter their protest against slavery." It was it known fact. said the professor, that Great Britain took four-fifths of the cotton grown in the slave states, and he was quite sure that their demm eiations of slavery would be useless if they did not let the slaveholders feel that they would no longer possess themselves of a commodity which was the produce of slave labour. Had it not been for the assistance of the cotton-consumers of tireat Britain, who were as blameable as the cotton-growers, the system of slaNery would have been abolished long ago. Tin-: sixteenth annual meeting of the AnoithimEs. l'itorEcrioN Socirrr was held on Wednesday night, at the Friends' meeting-house, White Hart-court, Lombard-street—Mr.. l . Hell in the chair. The chair man. referring to the fact that England possessed 42 colonies scattered over the globe, warmly insisted upon the necessity for such a society as that. to watch them, and to prevent injustice to the natives. This country of all others had a mission to and had confided to it. the blessings of civilisation, which it, was its duty to communicate to others ; yet it was SATURDAY, melancholy to see that, instead of imparting as its first blessings to the heathen the principles of peace, it presented the sword, accompanied by cruelty and force. From the report, which was read by Dr. Hodgkin, the hon. secretary, it appeared that a legacy of 1(X1. had been received, but, notwithstanding this, the society was still in debt. The report having been adopted, and other resolutions carried, a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. THE tenth annual festival of the oOVERNESiEW BENEVOLENT INI4TITIMON was celebrated on Wednes day at the London Tavern, under the presidency of the Earl of Harrowby. The objects of the charity are the relief of governesses in temporary difficulty, the granting of annuities to aged governesses, the securing of deferred annuities to governesses upon their own payments, a home for the disengaged, free registration, a college with classes and certificates of qualification, and an asylum for the aged. The claims of the charity weie very ably urged by the chairman and the Rev. 0. Laing, the honorary secretary, and it appeared from their statements that its progress had been most satisfactory. There were 77 annuitants, of whom 22 were inmates of the asylum. These 77 individuals were dependent not on transient sources, but received their income from invested capital. There were 154 immediate provident annui tants. The balance•sheet for Issl exceeded 20,000/. The total amount thus saved by the self-sacrificing class of governesses had exceeded 100,0001. Assist ance had been rendered to those in difficulty to the extent of 1551.; '2lO persons had been received into the house ; $OB persons had been provided with en gagements without charge ; and the governesses attending 14$ free lectures were 137. On the whole from 2,015) to 3,000 governesses had received material aid and assistance. The proceedings of the evening were highly encouraging, and subscriptions to the amount of nearly 1,2001. were received. OVER the destinies of the HORTICMTVRAL FETES AT Ctuswtcx the weather holds undivided sway, and on Saturday last decided that, between wind and cold and the fear of rain, the brilliant company which are wont to throng the gardens on such days of attraction should be wofully thinned. The tardiness of spring also denuded the grounds of the society of much of their beauty, so that the first fete was held upon turf where no young grass was springing, and beneath trees still unprmided with their vernal garniture of leaves. A corresponding prevalence of winter fashions was also observable among the toilettes of the lady visitants—sombre furs and velvets predominating where richly•tinted summer costumes are ordinarily displayed in unbroken va►iety. That portion of the exhibition, however, which, being nurtured by science, is now almost or altogether removed from the influ ence of the merely natural seasons, stood forth in un diminished luxuriance, and proved, perhaps, only the more striking in comparison. The display of azaleas was extremely tine, forming immense pyramids of blossoms of every hue. One marquee was devoted to roses, of which there was a perfect wilderness, in cluding many rare varieties of the tea, yellow, blush, Se. The exotic orchids from Mexico, India, and other tropical countries, of which the specimens were also very tine, were much admired for the bizarre and fautastie forms of their blossoms. The wonder really was where, with such a sluing as has just commenced, such magnificent and finely-developed plants could have been produced. The bands of the Coldstream', Ist Life Guards, and Grenadier t;nards, were stationed in various parts of the grounds, and performed during the (lay the customary selection of popular and operatic music. Siporting. (TO THE EDlTnit OF " THE muss.") Sir,-1 think it will turn out that the leading horses of this year are good. The public running and the private trials both lead me to the sante conclusion. John Scott won the Derby last year with a well-trained pony ; this year he comes to Epsom with one race-horse, perhaps with two. West Australian, by Melbourne out of Mowerina (the name of a farm of Mr. Bowes's in West Aus tralia), is not only a good public performer, but one of the finest animals that ever appeared on the turf. Ile has never been sick or sorry during the long pinching winter—lies done everything, both in public and private, that could be wished or expected of him —he comes to Epsom with an Mat of no common victory ; and Longbow (the horse that has been lead ing gallops for him) has just carried off two races in one day at Manchester, giving in the Union Cup seven pound and a beating to the King of Trumps. In the 'l ,t guineas, West Australian met and de feated several of the best tried horses of this year; and. in spite of all that is threatened by the supporters oC Sittingbourne, 1 expect to see that beating un mistakably repeated. liittingbourne probably missed with advantage a few of those rattling gallops in winch the Newmarket trainers break down their horses: he was consequently (although reported by the " tOlitti " to be doing no work) clean anti fit, with-