The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1853. THE WEEK. THE Whitsun Holidays are over, but the resump tion of business, and the return to work, have not added much to the news of the town, for Liverpool is comparatively deserted. A considerable section of its inhabitants are in London, in the all-absorb ing business of the Election Petition, which is now before the Select Committee of the House of Com- There have been a variety of reports cur rent as to the proceedings of the petitioners, and the list of alleged bribed and bribers has undergone much comment. Names have been inserted of those who had little or nothing to do with the election, and others have been omitted who took a most active part in the canvass. It has been said that the Radicals have been hard pressed for money, and have been sending round the begging-box for supplies. On Thursday some difficulty was expe rienced in getting off the witnesses, owing to their mons. nut being furnished with sufficient funds to pay their expenses ; and other evident signs of weak ness are reported. A number of our townsmen are also in Dublin, viewing the wonders of the Great Industrial Exhibition, so that between the counter attractions of London and Dublin, Liver pool is shorn of its fair proportions. The arrival of the screw steam-ship Genova, from the St. Lawrence, after a very brief passage, is a very favourable opening of steam traffic between this port and Canada. A new trade is also being commenced with the Fresh waters of Canada, the - Cherokee, under the command of Captain Gaskin, through whose enterprise it has been undertaken, having been despatched from Toronto to this port, where he may shortly be expected. It will be seen by a paragraph in another column that Captain Gaskin was entertained by the authorities of Toronto with a public banquet as a testimonial to his spirited exertions. Our neighbours at Birkenhead are in the heat of a contested election, and indulging in all the humour of personal squibs. It is not, however, all of so innocent a character, for one elector complains that after being ten months in Mr. Laird's employ, he has been discharged, for no other fault than having a Blue bill in his window. There are numerous bets depending on the issue, and the latest odds are against the Reds with few takers. DUBLIN AND THE EXHIBITION. SWIFT commences one of his ballads by saying— O'Rourke's noble feast It shall ne'er be forgot, By those who were there And by those who were not ; and the quotation is singularly applicable to the Exhibi tion that is now going forward in Dublin. The novelty of the scene, the size of the building compared with sur rounding ones, the extent and variety of its contents, the steady and increasing influx of visitors, the throng and bustle in the streets, the vivacity seen in every ccunte nance from a tide-waiter to the Lord-Lieutenant,--all these give a present interest to the capital of the sister island, that those who have known it in past years will feel to be a most agreeable contrast. There are few countries which hf;ve suffered so severely as Ireland, for the sins of her own children and others ; but the day of her tribulation seems past, and the period of uninterrupted prosperity arrived. She has passed through a furnace of affliction, but with manifest advan tage, in all that regards the physical condition of her people, and, we hope, in the moral, too. The landed aristocracy, to be found, in many instances, a succession of hereditary bankrupts, have given place to a new and vigorous race. The " free-trade in land," which was in troduced by the Encumbered Estates Bill, has swept off the weak and irresolute from the cultivation of the soil, and has placed the task in the hands of stronger and more enterprising. Famine, pestilence, and emigration have also done their work in relieving the country of a redun dant population that weighed it down ; and the work houses are, in a great measure, the receptacles for infir mity, youth, or old age merely ; though formerly the able-bodied, also, were glad to find shelter there. The intelligence of the people has more than kept pace with the physical prosperity, for it had its beginning at a much earlier date. One of the best worked societies in the United Kingdom is the Sunday School Society, in Ireland, which is spread like a network over the four provinces. The Church Education Society treads in a similar path; and so far as secular instruction goes, the Irish national system is deserving of great praise. From all of these, and from causes of a kindred sort, the intel lectual status of the country is rising ; and the Irish peasant or small farmer will take the wind out of the sails of an Englishman or Scotchman some ten years hence ; indeed, if it were not for Connaught, he could do it already. In the higher walks of learning, too, Irishmen occupy the front ranks. The Earl of Rosse, whose family changed the name of Bin to Parsonstown,—after outdoing both the Herschels in his researches in the heavens, and converting a tribe of Irish " bouchals" into the skilled manufacturers of mathematical instruments, occupies a fitting position as President of the Royal Society, in London. He is not merely a patron of science, of peerage rank, like the late Marquis of Northampton, but a thorough working inquirer, who is prouder of his scientific attainments than he Is of his coronet. In the kindred realms of literature and archaeological learning we have Lord Talbot de Malahide, whose Anglo-Norman lineage can be traced for more than seven hundred years on Irish soil. His magnificent baronial residence, within an hour's drive of the city, is justly celebrated as one of the " lions," and the boundless liberality with which its ancient trea cures are thrown open to visitors, is an index of the hospitable and friendly spirit still found in the country. Lord Talbot, too, takes rank in England, as President of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. , Within the limits of the Circular Road, Dublin itself is a little world of interest, no parallel to which can be found on this side of the channel. The Chinese sometimes divide the whole population of the world into " men, women, and Chinese ;" and on the same principle we have sometimes thought that they might be classified as " men, women, and Dublin car-drivers." These last constitute, as a naturalist would say, a genus by them selves, differing in habits, traditions, language, and men tal characteristics from any other class in existence. Without the shameless rapacity of the Liverpool cabmen (on those whom they know to be merely passing through), or the bullying of the Londoners, they will manage now and then to make an overcharge ; but their legal fare is so paltry, that the rogues have got the knack of leaving it to the " gentleman's honour entirely," and thus usually net at least double what they are entitled to. But quer- i relling with them is next to impossible in any case. They possess an inexhaustible fund of good humour ; and an unlucky wight finds the jokes rattled at his head like hail stones, so that he knows it is good policy to consent to a compromise. Even an overcharge, however, is an undercharge—though the expression looks like a bull— for the Irish driver is at the same time a guide, and a capital one he often is. It is true that he sometimes runs upon his imagination when his facts run short, but the entertainment never flags. In those portions of the country which are not yet opened up by railways, as in the south of Dublin and all Wicklow, the tourist must trust himself to a vehicle of this description ; though some of the learned at the British Association calculated that the difficulty of holding on an Irish car was just equal to the accommodation of transit ! When the visitors have inspected the wonders of the Exhibition and the usual attractions of the metropolis, they will find a trip to Bray, Roundwood, or the Meeting of the Waters, such a treat as is rarely to be met with. ECCLESIASTICAL. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. J. Allen, to the Curacy of Long Sutton, Cambridgeshire. Rev. 0. B. Byers, tc‘the Perpetual Curacy of Christ Church, Croydon, Surrey. Rev. F. A. Crooke, M.A., Curate of Kingsdown, Kent, to the Rectory of that parish. Rev. E. P. Eddrup, M.A., to the Curacy of the newly-conse crated Church of St. Gabriel, Warwick-square, , M on Rev. R. M. Evanson, M.A., Rector of Llansoy, Monmouth shire, to the Rural Deanery of Mitchell-Troy. Rev. H. E. B. ik , M.A., Incumbent of St. Martin-at- Palace, Norwich, Ftof°theesliectory of Broughton, Norfolk. Rev. W. Gill, jun., 8.A., to the vicarage of Pulloxhill, Beds. Rev. A. R. Grant, M.A.' Fellow of Trinity College, to the Incumbency of St. Michael's, Cambridge. Rev. W. W. Harvey, AA., to be Domestic Chaplain to Vis count Falmouth. Rev. R. H. Howard, M.A., late Incumbent of St. Matthew's Church, City-road, London, to the Vicarage 01 Dalston, Cum berland. Rev. M. Jefferys, M.A., to the Rectory of South Thoresby, near Alford, Lincolnshire. Rev. W. G. Jervis, M.A., to the Curacy O f Kingston-on- Thames. Rev. G. Kemp, M.A. late Curate of St. Dionis Blackc hurch, to the C uracy of St. Giles's, Cripplegate. Rev. T. Langley, Incumbent of Landogo, Monmouthshire, to the Rectory of Ganerew, Herefordshire. Rev. C. Lee, M.A., Incumbent of Bingfield, near Hexhatn, to an Honorary Canonry in Durham Cathedral. Rev. R. H. Morgan, M.A., Incumbent of Merthyr-mawr, near Bridgend, Glamorganshire, to the Curacy of Llanguick, Nipntb. T. Openshaw, M.A., Curate of St. John's Church, rn, to the Incumbency of Brackenfield, near Alfreton, Re' Black Derbys....... Rev. A. Povah, 31.A.,Wadham College, O x f or d , to the Lec tureship and Curacy of St. Andrew Undersh a f t, L eadenhall-st. Mr. E. A. Scott, ILA. , of St. John's College, Cambridge, to be Assistant Master in Marlborough College. Rev. J. Sheffield, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Hartford, Cheshire. Rev. J. Snape, M.A., Principal of the Royal Grammar Scho o l Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to the Curacy of the Dis t ri ct Church of All Saints, in that town. Rev. W. Valiance, M.A., I ncu mbent of Maidstone, to the Rural Deanery of S u tt on Rev. S. Warren, M.A.; Rector of St. Mary St the Rectory of Brandon Ferry Suffolk. Mr. R. A. Whalley, 8.A., of Magdalen College, Cambridge, to the Second Mastership of the Grammar School, King's Lynn, Norfolk. s, Exeter, to Rev. J. W ilson, 8.D., Second Master of the Free Grammar School, Manchester, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Hampton Meysey, near CricklaCe, LIVERPOOL ELECTION PETITION. PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE SELECT COMNHTTEE. (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.) The Parliamentary Committee, which was sworn in on Friday, met on Saturday, at one o'clock, in room No. 25 of the new Palace of Westminster, for the purpose of pro ceeding with the long-pending inquiry into the charges of corrupt practices at the Liverpool election. The com mittee, as we stated last week, consists of Mr. Robert Ingham, (Whig,) M.P. for South Shields, chairman ; Mr. James Williams Freshfield, (Conservative,) M.P. for Penrhyn and Falmouth ; the Hon. James Pierce Max well, (Conservative,) M.P. for Cavan ; Mr. William Williams, (Radical,) M.P. for Lambeth ; and Mr. John Ball, (Radical,) M.P. for Carlow county. The counsel for the petitioners are Sergeant Kinglake ; Mr. Kenneth Macaulay, Q.C. ; Mr. Bodkin, Q.C. ; and Mr. Paget : and for the sittinz members Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Montague Smith, and Mr. Hunter Radivell. The agents for the petitioners are Messrs. Fearou and Clabon, of Great George-street, London ; and for the sitting members Messrs. Thompson, Ebenham, and Brown, and Mr. Bremner. For a considerable time before the doors of the room were opened the lobby was crowded by professional gentle men and strangers, who appeared to take much interest in the proceedings. Among these were several gentlemen from Liverpool, including Mr. J. B. Lloyd, Mr. Thomas Bold, Mr. William Earle, Mr. William Rathbone, jun., Mr. Nelson Wood, Mr. J. R. Jeffery, Mr. William Rowett, Mr. J. Shaw Leigh, Capt. Evans, Mr. Stephen Court, (civil engineer.) Mr. Messiter, Mr. Ronald, (one of the petitioners,) Mr. Highfield, Mr. Rowland, secretary of the Pilots' Commissioners, &c. ; also Mr. Brotherton, M.P., and Sir Thomas Birch. Mr. Charles Turner entered the lobby a few minutes to one o'clock, and remained in conversation with Mr. J. B. Lloyd and his other supporters until the door was opened. The room was soon crowded, and considerable confusion reigned for a brief period, caused by the general scuffle for seats by the numerous reporters who were in attendance. The committee, with Mr. Ingham in the centre, sat at a table at one extremity of the room, parallel with another appro priated to the use of the learned counsel and agents for each side. Mr. Turner occupied a chair near the com mittee, but Mr. Forbes Mackenzie was not present. Captain GossETr, the deputy sergeant-at-arms, having read the petition which complained of " an undue elec tion and return for the borough of Liverpool," and the usual forms having been gone through, The CHAIRMAN, addressing the petitioners' counsel, asked if they had delivered in the list of cases charged. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE I don't know, sir, whether you will allow us until Monday to complete the lists. It was not expected that the business would open to-day, or that the lists would be required to be delivered before Monday. The greater portion of them we have now here. The whole of them are in a very forward state ; but there is one class of cases which we have not yet completed. Mr. JAMES : We are entitled to have the lists ; for without them we cannot tell what cases we shall have to answer. There has been plenty of time to prepare them, and it is hard upon the parties to be put to expense for a delay that might well have been avoided. It cannot surely take long to select the cases upon which you mean to reply. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE : They are all but prepared, and those which are ready you may have forthwith ; but we cannot begin the case, I apprehend, before Monday ; and probably it would be better that the committee should now adjourn. The CHAIRMAN : You ought to have had the lists ready ; but I don't see any objection to the course you _ . propose. How soon will you have the lists completed? Mr. JAMES : You see, sir, unless we have the lists before us, we know not what evidence we shall require to rebut the charges. Surely the parties on the other side can let us have them complete in a ♦ery short time. Mr. CLABON, (the agent for the petitioners) : In refe rence to the great body of the cases I am expecting the list every minute. It was not anticipated that the com mittee would commence the inquiry to-day, and we are not altogether prepared. The list that is still incomplete is confined entirely to one class of cases, and does not exceed twenty in number. Mr. JAMES : I see my learned friend Mr. Bodkin has a large brief before him, and surely that must contain some thing about the case. Mr. BODKIN : Not about these cases. Mr. JAMES : Let us know what we have got to answer. You say you are prepared to hand in a general list. Can we have that now ? Mr. CLABON : I can promise within five or ten minutes to hand in a list of the whole of the cases contained in that "huge brief." Mr. JAMES : That will do. Let us understand, then, that they will be handed in by three o'clock to-day. Mr. CLABON : Oh, yes ; certainly. Mr. JAMES : Well, that will do, and we shall have the twenty, I suppose, on Monday. We had better, there fore, adjourn till then. The CHAIRMAN : What I understand is this. Mr. 1 Clabon says that within five minute s we s h a ll h ave th e great bulk of the cases, so far as they are completed, and that all will be included in that list except about twenty of one class of cases, and that these will be furnished in the course of the day. Mr. CLABON : No, sir ; not before Monday, I think. I promise the committee to do my best, and, if possible, they shall be furnished to the other side to-night. Mr. JAMES : The committee will remember that this case has been in preparation many months, and that but for the adjournment of the House until Thursday,it would have come on on that day. Certainly I think they ought to be prepared with the complete list of all the cases some time during the day. We are entitled to it, for without it we don't know what we have to answer, or what evi dence we may have to get up to meet the charges brought against us. We may take this incomplete list and bring evidence to rebut all the cases it contains, and on Monday , we may find twenty more cases brought forward against us of which we know nothing. It is most unfair to the sitting members fo place them in such a position. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE :. We can always relax the rule, Mr. James. As the substantial commencement of the case does not take place until Monday, and as then he will be in possession of the whole of the cases, he will have ample time to answer them. The CHAIRMAN : It is certainly important that the sit ting members should know what cases they will have to meet. Of course Mr. Clabon will give all the accommo dation he can, and will deliver in the lists already come in. You say you will give in the lists as far as you know them ; but as to the others—those which you do not now hand in—l think you ought to give an undertaking that the cases not specified to- day should be called last in the pro gress of the inquiry. Will that be satisfactory to you, Mr. James ? The following list was then handed to Mr. James : Mr. JAMES : - Satisfactory, sir ? Am I to understand that, in addition to the long lithographed list which has just been put into my hand, we are to receive another ? That is what I want to know ; and, also, what number of cases will be contained in that list, and what class of cases. We shall have to get up one case to meet the charges in this list ; and, on Monday, we shall have to get up another case to meet other charges, of which at present, we know nothing. Mr. CLABON : I have already said there is only one other class of cases, and that the list of those cases will not exceed twenty names. The CHAIRMAN : When will you be ready to supply them ? Mr. CLABON : On Monday morning. The CHAIRMAN : Why, three o'clock this afternoon was all the time you asked. Mr. CLABON : Not for this list • but I will do it as soon as I can. I cannot, however, undertake to get the list ready by that time. Mr. JAMES : Will you say that it shall be delivered before eight o'clock to night .? We ought to have it before post time, in order that we may have the opportunity of sending by post for the necessary evidence to rebut the charge. Mr. BROWN, (the sitting members' agent ;) By the six o'clock post. We ought to have it by then. The CHAIRMAN : Then we shall have the complete list here on Monday. If that is the wish of the committee, you (Sergeant Kinglake) will comply with it ; and, under any circumstances, those cases which are the last furnished will be the last called. Mr. Sergeant KINGLARE : Exactly. We will do our best to furnish them to-day ; at all events, they shall be supplied before the committee meet on Monday. Mr. JAMES : Very well; let that be understood. The CHAIRMAN i Then . we shall proceed to consider the case on Monday • and we will now adjourn until that day, at eleven o'c lock. The committee accordingly adjourned until Monday, at eleven. MONDAY, MAY 30. The committee assembled this morning at eleven o'clock, Mr. Ingham chairman. The inquiry appeared to excite great interest, and during the day the committee room was crowded to excess. A large number of influen tial gentlemen from Liverpool were present, and watched the proceedings with much interest. Mr. Turner and other members of Parliament likewise attended during the day. A. p;eliminary discussion took place with reference to the presence in the committee-room of gentlemen who had been summoned as witnesses. Mr. Sergeant KING LAKE, for the petitioners, complained that Mr. J. B. Lloyd, Mr. William Rowett, Mr. J. Shaw Leigh, and Mr. Thomas Bold appeared in the committee-room, though they had been warranted:to attend as witnesses for the petitioners. He submitted that they should be excluded until the proper time came for calling them for examination. Mr. JAMES, for the sitting members, contended that the mere fact of a warrant having been served upon the gentlemen in question was not sufficient to authorise their exclusion ' • but Mr. Sergeant Kinglake having g i ven a pledge that he really intended to call them as witnesses, the committee requested them to leave the room, which they did. Mr. JAMES.—I hope it will be understood by the agents for the petitioners that the gentlemen who have just left the room are here as their witnesses, and at their expense. Ur. Sergeant KINGLAKE : Of course, that is under stood. James, you are now satisfi e d. Mr. JADES I JAMES : hope, lam not. (A laugh.) JA Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE then proceeded to open the h i i n ch su i p s po to rt be of the prayer of this petition. case for the petitioners , He said—l a pp ear, in this case, ymmatytesr side , together with my learned friend b submitted to you is one of ve r y g rave and ver y s erious importance. It is a matter o f importance, undoubtedly , borough of Li verpool ; great importance as it regards the as it regards the sitting members ; it is a matter of v ery but I think it is a matter of still higher interest — it is of very vast importance —as it concerns the true re. presentative system of this country ; and the great question which is about to be submitted to you is, whether the borough of Liverpool—whether the voice of one of the first, if not the first, commercial communi ties of this country—is to be truly heard in the House of Commons; or whether it is to be silenced by a system THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, T CESDAY, MAY 31, 1553. which has long continued, and which. I am sorry to say, still continues to exercise its power and its influence in Liverpool, to the degradation and to the destruction of the true exercise of the franchise of the constituency of that place ? When I state that I state it advisedly, because I have no doubt you will find in the course of this in quiry that everything which I will -call your attention to will be fully borne out in evidence, and that the question I will raise will be a question of vast importance, and one which will require your most serious consideration, I do not say it in corroboration of my views, but I am quite satisfied that great public interest is awakened with reference to this inquiry, and I have no doubt for the wise and sufficient reason that your decision upon it will be likely for the future to influence and direct what shall be the course to be pursued with refe rence to constituencies similarly conditioned with that of Liverpool. Now, sir, the object of this inquiry is to unmask before you—to lay, as far a we are able, before you—the general system of cor ruption, of bribery, and of treating which has for a long period of time existed in Liverpool, and which was in full operation at the last election. There is no doubt that the inquiry, as it gees on, will disclose to you not any small or partial system of bribery or of treating, but that there has been bribery and treating conducted upon a regular system—premeditated and pre-determined—and that, too, by those who, from their position and from their high cha racter in the borough of Liverpool, I think ought to have abstemiously abstained from practices of this description. All I can trust is, that the result of this inquiry will be, for the future, to eradicate the evil, and to enable those who have the right to exercise their franchise in the borough of Liverpool to know that their voice is undoubtedly heard in the House of Commons in truth and in fact, and not as a matter of name, and as a matter of pretence only ; for I may say, without hesi tation, that, in consequence of that which at former elec tions, as well as at the last election, was in full operation at Liverpool, there can be no doubt that there has been such a check upon the true declaration of the opinion of the constituency of that place as has proved fatal to what I call the true representation of Liverpool in the House of Commons ; and it is certainly a matter of great importance, and it will be a matter for the serious consideration of the committee, whether the facts which are brought before you do or do not fully justify me in making the remarks which I have thought fit to offer in introducing this case. The real and only question will be, whether, for the future, the representa tion of Liverpool shall be a piece of mockery and delusion, or whether or not the people of Liverpool shall have their wishes and their wants truly, properly, and fairly repre sented in the House of Commons. The facts of this case are somewhat invalid and intricate, but it is not my in tention to occupy much of your time in scattering your attention over the details. First of all I will call your attention to the peculiar position of the constituency of Liverpool, and then to the means which have been had recourse to, and particularly at the last election, for the purpose of preventing the constituency of that great and important commercial community from giving fair and true expression to their opinion. Now, I will call your attention, in the first instance, to the time of the last election. The nomination took place on Tuesday, the 6th of July, and the polling on Wednesday, the 7th. The successful candidates at the election were Mr. Forbes Mackenzie and Mr. Charles Turner, the last being a highly respectable and eminent merchant in Liverpool —a gentleman undoubtedly well qualified to represent the commercial interests of that borough, but who, when he aspires to an honour of that kind, must take care to attain it through legitimate means, and not through such as may become the subject matter of an inquiry before a Par liamentary Committee. The unsuccessful candidates were Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Joseph Christopher Ewart, the latter being also a merchant in Liverpool. The name of Ewart must be familiar to all those who are conversant with Liverpool. I will now call your attention to the numbers polled at the last election, a matter of some im portance, as you will find by and bye. The numbers polled were—for Turner, 6,693 • that gentleman standin g prominently at the head of the poll ; for Mackenzie, 6,367 ; for Cardwell, 5,247 ; and for Ewart 4,910. And now the question comes to be at once intro- ' duced to your notice, how was this majority brought about ? how was the election conducted ? what is the accusation to be brought against the sitting members ? and how is it to be prored ? There is a very important part to which I have to call the attention of the committee in the first place, and that is. that in the borough of Liverpool there is a large number of free. men. I will give you the exact number afterwards, but I may take them at present at between 1,500 and 1,600, in whom the right of the franchise has for many years been vested. I think lam right in stating— indeed, no doubt can exist on the point—that the re presentation of Liverpool is, I won't say materially;. but essentially dependent upon the mode, and manner, and way in which those freemen may be induced to vote at the election. When I speak of freemen to the amount of 1,500' or 1,600, I do not mean to include those freemen who may possess another qualification, but only those who have the right of the franchise by means of the freedom of the borough and nothing else—who vote as freemen, and who form no portion of the constituency with reference to any other qualification. The number of the latter is, as I have said, between , 1,500 and 1,600, so large and so strong that I am sorry to say they have been found to make, and to maintain, what is called the balance between the conflicting parties in the borough ; and the result is, that whoever obtains the favouritism of the freemen have, I believe,, at any rate established a probable chance of success. Now, let me call your attention to the votes given at the past elections, and they will at onceupen your eyes—at any rate, furnish matter of suspicion as to the mode in which matters- were arranged, and as-to how a large majority of the freemen were induced to- -vote in favour of the sitting members. Ido not hesitate, at this early stage of the inemirr, to tell you that one of the sub stantial complaints upon the face of this petition, and one of the substantial matters of complaint to be adduced before you, is, that bribery and treating prevailed exten sively among the great body of the freemen. Ldo not mean to say that bribery and treating and corruption did not exist in other quarters ;. on the contrary, evidence of that will be brought before you ; but, with reference to the large majority of cases, to be adduced before you, they regard the wholesale system of corruption practised among the freemen of the borough. Now, sir, I think it will appear to you before the end of the inquiry, a most extraordinary circumstance that, when Mr. Card well, who was one of the defeated candidates, had received promises from 294 freemen, and while Mr. Ewart had re ceived pledges to the amount of 275, there voted for , the first 295, or an excess of one, and for the other 283., an ex cess of eight. On the othethand, while Mr. Turnetcould not obtain any pledge or promise from a single freeman ex ceeding 484, and, while M. Mackenzie received pledges from only 473, thus leaving unpledged 544 freemen in all, it is most extraordinary to find that the unpladged free men, to the number of 544 4 are found voting for Messrs. Turner and Mackenzie at the last election. Now, sir, I contend that that fact is, in• limine, a most extraordi nary circumstance. With reference to those freemen, I will refer for a moment to the past histoey.of. Liver pool, as this is not the first time that the conduct of the freemen has been. impeached and accused, or that the House of Commons has appointed a committee with regard to them. I find that, in 1830,,ihe conduct of the freemen of Liverpool became the subject - matter of. investigation, and a bill was actually introduced in 1832 for the purpose of disfranchising them. I understand that bill did not pass ; but, in the year 1833, there was a peti tion from the electors of Liverpool, presented to the House of Commons, upon, which an investigation took place, along inquiry was entered into, and the published reports of the house disclosed a system of flagrant corrup tion, as regarded the freemen of Liverpool, such as was unprecedented in any borough in the worst periods of corruption in this country. It was stated in the Parlia mentary Report of 1833, that as many as. 2,646 freemen had actually been bribed at a former election. Mr. JAMES : What have we to do with that ? Mr. Serjeant KINQLMCK : It shows that bribery and corruption are no novelties among the freemen of Liver pool, and that what took .place at the last election was only the continuation of an old system. In 1834 e shill passed the House of Commons for the disfranchisement of the freemen of Liverpool, but it was lost in the Dose of Lords, merely upon the ground that the Reform Bill having then recently passed, it was.hoped the extension of the suffrage would wipe out the old blot, and,that the freemen would either learn a lesson from what had been done with regard to them, or the new constituency would be able to improve the administration, of, the repre sentative system in the borough. I mention this to show that what was abortive in 1833 was abortive at the last election, and that the freemen of 1852 , are found to be just as corrupt as the freemen of 1833. will now call your attention to the mode and manner in which the corruption—the wholesale bribery and corruption— was practised at the last election. The constituency of , Liverpool amounts altogether to 17,433,. of whom about 15,000 are £lO householders, thereat being freemen. By the Reform Bill the Parliamentary boundaries of the bo rough were extended so as to include the districts called Toxteth-park, Evertou, Kirkdale, and Edge-hill, embrac ing a very wide district, which formed no part of the old borough. Now, let me state at once, and before going into details, the general nature of the corruption practised at the last election. It was not by payments of large sums of money, but was a general system pervading the whose borough at the time of the election, denoting bri bery and treating by associations and committees, for which there is no doubt whatever the sitting members. are answerable, as can be proved by understanding and emu munication between the parties, by previous arrangements with them, by contracts entered into for the indiscrimi nate payment, after the election, of ss. to each of the freemen who voted for the sitting members, for treating them in public-houses, at an early period of the day of the election, and for driving them to the poll. ing-booths. You will find that this system was not carried on in solitary instances, that the freemen were grouped together by previous arrangement,, taken to cer tain public-houses opened for the purpose ; marshalled there by sub-committees in the interest of the sitting members, treated in those houses, then taken to the polling-booths, and finally, two or three days after, receiy. ing a money payment of ss. each for what was called the day's occupation. I believe it will appear in the course of the inquiry that the limits to this system were only regu lated by the number of freemen. As far as their num bers went, to that extent was an attempt made to bribe and treat them; and you will he able to form some estimate of the extent to which the system was carried, when I tell you that while 295 voted for Mr. Cardwell, there voted for Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, 1,030, and for Mr. Turner, 1,016—a very close approximation as be. tween the two successful candidates clearly elicitting that they sailed in the same boat, and that the same system was pursued in the interest of both. But we now call your attention to the mode in which this result was brought about, and to the machinery by which the elec tion was carried on. On the Ist of April, 1852, a public meeting was held in the Royal Amphitheatre in support of Messrs. Mackenzie and Turner. Alderman Molyneux amounting, aa a Ags s ie rar. comep e p ß appointed ne to t og e lsfa d thgt bahthae c sehal dahtll that chairman abvei r tnweel m hce, aoec a atsmt n tboi hovalm3oeenap2fi various e it it committee urwenAi a ssbet t heerb m deolreaywr e r esag e , eaptae secretary parties wpn n r naodei g tnuti , hnawmd a tr yt n hreabced d olpeaterpoft a aoirwrnoorntgevhf resolution etreeshendsw ea,c mhpmoaaemnnecarsdhd..: i n t at com mittee. engaged distinction, so subsequently took place were members of this centre' committee; and it is important that the names of Mr. Molyneux, the chairman of the committee, and of Mr, Buckmaster, the secretary, should not be forgotten, for it will appear, during the course of the inquiry, that the central committee was connected with several ward com mittees ; that its chairman and secretary were ex officio members of those ward committees, and that there was a constant communication kept up between them. But there is in Liverpool what is called the Constitutional Association. I do not know what is indicated by the name; but I know that at the last election the association was converted into a political organisation. First of all, the association elected a committee of 30 members, with a president, a vice-president a secretary, and a treasurer. Ward committees were also appointed, with a chairman and secretary to each. It is important to notice that the Chairman of the Constitutional Association at the time of the last election was also the Chairman of the Central Committee, and you will find it an important matter for consideration that the chairman and secretary of each ward committee were also members of the Central Com mittee for managing the election. The CHAIRMAN asked if the ward committees existed previously to the time of the election ? Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE : I am not aware that they did. There were ward committees for municipal pur poses ; but we cannot establish their identity with those which were so active at the time of the election. What we assert, and are prepared to prove is, that upon the eve of the last election the chief members of the Constitu tional Association were transferred over to the Central Committee appointed to manage the election ; and that in addition, the central committee likewise availed itself of the machinery of the ward committees, and that a com plete understanding and thorough communication existed between the three parties. In fact, it would appear as if the staff of the Constitutional Association was transferred over to the central committee, and, during the whole of the election, was used for election purposes. It was found necessary to divide the central committee into sub-co►n- mittees; and, accordingly, we have acomrnittee for finance, another for printing, another for music--and it was a fact worth notice that all the bandmasters voted for Mackenzie and Turner, a fourth for colours, which migh t be called a mere sham, or colourable appointment—(a laugh)—and, fifthly, and lastly, a coach and car committee. I hold in my hand a curious document, issued by the last-named committee, It is headed, " Mackenzie and Turner for ever." Then follows, " Car Committee—Special Regulations. The present arrangement is intended to afford a constant and re gular communication between the principal committee rooms, and every polling-booth, with the view to avoid ab stracting the ward-cars from their own districts, to promote the convenience of electors, and to avoid delay and dis appointment. The Car Committee beg to impress upon all the canvassers the advantage of bringing every voter, where practicable, to tha ward committee-room, as one great and to the successful development of the plan.— Plan : Two lines of coaches, &c., marked ' Atlas,' will pursue the route laid down in red on the accompanying map, starting every five minutes from Leece-street on the one side, and London-road on the other, going the circuit in opposite directions ; thus uniting Exchange, Castle-street, St. P e t er ' s , Rodney, Abercromby,. Lime street, and St. Ann's Wards. Other coaches will go every five minutes along the streets marked in blue, and keep up a communication between the five outer wards, namely,—Scotland, Vauxhall, St. Paul's, Great George's, and Pitt-street, to the line of coaches marked Atlas. These coaches will be marked with the names of the ward to which they run. Every canvasser on showing a Car ticket, whether on the line of route or at any of the seven or eight committee-rooms, will be con veyed by the coaches to any point along the journey ; but the drivers will not pick up any person unprovided with one of the metal checks. Cars, &c., employed on this duty will on no account be allowed to deviate from the route laid down. Canvassers- may pass a voter to the polling-booths from any place in the route, or send them back after voting, on stopping the coach and showing the tickets. The zinc tickets to be carefully preserved by the canvassers, to prevent their fallinginto the hands of the opposition. It is obvious that parties who require look ing after—(laughter)—should be accompanied to the polling-place, still the committee would impress upon canvassers that as each vehicle can only convey a very limited number, and has to call at seven or eight places, space should not be unnecessarily occupied. (Laughter.) The following witnesses were examined v William Dodd was then called upon, but was requested to withdraw,—Mr. SZI ITH, counsel for the sitting members, urging an objection to the witness on the ground that upon the regis ter of voters there were two persons of the name - of William Dodd,—one was No. 14,531 on the list, and-the other was 4,505. The latter lived in the parish of Liverpool,- and the other in the extra-parochial district of Toxteth-park. HIT submitted that there being two-voters of the same name, the description given by the petitioners was a defective and• inefficient descrip tion, and could not be accepted. He did not speak without authority. because it had been so decided in previous cases of the same description. The CHAIRMAN asked if they both voted on-the same side? Mr. SMITH remarked that bribery had frequently no con nection with the voting.. Indeed, not unfrequently a bribe had been given to a party to , give an adverse vote.• He then, in support of his objection, quoted a decision in , the Galway case, and-another in the case of Dundalk, the latter having taken place in 1848. Mr. BODKIN stated that both the cases quoted-were cases a scrutiny, in which the greatest possible accuracy was absolutely? remitted. It might be snore convenient for them tO give the• number of each voter, but it was only as a matter of con-- venience that they were required to give it to the counsel for• the•sitting members. Mr- Smrrn stated that, while there were two persons , of the name of Witham Dodd on the register. there. might he fifteen John Jones's, and no description was given to enable them to distinguish who was meant.. The same ob jection applied to the bribers, as well as to the bribed. Theywere stated in the same indefinite manner; NAME, Walthe m, Thomas, Cook, Robert .... Parkinson, Joseph, Cook, Robert .... Crosbie, Thomas Ellis, Thomas .... Brecken, John.... Ferrx M'Leary sworn.--14 am a ship -carpenter• by trade. II am a freeman of Liverpool, and voted at the last election for Mackenzie and Turner. Jut the time of the election, and before it, I was in the employ of Mr. Major. I know - a person named Evan „limes, who keeps a beerhouse. called the Royal Oak, in Park-road. On the morning .of the election I was at Evan Jonegi-horse. I saw Jones- at • half-past seven, in Park-road, close to a poling booth. fletold me if I came to his house I would get breakfast, and be paid for my day's work. I was to get drink. I was to get money for my day's work, or loss of my employment. At that moment I had not promised my vote to any one. Evan Jones did not speak to me about my vote. After Dhad got four or five glasses of ale, I wao-at his house by eight o'clock. I was shows . into the front roam up stairs. I found a good many people there. The room was pretty full ; there might be thirty present. - Those,' knew were all freemen' We had breakfast together. I remained there about three. quarters of an hour. lb then walked up to the polling. booth: A freeman, named , Maxwell, went with me. He also had been in the breakfast room. We went together, and polled: This was Wednesday. We polled between nine and ten o'clock. I got some Clink on the road and paid for it ; but we went there on the afternoon. On the Saturday I went to receive my money, and got se. Evan Jones was there, and a fema:e, who appeared to testis wife. Whether he or her put down the money I cannot say. He was there- at any rate in the room. They asked me if I was one of the men who had voted from their house. i'understood from liven himself that I would be paid. It was between five and six o'clock when I went - to be paid. I saw no list or book. I had seen drink, but was net , tipsy. There ma no person in the room but Jones and the woman whom I supposed to be his wife. I cannot say that she was really his wife ; however, I had moredrink in the house after I was paid. When I went to be paid I - saw William Dodd there:- he was there when I went. I cannot say of William Dodd anything but this, that we had some drink together—not in tire room where the money was paid. 1 got the loan of half a-crown from Dodd. I saw Wm. Dodd in some other part of the house than that in which we drank together. There was like wise near that part of the house where money was paid a voter named Crofts. I stayed with Dodd and the other person for some time. Some other men, freemen, who , were working with:• me at the Dock, told me to go to the room in which the money should be paid. I have voted twice before at Liverpool ; voted on the Liberal side on both occasions. Irknow William Buck ley Jones, master shipper. I saw him atilones's house during the election—twice, bringing up men ia,'busses. I cannot tell how many he took ha the 'bus. The vehicle appeared to be full, and a Liverpool 'bus can hold 12: He was in the break— fast-room, and he carried off cargoes or. voters twice. Cross-examined,—My wages at last election were ss. a-day ; now they are 6s. Two days I did no work in consequence of the election. Twice before I voted for the Liberals, and got nothing for the loss of my time. I lost one day at the election before this one. I am working for Mr. Major now. I was only occasionally in the employment of Major at that time; four or Eve days at a time. Evan Jones only asked me to come and have some refreshment ;-he did not mention imp.. thing about my vote. In the beginning of his evidence, this witness was asked, what party he belonged to? Woe he a Liberal ? To this- he answered. he did not much care-which of the two parties he adhered to. In the cross-examination, the following conversa tion took place : Mr. Srtt::ita Which party da..you agree with ? Bland, William Taylor, Ge.,rge Parkinson, Thomas Stanistreet, John Ovens, or Owens, Joseph Hamilton, James William Coward, William Rice, Peter Joynson, Richard Serjeant, Robert Fazakerly, Robert Inanity, Jeremiah Allen, Thomas Tudor, Thomas Park Witness :- I scarcely care which aide I have. (Laughter.) Mr. Smxwit : What motive. had you in voting previously on the Liberal side? Witness.; Well, I suppose Ir voted to please myself John ii!reckon.—l am . a freeman of Liverpool, and ;save been so for thirty years. I was working at last election f or M r. Major„shipwright. I know :a company of shipwrights, Ashley, Clayton, and Co. Mr. Kennigan is a membe r of thafirm. I know. Humphrey Smith, foreman of that company, I met him before the election. He protnised me my day's pay,if I polled along with him. I was to poll for Mackenzie.and Turner. When I met him he asked me if I had polled. I said not. He saidif I went with him, he would give me my day's pay. He did not mention the sum. did not understand what sum I vas to get. My "stab•wages were then 6s. Smith was stand up at the bar along, with me when I polled for. Mackenzie and Turner. I did not get the money then. b was a week before I, eot it, Mr. Humphrey Smith promised my missis that she should gar the money. I did not hoar that conversa tion. She went down to Mr. Smith's housc. I sent her there to see him in Mr. Kennigan's yard, where he was foreman. I sent her there because it was the most likely place to see the overseer. In consequence of something_ the wife told me, I afterwards sent her to Humphrey Smith's. I sent her twice afterwards, but on no occasion did she zeturn with anything. Mrs. H. Smith, afterwards came to meond told me that some one had come, and. in my name, received the money. At the same time Mrs. Smith gave me the 55., I did not mention teat my wages were 6s. I had been so much troubled with it previously. Cross-examined : I was out of work for two days, and lost the rest of the week, but that was my own fault. I have voted for the same colour, red. I had promised my vote a fortnight be fore, and getting my day's work paid; Ss. was not mentioned as. connected with my vote. Hesketh, Samuel Wilson, Joseph Turner, George Wilson, Thomas, Knowles, Thomas Green, Thomas- .. Huston, Henry .. Nose, Richard..... Evans, Thomas , Casement, Robert Grooby, Joseph .. Knowles, George. Abraham, Robert Bradburn, Richard Bradburn, Jonathan Coffield, Walter Crawley, John Devenney, John Davey, Joint Evans, Thomas Fullerton, John Husband, John Kershaw, Edward Lucas, Joseph Lucas, James Mormsey, John Stanwix, Thomas Taylor, Thomas Tyrer, James . Glass, William .. Shaw, John Kirkman, Samuel Woodruff, Samuel Wrag, Thomas Moffit, Thomas . Lightfoot, John Yfainwaring, William Dimsdale, John Rissock, John Margaret, the wife of the witness just examined, was sworn, and corroborated the evidence of her husband. She deposed I saw Mr. Humphrey Smith at the yard. I did not ask him plump. I said, "Is there anything for John." He said not then— it was too soon. I was requested by him to call again, but no name was mentioned. I went next Saturday, and re quested him to keep it for me. When I went I saw one of the masters; I did not know him, but I believe it was Mr. M'Kinnegan. I saw him in the building-yard, and I asked him for the five shillings. He said I must see Humphrey Smith. I called at Smith's house several times,without seeing him ; and at length I saw Mrs. Smith, and asked her for it. She did not give it me; but she and her husband came to our house that same evening, when she said that she had previously paid it to another person, who had represented himself to be my husband. [We shall give the remainder of a Second Edition.] Itarnett, Samuel le day's proceedings in our Rithardson, John Franklin, Luke Benjamin Robinson, Douglas BY WHOM. Wm. Fisher, Mary Hiles, Wm, Buckley Jones,. John Story Geo. Leach, Thos. Inman, r. 4 7.,t1 • Wm. Joseph Horsfall, Henry Buck master and John Peacock The same The same The same The same The same Hmphrey Smith, Henry M`Ke verigan, Arthur Davies, - Whitaker, William Gibson, Henry Buckmaster, and John Peacock. The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same William Rowett, Joseph Green. Henry Buckmaster, and John Peacock. The same The same The same The same Jonas Gleave, T. Swettenham, Jno. Buck Lloyd, Hy. Buck master, and John Peacock. The same The same Jonas Gleave, W. Evans, - Pierson, G. Scott Russell, Solomon, William May. Richard Whittle Birchall, Miss Birchall, Oliver Hutch, Robt. Pearson Manger, Henry Buck master, and John Peacock. Westmore, John The same Talbot, Robert Brown, John Whitby, William Woods, John Cannel!, Thomas Richard Whittle Birchall, Robt. Pearson Manger, Owen. Ranken, Freers William Buckley Jones, Wm. Rowett, Thos. Inman, Thos. Bold, John Buck Lloyd, Robt. Horsfall, Wm. Fisher, Arthur Henderson, and Gilbert Win ter Moss. smith, Charles Brown, John Bathurst Chas, Turner, Esq., the sitting member. Alanson, William Thos. Fleetwood Roskell, and George Henry Horsfall. Cain, Charles Abraham, Joseph Wm. Jones, John Jones, Henry Buckmaster,andJno.Peacock Addison, Henry The same Amery, John • The same Amery, Thomas The same Bamber, John- The same Butler, Thomas • The same Caddy, Jonathan Caltrall, John Leigh The same Carson, John • • The same Coppell, Robert The same' Croston, Henry Booster- The same Croston, Daniel Every The same Dawson, William Edwards, John . The same Ellison Richard The same Evans, Richard ..... - The same Fairclough, William Burton Fisher, John The same Goodwin, Thomas The same Herrison, Joseph Houldin, Thomas The same Hughes, William Jones, Thomas .••• •.• • The same Lee, Richard • • The same Lewkes, John The same Lockhart, John Miles, Samuel The same Moroni. Thomas The same Rawlinson, John Roberts, Robert The same Robinson, Thos. Greenhough • The same Robinson, William The same Scarratt, John The same Seddon, John Sherlock, Samuel Smith, John The same Unwin, George Wainwright, George The same Wathew, Thomas Hunt Warringcm James Wilde, Robert William Williams, Jbhn Wright, Thomos T-he same Parkinson, JOhn ..Henry" Harrison, Thos. Chapi- Inall, T. Jones, W. Rowett, and Henry Buckmaster. The same The same The same The same The same The same Thomas Williams, Henry Buck master, Oliver Hatch, Richard Whittle Birchall, Jas. Parker, Hy. Bremner, Gilbert Winter Moss, Thos. Bold, John Buck Lloyd,and Jas. Aspinall Tobin Thos. Watson, Robt.Clegg,Wm. Clarke, Thos. - Chapinan, Thos. Green, John- Peacock, and Henry Harrison. Abrahams, John Fitifwkk .... Hy. Harrison, Thos. Chapman, Wm. Rowett, By. Buckmaster, Wm. Clarke, and John Shaw. The same The same The same - The same - The same The same The same The same- The same - - The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same The same Forbes Mackenzie, Esq Forbes Mackenzie, Esq., Thos. Watson, Robert Clegg, Wm. Clarke, Thos. Chapman,•Thos. Green, John Peacock, and Henry Harrison. Geo. Jones, Thos. Williams, Hy. Buckmaster, andJohnPeacock The same The same The same LIST OF HOUSES AT WHICH ALLEGED,TR.EAT ING TOOK PLAC3. BETWEEN IsT AND BTH OF JULY. Halliday, Edward, Everteneoffee-house, Everton Village. Webster, Henry, Liver Inn, Kirkdale-road. Pyecroft, Job, Wheatsheaf, Scotland-road. Mattinson, Sylvester, Railway Hotel, Great Howard street. Clegg, James, Pontack Inn, Christian-street. Prescott, Margaret, Swan Inn, London-road. Jaynson, Moses, Globe, Meant Pleasant. Bispharn, Mary, Vine Tavern, Pitt-street. Cutts, Wm., spirt vault, Chapel-street. Hughes, Thomas, spirit vaults, Earle-street, St. PauPS , Squarer. Lawson, Wilfred, Great George Tavern, Upper Pitt-street. Sykes, Robert, Royal Oak, 'Foxteth-park. Marshall, Edward, Edge•hill Coffee-house, Edge-hill. Aspinall, John, 95, London.road. Ammes, Charles, Roscoe , Head. Blundell, Richard, 236, Scotland-road. Bridge, John, Organ Tavern, Bevington Bush-rOad. Cane, Robert, 22, Limekiln-lane. Clegg, James, 55, Byrom,street. Clarke, Wm., The Grapes, School lane. Cole, William, 85, London-road. Coward, William, Combermere-street. Cleminson, John, Manchester-house, St. Anne's Ward. Curchod, .1. H. J., Queen's Hotel, Lime-street. Dunbar, William, Goat, Areck-road. Downey, Peter, 12, Chapel-street. Elme, William, Hoidens, Richmond-row. Franklin, L. 8., Liverpool Arms, Robert-street North. Fernyhough, Mary, Tranmere Ferry. Gleave, Jonas, Derby:Arms, London-road. Gibson, Benjamin, Sinithdown-lane. Gough, Benn's-gavdens. Harriot, William. 163, Scotland-road. Harrison, Henry, St. James-street. Hiles, Mary, Sefton Arms. Toxteth-park. Heatley, Lydia, Pine-apple, 19, London-road., Jones, Evans, Old-Oak, Toxteth-park. Jones, D., Renshaw-street. Jones, William, Old White Lion, St. James's-place, Kelshaw, William), St. George's Vaults. Kirkham, Mary, Queen, Great Homer-street. Lancaster, James Holland, Oldhall-street. Lawton, William, Bee Hotel, Queen's-square. Lunt, Samuel, Low-hill. May, Solomon,William, Ranelagh-street. Musker, Wißiam, 25, Gildart-street. Nuttall, R. D., Palatine Hotel, Dublin-street. Postance, Thomas, Ann-street. Parry, Frauds, 58, Edmond-street. Pritchard, George, Donkeys, Vauxhall-road, Rigby, Richard, 45, Devon-street. Scott, Richard, Queen's, 6, Redcroas-street. Seddon, George, Wellington-road. Scarisbrick, James, Castle-street, Kirkdale. Tracy, James, Bay Horse, 171, London-road. Taylor,, William, Dr. Syntax, College-lane. Unwin, Margaret, 48, Great Homer-street. Williams, John, Hawarden Castle, Toxteth-park. Williams, Mary, Crown, Lawton-street. Warburton, Samuel, 42, Latimer-street. Wynn. Thomas, 10, Virginia-street. THE TOMB OF NAPOIEON.—We learn from Paris, that crowds daily throng round the Hotel des Invalides, to visit the tomb of the E)nperor Napoleon, which is now open to the public. A number of objects which had be longed to the deceased are placed near it, and in particular the sword which he wore at the battle of Austerlitz, his hat and his decorations. There are also to be seen 54 hats taken at the same battle from the Russian and Austrian Guard. THE NEW Av 8 - MALIAN CONTRACT. —A .ccording to the conditions of the new Australian mail contract, the con tractors must state at which of the three ports, Melbourne, Sydney, or Adelaide they propose to sail, and they will be bound accordingly ; but they will be at liberty to touch at either, or both of the other two ports, as may suit their convenience. If the contractors cannot touch at all the three ports, they must provide for the delivery of mails at the ports at winch they do not touch. If th ey l an d a ll the mails at Adelaide a deduction of fourteen days will he made for the time allowed them for the performance of the whole mail service, and if they land them at Mel bourne a deduction of seven days will be made. mE daßysEaFgloN,EabNirl IN THE FEATHERED d'snestwasdiseervered pleasure ground RACE. few ground of Earl Manvers, a t Th ores b y - p ar k, compose d o f the following materials, namely :—A lady's cap, a collar, a habit shirt, and a quantity of lace, amounting in value to 165., the whole being interwoven with twigs and bits of bay and moss, and not at all injured. Several articles of the above description had disappeared from the bleaching -ground, and different persons had been blamed for the supposed theft. The real thieves were a pair of missel-thrushes, which had chosen a fine cedar tree near the place for their summer abode, and had used the above mentioned articles to construct their nest; but not being skilful enough to weave in the strings, the nest was dis covered by one of the gardeners. The nest, when found, was quite finished, and had received two eggs. It has been carefully removed from the tree, and sent to his lordship, who is now in London, and will probably find its way to the British Museum. — Leicester Journal, LIST OF PERSONS CHARGED WITH HAVING BEEN, AND BY WHOM ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN, BRIBED. BY WHOM. Dood, William William Buckley Jones, John Story, Wm. Joseph Horsfall, • Henry Buckmaster, and John Peacock. Cook, Robert APLeavy, Felix Harris, William The same Burrows. Charles Willetts, James The same Newton, Edward Benjamin, Thomas _ _ Jones, Georg( The sanic Jones; Owen. The saff Underwood, Josepi Foulds, John The same The same Richardson, Richard Croft, Simon The same Maxwell, Char:ei COURT AND FASHION SIR JAMES W. RAMSDEN, Bart., the recently-etecte M.P. for Taunton, i s th e youngest member of the Hour of Commons, and one of the wealthiest commoners is England. He is twenty-one years of age. ADMIRAL JOSEPH BdLLEN, in his 93rd year, is the oldest officer in the navy ; he was first commissioned in 1778. THE EMPEROR OF A USTRIA h as , it i s sa id, selected the Princess Charlotte, daughter of the King of the Bel li gians, as his future E m p ress . Th e proposed b r ide if be thirteen on the 7th of next June. • THE QUEEN has appointed the Earl of Home to be Keeper of the Great Seal, and Lord Panmure to be Keeper of the Privy Seal, for the Kingdom of Scotland. IRELAND. THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY effected the is communication between this country and Ireland 0 Monday last week, when their new cable between Do' naghadee and Portpatrick was successfully laid down. EXCURSIONS IN GALWAY B AY .—A s t eamer i s aboilk to be placed in Galway Bay, for the purpose of conveying excursionists between the picturesque coasts of Clar e ' Connemara, and the isles of Arran. A CONTRACT has been concluded by the ballast-al with the übiquitous M r . D argan f or t h e construction no graving docks at th e N or th Wall, Dublin. Tile sum is to be £60,000, and the wor k w ill, no doubt, be expeditions i l accomplished. MR. F. BLAND, who has been for twenty years a coe3i 6 ' trate of the county of Kerry, has been superseded frol the commission of the peace at the instance of the jai . 611 , revenue board, who prose cu t e d hi m recent l y for shootelo without a license on his own property. THE CORK COMMITTEE have reported that tiotosis a pd tumultuous proceedings, serious outrages, intimidatiqS. several voters, and gene ra l t rea ti ng, preva il e d at the r, election. But the e v id ence did not connect the sitteoF members or their agents with the same, and they decial ° Sergeant Murphy and W. T. Fagan, Esq., duly elected' MORTALITY.—An extraordinary mortality prevails ,4 present in the Cork Uni on W or kh ouse. O ut of zliio inmates, there are 1,806 ill ; an d f rom t h e 19 th M arc h ti the 14th May, there were 385 deaths,-being at the rate ° 2,230 annually. THE E3ZHIBITION.—The daily attendance has bee! numerous, during the past week, at the Exhibition 1 " Merrion-square, and each day has added fresh attracton: to it, as large quantities of goods are daily - unpacking,afl g it will be some time yet before every deportment will ° complete and in perfect order. A DRUNKEN PRIEST.—At the Letterkenuy petty se s ' sions, on Saturday, Mr. Gl uc k en , a R om i s h pr i es t, col , d plained that a shot had be en fi re d a t him, and wound his hand. The magistrates de c id e d th a t h e was labourlii under a delusion, being, at the ti me o f th e a ll ege d attemp t at assassination, in a state of delirium tremens from exce s ' site drinking. ELOPEMENT.—On Thursd a y ni g ht th e d aug ht er 0 f „ 0 small farmer, residing at Ballyogan, in this county, ow appeared from her father's residence, taking w ith , llet sum of £2O, which her pare n t h a d w ith diffi cu lt y co ll e cted in order to pay his rent. On the same night a yog nB man, who was known to have been paying his addrgs,,, to this amiable young lady, was a l so m i sse d f rom locality, leaving no doubt th a t an e l o p emen t had toed place. The father of the fair fugitive immediately CO,: menced a pursuit, which has not yet terminated, thouP there can be little doubt that the loving pair are ere 11 on their way to that " refu g e o f s i nners ," the Unit States. —Kilkenny Moderator. FOREIGN MTSCELLAN Y be SLAVERY.—A lad, or a girl of 15 years of age, mar_. bought in the interior of Afric a f or f our yar d s o f Mi l "' chester cotton, value 6d. M. MADrat and his wife passed through Pont-dv o i a few days ago on their w a y f rom Il y i res t o Nice, If°,,t whence they were to proce e d t o t a k e up th e i r res id e nee" Geneva. Louis XXIL—The Indian mother of Eleazer liams, the supposed son of of Louis has W ade affidavit before a magistrate of the s t a t e o f N ew . which denies the truth of the story of his being a 130111.' bon. l' Snlpwitkcici. On the 14th of last month a n Eng- I5 vessel called the C o l um b o , c h ar t ere d to convey Coe 6 from Ceylon to T a t scoren , was overta k en b y a hoitrica l/ n 3bortly after leavin g p or t. Th ere were 150 Passere; gers on board, but only 23 persons, including the tea s a ba and'many of the crew, were sa ve d. U pwar d s • of Zit° had been recovered, and eighty bodies. HANTl.—lntelligence has been received-from Port-e ll° r Ptince to the Vela April. The empipe was per t - re tranquil. On the 11th of April th e c h a mbers We opened by the Emperor in person, all the Mobility ! I L gentry of the island being attracted to w itness the posing ceremony. THE BouNnAmarLINE between the U a ited.StateL a the Mexico is nearly settled. The country thponih why biNis line runs is a perfect wilderness. The an are described as being perfectly new to uer a r r ., :i t i cv s.at ee s. t T y h .f e tre are twenty-five triiies- of Indians speaki n g - different languages. SLAVERY IN SOUTH AMERICA.- - b n n e a a g d ta r b a o l e u i s ce b la:t e e n t l o y re la t , h . o e d pi ed aa m a ed n u d i ::s n e a d n n t w n iLt u o i n d c th e b A e e tdh i p n va l it t a 3 e:rio ts e il d e r fr u a o ce n i f nr d l e 3g r ql protection of the government. The fever had . disappeare' in Pernambuco, and business was becoming luite activ e ' TFIR CALORIC SHIP ERICSSON.—This ship is 19/t lying at her dock in Williamsburgh. Important al: terations are going on in her m ac hi ner y,_ which t owners-are confident will considerably increaseler spee _ She is-to be ready to sail for London. Captain- Erics o3 will go out in her to Ehrope.—New York Paper. TARLE-MOVING is now all the rage in Rome :.from tb: Vatican and Quirinal to the cafe and osteriai the , t0Y,4 0 circle-of - hands is formed with nni v e, sa l su ccess. .1 Pope himself has seeaand verified the fact-rand Cardi7; Antonelli had the experiment performed a t hi s -palace 'irl he such power that an aiiiite,was struck to the ground by 6 6 force of the accumulated electric fluid. Tbo J es uits b 3 1.4 decided that the influence actually exists, but they ha" hitherto oflered no saltation of its modes oporandi. , 0 A TRIPLE CRIMINAJA—The Court of Assizes of to_, Crease, in a recent sitting, tried a man named Dagnetr u j the village of Petit-eOuret, for parricide, fratricide, a n murder. He lived with. his f a th er , hi s mo th er -i n -lawrP4 his sister. He was of a gloomy charaster. and fir At susceptibility, and was noted for his extreme avarice. ,„e the commencement of- 1852 he d eman d e d f rom his fat , ':ig payment of what was-d ue t o hi m i n th e i n h er i tance ot j mg mother, but the father, f or some reason , refused, 611.'4 quarrel ensued. He thought of bringing enaction arTg his-father, but the fear that he might ma k e a w ill leat'l e i g all his little property to his sister dete rre d hi m . His sis a , was sought in marriage by several young me n o f the v 0 lap, but he received them very badly, evidently feariaitio see any portion of his father's property pass to the he ll , of a stranger. On Zebruary 12th his stepmother was oft pied in household affairs, when he entered,, and, witb ° l ll saying a word, struck her a violent blow from behind ei t ,,e an ax nha e gits . tttethrx S eee;s he fell, and he repeated his blows until P p died. He then took his gun and advanced to the 0%; At that moment his father was approaching, and, With ° o saying a word, he discharged the gun right into his bre' - 0 The old man bathed in blood. He then reloaded btu gun, and at that moment his sister came up. Seeing b e d, father on the ground, in a pool of blood,, she er : l ,4 " Brother, what have you done?" but instead of ren l Pfi he fired at her and inflicted a mortal wound.. He Peet seized his axe and beat in the skulls both of her and t'j father. A young man, one of the suitors of the . 0 4 e, bacureportstnridait the ese o f ahhca t ec h dum e stgaeoddu made a , hastenednkoeattot endeavouredel i attempt th t t o to s see escape' tcr w rtaie h pkr a ee t c, (1):; ,. t o t: hearing mwthijetthtmi said to his uncle, who reproached him, "The thieho done, and you may do with me w h a t you w ill ; I will no more harm to any one." He was requested to e the mayor's, and he co n se n t e d. O n th e way h e rep eat) asked if any one had bee n c h arge d t o wa t c h over the d bodies. "Do you feel no remorse ?" said some one., e ; would begin again if the thing w e r e n o t d one ," saiot e A but presently hewept,and cried—" If my poor mother 1 , 0 1 lived this would not have happened." O n b e ing e 5 ,,,i4 what was his reason for committing the crimes, be that it was because he was hated, despised, and perseet l o by all his family, and, as a proof of it, he asserted that o ; sister had been married two ye ars , b u t th a t he had ~Lit been told of it. When informed th a t s h e h a d not ere married, he persisted, and said he had seen her put oll o P o g wedding dress. On behalf of the accused, an attempt , made ui i t t o y , and the proveh him Court insane; butthe condemned jury hi m brought tobe ht m to g G death in the form employed for parricides.—Galle THE LADY FRANKLIN, Captain P enny, and the qophills Arcttc vessels, were at Aberd een on Friday last. Ot b o ° o 6 400 tons, has been en gage d b y THE STRATFORD, a small fa s t- sa ili ng vessel eke oc — th L e EtS Po : `* S w th ee ffi k e , e t t h o e t the mails for the Au s t ra li an colonies on the 4th of J" for which the su m o f Xl,OOO is granted. GREAT FIRE AT W ATFORD. ke . r house at Watford, containing a large quantity of sgrrias tural produce, was burnt down. Some of the adj oll 2 . oo premises were also rauch damaged. It is feared Oa . fire was the work of an incendiary. of A GRATIFYING,. EXCHANGE.—TWO hampers- 4 f tb. cod liver oil, the other of claret—recently entrusted 1 0 00 Eastern Counties Railway, suffered a c h ange of addrq the road, and were cross-deli v e re d. Th e doctor's Pai l t ° o o who got the claret, are said to have been more 0 8 than the gentleman's friends who got the oil. a i f PLYNIOU7H ELECTION,—The nomination is - Wednesday, and the polling for Thursday. Thetb o dates are, Mr. Roundell Palmer, who represeet e ,,rtll borough.last session, and retired at the last electioti B j o rge after the appearance of Mr. Chas. Ma r e. a nd Air. a t tli ti T. Braine, who stood next on the poll to Mr-Mer e last alection. f tba MEETING OF LETTER•CARRIERS.—A meet i ng o f t he General Post letter-carriers was held on Mom's)? th°_ Bell Tavern, Wood-street, preliminary to petition te 7 0 06 Postmaster-General for an advance of wages. Evl t y Ar a must feel that this meritorious class of the cowmen very inadequately paid for their arduous labours- . a fgce! A CABINET COUNCIL was held at the Foreign:ister?, Downing-street. on Saturday afternoon. The Al i T tis se)! present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Jobti c i: lr gy/ 1 :„ the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke °: O r the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palreert%c'ell°, Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Cu s 'wooef of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Cherie ~c d es# the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William or 4 worth. The Council sat three hours. va/ al io PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM 1" c ent. 1r .,/ COMPANY.— On Saturday, a dividend of 3 Per „ad av e rs resolved upon. The directors stated that qify xa " a dia reason to believe that the railway from Aw pass,e vr _ o r Cairo would be completed for the conveyance „d V] a gers in the course of the next six monthsnconceni elyf tk° confidently hoped that, by that time, the..: of tho most imperfect part of the transit.. I\lahrpoudieh Canal and Nile, would be entlrt',uchw latterly The road across the desert los been ; proved. 1) ;( in t con shi t ~ei /lb( lin( of 1 Iva! 'wo th 4 thi 'toi