The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

ELECTION EXPENSES.

The election sccounts of Mr. Torrens, M.P., and
Mr. Fowler, M.P., the itting members for Cambridge,
have just appeared; they amount to El 3IG. The
unsuccessful Cons-rvAive candidates, Mr. Powell and
Mr. Gorst, expended ELKS
Mr. Walpole, M.P., obtained unopposed re-election
for the University if Cambridge for £54, and Mr.
Beresford Hope, M.P., for 03.
Lord Stanley's election at Lynn cost him
while the Hon. IL Bourke, M.P., who stood with him,

expende 1E429.
According to returns just issued, Mr. Young, the
successful Liberal e indidate for Helstou, expended
£921 195., and the Hon. T. C. Bruce, Conservative,

ri475 19..
Mr. Lopes, the Conservative member for Launces-
ton, who wail 11110ppeset, got if for £PI.
The expenses mcorred by Mr. Magniac, the Liberal
member for St. Ives, whose opponent, Mr. Paull,
withdrew the day before the nomination, are stated

to he £558.
The expense incurred by the different candidates in
the late contest IT the representation of Dundee was as
follows - Me. Armirstead, £4,330; Sir John Ogilvy,
2533 ; Mr. Guthrie, £4,022; Mr. Scott, 2517-total
£9402 The her of votes polled was 21.032.
The abstract of the election expenses of Thirek and
Maltse has been published. At Tbirsk, Sir William
Payne Gallwev, the successful Conservative candidate,
spent £532 I4s. Of., against an expenditure by Mr.
Harcourt Job nsti ine of £03555. Oil. Of the latter sum,
4:422 is put down for agents' professional charges,
against £175 in the find case. At Mahon, where there
was no contest, Mr. Fitzwilliam spent £lO3 4s. 2d.
The total expenses of the Glocester eleccion were
r 2,463 16s. 6d. The successful candidates expended-
Mr. Price, £635 17a, and Mr. Monk, 1:671 16s. 2d. ;
total, £1,307 13s. 21. ; and the unsuccessful candi-
dates (Major Brennan and Mr. Lees) are returned at
£1,156 3s. 4d.
At Leeds the expenses of Mr. Baines and Mr.
Carter, the associated Liberal candidates, amount to
£932 17s. 3id. These expenses have been entirely
met by their supporters, and 50 per cent, of the larger
subscriptions which hail been promised it is not ne-
cessary to collect.
The expenses of the Conservative candidates, Mr.
Wheelhouse and the Hon. A. Duncombe, appear to
have been £1.969 Is. sd. ; Sir A. F‘irbairn, the un-
successful Liberal candidate, appears to have been at
an expense of £1,949 ss. lid.
The statements of the expenditure if the two candi-
dates for Hartlepool have been published. Those of
the Liberal candidate, Mr. Thomas Richardson, being
£B5l 14s. 70., and those if the sitting member, Mr.
Ralph Ward Jackson. 54. P.. reach £1,948 Bs. 4d.
Lord George Hamilton's expenses in contesting
Middlesex amounted to £9,285 2s. 31- £356 of which,
however, is disputed. The accounts of the several
agents of the sixteen polling places exceed £4 891,
irrespective of £421) my ler the head of "agents '• " and
printing and asivertising figures for £1,511 14s. 6,1.
Dr. Lush's election for the city of Salisbury cost
him £2BO 6e, fid., and Mr. Hamilton's expenditure
annulated to £4lB O. 10d. Mr. Granville Richard
RN der's its lay exceeded that of either of the success-
ful candidates, the total being returned at £5Bl 18e. Cel.
The expenses of Mr. 11.u1.111 and toed Edward
Caveudish, the Liberal caudidates at the East Sussex
election, where the fi inner was successful and the latter
unsuccessful, are returned at £.B. 808 Ss. 2,1.
The uw,pposeil return of iri lonel Barttelot for
West Sussex cost him £lB2 6s. 51. ; and of the Hon.
H. Wyndham, for the same c..nstituency, 216011 a 9d.
At Hertford, according to the returns just issued,
Mr. Dimsdale, NI. P., experic £4lB 16a, and Mr.
Gibbs, the unsuccessful candidate, £lBB 16s. 7d.
In the new borough of Wednesbury the expenses of
Mr. Brogden, the successful candidate, are returned
at £4,625, exclusive of agency costs, which are not yet
niade up. Mr. Walker's expenses (line of the un-
successful candidates) are returned at £6,480, of which
£4,273 is tor professional and other agents.
At Walsall Mr. Charles Foster's expenses were
£149.
At Dudley Mr. Sheridan expended £335.
At Lichfield Colonel 1 fyott's disbursementsamounted
to £267, exclusive of the returning officer's charges.
Major Anson's expenses are returned at £540.
At Coventry Messrs. Eaton and Hill expended
£1,412, which includes £613 for "hire of rooms."
Messrs. Carter and Jackson expended £1,141.
A Liverpool paper says that the expenses of the
Right Hon. W. Nlassear and Mr. William Rathbone at
the late election for that borough will amount to
between £5,000 and £6,000, and that the expenses of
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Grenfell, in South-west
Lancashire, will reach £11,500.

The following returns have also been published : ,
The expenses of Messrs. Mills and Talbot, members to .
West Kent, were £.1.215 4s iii. In East Kent, Messrs ]
%lilies and Pemberton, the Conservative members, ex- 1
pended £5,899 us. 10d. ; Mr. Tutton and Sir John .
Croft, £4,348 lbs. lid. At Chatham Mr. Otway,
the Liberal member, expended £594 Pl. 741. Admiral
Elliott, the linsuocessful. candidate, £559 13s. 2d. At
Rocne,fer, Mr. P W. tiartin and Mr. S no lit K inglake re-
turned) expended £79.4 ils. lod. ; Mr. A. Since, the Conser-
vative candidate, eats es. 61. At Canterbury, Mr. Butler-
Johnstone, 51. P., expended c Fab Its. id ; eaptfun Brinckman,
M.P., a:370 is. ; ale. the unsuccessful candidates. Messrs.
Iluddieston and Lee-OS triter. £716 Ha 2d. The total
amount expended in the contest of 17 of the ”1 county and
borough seats in Kent was .641 349 14, 54., of which
£20,690 Os. sd. was devoted to the county seats.
At Devonport, which has 3,200 electors, Mr. J. D.
LeWilt, 8.P., and Mr. Chatulaws, 51. P., expended the moderate
sum of £567 90. Id.
At Taunton, Mr. Henry James. the unsuccessful Liberal
candidate, expended L.96/1 Ills fid.
The expenses incurred by the candidates for the represen-
tation of Maidstone were :—Messrs. Lee and Whatman ire
turned), £729 130. Gd. : Messrs. G Pabury and F. White,
£039 175. 6d. ; the expenses for aovertising being respectively
g7l is. and £l7l 25. ; printing and stationery, £162
1135. Ott and £lB7 ss. sd. At Gravesend the total ex-
penses of Sir C. Wingfield Liberal, returned) were 4:891
135. 3d. •of Captain Pim unsuccessful', £764 104. 9tl. At
, Hythe 'the expenses were much larger—Baron Rothe-
child, Liberal ,returnetil, £2,134 811. 7il. ; Mr. Nugent,
' Conservative nsuccessful, £1,204 is. 9.. d. At Dover the
. joint expenses of Major Dickson, Conservative (returned;
I and Mr C. K. Freshfleid, Conservative unsuccisesful were
1 MSS 125, supplement by £l2 be. for Major Dicke°. The