The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-02-06 00:00:00

ELECTION EXPENSES.
The following additional returns of the expenses in.
curred at the last Election will be interesting in the
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respective localities
The expenses of Me. A. C. Barclay, at Taunton, are re-
turned as £6BB 65. ad-vie., printing, advertising, and sta-
tionery, £224 148. 10cL ; clerks, for writing, dm., 2246 Os. ;
clerks, etc., on the polling day, £l3 138. ; messengers,
porters, and for telegrams, £24 28. ; postage-stamps, Ac.,
£7 75 Sd; rent, hire of rooms, itc. , £29 68. : one-third of
the returning officers' expenses, and the assessors' account,
£B5 45. 11d. ; agents, £137 10$. ; personal expenses, £l2O.
Mr. Sergeant Con's election erpenses were £753 10s., made
up as follows :-Messengers, £22 Is. gd. ; clerks, Ac.,
£46 les. ; use of rooms, £5l 30. ; printing and advertising,
£271 5s 9d. ; one-third returning officers' expenses for re-
turn. £B5 85. Ild. ; solicitors agents' Ac., £203 138. miscel-
laneous expenses, £2l is. sd. ; personal expenses, £52 28. sd.
The expenses of Mr. Henry James, the unsuccessful candi-
date, who now petitions against the return of Mr. Serjeaut
Cox, were 22968 164. 6d., made up as follows :-Incidental
expenses, £26 Is. 6d. ; clerks and readers, £5B 115. 6d., re-
presentative and check clerks at polling booths, Ac., £9 Ilis.;
messengers, £3O les. 64.; printing, advertising, and sta-
tionery, £97305. 7d. ; hire of rooms, £25 ss. 6d. ; one-third
of returning officers' expenses, £79 19s. lid. ; agents and
agent for election expenses, £235; personal expenses, £l5O.
The Liberals repudiate the rumours about a mutual arrange-
ment between the petitioners against Mr. Cox and those
against Mr. Barclay, which petitions are not cross actions
between the members. Sir Henry James claims the second
seat from Mr Cox, and the learned serjeant lodges a petition
against Mr. Barclay,
ihe formal account of the expenses incurred in the Black-
burn election, which gave rise to no much excitement in the
borough, and brought upon it a notoriety, to say the least,
unenviable, has just been published. The successful candi-
dates, Messrs. W. H. liomhy and Joseph Feilden Con-
servatives,, are returned as having expended 221,269 55. 4d.,
and Messrs. . G. Potter and Montague leaden,
£1,674 125 60. An important item in the Conservative
accounts is that of £426 35. 6d. for canvassers and men
engaged in "bringing up voters ;" while the sum paid on
behalf of the Liberals is returned under the head of
inspectors, check clerks, committee clerks, messengers, We,
at £B5 Is. lid. The professional agent's charge on behalf of
the successful candidates is stated at £l2O, chile the
solicitor's charges for the Liberal candidates are £897 140.
The cost to the corporation for the service of extra policemen,
infantry, and cavalry Is not yet known. The mayor some
time ago paid £26000 account, and it is believed that the
total amount will Sea large one.
Details of the election expenses of the several candidates
for the boroughs of Shrewsbury and Wenlock have been
published. In Shrewsbury Mr. Figgins, the Conservative
member, against whose return a petition has been lodged,
expended £1,427 85. 7d., of which £535 170. 6.1. was paid to
agents, and £451 15s. sd. incurred on account of" clerks,
messengers, bill-posting, Ac." Dr. Clements gained his elec-
tion at an outlay of £616 Is. 3d., of which £230 9s, lint, was
for agents, and £llO for clerks, messengers, dm Mr. Craw-
ford, appearing in the field at the eleventh hour, as an oppo-
nent to Mr. Figgins, expended 2:544 us., of which only
£4895. Bd. is for agents, and £36 los. 4.1. for clerks, mes-
sengers Ac. At Wenlock the expenses of the two members
are singularly near in amount, 51ajor-General the Right Hon.
Cecil Forester having expended £654 3s. &1., toil Mr. A. H.
Brown £857 185. sd. Opposition to General Forester was
undertaken by Mr. Evans, of the Reform Club. but was with-
drawn after a few days canvass.
The Sheriffs of London, in their cipacity of returning
officers, have just made public the expenses of the several
liberal candidates in the recent election for the city of
London, those of Sir. Goschen, Mr R. W. Crawford, and
Mr. Alderman Lawrence being equally apportioned at
£2,750 IL 6.1. each ; while those of Baron Lionel de Rsths-
child are slightly less, being £2,756 75. &L
The expenditute of the Conservative candidates in the
city of London, Messrs. Bell, Gibbons, and Swells, is re-
tuned at the lump sum of £12,038 105.,-viz., professional
charges, £2,583 35. ; committee rooms, £1,267 125 9il; clerks,
canvassers, ite., £2,615 125. Id.; printing and stationery,
£2,330 us. ; advertising and bill-posting, £1,760 hs 6.1;
petty cash, postage, and disimmements, £944 ga. 11d. ; sun- .
dries, £221 135. 5.1. ; hustings, £307 Is. 6.1.
In Finsbury Mr. W. T. M. Torrens expended £750 135. 1,1.,
while the amount paid by Mr Alderman Lusk annarded to
£1,960 IL 4d. The expenditure on behalf of Mr. O'Malley,
Q.C., is returned at £1,300 65 lid.; but this is exclusive of
" personal expenses' (hire of cabs and carriages, which
stand for £5 105.
The statement of the expenditure of the several candidates I
in the recent election tor Chelsea has been officially pub-
lished in the following form ;-By, or on behalf of Mr. C. W. ,
Duke, from June, 1867.10 Nov. 4, 1868, £1,796 35; Sir FL A'
Hoare, to Nov. 4,1868, £1,072 165.; jointly by or on behalf
of Mr. C. W. Dilke and Sir H. A- Hoare, from 'Nov. 4 to
Nov. 18, 1868, £1,740 145.; and the joint expellees of Mr. C.
J. Freaks and Mr. W. H. Russell, the Conservative candi-
dates, £4,716 60.7.1. It appears that Mr. Odger's expenses
• were £55 185. 11d. His committee say that the smallness of
the amount is due to the fact that, "after serious and
careful consideration it was determined that the election
should be conducted purely upon principle; not to influence