The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-24 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

BEDYOIIIO.—On Tuesday evening another large
!pea air ineetiag of electors and others assembled on the
rket Hill, tolear Mr. Annoy. The principal topic of
' his address was the aristocratic system of intimidation and
influence at elections, as illustrated by the canvass of his
opponent, Mr. Whitbread. Contradictions were attempted
by some of Mr. Whitbread's committee, who were present,
and to whets by the intervention of Mr. Avidity a fair hear.
ing was mewed, but in vain. Mr. Ansley gave the details
of some very gross cases of intimidation and nillueuce, with
the names of all parties concerned and his statement was
confirmed by some of the electors present. The hon. gentle-
man detrunced vehemently, and amidst loud applause, the
conduct of Mr. Whitbread and his committee in employing
such arts, and in declining to hold public meeting or give
eaplanstious of their sentiments on public topics.
MANCHESTER. The committee of Meuse. Bright
and Li•hson have published the result of their canvass. At
one of the larpst committee meetings, perhaps, ever held at
an election, there being nearly 1,400 persons present, Mr.
Wilson, who took the chair, gave the following very satis-
factory statement. He said the gross number of voters
upon the register was 13,021. From this they must deduct
286, who had been ascertained to be dead, leaving 13,635.
They must also deduct 411 for permits who had removed and
had not been seen, and WS for those who, though they
had ant removed, hod not been seen by the movement,
making a total of 1,146 unseen, and leaving available for
the purposes of the analysis a total of 12,4141) electors. Out
of these 12,489 the sitting members hail 7010 pledges,
and somewhere about 800 were favourable. He wouli not
answer for all these 900 being turned into actual votes ;
bat, if they took one-half of these as being likely to vote
for the present members, that would make the result of
their canvass up to this time 7,400 votes. In this he hail
taken the duplicates on both sides, as he knew how fallacious
were calculations roundel upon any other basis. Ile could
nut answer fur the ',ledges on the other side, but the num-
ber
of positive pledges for Messrs. Loch and Denman re-
turned in the course of the canvass was 2,963. however,
giving to the new candidates all who would not pledge, I
numbering 6,53, all the doubtfuls, numbering 4:42 , and all who
said they would not vote, it would only bring up the num-
ber of their supporters to 4,520, against 7,400, which were
taken fur the .itting members. (Applause.) Ile would
not pledge himself to the actual numbers as now given,
but he dared engage that when the declaration was made
at four o'clock on the day of the poll, the prop rtions would
be wry nearly as he had stated. (Cheers.) Ile said this,
because at every other election in Manchester he had men
the results of the census made up in the confidential com-
mittee, and at this time as much attention had been be-
stowed upon acrutiuising the canvass as had ever been
done before. At all former elections they had had
the same confident assurances put forth, that the
opposing candidate was sure to win, while on every occa-
sion a majority had been polled in favour of the candidates
whom the (fiends of the present members had supported.
In their former elections, too, they had had to fight
against well organised committees, and against men who
were respectable candidates, with reputation, such
as their present opponents could not claim. The chairman
of the various sutecommittees afterwanls reported sepa-
rately the result of the canvass in their respective wards,
all confirmatory of the general statement above given. Mr.
Bright and Mr. Gibson briefly addressed the meeting,which
was one of the most enthusiastic ever witnemed.

Sount LANCAaltlltE.—fbere 6 rood reason for
believing (says a correspondent) that the requisition which
wee put Ginn to induce Sir Thomas Ilesketh, Bart., and
one of the sons of the Earl of Ellesmere, to stand fur the
southern division of the county has been withdrawn.
CRICKLIDE.—To the Editor of the Express.—
Sir,—Yon are of course aware that we have a Ire. trado
candidate started bore in opposition to one, at least, of the
present protectionist members for our very ancient and far
famed borough; but you are not, perhaps, equally aware
that a certain " lady," the relict of a certain great lawyer,
and who resides at " the great house" in our neighbour-
hood, has just sent '• her Factotum" to her tradesmen here,
with a polite intimation that they will be expected to give
their votes at the coming election to the protectionist can-
didates; if they do not, they will be employed by her no
longer. If our immaculate legislators can punish "my
lord " for secret bribery and corruption, why do they not
set about making a law to punish " my lady" for open coer-
cion and intimidation ?—lam, sir, yours, Ike., RUSTICI:S.—
J um, 22-

MAIDSTONE-1t affords us the highest satisfaction
(says the .South Eastern Gautte) to be able to state, from
facts that have come to our knowledge, that a proposition
that the conservative party should withdraw one of their
candid►tes, on condition that the liberal party should re-
frain from starting a second free-trader, has so far received
the sanction of the leading members of both patties, as to
enable us to speak of the srrangement as substantially
effected, although it will not have been formally ratified
till after we have pone to press. Mr. Fector Laurie retires,
land Mr. Whatman s seat, and that of Mr. G. Dodd, are
now secure. The extraordinary enthusiasm of the Maid-
, stone people in favour of free trade, and the indisposition
(in the present greatly altered state of the law) of the eon-
! servative party to risk a recurrence to the means of neutra-
-1 lising the popular feeling which have been heretofore re-
sorted to have naturally led to this nault. Mr. Dodd hay-
ing at this election declared himself a convert to free-trade,
although previously a protectionist, the mum of free trade
has thus gained two votes in Maidstone. The determined
patriotism and firm integrity of the working classes have
mainly brought this about, and we believe the spirited ex-
ample of the honest men of Maidstone will not fad to stamp
Late the exertions and strengthen the confidence of those
who are struggling for free trade in every other consti-
tuency.