The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-07 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OF FINSBURY.

Yesterday evening a meeting of the electors of
the liberty of Saffrou.hill, Hatton-garden, and Eiy-rents,
assembled upon She invitation of Mr. W. T. M. Tomos, at
the Globe Tema, liattonnerden,for the parson of hearing
from that nentlemas a statement of the grenade apes which
be propowe to offer himself ea a candidate for the repels's-
tate= of the borough at the pent geoeral election.
Mr. SANDLASI) wee Gelled to the chair.

After • brief introduction by the Catmat+, in which he
referred to the intimation of Sir S. M. Veto, that he should
not again solicit the suffrages of the borough, and recom-
mended Mr. Tomos as • gentleman well-qualified to till
the vacancy which would thus be created at the end
of the present parliament,
Mr. TonalAs came forward, and was received with cheers.
At the close of the eddies',
Mr. Ttasr asked what were the views of Mr.Torrems upon
the church rate question!
Mr. Tonsistus Ind always during the time he sat in the
House of Commons voted for the abolition of church-rates,
and had never seen any reason to alter the conviction which
prompted him to do so. (Cheers.) lt was in no hostility
to the church of England, of which he was himself a
member, that he had taken that noun, but in shame that
the church should require to be supported from the pockets
of persons of other denominations. (Cheers.)
Mr. Haar wanted to know whether the candidate was an
advocate for opening the British Mammal and other pubis.:
editions on Sondem
Mr. TOlirlis and that while he should object to any
limitation being imposed upon the freedom of travelling and
obtaining refreshment at present enjoyed by the community,
he did not think that public opinion was ripe for each • law
on the question indicated.
Mr. Haar observed that Kew-gardens and the Crystal
Palace wore opened on the buday, and no complaint had
ever bean made of the °Deduct of the Manmade who fee-
quieted them on that day.
Replying to further questions,
Mr. Toni= &aired that he would give the franchise to
every man permed of • calling to quality for which required
the application of time and intelageoce. lie would
support • 101. lodger franchise. With regard to the income
tax, he thought that permanent property ought to bug •
greater proportion of the burden of teration.than profits.
atonal and precarious i 00001136.
On the motion of Mr. HOPWOOD, seconded by Mr. Orion-
win, the following resolanon was unanimonsiy serried :
•' That this meeting having heard the very clear and lucid
statements of Mr. W. T. M. Torsos, upon the duties of
• repreepotative, feels that he is etuinently qualified to
represent Slut* borough ia parliament, and pledges libel( to
use all legitimate manna to wars his return at the next
eleotios."

AeoMmitteo wu appointed to promote this object, and
the usual compliment having bees paid to the ehairmau, too
proceeding. terminated.

Too LANCAItHIEZ RELIEF FEND.—The Mansion-
bowie Committee held their maddly raesting yesterday,
and made grants to the amount of 1,5754 Mears. Coleman,
Tercitand, and Youngs, the mineral accountants, wno are
the ausceary audition, premented the audited oxalate up to
the 30th June, which they reported were quite correct.
ME. GLADSTONE AND THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER
OP (comes—At • meeting of the council of the Liver-
pool Chamber of Oteemerce, bad yesterday, Mr. Grasser
presiding, it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Maces; se-
conded by Mr. Liviegstooe, that • subcommittee be ap-
pointed to communicate with the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, and ascertain whether his arrangtmenui would permit
of his receiving an address front the chamber during ho
visit to Liverpool next month, and also s bather be would
penult his gamete be added to the hat of hammy members,
HEALTH or LONDON.—The weekly return pub-
lished by authority of the Registrar. General states that
the deaths registered in London in the week that ended
lest Saturday were 1,441, showing a slight increase on the
number in the previous week, which was 1,413. If the
deaths from epidemic choler* in the thirty-68th week of
18.54 are excluded, it will be found that the average number
of deaths in the weeks aorrespoodwg with last week was
1,113, which corrected for increase of population will
become 1,227. Haws it appears that the deaths of
last week sere 214 in excess of the estimated Dumber
The deaths from zjmotic diseases were 513. Under this
bead are included deaths from anall-pos, 58 from measles,
62 from scarlatina, 18 from diphtheria, ES from whooping.
cough, 87 from typhus, 160 from diarrboa, and 9 from
cholera. Of the 190 deaths caused by diarrhoea, 159 were of
children ander 5 yaus of age, and the 9 victims of cholera
were nailer 2 years rime. Of the 1,441 persons who died
during the week, 800 were under 20 years of age, 210 were
30 and under 40, 180 were 40 and under 60, 207 were I:0 and
noder so, sad 44 were 80 years of age end upwards. The
deaths of live neeagesarians are recorded; the oldest
was a man who had attained the see of 93 pers.
One hundred and fifty-one persons died from plithisu, the
total number of ponces dyteg from other diseases of the
respiratory organs, broechitts, pneumatia. mama, he.,
being 149. last week the births of 970 boys sad 897 girls,
ie all 1,887 &Urea, were registered is London. In the
tea correspendiag weeks of the yeas 1854-4::3 the average
number (corrected) was 1,872.
PRCIMIAN PASISPORTIL—EarI Russell, say. last
' sight's Gentle, has received from the Prefabs Charge
&Alamo at this mart • rexedkedisa, that penoos entering
'Prussia ere still required te be provided with airports.