The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-06 00:00:00

FRANCE

PARIS, Aucmar 5.

The Sing d the Belgians arrived he yesterday
evening. Its believed that his Majesty will re-
main five days.
_ _

The Emperor in expected at St. Cloud on 'Janda,'
next.

ITALY.

TURIN, August I
A decree has been published extending the Royal
pined to documents issued by Italian bishops ma-
corning the nomination of parish priests and vicars,
or containing regulations relating to emissiastical
Property

GRIM%
ATHENS, Amon 3, 3.46 PAL
M. Deliorohi ban been re-elected President of
the National Assembly.
The lonian deputies have arrived here, and have
met with an enthusiastic reception. They took
the oath of allegiance to-day.
The verification of the elections is completed.
The discussion of the constitution will COMISCIICO
on Friday next.

THE PARIS BOURSE.
PA.RLS, Simon 5, 3.30 r.w.
The Bourse has been heavy. Relates closed at
88.30, or sc. lower than yesterday.

INDIA.
(By Gino* Iran Sum)
CALCUTTA, Jur 16.
The Xing o Ave has granted a perpetual con•
cession for railways, telegraphs, and collieries in
Burnish.

BINGAPOB.E. JCL? 6.
Eight million pounds of leaf tobacco have been
destroyed by fire at Manilla.

NEW ZEALAND.
MELBOURNE, Juira 26.
The latest whim from New Zealand report no
further military operations.
The troops had gone into winter quarters.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6.

THE quiet old city of Exeter has been en-
livened by an election contest unusually exciting.
The event which occasioned it had long been anti-
cipated. The rival parties had been carefully
marshalling their forces. For nearly two years
the candidates had been in the field. They were
both Devonshire men, both men of influence and
position, both connected by family ties with the
city which they aspired to represent, both per-
sonally known to many of the citizens, and both
no doubt had amongst the electors their private
friends and their private enemies. For months
their merits and their demerits—their public con-
duct and their private pursuits—their public aims
and their private aims had been warmly canvassed
in the local journals. Obviously in such a contest
there was every element which could rouse party
feeling and add liveliness to the struggle.
And the result has amply justified these natural
expectations. The battle has been fought with
uncompromising vigour. No quarter has been
given or received. The oratory on both aides has
been more than usually vigorous. Each candidate
has charged the other with using the extreme
rigour of party warfare. And the small majority
of 26 in • constituency of 3,000 proves that the
victory of the Tories has only been achieved after
a severe struggle.
Hitherto the representation of Exeter has been
equally divided between the two great political
parties. Evidently the election of a Tory to
succeed Mr. EDWARD DIVETT is a considerable
triumph. Nor can it be denied that the Exeter
Tories played their cards extremely well.
In selecting Lord Commas/AT, a young nobleman
of 25, as their candidate, they selected one admi-
rably fitted for their purpose. It is true that
personally he had little to recommend him. Un-
known, except upon the turf, he has given no
sign that he has either the capacity or the in-
clination to examine the political problems of
the day, or to form • sound judgment with respect
to any one of them. There are hundreds of young
Englishmen well able to undertake this task, and i
if the Tory electors of Exeter had desired to
discharge the trust reposed in them, and to
choose • fit and proper person to represent
that city in Parliament, they could have
had no difficulty in gratifying the desire.
But they had no such wish. AU they wanted was
to add another man to the Conservative rank and
file. Ability and experience are very well, but in
selecting • candidate the first essential is to get •
man of influence and position, who, if he cannot
command the respect of the electors, will at all
events command their votes. That Lord
COURTENAY will follow Mr.DISRAILLI and Sir STAI.
FORD NORTHCOTE into the division lobby with
undeviating fidelity is tolerably certain. But that
this young nobleman would ever have succeeded
in winning the day over has distinguished and
eloquent antagonist, if the citizens of Exeter had
not been overpowered by their feudal superiors, is
more than we can bring ourselves to believe.
It was perhaps natural enough that Sir STAF-
FORD NORTHCOTE, living as he does in the neigh-
bourhood, and passaged of a large estate, should
take pert in the election. But Mr. COLERIDGE was
prob►bly not far from the truth when he said that
Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE had other grounds for the
course which he took. " I know," said Mr.
COLERIDGE, "that he sat for Dudley as the re-
" presentative of a noble lord. I know that he
" sits for Stamford by the aid of a noble marquis.
" And I know, and can perfectly understand, that
" he may wish to make his friend sit for Exeter
" upon the nomination of another noble lord."
But Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE was not alone.
" There was," as Mr. Conzatooz said, " the
" whole force of the county of Devon.
" There is my Lord COCIITENAY, who repro-
" senta an ancient and illustrious family.
" There is Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, who
" represents not South Devon —he tried
"to represent that. There are Mr. Kexzwiew
" and Sir LAWRENCE PALE, who represent the
" wisdom, pluck, and chivalry of South Devon.
" There is a young nobleman (the Hon. Mr.
" Mergers) whom I don't pretend to have any
" connexion with, and he comes from North
" Devon." How came it that this goodly array of
political magnates and powerful landowners made
their appearances on the hustings at Exeter I Was
it mere curiosityor personal interest in their young
friend, Lord CoI:MT-SAY, that brought them
thither ? Their presence on the day of nomi-
nation had a deeper meaning. In London,
in Bristol, in Manchester, or in Glasgow,
such an array would be utterly without signifi-
cance. But in such • town as Exeter it meant
that the great Tory noblemen and landlords of the
county of Devon were resolved to use whatever
influence is conferred by property and position to
dictate the choice of the City of Exeter, and to
overcome the electors by threatening them with
the loss of their patronsge. It is an old
constitutional doctrine that the presence of the
people in the galleries of the House of Com-
mons may disturb the calmness of their
deliberation, and provision is made for their
exclusion. In like manner, during an election
the military must be confined to barracks,
lest they should coerce the electors.
But neither the mob in the House of Commons

nor the soldiers in the streets are so

the freedom of election, or so

men to vote against their COIIIIICtiOI3I4 • lot
formidable array of noblemen and broad-acred
squires who came to preside over the Exeter
election.
But the coercion exercised at Exeter is some-
thing more than theory. People talk as if there
were a real representative system in this country.
Take any county in England. Who are the
chief landed proprietors t Ascertain their
politics, and you may find the politics
of the sitting member. The mw of the elm:toes
have no more to do with electing their repre-
sentative than they have with electing the Pops.
In great cities the we is somewhat better.
The hands and the voices of the borough electors
are not so discordant. But Exeter mums no excep-
tion to the ordinary rule. Hear what Mr. COLL.
RIDGE says upon the subject. His experience is
personal and recent, and is, therefore, the more
valuable. " Now, it is seed me," exclaimed
that learned gentleman, "what I think of the ballot.
" I will tell you this : that this election has con-
" Tinned me that the ballot is a great necessity.
" I tell you fairly that when I came to contest the
" seat I had no idea that in the year 1864 it
" would have been necessary to have protection
" for the maintenance and delivery of one's
" private political opinions. I should have
" thought it impossible—but for what has come
" under my own eye, and of which, therefore, I
" cannot doubt the truth—that men in the present
" day could be so lost to a sense of what is jut
" and fair between man and man as to make pecu-
" nary business relations the means of getting
" votes. It is perfectly true—what the noble
" lord and others have said—it is per-
" fectly true that I begin my political educe-
" tion late in life, but it is never too late to learn;
" and I confess, although I have arrived at middle
" age, that I did not know there was that amount
" of moral coercion existing. I did not believe it ;
"but I know myself of a great many instances of
" men in this city who have come forward and
" have told me that they would gladly vote for
" me—that they would give their hearts to do so,
" but that they are prevented from doing so by
"coercion. (' Name,' from the Conservatives.)
" Name ! Do yon ask me their names; do you ask
"me to give up the names of those whom you have
" tyrannised over in order that you may hold the
" rod over them I Well, therefore, I can advance
" upon my address, and I can say that whereas I
" have been fairly represented before as saying that
" I did not think the ballot would do any harm, I
"am now convinced it would do a great deal of
" good." We recommend Mr. BERICILLT to take
a note of this. Before his annual motion again
occurs it will probably be forgotten by the majo•
city of Members, and certainly by the Palms
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