The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-18 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS.

liatsrot..—lt is rumoured that the Conservative
Committee, after some months of labour, and after " try-
ing it on" with some score of " likely parties," have at
length been so lucky as to catch a candidate who, we un-
derstand, is to please everybody, protectionist, free trader,
high church and low church. The gentleman is under-
stood to have tried his hand at "ornament before, haying
sat for Honiton from 1841 to 1810. his name is Foster
Alleyne M'Oeachy, and he is brother-in-law to Mr. Adders
ley, member for North Staffordshire. If he has pluck
enough to lead a " furloru hope," he may perhaps go to
the poll.

NORTH LANCASIIIRE.—Some time ago, says the
Preston Chronicle, it was stated that a requisition was in
course of signature among the tenant farmers of Nuah
Lancashire to Lord Stanley, the eldest son of the Earl of
Derby, inviting him to become a candidate for the repre-
sentation of this division of the county. We learn that the
Premier, having been apprised of the state of the register
for this division of the county, and also having ascertained
the feelings of a large portion of the constituency, has de-
' clined to allow the name of his son to be connected with so
' hopeless an enterprise as raising the standard of Protection
in North Lancashire, or what would be as ineffectual at tho
hustings, his coming forward as the defender of a policy
which is not to be known or declared until the result of tho
elections is known. There is every probability that both
the present members will be returned; both aro free
traders, and one of them, Mr. Heywood, is is other respects
a good liberal.

OXFORD ONTVERSITY.—The Oxford Journal states
that a requisition is in course of signature, invi:inu Mr.
Colquhoun to become a candidate for the represer.tation of
the University in opposition to Mr. Gladstone.

WINDsoR.—Mr. C. W. Grenfell arrived early
yesterday morning, and immediately commenced an active
canvass, on the liberal interest. Mr. Vanaittart still pur-
sues his canvass, relying entirely upon the government
influence, and thereto every reason to believe that it will
be exercised most unsparingly. Col. the Hon. Cecil Forester,
Lord Derby's Treasurer of the Household, has been down
to make the necessary arrangements for putting on the
" Castle screw," as it is expressively termed, sad the
excitement, already on the increase, will become intense
before the end of the week. The writ was proclaimed at
4 o'clock this afternoon, and the nomination is fixed for
next Friday, with the poll on Saturday. Mr. Grentell's
friends speak very encouragingly of that gentleman's
prospects, and the prevailing opinion is that the cause of
free trade will be triumphant.

ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDP2:9.—The sub-
ject for the present season is well chosen, and represents
that celebrated volcano Mount Etna, painted by Mr. Daw-
son and Sons. This model picture is on a most Enormous
scale, in fact one-fourth larger than any previous work of
this artist, and in beauty of conception and execution far
exceeds any former effort of his pencil.
TURES LIVES LosT ON THE RISBLE.—PRESTON,
MONDAY.—Yesterday a melancholy accident occurred on
the River Ribble, by which three persons lost their liver,
and four others were placed in imminent peril. The fol-
lowing particulars have been obtained from one of the sur-
vivors. Between ten and eleven o'clock yesterday morning
a party of seven men, James Walton, John Spencer, David
Booth, James Howarth, William liodarson, and two others,
whine names were unknown to our informant, all me-
chanics, in the employ of Messrs. Watson and All-
sopp, of this town, sailed from the quay in a boat
about eighteen feet on the keel, and four to
five feet beam, of which Walton was part proprietor.
Their object, we believe, was to collect •hell-fsh. They
proceeded safely some half-dozen miles down the river,
when a sadden gust of wind capsized the boat, and tho
whole of them were thrown into the stream, with the ex-
ception of Hodgson, who clung to the mat. Welton,
Spencer, and Booth, were carried away by the tide and
drowned; the other four, well-nigh exhausted, were re-
cove red by a boat which was put off from the shore (about
230 yards distant) by Henry Gurnal and John Jackson.
The body of Walton was bound on the sands the Rama
afternoon ; the other two bodies have not yet been re -
covered. Spencer has left a wife and three children;
Walton a wife and one child; Booth was unmarried.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.—This company's new dock at Great Grimsby is
to be opened on Thursday, the 27th inst., fur the reception
of steamers and ships, and the export and import of mer-
chandise. The water area of the dock is 2i acres, and that
of the entrance tidal-basin 1.5 acres having en each side a
convenient landing quay, alongside of which the largest
data steamers can land and take pamcngen. The dock has
two entrance-locks, furnished with doubte-gates for ebb and
flood tides. The larger lock js 300 feptio length by 70 feet
in breadth, and the smaller lock is 200 feet in length by 45
feet in breadth. The depth of water in the dark is never to
be less than 25 feet. The quays, 3,000 -feet in length, ex-
tend on both sides of the dock, upon sthich me railways
connecting the main line with the sholls and wharves or
quays. Covered sheds, 800 feet long, and 50 ter t broad, aro
erected close to the quays. The lock-gates and the vari-
ous cranes are to be worked by hydraulic power. The main
line of railway extends to the edge or - •
ing stage, where a passenger
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168 miles, and upon which, inel
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