The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

BLECTION OP AN ALDERMAN,

The citizens of the ward of Langbourn
aaeem-
lied yesterday efteresen in the school-room of that
wart, is Lin' seetrest, ter the purpose of exercising the im-
Vatprivilege of elestiag • magistrate for the city, in
piece of Mr. Oebitt. MR, who bed resigned the
ablessomic gown. There were two candidates—Mr. & H.
Watmlow, • reeneber et the Comore Council, sal Mr.
Alegri.m
thmeelliaager et the Victoria Docks.
Maxon preeided ; and the room was find b
Jgontlession, friends of the mopective maditlates. In aaoa~
aloes with mend =soh at the gontlemen emir* to
41. was es sited soared, Mr. Tindal Atkinson,
tihninMed ley Mr. Greeley, the late under-sheriff,
hr. Mr. Walt/dew, Kr. Rely, instructed by Yr.
oppoosing kr Mr. Capper.
Mr. WAT=LOW, addressing the electors, said that
when, on the 10th of November. Alderman Cubitt
irnemood his inteMisa, at the Guildhall tamer, to
=mired* gag NO Midi= to come forward as a
and, be me requested to do so, he
ileetined at that Mein; gad whoa he did offer himself, it
lOW men Me endensilveilieg that if any gennemme
ingnonse and whim he the ward thought
=to easehewed• candidate, be would
he Me trovenr. (Meg, bear.) Weeks and wake bad
wiped, and ao•inele thd came forward, and the
• ssignieltion lee migholly received had fish moms
ettedied to* Mg, and he therefore felt justified in
)assenting ham the electors sad aslant them to
meter upon his the high bosom of being one of their
magietrates. tams) As allusion bed been node to this
lequerities, be weal ehnevei that he felt peed et *—
In believed in it—lice)—and that his opinion ,weald
be ocearmed by the seed of the poll on the lapwing
day. Klessm)
Mr. Cams net 'Maly addressed the electors, and
mid this be lei mom horned to solicit the high honour of
be fiesta so sane= of the City of Loudon at the
=of • ember el art ielailatial gentleman, sad he
sod* that hm aimbi be secieseduL (Cheers.) With
mart to the Indigestion for the office—that of an exten-
sive Itsowisdee of the Wads and commerce of the City et
tads -be would at Mat very few men had enjoyed
better opprebnaities of .acquainted with those sub-
s then ; and it be was elected he should exert
ell the Milian be pommed for the °emit of his fellow-
easels (Orem)

Moe Loin Marcia thou called for a show of hands, which
he declared to be ia favour d Mr. Waterlow.
A poll was demanded se behalf of Mr. Capper. which was
axed to COMMNSOIII this (Friday) morning, at tan o'clock, and
will desly den at hear.
After three cordial cheers bad been given for the Lord
Naylor, the wardaote yea adjourned.
Then are about 230 voters in the ward, and the coatist
is expected to be a very sharp one.

SVICIDZ OP • Mutodsrianin, —Yesterday an event
Uppsala sear to Wolrverharsipton which occasioned much
toustereetios throughout that town sod its immediate dia.
triet. At a little before aim in the morning, Mr. Charles
• Clerk, who was the Mayor of Wolverhampton in 1860, who
• is • essigietrate for that borough, and for the county in
which it a ataared, and who is • member of the firm et
• Masers. T. and C. Clark and Co., enamelled hollow-ware
manufactures and imedeandera eteninlbilbstitt 600
hands, shot himself In his own bedroom. we
about city-thresymus of age, sad leaves a family of Ave
children. Early in life be suffered from a temporary de-
rangement of intellect, wicasioeed Dr disappoiotteest is
relation to a projected matrimonial alliance ; and recently
le has been wrier masa treatment for a dieordered
stomach. Is the prat few weeks be has displayed little
eingtibuitte and ecoestacitise of conduct ; but this be-
haviour did sot at all excite apprehension as to the madams
of his intellect, eapecially as it was no bar to his per-
forming his dative as magistrate and alderman, sad
es one of the active prestige of a large rnannfacturieerees-
cern. Cu Wearier was in bailees* up to 5 o'clock la
the efterecem TMOrday morning he took breakfast with
Mrs, clerk, sad thes retired to his bedroom. He bed
• warmly loft the baaideettrible when the report of an ex-
ploded dream shined the household, and a domestic sad
Yrs. Clark ran upstairs, where, upon the door of his bed.
room, they found the deceased gentleman lying sarresaded
with blood sad quite dead. The back of the head was blown
away, apparently with the charge of one of the hernia els
lareecti-loading two-barrelled gun that the deceased bed
browslit afew months before horn Paris, and the musie ef
whirl he would seem to Lave plead in his mouth Were
moving the trigger. The deceased gentleman was a member
at the Roman ostholie church.

Tits
Tones of June 23, speaking of Benson's
Makin,' to She Exhibition, says .—" Some ol them are of nest
beauty, and U the ingbah watch trade °sly follow up with the
same whit sad moms this tire* attempt to compete with
foreignms Is decorative watche.' them seem* to be so rums
why we should ovt pet the tradeenthely into our owa hands"—
Chrmemseaer-Dscitax. laver, Horizontal hopeaters Centre de.
wade, loyMes, Split Second, and every desaription of Watek
ken the phial to the test quality of which the art Is at
=i ostpabit. ad adspMd to all climate*. Barn.'. law
IPandiblet lose by poet for two stamps, Watches ecia-
Use • abort IshAse wadchzaalchey, with desenptioss sad
picasy•lt micas • pride in the purchase of a watch. sad
enables those who Ise is Scotland, Ireland, Wales the CAontes,
labs, ur mg port ad the world, to select a watch. and have It
sent hie sad mate peel.—as sod IC Ludgate-hill, London.
eh tre/.—(Adv .erVamsesm.l

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.

(Concluded from yeaterday's Expresi)
In reply to a further question from Mr. BELL,
The Cuarahare explained the area
at the proposed lies
promoted by the Brighton Company from Peckham
through Dulwich, crossing the Crystal Palace at Boyhood,
going 00 to Streatham, where the Streatham and Bahasa
line would be connected. This scheme would afford a very
short route from Streatham to London.bridge. Them the
line crossing the Wimbledon line would proceed on to !
Sutton. This line would be inexpensive, it was easy to
make, and would give a short means of access to the whole !
of the distract beyond Suttees. There was to be a very short
branch to Tooting. It was further proposed to widen the ;
hoe from London-bridge station to Bane Anehor-road—
about a mile in length. These were all the projects they had
before parliament. But the London, Chatham, and Dover
had a project before parliament for invading the Brighton
system. a en oject which would crone the Brighton lines in
four different places.
Mr. FILDIS regretted that the Wham line bad sot been
thought of before the liege expaditure incurred at
Victoria. He (mistimed the policy of the paragraph in
the report which proposed a line to teatherhead as afford-
ing an alternative route to Brighton. This was putting a
weapon into the hands of the enemy. He wanted to know
whether the seal of the company had been placed to a
guarantee to Ohs extent of 300,000 f., for the making of a
line from Greenwich to Woolwich!
The CHAIMIAN—There is no truth in the statement.
Mr. Fangs begged to say that it was true. (Oh, ob.)
It was true, or the bill in question could not have passed
the standing orders.
The CHAIBMAN repeated his denial, and declared that no
guarantee bad been given.
Mr. FILM reiterated his assertion and was at length
silenced by a motion of Mr. James Ries, that he be not
further hard.
Some discussion took Owe on the minor items in the ac-
counts, and Mr. Mitchell and other shareholders expressed
discontent at the policy the chairman bad announced of
limiting the dividends to six per cent., giving to the public
in the shape of further reduction in the fails the whole of
the benefit of any increased surplus which a larger traffic
might occasion, as between the revenue and the expendi-
ture. Mr. Mitchell added a compliment to the directors for
instituting the Sunday excursion trains, and suggested that
the bishops should confine themselves to their legitimate
duties instead of constituting themselves into amateur rail-
way directors.
The Caatgrr.N, in further explanation, stated that as re-
garded the statement of Mr. Fader, all that bad been done
was that which the standing orders of the House of Com-
mons required, that when the name of the company was
inserted in any bill for a new line, giving that company
running powers over such line, the seal of that company
must be affixed to it. But there was no guarantee
There was no intention to istinesay further liabilities in con-
nexion with steam vessels than had been already incurred.
If other parties proposed to put on steamers to Little-
hamptoo they could do so. but the Brighton Company would
enter into no liability for that purpose. In reference to the
renewal amount, he said that this company did what eo
other company did, viz.,
i charge to revenue not only the I
entire cost of renewals, but allimprovements in the way
of improved rails, sleepers, and all other things. He de-
fended the policy of the bard in preferring a uniform to •
varying dindend, the result of that policy being to increase
the value of their property, raise their stock t, a value equal
in proportion to easels, while the reduction of fares would
keep off competing lines.
The resolution adopting the report, having been seconded
by Mr. SCOTT, was eased unanimous)
Another eadrining the dividend at the rate
of 3! per ant. for the belf-year was also agreed to; and
another convert's( the paid up If. four.and.a-half per
oat shares created in 1861 into a four-and-a-half per cent.
stock. . . . . . . .

The directors retiring by rotation were re elected ; the
auditors were also reelected, and the proceeding closed
with the usual rote of thanks to the chairman and directors.

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN
PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday the standing orders were declared to
have bean complied with in reamed of bilis for th• undermen-
timed new undertakings :=Mennapolitan Railway, to enable
the company to take houses and in the City and at
Paddington, and to eater into halo arrangements with the
Midland Railway. Omni Western Railway, for an exten-
sion from West Bromwich to Tipton, and to raise 54.000/.
London. Chatham, and Dow, Railway, to extend their lino
to Greenwich mid Woolwich, to improve the communies-
tiou with the Victoria Station, for Thames braised, VlC-
toria-bridge Extension, communication with the Crystal
Palace, and to raise 1.900,0001. Gnat Northern Railwag,
for extension from Nottingham to Codnor Park, in Derby-
Aim and to raise 350,0001. North Staffordshire Railway,
for railways at Burton-00-Test and between Bunion and
Oheddiatoa, and to raise 100,0001. Oswestry and Newtown
Railway, for branch to Treason, and to Wee 135.0001.
Liansily Railway and Dock, for now lima, and to raise
132,000 e. Northampton and lisabury Railway, for new
line from Blisworth to the B Railway.
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, for eaten-
lions in Surrey and at Battersea and to abandon
certain lines. Ware, Hadham, and Mantini4ord, for M-
enem of capital and further subscription, the Great
Eastern. Dalian Mistropofitan, for railways and tramcars,
sad • central station in Dublin, at an estimated cost of
560,0001. Saffron Walden Railway. for extensions to the
Great Easterniat Bartlow, and torahs 70,0004 Cowes and
Newport Railway, to raise 116,6001. in new shares, and bor-
row 6,5001. Talcs Valley Railway, ter • line in that dis-
Mist, and to Mile 45,0001. Woresstar, Dam Forest, and
licsanionth Railway? to extolled the Worcester and Hereford
line of the West Midland through the Forest of Dean to
the Coleford, he., Railway, and to raise 450,0001. Cale-
donian Railway, to widen and improve Lemnahagow
branches, and make other alterations, and raise 130,0004
The non-complisooes on same secondary points included
the Bentham Railway, Haat*" Pier, Harbour, and Rail-
way, West Drayton, Staines. and Woking lunatics Rail-
way. Amongst the miscellaueous bills passel through M-
owry were the Hamilton Waterwsdo, 111Wintargh Water,
St. John's-lane Stoppige, Dahlia Oarpmatiga Waterworks,
Denbigh Waterworte, and numerous ether caste were
partly heard and adjourned. The Mil el the Havelead and
lEpsom Downs Railway was withdraws.