The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-28 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS.

MANCHESTER.
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of the

if there wig any doubt uto popularity
sitting members foe Manchester, it has been entirely dis-
pelled. A meeting of the electors, on Wednesday night, at
the Free Trade Hell, was one of the most influential,
crowded, and enthusisatie gatherings ever seen within its
walls. The speakers—dwelling as little as possible on the
petty and mere local squabbles which usually form the
staple of electioneering addresses—diacuseed the questions
ea
which they were supposed to differ with some of their
constituents on higher and broader principles, and were
cheered almost at every sentence. A more thoroughly
earnest protest against the attempt of the conservative
party to foist on the borough men of liberal pretensions in
whose sentiments they themselves do not concur, and
against an "organised hypocrisy" that would clothe it with
• religious, anti-Maynooth motive, could not have been given.
Crowds of people went away from the hall, disappointed of
admission' whilst the meetings of the new candidates are
numbered by scores and hundreds only. We should say
there were 6,000 or 7,000 persons in the Free Trade Hall.
Mr. George Wilson presided.
The Itight Hon. T. MILNER GIBSON, M.P., on rising
to address the electors, was received with loud and enthu-
siastic cheering. Having recapitulated the principal cir-
cumstance. of his political life during the earlier pinion of
his connexien with the representation of Manchester, ho
proceeded to show that notwithstanding the professions of
moderation made at present by the come:natives, there ex-
bted • necessity for the exercise of extreme vigilance in
guarding against • reimposition of the burdens which had
been shaken off by so many painful efforts by the liberal
party. lle next adverted to the proceedings of
thu lees. Messrs. M'Neilo and Stowell in refer-
ence to the election, and lie called on the meeting
to take care that political anauteuvres were not carried on
under the cloak of religion. Ilaving defended his opinions
respecting the Maynooth question, the honourable gentle.
man proceeded to analyse the addresses put forward
by his opponents. Mr. Gibson concluded by reitera-
ting his objection to the Militia 11111, and his sen-
timents in favour of a national system of secular education
(though he acknowledged the evidence before the Educa-
tion Committee of the Manchester vo:untarie s bad pro-
duced a strong impression on his mind), and the repeal of
the taxes on knowledge. (The hon. member resumed his
seat amidst prolonged and enthusiastic cheering.)
Mr. BRIGHT, M.P., who was received with prolonged
cheering, said—Since their election for the borough his
right hon. colleague and himself had lost no opportunity
which was seasonable to defend and maintain that great
principle and that great policy which dated its triumph
mainly from the efforts made within the walls of the build-
ing in which he was speaking. (Cheers.) The government
of Lord John Russell, with regard to the question of sugar
and the question of ships, has fairly and bone s.ly done its
duty to the great commercial and consuming interests of the
kingdom. The gradual and great diminution in the duty
upon timber, the total abolition of the duty upon bricks, the
entire removal of the tax upon windows, the great reduc-
tion of the taxes upon stamps—all these arc matters of
immense moment to the country they have been passed sad
carried since he bad been electedone of their representatives,
and on every one of those questions, in every stage through
the House of Commons, those measures bad received the
constant, hearty, and untiring support of both the parlia-
mentary representatives of Manchester. (Cheers.) Ile had
alto advocated a reduction of expenditure whenever it
seemed desirable and possible to be effected. We have ad-
vocated (continued the hon. member) the question of par-
liamentary reform, which, if it be not yet carried, it had at
least attained to that position that it had been admitted by
one Prime Minister, and that the moat eminent in the coun-
try, to be necessary ; awl although the step he proposed was
not such as was expected of his liberality and his
experience, yet they knew not all the difficulties that at-
tended him andsurrounded him in his cabinet; and at
least it was • fair acknowledgment to parliament and the
country that the state of the representation is very unsatis-
factory, and ought at an eery period to be amended.
(Cheers.) The hon. gentleman went on to speak of the
commission sent by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce
to India to investigate the question of a supply of cotton
from that colony, and he went on to pronounce • well-
deserved eulogium on the character of the late Mr. Mackey,
the gentleman entrusted with that onerous and diffi-
cult duty. Mr. Bright then traced the history of the Ro-
man catholic controversy for the 300 years preceding 18'29,
when, said he, a bill was brought into parliament and passed
both bousaa and it has been since the law ; and! take it for
granted that when that act was passed the English paella-
ment set its seal to this system: that henceforth the catholic
religion should not only be legal in the United Kingdom, but
that any man professing that religion should stand before the
law erect and equal in all points of civil rights with the pro-
fessor of any other creed. (Great cheering.) Since that
time there has been more moderate and just spirit amongst
statesmen of all parties with regard to this question ; and
it was in this spirit that Sir Hobert Peel, in 1815, deter-
mined that the grunt to Maynooth College should no longer
be an annual grant subject to the constant disputation of
parliament, and to the uncertainties of an annual vote,
but that it should rely upon an act of parliament, and
should be paid permanently out of the consolidated fund.
Now, I stand in a position certainly not worse than our hon.
opponents—l was en parliament then, not as the represen-
tative of Manchester, but for the city of Durham. I
was one of the very few men who sat on one
adde of the house who made a speech against,
and who voted on all occasions, I believe, when
a division took place, against the bill of 1815. (Loud
cheers.) But I explained the grounds upon which I vuted.
I told the government of that day that " your notion of
satisfying Ireland by this small measure of conciliation must
fail; there can be no satisfaction short of a perfect equality."
The obtaining of a vote to a particular college of some
16,0001. or 26,0001. a year—l forget the exact sum—cannot
have any permanent and important effect upon the catholic
population of Ireland so long as that grand insult to the
whole nation exists in the established church of Irclund.
(Great cheering.) He then went on to speak of the results
of our anti-catholic policy, which he declared had utterly
failed, and said there was no obscurity to which he would
not joyfully retire rather than his voice or vote should be
given to swell the clamour of insult and persecution which
Mr. Spooner is leading against the catholic population of
Ireland. (Loud cheers.) After come remarks on Mr.
Loch and the Falkirk election, the bon. member concluded
his address amid loud cheers.
A vote of thanks to Messrs. Bright and Gibson, pledging
the meeting to use its best exertions to return them at the
ensuing election, was carried, with only one dissentient ;
and the proceedings then terminated.

Cl?' or LONDON.—Baron Rothschild has issued
the following address : " To the independent electors of the
City of London. Oentlemen,—The assurances of support
which I have received, and my confidence in the firmness
and perseverance for which my fellow-citizens hare always
been distinguished in the assertion of great public princi-
ples, encourage me again to solicit the honour of your suf-
frages. Elected originally to vindicate the great principle
of religious liberty, re-elected to prove that the citizens of
London had not deserted that principle, I believe that on
my success on the present occasion depends the final
triumph of our cause—of that cause for which you have done
so much—in behalf of which you were the first to bear a
marked and generous testimony, and which can succeed
only by means of your continued and resolute exertions.
Of my political views generally, I need not, I think,
give any reiterated exposition. I cannot, indeed, rehr to
my past career in the House of Commons, or to my con-
duct as your representative, because, though freely chosen
by an immense majority of my fellow-citizens—although
believed worthy by the }louse of Commons itself to repre-
sent you, I have not been allowed to take my scat. The
voice of the people has been disregarded, and their opinion
set aside, in consequence of tho mistaken views, as 1 deem
them, of our opponents. I may, however, appeal to my
past professions, and to my earnest support of freedom,
whether as regards the commerce, the civil rights, or tho
religious convictions of the people, whensoever by my exer-
tions it could be promoted or protected. Identified as my
success must be with the great Mae which you have
hitherto BO consistently maintained, 1 leave the issue with
confidence in your hands—l am, gentlemen, your obliged
and faithful servant, LIONEL DI ROTESCHILD.—NeW.
court, May 27."
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Ponsmourn.—Viscount 11fonck addressed a largo
meeting of the electors of this borough on Tuesday evening,
T. E. Owen, Esq., alderman, in the chair. lie wont, in •
most able speech, at great length into his political and com-
mercial principles, describing himself to be a staunch liberal
and free trader. His reception was of tho most flattering
character, resolutions being adopted in favour of his can-
vass, and a good working committee being formed.

THE CHURCH ESTATES COMMISSION.—The follow-
ing is the first report of the commissioners : " To the Right
lion. her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for tho
Home Department, dc.—We, the Church Estates Commis-
'loners, have the honour to make our first general report
of our proceedings, under the act passed in the session of
parliament, held in the 11th and 15th years of her Majesty's
reign, entitled' An Act to facilitate the Management and
Improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in Eng-
land.' Under this act any ecclesiastical corporation may,
with the approval in writing of the Church Estates Commis-
sioners (who shall pay duo regard to the just and reasonable
claims of the present holders of lands under lease, or other-
wise, arising from the long-continued practice of renewal),
sell to any leaf e the interest of such corporation, and may
enfranchise any copyhold Linde, and may purchase the
lessee's interest, or deal by way of exchange, or otherwise,
as may be agreed upon between the pal ties. Certain
sub•lessces are to be considered so entitled to the privi-
leges of lessees. The act further provides that the surplus
moneys arising from transactions under this act shall he
appropriated to the common fund of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners for England. The short time that has
elapsed since tho passing of the act has afforded
little opportunity for ascertaining the extent to
which its powers are likely to be made available,
but we see no reason to doubt that its operation will mate-
rially facilitate the settlement of the church leasehold
question to the satisfaction both of the lessors and of the
lessees. Proposals to sell reversions, or to purchase lease-
hold interests, have been submitted by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, and by the Bishops of Loudon and Norwich,
by the Chapter of Durham, and the Vicars-choral of Lich-
field; and we have reason to believe that similar applica-
tions will shortly. come before us from several other eccle-
siastical corporations. We have also received one proposal
for the enfranchisement of live copyhold tenements under
the sec of Norwich. No purchase or sale has yet been con-
cluded, but the several transactions are progressing antis-
factorily towards completion."
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CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.

Yesterday a special loosibs a this company took
rat the Huston Statism olf cis Latin awl /Lath
e.,. Railway, for the pentellAinemegisigelseel tip poet
alma of a bill writ see the
Chester and "UM; Company to salsa& their
maws, to • 11111M101111 the sets solatiast le that
company, sad kw
psomme =AM It was ssee.
posed te mho adds ofthe
capital of the sesspostp. sod to mats a strol=disk
off the plesent sesolsegs debt of thsalitelllf. W. IL
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Pwro, M.P., is the Oak.
The advertise eat seavesis, the mastMe kaki kilo
readTh,
e CeietuMag said he thought it would be advisable lbw
*n make • few obserilltio"' • • ""'^ apes the
6"..sedieitee to Itors'.th•---. of
stated that that .
tne sees. which related to the line to Birkenhead had been
abandoned—at least for the present year—conset
!pun are arrangement with the London end
Western Railway and the Birkenhead and Cheshire
Junction Companies, in which arrangement ha Nei
hardly say that the interests of the present neMgefhp
had been duly consulted. The nerangetnipt was • wry
simple one, cud might be divided into two heads—the one
enabling this company to create • preference stock in lies
of the present debenture stock, such preference stock being
guaranteed by the London and North-Western Railway
Company, end the other portion of the bill prohibited the
issue of *tech for any other parpose than the liquidation of
the debenture debt created under various acts of pantie-
Ment. Ile need not point out to them that the simple
relieve for adepting this course had been the fact that the
London and North-Western Company had consented to en-
done any preference stock enabling. this company to borrow
money at a much lower nate of interest than they could
have done in their own credit. The saving of 1 per cent.
would be 111,0001. a year to them, but it was calculated
that, by the arrangement proposed, they would effect a
saving of considerably more than that amount. The dine-
ton, therefore. thought that the menses was one which
must cornmeal itik It to the proprietors not only as • judi-
cious one on the part of the boa y
man act of liberality
on the part of the London and North Western Company.
They hail been opposed in parliament on the part of the
[Dime sbury Companies, in their desire to obtain running
powers over their lines. lie was happy, however, to say
that they were frustrated in that attempt, the evidence ad-
duced in support of the measure being of such a character
as to kidney the committee (before whom the question was
mired) to come to the conclusion that those companies had
no reasonable ground of complaint. (Rear, hear.) Since
he had hod the honour of being connected with this com-
pany, he bad always said that the position of the board was
one of close and strict alliance with the London and North
Western Railway Company. They felt that whilst that
company possetied so large an amount of the capital of this
company, and considering that the very object fur
which this lino was constructed was the posses.
aien of a through traffic to Ireland, so long
as they remained in connection with the London and North
Western Railway Company they should continue to pursue
the same policy with regard to that company. It was not
only due to that company that they should du so, but there
was no other cowrie which could be pursued consistently
with the interests of the present eo:npany. lie had found
during his intercourse with the London and North WI,-
tern Company nothing but one coneastent course of Ide-
ntity on their part towards this c. mpany. (Hear, hear)
lie might my in respect to the second preference snick that
they were indebted to that company fur a temporary loan
to prevent their isnini that stock. No doubt when the
time arrive' they sired.' be atee to issue it on better terms
thee they could at the present moment. lie: might take
this opportunity of saying, that the development of traffic
oe their line was prearessing satisfactorily ; the receipts of
the Lot week M ing 5501. over the amount in the cones-
pending week of the previous year, thus yielding
an average for the year of 7,000/ in excess over the
last year. They expected that in about ten days they
should he ahle to carry their goods tragic to Ireland, and
they were ale. led to 'when from the report of their en-
gineers that the line to Cementite would be ready fir go-
vernment inspection in ten days time, thus bringing the
line into connesiou with the slate districts—a result which
they were most anxieus to arrive at, as they found that the
rate of orders et the quarries wee considerably beyond their
means of supply. (Hear, hear.)
A discussion then took place, in the nurse of which va-
rious questions were put to the chairman with a view to
eliciting the particulars as to the exact nature of the ar-
rangement with the London and North Western Company.
From the answers to these questions it appeared that the
amount of capital in the forfeited shares was between
301.0001. and 400,000/., the shares numbering 40,000.
Mr. DRTRIN inquired whether the stuck to be created
was to be is perpetuity ?
The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Durenx satd that on that ground he considered the
measure a very bad one. It WS very well known that the
value of money was decreasing from year to year; and in
the course of time the best rate of interest would not exceed
2j per cent. lie therefore thought that the stock sheuld
be made redeemable.
The CHAIRMAN said their object in applying to parlia-
ment was to secure them a very large annual saving; and
he could assure the proprieton that the London and North
Western Company were pursuing a similar course.
Several Proptietors exorcised a hope that the directors
would endeorour to make the stock redeemable, when
The Orem:tux said they considered that they had ob-
tained a very great bona in getting the endorsement of the
London and North Western Railway upon this stock, sad
although it was understood to exist in perpetuity, there
wise nothing to prevent its being made redeemable at fixed
periods bat at a higher rata of interest.
Mr. Descrier and Mr. CSADDOCe repressed themselves
satisfied as to the propriety of the measure, and the former
stated that, in his opiaion, if uniting could advance the
interests of the proprietor it wee the statement they had
heard this Tanning.
Some further conversation took place, end the chairman
put the following resolution :—" That this meeting ap-
prove of the bill now ribmitted to them, subject to such
amendments AS may be made therein by parliament."
The motion was carried, and the meting separated.

IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING COMPANY.

Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of sharehold
in tWe company was held at the Loudon Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street; Mr. Walker in the chair.
The following are the principal points of the report:—
The directors meet the proprietors on this occasion with
feelings of iinappointment, because the produce of the Inst
sir months had still further diminished by nearly 19Ibs. of
gold, se tempered with the previous half-yea, and because
the Maria workings" had failed to fulfil the expectations
which induced the proprietors to raise additional capital to
carry on the company. The twenty...four heads of stamps
went to work on the 16th February, and up to the 31st of
March gave only 3ilw of gold. At Himont "old mine "
all operations had been stopped, At Gouge Son the pro-
duce had been 61Ibe. los., or 161bs more than the preceding
sit months ; which RiCte a balance of 6001. on its own met
for the half-year. The chief expenditure was at Bansnal,
from which only 151te. nos. had born obtained for the half-
ynr. The produce cf the two workings realised 2,9231. 10s.,
whilst the whole expenditure was 6,6571. 17.. lid. leaving
a deficiency of 3,6:1-1/. Is. ad. on the half.yeer. The loss,
however, had been Ins by 6431. fie. than in the half-year
ending the 3dth of June, 1651, although the pro-
dum of gold was lei by 19tH. ; which chewed that the
unmet economy had been practised in the expenditure.
Captain Brokenshar said that he saw his way clearly to
bring the hull-yearly expenditure within 6,0001. The
directors had waived the receipt of salary from the 31st of
Deem:ober, betels The labour form at the mines was lei
by 52 men than on the 30th of June last. It had become
necessary, in the absence of fresh capital, to sell 2,5001. out
of the reser, eel fund, which re deiced that fund to 13,000
Below that sum the directors felt it would be most unwise
and ereure to reduce the reserve fund. In order therefore
to be able to go on, the directors deemed it expedient to
make a call of 10s. per share, to be made payable on or
before the lst of August next. The present intention of
the directors was to abandon Ilananal altogether, and to
remove the establishment to Oongo Soto, where [the
future operations would probably be carried on exclusively,
from which they hoped that a fair remuneration might be
realised. The accounts showed the expeaditure for the
half-year to be 11,525.'. 12s. fed, and on the 31st of Decem-
ber there was a balance of 1,6901. 19s. fld.
The report having been adopted, a proposal was brought
forward on the behalf of certain parties for the purchase of
4,500 shares, at the rate of 30e. per share from dissentient
sharehelitere, or those who wished to be released from any
new liabilities, with the view of gaining a sufileient majority
to reorganise affairs and push operations vigorously in the
locality already mentioned. It was intimated that sown
verbal uceotiation had been entered upon with the St. Jolts
Del Key Company respecting a portion of the property, bat'
nothing very definite could be arranged. Some discussion
having ensued, the resolution of the directors which fa-
voured the proposal was passed, and, if the purchase can be
completed, a subsequent meeting will take place to supply
vacancies in the board and to develop future plans.

THE ItECENT Dui.L.—On Monday last a meeting
of dissenters took place at Canterbury, which was nume-
rously attended; Mr. Austen in the chair. The leading
article of the Doi' y New of the 24th inst , in reference to
the duel between Mr. Smythe and Colonel Remilly, having
been first read, the following resolutions were unanimously
adopted. Moved by Rev. John Radium, and seconded by
11ev. Henry Crewmen "'that the deputation appointed at
the OM eting of the lOth inst., to confer with the liberal
candidates for the representation of this city, having elated
that, in consequence of • dud between Colonel Hamill,
and the Hon. 0. 8. .Smythe, they have come to the unani-
mous conclusion not to meet either of those gentlemen,
this meeting cntinly approves of the course adopted by
the deputation, and hereby relegate them from their
appointment, so far as those gentlemen ore concerned."
Moved by Mr. W. J. 11. Austen, and seconded by Mr.
Walliington—.. That the practice of duelling heir g opposed
to the spirit of Christianity, to the laws of this country, and
to the good order of all civilises' communities, no person
who sanctions or abets moth • custom is At to fill the high
and responsible trust of • legislator; that this meshng
therefore is decidedly of opinion, that Colonel Hominy and
the Hon. 6.8. Smythe should withdraw from their posi-
tion as candidates for the representation of this city in
parliament; end that we pledge ourselves not to support
eithi r of them et the forthcoming eleetion." Moved by Rev.
C. Kirtland, and seconded by Rev. R. E. B. Maclellan—
"That the foregoing revolutions be forwarded to Colonel
and the 006. 0. 8. Smythe, sad sip printed for
disisibatioa."