The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-12 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS.

EDINDURCIE.—Mr. Macaulay, the historian, will,
it is said. be pat in aossiastioc for Edinburgh city, pro-
vided be will ecassat to sit if sleeted.

FLINTeIIISE.—A correspondent states Mr. Edmund
Peel, who atilt started as a candidate for the boroughs (as
a DerLyite), has now abandoned the boroughs, sod come
forward for the county. The sitting member is the Hon.
Mr. Mostyn, sad will oppose Mr. Peel. In all probability
there will be a severer contest than has been witnessed in
this county for many years. There will also be a contest
(or the boroughs, between Mr. John Ilmimer, son of the
sitting member endl a Mr. Wynn, who comes forward on
conservative peinciples.
HUNTINGDONSUIRIL—RETURN OP LORD MANDE-
YlLLZ.—Yesterdity the election of " a fit and discreet
knight of the shire" to represent the county of Hun-
tingdon, in place of the late Owego Thornhill, Esq. took
place in the Shire-hall, at Huntingdon. Lord M.ndeville,
the member for 'lewdly, was the only candidate ; and there
being no opposition, the proceedings were of a routine
character. His lordship was proposed by 0. W. Rowley,
Esq., of the Priory, St. Neat's., ano the nomination was se-
°ended by Rev. James Linton. The High Sheriff then
declared Lord Mandeville duly elected, and the noble lord
having returned thanks, the proceedings were brought to
a close.

MANCIIESTER.—The sitting members, in again of-
fering themselves for election, are not following the track
of the new candidates by attempting a personal canvass, but
are addressing large meetings of the electors in the wards.
On Wednesday night they had a meeting with their con-
stituents in Hahne, at the Baptist Chapel, Great Jackson-
street, and on Thursday night a meeting with their con-
stituents in Ancosta, at the Mather-street Temperance
Hall. Both plates are commodious meeting houses, but
were crowded very densely in a few minutes. The abort
time committee, who espouse the cause of the new candi-
dates, have attempted oppositions at these meet-
ings on the ground that the present members
opposed the Ten Hours Factory Bill, and have
succeeded in forting great numbers of their friends
into these meetings. How far the advocates of restriction
, are wise in thus trusting their adherents to listen to the
earnest eloquence of two of the foremost friends of free in-
stitutions is yet to be seen; but it hu been matter of ob-
servation that at these two meetings the men who went in
rude and noisy, apparently determined to hoot the hon.
gentlemen down, remained to listen, becoming so intensely
interested in the speeches as to forget their vocation. A
pin might have been heard to drop whilst Mr. Bright
was speaking on Thursday night upns the course he
had talon upon the Factory Bill, and when be
declared that it having become law, he was un-
willing to disturb the act, and that himself and
partners strictly complied with its provisions in their owu
works, loud cheers burst from the whole meeting. Mr.
Milner Gibson indulged in a little good humoured banter
at the expense of the opposition. A resolution that the
honourable members were deserving the confidence of the
electors was put at each of the meetings, and carried all
but unanimously-only two or three bands being held up
against them.
Norrisonsm.—A fourth candidate has announced
his intention of soliciting the suffrages of the electors of
this borough. We have now all shades of politics. Oa
the whir side there is Mr. Strutt ; on the radical, Mr. Gis-
borne ; Mr. Walter comes forward as a conservative whig ;
and Mr. Sturgeon's sentiments are thus pat forward in his
address just issued:—" I am for manhood suM'age—the
vote by ballot—the abolition of all property qualifications,
both in the elector and the elected—for the payment of
members—for the immediate repeal of the whig Septennial
Act, and for the annual election of the people's representa-
tives—for free trade in all its ramifications, and in the most
comprehensive sense—and for reform in church and state."
BOUM NORTHUNSERLAND.—A requisition is being
signed for the purpose of calling a public meeting of the
liberal electors of this division at Newcastle, to devise mea-
sures o immediately bring forward a second candidate.
Mr. Liddell, the Derbyite, in the mean time is out on his
=um

SOUTH LANCASTIIRE.—Mr. John Cheethem, the
new liberal candidate for Booth Lancashire, mot the free-
holders of the county at Rochdale on Thursday evening,
and yesterday noon those of Bolton. Both of these were
highly respectable and summate meetings, and the usual
resolutions of approval having been inalonsitted, were carried
unanimously.

STAYPOHD.—Mr. R. N. Philipps, of the Inner
Temple, is outramiug the borough of Stafford as the liberal
lateral.

THE CANTERBURY DUEL.
Captain Vivian has addressed a letter to the elec-
tors of B•dmin, in which he intimates that he will not
again solicit their suffrages—his participation in the pro-
ceeding connected with the recent duel between Mr.
Smyth* and Colonel Romidy having slimmed an essential
portion of the support by which his return had been
effected. Captain Vivian ears :
" Not long ago one of my oldest and dearest Mends came
to me, and reposed, with all the implicit reliance and
truth of friendship, his honour in my hinds. After lianas
well weighed the whole ease put before me' with a dee
sense of all its extreme responsibilities, I felt satisfied
that there was no opportunity for any compromise of
any kind, and that the sole alternative leftto me was
either my abandonment of • friend, or my abiding
by him, even to an brae which I knew would be in 11
the most favourable oontingency, very prejudicial to my in-
teresta. Under the circumstances I did not hesitate for cue'
moment, and 1 am sure, however variously the conditions
of a similar question may present themselves, there an
none among yea who would not prefer what, in their eon-
soignee, they believe the fulfilment of an imperative oblige-
ties to its surrender for any purpose of selfish or immediate
advantage. At the same time, with that deference to con-
scientious scruples upon your art which it is impossible for
one to dootherwiw than respect, I wee most anxious that
no unnecessary publicity should be given to a transaction
which I feared would shock the prepossessions and estrange
the sympathy, if it did not provoke the hostility, of so large
a portion of my supporters. Unfortunately in this instance
I was overruled, and partially for this lemon, as upon the
main question generally, I mast now, I feel, bear the
miaisbment of your retracted madden. and forfeited es-
Bitterly as I regret this result I should not, however, be
freak to you or just to myself, if I did not honestly affirm
*atom a mist review of the circumstances, I do not see
low I seal have acted otherwise, without braving the
at least a large and influentfal portion of rociety.
esliC efur the state of opinion on this subject, and the rea-
sons on which it rests, I might allude to a host of indis-
putable setheeities, but I will only trouble you with two.
Dr. Mmes .& semi of the sternest morality, of the most
Timmins smemeleading, and of the strictest piety, mid,
to this subject, "As men become in a high
degree= various "uses of, offence wise, which are
semellmiel to be of suck imports, that life mast be staked
to Memo for them, though is reality they are not so. A
body Mme has received • very due polish may be sully
hurt. Dame men arrive at this artificial refinement, If
one wae his neighbour he lies, his neighbour tells him h
lies ; if owe gives his neighbour • blow, his neighbour gives
him • blow, but in a state of highly polished society, an
anent is held to be • serious injury. It must, therefore,
la sesested, or rather a duel must be fought upon it, as
assa have agreed to banish from their society one who
pyre op with an affront without fighting a duet. Now it
is sews unlawful to fight In self-defence. r Re, then, who
te dad be sot tight from passion againstkis ammo-
bat sot et self-defence to avert the stigma of the
and to prevent himself from being driven from
eeekety. I mid wish there was not that superfluity of
refinenteet, bat while each notions prevail a man may law-
f a dael." I will now give you the opinion of a
, • law, and a judge, one of the most mi.
ease. Mesa characters ever known to Scottish
juktsgstedens~l mean Lord Rainies,"who, in one of his
nest slabeenM works, gives the following opinions :
" Whet slab be mid of our statutes which punish with
de sod mialseation of moveables those who fight a
sighs amble without the Singh license, and which
muss the giving or amopting a challenge with
lad esailmatim of nwrinebles? When a man
thinks his brew Wilke, fear slam* will not deter him
*en whin redeem: met h an ahamative left him, as the
MAW a gums Wheat ist hip* dishonourable in the
MMieo of all the tumid. Mem we not instances
wlthmM number et assn ofilewing to the supposed
setheilesy theft Miens mowed by flames and
ghbals ? Mew ebeeml, the. II in ear legislature to
panda • sem ter him: what is It be wW
areM eastenspl. Laws that mateehist beam% prim&
pise. or eves hart preandiess. meet me ellialmal. notate
Smelts against thsaNirmi it is believed that them slatales
have sever Mom dieted in tmy sae Wham, nabs per-
haps to hash k ea exeunt he declining a single combat."
Oar peels* modern statesman have never omitted to act
apes the some prineiples white are so &NMI, mound is
Me estimilffol optima whisk I have mahme le bring
%km year nodes. Their mem is legisa—Mr. Phi, Mr.
Timasy, Mr. Fox, WORM iloadark Kr. CluudLord
Castlonsgh, Sir Francis lleadelk the Duke of W
Sir Robert Peel, who wee them mss in the aearee—"Wil
ensmplary career, appealed te hit othiltatism et arms Mr
whisk I ma so heavily assured end se billed, madman&
It is Wm that the spirit of our times fear boa greatly imp
hid M a hummer temper in this matlor; bat it is also
true that until the world has arrived at that MOW Christian
perfestisa, which individually we heal' all at u strive to
attain, seen will have seem % Imam elesamitaness of
Wendel bersear, to that eels nitres whisb the esatUtisas of
assdem sashay Ward, and which In silly ether country
bat ear ewe prevails in tell keek and vamp
but In In oar own, mseemer, the mho. villa is
raised so loudly against these who blame knelved M the
trammels of a tyrant ouslent.le se4=llhlegitsinst
those who submit to en Mesh eel
peel. Do onlauppem, fietlemes, Oat I befog them segments
to ycur nodes Be the potpies et advising the system of
duelling, or that I is preemaing to urge anything against
the laws of Oed, or of Mk lead; I know that in the *ye of
fl4and mason °Whose to the law, though against the
ths world, Is the het to . and ought be the
rule ashen; but in putting a eeoekmetkm ea asy motives,
so es to eseertnia the quality of my amisse, yes will make
allowance fee my situation. It Is easy to east odium, and
easier still te Insinuate ridicule spinet this practice ; but
you, gentlemen, at any rate, will agree with me, that it
Is no light matter to sever ties which I hod every reason to
hot* were act less valued on your part than upon mine,
because I have undergone an ordeal which in my coomience
Inecessity. &Neve to have been justified by the most unavoidable I

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, iIINII 11.
THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION.-THE
INAUGURATION.

The scene witnessed in Cork yesterday was not
only brilliant and exciting as a spectacle, but was
full of cheering hope for the country. It was a magni-
, ficent demonstration of national energy and national
resources, and coming as it did so soon after the
seven years of desolating famine, seemed specially de-
signed lor the purpose of rho% iug the world that the
national vigour was as far as ever it was from being
exhausted. The whole was the result of the briefest
preparation. It is only a few months since the first
idea of the exhibition we. conceived, and it was then
proposed that it should be confined to the mere pro-
duce of the locality itself. It was first mentioned as a
simple exhibition for the province of Munster, when
our late Viceroy, the Earl of Clarendon, who perhaps
teok more interest in the industrial improvement of
Ireland than any other man that ever lived, sug-
gested at once that it should be made national, mid
handed in his own generous contribution to encou-
rage the promoters. His suggestion was unhesitat-
ingly adopted and acted on, and the result has told
successfully for it. Never was anything of the kind
better managed. Committees were formed in the
principal towns of Ireland to co-operate with that of
Cork, and funds and the warmest and most cordial
aid were poured in from every quarter. Like its
great prototype in London, the exhibition building
sprung into existence as it were by magic, and the
contributions with which it has been filled have been
more numerous and more beautiful than even the most
enthuaiestic ventured to anticipate.
The Grand Saloon of the Exhibition, in which the
ceremony of the inauguration took place yesterday,
is 182 feet in length by 53 feet in breadth, and 50
feet in height. It is covered with an arched roof,
which is composed along the centre of glass. 'this
ent're structure is built of yellow pine wood, the
walls and arched ceiling being divided into compart-
ments by richly treseellated girders. With consum-
mate taste, the wood work has been left of its natural
colour, having: been simply planed and varnished,
thus showing the rich grain and mellow tint of the
timber. The south end of the building is occupied
by a splendid organ by Telford. This noble instru-
ment is erected on a lofty platform, approached by a
series of steps, whereon the orchestral. disposed. The
sides of the ball to one-half their height are covered
with fine paintings exclusively the production of Irish
art. They have been contributed by the National Art
societies, and by individual artiste. Each picture
is let into a panel suitable to its size, the whole
forming an indescribably rich and grand effect.
Grouped along the entire length of the hall are
' planed the choicest triumphs of the sculptor's art,
from the studios of Hogan, Nt'llowall, Kirke Foley,
and other Irish artists of eminence. In the centre
of the hall is erected a handsomely designed hy-
draulic fountain, from which springs a jet deau,
making sweet gurgling music, and spreading around
it delicious coolness. Immediately in front of the
organ and orchestra is erected a platform, approached
by four steps, and covered with a rich carpet of
the moat brilliant colours. Here were placed the
chairs of state of his Excellency and the Countess
of Eglinton. These chairs are of beautiful design,
and richly finished in blue derma and gold. The
north end of the hall opens by a lofty arched en-
trance into a vestibule, at the extreme end of which
is a gallery. The aspect of this noble structure is
truly magnificent. But who that witnessed it will
forget the unrivalled scene of splendour exhibited
therein yesterday? The entire of the vast centre
hall was one rich parterre of full-dressed beauty,
being all occupied by ladies. Tier over tier the side
seats presented a dense and continuous mass of
gentry and citizens. Two hundred musicians, vocal
and instrumental, occupied the orchestra, conducted
by Mr. Joseph Robinson; whilst seated before the
organ, robed in gown of white and crimson satin, was
Dr. Stewart, T.C.D., the composer of the music of
the inauguration ode, shortly to be sung by the full
strength of the choir.
I take the following account of the ceremonial of
opening from the Southern Reporter :
At 11 o'clock the doors were thrown open, the executive
committee having previously posted at each of them effi-
cient doorkeepers, and taken the further necessary pre-
caution to reinforce these offices by guards of the con-
stabulary force, which bad been sent down from the Phcrnix-
pant, Dublin. At this hour ladies eel were allowed to
enter, it having been judiciously that gentlemen
should not obtain admission LLasfi area. Were it not
for this the confusion would be.. been Immense. At
12 the gentlemen were allowed to lain their seats, but
by that boar nearly the**, of the emmasered mats were
Weedy occupied by the Ye porde. Wien ammunity, who
had been accorded the ph*. of *dim sob*, and the
number of "lords of the aneffee hmanate enough to get
places was oonmquently very limited Wood. Immediately
oa the opening of the doers to geademen, all but the
reserved seats became filled at miss, and from that time till
his exosilency's arrival, all was anxious and breathless ex-
pectancy. The mem, dudes this time, was really magnifi-
cent. The coup red of the Om* Southern Hall, planned by
Mr. Benson, p.E., and truly creditable to that gentleman's
abilities, and executed under the joint superintendence of
himself and Sir Thomas Deane, was one of singular beauty.
At 20 minutes past one o'clock the special train, contain-
ing his Excellwy and *mite, arrived at the Cork station,
from Bandon. His Ezoelleacy was accompanied by the
Countess of Egliatna, the Earl of Bandon, Lord Bernard,
Hoe. H. B. Barnard, Lod Carbery, and several ladies. Oa'
the arrival of the train the military bands present played
" God save the Queen," and a flag was immediately hoisted
on the Cara Motet, as a signal to a park of artillery,
which had bees stationed in the camp Said, and from which
a salute was fired. Their Excellencies wore then conducted
to the Exhibition Buildings, for the purpose of opening the
Exhibition, the whole way being lined with troops.
His Endless, made his semis, accompaied by a large
procession, amid loud cheering, in the following order;—
The Mayor's Secretary ; Mr. John Benson, C.E., designer
of Southern Hall; Mr. John Shea, Hoe. Sec. to the Este
caries Committee; members of it:e Executive Committee,
two and two; members of the Town Council, two and two,
attired in civic robes; the City High Sheriff, Mr. F. S.
Bestial* ; the Lord Lieutenant, supported by the Earl of
Hendon and Lord Bernard; the Countess of Relates.
leaning on the Mayor, and Captain Dnepr, and odor
members of his Excelleney's mita; Mejor-Moosol Nowell
and hie staff. In this order the procession adenoid elsedg
to the southern end of the Fine Arts' Hall, where a plate
form had been erected, in front of Telford's grad erase, en
which the chair of state was placed for his Excellency.
Her Excellency the Countess of Eglinton wore a boa*
tiful scarf, ornamented with the Cork areas, is the appro.
priate colours, and exhibited in her breast • large beempost
of shamrock. Her Excellency was sammindedlly the la-
dies of Lord Bandon's family, who assompaied lose
and di* Lord Lieutenant. On reaching the plat's=
Mrs. Hackett was pre ented te her, sad most =
received by her Excellency Mr. Janie
' then took his plain as conductor, is he* ef the made
gallery ; Doctor Stewart, Mus. D., west to the wpm, sad
Mr. Levey likewise took up his place, *leader of the or-
chestra, which included, together with • bast of prohssional
talent, both from Dublin and Cork, the eat** sad prac-
tised voices of our Ancient Concert Society, the members of
which most laudably gave their valuable assistant* to the
great national festival. After a delay of a few moments the
magic wand of Mr. Robinson was waved in sir, and the
grand music of the Hallelujah chorus burst on the delighted
ears of those present. It was truly magnificent. The
execution was beyond praise • and the effect proved that,
amongst the many advantages possessed by the hall, its
acoustic qualities could not be well surpassed. When it
closed, according to arrangement, the addresses were pre-
sented to his Excellency, and responded to.

At this period of the proceedings. the Lord-Lieu-
tenant conferred the honour of knighthood on Mr.,
now Sir William Hackett, the mayor of Cork.
An address from the corporation was next pre-
sented, and after this the inaugural ode, composed by
Mr. Waller, the Slingsby of the " University
Magazine," and the music by Dr. Stewart, was perms
Lamed with brilliant effect by the organ and choir.
The ode having been performed, their Excellencies
is lt their place to make a tour of the hall, escorted
by tasmabffs of the Executive Committee, and the
sinsbers of the viceregal suite, which occupied about
twenty minutes, both of them expressing the highest
delight at its appearance.
On their Excellencies
.again returning to the
platform and resuming their seats, the Grand Coro-
nation Anthem, by Handel, was splendidly performed
by the orchestra, with Mr. Robinson as conductor.
Mwst immediately after their Excellencies and
snits, with several of the most distinguished visitors,
proceeded to the committee-room, where they were
entertained with a sumptuous lejeuser, prepared
under the superintendence of Mrs. Fitzgerald.
At its close the lady of the Honorary Secretary, Mr.
John Shea, was presented to her Excellency. The
Lord-Lieutenant subsequently proceeded to visit the
Queen's College, where an address was presented to
him.

The Inauguration Banquet, which took place last
night, was given in a magnificent pavilion erected
for the purpose, and ornamented with great taste
and judgment. About six hundred persons sat down
to dinner. Sir W. Hackett, mayor of Cork, filled
the chair, and on his right Exceliency the Lord
Lieutenant occupied a chair of state.