The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

THE REPRIBENTATION OP CAMBRIDGE►,

NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.)
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CAMBRIDGE, TUSBOAT Amnon.

The nomination of candidates seeking to serve is
parliament as member for the borough of Cambridge, took
plan this roaming. The parties interested assembled hl
front of temporary hustiop erected before the Town-hall
Yr. Alderman HT. Bums, mayor, presided, sad the emits.
matt usually consequent upon elections prevailed.

After the usual preliminaries, Mr. CHAIM BALLS pr,.
needed to nominate Francis Sharp Powell, Esq,
The motion was seconded by Mr. Damn Alums.
Mr. Alderman ECM next proposed H. Fl6l/0844 Esq., tie
motion being seconded by Mr. MACMILLAN.

Mr. POWELL then addressed the electors at considerable
length. The foreign policy of the country he denounced as
i• many rapes* a meddling sad impertinent policy. As
• proof of this, he referred to the recently published due
patch on the Roman question. Owing to the course par
sued by Earl Russell we have beta told by Napoleon to mind
our own briars. and have received a well-merited rub (ram
the Pope. He considered we ought not to interfere in the
American question, but he mast add also that he defied
any person to ry that he had said one word in favour of
the maintenance of slavery, for he believed that its aboli-
tion would raise the negro in the scale of civilise.
Lion and humanity. With regard to the public
Armes, he rid that lest year no less theo 71
and a half millions of money had been spent ; in order to
maintain that they had a bloated system of taxation, the
most important part of which was the income tax. He
should specially direct his attention to the reduction of
that tax.

Mr. Famcrrr, who followed, said, after allusion to local
loath:in, that he was in favour of and would support the
priment administration generally, though that support would

not be unqualified ; he would especially'support the foreign
policy of Lord Palmerston. Mr. Fawcett treated with ridicule
"the snub of the Pope " sad " interference of the Emperor
of the French." He desired a reduction of the income tar
—was not opposed to the Church of England, and neve
said one word about the church that was sot synonymous
with what Lord Stanley—undoubtedly the future leader d
the conservative party—had said. He would have every
one placed on a union so far as civil and educational privi.
laps were concerned. One seat might decide the fate d
the administration, and so all England was looking to this
contest ; but he had oome in and spoiled the "nice little
arrangement" made in favour of what was called "conger.
retire reaction." In conclusion, after elaborate allusion to
101 l matters, Mr. Fawcett announced his thorough belief
in his Process.

The MAYOR having called for • show of hands. the same
was declared to be undoubtedly in favour of Mr. Fawcett.
A poll wm demanded for Mr. Powell.

MEETING OF CONFOCATION.-(THIS DAY,)

Tine irKrRAORDTWART ARMORIAL FROM THE
AGED AND INMAN INMATES 0) BETHNAL
&ASSN WORKHOUSE.

At a meeting of the board of guardians of
Bethnal-green Inld yesterday evening in the boardroom
of the workhouse, Victoria-park. the question of the recent
memorial to the Poor-law Board was taken into consider&
Sion. . .

It may be necessary to mention that the regulation corn.
plaided of by the memorialists, rendering the performance
dr certain amount of work obligatory epos the aged in-
mates, was passed as a resolution of the board of perdiane,
on the 26th January, and a quantity of oakum was ordered
to be advertised for.
Mr. W. T. HOWARD, clerk to the beard, said that be bad
received on Saturday last a communication from the POOP
law Board, enclosing a memorial from 142 of the inmates of
the house respectiog the rennet regulation.
The document having been read,
Mr. COLLINS, vice-chairman, said that it was wrong to
say that the " paralytic, the asthmatic, people on crutches.
and the rheumatic " would undergo any hardship from
the regulation. They multi go before the doctor, and be
would stop their work directly. The amount of labour
six( 1 for the inmates of that house was 25 per coat
lower then the lowest elsewhere. At Maryleboae, Whiter
chapel, St. Tenures, fie., the quantity of oakum for males
was four pounds, sad for females three pounds., while in
liethuadgreen the quantity was three pounds and two.and-
a-balf. The old people, he believed, only regarded it as SS
occupation and amusement. Before the regulation was
made he one day saw Smith. wham signature cos
said to be &Mead to the memorial, in the oakum
room, and upon being asked what be was there for.
he replied that he was there to amuse himself.
And no doubt he would have bees unhappy if he had not
been let in there. He (Mr. Coll'oq) would wish to know hoe
much oakum bad been packed last week.
Mr. IfitilliCE, the master, mid that there hail been note.
as there was none in the house. He had never forced an!
one to work when incapacitated by p.ralvdie, Be. He had
nothing to do with the regulation, and it had not been our
ried out with regard tto anyone. Terre had not been
weight of oakum pinked since the 20th of January, as
was almost impomible to obtain a supply.
Mr. CIOODZAW said that it was absurd to suppose that
them old men had written a memorial to the P ord.,
Board about a regulation which had not been put in font
unless they were rendered disaffected by some deeignisi
persona. He wished to know how the document got low
the papers? When was it received from the Pourdso
Board? . _

RusseLL.

This morning the Convocation of the Province of
Canterbury was formally opened, a ceremony which was
rendered necessary by the elevation of another primate to
the archiepiscopal see. His grace arrived at the Chapter
House of Bt. Paul's Cathedral at a few minutes past eleven
o'clock, there being present the Bishops of London, Lincoln,
St. Asaph, and Llandaff ; the Very Rev. the Dean of
Bristol, the Prolocutor of the Lower House of Convocation,
the Venerable Archdeacon Bickersteth, the Deputy.
Prolocutor. the Rev. Chancellor Massingberd, the
Via. Archdeacon Kaye, the Dean of St. Paul's, the Vex.
John Sinclair, 11.. A., Archdeacon of Middlesex, the Vene-
rable W. W. Hale, M.A.. Archdeacon of London, the Res.
Dr. Jobb, the Rev. M. W. Mayon, the Venerable Arch.
cleacou Clerks. the Rev. H. A. Woodgate, the Rev. Henry
Mackenzie, theßev. J. Pendell, the Rev. Canon Wilma of
Wit:mho:Ater, the Venerable Archdeacon Moore, the Pen*.
rable Archdeacon Denison, the Rev. Sir George Prevost,
and many other proctors of the various archdeacenries. As
soon as the bishops and clergy had assembled in the chapter
house and exchanged mutual congratulations, the Litany
service was read in Latin by the Bishop of Lincoln, the junior
bishop present. Dr. Travers Twins, QC., the Vicar Gene.
ral of the province, then rose and presented to the arch-
bishop her Majesty's writ for summoning the Convocation,
and his grace directed that it should be read by Mr. Francis
Hart Dyke, the Registrar of the province. The Bishop of
London, as Dean of the Province of Canterbury, certified
that it had been duly executed. All the bishops of the
southern provinces were then formally cited by name and
the returns were made, except in the came of
Gloucester and Bristol, from which an intimation
was received from Chancellor Monk that the episcopal
throne of the diocese was vacant, Dr. Ellicott, the bishop.
elect not bane( yet been consecrated. By the direction of
the archbishop the registrar read the schedule of coo-
tumacy, by which all parties, bishops, deans, archdeacons
and proctors, who had been cited and who had not appeared
were pronounced contumacious, but the penalties to which
they that became subjected were marred until the next
meeting. The next proceeding was the reading of the schedule
of prorogation by which the Convocation stands adjourned
until to-morrow. The archbishop then pronounced the
benediction io Latin, and the proceedings of the day tenni.
mated. Vast numbers of persons congregated in St. Paul's-
churchyard to witness the novel ceremony, and great amaze-
ment was expressed at the varieties of episcopal and claricsl
robes which were thus brought together. There was no
service in the cathedral as had been aoticizated.