The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

MR. ROEBUCK AND MR. COPPOCK.

TO VII SOROS OF tai DAILY MEWL

Sin.--Seeing in the IMily News Mr. Coppocks
to the Sun. I beg to answer It through you.
Mr. eoppoek ha. entirely mistaken the spirit cad laten-
t a of the remarks I =ads on the St. Albans Disfraneltite.

at Bill, sod hes Oven a very incorrect intereretation to
the Maned's= whack he details.
I befitted that ht. Jane mg the mho bed en
thi mesa= et the hies elution tees dhrweM ewe @beat
t, be employed se seapegeses, dant Ibelteerer elletedseeseet
tit. sod that Mr. Coppoek had ben imeleged SIB sa agent
others. In order to show this I peerteed WSA him to
Me to of the home.
When I said that he would not have email to interfere
en my behalf in any election, I had in the Ssod• In
ah.efi he had described himself am at IL Albans—
sad I think hr, as well as the gore GM whoa behalf
I supposed him to have acted, would anyinena is the truth
of this assertion.

lat once acknowledge that I had
own,pcadesce with hi relative ts Ittiltil=i may
INI That correspondence had in it Vida PASO
shicrat 04 say owe—and arose out of She
stances.

Its radical party in Math at that period found that they
were unable to return two members of their own opinions
—bat that if they could unite with the other sealer of the
liberal party, vit., the whip—two liberal emimbers emold
Ise tamed. In this state of things I applied te Mr. Slaw
ky. now Lord Stant, y of Alderley, the.
is
eleston atleirs of the whig party, my olliend bift
a candidate who, while satisfying the why sf the
I. ctors, would not he distasteful in gay mhtmbs sal
athe wr.ting to Mr. Coppock I in regal femegiodeNC
ie.'h Mr Stanley, who, upon my rerselesee, smiled
to lAri Duncan. Lord Duilcaa in empearame smear as
kith. and united with sat in the elegise. ear somata"
sod 'spews being joint. Mr. Cense IMO the agent of
the government; and as I was, In let, tee elag with the
government sa principal in the ease, I freshly memo that
141(,; t the fact that the letters I wrote were seat through
Mr. Coppock, as their agent.
Now so to the money (via., 3001.) which Mr. Coppock
states he pee me. That money had bees lode aritmlY
adorn' to me as a subscription by an old Mend, w sum
1 aced not mention—ho is well known to Mr. Coppock; sad
the fund whence it came was a private oae, subscribed
by various liberal politicians, for the purpose of being so
employed, and by Mr. Coppock's hand the mousy was
transmitted through me to our joint committee. In every
tootested election expense must be incurred—not corrupt
expiate—hut as work must be done, it must be paid for,
sad to this end the money in question was subscribed.
I have never made it a secret that I have ever been un-
willing and unable to incur the expense of a contested elec-
tion, and the expenses of every election in which I have 'lv
prated as u candidate have been paid by subscription. Those,
fur example, of the last unsuccessful contest I was engaged
in at Bath were paid by friends who thought my labours in
parliament valusble. Six hundred pounds for that object
were transmitted to the treasurer of the joint committee of
!zed Duncan and myself by an old and attached friend of
mine, who is in fact nut himself an active politician. In
this assuredly there is nothing which is deserving of blame
either un the part of my friends or myself.
I pan by Mr. Coppoik's vituperative phrases. I had no
ill-feeling as respected him, sad sweat hiss me haus, The
facts of the St. Albans election were not alassit me. WI
stated by himself. Whateverret Mane allenbes le thera
certainly cannot in say way be bird NI MO sal If the
es
world generally have saamal tare isms laid bare
in that inquiry, the psis of that nyeshusisa is but the
fair consequence of the ads sealnerd.
41=s—eadIs
syite tiH. language Mr. Copps& has pow to
employ with regard to myeelf, still simmer—Mlng big was
unfairly dealt with, and that they en whine behalf he sated
etre the persons really io fault. The Aisne Mesh be has
made ou me has not in the lean this my belief.
remain, Sir, your eenisut servant,
Math 7. J. A. ROEBUCK.

PRorIvIONS POR SIR E. BELCUER'EI EXPEDMOR.
—The pruvi,inne, such as pemican, corned-beef, beton,
t° be "applied to the new Arctic searching squadron, will, '1
au doubt, be of very superior quality,and are now in course
4f preparation, under the superfatenee of Captain Sir B.
Parry, and Mr. Dans, of the Clarence Victualling-yard.
VALLET IMPROVE/RECT.—The Lord Mayor
be appointed a special court of Common Council for
ttendsy seat, to resume the diming= upon Mr. Charles
Poona's plan for the extensive improvements in Fining-'
We'street end its vicinity. The following are the enact
toms of the motion by Mr. Deputy Harrises, end the,
wilfadment by Mr. Norm —Motion " That this tout do
Igoe with the committee le so (much of the report as en-
that it if most desirable to secure, if possible, to the
Pvl!lie, and the corporation of London, the great benefit
illueb will arise from the proposed railway terminus, and
tht it be refs d back to the committee to confer with the
ft•ptetive railway companies to the north of the Thames, or
my other respon-ible parties, who may be willing to camp
t wukflalfinisand that the committee do report their
e•ewd.ortv for the approval of the court, befalls say
wfoorments are entered iota."—Amendment: " That
ruurt do agree with their committee in so snob of
their report as states that the proposed trunk line of rail-
*l a practicable ; bat the court is farther of opinion that
tb turi oration of London cannot, with propriety, embark
m say tailway scheme, though they see no objection to the
tries line btino carried to the proposed termieas by other
Parties, provided the works are executed subject to the coa-
teat end approbation of the corporation."

LL RE-ELECTIONS AND PARLLA-
MRNTARY REFORM.

(Tree use Daily Nan.)
The importance of a further measure of reform in
parliament, was never more completely illustrated
than it has been during the last ten days by the
aliens et the members who compose the govern-
Ma An Englishman who values his free institu-
-011110114 who is disposed to boast of the represente-
d= NM prnie have in parliament, cannot but blush
et 111, ellsedoncering mockeries which parallel the
morn erne enacted at Gluten and Old Sarum. It is
via a holing of disgust that the reformer reads in
the midaterisl morning journal such a paean as is
aniedied in the following announcement:
Everywhere during the past week, the government ran-
didseeslave been triumphantly returned. The first law
Miser et the crown met with no opposition at Abingdon.
The minipill Secretary of State for the Home Department
bus ham unopposed at Midhurat ; the Marquis of Chau-
dna as Bashioglism, and Mr. Mercies at Stamford.
A Belgian or an American reading this statement
in the sunisterial organ, would naturally suppose
that the monopolist cabinet just elevated to power
were, indeed, as " triumphant" as their party paper
wishes them to be. Reading such a statement by the
light of hie own constitution, the American would
say, " Oh, England has reversed her policy ; free-
trade has met its doom ; not only has the whig ca-
binet been ignominiously expelled front office and a
protectionist administration elevated to power, but
the great electorates of conetitu:ional England have
everywhere ' triumphantly returned' the members
of the government. Abingdon, which appears from
the map to be a great constituency in Oxfordshire.
has returned without a shadow of opposition the first
law officer of the crown. Midhurst, that populous
seat of agriculture, has given its universal suffrage
to the principal Secretary of State. The
wide district surrounding Buckingham elects
the Marquis of eItANDOS' from whom the por-
trait of the immortal SIIAKIIPEARE takes its
name • and Stamford, free and independent
Stamford, sends to parliament an aged minister de-
voted to official habits, by the name of Ileum es."
What would the American think if ho were in-
formed, that, so far from there being anything to
boast of in being returned by these constituencies,
there is something which, to right-minded men, is ab-
solutely degrading in the very idea of sitting for such
places, under such circumstances. In the petty town
of Abingdon " the First Law Officer of the (rowu"
only obtained his election by sufferance, and upon
the distinct condition that on the very next vacancy
ho should resign every pretension to the representa-
tion. The representatiou of Nlidhurst, a large vil-
lage with 1,900 or 1,900 inhabitants, is absolutely at
the disposal of a peer who lives close by, and whose
eon-in-law is " the principal Secretary of State." At I
Buckingham Lord Citssaxei is " at home,"—his own
family tenantry being the electors, and the election
being a snug affair, arranged in a pothouse by. the
steward of the estate. Stamford, " free and inde-
pendent Stamford," is, indeed, a considerable
town, but unhappily it is a place in which the
major part of the property is held by one proprietor,
and in which the rights of the people, political and
private, have been mercilessly trampled on to suit the
objects of the lord. Such are the constituencies of
England for which the members of the government
obtain unopposed returns, and such are the
"triumphs" which their trumpeters tell the world
they have secured.
it is to be observed, however, that contemptible
and insignificant as these places are, the members
of the government are by no means so well
received in them as the tory pspers would
desire us to suppose. Political knowledge has
penetrated even into the least frequented parts of
Some:, and the farm labourers at Nlidhurst cried
out for a complete revision of the inequalities of
taxation with a igour and determination that ren-
dered it necessary even for the cautions Home Secre-
tary to speak out. At Buckingham, an attempt was
made to get up a cheer for the new minister, and his
own tenants and farm labourers gave no response to
the appeal. Let the tory government carefully lay this
to heart. In a purely agricultural district, in his own
town, amongst his own people, an estimable young
man whose private misfortunes have elicited the
public sympathy, and whose virtues, we believe,
have merited the tribute, is refused even a cheer, by
the agricultural population to whose voices he ap-
peals as a minister prepared to revive a food tax.
If this is the state of-things at Buckingham, what do
they expect to find the feelings of the towns and
districts in which not 1,500 but 15,000 or
150.000 esteems may meet to elect a representa-1
tive ? Why, it was only yesterdey that a statement
appeared, under the head eta Rhodos Now•"' hem
• borough in which the government are vsetwitswely
able to return a member, and la which within es
last mouth they brought in thelvhFiebeira miss*
of two to one though he was solvates
sad only in the field a week, w bleiggenentirne
a popular barrister, who had made a sinmesildaut-
we. And what do the, ay in that smolkoesey
They say " then eau ,anew of s
_government
candidate being breuebt hived Use, hut ho will
not stand musk inn at swam aphid the present
members, and erne olhdarart f he ts oaf as opponent
of the cone home This is from a eseetitsaasy on
which, most pliably, the government rely, as go-
vernments saitorealy have relied. It is from a con-
stituency not with 1,500 or 1,000 population, like
kfidhurst, but with 100,000 population; not with
some 300 testae, as at Buckingham, but with 3,000.
Surely such symptoms Es theme are unmistakeable.
Let the anstitneneiss have the ballot even as they
are, and how may nessabers of the government
would have been returned to
_parliament ? A bold
man at Stamford told Mr. Humus, for one, that
with the ballot he would sever have been chosen.
The people of Stamford whe have groaned and
writhed under their political eMiction let Mr. Ern-
me know plainly that they did not return him, and
that he was not to go to pediment as the eliest of
Asir choice. " I have again presented uryodt he
year choice." said he. Great uproar in the crowd,
and aria of " It's Lord Exam's choice!" "I trust
yes will send me to parliament," shouted the
candidate. " Lord Rama will send pm,*
replied the so-called animate ! " I continue
to hold opinions in asserdanee with those
of the inhabitants of Stashed." " It's not on
opinion, but Lord Earnest; tried the crowd. Such
are the circumstances whisk attend the " triumphant
return "of the government candidates. " inn
about the ballot ?" inquired a Memird elector to-
wards the end of Mr. limas? Mikes

lem against the vote by ballot (responded he). (Great
groans and laughter from the crowd.) I can believe
that a modally of any English constituency will ever sup-
port to truly an on-English a mode of choosing their repre-
sentatives as the dark and sinister ballot. (Great uproar,
and • ay, "If we had the ballot, you would have no
chance hem')

Mr. HERaus knows that very well, and therefore
it is that he opposes the ballot. But we should like
him to have told the Stamford people which he
thought the most " dark and sinister mode of
choosing a representative ; " that system which en-
ables him to arrange in private with a steward or
agent the preliminaries of an election, and to thrust
himself upon a constituency who vote for him from
fear; or the system which would give to that consti-
tuency the opportunity of exercising their suffrage,
free from an apprehension, amounting to an almost
certainty, that if they dared to vote against him their
homes would be broken up, and their cherished
household gods immediately destroyed.
" Extend the suffrage to 61. householders," said
Mr. HERRLES, in continuation, "and I believe I
should not be worse off for such a change." Mr.
Beanies calculates correctly upon the power of
" fear" over the minds of the poor. Whatever
might be the case elsewhere, probably in such
a town as Stamford, an extension of the suffrage
alone would only result in more evil
szeiemion and
to the voter. But extend the with the pro-
tection of the ballot, and where wool Mr. /IEIRIES
and his friends be then ? Let him be sure that even
amongst the small agricultural constituencies —even
in the Midhursta and Buckingham', and Abingdon"
and Stamiorda—there would not be a man " tri-

wmphantly returned" who did not agree to secure to
the nation those two greatest and most inestimable
blessings, peace and plenty—no foreign quarrels, and
no tax on bread.

WESLEYAN Musrowury boam.—The womb
of the Wesleyan Misaboary Soei.ty, preparatory to the an-
nual May sooting, hare been made up, with the ozooptice
of goons balances from provincial roodations. Tb. rocolpes
for the year 1861 will, it la said, woad 190,0001.

MILITARY DESPOTISM ON THE CONTINENT.

Yesterday evening a meeting of the inhabitants of
Lambeth, convened be the seamy of The Friends of Italy",
took place at the British ftintol Room, George-street.
"to consider the three te aspect of foreign powers, end
the position sad duty .1 Wand is the present state of the
continent."_ . . _

Mr. F. HOULTON wee manimemly sailed on to pro-
side. He observed that hitherto doe debt of foreign coun-
tries had excited little interest is linikad, but thank' to
the teaching of Kossuth, Massini, sad other illustrious
exiles, this was the ease no longer. (Cheers.) Some said
it was a matter with which we had little to do. This was
a great mistake. Liberty was one all the world over; and
• blow could not be annul at it in env part without its
being felt elsewhere. (Hear, hear.) In • mere selfish
point of view it was essential that there should be
an enlightened public opinion on foreign affairs.
Who could quietly look on and sec the deeds now
tested in France under the name of liberty ? (Ilea=
It was matter of congratulation that the English press gear
rally hail been faithful in this cause; while certain of Mr
statesmen had degraded themselves on the opening of par-
liament by discountenancing the vigorous protest which the
press had made against deeputisin. (Hear, hue.) This
question was one which would come nearer to us, and when
it did he doubted not the English people would express
themselves plainly on the matter. The l'rinee President of
France, or whatever lee called himself, was looking towards
Belgium; and, if he succ.eiled in his designs there, he
might look somewhat, else, for ho ruled at the pleasure of
the army, and must find something for that army to do.
(Hear, hear.)
Mr. D. MASSON moved—" That this meeting views
with deep concern the triumph of despotic and lawless
power abroad as confirmed by the suppression of French
liberty by Louis Napoleon. That these advances of des-
potism abroad are fraught with danger to the liberties and
the interests of Groat Britain ; that, therefure on grounds
as well of self.defence, as of just regard for Other peoples,
it is incumbent on this country to hare and to maintain a
decided course of foreign policy; and that no set of men are
fit to conduct the government of this country at the present
time who have not, among other Mimes, • bold and liberal
apprehension of Englanil'aplace and duty in Europe." Ile
observed that there prevailed over the continent a system
of despotic and even of lawless rule, or misrule. Both were
bad things, and the former generally was converted into the
latter. tome thought despotic rule, where it was mild
sad according to law, better than a wrangling parliament;
bet those persons should remember that unless speech and
the press were free, there would be no real national
in accordance with the ideas of the people.
Cheers.) if a despot, of the best intentions and the
largest brain in the world, arrested free speech, he de-
stroyed the nation's progress. This kind of government
now prevailed all over the continent. In fluids, every one
knew them was nothing like free speech; the people were
in that condition from which we escaped centunca ago;
they had not yet learnt to demand the right of free speech.
Still there were numbers of the intelligent class who la-
boured under the same disability, and held their lives and
property at the mercy of the t Aar. Going further south,
we found that great nation the Germans, who gave us the
printing press—(cheers)—when, if ever, despotic rule
might to have been hung up in a museum—we found them
too groaning under despotism. in Austria, a mere
sprinkling ot Germans were spread through a variety of
ether great nations ; and there was, in fact, nothing Au*. I
Visa but the Austrian despotism—a mere diplomatic fiction.
(Hear, hear.) Destroy that government and there would
be nothing left of Austria. (Cheers.) Recently this des-
potism had trampled out the liberties of a great and free na-
tion, whi. h would have been a worthy brother to England in
the European family. (Chun.) In Italy, whore people
were the moat intellectual race of Europe, a body of mili-
tary, aided by papal domination, held in thraldom the
whole nation. (Hear, hear.) It had been said in reference
to Italy, that a nation deserved not to be free unless they
desired it. What stronger proof of their desire for liberty
could have been afforded than was given by the inhabitants
of Rome when they barricaded their city, and defended it
for a month against the treacherous French—the picked
soldiers of Europe ? (Cheers.) Looking to the present
state of France, and the recent elections, he would ask
what was the value of universal suffrage without free
speech ? It was a mere name, and nothing more. (Cheers.)
Louis Napoleon was • thorough despot; and what was
more, he was not one ot the clever despots who had gained
the applause of some ; but, judging from his writings, he
was one of the most stupid men that ever tried to be clever. '
(Cheers and laughter.) Not only had he resorted to des- '
tootle rule, but to misrule, imprisoning and banishing
thousands of patriots, and causing his army to sweep
away thousands more. (Hear, hear.) In process of
tine the despotism of the continent would swallow
z othara little states where freedom yet existed; mad then I
would stand alone. Dil any ono ask. Nat had
we to do with such a state of things u that ? winter-
ferenee was very well as a principle ; nut it bad PA Mona.
There were certain things which ought not to be
by other nations to be done ins any part of the . (Hear,
hear.) Suppose the Turkish government should go about
to murder all the Christians in that country; would so
one say that was not a fit subject for interference ? (Cheer.)He maintained that things had Men done in Austria an
other countries which equally demanded interference. (Oh!)
Already the despotism of the continent had come home to
this country ; witness the insolence of diplomatic intercourse
on the part of some powers ;—an in.olenee which would
never have been stood by Pitt, even ; though he was on the
wrong side. (Hew., hear.) The gre it means for checking
despotism was • large and liberal measure of parliamentary
reform. (Cheers.) Whatever government would deal rightly
with respect to the continent ought to put this country in
• state of self-defence, by the organisation of a citiren-force,
independently of the standing army.
Mr. JAMES STANFIELD seconded the resolution,
which was carried.
Mr. SIIAEN moved "That the Society of the Friends of
Italy, absady asistieg, sad, an excellent means for testi-
fying these stralmeats holly and constitutionally, and
especially for emprering empathy with the oppressed
people of Italy,sod *at dbe present meeting is prepared to
support this society fa Id speedier and aims."
Mr. T. W m•Militii Me umelution.
A vote of thanks a Ow linkman doted the proceedings.

LOBS OP LITE Ole THE RAILWAY AT KILBURN.—
Yesterday, Mr. Waltley, M.P., held an inquest at the Bell
Inn Tavern, in the Marrow-read, for the purpose of in-
vestigating ie airsmatences by which three plats-layers,
maned Gomm Gagman, aged 22, Richard Penick, aged
nke
atWMliala BAssistg, aged 36, lust their lives. 'I he
shareed that hassles weeks past, a number of men
have been mood on the London and North-Western line
rs-Lying the !ails. On Friday morning, a gang of firemen,
among wbeneweire the unfortunate deceased, were sent
imem the ins am 41110 yards from the spot where the main
help wine mss/ eel, to prepare the road Tor the work.
For the leatietisa of both the trains and the men
tha 0111111.111111 pissed a policeman, with signals, &c., on the
iias wins- to tap of the rails was going on, and the
iseigaggi a °remit for • similar purpose,as well
se to see theme& was properly executed. The re-laying
ergs nib hiseg the sat important part of the
Me worank,
the most w
espesielly
heat with led. le the safe transit of the Mains,plo
dint et the labourers were emyed,
eempied the whale Otte inear's attention. The opening
psi, where the deesessil we. were not within his, the
else's view, aseesiesstly he s but little chance of
WIN/SiSS them of Amer. The hem= was she along with
the main body of ma. The . spring out " meg appeared
le have no Wise: Sege eat teyipallee to htiheir ;mi-
tes, wither use there say ]ate Mt for them whatever.
The two survivors, Brew mil Babes, imilatmed the
einem, that while at week ea the am they wale petweneed
to keep a look out and
_give the ahem to roe amellier ea a
train coming up. Their explanation of the resident
was, that at about sieves o'clock in the meanie( in
question they were ehinded liip hearing the appeal of a
down train. 'They weft at week helms, the rah es the
up line. limas was the hest me. smut Willman, the
others being Respectively abet* lane yards apart, and, per-
ceiving the SW WSW, he tumid his head to see whether
marthhig wee memehhig en the line they were upon. To
hie agioniameni be saw Me mail train clam upon tbcm,
0010 Its swab" me bass the whistle. He jumped aside,
all disseed three sr Dm lima to the others. Nono of
Ikea mega Swim seemed to beat him. The train
sum im. Ind est lie demist sea hewn almost to pieces.
It emeriti thst eine Mire& dews the line, where the
doomed were enegieged, vie a seal siding and semaphore
sigma The mss who worked it had no special instrue•
=
art See owing to a tune hat. Nat they were at work, though he
he pointed
hie
_sigma gee down to the nails, so as
is Ii
to the driver of the mail train
that die were Wag interfered with in the vicinity. The
itsevend
nos !waver seem to have been anticipated by the
driver, wire. that he must be near tbo spot where
the rubs IMO , had turned off Itiesteam. The
driver Irept • limp est, sad had not pared the signal,
which wee dews sad desetiag that all was clear some
time before he sew theme.. They were in too ekes a
prozimity for the driver I. avert their frightful deaths. It
was clearly shown that die alarm whistle was in operation
all the time. After antes& protracted inquiry the jury re-
turned a verdict of " sesidental death," with a mom
mendation that in seam M prevent the recurrence of any
catastrophe of the MEd the directors of the London and
North-Western Railway Company, or the contractors of
any of the works ape. that line, should station a plasm o:
superintendent over every gang of mem to give them snai-
-1 cleat information of the approach of trains. The coroner
said hs would forward the recommendation to the proper
quarter. The sufferers were all married men, and have
left large families.
TELEGEAPII AT ST. GEORGE'S HOSPITAL—Dr.
Pitman, the zealous physician attached to the hospital,
animas of getting rid of the annoyance. occasioned to the
patients by the noisy transmission of orders through the
clifferent wards (thus the hall-porter was accustomed to ring
a large bell in the ball until it drew all the nines into the
corridors, and then he shouted out the orders he had to
give them), requested the assistance of Mr. John Braith-
waite, the engineer, who visited the hospital, and suggested
the manner in which it should be done. In the ball is a
column 3 feet high, having in its top a dial on which are
engraved a aamberof signals:-on the walls of the different
wards are earrespending dials similarly engraved, but much
larger; and when the pointer to the dial in the hall is
moved to any signal, all the others move In precisely the
same way, and at the some time a little hammer Me en a
small bell, and draws attention to the het that the pointer
W loosed. la this way sleet lily sloes are transmitted
daily is each ward without the possibility of error or the
least noise. The eat In the first instance, we Sr. told, was
very trMing, and that of maintenance is really nothing.
The same arrangement might be made useful in dwelling-
booms he ordinary domestic am.--The Builder.