The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-17 00:00:00

THE CONTEST IN WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.

•
Stn,—Aa every opinion expressed in your influen-
tial paper must carry considerable weight with it, I venture
to address this letter to you in consequence of a wrong im-
pression which you, in common with other public journals,
have imbibed relative to the late election in West Gloucester-
shire. Hitherto there has been but one side of the question
made public it is fair to hear both before condemning the
defeated party. A lung account has just appeared of a dinner
given to Mr. Grantley Berkeley in celebration of the late
victory obtained by that gentleman at the last election, and
it is in reference to that victory that I now venture to address
you, an all Mr. Grantley Berkeley's friends have used their
heat endeavours to make it appear that be was supported by
the liberal party in West Gloucestershire, and that the
liberal. generally were satisfied with him for their repre-
sentative.

Nothing can be mare erroneous than this idea. Nine-
tenths, at least, of the liberal party in Wert Gloucestershire
voted against Mr. Grantley Berkeley, and in favour of Mr
Grenville Berkeley, as an analysis of the poll, which 1 here
give, will clearly prove, and Mr. Grantley Berkeley owes his
seat to the second votes of the conservatives, and to them
alone. Hale (conservative) polled 1,288 plumper.; Grantley
Berkeley, 281 do.; Grenville Berkeley, 1,548 do. • Hale
(conservative) and Orantley Berkeley polled 2,4012 split
votes; Hale and Grenville Berkeley, 531 do.; Grantley and
Grenville Berkeley, 33 do.
The above analysis clearly demonstrates the real feelings of
the liberals. Nearly all the tenantry of tory land lords,ve th the
exception of those of the Duke of Beaufort and Mr. Richard
Foley Onslowe, gave their second votes to Mr. Grantley
Berkeley, and the tenants of the above exceptions remained
neuter, polling plumper. for Mr. Hale. Ihe liberals had
three causes of dissatisfaction with Mr. Grantley Berkeley :
}lnt. His non-attendance to his parliamentary duties, an
the published list of divisions in the House of Commons
since DHI will testily. Secondly. His not voting in favour
of free trade. Thirdly. Hii advocacy of the present game
laws, both as declared in his published pamphlets, and in
the evidence be gave before a committee of the House of
Commons.

It was only after Mr. Grenville Berkeley had published
his address,
in which he declared himself the advocate of
free trade to its utmost extent, the friend of civil and reli-
gious liberty, the opponent of church rates, and the enemy
of the gsme-laws in their present form, and many other
subjects, on all of which he proved himself to be a thorough
liberal, that Mr. Grantley Berkeley discovered that he also
was the " friend of the people."
The only ground of complaint against Mr. Grenville
Berkeley has been that he hod the support of Earl Fnr-
hardinge. Could it be supposed that when that noble lord had
a personal difference with his brother, and when that brother
made the moat foul, calumnious, and false charges in the
public papers against Lord Fitzhardinge, that he should con-
tinue to give him his support, particularly whea a more
liberal candidate came forward?

Hu the political conduct of Earl Fitzhardinge ever elicited
a single murmur of disapprobation from the liberals in West
Gloucestershire? Never! On the contrary, he has ever
been considered as the whig leader in the county, and has
always proved, by his votes in the House of Lord., and by
his purse, in furthering the liberal interest in Gloucester-
shire, his claim to that proud position.
Before any misunderstanding was known to exist between
the two brothers, several of the influential of the liberal
electors had met together, and declared their determination
never to support Mr. Grantley Berkeley again. When the
quarrel was known to exist, it surely was but natural that
the whig party should endeavour to avoid a split; and, as
Mr. Grenville Berkeley's qualification. for being their repre-
sentative were unexceptionable, both as regarded his political
opinions and his private character, they conceived that by
supporting him they would be serving the best interests of
the party.
The tone* were likewise aware of this. They knew that
in Mr. Grantley Berkeley they bad merely a self styled
liberal who cared little etther for polities or party. They
were aware that in Mr. Grenville Berkeley they would have
a most decided opponent, a mm whose greatest pleasure it
would be to record his vote against restriction and monopoly,
and they therefore decided on supporting indirectly the man
who, though be might bark on the hustings, would never
bite in the House of Commons, while at the same time they
knew they were inflicting a wound on the liberal party by
defeating Mr. Grenville Berkeley, who, to use the words of
Earl Dude (no sham reformer), in a letter to an elector,
" was a better liberal than he ever expected to see represent
West Gloucestershire." A WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE
LIBERAL AND ELLE-TOL—Gloucester, Sept. 15, 1847.

THE GOVERNMENT AIDS TO EDUCATION.
The Association of Parochial Schoolmasters in and

near Birmingham having sent a memorial to the Board of
Privy Council on Education, requesting information, and
suggesting a gradual adoption of the system of examination
in favour of existing masters who had not been trained in
any normal school, the following reply, embodying impor-
tant information, was returned :

•
Committee of C.ounell on Menthes, Ommilogloh Whitehall,
Aug. 16, 1847.—Rev. have the IssmosseW eskameledge the re-
ceipt if letter to lord Moepeth, rwl as of aisompanying
from the amonation d tla Inmalfd leMoleaseters of
Illtalegisea, and to request that pa wal nod the Moan
with
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0. 8. Bull, Birmingham

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 16.
Lord Suir' dale, heir to the Earl of Donoughmore, has
more than realised the example of the Marquis of
Waterford. The latter noble lord promised a few
days since that he would pay from his own pocket the
entire rate both for the government advances and for
pauper relief nader the poor-law. Lord Suirdale has
paid the government advance for the electoral divi-
sions included in his property in the union of
Clogheen. A certificate to that effect was made by
the government inspector at the last meeting of the
union at which Lord Lismore presided. At the same
meeting at which this most admirable and judicious
act was reported the guardiake, I regret to add, poet-

ed for three weeks the signing of the rate-books
for 0179heen division, although the anion is consider-
ably over- 5.0001. in debt. It were to be wished that
more peers gentlemen imitated Lord Suirdale,
and fewer unions
the example of Clogheen.
The Southern Rep.srger speaks of "several failures"
in the grocery trade iL that city. They would seem
to be caused by over speeclatioti in the first place,
and the difficulty of realising' debts in the next place.
Some of these parties, it appear", Purelthaed largely
in sugars at the commencement of the year, when
permission was given for the use of sugar in dis-
tilleries. Subsequently prices have fallen, and the
retail traders in country towns cannot ineet their lia-
bilities. The Cork paper does not fewnieh any
names, but states that one large wholesale grocery
house had got three months extension of time from
its creditors, as the books showed abundane: of
assets. Others were not so fortunate.
Fever, I regret to state, is spreading so rapidly in
the South Dublin union, that additional accommoda-
tion was yesterday agremi to be provided by the
guardians, in consequence of the representations of
several clergymen. Sheds capable of accommodating
800 Ain be erected, 200 beds to be ready within a
week.

NEW LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—In the last Gazette there are
proclamations ordenng lunatic asylums to be erected. I.
Near Mu'lingar, to contain 300 lunatic pour, and to be called
the Mullingar District Lunatic Asylum. 2. Near Dublin,
in addition to the existing Richmond Lunatic Asylum, to
contain 300 lunatic poor. 3. Near Omagh, to contain 300
lunatic poor, and to be called the Omagh District Lunatic
Asylum. The signature of the Right Hon. F. Shitw appears
amongst the names of privy councillors attached to the pro-
clamation,. _ .

THE BANE or IRELAND.—IS is not generally known
that the laws respecting "unclaimed dividends" are essen-
tially different in Ireland from those in force in England.
There the Bank is obliged to publish lieu at stated times,
and, we believe, after the lapse of a certain period, if
the dividends be still unclaimed, they pass into
the national treasury. Here, no publication is required,
nor has there been any since the incorporation of
the Bank of Ireland in 1783, from which period
to the present unclaimed dividends have been accu-
mulating in her coffers, and of course made available
when required. The system will aeon be altered, as a bill is
in preparation for assimilating the laws and custom here
with those in England. The first effect of this measure will
be to place at the disposal of the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer a large sum of Irish money. Suppose this were at once
passed to the credit of the famine loan, it would make a
serious reduction in that claim, and be an operatics against
which even the London ministerial journals could not demur.
The holders of Dank stock will have no occasion to rejoice at
this intelligence, but the worst may as well be known in
good time.
MURDER'S—We have accounts to-day of two shocking
murders. The one that of a man named Kiely, near the
borders of Tipperary and Limerick; the other that of a per-
son named Hogan, at Erris, in the county of Mayo. Kiely
was shot while driving a ear laden with copper ore from the
mines at Hollyford to Limerick. The ball struck him in the
back, and having fallen his skull was fractured by blows. In
the other case the &ceased quarrelled with his father, a
smith, The latter angrily rushed after him from the forge,
flung a tongs at him, which knocked him down, and the
maddened father struck the unhappy son with a hammer on
the head. He never spoke. Three men, named Cody, have
been arrested for the murder of a person named Madden,
near Clonmel, about two months since.
Mr. °Span, jun., who was shot by his father in the head
some weeks since, is now out-of danger, and the young gen-
tleman has addressed a letter to the newspapers denying that
there ever was the slightest grounds for the accusation
made against him as regards his step-mother. Ha says that
on the night in question he retired to bed early, suffering
from toothache and swelled face, that his mother-in-law
hearing his groans as she passed his room entered it to ask
him it he would wish or suggest anything to assuage the
pain, and that his father, with whom he had been on bad
terms for some time, rushed in;to the room violently accusing
both, on which the lady retired, and Mr. O'Ryan, sen.,
locked his son's door, taking the key with him. The latter
called to him for the key—their bed-rooms adjoining each
other—and was answered by a pistol-shot. The young gen-
tleman asks publicity for this statement, as a contrary one
was published by his father, but deprecates further discus-
sion until the trial. The lady has been married nine years,
and has had two children by her husband.