The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-30 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1849.

is perpetuity se a And addition to that item in the amounts
width
apurports to mimosa* the valve of the property of the
mosp.
Whoay the works sent profits, a potties of those profits
alltuld be periediselly appreesiated by way of TIMM, for
the purpose of endersiehise pubsally the usenet of is
urea while had hem elleard to the eon of ceestructies.
On look* kis the bets emeectod with the loss by inte-
rest, es reserded in the enemata of the Easters Coustiss
Istidgewei CiF t.
the
y, we tad :the total seemat of ieterest
to sposesa daring bur years waded 411
Jemmy,' ,to be L 184,617 14 10
• Wont has been foniked to mot the
amount expanded sad outlying, from date
to tine, during the like psiisiof fouled"
emmat of Ulm .rees of cumin's-
nal j a seleelation art on this ream
shows that the Utmost ea that oaday
matuats to the sae of
99,926 8 3
And Out lateral has therefore bun
Plumed to capital that should have been ----
chimed to »muse to the mount of .£84,691 6 7

=1 of course, to Tedusties by them items of Waist
in the books to revenue, bat whisk have already
ham treated by me se improperly pleesd to the ere& of that
laMPast.
WitAl AND Taal. Oa DaPalatklioN.
044 t • awaserry Miami, of tulle Wag the dem-
i dales it On emoillgosic emi pormseruswes ef the line,
die =shy homed beetled them the
se disk original
wbither by tams or Upair or the =wham d sew
stook sad h of the emu= of Indies mews,
mad is theme= messety obeassalie oath= that revease,
la the peethollso- souk dspeesiedes is mused.
tat whether the wide of meth outlay ahaald iavariably be
Popt= the num. of the period in which It nap-
e gmetien el preedcal =day whisk meat be date:-
abed hem time to dine, essesibs to do:moues.; reasons
fey sumelmes add to =mu the =tees= of some pert
duke sudsy ever a larger epee of time than the particular
Wialie which it ally emurred, bat mask • Wane
ore take it to be rather ezerptissal than habitual.
approaching to ea adequate provides by been
eye to neat the heavy exposes ammmtly pies en .mdse
de bend, either to the form of • reserve oat of maim, or by
Mum of direst charges to the debit of revease et the soma
mid he
lad a verys= ssoak ; se tar, imbed, is distress being the esse,
See wo large peeped= et= empues Ile mein
=is sod serriases is charged amid eoestrasise, se
each espeaditure had the auk of iseressins the
him of the send., sto-k of the ertaparay beyead We ori-
ginal au Previously to 6th Jan., 1846, the importance d
Making such provides apposes to have bees remedied by
the Ibis dime= of the output , as we I= st that date 1
the unsiens el • had far =idol la the shape
of • nary. est of probe to the ear* of 6,3461.1 a. 6d.
hullos has bees sheadhipelated mat, this wee diverted from
be Wilma purpose being divided along with the
ming at el the, -year ter 4th July, 1646 ; sines then
NOW has been dose towards the eaktbibkrr eat of • dem-
&dos find.
The plow mesegasam d this assiest is, that the whole
• 00 dlehomes between the seat a= the enema value of
I dr willisi assik of the warm Ins am to be savided far,
tidier est of fame peel= fir by memo of capital ; bed du
perdisa beta *ask hlade, sash Mrs= weed =uses.
to the debit of mum periedeally, as part of the ordinary
=eking /spume of the line, sod the stock would sow have
stood in the amouide ef the company at aa amoent uproots-
wive of heypet wihs.
As 4,40 MusPeNee of the cornetnese of these views,
we my maim that masted la the memos meek of die
are Isimasige Infibie, whisk am Met
szietesioal
ses
mrdeiti repair ; she auleses of varies'
ithith is, Obeli worthier, swept as di siaturiels; yet
drm eoghees stead to the ems= of asoolnelles at their
obis' east of =wank of 40,01131., sod the esideses at up
week el 12,0004 And the hue mules of pormsoset vres be-
times Load's sal thread has. jest bees 'skid M a met,
oder 'redid= th
wise."ho of al malberide, of upwards of
110111 i
ed& set be doesed to constroodee,
to that aosimut already slue abused with the
;SMet of the her mass of way whisk have boss
rto adds the two-fold object of carready Ratting
the resale by way of moat sad lose the past trade, a=
the establbhmest of correct dem on which to found the
future regulation of the amounts of the company, we feel
justified is expressing our *aka that two this's are
neesmary to be done:
and esiestllle 'Walden of the present
werklag stook of the eseepomy, sod—
Becoody,—ltesk a survey et the sendition of the perms-
seat way es shall drAinia• Augment yet to be abused to
rousse, as the met if amiss swat of dogem to
tite_poseat date.
romidering that eallitst data me set bare
es te enable to ft awe with sae apmeask to pushiest the
serpent of depeadadea ; &MS a sisal= illisalty
ie
rupee tithe eppetieummt tilattrest between ospital and
num., we lave hams to rodeo to lErs•tkaJelnides
to be =de minder them two beads, de.—Wear a= Ism sod
intmest ; but hem what hes bamid ola bedisebel, 1$ is apparent
that a very hese ISM be hr durum
We baffle gespared • statsusat (Appsodis 0 .sating forth
ht • ukase hew the ceimpredve readle el
odds dries emit of thePallyesse,
1849, es sit kids is the pubithell mune osemists; a= es
the use would appear as us ailateeent of
elisited by our invailptiim, after gooddlog hirelideigerdistmed
cm abeam= a= gurentsoil is
; thisdatsmeal also
show, dr menu memo =doll daliesleslig...Ler,l
sod the eemsee aueese easel& sod souk es
thmete, sod the este et iletisoi
tilt whldi would berie amend lei ad the woes we tau
✓epostei on been made la the mermats.
The. t
isto ef theft= embred. >tela ef Masai that would have
11eltgeor nth= towered.
46 Alb 1011... /a pm =se. fa. N. per sure.
M ha., dd.. Ils. .......—.. L. „
aity. ISM... to. „ to. ad. „
Mao, 1547 —tea. „ ............ le. lei. „
411t1eiy, 1e47-111. „ ....—......Js led. „
46 ha, 18411.. is. o m. sd.
fr
46 hay, 18411... la. "
4lb Jos, dd... is. M. wpm& ed.
holm implosel Kean MIL Imbel basimpbo,l4,447l.lls.ld.
Thle eletentot le of come to be Wien seem to the con.
that the rats of diddead. wanentable by the real
talleilik: the teal* would weer eseeiderably lower had
des ryas been awls he wear mod tear, sad 'Merest;
fee the mem stated, tbe farther ler rider those beads is
act Weds' la the shoe eakedadom
The loustigatimeaferitel aseenals is being proceeded
with ; whet term appears, we think it right to
pats.tbot • verrjAut amount of the expenditure
whisk has bete to mi = an
e will be feud to be of
chola= elerseter, is, net aides to the positive value
of the prepaq, although, perhaps, =avoidably Moaned in
order tie the daises of the intense of the ateammy, sad
with a vleArt=taltie estendin of its opsesdas ; we
anode le wpm= thained is SWAM er
is usimemedal opeleadure to m othediae. Ihr
were net obtaised, a= she ia semi= el lines
*W•
hisk bat width were Augustly shohdolode Imo es
W ramie of Mad sad other property, sad preportiss of
guard expseses.
Uwfil pset • jute reviakm of the asesunts being anted, it
ma= he the serious sessidersden sod decision eft=
ismeheifees—how the evil adios from the multipilolmeatal
With have boss iatrodaui lute the espital account Ia te be
remedied
Ws Minks it right, in justice to the edam and clerks of
the eimpsay, to state, that they have in all respects rendered
us sway fedlity to amble us to carry out your hunted=
to make • thorough ineestigation of the accounts of the
Nappy.
We remain, mulemen, your most obedient servants,
dowria, Barn., JAr, arra Carom&

Aimee Mabel his oat, bat he was subjected to
sasese were contest at the election in 1820. The
ismahms then were:
• For Mr. J. B. Monck 4lB
lir. C. F. Palmer we
Major Weybrad BBB
Major Weylead in the next parliament obtained a
seat for Weymouth; and subsequently, from 1830 to
1837, represented Oxfordshire. Close and costly us
was the minted of 1820, that of 1828 was even
still more severe and expensive. It is the only
seated on record in which a stranger defeated a local
essffidate on the Reading polL Ths candidates
11410 Mr. Mooch and Mr. Palmer on the liberal side;
sal Mr. Spence, the Chancery barrister, and Mr. M-
used Gibbon Wakefield, on the conservative. The
poll was as follows:
Foe Moe*
Farmr 488
Wakefield
Mr. Spence was thus elected by four votes. He
did not, however, retain his post. A parliamentary
asormittee unseated him for bribery and corruption,
and Mr. Palmer was declared the representative. To
both these gentlemen this contest was ruinously ex-
pensive. Mr. Spence never ventured to Reading again.
He eat, however, for Ripon, in the short parluuneate
of 1830 and 1831.
In 1830 the conservative party brought forward a
lead man, Mr. Charles Ros ell, a younger brother of
the present Sir Henry Rowell, of Swallowfie Id-place,
wines father filled the office of Chief Justice of the
=ll:iCourt in Bengal, and whose mother was a
cas i the last Earl of Whitworth. There was likely
on this oonesion to be a fierce contest between Mr.
Rased and the friends of Mr. Palmer, but only a
very short time before the day of nomination Mr.
Monek, whose popularity at Reading would have se-
cured his sae, soddenly expressed his intention of re-
signing, and simultaneously therewith appeared a
handbill from Dr. Lasbington, offering him as a can-
didate for the representation of the town. The state of
affairs, in consequence of this unexpected change, was
completely altered. Mr. Palmer, being able to secure
much of the @upped previously given to Mr. Monek,
I was made safe, and the contest was now between the
local candidate and the stranger, supported, however,
by the weight of Mr. Monk's powerful recommends;
don. The poll was kept open, on this occasion, for
several days, and the characteristics of the election
were little better than those of the contest of 1828,
when the worst practices extensively prevailed. De-
spite the Reform excitement of 1830 the local candi-
date carried the day against the stranger, the numbers
being:
For Palmer 622471
Rummell
Lushington 462
To the parliaments of 1831 and 1832 Messrs. Palmer
and Russell were returned without opposition, parties
being in truth tired of these fierce and frightfully ex-
pensive contests, and, on the last occasion, beiNr sufil-
sisetl7 occupied by the struggle which was genii for-
, ward in the county of Berks, andof which Hr. Walter
was the hero.
Thiabrief narrative has brought us to the Teasing of
the Reform Bill. As before remarked, no new element
was introduced by that measure into the repttuntation
Reading. The boundary fixed by the commissioners
was the boundary of the old borough ; sad the Iran-
shies being reserved to the soot and lot voters, the
I constituency remained nearly as before. It was not
until the parliament of 1833 that there was destined
to be a change in the representation of this town, and
it then occurred in a singular way.
The liberal party in Reading being dissatisfied with
the sort of tacit compromise under which one mem-
ber of each political section had been returned in the
two preceding parliaments were anxious to contest
the town against the tory representative. There
was, however, a difficulty and a delicacy about
this, arising out of Mr. Frche Palmer's
personal
position. This gentlemen had been in earlyith
friend of the Prince Regent, and one of the ornaments
of the gayest society of London. To have looked at
ma at this period you would scares have thought it.
Those whose whose memories serve them as to the
parlisessatery minutia of some twelve years sines
will bulges. recollect the tall gaunt figure of this
yeasealle looking g'oetlemen, his legs clad in curious
lama gaiters, and his head encumbered with a hat of
gee aleph/shape as to look like a cocked hat rounded
AM the points and flattened at the crows. The expsa
she early life of this gentleman, sad due severe MP
tests forMeading, had tended greatly to diminish Ids
resources. There had been on previous tueashme
contributions to defray the expenses of the liberal emu'
in Reading, end it was well understood at this ems
that Mr. Palmer was not in a position to eriesimese
another fi
tlyou costly contests, which he had 1111
so gallanbefore. The liberals, therefore, ass a
delicate card to play. There were several gandmsee
anxious to stand, but the position of Mr. Muir, Its
old association with them, his steadfast adheresta to
the cause of reform, and his personal
were all to be considered and respected. 717111:1
the difficulties of the occasion were greatly modified
by the appearance in the field of one of those gen-
tlemen who often rush in where others fear to tread,
and bring matters to an issue whilst themselves un-
conscious of the effects of their proceedings. The can-
didate who thus came into the field was &Mr. Oliveira,
a highly respectable Portuguese merchant in London,
who appears to have been induced to canvass Read-
ing by some election agent, without himself knowing
anesprota of the place or the people. The party who
his cause were the more extreme liberals
in the town, who advised Mr. Oliver; that he
most appear there as a thorough-going mdicaL
T
gave out et the same time that he was richlZ
prepared to spend any amount of money to secure the
sat; and this declaration, and the bold front whisk I
his party assumed, gave token of so exve a ow
test, that it became a serious consideration with Mr.
Palmer's supporters bow far they could go on. A
section of them, the younger and more ardent poli-
ticians amour whom were those the hest peronsllanii
attached to Mr. Palmer, at length expo
an opinion that it was desirable that that gentleman
should give way. Mr. Palmer reluctantly seceded. Jut
in giving this advice the party who offered it bed se
intention of throwing their influence into the anis
of Mr. Oliveira. They had another candidate is
view, a man certainly calculated to do them credit—
Mr. Serjeset Talfourd, a native of the town, who had
risen to the highest legal and literary eminence by
his owq abilities, without the assistance of birth or
fortune.
The merit of selecting Mr. Serjeant Talfourd as a
candidate for the representation of his native place is
due chiefly to a solicitor in Reading, who had
always been his steady personal and public friend.
It would be highly mo&table to Beading, could it I
be
_jingly said that the town returned Serjeant
Talbert' simply from a sense of the honour he
sadists upon it. But although there may have
less some feeling in favour of Serjeant Talfourd
as a townsman, it can scarcely be said that his
gentians have been secured from the -prevalence of
h a matiment. The three candidates in the field
leleaf were Mr. Russell, the old tory member ;
Berjeant Talfourd on the whig interest ; and Mr.
Oliveira u a radical reformer. Mr. Russell's friends
were more closely allied to Beckett Talfourd's than
%what was called a the low party.", There was eon-
:seraa sort of understanding that the radical was
out; and in reality the election was carried
fa &ear et Berjeant Telfoerd and Mr. Russell, by a
esmilwatlea el conservatives and whige. The num-
bers fat 1836 were:
For Taloned ,
Rosa 441
denim 384
_

To the last candidate alone was this &t/ins an ex-
pensive one. Hie friends had launched him into
great extravagandes, and altogether he is supposed
to have spent 3,0001. in agency, treating, banners,
music, and nob like charges. Mr. Russell spent
about 1,6001. fferjeant Telfourd came in without
any considerable outlay, his whole expenditure pro-
bably not exceeding 5001. or 8001.
When the friends of Mr. Pysehe Palmer had time
to reflect, and began to look beck upon the eircum-
stanoes of this election, it occurred to them that their
old member had been somewhat unwomanly thrown
aside, and that if he had been started his return might
have been Neared perhaps u cheaply u that of
fkujeant TaMud. The annoyance whith they telt at
the Idea of having been "jockeyed" was considerable,
and they at once determined mite Qui omits that Mr.
Palmer should stead again on any future vacancy.
When the election came in 1837 that gentleman was
consequently brought forward. A very close contest
threatened. At first the candidates stood alone, but
it soon became evident that neither of the liberals
I could do without the help of the other, and therefore,