The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-30 00:00:00

GREENWICH ELECTION.-OFFICIAL DE

CLARATION OF THE POLL.

At 11 o'clock on Saturday the returning officer
declared the following to be the official state of the gall:
For Mr. Alderman Salomon!
For Mr. Alderman Wire 1,278

Majority for Salomons BB7
He had, therefore, to declare that Mr. Alderman David
Salomons had been duly elected as member of parliament
for the borough of Greenwich.
The announcement was received with loud cheers.

Hr. Alderman SALOMONS then came forward, and
mid that he had hardly voice enough left to address
the electors, but that, even if he had the voice,
his heart was tan full to be able to give expression to
his grateful feelings. He thanked them most sincerely for
having elected him as one of the members for the borough.
In taking his leave of them, and in again thanking them
for the honour conferred upon him, he begged once more
to repeat that it was his intention on an early day to go to
the House of Commons as their representative. He felt,
however, that, owing to his exhau,ted state, the electors
would not grudge him two or three days to recruit himself
before be entered on a renewed struggle. (Hear, hear.)
He begged, therefore, to state to them that it was his in-
tention on some day in the course of the ensuingt week—
some day which might be convenient to her Majesty's go-
vernment, so that any discussion of his case might not too
much interfere with the discussion of public measures—to

go down to the house for the purpose of claiming that seat
to which he was entitled as their representative. (Loud
applause.)
Mr. Alderman WIRE then came forward and said that
as it was not the part of an Englishman, though he might
be defeated, to run away, he was these that day to thank
them moot heartily for the honour done him in recording so
many votes in his favour. With reference to the cir-
cumstances of the contest, and the mode in which it had
been conducted, he could only say that he had set out from
the beginning with the motto which he had acted upon up
to the present hour, and to which he should adhere—
namely, "punty and principle." (Cheers.) As he desired
to go into the House of Commons free and unfettered, so
he desired to go in pore and without reproach. He would
not buy • vote, as he did not intend to sell the
people. (Greens, hisses, and cries of " Shame.") He had
fought the battle upon principle. In the course of the con-
test be had abstained from using the means which had been
resorted to by hisioponeuta ; and he was confident that he
had pursued the t coarse. No votes had been purchased
by ham—no public- uses had been opened—no bands had
been hired. (Renewed groans and Mazes.) Though
beaten he was not conquered. (Laughter.) In conclusion,
he again begged to thank all three electors who had given
him their firm, lasperchased, and unpurthaseahle votes.
(Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to Mr. Morris, the returning-oilier,
closed the proceediags.

BALLS AT THE GUILDHALL ATTER THE VISIT
Or Tull QVIIIIN.—The Committee of City Lands, to whom
it was referred by the Court of Common Council to deter-
mine as to the appropriation of the Guildhall for the pow
pose of an entertainment for the benefit of the weedesiseis
and dispensaries of the City of London, have ossified Mile
memorial of the treasurers and others intended k these
1 proceedings, and have fixed Wednesday, the Mk of hly.
fur the occasion, that being the earliest day that amid be
granted alter the visit of her Majesty, to whom tbs lona
ben consider it will be most gratifying that the aserdlieent
preparations for her reception should be rendered enclosable
to the awe of these excellent charities. It is stated that
the City Lands Committee, to whom the application of
Lord James Stuart and the treasurers of the Scottish Hos-
pital and the Caledonian Asylum for the use of the
Guildhall after the visit of the Queen, was referred, have
given a favourable answer to the memorialists.
ROYAL COLLEGE or SORSISONS.—The following
gentlemen having undergone the necessary examinations,
were admitted members of the college on the 27th inst.:—
Henn. George Whitley, Durham; Edmund Chapman,
Tooting; Charles Joseph White, Portsmouth; Charles
Thomas Pearce, Northampton; John Williams, Pontypool;
Jacob Wilkins, H.E.1.C.5.; David Thomas Morris, Car-
marthen ; Robert Bohun Kidd, Norwich ; William George
Baeot, St. John's-wood; Thomas Russell Johnson, fork;
and John Pearson Nash, Calcutta.
DEPARTURE OP THE CANADA.-011 Saturday, at
noes, the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Canada, Captain Stone, left the Mersey, for Boston
and Halifax, with the usual mails for the United States
and British America, upwards of fifty passengers, and a
full general rho. The weather was remarkably fine,
and it is she will make a rapid outward run.
Two LIVES LOST orr THE RIVEJ..—Lest agslLt a
isr party of five an were rowing. a small wbafft IS
river, end we Blackfriars Bridge they ma aie nose
of the boat wader the bows of a steamer, putting
in at the pier. The muller boot sepaind, and
the aye kilikkele were iissesesed. Mr. 'Wks, the pier
merter, feekedieitelp apatite' a make of hie won es
reader mitlease, end °what to than medium the while
are were paid eat of the thin', and Meng hem kaki
on the pier, key tan off leaving the boat they had peen la
drifting shoot at the pier. The suit:meat had body sub-
sided whoa two Faiths, mated esepestimig BeaMey and
Davies, whe hod area wham/lag the seeks of the aye
moms above alkikd to, dipped of the edge eke sewer
leading from the Fleet ditch, sal were helped by die cur-
rent into the Thames. Nem" sad sauthy other piermen
were despatched to the spot, and would no doubt have suc-
ceeded in saving the two kihrtsiate persons, but just as
they were abopt to lay hold of the heir of their head the
steamboat Citizen It came up sad waked both out of the
rota of the men. The drags were immediately procured,
and the river was dragged for nearly two hours, but with-
out offset.