The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-09 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS-, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1849.

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Kr. D. call briefly weeded the reeetattes, which
wet larded with essimsatiaa.

1L for sash sesessfliai day after up to that VIM
whisk he polls.
The greatest extol! to which this wee ever ear-
tied was ia 1841. Wise the ordinary voters named
121.100. " ptty lemmay " hr seek aide, seder dream-
OW" of whir Ws ill have to speak hareefter. A
more ilagitiome shills. no town has ever witnessed.
It cams to emit a pitch that at last abso-
lutely not lees than fir-eighths at least of the
satire eholients yam pay. It is said in the
town that aime.bnithe of the body were as that
closed= awdly or indirectly bribed : bat probably
that is a little Owe the mark. Bat whatever may
have best the mast proportion, it is admitted that the
Weir his begionleg to end was most flagitious.
Arai wbat is antlems is that not a mingle vote was
termed lip It. he es oath lido paid exactly the same no
ems lbw. it to be any object to beat lieu colours "
u *Wpm," fortunately for the word, they do not at
Beverley describe themselves as posermang.
Seth are the Beverley electors. Now as to their
=haves.
the time of Charles L to that of George IL
the mressatation of Beverley was for the most part
v•W is two families—the Holmes and the War-
tons. Sir Maud Warton, the repressatalive of the
last-named family, lived in the town, and possessed a
of its property He sat fir it with
Zrt Zott=to% frees 1688 'to 1722, and died its
mantic set benefactor. His property, after-
wards known as " the bar interest," descended
to the Pelhates, now Bugs of Yarborough,
who either personally or by representatives
gave members to the town until 1802. In that year
their nominee was defeated after a very wetly con-
test, and the Pelham immediately disposed of their
Beverley estate.
In 1812, as many people will be old enough to recol-
lect, a great posh was made by the East India inte-
rest to obtain meats in the legislature. An Bost India
, (now Sir Charles) Forbes, muse down to
tr:llvPilleer It was clear front the first that be owns
quite determined to seemed, regardless of all cost.
The franchise was in the freemen resident and non-
resident, and in the inhabitants paying scot and lot.
Many of the non-resident freemen had to be brought,
at great expense, from very distant parts of England,
and when they came they required "compensation for
their time," on a very liberal wale, Wore they went
op to vote; and the usual fee, namely, 31. for a
plumper, and 11. for a single vote, immediately after
polling. All these charges Sir Charles Forbes met
munificently, together with the sums required for the
open house expenses, which were not trifling. But,
in addition to these, the worthy nabob entered upon
an expenditure of another description, and of
an equally costly character. Not content with
the usual processions of Bags and mimic, he insisted
upon the country all round being moored for horses,
upon which his Mends were mounted to make op an
imposing cava:cade. H. got up a species of enter-
tainment for the people, in the shape of torch-light
processions; and it is recorded of him that, not satis-
fied with the ordinary pitch or pine-wood torch, he
used only we flambeau., demoted with ribbons and
ornaments emblematic of the esemaion. Up to a coin-
pradvely resent period some of these torahs' might
have been ma is the possession of old people at
Beverley, who bad preserved them as memorials of
this remarkable election. The expenses of this elec-
tion are believed to have amounted to 30,0001. ;
Sir Charles did sot sit for the borough a second time.
He has not, however, been forgotten there ; nor, as
we shall hereafter me, has he lest all recollection of
his " old friends at Beverley."
In 1826 there was an election for Beverley of a
different character. A Mr. John Wharton had
at for the town from 1802 until the dissolution
that year. Ha was therepresentative of
a Yorkshire family, and, like his namesakes
(who were, however, no relatives), he had been a great
benefactor to the boeough, and had spent the greater
part of his fortune on its elections. In 1826 he came
for the eighth time. It was understood to be peen-
lierly important to him to be elected. Bat he had
no fonds. He threw himself upon the generosity of
the electors, candidly telling them that he could not
now afford the customary election pay. Such an
appeal from so old a friend might have moved the
hearts even of opponents. But a Beverley voter
knows only his duty to himself. Mr. Wharton was
thrown out, and he died, it is maid, in a debtors'
prison.
The reform act made no change for the better in
the representative system of Beverley. Mr. Lang-
dale, more recently member for Pontefract, and
Mr. 'Borten, a gentleman residing near Beverley, were
the two members first returned by the new constitu-
ency. Mr. Langdale, on the dissolution of 1834,
&dined to stand again. Here are the reasons he
Resigned for doing so, extracted from his farewell
address :

I owe it is jmtM. tom yedf, and in candour to my consti-
tuents, to avow that I cossidor reform as a means of
securing the of
of the representative, it also in-
eluded purity of on the part of the constituency. I
- Shot my osporimetst iw As Asts Modica Betorlsy
an_rpaw• whist. 'Moist it Mose M undermine the
mw, proem beg to. suroly Met in ardor to maws swoons, it
is mosssory to enema% upon the other tinder thus Mr-
' (madame's, to width Ima waver willingly he • piny, it
now IMMO@ Sy Odd duty to bid you krona
Mr. Barton the sem amber, eat a "ornament
lawn than Mr. Lansdale. H. then retired on the
same grounds. Here is an extract from his Ammon
address:

Thiiii=amereeerrinee al elections, :birder with w
ere
rapen on the ware congest* thin I hove already
enfipat in, ie the sole ones or my not mein awing
west( se a =adieus.
The piss of these gentlemen was, however, sap-
plied by one who, in " importance " may be considered
equal to them both together. In 1835 there came
down to the borough Mr., now Bir, James Weir Ham
He was very anxious to get into parliament. and
money was not the main object, though be did net
want to spend it if it could be helped. Even Mr.
however, seems to have bean at that time a
little daunted at the requirements of Beverley. He
went away once or twit* to inspect other places, but
finding none that offered so sore a prospect, if he
would pay, he at lad came beck and settled to stand
for Beverley. He breeght the followisg letter of intro-
duction from Sir Merles Forbes, whisk appeared very
expreleive and indicative, and was consequently rap-
turously received by the electorate:

FITZIOT44IIAIII, Dee. 15, 11134.-14 Mat lik-14.
Hen Unjust left se, after (Wag es latanaift ..teat of
lib-visit to Dewlay. Non I ameider l.f. 6 pcwaseks
of di* fled i tad Ibaps be vfillprat eawerd to the mew
plielwitat of hie *VW, of tibia I ma tee art doubt et we-
ens. Were las yam tad able es maw yam age, I shout
be py to take ana dews with bin to me say worthy
fttaa&at . Tea will Mad Mr. Haig • mailitlete
fa vary owe. wad% elmia o
engem I sod I shell
molder Devaney • ememletive.
I muds, &a., 0. ramixt.—P.isteatMa
to weathy old hind sad able ally, Dc.7rdeaM
Naas Om mirrt.st•s rowans to coma at
ht q sere to seek of oar Toot Meads es ate elite, or to
*sit hoilka—C. W.

Hen wan as istrodnetios Mr. Hogg, with sub
a roommassdation to back him, mold not fad of m-
ess& The coals wan glees, cad ho cams in at the
had of the poll, expending moms two ce three thoa-
sand pots&a to do. The Christmas fallowing
he my away a eery largo am of mossy in
door and coals his own amosat. The people
won eery dr coals and dour lased
At this Gs borough was also esavused by
another Milk% Mr. Asia. Yates, Ho is an sx-
primed eisessamar, and, it need to be mid, ao
peat stioldsr about trills'. Han is Mr. Yatss's opi-
nes of the dodo's of Beverley as expressed in Me
ilsowall Mao" dated Ist Jan., 1835.

11e m itildions or lizrazzar.—Gastisoass, —la
esospikeres iillll the waist Invited's el • repsweble body
hiormirldlos sea frame et your lsoeseh, I arrived here
het Maw mob& eni slimed yen Isis Market Pisan
Tie tu~n Ile use deeded saaww, yew aparebsties
Otis MIMI &ea &eland wield glade IMO, it
vsense.tv.....t. Three days have bean mieet
duo slop by ses in wwwwetwi year votes,
i. wstian moon Plikart_ mil sedulous by
.has wis
et The remit kw been, that
the beet SSW ailloymodb byword woad
way is wand by as oinhanniene c Mot VOIIIIS of purity
is•
wed to he the glidieg pled* et every tree re-
terair, wed whitest . Odd dyed le tilde the fruits et
the resent Nana is our ispossoldisn NM sever be reaped
bialits=„ / win mot re:4am by suet
mow; wog opt berhessislwas fer=stiwripotr etepre-
in. did gni MOO • • Wili Mt be $ party to &
elprVby "WA I *said coosprowise nty owe arid
esslilbeee to poreakete your dispose se see of
the sett leassa dd. eY Foireughs.
I seossematedemy 15.,. et you, with the sipreseka et
my head/ dideselsliptutb W these emealleat men who it
• ine la asses froward in the haps et enseseding without
bribery sad serruptisn • and elk wry wish that pew deg
soon be WIWPIId from LW aliens spoke eeidar which poor
&yolk has stNinee de thelisition of bogy ens #Os
awl }milers& in ode eirsals oernaitio•-1 Ratan.
no, Jour Minx Than.

It has hem a long time eines any canstitnney re-
mind sash a Wanda, as this. Er B. Lytton's
recast adesonitian to the electors of Leominster
was nothing to it. In 1837 Mr. Hogg cams
down again. It was thought that the distriliation
he bed made the preceding Christmas would have
done good. Hake' of the met. Beyond the ant-
hers of those on whom his party could always rely,
he received owe promise. Several liberal candidates
were invited to stead. Whether Mr. Yates's letter
was koown to these, or for what other
Arson we
know net, but they nearly all fought shy. At length
Mr. Clay,
. the present member for Hull, and
Mr. Rennie, afterwards an unlucky member for Ipe-
with, came down and canvassed the town. They did
not find things very favourable, and at length they
took the resolution of issuing an address to the elec-
tors, intimating that it was their intention to stand
for Beverley on purity principles, and that it
there was any bribery or treating on the other
side, they should petition against the return.
However honourable this announcement may have
been, it was scarcely calculated to promote their suo-
cem Clay and Ronnie became immediately the
objects of the popular Beverley execration. It was
not only, the electors said, that they would give
nothing themselves, bat they had absolutely stopped
the expenditure on the other side. The very band
was stopped by the torise—an event absolutely un-
precedented at Beverley. Bat the people had their
livings. Though they could not play they could
sing and shout, and thel3paraded the streets night
and day chauntiog " Rule ritannia* and whooping
for Hogg and Fox, until the whole population became
so hoarse that Madame Grisi's pectoral losenguvrould
have been highly advantageous. A variety of
lampoons, too, were published. The sense of the
people was expressed in some such elegant diatich as
the following :
Clay and Resale
Will not spend a penny;
So Repels and Clay, bog
Had bettor not stay, boys:
However, Messrs. Clay and Rennie did stay.
They went to the poll, and were left, as the Bevaley
people thought they deserved, in a miserable mi-
nority. A petition wan presented by Mr. Rennie,
praying for the seats on the ground of bribery and
treating ; but the matter never came to inquiry before
• committee of the bottle.

The candidate brought in with Mr. Hogs against
Messrs. Clay and Rennie was Mr. George Lane Fox,
of Brainhain, who had represented Beverley onoe
before, in the parliament of 1820. It had been con-
templated by the tones only to run one candidate at
this election ; or at any rate they only had one man
in the field. Bat the popular feeling against the
" purity candidate" ran so high that it became quite
a for the conservative party to get a second
railliaris Mr. Hogg went round upon his earmuff,
and asked for votes, the reply was, " Yes, we'll vote
for you, and for Jim Crow too." " Jim Crow—who
do you mean by that e " Oh, any one you like ;
you must have another man after this." It is said in
Beverley now that "Jim Crow's canvass " was the only
sueeerdul one ever remembered in the town,On the eve
of the election " Jim Crow " was accordingly brought
in the person of Mr. Fax, who was the nearest indi-
vidual at hand. This gentleman not being very ready
at a joke never could clearly be brought to under-
stand why he was dubbed " Jim Crow," and seemed
inclined at one time to consider it a sort of insult that
it was his duty to resent. However, he was returned ;
and the member forgave a multitude of offences against
the dignity of the candidate.
The particulars of the two last eventful contests in
Beverley must form the subject of a concluding
chapter.