The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-18 00:00:00

noble brother's nominee, was celebrated at Duraley on Mon-
day, by a public dinner.—Mr. Orantley Berkeley said, the
grossest corruption, debauchery, and bnbery ever witnessed,
characterised the late election. At Colder& port and sherry
were actually handed about in cans, and children were lying
in the roads in a state of drunken helplessness. The conduct
of the lord-lieutenant would and must be made the subject
of inquiry at the foot of the throne. Petitions were already
in course of signature. One from the "Electors ana
Inhabitants," and another from the " Mothers and
Daughters," praying her Majesty to dismiss the lord-lieute-
nant ; and at Thornbury, so eager were the people to
sign them, that it was found necessary to place • police-
man at the door, to keep back the pressure of the crowd.

CAPABILITIES OF A RAILWAY ENGINE.—On Thurs-
day last the Ewe" locomotive engine brought from Baty
St. Edmund's or Stowmarket, to Ipswich, the amazing num-
ber of 149 loaded goods waggons at one time, and when the
enginereached the Ipswich station, the other extremity of the
line of waggons was close to the bridge on the London-road,
a distance of nearly a mile ! This we (Ipswich Express) be-
lieve to be the largest goods train that ever arrived at any
station in the kingdom ; there was one, we believe, on the
Birmingham and Mancheett r, consisting of 192 empty trucks.
On the morning of the same day the " Essex" took 8.5 loaded
carriages or truclu from Ipswich to Stowmarket, a burden
of at least 600 tons, and on the fellowistg morning it drew 76
loaded waggons from Ipswich to the tame town. Some idea
may be formed, from the above statement of facts, of the
vast capabilities of good locomotive eagines, an well as of the
importance of the traffic on the Eastern 'Onion line, which
will, double's, be greatly increased when the line is extended
to Norwich.

GROWT/1 oY WIIEAT":2-10Uiel Phillips, a gardener
at Hastings, sowed last autumn 410 grains of red wheat on
one rod of ground, in drills 12 inches apart, and by single
grains near eight inches asunder. This produced within a
few days past the enormous quantity of fire gallons, being at
the rate of 100 bushels per acre; the quality of. the grain is
good, and it weighs GOlbs per bushel. The weight of straw
was 681bs. The ground had been preciously planted with
potatoes, which being blighted were dug in. Sixty-two
straws sad 1,744 grains were counted as proceeding from
one grain. The ground had been manuredlu the winter of
1846 with a quarter of a load of rough dung, and the
wheat, when young, dreamed with one gallon of soot.

COMPARISON BETWEEN— THE ELECTIONS FOR
SOUTH ESSEX IN 1837 AND 1847.--In 1837 the opposing
candidates were Mr. Palmer and Mr. Branfill ;in 1847, Mr.
Smyth and Sir B.N. Buxton. In 1837 the number of electon
on the register was 5,547 ; in 1847, 5,322, being a de-
mean of 225. In 1837 the total number polled was 3,879,
in 1847 about 3,700, being but a trifling. decrease, and about
the same proportion so in 1837, comidenng the number then
on the register. It appears that 569 rotes less were recorded
for Mr. Smyth in 1847 than for Mr. Palmer in 1837. The
principal decrease arose in the Stratford district, where 201
less polled for the blue candidate, but without a correspond-
ing increase to the opposite party. The largest proportionate
gain to the orange candidate was in the Maldon district,
where Mr Smyth polled 35 lea than Mr. Palmer in 1837,
whilst on the other hand, Sir E. Buxton obtained 59 rates
more than Mr. Branfill in 1837. Chelmsford stands next in
order, for in this district there was a ton to the conservative

candidate of 77, and a gain to the liberal cause of 48. The
total number of votes recorded for Mr. Branfill in 1837
was IMO, and for Sir E. N. Buxton 1,729, being an increase
of 179.

KENT.

Trig FORCE OE IMAGINATION.—The following
singular circumstance is one of many that occur without
finding any publicity. We (Canterbury Journal of Satur-
' day) relate the fact as it was received from Captain Corbin.
The captain went his rounds among the passengers to re-
ceive their fares. Upon taking the amount demanded from
two ladies, one of them discovered, in consequence, that she
was on her way to Ramsgate, and not, as she thought, to
Margate. Captain Corbin, seeing her sudden alarm, assured
her that the difference was comparatively nothing, so the
weather was fine, and the sea as smooth as glau. She, how-
ever, expressed the utmost dread of the North Foreland.
Captain Corbin heard but little further on the subjeet, natu-
rally imagining that in a little time she would laugh at her
111-grounded fears. Upon being told by her companion that
she was "off the North Foreland," the lady in question fell
back into a fainting fit, from which she never recovered.
She was removed horn the steamer (the Little Western)
upon its arrival at Ramsgate, and plaaed in a fly by order of
the captain, who himself obtained apartments far the insen-
sible lady and her distracted sister. Every care and atten-
tion was paid her, but she died the same evening.

Jim arts.
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