The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-11 00:00:00

another "'tariff of Leedon and
Adair', Middlesex" was introduced in the pewees
re-lie, Lamb. Mr. Lamb came down several
;ohs before the dissolution sad addressed the
• the Town-hell. They were satisfied, for
esederstood he was extremely rich; awl be was
...AAA far, in emempence of their applause, he
Weilt& somewhat tremens idea that his civic
wee so peremive in its character as to
=rise to Garry the town. In anticipation of
awake, as myeaditure, even at this roads
;ips, was mammal on Mr. Laurie's behalf,
ksiseely to the citiefact'on of those who es
thei teereby. As the diesolatioe, however, drew In es,
so. some difficulties between Mr. Laurie aid
sia tone:Sate supporters witch teregoated bi his
Alte rs" wow altogether. Thies difficulties MI ast
a where they hems. A claim lime sok spa
worthy Sheriff for disbemeftlis la ousts
eausel, of which ho eltagether eepeillelsd
Wig authorised the distribution. Legal prsssed-
ys was threatened, and we believe
the matter has termiedsd,
•if it bar, what has been the mode of fettles:en.,
we have no knowledge ; but it is to be hoped that the
moorienes the Shenff of London and of Middlesex
ilk- flaked spa this occasion will prevent him in future
Mm playing with edged tools, in the shape of corrupt
seditneecies.
The tory party, although they had lost Mr. Laurie,
pre planed in no wee re, position by his withdrawal.
Al a stranger to the place, and es the wearer of the
dme gold chain which had adorned the shoulders of
XL Sheriff Raphael in the course of his canvass in
1835, Mr. Laurie would have stood but very little chance.
lie was no sooner out of the field than a young
pntleman named Preston, the eon of a large
Mdowner near York, was brought forward as a
eindidate. He ems not merely at' the seitsitation of
be tories, but at the request of the ministers of the
larch in Pootefraet, who had taken serious offence
et Mr. Mines' votes in favour of the endowment of
Saynooth. Mr. Preston was led, in addition, to
pit that, upon the same groucds, he should receive
toped from a body of Wesleyan", who bad seceded
foci the tories and joint d themselves to Mr. Martin,
• an anti-Raman catholic endowment eandi-
lac Coder this combination of favoareble cir-
semnisistanose Mr. Preston commenced his canvass.
It. Martin was on circuit, Mr. Milnes in the south
of England. Thom gettlemen were sent for. When
they arrived, they found, the town half canvassed. and
&large number of public houses open in the Preston
bffeence. It may illustrate the system of this borough
to state, which we can upon the best anther thy, that
dosshouses were not opened in consequence of any
elder by Mr. Preston or his agents; but, on the con-
trary, in opposition to their express desire. The me-
met the canvass was announced, the publicans of their
own impales bang out the colon's of the candidate, and
began to draw the tap. An inquiry was made of
Mme of teem if they knew what they were about.
• oh, very well," was the reply; "we are
son to be paid by somebody or other."
Ice consequence of this commencement the
meted soon began to wax extremely warm, and
the
wallopers 000gratala'ed themselves and one
that "the good old times" had at last
Mined, end that they were going to get their due.
As the day *Selection approached, it became evident
thattheemtest would lie between Mr. Milne@ and Mr.
Preston. On the polling the former took the lead, and
kept it, bat not without the greatest difficulty. It is
admitted, on all sides, that durinr the two cr three
bat bows of this el coon,
the town was the scene of the
most dross and unblushing tribery. Each party
allege it to have been practised to the greatest extent
by the friends of the othe r candidate. Mr. Milan's
eappeetere state that at least 35 of their mi n were
height off; Mr. Preston's party say. that they had 68
beaches of promise far which at is impossible to go-
osed. The price rang. d from 101. to 851. Thirty pri-
ma was the flpre for which a knot of lade pendant
min who had collected together in a tavern
stack out until after three o'clock. They are said to
have been " had" for 32/. 10s. a-pieee. Perhaps the
west feature of the contest, however, was the
beatitude shown by many of the electors to Mr.
Masts. Itur:ng the twelve years he had set for the
tows, it is admitted by every party in it, that he had
-anterred very many private advantages on the
meldents. So nurarrJus, in feet, had become
the "applications for mistime" at Frystonee
hall, th.t residence in so close proximity to the
borough had become anything but agreeable to the
sitting member's family. We believe it may be taken
as a het that there was scarcely a man in tbo town
whom Mr. Milne' had reeved who was not, on this
sandoe, to be found ranged in the racks of his oppo-
mutt Some of the instances are mod remarkable •
old having become known since the election they
have excited no smell sympathy for Mr. Milner among
the more respectable.
The sleeken malted in Mr. Mils's' return by a
asjority of 19: the comber, being—for Martin,
415. Whim, MI Preston, 346. The election cost
fie isadidatoo at least 10,0001.; Mr. Milnes having,
k b said, paid the largest proportion. A great
dal of mosey wee spent very unnecessarily on Mr.
Martin's eeriest antecedent to the elective. Mr.
Gully, however, belono to that ease of " good
set of fellows," who think the whole period
of an election ought to be one of "
gloei-
" throughout the district, and proceeds
Metedingly. As analysis of the poll with which
ma were favoured et Postefract, is meiotic
There were 683 on the register, but this number
. mapreber dad 10 doub'e entries and 16 dead,
so that the voters were in reality reduced to 659. Of
this number only 23 did not vote, and of these there
was absent 3 ; too ill, 5 ; postmasters, 4 ; returning
Meer, 1 ; leaving only 10 neute:. The polling in the
various di•tricts is thus given:

sort and lot voters the ooest,toemy has alto ban
falling off since the Reform Bill. There ware
938 voters in 1832, reduced to 882 in 1833, 722 in
1841, and 659 in 1847. This number in the course
of • few Tears will be reduced to 400, as there are at
present 259 potwallorrs on the list.
The electoral state of the town, when it undergoes
so important a change. in its constituency, cannot at
moat well be predicated. Judging from the last
election, which took place with the smallest list of
voters Pontefract has yet knowo, there is
little reason to expect much alteration for the
better. We inquired itt Pontefract what would be
the remit there, supposing another eleefoo were im-
mediately to tae place. The rep'y universelly
was, that local influence and money would carry it:
for polities are matters for which the Pontefract people
care very little at any time, and in the present s'ag-
nation of public affairs, of cures less than ever.
If there are any checks which would be appli-
cable to this town, one would be led ts think
that they must be applied rather to the candi-
dates and to their agents than to the electors.
Pontefract, during the present generation, has
not bad the advantage of as election pet'.
tie& Had a fart of the money thrown away
at the last election been expended in a corned tee
room, it might have bad a salutary effect. The
issue of a new writ would, no doubt, have been sus-
pended, bat as the !stems proved against the town,
probably it would have escaped disfranchisement,
whilst the parties could scarcely fail to have received
' a salu'rry

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Dereux, Arun 10.
Respecting Mr. Haven Daffy's trial, which cont.
eseweed to-da the obese... Atom in your leseing
stelae of the-7th have expressed the feeling that is
merest here amongst men of all parties. His excel-
lent private character has wonbitn numbers of friends,
and the ruin of his health and his fortunes is certainly
punishment enough for him to have endured.
The Peel party here is inhigh spirits, and calculates
on Sir Robert being prime minister before Icng,
despite of all that is said about his resolution not to
take office again. One thing is quite certain, that
Sir Robert has his heart est upon the scheme of
putting the estates in the west under a comm'ssion.
He hes taken a gre et deal oft ouble to obtain evidence
upon the whole subject, and his supporters here lock
on the measure as certain to be carried. The Peelite
barristers will not oppore him in his intentions of
" ousting the Court of Chancery," bat rather help him.
The recent preeence in London, of Mr. Brewster, the
leading lawyer of the Pulite', is a very significant
circumstance. Mr. Brewster is a man of great bold-
ness of charactenand is more free than most of hispre-
fusion from what Bentham called " interest begotten
prejud one." He has a decided talent for business,
and vrt.uld be of great use in carrying out so bold a
scheme as Sir Robert propose..
All kinds of reports are dying here about the down-
fall of the whigs. The members of the Hoop of
Commons who have come over to spend the holidays
seem to be unanimous in consideriog their fate as
sealed. The Mail of to-night alludes to the report of
Lord Clarendon not coming back here again ; but
the story is not circulated upon any authority. Sir
R. Peel has prodigiously gained in popularity, and I
should not be surprised if a public matins were held
here before long to test his gain in popular estimation
OWL the whip.
The awful character of several of the cases in your
recent celendsts has been a subject of remark here.
What has your contemporary of Printing-house-
square to say shout the inferiority of the Celn, after
the revolting cases of hideous crime disclosed to public
view at your late assizes? Some of the public organs
here are commenting very keenly on the vice exhi-
bited amongst you, and enough has bc.n said and
written to show the fclly, if not criminality, of ex-
siting the passions of race.
The Press of lest night has a very bitter article co
the appointment of the new Bishop of Down sad
Manor, and ridicules his claims. But it is in vain fur
the Press to be tut upon the point, as in the quarters
where Dr. Knox is best known the news of his eleva-
tion caused great pleasure amongst both catholies and
Ftants. All the Limerick jcurnals, of all sides,
in his praise, and his kiudne a to the poor
specially commented upon. The statement at
the Press, that the present Bishop of Limerick lives
out of the country to avoid his creditors, is not very
creditable to a prelale of the establishment. A
portion of his income, says the Press, is sequestrated
to pay h's debts, and his spiritual lordship lives upon
the balance abroad. Might not Mr. Hemmen do
something in this case ? Can Limerick do without a
bishop P If it can, why is • bishopric maintained
there? if not, why is son-residence allowed? Surely
the case is more flagrant, seeing that Kerry, or the
diocese of Ardfort, has been joined by Lord Stinky's
Act of 1833 to Limerick, so that a great deal of
ecclesiastical business has to be done by his right
reverend lordship of Limerick.
The northe•ns feel almost confident that the rate in
aid will be abandoced by government, as only four-
teen
members from Ireland supported the project. ,
Those gentlemen are universally regarded here as
placehunter., but with great injustice, as Sir Denham
Norreys, Mr. W. Fagan, and one or two more, are
notoriously as independent members as sit in parlia-
ment.
The crowds emigrating at the port of Waterford
still continue. It is stated in the Southern Reporter
that for the next three months it is expected that the
number of emigrants through Waterford will aver age
SOO a week.
Toe clearance system is going on in various parts of
the country, and the landlords ere abused in the
popular journals, but it is not suggested what they
should do, for surely it is not to be expected that they
are to divest themeelves of their property any mote
than shopkeepers or other traders. The more strin-
gent the poor law the more surely will the clearance
system elnttnue.
No more paupers are to be admitted into the Cxk
workhouse, es it appears that the poor law com-
missioners are desirous that ont-door relief should
be administered within the union, a step to which the
guardians are exceedingly adverse. Dr. Phelan, the
medical inspretor under the board of health, required
that the numbers of paupers in a room, should be
governed by its measurement of cubic feet in air.
Your worthy correspondent, the Rev. Ve iffiem
Townsh'nd, states in his letter in the Express of
the 7th inst. that the people in his neighbourhood
feel to be sent to the workhouse is to be sent to die.
Now, the overcrowding of the workhousse product's
the infection, and sweeps away numbers. And hun-
dreds crawl about soc'ety spreading dimmed of various
I kinds rather than face thorrors of the weans,.
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It will be seen by this that Mr. Milan was in fact
beaten in Peatefraet, sedately tarried bj,tbe voters of
Isettin rley and Ferrybeidge. His ill menu in
Poet-tract was owing to the influence of the clergy{
and Wesleyan. Knottingley is an outlying manorl
teetering district with a population of nearly 7,0001:
'The people an nearly all liberal', and forty of then
who were mostly voters fir Mr. Martin spa
principle split with Mr. Milne. as the best if
the other two candidates. Ferrybridge, in whisk
Mr. Manes had so large a proportion of the votes, is
attached to his own estate. There were 38 voters in
- this hamlet, of whom 36 went to the poll ; 23 of
these pal for Mr. Manes, 8 voted for Milne' and
8 foe Manes and Preston, and only 2 omitted SCOTLAND.
• to vote for the resident candidate. This shows the
e• Munn of property in an election, and is the more BIM TX Emelmtoll- —The Oewjeate and t.
worth record, as there is in this case no allegation neighbourhood (which has boo nansmill, paschal dam
against the landlord of harsh dealing or undue exercise t" sew patios abt!1.,.1 eatleZ trellerldilla) Ilea 11142,1111het
' of power. Of the entire number of registered voter., in which ,„,„,:i'ramm„bis, sag others was '"'"ln-
this borough 426 are ten-pound householders end 259 jeered. The affray arose as meal from drelimmess and
potwallopere. At the usual rate of head-money, (61. consequent excitement. Fear te move hint lateueses, who
fee each vete) the latter would receive 1,545/. But bed been O Plat out sea.
_fils to PON. Word. la the
this must not be taken as the entire amount expended CoO_W pt. II fromsekforkr omen, De tontine
sin SIM la
tt:
in this shape. Among the ten-pound householders egt,„°°:Kb „ea rmother.ll/2. ear eahlairetheee by.
are many of those who formerly voted aspotwallopers, neyy, were warned several Uses laths on
and who of course expect to be treated as they would the best, and on
or tides 'beaked noir *belittles,
my tt they ought to be." Many of the smaller ten- but eVtitt tiesemlad es etesensll inaliaede they were alone-
pounders, too, expect not to be leftworse off than their alma% t t7emsfwhostg aei atables' sad a slimgle 4:74, airthewhirer.
neighbours, so that of the 600 electors it may be fairly i„,, wars „„sgogerrte, e:rardeeteg fene of the mut_
estimated that certainly not lees thaisone-half are, at trade. The police by numbers prating eat
the present time, recipients of head-money at an elee- every side, made great eiforta to keep their prisoners, whr
lien. Tois calculation will go far to account fur the were recap= etakedintled several timer), sard defended
east of an election in this borough, which may be theld, bat three of the fear werith waarodn: ground ell
awl
taken at an average of 2,0001. under the moat favour- Mien and struck most unineveihry. The alarm was en-
able circumstances to any candidate. mediately conveyed to the Pollee Office, and is a few minutes
Considering all the circumstances of Pontefract, it is a &tangent of about 30 or 40 men hastened to the spot.
By this rime the Cowed., from the Horse-wyed to above
a extremely difficult eye to deal with. It must be ad- Giorgi the Fourth Briar. wee in a stated great
se.
bitted to be a very bad example of household suf- citement ; and but for this relief, the consequences to
bilge, unaccompanied by the ballot. An extension of the constables first then might have been of the
the boundaries of the borough is insisted upon es a most dangerous character. One named Baerrowia
remedial measure by some ; but it is doubtful to had_ received
ofsue. or. et? Tent blows el r heads
its if the effect of that measure would not be jawnd‘C,enu, werew alsoof blood,
sad
"won le wh°:ad, and bleeding ;
to throw the town into the hands of a few large but the other, named Duna', although in the midst of the
resident landowners round about it. Pontefract ie scuffle, fortunately escaped with very alight injury. They
too important a place not to be represented, for though were, however, enabled to identify three of the originators
at present by no means increasing in prosperity of the disturbance, who were quickly apprehended and De.
...A This was, however, effected amidst hooting sad
it has one of the largest corn and cattle markets in °°••
stone -throwing ; and from the Old Meal Market•atairs, the
Yorkshire, and the malting trade is carried on to landiog-rlaeas of which overlook the street, and which were
a very great extent. Like Beve'rl'y the town used to perfectly crowded, a number of very heavy stones were
be inhabited by many gantry and retired of cers. thrown as the policemen passed by, bat fortunately without
These however, have deserted it—in many instances the 'Mewled l. while several nalleleas vagabond' rep
• la coasequence of the bid feeling excited lo el 'on from George ell Brill“t rl_ threw "'mil secured.
eadteets • end the mutt hes certainly been cti thence end were off ear teal could be 'the
- , ..
no
Icrowd, however, began to tied that they were no match for
le of the resp-etelnhty of the borough. In the force brought against them, and gradually gave way.
teneequnce of the gradual decree's of the number of Besides those taken into custody for causing the affray, a