The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11.

IT is pretty obvious that Eel GREY will out 'lt
the Care colonists to take his convicts eff his hands.
Every district of the c.rlony 'n tura protests spinet
their admission. All professions and every race join
in the outcry against them : lawyer, el, rgytaan, tart
farmer; Englishman, Dutchmen, and Ittentot.
Every door in the colony will be cloud spinet the
surplus rascality of England. Sir 11. SMITH betas
before the storm : be assures the remonstrates that
`their wishes must be complied with.

There is little chanee of the only other colonies to
which convicts could be sent being found more nom.
pliant. Van Diemen's Land complains that it ie
already saturated with convictism ; that i's social
constitution suffers as severely from the effects of the
drug as an individual constitution suffers from repeated
overdoses of mercury. Van Diemen's Land can
receive no more convicts, even though it were willing;
on the contrary, it demands relief from its repletion.
Southern Australia is prepared to refuse admission to
convicts as peremptcrily as the Cape. In New South
Wales and Victoria some voices are raised in fame
of the resumption of convict immigtation ; but, even
there, " the Noes Lave it."
What is to be done with our convicts? There hu
been some talk cf founding new penal colon'es. Put
experierce is unfavourable to such on experiment. A
settlement for convicts alone, inhabited only by CJlltiett
and their guards, is sure to he come a achoulot utur de-
gradation and demoralisation fcr al'. It is merely
wider prison, it which the enforcement of strict dis
ciplinc is impossible and the prevention of escape oat
of the question. With Norfolk Islend fresh in cut
memory, we demur to the right of are society to one
d.mn any of its members to breathe the rank vapours
of moral pestilence necessarily ergendered in such'
donee mass of villainy. There would be constuat es.
capes from the settlement : on a continent like
lia, of bushrangers to pervert the natives and resider
them a curse to the colonised districts ; cu any Woad
of pirates and buccaneers to render the cesan unsafe
for merchant vessels.
Are we then to keep our convicts at home? In
that cafe there must be a large increase is cur peal-
tertiaries and prisons, and a great improvement on
any system of prison discipline yet adopted. Same
system will also be required for maintaining a
sort of surveillance and paternal restraint over con-
victs when first restored to society. We save hitherto
obviated the formation of "classes danyereuses" in
this country by the process Gf expatriation. If that
safety valve is to be shut up in future, some ether
must be opens d.
We declares& at the time when the government plan
for the modified resumpticn of convict traYsporta-
tion to the colonies was announced our acquiescence in
it as an experiment—our desire that it shuuld have
fair ploy. But if the calunies refuse to allow the
experiment a trial it is char that it cannot proceed.
It is • qually clear that some other measure moat,
wi,hout loss of time, be ad. pted. Circumeeemets are
forcing upon government an entire recision of our
system cf secondary punishments and prison dim:-
pline. We shall watch with anxiety the in&tations
that may escape of the course it intends to pursue.

Tile occurrences at the Boston election, which were
tut briefly detailed in the London lovers, come to us
from the scene of action with the full force r f local in-
formation. Elections, as at present conducted, ere
too frever.tly complained of as scenes of drunken-
ness, noting, and brutality. They are more par-
ticularly so in the old 'boroughs. This Boston
election stems to have been a remarkable ex-
ample of election abominations. The Lincoln
papers represent the town to have been ab-
solutely given over to bodies of rioters on the
days of the nomination and the polling. One wou!d
almost cot.ceive, from the accouuts we read in those
journals, that there were no constituted authorities in
the place. It does not appear, at any rate, that they
did anything to preserve the peace or to protect the
persona of the lair and hottest voters.
The scene at the nominatien was briefly referred to
in our own report. Capt. Prmir.tm's frie. do came op
and took their position on the right hand of the
returning officer. Mr. WIRE'S supporters, however,
claimed this post of honour as the position always
occupied by one who bad been a cand date at a pr.-
ceding contest. The Ma itor was appealed to. His
worship, a supporter of Capt. PELHAM'S, dee'd.d that
his friend was entitled to the place because he teas a
captain in the nary A very proper reason for keep
lug the starboard side upon the quarter-deck, but a
very indifferent one for seizing it upon a hustings.
Mr. WIRE'S friends then insisted on their right to
nominate first. Captain PELHAM would not concede
this. The consequence was that both parties went
to work together. No sooner did they begin than
there was a tight :
The crowd in front of the hall (says the Liotoinshir.
Times) numbered 3,000 or 4,000, and amongst them wen
about Hey rough looking fellows dressed in blue slops, who
accompanied Captain Taoism's band, and who snared to be
urged on by a person wearing spelarles to prevent 11r.
Wire and his proposer and seconder from being heard : nay
frequent! charged in a body upon Mr. Wire's friends, who
on their parts strove to drive them beck.
Of course, amid such a scene of confusion, nobody
was heard. At length the mayor interfered. Every-
body thought he was going to read the Riot Act, orts
denounce the rigours of the law against these orga-
nised offenders. Ilia interference, however, bad a
very different object. It appeared that one of the
necessary forms had been ouutted—the Bribery Act
had not been read! In the midst of the confusion,
this farce—a farce, indeed, at Boston—was gone
through. And then the proposers and seconders oa
each side went to work again.
Not a word could be heard of what either gentlemen sod,
and the rivermen made another rush at Mr. Win's sup-
perters, striking as they proceeded. Mr. Wiro's put,
endeavoured to keep their ground, and the result wu a
general scramble, in which blows were fri ly into changed.
The rivermen were in their turn hustled and driven bid,
and farther aggression °eared for a time.
At the late contested election for the city of Lon-
don, when nearly 10,000 voters were polled in a few
hours, it was recorded by a contemporary that,/
little excitement was outwardly displayed that, ex-
cept for a couple of flags hung across Cheapside and
Queen-street, a stranger might have pass. d through
the City without knowing that an election was
going forward. The number of electors polled it
Boston was 743: yet to poll this comparatively mi-
nute number the whole town and its neighbiurhood
was thrown into a state of intense excitement—ail
business was suspended, and all sorts of marteuvree
were resorted to.
So early se six o'clock the town was aroused by the shrill
Almon of fifes, and the sonorous sound of drums, which
effectually awakened the inhabitants from their mantas'
slumbers. The most vigorous efforts were made by both
parties to secure voters, flys were driven off to fetch ap re.
mote voter, and the respective partisans of the two candi-
dates were vigorously exerting themselves in all direction' to
persuade the indifferent and to induce the unwilling ; no if
statements that were current at the time are to be relied on,
did the canvassers confine themselves to mire labial persua
sion, for what this could not effect, intimidation, bribery, or
promises could accomplish, and were accordingly put in
force.

The disturbances continued all the day. Among
other incidents which we find recorded, is " the un-
warrantable conduct of a young man, a parti.an of
Capt. l'EuiAm's, who drove through the thickest part
of the crowd, stribilp at the heads of the people with a
heary hunting whip." This is a new nu thod of en-
dreadgu principles. The mob, it appears, were
fully incensed at this. They could not get hold
of the young man, but they subsequently laid violent
hands on Copt. PISLITAII, who happily escaped wall
only the demolition of his bat, but whom they seemed
inclined to treat infinitely more severely.
At 5 o'clock, the mayor appeared on the balcony for tit!
porpon of declaring the poll. An immense centaur**