The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-16 00:00:00

LINCOLN ELECTION.

Yesterday the nomination took place at Lincoln of
• member to succeed Mr. Char!es Seely, who was unsea'ed
for bribery and treating. The proceedings commenced at
the Guildhall, but were adjourned to the new covered
market. T. M. litywo ih, Esq., merchant, proposed Thos.
B. Holthouae, Esq., seconded by Mr. W. Andrew. The
mayor, W. Marshall, Esq.,nominal d L. C. Ilumfrey, Esq.,
seconded by Mr. C. Wari.—Mr. liobhause having declared
himself for extensive Ti forms, and Mr. Humfrey for a con-
servative policy, Mr. Seely addressed the electors on the cir-
cumstance of his debat. On a show of hand•, a large
majority appeared on the part of Mr. llobhouae,
there not being more than one hundred for Mr. Humfrey;
the sheriff declared the choice to have fallen on the former,
and a poll was demanded for the latter. The number of
electors on the register is just 1,300, which is 33 more than
at the last election, of whom 1,092 voted. But there are at
least 100 whose name• are twice entered, b ing both
freemen and householders. There are, also, several deaths
and legal disqualifications, so that probably not 1,100 will
vote. The contest is expected to be a close one.

TILE INCOME-TAX AND MILITIA CIUESTIoNs.
A public meeting of the opponents of the income tax, war,
and the calling out the militia, was held last evening at the
Gate-house Tavern, Highgate. The chair was taken hr
bar. Ashu rat, in the absence of Mr. B. Osborne, M.P., who was
unable to attend The chairman having made some
introductory observations, Mr. T. Smith moved the first
resolution :
That:Alin meeting is of opinion that taxation, to be economical,
should be direct : that property anti income should be lazed upon just
and equitable principles, and that all should contribute according to
their means; bu, tli..t the present income tax is unjust and unequal,
beeause it makes sin difference between the income derived from pro-
perty which !Weis, its possessor and the uncertain inerme derived
from personal industry, and applies the Fame rate of deduction from
the small income a, from the large—taking 3 per een:. from the Ile/.
per annum, and 3 per cent. only from the 10,0001. per amium.
The Rev. Mr. Birch seconded the resolution. He urged
the preservation of its constitution as being the great safe-
guard for this country, and was opposed to the income tax
and the raising of the militia, because he conceived them to
be illegal nod unjustifiable measures.—The resolution was
adopted.—Mr. Newman then moved, and the Rev. Mr.
Lynch seconded, the following resolution :
That it is usnecessary and unjust, whilst a standing army has been
preserved during 33 years of peace and is stilt nuiimaimel. to isacrewe
the expenditure of the country by calling out the militia and pre-
paring for war.
This resolution was also adopted, and likewise a petition to
parliament in accordance with the opinions expressed. The
proceedings then terminated.
ROYAL HUMANE SOClETT.—Yeltertlay the annual
festival in aid of the funds of the above society took place at
Freemasons' Hail. The Duke of Norfolk t..ok the chair,
supported by the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, the Bishop of
Madras, the Dean of Westminster, B. Homes, Esq., M.P.,
and about 200 gentlemen, supporters of the society, or guests
united its co .sequence of their successful exert:ons in saving
human life, From the report it appeared that during
the past season 22,500 persons had ventured on the ice in
the parks, and that out of that number nineteen
were immersed in the water, but subsequently saved by
the exertions of the men in the employment of the Humane
Society. A long list of subscriptions was read, the sum
total of which amounted to nearly 6001. On " The Health of
the Member& of the House of Commons" being proposed,
the Earl of Arundel and Surrey returned thanks, but pointed
out Mr. B. Hawes as the most distinguished member of the
house present. He mid that if gentlemen present had wit-
nessed the reception which his hon. friend had that morning
received on his return to the house they would have had no GOVERNMENT STEAMERS ANI) THE
hesitation in selecting the most distinguished member pre- COM MITTEE ON THE NAVY.
sent to return thanks for the House of Commons,—Mr. B. Sir,—The attention of the select committee tip-
Hawes being loudly called for said, that the fact of hie hay- po •
pointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the navy
ing a seat its the House of Commons was mainly owing to estimates will, no doubt, be directed, amorgst ether things,
the letters of recommendation which his noble friend had to the system at present pursued by the Admiralty in build-
sent to the Roman catholic clergymen in Kinsale and its ing steam-veraels. so many instance& having recently occurred
neighbourhood. The usual procession of persons saved from in which vessels built both at our dock yards and by eon-
were
drowsing then took place, after which the honorary medals
distributed. tract (from the designs of government surveyors and en-
gineero) have turned out most lamentable failures. You
BATAS AND WASTE-HOUSES von THE LABOURING have already referred to the failure of the Amphion steam-
CLASSES.—Yesterday, a meeting of the committee and sup- frigate, as far es her machinery is concerned, and of the
porters of the above undertaking for the benefit of the la- immense loss entailed upon the country by that single Mr-
bowing daises in the north-west district of the metropolis, ctunstanee. This, however, is only a s7secanien of a wholesale
was held at the instituti in, in George-street, Euston-square, system of mismanagement, resulting, in some instances, in far
for general business. The Rev. W. Dodsworth, M.A., in more serious tomes to the nation. The Janus is
the chair. The general report stated that the institution another example of this kind, built some years sine-
was opened in August 1846, cad that its statistical and Oman- at Chatham, trim the designs of the Earl of Dundonald :
cial progress up to the present period was highly satisfactory. she has remained ever since completely useless, and not only
The number of persons who have availed themselves of its has the whole cost of her hull, machinery, and fittings been
bench's are upwards of 179,000 male and female bathers, thrown away, but thevarioun alteratioss made in herengieee
and 56.287 poor women have washed, dried, ironed, and the expense of docking and undocking, costs for numerous
mangled the linen of themselves and families, to the average experimental trials, expense; of towing from one port to
of nearly two millions of articles. The society is indebted for another, &c., &e.. have probably run away with as much
loan and liabilities on account of the building fixed, to the money as would suffice to build and equip an ordinary
amount of 815/.; when this isliquidated,the establishment will steamer for the packet service. The Trident is another es.
be self-supporting. The receipts for the past five weeks ending ample. This steamer, of 350. horse power, was built about
the 12th MM. amounted to 154/. its. 4d. • the expenditure to two years since, and her first and only service was that of
1 lel. Is. 7d., leaving • profit on the working of 351.135. 9d. being placed at the disposal of Lieutenant Waghorn to con-
The donations during the same period were upwards of 60/. vey his overland despatehea from Alexandria to Trieste. The
The increase of bathers during the same period (five weeks) Trident got as far FS Gibraltar, where her machinery gave
corresponding frith the same month last year, was 1,253, way, and after being temporarily repaired she re-
and that of the washers, &c., 3,356. The building still re- turned to Woolwich, where she has remair.cd ever
quires additional accommodation to provide for the increased since. During the whole of the period, therefore, that
demands made by both bathers and washers, fir which the this vessel has been built—viz., two years, the service she has
New River Company have most liberally granted an eaten- performed amounts to a run of some five or six days, as far
!ion of ground, as soon as the r,ecessary funds for that par. as Gibraltar, beyond which she was unable, through the in-
pose are raised. The usual routine busice-s being trans- efficiency of her machinery, to proceed. It is perhaps
acted, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the meeting rather dangerous to enter into statistics without definitive
separated. data to proceed upon, but it is Probable that the expense of THE ADDRESS FROM THE COLLEGE.
TIIE Monet. M.P.—He lodges in Parliament-street, fitting, lass o
ff capital, salaries of officers and wages o
ft crew, The provost, fellows, el an— students, were just issuing from
hut has his letters addressed to the Garrick or Fteform Club. during the me this vessel was in commission, wh the the college gates toe:lay, to proceed in a body to the Castle, to
He enters the house invariably before prayers, and only interest on capital and deterioration of hull and machinery, presenttheir loyalanddifliful address to Lord Clarendon,when
leaves it with the Speaker. Ho never misses a Wednesday. cannot be estimated at less than 6,0002, a sum sufficient a mounted orderly rode up and delivered to the provost ade
He even attends on a Chisholm-Anstee night, or when the again to build and thoroughly fit out a steamer of 70-horse %patch, intimating that his Excellency would decline to re-
Danish claims are brought forward. He is every great man power. Close by the Trident lies at the present moment eeive so large a body, or to s inetion the excitement which
at the hustings, making the most lavish threats to amend the Myrmidon, another iron steamer of smaller size must necessarily be felt by its progressthrough the streets. The
the constitution aud atop the supplies ; hut eotashow, when than the former, the history of which is pre. heads of the college, it is understood, protested. against this
he gets into the house, he sinks into one of those hon. mem- cisely of the same character. This vessel hes per- interference with what they claim as " a right," namely, to
be
who= voice is always inaudible in the gallery. He rises formed a few months' service on the coast of Ireland, arid proceed in procession to the Castle ; but, under the circum-
occasionally, but sits down directly if any other member was sent from Portsmouth to Woolwich some 6 months stances, they elected to comply with his Excellency's re-
riees with him. He is not very ambitious, seldom going be- since as unfit for service. She was one of a batch of five iron quest. Accordingly, at 1 o'clock, e.m., a deputation, emn-
yond a " laueh." His favourite flight is to count Oct the steamers of 150. horse power each, built as ° despatch boats." posed of the provost, with several fellows, masters, &c.,
house on a Derby day. He has not a large conscience. She was commissioned in the early part 4;41846, and has con: waited on his Excellency at the Castle, fur the purpose of
'He votes unremittingly with „,,,,,,,,,,..,. and ha, Ina sequently been built about two years and a half. The loss presenting an address, tendering their cordial =operation
' reward in a gracious bow tome ord John, and occasionally in her case may be estimated (et least) at three or four to his Excellency in the preservation of order and tranquil-
= invitation to dinner, when be is quite proud to see his thousand pounds. The looses in the case of the Trident and lity in the city. The deputation having been ushered into
name in print, and despatches innumerable copies of the Myrmidon are estimated at the very low sum of 9,000/, or the presence, the vice-provost, Dr. Hall, proceeded to read
paper to his constituents. He bas a profound veneration for 10,000/. ;but it must be boron in mind that this lose is stated the following address, which, together with his Excellency'.
the British Lion, and loves to display his classical know- on the supposition that these steamers are still effective, and admirable reply, we subjoin.
ledge by applauding every little bit of Letin and Greek. He that with a slight outlay they may yet be put in proper order "Nee it rums,: SOUS Excet.itscr,—We, the undersigned dnetore,
masters, and other members of the University of Dublin, being of
is deeply skilled in the parliamentary gamut, which he can to enable them to render efficient service to the state
run up and down with the zoological flexibility of a Von Should this unfortunately not prove to be the ease (end rginiii,nn
.r.t.tiattissitnie.feettenentirtr loyal subjects. oafrehgutdajosty tt:
Joel, from a crow is C major to a donkey in D ,It. He is there is too good reason to fear this will be the result), the the passions of the unreflecting andmdtgectped, desire to aufsimire year
an easy victim for a committee, and takes a pride in attend- loss may be doubled, trebled, or even quadrupled, according excellency, that whilst we nstain from pronouncing any opinion on
to the extent of the sacrifice that may be made. Another resent political changes in France, we protest energetically ageing all
ing the deputations of the Commons before the Lords. He
is • stern upholder of the etiquette of the house, and is fond example of a still more glaring kind of mismanagement atteitiopt tt‘ii:duce tircoreica government to miterlere, directly or Jodi-
of summoning innocent printers before the bar, or of lone- occurs in the case of the Riflemen, Sharpshooter, Minx, and jTM'cuakyill to the ihterte.c
of all`
twee,...elln ntrhri-hhlt.lsn'e,,to7nuleelnu,
se ma=
cerating Irish members in eoalholes, for contempt. He ex- Tearer, four vessels propelled by screw machinery, the gunge which is calculated to diminish the *Mort ence with which Chet.-
Sharpshooter and Minx being of iron end the Rifleman and Linemen one good citizens regard violence and bloochhed. That we have
acute
the little errands of his party, and on an emer-
Tearer of wood. These vowels were built in 1846, the Riff .- full onngdence in your Excellency's e i-dom, an I bathe emotes o her
geney acts as whipper-in. He sups ri gularly at Bel-
man and Sharpshooter having engines of rather more than Majestts government, in suppowing in,urrection and outrage ; anti
lamy's, where his profound knowledge of chops we hereby declare our readmee to reader all the aid m our power to
and steak' is highly respected, and his calla for 200 horse power, and the others of rather more than 120- the authorities in the preservation of public peace and elder.
horse power. The history of these vessels affords a rather
When tnhelaldress was read, his Excellency returned the
" lemon peel " inetantly attended to. The clerks and door-
keepers look up to him as a clock, and put on their great melancholy example of bad management. After being the
sub efts of numerous experiments at Woolwich, the Sharp-
a d Nd folio
1rr...... P r I v
which !in: cl—lG e_ntle.meen„—orel thank.u.,v.ouamnet.. cordially for ltht i,:
coats and comforters immediately they see him come out. from
In prieate life the Model M.P. attends public meetings, and shooter is declared to be the only serviceable vessel ; the
seconds all sorts of charitable resolutions for the blacks, and engines of the Rifleman are found to be nearly twice the fact jilt your ;,,,,', TT, Mg,";... tc..ntst2 tn: nandter'fefeonta
ne in
pomlio.,
questions; and the exception you now make to that rule
philanthropic expeditions up the Niger. He has 'been size they ought to have been. She is being fitted with the
known even to take the chair at a benevolent dinner, when enines of the Teazer, of nearly half the power of her own I proves tat you justly estimate the circumstances in which
the Duke of Cambridge has been absent by indisposition. engines; and the Tenzer, built originally for a clipper
mot
ro them.
~ Like you, I entirely diectaim all pretensions
we are placed, and that you are determined becomingly, to
He subscribes liberally to hospitals, to all charities, mock steamer, is to be converted into a kind of lighter. of
and real, to every new testimonial, and is too happy to for-though we cannot but sincerely and heartily wish that the changes
lemntly made in France may lead to a prceperous issue, and that
the Minx no: hin g is known except that she is a dead '"" P nu °tun.. on theany olbo'r 'nit"?'
ward any absurd plan with the full strength of his two ini- failure, and remains idle at Woolwich. Thus, out I
flak. He reads every newspaper, and dies in the poesession of four steamers, which probably cost about 60,0002, I they may consolidate the social happiness and tranquillity of a great
onl one is an ordinarily effective vessel. It is I pion, so tong and ao relyintim connected with the progress of ht.
Of his seat, very obscure, but universally regretted by the
stated, n ,I, iauthority, that the cost of docking • telligenee and civill:ation . ve loyal subject, every man who
party who has had his vote for the last fifty years.— Punch. o If '. • has a spark a [...tic f the -,a - • ....,
La Hogue, which has been for some months in a private li join ,,,. . eor nati honour and in
SAVINGS BANK VOTERS.—Sir,—At a time when dock at Bfackwall, having her stern altered in order to be '''''' Y"ll ' ti'vel.tihe all attempts, come hon watt ',Dane?
they may, to induce a foreign government to interfere is the stairs of
the public require an increase in the suffrage, which the fitted with a screw propeller, is 10/. per diem, the govern- this country. It is ini ibl not to view with abhorrence and die`
conservatives object to on the ground that it would put ment it is alleged not having a single dock in all the 1 gust the efforts unceasingly made to excite the prelims
power into the hands of the needy and unscrupulous, will various yards at their disposal. Some years since the of the people: and •stimWate them to sets of violence, in
you allow me the uggest that the wishes of the one and the Admiralty gave orders for the building of three stcam. i r„...V.k)61111 dip Wild of the injury they may cause throughout
having engines i for whatever
objections of te other might be met by giving a vote to sloop., to be propelled by screw machinery, to be named 1 .10,rh,10 '47,4, but MOTO specially totthe labouring visovns,
erNi are
am mit interested e maintenance of order,
every individual who, for six months prior to the period of the Niger, the Conflict, and the Encounter, feeling of isisecunty, or leads to the with-
eleetiOn, possessed a deposit of la. in • savings bank. This respectively of 400, 400, and 360-korse power. The Niger , drain' of capital, or esjaasfioa of ,b.p. t. Is joymecjatet, ual
mom seven*, felt by thow whose dailY ':eead, and that of their rani-
would much increase the suffrage, and also put it in the was built from the designs of 3dr. 0. Lang, master builder !
power of the bulk of the people, by exercising frugality, to of Woolwich dockyard, the Conflict from those of ; liee, depends'epon their labour, than by any others ; and if, owing to
come voters.
country,lnvduals with 101. in the savings bank Sir William Symonds, and the Encounter from 1 a state of things which popular tumult is calculated to be atout,
have a stake in the on a greater one, perhaps, compared . those of Mr. Finchatn, master builder of Portsmouth i 7.0_,,t.5a
(rem in hand are suspended, or even a single day's wage.
with their incomes, than a richer man possessing 1,000/, dockyard. These three vet cols have all since been bulk and i eete°,shehli.Poorerwc,:...l.;.,, of
coir fefioe.onniitryrtetrii.it can bnuctlayr wage-
with
of your confltknce, and the- ~:t• r of your
Consols. The advantages of thus extending the suffrage launched, and the Conflict indeed has had her machinery
would be, that it would promote toa great extent the viruses of fitted, when all atones it is found necessary to alter UM ', Bum" may be looked mmn as almost univereal • while the people
frugality, temperance, and iiv:Austry among the working classes hulls of all these vesseis. They have accordingly been takers i should alwaye beer in m, that punishment usullly fele, upon the
exis
—persons would have a double motive to save. The money into dock, the whote of the after-run of the vessels cut away, I nous' Pepwtrators of outrage, rather than upon thee, on whom rests
'i
tutiti:Zzd'eer birtwiokkfLo'ingan! aabe‘itsmtinlt'Pg'n'atlagenaolf l'infthazi:l"ul.y:uesicirncer"unely-,
spent in public-house pOLtice, if laid by, would give a person and the vessels ttamselves lengthened bodily. The reason I gentlemen, for the ern Uag
I
'elf, but the means at the disposal , !tae wavernment are antlii,
emis!ance, of which if It should be necessary, I stise gtud.y avail my-
a vote in a year or two, to the .rreat saving of the eperatire's for these alterstions is sufficiently obvious. The govrinment
health, money, and respectability. Betides, when a person builders ha,l been ,ceustomed only to build stc.mers pro-
had begun to save, money for one purpose he would grade- palled by t.sildles, and were utterly jinni ant of the theoryupon touticirut for suppreesing any attempt to disturb the tranquillity ed
ally get into the, habit, and thus, instead of being next door vrhictis screw-propelled steamer should be consaructed. They I heohne and lio eta ta DO ODD WOO would MOM deeply lament or be
tolieggaly all. his life, would accumulate a little fund, sufhi- hr.ilt their vessels with bluff square sterns, Seel experimental 1 r.,,...,',1 r.,:,:•_...!;_,e,base recount. to such means Ilmll Sri; their
ciest,ase
the
LP tb'e event of being thrown out of work or of sick- 'trials have demonstrated that all screw st'eamers must have I anhoist r„.:,- be:
eve that
thatirue int< . taw will °:ise superiorV tolrilhe evil
oui,s. to S'epport himself until better times. It would also I very flue after-runs. Had these vessels peen hoed in their I coun.els they have received—that they will aot be male
the dupes
enlist s'ach voters iu the caused order and peace. Many °thee previous condition, lam juatflied in 'Saying that they could WA the TICINO of those wise seek tio dela= am., ea 4 *at aria wilt

levy tolls on Saturday, whereupon the late earl memo-
rial-iced the government, and a patent was made out
by William IV. authorising the holding of a market
every day in the week in Ennis, with right of toll.
The town commissioners say the patent is founded on
misrepresentations, and consequently invalid. The
trial is likely to be a protracted one.
A gentleman from the north informed me that the
" Ribbonmen" were determined to march in all their
force on Patrick's-day. One good will result from
this display—that the disturbers, having emerged into
public light from the lodge and tke pot-house, will
be noted, watched, and in good time punished, for
their audacity. These foolish criminals form a very
dangerous element in society.
The commercial correspondent of the Freeman
states, that the stagnation of business, including al-
most every branch of trade, is complete. " There is a
general feeling of uneasiness and apprehension both
in reference to the general position of affairs in a poli-
tical point of view abrcad, as well as of disturbance
and not in this country, and the necessary.consequence
of this indefined feeling of insecurity is a complete
paralyzation of mercantile operation.', Very little
would tend to aggravate the growing distrust into a
wide spread panic.

THE DUBLIN CORPORATION.
At the meeting of this body to-day, an address of sym-
pathy with the French people, on their recent triumph, was
proposed and passed, not, however, without protest on the
part of the conservative members. The address was pro-
posed by Mr. M. O'Connell, bI.P., and seconded by Dr.
Carolan. The latter gentleman is a Young Irelander. The
address studiously and of purpose avoids any approval of
the principles of republicanism in government, and is con-
fined to approval of the triumph of popular principles over
those of ilespotism, as exemplified in the latter years of the
reign of Louis Philippe. It is to be presented in Paris by
such members of the corporation as shall please to proceed
on such a mission.
Before the council rose, Mr. Alderman Hudson asked the
Lord Mayor whether the government had hail any commu-
nication with him as to the preservation of the peace oa
Friday next. Much alarm was felt out of doors lest the
peace should be disturbed, and though he (Mr. H.) was
convinced that no more than a riot, if any breach of the
peace, would occur, still. he wished to know whether the
Lo d Mayor would think it necessary to take any steps in
consequence of the demonstration.—The Lard Mayor
said the government bad not made any communication
to him. lie did not dread any disturbance or breach of the
peace. Me was as confident there would be none, as be was
of his existence. Notwithstanding, and to quiet all alarm
—though he repeated there was ground fur none—he would
attend on to-morrow and swear in all citizens who presented
themselves and were ready to afford their aid in preserving
the peace.—Alderman Gavin said the coalheavers, corn-
porters, and persons of that class, he could pledge himself,
would be assisting in keepina she peace.