The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1849.

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.

Tho official declaration of the pcll waft made yester-
day at delete!, as brie fly announced in that day's Express. '
Baron ROTHSCHILD, as the successful candidate, then
tame to the front of the hustings, and after the cor-
dial greetings with which he was received had in some
degree subsided, be said ; Gentlemen, brother electors of
this great city, I thank you most sincerely for this reception.
I thank yen most sincerely for your exertions yesterday.
(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, if I wished to express my per-
Douai feelings on the present occasion, I could cot find words
to do so. We have ell been workiug in a common cause.
Our majority, gentlemen and brother electors, 0012011 U,
not only of the votes of our political Meads, who came
forward on this occasion as they always do, but of the
votes of a great many of our political opponents.
(Cheers.) Their political opinions are not changed
—(hear, 'war)—they do not come forward to support
• Jew. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, they do no: come forward to
support one who differs in relision from them; but they
come forward to support the rights and pried, gee of the
cidzeos of London. (Much cheering.) Gmtlemen, I can
say, and honestly say, that that sentiment was expressed to
me yesterday in a great many of our Polling-broths, and
nasty votes which on ordinary occestoes would have
been given against me, were given in my favour, only to
support you and the candidate whom you chose at the last
election. (Caeers.) There is another circumstance on
which I sag to 'mama, and which you will be so kind
as to notice. We have had en our registration 1,700 voters
who voted for me at the lest elecion erased Mem the liar 02
voters; I therefore have had 2,000 new voters and 2,000
new supporters, besides a greet many of my friends who
were too sanguine, and who knowing that we should have
a very large snajotity, leR the election to those who were
more eager and more earnest. This election, gentlemen,
was to prove and to test public opinion. (Hear, hear.)
This election was to see if the opinion which you expressed
at the last election was an opinion too precipitately moue, or
one that you did not wish in any wuy to confirm. It was
an election that we should have a great and glorious demon-
stration of public opinion. (lieu, hear.) Well, gentlemen,
have we not had that demonstration ? (A voice, " Yee, and
wlll men.") We hope not so goon ; we hope to be able to
de without It. (Hear, hear.) We have had that demon-
stration of relic opinion, and I am happy in having seen
so many noble lords in the City yesterday and the day be-
fore, and I hope and trust they will convey to their friends
in the House of Lord., and to their relations, the spirit and
opinions which are now se prevalent in the City of London.
(Lend cheers.) They will then see, gentlemen, that we have
been acting coneti-utionally—(heir, hear)—that we have
done nothing with which any person can find fault—that we
have only wished to assert our rights and privilegee.
(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, I em very happy indeed in
having this public opportunity of stating what 1 stated pri-
vately to the noble lord (Lord John Manners.) lam happy
in having enjoyed his friendship for many years, in knowing
him intimately, and I can only say that a mere amiable
nobleman and gentleman does not exist— (loud cheers,
and cries of " Bravo!") and I only hope that our
friendship may remain the same after this ele:tien, as it has
been till now. (Hear, near.) He comes forward to assert
the principles of aline of po'icy which his party think fit and
proper—hear them, and listsn to him; if you don't approve
of them, that is a different thing; bet us you have been hind
enough to listen to me, I hope you will do the same to him.
Getttemen, yesterday was a glorious day for us, and I hope
and trust we shall have a Macaulay or some great man who
will write it on the noblest page of the history of freedom.
Oa Saturday evening my noble friend Lord John
Manners generously informed me of his intention to
(01119 forward. This was generous on his part, for he
had no 'cession to inform us that he intended to do
so. I communicated the noble lord's intention to the com-
mittee. This was on the Saturday and from the Saturday
till the Monday was all the time we had to prepare for the con-
test. It is quite evident, then, that our opponents had as much
opportunLy for preparation as we had. M
Lord J. ANNE RS next presented himself, and was re-
ceived wi h groans and hisses, mingled with perils! cheering.
The following Is the subsumes of the noble lord's speech, as
near as we could collect it amid the loud disapprobation ex
pressed sometimes in low murmurs and hisses, and at other.,
by loud yells and groans, wbich continued during the whole
time that his address occupied. Gentlemen, title 012, and
brother. electors, I stand here to-day not to apologise for
having entered into this contest—(" oh, oh," and cheers)—
lee the 2,811 electors of the Cily of London who have un-
solicited and eucaneassed registered their votes—not for me,
but for those great principles which in me tied an inefficient
a defender, are at one • austification of the course I have
I pursued—(cheers)—hut stand here, gentlemen, to express
my own satiaLcti ,n and the satidaction of those
gentlemen at whose request I consetted to come forward
that the stand has been made, and to return my cordial. and
heartfelt aeknowledgments to those free and irdependent
el•stors who have registered their votes in my favour.
(eteen.) And still more ds I come forward to assure the
erectors of the City of Landon that on future occasions there
rill be no shrinking, but a firm determination attain to
'Weak' these priuciples, and to defend this cause which
bus now suffered a temporary defeat. (Interruption, and
rith of ti It won't do here.") I have said that I would not
apologise for having entered into this contest; but you will
Blow me t o apologuee tor having been myself the individual
in whose person it was raised. It was charged against me
by the hon. gentleman who proposed my hoe. friend and
opponent, that eight years ago—being then a very young
man—l perished mane rather absurd poetry.
A Vole"

You ire no poet,
And now you know it. (Latigbter.)

Now, gentlemen, I should hare thought that the vein,
the speeches, and the conduct of a men who, for six long,
eventful years, had taken his fair share in public debate in
the House of Common•, would have been a fair eri-
tenon by which to test ►is qualifirations to re-
present this great and important city; bat it
teemed to the bon. gentlemen that it was safer to select
some lines of poetry written by me lean ago, and while yet
t was but • boy—and safer, for the purpose of vilifyieg me,
and disparaging my claims to represent this City—to base
his opposition on hie criticism of those line.. (A voice,
" Ab, your poetry has ruined you ; you had better go home
and learn 'Manners.' ") I have no disinclination to dissent
from the hon. gentleman's criticism. (Hear, holm) No
one can more cordially coincide in it than I do. (" Hear,
hem," and a laugh.) The poetry I admit to be indifferent,
and the sentiment it embodies is still worse. (Much cheer-
ing, and loud laughter.) And in now taking leave of the
subject, let me assure the hon. gentleman wbo has volun-
teered the critic. that bad as the poetry is, and worse, as I
admit, the sentiment to be, I would rather be the boy who
eight years ago wrote it, than the grey.headed man who
could, the day before yererday, stand up in this hall, and
for a party object, and with the view to crush a political
opponent, rake up the follies of early youth. (Cheep, and
cries of " Oh, oh.") Gentlemen,l hope that in now taking
leave of you—(" Good bye, you had better go home")—
I do to without having given the least cause of offence to
any gentleman with whom I have come in contact. (Hear,
hear.) Sure lem that I hays myself received none. With
regard to my hon. %patent and friend, I take this public
opportunity of thanking him for the uniform courtesy and
kindoe.s which I have always experienced at his hands.
(Hear, hear.) The sentiments of goodwill which he has
just expended I cordially and heartily reciprocate.
Baron ROTHSCHILD moved a vete of thanks to the
Sheriffs, and expressed his admiration of the manner in
which they had performed their duty during the election,
and his thanks for the admirable arrangements they had
made.

Lord J. MANNERS seconded the resolution, and bore
testimony to the fairness and impartiality with which the
sheriffs had performed their duties.
Mr. DILLOA put the motion, which was carried unani-
mously, and with acclamation.
Mr. Sheriff FINNIS, who was received with loud cheer-
ing, assured the meeting that it was highly gratifying to
the Sheriffs to find that the arrangements which they
hal made for conducting the election had given
satisfaction to both parties. (Cheers )
I Mr. limmut, the crier, then came forward, and Carnally
dissolved the assemblage.
Ma D. W. WIRE having been loudly called on, said that
the victory having been gamed, and the noble lord who had
been deluded intd the City having been dismissed to a re-
stewed cultivation of the sweets of litemtare, they had every
reason to be satisfied with themselves as regarded their put
exertions. (Hear, hear.) But he wished to say a ward to the
electors as to their future conduct on this great question.
It was not settled by their returning Baron Rothschild.
It would hue to be settled in the House of Commons,
and he called upon the electors of Loud n to be up and
doing as soon al the new bill should be introduced,
meeting in every ward and besieging the House of Com-
mons with petitions until they had, passed the bill. (Hear,
hen.) Much as he respected the House of Lords, he hoped
the electors, when the got before that noble holse, would
give an answer to the question put by a right reverend
prelate, when be asked—" Where are the petitioners in
favour of the bin ?" Let the bishops and the House of
Lords know by the number of petitions, that they were de-
termined and desirous that the bill should pass. (Hear,
hear.) He saw a gentleman pointing to the number on the
board —as if to say that was the best petition. Will, he
agreed with him ; it ought to be a satisfactory petition to the
House of Lords ; but should the house disregard the voice
of the people, and pursue the course they had
lately ((Awed, and again reject the bill, he trusted, if
Baron Rothschild came back to them again, he would
be returned by a much larger majority, and that they would
never cease agitating until they saw him take his Best in the
House of Commons without fear of ulterior consequences.
(Cowls.) He had now said enough on the subject of the
election, bat he could not allow the freeholders of London to
leave that hall, the assemblages in which had ever been
noted for their all ction to the sovereign, without testify-
ing their loyalty to the Queen. (Great cheering.) He
asked them to give three hearty cheers fur the great Queen
of England.
This request having been heartily responded to, the meet-
ing separated.

CAPT. P. P. STOREY, a the 38th Foot, has been
appointed staff °dicer of the pensioners at Stockport, and
C plain Christie is now engaged superintending the forma-
tion of a new division of the Landon district of pensioners,
the head-quarters of which will be at Deptford.—Evening
Parr. HE LATE COLLISION IN THE ATLANTIC.—We
understand that the British sad North American Royal
Mail Steens Packet Company have voluntarily intimated to
the Mayor of Liverpool their intention of forwarding, free of
charge, by their two next steamers to America, the persons
saved from the -revel which unfortunately came into collision
with the Europe steam ship.—Liverpool paper.

LONDON PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY.

This society, the object of whose institution is to
Provide the deserving poor with bread and coals in all parts
of the metropolis and its suburbs, celebrated its annual festi-
val yen, !day at the London T , HENRY POWNSLI,
Esq., in the chair, supported by Lord Bolton, and about
fifty other gentlemen.
In relation to the el AS of misfortune to the relief of which
the society applies its most useful energies, the report of the
committee observeo
" Tne public press has brought much to light which before
was concealed, through circumstances which have called
forth the prompt and vigorous interference of several
benevolent magistrates; but these cases, numerous and
fearful as they are, form but a very limited portion of the
number whica heart-rending as not a few of
them hays been, they are greatly exceeded by those by
which the committee of this society have found themselves
surrounded in the various streets and courts of Loudon.
Among the casts now referred to, whole families have been
found, of from six to ten, or even more human beings ! Not a
few have been mot with who wire reared in the lap of plenty,
who eommerced their career of life with prospects of the
most flattering order, but who, by uncontrill.ble providen-
tial circumstances, have been reduced is a directly opposite
condition in li:e. Such are the objects which this society
seeks out, and to whom, as far as mans are furnished, aid is
administered. The committee and secretary have visited, at
all hours, the abodes of wretchedness and sorrow, and, in not
a few cases, have met with scenes beyond description, and
have been enabled to thee from destruction those whose
feelings would have led them to perish, rather than hays
obtruded their distress upon the notice of their fe,low crea-
tures. From the lot January, 1848, to the end of March,
1849, upwards of 18,000 tickets for 41b. loaves of bread, and
661bs. of coals, have been issued to the deserving poor,
through contractors appointed in all parts of the metropolis
and suburbs, the latter delivered free.'
After a very excellent dinner the CHAIRMAN proposed the
usual loyal touts, and in a lengthened address, proposed
toe tout of the evening :—" Prosperity to the Landon
rhilontlropic Society," and urged upon the company the
necessity et using their best efforts to increase the limited
means now at the disposal of the society, fur the Cluistiaa
pupoie which that society contemplated.
The Rey. Dr. Celluloi:, whose name was connected with
the tout, acknowledged the cordiality with which it was
received.

Tne health of the chairmen was welcomed warmly, and,
propos to the subject, " Oh, the heart is a free and a let-
terlem thing," was sung after a fuhion by Miss Hayis.
&Tend other toasts w. re drunk, and a tolerable subscrip-
Con announced. A summer month, however, is scarcay
the most effective month in which to seek peoples sympa-
thies in relation to a fund for coals; even in an English July
of can form no idea of any =musty for a fire.

EDUCATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THE
PAUPER CHILDREN OF 81. JAMES'S, WESE-
MINSTER.

Yesterday, a public meeting of ratepayers and
owners of property wu held at Willis's rooms, for the pur-
peso of authorising the governors and directors of the poor
to provide premises for the reception and maintenance of the
pauper children of the parish of St. James's, Westminster,
and of fitting up and furnishing the same at a cost not ex-
ceeding 5,0001. Toe chair wu occupied by the Rev. JOHN
JACKSON, the rector of the parish, who explain. d the objects
of the meeting to a highly respectable and influential audis
Wry, assembled on the evasion,
Sir J. KIRKLAND moved the following resolution :
" That the consent of this mating be given to the governors
and diraton of the poor to provide premise.' for the recep-
tion and maintenance of the pauper children of this parish,
and to fit up and luroish the same under an order of the
commissioners for administering the laws for the relief of the
Fmor it: England to he issued in that behalf, for a sum and at
a cost not exceetlin
_l,OOOl. _ _

The Hon. F. BYNG, in seconding the resolution, said it
was incumbent upon that and every other metropolitan
parish to support the exertions made and mai. g by that
excellent man Lord Ashli y, and sedulously to endeavour to
avert an evil which must endanger the community, if the
pauper children growine up around us were not educated
and taught some useful employment.
Mr. Churchwarden ORESINO assured the meeting that
the 6,0001., which it was proposed to raise by loan, would be
expended with the greatest care and economy.
Mr. COCHRANE offered some practical observa-
tions to the meeting, touching the management of the
new establishment, and said that the necessity for institu
tions of the kind must be anparent to every one when it
was known that the property annually stolen from the public
at large amounted at present, according to the beet statistical
information, to 28000,0001. The public, he observed, were
exceeding), antique to dile inish rates, but they seemed to
overlook altogether the importance of cutting down the
'• thief's rati."—a most enormaus impost, which could only
be reduced by disseminating the blessings of a moral, nil•
gious, and useful education.
The resolution having been carried, a vete of thanks was
paned to the rev. chairman, and the meeting separated.

A SUPPLEMENT TO TUE LONDON GAZETTE was
published last evening, containing the following notice,
which should have appeared in Tuesday's Gazette :—Ceurt
of Queen's Bench.—This court wig hold a sitting on %Ved-
a( edsy, the 11th day of July instmat, at ten o'clock (in ad.
dition to the sitting on the 6th July instant), and deliver
judgment in cans previous'y argued.-2nd July, 13th Vie-
toria, 1849.—8 y the Court."
PROCLAMATION OF OUTLAWRY.—Yes'erday at
Hick's hall, Clerkenwell, the following persons were called
upon to surrender themselves into the custody of the sheriff
of Middlesex under penalty of outlawry :—The Due de Mel-
ton, at the suit of Robert Stott ; Sir William Mammy Stanley,
Bdrt., at the snit of Joseph Knight and another ; George
Robinson, at the suit of Richard Bland Lucas ; H. D.
Campbell, at the suit of Charles Humphreys; John Hen•
niker, at the suit of Henry Morgan Vane; James Alexander
Thomas, at the suit of Thomas Howard; Frederick Charles
II Cape, at the suit of Charles Saunderson and others ; Mary
Dinsdale, at the suit of James Wetland: liery Whittaker,
' a" the suit of Bercado Goldshede ; Septimus Hodges, at the
suit of Alice Hodges • Windsor I'. Heneage, at the suit of
Richard K. Lane ; W. H. Holmes, at the suit of Richard
K. Lane ; and Edmund Hoary Wills, at the suit of Richard
IK. Lane._ -

THE PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY. Yesterday
evening, a general meeting of the supporters of the above
institution was held at the London Tavern. The report for
the put year stated, that, although from the general causes
which had affected almost el charitable institutions, the
amount of the annual subscriptions had fallen to 4701,
being 501. less then last year, the benefits of the rociety have
not been curtailed. On the contrary, an increase of 281. in
amount has been, during the year, paid to pensicners, of
whom there are now 55 on the funds; the male' receiving
141., and widows 91. each, per annum. The sum received
at the last anniversary dinner, presided over by the Marquis
of Northampton, was 23.51. 10.1. The balance sheet showed
the receipts by donations legacies, and subscriptions, &e.,
to be 1,2131. 16e. 114., whilst the expenditure left a balance
of 661 15s. 4d. The funded property invested with the
commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, was
6,2091.5.. 7d., producing an Mame of 2001. a year.
DISTRESS IN DELL.—A public meeting, convened
by the Mayor, on receipt of a requisition from the principal
intabitantri, was held in the Town Hall, at Hull, on yester-
day, for the purpose of adopting some means of alleviating
the large and increasing amount of distress existing in that
town, in consequence of the Danish blockade. J. Lee Smith,
Erg , the mayor of the borough, was called to the chair, and
stated that he held in his hand an authenticated document,
from which it appeared that in one part of the town 2,195
workmen were out of employment, and that upon these
were dependent 8.780 women and children; making a total
of 10,975. Mr. J. Thompson, chairman of the working
men's committee, presented a number of details of the suffer-
ing and distress prevalent in Hull. Mr. Alderman Gresham
stated that the receipts of the butchers, bakers, and nume-
rous other duets of tradesmen, had fallen off one half Mr.
Alderman Jones said that during the forty years he had
been in the retail trade it had never been so dull u at pre-
sent, except during three weeks when the cholera raged a
number of years ago. Resolutions were agreed to for the
formation of a relief committee and the raking of subscrip•
tions, which the Mayor headed with 501.
THE CHOLERA ON BOARD SHIP.—FALMOUTII,
JULY 3.—The accounts trim the convict ship Havering were,
last night, of a most satisfactory character ; a tone of general
improvement appears to have commenced in the health of
the people, probably owing to the ship being in port, and to
the fine breire of northerly wind which prevailed all the
day, and the clearaesa of the atmcsphers. No further
deaths have taken place, and the muter hopes to
be ready to sail to-day.—Pwrmoura, JULY 3.—The
ship Tasman, Blackbourne, of and from Landon, which
arrived hint with 164 emigrants on the 28th ult., for Port
Philip, has, through sickness, lost her chief officer in the
Downs, and her steward in the Chanael.::The day. after her
arrival a woman and child died, and on Sunday morning she
lost a male emigrant. In consequence of these casualties
Mr. Murdoch, the chairman of the Emigration Board, now
on an official visit here, Mr. Rogers, a member of the board,
and Lieut. Carew, R. N., resident emigration officer, con-
sulted together, and determined on the transhipment of all
the emigrants frem the Tasman to the bulk Andromeda,
now lying in the Sound. The Taman is to be thoroughly
cleansed and purified prior to the re-embarkation of the
emigrants.

CRICKET IN SCOTLARD.—Thie game Seems almost
to have become epidemic in Scotland since the grand match
in Edinburgh, between the eleven of all England and
twenty-tern of all Scotland, in which the latter sustained a
great although an honourable defeat. Matches are now
being played all over the country, even as far north as Aber-
deen.—Scotoman.

A BARONET IN A BRIDEWRLL GUARD!—A Cork
weekly journal, tho Province of blunder, has the following
singular paragraph:—" Sir Richard Moore, But, the eldest
son of the late Sir Emanuel Moore, his, we are informed, just
been appointed on. of our city Bridewell guard by the high
sheriff. This is, indeed, a strange position for the repreeen-
tative of one of our oldest baronetairs to occupy. What
makes it the more d stressing it, that his poverty has not
come of his own folly, but has been entailed on him by the
indiscretion of °there.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE GREENWICH REGATTA.
—A SCllliet'S match cams off at Greenwich on Monday, and
drew together a large mamma of spectators. The prize
was competed for by six young men, inhabitants of Green-
wich, and amateurs ; and the amusement was prematurely
brought to a stbse by the upsetting done of the boats, when
a young man, of the name of Salisbury , was drowned. The
+ ceased, who was 23 years of age, has left a widow and
three children totally unprovided for.