The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-12 00:00:00

the deemed, but he rejected the offer, and on the 30th
ra,with seemed P 3 much improved, that witness did not
him to bare medical aid. Witness saw him last alive
}r'-gatarday, when he appeared cheerful, and be left
whams
.under the impression that he was going to
his Mideast* at Canterbury. On Thursday witness
received information that he had destroyed himself.
letter, stained with blood, was produced ; on the
"jape was written with pencil, several incoherent ex-
nos, such u the following :-" Scenes of childhood "-
ckenven protect "-" Restless, forsaken, and deceived."
Ice answer to the coroner, witness said that he knew of
"thing to trouble his mind, but, when he gave him his
balance of accounts, there was a small deficiency, but not
ugh to create any alarm in the mind of a reasonable masa
-Dr. Bailey, of 28, Spring-gardens, gave evidence to prove
that his mind had bee me unpaired. He had seen the body
ince death, and found that a pistol ball must have passed
through the base of the scull, and had made its exit through
the crown of the hat. The injuries were quite sufficient to
cause death.-Robert Rust, gardener, in the tmplay of Mr.
;eolith, of Neat House-lane, Willow-walk, said, that on
Tally morning last, whilst passing through his master's
rounds, he discovered the deceased in a sitting poaition
&post the wall of the garden. His head wu shattered,
sad in his right hand, rearing on his thigh, was found a
large pistol.-Terdict: "Temporary Insanity."—Dasn-
Tertox AND Inioecv.-By Mr. W. Payne, at the Three
Tuns, Red Cross-street, on the body of Ann Sims, aged 80
• year.. Mr. G. Bs Childs, surgeon to the city police, deposed
that on Wednesday last he was called to attend the deceased,
but he found her lying quite dead at a house in Sun-court,
Melton-street. roo in which she lay had no fire, and
was quite destitute n
ot any article of furniture or food. She
had been dead eight or nine hours. A bundle of rags c
posed her bed. The has about 7Q years of age., had fur
only years been imbecile and idiotic ; he had not been out
of the room for many months; his beard wu grown to a
great length ; his only covering being a shirt and trowsers.
Re lay crouched by the side of his wife, unconscious of her
being dead ; he said, " Give her some gin or rum, and she
will be better." Mr. Childs attributed death to disease of
chest and heart. Death bad been caused by a fit of intoxica-
inn. Deceased supported herself and her husband by vend-
ing water tresses. Verdict in accordance with the medical
evidence.--SusetnE or A MANIAC.—By Mr. Payne, at
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of John Skeate,
aged 84.-Deceased was a pensioner of the East India Com-
pany, from which he received a shilling a day ,• he also re.
coved similar sum from government. A few days ago he
was found in his room with his throat severest in two places,
and two razors were in his hand. lie was immediately re-
moved to the above institution where another was found is
his stomach: Deceased observed that he inflicted the wounds
as be had a pain in his chest, which he wanted to get rid of.
Re had been married three times, the last time seven years
ago.-Vesdict, " Temporary Insanity."

REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER.
3LtNCUESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.—The general
committee organised to conduct the election for Mr. Bright,
met last evening at Hayward's Hotel, when the hon. gentle-
man was present and addressed them at some length. Mr.
°emailWilson, chairman of the committee, presided, and
there was a good attendance of members.
The Citaiese.or, in opening the proceedings, addressed
the meeting, and alluded to the proceedings of their op-
ponents in a humorous strain. He said he had inspected
the canvassing books, and, without wishing to deceive him-
self or the meeting, he could assure them that there was no
doubt—uot the slightest doubt—that the middle and inde-
pendent working classes, who had won former contests, were
entirely uninfected by the disease which had attacked some
other parties. (Cheers and laughter.) At the meeting
of Lord Lincoln's committee on the previous evening,
be perceived that a letter was read from his lord-
ship, stating that he would consent to be put in
nomination, if a requisition could be presented show-
in that he had a chance of being returned. Now, he
(Mgr, Wilson), from his experience of these things, took
that to mean that he would come. No doubt the requi-
sitionists would show him there was a reasonable chance :
the same party imposed upon candidates at seven previous
elections by the same pretence, and no doubt presuming
Lord Lincoln not to be gifted with more sagacity than other
men of his party, he would catch at the chance of such a
glittering prize as the representation of Manchester. (Loud
cheers.) Well, he was glad they were to measure their
strength with such an opponent. (Cheers.) He could not •
wish that fortune had given them a better opponent than
one of that order—the landlord order, with which Lord
Lincoln was connected—to contest the representation of this
borough. (Enthusiastic cheers.) Backed as he was by all
the renegades in this birth-place of the League, it never
could be intended—it could not be—with all Eng Lind
as spectators, that the men who had taught free
trade to the world, and whose fame would live
through all time in the world's history, should be defeated
by any duke's son on the face of the earth. (Great and pro-
longed cheers.)—The chairmen of the sub-committees then
presented their canvassing books, which exhibited moat
cheering prospects of success, so far as the electors had yet
been canvassed.
Jonx Bale ter, Esq., was then called upon, and was most
enthusiastically cheered on rising. lie said the meetings
which be had attended of the electors, so far, were such as
to fully convince him that he was justified in accepting the
invitation first conveyed to him from the Reform Associa-
tion to offer himself. He vindicated the coalition formed by
a small portion of the Whigs with the conservatives, be-
cause he mid they. had given everything and obtained no-
thitg by the bargain—Lord Lincoln being in every way a
man for the conservative party. This was proved by the
conservative organ, the Courier, which said how obliged it
was to the V: hilts, and that E would be scarcely posasible to
find a nobleman more entirely acceptable to the conserva-
tives. (Laughter.) The journalist said
Indeed, we cannot help feeling obliged to the influential and re-
spectable Whig party in the borough for ,o hatalsomelv deferring to
the wi•hes of the conservatives In giving their cordial support to
Lord Lincoln." (Laughter.)
On the previous night there was a meeting of the party. at
the Albion Hotel, of which a report had already come into
his bands; but be would only allude to it to say, that it was
like the agricultural meeting, of which they might have
heard speak, where " politics were strictly prohibited."
And how could it be otherwise ? The political sentiments of
the one party were as opposite to the other as possible, and
if they were met to choose a man who should represent them
both, how should they talk politics? (Cheers and laughter.)
The affair might be expected to be tame under such circum-
stances ; and whe:i they had read the report, he was sure
the meeting would say the proceedings were as tame as
might be expected. The only good thing said was one by a
gentleman who told the meeting that the six-story ware-
housemen did not much like the gentleman now present.
This, however, was net worth much, because the result of
the canvas among that class proved to the contrary. (Cheers.)
This story reminded him of the city of London election, at
which Mr. Pattison was returned so triumphantly, when
the men of Lombard-street thought that the League could
stand no chance because Lombard-street was opposed to it.
(Laughter.) But there seemed to be estrange notion running
in some men's heads, that Manchester was destined to become
merely a school to train politicians in for the upper house of
parliament; and at the meeting on the previous night (Lord
Lincoln's committee meeting) Mr. Turner said:
But, sir, it is very strange that such an observation should come
ham men who profess to wish that the Rouse of Lords (which I
hope will continue to be a branch of the constitution) should be corn-
sed of men tit sad capable to legislate for the good of the country.
Now, allow me to ask what school you would like the son of adults to
be placed in, in order to At him todeal with the interests of thomordry
at large ? sir, a Man to be represented as unAt to reaswrat
large body of people, because accident and waists be waif bas
rendered it mussy for him to writs " hag" lams some t
Sir, i ray Lord Lincoln may be quite as St ammo to molest Maar
chester as John Bright. :Vow, I think if Lid LMasa
down and made acquainted with the 'Merolla of, sod mooedell
this constituency, he will be a very At own to Inmate them Mini
the course of nature calls him to the upper house.
(Much Laughter.) Now he (Mr. Bright) had been labour-
tog under the apparently singular impression that the people
of Manchester were called upon to elect representatives in
the Commons House! and not to take a MU and dandle
and nurse him only " till the course of nature "took him
to the upper house, there to become a duke, and be inespoo-
sible of all power. (Cheers.) Then another gentleman,
at the same meeting, told them that Lord Lincoln was a
BM of gentlemanly and courteous demeanour! Why, it
would be strange, indeed, if being bred a gentleman, haled
not learnt gentlemanly manners (laughter)' but he
(Mr. Bright) had no doubt, that Lord Lincoln
was a man of kind and amiable manners ; but
what constituency was ever before asked to send a man
to parliament because he was of polite and gentle bearing ?
It had been said that some of these parties would have been
glad to support Mr. Cobden ; but ke appealed to the meet-
ing, if their respect was shown to Mr. Cobden in endeavour-
ing to substitute a candidate for him who had all his life
been opposed to Mr. Cobden's principles? He (Mr. Bright)
oseemed that, apart from selfish and personal considerations,
nothing could give him greater pain than to suppose—if he
could suppose—that a constituency like this, where
the free-trade agitation had its birth, could be led
off upon the mere prejudice that no man was fit to
represent them but a man of aristocratic connexions.
14 by if such a thing could take place in a great and free
town like Manchester, to what place were that belt of agri-
enitural towns by which it was surrounded, and which were,
at every election, struggling and making the most extraordi-
nary sacrifices to free themselves from landlord domination,
—to look for example and encouragement ? (Loud cheers.)
Re called upon the electors not to be led away by the foolish
notion that because free trade was won, that all the liberties
for which they bad been taught to struggle, and for which
their fathers before them straggled, were to be given up, and
warned them to take care that the old and beaten Tory party
in the borough was not resuscitated and warmed up into
new life by recreant bleed, to their prejudice. The hon gen•
tleman retired amidst great and protracted cheering ; and
the meeting aeon afterwards separated.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, DEC. 10.
The impatience of the people is chiefly discharged against
the Board of Works, as if a mere executive body giving
effect to the laws, or instructions of government, could trans-
gress its duties and originate remedies for social evils beyond
91e scope of its authority or curative power. Coming directly
in contact with the people, its officers are denounced marks
of popular dislike, because they follow the instructions of
tkeirsuperiors, and cannot give employment to a greater
number than the presentments sanctioned by the board
yin admit. Theirs, too, is the ungrateful and unpopular
duty of seeking
to elevate the labour of the country from the
degrading minimum of wages--sixpenee a day, and compara-
tive idleness—to the higher and more remunerative standard
involved in productive task work. Such a class ought to
receive every protection which the community can effect,
Instead of exciting a mutinous spirit against them by dressing
uPtales of heartlessness and oppression which have no real
tlinence. I base been led to these remarks by a letter of
41. E.W. Mauniall, engineer, in charge of the barony of