The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-28 00:00:00

ISLE OF WIGHT ELEMON.

FINAL CLOSE OF TILE POLL—TVIADAY.
Lawns (Free-trader)
Hammond (Protectionist) 519
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Majority —46

HARWICH ELECTION-THE NOMINATION.

Yesterday the nomination took place at Harwich,
and after the usual preliminaries,

Mr. FILANCIS II ties proposed and 31r.W. C. TtasnrißLD
seconded, Henry Thoby Primal), Esq., as a fit and proper
person to repnw•nt the borough in parliament, and Hobert
M'igram Crawford, Esq., was nominated by Mr. Taus
Li LOXGE, seconded by Mr. MATTHEW JOHNSON.
The candidates having addressed the meeting,
The MAYOR. then took the show of hands, which he
declared to be in favour a Mr. l'rinsep; and Mr. Craw-
ford's proposer claimed a poll ou behalf of that gentleman,
which was fined to take place the next morning.
The result, with a constirnency so nearly balanced, must
be doubtful up to the last hour, but Mr. Crawford's Mends
are tolerably sanguine that this time the victory will be on
their aide.

LIBERATION OF Rossum.—Last evening a very
large meeting of the inhabitant* of Kensington was held at
the Prince Albert, Notting-hill, to express sympathy with
Louis Kossuth and his fellow refugees in Turkey, and to
memorialise the British government and parliament to take
measures for terminating their forcible detention in the
Sultan's dominions. Madame Pubiky and General Vetter,
with many Hungarians, were present. A deputation wax
appointed to wait on Lord Palmerston on the subject, and
make their report to another meeting.
DISTURBANCE 3 AT HOLTIIEAII.—PE3IBROKE, MAT
2.5.—1 n consequence of orders received here by last night's
mail, the I'rospero steamer, Mr. Rundle, master command-
ing, was despatched at II o'clock this morning, to convey
troops to Holyhead, where some serious outbreak
taken place amongst the workmen employed in that neigh-
bourhood.

NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION.—Last evening,
• public meeting, in support of the principles of this sow-
elation, took place at the New Vestry-room, Albert-terrace,
Bow, with a view to enforce at the present trials a wide and
immediate extension of the suffrage, as the only means to
ensure economical government, and remove the evils of the
existing system, Mr. Ebenezer Clarke presided, and ad-
dressed the meeting in explanation of the objects of the
society. lie observed, that if the people desired to be well
governed, they must themselves take a part in the govern-
ment, for there could be no doubt whatever, that where
good was expected, it must come from the masses
of the community, and not from a limited few,
whose chief qualification to legislate depended
upon the extent of their pecuniary means.
A resolution war passed to the effeet that the present as-
pect of the political horizon rendered necessary a vigorous
and comprehensive agitation and a friendly co-operation
on the part of all classes of reformers, to enforce an ex-
tension of ,the suffrage, as the only means of securing •
good and economical government. Other resolutions were
agreed to, having in view the promotion of the objects of
this association, and the meeting was addressed by several
practical reformers, who expressed a confident hope that
the people would ere long occupy that position in the state
to which they were fairly entitled.
EVERY LADY TIER OWN HOUSEMAID.—We have
it on the authority of Mr. Paxton—who obtained the fact
direct from an observant policeman—that the Crystal Palace
gets thoroughly swept every day by the long dresses of the
ladies. Mr. Paxton had invented " a machine of a hundred
housemaid power" to remove the dust from the Exhi-
bition; but the instrument is not required, for the
ladies are the great dust contractors, who may be said to
remove all the dust and dirt from the building by special
train. We dare say thin is considerable elegance in a dress
that sweeps the floor, but we always thought the fashion in-
volved much folly and extravagance, and we now discover
that it embraces a vast amount of dirt. The ladies may well
hide their heels, when we recollect the state of their stock-
ings. Perhaps there may be some economy, as far as the
keep of servants is concerned; for it seems that every lady
of the long robe is, to a certain extent, her own housemaid,
and takes away upon her dress and her legs, all the dust
and rubbish, wherever she goes.—Piatch.
THE CATALOGUE OP TIIE FIVE HUNDRED AND
Twisrv-riturr Lamour Boo= Pala, held in the Easter of
this year, presents a variety of some importance on the five
hundred and twenty catalogues which have preceded it.
The books are classed not only alphabetically according to
the authors' names, but also systematically in the order of
the subjects. According to the catalogue, the number of
hooka printed in Germany in the six months since the last
fair amounts to 3,684, and 1,136 more arc in the press.—
silhosomma.