The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-09 00:00:00

The usual monthly meeting of the town council
was held on Wednesday in the Town-hall. The chair
was occupied by the Mayor.
The Tows CLLItk read the following report
The apecial committee appointed by the council on the
9th inst., to inquire into charges preferred against Mr. E.
Bradley, a member of the council, relative to the course,
pursued by him at the recent election for Vaughan ward,
as to which it is alleged that he unduly and improperly
end his position of a councillor and member of one of the
committees of the council, to influence a voter named Stop-
forth as to giving hie vote at such election, and to report
thereon—unanimously report to the council.
I. That Mr. Bradley, being a member of the water
committee, and of the financial sub.-committee of that com-
mittee, bec.une cognisant of the names of persons in arrear
for water rents in the several wards.
2. That a meeting of the financial sub-committee of the
water committee was held on the 21st ult., and attended by
Mr. Bradley, and it was proved that he, at that meeting,
made entracte from the list of persons so in enter and re-
siding in Vauxhall ward.
3. That George Stopforth, a voter in that ward, was one
of the persons included in the list of those in arrear for
water-rents, and that Mr. Bradley did, when canvassing
Stopforth for his vote at the recent municipal election, un-
duly and improperly use his knowledge of the fact, which be
bad obtained as a membar of the water committee, and of
the fiaancial sub.cummittee of that committee, for the pur-
pose of inducing Stoplortu to rite fur a particular candidate
at that election.
Your committee submit with their report a manuscript
of the short-hand writer's notes of the evidence adduced,
upon which the committee observe only, that witnesses
having been called to disparage the character of Stupforth,
other witni Mb of undoubted character and respectability
were called in reply, all of whom, having knowu him for
many years, "peat of him as a sober, hardworking, well-
conducted man, and as one upon whose honesty and truth-
fatness every reliance may be placed.
J. B. Moons, Chairman.
Town-hall, Liverpool, Nov. 29, 1133.
In answer to a question,
The Tows Claim said—Assuming that Mr. Bradley
has committed the offence, it would be competent for the
council, under the provisions of the Municipal Act, to order
*prosecution, under the section al the Municipal Act whirls
rebus to bribery. But I have to observe that the °eiders**
upon the "object of bribery is by no means complete.
(Hear, hear.) It was not a matter which the special map
mittee was appointed to inquiry into, and it was not Tw-
ined ahy further than just what came incidentally out
in the cuoveriation between Mr. Bradley and Stopforth.
Bat before a prosecution could be instituted the evidence
shoull be gone into much more carefully and fully upos
that paint than is the case at prestat I should also state
that under the Municipal Act, any person guilty of bribery
may be proceeded against by information, or by an action,
to receive a penalty. It is not in the province of the coas-
tal to sae far a penalty thew...lees. Any person may be
proceeded against at common law or by an inf.rmatioe
under the statute, but what I wish to say is, that the eel-
dem now before the council is by no means sufficient he
sustain a proceeding of that kind.
Mr. Bradley—Mr. Mayor, having assumed this positlete.
I ttli.k you will •ee the propel. ty of my not offering for
Omar rations. (Cries of " Hear, hear.")
1 re council then proceeded with the filling up of the
vacancies upon the committees.—Northeni Daily Tunes.

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In another column will be found a report of the
meeting of Buenos Ayrean bondholders held to-day.
The committee, after a long delay, have at length
adopted the measure which we and the more
energetic portion of the bondholders recommended
many months ago—viz., the despatch of a special
commissioner to Buenos Ayres to watch over the
affairs of the debt, and to urge a settlement of it upon
the government. The committee having thus tar-
dily taken the initiative, the bondholders in public
meeting at once give their formal sanction to the
step, as they would doubtless have done long age
had the proposal been brought before them, and an
opportunity giver. them of expressing their opinion.
The half-yearly interest falling due on the loth
inst. on the Seven per Cent. Bonds of the Matanzas
and Sabaoilla Railway is duly advertised for pay-
ment on that day.
The subjoined has been handed to us by Mr. Cyrus
Redding, honorary secretary to the committee sitting
in the City for the reduction of the wine duties :

TO IRE EDITOR OF THE DAILY NEWt.
Sir,—S,eing a circular signed Berjamin Oliveira, "for a
general committee favourable to the principle of reduction
of duty upon foreign and colonial wines, the amount °flinch
reduction, reciprocity with other countries, and moral and
social c nsideratione, being left open questions "—I take
the liberty to inform you that the committee which has eat
at No. 2, Royal Exchange-buildings, City, since September,
- 18.52, under the chairmanship of Thomas Chisholm '
Anstoy, Esq,, late chairman of the Select Committee of the
House of Commons sitting during the months of April,
FATAL TEIIIIINATION OF A FIGHT NEAR HULL.— May. and June of that year, have all along heed upon the
A fight took place at New Holland, four miles from Hall, principle of a Is. duty per gallon, leaving no open question
an Wednesday afternoon, by which one man has led his for discussion—which principle the committers advocated in
life. The actual cireurastances of the ease are these:—Four deputations before the Earl of Derby and the Right Hon
Punkin of cloth, hudware, it': , mused Robert Durkee, the pre sent Chancellor of the Exchequer, and also at Man-
Miebael Nl`Nalty, William McGuire, and William Field, chester, Bradford, Wolverhampton, ifcr., from which places
tepCher with their wives, arrived in Hull in the course of petitions praying the conced:on of the Is. per gallon duty
hat wae. The whole of them seem to have lista disorderly I have been presented to parliament.—l remain, Sir, your
shassadene for last Monday two of the four men were obedient servant, Ceitus REDDINO, Hun. Sec.
charged, at the police c inn, and were fined for being drunk. A correspondent requests insertion for the follow-
Oa the fallowing day the wife of M'Ouire was charged with
amataltiag the loalgieg-houso keeper, and Field was a wit lug, being a copy of a letter which he has addressed
ass. in het favour. whilst the of two men were against Ito the Directory; of the Wiesbaden and Cologne Rail-
be,. She was mudded, and her husband paid the line.. way, with reference to the call just made on the
The parties kit the court nail wont home, where a decided
(panel ensued, which ended in a determination to have a I shares of that company:
(p
pitched battle between Field and Derbee. The parties left' WIESBADEN RAILWAY.
Hall fur New Honied by the hall past 12 train on Wed- l To the Chairman and Directors of the Wiesbaden Railway.
adds, afternoon, and proceeded on th ir arrival to the lint I Gentlemen—l perceive you hare made a call of V. on
field past the railway station. Hers they fought desperately : the shars holders of this Conaroany. That you will get it
for half an hour, when M'Guire refused to allow Field to . paid under the present state of things is not in the least
stand up again. They, -ciw _tier, fought eg ,in, and rs.nn di gree probable. Let me point out to you a way to obtain
fell down exhausted. Falil remained insenstble, but Dar- ! your object. You have given out in one of your circulars
bee having recovered ran away with his second, notwith- ad the portion of the line between Wiesbaden and the
s!sailin4 that )ll'Ouire he:ought them to amid him with Rhine at Itud• shcim will he completed within a given period
Field, and have not sine been seen. N'Guire then took at a coat, 1 believe, of 180,0001. Confine your operations to
Fold en his bac* and breutht him bark to Hull by the the completion of this portion of the line, and let the re-
half.past 2 train. and he died on Then:day morning about mainder stand over altogether till more favourable times.
10 o'clock. WOuire ha. been take. into distal'. Both Five pounds per share paid up would be sufficient to meet
the principals had drunk very freely of brandy be um leave , thee:pat art this line, and when completed it would certa'nly
iag Ilull. that they atighe light the more viaorou'll. • pay well. Now, you would assuredly get the remaining 31.
THE Fuo AT OLasoow.—A dense fog covered this' per share from the shareholders if they were guarat.teed
City on Tuesday, and moat of the shops and places of busi- by a change in your plans, that no further call was to be
nos bail to be lighted up 'aka gas throughout the entire made upon them for money, to make the rest of the rail-
day. The river MAC was completely suspended, and no way. Then, hereafter, if the peace of Europe is assured,
steamer either arrived or sailed during the day. A man money more plentiful, and the rate of interest lower, you
named Healy Tuff, who was wanting to proceed to Dublin may be sure that the sharshalders in the shortened line
with th Herald, on stepping on board of the vessel at the would he only too happy to take th ir respective quota of
harbour, about live o'clock in the evening, f. 11 into the new shares to carry out your original intentions.
riser. lie was immediately got out by one of the hands of I hold some shares in your undertaking myself, but
the steamer throwing him a root, and, beyond a wetting, he should consider it madness to pay the call under the present
war nothing the worm.—North British Mail. I circumstances, and this I can assure you is the general feel-
LeLlpl was again enveloped in an exceedingly' jug; but adopt the plan I have suggested, and I shall wit-
dense tog yesterday anuriday), which rendered it nem. lively pay the additional 3/. per share to complete the line
. to nuclesbeire, because I am satisfied it would pay, and I
sary to bald up places of finalise-adoring the day.
TRINITY CuLLEGE CHURCH, FIDINEVUGH.—The the shareholder generally would rei-pond to
• feel quite sure
the call under the proposed arrangeme
memonal, mentii.ned a few days ago in the Dolly News, in nit. SilitariErtentlemen,
your obedient servant, OLDER.
11'••••Isr of the rse•oration of Trinity College Church, a hoe
old Gothic edifice, now threatened with destruction, was I The Australian Agricultural and Peel River Corn-
preGtett to the Edinburgh Town Council on the Gth. The 1 panics shares again showed an improving tendency
Lord Provost nppreed the proposal, one of his roundsbought, South Australian Land
being that as the edifice would have to • be relaced,g" there
was not one stone of the old building which any inhabitant today,
of Edieburdh would ever ~e againwere also better. Bank shares were quiet, but those
; an i to call this recto-' of the Union Bank of Australia continue inquired
ration of the building eeemed to him • gross&abuseet words. for, and again improved 11. per share. Tho Canada Itwas just as it fia.lilla a fiat t;reek statue completely de:" company's shares have been dealt in at 76 ; and
breed in the ruins of some ancient city, they cut an eighth 1
of the entire surface, and hr iught it out forsooth as a Greek Shipping (141. paid) At 12)
Gen‘e..ral Screw Steam
statue (!)." The debate was adjourned. —L'clos4argh ito ...i.
Mimi. 1 The annexed report of the Lyons silk market is