The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-11 00:00:00

TRURO ELECTION.

The nomination of a successor to tte late Edmund
Tamer, , as a representative of Truro in parliament
tack plane en Tuesday at the Market House in that town.
At 10 o'clock, Humphrey Willyeme, Esq., with hie friends,
snowed at the northern entrance, and Montague Edward
Smith, Beg , at t►e southern, accompanied by their severs
friends, with banners, Begs, and bards of musk.
The M *TOIL requested the usual forms to be gone through,
and subs. queatly addressing the electors, said that in °ones.
garnet of the death of their late member, and from a pre-
cept received from the sheriff, which had been read, the
electors IMO required to elect a at sad proper person to
.epresent their borough in the Commons House of Perlin,
meet. He trusted they would, and required them te, conduct
the election with good temper, order, sod in strict conformity
with the law. . .

G. 81w ewes, Eel ,said be had the honour to propose to
them Humphrey Willyams, Req., as a fit and proper person
to represent the borouith ia parliament. He wits a towns-
man, and had spent his whole life with the electon—their
local in t affected him in common ; he was •
magistrate. a banks r, and • miner, and, in abort, eombined
in himself all those qualifications which should be possessed
by their representative. The hon. gentleman who was
to be named in opposition was • gentleman. • rising man is
his profession, and was clever; but these did not make
of theaselvea It fit representative ; further, he was a stranger
to them. (Cheers. )—Hr. B. MITCWILL seconded the nomina-
tion.

Dr. CARLYON reee from a sense of duty to propose an op.
penent to his friend Mr. Willrina, in the person of Mr. IL
E. Smith. The candidate be supported could scarcely be
celled a stranger—he was a brother of • worthy fellow-
townsman, and wee one of the ornaments of the Western
Circuit, and chiefly he was a warm end able advocate o
conservative principles, end well fitted to represent the
borough in parliament. Mr. liulthowe seconded the
noesisation. _ _

HUMPIIItET WI , Esq., addressed the elects".
lie said : It has often been my lot on similar occasions to the
present to appear before you to solicit your suffrages on be-
half of other candidates ; but on the present occasion I
appear in my own proper person soliciting your interest on
m own behalf. It is much easier to advocate the cause of
others than one's own, and though I feel great entbarraas.
meet, yet I have this consolation, I am not a stranger to one
of you; I have always lived among you, and hope to die in
your locality. My manner of life and professions are
my good advocates, and my principles of attach-
meat to the constitution, and yet liberal ten-
dencies, have been for thirty years unchanged.
The hon. candidate, in continuation, regretted to allude to
the influence exercised at this election by clergymen of the
Church of Et gland, who came in from their coracles and
told the ally tale that it would be dangerous to trust him
(Mr. Willyams) with power. By doing so, they said the
church would be in danger. Why, the church was in dan-
ger from her worst enemies—her own ministers, who upheld
popish rites, and oerem.aies, and dogmas, which were alike
destructive in their tt adeney to the crown and the church.
By one voter he bad been told that he could not be sup-
ported because he was a had employer. He replied that he
did get a coat from London ; the voter said, " then you an
no friend to your country." Ile would say to the constitu-
ency, that if they got a representative from London instead
of from themselves they were no friends to the.r town.
MONTAOUZ EDWARD SMITH, Esq., geld his title to their
support depended on his profession, of adherence to consti-
tutional principle.. The business of the day was not a per-
sonal question, but one of constitutional principle. He was
opposed to free trade. Proper economy and retrenchment
he fully approved of—not the cutting up wholesale, but the
exercising a proper and rigid economy in administration. He
was a sincere advocate of the question of edueatios, and fur
the adoption of measures to promote the bettor recreation of
the workiag classes. Now, whilst we were enjoying the
blessings of peace was the time to consider melt questions.
On a show of Lads being taken, the Mayor &eland the
majority to be for Mr. Humphrey Willyams. A poll was
demanded for Mr. Smith. A very sharp contest is ex-

Since the above wig in type we have received the fol.
lowipg
" TRURO, WEDNESDAY.—The polling c.mnisoced this
morning at 8 o'clrek. The numbers stood thee—At
9 o'clock, for Willyamo, 88 ; for fimitb, 103.—At 10 o'clock,
for Willyuno, 158; Sur Smith, 173."

ARMY CLOTHING.
Sir William Napier has returned to the charge
M r. Robertson Gladstone•s reply has drawn from the gallant
officer the following letter, addressed to the same journal as
his first : _ _ _

" Bir,—lt would seem that the Financial Associa-
tion required time to digest my answer to their tract ; or, it
may be, there was difficulty in finding a person bold enough
to assume the responsibility ; a numerous body of English-
men must contain many men who would feel the disgrace
attaching to false acensations. Meanwhile, the Association
has readily obtained the anonymous aid of the Dairy Now—
a journal which has cordially abused me and my brother, Sir
Charles Napier, since its first appearance, and will doubtless
continue to do so until it goes out ; but very heartily we
hope it may do the writer good, as we are sure it does as no
harm. The Daily New says that with a soperabundanes
of logic I have proved it is not the oclonela, but the captains,
who profit from the • perquisites derived from the sale
of necessaries. My whole letter proves that there are nie
perquisites at all ! Let that pass.
" The President Gladstone says the tract No. 4 did not
assert that captains had a peeiusiarr interest in such sales,
but that the quartermasten had ; and be asks, ' What is this
insult ?' 'What is false ?' A reference to the trait will
show that the Association expressly charges the ' quarter.
muter and Air chief, the clothing colonel,' with having a
fraudulent pecuniary intereat. Test is toe hunt t! That is
false The colonel, as I have shown, has not even a know-
ledge of, much less an interest in, such matters ; and the
quartermaster ciuld not defraud the men, if he were so
inclined.
"In another place the Preside says, ' I pronounced it to
be false' of the A sociation to aeon rt that' in eases where no
profit arises to the colonels because of the superior quality of
the clothing, allowances are made to them accordingly. I
know of no cases where no profit arises, and I did hot even
elude to that part of the subject. The President says that
I have proved too much in showing that the clothing board
protee's the "oldies, bee ease eleven out of nineteen of that
board have regiments! And while he makes this broad in-
simsatico that the eleven are, therefore, sordid knaves, he
takes no notice of the too; that the inspectors of army
tiothing none of whom have regiments, form a disliste body
established to cheek the clothing board. There are severed
other slips of this kind, which for brevity I do not notice,
but with these spedosens of congenial rhetoric I may with-
out inju-tice all the writer in the Doily New and Fresh •
dent Gladstone a der-cousins at least. What, incite/1A
Gmdstone's lever but a long, angry, wilful miscossalAbin of
ay elatelseste and their object / • •
1; would, yeshiva, be difficult to prove that Main
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