The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

Int Court..

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The Earl of Dalhousie and Lord J. Russell have
arrived at Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council at one o'clock
this afternoon at Osborne. The ministers and officers of
state attending. the council will travel from town to Gos-
port by a special train of the South-Western Railway.

COLONIAL APPOINTIIENTS.—We are glad to learn
that Major-Oen. Sir H. Smith, the hero of Aline], has been
appointed to succeed Sir H. Pottinger as governor of the
Cape of Good Hope. We also understand that Major-Gen.
Stareley succeeds Major-Oen. D'Aguilar on the staff at
lioag•Kong.

Sir John and Lady Richardson, the Hon. Mr.
Ashley, Captain Fetheretonkaugh, Count Benin, &c., em-
barked on Sunday last for Antwerp and the Rhine on board
the steamer Antwerpen, Captain Jackson.

THE GUN COTTON EXPLOSION AT
FAVERSHAM.
The adjourned inquiry was resumed yesterday
morning, before Mr. Hinde, coroner for East Kent.
Robert Chessman—Wu in the employ of Messrs. Hall,
at their marsh-work factory, and was there when the scci.
dent took. place on the 14th of July last. He had charge of
the fires in Nos. 3 and 4 stoves. The temperature he was
directed to keep up, and which was the temperature on the
morning of the accident, was 120 deg. for No. 3, and 110
deg. for No. 4. Mr. William Hall, the proprietor, and Mr.
Topping, the manager, were both at the works from as
early hour in the morning, and neither of them
complained of anything being wrong. Was engaged in
his usual duty about half an hour before the accident oc-
curred, and was quite sure the heats were US he had stated.
He was in No. 3 stove when the accident occurred. Heard
no explosion—it was momentary ; and he could not tell how
it took place. Did not know where the explosion fiat oc-
curred—whether in No. 3 or No. 4. Was buried in the
ruins of the weighing-room of No. 3, about four or five feet
from where he had been standing—was greatly injured. The
instructions as to working the stoves given by Mr. Hall and
Mr. Topping were, so far ache wu able to say, carried out in
every particular.—By Mr. Sheppard : Ascertained the heat
of the drying-room by means of self-acting thermometers,
placed there for that purpose. No other person had control
of the fires.—By a Juror: A woman named ki'llwen was
employed initeostnovtehs; t:oogreco
overheating
of her having
spoken
eceurtstnlymnever told him" that if he rlitdm not the
etortebse
fires lower they would all be blown up.—By the Coroner:
His wife (since deceased) was employed in the works on the
morning of the accident. She made no complaint to him on
the subject of the heat. He had been in the employ of
Mean. Hall during the last 15 years and perfectly under-
stood the dangerous nature of the occupation. Could attach
no blame to any person in connexion with the accident —By
another Juror: When he last saw the fire in No. 4, it was
nearly oat.
The coroner, addressing the jury, said he should be vny
happy to examine all the witnesses that could be obtained,
but after what the last witness, who, he supposed might be
considered the principal one, had stated, he thought it would
be better before swearing any other individnals of the game
clan to ask them what they knew. By so doing much
valuable time might be saved. The jury assented; and Thee.
Stringer, George Wraight, and one or two other of the
injured parties having been brought forward, were asked as
to the information they were able to give. They severally
declared themselves wholly unable to account for the acci-
dent, or to give information likely to throw any light on the
subject. The court was here cleared for some time, and
from subsequent proceedings it appears to have been greed
among the jury to request the coroner to proceed to the resi-
dence of the woman MeEwen, in the town of Faversham,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether she still persisted in
the statement she was alleged to have made, to the effect
that she had warned Chessman on the morning of the acci-
dent not to overheat the stoves. The coroner and the fore-
man of the jury, together with the Mesas. Hall end
accordingly proceeded to the residence of the party eel= ,
to, the proceedings having been meantime adjourned for an.
hoar. -The reporter requested permission to take the state-
ment of Mrs. Marren, but his request was refused by the
coroner. From another source he obtained the following
copy of her deposition :
, Mary bl'Ewen said she was employed at Mesas. Hall's
works, and attended at 7 o'clock as usual on the morning of
the accident. Her general employment was picking dipped
oaten in No. 3 stove. On that morning she was making
starch from half-past eight to half-past ten close by the
stoke-hole fire, which is quite away from the room where
the cotton is dried. No fire was ever kept inside the build-
ing, the heat arising from radiation from the " gloom pot."
The fireplace, or stoke-hole, was outside the building.
ness returned to the drying-room about half-past ten.
Cheesman, as he usually did alter breakfast, shovelled ca
, about five or six shovels of coal whilst she was making the
gzch, tiothins more than ti mtel ;;;;;;;,-;1 tAtween them.
The heat *al het leo great that messing AS it had been oa
other mornings. Wes speaking of No. 3 stove—had nothing
to do with Ne. 4. The heat was usually 120 deg. in No. 3
It might exceed it 2 or 3 degrees sometimes, and sometimes
it was lees. Did not understand the working of a thermo-
meter ; judged of the heat by what she heard others
' say. lithe heat had been much greater than it was, she
could not have told it from the thermometer. When the
explosion took place she was in the stove just by the side of
the bench. When the door of the drying-room flew open,
the bricks and rubbish fell about, and she was blown out-
' side. Never heard any noise; the first she knew of the
accident was when she saw the stove-door fly open.
Nerer made any observation to Chessman that morn-
, inF respecting the heat of the stove. Might have
said something by way of joke about a week or a
fortnight before, such as 0 Why, Cheesman, do you want
to send US all adrift ?" when the heat was very great ; but
never meant anything serious. There bad bete a great
many false reports made of what she had said. It was very

sultry on the morning of the accident if she ever felt the r
heat too oppressive, he opened the door, and it lowered it
two or three degrees directly. Asked Mrs. Clarke on that
morning to open the door and she was just going to do so
when the accident occurred. Mr. Hall was himself fre-
quently in the stoves, and had been there twice that mornieg.
Had heard him once or twice complain of the heat in the
winter time, and he then always gave instructions that it
should be lowered. He said nothing about the heat that
morning. He was always very particular, and would
allow a bit of cotton, or '` dough," to lie about. She had no
fault to find with any one. Always found Chessman very
careful and attentive.
On the return of the coroner to the inquest room, the pro- I
ceedings were resumed. In reference to Mrs. M'Ewen's
statement, Mr. Hinde informed the jury that it was im-
portant in one respect—vie., that it completely contradicted
the hearsay evidence on which some anxiety had been
expressed. The coroner then read over Mrs. M'Ewen's state-
ment to Messrs. Hall.
Mr. White, chemist, deposed that a much greater
temperature than that at which the stoves were kept would
have been unattended with danger.
The Coroner said, by a memorandum which he had pro.
served, he was able to say that the thermometer attained
120 degrees on the 14.11 of July, the day when the explosion

There being no further evidence the coroner summed up.
lie said, it appeared that Messrs. Hall had been engaged for
some time pant in the manufacture of gun-cotton, Mr. W. Hall
himself being constantly present in the works, and an efficient
superintendent, Mr. Topping, being always in attendance in
his absence. He thought the evidence of Cheesman, who
had charge of the tires, satisfactorily proved that he was at
hie poet when the accident occurred, and that his duty had
not been in any way neglected. It appeared that an
explosion had occurred from some cause or other not
at present ascertained, though the best means had been used
to determine it. lie could not fail again to express his great
satisfaction that the statement of the woman M'Ewen
had entirely contradicted the heaesay evidence which had
been referred to, as to Chessman having been cautioned
that he was overheating the stoves on the morning of the
accident. From all the evidence they had heard he thought
the jury would agree with him that the factory appeared to
hare been carried on upon the best principle, every care and
precaution being taken to prevent accident. The learned
gentleman said he was not aware that the case required any
further observations Iron him, nor did it appear to him that
fresh light would be thrown on the inquiry by any further
evidence they might obtain. He should, therefore, leave the
case in the hands of the jury, reminding them that their
simple duty was to determine how, and by what means,
Henry Topping and the nine other deceased persona, whoee
cases they had been sworn to investigate, came by their deaths.
—The court was again cleared, and the jury remained in deli.
beration about half an hour, when the public were re-admitted,
and the Coroner annout.ced that the jury had unanimously
agreed to the following verdict : "That the deceased, Henry
Topping, was killed by the explosion of a certain gun-cotton
factory, but how that explosion arose no evidence appears."
—ln reply to Mr. Bathurst, the coroner said the jury attri-
buted no blame whatever either I. Messrs. Hall, or to any
other person employed in the factory. Before the court
broke up, Mr. White, whose experience as a practical che-
mist in the conduct of powder mills has been very great, re-
marked to the jury that unastisfactory as it no doubt was to
them to be unable to solve the cause of the explosion, such a
result was the rule and not the exception. During his
lengthened Experience he had never known the cause of a
powder-mill explosion to be ascertained, except in ene in-
stance, and it was therefore no matter of surprise to him
that a mystery surrounded the origin of the present accideat
The total number of deaths resulting from the accident
has been 21. Only 11 bodies have been discovered, the
remaining ten having been blown to atoms. l'ortione of the
bodies are still found in the oorn fields, at a great distance
from the scene of the catastrophe, and it is a disgraceful fact
that some inhuman persons, since the accident, have actu-
ally possessed themselves of mutilated fragraents, for the
purpose of exhibition. At Sittingbourne and Whitstable
portions of limbs were exhibited for some days to a depraved
crowd, at so much per bead. The disgusting affair was,
however, promptly put a stop to by the local magistrates.

REVISING

-The Lord Chief Justice

Denman has been pleased to appoint Lancelot Shadwell,
Francis Bailey, and Thorns, Young M'Clsristie, Escies., to
be the revising barristers this year of the lists of voters for
members to serve in parliament for the county of Middlesex,
the cities of London and Westminster, the boroughs of Mary-
lebone and Finsbury, and the Tower Hamlets.
SHIPMENT OF ARMS TO SPAIN AND PORTUGAL.—
The Lords of the Treuury have caused Mr. Trevelyan, one
of their lordahips' secretenes, to state to the commissioners
of customs, that with reference to their lordships' letter,
dated July 21, 1846, desiring that the board would take the
necessary steps to have early information given to the
Foreign-office of all shipment of arms destined for the ports
of Spain and Portugal which should be made at any of the
ports of the Unitediineom, he has been cemrnanded by
their lordships to acquaint them that they da not consider It
necessary that the returns is question should be continued
to be prepared and forwarded as directed in the order
alluded to.
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OPENING. OP THE MODEL LODGING-DOUSE, ST.
GlLEB.B.—Yesterday the society for the improvement of the
condition of the labouring classes opened their new model
lodging house in George-street, St. Giles's, which they have
just completed eta coat of 5,0001. It is exclusively intended
to accommodate single men of the working clan. The
building covers an area of about 2,000 square feet, and is six
stories from the basement • the ground-floor is partly occu-
pied by the manuter, and the remainder fitted u a living-
room for the use of the lodgers, having tables and settees
similar to a coffee-house, with crockery and cooking uten-
sils. The upper floors are divided into eight dormitories,
each separated by wainscot 7 feet high into 13 separate
berths each berth furnished with decent furniture. The
entire building is thoroughly ventilated, and lighted through-
out with gas, the common staircase being fire-proof. The
total number that can be accommodated is 101, each paying
41. per night, or 2.. per week. It is intended to fit the base-
ment with baths, and provide a library for the use of the
inmates. _ _ _

REPORTED DEATH OF MR. RARNARD.—We are
glad to be enabled to Mate that there is no troth whatever in
the reported death of Mr. Barnard, who was last week re-
elected member for the borough of Oreenwich.—Staidard,

SALE OF STOW.—It ie now Settled that Stow is to
be sold to pay off the debts of the noble owner. Messrs.
Christie and Manson are the auctioneers engaged ; and so
pressing are the necessities of the proprietor, that the furni-
ture will be sold in the course of the next six weeks. The
valuable collection of books, prints, and pictures will be re-
served till the next season. Among the pictures is the ori-
ginal " Portrait of Shakspeare "—the only portrait
in oil of Shakspeare, with a genealogy attached. It belonged
to Sir William Davenant, and afterwards to Betterton ; and
was copied by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The copy was given to
Dryden, and the poet repaid the painter by an epistle in
verse.

INTERCOURSE WITH THE CONTTNENT.—The pas
sellers between England and Boulogne in the week eulog-
ist inst. were 2,438 against 2,266 us the corresponding week
of last year ; at Dover, they were 467 against 678. Of the
Boulogne passengers 1,304 were from England; viz from
Folkestone 752, front:Dover 135, from London 340, and from
Ranagate 77 ; 1,124 were to England ; viz., to Folkestone
496, to Dover 230, to London 343, to Ramsgate 55.

THE " GREAT BRlTAlN."—Notwithstanding the
heavy pie of Wednesday, the stones and wedges contrived
by the Mews. Bretaaer Ad their day wall. Considerable
apprehension was eakerlakisd mil the storm subsided,
when, upon examination, It was Mal that the ship had
altered her position only in a Might drips ; this was to
be attributed to the *petting of Se ensulde lever, and
the displacement of SOW- Oir the end probably the
stones also, which latter has happened after a
heavy Bea. From the tints Cagesindiem adopted the
plan, early in April, ON dais kwes been unfavourable for
the outside work, in cousequeuie of the weather not allow-
ing them to ebb to their surest atone. However, at the
farthest, the ship is expected to be Basted off on Saturday
next; perhaps a day or two sooner, lithe ebbing of the tides
will enable the workmen to proceed with the .00tening of
the vessel more expeditiously. EMIR though the Odes should
be unfavourable for this purpose, so anxious is Capt. Claxton
to have her away, that he is aster mined to meet any leakage
by the aid of pumps. One of these, allied • Marsh pump, !
capable of discharging three tons in a minute, has been
already shipped, and two larger ones on the same model are
being prepared ; and it is expected they will be completed
by Monday, so that by our next publication we hope to have
the pleasure of announcing that the Great Britain has been
floated off under the triumph of superior skill, indefatigably
applied.—Downpatriek Recorder.
INQUEST, YESTERDAT.—DEATII IN NENVGATE.---
Before Mr. W. Payne, in the gaol of Newgate, on the
body of W. H. 0. Baugh, aged 23, clerk to Mr. Lewis,
one of the coroners for Boma' who was committed on
a charge of forging a cheque for 2201.—Mr. Macmurdo, the
prison surgeon, said that the deceased first came under his
notice on the 13th of July, when he was placed in the infir-
mary of Giltapur-etreet Compter, by order of the Lord
Mayor. He was then evidently suffering from a long-stand-
ing disease of the lungs. On the 21st of July he was com-
mitted to Newgate, and was in a state of great mental
excitement, uhe expected to have been set free. He was
immediately placed in the infirmary, but gradually grew
worse, until he could hardly breathe, and died on Saturday
last. His state of mind had an injurious effect on his health.
A post mortern examination made that morning disclosed
two cavities in the upper part of each Deng. In answer to
the coroner, Mr. Macmurdo said the prisoner was not likely
to have recovered, but he might have lived days, or weeks,
or months ; it was uncertain.—The Coroner : That being
the case, and the deceased being there only on suspicion,
why was not a representation made to the eommittiog ma-
fri!rate to cadent Mm to bail I—Mr, Macmurdo did not think
it necessary ; he hid done ill that could hairs been e2ne fc?
hins.—The coroner said that, as • medical man, he most
know that the best, and almost the only remedy for disuse
of the lungs, was placing the patient where he could enjoy
fresh air.—Mr. Macmurdo said he did not know that the'.
offence was bailable.—The coroner observed that all offences
were now bailable. The coroner then summed up the evi-
dence, and said that if the proper steps had been taken to
procure the liberation of the deceased, he would, in all pro-
Debility, have been alive now. All necessary formalities
might have been gone through in five minutes, and he much
regretted that the deceased's liberation had not been pro-
cured. It seemed to him that there had been a great want
of consideration on the part of the medical officer, and of the
authorities of the prison
.generally. After a short consulta-
tion, the foreman of the jury said they agreed with the coro-
ner
that the deceased's life might have beet prolonged if he
had been liberated on bail. The verdict they had come to
was, " That the deceased died of consumption accelerated
by confinement."

-THE CITY MARKETS.

" A Statistical Account of the Markets of London "
was recently read by J. Fletcher, Esq., before the ,tatistical
Society. From an abstract of this paper, published in last
week's Adtenalun, we take the following facts—netts wkic h
are in themselves stronger than the strongest arguments that
could be directed against the continuance of thew nuisances.
The corporation markets (says Mr. Fletcher), are now
reduced to five—Smithfield, Newgate, Leadenhal,, Fairing.
don, and Billingsgate. From these the City devices a nett
le se of upwards of 9,0001. per annum; and from that of
illeskideld alone about 6,6001. In 1833 the numb:, of cattle
said IA Smithfield market was 152,093, and of sheep 1.167,820;
is 1844 the number of cattle was 186,191, of sheep 1,609,130,
sad of calves 19,011. The claim maintained by the corpora-
tion of the City of London—the municipal government of
one-tenth of the town—to 'a monopoly of market-,, so fir as
they shall choose, for the whole of it, because the outlying
portions occupy the formerly rural districts, over which its
common law right ofexclusive market extended, has r ecestarily
been on successive occasions relinquished. But in non pa
cular it is still used, to continue the infliction .tpon the
whole metropolis of the dangerous and diagustinA nuisance
of Smithfield cattle market. Beyond the interest, of a few
local tradesmen, the only ostensible ground for draw,ting into
the centre of the metropolis the whole of the vast ter fit 'alive
cattle for the food of its inhabitants is that the corpor. .tion may
secure its profit el 3,700/. to 4,0001. per annum from this source.
To obtaining compensation for thin, the corporation e-ould find
not the least difficulty ; but it would appear almost though
it were the nuisance itself, and not the public revenue, which
they defend ; for they did not hesitate to spend 6,997/ 15s. 3d.,
or two years' act income, is opposing the Isliegton Market Bill
in 1834-5 ; or 29,66.5/. es. Id. more in enlarging the market,
and thereby enlarging the nuisance, in 1836 B—being a tote/
sacrifice of about ten years' revenue, or half die whole value
—rather than permit relief to the inhabitants of the metro.
polls from absolute danger in encountering the drovers with
their goaded cattle—when they might have effectually Se-
cured, by an amngement in parliament,their own lull reve-
nue, and even the private vested interests in the nuisance.
The legal claim of the corporation to levy tolls as they do on
the ground newly thrown into the market is doubtful. In-
deed, opinions hare been given against it by their own officers,
Exclusive of this ground, there is but an area of less than four
acres and a half—originally, as its name implies, an open
field outside the town, but now inclosed in its very heart,
and accessible on almost every side only through the
narrowest and most constantly thronged streets in the
metropolis. It is occupied partly by pens for sheep and
pigs, and partly by open thoroughfares in which the
cattle stand ; and is surrounded by a wooden rail, to which
as mane cattle as can stand er lie side by side are bed by the
neck. But its entire area is often insufficient to accommodate
the vast numbers of cattle which are seeking to press into
it and much of the time even of the butchers themselves is
taken up in the market in providing for their penmen] safety
Four times the space would be required for the proper dir.
pout of this vast amount of animal life without injury to it-
self, and consequently to the wholesomeness of the con-
sumers' food. The cattle receive more injury in pecuniary
value on the day they are taken to market than during their
whole journey to reach it ; the total loss thus inflicted on
the community being probably ten times the value of the
City's nett profit from the market. Did there exist in the
metropolis even any such authority as a Board of Health,
which should place this nuisance before the legislature in its
true light, there would be same hope of the resistance of the
Common Council being effectually overcome.
The markets of Newgate and Lead( nhall are places dis-
graceful to any large city at the present day. They are, in
fact, great slaughtering places as well as markets; in which
the cattle are killed and flayed in dark, confined, and filthy
cellars, in some of which from fifty to a hundred sheep toge-
ther will be confined in the closest possible spat*, until the
working butchers shall have successively despatched the
whole of them. The influences upon the public health from
these sinks of garbage, precisely at the places to which so
much of the population resort for traffic, will become ob-
vious to any one who shall visit the totalities, more by olfac-
tory indications than by any evidence to the eyes in the
thoroughfare,—sinee the whole labour is performed under
ground, in a space still more confined than that into which
the business of these markets is itself with great inconve-
nience compressed. The whole of the slaughtering business
ought to be expelled from the heart of the town, at what-
ever oat ; and the market of Newgate might then, supposing
the live cattle market also removed, occupy the fine space
afforded by Smithfield,—while thst from which it was re-
moved would, with some small contiguous properties, present
the means of accomplishing the much desired enlargement
of Newgate Gaol.
It requires no disquisition to apply these facts to the nota-
ble scheme now before the public for adding a subterranean
slaughter-house to the existing nuisance.

Skrias seconded the nomiaation.—Mr. John Dobede pro.
pesed Lord George
.John Manners. Mr. J. Marshall se-
conded the nomination.—The high sheriff called upon any
ether gestlernan who had a candidate to propose to come for-
d and do lei,—The call not having been responded to,
E, Hicks wished to ask a question of the candidates,
relative to the propriety of the introduction of the pews into
a diristian legislature? (Uproar, and cries of "Three cheers
mßothechild, tho jew." These were given so heartily so
to make the building ring.)
Mr. E. Youn• said that it was now admitted that per-
ms of all religious opinions were eligible. Mr. Rothschild
wee elected, and it now only remained to decide whether or
not he could sit. To the question whether he approved of
Mr. Rothschild's sitting, he replied he should vote against it.
The majority would doubtless vote for Mr. Rothschild, and he
would get in. (" lie will get in without your assistance.") Mr.
Yorke No doubt of it, sir. Mr. Yurke proceeded: It had
fallen to his lot, a their old representative, to address them.
He hailed with great satisfaction the return of their old
regretell,N(r. Tamlf. y), one of the Wet honourable
. . .
'Lies of the whim and till meet upright men in the dental,.
(Cheers.) Nor had he any cause of dissatisfaction when he
(Quad that the retirement of Mr. Attie made room for a
member of such a family, and the relative of an old and
well.tried servant, who, on his retirement, had received a
tefitissociel of respect from the county. (After paying a
tribute to the memory of the late Mr. Eaton, Mr.
He was not surprised at the want
Yorke proceeded.)
of energy that characterised the proceedings, when
be recollected the concentration of energies of 1841, and the
feeling of disgust that must naturally prevail at the result,
sad the manner in which the cause for which they associated
was treated in parliament. (Uproar.) There was not a mac
in that room but would have felt exaspe rated if he had en-
trusted his vote to parties who turned round and violated
their pledges. It was christian to forget and forgive, and
he would Jo b.ith, but he would take care to have some
memory in his forgetfulntes, and never again to trust the
parties who had acted as he described. The now wile-
meat would comprise, amongst its many now faces, many
men of notoriously democratic opinions, and many who en-
tertained similar opinions, but who, from a knowledge of
the laws, knew better how far they could carry the prow
claims of the people. It appeared to him that the removal
of protection had not given them all that they required.
What he 'eked was the state of the poor in the manufere
luring districts, and generally since its removal ? It bed
been said that bleasiugs would descend upon mankind on its
removal. Where were they ? (Cry of " ask Fox, Cobden,
or Theorem, in the House of Commons.") No, he wanted
them to answer it, as he supposed they had as good swam '
as any one else. Well, he did not think those blessings reel.
It might be said to the agricultural body you have received
no injury, and why do you complain ? that is true, but there
is no thanks due to the free traders on that account.
It might he said that the deficiency of last winter could not
be attributed to the measure—very true, but it showed the
folly of human legislation and the utter worthlessness of
mortal efforts. He hail been twelve years their representa-
tive, end on all occasions had boldly and faithfully professed
his opinion where he thought he had a right to do so, and to
do his duty in the private business of the county. This was
the very month and the centenary anniversary mince the
period that a member of his tensity had stood for the county.
(Cry of this ought to be the last.) It might be nothing to
that gentlemen, but he would say that it was a source of
honest pride to him, and its remerarance would stimu.
late him to the performance of his duty in the service
of ha constituency. The protectionists had been stated
to have neither aims nor ends, head nor tail, and
yet they had beets christened the " rump." (Laughter.)
He thought that a bad name, as if it was meant to apply to
their small number, let it be recollected that from a small
number of persons sprang the " great feet "—the League;
with a small number of persona originated the agitation on
the subject of catholic claims, if meant to allude to their
pneeiple• ; years and centuries ago, out of " • rump " grew
the greatest political genius of this country, although his
path to eminence was tracked in blood. Even though the
nucleus should be small as a grain of mustard seed, if their
principles were good they would spread. There was an in-
herent principle in a " ramp," which if kicked, led it to kick
again. (Laughter.)
One wound behind hurts honour more,
Than fifty thousand wound, before.
(Laughter.) So that it would be dangerous to meddle with
them, and if it was intended to identify their principles with
the celebrated " rump" the sooner the name was dropped
the better. He considered toleration should be complete,
and that could only be the case where no religious opinion
excluded its possessor from participation in the privileges of
the state. They had got into a mass of confusion by tra-
vellinpout of that pale. If the dissenters were to arrive at
such a majority as to overthrow the Established Church, it
was not to be expected that the church would give all the
dissenters demanded. He (Mr. Yorke) did not intend
to vote for the endowment of the catholic priest-
hood, but had voted for the grant to Maynooth on many
grounds; the first of which arose trom his consideration of
how the college was raised. At the Revolution the
students of catholic faith of Irish birth were sent
out of the country, and it was necessary that
they should be provided with some means of education, and
to take care that their patriotism was not diverted by inter-
course with foreign nations. The college was founded in
1793, for seven years there was no vote against it ; and for
fifty years it was only occasionally hinted at by some ultra-
protestant. The dissenters were not doing enough by rail-
ing at Maynooth. (Cry of, "no church rates.") lie was
perfectly willing to abolish church rates, believing the church
would be better without them as she would on theirabolition
receive the adhesion of many conscientious dieseaters—the
Maynooth grant had obtained for fifty years. He had voted
fee it and should do so again if he were now in
similar circumstances. He asked the dissenters were

they prepared to repeal the law ? If they thought
they had strength enough let them agitate the question and
not stand and bay at a distance at those who bad conacien-
tiously done what they believed to be right. Was there a
man among them prepared to say that he would bring in a
bill for the repeal of the grant. He might keep his promise
to the letter, but the bill would be dropped, and no more
heard of it. On all future occasions, as he bad done before, if
he saw reason to differ with the opinions of his constituents,
he should meet and discus the point with them, and hoped
be should rever violate what to him was his greatest pride,
the possession of their confidence. (Cheers.)
Mr. It. G TOWSLEY was received with deafening ap-
plause. After expressing his sense of the honour conferred
upon him, and his obligations to rash of his old friends who
had rallied round bim, Mr. Townley proceeded to pay a
passing tribute to the memory of his late friend, Mr. Eaton ,•
and continued to say :—Much as he respected the noble lord
at the head of the government, aeowing himself a wbig, as
he always had done, and never being ashamed of the name
it would not be party that would keep; him at the noble
lord's side, if he were conscientiously opposed to his mea-
sures. He had left parliament when a great question, affect-
ing the agricultural community, was in agitation. He had
said that lie thought the interests of that community safer
in the hands of Lord John Russell than Sr Robert Peel; but
Lord John had not strength enough to carry the measure he
proposed, and it was left to his succour in office to introduce
the great change that had been brought about. The part
he had taken was to him a painful one; as, when
Lord John Russell's government was tottering, he felt it his 1
duty to record his vote against it. He felt that the govern-
ment could not stand, but could he have been assured that
the amount of protection then proposed by Lord John
would have been secured, or even lees, be would have voted
with him with pleasure. He did not think that all the evil
predicted (rem free trade would follow, nor that all the good
expected world result, at any rate not for a long period. He
trusted that the vital importance of education would be
brought home to every man, however humble, and made
manifest, if not in his own family, at least in that of his
more peaceful, happy, and thriving neighbour. lied he
been in parliament at the time of the increased grant
to Maynooth, he should unquestionably have voted for it.
After all that had been said on the subject of catholic
endowment, they found that the idea never was entertained
by the government, and was even repudiated by the catholic'
themselves. He was earnestly attached to principles of civil
and religions liberty, and, consequently, had no sympathy
with that religion which cramped the litvrty of the mind
and left to the consciences of the priest the direction of the
faith, principles, and actions of the people. He trusted that
they (the electors) would not find their interests suffer in the
hands to which they had committed them.
Lord Geonoa J. MANNER& addressed the meeting at
some length amid much interruption. He should he said
be returned un'ried, unpledged, and, he feared, unknown ;
be knew too well to what influence that return was to be
ascribed. (Cry of " the Duke of Rutland.") Quite right—
to legitimate and honourable family influence, and not that
of property or wealth—(a cry of " Pakaw")—to the result
of • long and honourable confidence between the electors of
Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely and the family to which
be belonged. Although they might find a more able, bril-
liant, or effective member, they would not find a more
hottest one. His lordship neat avowed himself a protec-
tionist, and gave u a meson kis belief in the incapability
of Britain to compete with the jealous rivalry of
foreign countries, and the bed policy of relying on them
for our supplies of food. His lordship entered shortly upon
the effect of the price of provisions on wages, saying that
they never varied in amount in equal ratio to the detriment
of the poor man. He said that, although protection was said
to be dead, free trade was not yet alive in all its members ;
the blood might be circling round ita heart, hut had not yet
reached the extremities, as malt, tea, Be. He pledged him-
self to press for a gradual repeal of the malt tax, and stated
himself opposed to the catholic endowment. His lordship
eras loudly called upon to express his sentiments on the
game laws, but took no notioe of the request.
After a vote of thanks to the sheriff, the meeting, which
was chiefly composed of townspeople, dispersed.

CAITHNESSHIRE.
The election for this county took place at Wick, en Friday,
the Gth inst. Mr. Trail was nominated by Mr. James Sill•
Clair, of Fetes, one of the mod independent and intelligent
liberals among the gentlemen of the county, and seconded by
Capt. Henderson, of Steednee, a gentleman of moderately
conservative opinions. No second candidate being proposed,
Mr. Trail wu declared by the sheriff duly elected. An attempt
was made shortly before the election, by Mr. Sinclair, of
Freswick, an ultra-tory and protectionist, to take advantage of
some dissatisfaction felt in the county from an impression that
Traill had scarcely been courteous and attentive enough
is meeting his constituents, and of some doubts us to the
views he entertained en the question of endowmho.s. This
let Mr. Traill on hie mettle, and he having completely lads-
htd the electors as to his opinions, without fettering his moral
liberty by any pledges as to secific measures, the idea of
opposition was abandoned. The brush has at least had the
Rood effect of showing the folly of any but a liberal trying the
wady which contains (or contained) John O'Groat's house.

DUMBARTONSHIRE.
The nomination of candidates for the county of Durnbar-
L,O tcolfplace on Friday in front of the Couatylluildings.—
."' J. Gartthore, of Oartahore, proposed, ant Mr. O.

Kinloth, of Forrydale, ascended the sominetios ef Yr.
theolleta—Sir Jaws Caliphate, Bert, awe hissed sed
add he had to aspen Mr. Thomas Camilla Belnielesch
as a fit and proper penembe ennead this eitied, fa
hameat. Mr. wing of athlseee seamiellffio is
lion.—Mr. Smollett than ease *sward, mil agog gni
disapprobation. His weld mare them thee lis
ernet he found himself again involved ti atriiiiinde&
ectiods la this plate. He had been in bens, as caw s'
former occasion, from communications that had bees sods
to him, that his coming forward again would he
aceeptable to the electors of Doensatenain, sad
that they should be spared the
MYsod
inoonvesuenees width arise out of a
He had no idea that so many of those who wen politically
=tto him would be found lob sengetwa. As
ad so many opportunities whir*etre ten days of
eddresing them on venous topies which arebtemse before the
next parliament, he would nos now deals then at any great
length. His boo. opponent claimed their support on the
footing that the present government were the onlyindivi-
dual* to ride the helm of the state. Tear ) lie bed
every regard for that genii meet. Re thought they had '
been ailed into office in trying times, and that they had coo-
ducted the country, on the whole, with great talent and great
ability. But, in the present day, it behoved all parties to
give an indulgent consideration to the government of the day.
He should, if returned, as before, take= independent course.
—Mr. Robertson, on coming forward to address the meeting,
was loudly cheered. lie said that he was sorry that he
should be the means of disturbing the good feelings which
bad subsisted in this country for some years past. It was ne.
cceoary for him to state his reasocs for 'akin toget into par- 1
lima nt, and the particular motive by which he was actuated.
The early part of his life had been spent in Glasgow, the
university of which he had attended for two years, and then
proceeded to Calcutta ; that might account for his wish-
ing to obtain an entrance into parliament through the
suffrages of any constituency in this part of Scotland. In
returning from India, he had been struck with the progress
evinced in the buildings that have arisen in Glasgow, the
beautiful vessels that now skim the series* of the Clyde,
which he recollected had been, in his early days, encum-
bered with ill-managed craft, sad was struck at the appear-
ance of the beautiful villas that now are studded on its
shores. He felt convinced that there mast have been cor-
responding improvement and advenoement in the intellec-
tual end moral condition of the people. (Cheers.) These
feelings had been confirmed by more recent observation in
the course of his journey through the, magnificent county of
Dumbarton. It satisfied him that those were right who had
assured him that the majority of the constituency were
not likely to be altogether upon the side of a party
which had always been opposed to all that was most
desirable to be obtained. (Cheers.) And he saw no
reason why he should not come forward as a candidate.
The principal objection to him was, that be was a stranger.
Now, that was true of every man who had passed his life in
the service of his country abroad. The parliament of Great
Britain was of a two-fold character, that which related to in-
ternal, and what related to external matters—home and fo-
reign Iffairs. The latter embraced the whole world, and
were as important as the other; and a man who is well
versed in foreign affairs, might, by diligence, obtain a com-
petent knowledge of home matters. They might my that
external questions did not bear upon their comfort. But U
they were to look at the ships which were built there, carry-
ing on traffic with distant climes, they would think it had
something to do with their prosperity. Their trade with
China, if accounts proved true, might again be interrupted ;
now, on their relations with China he was pretty conversant.
And he was perfectly convinced that, whenever the re-
sources of India were doubled, as be trusted they would be
by the system of railways which was being introduced in
that empire, it was perfectly impossible for any body to cal-
culate what the result might be. Now, a thorough know-
ledge of the administration of that vast empire might surely
be no disqualification to act as their representative. But it
was disagreeable to speak of one's self ; however it was the
unhappy lot of a new comer, so that he must do so. It was
necessary to Rive them a sketch of his own career in India.
They must all have read of the Burmese war in India. It
ended by a treaty which for once brought a war to an end
without an unnecessary addition of territory. He held the
chief political situation there, and the government of a
large portion of India; and he had been engaged
in concluding the treaty of peace, which remained till
this day. (Cheers.) After returning to England, he had
been appointed a member of the Council of England.
This was the school in which he had been brought up, and
he thought that, with a moderate share of capacity, he
might at least comprehend the miners of this county.
(Cheers.) The burgh of Eirkintilloth might be wanting re-
form, Bonhill might have some discontentment with regard
to a bridge, and Helensburgh be in the same situation
with regard to its quay. Now, all these things he had picked
up during his sojourn amongst them. He was aware how
the game laws pressed upon the farmer, and how the entail
laws pressed upon the landlord. He would now come to
matters of • more general nature. If they were
to look hack to the beginning of the present can-
tory, they would find that, whaarver subdivisions there I
were, two puttee were in the state, dm one which regarded
the first principle of the British essoileation to be gas of
fixity, and the other its elasticity and peser of acomengibe
clog itself to the wants of a growing emllillehlgooke 101.0.•
oily. This was a great distinction of the peens is the sun ,
and it was by this distinction that be wad net lalutrkei I
ing that his hon. opponent and himself amid to tm
Ile (Mr. Robertson) belonged to the amireselve pee*, end
of Mr. Smollet he might say that bed to the pony
which opposed progress. He had no personal ammenlem
whatever with the ministry ; but with regard to it he Wail
give it his adherence so long as it kept to its
and no longer. He would support the p4allMall'A
free trade in all its extension ; he was opposed In in-
tolerance, and to all further endowments. He imald
raise his voice against the miserable war which wee waged
against die free kirk about site*. He would=tainoiy,,
measure to do away with the entail law, for the
of the game laws, and would give to the farmer ample and
complete protection. He would oppose laws of class legisla-
tion, and all legislation which had not for its immediate and
ultimate object the benefit of the community at large. Hay-
isg expressed his hope that the result of the election would
be as his friends ventured to anticipate, Mr. Robertsofi con-
cluded amid great cheering.—The Sheriff then called for a
show of hands for both candidates respectively ; but the
show of hands were so near that he found a difficulty in
deciding. Having called again, ho decided in favour Mlle
Robertson. (Cheers.)—A poll having bass dameaded us
the part of Mr. flinollett, the sheriff alUßSUlleli Sing till Pil-
ing days would be on Wednesday and Thusby next. at
Dumbarton and Kirkintillock—Mr. R. C. B. Graham, of
Gartmore, moved a vote of thanks to the Sheep, which wee
carried by acclamation, when the meeting *operated.
GLOUCESTMEURE (WEST).
Yesterday Mr. Sheriff Baker declared the official state of
the poll. It was as follows : Hall, 4,240 ; Grantley Berke-
ley, 2,744 ; Grenville Berkeley, 2,123. Mr. Grantley
Berkeley, after the declaration, asked the High Sheriff to
explain the meaning of a document which he then held in
his hand. It was signed by Samuel Sage end James Head-
ford, tipper Easton, St. George, and required the host mem-
ber to make the necessary oath that he was passaged dm&
dent property to qualify him to take his seat for the Mill=
division of the county.—The Sheriff said the declanisa sag
addressed to the hon. member. Ile would be required %Min
the necessary oath.—Mr. Berkeley, in continuation, said be
held in his hand evidence of an attempt made by the castle
Ito disprove his qualification. And why ? He had told his
friends long ago that Earl Fitzberdinge had lent him money
from time to time to make advances for his estates in the
West Indies; 3,0001. had been borrowed by the lord-
lieutenant at 4 per oent., and he was to pay 5 per cent. The
castle throughout this business had mistaken their man. He I
had consulted his solicitor relative to his qualification, and
he had taken the opinion of counsel ; that opinion was guile
satisfactory, end the qualification was quite sufficient for vary
member. He should, therefore, of course, take the oath,
and appear if necessary before a committee of the House of
Commons.

MONMOUTH (COUNTY).
The nomination of candidates for the representation of this
county took place on Saturday, at the Town-fall, Monmouth.
The preliminaries having been One through the high
sheriff, Mr. Wood, the Hon. W. Rodne pro , and Mr.
W. A. Williams, of Liangebby, Grenville
Somerset.—Sir Digby Mackworth_proposed, and the Rev.
D. Davies seconded, Mr. Oetedus I 4 .—Mr. C. Buckley
proposed, and Mr. S. Homtray seconded Captain Arthur
Sonerest.
Lord O. Soneaarr, on coming forward, said he believed
in his heart that he had done his duty to the constituency,
and for that and no other reason he asked them again to
return him to parliament. (Cheers.) He would not now go
into any matters which might be considered private. if his
character was attacked upon such grounds, he would aril
wild defend it; but, as far as the electors were con-
cerned, it was nothing to them what had caused the
disturbance which was taking place in the county.
They were to exercise their franchise upon public
grounds, and upon public grounds alone d 4 be solicit
it. (Cheers.) He should say nothing in derogation
of his late colleague Of the other gentlemen he should
speak by and by • but, in justice to himself, considering that
he had accused of having acted unworthily, he might be
allowed to state the case as it was. (Cheers.) In 1846,
having injured his health by close attention to his offidal
and parliamentary
.duties, he went abroad. While there, he
heard of the calamity which was impending over Ireland,
and knowing the difficulties it must entail, he hastened to
this country. His journey was interrupted by sickness, but
as soon u he arrived to London he took all possible pains to
master the subject. He had no wish even now to deny any.
thing he had said upon the corn laws, or to deny that he
had had a strong feeling that they were essential to the in-
terests of all classes ia the country, poor and rich. (Hear.)
In 1846, however, he was called upon to determine
noon a trait Mato of fdr..in. Ha ?Id men b9SC'ul'
of being one of the oonlidential advisers of the crown,
and upon him devolved the consideration of the
question, ova it right for a man in his position to be so at-
niched to the mere credit of consistency as to do what was
wrong ? He thought that it was his duty to do all he could
to increase the means of subsistence for the people. (Cheers.)
He knew that he should offend many amiable and valued
friends, hut he felt bound to do what be Imilamml in his con-
science
was necessary. In that quondam was involved
another—Could agriculteriseuto ea amain the sail if
pretection was taken away ? Me hit may mast the laniard
of the experiment; but after animas awl maim comallera-
Goa be was convinced that there was a nesamitv for frying
it. The cabinet with which he was connected felt that the
question was one which had not been before considered In a
light in which they felt bound to wander it, and Sir Robert
Peel and his followers resigned their offices into the hands of
the Queen. He (Lord O. Somerset) then loft town, expect-
ing that Lord John Russell would be able to form a govern-
ment. He knew that Lord Stanley would not undertake it,
for he heard him say so. (Hear.) Ile continued out of
London till he was sent for. fin Robert Peel told him that