The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1849.

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breem noarded, by eatereks the primate NI.
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wheat* /Ikea.
Thita ea soloist et thle =elks kali • sake et prima
mow NOM le dr altleettea et Os lead. week le adepW
wama7 oe the pilings% sal tedselles d Ihe demeletiea et
theodolites& peedemat ear slid oka.
km a. Pr&edam dig WI" Me ge Ikkothlbi Noakes thst the
WM. Wog rellame Oa sp. sez.
aria baddleal; end that mere bollyveet sleek be asekedeallima
be way eenterle, tbea the me
graft et week odd mune k
ty setae Mien.
Teig poi hare bees beedered le Ode swabs by Mr. Cheeks
Teeleeelbed wee et adtable Ind nee he purebred red sr
Ord le • volkee Weal slam IS ilbs Iva rood Las& Prim;
aid Oa sok gib Emmy sprit tor the Welk eel Nib biegisi
WO ',WNW. wit be mail et let thou 1051. pre edesaer.
ye o kee are woman et the gem as pswhet tho Ii
liplolOoll bee sea.
Tbet It Ime OMNI brm awed to be protek
/we( tbe 4111.
lissst et the labor et 1,010 pekoheee. the nay to
or ke wee. Us Om isor be heat la wit, the ert.
=,7;.7 lo *ilk mail ted. sal I origami, et earyies pre.
denies ary be depend 4 wet, er eadrely to &abet aD the
abikkollta. arm the ma aliakse to the bark
11 tYR wed~it kW to Or warm et *no MM.
Nolo is Wore asooflo. Ole moNos to et spike there le se =el
Emmet see Mai MN IS the weer% Oa le aid* to be
keleOil Zetat ,Lip aanttlee; owl If it
goatTil worressiltit===loil'imalbt:
itas the yealtst sessatiat : to
jig- sleep eartiee d the almond peo of SY imovarylill
erakalal So bawled sad tedametery dleelohme la the nm
pa. amy trueopholed es is stalk. eta
seirimilieled nod" so welt
so Who soisoin totirortai
terehead.
14. swo MIME open the argyle, neelatkee.
by the theleers ea Musa et gm sadist.. lo wt to lob
Woo of prgoolose.
C PlaatlON. ia yanks dole adoption. istiornatod
keg ihoeid Se4Weerre Oki) swabs imply to say ehjeo.
leas tbst nil& be West to tits primetple bivalved la thesis
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The Ree. M. FMB emlera fato •• welesitt themes
(aisle he load) et the Weft iffelfm so 241 Babb
* Gael. semmensed asking Pawn with
banes employed as spat Me goatee informallesa she won
111111.11117 of credit for levies bola three times temeistesi sf
AIL (oh, eh.) Thus des moos hem
what the Ina
.11•1111111 had bees sleeked was the pekoe the ma*
balk the ham einsiseks piselpally ed e
st
geggsgaele ef pabikkothes, issued of pawns is a
awe respectable position, sad et Ow employees e/ iopg.l
maw het re sad since their seavietioa. Mer ai
Tama himself be samthiseed • fair and imp ettlugnm
a this sahjest, es hip lad assisted at the waiver at=
mit that be bad bees ..tuned to des British parliament he
paps elesrakai the *unto system. Bat bends
game ha. shish bused • pnek acre case aphid the
ellatemsels meth by Mr. Perinea, be was
es the lestheley of the employers of the
bath ea seavinica—of the clergyethe
and ether asetheess of undoubted respectability end yew
prove that those statements were inaccurate. With
regard to that thin ofpelmets who, having bees sonneted
end imenuosed fur thu first time, and, according to Mr. I
Tumms, had neither been benefited nor kilned by the t,
tests which they bad been subjected is Reading seek
gala letters from the incumbents of Bt. Odes, 51.
MN% sad St. Mary Etudes!, and other pieties, stumble
MO therm who had 'been habitual drunkards and
daemon before their imprisonment, had beeoneen=
ekes their discharge, sad won sow geSdbmiendas.l
mks mos, sad, in many butsthes, were attakeesi
at Math The master of two of the d thississis
la writhe to lobo to my that uses their Mahar' they had
ellnald to his lades and manna themselves well. Yet
Seem thee MI possesses whelk sessaing te Mr. Peanon's
mate the sr:area In Reading Gaol bad either
a Weds= shut, or se tan at all.
se to the UM et eseethatasents in the lbws sheet of
NAftalion's list, whisk 'sambaed 14 eases, there wen two
to whhh the parties had arm bees discharged ; sae having
leas teemkerted Mr swath* the turnkey, and the other
bevies Isms desks& in etessedy for smother Oboes com-
milled U meal% before. Is Met, there was not see of the
edema he. 'thine Mr. Tema bad eissesd the eras, is
shill pees kiesseethee whisk a cored l inquiry might
kw melded. did set mac It had bees alleged that the
span puma at Waft was appeal te religious liberty,
la be had Om testhemey, set may 10 the bishop of the die-
m. ad of a large number of the clergy, but also of many
dinesitig minister', in favour of that system. Kr. Peens*
had dmwi ad the pal as • phis plass ; bat, as far as the
plea itself wee aisainal, it was of the plainest
themeter ; and if the neogistrates obese to spend a thousand
path arse in so oreamentisg the interior—that part which
mas sampled by the principal oaken—as to make it a build-
whisk Omsk be as theasseat to the amity, airy king
gibe rape' thatributees to the eau* nes, who tai /IN ?
( Oh, oh !) He admitted thst the aft
Rea* gad had bees esornsons and unsessmary—
thar, heara—bat the eas=es tes were not resgssida he
slot The adman sad se tin attending seselm-
Ilas weep so pest that they would be • lasting othailien
le seal the like in say Imre building el the seam kid.
The whitest bad misethelated, the oostreetor had faired,
11111118111szporimests bad bees tried without thongs : bet
the result, at length, had bees to cloth a build-
kg eemplete for its purpose is all
caring death what it might lath doe.llitie
ma however' lase set ow* to the scholar seeks, bat
the sasses he had stated. Thu soot of making the seas sew
rate habitation' by day—he it was admitted by Mr. Pmesea
that the prim:awn should he separated by • ight—ssaid ass
be takes at more than 5,0001., sad dunes flier years deal
the templates'. it could be shown that the saving to
the erniety ia the dimiaatisa of peceseations wee set less
than EMI. Mr. Pewees had stated the emsp slut a
the primers is Bead* ran at 661 each per =SUSI that
was an aide setimate. There were 236 mils in the pall,ma
the easter of often to superintend and hand the pi-
than wee calculated in proportion to that sr
her. Bat when Mr. Peareon's estimate MD thaws
there were but 100 mils sampled —the met for larks them
was 1k 10s. for each Omar! t r OW' 1014 a nearly all the subs
were ceseapied, it was °sly 6L, and the entire annual mut fier
cask prisoner •as reduced to 311 la lOid. He admilled
that thu separate system was the ken esp. with at the
sight. bet when they took its corrective sham lath sessuat
a path" pr evia:7 saving would be lona to seat hem
I. If the prison lore was in some eases mem Om midst
se eitapred with what men could commest cwt Manua st
at the sake, which be admitted, that was not the fiat of
Ihe smeiscretes whom Mr. Penton had so unfairly Male*
but M the legislature. lie dada the mark. is Mr.
Peereake report (that the prbosen were ohmiselly de.
Ildwaka by the system pursued in Rthelig Gaol,
and that they were consequently, as had bees asserted,
usable to sae/stain themselves by their labour for moo time
after their release. So far from this, he bad • velars with
lbs, showing that the amount of disease ma sae a maw'
tality la the gaol was mush lees now than wake the lid
=, With ward to the number of cesseithis le
sea, it had bees reduced 10 per amt. maw Ole
sew gassy and If they deducted the reargue (mew then
600) the had bees seat to it during the last two =
Veda be Mal km, probably, in proportion to the
this way ether county gest ia Upland He
Oise
puted the pinatina ef Mr. Peassa, that primers skean be
amplied thews their bread blithe casing It, waked.
kg that the orkavair sisal be rake to awakes
to their minds mimel and Males peiellintiolos
cam that they might beams virtuous and
when ashamed, ea esseinded by this.* the Berkshire
system, the principle of whisk wee esolneleabstrzmulabstest
—Maar as • relaxation—ea emiptesal m • ear
restive as wise, Christian, mid beseeme.
Mr. ACLitZ4D, who bed easels' the Massa as whisk
Mr. POSTOOD'S statements withisEd to Rea* gaol were
beaded, explained that there be seem inecoarecies in
them is °outguess* of /IN Mm pima authorities
to glee him acmes to the priseelitst or to check his returns
by them, although they had lo de so, but the pee-
rs! results were smith sped to the charge that
ho bed bass sancta of libel, it wen tree. He had
boss m emended more than three dale. bat it was ea seek
seesaw be *ideal leba sad at a period when the truth
of the libel, width he math Imre proved, was Mid to be so
&hale, but rather es eggethation of the chary. With ro-
ped to the east of the system pursued in Reading gaol,
there were three gallte in which it bad been considered
successful that the parties had been discharged before the':
sentences had septa, the reformation being thought to be
so conspire, in one of which the party, who had i
to Mr. Field's report, desired to remain in prison trrM
leaning the New Testament, had been sines coexiseed of
sheep-steal* ; in another, the man was aria is Beading-
gaol (throbbing his employer (Mr. Walter, of Beer-wesd),
who had taken him back after his discharge from UM prisms
sad is the third, the party had absconded, takiar with him •
helm, bridle, and peat coat Waggle to another penes.
The dims:ion was then a to to-morrow (this)
even* at 7 o'clock.

Citome.—Yeeterelay the Baud of Health re-
Weed repent of the Moyne fresh tame :—Wandswortb,l
3. 1 fatal ; Bowden Union Workhouse, 2, 1 feel ,•
4. 3 fetal ; Olsson, 110, 38 fetal; Danipace, 2 fetal; March.
Ilse, 1 fatal ; Hamilton, frost 29th ult., 36.26 fatal ; Paisley,
Bees 13n inn, 82, 27 fatal; Greenock, 9, 2 fatal ; Selkirk,
fatal 2 ; Dryborgh Mattoon, 6, 2 fatal ; Old Hilpatrkk, 2;
Dew, 2 ram! ; Logic Stirliog, 1 fatal Jedbergh, 1 fatal
Bea ,frew frees 22nd alt., 18, 10 fatal; New Milne and
likernels, 21, 13 fatal ; Anderson, 4, 1 fatal Total new
ems, 310 ; 133 deaths.
Los DON ORPHAN MITLVIL—The annul meeting
of governess of this landladies was held yesterday at the
barks Tarera.—Mr. Jean Cape! having takes the chair,
the secretary proceeded to reed the report, from which it
Marteat the total reeeipts for the pant year were
:a. 7d., and the espesditur• 8,6871.4 r. 71., leaving a
elidi es the meet seesara of 2891. Lace the last general
Resin, 67 ehildms, having completed their terms, had left
Ste institution, 7 had died in the asylum. sad 2 were Hader
the an of their rrinds ; 74 had bees admitted, sad of this
mem 9 were admitted under rule 37, so by elections. and
6in neemnence of herbs( bees expelled frees the Asylum
M British Orpb tee M Paris. It WU Winded to admit two
mare under similar CirtRINUSOIS. The day's keine would
*Ant 30, making the Mel amber Is ths asylum 397. The
total nets rofehildres who would have receivrd the besets
atlas inititatino sine Ins estaldielmeat on the completion of
their time by the premat instates and candidates would be
1, "
766. Tlt= byes adopted, the secretary moved
t children be edwitted from France, 2001
having bees paid fee them by the Refugee Committee.
Aimed to. The /devious of thirty children was thee pro.
seeded with, the number of candidates being 144. The kol-

lewieg an, the name el the sweerealtl eladidelea, with the
asteaber sby each. Girls : Laaprey, 10.361 ; Dank.,
8,616; WA 8,415; Morris, 8,272 ; D. 7,081 ;
8e..., 7, 1 ; Callaway, 7,476; Gala, 7,466; Haynes.l
7,466 ; 074414 7,416 ; BWee. 7,281 ; Clark, 7,140 ; Claf,
7,o9l.—Swys: Naha, 8,436 ; 8,142 ; Johnson,
8.134 ; Boma, 8,044 ; ahem 7,959 ; 7,968 ;
Prielwed, 7,9= ; TIMM. 7,746 ; Alba, 7,577 ; Scott, 7,398 ;
thuseew, 7,347; 7,286 ; 'Mauer, 7,180 ; Hopwood,
7,083 ; Areal, ; Wink, 8,923 ; Swath, 8,788.

MIL BANK= AND an CsartricATLLlSir —ln a
„ukivses4.4mrsai lignaday then is a panigala B.
he
to the Gnirt of oirea's
he the teams! Mains
to peastise, whisk Wit"o that
ene oppli Mica .U 1 be made ea the last day next
berm" Teeth ibis is a nhetelonsat whisk, as nail
ansent• it is aeaawy shoal& be wrens& The
noise of appfiration which I have gins is for
the last day of this present Hilary Tern' that being
Ilse eninenlistday upon which, earoMing to the present
nude., I out apply. No affliouisa ever having been
made to strike um eff the roll., ny sane still eciatinties
thereon ; bat by the het 6 & 7 Vie., esp. 78, see. SS,
when as attorney has eneed to take oat his certificate for
one whole year, he Innen naew it withoat leave of the
emit." By 7& 8 Geo. IV., an. 28, see. 13, a garden abler
the sign sum! ha. all the effe:t of a pardon aide, the
Greet Beal, so that my civil rights bnag restaged, no ap-
to In reradatitted is neosanry.—lV. H. BAilli—
5iti1.1632:.

NEMOATI AND SNITHFIRLD Mara.— Silt —I
Aeons by year_ yelper that it is romearmi that at LIR the
ef Looisa is likely to monde, whether the site
_of Mallet wet be applied to another object.
Mow me to sosiest what appears to me would be a meet
egmeoleut 'Maeda of it and beneficial le all parties
asessfy, the rameal of Newgate Market to J.
1110211111ri, 11111111 DAY. ALLUDED MIIIIDII.
Beim Mo. G. I. Miti., the deputy-serener. at the lterlia's
Cam, Ma aestreet, Osfortimreet. ma the lode Maria
Deithei seed 26, the part,
of when Ikea
=Zlenottile oe Saturday too, under the heed of
street Poises Coact. Tbe babas& of the de-
famed, W. S. Howells, who fe in easstody ea the "huge of
kerbs %MOM the wound is his wite's breast, wee masa
=lle booy, sad agora deeply ahead. Me do-
shift ef the witnesses Iposideas, sr shin any
enplastien, merely reelarkiog that he mold say so more
than that the demand did it herself. The "vides/awn pre.
=daffier to that gime before the magistrate, with the es-
Mille mat el dispose mortnes 'modesties by Mr.
flawksiey, the enegems, *ea which it appeared that the
knife, after peeing throgett tke left breast. toasted in an
(Aliens direction us the right, through the lift lasi, as.,
sod penetrating the right one to the extent of .a inch. The
hairs run have been buried up to the hilt, and great form
must have Imes used. It WU not impossible for the female
to have indicted Ike wound hareelf, but was much easier
(sad Mr. 'Lability) for any one Mending in frost of her to
have done it. The jurry returned a verdict-" That the de-
, eased died from the Mints of a mortal wound in her left
breast, hat how or by what MOWN inflicted them
was sot sufficient evidence to show."—Daum Fuca

irgav—hrt- ow7Lliefere Mr. Bedford, in the St. Met.
ties workhouse, as to the death of H. Mallard, aged
35, who bad bees found in a dying state by the police.—H.
Mallard said the deceased was her husband's nephew, and
was a cork-suttee by trade, but had for months been wander-
lag about the struts without say means of subsistence, ex-
cept what was given to him. Hs said he had applied for re-
lief at St. George's, Hanover-pears, but they repulsed him
from the door, although it woe his parish. Oa Saturday
week she nu kin 3d. H. .oared them hardly drag oae leg
after onetker.—W. Mallard, a beaker of the deceased, stated
he was now an inmate of St Osorge's workhouse, where his
brother told kiss he had made frequent applications to be
admitted, but they had re(ened him to Marylebene, where
he last slept. Witness had bean sent to St. Giles's for the
same reason, but he went to Mr Hardwick, at Marl-
b h-street, sad was admitted. On Sunday week, he
saw him, sad be was thin in a dying state.—
A petit:emus deposed that he head the deceased sitting on
some steps is Spar strut, Ltdoseeseelanre, se Wednesday
morning, about 9 o'clock. His 'push was surly gone, and
hie feet were mach worn from walking without shoes. He
was nearly naked, and he was three quarters of an hour
walking to the statics-house, witless be was taken to the
woekhouse.—Dr. Baiabridge, .sops, mid his attention
was salted to the deceased the moment be was brought la.
He was I. a most emaciated state, with namely any pulse.
Everything was dime for hiastbut it was with great difficulty
he swallowed. He said be had been wandering about the
streets since Oztober. His feet wire in such a state that
the dirt had worked into them. He died the same night.
On 'gulag the body he fusel the stomach empty. Death
was sassed by exhaustion from want of sufficient nourish-
, seat, and exposure to cold and wet —The Coroner said he
could not ekes the inquiry without hearing some one from
St. George's, Hanover-square. It was hardly possible they
would refire say one in this denim state ; but if they did
repulse the demesed, and he belonged to the parish, the case
would be much more serious.—The inquest wu adjourned.,

MILITARY EXPENDITURE.
air,—The letters which have appeared in the
Exprose, particularly that of Mr. Cubdeo, and the able
reply of Mr. °ledges* to Sir Wm. Napier on the subject of
the armelot, ite , induce me to offer some remarks on
the various keaaehes of military expenditvre. I shall com-
ments with the ordnance' corps :
The clothing of these corps is furnished by a contract
made directly by government with an army clothier or tailor,
and the clothing *as supplied is compered, by a board of
officers appointed for the purpose, with the sealed patters,
which is of • better quality than that approved of ler the
line. The public would appear by this system to be saved
the difference between the sum allowed to the colonels in the
line to clothe their men, and the sum actually expended
thereon. Bet this is not the case, for a compensation of
1,0001. a year is given instead to each colonel of a battalion
of artillery . This is a print sinecure, for such colonels
(general Akers) have nothing whatever to do with the bat-
talions. la feet, the rely messiag of dividing the regiment
of artillery tato battening, is to give an excuse for then
g. 1 a year sinecures. A sompany or a troop is as am-
tbe Lateral is the 1011i1141 as a battalion or regiment
la Noe; all the duties, whether in garrison or in the
MK bides token by separate compeans—in the field termed
Ileaberirm
After the ekes of the war, wises the income-tax and other
tease were discontinued the artillery were reduced to their
isle strength, and with the exception of Hong-Kong, they
haw no more pajamas than they had. Last year, however,
it was announced that they were to be augmented, and—as
melt banana's consisted of eight compaake—to add two com-
panies to each battalion—makiag each consist of ten com-
panies, the same as the line—es, wad consistent with ros-
ette. Moreover, ie is also the *umber which formed a bat-
talioa in the time of war.
Mace the artillery consisted of eight battalions the number
of companies to be added would be the seam whether each
battalion were to *mist of tea companies, or two more bat
taboos of eight companies each were formed ; and a pars-
Clitwent the round of the papers about June last, stating
the latter wee to be edpted, and giving the names of ell
the oaken who woald in consequence be promoted. This
was evidently pat forth as a feeler. But the job was too
gross to be carried out while parliament was sitting. It was
in fact merely in order to give two more sinecures of 1,0001.
a_ year each to the commandant and the adjutant-general at
Woolwich.
The Gazette acoordinsly came out with two commas"
added to malt of the eight bananas', and passed without
mike. No sooner, however, was parliament prorogued
then the job was effected ; the 18 compasies were taken
from the battalions, and SWIM' into two new ones. Thus,
is order to give these two einem their siasenras of I,OOW. a
year, the public is saddled Ma the apse of fear addi-
Meal colonels, and eight neaten= , balks oaks-
tants, quarter-masters, de., while the number of colonels
and lieutenant colonels was already so great, that half of
them were unemployed, or quite unnecessarily attached to
the garrison at Woolwich, where there already is double the
cumber required fur the duties.
This job, however, besides the two sinecures to favoured
calkers already holdirg highly paid appoint= nts, gave great
patronage to the larater-Oeseral by removing onions from
the Horse Artillery, and thereby making vacancies in that
seem far appointments, is which great interest is always
made, es the oaken have higher pay, the best stations at
home, and take so colonial dation.
It may be here remarked that this service, notwithetand-
tag the other reduction, was still kept up to its full comple-
ment of anis, as is war tine—namely, one colonel-
oommandent, two colonel', five lieutenant-colonels ; and for
each troop one ant captain, one second captain, and three
lientesanot, though the establishment of the troop was re-
duced from six guns; 158 rank and file, and 158 horses to
two guns, 62 rank and Ilk, End 28 horn.
The keeping up of this exam of oaken at great expense—
s@ they have all cavalry allowasoes—was evidently to make
places for favourite', who are thereby also exempted from
taking their tour of colonial ',foie*. For similar reasons, no
doubt, the household troops have more officers than the line
—namely, one major, and two troops more each.
This addition of battalions else pave the master-general
the patronage of a number of additional cadetships for the
Royal Military andcmy ; that is to say, it enabled him to
give mmunusions gratis, which are so highly paid ter in the
thse Gad is the cavalry.
The whole of this job is so gross, and so obvions'y felt to
be ea, from its having been delayed tin parliament rote, that
it would be ue,fal and laudable if some member would move
that a petition be preastel te her lbjesty for the camellias
el this esseishas m=s.eti list the 16 companies be
re-alludedto the $
It will se MOO be aeged that ea augmentation was called
for, is ceder to glee promellea to the higher ranks, the
junior lieutenant eelensis Imlay bees 40 years in the air-
nos. Bat whence dem this elmeme of promotion sake I
Not, as is generally sell, hem aims Eking by andarlig,
but becalm the regiment is otem•olimeed, seek company
being loaded with two captain sad we liserameate, and le
the Horse Artillery, tow lisatemate, thee. the line eall
snayky ban only oak of mak
NMI. Heats it is evident that
the mut be doable the time la ;min
se& of these realm. Ile* •of amber of Misses tir=
wisealwamy, pacifiable* la the imams et two NOM' se
a 111111111•117. sad also two OM batman ; z, perhaps,
whoa ea genies, whets ea sake liniment ' be even,
es le the poetise is reehmaln ionise la The is.
desimile al Assn is holed Is yosmitha ia the sigimest,
le a mhos beemimmese, ma a peel carom to the ism
toy. ledleeldt seems van Wad ter, it wadi be heed
that ball the deem hams is ales mem out of ME. beta m
leave on resnatim, whist peraig signifies lanes a sew
commissioned Wow and eau or Me privates statism& is a
market town seer their family so him&
Other important matters rim& to be tactical, bat mutt
be the subject a a future comesuMatlea.
Jan. 9. KUM.

OUR REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM.

HARWICH (Cownivan).
Two or three years before the general election of
1841, a gentleman took op his residence in Harwich
el the =me of Bagehaw, an But India merchant. He
bad been member for fiedbw in 1433, and an an-
snoessefol candidate far lEerminster in 1837, and
at this tints he was out of parliament—a gentleman
at ease.

Mr. Barium exhibited great interest in the well-
being of the electors of Harwich, and their families
and him& The government have got a dockyard in
the town: it had gone to wreck and ruin. Mr. Bag-
shaw got it upon lease from the Woods and Forests,
and proceeded to build ships and give employment to
a part of the population. lb. John Williams, the
well.know mistioeary vessel, was one of the last ships
built in Mr. Bsgshaw's yard, and the Harwich people
speck of it with great respect accordingly.

7he high stewardship of Harwich Calling vacant,
Mr. &gam got himself elected to that aloe,
and there being a prospect of a dissolu-
tion of parliament, it became understood that he
would also cifer himself for the borough.
The impression was speedily confirmed. Mr. Ear
shaw, as he himself said, " made his canvass very
early." He knew every voter in the borough :
" there was not a person that he did not make Wes-
sell acquainted with, and their circumstances." He
employed a dozen voters or two himself, and that was
no small number in proportion to the entire con-
stituency. Mr. Bagehaw 's canvass was consequently
most soceentful. Capt. Ellice was certain not to come
again. Whether the other sitting member, Mr. Her-
ries, would stand was also doubtful. It mattered very
LIU, to Mr. Bagehaw whether he did or not, for his
return at the head of the poll against him soon be-
came certain as the day.
Whilst Mr. &phew was making Harwich safe
for himself, a negotiation was going on in London.
The now Sir Dents Le Merchant, who had held for

come years the post of SecretUT of the Board of
Trade, bad just been promoted to the Age of
Secretary of the Treasury. By prescription the
Secretary of the Tressury was entitled to a seat la
parliament for Harwich. It was consequently arranged
among the whip that Sir Denis 1,. Merchant Amid
go down to that town. Mr. Herrin was far toe sour-
Mous a politician, and far too old a placemen, to die-
sent from such an arrangement. So well, too, did ha
know the power of a Treasury Secretary at Harwich,
that he deemed even his own personal influence 1
the electorate would be of comparatively no :1,2
Mr. Harries declined coming forward again. Sir Denis
Le Merchant who, as he says, " had a great deal of
public business at the time" (a treasury secretary al-
ways has at a general election) only west dawn to
Harwich for a couple of days. He found that, is
ware to secure anything like a favourable intrados-
tine to the place, it was necessary to pay 5001. on ea-
heal it. He did not exactly know, he said, what it
was for. He never looked at the bills, for it was an
unpleasant sort of hominess altogether, and he de-
strayed them at once ; but as far as the 5001. went it'
seemed to be for old accounts; for instance, a oonsi-
derable sum to a regatta, to which a former
candidate had not subscribed ; and these
were things which seemed perfectly indepen-
dent of election matters local politics, &c.
Part of the money, he believed, had been advanced
by a third person, and if he had not paid the money
it would, he dare say, have injured his prospects, and
have been thought very discreditable."
With deference to Sir Denis Le Merchant, it was
rather a mistake paying out that 5001. It began to
give people at Harwich a flesh taste for election
money. A body of electron instantly displayed great
anxiety to have a contest. They tent a deputation up
to town, and various persons were consulted. For
some time there seemed great difficulty in getting even
a single candidate. At length they fell in with a
gentleman who offered them two. It was a Mr. Masse
who describes himself as a parliamentary agent. He
arranged everything. He got a " moneyed candi-
date," and " the scion of a noble house," to run
together. John Attwood, Esq., of Hy-lands, and
William Beresford, Ea+, of NO-lands, were the can-
didates he selected. Mr. Masse, the muter of the
election ceremonies, introduced the blushing pair to
each other prior to the dance. He arranged all they
were to do. Moses went down to Harwich to pu-
pate the way for them. On the 13th of June he
issued en 'Altus to the "Constitutional electors of
the borough," announcing that " thous candidates
would personally solicit their votes and warm
support, as gentlemen "who came to the rescue
of the town, to promote its trade, reduce its church
rates, re-establish their intercourse with the north of
Europe, and thereby make Harwich what it was in
former times." Mr. Mome further called a meeting
of the inhabitants. lie let it be understood that " Mr.
Attwood was a man of immense fortune." He held
out, " in an electioneering fashion," that he would
pay " their church rate debt " (a matter of 6,0001.),
and that " he would assist their railway as far as he
could (say to the extent of 10,0000." There was
also something fa, thee mid about Mr. Att-
wood making water works and supplying the
town with water, a matter, perhaps, of
10,0001. additional. In fact there was nothing too
great for Mr. Attwood and his friends to promise :
and poor Mr. Bagshaw's dock-yard and the "John Wil-
liams" faded into insignificance before the railway,
the water-works, and the payment of the church-rate
debt.
Mr. Mows, the agent of Mr. Attwood and of Major
Beresford, has put on record the particulars of their
expenditure, &c., at the election in question.
I told Mr. Attwood that I considered the election would
cost from 3,00 W to 4,00 W. for both the caadidates. He said,
/ will mirk pleat's,' pay it, but I shall not pay any
money, directly or iodirectly, to bribery, tor I could
never rest easy upon my pillow if I keew
that there was • man calltd upon to take
the bribery oath who had received a bribe tweeting for me.'
" I will candidly admit," says Mr. Mow, "that when I
went to Harwich I had expected that there might be eight
er ten men who could be bribed. I found that there were
about ten men doubtful, bet the pathless said they were to
be had. I perfectly understood what they meant—to be had
by bribery ; and there were the old municipal and other ex•
penes. which mused me to mans so large a sum es from
3,0001. to 4,0001. for both ceadidates; them expenses, for the
credit of the conservative side, they said, must be paid. I
had taken down 2,5001. with ma, I gave Mr. Car, a Har-
wich banker, who is now dead, 2,3001, ; and from airmen-
stances that occurred, I did not enter into money matters
with Mr. Cos. • • •
•
I lodged the nest day 1,0001. at his bankers, which made
3,5001. I concluded that every shilling was paid of the
expenses. • • Afterwards I watt Own and met Mr. Cox
at Ipswich, and he told me that he had paid 2.2001., in sddi-
tioa to what he bed had. I told hint that it was totally int-
possible I could say a weed to Mr. Attwood about
it. I expressed myself in very strong terms of in-
dimmed= at what had bees resorted to. He mid,
"It could not be avoided, for the other party were
offering immense sums." I said " They may have been,
but it most have been only laying a trap for you." • • He
Trema very much. • • I therefore sent 1,5001. • •
enning Mt. Cox told me "We shall want 1,5001.
mom." I was astonished, and I told than I was quite sur-
prised, and I could not mention it to Mr. Attweed. • •
Mr. Cox wrote such pressing linen that we scarcely spoke
to earh other, because ha was 6o angry that be could not
get the balance. Then he applied ti Mr. Attwood, sad
said it was very iseouveuisat to lie out of the money. I said
to Kr. Attwood " that dig must be paid" ; and I mut,
through a connexion of mine, to Mr. Cox 1,3001. • •
That makes 6,3301.
A prettier exposure of the way a candidate is
sometimes bled never perhaps was presented. Mr.
Moose declared that he received no account—that
" he purposely abstained from having anything to do
with that." Mr. Cox died soon alter the election;
and as he was the sole acting partner in the firm, it
is not probable that any very clear explanation ever
was forthcoming.
Mr. Attwood, Mr. Muss—no single party imme-
distally concerned—ever admitted a knowledge of how
Ills messy was disbursed. But there are mecum-
sisaces narrated in Harwich that show pretty
dearly how a part of it went. It has been rather
a MIMI of bout amongst individuals there how much
haws sea USII received than another. " I got 1501."
"'Ay 2001. we. my figure." Sir Denis IA Merchant
bad a principal supporter—the landlord of a public
he..., at which a breakfast was given by the liberals
en
the morning of the polling day. Up to 12 o'clock
*silage of Le Merchant and Bapkaw were displayed
hem the windows. At that hour they were drawn
Icar " for fear," as the landlord said, " that they might
pi damaged." At about half-past two a large blue
banner, to the astonishment of all the town, was
thrown out of the same window, and very
shortly after Sir Denis, who was watching
the poll with extreme anxiety, was struck
dumb with astonishment at seeing the worthy
publican and his sin principal supporters of
his, all through the contest—come up to the poll and

tender their votes for Attwood and Bamford. They
received 6001. from the twin, which was sot quite all
profit, for their bill against Sir Denia's committee
was, very properly, dishonours&
There were 169 voters of whom 180 polled. Mr.
%phew had received 100 diatinot promises, and
two persons voted for him that he did not realise on.
At the close, waver, the numbers stood thus: For
Atwood, 94 ; Bereaford. 94; Bacahaw, 83; Le Mer-
chant, 74. For the first time is Harwich a Secretary
to the Treasury was Meats& It must have been,
indeed, a atzesg inducement to secure that.
How many of the voters were bribed ? Mr. Bag-
shaw says " The great majority of them." The people
at Harwich now-frdays say three.foarthe, at lout,
which comes nearly to Mr. Bagehaw's mark. Mr.
Joseph Parkas, however, hes a more amiable opinion
of human nature at Harwich than other people. He

,aye: _
The balmy. at the pert et the defeated auutidatee, was
TNT ta they wadi have get the ratan I have ao
isabt. imtr el the others. Have ream to believe that

as viii_stuokluable asiirme ;Wei.; swin that
Wok eilmimisa was, Het about use Ulf of the pea
wastitessey a leibsl6 int not axisillt. Pukes Naas
to Wok " one MK" a asauste The elirriSt
opinion leer died MIAMI% should doubt it. I
shook' say that eoeareeheb were bribed by the sitting mew.
ben, sad sot 20 by the Went.
Mr. Puke. says that he never in the course of his
Frriente knew an elation conducted alter the

&igen of that at Harwich, in which it was possible
for the anconsful parties to hold the seats. No sooner
hadmthareatiament ot 1841 assembled than Sir Denis
Le t presented a petition against the return on
the grounds of bribery and corniptiss. He was ad-
vised, however, that proof was dines% and that it
would be better to pray for a void return than to ask
for the seat for himself. Mr. Bagehaw also presented
*petition, bat without any intention of seriously pro-
m/sting it. He was, as he says, much too disgusted
place. "I was not going to be a party to an
ezperiee litigation for • borough that I so com-
pleter deviled for the conduct that I had experienced
theme " I did not mean to go to the elms* of a
petition which, after all, perhaps, might place me in
the situation of member for a borough that
I did nlt core one straw fur after tLe con-
duct which I had experienced." Such being
Mr. &phew's sentiments, and Mr. Coppock, of
Cleveland row, being his agent, Mr. Parkes under-
took to " arrange" the matter upon the principle of
securing Major Beresford 's seat for Sir Denis Le Mer-
chant. In the report of Mr. Roebuck's committee
there is a very long and amusing history of how he
set about it: coaxing here, wheedling there, humour-
ing one man's foibles, Battering another person's
vanities, working upon a third party's fears and feel-
ings, until at length this master of human nature was
able to dicta's " the terms of an arrangement," which
Mr. Roebuck reported to have been as follows :
1. That Major Beresford should retire, by accepting the
Chiltern Hundreds, within a month.
2. That dir D. Le Merchant was to be allowed to stand
unopposed by Mr. Attwood and his agent.
3. That Mr. Attwood should pay by way of deposit, as
guarantee, 2,6001., whisk was to be forfeited provided that
the tents enured into by Mr. Attwood, on behalf of
his sad Major Bereshed, were not Walled.
4. That the petitions spied the roars of the sitting
members should all be isamsdistely withdrawn.
The petitions were withdrawn, and all farther pro-
ceedings arrested. But the compromise was no
further carried out. Sir Robert Peel, with the ex-
treme sense of propriety which distinguishes him,
refused compliance in thee. compromise cases, with
all applications for the humble offioe of steward of the
Chiltern Hundreds, and Major Beresford, very
much, no doubt, to his own satisfaction, was
consequently unable to serve her Majesty in
that capacity, and obliged to serve the electors
of Harwich as their representative in parliament.
Presuming that Mr. Attwood's deposit of 2,6001.
was handed over to Sir Denis Le Merchant, which is
a matter of course under the circumstances, the total
payments of that gentleman for the seats at Harwich
would be B,BooL,without the legal expenses,which may
be estimated at nearly 1,2001. more. Total, 10,00 W.
Major Beresford contributed nothing—but, as he said
himself; " the gratitude ot warm-hearte d Irishmen."
It is not often that a man is so lucky as to have
honour doubly thrust upon him in this fashion, and at
these costs. Major Beresford'a introduction to Har-
wich subsequently led to his obtaining a seat fur
Essex, where he was taken in band by Sir John
Tyre% and returned under not dissimilar circum-
stances.
Mr. Attwood's subsequent doings at Harwich mast
be reserved for another day.

IRELAND.

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There was a very full meeting of the Royal Dublin
Society on Saturday evening, to witting the distri-
bution. by Lord Clarendon, of prizes to the several
sumeesful pupils in the School of Fine Arts. The
company assembled was very brilliant, and comprised
many of our distinguished midget. here. The pro.
carding. commenced with a very lengthy lecture on
botany by the soclity's professor of that science. The
sumasful pupils were then introduced to his Excel-
lency, who kindly noticed the most deserving
amongst them, and banded the. the prizes which
had been awarded. Sir William Betham then ten-
dered the thanis of the society to his Excellency
for his kindness in honouring them with his presence,
upon which Lord Clarendon replied in an admirable
speech, which elicited repeated applause : His Excel-
lency, alter alluding to the object of his presence,
mid :
" The reign of order has succeeded te that of tenor on the
outfuent, and markets which were closed to us by revolu-
tions ars new gradually opening to our manufaetuu of
which, as I before had oxiasion to observe, the agricultural
products of Ireland are integral parts as mush as the wool,
the cotton, and the silk. of which those manufactures are
°unposed. I therefore trust that before long the staple
produce of Inland will command a more remunerative
price than hitherto it has unfortunately done—(hear)—
and if it shall plums the Almighty in his mercy this year to
bestow upon us the blessings of abundance, I trust the &a-
mities we have gone through will be regarded only as a pro-
vidential warning, and serve u a stimulus to tenoned exer-
tion in a rouges more conducive to national prosperity.
But I am enabled to speak in a tone somewhat more akin
to arteloty with respeo to that department of the Royal
Dublin Society, which this evening sore particularly claims
our attention. It may be in your recollection, that in the
course of the few remarks which I last year made in this
room, I expressed those feelings of regret which I believe to
be mason to u all, that no schools of design hod yet been
established in Ireland. I stated to you that on the ne-
m° °madam when the Chancellor of the Exchequer
had bean applied Whig answer was "no effect';" and I like-
wise romisedthatevery exertion of mine should be used for
that abject which we all have so much at heart.
717-Plelge has been redeemed, and although the Chancellor
of Pas Exchequer might, I believe, with equal, if not gutter,
tenth, have last year returned the same answer of no
elects," yet effeets have been hound, and school' of
are about forthwith to be established, not only in Dl=
bet in Belfast and Cork. (Loud applause.) And as the
arrangement consequent on this determination has been con-
fided ty the government to me, I will take this opportunity
of announcing that I propose to place the Dublin school of
design in cowslips with the Royal Dublin Society." On
the subject his exesliney proceeded to remark : "It is not as
an unmeaning, compliment that I say the Irish are, in my
opinion, far more apt to learn—that they possess
much greater ingenuity and much greater natural
talent than the English ; and yet when I see the improve-
ment that has takes plass in Englaad—the greater busty of
form and perky of&MOWS that bare been introduced into
our various maushoures—when I observe that which may
be termed the reISaiIiSSISCO or the regeneration of taste in
England, std wham I know how much it is attributable to
the 1111061111116 d &ohm or rube:, perhaps, to the acknowledg-
e's,* of ow, densies, that they tend to produce—it is not
too math Is ems* that Ireland, although deprived of the
advantage of a fair start, will not be behiadband in a race of
competition, where application and ingenuity, carnotite's of
eye and Acuity of hand, are indispensable to enecesefully
tutting beauty and utility, and adapting them to objects for
whit:hams is a constant demand on *negation." (Applause.)
In expatiating on the pin thablenem of proficiency in design,
Lord Clanadon mentioned one instance which was lately
bronahtbakire the Biatistieallimietyotamely, the manufacture
of tambwored or eanameated muslin. carried on at Belfast, and
empl•Tiug between 150,000 and 200,000 persons, the swum
of which is entirely Appendant upon the novelty and grace-
fulness of pattern • and yet the whole of the designs are
brought from Oreati Britain or the 'pudgiest; and I have
also been informed that upwards of 80,0001. are annually
sent out of this country Par payment of the ornaments on
wrappers in which lima rob are made up. (Rear.) It
would be guy to give an woo imams' which open wide
fields fir artistia skill and ingenuity, which I am sure exist in
Ireland, and merely require to be Galled forth, and which I
trust will be extremely mead, not only to the manufactures
which we have, but to theme whisk I still hope to see esta-
blished la Ireland, notwithateading the demos of encourage-
ment, and the jealous and hostile competition attributed to
England, and which is supposed to he the cause why Ireland
' is not a manufacturing meetly. I seed not say lam in
favour of freedom of competition. lam convinced that en-
e ruiragement which takes the shape of protection is injurious
both to the producer and the sonstmse ; and that manatee-
, tures which cannot be supported without fictitious aid had
better not be attemptad. Bat I will ask you is such aid
miring in Ireland /—aad 1 will begin by adverting to what
, I may all the manufacture of the raw material—l allude to
the growing of flax. There is no country in the world more
fitted for the growth of Sex than Ireland—none in which