The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-10 00:00:00

Mr. GOTELF.E, the secretary, proceeded to read the report,
by Is hieh it appeared that there had • bsin that day 1861. dis-
tributed as prizes, and that the balance in hand fur 11
year Ina, about 3001.
The nest toast was " The County Members."
Mr. A. Woor, in the absence of his brother, returned
thanks, and in conclusion proposed the health of the
Chairman.

Sir W. CLAY returned thanks.
The CHAIRMAN gave " Mr. Henry Powuill, the founder
of the society."

110;A LI, in returning thanks, repudiated the idea
of the society being actuated by re lti‘h motives . • at.d rei to
the inadequacy of the reward, a Waterloo to dal w.t, but of
small va'sue, but yet how much was it prized by the siteran
who had the honour to wear it. (Loud cheers.) In the same
way a man who had spent a long life in honest and produc-
tive labour might well be proud of even the bluetit st testi-
monial which certified for his good conduct.
The SECRETARY announced that John Sires, in Mr W.
Batt's employment, and W. Eady, in the service of Mr.
Webb, were the successful ploughmen, and that the contest
between Middlesex and Bucks had terminated in favour
of Middlesex. (This last announcement elicited loud cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN gave " Sir I'. Pollock and the Vice-Presi-
dents."
_ _

Sir F. PoLLoes returned thanks.
The other toasts on the Chairman's list were then disposed
of, and the company separated.

REPRESENTATION OF WEST GLOUCESTER-

SHIRE:

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE WESTERN
DIVInION or THE Cocos or GLOVCOSTEIL—GLOretHITHR,
Oer. 8:
Friends and Fellow Countrymen—Circumstances deeply affecting
my position and yours have amen, which render it a matter of im-
perious necessity that I ihould Cues aide coo you: then, never was
any conce2lment b tween us, therrehal/A, won ricer. I have a letter
bearing slate the list of August, I ati, in which Lord leltrharilingr for
the first time inform. me, that be shall discontinue the mirror' he
had fur so many yearn given to me reprc,entation of the county. You
will, 1 am sure, pardon me for not working on all the wild pavimges of
that suigry letter, and permit nue to bring under your notice the only
strietly pulpits accusation it contains. In lie Jam, r4,st so,
MP' I assure you, that were I, in the :iresent
to deem it worth my while to allude to other objee.
tamable portions of that remarkalge commwnleatkin,
could not do myself justice in me mint:item of them without. touch-
ing with ten-(old deeper tint certain andnosehriviolv ',flog or
predonitmuit shadow., that unhappily are :dreotly too well known as
imperiou.ly existing in the quarter whetter the aspersion minus.
Lord Fitzhardinge, then, accuse., me of *. having Awed the govern-
tnent patronage." I could very coolly cull on all the member. of the
governments, past amt present, to clear me of this futile but also
tangible' charge; but I will content myself with Lying the !elan and
itubboin toe. before too. His lordship alludes to " a cadetship."
7 he first and only rad;tship J ere Joe see okaitod, 1 bestowed
some years since on the son of Mr. J. Vilityquird. He no a branch
of the family of that name long known in the enmity of Gloom/ger,
in the vicinity of Dui,lcv ; a mettilxv of the great body of
IYAsenters, and the author of a very clever pamphlet, pub-
laihed some years ago, headed. " Observations on the whin. of Sir
Robert Peel to the electors Id tunworth, .Mewing the insufficience of
hi. declaration of in nuiple.." I need only further state, that I have
known and respected Me. 'heppard for upwards of twenty years, and
that he is at this moment a voter on the Liberal registration of my
dicioiem. •• The promise of a caskenbip," of which I am sinectly ac-
cused of leaving more recently and " unfairly obtained," is simply as
follows. A very gentlemanlike, high-spirited, and proinisiteg boo, a
visitor and companion of any son's, anti al-o toy fri,od, ws‘ left an
orphan in the world without any immediate source set obtaining a
prsieraion. A lady, a relative of 'MA ea-simmersl me to obtain for him
a cadetship. On reviving that upplitution. I wrote to toy hiend at
the head of the India heard (sir John liiilabouse), and told him I
could not toot hint fur a favour he had NA' years before wanted,
but the letter containing the application to me. I placed in his hands,
with the hope that it would plead it. own rause, hacked by my wil-
ling testimony to the worth and gallant bearing of the • boy. My
friend, upon the routents of that speaking letter, provide:et' me,
that " if he had a Cadetship to bestow next Noreneber Irrelremoneeh,
the boy I patronised should have it." I don't disguise my sincere
pleasure in having oven instrumental in obtaining this promise!
t'harges no ill--founded and futile as these nearer deverve a public
notice, but I will leave tee public to Judge between me and my
atones, when word, ane per fore the only sveapons to Inv Mimi.
Since I received the drot-mentioned letter from land Pitrlninlinge,
actouncing to me the Rithdrewal of his support, hi. lone hip with-
out giving me any notice of hi. intention, convened a meeting nut
Glouce.ter, and the written reliolution which he induced that con-
vention to arrive at, runs as flllllllO, :
•.1•. . . . .

"A meeting of sum e of the influential suptiortent of the Liberal inte-
rest of the western division of Gloucestershire ILA, lug taken ;dace at
Gloucester, on the 15th of September, 1846, and a xhitettant having
been made by Earl Fltebanlinge, as to his future intentions with re-
gard to the representation of the division, it was unanimously decided
to support in every possible way the views and intentions of I,ewd
Fonhurdinge, an detailed to-day ; and, so a nerossary cOIOII,OIICTICt, to
deprecate every attempt which may be made to lerll the lateral in-
terest in this 111V0,11011.- Signed) -Thom., king-vole, Jostith M otu.,
Etlwanl Jon .h il
es. John I n, IL tamightou, J. Pyrite, It. .1. Purnell,
m It. F. Jner, W. Joyner :lbs.
When this restitution was sent to mr, involving, as I found it did, a
blind oilherenee to an unexplained plan, for there are names among
them elf dcrided Pniturlitinisls who trill not mispoi-t 1.."... Troth,
print-11,1er,, of role for any Man l luau does, at least tat they have as-
sured nu"; and that it was in fact a resolution to sacrifice me, to
a hatioever nominee his loniship might propose, I shatototed that
those same gentkinen should meet nte at Glouvotter un the 6th of
Ortober, and to that ounv intim I invited Laid It itxhardinfte. With
one or two enrol,' ions on the pleu of illness, and with the I sitissioti of
lord Iltelutrtlinge, they talented me the presence I required. Indent,
setting aside all other ties, an Englishman Mut a right to rill tor an
interview fate to lace with he, wooers, anti having turned
to one side of the question they could nut relit.. tu hear the
odor. Their meeting afforded nut all tin- permunal siutisfSettias
the extraordinary circunidancen admitted, lint lailderly they care not
non.. I don't Loon now, shy I,rd Fitzhardorye do .o-eIA no., or why
they, the gentlemen whit attended lam'
i have set lard to tithe a step
soiletimieng kis desertion, unlena it la thtt he Las refuted to pay for
the registration of the thvimun if they don't obe) hue, and they ore
not pretored to pay for it ; and they fur her Pas', ..if tie east.. ant ;to
CO, the division wit fall into the hands of the P.tectionists." A son y
conlislinient to torn, to principle, and tueoure, to deem that the voice
of this gnat county depends on one nun'. wild ! But still this ti n't
be it —kw the 'nosing etattained Protectiotists, who, if siiivere to
tlair views, would desire to see the county in other limids. 'since
these gentlemen met me, 1 have heard UGC of them de-
-1 dare lie t• supoll the paper conditimially ;" email: .ouilly or
not, I minion the se hole pr... • rrilinsi in ilir fir's/ and primary
uyia 'mime, an Mush ion arda nie, unc.,11.4 he, unnantoutionally
oppressive, and not us yet an Initsition pobluety endirsloinl ! It then
bovenew my fetin.fs, hat impel-nth e lady to resist those tyyrrunire
skips towards me, toe two nusons. The find be. rev' CO 110. has a
rocht to wrest to any yr iisil, ty ,ii,l,l!rei ttttttttttttttt the hoe Cl,lt C 4 a
Inr constituent.), bemuse silo n public 'sit ty lan ino.cri nun. il !Ovate
as sell to palate thstan, he x-sistol i.llc 1p.10•rul otrintratiron. In the
second place, to withdraw the tonticienee and support from a repo,
socative also wan thought Id judgment munition to prop'v a mem-
ber to moment the whole county on the questunt ta reltent, and then
to represent a 11,11000 01 the euto.ty Imunelf, . Mr the Itelorm was car.
ried up to the presenttino, and who has from that time to thin faith-
fully guanled honied, to th e mire el./enure of any chary.-.iced oust /too,
loin fact a ths Lindh'', lint he has Innn found unworthy an)' longer to
hold his ',latent Parliament. I therefore call on the noblemen and
gentlemen and indeoentlent eleetors of the Westem Incision'
1 to con-
vene a public meeting in the curly part of Novetubt r twit, 111111 and
where they i letoe, ut a Well I sill attend to tender an ...wit of my
•tewanttlait, ;and puhfo/y deatund why Lord Fil:harilioor /so 00-
cottditionoll:o du..., rte me. (In the Fll.lll of l`olitica I aloud precisely
•14 the .pit whu re hr plai-ed me .- I am so fur and no fin thee, by
his immediate desire- and with his remand concurrence, and
It is fair to protonic that in his unexplained desertion of me, be
either contemplated a tetrograde movement, or he 111C11101 to
jump beyond me, leave ine at a spot fo whit-h my obeeli-
u nee to lon wishes led tin, and to join the Free-tratlent to
the en itkuit extent of their a ishot. At all errals by every
for of rondo-ay arid jiistiee, he might to pire me the option of taking,
either step by his sill! A biter (tom wield my ronstituents in Cho
'forest who vslites for himself and *Ahern, ntat***—" that they had
heard that him Lordship had withdrawn Itissupport front Ott., lint they,
did not Snow ...rattly n Ay, hot the MO of his Monis done so, ',lenity'
to them to destroy every remaining hope of my re-election. And then
I they began to look round and inquire who would he a imitable man to
bring forward*. Many of my able friends, if they must have some one
in my plan' 'which seemed to be ',writable), vomitl melte a gentle-
man altogether removed from the hostile initiator., of which no letter
complained, sold their inquiries were directill, and to Bed Alley i.'ititle,
but to another ittuniter." Therm "inquiries" refer to a •, yin.' long
hrciious to the ll letter" which my correspondent :intuit- to as
aving reor-ir*•d from me; and I addnws the very ii .tund
omen v to the paper signed at the tneeting tidied by Lord
bitAltardinge, and sub, who then is it that has already .. alai • d
us peril the Liberal btu rust," and who A/84 And is alma! to serer the
political lies so honourable to the old castle! tat every gentleman
and man thr.tothottt the county withhold the promise of 1,;. mipport
till these doubts are dispellett ; I urn ready to "writhe myself as I have
long done for her real iatertat., but not to an unworthy conspirucy,
tf.me exists, I um in no way inclined to commit a political 'suicide,
or to allow my public life to tic by the hand of undiscovered tuoarei-
nation. I call on you then, upon thus' Ira eta who have . long
nistosl their trust in me -to Ateppinq me until we differ - or until I
*.tail have been proved unworthy of the job& confidenee. And, with
sentiments of the highent respect, 1 remain, your gratified and 'mot
Guthlul servant, G. F. BIiALLLT.

IRELAND.

extraordinary se"ons
DUBLIN, OCT. 8.
CORK.—INTDIIKEILILIA—BOThe
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for this barony were held on Tuesday ; It. G. Adams, Esq.,
in the chair. The Earl of Shannon was present. A propo-
sition to present for the table-work of the Cork and Water.
ford Railway was lost, as it was not held to be a legitimate
application of the Labour Rate Act. The sum of 35,600/.
were presented for.
WATERFORD. GAULTIER.—On Monday an extra-
ordinary presentment sessions was held for this barony, the
following magistrates being present ..—The Earl of Hunting.
don,.Sir H. W. Barron, 0. Mean, S. King, R. S. Morris,
Geo. ge Wyse, N. M. Power, Sir R. J. Paul. The magis-
trates having subscribed to the necessary declaration, a resolu-
tion 'jailer to that adopted in the other baronies passed—to
the effect, that 800/. be rated for every two hundred families
calculated to be in distress. Mr. Mortimer then state'! the
I sum to be presented for was 7,908/. This rum, after a
great deal of discussion, was voted. Amongst others, a sum
of 3fo/, was passed for the circular road round the city of
Waterford.
KILKENNY.—Ivrax.—On Monday last an extraordi-
nary presentment sessions for this barony was held at Piltown,
county Kilkenny, W. V. Stuart, Esq., M .I'., in thechair. The
following presentments were pass d : For Kilmacow,l,2lo/.;
for Moncoin, 9001 ; for Piltown, 1,5001.; and for Owning,
1,2004 It was also agreed that an application should be
made to the Lords of the Tre awry for a grant to hasten the
formation of the Waterford and kilkenny Railway.
GALWAY.—GALWAY Tows.—At the presentment ses-
sions for Galway town 1,500/. was passed for the erection of
markets. 1,000/. for a nfw cemetery, and 5,0001. for improv-
ing the sewerage of the town. .arious other sums were
voted, making in the whole 48,6421., the valuation of the
town and outstay of the Whin being only about 23,000/.
WEXFORD.—TAnn ..ON.-1 he meeting under the pro-
visions of the 10th Vie., as called by special notice from the
executive, was held at Taghmon on Monday last for the
barony of Shilmalier West. The sessions-house was crowded
to suffocation; and a dense miss of the country people lined
all the avenues leading thereto; and seemed quite uneasy
at not having the opportunity of listening to the pro-
ceedings. Mr. Redmond said his brother and him-
self held 1,500 acres in the barony ; so that theig.
taxation would not be light, still he adelfgtedtstbeikit
eit
measure on public principle alone. £lo,qui) :• •
.4 rt
not support the people till Christmas; an_eV OW . • A
should open their purse-strings, whatever their feihggr h it tta„„ 0-•
he should rather appeal to them at this trying natasl.••••ti," ":
through the medium of the heart.—Mr. Farrell.: • el ass-*•
w s . X
opportunity for effecting great public improvisiie • ' • 0.
never occur again. In Gorey, they acted in a en .• -_ -,
tened spirit, leaving passed 6,0001. for one line of. . . • • a ~.• sL.,
Ar
itit
The question was then put, and unahimously ,1 • • • •V ,• '
sum of 2AO/. having been voted for the p .
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