The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-09 00:00:00

OUR

SENTATIVE SYSTEM
BEVERLEY.

The skis mod the sansteary I In Beverley,
is bye isse Sass, the holy ma served both.
At the hfigh altar of their glorious minder, the prince
Aeolaisisp of York alone might serve ; though sight
preltemis, desk and well ore d, ministerel at as
may Lim shrines. At one of these, kix
Ban
ir-off lands would acme to
gifts. Pilgrims, wearied with loag
Viskilithought their toils well paid ooald they
but me it from afar. Sick sue there were brought
Isompparaj for health, or else to 4 their bones. And au
the fano there reefed Ramey in all its varied
kW" waiting for the liberal tides that daily were
1111Casaastaary of St. John at Beverley was no Ism
sacred them his shrine. When William devesided
Morainal& sad Yorkshire, ifeihee ell the heat
and carrying fire and sword with rathlese videos*
from the tow& of York to the Western Sea, ad/me
Dane nor Banes eseapid his vengeance save &se
who sought a shelter here. And Muted, the amok,
records, that as a Norman soldier dared to est taihal
lowed foot within the temple, he fell bash dead, a
mirehapsn cones, whilst lemmisitheg his sweet
In oar dfys the eanstamy wide 7seeary albedo
is widely dift,mt. The merept wanal_pelisiden
finds hie shelter here, but we ewe eke. The shine
they worship is no loop: that of John. hymnist
has had far more to do with them et late; and they
do 't despiw his service.
Should you pass through Beverley some short time
prior to a general else*" you may remark that the
streets are all alive. The market-place is as full as at
a fair. People stand about in knots, and seem wait-
ing some event. Should you want anything done in
Beverley at such a time you will find some difficulty
in accomplishing year abject. The tailor will return
your mat, with his regrets that it is imporible to
mend it " just at premed." The bootmaker is sorry,
but his journeymen are" oft" No one seems to have
employment, but yet there is nobody disengaged.
Nor will there be till the eventful day is past, and
sometime alter.

You will not have been is Beverly, at such time,
long, without coming to the conclusion that its inha-
bitants are decidedly masicaL There is a constant
" torn-tom " heard from afar off—

n.lappelsep. ran et the thae:/ertag dews.
By and bye. it as nearer. ' Tom, tom, tern "
you bar it at the end of the long street. Presently
the sound seems to pan through the old gateway,
and it is evident that the musicians approach you.
They draw quite near—

Rob Brit- t& Brit-Urals nibs Os ems.

If you look oat of the window you will see them.
There are fifty or sixty fellows with flutes, fifes, trom-
bones, drams, and trumpets, and all kinds of music.
They are followed by a miscellaneous collodion of
meow, women, and children with tambourines. Be-
hind the tambourines come a crowd of boys—then
owe tambourins—playing, without reference to any
headmaster, just as they &am, each one for himself.
This there come a mob of people, a few of whom
perhaps will be bearers of tambourines likewise. The
proportion of tambourines perhaps may strike you as
excessive ; but no matter.

Gentle reader—These are the free and independent
electors of the borough of Beverley. This, in reality,
is the influential constituency which returns two re-
presentatives to parliament to make laws for your-
selves sad your descendants, or to impose taxes upon
you and your families. In moms towns thec!
manufacturers return the members ; in other p
the great landowners; elsewhere, the merchants or
the brewers; but in Beverley it is virtually—the

Prier to an elation the constituency of Beverley
give over every in-door and out-door ocapation.
They miff the pay from afar oft Likithe giant in
the nursery tale, they " smell the blood of an Eng-
lishman" at a great distanes7the Englishman, no
matter who, whom they are rug to bleed. With a
maiden°, and reliance, which X tally affectieg, they
give up everything else in order to devote their ener-
gies to the great 00million—they feel so perfectly well
seared that they shall have their reward. The most
influential amongst them, including the comparative
few who as play, form theelvee into a Band.
"Rule Britannia" is their staple tune. Beyond that
and "God WO the Queen" their musical knowledge
is not atiessive. An attempt has been made at a
polka, but somehow or another it elided off into
"roles the waves" involuntarily. "See the conquer-
ing hero asses," is • time of whisk some of them are
cognisant of coarse; bat that is reserved for the
special hearing of the candidates themselves, and
more vulgar ears are not permitted to be charmed
with

- Concerning the " atbourinse," of which there hso
goodly a neater in the bead, it is desirable to afford
a word or two in szplaaatioa. They are dispropoe.
ti ate to the rest of the instraments—no doubt of it.
It in to be regretted., but it cannot be helped. The
dm arose In this way : at an election not
hag age thsre yea a spoilt dealer in the town, to
whim a number of mall voters stood indebted. Just
before the eludes be allied hie debtors together, and
asked them bow they Moeda to pay. Of coarse they
replied that they hoped to get the usual fee.
But is various oases it was found that
that would hardly be enough. What was to be
dons ? The publican struck upon a bright idea. " I
tell you what," mid be, "Pm upon the comervative
oommittes, and I'll put you all upon the band."
Tambourines were the cheapest instruments to be ro-
eared. Every voter who had a chalk score arm*
him on the leek of the spirit dealers' door was fur-
nished with a temboarine, and seat forth to discourse
sweet male to his fellow-towasomm. This was the
origin of the tambourinse. The toey candidate
paid ibr playing, them, and the play_ers
used their friend _ the *bit dealer. The
Itistailei&rty *Meg dieuseired the trick got out a
evasion's—me m you might use in a
panimelme—with Mrs inetriplisa " a new way to pay
old tiskte Bat *mph thejohe told, the t
to be Mahone's, ple:rem was lee good a tfi•ngtit be
rellopithei, sod the limbeariass have consequently
bees m heroism* adjuost to the bead at Beverley ever
slam For you mast knew that, in accordance with
what use. the bend get better putt than any
ether due ci voter* and they nearly all of them ma-
Wee M get paid is some way.
Ia fis‘ the mass at Beverley hes been fbr each
party to mks m a lime of voters who, for a °mei*
pried salsoldeat to the eludes, are pat spots anyrisr
day etyma' There is at 'abeam or massalmeat
about it—ne attempt to pas it off ender miser of ea-
plqing them as seamegers, or say amasses of that
sort : u
.
-pqin for no melee or pnted:l ser-
vice, bet , boldly, avowedly as pay The
Cambere *x which the voters are paid, and the
mead of their doily payment, varies with the rei-
gns, and pressure of the mutest. The number of
vetoes who receive the pay will vary also. For ex-
ample : a paymeat at half a pines far two or three
somessuive days would be little or no inurement to a
mere decent deetriptica of votes; bat if this
payment is raised to a pound a day, or ff it
matinees for a week sr more, voters of an infinitely
higher ohms begin to Wok it worth while to take the
money. Do not 'mem that they loss by not receiv-
ing it on the first day--orleasef the soet. They will
receive just as musk as the ma if they only begin to
take the pay oa the eighth es Wolk day instead of the
first. Asp. : A mmidele is wimp half a gain's a
day to these who premise him. He 011,11111 M A. 8.,
a traismea. A. B. "has sot made up his mind."
tzt rezely do " make up their minds" at
natll the last asosmity.) On the
third the candidate, is consequence of the
"hue beta obliged to rains the pay to'
U., being •
for the four days. Still A. B. has
not
Batlike made up his mind (the bet is that Si. would be
Ms eighth day, however, he
finds that belhpordesOa ere still able to hold oat, sad
he bogiesar to Mak that the mosey is meth taking.
It assefie, teelmilag thit day, to 71. He goes
dews to them amilhoessee, sad begins to mime an
Iltzl4Y am* the eseateL He dada' be may make
up his vial The acmunittee are glad to beer it. He
sodomise& the psy has bees pine Tea. Well, he
may as well tale the sae as the rest ; and of
1 course they will pay the arrears P The committee
aunts, and he receives his Ti. at once, sad- his