The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS; r. FRIDAY TEVBNIVoc- t MAX 1€62.

Her Serene Highness the Princess of Leini]

arrived at Yalta by the last steamer from Manville& The
Finesse is accompanied by the Dowager Prince's of Li-
nings°, and purposed taking up her residence in that island
in order to be near her husband, who commands her Ma-
jeaty's steamer Magicienne, appointed to that station.
The Rev. Dr. Joseph Wolff, the famous mission-
ary, is lying dangerously ill at Isle Brewers, in Somerset.
shire.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.-(THIS DAY.)

Workmen were engaged this morning in removing
the great orchestra under the eastern dome. All
the doors on the eastern and southern aides of
the building were closed and the visitors, of whom
there were a large number, were admitted only by
the doorway under the western dome. The utmost
activity was observable throughout the building. The
foreign portions are still in a backward state, and
the sound of the hammer is heard on all
sides. A large force of sappers is em-
ployed in removing the upholstery used
in yesterday's ceremonial, and some days
must be spent in carrying on the work before the
Exhibition can be said to be complete. Under
these circumatanoes the picture galleries form a
very welcome retreat, and this morning attracted
the larger portion of the visitors.

LAMBETH ELECTION.

THE NOMINATION.-(THIS DAY.)

Thia morning, at 10 o'clock, the nomination of
candidates for the representation of the borough of Lam-
beth took place at the hustings, opposite the Borne
Tavern. About 1,000 persona were assembled in front, and
they were for the most part good humoured, though
there were many symptoms of a complete schism among
the liberal electors with regard to the merits of the respec-
tive candidates.
The returning officer, Mr. OgisLow, having gone through
the usual formalitire, _ _ _

Mr. JURY WILLIAMS proposed Mr. F. Moulton u a can-
didate.

Mr. WINTERBOTRAY seconded the nomination.
I,lox proposed, and Mr. S. HENSON seconded, Mr.
W. A. Wilkinson. _ _

Mr. RICHARDSON proposed, and Mr. BITRAKER seconded,
Mr. W. C. Sleigh.
There being no other candidate,
Mr. DOULTON, who was received with much cheering,
then came forward. He commenced by acknowledging the
fair and candid manner in which the election had been
conducted so far as Mr. Sleigh was concerned—(cheets)—
adding that he could not say the same with respect to the
half-candidate, Mr. Wilkinson. (Laughter.) He confessed
that the position of the representative of a borough like
that was not one to be aspired to without the fullest
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consideration. When be heard that the late member
had resigned he hesitated at first to come
forward, and it was not till his friends pre-
seated to him • requisition signed by nearly
5,000 electors—(oh, oh)—that he consented to become •
candidate. He stood there that morning to ask the
suffrages of the electors because for fifteen years he had
been faithful to the principles he originally professed. He
had been in favour of reform when it was not fultionable
to be so. He bad always advocated a large extension of
the franchise ; be always had been, and still was, an advocate
for registered residential suffrage, by which be meant that
all whe resided in a house and paid rent should have • vote.
(Cheers.) He was in fuser of the ballot, if only u a means
of reducing the expenses of canvassing boroughs like that.
(A Voice—" Who encouraged Mr. Roupell in his lavish ex-
penditure!") As regarded Mr. Wilkinson, he must say there
never was • man in the whole empire who issued an address
so abominably impertinent as his. (Oh, oh, and cheers.)
He said this deliberately; and he much mistook the cha-
racter of the people of Lambeth if they did not
on the following day place him where he ought to be, at
the bottom of the poll. (Cheers.) After having addressed
sixteen meetings is four days he did not feel it necessary to
enter then into an exposition of his political principles.
He asked to be judged in that respect by the course he bad
pursued during the last fifteen yaws. His principles had
grown with his growth, and had been strengtheoed by the
example of one of the truest reformers—kis own father.
(Cheers.) If he should be elected, and be afterwards found
faithless to his principles, the electors had only to tall him
so, and he would resign his seat. (Cheers.)
Mr. W. A. WILKINSON, who was received very up-
roariously, said he would shortly explain the circumstances

tinder which he came there. When a vacancy
occurred be was asked by almost everyone
he met whether he was not going to present
himself as • candidate. Up te four days ago he had no ides
of doing so, but on being pressed farther, and assured that
• lane number of electors wished to vote for him, he de-
termined to put the matter to the test. He had repre-
sented the borough in parliament for five years ; daring
that period he eujoyed the respect of all parties, and, after
all that was said to him, he determined now to expend the
moderate sum of two or three hundred pounds in testing
the feelings of the electors. (Cheen.) The result was that he
found himself surrounded by nearly all his own friends.
Whatever was the result, his opponents could have no
ground of complaint. If only • few electors voted for him,
neither of them could be affected by that ; whereas, if •
very large number did so, it would prove at all events that
he was justified in coming forward. He now left the matter
in the hands of the electors.

Mr. SLEIGH, who followed, expressed his concurrence is
what Mr. Doulton had mid as to the fairness which had
characterised the opposition between that gentleman and
himself. They had each so far fought the battle fairly, and
Mr. Doniton had furnished to every elector his number on
the poll, so that no one could have any difficulty
on the following day in ascertaining his number and voting
for himself. (Laughter.) He bad no wish to occupy valu-
able time by speaking of a great grievance to Mr. Doulton
and himself, initiated on them by Mr. Wilkinson. If he
W bad the slightest notion that • gentleman who formerly
tepresented the borough would come forward as • candidate,
he would not have been presumptuous enough to present
himself ; but Mr. Doulton and himself having both
been led to believe that Mr. Wilkinson would
not come forward, be considered that they had been
treated with great unfairness. (Hear.) However, be regarded
Mr. Wilkinson 'a candidature as • myth, and as • matter
of no importance. (Cheers and laughter.) (A Voice--" They
won't have you.") Had his opponents turned prophets' He
himself was no prophet, nor the son of • prophet
—(laughter)—but, whatever might be the result, he should
bow respectfully to the will of the electors. It was objected
to him that he was • lawyer and bad not, like Mr. Doulton,
any acquaintance with their local interests. He would
not dwell on the eminent services performed by lawyers
to the cause of civil and religious liberty ; and, as to their
local interests, he believed he had sufficient intellect soon to
become familiar with them by application. It was said he
was • reformer of yesterday. Why, twelve years ago
he was • member of the council of the Parliamentary
Reform Association ; and he Lad long looked forward to
the day when all who paid taxes and had a bend fide interest
in the country should have • voice in the representation.
(Cheers.) If elected the representative of that borough
he would be found • steady unflinching advocate of all
measures which would advance civil and religious liberty.
He was in favour of • reform in the system of taxation, and
of infusing into the Houseof Commons a large portion of the
popular element. He was not in favour of sudden organic
changes. As regarded the suffrage, he was in
favour of • 61. franchise, which would let in a million
additional electors. He wanted • franchise which would
entitle all to vote who bad education and who paid
rates, whether directly as householders or indirectly
as lodgers. He regarded vote by ballot as a
remedy for • disease. Be wished to see every
Englishman exercise his civil rights without fear ; but
when he was told that the ballot was un-English, he asked
whether coercion and the oppression of landlords were not
nn-English' (Cheers.) He was thoroughly opposed to church
mites and would be found • determined enemy to anything
like compromise on that question. (Loud cheers.) He disap-
proved of the postponement of a reform bill ; but excuses
were to be found for that in the recent great national bereave-
ment, and in the general state of political and commercial
affairs, and he believed the government would before long
introduce a new measure. Adverting to foreign politica,
be expressed has conviotion that this country had been
raved from being nivel ved in hostilitea with the United Slates
by the manly, fearless, and yet temperate conduct of Lard
Palmerstou. (Much cheering.) He also eulogised the
Premier for his moral support of the Italian kingdom, end
for the skilful manner in which he bad dealt with the Em-
peror of the French. He concluded by avowing his deep
• ia-
terest in all that concerns the welfare of the labouring
climes
A show of hands was then taken, and the returning
officer declared it to be in favour of Mr. Sleigh, an ea-
nouncement which elicited enthusiastic cheering from that
gentleman's friends.
' A poll was of course demanded, and the election will
; take place to-morrow.
On the motion of Mr. Seaton, seconded by Mr. Murder,
thanks were accorded to the returning officer for his A-
-1 chat and impartial conduct ; and this terminated the
L proceedings.

It appears from a parliamentary return issued to-
day that the quantity of hope exported from the United
Kingdom to foreign °marks, from the lat of January this
year to the 31st of March, was 1,767,04411 e.
The Hampshire Chronicle states that on Friday
last Lord Palmerston rode from Broadlands to Kr. Hoary
Goatees stables at Littleton, near Winchester, and hack, •
(listen*. of 30 miles. . .

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We (Lincoln Mercury) hear that the Revs. A.
and F. Sutton, who have added so greatly to the interior
beauty of Lincoln's superb cathedral, have offered to fill the
window, of the chapter-house with stained glen and dew.
rate the walls of the building, if the Dean and Chapter will
lay down a floor of Kinton's encaustic taw.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
BILMDIZIM W. BRANDRITH ASO WIFE--sPIiCELL JUST.
Mr. Edward James, Q.C., Dr. Spinks, and Mr. Barnel
attended for the plaintiff; Mr. Collier, Q.C., Dr. Wambey,
and Mr. T. Jones for the defendants.
The testator Mr. Thomas Brandreth, late of Ormskill,
Lanaiashire, died in February, 1857, at the age of 86,
leaving property, real and personal, valued at about 1,5001.
, By • win executed on the llth of the August previous he ,
' had divided his estate between his two nieces, Miss Elinor
Brandreth (the plaintiff), and Mrs. Mary Brandreth, wife
of the Rev. Canon Brandreth, vicar of Standish ; but by •
codicil, made on the 11th of the same month, be deprived
Miss Brandreth of her power of appointment over her
half, and gave the property in the event of her
death without issue to the defendant and her chil-
dren. Mrs. Brandreth as executrix had obtained probate
in common form of these instruments with others of less
importance; and that probate was now called in by the
' plaintiff, who alleged that they had been obtained by
1 undue influence. As to the last codicil (which was dated
only • few days before Mr. Brandreth's death), she also
alleged testamentary iDeapaeity.
[The case was proceeding when we went to press.]

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
111 Ili ISAAC NOAH D/MS.
The bankrupt was a distiller, of Brentford. This was
the adjourned examination meeting. The case has been
before the court upwards of six months, but owing to the
complexity of the banioupt'm transaction., and him dealings
with Mr. Levy, a former partner, be has not yet been able
to render amounts satisfactory to the assignees. The lia-
bilities axe upwards of 9,000!.
Mr. Serval appeared for the assignees, and Mr. Lawrence
for the bankrupt.
After a discussion as to the removal of some property
from the bankrupt's premises shortly before the adjudica-
tion, an adjournment for a month was ordered.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)

The bankrupt was a merchant, of Graoschurch-street.
This was the sitting for examination and discharge. The ac-
counts disclose a large amount of indebtedness ; the claims
of unsecured creditors are 31,9071. ; other creditors, to the
amount of 56,3981., hold property valued at 78,142/., con-
sisting chiefly of bills of lading and policies of insurance.
Mr. Murrough, on behalf of creditors, asked that the
bankrupt abould be required to furnish • cash and goods
account for the last two years, in order to explain the large
deficiency of 18,0001.
His Honour said that in • ems of this magnitude the offi-
cial assignee ought to have required the additional ac-
counts now asked for in the first instance, so as to have
prevented the necessity for an adjournment.
Mr. Edwards, the official saakmee, said that he bad
celled the attention of the assignees to the figures in the
ease, and had left it in their discretion as to requiring
additional accounts.
Mr. Tee, on behalf of the assignees, also required more
detailed accounts.
Mr. Lawrence, for the bankrupt, urged that the ad-
ditional accounts should only be required to go back for a
twelvemonth. •
Ilia Honour, after conferring with the official assignee,
was of opinion that that would be sufficient.
An adjournment was ordered.
Ti! Ri ROBERT JAMES DOBIE.—CARL OT Alf ATTOINZT.
The bankrupt was an attorney, of Twickenham. This
was the examination meeting, but the accounts not being
filed, an adjournment was ordered at the bankrupt's ex-
pense, with protection for a week.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

MARLBORO:JOH-STREET.
CRARGI AGAMT VthOOUNT ICILTOIt.

William Wentworth Fithoilliam, Viscount Milton, was
charged before Mr. Knox with obtaining by means of false
pretences, at 74, New Bcod4treet, a pair of earrings, of the
value of 1001., the property of Messrs. John Oordy Crouch
and Wm. Henry Wane, trustees for Mrs. Sophia Stephens,
pawnbroker, of 35, Breweratreet, Goldenaquare.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, attended for the defence.
Viscount Milton, who had been bailed by Mr. Bishop, of
Bond-meet, being placed at the bar,
Colin Penney, militant to Mrs. Sophia Stephens, of 35,
Brewer-street, said—This gentleman came to the shop
yesterday between 5 and 6, accompanied by a female who
bad pledged a pair of earrings, and requested to see them.
I produced the earrinp, and the gentleman requested me to
take them in the evening to No. 47, New Bead-street,
Madame Rachel's, and he would redeem them. I went to
Madame Rachel's by myself about 6 o'clock, and waited
some time. I put them on the table in a room
adjoining the @hop, and the gentleman then put them
into his waistcoat pocket, sad produced a cheque for
Mk on the London and Westminster Bank. I refused to
take it. The earrings were pledged for 651. I sent for a
constable, and gave the prisoner in charge. He gave himself
rep to the constable, and the earrings were banded over to
the constable. I wish for a remand, that the trade solicitor
may attend.
•

Yr. Lewis, jun.—When were they pledged?
Witness —oo the 21st of April by Madame Rachel; 01
New Bond-street.

Mr. Knox—Produce the duplicate.
Mr. Lewis, jun.—Did you know they were her property

Witness—She took them from her ears, and I Was led to
believe they were her own. She said they were her own,
She had pledged diamonds before.
Mr. Lewis, jun.—What is Madame Rachel!
Vi Hams—She deals in scents.

Mr. Laws j , en.—Don't you know tbstshe enamels ladies'
faces, and that she was the other day in the Insolvent
Debtors Court?

Witorea—That is the mother of the one I took them of.
I do not know the name of Madame Hitchers mother is
Lawson. lam not aware that she was committed to New-
gate for perjury lately. I did not take the trouble to see if
AO had obtained the earrings by fraud from a lady, a friend
of the gentleman. I know she lives in New Hood-street,
because I have been there on business.
Mr. Lewis, jam—Not to have your face enamelled!
Wit(Lauter.)
ese—l decline to tell you what for. The gentleman
at the bar told me that he would pay me, but did not pro-
duce any money. He did not say the earrings belonged to
a lady, from whom they had been obtained by fraud. The
gentleman did say that he would send for a constable and
hand them to him.
. . . .

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Mr. Lewis, jun.—You cannot say that he has no money
at the London and Westminster Bank ?
; I cannot.
Mr. Lewis, jun.—Then what is the false pretence ?
Witnem—Madame lawmen showed me the cheque.
Mr. Lewis, jun.—What is the false pretence?
Witness—Hie saying that if I took the earrings to New
Bond-street that he would pay me, and then taking poem-
don of the property without handing me the money.
Robert Lloyd, 84 0, mid he was sent for at eight yester-
day evening to No. 47, New Bond-street, and on arriving
there be asked the prosecutor what he charged the gentle-
man with, and he said the gentleman had been to his shop
and told him to bring a pair of earrings to No. 47, New
Bond-street, and he did so, and then laid them on a table,
and prisoner took them and put them in hie pocket, and
then refused to give them up. The gentleman said he
wished to go to the station, and give up the earrings, and
the gentleman meet with them to the police-station.
Mr. Lewis jun.—He was bailed immediately by the
inspector?
Witness—Yea

Lewis—He said he wished to give the ear-rings up,
and wanted to go to the station.
Mr. Lewis, jun., mid it was only right on behalf of the
gentleman at the bar that he should say that Madame
Rachel, of whose history it was unnecemary to
speak, had obtained the earrings by gross fraud
from a hay, and pledged them for 65J., and
although the gentleman might not have acted quite
legally or as anyone a little older would, perhaps,
have done, he having gone to the place where they
were pledged and asked that they should be taken to
New Bond-street, and then on their being brought there
put them in his pocket—still there was no pretence
for saying for a moment that he meant to steal them or
make off with them. He sent for a policeman, and
said he would put them in his bands. A cheque was
produced, but three was no evidence to show that
there was no moneyat the bank, end* the time the gentleman
was taken into custody, although he had not been searched,
atillhe (Mr. Lewis) understood that hehad more money in his
pocket than enough to pay for the earrings. What evidence
was there that the ear-nop were obtained by false pretences!
None whatever. If they came to a question of legality, the
ear-rings were not obtained through the presentatioa of the
cheque, for they were taken up before the cheque was pro.
dined. The cheque was refused to be taken. The defendant's
object was not to purchase the earrings ; but, as they
had been obtained by grow fraud, it was his wish to
eethem in the hands of a constable till
title to them was properly settled. He (Mr.
Lewis) oontended that the matter ought to hare
ended in an action of trover. There was no evidence that
the gentleman had obtained them by false ppretenses, sad
them was nothing to detain him on a of
Mr. Knox and there was cep allegation ot% Mr.
Lewis's) that the earrinp were obtained by toad is
the Ant in=t there was no proof al
that. Thin ai but there was no panel ci
that. This, 4an attempt to obtain thea
hand. Tboi&iarW would oa to be left to a jury
be as to the co the acoared's pan to pry for tiara
when lift s& Itoolasr& It was very oonfaseastoty,