The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-08 00:00:00

TIM EXPRESS. THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1849.

is deems without mercy into one of the divide:is of
the suety.
Having told*. story of the Droitwych boundary,l
we have now to sea what has been the effect of it,
and how thus praises arrangements have worked.
The Reform Act reduced the representation from two
members to one. Mr. Hodgetts Foley, who had been
member for the borough from 1820, offered himself to
the new ermatininney, and was unanimously elected.
Rs was a quiet, easy, gutlemenhke man, of no bril-
liant puts, bet of highly honourable reputation, and
of lurk esteem amongst his neighbours. During the
ant returned whammed Mr. Foley performed his
pad as member for the borough respectably; be wM
at his post when he was wanted, and his votes were
emisciention,. and tolerably liberal.
Bat the parted war one of excitement, and excitement
induces a disposition to change. The town of Droit-
wych was a very quiet town, bat still there were par-
ties there, as every where dee, who were dissatisfied
and grumbling. This dissatisfeetioo was rather
enoureird than suppressed by influential individuals
in the neighbourhood, who, as it turned out after-
wards, had their own interests to serve. It only re-
quired that some accident should blow the smoulder-
log dissatisfaction into a flame of oppositiem—sad
just at the right time each en accident occurred.
The town of Droitwych was anciently governed by
two bailiffs appointed at a court lest of the lord of the
manor, and it was customary upon the mask* of
their appointment to give a dinner to the principal
inhabitant. of the town. The legal gentleman who
was agent for Lord Foley in 1834 issued the tickets
fee the bailiffs' dinner in a way that caused much die-
satisfastism Persons were not asked who
they ought to be ; and they declared
spot did not regard. the interests of the tows, tot
merely his own private partialities. The suss-
qualm was dissatisfaction more openly 'amused
than had been ever before known. And whilst this
matter was fresh in the public mind at Droitwyeb,
the Whig administration was dismissed, and Sir
Robert Peel was called to power.
In the long interval which elapsed between the
dismissal of the Whig ministry, and the dissolution of
the parliament, a document was put into circulation at
Drodwych, it was scarcely clear by whom, pledging
I the electors in the event of an election to give their
support to a local gentleman who would consult the
interests of the town. The paper had no party char-
acter : it did not refer distinctly to any individual.
The consequecce was, that many persons signed it
whose politics were anything but Tory. Amongst the
first parties it was taken to were those who bad not
been invited to the dinner, and they signed it almost
to a man, not foreseeing the consequences that would
ensue, but merely from a desire to annoy the Foley
agent, and show their independence. The document,
in fact, was well subscribed, and the general impres-
sion was, that it would have the good effect of bring-
ing down the agent's self-importance, and making
him more conciliatory in future.
Well, the dissolution occurred, and in due time,
there being, as he supposed, no necessity for hurry,
Mr. Hodgetts Foley drove over to Droitwych. The
first thing he aid was to ride out to Wedwood Park,
to pay his respects to one of his most influential con-
stituents, Captain Pakington. Captain Pakington
was not at home, bat Mrs. Pakington was. Now
Mrs. Pakington was, in every way, a charming
woman, and Mr. Hodgetts Foley could not resist the
pleasure of spending half-ac-hour with her until Capt.
Pakington came back. The half-hour, amid Mrs. Pak-
ington's fascinations, extended itself to an hour, two,
three—half the day—evening. It was dark ere Mr.
Hodgetta Foley found himself on his way back. As he
rode into Droitwych he heard au mutual tumult—
music, hemming, and en uproar. The first thing he
heard when he alighted was that Capt. Pakington,
and Mn Barneby, of Brockbampton House, had been
canvassing the town all day, and that Mn Barneby
was to stand for the borough upon the " zoquisitiou
which had been signed by so many of the voters !
Mn llodgetts Foley appeared thunder eteu-k !
However he set to work to redeem lost time. lie
found that he had everything to do There was
nothing in the shape of organisation : no committee,
no arrangements, he scarcely knew indeed who were
the constituency. Weal he began to look into
that last point he found to be astonishment
that the majority of them were not
as of old, the burgesses and salt makers of Droitwych
—but the tenants of Capt. Palingion and others in
the surrounding villages and parishes. Of course,
Mr. Hodgette Foley did not know one of those by
sight or name. Captain Pakington knew every one
of them, their wives and children, ducks and chickens,
and all about their rents and leases. The danger was
evidently imminent. Mr. Foley found himself un-
popular—the agent of his family still more so. He
found, too, that the other side were treating the sig-
natures to the document as ph dges, and were calling
on the subscribers to redeem them.
In the midst of all this embarrassment there occur-
red another incident still more embarrassing. The
agent who had acted for the now decaying house of
Foley in this their utmost need deserted them ! This
was a blow which might have struck down a more
energetic man than Mr. Folk y. Bat whenever things
come to the worst they mead. This very incident, the
climax to the misfortunes of the election, rallied
around Mr. Foley friends whose appearance gave
him new courage.
Such a desertion, at such a time, was regarded
with anything but favour by the honest men of
Droitwych. They had found out. too, by this time,
that Mr. Barneby, the candidate Captain Pakington
had put forward, was a rank old tory. This by no
means suited the politics of Droitwych ; and as the
agent had deserted, many liberals whom
he had offended, and who Lad joined in
the cry of "No nominee," began to think
it their duty to give Mr. Foley their sup-
port. In a short time that gentleman had recovered
the town. Droitwych was with him. Bat when he
looked at the list of voters lathe country round about,
he saw that the contest must inevitably be a close
one. "Dodderhill and Hampton Lovett, Hind-
lip and Hadeora—the divisioos of parishes, and parts
of parithen and detached parts of parishes, and extra
parochial places—all told for the Tories. And these
places contributed as many TOWS as Droitwych town
itself.
The contest proved as close as it could be. " Squire
Barneby" won by a single vote, the numbers being,
for Buneby 125, Foley 124. Several times in the
course of the day the votes were equal, and the wholol
contest was one of great excitement, and was giber
recterised by much ill-feeling. Discord, for the first
time in the history of Droitwych, reigned supreme
within the town.
Mr. Foley let it be known, immediately the elec-
tion was concluded, that he should never again offer
himself for Droitwych. It was not his wish, he said,
to force himself or any one else on the electors, and
he left them, in future, to choose another mem-
her. Mr. Fol,y's secession from the town, which he
had represented in six successive parliamints, is to
this day a matter of regret in a place where persou-
ally and politically he has always been respected.
To conclude the history of the Foley reign in Drab-
wych, it should be mentioned that, not leg after, the
property in the borough was sold, with all the rest of
their Worcestershire estate. It came into the posemsion
of the general purchaser, Lord Ward, in whose handed
still remains. Lord Ward at present belongs to the
same section of the same party as the sitting member
for Droitwych. But should ercurestasue throw
either one or the other into the ranks of another set of
politicians, the conseviecce might be a collision in
Droitwych of which the result can scarcely be fore-

It cost Mr. Barneby a lsrge sum of money to se-
cure the election to which we have referred ; and he
was not destined to reap any solid advantages from
the triumph so secured. In 1837 Mr. Barneby was
"prevailed upon" to offer himself for the eastern di-
vision of the county of Worcester, for which two tone.
were to stand in opposition to the two whig members.
Mr. Barneby was considered "highly fitted" for a
county candidate on such ocoasion—because his
purse was so deep, and a deep parse was required. tie
or Droitwych, nothing could be easier than to secure
the safety of that town. Captain Pakington was "emi-
nently qualified" to represent it. Bo Mr. Barneby
relinquished his snug seat for Droitwych to fight the
county at enormous cost, whilst Capt. Pakington
dipped into the easy chair which the squire's cash
had two years previously prepared foe him.
From that time to the present, Captain Pakington
has sat for Droitwych as the Foley. did before him-1
without cost, without trouble, and wholly unopposed.
He took are to look after that which the Foley' entirely
neglected, the registration for the borough. Under
his arrangements the constituency was swollen from
243 in 1832, to 341 in 1837. There are now 367 on

the register. Don't nppose trim this that the town
of Droitwyoh hes increased; there probably has not
been a new hone built in it the last twenty years.
Bat " the tenants" have boss made to register, and
up to the prteent time the owner of " the tenants"
has set opposition at defiance, for "the tenants" stead
in the relation of one and a half to one of the con-
stituency.
Under there circumstances we are not by any
means sore that Droitwyeli is not jest as elope a
borough now as it was, in other hands, before the
peados of the Reform Mt. But of this the reader
may judge for himsrlL _

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At the lest election, 1817, s young aspirant for
parliamentary honours was breaght down to Droit-
wych with a view to offer himself in opposition to the
sitting m mbar. An intleentiel liberal, however, re-
siding near the town dissuaded him from entering
spot the coated. The cause of this may be briefly
stated.

Sir John Pakiagton (a family baronetcy has been
revived in his person) sopported the repeal of the
own laws and other measures of free trade policy.
This was a comas by no means palatable to the agri-
cultural part of the constituency, and though the ma-
, jerky of them were obliged to grin and bear it, there
were eomN unoonnected with Sir John Pakiogton's
land, who loudly threatened to torn him out. The
liberals of Droitwych, however, thought that this was
• dissension of which they ought not to take advan-
tage, and the more influential of them consequently
declined to be parties to an opposition.
Sir John Pakington is not unpopular in the town
of Droitwych, where his business-l'ks attention to his
parliamentary duties has duly impressed a busi-
ness population in his favour. A large section of the
liberals, who are, in fact, the Wolin men of these
ematitneucies, would probably on this account prefer
Sir John Pakiogton to any untried man, although of
political views more consonant with their own.
But let the representative be who he may, it is
obvious that Droitwych ought not to be permitted to
enigma borough with the bonadarywhich at present
is assigned to it. We have spoken of the adjacent town
of Bromegrove. The two parishes of that place contain
10,000 inhabitants, whilst the town of Droitwych
has only 2,081. It is obviously unjust that the latter
should return a member and the former be ex-
cluded from the exerese of the electoral privilege.
We propose to alter the boundary of Droitwych, so u
to include Broom/rove, and omit the agricultural
parishes which do net appertain to either place. A
fair constituency, representing a population of from
15,000 to 20,000, would thus be formed, and the
people of Bromagrove and Droitwych would alike be
gratified.

SHIPWRECK ON THE GOoDWIN SANDS.—A brig,
with a valuable earri of woods from Sicily, bound to
Norway ran on the Goodwin Sands en Friday last, and
soon became waterlogged, and sank in three fathom water.
Her eaptakt and crew left her, and landed at Dail. Our
hovebing boats, with their usual perseverance, managed to
cut away her masts and ringing, and eo lightened her that
she again floated . • and with great assistance, aided by steam
she was towed to the harbour's mouth. Just as the stun:
tug approached, a schooner was leaving the harbour in full
sail in a line with the steamer ; to avoid a collision the
steamer hid to slack-s the rope and sheer off to clear the
schooner, when the ill-fated wreck was whirled by the tide
to the hack of the pier. Fortunately the weather was
calm, and by the most strenuous exertic;ns the wreck was
drawn round the pier head, and fastened to the harbour
chains. Thus, a most valuable cargo and this new brig
were placed in safety.—Doren Tokgraph.
ADMINISTRATION OP CHLOROFORM IN DELliutil
TIPUBNIS AND ALLIOSD DIATH PROD ITS APPLICATION.—
% conrequencii of a statement which appeared in some et the
medical periodicals, that a man had (lied from the admin.
istration of chloroform by a medical practitioner at L els,
the coroner for that borough held an inquest on the body
yesterday. The deceased Robert Mitch. 11, who was an
omnibus driver, died on the 25th of October, and had been
buried for more than a week, when his body was dis-
interred and examined by Samuel Satoh. E.ej
the serior surgeon at Leeds Infirmary, and William
Price, Esq., a surgeon of considerable standing in the town.
Mitchell had long been addicted to habits of intemperance,
and about a year ago was matted with delirium tremens,
when hr was attended by Mr. Joseph Teak., a surge a of
established repute, under whose eats he recovered. Sines
then he has been a teetotaller, till within about a fortnight
of his death, when he again commenced driskina white
brought on another attack of delirium tremens. Mr. Teals
was min applied to, when, after treating him in the usual
way with opium and morphia without success, till he leered to
pursue it further, he bad recourse to chloroform, which he ap-
p.ied twice. 'Die took piaci on the same evening on whish
The man died, about a drachm being ponred upon a napkin
four times foldrd, and applied by degrees to the patteat's
month and nostrils. The deceased, with before had bees
most violent, gradually I scams quieter, and Mr. Teale leas
him mush more tranquil than before the administeation of
the chloroform. The two surgeons who had made the post
mortem examination of the body described the mucous mem-
brane of the trachea and the lungs as discoloured and highly
congested, whilst the heart was in a collapsed state, which
they thought attributable to the combined effects of delirium
tremens and the application of chloroform. Mr. Smith said
•he should have administered chloroform under similar cir-
cumstances. In fact, it was the recommended, but not
established, practice of the faculty. If the ordinary means
had failed, Mr. Teale was fully justified in trying ehlorofoi m,
and such a practice would be approved of by the heals of tie
profession in this country. Mr. Price agreed in the main
with the statement and opinion of Mr. Smith, but said h.
should not is delirium tremens use chloroform without can-
saltation; and both the gentlemen agreed that death bad
really been caused by delirium Di men.. Mr. Samuel
another *upon of eminence, stewed that in acme of delirium
tremens under his care he had administer. d chloroform with
the most marked success, and that Mr. Teale, in doing so,
was giving the patient the last chance of recovery. The ver-
dict of the jury was that " death had been caused by deli-
rium tremens, and that no blame whatever attached to
Mr. Tsale, who appeared to have adopted the proper and
necessary remedies."

THE REMAINS OP • FORMER GENERATION.
—The workmen engaged in removing the earth fur the
foundations of the viaduct over the reed at the north
end of the town have turned up, a few feet from the
urine, a considerable number if skietons, in the close by
the brick wall formerly belonging to the late Mr. Swindell'.
So numerous are they, that in • space of a faw square yards
upwards of 100 skulls have been displaced, and, what is
remarkable, the bodies appeir to have been thrown into
their rating place indiscriminately, some being frond with
the heads in one direction, and some in another; others
appear to have lain with their fame downwards, and others
thrown transversely arras them,. without any appearance of
coffins, leading to the presumption that they were hastily
Interred at the time of some fatal uiitlOO or pestilence
lwhen the nan regard to Christian sepulture was peose
with. There Is little doubt that this spot was the burial
rotted attached to the church of St. Peter, long since de-
stroyed, end pre. bably the period of interment may have
been shortly antecedent to 1364, when the chart- rof Ert-
-1 ward the Third was granted to the borough—which states
that the town, " by mortal Feetilenoes, and other advenities,
WOO so impoverished and injured, that the fourth pert of the
I sows was not inhabited, and the remaining few had scarcely
wherewith to live," and it was apprehended that wile.,
certain privileges were granted to them, the town would
Ibe wholly given up and deserted fur the maidens:a of men."
Or it might have been the graveyard of theme who gallantly
tell in resisting the thsurgents "there coming" in Wet
Tyler's rebeldoe, 1381, for which good service Eichard wee
Second confirmed the foregoing charter, and granted
another to the bewough, or the period of the civil wars may
have numbered them =onset the slain. Be this es it may,
however, speculation is of little worth, the whole of the
immediate environs of the town are full of the " trail me-
morials" of departed years, sad it is a common thing in
digging in any direction to turn them up in great
abundance, all tending to confirm the recorded fact that
the town was at one period of considerably greater extent
than at present. The tinting of so many bones attracted
numbers to the spot, and seen al of the more perfect
skulls were taken away ; the remainder were again ewe-
signed to the earth, where they are not for the Anus
likely to be disturbed, as the rail will pass over the spot
on an embankment mote than twenty feet above them.—
Consbridge Chronicle.
AN UNPLEASANT RECOONITION.—In July last,
a transport, named Frederick Orienwood, escaped from hi
wick gaol, as many had done before him On Tuesday
week, at the sessions at Bury, amen, described as Thomas
" Smith," of Norwich, a name which eo many men delight
to honour in times of adversity—was placed at the bar, and
pleaded " Guilty" of stealing sundry articlre. Superiuten-
dent Mason was in court, and instantly recognised him as
the veritable Frederick Oriniwood. A communication of
the circumstance was quickly made to the authorities, who
have decided, that be shall first undergo five months' impel.
sonment for the offeace, and then be transported. Since
his recognition, he has informed the police, that
he made his escape in his shirt,
re!
on his
no other article of apparel. In this state
Eersa;assed over the fields to Claydon, and arriv-
ing in the vide at an early hour, sought re-
fuge in an orchard. Hue he was for some time puzzled bow
to proceed, apprehending every moment that he sh.,uld be
detected. At length he olterved at one end of the orchard,
a "mere-crow" fired on a cherry tree, for the purpose of
'raring away birds from the fruit. I
nn mmediately occurred
to Grhawood that, is his despe circumstances, the
"scars-crow" could lir turned to better account, and so
mounting the tree, he himself himself of what to him
turned oat to be a value e prize; and thus having dressed
himself in the "scarnewow" trousers, jacket, and hat, he
started off is grotesque a figure se ever perhaps appeared ie
the quiet village of Claydne He escaped unobserved, and
proceeding to the dmas& of *Sir W. F. F. Middleton, Bart ,
at Shrubland, concealed himself in the woods. From thence
he emerged the next night, and up to the time of his com-
mittal to Bury gaol on the charge of housebreaking at
Watley, had rambled over Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Hunt-
ingdonshire, and Brox, subsisting manly upon plunder.