The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-17 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE

_LENT (EAST).
The n-..minailon of candidates to represent East I
loot is parliaraest look place on Barham Dowse, about
aggr maw from OoMoobury cm Saturday. It was exposed
that so opposition would 'be offend to the melodies at
Air hook W. Br*es, Bart., and Sir Edward C. Bering,
Bart. ; but Mormesd Momrst wss OMR to the
by emaimaliam, at the lard mooed., of Sirirdoedimar.
bull as award commervative candidate. There wee
a large rewound of people.
Sir Nomorr J. 'UAW/MULL said he appeared before the
electors asexpeetedly. He had bees put forward to give
the electors of East Sint am opportunity of mesadiae their
ladependence, and to swede the privilege of which ea
attempt bad been made to deprive them of *homing
members to represent them in the Home of Comatose.
(Oriel of " No, no,* and cheers.) It was onommeary for
him to eater into an exposition of his political *mason%
which were well known to the constituency, further than
to remark that he should be far mare likely to promote
peace, retrenchment, and reform than those who had for so
long a time talked so much and done so little. (Cheers.)
retureied to parliament he should be a direct opponent of
Lord Palmerston's goverment (Cheered
In reply to gaieties, pat by Mr. Mariam, of Master,
Isle of Thema, amd M. Panzerr. of Canterbury, Sir
Baooe H. Batson expressed hie willing ion to coalesce
with Sir Norton Kard&bolL

Ike Hroa Soarer declared the show of hands to be in
favour of Sir Brook Bridges and Sir Edward boring. A
*I was demanded for Sir Norton Ematchbull, and will
take place to-mono..

EAST SURREY.

The candidates fur this diviaiou of the county of
Barmy were nominated on Saturday at Croydoe. The writ
weaned, and the claw formalities gone through in the
Town-hall, aad the electors then adjourned to the Fair
MAW, where a hoetlap wee athsted.)
The HIGH Sassy (Mr. Bradshaw, presided. The
ansalier of persons aesseabled was much smaller than had
beta expeetel, and the prommsdinp appeared to create very
little interest.
The show of hands was declared iu favour of Mr. Locke
Xing and Mr. Barton. A poll was demanded, which was
&zed fort to-morrow, sad after a resolution of thanks to
UM High Sheriff the proceedings terminated.

WEST BIDING—NOILTHERN DIVISION.
The election for the Northern Division of the

West Riding took place on Saturday morning on the hust-
ings on Woodhouse Moor, on which the elonices of members
for the borough was conducted. As this was the first time
"Mee the divisioa of the riding that a county election vas
held at Leeds, there was a good deal of interest felt, and
there wee pretty large assembly, although the numbers
which collected presented nothing like the imposing =gni-
" tube of duo vest multitudes which samembled on the Moor oa
Wednesday sad Thursday last.
After themes' formalities,
Mr. M. WILSON proposed, and Mr. D. Loewe seconded,
Sir F. Crossley ; and Mr. H. 8. THOMPSON Dominated, sad
Mr. J. O. MAlSHSLl.seomided, Lord F. C. Cavendish, and
there being no other candidate they were declared duly
elected.
Sir F. CROSSLEY, M.P., then addressed the *lectors. B.
tendered the electors end non-electors his grateful thanes
for the manner in which they had supported and received
biro. He thought that as ha had already been I. par-
liament for fourteen years. he might be considered to
have served his political apprenticeship. He had
attempted to make an impression on the house as en
orator ; but he had found that the house was ready to
bear men who would only speak when they understood
the question before them. By adopting that course, he
bad auvesded quits as well or better than he had ever
expected. (Lend cheers.) Sir Francis then dwelt at
Leith on some of Mischief political topics of the day. In
regard to parliamentary reform, he was quits willing that
the franchise should be extended laterally, so as to embrace
lodgers ; bat be would never vote for a measure which did
sot Mein& a scheme for also including the working classes.
Ho ridiculed the usual arguments against the 61. franchise,
and showed it was generally forgotten that not only 61.
bouaeholden, bat all tenants of houses between 101. and
61.—ie fact, the cream of the working elms's—would be
included. On the I/meth treaty Sit Francis spoke at
some length, and pointed out the incalculable
benefits which it bad conferred on the two con.
traetiog countries, end which were now being extended
to moot of the other European states. He lauded the policy
of non-intervention pursued by the government; but
thought that the expenditure of the country for defeece
might with ideal:dare be leimeed, specially sines the
formation of a powerful volunteer force. In regard to
government factories, Sir Francis thought that many of
the article. manufactured there might be "applied to the
country at far cheaper rates and of equally good qua-
lity by private 'Orme. Lastly, oa the question of
tke national debt, Sir Prawn' proposed a scheme
for its heal extinction, the principle of which is
that the Chancellor of the Erehequer should lay aside
ball a million per annum from the surplus to be expended
in the porch of the difference between 10,000.0001. I of
Three per Cent. Cossets and 10,000,0001. of terminable ;
annuities at one hundred years hence. The principle is in I
fact merely the paying of higher interest for a time, that
the obligation might in the end cease for ever. Sir Prawn
concluded amidst load cheers by again thanking the
electors.
Lord FELDISICIL CAVENDISH. who was warmly received.
returned shanks for the honour conferred upon him, and
explained the eircumwariess under which be bad been
induced to offer him.elf as a candidate. He could not,
like Sir Francis Crossley, refer to his past votes, and
ko should therefore at some length explain the prin-
ciples upon which he should be guided in parliament.
To the present government be should offer his willing
sad independent support. He asserted that the star
meat that theca was no diferease between conservative
sad liberal pnooiples was a mere platitude, and he ac-
cepted the definition of Mr. Mill, that the conservatives
looked backward for their prieciples, sod that the liberals
looked forward. He expressed his CODIMMIOCO in the non-
intervention polio, of the pretreat government is foreign
affairs, and adverting to the polio; of the governmeat with
sespect to America, be said that in that great war there
were questions which excited the syrop,tby of every friend
of liberty, sad as ries he watched that. long struggle with

an inter he eoekl not describe. Havin pswieirs year
in that country and learnrd to recognise in its people true
Anglo-Saxon brethren, he might he permitted to express
the joy with which he beheld the triumphant oonelusion
of that great war ; and he might oosgratulate them se
Yoskshiremee that the great work of Wilberforce was
concluded—flood cheen)—that the disgrace of slavery
was wiped away, and that slavery sad the descendants of
Englishmea amid never more be mentioned together. (Es-
thusiutte cheers.) l'asaieg to an intermediate question be
expressed his regret that so little attention was paid to the
great dependency of India, end with regard to the colonies,
be hoped to see the day when, without any rankling trol-
lop or any AllO/11 of injustice, these colonies should be
free, and we should see tea world scattered with a number
el friendly allied Aoglo-Saxon races. (Cheers.) Upon
the subject of reform his lordship spoke at some length,
ridiculing the objectioes which had been offered by the
noaseseatives to en +unmake of the frau:Aim and eon-
tending that the question was not between swamping the
peanut constituency, but whether one class of the com-
munity should be wholly unrepresented. (Cheers.) He
explaictil hie views on the re-distribution of seats, ex-
pressed himself u totally opposed to church•rates, and
said that he regarded the Irish established church se a
gum injustice. (Cheers.)
At the conclusion of hie lordship's speech three cheers
were celled for lewd Araterley and for Mr. Baines, which
were immediately given.