The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1853.

IRELAND.

Drat.lN, May 24.
The Lord Lieutenant and Countess of St. Germans
paid another visit to the Great Industrial Exhibition
in the early part of yesterday, and remained in-
specting the various departments for upwards of two
hours. Their Excellencies, who were conducted over
the exhibition by Mr. Deane, expressed their
surprise and.. satisfaction at the extraordinary
progress that had been made in the arrangements,
which are now approaching to completion. Suffi-
cient notioe of the reduction in the price of admission
not having been given, the numbers who availed
themselves of it yesterday were not so great as they
would otherwise have been. The following is thu
official return of the numbers admitted duting the
day :
Season ticket holders
Vi.itors who paid 24. 6,1. each
Excursion ticket holders

Total
A deputation, consisting of the Lord .layer, the
Earl of Meath, the Hon. George Hancock, Colonel
Latouche, and others, waited yesterday on the Lord
Lieutenant, to submit a statement on the subject of
accelerating the communication between London and
Dublin by improved railway arrangements and a
superior class of steamers. His Excellency listened
with attention to the suggestions of the deputation,
and assured them of his desire to facilitate their
object. It was confidently stated on the occasion
that one of the most eminent builders in England is
ready to construct vessels for the Holyhead and
Kingstown line, and to guarantee a speed of 23 miles
an hour, with a proportionate increase of safety and
convenience to travellers.
The following appalling account of the mortality
—whatever be its cause—which prevails in the Cork
Union Workhouse, is given by the Southern Reporter:
On Wednesday, the 11:h instant, we learn that of 4,870
inmates of the house, there were " sick in hospital " 703
males, and 1,103 females—in all 1,806 ; of " blind " there
were 5 males and 31 females; of persons afflicted with
"ophthalmia." the precursor of blindness, 90 males and
81 females ; total, 171; of persons, chiefly children, suffer-
ing from "scrofula, ring-worm, and the like," 200; and
from 100 to 100 females afflicted with " night blindness."
Of " convalescent and infirm " there were 196 boys and
230 girls. We may add the, for the put five years, the
average number of paupers in the house has been 6,662,
and of these the average of " sick " bas been 33 per cent.,
or 1,887 persons. Of the morality, in the house, an idea
may be formed from the following table of the deaths dur-
ing nine weeks ending May the 14th—last Saturday ;
Week ending March 19
Pt IP 26
i. April 2
i, n 9
11 „ 16
Pt PI 23
ii. .. 30
/9 May 7
9 P /I 14

Total for 0 weeks 395
Thus the average deaths for this period have been nearly
43 a week, being at the rate of 2,230 yearly. And this
without any unusual cause, that we know of, for mortality
in the house. Of permanent Causes of disease and death
in the workhouse, however, we believe there is no dearth.
It appears that four cetwools are within the walls, which
require to be opened once a week, and which in wet
weather constantly overflow the exercise yards of the in-
mates. The sewerage is, it appears, abominably insuffi-
cient, though it hat cost 3,5001., of which sum 1,2001. has
been but lately expended ; and, in addition to all this,
water can only be obtained in the summer months by hav-
ing it brought by the inmates from some distance outside
the workhouse.

Emigration proceeds as briskly as ever, the Bow
of the population towards all the principal seaports,
on the way to America or Australia, going forward
without the slightest perceptible diminution. The
ship agents never found it so easy to make up the
full complement of passengers for emigrant vessels;
and scarcely is a ship advertised for a voyage across
the Atlantic when every berth on board is engaged.
It has been remarked, however, that the proportion
of small farmers who emigrate has become somewhat
less than usual, and that the " exodus " is just now
confined in a great measure to young persons of both
sexes, agricultural labourers and servants, the greater
number of the latter being females.
Another Roman catholic synod has been annouteitd.
It is to take place in the Metropolitan Chapel, of
Marlborough-street, on tho 2d of next month, and is
to be • " provincial" one, but the object for which it
will be held has uut been stated.

THE ELECTION OF CHAMBERLAIN FOR

THE CITY OF LONDON.

CLOSE OF THE PO_
Mr. Benjamin Scott 1,206
Sir John Key 1,127

DAY.

Maj •rity for Scott.... 79
At three o'clock the poll for the day was closed. After
the poll clerks had summed up the number of votes re-
corded during the day the gross poll was eabibited in the
hall. boisterous cheers succeeding the announcement. !in.
me&a'ely allerwardi—
SIR ions Kay came forward and returned his most
grateful thanks for the proud position in which the Livery
had placed him ; for proud indeed be might justly call it,—
when he reflected upon the cruel and discreditable means
resorted to by the supporters of his opponent. (Oh, oh.)
The gentleman on his left who was so loud in his vocifera-
tion. of " Oh, oh," might possibly be the writer of the
'anonymous letter signed "A Liveryman," which had ap-
peared in the papers; if so he requested him to come for-
ward and boldly state before his (Sir John's) face that
which he, or same members of Mr. Scott's committee, had
had the cruelty to assert. If the party had done so, on the
day of nomination, and accused him of the alleged complaint
lbefore his face, he (Sir John) would have had no reason to
complain. (Hear.) This is what any honourable man
would have done. He would, however, ask the body before
bins,—all of those who were parents,—whether it was in
accordance with either Christian or parental feeling for
more than twenty yearn to be continually perse-
cuting one who
it in accordance with His conduct who on a me-
morable occasion said, " Let him that is without
sin cut the first stone ?" (" Hear, hear," and " Oh.")
Would any of the members of Mr. Scott's committee wish
every action of their lives for the last 20 year. to be brought
before such a tribunal as they wished to set up for hint ?
(Hear, hear.) For himself hie might fairly say that what-
ever might have been his fault, he had sought and he had
found forgiveness at that tribunal before which they with
him must all appear when the hearts and motive. would be
perfectly open. (Hear.) With reference to the statements
alluded to made against him in the advertisements in the
public papers, Sir John entered into a lengthened explana-
tion for the purpose of proving the allegations to be untrue.
Then statements of the worthy baronet were most cordially
I received by the Livery. After repudiating the idea of his
I appearing before the Livery for the situationeof Chamberlain
simply because he bad the honour to wear the aldermanic
gown, Sir John retired from the platform amidst loud
cheering.
Mr. Sewer, in rising to return thanks, observed that he
had waived his privilege as being at the head of the poll,
and had allowed his hon. opponent the opportunity of first
speaking, and he trusted to the spirit of fairness in the
Livery to allow him an uninterrupted hearing. First, he
must render his grateful acknowledgments to them for the
proud position which their votes enabled him to occupy that
day. His opponent had charged his committee sod him-
self with inserting statements in the papers prejudicial to
his character, and contrary to the truth. (Hear, hear.)
Upon his honour, which his opponent had not
ventured to impeach, he uterted that he had never
seen these statements ; that they hid not been inserted by
his committee ; and moreover, that every advertisement
which had issued from his committee had been signed by
the chairman and vice-chairmen. The charge, therefore,
was altogether without foundation, and should not he
allowed to prejudice him in the opinion of the Livery. He
had instructed his agents—he had requested his committee
—to abstain from everything of a personal nature, and he
could not consent to climb to the attainment of the position
he sought by disparaging the character of his opponent.
He would not follow Sir John Key in the personalities he
had introduced, nor retaliate by going into family matters
as Sir John had attempted to do. He did not claim the
office as a reward, as Sir John Hey bad stated ; he simply
sought it—or rather his friends sought it for him—because
they conceived that long acquaintance with its duties ren-
dered him the fittest person to fill it. (Laughter.) With
respect to the matter alleged against his opponent, he would
say that he was totally anacquainted with the facts of the
use. (Hear, hear.) They happened many years since, and
he did not clearly recollect them, nor was he desirous of
renewing his acquaintance with them, and for all he knew
the charges were false. (Hear, hear.) He was pre-
vail d to admit, and to assert, that his opponent had acted
honourably in relation to the matter alluded to. If any in-
judicious or calumnious partisan had inserted that
advertisement he regretted it ; but he should not allow such
conduct to be brought forward to impeach the conduct of
his committee or to be imputed to himself. (Hear, hear.)
He sought the office at their hands, not es a favour nor as a
sinecure, hut he simply submitted that he defended in his
person a principle of much importance, and rho Livery were
entitled to the most uncontrolled liberty of selection for the
office of Chamberlain, and he claimed for them that which
they had that day asserted as their prerogative—the right
of selection from their own body of the person they might
consider best fitted to perform the duties required. (Hear,
hear.) He hoped they would attend early on the following
day to record yet more strongly their opinion. (Cheer. )

PAST CHASIDEIILAINS OF TILE CITY OF LONDON WHO
HAYS NOT BEEN SELECTED THOM TUE COCAT OP
ALDERMIN.

The following were the hat chamberlains elected from