The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCH.

In the market for breadstuffs but little had been doing,
and prices had receded slightly. Western Canal flour
fetched 4 dole. 621 c. to 4 dole. 73c. per brl.; Gennemee
wheat, 1 dol. 18c. to 1 dol. 20c. Indian corn, northern,
rosnd 64c. to 66c. steady; Indian meal, Jersey
yellow, 3 dots. 25c. to 3 dole. 37tc.
The cotton market at New York is reported brisk, with
a good average business doing. Prices have slightly ad-
vanced, as will be seen from the following quotations, owing
to the animation in the Southern markets : New Orleans
and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 1l c. to 121 c. per lb. ; Up-
lands, mid. to fair, 11c. to lla.
Provisions were in improved demand, and prices were
firmer.

partner, and their vii-d-ris being M. Rogier, the Minister 1 The inquest on the body of John Jackson, who was killed
of Belgium, and the Countess de Ilateeldt, wife of the by the late bailer explosion at Messrs. Fernley and
Prussian Minister. As soon as the quadrille had eon- I Bradley's, at Stockport, was resumed on Monday afternoon.
eluded, their Majesties resumed their seats, and conversed I It had been adjourned in order to procure the opinion of
for some time with the persons around them. The Em- 1 Mr. Nasmyth, as to the cause of the explosion ; but that
peror also descended from his place to speak to others. gentleman being from home, the coroner had called in Mr.
Their Majesties then walked through the rooms, and appeared Roberta, of the late firm of Sharpe and Roberts, of Dia-
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struck with the taste displayed in the decorations. They cheater, who had made a careful examination of the boiler.
then withdrew to the Salle du Prone, where they remained Mr. Roberts said some weights taken from the safety valve
conversing for some time with the persons admitted to their I of the exploded boiler together with the spindle and valve,
THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—The followin,, coin- presence, and about half-put eleven proceeded to the Salle would cause a pressure of 4411 b. to the inch, and with these
municetion from the Admiralty was received on Wednes- des Conferences, which was fitted up as a supper-room, ; weietsonthesatetyvalve would blowoffat a pressure 0f441h.
day lest, by Robert Barnes, Esq., mayor of Manchester:— tables being set out round three sides of it, and capable of ,to 401 b., and no less. He thought the cause of the explosion
" Admiralty, 29th March, 18.53.—Sir,—With reference toe allowing 309 persons to partake of refreshment at the same was a want of sufficient water in the boiler. lie Was 01
petition from the merchants, ship-owners, &c., connected time. After partaking of some slight refection, their Ma- opinion that the boiler was quite safe at a pressure of 43115.,
with, and trading ho, the West Indies, respecting the instil- jesties returned for a few minutes to the Salle do Teene, and that it would not have burst at double that pressure if
, tiency with which the Royal West India Mail Company and then took their departure at about twelve o'clock, the the flues were covered with water. The coroner, in sum-
I performed their contract with the government for the con- Emperor expressing to M. llilinult his entire satisfaction at ming up, remarked on the unsatisfactory nature of the,
vey,inee of the mails to and from that place—l am coin- the admirable mann. rin which the Ate bad been conducted. evidence, as to the manner in which the safety-salve had
m 'iota by my Lards Commas...into r. of the A lmiralty .0 Looking generally at t!:•• t; !.:, the gnome vcc unanimous hoen weighted, and also roieted .at there l:Ilion:a no:ore
inform you that immediate attention hos Even paid to this In declaring it to he one , r the Must smee*sful si. oin Fatls of the evidence ui Mr. ll.4ereft and Mr. ITibert.. :.5 to tio
memorial, and that the board have referred it to the corn- of late roars. The number of beautiful women present was explosion being caused by a scarcity of water is the boiler.
mittee sitting on packet service, before whom the entire extraordinary, and the display of diamonds unusually fine. The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death," and that
subject has been brought. I am, sir, your most obedient The vast variety of official costumes imparted a peculiar ap. the accident had been caused by it scarcity of wattt in the
humble savant, B. Osnossix.--11teldayor of lilanchester." pearancc of animation to the scene; and the uniforms of boiler.

Exchange on London WAS at 109 to 1091. with a quiet
market; on Paris, 5.13 to 5.15 ; on hamburg, 361 to ;
on Bremen, 73 to 791.

HC!►UEHSFIELD ELECTION.

SPEECH OF LORD GODERICH.

important, • with, MA s sets remedy for the many and
peat evils of intiothifillien, corruption, and violence, in re-
sorting to the mode adopted is some countries of taking the
votes by ballot. (Ore nt 'leering.) It so happens, gentlemen,
that with regard to my opinions on the ballot I can tell you
a little story. I wrote an address to my late constituents of
Hull. I sent that address down to some of my friends, and
put my advocacy of the ballot forward among the promi-
nent portions of that address. (Hear, hear.) There were
amongst my friends there some timid gentlemen of the old
whig school, who thought the ballot a very horrid thing,
and objected to its retention in the address. I believe they
struck it out; at least I believe the address was printed
without it. But at the very first meeting I addressed I
took the opportunity of supplying the omission—if
it were one—and said frankly to them—" Gentle-
men, you must take me as a ballot man, or you mast
net take me at all." (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, having,
I think. touched upon all the points of most importance in
imenexion with the question of parliamentary reform,
V there is any other matters in connexion with it
gm which you wish to aek me any questions, I shall
be perfectly willing to answer you. I shall come next to
the question which I believe is engaging much of the public
attention throughout the country, and especially in this
your town. Gentlemen, I am going to tread upon some-
what delicate ground. I am going to speak of matters
that are more or less bound up with men's most sacred and
most solemn feelings; and when I have to address people
on questions connecte directly or indirectly with religious
subjects, I have always been most desirous to do so in that
spirit of calmness, of dignity, and of fairness, which I think
alone becouris those discussions. (Applause.) Gentlemen,
you may be aware thst I am "myself a member of the
church of England." (Hear, hear.) You would not re-
spect me, those of you who are not members of that
church would not respect me mere, but I imagine less,
if I were not to say I have for that institution a
sincere and well-founded regard. (Applause.) If I
were to come before you in a spirit of hostility to
that institution you would tell me, I think, gentle-
men, t'..at I was talking clap-trap. (lerini. applause.)
It is my belief that no Institution, and least of all en insti-
tution founded on and connected with the Christian reli-
gion, is likely to prosper if supported by any means incon-
sistent with the most perfect justice and the most entire
truth. (Loud applause.) I believe to that institution, of
all others, artificial props or unjust appliances are most
utterly destructive, and therefbre I should be the last man
to support anything which seemed to me to be of that na-
ture. (Loud theirs.) Gentlemen, I will briefly state the
principle by which my parliamentary conduct in thin re-
spect has hitherto been guided, and by which I have also
been guided in those discussions upon those topics in which
I have been otherwise publicly engaged, and by which I
will be guided in the future, whether in or out of parlia-
ment. I shall object to any further endowment by the
state of any religious bodies whatever. (applause.) When
I look at the religious condition of this country, and see
the manner in which it is divided in opinion, I believe that
such a course would be unwise, unjust, and destructive.
(Cheers.) I ant also opposed, not merely to any further
state endowment, but to ail grants out of the public r
for religious and ecclesiastical purposes. (Cheers.) And
as a proof that I am so, I voted fur the motion in the House
of Commons brought forward by my friend—as I am sure
he would allow me to call him—Mr. Szholeficld, the member
for Birmingham—fur the abolition of all such grants. (Ap-
plause.) I believe that the taxes which are now levied on
people of all religious opinions under the name and title of
church rates, and other similar taxes, are ant for the sup-
port, but rather for the destruction—not for the advantage,
but rather for the serious disadvantage, of the church to
which I belong—(loud cheers)—and I believe, whether fur
her advantage, or for her disadvantage, they are unjust and
unwise. (Cheers.) I shall, therefore, vote for, and
support their total and entire abolition. (Much cheering.)
Gentlemen, I now propose as a further exemplification of
my principles to recal to your mind one circumstance
which took place the ether night in the House
of Commons, in which, after having brought in a
very wise bill on the subject of the clergy reserves in
Canada, Lord J. Russell, fur whom I wish to profess great
respect, and whose personal and parliamentary conduct
has ever been such as to entitle him to the honour and re-
spect of his country—(applause)—but whom I am not
prepared to profess an intention of blindly fullowing—(loud
cheers)—because I will not, acil I dare not, tie myself to
any minister or party—(cheers)—l shall go to the House
of Commons the advocate of the cause of the people, and
by that motive alone I will be governed—(loud cheers)—l
my, gentlemen, that Lord Johu Russell, as the leader of the
House of Commons, proposed to make en alteration in the
bill which he had himself brought in, by which he would
have saddled that colony with the payment of a certain
annual sum of money, not actually a larger amount, but
that matters nothing to the principle involved in it—
(ebeers)—a sum of 10,0001. a year for supporting the
Church Establishment in Canada. Gentlemen, had I been
hi the House of Commons upon that occasion, I should
have divided with those gentlemen who opposed that Altera-
deo. (Applause.) I should have done so on'
Mee principle which I have stated to you sires*.
I should have done so too on the still further prim'
em which perhaps I may take the liberty now of toll-
=my opinion, that the colonies ought to be left as fax en
to govern, defend, and manage themselves. (hp
pisses.) Gentlemen, one portion of the duty of the man
Dinunon., and one which perhaps is in some respects
etallarly its own, is to vote away the taxes and to decide Its
amount of the public expenditure ; and when I look at dm
condition of this country—w hen I see we have saddled it in
purposes it is not now for me to criticise—that we have sods
died it with an amount of debt which is equal to 800,000,000 E
—I confess I do feel, although I have no desire to be nig-
iprdly nor any desire to act in a too parsimonious spirit—
I 'do feel that It is the bounden duty of the House of
s most closely to watch that expenditure, and
MUM it to the utmost possible amount ; but still further,
when I see that the proportion of that expenditure which
Its spent for civil purposes and for the general benefit
of this community, is so trivially small when compared
with what is spent for military and naval establish-
ments, I am desirous of advocating the utmoss reduction in
those establishments which can be mud, with safety to our

A, slatd in the Expreu of yesterday, Lord
~ casul liberal candidate, addressed the liberal
he Phileeephical Hall, on Tureday night.
vete.,„'"7n el, crowded and most enthasintic meet-
•••••• " ahip eel. rieneed • =unflattering reception.
pag. leiv pis •presided.
Mr tley,
Wia;.-Mi eels, the retiring candidate, introduced Lord
~ade'".
ree in r ti• ttering eulogy upon his character, prin.
opal ,•e ir at onea rose, and his rising was the
's
burst of cheering, which was pro-
nto.'
me some time. When silence had been restored, his
lard
utli men, I should hardly hove fought of
litellehT...ate.ee—(7• fore you in this town for the purpose
tw"ur autfrages, at the coming election, or
'itiu even in a mere preliminary manner.
7,...,1'7' I t:il.lr:ami principles which have hitherto
r •h I trust will always guide, my public
)—if it had not been that I had
tunev—(h".' hasr b two gentlemen who I believe are
to do y
whom 1 cannot doubt aro justly pnisessed-
-%, ialit nee and weight among you. (A voice,—
,1""'"f, •Pd. he CIETII of "Turn that drunken man
sad I••ud ivielause.) And also, if tee, had not
on behalf of • still larger portion of your
eeme me to accompany them to your town for
mating to you that statement of my opi-
nion 'AI, tai
ff
now about to do. (Hear, hear.)
% g.,ntlenien, to what I trust was •
:sarte,•,emens.!; ; end when these gentlemen did asks
Lome that APT,
and that propositios, I gladly acceded Le
.e roottiT 1E1: I do seek •.he honour of • Peat
it' - otl'erliament. (Applause.) And I felt,
sal gal. le• • tae Pe"r.-*%—thsa7 that s at woull be doubly honourable,
ends ~1 Ind allow me to say so, double), dear to me.. if I
..%.,e'sg, teat teen by the
belection o my fellow-1 ork-
ma end are especially y men of revown county,
V.ires"; (Hear, hear.) By theseons I was
anb,:dssed to came to your
ytown last night, for the pun
m political opinions, and any
pc; of 'rashly exPlerpirrll
my past conduct of which you may desire
-pla tn. Gentlemen, I am 11111i0U% to he frank and open
era you, and give you -• the means ofjadging whether you
goad scup) me a caadidate ; and I now offer myself
More ercparnl to bow to the decision come to by
the teen, awt am only anxious to go on to • contest,
git lie your will that I seould do so. (" liege, bear," and
srpe,eo..) Although I tear I may have, among the nume-
roe. te;nei that arc of public interest at the present day, to
mumble you at some let.gth before 1 have finished my state-
ment I must crate your indulgeeee while I speak of what
eimt.'ens ieitieeloally. (Hear, hear.) And, gen•
if th,, were no other reason why I should desire to
tlitels
ee; sigh an suiticace as thee I should not be sorry to
have the opeortunity of doiee so, is order that I might—
as I believe leffectually can—viud.eate myself from any ob-
jection that may lie spinet my character at the result of
th, p. ,:ion presented against my late return for the borough
of la!u-steampon•Hull. I do so, in the first place, as a duty
I owe to yon no less than to myself. I know that you are
desirous of promoting the utmost purity of election. I
know that the desire was the foundation of the steps re-
cestil token by your town ; and I should nut venture to off, r
spelt as a ceitilidate if I did not feel honestly and in my
comeieuct that I was clear of any guilt on that score.
(Apelause sad uproar, caused by a drunken man, who was
'media with huotines, and cries of "Turn him out.")
Geetlemen, in the tint place, 1 can give you—if you are
willmg to accept it as of any value—on my honour, the most
deci-ed anal pesitive assurance that I was in no way a party
to my itupreer practices at that election; but, on the con•
teary. 1 told the two gentlemen—holding a high position
sad et es•icuble character in the town—to whom this mat-
,,, am entrusted, that I would not and could not sanction
styling of the kind, and that I must first care for my
become, and oral second for my success. (Cheering.)
And I can appear to a yet further testimony, which I
donut tot ii have some weight with you, and that
is the testimony of the whole liberal party in the
town that returned nee at the late election—a testi-
wocy %huh you, as burgesses of • town of whom
so mist a mijority protege liberal principles, will be
we:ing to :Men to. Gentlemen, I am in • position to tall
yea teat a. a full meeting of that body, they came to an
=minima. usolution pledging themselves and stating that
they had tee same unshaken confidence in my late col
kanee, Mr. Clay, and myself, and that they would at the
ant *Melon. at which time we should be eligible to be
come candidates, unanimously support us; and further,
which !either.' is • circumstance very rarely heard of in the
swish of eh esioneering, that they would not support any
bleral candidates ate this neat election who would not
*dee themselves to make way for us, if we should choose
beee-after to stand. (Hear, hear, and loud applause.) I
latiLt ep•pesl—if 1 were not anxious not to weary
—to thaw wen with whom I stood in the House
el Cam:none—to the testimony of your county re•
peeseotauve, Mr. Cobden—(laud cheers)—to th ) testi-
story of Mr. Bright to the testimony of other
men of weil•known character, and of all parties
who would give the same testimony from what they know
of ter case, and what they heard of the evidence, that I was
ix no way a participator in these practices. (Applause.)
And I think you are not likely to pot much confidence in
the eeidenee of the witnesses of • party whose chief witness
arkrowledged that he had received not less a sum than 50/.
for his evidence. (Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, upon het
peon I shall now leave myself in your hands. I am willing
to gave you nay further satisfaction, information, or explana-
tion, after I bare finished my address, if you ask fur it, and
evh,da 1 ran give consistently with my duty to my late col-
league and myself. I will now, gentlemen, witmont fur-
ther preface, explain those principles which I have de-
fended, and ever will defend, whether in or out of par-
Imment—(hear, bear)—principles which I have not
espoused tor the sake of getting into parliament—(cheers)
—luaus then are not many persons who know me that
are ignorant of the fact, that if I had been willing to
profess opposite principles—if I hod been willing to profess
prmeiples which are regarded u more in consonance with
the position which I bold, and which Mr. Willans has told
yes se my misfortune and my fade—(laughter and cheers)
l had the misfortune not only to be •`a live lord," but
bad as many live lords have acted—and which I believe
they will yet repent of—if I had so acted I might have *h-
alal,* a seat in parliament with no trouble, no expense,
sad no inconvenience. (Loud applause.) But I only
sought a seat there to advocate those principles which in
my heart I believe to be true, and therefore I at once ap-
pealed to tarp constituencies as an independent candidate.
(Bear, hear.) These principles are those of enlightened
sad steady progress of reform, rapid but not hasty— u
mewing, but not violent—of reform,which is the great and only
mhgeard against revelution—of that reform which is in feet
the truest conservatism, and which his never, so far as I
hose yet leerat, been the rennet empires, while the opposite
polsey has been so soastantly. (Loud applause.) I will
net detain yea upon that peat question which now we may
look upon as settled for ever—the question of free Mode.
(" lieu, hear," and applause.) I voted for the melba it
my friend the Hos. Charles alleys in the Has, of
taw ; at least I did not vote first for that modes awl eller
muds against it, as some who call thyme inn allarbele
thought themselves justified in doing; bosom I lbswilst
the policy of 1846, the policy of the repeal of the COTO WON
wee "wise, jut, and beneficial "—(loud applause)--bu
TOW I believed that this crowning act of the life of the
late P r Robert Peel would remove from the mind of pem
tardy the recollection of any portion of his public came
wskt might be thought of a less wise character, end
would hand down his name—in spits of the rapsassi
insults of the protectionist party—as one of the best
sad most illustrious statesmen of modern times. (•• Hear,
heat," and applause.) Anil, gentlemen, so far as you will
open me to speak upon the subject of free trade, yea
solid, I believe, be inclined to think with me, that although
we have settled the principle, there are further extensions
of that principle for which we have • right to look. (Hear,
hear) Large extensions of the policy of • free and unfet-
tered commerce and trade will have my hearty support; for
wboe I believe that that 'milky, so far as it has gone, has
been most successful, I believe, also, that it has been
founded in right and justice. (Cheers.) One of the souses
which ;ed me most to rejoice at the final settlement of this
free trade policy was, that it would open the way to the con-
eelnet,on of another question in which I feel permnally the
deepest interest—that which I believe concerns the interest
of cm: country—l mean the question of parliamentary re-
form. (" lieu, hear," and loud applause.) It is the M-
ischa of the present government—and a pledge to the
effect has been given by them—ia the course of .the neat
maim of parliament to introduce • measure for parliamen-
tary reform. To that measure, if it be consonant with the
principles which I hold upon the subject, I shall be moos
*axiom and desirous to give my support. (" Hear,
lieu." and applause.) My principles upon that matter go
what it is the fashion to consider and describe as " very far"
—(lieen)—and it is hardly possible that we shall get in the
present parliament • measure as large and cosaprekonsivo
is I maid desire to see. (Applause.) The only priedpie
upon which I would rest the representation is, that we
'Mudd extend it to the utmost possible point, and I shall be
willing to advance in that direction by all the moans which
the circumstances of the country will allow. (Applause.) I
have no sympathy with the principle of duality. (Hear.) I
am nbt arrant of my countrymen. (Applause.) I cannot Do-
beer that this dense meeting is composed of men any one of
wheal is unfit for the suffrage. There.ore you wilt find my
°preens upon that point accord with the opinions I have
ever understood the non of Huddersfield to hold ; you will,
I beatve, find my opinions satisfactory upon that point.
(Rem, hear, and applause.) But if you extend the suf.
_lnge ever so far, you would outproduce
uoni if a good House of
you did not alter the present distribution of
the electoral districts. (Applause.) The present distribu-
tion is fundamentally vicious. It is founded upon no prin-
'4 except that of attempting to silence the voice of the
pvti•:, and therefore I shall advocate a vast and most
comprehensive alteration in this respect. (Applause.) I am
eta in a town, a large and important town, tilled with
.Iml. due:hetet, industrious, frmgal, and sober—with men
iving every claim to a share in the councils of their
fta
entry, and yet I find that you are of less importance
toto1;610if nt ouseof Comm ons than each of fifty small
worth or importance at all in the country.
pplaine.) I confess that whether or not I sew from
tats moment to be connected with this borough—that what-
ever may be. year wed conxrning me—l must always look
r...l•l!__lerheinien_tar. piisition of your borough as • very
;7.7; of injwttee and believe me, I do net hold
rt, guar because I happen to be talking to Rudders-
7:7;_ri. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, having got rid of these
•t•• I name to anetler which 1 consider m-ist need-
le, ...i %,P • • • 14 e'.untry pro,nrly ea.re,,e
t„.. _ • iy ri...ce Juan
is ;; which I Lave gone through in a borough, and
tc which I hare witnee•til in counties—has tang
"•-•lt iyi, ai to a decided opinion that we should find • most

conatry, mad with security to our independence. (Loud
cheers.) And now, gentlemen, before I sit down I will
briefly advert to a topic on which I confer I feel a very
deep interest. To that class of measures which cores occa-
sionally before the houses of parliament, and which are
conceived for the purpose of bessettiog the great masses of
the people, and especially the working classes, I have always
taken an interest in all matters concerning their welfare
and improvement ; I have always evinced the greatest in-
terim—(cheers)—and I shall aleap be desirous to pi's $e
to the utmost, in the soundest manner, and in the mesons
most consistent with the consolidating and binding together
all classes of men that may be consistent with the purest
maintenance of religions freedom, and the freedom of one
countrymen—those 'measures for their education and
improvement which it may be within the power of
meat to carry out. (Hear, and loud cheers.) Gen
I have learnt, and it is true, thr.t it is not very greatly Is
the power of legislation to benefit large masses of men.
(Hear, hear.) I believe it is much more in the power of
legislation to injure them. (Applause.) I believe that
most of the present condition of this country, and much of
the past worst condition of this country in former times,
has been the remit far more of over-legislation than eves
of mis-legislation; but still I am far from putting myself
up in narrow limits. lam far from saying it is not In
the power of pariiameat, and I am still farther from
saying it is not the bounden duty of the legisla-
ture, to do all they can for promoting the elevation, the
well-being, happiness, and independence of all classes of
the) people, and to raise by every means in their {pewee
ell these eimme thee ars now meet depressed in the
sus stalk mill liss day shall essee when all shall be
IMlltelteseallet fa misipeat and use heed, and when, if you
ar111)111mr ass te use Ohs word, we shall be one great and
anneenisy—(basceibead shall have mered ell clue
Is a 1 of union as Englishmen and
:ftertiFd men, so thug me may be able to go on in an min-
stream of proems, founded upon those sacred
"dimples of truth and Justice which ars inculcated by our
sematon religion. (Loud and protrasted cheers.) Gentle-
men, I do am know that I have anything more which occurs
to me at this moment which I should say to you. If I
shield be selected by you as a fit person to become a candi-
date at this election, I will pledge myself to conduct it
spin the strictest principles of purity. (Applause.) If
ye. take any objection to me because it may have been
said I have been connected with an election that was net
wholly pure, you will remember at the same time that I
went to that election an utterly inexperiensed man ; that
I knew nothing of election matters—nothing of the manner
la which they were conducted, or of the dangers which beset
the.; sad that I new have the advantage of a bitter ex-
panellise, an expertenes which cost me a mat in parliament,
end a molest whisk has been to me a humiliation, because
It may have seemed to some persons to involve my
diameter. (Hear, bear.) I shall also conduct this contest
on perfect principles of fairness and of gentleman-like feel-
ing towards any person or persons who may be my oppo-
nents. (Applause.) If lam to fight still under the cir-
cumstances which I understand the town is in, I coniess it
is not a battle I should have chosen to fight. I would
rather fight a battle with a tory than with a man who calls
himself a liberal, but still be the battle with whom it may,
I am lure, on my part, and I may almost say onthe part of
those by whom I shall be supported, that the battle will
he conducted in all fairness and purity, and I hops also
with good feeling. (Applause.) And now, gentlemen, but
ass task wee remains fur me to do, that task is a peculi.
arty pleasing and gratifying one to me—a task which, what-
ever may be your decision to-night, the mere fret of my
having to de that which I am about to do, will ever be to
me a real gratification. I have to thank you heartily for the
kindness and attention with which you have listened tome.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have ever met with such kindness
and attention from a Yorkshire audience. (Applause.) It has
been a great pleasure to me to be enabled to have this op-
portunity of addressing you, and to meet with so much
kindness and so much sympathy. I have, therefore,
only most sincerely to thank you. (Loud and continued
sheering.)
After an invitation from the Chairman to any elector to
pat que•tions to the noble lord,
Mr. C.tittrit (an indomitable supporter of the opposite
gamy) then came forward amid dismal and deafening
s . When order was with difficulty restored, he said
he tibed to ask the noble lord whether he had any objec•
tin to state the amount of the cost of the last Hull election
ill Ws lordship ?
Lord Chinziticit replied—My answer to the gentleman's
question is this—That at the last Hull election I stood
ha tradition, united and entire coalition, with another
gentleman, who is ant here present, and tlmt as
• man of bonier I canon answer the
Ski geut,suirti has put to me, unless 1 have the
leave of my colieague so to do. (Applause.) If the gen-
tleman will have the goodness to put his question to my col-
Wive, I will leave that matter in his hands, and on getting

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 31, 1853

his permission to answer the question, I shall be at liberty
to state the...gigot the last Hull election. (Cheers.)
Mr. C —I wish next to as—(loud laughter, and
cries of "Axe him—axe him, Carter ")—oh, you all know
lwhat "ax " means. Well, I wish neat to ask, " Are you
' aware that • considerable number of Hull electors, say
from SOO to 1.000, were bribed by the candidates by money
payments of 30s. each at the late eleethin there ?" (I%p-
-roar, and cries of "That comes well from you, Carter.")
Lord GODERICII—i am perfect!.' certain that they were
not. (Loud cheers ; shouts of " Wkat do you think of
that, Carter ?"—" Axe away," hisses and applause.)
Mr. CARTER—My lord, there is a report that your lord-
ship has guaranteed 2,000 f. fur the legal expenses of the
coming- election. Is that true or false / (Laughter and
applause.)
Lord GODIRICIL—My answer is, that I have done nothing
of the sort—(applause)—and if the gentleman who asks the
question will give me good security, I will pay into his
hands all the money that I may expend at the coming
election. (Shouts of laughter and vehement cheering.)
Mr. W. Dagwertm.o, solicitor—Are you for separation
of church and state ?

Lord 00130611tCH—No. (Applause.)
No other questions being proposed,
Mr. WiIIGHT BITLLOY, in • short speech, indignantly
repudiating the nomination of Mr. Caner, that money had
ever been spoken of by the deputation or Lerd Goderich,
proposed the following resolution :—" That in the opinion
of this meeting Lord Goderich is a fit and proper person I.
represent this borough in parliament, and in the event of
his consenting to offer himself as a candidate, we under-
take to give him our earnest support." (Loud cheering.)
Mr. Jamas HANSON, in seconding the resolution, met
the objection that had been made to Lord Goderich that he
was not a townsman, be saying that if two candidates of
equal claims and equal talents for the otfice presented them-
selves, and one was a townsman and the other a stranger,
I then he would at once prefer the townsman. But in the
present instance this question did not arise ; for in the two
candidates before the burgesses the one was in every way
fully qualified, whilst the other was meet unfitted for the
office; therefore it was absurd to say that they must take
the wait man merely because he was • townsman. (Ap
plate•e.)
Mr. G. S. PHILLIPS begged to say a word at this point.
In • communication which he had received from Lord
Goderich, before he thought of being solicited to offer him-
self for Huddersfield, his lordship distinctly stated that he
would never stand for any borough where he was required
to pay more than the absolute legal expenses. (Cheering.)
The resolution was then put from the chair, and earned
with only four dissentients, and followed by vehement
plaudits.
The CHAIRMAN, addressing Lord Goderich, said—l have
to announce to your lordship, that this resolution has been
carried anion with unanimity ; anal I beg to add that the
men whom you see before you and around you are earnest,
hard-working tun, upon whom you may rely in the event
of a contest. I trust your lordship, from what you have
seen of the spirit and temper of the meeting, may accept
the invitation I have now the pleasure of presenting to
you. (Cheering.)
Lord Gougatelt again rose, amid applause, and said—
Gentlemen, in rising to thank you for the resolution which
you have passed tonight, and which has testified to me
your all but unman:lona confidence that you will not find me
an unfit person to aspire to the honour of representing you
in the House of Commons, I confess I feel somewhat proud
of the position in which you have so placed me, and it
would be very unnatural in me—and certainly I am not at
all inclined to do so—if I were to refloat to accede to the se-
guest that that resolution conveys to me. (Loud cheers.)
I feel that, as you have accepted mc, I owe it to you that I
should accept this resolution.
Three times three cheers for his lordship followed this de-
claration, with which the proceedings terminated, at half-
put nine o'clock.

THE BLACKBURN ELECTION AND RIOTS.

The disgraceful proceedings at and subeeqnent to
the Blackburn election deserve • thorough exposure, and
the following additional scraps of information will no doubt
be read with interest. It was evident on Monday that the
revengeful feeling which led to the outbreak of Saturday
evening, had not yet been fully gratified, and we find that
on Tuesday morning, as Mr. Alexander of No. 31,
John-street (whose windows had been smashed on Saturday
night, as before described), was passing along the district
called Brookhouse, in pursuit of his usual avocation, selling
drapery goods, he was seized by two ruffians, who felt his
pocket.,,.held • brick over him in a threatening attitude,
and swore, if he resisted, to take his life. They, however,
allowed him to go without doing him any injury. To-day,
Kr. James Johnston was pronounced out of danger, and
Mese me entertained by his family and friends that he will
son sicever. Mr. Oeo. Wrigley, whose house, in Wrigley-
street, Blackburn, was attacked on Saturday night by the
mob and the windows hrokLn, had been mobbed also on
the day of election. Mr. Wrigley is infirm, and usually
011. from home in a vehicle of his own. On Thursday he
isik his house, with the intention of voting, but he had not
onnneeded above • few yards, before his phaeton was
Ilieffelk and an attempt made to pull the wheels off it.
He was obliged to return home. A short time afterwards,
two inaviduals and Mr. Wrigley left the house in a cab,
but they were also obliged to wend their way back to the
place whence they came, and there they were detained by
an infuriated mob, till a picquet of soldiers relieved them,
sad this allowed Mr. Wrigley to record his vote as he
whised—for Mr. Fielden. During Monday evening and
night, the 600 newly sworn special constables paraded moat
of the streets in the distrbt above described and in other
parts of the town, where riots were most likely to take
place. The soldiers are rill in the town.
The Manche:ler Guardian gives the following account
of the weapons used by the ruffians employed to intimidate
voters, and which had been taken from them on Thurs-
day during the poll, and on Saturday night during the
riots, by the police :
" Our reporter, on Monday, had an opportunity of exa-
mining a unique collection of these weapons, at the Black-
burn police office, and he declares that he sever saw any
assortment, not really implements of war, so certain to be
of deadly effect, if used with any moderate degree of force,
as this extraordinary collection. The first thing that struck
him respecting them was, that they were mostly formed of
pieces of metal obtained in cotton mills and factories ; the
next, that • blow on the head, with even the lightest and
least formidable of them, would be almost certain to frac-
ture the skull. One was a piece of polished iron rod,
about inch diameter, and 18 inches long, which was
picked up, after a riotous affray in the street on the
NVednesday night. Another weapon was formed, by sur-
rounding one end of a hazel stick with a quantity of
lead nearly an inch in thickness and three inches
in length. A third was formed by fitting upon
the end of a walking stick a large octangular iron
nut, which was wedged fast with a small iron wedge.
A fourth was an iron wheel or pinion, about two inches in
diameter, securely mounted on the end of a shaped piece of
wood, which might be the rail of a chair, but which had
quite es aims • seemblmale to the picking peg of • loons.
A Ma eauskted et • *see! lead, with a globular head
(said to be a maim helmet) mounted upon a stick. A
sixth was a regular Mel sad w " life preserver,"—
which • learned judge OMB said swift rather to be es/led •
life destroyer—which was takes Ma ems with lismtimin
on Thursday shimmy bat stew the Wield &dwell=
had been muds. Two we three other weapons wars, It
sible, of a still sore hausidabls character. One
of a heavy iron ant, fastened at one extremity of a buirelo
leather strap, a slit being made at the other end of the
strap, large enough to insert the hand, and secure the strap
round the wrist. The flexibility of this weapon, and the
ems with which it could be wielded, so as to inflict • seri-
ous wound with the heavy iron nut, while it Gould be
readily concealed up the sleeve till used, rendsred it
altogether a very dangerous weapon ; though perhaps
scarcely so murderous as another of a similar owlet:action,
mounted in the same way at the end of • elf buffalo
leather strap, but which, besides a large iron auk bad an-
other piece of iron, of diamond form, or like wee of the
double-pointed pick-hammers—even a moderate blew from
either point of which, aided by the swing of the strap and
the weight of the metal loading, would doubtless treetar• •
skull. When it is borne in egad Ike% avast masa thus
armed, in a large and popular' lowa Me repass dis-
trict including no fewer thin 90,000 seals la 111151), the
whole available civil force of the place somidelod but of
thirteen men with short wooden staves, it sums et but be
felt that some measure is imperatively called fix which will
provide for the inhabitants of large towns more substantial
security than this miserable handful of peaos-adbme—this
mere shadow of protection."
Mr. WKie and Mr. Wrigley ars not the only puma
who have been subjected to repeated attacks, but we men-
tioned on Wednesday several instances in whisk mesas,
after having their house-fronts demolished, were waylaid
and ill-used themeless. Others have been threatened, and
unless the police are vigilant it is probable that some more
startling atrocity than any yet committed will have to be
recorded.

EXPENSIVE CONVERSION.—We read in the Akhbar
of Algiers In the reign of Braham-ben-Mamlouk, in
1819, a Jew became a llussulman, under the name of Abd-
Allah. Some years after he married an Arab woman, who
died without leaving him any children. He afterwards
married another Muesnlman woman, by whom he has a
daughter two years old. Every one thought this man
sincerely converted to Islamism, when a few days back a
rumour was current that he had again returned to the
religion of Moses. This news turned out to be true, is
the following strange ceremonies, we are informed, took
place on hie reception. The Rabbis commenced by cut-
ting the nails of his hands and feet as close as possible
to the flesh ; they then had his head shaved, only
two locks of hair being left, one at each side of the
head. He next was made to take a cold bath in a
veneer' kept in the synagogue, and if he is really converted,
he is to proceed there for six months at least, and take a
similar bath every morning at break of day. During this
bath some eggs were broken on his head, which was then
carefully washed. On his leaving the bath a shirt was
placed on him, and forty blows if a stick were administered
to him on the back. He was then placed in a hole, and
every one present threw a small stone at him. This opera-
tion being terminated, new clothes were given him, and
the old ones were burned. lie was, in addition, ordered to
fast for a certain length of time. Finally, he has been di-
rect: a to whit-welt his sho,i in the Rue Combos, and to
perlunie it, and sa the int rc:,andise which it contains, with
incense. During a period of steen days ht is to cat ashes, to
purify his body. The Jews are tormenting him to make his
daughter also change her religion, declaring that without
that act nothing will hare been done."