The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-22 00:00:00

TILE NEW PRISON AT HOLLOWAY.

Alderman COPELAND rose to move " That it be re-
ferred to the gaol committee to consider and report whe-
ther any and what steps shall be taken in respect of the
appointment at a governor and other officers to the new
prison at Holloway.'
Alderman WILSON seconded the motion.

After some discussion, thfsM;tion was then negatived.
Alderman FAREBROTIIEII moved that "it be referred
to a committee to inquire whether it is desirable that the
provisions contained in the 20th section of the Central
Criminal Court, authorising the payment of a salary in lieu
of fees to the officers of that court, be carried out in the case
of the clerk of that court, and if so to report as to the amount of
such salary, taking into account the various office.% payable
by him, and the general expenses incident to hi.: oftie," In
the course of his observations on the subject Alderman
Farebrother took the opportunity to speak in the highest
terms of the learning zeal, and abilities of Mr. Clarke,
whom, ho said, he had'had the honour, when Lord Mayor,
to appoint to the office which had been filled with so much
advantage to the country in the opinion not only of the
citizens of London, but of the j edges of the land. (Cheers.)
The motion was agreed to unanimously.
Upon the motion of Alderman WiLsoN the following
mation was agreed to unanimously :
" The court of Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons,
is Common Council assembled, having rgreed to the follow-
ing resolution : ' That every r)er=on who shall occupy pre-
mises in the City of London for a period of a year and a
day, and that pay scot and bear lot, shall be a freeman and
citizen, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privi-
leges, and be subject to all the duties thereof '—that it be
rekrred to the privileges committee to consider and deter•
mine upon the expediency or otherwise of directing the
beadles of tho several wards in making out the roll of
voters for St. Thom ts' Day neat to insert therein the
names of all persons qualified in conformity with the above
resolution."—Adjourued.

BRADFORD ELECTION.

BILADCORD, OCT. 21.

Tho election of a member of parliament for this
borough, to supply the place of the late Win. Busfeilel, Esq.,
took place in the Court-house Yard at 11 o'clock this morn-
ing. Robert Milligan, Esq., was the only candidate ; and as it
was generally known that 11 his opponents had retired from
the field, the proceedings excited very little interest. Mr.
Milligan was the first mayor of Bradford ; and as one of the
leading and most influential merchants of the borough, he is
held its such general estimation that it would he next to im-
possible fur any candidate to offer any successful opposition to
him. The requisition, requesting him to become a candidate,
was signed by nearly 600 electors. Ile rendered essential
' service to the cause of free trade both with his purse and
influence during the agitation in which Messrs. Cobden and
Bright were so long engaged.
The preliminary formalities having been gone through,
TITCS SALT, Esq., late mayor of the borough, came
forward amidst considerable applause, to propose Mr Mil-
ligan as • fit and proper person to represent them in par.
liament.

Mr. Alderman SAMUEL SMITH, after paying a high
compliment to the character and worth of the late Mr.
ilusfeild, commenting upon the past successful and honour-
able career of Mr. Milligan, seconded the nomination of the
latter gentleman.
Thu MAYOR inquired if any other elector had a candi-
date to propose, and receiving no reply, his worship, after a
short pause, declared Mr. Milligan duly elected.
Mr. MILLIGAN now came forward amidst loud cheers
and said—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I have to thank you
most sincerely fur the distinguished honour you have
now conferred upon me. 1 should not have yen•
tared to occupy the position I now do had I
not been requested to do so by a large number of my most
intimate friends, and also by a requisition presented to me,
respectably and numerously signed by my fellow townsmen.
(Applause.) Gentlemen, allow me now to repeat what I
have said on a former occasion, that a seat in the House of
Commons has never lees an übjeet of my ambition, hut
from the spontaneous and generous way in which it has
been proposed to me, I have considered it my duty to comply
with the request to offer myself to you fur election.
(Cheers.) Having resided amougst you for the greater part
of my life, and having taken my share in nearly all the
great questions of the day, my political priuciples are very
well known to most of you; I am sure, therefore, you will
not wish me to detain you in order to explain them in detail.
(Hear, hear.) I may say that I sin nose, and always have
been, a firm friend to freedom, to order, to progress, and to
good government. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I a all not de-
tain you longer, except again to thank you for the high
honour ou have conferred upon me. (Owen.)
Mr.DAVID Licturowtlat, a well-known chartist,
here came forward to put some questions to Mr. Milligan.
lie knew he ought to have put the questions before the
gentlemaa bad been declared elected, but he hoped he
would be allowed to ask them. The first question was
would he endeavour to secure such an extension of the suf-
frage as would give a vote to every man of full age, and
not subject to any legal disability, and who should fur 12
months prase occupied a house, or any portion of a teuo-
ment, for which he was rated, or liable to be rateil to the
relief of the ;poor?
Mr. MlLLlGAN.—Gentlemen: I am in favour of a
large extension of the suffrage. I should wish to see many
who are not householders—young men who are well quali-
fied by education and other things—l should wish to see a
large number of those included in any measure of reform.
In answer to other questions Mr. Milligan said he was
decidedly iu favour of vote by ballot ; would vote for the
abolition of property qualifications for members; and
wished to see an alteration in electoral districts. On this
last point he said lie thought the present electoral districts
might be very much improved. Ile should wish to adhere
to tile old English system of having. county and borough
members; but he would give additional members to largo
towns, and would either group the smaller boroughs to-
gether, or add them to the county constituencies. (Loud
cheers.)
Oa the motion of the member elect, a vote of thanks was
given to the Mayor, for his conduct as returning officer;
and the court was then adjourned to the Town Clerk's
office, to complete the return.
The whole proceedings did not occupy much more than
an hour.

THE INHABITED Horst DtTy.—Thc first half
year's duty on inhabited houses is now due, and will be
shortly collected under the following schedule, forming
a part of the assessed taxes:—.' For every inhabited dwell-
ing-house which, with the household and other offices,
yards, and gardens therewith occupied and charged, is or
shall be worth the rent of 20/. or upwards by the year—
where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any
person in trade who shell expose to sale and sell any
goods, wares, or merchandise in any shop or warenouse
being part of the same dwelling-house, and in the front
and on the ground or basement story thereof; and also
where any such dwelling-housc shall be occupied by any
per.on who shall be duly licensed by the law iu force to
sell therein by retail beer, ale, wine, or other liquors,
although the room or rooms thereof in which any such
liquors shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk, or consumed
shall not be such shop or warehouse as aforesaid ; and also
where any such dwelling-house shall be a farmhouse occu-
pied by a tenant or farm servant, and bona fide used for
the purposes of husbandry only—there shall be charged for
every twenty shillings of such annual value of any such
dwelling-house the sum of sixpence; and where any such
dwelling-house shall not be occupied, and used for any
such purpose, and in manner aforesaid, there shall be
charged for every such annual value thereof the sum of
ninepence." It remains to be been whether the assessment
be made on the rated or on the full value of houses.

MANCHESTER NEW COLLEGE.—Mr. Thomas Anis
worth, of Cleator, has with great liberality offered a prize,
or scholarship, of 1001., to those students of the college who
shall hereafter, in the University of Loudon, obtain a gold
medal. When we state that four gold medals may be
obtained each year in the university, it will be perceived
that Jr. Ainsworth's offer is one of no common liberality.
In a letter to the Rev. It. Brook Aspland, one of the Were.
twice of the college, which has been printed, he awes that
the prise will be given by him from year to year, and will
in all probability die with him, as he is not friendly to en-
dowments; and that he offers the prize not as a stimulus to
greater exertion on the part either of professors or students,
having already reason to be satisfied with the position taken
by the students of the college—but in the hope of inducing
young men of talent to inter themselves at 11am:hi:stet New
College.—Mandicacr Examiner.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—MANSLACGIITER.—Yester-
day Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Green Gate, City-
road, on view of the body of Thomsa John Taylor, aged 37,
whose death was alleged to have been caused by Mr. Wm.
Scadden, a master bricklayer, carrying on business In
Charlotte-stree, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, by whom he
was employed, some particulars connected with which were
given in the Express of Monday. In addition to the
evidence there detailed, it appeared that the deceased as
the day previous had reached his 37th year, on which occa-
sion he had drank rather more freely than usual. Mr.
Powell and Mr. Courtenay, medical officers of the parish,
were sworn, when the effect of their evidence showing that
the brain exhibited appearances such as would be likely to
result front the injure he received, the jury returned a ver-
dict of " Manslaughter" against Mr. Scadtlen, and the wit•
nesses were bound over to prosecute.
IGNOR INCE IN SURREY.—A "wise woman" has
lately made her appearance not far from Reigate, in Sur-
rey. One of the farmers' wives there, on being scalded the
other day, sent to the old dame, who sent back a curious
doggrel, which the good woman was to repeat at stated
times. At the end of a week the scald got well, and the
good woman told us that she knew there was no harm in
the charm, for "she had heard say as how it was some
acnday,
in
nfrtohme them epart
Bible."
ofwhen
the country, little
oiie shop the
doter
d
was speaking of the death of some neighbour, when
in
a
another said that she hoped "they had been and told the
bees." In the same neighbourhood I was told a sovereign
cure for the goitre was to form the sign of the crow on the
Inuit with the hand of a corpae.—Noter and Queries.