The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-27 00:00:00

not to pass in its present shape. The bill, instead
of being a liberal-conservative one, was a tory-
radical one, and if it were persevered with he
should at a later stage oppose the motion that
the house go into committee on the bill.
Mr. POWELL was anxious to know whether the
dual vote was dead or alive, and if it were dead,
were there any parts of the measure which would
be given up. He agreed with those who thought
that they could not have a different system applied
to different classes of voters.
Mr. BRIOHT said the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer had been trading for several weeks on this
measure, which professed to give a reduction of
the borough franchise. The real object of
the scheme was to introduce to the vote
about as many men as would be admitted
by an 8/. suffrage. if this were so, why talk of
household franchise 1 But if this were the step
they were taking, they were renewing the error
of 1832; they were about to renew the
exclusion of the working classes from the
franchise. If this were the limit of the concession
the course they were pursuing was a perilous
course ; for as a set-off to this concession the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer proposed to give a vote to
200,000 of a higher class. The bill onthe whole he re-
garded as an unsatisfactory measure. It had marks
upon it of being the product not of the friends
but of the enemies of reform. It was a bill that,
looking to the working classes, was not generous,
not statesmanlike, and he believed if the
house were to pass it there would be universal dis-
satisfaction, and that it would aggravate the wound
it professed to heal.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXeHEQUER denied that
he had stated that 723,000 persons would be added
to the constituency, but that they would be in a
position to claim the suffrage. He complained of
the language of Mr. Gladstone in saying that this,
that, and the other must be dropped. He was not
disposed either to accept conditions from the
right I,on. gentleman, or to dictate conditions to him.
Ho was told that ho must concede a lodger fran-
chise. Why he was the father of the lodger franchise.
It was inconsistent with a bill that was founded
on ratepaying, but that might be overcome. Last
year Mr. Gladstone said the lodger franchise was a
very insignificant question ' • now it was the great
question of the day. The house would deal with
it in committee, and no doubt adopt it. Ho pro-
tested against the assumption that the lower classes
to be added by the bill were ready to be bribed,
nor would it be possible for candidates to go to the
expense of bribing them by paying their rates. He
defended the provision requiring a residence of two
years, but said it was undesirable to interfere with
the conditions attaching to the old franchises,
and 'he believed that condition was acceptable
to the people. Coming to the tax-paying fran-
chise' he remarked that it was in Lord Russell's
bill of 1832, and again in 1854, and no doubt Lord
Russell had the advice of Mr. Gladstone, and he
ridiculed the notion that it would lead to the crea-
tion of faggot votes ; but this also was a question
for the committee. Then they were told that re-
distribution must be enlarged, but when Mr. Glad-
stonetold them that he was surely bound to give
them his own plan, if only to satisfy the country
and calm his adherents. Then they were
told that the county franchise was to
be enlarged. Well they did propose to
enlarge it, but that was a matter of secondary im-
portance. Then as to the voting papers, they
would not be given up as far as he was concerned.
Referring to the borough franchise he submitted
that they proposed to establish it upon a fair prin-
ciple, and that it was reasonable that the vote
should be given only to the ratepayers, and he met
the objection that there would be different systems
in different parishes, owing to the Small Tene-
ments Act being in force in some and not in others,
by observing that this variety in the suffrage
gave them a variety of representation. The
bill was not framed with a view to introduce a
particular number, but they laid down a principle,
and said let that principle work. He did not think
that more than 280,000 would be added to the fran-
chise ; and therefore he should not insist on the
maintenance of the dual vote. What en-
couragement had they received on that side
of the house for it 1 On either side not a
word had been said in its favour. He could
not fight any such difficulties. In conclusion, he
said he and his colleagues had but one wish, and
that was to settle the question, and they had but
one idea concerning it, that it was not their duty to
leave their posts till it was settled ; and he ap-
pealed to the house to act with them cordially, and
there would be on the part of the government com-
plete reciprocity. Pass the bill, and then change
the ministry if they liked.
The motion was then put and carried, only a
solitary "no " being raised, and the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER stated he should propose that
the house go into committee on the Bth of April.
, The house adjourned at ten minutes past one.
in

GREAT REFORM MEETING AT LEEDS.—WO learn
by telegraph that a crowded reform meeting was held in
the Victona-hall, Leeds, last night; Mr. Alderman Tatham
in the chair. Nearly. 3,000 persons were present, and re.o.
Intim, were unanimously passed stating that, whilst
holding the principle of manhood suffrage, the meeting ee-
-1 oepted with great satisfaction the recognition by the pre-
sent government of household suffrage. as the basis of the
franchise in boroughs, but was of opinion that the advan-
tages of the proposition would be destroyed by the condi-
tions excluding compound householders, and by the un-
wise innovation of dual voting. The bill was also con-
demned in consequence of the absence of a larger frin-
chise. Resolutions denouncing any proposal to substitute
a6l. rating for household suffrage were also agreed to. The
meeting was wholly composed of working men.
Tea CORDZN M EmosIAL. —The fine bronze statue
of Mr. Cobden, recently cast in London, of which Mr.
Marshall Wood is the sculptor, has been plaoed on its gra-
nite pedestal inSt Ann's-square, Manchester, opposite the
front of the Exchange, but has not yet been unveiled.
The pose of the figure represents Mr. Cobden with hand
uplifted and finger pointed in the act of addressing the
House of Commons. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright are
expected to be present at the inauguration of the statue.
Tex TRADES' UNIONS COMMISSION. —A meeting
of she commissioners was held yesterday at 1, Park Pro-
spect, Great Queen-street, Westminster ; present, the
Right Hon. Sir William Erie (chairman), Lord
M.P the Right Hon. Sir Edmund W. Head, Bart.,
K.C:., Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart., M.P.' Mr. Herman
Merivale, C. 8., Mr. trainee Booth, C. 8., Mr. J. A. Roe-
buck, Q.C. Id.P., Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., Mr.
Frederick darrison, and Mr. William Mathews. Mr. T. H.
Fetuses, secretary to the commission, was also present.
THE IRISH EX-LORD CHANCELLOR.—We regret
to announce that on making renewed inquiryat a late hour
on Monday night, we were informed that the health of the
Right Hon. Francis Blackburn., ex-Lord Chancellor, was
in an extremely precarious state.—Diddin Expresx.
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.—It appears from the
return issued by authority of the Registrar-General
that in the week that ended on Saturday, March 23,
the births registered in London and twelve other
large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,458 • the
deaths registered, 3,628. The annual rate of mortality
was 31 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of
1,147 boys and 1,077 girls, in all 2,224 children, were
registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks
of ten years, 1857-66, the average number, corrected for
increase of population, is 2,187. The deaths registered in
London during the week were 1,731. It was the twelfth
week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for
the week is, with a correction for increase of population,
1,546. The deaths in the present return exceed the esti-
mated number by 185. The mortality in the metropolis
was greater last week than in any week since that which
ended January 26, when 1,880 deaths were recorded; after
that date the temperature roes, and the numbers decreased
until the minimum (1295) was reached in the week which
ended March 2. In the following week, owing to
colder weather, the deaths were 1,425, and in the week
which ended March 16, 1,572. Forty. deaths from mail-
box were registered last week, 6 in Kensington, 3in
Whitechspel,2 in Stepney, 5 in Poplar, 2 in Bermondsey,
4 in Lambeth, 3 in Greenwich, and 15 in other districts.
Typhus was fatal to 49 persons, 4 of whom died in Ken-
sington, 6 in Pancras, 4 in Clerkenwell, 2 in Shoreditob,
2in Poplar, 2 in Bermondsey, 5 in Lambeth, 3 in Lewis-
ham, and 21 in other district., Deaths in the Small-pox
and London fever hospitals are referred to the districts
from which the patients were brought. Seventy-three
children died from whooping-cough, and 24 children and
one adult from scarlatina. Eleven deaths occurred from
diarrhoea, one from cholera. The deaths from phthisis were
206, from bronchitis 271, and from pneumonia 107. A
charwoman, aged 58years : a lady's maid, aged 48 years ;
the son of a painter, aged 10 years; the daughter and two
sons of a messenger, aged 2 yews, 5 years, and 5 months
respectively, were found dead en 11th March, at 30, Biyan-
ston-Mest, llarylebees, from " suffocation by fumes from
a fire." _ _ _

PATINT 01171011,11711ZUM, SOUTH KINIIINGTON.
Humber of viiitors for the week ending Marsh 23, 1.231;
total comber eines the ' of the Kamm, free daily
(12th May, 1868), 1,122,

EPSOM SPRING MEETING.—TunnAT.
TUE CITY AND SUBURBAN DAY.
Although the first reunion on Spoons Downs took plane scow
what earlier than usual, and despite that It preceded the North-
ampton meeting, the opening day was singularly fortunate, as
the weather uWmaretit a marked change in the very sick of
time. Shire last spnng It is worthy of note the programme has
been thoroughly revised, and In lieu of £7OO being given aa added
money to the two days, the amount from the funds has been in-
creased to something like £1,5e0. Not the lease popular feature
of the renovation is the substitution of popular names for those
of plates and sweepstakes, and a most judicious slteratioe has
been effected in the amalgamation of the two railway stakes,
the £5O added by the London and Brighton Company having
been added to a similar sum given by the South 'Western Com-
pany, and the race has been appropriately denominated the
United Railway :Rakes. Two new races have aloe been eats,
hitched and one of them especially, ,the "Prince of Wales's
Handicap is ere long likely to become exceedingly popular with
owners of horses. This liberality is worthy of the management,
and cannot fall to obtain the support It deserves. In consequence
of en intimation given in the mooting papers that the en/fine-
drivers and firemen us the Loudon, Brighton, and South Coast
Railway had struck work, and actually turned out, on account of
their demands not having been acceded to on the part of the
directors of the company, but few people went to the London-
bridge terminus for transit to Epsom. The few that did go were
told that no special trains could be run, and Indeed no time
could be guaranteed foe the ordinary ones. This state of
affairs led to an immense meows upon the resources of
the South Western Railway Company. and notwithstand-
ing the short time allowed to prepare extra carriers
the arrangements proved quite adequate to the requirements of
the public, and no accidents attended 'mil of the numerous
lengthy and heavily-freighted trains which were ran as soon as
filled. The; morning opened beautifully fine and springlike, the
situ shining out with power and brilliancy towards noon. The
Downs were early thronged, and the galloping of the competi-
tors In the City and Suburban and the race of the morrow wets
eagerly scanned. As the day wore on and by the time that the
racing commenced there was an immense assemblage, including
all the leading patrons of the nations! sport. The Prince et
Wales arrived soon after the decision of the first race on the
card, and remained till after the City and Suburban had
been run, when his royal highness left by ordinary
train on the South Western Hallway. Thr card for to-day was a
very heavy our, comprising, as it did, no fewer than seven races,
including the City and Suburhan Handicap. Sport commenced
punctually at half-put one o'clock with toe Trial Stakes, which
induced a field of eight to go to the post, and of these Moulsey,
on the strength of a recent trial at home, in which the old sou
of Teddington was said to have acquitted himself eatistactorely,
was made a warm favourite, leaving oft at t to 1. The result
confirmed the Judgment of the talent." as Moulsey won In a
canter by fifteen lengths. Eighteen of the thirty-sow coloured
for the stamfordsPlate went to the post, and Qui `'ire was made
the favourite, hut the Issue wan in favour of Lord Vivian's
Tumbler, •ho was backed at 100 to & Thirteen contested the
Twoleitruld Stakes, Ninny on the strength of her spring
form, notwithetundieqg the defeat of her stable cool-
panlou Nike , behni installed first favourite at 7 to 4,
while the winner, Orimstone, in the Reke's stable,
was backed at 4to 1. Mr. Pryor's colt made all the running,
and won easily by a couple of lengths, his victory adding to the
list of friends of the Rake. Williston was purchased at the
Hampton Court sale in Juue for 490 guineas. For the event of
the day the telegraph board showed twenty-two runners, the
principal absentees tieing Lengdown, Mount Palatine, (Overture,
Conundrum, Little Rover, Mrs. Allen, and Vespsalan. But little
"Peculation took piece during the forem ion,iand it will be sufficient
here to say that the "thrown in" blayonaise filly Mashed drat
favourite at 3 to 1, and next In the quotations came Clarke and
Forest:ht. Although Lord Westmoreland made no declaration,
when it became known that Kenyon would steer Foresight the
public rush don the Liverpool Spring cup wiener, believing him
to be the champion of the "green and sliver braid." The race
IA fully described below, and the winner turned up in Aber-
geldie, one of the 40 to 1 division, and little fancied by his owner
or the public. He was piloted by young Iluxtable, who, it will
be remembered, rode Relies in the Cambridgeshire. The Mayo.
mike filly cut up badly, as did also Foresight and Defiance, hut
Jasper ran very foneidably tor • certain distance, and ihtreger,
with all his weight, was fifth : while Broombilaw, who displayed
his nasal temper, was almost last throughout.
THE TRIAL Snare of 100 sous added to a Sweepstakes of 5
lOra each, for Syr-olds and upwards weight for age, with
penalties and allowances. One mile.
Lord Bakinan's Moulsey, by Teddlngton--Sabra, 6 yes,
ISt 9lh 'not to be sold ,Grimahaw. 1
Duke of Hamilton's {1 ild Apes, 5 yrs, list Slb not to be
sold) 'A. Edwards) 2
Mr. Palmer's ItsceUer i &SOO% bye, eat 131 b (leartlield) 3
Five others also ran.
Betting: 2 tot apt Moulsey, 4 to 1 agst Langluim. 5 to 1 apt
Wild Agnes, 100 to lb apt Timulaus. and 10 to 1 apt Panacea.
Tax STANFORD PLATE of 100 boa. (handicap) for all ages
winners extra. Half-a-mile.
Lord Vivian's Tumbler, by Commotion or Defender—Gol-
conda, 3 yes, 64 71b (Butler) 1
Mr. J. NighUngale't Ammunition, 3y-rs. Sat I Ilb iWyatt; 2
Duke of Newinstle's Nik,*), 3 yes, list 211, A. Edwards) 3
Fifteen others also ran.
Betting 4to 1 eget Qui %lye, 6to 1 apt Icicle, 7to I apt
Deceiver, 8 to 1 apt the Catherine Hayes illy, and 100 to 8 apt
Tumbler.
Tel TWO-YEAR-OLD STAIRS of 10 noes. each, withloo added,
for Syr-olds colts, est tab ; and fillies, est 71b; second to ro
calve Lei son. Half -a-urge.
Mr. Pryor's Grlmstos, by St. Albans—Theodora, list 10Th
(Isietes; 1
Sir L. Newman's The Forest King, Sat 101b....(Fordham) 2
Colonel Pearson's Hatehment, est 7lb (T. Cludloner) 3
Ten others also ran.
Betting 7to 4 apt Ninny. 4to 1 apt Griniston, Bto 1 each
apt llatchment and Forest King, and 10 to I opt any other.
THE CITY' AND SUBURBAN 11 ANDIC•P of 15 suss. each, le ft,
and 5 only if declared, with 200 added ; winners extra; second
to receive 50 eon. tine rosin and a quarter. (113 subs 43 of
whom pay 6 wee. each.
Mr. F Swindell's Abergeldie, by Trumpeter, dam by The
Ilero —Shade. 4 yrs, 74 lib trustable) 1
Mr. H. Temple's Fits-Ivan, 3 yrs. bet Peppier) 2
Mr. liedgmau's Violent. 4 yrs, get Baba (Montan, 3
Nineteen others also ran.
Betting 3to 1 sgst the Merman. filly , 6to 1 apt Clarice.
Ti., 1 eget Foresight, 1001 e 7 each apt Chepstow and Jasper,
100 to 6 apt the Amanda colt, 20 to 1 each apt Ostreger, Brownie-
law, and Dogma., 25 to 1 each apt elutes and Thalia, 33 to 1
eget Aldcroft, 40 to 1 apt Abergeldie, 50 to 1 each eget John
Halifax, Fits-Ivan, and Violent, and O 8 to 1 apt any other.
THE BEAUFORT STAIRS of 6 sova each, with 50 added. for
2-yrultis : colts, Sot 10lb ; fillies, Sat 71b : winner to be sold fur
100 sera with engagements. 11111-aleik"
Mr. R. Porter's Spitfire, list 71b
Mr. Bier nd Purveyor, est 10lb
Mr. Padwick's Hue and Cry, got 7lb
Seven others also ran
letting 9to apt Chantilly, sto apt Haymarket, 100 to
15 east Alice Bray Ally, and 10 to 1 each eget Bpittlre, Os-
prey, and Sultana.
THR UNITED RAILWAY STARES of 5 nova. each, with 100
added, for mil ages weight fur age, with selling allowances.
Ha/t-a-mile.
Mr. Ten Broeck's Paris, by Mildew—Daisy (C3O), 6 yrs,
94 slb 'Store 1
Mr. Nightingales Alarmist (g4O , 2 yrs, bet 121 b .. (Wyatt) 2
Mr. T. Stevens's Stineyside Ig4o 3 yea, 7st 121 b. _Payee) S
Five ~then also ran.
Betting: 5 to 2 apt Paris, 7 to 2 apt Alarmist, 4 to 1 apt
Sunnyside, and 100 to 15 against Bessie.
TIRO HIATROOTS PLATE of 100 nova handicap" for all ages;
winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile.
Captain Christie's Jeanie Deans, by Dundee—Sacrifice,
3 yrs, eat 1016 Cameron) 1
Mr. Porter's The Skipper, 3 yea, Out 13Ib 2
Lord Vivian's Tumbler, 3 yrs. tot 7lb inc. Sib ex. (Butler 3
Fourteen others also ran.
Betting 3to 1 apt The Skipper, Sto 1 :Wet Jeanie Deans, 100
to 15 eget Indian Star, 100 to 7 each agat Exceller and Tumbler.
LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
GREAT el ETROPO MA N.
7 to 1 eget Tourneslin
8 to 1 Lord of the Dales.
ADDITIoSAL ARRIVALS.—Lord of the Dales, Beautiful Star,
Ailesbury, Wild Blood, limner, Mischief.

.(Cannon: 1

Slurfitt. 2
....(T Fresich)

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.-KINGSTON, MARCH 26.

James Longhurtl. 21, a sullen, stupid looking country
lad, was charged with the wilful murder of Jane Sax, by
cutting her throat.
Serjeant Robinson and Mr. Straight conducted the pro-
secution ; Hr. Oppenbeim was counsel for the defence.
This case stood over from the summer assizes last year,
upon an application that was made on behalf of the pri-
soner for a postponement, in order to afford an oppor-
tunity to bring forward evidence to show that the prisoner
was not in a sound state of mind at the time the offence
that was imputed to him was committed. The facts of
the case lay in a very narrow compass, and were perfectly
conclusive as to the guilt of the prisoner. They may
be stated in the words of the deceased in a
deposition she made on the morning of her death.
"On the same day I was brought to this hospital I met the
prisoner in • field that leads from Shore to Comshall. The
prisoner was holding open • gate, and as I passed through
he laid hold of me, and squeezed me and laid me down in
the field and laid a-top of rue a little while. He then
picked me up and took me into a wheat field close by, and
threw me down, and put his hand up my clothes. I cried
out and he tried to choke me. When he was holding open
the gate I saw • knife in his band, and whilst I was in
the wheat field he cut me with the knife, and I called out
to David Edam., and he came. The prisoner is the boy, I
an quite sure he is the boy who did it." These were
the principal facts given in evidence, and there did
not appear to be the least doubt as to the
guilt of the prisoner, not only of the specific offence of
which he was accused, but that he had previously at-
tempted to violate the person of the unfortunate child
whose life had been sacrificed to his brutality.
The jury, after being in deliberation about half an hour,
returned into court and found the prisoner Qui/tv. They
at the some time recommended him to mercy, on the
ground that the act had bees committed without preme-
ditation.

Sentence of death was passed in the usual form.
The moment the judgment was given, the prisoner be-
came exceedingly violent. He threw hie cap to the floor,
and exclaimed, " What am I to be hung for? I have
done nothing !" and he attempted to strike and kick the
warders who were in the dock. It was with considerable
difticulty that he was remowil to the cells below.

MA NcEEETICR END LIVERPOOL AORICULTITRAL
Rocirri.—The committee appointed to arrange for the
centenary meeting of this society held a meeting yester-
day, at the Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall, Manchester, the
Mayor in the chair. The sub-committee appointed to
inspect the sites proposed for the Exhibition reported
that they had visited three.—The site of the late Art
Treasures Exhibition, which was everything that could be
desired but for the nature of the soil,which would hardly
do in case of wet weather ; Eersal.moor, and Trafford-
park. The latter they considered best from the nature
of the soil and its approaches, if Sir Humphrey
de Trafford, who had always beer most liberal to
the society, would grant its use on this occasion. A
sub-committee was appointed to wait upon Sir
Humphrey de Trafford. After some discussion it was
agreed to lix the 10th, 11th, and 12th of August for the
Centenary Exhibition.