The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1859.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

ELECTION MEETINGS.

BIRMINGHAM.

A meeting of the liberal eleatoel of Birmingham
tram held in tee oecamittee-toote of the Town-hall yesterday,
at noon; Mr. Alderman LLOYD 111 eke shah. The attend-
ance was estremely numerous. The sosassary steps were
taboo for securing the election of Mum. Scholeleld and
Bright. Ajoint committee wee fared, *MOM( of nearly
all the members of the town cooed, sad many other per-
son,. A resolution wee also pared pledging the meeting to
return both the candidates free of raq expose whatever.
The smoothly woo moat enthushatie in favour of both mew
bees, who will moat likely be rewlected without the
opposition trout say quarter. The fennel bashosee.lerg
terminated, Mr. Joseph &urge &awaited that Mr.
who was on his way to the not th, might be sap Madill
o'clock, and to that hour the rotating adjourned.
At 4 o'clock Mr. BILIONT entered this coMinittlie-room, •
lap amber of kis supporter* baring previously arrived to
near him. its was greeted with the moat cordial sio•
grasione. The him. gramma proeseded to may that Is
was err hippy to M this as tind oesssion, although he
wee rear cospetifielin Marl! on ths prospect of not
Mehlg so take lark peat In the election proceedings until
seer Ar, serer tart mennence than the (ley on which they
hod bra rierhisil. After a brief allusion to the circurn-
mums etasseted with his first election he went on to may
limit he it that surtleg in hie public course bad sines au-
scared to mks NM that he had lost the conlidemes of
so enlightened a eaneeisaDey r that of the tort of Bir-
ringlum. TUN raw everythrg be had done sines he vas
sewn la Mar ark Sire tire kn had elibried
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many lags
audiences mumbled under the roods of the largest buildings
in the towns in which those earnings MA place; and he
thought he might say that the repositions he had sub-
mitted bad tees we anted lied more fully discussed
Nan any other sainnatil mumease of reform which had
been before the seasity. What eon* had arisen from that
discussion they were se well &ears se he was himself.
(Cheers.) That. had not beat MI ism in the way of re-
form this session. The discuseks mike bed tales place wee
upon the Reform Bin, or rather saikellina bill of the ad-
ministration ; for he (Mr. Bright) we d *lnca that It
was • vet y much wont bill thaa any sanest d diarists
and texminatioa of bidets* bad yet dinned, aad that if
that bill had pond the mptesenties of dm wple would
ken been in • meek woe immielhotary emall then it
we at the pew* tiers, (Rem) Pass kb lan, be (Mr.
Brian) *all mar walt lily yews fkit • ideemlil naa
that the measete *tisk bed beta propose/ dwell pess into •
law. (Elem.) If the goats of Coawes that it to
semi* Ile omen. se Lod John Bawd% be dot eft would
not combine is *ger it, hat rather asset tee Ade( el a
parberamanty bakt like the member far is My ad
Lrerist
who weld way *slot se•lrair by Mani( isuliA
• iwp end= efbis am Irks& be the Lan d Clenntem,
winos • eins, wean we had of polimantely ralban.
(Ham, hest.) They had prellmbly oberved, la i. edit= Id
Lord John Henan to the den= of the city of Lead•• •
EZE;ph having ninon to the balsa; be Mr.
did sot, be meeland, quite emismansd the
messiag of that pasameph, neither bed he any
sistberky to put • perdeeln constreetha upon it;
hat be Genii an help saying that it did appear to'
Met. Winn • modification of opinion on the subject of
*skin tempind with that which was formerly entertained
la the tame paler. And It wee possible that of the feting
la the wintry had made say oonsiderable advance, so the
1 tins might ones when ens so eminent a stateemin as the
ewe to who he bed reined might not be unwilling to give
his support to Mr ballot, herasives much ha might formerly
Isms Ina mend to it If the tenotitueacies would bear In
aid thin ai the asig eissises,emd add to the 240 =m-
in eisnly a haw d lis Whit some 40 or fifty Ewe,
be isahted if it could be be the power of Lord John Remelt
M mat each sa gniedisai expreesion In favour of that
siege. (Hear.) Thum** although be had not the
slightest authority for eying that Ladioha Rumen was more
in favour of the ballot than ever he had been, still it might be
that a decided espremeion from the country would caner Lord
John Russell to change the opinion which he held in format
thaw (dear)
A vote of thanks was afterwards accorded to Mr. Bright,
who leaves Birmingham for Manchester and Rochdale early
an Tuesday morning.