The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-06 00:00:00

BOROUGHS.

Hon. J. F. Twistleton Wykeham
Pleenes, eldest son of Lord Safe sad Bele, High Steward of
Banbury, will in all probability be put in nomination es a
cendidste for the representation of this borough at the forth-
coming general election.
BATH.—Mr. Way, the uncle and managing man
of J. Beeville Sm3th, of Ashton Court. near Bristol,
who amreeed the city at' the het general election
"hberel-oonerrntive" principles, has already announc.d hie
Intention of standing again.
Balorrroa.—Sir George Pechell, Bart., and Mr.
Conyoglum renew their claims to support.
Bantrot..—Memrs. H. Berkeley and W. H. Gore
lungtou are to be brought forward spin u the liberal can-
didates.

Buay.—Mr. R. N. Philips will, it appears, be
area opposed bi Mr. F. Feel.
BEIM Sr. ELII/UNDB.-111r. J. A. Hardenede asks
far a renewal of confidence, and I. fully expected to retain
lie seat.
OFIINTRY.—Sir J. Paxton and the Right Hon.
Z. Ellie will probably be yearned without opposition.
DIRBY.—The present liberal members, Messrs.
Bane sad Beale, intend offering themselves for re.election,
sad the latter bon. gentleman will be opposed by Mr. W.
M. Jaws, • Chancery barrister who wee a candidate et the
last election, but who had to retire on the arblirstion of Mr.
I Biggs, of Leicester, chosen to decide which of the cindidates
should go t, the poll. The tortes threaten to bring out a
candidate, but no same has been mentioned.
DODLEV.—Mr. H. Z. Sheridan, the sitting mem-
ber, it is repotted, will be opposed, if not by both the con-
servative and liberal pardon certainly by the hetet. Among
the names that have bean mentioned ere those of Mr. Wil-
liam Matthew; Mr. R.. C. Chawner (chairman of the Booth
titaffordshite Railway Company and South Staford-hire
Water Compsay teepectively) of Lichfield, a staunch liberal ;
and Viscount Manch.

Athortaa, M.P., has iesued
address. _ .

Evasuaw.—Colonel Addison, who was an unsuc-
cessful candidata for the representation of this bayou& at
tte last general ekctioa, has homed an address to the
electors, intimating his intention of o& ring himself as a can-
didate in consequence of the approaching ithumiu.il7ll.
Liz —There is no probability of any opposition
being offered to the re-election of the promut ciabervativs
sitting member ST E. C. Borisov, Bart.
FALKIRK Blau:Ms.-8v JIM. Anderson will, it
ie uadetatood, retire; Ur. Oliplumt or Kr. Ceird is spoken of
as his suocessor. _ .

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Ftnentntir.--Sir Morton Peto is mentioned u a
caodidae. - - - , .

FINSBURT.-4 requisition ie in course of signature
calling upon Mr. &grant Parry to present himself as a can-
adds. There was • rumour ye.terday that Mr. Thomas
Buncombe does ant intend to off. r himself as • candidate, bat
it wants confirmation.
GREENWICH.—AIderman Salomons, in an address
to the electors, expresses his confidence that they will return
him to the new parliament.
HARWICH.—The oonservatives of this borough are
so 'toms with the return of Captain Jervis that they have re-
solved to pat aea card candidata in nuninatioa. An invita-
tion he. been forwarded to Mr. Dodd to offer himself is tha
event of a enteral election.
HITDDISSFIZI.D.—Mr. Edward Altroyd (liberal)
offer. himself for re-eleeion for this borough. Theta is some
talk of the extreme liberals and voluntary educationists bring-
ing out Mr. W. Williams, a heal merchant, in opposition to
Mr. Akroyd.
KIDDERMINSTER.—The Right Hoc. R. Lowe and
Mr. Maddlestos, of the Orford Circuit, are candidates for
this borough!.
KING'S Lice.—lt is not probable that the present
sitting oteutters, Lord Stanley and Mr. John Henry Gurney,
will be cppewed.
KNARESHOROOO/I.—Mr. B. T. Woodd(liberal) and
Mr. T. Collin' (conservative), the present members, offer
lbeemetvee. Tittle is tome rumour of • second liberal can-
didate.
LAMBETH.—Mr. Roupell has issued an address to
the elector, in which he charactarires the Government Re.
form Bill as the "offspring of perverse ingenuity," and adds,
it is for yen to Fay whether you will root content with the
sham Reform Bill offered by a tory cabinet, or demand and
wore for yourselves and your unenfranchised fe'low-citizens
a wise and comprehensive usesurs"
LISZDS.—Mr. G. B. Beecroft offers himself for re-
eletVon fir this borough on the conservative Interest. The
liberals, it is understood, will have two candidates. Mr. M.
T. Ba,uis has positively declined to be put in amnia/sties
egain. A joint meeting of the leaders of ttas two sections of
the liberal party, held yesterday of em-on, stands adjourned
till Friday. It in said Mr. Edward Balms, the brother of
• Mr. M. T. B tines, will, in all probability, be asked to stand.
Mr. W. G. Forster, t f Burley, will probably b 3 the other
literal candidate.

present members are expected
to have a claret walk over."
LIVERPOOL.—It appears to be the general opinion
in Liverpool thut there will be no contort this time. Me .tings
of the committees of the &Lim and Coostitutiosal Ames. is-
don. were held yesterday, bat up to the time our parcel wits
despatch-4 nutmeg definite hal bens decided Ilion by either
of them.
MAIDSTONE.—No arrangements have yet been
made by the coaservative party tg supplying the Fleas of
Mr. A. J. Berseliord Mope, who le abast Marisa Maidstone
for the purpose of smig electkin se the reproreatsive of
the Ustiverslty of Cambridge. Make geo•t, his colisegoe.
will othr himself fur re-election. Mr. W. Inv, who vs, en
eameemental rawlida•• in 1867. will be brought forward on
the resent =elm by the likterAs la majoaction with ono-
tam garlemea int yet named.

MANCRSaTIS.—A very general feeling seemed lo
penal yesterday that the approaching election would be
contested. It was rumoured that Mr. J. A. Turner wee
desirous of retiring, end Dir. &Oriel. (of the Arm of Loy&
Entwisle, sad Co., bankers) and Mr. Oliver Heywood
the dna of Sir B. Heywood and Co., bankers) were men-
tioned es probable candidates In the oonersvative interest.
Mr. T. J. Potter, brother of the late Sir John Potter,
mentioned as • liberal colleague for Mr. Bailey.
MARYLEBONL—Sir Benjamin Hall and Mr. Edwin
hum*, Q.C. the sitting members for the borough, have
ineteaatod their Intention of booming candidates again at the

aP&Tng election.
chicasn.E.ots-Tmvx.—There will be a warm
contest, Mr. P. J. Taylor, of London, being the candidate of
the radical party ; Mr. P. Carstairs, the candidate in the
dissenting Interest. The present representatives, Mr. Head-
i= and Mr. G. Ridley, will offer themselves again, and it fa
not improbable that a ministerial candidate will be brought
forward.
NORTHERN Buiscim.—Mr. Samuel Laing is again
a candidate, and announces hie confidence in Lord Ran
ansesil.
Noawicm.—lt was yesterday currently reported
that the conservatives intend to contest both seats, and that
their choice has fallen on the Hon. Mr. Barlett, son of Lord
Abinger (who eat for Norwich when Sir Jame Soariett) and
a noble lord a member of the Hey family. Both the mtHag
members, Lord Bury and Mr. H. W. Schneider, pledged
themselves at a meeting held recently to offer themselves for
reelection,
NOTTINGHAM.—There will be a contest for this
hseegh. It is understood that Mr. George Moore will
oar hlmseif in conjunction with Mr. Paget, on liberal prin-
ter. Vernon, of drove. meat ftetford, conservative,
le deo spoken of. Mx. EMUS Jones will also come forward.
The ham lees Bend an android, in which, after alluding to
his well-bsoven advocacy of manhood sang% the ballot,
triennial parliaments, and an equitable redden of constitu-
encies, he says :—" The foreign policy of England ought,
ix my opinion, to be one of peace and aces-intervention ; a
policy, I believe, not incompatible with the freedom of con-
tinental nations—for liberty is never won as a gift from
others, but achieved only se the fruit of a people's own
exertions."
OXFORD.—Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Langstone offer
themselves. Tits conservatives contemplate inviting Capt.
Bowyer, of Steeple Aston, while the radicals are desirous
that &dead Gaasles should again come forward.
PLYMOUTH.—Mr. Moore and Mr. Wilson, gentle-
men intimately cooneded with the shipping interest, and
both residing in London, are spoken of. 'The sitting mem-
bers—who again come forward—are Mr. R. P. Collis and
Mr. James White.
RocariaLE.—lt is fully expected that whether or
not Mr. Cobden should return from America before the distil-
lotion he will be locoed forward by the liberals.
Rociimmus.—ln the event of a dissolution Mr.
G. H. Money, who describes himself as a liberal conserva-
tive, bas announced himself as a candidate for the npresenta-
time of this city. The two present members—Mr. P. W.
Martin and Mr. &lima liteepf•irs, Recorder of Bristol—will
again be brought forward by the liberal and from
their great popularity with the coostitaseterretrasitte s=
of the liberal party at Rochester, their, return is
Both the hon. members are is favour of the ballot, the 'boil-
ties of church rates, sad a large entsadon of the suffrage.
Mr. Money at the lad general election announced himself as
a candidete, but, after cenvessing the city, retired from the
coot at without going to the poll.
SOUTIIHARIL—Mr. Locke has issued an address
to Ids con‘titnen.s, which will be found in our advertising
columns. Mr. A. Pellet, who was rejected at the Wt eleo-
doe, again appeals to the elector,. SS C. Napier has issued
an adds.,.
STAFFORD.—Mr. Wise will again offer himself to
his old constituents, by whom be Is so highly estimated as
to leave no doubt of his reelection. Mr. Alderman Sidney
er4 it is behoved, oppose Lord Isgeetre's re oiection.
THETFORD.—The present sitting members, the
Mat of Ruston and Mr. A. H. Baring, will in ell probability
be re-sleeted.
WaxErm.D.—Mr. Charlesworth, the present
conservative member, will be opposed on the liberal side by
Mr. W. H. Latham, a heal banker.
WALSALL.—Mr. C. Forster is not at all likely to
bit itevdticx .—Messrs. Oreaves and Repton will
again nand, the mama having commenced yesterday with
a preet of opposition from the Hoe. Mr. Leigh (brother of
Lord WO), and another liberal.
WOLVERHAIIPTON.—The return of Mr. Villiers ill
considered to be beyond question,
.and if it should be deter-
mined again to pleosKr.Thonisly in nomination, the snoods
of an opponent would be very unlikely.
Intsm Bouonoas.—Before the news of a dissolu-
tion of parliament was twelve hours old, the Irish pipers were
bristling with paragraphs—sortie emulative, some bona fide
sanoancements—respecting gentlemen who are prepared to
enter the lists when the new House of Commons is to be
called into minces. Of the realities it may be mentioned
that Mr. John Res, a fiery Belfast attorney, has addressed
the electors of the borough of New Ross, in opposition to
Mr. Totonbans, the sitting member end propn,tor of the
toss,. Mr. Rea Is a preabytirian and a rental of the
deepest dye. Among the spo:nistloas it is reported that Mr.
George Bowyer,having given off, nee to his Dundalk friends,
le to be aupp'auted in the representation by Sir John
M'Neill, the eminent engineer, end a genital favourite in
the locality.

Burns' centenary was heartily oelebrated in Aus-
tralia. The following day was the neat festival of the
colony of New South Wales—ils seventy-first birthday. The
day was celebrated in a variety of ways. There were shoot-
ing teethes and cricket matches, as wells. all kinds of old
Neenah eports. The suburban phew of recreat:on were
vi.ited by many thousand., but the great a'traction of the
day wet, as on all inch occasions, the regatta.
Forty water fountains for the public streets of
tko chary had been east and were about to be erected.
Fearful dilutes° has been caused in the colony of
Adelaide by ate • of bush Bret. In tome localities the
set lea seem compktaly basil Wed by the ouddan ruin which
has overtaken them. In other dietricts meetings were being
held for the relief of the sufferers. _ _

BANK OF ENGLAND (THIS DaT).—This morning,
at ten o'clock', the election of directors for the Bank of Eng-
land for the ensuing year took pled in the Bank parlour. A
few votes were formally recorded, there being no opposition,
and the proceedings came to a stand mill. The poli must be
kept open until six o'clock till/ evening, when the following
gentlemen will be declared the directors fur the Jeer :—Mr.
Hobert Memo Crawford, M.P., Mr. Charles Ne-
on Oradell, M.P., Mr. Thomson Hanley, M.P.,
Mr. Kirkman Denial Hodgson, M.P., Mr. Henry
Hulse Berms, Mr. George Joachim Beechen, Mr,
John Gellitrand Ilutibud, Mr. James Maloolmson, Xt.
Staled Neave (late Governor), Mr. John Benjamin Heath,
Mr. Henry Lancelot Holland, Mr. Arthur Edward Camp-
bell, Mr. George Wards Norma, Mr. Thomas Charles
Smith, Mr. J.mes Morrie, Mr. Healy Huck. Gibbs, Mr.
James Ale:sada Guthrie, Mr. Henry Edward Chapman,
Mr. William Cotton, Mr. James Fatima Carrie, Mr.
Thom,. Newman Hont, Mr. Charles Huth, Mr. Edward
Henley Palmer, sad Mr. Benjamin Buck Greene.
THE VACANT CITY iCDGESRIP.Mr. W. F.
Fintalaoa, of the Home Cirenie, has offered himself m a can-
didate for this dela. In his cucular which he bee booed to
maniers of the common COilltil, he states that be has been in
practice foe fits en years, end that he has published eeveral
legal works welch have been favourably teceived by the pro-
faselen, end that for some years beck ha Ma been engaged as
• legal r.pwtw,
_" an avucaliac requiring considerable Judg-
ment and knowledge of law, and which is recognised as mai-
sandy qualit)ing fur tudicial &Hee."
ELEVATION OF MR. EDWARD GROGAN M.P., TO
Till Baaosavey.—The Dublin .I.lrtily Express NUMMOOSS
that her Maje.ty sigoided her intention of conferring the
dignity of the bannelage upon Mr. Edward Grogan, M.P.
for that ei.v.
DEATH OP MR. RICHARD FOSTER OF CAMBRIDGE.
—This gentleman died on Saturday het, having reached the
patriarchal age a f 76. Ile had fur a period of upwards of
half • century been an eminent brewer and wins end liquor
mercharit, W Cambridge. At the urgent request of the
whfg piny, he twice cotteatcd the borough of Cambridge;
the tint time in June, 1811, when, with Lord Como Reseal
as • colleague, he append the Hon. J. H. T. Manners
Seams and Sir A. C. Grant, on which occaeion he wag 27
below the lowest comervative. In March, 1843, he opposed
Sir Fanny Kelly, when he lout his election by 27. This
election was woe, as Improved, by bribery, at the last hour,
a large muster of electors holding themselves in ten rue fur
the OCCagiCal. Mr. Foster was dee. te I to toe interest and
well-being of hie native turn; he was ever Monied in every
good sot k.—Barg and .bortri(lt Port.
HANDEL CENTENARY COMM EMORATION.—We bad
the pleasure of b lug present in the Illosic•hell on Saturday
evening, at a Te:easel of the choruses to be perloimed
during the spprotchiteg Handel centenary costommoratica.
Thee chortoes era to be given by 230 simmer, who, for the
last two months, have be n moat etre/oily trained by Hen
Kuchler, under whose adatinthiguidance the) bare stained
• pecialon in time, and a truth sal .t tadir ea of .lowition„
Wed cr, d t,ble t, their own ailid nee and 'lle tact and 'kill
of their coadnotor. The voiter, too, teemed to us very well
, balanced; sad In the forte passages from the mareiflceot
' choruses in the Kalish and SAMSON. the spacious hall seemed
to overflow with a food of 11,h harmony. Indtef, from
I what we he.rl on Saturday evening, we risk but little
in pr (Beth% that the chorures—so important and prattle a
feature in oratorio niuilo—• ill be given silk a truth and
power hitherto nee quelled in Edinburgh. We congratulate
tho gentlemen of the Scottish Vocal Music Association ca so
wecomsfel a Insult of the unreodtting end theinteic,ted ex-
ertions to improve the knowledge of manic among us, and
do honour to the memory of an i luttriatts comport.; and
we hop that en Tburelay, Friday, sad Saturday neat, the
days of the oentenery commemoration conceits, the peblic
sill .how their nate of the s exertion., by tains care that
not even a single seat in the Music Kali shall remain un-
oc sweat —llieberyd Coursed.
FOREIGN-OFFICE. APRIL 4.—The Queen has been
*mil to approve of Mr. John Ogilvy Hay as Conseil at
Akysit for his Majesty tie Kieg of Sweden sad Norway;
sad of Mr. Alfred WIN la Omani in the ieland of Ceylon
for his Majesty the King of Prosaic —Ooretk.

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