The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-05 00:00:00

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

CB P.LTIENHAK.

At 5 o'clock the room was cleared, and the committee
remained in deliberation for two hours.
On the re-admission of the public the Chairman stated
that the committee were of opinion that Mr. Schreiber
was duly elected. The announcement elicited loud cheers.
The Chairman also stated that the committee had arrived
at the following resolutions :
That it appears to the committee that George F. Barn-
field, to answer his own purposes, conspired with George
Powell, another voter, to induce several voters, by corrupt
means, to vote against the lion. F. W. Fitzhardinge
Berkeley, but that it has not been proved that the sitting
member or his agents had any knowledge of such con-
spiracy.
That in the opinion of the committee such corrupt prac-
tices did not extensively prevail at the last election for the
borough of Cheltenham.
The Chairman added —I am also requested by the com-
mittee to intimate that they think it desirable that a trans-
cript of the etidence given by Mr. Stroud should be traw-
lmitted to the Incorporated Law Society.
The proceedings terminated at seven o'clock.

MR. HARVEY, M.P. FOR THETFORD, AND
HIS VOTE ON THE REFORM BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS.

Sta,—l observe that certain parties are en-
deavouring to make out that I deserted the conservative
party, to which I was pledged, on the late division on the
Franchise Bill. I enclose you a copy of my address to my
constituents, by which you will observe I came into the
house an independent member—a position which it has
been my endeavour, as it is also my intention, to main-
tain.—l am, &c., R. J. H. HARVEY.

I feel sure that, in fair justice to me, you will publish
this letter, with the address.
Athenaeum Club, May 3.

The following are the passages in Mr. Harvey's address
to the electors of Thetford which bear upon the question
raised in his letter :
" As I stated to you originally. and as you all well know,
I have not been an extreme politician, nor do I class
myself with any political party. I believe that an inde-
pendent representative best subserves political interests,
and at a moment when the nation is happily free from
political antagonisms, every good citizen, in my opinion,
should support such measures as, in his judgment, conduce
to public welfare, irrespective of the party from which they
emanate. lam oppoeed to professions or pledges, but let
me say that I am favourable to progress in every direction
calculated to develop and extend the influence of our
country, whilst at the same time I should desire that all
legislative changes should be conceived and carried out ina
conservative spirit."

PROMOTION OP CHRISTIANITY AMONGST TRH JEWS.
—The fifty-eighth anneal meeting of the London Society
for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews was held in
Exeter-hall, yesterday, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the
chair. The report and statement of accounts were submit-
ted to the meeting. The society employs 36 ordained
missionaries,l9unordainedmiaNionaryagents,Bocolporteurs,
scripture readers, schoolmasters and mistresses, &c.onaking
together 135, nearly half of whom arc believing Israelites.
The New Testament, translated into Hebrew, and tracts
andtreatises in various languages on the Jewish controversy,
have been widely circulated. The Liturgy, in Hebrew, has
also been published. When the society was formed, in 1809,
there ware not 50 Christian Jews known in the United
Kingdom. Since that time more than a hundred Jews
have been ordained as clergymen of the church of England.
In the society's chapel in London, 508 adults and 579 chil-
dren of the house of Israel have been baptised up to the end
of 1865 ; and in the society's schools at home and abroad
more than I,oooohildrenerearunially under instruction. The
financial statement showed the total income from all sources
to be 34,9921. ls. ficL, and the expenditure (including a
fifth quarter's outlay on foreign missions, to bring the
accounts, hitherto closed on December 11, to March 31),
38,8581. Ils. 9d.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The grand performance of
Handel's Aria and Galatea this afternoon, with Mdlle.
Titian', Mr. Santley, Signor Gardoni, and Signor Stagno,
and a chorus of nearly one thousand, forms the first of the
summer series of grand opera concerts. The promenade
will take pines as visual after the ooaoert.
OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—SOUTH-
AMPTON, MAT 4.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's
seeamship Ceylon, Captain Evans, sailed this afternoon
with the mail for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt,
Aden, Ceylon, India (except Bombay), and China. She
took out 41 Bret and 55 second-class passengers, and on
freight a general cargo, including 121 boxes specie, vales
84,7951. 13s. far the following ports, viz. :—Madras,
Bald coin, 2,2471. ; silver *sin, 135.; gold thread, jewellery,
2,221/. Calcutta, bar silver, 5,1001. ; gold thread, 1,1751.
Ho Kong, dollars, 10,1081. ; watches, 4201. Shanghse,
bar sllver, 7,200/. ; dollars, 5,875/. ' • and jewellery, 4501.
Despaichee were received yesterday at the Cobo-
-1 nisi-ales tram the Governors of St. Helena and Labaan.