The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-21 00:00:00

READING ELECTION.

The polling commenced at eight o'clock yester-
day morning, and there was a Imp crowd gasembicd around
the booths anxious to record their votes, so that fur a time
there was ouniuderable excitement, the supporters of both
mndidates evidently being anxioua to get a majority in the
first half hour, which they hoped would exert an influence
upon the constituency in the remainder of the day. At
half-past the tint return wan made, and there were
Fur florjoult Fleet as
Captain Walter 43
From this tune the supporters of Captain Walter bocame
increasingly energetic, but they failed to reverse the posi-
tions of the two candidates. The opposition of
Walter to the ballet lost for him many frieods of the Liberal
party, who, from his being the brother of the county mem-
ber, Mr. Walter, of Bearwood, might have been inclined
to have voted for him ; and, ou the other hand, many of
the protestant oomervatives would not give iu their lathe-
sion to him, on the ground that he was nut favourable to
the abolition of the Maynooth grant without compensation
being made to the Irish people. By the middle of the day
the return was such as to show that there was no doubt as
to the heal Wm, there being a majority of IGS for the
learned serjeast. It was subsequently, however, gradually
redueed, and at 4 o'clock, when the pull closed, the state-
ment issued by the committee of Mr. flerjeent Pigott was
se follows :_

11;..tlerjaaut Pigott
Captain Walter

Majorit for Serleant Pigott 152
Sarjaint Piocrrr a larp crowd in front of the
Angel Hotel, and said he had to thank them for the honour
which they had conferred upon him, and at the same time
he coagratulatal them upon the very steady manner iu
which they bad supported their own principles. At the
outset of the contest he told them that union was strength,
and, if they were only united, the politics they prefaced
were so true that nothing inuld defeat them, and the only
possibility of defeating the liberal cause in Reading, as their
u m well knew, and as those who hated Unit cause
vriPlettew was by sowing the seeds of discord in their
ranks. That hail been attempted on this occasion, but the
attempt had ,signally failed, the liberals of Heading having
been true to their principles and true to themselves.
(Chan.) He was only the mouthpiece of their principles,
ant it did not matter whether Captain Walter, or Serjeant
Pigott, or any other man, was their member, so long as he
represented Wend principles and the principles of the majo-
rity. (Cheers.) His majority would have been greater but
that many persons had remained at home under the impres-
sion that their votes were not wanted. Having been elected
he would faithfully represent the constituency. (Cheers.)
Captain WALTr.a briefly thanked his supporters.

RITRININTATION 01 NINOANYLL—The coming
denies far Neweiudie ls meads( little eir no excitement.
Ream. Tayli.tir and Gerstein are in London, and Mr. Beau-
mont is oohing no stir. All parties seem to be resting upon
their can, with the exception of the conservatives, who
bopaja the present divided state of the liberal party,
-to
fight a enoosssful tattle. They have issued placards inviting
the conservative electon to withhold their prowess, and it
is reported that a candidate for their rulings' will issue his
addrese to-day or to-morrow. The Right Ron. J. Stuart
Wortley, who unsuocessfully contested the West Riding of
Yorkshire at the last election, is void to be "the cooling
man." Mr. Carstairs' friends have been hoping that n tory
would mmouuce Lis candidature, believing that as many
conservative votes will, in consequonoe, be lost to Mr.
Beaumont, their chance of victory will he materially in-
creamed. —Nrireastle Chronicle.
RZPRD4ENTATION 07 SuoTHWAßL—Yellterday'i
Garene eontaioa a notification that the Speaker's writ for the
election of a member for Southwark in the room of the late
81r Chas. Napier will be iseued at the sod of fourteen days.
TX' BAITISIi AND Alighloas LIFIBUAT SOCI-
Nrum—A few mostly ago the National Lifeboat Latina.
tics wended, through R. B. Forbes, Esq to the Mama-
olumetts Shipwreck Society • beautiful model of its lifeboat,
and a menplete set of the journal of its transaction. The
British Lifeboat Institution also forwarded its thanks, in-
scribed ou vellum, to Mies DLT., an American lady, in
acknowledgment of her long and valuable services in the
cams ci humanity, and particularly of her zealous exertions
in aiding to establish four lifebente on the British Pumesaione
of Sable Island, on the wad of North America. At a gene-
ral meeting of the American Society, held at Beaton, United
States, on the fith ult., the Ron. David Sears, President, in
the chair, these presents were Qui suitably acknowledged :
" The trustees of the biaseachusette Humane Society dmire
to reciprocate in the moat onvilhil manner the kind feeling no
the part of the British Royal National Lifeboat Institution,
and to express their readinessto co-operate with it in all
practicable ways, and especially in the interchange of Info,.
nation and suggestion fertile promotion of the humaneohjects
eammen to both societies. They look with setisfactioe is
every emit, whether of individual, social, or international
ceenesies, which helps to prawn and strengthen friendly
mintier' between the people and governmeate of England
and the United Metes. They have shared largely in the
weinnel enthusiasm and kind timbale awakened among all
demos of our diner by the resent visit be this 'Gentry ci
his Royal Riches the Prime ci Wales ; and cherish the
hags theft this eirenton kneads* is Moil, is deetimel to
be president sad benelleent In the hail ma it will exert to
Wed as together in strews and wising amity, so that the
• two great anticsalities el the Arglolienee nee, distinct in
Stefano but in many respeele imilar in UN spirit of their
institutions, with • commas Denise, language, and
literates, may ever be a undivided power on the earth,
exerted always in bard and be the presootion of the
highest and test intends al Maeldnd.—(fligned) S. K.
LorilitOP, Cloirreseneding ilimerdary el the Messashusets,
' Bounce Society.

-WASIZONNIMIL. AND CLERIC:

The annual general court of the governor; and
subscribers of the Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools for
and neersollous children took place yesterday even.
the Guildhall Oeffee.hosse. There wr en enoellent
attendance of the friends of the charity, the large room
being well filled ; Mr. Barium:, Werra, deputy chairman, '
in the absence of the iihainnaa, was called on to preside.
After the usual preliraivaries bed been gone through,
The firraintar read the belanarsheet and repo of the
board of management, from which it appeared thatrt
during
the past year twelve children bad been admitted into the
schools, eight. by election and four by. purchase. During
the same period eight had left, one girl in Dec., 1859, and
seven boys at Midsummer. There wen at the present time
59 children in the schools, 41 boys and 18 girls, and five
additional ismates were to be elected on the morrow (this
day), whoa the number would be increased to 84 ; three et
times leaving at the approaching Christmas. The board
bad turthar to dote that the health of the whole establish-
meat was exesUirat, although in the spring of this year
several team of scarlatina had °craned, which (in the
crowded state of the building) caused great anxiety, and
demonstrated the ablaut' necessity of erecting a more
suitable building for the children at the earliest pomade
period. The enamel statement of receipts and expenditure
showed that the gross 11)00Ms far the year bad bean
10,4161. 16s. 10d. The total editnre at the institn.
ti on showed a decrease of M. 7s. 10d. Thus the
whole expenditure, for general purposes had only
exceeded that el LA year by 29L 14e. M.,
although there had been an average of six additional chil•
eirtit in the school. threitighout the year. The annual
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=gm., amuorm wawa- I:mom= that
IWOMMIONi. ZMNE
Of the huts/Adios were dee to that gentleman as
tlatse Lard J. Rasesell, who bad again attended the 0.11;121i•
fete in July task, and distributed the prizes on that
pecselon. The replies and papers on every subject showed
an seines and general improvement. Two boys had
obtained certificates of merit at the Oxford Middle Clan
Examination at midsummer. The thanks of the board
were due to the Rev. W. Morley Panihon and the Rev.
Hugh Stowell Brown, who had kindly delivered lectures in
aid of the building fund at Exeter-hall. The report then
adverted to the grand bazaar held at the Crystal Palace
Ia June last, under the patronage of many ladies
of distinction. This extraordinary effort had yielded, after
the payment of every expense, the sum of 2,4841. towards
the beffl*r fined. The annual dinner would take place on
Wednesday, the Sty proximo, when Lord Ekho, ILP.,
would preside. The board bad not yet decided upon the
site for the new building, but inquiries had been made re-
sporting several plots of land within twenty miles of the
metropolis, and hopes were entertained that a sum sufficient
for the contemplated building would be realised in the
forthcoming year. At the coaclusion the report was re-
oeived with great cheer*:
Mr. Bamerr proposed, ' That the report of the board of
manegement be received had adopted, and that the beet
thanks of this meeting be given for their services during
the put year." He thought no one could have heard the
report that had just been read without feeling that the in.
tentioae of the founders had been more than realised. What
amount of labour the present load h must have had
in
shadowl the
trenntrit due tr: thrill! for their°wn
exertions.
It was the fate of some societies to deserve success but not
to obtain it. He hoped, however, he might say without
egotism, that the warehousemen and clerks' schools deserved
mouse and obtained ft.

Mr. Maws moonded the motion.
Mr. Sarni said, ss a member of the board and a candidate
for re•election, he wished to impress upon the attention of
the meet* the necessity for inawestl exertion. He did
sot consider they were in a very flourishing state till the
'moms equaled the expenditure. At the present time
their prospects looked cheering, but a very large increase in
their funded property would be required before be thought
they could be really termed prosperous.
The motion was then put from the chair, and carried by
acclamation.

---iiiiC•OiOnorary allows were separately proposed, and
unanimously re-elected for the ensuing year.
The following gentlemen were elected on the board of
management in the room of othersrosigned and not elected:
Mr. Henry Phdpot, Mr. G. N. Road, Mr. J. Anson, Mr. J.
Ashwell (of Meson. Leaf sad Co.'.), and Mr. T. Berryman.
Mr. HEATH proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman,
and highly oumplienoted him for his exertions on behalf of
the charity. He (Mr. Heath in the active co-opera-
tion of the subsoriben generally to insure the success of '
their next animal festival.
Mr. Geo. Lawitittice, secretary, ascended the
vote of thanks, and alas ex a hope of gaining the co-
operation of the at the dinner to be presided
over by lard Litho. . This wield be the first dinner that
that nobleman had presided over in the City, and he trusted
on that account, as well as for the charity, that the anniver•
spy would prove sucensful.
The rote of thanks was put to the meeting and tumid.
mously carried ; whereupon the meeting broke up.

CITY cora? or MIMS.

The Commiseioners of Sewers for the City of
London held a meeting yesterday at their otiose in Ur
Cluddhall, pursuant to adjournment. Mr. Deputy Cum=
took the chair.

Dr. LITSICBT, the medical officer of health, reported that
the neldeatiou returns for the fortnight were highly Data.
factory, for there were but 91 deaths against 148 births.
The average number of deaths for the corresponding period'
of the last five years is ISt, so that the mortality has been
about 27 percent. below the avenge oportion. Nearly
half of the deaths (43) were among cbildreu of lees than five
years of age, and only 1$ among old porno's of 60 and
The thief MUMS of death were as follows
t' this ft, pneumonia 11, nine of which were of infanta,
bronchi :is 10, In all 29 deaths from diseases of the re-
spisatoey owes. From the rymotio class of maladies
there were 16 deaths, namely, 6 from measles, 5 from
scarlet fever, 2 from whooping-cough, and one from each of
the following—diarrhea, erysipelis, and larysigitis. The
rause therefore show an absence of epidemic diseases, and
a favourable condition of the public health. Of the 148
births registered during the fortnight 81 were boys and 67
were
girls.
Deputy HAMMON, as the representative of that court at
the Metropolitan Board of Works, begged to are allowed to
inform them that a number of parishes had sent in claims
fur expeller they had been put to In reference to the Dew
Metropolitan tree Act, and he suggested that if this court
had any such claim to make, it would be as well for them
to send it in at ones. They should have to pay their @hare
of the expense of obtaining the act in question, which he
believed was estimated at 7,0001., and they ought to be paid
if they were entitled to anything.
The entimatan said he believed there was some doubt
whether the City would be liable to pay any share of the
nses referred to. They had taken legal advice, and he
believed these was considerable doubt upon the point.
Deputy Hssteox rid is did ant wish to interfere with
any legal question, and he merely felt it his duty to in-
form the court, as theirifesentative at the Board of
Works, bow the matter at and that as a great many
other parishes and vestries sent in claims to the board.
this court might do the same if any such desire
existed. He thee said that he had also to inform
the were that at was intended to re-introduce into par-
liament the bill that was withdrawn for the local
management of the metropolis at the last session, hut the
clauses having reference to the redistribution of loans
would be omitted. He said he hoped the bill, as it would
now be framed, would be allowed to pass without expensive
litigation, and he at the mine time obeened that the par-
liamentary expenses incurred were really very serious, and
some steps should be taken to reduce them.
The matters were referred, upon the motion of Dr. Ross,
to the improvement committee.
Dr. Ammar moved that this court should confer with
the Law Clerks' Committee upon the subject of amalga-
mating the legal business of this 0001tUillIti011 with that of
the corporation generally, with a view to redoes the legal
expenses, in conformity with the motion proposed and
'miffed by the honourable member at the last Court of
Common Council.

Thu motion was carried. and the court shortly after.
wards adjourned.

THE Cooke' AND CONFECTIONERS' SocirrY.—Lash
evening the annual dinner of this society was held at the
Bedford Head lon, Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, and wee
attended by upwards of 80 members and friends, including
mime of the oldest supporters of the society, Mr. Whittoa,
Mr. Swan, Mr. Nene, Mr. lisidd, and Mr. Heard. The usual
loyal toasts having beau given, the chairman, in proposing
the toast of the evening, alluded to the utility and progress
of the satiety, and in appropriate terms remarked on the
pleasurable feeling which must pervade all who assembled at
their annual meeting. In conclusion he announced a keg
list of suleoribers, some of whom he would mention, via.,
Mr. Neese" Mr. Begjefield,m;tilueareey, Mr. flowerer,
Mr. Ring, Mr. Berner, Mr.
Lawrence, and Mr. Tepp. Mr. 'tton, the sooretary,
then pee a detailed /Amount of the financial position of the
society which now numbers 170 subscribers, and had con.
formal {me benefits on decayed members. The 'secretary
also sta that he had a good balance in baud. The &neer
sad wines provided on this esamieu were of useellent quality,
and the room well decorated with banners and evergreens.
Mr. Ebttrne presided at the pianoforte.
filotereameeee, Tt7asn•Y Their.—The Steamship
I)ublia, of Waterford, bound from London to Bordeaux,
with a general cargo, has put into this port fur repairs, being
in a leaky conditice. The captain reports when off the Isle
of Wight, aid near fit. liatherioe's Head, the ship Amok
upon what he supped to be a waken wral. Yllolll'4*
us vessel had stained damage in the after run, arid
about four lechers of water per hour, bc immediately bore
up for this port. the is taken into the inner dock, where
alio will discharge her coals and greater part of her cargo.

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Slums; —kV Y BLAS. Nam W. lacy Meadows, Graham.
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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 21.

Tee Commercial Treaty between this county
and France has at length been signed, and it will
be given to the public on extenso, we understand,
in the course of a few days. Its elaborate details,
characterised as they are by a truly liberal and
enlightened spirit, will form the best refutation of
the series of depreciatory misrepresentations of
which it has been for so many months the subject.
For factious purposes it was nee...Nary to try and
make the world believe that the apostle of Free
Trade by whom it had been negotiated had been
utterly deceived and befooled by the superior com-
mercial sagacity of our neighbours. All the con-
cessions, we were told, were on our aide ; none
upon the other. Francs had, indeed, removed
her prohibitions on coal and iron in the rough
state, while we had agreed to take her wines and
ribands in eschange. But the bergain,we were told,
wee little better than a fraud. Our manufactured

goodnwhether of linen,wool, cotton, steel, or clay,
were all to be kept out as much as before, under
the name of modified protecting duties. As for
reciprocity in raw materials, we had, as usual,
been thoroughly taken in, for while France ad-
mitted the iron and coal which she required to
cheapen the cost of her industrial enterprise, she
refused to share with us her stook of rags for the
production of paper. Finally, we were admired
that her Navigation Laws would be rigorously
maintained in obdurate disregard of the fraternal
generosity with which we had for years opened
every branch of our carrying trade to her mer-
cantile marine. Well, the Treaty is at last
signed ; its numerous clauses an "too fairly
" written for such foul effect;" and its en-
cyclopedic schedules contain the exhaustive
pp
proof of our diplomatic undoing. We are much
mistaken, however, if their perusal will tend to
raise the character of those who have vilified in
Parliament the policy of the Treaty, or who
have vilipended its provisions in the prem. In
every particular these sinister prognostics have
been falsified signally. In every respect the
French t.ovcrnment has acted more liberally
than by the terms of the original convention of
January Last it was bound to do. In every
view of the case the purpose of mutual benefit has
been developed in a manner far more comprehen-
sive than the most sanguine friends of the Treaty
bad ventured to hope ; and in every sense, there-
fore, we are entitled to congratulate those who
have honoured us with their confidence in our'
reading of the transaction, that they have not
been misguided or deceived. We placed, no
doubt, great ndiance on the sagacity and judgment
of the self-taught negotiator by whom this good
work was courageously attempted, in defiance of
difficulties which all the redtapists in both coun-
tries declared to be insuperable. Before we were
acquainted with any minor facts, we were con-
vinced that Ricaaae Cosner was not the man
likely to be " done " by any Imperial minister ;
and now that we have the means of judg-
ing historically of all that has occurred, wo
not only rejoice that we never suffered
our faith in our volunteer Envoy to be shaken,
but that we never gave in to the mean and mise-
rable suspicions of insincerity which were so reek-
timely flung upon the French Minister of Common,e
and his Imperial master. What we all along be-
lieved we now know as matter of simple and in-
disputable fact, that throughout all the dishearten-
ing disparagements of premature criticism, and all
the irritations of political estrangement, which at
one time threatened to mar the great policy of the
Anglo-French Alliance, M. ROURCII and Mr.
Cosoeis have steadily and calmly pursued their
conferences with the singleminded purpose of
weaving new ties of reciprocal advantage between
the two nations, and that they have at last com-
pletely succeeded in their noble task.
We took occasion recently to notice the satisfac-
tory terms on which the principal branches of our
textile manufactures are to be in future admissible
into France. Manyopportnnitieswill occur of revert-
ing more particularly to the details of these arrange-
made ; and we prefer to wait until the authorised
version of the whole is before our readers. But there
is a point which we cannot refrain from noticing,
because it strikingly confirms the views which we
have recently expressed more than once as to the
willingness of the French Government to relax
ere lung its existing restrictions upon British Ship-
ping. this was considered au all hands to be the
last and most impregnable stronghold of monopoly
=wept our neighbours. It was indeed regarded
as so hoi , less that the authors of the Treaty did
not venture to risk the safety of their project by
the intrisluction of any ;enteral stipulations in
favour of our commercial marine. If we ere not
misinformed, however, there will be found
in it two concessions of great intrinsic value,
and of still higher importance as setting a
precedent and establishing a principle that
mad hi matter be usefully appealed to. The ex-
clusem of our vessels from the trade between our
colonies and France has long been the theme of
especial complaint with our shipowners. The 11
French flovrrument ha% e deemed it unwise to
raise the general question as to throwing this de-
partment of commerce open, at a time when so
many other interests are animated by unreasoning
alarm as to the C0111•11111111:11X11 of what has been
done tine year in the direction of free competi-
tion. llot they have judiciously waived the es•
elusive rule regarding two of the most important
articles of freight which British vessels can dissent
to carry, open the ground that, as the manufac-
turers are to be exposed henceforth to unaccus-
tomed eimpetition, they ought to be enabled
to procure the raw materials of their industry
at all times at the lowest poseibls charge.
Tho art:, s to which we allude are wool
from Australia, and jute from India. Both

THEE,

of these articles enter largely into ellenlatitja I
of coat in the staple man 111, Conti* j
France ; and it has frequently occurred-that their
price in the market has been raised by shortness
of supply, referable, amongst other comes, to the
want of facilities of importation, er, in other words,
to the limited amount of French shipping seeking
homeward freight at a particular season at Sydney
or Bombay. There are always an abundance of
British vessels ready to make up their cargo with
consignments of jute or wool for French porta.
Hitherto they have been Compelled to decline such
freights on account of the differential charges to which
they have been subjected. These are now defini-
tively removed. The manufacturers of Rouen
and Mulhausen have obtained in this way a relief
to which, under the circumstances, they were
clearly entitled ; and the consumer will inevitably
be benefited in proportion. The logic is made all
right at that end of the line, but how is it at the
other f Can jute and wool continue long to be
imported into France in British vessels at non-
discriminative charges, while gold, and spice, and
silk, and indigo continue to bear a heavy dif•
ferential burthen f We know by experience what
comes of taking a stone here and there out of the
wall of exclusion : the exceptional gaps become
continually wider, the whole fabric cracks and
totters, and tumbles down at last. The admission
of foreign corn in British vessels at the duties
charged on it when borne in French bottoms was
the first rent made in the system this year ; the
provisions we have just indicated are s fitting
sequence thereto. But these have the advantage
of being permanent, as being matters of Treaty
stipulation ; whereas the regulations with respect
to foreign corn profess to be only exceptional, and
to have but the sanction of an administrative
decree. All tend, however, in the same direction,
and that is the right one.