The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-17 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17.

Tin united boroughs of Penrhyn and Falmouth
form, we believe, the first independent and con-
siderable constituency which has been called upon
to exercise the electoral franchise since the acces-
sion of Lord DIRBY to office. By a large majority

they have returned the Liberal candidate to the
House of Commons. In doing so, they do not
alter the balance of power and of parties in the
House of Commons. A reformer succeeds a
reformer. But recollecting the transports of
exultation into which some of our contem-

poraries fell when the petty little borough of
Brecon was induced, by over-shadowing ter-
ritorial influence, to place a Tory commoner
in the seat vacated by an Adullamite peer—to
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exchange, that is to say, a covert and stealthy for
a "lore candid and, in so far, less mischievous
Conservatism—we may make some account of the
constancy of the electors of the united boroughs.
They do not share in the pseudo-liberal apostasy.
Mr. JERVOISE Sierra, the Liberal candidate, has
been chosen member for Penrhyn and Fal-

mouth by a majority of sixty-three, or nearly
one-tenth of the electors polled, over his Conser-
vative opponent, Mr. R. N. Fowzas. The contest
was conducted on both sides with creditable
courtesy, and, we will hope, purely. With
the examples of Yarmouth, Totnes, and Lancaster,
and their impending fate, in the minds both of
candidates and voters, recourse to direct corruption
would exhibit a shamelessness and imprudence of
vice exceeding the worst precedents. Mr. Fowira,
or more probably some injudicious friend in his
behalf, appears, indeed, from the local reports,
not to have disdained the agencies which Sr
ROBERT Currott organized stedfastly at Notting-
ham ; and the seafaring roughs, with Conserva-
tive tickets in their hats, for some time made
the Town-hall on the nomination day a place from
which all quiet people might pray for a good deli-
verance. But this is not the worst. Appeal was
made by the Conservative candidate to motives and
influences which, though not coming under the ban
of the law, yet cannot be accounted as legitimate
in political conflicts. If he did not attempt to
bribe individuals, ho did attempt by copious pro-
mises of local advantages to away the constituency
as awhole by other considerations than political con-
viction and its sense of the interests of the nation.
In an address to his supporters on Saturday
evening, Mr. Fowzsa intimated that "he had
"reason to believe her Mantirre's present advisers
" were prepared to take a more just and favourable
" view of the claims of Falmouth than their pre-
" decessors." "He would ask them what had
" been done by the late Government for Fal-
" mouth." He quoted the testimony of a very
eminent member of the Liberal party in the
borough to prove that " no man was more hostile
" to the claims of Falmouth than Lord STANLEY
"of ALDEBLEY, the late Postmaster-General."
" Of course, the question of greatest importance in
" the borough was, were the Government disposed
" to require the steam-packetstocall at Falmouth."
" The Liberal party, with a short intermiasio
" had carried on the government of the country
" for thirty years, and it had rested with them to
" say what steam-packet stations there should be."
They have enlarged the civil, religious, and com-
mercial liberties of England—they have given an
impulse to the unexampled material, intellectual,
and moral progress which the nation has made
during the past generation ; but one thing they
have not done, against whichall thatthey have accom-
plished weighs as dust in the balance. They
have not made Falmouth a steam-packet station.
" Then as to the St. George. She was stationed
" there for a long time, but the Liberal Govern-
" ment withdrew her. Her Manzsrv's present
" advisers, however, were disposed to look favour-
" ably on the claims of Falmouth, and not to
" pooh-pooh them as the late Government had
" done." These are but a few sentences, taken
by way of sample, out of a long dissertation
on the local interests concerned in the
election to Parliament of a supporter
of the present Administration. They recall,
in a manner which must be very inconvenient and
unpleasant to Lord DERBY and his colleagues, the
old• scandals of Dover and Galway. The impro-
priety of such appeals cannot be seriously die-
puted. If a voter is faithless to his trust who
allows considerations of private and per-
sonal advantage to influence his political con-
duct, the community which is swayed by a predo-
minant regard to local interests when the well-
being of the whole nation is at stake, yields to a