The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-10 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

CiamsEs.—The conservatives have decided to
bring forward two candidates for this newly-created
borough, and the gentlemen selected are Dr. Russell (of
Crimean celebrity) and Mr. C. J. Freake, one of the
largest employers of labour in the boron ;.e. This was
officially announced at a meeting of the -Fulham Con-
servative Association held at the Cock Tavern, Walhani-
green, on Saturday even ng. It was stated by the chair-
man (Mr. W. Lamming) that Mr. Freake had met with
• serous accident at Dartmouth, in consequence of
which it bad been feared he would not be able to be
put in nomination ; but a telegram had been received
by Mr. Looock Webb stating that Mr. Freaks had given
his sanction for his name being announced as a candidate.
Mr. Wentworth Mk., one of the liberal candidates, has
made ;almost a house-to-house canvass throughout the
borough, and has secured a vast number of promisee. In
his addrws Sir Henry Hoare says:—" As you are aware,
I have not refrained from giving effect to my convictions
on the momentous question of the disestablishment of the
Irish church, and you may depend on me heartily and
energetically to support the just and statesmanlike policy
of our great liberal eader, Mr. Gladstone."
SOUTH Dsvow.—Lord Amberley has engaged to
attend a conference of the liberals convened for to-clay.
Wttnison.—Under the Reform Act it is antici-
pated that the parliamentary register of the royal borough
will be trebled. The number of voter, upon the register
lust printed, prior to revision, is in Windsor, 660 ; in
Clewer, 637; and in Eton, 365 ; a total of 1,667. For the
first time in the history of Eton, and in accordance with
the new Reform Act, there is a list of the parishioners of
Eton who are entitled to vote for a member for the
borough of New Windsor. This comprises the names of
365 persons in the college and town.

THE NEW REFORM Acr IN THE EASTERN
Col7lcrian.—The number of electors at Bury St. Edmunds
in 1867 was 720; by the operation of the Representation of
the People Act, 1867, the total promises to be increased
this year to 1,486. At Colchester, the number of voters
last year was 1,012 ; this year it promises to be increased
to 2,825, exclusive of the freemen. The new lists of par-
liamentary electors proposed for Lincoln show a total of
4,040 names, while the register for 1867 presented a total
of 1,738. At Stamford there were last year 604 electors;
this year the total appears likely to be increased to about
1,080. Under the new system Newark will have 1,770
electors, as compared with 480 in 1867.
A MURDERER'S IMPULSE.—Gunner Benjamin
Sheldon, who was hanged at Lucknow for having shot
and killed Bombardier Wall, made • strange confession.
On the day of the murder he had been led "by the
kindness of his friends," to drink to excess.
"In the evening," he says, "I must have been
at roll-call, although Ido not recollect it ; and the first
thing I do recollect, after leaving the canteen when it was
elmed, was finding myself at the cot of Corporal Wall
with a carbine in my hand. I cannot tell whether
Corporal Wall was asleep or awake. It was then, as in
a moment, I felt impelled by some uncontrollable
I impulse to shoot him. I tried not to do it,
but I had no power—it was as if I could not leave
the ilia. It seems to me as if I had been under a strong
and irresistible is uptation of the devil. I do not re-
member diacharging the carbine, or speaking to any one :
but my next ern emus moment was, when I was being
hardcuffrel in the guard-room, as one of tho handcuffs
nil pad rre. It was not until the next morning, when I
was told of what bad haysramsd. that the circumstance of
buying L4lOO at Corporal Wars oot flashed upon me."