The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

OFFICIAL DECLARATION OF THE POLL.

ATLEBBI7RT, Dec. 1111.
This morning, at 11 o'clock, the official declaration
the numbers polled for the respective candidates at the m-
eat eked= took pima at the Town-hall.
Mr. Cavendleh, the nomad cendidste, was accompanied
by a good many of hie prised* supporters, among whom
wee Masers. DAMN Cooper, the Rev. Mr. Phillintare, Mr.
A. Tindal, the Rev. Kr. Brie, Mr. 8. M. Gibbs, r. Z.
PAMPsthe Rev. Mr. Oates, Kern. Watson, Benece,
ilts, ryes, de. CaptainHancliton, the defeated =
was also aocompanied by a number of gentkeein
with the ommervetive pity, among whom were Messrs.
Lewes, Franklin, J. and T. Parrott, Baynes, Fowler,
Bermett, &c. , and the hall was nearly ailed with electors
aad others.

PttturWaorawrow, Baq., High Sheriff of the sooty,
than stood forward, sad darisnal the numbers pallid for as
respective caadidataa to be aa follows: _ _

Caves:llth
Hamilton 1,464
Majority for Mr. Cavendish lO
And he therefore declared that pekes= to km been del,
elected as a knight of the shire ID represent the tennly of
Hocks in the present paths/Neat. (Load ebeerng.)
Hr. Caves Das it thou stood formed to Mika= the &ekes,
sal wee received with vectieves abeertig. He Will thee
Whet alludnits via perscsal lathy,. he meth ow
his Meth_ sed the miposters of third Zett
ens
mem
comited ag to sappess HIM it wascosidklieliembe 1
tbse bed serried him through woreesellally ht that medme;
Wit be Muth be owed his samementirely to the swim of
the Shad party to the mthn, end to di* deteratheihn to
support liberal principle. (Rem, laser.) He relented them,
bores_ ar, Ala most minors Umiak he the time and troeiblir
Soy Mil ispeeded at hie came Ile had hies Wield le
mese Ileneek Mile* epee the ms
that id be
dig se there would have ben no mann, sad be regretted
that they should have been taken from their homes end eta-
belled in a contested 'lnnen at this season of the yew. Hs
meld sot now detain them any longer sad should only
seek spa hie those thank for the honour they bad
magma upon him; and he trusted he should nem do
tinplating that would induce them I. regret the corildence
they had reposed In him. (Cheers.)
Captain Hem twos then addressed the electors, end, after
Boer preliminary observation, he rid he felt it • duty he
owed es those gentlemen who bad given him their support
as the TIMMS 00:1111101, and also to the COMOIWIMUTO
CIIn the musty, to state the reasons that had in-
him to some forward on the present maul=
sea candidate, end to say what appeared to him were the
risme& for the debit they had eapericnod. At the time the
notice appeared el the vacancy in the remmoatation of the
county by the elevation of their late hon. member to the
penes, he bad sot the lent intention to offer hionsid as a
candidate, end when he received a requisition, most some•
manly signed by tenant fanners of the county, calling spas
him to do so, be sill refused, bemuse he maridaM
there were lastly other gentlemen who, by their wealth end
pariahs, woe teach better qualiftsd to represent this key
conservatim county in prliernent then hiesself. When.
however, be task that no other gentleman woad case On-
ward, sad be bad nerived • hope number of lake bets
gestlimeen of gnat legasees in the county, tender t* him
their support in the event at hi. coming forward as • cm&
date, be lidt it Meath:est epos him to OM himself at the
eleventh hour ; but, vender the circumstances, any other re-
sult than the cm that bed tam place could hardly have
bets anticipated. (Hear, bear.) He had called it • dehas
of the othaerrative party ; bat he thought he ought to have
hardly used that tamales, es it appeared to him they bednot,
not, in point of tact, been dthated but had merely see-
hatted • check. (Hear, bear.) Ills honourable =
ironed him address on the 12th of December; and,
the noose of lour gentlemen were put forward se being
casdithem In the conserratlve hikes; his own Ewing the
Rat, they all declined the honour except himself, and Me ad-
dress to the elector. wee not issued until the 18th, sad he
had ael two days to Nevem the county, sad they bad been
became they were ontatepped at the occummoomeet.
' (Cram of "Hear, bar," sad "No, ma.") He Ind oily been
obis to Mead at Newport Nogg as the Wednesday, end at
the High Wymmbe meth* on the Thursday, end this wea
the whole of the Nevem he bad been able to make. Ilk
had had an oppertneity to maven the whets of the
comity, he Wined there was no doubt that be would km
bora returned. (Chews sad cram of " No, au") The boa
amdidate then said that although when he was in perlieseee
he bad supported the peopest for the skinks of the
Jews into the Hosted theemose, be eased that ea she,
perk occasion the Jewish bloom in the meaty bed beta
and against hire, sad that the strew had been put en le Ise
nuentlal quarters to prevent his election. (A my at "We
are fight a( you with your own weapons.") He Ind or-
tainly net asked the 'Rothschild family Sr their support,
but he believed that all their Influence had been thrown into
the ash foe his opponent. ( " liear, hear" and
interruption.) conclusion, he said that In the
event at • vacancy in the representation of the county
taking place on any future occasion, he pledged himself
again to coon forward as the representative at the condo-
mile* feeling of the county. (A cry of " And you will be
es warmly received se you have been sow," sad
eta
He hoped that the conservatives of the county
of Ellekb would het that be had only been actuated by •
feeling of public dal in offering himself to represent the
county on this occasion, and that they would also feel that
although he had been unuoceeful, still that this result was
°Moe to the peculiar cirmmenaces under which the deo-
tion had takes place, and that it ought not to be looked ups
as any proof of a diminution in the comarmetirs baling of
the meaty. (Cheers.)
A veldof thanks to the High Sheriff we. then proposed
by Captain Hamann, receded by Mr. Ct v els man,
and canted unanimously, and the High Sheriff having
beteg returned thanks, the proceedings of the election

CITMILE4 I)ICKENS AT ClieTlßM.—Probably
on no former emulate was there a more brilliant or crowded
audience uniubled in any building he sillier iteebeeter or
Chatham, than ooagregteed in the Lecture-hall co Teseday
evening last, to greet Mr. Chas. Dickens on the eezeion
that gentleman &lig a " reeding" from his well-knows
Christmas tale, the' Christmaa Cara" Le.g kelpie the
time of Mr. Dickens commencing, the specious bedMiag WOO
crowded with the UN of the towsa and men anent sigh-
bourbood, and the °Seers of the garrison and dockyard, the
appearance of the ball being meet imposing, the effect being
oimiieralAy heightened by the elegant decorations designed
by the committee. Since Mr. Dickens has become &resident
in the neighbourhood of Chatham, he has ever taken a meet
lively Internet in everything connected with the Mechanics'
sad Literary Institute, for the Fogies:, of which be has ben
we names. This has been shown an the grateful manner
ht which he announced himself an simnel subscriber, and
antesquently permitted himself to be elected president of the
institute. Being Isiinned that the library required augment-
ing, he very handsomely oteroseted to give • reeding of hie
"Christmas Carol," the proceeds of which to be devoted
exclusively to the proposed object. Unless we have teen
misinformed. the melt has exceeded the most sereemise ex-
pectations of the committee. Apart from Mr. Dickens being •
resident near Ito:heater, the neighbourhood of that city by
if we nay eo speak, peculiar clas en that gentlemen. In
Chatham he spent • considerable portion of his early life;
and that the aseociations ounnectsd with hie early home were
not forgotten, is proved by the fact that nearly all the led-
dents chronicled in his Immortal " Pickwick" en laid at
either Rochester or Chatham, while many of the rowdier
names of thu prominent individuals made illustriou• in those
pages ere *linnet indigenous to this niughbourhocd.—Smeth-
Leireseis Onetfe.

MIDDLZ-CLABV EDUCATION.—A meeting of the
clergy of the Archdescoary of Liverpool having heat duly
muumeted, was held a few dap ago in the board-room of
the Collegiate Institution, the Venerable Archdeacon Jones
in the choir, for the consideration of this subject. After an
adjourned meetiog, and a disennion of live house In all tbe
following resolution was adopted That the clergy of the
Arthdesoonry of Liverpool thankfully recognise the high
motives which hays induced the University of Orford to
originate a plan for the improvement of the education of the
middle clause of England, and sincerely &aim to co-operate
heartily with the gams so far se their ct nstientione convic-
tions will allow. They cannot, however, cones] from the
public, nor ought they to conceal from the university, that
nosy of their lady have serious misgivings as to the effect
which Is likely to be produced on the religion of tho middle
classes by that reeolution which prealadee proficiency in
divinity from receiving horainarabis distinction. They, there-
foss, respectfully request that that part of the echememay re-
°el"' careful re-consideration, and sepecithr that nth steps
se seem denthible may be taken for obtaining the
mass of the clergy of the Church of England on tbia 'erri t."

PCRCHARIP OF TIIE SOULAOF.B COLLECTION' FOlt
Pusuc I Net aticriox.—[We has been requested to pub-
lish what follows :)—ThelGym of Birmingham, with the
Mayor of Mancheacr, be. invited the mastance cf ether
corporate authorities is the seats of manufeatue In tte mid-
land counties, to induce the Chancellor of the Eloheater to
purchsse this collection, in order thet it maybe wade useful in
=praying derogative ntanafectnresin mends, pottery, gime,
r. A I:twon of Art-Trades has also been formed in the metro-
plis, onsistiug of moat of the largest producers of decora-
tive manufactures, in ceder to bring the rancher* before par-
liament as soon as It re-sseembles, and the Society of Arts
has allowed the meetings of this Union to take place in the
Adelphi. Lord Granville ea president of the Edacetion
Committee, szpromed bhmeali Quite favourable to the per
whoa a figaistlas al tie Institute of British Architects
waited ups lam
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