The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

ELECTION PETITION&

This morning were issued the petitions relative to
ths Cornbridgs, Athlone, and Huntingdon election.. In the
first-named document, Mr. Adair (the petitioner) sliegs
acts ot bribery and treating, on the past of Mr.
Steuart (one et the sitting mambas), the admisits
of votes en his behalf who were not qualified.
the rejection of voters on the petitioner's behalf who wee
qualified, and voting at the wrong booths. In the Atbkos
petition, the Hon. Henry Handoock charges the sitting
member with bribery, treating, and intimidation. The Hunt-
ingdon petition relates to a double return on the sore den ,
equality of votes, and Mr. Fellows, the petiticner, &Ikon
demist the return of Mr. Heethoota the following obis- '
Lions, via—double voting, voting et the wrong booth%
fraudulent personation, e 27011004111 stria, sad the reception
of unregistered and unqualified voters.

A letter from Gotha, in the Magdeburg Gazette,
deeerthes the opposition made by the family of the Princess
of Hobanlobe to ha marriage with the artist Lambert. The
Duke de Rotator, head of the family, refused his corset
far yeses, but yielded at last to the selsortatka of the Duke
of Coburg Gotha. On the very morning of the ceremony a
protest spinet the marriage was ema by telegraph boat
Ram. by the brother of the bride, Prince Hohenkine.
Climbable to the Pope. No attention wee, however, paid ^
to k, smiths ceremony took place.
Tla Gazette de Cologne states that the apartments
lathe loyal Palace, at Berlin, prepared for Prince Napo.
boa, me the apartments which were occupied by NIPC4OOa.
L, la M.
The num observes that the three political ser-
vices in the Prayer-book, the die:annul:lance el which was
moved la convocation by the Date of St. Paul's, relate en.
lively to a dynasty of unhappy memory which England only
lalamelerl for three separations, and which is a byword:
Mew as fox Its lathe, tae vanities, and its vices. "le
them minion we thank the Almighty for tearing the lib od
a essimisa wham mother end whom son we beheaded, sad
restating te the church of England a Sovereign whd
tamed out the meet bantam reprobate that ever sate me
this throw, la one of these anima we at the tame
thee and d the mate breath thank the Almighty
far deliverlig the royal family from Its enemies' end with
sal bream thank somebody else for delivering the nation
Item the mid royal family. The levity sad Incemelinecy of
them so-celled religions acts, are only euressesed by the vito
ham sad vulgarity of the language, which is monetizen in
had en to be mataken for the coarser kind% of cursing sad
wearing. 'Hellish malice' and bloody enemies' are only
specimens of the Sower+ of rhetoric used la these appeals to
the All-Wise and All-Good."
TEE LATE DUCHESS OF 0 tovensynn.—ltis Royal
Sell=the Duke of Cambridge is oiliest as chief enecuiec
Denham et Glooreeter, with the Bad of 'Teraina,
Mr. Theme (tli thanes Remo:Annear), and Mr. Dream
weak the lealier, se colleagues. Though rather early to
sank of wadi ewes, It Ia understood that the bulk of the
=web the family of the late Duke of Cambridge.
be Pric-lane devolving to the present duke. Ths
ykdassas Alia, a god-child of the bite Duchene, hes not beet
IlwisOlas, war the other metribera of the royal hmily. Pea.
dna bass bleu left to two old servants—one of SW. a year
lad the et 251. a year—with c gratuity of a year's wages to
Obi met if the household. Diecimions hang warn as to
thes did meamembi , and the Ciatal• of rank, primed/me.
sin sty having formed a complete pusZ.
the =ria laws was cut by the Crown
MINIIIII. NA her Majesty was therefore represented
at Wee
Smog by the Berle., of Athole, one of her principal WWI
weli•• g —Chore Joureel.
APPOINTISENTs.—The lion. Chichester Fortmene,
MT. for Louth county, will emceed Mr. John Ball se par-
liamentary tinder-Secretary for Colonial Affairs; Mr. E.
Mark, Vice-Consul at Repots, is appointed her Brim*
Majesty's Consul at Baltimore, United States; Mr. L.
Rennie, Acting Cenral at Arrhangcl, is appuinted Consul at
Nat place; Mr. Martin Wood, formerly Consul-General
at
Monte Video, is appointed Consul at St. Domingo; Sir R.
Bchomburgh, Consul at St. Domingo, is appointed Consul at
Bannock, in the kingdom of Siam; Mr. Booker, Actiag
Consul at San Francisco, United Stake, Ia appointed Coned
at that plata.—Okerver.
Baron Gros, who has just been appointed to pro-
coed to China, was charged with a 131104i012 to La Plata 11
1847. In 1860, be tilled the functions of eomraiseloose
mediator, to nettle the difference' which had mimeo between
England sod Greece; and, lastly, be negotiated, as one of
the plenipotentiaries of the Emperor, the treaty recently
concluded between FM,* and Spate, for settling the impor-
tant question of the frontiers of the two countries.
SHOCKING ACCIDEST.—On Friday afternoon an
accident moored an the London and North Wewern
L aterere
at the coal-yards crossing, near the pareenger Attlee.
, Preston, by which a women named Jane Wad-
dington was instantly deprived of life. The enfortmeht
was returning home, haying two bundles of red iron Me
bad bees purehming for her Maimed, who is a blackanlbs
In the seas, and en infant in the other. She was swam.
Listby a worm, and whcu on the point of creasing the
go late Dook-street, a roal.train came up from a M-
ist, and proceeded tamale the tunnel. The women waited
until the in waggon had pawed, and were creating the
line, when a lesempotrain, which had been hidden ham
their view by the coal.triin, emerged from the tunnel in as
opposite direction. One of the women succeeded Inc
the Ira* but the other (theclefeaped) was caught by 4118
buffer end thrown upon the line the train mowing over Mr
body, hands, and legs, cutting off one of her beasts, sad
tearing away a portion of flesh from various of the
body. Her Went was thrown forward tont oft; math
and was footed lying near to her side in the six feet warm
Beyond brag a good dad shaken, the child was ass WWI.