The Express.
London, England, 1857-11-03 00:00:00

THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

PORTBNOUTII, MONDAT.—The municipal elec-
dons for this borough have passed off to-day without any
excitement. In only two wards out of no have there been
confab. and even in these two there was no political or
social question brought to beer. The elections simply hinged
upon the claims of individual candidates; and although two
or three tortes have succeeded in getting in through the in-
difference of the lib/cab, there was a total absence of organisa-
tion for achieving even such a result.
RoCliEuTlift.—The result of the municipal elec-
tions yesterday (Monday) terminated in the return of liberal
councillors foe all the wards within the city, the toryr
not venturing on an opposition. Five seats are thus gained
to the liberal party, and there is no doubt that at the neat
election a merrily of the seats in the town council will be
RIM by liberals.
LlWZRPOOL.—Yesterday the election of gentlemen
to serve in the Liverpool Town Council took place. Of the
sixteen wards in the town there were contests en nine. There
were five conservatives and four liberals returned.
MANCHESTER.—There were contests for four only
out of the fifteen wards, relent:log in the election of
two new men—Mr. John Leigh. for Collegiate Ch
Ward ; and Mr. Woodward, for New Cross Ward. The
elections were conducted quietly.
SktroaD.—Only two contests in this ward, and
the elections excited no interest.
Noternaterrom.—The elections in this borough
have resulted in the return of five conservatives and one
liberal.

How TERNITE WERE FIRST GROWN AT ABER.
CARN e.—Sir Benjamin Hall, MP., presided at the annul
meeting of the Abergavenny Agricultural Association, held
• few day. ago at Lianover, and in the course of his speech
observed:—"• I will tell you an antidote that I heard my
father relate very often. About 46 years ago he endeavoured
to persuade hie tenantry in the hilly district to grow turnips,
that their sheep and cattle might eat them. He was told in
very strong end emphatic language by the inhabitants of the
district that a Welsh sheep would not look at a turnip, and
would scorn to eat one. (A laugh.) The difficulty was to
overcome that prejudice and induce the people to grow tur-
nips in order that their sheep might eat them and weeper
more. He took the wisest course. We are all Welehmen
here, end I shall not be speaking disrespectfully—being one
of them—if I say that it is of no use whatever to drive •
Welshman. You may lead him, but it is impressible to
drive him; and, moreover, it is always bettor to use
persuasion than compulsion, and to appeal rather
to • man's good Dense than endeavour to force him to
do that which is contrary to his own wishes and prejudices.
This reminds me that a circumstance occurred the other
day which annoyed me very much. I happened to make a
road through a part of my estate at Abercarne, and I found
there a remarkably fine beech tree; but its tine silvery bark
had proved too strong a temptation to the knives of the
idlers, who had incribed their names and their rude love
songs upon the tree. It was perfectly covered with all kinds
of hieroglyphics, which offended my eye. As to potting up
a notice that man-traps or spring guns were laid to prevent
Welshman from cutting the tree, I knew that would he
; so I put up a notice, written both in Welsh and Eng-
lish, ' None but fools will inscribe their names upon this
tree: (A laugh.) Thus appealing to their good tense, and
they not wishing to be included in the category of fools, my
tree now remains unmolested by every gentle swain, and no
rustic Vilikins has since attempted to address hie Dinah
be writing upon it. (Laughter.) But that is rather a
digression, and we will go bark to the turnips. My father
was determined to convince his tenants that Welsh sheep
would eat turnips ; so on the top of a bill on the very
highest point of his estate, he had a very fine field of
turnips. It was walled round, and • strong fence was put
on the top of the wall, with a kind of derma de frss, to
prevent those very nimble quadrupeds, the Welsh sheep,
from getting over and destroying the crop. Well, the tur-
nips grew, and winter came ; the cheep began to flock about
the roads, and the rlrreus de foes was taken down. Over
jumped the Welsh sheep—(a lairgh)—and of course in a few
days the field was filled with them. My father was apprised
that this was the case, and he pounded all the sheep. That
wee a very heinous offence for a landlord to commit towards
his tenants, but he put a very high price upon the
that had been done. They complained very much about
but he begged to assure them that the business did not con-
cern them; that it could not be their sheep that were
pounded ; for he had it upon the word and honour of Welsh-
men that their sheep would not so much as look at a turnip.
(Laughter.) This had the desired effect, and at last my
father cemented to have the sheep released from the pound
upon the owners declaring that, on their coneciencee, the
Welsh sheep would eat turnips. (A laugh.) That was the
commencement of turnip.growing at Aberearne."
SACRILEGE AT MANCRESTER.—During the night
of Saturday, some reseals broke into a church and two
chapels inthis city. They, no doubt, assumed that yester-
day being the first Sunday in the month they would be able
to make a " hint " of the communion plate ; but in this, for
various reasons, they were disappointed; and they got
nothing for their pains beyond part of bottle of wine and
few biscuits. The sacrilege was committed at Mark's
girtrungghinnia small
they church, City-road, Hulme. The thieves broke and got
and upon
without finding anything which they thought it worth while
forosadow
and .int.o.tkh:rd ves....reyra;
to carry off. The chapels broken into were the Scotch pees-
, Orosvenor-square, end the Wesleyan methodist.
=nlridgewater-atreet. At the former, the fellows get
ever a wall in Ormoud-street, and so to a small yard. They
then forted back the catch of a window of the echool-roora,
below the chapel ; and from the school they made their way
Into the chapel and the vestry. Here they vansacked
drawers • but they found nothing that they considered va-
luable. 'At the methodist chapel they climbed well at the
beck, and opened the vestry window, which it is believed was
toXzperly fastened. In a cupboard they found wake
partly filled, end stew biscuits, which they carried
off ,• but nothing of any greater value hoe been missed. The
police were unable during yesterday to obtain any clue to the
offer Guardia*.
WARIIINSTER.—The Mali of 7081. 6s. has been ?e-
-mitted from the Warminster district for the Indian Belief
Feed, towards whichthe inkshiteate of thistoan cerdrilineed
2671. IL Vt.

yrs DAILY NEWIIs LONDON NOM=
isting=gettadaVs‘ adrommed
16—&alaiad mai d 112.mexi-leatia‘
IN svgs. osi Is el sonsi
sosltiese Is lhe IL mem& M7erreetter oe7libl—b—llls
aIigrtOLSZOI IleVe Si lb
As Olabbleele me, rrtal ih%IIIMOIIIOIIIIIMII
le II be ee.l7 0.10.61
TES OSL 1 • UM%
"WA ell •
to leelelell%lnralig llllTlVlrialadlie
= he • =NZ=
IS is d a la as ladola: NY
lie 44Ing,
MIL 11, Is
Itk= burin
Nests Itesto 0, Omni& the
41 al= le • eft so iselleto seli is
be

it b e eXPreOO•

TO OP

traltamil_a____alftirw7":FW=Zra= Ism.
is 4be
dup d ri....

~.stowink
...NIX AN COL Mows IluliAz• Cemeion.nra
TUI ft WILL& Kr. IlultAlmA Win GALICIAN MIL
N,. V. Dam: Ms Pass Vrrillmino 01.

TM &ism. snislagt-Art Mins?
c.

ripertor4 somolk.siteartom. Cloak! GM Polta
ot WORLD. Wr. - Rad
wad W. IL liver; Mao
Joloolooa RS Islkom •

RION WAT/I1 AT LONDON DRIDOI.
Tee v..—Manus, U. --... Ahmisses. ft. Ow
leedisaarlr—akesias. A. Aftstiasa, M. 11..

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3.

WILL the demon of agrarianism never be ex-
orcised' or is Ireland doomed in perpetuity to be
its prey' Sangaine hopes hare been entertained
of late that the fatal spell of prtedial animosity was
broken, and that appeals to law and public opinion
were destined to take the place of appeals to the
aseassin's bullet and the summary jurisdiction of

---
way-side revenge. 'Wholesale emigration and the
Encumbered Estates Court had, we were armed,

put downmendicancy, cottier-holding, commie, and
bladgeon-law. It was over-population did it all.
A superabundance of potatoes caused a superabun-
dance of population; a superabundance of population
begat rugs and recklessness; recklessness and rags
were the materials whereof agrarian gunpowder was
made; and so the failure of the potato crop.
which got rid of millions of mouths, and forced
the sale of millions of encumbered acres, was

sure to put an end to crime. Very often
and very earnestly have we argued against
this police theory of social morals. Again and again
we have pointed out that neither extreme poverty
nor the madness generated by hunger were the
immediate parents of outrage or assassination. Re-
peatedly have we analysed the evil motives which
capes knee has shown lead to the perpetration of
crime ; and seldom, if ever, have we found the pre-
sence of the suspected elements in the judicial
alembic. In oar view, class crimes are referable to the
hatreds, wrongs, suspicions, and resentments of two
great classes of society, each of them possessing
power and nerve and vigorous will; but both of
them plainly and widely distinguishable from the
degraded, demented, and physically debilitated mul-
titude, whom the faults of both combined had con-
tributed to engender on the soil. Ptadial crime in
Ireland never originated with the pauper rabble,
although it sometimes tool shelter amongst them,
and occasionally made use of their miserable pliancy
for its own dark purpose. Perdial crime has at all
times bsen characterised by a stern sobriety of aim,
a steady strength of will, and an untrembling firm-
ness of physical and mental resolution, utterly in-
compatible with the meanness and baseness of beg-
gar). While the besom of famine continued to
sweep ship-load after ship-load of raendsancy,
hunger, disease, and " winged raggedness," out of
Parliamentary sight, we hesitated not to say that
with them the seeds and germs of agrarianism were
not and could not be swept away ; for we knew that

L