The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-10 00:00:00

ACCIDENT TO A FRENCH. sTEAmEII.

(BY EISITRIC Tnutenten.)
FALMOUTH, FRIDAY Moiu"xQ.
The French steamer Countess Emilie, Captain
Rum, of and from Dunkirk for Glasgow, bunt her boiler
off beret yeeterday evening. The chief engineer end stoker
were ndly burnt.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.-( THIS DA Y.)

Thc I,ambeth election committee met for the first
time this morning, Mr. INGHAM In the chair. The woa-
tnittos-room was eery crowded.
Mr. F. twin James, Q.C., and Mr. Seejeent Ballantine
apprand for the petitioners, and Mr. Slade, Q.C., Mr. Phitin,
(LC., and Mr. Johnston fur Mr. ltuupell, thu sitting member

petitioned against.
Mr. Jame opened the rase for the petitioners, who were
two eleettirs uf the borough. They coniplitintel (hut the elec-
tion had been brought about by undue influence, treating,
and bribery. The borough was emend by tho Iteform
and comprised the three populous istrithee or Lao
-
bob. Cmiberwell, mil Newington. Thu electors
o num-
b ed
edr about 20t,000, and the atajoetity of them were
working men ali' poretives. Th largo expenditure
of Mr. Itoupell wee directed to influencing these bumbler
votere and it would be shown that t
ofu electoral
power, of the borough wan in rho hauls the lower
orders. The inhabitant* of the borough wore
about 250,000, the poorer portions of whom resided
within rho Walveurth district, and ie was in that neigh-
! bourhood rho alleged bribery and treating was mostly
retried on. In 1852, Mr. W. A. Wilkinson was
retuined at the hued of the poll; he polled 4,700 votes, the
largest number ever pulled at a Lambeth content. Mr.
Reopen announced himself to be a candidate for the
boretigh on the 13th of March late. Ho war the we
of a lead steelier, wbo, until his death, about twelve
'media age, curried on business in the Black-
friars-rod, and at the death of his father he wee
supposed to have inherited a considerable fortune. The
nomination at the last election tied( place on the 28th of March,
cal the candidates nominated were Mr. W. W illiaMe, Mr. W.
A. Wahiawa, andtoupell, who war previouely unknown
to rho polineal arena of the nielropolie. Mr. Williams,
Onding the great influence that Mr. Rourell bed obtain-A
over the poor volute, took the very judicious end
ce nomieul comae of eeparatin from bin g previous
colleague, Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, joined his cause to
that of Mr. Roupell. The palling wee taken on the 30th et
!Meech, awl rho result wee 9,300 votes for Mr. Itoupell, 7,000
fur Mr. Williams, and 3,230 for Mr. W. A. Wilkinson.
The e, cult serprisel no one, but the large number polled
for Mr. ltoupell did. That fact in come measure indented'
the extent of the bribery and treating that had been cat Aed
on. The 'TO -no peened pee-sums to the election,
was to open public-hews under rho guise of committee-
room., and it would be shown that from 100 to 150
tmer-ohope and pubic-hoaxes redo n hind. As an
iilustnittion of the ranks adopted he might mention
Ilea one of the fired of thews quaint cottimittee-rooms
opened was the Surrey Cowl Tams, in the Old Kent-
road. The tavern wee kept by a person named Gillham,
and hie tether acted es chairman of the local com-
mittee whirh eat there. About • week before
the eliation, Mr. Roupell, accompanied by Mr.
Poulton, the chairman of hie central rommittee, and Mr.
Murphy. his election agent, called et the Sutrey
Canal Tavern, and said to the landlord, " Well,
Gillham, how aro you getting our "Oh," said
to llWne, shaking his head, very" Lad indeed ; you know
tithe i,. the Omni, bold of Wilkinson.' " What's to be done
then," asked Mr. Itoupoll " Open more public homier" eras the
reply, unit I hereupon Mr. koupell Paid tohiliapint " Lit's mew
auto be laving ell the public Isms," then.' In In that way the
active' was cari ;ed. Up to the nomination day Mr. Hempen
bed only forty-two public-houses openid, but betwoen the
acimination and the poll en addition of seventy, eighty, or
slimly was made to the number, and it would be
lie the sitting member to chow what legitimate use
la mold have m ode of them on the Sunday. Another
Near by which Mr. Ituupell obtained bie return war the
=nt of committee men and eanemwere ;it would
that '2W of the former and shout 350 of the let ter were
gamed, and it would be fur this committee to decide for the
teat tituo whether the employment of so large a number did
met come within the meaning of the 17 and 18 Viet. chop.
102, which enacts that any petition who ',hall, directly
or indirectly, by Lintel:lf, or any other person on hie be-
Ulf, make any such gift, loon, effe ,r preemie, or procurement
to any person in order to induce them to veto or to rtoeive
the vote of any person shall be deemed guilty of bribery.
The enormous mat of a metropolitan contest wee beginning
to attract the attention of Parliament; the first election
of Lord Ebriagten for klarylebone, when rho noble lord
contented the borough with Mr. It. Bell, involved en
expenditure of upwards of 5,0001.; in ether MOM-
boroughe the rest of a contest was still
lA:eater. end the qucmion had arisen whether the large con-
wituenties of the metropolitan boroughs were nut the
most venal in the count ty. The learned cowl.) then
posiectied to contgnil that Mr. Roupell's expendituie
up to the day of nomination, se returned to Mr.
Barton, the election audioir fur the borni,sh, was (.5-
cesoive and illegal. The return wade on Mr. Wiikineon'e
amointwoxi22/.; Mr. W lima'', 753/. 181. 3d. ; and Mr. Ron-
oeirr, J. 611)/. 175.; and ihir return afforded swum itetien ion of
the Lie ish outlay which Mr. Respell had resorted to.
Among the item, met down in hie merited war
ono of 1,1451. fur public-houses, but without a mingle
name of the person, to whom the money wea paid,
which wax in direct violation of the act of l'arliament, and
of itself won ouni.ient to ievalidato the retina of Mr. Mini-
pill. Up to the resent time no complete account
of Mr. Roupell's rep:ll,94lre had been rent In to
the election auditor. This WAR the outline of
the ewe against Mr. Mourn, and the learned Lemuel
ventured to euleidt that it was suMrient to mused the
honourable member.
Evidence was than celled in support of the learned
counsel's statement.

MAYO.
The Mayo committee reotoculded at the couvl hour. Mr.
George Hem y Moore, the vitt4± tarot wan under eanwi•
nation the whole of the morning.
Bt•ltY ST. EI)MUNI)S.
The above committre reoaseemblot at the usual hour, and
the evidence of treating wee continued.

BATH.

The Bath committee net for the first limo this morning;
Air. Merman in the chair.
Mr. Shirk, Q.C., appewed for the petitioner; and Mr.
Phinii, (1 C., for the sitting member, Mr. Tite.
Mr. Mode ripened the c.vo for the petitioner, who NViR:
Mr. Wade, the eenoted candidate. The matter in dispute re-
solved itself into R qnsslion of iviratiny, Mr. Tito hasing
obtained a majority of only thy- e votes over Mr. Wade.
The prlitioner had 14 oliketions to the votes of the sit Cog
member, and Mr. Tits 42 to the votes of his opponent.

GALWAY.
The Galway town committee met for the Bret time th's
morning. Mr. Clive in the chair.
Mr. Wordsworth, Q.C., appeared for the petitioners; and
Mr. Edwin Q.C., for Mr. allahn.y, the sitting
member.
Mr. Wordsworth opened the ease an ono of bribery and
treating Against the cluing member personally and Rimiest
Oh agent, )r. Janus Valentine Drown, of Queen's College,
Galway, who acted no chairman of the Lon. utember's cen-
tral committee. Col. French was the defeated candidate, and
the majority Mr. O'Flaherty obtained over the pliant
gantieneut was 75. The modem operand' of carrying out
the bribery was somewhat novel. After the elector
polled, he received a and which he took to Dr. Drown, who
directed hint to a certain betehowie in the town. Arrived
there the voter could we no one, but them was n email
hole in the well, from which a hand protruded, and the rued
being delivered into this band, the voter reeeivtd in return a
emu of money, varying ream 1/. to 5/. In addition to this
dire•t bribery, many voters were regaled at vatione public
houses. Witt:wawa were examined in Pupport of the case.

A letter from Chamouni, quoted by Oalignanis
Xrp..yer, says that in the morning of the2Bth ult. a young
Frenchman, whore name is not given, set out to arced
Mont Mane, and in the afternoon of the 29th emoceded in
reaching the commit of the mountain; be afterwards do•
wended in gaiety. Both the ascent and descent were diffi-
cult, owing to the quantity of snow on the mountain, and to
the blowing of a high wind. This anent is the fiat ever
made in the inneth of June; the earliest on Tweed b;therto
haying been the Bth July.
Limn EItRINGTON'S PRIZE St'ltEME has fallen to
the ground foe want of competition among the farmers* sons.
For the examination of this year only ono. candidate pre-
@Wad himself.— Plymouth Journal:
THE ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH KENT RAIL-
WAT.—DOWERT.—On Wednesday Ina an inquest nal held
at Si. Throne's liospibil, on the body of Din. linykett,
whose death was orensional by the lute accident oat the :forth
Kent ltallway. The Coroner mid whet he proporod woe to hear
the MO N evidence and that of the iliederoind unless be was re •
quoted by the roe, the jury, or the etimpeny to go into evi-
dence am to the accident, he did not feel he should be juotitied
in going into an inquiry which must of necessity be a very
leng one, requiring a greet nn13164r of wiinc.es to attend.
After deceased'e son and the house surgeon of St Thetens'e
Hropital had been examined, the jury retuned the following
verdict :—." That Elizabeth Ann Lleykett died from 'Murk.s
received by the oolliAinti of two railway trains, near Lew-
isham, t, the county of Kent."
IRONMARTERN' QVARTERLT MEETING. Bin-
MINGHAK, JOLT 9.—There Ira. a very full attendance oldie
irommaxtere at the meeting held in the town hall here this
afternoon. The anticipated reduce ion ei the Bank of Eng-
land rate of diarount not Navin; token plow, there was
scarcely so much animation se was emoted. but there woe
an average amount of bedtime tress:acted, and the healthy
tone prevailing at the Wolverhampton meeting was folly
maintained. 'l' hi, hot weather a fortnixht since somewhat
checked the consumption of pig teen, Mill the mocks ale com-
paratively trilling. An attempt was made to-day to obtain an
advance of half-a-crown a ton, but this sons not conceded
them were, however, many mho of good mine pigs at
41.25. Bd. per tea. Stone a shade in advance of yesterday's
/macadam.