The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-24 00:00:00

NOWT"! LANCASHIRE.

The official declaration of the poll for North
Lancashire took place in the Shire-haD, Lanceeter, yes-
tenlay. The High Sheriff gave the following as theatre:al
numbers :—Stanley, 6,832; Patten, 6,681 ; Harlington,
6,t06. Afterwardk be declared the Hon. F. A. Stanley
and Colonel Wilson Patten duly elected knights be serve
the Northern Division of Lancashire in parliament. The
announcement was received with cheers and ooanter cheers.
It is said that Lord Hartington will be nominated for
cue of the divisions of Derbyshire, and that there is every
chance of his success.

CLOSE OF THE POLLS.
WEST KENT. _

The polling for the newly-created constituency
of West Bent took place yester&y, and atter an exciting
(voted resulted in the return of two cowierrativea though
the majority obtained orer one of the liberal candidates
(Sir John Lubbock) was extremely small. At 6 o'clock
the liberal committee issued the following statement as
Laing the numbers at the close of the poll:
Mr. Angerstein 319
Sir John Lubbock
Mr. Mills
Mr. Talbot
The two cot:seri-afire candidates, according to this, were
returned. Mr. Mills being at the head of the poll ; while
Mr. Tallest secured the second scat by the narrow majo-
ritr of 21 over Sir John Lubbock. The official declaration
of the numbers will be made by the High Sheriff at Seven-
war to-morrow.

AYRSHIRE (NORTH).
Flunk (L)
N out gotnerie (C)
DEVONSHIRE (mar).
Talk (C) 4036
Courtenay (C)
Wade (L)
DURHAM (SOUTH).
Nate (L)
*tßeaumont (L)
urista (C)
Russell (C)
MONAOHAN COUNTY.
Leslie (C)
Fhirley (t)
Gray (L)
NORTHAIHTONSHIRE (SOUTH).
Knightley (C) , 2121
Cartwright (C)
Piteroy (L)
SllROPtililltE (SOUTH).
Herbert (C)
Corbett (C)
Yore (L)
9011
We learn by telegraph that serious riots took place at
Church Stratton mar the close of the poll. Sticks and
stones freely used. and many received serious cuts. The
windows at the hotel and committee room were sionghel.
Atsistance was telegraphed for, but the crowd disperaed
as it grew dark.
SOMERSETSHIRE (EAST)
Allen (C)
bright (C)
Ua)ter (L) 2095
(L)
WORCESTERSHIRE (EAST).
A r.phlett (C)
I.yttelton (L)
Martin (L) ........ ... .. .
There wail very rough work at the Lye near Stow.
bridge during the polling. From an early hour in the
inortimg stones were thrown about in a mischievo.is
inurser, and a mob of 4,000 or 6,030 people intorfen-1
with the aces of the voters to the poll. Not only stone.
but bricks, half bricks. and Rowley Rug fragmemt4 were
hurled übot.t. The police were poweilcas in the face of
iaal an immense and mischievous mob, and the super-
introdent in charge had a narrow esenpe, Limning the
gauntlet through the rioters, while atones were dung at
him from all sides. The poll clerks hal to seek refuge
under the desks, and the poll was stopped for a time.
The pop ce weie withdrawn altoretLer with the view of
41nel:sing the populace, and ti.cy were followed and
cited by a mob of about 1,000 persons. They took
icing. in Force houses on the borders of Staffordshire,
and at lergth, by the advice of kir. C. E. Swindell, a
county rna•:i,trate. they left the place altonther, and re-
honed to Stourbridge. There were further dhlrerbances
and a number of parsons are said to have b Am
injured by the donee.
LINCOLNSHIRE (SOUTH)
Welby (C)
Tumor (C) 4070
(L)
WIGHT (ISLE O.
Simeon (L)
Cochrane (C)

MID-SURREY.
A crowded meeting of the liberal electors of this
division of the county was held at the Castle Hotel,
Ithlimond, last night. The Right Ron. C. P. I:plasm
occupied the etair, and, in opening the proceediqgs, said
that the meeting had been called for the purpose of rally-
ing the Irk ish of Mr. Ooldsmid and Mr.ltoliarta and
also to celebrate the return of one of the most enlightened
liberals in the kingdom, Mr. Robert Lowe. (Cheers.) The
liberal cause was indeed a great one, involving the future
policy of the empire. The leaf question was whether the
government should remain in the hands of those
who were not supported by the majority of the neuple.
They had only escaped being turned out by adopting
principles to which they were opposed. But the unit
worst thing to governing the couu.ry without a parlia-
ment was to govern it by a minority. Re reviewed the
history of the country during the past half century, show-
'tog that it was to the liberal party that it owed the free-
dom and prosperity which it now enjoyed; and inasmuch
as the tee 7 pa
party had alwaysopposed progress, he thought
the a which had been made to the country would
resinin a great triumph to the liberal party. (Cheers.)
The oldest abuse that remained was the Irish church,
which really was at the bottom of Irish grievanees,
and if the liberals in the home: were true to their
principles, its connection with the 'esti would
soon be put an end to. The great mistake public man
made in these days was that the. people did not know. and
read and form opinions, but his imp:mien, founded on
observation, was that the great majority knew pretty well
as much as those above them, and, to use a phrase of the
day, they were exceedingly well posted up in political -
knowledge, which was the reason why they had come to
such an intelligent decision of the question, and had been
able re easily to detect the fallacies put orward to sup.
post the counettion between the state and the Irish
church, which he stigmatised as ono that defiled pram-
tiintirm. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. Lows, who had arrived while Mr. Villiers was
speaking, and who was received with a round of che.stat
then addressed the meeting, and in a very eloquent
pointed out that while those who voted for the irk=
voted for an avowed and definite policy, no one wire gave
a vote forthe conservative leaders could hope to preserve
anything which they wished to preserve, because the
whole history of the country shim Ib2o showed that the
towestry klulimi would always give way on every
It was so question for the sake of holding Oh*.
in catholic eman
andcipetion, the Reform
Bill of lri3e, in free trade, again in the ado
household suffrage. What chance, then, wee theptionre of
of their standing by the Irish church Their polity might, indeed, be described as a hot potato polish because as
soon as they avowed their pried pke they snipped them
as if they bad burnt their fingers—aanghter)—and aow it
weinad to be " spend plenty of money, and keep things as
they are." That, however, meant that they would seep
education in its lament disgraceful state, and maintidu
the enormous expenditure of the army and nary. On the
other hand, the programme of the liberal party was in-
creased efficiency, and increased economy and retrench-
ment, combined with justice to halted. (Cheers.) In