The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-14 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

BRIDONORTIL—Sir J. D. Acton has issued an
address to the electors of Dridgnorth. offering himself as
a candidate for that borough in the liberal iiktervq.

CuvENTRY.--Mr. H. M. Jackson joins his suc-
cessor, Mr. S. Carter, in the candidature for the
interest.

DERBY.—Mr. Baas and Mr. Cox, tlto present
members, will, it is untlerbtood, offer themselves for re-
election.

HACKNEY.—Encouraged by the appearance of
four liberal candidates, all of whom express their deter-
mination to go to the poll, the conservatives of this
borough are organising their forces with the view of
bringing forward one if not two candidates. Mr. 'Tignen-
Amhurst, lord of the manor of Hackney, and the principal
landowner within it, will, it is said, be invited to stand.
LINCOLNSHIRE (Mm).—Colonel Ameotta, the
liberal candidate for this division, will address a meeting
at Horneastle ou Thursday. There appears every proba-
bility that the gallant colonel will be returned.
LINCOLN.—Mr. C. Seely and Mr. E. Hencage,
the present liberal sitting members for Lincoln, have inti-
mated their intention to seek ro-e'ection. Mr. Heneago,
in a letter to the Lincoln Liberal Association, urges that
the liberals should be prepared for any attack, and
should form volunteer committees in each ward to pro-
mote the return of the liberals, as the new Reform Act
has practically rendered it almost impossible for a candi-
date to attempt ahouse to house canvass, either personally
or by hie agents.
LYNN.—The liberals of this borough are about
to hold a public meeting in support of Sir T. F. Buxton,
who, at the dissolution, will again offer himself as a can-
didate.

NEWCASTLE-L,MER-LYME.-Mt. W. S. Allen,
the liberal member, will seek re-election, and a second
liberal candidate will be introduced. The friends of Mr.
Edmund Buckley, the conservative member, have not yet
decided to introduce a second conservative candidate.

BOUM-WEST LASCASIIIRE.—The tories of Sal-
ford Hundred have met in Manchester, and unanimously
decided to propose Mr. Algernon Egerton and General
Peel (who now represents the borough of Huntingdon) as
their candidates for South-west luneadiire.

13013TH NORTIIAMPTONSITIRE. Colonel Cart-
wright has issued an address in conjunction with Sir R.
Knightley, announcing his intention to contest this
division at the ensuing election. The liberal caudidate is
Lord F. Fitzroy.
Sot= W.tavlCHsuntE.—At a meeting of the
liberal Association yesterday, at Leamington, the Hun.
E. Chandos Leigh, a barrister, and brother of Lord Leigh,
the lord lieutenant of the county, was invited to stand
sathecolleagneof Lord Hyde, son of tho Euzi of Clarendon,
in the liberal interest.

STOKE-UPON-TREST.—There is everyprobability
of four candidates being brought forward for this borough,
notwithstanding the retirement of Mr. Samuel Pope, ono
of the adopted candidates of Bolton. Preliminary meet-
ings of liberals have been held in various parts of the
borough, and a general feeling has been expressed in
favour of Messrs. i# rentell and Melly, the present members.
WA.B.WICIL—Mr. Adams, Q.C., the Recorder of
Birmingham. will probably be solicited to join Mr. Peel
in the candidature, the voters being doubled by the
Reform Act.

Ras ELECTitic irri.lloßAPne BILL.—The select
committee of the House of Commons on this bill, of
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer is chairman, met
again yesterday. Evidence was given by Mr. Foster,
principal financial clerk of the Treasury, in support of
the various estimates and calculations which Mr. Bcada-
mores of the Post-office, had submitted to the committee.
Mr. Foster said that he had checked every calculation,
and he thought that the capital required to enable
government to sesame the telegraphic plant and service
of the country bad been rather over-estimated at
6,000,0007. He did not profess any minute technical
knowledge of telegraphy, but as an actuary he gave his
evidence in support of validity and correctness of the
calculations which had been brought to his notioe. Mr.
Scudamore was next examined, and gave evidence as to
the amount of telegraphic business done in various coun-
tries on the continent. A formal meeting of the committee
for the passing of the clauses will take place this morning
at 11.30.

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