The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

from the bat oratory:
Sir Frenefslake Deleral—of the floe old Norurd Delo-
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vals—the rake and humouriot of about a century ago—was
ono time convening Andover. These was a voter there, as
for an every *pp, atones went, insensible to all temptation.
Money—wine—plare—flattery bad no attractions for the
lassie. Sir Francis Fueled himself fn endeavouring to dis-
cover the man's weak point. At last he fiend it out. He
had never seen a Bre-eater. and doubted if there minted a
class endowed with that remarkable power. Off wont
ISel seal to London, end returned with Angelo in a poet-
cheiee. Angelo exerted all his Rennie; tire p aired fecal his
mouth and nostrils—fire whirls melted that iron nature, and
gent it cheerfully to poll for Delayed.
The new generation who read the doings of bygone days
must have been struck with the change which hire now toms
over electiounring. All the ricturesquenen is gone, for ono
thing, or siirsives only in such little bets of sentiment en deco-
rating the bindings with everret nt, or tue local thsi,ee on
the candidate's night with laurels—modes of ornamentation
performed by very rough-looking fellow., who may be ob-
served lingering about taverns during elections, with a
au pieionaly watchful eye directed to the tap. A bonfire
may still occasionally be wen, and sometimes a young
beginner provides n diepley et erackere and other fireworks.
which the enemy's! roper duly announces to have been fired
In honour of their ride. But the preensiona— the music—
the banners—the festivals—aro gone by. We never hear
now of ' burning the under-sheriff's Kris ig,' or of ribaud-
bills of n hundred pounds; and such a dinner as that of
Ilofarth'o would kill rant of our politico, aspirants. If a
wing Duke now fell under this table dead-drunk at a publia
entertainment. it would happily excite musk such a tense-
I Lion lit in old Rouse did the fall of a Voetal Virgin. We are
a quieter, soberer, more business-like race—full of the villain
of a latergeoisie--and the Whertons and !Maya's nose would
be abused es tyrante and profligate,. There is, on the other
hand, lees fun, wit and eloquence in our rent.-to ; end.
indeed, men come forward who never could base got a herr-
ing in the old daye, and who, if they had 'bought in; would
at least have been cmapelled to follow their betters.
The change is one of wittiest wrist tren.ition, so well as of
a political ebanteter. Electioneering has loot its n ilder
festrwer by the same change of inanners which has made all
life quieter and mare strew into—the same change which baa
abolished drinking, duelling, prize-fighting, cudgel-play, and
a were of other notional habits!. Then the new polaival lib
has been an impart:tat element in the change likewise. Poll-
ing only lasts a single day; vote, are more numerous, and
not fought for so terribly; while by the meat Corrupt Penn
lieco Prevention Act the employmeat of a band of musk in a
precool= of eaten, or of Ulf-a-dozen yards of blue ribbons
might peril Me !Am n. Electioneering, therefore, hits
become comparatively cheep ; and since our legi.laliun has
broken in on the old hereditary and prescriptive influences.
this is exceedingly who. A country like ours meet either be
governed by Ito traditions and its property, or by men
money. Make eleetioneering expensive, anal your 'Paull' will
beat your Sheridan any day, as matters steal present. Frora
this point of view the change is welcome. It gives Burke a
chance agaioet Buggine, at a:1 events, now that those
boroughs are gore which were as Tiede where genius found
shelter and nourishment till ito were grown.
While electioneering has OWE loot in pieturnquetess sal
hoe worked itself clear of Ito more extravarennt characteris-
tics an improvement has taken place in its chasers r in other
ways. We may trill ems a mob so ludicrous as that which
shouted "No °bk.:" when the lute Sir William Mole-worth
contested Southwark ; and es violent toi that whist in the
recent general election br,uoht down on Kidderminster the
contempt and dieguet of Eteload. Put, as a general rule, It
there is more dullness, there is also more de -tine. We
cannot my, indeed, that bribery is abolished -tar from %
with 'Bribery Cominitteti blue-broke:as sur shelves, nod ratio
sixty petitions against return* noes Idols° the nee Paella.
tricot. But ear veil:lotion (though p meaner) Ia cer-
tainty Ise gran and elating sitar cue.. prevailed; nut, under
the influence of a purified pulite ,lesion and strict Jewish..
Hen, is, we trust, envlually wearing away. These ore the
'Whitmore whit Is must be relied on for its extirpation, an ob-
ject earnestly de lied by all oar higher atalemates. Bat while
multitudes of voters remain pour and ignorant, and while a
seat in peril/talent is sought less from a conesionseess of the
talent. and knawkdge needful to a Pewter than from a wish
to garnish nn acquired fortune w'rh a little hit of orrasaental
dignity, and to lay the fouudetion of a euricsoful career el
tuft-hunting, we meat cape.l to find the ink ditilcult.

StI.TANAS AND THEM GUaitni.tria.—A letter
from Constantinople, of the Bth, rays:—'• A grace ofttir oc-
curred yesterday in the high street of l'era. 31. Guarraceino,
brother of an Etwebsh consul, happened to be Wending at the
door of a ccurcetionees shap, wir,tt o carriage oteapied by
sultantle' nod e.corted by several eunuch., came up. The
Turkish ladies ore curb coquettes that, in spite of their veils,
they allow thmuselves to be woe, and even by their glances ex-
cite admiration. Whet her thee ga o /41 . G uninchino "Innen at
not I do not know, but certain it is that he iippninAted toe
close to the carriage and leoltel into it a it h ton much triesity
to please the eunuchs, and one of theta struck him with a
whip. M. Guarraceino, inrettun, 'truck the man with hie
cane, and the bitter drew his sword; the fonuer endea-
voured to wrest It from htm., an 1 bolls of them cut their
fingers. On this the other ennw'ba, sw,rd In
hand, melted on M. Guarraccino, and be was
obliged to take to flight ,• in running he fell, and
the eunuchs coming up, Mobbed Lira several times in the
back. The eunuchs then continues their route, but not until
after they bad given their names to the police. M. Guarracc
eine was taken into a !mute. whero his wounds nave deemed.
and it was found that Ii nit in danger. As he is an
English 'object, it la not doubted that the English embassy,
which has never let much serious attacks of this kind go +=-
avenged, will demand redress."
BENTHAM'S REMAINS. It was a part of Jeremy
Deaths:lie will, that his body should be devoted to the pur-
poes of improving the ecienco of enatomy, and In cor.stouence
it was laid on the table of the anatonical school in Webb-
street, Borough. In con ph:me-a with Mr. Bentham 's wish.
Dr. Southwood Smith delivered • loceene nu the oceeeion.
After the usual anatomical thamordintinne, AO -.sat was
made of the bones, width v I net to St Bentham 's
own elothos, and n was like , nttdo by a dietinpuidied
French artid, fitted to the tro Thit figure web ea
the chair which he ueuolly ibd, with orotund holding
the walking stick, called D senate eounton,
whenever ho went abroad. le wan Oath) in
mahogany ease with feld.ng tit-daces, and 31,4 y -.now bo
seen in University holleg petObri-streei.—X r.i ani
♦ envier.

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