The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-29 00:00:00

ileiressford Hope.
DORcIIESTER.—Mr. Francis Somerville Head,
the liberal candidate for Dorchester, has retired, and
Colonel Napier Stun will now be unopposed.
FiNsnrEv.—Loat night a meeting of the electors
and public of the South Homey district was held in the
echoed-room. Milton-road. Stoke Newington. to hear an
address from Alderman Lusk. M.P.. Mr. Tursuand in the
'ar. This district has just been added to the borough
of Finsbury. and its inhabitants will exercise their tint
franchise at the ensuing election. The alderman sail
that the Reform Bill of lust session was imperfect on
some po nts—specially its ratepaying clause—for which.
however, the reformer' were blemeless. If sent to par-
liament again he should set to work to remove the rate-
paying driest, alike objectionable to the poor man and
wealthy ratepayer. He would also urge the right of
Finsbury's 32,;U0 voters to more representatives in par-
liament. Mr. Tank expressed his surpnse that t.ryisen
should raise It 4 head in Clerkenwell and renew ite cm-
inuend resistance of all reform to the utmost. Men
snatching a bill from the hands of their opponente, as in
last session ; men claiming to have been always reformors.
The alderman denounced the wastefulnen of public ee-
keinliture, the aristocratic system of officering the army
and navy, ar.d the sale of commierione, &c. The hop.
candidate then expressed himself strongly in favour of dis-
establishing tie Irish church. In reply to question,' the
alderman said he would, while they pursued legal object:.
sub poi t the right of trades unions to have their fund. pro-
tected. He refused to promise to support the Formative
Bill or Mr. Abel Smith's Sunday Beer Bill. He was op-
to the three-cornered constituencies. After Mr.
roVon had addressed the meeting, a vote of confidence
was unanimously pawed in favour of the hon. member.
LabIBETII.—Mr. Thomas Hughes. M.P., yestPr-
else issued the following address to the liberal electors of
Limbeth I have already taken leave of my com-
mittee and of the most active of my personal friends in
the borough, and it only remains for me now to thank the
great body of nip friends for their support at the last
election, and their premiers of a renewal of that support
lad I continued in the field. With respect to the ru-
mours current in the borough as to the causes of my re-
tirement. I can only repeat what I have already publicly
elated that I left because I saw gathering a serious con-
servative opposition. in the face of which our party was
dangerously divided. Under these circumstance*, it
seemed to 'me to he the duty of any one of the liberal
candidates who might have the offer of an opening else-
where to accept it. This I hare done for the purpose of
uniting our party in Lambeth, and have therefore I hope
a right to impress upon every liberal in the borough
the urgent need of union in the present crisis.
I have the beet means of knowing that the op-
pennon is serious, and believe that the censer-
vatice candidate has en excellent chance of %ac-
me if mere than two liberals go to the poll. I
learn with the des pest regret that a portion of my friends
deeine at prevent to -upped Messrs. 'Arthur and Law-
rence. If a conservative were to obtain my seat in Lam-
beth through the apathy of my former supporters I
should feel that both I and the borough had been dia.
grated. The above-named candidate' hold views idea-
ith mine as to the great question. upon which the
present battle is to he fought, and in some minor points
ale even more nn accord than I am with the majority of
the advanced liberal party. I venture, therefore, to
make this appeal to all of you who are my friends, on per-
sonal no lets than on public ground, to keep the liberal
;arty undivided. and to give your active support to the
only two caludidate who can now beat the conservative,
viz.—Messrs. IPArthur and Lawrence. I once again
thank you for the honour you did me in 1865, and for
your present good will, and with hearty wishes that Lam-
beth may always remain in the front rank of liberal English
lhoronghs."—The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon has allowed his
name to be put on the committee for conducting the elec-
tion of Mr. Alderman J. C. Lawrence.
MARYLEBONE.—Last night Mr. Daniel Grant
addressed a crowded meeting of electors at the Cambridge
Hall, Newman-street, Oxford-street. Mr. George Ken-
rick took the chair. Mr. (.ant's 9eoch was very brief.
He urged the necessity of abolishing the ratepaying
clauses of the Reform Bill, the introduction of the ballot
as a machine to maintain the independence of the voter,
and the adoption of the voluntary system of education
coupled with goverument interference in cases where the
parents were guilty of neglect. Replying to questions, he
said he would advocate the opening of the British Museum
on Sunday afternoons, the equalisation of poor
rates,
the abolition of the purchase system in the amya
in the church, the establishment of free libraries and
reading rooms, and generally the urging on by all legiti-
mate means the spread of education among the great mass
of the people. He was against the Permissive Bill, the
effect of which would, in his opinion, make drunkenness
greater than it is. His belief was that the first step towards
stamping out the evil was the improvement of the dwel-
lings of the poor and the extension of education. On the
suction of Mr. W. S. Austin a vote of confidence was
unanimously agreed to.
Sectift WEST YottEsninE. Yesterday after-
noon Lord Milton and Mr. H. F. Beaumont, the liberal
members, commenced their election campaign by address-
mg about 3,000 eersone in the market place at Barnsley.
A hearty vote of confidence was carried.
TOWLR HatlLElll.—With reference to a para-
graph in our yesterday's impression concerning a meeting
of members of the committem of Mesas. Ayrtou and
Beeler' on the subject of a coalition, we are requetted to
Mate that the meeting was bought by the friends of the
latter to ntkman, that Mr. Ayrton was net present, an
was stated, and that in the absence of any definite result,
the friends of Mr. Beetles iutimated their intention of
milling a meeting 'd electors.—Tian'.
Vismisoa.—The first meeting of liberal electors
ever held at Eton took place on Tuesday night. It was a
large assembly, and Use people were unanimous and en-
thunastre. Mr. W. It. Harria,J. P., presided. On the platform
were Mr. Ellyn, M.P., Mr. Charles Edwards, M.P., Mr.
Charles Coleridge (a native of Eton), and Captain Reate,
R.A., a grandson of the celebrated Head Master of Eton.
A resolution pledging the electors of Eton to do all in
their power to secure the re-election of Mr. Eykyn as the
retire: eutative of the borough of New Windsor, of which,
thanks to the efforts of the local liberal party, Eton now
forms a part, was carried with actilinnabon. Last night
there was a meetieg of the conservativeelectoris in ht. Mark's
schools, Windsor, lent for the occasion by the Rev.
Stephen Hawtrey. The meeting wes addressed by Colo-
net Iticharelson-Gaidner, the mummifies candidate and
several other speakers, and those present pledged them-
selves to strenuous exertions to win the election. Colonel
eiardner, at the class of the meeting, was wonted amid
much cheering, and other demonstrations, to the White
Hart Hotel, by some hundreds of supporters, many ear-
ning tor cheer.
Wolotterga CITY.—The agreement come to be-
tween the liberal candidates for the purpose of ascertain-
ing which two el them were the meet popular, has been
dimple* by the action of Sir F. Lyoitt'a general com-
mitted", which, to the number of above a thousand, met in
the music-hall Nat night, . and unanimously agreed that
the engugement bad been flagranUy broken by
the other parties, and had ceased to be binding
4.0 Sir I.yeett. Many cams of distinct viola-
toms of the alpulations contained in it were laid before the
meeting, which with acclamation adopted the following
resolution .--,“ That the flagrant violation of the agree-
ment at the 14th I setillser, by mine of the martini to that
agree meet :it'd their agents, has roniferail it
wholly vi.id and of 110 effect, and that
its cousequiama no alternative is left to Sir