The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

THE LATE ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

Yesterday the investigation of the charge of ex-
tortion, preferred by the Lord Mayor elect, against Thomas
Plant Rose, was renamed before the Lord Mayor, at the
Mansion-house, end brought to a conclusion.
The court was densely crowded, and on the bench were the
Lord Mayor Elect, Sir P. Laurie, Mr. Alderman Wire, Mr.
Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, Mr. Sheriff Allen, Mr.
Deputy Kebbel, Sir J. Key, Mr. Fuller, 6:e.
Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, read the deposiiions taken
at the previous examinations.
Mr. J. J. Millard—l wish to correct an error which I Mad •
vertantly made in my evidence on Saturday. I stated that
the defendant bad Leen employed in Sir J. Key's election.
He we. not employed by Sir J. Hey in his eketion ; he was
employed for Mr. Scott.
Mr. Hampbeeys—The only remaining witness to be moss-
examined is BG R. Darden. He la here for the pupae of
submitting to any .roes-examinstn that my friend Mr.
Lewis may think proper to subject him to.
Mr. Lear —I shall not think it newton y to cross-exunine
Sir R. Carden at all, as that would not assuit my ease.
Mr. Humphreys—Theo that, my Lord Mayor, will be the
case fur the prosecution.
Mr. Lewis than addresewl the Lord Meyer on behalf of the
defendant. He commented by expressing his deep regret
that the defence of his client had not been entrusted to abler
hands then him own. He, however, would endeavour faith-
fully and fearleady to discharge his duty; and he had no
doubt whatever that laving done that, the Died Mayor would
immediately dismiss the summons. The whole of the case
meat depend materially upon whether his leedship should be
of opinion that the present summons had been applied for as
en electioneering ruse instead of a book Gds prosecution.
He (Mr. Lewis) would mad from a newspaper the address of
Mr. Humphreys on the application for the summon., and
should contend that it abounded with some
of which he could not help thinking must have been known
to the prosecutor. He hoped he should be forgiven if, in his
anxiety to do justice to his client, he wee compelled
to make oteervations of • disagreeable nature ; but
at the same time be wan quite KIM that Bit It.
Carden would not think well of him if he omitted
any portion of his du.e. (Mr. Lewis proceeded to read
the addreee of Mr. Ilueijdtreys, se reported in thin journal
of the 25th ult., and to comment upon various passages, con-
tenditig that the statements therein metalled had not been
justiro dby the evidence.) It was clear from the evidence
that the defendant had fur yearn been considered
the fountain head in the conduct of all con-
torted elections in the City, and that Mr. Deputy Kebbel
end Mr. Millard had throughout induced hint to
believe that he would be retained as the need of Sir R.
Carden tedfl that gentleman repudiated the steps they had
taken to ensure his election. Mr. Millard had given his M-
dsee be a mealy way, and had worked in a mod disinte-
rested wassar for Str R. Cardin. Mr Kebbel admitted
thee be bed requested the defendant to all on him day after
• day for early • week, tickling and fiddling him, and leading
Men to believe that he would be engaged as the agent for Sir
Robert, till the worthy alderman had retuned to sanction the
.peedeeted meanies for immuring his return. Under them
elmenutances, It was not unlikely that when Mr. ty
'Kibbe) et lid said to the defendant, " Sir It. Carden l Depu ill
sot do anything," the di fendant, who found he had been
stifled with and prevented from seeking employment by the
piety, maid, "Then this (alluding to the pleoard) etee qto-eight ;" but he (Mr. Lewis) could never
believe est hi. client would have been such an ems as to use
the words "Then this will go up to-night "—words which
so skilful election agent would ever have thought of uttering,
especially ha connexion with the election of Lord Mayor. No
sum of money had beam mentioned at the interviews between
'Mr. Deputy Kebbel mod the defendant, and the latter there-
fore, if he did use the words " Then this will go up to-
edght," meant thee, es Sir R. Carden's party refused to tee
tale biro, he would not nee his Influence to prevent the pub-
ion of the objectionable placard by the opposite party.
Mr. Lewis proceeded to contend that the placard wee not a
" matter or th," within the meaning of the act of parlia-
ment, which had been framed for the express purpose of pre-
venting the publication and circulation of =atm., defama-
tory, and wicked libels, and not for the purpose of preventing
person. tram leaning election squibs. The threat to publish
must lei nude with went to extort before the pressed charge
could be sustained against the defendant, who, after having
been played the fool with fora week, bed bad an un
accusation made &retest him. The defendant felt that from
&et to lost be had done no act to warrant the proceedings
which hod hero inotituted against him, and that his character
had been impugned by the etatements that had gone forth
on the appimation foe the summons. He had been made the
victim of en electioneering juggle, and the only way in which
justice could be dealt out to him wee by the dismissal of the
summons.
Mr. Humphreys end he claimed a right of reply on account
of a letter from Sir K. Carden to Mr. Kebbel, which had
been put in evidence by Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Lewis said he did not call for the letter, although it
waa produced in his awe-examination of Mr. Deputy
The Lord Mayer—The letter was read, and therefore I
suppose Mr. Humphreys is entitled to reply.
Mr. Humphrey. said he wee entitled to a reply not only
on account of the productiin of the letter, but also on account
of his friend's loaner read his (Mr. Humphreys) speech on
making the application for the summon,. Strong ea the cue
was before Mr. Lamb addressed the court in the defence, It
was much stronger now in consequence of the arguments be
had need. There was • very great deal of matter upon
which his friend might have creareexamined Sir R. Carden,
unlearn he had been perfectly aniseed that the answers of that

gentleman would h'iive been.' very disagreeable and uncom-
fortable to both himself and his client. There were !natters

which Sir R. Carden would have been very glad to have ex-
plained, and which be had *eked the Lord Mayor to allow
him to explain the other day, but which hie lordship, in
the exercise of bin discretion, had legally refused to allow him
to do, sad which he would have explained to-day had Mr.
Lewis given him the opportunity by asking him questions.
He regretted extremely that Sir K. Carden had not been
croarexamined, beCallße if he had been he would have put a
diffenan complexion upon some matters which he (Mr.
Humphreys) had no power to inquire into. The act of par-
liament said, " If any person shall publish or threaten to
' publish any libel upon any other, or shell directly or indi-
rectly threaten to print or publish, or shall directly or indi-
rectly propose to abstain from printing or publishing, or
fatal directly or Indirectly offer to prevent the printing or
publishing of any matter or thing touching any other person,
with intent to extort any money or security for money,' he
should be liable to punishment. 'What the defendant had
said to Mr. Deputy liebbel in revert to the placard and his
threat in consequence of hie not being employed, " Sir Robert
Carden is out, and no mistake," together with the posting of
the placard on the same evening, clearly brought the de-
fendant within the meaning of this act of parliament.
The Lord Mayor-1 feel satisfied in my own mind that all
pm-dee in this cue are most anxious that justice should bs
done to each other. It in a cue which lam not inclined to
decide upon, and I would much rather leave the whole matter
in the hands of a superior tribunal. Therefore, the better
room for me to adopt is to send it for trial, and then the
judger will decide whether there has been any attempt to
extort money or not. Whatever the result of the inquiry, all
partite will then be satisfied with it. The Lord Mayor then
gave the defendant the usual caution, and asked him whe-
ther he wished to say anything in answer to the charge ?
The defendant-1 am not guilty.
Mr. Lewis—l suppose the defendant's own recognizance@
will be sufficient ? _ . .

The Lard yor —I shall take hie own moognizences in
401. to appear at the neat mesons of the Central Criminal
Court.
The defendant entered into his recognizance* accordingly.

Mr. Alderman Wire—There are two meat Amiens amnia.

lions made against me in the evidence given in this case on
Saturday, and which appears in the papers of to-day. The
Bret is, that I broke a promise which I had made to 6lr
Robert Carden, and the eeciaid that I entered into a com-
bination for the purpose of preventing his election, Now, I
never mods a promise to Sir Robert Carden, and I entered
Into no combination to prevent—l rather aided and agitated
hint in his election.

Sir K. W. Carden—l can pceitlvely say that Mr. Alder-
man Wire never broke hie promise, bemuse he never made
nue to me. With regard to combination, I think Mr. Milliard
must Mace misundsvatood me. I said there was a powerful

onmbination against me, but I did not charge any peroon
with being a pule to it.
Mr. Millard—What I Mated I plated on oath.

Mr. Levi.—! object altogether to this. Ido not think we
ought to have any explanations not on oath from anybody.
The Lord Mayer—Aa you have taken that objection, I
must stop this diacusaion.
Sir It W. Conlen—Mr. Alderman Wire wished to make
that explanation.
The Lord /Jayne—A statement of that kind having geneforth to the public, I think Mr. Alderman Wire was perfectly
justified la answering it.
Sir K. W. Carden—Let it go forth to the public that I
never said that Mr. Alderman Wire had broken his protons.
Mr. Alderman Wire never nude a promise to me at all.
Mr. Millard—l have only stated what you stated to me,
Sir Robert.

Mayer—The esee is at an end.
1 be parties then kit tb court.

TILE NEW BALL-ROOM AT BALMORAL, which has
been formally opened this KAMM by a dance given by her
Majesty to the neighbouring nobility and gentry, is a noble
apartment of from sixty to seventy feet in length, end of
mropurtrounate width and height The room, though opened,
I. not quite hair ed, but, when it is, it will, perhaps, be
unique in the ohs enter of its decoration. At present, the
welts, to ;be height of about eight feet, are covered with a
satin drapery of green and Dlelek, but, we believe, this is
only s temporary expedient. Above, the walls are decorated
with; sylvan trophies end emblems; stags' heads,
the spoils of the prince's rifle, forming conspicuous
;A, rco, and relieved in the most tasteful and
alulful MOWN, by draperies of tartan of the some pattern
which runs through the whole of the furniture and deuxura-
Lions of the made. The present chandeliers are to be re-
placed by others composed entirely of stage' heeds and their
['meeting antlers wrought into elegant and appropriate
Citrus, and the antlers all round the aide, of the rooms are to
be arranged to carry lights. There is en alcove on one side
for the mats of bee Majesty and the royal family, and an
orchestra at one end. The ball-room is detached from the
main building, to which it is at present temporarily con-
nected, and, being on a lower heel than this connecting pas-
there is a descent of several Mem into it; but whether
thus arraveinent will be retained. when the whole is coin-
Otte, Met present a matter of doubt. —Corort Journal.

LONDON .ND MIDDLESEX ARCILEOLOGICAL

SOCIETY.

Yesterday the members of this society mustered
at lissupton Court, for the purpose of Inspecting the nu-
merou• poinle of Interco!. which abound in that well-I town
resort of the metropolitan holiday population. The paid/
numbered about two hundred ladies and gentlemen. Has mg
asw tobled in the great hall they were briefly addremed by
the ltev. Thomas Hugo, who afterwards conducted them
o•er the building, and pointed out to their notice whatever
appeared to bon deeerving of a paving remark. The psi.
stood upon what ws• °rig:many a domain of the Knights
ilospitsllers of St. John of Jet realm ' • but in 1610 Cardin,
Wohey succeeded in obteirlng a great of it from the prior to
h'mself ; end about eve years later he laid the first stone of
a buq+ling which he deeigned on a erste of almost encreco•
dented ina&,.iitleence. After his fall, however Henry VIII.—
with view, no doubt, to remove from the Palace some por-
t:on of its [anodes's prestige—proceeded to knock down the

great ball end the ch;ipel, ;ad io replace them with erecticos
of his own. The popular belief which credits the Cardinsl
•:th the present hall is therefore incorrect. The hell was
built by Henry himself; and handsome air it still remains, it
was probably, in its best days, far inferior to its predecemor,
the tone and architectural skill of Wolsey being notorious.
Beery seems, in fact, to have taken extraordinary pains t
obliterate every memorial of Wm ex-chancellor, and has sub-
stituted the initials or cognizazioes of himself end his Queen
in every nook and corner where he could find room for them.
The stained glen which cow adorns the windows is by Mr.
Willer:tient, and declared by the rev. gentlemen to be equal to
the finest specimens of the art he had ever sem of seciemt or
modern design. In the drawing-room attention was specially
drawn to the tapestry, which is probably of the Mtn nrl.
tury, and is amongst the finest in England. The firei4ce is
usually considered to be of tho reign of Queen Elizabeth, but
it really dates from the time of James 11. It I. executed in
the low relief so characteristic of the period, and is a remark-
ably fine epecimen of that kind of work. The portrait of
Cardinal Wolsey, which is usually said to be the only au-
thentic Skeane of him in existence, Mr. Hugo did not simple
to stigmeties as a clear forger(; he did not believe that
it was a hundred years old. The next pert of the build-
ing which wee noticed wee the chapel. The walla of this
building are of the time of Henry but Wrenn,, has
been entirely remodelled by
_Sir Christopher who cut
out the tracery of the edWo•re, sad lined the apartment
with Palladian carpenters y ornamented with
splendid carvings, by OrinlizewelekeirborThe roof is of very
peculiar construction. It consists of a ceiling of pendentive
tracery in wood, which is hung, up, uit were, to the prin-
cipal. of the outer roof. This ceiling has been pelychromed
by Mr. Willement, but the effect is not good—a fact no doubt
owing, as was pointed out by Mr. Godwin, to the absence of
stained glass from the windows. On each aide of the door
there are panels containing the arms of Henry VIII. end
Jena Seymour, who. it will be remembered, died at Hampton
Court in giving birth to Edward VI. After leaving the
chapel, Mr. Hugo conducted the company over the new wing
erected by Sir Christopher Wren, of whom he appeared to
be an entheateatic admirer. Indeed. he avowed a preference
for that architect's work over some portioue of the oldie
palam; for in the latter pert of the reign of Henry
VIII. Gothic had become • mere sham; and sham
Gothic three hundred yeses ego. like sham Gothic
now, was a miserable and thing. At the
Perna time it wee only fair to my that in all probability the
finest portibna of Wolaee work were no longer in existence.
Hampton Court, when In the smith of its fame, had enter-
tained above • thousand guests at one time • and the com-
pany would therefore be able to form some judgment ea to
what its original extent meat have been. Indeed, an eminent
foreign archreologist had emiTil
es to him en opinion that
the old building war half es again the whole of the
existing structure. He (Mr. ego) must confess that he
did not himself think so, but there could be no doubt that
the present remains did not give any just idea of the palace
sit left the hands of the great Cardinal, its founder.
The picture galleries, the celebrated vine (which this year
offers to the visitor more than sixteen hundred temptations
to petty larceny), the magnificent grounds and private gar-
demi, and all the other "lions " of the place, afforded plenty
of occupation to the inquisitive faculty of the learned archae-
ologists and their (rend.; and notwithstanding one or two
showers, which fell with provoking inopportuneness exactly
when the party were farthest from shelter, • very pleaaaat
afternoon wee spent.