The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

'TSB EXPBBI3B, WEDSESDArt

at dodos' beads. " Put in Ow ears bead and
shoulders" is generally the note of warning b
any youth or fervid politician of riper years of
whose principles and power of talk they wet not,
A candidate meet have nerves of steel and a hea4
of good tough oak if there are any passages in his
life which he docent care to be tonehad spin at a
meeting er the hustings, as a lever crowd will
always " spot him, by pantomime or jest. He
gets stop/fed it the midst of that favourite wedge
dmile which never failed him at a pinch. 'Must
strength is there in reiteration if a perseentor
drops into him with *. Thoo'se said that thrice
afore this election ?" There is no finer oheok on
frothy eloquence then such a " dauntless" critic
below the hustings. He is worse than any (load
cat or rotten egg. You can retire before the) one,
and get wiped down by a committee-man with
your own pocket handkerchief ; but you mast
stand up and be heavily cross-countered by the
other.
Some quaint old fellows hang on the skirts of
elections. They seem to live for nothing else,
and annual parliaments would be meat and
drink to them. One of these was so staunch
to his colours, and some old common righta,
that when he was buried a bunch of yellow
gorse, plucked therefrom, was thrown, like an
inissort. Ile, on his coffin. In another borough,
the Blum were so proud of the liberal
cause, that one desired to be buried by the paved
footpath through the churchyard, so that the
voters might pass his grave when they went to
poll in the porch. A veteran miner sported an im-
mense blue hat. Under its shadow be had drunk
oceans to the health of the cause, but once when
a mean candidate came who wouldn't even

" Rive a poor fellow his boar,"
his feelings were so outraged that, at dead of
night, he marshalled a smell prooession of sympa-
thisers, dug a hole, buried his hat, and abjured the
cause forever.
Some voters never will be on the looting side if
possible, and watch the temperament of the can-
didates, and other indications of the political baro-
meter, up to the eleventh hour, for guidance. A
veteran of this sort, as usual. refused to promise
hie vote in a county. A day or two before the
nomination he came and voluntarily pledged him-
self to plump for the liberal. " I won't vote for
t'other men," he said, " they're bate (beat). One
of them's been to me and given me such a blowing
np for not promising—he s bate, I know it," and
the old political weather puppet was right at 4 p.m.
Totes are often lost through nervousness.
Men won't take cards, or they fling them down
and can't refer to them. Some of them tremble like
aspens when they are asked the question, and
perhaps give the wrong name, and down go the
fatal marks before they can recover themselves.
At the Chelsea election one deaf man put down
his card and shouted, " Freake and Hoare," in a
stentorian voice, and then came, - Oh,
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Dilke and Hoare," in a still louder key,::lo2y,
just in time. Some voters, main, never care to get
the candidate's name into their head—they all name
the premier of the day, and " refuse to amend ;"
and, for some time after the late Earl of Carlisle bad
joined the peerage, a West Riding yellow would
always declare for " Morpeth, and nowt else."
" Richard Cobden" was also honoured after this
persistent fashion. Such are termed the freaks of
elections. There always will be some spirit thrown
into them, more apecially as long as Mr. Glad-
stone, freed from Oxford's yoke of no speeches,
and leave your card of thanks, does not sit apart
till the polling lay, like a moody Jupiter, but visits
and rallies all the outposts, and glories in the task.
But all's well that ends well. The liberals always
leave off with a majority, and carry their own
measures, or dictate the line in parliament; and
the tones, after prophesying the most dire dis-
torters from liberal measures, which they cannot
stem, have the solid, inward comfort of feeling,
from forty years' experience, that diving into the
future is really not their forte, and that their tips
have never come off.—Daily News.

THE ELECTION FRACAS IN MONMOTTHIGITILL.--
The rather one esulv fracas which took place at Aber.
gavenny between Mr. Granville Sonienet and Colonel
Clifford. the latter one of the candidates for the repre-
sentation of this county, in which strong language is
alleged to have been used on both eider, has not been for-
gene u, as was anticipated at the close of the election.
Summonses for assault have been issued against Colonel
Clifford, the lion. Clifford Butler, and • Mr. Williams. •
fanner, Mr. Granville Somerset being the corn:UM:int,
The summonses are appointed to be heard at Abergavenny,
but the Gael/ries .Dally Leader states that now the electoral
excitement is over an effort will be made to bring about •
general reconciliation by apologies all round.
EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND CANAL COll-
- H. C. Phear, of Lincoln's-inn, asks us to state
that at the recent meeting of tiii66 company the usual vote
of thanks to the chairman and his colleagues was not
paared. Mr. Phew thinks this fact of importance.
THE HEALTH OF LONDON.---The weekly return
istued by authority of the Regitrar-General states that
in the week that ended on Saturdui. 2fith November, 4,534
births and 3,489 deaths were registered in London and in
thirteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The
annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,000
in Luiden. 24 in FAlitileagb, and 24 in Dublin; 23 in
Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 31 in Liverpool. 34 in Man-
chester. 32 in Salford. 2'J in Sheffield, 32 ni Bradford, 36
in Leeds, 31 in Hull, 27 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 35
in (;la'g'.w. The rate in Vienna was 29 per 1,000 during
the week ending the 21st inst., and in Heflin 31 per 1.000
during the seven days ending the 26th inst. Sinall-pox
centimes fatally prevalent in Sheffield, and 12 deaths
we.t referred to this disease during last week within that
taws ugh, making • total of 102 deaths from tLis cause in
the nine weeks of the current quarter ending last Saturday,
in addition to 132 recorded in the previous 13 weeks ending
kith Sertenther. Thu deaths from liga:lii-pox in London
during the iv! nine weeks have not exceed al 43 in a po-
pulat;cm 11.01-•• than 13 times as large as that of Sheffield.
In Louden the births of 1,117 boys and 1,0.1.5 girls, in
all 2,152 children, were registered in the week. In
the corretponeling weeks of ten years 18.58-67 the
average number, corrected for increase of population, is
2,003. The deaths registered in London during the
week were 1,661. It was the forty-eighth week of the
year ; and the average number of deaths for that week
ts. with a correction for increase of population, 1,646. The
deaths in the present return are less by 8.5 than the esti-
mated amount, but exceed by 64 the number recorded
in the preceding week. The deaths from zymotic diseases
were 341, the corrected average number being 376. Three
deaths from small-pox, 39 from measles, 99 from scarlatina,
13 from diphtheria, 30 from whooping-cough, 69 from
fever, and 12 from diarrhoea were registered. The mor-
tality from scarlatina exhibits a slight decrease when com-
pared with the numbers recorded in seven preceding weeks.
The registrar of St. George-the-Martyr, Holborn, re-
marks, "Then are • great many children ill of fever in
Eagle-street; the houses are very thickly inhabited, and
are generally dirty, and defective in drainage and sani-
tary arrangements." One hundred and ninety-two
deaths occurred from phthisis, 217 from bronchitis, and
110 from pneumonia. In the preceding week the deaths
ions phthuus were 166, from bronchitis 223, and from
pneumonia 112. Diseases of the brain and nervous
system proved fatal to 160 persons, and 71 persons died
from diseases of the organs of circulation. A labourer,
ned 63 years, died on 21st November in the workhouse,
Greenwich, from destitution. The deaths of four persons
from alcoholism, of 12 infants and one adult from syphilis,
of seven children and two adults from burns or scalds,
of five persons from drowning, of three infanta and two
adults from suffocation, of five persons who committed
suicide, and of three persons who were killed by horses or
carriages in the streets were metered.
EMIGRATION FROM TUE MEnaelt.—During the
past month of November there left the Mersey 6,484
grallta, distributed as follows :—ln ships under The govern-
emi-
ment acts to the United States, 6,436 passengers in 20
ships. Of this number 404 were cabin ; and of
the 6,031 steerage passenters, 1,864 were lish, 190
Scotch, 1,056 Irish, and 3,36 foreigners. To Canada
there was one ship with 16 passengers, of whom 16 were
cabin passengers. Of short ships, or those sailing lade-
pmdently of the government proviaions, there were 10 to
the United States with 686 paraogan ; four to Victoria
with 108 ; six to South America with 108 ; one to China
with 20; one to the West Indies with 16; and three to
Africa with 66 ; total, 26 ships and 892 parsogenThe
total emigration of the month shows increase of 181 com-
pared with the corresponding month of last year.
FATAL WACIER.—A man named Cable, in North
Carolina, wagered two gallons of tar a quit of
brandy that he could drink • quart of earl then
walk to his home, a mile distant, Wave hemming in-
sensible. He drank the brandy, walked half the
then sank =saying, "Hoye, I've lost the Wald=
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JUDICIAL OQMMIT .01 WEB Parni
00IINCILL.—Dmi. I.
(Before Lord Chabadoed,' Lord Julia Wood, Sir B. :Tii
Willimos, and Sir J. Oolvida)
aitirmaiow a rut dame or maim OM".
This war an opplication in *gad by Mr. Lawman*
lf•Dennott, the sad gilithihser-of Tee Ositirtitli
stoPloPir. at Geosja: BritiolsooM
wind online of the .1 of the Supreme
of Civil adios in the COlOlll7, W he was
for ix months for cootesept, tor the publication elo=
artioks in his newspaper. Two years ago be
leave to appeal on a deposit of MIX for core~
question now came on for bearing on the ptlr .
point whether leave should be gives to appal,
ships declining to impose terms that no melon alianKlit,
brought. It wee not clearly known whether an
mum/need against one el the kedges - had
legally direentieued. The use occupied nearly the
day, and the principal question involved was
the Supreme Civil Court of British Guiana was or was
a court of record. The preliminary point, width alit
braced the eseestial point of the appeal, warm to the
jurisdiction of the mut to eannait
Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. C. Pollook,ecatVt. end At
Z. F. Moore appeared for the appellant _ The SeMIW.
Generalt Mr. Archibald, sad Mr.- slusW were Ise the
Treessixat
judges. instructed by the Solicitors to the
giving
Lord Chelmsford referred to the order
armed on the °middies§ assezed, and mid their b
could hear the Solicitardiensrel es if be was
retried an es-perte applioades for leave to eppirliligne
co
Mr. on each side on that pilot weeid be board.
Mr. Colerid • proceeded at eensiamelde lea to can.
tend that the each Omni ea Bellish theleien wee
not a court of reesed, and mild net mond
for any contempt esti& the mart. B bad. ea all other
courts,power to preserve ceder Wlthia. Be oiled various
sutherrtrse as the subject.
The Solicitor-General midelathei that it wee a mart of
=Volosd that tbe appikalka elld net MUNI within the
poisWd out in a emmeliment ter
Lied Choinderd, after their legibly bad co
&sewed the indanselet of the ememitthe on the prothai.
nary point whether the Swum Cldi Omit was a court
of record. Their lordships -bald it wen end there was
nothing to show the commitment was bed. Their
therefore, reminded the leave gives to eppsal, wltheirtaZ
Judgment amordingty.

COVET OP WREN'S PENCE.—Thia. 1.
Aft" Torsi NIII Abe abb. al WeatiArt.—(lllsiers
Kr. JosWs Emma aid Braid Juiri.)
Knee v. lIPOODAID. . -

This was in action toinnV;roompneestion in damages
from the ddenlan, a solicitor, for negligees* in eceminet-
ing • nit against Se London GeeeeaZO Company.
Mr. Hodgkins*, QC., sad Mr. Peewee were weasel
for the plant'. Mr. Woolletta and Mr. :elf appeared
for the adant.
Is Anent, 1904, the plaintiff, who was a waileknaket
and jeweller in the Kingissed-road, wee banked dawn
in the City end run over by one of the General Oxman
Company's 'buses, receiving such serious injury that he
bad lost the use of his legs, and had to be in
into court on the back of a man, and lifted insuti
whine-box by one of the wham. The charge against
the defendant was, that be compromised the ens wenn
the company for 1001. and 301. nets against the plain-
tiff s consent, the latter having directed him not to erlile
for leer than 3001. and 12 months' interest. Plaintiff Said
in his evidence that the defendant produced • doenment
to him when he was ill in bed, and induosd bin to sign
it, authorinag defendant to make ether terms with the
company. Plaintiff said that when he eigned the paper
he had no idea of its contents. Some le ttere paned be-
tween the parties, one from the plaintiff, commencing ia
the following poetic strain :
Pft my grief for it is great,
And asks relief quite moderate.
The name two hundred, amen in sound,
Is far within the required bound.
On the day of the accident plaintiff bad been to consult
• doctor for rheumatism.

The defence was, that the defendant had used all
requisite care and skill in the conduct of the plaintiff's
case, and that what ho did was for the benefit of his
client. Plaintiff bad been examinel by Dr. Abercrombie
and Mr. Erichsess, the eminent surgeons. The latter, in •
letter to Dr. Abercrombie, raid it was unadvisable to
bring the care into court. There was no pomible
symptom of concussion of the spine, and all the plain-
tiff s sufferings appeared to be referable to rheumatism
and other causes. It might, however, have been awn-
Tett dby the accident. He felt certain that the plaintiffs
case would break down upon the medical evidence, and
that if he was properly cross-examined he must make
statements injurious to the plaintiff's case. There was a
request in the letter that the plaintiff's attorney should be
mad* acquainted with that opinion. The defendant in
his evidence stated that he discussed the matter with the
plaintiff, cud that he perfectly understood that he (defen-
dant) could not hold out any hope of realising hie terms.
Plaintiff was well aware of the company's offer, and de-
fetclant informed him he could not arrange the matter
without his written consent. Plaintiff read the paper
over himself before he signed it.
Other evidence having been given,
The jury returned a verdict to: the defendant.