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London, England, 1851-06-26 00:00:00

IVIARLBRO'-STREE r-(T MS DAY )
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN THE SERPENTINE.—LIiza
Mount, de,erlbed on th, charge t,heet J.s a servant re,id-
itm at 2, Kirg-street, Herne Bay, was brought t:eforn
Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk and at-
tempting to destroy herself in the Scrpentine, Hyde-

park.
It appeared from the evidence of Smith, A 668, that
yesterday morning he was on duty at the west end of
the Exhibition in Hyde-park, when a gentleman eame
up and informed him that some park-keepers were i4l-
- a woman a short distance off. He ran to the
spot, and on inquiring of the keepers what was the matter,
he was told that the prisoner had been found drunk
and fast asleep, and on being awoke she became ex-
tremely violent, and refused to leave the park. The
constable then took hold of her and lad her away, and
on her promising to leave the park quietly he let her go.
In about a minute after be looked round and saw her
running without bonnet and shawl towards the river. He
followed and caught hold of her just as she was in the
act of throwing herself in, and having procured assis-
tance, conveyed her to the station. At the latter place
she tried to strangle herself with her hair, and in his
endeavours to prevent her, she bit his hand nearly
through.
The defendant, in reply to the charge said she had
been in London only a week, having left her place for
the purpose of coming to see the Exhibition. The reason
that she attempted to destroy herself was, that a person
had seduced her, and communicated to her a filthy dis-
ease, the disgrace of which so preyed upon her mind
that the became tired of her life.
Mr. BUIGHAM seriously admonished the prisoner, and
directed the officer to take her to the hospital. He (Mr.
Bingham) also directed the prisoner to call at the c,,urt
when she came out, and he would find means to send
her home.
The prisoner expressed her gratitude in tears, and left
the court with the officer.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE R ACES— W EDNESDAY.
The Third Triennial Prosluce Stakes of 10 soya. each,
5 ft, the second to receive 10 per cent., and the third
5 per cent. out of the stakes, for two yrs old colts, Bst
71b, and fillies, Bst 41b; half-a-mile. (11 Subs.)
Mr. M,'iklam's Evadne (Templeman) 1
Mr. Wrather's bl fby Trueboy, out of Miss Julia 2
3tol on Evadne. Won easy by a length.
The North Derby Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 100
added; three yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bst 21b;
the second to receive 50 guineas out of the stakes;
once round. (21 Subs.)
Mr. J. Marson's br t Nancy (51b extra) (F. Marson) 2
1
Mr. Wentworth's Azeth (J. Marson)
Mr. Phillips's Le Juif (Marlow) 3
Betting-7 to 2on Nancy, 3to 1 egst Le Juif, and 4
to 1 agst Azeth. A very tine race. Won on the post
by a head, the same between second and third.
The Amateur Welter Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft if de-
clared, with 15 added; three yrs, 9st; four yrs, lOst
71b; five yrs, list 31b; six and aged, 12st. Mares and
geldings allowed 31b, and half-bred horses 71b. Gen-
tlemen riders, &c. Newcastle Turn in. (7 Subs.)
Mr. Batty's Risk, 4 yrs, (h b) (1501) (Mr. Henderson) 1
Mr. Fawcus's Reversion, 5 yrs, (301) Mr. Peart) 2
Mr. Gray's Ormsby, 5 yrs, (301) ( sir. Gregson) 3
Count de Vaux's The Ebor, 4 yrs, (80/) (Ld. Cardross) 0
Mr. Thrift's Fleur de Seine, (501)...(Capt. Prettyman) 00
Mr. Griffiths nd The Reiver, aged (301) 0
Mr. Heppell's Oshatittaick, 4 yrs, (301) (lur. Lamplugh) 0
Betting-2 to 1 agst Reversion, 3to 1 agst Ebor, and
4to 1 agst Risk. Won cleverly by a length and a half'.
The Free Handiest) of 5 sovs. each, 5 fr, and 50 added.
The second to receive 20 sovs. Three quarters of a

mile. (20 Subs.)
Mr. T. Lister's Nancy, 3 yrs, 6st llb (Wells) 1
Mr. Walters's Maid of Team Valley, 7st 81b (Noble) 2
Mr. Lawson's Coola, 6 yrs, Est 21b (J. Osborne) 3
Sir C. Monck's Vanguard, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b (Simpson) 4
Mr. W. Sharpe's Gulliver, 5 yrs, Est slb ...(Basham) 0
Mr. Watson's Wallace, 4 yrs, sst 121 b (Carroll) 0
Mr. Pedley's Fifty-three, 3 yrs, 4st (Arpinale) 0
Betting-6 to son Nancy, sto 2 agst Coola, sto 1
agst Gulliver, and 7 to 1 egst Maid of Team Val-
ley. Won cleverly by two lengths.
The Corporation Plate of 60 Guineas, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 5 sous. each, the second to receive 201., for
three yrs old, 7st ; four, Bst 31b ; five and upwards,
Sat 10Ib; mares and geldings. Heats, nearly a mile.

' (11 Subs.)
Mr. Williams'a Chief Justice, 4 yrs (T. Lye) l 1
Mr. Dawson's Joe Sutherland, 5 yrs (Arnold) 2dr
Mr. Dawson's Cyclops, 3 yrs (Aldcroft) 3 dr.
Betting-3 to lon The Objet Justice Won by a neck.
CURRAGH JUNE MEETING.
TIIEBDLY.—The racing was limited to two events and
a walk over for the Kirwans, for which only three ac-
cepted, two of them Lord Waterford's, and Conveyor,
whose owner did not venture to try conclusions with
him, and he had. accordingly, a walk over with Duc-an-
Durres. The Scurry Stakes were won, after a most in-
teresting race, by All-is-lost-now, beating Tancred by a
meek. The Sweepstakes of 15 sous., 20 added, Waterford
Rost, was won by Mr. Watt's Countess, who unseated her
rider previous to starting, and ran nearly four miles be-
fore she was caught, Dolly's Brae obtaining second
place, being defeated only by a head. Among the f ash-
tonables present were—The Marquis of Waterford, Lord
Russborough, Sir Thomas Burke, Sir E. Kennedy, R.
Browne,
Esq., Ranger, Captain Shum, W. Quin, J.
Courtenay, W. Armstrong, E. J. Irwin, W. Disney, W.
Kirkpatrick, G. W. Watts, J. Rynd, W. Nugent, T. De
Burgh, Esqs.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
On Tuesday evening Mr. Hackett, the American
comedian, of whose performances we have before had
()pension to speak most favourably, made his re-appear-
ance, after an absence of some years, on the boards of
this theatre in the character of Falstaff in the Merry
Wives of Windbor. Ever welcome as such an accom-
plished artist as Mr. Hackett must be under any cir-
cumstances, he is more than ever welcome at the pre-
sent moment, when Bartley, our only remaining Fal-
staff, has left the stage. The Falstaff of Mr. Hackett
is more truly Shakesperian than that of any actor who
has appeared of late years; if we were to say that his
is the only Shakesperian Falstaff that we have had for
the last quarter of a century we should not be far off
the mark. Even Charles Kemble and Elliston, strange
to say, vulgarised Falstaff, and made of him a low buffoon.
Now it must be evident to every student of Shakespere
(and we use the word student in contradistinction to the
mere reader of Shakespere's plays as acted), that the
immortal bard intended Falstaff to be represented as a
witty profligate gentleman, occasionally mixing in vulgar
society, but always preserving his superiority over his
low-bred companions. Had Falstaff lived.—
" In our young days,
When George the Third was king"
he would have been Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Such
is the Falstaff Shakespere drew, and such is the Falstaff
Mr. Hackett represents. We hope this gentleman will
make a lengthened sojourn amongst us, for he can be ill
, spared just at present.

• MISS GODDARQDUA'S
R E CON
BOOMSCERT, HAIVOY ER-
S.
Miss Goddard, the pupil of Thalberg, whose astonish-
ing performances on the pianoforte were the delight of
the habitues of the National Concerts at her Majesty's
Theatre last winter, gave a concert last evening at the
. ilanover-equare Rooms, and by her performance showed
that she had, in the interval since ber last appearance,
made great and satisfactory progress in her art. Re-
taining her perfect mastery of the tours de force, which
• characterise the Thalberg school of pianoforte playing,she
exhibited a just appreciation of the beauties of the higher
order of composers, and a power of perfectly rendering
• their meaning. Her execution of a prelude and fugue
by Bach was perfect, and elicited an unanimous encore ;
and is the piano-forte part of Hummer s Septuor, she de-
veloped all the points of that celebrated composition
with exquisite grace and effect. Miss Octavia Fraser, a
. debutante, sang the "Vedrai Casino" with great taste, al-
, though she was so nervous that she could scarcely do
justice to her powers. When she shall have become a
little more used to facing an audience, she will be a great
acquisition to the concert-room. Pischek, who was in
admirable voice, lent his valuable assistance. Piaui,
Bottesini, Sivori, and Gerhard Taylor were among the
instrumental coadjutors. The concert was very well
attended.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The halls and galleries of this well-known institution
have been daily crowded by delighted visitors to
.hear
the admirable lectures by the professors on the articles
deposited in the Great Exhibition. The subject chosen
by Mr. Pepper, the chemical lecturer, is " On the Mi-
nerals and Crystals at the Great Exhibition," the first
series begtg on the diamond, ruby, and pearl. How far
soever the visitor to the Crystal Palace, although
greatly admiring the brilliant gems there, may
be of having any conception of the difficulties
of obtaining them, or the localities from whence
they are procured, in this lecture the infor-
mation. is forcibly demonstrated, and not only orally,
but the eye may there rest on a mass of jewels kindly
furnished by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, of Bond-street,
to the value of many thousand pounds, for illustrating
these lectures; and to those gentlemen, as well as the
managers of the Polytechnic institution, the public are
greatly indebted for filling up a blank which has been
much felt by many of the visitors to the Great Exhibi-
tion. Dr. Bachhoffner is at present illustrating the
copying electric telegraph of Mr. Bakewell, which has
caused so much interest in the electric department of the
Crystal Palace; and the mechanical inventions are to be
demonstrated upon by Mr. Crispe. These arrangements,
which were first hinted at by the Times, will no doubt be
highly satisfactory to the strangers who will visit the
Metropolis in this eventful season.

THE MASTER Or ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE AND
THE LATE PROSECUTION.—Yaterday a fully-attended and
special meeting of the vestry of St. Pancras took place at the
new Vestry-rooms, Camden Town, for the purpose of re-
ceivi,,g a communication from the board of directors, re-
ferring to the vestry a letter from Mr. J. H. Eaton, ihe
master of the workhouse, requesting the payment of the sum
of 43/ 103. Id., costs incurred by him in defending himself
from the recent prosecution on a charge of having violated
Eliza Smith, an inmate of the workhouse. On the question
being put to a show of hands there appeared for the motion
in favour of the governor, eleven ; against it, forty-two. A
division being demanded the numbers were for the motion,
eleven; against it, forty-nine; majority rejecting the pay-
ment of the bill, thirty-eight.

ROYAL VISIT TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT.—COWES,
JUNE 25.—The Royal Family and the Kiog of the Belgians
are expected at Osborne on Saturday next. Her ➢iajesty's
stay is not expected to exceed four days.
ARCHERY.—OII Saturday kit the silver bowl of
the Royal Company of Archers, the Queen's Body Guard for
Scotland, was shot for in Rope•park, and gained by John
Maxton, Esq., wine•merchant, being the seventh time he has
WQU Lt.—Edinburgh Advertiser.

GREENWICH EL CTION.
NO .AI.N A 1 lON.—crins DAY.)

The nomintreion of the candidates at the Greenwich
election took place this mernieg, in the vacant :pace op-
posite St. Alphage Church, where large and comraocli-
ens hustings were erected, and every accommodation
provided for the convenience of the centeiting parties.
At an early hour the old town began to present the
usual animated appearance which the hustle of a con-
tested election generally causes in a free aed indepen-
dent English borough. The old church tells rang out a
merry peal, bands of music patrolled the town, and from
almost every alternate window large flags streamed forth,
beseeching the electors to " Vote for Salonions
and the Liberty of the People," or " Wire and Purity of
Election". Alderman Salomon's colours were purple and
orange, while Alderman Wire's partizans sported light
blue and white rosettes. The crowd assembled round
the hustings was exceedingly numerous, and the parti-
zans of Alderman Salomons seemed from the first to
outnumber those of his opponents, to judge at least from
the preponderance of dark-blue flags and rosettes dis-
played in the crowd, as the demonstrations of Alderman
Wire's partizans were confined principally to placards
displayed on boards, after the manner of itinerant
advertisers, and did not rise to the dignity of silk.
The excitement of the event seemed to have ex-
tended even to the calm retreat of the Hospital, for the
old pensioners were on the ground in great numbers, and
seemed to take quite as great an interest in the proceed-
ings as the youngest and most ardent politician present.
Three of Alderman Salomon's bands took up their posi-
tion in front of the hustings at an early hour, and con-
tinued at intervals todiscourse sweet music to the assem-
bled electors, thereby, no doubt, contributing greatly to
prevent the resorting to many of those uvrearous
amusements to which a crowd kept waiting is generally
addicted. The Alderman's liberality, too, made him
decidedly the first favourite, for Alderman Wire, pro-
bably, not being gifted with a musical taste, had not
provided a band for the entertainment of his supporters.
Every window which could by any possibility command
a view of the hustings was crowded, and in many in-
stances the anxious spectators had climbed to the roofs
of the houses. Alderman Salomon's committee had
taken up their quarters at the White Hart. Inn, while
Alderman Wire's supporters made the Greyhound Inn
their house of call; and from these' houses the respec-
tive candidates took their departure for the hustings,
followed in procession by their principal supporters.
The proceedings were opened shortly after ten o'clock,
at which hour Mr. Joshua Morris, the returning officer
of the borough, made his appearance on the hustings,
and was received with manitestations of applause from
the electors who had collected on the spot.
The RETURNING OFFICER read the Sheriff's warrant,
commanding him to summons the burgesses to elect a
Member to serve in Parliament as one of the represeeta-

tives of the borough, in the room of G. S. Barnard, Esq.,
deceased, and then proceeded to exhort the electors to
observe order and decorum during the period of the
election. He said they were assembled to exercise a
valuable and important privilege, and as he should
allow none to address them but those who had a
right to do so, he hoped they would give
every one a fair hearing, and ultimately decide fairly
whom they thought the most fitting of the two candi-
dates to serve them in Parliament.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PONTIFER was then introduced to the electors as
the proposer of Mr. Salomons, and after dwelling a
short while upon the important character of the duties
which a Member of Parliament undertook, he went on
to canvass the merits of the two candidates. He believed
there was no difference whatever between the political
views and principles of the two gentlemen.—(Hear,
hear.) They were, in fact, identical —(No, no.)
Alderman Wire had come into the field at
the last moment, hoping to defeat his rival
by pandering to the religious prejudices of the electors.
—(No, no.) Mr. Salomons, it should be remembered,
had long occupied this ground, for, if he was not mis-
taken, that gentleman was a candidate fur the borough
at the last general election, and there could be no doubt
whatever that he was the most fit and proper person to
represent the borough.— (No, no.) He was sure he
could do so efficiently; and as his rival had attained all
the honours that he was justly entitled to, having been
a common councilman and under-sheriff, and being now
an alderman and vestry-clerk, he trusted the electors
would not encourage his overweening and undue ambi-
tion, but bestow theiiconfidence on one who would not
abuse it, even if he had the opportunity, and who cer-
tainly had the best claim to ask for it.—(No, no.)
A VOICE—Turn that two shillings-a-day man out.
Mr. YoNTIFEX continued to observe that it was not fit
or proper for the electors, if they valued their own re-
spectability, to return a man who had been twice re-.
jetted by two other constituencies.—(Hear, bear.) True,
Alderman Salomons was a Jew, hut he was a Jew of
the most liberal kitid, and in the district where
he resided he had founded a . school and
given the patronage of it to a Protestant.
clergyman.—(Hear, hear.) He was a munificent contri-
butor to all the deserving charities of the metropolis,
while he bore a most unsullied character for honourable
conduct and fair dealing; and on neither of those points,
therefore, could any objection be raised to his preten-
sions on this occasion.—(Hear, hear.) He would not
trouble them with any explanation of the Alderman's
political principles, because they were too well known in
this part of the country to need recapitulation; and,
therefore, without detaining them longer, he would sim-
ply propose to them Mr. Alderman Salomons as a fit
and proper person to represent them in Parliament.
Mr. H. 13. ROFF briefly seconded the nomination, and
said he knew that the Alderman was a most charitable
man; he was ready to devote his time and energies to
the interest of the electors; and since his political views
coincided with their own in almost every particular,
while his standing and reputation in the world were
equally acknowledged to be unexceptionable, he had no
hesitation in saying that he would eventually prove the
choice of the majority of the electors.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WADE, who was received with mingled cheers and
hooting, which prevented him from being heard for some
minutes, stood forward to propose Mr. Alderman Wire.
He said he did not come to bandy personalities with
Alderman Salomons' supporters, but to bear his share in
the solemn duty of electing the best man who might
come forward. He repudiated the sentiments of the last
speaker that the principles of the two candidates were
identical. There was a great difference between them.
He also denied that Alderman Wire relied for his elec-
tion on the prejudices of the electors against Alderman
Salomons, as a J ew.—(Cries of "No, no," Sit down," ac-
companied by the ringing of a small bell in the middle of
the crowd. The Hon. Gentleman took advantage of the
interruption to take a draught out of a huge pot of
porter which was handed to him by Mr. Alderman
Salomons amid loud cheers.) They would see if he was
not a supporter of the Hon. Alderman, he had no ob-
jection to drink porter with him.—(Laughter.) Neither
was an undue ambition the motive of Mr. Alderman
Wire coming forward. How could it be an undue am-
bition for any man to wish to represent the masses of the
people in Parliament? As to Mr. Alderman Wire being
a vestry-clerk, was it a shame for a man to earn his
living by the sweat of his brow. Mr. Pontifex himself
was nothing more than a vestry-clerk. He was quite
willing to allow that Alderman Salomons was a charit-
able man.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") He was not to be in-
terrupted by a band of hired ruffians.
Mr. Alderman SALOMONS interposed. He denied that
the persons in the crowd who shouted were hired. He
had never done such a thing in his life.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WADE continued—Their object in being there
was to elect a man who would be instrumental in ob-
taining.an extension of the suffrage, and would obtain
vote, by ballot and the extension of civil and religious
liberty. Alderman Wire was the man for this, he was
a man against whom there was no legal disqualification,
who could take his seat at once without any struggle.
Alderman Salomons could not do this, but Alderman
Wire could, and with all the respect he entertained for
Alderman Salomons, he would only say that they would
send Mr. Wire into Parliament for the purpose of clear-
ing the way for Mr. balomons. The Hon. Gentleman
concluded by nominating Mr. Alderman Wire as a fit
and proper person to represent the borough of Green-
wich.—(Cheers.)
Mr. STONE seconded the nomination, as he believed
from his heart that the Alderman was the man who
would do them justice, and who would avail himself of
every opportunity of promoting the good and welfare of
the people.—(Hear, hear.) He denied that Mr. V, ire
was an enemy to religious freedom, or in the remotest
degree anxious to take advantage of the momentary
prejudice that might have arisen out of the Papal aggres-
sion.—(Hear, hear.) Both the Alderman and his
friends would scorn such a proceeding; he and they
were desirous of securing the election by fair and legiti-
mate means, and whatever their opponents might say
to the contrary, the assembled electors might rely upon
it that nothing would be done by the Wire party either
to sully the purity of election or to throw disgrace upon
the borough.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Alderman SALoNoNs then stood forward amid
loud cheers. He said that in coming forward to solicit
their suffrages he was not only fulfilling his duty, but
also to accomplish that solemn pledge which he had
given them on the last occasion. He, therefore, asked
them to redeem their pledges by giving him their votes
at the poll.—(Cheers.) It was the highest ambition to
which an Englishman could look forward—the repre-
sentation of his fellow-countrymen in the British Parlia-
ment. His only regret was to find himself opposed to
Mr. Alderman Wire, for whom he entertained the
highest respect. The argument of Mr. Alderman Wire
that he lived at Greenwich was not of any great weight,
but his own appearance there was in consequence of the
pledge which he had given and received at the lest elec-
tion. With regard to his public opinion, he could pledge
himself to them that never would his vote be given for
the imposition of any tax on the food of the people. He
was a firm and consistent advocate of tree trade.
lie was in favour of an extension of the suffrage to every
man who paid rates and taxes.—(Cheers.) He was
also in favour of vote by ballot, and he would pledge
himself that one of the conditions by which he would
hold his seat should be that he would on all occasions
vote for the ballot. He was also in favour of an ex-
tended scheme of education, and would pledge himself
to do all that he could for this purpose. [Here Mr.
Wade handed the worthy Alderman a pot of porter, from
which he retresbed himielf, amid loud cheers from all
sides.] He considered education to be the most valuable
capital which a man could have, available in all parts
of the world, which would never desert him, and which
he could rodeo use of whenever his motley was lost. But
people differed greatly in their ideas of education, espe-
cially with regard to religious views. His idea WAS lust
education should be entirely free from religious bias—
that all classes and sects should receive a fair
share of the public money to carry out this great
public object. lie was glad to hear that it was not the
iutention of Mr. Wire's supporters to proceed in the
election on any ground of public pi ejudice against him
as a Jew. He was sure that Mr. Wire himself would
not do it. There was a great deal of difference between
the political system of England and foreign countries.

Abroad -the whole government rested with hereditary
monarch', and WWI derived from what was called divine
right. In England, on the contrary, all pubtto ques-
tions were decided by the people, and whatever they
took up was sure to be taken up by the higher ranks, as
was evident from the course of the agitation for free
trade. The cause of religious freedom was now in their
hands, and though Mr. Alderman Wiro had offered
himself for their suffrages, and promised when
in Parliament to advocate - his (Mr. Alderman
Salomon') cause, he was much obliged to him, but Le
would rather be returned himself, and advocate his own
cause. There was no legal disqualification against him,
and he could assure them that he would take his seat
if they elected him, He came forward in the fullest
confidence, and he would pledge himself, if returned, to
go down to the House of Commons and take his seat
as their representative. He could assure them that his
whole efforts if returned would be to advance their local
advantages, and his whole political conduct had been
shaped by a desire to extend the liberties of the people;
and he confidently presented himself to claim their suf-
frages with this claim. This course of conduct had
already secured him the offices of Alderman and Sheriff
of London and High Sheriff of the county. If his
friend Rothschild bad taken his advice, he would have
gone down to the House and have voted at once for
the election of the Speaker, without taking the oaths ;
but Rothschild was too easy, and had got himself
into a web from which he was bound to extricate him-
self, and which be (Mr. Alderman Salomons) would take
care not to get into. He would go into the House, run-
ning the risk of all penalties, take his seat, and vote,
until he was brought before a jury, and until that jury
gave a verdict against him. If that were so, he would
promise to come back to them and restore to them
the trust which they had reposed in him. At any
rate he would take the seat, and while there he would
do all that lay in his power in the cause of civil and
religious freedom, and to advance the interests of the
electors of Greenwich who had put him there.—(Cheers.)
Alderman WIRE next presented himself in front of
the hustings, and his appearance was the signal for an
outburst of cheers and hisses. When silence was par-

tially restored he commenced his address by stating that
he was glad that it had been his good fortune to listen
to the speeches of the proposer and the seconder of his
hun. opponent, as well as the speech of the Hon. Gen-
tleman himself, because it enable him to say more
in his own defence, and upon the character of the op-
position that was likely to be brought to bear.—(Hear,
hear.) Mr. Pontifex had told them that he was an un-
grateful man, and he assigned as his reason for that
expression of opinion, that he (the Alderman) had re-
ceived 2,0001. from his opponent.—(Hear, hear.) He
was glad, however, that his honourable opponent had
corrected that mistake, and he would take leave to add
to that explanation, that .he was only paid for services
which he rendered to the cause of humanity, and which
required him to quit his family and abandon his profes-
sion for the space of six months.—(Cheers.) Mr. Ponti-
fex, however, was just as much wrong in his facts as
he was inconclusive in his reasoning, and he hoped the
electors would take his speech for what it was worth
and no more.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Mr. Ponti-
fex had made some allusion to his defeat at the borough
of Boston, but let the electors remember that if he were
so disposed, he could retort upon him that his honour-
able opponent had met with far less success in his at-
tempts to get into Parliament.—(Hear, hear, and
laughter.) He was sorry to find himself so frequently
interrupted by a set of fellows who belonged to his oppo-
nent's party, and who, fur aught he knew, might also
belong to the town, but certainly they were not ievested
with the franchise, and as they had no right to vote,
they had no right to be present, and he suspected
they had only been brought there for the put-
pose of interrupting the proceedings.—(Hear, hear.)
He disputed the position of his opponent in reference to
his being allowed to take his seat in the event of his
being elected. No one would dispute that the electors
had a right to choose whom they pleased, but until the
law was altered hecould not sit in the House of Commons.

—(llear, hear.) Like his opponent he was in favour of
au Extension of Suffrage and an advocate of the Ballot,
while be would vote for an extension of free trade, which
he thought would advance the interest of the country
and improve the condition of the people.—(Hear,
hear.) Again, reverting to the legal matter of his Hon.
Opponent's speech, he repeated that he was convinced Mr.
Alderman Salomon's could not take his seat if he were
elected, but he was just as much satisfied that the electors
would not return him. He was in favour of national ed-
ucation, and, therefore, he appealed to the intelect, and
not to the prejudices, of the electors, to their minds, and
not to their bodies ; and in that spirit he called upon
them to assist him in purging the borough of the vile
practices which were being encouraged, if not by his
Hon. Opponent, at least by his supporters.—(Hear.)
He did not come there with a full puree, nor was he pre-
pared to secure votes by any corupt means whatever, or
to gain strength through the means of personality.—
(Hear.) He and his party were the defenders of purity
of election, and he was convinced that the straightforward
course woul&J, in the end, place him at the top of the poll.
He would not detain them longer, as before the election
closed he should have many opportunities of addressing
and expressing his regret that he should be opposed to
his Hon. Friend en this occasion, who by the way was
not in the field first, as had been represented, for long
before Mr. Salomons came forward, at the last elec-
tion he was solicited to become a candidate for their

borough. He would take his leave of the electors until
to-morrow, when ho hoped he should be able to say that,
notwithstanding; the silk banners, the music, and the
money of his opponent, he was the Member for the
ancient town of Greenwich.—(Cheers.)
The worthy Alderman was repeatedly interrupted in
the course of his address by a small rabble in the body of
the crowd, but the noisest portion of the entire as-
semblage were the Alderman's own friends, who were
permitted to enter the hustings. One of them in par-
ticular, who was particularly conspicuous i❑ attributing
bribery and corruption to the opposite party, did all he
could to throw obstacles in the way of the reporters.
and his effrontery was carried so far that he threatened
to have a portion of that body removed by the police,
because, forsooth, they were not electors.
The returning officer then put the show of hands, Mr.
Alderman Salomons first, and Mr. Alderman Wire next.
The show of bands was declared in favour of Mr. Alder-
man Salomons, though this decision seemed to excite
great dissati.iaction, many maintaining that the majority
was in favour of Mr. Wire.
A poll was demanded for Mr. Wire, and fixed to open
to-morrow at eight o'clock.
The proceedings then terminated with a vote of thanks
to the returning officer, moved by Mr. Salomons and
seconded by Mr. Wire, which was carried with loud

cheers.
A body of police of the R division were on the ground,
but no occasion f.r their services occurred, except in the
case of the gentleman with the bell, wbq was summarily
ordered off to prison for the unseasonable exercise of
his musical instrument.

THE INCOME-TAX.
The task confided to the Committee on the income-tax
is not less difficult than important; but if there is any
one conclusion to which the Committee are not bound,
and which may almost be regarded as beyond the
scope of the Commission, it is a recommendation to
lower the aggregate produce of the tax. All classes,
whether they contribute or not, are fully alive to the
value of an impost which extracts a good round sum
from the pockets of the wealthy or well-to-do classes,
and affords a continual fund and cover fcr the removal of
taxes that press more directly on labour and skill. The
question for the Committee is the method of collecting
the tax. Is it fair that the mind should be taxed as
heavily as the funds, and that a fleeting profession should
be put on a par with a landed estate? This, of course,
is a very different thing from quarrelling with the prin-
ciple of a property-tax, or with the proportion of the
taxes levied directly on the public. We are not, then,
prepared,. with Mr. Disraeli, to deal with the existing
surplus as no surplus at all, till the Committee on the
income-tax has given its award. We had a surplus of
about two millions. But we have already spent, so the
majority of mankind believes, this little fortune. We
have bought with our two millions the commutation of the
odious window-tax for a mild form of the house-tax and
a relaxation of the duties on coffee. It is only by
accident that the public perceive every now and then
through a chink in the Parliamentary debates that the
window-tax is still the law of the land, and that the
measure repealing it is still in the form of a Bill. The
effort of a public decision has been gone through, and
the tax has been finally doomed. The resolution, then,
of which Mr. Disraeli has given notice, and which brings
these settled reductions again into controversy, will be
regarded simply as an attempt to revive the past and to
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wake the dead. Every thoughtful householder of this
metropolis—and what householder is not thoughtful?—
has already calculated his gain on the inhabited house duty.
It has been thoroughly realised in imagination, and laid
out to the best possible advantage. People are begin-
ning to look through their windows without grudging.
They are oven letting in light to their coal cellars and
their passages, and talking of more air holes and sky-
lights, not to speak of a bit of conservatory here or
there. All of a suuden a dark, sullen cloud passes over
the opening flood of light in the shape of a big. motion
by Mr. Disraeli that nothing is to be done with our
windows, or our coffee, or anything else, till the income-
tax is put on a satisfactory basis. What if this should
be putting off all financial reforms to the Greek
Caleuds?
The income-tax wants sifting, and it is hardly credit-
able to the good sense of the nation and the honesty of
our statesmen, that now for nine years we have endured
a tax which one and all have avowed to be unwisely,
unjustly, and injuriously levied. There is not a financier
of the present or the bygone generation who has not ad-
mitted the hardship of taxing a precarious income as it
it were merely a moderate interest on real or funded
property; nor is there a statesman who has not deplored
the trap which this duty lays for lax consciences, and
the burden
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do not make this calculation, and therein consists the
secret, but nevertheless the crying injustice of the tax.
Ono man takes the pen in his hand and at once fills up
the blank form with the very outside of his income,
even though he will never receive it again, even if he has
really received it ; another man first covers a sheet of
foot:cap with ingenious calculations for realising in-
come, besides taking a view of his professional expenses
which never entered into the mind of his more simple
neighbour. Now this is an injustice of the most paintul
character. let who can doubt its continual recurrence?