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London, England, 1860-02-10 00:00:00

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THE CHURCH _RATE DIVISIOY.

The Division List, which we publish below, will
be as well studied by electors throughout the coun-
try as any that will appear this session. We have
first to call attention to the names of liberal mem-
bers without pairs, and to regret that the first name
on the list should be that of the head of the Govern-
ment.

Lord Palmerston
Mr. Sidney Herbert
Mr. T E. Headlam
The Lord Advocate
Viscoant Bury
Anson, Captain, Lichfield Lee, IV., Maidstone
Baring, Sir F., Portsmouth Mackinnon, W. A., Rye
Baring, H. 8., Marlborough Marshall,W.,E.Cumberland
Ilonverie, E. P., Kilmarnock Mostyn,
Buller, J. Hon. T. L., Flint
W., N. Devon Norris, T. G. Abingdon
Cobden, Richard (abroad) Owen, Sir J., Pembroke
Copeland, Alderman, Stoke Paget, Lord A. Lichfield
Divett, E.. Exeter Peel, Right Hon. F., Bury
Foljambe, F. J. S., E Retford Smith, Gen. Sir J., Chatham
Yortescue, Hon. D., Andover Stafford Marquis, Sather-
Gaskell, M., Wenlock landshire
Gurdon, 8., E. Norfolk Talbot, C. 8., Glamorgan •
Harcourt, G. V., Oxfordshire shire (ill)
Hayter, Sir W., Wilts Worsley, Lord, Grimsby
!forsaken, E. T., Stroud Wynn, C., Ce.ruarvon
MEMBERC.

Iviembers of the
Government

Mr. Beamish
Mr. Bellew
Mr. Blake
Mr. Brad♦
Sir F. Burke
Mr, Cogan
Mr. Corbelly
Lord Duekullin
Mr. M. Dunn
Mr. Ennis
Messrs. Alderman Cubitt (At-Allover), T. Mainwaring,
and G. Hussey Packs (South Lincolnshire), who formerly
voted for the bill, now voted against it.
Honourable members who may have any corrections to
make in the foregoing list are requested to forward them,
as we shall republish the list on the eve of the next Gene-
ral Election.

Mr. Eernonde
Mr. Lanigan
Captain O'Connell
The O'Donoghue
Mr. M. O'Forrall
Lord Proby
Mr. V. Scully
Colonel White
Colonel Luke Whits

IMMENSE FLOOD 111' NORTH

FOP. b SIIIRE.

The great depth of StIONV which covered the
maorlands in the North Riding commenced disap-
pearing on Sunday, and on Monday the whole
course of the rivers Rye, Leven, Costa, and Der-
went was flooded. On Tuesday morning the watery
waste which presented itself was the cause of
great consternation. During the night the waters
had risen so rapidly that the whole length of
the vales of Rye, I)erwent, and York was inun-
dated for great distances on each side of the
respective rivers. Many thousands of acres of
wheat, newly sown before the snow, are under
water to a great depth, and the seed totally
lost. The few turnips, too, which had escaped
the disease, and were kept for spring are
also flooded, some four feet deep, and will be wasted.
In Rydale, in a farmer's sheepfold, on turnips,
several drowned sheep were found ; and nearer
Halton some parties have had to wade breast-high
in the water t rescue their cattle. For miles the
hedges have totally disappeared. It is many years
since so high a flood has been witnessed. On Tues-
day night u heavy fall of snow set in, and there is
every probability of the waters rising still higher.
The merchants' yards and premises in Mallon are
all flooded, and the occupants of some cottages in
Norton are compelled to reside upstairs, the houses
being surrounded by water and filled with it in the
lower rooms. The trains between York and Scar-
borough can only just travel. The highroads in
the low country are in some places more than a
yard deep in water.-31anchester Exan2iner and
. Times.

PARIS, FEB. 9.
The Press.% Patric, and rays announce that the
report of-a serious insurrection at Constantinople is
entirely false.
The Presse states, besides, that an official despatch
reeeived from Constantinople, dated the 7th inst.,
mentions nothing' of an insurrection.

MARSEILLES, FEB. 9.
Lettere received from Constantinople to the Ist
inst. state that general dissatisfaction prevailed in
Turkey. The complaints against the administra-
tion of the Grand Vizier were increasing, and it
was believed that the Sultan will dismiss him on
account of his unpopularity.
The Dutch Minister had been insulted by an
eunuch in a street of Pera, and had demanded
satisfaction.

The Turkish Government has promised to with-
draw the paper money from circulation next month.
Information causing suspicions against Prince
Danielo has been received by the Porte. Intrigues
of Prince Milosch for obtaining the complete inde-
pendence of Servia had also been discovered.
The suzerainty of the Sultan was not mentioned
by Prince Couza in the constitution. Agitation
prevailed in SerVia. The tranquillity of Bosnia
and Roumelia was also threatened. The Porte
therefore had reminded the Powers of their en-
gagement to defend the integrity of the Turkish
Empire.

MADRID, FEB. 9.
Marshal O'Donnell judges it useless to pursue
the Moors into the interior of the empire.
In the battle of the 4th inst. the Spanish lost
10 officers and 58 men killed ; and 53 officers and
711 men wounded.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 9.
In consequence of the death of the Minister
Rottwitt, the other members of the Cabinet have
tendered their resignations, which have been ac-
cepted by the King.
The Paris papers publish the following mes-
sage :

ANTIBES, FEE. 9.
Yesterday another manifestation took place in
the Royal Theatre at Nice. Two-thirds of the
spectators were foreigners and Italians. All the
members of the Royal College were also present.
Tickets and money were distributed by the Italian
party, by which means disturbances were pro-
voked. The inhabitants remained quiet. The
garrison is composed of two regiments.

THE WAKEFIELD ELECTION.

REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS.

The report of th• Wakefield commissioners was
published yesterday.

The commissioners find that the election in April,
1859, was conducted by and on the part of each of
the candidates in a corrupt and illegal manner, and
that corrupt and illegal practices extensively pre-
vailed. They set forth the names of 98 persons who
were guilty of bribery in respect of the votes of
other persons; 86 who were guilty in respect of
their own votes ; and 12 who "were guilty of acts
of bribery and not on one side only, but on both."
They find that Mr. W. H Leathern expended,
through his agents, a sum of money amounting "at
least" to £3,900, of wbich all but £478 7s 6d. was
disbursed in illegal payment ; and that on behalf of
Mr. J. C. D. Charlesworth a sum of at least £4,150,
of which only £652 10s. passed through the hands
of the election auditors, was expended, the residue
being disbursed in illegal payments. Of the ex-
penditure of a sum of between £l,BOO and £1,900
by Mr. Gilbert, through whom the bribery on be-
half of Mr. Leatham was carried on, the commis-
sioners say :

" We find that Mr. W.ll. Leatham provided the
monies with the intention that they should be em-
ployed, In part at least, in bribery and corruption,
and that before the said monies were provided Mr.
W. H. Leatham had anticipated and suspected, by
reason of his observation of what had previously
taken place at elections for the said borough, that
corrupt practices would probably be had recourse
to in order to defeat him, and that he intended to
make use of the like means in order to secure his
own return."

After detailing the ingenious method in which
Mr. Charlesworth's money was placed out, the
commissioners add, speaking more particularly of a
sum of £1,600.

"We find that Mr. J. C. D. Charlesworth,
having provided the fund out of which the bribery,
in fact, was afterwards carried on on his behalf,
designedly abstained up to the eleciion from in-
quiring as to the manner in which that fund was
being employed, having before the slo2tion the
means of knowing and good grounds to suspect the
manner of its disposal."

The commissioners conclude their report as
follows :

" We find that large bodies of non-electors to the
number of several hundreds on each side, and in-
cluding on Mr. Charlesworth's side at least several
prizefighters, were employed by the respective can-
didates at wages varying from 3s. 6d. to ss. a man
per diem for some time before and up t• the day
of election. These men were ostensibly employed
as watchers and runners for the purpose of de-
tecting and preventing improper practices by the
partisans of the opposing candidates respectively,
but in our opinion not really for such purpose,
but for the purpose partly of exercising an im-
proper influence upon the election, by the expen-
diture of large sums of money in the borough, both
in payment of the non-electors themselves, and of
the publicans whose houses they frequented, and
where they were supplied with refreshment, and
partly also for the purpose of causing intimidation
and annoyance to the canvassers and voters of the
opposing parties respectively. One case of actual
abduction was proved before us, which will be
found in tho evidence of the witness Abraham
Lupton. We have been informed by the witnesses
that the employment of non-electors in the manner
described is an established practice at the Wake-
field elections. We find that it is without any
necessity or legitimate object, that it impedes and
interferes with the freedom of election, and that it
causes intimidation and great annoyance to the
voters on both sides, and furnishes cloaks for
bribery and corruption in various ways. The fact
found-by us that neither of the candidates thought
proper to pay the non-electors through the election
auditor, but adopted the alternative of paying
them wages in a manner secret and declared i
illegal by statute 17th and IStli Viet., c. 102, s. 18,
satisfies us that the employment of the non-electors
in the manner described was NT ell known to be
unnecessary and illegal, but the provisions of that
statute as to the payment of expenses through
the auditor appear to have been made of no ac-
count whatever by either of the candidates. We
find that itwas generally anticipated by the par-
tisans on both sides for some time before the
said election that recourse would be had to
bribery by their respective opponents, and we find
that the fact that bribery was being carried en on
both sides was, before the election, a matter of
common notoriety throughout the borough, and ex-
cited but a scanty measure of disapprobation even
on the part of those who did not actually join in the
work of corruption. Lastly, we find, having regard
to the length of time before the election at which
the preparations for the work of corruption were
commenced—to the large proportion (142 out of
866) of the whole constituency engaged in corrupt
practices and guilty of bribery—to the number of
persons (including 66, themselves electors) who
voluntarilyjoined in the work of offering and giving
bribes—to the zeal and skill they exhibited—to the
readiness with which their services were received
and their acts adopted—to the open way in which
bribery was carried on by the canvassers and dis-
cussed amongst all classes—and to the manner in
which the voters received and bargained with the
canvassers on both sides, that large numbers of the
electors were then not for the first time engaged in
the like operations of gross corruption."
Schedules are appended to the report, containing
the names of persons who have been guilty of bri-
bery; others, also, of those who have received bribes.
There is a small list of persons who have been guilty
of bribery on both sides.

LIBERALITY OF LADY FRANKLIN.—Each of the
crew of the Fox has been considerately presented with a
very handsome silver watch and chain, of the value of £lO.
Mr. Henry Toms, residing at Trafalgar place, late quarter-
master on board the Fox, and now serving on board the
Royal yacht, and the only native of Portsmouth amen; the
crew, has received one of the watches, bearing the follow-
ing, inscription :—" Presented by Lady Franklin to Henry
Toms, as a memorial of his services in the Fox, in the
Arctic Seam, 1869."---Southampton Tints.

From Chambery under date of the 7th of Febru-
ary the following appeal to the English people
against the annexation of Savoy to France has been
received. It is signed by 24 of the leading mcn of
the capital of Savoy :
" SAVOY TO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.
• " Chambery, Feb. 7.
" During nearly the last six months some iodivi-
duals of Savoy, whose petitions, carried from house
to house, have not succeeded in obtaining 20 re-
spe,:table-signatures, have formed the plot to make
over Constitutional Savoy to the Imperial Govern-
ment of France.
" The (outlier des Allies, which is their property
and their organ, has since then never ceased to pro-
claim the unanimous adhesion of Savoy to those
desires of annexation.
"As long as those assertions remained within our
mountain range, our quiet and proud population
treated them with contempt.
"But the Paris press has thought fit to make
itself the echo of these falsehoods; the officious ac-
complice of supposed ambitions, it has endeavoured
to lead opinion astray, and to deceive Europe by
announcing a few isolated wishes to be the expres•
sion of the sentiments of the whole of Savoy.
"Silence and inaction were no longer possible.

" On the 29th of January last an important de-
monstration was made at Chambery, the capital of
Savoy. Nearly 3,000 citizens of every class, rank,
land profes.ion—magistrates, lawyers, officials, doc-
tors, merchants, workmen, nearly all the officers of
the National Guard, responding to the appeal of
the patriotic committee constituted by themselves,
met on the Champ de Mars, whence, with the na-
tional colours flying. they proceeded to the residence
of the head of the Government, to declare publicly
their wish to remain free under the Constitutional
Government of Victor Emmanuel 11., the king, the
honest—man, and the first soldier of Italian inde-
pendence.

"In this concurrence of citizens, marching in ad-
mirable order and manly dignity to the accomplish-
ment of a great duty, there were, doubtless, many
opinions mingled together ; but, putting aside the
distinction of private and political views, all were
united in one common devotion for their country
and for liberty.
" Such a manifestation was of a nature to excite
the anger of the French press, so compliant to
authority ; and we behold lately an incredible
audacity of falsehood and calumnies dizhonou ring
the journals of France.

"The demonstration of the 29th January has been
most unworthily misrepresented.
"The English people, accustomed by the free ex-
ercise of freedom not to allow itself to be taken in,
accustomed also by its well-founded distrust to be
on its guard against perfidy and interested ambi-
tion, will not be deceived by such mano.uvres.
"Threatened in her integrity, in her indepen-
dence, in her liberties, Savoy has counted upon Eng-
land.

" Certainly, we have confidence in the loyalty
and attachment to our country of Victor Emmanuel
11., in the straightforwardness and firmness of his
Government, but we are also aware of the strength
which power misled by error may wield in the
world.

"We come to you, people of England, because
among all people you are great in liberty ; because
your powerful voice, encouraging nations strug-
gling for their independence, can protect them by
raising up insurmountable barriers before them.
"Ia the name of those joint interests which unite
peoples, do not allow that old Allobrogia, which de-
fended its territory and its rights against the
ancient rulers of the world, to become now the
ransom of their descendants ; do not allow a people,
however small it may be, to be extinguished, to
give liberty to a nation, however great it may
become.

" May your Government, the faithful exponent of
hour sovereign orders, inform the world that Savoy,
aving becom9 your ward in the hour of supreme
danger, shall not be given up and sacrificed !
"The defence of our liberties is also the defence
of the liberties of the world, which to-morrow, per-
haps, may be compromised by an ambition which a
first success would render stionger and more exact-
ing.. _ _ _

" And, should ever a danger threaten the free
soil of England, the ardent and mature devotion of
the people protected and saved by you, by Eng•
land, would afford you a secret and powerful sup-
port, which, joined to the patriotic energy of your
children, would render you invincible." Illere
follows the signatures.]

MAJOR-GENP,RAI WILLIAMS ON TILE

NATIONAL DEFENCES.

Major-General Williams, of the Royal Engineers,
who wrote upon the national defences in 1853, has
just addressed a pamphlet to Mr. Sidney Herbert,
in which he further developes his ideas on the sub-
ject of the defence of the south and south-eastern
coasts, metropolis, and dockyards of England. The
gist of the gallant officer's proposal is contained in
the following sentences, although, as a whole, and
taken from a military point of view, the pamphlet
is well worth perusing :
" I propose," says Major-General Williams, " to
occupy Beachy Head by an entrenched work,
capable of containing 15,000 men, and consider its
occupation a matter of the highest importance. In
time of war it would be a cover for a frontier garri-
son, ready to repel attack, and a depot for brigades
of artillery for the coast service. If that remark-
able headland were left undefended it might be
seized upon by an enemy, and become a secure base
of operations. Two other works of a s:milar na-
ture, one on Ashdown-hill, and another on the
north side of Mariscott-hill, with the fortifications
at Chatham, would complete the chain from the
Medway to the English Channel, and,in my humble
opinion, form the best protection for the metropolis.
Field works, consisting of a ditch and parapet of bold
profile, with sufficient buildings only to contain in
times of peace an adequate garrison for their protec-
tion, are alone intended. In time of alarm the proper
number of troops would be located in each, hutting or
encamping themselves as on any other active ser-
vice ; but every summer these posts should be oc-
cupied by several regiments, who,in their drills
and marches, should thoroughly explore all the
country around, and should be instructed in the
best mode.of defending it, and of communicating
with the next posts. Stone platforms, sheds fir
gun carriages, aid magazines must of course be
established in each, and the guns and projectiles
kept there in readiness. These posts should be
connected by railways, and by electric telegraph
cables laid in troughs underground ; by which
means instantaneous communication might be had
at all times, and simultaneous movements concerted.
If this system were further acted upon by the occu-
pation of Shooter's-hill, for the protection of Wool-
wich, and by the construction of entrenched camps
at Brighton and Portsdown-Ul, I believe the
kingdom would be perfectly safe." The volunteer
movement is supposed to be regarded with ridicule
by military men. Major General Williams criticises
it in a very generous spirit. "In my opinion," he-
says, " it is scarcely possible to overrate the im-
portance of the national ardour and determination
evinced in the formation of volunteer artillery and
rifle corps ; and although military men cannot re-
pose in them the confidence given to regular troops,
it is very ungenerous and impolitic, either in speech
or in writing, to discourage tke extension and com-
pletion of this new arm of strength. Such it will
undoubtedly prove to be, if judiciously fostered
and controlled by Government; and it will be well
not to be parsimonious in supplying the wants of
volunteers, who should not be called upon for any
expense beyond their clothing."

[A.DvEnTisEmimr.]—Notice.—ln consequence of Messrs.
Lawes and Morton having just commenced 16,10 with opposi-
tion similar to that which they previously advanced, and wish-
ing to do those gentlemen every justice, Mr. Thorley is induced
to enlarge his coming pamphlet, making it 64 pages instead
of 32- showing beyond doubt that their observations on the
so-called "Concentrated Cattle Food," and so-called "feeding
statistics," are without foundation ; that the Itothamsted
experiment was not made with his food, and consequently
that this complete failure must either be through mismanage-
ment or from buying the Condiment at the wrong shop. The
first impression of One Ilundred Thousand Copies will be
ready about the first day of March, and pay be had post free
on receipt of Three Stamps, on applicat ion to Joseph 'Thorley,
the Inventor and sole Proprietor of " Thorley's Foodr
Cattle," 77, Newgate-street, Louden ; 21, Broadway,
. ew
York, United States ; Mr. J. W. Thorley, Melbourne ; le-
torts' ; Mr. Alfred Burt, Sydney, New South Wales ; and of
all his agents throughout the United Kingdom.—Feb. 2, MOO,
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.the ordinary medicines
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