The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-22 00:00:00

ELECTION EXPENSES.

The following are some of the amounts returned as
expenses incurred in election contests :-Sunderland : Mr.
Gourley, £4,652 ls. ; Mr. Thompson, £3,321 3s. 6d. ;
Mr. Candlish, £4lO 19s. Id. Newcastle : Messrs.
Headlam and Cowen (joint expenses), £997 6s. 4d. North
Northumberland : Earl Percy, £4Bl 28. 9d ; Mr. M. W.
Ridley, £534 13s. sd. South Northumberland :
Mr. W. B. Beaumont, £293 17s. ; Hon. H. G.
Liddell, £2BB 17s. sd. Bridgwater : Mr. King-
lake, £2OO 13s. 9d. ; Mr. Vanderbyl, £166 3s. 9d. ;
Mr. Westrop, £l9l Os. 8 d. ; Mr. Gray, £195 13s. 3d.
Bury St. Edmunds : Mr. Greene, £248 ; Mr. Hard-
castle, £2lO ; Mr. Bunbury, £174. The cost of the
Sheffield election was more than £10,280, the expenses of
Mr. Price, the Conservative candidate, being greatly in
excess of those of the two gentlemen returned. Mr. Mun•
della, one of the successful candidates, has the least bill,
£1,603 ; that of Messrs. Hadfield and Roebuck being
£4,283 ; and that of Mr. Price, £4,397. An abstract of the ex-
penses incurred by and on behalf of Mr. Tite, M.P., and Mr.
D. Dalrymple, M.P., and also of Colonel Hogg, the
defeated (Conservative) candidate at the late election for
the city of Bath was published on Thursday. The expenses
of the members (Liberals) amounted to £1,161 13s. 10d. ;
the items making up that sum are-Election agents, dis-
trict secretaries, and clerks, £265 4s. ; messengers, door-
keepers, printing, hire of rooms, stationery, bill posting,
postages, cab hire, &c„ £627 6s. ld. ; Mr. Tite's personal
expenses, £56 7s. 9d. ; Mr. Dalrymple's personal
expenses, £53 13s. ; proportion of returning officer's
expenses, £159 3s. Colonel Hogg's expenses are set down
at £1,204 14s. 2d., divided as follows :-Agents, secre-
taries, clerks, and canvassers, £425 172. Od. ; printing, ad-
vertising, stationery, messengers, committee-rooms, fly
hire, postages, and sundries, £6OO Bs. 8 jd. ; Colonel
Hogg's personal expenses, £lOl 18s. 9d. ; proportion
of returning officer's expenses, £76 9s. A return
has also been published of the expenses incurred
on behalf of the four candidates for the representation
of Canterbury. The total amount is £1,623 10s. 9d.,
being proportioned as follows :-Mr. H. Butler-Johnstone
(returned), £536 9s. 7d. ; Captain Brinckman (returned),
£370 7s. ; and Messrs. Huddlestone and Lee-Warner
(unsuccessful), £716 14s. 2d. The items for printing and
advertising are respectively 1219, .£6B, and £207. The
separate and joint expenses of Mr. Charles Seely, jun., and
Mr. P. W. Clayden, the Liberal candidates for Notting-
ham at the last election, have just been issued. It will be
remembered that towards the close of the contest a
coalition took place between the two candidates, so that
separate accounts have been printed. The joint expenses
were £1,491 17s. Bd. Stationery, advertising, and print-
ing are set down at £457 13s. ; committee-rooms, mes-
sengers, canvassers, polling staff, refreshments to clerks,
and petty expenses, £767 2s. 4d. ; sheriff's charges,
£267 2s. 4d. Mr. Seely's separate expenses were
£1,542 Bs. 7d., made up thus :-Stationery, advertising,
and printing, £928 4s. 10d. ; messengers, committee-rooms,
clerks, hotel expenses, &c., £202 12s. sd. ; legal agents,
£4ll 11s. 4d. Mr. Clayden's separate expenses were only
£139 6s. 9d.: Stationery, advertising, &c., amounting to
£lO5, and other expenses to £34. The returning officer
for Cheltenham has just published a statement of expenses
of each candidate at each election. The totals are as
follows :-Mr. Samuelson, the Liberal member, £2,389
2s. 9d.; and Mr. Agg Gardner, the defeated Conservative,
£2,716 7s. 2d.

We are enabled to say that the Council of the
Church Association have come to the determination of
paying their own costs in the recent suit, and consequently
will not attempt to recover them from Mr. Mackonochie.
—Church Times.

They have a good joke on a rising young lawyer
of Troy. His eloquence has cleared a chap charged with
uttering counterfeit money, and the grateful man gave
him fifty dollars for his services ! He tried to use some
of the money after the fellow left the town, and
found that every dollar of it was counterfeit.—Toronto
Globe.

Thursday was fixed for testing a new shell
patented by Mr. Fitzmaurice Palmer, at Shoeburyness.
Considerable interest was manifested in the experiments,
the result of which is expected to be of a very important
nature. Elaborate arrangements were made for ascertain-
ing the merits of the invention, but after three rounds
were fired it was discovered that the ordinary service fuse
was unfitted for the shell. The experiments were there-
upon adjourned, to afford the inventor an opportunity of
fitting the projectiles with suitable fuses. Admiral Elliott
and several other gentlemen were present.
The subjoined (says the Warrington Guardian)
is an exact copy of a written card suspended in the shop
window of a tradesman in Horsemarket-street, Warring-
ton. One can conceive the amount of provocation under-
gone and the indignation felt by the honest purveyor of
mouse-traps before he penned the document :—" Notice I
dont keep 12 hole mouse trap nor penney ones what i keep
I sell to respectible people not to impudent Boys Hand
Bad Girls that comes to robbed me and annoy me and has
Bad parents those that comes into my shop shalt be
severely beat and put into the teller and took before the
magistrates those that comes in to a shop and ask for
article that is not made they must come to steal."

EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF MENTAL ABERRATION.
The Clonmel correspondent of the Irish, Times says :
" Lord Strathnairn, commanding the forces in Ireland,
arrived at Clonmel on Monday morning, and inspected
the troops in garrison. During the inspection of the hospital
his lordship passed from bed to bed. On arriving at the
bed of a dragoon labouring under what was believed to be
an incurable aberration of mind, his lordship inquired his
ailment, and the surgeon, knowing the man's inability to
account for himself, was proceeding to explain the case,
when, to the astonishment of all present, the man, fixing
his eyes on his chief, suddenly became conscious, and
reason having, as if by magic, resumed her sway, be ex-
plained how he had been injured, which to that moment
was not known, even to the surgeon. The man's recovery
was so sudden, and so complete, that his lordship said he
could not believe his ailment to have been as stated were
It not vouched for beyond a doubt by the surgeon."
A POLICE SUPERINTENDENT " DONE " By A
WOMAN.—The police in the town of Sierputov, in Russia,
were the other day made the victims of a curious swindle.
A lady, handsomely dressed, came by train from Moscow,
and, accosting the director of the police, who happened to
be at the station, asked him to take her to the nearest
hotel, as she wished to speak to him on important
business. When they arrived at the hotel she told
the unsuspecting director, who was, doubtless, accus-
tomed to such announcements, that she belonged
to the secret detective police, and had been sent to
discover the manufacturers of some forged bank-notes
which had been largely circulated at Moscow, and were
found to have come from Sierputov. On hearing this the
director immediately sent for the other high police officials,
and a consultation took place. The lady said she was on
the trace of the forgers, and had no doubt she would
be able to convict them of their guilt, but for this pur•
pose she must be provided with a few hundreds of roubles
to enable her to get some of the forged notes into her
possession. The roubles were at once paid, and the lady
then took leave of her guests, promising to meet them on
the following day at a village near the town, where the
forgers were supposed to reside. The police officials were
punctual at the rendezvous, but the lady was not there.
After waiting for some time, they sent messages all over
the town and its vicinity, but in vain. The lady and the
roubles had disappeared, and have not been heard of
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pine.