The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1860.

'ENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
X COMPANY (Incorporated by Act of Parliament).

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

71, Lombard-street, London.
Notice is Hereby Given, That the HALF-YEARLY
GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company
will be held at the Company's Offices, 71, Lombard-street, on
TUESDAY, the th inst., at two o'clock precisely, pursuant
to the Act of Parliament, to transact the usual business, and
to declare the Dividend for the half-year ending the 31st
day of December, 1859. MARTIN PRATT, Secretary.
London, February 1, 1860.

TATTERSALL'S•-YESTERDAY.

LINCOLN HANDICAP.
Bto 1 agst Tommy Noble (taken)
CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Satellite (taken)
25 to 1 agst The Squire (taken)
DERBY.
9to 1 agst Umpire (take 10 to 1)
9to 2 eget Mainstone (bake 10 to 1)
12 to 1 agst Thormanby (taken)
18 to 1 agst Nutbourne (taken)

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
CAPITA I, £lOO,OOO.
Assurances upon single and joint lives and survivorship/.
Immediate annuities, and annuities to commence at a fixed
age. Endowments for children and for expected fatni.ies.
Credit given for half the premiums for the .first five years.
Three-fourths of the profits divided amongst the assured.
Policies purchased after five years premiums have been paid.
No charge for policy stamps, or other entrance fees. Loans
on approved real and personal security, in connection with
life assurance. Service permitted within the United King-
dom, in any volunteer corps free of extra premium.
F. FERGUSON CAMROIJX, Manager.

40 to 1 agst Cramond (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Sabreur (taken)

SLOUGH STEEPLECHASES.-THURBDAY:

A Free Handicap of 3 Bova each, with 20 added. Abot

two miles and a half. 6 subs.

Captain Hunt's Thoodine, 9et 131 b (Mr. Edwards) 1
Mr, B. Land's Old Man, lOst 81b (Gammage) 2
Mr. Barling'S Nicholas, lOst 12th (Eatwell) 0
Betting-2 to lon Theodine. Won by a length:and a half.
Nicholas tell, and did not pass the post.
A Selling Steeplechase, of 3 soya each, with 20 added.
About two miles. 6 subs.

TEA' STRACHAN and CO.'s Strong rough
" Demegtic" Black at 34. 2d. per lb.-26, Cornkill, Lou-
don. E.C.

TEA STRACHAN and CO.'s Fine "Inter.
mediate" Black at 3a. Bd. p©r lb.-26, Cornhill, Lon.
don. E.C.

Capt. Hunt's Theodine (£3O), 12a 1116 (Mr. Edwards) 1
Mr. Barry's Haphazard (£2O), llst 11lb (Barry) 2
Mr, Gilbert's Gardner (£3O), 12at llib (Owner) 0
Betting-3 to lon Theodine. Won by twenty lengths.
Gazdnar dropped into the rear soon after starting, and came
home by easy stage..

TEA, STRACHAN and Co.'s Matchless
" Drawing Room" Black at 4e. 2d. per lb.-26, Cora-
hill, London. E.C.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

The Metropolitan Handicap Steeplechase of 100 says, added
to a sweepstakes of 10 110Y8 each, 3 ft. The second to

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday,
at Guildhall—the Lord Mayor presiding.

saws his stake. About three miles and a half. 19 subs.
Mr. Phillips's Heads er Tails, 6 yrs, 9st ....(Gammage) 1
Mr. Lewis's Tartar, aged, 9st 41b (Clay) 2
Mr. Owen's Shylock, aged, Bst 121 b (Nightingall) 3
The following also ran :—Little Charley, Athlete, Con-
grave, and Physician.
Betting-3 to 1 aget Little Charley,4 to 1 agat Cengreve,
5 to 1 sack apt Heads or Tails and Physician, and 8 to 1
apt Shylock. Heads or Tails made all the running, aud,
after a pretty race with the first two, ho won cleverly by
three quarters of a length. Shylock third, fifteen lengths
off. Congreve scarcely rose at his first fence, fell on jump-
ing out of the second field. and threw his rider, who re-
mounted and went on in purhuit, but was ultimately pulled
up, and returned home by a short cut. Little Charley put
his foot in a grip on the top of the hill the s econd time
round; and oanie down on his head, n►ver afterwards show-
ing in the race. Athlete and Physician tired, and were
pulled up before reaching home.
_ . _

THE PROPOSED NEW LOCAL RAILWAY.

- -
A report came up from the Corn, Coal, and
Finance Committee, recommending the Court to
petition Parliament against •the South London
Railway_Bill, on the ground that it would inter-
fere ;kith the corporation's almshouses at Brixton.
Mr. Deputy HARRISON explained that the com-
mittee hoped to come to a satisfactory arrangement
with the company, and the report was then agreed
to.

Mr. Deputy BOWER brought up a report from
the Improvement Committee upon the fulfilment
by the Metropolitan Railway Company of the terms
of their agreement with the corporation for autho-
rity to take the necessary steps for completing the
arrangement, and recommending the appoint-
ment by the court of three of the directors of the
company-, and 40 members of the court to attend
and vote at meetings of the shareholders. The
report stated that the committee had ascertained
from the officers of the corporation drat the com-
pany had fulfilled their share of the terms of the
agreement, and the committee recommend that
£60,000 being the amount of deposits and calls due
upon the 20,000 shares taken by the corporation,
should be paid over to the company upon the trans•
ference of the shares, In moving the adoption of the
report, the Deputy said it would be for the benefit
of the corporation that the contract made by them
with the company should befairly carried out. And,
in fact, they had but litttle choice, since their con-
tract was to take 20,000 shares, as soon as the com-
pany should get together 65,000 taken up, and this,
there could be no doubt, had been accomplished.
The works were actively commenced, and now they
were shareholders any delay in the completion of
the line must be to the disadvantage of the corpo-
ration in that respect, to say nothing of the loss they
were sustaining from their land lying idle and un-
productive—land which they had gone to such an
enormous expense to clear—or of the facilities
which the line would give for establishing a dead_
meat market in Smithfield. He hoped, therefore,
no delay would take place, nor could he see bow
any unprejudiced member of that court could do or
say anything to cause delay, or obstruct the comple-
tion of so beneficial an undertaking.
Several members objected to proceeding to dis-
cuss the report until it had been printed and cir-
culated, expressing doubts whether the conditions,
seb.ject to which the Court bound themselves to take
20,000 shares in the undertaking had been strictly
fulfilled, and more especially as to the calls of £3
having been actually paid upon the other 65,000
shares. In proof of the actual fulfilment of their
share of the contract by the company, dissentients
were referred to the statement presented to their
own officers, as well as by the directors of the
company ; but., notwithstanding, an amendment
was moved to postpone the consideration of the re-
port until it should be printed and circulated.
Alderman ROSE said the Court had entered upon
the contract after full consideration, and were bound
to execute it.

Omar Pacha was struck out at 1.45.
The Railway Handicap Plate of 5 soya each, with $0 added
by the Great Western Railway Company. About two

miles. subs.
Mr. Price's The Premier, aged, list elb (Captain Vane) 1
Capt. Hunt's Ribbouman, Iryrs, 10st 121 b (Mr. Edwards) 2
Mr. H. gton's Illustrator, lOst Sib (Nig,htingall) 3
Acton also ran.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Ribbonman, 2to 1 agst Acton, 4to
1 each eget Illustrator and Premier. Won by three
lengths ; bad third. Acton fell and was not persevered
with. Archer weighed for Raiford, but was too late to
start.

The Military Steeplechase did not produce a race.

The meeting was a decided failure; but Mr. Topham
exerted himself strenuously for other results. The business
arrangements were excellent.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.—The weights for this
race must be raised tilb. We are requested by the owner of
Trumpeter to state that this horse has been erroneously in-
cluted amon g the acceptances.

NOTTINGHAM Mi
,NOTTINGIII3ISH:

EETING.—Fuo. 21.
HANDICAP.

age at lb
Adam Bede
Nucleus.. 4 8 7
Stapleton b 5 8 2
Glee Singer
Dunboyne 6 7 10
Anourin 4 7 8
Lovett
Accurate
Prince of Orange a 7 4
Ambush 4 7 4
Heiress
Cynthia 4 7 2
Joskin ..
Vigo .. 4 7 0
Rara Avis 4 7 0
Minster
Mira Digby

age at lb
Remunerator
Allegra
Codicil
Tyrant
Confusion
Malpas
Golden Pippen 3 5 9
Tommy Noble 3 5 9
Dame Quickly 3 5 9
'Wallace 2 5 8
Annan
Ellen
Tormentor 3 6 6
Jenny Longloga
Job 3 5 4
Rajah Brooke 3 5 4
[Bessie B 3 5 0
IST PLATE.

THE FORE
Yrs at lb
Amsterdam
Glee Singer
Lord Berkeley ..
Contract 4 7 10
L lzy Leas
Lady Peel
Cynthia 4 7 7
Ltllsquenet
Vigo
Rare Avid 4 7 2
Miss Digby
Julio
Allegro,
c out of Gentle Kitty 4 6 -10
Carlotta 4 6 10
Why Not
Codicil
THE Hun:

Yrs st 113
Dapple
Tyrant
La Hollandaiso 3 5 12
Confusion
Malpas
Lord Palmerston
F out of Empress of
Russia
Fern Leaf . 3 6 8
Tormentor
Jenny Longlegs
F out of Calista 3 5 6
Ellen
Eea
' Isis
King Edward 3 5 4

Alderman HALE thought the propriety of such
a contract very questionable.
Alderman CU ITT had up to that time abstained
from taking part in any discussion upon any rail-
way intended to be brought into the City of Lon-
don, but he felt bound now to say that they had
entered into a contract which they were bound
fairly and honourably to carry out without delay,
relying upon the information of their own officers
and their own committee as to the terms of the
contract having been fulfilled on the other side.
Some time ago it became known that the corpo-
ration agreed to take 20,000 shares. Upon their
faith in that contract, people out of doors took other
shares, and it would look like a breach of faith
with the public, if the corporation were to attempt
to draw back now, or in any way to delay the
execution of the works [hear].
After some further discussion the amendment
was declared to be lost upon a show of hands, a
result which was affirmed upon a division by 86
to 41 ; majority, 47.
The original motion was then agreed to.
Deputy HARRISON then brought up a report
recommending that the £60,000 should be paid
from the City's cash, out of the balance in the
hands of the Chamberlain.

age et lb
Miss Itarkaway all 12
ractolus 5 10 9
Magenta
Toddy
Roscommon a 10 4
Charles the Second 5 10 3
King 5 10 0
Congrove
Lincoln Green a 9 9
Contention ..... 5 9 9

The report was agreed to nern. die., and sent back
to the Corn, Coal, and Finance Committee for
execution.

Deputy BOWER brought up a report from the
Improvement Committee, recommending the Court
to petition Parliament against the Great Northern,
Holborn, and City Extension Railway, which was
intended to cross Smithfield, on the site of the pro-
posed dead meat market, at an elevation of 31 feet
above the level of the streets, and stating that it
would cross many streets in the same way, and act
prejudicially in many ways, but more especially on
account of the near approach of its terminus to the
Bank.

Mr. Cox regarded this lino of railway as being
one of the greatest improvements that could be
introduced intotheCity, but would not opposo the
report, as it was necessary
necessary.
r. position
D
Mr. to oppose in Paiatm. opnit
aicte.
itthsehmousledlvheseoionmae
JERSEY thought this scheme ens of the
maddest that had ever been broached in connection
with the City. T
railway schemesnLsw9b
acres,hefoolree Parliament ar e a f th e Cwi toyul
d of
ttake
Lon-
don proper was on
out of which the new
lie hoped that the corporation would
uopppso3seatchreiss.
bill heart and soul, for it would cross
more than forty streets and alleys, and some of them
—Victoria•street, for instance—at a height of up-
wards 60
0f
ieetIARRISON said that its station would
occupy
Deputy of
pyssixteen acres within the City, and would
render necessary the removal of an enormous amount
of corporation property.
The report was then agreed to.
A similar report was brought up by Mr. Deputy
BOWER, with regard to the London, Chatham and
Dover Railway Bill, the ground of objection being
that the line would cross Ludgate-hill and other
thoroughfares upon arches, and that much incon-
venience and deterioration of property might there-
by be occasioned. The deputy, however, in ex-
planation, said that the principal objects sought to
be attained by opposing the bill, was to get an
alteration made in the height at which it was pro.
posed to cross Ludgate-hill, which was only sixteen
feet ; and in the opinion of the committee much too
low.
The report was agreed to.

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RAUTER'S TELEGRA.3I6'.

GENOA, FEE. 9.

Letters from Naples of Monday lasi state that
the Ministerial Crisis still continued, as the King
had not given up the idea of ordering the army to
pass the frontier. A revolutionary movement had
broken out at Acerra, near Naples. Troops had
been despatched thither, and a state of siege pro-
claimed. The formation of a camp of 10,000 men
at Pouilla (?) was spoken of.

PARIS, FEB. 9.

The Presse, Petrie, and Pays announce that the
report of a serious insurrection at Constantinople is
entirely false.
Tha Presse states, besides,that an official despatch
received from Constantinople, dated the 7th inst.,
mentions nothing of an insurrection.
MARSEILLES, FEB. 9.

Letters 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
ounuch 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, FRB. 9.
Marshal O'Donnell judges it useless to pursue
he Moors into the interior of the empire.
In the battle of the 4th inst. the Spanish lost
[0 officers and 58 mem killed ; and 53 officers and
rll 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, FEB. 9.

Yesterday another manifestation took place in
the Royal Thtatre 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 the Wakefield commissioners was
published yesterday.
The commissioners find that the election in April,
1839, 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 Leatham expended,
through his agents, a sum of money. amounting " at
least" to £3,900, of which 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 tke bribery on be-
half of Mr. Leatham was carried on, the commis-
sioners say :
" We find that Mr. W. H. Leatham provided the
monies with the intention that they sholld be em-
ployed, in part at least, in bribery and corruption,
and that before the said monies were provided Mr.
W. H. Leatham kad 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. Claarlesworth'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 ele6ion from in-
quiring as to the manner in which that fund was
being employed, having before the eleJtion the
means of knowing and good grounds to suspect the
manner of its disposal."
Tho commissioners conclude their report as
fellows :

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, 5D

TiiE ANNEXATION OF 8.. i VOT.
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 beeti
received. It is signed by 24 of the leading men of
the capital of Savoy :
" SAVOY TO THE ENGLISH PEOPLE.

" Chambery, Feb. 7.
" During nearly the last six months some indivi-
duals of Savoy, whose petitions, carried from house
to house, have not succeeded in obtaining 20 re-
spectable signatures, have formed the plot to make
over Constitutional Savoy to the Imperial Govern-
ment of France.

" The ('ourrier des A Ipes, 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 thcught 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
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,
and profession—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 IL, 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, platting 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 di honouring
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 mancouvres.
"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 m:sied 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.
"In tho 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
your sovereign orders, inform the world that Savoy,
having become 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 stiongcr 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." [Here
follows the signatures.]

MAJOR-GENERAL WILLIAMS ON TRE

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 developer 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 sentenees, 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 similar 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 far the metropolis.
Field works, consisting of a ditch and parapet or 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 for
gun carriages, and 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-hill, 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 the 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."

" We find that large bodies of non-electors to the
number of several hundreds on each side, and in-
cluding on Mr. Ciiarlesworth'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 to 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 ease of actual
abduction was proved before us, which will be
found in the 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
illegal by statute 17th and 18th Viet., c. 102, s. 18,
satisfies us that the employment of the non-electors
in the manner described was well 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
,W
ac-
count whatever by either of the candidates. e
find that it was 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 50, themselves electors) who
voluntarily joined 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
wh'cli 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-
leery ; others, also, of those who have received bribes.
There is a small list of persons who have been guilty
of bribery on both sides.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Notice.—In consequence of Messrs.
Lawes and Morton having, just commenced 1860 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 ou the
so-called " Concentrated Cattle Food." and so-called "feeding
statistics," are without foundation; that the Hothamsted
experiment was not made with his food, and consequently
that this complete failure must either be through mism inage-
ment or from buying the Condiment at the wrong shop. The
first impression of One Hundred Thousand Copies will be
ready about the first day of March, and may be had post free
on receipt of Three Stamps, on application to Joseph Thorley,the Inventor and sole Proprietor of " Thorley's Food for
Cattle," 77, Newgate-street, Louden ; 21. Broadway, New
York, United States ; Mr. J. W. Thorley, Melbourne ; Vic-
toria ; Mr. Alfred Burt, Sydney, New South Wales ; and of
all his agents throughout the United Kingdom.—Feb. 2,1800.
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i which do not con-
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tution.

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 among 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
I Arctic Seas, 1351."—Southampton Times.

INWSPAPER
he Rodney ca;
, 91, lina-oahattle sereaaa
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<ich has been altered from a sailir N
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docked at Chatham yesterday %Perna ad:4-le,aaulaaatv
pleted and supplied with her engriAeamr fez,'
chinery, and made ready for the tirklirkta-
the steam reserve.
44 ;1'
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The Severn, 51, screw steamer, is to 1.4"-riopp- s
A:NiC
vial her machinery and engines at Sheeraess., after ,
which she will return to CI-wham, to be fitted at
that port for the second division of the steam re-
terve in ordinary.
The screw steamship Majestic, 80, Capt. Mends,
from Sheerness for Liverpool, put into Plymouth
Sound on Wednesday through stress of weather and
defcctive condition of valves.
The following ships are in the steam basin at
Portsmouth :—Victoria, 121, screw ; Duncan, 101,
screw ; and Nelson, 91, screw ; receiving their ma- •
ehinery, Queen. Charlotte, three-decker, fitting oat
for Excellent; Bacchante, 51, screw, tukiug on-
board her heavy weights ; Hornet, 17, screw ;
Arid, 9, screw ; Bulldog, 6, paddle ; Bee, steam
tender to Excellent, and a screw gunboat, complet
ing repairs to hull andanachinery. The Vigilante
screw, and Alban paddle, taking out boilers for
repairs ; and the Firebrand, 6. paddle, Commander
Bruce, completing repairs to hull and machinery.
At Spitheid are the Queen, 86, screw, Captain
Charles F. Hillyar ; Diadem, 32, screw, Captain
Cockburn ; Ariadne, 26, screw, Captain E. W.
Vansittart, and the Prussian frigate Thetis, and
scl noncr Frauenlob.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day :—Commander Oswald Borland, to the Centu-
rion ; Lieutenant G. P. Heath, to the Blenheim,
additional, for service in the Coastguard ; Lieut.
Lord F. N. Conyngham, to the Algiers ; Lieut.
J. G. C. Lvered and Lieut. N. B. Smith, to the
Conqueror ; Lieut. C. R. K. Smyth, to the Trafal-
gar; Lieut. F. W. Wilson, to the Royal Albeit ;
Lieut. Wm. Clark, to the Sanspareil ; Lieut. Fred.
Hammond, to the Donegal; Lieut. Vincent Kil-
courcie, to the Hero ; M. C. C. Roberts, midship-
man to the Neptune ; -William Ellis (B), master
to the Trafalgar ; Thomas J. Whiffle, master addi-
tional to the Asia, for the Colossus ; George H.
Beaton, first-class asistantengineer to the Fisgard,
for charge of the machinery of the Cormorant; J.
H. Binns, second-class assistant-engineer to the
Majestic, for service in the Dapper; William V.C.
Farror, paymaster to the Cumberland ; and Samuel
H. Sadler, paymaster to the Centurion.
The Secretary of State for War has appointed
Capt. Douglas Galton, R.E., Assistant-Inspector-
General of Fortifications, and attached him to the
Staff of General Sir J. F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., In-
spector-General.

211 E NAT't.