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London, England, 1859-04-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1859.

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PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in a cause " May against May,"
the creditors ofJOSEPH MAY, late of Is o. 111, Barnsbury-
place, Islington, in the county of Middlesex, cheesemonger,
who died in or about the month of September, 1857, are, by
their solicitors, on or before the 26th day of May, 1859, to
come in and prove their debts at the chambers of the Vice-
Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Kindersley, No. 3, Stone-
buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or, in default thereof,
they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the
said Order. Saturday, the 28th day of May, 1859, at one
o'clock in the afternoon, at the said chambers, is appointed
for hearing and adjudicating upon the claims.
Dated this 13th day of April, 1859.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
WOOD and FRANCE, Falcon-street, Aldersgate,
Plaintiff's Solicitors.

NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
48, Gracechurch-street, London.
For MUTUAL ASSURANCE on LIVES, ANNUITIES, Sze.
Established December, 1835.
DIRECTORS:
SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq., Chairman.
CHARLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
John Bradbury, Esq. Robt. Ingham, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Castle, Esq. Charles Reed, Esq.
Richard Fall, Esq. Robert Sheppard, Esq.
John Feltham, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq.
Charles Gilpin, Esq., M.P. Charles Whetham, Esq.
Charles Good, Esq.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

WOLVERHAMPTON.

On Friday a meeting of the Liberal electors was
held at Wolverhampton, to hear addresses from Mr.
Villiers and Sir R. Bethell—Mr.' H. Walker occu-
pied the chair.
Mr. VILLIERS was received with great applause.
After a graceful recognition of the kindness he had
received from the burgesses of the borough, and an
eloquent tribute to the great merits of Mr.
Thornely's character and his services as the repre-
sentative of Wolverhampton, he said Mr. Thornely
was much gratified to hear that Sir R. Bethell was
likely to be his successor. He did not admit, as
had been urged in the House of Commons, that the
rotten, corrupt boroughs were the only places which
distinguished men could represent. (Applause.)
It was also for the interest of large constituencies
that they should select distinguished men, and men
likely to take a share in the Government of the
country, and he eulogised the wisdom of Lord
Aberdeen for selecting as members of his Govern-
ment the representatives of large constituencies. It
was to the absence of such men from the present
administration that he attributed that remarkable
ignorance of the sentiments of the country which
they had displayed in dissolving Parliament at the
present critical juncture, and in proposing such a
Reform Bill as they had done. The great defect
in the House of Commons was that the rural in-
terest exercised an almost overwhelming influence
in Parliament, so that as in the case of the Corn
Laws, it took a ten years' agitation to carry an im-
portant measure, and then it was effected by the
influence of force and fear rather than reason. (Hear.)
Then by the advance of education numbers of the
artisan class were becoming fit for the suffrage, and
some plan-4 need not necessarily be an alteration
in the occupation value—but some plan was neces-
sary from time to time to bring such persons
with the pale of the franchise. (Great applause.)
Glancing at the necessity for a more adequate re-
cognition of large populations, and at the question
of the necessity of the ballot, as a means of pro-
tection from coercion, he urged that reform should
be at once dealt with ; but while they ex-
tended the suffrage, they should do it gradually, as
had always been the custom in this country, and
not as in other countries, where they attempted to
gain everything at once, and lost everything. It
was most important that this question should be
settled, and the sooner the better, especially in the
prospect of a war imminent on the continent of
Europe, and in which we knew not what part we
might be called upon to take, or to what danger we
might be exposed. Mr. Villiers concluded by pass-
ing a warm eulogium upon Sir Richard Bethell,
and sat down amidst another storm of applause.
Sir R. BETIIELL, on rising to address the meet-
ing, was received with reiterated applause. He
spoke of Wolverhampton as being the birth-place
of free trade ; and observed that the borough was
remarkable for its unanimity in its choice of mem-
bers. It was no ordinary time at which they were
called upon to exercise the electoral franchise.
Europe was shaking with the tread of half a
million of armed men, and they knew not whether
at that moment the spark might not have been put
to the train which would involve nearly the whole
of Europe in a most frightful and a most sanguinary
war. Such a period, when they would have imagined
that a Government would have had all its energies
and its anxieties concentrated upon the effort to
preserve peace abroad, they had selected to awake,
as far as it was in their power, intestine dissension
and tumult in the country. (Applause.) Such
conduct on the part of a Government called for the
condemnation of every wise, discreet, and patriotic
man, to whatever party he might belong. (Ap-
porliatuioseal.)
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critical moment, and left England without a Go.
vernment, because the House of Commons had
rejected
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but instead of appeal-
ingthey did not mean to re-introduce that measure, on
the ground of the rejection of which they chose at
that important period to throw the country into
the paralysis which must attend the period
of a contested election. (Hear, hear.) Sir'
Richard then referred to statements made by
Mr. Disraeli in speeches to his constituents
to the
provisions
in 1857 and 1858, in which he had pronounced
the Reform Bill of 1832 as having been con-
cocted by Whig jobbery to maintain the Govern-
inoncthsoenwsheearrenvademtsivoinefetnhptalatyrpt arty, and had indicated
as the object of a Conservative Reform Bill to
reverse that result, that was to give political power
to adapt the provisions ofY—tli
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Disraeli had in his
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said that the object of his bill was
England of 1859, although he had in 1858 said that
that bill was concocte by Whig jobbery. The
principle of the bill of 1832 was to make property
the basis of representation in counties, and numbers
and residence the basis of re presentation in towns I

but in direct contravention of that the Government
bill deprived the freeholders resident within the
precincts of boroughs of their votes in counties,
whilst the principle of the representation of num-
bers and residence was attempted to be destroyed
by the votes of nonresident freeholders. (Loud
applause.) After noticing the facilities which the
Government bill held out for swamping small
boroughs by fictitious freehold votes, and for creat-
ing fictitious qualifications in counties by the quali-
fication which made the occupation of lands or
tenements a title to the suffrage, the right hon.
gentleman proceeded to say that during the 28
years since 1832, the advances witnessed in the
social state and the material prosperity of the
country had been such as no previous period of our
history had presented; and by the advance of
education thousands of artisans were as much en.
titled to the franchise as the £lO householders were
in 1832. (Applause.) That bill was a great change,
which excited much alarm, but he asked now who
regretted it or regarded its effects as inimical to
the country ? As Mr. Villiers had said, every
advance must be gradual ; an attempt to effect too
great a change would retard all reform by awaken-
ing the fears of those who possessed property ; but
he had no doubt that in a few years political free-
dom would be extended to every householder in the
land. (Applause.) After advocating a more
equal distribution of representatives, Sir Richard
said a reformed Parliament was only a means
to an end, that end being the general good
of the country, and he hoped some of the
results would be the maintenance of peace ; a wise
and economical management of the finances of the
country ; and above all that office, place, and poli-
tical power would no longer be the mere inheritance
of a few privileged classes, but would form the
great prize, would be held up as the great stimulant
to provoke the industry, to excite the ambition, and
to reward the exertions of the middle classes of the
country. (Loud applause.) He advocated the ad-
mission of Dissenters to a share in the management
and advantages of endowed schools, and decidedly
condemned church rates. With respect to law
reform—(applause)—to assist in that great work
was the motive for which he first sought to enter
the House of Commons. It had been said that he
was a lawyer, and no doubt many in his profession
did enter Parliament with a view to obtain appoint-
ments, but he did not seek a seat in the House of
Commons until he had rendered himself indepen-
dent of any such favours, and had pledged himself
to his present constituents not to accept any office
which would require him to retire from Parliament,
and he had refused the office of Vice-Chancellor, to
which a salary of £5,000 a year was attached, be-
sides other great advantages, and had since declined
a still more advantageous appointment, and was
ready again to give the pledge he had given to his
present constituents. (Applause.) He pointed out
the striking defects in the present state of the law
which required the amending hand, the simplifying
hand, and the condensing hand, and above all a
department for the administration of the law, and
for the steady progress of law reform required to be
established. (Applause.) It was to promote such
objects that he asked them to send him to Parlia-
ment as their representative. Sir Richard sat down
amidst the most hearty applause.
Votes of confidence in Mr. Villiers and in Sir R.
Bethell were agreed to unanimously and most
enthusiastically.

are Colonel Boldero, who has sat for the borough
for many years, and Mr. Long, jun., of Rood
Ashton.

DARTMOUTH.-Sir T. Herbert, who was formerly
a member for this borough, has again offered him-
self, and it is said that Mr. Caird, the present
member, will not again seek the suffrages of the
electors.

DEVONPORT.—Mr. Peel, son of General Peel,
Secretary for War, and Mr. W. B. Ferrand, are the
Conservative candidates to contest the seats of Mr.
Wilson and Sir E. Perry.
LEEDS.—The Liberal candidates, Mr, E. Baines
and Mr. Forster, commenced their ward meetings
on Thursday, and in every instance they have not
only been well received, but resolutions have been
unanimously adopted pledging those present to
give them their support. " Amongst all sections,"
says the Leeds Mercury, " there was evidently a
conviction that if the Liberal candidates were to be
returned, there must be no plumping for either Mr.
Haines or Mr. Forster, and no splitting for Bee-
croft."

LISKEARD.—Mr. W. H.P. Carew, who formerly
was a representative of East Cornwall, has started
on the Conservative interest, in opposition to the
sitting member, Mr. Gre7, Liberal.
LIVERPOOL.—Mr. William Seymour V. Fitz-
gerald, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, after
being solicited by the. Conservative party to
become a candidate, has refused to stand.
LICHFIELD.—Lord Sandon has retired; the names
of one or two gentlemen locally connected have
been mentioned as likely to offer themselves for the
vacant seat.

LEOMINSTER.—On Saturday an address was
issued by Theodore Galton, Esq., of Hanley-grange,
Upton-on-Severn. Mr. Galton comes forward in the
Liberal intereft. He is an advocate of the ballot.
MANCHESTER.—NEW CANDIDATE.—AIderman
Abel Heywood has issued the following address :
" Gentlemen,—lnvited by a numerously-signed
requisition, and by a large meeting held in the
Free-trade hall, I no longer hesitate to become a
candidate for your suffrages at the ensuing election
of members of Parliament. I have been a resident
of Manchester for forty years, and starting from a
humble position, have, by untiring industry, ac-
quired a moderate competency. Being an ardent
advocate of the liberty of the press, I challenged,
with many others, the Government of 1832 to a
contest for the removal of the fourpenny stamp,
and was thus one of the earliest workers in that
great cause which Mr. M. Gibson has conducted
with so much success. For the last twenty years
I have endeavoured to serve my fellow-citizens in
the management of the local affairs of this city; a
considerable portion of that time I have been at the
head of an important department of the business of
the city council. I now offer to you my services in
the wider sphere of national legislation, and, if
elected, shall endeavour to procure the admission of
every mavot tainted with crime into the pale of
the constitution ; to secure their honest voting by
means of the ballot ; to shorten the du ration of Parlia-
ments; together with such an equitable distribution
of seats, in proportion to population and property,
as will effectually put an end to the system of
nomination boroughs. lam opposed to secret
diplomacy in foreign affairs, and would visit with
the severest censure that minister who should make
war and appropriate the funds of the nation to its
support without first having consulted the House
of Commons. I would endeavour, as far as possible,
to abolish all indirect taxation ; leave tea, coffee,
sugar, tobacco, and other necessaries and comforts
of life, to be imported at their natural prices, and
thus consummate the great policy of " Free trade
with all the world." It returned to Parliament, I
should consider it my duty to support by all the
means in my power, the bill which has been pub-
lished to the country by John Bright, Esq. With
this brief exposition of my political sentiments, I
leave the issue in your hands, with the sincere
hope that whatever may be the result of the poll-
ing, the numbers will show that the independent
electors of Manchester are not afraid to trust the
great working class of this country with political
power.—l am gentlemen, yours, Abel Heywood,
21, Hyde-road, Ardwick, Manchester."
MALDON.—The Conservatives have found a
second candidate in the person of Lieut.-Colonel
Meyrick, who styles himself a Liberal Conserva-
tive, with political opinions in unison with those
entertained by the great Conservative portion of
the community."
NOTTINGEICAM.—A fourth candidate is about to
come forward. A requisition is in course of signa-
ture, requesting Mr. T. Bromley, son' of the late
Admiral Sir Robert Howe Bromley, to contest the
borough. Mr. Bromley is a Conservative, and pro-
fesses himself to be an independent supporter of
Lord Derby's Government ; he states his willing-
ness to come forward if his friends request it. Mr.
Ernest Jones has issued a second address, in
which he reiterates his determination to go to the
poll. The Liberal candidates (Messrs. Paget and
Mellor) are pretty certain of success.
NORWICII.—The Conservatives have after all de-
termined on contesting this city. At a late hour on
Saturday Sir Samuel Bignold, who represented
the constituency from December, 1854, to March,
1857, issued an address. Simultaneously with the
publication of Sir Samuel Bignold's address ap-
peared another front a second Conservative candi-
date, Mr. Charles Manners Lushington, a son of
the Right Hon. Stephen Lushington.
PENRYN AND FALMOUTH.—Mr. Gurney and Mr.
Baring, the present members, are canvassing the
borough. They are opposed by Mr. Howell Glyn
and Mr. John Leslie Foster.
PLYMOUTIL—An active canvass is in progress.
The chances appear to be in favour of the return of
Mr. Collier and Lord Valletort.

RYE.—The Jewish Chronicle says :—" It is re-
ported that Mr. Francis Goldsmid, Q.C., intends at
the ensuing election to put up for Rye. It is
further rumoured that Mr. J. M. Montefiore is
likewise in the field, although the constituency
which he has in mind is not named."

REIGATE.-Mr. W. Torrens McCullagh is a can-
didate. On Friday he addressed a meeting of the
electors, and a resolution in his favour was carried
unanimously.
THETFORD.—A requisition, which is stated to
have received the signatures of seventy of the elec-
tors of this extremely limited constituency has been
presented to Mr. J. J. Colman, a gentleman of ad-
vanced Liberal views, who has for the last year or
two taken a rather prominent part in Norfolk
politics. Up to Saturday evening it was not finally
decided whether Mr. Colman would become a can-
didate, in opposition to the sitting members, Mr.
Baring and the Earl of Euston.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, APRIL 16.

DUBLIN ClTY.—There is not much to notice in
the way of new arrangements. There have been
one or two meetings of liberal electors to select
candidates that would secure the support of all
sections of the liberal party, and a further meeting
is to be held this day. There is great unanimity of
feeling, but from the number of booths and extent
of the constituency a Dublin contest is always
attended with a great deal of expense ; and there
are no popular leaders of the position or influence
of Grattan or O'Connell, who formerly represented
the city, and who could command volunteer exer-
tions, subscriptions, and the enthusiasm so potent
in a large constituency. The Conservative candi-
dates have a great advantage in the influence which
the residence of the court gives, and in the active
organisation which they maintain for electioneer-
ing purposes. The freemen franchise, which, though
abolished for municipal government, is retained for
Parliamentary elections, gives the descendants of
the Protestant corporations of former days such an
unfair advantage that the great majority of the
Catholic population, which returns a majority in
the corporation, is overborne by the freemen fran-
chise in the Parliamentary elections, and there is
no place so injured by the want of a Reform Bill
to abate this injustice as Dublin.
KINSALE.—Mr. Arnott, the popular mayor of
Cork, has issued an address, stating his willingness
to stand, as he has been invited by a majority of
the electors of all parties.
WESTMEATH COUNTY.—Mr, Pollard Urquhart
has issued an address advocating anextension of
the suffrage, the ballot, tenant-right, and impar-
tially in civil and ecclesiastical
policy.

MEDICINAL curious manufacture has
been established in the Tyrol, namely, that of producing by
mechanical means apowder of iron sufficiently fine to be used
in medicine as a substitute for that obtained by the reduction
of an oxide of iron by means of hydrogen. The mode of
producing this powder is not üblished, but it is
thought that it is made by very fine files. The value
of this new iron powder in medicine is not as yet ascer-
tained ; but it has this difference, as compared with
the powder produced by means of hydrogen,. that it
will not burn spontaneously in air; but it will do so
easily when suspended to the poles of a magnet. If
the latter is plunged into the powder, and a lighted match
be then applied to the powder adhering to the magnet, the
iron will burn readily and brilliantly, and when the magnet
is shaken the particles fall off in the form of beautiful
sparks. This property is supposed to be peculiar to the
Tyrol preparation,--Mechanics' Magazine.