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to the story about being visited by a Cia4vo4 .
agent.
The examination and re-examination\"Wi:
witnesses in this case took up c0n5ideL.14..A.,../
but, as usual, the discrepancy was so WWII.,
complete, and the swearing on both sides so -posi-
tive that it was impossible to say on which side the
truth rested.
Thomas Hudson, publican, voted for Leatham •
without a bribe. Jeremiah Widdup, of the Grapes
Inn, offered to get his house opened to the tune of
£2O or £3O, and £BO or £9O for himself if he would
vote for Charlesworth. Had heard Cousins (a -
former witness who swore that he had received
nothing) state in a public company that he had
got £5O for voting for Charlesworth.
Mrs. Mountain said that her husband stood
neutral at the last election. He went out of town
on the polling day, and in the afternoon two young
men,strangers to the town, came to the house and
offered £lOO, £2OO, or £250, if she would tell where
her husband Was, gone. •
Lamuel Oldham voted for Leatham for £2O,
which was- given-- him by Armstrong, the pawn- _
broker. The bargain was made a fortnight before
the election.
Benjamin Lynes, a grocer, said-1 voted for
Leatham at the last election. The week before Mrs.
Barret came to my shop and asked me how I was
going to vote. I said I should not tell any one.
She said, I have come to offer you £3O for a pound
of tea. I said I had a personal objection to take a
bribe, and reftlsed her offer. She came next day
and offered £4O, but I still refused, and she went
out saying, "If your name is found on the polling-
book for CharleswOrth you shall have the £4O all
the same." I understood from her conversation that
her husband had two other voters to look after.
Mr. Benjamin Haigh said that a person came to
his house and offered him £5O if he would vote for
Charlesworth. He then offered £lO more. His -
daughter told him that the person was George
Moore. He voted for Mr. Leatham, and Mr. Wain-
wright sent him £5 after the election with his
compliments.
Mr. Thomas Senior said he was an iron mer-
chant, and was canvassed in the election of 1857
by Dyson, Charlesworth's agent. He' said, if wit-
ness would pledge himself for Charlesworth, he -
would take care he hail some good orders for iron.
Witness .knew that he had good orders to give.
He told him at first he should consider of it ; and
afterwards that he shmild vote for Mr. Leatham.
That was before Mr. Leatham retired. -He knew
of no other offer of that kind in 1857, nor of any
bribery in that election. He knew of no case in
1859, and there was no attempt to operate on him
in the same way at the late election, when he Toted
for Mr. Leatham.

PNICE 4D• STAMPED, SJ)

our National Museum and extend our knowledge of
natutal history. Besides all this, the sledge jour-
neys made by Captain Allen Young, Lieutenant
Hobson, and Captain M'Clintock, have enabled the
leographer to define 800 miles of new coast line.
o have attained at the same time so many impor-
tant objects, and each in so efficient a manner, shows
in the strongest way how admirably the expedition
was conducted. Although Captain M'Clintock has
seen more Arctic service than perhaps any other
officer in her Majesty's Navy, having spent seven
winters within the Arctic circle and travelled on
foot upwards of 3,500 miles in his various exploring
journeys, his health,' we understand, has not in any
way suffered. We are sure that every one will
cordially unite with us in the hope that he may
long be spared to his country, and that the British
nation may long enjoy the services of one who has
prove d himself to be endowed with so many rare
qualities of mind and body.

7AKEFIEED ELECTIOY COMMISSION.

WAKEFIELD, OCT. 22.
At the sitting of the Commission this morning,
Mr. Simpson was examined. He said—l was a
member of Mr. Leatham's committee at the last
election. Some time before the polling-day Mr.
Wain wright came to me and asked for money, telling
me that Mr. Leatham was very tardy in supplying
it. Ispoke to Mr. Leatham, and lie said that Wain-
wright had twice had £250, and that the money was
going very fast. This was early in the election—
certainly more than three weeks before the polling-.
day. I had no personal knowledge of bribery being
carried on, but it was thoroughly understood in the
town soon, before the election, that both sides were
bribing away as hard as they could. I was on the
Continent when first the contest commenced, and
when I returned I heard that a man had come down
to do the bribery on our side. I spoke to Wainwright
about this, and he said it was nothing of the sort ;
the man had merely come to help in the election.
William Perkin, beerhouse-k€ eper, said—l voted
for Leatham at the last election. Mr. Shaw, the
pawnbroker, brought me £2O. I told him I would
not have it if it was for bribery, but if he liked to
give it "free gratis" it was all right. (Laughter.)
I should have voted for Leatham without it.
Mr. Charlesworth was recalled, and in answer to
Mr. Sergeant Pigott, stated that he had no know-
ledge or suspicion who the " stranger" was. He
had no idea who sent for him, nor could he call to
mind having seen him iii the town in, the courss of
the election. If he had seen him he had no notion
of the business he was upon.,
Mr. Sergeant Pigott—Do you know whether
the "stranger" was an attorney from Darlington?
Mr. Charlesworth—T presume you mean a per-
sonal friend of mine who is in the habit of staying
with me every year. I am quite sure that he is not
the man. I am certain he was not ia the town at
the time—besides, be is a Wtlig. (Laughter.) I don't
remember seeing Mr. Serle with a stranger, but it is
possible tbat Mr. Serle may have been the person
who sent for him. I never heard that he did, nor
have I any means of knowing it, except from the
tenour of the evidence before this Court.
Mr. Sergeans Pigott—Do you know why
Serle keeps out of the way ?
Mr. Charlesworth—l do not. I have had no
communication with him. I am sure I hope he will
make his appearance here. 1 think it is only just
to me that all those parties who know anything
about the election should come forward before you
and state it. I say this because I see the papers
are very unfairly giving me the benefit if the whole
of this business. When I was examined 1 told you
where the money came from, and I only regret that
I did not go on to tell you all about the debenture
without waiting for you to question me on the

Mr. E. J. Pickslay said he was associated with
Mr. Westmorland as law agent for Mr. Charles-
worth in 1847. He knew nothing of the expendi-
ture whatever, except that he received £5O for his
services soon after the election. He could not
account for the extra expenditure which Mr.
Charlesworth had incurred in 1857. He knew
nothing till after the commission opened about the
£3OO to £5OO which Mr. Charlesworth was called
on to pay after the election. He did not know who
was the paymaster in that election. He only can-
vassed four persons in the election of 1859, but used
no improper influence. He knew of no feasting in

1857. -
The court adjourned till Monday.

ALLIANCE BETWEEN FRANCE AND

SPAIN.

An alliance between France and Spain against
Morocco—or, at any rate, a war simultaneously
threatened by both those Powers against her—is by
no means reassuring to Great Britain. It is felt
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Madrid from a resort to hostilities. . This country
is always jealous of wars waged without adequate
reasons. - When England perceives a war to be
entered into upon insignificant and almost illusory
grounds, she of course concludes that there are
motives for such a war which are held in the
background. This country has a threefold
interest in the independence or neutrality of the
territories which command the entrance to the
Mediterranean. There is the Rock of Gibral-
tar ' • then there are our dependencies of Malta
and the lonian Islands; and, finally, there is a
third British interest of still more vital import,
connected with our power on the Rock and in the
Straits; and now yearly rising in force—our com-
munication with India by way of Alexandria.
We are reminded of this third consideration by
what is perhaps the simple coincidence of the
audience just granted at Paris by the Emperor of
the French to M. de Lesseps and his colleagues,
who are identified a ith the project of the Suez
Canal, which the British Government has, under
every Ministry, firmly and consistently opposed.
And, without committing ourselves to any view of
the actual motives of the French and Spanish Go-
vernments, we cannot forget that the acquisition of
influence along the seaboard of the Mediterranean
has been pre-eminently an Idee iYapoleonienne. Nor
is it less certain that, during the last few years, the
influence of France along that seaboard, both in the
Levant and the Western Mediterranean, has attained
an extraordinary development. The late Italian war
hasjust produced that effect so far as the coasts of
Italy are concerned, and nearly the same may be
said at Constantinople, at Alexandria, and in
Algeria ; while the French navy has vastly in-
creased. We can hardly, perhaps, blame the French
for taking advantage of recent years, in which we
have been too supine to keep pace with them. But
it is clear that Great Britain has three distinct in-
terests at stake in a war waged by France and
Spain against Morocco, which it must be her duty
to watch with anxious care.
Five French steam-frigates are reported to have
just sailed from Toulon, for the conveyance of French
troops against Morocco; the Spanish preparations
have been made with equal determination ; and
Marshal O'Donnell formally announced on Friday
last the withdrawal of the Spanish Consvl from
Tangiers. This last 'event appears to preclude
further negotiation. In regard to Spain, why is
O'Donnell in such extravagant haste for the com-
mencement el hostilities ? His grievance, such as
it is, is a chronic one. Yet he takes the opportunity
for war just as the old Emperor is dead, and the
new Emperor is struggling for his authority against
a hostile faction in his own dominions. He does
so, too, in disregard of the diplomatic interposition
of the British Government, who have this extra-
traordinary claim upon the Court of iladaid, that
they guarantee the Spanish monarchy. A Spanish
Ministry, one would say, would hardly persist in
this course without some powerful backers from
without. Indced, a war between Spain and Morocco
is an event almost without precedent in modern
times, while the grievance isof perpetual standing.
We cannot therefore understand the adoption of
such a course at this moment, in spite not only of
the mediation of this country, but of the concilia-
tory dispositiOn of Morocco itself. What the real
grievance of Spain against Morocco is, we have
lately stated at length. It may be briefly recapi-
tulated to be that certain small bands of lawless
Moors have made petty attacks upon the Spanish
town of Ceuta, on the African coast of the Straits ;
and though Spain has a right to demand that she
shall not be subjected to this annoyance from a
professedly friendly power, it appears that the
loss of life sustained in these encounters has not
exceeded one or two sentries ata time. No Maho-
metan Government has ever yet maintained such
effective secularisation as to coerce all its wander-
ing tribes on the verge of its dominions. The
Court of Tetuan has frankly confessed its incapa-
city to restrain these bandits, but has shown every
disposition to do so. Tne organs of the French
Government, on the other hand, pretend that these
little deLichments of Moors make excursions into
its Algerian territories ; but there is no evidence or
notoriety of the fact, and it is strange that the com-
plaint should only have been made coincidently
with the resolution of Spain to avenge these petty
attacks on Ceuta.
But even granting that all is as alleged, do the
French and Spanish Governments really imagine
that they would redress the grievance by the ope-
rations which they design? If a French army enters
Morocco from Algeria by land and defeats the re-
gular troops of that State in a general action, will
that defeat reduce the Moorish bandits to a state of
subordination ? On the contrary, it will reduce the
power of the Court of Tetuan to restore order.
Again, if the combined squadrons of France and
Spain should bombard Tangiers and Mogador, will
the destruction of life and property in those ports
suppress the robbers who come down from the hills
round Ceuta to fire shots at the Spanish sentries.
It would be much better that Spain and Morocco
should undertake the chastisement of these robbers
by a local expedition from Ceuta, formed of a smallbe
force from either State. It surely would n eve_
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