The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-10 00:00:00

ELEOTION COMMITTEES.---(This GENCE.— (This Day.
Day.) POLICE INTELLI

LAMBETH.
The committee assetueied for the fire, time thin morn-
.ng in No. 17, committee room ; Mr, Ingham pro iced,

1.! R.LEWZOUG ET.

CAUELTY TO A HORSE, —John Carter, cab driver, and
owner of badge 10,129, was charged, before Mr. Bing-
ham, at the instance of the Royal Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals, with cruelly ill-using a
horse, in Park-lane. _ .

and the other members of the eprnalittee ixera Sir A.

Matheson, Mr. Viscount Sandon, and Major
Wortley, The notoriety attending the return of Mr.

The prisoner, who was summoned a few days ago, and
who was in the service of Mr. Nash, an extensive cab
proprietor, in the parish of St. Marylebone, did not ap-
pear to it, when he was apprehended by Love, an active
and intelligent officer of the s
Mr J. Grea:head, No. 134, Piccadiry, said that, on
the 25th of June, he v,a-i in Park-lane, waen he saw the
defendant there driving a one h:)rsa cab at a very furious
rate. He was lashing the animal in a violent macner
with his whip.
Love said that he had examined the horse after the

Roupell for the bcrorgh of Lambeth by so large a
majority drew to,z,etl,er a large number of per,ons to

hear the procreelit-g.4. Great interest was mani-
fested thrlughout the day. The petitioner:;

were Messrs. NiTholla aEd Briscoe, and the

allegations in the petition were that the sitting
member (Mr. Roupell) had been returned by bribery,
treating, and undue influence. The suit was not prayed
for by the defeated candidate, Mr. Wilkinon.
Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Bal!antine, and Mr.
Atkinson, appeared for the petitioners. Mr. Slade,
Q C., Mr. Pninn, Q.C., and Mr. Johnson, appeared for
the sitting member.
Mr. James, in opening the petitioner's case, said that
the allegations against Mr. Roupell were, that he had
obtained his return for the borough of Lambeth
by a system of bribery, undue influence, and treating.
As the allegations involved the right of a large, consti-
tuency, and as the facts to be brought forward were of
a novel character, he entreated the earnest attention of
the committee to the facts he should lay before them:
The constituency embraced a large number of clerks,
and working dasQes, the majority of the latter being in
comparatively humble life, and an is fluence by the most
lavishexpenditure of money by Mr. Roupell wasbrought
to bear on the lower orders of voters in this borough

treatment it bad received from the prisoner. He found
between 40 anti 50 marks upon it, the effect of the lash•

ing it had receiveo.
condition.

The ailikual wm, in a very weak

The prisoner said that the animal was not able to go,
and that in order to urge it to proceed he was compelled
to use the whip. The horse would not go at a speed
of more than four miles an hour.

Mr. Greathead observed that when he saw the horse
in Park-lane it was going at a greater speed than four
mile.; a❑ hour.

Mr. Nash, who appeared the previous day, as the

driver did not attend when the warrant was ordered to
be issued, stated that his father had discharged the pri-
soner in consequence of the ill•treatment that had been

mentioned.

Mr. Bingham made some strong remarks on the nn-

feeling conduct of the prisoner, who was fined 244., costs
includtd, or 14 days' imprisonment. The fine was paid.

SOUTHWARK.

WATCH ROBBERY.— Jarues aboney,.a ticket•of-leave
man, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a
watch from Mr. Trotman.

who, out of a proportion of 250,000, had the electora
power in their hands. In 1852 Mr. Wilkinson was at
the head of the poll, and polled 4,700—a larger number
than had ever been polled before by one candidate in
the borough. On the 10th March, 1857, Mr. Wil-
kinson issued his address, and on the 13th Mr. Ron-
pell issued his. Mr. Roupell was a gentleman new
to the political arena before this election, but he
possessed what was of great value in the borough of
Lambeth, a large purse, and the influence of a numerous
tenantry of small householders. Several streets of small
houses in the borough belonged to him, one of which
bore his name. The nomination for the borough took
place ou Saturday, the 28th of March, and the polling
on the Monday following, when Mr. Roupell polled the
unprecedented number of 9,300. Mr. Williams, finding
during the period before the election that Mr. Roupell
was gaining ground, judiciously left Mr. Wilkinson in
the lurch, and attached himself to the skirts of Mr. Rou-
pell's mantle. A more prudent and economical course the
bon, member could not have adopted. (Laughter.) Mr.
Williams polled 7,600, and Mr. Wilkinson 3,230. As
soon as Mr. Roupell issued his address to the electors,
he commenced a system of bribery, by engaging public
houses under the guise of committee rooms, and from
100 to 150 were so engaged as a bribe to the publicans
for their votes, who in return were, under the pressure
of open houses, to exercise an undue influence (as
was done in a number of cages), on the hum-
bler classes of voters. So numerous were these
committee rooms, that two or three were to be found in a
street in closer proximity than was necessary for the
legitimate conduct of the election. In many cases the
publicans were also paid chairmen of the committees as
well a, paid canvassers. The case the learned counsel
quoted as an example of the system, and with which he
connected Mr. Roupell, was that of the Surrey Canal
Tavern, Kent-road, kept by a person named Gillen.
About a week before the election Mr. Roupell, accom-
panied by Mr. Doulton (oho acted as chairman of Mr
Roupell's principal committee as well as his chairman at
the large gatherings in the borough), and by Mr. Mur-
phy, Clerk to Mr. Roupell's agent, went to this com-
mittee room, the chairman of the committee being
Gillan's father. Mr. Roupell, on seeing Gillan, said to
him, " Well, how are yon getting on." Gillan replied
" Not so well as I could wish— this is Mr. Wilkinson's
strong ground." Mr. Doulton said to Gillan, " Well,
what would you recommend to be done." Galan
replied, "Open some more public houses."
(Laughter.) Murphy then said, " I'll come down
in the course of a day or so, and see which are
the -next to be opened." Mr. Roupell on that iname•
diately said, "Open them all, and we shall then be sure
of them." (Laughter.) It was a remarkable fact, to
be borne in mind in connexion with this conversation,
that up to the day of nomination only 42 public-houses
had been opened, but between Saturday and Monday
(the days of nomination and election) they had increased
to between 100 and 120. If they were opened before
the nomination, Mr. Roupell was in this diffi-
culty, that in returning the number of public_
houses to the election auditor, his agen't, by returning
only 42 bad made a fake return under the Act of
Parliament, and the payments beyond that were illegal.
In addition to the public houses and paid chambers of
committee, 200 paid committeemen were appointed, and
from 300 to 350 paid non-electors as canvassers, and the
committee were called on for the first time to
decide the legality of the latter appointment. The
fourteen days' expenses up to the day of
nomination were—For Mr. Wilkinson, 522/. ;
for Mr. Williams, 7531. 18s. 3d., and for Mr. Roupell,
2,6101. 17s. That charge gave them an insight into Mr.
Roupell's lavish expenditure, for out of it, 1,1551.
14s. 3d. was paid for public-houses as committee-rooms,
but to whom no mention was made, which was a viola-
tion of the Act of Parliament, and of itself invalidate I
the election. During the election the borough presented
a kind of saturnalia, flags, banners, omnibuses, and such
like met the eye at every corner, and it was with
difficulty persons could pass up and down the streets.
The expenses of the election after the nomination had
not been furnistoed by Mr. Roupell, as required by the
terms of the act of Parliament.
The usual formal notices cf the issue of the writ and
the return of Mr. Roupell, as member of Parliament for
the borough of Lambeth, were put in and read.
Mr Onslow, the returning officer, stated there were
20,276 voters in the bcroag!), which extended over an
area of 10 miles. To his knowledge the election was
conducted with the utmost propriety and credit ; no
complaints were made to him when he visited the poll-
ing booths from time to time during the day of elec-
tion.

Mr. Abbott, election auditor, examined by Mr. Ser.
geant Ballantine-Mr. Wilsinson's expenses were re-
turned up to the day of nomination, at 5221. 161. 10d.
Mr. WiLiams's at 7531. 133. 51., and Mr. Roupell's at
2,6101. 17s. He found in the latter account charges
for canvassers, clerks, messengers, fire, committee-
rooms, stationery, and cab hire ; 201. was charged for
Swan, but he was unable to give the details. He had
not yet been furnished with the name of the person
to whom it was paid, nor had he been furnished with
any details of the whole account. He had applied to
Mr. Murphy for them. The same applied to 181. 103.
for the Queen's Arms ; 151. for Prince Regent ; the
Tankard, 3/. is. ; St. Paul's Tavern, 151. 2 ; Sur-
rey Canal Tavern, 51. 7s. 61. ; the Pilgrim Tavern,
7/. 2s. ; Waggon and Horses, 6/, 13s. 6d. ; Bee Hive,
51, 7e. 6d. ; IV., 17/. ; George, 8/. 153.; Free-
masons' Arms, 1/. 15w. ; Black Horse, 51. 17s. 6d ;
Kentish Drover, 11/. 53. 61. ; Duke of Suffolk, 151. ;
Crown and Anchor, Si. ; Falcon, 2/. ; Prince of Wales,
4/. 9e. ; Royal Veteran, 15s. There were similar charges
for the 21st, 24th, and 27th of March, the particulars of
which had not been supplied to him.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied by a
consideration of matters of detail connected with Mr.
Roupell'e expenditure during the election.

From the evidence it appeared that the prosecutor
was standing opposite the Town-hall, when the prisoner
snatched the watch from his waistcoat pocket.
He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. The
maAstrate remarking if it was true that he was a ticket-
of-leave man, the Government could then detain him if
they thought prbper.