New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-07

Ike blackguards In the expression Of their opinions Of
verybody--but 30 was that Of John Bright, John
Stnart Mil, and every man and thing not identified
with class interests and the alton Of abuses
nd that. think, is the only American item Of the
week, the harrenness Of wbchin that particular re
speedway be conceived by my mention Of it.
Our English topics are the election and the weather
This dry fortnight barring accidents the wrts will bt
issued for the General Election and in the course Of
the second third week IN July may expect that
the polling booths viii be open for voters. Probably
there event OF the kind productive OF sc
little pubic excitement but Of its influence u
quite perceptibe in London in the absence Of large
number Of people belonging TO the class which fills the
parks and operas who have found 1t necessary 70 leave
town earlier than usual to attend to their interests IN
the approaching contest. Hitherto 1t has been gener
ally admitted that the Tories have worked harder and
drilled better than the Liberals. Like our old pro-
Slavery Democracy at home, contrasted with the he'
pnblicans there 10 a compact corruptness about the
former-a fidelity to their conservative Mumbo Jumbo
-refreshngly suggestive Of the Tamwany Hall axiom
II TO be the highest Of moral duties 70 vote
for the devil las II commonly dd) II regularly NOM
mated The Carlton sends down it's "member Tor the
gentleany interest its electioneersnO agents and It's
money and the obedient country squres and farmers
like the landlord In Martin Chuzzlewit, put on their
topboots and vote for him. Their federation VI irregular
candidates Is akin to that Of SCOTS Sergeant Major
who Gu, down tho unluck trooper who could Mt keep
In line but caracoled BY himself outside the squadron
Now the Liberals organize indifercnty. or not Ct
all run two members where one would do. Tolerate
outsiders and fight, like Coo Chrom for their own
hand" rather than in rank and file. Unpaid and M
drilled they hardly know their own strength Not
withsanding all this, their prospects are said to be
very much better Just than they were some months
or even weeks ago Their electioneering agents pre-
diet that the Ministry will have clear majority Of
forty votes and that though few seats will probably
be lost in the borough the loss will be much Than
by expected gains in the counties In
The metropolis itself the elections not the subject
Of much COMMENT with the exception Of Westminster
where Mr.. Mill will probably be returned, but certainly
not by an overu helmng majority. Smith. the news
agent-who has monopoly Of selling newspapers and
other literature almost every railway In the king
dom, and occupies large central office in the Strand,
eastward OF Somerset House-is working the borough
in the good old corrupt STYLE worthy Of the days OF
Ystton, Eatonswil. and Old Sarum. Almost every
public house is eommittes.room beer flows freely,
boures fame with paroolored posters and the bribery
popular newsDapyr dsrent sttack this unscrupuous
candidate because be Is by far their largest customer.
Smith. in fact. is q rich man. and proportonstcly
nv ful Some yeas ago Tia Tims tried TO dispense
with Smith. smskiug a persistent effort 10 sell its
issue without his aid. but it couldn't manage it, and
now who SO welcome In Printing House Square
not to mention other journalistic ocalitesas Smith
The selfrespectiDg absence ofMr Mil bis greatest op
hns AZ It'll coef I'M,
,ome votes. Westminster. like other metropolitan
is not too honest high mnded-hns
not been SO since the Duchess (of Grafton IT'D went
or Fox and didn't seruTle To kiss butcher
In that candidates interest-bu think the name and
equation OF Mr. Mil carry tho day against either
smith OF Capt Grossenor Thomas Hughes, Il. A..
better known to the civilized world, speaking the Eng
lish language as the author OF Tom Browns School
Days and Oxford Life donors Lambeth by standing for
II with some prospect Of success. though not very
brilliant one. Many constituencies both metropolitan
and provincial prefer secoDdrate men and local inter
ests to principle and progress Thus Whitby burrahs
for George Hudson. "the exrailway king'-who didn't
have u statue TO him, cooked" accounts swindled
thousands oollapsedbut Is prosperous that he
declares his intention Of buying estate in the neigh
borhood Of this apprecatiye community. Halifax pre-
fers a rich yoDng manufacturer TO cabinet minister.
nd 10 Londou had we not Roupell and Edwin James
Talking Of the former, be is to appear in the next
ssizes as q witness in the great will Gaze TO prove
that be forger and not liar the holders Of the
mortgages his reputcd property assert. Here
few items spropos Of him and political corruptions
extracted from the speech Of Mr. Chadwick.
chairman at disc ussion " bribery and expenses at
elections at the Association for the Promotion OF 50.
eal Science. quote the whole paragraph pertinent
to the subject:
"In other countries the gross debauchery and rotng
OF our elections as we'll the excessive expenditure.
any getting of third men for the sake Of the elec
toral expenditure In oonesssuch scenes as those at
the last election for BrghtoDarc subjects Of surprise
and dispaTaging comment In respect ~ electoral eI
penditure told that In France four or five hundred
rsncs would be the usual amount Of candidates e1-
penses; and that Expenditures Of double that amount
thirty or forty pounds are open TO beng challenged
az irregular Ny Information related to elections be-
electoral expenditures urchaenged and indeed slowed
regular in England counties ~ wei as In boroughs
veIy respectable metropolitan member. who had
spent some two thousand pounds, but who had been
beaten in third election by another who had spent
-four, declared to me that his opponent without refer
ence 70 his political. moral or intellectual merits,
would be beaten by any other who spent six
highly respectable man, Mr.. Wilkinson, who speLt
between and three thousand pounds. beaten bv
Mr.. Roupei. Notwithstanding notoriously bad sDie-
cedents, who spent more than i've thousand pounds.
set forth IN the parliamentary returns legal The
instruments used by Mr. Rorpell were upward Of fifty
committee rooms aud committees. and eight nine
hundred VI paid canvessers ard hired messengers In
one small country town. which had only two
hotels, almost every public house and beer shop was
hired AZ commt.ee-Ioom, with its paid committee.
men and sssers and the place was drenched with
drink. Is 1t not possible 10 evoke public opinion
against the Of such machinery, which is as open
and fragrant misuse Of money-pOwer as putting money
in the voters hand in tho open streets AT South
amptoD, a gentleman, whose labors had been
Of material advantage 10 the town. was moved to
consider Of presenting himself 10 the town caDdi
date but inquiry he told that he must retain all
the Liberal lawyers thcre-s0me dozen Of them-and
LoI 10 hara ohunn In