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• SATURDAY NIGHT.
More of the Ministers have been reelected. Yesterday, Lord Palmerston was returned for Tiverton. The most noticeable feature in the election- _speech of the Foreign Secretary is the bitterness displayed towards Sir Robert Peel as the leader of the party who thrust the Whigs from office in 1841, and afterwards, as he says, adopted " our" opinions and carried -" our measures into execution." The Whigs, however, have had their " satisfaction "; but the country required something more than the mere Carrying of the measures: political morality had to be vindicated. Illus- trating his position by the case of a distinguished naval officer, who was reprimanded for a mere " error of judgment," the political moralist pro. -ceeded-
But if errors of judgment are blameable in men of particular professions, those errors producing inconveniences of but a limited:extent, how much more respon- sible ought those individuals to be who are guilty of grave errors of judgment in matters of general interest and affecting the whole United Empire? The party, then, who from an error of judgment in 1841 prevented us from carrying into effect measures and principles which their subsequent conviction has shown them to have been fitting and right, have atoned to the people of this country for that error in judgment by the loss of that power which they had obtained by an erro- neous course; and I think that in the most fanciful works of the human imagina- tion there never was portrayed a more striking example of poetical justice than that which has followed the events of the last five years."
Yesterday also, Mr. Labouchere was reelected for Taunton; Sir George -Grey for Devonport; Mr. Rutherfurd, on Thursday, for Leith.
- At Plymouth, Lord Ebrington and Mr. Vincent were both put in nomi- nation yesterday. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Vincent; and the accounts leave it to be inferred that both candidates would go to the poll. Colonel Fox was reelected for the Tower Hamlets today.
Mr. O'Connell has carried his youngest son, Daniel, to Dundalk, as an opponent to Mr. Redington; that gentleman not being a Repealer.
Mr. Macaulay's election for Edinburgh was fixed for yesterday, and Mr. Gibson Craig's for Monday. The Manchester election takes place on Monday. Mr. Brown continues to be the only candidate for South Lan- cashire: the nomination is fixed for Tuesday. Other elections take place today; and all of them will have been gone early next week.
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