ELECTION GLEANINGS.

CORNWALL. After the election for the Eastern Division was over, Lord Eliot dined with a party of his friends. He said that he had certainly understood that Sir H. Vivian was to have made way for Sir W. Trelawney ; but that was not his affair. For himself, he was a Moderate Conservative, and should "rejoice to see a union of moderate men." Lord Eliot is a friend of the Duke of' Wellington.

At the nomination for the Western Division, Sir Charles Lemon spoke at length. Among other things, having declared that no possible 'r good could arise from the Reform of the Lords, he went on to defend his votes against the Government-

" It is quite true, that upon two important questions I have felt it my duty to resist their policy ; but it is sonic justification of my views, that the Govern- ment themselves have withdrawn both of those measures, and I ant persuaded that they will never again bring them forward in the shape in which 1 have opposed them. But have I endangered the Government by voting with them only when I could give them the support of an independent opinion? Oh no! They who have endangered the Government are they who promulgate danger- ous doctrines, and create just alarms, who identify themselves with Govern- ment when it suits their purpose, and turn upon them, and sting them, when they can obtain a little floating popularity by their ungenerous hostility ; they who rail at the timidity of the Wings, and place the Government between two fires of abuse ; who pitch the note of contempt, knowing that there is a party really at hand and willing to catch it up and echo it through the land, till it has become almost a fashion to despise the Whigs."

The Ballot is the object of Sir Charles Lemon's especial dislike; st • the Government measure on Church-rates be entirely repudiates, being • resolved at all risk to support the Church. 1 Mr. C. J. Ellis had hoped that Sir Charles Lemon would have taken a more liberal view of politics, and more nearly approached to the opinion of his late father. Mr. Pendarves avowed himself a supporter of the Ballot.

CUMBERLAND. The requisition to Aglionby and James was signed by 2255 persons : the votes given to Aglionby were 2294, to James 2124; so that East Cumberland was well canvassed and well polled.

DERBYSHIRE. Mr. Cavendish encountered the active hostility of the parsons in North Derbyshire. They objected, it seems, to his principles on Church matters upon which Mr. Cavendish observed, in his speech at the declaration of the pull- " My principles, gentlemen, are the same as those of the Duke of Devonshire ; but when they solicit livings from the Duke of Devonshire, they do not allow their consciences to interfere with their interests. Their consciences have the power of expansion when their own intents are concerned; but when I solicit a favour of them, their consciences have the power of contraction."

DEVONSHIRE. The zeal of some of the Tories is recorded by the 1Vestern _Luminary- " A circumstance unparalleled in the annals of electioneering occurred at the late contest for the Southern Division of this county. Ely/it brotht. rs of the mono of Shepherd, one of whom is a wine-merchant of this city, assem- bled together in Exeter from various and distant parts of the kingdom, and went from Cockram's New London Inn here in a coach and four horses down to Plymouth ; and all voted in the same booth immediately, one after the other, for Buller and Parker, without putting the candidates to one farthing expense. Being as remarkable an instance of devotion to Conservatism as to be met with in any family existing." After quoting this statement "from a correspondent," the Luminary adds- " We know a family in which devotion to Conservatism is equally strong, numbering nearly .forty who voted for Buller and Parker without putting the Members to any expense. The family we speak of is that of the proprietor of this paper." DURHAM. In his speech at the declaration of the poll for the Northern Division, Mr. Liddell intimated that Mr. Hutt had forced the tenantry of' Gibside to vote for the Liberals. To which charge, most improbable salt was, the Tyne Mercury gives an authorized con- tradiction.

GLOUCESTF.R. In a letter to Lord Moreton, Mr. Phillpotts con- tradicts a rumour that he has Tory inclinations. He is not, however, very explicit-

" When Parliament meets, my votes will afford the best answer to those who

lave thought fit to insinuate doubts ; and to that test I shall patiently refer them. The only apprehension I entertain is, lest some of those who think fit to doubt my sincerity may be found behind me in the march of Reform. Be assured that I aball be ever found in the foremost ranks. and that no individual is more anxious than myself for the success of her Majesty'a present Ministers in effecting those great oblects which have been proposed, and which in my humble judgment are essentially necessary for the happiness and tranquillity of ber Majesty's realms."

Gems:mem A paragraph has been going the round of the papers this week stating that Mr. VVolverley Attwood's seat is in jeopardy, in consequence of his being a contractor for the conveyance of mails, in his capacity of Chairman to the General Steam Navigation Company.

Hou.. About 3000/. has been subscribed, and Mr. Austin and Mr.

M. D. Hill have been retained, to overthrow the return of James and Wilberforce.

IPSWICH. The Suffolk Chronicle says that the writ obtained against Mr. Gibson, for personal bribery, was served on that gentleman on Tuesday last, at the office of his solicitor; and adds-

" This bits thrown the Ipswich Tories into a furious rage : and they now begin to fear that the full extent of their crimes will be brought to light, and have accordingly issued the following caution. ' To the Electors of IpswichWhereat.% Rigby Wagon is going after several electors for the purpose of getting them to sign papers, by which they will certainly get themselves into trouble : it is recommended to every elector to decline bolding any communication with, or sign any paper for Rigby Wason or his spies ! August 9, 1837.' More com- plete and satisfactory evidence of a guilty conscience was never witnessed than as furnished by the author of that placard."

LIVERPOOL. We learn from the Liverpool Chronicle, that of the old freemen, about 1,900 voted for the Tory and 750 for the Liberal candi- dates; whereas, of the householders, about 3,550 voted for the Liberals, and only 2,900 for the Tories. This is significant enough, and in one verse consolatory to the defeated. Nevertheless, it would be as well to give up Liverpool to the Tories : it can only be taken from them by bribery, as long as there are 2,500 of these freemen.

MIDDLESEX. Mr. Hume was one of the Radical Members who supported the 50/. tenant-at-will clause in the Reform Bill : for this blunder he was taken to task, with others, by the Morning Chronicle on the 11th instant but Mr. Hume considers his vote defensible, and thus explains his reasons for it in a letter to the Chronicle— "I voted for the 501. tenantry clause on the broad principle of extending the tramp as much aa possible ; and those who recognize property as a qualifica- tion for suffrage Can scarcely affirm that a tenant of 50/. per annum is less Intitled than a 40s. Ire la dder or a 10/. householder to a voice in choice of his representative. You, Sir, or your correspondent, may say ' that the Refornier4, knowing the great landholders were chiefly Tories, might have foreseen how they would influence their tenants ; and that the Counties would in consequence generally return only Tory Members.' I reply, that we were legislating for a nation, not for a party—for all time. not for the present day only ; and I add, moreover, that had the Whig Ministry followed up the imperfect and mangled Reform Bill, (which, however, gave them a sufficient and willing majority,) by amendments, giving Ballot arid Household Suffrage, (both of which Lord John Russell informs us were in the first draft of that bill,) then the 50/. tenantry clause would have been no boon to the Tories. Let the blame rest on the right shoulders. It is to the shortcomings of the Whigs, not to the weak- nesses of their Radical supporters, that they owe their present position in the representation ot the Counties ; and if they go on to patronize and defer to Tory Lords Lieutenant, and allow them to appoint only Tory Magistrates and county officials of all grades, they must abide the inevitable consequence—Tory Re- presentatives for all the counties."

It was not to the 5431. tenants that his defeat in Middlesex was chiefly Owing- " Further than all this, I deny that it is to the 507. tenantry chiefly that we owe the loss of the counties. In Middlesex—I can speak from the best informa- tion—the number of 408. freeholders which have been created since the election of 1895, and the thousand out-voters which the Tories boast of having brought up from all quarters to vote against me, might alone account for a defeat ; and if they had riot had the 50/. tenantry to coerce, they would only have made more 40s. freeholds. The Whigs ought to know that the Tories have the best tactics and the longest purses; and if, from public or private motives, the Whigs wish to retain their situations, it is for them to attend to the de- tails of the machinery for counteracting these advantages. But those who deny even the present expedience of giving votes to the 50/. tenantry, would do well to inquire how the 101. householders have been coerced in the boroughs, and at what cruel sacrifices (which cannot often be repeated) some tradesmen have defied Tory influence, and thereby given a bare majority to Liberal candidates. Will they dare to say, ' Then deny the suffrage to both these classes?' No, they dare not. There is no other alternative, then, but to reinstate the Reform Bill in its pro- jected integrity. Give us vote by Ballot, with first. lionseliold (and eventually Universal) Suffrage, and then there need be no further sparring between -Whigs and Radicals whose fault it is that the former are so bard pressed by the Tories ; for the Whigs, with yood measures to propose, and the People at their backs, may defy all opposition. If they will do none of these things, whatever be the consequences, on them be the responsibility. I will never, to suit the purposes of any party, abandon the great principle that representation should be, at least, coextensive with taxation."

Mr. Hume should have made the reinsertion of the Ballot the con- dition of his support of the Chandos clause. Without the Ballot, he knew that be was creating a class of voters whom the landlords would drive up to the hustings like cattle. Mr. Hume, we ob:erve, seems already to have cooled in his fond- ness for the Whigs : instead of" patting on the back," he gives earnest

of a good whacking shillelagh. Perhaps lie thinks that by reverting to his old independent position, he may secure the representation of a Radical borough, such as Lambeth or the Tower Hamlets, at the next election. The speculation would not be a had one. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. There is to be a Conservative tea-party on a large scale in Nottingham. Tea-parties did Godson T10 harm in Kid- derminster: let the Radicals in Nottingham look after their towns- women.

STAFFORDSHIRE. The following paragraph has appeared in the pa- pers this week-

" A curt respondence has taken place between Mr. W. Wrottesley, the son of Sir John Wrottesley, sod the Honourable J. C. Talbot, relative to a repair of the

speech of the latter at the Staffordshire election, in which it was intimated that Sir J. NVrottealey hail bartered his support of Colonel Anson for the promise of a Peerage. Mr. W. Wi ottesley soya the imputation is false, and calls on 3Ir. Talbot to retract it. The latter affirms that his words were incorrectly repotted,

and that he had no intention of charging Sir John Wrottesley with having** t. tered his (support of the Ministerial candidate for a Peerage."

TAMWORTH. At a dinner of the defeated party in Tarnw Captain Townshend reiterated his charge against Sir Robert Feet having covertly secured the return of Captain A' Court.

" The means which Sir Robert Peel and his party had adopted to prevent h.. (Captain Townffiend's) return were in the highest degree diagraceful asserted this to Sir Robert's face upon the hustings, and he would reaave. rt '- to the world—it should go forth, that wherever the name of Sir Robert pe: had reached, the disgrace which he bad incurred should accompany it, and possible, meet him in every direction, and touch him at every point, and l'o,f hint in the face on every occasion. The proofa were as clear as daylight thst ' Sir Robert Peel, under the mask of secrecy, had exerted his utmost powe'm ' effect the return of Captain A'Court, and to prevent Captain Townhend's• ar,a he had done it in utter contempt of reiterated declarations and pronii•es soleRtIp and publicly made. [Captain Townshend here read a paragraph of a speeehi Sir Robert Peel, in which he declared that he would do nothing, directly aria. directly, to oppose the Townshend family ; that he would never interfere with nor in any way endeavour to prevent, the roman of one independent Memt,er! and that he would never attempt by the influence of property even to effect In: own return.] Captain Townshend then asked—had he kept his premise? (Cries of " No, he had not!") A multitude of facts, impossible to be e0,„

travened, proved that he had not. He publicly charged him with insincerity; and for Sir Robert to deny it was a thing utterly vain, unless his denial could

destroy the evidence of the senses of the others, and subvert all the laws of le. lief, by throwing doubt upon facts confirmed by the testimony of numbers et respectable and credible persons."

The Captain complained of his clerical opponents, and especially a Mr. Blick-

Mr. hick was promoted to a handsome living by Captain Townshea, grandfather, the Alarquis Townshend. In consequence of the kindness shown by his family to this gentleman during that loug course of years, he had re- ceived a very large sum of money, so that it might have been supposed that some small remnant, some solitary emotion of gratetul feeling, might haw moved his breast and actuated his conduct towards the descendant of his hue,. factor. But this said gentleman, this clergy man, was not content with rams neutrality—he was not content with conducting an opposition to him in la honourable manner ; but he sent for 11111.71 who had promised to vote fot

him, and by every means endeavoured to persuade them to break their word_..coninnt a breach of common truth and honesty by violating their promises! The only instance in which he had heard this Mr. Illick preach, was from those beautiful words, " What (loth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ?" But ahem was the use of preaching without practising? and it was sufficiently obviono that Mr. Buick had a strange forgetfulness of the practical part. If he had not walked humbly before God, be had walked humbly before man, for be bal pulled his hat off and walked before Captain Townshend', grandfather mane times. He had now done with the clergy, for they were no friends of his.

WESTMINSTER. There has been a good deal of talking and writing in the newspapers this week about the intimidation of tradesmen. At the Lincolnshire election Lord Worsley had charged Mr. Christophu with having used undue influence to procure votes for Sir Francis Burdett, in the baronet's last contest for Westminster ; and being challenged to prove his accusation, Lord Worsley published a letter from a Mr. Tuck, a greengrocer, in Eaton-square. Mr. Tuck sap..

" The first gentleman who called on me to solicit my vote for Sir Francis wet Mr. Terry, of t30, Eaton Square. I told him I had promised it to Mr. Leader. He said if I voted for such a man as Mr. Leader I should have my house pulld about my ears in a abort time. He went home and gave directions to his or. vants to have nothing further of Tuck, as he was a Radical. My books will prove that no goods have been supplied to him after the date of May 6, 1£07. The next gentleman who called upon me was Mr. H. B. Baring, of 13, Eau)* Place. He called two days previous to the election to solicit in favour of Sir

F. Burdett. 1 told him, having promised my vote to the friends of Mr. Leader, I could not oblige him. He became greatly enraged, and said, 'as an old cue. tomer, he was entitled to and demanded my vote for Eir F. Burdett ; and tint if I did not vote for him, he would go instantly to Sir G. Murray, and my best customers, and inform them I was a Radical ;' intimating he would injure Me in my business to the greatest extent; which he did, by writing and persond attendance on several of my old customers, who in consequence left dealing with me. Ile further told me, that none but blackguards and persons in Tothin Fields, and the other low parts of Westminster, voted for Mr. Leader. There were witnesaes in my shop that can bear testimony to the perfect truth of the whole of this. He instantly left dealing with me; also a gentleman of the name of Christopher, of 97, Eaton Square, next withdrew his custom from pea I wrote to Lady Mary Chi istopher, his wife, to ascertain the cause, but received no reply ; I learned from his domestics my voting for Mr. Leader was the cause. Lady Shelley, 35, Belgrave Square, wrote at the bottom of may . I was to he discharged ; from the servants I found the reason was, my support. iog the Liberal candidate. Sir C. Bigot, 82, Eaton Square, on the very day of election sent for his bill, and with it a receipt, stating, ' if I was at liberty to support Mr. Leader, he was also at liberty to trade with whom he thought proper.' Mr. Lyon, 39, Belgrave Square, next withdrew his favours; my servant called for a reason; when it was stated, 31r. Lyon had been to ,11r. Flaring's, and coining home, directly gave orders to discontinue trading with Tuck. Sir 11. l'eyton, 19, Grosvenor Place, I have good grounds of knowing, left me on account •if supporting the Liberal candidate; and several other per. sons, which it is not important to name, left solely on account of my voting for Alr. Leader ; which, as far as I can calculate, makes a difference in amount of gouda sold of between 201. and 30/. per week in the London season." The publication of this letter produced the following reply NO Mr. H. B. Baring, addressed to the Tinges- " Eaton Place. 16th August 1137. " Sir—Sly attention has been called to a letter in this evening's Globe, ad. dressed by a greengrocer in Eaton Square, of the name of Tuck, to Lord Worsley, M.P. for Lincolnshire. His Lordship, in his endeavour to blacken the character of his honourable colleague, luta thought fit to publish along letto reflecting on many individuals, four lines only of which letter have any reference to the object of his abuse, Sir. Christopher. As far as I am concerned, 1 beg_nnwe positively to contradict the report there given of my interview with Mr. Tuck. It is true that I solicited his vote in favour of Sir F. Burdett: and that lens deavoured to point out to him the inconsistency of his conduct in supportl.eg Mr. Leader, while he assured me that he entertained strictly Conservative opinions, and should be at all times most happy to support his customer, SIC G. Murray ; but I distinctly deny that there was the least violence of manner or language on either side ; and so little did I conceive that I had incurred Mr. Tuck's indignation, that I had the pleasure of receiving a civil imte from Inn! attune days previous to the last We,tmilister election, vie that he had just rec4;irttl the appointment of tradesman to the Court —the.rehg. 'annihilating the good C)lisercutive ihttniions he hfld nutnipstul with rc• ference to ,Sir G. Murray.

I 0 In concluson, beg to assure Lord Wore ley, that if his conetituents take i

s 1Y interest 10 the gossip of a Westminster canvass, I can readily sup- Mr Christopher urth one or two anecdotes of. his lordship's partisanship (Et; fly. the recent contest, which will yteld an delicacy to none that he has so coarT,emorated.

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I Sir, your obedient humble servant, HENRY BARING." " Brother, brother, we are both in the wrong"—it is not for Whigs to be too severe on Tory " foul influence :" they did a good deal in that way themselves—perhaps as much as their opponents in proportion to their means. WILTSHIRE. Mr. Paul Methuen has addressed a farewell letter to thv electors of North Wilts, which contains this cutting reproof of his old fliend, but now ungenerous foe, Sir Francis Burdett— My absence from the contest, the total impossibility of my friends who were present replying to a charge which they (lid not hear, might, I think, have in- tia generoua enemy to have practised a little more forbearance than is to be tLil in the reported speeches of Sir Francis Burdett on this occasion. The euufession of his new faith would not have been less acceptable to those with whom he now associates, (many of them high.minded and honourable men,) iF,remernheriog my past fellowship with him, my long connexion with you, end, I must add, my present misfortunes, he had spared those reproaches which it o mild have required no ingenuity to retort upon himself. If I announced my intention to retire from Parliament, so did Sir Francis Burdett; if at the request of a numerous body of your constituency I consented to forego my reso- lutien, so did Sir Francis Burdett ; and if I did not follow hie example in miming a successor, I must say, as my excuse, that the manner in which the !immutable baronet's legacy was received in Westminster, has shown that there ,,aue political experiments which, as they are too perilous even for Sir Fre cis Burdett, would have been very extravagant and ridiculous in me." YORKSHIRE. The unscrupulous manner in which the Tories used the Church question in the late election is proved by their raising a Beilby Thompson, in East Yorkshire, that he was rev against Mr. for pulling down the Church. Mr. Thompson voted against the Irish A propriation.clause, and has always been a zealous Churchman. In allioion to the above charge, Mr. Thompson said, in a speech to the electors after his defeat- " Party ingenuousness has called me not a supporter, but a destroyer of the Clutch. Those who made the charge must have known it was untrue. They could hardly have been ignorant of facts that speak conclusively against such an accusation. I have subscribed to the decoration and preservation of more than twelve Protestant churches connected with my estate, and never refused to subscribe to any church in my life. It is in this way that I have endeavoured to sidivert the Church! Their is another way in which I have upheld the true interests of the Church : it was, not by words—by electioneering 'professions, made today to be forgotten to-morrow—it was by educating four or five hundred children in that established form of worship which I follow myself."

Mr. Thompson complains with some bitterness, that lie was taken by surprise, and that his defeat was owing to the start gained upon him by Mr. Broadley. But there certainly appears to be nothing very unfair in getting the start of an opponent, when no breach of faith is com- mitted.

The Tory Leeds Intelligencer says, that the Whig Lords forced their tenants to vote for Lord Morpeth and Strickland— "The Duke of Norfolk's agents put on the screw with unusual severity ; Lord Fitewilliam's did the same ; Lord Thanet's agents made the election n matter of life and death ; the Duke of Devonshire's were not a whit behind ; and Lord Burlington's insisted that promises given to Mr. Wortley should be violated under penalties which the poor tenants understood too well."

IRELAND.

BELFAST. The Tories have raised 3,000/. to defray the expense of a petition against Lord Belfast and Mr. Gibson.

ILALIN. The Tories are preparing to petition against the return of O'Connell and Hutton ; and from a letter sent to the Times by the Secretary of the Protestant Association in London, there is reason to suspect that the funds of that Association are to be used for the pious purpose of unseating the returned Members. Money will he wanted ; for it is said that Mr. Harrison's fee of 500/. for his services in the last petition has not yet been paid.

GALWAY. There was a riot at Tuam on Wednesday week, which ended fatally. There had been several fights arising out of election 91nirrels; and a body of armed police was brought from Galway to TUIIM- " The police," says the Galway Patriot, " commenced taking up several persons. Even those who were seen standing together and talking in the shops were taken prisoners. This irritated the people, and some hooting or shouting wila raised. There was also Rome throwing of stones. The police were drawn into barracks for a time, but again drawn out. Mr. Hesty, Coroner, and Mr. Gannon proposed to Mr. Kirwan, who was the acting Magistrate, that some means besides the interference of the police should be taken to quiet the people; and these two gentlemen offered to interfere themselves, and prevail Upon the crowd to separate. Mr. Kirwan, it is said, listened not to their sug- "potions. Whether through obstinacy, or through a belief that the influence of these gentlemen was useless, I cannot say. The consequence was, that the people continued to be excited, and collected together. Orders were given to the police to fire; and two persons, who, it is said, were not at all concerned in the riots, fell victims. An inquest was held; and on Friday morning, the Jury returned the following verdict—, We find that the deceased, Canton and Burke, came by their deaths from gun.shot wounds wilfully and maliciously inflicted by some of the twenty-four policemen, under the command of Mr. John A. Kirwan, of Hillsbrook.'" KERRY. Mr. Mullins has been defeated by the Tory, Mr. Blenner- bassett, in spite of the personal exertions of O'Connell. To this dis- aster the conduct of Al ullins himself contributed a good deal. The Dublin correspondent of the Chronicle says- " It was asserted and believed, that instead of giving any protection to the voters who were after the last election persecuted for voting for him, he actually insulted and derided them. However, even his personal unpopularity might have been got over, but for his neglect and mismanagement. The first pohing.(I ay he had a quarrel with his law. agent. He soon after the polling began actually insulted and placarded his committee—neglected the voters the m oment they polled—had no order, no method—every thing was to be done for him wilco, alas ! it was too late. In the annals of elections there never was st,Y thing like it."

There were other causes of defeat at work-

" Iii. quite true that the agent of the Marquis of Lansdowne brought up and pined the electors of the. Marylis'a estate for the Libes al candidates; but his father-in law, the Reverend Mr. Godfrey, canvassed agaiust him, and the

most active Conservatives in the whole county are his brothers. What think you of the voters on the estate of the Chancellor of the Exchequer having almost to a man polled for the Tory ! The truth is, that his agent and near relative, Mr. Colles, was, perhaps, the most active canvasser for the Tory. And thus Spring Rice's estate has been made ancillary to a Tory triumph." Mr. Spring Rice is a sly person, who looks far ahead : it was hardly by mistake that his tenants voted for the Tory.

TRALEE. The Agitator soffered another defeat in his own county. Maurice O'Connell lost his election for Tralee, owing to the strange conduct of the Assessor. A letter in the Chronicle says- " Mr. Maurice O'Connell was quite certain of his return for the third time. On the first occasion he was returned by a majority of 8; on the second by a majority of only 4; on this present occasion he had a clear majority of 31. Oa each election Mr. George Blake Hickson, who has lately been made Q. as was the Assessor. The voters of the borough had passed the ordeal twice before him—twice—and voted in a majority for Mr. O'Connell. Could there be a doubt that they would be allowed to vote the third time? Nobody, at least amongst the popular party, was mad enough to suppose that the man who had allowed the validity of their franchise twice, would disfranchise them on the third occasion. Yet so it is. Mr. Hickson disfranchised about one hundred voters who tendered their votes for Mr. Maurice O'Connell, and thus easily obtained a majority for Mr. Bateman—the entire constituency not much exceeding 230 electors." A subscription, headed by Mr. Scott of Cahircon and Morgan John O'Connell, who have each given 100/, has been opened, to peti- tion against the return of Mr. Bateman, the Tory.

YOUGHALL. The Tories will petition against the return of Howard.