ELECTION GLEANINGS.

BOLTON. The Bolton Free Press says that several farmers near Rochdale, who voted against the candidate favoured by their land- lords, have received notice to quit.

BUCKS. Lord Howe having been charged with unduly influencing his tenantry, has written as follows to the Morning Chronicle- " I have just seen in a local newspaper, copied from your paper, a statement that at the late Bucks election I sent cards to all my tenants ' and tradesmen, DESIRING them to vote for the Conservative candidates.' As you have in- serted the statement of this cowardly correspondent, I trust you will have the kindness to allow my solemn assurance of the whole being a most base and shameful falsehood in every particular, to appear in your columns."

DURHAM. At a dinner given to Mr. Lambton and Sir W. Chaytor, last week, at Sunderland, the following letter from Lord Durham, who bad been invited to join the party, but declined, was read by the chairman.

"Lambton Castle, 14th August 1837. " SIR—I feel very grateful to the electors of the Northern Division for the signal mark of their esteem and regard which you have been kind enough to communicate to me. They will not be offended, however, if I respectfully decline the invitation with which they have honoured me. " The contest for the representation of the division has commenced and pro- ceeded without my having personally participated in it. In my humble judg- ment, it is advisable that it should terminate in the same spirit. I trust, how- ever, that they will give me credit for the motives which induce me, most reluctantly, to decline availing myself of an opportunity which, in other circum- stances, I should seize with eageruesss—that of meeting the Liberal electors of this county.

"Allow me, at the same time, to express to them, throogh you, my heartfelt gratitude for the powerful support which they have given my brother. It is indeed, but a continuance of the same confidence which they have so often ex- tended to me when I had the honour of being their Representative ; but it is equally precious, as being the most convincing proof that those feelings of attachment which for centuries they have shown towards my family, and the principles they have ever supported, are in no degree altered or diminished. " Be assured of this, that in all circumstances—at all hazards—be the per- sonal consequences what they may, I will ever respond to their call. When- ever my aid to the cause of Reform and Liberal principles is required, it shall be freely and cordially given. This may be called dictation.' If so, I plead guilty to the charge ; and have only to pray them to make such arrangements as will enable me to give, at the earliest moment, the best and surest proofs of my determination to merit that accusation to the fullest extent.

" I have but one political object in this world—to serve my country. I hope I may say, without presumption, that I have done so already to a certain extent, but never by indirect or improper means. It is my intention to pursue the same course. This may be called 'ambition.' If so, again I say I plead guilty to the charge ; and request my accusers to be assured, that if life and health are spared me, their malignant feelings will be amply gratified by the repeated opportunities which I shall endeavour thus to afford them for the exercise of their chief weapon of offence—calumny and misrepresentation."

In remarking upon Lord Durham's letter to Mr. Boulby, the chair- man ( Mr. Spearman, of Newton Hall) said-

" Of this letter I may say, that it has given satisfaction to all parties. Even our Conservative competitor declares that he is satisfied with Lord Durham's letter ; and after such an authority, it would be presumption in me to say that I also am satisfied with it."

Mr. Hutt's health was drunk at this dinner ; and that gentleman took the opportunity of explicitly denying the truth of Mr. Liddell's assertion that be had influenced the Gibside tenantry to vote for the Liberal candidates. Of Mr. Liddell, and the means by which his election had been gained, Mr. Hutt said— It was the misfortune, rather than the crime, of the electors to have returned Mr. Liddell, who was a Tony; and something worse than a Tory ; for he ap- peared to be taking up certain extreme notions just at the time when every man of sense and discernment was laying them down. For instance, did they think Sir Robert Peel would ever talk of maintaining Protestant ascendancy by the sword? No, he was too wise to do so. But stifled as had been the voice of the constituency by the system of fagot-votes, the heart and soul of the country was still attached to the cause of Reform ; and they would no longer endure to be taxed in order to give the means to their enemies of trampling on their rights and liberties. He could not conclude better than by proposing as a toast, " Vote by Ballot." ( Great applause.) KENT. The Reformers celebrated the election of Mr. Hodges for the Western Division by a splendid entertainment, given in a booth erected in a field at the back of the Maidstone Free School. Mr. Hodges and Dr. Knox were the chief orators. Alluding to the intimidation of voters, Mr. Hodges said—

He had on former occasions appealed to the Ballot as the only means by which intimidation could be prevented. He knew that there were objections to the Ballot; and it grieved him exceedingly to think that it should ever be con-

sidered necessary. Those persons who opposed the Ballot were laving the foundation of their own destruction by rendering it necessary ; for he believed that the Ballot would inevitably be followed by an extension of the suffrage. They might be called advocates of Democracy; -but, if they could not obtain freedom of voting, the representative system was in fact a system of nomination by what is called the " money power." Now money was property ; and ex. cepting in the places where the franchise was exercised by freemen, it was based on property. All the electors had an interest in the maintenance of property; and to suppose that they would des any thing to destroy the legitimate influence of property, was to suspect them guilty of an act of suicide, that had never yet entered into their heads.

Dr. Knox spoke of the interference of the clergy in the elections, and its bad consequences; and declared he could not tell how it hap. pened that the clergy were the " most determined supporters of the tor. cbristian spirit of Toryism."

" I might, if the time would allow, suggest some conjectures upon this ex- Unordinary anomaly; but I abstain, remarking only, that I cannot but suspect

that the system pursued at the great seminaries of education, the Universities,

is in a great degree the cause of this. Something also—for after all clergymen

are but men—may be attributed to the long and uninterrupted career which Toryism has enjoyed of power and patronage. For more than half a century, preferment came only from one quarter, and to that quarter all were taught to

look. The expectants of preferment will require some time before they can

learn to direct their eyes from the quarter from whence they have hitherto looked for the refreshing showers of honour and emoluments. The Tories pro. fees great exclusive regard and veneration for religion. Extraordinary claims to, and professions of any one virtue, always give nee to suspicion of the reality

of the virtue's existence. In religion this is most especially true; and we have the authority of one whose word cannot be denied for its correetness. And how, let me ask—how have the Tories displayed and proved their venera- tion (for that is their expression) for religion? Is it by the disgraceful, the impious, the profane use, which they have made of the holy term, for the pur- poses of mere electioneering machinations? Is it by the insult offered to the sacred volume, the Holy Bible, in causing it to be stuck up as an election pla- card upon the walls of every town and village throughout the kingdom, and in exposing it to the thoughtless ribaldry of electioneering partisans? Can we see• the sacred book placarded on our walls, pelted and besmeared with filth and dirt by thoughtless boys, and not justly suspect the claims to superior venera- tion for it by those who caused it to be thus degraded? Out upon such hypo. edgy!"

The Whigs should make the Reverend Dr. Knox an Archdeacon at the least.

LEWES. In the Brighton Gazette the following case of interference with voters is mentioned as a set-off against some Tory proceedings-- "We are informed that George Tinsley, who has been employed as a letter. carrier at Lewes for about forty years, and has been a scot and lot voter thirty. eight years, and favourable to the Conservative interest, received a letter from London previously to the last election for this borough, desiring him not to vote. Tinsley, however, disobeyed the injunction, and did vote for the Conser- vative candidate ; and yesterday morning Mr. Saxby, the Postmaster, re- ceived, as we are informed, orders to discharge him ! Tinsley, our informant says, was not a servant of Government, but was employed by Mr. Saxby."

MIDDLESEX. Much has been said about the creation of fagot-votes in Middlesex and Huntingdonshire by the Duke of Bedford, in the

Tory newspapers, especially the Standard, in whose columns the sub- ject was constantly served up as an annoyance tothe-wdrics. Two years ago, It was proved clearly enough that the Duke of bvdford bad nothing to do with the Huntingdon votes ; and the Standard, on Mon- day, published the following extract from a letter in explanation of the Middlesex votes- " The Duke of Bedford, having considerable property in Middlesex, and having entertained a wish, whether reasonable or not, that it should be repre- sented by his sons, directed his agent many years ago—long before the Refonn Bill—to provide them with votes for that county. It was accordingly morn. mended and settled to give them rent-charges' on houses in Bloomsbury ; for which they have always received, through his Grace's agent, their respective rentals. But as they have never attached much political value to these votes, so they have bad no desire to keep them on the register when they were objected to after the Reform Bill had passed ; and, although they were defended and maintained in 183546, the rent-chargers have since determined, after having twice established the legality of the votes, to restore their rent-charges to the Duke of Bedford ; which was accordingly done, after the last registration, by the same agent who had undertaken the management of them.

" The writer adds, in a postscript, that neither the Duke of Bedford nor Lord John Russell had any thing to do with the purchase of the Hartford vote, in Huntingdonshire. They knew nothing whatever of the transaction until long after it had taken place ; the purchase having been made after the Duke of Bedford had ceased to have any connexion with Huntingdonshire.'"

A party of Middlesex Liberals dined on thursday at the City Arms Tavern, Hammersmith, with Mr. Byng and Mr. Hume. Both the Members dwelt upon the dishonest means by which Mr. Hume had been unseated ; and Mr. Hume strongly exhorted the Liberals to look closely after the registration.

Nonrotic. We would strongly recommend any friend of ours, be- fore he get into a quarrel with anybody bearing the name of Childs and living at Bungay, to be sure he has the right on his side—else pitiless exposure awaits him as certainly as he lives to suffer from it. A Mr. John Longueville Bedingfield, son of Squire Bedingfield of Ditchingham, was an active Tory partisan at the late East Norfolk election ; and used the influence of a landlord over an old Liberal voter, namedLeggate, (whom Mr. Charles Childs, son of John, had pro- cured to be placed on the register as a Liberal,) to make him break his promise and support the Tory candidates. He sent the parish con. stable to take Mr. Leggate, who is almost eighty, up to the poll : but Mr. Charles Childs, having gained information of what was going on, applied to the son of the voter, who indignantly declared that his father should not be forced to break his word ; and finally the old mail polled for Windham and Gurney. Of course the squire was enraged : he ordered in his bill for work from Leggate's son, a smith; and called Charles Childs a "rascal of a fellow." Whereupon Mr. Childs publishes an account of the whole transaction, in a letter to Mr. Bed. sngfield, civilly thanking him for the aid he has given to the advocates of the Ballot.

NORWICH. The Norwich Mercury says that from forty to fifty thou• sand pounds were spent at the last election in bribery and corruption-

,. It is admitted, that very nearly one-fourth of the constituency were bribed with hard money. It is admitted, that not fewer than five hundred men on

both sides were cooped—that is, mewed up at public and private houses in the villages Of Norfolk, where, when gorged and intoxicated, they fi ught, rioted, &nit slept themselves sober, only to plunge afresh into renewed excesses for some three, four, five, or six days, as the case might be. It is admitted that shop-

sad householders, apparently respectable in situation and manners,

ldePrrs ,led away their franchise for solid sovereigns. Nay, we could name pro- bawl

feesiooal men, whom the world and the world's law have left so bare of sub-

,wee and of right feeling, that they have sold themselves o ith as little reluctance as the neediest handicraftsman out of work, whose starving family atoustes his offence. It is admitted that the sum laid out in the last two hours far outgoes all former instances of this profligate prodigality. We have it from the individuAls themselves that they received 40 acid 50 sovereigns a pica, We know one instance of a fellow, a housekeeper and tradesman who took thirty from one party, and forty from the other for which le voted, and kept both. Another took 151. and 301. in the same manner. We have heard b man actually received 1001. ; thought it insufficient; and as the time tofactlaosing the pull drew nigh, and the actual superiority was not ascertained, demanded and received 35 sovereigns more. Another is stated to have gained tog in the same way. These anecdotes are coupled with such terrible relations of the influence, the persuasion, the menace, and actual privation of employment on the part of men who ought to be, and in the ancient states who would base been, ignominiously thrust forth form the city and the society of honest men, that the mind sickens with disgust at the passions which are thus inflated to uphold the personal and party importance of the principal actors in this scene

of political depravity and degradation."

STAFFORDSHIRE. The Staffordshire Examiner says—" The expenses of the election for South Stafford, on the Tory side, have, we hear,

exceeded very far the amount raised to meet them. A considerable deficiency will have to be provided for." Sussex. In East Sussex, one gentleman came down to Brighton to vote for Darby and Fuller, having already voted for Conservative can- didates in five other places. A gentleman of Lewes, who travelled from Devonshire to vote at the borough election, made a second jour.

ney to vote for Darby and Fuller ; and the number of those who tra. yelled for this purpose at their own cost, was larger than on any previous occasion. But the most striking case was that of a respected and esteemed nobleman in the Eastern part of the county, who not only exerted himself strenuously for the good cause, but actually insisted on defraying the whole cost of conducting the election in one entire dis- trict, the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells. When such a spirit is seen pervading all classes, it is farcical to talk of " intimidation ;" which, if employed at all, has been used by the Whigs in a tenfold degree to the Conservatives.—Brighton Gazette.

TRURO. Mr. Tooke, who was defeated at the last election, has again addressed the electors of that borough in the anticipation of another general election, as he considers it next to impossible that either party can carry on the Government without another appeal to the people at a very early period.

WAKEFIELD. The late contest at Wakefield was a very close one ; and the Tories bribed without stint to throw out Mr. Gaskell, one of the most honest and sound Members whom the young Reform Act sent into the House of Commons. They succeeded in corrupting too many; but some poor fellows stood firm ; and among them, nobody deserves more honourable mention than Robert Davies, a working tanner, with fourteen children. " He was solicited," says the York Courant, "by the Tory party, on the eve of the election, to sell some goods for far more than their value—which he refused ; and he was then offered THIRTY POUNDS to go into the country and amuse himself on the day of election—which he also refused." Hear this and blush, ye who at Liverpool, Hull, and Bath, sold yourselves to your still

more base tempters !

WARWICK. A correspondence has taken place between Sir Charles Douglas, M. P. for Warwick, and Mr. Bolton King, with reference to Sir Charles Douglas insisting on addressing the electors first, at the nomination of the candidates at the late borough election, and the ani- madversions on this subject by Mr. Bolton King. The dispute has terminated satisfactorily.

WESTMINSTER. Mr. R. A. Christopher, the new Member for the Lindsey parts of Lincolnshire, has addressed a letter to his consti- tuents, repelling the charge of Tuck the greengrocer, that he had endeavoured to influence Tuck's vote for Westminster. In strange for- getfulness of the transactions at Ipswich, which cost Mr. Christopher, then Mr. Dundas, his seat for that borough, the honourable Member says- " I beg leave to state, that neither I nor any person in ray establishment ever aid attempt to control any voter, in Westminster or any other place, in the free and independent exercise of his elective franchise ; and any insinuation to the contrary is a false and malicious libel on my reputation and character. I never had a partiality for low company, and therefore decline entering into a paper controversy with Lord Worsley's new Radical ally. I leave him to the generous protection of the noble lord, whose ears, however impervious they any have been to my observations in the Castle Vard on the day of nomina- tion, appear to be peculiarly sensitive to the idle] gossip of greengrocers and smilious in the purlieus of Westminster."

IRELAND.

KERRY. In reference to the statement which we copied last week from the Morning Chronicle, and which had previously appeared in the Dublin Evening Post, that Mr. Spring Rice's tenants had voted for the Tory in Kerry, Mr. Rice says, in a letter to the Dublin paper— "In order to remove any misconception which this communication might produce, it is due to myself to state that whilst I have not felt myself pre- cluded from informing those who were connected with me as tenants, what *ere my own political feelings and wishes, I have, at the same time, most strictly and scrupulously abstained from any attempt at control or authoritative *hat consistency tofetter _their free will in the exercise of their franchise. With ."._an could any person contend for the principle of freedom of dependent tqfmn him? The l'etter.which I wrote to my agent on the 10 my tenants, e ollowing effect—' I wish you would be so good as to ez- ants, that whilst I should be far from employing. any the very oast authority, my strongest wishes are in favour of the late sitting .Members ; :u3pdpoli.ath.all feel gratified it any one connected with my estate will give them ving this In repeatingthis communication, on the 29th, I again added—' In n to my tenants, I never will use any control over the votes of 14'st who may be dependent:on me.' " I have given this explanation, lest it should be inferred that I could be in- different to the success of candidates who stand upon principles avowedly Liberal. But, however false and unjust such a supposition would be, I should infinitely prefer it to the more serious charge of having, in any instance, en- deavoured to interfere with the free exercise of an elector's vote, and of having thus acted on a principle myself which I have complained of, and condemned, when adopted by political opponents."

Mr. Rice, however, does not deny the fact that his agent is a Tory, and an active canvasser for the Tory party. He does not, in effect, secure his tenants' freedom of election, for he hands them over to a Tory agent : he assists the Tories, and on the maxim that " qui facit per alterum facit per se," coerces his tenantry.

LONGFORD. A correspondent of the Dublin Register says that the poll-books and Sheriff's papers were stolen immediately after the elec- tion for Longford County ; and it is supposed that some of the Tory partisans are the perpetrators of the theft. A reward of 50/. has been offered for the recovery of the documents. The Tories threaten to petition against the return.

QUEEN'S COUNTY. The Liberal papers are desirous of proving that Mr. Fitzpatrick is not one of Dr. Machale's " cow-boys." The Chronicle says- " Mr. Fitzpatrick is the heir-apparent to estates exceeding 10,0001. a year in value, situate in the county which he has been called upon to represent ; and is connected with the noble houses of Holland, Lansdowne, Dunmore, and Milltown. He is, moreover, a very sincere and religious Protestant ; not quite so expert, indeed, at canting as our pious contemporary, ( meaning the Standard,) but a true and zealous member of the Established Church."

TIPPERARY. After the utter defeat of the Tories, Mr. Shed ad- dressed the triumphant Liberals. He alluded to the unauthorized im- prisonment, by a Mr. Chaytor, of some Liberal voters. Chaytor, we suppose, is an agent of the Earl of Glengall-

" You all know Mr. Chaytor, that he is a magistrate as well as an agent. I sent to Caher to the gaoler, and demanded the warrant upon which the men were committed ; and 1 got for my answer, that there had been no warrant sent with them. Mr. Chaytor for this shall be arraigned at the bar of his country; and as my Lord Glengall has before condemned his countrymen, we shall see instead of being an accuser, what sort of a defender he will make when he stands up to vindicate his friend Mr. Chaytor. Yes, I will see justice done to those men : an action shall be brought against Mr. Chaytor for false imprisoa. went; he shall be brought to the bar of his country, and at the next Assizes we shall see whether Richard Laylor Sheil or Richard of Glengall shall be the more active. My Lord Gleugall and I were friends in former days; but when I see him stepping forward as my opponent, 1 will show him that I am his match."

WESTMEATH. The Tories are particularly angry with Mr. Burke, the priest of Castlepollard, who laboured with assiduity and success for the return of the Liberal candidates. The reverend partisan was not content with pulpit exhortations—he delivered speeches to the multitude every evening after the polling-bootbs had closed,. It is edifying to observe how each side denounces clerical interference when used against its own candidates.

RESULTS OF THE IRISH ELECTIONS.—The Whip exult in the suc- cess of their candidates in Ireland. The Morning Clronick reminds its readers, that "In the Parliament which was called after the passing of the Reform Bill in 1832, when the Repeal mania, and the universal indignation excited by Lord Stanley's weak and ill-tempered misgovernment of the country, conspired with the general enthusiasm of a newly-enfranchised constituency to give an impetus to the popular movement, the Tories were able to muster 35 Members from Ire. land in the House of Commons. Now they have no more than at; of whom Ulster, the head-quarters of Orangeisal, returns 23; Munster 3; Connaught 2; and Trinity College, the constituency of which is dispersed all over Ireland, 2; The whole province of Leioster, containing twelve counties, and decidedly the most civilized, orderly, and tranquil portion of the island, has returned but 2 Tories out of 34 Members."

If we recollect right, the Chronicle was a ready apologist for Lord Stanley's "weak and ill-tempered misgovernment" of Ireland, at a time when the Spectator annoyed the Ministerial party, as it does now, by simply telling the truth. Who now defends the Coercion Bill, which was carried so triumphantly through Parliament by Whig and Tory votes? Why did not the Chronicle expose and denounce the mischievous policy of Lord Grey and Lord Stanley, whilst it was in progress ?