BRIDGEWATER. Mr. J. W. Trevor, in a letter to the

Londow papers, denies the charge of Sir Thomas Lethbridge, that he was em- ployed "cooping" voters at the last election. BRIGHTON. The Whigs are very indignant at the conduct of tie Brighton Radicals, who, by voting for Dalrymple rather than Wigs* secured the return of the Tory baronet. But the Wbigs may learn I useful lesson from what passed at Brighton-namely, that the Radice.* though generally the meekest of men, will, if kicked, sometimes kick again. We learn from the Brighton Patriot, that they are by no means displeased with the result of their late movement- ., The Radicals never stood in a more commanding position than at this mo- ment. Never again will the Whip attempt to force twin Court nominees urn this borough. Never again will the Court spirit an, ay a candidge brought for• cliv the Ricadal& How glad would the Whigs be at this lie meat for Mr. 1: wis„00,;n Eliot to be the colleague of Captain Peehell instead ot Sir A. Dal. yinple! But the Court spirited away Mr. Eliot at the last hour, leaving the r Radicals no opportunity of bringing forward another man with b ay chance of uccess ; and, in fact, reducing the electors to this alternative— You shall °either return both the Court nominees, or a Tory,' and the electors, F ening at de- fiance the courtly threat, wifely rejected one of the Court nominees, and returned —most reluctantly, it is true, and which nothing short of Whig tyranny could leave induced them to do—a Tory ! How deeply now do the Whigs lamentlavieg listened to the boast of Captain Pechell, that he had the borough in his pocket, d could return, in conjunction with himself,whomsoever he plea* d. How bit- aterly done the Court lament that it did not take up the Radical candidate, Mr. Freeman Eliot, inetead of the Whig, Mr. Wigney ! Had Mr. Eliot stood, (aed Captain Pechell knows it,) Mr. Wigney must have retired. But the preeumption of Captain Pechell prevailed-. Mr. Eliot was induced by the iCoert to withdraw, and the Radicals were left with but one card—but it was a The Whigs now know what the Radicals can and will do, if driven to trump.

extmnities, to maintain the independence of the borough, and to preserve and

advance their own ,principles. A Radical and a Whig tegether may henceforth le returned for Brighton, but never again will any attempt be made to return two Whigs, and if not, never again will a Tory be sent from this borough to PikflitIllent. The Whigs have by this time learned that, if the Radice/1i, as a party, should be annihilated, they, the Whigs, must fall." CUMBERLAND. The nomination for the Eastern Division was on Thursday, at Carlisle. James and Aglionby were well received, but

Graham could not obtain a hearing. The show of hands being in favour of the Liberal candidates, Sir James Graham demanded a poll; which will be opened on Monday.

DEVONPORT. Sir George Grey intimated in his speech from the hustings at the Devonport election, that Ministers ntifht take the only effectual means of putting an end to bribery and intimidation at elec- tions; but at the same time he expressed his fears of the open question policy-

" Coming at once to the question on which so much feeling exists, and not without sufficient reason—the ballot : I have not voted against that measure, be- came I do feel that no adequate substitute has been found. But I have very great doubts of its being found either efficient or acceptable to the great body of the nation. Yet many are those who desire it, not from any corrupt motive or mean shrinking from the avowal of their sentiments, but really to check that undue influence which unthinking and unfeeling men will exercise if they have the means. But when I say there has been no adequate remedy provided, 1 am far:from saying that no steps have ever been taken to meet the evil. You may perhaps be aware, that a Committee to inquire into the subject of Bribery and lutimidation, was formed on a motion of mine • but you are as likely not aware

of the extent to which their labours have been carried. Even before I left town, I found that the advocates of this corruption—I mean the practical ad- vocates and upholders, for avowed advocates for it there are none—were asto-

nished bow soon publicity was given to their deeds, and the light thrown upon that darkness they loved so well. I rejoice that an abridgment of the evidence taken before us is circulating through the country, to publish the infamy and counteract the influence of such proceedings ; and that it is chiefly in the hands of constituencies where it is mostly required, to open a way for truth and justice against intimidation and bribery attempted to be practised by Anti. Reformers. Let such publicity be given to the subject in all possible ways—and on proper publicity I confess I have a great reliance ; and let severe punishment follow

every conviction. Should these means fail of success, then let other measures be determined on by the People; and I am not aware of members of the Go-

vernment so blind to facts and deaf to argument, that they would resist either,

however opposed to their preconceived opinions. But, in the opinion of men of much more experience in government than myself, open questions tend to

weaken and destroy a Ministry. The present Ministers have determined, I believe honestly and consulting rather the public good than popularity, and re- fined to make it an open question." Sir Edward Codrington had no difficulty in pledging himself to vote for the Ballot and Household Suffrage.

GATESHEAD. No thanks to the Whigs that Mr. Rippon was re- elected, by a majority of 236 to LH. It is said that his competitor, Mr. Williamson, was put forward on purpose to oust the Radical Mr. Rippon, the Tories having no chance.

HUDDERSFIELD. This can no longer be considered a Whig borough. Omelet, the Democrat Tory railer at the Poor-law, very nearly earned

the election; the numbers at the close of the poll being—for Stansfield (the Whig) 323, Oastler 301. There was much violence on the part of the losers- " Electors were dragged out of their houses; people flocked into the town ; and at half.past three on Saturday, there were at least twenty thousand persons around the booths and assailing different dwellings. At ten minutes to four,

the police at the booths were attacked with stones; and at three minutes to four the Tory returning-officer adjourned the poll until next morning—the booth.

doors being open all the time. After four, the scene was dreadful; the police were knocked down, wounded by stones, and obliged to retire into the booths. Mr. Armitage, a Magistrate, entered the crowd on horseback ; while Gaoler did his best to divert attention by amusing the people from the George Hotel, until the military arrived. After a time the Riot Act was read ; and for several hours the Mews scoured the streets, assisted by such of the police as

were able to walk. The night passed in tolerable quiet. The poll was returned at eight next morning. The Oastlerites, finding their strength exhausted, hav- ing only been able to -bring up two voter, and Stansfield seven, proposed to put an end to the contest ; which was accordingly done at a quarter to nine, other- wise Stansfield's majority could easily have been made at least 40."

lesverco. Mr. Gibson, the Tory candidate, baying used some ex- pressions on the hustings offensive to Mr. Rigby Wason, that gentle- man sent him a challenge ; but Gibson, instead of accepting the chal- lenge, contented himself with publishing an abusive letter to Mr. Wason.

LANCASHIRE. The candidates for the Northern Division, Lord Stanley and Mr. Wilson Patten, were reelected at Lancaster, on Mon-

day, without opposition. Mr. Patten said little ; and Lord Stanley, though he spoke a long speech, said nothing new or remarkable. He proclaimed hostility to Ministers, and enlarged on his own indepen- dence and consistency.

LivEarooL. At the close of the poll, Mr. Ewan, Mr. Elphin- stone, and Mr. Rathbone, addressed the defeated Liberals. Mr. Reran thanked the electors for the support be had received, and ex- horted his friends not to be cast down. Mr. Elphinstone expressed strong indignation at the means by which the Tories lind triumphed- " Gentlemen, how have we been defeated on the present occasion ? ( Cries of " Bravo—that's the point !") We have been defeated in the first place by the Tories. (ientlemen, they wooled tile plotee,4"440t the toolot. 4, ',tuft-now cheers.) But still, gentlemen, I say, there are larsons who, instead of being ' unwell ' to•day—( Hisses and yroans)— instead of ' going into the country for the benefit of the country air; ought to have performed their duty by recording their votes in favour of Reform at the hustings. As my honourable friend Mr. Ewart has said, he and I have heard with very great regret that cer- taM unfortunate affrays have taken place in various parts of the town. Now, let one impress upon every man who really wishes well to what I will call the Peered cause of Reform, the necessity of going home from this meeting in quietness and good order, and to take care that not the slightest occasion shall be given to the Tories to say that we have broken the peace, or given Demi°, to public disturbances. Gentlemen, I feel much more regret at the loss of Mr. Emart's election than that of my own ; because I have witnessed Mr. Ewart's conduct in Parliament, and I tell you that he has alwaym done his duty to you, and I know that he was one of the beat Members of Parliament that was ever placed in that House. Before I had the honour of being personally acquainted with Mr. Ewart, I knew him to be an excellent Member of the House of Commons, because not only was he constant in his attendance on all public matters, bat always at his post attending to the interests of the men of 'Liverpool in Com- mittees on private bills, and on all occasions where his services were required. It is a hard matter, gentlemen, that when a man has for seven sears done his duty, in the hour of battle he should be defeated. Though you, gentlemen, have not fled from your colours, yet I say that a majority of the electors of Liverpool have not supported Mr. Ewart in the manner which they ought to have done."

Mr. Rathbone said, that bribery and intimidetim had defeated the Reformers— Ile denounced more particularly the conduct of the persons who, having signed the requisition inviting Mr. Elphinstone to come forward, had, Dever. theless, voted against him. " Vilma I know," said Mr. Rathbone, " that there are persons who asked Mr. Elphiostone to come down here—persons who put their names to the bond to vote for Mr. Elphinstone, and then voted for the Tories—am I not correct in saying that these persons are traitors? that they deserve more than the poor unfortunate fellows who are brought up at the police-office for stealing a pocket handkerchief? Ay, gentlemen, they are pick- pockets of the rights and liberties of Englishmen—they have held up Liverpool to scorn and reprobation ; for who, do you think, will ever trust to a requisi- tion from Liverpool again ? ( Cries of" Nobody !" and " Shame, shame!") Nobody, indeed—nobody has a right to trust us: and I feel, that as a Liverpool man, I am degraded and sunk, as such, in my own estimation—as gentlemen, depend upon it, we shall be in the eyes of the country. Yes, gentlemen, Liver- pool is handed over to the bondage of the Tories again."

LUDLOW. Lord Clive is by no means an over-scrupulous or fasti- dious person ; but still, he cannot "stand" Leehmere Charlton, and has in fact, though not ostensibly, turned him out of Ludlow. Mr. Charlton is very wrathful and patriotic on the occasion. He abuses the Conservatives as fiercely as of yore, and as he lately railed at the Whigs-

" Gentlemen, the facts are these. The base ingratitmle—the heartlese and interested feelings which I have observed among the Conservatives in the House of Commons, satisfies me that if they were restored to power to-morrow, they would not, as I had fondly imagined, have grown wiser by adversity, but would again recklessly plunge the country into all the miseries of bygone Toryism. Self-interest would be their aim, and plunder their end! Nor is the conduct

of many of the Conservatives in this borough a jot better than their namesake, in London : they are not Conservatives in principle nor in praetiee—they are only Clivites ! Had they been Conservatives, they would not have talked to me as they did of seeing • Lord Clive safe,' when Lord Clive, instead of supporting the Conservative cause and your interests, has ingloriously deser ted both. The head and front of my offending is this—I have but repeated to Lord Clive's face, what many of you that voted for him asserted behind his back ; and if I have voted for the liberal candidates in preference to his Lordship, it is because I believe in my conscience that conduct such as his is more injurious to you, and to the best interests of this country, than any thing they can do: it is not be- cause I admire their principles, but because I loathe and detest the selfism and ungrateful return for noble deeds (which necessarily destroys all public-spirit, and must superinduce the most disastrous consequences) exhibited by these pre- tended Conservatives; and mark me—the period will come when the events of this day shall be no great matter of exultation to the principal performers— mark that ! For the present, let the minions of Lord Clive rejoice and be ex- ceeding glad; let them again buckle on the harness of slavery ; but let them not again complain, as they have formerly, of the abandonment of their inte- rests, and the non-performance of solemn promises, by the man that would 'ride the borough to death like a nightmare ! ' They have stamped themselves as worthy of his protection as he is of their choice. To Lord Clive, personally,

I bear not the slightest animosity. It is to the unpardonable desertion of hie duties, and the contemptible conduct of his agents, that he must ascribe the loss of my feeble support."

MIDDLESEX. Monday was the day of nomination. The weather was unpropitious, but the attendance was considerable ; the candidates of both parties being attended to the hustings at Brentford by a nu- merous body of friends. The proceedings commenced soon after ten o'clock ; when Mr. Samuel Whitbread proposed Mr. Byng, whom Mr. Tuffnell, M. P. for Ipswich, seconded. Mr. Warburton proposed, and Mr. John Travers seconded Mr. Hume. Mr. Wood was pro- posed by Colonel Clitherow, and seconded by Sir John Gibbon. Mr. J. S. Strachan proposed, and Sir Edward Barnes seconded Mr. Pownall.

Mr. Byng then came forward, amidst a storm of cheers and hisses. He took pains to disavow coalition between himself and Mr. Hume. He had been accused of seeking a Peerage; but he had refused the offer of a Peerage from the Duke of Portland, Mr. Fox, Lord Grey, and Lord Melbourne,—though he did not object to his brother being made& Peer, as, in his opinion, the Peerage should be kept as a reward for signal services to the public. Mr. Hume declared that be was still the unchanged foe of the Tories, and the zealous friend of popular measures and popular prin- ciples. He could refer to many years of service in the MISS at the people he had always done his duty, and never would do one act to disgrace the name of Jose ph Hume.

Mr. Wood and Mr. Pownall delivered Tory speeches, of a very commonplace character, to a rather thin attendance; for the rain fell in torrents.

The Sheriffs declared the show of hands to be in favour of Wood and Pownall ; and a poll was demanded for Hume and Byng.

The polling commenced on Thursday morning ; and at ten o'cloel the numbers were—

Wood 875 Pownall 848

Byng 655

Hume 620

At twelve o'clock, the Tories still heeded the poll—

Wood Pownall Byng Hume 2799 2553 2285 2176 At four o'clock, the numbers were thus given by Byng and Home's Committee—.

Wood Byng Pownall Hume

The polling was recommenced with spiiit on Friday morning. Placards were seen in all directions calling upon the Reformers to " plump " for Hume. The policy of this might be doubted : it was evident, however, that a great Etruggle was to be made to save Mr. Hume Born the threatened defeat. On the other hand, the Tories directed their chief energies against Hume. It soon appeared that Byng was safe—he received many plumpers avowedly on personal grounds, and some split Tory votes : but at twelve o'clock Hume was still at the bottom of the poll ; the numbers being-- Wood 4208

ng 4167 Pownall 3924 Horne 3881 At two o'clock, Home's chance had not improved ; but Byng headed the poll- Byng

Wood

Hume Pownall

It was now all over with Hume. At four o'clock the poll closed ;

when the numbers, according to the reckoning of the Whig-Radical Committee, were- Byng 4736 ood 4M3 Hume 4341 Pownall 4120 3879 3786 3651 3551 4492 4424 4154 4141 These numbers, as compared with those at the general election in 1835, show a Tory increase of about 1800 votes, and an increase for Bylig and Hume of about 1200 votes. So that there is no falling off in the support Mr. Hume has received, but the reverse; and his defeat must be attributed to the greater numbers bf Tory votes put on the register, and, it is said, to the superior resources of the Tories, who brought up the out-voters to the pull better than the Liberals.

At the close of the day, the successful and the beaten candidates addressed their respective Committees—the Tories, of course, full of triumph. Mr. Flume spoke a few emphatic sentences--

The Tories had beaten them, not by the honest and free votes of the electors within the county, but by the out. voters, and by the necessarily enormous expense attendant upon the bringing up of that class of the constituency. He was ashamed of the city of London upon this occasion; it had not done its duty. It was ri most serious thing for the Reformers to know that in a stand-up fight—lie would not, indeed, he dared not, call it a fair one— they had been beaten by the Tories. The cause was obvious : the Tories had been active, industrious, and well-organized—on the other hand, the Reformers bad been :apathetic, indolent, and self-confiding. " Well, I have been beaten in Middlesex," said Mr. Hume; " but the Tories have misculculated—I can assure them they shan't get rid of me."

MoNatount. The bribery here was profuse. The Merthyr Chro- Nide says—. 6' Notwithstanding the influence of the Duke of Beaufort, which was thrown into the Tory scale—notwithstanding the old system of corruption, which has always existed pretty strongly at Newport—Mr. Blewitt was returned by a triumphant majority of 55 over his opponent. We hear from good authority that every effort was strained by the Tories, and that corruption was carried on to a frightful extent in order to secure the election of ' Master Bailey.' Votes were openly purchased by the Blue party, and the price varied from 50 to 100 guineas! In one instance, a correspondent informs us, be was present when a poor labouring man waited upon his employer, and stated that an offer had been made him of 50 guineas for his vote for Mr. Bailey, adding that he was poor and in debt, and could not afford to refuse the money. His inclination, he said, led him to vote for Mr. Blewitt, and that if that gentleman would consent to give bins 40/. lie should have his vote, and be would sacrifice the other 10 guineas on the score of principle. The offer was refused, and the man voted for Mr. Bailey. In another instance, 100/. was taken by a voter, who after- wards voted for Mr. Blewitt, openly asserting the fact ! These are a few in. stances which, we believe, may he relied upon. Mr. Blewitt is an advocate, as well he may be, for the Ballot ; which alone will put an end to this fearful sys- tem. • • The attempt the Tories are everywhere making—the cruel and revengeful manlier in which they are retaliating—must convince every thinking man of the necessity of the Ballot. Anil yet this is a measure the Tories will never concede, because they know that it will for ever put an end to their ill-got and much-abused power."

Will the Whigs concede the Ballot now ?

NEWCASTLE-UNDER LYNE, Mr. Badmill, the defeated Liberal can- didate, will petition against his successful competitors, on the score of bribery. We hope he will be able to bring home to the chief sinners, an offence of which they were undoubtedly guilty, or they would never have succeeded at Newcastle-under-Lyne.

1"Coawrett. The Morning Chronicle has a letter complaining of the shameful proceedings of the Tories. The writer says- " The election of the two Tory candidates for that city was obtained by the most flagrant acts of bribery ever practised in this or, I believe, any other place in the United Kingdom ; whether with the knowledge and consent of the Members, is best known to themselves. Suffice it to say, that persons with large sums of money were parolliog the stieets in the face of the sun, seeking tor persons whom they could, by the means of bribery, cause to swerve from their fixed and conscientious determinations ; and those means of course had the desired effect of suddenly turning their opinions into golden ones, in addition to being purchased. Such were the suspicions of the party who bribed, they dared not ttust those whom they purchased, and therefore adopted another means of security, called, in our Norfolk terms, cooping the chickens,"— namely, of sending them to a country seat, with guards of persons to protect them from further contamination ; and to such an extent was this system of cooping carried on, that persons of the highest respectability were seized in the streets and kept from their families and business, notwithstanding their pro- testations and entreaties. Yea, further, some of the leading men of each parts- being thus detained, it was necessary for the safety of their election to have

an exchange of prisoners; and such was the venality of a great port'

lea oi the electors, that many of them, having taken large bribes, sent the uth back with a reasons—viz. they had made a better price of themasivos whilst others, less honourable, have taken bribes from each :party, sen,e the tune of 30/., 401.' and, I believe, 50/., without making either a single; double return. Such was the state of the poll at three o'clock, that ir impossible to say which party would win ; but, to make sure, it is coofidess, asserted that the last twelve vote, which turned the scale in favour of Tories they purchased at 1,200/. making (from the best information) their election an expensive one, not being less than 20,000/. In fact, so ashames ire the Tory party of their own acts, they are now desirous of signing a Nitit for the disfranchisement of the city. To the above or foregoing statemental defy contradiction." The Whigs were just as bad as the Tories—the Dissenters as tlo Church people ; and nothing can be more absurd than to raise a en of corruption against the Tories exclusively. On this point we refet to the communication of our own correspondent in last week's pram The only difference between the Whigs and the Tories wits this--tio whereas the former bribed sufliciently high to make votes very des' they had not the pluck to play their own game, but allowed the Tories, by an extra expenditure, to gain the election. The Tories were cor. rupt knaves ; the Whigs were corrupt knaves and fools.

SHEFFIELD. The Reformers celebrated their triumph by a pubs, dinner on Saturday. Mr. Ward proposed " her Majesty's Ministers; and mingled a little sound advice with his compliments to Lord Mel. bourne— He regretted they had not seen the expediency, not only the expediency, so t the justice, and not only the justice. but the absolute necessity, of their step. 1 ping out more boldly and taking the place in front of the Movement parry the country. He could wish to see them doing something for an extension si the suffrage. He hoped that the Ministers would read the writing on the we afforded by the present elections, and that they would see the Ballot we imperiously called for under the present circumstances. (Loud cheers.) Laid Melbourne's Government must either be continued, proceeding cautiously be steadily, or if they were forced to resign, from the People withdrawing their support and confidence from them, a Tory Administration must inevitrbh succeed them, retrograding and undoing all those measures fioni which tie People had already derived so much benefit, and opposing any other which ha the character of reform stamped upon it. The Government was even at present in advance of the People In many respects. In many parts of tie country that intelligence which he had found so abundantly displayed in Shrffield was utterly wanting ; and therefore, although they were prepared for great measures of reform here, if the country as a whole did not suppoit tie Government, they could not be expected to progress too fast.

STOKE-UPON-TRENT. The populace were very indignant at tht result of the election for this borough in favour of the Tories. At Lane End there was a good deal of rioting. • The mob commenced by breaking windows- " The work of destruction proceeded at a most appalling rate ; windows, shutters, doors, &c. falling before the fury of the mob, many of whom wen armed with large bludgeons, which were frightfully used in their lawless pro. ceedings. The violence and rapidity of the attack spread consternation rumor the inhabitants, and the police and special constables appeared to become per- fectly powerless. After demolishing the windows of Messrs. Broad, !%leakiii, Clarke, Harvey, tee. the mob proceeded to the Police-office, which they it!I upon with tremendous fury. Several of the Inspectors, on heating that their object was to liberate Weston, a notorious poacher, who was in custody one charge of felony, consented that the doors should be thrown open if they would desist, especially as Thompson, the Superintendent, anti several 13 pedal comet ' bles, were in the office at the time, without having the least chance of escaping, Indeed, the general opinion was that, unless this step was adopted, many lives, must inevitably be sacrificed. As soon as Weston was rescued, they parsed Thompson, who effected his escape with much difficulty. They then resumed their destructive attacks upon others of the opposing party."

STROUD. The Liberals of Stroud and the neighbourhood gave their Members, Lord John Russell and Mr. Poulett Scrope, a public dinnei

at Stroud, on Friday last. About 400 gentlemen were present, in.

eluding deputations from Gloucester and Bristol. A gallery running the whole length of the room was crowded with ladies, among whom were Lady John Russell and Lady Moreton. Lord Moreton pre- sided ; and the Earl of Dune, Sir John Guise, Lord Segrave, four of his brother Berkeleys, and Mr. Phillpotts, M. P. for Gloucester, were among the company—the latter gentleman, we should imagine, not very acceptable to the Berkeley portion of the party. The pis:nodose' toasts having been gone through, the health of " her Alajesty's Minis' ters " was given ; and Lord John Russell addressed the company. He described the policy and performances of the Grey and Melbourne Governments as distinguished from those of their Tory predecessors; the difference being the ground on which Ministers now asked for the opinion of the country either in concurrence or disapprobation- " The rule of the Tory Ministries in this country was neither short in III duration nor limited in its extent : they had time enough to perform wharf good they meditated—they had power enough to carry into effect any prejeeta for the good of the people which they might have entertained. AU! ■ now, gentlemen, I come to you, and I ask you whether it be not a fair statement to say that they did many things which were evil ; that they let undone many things which were good and practicable ; and that a great part, I should say the greater part, of our task as a Reform Ministry has been to correct the errors, to repair the blunders, and to remedy the evils which thou Tory Ministers had inflicted upon the country. ( Continued cheering.) MF enumeration shall be as short as I can make it ; although', in making it short, I must be culpable of many omissions. In no very long period of years they increased the debt of this country from 250,000,000/. to S50,000,000/. ; the) imposed most burdensome taxes upon the people to pay the interest of that debt ; they gave rise to many unnecessary expenses, and kept up many niost useless establishments ; to facilitate fur a time the collection of taxes they de' preciated the currency, thereby rendering their imposts in the end much more burdensome and more heavy upon the nation ; they administered the Poor lort in such a way as to deprive them of the effect intended by the Act of Lim- beth ; they paid the wages of labour out of a fund that ought only to be diatri- butted in the way of charity, thereby reducing the independent labourers Of the country to a state of villeinage. ( Cheers.) They effected also a union with Ireland ; but they did not effect that union upon its only true basis—a union of the interests, of the feelings, and of the affections of the people of England end Ireland. It was a union bought with tnoney—bought, I believe I am not ez-. aggerating when I say, by 800,000/. of British money, besides honours snd titles lavished without stint to buy the Irish l'arliament, but not to conciliate the people of Ireland." ( Cheers.) So much for the acts of the Tories ; he would now advert to thei omissions- .1 That which they left undone was indeed great, and came in the end to be gored Appalling. In the criminal law, for inatance, they made little or no al. serstion In the sanguinary character of the code which then ruled ; and as re- garded slavery—that unfortunate and sinful blot upon our name—they did no- Nag that could be considered as effectually tending to its complete extinction. With respect to other subjects which I will now leave untouched, but un- touchd only because 1 wish to spare more time, they left every thing to do ; they

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occupied thetnselves with maintaining establishments which they then said were necessery—in pestling laws from time to time to repress the rising discon- ;at of the people ; and with these poor performances they thought the duties of governmeut were ended. The result was, that when a new Parliament was elected in 1830, after the death of George the Fourth, the state of the couutry was most calamitous. Happening at that time to be passing through an agri- cultural district of the country, travelling by night, I saw the fires which ever) where were raised by the incendiary labourers of tbe time ; I witaesited the contempt of law—the degradation of authority. The Magistrates felt themselves overpowered ; they had no means to reoist the evil, and knew not how to arrest it. In the Metropolis the state of things was no better ; for in London, the late King—than whom no King was ever more conspicuous for courageous and amiable qualities—a King whose general character entitled hint to the respect of every one of his subjects—was advised by the Prime Minister of the day not to venture within the walls of the City, or to appear before his mhled subjects. If the Tories left the Government in that state, it is no wonder that they should now.a.days wish to adjure the name of Tories. ( Loud cheers and laughter.) I have seen but lately, in a print that assumes to be their organ, that the Tories were, indeed, a vicious party, having tor other ob- ject than to keep power in their own hands, looking not to measures that would promote the general good, and that therefore it was a fortunate thing for the coney that that party was extinct."

But it appeared that, under the name of Conservatives, the men composing this party were entitled to respect and confidence■

" With respect to this change of name, I can only say, that if they are really sad truly Conservatives as regards the general institutions of the country, no name is deserving of more adherents or would meet with more general op. proval; but with them it is a mere change of name—a mete anus to persons who do not like to be known under their former designation, and who under the name of Conservatives mean to be conservative only of every abuse—of every thing that is rotten—of every thing that is corrupt. If that, then, is the none that pleases them,—if they say that the distinction of Whig and Tory should no longer be kept up,-1 am ready, in opposition to their *tense of Conservative, to take the name of Reformer, and to stand by that opposition. ( Great cheering.) And in looking back to history, taking their sense of the denomination of Conservative, I think one may be as proud of the name of Reformer as they can be of the name of Conservative. What was Luther ?—Luther was a Re- former. Leo the Tenth, who opposed the Reformation, was a Conservative. What was Galileo ?— Galileo, who made great discoveries in science, was a Re- fainter. The Inquisition who put hint into prison was Ccnservative. So, in the same way, with respect to every part of history, we find that in all times aid in all countries there have been 'Reformers and Conservatives. The Chris- tians who suffered martyrdom in Rome were Reformers. The Emperor who put these Cht batons to death, Nero, was a Conservative. ( Great cheering.) If they clionse to change their names—and mock names they certainly are—of Whig and Tosy, into the names of Reformer and Conservative, 1 am ready, from the testimony of all past biotin y, and from all my experience of the prea sent times, to say that I eta a Reformer—(Enthusinstic cheering)—that I do not beloort to their designation of Conservative—that I wish for the progress of button aiTairs—that I wish to see my own country advance in all that is gene- rous andenlightened—that I do not wish to see her eau,' still or go back M her institutions—that 1 wish reform in the truest sense of the word, and that I will promote to the utmost in my power ail those measures of reform of which I am the advocate—that I will propose, and shall be ready to diocese plans that I think useful. If those plans should appear to be beneficial, in God's name lit them be adopted ; and let us nut, above all, be deterred by any bugbear from sincerely mid fearlessly arguing the merits of any plans that may be pro- posed to us.4 Lord John then briefly recapitulated the performances of the Liberal Ministry,—the passing of the Reform Act, the Municipal Act, the reform of the Criminal law, the opening of the China trade, and the Poor-law amendment: he descanted also on their measures for the reform of the Church in England and Ireland, and the opposition which those measures had encountered from the prejudiced and the selfish. Be then adverted to the charge that Ministers bud not gone far enough- " l aro perfectly aware that it has been said that the real fault of the Ministry Was that they did not go far and fast enough—that they ought to adopt other schemes, and, above ail, as specimens of what ought to he done rather as a beginning of other reforms than as final reforms in themselves, that they ought to Propose vote hy Ballot, Triennial Parliaments Household Suffrage, and an elective 'louse of ford m s. I a not now about to address yam with respect to the vote by Ballot and the duration of Parliaments, having declared ray opinion open these subjects the other day. I will only repeat now, that when I was a member of the Committee that framed the great outliner+ of the Reform Bill, I was selected to propose a plan, of which the chief heads were adopted by the Committee: that plan began by proposing the total disfranchisement of fifty small boroughs, and the partial disfranchisement of fifty more; it then went on to propose the enfranchisement of all the great manufacturing towns. The plan originally contained no proposition with reepect either to the Ballot or the dura- tion of Parliaments; but in the course of the discussions which took place in the Committee, proposals were made upon those subjects, which after some consideration were adopted ; and in the plan which we ultimately submitted to Lora Grey's Cabinet, we suggested that the vote by Ballot should be adopted, and that the duration of Parliament should be five years. I am mentioning this fact because I know that several statements have been made upon the sub- iect ; and at the time when those statements were made, 1 had the permission of his late Majesty to state any facts upon this subject which I thought neces• mry in the way of explanation. I have done so. I should however state, that St the same time that the Ballot was proposed by the Committee, it was sug- g_e.sted that the franchise should be raised to 20/. But the decision of Lord Grey's Government upon the whole was not to propose any thing to the Legis- lature with respect to the duration of Parliament and the Ballot ; and tilti- Irately the amunnt of toe qualification fur the ft anchiee was fixed at 10/. I am only stating these thing to show, that whatever opinions I may entertain with toleect to these subjects, they are at all events matters that 1 deem fit for die- ealeion and considetation, and that 1 have always been ready to discuss them. I have already told you that I am not partial to secret voting ; and that I think Ivary short Parliatnents would not tend to the advantage of the Liberal party in this country, but, on the contrary, would be advantageous to our opponents, v ho would find us harassed by such continued and frequent appeals to the Male. With respect to the suffrage, there certainly is no reason why house• al suffrage might not originally have been adopted as well as the 101. suffrage. !r_ , lily own part, 1 preferred the 10/. suffrage. But this I must nay, that 'Mug at the various and complicated relations, both internal and external, of this country, 1 on nut think that such a measure as the Remota Hai uuAlit ta be frequently proposed or frequently reconsidered. I think that the stability of our institutions very much depends upon their not being altered too suddenly or too rapidly. With respect to the House of Lords, many persons have been so irritated by the opposition of that breach of the legislature to certain measures, that they say the constitution of it ought to be wholly changed. They call it an irresponsible House of Parliament. Upon that point I cannot help calling to mind an expression of my noble friend near me (Lord Segrave), who on the last public occasion in which I had the honour to meet him, declared that he considered the House of Lords as a responsible body. I agree with him in that sentiment. I think no Peer fully understands the situation in which he is placed union he considers himself responsible to the enlightened opinion of his country." ( Great cheering.) Lord John went on to argue, that although the character and COM- - position of the House of Peers bad been much injured by the profuse creations of Tory Ministers since the accession of the house of Han- over, yet that the opinion was still entertained in that House, that whenever the Commons adhered to a measure, the Peers must and ought to yield. On minor subjects, however, the Peers had, he must admit, acted as an assembly the great majority of which belonged to one political party must be expected to act. For instance, said Lord John- " I happened to come into the House of Commons when a bill, which had

been introduced by an Irish Member, and which consisted of two parts, was under debate. One part of it was merely to repeal that part of another act of Parliameut which required that all persons whose names began with tlue same

letter should poll at the same booth. It was said that the repeal of that clause was necessary, because it was attended in almost every instance with much in- convenience, and because in many instances it was quite impossible for this Sheriff or the Returning Officer, whoever he might be, to comply with it. The other part of the bill went to set aside certain votes which haul been declared to be illegal. When I came into the House and declared myself favourable to going into Committee upon the bill, Mr. Shaw, the Recorder of the city of Dublin, got up, being almost alone, and made an appeal to me upon the subject. He found no fault with the first part of the bill, but protested against the second, upon the ground of the partial manner in which it would operate. Upon the appeal being thus made to me, I rose and stated, that I thought his argument a fair one—that I thought the first part of the bill, being merely a matter of convenience, ought to be passed, but I would not lend my countenance to the second part. Mr. Shaw thanked me, and the bill passed the House of Com- mons in its atnended shape without opposition. But when it came into the House of Lords, this bill, which had been so agreed to in the Commons, was thrown out upon the second reading ; and, as 1 have since beard, it was stated as a reason for doing so, that the bill was a proof of the tyranny of a majority in the house of COIIIMUOS. Now, if any one wished to give an ivatance of the wanton exercise of the power of a majority, I think a stronger instance could not be found than that which I have mentioned. But I see no reason to doubt that upon this as upon other matters—minor as well as great—if public opinion be brought to bear upon the House of Lords, we shall find that body more duly autl WU vigilantly consulting the opinion of the country than it has done in for mer tittles. At all events, I must declare ta you, freely and frankly, that see no sufficient came at present for altering the ancient constitution of this country ; that I think our ancient constitution well fitted to provide for the welfare and happiness of the people; and that by that constitution I for one am prepared to abide."

Lord John concluded his speech with compliments to the Queen, and the expressions of his ardent hope and sincere expectation that she would long reign over a prosperous arid united people.

Mr. Poulett Scrope, Lord Segrave, and Captain Berkeley, addressed the company. Captain Berkeley said, that though, like Lord John Russell, he had been opposed to the Ballot, recent proceedings at Gloucester (where the Captain was beaten) has very much shaken his opinion on that subject.

SUFFOI.K. Mr. Gordon and Mr. Shafto Adair offered themselves on the Liberal interest for the Eastern Division ; but finding they bad no chance in this priest-ridden and Tory-ridden county, retired, leavs. lag Sir Charles Vere and Lord Henniker to walk the course.

The retirement of the Whig candidates within a few days after the announcement of their names, and after ample time had been given to ascertain their chances of success previously to their appear- ance in the field, was the result of imbecility and jealousy. The fact is, that among the Suffolk Whig gentry, there is scarcely one who does not imagine himself entitled to represent the county, and who does not look upon the preference of anybody to himself as little else than a personal affront. Mr. Edward Godfrey, the chairman of the Liberal Committee, is one who will not rest till he becomes a Parlia- ment-man. They are a poor set of envious, jealous creatures; and the manner in which they lost the election proves it. For instance, Mr. Arcedeckne is a Whig, but his tenants canvassed for the Tories, that gentleman pretending that he would not influence them either way—they doubtless knew that their landlord did not wish the Liberal candidates to win. This is only a specimen, as we are informed, of the conduct of the Whig aristocracy in Suffolk. To show bow eager the Whig Committee was for the success of the 7'ories, it is sufficient to state that they issued the following circular before they had received the returns (which were eery favourable) from the principal Liberal distri. t in the comity, and which carried the election of Mr. Shawe.

M," The Central Committee have this day carefully gone through the returns of tha canvass already made, and find no probability whatever of the return of Mr. Adair and Mr. Garden. They have therefore advised those gentlemen to retire from the contest ; and they have reluctantly consented to do so. The Committee deplore the late appearance of the candidates in the field ; attributing very greatly to that circumstance the apparent deficiency of support," From Suffolk as from other parts of the country, we learn that the Whig policy of " damping the steam" of Reform has been so emi- nently successful, that people do not cure a pinch of snuff whether they are out or in, and consider them just as good for popular purposes its the Tories, and no better.

SUIVDEILLAND. The election of Alderman Thompson was secured by gross bribery. After the polling was closed, Mr. Andrew White, the successful Liberal candidate, thus addressed the electors- " I told you yesterday, on being nominated as a fit and proper perso become your, resentative, that by this time to. day I should be consid at the bead poll? And what is the reason, gentlemen, that I am

the head of oil? I will tell you. It is because upwards of a hun individuals w 0 signed the requisition requesting me to come forward, have basely deserted me. (('errs of " Shame, shame ! ") I do not like to mince the matter, and de, therefore, here declare, before you all, that per sons who, by putting their names to a requisit on of such an important character, to in- duce any on to come fiwward ou an occasion so momentous as that of a con- test for a seat in Parliament, and who afterwards desert his cause, are guilty of the greatest baseness, and unworthy the mune of men. ( (i Teat applause.) It it, not for me, gentlemen', to say what can have been the reeson of their having thus betrayed their trust—whether filthy lucre, intimidation, or what- ever else, I know not; but I again say, that such villany can hardly be ex- ceeded. Gentlemen, at the final close of the poll, the numbers were—for my. self 629, for Mr. Barclay 583, for Mr. Thompson 679. Although thus shame- fully deserted, I am desirous to thank, most sincerely, the 629 faithful electors who have stood by me in the hour of difficulty, and who have so nobly done their duty ; and also to say, how much I sin indebted to my committee for the great exertions they have made on my behalf in this arduous struggle. In ceder that you may form some idea of the secret iutluence against which we lave bitO to contend, let me tell you, that no looger ago thaa last night, an elector applied to me to entreat that I would excuse him from giving me his vote, as it would subject him to such a loss of his busiuess as he should perhaps never get over as long as he lived."

Mr. White seems to be a manly person ; we are glad that his elec- tion at all events has been gained. The Sunderland Herald sees plainly, that there is clay one remedy for the electioneering profligacy of Sunderland-- " Had the constituency been left to the dictates of their mil unconstrained volitions, Alderman Thompson would have been at least 100 below Mr. David Barclay. This proves the imperative necessity of the Ballot; for, had secret voting constituted a part of the machinery of the Reform Bill, Mr. Bar- clay and Mr. White would, undoubtedly, have been returned by a large ma- jority."

SuRRY. The triumph of the Tories was decided ; the numbers tieing—for Alsager 2159, Kemble 2135, King ma, Angerstein 1805. Some of the causes of the Liberal defeat are mentioned in a letter from an East Surry elector to Lord John Russell. The writer says- " The result is very much attributable to the favour which the Goverment, and that part of it specially under your direction, has continued to show to Tot y Lords. Lieutenant and Tory Magistrates, of whom some hare been but recently appointed by your Lords/tip.- .the whole body, with, I believe, no exception, being of that particular bias in politics. These, exerting their influence in ecerulsinatiou nith that of a selfish and exacting clergy, have accuitiplishell the de- feat of two efficient Liberal candidates, who would have supported your Govern- ment, in many respects deserving of the gratitude of the body of the people of this country and the Reformers in general. The Ballot, however, could alone sufficiently protect the voters in such a constituency as has been shown in the centrist just terminated. That, and a wiser selectiou-1 may add a more just selection—of Magistrates, would assure you of a Liberal support in the Eastern Division of the county of Sorry."

SUSSEX. Lord George Lennox and the Earl of Surry have been re- elected for the Eastern Division ; their opponent, Gen, al Wyndham, one of Lord Egremont's illegitimate children, having been beaten. On Tuesday. at the close of the poll, the numbers were—for Lennox 1967, Surry 1266, Wyndham 1058. The successful carididutes are little better than Tories. On being questiened, Lord George Lennox said- ffe was decidedly against the vote hy ballot ; and he trusted it would be long before the English freeholders of this county were ashamed of recording publicly their votes. On the other question (Triennial Parliaments) he could only state that he was not prepared to vote for it. In Octub,ir 1819, lie was first sent to Pat !lament, and lie had enjoyed an uninterrupted seat for eighteen years. During that period, he had had eight elections ; mid it was the fourth time now that he bad uffered himself for the county. Within six years, there had been four elections.

Lord Surry spoke to the same effect.

Talmo. Mr. Tooke attributes his defeat to unfair influence and the unprotected vote. In a farewell address he says— "1 have further to express my unmingled indignation and contempt towards more than one of that grade of semi-gentry, consisting of the t'regs of the late Corporation and its hangers•on, who, together with some members of the new Council, having promised to be neutral, and some even to support me, after- wards with unblushing effiontery forfeited at once their pr *se and their honour. Such laxity of the metal obligation on their part induces me to abstain from animadverting as strongly as 1 might otherwise do tin the conduct of some of the humbler class of electors, who, iutluenced by such a profligate example, yielded to the mote dilect temptation of money, and time equally eogent dictates of intimidation, and the persecution of exclusive dealing. These motives were avowed to me by several voters who had thus compromised their integrity, and who assured Inc that, but fur such infamous expedients, their voices as well ea their hearts would have been mine. I would not barter my defeat for success obtained by such unworthy means. Can any doubt now remain of the absolute necessity of the Ballot; which, for the reason that it would have proved fatal to the inadequate pretensions of both your Members, is sure to receive their joint opposition. '

TYNEDIOUTH. Being hardly pressed, and in great danger of losing his seat, Mr. G. F. Young declared himself in favour of the Irish measures of the Government, and the repeal of Church.rates, though he preferred Lord Althorp's plan to that of the present Ministry.

WORCESTERSHIRE. A correspondent, the accuracy of whose local in- formation we have had several opportunities of testing, has sent us the following account of the causes of the Liberal defeat in East Worcester- shire. "In the first place, there has been considerable apathy among the Reformers, in consequence of the tameness of Mr. Foley's addresses; and when, stung by the reproaches of the supporters of the Movement, he declared his readiness to vote for the Ballot, the Tories had made good use of their time, and be proved too late. Secondly, Mr. Hol- land's subscription to the O'Connell fund has been made a handle of by the parsons; and in Evesham and its district, where the principal part of Mr. Holland's property is situated, the majority was trifling, although the calculated majority horn the canvass-book was ten times as great. Thirdly, the Tories have made an unfair use of the new Poor.

low, which has acted, and will act, prejudicially to our cause. It is true,' said an elector to me, the Poor-law has done me good to the amount of 50/. yearly; but then, the Registration At will cost some- thing, and I am told that it is the first step towards undermining the Church ; so that these Whigs never do good without harm.' The poor also complain of the new law : so that those who acknowledge to have received benefit therefrom, vote against the promoters of the measure, and suffer their party to malign and calumniate them. Inti- midation has done something ; but I am inclined to think that the loss we say on that subject the better. Lord Althorp was told what would be the effect of the Chandos clause in the Reform Bill, and it

works both ways ; but this being essentially a Tory county, we feel it most. I k low where Lord Coventry threatened a tenant of his het• the man polled for Holland and Foley. The bugbear cry of Cu in danger ' has been worked effectually; and, as I said before, the Reformers early in the day were too apathetic to care about the election.

" Amongst the most disgraceful of election tricks that have ever come to my knowledge, has been one practised by St. Paul aod

Barneby's Committees. A circular, dated from Holland and Foley'. Committee room, Stourbridge, was addressed to the London Liberal voters, stating that their attendance would be unnecessary, and begOt them not to be at the expense of coming down. The forgery depnvel us of a few votes; and no warmth of party feeling can justify so beee an act.

" All these things combined have produced a majority as unexpected by the winners as the losing party ; and Worcestershire is fast re. turning to the position from which a vast expenditure and much exertioa rescued us on the accession of the Whigs to power. To persons whs, like myself, have made great sacrifices of time and money to effect this,

it is lamentable in the extreme; and every day's experience more fully convinces me, that unless the Ministers make greater efforts in suppers of the People, we must wait quietly till distress again arouse tke popular feeling, and the pressure from without compel the Ministe* of the day to move onward in the march of improvement."

WILTSHIRE, NORTH. This is one of the most interesting and party. spirited of the county elections. The nomination of the candidates took place at De% ises on Thursday. " The town," says the Moroi, Chronicle, " was iii a high state of excitement ; and in the anticipant* of riot every shop-window was closed. The bands of the contending parties paraded the streets from a very early hour, and there was scarcely a house from which the rival colours were not displayed. The friends of the several candidates formed themselves into separate processions ut short distances removed from the town ; and as they approached tie hustings, bearing with them the banners of their party, they presented% very imposing spectacle. Mr. Methuen's friends arrived first—muy in carriages, many in waggons—but by far the greater number on horst. back. The cavalcade appeared to be endless, but was not more die- tinguisbed by its length arid the gayety of its banners, than by the respect. able and substan id appearance of the sturdy yeomen of whom it sor chiefly composed. Mr. Long and his supporters next entered upon the scene. They advanced in the same manner, and presented much the same appearance as the friends of Mr. Methuen. The supporters of Sir Francis Burdett, coming late into the field, found it occupied by the friends of the other parties. A struggle immediately commenced for the possession of the space in front of the hustings, and in a few minutes it assumed all the character of a desperate riot. The friends of Messrs. Methuen and Long, who arrived first, had dismounted, snd assembled in a dense mass before the hustiegs. This solid body as charged by the Burdett horse in a most unmanly and savage manner. The mounted cavaliers were armed with stout sticks, and, without any sort of provocation, they began to hit away right and left, and to spur theft horses forward until they had gained possession of all the space in frost of the hustings, driving the discomfited foot entirely off the field. Bat this triumph was of short duration. In a few moments the routed foot returned, and commenced an assault with mud and stories, which quickly compelled the horsemen to retire, many with very severe wounds on the head arid face. The Burdett banners were captured and destroyed, and the poles which supported them converted into weapons of defence against the assault of the horse. The latter having been completely driven from the field, comparative order was restored, and the bushies of the day commenced." Order was not long preserved, however; for, just as the seconder of Mr. Long had concluded his speech, the Burdett party returned armed with stones, and the fight recommenced. This time, after a desperate struggle, the Burdettites succeeded in driving their opponents off the field."

The other candidates, Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Methuen, having been put in nomination, Mr. Long addressed the mob. He avowed himself to be an inde- pendent country gentleman, standing on his own interest, and not in coalition with either of the other candidates. He quoted the passage from Lord Durham's letter about preserving the institutions of the country, and throwing open those institutions to all who had the ability to comprehend and the vigour to defend their advantages, as descrip- tive of his own political opinions.

Sir Francis Burdett commenced his speech by charging Mr. Methuen with having mischievously, perniciously, and unhandsomelp abandoned the seat which he now sought to recover. Sir Francis hid not obtruded himself on the county, having been invited by nearly& thousand electors— Chosen by them, it would be his care in Parliament to uphold the hides pendence of the county, and, above all, to watch over and preserve the grist interests of the laws, the liberties, the constitution, and the religious estaleiehs ment of the country. He should have been ashamed, had he been ths representative of even the meanest and most inconsiderable borough in Ow

kingdom, to have quitted it with so little ceremony as Mr. Methuen hol

quitted the important county of Wilts, without making the slightest armor ment as to the feelings, wishes, or future views of his constituents. A prod

King of the Jews said, " Moab is my washpot—over Edom I cast my Shoe

He knew not whether the electors were contented to be treated like Ederasslo knew not whether Corsham might be Mr. Methuen's washpot ; but of this he was quite sure, that Mr. Methuen would not make North Wilts his Edo& ( Cheers and laughter.) He understood that there was a Cabinet Miaisor upon the hustings; he understood that Sir John Cam Hobbouse was there. (Cheers and groans.) He supposed that the honourable baronet come ix the purpose of explaining the very extraordinary and suspicious and roe unsatisfactory conduct of Mr. Methuen towards the county. But as it !is impossible at a meeting of that description to enter into anyargument ea one's opponents, from the simple circumstance that it was quite impossible is hear a word they said, he might perhaps take for granted that which ought 18 be done—that which was due to the electors of that division of the county-- and conclude that the honourable baronet's object in being present was toot' plain the conduct of his friend Mr. Methuen.

Sir Francis denounced the Ministers as the mere tools of O'Connell, and scouted the notion that the Whigs were the especial friends, and their opponents the foes of the Queen.

LAt this part of his speech, some of the planks of the hustings oil

ijcb Burdett and his friends were standing gave way with a crash; nobody was hurt, though Burdett was thrown on his side : he was V,ied up by his friends, and resumed his speech, saying that be hoped "the Constitution" would never meet with such an accident, and then be did not care what happened to himself.] Ill t opposing the Ministry, he maintained that he supported the Queen. It w& vomease to talk of the Queen's choice of Ministers : those who thought with him were anxious to place the Queen in a situation in which sbe might „ally be abk to make a choice. They did not like that the Queen should be takes possession of, and be made the property of a paltry party, who reduced ler to the situation of Queen of a miserable rump of a Whig faction. The present Administration resembled in some respects the statue raised by Nebo. ihdnenar—its legs were of clay, but, unlike the statue, the head of the Admi- nistration was not a head of gold. All whom he addressed knew well what his „inciples were. He had in fact nothing to say to them. He was the saute man that he had ever been. (Cheers and kisses, and cries of o Who turned his coat ?") He was for England—Protestant England, sod the great Protestant institutions of the United Kingdom. He was not for separating Ireland from England, still less for trampling upon and insult- ing the Protestant inhabitants of the former. He was for doing 'notice to all— justice, as Mr. Daniel O'Connell said, to Ireland. He would do more—he would do justice in Ireland, and Mr. Daniel O'Connell should be one of the first to feel the weight of justice himself. ( Cheers and laughter.) He would de- ws them no longer; it was unnecessary that he should. The spirit that every- where manifested itself throughout the Northern Division of the county made him feel that be should become their Representative. Proud of the honour thus conferred upon him, he should continue to bear the same motto that he had adopted forty years ago—" The Constitution, the whole Constitution, and no- thing but the Constitution.."

Mr. Mildmay, M. P., appeared for Mr. Methuen ; and congratulated the electors on their prospect of beating the Tories—

He felt quite certain, from all he had heard, and from all he knew of the people of North Wilts, that they would never change an honest man for one who had forsaken his principles. He felt quite certain that the people of North i Wilts were too firm n their Reform principles, and too shrewd, to let a man sneak in in the way Sir Francis Burdett was doing. What were their recollec- tions of Sir Francis Burdett? What were their recollections of him when in former days he cheered them on in the pursuit of Reform? And what did they see him now ?—a croaking partisan of the dying Tory faction. ( Great cheering.) Was that the man they would have to represent them? ( Cries

op No, no!") Was that the man they would have in preference to their

honest and old friend, who had never asked a favour—who had always acted with the most perfect independence—giving his vote on every occasion in such a way

SI he conscientiously believed would tend most to the interest, the welfare, and

the happiness of the nation? If they were to prefer such a man, what a lesson would jibe to the rest of the country! He hail just returned from thrashing a

Tory at Winchester, where the greatest intimidation, the most abominable threats, and the grossest bribery were resorted to • but the Reformers were true to their principles, and the Tory was defeated. Ile doubted not that the same milt would take place in North Wilts.

The show of hands was in favour of Long and Methuen ; and a poll was demanded for Burdett, to commence on Monday. As Lord Shelburne, Lord Lansdowne's son, was leaving Devizes in his carriage, he was attacked by some ruffians of the Burdett party, and received a severe hurt on the head.

YORKSHIRE. The candidates for the West Riding were nominated on Monday, at Wakefield. Lord Morpeth mitered into a spirited, though not a very original defence of the' policy of the Irish Govern. moist. Whilst he was ridiculing the stale jest of O'Connell's tail, the crowd before the hustings became very riotous. The Liberal party were distinguished by orange or yellow ribbons, the Tories by blue. A fierce contest ensued ; and it seems that the Yellows were the agressors. However this might he, there was a great tumult- " All WU agitation; sticks were fl)iag about with great force and quickness on both sides; and the Blues were driven back. A considerable number of them ran into the Woodman Inn yard, where they broke up their flag-staves into bludgeons, which were most formidable both from their thickness and length; and, armed with these weapons, branches of trees, and other staves, they sallied out, and inflicted'a tremendous vengeance on their assailants. Had they stopped here, every man would have commended their spirit and their conduct, presuming that they were not the men who bad attacked the Dews- bury Yellows on the road. The little knot of Yellow assailants deserved a thrashing; but, unfortunately, all who bore the same colour were confounded with them, though they had taken no more part in the attack than the gentle- men on the hustings, but were standing listening in perfect quietness to the speeches; and the Blue mob flew upon them all with undiscriminating fury. It was now evident that the Yellows had no weapons with which they could resist the long, heavy, and frightful cudgels of the Blues. Indeed, by far the greater part of the Yellows had no weapons at all. Their crowd was therefore beaten M, and the Blues were perfectly victorious. Flushed with success, and instigated by previous hostility, the latter continued their attacks on the whole Yellow crowd without mercy. Not only the Ahnondbury and Huddersfield tioten, but the Leeds paid bands, were there; and to these men nothing could be more welcome than an opportunity of thrashing the Reformers. Moreover, considerable number of gentlemen from the front of the Blue hustings, and irom the hustings itself, ran to the assiatance of their friends, and led on the persevering and furious assault. When the Yellows had ceased to resist, and had no means of resistance, and when they were flying as fast as they could, asapiog over the wall into the space below, still the Blue bludgeon-men rushed fa, struck every Yellow they came near, and in a minute or two entirely cleared Wood Street. Nor did they stop here; for the Yellows in the space below, kanic-struck at seeing the men of their colour come tumbling over the wall, .0sd even out of that space." In this scuffle the two sons of Headmoney Hardy, and the son of Busfield, his defeated fellow candidate, were very conspicuous on the side of the Tories. "A brickbat, thrown by one of the Blues, knocked down a woman at the hick of the Music Saloon, and so injured her as to endanger her life. At this ?rod, Cutler made his appearance, walking up and down in front of the Blue sob, shaking his head furiously, and pointing at the Orange part of the hunt. lags, with loud denunciations against them, though the gentlemen there had had ronocre part in the affray than if they had been a hundred miles off. These .lattl:ms of Oastler's were not unnaturally followed by a volley of stones "Zstienereatimlues at the Orange hustings; where, of course, all was terror, the candidates and and many flying to the stairs with the greatest rapidity. The hot of the many °the's screened themselves by stooping down behind the istt theT hustings. The, stones continued to fly fast, and but few Per6"6 ground on the hustings." lMr. Charles Wood and Mir. James Wortley rushed among the inens, desirous of putting an end to the affray ; but Wood was knocked uus and Wortley severely hurt. Guider continued ranging and raving about, with looks oreaulting ferocity, and then came to the front of the hustings clenching his fist like a maniac, and crying, ' Now, Baines, bring down your assassins—bring 'em down !` He afterwards repeated the same words, arc panied by threatening language to wards Lord Morpeth and Sir George Strickland. A man named Scrota°, living near Thimble Bridge, Leeds, a member of the Conservative Operative Society, came also to the front of the hustings, and clenching his fist, said, No Bastiles—down with Morpeth—down with Strickland—down with the devils—throw the Bastile tyrants down—throw 'cm down !' At the same time, a man on the hustings, in a state of perfect frenzy, shouted out, ' Baines, you'll be murdered, every one of you, and you have deserved it richly !"

Feargus O'Connor tried to pacify the Blues, and warned them that the Yellows would soon be buck armed ; and his prophecy was veri- fied— " After the Blues had been in possession of the field for about a quarter of an hour, the Yellows collected in a (lenge mass at the bottom of Wood Street ; and being armed with staves, and headed by a man with a cudgel and another with a drum, they marched up to the charge. But soon they quickened their pace, and rushed to the assault at the top of their speed. A few of the Blues resisted for a moment ; but they were borne down before the now infuriated, armed, and exulting Yellows. The mass rolled en with irresistible force. and the street was literally swept of the Blues in less than two miuutes. The panic being now on the Blue side, they ran one and all as fast as their legs could carry them. In short, the Blue crowd, which so little while before hod filled the street in all the exultation of victory, seemed rather to vanish than to fly. Not a Blue card or riband was to he seen—all was Orange or Yellow. Then a terrible vengeance was taken for the attack on the Orange hustings; willies of stones and brickbats flew thick as hail at the Blue hustings ; and so wild were the assailants, that they aimed not at the Blue hustings alone, but at the Orange hustings also, and the danger even on that side was now greater than before. Next they attacked the Woodman Inn—a Blue inn, in the yard of which the Blues had armed themselves, and in a few moments smashed in all the windows."

There were only sixteen policemen on duty ; but, on application to the commanding officer at Leeds, the whole of the Fifteenth Humane, quartered in that town, were despatched. However, before they arrived, the Blues had been so entirely discomfited that the victorious party bad none to fight with, amid order had been restored. The Sheriff ad- journed the meeting to Thursday, when the poll was to be taken; and the crowd went away. Several persons were hurt seriously in the riot; and one gentleman, Mr. Carter of Dewsbury, received a mortal injury, and died during the night.

SCOTLAND.

ABERDEEN. To put up Horatio Ross against Mr. Bannerman, which was the best the Tories could do, was a mere joke. On the day of nomination, the party, as it is called by courtesy, of Mr. Ross, did not show its pretty face ; and Mr. Bannerman was reelected with- out opposition.

A BERDEENSHIRE. The Glasgow Argus gives us reason to hope for the defeat of the Tory Captain Gordon. Ilie Duke of Richmond professes to be neuter ; but the tenants of neutral noblemen, we ob- serve, generally vote for the Tory candidate.

DUNDEE. Sir Henry Paroell had several meetings with the electors of Dundee previously to the day of nomination. He appears to have anxiously sought every opportunity of conciliating the constituency, individually and collectively. On some occasions, however, the Radi- cals seem to have pressed him very hard. At a meeting of the Council of the Political Union, he was asked several pushing questions ; and gave answers which in Mkt or 1833 would not have been deemed satis- factory. For instance, with respect to the Ballot, heisaid- " There was no one present who was a more sincere friend to the Ballot than he was. He had always been so. He considered that the arguments in favour of it were sound and convincing; and he had no hesitation in saying that the arguments adduced against it were not so. He would not enter into the question at large. The system of corruption and intimidation which prevailed made it quite clear that the elective franchise was rendered ineffectual for the pur- pose intended; and his opinion was, that it was a great mistake in a Liberal Ministry to oppose it. lie considered that the security and existence of a Liberal Government depended on the Ballot being carried."

Then the question arose, why do not you, Sir Henry, vote for the Ballot? Sir Henry said-

" The reason was simply this, that, having been offered by his late Majesty a high and confidential situation, it did not appear to him, that in accepting the offer he would contribute to injure the progress and success of the measure. The Government had not yet agreed to sanction the question, but he had sac- ceeded in receiving permission not to vote agsinst it. Most Governments would have required him to vote with them, and consequently against the Ballot. On the present occasion, however, he was not required to vote aphid the Ballot. It might be said that this was not much, but he could tell therm that it was a step gained. He had been exerting himself with the Cabinet to induce them to make the Ballot an open question. He bad not succeeded, it was true. Reasons were given him for refusal which he hoped could no longer be urged. As a member of the Government, however, be had much more influence in inducing the question to be made an open one, than if he was an independent Member of Parliament merely; and his hopes were, that the rea- sons to which he had alluded did not longer exist—that the change which had recently taken place would go a great way to remove the difficulties which stood in the way of the Ballot being made an open question. • • • They saw what was going on in the public. They knew he was able to say that no leading individual of Liberal politics, even in the Radical section, would come forward to oppose him. He knew that Colonel Thompson not only refused to oppose him, but that he wrote a letter highly laudatory of his public conduct, and recommending him to the electors of Dundee. He knew that similar sen- timents were entertained by Mr. Warbur ton, Mr. Hume, and many others, because they were aware that all his efforts were directed to carry forward objects of reform. He would refer also to what Mr. Wallace, a man whose purity could not be doubted, had written in his favour. The address of Mr. Aytoun to the electors of Glasgow was al-o of importance, as being well adapted to the circumstances of Dundee. He could refer also to what had been stated by the Scotsman, Perth Chronicle, Montrose Review, and other Liberal papers. He would conclude by saying that the meeting might rely on every exertion being used to forward the views they entertained on the

Could he retain office and vote for the Ballot?—.

"Now, as to this he could speak from experience. He would remark first of all, that no man could hold office and vote against the course laid down by the Government. If be intended to do this, he would feel it is duty to commu- nicate to Government his intention, and offer to resign. If he did not pursue this courte and yet vote agaiuet Guyer lllll ent, he knew that he would instantly receive notice to resign. When he was Secretary at War, the queetion of what is called the Russian-Dutch Loan came to be decided. lie was thoroughly con- vinced that this country was not bound to pay the money ; the condition being, that, if Holland and Belgium were Peparated, this country was relieved from its engagements. Such being his conviction, he did not vote on the question; and next day he received an intimation that he was no longer Secretary at War. This showed that he could not hold office and yet vote against the Govern- ment."

The nomination was on Friday. Mr. Edward Buxton proposed, and Mr. Adam Symon seconded Sir Henry Parnell. Mr. Gladstone was proposed by Mr. J. H. Anderson, (who read his speech from his hat,) and seconded by Captain Crighton : both of these gentlemen en- countered much laughter, but little applause, in the course of their performances. Mr. Symon's speech was very effective, and displayed much tact. Sir Henry may think himself fortunate in having a sup- porter so adroit, and yet so manly and honest.

Mr. Symon admitted that he was not quite satisfied with the state of politics in Dundee, or with the conduct of Sir Henry Parnell-

" I must confess, gentlemen, that I have stood before you on former occasions of this kind with much stronger feelings of gratulation than I do at this mo- ment. It is painful fur me to say so ; but, above all things, in order to a right understanding amongst us, the truth ought to be known, and I am determined to state it. I say then, that I did not expect to see Toryism rear its head so high as it has of late, and is at this moment doing in Dundee. ( Grail cheer- ing.) I find, my friends, that you sympathize with my feelings on this occa- sion. You see with me that the cause of Reform—your cause—the cause of good and peaceful government—is in jeopardy ; and of this I am sure, that you will never allow yourselves to be made instrumental in undoing your own work, by imposing a Tory Government on the country. ( Great cheering.) In one point of view, gentlemen, I sin rather glad to find that it has come to this— that we have it now in our power to bring the question to arbitretnent, as be- tween Reform and Toryism. But, in relation to this, gentlemen. there is one question on which this community has been much divided, and of which great use has been made to create disunion ; I mean the water question,—a question which, in my opinion, sinks into utter insignificance as compared with the great constitutional questions with which we have to deal upon this occasion. I do not mean to say more on this subject at this stage of the proceedings, un- less it may be seized upon for the purposes of our oppocents; in which case I shall resume my right to speak again upon the subject, when I shall carry the war into the enemy's camp and show how much may be made against them- selves on the subject. But the point to which I wish mote particularly to draw your attention is, the difference which has existed for some time back between Sir henry Parnell and his fornier supporters and in regard to them, I frankly state that it is my impression that the dissatisfaction manifested was to some extent well-founded—that there were good grounds for foiling fault with our other- wise worthy Representative. It was a matter of regret with me that they ap- peared at all well : but, after hearing Sir Henry on the subject at length, on more than one occasion, I feel disposed to make every allowance for Sir Henry, under the circumstance,' in which he found himself involved. At the same time, it ought not to go forth to the world, that, in consenting for the present to hold any of our Representative's opinions or principles (to u-e the words of Lord Malian)) 'in abeyance'—it ought not to be understood that we depart even in one iota from any one principle that we consider esseutial to the cause of liberty : and happy am I, gentlemen, to say that Sir Henry Pannell departs not from any one principle that he has ever professed to you. (Itnatetiae cheer- ing.) If it may appear that he has done so, then it ought to be attributed to Lis conuexion with the Government, which his imposed restrictions on those connected with it of a very absurd description, and which ought never to have been imposed at all by a Liberal Goverunient. It was in former times said by the witty Sheridan, that he had knots n many men tun their heads al:admit WidiS but that lie never knew any body of men except his colleagues, the Whigs, to buil] up a wall expre.,sly for the purpwe of running thtir heads against it. (Laughter.) But such has been the absurd position of the Government : they have raised up a well of separation between theMselves and the People ; arid it remains for you to decide whether you think that Sir henry Parnell can best dist:hinge his duty to you by undermining its foundations, which his

close position to it as a member of the Government enables him to do, or by

bombarding it with speeches or paper bullets at a distance. III thus expressing my sentiments, I do not bold myself responsible to Sir Henry Parnell, or to the Government of which he is a ineruber. To you and to the country alone it is that I hold myself responsible. I feel warranted in saying, that to this ice are chiefly to attribute the dissensions that have been dividing this great

community. It is to these dissensions that we have to ascribe the melancholy

fact that the Tories hare appeared again amongst us in something like force. But it rests with you, my friends, how long they shall so continue. I confi- dently hope, that before one hour shall pass away on the eventful morning of the election, you will show them where they stand, and where they ought to stand."

He was anxious to secure for the People the assistance of Sir Henry Parnell in removing the bad, very had restrictions which Minis- ters had imposed on the members of the Government. Mr. Symon then alluded to Mr. Gladstone-

" And now It us see what the Tories have got by going to Liverpool. They have got, I doubt not, a candidate of respectability—far be it from me to ques-

tion the respectability of his private or professional character as a merchant :

I believe it stands deservedly high,—in that capacity I know of nothing that can dishonourably attach to trim. But his political character is another thing

—it is his public conduct that we have to deal with; and, in that capacity,

what do we find him ?—A supporter of the Castlereagh and Sidmouth tyranny. Ile boasts of the friendship of Mr. Huskisson. I doubt it not. Mr. Huskisson was at that time a Tory, although one of the most liberal of his class. Mr. Gladstone then stuck like a Tory to his party; and, with the aid of one of the most corrupt constituencies in the empire, that party returned Mr. Huskisson as their Representative. Let Mr. Gladstone have the benefit of his votes in

favour of Catholic Emancipation—of that extraordinary manceuvre of the Duke, which the Tories never got the better of, but which, if you let them, they will strive to get the better of in some way or another. [Mr. Gladstone

here interrupted Mr. Symon, denying what was imputed to him; as he was not in Parliament at the time referred to.] I must explain, gentlemen, that

Mr. Gladstone says he was not in Parliament at the time I have stated. You

cannot but know that bills were posted on the walls to that effect? (" We do, we doe") These bills at leant appeared to emanate from' Mr. Gladstone's Committee, and were never contradicted by his authority till this moment. (Mr. Gladstone—" I cannot answer for any thing emanating from my Com- mittee.") Then, gentlemen, from Mr. Gladstone'', disavowal I give him credit for melt greater consistency of political conduct than I reckoned him entitled to. He says he did not support the Catholic question ; and he is therefore more consistent than I thought he was. (Laughter.) Let us test his consis- tency a little further."

The further tests applied by Mr. Symon related to Mr. Gladstone's patronage of violent Tory newspapers in Liverpool and Montrose.

He then proceeded to speak of the third candidate, who had Z, rived from London, via Hull, with a profession of Radical peliti,.." The " Great Unknown " ( Mr. Samuel Wells) had not sd m e

appearance on the hustings ; but he might appear, and therefore Symon would warn the honest and simple electors—.

" It is not necessary to go into details in the absence of the individual,* seems to have been asleep during some period bygone. I have notsesshi‘ but I have seen his address, and a funny concern it is. (" Ile wants Menem,. cried a person in the ivied.) In some situations a man may be better vie* a nose. (Laughter.) I call your attention to this, that, in his adst‘• although a professed Radical, he has not one word of reprobationdifs.o,rolTvoerip:: but vents all his bile against Sir henry Parnell and Sir Henry Pam!! One thing is worthy of remark ; he speaks of the King having Eminent ; whilst it is known to you all, that his late most gracious :Neva; blessed memory, is gone to sleep with his fathers, and diatom young—e5ri4

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—now reigns n his stead. The Great Unknown nohti season, have gone to the tomb of all the Capulets—till it opened again law ble jaws to cast out to an admiring world such a venerable specimen oftit antique. I cannot, nor will I charge the respectable candidate, taunt's before us, with having any hand in bringing this Great Cid:Down wimp% There are even higher sources from which these things emanate: I hull% in the Carlton Club-house—at least I have been at the dour of tlie Clulateek where they would not perhaps have admitted such a Radical Reformer—eel know that very desirable things emanate front that source. Ask this Well, whether his mission to Dundee has been undertaken witli a view ta dela'

In conclusion, Mr. Symon alluded to what bad been done when ke Henry Parnell first appeared among them, on the sudden and lame* death of their first Representative, Mr. Kinloch ; and he culled not as then, for a show of bands in Sir Henry's favour. The retain( this appeal was unequivocal ; and Mr. Symon said- " Gentlemen, I thank you for the answer you have given to my call. la,

see no dissentients. ( Continued cheering.) We are all unanitnues; apiti these gentlemen on the left would just go about their business—if Mr. Glad*, would but take himself off and leave us to ourselves, he would save Law much outlay and our town a great deal of agitation. ( Cheers and bulky.) I wish hint a hasty and a safe departure from amongst lig. But, in order to him, if not already convinced, how very little chance he has amongst whittle supporters hold tip their hands. Great laughter and cheers, and not a hoi held up. Mr. Sheriff L'Amy complained that Mr. Symon appeared tone. fere in his official duties.] I by no means wish to interfere with the Ail duties of any man. I interfere with no man's office. I have higher duke discharge—the duties of a freeman." (Immense cheering.) Sir Henry Parnell was extremely well received by the great majonty, of the assembly. He commenced his speech by wishing for a voice,' powerful as Mr. Symon's, that he might be as distilictly heard; then, having paid a few compliments to the character of his old frinil Mr. Gladstone, as a merchant and a gentleman. he ploceeded to cm. trast the good government of the Whigs with the bud governmentd

the Tories. Then he spoke of the young Queen, and her principls us evinced by the choice of the Liberal Ministers. He hod himall always been a firm supporter of Liberal principles ; and from his are entering Parliament, in 1806, to the present time, he had voted feral against measures conscientiously as he thought them right or moot As to the present-

" You are aware that, having been placed in office, I am, as was oliserredlt Mr. Sy mon, like my friend Colonel Thompson, in some degree limited inn splicie of artion—lie as a Republican, I as a Railical—liecause I have beetle% tottered a Itadical, and often considered to go too far. Since I came to Dun* I have had an oppottimity of giving an exposition of my principles ; and happy not only to meet the electors, but the non .electors. For, likelk Baxter, I admit the great intelligence, and the good conduct, on all occasional the noa.electors • and I acknowledge their tight to take an interest in plat Wars, and on all occasions tu express their opinions on political quaint With regard to myself, there is one peat question on which I must pai ticidult awl distinctly state my opinion—the question of the Ballot. I am a deeiN friend to that measure. ( Cheers. ) 'I here is no man more sincerely in fine of it than I am: I will go so far as to state, that I consider the existence ni permanence of a Liberal system of Government depend on the carrying of de ■1 Ballot. All the arguments in favour of it are, in my opinion, good t• and arguments against it are not worthy of regard. I do assure you that I will in every exertion to induce the Ministry to make it an open question. I no, that, as the circumstances of Ministers are changed, this and other grotto. tows will he made open questions. With regard to the Septennial Act. loll anxious to see it repealed ; and I do not Oita: that there is so much difficelq in the way of making this an open question as exists in regard to some other. I ant decidedly iu favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws. For many years I lose done all I coal to get an alteration of them, being thoroughly convinced fin they are riot fur the public good. I acknowledge that twenty-five yen "

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was Induced to think that the farmers required protection. I acted thee nig the guidance of Mr. Iluskisson; I acted under his advice, because, considering , his experience, I put myself very much into his hands, being then only 'dun time in Parliament; and the Report of the Committee, referred to as a maw of complaint against me, was fully as much the Report of Mr. Iluskissoaud myself. But, let this be as it may, I continued to examine the subject; sit since the full discussion of 1813, my mind has been made up that the props principle on which the corn- trade should be placed, was the same as that ohsy other trade—namely, complete freedom from legislation. Protection of so/ kind to the corn-trade is bad, as it not only deprives us of the very best mule' for our manufactures, but makes corn much dearer than it ought to be."

With respect to the Civil List, he believed it was the intentionef Ministers to refer it to a Committee of the House of Commons, sin to adopt verbatim the motion he had made in 1830, by which the Dub of Wellington was turned out of office. In a handbill signed by Mr. William Gladstone, and put into his hands just before be went on tbe hustings, he had been accused of irregular attendance in Parliament Now he would mention the cause of that-

" I arrived in London on the 17th January, to be in time for the meeting zi Parliament, which was to assemble on the 31st of that month. I was Mire' diately attacked with the prevailing epidemic, influenza ; and till the Ese,/s Sunday I continued to feel my indisposition. I was ordered by my PhYsicga not to expose myself to a relapse; and I did not recover for a long time after. It was weeks, months, before I did completely throw off the 411,0Tder.1) as to be able to go through the fatigues of the House of Comments. Them's! no important vote, however, at which I was not present. Even in the m0° of February, when scarcely able to walk or sit, I sat up in the House of Co?: moos until four o'clock in the morning to vote on the first introduction of to! Irish Municipal Reform Bill. I was never away on any great question, let 1 cost what it ntight—let me suffer ever so 011ieh, 1 was always there-„; attended as well as most Members of the House. In one respect, 1 am inso." ferent situation from a gentleman who does not hold office. When weuS the Rouse of Commons, there. is something like an understantling that tho-e ma hereof the Govetnment who are in the Cabinet should not take an active ilancinl in the House; and we are apt to be found fault with if we speak too h lest we shou i ld n any degree run counter to the tactics of the Cabinet. i,-,;c:nhat good would my attendance during protracted and frequently unim• pedant &bites do in the House of Commons, when I have simply to sit still and hear long speeches and debates, in which I can take no part, more espe- n v time can, in such cases, be, Bo much more usefully for the country, rte‘he m y,otherti.iae employed ? If you look back to the time I was in Opposi- siounn, you will find out that I was as constant as any man in the House ; and, sliould it be the fortune of my honourable friend to occupy unv office, and mine to be in Opposition, I will certainly be as constant as us.to be ; and I shall Inne y the Tory gentlemen as much as when I sat night after night beside Mr. —1flume, when he was, .during several years, continually attacking the Esti- mates." ( Great cheerang.)

jr. Gladstone professed to be a mere man of business : he bad no politics

In obedience to the requisition from a most numeroue, respectable, and in- fluential holly of the electors, he bad come forward as a candidate for the suf- frages of the electors at large. He did not come before them in the character of a Whip a Tory, or a Radical. His anxious desire was to promote and protect the best interests of the country. Though a stranger in Dundee. he bad, from his earliest years, been familiar with manufactures ; and the last fifty years of his life having been devoted to pursuits similar to their own, he might be considered as one of themselves—conversant with the manufactures, the blade, and the shipping of the town. The Sheriff's show of hands was as entirely in favour of Sir Henry Parnell as Mr. Symnn's had been ; and Mr. Gladstone de-

manded poll. The Mr. Samuel Wells, whose pretensions were ridiculed by Mr. Sprott, was invited to Dundee, or at least encouraged, by the Radical section of what is called the Water party,—consisting of some gentle- men who have failed in attempting to prevail upon the Town-Council and inhabitants to adopt a plan they had formed for supplying Dundee with water. They bad originally no political dislike to Sir Henry Parnell, and now merely oppose him because he has advocated the bill recommended by the Town-Council. The opposition of this party to Sir Henry is simply local, and created by mortification arising from a local defeat. Though very furious, they did not venture to nominate Wells; whom they appear to have been ashamed of.

The polling was on Tuesday ; and the number of votes recorded proves either that a large porticn of the constituency of Dundee has been disfranchised since the first election under the Reform Act, or that both parties took but little interest comparatively in the result of the election. In 1832, Mr. Kinloch polled 8.52, Mr. Guthrie 593

votes—together 1445: at the election just over, the numbers were— Sir Henry Parnell 663

Mr. Gladstone 361

Showing a Liberal majority of 282, but a decrease in the total number polled since the last contest of 401 votes ! A friend, not a resident in Dundee, but who went there on the day of election in company with two other Liberals, "hearing," as he says, "that Patnell'a seat was in peril," has sent us the following account

as the result of what he saw, heard, and thought on the occasion. " Sir Henry Parnell was not in peril ; for although a few Radicals kept off, I believe scarcely any (notwithstanding their menaces) voted for the Tory. It is, however, quite clear, that unless the Ministry take sonic bolder and higher position, Sir Henry Parnell cannot again sit for Dundee. The Ballot and other popular measures must not be impeded by the Ministers. If they do impede them, no Minister will be able to represent a constituency like this. On the present occa- sion, all the leading Radicals and public men in the country, who have been applied to, have refused to oppose Sir Henry, and have subjected themseves to heavy reproaches here, and elsewhere, for their besita. tion. But unless the Whigs do more than they have hitherto done to awaken public confidence, they will undoubtedly be deserted by the intelligent and decided Reformers. Many voters have held back ; many have supported Sir Henry as a pis oiler ; and more have recorded their opinions rather as against a Tory than in favour of a member of the Whig Ministry. Sir Henry has, however, many friends; and

his earnest declaration of unaltered attachment to popular and efficient reforms, has disarmed much opposition. He stands at the extreme point of the Ministry—that which is nearest and dearest to the People. He asserts that he haa always held, und will continue to hold, the lan- guage of Radical Reform to his official colleagues. He has done im. manse service to Financial Reform in many a department; and these services have availed him much in a contest which at one moment threatened to be critical."

EAST LOTHIAN. The fears of the Reformers were too well. founded: this county has been lost to the Reformers, by the rejection of Mr. Robert Ferguson of Raith, for Lord Ramsay. Mr. Ferguson has been defeated by foul play : bad the Ballot protected the electors, he would have been far ahead on the poll. At the nomination, on Saturday, Sir David Baird, who proposed Mr. Ferguson, alluded to the intimidation and roguery practised by the Tories

WhateverMr. Ferguson's majority, or whatever maybe his position on the poll, be will have the comfort and satisfaction of knowing, that he owes his elution there to the unbiassed suffrages of willing supporters, who come for- rod with their feelings inlisted in his service, who advance voluntarily and cheerily in his favour ; while, on the other hand, the noble lord-1 say it with has had, I fear, so far to descend from his high estate, that he will be

bted for his situation on the poll to the support of many whose sympathies la not embarked in his cause—to the support of many who, on the point of tulth +rig the most valuable privileges of freemen, while they utter the name Of Lord Ramsay to the Sheriff, will have a wish for the success of Mr. Ferguson moven on their hearts—to the support of some, it may be, who are dragged tl,he poll, the unwilling victims or illiberal oppression. Others of the noble trtiipporters may present to the country the still more immoral spectacle of feln g to the possession of property which, even after the oath is gulped few will believe they have any real concern with. Under these circum- !"lets, whatever may be the result of the election, I for one can have no hesi • It% in declaring which is the most enviable position for a candidate to be In the course of the proceedings, Lord Ramsay reproached Mr. Fer- gus* with the support he had given to Mr. O'Connell, in seconding

ate the resolutions at the London meeting to set on foot an indem-

nity•fund for that gentleman. Mr. Ferguson, with characteristic manliness, interrupted the flippaint lordling, and said, he would come forward again under the same circumstances, and second the same re- solution. He defended O'Connell, not as a private individual, but as a public character, unjustly assailed and abominably libelled by the Tories because he stood up for his country. Lord Ramsay also pre- tended to doubt the truth of Sir David Baird's charge of intimidation. But Sir David replied— Not only had two tenants been tryeted here to vote on Monday against their will, but two others had been threatened by an agent of a noble lord to be rouped out of their farms, and to be turned adrift to starve if they did not vote for Lord Railway.

Lord Ramsay asked for names. Sir David said-

" After the election I will give you every satisfaction. I will mention another fact—one roan was obliged to fly to America for having acted in an independent and conscientious manner at the last election. Awl I think I am warranted in saying, tla it among many victims of oppression, he was a most undeserving one. In what I have mentioned, I have no intention to hurt the feelings of the pre- sent candidate. I respect his private character, but I think he has w liked aside from the strong feelings he entertains in politics. I mention this toy two mo- tives—first, a certain esprit de corps I entertain in favour of my honourable friend, aud the second and higher object is, that I wish the brand of public opi- nion to be affixed to such indefensible expedients." The show of hands Was in favour of Mr. Ferguson ; but at two o'clock on the following Monday, the day of polling, Lord Ramsay had a majority of 93, and Mr. Ferguson retired.

EDINBURGH COUNTY. The nomination was on Monday. Captain Burn Callender proposed, and Mr. Glendinning seconded, Sir George Cleik ; Mr. Gibson Craig was proposed by Lord Dalmeny, and seconded by Mr. Stark. Sir George Clerk delivered a clever and in some points cutting attack upon the Whigs. He asked the Radicals, whether they were satisfied with the manner in which the Whigs bad fulfilled their promises of reform ?

" By the promises which they have made to you, by forming a coalition with those %vim had abused and attacked them previously, and assailed them with every abusive epithet which the English language could supply them with, did they succeed in coming into power—they gut into power by your assistance; and what have they done for you since they acquired that power? Look at the altered tone they assume now. Lord Dalnwny professed to make an appeal about his principles, or rather the minciples of Mr. Gibson Craig ; hut has he not otherwise confined himself to a few vague declarations of the Reform prin- ciples ? I would like to ask him, a member of the present Government, to look to the words which her Majesty's Ministers have put into her mouth, and see bow far they accord with the professions made to the Radicals four yells ago? I think I hear somebody say the Tories did so; but I will say, that no Tory Ministry could have devised a better Conservative speech. Well, I will tell you the reason why they have altered their tone—they found that the sense of the country is against theta. They knew well what would be the result of the present election; and are now anxious to throw off the Radicals, upon whose shoulders they mounted into power, for the purpose of now making an attempt to conciliate the Conservatives: but I tell them that they will nut succeed in that attempt. If they could act honestly up to the declaration they have put into her Majesty's mouth, I would, if 1 have the honour of being returned to Parliament, give them my cordial support : but still I look more to the cape. titmice of the past than the present professions of the Whigs; and I will not place tbat confidence in them, and I am sure not any real Radical Reformer will place confidence in them, after the disappointments they have already experienced."

lie would decidedly oppose the Ballot, but would Mr. Gibson Craig support it ?—

" It is unnecessary to put the question to Mr. Craig, for the very circutn- stance of his being proposed by Lord Dalineny is a sufficient answer. Lord Dahneny was set forth as the forlorn hope of the Government to oppose the Ballot; and had it not been for the support which I and all my friends gave him, the noble lord knows that he and his colleagues would have been left in a miserable minority. I appeal to hint, whether it is a solitary instance ; and whether, upon numerous occasions, the Government to which he belongs has not been rescued from disgrace and defeat by those who call themselves their friends, by the interposition of the Conservative party. And they know well, that if the Conservatives had only been anxious to turn them out of office, they might have very easily left them in a minority on many occasions. The noble lord has come forward to propose Mr. Craig to-day ; and certainly I was sur- prised, when 1 saw a flag flying from over his head with the inscription of the Independence of the County of Mid Lothian, that a placeman should be selected to propose him, and who comes forward nominally to speak a few words in favour of Mr. Craig, but really to preserve for a few months longer the preca- rious existence of that tottering Administration to which he belongs—and I should think, rather to preserve his own situation in office than for the benefit of the County of Edinburgh. • • I will yen■ ture to appeal to the experience of every elector in tbe county, whether there has not been infinitely mere liberality and fairness on the part of the Conservatives than on that of those who arrogate to themselves the exclusive name of Liberals? And I am perfectly certain if I could get their votes on the subject, I should have a large majority in my iavour. I maintain, that intimi. Junin is snore used against my friends than by any of my supporters ; and I firmly believe, that, looking only at the personal consideration, or what was ti be the effect in this Mid-Lothian election, I ought to be an advocate for the Ballot ; and that a much greater majority would be found in favour of the Conservative candidates, both here and in other places, if the Ballot was adopted. It is not, therefore, on personal grounds that I oppose the Ballot. If I could only repeat to you the eloquent speech of the noble lord when he Gppiieed the Ballot, and which carried conviction to my mind, I have no doubt it would satisfy the individual who put the question. The noble lord has talked a great deal upon going on with the principles of Reform' but I wish to know what great measures there are in contemplation by her Majesty's Government ? They have told us that they will have nothing but temperate and discreet reforms. That is precisely the course that would be taken by the Conservatives if they were in power."

Mr. Gibson Craig dwelt upon the countenance given to the present Ministers by the Queen-

" We have now got a young and generous Queen; and that Queen places confidence in a Liberal Ministry, because she knows they enjoy the confidence of the People. But the honourable baronet, of necessity, must find some rea- son to give you for his being here to-day ; and accordingly, he tells you that the Queen does not put confidence in the present Administration, but in those gentlemen against whom every declaration which her Majesty has 3et made is directly hostile."

Mr. Craig also pressed the King of Hanover into his rvice- Gentlemen, Sir George's speech was so discursive, that it is impossible lean follow it out; but there is one other point in it to which I must advert —namely, the question regarding the Church. Now, on this point, while be has told us that this is one among many reasons fur his withholding confidence in Ministers, be has forgot, on the other hand, when coming forward to re- commend his own party, to tell ns what is the policy they mean to pursue— what reforms they mean to bring forward—or whether they propose to do something more worthy of your support than has been done by the present Administration. The honourable baronet has been also totally silent on the subject of Ireland. He ha. never told introduce how he and his party piopose to pa- cify the people of that country, or to tranquillity into it—a eubtect of the greatest and most weighty importance of any question of the present day. Perhaps, however, they may intend to adopt the same policy as that just adopted in the kingdom of Hanover, where his Hanoverian Majesty has totally abrogated the constitution of that country, in his eager desire for the prosperity of his subject., and tells them to wait with confidence in his benevolent intentions, until he has made up his mind whether he shall give them any constitution at

On the subjects of the Ballot and Suffrage-extension Mr. Craig said nothing, and he also shirked the Church question. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Craig, and a poll was de- mended by Sir George Clerk.

GREENOCK. The efforts of the Tories to oust Mr. Wallace have been just as successful as they deserved to be. That gentleman has beat them hollow. At one o'clock on the polling.day, the malecon- tents, who supported a Mr. Smith, gave in and the numbers were an- nounced to be—for Mr. Wallace 401, Smith 202; majority, only about two to one. If the Reformers of Greenock had suffered an interloper to turn out their indefatigable, honest, and useful Member, we should indeed have held them in special contempt ; but they knew better.

HADDINGTON BURGHS. Mr. Robert Steuart seems to have been hardly pressed by the Tories ; and, though a Lord of the Treasury, we understand from the following account of his speech, in the Edin- burgh Chronkk, that he has pledged himself to vote fur the Ballot- " Like every election of the same kind, this proved to every Liberal the absolute necessity of the Ballot and the extension of the franchise. The impor- tant announcement of Mr. Steuart, a Lord of her Majesty's Treasury, stating that be should now most strenuously support the Ballot, affords the confident hope that the question will be no longer opposed by the Ministry, but either left an open question, or adopted as a leading measure of Lord Mel. bourne's Administration. Mr. Steuart also declared himself for the repeal of the Septennial Act, and favourable—should Tory intimidation be carried to the same length that he had observed it during this election—to extension of the franchise. He did not know to what length he might not then be prepared to go to secure a faithful representation of the People in Parliament. All this is most cheering to his supporters; and at the different occasions on which these sentiments were expressed, they were greeted with the most cordial and unani- mous applause. It affords an earorst of what we may be entitled to expect from her Majesty's Government, and ot their determination to carry out most un- Sinchingly the principles of reform to their legitimate results."

INVERNESS BURGHS. Mr. Macleod has been elected, after an ar- duous struggle by a majority of 336 to 317 over his opponent Mr. Mackenzie. in reply to a question from one of the electors, he said that he had left the county of Sutherland because he would not act a slavish part, but vote as became an independent Representative. This did not suit the Dutchess- Countess ; so be gave up the county.

It is understood that Mr. Mackenzie has paid well for the honour of being beaten at Inverness; but we don't believe that the total has been increased by a douceur in any shape to Mr. Cumming Bruce.

KILMARNOCK. The Church question, of which Mr. Co1quhoun of Rillermont availed himself unfirirly, was made the chief instrument of Dr. Bowring's defeat ; though, as we learn from the Glasgow Argus, intimidation and corruption were also set at work. The Argus says- " Was it hypocrisy that did this? (defeat the Doctor.) In some measure we believe it was. The public in the Kilmarnock district can judge for them- selves. They know the habitual deportment and conversation of several who have, on this occasion, made the Church their stalking •horse—the cloak to bide their apostasy from the cause of Reform. Was it intimidation or corruption that did this? 1n some measure we believe it was. We are in possession of authenticated cases of abuse of the authority of the clerical name, and of the power of employers, which we certainly will not shrink from using when a proper time shall come. At present we content ourselves with reminding the victims of intimidation, that their fears constitute, in a great measure, the strength of their oppressors. If they had stood resolute against their threats, these threats they would not have dared to carry into execution. Resistance is more difficult now than it would have been had they never yielded. Every additional concession will but make the struggle, which must conic some time or other, more difficult. * * * We advise Mr. Cohjohoun to look well to his seat, for we prophesy that he :sits for the Kilmarnock district for the first and last time."

Ay, but if that "first and last time" be seven years !

LINLITHGOWSHIRE. The Tories have met with an unexpected op- position in this county. The Honourable Fulke Greville stands on the Liberal interest, against Captain Hope, and with a fair chance of

success. The Glasgow Argus says, that had not Lord Dalmeny been more anxious to keep a Radical out of the Dunfermline District, than a Tory out of the County of Linlithgow, West Lothian would have been long ago emancipated."

ST. ANDREW'S. Andrew Johnston, finding that he could not poll even a decent minority in the Fifeshire Burghs, prudently retired, and did what he could to transfer his voters to Mr. Ellice. Probably Andrew by this step secured the victory to the Liberal candidate, for it was a hard battle ; Mr. Mackgill polling 261 votes against Mr. Ellice's 290. The Times calls Andrew a " little spiteful creature." If be had been honest and consistent, Andrew might have been still the Liberal Representative of an incorruptible constituency: as it is, be and Mr. Fowell Buxton, after a visit to the malting premises of Truman and Co. may condole with each other every Sunday at Hamp- stead, undisturbed by legislative cares.

STIRLING. Much discontent exists among the Radicals in the Stirling District of Burghs, in consequence of the refusal of Colonel Thompson and Mr. John Crawfurd to oppose the Whig Lord Dal- Trieny, and the refusal of Mr. Hume, who had been applied to for a candidate, to sanction any attempt to oust his Lordship. The Radicals held a public meeting and passed severe resolutions against the con- federates, as they culled them, in this plot to deprive Radical consti- tuences of candidates. The meeting, " Viewing with alarm and disgust the compromi.e of principle involved in such conduct, and the danger in which it places the rights of the great body of the People are determined to rtsist its operation by every means in their power; and will strenuously oppose, at whatever hazard, the return of any person to Parliament who is a party to, or acts upon, an understanding ad47""pw avowedly upon the principle of doing evil that good may come."

PERTH. Sir Murray Thriepland had no chance in the "Fair Cit,,, against Mr. Arthur Kinnaird. The poll at its close showed—for Kinnaird 355, Thriepland 188. Mr. Kinnaird supports the Bait and Household Suffrage.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. The candidates, Messrs. O'Connell and Hutton on the beral side, and West and Hamilton for the Tories, were put in mita. nation on Monday. There seems to have been a good deal of fun on the occasion. West complained that O'Connell had called him is ugly man ; and declared that if the Agitator would pull his wig syy and stand by him, he would be judged by the electors whether he were not the handsomer man of the two. Whereupon O'Connell, characteristic humour, Fulled off his wig, and placed himself nests) West, on the hustings, whilst all pre3ent were convulsed with laughter, West now admitted, ihatin point of personal beauty0' Connell certainly had the advantage; ..iut then, in point of principle, he was by fat tla best man to represent Dublin.

Mr. Hutton delivered a sensible and moderate speech, which pr. duced an impression in his favour. He avowed himself a warm acdvy. cate of Lord Mulgrave's policy, and expressed a general approbation of Lord Melbourne's Government. He promised assiduous attention is his Parliamentary duties ; and replied with spirit to some of the elec- tioneering calumnies against him.

Mr. O'Connell spoke at great length ; and, judging from the impel. feet report of his speech which we have seen, with his usual felicity when addressing an Irish audience.

The show of bands was in favour of the Liberals. The pap; commenced on Tuesday ; and at the close that day the numbers were..

West 1233 Hamilton 1234 O'Connell 1195 Hutton 1192

On Wednesday the Tories improved their advantage ; the numbers being

West 2403 Hamilton 2406 O'Connell 2298

Hutton 2284 DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. An opposition, to vex Shaw and Lefroy sod keep them from engaging in the city election, has been got up. Ds Stock is the Liberal candidate. On Tuesday evening, the numbers were—for Shaw 615, Lefroy 607, Stock 107. On Wednesday they stood—

Shaw

749 Lefroy '737 Stock 180

KILDARE. Mr. Edward Ruthven persists in standing, though there are two other Liberal candidates Messrs. Archbold and More O'Fer. tall, in the field. Mr. O'Connell has written a letter to the electors of Kildare, which we suppose will demolish Ruthven. We subjoin to. tracts- ,, It is, therefore, with pain and sorrow that I feel it my sacred duty to warn pa- to caution you—apinst this unhappy man. So far, indeed. from being willing toil. flounce him to the pmiple of Kildare, I did everything that I possibly could to pewit his obtruding himself on the public under his present awkward predicament. Elt. however, has rejected my advice—has come forward in the most offensive and dangee ous mauner—and compels me to interpose between his audacious artifices and tls persons whom he would delude, in order, I am convinced. to betray. " Out of respect to his father's memory I first expostulated with him in private. I told him that we could not possibly countenance his again canvassing the county Kildare. I told him that he stood convicted of crimes which were in the eyes. not soli of gentlemen, but ot every honest oleo, however humble, of the most diegrarefal nature: that Lord Ilowth, I think it was, Colonel Westenra, and Mr. John Maher-- men of the highest honour and integrity—bad convicted him of a crime nothing abort of swindling and false swearing ; that they had published it book, which was &cutest amongst all the Members of the House of Commons, distinctly finding him guilty of Iniving substituted one, if not two, horses for the proper ones, merely to win other Pte sons' money ; that it was believed he haul mollified on oath one it not both of three horses; that if he were unjitatly accused he had then the opportunity to vindicate his character, by bringing an action against the publishers of the book ; but if lie did rat do so lie must shunt for ever tarnished in the public mind. Ile totally declined to bring any such action, but lie pleaded that his means were limited, anti that he suffered much iii the public cause. Iii the second place. no far from wishiog to do him so is. jury. I at once took the hint, and tolut him that it would be in vain for him leaped that the Government could possibly do anything for him iu Ireland, where his co set W■14 known, but! w, old try whether something might not be done for him in some of Li8 Colonies. I do eolemnly assure you that I took all the pains I possibly could to Slew tail, it briber any colonial apjauntment could be given him, but all in vain. I*" told that it would not be listened to, nor even mentioned to any man in office. This result of my inquiries I communicated to Mr. It iii liven. I next went so tar as tone deavour to proente for hint trom the new candidates some compensation for his losses and expenses at former elections. I told him that I did hope to get him tom 600110 LOP/. as such comrusation ; but he said that those elections taut cost h ni from 4,000J. to 5,000/.. which I did not believe. I finind, however, that I could not get him One shitlitur for such compensation : and I concluded by informing him very distinctly that if he stood for the county of Kildare he must expect all the opposition I cola possibly give hint."

Mr. O'Connell then denounces Rutliven as a Tory tool- " I now only act from a conscientious sense of public ditty when I tell you I om cos. vinced Edward Ituthven is in the haereSt or the Orange faction, and is an enerui Iii,' people of Ireland. His recent conduct leaves no room to doubt this. Ilia address, full as it is of topics calculated only to irritate and injure others, without serviiig ere. " Labourers of Kildare, do not confide in him. Do not attend to any summons or

mind that Edward Italica his pretended purpose!, is alone sufficient to prove to my is in the interest oi. and is the tool of. the Orange laction.

call of his; he is not your friend, but the contrary ; lie is your enemy, doing thedirti sunk, as lie is doing, of the Orange party. "Is there a man amongst you who would have confidence in a person in year VI class who hail been declared to be guilt y of dishonesty or any kind of swindling ! Doh urn sure there is not. You would be ashamed to keep any such company. Do then, keep company with Edward Ruthven, or assemble anywhere at lim balding.0 " Electors of the Comity of Kildare—I am convinced lie calumniates you *he F.,. says he has the confidence of any of you. There is not a single voter in Kildare or. would not disgrace himself by voting for this unhappy man. You are honell—v,_In honest men. You are just and true—vote for the just and the flue, Atthlokl 0' Ferralh Above all, do not degrade yourselves by listening one moment teat MAI it hose canvass as a candidate for your county is directly stud ohs ioualy calculaheOu injure the popular and honest can:lid:des, 0' Ferrell and Archbold, and to aid t .e telests of the Orange faction—the unmitigated enemies of the religion and awnies the people of Ireland." Ruthven, it said, has got money from some quarter, and has offehreetid the Sub. Sheriff of Kildare 1001. for his goodwill. He has publis a letter in reply to O'Connell, which the Tories are making much 01ii It amounts, however, to little wore than what O'Connell Lawn

„boa in the foregoing letter—the offer of money or a place to get rid of bias.

970SITOAD. A letter in the ?Kerning Post tells the following eery of the kidnapping of the Sheriff of Waterford, with the election- in his pocket, by the Marquis of Waterford— They were both walking on the Quay, when, the day being warm, the pjerquis hospitably invited the High Sheriff to partake of a glass of iced cham- ne. The Sheriff accepted the offer, requesting that his Lordship would delay it mail be went to the Post-office to get any letters which might have arrived for him. Ile did so got the election-write which had arrived by that i diy,f, mail; put them nto his pocket; went on board (the Marquis's yacht?) and neither the vessel, the Marquis, nor the Sheriff, have been since beard of. The noble Marquis was about to sail for Norway, and the first account of the party is expected to he from the inhospitable shores of the Scag- geraek. On dit that at the Marquis s gone to seek for the establishment of Tom Steel's theory, that there is a sub-oceanic passage between the Maelstrom and the Gulf of Bothnia."