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Rot if this wns the duty of their Representatives, the Electors bad also their duties; and he took the liberty- of saying to them, and through them to other electoral bodies, that they ought to watch with the utmost care and circum- spection the conduct of those to whom they confided their interests, and to withhold their support from those who were not prepared to advocate their protection to the full extent. (Loud cheers.) In January last there was an election for the borough of Devonport • and Mr. Robert Dawson, the bre-ther- e-a-law of Sir Robert Peel, was a candidate on what he called the Conservative interest. During the course of the canvass, it appeared that a few votes might be gained by flinging over his adhesion to the Corn-laws, which he had formerly boded to the skies as a masterpiece of wise legislation ; and accordingly, Mr. Robert Dawson immediately renounced the principles which he had so long professed. At that moment every vote was of unusual value to the party with whom be acted; but idler such conduct, he need not tell them that he heard with the moo unbounded joy of Mr. Dawson's defeat ; and such he hoped alight be the invariable fate of all timeserving and trimming politicians. (Laud cheers) Let them be firm and united: on their union dept tided their strength, and on their strength depended all tiles was valuable in the country. Oo their stability depended the &talenty of the Church and Constituthm; and On their prosperity, thoeele their opponents were not disposed to admit it, de- pended even the prosperity of the trading and manufacturing classes them- selves. If they ever gave is the cause of protection to sericulture, either from disnnion or difference of opinion rummest themselves (and in 110 other way could it he lost)—if once they abandoned their strong plates of defence—they might be assured that nethinee could happen which should prove detrimental to that great branch of national industry. the cultivation of the land, whieli would not permanently and vitally affect all the other interests of the country. Eng- land would at once sink into a second-rate power, and cease to he what she sow wag. the mistress of the seas, the arbitress of nations, and wonder of the civilized world. (Leto/ applause.) Mr. Hamilton, the Member for the borough of Aylesbury, alluded to the announcement of the Anti-Corn-law League, threatening the farmers with an Anti-Corn-law electoral movement the moment the registrations were concluded. Ile thought the time selected for such a movement was most evil apropos— That time last year, he did think the cause of the farmers, as regarded the Corn.laws, was in some danger from the immense array against it ; hut look at the chance which had taken place in the state of Europe. Where was the man who in the present aspect of affairs would trust to the carrying-trade for a supply of corn, and theee us in England dependent on Europe for food? Was it at a time when war, if not imminent, might perhaps not he long averted, that the home growth of feint corn was to be discouraged? At the week:ion erlast session lie thought the farmer was safe : he thought so still more now, when be looked to the situation of Europe.

The Duke of Buckingham, in a subsequent part of the evening, also alluded to the same peint- It had always been his desire and earnest wish that all classes should be allowed to live happily and in union together; and he did regret, from his heart, to see an anxious desire prevailing elsewhere to upset the interest of one great elaes of tie country the sole le nelit of another. It was not impossible that the ti re might come w•li:n England would, es heroofere, be thrown back on her nwn resourees—e hen we s'aculd b,r °nee more shut up and fin•tilied in our

native and them ulna would be the result it the race of British farmers

t.) be swept from every corner of this Splendid country ? He hoped the fee.tee how seized against them was of a de..ting nature; he hoped so fur the sake ot! the character of lee countrymen. But he must say, the anxious desire evine...1, and the inces4a:,t and Ls:. :s.i•et meat,: adopted b.the British manu- facturers Sc, interfere with and up•••t t!.e interest, of the English farmers, im- peratively called on him, and on I' vory (me interested in the safety of this counter, to step ferwars1 in Pipe ee of the Briii4h farmers, That manufac- tures, en:one-se-. and a!,;:i. srlture, m'e!it 11,eirish in union together, was bid hope and wi-h, as. 1, in his cr ition, tke Imps: would be realized were it nut

for the perpetual of same perome to stir up mischief and sow the

seeds of di:Nur.' bet, sisem. Tt was time to put a hold and honest front upon the matter : w 1- time f the farmer, to see that union was necessary, sod r:•ne fur these whe In be the friends of the farmer to show that anion was a reality. ( z!scs.) The beelthsof :he .T :ages aril Stewards were then given and ac- Lnoe ledeed ; and el' ,. :ly afterwards the party broke up.