NEWS OF THE WEEK.

THE English elections may be said to be over ; the only ones that remain undecided are those for Northamptonshire, where Mr. CARTWRIGHT and Lord MILTON, and Pembrokeshire, Where Sir J. OWEN and Mr. GREVILLE continue the struggle like spent wrestlers. We gave the falls last week to Lord MILTON and Sir JOHN; and we see small probability of our being called on to re- verse our judgment. The numerous charcrbes arisineout of the contest in Northamptonshire, we have alluded to elsewhere. Stir- ring times are favourable to the production of falsehoods-there is a demand for them. There are, indeed, two or three of our own learned body, the press, that set about the manufacture in the most business-like way imaginable-who, whether the subject be PHILIPPE or CHARLES, Mr. BANKES or Mr. O'CONNELL, go on fancying facts and compiling arguments with equal industry and imperturbability. We have no doubt that Lord ALTHORP'S and Lord MILTON'S statements will be found by these ingenious persons to contain not a single fact, precisely because they contain nothing else-and to be wholly made up of vague argument, because they offer no argument at all. We are not at present much disposed to quarrel with their sophistries ; we are indeed too honestly rejoiced in the absolute, and at length confessed success of the Bill, to quarrel with any thing its oppo- nents may feign or feel on the subject. The Standard has disco- vered a source of exultation in the superior oratory of the van- quished. If they have done less, they have said more than their opponents. The idol of our contemporary is the great Mr. NORTH of Drogheda; who opposes the Bill because it will enable the Ca- tholics to take advantage of the Emancipation Act, of which Mr. NORTH was a chief adviser. Mr. NORTH has discoursed to the electors of Drogheda on the imbecility and weakness of Lord BROUGHAM, Earl GREY, and a few more obscure Lords and Commoners ; and this is what our contemporary calls eloquence. Some claim to praise, however, Mr. NORTH'S oratory may prefer, for it has been successful. Of the value of exhortations which persuade nobody, and of arguments which convince nobody, some reasonable doubts may be entertained. To our understandings, nothing can be more flat, stale, and unprofitable, than the rechauffes which the Anti-Reformers in the South and in the North, wherever they have ventured to speak at all, have served up to their reluc- tant audiences. An appeal to the °biter dicta of this or that states- man, pronounced some forty or fifty years ago, under circumstances as different from the present as night from day-a glance to the French Revolution, that great least understood bugbear of elderly Waiting-gentlewomen and hereditary legislators, or, in those whose reading is more extensive, a scrap from a scarce historical work calleeGIBRON'S " Decline and Fall"-Fox, PITT, ROBESPIERRE, and JuLius CiEsAn-these constitute the sum of the eloquence against the Bill. We must add, of course, the running accompa- niment of" constitution, revolution, aristocracy, democracy," the anarchon kai atelutaion to pan of our old and respected friend Mr.EphraimJenkinson,with which every sentence begins or finishes. The only Anti-Reform address that we can in our critical conscience praise, is that of Mr. BANKES, the feeling of which is sound and English, though it contains no very slight infusion of that common- place twaddle which predominates in the rest. Of course, even Mr. BANKES must have his fears and his tremblings, lest the future may not justify the anticipations of the Reformers. "Heaven grant we may all be better for it this day three months !" quoth the Vicar of Wakefield. "I hope the new constitution may prove as good and as useful as the old,' quoth the patron of Corfe Castle. If the Bill succeed, Mr. BANKES, like the worthy mono- gamist, may claim the merit of a pious wish ; if any misfortune ensue, his lackadaisacal misgivings will be looked on as a pro- phecy. The Dublin election is virtually over, and as such we have con- sidered it. The only other Irish election Which excites attention, is that of Clare ; where the MAHONS-who will, it is said, be the defeated party after all-are, if they are not greatly belied, acting a very turbulent part ; so turbulent, indeed, as can hardly fail to bring them acquainted with the public prosecutor. The least ex- cusable featin e in the violence of the contest is, that there is no- dispute of principle. The Anti-Reformers in Ireland have in most cases been equally resigned as in England ; but in some, it must

also be admitted, they have shown a bolder front, and fought harder, if not more successfully.

The Scotch elections drag along tediously, but on the whole satisfactorily. The people, as they have greater cause, have shown, in not a few instances, more irritation than their Southern - brethren. We have noticed the proceedings at Lanark. At Dumfries the indignation is equally great. A magnanimous at- tempt was made by the Forfar lairds, on Monday, to pass a string of mock Reform resolutions. It was resisted by Lord Du,Ncam and others ; and when the vote was called, the poor Antis found themselves in a minority of 35 in a meeting of 83. The attempt seems to have produced quite a sensation in the little town of Forfar.

ENGLAND.

CORNWALL.—Sidieourlas publication, Sir Richard Vyvyan has added to the already nuriterciuS list of Anti-Reformers who have Inunbly and of compiilsion- resigned, in obedience to the call of the people, having re- fused_to listen to the invocation of the King. It was time. The poll on Saturday presented the following awful exhibition of numbers-

Pendarves, 1819--Vyvyan, 901

Lemon' ... 1804—Valletort, 811 'C Lombard Street to a China orange" against the Antis.

The majority on Friday- was so great as to place the return of the tali

unsuccessful candidates wholly beyond the limits of probability • yet Sir Richard then declared he would keep the poll open, it might be for another week ! A correspondent of the Times says, that on this an- nouncement being made, the electors " determined to continue their ex- ertions on the Saturday and Monday in such a way as should place their numerical superiority in a state that should render it impossible for their enemies to come up with them even if they polled every remaining. vote for the county. The number of votes which could by the very. highest calculation be brought to the poll is about 4,200; but, as a gentleman who knows Cornwall as well as, or perhaps better than, any other mania it, and is himself the father of Reform there, told me he was convinced that it would be impossible under any circumstances to bring. up 4,000, the medium may be taken at 4,100. If, therefore, the Cornislk had polled, as they had ample means of doing, about 400 votes on Mon- day, and their opponents about half that number (which was about the average, as the first day could only be counted as half a day), there would. have remained only about COO votes unpolled, while the majority of the Cornish over their antagonists would have been about 1,100." • DonsEr RE.-The contest closed on Monday night. The poll hav- ing been declared by the Sheriff to be as follows-

Portman 1,690 Caleraft 1,452 Bankes 1,176

the last-named gentleman stood forward to announce his intention of no longer contending against the sense of the county. Old Mr. Bankes is a most respectable gentleman in all the relations of private life; and in his retiring speech, which was one of much decorum and good feeling, he was patiently and courteously listened to, as his conduct well 'merited. "I retire," said Mr. Bankes' from this arduous struggle Certainly, with regret ; it is impossible for me to depart from that big] station in - which I have been placed in three Parliaments by your kindness, with- out feeling deep regret. But when I say that I feel deep regret, I deem' it right to say that I feel nothing else. I feel nothing of dishonour, no- thing of regret, for that great cause for which I have stood forward. gave the votes of an honest a conscientious, and an independent mem- ber of Parliament, whilst 1 had the honour to represent von; and had you done me the honour of returning me once more to-day, and had I been called to give an opinion upon the Bill-in my opinion falsely called a Reform in Parliament, I tell you fairly that I could notiiand should not, have done otherwise than I had done before. I admit that those gentlemen who voted for the Bill voted for it with fair and honest' intentions, and that they have seen it with very different eyes from those with which I have contemplated it. I am sure, that if my late honour- able colleague (Mr. Portman) had thought as I do, he would have beam as strenuous as I have been in opposition to it; and if I had fortunately entertained his opinions-that it would remove the defects of the Con- stitution, without producing consequences infinitely more calamitous-I should have voted with him in support of it, (Cheers.) To those gentlemen: who are now so strenuous for Reform, I must say that I can notpli them the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill, is carrisdZsie*;. - by what has been done here, but by a delusion which is now

through the country, and from which, in my opinion, within no ,

months it will recover. It has been said, and I believe truly said;41 in other counties of England the same spirit has prevailed which Treltitir; seen here, and that there will be a certain return in the next seiSic*-1 Parliament to the House of Commons, of a majority of county who are anxious for Reform and are anxious to concur in the riot plan of Reform. But 1 would ask those who are acquain the circumstances of the late election, and particularly my late co

whether, when such men as Sir Edward Knatchbull, Mr. Dickinson, Sir William Heathcote, Sir Thomas Acland, and Sir R. Vyvyan, are obliged to retire from the representation of their respective counties—I would ask him, I say, whether he thinks that those counties will be represented by men of more enlightened talent, or by men of greater integrity and honour, in the next Parliament ? (Cries in the crowd,

6 Yes, by snore enlightened men, certainly—nothing more easy!) The cause of what is called Parliamentary lkform, I admit, is now eompletety

carried. I do most sincerely hope, that as the moment of conflict and irritation is now over and as I have withdrawn myself from the contest, from a wish not to interrupt the peace of the county, so soon as I found

a decided majority of the freeholders against me—I do, I say, hope sincerely that we may return to that good feeling of friendship and cor- diality which has universally prevailed throughout this county for the

many years during which I have known it. Whatever situation I may Sll hereafter—whether I may be in public or whether I may retire into private life, my wishes will still be for die prosperity of this my native county, and for the advantage of my country in general. And when I am gone, as, in the course of nature, I soon must go, I trust that no one will speak of me save as an holiest man, who was consistent in his principles, and who endeavoured, to the best of his conscience, to dis- charge the functions of an independent member of Parliament. (Cheers.) To those gentlemen who have done me the honour of supporting me in this late contest, my best thanks and acknowledgments are due, and I request them hereby to accept them. To those gentlemen whom I had the misfortune-to find opposing me on this occasion, I have only to say, that I hope they entertain no sentiments inimical to any thing but my politics. (Cries of Certainly not.') I am sure they have received no injury at my hands ; certainly not an intentional injury, and I trust

not even a casual one. (Cheers.) I leave you, gentlemen, I confess, with regret ; and I hope that the new Constitution which you are going to have may be as good and as useful to you as the old Constitution which you are going to discard ; but I say it sincerely, that the old Constitution with all its defects, appears to me—and I pray to God that I may 1,e mistaken in my anticipation—to be more safe to the coun- try, and more salutary and conservative, than the new one."

This is said in good tone and temper at any rate. It is no fault of Bankes that the list of the slain furnishes no better names than the quintett over whose fall he lamentaso feelingly. It would be difficult in England to find other five who might be more easily spared by any party.

The election having been declared, the new members addressed the electors. It is good to hear both sides. Mr. Portman said—" His honest Opinion was, that Reform in Parliament was essential to the well-being a the kingdom. He was convinced that the day was come when the educated men of England were determined to have representatives of their own choice, and not the nominees of other persons, not a whit better or wiser than themselves. So strong was his conviction that this Bill ought to pass, that though he felt determined to get, if he could, two or three alterations made in it for the protection of the landed in- terest, he would not obstruct the passing of the Bill if he failed, nor would he let his objections go beyond the Committee ; for he thought that the Bill ought to be fully and fairly adopted. The part of the Bill to which he alluded as requiring alteration was that which did not give to the renter of the soil a right of voting, unless be held a lease for a long period. He thought that those persons ought to have a right of voting who held such property, and who, from holding such property, lead an unquestionable stake in the country. He did hope to get for them that extension of the right of voting to which he thought that they were entitled. He would not say a word more upon the Reform Bill, because he deemed it unnecessary."

Something has been said of the men of property that oppose the Bill. Portman is, we believe, one of the wealthiest commoners in Eng- land; and, looking to the list of persons who voted for General Gas- coyne's motion, we should say, in that respect, he might weigh against four or five dozen of some of them.

Mr. Calcraft said—" I do hope that every thing which may have ex- cited an angry feeling will now be forgotten. . The manner in which the contest has been given up demands it. Let us enjoy with moderation the great triumph which we • have achieved. The triumph is indeed great and signal. In the annals of the county there is no trace of its ever having been previously represented by two persons of the liberal Whig principles which distinguish Mr. Portman and myself. It is a mighty victory, which all England has been watching : and I must say that a great part of England doubted whether we could achieve it ; for this county has been so long bound in the trammels of Toryism, that they doubted whether its electors could carry the return of two liberal representatives. That has now been done. Let us therefore enjoy our triumph with that serenity which the security of possession always gives to those who have won the common object of their ambition and of their struggle. I must say, that I am proud of having been called upon as I have been by the independent freeholders, and of having been supported as I have been by ;those disinterested men who came here at their awn expense to give their franchise for one for whom they could have no per- sonal predilection, but whom they supported as their organ for carrying those free principles which they think necessary for the salvation of the country. There are some persons who deprecate the danger of this Bill ; but they do not admit the vices inherent in the system which this Bill is to supersede. They forget that the great object of contention is re- presentation as opposed to nomination. They forget, and they will not acknowledge, how ill the former system has worked ; they forget what debts and difficulties it has involved us in. They bury all this in obli- vion ; and then, because the people are to have the choice of their own representatives, and are to be restored to those privileges which are ours by the Constitution, they apprehend that all dangers will break in upon

Thanks were afterwards voted to the High Sheriff; and the members being invested in the usual form, rode to their respective residences, amidst loud acclamations. The business of the election, contrary to what was asserted in the beginning of it, was conducted with singular tranquillity.

.NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.—We adverted last week to a silly attempt at im- putation on the character of Lord Althorp, of having acted with unfairness and duplicity towards Mr. Cartwright in the contest for this county. Of all men living, Lord Althorp was the most whimsically selected as the object of such a charge ; but hungry dogs will put up with dirty pudding—the Tory imaginations have been too severely tasked for facts, and their memories for arguments, to justify discrimination when the object is a hit at the Bill. Lord Althorp has published a plain, di- rect, and honest reply to the charge, and has silenced his objectors in Northamptonshire, if not in London. Lord Milton has also published a statement of dates and facts, than which Mr. Hume himself could not with a week's study produce a more naked one. The Standard said, the other day, an appeal to character was no answer to facts ; an appeal to cha- racter, however, may be taken as a tolerably good answer to falsehoods. But the plain refutation of the slanders of the John Bull is not an ap. peal to character, nor is character once invoked in it. It is a statement of dates and particulars, which show not only that the charges made against Lord Althorp, and against Lord Milton, are wholly with- out foundation, but could not possibly be true. The tale, however, an- swered its purpose in part, though not in whole. It enabled Mr. Cart- wright to make an advance on the poll, which otherwise he would not have done. His progress has again been checked ; and by the time this account is published, Northampton, we doubt not, will have returned two Reformers. Lord Milton, whose health and spirits had sunk under the loss of his excellent lady, and whom nothing but a strong sense of public principle could have induced to stand a contested election at all, is incapable of personal attendance ; and this might in some measure have taken from the enthusiasm of his friends, had not his place been well supplied by his son—a young gentleman worthy of his father and of his grandsire. Though only seventeen years of age, Mr. Wentworth has spoken and acted on this occasion with the understanding and deci- sion of a bearded man. There are many and just complaints of the teasing obstacles opposed to the honest voters by the Anti-Reformers in Northampton ; but where the contest has been all over the country so triumphant, we can allow to the beaten party without challenge to be as spiteful and troublesome as they. please. The poll yesterday stood thus-

Althorp 2433 Milton. 2096 Cartwright

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Knightley The continuance of the contest in Northamptonshire is extremely well explained in a singularly well.written letter from the correspondent of the Times this morning. The Anti-Reformers derive a paltry satis- faction from detaining the Chancellor of the Exchequer at a distance from his immediate duties, and of heaping expense on the advocates of the Bill, to which all minor considerations readily give way. Add to this, the contest to the Antis is easy, for it is almost the only one that they have ventured to sustain ; and they have now nothing else in Great Britain to which to apply their disloyal machinery. The objec- tions by which the poll is kept open are frivolous and contemptible be- yond belief. A gentleman of undoubted property and unexceptionable character was objected to, the other day, for no reason but that, from a religious scruple, he objected to taking the freeholder's oath—and this by men who speak of the Church-destroying intentions of the Reformers ! The vote of Mr. Barnard, the gentleman in question, had been pre- viously examined by the Assessor, and declared unexceptionable. Among other opponents of Lords Milton and Althorp, we find the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough extremely busy. Everywhere it seems to be the wish of the Church to give the Reforming party, if the latter had the slightest wish to take advantage of it, the most ample excuse for those attempts at ecclesiastical spoliation which they are so falsely said to contemplate. The issue of the contest at Northampton would be settled beyond all possible doubt, were the votes declared the only votes ; but there are a very considerable number before the Assessor—as many, we believe, as 500, many for and some against the Reformers—on the decision of which it is more than likely the return may ultimately hinge.

At the close of the poll on Thursday, Lord Althorp and the two Anti- Reform candidates addressed the freeholders. Sir Charles Knightley again complained of Lord Milton's coming forward after Lord Althorp's letter ! He also complained of Lord Milton's publishing an anonymous letter ; which he did not think quite consistent with that noble Lord's character. Let our readers mark how the Illiberal is put down by a boy, a very boy. Mr. Wentworth Fitzwilliarn (whom a few ruffians actually attempted to clamour down) said—" This contest was now arrived at that state of languor and decay which would justify the sup- position that it must die a natural death, and not drag on its wearisome existence until Tuesday next, which was the day appointed for it to undergo the extreme sentence of the law. (Cheers and laughter.) But, whenever it died, they might depend upon it that it would die as it had lived. In short, there was nothing on earth which, in his opinion, could alter the state of the poll—nothing which could change the rela- tive position of the candidates. (Cries ofWe'll try.') Yes, they might try, and he had not disputed that they would try, but he was sure they would not succeed. A word or two with regard to what had fallen from Sir Charles Knightley. The honourable Baronet had alluded to a letter which had been published some time ago in several newspapers, and through other mediums, signed 'One of you,' and written by his father; and had said, that it was beneath his father to write an anonymous letter. Now, with very great deference to the very superiorjudgrnent of the honourable Baronet, he did not think it beneath any freeholder to address his brother freeholders on a political subject; and, in so addressing them, to take care to lay aside any adventitious advantage which might result from the use of that freeholder's name. Such was the course which his father had pursued. (Cheering.) His father, it was well known, had always dif- fered in politics from the honourable gentleman to his left (Mr. Cart- wright) ; and no man, he thought, could have it imputed to him as a crime that he differed from another upon a public question. Seeing that a contest for the representation of the county was inevitable, his father had thought it right to address a letter to his brother freeholders, in which letter his father had expressed his opinions on the subject of Re- form, and exhorted the freeholders to return to the ensuing Parliament a friend of Reform, and not Mr. Cartwright. This was the object his father had had in view, and no reasonable man, he thought, could :justly complain of that object, which was to turn out a gentleman who, in his opinion, had voted against the interests of his country ; or of the means by which his father had attempted to effect that object, which means

their victory. On Mr. Wellesley's health being drunk, he said—When m n he first came into this county, it was for the purpose of opposing the

worthy of being dovetailed into Mathews's election song. the First was about to be led to the scaffold by republicans and traitors, " Mr. George Fitzgerald, one of the agents for the -Anti-Reformers, up to the very moment when the axe of the regicides was descending, who, it seems, takes particular delight in sporting in a good-humoured they poured into his ear the false and insolent assurance that . way with the populace, calls out, ' Well, Mr. Riley, you're getting their sole object was to render him the most powerful Monarch who very slack there ; have you ere another man to vote against the Consti. ever swayed the sceptre of Great Britain. 0, Gentlemen, our loyalty,

tution ?' thank God, is of another stamp; ours is that sincere, affectionate, and " Mr. Riley (a Reform agent)--' Yes, I have; here is Mr. Patrick genuine loyalty which gives honest and faithful counsel—which, like

Nulty; have you any objection to him ?' true friendship, will make us expostulate with the man we love, when "Mr. Fitzgerald—' He's a decent-looking man, I don't think. Will he he is about to be hurried into any course which may compromise his

vote the right way?' interest or his honour ; ours is that loyalty which Shakspeare has set "Mr. Riley—' To be sure he will. Do you require him to take the finely depicted, as bold as it is faithful : ' Be Kent unmannerly when

oaths ?' Lear is mad.' [This is grand ! what follows is magnificent.] Gentle- " Mr. Fitzgerald—' Oh ! only the usual ones ; I'll let him off the men, as my learned friend has rested all his claims upon his support of Bribery Oath, in honour of the Nultys: the present Ministry, it becomes me to tell you shortly why! feel bound

"The freeholder having gene through the oaths, and (he was about ignorant, and the most incapable Administration that was ever cAlled upon sixty years old) concluded with declaring that, to the best of his belief, he to guide the sceptre in the hands of a British Monarch. What measure is twenty-one years of age, he is again questioned by the officer= Who have they attempted to carry in which they have not failed ? What

do you vote for?' plan or system of politics, financial, foreign, or domestic, have they not "Nulty—.' I vote, in the first place, for my Lord Mayor (Loud cheers been obliged to abandon? Without practical experience, without solid from the galleries); and I vote, in the next place, for Mr. Perrin (Con- information, without statesmanlike wisdom or discretion, they tottered on timed cheers); and I vote, in the third place, for Reform.' (Uproarious j from blunder to blunder, till they found themselves obliged to rush upon cheers.) I the clamorous experiment which they are now making, and which, in spite "Mr. Fitzgerald—' Wait a while, Mr. Nulty ; I have only twenty oh- J of all their sanguine hopes, I confidently predict is yet destined to fail!

sections to your vote.' j [What have they done—what have they not done ? They have turned "From the galleries= Ha! Georgy; bad scran' to you, Georgy; their enemies out of place, and put in their friends !—there's liberality

we'll see the Recorder trying you yet, Georgy.' with a vengeance !] Mark, I beseech you, the consistency of this "Mr. Fitzgerald—' Now, just listen to these blackguards, Mr. Assessor; I pure Reforming Government—these men who would fain persuade the I'm intimidated from doing my duty. I have thirty objectiens to your country that their object is to establish perfect freedom of election. -vote Mr. Nulty.' What course have they followed here ? Why, to call into active energy "From the galleries—' 0,- you're an ugly thief, Georgy ; what a nose every resource of the Castle, every engine of Viceregal power, to con- yon have got for opening oysters, Georgy! trol the free exercise of the elective franchise amongst us. Not a man, "Mr. Fitzgerald—' Really, Mr. Assessor, I cannot do my duty if these the most remotely or indirectly under the influence of Government, who blackguards can insult me with impunity.' was not sought to be intimidated or corrupted by threats of displeasure, "Assessor= The first man I see disturbing the poll, Pll commit him.' or dismissal of himself, or his father, or his brother, or some more distant. "Mr. Fitzgerald—' Yes, do, Sir! Take six of them • take all the connexion, or, where there was no room for this, to be influenced by one of blackguard ruffians into custody.' (Loud cheers and laughter from the formal and now familiar epistles of Baron Twyll. Yet these are your the gallery, with cries of' Well, go on, Georgy, and we'll let you alone.')" Reformers—these are yourpurists—who would bring back the Constitution The next is of a graver and more interesting cast. "One of the most to its state of theoretical perfection. Exquisite patriots ! Admirable statist. e remarkable instances of that honest zeal which one loves to witness in men !'' [The following charge against Whiggery, we believe, is. not ea" such times as these," says the Morning Register, "was displayed daring the present contest for Dublin, by our excellent fellow-citizen Richard new. We cannot say we are quite capable of deciding on its. justice. With the exceptions of six months in 1806-7, and six months in 1830-1, the Milliken. He resolved to poll three votes out of his own family for the Whigs have not been in power during our lifetime. Perhaps Mr.. good cause. To do this, it was necessary to bring over his eldest son North's recollections go farther back than ours—before he was born It from England, where he holds a Church preferment, and to leave a sick may be. He draws, indeed, most of his facts from the land or spirits.] was a letter containing reasons, and grouuds, and arguments, which room, to which he himself had been confined for three or four months, to were fair weapons, but excluding all influence or weight which might vote in his own person. Against the latter proreetiing his family tutu- have attached to his name, and which might have been considered not a rally remonstrated, and it required a stratagem to carry his intention fair weapon. (Cheers.) If his father had signed his name to that letter, into effect. Ile got into a carriage with his two sans, not affecting to he might have been accused of attempting to influence the freeholders attempt more than to witness the external bustle iii Green Street. Re by personal considerations, and not by reasons of public policy and public sent forward the sons to vote, and in a few moments contrived, greatly good. This had been the objeet his father had in view—this the to their amazement, to snake his Ivey thismgh the crowd after them. reason he had not signed his name to the letter, which, if he had done, Accordingly, we find in one of the polling-lists, placed very near each there would have been a much snore plausible ground of cavil against other, the names of Andrew Milliken, the Rev. Richard Milliken, an

the letter than he could persuade himself there was at present." Richard Milliken, senior, as voters for Perrin . and Harty. We are The Standard has talked of the eloquence of North—we shall give happy to learn that so hazardous an experiment has been attended with the Antis the North, the South, the East, and the West, for the next no injurious consequences to this warm-hearted and worthy man."—The six months, to match the plain sense and manly feeling of this Millikens are Saxons, are they not ?

" princely boy." Mr. Wentworth noticed in the evening, the fact of The Clare election commenced in a way that bid fair to nip the re- the interference of the Dean of Peterborough, and stated a laughable budding honours of Mr. O'Gorman Mahon, umtwitlustanding the eclat fact connected with it. Lord Milton announced to the tenants of his of the affair with Mr. Steele, and the distribution by the friends of the father, on hearing that some of them had been tampered with, that no ex-member, of " Terry Alt' [ Swingl letters to the electors, calling on means should be used to injure them, whatever way they -s-eted. The those who voted against Mahon to prepare their coffins. Contrary to honest Antis have repeated the announcement in Peterborough, only expectation, the people themselves have hehaved very quietly ; the re. omitting the word " es,"—a little word, said the young gentleman not ports do not say so much for the " gentry." Mr. IVilli,un Mahon, one an unimportant one. 'Ile " Friends," we are rejoiced to see, take a of the Irish accounts Durations, struck Mr. M. O'Connell in the street of decided interest in favour of the Liberals in Northampton and else- Ennis, on Saturday ; and so numerous were Mr. Mallon's baekcn.s, that

where ; and what they favour is sure to prosper. Mr. O'Connell found it necessary to put up with the outrage. We hope Essex.—Mr. Wellesley was chaired with great cordiality on Mon- this story is not true. day ; and in the evening he and a large party dined in celebration of The conclusion of the mighty contest we were promised in Kerry has been singularly lame and ipoteut. Mr. Mullis and Mr. O'Connell were elected without the slightest oppositicm ; the great Knight of Kerry,

who was to meet and to put down the ex-member for Waterford, not

continuation of that system which was now completely destroyed. He b paid a high compliment to the Parliamentary exertions of his honour. venturing even to show his face on the hustings, nor any one for him ! able colleague, although he declared that that gentleman was not a per- So much for protestations of vigour. " Let not him," says the Book of son to whom he owed any personal favourable feeling; but in estimating 'Wisdom, " that putteth on his harness, boast as though he put it off."

lied on the assumed support of the Sovereign himself—that Sovereign

"Assessor—' Take the book, Sir.' to oppose them. It is because I believe them ta be the most rash, the most "Assessor= The first man I see disturbing the poll, Pll commit him.' or dismissal of himself, or his father, or his brother, or some more distant. " But such the Whigs have ever shown themselves—the most tyrannical and overbearing in the possession of power, while in opposition, they are the most clamorous asserters of liberty. And what have they effected I))' this shameful unconstitutional interference ? WRY T111S,, AND TIES 111,0NE-10 call forth the proud undaunted spirit of the independent con- stiluency, and to show to intoil.-ind and to themselves that there is yet in Ireland a boll, uncompromisiny, indomitable courage, which will neither bend nor break under the heavy preisure of despotic pouter."

This is something higher than eloquence ; it is poetry. It is the pe- culiar faculty of the latter to make small things great ; and of all its aehievements in that way, this sublime flight offers the most notable example. .All that the Minister, all that the Bill, all that the King has effected, has been—" the election of Misthur North for dhurtv Drog- heda ! Oh, fadher Patrick ! ‘Vhat say you to that now, my Lord Grey ?" But we Inset descoel_such flights are lar above our power. The calculation of the Irish Refiemers is, that the elections will re- turn 0 majority of 38 for the Bill—that is, 31 Aeti, and 69 Reformers. illany of the boroughs in Ireland are Inctually, and many of the coun- ties, virtually, clUSC.

SCOTLAND.

PL/MISIDItE.—When the election, :Is it is called, for the county of Petah was finished, the member, Sir George Murray, nuldressed the handful of freeholders present, to thank them for the renewal of that honour AvIlielt had been conferred on fimr previous °evasions. Sir George is a gentleman of talent, and has a character for business, and moreover for frauk integrity, which render hint the crack man of his party—certainly the first nein of the Scotch division of it. He speaks well and with study. His address on the present occasion is neat, though oratorical. There k no nue-city in the arguments used by Sir George-- they have been used nand abused a thousand times. He considers the re.- (Attiring of pledges from candidates as unconstitutional ; AVIliC11 we shall not dispute, because the 11.ord has any meaning or no meaning, as the speaker may see fit, and no two speakers employ it in the same sense. But he also considers it to be " unreasonable and unwise "—why ? " be- cause it is not possible to foresee all the alterations of circumstances un- der which the representative may be called upon to deliberate and to decide as a member of the Legislature." [By this notable argument, we might prove that the Oath of Allegiance is unreasonable and unwise, because circumstances may occur to make rebellion a duty. Ile who has a proper sense of the weakness of human virtue, will be anxious to for- tify it by all manner of honest sanctions. We would as soon think of crying up the patriotism of a man who hesitated to pledge himself to a public measure, as of crying up the honesty of a trader who hesitated to put his name to a private account. The one and the other should be ever looked on by all men of plain sense as suspicious persons, who scruple to promise because they do not wish to pay.] The next argument is, that the country has grown great under the constitution—that is, under the Boroughmongers. " As to that constitution, gentlemen, I have always been disposed to judge of it, not by a minute inspection into particular details, but by its general outline and by its practical ef- fects. Under this constitution the country has risen to a height of power which has never beers surpassed. It has advanced in commercial enter- prise with the greatest success; in the activity and ingenuity of manu- facturing industry, other nations have attempted to rival us ins vain ; and agricultural improvements of every description have been advanc- ing in a similar manner. It has been my lot, from the nature of my profession, to be frequently absent from my native land ; and nothing on my return has afforded me more heartfelt delight than to witness the extraordinary progress of its improvement in every respect—the in- creasing extent and beauty of its towns and cities—the improvement of the roads, and of every other means of facilitating internal communica- tion—and to see the country becoming like a garden, by the gradual ex- tension both of useful and ornamental cultivation. All these are clear indications of the prosperity of the country. Nor is the improve- ment in the moral condition of the people less apparent. Morality and religion are upheld, and genius displays itself in all the arts, and in every department of literature and of science." [This is very old and very stale; and when it was new and fresh, it was nothing to the purpose. A man who can with such facility trace the prosperity of the country to the rotten boroughs, may trace the Antiquary to a lame leg and Childe Harold to a club foot. flaying proved, however, that the constitution must be excellent because under it and the war prices the freeholders of Perth have erected a splendid set of county-rooms, Sir George turns to the argumenturn ad auctoritatem.] "Mr. Fox declared, that if, by an interposition of Divine Providence, all the wise men of every age and every country could be brought together into one assembly, they would not be capable of forming even a tolerable constitution for a state." _Ergo, Sze. [The doctrine of Epicurus is the perfection of reason com- pared with this bit of twaddle, which has been so often and so gravely re- peated by the Anti-Reformers. The Atheist philosopher only held that the material system was produced by ajumble of atoms : the Atheist Tories would persuade us that the moral system has been constituted in the same way—their system is the best of all possible systems ; and the best part of it is, that there is nothing systematic about it.] Sir Robert Wil- son had correspondents in America, who assured him that ballot was a very improper thing. Sir George Murray has acquaintances in France, who assure him that rotten boroughs are the only upholders of regality. "When holding a high official situation in the allied army in France, some years ago, I had an opportunity of conversing with many intelli- gent men in that country, and in particular with one of the most dis- tinguished and enlightened members of the Chamber of Deputies, which you all know corresponds to the House of Commons with us. The gentleman to whom I allude expressed it to me to be his opinion, that one great practical defect in France had arisen from the introduc- tion of too much symmetry into their mode of election ; and that the instability of their Government was owing; in a very considerable de- gree, to its being without those very anomalies which our modern inno- vators and constitution-makers are so anxious to remove from our system." This is a modern example, but Sir George has examples older and riper —" It would be well if the people would at all times bear in mind, that crowds have their courtiers as well as monarchs. Wherever there is power there will beflatterers ; and the people do not always sufficiently recollect, that they are liable to be flattered and misled as well as princes, and by flatterers not less mean, cringing, and servile, and above all, not less false, or less selfish, than the vilest flatterer who ever frequented a pa- lace to serve his own private ends by betraying the interests of his mas- ter. There is no disease against which a free state ought to guard with greater vigilance than against the extreme of democracy. It is not liberty which can give me any apprehension, but it is the abuse of it ; for that degree of liberty which is consistent with good order and secu- rity ins society, is the only liberty which can promote the welfare and prosperity of states. Let us look. Gentlemen, into the history of other nations, and I shall instance the history of that great people with whom we all became acquainted at an early period of our lives. What was it eisich caused the loss of liberty in Rome ? A schoolboy would probably reply, the ambition of Ctesar, an able and a fortunate general, who led his army from Gaul to overthrow the liberties of his count's,. But those who can look a little deeper into history, and can trace effects to their remoter but true causes, would discover that CLVSill WaS a demagogue be- fore he was a general ; that he would have passed the Rubicon in vain with his legions, had not the tribunes of the people become the pioneers of his army, and had net the Radicals of Rome thrown open its gates to welcome a tyrant." [It is just withia the limits of pOssibilitv, that there may be among our readers one it 11'114) deeS Ilet know that the representative system was unknown to the nations of antiquity ; that the people in mass made the laws ; that during the greeter part nit- the Roman history political rights were exercised by none but citizens of the capital, and that Csesar was the great patron of the out-voters ; that, in a word, Earl Grey bears about the same resemblance to Csesar the politician that Sir George Murray does to Cieser the captain.] We come to Sir George's conclusion—" Haying already said so much, and occupied so large a portion of your time, I shall not now detain you longer, but shall conclude by expressing my sincere and anxious wish that the vessel of the state may long continue to pursue her hitherto prosperous voyage—with Monarchy at the helm, to guide her in her course ; with aristor: . acy, that is the itifluence of property, as ballast, to keep her steady in a troubled sea ; and with the favouring breath of the people to till her sails. If our vessel be guided in such a manner, I shall he no fears. But we shall syeaken too much the hand which have

s holds the helm, or diminish the weight and influence of the ballast—or if the breath of tin people, which has hitherto wafted its so steadily along, should be raised to a storm—in place of con- tinuing to be the admiration and the envy of other states, we shall ex- hibit to future times (which may God avert !) a shipwreck the most dis- astrous, the most irretrievable, and the most self-willed of any which has ever occurred in the history of tine world." [Much reason in your if]

LANARKSHIltE.—The late member, the Honourable Charles Douglas, was re-elected on the 13th instant, by a majority of 12 ; the numbers being 78 and 75. A procession, composed chiefly of the working classes, many of them from Glasgow, and which extended nearly a mile in length, Islet Mr. Maxwell, the Reforming candidate, at a short distance from the county-town, and accompanied him to the Clydesdale Inn, the carriage being drawn slowly along by a part of the procession. The elections took place in the church, and seems to have been as noisy and riotous as pos- sible. At an early period of it, one ruffian threw a wine-glass from the gallery, which struck Colonel Douglas on the side of the head, and cut his ear and face. Sir John Maxwell, Mr. Spiers, wino bears the charmed title of Ellerslie, and Mr. Campbell of Hay, interposed, but with very little effect, to still the tumult, which continued with few intervals of quiet until the election was over. Colonel Douglas was proposed by Sir Charles Lockhart, and Mr. Maxwell by Sir Henry Stewart. The speeches were heard with tolerable patience—the Scotch are curiously fond of speechifying. Mr. Jardine, advocate, who seconded the nomination of Mr. Maxwell, seems to have given much satisfactions. When Colonel Douglas rose to address the electors, a stone was thrown at him from the gallery, which lighted at his foot. This most outrageous act was forcibly commented on by the Sheriff and by Mr. Maxwell. Colonel Douglas again proceeded to address the electors at some length, when a second stone from the gallery induced him to forbear. Fortunately, like the former, it did no mischief. The acts of violence were attributed to boys. In the evening, the mob beset the inn where the Douglas party were, and showered stones at every carriage that set out. The violence was at length so threatening, that the military were of necessity called in, and the streets were cleared. The Sheriff was struck by a vagabond from be- hind, while addressing the people and exhorting them to disperse.

Kuuseaene.—The election of a delegate to represent the Kirkcaldy district of burghs, took place on Wednesday last week. Mr. Swan, who will vote for Mr. Ferguson of Raids, was unanimously chosen. Mr. Fer- guson, it appears, on a former occasions stood a contest for the burghs, and failed. It was the more gratifying, on this very account, that, when the hour of their need came—when the' call for an honest man and 3 true could be no longer resisted—he was the one to 'Whom the eyes of the whole district, by that surest of all combinations the combination which is grounded on community of feeling, were immediately turned. On the day of the delegate's election, Mr. Ferguson and his brother General Ferguson dined with Provost Swan and the Council. On aheir way to the Council-room, the crowd took the horses from the carriage,. and drew the excellent candidate and his brother in triumph to tine door. Mr. Ferguson addressed a. few sentences to the people, in thanks for this mark of attachment. No reporter was present, but a correspondent of a Scotch journal gives us the substance of the speech ; which is so good that we could have wished to have a little more of it. "My friends and fellow-townsmen," said Mr. Ferguson, "it is with feelings of the deepest gratitude that I appear before you on this occasion ; it brings to mind bygone days, which, although I was unsuccessful; left an im- pression on me not soon to be forgotten. You will naturally expect me to say something on this all-important Bill. I would tell those who are opposed to it, who say that we only want to pull down the old house, and build a new one of less substantial materials, that we intend no such thing—we only mean to itrengthen the edifice by placing sound pillars in it where, at present, there are corrupt, and thus to render it more secure and firm than ever ; and, by washing it thoroughly, as it were, with hot hike, to cleanse out the vermin which have lodged so long in it, and made it so. dangerous." Mr. Ferguson concluded by saying, that he was an old grey-headed man, but so long as there was a grey hair in his bald head he was determined to support the-measure to the very utmost. The gallant General said he rej.siced to see the time at last come when those principles whirls he had advocated for the last twenty-four years were destiiitel to triumph. He hailed as one of the happiest days of his life, that day, when he saw his brother :shout to occupy the seat which he himself had so long filled. "111y friends," continued Sir Ronald, "I might say ladies and gentlemen, for I see a number of nice women amongst von—my brother, I believe, is an honest man, and a stanch Reformer. For me, I am an old Radical ; but I can say, from zny heart, that I never gave a vote against any man's right, and have equally dis- regarded wealth and influence when opposed to tlie welfare of the people." There is no election in Seatland more likely to lie agreeable to the peo- ple there than that of Mr. Ferguson of Raids, for no maa in. Scotland is snore universally beloved.

FORFARSIIIRZ.—Irere has been a pretty piece of work ! But let the story be told in the ?writable words of our excellent correspondent.

" Monday the lath of l'rlay 1331 will be recorded as a proud day in the annals of the county of l'ortitr. The enemies of Reform got up a requisition for the essembling of a meeting, professedly to consider, but really to condetsm the Reform Bill. At . the head of this requisitioa stood the Infuse of the Earl of Airlie, his Majesty's Lientenant of the county ; and the most strenuous exertions were used by the requisi- tionists and their friends to swell their own train and.reterd the attend- ance of their opponents. From the circumstance of the county autho- rities having fixed the Reform meeting on the day immediately preced- inn-b the election of the member for the county, an idea got abroad that as Mr. Maule, the long-tried and highly-esteemed friend of Reform, was deeply pledged to that measure, the Anti-Reformers meant to try their strength on the previous day, and, if successful, to start an opponent at the election. From this cause, the meeting was more numerous and re- spectable than has for many years hem seen in the comity of Forfar. "After the Earl of Airlie had been called to the Chair, the Honour- able Donald Ogilcie f Clova, without any explanatory preface, moved a series of resolutions in the bit-by-bit Reformer style; whitth were no sooner seconded, than Mr. Cruiksitank, of Langley Park, predicting, no doubt, the rout of his party, moved an adjournment ; but not being se- conded, that motion tell to the ground. Lord Viscount Duncan, after an admirable speech, moved an amendment, in substance declaratory of the opinion of the meeting that Reform was absolutche necessary tor the salvation of the empire, and exhorting his it lajesty's Ministers to intro. duce into the next Parliament a similar Bill with the late Scotch Re- form Bill, or one in which the details may be improved, as fuller infor- mation and the expressed sense of the country may sanction. This motion was seconded, in a tone of dignified arm:tee:it and persuasive eloquence, by the Honourable Douglas Gordon Ilttlyburten. A keen debate ensued ; in which the principal speakers on the one side were Co- lonel Ogilvie, Mr. Lamy the Sheriff of the county (by whom it tran- spired in the course of the debate, the resolutions had Teem prepared), Mr. Hay of Letham, Mr. Wedderburn Ooilvie of Rutin-cm, Mr. Douglass of Brigton, and Mr. Farquharson of Bald.reie ; and on the other Lord Duncan, Cohnsel Halyburton, Mr. Hunter of Blackness, Mr. John Campbell, advocate, Mr. D. C. Guthrie of London, and Mr. Burnes of Montrose. When the vote was ascertained to be—in favour of Reform 59, and for the requisitionist Anti-Reformers 24, the acclamations in the hall were deafening, and were reechoed from without by an assem- blage of at least three thousand persons, who had from an early hour in the morning been anxious spectators of the scene. The grateful thanks of the county were then mewed, and carried by acclatnetion, to Lord Duncan and Mr. Massie, for their strenueus support of Reform in both Houses of Parliament. Four times four cheers were giveo r the King. And immediately before the meeting broke op, Lord Duncan, addressing the Earl of Airlie, expressed his hope, that though they had differed in Opinion upon this great measure, and had fought it out like good and true men, it would not be allowed to interfere with private friendship ; and, nobly tendering the right hand of amity to the Earl of Airlie, he exhorted all the combatants in the hall to exchange similar courtesies. This was received with many cheers.

" It is impossible to describe the enthusiasm that prevailed throughout

the day. On the approach of the Honourable William Captain Ross, the Reform candidate for the 2.Iontrose district of burghs, and other friends of the measure, they were met, about two miles from Forfar, by an immense assemblage, led on with banners and a band of music. the people were with difficulty dissuaded from taking out the horses ; but one valorous Forforian mounted the back-dicky of Mr. Maule's carriage with an immense white standard, on which were em- blazoned " Reform ! God bless our Patriot King !" and, with this waving over his head, the late (and now again) member proceeded at a foot-pace into Forfar. On leaving the hall after the meeting, the Re- formers were loudly cheered ; and Lord Duncan haying been hoisted On the shoulders of an Angusshire Hercules, was paraded throughout the streets, amidst the most enthusiastic cheers. Not so their opponents ; fot was with great difficulty that Sir James Carnegy (the late member for the Mont rose burghs) was preserved from the effects of popular in- dignation. Captain Ross, his former opponent, and other Reformers, generously formed his rear-guard ; but it required all the blandishments of speech which Lord Duncan possesses to soothe the inflamed people- and the usual trophies of bruised hats and torn coats were displayed in abundance."