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Sir Culling Eardley Eardley commenced his formal canvass of the West Riding of Yorkshire on Saturday, with an address to a large meeting in the Cloth Flail Yard at Leeds. He was introduced to the meeting by Mr.

Alderman Carbutt; and was supported by Mr. George Goodman, Mr. Edward and Mr. Frederick Baines, Mr. W. Ackroyd, and some of the Aldermen of the town. On his first appearance the audience was thin, and those present received him coldly; but before long several thousands gathered, and his friends and opponents seemed equally balanced: the latter were partisans of Mr. Roebuck, whose name was very frequently shouted as an interruption to the speakers. Sir Culling, however, spoke with considerable address, and procured an attentive hearing.

He said, he would first answer two objections that had been made against him; then explain his principles; and lastly, answer all questions that might be put. He asked but a candid heating; and he was determined to win not only the votes, but the hearts also of all whom he was addressing. The two objections were, that he was no Yorkshireman, and that he was a " religions malignant." But were Yorkshiremen about to select a man, or to uphold a principle? If only the former, he doubted not there were hundreds in Yorkshire fitter than himself to be chosen for the county. But if the work to be done was to uphold the causes to which Yorkshire was attached—the causes of free trade and religious

liberty—then, if a candidate came from the Antipodes they were bound to elect him. The other objection—raised by the Times newspaper—was that of religions

malignancy. If earnestly to embrace and zealously to propagate those religions principles which he felt to be true were religious malignancy, then indeed he was a malignant. " It was by such malignancy that the temples of Heathenism were converted—as I have seen many of them that are so converted—into churches of Christ. It was by such religious malignancy that the trophies of the Reforma- tion were won; and I trust that Yorkshire will never cease to be proud of the trophies of the Reformation. Away with the latitudinarianism which confuses truth with error; away with the latitudinarianism which tells a man that he may be enthusiastic for his fox-hounds, for his business, or for his farm, but which will not let him be enthusiastic for his faith. If by religious malignancy

the Times means that I would oppress, or in any way whatever injure the man with whom I differed in my religions belief, then the Times belies the fact upon this subject. From my earliest boyhood, as far back as I can remember, I was

an advocate for Roman Catholie emancipation. If there is a single right which my Roman Catholic fellow countrymen do not possess and which I do possess, I would strain every nerve to give them that right. But I have yet to learn that it is a right which the laws or the constitution of this country give to any man that he should pick my pocket to pay for any religious faith." So much for the

two objections. Sir Culling then explained his principles; taking as a text the

four points of the Normanton resolutions. Free trade was the " ardent sentiment of his heart." He deemed it to be as essential to the vitality of the body politic as was a free circulation of the blood to the support of animal life: and he carried its prin- ciple out in respect both of the articles imported and the vehicles used in import- ing them. He would anticipate the patriotic and the moral argument usually urged. He thought that a good principle should be treated like a good friend- " should be trusted thoroughly"; and as he approved the principle of free trade, he would carry it out to its utmost although it admitted foreign products on the same terms as colonial, and slave-grown sugar on the same terms as free-grown. On the point of public economy, he thought generally, that our diplomatic ex- penditure was excessive, the management of our Woods and Forests unthrifty, and the building of our ships ill-managed and expensive. The maintenance of a

fleet at the Niger he also thought altogether useless for putting down slavery. On the point of the suffrage, Sir Culling Eardley was not so explicit: it would seem that he is not prepared to extend the suffrage widely without the ballot. He desired a Large increase in the particular constituencies, and the security of the ballot.

A Voice—" How far will you go?" Sir Culling—"1 must have out my speech before you ask your questions." He expressed himself, on the whole, as being favourable to the peace tolicy of Lord Palmerston; and then passed to the cardinal point, of religious endowments. His opinion in the abstract was, that it is not the duty of Parliament "to take any action at all on the subject of religious endowment.' "But for centuries back we have been involved in a state of things in which Governments and Legislatures have been in the habit of taking action. Well, so long as that action exists, Parliament is bound to act according to the principles which God's Word has placed before them. . . . . While to those who agree with me I world use argument that it is better for the State not to touch religion at all, I cannot forget the other principles which I believe will be found in the Word of God: if there is such a thing as truth and error, and if it is proposed to endow error, then I will oppose it, not merely because it is an endowment, but also because it is the endowment of religious error." He concluded with a worldly word to the men of worldly substance, especially the landowners of the county. " Though I am not a Yorkshireman, yet every

sixpence I possess is derived from the land. For many years I have been chair-

man of a Board of Poor-law Guardians, and I am afraid I know a great deal more about farming than I do about cloth. I am in the commission of the peace fur four different counties; and though I would not say that I am interested in land to the exclusion of commerce, yet I have a right to say that I feel deeply inte- rested in the welfare of the landowners of this county." Mr. Carbutt, " for fairness sake," put the same questions to Sir Culling Eardley that he had put to Mr. Charles Fitzwilliam; and thereby elicited an avowal of opinion more diffuse but less explicit.

On the suffrage Sir Culling said—" If you mean universal suffrage, I am sure cry friend yonder (pointing to a person in the crowd) will not respect me a bit the less when say that I am not for it. (Disapprobation.) If you ask me what I mean by a considerable extension of the suffrage, I must explain, that I should be glad if every man who turns a key in his house-door should use the same hand to put a ball into the ballot-box. (Loud cheers.) But while I say that, agree with a man whom I do not much admire—the late Mr. O'Connell--that I should be willing to accept instalments of what l thought right; for I believe that mach injury has been done to the popular cause by premature agitation. I may say, however, that I think the time has come for an identification of Parlia- mentary suffrage with the Municipal." (Cheers.)

To a question, " would he oppose the Church Establishment at present existing in the country? " Sir Culling said, " I am not prepared to take the initiative—that is to say, to bring in an act of Parliament to take away the property from the Church of Eng- land, so long as matters remain in their present state." A Roman Catholic clergyman asked whether Sir Culling was prepared to give the same civil liberties to Roman Catholics which were enjoyed by the Dissenters and the members of the Church of England ?

Sir Culling said—" To begin with Dissenters. I am a Dissenter myself: and if there is any right or privilege which I possess, or ought to possess, you ought to possess it also. But there is much difficulty in answering such questions in de- tail. There may be things which you think is your right and I do not." ("Oh! ") The Clergyman—" I said civil rights." Sir Culling—"Oh, clearly; out and out." (Cheers.)

The Clergyman—" Are you prepared to give full liberty of religions instruction to the poor Catholics in oar gaols, workhouses, and penal settlements?"

Sir Culling—" If my interrogator means, will I contribute from the public purse to provide Roman Catholic chaplains for such persons, my reply is, I will not. But if be means, shall he or his brethren have full and free access to the whole of their adherentsso placed, then' say it is their undoubted privilege, and they ought to have it." (Applause.) Mr. Barker, by several further questions on the suffrage point, elicited from Sir Culling that he would be afraid even to give vote by ballot while the close boroughs remain-

" Get rid of them, and then get the ballot": and he would be prepared to " the experiment of making the Parliamentary suffrage identical with the Muni- cipal; and if that succeeded they might go further.

These last answers proved very unsatisfactory; and Mr. Barker proposed to put the question immediately, whether Sir Culling's opinions on the suf- frage were approved by those present. As Chairman, Mr. Garbutt refused to put this question, except under reservation that the decision should not affect the general question as to Sir Culling's fitness as a candidate. The question was put, and there appeared a bare preponderance against Sir Cul- ling's suffrage views. Sir Culling somewhat recovered his ground through a fortunate " Interpellation " concerning Sunday travelling; in answering which, Sir Calling made a popular hit at Sir Andrew Agnew, and declared he would have held up " all his bands to give the Dutchess of Sutherland a Sunday train." Mr. Alderman Bower proposed that Sir Culling Eardley Eardley was a fitting and proper person to represent the West Riding. Alderman Richardson disapproved of his suffrage views, but "thought him the likeliest person they could get"; so he seconded the nomination. Mr. Barker proposed as an amendment, that Sir Culling was not a fitting per- son, but that Mr. Roebuck was. The Chairman refused to put the amend- ment, on the ground that Mr. Roebuck was not now before them. (Great confusion.) He would put the motion with regard to Sir Culling: if they decided that in the negative, it would be open to Mr. Barker and his friends to bring forward any other gentleman. (Cries of "Put the amendment.") The Chairman put the question, whether or not Sir Culling Eardley was a fit person to represent the West Riding. The meeting " was again," says a reporter, "pretty equally divided; the votes, in our opinion, being, as before, against Sir Culling. The Chairman, however, declared that the decided opinion of the meeting had been pronomiced in favour of Sir Cul-

ling The meeting separated, after a scene of noisy contest and hustling uproar.

Mr. Beckett Denison published his address to the electors on Tuesday; and on that day commenced his canvass at Leeds with a public appearance in the Cloth Hall Yard. He was introduced to the meeting by Mr. John Gott; and made a very popular though strictly Conservative speech. With regard to the present Ministers, he knew no men with whom he wished to replace them: he would "neither support nor oppose the men," but so long as they conducted the business of the State " fairly and honestly " they should have his concurrence." Yet he wished they were " stronger." Let us have a strong Whig Government, or a strong Conservative Government, or, if the people please, a strong Radical Government; but at all events a Government of strength—one that knows what it means, and can do what it knows. In principle, he had no ob- jection to taking offal'l impositions that the Chancellor of the Exchequer did not want. He would vote for free trade as far as it could be carried out with honour to the public creditor, and not an iota further. The Corn-laws, 'now they were gone, he did not regret: it would be madness to attempt to restore them. Indeed, looking to the events of the past months, abroad and at home, he was thankful that they had not remained to become a tool in the hands of mischievous men. Of course he was for retrenchment, as far as practicable: he wished burdens to be taken off the working classes, and as far as could be done with safety to the state: if he would not keep down salaries as low as some of them might wish, it was because he felt obliged to take a com- prehensive view of what was for the benefit of the state. He went with his hearers on the mooted question of Church endowment is Ireland: he would op- pose any endowment of the Romish priesthood, from whatever quarter it might come. Bat, of course, he supported grants for the education of the poor. "I ask you, my friends, if you educate your children, why one or the other of them should not rise to be Archbishop of Canterbury ? (" Oh, oh I") Ah, you laugh at the idea of your son being an Archbishop; but if your son was once in the tide- way, I warrant me you would warp him up. (Laughter and cheers.) But there are other positions. I suppose you have some distant respect for the Judges of the land? (" Very little.") I have no doubt that my friend there in the white hat, if he had had a good education, would have risen to be a Judge, or to scene other eminent position. (Laughter.) I tell you, my friends, there has been many a man who has been Archbishop of Canterbury,or Lord Chancellor, or a Judge, who has risen from as low a rank in society as any that stand here. (Cheers.) All these conditions are open to all, on one condition only, but certainly not without it—yon must have a good education; you must be hard-working men, you must be painstaking men, and you must be as intelligent as my friend in the white hat there—(Great cheering and laughter)—for there is oo reason why that fellow, I don't know whether he is Radical, Whig, or Tory, but I know enough of him to know that if he had been put in the tideway he would have had as good a chance as I have. I tell you another thing: there is hardly a man of large landed property in the West Riding, or in Yorkshire, who cannot trace up that his father or his grand- father was connected one way or another with trade. (A cry of " Lord Fitzmillia ?4 was not.") Ah, I suppose that was the reason why you did not like his son. But I have, and I am proud to say it. (Cheers.) My grandfather was in as humble a condition as almost any one I see here; but he worked his way up to a good position; his son did the same; and I hope I don't occupy a despicable one. (Cheers.) Therefore I tell you, it is your own fault, if you are well educated, and it will be your children's fault, if they are well educated, if they do not rise into as prominent situations as the state can furnish. It occurs to me at this moment, that the person whose name I bear was a Blue- coat boy, educated at the school here in Leeds. Judge Denison, whose name I

bear, rose from the working classes of Leeds, and I am proud of it—he walked to London, because he had not money enough to carry him there, and he became a Judge. Go and do thou likewise: but do not distract your attention from your business, or the education of your children, in the pursuit of shadows, which, when you catch them, are not worth having—which now only deceive you as to their value. As the day is very agreeable, and you have much to do—(Loud cries of " Go on!")—why, gentlemen, I was told I should not get a hearing, and here you call upon me to go on. I must really scratch my head to consider what more I have to say. (Great laughter.) I have no doubt many gentlemen are anxious to put questions to me; and therefore, for the present, I shall willingly atop. I lay myself entirely open to you: put your questions, and I will give you a fair and candid answer: but for the present I shall stop." (Loud cheers.) A multitude of questions on the religious endowment, church-exten- sion, the suffrage, differential duties, Ecclesiastical Courts, electoral dis- tricts, and Bishops sitting in the House of Lords, were put to Mr. Denison; and received answers which, even when they opposed the popular feeling, always diverted it by their plump honesty and downrightness of Conserva- tive tone.

No formal motion was put to the meeting; and Mr. Denison retired "amidst mingled cheers and hootings, but the former greatly predomi- nated."

Each candidate is making a tour of the Riding, and addressing the people in the great towns. Sir Culling E. Eardley has been at Sheffield, Barnsley, Huddersfield, and Bradford; and Mr. Denison at Barnsley and Bradford. Neither candidate has much altered his electioneering position; each seems to address the same audiences with dexterity and success. At Bradford, the two candidates confronted each other, and addressed the same audience from the same hustings; competing with goodhumoured rivalry and a certain astute candour in the endeavour to secure the popular favour. For instance—

A Mr. Copley asked if the candidates were in favour of abolishing copyholds, and making all leasehold tenures?

Sir Calling Eardley—" Why, gentlemen, these are very sharp questions." Mr. Denison—" Ah, you have never been in Bradford before."

Sir Culling Eardley— 'No, I never was in Bradford before; but when I am Member, I hope to come back again." He thought it would be desirable to have all tenures alike.

Mr. Denison would not vote for any such thing. * * • Mr. Copley—"Are you in favour of abolishing Church-rates? " Sir C. Eardley—" Yes." Mr. Denison—" No." (Great laughter.) Mr. Rawson asked if they were in favour of abolishing the Ecclesiastical Courts?

Sir Culling Eardley—" I should wish to give a reason." Mr. Denison—" Why, my good friend, reasons are never satisfactory to your opponents, and your friends do not want them." Sir Culling Eardley—"Ah, but they are satisfactory to the electors." So he gave his reasons and his opinion too—shortly, that the Courts had oppressed Mr. Shore, and such Courts should be abolished. Mr. Denison agreed that Mr. Shore had been hardly used, but would preserve the Courts.

A meeting of Free-traders in Manchester was held at the League Rooms on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of promoting Sir Culling Eardley's election for the West Riding. Mr. George Wilson, Chairman of the League, presided. After a discussion of some length, in which Mr. John Bright, Mr. James Kershaw, and others took part, the following resolution was unanimously passed; and a numerous committee was appointed to give active aid- " That, inasmuch as Sir Culling Eardley Eardley has been nominated as a candidate for the representation of the West Riding by the delegates assembled at Normantoa on Wednesday last, and in his address and speeches has avowed him- self in favour of free trade, retrenchment of the public expenditure, Parliamentary reform, and opposed to the extension of the principle of religious endowments, this meeting calls upon the Liberal electors of the West Riding resident in Lancashire to give their hearty support to their friends in Yorkshire, and to promote by all proper means the return of Sir Calling Eardley Eardley to Parliament." The excitement of the contest has spread to Loudon. A large number of gentlemen in the Temple, both Conservative and Whig, who have votes for the West Riding, have formed a Committee for Mr. Denison, and expect to poll 160 out of some 200 Temple votes on his side. Mr. Roebuck's admirers have at last broken ground in his favour. A large meeting, chiefly of Chartists, was held in his favour at Leeds on Wednesday; at which Mr. Carbutt, Mr. Baines, and some other of Sir Culling Eardley's supporters, appeared, and attempted to turn the tide'of opinion. Their explanations were replied to by Mr. Luccock and others; ultimately they were hooted into silence; and resolutions were passed ap- pointing a deputation to wait on Sir Culling with a request to withdraw, and on Mr. Roebuck with a requisition for him to start as a candidate.

A series of terribly atrocious crimes has been committed at Stanfield Hall, near Wymondham, the residence of Mr. Isaac Jenny, Recorder of Norwich. Mr. Jer- my and his son have been assassinated; Mrs. Jermy, and a female servant, des- perately wounded. This is the most connected account of the act and its circum- stances, as yet accessible. "Mr. Jenny, his son, and Mrs. Jermy, dined together on Tuesday evening. The butler, a man-servant, and two females, were on the premises. Two female servants had gone to Wymondham, and had returned to the park, but were not in the hall before eight o'clock. About half-past eight o'clock, Mr. Jenny left the diningroom, and walked through the hall to the front of the building. On returning, just as he entered the porch, a man, wrapped up in a cloak and wearing a mask, fired a pistol at him; and the ball lodged in the upper part of the left breast, close to the shoulder. Hefei!, and instantly expired; but, owing to what followed, was not removed for nearly an hour. The assassin went to the servants' entrance to the right, passed through the passage across the building, and met the butler. With a pistol in each hand, he motioned the butler to go back. Being greatly alarmed at the apparition of a man in a mask presenting two pistols, the butler retired into his pantry. The assassin proceeded onwards to the turn of the passage, where was a dark recess and a door opening into another passage leading to the back of the premises. He appears to have arrived in the recess just as Mr. Jermy's son, alarmed at the report of a pistol, left the diningroom: the young gentleman went to the door opening into the back passage; the man fired at him, and shot him through the right breast, killing him on the spot. Mrs. Jenny, hearing a noise, went to the same place; and, while she knelt over the lifeless body of her husband, the assassin fired a pistol at her. The shot shivered one of her arms and wounded her in the breast. Her maid, Elizabeth Chestney, more courageous than the other servants, went to the same spot to see what was the matter; and while clasping her mistress, the murderer disoharged another pistol at her, and seriously wounded her in the thigh. The female servants, thinking they should all be murdered, hid themselves. The man-servant, who was then in the stables, hearing all this firing, and supposing that the house was attacked by a number of raglans, swam across the moat which surrounds the house, and set off to Wymondham; where he gave the alarm, and caused a telegraphic message to be sent to Norwich police-station. The murderer, therefore, had no difficulty in making his escape. The two female servants, who had gone to Wymondham, returned with two young men; and while they stood outside of the moat talking, they heard the report of a pistol, and saw the flash: they thought that young Mr; Jenny was trying to frighten them, and they went to the lodge. When the alarm was given to the police, they were directed to arrest a person named Rash, on sus- picion. This man is a farmer and auctioneer, living at Bethell; he had had legal disputes with Mr. Jenny. At two o'clock on Wednesday morning, the officers went to Rush's house, and watched it. At five o'clock they saw him strike a light, and heard him ring for his servant: they entered the place, and arrested him. Under his bed was found a damp cloak, and in the same room a wet pair of boots.

Rush was examined at Wymondham House of Correction, on Thursday; but the reporters were desired not to take notes at that stage. It appears, however, that Mrs. Jenny and her maid had sworn to Rash as the murderer, he having been taken to their bedside the night before. Rush behaved very coolly. He is about forty-five years of age. It was proved that he was absent from his house at the period of the murders. The inquiry was adjourned. An inquiry was commenced on the same day. Mr. Jermy was sixty-nine years old; his son thirty. A ball had passed through the father's heart; the son was pierced through the body on the right side. An assassin on the outside of the hall could see the family assembled in the diningroom. Mrs. Jenny had a little daughter with her, and it is supposed that the murderer wished to destroy the whole family at a swoop; for when h, e left the place he threw down a written paper to this effect-

" There are seven of us, all armed—two inside, and five out. You servants keep In the servants' hall. If any of you attempt to follow, you will be shot dead. We are

come to take possession of the estate. THOMA8 PRESTON, the rightful owner."

On Thursday night, Mrs. Jenny and the maid were in a pitiable condition. The lady's arm had been amputated, and the servant was not expected to live through the night. Labourers were emptying the moat to endeavour to find the fire-arms of the assassin.

Ellis Norris, a groom in Chorley, has carried off and married a young lady wbo was an inmate of a lunatic asylum there. Miss Durie, twenty-three years old, was confined on the certificates of two physicians: some accounts say she has 3,0001. a year, while others declare that she has no fortune of her own. Norris often went to the asylum to convey his master as a visiter to the proprietor of the place; he saw Miss Durie at a window, engaged her affections, and visited her at night for months, by means of a ladder which he placed against a window —hiding it by night in a disused coal-pit. An elopement and marriage were concerted; a licence was obtained; one night the groom carried off the lady; and eventually he married her, at Chester. Next day, constables arrived, and took the lunatic back to Chorley. Norris was given into custody by the keeper of the asylum: as no evidence was produced against him, he was discharged by the Magistrates, but could get no assistance from the Bench in retrieving his wife.

The Northern part of Buckinghamshire and the adjoining country have of late been infested by a gang of daring burglars. No lone house is considered safe; the thieves go in bands, armed, to the farms in the dead of night, and carry off all the money they can extort or find. The evil has got to such a pitch, that a meeting has been held at Buckingham to devise means of putting an end to it; Sir Harry Verney, M.P., presiding. It was resolved to offer a reward of 1001. for the conviction of the robbers who pillaged the house of Mr. French, a farmer; and to adopt a similar course in any future case.