THE GENERAL ELECTION. MEMBERS RETURNED. THE GENERAL ELECTION. MEMBERS RETURNED.
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Ps.wss id RETURNS°. I il PLASM IlISMSURS RV/TRIMS. e
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Abingdon ...Duffield I'l q Leicester. ..Easthope, Ellis 2 Andover Etwall. Lord Paget.. 2 - Anode, Lord Farallon 1 - """" s _ _ .,... 5 Greenaway 1
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" 1 Wigram Ashburton .. J ardiue 1 - Lewes Harford, Elphinstoue 2 der-Lyne} ri dieY 1 Lichfeld .' 5. Sir Gg. Anson, Lord I Pae
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Aylesbury . . . Hamilton, Clayton.. 2 Lincoln Sibthorp„ Collett.. - 2 Baubro-y ....Tancred 1 Lisheard. . C. Buller 1 Barnstaple . . Hodgson, Gore 2
Liver
.,i Lord Duncan, Roe- pool.. { Lord Sandon, Cress
welt
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Bath
buck 2 Lord J. Russell, Sir
Beaumaris. . Paget 1 London.. { M. Wood 2 Bedford Polhill, Stuart 2 Iran, Masterman... 2 Berwick .... Forster 1 Lyme Regis . Pinney 1 - Hodgson 1 Lymington .. Stewart, Mackinnon. 3 Beverley ....Towoeley 1 Lord G• Bentinck, Sir Hogg 1 Lynn 1 • S. Canning 2 Bewdley . ...Sir T. Winnington .. 1 Birrninghara-Scholegeld, Muntz.. 2 - Afacclesfield.Itterithtcuircist 1
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Blackburn.. .W. Fieldeu, Hornby. - 2 Maidstone... Hope, Dodd 2 Basin ... 5 Vivian 1 Malmesbury . Howard 1 -
/Lord Leicester 1 Mallon Childers, Denison... 2
Bolton Ainsworth, Bowring. 2 Manchester .Philips. Gibson 2 (Sir J. Duke 1 Marlborough Lord Bruce. Baring. 2 Balr°8 • • " 1 Brownrigg 1 { Sir W. Clayton 1
Bradford.. !lit% 1 Marlow... %mi... 1
Brecon Morgan - 1 Maryiebone .Hall, Napier 2 1 Merthyr Sir J. J. Guest Ziridgncrth . .Whitmore. Pigot .... - 2 .. 1 - Bridgewater .Broadwood, Forman. - 2 Midhurst ... .Sir H. B. Seymour - 1 Bridport Warburton, Michell. 2 Monmouth. .. Blew itt 1 Brighton ....Pechell. Wigney .... 2 - Montgomery. Sir H. Cholnaondeley - 1 Bristol... (Berkeley 1 ilarpeth Howard 1
• / Miles 1 f' Lord J. Manners,
Buckingham . { Sirs J.I. FreemtwaVee , Newdrk
/ Gladstone 2
Bury Walker - 2 Newcastle. I Harris
1 under Lyne f Buckley 1 1
Bury St. .1 Lord C. Fitzroy 1 Newcastle. Ord 1 Bansund's1 Lord Jermyn 1 Caine - Lord Shelburne. -1 _1 iveutornort- ?Lee; 1 Hminaiidein , Cambridge. .. Sutton. Sir A. Grant - 2 of Wight.. Hamilton - 2 -42sabridoe U. Goulburu, Law - 2 Northallc-rton. Wrightson I - CasiterbUry ..Smythe, Bradshaw .. .. 2 Northampton.. Currie, Smith 2 -
Cardiff Dr. Nichol - 1 -
Carlisle ....Howard, Marshall 2 - IC's.'" • " ' 4.17,1mairtqhuis Douro ... 1 1 Carmarthen .Morris 1 -
{ Sir J. C. Hobbouse,
Chatham ....Byug 1 - Nottingham..
Larpent 2 -
Cheltenham .Berkeley 1 - Oldham Fieldeu, Johnson.. . 2 - chafer ... ('Lord R. Grosvenor, / J. Jervis 2 Oxford - IL:to: .........1
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Chichester. 5 Smith 1- asybrd Uni. / Esteourt, Sir R. (Lord A. Lennox - 1 versity.... f Inglis - 2
Chippesham . Neel& Boldero - 2 Si
Christchurch. Sir . H. Rose - 1 ' erboraegis { rai Heron, Fitz. i G pg _ 2 - arencester ..Master, Cripps - 2 Peters field .Sir W. Jolliffe - 1 aithero Wilson 1 Plymouth ...Lord Ebrington, Gill 2 - co/chaster 5 Sir G. Smyth, Sae- / derson - 2 Pontefract... {Logiinzuingtou. _
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CoventrY • .. . Ellice, Williams 2 - Poole Ponsonby, Philips... 2 1 Neeld - 1 Baring. G. 2 Cricklade . 5 Howard 1 - Portsmouth.. B Dartmouth .. Sir J. Seale 1 7: Preston . . . f Sir H. Fleetwood, Sir Derby Strutt, Ponsonby . . 2 1 G. Strickland .... 2 - Devizes • • • Sotheron, Heneage .. - 2 Radnor Price - 1 Devonport ...Sir G. Grey, Teruel' 2 - Reading .... Russell. Ld. Chelsea - 2 Dorchester . . Sir I. Graham,Cooper - 2 Reigate Lord Eastuor - 1 D°cer'• • • ' f Rice 1 - Retford, EastVernon, Buncombe.. - 2
"Sir J. Reid
ftwich ...Pakington - 1 - 1 Richmond . Dundee. Colborne... 2 - Dro Dudky Hawkes 1 Ripon j Sir E. Sugden. Pena-
1 berton 2
Durham' • • {?iitainr - 1 Rochdale. . .Crawford 1 .., 1 Rochester ...Donates, Bodkiu..., - 2 .., I Lord M. Hill 1 - Rye Curteis I. - Ererha-" 1 13orthwick - 1 Salford Brotherton I - Exeter.... IF DoiIvieettt 1 Salisbury t - 7 ury..{ Brodie a a i 1 -
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-Eye Sir E. Kerrison 1 Falmouth ...Vivian, Plumridge 2 - Scarborough..{Siril'hiti°ne• Sir 2 Finsbury, ....Wakley. Buncombe 2 - st. ittha„, f Lord Listowel 1 - Flint Sir R. Bulkeley 1 - 1 'romp Sheppard - 1 St. Ices Praed
- " / Repton - 1
Gloucester... Phillpotts. Berkeley . 2 ...- sandwich . { SLiirnTas...Ty roubridge 1 1
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Aratesheaa.. Aims ..• • 1
Grantham ...Welby, Tollemache.. - 2 Shaftesbury .i,o,',"! Howard 1 Greenwich...Banda% Barnard.... 2 - Sh‘ffield... . . Parker, Ward .... r • 2 - Grimsby Heueage 1 - Shrewsbury. .Toroline, Disraeli . • ••■ 2
Guildford ...Mangles, Wall . 2 - Southampton. Lord Bruce, Diartyn.. - 2
Halifax Protheroe, Wood. 2 SouthShields.Wahn 1 Harwich ....Attwood, Beresford.. - 2 Southwark .. Humphery. Wood 2 - Ratting, .. { pliioalnlotand 1 — St
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1 afford... -t. Buller 1 - Carnegie f
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Stamford.. {M.e.t8t Grkrauby, Sir _ Helstcra Sir R. Viman....... - 1 Hereford Clive, Hobhouse.... 2 - 2 Cooper 1 - Stockport. ...Marsland, Cobden,, 2 - Herrfrrd "1 Lorell'ifabon - 3 Stoke spun.) Ricardo 1 - Honiton Col. Baillie, M•Geary - 2 Trent... f Copeland 1 Horsham ....Searlett. - 1 Stroud .. . .Scrooe, Stanton 2 - Huddersfield. Statisfield 1 Sudbury Villiers, Sombre .... 2 - 1 W. James 9 Sunderland 1 Barclay 1 - s.
omp n - 1
Nun f Sir J. Boomer, Sir Huntingdon.. Peel. Sir F. Pollock.- 2 Swansea ....Vivian 1 - Hythe Marjoribenks 1 - Tamworth... Sir E. Peel, A' Conrt - 2
/swich Wagon, Rennie endal Wood 2 -
1 Taunton ..{Labbrze,ehere, Baia-
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Kidderminster. Godson - 1 Tavistuch.. { LognEddlwe-ard Russell, Knaresborough.Lawson, Ferrand 2 2 _Lambeth .... Hawes, D'Eyncourt . -2 2- Tewkesbury..{ (Martin
- 1 1 - Lancaster...Greene, Marton
Launceston. . Sir H. Hardinge - 1 Baring - 1
• Aldose 1 Thetford... { Earl Linton
Leeds .. . , Imeelwee 1 Sir J. Flower _ • ! See the note on the Thetford election for an explanation of this double return.
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Thirsk Bell Vrert°n— {LoirteathcoaPalmenton.
Mt"' *"' Italltrieinymour Tower .1. Clay, Fox weis Truro { Turner
Vivian
Wakefield .. Holdsworth
Wallingford..Blackstone
Walsall. . Scott Wareham . Drat Warrington.. Blackburn jrarwick-{ Sir C. Douglas Welts f Hayter
1 Blakemore
frenlock .... Forester, Gaskell Westbury ... Sir 11. Lopez Westminster-1 rilandser Weymouth.. Lord Villiers, H•Pe • Whitby Chapman Whitehaven.. Attwood rpi
Lord Fitzharris LIBERAL LOSS AND TORY GAIN. 32
Barnstaple Bedford Blackburn Bradford Buckingham Cambridge. Harwich Honiton Horsham Hull Knaresborough Leeds Lincoln London
Midhurst Sir H. Seymour Spencer 1 Montgomery Sir H. Cholmondeley .. . Sir J. Edwards 1 Newark Lord J. Manners Sir T. Wilde 1 Neuport,isleoffright.Martin, Hamilton Hawkins, Blake 2
Peterywld
Lord Pollingtou
Sir W. Jolliffe Hector
Stauley 1 I Russell, Lord Chelsea ...Talfourd. Palmer 2 Douglas, Bodkin Bernal, Hotihouse 2 Renton Musket 1
Sir J. Johnstone Sir W. Styles 1
Disraeli Slauey 1 Marlyn Lord Duncan 1. Sir R. Lopez Briscoe 1 Roos Evans 1
Greene% Crosse Standish. Evart 2
Broca Mildmay .. 1 Neville Condon 1 _ - 87 LIBERAL GAIN AND TORY LOSS.
Andover Lord Paget, vice Sir J. Pollen I Bath Lord Duncan, Roebuck... Lord Powerscourt. Bruges 2 Berwick Forster Holmes 1 Beverley Towneley Fox 1 Bolton Bowring Bolling 1 Brighton I WieneY Sir A. Dalrymple 1
Cricklade Howard Goddard 1
Falmordh Plumridge Freshfield 1 Gloucester Berkeley Hope I Greenwich Dundee Attwood 1 Guildford Mangles Scarlett 1 Ipswich Wagon, Rennie Kelly, Sir T. Cochrane .. 2 Hereford Hobhouse Burr 1 Lewes Harford, Elphinstone ....Fitzroy, Lord Cantilupe .. 2 Marylebone Napier LordTeignmouth 1
Newcastle-sader-Lyne.Harris Miller 1
Nottingham Larpeut Walter 1 Preston Sir G. Strickland... Parker 1
Rochdale... Crawford Fenton 1
Rye Curteis Mouypenny 1 Shaftesbury Lord Howard Matthew 1 South Shields Wahn Ingham 1 Stockport Cobden Moreland 1 Stoke-upon Trent .Ricardo Davenport 1 Sudbury Villiers, Sombre Bailey, Tomline 2 Wakefield Holdsworth Lascelles 1 Walsall Scott Gladstone 1 Wareham Bras Calcraft 1 Gore, vice Chichester, I Stuart Crawley 1 Horuby Tarner 1
Hardy Buslield 1 Chetwode Sir H. Verney 1 Sutton Pryme 1 Beresford Ellice 1 id•Geary Stewart 1
Scarlett Hurst 1
Sir T. Hamer Hutt 1
Lawson, Ferrand Rich. Langdale 2
Beckett Sir W. Molesworth 1
Collett Sir E. Bulwer 1
Lyall, Masterman Crawford, Pattison 2
Pcmteiact Reading Rochester
St. Alban's Scarborough
Shretosbury Southampton
Westbury Westminster Wigan Winchester
Windsor
Winchester.. East, Escott Windsor... itn i islilr " 1
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Wigan Greene% Crease.... - 2 W°1"Thamrl. Thornely, Villiers. 2 ..
ton
Woodstock Thesiger _ 1
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(Sir T. Wilde 1 - inrees.er. 1 Retitle 1 Wycombe., „Dashwood, Bernal 2 -
Yarmouth... Rumbold, Wilshere 2 - York
(Yorke 1 -1, Lowther I
— 170 156
iltELAND.
Dublin U. ...Shaw, Lefroy
175 156 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 Scorcann.
Edinburgh Macaulay, Craig.... 2 Leith Rutherford 1 - Paisley nestle 1 Perth Mettle 1 —
— 175 156
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LONDON Crry. No election for very many years has created so much excitement in London as that which commenced in the Guildhall on Monday last. Both parties talked very confidently of the result; yet both, it was plain, felt considerable misgivings. The hall and its neigh- bourhood were crowded, and several ladies graced the scene : in the gallery over the hustings, were Lady Minto and her daughter, Lady Howick, and others ; and the gallery over the entrance-gate was simi- larly filled. Each of the candidates was loudly cheered by his party as he appeared on the hustings, supported by his mover and seconder. Sir Matthew Wood was proposed and seconded by Mr. Perkins and Mr. Dillon, (who urged th.e electors not to split their votes); Mr. Crawford by Mr. Travers and Mr. Gregson ; Mr. Pattison by Mr. Prescott and Mr. Morris ; Mr. Lyall by Sir Thomas Baring and Sir Charles Price ; Mr. Attwood by Mr. T. Wilson and Mr. Robinson ; Mr. Masterman by Mr. Russell Ellice and Mr. George Hibbert; Lord John Russell by Mr. Jones Loyd and Mr. Samuel Gurney ; Alderman Pine (who was de- tained in the country by an accident) by Alderman Lucas and Mr. Pearse. The Tory speakers were often interrupted by uproar; which is attributed, of course, to the machinations of the opposite party. Mr. Wood was the first of the candidates to speak: he did so now for the tenth time ; but as they had already heard eighteen speeches, and had more to come, he did little more than promise to serve them as he had already done. The other candidates followed ; the Ministerialists resting strongly upon Free Trade ; the others upon opposition to the Poor-law, and condemnation of the financial policy of Ministers. Mr. Lyall said that he had always supported a modification of the Corn-laws, and that his views on the subject "coincided in a great degree with those entertained by the late lamented Mr. Huskisson." Mr. Attwood would be "ready to promise every desirable measure which had for its object the extension of the commerce of the country," and he would "devote his closest attention to promoting the interests of the working' classes." Lord John Russell was received "with the most deafening Cheers," says one account, "with tremendous uproar mingled with cheering and hisses," says another. Lord John set forth his claim thus : we quote the Chronicle, with its parenthetical illustrations— "You are called upon to express your opinions by your representatives in Parliament respecting matters deeply important to the trade and industry of the country. (Prodigious cheers.) Her Majesty's Ministers have proposed a plan to diminish the restrictions upon trade and industry, and to lighten the burdens of the people, at the same time that they provide for the public service of the country. (Hisses and yelling, replied to by the most prodigious cheering, which was .kept up throughout the noble lord's address, and rendered him for the most part inaudible.) That proposition is one which, there can be no doubt, will be the plan ultimately adopted. (Renewed cheers and uproar.) It is for you now to say that you wish for its adoption—(Cheering)—or you may give another answer to the appeal which is made to you this day, and say that you are able to bear additional burdens to support those monopolies by which a few are benefited at the expense of the community. (Cheering and great interruption still continued, with the loudest possible tumult.) If you are pre- pared to give that answer, you will elect those who are prepared to give your Sovereign such advice. If you do so, you will show that the City of London On this subject has no opinion, and that the trade and industry of the country Is of no importance to you; or else that you have such confidence in our op- ponents, that you will leave the question to them to be decided."
On some other subjects he hinted that, if the conduct of Ministers -was disliked in the City, that of the Opposition was as disagreeable-
" There are many other political questions which have nothing whatever to do with the present contest, because these are questions upon which we are
with our political opponents, and upon which the sentiments of Sir
agreed se Peel, Sir .1:trees Graham, and Lord Stanley, are the same as our own. Therefore, as regards these questions, whether you elect our opponents or the four Reform candidates, the result will be the same. For instance, with regard to the Poor-law Bill, it was introduced and advocated by Lord Althorp, by Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham ; and it was supported in Parliament by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel Therefore, with regard to that question, there is scarcely any distinction between the candidates who are of- fered to your choice. With regard to the question of the privileges of Parlia- ment, they were supported as well by our political opponents as by the Govern- ment; and, therefore, gentlemen, as regards these questions, and others of a similar character, they are not those upon which the two contending parties now before you differ in any respect."
The Times thus describes the voting on the show of hands. The first name called was that of Sir Matthew Wood—" Immediately every hand in the hall appeared to be held up, amidst the most deafening cheers. On Mr. Crawford's name being called, the show of hands was general, but not so numerous as for Mr. Pattison ; for Mr. Lyall, the show was but partial ; for Mr. Attwood, still less ; for Mr. Masterman, pretty general ; for Lord John Russell, it may be said to have been universal, with loud and long-continued cheeringl for Mr. Alderman Pixie but few hands were held up. Mr. Sheriff Gibbs then declared that the election had fallen on Sir Matthew Wood, Mr. Crawford, Mr.. Pattison, and Lord John Russell A poll was then demanded on be- half of the other candidates."
The votes were taken at the poll on Tuesday • and the excitement of the occasion was kept up and augmented by the discordant statements as to numbers which were put forth both in the progress of the poll and at the close. The Tories claimed success for three of their candi- dates, out of the four to be elected—Lyall, Attwood, and Masterman ; the Whigs for two of theirs—Wood and Russell. The dispute cannot be more clearly stated than by giving the figures put forth by the two Committees as the result of the poll at four o'clock—
Conservative Report.
Whig Report.
Lyall 6,319 Russell 6,323 Wood Attwood 6,257 6,237 Wood Masterman
Masterman 6,217 4:01
66666...,.2:11799417682
Russell 6,169 Pattison
Pine 6,087 Crawford 6,167 Pattison 6,020 Attwood
Crawford 6,018 Pins 5,946
The Whigs proved to be right as to the result of the contest, though more erroneous than their adversaries in the detail of figures : the following was the official declaration of the poll on Wednesday-
Masterman 6,339 Attwood 6,212 Wood 6,315 Paulson 6,070 Lyon 6.290 Crawford 6,065
Russell 6,221 Pine 6,017
After the declaration of the poll, the candidates again spoke ; among them Lord John Russell, who was loudly called for, and who was all joy at the "triumph."
Friumusiv. The nomination for Finsbury took place on Wednesday. The late Radical Members, Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe and Mr. Wakley, were unopposed. Mr. Duncombe prognosticated that the new House of Commons would be engaged for six months in trying bribery petitions among the small boroughs ; and he promised the people, front the changed aspect of affairs, a new Reform Bill. Mr. Wakley boasted an i
that he went to Parliament an independent man; came out of t an in- dependent man ; and was now reelected without pledges, and free of expense.
LasuiRrw. The candidates were nominated on Kennington Com- mon' on Tuesday. Mr. Hawes was proposed and seconded by Mr. Red- head and Mr. Cory ; Mr. Tennyson D'Eyncourt by Mr. Zornlin and Mr. M`Leod; Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Thomas Cabbell, the Tory can- didates, by Mr. Goding and Mr. Stahlschmidt, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jennings, respectively. After the late Members had delivered their speeches, Mr. Baldwin tried to obtain a hearing, and so did Mr. Hawes for him ; but without much success. The candidates were catechized a little. An elector named Barker drew from Mr. Baldwin, that he would give the Corn-laws "an impartial consideration." Mr. Hawes and Mr. D'Eyncourt were a little teased with Anti-Poor-law question- ings: Mr. Hawes stood by the bill ; Mr. D'Eyncourt would oppose the Jaw unless amendments were introduced to provide better out-door relief and to prevent the separation of families ; Mr. Baldwin would strive for "great alterations,' without pledging himself to support any future measure introduced by Mr. Walter ; Mr. Cabbell would join in a vote of no-confidence in Sir Robert Peel, if as a Minister he supported the Poor-law. Mr. Hawes and Mr. D'Eyncourt had the best on the show of hands ; as well as at the poll on Wednesday ; when the num- bers were—for Hawes, 2,628; D'Eyneourt, 2088; Baldwin, 2,039; Cabbell, 1,823. MARYLEBONE. The ceremonies of the nomination began with a struggle about some flags in the assembled crowd. Then Alderman Lainson and Mr. Smart proposed and seconded Sir Benjamin Hall; Captain Whish and Mr. Greenwood Mr. Cabbell ; Captain Ricketts and Professor Kay Sir Charles Napier ; Mr W. Painter and Mr. Under- wood Sir James Hamilton ; and Mr. Sankey, who stood upon the prin- ciple of universal suffrage and other great rights, was proposed by Mr. Thomas Ferrer. The show of hands was for Hall and Napier : Mr. Sankey obtained no inconsiderable support of this kind ; but the others were in a small minority. A poll was demanded for Hamilton and Cabbell. It took place on Thursday, with this result—Hall, 4,409; Napier, 4,340 ; Cabbell, 4,263 ; Hamilton, 4,248 ; Sankey, 71. Sir Charles promises not to be a very impracticable Member : at the declaration of the poll yesterday, he said— Should the Tories come into office, he would tell them that they must pur- sue a course of conduct very different from that which had hitherto actuated them, if they hoped to 'Amain in office even one session. They must consider these things ; for he would give them time to consider whether it was not just and proper that commerce should be free and unfettered in this country. If the Whigs came into office, he trusted they would take a lesson from what was going on in the country.. He hoped they would lean more to the Reform party, who would not be satisfied unless they carried out the principles of the Reform Bill to their fullest extent. If he found that the Whigs would not go on as fast as he desired, he would give them a gentle pressure occasionally.
SOUTHWARK. On Monday, Alderman Humphery and Mr. Benjamin Wood were reelected for Southwark without opposition.
Ton-En HAMLETS. The election, contested by five candidates, began inauspiciously for the mere Whig, Colonel Fox, on Wednesday. Mr. Clay was proposed by Mr. J. Simpson and seconded by Mr. Coates. Mr. Schevill proposed Mr. Perronet Thompson ; regretting that the Whigs had driven the Radicals to come forward as they had done : he thought that the Tower Hamlets were worthy to have such men to represent them as Finsbury. Mr. Fraser seconded the nomina- tion. Colonel Fox was proposed and seconded by Mr. Buxton and Mr. Martineau; Mr. Hutchison by Mr. Wildboar and Mr. G. Price ; Mr. G. R. Robinson by Mr. Charrington and Mr. Smith. Mr. Thompson said that "Ministerial influence" had been used to make him retire; but he would never cease to appear at the poll until he was representa- tive for the Tower Hamlets : he believed the partisans of Government were opposed to him because he was known to be honest in his prin- ciples : he joined in the injunction to the electors not to divide the Liberal interest—let them unite to return hint. The show of hands was declared, amid much cheering, to be in favour of Mr. Thompson and Mr. Hutchison. A poll was demanded by all the other candidates. The numbers were—for Clay, 4,706; Fox, 4,096; Robinson, 2,183; Hutchison, 1,775; Thompson, 831.
WESTMINSTER. The front of St. Paul's Covent Garden once more witnessed a nomination, on Tuesday ; not without some of the rough- ness and turbulence common to the scene. At twelve o'clock the pro- ceedings began. Mr. Bainbridge proposed Colonel Evans. He was somewhat inopportunely interrupted by the hoisting of a placard ex- hibiting the progress of the poll in the City : such placards were ex- hibited several times afterwards. Mr. A'Beckett seconded Colonel Evans. Mr. Prout next proposed Mr. Leader, appealing to his votes ; and was supported by Mr. H. Ellis. Captain Rous, the new Tory candidate, was proposed by Mr. J. C. Wood, and seconded by Lord Ingestre. The former dealt a side-bit at the other candidates— Captain Rous would never engage any portion of his fellow-citizens for sordid lucre to act as mere instruments of aggression and leave them to perish in a foreign land, or allow them, maimed and helpless, with scarcely a rag to cover them, to wander in their own streets, miserable specimens of disease, destitution, and desertion. The Captain would also pledge himself not to excite rebellion in any of her Majesty's colonies or dommions; neither would he support those that did so.
Colonel Evans said a few words for himself, and some for his friends the Ministers.
Mr. Leader put forth a political creed— His opinions upon Government, might be summed up in a very few words indeed. At home, he would have the Government conducted purely for the good of the people, and not for the advantage of the aristocracy. He would let the people possess a much larger share in the formation of the Government than they have at present. As regarded foreign affairs, he thought that England should meddle as little as possible with the affairs of other nations. Ills notion of foreign policy, too, was, that we should be on pod terms with the gallant, the enlightened, and the generous French, and likewise with our former countrymen, the citizens of the United States of America. As for colonial policy, he would like every colony we ruled over to be allowed, as far as possible, to enjoy the blessings of a self-elected government : he was confi- dent that every colony knew its own interests better, and would attend to them better, than any Tory aristocracy could do. The Tories had attacked him on the score of the part he had taken some time ago on Canada; but he was very sure he had acted then as every high-minded Englishman would have wished him to act. Ile had acted as his conscience had dictated to him : he had taken the part of the weak against the strong; he had advocated the cause of the oppressed ; and he did not regret the course he then pursued. Captain Rous was brief, but not distinct : he opposed Radicalism ge- nerally, with Corn-law repeal and the New Poor-law in particular— His principal objection to Radical doctrines was, that they manifestly tended to destroy the natural bond of union between the wealthy and the laborious classes, and to poison the minds of the people with respect to the real nature of their rights and true position in society. With respect to the question of the Corn-laws, he thought that a fixed duty of 8s., which might be a very good duty one year, might also fail in any beneficial effects the very next. He wished to see such a system as would combine a sufficient supply for the con- sumer with a proper protection to the agriculturist. But at all events, the country ought not to be governed by a band of politicians who said one year that it was madness to abolish the Corn-laws, and the next that they were prepared to abolish those laws. With respect to the Poor-law, be thought that before the enactment of the present statute it had become evident that some- thing ought to be done ; but he was inclined to think that too much had been done. Where great power was intrusted, they all knew how liable it was to abuse; and perhaps something of this kind had occurred in the administration of the Poor-law.
The show of hands favoured Colonel Evans and Mr. Leader. As in the City, some uncertainty at first prevailed as to who WRS really elected at the poll on Wednesday : at first it was said that Rous and Evans were in ; but the official declaration showed a different result—the numbers being, for Rous, 3,286; for Leader, 3,271 ; for Evans, 3,246. Even this result was only procured by the utmost exertions of the
Whig-Radicals at the last. Colonel Evans's concentrated Whiggery acted as a damper upon all interest among the Radical electors, and damaged the " Liberal " cause as well as his own : in the course of the canvass his vote for a 50,000/. pension to Prince Albert was especially remembered.
Who the new Member for Westminster is, the world was informed in a biographical placard issued by his Committee a day or two before the election-
" Captain Rous is neat brother to the Earl of Stmdbroke; whose family have always been hearty Conservatives, and established in Suffolk from the time of the Eleptarclay. He entered the Navy in 1808; and served under the late Sir W. Hoste. He has commanded the Podargas, Sappho, Mosquito, Hind, Rainbow, (four years in the East Indies,) and the Pique; in the last ship bringing home Lord Aylmer, in 1835: she grounded on rocks in the Straits of Belleisle, where, after beating for eleven hours, she was hove off, and brought into Portsmouth in three weeks, (1,700 miles,) without a rudder or forefoot, lower masts all sprung, and leaking at the rate of two feet per hour, without any assistance from other vessels. Electofs of Westminster ! you have been asked who is Captain Rous ? The answer is, one who served his country well for thirty-three years. He was born in Westminster ! he was educated in Westminster ! he lives in Westminster !"
GREENWICH. The Tory candidate, Sir George Cockburn, appeared
on the hustings on Tuesday, surrounded by several naval friends, and preceded by banners inscribed with denunciations of "the horrible Poor-law BilL" Before the fight, in true English fashion he shook hands with the Ministerial candidates, Mr. Barnard and Captain Deans Dundas. Mr. Barnard was proposed and seconded by Mr. Fowler and Mr. Smith ; Sir George Cockburn by Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson and Mr. Endeby ; Captain Dundas by .Mr. Harwood and Captain Fead, R.N. The candidates having delivered their addresses, Sir George was asked by a Mr. Wade, all in a breath, whether he would "repeal the Corn-laws, grant Vote by Ballot, and abolish all monopolies?" to which he warmly replied, "No, no, no !" The show of hands was in favour of' Captain Dundas and Sir George Cockburn. At the close of the poll on Wednesday, there appeared—for Dundas, 1,751; for Barnard, 1,604; for Cockburn, 1,277.
PROVINCES.
ANDOVER. Lord Huntingtower resigned in favour of Lord W. Paget ; who, with Mr. Etwall, beat the Tory candidate at the poll on Tuesday—for Etwall, 131; Paget, 112; Sir John Pollen, 105.
Asscrow-utipha-Lrah. The nomination was the scene of a riot, which threatened more serious disturbances than have yet occurred. The Market-place was thronged with women and children as well as men ; and the women took a vigorous share in the hooting and hissing. The arrival of the Whig party (Blues) in procession was the signal for action, and the Tories (Red) were routed ; a volley of stones obliging the persons on the hustings to retire. The Reds soon rallied, and re- turned reinforced and armed with staves and bludgeons' when a despe- rate fight ensued ; and the Reds remained masters of the field. An iron screw-bolt, about a foot long and three pounds weight, with a cord attached to it, was handed up to the hustings as a specimen of the weapons used by the Tories. The nomination was hurried over ; and the Mayor adjourned the meeting as soon as possible, and sent to Man- chester for a military force. Meanwhile the County Police were called out, and ordered to disperse a body of navigators and other labourers who had assembled in the Market-place. The crowd refused to move, alleging that they were not committing any breach of the peace; but the Police persisted, and a battle ensued, in which one policeman and several labourers were very severely injured. The people, exasperated at this uncalled-for interference, increased in numbers, and advanced in or- derly procession to demand the release of the persons taken into cus- tody; and on being refused, they broke the windows of the Police- office ; and to prevent further damage the prisoners were liberated. The indignation against the Police was so strong, that they were with diffi- culty escorted out of the town by a troop of the Seventh Hussars. A company of the Seventy-eighth Infantry arrived in the town, and the public-houses were closed at five e'clock ; but the excitement was so great that there were fears of a serious disturbance.
BANBURY was one of the places contested by a Chartist. Mr. Vin- cent represented that party at the poll : he gained on the show of hands ; but only polled 51 votes, against the Whig Mr. Tancred, who had 124, and the Tory Mr. Holbeck, who had 100.
BATH. The election began in Bath on Monday, in the Market- place. The friends of Mr. Roebuck and Lord Duncan assembled in the different wards, and marched in procession to the hustings ; the operatives of the different trades joined in the "demonstration." The houses and steeples of the churches were decorated with flags. Among the prominent objects in the Liberal procession, were a large loaf decked with flowers, and a full-length portrait of the Queen and Prince Albert ! The Tory friends of Lord Powerscourt and Mr. Bruges had also their procession ; bearing among other things, a large black flag, inscribed 'Down with the accursed Poor-law !" Several fights occurred between the rival parties : one appears to have been begun by the Liberals, who tore down the black flag, and were chastised by certain bludgeon-men for their pains. On the show of hands, an enormous majority voted for Roebuck and Duncan. They maintained their stand at the poll on the following day ; and the numbers were officially declared to be—for Duncan, 1,223; Roebuck, 1,151; Powerscourt, 930; Bruges, 926. After the declaration of the poll, Mr. Roebuck again addressed the electors. He announced the terms on which he should give Ministers his support— The first great question which they should discuss was the support of her Majesty's present Ministers. His support any Ministry would have who did good to the people; his opposition every Ministry would have who did not good to the people. It was his fate to believe in 1835, that those who were then the Ministers of the Crown had mistaken their position—that the persons of whom they were to be afraid were not their friends, but their opponents—that if they then gave up all hope of conciliating the Tories, and had turned their minds and hearts to the winning back of some of the estranged hearts of the people they would have been so powerfully and firmly supported that no man or body of men could have supplanted them in power. At that time, and in 1837, he had ventured to preach that doctrine to them : but it was misunder- stood—ill-received; and for the mere promulgation of it, he had ceased to be the representative of Bath for four years. The time had now come when those very Ministers declared that they were of the same opinion. whey were now turning their faces towards the people, in whose favour they had proposed two or three measures as an earnest only of what they would do- ss a small commencement of the great work which they had undertaken; for if they stayed there, they could not hope to bring back the people to them. Under the banners of the Ministry, the people would fight against their ene- mies the Tories: but they must be steadily, completely, heartily, the people's friends. The Tories, they had found, could not be conciliated. Year after year, every hour of those many long years during which the Tories had been out of office, their sole aim and end had been to get back to it. So long as they were out, they were the irreconcileable foes of those who formed the Go- vernment party ; and a great mistake had been made by those who had passed the Reform Bill if they had thought it possible to make them their friends. They sought power for their own purposes only ; and when they were out of power, they were opposed to every thing that was good. He asked of those, then, who were now the Ministers of the Crown, and who might not be so two months hence, to bear with him while he pointed out to them the course which they must pursue if they wished to gain back the people. They must go on in the path which they took in 1830. The Tories must be put down every- where; not by half-measures—not by any pretended care of them, for they were the enemies of the people, and as such must be put down. As the enemies of the people, they would oppose every thing by which the power of the people would be increased—by which the enlightenment of the people could be secured, or by which the great objects of civil and religious freedom could be attained. The Church was theirs, for they made it. It was their ser- vant for bad purposes ; but it must be made a national church, and not a church for any sect or party. Above all things, man must have the power to worship God according to his own conscience : there must be perfect religions freedom, and those who choose to be leaders of the people must put upon their banners that they are the friends of religions freedom. They must unite all the sects of the country, not into one belief, for that could not be, but under one law, equally good for all. They must then turn their attention to civil liberty. They must not blink any question, but they must learn to put confidence in the people. It was that want of confi- dence which had been their ruin : but they must now throw themselves at once, and generously, into the ranks of the people. They must take up the people if they wanted to preserve their power; but that power must be pre- served only for national purposes. There must be no sectarian, no peculiar principles-.-no aristocratic distinctions. Every thing must be national; their hopes and wishes must be for the great prosperity of England. If the Mi- nistry would adopt this creed, he cared not if the Tories were in office to- morrow ; because, backed as the opposite party would be by the millions, no Tory Ministry could govern this country. [The Times of today calls to mind that Lord Duncan has taken Mr. Roebuck for his model ; next, that Lord Duncan is a Whig of average Whig-Radicalism ; and then syllogistically infers that the Whigs are going to do some tremendous things. If the Times be a secret ally of the Whigs, let it persevere in that strain.] BIRMINGHAM. The nomination took place on Wednesday. The candidates brought forward were, Mr. Manta and Mr. Scholefield, the late Members, Mr. Richard Spooner, a Tory, and Mr. White, a Chartist. Mr. Thomas Attwood, who proposed Mr. Scholefield, turned quite courtly in his zeal for the Ministerial Corn measure : the Queen, he said, deserved their support for the support which she had given to Ministers : the Queen had not sanctioned total repeal, but the people should not lose a substantial good by insisting on more than they could obtain. The eight-shillings fixed duty would do incalculable good. On the show of hands, Mr. Mentz and Mr. Scholefield had it. A poll was demanded for Mr. Spooner. At the close, on Thursday, the numbers were—for Mintz, 2,174; Scholefield, 1,962; Spooner, 1,830.
BLACKBURN. The declaration of the result of the poll by the re- turning-officer, at six o'clock on Wednesday evening, which seated the two Conservatives and left the Liberal candidate in a minority of one, so enraged the mob, that they made a furious attack on the Bull Inn, the head-quarters of the Conservatives. Paving-stones were thrown, smashing the window-frames and shutters ; and some of the rioters got in and threw the furniture out into the street, demolishing the glass, 8;2., and nearly gutting the house. The inmates escaped the back- way ; and the Magistrates having read the Riot Act, the soldiers were called out. Two companies of the Sixty-first Regiment, under the command of Major M`Leod, charged the mob with fixed bayonets, and cleared the streets without doing any injury : the Police then dispersed the flying crowds ; and by ten o'clock all was quiet.
BURY, LANCASHIRE. The Liberal candidate, Mr. Walker, was carried at the poll on Thursday, by 325 to 288, who voted for Mr. Hard- man, the Tory. The Tories and Chartists, a correspondent tells us, voted together.
Blunt Si. EDMUND'S was distinguished by the effort of Mr. Horace Twiss to enter Parliament again : he stood with Earl Jermyn, and was opposed by Lord Charles Fitzroy and Mr. R. Alston junior. Lord Charles made much of the Queen's Speech : if she had called upon them to defend her with their swords, they would instantly have been drawn ; when she called for peaceful support, would they be less willing to obey ? He averred, that on or before the introduction of the Poor-law, a bargain had been made to abolish the corn and other monopolies. Mr. Twiss defended himself from the charge of being opposed to the abolition of the Slave-trade : the only complaint against him, when he was in the Colonial department, was that he took too strong an interest in the Negroes : he had been a fellow-labourer with Sir Fowell Buxton, and had advanced his views in the Quarterly Review and other leading publications. The show of hands favoured the two lords and they stood the test of the poll-338 voted for Jermyn ; 310 for Lord Charles ; 296 for Twiss ; 256 for Alston.
CAMBRIDGE. A person who gave the name of Richard Jones, and who is a stranger to Cambridge, was taken up on Sunday afternoon, on a charge of attempting to bribe several Tory electors. He was en- trapped in the very act, by the contrivance of two persons, named Large and Leigh. Having on Saturday evening canvassed them for Russell and Foster, and in rather a mysterious tone promised to call for their final determination next day, they took measures to have witnesses posted in a situation to overhear what should pass. Each witness heard a distinct offer of money by Jones, for the vote or the neutrality of the elector. Nothing at all, however, transpired, by which any direct con- nexion could be traced between him and the candidates or their com- mittees. Cash and notes were found in his pockets to the amount of 95/. 15s.; and he had already paid away 11/. as one of the bribes. He was remanded, to be examined on some other charges of the same nature.
CARLISLE. There was considerable doubt to the last as to who should be the candidates. Mr. Sergeant Goulburn opposed the two Liberal Members Mr. Howard and Mr. Marshall ; and the Chartists talked of Mr. Welford, a London barrister; but at the nomination on on Tuesday, they put forward a Mr. Hanson. The show of hands was against the Whigs. On Tuesday night, there were serious riots, with an attack on the inn occupied by Mr. Marshall and Mr. Howard; and the military were called out to restore order. At the close of the poll on Wednesday, the numbers were—for Howard, 418; Marshall, 345; Goulburn, 294.
DUDLEY. The Tories were surprised on the very day of nomination, Wednesday, by the appearance of an opponent to Mr. Hawkes, in the person of Mr. Adam Smith, son of a former Member for Norwich. The show of hands justified Mr. Smith's enterprise.
DURHAM. Captain Fitzroy, the Tory candidate, created much amusement by reading the following letter from Lord Londonderry, as a proof of his sound politics-
" Sheppard has bolted : why ? God knows. Sir John Beckett, Captain Lyall, or some other good man, will be down by tomorrow's train. I hope you will give notice that a second Conservative is on the road to ask for the suffrages of the electors of Durham ; and though there may be two distinct parties, I hope you will go the whole hog, and support the second man just as yourself. You will do so if you wish well to the Conservative cause ; you will do all you can for the second man."
The epistle was greeted with roars of laughter.
EXETER remains as it was; Sir William Follett and Mr. Divett being still the Members. The nomination took place on Monday, in the Guildhall, amid great confusion ; the hubbub at one time reachine•' such but pitch that the Sheriff threatened to dissolve the meeting; ut the violence seems to have been confined to noise. The strangest thing
that occurred was a disclaimer by Sir William Follett ; who declared that he had not been instrumental in bringing forward a second candi- date of his own party. The disavowed man, Lord Lovaine, was not listened to after the nomination. The poll gave 1,302 votes for Follett; 1,192 for Divett ; 1,119 for Lovaine.
GATESHEAD. Mr. Hutt met with none of the threatened opposition from the Chartists : he was returned without a contest, on Tuesday.
GUILDFORD. The speech of Mr. Baring Wall on the nomination-day was amusing: he not only accused the Tories of " personal opposition to the Court," but innocently asked, "what objection there was to Lord Melbourne, except that he appeared to enjoy a little too much of the confidence of the Queen ? " Then, after panegyrizing the Cabinet Mi- nisters seriatim, he provoked laughter by appealing to the splendid successes in India, China, and Canada ; and consistently concluded with a protest against the Penny-postage. His Tory opponent, Major Scarlett, vindicated his loyal devotion to the Queen.
At the poll on Tuesday, the two Ministerialists were carried—for Mangles, 243; Wall, 222; Scarlett, 177; Currie, 151.
Hum- The nomination for Hull was taken on Tuesday. The can- didates were Sir Walter James, the late Member, and Sir John Han- mer, Tories, and Colonel Thompson and Mr. Clay, Liberals. Their addresses were interrupted by the violence and noise of the crowd : Mr. Clay could not make himself heard at all. At the termination of the poll, on Wednesday, the numbers were thus declared—Hanmer, 1,844; James, 1,830; Clay, 1,761; Thompson, 1,646. On this result, the Hull Advertiser observes- " The numbers polled on the side of Anti-Monopoly, and the unequivocal manifestation of popular feeling, must satisfy all dispassionate observers that Free Trade principles predominate in Hull. Nothing was required to effect the return of the representatives of these principles but a few hundred pounds, seasonably and skilfully ap.plied. Bribery is now indispensable to success at a contested election for this borough ; and on the recent occasion, there was little concealment of the practice. Until close upon the day of election, the market-price of votes was, we understand, two sovereigns; which, for loose lots, was increased, during the heat of the struggle, to five pounds and upwards. Personation and other varieties of election- eering rascality were also resorted to. The system is fairly established in all the rottenness of the boroughmongering days, and in vain would the most renowned orator and statesman essay to be returned for Hull who refused to pay toll to the Burgess Mill. We believe that no previous general election was ever marked by more rank venality than that in progress over the king- dom; and we should be guilty of injustice if we affected to believe that bribery was confined to the Conservatives. It would indicate no common degree of effrontery if the Whigs assailed the delinquency of their more expert opponents, and laid claim to superior purity, after gaining possession of several of the most notorious citadels of corruption.'
The annals of the week at the Hull Police-office furnish some con- firmation of these remarks. On Thursday, a young man was charged with personating William Barry, an elector. He gave the same name on his examination. We copy the account of the case from the Hull Advertiser- " Mr. Beeton deposed, that he was appointed the previous day to watch the interests of Mr. Clay at booth No 12. He remembered the prisoner coming (the first time was in the morning) to vote : he offered himself as William Barry, Junction Dock Walls, freeman. Witness looked at the book, and saw the name as stated by the prisoner, and found that the same name appeared in the list as a householder for Junction Dock Street. Knowing only of one William Barry in that ward, and being acquainted with Mr. Barry described as a householder, and whom he also believed to be the same as the freeman per- sonated by the prisoner, he asked the Deputy. Sheriff to put the first question provided by the Act; and he was asked—' Are you the same person as the William Barry whose name appears on the register for the borough of King- ston-upon-Hull?' Prisoner answered that he was. The Deputy-Sh iff then asked his profession ; and he said he was a mariner. He was then asked what qualification he voted upon? he said as a freeman. Witness was about to ask another question, when the prisoner got out the words I vote for James and Hanmer.' The Sheriff then decided, that as the vote had virtually been tendered, no more questions could be put to him. He then went away. In about an hour afterwards, the William Barry whom witness knew came and tendered his vote ; and, in answer to a question from the Deputy-Sheriff, stated that he was the 'William Barry on the register as a freeman, Junction Doak Walls, and as a householder, Junction Dock Street. Mr. Barry satisfactorily proving that he was the true pertain on the register as both householder and freeman, insisted On voting upon the latter qualification ; and his vote was accordingly taken. In the afternoon, a carriage drove up to the door of the same booth, and the prisoner again came in and offered to vote a second time: he was, however, immediately recognized by witness and others in the booth, and was given into custody. In the morning, though he might have had a little liquor, he was quite sober; in the afternoon, when he came a second time, he was intoxicated. Mr. William Barry, Dock Walls, then deposed that he was a voter for Trinity Ward, and was the person whose name was twice uponthe register. He knew of no other William Barry in the town, and had never seen the prisoner in his life. In his defence, the prisoner said he had never been before the Magistrates in his life, and hoped they would look over the present charge. Mr. Anderson [the attorney for Mr. Clay) applied that the prisoner might be held to bail for his appearance at the next Sessions. Mr. johnson [also for Mr. Clay] said, this was only one of a series of cases which would be brought before the court. Two sureties of 50/. each, the prisoner to be bound in 1001., were required for his appearance at the next Sessions."
KENT, WEST. We have the utmost satisfaction in announcing that Mr. Hodges, finding all hopes of success utterly vain, has wisely with- drawn from a contest which would only have added to the disgrace of his defeat the confusion and ill feeling which a contested election al- ways produces. Sir E. Fihner and Viscount Marsham, the two Con- servative candidates, will therefore be returned without opposition.— Times.
KNARESBOROUCH. At the last, a Mr. Sturgeon, a barrister, appeared as a Liberal candidate ; sent down, says the Times, by Mr. Thomas Duncombe. He obtained only 85 votes, of which 58 were plumpers. The Tories, Mr. Lawson and Mr. Ferrand, polled respectively 150 and 122 : they were returned.
LANCASTER. At the eleventh hour, Mr. James Armitage, a wealthy manufacturer, was induced to take the place from which Mr. Dashwood, the Ministerial candidate, had fled. At the nomination on Wednesday, he was declared to have the show of hands, with Mr. Greene, one of the Tory Members. A poll was demanded for Mr. Marton, the other Tory Member.
LAUNCESTON was abandoned by Mr. Collier, the Ministerial candi- date, who left the field open to Sir Henry Hardinge, on Tuesday.
LEEDS. The nomination for Leeds took place on Wednesday. The candidates were Mr. Hume and Mr. Aldam, Ministerialists, Lord Jocelyn and Mr. Beckett, Tories, and Mr. Williams of Sunderland, a Chartist. Mr. Hume was proposed by Mr. Baines ; who took the op- portunity personally to surrender the charge which he himself had held remindedas the representative of Leeds. He reminded the electors that he had pledged himself to urge religious equality, extension of education, com- mercial reform, and retrenchment ; and he asked if he had not redeemed his pledges? He summed up by saying, that be had neither sought nor been offered public money in barter for his independence. From his own commendation he turned to Mr. flume's; beginning with the olden vigilance over the public purse, and winding up with the present zeal for the Ministerial instalment of Free Trade. Mr. Hume devoted a good part of his speech to the endeavour to conciliate the Chartists : he had, he said, always sought the utmost extension of the suffrage ; but they must go by degrees. Then he defended the Whigs ; contrast- ing what they had done in ten years—they had called Leeds itself into political existence by the Reform Bill—with what the Tories had done. in fifty : the Tories had increased the taxes by 20,000,0001.; the Whigs by not one farthing— "I will give you one fact, and then you'll judge whether I am speaking the truth or not. In 1792 the National Debt was in round numbers 250,000,000/.; in the year 1830 it had increased to the enormous amount of 850,000,0001.; and if the incomes of the public annuitants had been paid up to the full amount, the debt would have been 1,000,000,000/. Who were the cause of this increase ? I answer, the Tories ; for, with the exception of a abort in- terval in 1807, they were in power the whole of the time.'
The Queen, said Mr. Hume to the electors, "asks you to elect a House of Commons favourable to the opinions of Free Trade."
The reports of the other speeches are not particularly interesting. Lord Jocelyn, not without experience gathered in China, made a palp- able hit at the Ministry- " I came here to oppose that Government, as I conceive that during the ten years they have held the reins of office they have proved themselves to be in- capable and imbecile. Examine for yourselves, and you will find that, although they call themselves the friends of commerce and retrenchment, they have en- tered into wars in almost all parts of the world, and when engaged in them
i they have not conducted them n the ancient manner of this country : when she bared her arm to give the blow, she always followed it up with effect."
The show of hands went for the Whigs ; the poll against them. The numbers announced at the close of the poll were—for Beckett, 2,075; Aldam, 2.042; Hume, 2,034; Jocelyn, 1,927.
LEICESTER. A Chartist, Mr. Cooper, the editor of a local paper, was brought forward only to be withdrawn, in favour of the Tories. The nomination, on Tuesday, passed over in dumb-show ; the greater num- ber of bands held up, according to the Mayor, being for the Minis- terialists, Mr. E Isthope and Mr. Wynn Ellis.
LEWES. There was a sharp contest for this borough, and the Liberal majority is very small. At the nomination on Monday, charges of bribery were bandied on both sides. Mr. Mabbott, a Tory, who naively said he "alluded with great unwillingness to bribery," mentioned an instance of an elector having been offered a bet, first of 10/. and then. of 201., that he did not dare vote for the Whigs. Mr. Mantel!, in reply, could only retort with the adage of the pot abusing the kettle ; and produced a letter of intimidation from an " honourable " gentleman to a Liberal elector, which he said was a disgrace to any man ; but he did not read it. The result of the poll was—Harford (Whig), 411; Elphin- stone (Radical), 409; Fitzroy (Tory), 407; Cantilupe (Tory), 388.
LINCOLN. The two Liberals, Sir Lytton Bulwer and Mr. Seeley, seem to have spoiled one another's market : Mr. Seeley kept to his pledge and went to the poll, but no further ; and Sir Lytton was left behind with him. " The honourable Member for Sibthorp " was at the head of the poll, numbering 541; Mr. Bainbridge, his colleague, ob- tained 510 votes ; Sir Lytton and Mr. Seeley, 443 and 340.
LIVERPOOL. The nomination took place on Tuesday. The candis dates were—Lord Sandon and Mr. Cresswell, the late Tory Members, Lord Palmerston and Sir Joshua Wahnsley, the Ministerial candi- dates. Lord Sand= put the charge against Ministers in a very com- pact form- " Are you (the -electors) prepared to give your sanction to those Ministers who have so mismanaged our foreign affairs, our finances, and our colonies, as to have compelled that large expenditure which has produced those serious difficulties in our revenue winch we lament ? It is not from any decline in tha prosperity of the country, or from any decrease in our revenues, that those difficulties have arisen; but they have arisen from an increased expenditure
and a deficiency in the annual receipts. Are these deficiencies, then, any ground for confidence in those who have caused them? Would you intrust the curing of the evil to those who have caused it ? Would you not rather give your confidence to those who have resisted the measures of her Majesty's Ministers by whom that expenditure had been caused ?"
He advised the electors against sending Members to Parliament for single objects-
" It may be very well to give a man a power of attorney to vote upon a single question : but here you are giving your Representatives a power of at- torney to vote upon every question that can be brought before the Legislature. You are giving them power over the Church, the Throne, and the Aristocracy ; you are giving them power to legislate for every interest in the country : but you will not be blinded by any single cry into forgetting how many questions there are upon which you differ from the Administration, even if you should agree with them upon this question." Lord Palmerston appeared by proxy, in the Chairman of his Com- mittee, Mr. Brocklebank ; who took some pains to show, that if his principal had served in nine different Administrations, his successive changes had all been in one direction, towards a more liberal policy. The Conservatives won the show of hands ; and they kept the advan- tage at the poll on Wednesday—for Sandou, 5,831; Cresswell, 5,672; Walmsley, 4,749; Palmerston, 4,531.
The election was disgraced by rioting. According to the Liverpool Mail, the Irish in Tithebarn and its vicinity assembled in great crowds on the day of nomination ; and on Wednesday morning they began assailing persons in their houses and throwing stones at the Police. The excitement, however, seemed to have subsided towards the after- noon, and the Police were drafted to another part of the town ; but about six o'clock, a body of ship-carpenters, who had been listening to the speeches of the new Members, and were returning home in pro- cession along New Bird Street, were attacked by some six hundred Irishmen armed with brickbats, bludgeons, pokers, and "life-preserv- ers": the carpenters were worsted in the affray, and retreated; when a police force a hundred and thirty strong arrived, and the fight was kept up for about two hours. The Irish mounted the tops of the houses in their quarter, from which they pelted the police with bricks and slates torn from the roofs and chimnies. About half-past eight a strong body of mounted police, under the orders of Mr. Whitty, arrived at the scene of action, and galloped through the crowd in Sc. James's Street, which had by that time increased to twenty thousand persons : meeting with a party of pensioners who had been appointed special constables, but who were not under proper control, Mr. Whitty locked them up in St. James's Market ; and proceeded onwards to Grafton Street, where thousands of the Tory rioters and Irish were opposed to each other. The police separated the belligerents, and ultimately dispersed them. Meanwhile, the windows of several public-houses, the rendezvous of the ship. carpenters, were smashed by the Irish. The attack on a public- house at Salthouse Dock led to fatal consequences : a stone struck the daughter of the landlord, Mr. Casement ; who fired two pistols loaded with slugs, and shot four men and a woman. One of the men was dangerously wounded. The mob threatened vengeance ; but Casement being taken to the 13ridewell, they dispersed. About eighty persons were taken into custody ; but, excepting the one outrage of the firing, no mischief beyond smashing of windows and breaking of doors and heads, appears to have occurred.
MaNcansTEE. The election began on Tuesday, in St. Anne's Square, where commodious hustings were erected. The candidates named were Sir George Murray and Mr. William Entwistle, Tories, and Mr. Mark Philips, the Liberal Member, and Mr. Thomas Milner Gibson, the Liberal convert. Both parties appeared on the ground well supported; the Liberal candidates by several of the Anti-Corn- law party, with Mr. R. H. Greg, the late Member, and Sir Thomas Potter. Mr. Gibson thought it necessary to rebut a charge of latitu- dinarianism in religion ; and he retorted the charge of inconsistency upon the supporters of Sir James Graham, Lord Stanley, and Sir Robert Peel : he had been rebuked for leaving a rising party to join a falling one—he rejected such notions of party morality. Mr. Gibson and Mr. Entwistle were catechized in Free Trade by Mr. Warren, chair- man of the Operative Anti-Corn-law Association. Mr. Entwistle did not prove an apt scholar. The Mayor, who presided, declared the election on the show of hands to have fallen on Mr. Philips and Mr. Gibson. A poll was demanded for the others. It is calculated that from ten to twelve thousand persons were present at the nomination. With few - trifling exceptions, the best order was maintained.
At the close of the poll on Wednesday, the Mayor announced the numbers thus—Philips, 3,702; Gibson, 3,582; Murray, 3,116; Entwistle, 2,685. More speeches followed ; including one from Mr. Charles Towneley, the Ministerial candidate for the county.
MONMOUTH. Mr. Blewitt was opposed by Mr. William Edwards, a Chartist ; who wished to withdraw after the nomination on Wednesday, at which, says the Globe, be only obtained the votes of his mover and seconder: and he admitted that he was not qualified ; but his mover would not allow him to retire, and the Mayor decided that he must go o the poll.
• NEWARK. Mr. T. B. IIobbouse, the late Member for Rochester, suddenly appeared among the candidates ; but he took nothing by his motion : his competitors, Mr. W. E. Gladstone and Lord John Manners, obtained at the poll on Tuesday, 633 and 630; Mr. Bobhouse but 391.
NoaTriamoToN was contended for by the Under Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Vernon Smith, with Mr. Raikes Currie, Sir Henry Willoughby, a Tory, and Mr. M'Dowall, a Chartist. The Whigs won: at the poll on Tuesday, they had 981 and 970 votes; Willoughby, 884; the Chartist, 170.
NoRWICH. A Chartist was brought forward here, at the nomination on Monday ; but he could not muster requisite sureties for payment of the expenses ; and so the Marquis of Douro, the Tory, and Mr. Benja- min Smith, the Ministerialist, were reelected.
NoTrisroHem. The Nottingham men have kept up their character : the nomination, on Monday, was conducted in turmoil and violence. The preliminary proceedings were hindered by a riot, which made it necessary to call out the military. One account says that the soldiers code along the streets among "hordes of ruffians," fighting on all sides. One child was trampled to death, and several persons were injured. The two Ministerialists, Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. Larpent, and the
two Opposition candidates, Mr. Walter and Mr. Charlton, were duly proposed and seconded. None of the candidates could obtain a hearing. The Sheriff pronounced the show of hands to be as three to one in favour of the Liberals. This produced a storm of indignation from the other side, and a demand was made that the show should be taken again. The Sheriff refused. Mr. Charlton tendered a formal protest against the decision ; and a vote of censure was passed upon the She- riff,—though not, say the Whig accounts, until the regular proceedings were over and the Ministeralists had left the hustings. The poll was taken next day ; but at its commencement Mr. Walter and Mr. Charl- ton, "to preserve the peace of the town," resigned. The numbers at the *end of the first hour, when the poll was closed, stood thus—for Lar- pent, 529 ; Hobhouse, 527 ; Walter, 144' Charlton, 142. The resigna- tion of the Tory candidates immediately quieted the town, and the chairing of the Members passed off without any disaster ; Lord Rancliffe reappearing among the electors, now become good boys again. On Tuesday evening, however, the disorders were somewhat renewed.
PONTEFRACT. The nomination of candidates took place on Monday. The Tories complain that Mr. Gully's Committee issued a placard announcing that he had retired from the contest ; whereas he actually went to the poll, on Tuesday, against the two Conservatives, Lord Pollington and Mr. Monckton Milnes. The two latter were declared elected ; the numbers being—for Pollington, 464; Milues, 259; Gully, 253.
PORTSMOUTH. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, whose election with Sir George Staunton was unopposed on Monday, met with no more annoyance than a little questioning, and some criticism on the dilatory financial impromptu tacked to the Budget. He was asked whether Government would repeal the Poor-law Act if he could not carry the change of the Corn-laws ? That question, Mr. Baring said, must be answered by those to whom Ministers must transfer the reins of power if they could not carry their measures : but he afterwards added, that, viewing the Poor-law as an independent question, he would not re- peal it.
PRESTON. Sir Hesketh Fleetwood, the old Liberal Member, and Sir George Strickland, the new Liberal candidate, are returned ; polling 1,658 and 1,637, while Mr. Townley Parker and Mr. Swainson polled 1,266 and 1,251. The nomination was performed on Tuesday, amid scenes of considerable violence ; stones flying and blows being retali- ated on all sides. The disturbance, however, was quelled by the County Constabulary.
RIPON. No one ventured to oppose the Tories, Sir Edward Sugden and Mr. Pemberton.
ROCHDALE. Mr. Crawford, the Liberal candidate, was returned, with these numbers—Crawford, 397; Fenton, 333. The election was dis- turbed by violence, and the military were called out : one of the Con- servative voters was pulled from his horse, and beaten so severely that he has since died. Great confusion prevailed at the date of the last ac- counts.
SHEFFIELD. The apostles of Urquhartism, headed by their chief in person, did not take much by their movement in Sheffield. The candi- date who finally stood with Mr. Urquhart was Mr. William Sheppard, the gentleman who astonished Lord Londonderry by " bolting ' from Durham. The old Members, Mr. H. G. Ward and Mr. John Parker, were the Liberal candidates ; and a fifth was Mr. Marsden, a Chartist from Bolton. The nomination took place on Monday, in Paradise Square, in the presence of some 15,000 persons ; who stood their ground in spite of the rain which fell during the day. Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Ward had a controversy, which ended in proper controversial style, by neither convincing the other. Mr. Urquhart pledged himself, if he were returned, to impeach Lord Palmerston for treachery. Mr. Ward and Mr. Parker gained the show of hands, and a poll was demanded by Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Sheppard. At the close on Thursday, the num- bers were—for Parker, 1,849; Ward, 1,805; Urquhart, 503; Sheppard, 457.
SHREWSBURY. Sir Love Parry's 15,000/. in bank did not buy Shrews- bury for him : he and Mr. C. Temple were beaten at the poll, by Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Tomline ; the numbers being—for Tomline, 790; Disraeli, 780; Parry, 595; Temple, 575.
Sr. Ammites derives prominence from the late inquiry. Dr. Webster has been missed, and Mr. Muskett is lost to the Whigs : Mr. Repton, a grandson of the Lord Eldon, takes his place by the side of Lord Lis- towel.
TAMWORTH. The election at Tamsvorth passed off in holyday fashion. Sir Robert Peel exerted himself to promote feelings of per- sonal regard and consideration which gave a character of decorum to the proceedings, resembling the choice of officers for some private in- stitution. On Monday morning, Sir Robert was escorted into the town by his friends, who met hint on the road leading from Drayton Manor ; and Lady Jane Peel took a station near the hustings in her carriage. Captain A'Court had arrived a little before his colleague ; and Captain Townshend, the Ministerial candidate, was represented by Mr. Marmion Ferrars, who headed the Liberals. Sir Robert Peel was proposed by Mr. Tylecote, for the seventh time : probably, Mr. Tyle- cote said, it would be the last time that he should have the opportunity of exercising so great a privilege. Captain Townshend was proposed by Mr. William Ingle, a Corn-law Repealer, though a farmer renting land at 1,200/. a year.
The preliminaries being over, Sir Robert Peel delivered a long address, curiously contrasted, in its elaborate expositions, with the air of familiar and local interest which he imparted to the mere election- eering arrangements. After emphatically though briefly alluding to his assiduity in furthering the interests of the borough, he launched into a broad review of political affairs ; beginning with the French Revolu- tion of 1830, and the consequent agitation throughout Europe, and the demand for fundamental changes of the English constitution. He at that time recognized the advantage of building up a new Conservative party ; not opposed to rational changes which the course of time might have rendered necessary, but attached to the institutions of the country-
" Gentlemen, the great object of my public life was not to gain for myself a position of political, that is to say of official power, but to build up that great party which has been gradually acquiring strength in this country—which has been gradually widening the foundation on which it stands; that great party which has drawn from time to time its support from its opponents; that party which, at first not exceeding one hundred in number, now presents a firm, united body which ranks a compact phalanx of three hundred Members of Parliament ; a body, too, gentlemen, be it remembered, not even so strong in point of numbers as it is strong in the confidence of the country."
He recalled the moderate course which he had pursued as leader of -that party; never factiously opposing the Government, never shrinking from sharing with Ministers the popular odium of particular measures, and often rescuing them from difficulties. He asserted the purity and consistency of his conduct in first drawing attention to the subject of Tithes, in offering relief to Dissenters, and in adhering to the Catholic Relief. He claimed to be allowed to speak for himself on these points-
" The principles I adhered to, and shall adhere to during my public life, whether in opposition or in power, are in perfect conformity with the prevailing good sense, with the moderation, and with the intelligence of the great body of the people of England. And yet, gentlemen, I am not allowed to speak my own opinions !—my political opponents know so well that these opinions are in unison with this good sense and this good feeling, that they will not allow me to speak for myself; but every newspaper or pamphlet that appears on their side is filled with extracts or opinions from the speeches of other people, and these they call the manifestoes of Sir Robert Peel. There is scarcely a subject On which I have not expressed my opinion in Parliament ; but yet the organs of the Government will not allow me to speak for myself."
Suppose he were to retort, by charging Lord John Russell with incon- sistency because his brother Lord Charles Russell declared that repeal of the Corn-laws would be ruinous, or because other supporters of the Minis- ters advised the repeal of the Union : could any thing be more unfair ? Sir Robert entered at length into the subject of the proposed alteration of the Sugar-duties and the Corn-law. He deprecated the encourage- ment of the slave-trade which the former would offer ; and quoted Dr. Channing's commendation of England's sacrifice to freedom in the West Indies, with the wish that it might not be nullified. Within two months the price of sugar had fallen from 50s. a hundredweight to .37s. or 38s.: within the year the price had fallen 20s.; so that our own colonies would be able to furnish abundance of sugar. Then he turned to the Corn question ; insisting on the necessity of protecting the land, which is subject to special burdens in the shape of Poor-rates, High- way-rates, and Church-rates. He did not consider the fixed duty of .8s. sufficient protection-
" The duty of 8s. a quarter is proposed by the Government : if this propo- sition he adopted, I foresee this will be the certain result—you will have a redundancy of foreign corn when you are not in want of it, when your own harvests are profitable and abundant ; but when the time of scarcity shall arrive it will be impossible for you to levy the duty of 8s. a quarter on toreign corn. Gentlemen, what provision, I ask you, is to be made for that contin- gency? If corn be at 70s. or 80s. a quarter, will it be possible to levy the fixed duty of 8s. a quarter ? By whom is it to be taken off, and when ? once off, by whom is to be laid on again?" Mr. Ingle had told them that the alteration would effect a reduction of Is. a quarter : how absurd then the cry that it would give them -" cheap bread"! Sir ICobert quoted Mr. M'Culloch's recent pamphlet to show that the change was needless— The price of wheat," ran the extract which he read, "in England at an average of the ten years ending with 1820, was no less than 83s. 6d. a quarter. Its average price has since, as we, have just seen, been reduced to 56s. Hid. a quarter ; and yet, notwithstanding this tremendous fall, a most extraordinary improvement has taken place in agriculture since 1820; so much so that we now provide for an additional population of at least seven millions, not only without any increase, but with a very considerable diminution of importation. Considering the vast importance of agriculture—that nearly half the population 4:A. the empire are directly or indirectly dependent on it for employment and the means of subsistence—a prudent statesman would pause before he gave sanction to any measure, however sound in principle or beneficial to the mercantile and manufacturing classes, that might endanger the prosperity of agriculture or check the rapid spread of improvement."
Sir Robert admitted that much distress existed; but he thought that the causes were only temporary. In July 1840, Lord Palmerston cited the progressive increase of the exports of the country, from 38,000,000/., -official value in 1830, to 53,000,000/. in 1839, to show that trade was increasing ; and the concurrent increase of imports in the same period, from 46,000,0001. to 62,000,0001., showed that the substantial trade of the country was extending. Sir Robert gave more figures to the same effect ; and said that he saw causes for the existing distress irrespective of the Corn-laws— -
"I do fear, that in the North of England an undue stimulus has been given to manufacturing industry by the accommodation system pursued in the Joint Stock Banks. I think the connexion of the manufacturer with the Joint Stock Banks gave an undue and an improper impulse to trade in that quarter of the country ; and I think that, in consequence of this, there have been more manu- factures produced within the last two years than were necessary to supply the demand for them. This, I think, is one of the many causes of the manufac- turing and commercial distress at the present moment." He found other causes in the internal dissensions which interrupted trade in South America, in Canada, and in the Peninsula ; while the French blockade in South America, and war in Syria, Egypt, and China, impeded commerce; and the enormous outlay on military preparations in France and middle and Northern Europe, diverted capital from useful purposes. "All these causes combined could not exist without essentially affecting our commerce and manufacture. When you come to consider the undue stimulus to industry in the manufacturing districts of this country—when you come to consider the condition of the United States, the position of Egypt, the state of China, the way in which France has been agitated—when you put these things together, all causes, mind you, affecting the market for your goods, and then combine them with the two or three defective harvests we have had of late, I ask you to answer me the question, whether or not they have not been sufficient to account for the depression of manufacturing industry ; and then to say, are we called upon, under such circumstances, to substitute a fixed ditty on foreign corn for the present ascending and descending scale ?"
Alluding to the first defeat of Government on the Jamaica Bill, Sir Robert asked whether they had regained power and the confidence of the House of Commons since then ? There had been no falling-off in the power of his party. He did not believe, he said, that the country had responded to the cry of "cheap bread" and "cheap sugar." He quoted Mr. Labouchere's arguments against Mr. Ewart's motion to reduce the Foreign Sugar-duties last year, which he had helped Ministers to resist ; and Lord Melbourne's declaration against Lord Fitzwilliam's proposal to revise the Corn-laws; observing that they, not he, had changed tactics in the short time which had elapsed.
The show of hands was in favour of Sir Robert Peel and Captain
A'Court. A poll was demanded for Captain Townshend. It began on Tuesday morning ; but was abruptly brougfit to a close at twelve o'clock, Captain Townshend's name being withdrawn by his friends: the numbers then stood—Peel, 365 ; A'Court, 241; Townshend, 147. Another briefer but equally neighbourly address from Sir Robert wound up the election.
THETFORD election was distinguished by a tie between two candi- dates ; the numbers being—for Mr. Francis Baring, the Tory Member, 86 ; for the Earl of Euston, Whig, 71 ; and for Sir John Flower, Tory, 71. The Mayor, Mr. Fyson, a Liberal, refused to give his casting-vote, and delivered the foregoing figures as the state of the poll.
TIVERTON. Lord Palmerston and Mr. Heathcoat were reelected for Tiverton, without opposition, on Monday. Lord Palmerston made a clever speech. To suppose that his party were content with the Re- form Bill, he said, were as absurd as to fancy a man making a machine and then sitting down to contemplate his handiwork, without an effort. to use it. He gave a promise to alter the Poor-law---- Iwill not dissemble that there are in the details of that measure many circumstances which have been much commented upon, and which many per- sons think ought to be altered; and I, speaking here as a member of the Go- vernment, and not as an unconnected Member of the House of Commons, tell ran for myself and my colleagues, that whether in office or in opposition, when in next session the details of the measure come to be considered in Parliament, we will give it a fair and honest and grave consideration ; being anxious only for the good of the country, and only desirous of accomplishing those purposes for which we originally introduced the measure."
He adroitly turned a charge made by the Tories against themselves-
" I have got an extract here, [from the Times,] which is too long to read, but they published a long list of useful and important measures brought for- ward by the Government in each of the years 1836, 1837, 1838, 1839, 1840— between twenty and thirty measures in each of these sessions—which these Tories unblushingly boast they compelled us to withdraw, or had thrown out on our attempting to carry them. Gentlemen, is this the ground on which a great party stand forward before the country—to call on the country to afford, them their confidence ? Do the Tories really call on the country to trust them, because for four or five years past they have prevented us from passing laws for the benefit and improvement of the country ? Yes, this is the case, strange as it may seem." Lady Palmerston witnessed the election from the window of a house opposite to the hustings. Directly after it, both Members posted off to London, to vote, as Liverymen of London, for Lord John Russell TOTNES AND BRIDGETOWN. Mr. Edward Petre resigned, lest he should endanger the return of Lord Seyniour, the Under Home Secre- tary; who was thus left to share the boroughs with a Tory, Mr. Baldwin.
WEvatount. Fears that useful and honest Mr. Bernal might lose his seat, have proved too well founded : his Tory colleague, Mr. Hope, is now suited with a congenial companion, Lord Villiers. The polling was very close—for Villiers, 239; Hope, 257; Bernal, 254; Christie, a Liberal candidate, 253.
WOLVERHAMPTON. Mr. Villiers and Mr. Thorneley, though threat- ened. with opposition from "a candidate" unknown, found none at the nomination on Wednesday ; and they were declared to be duly elected. Mr. Villiers gave the consistent electors of Wolverhampton their meed of praise— They had set the good example, and thousands who turned from them at first now turned towards them and followed their course. The scene which was witnessed here today was going on throughout the country. Five years ago, they could not see a band conducting Free-traders to the hustings, or flags held up in its favour : now, " Free Trade" was the question throughout the land. This showed that they had used their franchise worthily ; it showed that they understood their own interest. And he ,ould say, let the non-electors else- where act like the non-electors here, and it would prove they were fit for power; and when the people were fit for power, they might depend that power they must have.
WARRINGTON. The last person who appeared on the Liberal side in Warrington was Alderman Kershaw of Manchester. He resigned on Wednesday ; leaving the field clear for Mr. Blackburne, the late Tory Member, at the nomination on Thursday.
WORCESTER. Sir Thomas Wilde is not among the rejected. After a stormy nomination on Monday, at which Sir Thomas's eloquence was stifled by noise, he was returned at the poll on Tuesday, by 1,187 votes; 1,173 electors gave him a Tory colleague, Mr. Joseph Bailey, the late Member. Mr. Hardy, a Liberal, obtained only 875 votes.
YORK. The successful candidates were Lord Lowther, a Tory, and Mr. Yorke, a Liberal ; Mr. Atcherley, a Tory, being rejected at the poll on Tuesday. The Tory papers say that paupers were brought up to 'vote for Mr. Yorke, and that one of the most active men of his Committee was heard to say that he had spent upwards of 10,000/.
IRELAND.
ARMAGH COUNTY. Lord Acheson, who at first expressed a wish to retire from the representation of this county, has been induced again to come forward, to the sore dismay of the Tories. It is also said that Lord Charlemont's brother, the Honourable Henry Caufeild, who in- tended to offer himself in the event of Lord Acheson declining, has now withdrawn, but that a second Liberal will shortly be forthcoming.— Dublin Monitor.
Bonotrow OF ENNIS. Sir Burton Macnamara, a Liberal, has ad- dressed. the electors.
CITY OF LONDONDERRY. After failing with Sir J. Hamilton, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Boyd, the Tories have at length obtained, it is said, from the Carlton Club, a promise of a new candidate, Mr. Ward, a relative of Lord Bangor.
DUNDALK Bonouon. Captain Purcell, R.N., has started on the Conservative side.
LONGFORD COUNTY. Mr. Anthony Lefroy has addressed the electors on Tory principles. The two Whites are, it is said, to be his oppo- nents; Colonel Henry White having withdrawn his resignation.
TIPPERARY COUNTY. A second Tory has appeared; Mr. P. Barker, of Kilcooly Abbey, a gentleman described as of great wealth and in- fluence.
WEXFORD COUNTY. A second Conservative has come forward as the colleague of Mr. Hamilton Morgan, Mr. E. J. Devereux.
SCOTLAND.
ABERDEEN. The Tories have at length fixed on a candidate to op- pwe Mr. Bannerman. Mr. Innes of Raemoir is the gentleman who has been selected for the honour of spending a few of his spare hun- dreds, and putting our city Member to some expense and the electors to a little trouble.—Aberdeen Herald.
DUMFRIES. The election for the Dumfries Burghs began on Tuesday. The candidates were Sir Alexander Johnston, a Whig, and Mr. William Ewart, the Radical. Sir Alexander gave an imposing account of his own merits ; beginning with the fact of his residence at Dumfries, then enlarging on the public benefits which he had conferred on India ; pro- mising to support the measures now in vogue with the Whigs—such as Ballot, and the three items of Whig Free Trade ; and finishing with topics of more local interest, the improvements and trade of the place, and a Poor-law, which he promised to support. Mr. Ewart laughed at his rival for being supported by "antiquated Whigs and half-reluctant Tories "; and disclosed a little electioneering manceuvering to drive him from his post- " First came anonymous epistles; then came warnings, ingeniously con- veyed through a neutral Whig, or a young Lord of the Treasury ; then through a Committee-man of the Reform Club : in fact, all the engines and levers of diplomacy had been applied to move him from his post, and applied in vain. St. Anthony himself never underwent such a variety of temptations. 'Why had he adhered to the position which he originally assumed ? Because he firmly be- lieved that L6 opinions were, and his conduct had been, in harmony with the principles and spirit of the great Liberal body of the electors—not those mere partisans who, with dull fidelity, repeated the political creed which they had imbibed rather from memory than conviction ; but the great Liberal body who were determined to move onwards with steady energy and well-regulated zeal, in conformity with the spirit of the times in which they lived, and who deemed such firm hut well-ordered advance the best assurance not only for the pros- perity and progress, but for the peace and safety of their common country.' Mr. Ewart declared that the removal of monopolies was not enough ; it must be followed by a readjustment of the public burdens and a tax 011 property. Mr. Wardrop, a Chartist, was nominated, merely for the purpose of taking the show of hands. [To gratify the Chartists with a foretaste of the franchise, like the poor man who used to dine on the smell from a tavern kitchen.] He did it, he said, " in order to test the supporters of his principles and himself." He had his 'wish: the show of hands was for him and Mr. Ewart.
DUNDEE again furnishes some curious electioneering gossip. Sir Henry Parnell has at length taken public leave, in an address rather remarkable for self-complacency, and still more for caution in avoiding to tell why he withdraws. The Liberal electors, on bearing of Sir Henry Parnell's retirement, sent invitations to several political charac- ters—Mr. Grote, Mr. Ewart, Mr. J. B. Smith, and Mr. Hume. Mr. Grote would rather not be in Parliament at all ; and so he told the electors; at the same time suggesting Sir 'William Molesworth. Mr. Ewart stuck to Dumfries. Mr. Smith would stand, if his return were Certain; but he would not risk the Anti-Corn-law cause, in the person of the President of the League, to the chance of disgrace. Mr. Hume coolly hinted that the borough might be his pis oiler. Some of the letters in this correspondence, published in a supplement to last week's Dundee Advertiser, are as characteristic as any thing that the present election-contest has produced.
Mr. Grote, with straightforward plainness, says-
" In reply to your inquiry whether I should be willing to offer myself for the representation of Dundee, I beg leave to say that it would not be agreeable to me to do so. In sending this negative reply, I trust you will do me the justice to believe that I am impressed with the fullest conviction of the worth and intelligence of the constituency of Dundee, which any public man ought to be proud to represent. At present, however, I do not feel disposed to come forward for any place.
"You ask whether I know any other gentleman disposed to seek and worthy to receive the honour of your support ? The only person whose name occurs to me at this moment is Sir William Molesworth, Bart., the late Member for Leeds. Whether he is now inclined to seek a seat in Parliament, I do not know : if he be so, I am satisfied that you will not find anywhere a candidate of hig,her public principle or of a more cultivated and vigorous intellect."
Mr. Smith of Manchester-
" The great cause of freedom of trade is paramount with me to every other ; and I am conscious, that if I become a candidate for any place, there will be a great effort on the part of the Monopolists to oppose me: my defeat would be considered a defeat of the good cause, and you will not therefore be surprised that our friends here are very jealous on this head. At this great crisis of our commercial fate, every friend of peace and justice is called upon to sink all minor differences, and to make one vigorous effort to secure freedom to the akill, enterprise, and industry of this great nation. I trust Dundee, in com- mon with every other trading borough, will not disappoint the ardent hopes and wishes of those who anxiously await the event of the approaching struggle for our commercial existence.
"If the electors of Dundee can unite in these views, and the friends of Free Trade there, after the above explanations, are of opinion that I may safely come forward, I need not say that I should consider it a proud personal dis- tinction, and a triumph to the great principles of which I have long been the humble but earnest advocate. I ought to mention, that I have been so much indisposed from the effects of the hard contest at Walsall, and subsequent ex- ertions, that for three weeks past I have been unable to unite with our friends here in their efforts at this crisis, and that if it were required that I should use great personal exertion and undergo great fatigue, I must beg altogether to decline it. I should, however, be quite equal to addressing public meetings. My views on Free Trade are sufficiently known: on general politics, I am the friend of civil and religious liberty, the Ballot, and Triennial Parliaments."
Mr. Cobden's postscript, after stating that he is pledged to stand for Stockport- " We want a few good commercial men to form a Free Trade party: in the next Parliament. You have two or three right sturdy Free-traders in your own borough and vicinity: are there the same fireside jealousies to prevent one of them from being returned by their neighbours, which are found to be such formidable obstacles on our side of the Tweed ? "
But the gem of the collection is Mr. Home's unique letter-
" It would have delighted me to have represented Dundee, but I WAS pre- vented from looking towards it by Sir Henry Parnell beiug in possession. "If you can make arrangements so as to wait the result of the Leeds elec- tion (where the Tories threaten to beat us), which you can easily do, and in case of defeat at Leeds, I might be elected for Dundee. Or, if you made an election—even if I were chosen for both places, you would then have time to select a proper man, The really active Free Trade Members are engaged, except Mr. Ewart, the late M.P. for Liverpool, and now for Wigan, who was trying the Dumfries boroughs. If he should fail, I would recommend him to your notice as one of the most steady and fearless Reformers, Free Trade men, and also a strong advocate for civil and religious liberty. He would do you credit—the cause of the People good service—and I should be pleased to see him the representative of Dundee.
" If I could retire from Leeds without doing harm, I should with pleasure have gone to Dundee ; but the fate of the West Riding of Yorkshire depends on the success in Leeds; and there I must stand.
" I shall be at Leeds until after the election, and pleased to hear from you."
At a meeting of electors on Thursday week, Mr. Edward Baxter, a great manufacturer and leading Free-trader, moved resolutions appoint- ing a committee to support Mr. Smith. An amendment was moved to support Mr. George Duncan ; but it was rejected by 155 to 121. Mr. Smith went down to Dundee forthwith, partly on a visit to the electors, partly on an agitating Anti-Corn-law tour. In the mean time Mr. Kinloch of !Unlock son of the ever-remembered patriot who died at his post as the first Member returned by Dundee, eight years ago, issued an address to the electors ; prompted, he said, by an old promise to offer himself. He rested his claim upon his well known Radical and Free Trade principles—" principles which he often stood forward to maintain when they were not so popular as they are now." Soon after the issue of this address, however, Mr. Kinloch, fearing to divide the strength of the sturdier politicians of Dundee, wrote to Mr. Baxter, proposing that the choice of the electors between Mr. Smith and himself as candidate should be ascertained by means of a ballot. The proposal was accepted ; but when the mode of balloting WAS discussed, it turned out that Mr. Baxter and Mr. Kinloch differed essentially :
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Mr. Baxter required the ballot to be taken at three different stations n the town, by means of a printed paper, running thus : "I pledge my- self to vote for [the name of Mr. Smith or Mr. Kinloch to be filled in here as the case might be] provided he be a candidate for the repre- sentation of Dundee on the day of polling." This paper was to be signed by the voter in the presence of two tellers appointed on the part of each candidate. It was also stipulated that the numbers on the ballot should not be divulged by the scrutineers, but that they should only declare which had the majority. Before the ballot, Mr. Smith's committee wished the two candidates to address a meeting of electors. Mr. Kiuloch objected to an arrangement so cumbersome and so much at variance with the spirit of vote by ballot : he proposed that the speech- making and the balloting should all be got through at one meeting. The most objectionable points in the original proposal, however, were insisted upon, and negotiations were broken off.
The nomination took place on Wednesday ; and the show of hands, we are told by a correspondent, was almost universal for Kinloch. Again desiring, however, to keep the strength of the Liberal party un- divided, he retired. The trial therefore lay between Mr. Smith and Mr. Duncan. It is'a pity that the cause of the Free-trader should have been so tarnished by such unsatisfactory preliminaries.
Enrienueon. Mr. Macaulay and Mr. James Gibson Craig met about 500 electors on Saturday, in the Waterloo Rooms. The Church ques- tion was a troublesome obstacle to Mr. Macaulay's eloquence: he seemed puzzled to reconcile his political and electioneering views, con- tending in a breath for state authority and some sort of ecclesiastical independence ; as thus— Did gentlemen mean to argue, that with regard to the temporal question the civil court should decide, while with regard to the spiritual functions another and an ecclesiastical body should in the last resort be the judges ? If that were correct, every established church would have the seeds of dissolution in its own nature; for while one body decided the spiritual question one way, the other might decide the temporal question another way ; and, there being no umpire between them, it necessarily followed that a separation would be made between the spiritual functions and the temporal advantages, the indissoluble union of which was, in his mind, the essence of an established church. He objected to all unnecessary interference of the State in the affairs of the Church ; but still, the State must finally decide not to compel men to do what in their conscience they thought to be wrong, but to say, "If you will not take the endowments on the conditions we impose, then you must go without the endowments." He earnestly desired to see a measure brought forward which would settle the question by legally giving to the parishes of Scotland a voice or cheek in the appointment of their pastors, but he never would consent to set the Church over the Civil power as supreme.
Mr. Macaulay was much cheered and much hissed for these ambi- guous propositions. He afterwards refused to originate a bill to settle the question. An amendment was moved on the motion to vote con- fidence in the two candidates ; but the original motion was carried.
GLASGOW. The Tories have invited three persons to stand for them—Mr. Campbell, the Lord Provost, Mr. Carrick Moore, and Mr. Horatio Ross. At a meeting in the Bull Inn, on Tuesday, it was an- nounced by the agent of the party, that Mr. Campbell had placed him- self "in the hands of his friends, to do with him what they chose ; that Mr. Moore had declined the invitation ; and that no answer had been received from Mr. Ross." A letter was read at this meeting from the Duke of Argyle, in which he deeply regretted that his bill had been made a political engine ; but since it had been so, he expressed his con- viction that the success of his bill and the Conservative cause would go hand in hand.
The Chartists held a meeting before the gaol, to name two of their own candidates : Mr. George Mills and Mr. Moir were appointed.
PAISLEY. The nomination of candidates passed off on Wednesday. Mr. Hastie was unexpectedly opposed by Mr. Thomason, a Chartist; who was carried on the show of hands. A poll was demanded by Mr. Hastie ; bet that test Mr. Thomason does not mean to abide : he is con- tent with "considering himself virtually Member for Paisley."
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