THE GENERAL ELECTION.

MEMBERS RETURNED.

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Continued from last Week .. 175 ig

Anglesea. .W . 0. Stanley 1 - Bedfordshire. Lord Alford, Astell - 2 Berkshire . .5 Palmer. Posey, Lord t Barrington 3 Brecknock

shire ... Colonel Wood 1 .Thieking. 1. Sir W. L. Young, Du- hamshire 5 pre, Murray - 3 Cambridgeshire Yorke, Eaton, Allis •-

I Pryse

Cardigan' • 1 Hanford • Cardigansh.. Powell 1

Cannarthensh.. Col. Trevor, Jones 2 iCarnaroon...Hughes Oceraarnmsh-Pennant Cheshire, N. .Egerton, Legh 2 Cockerniouth.Aglionby, Horsmail , 2 Cornwall, 1 Pendarves 1

West ... f Lord B. Rose ..... -1

Denbigh Mainwaring Denbighshire . Sir W. Wynne, Begot - 2

Perbm,grshai.r.e..} Caiendish, Evans 2 Devmshire,1. Sir T. D. Ackland,

North... 5 Bucke 2 Deronshire,1 Sir J. Y. Buller, Lord Sout/l. • . I Cour:enay 2 Do r selshire )Lord Ashley, Sturt, Banks 3

Durham. 1 Lambton 1

North .. f Liddell. . 1 .Esse ',North. Sir J. Tyrrell, Round 2 Essex. S... . Bramston, Palmer 2

Glamorgan-1. Talbot 1

shire.... f Lord Adare 1

Gloucester. I. 2

shire. E. Codriugton, Charteris

Gloucester- 1 Hon. G. Berkeley 1

shire, W. f Hale 1 EamPshire,1_Lefevre North... f Sir W. Heatheote 1

HasZtshhi.r.e if Fleming, Compton 2 Hareehrdwest. Sir R. B. Phillips 1

Herefrd- 1 Hoskins shire.... f Baskerville, Bailey 2

Hertford-.1 Lord Grimstou, A shire. ... j' Smith, Ryder a file pf Ifight.1101mes . 1

Mn Rirro. sR.

Kent, .East,{ Sir E. Kuatchbull, Plumptre Sir E. Filmer, Lord

Kent' West 1. Marsh= Lancash., 1 Lord Stanley, Pat-

North .. f ten Lessee 1 Lord F. Egerton.

shire. S.. f Wilbraham Leicester- 1. Lord C. Manuere

shire, N. f Farnham Lincoln- 1 Lord Worsley shire. N. f Christopher Ludlow Ackers. Botfield Maldon Dick, Round

Merionethsh .R. Richards Middlesex..{ G. ByugCal. Wood

Monmouth. 1 Lord G. Somerset, shire .. f Morgan

M"trysgh4i4lere lf C. W. Wynn Norfolk, 1 Chute Northamp- al "

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Northamp- l_Cartwright, Sir C.

trossh.. S. f Knightley

Northam-Ogle 1, bertand.S. 5 Bell Nettteghacs-1. Knight Holdsworth

shire, N.. - Nottingham-1_ Lord Lincoln. Col.

shire, S... f Rollestou

Oxfordshire{ 1,,,r,z1.urtNorreys, Her- court,

Pembroke . . Sir J. Owen Pembrohesh -Lord Emlyu Slwreham, 1 Sir C. M. Bunell, New . f Goring

Skrffshire' Sir R. Hill, Gore orth..

Shropshire ,1 Earl of Darlington, South ... Clive Somerset, 1 Laugtou East .. . f Miles

Stastbrtiv. 1. Russell, Adderley

Stafford- t Hoe. G. Anson Aire, S.. f Lord lugestre

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• A double return for Cardigan.

Inverness-A-Bann° 1

Kilmarsock . Johnstone 1 -

Eirkaldy.... Colonel Fergusson 1 -

Lanarkshire . Captain Lockhart - 1 Linlithgowsl.liope 1

Montrose.... Chalmers I -

Perthshire... Drummond 1

St.Andrew's. E. Ellice junior 1 - Stirling Lord Dalmeuy 1 -

H'igton B.... M'Taggart 1 - - --.

IRELAND. 213 290 Armagh Bowdon 1

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Athlone Captain Beresford... 1 Bandon Sergt. Jackson 1 Carlow Captain Layard 1 - Carrickfergus. Kirk . 1

Cashel Dr. Stock. I.

Cavan Young. Clements ... - 2

2 Clan:awl R. D. Pigott ... 1 -

Coleraine.. .. Litton - - 1

Cork O'Callaghan, Murphy 2 - Down:hire. I Lord Castlereagh, Lord Hillsborough Drogheda ...Sir W. Somerville... 1

Dundalk ...Rediugton 1 Dungannon. .Lord Northland - I Dangarean .-SheiL 1 - Downpatrich .Kerr 1 Ennis Bridgeman 1 -

Enniskillen.. Cole - 1 Galway .....J.Blake, SixV. Blake 2 - Kilkenny ....J. O'Connell 1 -

King's 2 Colonel Wemenra, County . . f Armstrong 2

Lanark - Watson 1 - Limerick .... Sir D. Roche, O'Brien 2 - Lisburn Meyuell - 1 Londonderry. Sir R. Fergnason ,.. • 1

Mallow Sir D. Honeys 1 - Newry Lord Newry - 1 Portan oggie, Dameg - 1 Ross Gore 1 - Trate* M. O'Connell 1 - Waterford... Barros, Wyse ..... , 2 - Youghol ..... Col. Cavendish 1 - 238 804 ....,.........- LIBERAL LOSS AND TORY GA111.

Continued from last we.ek 37 Athlone Beresford vice 3 O'Connell I

Bedfordshire Astell Lord C. Russell 1 Cambridgeshire Allis , Townley 1 Cheshire. North Legh E. J. Stanley 1

Cornwall. West. Lord B. Rose Sir C. Lemon t

DorseLslare . Banks Strangways ..., .. ....... 1 Dumbartonshire Smollett , Sir J. Colquhonn 1

Edinburghshire .1 Ramsay G Craig 1

Falkirk Baird Gahm 1 Gloucestershire. Bag . Charteris , Moreton

Haddington J M. Balfour Steuart I' • Herefordshire Bailey Sir. R. Price I

Hertfordshire Ryder Alston Kent. West Lord Marsham Hodges I Ludlow. kekers Salwey ... ........... ... 1 Stqfurdshire. North . . Adderiey E. Buller 1

Sussex, West. Earl of March, Wyndham Ld. J. Lennox, Id, Surrey 2 Worcestershire, West .Knight Winuington 1 Yorkshire, West Riding Wortley, Dennison-Ld. Morpeth, Sir G.Stricklasid 2

LIBERAL GAIN AND TORY LOSS. Continued from last week Crithness-shire Traill vice ,..Sir G. Siuclair..

Kilmarnock Johnstone Colquhoun 1 Kinsale Watson Thomas 1

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• The number stated last week was 32, but an error has since been discovered which reduces the number by one-at Rochdale, Mr. Crawford succeeded a Liberal, not a Tory, in Mr. Fenton. Soorwm. 196 Aberdeen.... Bannerman.. 1 Aberdeensh. . Gordon Ayr Burghs.. Lord J. Stuart Berwickshire Sir H. Campbell Buteshire ...Sir W. Rae 1.

Clackmannan

andKinross Col. Abercrombie 1

Dumhartonsh.— Smollett junior.

Dumfries.. -Ewalt 1 Dumfriss.sh-Johmaooe Dundee Duncan 1 Edinburghals. Ramsay

ElginBur,ghs. Sir A. L. Hay 1

Falkirk Baird Glasgow ....Oswald, Dennistoun 2 Greenock.... Wallace 1 Haddington.. J. M. Balfour ..... Haddingtonsh.Sir T. Hepburn Diverges& ...Morrison ,. 1

277 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1

Suffilk, 1 Rushbrook, Wad- West . f diugton .

Surrey, East. Kemble, Antrobus - Surrey, W {

Dennison ..... 1 Susses. W. Earl of March. Wyndham . ...... -

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Tynemouth Mitcalfe 1 It l Dugdale, Sir E. Wit- shire. N. f mot

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Warwick- 1 Sir J. Mordaunt, shire, S. f Shirley .... Westmore- Lord Lowther, Col.

land.... f Lowther Wiltshire,N. Sir F. Burdett. Long -

Wiltshire. 1 Benett 1

South .. f Herbert

Warcester ' Barueby, Taylor -

East

WIchie re:term; Lygon, Knight...o. -

Yorkshire, 7 Broadley,Ld.Hotham East R..

Yorkshire, 1_ Cayley 1

North R. f Duneombe..- - Yorkshire. Wortley, Dennison -

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BATH. There is a rumour very generally circulated, that an infor- mality has vitiated this election, and that another must take place. The irregularity is said to be want of sufficient notice (two clear days are specified in the Act William IV. cap. 45 : " And public notice of the situation, division, and allotment of the different booths, shall be given two days before the commencement of the poll, by the returning-officer ") to the electors relative to the places appointed for polling their votes.- _Oath Herald. At Bath, on Friday, Lord Duncan's and Mr. Roebuck's Eleetion Committees gave the new Members a dinner, at the White Hart Hotel. Among the company, were the Mayor, the Earl of Camperdown, Ad- miral Gordon, Colonel Gore Langton, and other gentlemen of local in- fluence. In returning thanks for his health, Lord Duncan "rejoiced that he was associated with a gentleman possessing the experience of Mr. Roebuck, and should not hesitate to avail himself of the advan- tages of his sagacity when he felt the necessity for consultation arise.' Mr. Roebuck said a word for the People- If England had been as Bath had been, where would have been Tory domi- nation? And why was not England like unto Bath ? Because in Bath there was a constituency formed not of powerful members, hut of the industrious classes-men of moderate means, but of high aspirations-of great minds. He knew them well, and there was not in this kingdom a town which could more strikingly show him an example of great virtue and high moral feelings than had been here exhibited. Those who had attempted to corrupt them had been hooted at ; and by whom ? by the very poor men who would be supposed to be most open to their advances. He called upon them, then, to take a lessen from this circumstance : let them put confidence in the people. Ete should be- lieve himself to be a base betrayer of the cause of which he was but the humble advocate if he deserted the people, from whom alone he received power. If he had power, it was because the constituency had returned him without fee, reward, corruption, or intimidation. This was no ordinary time, no common contest; a great and powerful faction was against us, which would for a time be uppermost. Unless the people supported them, they could not fight the People's enemies; if the people were wavering, they must be weak.

CARDIGAN. The Liberals reckon 104 votes for their candidate, Mr. Pryse, and 84 for Mr. Harford, the Tory. The poll-book for Aberyst- with was forwarded by the Mayor through three or four different ow- sons, and lost on its way to Cardigan. The Mayor is itsTory ; and two et the persons through whom he forwarded the parcel containing the book were a publican and a professional agent of the Tories : a trick is therefore suspected ; but nothing worse than gross carelessness appears on the face of the account. The book was not forthcoming up to Tuesday ; when the Mayor first declared Mr. Harford elected by a majority of 63, and then, after much argument with the other side, wade a double return.

CHESHIRE, NORTH. At Knutsford, on Tuesday, Mr. Edward John Stanley was put in nomination as the Liberal candidate, and Mr. Wil- liam Tattoo Egerton and Mr. George Cornwall Legh as the Tory can- didates. The new Paymaster of the Forces threw the most favourable light possible on the financial policy of Ministers— "It had always been the policy of the Whigs that the existence of the Sinking-fund—a scheme of the Tories for taking more money out of the people's pocket than the exigencies of the times required—should be abolished. The Whig Government thought it for the people's interest that this scheme should be put an end to, and nothing more than the taxes required for the exigencies of the State should be levied. Thus, then, it was clear that when any extraordinary expenditure should take place, some difficulty must arise in meeting it. This had now occurred; and how ? It was occasioned by a sud- den demand for our armies in the East, in the Levant, in Canada, and in China. He congratulated them on the success which had attended our arms in those quarters ; and the gentlemen on the other side, though they now affected to laugh, would be the first when occasion required to boast and pride themselves upon the fame which English bravery had there acquired. Well, it was under these circumstances that a deficiency of the revenue had occurred ; and the only way of making good that deficiency was either by some alteration of the taxes or by a loan. The adoption of the latter course, in a time of peace, was deprecated by all men. The great question was, then, whether it should be done by new taxes, or by such an alteration of existing taxes as was likely while it relieved the people and placed additional comforts within their reach, would have the effect of extending trade and improving commerce. Along with a deficiency in the revenue had arrived a state of commercial depression, which made it of the utmost consequence'that Government should look fairly in the face of the question. With this view the Committee on Im- ports lead been appointed (1) and the evidence given before that Committee was -such as to convince everyman that it was time to take some steps to remedy the evils of past legislation."

Mr. Talton Egerton retorted the 'troubles in Canada, India, China, and Syria, against Ministers. The show of hands favoured the Tories : a poll was demanded for Mr. Stanley.

Mr. Stanley resigned in the midst of the poll, yesterday, about noon. The poll then stood—Egerton, 2,736; Legh, 3,611; Stanley, 2,185.

CORNWALL, EAST. The election for East Cornwall has introduced to the political world a new and ardent asserter of Liberal principles, Mr. Trelawney, a son of the Lord- Lieutenant of the county ; who ap- pears under the auspices of Sir William Molesworth. The candidates 'who were put forward at the nomination, on Wednesday, in the Shire- hall of Bodmin, were Lord Eliot, one of the late Members, and Mr. W. Rashleigh junior, Tories, and Mr. Trelawney. Lord Eliot having been proposed and seconded, Sir William Molesworth proposed his friend—" a Liberal in the fullest and strictest sense of the term. (" A Radical 1") Yes, he is a Radical.'" Sir William asked Lord Eliot, Who would most likely take office in the new Cabinet, whether, if Sir Robert Peel proposed any alteration of the existing Corn-laws, he would resign his post and oppose his leader ? He objected to attacks being made on Mr. Trelawney for his opposition to the Corn-laws, while the opposite party reserved to themselves the right of modifying those laws. Sir William went on to show the landlords the little in- terest they had in maintaining the existing restrictions; asking whether they did not rather see their own advantage in the growth of every petty town and seaport to emulate Liverpool and Leeds and the other great trading towns? The remaining candidate having been nominated, Sir Hussey Vivian stepped forward to correct some misapprehension as to the causes of his retirement— It had been made a matter of boast by the Tory press, that he had been driven from the county. Now he would tell them sincerely, that if he had been aware of the requisition which had been presented to Mr. Rashleigh be- fore his address was sent forth to the electors, they would have found him re- tiring from his public office and once more on these hustings to solicit their support. The reasons of his retirement were, as he had stated, that finding the duties of his office and the duties of the House of Commons too much for him, he determined to retire from the representation of East Cornwall. Lord Eliot then delivered a speech in which he touched cursorily on the topics of the day. He answered Sir William Molesworth's ques- tion thus— He confessed he was not so practical a judge of the state of trade and agri- culture as to be able to say at that moment what was the least possible scale of duty under all possible circumstances. (" Oh, oh! ") As to the ques- tion put by the honourable baronet in the supposition that he should be a member.of the Ministry of Sir Robert Peel, he felt highly flattered that so ,humble an individual should be thought worthy, by a gentleman of such talent and discrimination, of a place in that Administration ; and to this he would say, that he would pledge himself not to be a party to any change that would not be supported by the agriculturists themselves as a safe and practicable plan. cda Elector—" How will you ascertain the opinion of the agricul- turists? ') Oh, he could not say at present; but he thanked God there was no great difficulty in ascertaining the state of public opinion in this country. He was prepared to advocate such a scale as rose when the price fell, and fell when the price rose. (Cheers, and " Oh, oh! ") If they thought he had any intention of deceiving them, for God's sake let them not return him, for he would not consent to be returned on such terms—( Cheers); but he hoped that he had not only their voices, but their hearts. (Cheers.) The new Radical candidate made a slashing speech, concisely and forcibly expressed. He described the difficulties which he had sur- mounted in his canvass- " I did not commence the fight cased in golden armour. I was not the se- lected champion of spurious requisitionists. It is true I was not surrounded

by a mercenary host of legal gladiators ; and it is also true that I experienced

apathy, and encountered opposition where I had most right to look for the right band of friendship: but I then derived resolution, and gathered confi- dence of ultimate victory from a conviction that I was advocating a good cause ; and that as the advocate of that cause, I should inlist in my favour the best wishes of the electors. In that conviction I have not been deceived ; for though I had to cope with prejudice, backed by power, yet I found that the opinions that had a short time before been scouted, as tending to national ex- tinction no less than to private ruin, obtained and engaged the serious atten- tion of all classes of the 60Multmity, including even persons who had before re-

garded those opinions with bitter hostility. I therefore threw myself on the yeomanry of East Cornwall." He appealed to them not to be deluded by Sir Robert Peel's profes- sions of continued protection-

" I appeal to them to say whether they prefer a dead-lock in the machine of legislation, and a gradual subversion of popular rights by an insolent Peerage, and secret factions in England, in conjunction with open rebellion in Ireland; or to declare whether they will continue the good work of legislation, which their own enthusiasm had borne towards a complete reform of all the abuses of Church and State, and which a strong and Liberal Government, backed by the strength of popular enthusiasm, would not fail to procure them."

A summary of his pretensions to their suffrages-

" I offer myself to you as having little ambition to gratify, except that of becoming a Representative of the People : I offer myself as one having no sinister interests to serve. I have often taken occasion to lay my principles before you ; and so far from being a mere jumble of ill-digested negations, I believe you have found them broad, clear, intelligible, and consistent ; and believe they will tend to impart energy to the democratic element in our con- stitution, which, if actively carried out, would lead to secure cheap, good, and responsible government. With regard to the practical application of those principles, I am an ardent supporter and advocate of secret suffrage—of the vote by ballot. I am in favour of the ballot as a measure without which the House of Commons will remain as it is at present—the Leviathan nominee of the monied interest of the country ; and 1 for one will never he satisfied till the House of Commons becomes what it ought to be—a perfect reflection of the opinions of the people of England. I will never rest satisfied till the sinister in- fluence of landed property, the petty tyranny of acres, is trampled under foot, and for it is substituted the just influence which force of character will never fail to assert if left to its own sphere."

The show of bands was won by Lord Eliot and Mr. Trelawney : the poll demanded for Mr. Rashleigh was fixed for Monday and Tuesday next.

DEVON, SOUTH. At Exeter, on Tuesday, Sir John Yarde Buller was elected without opposition, with Lord Courtenay for his colleague. Some anxiety was felt to hear Lord Courtenay, as doubts existed of the extent of his Toryism. He promises to be a very moderate and cotua- derate Conservative- " I claim for all those who will constitute that Conservative majority, the credit of being anxious at all times, while we cling to the last drop of our blood to the vital interests of the country, to admit of such improvements and amendments as will tend to the safety and establishment of our constitution, and to promote the general welfare. Gentlemen, I shall not enter Parliament a bigoted or indiscriminate admirer of what already exists. But whilst in ac- cordance with the great majority of the country, I should take my seat on the Conservative side, I should be also ready to introduce and adopt any measure which should tend to the prosperity of the state. * • I have been brought too much into competition with gentlemen, from whose opinions I must differ, not to find out a line on which not only good fellowship may be maintained, but much good may be done upon all those points—and many they are—in which political relations do not interfere."

. GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Emir. Mr. C. W. Codriogton and the Honour- able Francis Charteris were elected on Monday, without opposition ; Sir John Wright Guise, the Liberal candidate, having retired. In his valedictory address, Sir John says- " My opinions as to the Corn-laws have been misrepresented and misundera stood. That the Corn-laws will be altered, whether Lord John Russell or Sie Robert Peel bold the seals of office, there can no longer he any doubt, as it has been admitted by both parties. The present sliding scale has been scarcely a protection, as the averages for the last three years will plainly show ; and if modified to a lower rate by Sir Robert Peel, what will become of the boasted protection to the landed interest ? The farmers and landowners will find 'to their cost, that they have trusted to a delusion, and will be aroused from their fancied security to find themselves without protection, and loaded with a heavy additional taxation. This unforeseen clamour, the defection of friends, (who 'appear to think that I should be willing to ruin myself for the sake of injuring them); and the total neglect of the re,istration, have united their influence, and mainly contributed at the present crisis to depress the Liberal interest of this division."

HAMPSHIRE, SOUTH. Mr. Charles Shaw Lefevre, the Whig Speaker, and Sir William Heathcote, the Tory Member, were unopposed at the nomination, in Winchester, on Tuesday. Mr. Lefevre addressed the electors, in returning thanks, with an eye to the Speakership : he as- sured them that he was " a consistent Whig, and not, as had been said, a Radical ; and he gloried in the title." He alluded to his endeavour's to preserve his impartiality in the office which had devolved upon him ; and he would not violate its neutrality by introducing topics of a party nature. He would, however, say a word on the Corn-laws- Upon that question he had the misfortunes to differ from all parties. He held that the farmer was entitled to due protection, and he bad always given his vote in accordance with that opinion. He never would vote for any mea- sure which was calculated to interfere with the agricultural prosperity of the country : but when trade was found stagnant, when the manufactures stood still, and when commerce was declining, the question should be considered; though the consideration should be come to with the determination of always bearing in mind that the agricultural interests of the country should be duly protected. It was impossible to have a fixed duty high enough, and he was opposed to a low one. A system which would protect and not prohibit could alone be productive of advantage to alt classes. The question must sooner or later be looked in the face.

LANCASHIRE, NORTH. On Tuesday, at the Court-house in Lances,- ter, Mr. Wilson Patten and Lord Stanley were reelected for North Lan- cashire, without opposition. Lord Stanley signalized the occasion by long speech. He slightly alluded to his position as a supporter of the Reform Bill. At that time he thought it advisable to make concessions so large that no further concessions would be necessary : if others, who then helped him to support that measure, and wished now to go fur- ther, were not to be charged with inconsistency, so neither was he, who desired to check further change. The real question submitted to the people, was not the three Budget propositions, but into whose hands the Government should be placed, and upon what principles it should be conducted ? The three measures had been put forth in the name of Free Trade ; but their promoters, so far from really venturing to act upon the principles of Free Trade, still adhered to that of protection and the actual principle of the measures was, not materially to reduce the price of the articles affected by them, but only to substitute foreign for home and colonial produce in the market. Lord John Russell said that the alteration of the Sugar-duties would only reduce the price by ls. 6d. or 2s. in the hundredweight ; a useful thing to the retail-dealer, but worthless to the consumer; had the small reduction in the price of

leather enabled any one to buy a pair of shoes a shilling cheaper? That trifling advantage to a small class here, however, would be ob- tained at the expense of ruin to the West Indies and frustration of the great experiment of Negro emancipation now in progress there. He could have understood the plan, if Lord John Russell had proposd to reduce the duty on foreign and colonial sugar too, proportionably.

Lord Stanley then turned to the Timber-duties—the reduction of 5s. out of 55s. on Baltic timber, with the doubling of the 10s. on Canadian— a good illustration of the Ministerial principle of Free Trade ! " He next animadverted on the levity of manner and experimen- talizing policy with which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had

treated the deficiency ; and then he entered at considerable length upon the Corn-laws ; showing some of the probable effects of repeal. The advocates of the change, he observed, say that it is to reduce the price of bread in a certain quantity from Is. 6d. to Is. : but in the price

of bread many ingredients enter besides the price of flour, which the reduction of duty would not touch ; so that the given amount of reduc- tion must all fall upon the corn : four quarters of wheat at 3/. would

cost 12/. ; but made into bread would probably cost 18/. ; while a re- duction of one-third in the price of bread, all falling on the flour, would reduce the price of that by one-half. The advocates of Free Trade say

that the Corn-law is merely a landlord's question, a question of rents- " I am, however, inclined to think that the farmer would suffer with the landlord, and the agricultural labourer with the farmer. Suppose, for instance, the yearly produce of a farm to be worth 5001., the rent would probably be about 100/. ; but the value of the produce is to be reduced 250/., whilst the whole rental is only 100/. The landlord, in proportion, would lose 50/. of his

cent—he might lose 75/. ; but even suppose he lost the whole, who is to lose the other 150/. ? who can lose it but the farmer ? and what is to make up to the farmer for the loss of the fixed capital now employed by him in the culti- vation of his farm ?"

What the landlord would do under the disastrous consequences of the change- " He would find it necessary to discharge a certain number of his servants, to keep up a smaller quantity of pleasure-grounds, to turn off one or two gar- deners, to keep fewer horses and fewer grooms ; in short, to reduce his esta- blishMent so as to bring his expenditure within his income, and by escaping the payment of those Assessed Taxes which he now pays, also still further to diminish the national revenue. And what is to become of those persons who are thus turned out of employment ?"

What the farmer would do-

" He would find that those new and expensive modes of tillage which he has hitherto carried on at a profit in consequence of the high price of corn, must be

abandoned; and that a more slovenly and less productive, because a cheaper

mode, substituted for it; that where he before employed two agricultural labourers, he could now only employ one. Is that a landlord's or a farmer's question? or is it a question for the labouring classes of the country seriously to consider, whether with a diminished income to landlords, diminished profit to farmers, and an expensive cultivation of farms abandoned, any great or practical advantiges would be likely to ensue to the agricultural labourer ?"

Some economists thought that they got over the difficulty by saying that the land could be converted to pasturage purposes ; but Lord

Stanley thought that, for want of a due rotation of crops, it would be valueless for any purpose. He argued to prove that wages must be reduced by the reduction in the price of corn- " The manufacturers tell us that their ;profits would be increased, and the total amount of their productions greatly increased by cheap bread, since it

would enable them to produce their articles cheaper. Why would this enable them to produce their articles cheaper? Because they would pay lower wages. This is the only mode in which the Corn-law repeal could enable them to pro- duce cheaper; and it then becomes a question for the manufacturing labourer,

_how far cheap bread, combined with lower wages, would benefit him. I do not say, as some persons on the other side have said, that high prices necessarily cause high wages ; because I believe that the amount of wages is regulated by different principles, and that it does not wholly depend on the price of any article of consumption, but that combined with this, it depends on the compa-

rative proportion of the supply of labour to the demand. • • * Now, the

competition among the labouring-classes for employment which fixes the rate of wages at any sum, say 2s. or 2s 63. a day, operates thus. It is not because they value their labour at that specific sum, but because that sum will give them a certain amount of the necessaries of life ; and if Is. will provide them with the same amount of the necessaries as well as 2s., you will, if there be a sufficient competition, have the same number of persons willing to give their labour for Is. a day as 2s." Then the discarded agricultural labourers would seek employment among the manufacturing districts, further to increase the competition there, with the utmost pain to their own habits and feelings- " The Free-traders never take into their consideration these views of humanity; but we, as legislators, must take them into ours. You cannot coolly talk of

throwing out of tillage these immense districts of lands, supporting, at present, thousands of families; and when you have plunged them into absolute ruin, you cannot say to them, as if they were so many machines, go and transfer

your labour to other quarters; bid them quit the healthy occupations in which they have been engaged from the days of harmless infancy, and spend the wretched remnant of their lives cooped up in some crowded alley of a manufac-

turing-town, amidst scenes repugnant to their habits, and looked upon with

jealousy and dislike by those whose own scanty wages are lowered by that forced competition. Oh! it may be well to say that these evils will not long continue, since the wretched remnant of the agricultural labourers, pining under the combined influence of disappointment, sickness, and penury, would soon be swept from the face of the land ; but though the Free-trader may coolly say to them, ' Transfer your labour,' as a man I must feel for them; and as a legislator it is my duty to protect them." There was this difficulty in the results anticipated from the proposed change—that there must either be no great reduction in the price of bread, or, if consumption of corn were so greatly increased as to afford any great stimulus to the export-trade of manufactures, it must be brought about by a great reduction of price. He admitted that in the long run a reduction of the Import-duties might augment the revenue; but a revision of the Tariff should be deliberately and cautiously made ; and of all occasions, the time of a deficiency in the revenue was the most unhappy to choose for the introduction of such measures.

LEICESTERSHIRE, NORTH. Lord Charles Manners and Mr. E. B. Farn- ham, the Tory candidates, were opposed at the nomination on Tuesday by two Chartist candidates, Mr. Skevington of Loughborough and Mr. Taylor of Birmingham ; but the latter declined going to the poll, and the two Tories were declared to be elected.

LEICESTERSHIRE, SOUTH. Mr. Thomas Gishorne, the late Liberal �Sember for Carlow, and his friend Mr. Edward Cheney of Gaddesby, have addressed the electors, promising to appear as candidates at the nomination today.

The new candidates addressed the electors in person, at Lutterworth, on Thursday. The Tories having expressed some surprise at two Liberal candidates having ventured to come forward, the Globe accounts for it in the most approved and constitutional manner-

" The objectors bad forgotten that the Dunton estates bad been transferred from the hands of a Tory landlord to those of Mr. Stokes, of Leicester, &gen- tleman of most Liberal principles, and highly respected in the county. To this we also have to add another important acquisition, namely, that of the support of the Baroness Bray. This lady said, It is to a Whig Ministry I am indebted for my title ; and I do not think I should be doing my duty at the present crisis, unless I exerted myself to the utmost to return such bere to Parliament as would be likely to cause the retention of that Ministry in office.' The result is, that upwards of one hundred votes are lost to the Tories here."

LEWES. The Susses Advertiser says that the Tories sought to force to the poll an old man, between seventy and eighty years of age, who is insane. His relatives resisted ; and the house was a scene of tumult for half an hour. The excitement so exasperated his malady, that his life has since been despaired of. Among the advertisements n. the same paper, is one from a brewer, asking employment, as he had been discharged from his late situation for giving a vote to the Liberal candidates.

LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH. Several thousand persons thronged the yard of Lincoln Castle, on Monday, to witness the nomination of Lord

Worsley, the Liberal Member, Mr. Christopher, the Tory Member, and the Honourable Charles Henry Cust, the new Tory candidate. Lord Worsley was the personal friend of many present ; but his support of Ministers procured him the fierce opposition evenof those. Mr. Charles Chaplin, for example, a man of great influence in the country, who proposed Mr. Cust, said—

He saw before him the whole tenantry of the noble lord's father : he would ask them, with a fixed duty of eight shillings, whether their farms would be worth keeping ? It was true that the noble lord had voted against the altera- tion of the Corn-laws, and would do so again ; but what was his individual vote ? He had supported the Ministry, and he would be swamped by the ma-

jority in the large manufacturing-towns, and then he might whistle for his property. It was on these grounds that they opposed the Ministry, and not Lord Worsley personally.

Mr. Chaplin read a letter from the Printing Committee of the Reform Club, sent to him by mistake, asking him for a subscription, and to take ten pounds' worth of " placards and handbills and other squibs against the Corn-laws." He had another little document— This was a letter from the Isle of Wight, where Lord Worsley's father had great property, and where the letter stated that the noble lord's influence was being used in favour of the Anti-Corn-law candidates ; and the writer, a Mr. J. Hamilton, thought the electors of Lincolnshire should be acquainted with the fact. Now, if these gentlemen had been returned from the Isle of Wight, they would have been voting against the Corn-laws, whilst the noble lord was giving his single vote in their favour.

Colonel Sibthorp, who seconded Mr. Cust, attacked the Ministry in characteristic fashion ; and he accused Lord Worsley of having said that he repented voting for the fifty-pound clause : yet he called him- self the farmer's friend!

Lord Worsley defended himself manfully. He denied that his vote on Sir Robert Peel's want-of-confidence motion had been asked by any one : no one knew within a short time ofathe decision how he would vote- " Many of my Tory friends had told me that they thought Sir Robert Peel would confine his motion to the Budget : but he introduced the acts of the

Government for several years ; he introduced the Jamaica Bill, the Penny Postage Act, and other measures ; and if he included these measures which I had approved of and assisted the Government in passing, how could I vote in favour of such a motion ? I have done my utmost to prevent the Budget

from passing; I voted against the Sugar-duties with that object, and I would do the same again. But the truth is, gentlemen, not that they think I am the farmer's friend, but they are vexed because I would not stay away when that question was discussed. I would not : you sent me to Parliament to at- tend on every question of importance, and to vote upon them. If I absented myself, you might say, we want a Member who can judge for himself, and give his vote according to the best of his judgment on every question debated." He quoted the remark of Sir Robert Peel when Lord John Russell moved the vote of want of confidence in his Cabinet, in 1835, that it would be difficult to find any Government which should not make some errors- " Mr. Christopher has stated, in the course of his canvass, that at a meeting in London I said that I thought it a profligate act' of the Government to attempt the repeal of the Corn-laws. I say so again, if they believed they had not the power to carry their proposed measure forward, if they only did it for the purpose of creating excitement. But I have such confidence in our cause,

that I do not believe any such measures can be carried in our lifetime."

Before he left his own friends, he must have more confidence in Sir Robert PeeL At Tamworth Sir Robert said that he was not preparad to change the present system of Corn-laws ; but he might say that and yet modify the existing scale very much. With regard to the fifty- pound clause, Lord Worsley would not have voted for it if he had known how it would work : it had been too much used to represent the landlord's opinions and not the tenant's. He believed, however, that if they had vote by ballot, they would have the opinions and feelings of that class of voters represented. In the course of his defence, Lord Worsley touched upon Lord Campbell's appointment, which had been alluded to by Colonel Sibthorp : he repeated, that Lord Campbell took the appointment with the condition that if the Tories came into power and he only held it for a short time, he would not claim the usual re- tiring-pension ; and he gave Sir George Grey as his authority : " But supposing it were otherwike," added Lord Worsley, " I believe, Colonel Sibthorp, you were one who voted for perpetuating the salary to Lord Abinger's son, who was pushed into a situation that was to be abolished in a very short time." The show of hands was in favour of Lord Worsley and Mr. Chris- topher. A poll was demanded for Mr. Cust. At the close of the poll, yesterday, the numbers, according to the Liberal account, were—for Worsley, 9,804; Christopher, 8,180; Cust, 6,910.

LINCOLN, Sours. The election for this district was managed in a very strange fashion, and had a very unexpected result. On Wednes- day, amid a pelting rain, the electors proceeded with the nomination. pointed: he appeared on the hustings on Tuesday, in the Market-place at Alnwick. The Tory candidates were Lord Ossulston and Mr. Baker Cresswell, the uncle of the Member for Liverpool ; who was more es- pecially put forward as Lord Howick's opponent. Lord Howick, not very adroitly, declared himself on his trial for a breach of trust re- posed in him by the electors ; and instituted a sort of apologetical com- parison between his own pretensions and those of Mr. Cresswell. Mr. Cresswell was against destroying Church and State under the specious name of Reform ; Lord Howick was also opposed to further changes : Mr. Cresswell was for religious education of the poor ; there was no real difference between them on that head. The great accusation against Lord Howick, however, was his Free Trade doctrines ; and those he vindicated with reminiscences of his own consistency, and long ar- guments against the efficacy of the Corn-laws even for their professed objects. He was for a fixed duty ; but as to the amount, he was open to conviction. The Poor-law was another subject in Lord Howick's defence : he reminded his hearers, that the Commission upon whose report the bill was founded comprised Mr. Sturges Bourne, the Bishop of London, and the Bishop of Chester—none of them Whigs. He denied that the law restricted assistance to out-door relief— Mr. Chaplin deploring the errors of the two late Members,—" the two late excellent men, except that they did not represent the Conservative feelings of a large body of the electors."—proposed Sir John Trollope, a Tory and Corn-law candidate. Mr. Handley, said Mr. Chaplin, had condemned the Ministerial proposition for a change of the Corn-laws, but he went to Newark and voted for a strong opponent of those laws. Mr. Tumor, another Tory candidate, was next proposed ; and then Sir William Ingilby proposed Mr. Handley, who was seconded by Mr. Samuel Cooper, a wealthy farmer. In his speech, Mr. Handley said that he did not know till the previous day that he was to be proposed : be had not come forward, nor did he authorize any one to take that task on him. He repeated what Mr. Tumor bad said of him to the electors—" Return him, and he will keep corn at sixty shillings " : now could not Mr. Tumor make it three guineas? If he could, he should have Mr. Handley's support. He expressed his strong conviction that one of Sir Robert Peel's first acts would be to alter the Corn-laws : would Mr. Tumor support Sir Robert in Parliament if he did so ? When the show of hands was taken, to the surprise of all, it proved to be for Trollope and Handley. A poll was demanded, and it was fixed for. Monday and Tuesday next.

LISKEARD. Mr. Charles Buller, on his return without opposition, de- livered an address to the electors, in which he touched upon his accept- ance of office- " I appear before you now, not simply in the capacity of your representative, but in the capacity of an humble and subordinate member of her Majesty's present Government ; and I am fain to hope, that by the unanimous return with which you have complimented me on this occasion, you approve not only of my past conduct, but of the general conduct and general principles that have guided that Government to which I have given my adhesion. I know that there is always considerable insinuation thrown out against every person who takes service under the Government of the day. At least in my case it cannot be supposed that I have dune it from any very sordid motive. I have now been ten years in Parliament, and have laboured actively and assiduously ; and it is no proof of great avidity on my part, that at the end of the ten or eleven sessions that I have been in Parliament, I have obtained, by the confidence of her Majesty's Government, a post of subordinate importance ; and I am sure that no one will accuse me of having taken office at a moment in which the strength of the Government was such as to tempt any man to link himself with it to the detriment of his own principles. I have taken office with a Go- vernment which has been actually stigmatized by the last Parliament ; and I have done it with the confidence that an appeal to the country would not ratify that decision, but that a majority of the people of this country would testify their satisfaction with the Ministry which did not receive the support of the last House of Commons. Gentlemen, I have not hesitated to link myself with the present Government, because, in the first place, it is composed of many of those men to whom we are mainly indebted for the great measure of Parlia- mentary Reform ; and because I think that it is best that a Reformed Go- vernment should be administered, not by those who opposed Reform to the last—who would deprive the people of all its advantages, and render it a useless boon—but by those who achieved Reform willingly, and in spite of great ob- stacles, and whose feelings and character obliged them to insure to the people the legitimate consequences of Parliamentary Reform. I have been anxious to link myself with the present Government, because it has linked itself with the great principles of religious liberty and equality."

MIDDLESEX. Old Mr. Byng, the Whig, and Colonel Wood, the Tory, were reelected on Wednesday, without opposition. Mr. Byng was proposed by Mr. Samuel Whitbread, and seconded by Mr. Henry Tufnell, the Member for Devonport ; Colonel Wood by Sir John Gib- bon and Mr. Nudigate. Mr. Byng, "the Father of the House of Com- mons," who is elected for the fifteenth time, knows no qualification in his attachment to the Ministry— He had uniformly supported the Government for ten years ; and why ?— because there never were men who had rendered one-tenth part of the services to the country which that Government had. The very last measure they brought forward had rendered them dearer to him than any other act of their administration. They were the first Ministers he had ever known who, when money was wanted to pay the expenses of wars which had put this country at the head of the world, had, instead of imposing fresh taxes, brought forward measures to lessen them and increase the revenue.

The speaking was for the most part vapid in the extreme. One of the Standard's host of correspondents says, that the sole cause of the forbearance which induced the Tories to abstain from opposing Mr. Byng, was consideration for his age and long standing in the House of Commons, and the plea of his friends that he was not likely to stand again. Mr. Pownall, with his mover and seconder, says the same authority, were on the hustings, ready to meet any unexpected move- ment to oppose Colonel Wood. After the election, the people would not allow the horses to be put to Mr. Byng's carriage, but dragged him away amid the cheers of the bystanders.

MoNseourn COUNTY. The election was signalized by two little events ; the declaration of Lord Granville Somerset in favour of a modification of the Corn-laws, adhering to the principle of a graduated scale ; and a riot, the mob tearing to pieces the chair from which Mr. Morgan escaped while he was undergoing the usual ceremony after an election.

NEWPORT. On the nomination-day at Newport, Monmouthshire, in consequence of a report propagated by some of the Chartists, that Dick- enson and Edwards, two leaders of their party, had " sold the cause " to Mr. Blewitt's Committee, the:people of the town were much excited. Effigies of the two Chartists were burnt ; and a drunken attorney's clerk addressed the mob against them in very violent language. At about ten in the evening, a large concourse of men, boys, and women, assembled before the Westgate Inn, and began throwing stones at Dickenson's windows ; they next went down to Commercial Street, and com- pletely wrecked Edwards's house. Mr. Blewitt and several friends went out to appease the people, and induce them to disperse, but with- out effect ; and Mr. Blewitt was struck with a stone on the head, but not seriously injured. As the mob continued to increase in number and exercised greater violence, a detachment of the Rifle Brigade, under Colonel Browne, was brought down from Pillgwently : "peace, law, and order," were then restored. No person was hurt. The clerk has been examined by the Magistrates, and committed for trial. Others of the rioters were also arrested.

NORTHUMBERLAND, NORTH. The Tories seem to have counted on the little display of activity on the part of Lord Howick's friends, as a proof that he did not mean to stand the contest; but they were disap- day, amid a pelting rain, the electors proceeded with the nomination. pointed: he appeared on the hustings on Tuesday, in the Market-place at Alnwick. The Tory candidates were Lord Ossulston and Mr. Baker Cresswell, the uncle of the Member for Liverpool ; who was more es- pecially put forward as Lord Howick's opponent. Lord Howick, not very adroitly, declared himself on his trial for a breach of trust re- posed in him by the electors ; and instituted a sort of apologetical com- parison between his own pretensions and those of Mr. Cresswell. Mr. Cresswell was against destroying Church and State under the specious name of Reform ; Lord Howick was also opposed to further changes : Mr. Cresswell was for religious education of the poor ; there was no real difference between them on that head. The great accusation against Lord Howick, however, was his Free Trade doctrines ; and those he vindicated with reminiscences of his own consistency, and long ar- guments against the efficacy of the Corn-laws even for their professed objects. He was for a fixed duty ; but as to the amount, he was open to conviction. The Poor-law was another subject in Lord Howick's defence : he reminded his hearers, that the Commission upon whose report the bill was founded comprised Mr. Sturges Bourne, the Bishop of London, and the Bishop of Chester—none of them Whigs. He denied that the law restricted assistance to out-door relief— Uniformly, in the Board of Guardians which he attended, the practice was to relieve the old and infirm at their own dwellings if they preferred it. (" That is not law") In many instances he knew that the old and infirm greatly pre- ferred being brought into the workhouses, as they could there receive comforts and attendance which it was impossible for them to obtain at home ; and it was frequently an act of the greatest charity to give them relief within the walls of a workhouse, and he had often heard them express their gratitude for it. But he would admit that there were exceptions—that there were cases in which relief was given not in the house of an old or infirm person, but within the walls of a workhouse ; but this was not done under any order and rule of the Poor-law Commissioners, or under any provision of the Poor-law Amend- ment Act : it was sometimes done by the Boards of Guardians—their own freely elected representatives—but not ny the Poor-law. It was when their re- presentatives, the Guardians, bad reason to believe that the relief applied for was not really required—that the aged or infirm person for whom an applica- tion for relief was made bad relations, or friends, or children, in a situation to maintain them. And this was a duty which Boards of Guardians were bound to perform in distributing their money. Lord Howick said that his opponents had the advantage of him, in- asmuch as they had been earlier in the field, and could command votes, which he, resting on the support of the independent electors, could not command: he pledged himself that none of leis tenants should suffer for opposing him. A loud and indignant denial followed the imputation conveyed. Lord Ossulston repudiated all knowledge of Mr. Cresswell's having started until he himself had arrived at Morpeth : he declared that none of his own tenants should suffer for supporting Lord Howick. Mr. Cresswell reminded his antagonist of the borough of Morpeth. The show of hands favoured the Tories. The poll demanded for Lord Howick was fixed for yesterday and today.

• PEMBROKE. The Morning Chronicle says that Sir John Owen, the newly-elected Member, is disqualified, on account of his pecuniary circumstances : and it publishes a schedule of judgments entered against him, for sums which amount in all to 224,0461.

SHREWSBURY. Pending the late election at Shrewsbury, a placard was issued under the signature of a barrister in the interest of the Ministerial candidates, containing imputations on the character of Mr. Disraeli. He directly circulated a counter-handbill, in which he de- signated the barrister's statements as " utterly false " : a challenge was the result ; but before any further step could be taken, the civil authori- ties interfered, and compelled the parties to enter into recognizances to keep the peace.

WINDSOR. The Times makes new charges against the Whigs of Windsor- " The Radical party wish to endeavour to make it appear that her Majesty is so excessively angry at the result of the election, that it is the intention of the Queen to withdraw her patronage from and thus seriously injure the trade and commerce of the town. This is the way, forsooth, in which the defeated faction, by thus misusing the Queen's name, fancy they can further intimidate and frighten the really independent electors of this borough. Two days after the election, Dr. Fergusson (the father of the rejected candidate) reported that her Majesty had not only determined for the future to make Claremont her country-residence instead of Windsor Castle, but that the two regiments would be no longer suffered to be garrisoned at Windsor, and that the Terrace would be closed for seven years by the orders of the Queen."

The relations of Mr. Fergusson are also charged with having re- moved their custom from some tradesmen who voted against him.

YORKSHIRE, NORTH RIDING. A very strange proceeding was the election for this district. The Honourable William Duncombe, the Tory Member, and Mr. Edward Stillingfleet Cayley, the Whig Member, were proposed ; and Mr. Thomas Bates of Kirkleviogton proposed the Honourable E. Lascelles, a Tory. No other candidate appeared. The High-Sheriff then pulled out of his pocket a letter from Mr. Lascelles, stating that he was no party to the use which he understood Mr. Bates meant to make of his name, and that he should refuse to serve. The High-Sheriff therefore declared Mr. Duneombe and Mr. Cayley to be duly elected. Mr. Bates demanded a show of hands to be taken; remarking, that the letter of Mr. Lascelles, which he understood was not addressed to the High-Sheriff, but to Mr. Digby Cayley, the Chairman of the Whig candidate's Committee, was no authority to the High-Sheriff for the course he had adopted. The High-Sheriff, after some consultation with the Under-Sheriff and his legal advisers, adhered to the decision he had announced. Mr. Bates put in a written protest against the proceeding, as altogether illegal ; alleging, as a second ground of objection, that the nomination of Mr. Cayley was invalid, inasmuch as Mr. Milner, the seconder of that gentleman, was not a registered elector. Mr. Bates expressed his determination to take steps to set aside the whole proceedings.

YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING. The nomination was performed on Monday, at Wakefield, in the presence, it is computed, of some forty thousand persons. The Liberal candidates, Lord Morpeth and Lord Milton, proceeded to the hustings, part of the way on foot part on horse- back, in procession ; Lord Morpeth, dressed as a knight of the shire, with cocked hat and sword. They found the Tory candidates, Mr. Stuart Wortley and Mr. Edmund B. Denison, and their friends, already in possession of the ground. Besides the foregoing, two Chartist candi- dates, Mr. Pitkethley, of Huddersfield, and Mr. George Julian Barney, were proposed, "amidst laughter from the Whigs," says the corre- spondent of the Morning Chronicle, "and cheers from the Tories and Chartists." The Chartist speeches are very briefly reported : the only one among the number of much mark is Lord hforpeth's ; who spoke, he said, not only in his individual capacity, but as a member of the Government Although he and Lord Milton bad found in their can- vass an alteration of feeling in particular districts, upon the whole their reception had been all that they could desire. Another thing that struck them was, the patience of the people under privation and difficulty— "Considering the nature of the questions, and their effects upon all parties, I must also say that 1 thought there was a most remarkable degree of forbear. mice and good temper among contending parties. And therefore, gentlemen, if it had been a part of our policy to stir up the depths of a rancorous agita- tion, or to raise the turbid waters of party-strife, I can only say that I am glad it bag been proved that so odious a design, if it had ever been entertained, must have met with a signal and decisive failure. But, on the other hand, gentle- men, I humbly conceive that these exhibitions of patience and endurance among all classes of the people ought not to defeat or to postpone, but rather to enhance and to expedite their claims to all possible consideration, and to every feasible mode of relief which their case admits of." (Cheers, and an &D- amnation from the Chartists," It's all humbug!") Lord Morpeth alluded to the silence of the Tories as to any remedy for the popular distress, and especially to the silence of Sir Robert Peel- " The great oracle of Tamworth, indeed, has spoken ; but no intimation of the future has issued from the shrine. Stress had been laid on the disturbed condition of' several foreign countries, as affording a clue to the depression of your domestic industry. Well, but what if the disturbed relations of these countries with us and with each other should not mend ? what if they should continue ? what if they should even increase ? Hostility is deprecated with America : I echo from my heart that philanthropic prayer, but I wish to de. vise new and additional guarantees for the harmony of nations. We have enough of fancied and trivial causes for war : give us real and solid motives for keeping peace. I fear that peace will never be long secured by the arguments of philosophers, or by the reasoning of political economists, or by the praise of poets, or even I fear, as the world goes now, by the precepts of divines. We can't make the lion lie down with the lamb ; but we may create a profitable trade between the woollens of Leeds and the sugars of the Tropics. We can't make mankind beat their spears into ploughshares ; but we can exchange the steel of Sheffield for the harvests of Poland and the flour of America. I be- lieve statesmen will never be so safe as when they act upon general and com- prehensive principles. 1 believe that our most effectual way of putting an end is the slave-trade, which we are charged with encouraging, will be by proving to the slave-owner that the labour of slaves is dearer than the labour of free men. I believe that the best mode of banishing from the world the scourge of war, is to make all countries wish for each other's goods, and gain by each other's welfare. But, gentlemen, I was saying that we have at least this ad- vantage over our opponents, that while both confess the difficulty, we do sug- gest a remedy. We did not stand with our arms folded before us waiting to see what would turn up next—hoping that the banks of North America will correct their circulation, or that the blockades of South America will be brought to an end."

And so Lord Morpeth entered upon an account of the Budget He boasted of the past, and of the future for which his party have pre- pared— " The Government and the party to which I belong have struck to the Round other monopolies before. There has scarcely been a year in their Mi- material career which is not marked by some great abuse overthrown, and by some baneful restriction extirpated. We have now come forward to attack what I call the monopoly of the purse; and, gentlemen, although the struggle may be more violent and more desperate than any of its predecessors, yet, even with all the boasting of our opponents, the death-cry of this monopoly is on the gale. Happen what may to any political party—come what will to any Ad- ministration—be my own prospects of success what you choose to make them— yet I fully believe that we have already given to the claims of industry such an impulse, that, although the combined force of interests and prejudice may emceed for a time in retarding them, they will never be able to overcome them. Well, gentlemen, I care little in comparison to that."

Mr. Stuart Wortley brought rather weighty evidence against Lord Morneth's disclaimer of agitation-

" I will ask him to settle the question with his own colleague, Lord John Russell. Lord Morpeth tells us that the Government sought for no agitation on this subject : Lord John Russell tells us be thought agitation was justifiable and expedient. It was only the other day, when he spoke to the citizens of London, that he said there were occasions, and that was one, on which a Government was justified in appealing, by agitation, to the sense of the country. Gen- tlemen, they tell us always, and we see it on some of their banners here, that they will have no class legislation, as they call it : but let us look at their per- formances. Have they not attempted on this occasion to sway class against class, in their endeavour to excite the manufacturer against the agriculturist, and the agriculturist against the manufacturer? Have they not endeavoured to raise the population of the towns against the population of the country, and the population of the country against the population of the towns ? And yet they tell us in the same breath they will have no class legislation !" Mr. Wortley had twice canvassed the county against Lord Morpeth: this time there was a new candidate on the opposite side ; and this time be encountered a new feature in canvassing- " Now for the first time, have I heard, not from one district or from one part, but frequently and so much in detail as to give the statement the cha- :Neter of notoriety, that there has been, in addition to other unjustifiable means of interference, attempts at direct corruption. Gentlemen, 1 make no charge aptMst my noble opponent : I do not believe myself that Earl Fitzwilliam or Lord Milton, although directly opposed to us, would be parties to such attempts; bat we know what some of those are that act on their side."

The show of hands was declared to be in favour of Lord Morpeth and Lord Milton—in the proportion, says the Chronicle, of two to one, although the Tories and Chartists voted together. A pole was de- manded for Mr. Wortley and Mr. Denison : it was fixed to begin on Thursday, the declaration to take place on Monday next.

The following is the Liberal computation of the result of the poll— Wortley, 12,740; Denison, 12,370; Milton, 11,639; Morpeth, 11,591. The official declaration will be made on Monday. The Tory account only varies in giving Denison four more votes.

SCOTLAND.

CannarEss. Sir George Sinclair, after all, has retired from Caith- ness; leaving the field open to Mr. Trail]. the Liberal : his own COM.. naittee formally announced the tact on Friday last. Beaten at Halifax, Sir George is thus excluded from Parliament.

EDINBURGH. At the Edinburgh election, the result of which, in the return of Mr. Macaulay and Mr. Gibson Craig, was mentioned in oar last number, the Secretary at War put the Sugar question in a new view, stating the alternative of alteration- " A pressiog necessity has arisen of finding, somewhere or other, a supply of money for the service of the state. There are two ways of finding it: one of these ways was to tax you, the other was to take away your burdens. Dr. Glover conceives that he bad made a formidable attack on the measures which the Ministry have proposed, when he says that, after all, the gain to the people would be a farthing, or perhaps half a farthing on a pound of sugar. Say it were so ; say his statement could be substantiated; consider the question be- fore you is, that these reductions are offered you in lien of a tax. What we offer you is this—will you have your sugar half a farthing cheaper, or will you. have your salt dearer ? That is the question before you.'

This piece of election gossip appeared in several papers-

" The Edinburgh election has taken a most extraordinary turn, through an oversight of the Sheriff and the Whig agents. Colonel Thompson, and Lowery the Chartist, were declared elected on a show of hands. A poll was demanded, but it was not taken ; Lowery declining the contest, and a Dr. Glover taking upon himself to withdraw the Colonel from the field. The general opinion of the legal profession is, that this informality is fatal to the return of Macaulay and Gibson Craig. A similar occurrence took place in Renfrew ; but there the Sheriff proceeded with the poll, notwithstanding the retirement of the Chartist after a show of hands in his favour, on the ground that a poll having been demanded, it must be taken before a regular return could be made."

FALKIRK BURGHS. Mr. Baird, the Tory, was carried. against Mr. Gillen, the Liberal candidate, at the poll on Friday, by 482 to 430. The announcement of the result provoked a riot in Airdrie : the house in which the new Tory Member lodged was attacked, and the windows were smashed. An express was sent to Glasgow for Sheriff Alison and the military ; they repaired to the town at once, and order was restored by midnight.

GLASGOW. The front of the Gaol was once more the scene of a nomination, on Friday. The candidates proposed were Mr. James Oswald and Mr. John Dennistoun, the former Liberal Members, Mr. James Campbell the Tory Lord Provost, and Mr. George Mills and

Mr. James Moir, Chartists, the latter a member of the late Convention.

Mr. Oswald told the electors that he had not changed his opinions at all since they sent him to Parliament : he was still for total repeal of the

Corn-laws ; but he would accept the eight-shilling fixed duty rather than have the law stand it does. He was asked why he did not vote for the liberation of the Chartist prisoners ? he replied-

" Had the proposal been to inquire into the case of the Chartist prisoners with a view to their liberation, I would have consented to it with one or two exceptions—I would have voted on the side of mercy. But there are some persons now in England, and I will name two of them—Feargus O'Connor and Bronterre O'Brien—to whose liberation I could not agree. I am ready to do any thing in favour of a great many of the Chartist prisoners now con- fined for political offences ; for I believe they have been guilty of nothing but hastiness, and were thoughtlessly led away, and I am no advocate for extreme punishments : but I believe that Feargus O'Connor and Bronterre O'Brien led the people on to excesses, tempted them to commit murder, and had the cow- ardice to run away at the last."

Mr. Oswald's plain speaking was not agreeable to the Chartist por- tion of his auditory. Mr. Dennistoun set out with repudiating the title of Whig-

" A gentleman who spoke today complained that Glasgow is reduced to a mere Ministerial nomination borough, and I am nothing more than a mere Whig. Now, upon this point, what was the very first vote I gave in the last Parliament ? It was against these very Whigs. I voted, alone of all the Scotch Members, I believe, in a minority of 21; and what was that against? It was against the address to the Queen, the first time such an amendment had been proposed in Parliament, where it is understood as a sort of etiquette that the address at the beginning of a reign should not be opposed; but I did oppose it, and voted in favour of an extension of the suffrage, triennial Par- liaments, and vote by ballot. Were the Tories prepared to grant these things? (Cries of " No, nor the Whigs either ! ") But I am not a Whig ; I have nothing to do with the Whigs ; and if you return me to Parliament, I go there independent of either party. I have taken the trouble to examine the votes I have given in Parliament during the last four years; and what will Anntlemen, who call me a Whig and out-and-out supporter of the Ministry, think of the result of that examination ? Why, out of four hundred votes I have voted 150 times against the Ministry. * * A gentleman has said that I, always being a mere Whig, now throw to the winds my repeal principles, because I support an eight-shilling duty. Now, though 1 am for total repeal, I will support that eight-shilling duty, but only as an instahnent ; for while I live I will never cease to agitate for a total repeal of the Corn-laws." The Lord Provost then addressed the meeting ; and Mr. Ross, Mr. Mills's proposer, followed, as proxy in the absence of his principal. A forest of hands was held up for the Chartists ; and a poll was demanded for the other candidates.

The poll was taken on Monday. Oswald and Dennistoun took the start of the others ; only one Chartist's name, that of Mills, appearing in the returns. At one o'clock, Mr. Mills, who had then polled 304, seems to have retired, for his name is no longer given. At the close, the numbers were—for Oswald, 2,789; Dennistoun, 2,738; Campbell, 2,435. The Glasgow Argus says that the minorities both of Tory and Chartists would have been smaller had not the partisans of each voted for the other. Another charge against Mr. Campbell is, that he was elected to the Provostship on the understandiog that he was opposed to the Nonintrusion movement ; whereas he now pledged him- self to support the Duke of Argyll's Bill, and to oppose any bill which should make it a condition to the settlement of the Church question that the deposed ministers of Strathbogie be restored.

GREENOCK. Some thousands braved a pouring rain to .witness the nomination of Mr. Wallace, the old Liberal Member, Sir Thomas Cochrane, the Tory candidate, and Mr. M'Crae, a Chartist. They refused to hear Sir Thomas ; and carried the Chartist, so far as a show of hands went, by an immense majority. At the close of the poll heat day, the numbers quoted were—for Wallace, 404 ; Cochrane, 307. IIADDINGTON BURGHS. Mr. Steuart was opposed by Mr. Balfour. At the nomination, on Wednesday week, Mr. Steuart drew an historical parallel, with an anticipated conclusion— In 1831, as now, the great parties of the state were so equally and evenly balanced in the Parliament, that the affairs of legislation came to a dead-lock: then, as now, great and important measures were proposed by the party in power, and successfully opposed by those in opposition : why, the parallel was even more striking—these measures were then proposed in a House of Com- mons, on a trial of strength, in which the majority was one; then there was R. majority of one, and the Sovereign, in virtue of his constitutional prerogative, aaked. the People to decide; the People rose as one man, even under the limited advantage which the system of representation then gave them, and they returned a majority in favour of the measures proposed by the Govern- ment. It remains for history to continue, as he doubted not it would be ena- bled to, the parallels he had just drawn. He bid high for Nonintrusion support— Be had ever looked on patronage as one of those plague-spots on the con- etitution of the national church, and as engendering the most serious evils. Be had published his opinions on this subject, and had declared his desire to see the Act of 1711, which restored patronage, repealed; and holding those opinions, he would give his support to the bill of the Duke of Argyll, as one one means of alleviating the evils of patronage. In regard to the civil troubles now depending between the Church and the Civil Courts, when the question came before Parliament he would be quite ready to take his course ; but while the question was in dependence as it now was, he would distinctly state his opinion, that all State establishments must yield obedience to the law ; at the same time, he thought it essential that, in spiritual matters, Spiritual Courts ought alone to have jurisdiction. He need only remind them of the admoni- nition of the highest of all authorities, the great head of the Church, " Render unto Cresar the things that are Cesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."

All would not do, however : Mr. Steuart's opponent won at the poll 265 votes to his 264.

KIT•MARNOCK BURGHS. One of the mostsignal victories of the Anti- Corn-law party is here. On Saturday,Alexander Johnston "of Shield- hall," who, in his capacity of President of the Glasgow Association, may be called the representative of the cause in Scotland, was put in nomination as the opponent of Mr. Colquhoun, the late Tory Member. Mr. Col- quhoun delivered a speech, by no means one of his best, amid incessant interruptions, which seem. to have annoyed him not a little. One of his most telling points was the question, why the services of " this intelli- gent manufacturer," Mr. Johnston, had not been secured by Glasgow itself when that city sent for Lord William Bentinek ? or why the Ayr Burghs put up with Lord James Stuart, when he was in the market? Mr. Colquhoun's political wanderings furnished Mr. Johnston with a retort. The new candidate avowed himself generally a supporter of Ministers, only they did not go far enough. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Johnston. A poll was demanded for Mr. Colquhoun. At the close of the poll on Monday, the numbers were—for Johnston, 490; Colquhoun, 479.

Roxstranastuan. Mr. J. E. Elliot, the late Whig Member, issued an address on the 22d June, in which, alluding to the defection of the Duke of Roxburgh from the Whig ranks, he said that his canvass had satisfied him of the truth of prognostications which he had heard before he left London, that he should not succeed; and therefore he was com- pelled to resign to his opponent, Mr. Francis Scott, the Tory. Mr. Scott, say his friends, abandoned his active preparations for opposition on the faith of this retirement : he was therefore taken by surprise when his antagonist again came into the field at the last hour. The Scots- man gives the Whig version of the history of Mr. Elliot's resignation and reappearance- " A great change has taken place in the state of affairs here since our last. Mr. Elliot, the Liberal candidate—who had found some of his former supporters, chiefly, we believe, among the Radicals, from various causes hanging back in some parts of the county—came to the resolution of resigning the contest, which he thought, on the whole, he would not win ; and thus of saving trouble and expense both to his opponents and the county in general. This having been communicated to the other party, their candidate, Mr. Francis Scott, thought proper to issue an address to the electors of the county, copies of which were specially ad- dressed to the Liberal electors, containing moat insulting and offensive expres- sions, both towards the Government and towards the Liberal electors of the county themselves. This roused the feelings of many among the Liberal elec- tors, who resolved, that even if they should be beaten, they should not tamely allow either themselves or the cause they supported to be thus insulted. The result has been, that the canvass has been recommenced."

Mr. Scott issued another address, repudiating the intention to show personal discourtesy to individual electors, or to Mr. Elliot.

The nomination took place on Wednesday. ; when Mr. Bell, who pro- posed Mr. Elliot, repeated the same story, with some slight addition : Mr. Elliot, he said, " with, stern rigidity of honour," abided by his ori- ginal resignation ; but the Liberal electors had consulted lawyers, and found that they could nominate a candidate without his own consent ; and accordingly Mr. Bell did so by Mr. Elliot. Mr. Scott and Mr. Fraser, formerly editor of the deceased True Scotsman, a Chartist, were also proposed. The show of hands exhibited a large majority for Mr. Elliot, a good minority for Mr. Fraser, and a very small one for Mr. Scott. Mr. Fraser retired, leaving the struggle to the other two.

IRELAND.

BELFAST. The nomination on Monday was a scene of frightful up- roar ; through the violence, according to the Northern Whig, of the Orange party. Mr. Robert Teunent, who proposed Lord Belfast, the Whig, managed to get out a pretty long speech ; but the proposers of the other candidates, Mr. Ross, the Liberal, and Mr. Emerson Tennent, the old Tory Member, and Mr. William Gilliland Johnson, the new Tory candidate, spoke more briefly, or scarcely at all ; and by the time the candidates themselves essayed to speak, the tumult had risen to such a height that the endeavour was merely useless. When Mr. Ross are , he was struck by three stones. It is not stated how the show of hands went : most likely no one knew., Caar..ow Boaosynn. Captain Brownlow Villiers Layard, the Minis- terial candidate, was returned for Carlow on Monday, without opposi- tion—in presence of the military ; Mr. Bruen the Tory having re- signed, in consequence, say the papers of his party, of the intimidation of voters and the disturbed state of the town.

CORK Cot:tzar. The Cork Constitution publishes a circular from Mr. Curry, the Duke of Devonshire's agent, in which he says that he has been " directed " to solicit the vote and influence of the person to whom it is sent in favour of Mr. Barry and Mr. Roche.

Coax CITY. The contest for the city began in the midst of fierce riot. Many thousand persons mustered in front of the Court-house ; Policemen parading among them with loaded carbines. When the doors of the building were opened, it was filled with a fearful rush ; and the nomination was more than once interrupted by fights, in which several persons engaged. The ceremony passed in dumb show.

Dovrrrrararcx. A most extraordinary Recount is given of the elec- tion, which took place on Friday. Mr. Kerr, the Tory candidate, entered the Manor Court-room at a quarter past eleven ; was proposed and seconded ; and the Seneschal asked if any other candidate was to be proposed ? A shout announced the approach of Mr. Dixon, the Ministerial candidate ; the Seneschal rose, declared Mr. Kerr duly elected, and then coolly told Mr. Dixon, as he entered, that he was too late. Mr. Dixon said that he should petition against the return, on the ground that he had not had sufficient time allowed him, and that he was obstructed in approaching the hustings.

Drraixs CITY. The nomination for Dublin took place on Monday, in Green Street Court-house. When the doors were flung open at ten o'clock, a rush of people at once filled the building to the ceiling. A. good deal of confusion occurred before the arrangements which had been made for ordering the supporters of the several candidates could. be brought to bear. The candidates were Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Hutton on the Liberal, and Mr. West and Mr. Grogan on the Tory side. Mr. O'Connell appeared in his Repeal Volunteer uniform, and looked very well He took an early opportunity of saying that Mr. West and himself had come to an arrangement to conduct the business of the election in the most amicable and good-humoured fashion. Preliminaries despatched, Mr. O'Connell began his long, characteristic, discursive, sharp-shooter speech, by attacking Sir George Cockburn, who seconded the nomination of Mr. Grogan : " We had him a great while with us, and while there was any good in him ; and now make him a present, with all my heart, to the opposite party." Mr. O'Con- nell then protested against the injustice of the Sheriff, who had not consulted his party in the appointment of assessor, of deputies, or in the distribution of the polling-booths " One would think that the Tories were already in power, and that injustice was the rule." However, he did not anticipate defeat. A blow at the expiring Corporation was the next stroke for the amusement of his hearers- " The old Corporation is on its last legs. It is not dead yet—it has only got an apoplectic stroke ; but by the month of October next, why—(said Mr. O'Connell, pointing to the chain which Sir J. Kingston James wore as Lord Mayor)—that is a very beautiful chain ; and if they will only leave it to us, I have a notion of sporting that chain myself." [A cry from an Orangeman—" Don't you wish you may get it ?"] " Yes, I do wish I may get it. At all events, the old Corporation will no longer be in question in the month of October. Individuals who now belong to the old may be members of the new Corpora- tion; but the Corporation itself will then be defunct, and God be merciful to its soul !"

Loud laughter followed this sally : from which the Liberator turned to rehearse the benefits which he had conferred upon Orangemen; among them, upon Sir Bradley King, once Deputy Grand Master of the Orangemen ; who had sent him a message from his deathbed, to any that his support had procured him four years more of ease and com- fort instead of poverty and distress. Mr. Folds was another whom he had served- " Would not Mr. Folds and his family be now starving if I bad not been, by chance, in London ? I am told that he has said he would give me a single vote. From this place I say that I release him. What I did I did from a sense of justice. I did it to rescue his family—his beautiful family ; for I have seen them, and have looked upon them with thrilling interest ; and what I did was to relieve them from distress. Let him, then, vote as he pleases. But, then, it cannot be denied, that a man would have been suffering the ills of poverty who is now possessed of an ample competency, simply because I was a Member of Parliament, and happened to be in London."

Mr., O'Connell then took a flying glance at the history of his Repeal agitation ; which be dated from the time of his first political speech, forty-one years back, in College Green. He asked their votes as a Repealer, but he would not refuse the votes of those who were not Repeaters. He read two letters from Mr. Cornelius Sullivan, desiring the electors on certain estates to vote for West and Grogan, or, if they had conscientious scruples, not to vote at all ; but at all events, not to vote for O'Connell and Hutton. At considerable length he enforced a charge against Mr. Grogan, that he had desired to "exterminate" the Catholics ; quoting the words upon which the charge was based- " Now, my friends, let me bring you to the gist of those sentiments, whether they mean extermination or not. He says, ' No matter what condition of life he be in, every man in the country must have seen long before this hour the fading and blighting influence of Popery was pervading every thing in the land; and was it not time to uproot the evil, to remove the withering blight of Popery ? • Now, I defy any man to deny that that is exterminating Popery ; or, at all events, to bring up Popery by the root. Taking away Popery ! Now, I want to know, if Popery be taken away, what is to become of the Papists ? I put it to the common sense of any man, whether, if they pull up Popery, are they- not still to continue Papists ?—and I can tell you, a Papist without Popery would be a fitting object to have his throat cut, he would be such a fool ! Yes, it is extermination of Popery ; and what religion, I ask, is it which does not include its believers? if 1 was to say that 1 was to uproot Protestantism, would not every Protestant in the country call me an exterminator? ("No, no!" from Professor Butt.) I do not know who is the gentleman who thinks me such a blockhead as to believe him when he sans no.' I never heard him or saw him before. (.4 cry of " Professor Butt.") Oh, I beg his pardon : I did not know he was Professor Butt, and I certainly beard that gentleman deliver an excellent speech in favour of Irish manufactures. I am here talk- ing common sense ; and though he may say no,' the people of Ireland will say ay,'—and the bigots in England, too, would say ' ay.' No; here is extermination proclaimed and sent through the country. The extermination, too, of six millions and a half of his fellow countrymen to gratify a paltry am- bition. (Cries of " No !") You may cry ' no,' but I will not trust you. This is my vindication : I have read it, and it has not been contradicted. The inference has not been denied, and the words remain there as my proof."

After a few words to reconcile Irishmen to the repeal of the Corn- laws, Mr. O'Connell delivered his manifesto on Free Trade-

" Let no man vote for me who is for dear bread; let no man vote for me who is for dear sager; let no man vote for me who is for dear coffee : but let

every conscientious man, who wishes to feed the hungry, to give means for

clothing the naked, for giving articles to all at the cheapest rate, give me his support. And again, I am for cheap timber. Many a respectable man itt

obliged to pay a heavy duty for Baltic timber in order to support a monopoly iii favour of the Canadas : the Ministry are for taking the duty off Baltic tim- ber—the Tories of course are against it ; but I may speak for myself at least,

and I hereby engage myself to vote for taking the duty off Baltic timber, and all other timber whatsoever. I detest taxation, and will ever make it my practice to strike off as many taxes as I possibly can. The question now is one be- tween our Queen on the one hand, and her enemies the Tories." He then went on to repeat his political creed on the topics of House- hold Suffrage, franchise for permanent lodgers, Ballot, Short Parlia- ments, and so forth. He did not leave off without a spice of the argu- ment= ad metum, struck out in the midst of a rambling passage- " The Tories call themselves Loyalists; doyou (addressing the gallery, in which Messrs. West and Grogan's friends were) think that you could afford to go to war? No : you cannot fight a foreign enemy on the one hand and the people of Ireland on the other. I tell you, and 1 tell the monarchs of Europe, that a Tory Ministry dare not go to war. Let France and Russia sport their colours—a Tory Ministry dare not go to war without the aid of the people of Ireland. I hate war ; but I hate tyranny and oppression also. We live under a virtuous Queen, the only monarch of the house of Brunswick that was a friend to the people of Ireland. I am her devoted subject, and I will do my duty to her by putting down factions—making Ireland the securest foundation of the British throne. It may be said, that I am forgetting Irish manufac- tures. Mr. West said he was as good a supporter of Irish manufacture as I: if he was, we never heard of it. For my own part, I never wear any thing but Irish manufacture. I have spoken of it at various meetings. I am a Re- pealer; and if I belonged to fifty associations, I would have every member of them wear Irish manufacture."

Mr. Hutton was the next to address the electors ; resting mainly upon his opposition to all monopolies—in trade, in political power, or in religion. Then Mr. West spoke for two hours. He repudiated all responsibility on his own part for any sentiments which Mr. Grogan might utter, just as he held Mr. Hutton to be not responsible for all which Mr. O'Connell might say ; and at the same time be denied that Mr. Grogan had uttered the remarks attributed to him. He sneered at Mr. O'Connell for not alluding to the job of Lord Campbell's appoint- ment. In reply to an elector who had seconded the nomination of Mr. O'Connell, Mr. West said, that had he been in Parliament he should have supported Lord Stanley's Registration of Voters Bill. Mr. Grogan was also questioned, and be said that he approved of Mr. Colquhoun's bill for altering the law regarding Maynooth College. He also denied the " exterminating " speech attributed to him. The show of hands fell to Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Hutton ; and a poll was demanded for the other candidates. The people then sepa- rated, in excellent order.

Namur. At the nomination, on Monday, of Viscount Newry and Mr. Mourne, Tories, and Sir John Milley Doyle and Mr. Peter Kenney, the last, provoked at being reminded of the defeat of Mr. Hume and General Evans, exclaimed, according to the correspondent of the Times, " Well, the Radicals can at all events boast of having on their side the men of Birmingham, who are excellent hands at manufacturing guns."