ESsEX ELECTION.—The Essex election closed on Thursday. Mr. Bram- ston
has been returned. Mr. Wellesley resigned, at an early period, in favour of Colonel Conyers. Ile had stood upon the independent interest, and had pledged himself to retire should any other appear on the same side. The election was as boisterous as can well be imagined. Mr. W. D. Harvey played the orator, and Colonel Conyers the droll. Here is the opening of the unsuccessful candidate's address :—" Brother Calves !—Attention t —Open your ears, and hear ! (Looking to a reporter who was on the wag- gon.) Have you got that ? I shall address you on the stiff, the formal, hut the dignified policy of notoriety. We meet here to-day to exercise the greatest rights that Englishmen ever had, namely, to send an independent gentleman to Parliament, who cares no more about the Duke of Wellington than he does about his nephew, who I don't know that I shall ever allow to be member for the cosunty without he subscribes to my hounds." At the close of the poll, the numbers for Bramston were 1840, for Conyers 661. The scene closed in good humour. KENT MEETING.—A meeting of the "men of Kent" was held yester- day on Penenden Heath, for the purpose of considering the present distress. The high Sheriff presided. Earl Stanhope addressed the meeting, and pro- posed a petition to the King for his assistance in removing the distresses which his Ministers declared to be beyond their control. Lord Teynham seconded the motion. Mr. Larkin moved as an amendment, a petition calling for re- duction in every department, and for Parliamentary Reform. After some discussion Mr. Larkin's amendment was carried. Major Wayth proposed that the better part of the Church property should be applied to relieve the national distress, and that King Leopold's allowance should be reduced four- fifths. This was lost. Mr. Bentley moved that the petition should con- tain a prayer for the abolition of tithes. This resolution was carried unani- mously.
A meeting of the Freeholders of Hampshire was held at Winchester on Wednesday, for the purpose of petitioning for the repeal of the malt and window taxes. The High Sheriff presided. The petition was carried una- nimously.
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