THE GENERAL ELECTION. NOTE OF MEMBERS RETURNED.
11111H0 VI•w Or GAINS AND LOSSES.
fear table last week gave 154 Reformers and 110 Tone.; but upon further illiquiry, we think it prudent to remove some of the names from the first to the losourt4 volornas, We cannot find any thing ri Captain Ps_caLLL's addresses to Ibis emptitnent* to justify us in calling hint an Anti-Tory, though he is a reputed Whig. CODSZTT seems to have taken another change, and, with his -eague, is as likely to vote with as against the Duke—albeit upholdiug the Poor-law Bill and the Malt-tax. Mr. Alsc;zasTrisr, of Greenwich, is, we fear, a rather uncertain person. Our readers will therefore, fir the present, be good enough to withdraw the names of PECNELL. Cositsrs, FIELDED, and A sceavretti, from the list of lionour,—retlueing the total to 150; and add them to the Tory column, which must contain cur Doubtful as well as Tories, till the whole House is returned, and its material* can be niore accurately analysed. The Fecood column will now be headed Ilta As soon as the returns are completed, we shall give the best statement we can procure of final polls; though there is more difficulty in getting the correct numbers than may be Imagined. Almost all those already given in the papers are more or less incorrect.)
PLeass. Hamosas Itsvisime.
Continued from last Week 150
Abeedemishire Donlon Anglesea ....ltulkeley 1 Ashton indley 1 Athlone. Captain Mathew - Ayteclatry.. . It ickfurd, !homer - Beaumaris ..I'aget 1 Bedford Polhill, Crawley. 1 Belford:Aire Lord C. Rotten. Lord Alford 1 Berk:hire. ... Palmer. Walter, Pusey - Berwick Bradshaw, Dobkin . 1 Birmingham Attwood. Seholefleld Blackburn Turner, Fielden 1 Bradped ....Lister, Hardy 1
Breconshire. .
Buckinghatn,h.Clitindos, Young, P Cantlr'dgesh. Yorkrnell aton, Townley 1 Cardigan Born. Pryse 1 Carligansh re Powell Carr ckfirgus K irk Carlisle Howard, Marshall... 2 Cornorron Parry 1 Carnarelasshire T. A. Smith Chester ..... 1.6.15 tosveuor,lervis 2 Ches.hire S. „Stanley, Egerton 1 Clitheroe . Fort 1 corkerseerrh Aglionhy. Dykes 2 • Cori. ..-111 E. Nlolesworth,Trelawney 2 Cornwall W.. Lemon. Peadarves 2
Crict.ode....Gordon. Neeld 1
Coleraine ... Copeland 1 Cutaherlosd E. *Graham, Blatuire 1 Corte Johnstoue Derby strutt, l'onsonby Derbyshire N Cavendish. Dishorne 2
Deny... Sir R. Ferguson ... 1
Deron,hire S. Russell. Buller 1 Devonshire N. Lord Ebrington,New-
ton Fellow's 2
Dersehkre . Ashley, Sturt, Pun Dowepa'riek Kerr 1
r Drodheaa ... A. C. O'Dwyer 1 Dublin Usi...1.efroy, Shaw Ihanfriesshire Hope Johnstone I
Danaalk Sharman Crawford 1 Dui zinier.ws `4Kinrolxl. Parnell 1
1
Ihalyarnan . .0' Longlden
tb.r/sos Hari nil 1
Parham N. .W Lambton 2 Durham S. .. Pease Bowes Edinburgh... A bercrornby,Compbell 2 Emoskiltea East Retford. Vernon. Duncotube . 1 Nerth Tyrrell. Baring Ev.isets. S Hall Dare, Bramston - pi .zir S. Gly tine 1 /li,:ittiti re. . Mostyn 1 Fine
Sheppard
Gateshead.. .C. Kimmel 1 blashuicree'terE: I1 Moreton, Ccslrington 1 Gloareder. iMarri. of Worcester, shire IV. I Berkeley 1 Greenock .. Wallace 1 11"dd "9" }Stewart 1
Duryhs . .
ri g
2 1
Hertfordshire Grimston. Abel Smith.
Alston
Ha tnp, hire N. Lerevre, Scott 2
Rarectiodireg Stuordelil 1 Dusti;Idonsh. Mandeville. Roper 1
Kent Eat. .Knatclibull.Plumptre 1 Kilkenny van 1 yht Dinar Fergasson 1 Kaarestnwough Lawson, Richards 1 Lambeth ....Tennyson. Hawes 2 - Lancashire N.•Stunley, Patten - 2 IILeithe ier.4..ere N- . _ Leirp,tersh.s! iLdiairoMman.Tne:rn,ePrli.i1.1i.p.s 1 9 1- iientirick D. Roche, w, Roche. 2
J. A. Murray 1
_ Limeawhire• }Hande.'
l v Heathcote 2
Kederen -
1 Linlithyowsh. Slope 1
Lisbarts Hey nell - 1
1 Magle:Lierfteld . R yle, Broeklehurst 1 1 3 N
Ramsden, Pepys .. .. '2 -
I Mallow Jephson 1 - - Maui-heater.. Thomson, Phillips 2 - 1 Merionethsh. Vaughan. - 1 1 Middlev.r Hnme, Byng 2 - 1 Monmouth. Hall 1 - 3 Moamtnethsh. LoNtslmiamG. 6 Sometsel r
1 1 2 Montrnnerysh. C. W. W. Wy nu - 1
- Mospeth Howard 1 1 New Ross . Talbot 1 1
P . Mums' Raressso.
If*
1
- 1‘;(offt.hahirmle'S . 1 Knightley,Car:wright - - Northampton-i, Lord Milton, Lord 1 shire N. i Brudenell 1 1 - Northimb 1. er- 1 i Beaumont. Bell 1 1 - Northumber 1 Lords Howick, Os-
- bred N. . . l sulston 1 1 - Nottoty/uttn 1 La. Lumley, Houlds-
- shire N. 5 worth 1 1
1 NotneyhamS. Lineoln. Denison - 2
- 0sped Gm... Inglis, Estnoint 2 1 arfordAire ..11alcourt, Weylatul, - ... p,eues,hire .fiaNyorreys - 3
- 1
- Pembroke:h. Owen - - Perth Oliphant I 1 Pcierborough I leron, Fazakerley 2 - Portarl.ngton Darner - 1 Pre.don Fleetsvood, Stanley.. 1 1 Ramis D Album, Pemberton - 2
2 Rutland Noel, Ileatheute .... 2 -
1 Rye E B. Curteis 1 -
- Salprit l'rothertun 1 -
2 Shrlfield ....Parker. Buckingham 2 -
- Shrewsbury. . Mourner, Pelham - 2- -
- Shropshire N. Hill. Dore - 2 Shelohire S. Lord Darlington, R 1 Somerset E. .MMCialeritil.ne .L a. i, g. i ...... • • • • -11 1
Stgo
- JY.atibrdsh.N Mosley, Buller 2 Sbur,r.hire S. Littleton, Wrottesley 2 Stec/part.. ..T. Id iirslanil, II. Mars- 1 land 1 1 1 Suffolk E....14. Henniker, V,-re - 2 2 Sussex E. ...Curteis. Cavendish 2
2 &sane W.. . . IA. G. Lemnos. Etta I - of Sammy 2
- Suitnrea . .Vivint 1
1 Tovistutir ... Id. Russell, Rebate 2
- Tiverton Ilentlicote, Kennedy '2 Tralee Maurice O'Connell • 1 Truro ...... J. E. Vivian. Tooke.. 1 1 Werwek,h. S. Mordatint.Shelatin . 1 1 1 Westmoreand Lord Lowther, Cut
- Lowther - 2
Wexford ...Walker 1 -• Weynunt h... Buxton, Bunion 2 Welt,hire N . Methuen, Long 1 1 2 Wilt.hire S . lienett. Ilerbert 1 1
Itinehester . .East. Baring 1 I.
- Thdrerhamilon Thurnely, Villiers 2 - 1 Y'ekshiredi. 1Thonipson, Bethell 1 1 1 Ea t Ring - roughad . . . John O'Connell 1 -
1 Total 281 207 -
• Lord Stanley is against the Reformers on the vital question of the Iri,11 Church ; so is Sir James Graham. Neither can be relied on to join in a vote of maat 1,I con- fidence iii Ministers ; therefore we cannot call them Anti-Tories.
BERKSHIRE. Captain Dundas having retired, there was no opposi- tion to the return of the three Tory candidates, Messrs. Palmer, Walter, and Posey, which took place at Abingdon on Wednesday. Mr. Henry Marsh addressed the electors in a humorous speech ; and complained of the backsliding of Mr. Walter, whom he had heartily supported in 1832: but, said he, Tempora mulartiur—the Times has changed. Mr. Walter asserted that he had not changed; but made a Ministerial speech. CHESHIRE. Messrs. E. J. Stanley and W. T. Egerton, the former a decided Liberal, the latter a Tory, were elected for the Southern division, on Thursday. Mr. R. Leycester proposed, and Mr. Charles Hindley, the new Member for Ashton, seconded Mr. Stanley. Mr. Hindley (who has been represented by the Tories as belonging to their_ faction) said, that- . . on the whole, in his-opinion, the county bad acted wisely in sending for- wards stanch Reformer, and in putting up with au Anti-Refor mer, or rather one of the new converts to Reform. It was important at the present crisis fur every constituency to return tried and stanch Ref:writers; a new Ailinittistratioa having been formed with new professions — professions in direct cootraiirction to every action of their former lives. He was surprised at this sudden couver- sion tn Reform ; and should have been much better satisfied with the tad sinner* (to use the elegant language of the Times) if that conversion had taken plase. before the second reading of the Irish Tithe Bill in the House of Lords.
Mr. Stanley exposed the hypocrisy of the Tory pretensions to the character of Reformers, in energetic language.
As it was in the power of the electors to say bow they would be goveruel, he tailed upon them to return none but Reformers to Parliament. If they did so, such men would support any reform mealures of the Dukeof Wellington which were efficient and good, for It was the interest of the country that They should do so. But he entreated them not to give the Ministers a liendle, which would serve them to fall back itpon their old courses. If they did, th, y would soon see their tallest trees and proudest groves laid level with the dust. What, then, would be his course? Would he refuse good measures because they proceeded from a tainted source ? No; he would take them as so much eamed—as so much ground travelleda on the journey of Reform. But though *he helicon, he abhorred the traitor. lie mistrusted the traitor and his motive,, aed he also mistrusted the boon —" Timeo !Lollies et dona fetentes." The Reformers of Ertgland had been styled " Destructivea," whilst their opponents artogated to themselves the title of " Conservatives." Names nattered little; both parties [emit that they were Conservatives as to institutions, Destructives of their abuses. This he believed of all, save a entail section of the miserable and deluded followers of Cobbett, and such people, who sought tie destruction of our fundamental institutions that they might revel on their ruin and plunder. Yet these men were seen suppor tug the Tories: for the second tin e were Tories and Cobbettites seen united at Manchester, going hand in hand to the poll, and guarding each against the deceit of the other.
Mr. Egerton professed his readiness to support Ministers when in the right, and to vote against them when in the wrong.
CUMBERLAND. The former Members, Sir James Graham and Mr. Blatnire, were unopposed, and returned on Monday. Sir James Graham spoke at length in defence of his past conduct against the misrepre- sentations with which he complains of being assailed— Ile had looked with some anxiety to the present moment, when he could prove to his constituents that his principles had been just and hie conduct pure. He might boast of the part he had taken in the passing the Reform Bill—of the pledges which he had fulfilled; but he would refer them to his votes, and bid them make their own judgment. Ile had been calumniated—he would not inquire by whom—it might have been he had been calumniated by a former colleague, by a friend so prOleSSeli. It had been said that he had entered the Cabinet of Earl Grey uuder the patronage of Lord Durham. That was false; be never had a patron, because be was never a client. He had never asked or received favour or reward from any Miatieter or nobleman ; he had never asked a favour except publicly on the hustings; he had never sought a peerage at the hands of Mr. Canning, or accepted an earldom at those of the Duke of Welling- ton. His opinion of Earl Gley was of the most exalted character, and his attachment to his Ministry was sincere. For three years and a half they had acted with unity and harmony ; and on only one subject, a fatal one, they differed—the Irish Church. Mr. Ward, it would be remembered, proposed certain resolutions, which embodied the sort of reform which was contemplated for the abuses of the Irish Church. The first was, that the State—the House of Commons—had the right to settle the distribution of ecclesiastical property. To this, as an abstract proposition, he could have no objection. The second went further—that the revenues of the Irish Church were larger than required by her spiritual wants. To this lie could hot assent, without (as we understood Sir James to express himself) involving himself in the inference drawn—that such surplus should be applied to secular purposes. Upon this point he dif- fered from his colleagues. With the original scheme of Irish Church Reform, as brought in by Earl Grey, be agreed ; but he could not go further. . . . . He complained of the Commission of Inquiry which had been instituted by Lord Grey. The object of that Commission was to ascertain the number of Catholics and Protestants in particular places. He protested against this. The existence of the Established Church should never, by his consent, be tested by the rule of three. It was not on that principle that their Church had been reformed. No! the minority of the Reformers established the Protestant faith on the ruins of the Catholic Church, which was professed by the majority.
He asserted his complete independence of Lord Stanley, and gave his own reasons for refusing to join the present Ministry
It had been said that he acted at the bidding of Lord Stanley. He admired the spirit and talent of that nobleman; but his retirement, and subsequent refusal of office, was in entire independence of his principles or opinions. Then it bad been asserted that he had declined joiniug the present Ministers because lie feared his constituents in Cumberland—in fact, that if he had he would not he reelected. He believed they thought him not likely to be actuated by such sentiments. He had made up his mind not to join the present Adiniuistration
from the very first; but, to put the matter, beyond a doubt, he would assert, that on the 6th of December he showed to Mr. Hereby, of Lancashire, a written
statement of his reasons for refusing to join should an off r be made to him. The letter which he received soliciting his accession to office was &hal by Sir Robert Peel on the 9th, and it was received by him on the 116. Then as to any confidence he had in the present Ministry, he thought it was shown in his refusal to join it. That Ministry did not command his confidence. It was impossible to be composed of worse materials. The whole lives of the persons
who compose that Ministry had been devoted to oppose good government, and
to uphold bad. He believed, however, that no Government ever could main- tain itself in defiance of public opinion. If good measures should, contrary to all expectation, be proposed by the new Ministers, he was not prepared to refuse them. He repeated his opinions on the necessity of English and trivia Church Reform, Municipal Reform, and relief to the Dissenters; and concluded by cautioning the electors to consider that Reform might become an instrument of evil as well as of good : like fire in the hands of the honest artisan, it might purify and improve, or like the torch in the hand of an incendiary, burn and consume all that was good and serviceable in their institutions.
CRICKLADE. From a passage in Mr. Robert Gordon's speech, on his reelection, we suspect that the late Ministers were prepared, wisely or unwisely, to do mote towards the reduction of the Malt-tax than their successors are likely to accomplish.
"You had neglected to petition, but I did not neglect to tete every oppor. tnaity of enforcing the sub.pct on the consideration of the Government; in fact, I so bothered and teased them, that they gave me the nickname of the Malt. tax ; and whenever I entered into their presence, they would say, here conies the Malt-tax. Nevertheless, I did not relax in my importunities. They could not, however, spare it last session; and I was obliged to vote with the Govern- ment against the repeal, contrary to my own opinion, or withdraw from the Government, and thereby lose all power and chance of attaining my object at some more opportune titne. As soon as Lord Melbourne became Prime Minister, I told Mtn flat and plain, that he must take off the Malt- tax; for his Lordship is a personal friend of mine, and an old schoolfellow ; and therefore I could urge the point with greater chance of success. At length I attained my desire; and it is well known in a certain quarter, that a variety of returns were made to Government from sources be.t calculated to furnish information; and the plan for the total repeal of the Malt-tax was, I am proud to say, iutrusted to my management, and every thing was in preparation for the next session. ( Tie- rnendoes cheering ) I doe% mean to say that we should have got rid of the
whole of the duty ; for the plau was to have impose' an annual licence ou all enaltsters according to the capability of the cistern, which it ir calculated would
have realized about a minim' and a half of money ; so that in fact, upwards of Ihree millions out of four and a half would have been wiped away; but every man would have been able to make his own malt. For the prose 1.. however, our prospects are at an Nal, hut I trust only fur the present. So inuch fro the Malt. tax."
ESSEX. The nomination of the Northern division of this county took place on Saturday. The old Members, Sir John Tyrrell and Mt. Alexander Baring, were elected without opposition. 3Ir. Henry Tuffnell, of Cavendish Square, was proposed ; but no poll was de- manded on his behalf. Sir John Tyrrell professed his warm attach- ment to the agricultural interest ; and prayed that God would desert whenever persons acquainted with the subject said that he had deserttll the farmers. Mr. Baring spoke at considerable length. His speech was very characteristic of the man—smart, inconsistent, and unfair. Ile declared that the honour of a seat in the Cabinet was quite unsought by him. He denied that the King had uncourteously dis- missed the Whigs—they had abandoned their Sovereign, one by one. The most estimable persons left the Ministry, because measures de- struct i ve of the Constitution were contemplated. The late Ministers in fact dismissed their Sovereign. Mr. Baring was repeatedly asked by the assembly to " come to the Malt-tax ;" and he said lie would speak on that subject before lie left off. He then proceeded to coo- merit upon some of the principal measures of the last session. He denied that the Bishops objected to the Tithe Commutation Bills- " The objections to those measures came from the agricultural interest, and not from the clergy. ( (Jheers, awl " No I") This I can maintain ; and the truth of the assertion will he manifest to any one who will examine the subject, which is not a very complicated one—that d either of those bills had passed, the farmers, instead of deriving any relief from them, would have hid to pay one third or one half more than they did : it would, in point of fact, have been the best measure for the Church, and the worst for the farmers, that the wit of man could possibly have devised. ( (?heers, and shouts of dissent. A voice " You can't do better !") If we cannot do better, all I can say is, that I defy any men living to do worse. Look, in the next place, to the relief to he given to the Dissenters. (Ali, what'll you give 'oil?") The Church-rate was to be got rid of " (So it ought !") I quite admit that the Church-rate. standiug as it does, is a amp that must, in some shape or other, be got thl of. It is a question which must be settled. But who objected to its settlement? Was it the Conservative? No, gentlemen, it was the Dissenters then:selves; who stated to the Government, distinctly and unegnivocally, that they disapproved of the settlement whWh they proposed. I will advert to another question con- nected with the disabilities of the Dissenters; and that is, the regi.tration of births, marriages, and deaths. I admit this is a grievance; for I sin not here to deny that there are grievances to be redressed and removed. I can tell thow gentlemen who dissent horn the Church of England, that I have always been, and am now, as strenuons 'and hearty an advocate for the removal of their dis- abilities as any gentleman in this county can possibly be. I voted early and invariably for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, which affected them ; and I am lint aware of ever having given a vote against the redress of a, substantial grievance."
At the same time, however, that he professed his willingness to remove Dissenting grievances, Mr. Baring avowed, that it was only on the understanding that the Dissenters did not attack the Church.
" The moment that those who diesent from its doctrines become the aggress sore in their turn, am! endeavour to trample upon it, I shall deteratinately resist them. There is not in this country, there is not in the world, a man more firmly convinced of the blessings that this country, of the blessings that the poor, of the blessings of the middle class, of the blessings that the weal thy, of the blessing,. time all who profess and call themselves Christians, derive from that Establishmeas, than I am. I sincerely and in my heart believe, that it contributes tnore to the continuance and diffusion of true piety throughout the world, than any religious establishment that ever existed. At the same time, I beg to say, that lain ready, and I believe the King and his Government are ready, to make such alte- rations in that Church as the necessity of the case may require. I do not deny the existence of abuses that may have grown up in that establishment, nor do dispute the propriety of remedying them. I must say, however, that in the four years during which the late Administration were in office, they were 1104 remedied. I hope, gentlemen, I shall not have to meet you here next year or the year after; but if I should have that misfortune, and if the present Govern- ment remain in power, I shall be very much ashamed of myself, and of those associated with me in office, if in the course of one twelvemonth, we have not introduced some measure satisfactory to the country. The corrections in the Church Establishment must not be made by persons hostile to it ; they must be made in connexion with those who are friendly- to it—not with a view to its destruction, but its real efficiency and improvement."
At last Mr. Baring came to the Malt-tax ; and here be gave his auditory the slip completely : this was all they could get from him-
,. I feel it necessary to state—what, indeed, must be apparent to every one here—namely, that the position in which I stand is so far a peculiar one, that I
cannot, consistently with the oath I took to my Sovereign on entering into the
office which I now hold, go into any detail with respect to the probable mea- sures of any description that may be brought forward by the Cabinet. In this respect, my mouth is necessarily sealed ; and whatever be the provocation I may receive from other gentlemen, or whatever advantage may be taken of the cir- cumstance, in attributing any thing mysterious to my silence, I am quite sure that those who least know the duty of a Privy Councillor must be aware that he can enter into no details with respect to their intentions on any point."
Mr. Harvey, who arrived while Mr. Baring was speaking, then ad- dressed the assembly. He seems to have exposed Mr. Baring's incon- sistencies, especi.dly his vote to repeal the Malt-tax, and his subsequent backing out on that question, very effectively. He advised the electors to follow his example at Colchester, and not annoy the Tory candidate* by a fruitless contest. His advice was taken, and the assembly quietly dispersed. On Monday, Messrs. Hall Dare, Bramston, and Branfill, were put in nomination for the Southern division of this county. The two former are Tories ; the latter gentleman appeared a few days before, rather unexpectedly, on the Liberal interest. The show of bands being in favour of the fories, a poll was demanded for Mr. Branfill.
HAMPSHIRE. The candidates for the Southern division were nornis noted on Monday. Mr. Sloane Stanley, in seconding the norniiiation. of Mr. Fleming, said— He should like to know what line of politics Lord Palmerston intended to pursue. The Tories would not have him, but the Destructive, might, and tin doubt would; and the noble Lord, it was very probable, would be compelled tait seek for a seat amongst the Metropolitan Members."
Lord Palmerston's reply to this sneer is the only part of his long speech which contains any novelty, or is worth extnu:ting-
Toriea undoubtedly would not have him, for they should not have him. He quitted a Tory Government in 1828, because he differed with them upon pabhc principle. While out of office, then, it had been three several times proposea to him by that Government to return to office. They proposed te hiss not timely to return himself, but to take any two of his political friends with him. They offered him one of three seats in the Cabinet. Duke was the offer made to him, and thrice did he decline it. He stated his reasons at the time for declining to accept such a flattering offer. Ile said that Le did not think he should have a fair chance, if he returned to that Govern- ment, of being able to act upon his own opinions. He stated that, constituted as the Government then was, even should he return to it on such flattering conditions, he could not as an honest man expect to carry his own opinions into practice. lb said also, that if Lord Grey and Lord Lansdowne (he was not, let it be borne in mind, then connected by any political ties with those noble individuals) were included in the arrangement, lie would consider their presence the Cal•inet a sufficient guarantee for him ; and he added, that if a Govern- ment so constituted should think his humble services of any use to them and the public, lie should be proud to join them. That was his answer to the insi- unation as to the course he would pursue if returned to Parliament. He begged to my that he had no confidence in the Government as it now existed. Looking at the past, he could have no confidence in such meu for the future; end it WaN Ilia firm determination to give them a proper Constitutional and Parliamentary opposition.
The other speeches were dry and unimportant.
11 sarrsounsitute. Lord Grimston, Mr. Abel Smith, and Mr. Row- land Alston—the two former Tories, the latter a Reformer—were
sleeted without opposition on Wednesday. Mr. Delia' Piatteliffe pro- posed Lord Griniston ; and part of his speech must be quoted in order to make the spirited reply of Alr. II. G. Ward intelligible. After stating that the &mon of destruction was abroad, he thus continued— The boroughs had nearly all disgraced themselves. The Metropolitan Bo- ionghs in particular had stultified themselves, by electing men whose public principles tended to ruin the country, and whose private characters rendered them fitter associates for the inmates Of the building behind him (the gaol), than for any other society. It remained for the County electors to evince a more patriotic spirit. Ile hail only one more observation to make: the Church was in danger. lie was himself, though pretending to no peculiar morality—(A laugh)—a devoted friend to that sacred establishment; and he trusted that the electors would exercise the utmost caution in not electing men who were not prepared to defend the rights of that Church to the utmost. He would conclude with expressing his full confidence that the electors of Hertfordshire would not 'eject a man like Lord Grimston, whose energy and talents rendered him most competent to promote their interests, and whose honourable feelings made him incapable of betraying their trust.
Mr. Ward was received with loud cheers on coming forward to pro- pose Mr. Alston. After paying some compliments to the late Mem- ber, Mr. Calvert, he alluded to his own victory at St. Alban's over the united forces of family, faction, and money, and then proceeded to speak in favour of Mr. Alston's political principles, and to state his reasons for supporting bim-
Ile should not be there to support him, if he thought that he had to go to Sir Robert Peel's school, in order to ascertain what those grievances might be, which had been denounced for years and years past, by the universal voice of the nation. He should not be there to support .11.1r. Alston, if he did not know that be was fully prepared to throw open the gates of the Universities to his Disseuting brethren ; if he did not know him to be ready to concede to every class of his fellow-subjects equal civil rights, without distinction of sect or creed, or of those religious differences of opinion, of which God alone could be the impartial and unerring judge. He Should not be there to support Mr. Alston, if he did not know that, instead of promising to give his "most serious toneideration "to the question:of Municipal Reform, that gentleman had made up his mind to introduce into corporations that system of real represcntation,pub- licity, and responsibility, which could alone insure the proper administration of municipal affairs. Ile should not propose him, did he not know that on another sneetion, in which he himself took a deep and peculiar interest—that of the Irish Church—Mr. Alston was prepared, not to go the whole length of his first resolutions, the principle of which resolutions lie maintained as strong as ever ; but Mr. Alston was prepared to go to the length which Lords Melbourne and spencer assented to, and which would be adopted the moment those noble Lords returned to the posts from which they had been removed by an insidious and actious plot, but to which they would ere lung be restored. ( Cheers.) Mr. Ward next adverted to the claims to exclusive patriotism and talent put in by Mr. Delme Ratcliffe for his Tory friends— Ile had been told by Mr. Ratcliffe, that Conservatism was that sheet-anchor et the State which alone saved the country from ruin; that all who were not wilfully blind might see that the present was a struggle between those who had something and those who bad nothing to lose—between men who had no charac- ter to lose, and men like the honourable gentleman, who, though "not affecting an) peculiar morality," as he had told them two or three thne,, were endowed not only with supreme legislative wisdom, but with every quality which could adorn mortals. Now there was not the slightest foundation for this absurd as- sertion. The struggle was in no respect that which was here described. Who were more interested in the preservation of the peace of the country than the middle ordets ? Who would be involved in more utter and irretrievable ruin by any canyuhion? Those who had lauded property might manage, but those who lived by their industry had every thing to lose. Yet this was the order by -which the present struggle was cat ried on. None but the Conservatives, it was said, have any thing to lose. Was the Duke of Devonshire a Conservative? was the Duke of Bedford a Conservative ? lie alluded particularly to the former nobleman, because he was one of those desperate, reckless, no-character-or- property men, described by Mr. Ratcliffe, who was using all his influence in behalf of the cause of the People, by promoting the return, for Derbyshire, of that tried and valuable man, Mr. Gisborne. The Metropolitan Boroughs, it was said, had disgraced themselves in particular—had returned men who, by right, ought rather to he sent to gaol. Such men, no doubt, were Mr. Grote and Mr. Paulson, for instance; such a man was Mr. Gurney, who proposed Mr. Grote ; and such a man, no doubt, was his seconder. These poor men tad nothing to lose. It was only a pity that his constituents did not know so much of him as Mr. Ratcliffe; for, they in their ignorance probably consi- &red Mr. Grote worth fifty such men as those who stigmatizedhim. (Cheers.) The Tory candidates had been called the exclusive friends of the farmer, and Lord Grimston went into Parliament as the devoted friend of Sir Robert Peel—
Now, what was the reason why Lord Chandos had refused to join that Ad- ministration ? Distinctly, because Sir Robert Peel said he could not afford to the farmers that relief which his Lordship considered them entitled to ; and in this Lord Chandos acted, as he always did, as a consistent friend of the agi eulturists. Would Lord Grimston give the same pledge which Mr. Alston had given—namely, to vote for the repeal of the Malt-tax ? (Lord Grimston ex • claimed, "No pledge!"„ Hisses and groans.) Mr. Ratcliffe had talked in a
very impressive style of the Constitution ; but he omitted to explain what his definition of the word was. His idea of a constitution was the adapting the laws to the wants and wishes of the age. The Catholic Emancipatiim, tor in- stance—a measure so well advocated by Sir Robert Peel—was no doubt con- sidered by Mn. Ratcliffe as a grievous breach in the Constitution : and so it might be ; but it was a must necessary and valuable one; and it was precisely such measures as these which adapted constitutions to the spirit and necessities of the time. Ministers, it was said, looked forward very anxiously to the result of the Elections. No doubt they did, and very naturally ; for the elections which had hitherto taken place left them in a miserable mincuity. It was said that the Boroughs had disgraced themselves: if so, he stood an emblem of that disgrace. But he would ask whether Hertford, fur instance, hail disgraced
itself, by throwing off the chains which had so long bound it in slavery On the contrary, it appeared to him that the chairing of their Reformer Represen- tative, William Cowper, the other day, was the most impressive scene lie had ever witnessed. The struggle, he would repeat, was not between those who had something and those who 'hail nothing : those engaged in it hail all a stake. It was not between Infidelity and Christianity. The only question was, whether the country chose to be governed by one set of principles or by another. For himself, he had not the slightest doubt of the result. His fixed cony iction was, that there would be a majority of at least one hundred and fifty opposed to the present Ministers in the new Parliament.
LAMBETH. The numbers were finally declared on Monday, by the Returning Officer. The announcement was looked for with some in- terest, owing to a disagreement in the accounts of the respective Com- mittees of Messrs. Tennyson and Hawes : the numbers were announced to be—Tennyson, 2008; Hawes, 1995; Farebrother, 931. There was some sparring between the two Members on the hustings ; and indeed there seems to have been considerable jealousy of each other during the whole contest. Some of Hawes's friends refused to split
their votes with Tennyson, and vice versa. The Tories preferred
Hawes, who got more than 200 of their second votes ; while Tennyson had only about 30 from the same quarter. The result shows the su- perior force of the Radical party, whose favourite was Tennyson. Both the Members had the sense to shake hands cordially before they left the hustings.
LANCASHIRE. Lord Stanley and Mr. Patten were reelected for the Northern division, on Monday, without opposition. Mr. Patten de- livered a moderate Tory speech, which does not require particular notice. Lord Stanley took the opportunity of explaining and defend- ing his recent political conduct. After stating that he had quitted Lord Grey's Ministry because he could not concur in a measure which he thought would endanger the stability of the Church, arid declaring that he felt less confidence in Lord Melbourne's than in Lord Grey's Administration, he proceeded to give some account of the overtures made to him and his friends by Sir Robert Peel.
" Gentlemen, it did so happen, that shortly after the dissolution of the Govern- ment I had an opportunity of meeting—certainly at the time with no political view—those friends with whom I was most immediately and nearly connected upon political questions; and as at that time there was a report that some ap- plication would be made to them and to me, it was not very unnatural that we should discuss the line of conduct which we should pursue. And I think it due to them—and more pal ticularly to one of them, an intimate friend of mine, who is now standing his trial at the election for a neighbouring county—it is due, I say, to them, to state, that as, in coming to that com.lusion, there was no shade of difference of opinion between us, so neither, subsequent to the con- clusion to which we came, has been the slightest difference or hesitation as to the propriety of the course we adopted. I trust you will believe that we were actuated by no unworthy, or party, or personal motives. I should hardly have felt it necessary to say any thing on this point, had it not been intimated to me that it might be necessary to correct an impression in some quarters, that if I was willing to act with Sir Robert Peel, I was unwilling to act under him. Gentlemen, I am incapable of any feeling so absolutely personal ; and I hope you will believe, that if it were competent for me, on public grounds, to join the Administration of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, with me the words of with' or 'under' would never for one moment have balanced the scale."
He could not divulge the particulars of the offer made to him, but, he continued- " I can only say this, that the offer made was such an one as I expected to be made by one honourable man to another. It was what I must du Sir Hobert Peel the justice thus publicly to say of him—it was like every thing I have seen of his public conduct, frank and open and manly, and that I have no reason to believe he intended the smallest insincerity or evasion."
With regard to his future course of conduct, he could not agree to merge all differences in an effort to overturn the Ministry.
" We are told that there are times in which it is necessary for all Reform- ers to cooperate—to merge all shades of difference in political opinion, and coalesce in one great effort for the overthrow of the present Govern- ment. I take no such course, and I acknowledge no such necessity. I will coalesce with no men, and no body of men, of whose objects, of whose in- tentions, and of whose principles I am not satisfied that they are in entire and complete accordance with my own ; and I will not admit of those who class themselves under the general name of Reformers, that :their principles or that their objects are the same with mine or the same with the Admioistration of Lord Grey; and I will join no effort for the overthrow of any Government, unless I see a fair and legitimate prospect of the construction of another Government who will more readily carry into effect the principles to which I am attached. From me, therefore, gentlemen, at least, the present Ministry will meet no factious opposition, though I cannot promise to give them any pledge of support. I have nothing to do with the motives of tide or of that man. I cannot say Mat on looking at the composition of the present Government—looking at the individuals of whom it is composed—I cannot say that I see reasonable ground of confidence in them on the part of those who entertain the liberal opinions which I profess. But if I see those liberal opinions fairly and honestly carried into effect, it will be my duty as an honest man, even if I op- pose the men, or even if I could not place confidence in the men, to support the measures which are brought forward. I look to one object, and one object only, namely, the service of my country, and the promotion of my own prin- ciples. This, then, is the course which I have marked out for myself, should your confidence again place me in the honourable station of your Representa- tive."
He knew that Reform, wide and extensive, but he hoped Constitu- tional, must go on-
" I know it is impossible that the abuses of Municipal Corporations can long be overlooked. I know some results must come from the Commission issued by the late Government to inquire into the prevalence and nature of those abuses. I know that the Commission has been adopted by the present Government—at least by the Prime Minister; and I am satisfied that it is necessary for any
of the o ople. But I do say, that it is absolutely necessary, in order to a dif- ferent distribution of the means of religious instruction, that the abuses of non-
they had told him so in all directions. Ile would save himself from going at to a I.
people he stood there; and it was not in the power of all the orators, publishers the overgrown power of the aristocracy. I have ever fearlessly pursued such of newspapers, and gin-spinners in the county, to get him out. Ile had done conduet. I have truckled to no party—neither Tory nor Whigs. I hare en- snore good for the country, in the votes he had given during the last two years, cited, no doubt, the jealousy of the Whigs, and that may be all ; but I am the than all the Mendota fist the county had done before. Ile had taught the people bitter enemy of the Tories: they know that, and they have therefore made me to know their ONVII power ; and knowing it, they would he able to maintain it. the object of their most hitter attacks. But here I am among you, gentlemen, And by that great moral power which he had created among the people' he was in defiance of those attacks triumphant. (Mach cheering.) Since the period content to stand OT fall. The spirit roused in the county had produced success of the dissolution of the late Parliament, I have done every thing !could for the cause of liberty and independence, and he should again be returned as the against the Tories. I have exerted myself for the cause of the People, and left representative of Lindsey. no stone unturned that was calculated to hurl them from the height they have Mr. Corbett, the Tory, bespoke a fair trial for the Wellington now attained. I shall not be surprised, by and by, to hear Sir Robert Peel and Ministry ; the which, however the assembly did not appear iaelined to the Duke of Wellington claim the high honour of being Radical Reformets. The grant, as the show of hands was greatly m favour of Pelham and People now have gut the essence of Reform, and it is their duty to take care and Ingilby. A poll was demanded for Corbett, to commence on Monday. keep it. If my lamented friend, the late Major Cartwright, was now alive, and could see the connexions and descendants of the late Lord Castlereagh claiming MIDDLESEX. Monday last was the day of nomination. Messrs. the right of being Reformers, he would say that the day he never expected had ar- Samuel Whitbread and Tuffnell proposed and seconded Mr. Byng ; rived. . . . I have had a paper put into my hands, the Monitor Gimmick, Sir J. S. Lillie and Mr. Barkley, Mr. Hume ; Colonel Clitheroe and where it is said that many good Reformers would not vote for ow, because I Mr. Fyler, Mr. Thomas Wood. Sir John Byng spoke for his bro- said I would not take good measures from the Tories. I differ from that paper ther, whose eyesight is not as yet sufficiently recovered to render it in sro ing they were ' good' Reformers. I say they were sham Reformers, and prudent for him to appear on the hustings. His place was well sup- it is time to unmask them. ( Great cheering.) It is important at this moment plied, however, by Sir John ; who delivered a hearty and judicious that you should send men into the House of Commons who will relieve dr burdens that press on the poor man. The class that s speech to the electors. He grounded his brother's claims to support suffers most at th eis moment is that between the middle and lower cla.sses. In that class three- on the uniform liberality of his public life— the measure was first brought forward in a British House of Commons by Earl taxation, for at present the interests of the industrious classes are sacrificed ts Grey ; and in the last Parliament he was the last member of the small band of those of the landlords. The Corn.laws were passed in the days when the forty who voted for Reform, when it was not only unfashionable but dangerous for deputies of the Peers filled the House of Commons. The late Ministers knew a man to state that he was a Reformer. He need hardly tell them that Molding the necessity of altering them, but they had not sufficient confidence in them- was the sincere friend of civil and religious liberty, in the widest and most selves to undertake the task. Hitherto, therefore, they hail been oppiencd by comprehensive sense of that wool; and the first vote that was ever given by those laws, but they might soon expect a change. The farmers about Uxbridge him was in the year 1790, for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, have strong objections to rue, because I want to alter the present Corn -laws. when that measure was first brought forward by Charles James Fox. In the They are ignorant that it was a question between the landlords, and not between year 1805, when the question of Catholic Emancipation was first brought for- the tenants. I am myself a landlord ; I draw my income from land. I am, was-3, up to the time It was carried in 18'29, Mr. Byng was never absent from therefore, at least, honest in my opinions. I am desirous that every man balding am oue division on the subject. To slavery in every shape Mr. Byng had ever a monopoly should lose it, and that people should not live on the fruits of dale been an inveterate foe, and had aided to his utmost both the measures brought
forward by Earl Grey on the subject, in 1806 and 1833. ea
Mr. flume received a good deal of interruption from some noisy My words constantly have been, ' Union amongst Reformers, and Down with Government to give to the report of that Commission such full effect as will rtisans of " Tom Wood," who stationed themselves on and near the secure the real and effectual control of the funds vested in the hands of corpora- hustings. They were, however, unable to put down so experienced a rims to the inhabitants of the great towns, and to give a more representative hustings speaker as Mr. Hume; and he succeeded at length in getting character and a real responsibility thau at present is possessed. I k :row also, a fair hearing. He defended his own conduct, especially in relation to that Ecclesiastical Reforsn must come, and that it is certain with regard to two the Canadian letters, with spirit and confidence : be ridiculed the pre. great branehes—namely, both as to the teniporalities of the Church- and also as tensions of " Tom Wood ;" and laughed to scorn the notion, that be- to her internal discipline. I would not be a consenting party to abstracting one cause the People were dissatisfied with the Whigs for doing little, they farthing from the revenues of the clergy ; and who, I believe in my conscience, would be such dolts as to support the Tories, who would do nothing. are not overpaid, but as a body are hardly atlegnate to supply the rAigious wants M. Wood spoke amidst a good deal of interruption. He was err- tainly candid, if not eloquent ; and avowed his preference of Tory residenee, the abuses of pluralities, and the abuses of the present appropriation principles, and determination to oppose Liberal measures, without he of chapter and cathedral property, should be got rid of; and that the revenues sitation or reluctance. The show of bands was nearly all on one side; of the Church should be so disposed of as to give the people of England the very few being held up for Mr. Wood. He demanded a poll. Sir S. greatest amount of benefit from the division of competently but not overp lid Whalley, Sir Peter Laurie, and Sir John Gibbon addressed the crowd; ministers. I look also with anxiety to see some measure which may give to the which then separated. superior clergy a more effectual Goland and a more real superintendence over the The polling commenced on Thursday ; and, owing to the imperfect info hie clergy of their dioceses, and give them more effectual means of removing arrangements and mistnanagement of Mr. Hume or his Committee, those cases of scandal which occasionally arise, and for which the present law the Tory candidate as well as Mr. Byng shot considerably a head. At gives no remedy." noon, Mr. Hume seems to have been upwards of two hundred behind, LINCOLNSHIRE. On Thursday the candidates were nominated for the Tories full of triumph, and making the greatest exertions. As the Lindsey division. Mr. Pelham was proposed and seconded by the day advanced, however, their majority was diminished, and at the Sir M. Cholmeley and the Reverend Charles Anderson ; Sir Wil- close of the poll was nothing of moment avith so large a bedy of liam Ingilby, by Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Coltman ; Mr. Cot bett, by voters unpolled. The numbers were—for Byng, '231S; Wood, PAO; Sir Robert Sheffield and Mr. Chaplin. Homo, 192I—according to Byng's and Flume's Committees ; those' Mr. Pelham delivered a Liberal speech ; declaring his want of con- given by Wood's Committee made the Tory majority 67 over Hume.
fidence in Ministers, though be would not offer them factious ppposi- After the polling was concluded, Mr. Hume, who hod spoken tioo. If on two or three questions he should vote with them ; it must repeatedly in the course of the day, addressed the electors at not be supposed that he was generally disposed to support them. Ile King's Cross, and afterwards his Conunittee at Charing Cross. Ti
denied any coalition with Mr. Heneage to oust Sir W. Ingilby. speech at King's Cross was full of life and lire. Mr. Hurne's Sir W. Ingilby spoke in his customary style. spirit seemed to be fairly up. We have not room to give extracts, bat He stood backed by the People: he hail done his duty to the People, and it certainly was one of the best speeches for the occasion we ever an length into his Parliamentary conduct. But he could not stand there and Yesterday morning, the voting recommenced. The Tories did mat not glance a little at the aspect of things since he had met with them on his slacken their exertions ; but the Reformers came to the support of eireeit. His honourable late little colleague and Mr. Heneage had been pitted their tried Representative with more alacrity than the day before. Mr. again, t him like two cocks in a pit. Ile did not charge either of those gentle- Hume was considerably a-head at noon ; and when tho poll finally men with having formed that alliance against him which had been so manifest ; still L. must say, that there had been some secret machinery: at work to eject closed, the numbers were—for Byng, 3461; Hume, 3113 ; Wor4 him from his position. Respecting his political opinions, his opponents had '2677—majority for Hume, 43S. chargol him with being a Radical. He understood the word, and that it was There was a large and anxious concourse of people at King's Cross meant as a word of reproach: he adopted the word, but discarded the reproach. as the hour for closing the poll approached, and great was their exultation He had had great intercourse with the freeholders in his canvass, and they knew at the triumph of the popular candidate. Alr. Hume addressed the what these Radical sentiments were. They were not the Radical sentiments assembly in a speech full of bold denunciation of Tory profligacy. attribute,. to them by the Tories ; but tliey were the Radical sentiments to The following passages are taken from the report in the second edition support all the valuable institutions of the country against abuses, aid not to of the Sun of last night.
fourths of the taxes are raised. But you may expect happy days in England
industry of others. I will not detain you further, as you may suppose I have
great love for the Tories. l' defy them, as I have defied them every hour. the Tories.' I am not deficitnt in 'oyalty to the Monarch ; but
coneider that the exercise of his preuigative is in:roiled only fur the benefit of
his People. Ile is appointed for their benefit— ins the People are not made fur the King, but the King fur the People. lis is appointed tu carry on the Government according to the laws. Let noe not, therefore, be mistaken when I say that I support the prerogatives of the Cunt n. I only du so where I see theta exercised for the interests of the community. Go tide occasion I challenge that right ; furl du not know what right the King has to keep all the offices of Govern- ment in the hands of one man for a whole nototh. ( Cheering.) If this were allowed, he might establish despotism in the hod. The struggle is beginning. I again call upon you to take notice of the conduct of your Representatives, and to be prepared against the March election. ( Great laughter and cheers.) I will only promise for myself that I will go tal in my t.ii way: I will do my beat ; and if it is not always the best, I assu:e yea, at least, it is well meant. (Much cheering.) I entreat you to maintain a state of peace, subordination, and tranquillity, and do not give the Tories any ground for Mfringing your rights. On Monday we wilt go to lireatford ; and as you Live laboured to obtain my triumph, I hope you will be present to grace it, and show by your modetation, good sense, and prudent conduct, that you know Low to aerobe your rights, and to maintain them."
The crowd, which appears to bare been excited to a high pitch during Mr. Hume's speech, then separated with three cheers for flume and Reform, three groans for the 'Tories, and cries of " We'll meet them in March !"
Mr. Hume thou proceeded to his Central Committee-room, at the Salopian Coffeehouse ; from the window of which he addressed a large multitude of persons ; by the greater part of whom, and a number of others in carriages and on horseback, with banners and cheers, he was escoried to his residence in Bryanston Square.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Lord Lincoln and Mr. J. Evelyn Denison were reelected on Monday for the Southern division. The latter gentleman declared his readiness to give Sir Robert Peel " a Air trial." He must therefore be expunged from the R. forming ranks.
NOTTINGHAM. The return of Sir John Hobliouse with General Ferguson was mentioned last week. We have since seen a report of Sir John's speech from the hustings, which deserves particular notice, as giving an authoritative declaration of the intended proceediegs of the Melbourne Cabinet in the next meeting • f Parliament. Ile said-- " Allusion has been made to the expulsion of the late Administration, of which I myself was a member r and it is but fair that I should say—it is but fair that it ehould be known—that we certainly had in contemplatiou such nreasurts of reform as I believe would have satisfied the People of England, even the most fastidious, if they were favourable to the cosstitution of this country. It was out intention on the very first day of the session to have laid upon the table of the Rouse of Commons, or at least to have announced, certain reforms, the nature of which I think it hut right I should detail to you. And first, we should have proposed an entire reform it: the Church of Ireland, a reform
which would have cut at the root of the great abuses which have so materially
contributed to render that country a by-word to the nations of the earth, and have made it subieet to evils not of theory merely, but had overwhelmed it with
real distress—a distress which had prevented it reaching that prosperity which
God uad Nature designed, front the richness of its soil, as one of the most fertile placet on the globe, and bad overflowed the land with blood, arid had steeped the population in misery up to the very lips. The next bill we imended to
propose was a bill to supersede the L is,: Ciercion It is very true that the late Parliament has much to answer for in passing that bill—not only to you,
the present constituency, but also at the bar of posterity. And here I beg to assure you, if you will give trust to him who now speaks to you, it was wily on the understanding that amongst the Ministerial arrangements the Irish, Coer- cion Bill was not to form the basis for the goverument of Ireland. that my Lord Duncannon and myself joined the late Cabinet. Considering that I ain now standing here to give an account of my stswardship, it is right that I should tell you, that when the King did me the honour to propose, through his Prime Mi- nister, that I should join the Cabinet which was then about to be formed, I said to that nobleman, there must be one or two questions first answered as prelimi- naries, and without which I cannot enter the service of the Crown. Tile first question was, ' Is the Irish Coercion Bill to be passed ?' Lord Melbourne answered 'No.' My next question was as to the Irish Church Estaldision lit, and the appropriation of its superfluous rerenue ; as I never could conssilt to the absurd proposition, that the means designed for the maiatenauce of a ini. thwart establishment, in placers whet e the functions were not exercised, should not be appropriated to the service of the people. Such a proposition appears to me little short of madness. It is true that some influential gentlemen differed from nie, but none in the late Administration ; they were all agreed that this should be the principle and basis on which our Government was to be Armed—that instead of lighting against shadows, or contending against the reinuval of those things which could not be maintained according to the dictates of eiminion sense and common reason, we should at once come to the determinat:on, that, where the revenues were not wanted they should not be retained. It we, also intended by the late Cabinet, on the first meeting of Parliament, to give notice of another bill, for adjusting in a much better mariner than at present the English Church Establishment, and for a conmiutation of Tithes, on a plan which I fil oily believe would, when well considered, be satisfactory to all. We also intended to bring in measures of redress for all practical grievances antler which the Dissenters are labouring, so that the causes of real complaint might be completely removed. And I can speak with more certainty on this subject as I happened to be one of that section of that Cabinet to whom was intrusted tile preparation of those measures, and I have the bills now at home. I have now stated what was our intention at the first opening of the session, and I trust y ou will think with me, it was a tolerably good bill of fare. We however did out rest here; we went further ; we proposed to do for England what had already been done for Scotland, by introducing into this country great and salutary muni- cipai reforms. We were, in facts a Government opposed to monopoly in every sense of the word, the determined opponents of all monopoly of ;rower that was not exercised for the general good. Ire were resolved to go on in the spirit of the age, and to give to the country, as fiir as we could, the full benefit of the results that were expected to be dericed front the passing of the Reform Bill; and, in fact, to show that, though raised to an eminence above our fellow coun- trymen, as rulers we did not forget for one moment those to whom we owed that preeminent station and for whose good we had been called to the honour- able places we held."
Sir John then asked whether the Ministry were dismissed on ac- count of their determination to proceed with these reforms— "Was it because we contemplated these changes, that we were considered on- -worthy servants of the Crown? Was it because we leaned too much to the People, that we were discharged, as unfit bulwarks of the Throne ?—because we belong to the Democracy rather than the Aristocratical part of the com- munity, that we were thought not fit to be trusted with the reins of power ? It is not for me to say. But in an hour—I will not now call it an evil hour— an opportunity was taken to haul into the ears of our Royal Master what, I trust, will not turn out to have been poisou—though, certainly, it cannot be considered as a wholesome lesaon—the result uf which was the abrupt dismissal of the Miaisters; and l leave you to judge whether the disposition we manifested —whether the resolutions we had formed to carry on the great measures of reform—were the cause of that abrupt dismissal. A story Aas been told that there was disunion in the cabinet, that we were not all agread on certain great points. Upon my word, it is a fable from beginning to tad, for at no time during the existence of the Melbourne Administration, which was only about four months, was there the slightest division of opinion. And this, indeed, was but natural ; for it will be recollected, that when the changes oc- curred after the secession of the Stanley party, and then the retirement of Earl Grey, it inevitably followed that our Government was tendered more popular, having for its basis the measures which I have now detailed to you. Whether it will be the fate or not of the late Administration again to wield the destinies of this great nation, cannot now be knowu : it is yet in the womb of time. But one thing I am sure of, that this country will never bear a Government less Liberal than the last. I give it as my opinion, founded upon a political life of no very short duration, that so far from being less Liberal, it will in all probabi- lity be more Liberal and more determined in its measures than the one that has been dismissed."
OXFORDSHIPE. The three old Members, Lord Norreys and Messrs. Harcourt and Weyland, were returned on Monday. Lord Norreys has always been a Tory. Harcourt and Weyland voted for the Reform Bill ; but the speeches of their proposers, and their own, though not so decidedly, prove that they cannot be reckoned in the Anti- Tory list. Dr. Phillimore proposed and Mr. C. Peers seconded Mr. Ilarcourt. Dr. Phillimore said- " Gentlemen, these are feel ful times ; but I fear not, I despair not. There are, no doubt, secret and open assailants of our institutions—men who would rejoice in the downfal of all that is good and all that is honourable in our land: but there exists a spirit in Englishmen sufficient to withstand all their machina- tions; and I trust your unanimous voice this day will proclaini that you are willing and anxious to return those Members to Parliament who, whilst they are ever ready to reform its abuses, are determined never to lend their aid in de- stroying that Constitution which is the pride of Englishmen, the admiration of the world."
Mr. Peers, in reference to Mr. Harcourt's conduct in Parliament, delivered himself as follows-
" Ile will, I trust, act on the principles of that great statesman-so recently called to the helm of affairs, and whose manifesto, coupled with his speech at the Mansionhouse, has given the greatest satisfaction to all who are sincerely desirous for the gradual improvement, by the removal of the defects, in that constitution under which we have the happiness to live."
Mr. Coker, who proposed Mr. Weyland, spoke in the same strain- " Gentlemen, I, like my honourable friend who had preceeded me, approve of the mailifi.sto of Sir Robert Peel; and I will add, that I believe that right ho- nourable baronet intetels to carry on such reform as will be sati.factury to the country ; and I will say: this, that unless he so acts, he will neither obtain nor deserve our confidence. '
There was nothing in the reported speeches of either of the candi- dates that diminished the impression of their Tory partialities.
SCARBOROUGH. The defeat of Sir George Cayley, who was turned out to make way for Sir F. Trench, a toady of the Duke of Rutland, was brought about by the coalition of the Torres, with the Tory. Whig supporters of Sir John Johnstone,, whose connexion with Church diguitaries,, and very moderate politics, rendered him acceptable to them. The motto of Sir George Cayley's committee throughout the canvass and contest was, " Keep out the Tory ;" but the dominant party on Johnstone's committee assumed as their motto, " Bring in Sir John and Trench." This must not be forgotten, and at the next election we hope the Reformers will jealously watch Sir John John- stone. It is mainly tinough his refusal or reluctance to join heart and hand with the Reform candidate, that the independent Sir George Cayley has been ousted.
Bribery and intimidation of voters, promises of spirit-licenses, and land under the Corporation, have all been extensively employed. The poorer voters dared not support Sir George, for fear oldie Tory bankers. The feeling in the town was so strong against the successful candidates, that neither of them ventured to be chaired. The show of hands at the notnination was two to one for Sir George Cayley over Trench ; but the Returning Officers, a couple of Corporation hacks, decided otherwise, and in all disputes gave the point to the Tory. These facts, which have been communicated to us in such a way as to leave no doubt on our mind of their correctness, furnish strong additional evidence of the necessity of secret voting.
STAFFORDSHIRE. Mr. Littleton and Sir John 1Vrottesley were re- elected, on Saturday, for the Southern division. Both the Members delivered Whig speeches ; which neither require comment, nor afford matter worth extracting.
SURRY. Messrs. Denison, Long, and Barclay, the two former Liberals, the last a Tory, were nominated at Guildford on Monday. Mr. Denison delivered a decided Anti-Tory speech ; Mr. Barclay's tone was moderate—as he was addressing a constituency supposed to be Liberal. Mr. Long "spoke out." After observing that the disso- lution of Parliament was quite an unnecessary measure, he said be was disposed to analyze the precious list of the Ministry, because they were called upon to give them a fair trial.
They had tried them long enough, and they had had another trial of them during the short time they had been in office. They, or many of them were rank old Boroughmongers. The Duke of Wellington held an inferior situation among them, but it would be found that he would be first fiddle.
A poll was demanded by Barclay. The nomination of Messrs. Briscoe, Beauclerk, and Alsager, for the Eastern section, took place on Wednesday. Alsager is a decided Tory. Colonel Leicester Stanhope made him undergo the following catechism on the hustings.
Colonel Stanhope first asked, whether that gentleman would vote for a revi- sion of the Pen:ion-list? Mr. Alsager said that he would vote for the abolition of all pensions that had not been deserved. Colonel Stanhope—" Are you in favour of the Malt-tax ?" Mr. Alsager—" I have already mid that I would give that question my serious. consideration." ( Cheers and laughter.) Colonel Stanhope....." Will you vote for Triennial Parliaments?"
Mr. Alsager—" Decidedly not." colonel Stanhope—" Will you vote for the ahaditian of the Cornelaws? "
Mr. Alsager—" I can only give the same general answe r I have already given. The subject shall have my most careful and conscientious examination." (Groans and cheering.) WARWICKSHIRE. The place of nomination for the Northern division is Coleshill ; and on Tuesday last the Tories mustered there in great force, for it is in their strong district. The nomination of the candi- dates, Sir Eardly Wilmot, Mr. Dugdale, and Captain Gregory, took place. They were respectively proposed and seconded by Mr. Brace. bridge, and Captain Lake ; Sir E. Hartopp, and Mr. Grimes ; Mr. Bolton King, and Sir George Chetwynd. Sir Eardly Wilmot seems to be a very uncertain gentleman. Some pens of his speech were decidedly Liberal ; but lie approves of the King's summons to " men who would stand by him," and will riot pledge himself to oppose the Wellington Ministry.
Mr. Datgdale spoke like a hearty Tory: there can be no mistake about him.
The new candidate, Captain Gregory, made by far the best appear- ance of the three.
He came forward on the principles of the Reform Bills, and as a decided op. ponent of those delusive reforms contained in Sir Robert Peel's Tainworth mani- festo. Sir Robert Peel there told the country that he would nu: seek to repeal the Reform Bills: a most extraordinary pledge, but one, in his opini lllll equiva- lent to an assertion that the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, would outwork out the great ends of Parliamentaty reform. It was his opiniori, that if the country could be steered through its difficulties and properly governed, it niust be by men in whom the nation could place confidence ; and most certainly the new Ministers now in power were not the men. The People were asked to give them " a fair trial !" why, what had their whole polithial lives hem, hut one tissue of misgovernment and political evil, with little exception? They were like stupid boys, sent back eternally by their master for ignorance of their lessons. It was folly, therefore, for Alinisters to require a trial ; they were either unwilling or unable to improve or goveru liberally, Should he have the honour to represent the Northern division under the Administration of these men, he would, nevertheless, support every beneficial measure which Sir Robert Peel and his party might bring forward, u ithout pledgicg himself to support them a day longer. He firmly believed that any really liberal proposition by such bigoted Tories would only be claptraps, mere cloaks to their result to other and illibewit measures of government.
He declared himself to be personally interested in agriculture, and ready to defend its interests. With respect to the Malt. tax— They had been told that Mr. Dugdale had last yea! voted for the repeal of the Malt-tax ; but that candidate himself did not tell them in his address that hs would vote this year for the repeal. With respect to the Malt-tax motion last year, it was brought forward by Sir W. Ingilby, and supported by the Tory Members of the Uununons, with the notorious object of turning out the late Ministers by a side-wind. If proof was asked of his asaertion, let them look to the conduct of the Marquis of Chandos and the Duke of Buckingham. Whilst these gentlemen were out of office, they were most clamorous for the repeal of the Malt-tax, and had endeavoured cunningly to raise the credit of the Tories in the agricultural districts by the proposition. But what say these noblemen now ? Why, they cannot now hold out any hope or vote for a total repeal of the tax. Here the country had positive proof that the Tories were not sincere in their professions of anxiety to repeal that tax. He wished to ask Mr. Dug. dale if he would pledge himself, ii returned, to vote for the repeal. ;Great uproar and hooting among the 'furies and cries of " Dugslale don't give any pledge."]
He declared himself an advocate for the Ballot, the abolition of Church-rates, and other tneasures of thorough reform.
Alter Captain Gregory's speech was concluded, Mr. Dugdale said- " Aly gallant friend, Mr. Gregory, has been trying to involve me with the farmers. lie has asked tne if I will now vote for the repeal of the Malt-tax. I never will give any pledge." ( cheers, and cries if " ion arc shuffling .'") Mr. Charles Woodcock, a Tory attorney of Coventry, then under- took to catechise Captain Gregory : it will be seen by the following dialogue, that he did his employers no good by his officiousness.
Mr. Woodcock began by asking Captain Gregory, whether it was his inten- tion to oppose the present Ministry under all circumstances, regardless of any measures they might bring forward ? Mr. Glegory—. I have no confidence in the new Ministers. I will oppose them ; though I will support any good measures, if they briag such forward ; of which Air. Woodcock seems more sanguine than myself."
Alr. iVoolIcock—‘, Will Mr. Gregory support the Church, and oppose its se- paration from the State?
Mr. Gregory—" Church and State is an old party watchword, of which we know no more in these timem than of the mum in the moon. Will the learned gentleman explain his meaning? for I have declared myself a zealous member of, and friend to, the Church ?"
Mr. Woodcock—" I am sorry that any gentleman who aspires to represent us should not know what I mean by the connexion of Church and State I mean, if a motion is brought forward to the effect of separating Church and State, will you vote for it ?" After great uproar, Mr. Gregory said " I do not distinctly understand the drift of the learned gentleman ; but he knows that I am nut an advocate for sepa- ration. If I do not answer all Mr. Woodcock's questions, it may be because he puts them as no man can understand."
Mr. Woodcock—" Will Mr. Gregory vote for the appropriation of Church revenues to any other objects, or io support of any other religion ?"
Mr. Gregory said there was a Church Commissioa about to report on the re- venues of the Establishment. When he saw theit report, he should judge of its contents. lie did not expect that there would be any surplus revenue beyond the necessities of the State religion. He might desire a more equitable appor- uonment of the revenues, or that part of them should be applied to the moral education of the members of the Establishment.
Mr. Woodcock—" Are you for excluding the Bishops from the House of Lords?"
Mr. Gregory—" If there is one thing more desirable than another, it is that the Prelates of the Church should not be taken away so long from their more important religious duties."
Mr. Woodcock—" Are you favourable to the present system of free trade?"
Mr. Gregory replied—" if, as I said before, this pure and over-zealous par- tisan had not come primed and loaded with his charge of written questions, to discharge them at all hazards, without regard to fair dealing, but attended to my speech, he would have learned that I was an enemy to free trade, as calculated unjustly to destroy the remuneration of labour to the working weavers of my neighbourhood."
Mr. Woodcock—" Are you in favour of universal suffrage ?"
Mr. Gregory—." No. The object of these questions palpably is to extract answers prejudicial to me. I do not think they have succeeded. If they had desired to do this effectively, they should have selested some person of a different class." Mr. Woodcock here vociferated, in a rage, " What is Mr. Gregory but Political Unionist? he dined with them once." [A great uproar here ensued, an I cries of " Woodcock, put your hat on and finish.") Mr. Gregory—" I have been put into the witness-box, and examined and cross-examined ; but they have not discovered any thing to my discredit ; and I rep:at, that I stand before you as an independent country gentleman, whose political principles you well know ; a claimant, under most honourable circurs- stances, for your suffrages."
The show of hands was in favour of Dugdale and Wilmot, and poll was demanded for Gregory.
WORCESTER. A correspondent assures us that we have done Colonel Davies injustice in classing him among the Doubtful opponents of the Wellington Cabinet. He informs us that the Colonel enjoys the entire confidence of the Worcester Liberals ; and sends us an ex- tract from his address, which would seem to indicate a resolution to oppose the Duke. Colonel Davies says—" I have hitherto, in public atfairs, looked rather to measures than men, and supported propositions calculated to benefit the country, regardless of the quarter whence they originated : but this rule has its limits : and when I see once more ad- vanced to power, men whose whole lives have been spent in opposing wholesome reformations in Church and State, I find myself at the outset compelled to declare, that to a Government so composed I can- not give my support." This extract is pretty satisfactory : with a general resemblance to Sir James Graham's declaration on the same subject, it is a shade stronger than that gentleman's. But we have a few words to say in explanation of our placing Colonel Davies among the Doubtfuls. We never expected to find him on the Duke's side of the I louse, steadily supporting Tory measures. He was one to whont we alluded when we spoke of the " wayward independence " of certain gentlemen. We did not attribute servile motives to such, and are well aware that Colonel Davies has deserved the character of an independent man. But in his legislative capacity he seemed to us to have been capricious. His public life did not authorize our putting him among the undoubted opponents of the Duke. In this respect, he differs, or did differ, from Mr. Huine, who though always independent and some- time.; dogmatic enough, may be depended on when, as in the famous Russian- Dutch Loan affair, it comes to be it vital question between a Liberal Ministry and their Tory supplanters. On referring to the Division Lists of last session, as given in the Book of the Reformed Parliament, we find two or three votes of Colonel Davies, which tended to raise our doubts as to his uncom- promising opposition to the Duke, and also furnish examples of his waywardness. He voted against Tennyson's motion for shortening Parliaments, which many very moderate Whigs supported, and almost every Radical. Again, he voted against the Irish Tithe Bill, in the small Tory minority of 54 to O. Yet be voted in favour of Mr. Ward's Resolutions, and another by Mr. Hume based on a similar principle. We are very glad to find that there is a good prospect of the Tory being unseated by Colonel Davies; whose general to,efulness and in- dependence we are quite indisposed to depreciate, though we could not class him among the thoroughgoing opponents of the present Ministry.
SCOTL AND.
EDINBURGH. Monday was the day of nomination. Mr. John Lau-
der proposed and Bailhe Maclaren seconded Mr. Abercroinhy ; Mr. Rutherford and Mr. Forest of Cotniston proposed and seconded Sir Jolei Campbell ; Lord Ramsay was nominated by Mr. Robert For- syth ; and .1lr. Learmorith by Sir David Milne, seconded by Mr. Robert Werdlaw Ramsay. 2Ir. Abell:Rattily then addressed the assembly.
" Gentlemen, you have now heard from the respective movers and seconders the pretensions or grounds upon which the various candidates are put forward to represent you in Parliament. For myself, I may say that I have never come forward to represent this city in Parliament except on the solicitation of others, because it is not me that you support, but the cause, and I am only a humble instrument in your hands. When Parliament has been dis.olved unexpectedly oil :Omer occasions, it has generally happened that those particular grounds On h icil the King was advised to appeal to the sense of the country has been made distinctly known; but on the present occasion it is undoubtedly very difficult to discover the precise question on which we are called to decide. I myself do not linsw any reason why the late House of Commons should have been dissolved, except this, that the Ministry were of opinion that the House of Commons would not give them their confidence and support."
With regard to the reported intention of the Tories to break down the majority against them by repeated dissolutions, Mr. Abercromby observed, that he did not believe the King would suffer his prerogative to be used in such a manner. He asserted that great intimidation had been resorted to by the Edinburgh Tories.
• " You are all aware, and Sir John Campbell knows it as well as I, that there has been great intimidation used by the supporters of our opponents. [Loud and vehement disapprobation from Lord Ramsay; and Mr. Learmonth'a supporters, responded to by loud cheers from the opposite party.) I affirm the fact, that intimidation has been carried to a great extent during the canvass of this city. I tell you that my opponents, as I might be assured they would do, have like honest men disavowed all knowledge of the fact. Therefore, I ask toy opponents now to come forward and to declare, that which I know they must and will declare, viz. that they disavow it themselves, that they disap- prove of it on the part of their friends. . . . I say there are dishonest means used to deprive men of their rights; and I say that this is one of the mean efforts made to contract the large constituencies, and to defeat the Reform Bill. (Loud cheers and hisses.) I would not have said so much on this subject, if I had not received such information, and such communications on this sub- ject as made it my duty on my mind, to take this opportunity of publicly expressing the opinion I entertain on this subject." Sir John Campbell spoke for some time. He ridiculed Lord Ram- say's puffing of his ancestry ; and reminded him that the motto of the Duke of Argyll, the chief of the Campbells, was "viz ea nostra voco." Sir John hoped that his loss of office would not lessen his chance of being returned.
"1 am no longer his Majesty's Attorney-General—(Laughtee and eheers)--. but, gentlemen, I am truly plain John Campbell. (Laughter.) I appear, gentlemen, as your fellow-citizen ; and hope that you will not say that a Mt Is to be returned because be is in office and enjoys the favour of the Court, and because he is dismissed ft om office it follows that he is likewise to be dismissed from your confidence and favour. It used to be said that Scotsmen would always follow the party in power ; but that was when Scotland was not repro-.
sented,—I may rather my when fzeotland waa miarepreaented, and the voice of the People could not be heard ; hut not now, I should hope, when Scuts- men are famed for being rational, reflecting, and coosiatent Reformers."
Lord Ramsay and Mr. Learmonth were inaudible, owing to the vo- eiferations of the crowd. The speeches that are given to them in the papers are such as befit Tory candidates. Mr. Learmonth boasted of Ais illustrious descent, and seemed rather to despise Sir John Camp- bell for being only the son of a country clergyman-
" Certaiuly, my opponents are both Scotsmen ; one of them was born at Cupar, and he talks of my family not being an ancient one : but I believe my family is more ancient than his three times over—and I wore the same riVie chain which was worn by my grandfather. I am known to you all—perfectly well known—and I hope you will not think the less of me for that."
The show of bands was in favour of the Reformers. The polling commenced on Tuesday, and closed on that day with the following numbers—A bereromby, '2391 ; Campbell, 2352 ; Lord Ramsay, 14$7; Learmonth, 1405. On ‘Vednesday, the final numbers were—for A her- cromby, '2963; Campbell, 2Ft53; Ramsay, 1716; Learmunth, 1608. So the defeat of the Tories is complete.
EDINBURGH COUNTY. The County candidates, Mr. William Gib- son Graig and Sir George Clerk, were put in nomination on Tuesday ; Sir George by Sir John Hope, seconded by Mr. Comb o11tdhetiglis; Mr. Craig by Sir John Dalrymple, seconded by Mr. Finnic, farmer, of Swainstone. The show of hands was in favour of Gibson Craig, and a poll was demanded for Clerk. The Reformer was well received ; the Tory official could not have obtained a hearing, but for the inter- ference of Mr. J. A. Murray in his behalf. There is nothing that requires extructiog in either of the speeches.
PERTHSHIRE. Sir George Murray and Mr. Fox Mattle were nomi• rated on Monday. Sir George was proposed and seconded by Mr. Small Keir, and 111r. Arnot; Mr. Mottle, by Mr. Nairne of Donsi- nane, and Mr. Condie. Sir George then attempted to address the electors ; but not a sentence he delivered was audible, so loud and in- cessant were the groans and shouts with which he was greeted. Mr. Maule, evidently the popular candidate, was well received, and spoke with great effect. Ile referred to the state of the country just before the late changes, and to the Tory proceedings subsequent to the dis- missal of Ministers-
" In November last, the country was in a state of tranquillity, which it had not known for SUMO time before; trade was tecovering from the shock which it had received, through the agitation antecedent to, and consequent upon, tbe passing of the Reform Bill ; and the People, resting in hopes of obtaining speedily those improvements to which they looked, and knowing that the Mel- bourne Administration was one in which they could repose their full contiderwc, were beginoing to withdraw their attention from public affairs, and to fix it on their own, when suddenly that Government vanished from under their vet). eyes. Then followed an act, which I take this opportunity of stating, that I consider to have been as unconstitutional as it was unprecedented in the annals of this country— I mean the Duke of Wellington's holding the key of every office in the State, and occupying every avenue to the Crown. Gentlemen, it lets -always been my opinion, that much as the Duke of Wellington has done for this count' y, in fighting her battles in the field, he never has had any true and proper knowledge of the state of public feeling in it. And no greatei proof Of this ignorance can be found, than in his atttibuting the peace and tiatiquillity a the country at this trying moment, to any confidence which the People had in him. (Laud cheers and laughter.) The real fact is, that this was owing to the moral intelligence which exists among the people—to the genet al iolor- anation diffused amongst all classes, and t'or knowledge id-their own stiength, as given them under the Reform Bill, which gave them the constitotioual it led IN of obtaining redress for every grievance. Gentlemen, after this an Administration was forint 41, amongst whom we might have expected to see sonic traces of a Reformer ; but if you look over the list, you will not find one individual amongst them w ho did not oppose the Reform Act from beginning to end ; and one of the first acts of that Administration was, to dissolve the first Reformed Parlia- ment, and to produce that agitation which they now preteod so loudly to la- ment. As I think it impossible the country Call place any confidence in men, who, for the sake of getting into power, have deserted the avowed opinions of years, I that is an additional reason why I stand forward, upon the present Occasion, to oppose one of their Cabinet."
Mr. Manic did not spare Sir George Murray on the subject of his violated pledge to the Dissenters. While be was speaking on this point the whole assembly was very quiet-
" Doting my canvass, I have all along made a point of -avoiding allusion to this subject, except to the extent of stating my own opinions on it ; as I stated in my original address, that I conceived the Dissenters to have been ill-used at the hands of their late Representatives, I feel bound, in his presence to defend the charge. ( Great cheers.) As I was on these very husttoga at the time, I could not be mistaken as to the statement which Sir Gem ge Murray made, that lie was a friend to the admission of Dissenters into the English Universities. I acquit him entirely of having pledged himself to 3Ir. Wood's Bill, or the lbill of any other individual, introduced or abuot to be introduced into Parliament, regarding the Dissenters ; but he cettainly recognized the principle, that Dissenters ought to obtain admission into the Universities; and as a proof of the sense they entertained of his liberality, I may mention a circumstance which has occurred to my recollection at this moment, anal it is this—one of his own supporters, by way of consoling me for our defeat, said to me, ' I believe you will find our man as good a Whig as your own.' (c/seers and laughter.) Before going fin ther, I may explain in one word the mode of proceeding with bills before Parliament. When a bill is introduced, it is read a first time formally, in order that Members may be put in possession of the subject. At the second reading, those who are against its principle, give their voices against it ; but those who, though op- posed to some of the details, recognize the principle, suffer it to go into com- mittee; and, upon the third reading, if they find that the details have not been amended to thew satisfaction, they may vote against it, without being liable to the slightest charge of inconsistency. Now, gentlemen, Sir George Murray -voted against the second reading of Mr. Wood's Bill, and left me no other alternative than to assume that he was adverse to its principle. Gentlemen, in consequence of that, I, as an elector, could not have supported him : and /his conduct must now be judged by the constituency to whom he has appealed. (Immense cheering.) Before I part with this subject, let us com- pare Lord Stanley's mode of acting on that question, with that of Sir George Nut ray, his Lordship had expressed himself adverse to some of the details of the bill, yet, recognizing its principle, he gave it his support on the second reading. I shall now state my own opinion upon this subject. As a friend to civil and religious libetty, I recognize, in this Protestant country, the right of every one of choosing that path in religion which he considers most conducive to bus manful t here, and his safety hereafter; and I shall be always au advocate of any measure having for its object the relief of the Dissenters from those civil disabilities and temporal inconveniences which they suffer from a conacien- &Us difference tvith the Established Church of the country."
Though he laud not many deeds of his own to refer to, yet he had come of a good stock- . . . " being the son of one who, when the cause of the People was at a discount, maintained it boldly and steadily in the eleven succeszive Parliaments during which he sat in the House of Commons." ( Three cheers fur Lord Panmure.)
IRELAND.
Dcaux. We cannot give more than a sketch of the proceedings on the hustings on Monday, when the candidates were nominated. Mr. O'Connell was of course, the principal orator. He seemed re. solved to keep every one in good-humour ; and even wheedled and fluttered the Orangemen in bit very best style of blarney. He found it necessary to spout two or three flourishes about tile Repeal, notwith- standing he has avowedly thrown it overboard for the present ; and it is to be noted, that this was done evidently with a view to please the Dublin Orangemen, quite as much us the Catholics. Mr. Ruthven Will as prosy as usual ; except in one part of his speech, where he gave die Lord Mayor, Arthur Perrin, the lie in the most direct terms, on account of that gentleman having signed a public notice that he, Ruth- ven, did not possess the requisite qiialification for a Alember of Par- liament. Mr. Shaw spoke fur Mr. West, and Mr. G. A. Hamilton.
for himself. l'he two latter are the 'Tory candidates. The polling commenced on Tuesday ; and at the close of the day, the numbers were said to be—O'Corotell, 886; Ruthven, 882; West, Se; Hamil- ton, 864. On Wednesday, the numbers given were—West, 1683; Hamilton, 1679; O'Connell, 1637; Ruthven, 16;20. But it is sup.. po•ed that these numbers are not accurate. In consequence of Ituthven's attack on the Lord Mayor, a duel was fot ght between the two gentlemen ; the particulars of which are thus given by the Dublin correspondent of the Times.
"Tint Lord Mayor, on his return from the hustings, as a preliminary step to a satisfactory settlement of the unpleasant affair, appointed Sir John K. James
(the City Treasurer) his hieum Icarus ; and having thus laid aside his civic
dignity, sent another friend (Captain Cottingham, Secretary to the Conservative Society) to demand an apology from Mr. Ruthven. The latter refused to inck-R any apology, explanation, or concession ; and referred the Platter to his
fr-end, the well-known Ebenezer Jacob, ex M.P. ; who was delighted at the plosiect of a fight, and conducted the matter so admirably, that he had the parties en the strand of the North Bull of Dollymount, beyond Clontarfe, at norm precisely, ready for action. Three friends aside only were permitted to lie presen..
" Captain Cottingham, in consideration of some previous engagement, wished tr fix two o'clock p.m. as the hour of combat ; but Ebenezer would not hear of any sit hi idle delay. No, by G--,' he exclaimed, 'if any friend Ruthven is to be shot, the sooner it is done in the day the better, as we must see about n her candidate immediately ! G—'s blood man 1 you wouldn't have us lose the election was an appeal that Captain Cottingham had no logic at hat d capeble of resisting, so lath patties proceeded amicably to the strand, wl i .11 ha I just been left dry by the ebb. ‘c here Ebenezer won the toss fiur his friend, assumed the pas, and issued his
ultimatum in the decisive tone of au adept. ' Gentlem• said he, ' mind ine—. I shall give the n Ord quick ; and, by G—, if either of yon hang tire an instant, I shall mate it a personal matter. Fire !—The shots passed harmlessly. Mr.
l'eri pis:ol was a hair-trigger affair (of which, I believe, he was not aware), and went off at time first touch, before he had well raised it at the startliug summons of Ebenezer. The ball entered the sand a short distance from his own feet. Captain Cottirighato then demanded an apology ; but Ebenezer peremptorily rribied to listen to any such nonsense ;' awl another pair of pistols were disc! argot with as little effect. Captain Cottinghani again
humanely applied for such apology or explanation as mire gentleman might give and another receive. But Ebenezer was as ;unmovable as Sir Lucius 0' Ts ipper. Gentlemen,' said lie, I'm determined that my friend Ruthven shall stand there to be shot at till he siuks in the wet sand ; but die Devil a word of apology or explanation you'll get out of him or me till the Repeal of the
Union, if you choose to stay firing at him so lung. If you dou't like that, take your man away; but there Ruthven shall stay, at all hazards, till the field is his own.'
"‘ The friends of Mr. Perrin, thanking that he had done enough to vindicate• his honour, and despairing of producing any good effects on Ruthven by staying
to shoot at him, I. I on Ebenezer by staying to argue with him, took that gentle- man off the suited, and returned to the city. Ruthven and his friend Ebenezer Returned in the rear ; the Trades Unionists anxiously coining out to inquire after the safety of their favourite, and heartily rejoicing when they found nothing but the old hole in his hat which attracted so much merrinteut at the hustings yesterday."
Mr. John David Latoucbe, the Liberal banker, gave his vote in favour of the Tory candidates, in order, as he avowed at the polling-
place, to mark his disapprohatien of the system of intimidation prac- tised by the O'Connell party. Mr. Latouche might have expressed his opinion without voting fur the Tories, which was an act of treason to the Liberal party.
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