THE GENERAL ELECTION.

MEMBERS RETURNED.

(The letters x and N heading the columns of figures in the following list indicate "Ministerialist " and " Non-Minis erialist" respectively—the only simple classifi- cation possible in the present confused state of parties. The Italic type denotes that the Member is altogether new to Parliament, or that he has changed from the place he represented at the dissolution.]

M N M N M N Continued from

241 280 FERMANAGH COUNTY NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, S.

last week Sir A. B. Brooke.. 1 R. H. Vyse 1 Aston COUNTY_ Archdall.. 1 R. Knightley 1 Sir W. Verner , . .I - Ft.zwrswran NORTHUMBERLAND, N. Hon. J. Caulfeild . - 1 Hon. E. Mostyn .. - 1 Lord Loraine 1 - AYR BURGHS GALWAY COUNTY Lord Ossulston 1 - J. Crawford - 1 Sir T. Burke... ... - 1 NORTHUMBERLAND, 8. AYR COUNTY Copidifi Belleww. . .. - 1 W. B. Beaumont.. - 1 Mr J. H. Blair . I - GLOUCESTER, WEST H. Liddell 1 BAN PFSHI RE Nigel Eingscot e. . . - 1 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, N. M. Grant 1 - R. B. Hale 1 - Lord H. Bentinck 1

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BEDFORDSHIRE HEREFORDSHIRE Lord 12. Clinton... - 1 Hastings Itussen . - 1 James K. Xing . 1 QIMIlltea Conin^r Col. Gilpin 1 - T. W. Booker . . 1 Sir C. Coote - 1 BERKSIII HE Hon. C. S. B. Han-M. Dunne 1 R. Palmer I bury 1 - Roscommon COUNTY Lord Barrington... 1 - HERTFORDSHIRE F. French - 1 G. H. Vansittart. . 1 T. P. Halsey 1 D. Grace - 1 BUCKINGHAMSHIRE Sir H. Meux 1 - Ross-sunta B. Disraeli 1 Sir Bulwer Lytton 1 _ Sir J. Matheson... - 1 C. G. Dupre .... 1 - ISLE OF WIGHT 80xnaswr, Es=Hon. Hon. C. Cavendish - 1 Col. Harcourt 1 - W. Miles 1 CARRICKFERGUS KENT, EAST F. W. Knatchbull 1 : Captain Cotton ..". 1 SIT E. Daring 1 -.. SURREY, WEST Cavan Covsvv W. Deedes 1 -'" H. Drummond.... I - Hn. T. P. Maxwell 1 - HERAT Comers W. J. Evelyn 1 - Sir John Young .. - 1 Henry Herbert ... - i SUTHERLANDSHIRE CLON MEL Hon. T. Brown ... - 1 Marg. of Stafford. - I Hon. C. Lawless.. - 1 LINCOLNSHIRE, NORTH WARWICKSHIRE, 8.

Coax COUNTY R. A. Christopher. I Lord Brooke 1 .• E. B. Roche - 1 B. Stanhope I Lord Guernsey.... 1 .. Vincent Scully.... - 1 LONDONDERRY WESTMEATH COUNTY CORNWALL, EAST T. Bateson 1 W. H. Megan .... - I A. Robartes I Captain Jones .. 1 P. Urquhart - 1 N. Kendall 1 - LONGFORD COUNTY WICKLOW COUNTY CORNWALL, WEST P. Orecilk 1 Lord Milton I E. Pendarves I R. M. Fox - 1 F. Hume 1 - Sir C. Lemon - I. LOUTH. COUNTY WIGTONSHIRE CUMBERLAND, EAST G. Fortescue 1 J. Dalrymple I Hon. C. Howard.. I 7'. Kennedy- - 1 WILTS, NORTH W. Marshall 1 MF.ATH COVNTY Walter Long 1 .. DENBIGHSHIRE P. Lucas - 1 J. S. Sotheron .,.. 1 - Sir W. W. Wynn.. 1 - M. E. Corbally - 1 WILTS, SOUTH M. Biddulph - 1 MIDDLESEX S. Herbert - I DERBYSHIRE, NORTH Lord 11. Grosvenor - 1 W.. Wyndham - 1 Holt. G. IL Cavan- R. Osborne - 1 YORKSHIRE, Wasx dish - 1 NEWRY Richard Cobden... .:. I W. Evans ..... - 1 IV. lark - 1 Evelyn Denison... - ,t DUBLIN COUNTY Noavotx, War J. H. Elemiluort... 1 W. Bagge 1 - 294 226 T. E. Taylor I B. P. Beratinch. ... 1 - ESSEX, NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, N.

Sir J. T. Tyrell 1 - T. P. Maunsell ...,1 -

Maj. W. Hamsford 1 Augustus Suifford.. 1 -

ENGLAND.

BERKSHIRE. The contest was a sham from the first, originating in a series of mistakes and failures. Mr. Pusey resigned ; nevertheless Mr. Monck was advertised to propose him. But he staid away ; and, finding that Free-trade was likely not to have a candidate, Major Court proposed Mr. Walter, without his consent and against his wish. That mainly ac- counts for the poll.

Vansittart .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1741 Palmer .. . • • • • • • • .. .. .. 1705 Barrington .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1636 Walter .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 155

ERCILINGHAMORIRE. The contest, which was never dangerous to either of the three old Members, terminated with these numbers—

Dupre •• •• •• • • •• • • • • • • 2000 Disraeli .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1973 Cavendish .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1403

CORNWALL, EAST. The election was characterized by disgraceful riot- ing at Liskeard and St. Austell. The miners came up in strong bodies, and beat the Conservatives. Sir John Duckworth was struck by a stone.

The Riot Act was read, but not the least notice was taken of it. At the close of the poll, the numbers were- Robartes .. 2608

IIHREFORDSRAE. This election has terminated in a singular way. On Saturday, a mob stormed the Rose polling-booth, captured the origi- nal poll-books and the cheek-books, and destroyed them. It became a question whether the Sheriffs could legally make a return, although the three Protectionists, Booker, King, and Banbury, had a clear majority from the other polling-places. The Reverend A. Clive, the seconder of Mr. Cornwall Lewis, suggested that the case should be specially reported to the House of Commons, and that the House should be left to deal with it. Mr. Booker submitted, that primary evidence of the poll at Ross not being forthcoming, secondary evidence was admissible. Mr. Lewis con- tended, that the return could not be made in accordance with the 2d Wil- liam IV. chap. 45, without the production of the poll-books, and that the act did not recognize secondary evidence. In his opinion, a special re- turn, such as that at Knaresborough, [where three of the candidates polled equal numbers,] must be made by the High Sheriff, and the facts Inquired into by a Committee of the House. Ultimately, declarations of the several Under-Sheriffs, as to the manner in which the poll-books

were seized, were put in and read ; but Mr. Lewis's agent objected, that the evidence supplied by them as to the poll was not good, inasmuch as it was only given upon the authority of books kept by slip-clerks" and not by " check-clerks." Shortly afterwards, the High Sheriff stated the numbers to be- 3167 3143 3030 2836 He therefore declared the three former duly elected.

Hxareonnisuraz. At the poll, the three Protectionist candidates car-

ried all before them. The official declaration places them as follows—

Lytton .. .. 2190 Trevor .. 2043 Bosanquet .. 1868

Luecoursitnta, Nonni. The poll terminated as follows ; the Whig Protectionist being rejected— Christopher . 5585

Stanhope.. 5577 Cholmeley. .. 4777

MIDDLISRX. A contest marked by strong feeling on both sides has been carried on for one of the seats of the Metropolitan County. The Tories fulfilled their purpose of putting forward the Marquis of Blandford, with the "No-Popery cry, as an opponent of Mr. Osborne, who was styled " the Pope's candidate." The nomination took place on Saturday, in front of the Town-hall at Brentford. Lord Enfield and Mr. R. Hanbury were the proposer and seconder of Lord Robert Grosvenor ; Mr. Joseph Hume M.P. and Sir George Colebrook M.P. performed the same offices for Mr. Osborne ; Mr. Pownall, the Chairman of Middlesex Magistrates, and Mr. De Burgh, acted as friends of the Marquis of Blandford.

Lord Robert Grosvenor made a quiet speech, politely deprecating the game that the Marquis of Blandford had played in coming forward, and uttering some of the mildest opinions of Whig-Radicalism. As to the in- tentions of Government, he said that he, in common with every other elector in England, had not the slightest idea what policy they were going to pursue. " The members of the Government are at issue on the subject, and appeal to have thrown overboard the old cry of the three tailors of Tooley Street, ' Measures, not men.' Mr. Walpole, a distinguished member of the Govern- ment, was quite eager on the subject ; and his language reminds me of the old showman of Exeter Champ, who, exhibiting a white bear, said, 'Valk up, ladies and gentlemen, and see this 'ere Polar or great sea bear. This is an hambiguous hanimal, that can't live on the land and dies in the water.' The present Government are equally hambiguous hanimals.' The Earl of Derby, my kinsman, is one of the best men and worst politicians I ever knew."

Mr. Osborne was received with great uproar. In vain the Marquis of Blandford and Mr. Pownall besought the mob to be silent. They raged for several minutes, and during the whole of Mr. Osborne's speech in- terruption was pretty constant. The rude mob who began it were driven off by the Police ; but it was continued by a mob of gentlemen on the hustings. For some time Mr. Osborne had to contend with them, strik- ing out sentences between the intervals of uproar, and sketching fancy portraits of his opponents as they made themselves prominent To one storm of hooting he replied-

" If you have a spark of English feeling, you will concede to me a fair hearing; and that exciteable gentleman, whom I recognize as a sturdy Pro- tectionist, will not under a cry of 'No Popery ' cloak his aspirations for a return to Protective duties." [Yelling, whistling, cries of. "No red hats!" "No Popery !" during which Mr. Sheriff Cotterell crossed over and endea- voured to quiet the hustings friends of the Marquis of Blandford.]

When he was going to tell them on what grounds the contest proceeded, he was interrupted : on which he said-

" I will trouble my amiable friend beyond, who has just planted out his face with such a large array of mustachios—("Oh, oh !" shouting, and cries of " Personality !")—he is a brave soldier, but rather a noisy citizen—to con- cede me a quarter of an hour's patience, and I will answer for anything I have said. Therefore, let them, if they have the hearts of mice, come here and answer what I have to say : but do not let my voice be lost amid the cries of a mob of gentlemen who live at ease."

Here there intervened a long storm of shouting. When Mr. Osborne recovered the ear of his audience, he made an attack upon the Marquis of Blandford and his claims ; striking in here and there some political principle or definition, and never failing to reply smartly to the remarks of the "gentlemen on his left," the supporters of Lord Blandford.

"My opponent is brought forward on account of what is called his high Protestantism and his sincere advocacy of the Church. I have nothing to say to that; but I wish merely to make this remark—(Renewed uproar front the supporters of Lord Bisindford)—and I beg to call the attention of the gentlemen from Isleworth [alluding to a mob of rough-looking fellows who had made their appearance while the proceedings were going on]—those friends of the Magistrates, who, if they were brought up before them for taking a hare, would be sure to get three months—(A Voice, " Oh, yes ! it the people !")—I want merely to say, that as to Lord Blandford being

the friend of the Church, there is a remark embodied in four lines of a popu- lar poet, which I will repeat for you-

" A man may cry? Church, church,' at every word,

Without more piety than other people ; The don's not reckoned a religious bird

Because he keeps caw-cawing from the steeple.'

But the noble Marquis is brought forward by a section of the Magistrates headed by their Chairman, a gentleman so justly popular with all classes that he has been twice rejected from these hustings as a candidate; and they have discovered that the noble Marquis is a sort of Protestant St. George—the tutelary saint of the liberties and constitution of the country." He then showed how Lord Blandford voted for the permanency of the Maynooth grant, on the 3d of April 1845. On that occasion Mr. Osborne voted for the amendment of Mr. Ward, which was, that if Maynooth was to be endowed at all, it ought to be from the funds of the Irish Establish- ment.

"You wanted to rob the Church !" exclaimed somebody. "Yes," said Mr. Osborne, "that bloated Irish Church which is a disgrace to you and to the institutions of the country. Where was Lord Blandford on that occasion ? De voted against us; and at the eleventh hour he condescends to drag the ermine of his nobility in the dirt, to pander to the basest, the most wicked, the most untrue of all cries—the cry of 'No-Popery.' " So it was with Free-trade. "It may be well to deceive the people, when driven into a hole, to tell the people you are Free-traders. I tell you, you are not. You are wolves in sheep's clothing ; you have the spint of sheep, the cunning of foxes, and the rapacity of wolves, seeking whom you may devour." The contest would be fought on higher grounds than many of them thought. It was the contest of Protestantism against persecution.

Somebody suggested that Mr. Osborne " wanted a place" : he replied that if he had wanted a place he might have had one ; but he thought a Mem- ber for the Metropolitan Coonty ought not to hold office under Government.

Uproar saluted the Marquis of Blandford when he advanced to follow Mr. Osborne ; who claimed for him a better hearing than he had got. "Thank you for the rope, Mr. Osborne," said Lord Blandford, in allusion to one of Mr. Osborne's ehetorical figures. Rope he had, and a very good use he made of it. One of his points was a new definition of tolerance— "I am for perfect religious toleration: in the Protestant religion alone there is perfect religious toleration. What would be thought of a man who would let everybody out of prison, so that people should run the risk of having their pockets picked? A certain amount of restraint is necessary to be imposed on those religions which show a domineering and grasping ten- dency. Certain restrictions ought to be placed on the Roman Catholic Church, because it is only by such means that fair justice and toleration can be secured."

Another of his pointed sayings was, that "game is as much private property as chickens."

The show of hands was in favour of Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr. Osborne. The Marquis of Blandford demanded a poll.

Some allegations were made by Mr. Osborne and his agents against Mr. Sheriff Swift, who had, it was said, put off this election to suit his own convenience in canvassing the county of Sligo. These charges were ve- hemently denied by the Under-Sheriffi—Mr. Swift having set out half an hour before for Sligo.

Mr. Osborne met some of his constituents in the evening at the Belvi- dere, a tavern which stands just on the crown of the Pentonville hill in the New Road. He made a stirring speech there, and among other things, two important communications. Speaking in favour of the ballot, he instanced the Rochester election, where the Government screw had been turned on very stiffly. His father [Mr. Bernal, former Member for Ro- chester, but defeated at this election] had informed him that poor electors came to him with tears in their eyes and told him they could not vote for him, for if they did they would lose their situations.

Government influence and intimidation had been carried to the most unprecedented extent ; and, he believed, when Parliament met they would have such a scene of corruption and intimidation exposed as made him tremble for the consequences. At Derby, for instance, they found a man with 400 sovereigns in a bag sitting in a dark room ; on that man's person a letter was found, which Mr. Osborne had seen that morning, and it was sealed with the seal of the Carlton Club. It was his belief that the letter, which was signed with the initial letters " W. B.," would turn out to have been written by an intimate friend of Lord Derby and a member of his Government. He never could mention the name of Mr. Beresford without strong feelings of political detestation; for he thought him the most objec- tionable person he had ever met with, and he had told him so to his face.

Mr. Osborne was waylaid by a party of his constituents at King's Cross, just after the closing of the poll on Wednesday, but before the result was known : made a capital speech, brimming with fun, satire, and sense. Admitting the uncertainty .of his position on the poll; he was liberal in gratitude and thanksgiving. He said—" My feelings are with you - my wishes are with you—(A Voice, " Maynooth !")—and to you who call out 'Maynooth '—to that gentleman whom I see—I accept the omen, he has crape round his hat, he is in mourning for Lord Blandford and his defeat—to you, I say, I am not to be deterred by a base and bigoted cry ; and you, in friends, are not to be deceived, I trust, by what is so evidently fallacious. I am obliged to my friend with the crape round his hat—I am obliged to my friend with an apparent smile on his face but a mournful feeling in his heart--I am obliged to him, because I anticipate that he will follow as chief mourner at the funeral of Protection ; and I should feel still more indebted to him if, on this occasion, he would figure as a mute." (Laughter and cheering.) He told them not to be deluded by the "No-Popery" cry. "It is not the Pope ; it is bread, it is tea, it is sugar, it is your beef that is in question. That is the real Papal bull." A cab bearing Lord Blandford's Placard passed with a portmanteau on the top. "Let me show you a good omen," he exclaimed, pointing to the cab—" the Marquis is going out of town. If my vision does not deceive me, it is not the Marquis who is inside, but the Duke of Marlborough himself. (Great laughter.) Give him three cheers, and send him home. A boy fell from the top of a pole whither he had climbed to see the fun : "Ah ! there is sometimes a danger which we little anticipate in being at the head of the poll." (Laughter.) His final remarks were in a higher strain—" Whether tomorrow's sun shall see me at the head or at therbottom of the poll, I shall feel persuaded of having fought a battle in which the real principle of Protestantism was involved ; and if I am beaten, I shall retire to private life with the feeling that I never gave a vote which was unfavourable to the interests of my fel- low man, be he in what station he might; that I never uttered a sentiment that was unworthy of a Christian man. I draw no distinction between sects. There is a wide Christianity, which spreads its great branches over all. Suf- ficient for me is the sentiment, 'Do as you would be done by.' " • NORTHUMBERLAND, NORTH. Alnwick was the scene of nomination; If on day the time; and Sir George Grey, Lord Ossulston, and Lord Lo- vaine, were the candidates.

Lord Ossulston was the.firet to speak. His speech turned upon one point—that Lord Derby alone could carry on the Queen's Government. He described the Whigs as being slaves to their taskmasters the Anti- Corn-law League. Lord Derby would restrain Democracy, and uphold our constitution, as it always had been upheld, upon "property and in- telligence," and not "merely upon numbers." He surrendered Protee.- don.

Sir George Grey made an ordinary electioneering speech, of great length, upon topics which have been worn threadbare during the last month. He commented on the ambiguous position of the Government ; ho warned the farmers that they might lose more than they would gain by a readjustment of taxation ; and he asserted that he had as firmly up- held our "glorious constitution" as Lord Ossulston or Lord Derby. He had been charged with having allied himself with Cobden and Bright : this he replied to as follows- " There is, no further alliance between me and any other man, be he Mr. Cobden or any one else, than an alliance of principle. If I find a man agrees with me in an important principle, I rejoice to act with him. I rejoice all the more if I find that he has been selected as the representative of the largest constituency in the empire ; and whatever constituency a man may have been sent by, if I find him dangerous or unsafe I shall always offer him my

determined opposition." . He charged his opponents with having exercised "undue influence" against him; and he warned them that such practices are the best ar- guments for the vote by ballot. Lord Lovaine did not distinguish himself in the art of speaking. For the rest, he merely. echoed L.ord Ossulsten in his views on public affairs. The show of hands was in favour of the Derbyitea ; and Sir George Grey demanded a poll. . . . •

The official declaration will net be made till Monday : meanwhile the following is given as the result- Louvaine .. 1414

Oasulaton .. 1335

NORTHUMBERLAND, Bourn. There were riots at Hexham, on account of the defeat of Mr. Ridley. The numbers were—

Beaumont .. .. 2306 Norrirroneatskinth, Nonni. Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Robert Clinton were elected without contest, at Mansfield, on Saturday. Lord Robert Clinton is a Free-trader. Lord Henry Bentinck defined himself as a supporter of " the industrious producer against the idle consumer," and explained that to mean, Derbyite.

There were three paramount objects which the Government of Lord Derby sought to obtain. First,justice to the landed interests; secondly, security for the Church ; and thirdly, a firm resistance to the progress of Democratic opinions,—those Democratic notions which had been unfurled by Sir James Graham at Carlisle, shaken in the face of Lord Derby by the Duke of New- castle in the House of Lords, acknowledged by Mr. Bright on behalf of the Manchester School, and subscribed to by Archbishop Cullen on the part of the Irish Brigade.

SURREY, EAST. The official declaration was made on Monday, in the Town-hall at Croydon, as follows—

Locke Xing 2600 Antrobus 2064 Cleaaby 1928 In order to make future elections secure for the Liberals, Mr. Aloe& recommended the electors to become holders of small freeholds, and to imitate the men of the West Riding. The late contest, he said, bad been described as a " beautiful piece of electioneering," and as a " neck and neck " race, such as was scarcely ever run before for any " Derby " ; and it would not do to place the Liberal cause in such a Ismardous position any more.

SURREY, WEST. Mr. Henry Drummond, Mr. W. T. Evelyn, and Colonel Challoner, were nominated at Guildford on Saturday. Mr. Drummond made an eccentric speech, containing some amusing and in- structive passages. He was telling his audience bow he had tried to .get official salaries reduced. " Why don't you reduce the tithes ? " naked a malcontent in the crowd. " Because if I do, I rob the parson, and pocket the money myself," was the ready answer. He drew an odd picture of Whig good government and the state of parties. " When I entered the House, I found a party for whom I bad no preju- dice or affection governing the country well. Lord Palmerston was admi- rably conducting the foreign affairs, so that in no part of Europe could an Englishman be insulted without receiving redress. Sir George Grey was at the Home Office, managing incomparably that department. We had the very best Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland that I ever remember • and the whole presided over by Lord John Russell with great firmness and temperance. On the other side, I found a party broken to pieces : and the evil that Sir Robert Peel did in breaking up his party was this, that all confidence in public men is gone for ever. I found a party without a principle of unity, and without a head. Sometimes they had Lord George Bentinck, sometimes Mr. Disraeli ; and sometimes, like Cerberus, they had three heads, having also Lord Granby. I resisted every motion of a faction to turn out a Go- vernment that were doing well, although my political principles were in op- position to them. You are going to send me into the House of Commons again; and I shall find circumstances existing very analogous to those which I have described. I shall find at the head of affairs a nobleman who has been declared by Lord John Russell himself to be the only man fit to con- duct them. The Government have as yet done little or nothing ; but Sir John Pakington has as far eclipsed Lord Grey at the Colonial Office as it was possible for one Minister to eclipse another. On the other side, I shall find a party without a head and without a principle,—SirJames Graham trying to pitch Lord John Russell into the House of Lords, in order that he may lead the House of Commons ; and Lord John separated from his party, and having doubts whether they will consent to serve under his leadership again or not. As the Times said, Lord John sold Ireland aforetime to O'Connell ; the question now is whether he has net sold England to Manchester ?"

A charge of coalescing with Mr. Evelyn to save expense was brought for-

ward. I have," said Mr. Drummond, " no objection to join any one as I have joined Mr. Evelyn ; and, as a teat of my sincerity, I will make a proposal to Colonel Challoner—Mr. Evelyn pays half my expenses, he shall pay the other half." (Great laughter.)

Twenty-seven years ago, he had told them that their fortunes were net safe without corn-leases. "In the pamphlet which I then addressed to you, I said, that the landlords' monopoly of corn was the highest tax that the people had to pay ; that the landlords and their families were the only per- sons who gained by that tax ; that all other classes, including the farmers.

were injured by that tax ; that, of all taxes, it pressed most hardly upon the labourer; and that the gain to the landlords by that tax was not so great as the loss to the people." He warned them not to be led away by the " No-Popery " cry to give up in the smallest degree their Protestant principle of religious toleration. Further, he said—' In the House of Commons I wanted to make Mr. Spooner separate his motion, so that we might get at some understanding of what it was we were going to inquire into : for if 'it were intended' to inquire alto the religious opinions and practices of the Roman Catholics, I contend that we have no right to do so ; but if you are going to inquire into their po- litical movements, that you have a perfect right to do. The same factaon that sought to overthrow Lord Palmerston two years ago is at the bottom of this movement ; and if the country will not be at the pains of making it- self acquainted with the subject, it will incur the danger of violating that great principle of religious toleration that you must ever hold sacred inEng- knd."

The show of hands was largely in favour of Colonel Challoner ; next came Mr. Drummond. A poll was demanded for Mr. Evelyn.

There was a great deal of fighting at Farnham and Godalming. Both towns were invaded by "roughs," who got soundly thrashed by the townspeople. Colonel Challoner has been defeated.

Drummond . .. 1610 Challoner . .. 1385

WARWICKSHIRE, NORTH. Early in the contest the Liberal candidates Craven and Skipwith retired; nevertheless the Liberals still continued to poll. The declaration was made at Coleshill on Saturday, under protec- tion of a detachment of Dragoons and a brigade of Birmingham Police-

Newdegate .. 2950 Spooner 2822 • Craven .. 2038 Skipwith.. .. 2021

Wunaraz, Sours. The Derbyite here was beaten very completely—

'Sidney Herbert. .. 1550

William Wyndham- . .. 1304 YORKSHIRE, Wssv RIDING. Mr. Cobden and Mr. Denison 'word= nominated at Wakefield on Saturday, and, there being no other candi- dates, were' declared duly- elected; • the .swords were girded on them; and the usual speeches were made by them. - The proposer and seconder of Mr. Cobden were Mr. Milner, M-.P.- for • York, and Mr. Carhutt of Leeds -"while the Honourable A. Lascellos proposed and Mr. J. Rand seconded Mr. Beckett Denison.

Mr. Cobden stated, that previously to the coming in of Lord Derby, he had intended to retire from the representation of the West Riding; but when that event occurred, he without hesitation went to Leeds and threw down the-gauntlet of Free-trade, and challenged all comers to meet him. For he knew what use would have been made of his resignation, in De- vonshire and Dorsetshire, when the farmers, who have been abundantly deluded already, should be told-.--" See Cobdedhas run away from the 'West Riding ! Protection shall be restored again." And he claimed credit for having, by fligt act, gone far to decide the present Administt- tion, . and all parties who were wavering -Oft the subject that Free,trade was irrevocably established as the system of-this country. They were met there again to pronounce od the question of Free-trade or Protection. (Sbme cries of "No, no!") He 'thought that they had agreed for once to twine the "orange " and " blue" in support of the principles of Free-trade. "We see here 'today, two political parties that never made peace before, and never even .enjoyeria truce, impending their hostilities in the presence of a great and beneficent principle, from which all parties will, I trust, derive equal advantage. Those being the cirounistanees under which we meet, I will not be the individual to trespass upon any forbidden or un- necessary topic. I should not be here were it not again to give a decisive and emphatic protest against Protection. I meet you here all as Free- traders. -(Cheers.) Is there any dissentient? ("No .'") We are all Free- traders." (Cheers.) But were they sure they were all agreed as to what Free-trade meant ? " Now, whether Mr. Disraeli takes your money out of your bread-basket or out of your pocket, I think it does not make much difference to you. We intend to prevent his doing either one or the other. Therefore let it be understood-4t is important that it should be known elsewhere, it is right that it should be perfectly comprehended what the opinion of this vast con- stituency is—that they do not intend to haie any of that shifting of taxa- tion, by which those who have got property in land should put their burdens on the shoulders of those who have got no other property but their labour. Because it is difficult to know exactly where we have our dexterous Chancel- lor of the Exchequer. I always thought, from the year 1846 down to last year, and even up to the beginning of this year, that the leader of the Pro- tectionist party in the House of Commons was a Protectionist. I thought he meant by 'protection,' not merely a tax upon corn for the protection of the agriculturist ; I thought he meant protection to all interests in the country —protection to shipping, protection to manufactures, protection to sugar, protection to the Colonies. That was what I understood by the principle of Protection. I thought, as a Free-trader, I had been opposing a party who had a principle, and that that principle was opposed to Free-trade. But I see the tone altogether changed now, and changed in a way to expose, I think, the selfishness, the undisguised selfishness, of the party who are now advocating a change of taxation for the benefit of particular interests. For what do I find ? No scheme for protecting manufactures, no plan for pro- tecting the shipowners, no plan for protecting the Colonies; but I find there is a scheme for transferring the taxes which press upon land to the shoulders of somebody else."

Having explained what taking off the heavy burdens from the land and placing them on the Consolidated Fund meant as regarded the tenant- farmer, Mr. Cobden wondered how any real tenant-farmer could join in such a partnership ; and he wound up by an incentive to Protectionist revenge.

"We have to deal with a Government which, if I understand it,— but it is not easy to understand the explanation of Mr. Disraeli in Bucking- hamshire,—we have a Government that intend to change their ground, and, having led the farmers for some rears, to my knowledge, a precious dance after the phantom of Protection, they are now going to land them in the re- gions of romance in quest of that still more unattainable phantom Redistri- bution of Taxation. Now, I think we have to 'deal with the Government in the first place as a Protectionist Government ; and I hope not forty-eight hours will elapse after the meeting of Parliament before the present govern- ment, and the party that belongs to the present Government, are brought fairly to issue upon the question of Free-trade or Protection. Let us have it—ay or no—are they Free-traders or are they Protectionists? (Cheers.) If they are Free-traders—if they really and honestly recant the opinions they have been expressing in opposition, well, then, I don't know that it would be my business as a Free-trader to molest them, even if they occu- pied the side to the right of the Speaker's chair in Parliament. But if I were a Protectionist—if I were one of the farming class that believed in Protection, and if I found my party, who had gone to that land of promise the Treasury benches by means of professing Protectionist principles, re. canting their opinions the moment they got into power—I should be disposed to say to them, ',Gentlemen, if you have to recant and repent, you must do it in backcloth and ashes, not on the Treasury bench.' Therefore I am afraid the present Government, if their friends in the country do them justice, must not expect to remain long in office. But that will be no matter of re. Bret to anybody here, because we are all Free-traders here." (Laughter and cheers.) Mr. Denison also made a Free-trade speech. As Protection was dead and gone, he would appeal to his agricultural friends, and ask them whether they are not as much interested in the reduction of duties as the manufacturers? The Queen herself, he said, " is not anxious that her sugar should cost tenpence the pound, when she can get it at fivepence" He pointed out what he called the most astounding fact he ever knew is his life—the rise in the revenue to the point at which it was ten year ago, in spite of a remission of twelve millions of taxation ! He thought that if the tea-duty were further reduced by one half, in the course of three or four years, as much revenue would be got from it as now is. All are in favour. of a' reduction of taxes now. Where is the man who does not wish it ? " The real truth is, you may depend on this, that, the Corn- laws being abolished, it will be a race between parties as to who shall go furthest in the reduction of taxation: and whoever is Chancellor of the Exchequer, he will have a hard and miserable time of it."

Sir Charles Wood was called upon, and he spoke.

After the election there was a luncheon. Sir Charles Wood proposed the health of Mr. Cobden ; • and that gentleman, in the course of his reply, made a slashing attack on Mr. Disraeli— He did not think that the political annals of this country presented any- thing more base or contemptible than the conduct which has been pursued by this so-called Protectionist Government. We used to hear something about " an organized hypocrisy "; why, this is a reorganized hypocrisy. He some- times wondered at people's assurance, that they could attempt to play such parts ; he could not think how they could do it and keep their countenances; it was such a brad and impudent appeal to our credulity to hear these people get up and say that they never were Protectionists, or that they never con- templated going back to Protection. We heard something from their leading men in the House sometimes, and not unfrequently, about the Manchester school of politicians ; and that they wore called Revolutionists, Republicans, and all sorts of things. The individual who was so fond of taunting the men of " the Manchester school "—the Free-traders—would do wisely not to throw stones ; he lived in a glass house. If there was a man in this country —a-politician who had suddenly jumped to an elevation which he [Mr. Cob- den] predicted he would not sustain—who might be called a dangerous revo- lutionist, if ho had the opportunity—surely it was that individual who was so fond of throwing these charges against the Free-trade party. ("Hear, hear !") Revolutionists! the strangest revolution he had seen was when he found the great territorial party declaring intellectual bankruptcy, and pro- claiming political suicide, by naming Mr. Benjamin Disraeli as their chief : and if there was not a steadying ballasting power about the .reat body. of the people of this country, and whose feelings and wishes had been eminently repreamifed and concentrated by these who had. been called"" the Manchester school " of late—if it were'not for that steadying ballasting principle,. Which would prevent jugglers and mountebanks, and unscrupulous incendiary ad- venturers, from playing trickgin this country—there was no man who Would be so dangerous, because there was no man who had seemed less unwilling at all times to bend anything like the profession of principle to his own per- sonaland sinister objects than the present Chancellor, of the Exchequer. Mr. Cobden urged, that now Free-trade was settled, something should be done to revive the enthusiasm in the country on behalf of tha.Liheral Party. On fiscal and commercial questions he entirely endorsed the views of Sir Oharleii Wood ; but the Whigs would have to revise a little all their old polihy in matters of political reform. As far as the suffrage was concerned, Lord John Russell hail proposed a five-pound rating clause ; Mr. Cobden would rather have a five-pound renting clause. But the subject uppermost in the mind of every Liberal voter, just after an elec- tion, was how the popular party could be secured in the exercise of the franchise against intimidation and-coercion. If there was to be an exten- sion of the franchise, care must be taken that it should not be made "an extended curse to the great body of the Liberal party."

SCOTLAND.

Am COUNTY. Colonel Hunter Blair has vanquished the name of Mr. Cardwell by a narrow majority. Mr. Cardwell was nominated without his knowledge, yet the poll showed his high estimation in agricultural Ayrshire—

Blair .. .. 1301 Cardwell .. .. 1199

ORKNEY AND KIRKWALL. The nomination took place on Monday, at Kirkwall. The candidates were the Honourable Frederick Dundas, and Mr. John Inglis, Lord Advocate of Scotland. Mr. Dundas professed strong Anti-Derbyite views ; and brought a charge against Mr. Anderson, the late Member, of having withdrawn his candidature at the suggestion of the Government, to make way for the Lord Advocate, in return for the contract for the Oriental mails.

Mr. Inglis staked his personal honour that this charge was a wicked and monstrous lie. Considering his official position, his hustings declara- tions of opinion may go for something. He would not trust the Pro- testantism of Lord John Russell, a nobleman whose private opinions are known to be in favour of endowing Popery. He was for sectarian educa- tion, and he insisted that teachers should be rigidly selected from men of sound Protestant principles. He would vote against the Maynooth grant ; and against the reimposition of a duty on corn—nor would he agree to " any equivalent measure."

The show of hands was declared equal, and Mr. Sheriff Aytoun gave his casting-vote to Mr. Dundas. A poll was demanded, but it will not take place until the 30th and 31st.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN COUNTY. Mr. J. Hans Hamilton and Colonel Taylor were the Derbyite candidates ; Mr. Lentaigne and Mr. Craven the Liberals Here the contest was between Roman Catholic and Protestant, both the Liberals being Roman Catholics. The show of hands was in their favour.

DOWN COUNTY. The Tenant-right question, mixed up with a strong desire to wrest the representation out of the hands of Lord London- derry, imparted to this contest the violence which we describe below. When a show of hands could be taken on Monday, it was in favour of sharman Crawford and Lord Edwin Hill. A poll was demanded for Mr. her; which commenced on Thursday and concluded yesterday. At eleven a.m, on the first day, Mr. Crawford headed Lord Hill by 12; the num- bers being—Crawford 180, Hill 168, Ker 133. LONDONDERRY. The Tenant-right candidate has been beaten. At the close of the poll on Tuesday, the figures were—

Greer . .„ .. 1518

THE ELEerfon DISORDERS. An election suggests battle to the Irish mind. They have quite sustained their reputation for fighting, rioting, smashing windows, and showering stones ; and scenes like those recorded last week have again been enacted in Kilkenny, Armagh, Downpatrick, and Clonmel. In Kilkenny, the women imitated the acts of the Yahoos, and spoilt the clothes of Lord James Butler, the Honourable Mr. Wandes- forde, and Colonel Wemyss. At the same lime, electors, it is said, were taken out of their beds and sworn on crucifixes not to vote for Butler and Ellis. In Armagh, a fight with stones and staves broke out after the poll had closed, on the 16th. But it is in Downpatrick that the mere riot rises almost to savage rebellion. The fighting began with a success- ful charge made by the Tenant-righters, who drove the hired bullies of the Ker and Hill party from the door of the court-house : these latter, by a stratagem' got possession of the gallery ; which the Te- nant-righters stormed, bludgeon in hand, driving their opponents away with great loss. The court-house now rang with the most appalling yells ; for an hour the conflict was sustained, and it only subsided from the weakness of the combatants. Just as the nomination was about to begin, a mob from without smashed in all the windows, and the court was then suspended for two hours. In the street the two parties could with difficulty be separated by the soldiery. Great excitement prevailed in Clonmel, but there the people were content with flogging effigies of the Derbyite candidate.

In other parts intimidation has been used on both sides. In Cork County, the tenants at Cloddagh Castle defied Lord Bernard, and said he might turn them out if he liked. In Waterford, a threatening letter from Sir Richard Keane to one of his tenants has been published : " he will not keep any person on his estate who chooses to vote against his interest." Then there is a letter from the Marquis of Ormonde to his- tenants on behalf of Lord James Butler, telling the serfs, that as he is more familiar than they are with political questions, so there is no, impropriety in his asking for their votes in favour of Lord James. In the Dublin County contest, Lord Palmerston's name figures as having requested his tenantry to vote for Mr. Craven. In Clare, the Tories made great efforts to compel their tenants to vote for Colonel Vandeleur. There is recorded " one remarkable exception "—Mr. Molony, of %Men- nen, allowed his tenantry to vote as they pleased ! nay, he even employed a bellman to proclaim the extraordinary news in the village of Tulle. As for Downshire, the conflict has been tremendous. Specimen intimi- dation-letters have studded the Belfast papers.