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      Tin General Election. I-.Iskaji.Li "At T...

      FIRST DAY ' S POLL . Fihner ........ 2907 Smith . 2855 Hodges 2472 _Lancashire ( North ) . —The two late members , Mr . Wilson Patten , Peelite , and Mr . James . Hey wood , Radical , were returned , on Tuesday , without a contest . Lancashire ( South ) . —Mr . William Brown and Mr . Chectham , Free-trade Liberals , unopposed . Lancaster . —Two Liberals .

      Gregson 699 Armstrong ....... G 90 Greene 509 Ellis 432 Leicestershire ( North ) . —The Marquis of Granby aud Mr . Farnham elected . The Marquis succeeds his uncle , Lord Charles Manners . The Free-traders of Loughborough gallantly made a stand , headed by Mr . Pickworth , a draper of that town , who proposed Mr . Harris , of Leicester , and carried the show of hands . As Mr . Harris , however , had no intention of going to the poll , his name was withdrawn aud the Protectionists elected .

      Leicestershire ( South ) . —Sir Henry Halford and Mr . Packe , Derbyites , unopposed . Two Free-traders were named , but afterwards withdrawn . Lincolnshire ( South ) . —Sir John Trollope and Lord Burleigh , Derbyites , elected unopposed . Maldon . —Two Derbyites . Du Cane 371 Miller 357 Lennard 351 Dick 330 Monmouthshire . —Captain Somerset , a Derbyite , fighting at the Cape ; and Mr . O . Morgan , another Derbyite , unopposed . Newark . —Here both gentlemen are anti-Derb yitcs ; bnt what else it is not easy to say .

      Vernon 545 Sutton 479 Turner 362 Norfolk ( East ) . —Mr . Burroughes and Mr . Wodehouse , both confiding Derbyites , have been returned unopposed . Northamptonshire ( North ) . — Mr . Augustus Stafford and Mi-. Maunsell , Derbyites , carried the show of hands on Wednesday at Kettering . One of the everlasting Fitzwilliam family were proposed without his consent , " as a high tribute to his family , " by a Peterborough gentleman ; and they are actually goinoto a poll next week .

      Northamptonshire ( South ) . —Mr . R . Knighfley , son of the famous Sir Charles , und Captain Vyse , confiding Derbyites , were elected hy show of hands ; but a _iioll was demanded on behalf of Mr . Houghton , the Free-trade tenant farmer . Nottinghamshire ( South ) . —Mr . Barrow and Lord Newark returned unopposed . The latter a " confiding , " the former an independent Derb yite . Oxfoudsuiuk . —The three lute members , Mr . Ilareourt , Mr . Henley , and Lord Norreys , each voted against the repeal of the corn laws in 1840 ; but iu 1850 , Lord Norreys voted against any return to protection , whereupon ihe _Proicctionists set to work , and got up sin opposition candidate in ihe person of Colonel North , one of the most unpopular men in ihe county .

      The nomination took place on Monday , in the County Hall , which wa . s crammed with working men . It , was a . curious scene , or rather small drama . Sir Henry Willoi _^ _Jhby , M . I \ , professing u kind of mystic doctrine about protection , proposed Mr . Hareourt ; and Dr . Philliniore , a warm Free-trader , . seconded the nomination . Then eame Mr . Vincent , a Tory Free trader , null proposed Lord Norreys , without , the consent ol that gentleman ; nnd Mr . John Tnwle , an old Leaguer und Radical , seconded his nomination . To add to tin

      confusion , the seconder of Mr . Henley said be believed that " the youngest man present would not live to see again u tax on corn , and thai , nine people out of fen were opposed to . such tt , lax . " Finally , two colonels proposed nnd seconded a lhlnl Colonel North , moid deafening uproar . Mr . Hareourt then spoke , professing a kind of Liberal Conservatism and quasi Free-trade . Mr . Henley followed him , the mob still behaving uproariously . On the " momentous question" he said

      ' 11 , is not . now for Ihe lira I lime , and il . is not in places where it . was _liliely to he popular , but tho reverse , that . 1 have fell , it my duly , in _ilill ' crenl . parts of this county , fo tell my agricultural friends thai . I saw no chance of a change of that , law | the Corn Law | . ((' . beers . ) It . would have been easy for me , if I had been a . man who wished to obtain u cheer at some of those meetings , to have hold different language ; but 1 urn one who , us convictions have come over my mind , whether agreeable or not to those to whom I spoilo , have thought if my duly plainly to speak thorn . " ( Clieera . ) Again : " You will not lind me Mink any question you put to me . ( ' Xbo big loaf . ' ) 1 _bolicyo no one hero ia more

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      anxious than myself to see the large loaf , and every man with the means of having it . ( Uproar . ) There is no one who is more anxious than I am that the working men of this country should have the means of _purchasing and enjoying as much of the necessaries and luxuries of life as it is possible . ( ' Six bob a-week . ' Groans . ) It would have been more to tho purpose if these questions had been asked six or seven years ago . ( 'Oh , oh ! ' ) There is no intention now , as far as I know , in the mind of any man

      to re-impose those laws which the general voice of this country has completely rejected . ( 'Will you vote against them ? ' Uproar . ) I have before , in this hall , refused , and I always will refuse , to give any pledge upon any subject ( groans ); but this I will say , " he exclaimed , parodying Lord Palmerston , " that I believe it is as little likely as that the Thames shall run backward—to adopt what has been well said by a noble lord in another place—than any proposal to re-enact those laws shall be made . "

      Colonel North tried vainly to speak . Then was seen another unparalleled spectacle . Mr . Faulkner , a gentleman of the most extreme liberal opinions , appeared as spokesman for Lord Norreys . The show of hands was in favour of Mr . Hareourt , Lord Norreys , and Mr . Henley . We may here remark that Lord Norreys wrote a letter , saying that he would not sit if elected ; but his motley supporters determined to go to the poll , in order not to allow Colonel North to walk over .

      END OE FIRST DATS POLE . Henley 1491 North 1432 Hareourt 810 Norreys 408 The Protectionists here are in high glee at the prospects of the contest , and profess to regret they did not bring forward a Protectionist candidate to displace Mr . Hareourt . Oxford University . —After a contest of three days , Mr . Gladstone has been triumphantly elected ; Sir Robert Inglis heads the poll , and Dr . Marsham was upwards of three hundred below Mr . Gladstone . Pembrokeshire . —Viscount Emlyn , Liberal Conservative , returned unopposed .

      Radnorshire . —Sir John Walsh , Derbyite , unopposed . Rutland . —Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Mr . Noel returned . Roth thorough Protectionists . St . Ives . —Captain Lafl ' an , Free-trade Conservative , has gained the day . Laffan 256 Paull ( Derbyite ) 218 Barnes ( Liberal ) 18 _SaIiTSbtjry . —The late members , both anti-Derbyitcs , are returned . The poll closed at four o'clock on Saturday , when the numbers stood as follows : — Chaplin 381

      Wall 331 Slade 173 Burr 131 The first-named gentlemen were then declared dul ) elected ; after which a speech from eaeh successful candidate concluded the proceedings . SiiRoi'HiiiRE ( North ) . —Mr . Ormsby Gore and Mr Dod elected . Thorough Protectionists . SiiitocRMiKK ( South ) .- —Mr . Clive and Lord Newport , confiding Derbyites , unopposed .

      Somi : i . ki 5 T ( Fast ) . —A third candidate has appeared on the Liberal-Conservative interest , in the person of Mr . Arthur Elton , the eldest son of Sir Charles Elton , of Clevedon Court , the gifted poet and elegant scholar . West Somerset is wholly abandoned to bigoted and hopeless Protectionists , and the eastern division risks the same fate from the shameless tyranny of landlordism , and the apathy or ignorance of the electors . Mr . William Miles , of Leigh Court , the eldest representative of the highly respectable family of Bristol merchants , who have now for some years been country gentlemen nnd landowners , is personally very popular

      with all classes , and the idol ot the farmers , whose , prejudices he espouses , whose delusions he encourages , and whose good and sterling qualities he very pleasantly represents . As a politician , Mr . Miles is principally distinguished in the House ol Commons for dull speeches , and the most agricultural-minded statistics . For fhe rest , he is an amiable , cheerful , hearty man , and , in less critical times , would , we suppose , very properly represent such a constituency as thai , of East Somerset . The second candidate is a , Mr . Knatchbull , known fo sessions and assizes , and a very proper

      county magistrate : what his qualifications for a legislator may be , we know not ; but he seems to be an " invisible-green" Dcrhyilc . Mr . Elton , who has consented to attempt flic rescue of at , least , one , sent , in the enmity from the Protectionist quagmire , is , as we have said , a Liberal-Conservative of ihe Peelite _school : a man of cultivated leisure , refined nnd studious habits , and moderately high ( . hureh views . There is no comparing the qualifications of the oilier eu . rididit . fes with Mr . Elton ' s ; and the feeling of a large number of fhe electors , and of nil tho non-elcclois , is in his favour . But it is pos-

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      sible that the intimidation of landlords , some of whom we have heard , have been Liberals till now , may carrv the two ante-diluvians . In another part of our paper we have noticed certain feats of landlordism , which have been communicated to us from one of the polling places of the division . It would be an honour to East Somerset to return Mr . Elton , if only as a protest . Somerset ( West ) . —Mr . Moody and Mr . Gore Lang _, ton , Protectionists , unopposed . _Staffordshire ( North ) . —Mr . Adderley and Mr . Smith Child returned without a contest . The latter is not a confiding , but an independent Derbyite . Mr . Adderley is of sufficient consequence to permit him to speak for himself . He

      said" For his political opinions he had only to say that he had in no way changed them since thoy first returned hini to Parliament . It had been said that they—the followers of Lord Derby—had changed their opinions ; that they had advocated a certain policy out of office which they were not prepared in office to carry into practice , but had in fact , sought to kick down the ladder by which they came into power , ( Hear , hear . ) Nothing was further from the truth , and the last man in the world who should launch such charges against Lord Derby ' s friends was Sir James Graham , inasmuch as that right hon . baronet was one of those who , by his distinguished talents and his eloquence , formed that great party of which Sir R . Peel was

      at the head twelve years ago . It was Sir James Graham who aided in building up that party which he had since deserted , and now daily traduced . ( Hear . ) One fine morning that distinguished person suddenly deserted his old friends ; he rushed over to the opposite side , seized the weapons of his opponents , and flung them in the face of his old friends . He , one of the lights of Sir Robert Peel's great party of 1841 , now talked of cheap bread for the people , and for old women cheap tea . ( Cheers and laughter . ) He ( Mr . Adderley ) hoped that the country would properly distinguish between a man of that kind , and one who constantly adhered to his principles . ( Hear , hear . ) As for the policy of Lord Derby , it was the same

      as it had ever been ; it had never changed , and never would be changed , whether that party was in or out of ofiice ; the very policy which Lord Derby in power carried out was the same which he ( Mr . Adderley ) proclaimed at Burton more than twelve months since , when Lord Derby was in opposition to tho late Administration . ( Hear . ) When Sir Robert Peel accepted office , in 1841 , he found a bankrupt exchequer , the result of the misgovemment of the nation by the Whigs . That distinguished man succeeded in retrieving the exchequer . By lopping and pruning tho revenue , and revising the system of taxation ,

      he made it shoot out with more vigour , and they ( the followers of Lord Derby ) were the men who carried out the financial measure of 1842 . To them belonged the credit of thoso measures . ( Cheers . ) Sir Robert Peel changed the policy of 1842 in 1846 , by the introduction of a system —reckless , heedless , and uncompensated for in any way . ( Hear . ) Tho Government of Lord John Russell extended the system introduced in 1846 still further by tho repeal of the navigation laws and other measures , the effect of which had been most disastrous , there being nothing like reciprocity on the part of foreign nations . "

      Mr . Adderley was hissed si good deal when he announced that he . was a follower of Lord Derby" I sec ( said the hon . gentleman ) that there are somo hero who prefer Lord John Russell , a man who promises much and perforins little . Those who like Lord Derby like a man who performs what he promises , who is tho leader of the band that supports the old Conservative policy ; and I hope he will carry it out successfully . ( Hoar , hear . ) Ho is not like Lord John Russell , who brings forward little measures , like the little Reform Bill , to support his falling Administration . Lord Derby will not truckle to the Pope one day and kick him tho next , but ho will maintain consistently tho policy of tho Conservative party , (( 'beers . ) He will do that in oflico which will best conduce to the support and the maintenance of tho peace , the welfare , and the prosperity of tho empire . " ( Cheers . )

      Stai'I'Ohokiiikk ( South ) .--This election terminated in the unopposed return of General Anson anil Lord Levvi . sbam . They are both Free-traders , but Lord Lewishuin professes to be an independent Derbyite . _S'J'A m koui ) . —The Murquisof Exeter returned his two Derbyite nominees , Mr . llerries and Sir Frederick Tl ledger , on Saturday . Of course the form of a popular election was gone through , and speeches made , but the constituents had about as much to do with the election as the King of fhe Cannibal Islands . Both candidales said that the present , contest was between " Derby and Democracy ; " Mr . llerries , however , showing decided leaning fo Protection . Mr . I tic-hard - son , a Kudical voter , attempted to catechise the

      members , but , both met him by declaring that they would not reply fo a , man who had once threatened to shoot the Marquis of Exeter . There was great uproar . _Replying fo ' one energetic opponent , Sir Frederick , with his accustomed insolence , said , — " I suppose that unin wants a big loaf : / wish he had . one stack in his throat . " In the midst of great confusion , he continued to declaim against democracy , when he was interrup ted by an attempt to pull down the hustings , which drove nil from the balcony and the reporters from tho box below , the hon . and learned speaker just having time fo say , " Evermore thanks lo you for Ihe honour yon ham : done inn this day by electing _ntc as one of your representatives . " The woodwork of the hustings was

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071852/page/4/