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Saturday , July 17 . THE GENERAL ELECTION . Most of our London readers know now that the Marquis of Mandford has been brought out to oppose Mr Osborne , for Middlesex . The pretext for this opposition is the votes against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill which Mr . Osborne has given . The Carlton Club has raised the " No Popery" standard in Middlesex , and on that sham cry wish to return a Protectionist to Parliament . Lord Blandford says he has given up Protection ; but he has only given it up at the eleventh hour—that is , when he issued his address . Besides , Lord Blandford is a Tory , with a very weak head , and he would be the tool and the dupe of the Derby-Disraelites . Mr . Osborne last night very properly asked , whether all questions of Reform were to be set aside by this no-popery cry ? That is what the electors of Middlesex have to consider . The Tory Ministry have defied the people . Mr . Disraeli calls reform " sedition . " Mr . Beresford points to the working-men and shopkeepers as a " vile rabble . " Sir Frederick Thesiger wishes that all who cry out for bread had a loaf stuck in their throats . These men are Ministers . Lord Blandford is a supporter of this Ministry of Absolutism under the veil of the Constitution . Are the electors of Middlesex prepared to return to the days of Castlereagh andLiverpool ? If they are , Lord Blandford is their man . We need not speak of Mr . Osborne ' s claims . We need only point to the debates and proceedings in Parliament . There is a thorough understanding between him and Lord Robert Grosvenor , and all who go for one should go for the other . The nomination takes place to-day—the polling next week .
Remember , the contest is between Order and Progress , and Persecution and Reaction . The most important nominations yesterday were BUCKINGHAMSHIRE , SOUTH WILTS , and NORTH
LINCOLNSHIRE . The candidates for Buckinghamshire were Mr . Duprc , Derbyite , Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Cavendish , "Whi g Freetrader , and Dr . Lee , Radical . Not one of these gentlemen , except the Chancellor of the Exchequer , are of any general importance ; but we may mention that Mr . Dupre gave up the corn laws , and that Mr . Disraeli has made a positive declaration at last . " Gentlemen , we have been taunted to-day with the usual question—arc you a Free-trader or arc you not ? I am almost surprised that the bi loaf and the little loai did not appear in position before us . ( A laugh . ) Gentlementhe time has gone by when these exploded politics
, could interest the people of this country . ( Loud cheers . ) Ho quo can suppose that the present administration have any intention , or ever had any intention , of taxing the food of the people . ( Cheers , and cries of 'Tell mo what Lord Derby nays . ' ) You say , ' Tell me what Lord Derby nays . ' Gentlemen , I say no one ever behoved that they had any intention , or over expressed an intention , to bring back the laws repealed in 1840 . ( Cheers and groans . ) Groans of assent to the declaration I have made ! Why , gentlemen , 1 have never attempted , either in the Houho of Commons or out of it , to conceal my general feeling on that subject . I think that the laws which were repealed in 184 . ( 1 were repealed in panic and precipitation . I think that in the haste of accomplishing what might he a nece . s
Nury transition , the interests of great classes of the community , and the interests of great dosses are in fact the interests of the community , for tlio community consists of classes , wen ; not duly considered . I , gentlemen , have told you hdbiv , and I have fiaid it in the House of Commons years ago , that the moment you resolved to maintain the change that was then etleotod , you must make ui > your minds that , you would , sooner or later , have to consider tlio whole financial system of thin country . ( Hear , hear . ) L have Haul in the blouse of Commons , n » 1 have Haul ireouenily in the county of . Buckingham for years piust , that you had atinancial system in this country which wasbawd on a protective nyntein ; that if you destroyed the protective system , von ' must consider the financial system which Uicho
was iis corollary and its creature . Well , ent lemen , nre my principles ( cheers ) , which I have , under great difficulties , encountered even from many who are members oi iny own party , always advocated --principles which I reeoinmrnded in opposition , ami which , as a minister ol the « towii , I am prepared to put in practice ( cheers . ) On another point of great interest , he mi . id : — "Gentlemen , I took at the present as forming no mean epoch in the political history ol this country . Do not « npposo that when the new huliament . assembles you will have anew marshalled before each other the old parties who have hitherto governed the empire . You will have new
principles of action introduced , you will have new policies founded on those principles recommended to , lh « ««»• ; >««¦»» the House of Commons , and you will find at least , that it is poH » ible , notwithstanding all the passions o party hatred , that a M inislry- great iin may bo the < lifhcut . es with which it had to contend when it was f . rst formed n Ministry which understands 1 will repeat the phrase . the spirit , of the Mgc ( ran govern n great country like tins by considering the interests of the whole community , and adopting a policy that will make it , if possible , more powerful ami prosperous , than before . ( Cheers . )' But when asked to state tho mxidlic meiiHiirea which
it was intended to propose , he started off into splendid generalities , as is his wont , and endeavoured to secure support by inflamingcuriosity and provoking expectation " I will tell you the spirit of the policy which animates us , the objects we wish to attain ; and I will express my firm conviction that , witness tho present temper of the public mind , reckoning even with no prejudice the results of the general election—I will express my firm conviction , in the face of the county of Buckingham , that the Ministry will be permitted to bring forward their measures , that no manoeuvres of faction will terminate their career , and that those measures will obtain the consent , and I will even say the enthusiastic approbation of the great body oi the people . ( ' Hear , ' and cheers . )"
The nomination , which was a spirited affair , came off in the Aylesbury Town Hall , and terminated in the election , by show of hands , of Mr . Disraeli , Mr . Dupre , and Mr . Cavendish . Dr . Lee demanded a poll . South Wilts was troubled with four candidates—Mr . Sidney Herbert , Mr . Wyndham , and two Mr . Longs , one of whom was not to be found , and even his proposer did not know where he was . The scene of the nomination was Salisbury . The Mr . Longs had nothing to say of imperial interest ; Mr . Wyndham is a new man ; and Mr . Herbert confined himself almost entirely to Maynooth and Protection . Having declared that he was in favour of the grant , and having pointed out that if one endowment is withdrawn , all must be withdrawn , he fearlessly made some remarks on religious equality , which will be read with great interest .
" I yield to no man in my adherence to Protestantism ; but I say that , because I am a Protestant , I wish that others should enjoy the same freedom as myself . ( Hear , hear . ) Why , I know more about this question of Popery than half the people who bawl at me about it . ( A Voice : 'No doubt of it . ') I have travelled through countries where the Government—as in the States of Italy—is entirely in the hands of the priesthood , and I know that there is no form of government so detestable as theirs . what the
Their argument is this : —They say , ' We know truth is , and therefore wo will not allow any man to hold it to be error . ' Well , then , I say , after denouncing that principle ourselves , are we going to imitate it ? Arc we to say , that we consider ourselves to be Protestants , but yet to act on what I venture to call Popish principles ? ( Cheers . ) I want freedom for every man to hold his opinions , whether they be in conformity with , or m opposition to , those of the Church of England . He has a right to hn \ d them , and we have no right , in my opinion , to debar
him from exercising full political and civil privileges . Upon the questions of Free-trade , on agricultural improvement consequent on the withdrawal of Protection , and on what " looms in the future , " he had also something to say : — " Many have told you that protection would bo restored ! I never said so . I knew it was impossible , and I at once refused to be any party to a deception such as that , for a deception it has ' been , which has only protracted a useless struggleand by which in iny conscience I believe no class
, has suffered so much as the class of the tenant-farmer himself . ( Hear , hear . ) But let mo say this , that those who two years ago said that the tenant-farmer could make no effort , could not go without crutches , and so on , have made a thorough mistake ; because I am bound to say , that never in the memory of man has agriculture so improved as it has done within the last few years . I must say that those even who complained most bitterly ol the change set their shoulders to the wheel like men , and have by their increased exertions taken immense strides towards improving their own condition , and have done
infinite credit to their profession . Well , now , this question is happily set at rest , and there will , I hope , be no further attempts to delude men into relying upon acts of parliament for the prosperity of their business ; and depend upon it no branch of industry can wifely rely upon the caprices of the popular will , or upon the provisions of enactments of the legislature ; it is to its own energies , industry , and enterprise , that it must trust , and then no doubt it will llourish . Talk of the dangers of competition , and of that competition which w hear ho much about , with the " untaxed foreigner . " 1 have been through muny countries , and I never saw anything so strange ) oh an ^ untaxed foreigner" ! ( Laughter . ) 1 have seen the foreigner ground down by taxes which we would not endure for an taxes which
hour—I have seen him struggling against we should not bo able to bear up against in some branches of industry ; hut in the whole range of the g lobe there is no animal " to bo found no fabulous—there is nothing ever imagined by tho poets ho utterly fictitious and unreal as such a prodigy as the ' untaxed foreigner . ' ( Cheers and laughter . ) Well , gentlemen , hut , you know that we have had a large remission of taxation , and yet we have kep t , up tho amount of our revenue . I will tell you what looms in the future a large remission in ilie name direction . 1 hope that ultimately you will have cheaper tea , cheaper soap , and all other ' hixuiies and necessaries cheaper ; and I trust at thewuno time that we uluill keep up the revenue in its present- flourishing condition , which has remained exactly the name in amount , although every year largo
reductions of taxation have been niade . " ( lleur , hoar . ) lie would not pledge himself to support , Lord Derby or anybody else . The show of hands was in favour of Mr . ' Sidney Herbert imd Mr . Wyndhiun , but ( lie LongH demanded it poll . Everybody knows that Mr . Christopher is the Derbyite candidate for North Lincoknhhiki :. J Iis rival is Sir Montagu Cholmely , ii Whig fixed-duty mini , of an almost extinct species ; and Mr . Stun hope , who in
his own words is a " Protectionist Protestant and Conservative , " in other words a bread-taxer , a bigot , and a Tory . When he said he was a Protestant , somebody cried out , * You don't look like one ; you look more like a billy goat , " followed by shouts of laughter . While Mr . Disraeli was giving up Protection in Bucks , Mr . Christopher made the following remarks : — " I will now say a few words with regard to the position of Lord Derby's Government on the subject of protection to native industry and capital . ( Hear , hear . ) On any occasion on which I have addressed the electors of tins division , on any occasion on which I have addressed tho House of Commons with reference to these great interests , I have invariably maintained that a fair and adequate protection ought ' to be given to the industry of the people . I never pretended to deceive you by pretending that afterthe fatal year 1846 , at which period you had a duty on foreign corn varying from Is . up to 20 s . per quarter , it would be an easy matter to restore tho act which was repealed in that year ; and I remember well the remarks of that chivalrous nobleman Lord George Bentinck' Gentlemen , this is the period at which you must exert yourselves , for , depend upon it , if you return to Parliament a number of representatives pledged to a Free-trade tDolicv you will increase tlie difficulties of every succeed-L administration to reverse that policy . ' ( Hear , hear . ) Unfortunately that Parliament did approve of that policy - and the plain question is now put to the electors of this kingdom , whether they will return to the present Parhament a sufficient number of representatives to enable the present Government to attack and to revise that policy . ( Cheers , and cries of 'No , no . ') The settlement of that question does not rest with the present administration , it rests with the electors of this great country . The Prune Minister has declared , in language which no one can misunderstand , his views on this question , and it rests with tho electors of the United Kingdom , and not Lord Derby , whether that policyis to be modified or not . ( Hear hear , and laughter . ) With regard to the financial and commercial policy of the country , I hold it to be a safe principle generally that you ought to levy from foreigners , under the shape of import duties , as larce a portion of revenue as you possibly can without interfering too far with the comforts of the people , by which means the foreigner would be made to contribute to our taxation to a certain amount , to which amount British industry would be protected . ( Hear , hear . ) Sir Montague and Mr . Cliristophcr earned the show of hands , but a poll was demanded . Dorsetshire . —Mr . Bankcs , Mr . Seymer , Derbyites , and Mr . Floyer , again returned . Derbyshire ( North ) . —Mr . Cavendish and Mr . Evans , Liberals , returned . Durham ( North ) . —Mr . Shafto , Liberal , and Lord Seaham , Derbyite , returned . Devon ( South ) . —Sir John Bullcr and Sir R . . Lopes re-elected . ESSEX ( SOUTH ) . FINAIi CLOSE OF THE TOLL . Bramston 2619 Sinijth ™ Buxton 1 ^ 'J 2 ESSEX ( NOKTIl ) . CLOSK OK THE l'OLJi , 1 'IKST DAY . Tyrell 1 ** 2 Bcresfonl 171 O Lemiiird 54 G HHItKFOBDSHlHE . 1 JKST DAV ' H l'OMi . Booker 2701 IIsinlMiry 2 (; : $ 4 Lewis 2-WJ King 2220 KAST KENT . J'tUST DAY ' S I'OJiMNO . Dei-ing 2210 Deede . s ] h 7 b Undoes 'IT . M Wuht Kint . —Mr . Hodge * resigned , and Sir E . lTilmer and Mr . Mastern Smith , the Connurvalivo o : mdidatcri , were consequently returned . X () KT HAM I'T < ) N 8 ! 11 RIO ( NO VTil ) . FIRST DAY ' S POLLING . Vy . se H- 'tf Knightley l ^ tf Jloughtnn •" NORTH DM II KIM , AND ( hoWTII ) . I'IKHT DAV ' tt I'OM . INd . Heiminont JHI . > LicMiul 1771 Ifidley 1 <^ OXFORD ( COUNTY ) . CIjOHK OK Til 10 POI , 1 ,. Ilenlry ( Minis ! erinlisl . ) .... 22 i ) 2 North " ( MiiiiHlorii . li . % 1 ) . . . .. a 11 ) I . Ilaivourf , ( Liberal ( Jon . sorvnl . ive ) . !! li ) 8 'Norreys ( Ijihcriil ( JonwTvuUve ) . 00 !) Suhhkx ( Wkht ) . —Tim lOtii-1 of March , " confined to his \ m \ l » y mi attack of chicken pox , " and Mr . . Prime returned . I ' . AST RUHRKY . Kin- 24 iM , Alcoek 24 H « AntrobuH " ' <> Cloiwby HMU
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1943/page/12/
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