The Express. — London, England, 1847-08-05 00:00:00

tion to this point in der annoinet of our hospitals. What right has the commtnity to expect that the medical man, of all others, "hell either give his ser vices gratuitously, or at a nominal fee? Our hospitals and poor-law unions are supplied with bread and meat by respectable bakers and butchers, but we have never heard that these tradesmen are expected to supply such articles under cost price, or at a mere nominal sum. Lawyers and parsons are both employed in their professional capacities in our hospitals, parishes, and Union!, yet they are not expected to perform their duties for a miserable pittance. But medi— cal men are expected to do this. The price paid for attendance on the sick in some of oar unions is one shilling and threepence per head. On an average, sick people in our London dispensaries require to be seen six or seven times, so that the doctors in some of our unions get a fraction more than twopence for each prescription. Now we ask en intelligent com munity, are you prepared to offer twopence as a fee to a well-educated medical man as the reward of his talent and skill, in administering to the necessity el your sick brethren? In nine cases out of ten the man who could beet minister to the need of the sick could not conscien tiously accept the office on such degrading terms. Unfortunately, the mis-legislation of the medical profession supplies too many members who are willing to take the duties of a union on these terms, and in some instances we fear they are not too highly paid for the value of their services. But are we thus to play with the health of the poor 5 Are they whom providence kas placed in the least opulent, though not len honourable, positions of society, to have this yet keener edge put upon their sufferings and privations, that during disease, or any frightl,l physical calamity, their lives must be allowed to ebb out before the order for medical aid can be obtained, or when that aid is obtained, it should be the worst possible of its kind That the medical administration of the new poor law demands a change ie, we thi c k, demonstrated by • medical the almost universal complaint of the present officer. Their duties cannot be efficiently performed with their present position of antagonism to the boards of guardians, and the sooner the medical appointments and the determination of the amount of salary . attached to them are placed altogether beyond the jurisdiction of these bx.rds, the better will it be for the sick and afflicted poor. We have received our Paris correspondence and the journals of Tuesday. A large portion of the public attention is engrossed by the English elections, and the affairs of Italy and Switzerland. Of domestic subjects the only one which excites attention at this moment is the new scandal denounced by the Nal;enal, which we men tioned on a former day. One of the gerants of that journal was summoned before a Jaye dinstradion on Monday, and reproduced the official document or a copy of it, on which the charge of public cor ruption was founded. But the .Natiwtal avails itself of this occasion to reproduce the charge of much higher and more recent corruption, advanced in the Chamber by M. Emile de Girardin, the editor of La Pre , se, and it pertinaciously demands why a prosecution is instituted in the one case and not in the other? In the case about to be prosecuted, the inculpated act took place at so remote a date as 1841; in the other it was recent. In the one case the corruption amounted to 450,000 E; in the other to 1,200,000 f. The charge in the one case is as circumstantial as to time, place, person, and amount, as in the other. The denouncer in bath cases is a journalis` but in one a deputy also. The act is de nounced in both cases in the public Fress, but in one in the trib (meet the chamber also, and on the responsibility ofs deputy. The meansof proof and facilities of inquiry are equal. Yet in the one case the public prosecutor acts; in the other be is obstinately quiescent. What is the cause of this ? The 11 animal answers that it is the fear of the disclosures which would inevitably follow if M. Granier de Cassagnac, a confidant of the ministers, were prosecuted for corruption. A change in the cabinet continues, as usual, to be the subject of conversation in the eafs, and of conjec ture with certain journals. La Patrie announces that a new cabinet is to be formed, with the present heads, MM. Gaizot and Duchittel, with whom MM. Dumon and Hebert will still be associated. "In a word," concludes that journal, "we have reason to believe that a ministerial change is at hand, but the manner in which 'it will be effected will depend on the result of the English elections." M. Duchitel, Minister of the Interior, has gone to Ostend for ten days. The shock of an earthquake has been felt at Aix. The Madrid mails of the 29th did not arrive in Paris on Tuesday. Advices from Berne to the 30th inclusive have been received. A great sensation has been produced in the diet and in the canton , by a communication which the President Ochsenbein has made to the diet. He has preseeted first a report received by the vorort from the prefect of Oberbasli, en the confines of the cantons of Berne and Untervrald, to the effect that the goveni ment of the latter canton (one of the Sunderbnnd) was erecting fortifications on a part of their frontiers contiguous to Berne ; and secondly, despatches re cei%ed from the cantonal government of Tessin, offi cially notifying the fact (which we published lad week) that arms and munitions of war were being sent from Lombardy to the car-tons of the Sunderbaud through the Tessinese territory ; that these measures alarmed and exasperated the people ; and that a por tion of such sup es were detamed by the cantonal government, which prohibited them from passing through their territory. Upon these communications a committee of seven was appointed to inquire and report upon the alleged facts, and to recommend such measures as it might be advisable for the diet to adopt in the case. The affairs of Italy continue to occupy public attention. The last advices from Rome announce that the deputies from the provinces will be convoked in that city on the Lth of November. The regulations under which the national guard will be organised throughout the Papal states were under stood to be completed, and would be published in a few days. Letters from Florence say that the recent events at Rome have produced great excitement and alarm among the population of Tuscany, who manifest ' lively apprehensions of secret machinations of the agents of the retrograde party, limiter to those against which Rome has protected itself by the immediate formation and arming of the national guard, and that a like measure is everywhere loudly called for in the grand-ducal state. An edict of the Grand Duke was promulgated on the 21st of July, in which ho declares his intention to adhere to a policy of' , F r ogress, and promises re f o rms in'the institutions and' in at the branches of the public administration. He d ec l ares , however, that the passion for reform is limited to a weak minority. He exhorts the people to maintain order; appeals to their loyalty and good sense. He d ec lares illegal the establishment of a national guard, and that all functionaries who may join in any spontaneous formation of such a body will be dismissed. Nevertheless, Le Constilatitrnnel gives a letter from Florence, in which it is said that the Grand Duke has yielded to the wishes of the people respecting the national guard. The letter referred to says that in consequence of the disorders which have taken place at Sienna and Leghorn, the municipality and merchants of Florence had petitioned the Grand Duke for the immediate organuleion of a civic guard. It says further that the Prince had resolved to give this proof of confidence to his subjects. It is added that the law upon the press in Tuscany was producing the best effects. The Diario di Roma, an official journal, says, in reference to the movement of the Austrian troops upon Ferrara, that there is no g round for apprehending a ny hostile occupation of the p paal territory es by th e e Austrian forces, fbr that diplomatic assuranc hav been received that no attempt will be made to do anything to disturb the state of things which was settled in 1815 by the treaty of Vienna. Meanwhile, nevertheless, the Gu:ette de Cologne, of the 2nd of August, gives a letter fr om Vienna, d oted 27th July, - which it is affirmed that the armaments against and THE INDIA APPOINTMENTS. —Yesterday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhowie was appointed Governor-General of India, and Major-General the Right Hon. Sir Henry Pottinger. Bart., G.C.8., Governor of Madras. COMPRESSED AIR ENGINE COMPANY.—Yederday a general meeting of this company was held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, for the despatch of rou tine business. Mr. Miles Miley, one of the directors pre sided in the unavoidable absence of Mr. Alderman Fare brother, the chairman of the board. It may be as well to state that the company was formed about eighteen months ago for the purpose of carrying out the inventions of Mr. Parity, which went to apply compressed air as a motive power on railways in lieu of steam. Accordingly, as the re port read stated, various contracts had been made, with a view to make an extensive practical experiment of the invention. and to the firm of Messrs. Robinson and Sons (the =censers of Messrs. Bramah) was entrusted the manufacture of the accessary machinery, of which the re ceiver for the co mpressed air formed a leading and important portion. From the alleged difficulty of its construction considerable delay had taken plate, and eventually the con tractors reported that even when complete they would per reit it being tested by hydraulic power on their premises, but regard to public safety precluded them from allow ing the test of compressed air. Without going farther into the report of the directors, and that of Messrs Robinson, both pronounciag the invention to be a total failure, it is sufficient to add, that differences arose be tween Mr. Parsey and the directors, which terminated in the dismissal of Mr. Parley from his office of conealting en gineer to the company. The directors, in their report, fur. their stated that they had received several other plans be carrying out the objects contemplated ; but, hs the company Mr. bees. formed exclusively to carry out the invention of Mr. rangy, they could not act upon them unless the present company was dissolved, and a new company formed. After the reading of the two reports, Mr. Parsey was heard at some length in his own defence, and denying the accuracy of the basis upon which an opinion had been formed by Messrs. Robinson on his invention, said, all he desired was a fair trial. A somewhat acrimonious and personal dimension en sued. Eventually, on the motion of Mr. David Cribb, se conded by Mr. Robert Sprague, a resolution was carried, to the effect that the business assigned to the general meeting be proceeded with, and, at its close, a committee of five shareholders, three to be a quorum, be appointed to inquire into the affairs of the company, in ce-operation with the directors, to effect en amicable arrangement between that body and Mr. Parsey, and to convene a meeting of the share holders when the receiver had been completed and tested, and they were prepared to report generally upon the affairs of the company. The routine business was then disposed of, and the meeting broke up. NOVEL WAGER.—M r. Benjamin Gaunt has under taken, for a trifling wager, to eat two pounds of sausages, count a thousand backwards, walk up the Monument on his hands, hop down again, climb up every lamp-poet on London Bridge, & nil whistle " God save the Queen " after eating throe penny buns, before any one can read through Lord George Bentinck's late Manifesto.—Punch. ETRERISATION OP BEES.—Several eneeeeslid expe riments have been recently made in France on the etheri tuition of bees, so as to be able to take their honey whilst they are in a state of inaction, without the necessity of destroying their lives. INQUESTS YESTERDAY. ALLEGED NEGLECT OP rots Pottcs.—Resumed before Mr. W. Carter, at the King and Queen, Highgtreet, Newington, on tbe death of Henry Sampler, aged t h i rt yeyears, years, who it was alleged had died in the Park-place station-house, from the neglect of the police there on duty. The proceedings of the former part of the inquest appeared in this journal on Tuesday last. Mr. Vale, a surgeon, had by order of the coroner, made a nest morgue examination of the body since the jury last met, the result of which left no doubt on witnesa's mind that the deceased had died from the rupture of a bloodressel on the brain, caused by falliag from his cab on to his head. If whams had been called in to the deceased during the time hs win alb% would have been able to tell what ought to have bees frame for him—Daniel Matthias, No. 114 of the C dirleka police, said that on the night of Friday last he was on reams duty in the station-house when deceased was brought in. H was placed in the middle cell on his beck, and wham" not e iced a mark on the head. The constable who brought him in told witness that a medical man had seen him, and that he hat pronounced the wound to be of a trifling cha racter. Witness was a qualified medical man, and hell been in that profession fourteen or fifteen years before he joined the police. He did not think it right to make a full examination of deceued, as he had already been seen by, as he understood, a surgeon. BL visited deceased three times with Sorg. Lynch during tits night, and three times by himself; the lest time at Ave o'clock, when he found him dead. There was an order from the commissioners that if a person was brought in ill, or in- sensible, a surgeon should be called in. It was the dun of witnesses superior o ffi cers to call in that attendanos.—Mr. Main, chemist, of Oakley-terrace, Old Kent-road, said that he remembered a man being brought to his shop on Friday night last. He appeared completely intoxicated. He ex• amined his head and found a small wound. Ile did not consider it of a serious character, and he told the conntah'e that he had better take him to the station.house. He did not tell him to call is a surgeon, but he expected if he did not recover soon that the divisional surgeon would hare been railed in. Ile wee positive he did not say to the pol j ceman, There is nothing the matter with hun."—The ury re- in Which it is affirmed lan.. ',Pie+ Italyare continued , and that field artillery and con- 1 adorable monitions of w ar are sent both from Vienna hen,n, and tram Gratz to the frontiers of the Roman states. „ 4 4 1 La Bilancia, of the 21th July, says that several amide new arrests have been made, and prisoners committed consid not.ot to to the Cartle of St. Angelo. M. I3envenuti, the ex- that _ missor general of police, who bad fled from Rome • re Ili been arrested at Viterbo. Count Ferdinand called Disaird was appointed to the office of assessor. The " same journal gives the following amount of the die-' tarbances at Fame : The 15th and 16th have Wised bee days et slddyL. The Borgbigiani resumed their inselent IsideMeam'—erinMns ee place both in the streets sad la the Owens. The orwelow had received in the evex&4 of the 16th no lass thsa thirty eight reports on crimbesl Mont tweet, and inhabitants were token low swtody. The of the amnesty was *s ee de& lest, lathe vilest stets setae public mind, it should be the rehab of theass. la Ms respect, Fume is greatly laisitaitellsgeyssasrl *a lathe 'resins of the 18th, at the JIM carabiniers who had Maul the the citisens ; a patrol, eoasesed tWehr Cm soldiers wow wooded by two earebillsre, was feNlll4, waist, t o : I : b o o s t : accounts, on their appearance so tbe Own, which, even allowing it to have tem lied, mid& is doubt ful, injured no one. The earobialere eseasadsd the patrol to fire. And the Swims, seeing themselves serenaded by a peaceable and inoffie population enjoying themadves, cried but in their setesidissent —" Fire! at whom?" But the order hadog beset ropeated, three of them fired in the direction of the sisrhallass. The soldiers, excited by this commencement of hoetildies, entered a neighbouring inn, and struck those they found there with their sabres and bayonets; after which, they came back into the street, and committed fresh acts of violence. Seven persons have been wounded—two mortally. A child, eight years of age, has had its arm cut o ff , and a man wounded in the thigh mud undergo amputation. The Swiss and carabiniers have been consigned to their quarters. The town, notwithstanding the public indignation, remained calm and quiet. La Presse gives the following, from a letter from Bologna : On Sunday, the 19th ult., four pontifical carabiuiers at Faenzo, disguieed in plain clothes, were at the moment of the .• Ave Medi," that is, at half-pest 8 o'clock in the even ing, to make an attack upon the Swiss soldiers of the garri son with muskets, and thus make them believe that the citi zens had revolted, and under this persuasion the Swiss would have fired in return, and a civil war would have ensued. This plot foiled from the impatience of the commanders of tares pan'oles composed of carabiniers and Swim, who crdered their men to fire upon the crowd, and killed and wounded several. An old political imaigri, who had returned to Faensa since the late amnesty, Di. Vicesixo Caldesi, who is held in high esteem by his fellow-eitisens, and hos a great influence over them, succeeded in calming the populace, who had assembled in the market-place with a resolution to resist the troops, by assuring them that they would be speedily avenged by the exemplary punishment of the culprits. On the following morning the cavalry bar racks were surrounded by detachments of volunteers, and the heads of the conspirators, with the soldiers who fired upon the people, were arrested, and sent to Ravenna, the chief town of the legation, to be tried before a genet martial." BELGlUM.—Bitossais, Atmost 3.—THE BEL GIAN MINISTRY.—The following arrangements have been coccluded :—M. Rogier, Minister of the Interior; M.Veydt, Minister of Finance; M. Chasid, Minister of War; M. d'lloffschandt, Minister of Foreign Affairs; and M. Free.- Orban, Minister of Public Works. It is not certain whether M. Lebeau or M. Ilaussy will be Minister of Justice. GERMANY.--PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, JULY 31. The uaiversity of this city has declared in favour of the ad mission of Jews 23 teachers, except with reference to reli- gious doctrines.—lt scents there will be about 1.000 wit nesses examined at the forthcoming trial of the Polish pri soners implicated is the late insurrection. They have all arrived in B=rlin, w here they will be supported at the expense of the government. which also defrayed all their travelling expenses. It would appear that the prisoners have been well treated during their incarceration, and that the poorer sort will be furnished gratis with a new suit of clothes upon the first day of the trial.—A royal decree published by the Prus sian S:atc Gazet!e enacts that all persons joining in foreign lotteries, selling tickets of such lotteries, or getting third parties to sell such tickets, and all persons forming public lotteries., or games of chance, without the consent of the Minister of the Interior and of Finance, will be punished by a finaof 300 thalers. HAMBURG, JULY 30.—The two steamers which were lately built in this city will shortly commence running to Loudon in opposition to the English boats. This compe tition will no doubt bring down the prices, which are cer tainly very high. THE C thteata.—The royal mail steamer Cambria, Capt Judkins, sailed from Liverpool yesterday for Halifax and Boston, with a full complement of passengers, and specie to the amount of 65,0001. rbe Court. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday nest, the 10th Oast., at one o'clock in the afternoon, at her Ida; esty's matte residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Earl Granville left town yesterday, for Cowes T`4.3 Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay has returned to town. Col. Baamgardt, Col. Scott and family, Capt. Crom:e and family, and Major Thompson and family, em barked at Blackwell yesterday morning on board the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steamship Giraffe, for Rotterdam. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 5, 1847. tweed • verdict " That the deemed died from the rupture of • bleed nod .ia the Wain, arising upon en sixidestal Ell frees a cab Whiht in a date of liquor; and they believe that the wrest aml poliereonstablee were walled es to Me Mane by the ',hie expressed by Mr. Main."— TRI LAYS ACCIIIII9I , A.T CHELSIA.—BefOrep Mr. Bedford, at the Malpas Area, Charles - street , Gresvmser-equare, on the body of William Day, aged 19, a labourer, one of the unfortimat• 'awe la the late accident that occurred on ISuadarniegmbeehehen the river at Chelsea. Joseph Faith, of 3, finueoset, Claim, deposed that about three o'clock on Sunday morning _he wits in a boat called a " gig," from Chiswick, is whic h there were four other persona, three of whom were drowned; deceased was one of them. De serted was rowing with witness, and as they arrived at Crackle's Pier, Chelsea, the female passenger (deceased) got up to move to the stern of the boat, and in so doing it was upset. Witness swam to tke shore, and one of the parties, named Jane Ingram, was saved by a person on a steamer close by. Verdict—" Accidentally drowned."—Lose or Tenter Lives ott vas Rrvan.—By Mr. W. Carter, at the King's Arms, Kew-green, upon the bodies of William Wollan Bonitos, aged 22, William Edward Seeger, aged 19, and Jane Seam aged 19, who were drowned by the up setting of a boat off the Higk-bridge, Mortlake-reach, on the evening of Sunday last.—Henry James Seeger deposed, that the deceased female was his sister. His brother was • fitter, and the deceased Bonitos, who was his brother in-law, was shopman to Mr. Henderson, a silversmith. Witness, his father, brother, sister, and brother-in-law, left home on Sunday a ft ernoon, about half-past two o'clock, and walked to the White Hone, Thames-bank, where they hired a boat ; they proceeded up the river as far as Mortlake reach, and were opposite the High-bridge, when seeing nosteasten or other craft near they stopped rowing to bale the boat, as she had leaked considerably. The de ceased Bonitos commenced baling the water out, and as he leaned a little forward to pour the water out of the can the best turned completely over, and all the party were im mersed. The witness's younger brother came up from under the boat, and witness caught hold of his trousers, and kept hits afloat for five or six minutes ; but he at last let go, end he disappeared. Witness saw his father and sister together once or twice, but believes that he lost her as he lot his brother. He never esw anything of the deceased, Boulton, from the time the boat turned over. Witness could swim a little, and with the aid of a gallon beer-bottle he kept himself afloat until he war picked up by a shallop, which also rescued his father. The boat had been making water previously, and they hod put in at Putney to bale her. He did not see his sister or any other person rise in the boat while Bolton was baling her.—William Edward Seater, the father of the last witness, corroborated his son's testimony.—The Coroner remarked, it would be nachos to prolong the painful inquiry, It was evident the deceased were accidentally drowned. It was wrong to bale a boat out whilst in deep water, and he trusted this me'ancholy affair would be a caution to others.—A verdict of "Accidentally drowned was then returned." THE ELECTIONS. MIDDLESEX. The election for the metropolitan county commenced yes terday at the accustomed hustings, Drentford Butts, Brent ford. The ancient town, beloved so mi:ch of the Ara George because "it smelt so like Hanover," exhibited all the symptoms of a contested election at an early hour. Flags streaming across the narrow streets, rustics bearing Breen boughs, the softer sex adorned with the favolies of the re spective candidates, and ever and anon and from various corners the contesting discords of rival bands, rive more animation than harmony to the scene. At nine o'clock Lord Robert Grosvenor and h's friends assembled at the Star and Garter, Kew-bridge, and marched in procession to the hustings. There, however, he was anticipated by Colonel T. Wood and his party, who, thanks perhaps to the military talents and experience of their leader, contrived to get to the winning past first and in imposing array. The colonel himself, his proposer and seconder, came in a carriage ar.d four, his committee in other carriages, then a squadron of well-mounted freeholders, and the whole brought up by a dense phalanx of the unrepresented, and in some few instances unwashed, portion of the constituency. Amongst the last-named, green boughs were as plentiful as if " Birnam wood had come to Dunsinane • " and also banners, inscribed with " The Loom and the Plough," " Live and Let Live," " Church and State," and other inscriptions equally oonservaties and intelligible. The crowd assembled at this time about the hustings was tremen dous, and it was with great difficulty that Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr. R. Osborne, with their respective caval cades, made their way to the platform. Had it not been for a strong detachment of the Metropolitan police (T division), who took their station on the ground at an early hour , and kept excellent order, we fear that the peaceful locality of Brentford Butts wo uld have been enlivened by contests of a less intellectual nature than the eloquent strife of the candi dates for county favour. To the curious in those matters, it may be interesting to know that Lord It. Grosvenor's colours were blue and yellow, Col. Wood's blue and crimson, and Mr. Osborne's green.—At 10 o'clock the sheriffs, Messrs. Challis and' Kennard, arrived, and proceeded to open the business of the day by reading the writ, the bribery act, and going through the usual formalities. Sheriff CHALLIS shortly addressed the crowd, bespeaking a fair hearing for all, and promising that on his part all the proceedings should he carried on with the strictest justice and M=partialiPo YNTER then came forward to propose Colonel Thomas Wood as a fit and proper person to represent tlie county in parliament. In proposing him, he proposed a life long resident in the county, a man who had faithfully dis charged his trust, and who came of a family n hich was loved and respected by all who heard him. (Cheers and hisses.) Colonel Wood, if elected, would uphold the constitution in church and state, and—let there be no mistake about it— would oppose the ballot and extension or the suffrage. (Hires and groans.) He trusted that the electors would place him at the head of the poll, and with that view be commended his gallant friend to their suffrages. (Groans and uproar.) Mr. Jones Davie seconded the nomination. He badgered pleasure in supporting the gallant colonel, and k. emussily hoped that the constituency would place him at the hood of the poll (Groans, and cries of "not if we know it.") Foe ten years he had diligently performed his duty—(no, no) — not only in his place in the House of Commons, but every where else that he could be of the slightest use to his consti tuents. (Cheers and hisses.) He load supported the en lightened policy of Sir R. Peel, and thus strengthened the resources and enriched the commerce of the country. After mam;Leimilar compliments, which were received with strong of Anent by the crowd, Mr. Davis concluded by mosmilwg the nomination. • Ilk W. Stiauxo came forward to propose his soblotriami Ltd Robert Grosvenor, than whom a aseso admpotwoomii data maid not offer himself to the eases 4 lks olootima. This we' the second time his noble friend liad some foreraml to seek their suffrages, and he trusted that Me public oom dust, private worth, and intimate knowledge of, and me- MEM with, the county would ensure his triumphant return. • most imant crisis was approaching, will if the electors wished to send forth to parliament a man ng and able to meet it, they would place his noble friend Lord Robert Grosvenor at the head of the poll. (Loud cheers and cries of " We will.") Mr. BANBURY seconded the nomination. In electing Lord Robert Grosvenor, the electors would be only fulfilling the dying request of their late honoured representative, Mr. Byng, who on his death-bed had pointed out his noble [timid as the fittest man to be his successor. Sir W. MOLEBWORTII then stood forward, and wenne• crewed with loud cheers. Silence being partially restated, he said—Mr. High Sheriff and brother electors, I beg leave to propose Mr. Osborne to be one of our representatives in parliament. (Cheers.) In so doing, permit me to observe, that, as electors, we are entrusted with the premise of the franchise, not for our own benefit, but for the boo* of the whole community, and of our fellow-citizens who are not electors--(cheep)—we are responsible to them as well as to our own consciences for the manner in which we use our franchisee. It is our duty to be unmoved by menaces, un s;crioard by solicitation—to be anxious only for the public —to exercise a calm and deliberate judgment—to select the beet men for our representatives, those men of whose principles we most approve, and in whose character we can place most trust and reliance. (Cheers and hisses.) Now, two gentlemen, our representatives in the last parlia ment, both of excellent repute in private life, Lord R. Gros venor and Col. Tbomu Wood, :have been proposed as our future representatives. Let me ask you this question :If we elect both of these gentlemen will they together repre sent our opinions ? (Cries of " No, no. ') You answer will not—they cannot ; and I perfectly agree with you opinion, for they hold opposite opinions. The noble load is an enlightened liberal—(cheers)—the gallant colonel is, as his proposer has told you, • tory. If you return them as colleagues to parliament, you will merely practically declare that you yourselves are indifferent to political principles — that you are without political principles. (Hear, hear.) Can this be true ? Can it be possible that you, the electors of this county, which contains the grea test city on the face of the earth, famed for intelligent, reflecting, and energetic men, who have so often fought the battle of referee in times of difficulty and danger—(cheers)—that you are in different to all the great political questions of the day, on which the mighty intermit of this mighty empire are so deeply involved ? Can it be possible that the questions of extending the trade, commerce, and industry of our country —that the principles of religious liberty and equality—that the education of the people, their moral, intellectual, and phial improvement—that the extension of popular rights, and the protection of the voter in the exercise of those rights —are all matters of such utter insignificance to you that you will consent to be without a vote and an opinion on these subjects in the assembly of the Commons of England ? (eheiers)—and you will be without a vote or an opinion in that assembly if you return the gallant colonel as the colleague of the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) To prevent such a calamity, to rescue you from political 6:Unction in the next parliament, I propose that you should return Mr. Osborne as the colleague of Lord Rolled Gros - IMMIX. (Loud cheers, mingled with hisses.) Mr. Osborne is a sincere and earnest liberal, the son of a well-known and tried reformer, distinguished by his abilities in the House of Commons ; able to give distinct and energetic expression to his opinions ; bold, uncompromising, incapable of betraying the trust you may repose in him. Listen to him—listen to his gallant antagonist—then decide between them. In so doing, remember that you are electors of the metropolitan county of Middlesex. and that in all the other metropolitan constituencies liberal principle( have triumphed over tory ism. Let not the liberals of Westminster, London, fdaryle bone, the Tower Hamlets, Lambeth, Finsbury, and South wark, look down upon you with scorn and contempt. But imitate their example, vindicate your ancient renown, avenge past defeat. Remember Joseph Hume, your tried, consistent, liberal representative—the painstaking, unwea ried friend of the people. Remember who it was supplanted JlZib i am k ; remember what were the principles span J Hume was supplanted; remember that it was Cel. Wood who did Me deed under the banners of land let not his political Spoetsey, howeverearnest sad eMda. mitigate year just reeeetatent. Avenge Joseph lisseld aid achieve a treat victory in the muse of progress and eowskiMery, by returning At. Osborne as your member tort t in C =i Iligiftl. the nomination, and in so doing Wilk* be bell lies seeeebed to find in a recent tour he [bad mass Illatpulit fhb teisty, the general unpopularity of ea. Wood. He. Ostweas had been an able coadjutor of Mr. Cobden, and tberelbse se an advocate of free trade he (Mr. Hull) had great pima» in giving him his support.—No other candidate baths appeared, Col. T. Woos eagle forward, and was greeted with min gled cheers and biter. He said he should premed to or,. plain to the electors the mode in which he had disbarged the duties confided to him in the last parliament. The Dam. baronet who had proposed Mr. Oaborno bad used emir* terms with respect to his political conduct, and had accused him of political apontacy. (Cheers.) He could not expect to convince him who called upon the electors of Middlesex , to revenge the defeat of Mr. Hume that he was not guilty of that crime, but he hoped to convince the electors of Middlesex that he was guiltless. (Cheers and biases.) He had given no pledges, and the only eaves. sion which could ever be construed into a pledge, upon a former occasion, was the announcement made by him that he was determined to maintain the integrity of church property. (Hisses.) He recollected none other; but he had the address which he Issued on a former occasion in his pocket, and could refer to it, if they would allow him, in order to show that he was not guilty of the crime which had been alleged against him. With respect to the corn laws, he stated on the hustings in July, 1841, and he would read it from the Times newspaper report of the proceedings there, that " it had long been his opinion Gear, when &proper opportunity came, a very considerable reduction ought to be made iu the scale of duties which regulated the introduction of foreign corn, and he thought so because when those duties were first imp osed ' corn was considerably lower in price. They were afterwards altered to conciliate the landed interest, but it must be remembered that since that period there had been a great increase in the prosperity of the country." At that time he issued an address, from which be would read, if they would allow him, an extract with respect to the ques tion of the corn-laws. (Hear, hear.) Ile stated in that ad drew, that " The measures relating to our commercial sys tem, which have been so lately introduced by the government, require the most deliberate and calm consideration. The main principle of the corn law of 1828, as announced by its original promoters, is that of compromise between extreme opinions; and I conceive that an adherence to this principle ought to guide our future legislation on this subject. If the present law be not an equitable arrangement for all inte rests, or if circumstances require a re-adjustment of its de tails, I shall endeavour to approach the consideration of them with a mind unbiassed with partial views." He main tained, then, that he had not gone to parliament pledged to protection. When they were suited with that dire calamity in Ireland, did they mean to say that it was not then neces sary to bring an unbiassed mind to the full consideration of the whole subject ? Was it not then necessary to re lieve the industry of the country. and to laird the means of supplying the wants of the country by the only resource left. viz., by the repeel of the corn law , ? Ile should not have alluded to this subject, had it not been that he was charged with having violated his pledges on this subject. (Cheers and hisses.) He would then ask them whether he had not also been true to his pledges with reassert to the established church ? He highly approved of the principles of Sir R. Peel, and of his measures in relation to the church of Eng land. Ile thought that his plan of apprrpriating the surpnis of collegiate contributions, and which were not nee:.isary for their maintenance, in order to the inmate of small livings. and to supplying spiritual want, in destitute places, which he carried out by a measure passed in 1843, for the creation of 218 new livings in places where before the people were destitute of religious instructors, was of the greatest advan tage to the beet interests of the church of this country. (Cheers.) Then, with respect to the interests of the work ing classes, he had the pleasure of voting with Sir Robert Peel for the reduction of the ditties on coffee, sugar, timber, cheese, butter, lord, spirit', and for the abolition of all minor duties of customs, which, instead of affording any revenue, ondy impeded the commerce of the country, to the amount of 400 or 800 articles, the duties upon which had now been all swept away. (Cheers.) He was induced, therefore, to ask whether this opposition really arose from the ingrati• tude of the free-traders? He never expected to receive from them any confirmation of the course which ha had adopted; but he did expect from the enlightened, the intel:i gent, the educated, and the working classes of Middlesex a warm approval of the course which he had adopted, and a full acquittal of the charge of political apostacy. (Cheers and hisses.) He would not now pester them with questions of finance. Ile hid no new principles to profess ; he came not there at tired in the garb of liberalism. He came there to maintain inviolable the attachment to a limited monarchy, to the esta blished church—(A voice, " And to the cat")—to the here ditary peerage. (Cheers and hisses.) A great deal had been mid about reform, and some of his opponents called themselves reformers ; hut he thought that the question of reform bad been settled long since. Such was the opinion of Earl Grey, the great author of that bill. Such was the opinion of Lord Althorp ; aed such, he rather apprehended, was the opinion of the present prime minister of the crown. Having read an extract from a former address of Lord John Russell to the electors of Stroud, in support of his assertion, Colonel Wood proceeded to observe that there were many important social questions which would call for the attention of the next parliament. With respect to the ineome-tax, he thought it that measure were to be preserved it ought to be extended to Ireland. He approved generally of the course taken by the nevem meet with respect to education ; and he was deeply grieved to find that the religious opinions of soma of his fellow , countrymen hod been offended by that measure. He thought that everything ought to be done to elevate the moral and religious feelings of the people. He did not believe that secular education alone would be beneficial or acceptable to the people of this country. With respect to Ireland, the new poor law that had recently been passed for that country would require the utmost care in being carried out successfully. He was opposed to his hon. opponent's principles. He would oppose the extension of the suffrage and the vote by ballot. (Great confusion.) If they once entered on this sea of change there would be no resting place to be found except in the dull level of a fanciful republic. (Cheers and hissea) Utley thought that he had been true to the principles of the British constitution, that he had endeavoured to maintain the established church in the enjoyment of its property, he asked them to return the trust which had been the dream of his early life, and the realised ambition of his now passing manhood, to him who, however weak his eloquence, had endeavoured faithfully to discharge his duty, believing that an honest purpose would make up, in their indulgent feeling, f 4 the absence of other qualities. He asked them to return to him that sacred boon, and not to bestow it upon a stranger. (Cheers mingled with him!) Lord R. OBSOBVINOII said he had been advised by some of his friends, who were getting a little impatient, to con tent himself with saying " Hare I am ; nobody has attacked me for anything I may Dave done ; I stand now precisely as I did before." (Cheers.) But such a course would hardly have been respectful to the constituency. (Hear, hear.) He stood in the position of the here of the Beggars' Opera, for although neither of his competitors liked the other, neither he believed had any objection to him. As he had mule some professions the last time he had the honour of meeting his constituents, he would now call their attention to the manner in which he had fulfilled them. He bad stated that he was a free-trader. (Loud cheers.) He had since supported all the reductions in customs, with which the present government were so ably following in the steps of their predecessors. lie had had the pleasure of voting for the committee to inquire into the operation of the navi gation-laws ; and although he would not take any step ini n nous to our commercial marine, there were many anomalies in the laws affecting . it which he should wish to see re moved. lie was anxious for a reduction in the duty on to bacco, the luxury of the poor. but he did not hope for a repeal of the malt-tax. He hoped that a long time would not elapse before the window tax was repealed, as such repeal would be one of the most efficient" Health of Towns Bills" that could be proposed. (Hear, and cheers.) He would now come to the working man, and would tell them what he had done for that most valuable member of the community. He had voted for the limitation of the hours of labour in fac tories—(heir, hear)—and also for a limitation in the term all the soldier's enlistment. ( Cheer .) lie had don* es betwast ' he wished that the son of the working man might ester es honourable profession without the certainty of perpetual mile from his home and family. He had voted through -1 eat all its etagefjor the Irish Poor-law, and, in conjunc tion with his hon. friend the late member for Birmingham, I hid eapsorted the Suppression of Prostitution Bill. He W meted de the Health of Towns Bill -ale ntartuis nil nisi illiklit...roso to its ashes ~ but he hoped !text session to see it replaced by a measure securing efficient local control. (Hear, hear.) He was now going to touch on dangerous groand—bat he had also voted for giving 100,0001. to aid in the ideation of the people. The minutes on which that Ira Ina Leaded had been much objected to, but this taste llee would sad stick to—that they were framed with mew desire impartial. (Hoar, hem.) He would i tmint now resin Ogee le 1401611•671 baring reca pitulated Ws Mb, be not kept them to the letter ? (. Yea, yes.") Hew grateful to that ver dict, and he hoped it would influence *sir votes on the pre-, sent occasion. (Cheers.) Having ridiculed the idea of giving pledges on abstract subjects which mlg'st never come under discussion, the noble lord proceeded to say that, although he would not alienate from the church one farthing's worth of her property so long as she efficiently discharged her mil lion, yet he was prepared to advocate a better provision for the working clergy. He regretted that he had prepared no peroration ; but he had a good example for that in Mr. Cobden, who never indulged in a peroration, but sat down the moment he had finished his argument. As the first Grosvenor who had eat for Middlesex, he hoped that as combination of circumstance would " throw " him, hut that he might continue to enjoy the confidence of the electors. (Loud cheer's.) Mr. R. Oeaogter, the next and last candidate, then came forward. and was reetived with lively demonstrations of wel come. He said—" Fellow-citisens, electors, and non-elettoM of the great county of Middlesex, you have listened to the animated and eloquent address of my noble friend Lord Robert Grosvenor, and you will have remarked that he coat menced that address by likening himself to a highwayman persecuted by two ladies, lolly and Lacy. (A laugh.) I hope that on this occasion I may be the political Polly, be cause you who have read the play will recollect, that in this end she was uaited to ilfackeesa. (Cheers and laughter.) In any event, if I cannot claim attention on this ground, I Meal yon will give it to me as being, according to my noble Mead, I one of the softer sex—(laughter)—and when I assure you that during the whole contest I shall nee no acerbity, no reproach, that no private aspersions shall be cast by me, that I mean to conduct my election aslely on public grounds. 1 trust that I shall disarm even my opponents, and. that .il they will tme that hearing which my friends have conceded to them. No mw entertains a higher respect for my gallant opponent, Colonel Wood, than the individual who stands before you. I ka;ow him to be a good, I believe him to be an amiable, man best while I am bound to respect the hereditary successor of the a‘ Tell of Middleton, I am not called upon to appreve the reeeleca'on of the late member for hiiddlimer, however qualified he n. eY ancestral virtue* which we have been it formed are hereditary in his family. (Hear, hear.) Ido nos' be to represent those elieve that by his course in parliament he has a right to clia' h t m your sympathy, or to ask you again to return ham as yes, r member. It is true, you may be told that lam estranger. lam • stranger, and I trust you will give me a stranger's we:come. (Loud cheers.) But I beg you will at the same call to mind that if it is presumptuous in me to stand before y. , tt this day, ' it is a position thrust on me, and not sought tor by any vanity or unnatural ambition. What u ln.'en the I state of the county representation for the last ten iean ? You have been going on in a humdrum style, e.'eet ing :one gentleman to vote for liberal principts's, and the other, except on one point, to suppori contrary measures. (Cries of " No," and " Yes.") I ask, has not an attempt been made to compromise this great county ? (" Yes.") I ask the independent electors whether they are prepared to see this great metropolitan county, which should be an example to all England, reduced to a level with Gatton and Old Sarum? (Loud cheers.) Therefore, gentlemen, I tell you that, in default of your being able to find better men, I come forward at the eleventh hour to give the honest and independent electors an opportunity of recording their votes, and of giving an emphatic contradiction to the rumoured compromise. When leaders such as your former member, Mr. Hume, have de clined to come forward, you eau hardly refuse me, an hum ble private in the cause of reform, permission to step forward to lead what Ido not deem to be • forlorn hope. (Loud cheers.) I at least, gentlemen, feel confident of success, and I shell put my foot in the breach, convinced that I shall be carried forward in the attempt by the votes and acclama tions of my fellow-countrymen. (Loud cheer.) We have heard much on the present occasion of the rashness of members volunteering, and of the hard heartedness of constituencies demanding, what are called hustings pledges. I reciprocate the opinion to a certain extent, for I cannot forget the fatal blow given to public Confidence by the habit of members of parliament coming before the people, pledging themselves to particular views, and at the end of their career voting diametrically opposite. I (Loud cries of "Hear, hear.") You have read the history of year country well, and can recall to your mind the great measure of catholic emancipation, which was carried by those who stood pledged to oppose it, and who at every hust ings in the kingdom swelled the slogan of the no-popery cry. (Hear, hear.) And coming to a later date you will recollect that they, on the hustings in 1811, pledged themselves to protection to agriculture (hear and cheers). coming before you in the garb of the ss farmer's friends." (Cheers and laughter.) You will recollect that the repeal of the corn laws was carried by those men who had ejected Lord J. Rus sell's government on that very point. (" Very true.") And, gentlemen, when my gallant adversary takes credit to him self for having voted the repeal of the cora laws, when he tells you he was driven to it by the famine in Ireland, I would beg you to call to mind that in the year 1841, when Lord John Russell proposed a repeal of the eorn laws and a reduction of the duties on sugar, the name of Col. Thomas Wood was found in the majority of 112 which turned out Lord John Russell and his free trade questions. (Hear, hear.) Ido not mean to make use of any hard words. Ido not believe that Col. Wood was a political apostate, but I baievellie was a man of a ductile mind—(laughter)—that he did not give that free play to his ability you have seen to-day--(" Oh !")—and that he was content to trust his political conscience to the keeping of Sir It. Peel. (Laughter.) Therefore, I abjure the word apos tate. No doubt but that, like many members of parliament, the gallant colonel never examined the subject ; fur, if he had, he could not have let himself be elected in 1837 pledged to carry protection. (Col. Wood : " No.") He says no, but I believe there are many unfortunate farmers who, through some obscurity of style in the gallant colonel— perhaps through his not bringisg his papers in his pocket, as he has done today—went away from the hustings at that time impressed with the idea that, if they voted for Wood, and turned out Hume, protection would be maintained in all its pristine deformity. (Hear, hear, hear.) Would you have voted epaulet Hame had it been otherwise ? (General cries of " No.") And yet I am sure that, as a man, he could not have nerve and courage to say that then he was hostile to repeal. Not one word was breathed then of the miraculous light which afterwards beamed on his mind in 1843. Now he comes forward with a church cry ; but I tell those hon. gentlemen who esteem themselves special defenders of the church, to be on their guard, lest some course be taken with regard to the Church of England, similar to that which was taken in the case of the corn-laws. (Loud cheers.) I think that the greatest admirer of the established, church will be inclined to exclaim, " God, defend use frail my friends!' Much has been said on these hustings about pledges. I cannot go the whole length in deprecating pledges; I think that there are certain great questions which agitate the public mind, which no man should come to ask you for your support without having made up his mind on--so as to be able directly to answer your questions. It is too much to sup pose that on the great questions of the day men will have no opinion. I have no hesitation in telling you my course as to the system of endowment which has been alluded to by both candidates. The gallant colonel has spoken of Ireland, and has given you to under stand that the panacea for its evils after the poor law would be an endowment of the clergy. The gallant colonel was obscure on that point, but I will tell you that I am opposed to any further endowment from the public purse to any sect whatever. (Hear.) lam opposed to it. not on any narrow sectarian grounds, but because I think it inimical to the interests of religion, certainly to the interests of the state, that the public taxes should be appropriated to the support of any church in any portion of her Majesty's dominions. On these grounds I voted against the vote to the presbyterians of the north of Ireland, as I would against • vote for the Roman catholics of the south ; so let there be no mistake about the principle. The system of taxation will be one of the first subjects which will he considered by the legislature. (Cheers.) I have voted against the imposition of the income-tax, and I did so because I thought that income from trades should be taxed in the same way that income from land is. It is my wish M see a graduated property-tax established. If returned to parliament, I shall vote for the repeal of the window-tax ; and I think there are many modes of keeping up the revenue without imposing unfair burdens on the tradesman. lam in favour of direct taxation, and I wish to repeal the duty on tea, which is necessary to the people of the country. I have but one motto inscribed on my banner, and that is, "The Sovereignty of the People." (Cheers.) I have not voted, like the gallant colonel, for more bishops. I think that the surplus revenues of the church should be given to increase the stipends of the poorer clergy, and not to the increase of the number of bishops. There are so many subjects on which I have addressed the electors during the last week, that it is unnecessary for me to trespass at any length on your time or patience. It has been asked, " Who is Mr. Osborne ?" and I hope the electors of Middlesex will give the same answer to this question that has been given to it respecting Mr. G. Thomp son in the Tower Hamlets. I shall tell them that Mr. Osborne is not one that would change his mind, and give no opportunity to the electors to express their opinions. Mr. Osborne is not one who would all the ballot an un-English system. I ask if bribery and corruption are English or honourable ? lam • true conservative, prepared to advance with the times, not changing for the love of change, but changing when the necessities of the country demand it. The show of hands was then taken, and the sheriff de clared it to be in favour of Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr. Osborne.—A poll was demanded on behalf of Col. Thomas Wood, which will commence on Monday next.—A vote of thanks having been passed to the sheriff, the proceedings wminated. ABERDEEN. The keenest canvass and most determined election con test ever witnessed in this city were closed on Monday. The votes at the close were—For Captain Fordyce, 918 ; Lieut.- Col. Sykes, 427—majority, 491. Capt. Fordyce addressed the crowd from the committee-roems, at the Aberdeen Hotel. There could not have been less than 15,000 persons present. The committee-rooms of Col. Sykes. at the Royal, were almost deserted, and the committee themselves dis appeared one by one. They were received in the streets by cheers from the crowd. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. AT casnr nv, WIDNESDAY.—The election of three knights of the shire to serve in parliament for this county took place this morning at the County-hall. Notwithstanding that there had been, (or some days past, rumours of an opposition, it was pretty generally understood this morning that the three candidates whose names had been so long before the electors would be allowed to walk the course, and that beyond the mere nomination of a fourth candidate no op position would be offered. At the hour appointed the hall was crowded to excess, one of the galleries being filled with ladies, all decorated with the colours of the Cavendish family—blue and orange. The Baron M. de Rothschild, the sheriff of the county, presided. The Queen's writ having been read, and the usual preliminary forms having been gone through Mr. C. O. Du Pre was proposed by Mr. G. Penn, and seconded by Mr. R. Wykham. Sir T. D. Aubrey proposed, and Mr. M. Swabey seconded, the name of the lira. C. C. Cavendish; and Mr. P. Dauneey proposed, and Mr. M. Knapp seconded, the name of Mr. B. Disraeli, as fit and proper persons to represent the county. Mr. J. Gibbs, an auctioneer and farmer, wee then proposed by J. Lee. Esq. , LL.D., and recommended as the firm friend of religious liberty, and the enemy to all state endowment and the con nection between church and state. Mr. Barry, a farmer of Chilton, seconded this nomination. Mr. 0 tnee, who, as he declared that he had no intention of going to the poll, was allowed to speak first to save time, said that he, as a dissenter, wishing the sew-ration of the church and state, desired to make the church more efficient by sweeping away her impurities. He contended that no man who was free from crime ought to be taxed for the sup port of a religion of which he was not a communicant. The church had no right to take his feather beds to stuff their pulpit cushions. The game laws he condemned as the source of more mischief, misery, iniquity, and expense, than any other set of laws on the statute book. Ile knew that many of the game preservers could not be convinced that the game laws were wrong; but no one could doubt the mischief and misery they occasioned, and if the game pie servers were influenced by the smallest spark of patriotic feeling they would at once abandon them. (Loud cheers.) Ile was opposed to war, and would settle all inter national differences by arbitration. He would dif fuse the blessings of education amongst the masses; he would extend the elective franchise not only to men but to women. (Hear, hear.) He thought the prin ciple of the present poor law erroneous, and regretted the loss of Mr. Borthwiek's clause for preventing the separation of man and wife. He also desired the repeal of the malt tax, which Its believed would occasion no loss to the revenue, while it would add materially to the comforts of the poor. It had once been said that Buckixghamalure wee eminently conservative, from one end to the other ; but the Testator the borough election had not shown that to be the cam now, nor could the present candidates for the county altogether bear out that assertion. Even Mr. Disraeli was watching the popular feeling, and would plunge headlong into the popular stream when he saw it set in. (A laugh ) The sheriff then declared the three first-named candidates duly elected. Mr. Dv Paz expressed his gratification at finding himself, for the third time, the representative of the county of Buck ingham. He believed 'nig opinions were in unison with those of the majority of the county. (Laughter and groans.) He was aware there were some subjects upon which he might differ from some of the constituency; but they could not charge him with subserviency (hear), and rather than raise a no-popery cry on the eve of a general election, be would peril his own return. (Cheers.) His Totes in Parliament would show that it was his desire to uphold the stability of t e ee state sod the protestant religion. He was still favour able to protection to agriculture, which bad been abandoned and betrayed by those who had been sent to parliament by the (Armen to defend it. He considered Sir R. Peel's re. Mous speeches in opposing Mr. Villier's annual motion to repeal the corn laws, were conclusive on that point as chow. log that, without protection, the British farmer could not compete with the foreiga grower. lie had hoped that, si the suspension of the law was merely temporary and would cease in 1810, the constituencies would, at the present general election, have returned to parliament a body of men pledged to the repeal of the act of last year. (Laughter, hisses, and groans.) But as he was aware that all the most able and energetic advocates of the corn-laws, such as the noble lord the member for Lynn, and his hon. friend Mr. Disraeli had expressed their opinion, that it would be more advisable to abide by the present settlement --(a voice, " You can't help it ")—until experience should prove the error of the principles on which it was founded • all he could do was to hope that those evils might be averted which he feared now overshadowed that class which was at once the pride and ornament of this country—the agricul tural tenantry of England. (Hear, hear.) If the events of the pot year should not be injurious to British commerce, they must be to British character. It would be long ere the public would again place confidence in public men. At pre sent, he belonged to no political party; he acknowledged no leader. He regretted it, for he thought it a bad Men for the country that everything connected with party should he in such danger and distrust as it was at this moment, when there were neither principles to bind, nor men to lead. He hoped, however, that they might yet meet on mutual ground, and unite their efforts for the good of their country. lie trusted that by such united action they might be enabled to extend to the widest bases the blessings of education — (hear, hear)—and to ameliorate the condition of the poor by improving their dwellings and protecting them by wise sana tory laws—(hear)—and, above all, that they might continue their efforts to show their sympathy towards the unfortunate peasantry of Ireland. (Cheers) He was sorry to say that the boasted name of protestant had, instead of being regarded as a bond of peace and goodwill, been of late used as for the foulest and most factious purposes. They were aware of the clamour which had been raised on account of the increased Maynooth rent. He had voted for that measure, because be found that Maynooth had previously, from want of funds, failed for the purpose for which it bail been instituted, that of educating a class of men to the Roman catholic priest hood, who should be better men and better subjects. The agitation which had been raised on this question bad been attended with great evils, and he was sorry to say that in that neighbourhood he had heard of instances of clerical bigotry and intolerance equal to any that had been charged against the catholic priesthood of Ireland. lie had heard (Apo litical opponents being openly denounced from the pulpit by clergymen, and of their going round to public houses and taverns canvassing in favour of particular candidates. Jo regard to the representation of that county, he wished merely to state that he was not to blame, if, in consequence of the breaking up of parties, it did not now stand in the same state as in 1841. All he could say was that if his election had been contested he would have spared no exertion in the cause. (" It would have been of as use.") He thought it would, and he was justified in that opinion by the state of the registration. He had no hostility to Mr. Tower. Had he come forward, he would no doubt have been a formidable, but at the same time an honourable opponent. He could not concur with the last speaker, for he adhered to the institutions of the country, and was satisficel with the share of liberty which the people at present enjoyed. ("Oh, oh," and cheers.) He would not undertake to support the ballot--(groans)—•the further shortening of parliaments —(" Oh, ob,")—or any such wild experiment as household suffrage—( Why wild?)—Because it would not, in his opinion, add to the moral character of the people, or promote their happiness. (" What of freehold annuities i') The constitution of this country secured to the people every rational liberty which they should wish to enjoy, and which no other people pos sessed in so large a degree ; and in the present state of Europe, when they saw constitutions on every side and in every stage—some struggling into existence, some stifled in their birth, some expiring in their own excesses—he wished to present to the world this model of a free monarchy where freedom did not degenerate iota licentiousness; and where liberty of thought, of speech, and of pen, were consistent with perfect deference to the governing powers, and obedi ence to the laws. He concluded by assuring the electors of his attention to their interests, and his determination to up hold the prerogatives of the cm, n, the independence of both houses of parliament, the safety and stability of the esta blished church, and the constitutional rghts of the people. The Hon. C. C. CATINDISK would give the best support in his power to Lord J. Russell's government consistent with his own independence and the interests of the country. He should always support the agricultural interest, and if recent changes should be found detrimental to the farmer, he would give his beet assistance towards obtaining a change of the law. (Checn, and " Ob, oh.") Mr. Disa•zei, who was received with cheers mingled with many expressions of disapprobation, said that though WWI often addressed them in that hell, this was the first *WM bad had the honour of addressing them as member hefts county. lie was aware, and he had said it during bbeemvass, that it was a great thing for him to aspire to the ' representation of the county. lie was so satisfied with the return which had just been made of the members for the county, that he was not inclined to criticise it. He had em barked in the contest in no opirit of antagonism to Mr. Cavendish, though, had a contest taken place, he would have fought it out with all the energy and resources he possessed. But he would not now speculate upon a contingency which was no longer possible. He would now tell them what were his intentions, so far as he could judge from the appearance of the political horizon, as to how he would act as their representative in the ensuing parliament. He should not enter that parliament with any factious opposi tion to the present ministry. During the latter part of the last parliament he had proved that he had been actuated by no feeling of hostility to the present government, when he had given them a humble and hearty support en almost every important vote of the session. He had assisted them is the creation of the new bishop—(" Oh, oh")—and be was proud that he had assisted them to fulfil a legislative enact ment to which the honour of parliament was pledged, even if the interest of the country did not require it. (" Oh," and hisses.) There were, he supposed, some persons present who thought that a state should no fulfil its obligations. (" No, no.") Ile who cried " no" so lustily would be ported if he were celled upon to maintain logically or by argument his position. Ile repeated that he gave his adhesion to the principles of political morality which were put forward in that measure, and which he believed no one present would on reflection dispute ; and he said that from that question merely the conduct of the government in respect to their ecclesiastical polity was not to be inferred. But it he found • government continue to act in the same spirit—if they pursued the same course of taking every Moms to make the Church of England popular— C e n:eX t i e )—and to infuse into that, the greatest of our institutions, a still more democratic spirit, he wedilloinder all circumstances, and at all hazards, support Ilitipnerunsent, of whatever party it might be composed. (Odes of " the new bishops.") It wee well for them to mug at the bishops. Why, nine out of ten of the Whops had sprung front the people—nine out of ten of them had, by their energy and learning, placed themselves in an assembly in which, but for the bench of Minoan, the sons of the people would never be. It was very IPS for them to reiterate the antiquated and exploded DOD MOSS of • bygooe age, but we (said the hon. gentleman) are not to be bullied by you or prevented from expressing our ' opinion. (Cheers and " Oh, oh.") The hon. gentleman ' who interrupted him no doubt represented liberal opinions —he must still retain his popular opinions. (" Oh, oh."( One hon. gentleman who had addressed them had said that ere long all men would come to the same mind. He thought there would be greater security for human happiness and poli tical success in that free interchange of ideas, in that free trade in knowledge and in argument, than in what had been exhibited that day, when their most brilliant rhetoric was • howl, and their happiest repartee a hiss. (G roans and hisses.) He should go into the next parliament as their re presentative with no factious or avowed opposition to the present govern ment, so long as they pursued a constitutional course, re membering, as he did, the circumstances under which they had accepted office, and the spirit they had evinced since. (Hear, hear.) Remembering the total extinction of party—which he regretted—he would give to the present government not only an impartial hearing, but so far as he could judge of the tendency of their acts, • full and hearty support. (A voice, Tee, you want a good place.") The way to get a good place was not to support a ministry, hut to oppose it. (An elector : " And you have been trying that on too.") (Hear, hear, and • laugh.) Though he regretted the bresking up of party ties, yet the govern ment of this country, being held by men who, though cot supported by any large perty were yet remarkable for their talents, it was right it should 'be known that those who enter- Mined the same opinions as he did, did not go to the ensuing parliament with any coneerted or factious scheme of opposition. These sentiments had been expressed in the last parliament, and would be reiterated in the next, and he contended that such conduct was perfectly consistent with that sound con stitutional action which it was the duty of every member of parliament to exercise. With regard to the change which had been made in the protective lass, the time had gone by when the merits or demerits of free trade should be entered into. (Hear, hear.) That great problem must be solved by experience. He believed the pinching hour would yet arrive—though he should rejoice if he were deceived. He, as a member of a large though not a predominant party, who from conviction had opposed that measure, felt that that party were bound to express their convictions and should the evils which they anticipated arise, to pro pound remedial measures which those who had bound them selves to principles which would thus he proved to be erroneous, could hardly bring forward. What was the use of party, what was the advantage of parliamentary deliberation, if, the moment • great question was settled by the force of - --- ter