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I 1! i FIRST DAT-TUESDAY. 'f ~i else lesson which they had received yestenlay, and which could not fad ro betray the unpopularity of the other Candidate had ope rated so that t'a dictate's disadvantage; for litany persons whose votes were before extremely doubtful had that dee given them to him. (Cheers and hisses.) If he heel cherished expec t/Wens berme the commencement of the contest he intii4 confers That his hope% were then redoubled, and he now felt confident that the only chance of their failure would be from over-confidence. He would therefore entreat his friends not to telex in their excl.. emus., but to conelder bow small the number , . were who hail as yet voted, and to act accnedingly. (Cheers and hisses) He hail just award a long speech from a Noble Lord firm liancnshire. but he could not puesibly zonceive what it had to do •itts the resu lt . of the - poll. A e appeal had been made to them last night, and, m answer to thin appeal. he would lost ray that he was not an enemy to civil and reliAirsue liberty. lie believed that religious toleration was en joyed to a greaser extent in England than in any other na tion; and, if there was any exception, it was only against these presorts who held a divided allegiance between the King of tame realns aid a fonsign Power. (Cheers.) He mein begged to thaok those who had honoured hint by their voices. ((treat enamour.) He was sure that the freeholders were well inclined to hint. ( (meowed (lemma.) And he was afraid that those who were making such a clamorous opposition to him at the moment, did not belong 10 that dass sat' the community. (Cheers, hisses, rind laughter.) Colieiel Lowe welt then addressed the freeholders, and thanked them tin the support they had given him, but we could not hear a eyllable that he said, owing to the tremendous clamour which was kept up the whole time that he was speaking. Mr. ilaoconast then presented himself at the front of the huatanga, and was loudly cheered. He hoped, he naid.the freeholder+ would allow him to keep his hat on, while he address it to them the few observations he was about to. make. (The sun hail been shining all the day with tremendous power, and was at that' moment more intensely hot than I have ever experienced in the whole course of my life.) He would not do it if it gave offence to any one. ( (' ries of " Yut it on.") Some of those gentlemen, -(pointing to the Yellows,) he believed had an objectiote and as he wished to put them in a good humour he would keep it off. The cries of `• Put on your hat," here became more general, and Mr. ' Brougham accordingly complied, and spoke with his hat en. Ile said that he was exceedingly surprised, upon taking into considers tun all the cireurnatanoes, that his opponent had got so trifling a' majority, oily 22 a head on that day's poll. (Cheers.) lie should not have bee , . surprised if he had been three or four times that number a head. In the first place, some of his (Mr. Brougham's) ' /Iliad% from the eastward had tone away last night, under the im pression that there wereenoughien to fill that booth for that day, and they had not ensue back again. That, however, would not have sig nified, if his adversaries had not had recourse to the same means to clamour him down as theme would do if they could who were send mg that yell from that come, of the Meeting (pointing to a body of the Yellows). They had tried to clamfiltv him down six years ago--ate, and eight years ago also; but on both occasions they sustained the worst of it before it was over. (Cheers and laughter.) in the Kendal ward, where they knew his strength was greatest, thee made the most frivolous objections time after time, and sent a vast number round to the Aseessor's booth (hear, hear).; and, of all theft objection'. he believed that not more than half a dozen had been allowed. (Cheers.) His opponents were always angry at the proceedings of the Under-Sheriff and his Annear. Now he could p are to the meeting that he had no reason to be angry with those ge.d.emen. Those officers were the same as at the lest election. lie would read to them the report of the Assessor at the twit elec. Imo, by which their impartiality would be clearly demonstrated. lie would quote rite number of votes objected by both parties, anti they might then see whether that gentleman was partial. They (Lord Lowther and his brother) had objected to 176 votes; he I Mr. Brougl am) objected to 173. The Assessor decided against i 7 of hie (Mr. 13.'s) votes, while lie rejected only 16 of theirs. Thus it aapeared that this partial assessor, whose partiality was, i was said, in favour of the Blues, had decided against them in a majority of no less than eleven cases. ;(treat cheering.) This he [!;aught was positive proof of the impartiality of that most learned and upright officer. (Cheers.) Ile had heard but little of what had fallen front the Noble Lord, but still enough had reached him tar him to know that it was all about the old work of Church and mate, and No Popery. (Cheers, and a laugh.) It appeared thst tar Noble Lord could not get the Pope out of his head. (A laugh.) Ida said that he was a friend to civil and religious liberty; but he tide. Brougham) would tell them in what manner he was a friend .to it. He would let the Catholics have religious liberty, but at the name time he would take care to subject them to civil disqualifies. ton". (Cheers.) What would they think if a servant—and he had kuown servants to give a vote; and on the last occasion there, and net the lest day of the contest, a servant had voted—if a servant, an honest min, were to ask his master fey permission to vote according t / Ms conscience, what would they think if the master should say, " Oh. by all means; (hid forbid that I should prevent ur acting conscientiously. and giving your vote according to your belief; but mark, if you vote for the Blues—as most likely the honest fellow would—l will discharge you to-morrow morning." (Immense laughter.) That was the sort of religious liberty which the Noble Lord would allow to his fellow-subjects who had the misfortune to dater with hina in their religious tenets. Ile was well aware that it was paying a poor compliment to the people of Westmorland to suppose that their undorstanclinga were so shallow as that a cry should succeed with them which had failed everywhere else. lie twit adverted to the polling, and entreated that the Blues would not be again too confident of success, but that to-morrow thesi who reed in the immediate neighbourhood of Appleby might give their votes, and those alone would place him at the head of the poll. His opponents might do as linty pleased with their objections, sad send as many as they chose to the Aestessor'n Court, but they must eventually tell in his favour. Their objections would, of coulee, be numerous, for they had three lawyers to his one, but shirt was little enough, for in point of legal weight his own was equal to their three. Nevertheless, these gentlemen must do some. .[hang for their money, and no doubt but they would have sixty or . seventy objections to his two or three. The Honourable Gentleman thou entreated that they would preserve their temper, and refrain funs any breach of the peace, which could not fail to give their moralise a decided advantage over them, and must inevitably lead to his defeat. He them withdrew amidst loud cheers, aril the people 1 - ,ietly retired. NORTIIUMBE.ULAND ELECTION. The hustings are erected in front of the new building belonging, to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, and face floodgate loaer. They are strong and commodious. A partition in front fitted up expressly for the purpose, added much to the comfort and convenience of the persons who attended on the part of the public re.s, and justly entitles the Sheriff to their warmest thanks for his polite attention to their accommodation. At four o'clock the polling ceased, and the several Candidates' *ltch their friends, returned to the hosting% A large concourse of persons also assembled in front of them, and the various bands, six or seven in number. all playing different tunes, and contending for the ascendancy, kept up the most tremendous and discordant dio that can be imagined. About a quarter after four the Sheriff came forward, and the Hader-Sheriff declared the state of the poll to be-- 14a. Mr. 'Liddell - 74 I bard llowick ri g Mr. 41.e1l - 70 1 Mr. Beaumont 53 The announcement of each nuniher was greeted with applause by We it of the respective Candidates. 3lr. LIDDELL then came forward amidst loud cheerir.g. and said ,tat he could not find ads quate terms to express his gratitude for the exertions which his friends had made to place him in the ;woad situation which he occupied at the head of the troll. He was oil , aware that he might calculate upon the exertions of the free holders in his behalf, and he could only say that he placed full re. lisure, that as they had enabltd him to take the lead, as he had lama it, so they would enable him to keep it to the end of the coo two. He would not detain them any longer, than to repeat Iris gratitude, and to express his hope that his majority to-morrow "mild be trebktil, oe even quadrupled front that of that day. Mr- BELL thanked them moat heartily fur the situation in wind, they had placed him that day, though he could have wish, d to have been a step higher. But he was ail Mkt!: he was satisfied that on the last clay of the contest he should be placed in that situa um an the poll which he coveted—at the head of it. He would a wl s only say, that the election was to be decided, not by a Shea of hands„but by votes. (Cheers.) Lord Howlett said he was that day only third upon the poll ; bait he was ant discouraged or dismayed : he was prepared tot a lama and steady contest, and not fur a Borst at first. After all. t"e wieveity against him was but 18. and this was explained by t' , e attEcolty thrown in the way of his voters: in every ward but one *sower vexatious opposition had been made to his votes, but this world have an effect upon the ultimate result. II is confidence was raiiiininiahed that the exertions of his friends would place him at the bead of the pull. (Cheers.) Mr. Btanmost said be dared Ray they had heard a comn 0 saying, duo • bad beginning made a good ending. ( i a ight r ) That .asap nit wit this—that among men and human anti , ns if tote Otte always was in their favour, it would make them proud. i at lea:, an d p a .c bearing. t Laughter.) Therefore they saw that tl ose shoe human smote meant to rise were doomed sometim - s to •I 'entity. Ile looked 'coward with as much confidence as any of uther Candidates could do, and he was not in the least di;piri.e.i. lie advised his friends not to berlionayed, but to go to bed that thigking on the maxim he had just told them—that a bad 'wagoning made • good, ending. (Applause and laughter.) lit sum delighted at the goad humour which prevailed, and the absence g i ever y thing like personality on the Part of all the Candidatts lobo had just addressed them. Ile hailed this circumstance wird jjss greatest pleasure. Indeed when they saw so many sn ding fares around them, and the sun shining upon them, it would be Its d if the a.aly r retitle was to be found dwelling in the breast of tadtdair. ' He trusted they would pass the evening in thee M. ISMS and lithwity, and come again to the contest with confidence,' energy l and good humour. We again requeateri.them to keep up theta spirits, remembering. as 1.• histi said at tine; the perfect truism _chat a bad berintong made, and it should make, a good ending. (Appladm aad laughter.) SECOND DAY, JUDE 21. ~The polling commenced this morning at owe o'clock, and con tainted four, when. after she same cerealootes as un the preceding inlay, die nu Akio* wore announced. fur Wm, Mr. Liddell • - 2621 Lord Ilowick - - 202 74r Dell 252 I Mr. Bs-minima - lye Mr. 1.1 /DELL, Mason as the applause had subsided. said, that Wait tisqaa Ws plusses duty to address theist first, as he was THE. BRITISH PRESS. Placed 30 ahead upon the gross poll, and the exertions of his friends had obtained a majority of 26 on that day's poll. It was, as he had predicted yesterday, and he bad every reason to hope and believe tfeit he should continue to proceed with increasing majo rities. All the candidates had. in turns, complained of coalitions ; and since the meeting at hlorpetlt, reports had been circulated that he had formed a coalition with another Candidate. He had hoped that he had satisfied all parties that he had neither the inclination nor the power to form a coalition. It had so happened that at that meeting the %hew °Minds appeared to be in favour of Mr. Beaumont and They were so placed in relative positions, and there was nothill* We' td form a pretence thr such a charge. He would now; dna , . fd• all, disclaim all idea of a coalition, ex cept indeed one toilliffin, -which had been formed in his favour—lie meant, a en/firma with file honest men, fair women, and inde penilent fretbqkftsre Northilmberland.(Cheers). But this was a fortunate.; legitimate, and an auspicious coalition, commenced in zeal, pursued with attachment. and supported with constancy; and which he was confident would 'Mew itself to the end of the contest, and return him by a triumphant majority. (Cheers.) Mr. BELL said, sithomth he was only second on the poll, he possessed the same confidence that he had espre.iscd yesterday, that at the termination of the contest he should be at the head of the poll. He had still a chosen band of followers, who would rally round the blue flag and place him in an eminent station on the poll at its clone.! He stood there, not long ago. as a true prophet, and he therefore thought they might believe him again. (A laugh.) He assured them no exert ons should be wanting on his part to accomplish that desirable object ; and he was quite sure none of his friends would relax in their efforts till they had placed him in the situation to which he aspired. lie was there, and there he would continue as long as a freeholder of Northumberland re mained to poll, in support of those principles which so large a ma jority of them respected and admired. (Cheers.) lord Howtca said that he had again to address them as the third candidate, but such a very trifling majority at that early stage was of little or no importance. His being behind was easily ac. counted for, as the most frivolous and vexatious objections had been continued to be made to his votes. To shew how absurd some of these objections were, he mentioned two eases which had oc curred that day. In one case, the counsel of the candidate, by whom the objection was merle, refused to argue it befare the assessor. Another gentleman was objected to because he mentioned his (Lord llowi:It's) father's rune i,,stead of his, hut he was immedi ately sent back by the Assessor, who said, " Phoo, he must vote." In this manner delay was created, but it could not continue long ; in a few days the forces of the other candidates would be di minished, and his strength would appear. He entreated his friends not to relax their exertions. He had name ous friends in that town and throughout the comity; and, though it might not be perhaps to.morrow, yet at the end of this week, or the beginning of next, they would find him far, very far, at the head of the poll. (Loud cheers.) Mr. 11r*LTISIONT said, it is true T. again have the honour of ad dressing you last (a laugh). but I say, better late than never. (Laughter.) if you are satisfied, I assure you we are satisfied, and if we persevere in the same satisfactory way to the end of the poll. we shall all continue mighty agreeable friends. (A laugh.) But that is not' the way I mean to proceed, depend upon it. Although I am apparently very young, at least I hope so (a laugh)—although , my friends lay I appear to be a very young man, I assure you I lam a very old one for all that. (Laughter.) lam old in experi ence of • ;he world, have lived long in the stonny parts of' it, and I there is one axiom which I have learnt; it is a secret well worth knowing, and it would he well if it were more generally known. Here there was some disturbance caused by some persons in front of the hustings, which prevented Mr. Beaumont from pro ceeding for a few seconds. When he resumed he said) lam going to tell you this secret, which has cost me many years of my life to learn. It Is, that thorough honesty cannot be beaten, anti that if a cause be only just, it must triumph at last, whatever difficulties it mey have to encounter. (Cheers). It may. perhaps, for a time be obscured, but the clouds will at length be dispelled, and it will beam again In meredian splendour. The reason of it is because the cause of truth has an echo in the breast of every man—in the breast of a dishonest man it has an echo of joy, and its echo sounds as the echo of the bugle among the mountains. (Cheers and laughter). Nothing can withstand its force. It is a torrent that bears down all opposition, and though for a time it may be stemmed, depend upon it it has blessing's, human and above human, that it will at the proper time.—)Here laughter interrupted the speaker, and caused him to pause with. out completing the sentence) Mr. Brougham resumed, and said there never was a cause worth any thing that had not difficulties to contend with . • and if, in courting the county of Northumberland, I have found her rather coquetisit, that will only render the prize I seek more. valuable. I will continue to pursue my object, and if in the end I should be tired with the toil of the chase, I will have the greatest reae on to be proud of the glory of the triumph. (Cheers and laughter.) quence, thanked his g l otous mob for their peaerjal conduct through out die day ! and told them that if Captain Barrie were returned as their Representative, and presumed at any time to oppose the Ministers, they would instantly appoint him to a ship, and seial hint out of the way, to cruise about the ocean, and then what would-the electors of Preston do without their absent Representa tive ? They might as well have elected none at all. In this me lancholy condition then, their only alternative was to elect him (Mr. Wood), who of course was the very best man they could have. (Hurrah.) Mr. STANLEY uttered a .great deal of his oft-repeated verbiage, about his certain success, and triumphant majority, for which by the way he may thank the second votes given to hint by the voters of both Captain Bartle and Mr. Wood. At Cobbett lie made his wonted hits---" Gentlemen, three of the Candidates agreed this morning to extend the time of polling each day, with the view of giving an opportunity to each, of trying the strength of their votes. Who do you think opposed this plan' No other than Mr. Cob bett. Mr Cobhctt would not consent to give Ids friends an oppor tunity of voting for him—Mr. Cobbett, gentlemen, who boasts he has 2,000 unpolled voters !—Mr. Cobbett, who declares that it' all the voters were polled, be would come in by a powerful majority ! Mr. Cobbett, who can see no end of his voters ! Ile—lie, I say, to refuse an offer of polling all the electors ! (Laughter) What then do you think of his boasting assertions—can we believe it ? —No, his alleged majority is, like everything else he talks about, the pure creature of his inventive imagination, which, like that of the poet " bodies forth " The form of things unknown. Then Cobbett'a tongue " Turns them to shape, and gives to airy voters " A local habitation and a name." (Laughter.) ConsETT harangued his mob at his favourite hour, eight o'clock. 111 r. M'ood was his theme. Ile abused his brother Reformer to all intents and purposes—contempt, angel., hatred, and all uncha ritableness he poured on him ; accused him of dulness, deceit, treachery, ingratitude, and all the crimes in the catalogue of elec tion immoralities, all because his brother Reformer appears likely to be elected. To be defeated at all is enough to deprive Cobbett of his temper for the next seven years ; but to be defeated by a Candidate of his own reforming principles, and that Reformer a man without talents, character, or fortune—a man with no claims, in fact, but popular opinions and gentlemanly conduct, Coll belt will never forgive hint. To be beaten by the Tory Cap tain would be a sort of comparative comfort. It would give him a subject of declamaticn against Ministers, ample enoufilt to till Rrgisters innumerable. " The whole power of Etc Government was brought against him ; the public purse money was in the corruption of the voters; he was the victim of Tory hostility; his voters were excluded by the miliiary, and overawed by the Corporation ; the returning officers were partial to his opponent, the Tory ; the Con, air and New Times sent down a reporter to calumniate him ; even the Herald, the once faithful record of his speeches, had turned against him, and was ungrateful enough to tell the truth of hint at last ; in fine, every Tory and Taxeater front John O'Groats to the Land's End, had united to kelp him out of Parlia vent, because the Ministers were afraid to meet him face to face on the fluor of the House of Commons." Of those, his hitherto favourite themes of declamation, he has been now stripped by the apparent success of the Reformer. He sees, at last, that he owed the support he received from the crowd to his popular principles, and bitterly feels that his very state on the poll arises from their observations of his fraudulent tricks and brutal manners and language. The general multitude have, in fact, abandoned him, and gone over to Wood. They still gave Mr. Cobbett one vote, but invariably give the second to Mr. Wood; and that in spite of ail arguments and reproaches used by Cobbett's friends to ineuce them to confine their votes to " the fine animal alone." This is the real cause of his attacks against Wood. lie issued in the evening a hand-bill, containing the substance of his speech against Wood. As no report can do justice to his favourite style of satire, I leave him to speak for lyimself:— " To the Electors of Presto!), _ '.Castle Inn, June 22. " Gentlemen—l have never either witnessed or heard of conduct equal in baseness to that of Wuod this day. I opened my ditch with a declaration that it should be free for my own votes, and fur those of all the other Candidates indiscriminately. I said that there should be free election through one ditch at any rate. What has Wood done this day ? He has hired a great parcel of bludgeon men to keep out of my ditch every one that will not vote for himself. These pour fellows have come and taken away the staves that my men had used, and that had been put by here by my Committee. They have cut these staves in two, and have made bludgeons of them, and have made use of these bludgeons to prevent that free Election which I had promised should take place. And, which is still worse and more base. Wood has disowned these men tonight; has turned his back upon them ; and, like a cruel hypocrite, has given his assent to the bringing in of the military, for the express purpose of putting these poor fellows down! Can I tolerate such monstrous iniquity as this, without endeavouring to expose it? Can I suffer these poor fellows to be deluded and abandoned? Can I give encoune s ement to this the greatest of hypocrites that my eyes ever beheld ? No; to-morrow, therefore, not a single man who is going to vote for Wood shall enter my ditch. He has got 100 votes this day, by the means of these bluageons and of this ditch. He shall get not another vote by such means. There is honour amongst every description of men btft hypocrites. Honour forbids me to suffer this inipotture to continue a moment longer; anti, indeed, an adherence to my word would justify me in suffering a hundred and fifty men to come through my ditch to vote against Wood, in order to make reparation for the Injustice which I baste enabled him to commit. " I am, Gentlemen, your faithful friend. And most obedient Servant, " WILLIAM CORBETT." FRIDAY. An armed mob blockaded the door leading to Mr. Cobbett's tally box, from an early hoar in the morning—they repelled all but Mr. Wood's voters. The opening of the Court was attended by the usual rush of Wood's voters into Cobbett's tally box, and a stormy discussion between the Agents of the rival Candidates. As this sort of animated conversation is one of the features of which election consists, a short sketch of this morning's debate may be taken as a fair specimen in general. Coen E T T'S Son. —M r. Mayor, some men in my father's colours, armed with bludgeons, have entered the box appropriated to ex clusively my father's voters—and request your interference to pro tect my father's friends, and give them a safe entrance. 3IAYOR.—I am willing to protect every elector who comes upto poll—those who employ the bludgeon-men are acting illegally—if they obstruct the voters, they must be disarmed. An Agent for Capt. an n lE—" These bludgeommen are hired by Mr. Wood's Comm t cc." 311 r. Wood's Agent—They are not. • Barrie's Agent—l can prove that they get meat and drink and money from Mr. Wood—they threaten violence to all electors who won't vote for Mr. Wood. MAYOR—The bludgeons must be taken from them. Captain Beanie—My voters are prevented from coining up Ithroutth Mr. Cobbett's door by an armed mob—this is not fair ? MAYOR—That door must be thrown open to all parties, as Mr. Cobbett consents to it. Wood's Agent—We have nothing to do with the bludgeon-men, we never hired them. (Poll, poll.) MAYOR—Perhaps Mr. Cobbett's Son would go and remove those men—l'll send constables to assist him. CORBETT'S Son—l have no objection—they are not my father's sten—he dismissed hi. several days ago, and took away the staves born them ; but Mr. Wood's men itole them agate, and cut diem up into bludgeons. (He then !thud ) An ELECTOR—Captain Barrie's Committee offered yesterday to hire those very bludgeon men at five shillings each a-day. Mr. Bray, the town Bailiff, and Mr. Nicholson. - the Mayor's Bailiff, the associate returning officers, left the hustings to super intend the disarming of the mob, but after a few moments re-ap peared hastily and in evident agitation. Mr. BRAY—We have been driven back by the armed men— struck, and pursued into the Hall. Mr. Nicuotsow—l got two blows of a bludgeon. An Agent for Capt. BARRIE—I have been struck on the face with a fist—look at the blood. The MAYOR—This is intolerable! An ELECTOR—The armed men won't let any body but Mr. Wood's friends near Mr. Caibett's door. Capt. BARRIE'S Agent—lt's your mob, Wood, that has done THURSDAY Cetus/co. this—you axe a wolf in sheep's clothing. State of the poll at the close, on Thursday, 22d June, (twelfth Mr. WARD—They are not my men. day) Capt. BARRIE rising in a fury)—l say they are Wood's mob. (To Mr. Wood.) They are your mob. Hon. Mr. Stanley - 1,727 Captain Barrie - 969 Mr. Wood - 1,1211 Mr. Cobbett ~ Capt. CoLiau IT—This violence arises from the infamous ha ' 7 "' rangues of Mr. Wood—from his cowardly treachery. After the Candidates returned to their hotels they made their Agent of Wood (to Capt. Barrie.)—You gave those armed usual orations—abundarce of words with a plentiful scarcity of men ale yesterday evening, and their breakfast this morning. ideas—the inuTectuel substance of them might lie in a nutshell. Capt BARRIE—It is false _the are hired by Mr. Wood. Dr. CROMPTON (a Liverpool dical)—They are not. Captain BARRlE—Gentlemen, the enemy has resorted to bricks, Capt. /imam—How dare you speak ?—you have no right to but that proves their weakness. Illy friends have been kept away speak—you are not an elector—silence. from the hustings by an armed mob ; but be not intimidated— Dr. CuosiPTON—l have as good a right to speak as you. Caps. BARRIE—You have not. lam a candidate, and may ad. make your way to the hustings, and the election is mine. Mr. dress the electors, but you are not an elector. You bare no right re bbstt deities that the mob is his—whose is it then ? Mr. Wood's. to speak. Gentlemen, •• Is this fair play ?" (" No, nn.") We shall have Capt. COM:WIT—I know him. I have seen his impudent face . fair pity yet ; muster strong to-morrow, and the day is our own on the hustings every day since the election began. Dr. CRomrToe (to Colquit)—l have seen your face when you Hums.) stood at the bar of public justice. Captiin COLGWlT—Gentlemen, Mr. Wood complains that I The MAYOR—These armed men must be put down. awe said harsh things of him. I have said harsh things of him ; Mr. Ntc HOLSON—There's no force in the town sufficient Mum. but if they were harsh they were true. When I want to re.ort Press them. orAYOR Then I must fiend for . to hash acts I know the way to do that also. I have heard that An Agent for Mr. Stanley-1 claim the protection of the Court Mr. Wood has used certain improper expressions against my for Mr. Stanley's voters; they are kept out of Mr. Stanley's box by friend Captain Barrie. I'll investigate the truth of that remote; others who have seized their places. I call upon you, Mr. Mayer, to and if I tied it to be correct, I pledge myself to call him to the employ force to preserve the entitlements at the hustings, strictest acmunt that one gentleman can demand from another. MAYOR—I'II take care that the electors shall get free Beaus to (From the crowd—" that's the fellow, challenge him.") Gentle• the hustings, and that before long. lam left but one resource, men, you have heard of she holy alliance between the kings of the and that I will employ if I 11111 compelled to it. Continent against the liberties and independence of the people. Captain BARAIE—I present this protest against proceeding to The coalition between Mr. Wood and Mr. Cobbett against your the poll while these obstructions continua. I'll petition the House independence is worse than that :itis an unholy alliance—an al- of Commons against the return. I ant pledged to do it and I'll licence between Jew and Christian. Be not dismayed at my friend's do st Mon on the poll. Do you think he would be dismayed before an MAYOR—You hare a right to do it. Proceed to the polL enemy's ship because he had lost a couple of foremasts—eye, or all The polliU m ien commenced amid much confusion, whieh soon masts? — No, .te?—No, he'd hut cry out ' Cl ear th e wreck—one more subsided . Boyle% agents declined examining any of tbe bot is de and beard he-.' (If is vaft.) So we'll attack our oppo. voters, on the remind that they had protested splint all the pre news with renewed vigour to-morrow; and if the ladies will only medings es illegal e intinue to lend their powerful aid, we shall yet carry all before M arms—T he o I'll examine the voters myself i 'tie my badmen u.."—( Hurrah, hurrah.) to take care that tow bat qualified persona are allowed to rote. Mr. WOOD, after the COT.mca-place cant of electionereng sic. Tranquillity ins MIT restated within the Court; Seaside, pull. cuticle at the doer leading to Cobbett's tally-box, bustle, tumult. and threats of violence, were frequent among the rabble; an urge. nised body of them stood in twolliles near Cubbett's*door ; they were armed with shoe, thick, heavy bludgeons, with which they thrust back every voter (not a friend of Wood's) who attempted to enter, and menaced every hell-dressed person who came within sight. Such a ragged, filthy, ferocious set of ruffians never met tngetner before. No decent person felt sate while near them. Capt. B irrie's voters were actually awed from voting. Mr. H'ood's voters poured in abundantly, and left the Captain behind on the poll by a consi derable majority. This was the state of affairs at half-pan ten, when the worthy bludgeon trains at Cobbett's door were startled by a sound like the clattering of horses' hoofs •sgaint the pavement of the next street, and the very next moment a party of dragoons (the 14 or King's Dragoon (ivards), headed by their commander, Captain Polhill, turned the corner in full gall. p, dashed towards the market, and charged the lately triumphant bludgeon gentry with drawn swords. he dragoons had advanced very rapidly, but not half so rapidly as the universal suffrage min retreated. The red coats, bushy helmets, waving swords, and watlike appear ance of the troopers, heightened by the rapid suddenness of their approach, and the tremendous sound of their heavy and impetuous trampling on the paved street, absolutely terrified the armed ruillans. Away they flew on all aides; some down the street before the dragoons—some into the door which they had been guarding—some hid their clubs and skulked into the surrounding crowd—but one had flit spirit, or rather audacity, to stand and !Mae hie club against the military. He was instantly overpowered end seized. The moment the Mayor learned the arrival of the dragoons. he proceeded with his associates and constables to that part of the hustings (Cubbett's side) where the riotous club-men had taken shel ter, had them taken into custody, disarmed, handetiflid, and con veyed to the House of Correction between two lines of constables, flanked by dragoons. They were examined instantly by two Magis trates—they all stated that they received the bludgeons from WooTe Committee for the purpose of keeping Captain Barrie's voters froth the hustings; and that they had got their breakfast and drink that morning at Mr. Wood's tally-room. The majority of them were voters—eighteen were committed on the charge of ' riotously as• sembling, and, by violence. preventing divers persons from ap proaching the hustings." They were all of the very lowest class. Alter the Mayor had resumed his seat, a ruffian had the audacity to throw a stone from the court-yard at the hustings. The Mayor's bailiff ordered 'the constables to seize him ; hut, with their usual Indiffereece, they declined making the slightest extr,ion to appre hend him. He, of course, escaped for the time. Toe much praise cannot be given to Captain Polhill, for the diligence with which lie complied with the Mayor's call for the Dragoons. They had been brought yesterday from Kirkham to Broughton, a village within threelmtles of Preston. The Cap tain had come into Preston yesterday evening, and was in co loured clothes in town at ten o'clock this morning, when he re ceived orders from the Mayor. At a quarter past ten he was in Broughton fee his men, and st half past ten he was at their head in Preston dispersing the club bearers. The body of the dragoons paraded in front of the door to Cobbett's box till twelve o'clock, and kept it open to all voters indiscriminately. The mob assailed them with every kind of abusive language. The old soldiers never returned an answer, but bore their revilings with the most admir able temper and good humour. At twelve o'clock the general body went to their quarters at the several inns, leaving but three to main tain order and free access to the hustings. The town was tranquil through the remainder of the day ; the polling proceeded rapidly, and Captain Barrie's vetera being ad mitted, as well as NI ood's, into Cobbett's tally-hox, the Captain regained his lost ground very considerably towards evening. In the course of the day Cobbett's agent protested against the introduction of the military, and formally requested the Mayor to send them out of the town. Mr. Stanley desired the Mayor not to dismiss them. The Mayor, of course, refused to accede to Cobbett's request. One of the voters, on being asked for whom he would vote. answered, " The two Christians—Mr. Stanley and Capt. Barrie." (Laugh ter.) The point of this answer depends on the circumstance of Mr. Wood being an Uniturian, and the supposition that a man like Cobbett can be of no religion at all. THIRD DAT. ...... THURSDAY, JUNE 22. TIT SHERIFF announced the state of the Poll at the close this day to be— Mr. Liddell . 4751 Lord Ilowiek 307 Mr. Bell - 4:17 Mr. Beaumont - 357 Mr. LIDDELL then said, it was his pleasing duty again to ad. drew them lint, since Inc exertions of his friends had succeeded in placing him a third time at the head of the poll. The situation in which he stood skewed that he carried public opinion along with him in the cause he had undertaken. Public opinion could not fail of producing its proper effect, and he should go on with in. creasing majorities. Ile committed himself into their hands, and relied upon their protection. Fle would never be base enough to desert the pledge he had given, or forfeit the good opinion bestowed on him. Mr. BELL briefly expressed his thanks for the support he had received, and trusted his friends would not relax their exertions in his favour; and he bad the most perfect confidence of being at the head of the poll. • Lord Ilowiex next addressed the Meeting, and said he was still in the same situation in which it was his lot to be on the two farmer days, but he assured them that he was not discouraged or dismayed by the majority against him. Not a third of the free holders had yet polled, and a single day might be sufficient to place hint in that situation which it was his wish to occupy ; and he trusted he should, In a short time, be able to address them first, by standing at the head of the poll. The cause on which he stood, of liberal and constitutional principles, had never failed of meet mg support in the county of Northumberland. This considera tion, anti the knowledge that the promises which had been received had been given from public principle, and from no interested motive, convinced him that he should not be disappointed. He thanked his friends for what they had done for him, and hoped that te-mwrow their numbers would be greatly increased. Mr. BEAUMONT said, that it was the opinion of every person present, except the Candidates, that no opinion could be formed of the result of the contest. The only opinion that could be formed was from what the Honourable Gentlemen said of themselves, and he judged from their account, that all the four Candidates would be at the heal of the poll, and all haul° speak best. After some allusion to the bands, the purport of which we did not catch, he said—to speak seriously, for it was a serious thing for the man who was low at on the poll, that what was fun to some was death to others. Ile had a very good cause, but a very sad heart, upon his honour. But his sadne.s was not on his own account, but on ac count of his cause, which was their cause as well as his—it was the cause of Independence ; and he did not expet to see it fail in the county of Northumberland. He concluded by saying he was not unwilling to take a lesson from the book of a rival, And earnestly requested his friends to come early to the poll to-morrow. It would not become him to use the language of triumph, and he would therefore wait till he saw more clearly through the clouds that sur rounded him. FRIDAY EVENING. CLOSE Or POLL. ON FRIDAY:- Liddell - - 1;951 lord Howick . 635 Pe I OR I Beaumont - - 626 _ " . ' .. . . The election is proceeding with great spirit on the part of all the Candidates and their respective partizans. No estimate can be formed as to who is likely to be the success ful Candidate. The contest will be a severe one, and it will require three days more polling before the relative strength of the parties can be ascertained. PR RS TON. THE THIRTEENTH DAY. At the clan of the poll (Friday evening) five o'clock, the numbers were, Hon. E. Stanley - 2208 Captain Barrie - - 1273 Mr.. Wood - 1414 I Mr. Cobliett - 845 Bieore the Court row., Captain Colquit, as a nominal Candidate, requested. jointly with Mr. Stanley. for the Mayor to incr.-ale the time of polling the two next darn. in order to give all the elec ors an opportunity of polling before the final close of the poll on Monday. The Mayor acceded to their request, and stated that he would poll. to continue to take the votes to-morrow evening (Saturday) until seven o'clock. and would commence milling on Monday morning at eight o'clock. Mr. Wood's votes appeared to be ex hausted towards evening—while Captain Barrie'a pounc:d in from all siden. - . . - . . The Candidates, after returning from the hustings, edified their friends with their eternal boasting* of success, and all that empty flashy nonsense which the barr,n invention of the speakers, and the vile taste of their hearers, inflict on election assemblages. Cobbett did not appear on the hustings through the day; he seems to he sickened of the applause of the mob, when it does not tend to further his chance of success. He popped hishead out of the;window at sight o'clock, and sputtered a speech, not so much with a view to please the rabble, as to abuse his brother reformer, Wood, whom he accused of alining the mob, and afterwards sending for the military to take them to prison. The following is his description of the ultra whig candidate—a talentless, humdrum, conundrum, dummy ; a piece of rotten Wood—a base, mean, unprincipled creature, a poor weak, vile reptile—no more fit to he a member of Parliament than he (Cobbett) was to be an Archbishop of Canterbury or Pupe of Rome. He concluded, by threatening to inflict some terrible ven geance on Wood to-morrow, Saturday, and stating, that though he (Cobbett) had made the other Candidates spend 10 or 15,000/. each, his own expences did not exceed MM. and of that not a penny his 'his own. His tirade was received very coolly, and often interrupted by murmurs of disapprobation. _ SATEKDAV, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Radical agents of Cobbett, seeing no chance of electing their friend, have turned all their exertions to secure the return of their second favourite. the Reformer, Wood. Aware of Wood's small number of unpolled votes, and app r e hending that the additional time of polling will enable the 'fury to overtake him, if the Captain'e voters are allowed to be polled as fast as they come ur, the Radicals have spent the greater part of the morning in interrupting the pulling, creating unnecessary delays, protesting against the military, speechifying, disputing, examining, and squabbling. Hoffman, a reforming shoemaker, has put the Bribery Oath to the Electors as they come to be polled. Virood is still a.head of Capt. Barrie, and is increasing his majority every moment. Nothing but some unimaginable turn of fortune can save the latter from defeat t his friends are making the most toilsome exertions t the public excitement is growing more and more intense as the contest cornea nearer to its end. Cobbett has left town this morning, and will not return till Monday evening, when he is expected to make his last speech and dying decla ration." State of the poll at 12 o'clock. Saturday morning, 24:h June— (Fourteenth day—last but one of the election) HOD. E. G. Stanley - 2349 Captain Barrie Mr. Wood . I 1531 Cobbett BOROUGH OF LEICESTER ELECTION. 14411 860 CLOSE OF THE CONTEST. SATURDAY. This contest, which has been persevered in with great vigour for tew days, was decided to day at half-past twelve o'clock ; when, at the c10..e of the poll, the numbers were— Hastings - - - 27721 Evans - 200 Cave - 2b77 1 Denman - . 1811 The Assessor accordingly declared, that Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart. and Robert Otway Cave, Esq. were duly elected to serve as Members for this Borough in the ensuing Session of Par liament. Sir CHARLES UASTINGS and Mt. CAVE then shortly addressed the electors, thanking them for the honourable distinction that had been conferred upon them, and pledging themselves to redeem the promise with which they first entered upon the contest, that of pay ing AI undeviating attention to their local interests, and of main taining the rights of the throne, the people, and the altar. Mr. EVANS also addressed the people. Notwithstanding the re. sult of the contest had been unsuccessful, he still felt himself mos gratefully indebted to them for the powerful and prompt suppor t which they had afforded him. In having kept open the poll to this late period, he was actuated by no motive of a dishonourable na ture towards his opponents; hut from an anxious desire to give the freemen of this Borough an opportunity of declaring their sen timents._ The Hon. Mr. ERSKINE shortly addiessed the electors on be half of Mr. Denman, who, he saitf, had been induced to come for ward, and continue the contest, more from a desire to serve his friend Mr. Evans, than from any wish on his own part to agitate the borough by a contested tleetion. The successful Candidates were then chaired round the bo rough, and then conducted to their hotel, where they again ad dressed the multitude in language of congratulation at the successful issue of their protract e d contest . It is with pleasure we repeat that no disposition to riot has been at all evinced by either party since the: first ebullition of feeling which took place on Wednesday week, and which, however much it may be regretted, ie a circumstance almost inevitably conse ' quest on a popularly contested election. The inclination which some of our contemporaries have shewn to exaggerate noise into riot, and a icuflie for elbow-room into a regularly organized system of hostile attack, cannot be too much condemned. From personal observation, we can assert, that both at Coventry and at Leicester, whatever effervescence of the public mind might have been mo. mentarily excited, no sooner has the contest terminated than the people. with one concurring will, have thrown aside their Would.. and with them every feeling of asperity and unkindness. Indeed the endurance of an election contest even for a week, argues great forbearance on the part of the people; for though novelty may in the beginning give a zest to the occurrence, that is but an evanescent quality, which cannot connterpnise those inconve nience. which ever moat result from a state of feverish excitement, and a suspension of those industrious habits, in the. calm exert-We of which atone can real saCsfaction and domestic quiet be attained. PORTSMOUTH, SATURDAY, JunE 24. (At Thursday the Maitland, Siudil, from Bombay, put into... ! Helen's, wiih foul winds, fur provisions, having bad ■ six mood„• passage. Several passengers died on board after leavings. Heirs viz. Lieut.-Colonel Tucker, Deputy Adjutant-General of the ll.a r bay Army; Mrs. Campbell, wife of Colonel D. Campbell, Bombay Regiment; Mrs. Young, wife of Captain Young, Regiment; and John, son of Captain Taylor, 4th Regiment dra. Cavalry.—The Maitland priimeded yesterday fur the Riv er . Yestmlay the North Star, 10, Captain Arabin, sailed fur the coast of Africa, to relieve the Blossom ; and this nioming the Par. .hian, 10, Captain H. B. Martin, arrived from the River. it rim i n, Bloody, and Parthian. In the Harbour, the Victory, liaog e , ( lot South America), Melville, Spartiate, Glasgow, Pyraiiius, Ilepxt (far South America). A s p, Cracker, Dwarf, Calliope. The Pa:lV,, is for the Mediterranean. The part of the 56th Regiment, nadir Colonel Barclay, akin, came from the Mauritius in the Layton (after 20 years' chance, landed yesterday, and marched into Fort Cumberland, to aw ait 0 :;, arrival of the more divisions. The bth Regiment hare marched tor NVetdol, in Northathoonsliire. PLYMOUTH, Ji 22. Came in the Lively, Capt. W. Elliott, C. 8.; the l'el orus, Captain Hamlet' , from the Cork station, to be paid off; and the Erebus (new) bomb, from Alitford. Sailed the !loyalist tender, Lieut. Hobilliard, with Admiral Sir James Saunterer, on bl eu. nual inspection of the Naval statiurs at Falmouth an d Waterloo transport, Lieut. Coatis, with suppliez for the squnle ar , et Lisbon and Gibraltar, and deraehrients of the 44th end 54 A re. iliinenia. In Ilamoare—Britannia, Windsor Castle, Jaya, rpm . Trioculo, Peliirus, Vigilant, Nightingale. In the Sownd—Lirely, Romney, Camelion. The Java, for the East Indies, will be saw, ready to proceed. LAW INTEI,LIGENCE. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, Juxr RICHARD MARTIN, ESQ. V. w•. ). CLEMENT, REQ.' This was an action for a libel published in the Morning Chro nick, of which the defendant is the proprietor. The defendant pleaded, first, not guilty ; and seetwol, ajuatification. Mr. Guns EY ( with whom was Mr. ('HITTY) stated the eve This, he said, was an action by Mr. Martin, well k nown as having been t'or many years a representative in Parliament for the count ) of Galway, against the defendant, as proprietor of the Aforni.• Chrosade. Mr. Martin complained of a series of attacks ape; him in the several newspapers which he (slr. G.) held in his hand. and which were published in the months of July, Septemb (7 , sod October in the last year. Mr. Martin had introduced into Perli s . ment a bill, which passed into a law, for the prevention of cruelty to dumb animals, and had, with a great degree of humanity, lent his assistance on various occasions for the purpose of enforcing the Statute. This conduct had exposed him to attacks from those who differed from him as to the policy of the law. Of these attacks Le complained : some of them had found their way into the defen dant's newspaper. One of the libels of which the plaintiff com plained was in the statement of what was supposed to have parted at a police-office, on an occasion when Mr. Martin made a can plaint against a boy for cruelty to an ass. Mr. Martin was repre. aented to nave stated, in one part of his evidence, that the boy hod beaten the ass a ith a bludgeon, and that in another he called the instrument a switch, thereby imputing to him that he had made inconsistent and contradictory statements. To this the plaintiff thought he ought not to submit, and he had brought this action for the vindication of his character. The defendant had pleaded a justification, and had undertaken to prove that the plaintiff had made the contradictory sta•ements alleged. The only object that Mr. Martin had in bringing this action was, the vindication of his chat. racier. That was all the satisfaction he sought to-day. lie (Mr. Gurney) trusted he should be able to convince the Jury that the defendant had acted without authority; and it was fur the latter to justify, by his evidence, the representation which he had hem in. damd to make respecting the plaintiff's conduct. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL here interfered, and said—lf 3lr. Gurney will allow me, I ant ready, on the part of Mr. Clement, to state (and knowitig what I do of Mr. Martin, I think lie statement will be satisfactory to him), that he Met reason to think there was some inaccuracy in the reports complained of, although there was no intention whatever to throw any imputation on Mr. Martin's character. We are convinced there must have been some inaccuracy in the statement, and at the same time that we make this concession, it is right to say that it is made in the Niles: manner, and with the most liberal feeling on the part of Mr. Clement, who, being now convinced that his paper was made the medium of an incorrect statement, I trust Mr. Martin will be satisfied. I ant desirous of making this concession in the fullest manner. 31r. GURNEY—From what I know of Mr. Maitin (who is hoe in town), I think I may venture to say, that he will be satisfiel with the statement made by my Learned Friend. I know that in bringing this action, nothing was further from his contem plation than the recovery of damages. Ilia tale object was, the vindication of his character; and after what is stated by the A Porney-(kneral on the defendant's behalf, I think I may take upon myself the responsibility of accepting a verdict for not inal damages. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—I am sure if Mr. Martin were here lie would be in perfect good humour, as I have reason to be. lieve that lie is now in good humour with his Irish constituents. Me has been returned again for the county of Galway, and his son is returned for the borough of Galway; and I certainly am glad that his Cunnamara friends h ave a dh ere d to hint so faithfully. A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff—Damages Is. by consent. COI'RT OF COMMON PLEAS, SATURDAY, JUNE 24. STANTON' AND KENNY V. PENELOPE AND CATHERINE MARIA FAMSHAW E. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS stated that this was an action brought to recover the amount of a bill which had been incurred in consequence of the negligence of the defendants' servant. The plaintiffs were surgeons, carrying on business in partnership, and the defendants were ladies of rank and fortune, residing in Berkeky.square. So long ago as the 31st of Marcia, 11124, the accident which had given rise to the present action occurred. On the evening of that day the defendants were in their carriage, returning from a vls , t to their relative, Sir B. Martin, in Somerset-house, when their coachman drove their horses with such speed, and with so much negligence, through the gateway of that place, that he drove over and seriously injured two females named Robertson and Purvis. Thedefendants were immediately informed of the accident, and manifested, as might have been expected, the greatest sorrow for what bad oc curred ; one of the females had her leg broken, and the other het spine injured. The unfortunate persons were taken to the plain tiffs' house, and the defendants desired Mr. Stanton to affOrd them every assistance, and promised to recompense him for his attend. ante. That gentleman accordingly attended Mrs. Robertson and Mrs. Purvis, from the time •.f the accident to the 20th August. 1024, and for that attendance, as well as for the medicines fur nished, he and his partner claimed a sum of 471. As the defendants, for reasons best known to themselves, had refused to satisfy this claim, the plaintiffs had been compelled to come into Court, and to ask from a Jury that which no reasons'''e person could suppose to be other than a moderate demand, when die nature of the injuries, and the time consumed in curing them, were properly considered. The Learned Sergeant called a Mr, Gordon, who saw the accident, and who swore to having afterwards seen one of the defendants hand her card out of the carriage to Mr. Stanton, and hearing her at the same time say that she would see him recompensed for hie trouble. Mr. Reynolds, who, st the time in question, was an apprentice to Mr. Stanton, proved the attendance and the medicines furnished. Mrs. Purvis proved the injury she had received, and said that the Misses Fanshawe called o n h er during her illness, a nd told her that they had desired 111 r. Stanton to pay her every attention, and they would pay the expenses. She added, that in fact they had paid the expenses she had incurred. On her cross-examination she stated that she had received SI:11. from the defendants, as a compensation for the injury she had re. ceived. This was after she had brought an action against them. 31r. Watson said he had received a sum of 7511. from the Mines Fanshawe. Of' that sum 501. was paid as a compensation to Mrs. Purvis, and the rest for costa, and the surgeons' bill. Mrs. Anne Neale, at whose house Mrs. Robertson lodged, swore that once, when the Misses Fetishawe came there, they promised to pay the doctors' bill. Mr. Serjeant SPASTKI 6, for the defendants, said, that in point of law the defendants were not liable for any of the expenses that had been incurred, as the injury which these persons had sustained was purely accidental. What the defendants had done, was merely out of a motive of hnmanitv ; and not only had they consented to afford to each of the two injured persons ample compensation, but they had also, in fact, paid all the expenses that had been incurred. He should prove these facts, and beyond these, that Mr. Stanton had himself declared that he did not hold the 31isArs Fanshawe re sponsible; and having done so, the defendants would be entitled to a vertltch Mr. Warren, the defendant's attorney, proved that actions had been brought against the defendants, both by Mrs. Purvis and by Mrs. Robertson; that the former was settled. on the payment et 7GI. as silently described ; and the other on payment of 2091. WWI lie made the calculations on which these settlements were effected. he certainly did include in his mind the amount of the doctors bill. lie did so, because the defendants intended to recoo , pence both these persons for all the expense and inconvenienee they had incurred in consequence of the accident. The attorney who had conducted Mrs. Robertson's action, proved the receipt of the 2001., which he had paid over to his client. Mr. Stanton requested to have notice when the money was paid to Mrs. Robertson, in order that he might come and re ceive his bill. Notice was accordingly given, and Mr. Stanton called on Mrs. Robertson, who complained that his bill was exor bitant, and offered him a sum, which he refused to take. This witness was asked, on cross-examination, whether he had not offered to bring an action for Mr. Stanton against the Misses Fanshawe ?—to which he immediately replied in the negative; and added, that when the compromise was effected between those ladies and his client, he had asked Mr. Brougham and another gentleman, whom he had retained, whether such an action would lie, and they both told him it would not. The Lor Cn - ' 11087,-- The Loan Citiee lorricE—And no man in his lenses could entertain a different opinion. Let the plalntiffi be called. The plaintiff's were accordingly nonsuited. HIGH WATER THIS DAY AT LONDON BRIDGE. Morning - - - hinted at THE BRITISH PRESS Office; by I . W. CARLTON, N.. NI, Strand, and published by R. CANNON, URN PIM. it , 1 ~ •