The Sun. — London, England, 1835-01-14 00:00:00

GENERAL ELECTIONS IN THE COUNTRY. DEVONSHIRE.-NOMINA TION. JAN. 12.—The nomination for South Devon comes on to morrow, and there are various rumours of opposition. Bald win Fulford, Esq., a lineal descendant of the kings of Jeru salem, is spoken of, but I think it is mere bravado. In the Northern Division Mr. Fellowes, and Lord Ebrington will be returned without opposition. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. We have for the last day or two proposed to give the follow ing extract from the speech of Lord John RuSsell, at the din ner given to Mr. Divett, as reported in that most excellent paper, the Western Times. After proceeding in a fine strain of sarcasm on the conduct of the Tories, and pointing out this difference between the support given to the late and to the present Administration, viz., that the support given to the former was given for the sake of measures, and to the latter for the sake of the men, his Lordship said, in reference to the delicate position in which the late Cabinet was placed—" I can only say that I found nothing more difficult, and which at the same time required more nice exercise of judgment, than the endeavour to be sufficiently forward without being too pre cipitate, and to be cautious without being timid.—( Reiterated cheers.) Gentlemen, what that exact time was, or whether we were sufficiently fortunate, and skilful, and judicious to fix upon it or not, I will not pretend to determine; but /will say this, that the cause why we left the King's councils was not because we were too timid, not because w© were not sufficiently fortyal d, but it rested wholly and solely upon this, that we did propose to carry too precisely into effect the principles upon which we took oifice."—( Loud cheers.) I know not what the line may be which th.: new Government may pursue ; it may be, that we are to have the old practices, from seeing the persons 7,:n0 are there, the old measures, and the old principl:,s, which many people thought were totally obsolete, If that is the case, we have no hope that it can sue,;:eed; on the contrary, it may be thought they are only giving as a taste of the spectacle which has been b;ought out at one of the theatres this Christmas, a rrtzre 'pantomime of " King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table"—( Cheers and laugh ter)—and that one of the transformations of that pan tomime is to be the transformation of the Carlton Con servative Club into a Grand National Political Union.— ( Cheers.) Gentlemen, it is impossible for me to say, at this moment, which of the two lines are to be taken. I shall look with the greatest distrust at either line—( Hear, hear 1 and cheers,)--because I shall think that one is an open defiance of liberty and justice, and the ether I shall believe, as other men will believe (that men who have passed twenty or thirty years of their lives in asserting principles, cannot aban don those principles which they have always professed), and that they mean to do by sap that which they cannot do by as sault.—(Tremendous cheering.) Gentlemen, I must confess there are many reasons why one cannot be sorry at the change —among others I am certainly very much satisfied to see the general satisfaction which has been shovtn to the Reform Bill, for it was my fate, for near eighteen months, to stand nearly alone, and to listen to a nauseous length to the denunciations of these men, of the utter ruin which would fall on every class of the community through the Reform Bill.—( Cheers and laughter. ) There was not a clause in the Bill but what was to be fatal to the Monarchy, subversive of the Church, and de structive of our ancient institutions ; and if the Monarchy lasted three years it would indeed be a miracle.--( Hear, hear. ) Now I find these very people have condescended so as to ac knowledge it the law of the land—so as to acknowledge that the constitution can do perfectly well, and even flourish under it ; and that even a suggestion was made, in some of the Ministerial newspapers, that the speeches which Lord Althorp and myself made in defending the Bill should be condensed and printed, in a cheap form, in order that the new Ministry and the new Reformers should have an opportunity of study ing them.—( Cheers, and great laughter. ) SOUTH IL4NTS.-NOMINATION. The nomination of candidates for the Southern Division of the County of Hants took place yesterday at Southampton, when the old Members, Lord Palmerston and Sir George Staunton, Bart., were proposed by the \Vhig interest, and 'Messrs. Fleming and Compton by the Tory party. We have received a very long report of the speeches made by the pro posers and seconders of the various candidates, and those of the Honourable Gentlemen themselves ; but the press of other important matter, and the late hour at which our express ar rived (the business not being over until five), compel us to omit everything save the annexed report (also very much con, densed) of the clear and manly address of Lord Palmerston. We should state that, on the show of hands, the Sheriff de clared the election to have fallen on Messrs. Fleming and Compton, ou which a poll was demanded for the other can didates. Lord PALMERSTON was received with loud cheers. After some prefatory observations, his Lordship proceeded to say, that he would state to them the grounds on which he ventured to solicit a renewal of that trust which had been so hand somely and so independently confided to him two years ago. In asking for this renewal of their confidence, he assured them be should nct attempt to cast any disparagement upon his competitors ; for he knew them to be most honourable and 'worthy men in private life. But that was not an occasion on which they were assembled to do homage to private worth, or to dispense personal favours ; they were, in the exercise of the most valuable privilege that an Englishman could boast, to choose fit and proper men to represent them in the Par liament of England—a choice that would only with propriety be made upon public grounds and public principles, uninflu enced by private regard or personal affection—( Cheers.) When he stood two years ago in a similar situation to that which he then occupied, he came at their own bidding, called by their own express invitation, and he took from them unsolicited and unsought, the trust of representing them, their wishes, and their interests in the Commons' House of Parliament. At that period he was honoured with invitations from more than one place, invitations not merely attended by every prospect of success, but he might fairly say with a certainty of it. —( Cries of " Hear, hear.") He could not, however, hesitate for one moment in obeying the summons of the electors of South Hants.—( Loud cheers.) If a seat in Parliament was to be looked upon as an honour, there could be none so dear to him as that which was in the gift of men amongst whom it was his fortune to live.—. ( Cheers.) If a seat in Parliament was to be looked upon as an office of trust and duty, there were no electors in England that had such claims upon his honest and earnest exertions as the electors of South Hants. At that period they deemed him worthy of representing them in the British Home of Commons; and he would confidently say, that nothing had since occurred to alter their good opinion, or make them think that he was less deserving, as a public man, to be their politi cal representative.—( Cheers.) He stood before them in a situation very different from that of his competitors; for he was not only bound to give them an account of his con duct as a legislator, but he was also bound to satisfy them as to the conduct of the Administration to which he had the honour to belong.—( Cheers.) That Administration had, on its formation, given to the country three distinct pledges—reform, retrenchment, and peace.—( Great cheer ing.) Those pledges they had fully and faithfully kept— ( Cheers) —kept, not as some persons kept their pro mises, by " keeping the word of promise to the ear and breaking it to the hope"—(Bravo ! go into the Tories) — but they had kept them in a way, that even the persons to whom they were made, had not ventured to anticipate.— ( Hear hear.) Now, with regard ;to the first of these pledges, and the way in which it had been redeemed, he might simply, upon such an occasion, refer to their meeting at that place, to show in what way the Administration had kept its promise to the people.—(Cheers.) But they looked on that great mea sure of Parliamentary Reform, however important it might be in itself, not as an end of Reform, but as a means of future Reform— ( Cheers)—as a preliminary but indispensable step to those other practical measures which inquiry and examination pointed out as expedient for repairing the different institutions of the country.—(Loud cheers.) They had been called Re volutionists and Destructives—nay, there was no term of re proach which had not been applied to them, for the disposition they had shown to improve—which disposition had, by their enemies, been unfairly construed into a determination to over turn and to destroy.—( Cheers.) There were some persons who could not, or would not, think it possible to improve without subverting—to repair defects or correct abuses, without destroy ing—to maintain the healthyovhile rooting out the decayed por tions of the constitution. They were not of that opinion; the late House of Commons were not of that opinion —the people of England at the present moment were not of that opinion.-- (Loud cheers) Who then were of that opinion? He left it to others to tell them if they could not of themselves find it out.—( Loud laughter and cheers.) Well, they did carry se veral most important reforms, but they did not do all that was hoped for and expected by ardent and eager minds ; be cause, in fact, time was allowed to them to carry their fair and just intentions into execution.—(Loud cheers.) For the two first years they were in office, they had quite enough to do to struggle with the obstacles which so perseveringly beset the grand fundamental measure of Parliamentary Reform. It was only during the last two years that they possessed a House of Commons founded on the principles of the Reform Bill, and fitted as an instrument for working out those great amelio ra tions in our institutions which the altered circumstances of the country required. Then only was it that they first acquired the means and had the opportunities of pursuing their own principles and putting them into practical operation.-- ( Cheers.) But he would contend—boldly he would contend, that in those two years they had done great things—that they had geatly improved the institutions and added to the prosperity of the country.—( Loud and continued cheers.) They had opened the trade with China to the industry of the people; those vast territories in India, the magnitude of which the mind of man could hardly compass, which teemed with a population of upwards of sixty millions, had been opened to the tide of European civilization, which would, no doubt, rapidly flow into them.—( Cheers.) They also caused vast improvements in the laws of the country, and they would have carried more had their opponents allowed them to do so. He was not a lawyer, nor was he addressing an assembly of law yers, therefore he would not talk on abstruse points, or speak to them about such matters as fines and recoveries ; but he would tell any man who knew any thing of such matters, and would take the trouble of investigating what they had done, that by their legal reforms they had greatly contributed to the security of property, and rendered justice much more easy of acquisition to the injured and the oppressed.—(Loud cheers, and cries of " The Poor Laws 1") Well, as to the Poor Laws, he shrunk not from the question. He well knew that the great est pains had been taken to create a prejudice in the minds of persons with respect to that measure.—( Hear, hear.) He considered the new law a great improvement on that vicious and demoralizing system which existed before.—(Disappro bation.) He knew he was touching upon a tender topic, but at the risk of acquiring an unpopularity of no enviable character he would ever openly state his opinions, and de- Glared that he fully approved of that measure, that he heartily ' concurred in all its provisions ; and he was satisfied that full justice would be done to those who originated and passed it, when its operation came to he fairly felt, and its benefits en joyed by the community.--( Hear, hear, hear.) The law s as it formerly stood, was grossly abused by being made stibiservi ent to the purposes of idleness and of profligacy.—(Cheers.) The law, as it formerly stood, was a curse rather than a blessing, for it discouraged industry and forethought--it compelled the thrifty and hard-working to labour for the reckless and the improvident—it discouraged the accumulation of wealth, and retarded the progress of society.—( Cheers.) They would find that the system established by the present law, if tempe rately and prudently put into operation, would improve the industrious habits of the poor—would relieve the farmer from the pressure under which he had been too long labouring, and would tend to promote habits of prudence and forethought amongst those to whom, heretofore, the present hour was the only consideration.—( Cheers.) But, gentlemen, be this mea sure for good as I think, or for evil as it appears some here think, it was one that was supported by more parties, and by more men, than any that was ever remembered to have passed through Parliament.—( Great cheering.) It was supported by Whigs and Tories--by all classes—without distinction of party ; and, therefore, it is not on that measure that my competitors can draw a distinction between them and me.— ( Cheers.) After alluding to the glorious measure for the abolition of slavery in our West India colonies, the Noble Lord proceeded to say, that he and his colleagues were not to be judged merely by what they had done ; they ought like wise to have credit in the country for what they had vainly attempted to do, and which they were prevented from doing by those very opponents who were now their successors.—( Great cheers,) They remembered that excellent and just measure, , the Local Courts' Bill, which was stifled solely through the efforts of their opponents—the new Reformers now in office.-- ( Cheers.) They would also remember a measure which the Into Ministers carried through the House of Commons—a measure of conciliation and peace for the people of Ireland— (cheers)—that they carried a Bill for the commutation of tithes, the effect of which would have been to relieve the Ca tholic peasantry of Ireland from an impost, which was not more irksome to their religious feelings than it was oppressive on their resources—(cheers) ; and which, at the same time, rendered the revenue of the Protestant clergyman more secure than now—if, indeed, it was not deluding them to say that at the present moment he had any revenue at all. If that measure, which the late Administration carried through the House of Commons, had passed the House of Lords, and become the law of the land, the blood recently shed at Rath cormac would not have been spilt, nor the tranquillity of Ire land been invaded by disputes about religion, which ought to breathe and spread abroad the spirit of peace.—( Loud cheers. ) He had stated to them much of what they did ; he had told them, also, some things which they had attempted to execute, but in which they were defeated by their opponents. It was not becoming in him, who had been in the situation of a con fidential adviser of the Crown, to tell them all that he knew with respect to past measures of Reform, but he would take upon himself to tell them the other reforms which they were anxiously maturing at the time of their dismissal.—( Hear, hear.) Thus much should lie consider himself at liberty to reveal.—( Cheers.) The plans they were maturing then were for the settlement of the question of tithes in Ireland and in England—( Cheers)—for the reform of the Church in Ireland and in England-_( Cheers)—for a redress of the grievances and privations under which the Dissenters of various denomi nations were suffering—( Loud cheers)—and for the rooting out of those abuses which disfigured and disgraced the Muni cipal Corporations of the country.—( Continued cheers.) Now he said, that if they were now called upon to decide between those who were the candidates for their favour upon political considerations personal to themselves, then he, as a membar of the Administration that had carried so many reforms, and were planning so many others, was undoubtedly tae first entitled to their suffrages and support.--(" True, true,`' and cheers.) Well, then, he had told them what they had done and were doing with respect to reform, which was their first pledge. He came to their second pledge, which was re tt-enehment. They had struck off from the annual expenditure of the country two millions three hundred thousand pounds, and from the annual taxation of the country not less than five millions per annum ; and this, too, following an Administra tion which all men must admit had reduced with no slight hand, and which many men contended had lopped off every shilling consistent with the safety and integrity of our esta blishments.—(A voice in the crowd, " Offices, patronage.") In answer to that gentleman, he had to say, that they abolished thirteen to fourteen hundred offices, all of which were at the disposal of Ministers, and therefore they were entitled not only to take credit for this great saving to the public, but for a great sacrifice of official patronage.—( Cheers.) Now, the third pledge was to maintain peace, and that pledge they had also faithfully kept even beyond the letter ; they promised peace, and during four most eventful years, fraught with diffi culties and teeming with embarrassments, they succeeded in preserting that blessing to the country. We took charge of the affairs of the country when Europe was in a state of gene ral agitation, when hostile and conflicting principles were ranged against each other, when no man expected that peace could be preserved for three months, and when one spark thrown upon the inflammable matter with which all Europe was strewed, would have involved the whole Continent in one general conflagration.—( Cheers.) They were threatened with a war of no common extent, of no ordinary character ; not merely a war of one nation against another nation, but a war in which all Europe would have participated--a war of principles, a war of extermination ; the result of which must have been either the triumph of tyranny and the establishment of a withering despotism, or the success of that resistance which, in its victorious career, would have subverted thrones, and let loose the wild elements of confusion ; and God himself could only know the result.--( Great cheering.) It was not then, merely for the benefit of the people of England they had done good service—they had benefitted the cause of mankind and of humanity all over Europe.—( Cheers.) But it was not only on the question of the actual preservation of peace that they could take credit, but also in comparing the state of Europe now with what it was when their predecessors left office ; for, whereas there was then imminent danger of war, and at the present time he would defy any man to point out a question on which it could rationally be apprehended. But, though pledged only to a principle of peace, yet it was not the only point which, as a Government wielding the energies of a great people, they thought themselves bound to attend to. They considered the maintenance of the principle of na tional independence abroad an object to which they should stea dily direct their attention—they thought that, guiding the counsels of the freeest people in the world, they could lend a moral aid to the free institutions amongst those nations which loved and cherished such forms of Government— ( Cheers.) Some persons had talked a good deal at different times about the principle of non-interference, without, how ever understanding the real meaning of the word. Now what the late Ministers meant by non-interference was, that we would not interfere by force of arms, but while we imposed on ourselves that abstinence, we would not permit others to depart from the same rule.—(Loud cheers.) We said, leave other nations, if you will, to settle their own internal affairs ; but mark you this, if we, the people of England, do not by force of arms interfere in the support of liberal institutions, neither shall you, the despotic powers of the world, interfere on the other side.—( Cheers.) And in the case, most especially of Portugal, in regard of which more abuse had been levelled at him than perhaps any servant of the Crown ever had in so good a cause, the language of the Administration was this ; We, though invited by Portugal, will not interfere by force of arms ; but if one Spanish soldier pass the frontier to assist Miguel, you shall see the sword of England immediately drawn to main tain the cause of Don Pedro. —( Great cheers.) And it was by this independent conduct—by the assertion of this moral power, that they were enabled to keep the ring in Portugal, and to give free scope to his gallant Friend near him, Admiral Napier, to immortalize his own name—to add another trophy to the countless glories of his county—and secure on a broad and firm basis the constitutional freedom of Portugal.— ( Three cheers were given to Admiral Napier.) After taking a rapid glance at the condition of Greece, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, and France, when the late Ministers came into office, and when they left office, the Noble Lord proceeded to say, that they had arrived at a crisis which was unparalleled in the history of the country, not between persons, but between parties—between, in fact, conflicting principles of Govern ment. He might be told, that four years ago, when the late Government came into power, that at that period there was also a great crisis. But he begged of them to remark the dis tinction between the then crisis, brought about by a Govern ment which fled from what they had themselves created, and that on the present occasion there was no crisis till it was produced by those who had now come into power. Therefore had they first produced a crisis when they were in office, and next they had produced a crisis by coming into office.—( Loud cheers.) It was for the electors after such doings to decide according to what principles the Government cf the country was to be carried on ; whether on principles of progressive improvement and reform, or in resistance to what they called revolution, but which would be more appropriately termed repair.--( Cries of " Hear, hear.") But they were told that those in office were about to become Reformers —that they had been suddenly animated by the remnant of that spirit of Reform which he and his friends had left behind them on quitting office—( Loud cheers)—that they were going to see things in a new point of view, and grant re forms to a far greater extent than their predecessors had even thought of.—( Cheers.) Why, if that were to be so—if the Administration which then existed really and truly mean to pursue the same course as the late Administration, then was he at a loss to understand why any change had taken place.— ( Cheers.) If such were really to be the case, then was he at a loss to understand why one individual in the kingdom held, for a period of three weeks, nearly all the executive offices of the State—(Cheers)--and why another had to come from an extreme point of Europe, and why they, the electors of South Hants were called upon, in the depth of winter, to meet in the open air to elect fresh representatives to serve them in Parlia nsent.—( Cheers. ) Was it that the new reforming Ministers were afraid the Parliament would be found lagging behind them in their projected ameliorations that they were dissolved? ( Loud cheers.) The electors of South Hants were not suffi ciently credulous to believe that to be the reason.—( Cheers.) What he (Lord Palmerston) thought much more probable was, that in the course of the last and preceeding session of Parliament, there had been such determined indications of a reforming spirit in the Commons that they knew if they met that House they would be left in a minority. and therefore unable to retain their places._( Cheers.) If Ministers meant to bring forward real and substantial reforms —if they meant to be tried by measures and not by men, why have waited to dissolve parliament, and have deferred an appeal to the people until their measures had been produced and been known to the people of the country ?--( Cheers, fol ed by an attempt, often before made by some hired ruffians, who were stated to be understrappers of the government, to force a rush upon the hustings.) There was a specimen both THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1835. of their men and their measures--(Cheers.) An Hon. friend of his (Mr. Sloane Stanley), in seconding Mr. Fleming, called upon him (Lord Palmerston) to state what course of conduct he should follow if again returned to parliament ; an. nonnelog to him, at the smile time, that the Tories Would het have him. That was very true ; the Tories would not have him, because they should not have him--(Loud cheers.) His answer to the insinuation of his Hon. Friend was, that in 1628 he quitted the Tory government, because he differed in opinion with them.—(Loud cheers.) He left them of his own accord, and whilst out of office propositions were made to him, at three distinct periods, to return, accompanied with an offer of bringing into the Cabinet any two of his political friends that he chose.—(Loud cheers.) Three scats in the Ca binet were offered to him, and urged upon him. Thrice did they offer this; thrice did he decline—(Loud cheers) ; and his reason for so declining, was, that he did not see a fair chance of being able to act upon his own opinions, and gave a practical effect to his political principles.—(Cheers.) 1 told them their Cabinet was so constituted that I could not, as an honest man, accede to it ; but I said, that if they would secure the services of Earl Grey and the Marquis of Lansdowne, then I would join them, because I could do so with honour, the presence of those two great men. in the Cabinet being a full guarantee to me that my principles would be acted upon.—( Great cheering.) He hoped his friend, his kind friend, would be gratified by this informa tion.—( Laughter.) Then, as to his future conduct. If the electors of South Hants again honoured him with a renewal of the trust reposed in him, his course would be plain and simple. He could have no confidence in the Go vernment which then existed.—(Loud cheers.) He could have no confidence in them as political men : and, there fore, if he went again to Parliament, it would be with the determination of giving them every proper constitutional and Parliamentary opposition.—( Loud cheering.) feelings, and declining to re-enter the service of the King. Had we consented, for the purpose of strengthening the Go vernment in, those liberal measures which I yet believe they will and must carry into'effect—had we joined the Govern ment with such at view--ato what misconstruction, to what ca lumny, would our motives have been subjected—how the noun. try would have looked back to our late resignation of office in order to rise,upon the wreck of the Administration we had left —how it would have been said, that all our past conduct was the result of a mere intrigue, for the purpose of re-entering office under different auspices ! But, standing as we do—as I hope we do stand, with our motives unsuspectrd, our con duct unimpeached, we stand with the full power, either by supporting or opposing the present Administration, as we find it necessary, to give effect so our own principles, and uphold our honest and consistent opinions.—( Cheers.) lam not at liberty, of course, to reveal the nature of the communication made to me and my friends, because that is a question which involves other men's conduct, and not our own ; and, frankly as I wish to deal with you upon all questions which relate to my own conduct, I know you will feel, with respect to that of others, I can only say this, that the offer made was such an one as I expected to be made by one honourable man to another. —( Cheers.) It was what, I must do Sir Robert Peel the justice thus publicly to say of him—it was like everything I have seen of his public conduct, frank and open and manly, and that I have no reason to believe he intended the smallest insincerity or evasion.—( Cheers.) But, Gentlemen, having felt it my duty to decline that offer, what is the course which it is incumbent on us, as public men, to pursue ? We are told that these are times in which it is necessary for all Reformers to co-operate—to merge all shades of difference in political opinion, and coalesce in one great effort for the overthrow of the present Government. I take no such course, and I ac knowledge no such necessity.—( Cheers and Hear.) I will coalesce with no men and no body of men of whose objects, of whose intentions, and of whose principles I am not satisfied that they are in entire and complete accordance with my own ; and I will not admit of those who class themselves under the name of Reformers, that their principles or that their objects arc the same with mine or the same with the Administration of Lord Grey ; and I will join no effort for the overthrow of any Government, unless I see a fair and legitimate prospect of the construction of another Government who will more readily carry into effect the principles to which I am attached. From me, therefore, gentlemen, at least, the present Ministry will meet no factious opposition, though I cannot promise to give them any pledge of support. I have nothing to do with the motives of this or of that man. I cannot say that on look ing at the composition of the present Government—looking at the individuals of whom it is composed—l cannot say that I see reasonable ground of confidence in them on the part of those who entertain the liberal opinions which I profess.— ( Cheers.) Apart from all hasty considerations—aloof from every consideration, but how I can best discharge my duty at a period which, with all deference to my Hon. Friend who pro posed Mr. Patten, I do consider a crisis of fear, and anxiety, and danger ; I say it is my duty to look forward at such a crisis, not with the eye of a partisan, not with the view of placing this man or that man in power, but with the view of placing my country in a situation of safety, of rational, temperate, and extensive reform—( Applause,)—and to place my confidence, not in this man or that man of an Administration, but to place my confidence in that to which my Honourable Friend admits we must look—namely, the spirit of the times, and the power which the Reform Bill has placed in the con stituency of this country.—( Cheers.) I know refork., must go on—wide and extensive, but I hope constitutional. I know it is impossible that the abuses of Municipal Corporations can long be overlooked.—(Hear.) I know some results must come from the Commission issued by the late Government to inquire into the prevalence and nature of those abuses. I know that the Commission has been adopted by the present Government, at least by the Prime Minister; and lam satisfied that it is necessary for any Government to give to the report of that Commission such full effect as will secure the real and effectual control of the funds vested in the hands of Corpora tions to the inhabitants of the great towns. I know, also, that Ecclesiastical Reform must come, and that it is certain with regard to two branches, namely, both as to the temporalities of the Church, and also as to her internal discipline. I, too, like my Hon. Friend, would not be a consenting party to abstract ing one farthing from the revenues of the clergy, and who, I believe in my conscience, are not overpaid, but as a body are hardly adequate to supply the religious wants of the people. But I do say that it is absolutely necessary, in order to a dif ferent distribution of the revenues of the Church, to afford a more equal distribution of the means of religious instruction, that the abuses of non-residence, the abuses of pluralities, and the abuses of the present appropriation of chapter and cathedral property, should be got rid of—( Hear, hear) — and that the revenues of the Church should be so disposed of as to give the people of England the greatest amount of benefit from the division of competently but not overpaid Ministers.—( Cheers.) I look, also, with anxiety to see some measure which may give to the superior clergy a more effectual control and a more real superintendence over the inferior clergy of their dioceses—( Hear)—and give them more ef fectual means of removing those cases of scandal which occa sionally arise, and for which the present law gives no remedy. ( Applause.) These are the grounds upon which I venture again to claim your support. ( The Noble Lord concluded, amidst loud cheers, a speech which was listened to with the deepest attention.) The High Sheriff then, in due form, declared Mr. Patten and Lord Stanley duly elected. The very numerous concourse of freeholders and others shortly dispersed. MIDDLESEX. MEETING OF MR. HUME'S FRIENDS. A numerous assembly of the electors of Middlesex took place at the Guildhall Coffee-house last night. Ald. WOOD, M.P., took the chair Mr. BENJAMIN WOOD proposed a resolution to the effect of the necessity of returning to Parliament men who were known to be opponents of corruption, and tried friends of the people. Mr. STEVENS seconded it. _ _ Mr. D. W. HARVEY, M. P., said that the present Govern ment was playing its last card with desperation, and it would be a shadow cast over the triumph of the metropolis if they lost their best man, for it truly would be a consolation to the Tories if they could take away the only numeral amongst their opponents. If the heart was sound the extremities would not prove unhealthy, but if the disease of Toryism was permitted to infect the core and centre of the kingdom, a putrefaction of the entire would be the inevitable result. With regard to Mr. Byng he deserved their most zealous support, for though now compelled comparatively to stand still, yet he was running hard in the Constitutional pursuit when many of them were unable to walk. He did not know how to enforce pro perly the resolution which he held regarding Mr. Hume ; it was a fact that the longer men laboured the less they were re garded, and the sluggard of half a session who awakened at the latter end of it, was always greeted with applause. Take up, however, any reports of the proceedings of Parliament, and Mr. Hume's sentiments will be found recorded in every page ; and if not always wisely, yet ever the results of good intention.—( Cheers.) He would with great pleasure pro pose the resolution, that Mr. Hume's public life entitled him to the gratitude of the people, and that the electors of Mid dlesex would use every means to secure his election. Mr. GALLOWAY seconded the resolution. Mr. Fox moved that a Committee should be appointed to adopt means to secure Mr. Hume's election. Mr. LAIN SON seconded the resolution, and a Committee was appointed. Mr. FaARON remarked, that although it was not embodied in a resolution, yet money was requisite to carry their object, and there was a subscription list open to which several names had been already attached. Mr. HUME at this period came into the room, and was re ceived with loud applause. He addressed the meeting, and said that from the promises of support he received, he was sure they would be able to give a good account of the Tory candidate before the end of the week. He had done his duty in the House, and it was now for his constituents to perform their's out of it. He was as zealous as any man, and if he was backed upon the present occasion, he would, as far as in his power, represent his constituents adequately--( Loud cheers.) The meeting then separated, a vote of thanks to Alderman Wood having been passed. The Tories are at their old tricks. Sion House, the seat of the Tory Duke of Northumberland, is not far from Houns low. The following is a circular from that Tory Duke's pri vate Secretary, addressed to John Poulton, Esq., Hounslow heath, and by that gentleman properly refused. We thought that by the Constitution Peers were not to interfere in elec tions. But the distinction between the act of a Peer and the official act of his private secretary is a very new one : " MIDDDESEX ELECTION. " Six—May I request the favour of your vote and interest at the ensuing election, in favour of Thomas Wood, jun., Esq., of Littleton, in whose success I feel extremely interested. " I remain, sir, your obedient humble servant, " F. MORRIS. " Northumberland House, Jan. 2, 1835." LANCA SHIRE. NORTHERN DIVISION.-LANCASTER, MONDAY', JAN. 12. The nomination of candidates for this division of the county of Lancaster, took place on Monday, the 12th instant, at ten o'clock, in the Shire hall, at Lancaster.—The candidates, Lord Stanley and John Wilson Patten, Esq., the represen tative of this division in the last Parliament, made their ap pearance shortly before the hour appointed, and were received with the most enthusiastic cheers from their assembled par tisans. _ The high sheriff, T. J. STAFFORD, Esq., having opened the business of the meeting, TOWNLEY PARKER, Esq., proposed John Wilson Patten, Esq. EDWARD BRADDYLL, Esq., seconded the nomination. PEREGRINE TOWNLEY, Esq., proposed Lord Stanley. Mr. BOLDEN seconded the nomination. Mr. PATTEN proceeded to address the electors. He said he believed and considered that the Reform Act was a final mea sure so far as the construction of the House of Commons was concerned. And he also believed he should represent the the wealth and intelligence of the county, when he asserted that it was his duty, as it was his intention, to oppose all mea sures for the shortening of Parliaments—for altering the mode of voting to that of the ballot—or for the extension of the fran chise. As to the tithe question, he considered that he should be acting as the best friend of the clergy themselves, as well as of the nation, if he gave his support to any measure for a satisfactory arrangement of it. And as to the church rates he would make the same avowal ; yet in neither would he con sent to anything which would in the least degree infringe the just rights and privileges of the Establishment.—( Cheers and hisses.) Considering the circumstances which had brought him once more before the county, and the change which had recently been expected in the administration of affairs, he should not be acting candidly or honestly to his constituents did he not declare that, if the present Government were ready to act up to the principles professed by Sir R. Peel to his constituents—if Sir Robert were prepared to go the lengths of that address, and his colleagues to march along with hire, it was his determination to give them his cordial support. The Right Hon. Lord STANLEY next presented himself to the freeholders, and spoke as follows :—Mr. High Sheriff and Gentlemen—lt is fortunate for me on the present occasion that I have no new opinions to profess—no doubtful votes to explain away—no alteration of opinion to announce. The EUMC that I was when I appeared before you first—the same that I was when I entered into public life—hoping at least that my life has not been thrown away without the advantage of some additional experience, the same, with that difference, in principle and opinion do I appear before you this day.— ( Cheers.) My Hon. Friend has apologized to me for taking one leaf out of my book.—( Hear.) I can assure him, that so far from thinking thrt it requires any apology, I have even a higher gratification than that which I daily feel in seeing, not my Hon. Friend only, but many of those who have come for ward on this and former occasions to support him, gradually taking out of my book one leaf after another.—(" No, no," from Mr. Patten, and cheers.) I rejoice to find from my Hon. Friend, not only that he—for that I was well aware of— but that all, with the exception it seems of a very sins 1 party, who are desirous of going to dangerous extremes, are now sensible how necessary it is to follow the course of public opinion, and not to shrink from the danger of en countering necessary improvements—not to shrink from salu tary alterations even in the institutions of the country.---( Ap plause.) Gentlemen, the speech which my honourable friend has addressed to you this day, nay more, I will say the mani festo to which he has referred as hitt profession of faith, ap pears to me—listening to the one witA the greatest attention, and having perused the other with the most earnest anxiety to see what were the sentiments it contained—appears to me, from one end of it to the other, to contain sound constitutional Whig doctrines.—( Cheers and laughter, and a cry of " No" froni Mr. Patten's friends.) It breaths that spirit of Reform with out the fear of innovation, which was the bugbear of a few years ago—it breathes that spirit of attachment to the Con stitution which I venture to believe, coupled with the desire for rational improvement, has ever been the leading principle of that great Whig party to which I hold it an honour to be long.—( Applause.) I proceed to the ground which com pelled me, however unwillingly, and however sensible of the deep responsibility which by that course I took upon myself to withdraw from the Government of Earl Grey ; for I feel thyt in times like the present—nay, in any times—the public man who timidly shrinks from a post of high responsibility and of high station is not less guilty of a dereliction of duty, is not guilty of less treachery to the interests of his coun try, than he who, even from corrupt motives, takes a high station in the Administration.—( Hear, hear.) The measure upon which I felt myself compelled to leave the Ad ministration, was not one brought forward by any Member of the Government—it was a measure upon which for years, it had been well known that, between me and my colleagues there existed a conscientious difference of opinion. It was an abstract question, brought forward, as I deemed, unnecessarily—as my colleagues deemed unneces sarily; because, knowing our difference of opinion, we had honestly endeavoured to avoid bringing the abstract question forward, while working together cordially in the progress of general reform. It was a question which, in my mind, en dangered the stability and the independence of the Protestant Church of the United Kingdom—it was a measure against which I protested in 1824, and a measure for which I felt bound to resign office in 1834—( Cheers.) And in resigning office, I trust did so in a manner not to throw unnecessary embarrassment in the way of those whom I left in the Go vernment of the country—not to do more than give effect to my motives in retiring from a situation which I no longer could have filled with conscience and honour, and which if I had continued to fill with disgrace, I should have been useless, more than useless—l should have been mischievous to the Ad ministration, and I should have degraded myself in the eyes of all honest men—( Cheers.) It is unnecessary for me to trouble ' you with the details of the measures which shortly after followed, which were introduced, not by the Government, but as amendments which were forced upon them, and which the Government were unable or unwilling to resist. I willingly pass over topics which may have led to some excitement. Their reiteration is not necessary to my own defence or explanation ; and with your permission I wil lingly pass them over. The Administration of Lord Mel bourne succeeded that of Earl Grey ; and I will not conceal from you, that although in that Administration there were many mon for whom I entertained the most cordial friendship —nay, more, with whom I was united by the closest political ties—l did not feel in them the same degree of confidence which I;felt:I could repose when the Government was directed by the energies of Earl Grey. But with its fall I have nothing to do. I pass to the period when the Administration was dis solved, and a proposal was made to me again to take a part in the Government of the country. And here I pray your patient attention, because I feel that it is not only necessary that you should believe that I have come to a right conclusion, but because I feel it is necessary for you to know that I was influenced by right motives in coming to that conclusion.— ( Applause.) Gentlemen, it did so happen, that shortly after the dissolution of the Government I had an opportunity of meeting certainly at the time with no political view— those friends with whom I was most immediately and nearly connected upon political questions ; and as at that time there was a report that some application would be made to them and to me, it was not very unnatural that we should discuss the line of conduct which we should pursue. And I think it due to them—and more particu cularly to one of them, an intimate friend of mine, who is now standing his trial at the election for a neighbouring county— it is due, I say, to them, to state that as, in coming to that con clusion, there was no shade of difference of opinion between us ; so neither subsequent to the conclusion to which we came, has there been the slightest difference or hesitation as to the propriety of the course we adopted. I trust you will believe that we were actuated by no unworthy, or party, or personal motives.---( Hear.) I should hardly have felt it necessary to say anything on this point, had it not been intimated to me that it might be necessary to correct an impression in some quarters, that if I was willing to act with Sir Robert Peel, I was un willing to act under him. Gentlemen, lam incapable of any feeling so absolutely personal—( Cheers)—and I hope you will believe, that if it were competent for me on public grounds, to join the Administration of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington, with me the words of "with," or " under," would never for one moment have balanced the scale.—(Cheers.) And I hope you will also believe, that if we had felt the ac ceptance of office at that time the most effectual means for promoting, and supporting, and carrying into effect, those great principles of sound and rational improvement to which we were attached, we might have had the firmness of mind not even to shrink from the obloquy which we knew we should have incurred—even to risk all—to risk even the appearance of the loss of character, and trust to time to do us justice, even in the acceptance of office.— ( Cheering.) But at least we have the gratification to feel that, in this instance, the sense of public duty, the sense of personal feeling, the sense of private friendship—all led us to the same conclusion—that our public duties would.be best per formed by following the natuml inclinations of our own private OXFORD (COUNTY.) J A N. 12.—The election of three members to serve in Par liament for this county took place this morning, at the Town hall. At half past ten o'clock, the High Sheriff, W. F. L. Stone, Esq., entered the hall. On the bench we noticed Lord Villiers ' Mr. Ashurst, Mr. H e nley, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Peers, Mr. Coker, Mr. Strickland, Dr. Phillimore, Mr. Lechmere, W. S. Blackstone, M. P., Mr. Reed Colwebb, Dr. Jones, Dr. Marsham, P. Joddrell, Esq., the Mayor of Oxford, and many county magistrates. After the writ and the act against bribery and corruption had been read, Dr. PHILLIMORE said I beg to propose George Harcourt, Esq., as a fit and proper person to represent the county in Parliament. C. PEERS, Esq., seconded the nomination. CoxER, Esq., proposed Major Weyland. W. SriticKLAND, jun., Esq., seconded the nomination. Mr. HARVEY proposed Lord Norreys. Mr. REID, of Ipsden, seconded the nomination. Mr. BOUSFIELD of London, then rose to give an analysis of the votes of the three members. He declared that out of fifty eight divisions in the past session, Mr. Harcourt was present only six times, Mr. Weyland six, and Lord Norreys eleven ; and of the same number of divisions in the second session, Mr. Harcourt only voted on five questions, Mr. Weyland one, and Lord Norreys ten.—(All the Members declared this state ment, s ith others made by Mr. Bousfield, to be a tissue of falsehoods.) Mr. B. said he had it in print, and if he made false statements he would apologize. The Learned Gentle man continued to canvas the several votes of the three can didates, and said he did this with no unfriendly feeling, but merely to caution them as to their conduct in future. Mr. HARCOURT repelled, with_ indignation and disgust, the charges of Mr. Bousfield. Mr. H. then went into a long dis cussion on several political questions, declaring himself to be long to no party, and that his only object was the people's benefit and the country's good. Major WEYLAND also defended himself against the attacks of Mr. Bousfield, declaring many of them to be unfounded, and the rest overcharged. Lord NORREYS repelled with indignation the charges brought against him. As to his being absent, true it was he had often been absent, and, if returned to Parliament, should often a.Lent himself again. He never would on any great question, but be would whenever he heard men of no principle, and restless agitators, bring forward motions, whose only object was noto riety and popularity ; men who cared nothing for their country's weal, but were ready to destroy everything that was ancient and valuable in society. There being no other candidate, the three old Members were declared duly elected. LEICESTERSHIRE ( SOUTH DIVISION.) MONDAY EVENING.—It is now generally believed that no contest will take place for this division ; and that, at the election next Thursday, the late Member, Mr. Halford (T,) and Mr. Frewen Turner (T), the new candidate, will be re turned without opposition. Mr. Dawson has withdrawn. The unfortunate and unexpected issue of the borough election had great influence on the South Division : it rendered a con test in that quarter hopeless of success. SUFFOLK-NOMINATION. EASTERN DIVISION—IPSWICII, JAN. 10.—The nomination for this division of the county of Suffolk took place on Saturday. Sir CHARLES BLOTS proposed Lord Henniker as a fit and proper person to represent them in the ensuing Parliament. Colonel BENCE seconded the nomination. They must now decide whether they were for Lord Durham and a republic, or would support the present Government.--(Three cheers were here given for Lord Durham.) The Gallant Colonel concluded by seconding the nomination of Lord Henniker. Lord HENNIKER was received amid loud cheering by the Anti-Reformers. He had not been a factious opponent to the late Government. He was anxious to support the Ministry of Sir Robert Peel. The Noble Lord concluded by thanking the meeting for their attention. Sir R. HARLAND, amid great cheering, proposed Robert Newton Shawe, Esq. EDWARD GODFREY, Esq., seconded the nomination. R. N. SHAWE, Esq., then presented himself to the electors, and was received with tremendous cheering. His whole de pendence was upon agriculture. His friends, the Dissenters, whose support he had, knew perfectly well his opinions. He would go to the full extent of suppressing all practical griev ances, and in removing from them every civil disability.— (Loud cheers.) He would now say a word or two on the intimidation which was practised. He was not aware of the extent to which threats had been held out, and of the extent to which these threats had been put into execution, until he started upon his canvas. He regretted to state that these things were going on at the present moment, and to a very great extent ; and although he had been in principle and in practice opposed to the vote by ballot, yet he would assure the meeting, that before he voted against that question again, he should give it a most serious and attentive consideration. —( Cheers.) He did not say that he should vote for it, but he would give it his most serious consideration ; and if he voted for it at all, it would be on this principle, that as the present system is bad, and as a man cannot conscientiously give his vote without losing his customers, or of being ruined in his affairs, nothing that could arise from the ballot could be worse.—( Great cheering.) Lieutenant-General Sir EDWARD KERRISON then came for ward to nominate Colonel Sir Charles Verc, and was seconded by Sir W. MIDDLETON, Bart. Sir CHARLES VERE said his principles were well known to them ; he was a ;firm upholder of the monarchy and of the constitution in Church and State.—( Cheers, and cries of " The old story again.") The men now placed at the helm of Government were more likely to make improvements, and give such reform as would be founded on the constitution of the country, and make it purely and virtually Conservative.— (Loud huzzas.) Sir THOMAS Goocu then addressed the meeting at great length, and amidst great interruptions; after which The Hian SHERIFF put the nominations, severally, to a show of hands, and declared that, in his opinion, the choice of the meeting had fallen on R. N. Shawe, Esq., and Sir Charles Vcre. Lord HENNIKER immediately demanded a poll. The Him! SIIERIFF then announced that the polling would take place on Tuesday and Wednesday next, and dissolved the meeting. Three cheers were then given for the High Sheriff, and the numerous assemblage quietly dispersed. SURREY. EASTERN DIVISION.—A numerous meeting of the electors of the Eastern Division of Surrey, assembled last night at the Great Room of the Horns Tavern, Kennington, for the pur pose of securing the return of the two Liberal candidates, Messrs. Briscoe and Beauclerk, the late representatives. Tha room was completely crowded. Colonel Stanhope took the chair. Mr. PALMER moved the first resolution, expressive of the confidence of the meeting in their late representativess and pledging them to their support in the present contest. The resolution having been seconded by Mr. HALL, Mr. BRISCOE rose to give an account of his stewardship, and answer any questions which the electors might wish to put to him. EPSOM RACES. An ELECTOR required an explanation with regard to a re port which had been widely circulated, namely, that he (Mr. Briscoe) had been endeavouring to put a stop to the Epsom races ? Many of the electors not deeming the question relevant, ob jected to it ; but Mr. BRISCOE replied, that although not a political, it was still a question in which the public were interested, and re quired an explanation ; more especially as he found the rumour had been injurious to his canvas ; he had never any intention to put a stop to the races. So far was he from wishing to cur tail the amusements of the people, that, on the contrary, he gave some waste lands for the purpose of rendering the course more commodious. The mis-statement arose out of a question of right, which was then under a course of legal examination. Though lord of the manor for fifteen years, he had never pocketed one shilling of the money raised from the race-grounds, nor was it his intention to do so ; but he had a right to that money, and being but a tenant for life he thought it his duty to his successor not to suffer that right to be alienated whilst he was in possession of the manor.—( Hear, hear.) This right had been claimed by a self-constituted body, who had gone so far as to set the fees up to auction. Under these circumstances and by the advice of counsel, he had undertaken to protect the right of the manor ; and whatever might be the result of the pending suit, he was resolved to devote whatever portion of the fees might come to him for public purposes.—(Loud cheers. ) Mr. BEAUCLERK came forward amidst the cordial greetings of the meeting, and in admirable speech professed himself ready to perform unpledged the duties which would devolve upon him if elected to represent them, and referred the consti tuency to his former conduct as a proof of the reliance which might be placed in him. Messrs. HARDY and ELLIs having addressed the meeting, Another resolution, reprobating the intimidations used by the Tory party, was passed, and the meeting separated, SUSSEX (WEST.) CHICHESTER, TUESDAY, JAN. 13.—At half-past ten, the Hon. Robert Curzon, High Sheriff, opened a special County Court, for the purpose of electing two knights to serve in Parliament for the Western Division of Sussex. Sir J. M. LLOYD, Bart., of Lencing, proposed Lord John George Lennox. -- TEESDALE, Esq., of Bognor, seconded the nomination. Sir CHARLES FOSTER GORING, Bart., of Highden, pro posed the Earl of Surrey. Captain PECHELL, M.P., of Castle Goring, seconded the nomination. ...... ROBERT HENTY, Esq., of Chichester proposed Charles Chadwick Jones, Esq., barrister; and the nomination was seconded by Mr. DREW HONEYWOOD, of Horsham. Lord GEORGE LENNOX and the Earl of SURREY then se verally addressed the electors, professing their readiness to support all safe and practicable measures of reform. Mr. JONES then declared himself favourable to triennial parliaments, vote by ballot, and household suffrage. A show of hands was taken : but, before the Sheriff could announce the decision, Mr. JONES said he had consulted with his friends ; and, finding no prospect of success, he would not vexatiously pro long a hopeless contest, therefore begged to retire. The election of the two former members was then formally declared. WORCESTERSHIRE (EAST.) NOMINATION. MONDAY, JAN. I2.—The nomination for the Eastern divi sion of the county of Worcester took place this day, at Droit wich. The candidates, Thomas Henry Cookes, Esq., one of the late members, and Edward Holland, Esq., a magistrate of the county, and a gentleman long connected with its in terests, and universally respected, in the Liberal interest, and a young, raw, inexperienced youth, fresh from Oxford, in the person of Mr. Horace St. Paul, son of the Baronet of the same name, who was rejected by the electors of Dudley in 1832, who is put forward by the Tories. Sir THOMAS WINNINGTON, Bart., M.P., proposed Mr. Cookes. CHARLES HANFORD, Esq., seconded the nomination. JAMES TAYLOR, Esq., of Moseley Hall, proposed Mr. Ho race St. Paul. Mr. WHITMORE JONES, of Oxford, seconded the nomination. Mr. BATE, of Stourbridge, banker, proposed Mr. Holland. WILLIAM ACTON, Esq., seconded the nomination. Mr. CooaEs then addressed the electors at some length, entering fully into the acts of the late Ministry, and defending his own Parliamentary conduct. Mr. HORACE ST. PAUL followed, who spoke for about five minutes ; and when called upon to declare his principles, re ferred to Sir R. Peel's address, and said he should go to Par liament, if elected, to support the Church and the King. His speech, if such it can be called, was received with loud shouts of laughter. Mr. HOLLAND then stated his political principles in a speech of some length, which was loudly cheered. He would not particularly oppose the present Ministy, but should view them with great distrust. The SHERIFF then put the candidate to a show of hands, and declared the choice to have fallen on Messrs. Ceokes and Holland, amidst loud and enthusiastic cheering. The polling commences on Thursday. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 13. BERNAL V. BERNAL. Mr. WAKEFIELD appeared in support of a petition Pre' sented in this case by one of the kindred legatees o f Gits Bernal, a person of the Jewish persuasion, who had left property in the hands of trustees to be divided in certain PI portions among the descendants and generation of the sarilo religion. The petitioner was of opinion that, accordingei construction put by the Jewish lawyers on the terms us / by the Lsstator, but the bequest excluded all females, and 0 conf i ned to male descendants. t Mr. SIDEBOTiL"' on the other side, contended th a ordinary rules in the interpre ts W Court must adhere to of the wills of Jews as well as of all others. The LORD CHNCELLOR should eOsidu the point in V tion, with reference to the particular case Zeade by the prisocvl:, COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAL ,13* IN TITS MATTER OF THE SOUTHEND Plan coMPA •I. „ 4 1 Mr. THESSIGER applied for a rule for a criminal info rms t against certain persons whose names he mentioned, a nd ;101 , had been concerned in n riot at the Southend Pier. 0 1 erection of the Pier had been the subject of some excitedlel at tl e place, and the toll gate had been broken down to'c' to three times. The particular matter which he now w ishe bring under the notice of the Court occurred on the 14t October. On that day the collector went on board abt ' called the Minerva, to collect the tolls, and for the pdrriii of distraining if they were not paid. A Mr. Ingram put iy foot upon the anchor of the barge for the purpose of distrsie ins; - , and immediately that was done a boat put off from 4t shore, and thirty men, armed with handspikes, assembl ed ; 1,10 collector was turned out of the barge, and the distress tp rescued. The men assembled then proceeded towerd_ m o toll-bar, which had been erected for the third time. Thd,ci had all been cased with iron ; but these men attacked erl destroyed them. The Magistrate, though called on to int di fere, refused to do so, having doubts as to the construe ti ttl the Act, and, consequently, as to the powers of the Co M PLi The Learned Counsel stated what were the doubts, and p r the Court for an opinion upon the construction of the Act' Rule re fused. BAIL COURT, JAN. 13. COLDHAM V. SIR R. GILL, KNT. dr Mr. PLATT stated the case. It was an action to recou — ht o mages for the loss of the services of the plaintiff's dig who had been seduced by the defendant, a man of rank. The damages were laid at 5001. d 1111 Ann Coldham was the daughter of the plaintiff, an seventeen years old last May, on the 26th of which mootb to, went to St. James's Church to be confirmed. On her r , e vi itli e she met the defendant in St. James's-street, who walke n the J her to the corner of Brook-street, Grosvenor-square, an di wished her to meet him another day, but she refased to irbt, him, cr to tell him where she lived. In about a fort after, as she was on the road from the Bank, where s he t he t he been to receive some money for her father, she again In e defendant in Pall-mall, and then having parted with 10_ 1 ) met him by appointment in St. James's-square. They 1 7.4 and conversed together, chiefly on the happiness of the ow;i o i state. They parted in Portman-square, she (witness) 131 _,A, agreed to meet him in a week at Clarence-gate, Regent's-YOl whither she ultimately went at six o'clock in the evening, pi found him waiting in his cabriolet with a groom. She got inh, r o they drove round the Regent's-park and into Hyde-park. Pit/ ing the ride he talked of the inutility of marriage, said 11 ! A ie searched the Scriptures, and he could not find it nalnP*9 them, and was of opinion that it was an unnecessary forte. a which witness replied--" It is the form of the world, molt should abide by it." He replied that most of the n ° a tl and gentry were married for the sake of property, o might pass from one to the other, but that those wboliwift constant together, as if married, were as much man i lk in the eyes of God as if they conformed to the idle rn i t bd the world. They rode about for nearly two hours anuotl• parted, the witness agreeing to meet the defendant in a„„00 night in Great Cumberland-street. The same ride lit , took place, and the same sort of conversation, and then o f ness began to think his opinion was right. In shor t ' o tel , made similar assignations five or six times, when he sugg Rd an elopement, and that she should tell her mother sh e d bet going to visit a school-fellow, and leave a letter behin,,,,se , for her mother so that she might see it after she wasbd She accordingly went off, and the defendant carried her b ` t if country seat at Shenley Lodge, Hertfordshire, where si ji remained ten days as man and wife. They after v i t ya went to York Chambers, in St. James's-street, whe re found a Miss Jane Cooper, to whom he introcluo witness as a miliner going to Paris to learn c y fashions, and ultimately they all set off for titote pital, where they remained five weeks, and then h ere back to London, and returned to Shenley, where t a i4, were a groom, a cook, a kitchen-maid, and a housef Sophia Dickenson, whom the defendant said he had selo , at the age of fourteen ; she was then about seventeen. AO ness was very uneasy, and frequently asked defendant,sl , he would marry her ? To which defendant replied, , great vanity in you to suppose I would marry a girl o 'o ' low birth, for I would marry no lady unless she had 10, , bl! a year." On the 17th of October her mother fetch ed home. At Shenley, in London, and Paris, being 01 /0 1 happy at his behaviour, defendant said to her, " I clen'k t d to see you unhappy ; you are a pest to me ; you InsY ft yourself of all your troubles by drowning y ou rself.", of which witness replied, " I would rath er bear the troub le this world than those of the next." ft 10 A letter was put in received after th e w it ness had addressed to "A. 8., No. 37, George-street, NILO square," in which he urges the witness to stay with her Pim - o cl and in which he puts down a variety of moral sentences.o as " a good conscience is everything," " a repentant ch 101 acceptable in the eyes of God." But he admits that sh e 0 41 always behaved honourably, kindly, and affectionately to' him. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 300/. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 13. to° ll .l Lord ABINGER, on entering the Court this morning, or the oath of allegiance, on his appointment as Lord Baron. DICAS V. LAWSON. Mr. LEE applied for a rule to show cause why a nevi 5/rt !' d should not be granted. The Learned Counsel, in supr.oo, his motion, said, this was an action brought by the 1 31 .,, the against the defendant, for two libels which appearca Times newspaper of the 20th and 31st of March, last 1 10 and which was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson at the of sittings after Term, when the Jury found the verdict fo r defendant. The COURT refused the rule. if sP Mr. LEE then proceeded to the second article, which s ipil report and comment on the action brought by Dicas g,„fte Harmer, and which his client considered had a tend injure his character. _ A dr The COURT observed, that in that case the plaintiff ) 1 7 0 0, tamed a verdict of fifty pounds against Mr. Harmer, and c h appeared in the Times was merely a reprint of the A Eliee tbo Counsel. As the arti c l e con t a i ne d b o th th e b a ne an re antidote, and the Jury being of opinion that the antidot.etif, moved the bane, the Court would, out of mercy to the pill ° not grant a new trial. Dr. Lardner has arrived in Paris, it is said 1)1;01 vitation of the French Government, on business relative t° ,,,,1 railroad between this and Calais, by which a traveller breakfast in Paris and dine in London.—Paris Advertiser' o f MR. BULWER'S PELHAM.—TO the new 40 1 cheap edition of this work, whi c h f orms th e eommeonlo" of the revised and illustrated collection o f " Colburn .° dern Novelists," is prefixed an interesting preface, i° the accomplished author gives an account of his % it efforts in public writing, and particularly in the produeith ° " Pelham ;" and also an unpublished Tale or Sketch, W f different destination of the hero, and a different vier° 1 0 isi l ' effects of society and even pleasure upon the human i .ol upon which tale the novel was constructed. These I _, l illustrations, combined with the pictorial ones, add a chi to° value to this edition, of which it is impossible to spe d highly 0 6 ' BAD NEWS FOR INFORMERS.-It is re d o that the new Act relating to Weights and Measures (t th lg of William IV., chap. 49), which comes into o perati ° , 4 or, day, will prove to be a solecism. It is one of the most w a ling pieces of legislation, and has evidently been pat ed,, the purpose of placing patronage in the hands of county PO OA' trates. The first thirteen clauses relate solely to the 14 7 e oir ment and duties, &c., of the inspectors. Th e fotew o lte' clause enacts that " any person or persons who shall A , t e sell, expose to sale, or use any weights or measures tot' f ie not been stamped, or which shall be found light, or othe unjust, shall, on co nv i c ti on f or f e i t a sum not °loca l-1 9 e pounds ;" but neithe r th a t nor any o f t h e su b seque nt cia o t he the Act, gives power to magistrates to recover the fit o i er , may inflict, if it be on ly a f ar thi ng . Th an k s to the woe" who framed the Act, this blunder will, it is understood , the the Act quite inoperative, beyond filling the pockets of _ C ol: spectors, some of w h om it i s sa id h ave a l rea dy p o cketed Porr hundred pounds, and it will cause the golden dreams I n the informers have for some time indulged to vanis ------- f 0 MARRIED. srigr On the 13th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Ri ch t o ot , Raynsford, Esq., formerly of Gravely, Herts, to Hen ri() lotte, only (laughter of the late Henry James Alexander daile, Esq., of Ilargrave Lodge, Stanstea, Essex. DIED. , o f A f ,,i On Sunday evening, awfully sudden, Mrs. Vining' %%De Vining, engraver, of Tavistock-row, and brother to the 4 Theatrical celebrity. " d allie r On the 10th inst., at Kentish-town, Emma, only u- - - J o Mrs. Wingfield, aged 8 years and 7 months. , oeou On the sth inst., Frederick, eldest son of the late 161.* f er Head, of Friday-street, aged 29. , 013 , o On the 6th inst., Harriett, wife of Mr. Thomas Jaci" _ .0 ,1 per Belgrave-place, Pimlico. ____/ - a---, , Londoo. : Printed and Published by MURDO at The Stun Office, No. 112, Strand. 11-su.:l.lllBT.'d' :, b: f ° \ °l : rne , P 1 1. 1! .. üb SC: p ll i : n THE Uhl icns ELEcTio] principh, t -3, and of t " Ale b m ers to "'No% Kings cot Tp T H E E G ENTLY:II CCEpT acknowl 1111 8 day confer ec "PPurt which r•( Such rnarks3° public conduct a have always steal cord auce with t h, I Durham Ja 21.1 tHE OFFICE I.NODOAT o f tt e h that Majesty'sLo( e onsisti Re n g of 01 Pe Rubbi sh, ,„.!!!r! 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