The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-17 00:00:00

: i t 'd proper person to re present them in the new and Reformed %se of Commons.—(lmmense cheering.) kIN r. MANSELL s a id th a t nr .thi ng b ut t h e cause of Re ' nothing but a desire for the interests of the electors, : I(} thing but respect for a patriot, would have induced hitu have thrown himself upon the attention of the electors N'Propose a gentleman as their representative, at the irn 'tant crisis at which they were about to send a Mernb,r 1 1 , 414 a Reformed Parliament. It was, undoubtedly, ,thy of the gentleman who last spoke, to refer to the .tried serv i ces o f M r. B yng; but the electors were to .10 1lect that Mr. Byng had never served them in a 'I w "! and Reformed Parliament—(Hear, Irtar, hear)—in 14 1 ;:h those great measures were to be brought ard, that were to form the basis of the 4s upon wlij.h they were just entering. Mr. Byng ' l 4 served the electors long, be had supported the cause of f ,ortu long, w hil e th a t R e f orm was " mo d erate " — hear)—but the time had come when Reform must lend itself not only through every principle, but through every clime.—(Loud cheers.) The ti me b a d come gratitude alone for past services must not be the it:"lticiple on which the electors would have to act ; but 4 Y would h ave t o cons id er we ll, an d sen d suc h men !, Parliament who alone possessed unquestionably pa and liberal sentiments. The elec:ors ought t take t h e i r stand upon the pedestal of truth, and whtle 7 7 Were supported by truth and principle, the cause of am must prosper.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. M.) stood the electors to propose a person who would advocate major points of Reform which Mr. Byng would nu ' l, l not seem prepared to do.—(Cheers.) He alluded 'the tithes —church-rates—the corn laws—and above 11 1 and that which alone would render the Reform Bill t re nt; he would adv o cat e vot e by b a ll ot —(Ch eers ) — prevail e d now, T ory cand i dates, and those called Con 7oatives, wo u ld never h ave come f orwar d to enter a rrned P ar li amen t.—(Ch eers, ) E very man h a d a L t to worship G o d, f or i ns t ance , accor di ng t o t h e ates of his own conscience ; every man, however little kt ' Oniaessed had an inheritrnce in that little p ossess i on , L as important, and in many instan ces more so, as e who inherited the great es t wea lth.—(Ch eers.) Let there, 'S be an equality in the burthens and taxations of the try, if taxation were still necessary. The light of Heaven equal to all—the light of intelligence was equal to a ll__ aners ought to be free, and that such happiness might be el by the country, the electors ought to consider it their ative duty to send representatives to Parliament who Wvocate, with diligence, every thing con nec t e d w ith t h e loess of the people. It had been said that fortune was ne. for a Member of Parliament—if so, Sir John Lillie was sod of an ample fortune, but the electors would recollect h had had been said of Andrew Marvel, though a poor man, 'tea too rich to be dishon st.—(Cheers ) If Mr. . . had avowed himself the advocate for the extended 1 • 4 3 , Ides that must be adopted for the interests of the t, p, Sir John's friends would have left hint alone. 4 .) Had Mr. Byng said he would abolish the or taxes, which oppressed the tradesman and honest holder? —(Hear, hear.) He had not, nor would But they lived now in times when greater exertions required, and when men must become greater, more and more pure.—(Cheers.) Sir John Scott Lillie • all individual who had passed long years in the set of his country, be was known in the battle field, and * as also well known in this great county, as a Ma te and a Deputy-Lieutenant. He had had Li Particular experience in wit n e ss i ng t h e di s t resses e Poorer classes, and in corning forward to support that s and those principles which the people thought were 1 / 4 44 al, he came forward with a pledge of conduct, °° the rock of principle. The seconder of Mr. Byng i % !eferr e d to an anecdote about horses, who, when in dour of old age, , ought retirement and re p ose . Why, , should not M r. Byng i m i tate the first Mr. Pitt, and r etirement i n th e H ouse o f P eers ? —(Cheers.) He SPeaker) b e li eve d Mr. Byng to have been equal to nes that had p asse d, b ut the times were now altered, the his conscience, h e b e li eve d M r . B yng was not equa l 1 e times that were to come.—(Cheers and hisses.) th e Speaker) being one of the people—one who was e Wring for his own bread--stood forward with confi , to propo se a man w h o f e l t f or t h e poor—who felt 'y for the infliction of rates and select vestries—whose ligence rested on the purity of his own virtue—and best inheritance for his children was the people's ° m and happiness.—(Cheers and hi sses .) He con ' ib y proposing Sir John Scott Lillie. Ptah FITZGERALD (a Magistrate of the county) came for. and seconded the nomination of Sir John Scott Lillie, as 6 °4 most eminently qualified to be their representative in t oned o House o f Commons. s' nel CLITHEROE stepped forward, amidst the greatest ill'. to pr o p ose Sir Charles Forbes, but he could not be heard. ''Sheriff HUMPIIERY entreated a patient hearing for every ^ 0 who wished t o a dd ress them. — (Hear.) noel I .I . THEROE, after what had passed, would not detain •,"ger tnan s i mp l y naming a person whom he wished to h at' as their represent ative.—(l.aughter and cries of "W e hint well.") H e b egge d to propose Sir' Charles Forbes, 4 Cheers and hisses.) , 441.. Ra MACKINNON, Esq. came forward to second the Hatton,' ti, but he was received with loud hisses. In second rnomination of Sir Charles Forbes he trusted for their te , h cei and he appealed to the fair and honourable feelings 0 ltdshmen, to give him a fair hearing for a few moments. ', l , )° sing , the candidate to the m —(" H e i s a b oroug h. r :: ')—he w as d o i ng them no injury, and committing uo t i' If it was the desire of any Hon. Gentleman to repre -0:1 in Parliament, it was but fair t o he ar hi s c l a i ms to fir ' We won't hear hi m "—hi sses.) If Mr. Hume '', idyng were so strong and so powerful as to be sure of ~n. What harm was there in hearing a few words in favour ther candidate T—(Hooting and laughter.) Really the 410 0 he had met with would induce a belief that those g!dates were not so strong as they would wish it to be ' After several othe r ineffectual attempts to obtain a , the Hon. Gentl eman conc l u d e d b y secon di ng t h e no . ° 4 of Sir J. Lillie,—(Cries of" We won't have him.") t h' B p h eriff HUMPHERY then said, that previously to calling ili,,ly of hands, it wou ld b e b etter to hear the cand i dates. '"g would first address them. ;„ 1/ ,, 1 50 then came forward amid some cheers and slight "'Dation. He bad now offered his services to the t il, °f : l4l iddlesex for the twelfth ti me .—(C r i es o f " T oo ' rle felt convinced that if it was possible he was more ,s' to the r enewa l of the trust that had been reposed in "°,. W than he was twenty y ears ago .—(C r i es o f " Y ou ,:?te against the Corn Laws.") One of the gentlemen 7.q PrOpoSed Sir J, Scott Lillie, state that he thought ti ot 8 ') was a Very fit representative f or ommon times, a fit rep resen t a ti ve f or t h e present Parl i ament. — t' ) He would refer to the memory of every gentleman W hethe r , d ur i ng t h e forty-two years he had repre. , t le electors, they could be denominated common L 414 Would say with confidence that during that had been put in a very conspicuous state of b ',„ had to come forward in the very first Session u hsincere attachment to religious liberty, which at $e had no means popular.—(Cheers and disapproba th: "ad to , ;owe forward to propose a war at a period 41 :- . great bon of the people, eight out of ten, were in the 4, he wa s one o f t h e very f ew w h o h ad t h e courage to adoption of that war, both ftom policy and principle. etttitht that every people had a right to choose their own ; "vernment.—(Cheers.) On that principle he had 41 life,.and f rom it he would never depart.—(Cheers.) 140 , through a great number of years, to oppose the IZtra.vagance with which that war was carried on— an extravagance which he must say was the cause of L . ! taxation under which the country groaned. He :4 life been a true Reforme r , an d h a d advocated its " w o en other s stood aloof from it,—(Cheers) —and at a l ien it was not popular.—(Cheers, Cries of " You t oH.t half a R e f orm. — We have had enough o f You ; V i "; and why don't you advocate vote by ballot.") 'l,e of commons was now what it ought to be, it was C. (4 ;l' the people of the country. He gloried in , t itration now of Icings, Lords, and Corn. 1 1 v,t 7ties of " Vote by ballot.") Hp should con tith O bserving, that if there was any person present ft . l t e . 4 to put any question to him he would . immediately is Ilt e . 1 1e was no t th e re to deny the sentiments of h h. in order to pick up a little favour. (Chms.) U ' u ta came f orwar d am id s t l ou d and most deafening e neatest cow l * a ssure th e e l ectors , t h a t h e met them to day °"eatest possible pleasure. He congratulated them on I, fo r Which they h a d now assem bl e d. He believed there li e : here who would recollect the occasion when they last ti h e,.. ventured to predict that, ere a fewrnonths elapsed, ;th e ~..lave the pleasure of meeting them again to cele- N'"sing of the p resen t measure o f reform. H e con , l t) 0 the country at large on the blessings it may be 4 i t ' r ive froth the passing of such a measure, and he !to tt : vt 'uld be the means of giving civil and religious flu L,v,hole of Europe—(loud and continued cheering). til e Tldle in him, addressing the discriminating body he e n 7 4 3' which had so closely watched his actions, to h e : . the shortest manner . to the . conduct which had in.. t t mtor s of Middlesex in the first instance to call him 1,4 esent them. He only congratulated himself that [ , e `'t had been such as to be thought deserving of their fr E 4,.„ 4 11 he trusted that the course he had held since he had tlO - ' l l l . B er for Middlssex, had been such as to answer the 'th e t hey had formed of him, and th a t t h ey would look li) me i: l ast as a pledge for the future. Having mentioned t t ent ena ge , .he could not help saying, that as an honest man Up on ~ fled an opinion which he was not prepared to hi nt eic r r ineiples, therefore, he was quite prepared to ' 4 it s ,,„;,_bUt that was a vet?) , different thing from being the'euuerativ assembly, tied down as to the manlier time when, those principles should be carried iit i. He thought, therefore, that both those who ' l l tn Tr Pledging at all, and those who were - tedge every thing were equally in the wrong.-- ka te v ery man, in his opinion, who offered himself for li v ' of a constituency, was bound to say what his i f, e t re upon any subject proposed to him—(Hear, tad upon he entertained any opinions at all,-for there were some who had no opinion, whose minds were "sheets of white paper."—(Laughter.) Such expres sions of opinion on the part of a candidate were the more useful now that they were about to send Members to a Reformed Parliament, in which he hoped to be able to do more for the public service in one year than all the friends of the people had been able to effect in any ten years before.— It was on that account chiefly, that he had the ambition to re present them. He had a heavy and laborious time of it to bring about the glorious Reform Bill, in which they now rejoiced. Under the selfish system which had hitherto prevailed, the few engrossed and abused power to the injury of the many. His chief efforts had been directed to wards placing power in the hands of the many, for whose hap piness and benefit it was Government was established. The friends of the people had succeeded, and he hoped that the many, who now had power, would use it prudently and discreetly.— He would not speak of the other candidates, for they were " honourable men, all honourable men," and it was for them (the voters) to elect, and not for him to decide. He would content himself with stating the opinions upon which he grounded his claims to their support—principles, the object of which was the greatest happiness of the greatest number.— (Cheers.) To that end, were he placed in Parliament by their votes, be should first direct his chief attention towards perfecting the plan of Reform—(Cheers)-- for he by no means thought that the Bill they had ob tained was sufficient.—(Cheers.) In the first place it was essential that they should give protection to those to whom they they had given votes—(Cheers)—so as to enable them conscientiously to exercise the elective Iran chise.—(Cheers.) Influence of every kind must b. guarded against, or otherwise it would not be the opinions of the electors which were expressed but the opinions of those who influenced them.—(Cries of " True, and we feel it.") If the elector were not protected in the exercise of his fran chise, the appearance of having it had better be at once taken away.—(Cheers.) In the present artificial state of society, when so many men depended upon the wills of others, he could not blame very harshly those who consulted the wel fare of their families by voting in a way they did not at. together wish, but the fact that many were obliged to do so, was a sufficient proof of the necessity of - i the vote by ballot, (Loud cheers.) He had stated in his place in the House of Commons that he was willing to give the Reform Bill a trial without the ballot ; but what had taken place within the last month bad been sufficient to convince him that they could not do without the ballot.—(Cheers.) He would further curtail the leave given to Legis lators by repealing the Septennial Act, and again h4vinz recourse to triennial parliaments. Further, was it not an insult to the sense of a community like that of England, that itsmetro politan county, with a population like that of Middlesex, should only contain six thousand electors. It was, and he should vote, therefore, for a further extension of the franchise, so that a thorugh support might be given to our glorious constitution, that is to say, to so much of it as may be found worthy of preservation (cheers). For enter taining these sentiments he had been called a leveller, and perhaps even he came under the class of destructives. Formerly he had been called a Radical, but as every body were now Reformers, Radical was not bad enough. And he was now called a Destructive. If they could annihilate the party names of Whig and Tory, and recognize two classes only in the community, that which supported all abuses, and called itself Conservative, and that which was for preserving only the good, and was for destroying the evil parts of our Constitution, was called Destructives, he should glory in the latter name. Another point which he thought required the greatest attention from the Legisla ture was, the extension of education, for as he wished the people to have a voice in the Government he wished to have that voice intelligent. He was not afraid of an intelligent people, but only of an ignorant multitude. For it was an almost unavoidable result of ignorance to produce the disgraceful scenes which they sometimes heard of as taking place in different parts of the country. Thinking it necessary, then, that all men should be able to judge of the propriety of the measures brought forward by Government, becau , e they were all more or less affected in their rights and liberties by every measure brought forward, he was in favour of the removal of all taxes on knowledge.—(Loud cheerine.) After the perfecting of Reform, and taking measures fit th,, spread of education; he looked upon one of the main duties of a Repre sentative of the people to be, to grant the peculiar interest of his constituents. He would state one or two of the principles which had guided his conduct in this respect, by adhering to which no public man in his opinion could go very far wrong. Doubtless it was the duty of every individual in the community to contribute towards the expenses of the Government which protected his personal property. But it was the duty of his Representative to take care not one shilling more than was absolutely necessary should be taken from the pockets of the people for that purpose. A Member of Parliament should take care that 501. should not be paid for what might be as efficiently done for 2.ss.—(Hear, hear.) That two men should not be employed to do that for which one was sufficient.—(Cheers.) And that no pensions should be granted to individuals who had not rendered service to the State.—(Loud and continued cheering.) The consequence of following up these principles would be an enormous reduction of our establishments, and the aboli tion of all sinecures. At present, a man no sooner got a Go vernment appointment than he considered his fortune made But he did not see why an appointment under Government should be better paid than an appointment in any great mer cantile house where similar duties were to be performed. He would have moderate measures pursued, but still they should not be such as to let the patient die before the medi. cine came into operation. And he should say, therefore, that the best way to insure a reduction of taxation was to be gin with a redaction of expenditure. Another necessary measure would be, a revision of the whole system of taxation, which had indeed been so laid on by the selfish faction which had for some years ruled them, that taxes were the only things of which the people had a monopoly.—(Cheers.) The heavy lumps of property which had hitherto escaped the touch of the tax.gatherer, ought therefore to be subject to a fair proportion of the burdens of the state—(Cheers) and the springs of industry which had so long, almost exclu sively borne those burdens, be relieved.—(Cheers.) He was the advocate also for the removal of monopolies, and more especially the atrocious monopoly of corn, by which the oligarchy of this country had attempted to create an artificial scarcity, for the purpose of raising the price of the commodity in which they exclusively dealt.—(Cheers, and cries of" Bravo.") His own ineome depended on the produce of the land, but he was convinced that the system hitherto pursued, was in the long run injurious to the land-owners, ruinous to the farmers, and disastrous to the people at large.—(Loud cheers.) He would at the same time abolish every other monopoly, in cluding the monopoly of power by Corporations, for lie was satisfied that property could only attain its greatest degree of safety where the mass. of the people had confidnce in the magistracy. He would therefore rally the greatest pos sible number under the banners of order, by giving them a real and efficient, and not, as was in too many instances the case, a nominal choice in the election of the municipal authorities.—(Cheers.) He was the friend of the Church, and therefore was the advocate of a proper Reform in the Church. The present system of Church Government, they all knew, did not promote " peace and good will on earth," which was the ob ject of religion—(Hear, hear)—but, on the contrary, excited dissatisfaction throughout the country, which must exist as long as Dissenters were obliged to contribute to the payment of the Ministers of a Church whose doctrines they did not approve. He advocated also the entire abo lition of tithes. When he said that he did not mean that he advocated the annihilation of the property at present collected as tithes, for he considered thit as public pro perty, and for any one else to take it from its pre sent application and put it in their own pockets, would, in fact, commit a robbery on the public. What he meant, then, by the annihilation of tithes, was the doing away with the present mode of collecting that public pro perty, and the altering of its application.—(Loud cheers.) He doubted not that a change, such as he contemplated, would be agreeable to the mass of the nation, including the Clergy; for the collection of a tenth of the gross produce interfered within. dustry, and at the same time with the application of capital to the soil, in the most injurious manner, and created feel ings between the parishioners and their pastors which must be exceedingly unpleasant to the clergy them. selves. He was equally desirous of removing the higher class of the clergy from all temptation of interference in political quarrels—(Cheers) —for till a change effecting that object took place, he was satisfied the dignitaries of the Church would not enjoy that respect which was so essential to the beneficial discharge of their duties towards the people. At the same time he was bound to say, that he was anxious that every change should be effected with as little damage to existing in_ terests as possible; fbr it was not the man but the system he blamed. (Hear hear.) It was too common for Members of Paliament, when applied to by constituents not their own, to tell them to go to their own representatives. (Loud cries of shame shame.) For his own part he had ten times more applications from the constituents of others than from his own county, but he bad never hesitated to apply his heat efforts early and late whenever applied to.—(Cheers.) By the past be hoped he would he judged of in future, and let his calumniators who had tried to run him down know that he had too much confidence in his constituents than to suppeee they would think th e ca l umn i es which had been eirculited as unjust as they were illiberal in mixing up religious and political feelings together.—(Great cheering.) As he had in his place elsewhere hitherto, so would he here, treat those calumnies with the contempt they merited, desiring only truth to come out, for then he would stand freed before the eyes of all men from every unworthy and improper effect that had been made on him.—(Great applause.) Th e electors were the judges. The Sun began to shine propitiously at this moment, which in olden times would have been taken as ominous of all that could be desired—(Cries of " So it shall now.") Every man who approved of his conduct, who wished to return him to his place in Parliament would do their duty to wards him and themselves on Thursday. He had done his duty within the House—it was for the electors to do theirs without.—(Cheers.) He had not considered it would be a com pliment to any man to make a personal canvass to him. Gen. tlemen from Committees had gone through the county to ascertain what the feelings of the electors were, but he (Mr. Hume) had not thought it right to ask for that as a favour which he conceived the el.Ltois had, as a trust, to exercise. (Cheers.) Whenever they might meet again he hoped he would not be found to have been a backslider. If, however, lie should, the electors would only do their duty to turn their backs upon him at their next meeting. Meanwhile he trusted his past conduct was sufficient to entitle him to be their future representative. Sir JOHN SCOTT LILLIE was received with loud cheers.— When he had the happiness to appear before them on the two last occasions, it was for the purpose of proposing to them the valuable Candidate who had just addressed them, and he should not have appeared in any other capacity on this occasion, had Mr. Byng corresponded with the opinion of Mr. Hume, as to the measures which they had a right to expect from a Reform ed Parliament.—(Cheers.) He might be blamed for coming forward, but if so, those were to blame who requested him to stand, for he had been called forward by some thousands of his fell ow-countrymen. —(Laughter on the hustings.) He repeated lee had, for he had attended many meetings, at which thou sands attended, and those persons were not satisfied with the Reform Bill, as it was but wished to obtain the benefits pro mised by the Bill. He had been accused of making pledges, but none had been asked of him, his opinion had been asked, on certain points, and he had not been ashamed of giving it, for he was of opinion that no person who intended to act honestly in a Reformed Parliament, would be ashamed of stating what he intended to do.—(Cheers.) Mr. Hume had alluded to the vote by ballot and triennial Parliaments; those questions had been pnt to him (Sir J. S. Lillie), and he had most conscientiously given his hearty concurrence in them.—(Cheers ) What was vote by ballot ? It was giving the freedom of election. which was one of the most valuable privileges of the British Constitution, and when a man put himself forward as a eandidate, and refused to give the elec. tors the means of voting freely and independently, and without being controlled by others, it was a fraud and a deception.-- (Cheers.) When a man got Into Parliament, they should re member that he got a lease for seven years, six years and three-quarters of which he was their master, and voted for such taxes upon the people as he thought proper, and then a a few days before a new election he presented himself again hat in hand to solicit for a renewal of lease in order that he might again have the opportunity of taxing the people still further. That was what had been hitherto called representation. One of the first principles of the British Constitution was that taxation without re presentation was tyranny, and in giving the pledges he had given he acted upon the principles which he now proressed. He did not now for the first time state those principles, because two years ago, at the Mermaid Tavern at Hackney he avowed them. Upon that occasion their respected Member, fin- respected he certainly was, he was sorry to say, was driven from the hustings for opposing some of those principles —he alluded to Mr. Byng.—(Cheers and laughter.) He begged not to be understood as alluding with impropriety to Mr. Byng ; but as he had himself been alluded to, he hail a right to defend himself as well as he was able.—(Cheers.) He .upposed he had been alluded to when the word " agitator" had been used ; but he would ask, who were agitators ? They were those who refused to give the people their just rights.—(Cheers.) If, by the word agitator, was meant the desire to restore to the people their just privileges, he would glory in the name.—(Cheers.) Mr. Byng, in al luding to his past conduct, said he had voted against the late war ; but when the expenses of the war—fifteen millions were proposed by Mr. Pitt to be defrayed by a tax which would have paid the whole off—that debt which with compound interest now amounted to four hundred mil lions— who opposed the measure? Not the Tories, who had more honesty than the Whigs—(Laughter and •‘ Bravo," from a party on the hustings)—but Mr. Byng was one who recorded his opposition to a tax which would have paid of a debt with which the country was now saddled.—(Cheers.) Mr. Byng, perhaps, might then have pocketed some thousands a year by his oppo sition.—(Laughter) Mr. Byng might, perhaps, with his 40,9001. or 50,0001. a year have some advantage over him (Sir J. S. Lillie) in point of wealth ; but he (Sir J. S. Lillie) had thii advantage over Mr. Byng, that he could make that gentleman pay 4,0001. or 5,000/. a year which Mr. Byng could not make him pay.—(Cheers and laughter) When the wealthy classes refused to tax them selves, the people ought to send persons to Parliament who would do it.—(Cheers.) As a commissioner of taxes he would declare, that while the lower orders were taxed above their means, the rich were scarcely taxed at all. He had served his country for 9.5 years as a military man and as a Magistrate, and he defied the breath of calumny to light upon any one part of his conduct (Cheers.) He was not the son of a lord or a bishop, and therefore he had nothing to induce him to swerve fr an his duty to the people. If he came forward connected with any party, it was not that of Whig or Tory, but that of the people.—(Cheers.) In addition to other questions that had beer, put to him, he had been asked it he would advocate a property tax in lieu of those taxes which pr. s.erl so heavily on the lower classes, and he had given it as his opinion, that without a property tax it was impossible to reduce the national debt. Hi was not an advocate for reducing taxes until the expenditure bad been reduced first unless it could be so arranged that a property tax could be substituted. He was a strong advocate of the necessity of supporting the present Government, because he thought it was better entitled to support than any Govern ment that existed in this country.—(Cheers.) They were indebted greatly to their present gracious Monarch, who was the first Monarch of his family that had ever served the people, and they were also greatly indebted to Lord Grey, who throughout his life had been the zealous friend of his country. Lord Grey was no half-and.half Re former—he was not the man to say the country ought to stand still and have no Reform, or that it had Reform enough, but when he was asked in the House of Lords if the people were satisfied with the Bill, he said boldly, "no, my Lords, the Bill is but the means to an end "—(Cheers.) With respect to the property of the Church, he thought true religion would be greatly prejudiced without it.—(Cheers.) If he thought a Reform in the Church would be prejudicial to pure religion, he: . would never sanction] it. He felt confident great good would be effected by it, and if the vote on that point was taken by ballot, he felt convinced that many ministers of the Church itself would be in favour of it —(Cheer.s.) Tithes ought to be done away with ; and, as his friend Mr. Hume had observed, no man ought to pay for keeping up a religion from which he differed.—(Cheers.) In France the expenditure of the Clergy was nothing like what it was in England, and there was more freedom and liberty of conscience on that point in France than in England. The Clergy were represented in that country.—(Cries of "Oh, oh !") Those behind him might dislike that statement snore than those before him; but he would tell them his course was straight, he never looked behind.— 'He bad been attacked by the press for coining forward, and had been called a Destructive, and had been accused of being a party with those who had opposed the election of Sir Francis Burdett and Sir J. C. Hob_ house at Westminster.—(Cheers and hisses.) That was a great triumph.—(He had nothing to do with any party— (Cheers)—but the party of the people— (Cheers)—who had called upon him to come forward, and he had answered that call. He liked to see candidates stick together as Sir F. Bur dett and Sir J. Hobliouse had done, and he could assure the electors, that had Mr. Byng and Mr. Hume so stuck together, he would never have been the man to have come forward to claim their suffrages— (Cheering). He was happy to sa y, th a t Mr. Hume had told him by letter, that his election was cer tain—(cheers). Mr. HUME.--I hope so.--(C(leers, and cries of It is, it is.") Sir J. S. LILLE proceeded—H e believed what he had said, for he never could bring himself to think that the electors would find him out.—(Cheers, and cries of " We never will.") A good deal of conservative cash had been spread about, but he felt convinced that never would do any good in Middlesex.—(Ch. ers, and cries of " It never will.)"If by coming forward he thought lie should endanger Mr. Hume's election he would give up instantly.—(Cheers.) and cries of" No, no.") It was measures, not men, that the eltctors wanted--(Loud cheers.) He stood there asking the starages of theelectors of Middlesex, and he was prepared to answer any question that might be put to him.—(" Bravo.") What had passed was not of so much consequence to the elector as that which was to come. He trusted the electors would con_ duct themselves nobly, and would elect those who would tell them a little of what they meant to do.—(Cheers and cries of " Byng has not.") That was Mr. Byng's affair and not his.—(Loud cheers, and laughter.) The wor thy Baronet was about to conclude, but a paper baing put in his hand, lie said he had been asked for his opinion on slavery. —(Cheers.) He begged to say he was for emancipation all over the world, but if he had his choice, he would begin at home.—(Tremendouss cheering)—but both at home and abroad he would most strenuously support it.--(Great cheering.) Sir CHARES FonsEs then came forward. The yelling, hiss ing, and hooting, that resounded from all parts of the crowd, and the picture that then presented itself, beggared all descrip tion. The Sheriffs and Mr. Hume in vain endeavoured to obtain the Conservative Baronet a hearing. All that we could hear the worthy Baronet say was, that eight-and-forty hours ago he had no idea of standing before the electors of Middlesex claiming their suffrages, and that he stood before them upon the Conservative interest,—(lmmense uproar, and cries of "You have let the cat out of the bag," " You have done it now.") The Hon. Baronet, after several ineffectual attempts to obtain a hearing, retired, declaring that be would go to the poll. The SHERIFF then took the show of bawls with: refer ence to the several candidates. For Mr, Byng very few hands, except on the hustings were held up ; for Mr. Hume, there appeared a complete forest of hands, followed by loud and long continued cheering, and the same manifestation s of hands and of applause for Sir J. S. Lillie. For Sir C. Forbes hardly a hand appeared, and his nam m e was r ece i ve d with imense and long continued groaning and hooting. The Sheriff declared the show of hands to be in favour of Mr. Flume and Sir John Scott Lillie, amidst shouts of applause. A poll being demanded on the part of Mr. Byng and Sir C. Forbes, the Sheriff appointed the polling to `take place on t Thursday and Friday next, and the final state of the poll Ito be announced the following Monday. Thanks were voted to the Sheriffs, for their conduct upon the occasion, and the meeting dispersed. LEEDS, DEC. 15. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The election here has closed, in favour of the two li beral candidates, who were chaired yesterday. lam happy to say everything passed off humourously, excepting the burning of Messrs. Marshall and Macaulay in effigy, by direction of Mr. Sadler's Committee, while Mr. S. himself harangued the multi tude upon the loss they had sustained by not returning him to Parliament. The friends of Messrs Marshall and Macaulay dined together after the chairing, to the amount of nearly 400, when the two Members addressed them and were rapturously greeted, Macaulay particularly, as it was some time before he could be heard, owing to the enthusiastic cheers of the com pany. When he was heard, he said that as they had chosen him from public principle, he would serve them from the same, and as they had intrusted him with the public interests, it should be his duty strenuously to advocate them. He was warmly applauded, as well as Mr. Marshall, who is highly es teemed here—not so much for his talents as a speaker, as for his commercial character and sterling public honesty. At the close of thepoll the numbers were, for Marshall 012 Macaulay 19.44 Michael Thomas Sadler, Es q . 1596 Sadler has here experienced a double defeat, for, as soon as he was aware that he was to come in a bare respectable third despatched off a messenger to East Retford and Basset„ who just arrived in time to be too late, as the election had been closed two hours. Upon the receipt of this information, the faces of both Mr. Sadler and his friends exhibited a longi tude, which I before never witnessed ; the lower jaw of the ex - Member dropped as low as the first button.hole of his waist. coat. He is, however, gone to .pay his respects to the Mar chioness of Hertford, who, in return, will pay his bills, and thus will end the first election for Leeds, and hopes of" Mighty Mich," professor of humanity. Yours, &c. X. Y. Z. TRADE WITH OPORTO. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S, DEAL, DEC. 16.—W.S.W. light.—Arrived the Isabella, Wildgoos, from Demerara ;sand the Mary and Elizabeth, Tre garthen, from Seville. Sailed his Majesty's ship Snake, for Sheerness, and his Majesty's ship Conway, for the eastward ; the Ganges, for Bengal, and rest of the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15 and 16.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Cruizer, for the eastward. Arrived the Royal George, Hammond, from St. Übe's. FALMOUTH, DEC. 14 AND 15.—Wind S.W. to N. strong breezes and squally.—Arrived the Lyra packet, from Vera Cruz; sailed 25th Oct., and Havanna the 12th ult. The Eclipse packet, from Bermuda, sailed 12th ult. ; Halifax 28th ; his Majesty's ship Pantaloon, from Lisbon; sailed sth inst. and from Oporto the 9th ; and the Eddystone, Kearsley, from Oporto. Off port the Syren, Clifton, from Rio Janeiro. GUERNSEY, DEC. 14. Arrived the Hebrus, Chegurin, from Havanna. JERSEY, DEC. 14.—Arrived the P. R. C. from Quebec; the and the Alexander and Minerva, Harlen, from Gaspe. MARGATE, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Jean, Graham, from Singapore ; the Goodinlar, M`Donald ; and the Fayal and Jane, from Leghorn. MILFORD, DEC. Is.—Arrived the Pembroke Castle, from Pugwash; and the Bob Logic, from Liverpool, with much da_ mage to vessel and cargo, out ten weeks, and bound to New foundland. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15.—Arrived the Lord Byron, from New South Wales;, the Ayras, Lewis, from Paraiba; the Phoenix, Hartley, and the Miranda, Foggart, from Demerara; the Marengo, Welsh, from Charleston; the Belvidera, Hod son, from ditto ; and the Flower, from Gigon. SANDGATE CREEK, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Don Juan, Owens, from Smyrna; the Brisk, Ivey, from Vouch. DOVER, DEC. 16.—Arrived off port, the Ellen, Condin, from Mantanzas. COWES, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Eilzabeth Robinson, 801. lan, from Oporto. Arrived off the 'Wight, the Freak, Bouch, from Baltimore BRISTOL, DEC. 16.—Arrived the Arabian, Boult, from Bengal ; the Basqual and the Narvion, from Bilboa. The following is posted at Lloyd's :—Extract from the agent to Lloyd's, at Oporto, dated Dec. 1. " His Majesty's Consul has had a communication with the Viscount of Santa Martha, who has consented to prolong the time for the sailing of British vessels as long only as the bad weather will not allow them to get out. As the weather has been generally good, indeed some days very fine, for the last week, the bar has been bad, and no vesel has therefore got out. Some are ready, and will sail when they can. His Majesty's ships Orestes, Nautilus and Etna were towed up yesterday by the Echo Government steamer, and are now lying under St. Antonia Convent. The Briton frigate is at anchor off the bar. The Plato, from Marseilles to New Orleans, was driven on shore near Cape Antonio, on the 11th of Oct. and bilged.— Crew saved. TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. A Halifax mail has arrived, which sailed on the 28th of November; as also a Lisbon mail, which sailed on the sth of December, and from Oporto on the 9th ; and one from Vera Cruz, which sailed the 25th of October. Charleston papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, to Nov. 21. (From the " Washington Telegraph," of Nov. 12.) We have rumours that an armament of revenue cutters is fitting out at the navy-yard, in this city, which is intended to blockade Charleston. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. B.—lt is now fourteen days since the cholera has made its appearance, in which time upwards of 1,200 persons have fallen victims ; but the sickness begins to abate, and it is expected it will subside in a few days. Up wards of two hundred dead bodies lay in the two burying_ grounds, on the 6th, to be put in the earth, it being so diffi cult to procure persons to bury them. By the French mail this morning, it appears that both France and Prussia are assembling large forces; the former on her frontiers, and the latter on the Rhine. The French General, Pelet, director of the war department, and to whom important services have been intrusted, has left for Mezieres and Charle. ville. This latter town has become the head-quarters of a corps d'elite of infantry, uniting to it, on the right, the forces assem. bled at Verdan Meta, &c. and extending to Strasburg; and on the left to other corps of reserve united at Lille, which has its advance towards Belgium. Prussia, on her side, has pressed forward the Landwehr, and the officers are put on the war footing. At present the Prussian army in the Rhenish pro vinces, is organizing, which shows an intention of their march. ing forward, should the French, after the fall of the citadel of Antwerp, attack the Dutch frontiers, or proceed towards the Rhine. THE FUNDS. We have received several arrivals this morning from Lis. bon, Mexico, the United States, and Oporto; but the most impor tant one is from the theatre of war at Antwerp, which an nounces that the French have succeeded in taking Fort St. Laurent, on Friday morning. This, no doubt, will prove of great importance to their future operations against the citadel. Nevertheless they have a difficult task to perform, and, no doubt, Chasse will still give them some severe blows before he surrenders. We also find that the Dutch Admiral, who commanded the squadron in the Scheldt, has been killed. The Prussian Cabinet is taking measures for events that may occur after the fall of the citadel of Antwerp, to keep the French at a proper distance. Consols opened as they left off on Saturday, 84 1 i % for the Account. We hear that the accounts by the private letters from Oporto, are gloomy and desponding—that Don Pedro's army is in a bad state—insu bordination—and numbers sick in the hospitals. Some of the French have deserted over to Don Miguel from want of provisions, &c. Indeed this has the appearance of truth, as, with all his forces, he has not been able to raise the blockade of the river. -PAST ONE. Consols have c ont i nued durin HALF g the whole of the morning at 84 % M for the Account, with little doing. The private let ters from Oporto are of different complexions. Some are very gloomy, and give faint hopes of Don Pedro's ultimately succeeding ; while others state that he is waiting for the arri val of the French General with troops, to whom he will give the chief command of his army. In the Foreign Market there is little doing. Dutch Funds have improved. An Austrian A mbassador, as well as a Prussian Ministe Extraordinary, has arrived in Holland. THREE U' CL 0 CK, Consols for Account 84 % 34 , Lady HAMPDEN has been at Manchester, not only canvassing, but paying a ll th e expenses of Mr. J. T. HOPE. Her L oly s hip i s cons id er ,d one o f th e most violent politicians of the dav, and well qualifiPd for a a' at in the Petticoat Cabinet,—.Spectator. " Foreign office, Dec. 14. " Gentlemen,-.I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 6th inst., in which you state that much inconvenience would result to yourselves and other merchants engaged in the Oporto trade, if his Majesty's Government were to recognise as a legal blockade the measures which the General command ing the forces of Don Miguel appears to have taken for in terrupting the navigation of the Douro. In reply, Lord Pahnerston requests me to acquaint you, that, if after the communication which was addressed to you from this office on the 19th ult., you should continue to send any ',hips to the Douro, and that they should be fired at by the Miguelite batteries in attempting to enter that river, you cannot expect to be indemnified for any damage your ships may sustain.-1 am, &c. &c. "G. SHEE. " To Messrs. Quarles Harris and Co." LORD BROUGHAM. T HE only CORRECT LIKENESS of this Great Man, without flattery or caricature, has been executed for MERLE'S WEEKLY REGIS TER, in the most expensive and splendid style. The Purchasers of No. I. of that J. , urnal, New Series, containing SIX COMPLETE NEWSPAPERS, price Bd., will, on SUNDAY, Jan. 6, receive a Copy of the Portrait, without extra charge. This Portrait is from life, by an eminent Artist, and is pronounced by the Friends of Lord Brougham to be the best Likeness extant. Specimens will be ready for delivery to the Newsvenders iu Town or Country on Thursday, Dec. 20. To insure good Copies, the Orders should be sent early in January. Of f ice, 28, King William -street, Strand. WEST KENT ELECTION. QIR WILLIAM GEARY'S COMMIT TEE SITS CONSTANTLY at RADLEY'S HOTEL, Bridge-street, B!ackfriars. Sir WILLIAM GEARY was put in nomination as a Candidate for West Kent on Saturday. He is now in the hands of the electors. During a long personal canvass he has everted himself to the utmost ; and the success or de feat of his cause now depends solely and entirely on the exertions to be made at the poll TO-MORROW and WED NESDAY next. iThe gratifying assurance may be added that, by the ac counts from all parts of the county, there is every propect of Sir William Geary's success, if the friends of the cause do not at the last hour fail in their support. Let no elector, however, imagine that his vote is of small consequence. Let each consider that one vote may ulti mately turn the scale ; and one and all record their votes for Sir William the very earliest moment, at their respec tive polling place.. The Poll opens at 9 o'clock, a.m., on Tuesday, the ISth, and at S o'clock, on Wednesday, the 19th inst. ; and finally closes at 4, p.m., of the same day. The Committee will give every information to the out voters as to their respective polling places, and the arrange. ments that have been made for conveying them to and from t' e poll. Committee-room, Dtc. 17. PRICEM OF STOCK T.'' , Bank stock 3 per Cent. Red, 83 24% 3 per Cent. Cons. 3 4 .6 per Cent. - Oitto Red. 91 1,4 IA Yew 3% per Cent. 3 per Cent. Ann. 1720 - 1 per Cent. 1826 64nk Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 16 5-16 % Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - Aprils, 1880 - Jan. 5, 18743.... - S DAY AT ONC O ' CLOCK. New 5 per Ccnt. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old New Ditto 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 .... Ex. Bills, .£l,OOO 3O 31 pm Ditto.. —5OO 3O 3 1 Pm Ditto Small ..... 30 31 pm Ditto Commercial.. ..... ..— pm, Ditto Advertised' — pm, Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for Jan. 23. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds B9 Belgian Bonds '4% Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 46% Ditto Account 47% 7 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account 20% 1% Chilian Bonds 1614 Ditto Account Columbian Bonds ........ Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, ►824 .... IN Ditto Account — Danish Bonds 68 % Ditto Account — ':reek Bonds 22 Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account 2671 lfexican Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto Account 20% 1% Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account. 26' 4eapolitan _l] THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ) Peruvian Bonds IOU Ditto Account — • Portuguese Bonds 49 1 % Ditto Account. 49 W 4 r Regency Scrip 4} i dig. • Ditto Account 411hli dis. Prussian Bonds 99y, Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1822 Russian Bonds, 1822 9834 Ditto Account 98! , 4 New Loan 91% li Spanish Bonds, 1821 16% Ditto Account 16t•%%N, Ditto Bonds, 1823 1 Ditto Account — French Rentes, sp. c. —1 —c. -- Exchange —f —c. --9 per cent —f —c. -- Exchange —f —c. ,Dutch Scrip 413 8 % Ditto Account 41, 2 French Scrip ................ 2 pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Shari 1 Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £lOO 8 Bolanos Mining Company £l5O 1625 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pin.) £2O 46 4 r Ditto National. /7% 17% 17 Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes 5 5% .iritish Iron Mining Company £5O ;8 t olumbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) 49% 6% English Mining Company 1214 24% General Mining Association ll 5% Real del Monte Mining Co. ..., - 20% United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 40 44 Ditto New Scrip 5 6 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO 8% Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co Canada Company ..............« ........ General Steam Navigation • Co l3 Provincial Bank of Irel an d 25 9:i DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, DEC. 14. Actual Debt, 2% per cent 39% to 40 Amort Syndic, 4% per cent ...... ...... ..... Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 96 to 96% Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent. . 74% to 75% Exchange on London, one month l2 15 to 12 12% Ditto, two months —Dutch Papers, Dec. 15. HAMBURG, DEC. 11.—BORSEN HALLE, HALF-PAST 2. Discount, 24 % per cent. End of Dec. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. MU Anglo-Russian Loan Hamburg ditto Bs7i. Russian Inscription, 5 per cent B5 Ditto, ditto, 1831 Polish Bonds 1094 Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1088 Austrian Metalliques New Austrian 4 per cent. 72% •Hamburg Reporter. H EALTH AND GOOD SPIRITS.— These inestimable and concomitant blessings, so essential to the enjoyment of the festivities of the Season, may be promotod by the cautious avoidance of Evil Spirits, and secured by making your purchases at the celebrated No. 109 ; where the Pure Patent Brandy (so highly re commended by the Faculty), the Liqueur Geneva, and every Article in the Wine and Spirit Trade, is warranted perfectly free from adulteration. HENRYBRETT, 109, DRURY-LANE.-N.B. 109. TO THE ELECTORS OF AHDDLESEX. GENTLEMEN, N consequence of L or d H en l ey h av i ng with '. drawn himself as a Candidate for the Representation of this great County, I have been earnestly solicited by a numerous body of the Electors to offer myself for your suffrages at this important crisis. I feel honoured and gratified by the anxious solicitude which has influenced my decision to place myself in your hands. My Parliamentary conduct, during the last 20 years, is recorded with that of other independent Members. If it has been such as you approve, and you should be pleased to elect me one of your Representatives, it is my determi nation to pursue a similar course. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient and faithful servant, CHARLES FORBES. Fitzroy-square, Dec. 15, 1832. HERTFORDSHIRE. T HE COMMITTEE for CONDUCT ING the ELECTION of LORD GRISISTON SIT DAILY at GREEN'S HOTEL, LINCOLN'S-INN FIELDS, from Eleven o'clock to Four, where every ar rangement will he made fur the Conveyance to the Pull of the Electors in his Lordship's Interest. The Polling is fixed for Thursday, the 20th, and Fri day, the 21st instant. itsti tt-be LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 17, 1832. The Borough Elections having concluded so triumphantly for the cause of Reform, we think it no unfair presumption that the county ones will be equally satisfactory. Already they have commenced under flattering auspices, Mt.SM'S. BRISCOE. BEAU- CLERK and HUME, Lords MILTON, PALMERSTON , I and ALTHORP, being the favourite candidates for the respective divisions of the counties for which they stand. To-morrow the polling commences for the Eastern Division of Surrey, and though scarcely a doubt exists of the return of those two staunch Reformers, BRISCOE and BEAUCLERK, yet in order to make " assurance doubly sure," we call upon all the electors who have their country' s good at heart, and are superior to the mean paltry temptations thrown out by the Conservatives, to hasten to the poll and thereby s?.. cure the return of the two only candi dates that have yet presented themselves, who are likely to do them effectual service. Mr. BRISCOE is already well and favourably known to all Re formers; a word from us, therefore, would be almost superfluous; of Mr. BEAUCLERK, who has hitherto, from lack of opportunity; played a less conspicuous part, we think it right to state that he signalized : llgi i,4 l. Judging by present appearances, it seems likely that a desperate struggle will take place between the Tory and Reform candidates for the representation of the two divisions of Warwickshire. But the electors will, no doubt, do their duty--for shame, o , delible shame, it were, that a great county like Warwickshire, which was among the first, if not the first, to sound the loud trumpet of Reform, and bid all England bestir itself at the summon., should now sink back into lethargy, and return those men who are sworn to do their utmost to neutralize the good effects of that measure, which the brave men of Warwickshire made such herculean efforts to secure. Our accounts from Oporto come down to the 9:h instant, at which time matters continued much in the same state. We have been favoured with the perusal of Letters from an Officer of high rank at that place, which completely disprove the state ments of the person who addressed a letter to the Morning Chronicle which appeared on Saturday I.r. We have not time, however, to day to give the particulars. A general sortie was to take place in a few days. The army was in good spirits end full of enthusiasm. We understand that orders have been sent from the Home Office to the different districts in which election disturbances have broken out, coal. mandinga rigid inquiry,with a view to the punishment of those by whom too much or too little zeal for the preservation of the peace has been shown. The French Papers of Saturday contain nothing very important. FRENCH FUNDS,PA RI 9, DEC. 15.-Five per Cents., 98f. 45c. fi 50c. 45c. 50c. 55c. 50e. 45c. 50c. 45c. 50c. ; Loan of 1832, 98f. 50c. 'c. 55c. ' • Four per Cents., 82f. ; Three p er Cents., 68f. 30c 35c. 39e. 35c. 30c. 35c. 40c. ; Bank Actions, 1,68.. 1,685 f. ; Rente de Naples, 80.6 oc. ; Rente de Romain, 7978 3 ', ; Bente (PE,. pagne, e ent., 12% ; Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cent., '33li 14 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 82 1 A ; Rente Perpetuelle ',agile, 583 i AN% %Si % %N ; Belgian Loan, 7634 5.6 ; Ilaytian Loan, 225t:-Exchange on London, one month, paper, ;25f. 80e. ; money, 25f. 75c. ; three months, paper, 251. 63e. ; money, 25f. 65c. We have only space to refer to the accounts from Antwerp, by which it will he seen that Fort Laurent has been taken by the French, a:td that the citadel is likely soon to follow. German Papers, received this morning, refer to :he situation of the PORTE as being critical. Par iculars to-morrow. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE.—" If w e say that Mrs. ['ALL has entirely succeeded, we do not overrate her merits. She has not only succeeded in th e invention of an interesting story, in the creation of a gal. lery of portraits in which each face is stamped with a dis tinctive nature, and in preserving dramatic consistency to the close, but she has, with remarkable skill, diffused the spirit of all that was really most admirable in her Irish sketches through the piges of her new novel, without corn promising in the least degree the national lineaments it is her object to depict. There are in The Buccaneer ' the same amiable philosophy, the same under current of chid_ ing wisdom, the half-revealed satire, the mirth that melts into patho., and the sadness that flashes into joy, which are to be found scattered like precious gems in her short pieces. In fact ' The Buccaneer' is a work of very high merit, and will take rank with some of the best actions in our language."—Atlas. According to the table of returns, which we have given in another page, and from the additional re turns that have been received since it was drawn up, and whi c h w e give above, it appears that out of 328 Mem bers, not more than 68, at the utmost, can be deemed Anti-Reformers, and there is hardly one of these that is not a Reformer on some points. Of the other 260, about 230 are Miniaterialists, wholly, or almost wholly ; and - o f the remaining 28, there are certainly not more tb.: in 10 or 12 who will not go with Ministers on almost all ques tions. The Ministerial majority, as the returns now stand, is, in fact, not much short of 201 The remain-. ing returns from England will add 70 or 80 at least ; Scotland will give 40. Ireland wlll diminish the majo rit sca n 20, or it may be 30. The actual majority w il l thge from 270 to 280... --Spectator. ANECDOTE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT.-- A butler of the late Sir •ALTER SCOTT quarrelled with the cook, and having rather unceremoniously accompa flied his argument with a few cuffs, he was reprimanded by Sir WALTER, and sent down stairs with the following advice:—" Recollect in future, when you wi , h to con vince a woman, do it by fleeching, (or you will never be able to do it by fighting; women may be led, but they will nut be driven." A FEMALE HORSE S TEALER.--On the night of the 12th a black mare, the property of Mr. J. PRICE, and a black gelding, the property of Mr. J. Core, were stolen out o f a meadow at the Lakes, in the par gence of th e i r h orses for some days, ish of Withi ngton. The owners could not pi n any when a person nam e d EDWARD L EWIS told Mr. PaJCE that if he would go to Walney, it was a likely place to find his mare. A mes senger w as accordingly despatched and the mare found there. It i s supposed the thief did not find the old mare able to travel, and therefore turned her adrift before she arrived at the Leominster turnpike, as the mare did not pass through that gate. The friends of Mr. CoLE pursued the thief through Ludlow, Bishop's Castle, and ti om thence to Long Mountain, in Montgomeryshire, where at an inn they discovered the horse in a stable; the animal had been brought there by a woman, who was secured and conveyed to Montgomery county gaol. The thief is the wife of E. LEWIS, the man who informed Mr. PRICE where to find his mare. The woman had offered the hors,. for sale at Welshpool fair, on the 16th ult., but could cot get sk higher bidding than 121. which she refused, the borm) being worth 201. It is worthy of remark, that Mr. Cot.): has kept a horse, free of expense for LEWIS, harvest; LEWIS having lent Cora a tr:4gpin Ic, gat!, i his corn. This is black ingratitnde,--R4C. himself by his incessant exertions ire the great cause, during the late eventful ,ti uggle between the boroughmongers and the people, and when the issue of that struggle appeared most doubt ful, was among the foremost to move at an influential public meeting " that a re spectful petition be presented to his MAJESTY, and both Houses of Parliament, to take into their serious consideration the necessity of a Reform in the House of Lards." Am. ng other calumnies that he Conservative faction ha ve circulated against Major BEAUCLERK, two of the most prominent are that he is an advocate for the repeal of the Union, and a member of the National Political Union. To the first, the Gallant Candidate has given a prompt, , nqualified denial ; the second he also denies—not hecause it is at all to his discredit to be a member of such a body, but simply because he happens just it present to belong to no Political, or other Union, whatever. The principles of Major BEAUCLERK are the right sort ; he is a stiff, energetic Reformer, within the limits of the Constitution; one of those men in short, wbose success will reflect honour on the county that elects him. To revert to another pqually important matter. Mr. HUME, as will seen on reference to another part of " The Sun," was this day put in nomination for Mid dlesex. We need hardly call on all friends to a true and efficient Reform to rush forward to the poll and secure the return of this most honest, most ie.. defatigable, and most experienced Reformer. As for poor Sir C. FORBES—the " Conservative," as the silly old man calls himself—he can only have been put into nomination by way of a joke, though the joke is such a villainously stupid one, that even Sir C. WETHERELL himself, despite his party pre judice, would be, we are convinced, among the very first to repudiate it. Sir C. FORBES, may rely on it, that he has not:an atom of a chance for Mid dlesex ; the electors of this great county are too actively alive to their duties.