The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

We are !Mainline in our expectation that a acconti defeat anitQ him in Carlow, Priostism and rufliani " are certainly doing their uttermost to save him from this catastrophe ; but the precaution and vigilance of the Conservatives have been so great, that we trust their reverences will not succeed. We may infer from the steps which the Conservatives have been obliged to resort to, to protect their men, how perfectly savage and demoniacal the courses of their adversaries have been. For the last fortnight a large body of Conservative electors have been garrisoned in Dorris Castle, the beautiful seat of Mr. Kavanagh, maintained and pro tected there at the expence of their landlord. In other parts of the county also, the houses of the gentry are converted into defences for the eVranchised p easantry, whose liberty and even lives would b e unsa f e were they to remain at home in their ordinary way. We know ourselves of two men who were sent over to this town to be out of the way of their enemies until the election, and who did not feel themselves safe even in Dublin ! The mode in which the Conservative electors are brought in to poll may be conceived from the following graphic account taken from the journal above referred to : "GRAND CAVALCADE. -At eleven o'clock this day, one hundred and sixty men, the `Boys of St. Mullin's,' arrived in this town (Carlow) under an escort of cavalry commanded by Captain Johnson, accompanied by two magistrates of the county. The cavalcade presented a most imposing appear ance, the men being mostly in vehicles drawn by four horses each, and outriders. The whole party in full gallop accom panied by the dragoons proceeded to Shaw-hall House, where they will remain till the poll. This body are Roman Catho lics to a man, and have always been the firm adherents of the House of Kavanagh." From precautions so apparently adequate and judicious, having been taken, we are, as we have said, induced to augur favourably of the result, and to hope that the Conservatives will win. At the same time must we not ask, if it be not the most absurd thing in the world to confer a parliamentary franchise upon men who can only exercise it by such means as these ? Is it credible that these poor Roman catholic electors can desire a privilege which involves them in such exquisite torture ? We are quite sure they do not ; but on the contrary, that they would feel vastly obliged to any body that would relieve them of the burthen. As Sir Stephen Glynne has pointedly said Flint shire has obtained the " RARE" distinction of re turning to Parliament an adherent of the present doomed administration. There seems to be no denial of the fact, that the election has been carried by means almost unheard of in any British county. A regularly organised system of kidnapping, as well as person ating voters, appears to have been carried on, and the cases of perjury upon the oath of identity are in numerable. One man was brought to poll for Mr. Mostyn, at Mold, representing a person named Jack son, and the real voter soon after appearing and ten dering his vote for Sir Stephen Glynne, was not al lowed to poll. Amongst other acts of intimidation and violence, a brutal attack was made at Rhuddlan upon a Mr. Jones, who was knocked down and beaten by a party of ruffians. Many cases of bribery. co ercion, and disgraceful riot were freely committed, and ca❑ be easily proved, and we therefore anticipate that if there be justice to he had, Sir Stephen will shortly be placed as representative for Flintshire, for which his energy and talents so well qualify him. He is now the representative of a majority of the electors, who have been permitted the free and lawful exercise of their suffrages. With the solitary exception of this county, the Conservatives have not lost a single unit of their numerical strength which they previously possessed in the counties of Great Britain. Conservative Freeholders and Electors of South Cheshire, to the poll, and out with the Radicals ! Permit us to remind you that the eventful hour is now come, and that the eyes of your countrymen are upon you. Haste then to record your votes for the Conser vative candidates, and complete the good work now so near to accomplishment. We cannot doubt for an in stant that you sympathise with your countrymen of the northern division of your county, and that even for the sake of " uniformity," you will find a pleasure in ousting Radicals and returning Conservatives. Do not delay then in proceeding to the poll. A certain and glorious victory is before you—hasten to achieve it. Prove that Mr. Wilbraham's shuffling and equi vocation at the hustings on' Saturday are not lost upon you. We hope to be able to add to the many other glori ous Conservative triumphs recorded in our paper this day, that of the Conservative candidate for North Northumberland, who opposes the ex-official, and eccentric, vet almost Ministerial Howick. It is time to have done with waverers, and we shall therefore feel much pleasure in reporting that progress in his lordship's course which shall conduct him to the out side of the county of Northumberland. We are war ranted in expecting such a result. When the honest yeomen of North Cheshire have sent the newly-pro moted Paymaster of the Forces to the right.about, without giving him the trouble, or putting him to the expense, of a second day's polling; when the inde pendent yeomanry of the West Riding of Yorkshire have dismissed the Right Honourable the Secretary for Ireland from any further parliamentary labours on their account, and intimated their satisfaction at so doing by a majority of above one thousand,—we are quite willing to suppose that the yeomen of North Northumberland will make no bones of shelving a personage of deservedly so little influence as that crot chetty and capricious hybrid, Lord Howick. We hope the O'Connell-Melbournites have now had enough to satisfy them that it is time to retire. The country has surely pronounced not only upon their measures, but upon themselves. What have they to say to Yorkshire ? There is a county containing al most treble the number of voters of any constituency in England, and five out of the six county members it returns are Conservatives. This one division, which has expelled their Cabinet colleague, and the son of the liberal Lord Fitzwilliam along with him, contains from twenty-four to twenty-five thousand freeholders; and everybody knows that Yorkshire is one of the greatest agricultural, manufacturing, and trading dis tricts in the United Kingdom. The Duke of Devon shire and Earl Fitzwilliam, two out-and-out Whig lords, have immense estates within it; and yet such is the fate which Popery and Free Trade, alias hum bug, suffer at the hands of its sturdy yeomen. Good Yorkshire ! and especially thou Morpeth-ejecting por tion- of it !—we wish thee health and prosperity ! May you cherish your pure, your genuine Old English principles for ever, and send only such men to Parlia ment as will cherish them also ! The Whigs have no set-off whatever against this crushing blow. Lord John Russell's return for Lon don was an actual defeat; for although his lordship got in upon a miserable majority of nine, two Whigs at the same time got out. Ministers, then, are beaten like hacks, and nobody can deny it. Parliament has condemned them ; the nation has condemned them ; and it is inevitable that the incubus must at length be flung off. It will be a great deliverance, worthy of being celebrated in verse, and added to our national anthem Of-LONG LIVE THE QUEEN ! Since writing the above, we have received the final state of the poll, from which it will be seen that Lord Howick occupies his proper position—at the bottom. MERCURY FABRICATIONS.—In the Mercury of Friday last is a long article which indulges in ludicrous lamentation over a few panes of glass which were broken in the office of our contemporary by some boys on the day of election. So grieved is our senile friend over this calamity, that he breaks out in unprovoked attacks upon a young man who is assistant teacher in St. Jude's school. This youth took no part what ever in the outbreak of the children ; and the Mercury has as much reason to charge ally other person who was passing at the time as Mr. Sampson. We regret, however, to add, that another part of the Mercury's statement is correct. Mr. Sampson happened to be passing along Preston-street on the same day, and merely because he had a small piece of red riband in his coat, was waylaid by a party of ruffianly who beat him most unmercifully; but we are happy to add he is now recovering gradually. Not the slightest provoca tion was offered, and the outrage only affords another speci men of the cowardly assaults of these bloodthirsty villains. WEXFORD ELRCTION.—On Friday evening, we regret to state that our townsman, James Bourne, Esq., was in a minority of four at the election for the borough of Wexford. The town, as is usual with Irish contested elections, was in a state of riot and contusion the whole time ; but a vast majo rity of the really respectable inhabitants hailed Mr. Bourne's appearance, and by their presence sustained him under the tumultuous and disgraceful howlings of the mob. The man ner and self-possession of Mr. Bourne before such an obstre porous multitude exhibited no small degree of personal cou rage, and his speech affords plentiful evidence of great ability and talents. LOCAL NEW& ritrr pttoNt. refie Nirriiß decently.clad man, oairlecs JAB Chaplain, was yesterday charged at the Police, court, by Mr. Castle, of the Mitre Inn, Dale-street, with h aving , stolen a t o p coat, hi s property. T h e coat was hung P in the commercial room of the inn, and was missed. The prisoner was seen by a female servant in the wow shortly before, in the act of putting on a brown top coat, with which, not being suspected, he was allowed to depart. Information was given to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended at a lodging-house, kept by a man named Bateson, who, at the request of the prisoner, immediately after he entered the house, had pawned it for 10s. The prisoner was committed to take his trial at the sessions. THEFT FROM A WAREHOUSE.—A woman, named Eliza beth Cutler, was charged with stealing a quantity of currants from the warehouse of Mr. Barry, Temple -court. About eight o'clock on Thursday night, the prisoner was seen to leave the warehouse, by a woman named Wright, who ob served that she had something bulky beneath her gown ; she gave information to Mr. Barry, and the prisoner was followed, and whilst bringing her back to the warehouse, she dropped the currants in the street. The value of the currants was half-a-crown.—The prisoner was committed for trial. LANCASHIRE.—The parliamentary position of the county is as follows :—Conservatives—County 4, Liverpool 2, Lan caster 2, Wigan 2, Blackburn 2, Warrington I—total, 13. Whigs—Manchester 2, Salford 1, Preston 2, Rochdale 1, Bury 1, Clitheroe 1, Ashton 1, Oldham 2, Bolton 2—total, 13. In the last parliament there were 14 liberals and 12 conservatives, which shews a gain to the latter of 2 voters and 4 votes in the new parliament. The league has thus neu tralized itself with a vengeance. MURDER AT FLEETWOOD.—Considerable excitement was caused at the new town of Fleetwood on Friday week, by a report that a man had been murdered. A person of the name of Hand was returning home in company with another la bourer, and as they turned the corner of a street they were attacked by three men, who so brutally treated Hand, that he died the following morning. A verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned at the inquest against two men, whom the po lice are now in quest of. PRESENTATION OF PLATE.—The graduates, undergradu ates, and other students in the University of Durham, have presented the Rev. T. W. Peile, M.A. (now Head-Master of Repton Grammar School, formerly Vice-Master, School- Tutor, and Censor in the University of Durham, and previ ously principal at the Royal Institution, Liverpool,) with a piece of plate, in testimony of their high admiration of his talents and attainu.ents, and of his conduct for the seven years during which lie held office as Proctor, Senior Tutor, and Censor in that University. The plate consisted of a Chabed Silver Salver, weighing 130 oz. TILE CH URC FE—There is one distinction between the pre sent and the last General Election, so deep and marked, as must have ensured for it the attention of the country, while it is one which may justly be hailed as a subject of heart-felt satisfaction by all Protestants. We allude to the total ab sence of all that strong and virulent opposition to the Esta blished Church, which raged so bitterly throughout the land on the accession of her present Majesty to that throne which her ancestors were expressly summoned to protect from the ravages of bigotry and Papal persecution. It must not, how ever, be supposed that because the country has been silent, it has been, or is, indifferent; for the silence is not that of the supporters of the church, but of her enemies, who, baffled in their traitorous designs in the late parliament, have devoted their whole energies to support him who de lights in giving to the Established Church " heavy blows and great discouragements.,' Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., M. P., arrived at Alnwick on Tuesday afternoon from London, and as an elector of North Northumberland, has since been actively engaged in pro moting the constitutional cause in that division of the county. Lord John Russell, accompanied by the Earl of Minto, passed through Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Wednesday morn ing, on his way to Minto House, Roxburghshire, where, it is understood. he is to be married almost immediately to the Lady Fanny Elliot. The noble lord was observed to look ill, anxious, and care-worn. THE STURGEON—A ROYAL Frsn.—We observed, on Saturday last, at Mr. Newton's stall, in St. John's Market, a noble sturgeon, which had been caught the previous day at Whitehaven. The weight of it was 1 cwt. 3 qrs. 91bs.—the length, from snout to tail, 8 feet—the girth, 42 inches round the thickest part of the body. The epicures and gourmonds mustered thickly around it, and,ordered freely their fill ourite parts. The roe for making caviare" was speedily Seized upon. The flavour of the sturgeon resembles very delicate veal ; the flesh is firm and juicy. SALE OF RACE-HORSES.—A very extensive sale of race horses will take place at Mr. Lucas's to-morrow and the following day (Wednesday and Thursday). Some very first rate animals will be offered for competition. EXAMPLES FOR ENGLAND. - The following English counties are exclusively conservative, their boroughs return ing tories, and no opposition offered to the counties :—Shrop shire, 12 members; Cambridgeshire, 10 ditto; Bedford shire, 4 ditto ; Huntingdonshire, 4 ditto.—Total, 30. THE REVENUE.—The following is the summary of the revenue returns of the quarter given by the Morning Chro nicle • as it is correct we reprint it, to save trouble :—" We this day publish the revenue accounts for the years and quar ters ended sth July, 1840 and 1841. The quarter ended sth July, 1841, as compared with the quarter ended sth July, 1840, exhibits a decrease of £3661. But, taking the ordinary revenue, there is an increase of £148,689. In the Customs there is a decrease of £289,348. In the Stamps a decrease of £48,830 ; while in the Excise there is an increase of £88,360, in the Taxes £382,88, and in the Post Office £19,000. The year ended sth July, 1841, as compared with the year ended sth July, 1840, exhibits a decrease of £524,640; but, taking the ordinary revenue, only a decrease of £287,407. The de crease on the year's revenue is, in the Customs £856,991, in the Post Office £545,000 ; while the increase in the Excise is £431,020, in the Stamps £31,664, and in the Taxes £649,471. The decrease in the Post Office for the year is easily accounted for, the reduction having commenced with the third quarter of the year ended sth July, 1840." We perceive that an excellent arrangement has just been made by the Grand Junction Railway Company, to receive small parcels at their establishment, No. 24, Water-street, which will be a great accommodation to the public.—See advt. FALSELY REGISTERING THE BIRTH OF A CHILD.—A female, named Ann Farmer, wife of a carpenter and lodging house keeper, was on Friday placed at the bar, charged with having, on the 26th April, taken an infant child to the Regis ter of Office of Births aad Deaths in Dale-street, and pro cured registration of its birth—she representing herself as Rebecca Jones, its mother, and adding, that it was born on the 16th of March. Mr. Lovatt, the registrar, (who regis tered the child accordingly,) proved that the prisoner (Far mer,) had called on him with the child, had given the name stated, and said the child was her own. It was afterwards found that this was false, and that she was not the mother. In evidence of which, a witness deposed to having seen a young woman in a room in the prisoner's house; immedi ately after her being delivered of a child, which she also saw. In a subsequent conversation with the registrar, she said the child, she believed, belonged to persons who had gone to sea, and on bein g a ft erw ards pressed on the subject, she persisted in merely saying, that " no one was so tit to be its mother as herself." The prisoner (after the usual caution), declined to say anything; but it was stated by Mr. Davenport in her behalf, that she was actuated solely by a merciful consideration for the child. She was committed to take her trial at the assizes. It was, however, intimated, that she would be admitted to bail. THEATRE-ROYAL.—Knowles's tragedy of " John of Pro cida," was well received last week. The acting of Mr. Vandenhoff as the exiled noble, was extremely fine : Mr. G. Vandenhoff's Fernando i 3 an impersonation of great merit. Miss Vandenhoff's Isoline is the best character—in our opinion—she has played here. Mr. G. Vandenhoff has made great strides in his profession even within the last few months. Last evening the " Love Chase " was produced. Mrs. Nisbett's Constance is as gay and sprightly as ever. Her laugh is most exhilarating, and would provoke the most grave to join in her exhuberant spirits. Baker's Fondlove and Mrs. Clarke's WidOw Green, were capital. Miss Jane Mordaunt, the sister of Mrs. Ilisbett, appeared as Lydia. Her voice is very sweet, but hellrstyle of acting is eccentric, —we cannot say that we like it. To-night the " Belle's Stratagem," " A Husband at sight," and " 'T was I," form the entertainments. It will be interesting to mothers, and, indeed, to all the Queen's loyal subjects, to know that the little Princess Royal has passed two important epochs of her infancy— namely, " short-coating" and " weaning ;" the former event took place a short time ago, and the latter within the last few days.-- Globe, Government Journal. APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—It is defini tively arranged that the marriage of Miss Peel, eldest daugh ter of the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., and Viscount Villiers, M.P., is to be solemnised on Wednesday next. APPROACHING ROYAL VISITS. —We understand h e r Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert are likely to honour the Earl and Countess Cowper with their company, at Pansanger, as early as next week ; and it is said the Queen and her illustrious consort have been pleased to accept an invitation from the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, to pass a few days at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, were prepara tions shave already commenced for the reception of a distin guished and numerous circle. It is rumoured that the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster will, in all pro bability, be honoured by the presence of the Queen and his royal highness, at Moore Park, the noble marquis's delight ful residence at Rickmansworth. FATAL ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG LADY FROM FALLING OFF A DONKEY.—On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Town-hall, Gravesend, before Mr. Carttar, the coroner for West Kent, upon the body of Miss Sarah Agnes Taylor, a highly accomplished young lady, who resided with her family in the Cresent, Gravesend. A person named Huntly stated that the deceased young lady, in company with her sister, hired two donkeys, when, after riding a short distance, the deceased lost her balance and fell to the ground, striking her head violently against a stone. The deceased was immediately picked up in an insensible state and carried home. The occurrence was quite accidental. Mr. Henry Brett, surgeon, of Gravesend, stated that he attended the deceased, who expired from lock-jaw brought on by the ac cident. The deceased young lady was sensible, and attributed no ble.me to any person. The coroner having summe d up , the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY AND THE REPRE SENTATION OF SLIGO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD EDITOR, - Sir Joshua Walmsley having announced to his friends that be had been solicited t o stan d for the County Sligo, but had decl i ned the honour, I feel h appy, for the honour of the county, in being able to contradict the latter part of his statement. Sir Joshua never declined the h . onour: on the contrary, his withdrawal was very much against his own inclinatio n havin g a p po i n t e d a comm ittee, and given them such exalted ideas of his wealth and consequence here, as, in his opinion, to ensure success. Sir Joshua knows as well as I do, the reason why his ambition was not gratified in standing for the County Sligo. Liverpool,to-morro w Trusting y ou w ill o bli ge me by i nser ti n g this i n y our paper of u l l r y em l2 a . in, your obedient servant, A SLIGO MAN. ANOTHER RADICAL FALSEHOOD TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, - - SIR,—A letter has appeared in the Albion of this day, signed "W.," wherein it is stated that Barnard Makin, who was employed at the Harrington Docks, as a casual labourer, was turned away in consequence of his having voted for Sir Joshua Walinsley and L or d P almerston ; this statement h as not the slightest foundation. On the day of election Makin never came near the docks, nor was he ever seen on the premises until Friday last, when he called to request a character from me, stating that he was about getting employ ment in a warehouse. He received the one which is attached to the letter in the Albion, and at the sametime was offered work as before. On pay-day he did not apply for his wages. which I paid over to the timekeeper, who saw his wife, and was told by her the reason he was not at his employment was that he had been drinking ever since the election. This last particular only came to my knowledge when investigating the matter or I should have withheld the character which I gave him.—Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS WYLD GLADSTONE, Secretary to the Harrington Dock Company. Liverpool, July 12, 1841. LITERtiRY NOTICE. Charles o"..ila item. Curry, Dublin We find in this number the gallant and gay lieutenant pro. muted : he is now Captain O'Malley. He gets into another scrape through the ridiculous bungling of his servant Mickey Free; Major Monson is also in trouble. "The night on the Azava" is a pleasantly-told chapter. The illustrations by Phiz are, as usual, excellent. MR. SALTER'S PICTURE OF THE WATERLOO BANQUET AT APSLEY HOUSE, AT THE POST-OFFICE PLACE ROOMS. Who is there that can claim kindred or country with an Englishman, Scotchman, Welshman, or an Irishman that does not feel his heart swell with enthusiasm, and his blood throb wildly with delight, when in the full assembly of his fellow-citizens he bears ringing around the name of WEL LINGTON ? Who is there in the silence of his chamber, while perusinz the bright pages of history, whereon is de tailed by the historian's glowing pen, the gallant deeds of those who met the chivalric soldiery of France in fierce con tention, and with them " In one red burial blent," that does not experience the pride of patriotism rising in his soul while he dwells upon such records of his country's glory ? The old man feels his pulses quicken,—the stripling fancies he is nerved with a giant's strength, while both hear the magic watchwords of " Gp lads and at them,"—and their hearts are with the brave guards as they charge down the hillock, sweeping all before them ! The Briton rejoices in the thought of the conduct of Englishmen at Waterloo. The Northern shouts " Hurrah for bonnie Scotland," and iecol lects the valourous deeds of the gallant 42d, and other high land regiments,—while the Irishman has but an eye and a thought on one man, and he " the hero of a hundred fights !" —that hero is his countryman, "and that makes friends of even foes in foreign lands." If we feel thus strongly while we peruse the records of that eventful day, and our Sight is gladened to see a veteran " With a Waterloo medal hung at his breast," as poor Haynes Bayley says in his song ;—what sort of pleasurable associations must not Mr. Salter's picture awaken? In it we see upwards of eighty medals, the wearers of which were all partakers in, and survivors of, that glorious day, after a lapse of twenty-one years.—There are the gallant companions in arms of the heroic host—the cynosure of all eyes,—there are those who cheered with him their men on to victory,—there they are seated round their leader's social board, while he—" the noblest Roman of them all"—is standing up to address them, while beside him is the excellent monarch whose father's crown he drew his bright sword to defend. There stands the Duke of Wellington, full of years, honour, and renown. Talk of the works of the old masters—we need not say how we venerate those mighty relics of genius, but we would see this picture hung up in the most public place, and where all men may view it, and where the mother may bring her boy to look upon it, and bid him read his country's annals. The picture represents one of the dinners at Apsley House, on the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, when the Duke entertains those who were with him " in the fight." That chosen occurred about five years ago, when his late Majesty William IV. became a guest. Standing up is the Duke, at what time of the banquet we shall presently show. On his right is his Majesty, on his left the present King of Holland, the Marquis of Wellesley, the Duke of Richmond, Colonel Egerton, Sir Peregrine Maitland, Colonel Gurwood, Sir Henry Ilardinge, Sir Colin Campbell, Sir Colin Halkett, Sir Andrew Barnard, Lord Sandys, Colonel James Hay, Lord Hill, Lord Bathurst, while numbers of others are scat tered up and down. Near the door the artist has happily introduced the gifted Lady Burgersh, Lady Fitzroy Somer set, and the Misses Somerset : near them stands Mr. Salter himself; and call it not, vanity in the painter to intro duce his own good-looking head in such an assembly—the face of the painter of such a picture deserves to go down with it to posterity : and there he is looking at a sight which would be worth a dozen pilgrimages to witness—a sight which he has not niggardlike kept to himself, but which hearty thanks to him he has vividly placed before us, and which his friend Mr. Greatbach will enable Mr. Moon to multiply, and give thousands and thousands an opportunity of having it con stantly before them. The chamber in which the banquet is held is the Waterloo Gallery, where poor L. E. L. exclaimed, pointing to the hords of wealth heaped on the hero by the sovereigns of Europe, " There is history of England !" and then, turning to the iron-shuttered windows that the fury of an ungrateful mob had compelled to be put up, " There is the moral !" The pictures on the walls are of great value. A Coreggio at the end of the apartment, near the magnificent shield presented to the duke by the citizens of London, a dealer will any day purchase for £13,000 ! It was captured from the roof of Lucien Buonaparte's carriage in his flight from Naples. Here a Vandycke—there a Titian. Murillo, &c. The candelabra on the table, constructed of Russian porphyry, were the present of the Emperor Alexander. The silver plateau was a gift from the Portuguese nation : it is of curious workmanship, most elaborate finish, and of great value. The faces before us are all portraits. Every individual has sat to the artist at one time or another during the five years in which Mr. Salter has been occupied with his work. So capital are these likenesses, that when the Duke of Cam bridge saw the picture, he pointed out upwards of fifty of the guests with whom he was well acquainted. As an effort of artistic skill, this work is a most noble one. It is hardly possible for the casual spectator to look upon it, and duly appreciate the difficulties the artist has had to en counter. It will be equally hard to make those not conver sant with art understand what obstacles he must have had to surmount. In the first place, there is little scope for imagi nation : it is all matter of fact that stands before us : there is no impediment to be avoided by a little touch of fancy. The whole has been overcome by the exercise of a brilliant genius, and a daring, skilful, and successful hand. Here are a number of figures seated round a table—a formal sub ject—habited in the most glaring colours that the palette can display ; and these must be so placed as not to appear mo notonous, gaudy, or obtrusive. Have those difficulties been overcome ? Let the eye rest where it will, it will not meet with one unpleasant tone or touch. Then the attitudes ! How effectively are they not arranged ! What ease and grace do they not exhibit ! The time chosen for the picture is a happy thought; his Majesty having given the toast of the Duke's health—and how responded to we need hardly conjecture—tli b e guests have broken into groups, and are about resuming their previous conversation, when the Duke rises to return thanks—lee has that moment only risen— another second and his voice would have attracted his friends nearest to us to turn their faces, and their backs would then have all been towards us. How happily are those lovely women introduced; how they break any monotony there might be existing, and how they lighten and throw a sparkle over the whole picture. The light which is so broadly cast is supposed to stream in from the windows looking into the park, previous to a glo rious sunset. The shadows are fine " clear obscures," and are most effectively thrown. The accessories to the picture are all most delightfully distributed. "Take it for all in all, we shall not look upon its like again;" and we recommend our readers to apply for a card of admis sion, and by all means put their names down for a copy of this national work. In conclusion we ought not to omit a passing remark upon the very tasteful manner in which the room has been fitted up, and the appropriateness of the ornaments, and graceful ness of the draperies. THE FINE ARTS.-THE LATE BARON DE COSSON'S COLLECTION. We have availed ourselves of an opportunity of visiting a collection of pictures which are now on view for sale, at Mr. Lacey's, Bold-street, and amongst them had the gratification of noticing some very pure specimens of the Foreign as well as British schools. These pictures are from the collection of the Gelieral Baron de Cosson. The first work that attracted oar attention is by Salvator Rosa. A Battle Piece. To the left is a castle, in the centre the contending armies, Christians and Turks, are seen in fierce combat. There is great vigour and breadth in this work ; the groupes are admirable, and picturesquely ar ranged. The colours are briiliant and cleverly distributed, and the lights effectively thrown. This Battle piece may be considered a good specimen of this talented master. Ruben. Meleager and the Wild Boar. This picture represents Meleager presenting Atalanta with the boar's head. The figure of Meleager exhibits strength and manly beauty, and contrasts well with that of Atalanta ; the flesh ing of this latter figure is plump, and charmingly coloured. The arm may be particularly admired for correctness of drawing. May. A Bosquet at Marley. A sweet little picture, in Watteau's style. Lancret. A subject from La Fontaines Tale of the Fairy Spaniel. A deliciously painted little picture, and beautifully expressed.— Teniers. A Head of an old Man. A small painting, but full of character and purity. This is quite a little gem.—Friar. Pozzuolo, near Naples. A warmly and purely painted landscape. Mount Vesuvius in the dis tance—the sky very transparent in the manner of Both. The lights broadly cast.—Vanderburph. Auricular confes sion. A plump and lovely girl is here at confession ; the lustful countenance of the father confessor, is cleverly ex pressed.—De Jong. A Flemish girl. Sweetly coloured, and a most pleasing picture.—Willaerts. A seaport. A spirited painting; the water transparent and buoyant.—Ryekaert. Interior of a Dutch drinking-house. In this work several fine studies will be found. The old man filling his pipe is capitally drawn, and the picture has great freedom and breadth, and is a good specimen of this master.— Van Lien ders. View of Rotterdam. An elaborately painted and very pure work ; there is a sweet sun-shiny appearance thrown over the objects, which is very pleasing. Upon era. mination every portion will be found finished with the greatest care.—Rernbrandt. A Dutch fair. A sweet pic ture. The arrangement of the groups, the position of the figures, and the distribution of light and shade is remarkable. The ruined tower is exquisitely painted ; the light is thrown upon it in a most surprisingly effective manner. The sky sunny and warm. Weenix.—Dead Game. Properly to ap. predate this remarkable picture, it should be seen through a ' glace, " each maculae ,air" and (bother is in Its pine, drawn with the utmost precision and care,- —renters. A corps de garde. A picture of great merit ; armour distributed about the chamber. The drum, the banners, are cleverly drawn. The soldiery in the back-ground standing before a fire, show the depth of the picture—the lights are well thrown.—Mieris. The assassination of De Courteney. J 4 singular work, full of incident and character —the colours brilliant.—Mignard. This is a portrait of Madame de Montespan, drawn in a car, as the goddess of beauty. To collectors of portraits this will be invaluable.—Friar. The Claudian aqueduct. A brilliantly coloured landscape, in the style of Both and Claude, with a warm sunny appearance.—Hogarth. Preparing for the mas querade. Full of character,and beautifully painted.—Bout and Bodewyns. Two Dutch Fairs. Two curious pictures, remarka bly painted.—Breughel. The miracle of the loaves and fishes. A brilliant and fine specimen of the plaster.—Simon de Vos. Christ bearing his cross. A curious work, replete with breath and colour.—Greuze. The Eleventh Hour. A touching pic ture, admirably painted.—Wilson. An English scene. A pure and charming specimen from the hands of the English. Claude. This is a picture well worthy of attention. It is one of the best we have seen fo'r some time.—Manskirch. A woody landscape. A delightful companion to the pre ceding picture. It is equal to Both. The village to the right and the aerial distance are excellently painted. A sweet sunny effect is cast over this pleasing picture.—Old Weenix. A Dutch village. This is another delightful little picture, charmingly painted, with most sweet effects, and there is a great repose and calmness about it.—Near these are a Watteau—a Scalken—a capital Brower—an allegorical subject, byßotherhamer--a portrait of G. Dow—a Madonna, by C. Dolci—a large landscape, by Claudio—a remarkable picture, with singular effects of sun-set clouds. A Magda len, after Corregio, by Stromeyer, painted on zinc, varnished by Hayloid, manner. A rich and exquisite copy of Corregio's wonderful work. The colouring is equal to the most highly finished miniature. The fleshing is pure, soft, and plump. The head and neck are extremely beautiful. There is ano ther work in the collection, painted in the same style and by the same artist, being a Madonna, with infant Christ and St. John. This is an equally clever work.—Albert Durer. I A remarkable work by this old painter, contrasting singu larly with the preceding one as a specimen of modern, the other of ancient art.—Murillo. The wounded Sheep. A capital picture, once in the possession of the Marquis de Gualtamara, finely coloured—replete with expression and interest. Besides the pictures we have noticed, there are many others by masters of great merit. As these works can all be warranted, amateurs and connoisieurs will feel great pleasure, we think, in inspecting them. GENERAL ELECTION, MEMBERS RETURNED TO THE NEW PARLIAMENT. ENGLAND AND WALES.. 7 Conservative members returned up to last night .. 278 Liberal ditto Double returns Returns not yet received 27 Total members for England and Wales - 500 SCOTLAND. Conservative members returned up to last night Liberal ditto Returns not yet received 7 Total members for Scotland --- 53 IRELAND. Conservative members returned up to last night 26 Liberal ditto Returns not yet received 52 Total members for Ireland - 105 Total members of the House of Commons .... 658 Total conservatives returned Total liberals returned . 246 Total conservative gains up to last night Liberal ditto Total conservative gain 32 votes, equivalent to 64 on a division (as compared with the last parliament). ENGLAND AND WALES Names of Places. Names of Members, Continued from our last Anglesey Bedfordshire Alford Astell Bucking:iamshire.... Young Dupre Murray Cardiganshire Powell Carmarthenshire .... Trevor Jones .. Cheshire, North .. .. Egerton Legh Cornwall, West Pendarves Boscawen Cumberland, East .. Howard . James Durham North Liddell Essex, South Latobton. Bramston Palmer. Flintshire Mostyn Glamorganshire Adare . Talbot iampshire, North .. Lefevre, Heathcote lertfortishire Grimstone Smith ... Ryder Huntingdonshire .... Fellowes Thornhill Northamptonshire, N. Maunsell , O'Brien Northumberland, N. Ossulston Cresswell. Northamptonshire, S Cartwright, Knightley Pembrokeshire Evelyn .. Radnorshire Walsh .... Retford, East Vernon ... Duncombe Somerset, East.. Langton .. Somerset, West Acland Dickinson Surrey, East Kemble .. Antrobus . Sussex, East Darley Fuller Wiltshire, North.... Long Burdett Worcestershire, East, Barneby Taylor Yorkshire, East ..... Broadley Hotham Yorkshire, North.. .. Cayley Duncombe Yorkshire, West.. .. .Wortley Denison SCOTLAND. Aberdeenshire .Gordon • Argyllshire ... Campbell Berwickshire Campbell Buteshire .Rae .. Clackmananshire .... Abercromby Dumbar tonshire.. .. .Smollett Edinburghshire .... . Ramsay Fife Weymss Forfarshire Gordon Greenock . Wallace Haddingtonshire.....Hepb urn In vernesshire Baillie Kincardineshire .Arbuthnot Kinross Abercrombie Lanarkshire Lo3khart Linlithgowshire . • • • • Hope Perthshire Drummond Renfrewshire Stewart Roxburghshire Scott .. R ox b u rghshire .. .. .. Gore .......... Selkirkshire Sutherland.. Dundas Wigton Burghs W. Taggart IRELAND. Armagh County .... Acheson . Verner. .. Belfast Johnston Cavan Young Clements Cork . Murphy Con. Rad 250 212 O'Callaghan Down County Castlereagh 1 Hillsborough Drogheda Somerville Ennis Bridgman Kilkenny County.... Butler Bryant King's County Wistenra Armstrong Limerick Roche O'Brien Mallow . . Norreys Meath.. D. O'Connell .. Grattan . • ... ....... Newry Newry Portarlington Darner ..... ....... . Queen's County Coote Vesey Roscommon The O'Conner Don.. F. French ......... Sligo County Percival Gore .... Sligo Borough Somers Tralee . M. O'Connell ....... Waterford Christmas .. ....... Reade Wexford Esmonde ........... FURTHER RETURNS 3Za 7 246 MALLOW — (CLosE.) Longfield (C) ''''''''''''''''' Norrey (R) ......... / V I I I ; .. ****** Viscount Newry (C.) Sir J. Doyle (R).. • • Majority for the Conservative ...... 90 EST YORKSHIRE. Wortley (C) ...... ....... . 13196 Denison (C) ...................... 12802 Lord Milton (R) .................... . 12049 Lord Morpeth (R). .................. 12003 Majority for W0r t1ey...... 1 147 ' Majority for Den ison...... 753• CORK CITY.—FRIDAY Evtxrigo. Murphy (R) .......... ........ 1481 Callaghan (R) .......... .......... 1452 Chatterton (C) ....... .. ....... 1015 The result of this election is owing to the awful jeopardj ' in which the lives of the Conservatives were placed on Thursday and Friday, owing to the desperate proceedings of an infuriated mob. None of the supporters of Colonel Chatterton dare venture out of their houses, and the conse quence was the polling was left. almost exclusively to the suP porters of Messrs. Callaghan rind Murphy, Men must wish ardently for success, when they are willing to purchase it at the expense of life. SOUTH DURHA M.—FINAL CLosz.) Vane (R) ........ 2568 Bowes (R) Farrer (C) The Duke of Cleveland's. influence in South Durham: is overwhelmiug, or if the ales tor s had been allowed to follow their own judgment,: the p piling would have bega reversed. Lorr[Darlington, however, the heir to the title and estates of tlie duke, is a strong conservative, and we shall therefore soon see two good men and true returned for this district. The duke is well known to have contributed the extravagant sum of £lOO,OOO towards supporting the radical interests at the present general election, and we suspect no inconsider able portion of it has found its way to South Durham. West (C) DUBLIN.—FINA L CLOSE. Grogan (C) O'Connell (R) 3692 Hutton (R) 3662 Majority for West over O'Cnnnell 168 Grogan over Hutton.. NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND.—CLOSE. Ossulston (C) 1216 Cresswell (C) Howick (R) llOl BELFAST.—CLosz. Tennant (C) Johnson (C) Belfast (R) Ross (R) ROXBURGHSHIRE.—CLOSE. Scott (C) Elliott (R) WEXFORD Esmonde (R) Bourne (C) . RENFREWSH I RE Stewart (R) _ 959 Mure (C) 9-15 FLINTSHIRE.—FINAL CLOSE Mostyn (R) Glynne (C) NORTH CHESHIRE. Egerton (C) Leh (C) Stanley (R) WATERFORD CITY. Christmas (C) Reade (C) Barrow (R) Wyse (R) We hsve not been able to ascertain the precise numbers for Waterford, but the returning officer has declared the two conservatives duly elected. RUTLANDSHIRE.—FINAL CLOSE. Heathcote 761 Downey (C) Noel (R) This is a gain of one to the conservatives. EAST SUSSEX.—FINAL CLOSE. Darley (C) Fuller (C) Shelley (R) This is another gain of one to the conservatives. QUEEN'S COUNTY, Sir C. Coote, (C), and Hon. T. Vesey, (C), returned with out opposition. A gain of one to the Conservatives. COUNTY CAVAN. Colonel Clements and T. Young, Esq., two Conservatives returned without opposition. COUNTY ROSCOMMON. The O'Connor Don and F. French, two Radicals, re turned without opposition. RADNORSHIRE.—(FIRST DAY.) Sir J. Walsh (C) 873 Lord Harley (R) 429 At the close of the second days' polling Sir J. Walsh was returned by a large majority. DUBLIN COUNTY ELECTION.-Jury 9th The nomination of candidates for the county of Dublin took place this day, at Kilmainham Court-house. The pro ceedings commenced at eleven o'clock. The respective can didates appeared on the hustings attended by a large retinue of friends. The conservative candidates, Captain Taylor and Mr. J. H. Hamilton, were loudly and enthusiastically cheered, while the liberal candidates were received in silence. The precept having been read. The Hon. James Plunkett, in a brief address, proposed Lord Brabazon. Mr. George Roe seconded the nomination. Mr. Christopher Fitzsimon proposed Mr. George Evans Mr. Arabin seconded the nomination. Major Thompson, of Hollywood, proposed Mr. James Hans Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton was a kind and resident landlord, and expended large sums of money in local improve ments and the employment of the poor. Mr. George Alexander Hamilton seconded the nomination. Sir R. Shaw proposed Captain Edward Taylor. Mr. Cobb seconded the nomination. The High Sheriff announced that he, in accordance with the compact between both parties, would order the polling to commence at nine o'clock on Monday. Lord Brabazon then addressed the electors at some length, and dwelt on the relative merits and demerits of whig and tory geverments. The candidates then addressed the electors, and a show of hands was taken by the she►iff, who declared it to be in fa vour of Evans and Brabazon. ELECTIONS FOR SCOTLAND (From the Scottish Standard.) We rejoice to be fully enabled now to announce that the conservatives will have no reason to complain of the part Scotland has taken, and will take, in the all-important con test now rapidly drawing to a conclusion. The burgh elec tions have terminated in a gain of two seats to the conserva tives, and a gain of one seat to the whigs. We lament the loss of Kilmarnock, and sincerely regret that so able a man as Mr. Colquhoun should be excluded, for however short a time, from Parliament. In Church matters, undoubtedly we differed from him ; and we have no hesitation in assert ing that his extreme non-intrusion views, by operating on the minds of many moderate men, and exciting the envenomed hostility of the dissenters, was the main cause of his defeat. The majority against him—eleven,—is such as to leave ample room for a more successful result under different circum stances. The gain of the Haddington and Falkirk burghs, and the return of Messrs. Balfour and Baird, must afford the highest gratification to the friends of the Church and consti tution. These gentlemen have succeeded as real conserva-. tives—their political and ecclesiastical views being strictly in unison with those avowed by Sir Robert Peel. In those burghs, which the conservatives have contested unsuccess fully, we can point to a vast increase in the numbers of the conservative party. In Glasgow, the conservatives polled at the last election 300 votes more than at the former election. In Greenock, they have augmented their force from 202 to 307—a gain of 103 votes ; and their can be no doubt that at this rate Sir Thomas Cochrane will very soon turn out Mr. Wallace, of Kelly. In Aberdeen, we find that Mr. Innes re ceived no fewer than 513 votes. an increase of nearly 200 since the last contest; nor is it quite certain that Mr. Banner man would have carried his election, had he not yielded to the squeezing of Mr. Adam, of the Aberdeen Herald, who forced him to recant, of course insincerely, most of his ex treme non-intrusion dogmas. Mr. Duff, in Elgin, has lost the election by a majority only of 14 ; and Colonel Agnew in Wigton has been defeated by the comparatively small majority of 28. The seeds of future triumph are evidently laid in all these burghs ; and we therefore say that Scotland must not be judged by the actual gain and loss in the burghs ; but by the demonstrated progress of conservative principles—a pro gress which the coming registration may ripen into a positive superiority. One burgh contest remains to be decided — Wick ; in our next we hope to be enabled to record the triumph of Mr. Demptser, but whatever be the result, the issue cannot be any loss, though it may be a gain, to the conservatives. Caithness is surrendered for the present, from circumstances which we believe will prove but temporary. But to counterbalance this single loss, the the conservatives have already driven the whigs from Mid- Lothian, Argyll, Dumbarton, and Roxburgh—a gain of three counties, which, added to one seat from the burghs, gives us at this date a gain of eight votes. Stirlingshire, Banffshire, and Kirkcudbright, hitherto in the possession of the whigs, are yet to be decided ; but we have little doubt that at least in the former, if not in both the latter counties also, the con servative candidate will be returned. Renfrewshire, Wigton shire, and the combined counties of Elgin and Nairn, previ ously held by the conservatives, are contested by whigs—the former two pretty keenly, the latter very feebly. In none of these cases, however, is loss seriously apprehended. Bute shire has been the scene of a most unseemly collision ; but the good sense of the electors enabled them to triumph over all attempts to delude them. We say deliberately, had the return of Sir William Rae been prevented, it would have been a national loss and a national disgrace. From this brief view of the elections in Scotland, it is fully evident that we are gradually making up with our English friends in the march of conservatism. A few years, we had almost said months, longer, and we shall be fairly abreast of them. LIVERPOOL JULY RACES.—We understand, from autho rity, that the most strict punctuality will be observed in the time of starting for each day's race. The bell will be rung for starting each day at a quarter before one o'clock, and the horses to be at the starting post at one o'clock precisely. About thirty horses are expected to start for the Trade Cup, and twelve for the Ledger. KINSALE ELECTION.—The triumph of Mr. Watson a this election is likely to be short-lived. His majority, from the proofs adduced in the Cork Constitution, will easily be overturned, but the principal ground of objection is want of qualification, which Mr. Watson was unable to gainsay. The royal mail steamer Columbia, which would leave Bos ton on the Ist and Halifax on the 3d instant, will be due at this port on or before Wednesday next. STEAM-SHIP ADMIRAL.—After an absence of months, this favourite vessel, we notice, has again been put on the Glasgow and Liverpool station. She arrived here yester day, making an unusually quick passage. To any one desi rous of viewing one of this country's most perfect steamers, we may say the Admiral presents a specimen of elegance and real comfort in cabin accommodation and arrangements seldom met with. LIVERPOOL TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOClETlES.—Yesterday the seventh anniversary of the Total Abstinence Societies of Liverpool was held. Early in the morning the different bodies began to move, and formed a large procession, which passed through the principal streets of the town. The ap pearance of these bodies was very animated, accompanied, as they were, by several excellent bands, and diversified by nu merous appropriate emblems and flags. In the evening a very large meeting was held in the Amphitheatre, for the purpose of promoting the general cause. Lawrence Hey worth, Esq., President of the Total Abstinence Society, occu pied the chair, and the meeting was addressed in excellent speeches by the chairman, Mr. George Greig, Mr. John Hockins, the " Birmingham Blacksmith," Mr. Burrows, Mr. Brown, Mr. Carter, and several others. The proceed ings were much enlivened by some excellent singing. STREET ROBBERY. —At the police-court, yesterday, Daniel Simpkins was placed at the bar, on a charge of hav ing robbed Mr. Joseph Banks, draper, of Trowbridge-street, of a considerable amount of money. It appeared that shortly before twelve o'clock, yesterday morning, Mr. Banks was attempting to pass the total abstinence procession, opposite the Royal Bank, in Dale-street, when he felt some one jostle him. He took no notice of the circumstance but passed on. His pocket, however, had been dexteriously picked by the prisoner of a bag containing two £lO bank of England notes, three £5 ditto, 11l sovereigns in gold, and some silver. The robbery was perceived by William Roberts, a stonemason, who resides in Bispham-street. He saw the prisoner push Mr. Banks with his left hand, and put his right into the trowsers pocket of that gentleman, take out the bag and put it into his own left breast. The prisoner then went towards Castle-street, and was pursued by Roberts until he turned back, and when he arrived opposite the Angel Hotel he was pointed out to a policeman who took him into custody. M r . Banks was next pointed out to the officer by Roberts. When the prisoner was searched Mr. Banks' bag was found upon him, with the whole of the money . in it. Mr. Rushton at once committed the prisoner for trial at the next sessions. THE SUDBURY ELECTION.—The return of the corpora tors of Sudbury to her Majesty's writ, on transmitting a black man as their representative : " Most gracious Mistress, we have done our best, " And send a man no blacker than the rest. MATTUNIT MAMMON ; Returning Officer." REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH CIIESETIRE NOMINATION OF THE 'AND IDATES. The nomination of the candidates for the representation of the South Division of Cheshire took place on Saturday at the Castle of Chester. The candidates were Mr. George Wilbraham, reformer, Sir Philip Egerton, conservative, and Mr. Tollemache, conservative, the two first being the old members. The legal preliminaries having been gone through in the Shire-hall, the Under-sheriff, Mr. Edward Proctor, of Mac clesfield, addressed the electors. He said he was there to apologise, in the first place, for the absence of the High sheriff upon this great occasion. Most, if not all, present, were aware of the cause of his absence ; the High-sheriff was exceedingly sorry for it, and he hoped it would be accepted as his apology. (Hear, hear.) As Under-sheriff he (Mr. Proctor) now called upon the electors to elect two knights of the shire, to serve in the House of Commons for the south ern division of the county in the ensuing parliament. They had a high and important public trust to discharge, one which had been given them to exercise for the benefit of their country ; he therefore earnestly entreated that good order and good feeling would prevail at this meeting, so that all parties might have a fair and impartial hearing. (Loud cheers.) Colonel TOWNSEND moved an adjournment into the Castle yard. (Loud cries of " No, no.") The UNDER-SHERIFF said if the court were full he would adjourn the meeting immediately, but it was not. (Cheers and uproar, which lasted for some time.) It being at length obvious that the proceedings would not be allowed to commence unless there was an adjournment, the Under-sheriff adjourned the meeting to the Castle yard. There was a great deal of scrambling for places, and infinite disorder, before silence was obtained. The UNDER-SHERIFF having called upon any elector who had a candidate to propose to come forward, Mr. LEIGH TOWNSEND, amidst mingled cheers and groans, said he had great pleasure in proposing their old, much esteemed, talented, and consistent member, Mr. George Wilbraham. as a candidate for their suffrages,—(hisses)— believing that in his conduct in past years there was an earnest of what he would be in future—the most proper man to represent this constituency. (Hear.) He rested Mr. Wilbraham's claims for support on the untiring and unflinch ing attention which he had given to all their interests in par liament. (Hear.) Let those gentlemen who had been concerned in the conservancy bill of the River Mersey, and in the Birkenhead gas bill, testify if they had ever found Mr. Wilbraham wanting in that attention which was due to the interests of his constituents. (Hear.) The question before them now, that upon which their Queen had called them to decide, was, whether they would submit to increased taxation, the imposition of the excise tax, the salt tax, and the abolition of the penny postage. (Cries of " Oh, oh.") The question was, whether they were prepared for direct taxation, or by a revision of the existing duties upon sugar, timber, and corn provide for the exigencies of the state. (Hear.) Another claim which Mr. Wilbraham had to their support was the unceasing attacks, he might say the hostility, which he had experienced at the hands of the other party. (Hear, hear, and " No.") What was Mr. Wilbraham's conduct in the year 1835, when he was solicited by a large party of his supporters to coalesce with a gentle man for whom he (Mr. Townsend) had the highest respect, and of whom he would say no more than that he wished him upon his side of the hustings? (Hear.) Mr. Wilbraham refused then to disturb the peace of the county, upon the ground that a large and influential party in the county pro fessed conservative opinions, and it was but fair that they should have their representative in parliament. (Hear, hear.) What had come from that party since all the electors well knew. He would not longer detain them, but at once nomi nate George Wilbraham, Esq., as a fit and proper person to represent this division of the county in parliament. (Cheers and disapprobation.) Mr. E. D. DAVENPORT seconded the nomination of his friend Mr. Wilbraham—a man whose conduct needed neither seconder nor supporter, for it spoke for itself. At a crisis unparalleled within his recollection, the friends of monopoly, ably represented as they would be by one of the hon. candi dates, not contented with dear sugar, dear corn, and dear timber, were making an attack upon those liberal principles which had but lately been implanted, for the first time, in this county, and cherished to some degree of maturity. In the first place they canvassed the county 18 months ago, and attempted to entrap the electors. (Cries of " No, no.") Perhaps, then, it was 20 months ago—(cheers);—and from that time to the present, no attempt had been wanting to entrap the electors into a premature promise to vote they knew not for what man or for what measures, because the measures now agitated were not then thought of. Another novelty in these proceedings consisted in the sitting members taking part with the new candidates, which was a complete innovation upon all former practice. Formerly the sitting member was satisfied with representing his share of the county, without interfering directly or indirectly with the choice of his colleague. He remembered when Lord Crewe, his (Mr Davenport's) father, and Mr. Egerton of Tatton were in the representation, not one of them interfered in the choice of their colleagues ; and he warned the honourable gentleman opposite who had now violated the practice, that it would recoil upon them. (Hear, hear.) A consistent and honest representative like Mr. Wilbraham should not be turned out to make room for —. (Great uproar drowned the close of the sentence.) There was a combination of par ties against a man who had served the county faithfully; and he would now describe their interference, which he did not think at all decent. The Macclesfield paper, in their report of a certain Conservative meeting at Congleton, stated that Sir Philip Egerton had recommended Mr. Tollemache to be chosen as his associate ; in short, the hon. baronet had given it out to them, and through them to the county at large, that he could no longer sit with Mr. Wilbraham as his colleague. (Hear, hear, and uproar.) The reform soldier, therefore, must be cashiered because he stood between the wind and Sir Philip Egerton's nobility. (Hear, hear, and uproar.) This sort of interference was quite without example ; he had known nothing of the kind in this county within the whole of his recollection. He did not mean to say that Sir Philip Egerton dictated to the electors, but the hon. baronet cer tainly did recommend them to choose Mr. Tollemache for his associate. They did not deny the report Several VoicEs.—We deny it altogether. (Much uproar.) _ _ , Mr. DAVEN PORT.—Why ihe report appeared in their own, the Macclesfield, paper. (Hear, and cheers.) Sir Philip Egerton could talk of economy and retrenchment, and com plain of the extravagance of the present government, but if he (Mr. Davenport) recollected rightly, he lost his seat f or the city of Chester for voting against enquiry into the civil list. As a specimen of the hon. baronet's course when in the House of Commons—of course he (Mr. D-) trusted news paper reports, particularly as they were Tories—he recom mended the passing of the Weaver Churches Bill in the House of Commons, because it would affect the county rate only in the proportion of the thirteenth part of a farthing. (Hear.) It came to pass, however, that within the last fortnight or three weeks another halfpenny, or twenty-six times the 13th part of a farthing had been added to the county rate— Major CORBETT.—Not for the building of the Weaver churches. (Loud cheers, and cries of " Hostage's bill.") Mr. DAVENPORT.—It was for the purposes of the House of Correction, and not for the building of the churches. That was a pleasure yet to come. (Great uproar, and cries of " Off, off.") So the county of Chester was to be taxed a half-penny in the pound to raise between £2,000 and £3,000 to pay Mr. Hostage's bill. (Continued uproar.) He (Mr. D.) gave this notice to Mr. Potts, if he was within hearing, that he would at the next Qurter Sessions call for the pro duction 11 of the items in that bill, for he had been informed 1 1 that some of the money had found its way into the pockets of those who had been busy in promoting it here. He had also heard that Mr. Hostage had taken a house in the fashion able part of London, where he lived exceedingly well, and all these expenses of course came out of the annual tax upon the county. (Cries of " Private affairs" and " off, off.") They were not private affairs at all ; they were public matters, and so the electors would find, for they would have to pay for them. (Great uproar.) The Weaver bill had met with Mr. Tollemache's support from beginning to end, and with the opposition of Mr. Wilbraham. (Cheers.) He also remem bered Mr. Tollemache, in the midst of his present allies, resisting his (Mr. D.'s) attempts to open the private taxing room of the magistrates ; Mr. Wilbraham, upon the con trary, although attending his parliamentary duties, gave him all the assistance he could till Mr. Stanley, who had paid dearly for his services in that way, opened that room to the public by an act of parliament. (Hear, hear.) Having told the electors the nature of the services of Mr. Wilbraham compared with those of Mr. Tollemache, he would proceed to consider the hon. gentleman's principles, and that con sistency in which nine-tenth's of the merits of a member of parliament consisted.—Mr. Davenport entered at some length upon an examination of Mr. Tollemache's claims, but in the course of his observations the reporters' table was besieged by the crowd from behind, and they were obliged to flee, / some losing their books, and all being terribly annoyed. The speaker concluded by seconding the nomination in dumb show. The Hon. HUGH CHOLMONDFLEY proposed Sir Philip Egerton as a fit and proper person to represent the division, and attempted to address the electors, but the uproar of the adverse party compelled him to desist. Mr. GIBBS CRAWFORD ANTROBUS seconded the nomina tion, but not a word of w h a t h e sa id cou ld be heard. Lord HENRY CHOLMONDELEY proposed Mr. Tollemache, and the nomination was seconded by Mr. JAMES FRANCE FRANCE. The UNDER SHERIFF then took a show of hands, it being understood that it would be impossible for any of the candi dates to be heard. He declared the show of hands to be in favour of Sir Philip Egerton and Mr. Tollemache. Mr. TOWNSEND immediately demanded a poll on the part of Mr. Wilbraham. At this period the uproar and disorder was indescribable. Suddenly it ceased, when Mr. GEORGE WILBRAHAM presented himself to ad dress the electors. Some time elapsed before order could be restored sufficiently to enable us to hear him. We un derstood him to commence by complaining of the under sheriff's decision as to the show of hands, there being, he contended, more than three to one in his favour. He theu proceeded—l came among you ten years ago. I may be altered in some respects since that time, but in my political sentiments lam not changed. (Hear, hear.) I am one of those who do not think that a man's political sentiments ought to be taken up directly, or laid down without a goad cause, for I hold them to be a sacred deposit for the happi ness and prosperity of his fellow-men. (Hear, hear.) There are, I know, some gentlemen who will tell you that they have abandoned their friends and their party without quitting their principles. (Hear.) I cannot look into the breasts of other men, but this I ktiow, and this I have observed, from having studied pretty closely the history of apostacy, that no man ever quitted his party without his principles following very soon afterwards. (Hear. hear.) Some gentlemen tell you that they are conservatives, but they are still reformers. I do not understand that proposition ; I cannot comprehend any more of it than that they are the strongest tories. (Hear, hear.) If 1 had been a person who had yielded to this sort of delusion ; if I had been weak and wicked enough to aban don my friends, what would you have thought of me ? (Hear, hear.) I ask, not only you, honest reformers and constitu tional whigs, but I turn to you, equally honest and equally consistent tories, for I like to call men by their right names, what you would have thought of me? (Hear, hear.) You might have flattered me, you might have cajoled me, you might have made use of me for your purposes, but would you not in your hearts have despised me ? (Hear, hear.) You might have made use of me, and extracted what little influence I must have had, and then have deserted me, turned me over, and thrown me aside like a squeezed orange, and you would have reverted to some gentleman entirely of your politics who had never deserted your principles nor abandoned his own. (Cheers.) I here appeal to my competitors for the high ho nour of representing you, men of fortune, of respectable cha racter, and of considerable influence. Gentlemen, with Sir Philip Egerton I have always acted with the utmost cordi ality in promoting the business of this county. (Hear.) He has been a consistent man; he is a worthy representative of his party, for I believe he has never once deviated into the error of a liberal vote. (Hear, hear.) I cann o t say anything against him, for I have a high respect and regard for Sir Philip Egerton, nor would 1 have ventured to have men tioned his name had he not chosen to repudiate me, and turned his back upon his old colleague. (Cheers.) I say that his conduct, and the speech that he made at Congleton, is a great contrast to the manner in which I have always acted towards him, and I think it is somewhat deficient in the courtesy which one member of parliament usually shows to another, his colleague, however he may differ with him on political subjects. (Hear.) To Mr. Tollemache I owe great obligations. It was by his respected father that I was first induced to come forward for this county. He was the first person who solicited me for that object. (Hear.) I owe great obligations to the present gentleman. who has uniformly till within the last year or two declared that his great object was to rescue the county out of the hands of the odes.- (Hear, hear.) Is not that true, Mr. TaeinAche? Mr. TOLLEKACHE.—No. (Great cheering.) . Mr. WILBRAH Am.—l have it in black and white. (Hear, hear.) I have it in letters that his great object was to rescue the county from the hands of the tories. (Hear, and some uproar.) _ _ Mr. TOLLEMACHE.-I have the letters too. You have stated part of the truth but not the whole. (Cheers.) Spea& the whOle truth ! (Renewed_ cheers.) Mr. WlLBRAHAM.—Gentlemen, I have endeavoured to promote your interest in this county to the very best of my power, and upon every occasion except one, and that is the Weaver Churches Bill, Sir Philip Egerton and myself have gone hand in hand. (Hear.) I opposed that bill because I thought it an encroachment upon your rights. (Cheers and hisses.) I presented to the House of Commons in one day two and twenty petitions against that bill, and I did think it was my duty to oppose it, because it improperly put other hands into your pockets—into the pockets of the ratepayers for the purpose of building churches. (Much hissing, followed by cheers.) I should be glad to know, as I understand there are some gentlemen here who voted for me, and who brought up their tenants to vote for me at the last election against Mr. Corbett, what I have done, what is the crime I have committed, that they choose to go round and bring up those very same tenants to vote against me upon this occasion ? Cries of " You have done plenty," and counter cheers.) Have I done anything iu opposition to my principles, have I neglected my duty, have I gone into any extravagant mea sures? (Hear, hear.) lam the same man I was when I first appeared before you. lam as averse to the detestable doc trines of ultra radicalism, and I equally shrink from the withering blast of toryism which would tolerate any defects in our constitution, rather than apply the hated word of re form. (Hear, and hisses.) I should be glad to know from them, and I wish to meet them here face to face and ask them, what I have done that 1 should forfeit either their re gard or• the general good opinion of the county ? (Cries of " Plenty," and "You have supported Lord Melbourne.") Apostates have the privilege of the female sex—they think they have a right to change without giving any reason for it. I do not wish to delay you any long time in giving you an ac count of my conduct and of my principles. My conduct in parliament will speak for itself. I have uniformly supported your rights, and the rights of the people without any ex travagance on my part. I tell you freely, and I tell all such who are here, that I am no radical, but that I am a plain con stitutional reformer. You will, however, perhaps expect that I should say a few words upon a subject which is inter esting to you all—l mean upon the corn-laws. (Hear, hear.) I acknowledge that a protection is due to the British farmer, not only on account of the heavy burdens which he bears more than the rest of the community, but because, if you dis courage the growth of corn in this country to any extent, the whole country will ultimately be the sufferer. (Hear, hear.) I am, therefore, an advocate for a protection ; but I have al ways said, and for years back I have repeated it, that the present system of the corn-laws does not give an adequate or a proper protection to the farmer. (Hear, hear, hear.) An ELECTOR.—What protection would you give? (Hear.) Mr. WILBRAHAM.—I cannot answer that question now. (Much uproar.) Another ELECTOR.—What protection would ycu give to the farmer if the present corn laws were abolished ? Mr. WILBRARAM.—I do not choose to tell you. (Great disopprobation.) That will be a question for consideration in a committee. (Cries of Oh, oh.) lam not bound to the government, but I do say that' the principle of a fixed duty is infinitely superior to the present sliding or slippery scale, and that it would be a great advantage. An ELECTOR.—It would not remain one hour in a year of scarcity, (Cheers.) _ Mr. WII:BRA HA2,l.—Perhaps 'some of you think that if any change were to take place in your beautiful system of corn laws you would have corn here at such a price as to ruin the landed interest. (Hear, hear.) I say, no such thing,— that it will be an advantage to the landed interest. (Cries of " No, no.") You must consider what would be the price of the foreign corn that would come into competition with English corn. Do not fancy that in the countries whence that corn comes it is to be picked up as cheap as you can pick blackberries. No such thing. They have their rents, taxes, and rates to pay —not quite so heavy as ours, I believe, but yet they have considerable burdens upon them. By every calculation that has been made it comes to this, that if you were to have the best corn which is exported from Dantzic, you could not put it on board ship under 365. the quarter. I do not speak lightly upon this subject, for I have made many enquiries from many parties concerned iu it. You could not, then, have to pay less for expenses of freight, cost of landing, and remuneration to the importer, than 10s. a quarter. This would make the price 465. a quarter. Now, if you add on a duty in round numbers of 10s., you make the price 565. a quarter, with very little profit to the importer. This would make the price is. the imperial bushel. or Ss. 6d. or Ss. 9d. the large bushel of this county, so that this is the whole which the farmer has to fear in the competition of foreign corn. I have often heard it said "you may buy corn at a much cheaper price." Yes, so you may; the sweepings out of the shop, and the emptyings of the machinery, will sometimes be sold, and bad corn thrown upon the regular trade; yet if we have a protective duty of 10s. a quarter you never can have prices less than 58s. or 60s. the quarter. You naturally ask then—pardon me going into these details, for they are of interest to farmers—" What advantage will a change be if corn is not made much cheaper ?" I will tell you. The object of a fixed duty is to settle and regulate the price. Corn will never be allowed to rise to a very high price, for if it gets above 60s. the rise will be checked by im portation from abroad ; and should prices here, through an abundant harvest, be very low (and I have known harvests so abundant, and corn so cheap, as to be almost a misfortune to the farmer), then you adopt the other part of the plan, which is recommended in that most excellent little book of Mr. M'Culloch, that is, giving a bounty or premium upon exportation to the same amount that you pay for duty upon the importation of foreign. (Hear.) So you will always preserve the farmer from very low and ruinous prices, and at the same time protect the consumer from very high prices. (Cheers.) But it will have another good effect. It will make that which now goes into the hands of jobbers, speculators, and men of that sort—l speak with no disrespect of them—to go to the revenue, and will save you from the imposition of other taxes, which the exigencies of the state require. (Hear, hear.) I think no man can have visited the manufacturing districts of this country without being struck with the great distress that prevails there. Sir Robert Peel denies it ; but be takes his views from printed statements and reports given in, which are very often fallacious. (Hear.) He does not take into account the great and increasing power of machinery, nor does he consider the vast increase of po pulation ' • buc he says they are not in a state of distress. If that is the case, my information and my own eyes have very much deceived me. It is impossible to see those manufac turers without knowing the contrast between the beauty of their fabrics and the miserable state of those who produce them. You see everywhere the most beautiful fabrics in the world, whether silk or cotton, or a mixture of both, minis tering to the luxuries of the great, and supporting the com fort of the middle classes ; but if you look into the state of the workmen, you will find three or four families in one miserable cellar, happy if they can obtain even three or four days work in a week, and subsisting in the most miserable way upon hardly a sufficiency of food. (A VOICE, " They may thank the whigs for that.") Can this state of things last much longer ? (Cries of "No.") These men are intelligent ; they are deriving knowledge every day, and do you think it is likely to last ? (Cries of " No.") I ask you, ought it to last ? (Renewed cries of " No.") I then ask you, you the men connected with the landed inter est, you landed proprietors, to make some little concession to the wants and distresses of these your fallow-subjects. Do not let us put ourselves into the position of America, where the southern and northern states have frequently been upon the point of separation, because one is a manufacturing and the other an agricultural district. Let us join together; do not let Englishmen dissever their interests ; let us assist one the other. I ask you, gentlemen, for the sake of humanity, to grant some little relaxation of the distress of your fellow-subjects • I ask you, farmers, not to do anything that will immediately injure your own interests. I could chew you, if I had a less audience and could speak more familiarly—l could demonstrate that your own interests would not be hurt, but that, upon the contrary, they would be promoted by the change proposed. And I must ask you gentlemen manufacturers, if there be any such here, not to be unreasonable in your demands. Do not press us too hard ; we are willing to meet you • we know your distresses, and we wish to remove them. I ask the landed interest not to do any thing that will hurt themselves. You know as well as I how much dependent we are upon commerce ; you know that the first question, in all my part of Cheshire at least. with all the surrounding farmers is, " How goes the Mani chester markets ;" and if things sell not well there, our cheese, our flour, our potatoes, all must fall in the same proportion. Our interests are tied together ; they must stand or fall together; and I beseech you, gentlemen of the landed interest, to look fairly into this question, and, my life upon it, it will redound ultimately to your advantage. (Cheers from the whigs.) lam not of the opinion of the writer in the tory organ, the Standard newspaper, who said some thing to this effect :—" What would it signify to you if these manufacturing districts, Manchester, and Macclesfield, and Birmingham, were all at the bottom of the sea ?" (Cries of " Oh, oh.") " What," says the tory organ, " would this signify ?" Gentlemen, is this a proper sentiment to come from the organ of a great and respectable party? (Hear, hear.) What would be the effect upon every one of us? * Our small farmers would fall first, and the whole-landed in terest would be engulpbed in general ruin. (Loud cheers.) Now one word upon the subject of sugar. You have been told that it is wrong for us to introduce foreign sugar, be cause it may be the means of encouraging slave labour. (Hear, hear.) Why is not everything you have upon your person, your cottons, and even the very gold you have in your pockets, the production of slave labour? Is it not an arrant humbug, is it not downright hypocrisy, to say that the poor people of this country are to be deprived of the be nefit of cheap sugar, not because it will promote the interests of the slaves, for, thank God. they are fully protected, but in order to preserve a monopoly in favour of the West India proprietors? (Hisses and cheers.) I do not know much upon the subject of timber ; that is a subject understood principally by the builders ; but this I say, that I have seen no reason why we should not import good timber from the Baltic instead of bad timber from the Canadas. (Hear, hear.) And you would have many advantages from this. In the first place, it will tend, in some degree, to restore that reci procity of trade which once, to our great benefit, existed be tween this country and Germany, and other nations upon the borders of the Baltic. (Hear.) You have been deprived of that commerce principally because you would take no thing from them ; and when the present treaties are at an end, as they will be soon, can you expect they should take your manufactures unless you, at the same time, consent to their fair right of you taking something from them ? (Hear, bear.) Look what the American President said in his message the other day : " We will not give an opinion upon our tariff yet—we will wait to see what England will do." I fully understand him there. He means to say, thdt unless we introduce something more of liberaliti into our system of trade, they will put such a tariff upon our goods as will absolutely exclude all our manufactures from the whole continent of America. They look then to the setting free of the trade of this country. (Hear, hear.) I have now explained myself upon these three topics, and the question you have to decide will be this—will you have bread at a fair and moderate, but not an extravagant price ? Will you have cheap sugar? Will you have good timber and no addi tional taxation?—(cries of " Oh, oh!")—Or, on the other hand, will you continue a system of trade which, from its pressure, will compel new taxes to be laid on? (Hear, hear.) Will you have a salt tax,'or a house tax ? (A VOICE, "We'll have a property tax.'') A property tax, gentlemen, with all my heart ; and if it came to the point that it was really wanted to guard the interests of this great country, I should be for any tax rather than a bad one. (Hear, hear.) Gen tlemen, the complaint of these slippery friends of mine is, that 1 have not abandoned my party, but that I support the very government the support of which was actually by some of them made the very condition of that support which, upon principle, they gave to me. (Hear, hear.) If it is a crime not to abandon one's friends and one's principles, I plead guilty to that charge. I want a good government—a liberal government ; and when I find a government that will do you canor noble minded a n d a e _ l e more justice to you than the present, that government I will mansup fpoort.hi minded man, a man more full of constitutional knowled ge than Lord John Russell—(three groans were here g i ven f or g ( h li er ea i r n ' t h e ea gri r t ' y, nwdheahnis you ses .) can When more the noble lord,)—when you can find any man that will carry the glory of this great country higher,. n and at the same time preserve peace; when Y"c t a l l :a li n L i o a rtl man who can make the British lion more respecte d Palmerston, then will I give a g overnment s . o const_ituted my support. (Loud entlemen, I am unis• • - illing to speak meanness" and " baseness," with harshness of any of those public men with u w ch or h d i s ssi a n s g.) ,, cheers o tuse and suc : whom I politically disagree. (Hear, and cheers.) I would _ and others of that sort which I hear brought forward by the opposite phrases so ofte9. I will not condescend to such ex pressiono, for they bring more diegrece upon him who utters