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U Mr. PEACOCK moved the next resolution, and congratulated the meeting upon their prospects of success. He had no he sitation in stating that, if the electors of South Cheshire ful filled the promises they had made, the conservative candidates would be returned to parliament by a triumphant majority. (Cheers.) Knowing as he did the character of the electors, that when they made promises they were prepared to fulfil them, he had no hesitation in saying that Sir P. Egerton and Mr. Tollemache would be returned in the most triumphant manner. He had canvassed the greater part of this division with Mr. Tollemache, and found that wherever that gentle man went he had been received in the most enthusiastic manner. Indeed, he could have scarcely conceived such an alteration in the political opinions of the electors. He had been asked why object to Mr. Wilbraham ? why not have one reformer and one conservative? Now that would not do. (Cheers.) Mr. Wilbraham had deceived them. (Hear.) When he solicited their suffrages before, he said he should go into the House of Commons as an independent man ; but lie (Mr. Peacock) would appeal to the meeting to say whe ther the honourable gentleman had acted the part of an independent man. (Cries of " no.") Had he not voted with ministers on every measure proposed by them, whether it struck at the foundations of the constitution, the integrity of the church, or lowered the national dignity ? (Cheers, and cries of " yes.") He had gone the whole hog with them. (Hear, bear, hear.) , Was he the man, then, to re ceive the support of this constituency ? (Cries of " no.") They did not oppose Mr. Wilbraham on light grounds. If he had acted the part of an independent man, and had aban doned the so-called reform ministry when it was left by Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Earl of Ripon, and Sir George Sinclair, they should have respected his character, and have returned him again ; but he had chosen to go with the ministry through thick and thin, therefore the electors withdrew their confidence from him. (Hear, and cheers.) For instance, on the subject of Prince Albert's allow ance , although our expenditure was exceeding our inc ome , b e voted for the larger sum of £50,000 per annum, which the whig administration proposed to give ; but Sir Philip Egerton and his party said they would only give £30,000. Mr. Wil braham voted for £50,000: now, in the situation the country was placed in. was that a vote which wo u ld have been n by any honest, independent man? (Hear.) When thegi‘e Chan cellor of the Exchequer, finding his expenditure m his receipts. and he began to mi s tify hi s accounts, I)e Mr.r than Ber ries brought forward a motion fo r re t urns w hi c h would ex hibit a bon ic fide state of those accou n t s . E very i n d ependent man in th,l house voted with Mr. Berries : but Mr. Wilbra ham opposed the mo ti on , th us concea li ng from thei public the real state of on; finances. (Hear, hear, hear.) He (Mr. Peacock) did no t despair of seeing Mr. Wilbraham in the house after a ll. (Hear.)friends might probably have the sati s f ac ti on o f see i ng him His here under the fostering patronage of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. (Hear, hear.) Indeed, if Mr. O'C onne ll did no t return hi m f or one of his indepen dent boroughs in Ireland, he would prove himself one of the most ungrateful of men ; for, in nineteen cases out of twenty —aye, in ninety-nine out of every hundred—Mr. Wilbraham had voted for Mr. Daniel O'Connell. (Hear, hear.) They had all along expected that Mr. Wilbraham would not have gone to the poll for South Cheshire, but that he would have gone over to Ireland, where, for £l,OOO, £1,500, or •` say £2,ooo"—(laughter)—he might be returned for some snug place, which would be better for him, for here he would cer tainly be defeated. (Cheers.) Mr. Peacock concluded by repeating his conviction, that, by zeal and energy a triumphant victory would result, which would have the effect of prevent ing a contest in this county for many years to come. Mr. ROBIN seconded the resolution, which was unani mously carried. Sir PHILIP EGERTON then rose to address the meeting, and was received with tremendous enthusiasm. The hon. baronet spoke nearly as follows :—You have already hears] read by our worthy chairman a letter from Mr. Tollemache, expressing his anxious wish to be present upon this occasion, and assuring you that he would use every endeavour in his power to be here this evening. (Hear.) In corroboration of that letter I have to inform you, that Mr. Tollemache left my roof this morning to fulfil his engagement with the electors of Audlem, and reiterated to me last night, as well as this morning, the same expressions, namely, that it was his anxious desire, if he could possibly complete the canvass of the district which he had assigned to this day, to come by railway and be present on this occasion. I know those ex pressions were sincere ; I know no word Mr. Tollemache ever uttered in his life was otherwise ; and therefore I call upon you to believe that he is actually herein heart, although not bodily. (Hear, hear, hear.) Fpr myself, gentlemen, I must beg, in the first instance, to thank you for the very flattering reception you have given to me this day. I must also beg to thank those very able orators who have proposed and seconded the resolutions which have been unanimously carried by this meeting ; and I must further express my deep gratitude for the contents of those resolutions. (Hear, hear.) It was my anxious desire to have quitted the metro polis as soon as I ascertained that a dissolution of parliament was at hand : but from certain proceedings that we saw upon the part of her majesty's ministers, we were convinced that their conduct was not sincere. (Hear.) We were assured, that so soon as the conservative members should rush out of London to call upon their constituents, that some dirty work or other would be done—(hear)--and, therefore, a large body of us determined to risk the censure of our constitu ents, rather than forfeit those interests which they had com mitted to our keeping. (Hear.) Gentlemen, what Was the result? The pledge given by Lord John Russell, that no mea sure of importance should be brought before the House of Commons, save and except the money votes for the public ser vice, had scarcely been uttered when a bill was brought forward by which it was intended actually to create two new judge ships, and to establish two new courts, with all their subor dinate officers, just in order to place these valuable appoint ments in the hands of those very ministers who were then under the ban of a resolution of the House of Commons, declaring that they did not possess the confidence of that house. (Hear.) We were resolved that so disgraceful a job as this should not be perpretrated ; we resisted it to the ut most, and the house rejected the bill by a majority of 18. (Great cheering.) This is the reason which delayed my ap pearing among you ; and this is the cause which kept me in London when I should have been much more agreeably em ployed in calling upon you, and which 1 trust will form a good and sufficient excuse for my Lardy appearance among you. I am not about to trouble you with any detail upon the various measures which have been brought before the house, or of those very important discussions which have taken place during the last session. (Hear.) More espe cially, I am not about to dilate upon the subjects 'more re cently placed before you—for this plain, simple, and satis factory reason, that they have nothing to do with the issue between the contending parties throughout these realms. (Hear, hear.) I have certainly followed the fashion, and in issuing my address I have alluded to these matters. I have expressed as concisely as possible the views I entertain upon the corn-laws, and therefore I feel it is scarcely necessary for me to enlarge upon them at this moment. I consider these questions as set before the country as a stalking-horse of the party ; I look upon them as mere clap traps designed to deceive the unthinking ; I look upon them as so much dust thrown in the eyes of the electors ; and therefore I think it would be more profitable to direct our attention to the condition of her majesty's ministers, who are now ap pearing before the tribunal of the country , than lose our time in discussing mere isolated matters of commercial policy. I may, however, shortly recapitulate what I have already put forward in my address, namely, that upon the subject of the corn-laws, I consider it, in a national point of view, of the utmost importance that we should be able to supply our popu lation with food without being beggars upon foreign countries —because occasions may arise that may cut off foreign supplies —because we, at all times, may be dependent upon their mercy—and because whatever price they may choose to de mand it is very certain we should not be long able to resist. (Hear, hear.) The other point I have also insisted upon is this, that the great object of all corn laws must be to protect the producer, and to provide that, in years of scarcity, the consumer shall not be liable to pay extravagant prices. (Cheers.) With these views it is that I support the sliding scale in preference to a fixed duty. (Hear, hear.) I think if any one fact would prove the falsehood of the cry of mono poly which is raised against the agriculturists, it is this, that in advocating a sliding scale they are the opponents of mo nopoly, because, when years of scarcity arrive, their protec tion ceases, foreign corn is brought into the markets, and the lower orders are enabled to purchase it at a price cer tainly not ruinous. (Hear.) But the question of the coin laws is totally and entirely distinct from the question of cheap bread. (Hear.) When the question was brought before the country, Mr. Mentz, the gentleman who represents the great constituency—l hope he may never again —of Birmingham, told her majesty's ministers, that the effect of the repeal of the corn laws would be to the ruin of the agricultural inter est, and to throw poor land out of cultivation. (Hear, hear.) What was the auswer to him ? That the impulse given to foreign trade would be such, that the price of corn would rise in foreign markets, and this would enable the English agri culturist to compete with the foreign grower. (Hear, hear.) . Then here is a dilemma. What became of the cheap bread ? (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") It is a dilemma from which there is no possibility of finding an escape, and it proves to me that the ministerial cry of cheap bread is got up merely to throw dust into the eyes of the electors. (Cheers.) The same is the case with regard to the cry of "cheap sugar.' I have recorded my opinions upon that subject, by my vote upon the motion of Lord Sandon ; and I say that ministers had no intention of carrying that measure, as is proved by these facts. Last year, when the price of "sugar was exorbi tant, and such as if it had continued so something must have been done, a motion was brought forward for an alteration of the duties, and her majesty's ministers opposed it. (Loud cheers.) But now, when we had every prospect of a good supply, when the West India proprietors are just beginning to rise from that depression which they experienced upon the first introduction of free labour, this is the period which is chosen by the government to introduce a radical alteration in our financial constitution. (Hear, hear.) I have heard, and no doubt many of you have heard, that on the other side of the Atlantic there is an animal called the stunk, which has , theextraordinary faculty of tainting the atmospheric air, and rendering it foetid and offensive to the sense. Now really I can liken her majesty's ministers to nothing more appropri ate. (Cheers.) They have tainted and infected the political atmosphere to such an extent that they are attempting to hide themselves under their own filth. (Loud and continued cheering.) It will not be necessary for me to dilate further upon these questions of the corn laws and the sugar duties : but I think it will not be lost time to consider what faith you can place in the promises of her majesty's ministers. That is the question : will you trust them ? (Loud cries of "no.") What more sure proof that they themselves know you can not trust them than this—that they would not appeal to the country upon the other side, but that they were obliged to remain m power, in Lord Melbourne's own words, " until they had thrown the apple of discord among the different classes, and shook the social fabric to itsifoundations," and having raised a tumult in the country, then dissolving in the hope of gaining some support from the highly heated and fevered imaginations of the constituency ! (Loud cheers.) That is sufficient proof to me that they are perfectly cogni sant they have not with them the wishes of the constituency of this country. (Renewed cheering.) But, let me ask, what have they done for us ? They certainly carried the re form bill by the assistance of those parties in this country who supported them upon the express condition that that should be a final measure. (Cheers.) I make this assertion readily, for every borough and county presents appearances of relapsing into their former politics, and the re-action can only be attributable to that. (Hear, hear.) I find that all by whom the reform bill was carried believed filet the reform bill was to be a final measure ; but when they found her Ma jesty's ministers the advocates of an extension of the fran chise, of household suffrage, and of a measure in Ireland which amounts to universal suffrage, they saw m it n w is a sters no loand n ger time for them to help her Majesty's i, throughout the whole country, those who had the moral cou rage to do so, had relinquished her Majesty's ministers, whom they had hitherto supported, and joined the ranks of the conservatives. (Hear, hear, hear.) So much for their reform. (Hear, hear, hear.) We were then told that they were to be a most pacific government. Peace Was in their mouth —peace is still in their mouth. (Hear, hear. We have been at war in Syria, in Affghanistan ; war was threat ened with France; we have ssar impending, I may say, with America ; and we are now at war with China. What is there very pacific in this ? The pledge has been violated fifty times; yet these are the ministers that appeal to as the most pacific administration that ever held the reigns of office ! (Hear, hear.) Then they are very proud of whig economy—they are very proud of that ; but look at the state of our finances. Look the expenditure. Th e re t urn t o w hi c h Mr. Peacock has a t alluded, that for which Mr. Herries moved, was the first means of enabling us to ascertain the real state of affairs : we then ascertained that they had been falsifying their esti had been applyi ng t o th e H ouse o f Coin mates—that th e y mons for grants, with estimates which they knew were con siderablir below the amount of money which would be hear.) We fou n d worse . Si r Robert expended. (H ear, Peel, when he resigned office, left an excess of two millions over the expenditure ; but the whigs have inverted the order of things, or they have obtained two millions of expendi f tore over the revenue—(hear, hear)—and we find that this has been accumulating for nearly four years, till we have now a deficiency of about seven millions. (Hear.) But that is not all, gentlemen. They say the public exigencies required all this ; but they have reduced their own salaries. A return which I had in my hand this morning, and which I showed to Mr. Tollemache, and which much surprised him, shows that they have actually increased their salaries by £22,000 a-year ! (Hear, hear.) And to crown all, what do you think of the Plunket job ? (Loud cheers.) What do you think of a man who has long and ably discharged the duties of the office—who told the bar in his retiring speech that he was perfectly competent to discharge them ; that nothing but the most urgent remonstrances from per. sons whom he did not dare to refuse had induced him to resign —being turned out of the office, in order to put the attorney -general in his place, that he might secure £4OOO a-year as the retiring pension ? The con stituency of the country cannot shut their eyes to these facts ; they are stubborn facts, and will produce such an effect when they become properly known, that I believe the whole constituency will rise against her Majesty's ministers as one man. (Hear.) I have thus endeavoured to show you that the political questions of the day are not the real points you have to decide upon ;. that you cannot believe the promises of her Majesty's ministers ; I have endeavoured to show you that you cannot place any confidence in their past career, and I will now tell you the real point you have to decide upon. (Hear, hear.) It is this—Shall her Majesty's mi nisters continue to administer the affairs of this country or shall they not ? (Cheers.) That is the question you will have to answer at the approaching election—that is the ques tion which has been already decided in a voice of thunder on the other side of the Mersey—(cheers)—that is the question which has been decided by the constituency of London, and a hundred other places in various parts of the realm ; and sure I am, when the day arrives Nvhich.shall give you an op portunity of expressing your opinions, you will coincide with that resolution which was moved by Sir Robert Peel, and carried by the House of Commons, that her Majesty's mi nisters have not your confidence, although they still continue to hold the reins of office, and in so doing they have acted in direct opposition to the spirit of the constitution of England. The hon. baronet then warmly thanked the electors for their cordial reception of him, and concluded, amidst loud cheers, by moving a vote of thanks to the chairman. Mr. CASE acknowledged the compliment, and reminded the electors of their duties next week. Three cheers were then given for the.conservative electors of Liverpool, and the meeting separated. NORTH CHESHIRE ELECTION. A m lst numerous and influential meeting of freeholders and w ner electors, of North Cheshire, was held on Friday last, at Stockport, for the purpose of fo . rwarding the election of Mr. Egerton and Mr. Legh. After the candidates had addressed the meeting Mr. Heald, of Parr's Wood, a wesleyan, delivered the following interesting speech, which has had a wonderfnl effect upon the body to which he be longs. We insert it in the hope that it will have a favourable tendency also in other quarter's : Mr. HEALD, of Parr,s Wood, near Stockport, requested permission to propose a question to the new candidate for the representation of the Northern Division of the county of Cheshire, which being granted, he put the following interro gatory. Is Mr. Legh upon principle the unqualified and uncompromising friend of religious and civil liberty? Mr. Heald farther remarked that he asked the question in this general form, and before the body of electors now present from various parts of the country, in order that Mr. Legh's views and feelings might be publicly recorded in the recol lections of all who had then the opportunity of listening to them, and by their instrumentality circulated throughout the the entire division. After receiving Mr. Legh's assurance upon this important point, Mr. Heald added, that he trusted the chairman and the meeting would excuse his intrusion upon their notice, as lie felt both the subject itself and the present crisis too important not to attempt the removal, at least as far as was practicable, of any and every obstacle to the successful issue of the conservative canvass. (Hear.) Mr. Legh would properly estimate his motive—it was not for any personal satisfaction (which he Mr. H. required) for tkat, he had received already in private, but that the attempts which had been made in this division, to prejudice Mr Legh's canvass, might be defeated by his own open and manly and straight-forward declarations upon the subject. He put the question as embracing the principle upon which the policy of the Church of England, as well as the security of the rights of the wesleyans, could with anything like perfect security rest, and he preferred it too in that form, for the convenience of a public meeting, rather than fetter and swamp it by wordy explanation and detail. Mr. Legh had given him prompt and satisfactory and public answer, and upon that as the word of a man of honour and consistency he felt fully satisfied to rest,—(hear, and applause)—and he would take the liberty of adding, that it was the well-known principles and simple and undisguised statements of them, on occasions like the present, and not upon a profusion of promises, often given and obtained to meet a particular purpose, that electors must expect the only pledge worthy of them to receive, or a candidate to bestow. I want no other assurance for my own part (continued Mr. Heald) than what I have now received from Mr. Legh, because under any similar circumstances, I should disdain to add any thing where my simple and upright testimony was for a moment doubted. Mr. Heald proceeded, Having therefore now accomplished the object for which I rose, will you excuse me, sir, if I trouble you and the electors with one or two additional ob servations—l think it would not be " news" to many, if any, of the gentlemen here present, were Ito say, that I am a Wesleyan, and that while I believe no one can charge me with an offensive intrusion of the particular sentiments and views that I hold in such a relation, yet that I have never shunned to appear at all proper times in my own character. (Hear.) I make this allusion, now for the sake of such con servative Wesleyan electors as are present, or who form the constituency of this division, in order to invite their valuable co-operation in promoting the successful canvass of Mr. 'Patton Egerton, and Mr. Cornwall Legh. (Loud applause.) The points upon which we agree are so many and important, and those upon which we differ so comparatively limited and unimportant, that it appears to me no consideration would justify us withholding our cordial and unanimous support to the Conservative cause, at this important juncture of our na tional affairs. (Hear and cheering.) Upon this view of the case, I tell you, my brother electors, I am prepared to act, and although it may be very little, yet to give it all the sup port in my power. I have seen my name placarded upon the walls of this town very lately as a Tory, but the person who described me as such, did not know his man—l neither am, nor ever was a Tory, and happy am I to think, that the days and doctrines of intolerance and exclusiveness are for ever gone by, so far as consists in any advocacy of them in the councils of the empire or application of them, to our own civil and religious liberties. No, sir, I have never been seen or heard as the mere partisan, but I will tell you, sir. and my brother electors what I am, and that is, a thorough Con servative ! (Great applause.) Let us make what we have safe, that is worth keeping, and then we are in a position, but not until then, to administer the affairs of this great country with a large and expansive liberality. These two views comprehend the basis of my political creed, and no man in the queen's do minions, sir, would rejoice more than I should, to see our civil and religious Institutions, cemented together as they have been by the wisdom, and piety, and valour of our an cestors, graced by this high and enviable distinction. For when we are safe, we can afford to be both tolerant and generous. (Hear.) Apply these views to the National Es tablishment of this country, to the principle of which I am as fixed and unalterable a friend, as any gentleman around met, who is more immediately within its pale. (Hear, and applause.) And, sir, lam satisfied that the establishment can afford to cherish and inforce a liberal policy. She has a strong hold upon the affections of the people of this country. and it' true to her own principles and the elevated position she occupies, and in which I for one always wish to see her, she need not and will not fall by any hostile hand without. I wish ever to remember:that her principles are not to he judged of by the acts of individual members who violate them, no more than those of any other section of the Chris tian hurch, and as a Wesleyan I feel bound to add, that whatever may be her faults and failings, I should deprecate it as the day of most evil omen to the best interests of this country, either to see her foundations subverted, or the po sition she occupies as the established church of these realms, transferred to any other section of the Christian church— not even to my own, and much less to any of declared and hostile principles. (Reiterated plaudits.) Let her toleration be ample, her institutions be made efficient, and let faith fulness to her calling and influence characterise her— and she will become a more extensive blessing than I can describe. But, sir, I am induced to offer these hasty re marks to you and my brother electors from another consi deratton, and that is, a desire to see the administration of our public affairs transferred from the present occupants of office and power to other and more able hands. (Hear.) I feel this to be a most important crisis in our history, and perhaps as much, if not more ominous of its coming weal or woe than any other we have known. (Hear.) I have been taught from my youth up " to honour the powers that be, knowing that they are ordained of God," and that it is the duty of all good and loyal subjects to refrain " from speaking evil of dignities," and I have endeavoured to pur sue this course. But the time is come when it appears to me that forbearance would be a sin ; for, so to speak, our gracious Sovereign has placed her ministers and their general policy, as country, n asthe mea sures w hi c h now more particularly agitate they h , et b h e e fo r roerunso, not that we b w e e lie m v a e y th h e a m ve fi t t he any oppor tunity of sayin g w lon ger to be entrusted with the management of our affairs —(hear, hear) ;—and, therefore, if my views are at all in sunisoneak o wuit. I regard th with yours, we shouldpr present e b n e tadministration, untrue to to pas the most imbecile, i ncons i stent, vac ill at i ng, and he therefore dangerous one that has held place or pension in this country for a long period of time, and I hope to see them supplanted by one which shall be experienced and wise, united, and therefore powerful, representing all interests worthy of re presentation, and governing the country by principles con servative, simple, steady, and liberal. (Hear and long con tinued applause.) For, sir, no government can be respected or respectable that is not powerful, and power placed in abey ance will either degenerate into tyranny on the one hand, or issue in rebellion on the other. And what is the secret of the present government's powerlessness ? From that desire for change which has come over our country to an alarming ex tent, and their readiness to meet every fresh turn and form un der which, and as soon as it is presented. And, sir, is not this sufficient to account for a great portion of the embarrassment under which we labour ? Property is unsettled and therefore insecure, and uninfluential—political strife and animosity take the place of the kind and social intercourse that ought to bind society together—the charities of private and domes tic, as well as public life, are in danger of being dried up at their very fountain head—the dependent and employed are ready to conclude, if not actually taught, that the middle and higher classes enjoy all their distinctions at their cost, and to their deprivation. (Hear, hear.) Such a state of things is deeply to be deplored, and whatever other remedies may be applied, one appears to me indispensable, that of a powerful and patriotic Government. Such a one I believe the conser vative party alone can furnish, (hear, hear,) and my hope and ardent wish is, that the result of the present elections may induce and justify her most gracious Majesty to summon to the council of the nation men that are able and willing to serve her and the country, and with whom the honour of the Crown and the interests of all classes of society will be safe. Then, and not till then, shall the vessel of the State, piloted by a skilful helmsman, and manned by a good and patriotic crew, be conducted once more into peaceful waters, and under the blessing of a gracious Providence, prosperity again return to our shores. The meeting here gave three times three for Mr, Heald's noble address, and separated. We are glad to hear that honest Northumberland is about to do its duty, and, after long forbearance, to achieve its in dependence by the overthrow 2f a cast-off member of the Melbourne administration. The former constitutional repre sentative, Lord Ossulston, and Mr. Baker Cresswell, (a brother of our excellent representative,) are the chosen in• struments of the noble undertaking. 14raEsisNTATioN OF NORTH CHESHIRE.—The various districts in North Cheshire are being visited by the respected candidates for the suffrages of the electors. Wm. Tatton Egerton and George Cornwall Legh, Esquires, are m the field on the conservative side ; •and the Hon. E. J. Stanley , her Majesty's paymaster of the forces, is endeavouring to obtain a renewal of the confidence of the freeholders. But his return for this part of the county is now very question able. A numerous and influential meeting of the freeholders from this and the adjoining townships took place at the National School, Stockport, on Friday afternoon, Joshua Bruckshaw, Esq., in the chair, when the conservative candi dates addressed them. The recent accession of the Wes leyans to the conservatives has gken an interesting impetus to the electoral exclusion Mr. Stanley. Thtelection is fixed for Thursday and Friday next. REPRESENTATION OF NORTH CHESHIRE. NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES YESTERDAY. Yesterday the nomination of candidates for the representa tion of North Cheshire took place at the Sessions House, Knutsford. There are three gentlemen aspiring to the honour of representing this important division, namely, the lion. E. J. Stanley, Pay-master of the Forces, Wm. Tatton Egerton, Esq., and George Cornwall Leah, E►q. The two latter are conservatives. Processions of the friends of the candidates were formed in Stockport, Macclesfield, and other places ; those in the conservative interest were decidedly the most numerous. Among the parties present we observed Sir Richd. Brooke, Tatton Egerton, Esq., John Clare, Esq., John Dixon, Esq. Rev. Hy. Legh, Rev. Henry Warburton, Henry Marsland, M.P., Egerton Legh, Esq., John Clare, Esq., jun., Peter Nicholson, Esq„ Chas. Marsland, Esq., Sir Philip Egerton, M.P., Thos. Greenall, Esq., Thos. Wm. Tatton, Esq., John Howard, Esq., Trafford Trafford, Esq., Wilbraham Eger ton, Esq., J. B. Glegg, Esq., Thomas Ashton, Esq., Da vid Cheetham, Esq., E. J. Lloyd, Esq., William Hind ley, Esq., E. V. Townshend, Esq., Major Townshend, John Howard, Esq , E. D. Davenport, Esq., Thomas Grimsditch, Esq., M.P., Rev. C. K. Prescott, Rev. Daniel Vawdery, Rev. William Whitley, henry Wright, Esq., Gibbs Crawford Antrobus, Esq., George Cornwall Legh, Esq., Josiah Brookshaw, Rowland E. E. Warburton, Ireland Blackburne, Esq., M.P., Rev. Christopher Bush, Rev. John Clowes, Shallcross Jacson, Esq., Ralph G. Leicester, Esq., Charles Cholmondely, Esq., France France, Esq., Bev. J. Gibbons, John Okill, Esq., Thos Parr, Esq., Charles Ford, Esq„ Geo. Eaton, Esq., Rev. George Eaton, Rev. Thos. Blackburne, Rev. Bertie Johnson, Rev. W. Fox, Rev. Josh Harden, Edward Greenall, Esq., Gilbert Green all, Esq. ' James Stanton, sen.. Esq., James Stanton, jun., Esq., John Harrison, Esq., Thos. \Vm. Tatton, Esq., Rev. John Newman, Henry Trafford, Esq., Geoffrey Shakerley, Esq., Peter Jackson, Esq., Hugh Wallace, Esq., G. Wilbra ham, Esq., M.P., Hugh Clare, Esq., Hugh Cholmondeley, Esq., Jahn Garven, Esq., John Hoskin Harper, Esq., &c., &c., &c. The formal part of the proceedings were gone through within the Court-house, Mr. Edward Proctor, under sheriff, officiating for Mr. Ryle, the high sheriff of the county, whose absence was caused by the unfortunate suspension of the bank at Manchester and Macclesfield, of which he was the head. An adjournment then took place to the outside, and a scene of confusion followed, which it is impossible to describe. There was not the slightest accommodation for members of the press, and it was with the utmost difficulty they could discharge their duties. The UNDER SHERIFF having apologized for the absence of the High Sheriff, and strongly recommended the observa tion of peace and good order by all parties, called upon the movers and seconders of the candidates. Mr. EDWARD DAVIES DAVENPORT, of CapeSthOrile, then proposed the Hon. E. J. Stanley as a fit and proper person to represent the Northern Division of Cheshire in the House of Commons. Mr. Davenport delivered a very long address in support of Mr. Stanley's claims, insisting chiefly upon his being a member of the past administration which had ap pealed to the people to aid them in breaking down all monopolies and class interests ; but owing to frequent inter ruptions, and to the extremely inconvenient distance at which we were placed from the speaker, it was impossible to hear his remarks. Mr. Jour CIIEETIIAM, manufacturer, of Staley-bridge, seconded the nomination at considerable length. He strongly condemned the corn laws, and the " abominable Weaver churches job," and said that Mr. Stanley's opposition to both was sufficient to entitle him to the support of the freeholderi. Sir RICHARD BROOKE, Bart., nominated, amidst loud cheers, Mr. W. T. Egerton, the old and well-tried member for the division. Mr. J. B. GLEGG, of Withington, seconded the nomina tion. Mr. R. A. A. WARBURTON, of Arley Hall, proposed Mr. G. C. Legh. TNhoeother Hon. candidates E. j. s TA being NLE y p t r h o e p n o s ed, Mr. JOSHUA B ROOKSHAW , manufa c t u rer, of Mottram, seconded the no m i na ti on . proceeded to address the electors, and was received with mingled cheers and hisses. He commenced by denying that he had been a candidate for the representation of Dundee, as had been currently reported, and said the independent electors there had chosen a most excellent reformer for their representative, This was not the first attempt hiropponents had made to mislead the electors. They had been warned not to throw their votes away. He believed they would not ; and it was his firm conviction that, if they would give them to him, they would not. Nine years ago they had elected him one of their representatives, and during the whole of that period he was not conscious of having done anything to forfeit the good opinion of the constituency. He regarded the present struggle against monopoly as second in importance only to that great struggle which gained the reform bill. At that eventful period they overthrew the monopoly of the borough mongers, and now they were called upon to overthrow a a monopoly of the first necessaries of life • and if they did not destroy it, it would assuredly destroy ;hem. The hon. gentleman then entered into a laboured defence of the acts of the present government, contending that during their term of office they had reduced taxation to the amount of eight millions ; and that among some other items they had reduced their own salaries, a circumstance without any precedent in the history of this country. After taking credit for the policy of the government, with respect to India and the Le vant, the hon. gentleman discussed the corn laws, endeavour ing to prove that a fixed duty of 8s would be preferable to a sliding scale. He referred, in answer to a call from the meeting, to the Campbell job, observing, that Lord Camp bell would not be in the receipt of the pension attached to the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, if the mi nistry were turned out. He supported the appoint ment on the ground that Lord Plunkett _was unable to discharge the duties of his office with satisfaction• Mr. Stan ley spoke for upwards of an hour with considerable animation. Mr. WILLIAM TATTON EGERTON then came forward, and was received with tremendous cheering. He spoke as fol lows :—Brother Electors, I must first congratulate my ho nourable friend, Mr. Stanley, upon not having gone to Dun dee, but given the electors of this division of the county an opportunity of expressing their sentiments by their votes, for Ido not fear for the result. I must own that I was not a little astonished at the complaints which came from the gentlemen on the other side about the conservative and tory attempts to monopolize the representation of the county. You well recollect when out of ten members returned for the county I was the only conservative. We, then, heard of no monopoly of the representation. (Loud cheers.) I well re collect even then, that when obeying the call of no incon siderable portion of the electors I stood forward, a letter ap peared in the Macclesfield paper cautioning the electors not to neutralize their votes. (Cheers.) He begged them to give their votes in support of the Reform Bill, and to neu tralize Mr. Stanley's votes by returning me, but to return Admiral Tollemache with him. And who was that letter signed by? (Hear, hear.) It was signed by Edward John Stanley.) (Tremendous cheering, and some uproar.) Can you deny it ? Can Mr. Stanley deny it? (Renewed cheers.) Mr. STANLEY.—WIIich letter do you mean? Mr. EGERTON.—I mean your letter, which appeared in the Macclesfield paper. Mr. STANLEY.—When? Mr. EGERTON.—Nine years ago. Mr. STANLEY.—Oh, oh, oh. (Cheers from the whigs.) Mr. EGERTON.—Perhaps your memory is short. (Laugh ter and cheers.) I see it is high time to refresh the gentle man's memory. Mr. Stanley finds it eonvenient to forget the letter uow, just as he has forgotten the promises he made to you at that time. (Uproar from the Stanlevites.) In offering myself again for the fourth time as a candidate — Mr. STANLEY.—I beg to ask the hon. gentleman what promises have I ever broken ? Mr. EGERTON.—Your public promises. I say that Mr. Stanley and the government to which he belongs have broken their promises. (Great cheers.) Mr. STANLEY.—I say I have broken no promises. (Cheers and hisses.) Mr. EGERTON.—I say this—when the government of that day, which Mr. Stanley supported, came into power, they promised you peace, they promised you economy, they pro mised you retrenchment, and they promised you there should be no patronage. (Hear, hear.) I ask you, brother electors, how have those promises been fulfilled ? (Hear.) I certainly did not allude to Mr. Stanley in his private capacity. (Hear.) I did not charge bins with having broken his private pro mises A VOICE.—What promises then? Mr. EGERTON.—Why, the promises which he made o peace. (Hear, hear.) Have you peace at the present mo ment ! (Cries of " No.") I say the government of which he is a member, have broken their promises to you A VOICE.—Mr. Stanley was not in the government when those promises were made. (Hear, hear from the whigs.) Mr. EGERTON.—But he supported all along the govern ment which made those promises. (Cheers.) A VOICE.—They do not like it—it's a sore point. (Ap plause.) Mr. EGERTON.—No ; they don't like it. (Renewed cheers.) The government which Mr. Stanley supported, and of which he is a member, promised you peace, and I wish to know in what way that promise has been kept? (Hear.) Look at the state of our relations abroad; look at the position of the great marts for our manufactures in America, the Canadas, in Asia, in China, and upon the coast of Syria, and then tell me how they have performed their promises of peace. (Hisses from the Stanleyites, answered by conservative cheers.) You listened patiently enough gentlemen when you heard the accounts of tory misdeeds, but now, when you are touched on the raw at hearing of the misdeeds of the whigs, you will not listen. (Cheers.) You talk to me of your retrenchment, and Mr. Stanley has told you of a number of offices the government has reduced, and how they have reduced their own salaries ; but they quite forget to tell you that this very year there has been an in crease of no less than 230 offices. (Renewed cheers.) lie has talked to you of twenty millions being added to the national debt, but he has not been good enough to tell you that for the last five years the present administration has so managed that there has been an excess of expenditure over the receipts of seven millions. (Hear, hear.) He has not told you that in the year 1835 or 1836, when they came into power, they had a surplus of nearly a million, and since that period you have have had a continuous deficiency till it now amounts to seven millions—(cheers)—or something like two and a half millions annually ! (Renewed cheers.) Then he tells you of tory extravagance ! Yes ; but you must pay the piper. (Hear, hear.) Well ; last year they increased your taxes. (Hear, hear.) I should like you to know the sort of meddling which is going forward at this moment in your savings' banks. (Hear, hear.) That meddling has been effected in such a way that it is impossible to know what the national debt actually is, or what our deficiencies are. (Hear.) I now conic to their promise of no patronage. A VOICE.—The corn-laws. Mr. EGERTON.—I will allude to them presently. I will only say now that the present ministers keep t o th e s lidi ng scale with respect to their principles, whilst they are for a fixed duty upon corn. (Cheers.) They came into power, I was going to observe, professing the principle of no patron age. (Hear t ) You have seen pretty clearly how that pro mise has been fulfilled, in the commissions which have been appointed every year, in every part of the county, at the cost of hundieds of thousands. (Cheers.) A VOICE.—The Weaver churches. Mr. E oewroN.—l shall come to the river Weaver directly. Look at their jobs ! (Cheers.) I venture to say that no tory government ever perpetrated such jobs as this govern ment has. (Hear.) Look at the Campbell job. (Hear.) My hon. opponent did not like to hear of that. My Lord Campbell, he said, has no retiring pension now ; but when he said thi s , M r . Stanley blinked and evaded the ques tion. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He will have a pension as soon as one of the retired chancellors shall die. (Hear.) There are now two of them, Lord Manners and Lord Plunkett, and when one of them dies, Lord Campbell will have the pension. It serves very well for Mr. Stanley to say, on the hustings, that Lord Campbell will have no pension, but he ought t o h ave s t a t e d that when Lord Man . ners or Lord Plunkett di e , L or d C a mpbell will receive the pension. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Stanley did not tell you o another pet job—of the sort of way in which they got rid o a Chancellor of the Exchequer w hen he was no longer abl to manage the public business; he did not tell you how that functionary gave up his seat in the House of Commons, or how they prevailed upon one of their friends to give up his pension that he might get it! (Hear.) This is the way of the whigs. (Cheers.) Where are the benefits which they promised to the working classes ?fill They promised you cheap bread and good living at the time they came in; but did they promise you the new poor law? (Hear, hear, and hisses from the Stanley side.) What, are you afraid of the poor law ? When opposition to that measure was unpopularldid I shrink from it ? (Cries of " No, and cheers.) I went out with only nine members of the House of Commons against it. I have raised my voice, and 1 will raise my voice again against the harsh enactments of that measure. (Tremendous cheers.) .1 say I will not con sent to transfer, as that bill has done, to commissioners at Somerset House, from guardians. who are the legitimate persons to exercise it, and who best know their neighbours' distresses, the power of giving discretionary relief out of the workhouse. (Hear.) I will not consent to see poverty made a crime. (Immense cheers.) I will not consent to see the distressed tradesman broken down by misfortune, or the industrious, but unfortunate labourer consigned to the same place as the common vagrants from the streets. (Cheers.) If such, I say, are the past performances of the whigs, if this is the way in which they keep the promises they have made, I ask you, gentlemen, how are you to put confidence in them ? How are you to trust them for men of character and principle, when they now come down with professions of cheap sugar, cheap corn, and cheap timber ? Do they not make those professions to delude you ? I ask you how you can consent to put faith in their financial pro positions \then they have so miserably mismanaged them, and when they have a beggared exchequer ? (Cheers.) The fact is they wish to avoid the question now at issue. (Cheers.) They wish to delude you. (Hear.) What is the real point at issue ? 1 will tell you. The real question is this—does the present government deserve the confidence of the country or not? • (Tremendous cries of "no.") It may suit the purpose of my hon. opponent to hold me up as a monopo list, as an enemy to free trade, and to all measures calculated to promote the public good. I deny altogether the aspersions which are thus placed upon me. I say that I am as great a friend to the extension cf trade as Mr. Stanley—(cheers) —but I say this, that 1 will never consent to sacrifice our domestic interests. (Hear, bear.) lam as anxious as my honourable opponent can possibly be to see new chan nels opened for our commercial industry, but at the same time I do not wish to see the old ones choked upa(Cheers.) I am anxious that trade should be extended, that our mer chants should search out for fresh and independent fields for their industry, but do not let us lose what we have at pre sent. (Hear, hear, hear.) Now to come to these measures of cheap sugar and cheap corn. When Mr. Stanley taunts me with opposing those measures, let me ask him how he came to follow exactly the same course last year with regard to sugar? (Hear, hear, and "loud cheers.) He tells you how hard a thing it is to curtail the comforts of the poor by raising the price of sugar. So say I ; but why,..when the price of sugar was 20s. or 30s. per hundred higher than it is now, and when Mr. Ewart brought forward exactly the same propositisn, did Mr. Stanley oppose it. A VOICE.—WiII you allow me to ask whether you then supported 4? Mr. EGE'RTON.—I opposed it exactly upon the same grounds and Upon the same arguments that Mr. Stanley and the government to which Mr. Stanley belongs opposed it last year. (Loud cheers.) We opposed it because we thought it unwise, impolitic, during the present experiment of negro emancipation, to bring slave-grown sugar into com petition with that grown by the liberated blacks. (Hear.) If the government thought it so important, why did they oppose the very same measure last year? They then said, " We do not think it right"— A VOICE.—Why did you oppose it? Mr. EGERTON. — Because I agreed with what the govern ment said last year ; because I agreed with them that it would be unwise for this great nation for the sake of a saving of not the fraction of a farthing in the pound— A VOICE.-1 deny that ;it is more. Mr. EGERTON. — Lord John Russell did not deny it in the House of Commons; he assented to it. (Loud cheers.) I say it would be unwise and unworthy of the English nation to sanction a proposition which would add tenfold to the miseries of slavery both in the Brazils and in Cuba, and tend most effectually to promote that horrible traffic which every man here will admit it is the glory of England to destroy. (Cheers.) Now, with regard to the proposal for a fixed duty upon corn. You heard what Mr. Glegg told you—how he told you which were the opinione of Lord Melbourne, the head of the government. Mr. Stanley told you that you must have a free trade in corn, and a fixed duty, to enable you to exchange your manufactures for foreign corn but what does Lord Melbpurne tell you ? As Mr. Stanley carries his edition of the Standard in his pocket I I may as well do the same. (Laughter.) The hon. gentle man here read Lord Melbourne's words, stating that our manufactures never could get to the markets of the continen tl whether the corn laws were repealed or not. The continenta governments would never relax their prohibitory codes in our favour. He greatly respected the talents and activity of Dr. Bowring, but the doctor was mis taken in asserting that the markets of the continent would be thrown open to us. Suppose we repealed the corn laws, they would say to us, " You repealed them for your dwn convenience—how can you expect we should yield you anything in return ?" There was no person attached to the continental governments who would not say—" We will look to the interest of our own country." (Loud cheers.) So say I, contended the hon. gentleman. I say it is wise and politic to continue the protection of the British farmer ; but at the same time let it be only a fair and legitimate protec tion, for the moment you add one protection to it beyond what is just and proper, you defraud the home consumer. (Hear, hear.) A Voice.—We want no protection. Mr. EGeuTosi.---They will tell you so in Macclesfield. (Hear.) Go to your own shopkeepers, and ask them whe ther they are willing to have their protection taken away ? Why should not the land, then, have protection—a fair and legitimate protection? (Hear.) . A VOlCE.—Where is the working man's protection? Mr. EGERTON.—It was the old noor law of Elizabeth that you•shouhl look to the land. That was your protection, and it is your , whigs who have taken it away. (Tre mendous cheers.) When they brought forward the new poor-law what did they say? Oh ?" said they, "it will decrease the rates upon the land, and it will be a great boon to the farmers ;" and that is just the way they have hum bugged the country till this very time. (Rear, hear, hear.) I have no doubt the new poor-law did lessen the burdens upon land in the south, but it did not here in our own coun try. What was the report of one of their own commission ers ? He said that "in Cheshire the population is increasing, and the poor-rates are decreasing;' therefore, I say, this law is unfitted to the wants of the manufacturing popula tion. (Loud cheers.) Now for the corn laws. I support a fluctuating scale because it ensures steadiness of supply and steadiness of price. (Hear.) What was the evidence of Mr. WCulloch himself, a free-trade doctor and economist? He tells you that the variations of price under this system of corn-laws, have been less than in the previous period—that the variations are less than at Odessa, Dantzic, or in the United States of America. (Hear.) But, at the same time, experience may improve them. We have had ten years ex perience of them, and I say now as I have said before, that the pivot may be safely lowered, the averages more satisfac • torily taken in and in a less fraudulent manner. (Hear, hear.) Instead of jumping so much they might be made to vary more gradually. (Hear, and cries of " Oh, oh, from the Stanleyites.) I am giving you my sentiments, and have I not as good a right to my opinion as that gentleman who interrupts me? . (Cheers.) Mr. TRAFFORD poiuted out a person in the crowd who had frequently interrupted Mr. Egerton and said, that if it were repeated he should appeal to the under-sheriff. Mr. EGERTON.—My opinion is, that these alterations may be so made as to give a great benefit to the farmer. and reduce the price of corn to the manufacturer. I oppose a fixed duty upon corn, because I think a fixed duty is a fixed injnstice, (Cheers.) Yon talk to me of the benefit of a fixed duty, but I should like to know what benefit one of Bs. a quarter would be to the British farmer when corn was abundant on the continent? And what would be the ad vantage of it in time of scarcity, when the price of corn, to the working classes, got up enormously? Would you be MAE to keep the fixed duty and close your ears to the manufactur ing population crying out for bread? (Hear.) 1 say, there fore, that the gentleman who proposes — A VOICE.—WiII you vote for the total repeal? Mr. EGERTON.—Ask Mr. Stanley whether he will vote for the total repeal? You have as much right to ask him to vote in that way as to ask me. A VOICE.—We will take what Mr. Stanley offers as an in stalment. (Hear, hear.) Mr. EGERTON.—You will take it as an instalment ! Is that just to the farmer? You want now to get off only a part of the duty, that in a short time you may go further. Is that fair play? (Hear.) I say to British farmers, to British labourers, and British manufacturers, listen, to this. They tell you they wish to repeal the duty entirely upon corn ' • yet, say they, " we go for a fixed d u t y o f B s. !" (Hear, hear.) Is this the way that promises are to be kept and the govern ment carried on ? No doubt a l arge loaf is a very good thing, and I wish you may all have one; but I ask you how you will have your big loaf unless you get your wages bet tered ? Are you going to have your wages increased ? (Hear.) A Voice.—We shall have more employment. Mr. EGERTON.—I will answer that. Are you likely to have more wages when you are thrown out of employment? The labourer upon those lands which will be thrown out of cultivation in consequence of the repeal of the corn-laws, when he comes out of the fields into the towns, will compete with you for employment, and they will take the bread out of your mouths. You talk of more employment. why, is not machinery every day lessening :your employment ? What, too, are your manufacturers telling you ? They say, " We want the corn-laws repealed, that we may lower your wages ." (Hear, and cries of " No, no," and " Yes, yes.") I should like to know, then, for what reason it is that they say, " We cannot compete with the foreigner in consequence of the wages we pay ?" For what reason is it, then, that they wish to bring you down to the continental level ? (Hear.) A VOICE.--Look at Ireland. Mr. EGERTON.—Yes, corn is cheap enough there ; but why do not the people stay at home and buy it? Why, be cause they cannot afford. (Cheers.) Look to the continent. They can bring their corn cheap enough; but why do they not keep their corn to feed their over enormous popu lation ? Because they have not money to buy it ; they are obliged to live upon rye bread, and have very little clothing. When you tell me what is to be done by repealing the corn laws I appeal to Dr. Bowring, and what dots lie tell you ? " You may have, he says, Your free trade in corn, but you will find very few to take your manufactures." The hon. gentleman entered further into the subject of the corn laws, but at such length that we have not space to follow him. He next referred to the government of the Whigs and defended the conservatives from the charge of having obstructed their mea sures, resorting that theybyought in me asures w hi c h they had no intention of carryin g, Just to create a s t oc k o f goo d inten tions to trade upon for another year. Aft er a f ew f urt h er remarks, the hon. gentleman expressed his intention to sup port a government composed of such men as Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, and Sir James G ra h am, b ecause it would not be a government based upon ultra opinions, because it would be a strong government, and because he believed it would enjoy the confidence of the sound and intelligent por tion of the middling classes. I will only add, concluded Mr. Egerton , that should yogi, for the fo ur th t i me, return me as one of - the representatives of this division of the county, you will find in m e the same z ea l f or your interests and the same anxiety to promote the welfare of every indi vidual connected with this great manufacturing division, which I believe I have hitherto exhibited. (Renewed ap plause.) Mr. GEORGE CORNWALL LEGH then proceeded to address the electors, and he met with a most gratifying reception. After some introductory remarks in reply to several attacks upon his character, Mr. Legh observed that a good deal had been said about the advantages to be derived to trade, and upon the necessity of encouraging the manufacturing indus try of this country. He fully and entirely concurred in that sentiment, but he did not think that at the present moment this was the only question the electors were called upon to decide. The great question for their decision was, who should be the government to whom their interests should be confided for the future ? The present government had appealed to them, and they had chosen a moment for it when thete was destitution in the manufacturing districts, caused by the long stagnation of business, when distress h a d b een exc i ting t h e minds of our poorer fellow subjects, and created a sort of irritability which prompted them to cling too much to false hopes, and to listen to seditious political agitation. At the same time he would yield to no man in the desire to increase to the greatest possible extent the manufacturing industry of the country. He wou ld ask them whether they thought the present administration one to which they could safely intrust their interests ? (Loud cries of " No, n o ," with faint responses of "...Yes.") If they said yes, he would ask those who said so by what did they judge ? Was it from their professions, their acts, or their principles ? (Hear, hear.) Their professions were •abandoned day after day ; their principles were not known; and as for their acts he would ask the electors as rational men if the measures they proposed were so essential to the manufactures, if they were to be the panacea for all the evils that existed, why were they not proposed last year or early in the present? (Hear, and loud cheers.) If they thought at the beginning of the late session, that these principles were absolutely neces sar y f or th e manu f ac t ur ing interests, why did they not mention them in the Queen's speech ? Why did not her majesty's ministers come forwaid with a specific and fixed plan for relieving that distress at an earlier period ? Why had they not mentioned these things until they were in the very throes of impending political extinc tion—and then only by a mere clap-trap upon abstract prin ciples on which all were agreed, but the application of which required grave consideration? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) It was merely to delude the people. (Cheers.) Why should he be stigmatised as an ignorant monopolist and as an enemy to all trade? (Hear, hear.) Let him ask the electors of this country, why his honourable opponent, when he enjoyed the powers of office, and must have known perfectly well that his poorer constituency were suffering from distress, did not in his place in parliament advocate the cause of that distressed constituency? (Hear, hear, hear.) Why did he not tell the administration, of which he was a member, that some alleviation must be provided for that distress? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He would now shortly refer to the one great question which was agitating the public mind, namely, the corn-laws. He had' no hesitation in saying, that he was as averse to monopoly upon on one side as be was averse to doing away with protection upon the other. He was no monopolist. He had maintained, and always would maintain, that so far as protection was concerned, one fraction of a farthing beyond what was absolutely necessary to protect. The home produce should not be in flicted, because it was an injury to the home consumer— (cheer)—but he was prepared to oppose, to the best of his power, any proposition for a total repeal of the corn-laws. (Loud cheers.) He certainly would not support the government scheme of eight shillings a quarter duty; but he was not prepared to say that the present corn laws were perfect. He thought very material alterations might be made in them, with advantage both to the agri cultural and the commercial classes. He objected to the method of taking the averages, and he thought that the two principles of i a fixed duty and a sliding scale might be so combinell as to satisfy the just claims of the manufacturers, atid protect the interests of the agri culturists. Should such a measure be brought forward by a government in which he could place reliance, by a govern ment which was determined to carry measures for the ame lioration of all classes, he would tell the electors, as a man of honour, he would give it Isis most decided sup port. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) He had a firm and a decided intention to support the manufacturing interests. (Cheers.) He had never said any thing to the contrary. He derived great advantage from their success, and it was im possible for lihn not to wish for the fullest possible develope ment of trade. (Cheers.) In conclusion he would only say that the result of this contest was now in their hands. He had been requested by a large number of freeholders to come forward. (Hear, hear.) From the promises he hid made of support, he confessed he did not feel any great doubt upon the subject ; but still, whatever might be the result of the contest, if he should retire • gain into private life, be should continue to do his duty as an independent country gentleman in the best way he could for the good of his country ; but, on the other hand, if the electors should decide that he was a proper person to represent their inte rests, lie would promise them fearlessly and zealously to take care of those interests to the best of his power, and he sin cerely hoped and trusted' they would never be ashamed of their choice. (Tremendous cheering followed the conclusion of the hon. gentleman's eloquent address.) The UNDER-SHERIFF then called upon the meeting for a show of hands. About one-third or, perhaps, fewer, held up their hands for Mr. Stanley ; for Mr. Egerton and Mr. Legh there was a perfect forest. The Under-sheriff imme diately declared the show to have been in favour of those gentlemen: Mr. JOHN HOWARD, of Brereton, demanded a poll on behalf of Mr. Stanley. The poll was of course granted, and it will take place on Thursday and Friday. A vote of thanks was then presented to the under-Sheriff, and the electors separated. CONSERVATIVE AND WHIG GAINS. The Conservative gains, up to this time, are as follow : Petersfield—\lolliffe, vice Hector—one. Horsham—Scarlett, vice Hurst—one. Westbury—Lopez, vice Briscoe—one. Windsor—Neville, vice Gordon—one. Reading—Russell, vice Palmer—one. Ditto—Chelsea, vice Talfourd—one. Newark—Manners--vice Wilde—one. • Lincoln—Collett, vice Bulwer—one. London—Masterman, vice Pattison—one. Ditto—Lyall, vice Crawford—one. Bedford—Stuart, vice Crawley—one. Harwich—Attwood, vice Ellice—one. St. Albans—Repton, vice Muskett—one. Shrewsbury—Tomline, vice Slaney—one. Cambridge—Sutton, vice Pryme—one. Knaresborough—Lawson, vice Rich—one. Ditto—Farrand, vice Langdale—one. Pontefract—Pollington, vice Stanley—one. Rochester—Douglas, vice Bernal—one. Ditto—Bodkin, vice Hodges—one. Buckingham—Chetwode, vice Verney—one. Honiton—M'Geachy, vice Stewart—one. Midhurst—Seymour, vice Spencer—one. Winchester—Escott, vice Mildmay—one. Newport—Hamilton, vice Hawkins—one. Ditto—Martin, vice Blake—one. Hull—Hanmer, vice Hutt—one. Bradford—Hardy, vice Busfleld—one. Westminster—Rous, vice Evans—one. Montgomery—Cholmondely, vice Edwards—one. Leeds—Beckett, vice Baines—one. Southampton—Martyn, vice Duncan—one. Blackburn—Hornby, vice Turner—one. Barnstaple—Gore, vice Chichester—one. Wigan—Crosse, vice Ewart—one. Ditto—Greenall, vice Standish—one. • Scarborough—Johnstone, vice Style —one. Helstone—Vyvian, vice Bassett—one. Falkirk—Baird, vice Gillon—one. Haddington—Balfour, vice. Steuart—one. Ludlow—Ackers, vice Sawley—one. Total—Forty-one. The gains on the other side, have been these : Bath—Duncan, vice Powerscourt—one. Ditto—Roebuck, vice Bruges—one. Lewes—liarford, vice Fitzroy—one. Ditto—Elphinstone, vice Cantilupe—one. Sudbury—Villiers, vice Tomline—one. Ditto—Sombre, vice Bailey—one. Nottingham—Larpent, vice Wallter—one. Andover—Paget, vice Pollen—one. Crickdale—Howard, vice Goddard—one. Newcastle—Harris, vice Miller—one. Rye—Curteis, vice Monypenny—one. Walsall—Scott, vice Gladstone—one. Hereford—Hobhouse, vice Burr—one. Stockport—Cobden, vice Marsland—one. Wareham—Drax, vice Calcraft—one. Preston—Strickland, vice Parker—one. Gloucester—Berkeley, vice Hope—one. Stoke—Ricardo, vice Davenport— one. Guilford—Mangles, vice Scarlett—one. Marylebone—Napier, vice Teignmouth—one. Greenwich--Dundas, vice Attwood—one. Beverley—Townley, vice Fox—one. Brighton—Wigney, vice Dalrymple—one. Bolton—Bowring, vice Bolling—one. Berwick—Forster, vice Holmes—one. Penrbyn—Plumridge, vice Freshfield—one. Shaftesbury—Howard, vice Mathew—one. Ipswich—Wason, vice Kelley—one. Ditto—Rennie, vice Cochrane—one. Wakefield—Holdsworth, vice Lacelles—one. Total—Thirty. SOUTH CHESHIRE ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE CHESTER COURANT. SIR, —Having seen an unauthorised statement in your paper respecting the position in which Sir P. Egerton and Mr. Tollemache stand upon their canvass, as chairman of their committee I beg to say that, though we have every reasonable prospect of success, it is earnestly requested that every friend to their return will to the last use his utmost exertion in their favour, and that every voter, resident or non-resident, will record his vote on the days of polling. I am, sir, your obedient servant, EDWIN CORBETT. Central Committee-room, Northuich, July Ist, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlR,—Could you inform a subscriber on what day MERCURY (planet) attained its greatest elongation ? Was it Tuesday or Wednesday ?—Yours, APEX. A NEW PROSPECT FOR LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—It is un derstood that the title of Duke of Inverness is to be con tinued to Lord John Russell after the death of the present Duchess, he being declared to be Under wood. EVANS' LEMON AND KALL—This preparation produces in one moment a most refreshing and agreeable beverage. The effect of it is very cooling and delightful. In warm wea ther it is particularly pleasant. THEATRE-ROYAL.—This evening Sheridan Knowles' new tragedy of " The Bridals of Messina" will be performed.' It was received on Friday with the most rapturous applause. We have heard it highly spoken of. There was a good house last night to witness Ion," in spite of the unpleasantness of the weather. WALTON 13 icz AR.—We beg to draw the attention of our readers—and particularly those of the fair sex—to the an nouncement of the bazaar, which is to be held very shortly in Mr. Skirving's grounds, at Walton. This fete will be one of the most brilliant ever held in the country, if , our gentle townswomen will only exert themselves, and provide the necessary commodities to constitute a stock for the bazaar. The committee are resolved that no exertion shall be want ing to render the affair most attractive. Mr. Skirving's liberality is beyond praise in thus allowing the use of his beautiful grounds. The old church at Walton need* repair, and the proceeds of the bazaar are to be devoted to that purpose. The antiquity of this church is remarkable, and we hope a spirit of liberality will be shown that will enable the committee to hand over a handsome sum, and thus be the means of continuing the edifice for some thousand years longer. RADICAL RIOTING.—We were last night waited upon by a poor man, with five children, who had been compelled to fly from their dwelling, in Atherton-street, through a shame ful attack made on the house by a party of Irish ruffians, who had discovered that the poor man had voted for Sandon and Cresswell. His windows were last week broken, and yesterday the scoundrels entered the house, and frightened the poor children almost to death by their threats and brutal proceedings. We hope the police will take care that no such unlawful steps are taken in future. EXTRAORDINARY TREATMENT OF EMIGRANTS.-- At the police-court, yesterday, Mr. Dowling called the attention of the bench to a case of oppression towards a number of unfortunate emigrants, two of whom, females from Ireland, were then present. It appeared the vessel called " The Wales," bound to New York, had recently sailed from this port with emigrants, who had paid their money; and after the ship got off Holyhead, seventeen of them were put on board the steamer that towed her out, and were sent back to Liverpool. They had previqusly been detained here for some time, and had expended all their money, so that when they were landed, they had no place to go to, and had since been assisted by Mr. Evans, of the Parish-office. The cases of two of them, who were in court, were very peculiar. They had shipped in Dublin, through a shipping agent, to proceed hence to Quebec, on the Ist instant, and were referred to John and William Shaw, e migration agents here, to whom they presented their tickets for a passage. On their arrival, however, they found that the vessel by which they had agreed to go had sailed a week previously. Th ey were then persuaded by Shaw and Co. to go out via New York, in " The Wales," and were landed from her with the others, as before stated. They had already been a fortnight t here, and were in a state of destitution. Mr. Rushton said hat if the facts were as related, the shippers were clearly liable to an action. He then directed Mr. Dowling to rnOce particular inquiry into the case,—to see the shiling agents, and inquire what they intended to do, a nd repor to him the result. Meantime, the two females, (who were decently clad, and are apparently country_ people,) will have their imme • diate wants attended to by Mr. Evans. Mr. Knowles, Mr. Baines, and the Hon. Stuart Wortley, of this circuit, have been created Queen's Counsel. ZOOLOGICAL G ARDENS. —The galas at these gardens are attracting numbers of fashionable parties. The Storming of Acre is a magnificent exhibition, and goes off with great éclat. Friday evening the entertainments will be repeated. THE LIVERPOOL JULY MEETING.—The ensuing July Races, which commence on Wednesday, July the 14th inst., are beginning to excite extraordinary interest. The entries for the three days are very large. The declarations for the cup, to which there are 110 subscribers, are made to-day ; a large field will start for this prize, and as the elections will be over by the time, a great number of visitors are certain to visit the good old town. ST. BARNABAS CHURCH.—Phis church is now nearly ready to be opened for divine service, and we hope to be able to state decidedly in our next, on what day such an interest ing ceremony will take place. MUCH AND LITTLE WOOLTON. — The number of inhabit ants in Much Woolton, according to the present census, is 2216; in 1831 it was 1344. In Little Woolton, in 1831, the number was 738, it is now 916. We regret to state that the banking firm of Messrs. Whit more, Wells, and Co., of Lombard-street, London, suspend- _ ed payment on Wednesday morning. PAINTINGS.—SeveraI very fine collections of paintings are now on view for sale in Liverpool. Mr. Collins, at Mr. Crawford's, Bold-street, has some remarkable specimens of the Dutch, English, Italian, and Flemish schools. At Lacey's, in Bold-street, Mr. Wilson has a very choice collection. We shall notice some of these pictures in a futuro article. REGISTER ! REGISTER !—We would remind those electors who have changed their residences, or acquired new qualiti cations since the last registration, that the time has now arrived at which they should send in their new claims to the overseer, paying a shilling with each. Though removal does not disqualify county voters from voting if they are regis tered, it is sufficient to prevent them being registered if they do not claim afresh. In the bustle of the present election they must not forget to look out for the future. The population of Newcastle-on-Tyne amounts to 71,841, being an increase of 16,850 over the census of 1831. ST. SIMON'S CHURCH, GLOUCESTER-ST.—Service was performed in this church—for the first time since its connec tion with the establishment—on Sunday, by the zealous and indefatigable minister of the late St. Simon's Chapel, in Sir Thomas's-buildings,—the Rev. J. R. Connor. We are happy to find that the church was crowded both morning and evening. This church bids fair to be a real blessing to the neighbourhood. ' APPEAL TO THE HUMANE AND CHARITABLE.—An ap peal to the humane and charitable appears in our columns of this day, which we recommend to the sympathy of our Christian friends and readers, as we have every reason to be lieve it to be, indeed, a case of deep and peculiar distress. SMUGGLING CIGARS.—A man named Wilson, who had recently been tliseharged from the police force for a second violent assault on an old wan, was yesterday placed at the bar of the police-court, charged with having been found bring ing from a vessel two boxes of cigars, weighing about 31bs. He stated that he was about to go to sea, and had received them for his own use from a brother yf his who had just ar . rived by the vessel. He was fined 505., or, in default, to be imprisoned for one month. MR. CASEMENT'S CASE--In our last we gave a summary of the evidence adduced against Mr. Casement at the Police office on Thursday last, for firing a pistol and wounding four persons in front of his dwelling-house, near the Custom house. On Friday the further hearing of the case was re sumed, when it was shown that it was not until Mr. Case ment was beset on every side, and his wife and daughter struck insensible, that he fired the pistol. In giving the de cision, Mr. Rushton said, " I shall hold the prisoner to bail, to answer any indictment which may be preferred against him at the assizes. _ Whether the circumstances under which his house was attacked were of such a nature as to justify the use of fire-arms I will not undertake to decide ; it is not the duty of a magistrate, in a preliminary inquiry, so to decide, but to leave it to a jury. No doubt, great wrong has been done ; but whether the circumstances amount to a provocation to justify the use of fire-arms, it is neither my duty nor pro vince to inquire. The prisoner must be held to bail, himself in £2OO, and two sureties of £lOO each. List of passengers per Great Western, Lieutenant James Hosken, R.N., Commander, from New York to Bristol, _. _ _ arrived July 3, 1841 :—Col. Coldero, Col. Houston, Major Harpour, Mr. and Miss Anderson, R. Roger, M. Lopez, B. Blanchard, G. A. Hopely, Mr. Cassagnan, Mr. and Mrs. Neustadt, two children, and servant,'Mr. and Mrs. Loubat, F. Loubat, A. Loubat, He Le Barbier and servant, F. Tin tera, N. Berry, E. L. Corey, C. F. Hagedorn, S. Gould, W. Milligan, G. Martin, W. Mure, J. Littlejohn, E. Norris, C. Heydecker. Mr. and Mrs. Pickersgill, S. Pickersgill, J. Stedman, S. Sayer, A. Batrie, Mr. Crockerson, Mr. and Mrs. Kendall, two children, and two servants, Miss Ken dall, Mr. and Mrs. Murray, T. Millenden, A. Louvier, C. W. Dayton, Mr..and Mrs. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. Plucke, Mr. S. Price and servant, W. S. Witmore; Henry Thomas, R. F. Crocker, Mr. Delius, Dr. Jones, T. B. English. J. P. English, G. W. Houghton, Mr. Lumley, Mr. Holten hoff, Mr. Bishop, Mr. Aston, G. S. Cameron, R. G. Rams den, Mr. Barton, S. Forbes, F. B. Sands, T. Currie, N. Cassilli, W.L. Bidden, T. F. Cruger, Mr. Wakon, D. Verner; and F. Probert. 81 passengers. THE GIRAIFES BOLD-STREET.—Five beautiful gi- raffes are now exhibiting by Mr. Wombwell, in Bold-street, which have been lately brought into this country from Abysinia. They are in excellent health and condition, and are very docile and domesticated. Three of them are not quite twelve months old yet; the other two are what are termed "two year olds." One of the latter measures from the hoof to the crest of the head thirty-six feet. These five animals are well worthy the attention of the curious, as ex hibiting the wonderful work of creation in forming an animal so singular in construction, yet so beautiful in proportion. When these giraffes were in London one of them contrived to make its escape, and, after a chase of seven miles through the streets of the metropolis, was caught in St. Paul's . church-yard. In its native country, the giraffe browses upon the higher twigs of trees, its altitude enabling it to feed on those which are out of the reach of ordinary animals. Its general pace is an amble, but when pursued it flies with ex treme swiftness. In its native deserts, it is timid and diffi cult to approach, but when domesticated, it loses much of its timidity, and becomes mild and docile, recognizing its keeper, and taking from his hand what he may offer to it. The mo tion of its head and neck is extremely graceful and curious : the neck possesses the flexibility of that of the swan or pea cock ; the eye is large, prominent, and exceedingly quick in catching objects at a great distance—it is well defended by the brow, and, like that of the hare, possesses the advantage of seeing backwards as well as forwards, without any corre sponding motion of the head. The ears are well formed, and are constantly bent forward. The tongue is long and tapered, possessing very peculiar properties, which enable it to seize the leaves and twigs of trees with certainty. Near the ears are two small horns, the greater part of which are covered with hair. Apropos to Giraffes, we recollect a good Ameti can story which became current in New York, when some of those animals were exhibiting there. A " loafer," finding that crowds of persons went day by day to inspect them, hit upon the notable scheme of " getting up" a rival " giraffe." He procured a good-sized poncy, and rigged it with a stu pendous head and neck, in imitation of the real giraffe. Having made his exhibition public, many persons were induced ro visit the fresh importation. The trick, of course, was discovered, but determined that others should partake of the imposition, those who had been deceived persuaded their friends to visit the " new wonder." Those, finding they were tricked, humbugged others, till at length one cunning Yankee, placing his lingers to his nose, exclaimed—" I guess you don't come giraffe over this child." From that moment " coming giraffe" became a household phrase, when any one attempted an imposition. "To return to our muttons," the giraffes in Bold-street ate genuine curiosities, and, no doubt, will attract great attention. DEATH OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF HANOVER. —HANOVER, JUNE 29.—The Queen of Hanover died to day. The Hanover Gazette, with a black border, contains the following notice It has pleased the Disposer of all human events to-day, at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock, to remove from this life the most august and illustrious Princess Frederica Louisa Caroline Sophia Alexandrina, by the grace of God Queen of Hanover, Princess of Great Britain aid Ireland, Duchess of Cumberland, Duchess of Brunswick arid Luneburg, &c. (born Princess of Mecklen burg, &c.) His Majesty the King, the royal family, and all faithful subjects, are hereby plunged into the deepest afflic tion. After being confined to her bed for three months her Majesty expired from a decay of strength ; she was con stantly attended by the King, the Crown Prince, and the Duchess of Anhalt De s sau. Her Majesty will be ever re membered as a mother and Queen.—VON SCHELE." THE SULPHUR AFFAIR."." A report," says the Sema phore, of Marseilles, " has been current at Naples, that the house of Rothschild had subscribed for a loan of three millions of ducats to effect the liquidation of the Sulphur Company. We understand that the Neapolitan government has found in its own resources the means of effecting this liquidation. Extremely advantageous offers were made to the Neapolitan treasury, but rejected. No loan has been taken ; only the government of the Two Sicilies has consented to give at 41 per cent. the moderate sum of 800,000 ducats in royal bonds. This negotiation was effected with the house of Rothschild." HAND-LOOM WEAVERS.—The privations of this class continue with undiminished severity, and a large portion of them are still in the receipt of daily assistance, in the shape of rations, or employed in breaking stones, though, we are afraid, there still remain many whose cases have not been overtaken. At the request of the _relief committee, the su- perintendent of police has caused inquiry to be made into the circumstances of about 300 heads of families, who have applied for relief, and the following has been the result : The three hundred heads of families have dependent on them 1279 children, 529 of whom are under 10 years of age. Of the three hundred heads of families 153 are natives of Ire land, 110 natives of Scotland, and 2 natives of England. The persons employed in breaking stones are 279, and the number of natives served daily at the soup-kitchen, for the last few weeks, amount to 1300. We believe the poor fel lows employed in breaking stones find the work sufficiently hard for them, and it is little to be surprised at, therefore, that they are occasionally found grumbling. It is exceed ingli desirable that some softer description of work could be found ; spade labour would be much more agreeable for them, and we trust that something of this kind will yet be resorted to. We have occasionally heard at the Council table proposals for sloping and beautifying the banks of the river along the public Green. Could this not be done by the idle weavers during the present summer ?—Argus. A lawyer pleaded with great ability the cause of his client for near an hour. When he had done, his antagonist, with a supercillious sneer, said he did rot understand a word the other said, who neatly replied, " I believe so. for I was speaking law." TAKING A CHARACTER.--A notorious scold applied to magistrate for his advice, stating that a neighbouring woman had taken her character from her. "Go back," said the magistrate, " and thank her kindly; for I would not have thy character for five hundred pounds." A WOMAN BURIED ALIVE.—On Tuesday last a young woman, a servant in a highly respectable family, was seized by an apoplectic fit, and, as was supposed, died. On being a few hours after taken to the Greek church for interment, she was observed to be warm, and on a medical man being sent for was pronounced to be yet living. SO is now, according to some reports, doing well, others say she is since dead. This is by no means, during a few years residence in Smyrna, the first time that we have heard of a similar accident having hap pened. How indeed can it be otherwise, when corpses, of Greeks especially, are hurried to interment in less than 12 hours after death is supposed to take place? Some strong measures should be adopted to prevent so horrible a circum stance from ever occurring, :by not allowing a body to be carried out till at least 21 hours after death.—Suivrna Ob serves' of May 21. THE MURRAIN AMONG CATTLE.—We are sorry to learn from various correspondents that the murrain is extending over large sections of Galloway, and the higher parts of Dumfries shire. A good many diseased cattle appeared on our Sands on Wednesday last, and, where the parties were to agree as to terms, found purchasers notwithstanding. One respectable jobber and farmer from the border selected a few of the worst for the express purpose of communicating the complaint to his own healthy herd. And the reason he as signed was this :—" I know I am sure to catch it like my ne i g hbours ; I wish, therefore, t o qu i c k en the process, that all may be right again before Borough -Lill Fair on the 27th of S ep t e mber. Strange as this fact may appear, the reader ma y rest assured it is strictly true ; and we have since learned that the practice is not so rare as we had a: first imagined. In the back end of last year, while the cattle of F. Lawrie became affected at Tinwald Shaws, they conti nued sound on his farm in Closeburn. Accordingly he sent invalids from the one farm to the other, and in two days the experiment had the de,tire4.l fiffect.—Dumfries Courier, LITERARY NOTICES. Fraser, for July: Fraser, London. The opening paper is entitled " The Age we live in ;" a truly philosophical article, touching upon new discoveries and new education, showing that the age is one of words, of peace, of philanthropy, of railroads, of steam. '' Rustic Controversies, No. 7," consists of " Will o' the Whisp, Wednesday," a highland legend. " Stories of Science" is an historical tale, done in choice dogrel. " The Note-book of the Ordinary," this month, gives us an appalling instance of the inefficiency of the law in detecting crime and forward ing the ends of justice, by means of "an approver." The case of "The Forger" is remarkable. "The last New Life of Shakspeare" is a pleasant review of De Quincey's Memoirs of the Bard of Avon, in the 20th volume of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "The Three Great Epochs" has some happy hits in it. " Rambling Remarks with reference to the Ger man Opeia" will please the musical people. Dean Graves works are next ably reviewed. " The Greater and Lesser Stars of Pall Mall" contains many very curious and inter esting anecdotes of celebrated characters. The anecdotes of Judge Jeffries will be read with much curiosity. The article on " Men and Pictures," by Michael Angelo Titmarsh, is-in that clever writer's usual excentric style. His remarks are replete with odd reflections, plain truths, touches of wit and sarcasm, and that self-sufficiency that in any body else would be impertinent. His criticisms are excellent. The con cluding paper contains the " Sayings and Doings of the Scotch Non-intrusionists," by a Strathbogio Churchman. Barnaby Rudge.—By Boz. Waring Webb, Liverpool. We find Joe Willett takes his departure from his paternal roof, and enlists for a.soldier, in the present portion of this amusing tale, and no less a person than Lord George Gordon stepping on the stage. The description of the May Pole kitchen, and the terror of the parish clerk, after witnessing the ghost, is capital. Joe Willett's interview with Dolly Varden, previous to his departure, is well told, and so is the dismissal of Ned Chester by his father. Old Chester is one of the most eztraordinary creations of Boz's imaginative mind. By the way, we perceive by the Edinbro' papers, that the admirers of Mr. Dickens, in that city, have been giving him a dinner, as a testimonial of esteem. He richly deserves the love of all, for he has contributed to the amuse ment of thousands—aye, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions. Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales. By Thomas Roscoe. Wareing Webb, Liverpool. We have so frequently quoted from this very beautiful work that our readers may easily judge how highly we esteem it. The present part contains some exquisite engravings by Creswick and Cox, the former contributing the " View of the South-Stack Lighhouse," and the latter, " Llanilltyd Vale and Bridge," " Llyndwal," the " Trifaen Mountain," " Nant Frangon," and the sweet" Vale of Festiniog." Mr. Roscoe is one of the most charming writers of the day, and his pen throws an interest over the most trifling object in the landscape. The engravings in this part are worth the price of it alone. 'We have seen the time when such would have cost three times the money. C'ruikshanh's Omnibus—July. Wareing Webb, Liverpool. The leading illustration this month is very appropriately, an election squib. The a►ticle—" My Vote and Interest " is a happy description of the doings of a meddling fellow, who brings discord into a peaceful viilage. " The Census " contains some good hits at this national undertaking. "Frank Heartwell " increases in interest. The illustration is capi tally done. " The Livery out of London " is a rich bit of humour. The wood-cut illustrations are famous. " The Rigid Sense of Duty " is a piquanfe morceau, well told, and aptly illustrated. Dublin University Magazine for July. The articles are numerous and in great variety. Charles O'Malley sustains his high reputation. Doctor Anater, the well-known translator of Faust, supplies Number Sixteen of the Anthologia Germanica, in which are several lively speci mens of German poetry. There is a portrait and character of Chief Justice Bushe, which, though drawn in glowing colours, has fortunately a subject that can well bear such tints from the painter's hand. " Charles Kendal Bushe," says the author, " one of the last surviving names that is written on the brightest page of Ireland's history; the associate of the men who have made Ireland illustrious among the nations, and thrown upon the brief but splendid era which they illumined, a glow of light which almost irradiates the long and gloomy darkness of our national story. The contemporary of Grattan, of Flood, of Curran, and of Saurin, and worthy even of such men, to be the associate and the compeer. The light of other days is around his name. It is already sacred, even while he is yet among us—long may it be, ere it is consecrated by the sorrow with which his country must one day or other mourn his removal." " Letters from the Coast of Clare" are continued in the same domestic, familiar style which characterised the early numbers. " The Far East" contains some curious and in teresting particulars of the Japanese, collected from recent and authentic sources. "My Life by an ex-Dissenter," is a good paper, and deserves to be studied. Its principles are sound and deep. This on the whole is a good number. THE FINE ARTS. Landseer's Picture of the Highland Drovers. Engraved by Watt. Henry Graves and Co., London. We have reached the very climax of the art of engraving. We have gazed upon the ultima Thule in its magic world. The high top paramount of perfection is in the engraving, the title of which heads this article : we do not say it can not be excelled—but we can safely say that it has never yet been approached, either for beauty of execution, softness, yet depth, of shadow, and breadth of the lights which the painter has exquisitely cast over his inimitable picture. It is without doubt the very quintessence of the engraver's skill. The scene of this picture is laid in the Highlands, in the morning time, with a drove of cattle wending their way to the south—in the distance are the hills—"lthe eternal hills," at their foot are a lake and castle, to which a road leads, co vered with " herd and fold." The groups in the foreground are most charmingly expresstd—and are all full of interest. The old man and woman—the " topsman" and his babe—the wife with the drinking-horn, and the pair of lovers—the boy and dogs—the whelp, and lien with her brood—the poney—and the cattle—have each and all a prominent feature in the ar rangement. This very beautiful work is now for inspection at Mr. Linnacer's, in Ranelagh-street, where the lovers of art can see.it. The Stenographic Standard. By J. H. Buck. London : This is decidedly a clever and useful publication, and will enable any one to commence the art of stenography without further assistance. The only mode of attaining perfection in this art is by constant practice. Mr. Buck's method is simple, and appears easy of acquirement. ACCOMMODATING JOSEPH HUME. Cunning Joseph Hume has been attempting to play a double game between Leeds and Dundee. Having hastily engaged with the former without due investigation, he seems to have had a lurking suspicion that all was not right. The following letter is a curiosity in its way : " Bryanstone-square. 7 morning, June 21, 1841. " Mr. Alexander Low, Secretary, &c, Dundee. " Sir,—On the eve of leaving London to go to Leads, I have received your letter of the 10th. " It would have delighted me to have represented Dundee, but I was prevented from looking forwards to it by Sir H. Parnell being in possession. " If you can make arrangements so as to wait the result of the Leeds Election (where the teries threaten to beat us) —which you can easily do—and in case of defeat at Leeds, I might be elected for Dundee—or, if you make an election, even if I were chosen for both places, you would then have time to select a proper man. " The really active free-trade members arc engaged, ex cept Mr. Ewart, the late M. P. for Liverpool, and now for Wigan, who is trying the Dumfries Burghs. If he should fail I would recommend him to your notice as one of the most steady and fearless reformers, a free , trade man, and also a strong advocate of civil and religious liberty. He would do you credit, and the cause of the people good service ; and I should be pleased to see him the representative for Dundee. " If I could retire from Leeds without doing harm I should with pleasure have gone to Dundee ; but the fate of the West Riding of Yorkshire depends on the success in Leeds, and there must I stand. " I shall be in Leeds until after the election, and pleased to hear from you.—l remain, &c. &c., " JOSEPH HUME." Joseph's letter is chiefly valuable on account of what it developes with regard to the West Riding. In spite of the ridiculous brag of the Leeds Mercury, and the cads of the Orange party, it now appears, the committee were fearful that the '• Tories" would beat them ; and, then, the election for the West Riding depends upon Whig success at Leeds. Well, Leeds has vindicated its independence, and wiped off the mark fixed on itsfroi the i Nesttin lB3 7i ti i d t i f n o g ll w ov% il ' l s a , c a t cc: i r th diilgtoJoseph the Prophet, that simi lar spirit. Tlie prediction will be verified to the letter. Lord Morpeth is destined to share the fate of his Master's late member for Kilkenny, and Lord Milton will necessarily follow in Lord Morpeth's wake, since lie has no will or opi nion but what he takes at second hand from The noble secre tary. CAPTURE OF SEVENTY GAMBLERS, NEAR KEIGHLEY.— In one of those lonely and sequestered places where the foot of regular passengers scarely treads, situate between the borders of the west riding of this county, and on the verge of Lancashire, is a common or moor ; not a vestige of green herb nor a cultivated piece of land lies within some miles of the place, where hunbreds of those reckless sons of folly and of crime meet on the Sabbath day to exchange virtue for vice. Those marauders carried thei r p ower i n th e neighbourhood to that alar m i ng ex t ent t h at t h e f armers an d owners unlawful exercise. pro perty scarcely durst s p ea k t o th em or thwart their exercise. The police of the different townships have used their endeavours to make a breach effect, except by our indefatigable and active and reward arcs due deputy-consta ble,Mr. John Sugden, to whom praisegreatt feat he has done. On for the hazardous and dangerousinto the gang, but without were as one of their own party , led nearly 100 of the gang, Mr. Sugden went disguised Sunday fortnight, when there ii ' Jim Crow" hat, and a pipe dressed in an old smock frock,. eassemb equipped he entered the arena of stuck in his mouth ; thus equipp of their money, when the some the gamesters and se cured party, perceiving that there was a friend in disguise, to o k t o their heels and fled; one, one, however, be secured, aft er a des perate struggle, and b rou ght him down tothe lock-up o f thi s t own . He wae d a declaration of their d o i ngs, and the fthem have been known to win, On f money some o nown a mount o s eventy-one were convicted in the mitigated Saturday last d before Frederick Green penalty of I4s. 3 ~ wood and Joseph Greenwood, Esqrs., and in default o f payment one months' . , ~ impr i s onment, wh . lc_ _am I,v4s paid by the convicted ones. We hope and trust that this will have a salutary effect upon the remainder of the gang, which numbers upwards of seven hundred members from different parts of the surrounding eoutitim—Leai. Intelligezicer.