The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-10 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1852.

1 The ban. member wee then drawn is s 'arrive and four
through the principal parts of Banbury, and at the ter-
mination of this ceremony the borough browse as tranquil
as ewer.

WEST GLOUCESTERSHIRE.
There will be 4 close struggle between the Hon.
Grantley Berkeley, the protectionist liberal, and Captain
Kingscute, the liberal free-trader. The nomination takes
place neat WeiWedgy, and the poll on the Monday and
Tuesday following. Bose of Karl Fitshardinges tenantry
haring forwarded a memorial to his lordship, conveying
their wish to vote for "the candidate of their choice," his
lordship has replied as follows .
Berkeley Home, Bpring-gardens; June 2.5, 1832.
"I have to acknowledge the receipt of as eatraordi•
nary, and I may add as insulting, a document es was ever
addressed to anyone in the relative position in which I
stand to you. It is, however, a matter of great satisfaction
to me that the number of my tenants deluded into this tin-
becalming ' is so inconsiderable. The artful
Jangle's* in which e address is touched does not con-
, ocal the miserable and disgraceful trickery to which
you have been duped into lending yourselves. The real ob-
ject of this application is either to 'street from ins some
expression which may be attempted to be twisted into an
unconstitutional interference in the election of members to
the Himmel Commons, or to deter ma from expressing my
hearty wishes on a subject of equal interest to the peer and
to the peasant, and am which hail ever been, and, 1 trust,
ever will be, open to the freest discussion by all Teaks in the
kingdom. Neither of these attempts will seemed, end m
you have obtruded the subject upon my notice, I have no
hesitation in distinctly avowing my earucet hope that Mr.
Nigel Kingscote will become the choice of the liberal
electors of the western division of the county of Glouces-
ter, ie the conviction that the interests, not of one class, but
of all classes of the division, may be safely trusted to his
care ; that he will redeem every pledge he gives, and that
on the hustings he will not make promises which in the
House of Commons he will either openly break or endeavour
to evade. I am, yours, &C.. FITZIIAIWINOZ.—To Messrs.
Thomas Gerard and others."

SHAFTESBURY.
The election took place yesterday. Mr. W. H. B.
Portman, the only candidate for this borough, was intro-
duced by the mayor, J. BUCXLAND, Esq., who proposed
that the lion. William Henry Berkly Portman shoul r
e-
present this borough in the next parliament. Mr. J. PAR-
some seconded the nomination. After a short pause, the
mayor declared him to he duly elected.
The lion. W. 11. B. PORTMAN then made a short ad-
dress. He expressed himself • free-trader, a friend, of the
fullest et lig' ma liberty, interested in the extension of secu-
lar education, and anxious to remove the agricultural bur-
dens, but not to the injury of other portions of the commu-
nity. Ile concluded by returning thanks for the honour
conferred upon him. The bon. gentleman then moved •
rote of thanks to those gentlemen who had proposed and
seconded his nomination, also to his worship the mayor,
which having been seconded, were carried by acclamation.