The Press.
London, England, 1857-03-21 00:00:00

EAST SUSSEX ELECTION.
The London Committee for Securing the Return of Mr,
tILLER and Viscount PEVENSEY, Sits daily at Messrs.
LOWNDES and SEmoit's, 2, New Inn, Strand, where every
Intorination will be afforded.

the Earl of MARCH, M.P., Chairman.

A T a MEETING of the CiiNSERVATIVE*
a. COMMITTEE of the COMBINED COUNTIES of ROSS
and CHOMARTY, held at INVERGORDON, on the 14th
March. 1N57,

Lieutenant-Colonel BOSS, of Cromarty, in the Chelr,
The Committee having carefully revised the Roll of Registered
Electors for the Combined Counties, Resolved unanimously:—
I. That though it is apparent that the Conservative party
could enter upon a contest with a confident expectation of ob-
taining a majority on the Mainland—their position having been
materially improved since the last election, when the only poll-
ing-place at which Colonel Ross was in a minority was the
village of Ullapool (the private property of Sir James Matheson)
it is in vain for them to contend against the overwhelming
though isolated influence possessed by Sir James Matheson
over the voters in the town of Stornoway—numbering 70 cut of
a constituency of 700—and that, under these cireumstanees,
the Committee being " not insensible to the blessings of peace,"
consider it would be not only injudicious, but unkind to their
friends, to attempt a contest on the pre-ent occasion.
If. That the Committee all the inure sincerJly and deeply
regret this result of their deliberations, inasmuch as the
address just issued by the sitting lilember for the Combined
Counties (in accordance with his not unprecedented but scarcely
"safe progression ") can only have widened the breach between
his constituents and himself; in respect that, whatever b's own
"particular reNion" may be, his latest determination—to
oppose all grants by the State for religious purposes—is in
direct antagonism to the principles of the religious deuomiva-
Cons wnich prevail on the Mainland of Ross-shire.
1 11. That the Con-ervatives of the Comoined Counties owe a
deep debt of gratitude to Sir James J. R. Mackenzie, Dart., of
Scatwell, and hereby tender to him their best thanks for his
uniformly consistent and disinterested support of their cause
during a long period of years ; and more especially for the
honourable and chivalrous manner in which, on the present
emergency, he, sacrificing all personal considerations, held him-
eel ready to represent the interests of the Conservative party
should a contest have been thought advisable ; and, at the same
time, the Committee express their absolute conviction that by
him the real sentiments of the electors on the Mainland would
have been most faithfully and ably represented.
IV. That these Resolutions be printed in the Inverness Ad-
rertiser, the Inverness Courier, the John o'Groat Journal, the
Etyin Courant, the Edinburgh Advertiser, the Morning Herald,
and the PTCBB.

G. W. H. ROSS, Lient.•Col., Chairman.

To the INDEPENDENT ELECTORS of the BOROUGH of
FROM E.

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Gentlemen,
SINGE 1 had the honour of issuing my pre-
liminary chimes, it has been authoritatively announced that
her Msjeaty's proclamation dissolving the present Parliament
will appear on the 251.11 inst. You will then he celled upon to
elect auother member to represent you in the House of Com-
mons.

On the last occasion when I came before you as a candidate,
I most reluctantly retired front the contest in deference to the
urgent solicitations of a large and influential deputation of my
friends, and, in conformity with the mutual pledges thou given,
I now confidently seek your suffrage; and rely upon your
support.
My political opinions are well known to you ; it is not, there-
fore, necessary that I should do more than briefly notice the
leading topics which now engross public attention.
I am of to the continuance of the Maynuoth Grant.
I sin decidedly hostile to the desecratio.i of the Sabbath, by
opening the Crystal Palace aid other places of amusement on
the Sunday, as It would iTeerlily assimilate our observance of
that holy day to the objectionable manner in which it is spent
on the Continent, and deprive so many working men of their
inalienable right to the enjoyment of a weekly day of rest.
Whilst it is our bounden duty to provide education for the
humbler classes, it is essential that it should be based upon the
Bible. avoiding as far as possible all that is calculated to create
unnecessary and sectarian differences.
On the question of the Income Tax I sihotild have voted
against the continuance of the War Nineponce, and in favour of
the strict fulfilment of the pledge given to the public by the
Government in 1653, involving a still further reduction and the
final extinction of this moat obnoxious of all imposts in
I should also have opposed the high scale of duties upon tea
and sugar, proposed by the present Government, as a departure
from the principles of free trade, and seriously affecting the
social comforts of the poor.
The conduct of Sir John llowring in China, and the approval
accorded to his acts by the Ministry, were, in my opinion, wholly
unjustifiable, and another manifestation of the same restless
and aggressive spirit which led to the invasion of Persia.
If this policy is to be sanctioned and pursued, instead of that
repose so needful to our commerce and manufactures after the
termination of a great and necessary war, all retrenchment,
useful reform, and social ameliorations, in which I take the
deepest interest, must be indefinitely postponed.
Gentlemen, if you do me the honour to elect me, I shall enter
Parliament free from the control of any Minister, the unfettered
representative of an independent constituency.
it will ever be my pleasure, as well us my duty, to promote
the prosperity of your town, and to give, on all occasions, the
strictest attention to your local requirements.
I purpose on my canvass to seek a personal interview with
each of you. 1 remain. Gentlemen,
Your very faithful servant,
EDWARD TIIYNNfI.

Longlent, March 11, 1857.