The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

REFORM BANQUET AT CARLISLE.

On Monday last a public dinner was celebrated in
a spacious tent erected for the purpose in Victoria-place,
Carlisle, in honour of the return of Messrs. !toward and
Marshall for East Cumberland, and Sir James Graham and
Mr. Ferguson for the city of Carlisle. The company num-
bered about 500, and included most of the leading re-
formers in the counties of Cumberland and Westmorland.
A considerable number of seats were set apart for ladies.
The chair was occupied by naitar HOWARD, Esq., of
Oreystoke, chairman of the liberal committee for East
Cumberland ; and the vice-chair was filled by George
Mooney, Esq. At the chairman's table there were
Sir James K. O. Graham, But., of Netherby,
M.P.; the Hon. C. Howard, M.P. ; Wm. Marshall, Esq.,
M.P. ; J. Ferguson, Esq., M.P. ; W. B. Beaumont,
Esq., H.P.; P. H. Howard, Esq , late M.P. for Carlisle ; J.
Diana, Esq., formerly M.P. fur Carlisle; Thomas Nelson,
Esq:, Mayor of Carlisle, &c.

The usual preliminary toasts having been disposed of,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the " Members for East Cum-
berland—Mesan. Howard and Marshall." (Laud cheers.)
Both hon. gentlemen having returned thanks,
The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of the members for
the City of Carlisle, which having been duly honoured,
Sir JAMES GRAHAM rose to return thanks, and was
received with enthusiastic cheering. After some introduc-
tory remark, and an allusion to the euppoied interfer-
ence of the Earl of Carlisle with the election for East
Cumberland, Sir James proceeded to is; that bad Sir
Robert Peel been alive to witness the elections, the utmost
'desire of his heart would have been satisfied by the appeal'
which had been made to her Majesty's people. (Loud
cheer.) Sir Robert was of opinion that the change which
he made in the policy of this country was essential for the
happiness of the people, and he told him after leaving office
that there was no effort he would not make, and no
political combination into which he was not willing
to enter, to render that policy safe. (Loud cheers.)
They had had a strong proof not only in Cedilla and East
Cumberland, but throughout the United Kingdom, of the
earnest desire of the people to maintain our present tom-
menial policy. (Cheers.) Protection was dead. Free
trade is safe—(cheers)—and that policy, let wbo would be
the minister, never could be reversed in this country. (Re-',
iterated cheering.) His friend, Mr. Howard, has also re-
ferred
to certain remarkable features in the return of his
(Re James Graham's) hon. colleague and himself. He (Sir
James Graham) could fairly my that he bad not clammed
a single voter, that he had not had a paid agent,—and that
this triumph had not been achieved by undue influence of
any sort, but by the combintd efforts of the electors and
non electors themselves. (Loud cheers.) If ever there was a
pure popular triumph, the late election for Carlisle was
one, and he defied any of their enemies to contradict that
statement. (Loud and continued cheering) Ile would
impart to them an electioneering secret. They had heard
of • letter addretwil, it was alleged, by a member of the
Carlton Club to a Mr. Frail, clerk of the course at Shrew*.
bury. (Hear, hear.) It was a false assertion of the poet,
that " Frailty, thy name is woman." (Great laughter and
applause.) The men were frail, much more than the
ladies; and, if there were one man more frail than another,
Frail of Shrewsbury was pre-eminently that man.
(Laughter.) On the 6th of April of the pre-
sent year, a friend of his (Sir James Graham's)
said to him in the House of Commons, "You are going to
stand for Carlisle, you must be on your guard against a cer-
tain briber of the name of 1.• rail, from Shrewsbury.
(Laughter.) We have reason to fear that he visited Car-
lisle before, most likely in 1847, and have reason to fear
be that his next visit will to Carlisle at the approaching
election." (Great laughter.) He (Sir James) did write
to his friends at Carlisle, and he said "be on your guard
with respect to a Mr. Frail at Shewsbury." (Laughter.)
They took the wise precaution to send over to Shews-
bury, to make themselves acquainted with the per-
son of Mr. Frail. Alarm was excited, and on the ter-
rible night which intervened between the nomination
and the poll it became very intense. They watched dili-
gently the arrival of every train at Carlisle, expecting Mr.
Frail to make his appearance. But he was so busily en-
Mrelsewhere—he knew not whether the claims of
" or Shrewsbury engrossed his attention, but they had
no one answering to his description at Carlisle—Mr. Frail
did not make his appearance here. (Loud laughter.) Lord
Derby had expressed his great fear of the extreme danger
arid from the spread of democratic principles, and it
had bees said that if he was not maintained in
office the danger would be very great indeed. He
(Sir James) had no such great alarm at the
spread of democrsey. The conduct of the non-electors
during this contest had mitigated whatever apprehen-
sions he might have had previously. (Loud cheer) But '
Lord Derby, during the period be bad held office, had
done more to give a sodden and violent spur to the popular
party than any man in this country for the last 20 years.
The very first act of that government was to make in one
day 18 privy eouncillors—to nisi men to the highest office
who never held office before, and who were altoge-
ther wanting in experience. (Hear, hear.) The pro-
posal of the Derby government for the extension of
the outings by the enfranchisement of the militia was one
of a socialist character. It was not education, or property,
or successful industry they proposed to regard, but it was
dealing with the humblest clue first—going the whole
length of universal suffrage without any of the advantages
or the safeguards usually amompanying it. (Hear
hear.) Upon no former occasion(Hear,
had influence been;
used so harshly or so extensively as in the last
general election in all the out-ports and boroughs
where government influence is strong. (Hear, hear.
Now, though he had great respect for the people of this)
country, he would never consent to be their tool. (Hear,
beat.) What he thought right he would Dropout. (Cheers.)
He would stand by it—he would fall by it. (Renewed
cheering.) Never would he throw the question of policy
down before the people of this country as the present go-
veroment had done. (Cheers.) After the overthrow of
Lord Derby, the deluge, it is mid, was to corns. (Laugh-
ter.) Before and ix New tiaw after the deluge of old all
the spas 41•• IMNIONIER But after the deluge came
the 1120111 MS. of MO man epake the language
of another. (Laughter.) Now be must say that
the deluge is past, and that Babel has come,
for there were not two members of the govern-
ment who hold the same language. (Great laughter.)
They were too far north, however, to be led astray.
(Laughter end impieties.) It is not the word " protection"
to which they objected, but it I. the thing itself. (Laugh-
ter and cheers.) A friend of his had most aptly described
what It was. It was neither more nor less than out-door
relief to landlords in distress. (Great laughter and cheer-
ing.) Then they beard of things looming in the future.
(Laughter.) He would tell them what loomed in the
fature—a great bottle into whieh a conjuror was to jump.
(Laughter.) " May I be there to see," continued the
right honoursbls baronet, amid great laughter, "and
thank; to you, the electors of Carlisle, I shall be there
to gee. (Continued laughter.) And I tell you this,
that I am satisfied that all these fine declarations
about some great scheme of revision of taxation,
which will be hailed with gladness and satisfaction
by all classes in this country, is vain delusion
Which will be dissipated into thin air." (The right hon.
baronet resumed his seat amidst loud and prolonged
cheeeing.)
Mr. FERGUSON, in responding to the toast, paid a
tribute to the eloquence and ability of his colleague sir
James Graham. He congratulated the friends of free trade
on the result of the appeal which had been made to the
country on the subject of our commercial policy, which was
now perfectly safe. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN, in a few complimentary observations,
proposed the health of Mr. Beaumont, one of the members
for South Northumberland, who briefly responded : and
several other toasts having barn disposed of, the proceedings
were brought to a close.

THE FREEHOLD LAND MOVEMENT.—A soiree on a
grand scale took place at Wolverhampton on Monday
night, the occasion being to celebrate the taking posses-1
sins of a new estate purchased by the members of the Free-1
Jtold Land Society; it is some eighty acres in extent,
and has been laid out with great taste and beauty. Speeches
were delivered by the Ron. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Mr
Scholefield, M.P., Mr. George Dawson, and other gentle-
' men, in advocacy of the extension of the movement.

THE ELECTIONS. _____
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NORTH Ni/RTTILIMIIERLAND.
DECLAItATION OF TILE POLL.
ALNRICIC, Mosrsy.
The official declaration of the poll for the nourthern
division of Northumberland took place here to-day at II
o'clock in the foren.on. A large concourse of 1,,,,p le „..
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dates appeared on the hosting', each accompanied by a large
Lion was marked with great enthusiasm.
Shortly.aftorwardo, Mr. T. W. Craster, the hiehoberiff,
accompanied by Mr. 11. W. Fenwick, the undersherilf,
arrived, and, addremiug the crowd, said he had opened tie
poll-books and cast up the number of votes fur the different
candidates, and had found them to be as follows: For Lord
Louvaiae, 1,414 —[A Voice: tt How many of them did he
bribe ?" Groans and cheers.)—for Lord Useulstun, 1,:134—.
cheers and groans)—and for Sir Genet Grey, 1,31.iff,
Cheers.) Ile theretoro declared Lord Louvaine and Lod
Iseuhton to be duly elected the two knights of the shire to
serve for the northern division of Northumberland in tee
ensuing parliament. (Cheers.)
Lord LOU VAINE then stood forward, and was tete,. il
with loud groans from one portion of the closed, miiiie.d
with cheers from the other.—(Sir G. Grey begged the erne,)
to listen to the noble lord.] When silence was at length
restored, the noble lord prone dill to say—Gentlemen I
belie le that the announcement which has just bean insole
by the liigh-Sheriff will give gratification to the greats
number of this assembly. (Cries of "No ; not In re,-)
While I and my noble friend may Ise permitted te expos,
our true, just, and legitimate exultation at the annoueie-
ment which proclaims us and our cause triumphant on this
occasion, yet I, and I on convinced he, rejoices far moo in
the success of the cause in which we are engaged—(A Veae,
"What cause ?")—than in any mere triumph to eurseless
personally. (Noise and confusion.) If you would wily
make a little less anise, perhaps we should get through nut
business a little quicker. (Coutinued interruption.) Ide
not want to detain you long, 1 assure you, and if you are
impatient at hearing me, I assure you 1 ant no less impa-
tient at hearing you ; but au I am here, allow me to say
that, if I wanted any remembrance to moderate the joy
which I feel on this occasion, 1 should certainly find it 4
the recollection that I stood formerly in a different !oration;
hut as the mortification which I felt on the last eteasiou
was moderated by the feeling that I had been beaten by
the best and ablest opponent which the ranks of my oppo-
nents could produce throughout the empire, as new i
confess that my joy is moderated by the knowledge that I
necessarily, by my success, deprive the country of what
I am not ashamed or afraid to call the tried talents and ter-
races of the right hon. baronet. (Cie en.) list, gentle.
men, I have no doubt that it will not he for a long time;
and that he and I will yet have the pleasure of voting elec.
they on subjects for the advantage of the nation. (Hear)
I have now to address myself particularly, while on this
point, to the right hon. baronet and his friend.. My erten.
lion has been called to certain terms which 1 appear to have
used in the speech which I made last Monday on these hus-
tings. I believe that the right hon. baronet will do me the
justice to bear me witness that I have invariably and on
every occasion deprecated ar.y sort of personality, end that
I have endeavoured to infuse as little hostility as possible
into the collision into which I have been brought with him.
(Cheers and hisses.) And, gentlemen, I have done so not
only from the esteem which i bear for the private charac-
ter of the right hon. baronet, but from a desire that,
when we leave these hosting., we may meet, as we hare
done before, in private life, on terms of personal friendship
and kindness. (Hear, hear.) I believe that I need make
no apology or explanation on the subject to the right hon.
baronet himself, but it may be satisfactory to his friend. if
I state that the words " false pretences,' which which lam re-
ported to have used, does not attach to any action or lit i cli
of the right hon. baronet, but simply to the fact that he did
not, in my opinion, represent truly the opinions of the ma-
jority of the county. (Cries of " Ile dill :he did.") I
have said that I rejoice in the triumph of the cause. of Con-
servatism, and I do so because I feel convince, that that
cause is identical with the belief that the institution. of
this country are the gift of a higher power, and that
they ought to be used a. the gift of a higher
power, for the improvement of all classes, and with
the ue concurrence and respect of all classes of this
great empire, and that they do not depend, u a too nu-
merous class of politicians opine, upon the mere expression
of the popular cry of the moment—fur the popular cry is
notoriously the most fleeting and fickle of all political ele-
ments. (Cheers.) In all countries where, instead of being
taken, as it has been in this country, as the mere voice of
warning, it has been taken as a leading guide, the result
has invariably been that it has led to a fearful state of
anarchy, and paved the way for the ii 11l i t ution of ihs-
potism. (Cheers, and cries of "Humbug.") Gentlemen,
I will detain you no longer, as I see the state of the weather
is not very propitious (a heavy rain was falling at this
moment), and therefore I will now conclude by giving
those who have supported me my most hearty thanks.
And first, m thanks are due to the landowners and pro-
prietors of the soil of this division of the county, nine-
tenths of whom, I believe, are in favour of the views
which 1 have the honour to hold. (Cries of " Oh.") I
have also to express my warmest thank. to the farmers—
(A Voice : " Thank the duke, rather")—and I must say
that, having canvassed the whole land, north aad south,
east and west, I have never met a body to remarkable for
intelligence, energy, and independence as the farmers of
Northumberland. My thanks are likewise due, and I pay
them from my heart, to the freeholders of the county, who
so generously assisted me to secure my triumph. Icannot
omit also (banking those who, having no vote to give me,
nevertheless encouraged me almost universally with
their wishes for my successor the occasion. And I will go
further, and thank also those persons who dater from me in
opinion, for I may say throughout my canvass I met with
nothing but universal civility from my opponenU. I say
universal civility, because I do not think that the noise and
tumult created by a few individuals in a crowd constitute
any exception to the rule. (Hear, hear.) The best way in
which I can testify my gratitude to you will be
to discharge my duty in parliament by making
every exertion to benefit you and the nation at
large. I can promise you that no exertion of
mine shall be wanting to secure you all the be-
nefits which legislation can give you; and when I shall
stand again on these hustings I am perfectly certain you
will do me the justice to state that I have fearlessly, con-
scientiously, and honestly fulfilled the promises I hers
make. I would fain hope: that when I leave the hustings
no the present,
will non,eentetaaiinthaon7rillsunt°itles:iiindtelutthfueelelinntgafoforrme the mo-
ment they cease to look upon me as a political opponent. I
therefore take my leave of you with every wish for your
prosperity and happiness. (A voice : "We hope you'll
never come back again.") I sincerely thank you all, and
bid you farewell. (Hooting.)
Lord OSSULSTON next proceeded to address the crowd,
and was received, like his colleague, with mingled cheers
and disapprobation. Ile said—Gentlemen, the declaration
of the High Sheriff has placed me in the honourable position
of one of your representatives. This renewal of confidence
on your part has added another debt of gratitude to the
many I owe you for the proofs of goodwill and hearty
support which I have always found at your hands.
(Cheen.) We have had an arduous struggle, hut we have
fought the good fight and won the battle ; and I hope, now
that it is concluded, that all unpleasant personal feeling
will he at au end, and that no one will seek to stir up
the animosities of party, which can do no good, and ought
not, therefore, to be prolonged. (Hear, hear.) I don't
ascribe to myself any merit further than that 1 still con-
tinue to hold the same principles which I have always
maintained—l moan the principles of conservatism, which
are not opposed to progreas, but opposed merely to reckless
innovation. (Hear, hear.) I know that it is from no
personal merit that you have chosen me in preference to the
right hon. baronet. It has been a fair battle of principle
between us. (Cries of" No.'") I hail the triumph of my
noble friend and myself on this occasion as the triumph of
the conservative cause. (Hisses.) I have now once more
torenew my hearty thanks to you for your kindness and
support. (Cries of "Thank the duke.") I shall earnestly
endeavour to merit the honour you have conferred upon me
by discharging to the utmost of my ability, and with the
greatest fidelity, the trust you have committed to my hands.
your interests safe
any government that
was inclined t. advocate class legislation. My desire is to
sec the interests of all classes properly attended to ; and I
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for your kindness to me. (Cheers and hooting.)
Sir G. 011EY then came forward and was received with
loud and prolonged cheers. He said—Gentlemen, I have
but very few words to address to you on the present occasion,
and those shall not be words of disappointment and regret.
(Applause.) When I engaged in the contest which is now
about to be brought to a close, I was not unaware of the
formidable nature of the opposition with which I should
have to contend. I certainly hoped that the struggle on
which I had entered would prove a successful one, hut I
knew that it would be what it his proved to be—a close and
seven one. I felt that I might have incurred the just re-
proach of those through whose free and independent choice
I had enjoyed for the last five years the honour of being ioc
of your representatives if I had shrunk from the connst,
and if, consulting my own interest and convenience, I had
quietly surrendered the position in which they had placed
me, and, seeking a seat in parliament through some other
constituency, bad left those friends and supporters who
were identified with me in principle, without any oppor-
tunity of asserting their principles or vindicating their in-
dependence. (Great applause.) I therefore felt it my
duty to offer myself again as a candidate for the repnsin-
tation of this division of the county; and, now that the
result of the election has been finally declared by the MO.
Sheriff, I avow here that I do not entertain the slightest
feeling of regret at the course which I thus advisedly hr' k.
(Loud cheers.) Considering the circumstances under
which the battle has been fought—considering the im-
mense amount of territorial influence which has I.'l
no cause to be disheartened or dispirited. (Hear, hilfr)
exerted against me—(loud cheers)—we have,
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which is the hour of my defeat I have Wed glinted in •
meaner and was sates' which I had not antleipated, and
goo which I can meet inadequately convey die eapremien of
lay he irtielt gmtitude. (Cheers.) This, gentlemen, is the best
wood which, on resigning the trot auto the hands of his
goodie ney, one who has represented you ma elpeet or
ree.ite for the at:empt, at hest (iithfully and honestly, to
discharge the important duties which had bees confided to
him, It is as sot ill satisfaction to me to know that, sob-
jotted a. my pest con.liset as your representative bas hem
to evert scrutiuy, nothing hu been laid to my charge
'tree that of a constant adherence to a policy which,
here and elves hi re, I have always openly avowed—
(peat applause)—a policy which is alleged, as I think
y, to be injurious to the agricultural interest,
tint a policy which, at all events, is admitted now even
by ter opponents to he irreversible, befoul* it hos been
fo,,tiod Fy the .almost unanimous voice of the people of this
.try. (.. War that, Louvain...") (Cheers.) Gentle-
man. I have new to bike esy leave of you. I shall retire--
gbe.rfully retire—into the ranks of the constituency as one
of , ,oroares, living among you, identified with you and
your interest., and desirous, as far as in me lies, in
eq prorate capacity, to discharge those duties which de-
volve urea each of us as members of society—(a rilit•—
•`ll'v tAn't Jo without voia")—to adman, the interests sad
romete the social welfare of those among whom I have
the Airlines. to live. (Cheers.) I entirely comae with my
'able hien& who have been elected to scree as your mesa-
bets for this divi.ion of the county, in the earnest desire
We t n e may be no frlll.lillillg feeling of animosity after
*ratod h.- toed. We shall always be ready in our
private awl public capacities to maintain our principles
101,11 y and balleady in the face of day, loit shrinking from
gbe op. a avowal ut item, but demoting then, without hesi-
tates' ar evasion. (loud cheers) Now that the battle
has twin fought. now that it has been won by our uppo.
am!, I here that no unkind word or feeling will remain,
and that we shall Art as we have done hitherto, as honest
sod in pendent Enalishonen, firm to our principles, but
.0.4 with klnallefe uul genero.ity towards those who
dater tramas. (Hear, hear.) Lieutlemen, I now take my
terse of you, with a letting of ill-will, I hope, to no one,
bat with feelings of the warm, st and must lasting Frati-
ma,- otiose who so nobly and gallantly stood by mein the
eont,st is which we have been engaged. To all I say
garewell, with the asaulance that my conies' and sincere
wishes are for your constant happiness and prosperity.
(Lon' cheers.)
011 the motion of Lord Lou TAINII, seconded by Sir
(ilO v, thanks were voted to the lligh-Sheriff,
after which the proceedings on the hustings terminated.
'The yen many of chairing " the mcn.bcrs then took
place, each uoble lord proceeding through the town in an
ores carriage. drawn by four horses, with outiiders, and
ac,mp4141.-t1 by a band of music and a large array of flags
mad billiliCri.