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

WOLVF:RHAMPTON.

The nomination and election for this borough took
1114C0 yesterday., and resulted in the return of the 01,1 rm
bets, Mews. inlets and Tburnely, who have sat for the
borough since 1831
E. B. Diumack, Esq., nominated, and Mr. Alderman
WA LK vAt seconded, the lion. Charles hilt:ern Villiers, and
Joseen WALKER. Esq., ex.mayur of the borough, no-
minated, and Mr. Bew aecorded, Mr. Thoruley.
No other candidate having hewn proposed, the Mayor
drelarevl the llou. Charles I'. Villiers and Thomas Thornily,
Esq., duly elected to represent the burgesses of Welver-
hampton in parliament.
Mr. VILLIERS advanced to the front of the tinging%
immediately and was received with much cheering. Ile said
when 1 first went into the Houseful Commons the conutat
it was disgusting. You might attack the crown--the I ,Jli.ti-
tation—tven the bench of bishops— anyth unit you 13,..1
so that you did nut mention tree trade. If you did,
then the row began. (Laughter.) Thin you were de.
dared to be a bad subject, a repubiican, a leveller,
and indeed all sorts of bad things. (Renewed laughter.)
You had to endure the advice of all kinds of friends, who
said, " Don't meddle with that question (meaning free
trade), if you meddle with it, you will never get on in life,
you will ruin yourself." Now, I wan glad to hear that sort
of thing, for it determined me to: persevere. (Cheer.) It
was anything but pleasant work at that time, I assure you.
(lieu.) I remember my old friend, Mr. Fryer, your first
member, said to me the first time 1 came litre—" Have you
the courage to go on ? To persevere year after year, and
not only to do that, but to move for unconditional repeal
(Cheers.) I replied that I knew a great sacrifice was re.
quired, but that I knew the thing was right in principle,
and that I would try. (Cheers.) Anil I din so. (lieu.) Fur
the first six years, you know, after that time, our friends,
as they were called, were in power, but they did not by
any means like this question of free trade. (Ilear.) Lord
Melbourne said it was madness to talk of such a. thing, and
other members of his party said it was a mischievous principle
to advocate. (Hear.) Well, gentlemen, I kept my NO-
miss to your old friend—that genuine free, trailer—Mr.
Fryer. for years I struggled, annually for nine years in
succession I moved for a repeal of these lawn unsuc-
cessfully ; but look at the result. Can you appre-
ciate my satisfaction and my gladness of helero
I who struggled so long and so unsuccessfully ID the face
of such bitter opposition—such lukewarm support? No,
gentlemen, none can appreciate or enter into the satisfac-
tion I. feel unless they had gone through that struggle under
similar circumstances ; and not all the places, nor all the
advantages I might have obtained, would have induced me
to forego that which I now enjoy. (Cheers.) Why, gentle.
men, at last the whole country has come round to the
views you entertained at the time you first elected me.
(Hear.) Look at the state of the country now, and cut
back your mind to what it was in 1842—that most hurrib'e
year of suffering. (Hear.) You witnessed it here, gentle
men. Poor-houses full ; prisons full ; hospitals full ; the
road-sides all occupied; the school-houses deserted; the
workshops empty ; aye, gentlemen, the suffering and the
destitution were such that the honest artisan had not even
the decent apparel to appear in the house of prayer. (Hear.)
There had been three bad harvests, and you had given
notice to all countries not to grow food for you. But that
sad year helped us to victory; it converted Sir Robert
l'eel. That great man looked on the sad events and the
misery of that year, and he said, "there must be no more years
of famine in England." In :848 there was famine again in
the land, and then Sir Robert Peel surrendered the garri-
son. it he ever had thought that the principle of pro-
' tection ought to be maintained he now gave it up at once.
(Hear.) There was only one man in his cabinet who dis-
sented ; that man, gentlemen, was the Earl of Derby.
(Hear.) But he was not in a very responsible office then ;
he is now, and ve7 anxious, I have no doubt, that the
principle of protection should be given up. (Cheers.) Talk
no more of prosperity under protection • why in 1412 the
declared value of our manufacturing products exported was
forty-six millions, last year the value was seventy-four mil-
lions; and our imports have increased in like proportion.
(Hear.) Ah ! but say the Derbyites, the increase of pau-
perism is frightful. (Laughter.) Well, gentlemen, in
1834 the poor ratsamounted to Bs. fid. in the pound ; last
year it was only ss. 4d. (Hear.) Last year the number of
able-bodied paupers applying for relief was shove 17,000
less than in 1834, though the population has increased two
millions. (Hear.) Why, it's like flying in the face of heaven
to say that prosperity does not exist when we see it ever
i
day. And now what s all this turmoil in the country about?
Why simply that the constituencies of England may say
whether they will go back to that blessed year 1842. and to
the system then in force. (Hear.) Was there ever such
an absurdity ? It's bkc asking a man who had been long ill
whether he was tired of improved health. (Cheers and
laughter.) Yon know, gentlemen, that as soon as the
Derby administration came into office I put a certain mo-
tion relative to free trade on the paper ; well, I didn't go
on with it, because it was at once acknowledged that the
parliament wu in a majority for free trade; sad now you
know Lord Derby has what is called "gone to the country"
on the question. Lord Derhy would do well to con-
suit the women of England on this question—(hear,
hear)—to ask them what is the state of the cup-
board. I think there is little doubt of the reply. A
noble lord (Lord Maidstone), recently a candidate tor the
representation of the borough of Newark, went down there,
and I believe the honest women there threatened to scratch
his lordship's eyes out unless his lordship was a free trader.
(Laughter.) Lord Maidstone is said to have gone back
to Lord Derby, and advised him to give up
' protection. And the party have• rather now mode,
fled the thing; they say its not protection they
want but " the constitution." (Roars of laughter.) Fur
myself, gentlemen, thanking you again most sin-
cerely for this renewal of your confidence, I
have only, in conclusion, to say, that I go to
parliament unfettered in any way ; thoroughly in-
dependent—under an obligation to no man unaided
by anything but your good opinion, and that which
I value even more—the conviction of having laboured
successfully under disadvantageous circumstances, in a
cause the object of which was to add to the comforts of the
people. (Cheers.) When I return to you, gentlemen. I
hope you will have occasion to find as little fault with me
as you have at this election. (Cheers.)
Mr. THORNELY very briefly addressed the electors,
thanking them amidst much cheering for the renewed proof
of their confidence.

A procesaion wu then formed, and the hon. gentlemen
were accompanied hack to the Swan Hotel. The clectori
gave them a hearty cheering at parting.

MIDHURST.

This election took place yesterday. Mr. Walpole,
the Home Secretary, who was proposed by Mr. T. A. Davis,
and seconded by Mr. Hasler IloHist, said that, whether in
office or out of office, he assured them he would do the best
he could to serve the interest of the Queen. (Applause.)
This was the fourth time within seven years, when they
first engaged him to serve as their representative in parlia-
ment, and he felt hound to give them en account of his
stewardship, and also what they might expert of him in
future. His friend Mr. Monist told them just now that the
only point on which in his address he had not been so
specific as he (Mr. 110111 st) could have wished, was that
which had been called, erroneously he thought, the free
trade system. It had not been his habit, and never should
be, to reserve from his constituents his honest opinions.
(Applause.) If they agreed with him, he should expect
their support ; but if they did not agree with him, he was
sure they would not entertain any hostile feeling towards
him in that respect. During the seven years that he had
had the honour of being their representative it took them
back to a most important period. Seven years ago, in
1846, was first commenced the new system which had
agitated the country from that time to this. In the year
1846 he was sent by them to parliament, when the conser-
vative party was completely broken up by the conduct of
those who had originally formed it, when the principles
which had brought that party into power were abandoned
and given up, and ail its leaders, only excepting use, and
that one was, at the present time, the head of her Ma-
jesty'. government—(applause) the one faithful only
among the faithless who had adhered to the policy that
had brought them into power, and which had thrown
the whigs from office in 1841. (Cheers.) The conserva-
tive party being broken up, to whom could he look, or in
whom could he trust ? All confidence in public men was
broken, and any person who was then sent to parliament,
for the first time, could do nothing but examine ter himself
and judge for hinise:f, which line of volley was the best for
the country, or which line of policy, upon the whole, it
would be his duty to follow. There were two policies pro-
minently before them on that occasion. There was the
policy of 11442, supported by the whole conservative party,
and the policy of 1816, which ergs supported by only a por-
tion of it. Ile pointed to that act, because he thought that
the main distinction between those two policies hail never
been properly or sufficiently adverted to. That policy was
founded on commercial freedom. It was at that time ad-
mitted and argued that commercial freedom ought to be the
principle upon which this country should he governed, so
far, at least, as they could have that freedom in a highly
taxed, highly cultivated, and in a highly artificial state of
society. Now, it was not so easy a thing, 10 Path a state of
society, to have abstractedly free tt10.:.., but they had to
consider the application of that system in reference to all
the interests which were, or which might be, affected by it.
Now, by the policy of 1842, there was a main and broad dis•
tinetion between that policy and the policy of 1816. By the
policy of 1642 all prohibitory duties were entirely taken
away. By that policy, however, small duties were kept

n all articles of import, particularly for the purpose of
"';..,eir therefrom the largest amount of public re- 1
and particularly for the purpose of protecting
irs,,• which made, and were instrumental in
L, thoe article., the duties on which were neut.
, "Jeanie
• duties; and they were regulated in
irtIICIICC to the points to which he hail adverted.
wire duties of .1 per cent. on all article.. of raw
" • :. there wee a duty of 12 per cent. on all material
in 'L....d ." little partially manufactured; and there was a duty
i• o per cent. on all manufactures that were completely
uo That was the policy of 1942; but what was the
ISII; The reeter portion of article th duties
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°Were very small whis, n tokeen in-di-
hut y, ry large in the aggregate, amounted, be
tke•
iet,
wt.:41090e Th, se were entirely taken away
•
'whole he thought, any correeeoeding adrantages to the
0•an..1• el this country ; but a general ad raturent duty
ere Put upon an articles of produce, whether they were
cie only partially manufactured; while those
arm,* • hieh arose from the produce of the land had all
Jules taken from them. while the corresponding bur-
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th it ling the soil were left on the soil, and those who em'
imaudtatrly in the occupation or eultivation of it.
That E. hermit to he a perfect account and just description
efth ' establehed 1812, and that intioduced in 1846.
i • eo •e .y in
That au tee mimosa to be obviously drawn from it ; and
e be it, nclit in his description, the former policy was an
and equitable policy ; it put upon all the same
use all the some advantages. (Cheer.) The
one-sided policy. because, in point of
me. it ,1,4 not nut upon all the 0.2021! burdens ; it put
pea.. ',entree upon one Clan than upon another. In con-
...ere:. then f •re, the answer to be given to his friend
itit Bidet, in reference to the mode in which they were to
i; with that question which was called free trade, he
soled to mak. one other remark. The local taaations or
1.04, e• which were left upon land. amounted, he thought,
t• many 13,tesevieti. a year, a sun that was equal to the
• of the n venue of Russia. Now, they 11114 taken
:olventage of the high duty which the land had
! 'sat hail not takes away the burd, ns to which it
• si.eid. Surely justice and reason required tl.at some
•eoulil be given to the land fur the burdens
• is, re still kit upon it, when they had taken away the •
, • n,ling adrantagt., winch were required sa an
• ' • r burdens. These were not his own opinions
•e, y were I.lllle out by the highest authorities which
. '• brought to bear upon inch a subject, and among
• no lees a man than Mr. M'CllllOCh. It was his con-
tound d upon the fasts to which hi (Mr. Walpole)
red. that before this county,' admitted a fret ins- I
::on el all articles from abroad, we were bound to
taxation at home, (Loud chei n 1 It was OWN con
' •Ii w h.,11 reference! Sir James graham to say
•'that it eou once 'creel the corn law you will
t‘i I; .0.11. to maintain the suit tax a singe year. Now,
he 1 wen Graham hail repealed the corn law ; but '
P. had n t 1, id a heed in alleviating the burdens
~,.me teen tee malt tax It was this conviction
• nosh indium' Mr. Gladstone. highly ho-
e•erel.:e awl independent man, and one of the first pro-
"ego, he believed he meth' say one of the ablest advocate., '
of th. tem trade system, to support 31r Disraeli in one
of h.. m .tiros for relieving the agricultural distress, by
teleue away tom it a portion of the pressure which arose
a the payment of the poor rate. But he would ask had
gee re oot h. a Mein did not the pressure arising from
, tit el the peer rate remain entirely where it was,
, • •h. .! motion was made by Mr. Disraeli and sup
r . Mr Gladstone ? (Applause.) But he had yet
aiehonty to predate.. It was the like convictions
a • ...educed Adam Smith to say that there were certain
ere • • aiiieled in supporting • full development of the
t• , • et free trade in foreign produce. Now he
. . .t point oat how those principles as laid down
t, _on entith had been grossly violated by statesmen
• ens, at day. The late Sir Hobert Peel violated them
Let whoa he took r tr all the advantages which the land
tr• r. I by a protective duty without alleviating the
• a• which pressed epos it. The government of Lord
te 10011, in the second place, bad violated them when
thy n;ielid the navigation laws, without requiring that
star t..itpots should enter into an equal reciproeite.
(tie in ' Ile would ask them whether there was any fair
tun :. to the observetions he had made. It may be said
test the ,',edition of the people was greatly 'meliorated ;
thst icit) ilea.* in the country. excepting the owners and
semeeve, of the ail, have benetitted by it, and every class
▪ the twintrr could not but he benelittee by the system,
and at lad the owners and occupiers of the soil itself must
participate in the common reciprocity. That unquestion•
ably was a 'inking way of putting it. He admitted what
they sue and he believed it would be perfectly true and
pet as an inference, if they bad certainly in-
quest whether thane benefits ha I been derived from
tee policy of 1342, or whether they had sprung from
the policy of 1846. There were two or three tests he would
Kr" to this subject, and which, he trusted, the country
• •ad limier forget. The best test to judge of the condition
'tie, people, and the way in which that condition was im•
peel. was the state of pauperism, the extent of crime,
ac: th. amount of savings the people were enabled to make
Ile wield now make those three tests. He contended that
the •eite M pauperism and crime were diminished by the
pe...7 .f 1842, but not by the policy of 1846. The savings
do. motile were much larger under the former policy,
is.. E.,.1 fallen off under the latt•r policy. (Hear, hear.)
hat there might he no mistake about this he bad taken
4..un the figures. The poor rate. in 1843 were 6,791,006!.
That we• the year before the repeal of the corn laws, and it
era• much about the same in the years 1843 and 1844, or
two years aftey the new tariff of 1812. Now, what had
tete the poor rate Mum the corn laws had been repealed,
er dunag the years 1847. 1848, and 1849 ? It was, u he
bad aid, 6,791,006!. is 1843 ; in 1847 it was 6,964,8211. ;
:a 1.43 it was 7,817,4301. ; and in 1849, 7,894,1461. Con-
test the dgares, and then they would be enabled
te till whether the improved condition ef the coun-
ty anise from the onesided policy of 1846 or the policy
d l'll. The nest them was the state of crime, and
learned he was astonished when he looked at thosei re-
tires. Ile would take the three years following the fold
of 1,12. and the three years following the policy of 1846.
Bow. aim increased in the country up to the year 1842.
From 1i,42 to 1813, for the first time in the history of this
Newry, mime, both in commitments and in convictions,
was materially diminished. In 1843 the commitments
wee .9,591; in 1841, 26,542 ; and in 1845, 24,303. Now,
mu, tee policy of Ite46, which was to give to the country
tert..peading advardages, and when they ought to have
esree•ed a diminution of crime, they would find that in
147 the commitments were 28,833; in 1848, 30,319; and in
Is; • 27..116. He thought he had shown that it was only
se art of Justice, the adesntagee having been taken away,
that the ..inneulturtats should also have the burdens to
Irl..rh they were exposed also taken away. He thought,
a' act of police, that the land ought not to be left
was ace burden upon it which other dames of the
wire not subjected to; became, as an act of
p0..,y• the amount to be raised from land would be
Maur than before, and would also impede to a great int-
im the labour, the industay, and the proeperity ef the
fvefiv.inase)) The way to remedy this wee not by
tee re OE defies, but rather that it ellatild be
audit read,leet the tomtits ef the mrietity
in to make it teem fide mid Ina (inisses.) the moisi
ittlttt at with he had ft sine them some asesset wee a •
F
&met me, Mit al; le biped. entirely
Let maths be am in Oat to receive Gem the
'letter. the intlteatsea of Mir aplaisa ea to whether his
50' .••.ise• of elks was appmed sea ad einem ft.blit
that oddest* la bini *bleb ho had
IL., were Mari to rectos theareelstea-Viire
hat. to Load's be head that the whip imemeat
not turned out by hie party, sea bed hike
to p.ete. bemuse its own impposion ymbil.mipeet 411 rte
knot (Chien.) He apeaddiet a imentemei ePPlohle•
ow Relayed wait thm-that a arm appaleillea ef
ior••,t was to teite piece-chat every acne vat be le
iulJed, sad elms aids to win M ietraddi ef the
too. native goveramai-that lerippeadest of the busi-
er- stick the whim peverassat hal male, tibialea
dour,ared to pleaeb • dirolaties, and they *AMA the
14.'4 any efdait *pigsties' ea the pat of the De hy
tr,irnieeet. They rid Y them, that it yea fay Ise
•••••aot it ; bet, Malt Heaves. the, bed smug fhleo
and bish-aeleeed • statesman me eessestomed the
Le•••••A this country. (Cheery) He MI &ma whoa the
tkr. it was bold oat to the government. they Soo mu an
; ',ate bosiosse of the country se psalm.* ; sadly
them that the asessores to he paned
Ft ••• protection of the moony,
_mid ether
P"'^ %mild legislation. He (Lord thely) sggealts to
ore whether they wield carry on a more petty _Wadi%
54 to belay avowed that if they maid aet INN tied
the ulna, no mortification, should Woo Ulm 16 sv"
Wax. rol her Majesty to dissolve pailleimmt until he had
•Ito and provided for all the great and iterirtaat
non which were committed to his imp. (Applause.)
Am what had been the result? The melt wee that for
tent fiat in the semis of bietnaty..42.4d•lll. 9.
ehieh the Ravening.* pol am Rim
Pm• I Leto law. Die private 60Y lad able Mame the
.f the Isn't. and the advantages which bad embed
(re them would have bleu if lb.
le- had attended to the advice of their
•
't Bet that was not all. They spas-
s•
the Meagan of the mostly, se en to be at
1 rate in such date of securitye le be pee-
l' fir any surprise. They bad able improved, le as na-
,,..4.0ted extent, the law sad equity of this country.
I);.ltuse ) The protean.* Y both worts had been
ael,ned, and the eaprame lommed, and he hoped they
"..:1 be no linger such a repegode es they had hitherto
1 her ) This had been dayousial Masse they had
tt their head one of the mil ble lawyer thal
4.1 emit -• man who, he it bed risen hem the
wee ostion to that moiroillesat to which be bid
row attained, solely and ea own t=
"siee• The government, ttiegoVmaterially
Inner the sanitary improvement ef the metropolis. !bey
77, oo the metropolis a bedew nod suppiadelhlsr,
is the inhabitants had new beders. adildea
tbo, they had parsed other sole MlNeatiell. he belleeedi
t• *amber The minis' hal beat semeil et Mew
sad inexperience; brit la the Me ef ea appal-
tr,ri which had bees divided t the
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whisk Ise hod dm homier to belong. (implaass.) He would I now Me up a mon difficult theme, and say a few words
with eeepiet IoW future. The future to them all was a
angtogar illengiihst7 ; and in speaking of the (attire there
Iwas a eater anieloat of peril. But be thought they cadet
avoid that peril II they did not speak too confidently or
promise too much. lie did not intend to boast at a time
like this, when the general elections worn going on, and ,
when the voice of the country was being appealed to, and
when it was to the interest of all that they should under-
stand each other, to ascertain whether the government
polaroid the confidence of the country or not. The best
way of judging of the policy of • government or of a patty
was by reference to the men who produced that policy, and
not to the measures they undertook to propose. The free
promise of megrims 'Melt be defective, but the mind, the
character, the conduct of men were open to them all, and
they could judge pr:tty well by the conduct and character
of men ne to their future policy in reference to the affairs
which would be brought under their notice. (Ileac, hear.)
Men, not measures, said they ; men, not measures, said he.
(Cheers.) The right hon. gentleman then took a compre-
hensive view of the relative positions of parties. In the
late parliament, he said, there were four distinct parties,
and he had no doubt there would be the same number in
the next. There were the followers of the late Sir Reber,
Peel; the whigs, under the leadership of Lord John
Rumen; the ultraliberal or movement party; and a greet
body of conservatives, who supported Lord Derby. Of
I the nt of these parties, the followers of Sir Robert reel
unquestionably were men of great power and ability—(hear,
hear)—but their numerical strength was trifling and insM-
niticant. They would, no doubt, have great weight with the
legislature. They would either have to unite themselves
with the conservative party, or they would be led, from
motives of ambition, to join the whips, although
he did not think there was much fellow feeling existing
between them. If they did the former, (decrement
would min considerable weight and importance by that
connexion, but they would add another page in the
history of the ineonkistencies of public men. The next party
to which he hail sdverted were the whips, at the head of
which was Lord John Russell, than whom no one had ob-
tained a more tasting reputation ea a statesman, and whose
constitutional knowledge, manly eloquence, power of de-
bate, courage, and noble bearing, had won for him the ad•
'Birettas of his friends, and the respect of his opponents.
x.Cheers.)
But in thus frankly speaking of his lordship, he
t he hod lately made two great mistakes, one when
in and the other when he had quitted it. The first
was, thit he emusated, without just cause, to re-open the
great question of parliamentary reform; and the second,
that he had joined himself to a party who would carry him
further than the safety of the country and the integrity and
maintenance of ear institutions would justify, for Lord J.
Russell had recently stated that the subject of parlia-
mentary reform, when once settled, ought to be re-opened
with the greatest possible can. The third party were the
ultra-liberal or movement party. No doubt they were men
of great energy and ability, and formed an iofluential party
in the legislature; but he doubted whether their influence
was of that hied which was likely to inspire confidence in
the people of this country. The fourth party erne the sup-
porters and followers of Lord Derby, and the best way,
perhaps, to describe that party would be by contrasting
them with the opinions of the other parties. The right
hon. gentleman then in general terms adverted to the
questions of tree trade, the maintenance of our present in-
stitutions, and the question of the further extension of the
franchise. In respect to the first question, as he had already
stated, he thought all classes of the community had
a right to be put on a fair footing of equality.
In reference to the maintenance of their pre-
sent institutions they had been menaced with danger
from two great quarters; they hail been menaced from
without and they had been menaced from within. While
he was opposed to those attacks, be would maintain for the
utmost and fullest toleration ; but in doing so, if any one,
under that plea, interfered or encroached upon the pre-
rogative of the crown, or the law of the land, or the right
of the people, his answer would be that such a toleration
could not be endured. With regard to the attack from
within, be would speak of that with a degree of hesitation.
The establishments of this country gave a liberty of action
to all its niemb!ra; but it could not give that liberty of
action to any singularities of any kind, which might pro-
duce disputes or lead to division. He would endeavour to
keep all its members sant its pale, so that they should
be in harmony and peace. He believed that their
establishments were great depositories of sacred truth,
and he would do all he could to strengthen them.
The right hon. gentleman next to the subject of
reform. Ha was strongly op to any organic changes.
lie would redeem all praetor grimaces or abases, and
would do all be could to improve their institutions, but
organic changes he would strongly resist. He believed,
however, if the new amalgamation of party was carried into
effect they would have a great organic change. That was
the reason why he would not, or could not, give in his ad-
hesion to the further extension of reform. In conclusion,
Mr. Walpole said the government was now standing at the
bar of public opinion. The elections were taking place
throughout the length and breadth of the land. The voice
of the country was being now appealed to, and it was not
for the government to say what the verdict of the country
would be. There was no doubt they should await that ver-
dict with some anxiety ; but, at all events, they should bow
to their decision with perfect submission. If the elections
ended by the country telling them that the confidence of
the country was nut to be given to the government, he
believed that most of those forming the government would
relinquish the duties and responsibilities of their office
with submission • but if confidence wu to be given to them,
which he was inclined to think, from the manner in which
he had been received that day, would be the ore, then
there were no efforts which they would not make to main-
' tain and uphold the dignity of the Queen. (Loud cheers.)
After passing • vote of thanks to the High Bailiff the
meeting dispersed.

The nomination of candidates took place on Thurs-
day, when William Williams, EN., proposed Mr. John
Ennis Vivian ; he was seconded by William ftishew, Eq.
Dr. Carly= proposed, and Me. Damn esseaded Mr. Mon-
Wu South. Captain Kemp hem/, and Dr. Banners
secouded M.
Augustus S ll.`lll3ltams, E.g.,
the late M.P. for the borough, and Edward
Mitchell, Eag., seconded, Mr.-Hussey lvian. The several
candidates having addressed the meeting, the m iyor called
foe a show of hands, which he declared to be in favour of
Mr. Awaits's Smith and Mr. Hassey Vivian, the liberal
candidates, and a poll was demanded on behalf of the two
conservative candidates.