The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-08 00:00:00

TIVERTON.

Tho nomination took place yesterday. For some
days an expectation prevailed that Lard Palmerston and
Mr. lleathcoat would be opposed by Captain Stirling, but
as that gentleman never made his appearance the old mem-
bers, it will be seen, were returned without opposition.
Mr. W. H. GAMLIN nominated Mr. Heathcoat as a &I
and proper person to represent the borough, and stated that
that gentleman, who was just recovering from a serious ill-
nese, tad been prohibited by his medical advisers from en-
tering into the excitement consequent upon a contest of
this nature.

The nomination wu seconded by Mr. PAILICHOUSI, and
received with enthusiastic cheering.
Mr. W. lioLn then, in a highly eulogistic address,
nominated Lord PaWanton, and wu seconded by Mr.

No other candidate having been proposed, the Mayor de.
dared Mr. Heathcoat and Lord Palmerston to be duly
elected. (Loud and repeated cheers.)
Mr. HEATUCUAT AMORY, the grandson of Mr Ileathcoat,
then presented himself, amidst loud cheers, to return thanks
for Ms return. Nothing, he said, would have given Mr.
Heathcoat greater pleasure than to have presented himself
on the present occasion, but he had been restrained from
doing so by the advice of his medical men. They had long
known him as the staunch advocate of reform, not of rash
or impracticable reform, but of that moderate reform which
was demanded by the spirit of the times. (Cheers.) As
Mr. Ileathcoat had hitherto acted he would continue to act
as long as be was honoured with the confidence of the con-
stituency of Tiverton.
Lord PALMERSTON, who was received with great
cheering, then said:—Gentlemen, I beg to return you
from the bottom of my heart my most sincere thanks
for the honour which you have now, I think for the
fifth time, conferred upon me by electing me as
am of your representatives in parliament. (Cheers.)
Use' rmen,we were told when we came to the place that we
shmeld not only have hot weather and a warm reception,
bus also a het mutest. We were told in mysterious lan-
gur,' La hassealle which have been circulated about the
Pia, HIM an sheen candidate would appear—a gentle.
lass st principles. I have heard, gentlemen,
of
harm : I have beard of independent con-
dos& have howl of independent character; but the
Mil Met emilescend to explain precisely wtat is
se eat bp isiloperist principles. (Cheers.) I presume
as MeV air 111111 writer is, principles wholly lode-
-0,1111111011 sense, of justice, of liberality.
Cerbel make of the constituency of Tiverton, I rejoice
hat such a mab has not been found. (Laugh-
ter.) I will not do that injustice to those who cir.
*slated that handbill, to those who went about m-
ousing the electors for a "dark horse "—(laughter)—for
an unknown man, whose name they had promised not to
reveal until a vote had been given blindfolded and in the
dark--I will net do these gentlemen the injustice to sup-
=hat this announced contest and this mysterious =-
were from beginning to end nothing but a hoax.
St=ser.) I will not suppose, gentlemen, that these lo-
wers repeating the misplaced and, I will my,
joke which has sometimes been uttered by the ma.
and enmity of the people of the eastern part of the
who said that as they went westward they became
MID 101 i more convinced that the wise men came from the
east. assighter.) I canoed believe that any men of Tiver-
ton &WI -have offered such an insult to their fellow-
townsmen. (Hear hear.) I am, therefore, compelled to
Mink the a snail portion of the electors of this town,
swim he • eastist fee the fun of he thing—(laughter)—
ffilkelreledi Mt hOos es tad memo—(bear?—wen on
I. link eat he a eaadidate le newer their purpose
bit Wilkie beats* the land, sail haying searched the
ess—liseleg ransacked Isseae, and diked into the holds of
peohle—hsving gams, I peewee. te the very mast beads of
wiessle. they barn been math he aid say teas Who would
Ithaily awls hlessif he the sumestent of a mall ration
of the pollee this town. (Choteeesi Oen-
thmes, we Ism been told that the in
shish hie essigloy is ars 'week lo le holly
and he ever Ma gnat qrseits.4 sisis the guiellis of
protection or se pesesetha. ghee, ham) It is la opinion
that that gneiss has been leap doss settled. Ptak the
llberty of milks you last autumn, when I had the plosearr
of paying yes e visit, that when I SW the river XIS M-
ains from knew to Tiverton, instead of running down hem
Tivertes toile sea, you might then, and sot till thee, be
estimln thatrialleetion was near inland. (Laughter.) Gentle-
Bes. I see seeker in the current of the Bee. I don't even
Ilea ketinkseenstrsatiosistresebeidgesysahavetakenthe
hot Is some then 'islet • tont et the sheen.
sti .) at, after all, whet is this past question
preloolon ? Why mollesties
ewe a set wily einspiew idea. are
,(Hbrar.y Prolostion
is • beasidlel tee. It may seas seenhieg like the "in-
of• ndent priesighe the gentlowew whose woe is
kept it the-pose• , d. (Laughter.) Prelostisa,
a
of its gosseulity, mean preeticallyi taxis, the foodir the
many he the intermit of the kw. (Chaim) Now, gentle-
ames4 have that seem of the (Mingo and the judgement of
as plight of Bagiesd—and by pee* et Upland-I
de set
tier less that aspession in the sorrow and rwitrieled
some he which it is assastines esepleyed is denoting only
the
st the but I met the whole meths, haw
the by class see
the lowest I sty nave that nodes
eels geed souse and the geed Mktg of this British nation,
tholl I em cenvineed they sever will esseent to revert to a
.....ellieli is healede *pea and =Wake.
I say, at le gess; awl I do
Itspi aMr,tesst hat she et this genial deaden will
be to ghe the OW soil and meths et the esselizitterte
doom ol het sielsho• and by-pre prissigh. )
It is yacht* Use that is the earl wild of dieses.
Won there were essay persome—oad I wasess—who thought
that to make the kandtion leas raid and less injurious it
mink be better to begin with • mall lied duty, and soak
an arrangement might have looted is, a easeiderable time.
My belief is that such a small easy would sot have raked
in any perceptible degree the prise of feed, and it might,
to a certain extent, have masted the feelings of the
agricultural class. But that proposition was rejected by
those in whose favour it was proposed, and the boon once
refused you may depend upon it it will never again be
offered for their choice. (Chem.) Gentlemen, the Mine
of the government of this country for a considerable period
has been directed by the principle of steady and progres-
sive improvement. Those persons who wish to improve
the institutions of a great country like this are bound Vi
proceed slowly and deliberately, and they are sure to meet
with great resistance at every step. I, for one, do not
complain of that resistance. It belongs to the character of
the couttry, and it has the advantage that it pr events
sadder and ill-considered alterations, and allows Vas mea-
sures proposed by the government to receive tha'a etmaide:
Mtion and discussion which renders them siltimmely better
*adapted to the wants of the people. A love Ind affection
1 for ancient practices and institutions is an b.onourable and
peculiar characteristic of the people of this country—(hear,
hear)—and I am the last man to wish tr, see such an bo-
nourable sentiment discarded from their. minds. There are
some nations on the continent more volatile and mom apt to
change, and the national chareotor is often evinced by cir-
eumstarte,s apparently trifling in ':beineelvee. Now, in many
Cr.o' the continent if en is weeper wishes to recommend
establishment he will Pim up in his sign " the New
White lime." or " lin New efolden Cram' The last no-
velty is that which Is considered the most attractive. But
in this country the contrary comes is pursued, and if a
I country alehouse-keeper wishes to draw custom he will
hang ilii the sign Han The Old Plough," newly rtvired.
Ilt a eitiage called well, not far from London, there is

an III* to which gentlemen food of pigeon shooting used to
mart to try their skill. Now, what wu the sign of that inn ?
Why, "The Old Hate"—not that it was summed anybody
would prefer an old hat to a new one, but that they would
come to " The Old Hats" it preference to " The New Hats."
(Laughter.) A rival inn was established, and what was the
sign of that inn ? "The Old Hats "—(laughter)—and much
it :profited by that superlative designation. As I came
down by the train I found an an•ouncement in the
advertisement, appended I. the time tables, recom-
mending " The Old King's Head," in the Poultry, and
in order that it might combine the attraction of natural
feeling with the attractions arising from the in lulgence of
rliving, it is described the oldest turtle-house in
ed as
den. (Laughter.) Eon; may the people of this couu
try, when they wish to elm.' their attachment to the land
they live in, call it with affectionate endearment Old Eng-
land. (Cheers.) But that does not prevent us from re-
pairing what may have gone into decay, from improving
.aad embellishing that which is still good, but which may
be made better. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, there are some
topics which of late have greatly agitated the public mind,
and which no doubt will form the subject of discussion at
the various hustings around which the people of this coun-
try are now assembled, or about to assemble. 1 am not
afraid of encountering those topics, although upon two of
them especially I may find that my opinions do not
coincide with those of some persons whom I highly
respect. The first topic is the Militia Bill. (Cheers,
and • slight expression of disapprobation.) You see, gen
tlemen, lat once take the bull by the borne. (Laughter.)
Well, gentlemen, I suppose that no man in this coun-
try, except the few who agree with the author of a pamphlet
of which I felt it my duty to make mention in the
House of Commons, and who, good man, recommended
that we should quietly submit to be invaded and conquered
in the hope that the conqueror would be so astonished at our
submission that he would grow ashamed of himself, and go
away after having taken possession of some fifty millions of
our money. (Hoar, bear.) With that exception, I presume
there is no man who has an English heart in his bosom who
does not feel that England is worth defending, and that he
ought to make any sacrifice rather than allow his country
to he conquered. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, the country is the
I heart of civil and political liberty, and the conquest of Eng-
land would not only be one of the greatest calamities to its
inhabitants themselves, but would be a misfortune to the
whole of the civilised world. (Chutes.) Campbell, in de-
scribing the fate of Poland, said :

Hope for • moon bade the world farewell,
And freedom shrieked when Koseivacko fell.
But hope would Indeed bid adieu to the world, and freedom
would not shriek, but die, if England were ever to be con-
quered. (Cheers.) Bat, gentlemen, let me bring the matter
more home to you. I. or the last two or three days you
have bad bands of music parading your street., followed
by all the healthy-looking children of the place, tome even
toddling away in the ranks who were scarcely able to keep
their feet, but that display has given peace and content-
ment to all the people of the town. But what would you
have said if those bands had preceded a hostile force—if
an armed hand, following the musician., had taken up
their quarters in every house in the town, and made them-
selves free with everything contained therein. (Hear.)
But I may be told that these appeals were made to the fan-
ciful fears of the country, simply for the purpose of obtain-
ing the means of adding to the public expenditure.. Why,
gentlemen, that reminds me of the story which I have heard
of an elderly lady who lived near Henley-on-Thames,
sad who, when an invasion was expected under Napoleon
Bonaparte, said she did not believe he would ever come.
And why ? She said she had been told in her youth that
the Pretender was coming, but he never came to Henley.
on-Thames, end she believed that Napoleon Bonaparte
would never come there either. (Laughter.) Gentlemen,
I. do not relate this anecdote for the purpose of throwing
any reflection upon the intelligence of the elderly portion of
the fairer sex because I remember also having heard of a
smart retort Lade by the Duchess of Gordon, in the time
of Mr. Pitt. An elderly statesman, having been told that
he had acted unwisely in a certain respect, said to her lady-
ship, " Really, madam, I feel that I am growing an old
woman ;" to which her ladyship very properly and
prompt) replied, "I am very glad to hear that that is ail,
for I really thought you were growing an old man, and that
is a much worse thing." (Laughter.) Now, gentlemen, I say
that those men who tell you that because you have had no
invasion since the Norman conquest, you never will have
one, and need not guard against it, are old men. Although
tiny are no. old in years, they are old in imbecility of in-
tellect. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, all those who are able
to judge of military and naval operations, tell you that an
invasion is perfectly possible—that it is more possible now
than it was before, on amount mainly of the great improve-
ments which the application of steam has made in warlike
operations. And I tell you that you arc safe from invasion
now, bemuse you were able to prevent it before. To my
that you &resale now, without precautions, because hither-
to you have prevented it by precautions, is the greatest of
all possible absurdities. How happened it that you had no
invasion at the time of which the good Lady of Henley
spoke? Because you had a large standing. army within
the kingdom—you had the old militia organised, enrolled,
and on permanent pay—you had 400,000 volunteers be-
sides ; in: fact, the whole country were in arms and no
enemy could have made any effectual attempt. But I be-
lieve, and have been told by good authority, that it was only
in consequence of the failure of a naval operation, by which
the Freuch fleets were to have formed • junction,
that an attempt to invade us was not made. The result
would have been such as it always will be when the Eng-
lish are armed and prepared. But if the English are not
armed and are not prepared, they are doing injustice to
themselves, and not showing themselves worthy of those
great and inestimable blessings which it has been the will
of Providence to bestow upon them. (Hear.) But it is
said you will all be taken from your business. Now, the
bill which was brought in by the late government, and
which it has been said the house threw out at my sugges-
tion, was founded on the local militia acts, and had for its
bun compulsory service by ballot ; the exception to be
small. The general scope of the bill was service by ballot,
without any power to serve by substitute. Now the present
bill, to which I gave my support, is founded on voluntary
service; and unless the number of men are not raised by
bounty, which I am confident they will be, recourse will
be had to the ballot or compulsory service. (Hear.)
In any part which I have taken in furtherance of that mea-
sure, I feel that I have acted in accordance with a sense of
duty to my country, and have rendered an essential service
to the whole of the United Kingdom. (Cheers.) The
right hon. Viscount then proceeded to explain why he could
not vote against the Maynooth Grant; and finished asfollows:
Gentlemen, I am not aware that there is any other topic of
material importance upon which it is necessary for me to
detain you l,nger. I can only say, that I hold it to be the
duty sif those who govern the country, and of those who are
sent to parliament to deliberate upon the interests of the
country, to consider that they are governing and deliberating
for the benefit of the whole nation, and ought not to allow
themselves to be blamed by the wishes or the interests of
any one particular clan, but to feel and to know that every
class must benefit sooner or later by the prosperity of the
whole, and that it is a narrow and a short-sighted policy
which endeavours to rear the interests of the few upon the
injury of the many. (Cheers.) I appeal to the general
prosperity of the country—l appeal to the progressive in-
crease of the revenue, and more especially to the revenue
drawn from increased consumption by the poorer classes of
all those articles in which their limited enjoyments consist
—I say I appeal to that uniform prospenty which no man
can now deny, as a proof that the successive administra-
tions which of late years have been cha-ged with the in-
Wrests of the country, and that the parliament which have
had to deliberate upon the measures proposed have steered
• trim and prudent course, and that that course has been
rewarded by those beneficial results, all of which were
predicted by the men who proposed and who sanctioned
the measure to which lam now adverting. (Hear, hear.)
Gentlemen, I again thank you for the distinguished
honour which you have this day conferred upon me. I
trust that my future conduct will equally with my past
merit the continuance of your favour, and as long as I en-
joy the honour of representing you, I can swore you
there is no other distinction of the kind which any circum-
stances should induce me to prefer. (Loud and repeated
cheers.)

under which he hoped to die. He was foe a moesrehy—
for • limited end constitutional monarchy. He was not for
• republic. He had seen what republics were in other coup-
trio. Ile bad seen that they could not maintain their ground,
and invariably led the way to a military despotism. (Cheers)
Now, he did not wish to have a military despotism, and
he would not go the road which he knew must, sooner or
later, lead to it. (Hear, hear.) Therefore, he was for sep-
tennial parliaments. Believing the right of voting to be a
trust reposed in the electors for the public good, he was not
for the ballot. He was for improvement—fur gradual and
steady improvement—where improvement can properly be
made, but nut for the rash and hasty overturning of those
institutions under which the country has so long flourished
and prospered, which have contributed to the contentment
of the nation, and have rendered our country and consti-
tution stable amidst the convuhions which have thaken to
the centre many of the countries of Europe. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. FRANCIS HOLE then proposed a vote of thanks to the
Mayor, which was carried by acclamation.
It is but an act of justice to the Mayor to state that his
arrangements for the accommodation of the gentlemen con-
nected with the press were most excellent, and deserve
every commendation.