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THE NOMINATIONS.

'rHTM DAY ( SATURDAY ) MARCH 28.—Lambeth—
Marylebnne Barnstaple Beaumaris Cambridge -
-Cambridge University—Denbigh Boroughs—Flint Dis-
trict—Rochdale Huntingdon Midhurst Newcastle.
under• Lyme Oldham—Oxford (City)— Peterborough—
Preston—Lichfield—Shoreham.
MONDAY, MARCH 30.—Southwark—Brecknockshire—
Cumberland (Easti—Derbyshire South )—Devon (South)
—Durham ( North )—Essex (South)—Gloucestershire
(East )—Herefordshire—Huntingdonshire—Rent ( East)
—Leicestershire (South )—Norfolk (West)—Northamp-
tonshire ( North)—Oxfordshire—Radnorshire—Rocbester
—Rutlandshire—Salop (South)—Shropshire ( South)—
Stafford (North)—Staffordshire (North)—Suffolk (West)
—Surrey ( East )—Wiltshire ( North )—Worcestershire
(West)—Yorksire (West).
TUESDAY, MAncit 31. Bedfordshire Berkshire
Buckinghamshire—Cambridgeshire— Carmarthenshire
Carnarvonshire Devon (North) Dorset Durham
( South)—Essex ( North)—Ulamorganshire—Gloucester-
shire (West)—Hants (North)— Hertfordshire— Lan-
cashire ( North) Lincoln (North) Leicestershire
(North)—Northamptonshire ( South )—Northumberland
(South)— Nottinghamshire (North)—Salop (North)
Shropshire (North ) Stafford (South) Staffordshire
(South)—Westmoreland—Worcestershire (East).
WEDNESDAY, APRIL I.—Lancashire (South )—Lincoln.
shire ( South )—Suffolk ( East )—Surrey (West )—Wilts
(South) Yorkshire (North).
THURSDAY, APRIL 2.—Middlesex—Cornwall (West)—
Merionethshire Monmouthshire— Montgomeryshire
Northumberland (North )—Wiltshire (South)—Yorkshire
(East).
FRIDAY, APRIL 3.—Cheshire (South)—Denbighshire—
Kent (West )—Warwickshire (North).
SATURDAY, APRIL 4.—Cheshire (North)—Cornwall
(East )—Flintshire—Hampshire (South).
MONDAY, Aram 6. Derbyshire (North) Norfolk
(East).

SCOTLAND.
THURSDAY, MARCH, 20.—Leith.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27.—Dundee—E
—Kilmarnock.

SATURDAY, MARCH 28.—Dumfries—Falkirk Burghs—
/Kilmarnock—Paisley.
MONDAY, Mtnctt 30.—Bute—Forfarshire—Glasgow—
Linlithgowsbire—Montrose—Stirling Burghs.
TUESDAY, MARCH 31.—Ayrshire Edinburghshire—
Rircudbright—ltenfrewshire—Selkirkshire.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL I.—Dumfriesshire—Wigton
THURSDAY, APRIL 2.—Stirlingshire.
FRIDAY, APRIL 3.—Argyleshire Dumbartonshire
Lanarkshire.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4.—Wigtonshire—Caithness.
MONDAY, APRIL 6.—Wick.
IRELAND.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2.B.—Cork—Dublin—Ennis—Ennis•
killen—Limerick—Portarlington.
MONDAY, MARCH 30.—Armagh—Athlone—Carlow—
Clonmel—Dublin University— Dundalk— Galway— KU-
kenny—Kilsale—Mallow.
TUESDAY, MARCH 31.—Bandon—Cashel.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1.-I)rogbeda.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4.—Carlow (County)—Cork (County)
—Limerick (County)—Louth.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL S.—Armagh (County).
THURSDAY, APRIL 9.—Dublin (County )—Fermanao.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14.—Tipperary.

ELECTION ADDRESSES.
LORD PALMERSTON'S ADDRESS TO THE
ELECTORS OF TIVERTON.
Gentlemen,—Parliament having been dissolved in
order that the electors of the Un►ted Kingdom may have
an opportunity of expressing their opinion on the
existing state of public affairs, I present myself to you
as a candidate for the continuance of that confidence
with which, as your representative, I have so long been
honoured.

The question which is submitted to the judgment of the
country is—which shall be the man to whose hands shall be
committed the destinies of the nation, and whether that
charge shall continue to be confided to the present Ad-
ministration, or whether it shall be transferred to that
aggregation of hitherto discordant elements by whose
combined action on a late occasion a vote of censure was
passed upon her Majesty's Government.
The claims of the present Administration to the con-
fidence of the county) rest upon facts and events which
will form an important chapter in the history of these
times.

We undertook the conduct of affairs in obedience to the
call of our Sovereign, at a moment of no small difficulty,
in the midst of a great war, and when those men who had
heretofore been looked up to as the leaders of patties had
for various reasons declined the responsibility of office, or
had been unable to form such an Administration as was
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in their opinion equal to the crisis. We carried on with
energy and vipur the war in which the country was en-
gaged, and in hearty co-operation with our gallant allies—
the French, the Sardinians, and the Turks—we brought it
to a successful termination, and the result was a treaty of
peace which accomplished the objects of the war, and
which secured fur the allies conditions which sonic of
those to whom I have alluded had deemed it unreasonable
to propose and impossible to obtain.
In the execution of the stipulations of this treaty diffi-
culties in regard to matters of great importance arose.
Those difficulties by firmness in negotiation her Majesty's
Government mainly contributed in a satisfactory manlier
to remove, and the full attainment of the objects of the
treaty in regard to the matters to which those difficulties
related has thus been secured.

At the beginning of the recent session of Parliament we
announced our intention of taking off the war portion of
the income tax, and we proposed a budget which was ap-
proved by a majority of eighty votes.
The Persian war, which had originated in aggressions
and breach of engagement by the Persian Government,
was put an end to by a treaty of peace concluded at Paris.
Onr diplomatic relations with the United States had been
replaced upon their usual footing by the appointment of
Lord Napier and his departure for Washington.
Papers have been presented to Parliament explaining the
reasons why the British and French missions had been
withdrawn from Naples, and no notice had been given of
any motion to be founded on those papers.
Upon none of these matters did the Opposition deem
it possible to found any successful attack on the Govern-
ment. _ _ _

But events of much importance had happened in China,
unforeseen by her Majesty's Government, and nut the con-
sequence of any steps taken by them.
An insolent ha•barian wielding authority at Canton had
violated the British flag, broken the engagements of
treaties, offered rewards fur the heads of British subjects
in that part of China, and planned their destruction by
murder, assassination, and poisons.
The British officers, civil and naval, on the station had
taken those measures which appeared to them to be
proper and necessary to obtain satisfaction and redress,
and her Majesty's Government had approved the course
pursued by those officers in vindication of the national
honour and for the assertion of our national rights. A
combination of political parties, not till this last session
united, carried a resolution dechirivg the course pursued
by our officers in China unjustifiable, and consequently
censuring her Majesty's Government for having approved
that course.

lint it that course was unjustifiable, the British Govern-
ment, instead of demteding an apology, ought to make
one, and instead of expecting satisfaction ought to offer
compensation to the Chinese Commissioner, and this
course the combinel opponents of the Government, if
their parliamentary victory had installed them in office,
must in consistency have been prepared to pursue.
Will the British nation give their support to men who
nave thus endeavoured to 'Eska the humiliation and degra-
dation of their counti y a stepping-stone to power?
I confidently assert that such will not be the answer that
will be given to the appeal now made to the electors of the
United Kingdom.
We offer to the country a Government founded upon far
different principles. Abroad it will he our• earnest endea-
vour to procure peace, but peace with honour and with
safety, peace with the maintenance of national rights,
peace with security to our fellow•countrymen in foreign
lands. At home our guiding principles will be judicious
and well regulated economy, progressive improvement in
all that concerns the welfare of the nation, the continued
diffusion of education among the people, and such well-
considered reforms as front time to time may be required
by changes of circumstances and by the increasing growth
of intelligence.
On these I.,,rounds I present myself to you, and I ant;ci•
pate with confidence the result of the share which you are
about to take in the solemn decision which the constituen-
cies of the United Kingdom are about to pronounce.—l
have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient and
devoted servant, PALMERSTON.
94, Piccadilly, March 23.

THE RIGHT HON. W. BERESFORD met the electors
of North Essex at Colchester on Saturday last, and
addressed them at some length. Major Beresford
explained his reasons why he had not supported
Mr. Cobden's motion :

Before the division night arrived he bad many (minor.
tnnities of conversing upon the question with gentlemen
wh occupied a high position in the Conservative party,
and he said enough for them to understand that he did not
cree with them. The arguments which they used to alter
his opinion did not succeed, and he then received a very
pressing written application upon the subject. He would
not state anything that should in the slightest degree be a
b.-each of confidence, but he wished to defend his eondnct
and to put the matter fairly before them. He answered
t nit application immediately, and without conferring with
a single individual ; and, although at the time he wrote
t tat letter he had not the slightest idea of its ever coming
before the public, although it was not written with an,
d •sire to curry favour with any party, yet, as that letter did
o cpress his opinions upon the question and upon the state
o' circumstances which then existed, he would ventnre to
tr 'able them with whet lie would call the political part of
it and by the views therein expressed lie was ready to
at Ind or fell. It said :

In the first place, I do not like the company which you have
lak.ly been keeping or eilear.,uring to keep. I will not enter
Int the controversy of whether it is a coalition or au agree-
ate it, or an approximation. I do not like snob eompliny. It
Lust bring discredit, and will bring bad principles with it. In

THE PRESS.

the next place, I foresee and fear very disastrous results to our
military position at Canton, and to our national prestige, if a
resolution of the I louse of Commons should go out repudiating
the conduct of our forces there. Beware of il at. Further,
must look at the consequences of such a vote in its results here
at home. A change of Government is unavoidabl-; nay, you
acknowledge that such is the object in view. Here I must contest
that I sun opposed to turning out an existing Administration
unless I see plainly a fair chance, at least, of establishing in its
place a better one, which has a treasonable prospect of holding
its ground. Now Lord Herby has proclaimed to the country
that lie cannot form such a Government with Mr. Gladstone and
Mr. Sidney Herbert. If lie has had no communication (as lam
told) with them, how can he make sure that they will not again
decline ? and if they do join will not such a coalition bring more
discredit than strength with it? Another ands very strong
objection which I entertain to the change at this moment is the
conviction in my mind that the first act of this coalition, as a
Government, will be to cut down the military estimates and to
reduce the army again to 'hat state of inefficiency from which it
his only just emerged —an inefficiency for which both Mr.
Gladstone and Mr. Sidney Herbert were in some degree acces-
sory and answerable for.

Such were the reasons which brought him to the conclu-
sion not to vote for Mr. Cobden's motion ; but with regard
to voting against it, having uniformly upon general sub-
jects voted with his party, and with the feelings which he
entertained towards the leaders of that party, he thought
it would be kinder on his part to retire into the country,
and not to be present at that division. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. C. DUCANE next addressed the meeting at
considerable length. In reference to the Chinese
question, he said it was attempted by the Ministry
to create in the country a feeling in favour of Lord
Palmerston, and to make it the great subject of dis-
cussion at the forthcoming election ; but when the
unnatural excitement which it had created had
passed away, the great subjects of domestic economy
would remain for adjustment, and therefore it was
unjust to make the Chinese question the watchword
at the forthcoming election. After all the considera-
tion he had been able to give the question, he had
come to the conclusion that Sir John Boring was
not justified in his conduct. In reference to matters
of more domestic interest, he expressed himself in
favour of a reduction of those taxes which pressed
heavily on the poor man. He was opposed to the
grant to Maynooth. Church races he considered it
their duty to continue, being an impost to which
landed property had been subject from a remote
period, and under which all sales had been effected.
He then called upon the electors to rally round the
Conservative cause iu North Essex, and secure the
return of the Right Hon. William Beresford and
himself.

Resolutions were then adopted expressive of the
approval by the constituents of the candidates, and
pledging the meeting to do all in its power to insure
their return.

MR. ROEBUCK has addressed the electors at Shef-
field on several occasions this week. In his principal
address at the Town-hall he very happily sketched
the history of the China question, and after detailing
the whole affair, and pointing out the new element,
admission into Canton, introduced upon top of the
old complaint of the Arrow, observed :
We have been excluded from Canton, and every succes-
sive Minister has permitted it. There is a paper hire
from Lord Palmerston, who says, " Forbear from entering
by arms, it would do no good; I beg you to be quiet, and
not insist upon it." (Hear, hear.) Still Sir J. Boating
says this is a capital opportunity for insisting on the
demand to enter Canton. Yeh said, " I cannot admit
you. You have yourselves acknow:edged the difficulty."
The answer of Admiral Seymour and Sir J. Bowring was,
" If you do net admit us in forty-eight hours Canton shall
be bombarded." Yeli said, " I cannot admit you ;" and
they did bombard the town. With these facts before the
House of Commons, what was I to do? Was Ito say
that it was justice to bombard a great and peaceful city,
burning hundreds and thousands of houses, rendering
homeless nearly half a million of people; killing men and
women and innocent children? Why ? Because it was
said the English Hag was insulted, and that Sir John
Bowring was not admitted into Canton. I, uan English-
man, as an honest member of Parliament, as the repre-
sentative of the merciful people of Sheffield, said that was
no justification for the burning of a peaceful city. (Loud
cheers.) When I think of the sight that must have pre.
sented itself to the eyes of Englishmen, a peaceful city
as large as London blazing and burning—shells tired into
it from the fleet of England—her great name prostituted
to such direful cruelty,-1 say that my heart would not
have been iu its right place if I could have sanctioned
such a thing. (Cheers.)

Mn. COBDEN, at Huddersfield, has put the dissolu-
tion in a fair light. The Government wanted
"a cry " :
Lord Palmerston knew a dissolution must come soon,
and, having no domestic policy upon which to appeal to
the country—for Lord Palmerston hail voted against every
kind of reform, against Mr. Locke King's motion, would
not vote for putting Scotland upon the same footing as
England, and snapped his fingers at a repeal of the church
rates—how, then, could be dissolve Parliament as the
head of a Liberal party ? Hie lordship had taken advan-
tage of this Chinese business, and called upon them to
know whether the lit itish flag was to be protected. They
all wanted to see it protected, but did not want to see it
trailed in the dirt and blood and mud (Cheers.) He
(Mr Cobden) was for upholding the policy of the Duke
of Wellington, Sir H. l'eel, and Lord Aberdeen. He
admired the dignit3 of attitude, of forbearance, and firm-
ness with which those statesmen conducted the affairs of

SATURDAY,

this country in regard to foreigners—a policy totally ins-
tinct from the constant tendency to intertneddle with
foreign countries which had characterised the Government
of Lord Palmerston. Ilia policy distracted attention freak
home affairs and domestic reforms.

MESSRS. VILLIERS AND THORNELY addreqsed
public meeting of their constituents at Wolver-
hampton in the Corn Exchange on Monday evening.
Mr. Villiers, in defending his support of Lord Pal-
merston, said :

His lordship wns not quite the man that a Liberal and
Reformer would desire, but he is the best man that could
be found, and he is also an eminently able man for the
duties which he undertook. Many complaints are made
against him in the country, and some of them do not
exist without reason, though the majority are not well,
founded.

Mr. Villiers, with respect to the China affair and
domestic politics, said :
lie was sure that Lord Palmerston desired to effect
reforms in every department of the State whets they
were needed, and he knew that he was now taking
measures with a view to a healthy reform in both army
and navy. So soon also as Lord Palmerston was con-
vinced that the time was come that it would be for the
benefit of the country to extend the 101. franchise to
counties he would carry that measure.
MESSRS. MUNTZ AND SCHOLEFIELD met their con-
stituents at Birmingham on Wednesday evening.
The members both defended their votes upon the
Chinese war, but denied having given them from
attachment to Lord Palmerston. After a discussion
of three hours the following resolution was
passed :

That this meeting, strongly disapproving the attempts
that are beirg made to obtain the election of a new Par-
liament upon the mere question of adherence to Lord
Palmerston, and being of opinicn that the principles of
civil and religious liberty and progressive reforni are those
thst should be maintained by Messrs. Iluntz and Schole-
field, considers theta entitled to the support of the
electors.

AT SOUTIVOTPTON the electors, after hearing Mr.
Wilcox and Mr. Weguelin explain their conduct in
voting against Mr. Cobden's motion, passed the fol-
lowing resolution :
That while this meeting is pleased to express its ap-
proval of the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston, it cannot
but regret the continued apparent indisposition of his
lordship to support measures of political reform and social
improvement, and sincerely believe that a large extension
of the suffrage, the adoption of the ballot, the entire aboli-
tion of church rates, ad immediate suspension of the rapid
progress of centralisation, and a national system of unsec-
tarian education, are objects deserving the favourable
consideration of his lordship's Government, and would, if
carried into effect by his lordship, tend materially to
enlarge the area of political liberty, prevent the acerbities
and exercise of religious animosity, give stability to the
time•honoured institution of self-government, and thus
promote the happiness and well-being of all classes of her
Majesty's subjects.

SIR FREDERIC TIIESIGER AND LORD ROBERT
CECIL addressed their con-dituents at Stamford on
Monday. Sir Frederic Thesiger, who wit.: very
warmly received, adverted to the foreign and domes-
tic policy of Lord Palmerston :

In the first place, with regard to domestic policy, if it
deserved such a name—for he was utterly at a loss to
know what was the policy of the noble lorl, and how it
was to be described—during the year 1855 war was raging,
and it was not to be exptcted that any measures of a
domestic character should be passed in Parliament.
Afterwards there were bills introduced, in the first place
upon the law of partnership; the bill was withdrawn.
Another bill was introduced ; that bill was afterwards
abandoned. There was a bill for the reform of the Eccle-
siastical Courts with respect to wills and administrations;
that was abandoned. There was a bill introduced upon
the law of divorce—that was withdrawn ; a law for abolish-
ing local dues—that was abandoned ; for the reform of the
corporation of London—that shared the fate of the others;
and; in short, without wearying his hearers by going
through these various measures in detail, it was sufficient
to say that among those recommended in the Speech from
the Throne there were no less than twenty bills introduced
bv the Government during the session of 1836, and all of
them were withdrawn.

With respect to the noble lord's foreign policy, he
thought it might be fairly characterised as a most
vicious intermeddling with other States, and a course
of strong and vehement intimidation with respect to
those nations which were not in themselves strong,
and of pliancy and yielding to the States which were
powerful :
And now that they had glanced at the domestic
policy and at the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston,
and had had an opportunity of judging of the past,
let them see what were the promises for the future ;
and they certainly had the advantage of hiving the noble
lord's own statement of what his Government proposed to
perform. Anything more vague, more ridiculously un•
meaning, more capable of any construction which any
ingenious mind might choose to put upon it, could
hardly be imagined. Any person of any shade of politics
might just express himself in the same manner as the
noble lord had done. [Sir Frederic here qii"ted the last
paragraphs of Lord Pahuerston's Tiverton address.] More
unmeaning declarations he thought he never read.