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London, England, 1854-08-19 00:00:00

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be bribery. But this is only an experiment for a year, and I
can promise you, if you send me to the House of Commons,
you shall have your bands and your colours again. You
shall not go to the poll two and two, like a Quaker's
funeral. All these proceedings tend to reduce nierry old
England to the condition she was in previous to the great
rebellion; and it is to preserve you from that miserable
condition, and the consequences that followed, that the
nobte lord and I have come to deliver you."
The poll took place on Thursday, and closed with
the following result :—Adair 758, 3lowatt 733, Maid-
stone 706, Slade 096. The whole of the proceedings
were conducted in the most quiet and irreproachable
manner on both sides, and there was a total absence
of the excitement that has distinguished previous
polling days in Cambridge.

The MALDoW election commenced on Wednesday.
There were no fewer than five candidates—namely,
Mr. Peacocke, who was elected for Harwich in 1852,
but afterwards unseated on petition ; Mr. Bromley
Moore—both of whom stand on the Conservative in-
terest; Mr. Quintin Dick (a Liberal Conservative) ;
Mr. Leonard (Liberal) ; and Mr. Thomas M'Enteer,
a barrister, who styles himself " the people's candi-
date." The borough has been unrepresented since
March, 1853, when Mr. Ducane and Mr. Millar, the
sitting members, were unseated by a committee of
the House of Commons. The addresses of the can-
didates after nomination were filled chiefly with
allusions to personal and local topics connected with
former contests. The poll opened next day, and
ended at four o'clock, soon after which the Mayor
declared the result as follows :
Mr. G. M. W. Peacocks (Conservative)
Mr. J. Brumley Moore (Conservative)
Mr. T. B. Leonard (Liberal)
Mr. T. M'Enteer (Liberal) 215
Mr. Quintin Dick (Conservative)
Mr. Peacocke, Q.C., and Mr. J. Bromley Moore,
were declared duly elected.

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young man of large fortune, Liberal principles, and
highly esteemed throughout the whole county of
Norfolk.

The nomination of candidates for KINGSTON -UPON-
HULL took place on Thursday. The competitors
were Mr. W. 11. Watson, Mr. S. A. Dickson, and Mr.
W. Digby Seymour.
All three having been nominated,
Mr. WATSON presented himself to the electors.
He stated that he was a thorough reformer, and that
he had always been so, as the whole of his past life,
both in and out of the House of Commons, testi-
fied. He was in favour of an extension of the
suffrage, vote by ballot, of an extended system of
education—religious, if it could be had, hut if not
secular, and of perfect religious freedom and tolera-
tion.
Mr. S. A. DICKSON declared himself a Conservative,
and, while he professed himself a free-trader,
designated the mention of a cheap loaf as claptrap.
Mr. W. D. SEYMOUR stated that he was an advo-
cate of free trade, of an extension of the antlrage,
and of the ballot. He was also a friend of religious
freedom and toleration, an opponent of church rates,
and desirous that the scar in which we are now
engaged should be carried on with the utmost
vigour so that the peace of Europe may be soon re-
stored.
The poll was ordered to take place yesterday
(Friday).

Obituarg.