The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-30 00:00:00

READING.

The nomination of candidates for this borough took plate
besterday in the Town-hall.—Mr. H. Simmonds (brewer)
riefly proposed (for the seventh time) Mr. Charles Russell,
and Mr. William Bandy (brewer and banker) seconded the
nosoination.—Mr. Charles Russell then roes, and after ex-
praising his thanks to his friends for the manner in which
they had proposed him, referred to kis acts in parliament as
a faithful fulfilment of the pledges he gave to his consti-
tuents. He had been sent to protect the agriculture and
industry of England, and he had dent so. He would
support the protestant establishment, believing it to contain
the purest form of christian faith. We had found that the
Roman catholic religion was not consistent with the main-
tenance of civil and religious liberty. He never could con-
sent to the endowment of the Roman catholic priesthood,
and would not allow of further encroachments on the es-
tablished church. Education and the poor laws were
two other prominent questions of the late session. He
was desirous that education -should be spread a.s widely
as possible. The last acts of the late imam showed a dis-
position to allow the industrious and honest the means of
obtaining a livelihood, but to prevent the idle and dissolute'
from preying on the other Owes. He was favourable to
such a modification of the poor laws es would not impair
their usefulness and efficiency. He was opposed to
such an inequality of the burthen of taxation
for the support of the poor as would oppress
one section of the community at the expense
of the other. He then appealed to the constituency, on the
ground of his long and faithful services, and begged them to
remember that he had never departed from his avowed prin-
ciples, and resumed his seat amidst the chases of his friends
sad the Aessfening groans and hisses of his opponents.
The Right Hon. Viscount Chelsea was next proposed
by Mr. Chase, and seconded by Mr. Edward Hodges.
Lord Chelsea, amidst much uproar, sa,d be solicited their
suffrages six years ago on principles which he believed still
influenced a majority of the constituency. He believed they
were still desirous of upholding the great institutions of the
country, church and state. He came not there to com-
pare his talents with those of hie opponents, but be would
not yield to them in honesty of principle. He would consent to
ell reasonable proposals for reform, but he would uphold all
the great institutions which had made this country the ad-
miration of the civilised world. .

Mr. J. B. Mooch, of Coley-park, hew Reading, proposed
i
Mr. &tact Tolfourd ;he was seconded by Mr. wry
Letchworth.

The learned Serjeant arose amidst shoots the most
deafening. He *elicited again the honour which 13 years
dented without a canvass, was bestowed oa years an unprece-
majority. The lapse of those 13 had taken
many of his old friends from him, but they had left him
some, and had matured the powers of others. In no other
place on earth could he find such friends. In noother place on
earth could he feel uhe did here. In nocase would he accept
an invitation to any other constituency. He would be therefore
for Reading, or not at all. He staked all future public life
on that honour. The place was associated with those recol-
lections of principles which had influenced them and their
fathers, and it had adhered to them in the past, when their
advocacy was almost a crime. He was little likely to abandon
them now they were triumphant. It was well WO thirty
years since, in that hall, he first, with a full hawk sad •
trembling voice, stepped into Public lib, wie thitriMinri
had ridden down the people of MUIIIMMOM NEN MIA period
he was not conscious of a public sotoppaeed to the pdaciples
which he then espoused. Vast, indeed, wee the change
which had taken place between that period and the pre-
sent. No other epoch in the world was characterised by
such achievements over tyranny and oppression. The party
who had then mortgaged the industry of the nation, held
under bans the consciences of the people. and suppressed the
free expression of their wrongs. He alluded in terms of great
eloquence to the operation of the test acts, and to the prosti-
' tution of the name of religion in the administration of oaths.
He then alluded to the restrictions on food ; and eharecter-
ised them as injurious to the intercourse of nation with na-
tion—of heart with heart. Ho would may nothing of the
statesman who had fallen from party; or, he should rather
ray, had descended from party. On the question of educa-
tion, he said he approved of educating the mass of the people
until they were fitted to exercise those powers which they