The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

AYLESBURY ELECTlON.—Yeeterday the nomina-
tion took place in the County-hall. Mr. W. Cross, the se-
nior constable, presided.—M. Lovett, Esq., amidst cheers
and hisses, and with only an occasional sentence of his ob.
tervations distinguishable, proposed Quintin Dick, Esq., as
a tit and proper person to n-present the borough of Ayles-
bury in parliament.—J. P. Deering, Esq., the late member,
seconded the nomination. His address was no more audible
than that of the speaker who preceded Mr. Olitle, oT
Dutchlandsferm, Wendoeer Dean, said be had a candidate
propose to the people of the borough of Aylesbury. lie
was one of the people, and one who felt au interest in their
prosrrity-. It was John Houghton, Esq., a farmer, one who
lived amongst them, a practical worker, a politician for the I
people, and a friend to reduction in taxation, not a spend-
thrift who expected the country to keep him.—Mr.
John Gibbs seconded the nomination. Mr. Dick
next addressed the electors. He had not a long
address to deliver, but preferred referring to the 20 years
he had been before the public. His opinions coincided with
Mr. Deering's, and, as he understood that gentleman had
considerable interest in the borough, he had certainly asked
him for his support ; but he offered himself as an inde-
pendent representative. After referring to Mr. Houghton's
ap; tamale* at Drury-lane, not as Hamlet or Othello, but as
a free-trade speaker, Mr. Dick said his own polities were
conservative; he was a supporter of the monarchy; a
churchman, but not a bigot ; a friend to agriculture and op-
posed to freetrade ; and for economy, but opposed to radi-
calism.—Mr. Houghton addressed the assembly at consider-
able length. Mr. Clayton had, for showing that he bad
opinions of his own, been driven from the representation ;
and in his (the speaker's) opinion was an injured man. Mr.
Deering had, by the verdict of his peers, been unseated, and
the electors were now called on to exercise their choice. He
was a tenant-farmer, and appeared before them to solicit
their suffrages —to ask the highest honour that
could be conferred on Englishmen. If elected, the
trust should not be betrayed in his hands. if re-
turned, which he hoped and believed he should be, he
should be the first tenant-farmer returned to the House of
Commons. In loyalty, and respect for the institutions of
the country, he would yield to no man. He supported free-
trade from a conviction that it was for the good of the
country. All be had was in and on the land, and he, there-
fore, had a great interest in agricultural prosperity. The
speaker went into corn-law statistics in coArmation of his '
views. He was in favour of a revision of taxation. Although
a sincere member of the established church he would repeal
church rates, and was in favour of a national poor rate, as a
measure of justice to the poor, opposed to the game laws,
In favour of a consolidation f turnpike trusta and public
roads, an advocate for national education, for the strictest
economy in the state, and for increased Liberties to the pee-
-1 plc. The chairman took the sense of the meeting, when
there was a great majority for Mr. Houghton. A poll was de-
manded, and will commence at eight o'clock this mowing.—
The following election squib has been circulated in the town
and vicinity. It should be remembered that the estates of the
Buckingham and Chandos family, together with ether large
mutes in the county of Bucks, have lately been advertised
for public sale, by the house of Farebrother, Clark, and Lye,
of Imdort
Ayicenury.—Forced sale by saction.—Means. redicider rd
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will tell by suedes, on Tuesday neat at II del^ SS ills
in the County-ball, the whole or m mempmmllli /renter part of bmirla