The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

and the benefit of the people."—Sir Harry
neat addressed the electors, and was received
wring. " I think I owe some apology for so tre-
y, and at such great length, addressing so many of the
_Anon on my visits to their Monism There were several
reasons foe doing this: first, I wished to become acquainted
with the conduct and wants of the inhabitants; secondly, to
give them an opportunity of knowing my opinions and my
views, and learning from them"—[Some of the Polhillites
here became uproarious.] Sir Harry continued: " If you
desire to ridicule a bad speaker, you will find no difficulty,
for I have no eloquence. As I was saying—to give them an
opportunity of making question!, and of discussing at length
subjects of importance. It was a source of unmixed
pleasure that I found many not unfavourable to my
own views, and very few, if any, personally hostile,
which rendered my chance easy. The principles upon
which I stand have rendered the people happy, and done
much good. The men with whom I cu-operate stand ele-
vated an political principles. Consider the men who are
entrusted with the government of the country. There were
Led Grey, Lord Palmerston, and Sir George Grey. The
limisions of the Lord Chancellor had been prompt, true,
end just. The noble lord that presided over Ireland is an
exalted statesman. The noble lord representing the lands of
the house of Remelt —(hisaes)— Let them look at the
First Lord of the Treasury: he was not the representative of
a mall borough, but of the largest city in the empire, whose
verdict might be considered the highest conferred by any
constituency in the country. Then there was the Reform
Bill, and the Corporation Bill. The government had al e°
struck off the fetters of the African slave, and given
them cheap postage. All these measures had been
opposed by what is called a conservative government. The
last vote I gave was for the freedom of trade, against the
corn protectors at home and the sugar protectors abroad.
Compare the conduct of the protectionists on the hustings
six years ago and their conduct in parliament." The hon.
gentleman then entered into an explanation of a charge
made against him of being an enemy to the established
church and of his being in favour of tbeßoman catholic religion,
which he denied. He said the present members had not op-
posed the Maynooth grant in 1843 and 181 i, and were not,
therefore, the invariable opponents of the grant. Ile had
~nothing more to say but to thank them for their kindness in
hearing him. The mayor having asked if any other candi-
date would be proposed, then called for a show of hands,
which he declared to be in favour of Sir Harry Verney and
Mr. Stuart. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Green.

Inglis, 1,6 M; Round. 797 ; Gladstone, 977. Both committees
agree u to the number at the conclusion of the day's poll.
Which leaves Mr. Round in a minority of 180, only S leas
than he was on Seturday. The poll will open *gam Mis
morning, and finally close this evening.

PEMBROKE.
On Saturday the election took place, when Sir John Owen,
the Lord-lieutenant of the county of Pembroke, was ro•
elected the representative of the boroughs of Pemtwoke.
Tenby, Milford, and Wham). The hoe. baronet did not
" show" on the occasion, which was altogether a dull affair,
so Capt. Cbildhad retired from the contest early in the week.

T I VEItION.
Although Mr. Harney, the third candidate, withdrew his
pretensions on Friday, at the nomination, a poll having been
demanded on behalf of Lerd Palmerston, that form was
necessarily gone through on Saturday, although no more
than two candidates presented themselves—his lordship and
Mr. Heathcoat. The speech which Lord Palmerston ad-
dressed to the electors was chiefly in answer to one Mae by
Mr. Harney. In the course of it he said " Mr. Easy
alluded to meet first personally, though not in•dieWnwlesall
manner, on the expenditure which I moss ea my stance is
Ireland, the amount of which, however, be hee emaggerstsd.
He said that though I went to aaftis mdlay there.
I gained increased profits by it. lam tai say outlay
is not altogether so satiafactory a matter; red though I
know that I have laid out a portion of my income's order to
afford employment to my poorer tenants, yet I eanuot bout
that it has much increased my income by repayment. But
the allusion has further been made to those small sums—
'that is small though proportioned to my means—which,
from time to time, I have offered to the charities of this bo-
rough. The mover of the nomination of Mr. Barney
objected to the amount of those contributions, and he
also furnished an argument which, if you accept as
just, is much more. in favour of your electing me than
Mr. Harney. (Cheers and laughter.) He said, ' Lord
Palmerston holds a valuable ettice, and is bound whoa-
ever there is a subscription at Tiverton, to send'elown a
quarter's salary.' Now, he did not speak with regard to
the future, but with regard to the put; and if hi. opinion
is admitted for the pest, you will not be at a loss to draw
conclasions for the future. But I beg leave, for my own
protection, to dissent altogether from his recommendation.
I cannot admit that obligation, and, therefore, gentlemen, if
any man here purposes to vote for um on the understanding
suggested, that I ant to give a quarter's salary to any sub-
scription going on at Tivertoc, I beg that he will reconsider
the groan& of his support. (Cheers and. laughter.) Ido
not bas my claim to your confidence on any such matter."
Is farther reference to the recent famine, his lordship added:
" The great business of the session was to afford a remedy to
the greatest privation that a great nation has ever yet been
visited with. I say, a great nation,' because, like Mr.
Harney, I east away with disdain the local distinctions be-
tween Baglishman and Irishman attaching to them on &g-
-amut of their living on different sides of the channel.
(Hoar.) I say that we are one people, living under the
some laws, enjoying the same system of commercial inter-
sane, and animated, I trust, by the same mutual feelings
of brotherly affection. (Cheers.) Well, then, what hap
pealed in Ireland ? Why, the same thing which happened
in many parts of England, hut with far greater intensity
la Well; and still more fatally in its consequences. The
potato crop failed in Iteland, and in England also, and great
end dreadful were the sufferings of many honest people.
But in England there is more or leas employment for those
who are walling to labour. In England there is a peer-law,
whether the best, or not the best, is a matter of ihmusaion;
but I say there is in England a provision for the destitute
which can afford a remedy in times of pressure. In Ire-
land the case was different. In Ireland you have, in many
peat, a population grown up without relation to the tabour
which those places can furnish, and without reference
to the employment of that labour. In the manulac-
tering districts of England this population has some
determinate reference to the demand for labour ; but
in Ireland the case is very different. Every individual
in that country who is a landholder of the ordinary class,
tills a small patch of soil, which in general constitutes his
only source of income. Farmers take three, or four, or five
acres, which they always subdivide into portions for their
children, and give to them on their marriage. or on their
coming of age. For this bud they pay rents, which, what-
ever else may be said of them, are certainly not exhorbi-
taut. They are content with what they grow, and the
labourers frequently receive money for the potatoes that
are to he their food. There you can see the extent
of the disaster which must fall on a people num-
bering two or three millions, when they had the pota-
toes that are to be their food either rot in the ground
or vanish before their eyes. You have known miseries
here, but none of you can imagine what has occurred
in Ireland. Visited by the most dreadful scarcity of
food, the aged and the infirm were the first to fall victims
to its distressing ravages—the children have died, and the
weak have perished; the strong thinned and wasted away to
skeletons, and then died in the most heart-rendering scenes
of illness and despair. There, then, was a population of
from two to three millions of men suffering under an accu-
mulation of misery so acute and so overwhelming as to defy
the tongues or the pens of men adequately to describe, and
forwhom no relief could come except irons the governmentof
the country at large. With this national cata-trophe before
them, what does Ar. Harney say? He says that the
houses of parliament allowed that provision to come from
the people of this country, and then entered into a sweep-
ing condemnation of Irish landlords, although he was
' pleased to pay me a compliment at the expense of the other
landlords of Ireland. But, gentlemen, Irish landlords can
only do good to the extent of their means ; and the same
cause that deprives the tenant of his food deprives the land-
lord also et his rent, by which alone the crying evils of ti e
tinsti can be mitigated. The population of Ireland is much
thicker than that of this country in many places, and for
that reason should be employed in the cultivation of the
soil; but the money must be ready to give that em-
ployment. Gentlemen. it was the faithful and arduous
duty of the government to assuage this great calamity ;
and we now come to the mcde in which it was done.
The same calamity as visited Ireland so frightfully, and this
country in a slighter though still shocking ratio, oppressed at
the same time every other country of Europe. The crops of
grain were short, and the population in many of the con-
tinental states were reduced ta a condition almost of famine.
Prices rose here, but they rose there also. The prices in some
parts of Europe were higher than they ever are in ordinary
times, even in dear years, in this country ; and it was chiefly
from America, the remote coasts of the Black Sea, the shore*
of the Danube and the Baltic, together with a few of the ...te-
mpt parts with which we have commercial transactions, that
corn could be had, and that after long delay and in-
creased expense, owing to the additional costs of freights.
What would have happened if the government had gone
into the foreign market to bid against the British merchant,
for the purpose of relieving the distrees in Ireland ? Why,
we should have gone and bought the corn, and have driven
the merchants from the market ; and they would have said,
" We cannot afford to buy and sell, and stand by the losses
that we make. We must have some profit on our transac-
tions ; and if the government bid against us, and mean to sell
without profit. we shill take our capital to some
other undertaking, and not supply the people of Ire-
land. (Cheers.) The only results, therefore, of that
step would have been, that the government would
have opposed the merchant wrongfully, which no go-
vernment should do. It would have turned the mer-
chant out of the market; it would have been your money
that we should have traded with, and it would have proved
the worst possible policy, by defeating its own end. (Cheers )
The only course that could be taken was to leave the mer-
chants to their own trade, to let them become importers of
corn, and for the government to ooetent itself with doing
what it did do and what I am just going to tell you about.
In many parts of Ireland there ate no roads, or rather, as
the conventional Irishman would say,—" There are no
roads, and those very bed ones." (laughter.) Govern-
ment bought from the storehouses of merchants in Ireland
large quantities of corn, by the judicious distribution of
which they alleviated the calamity in a great degree. In re-
ference to the Health of Towns Bill his lordship remarked,
I feel the deepest regret that a measure of such rest conse-
quence to the convenience and 'health of the poorer clams
should not have been enacted last session, but the result has
been unavoidable. No man estimates more highly than Ido
the value et such a bill, and if it had not been the lest of a
session known to be the last of the late parliament, and if
there were not other matters of great import which bad
occupied the attention of the house from an early period of
the session, no delay likely to result from the proposing of
that bill should have deterred us. But when direolution
wee about to take place, it became obvious that the public
convenience of the country would be interfered with;
as, moreover, it was necessary that the business of
the election should be gone through before the har-
vest, we reluctantly gave up the bill for that session.
The topic next adverted to by his lordship was the education
scheme. I deeply lament, he said, that a measure intended
by the government to act as a bond.of peace and of union,
should have given rise to such unfortunate difference of
opinion. But there can be no doubt that, on the whole,
that bill is a great benefit to the country ; because, if educa-
tion be, as I hold it to be, the great preventive of crime,
vice, and offences in general against the laws of the land
and of society, surely it is the interest of all that u many
se passible of the rising generation should be brought
op us the paths of virtue, and kept from thole habits
of disorder likely in future life to render them bad
end detrimental members of the social body. I should
hops, therefore, that both churchmen and dissenters
would view the true interests of the country in that aspect.
And if the want of education is admitted to be a prolific
source of circumstances which lead to the violation of the
laws, churchmen and dissenters are equally interested in the
education of the people ; for when a house has bees broken
MIN • robbery committed, or a barbarous murder perpe-
telleds IS netters but very little what be the creed of the
Melina by whom it is committed, or ot hint who is the
victim. (Cheers.) If there are objections of detail to the
mater as it stands I am mare there is every desire on the part
et parliament and 'the gomesamat to entertain them: objec-
t lieme, and, as far as pains* teopply a remedy for those that
Awn declared to be bet. Of she likelihood of parlia-
ment's making a yroshisa from the state foe the
Whelk clergy of Indent, Lard Palmerston mif—
f math wish such an arminmssient could be effected. I am
satisfied, upon a full oodiesYe of the circumstances of
the ease, that it would net lend, is has been apprehended,
to the propagation of what we eessider religious error, but
that it would tend to the difiladem of political contentment.
(Cheers.) My opinion is, that Reach a measure could be
carried, it would prove to the advantage of ell chess of her
OXFORD UNIVERSITY. Majeaty's subjects, and for all 'attains of the BM& emyfre.
The polling during the whole of yesterday was exceedingly But if lam to talk to you es pleb, yeeedial sea.eml fro
slack, and the election appeared to have lot al its interest. tell you, not what I should wish to do, but what I It
The Viee-Chancellor and his °Moors seemed likely to lase possible to do, I 'bound in frankness to acknowledge that
their patience, having so little to do in the way of recording I see no in
chance at present of carrying any suck seenonne.
votes. It was exosedingly dull work for them. The return After deprecating the poor-law question big mend as a
made by M Round e committee wan Twelve o'clock, vehicle and a tool for inflaming and exciting the peelems of
Inglis, 1,619 ; Round, 76. i ; Gladstone, 961. Half past two . the people, his lordship proceeded to advert to some mine
Inglis, 1,637 ; Round, 791 ; Gladstone, 961. Half-put topic,, coucluding his observations amidst much ebeeekm.