The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-03 00:00:00

influence to that of the landocrag of the county.
Yet, in the face of such apparent difficulties, a whig
candidate is in the field for North Eseext with a air I
prospect of success. Indeed, if Mr. Rrow is defeated,
his failure will proceed from his fe:iting short of the '
political intelligence of the dista.tet, not from having
gone beyond it. In seeking to mitigate the hostility
of tones and protectionists, he has missed much
liberal support, and lost nearly all claim to liberal
sympathy. This has, probably, arisen from overlook-
ing the actual state of the constituency.
We believe it is no secret that many of the leading
members of the whig party thought Mr. Csvecansit's
attempt to break down the political monopoly of the
Poke of BIThINGRAM, in Buckinghamshire, nearly a
forlorn hope ; and that his appearance as a candidate
was the act of himself and his personal friends. Yet,
what is the result ? Why, that, had the contest gone
on, the liberal candidate would have been at the top of
the poll, ahead of all three of the duke's nominees.
We know this to be the issue of the liberal canvass.
The whig canvassers have been literally surprised at
their own success, a surprise which a brief considera-
tion of the circumstances affecting county constituen-
cies, we offered a few days since, would have
shown to be altogether misplaced. Bat the
contest in Buckinghamshire became complicated
by the daring act of a member of the pro-
tectionist party, Mr. I/Bess:Li, who, when one of the
duke's nominees was quietly retiring in order to
let in the whig as quietly as possible, threw himself
into the breach, and installed himself as the duke's
third candidate. Mr. DISRAELI boasts that he is not
the duke's nominee, tied in a sense he is not, for there
is no doubt that he took advantage of being the only
man of decent talent amongst the protectionists, to
force himself upon the duke at a moment when the
duke's political influence, like his estate, is merely
nominal. But it would not do to permit an inter-
necine war amongst the protectionist candidates, and
accordingly another of the duke's puppets,Mr.'fowe.ll,
was withdrawn, and Mr. Disesem has been adopted
as a veritable nominee, and as such seems likely to be
elected one of the three members for Bucks. Yet
why should this be? There cannot be the slightest
doubt that a second whig candidate might at this mo-
ment be successfully carried for Buckinghamshire.
The local paper says, truly, that Mr. TOWERS'
" resignation can be looked upon in no other aspect
than a positive defeat of the tory party :" and adds,
" The canvass on the part of Mr. CAVENDisnt has pro-
ceeded with such success as to have induced some
gentlemen to think seriously about the introduction of
another liberal candidate," and voters are requested
to keep the possibility of such an event in view.
We think this is an occasion on which such an
effort ought to be made, for Mr. DISRAELI is quite as
distasteful toa large number of the Buckingham squires
as a liberal would be. Indeed, we have reason to
believe that a consistent liberal of station and cha-
racter would secure much landlord influence, which
looks askant on Mr. DtsuseLi's pretensions. Nor do
that gentleman's air-drawn distinctions, his attempts
to dress up protectionist selfishness into the form of
plausible political theories, enable him to make much
way with the farmers. True, they go to hear him,
and laugh at him, as they would go to see and !emit
at a juggler, or a man who had promised to get into
a quart bottle; but that is all. They have about
as much faith in Mr. DISRAELI'S political views—
gorgeous and confused as the aspect of the kaleido-
scope—as they would have in the performances of
the bottle conjuror. The only sympathy for Mr.
DISR um which exists, and which has alone enabled
him to force himself upon the duke, is that derived
from his personal position. It is something to see a
roan of the middle class—albeit a political adven-
turer of no great steadiness of character—whose sole
qualification is personal talent, casting down the
superstitious notion that none but an acted magnate,
or his cadet, should dare to become a candidate for a
county, and appealing, though in a left-handed way,
to " popular opinions." This, and his energetic per-
sonal canvass, bringing him into communication with
the electors, alone have created for Mr. DISRAELI
that small semblance of popular support he has at-
tained. But though this is all-powerful with the
protectionists, who cannot afford to risk the slender
hold they have on the counties, it would weigh as
nothing against a clear-headed, out-spoken, second,
candidate of liberal opinions. Mr. DIsRAELI said at
Aylesbury—
'The persons who first started the idea that I should venture
to appeal to your confidence were not, as sometimes has been
said, the lords of castles or the princes of palaces; they are
not to be found among the ancient aristocracy or the terri-
torial proprietors of this country, many of whom I am now
proud to count among my supporters; but they were found
among the yeomanry and the farmers of the county of Buck-
ingham.

And at Amersham, besides touching the farmers upon
the income-tax, and sundry other pocket questions,
he professed himself desirous to see such modifications
of the game-laws as " that ham should not be con-
sidered game, and that certificates should not be re-
quired." The last sentiment was met with cries of
n very good." The appearance, therefore, of Mr.
DIiILtELI in Buckinghamshire, and his ultimate un-
willing adopticn by the landocmcy, is in itself a sign
of the progress of electoral independence.
But whet we turn to the speeches of the supporters
of Mr. CAVENDISII, who is the popular as well as the
liberal candidate, and whose success has been such as
we have described, we find no truckling to bygone
agricultural prejudices. They do not resort to jingling
wordaplitting, or half-intelligible mysticism, to attract
support from the farmers; on the contrary, they say
frankiy, protection is gone for aver. Thus, at Ayles-
burr, Sir G. STEMEN said
Our opponent has very artfully suggested that, in the state
of our national finances, agricultural protection may be re-
vived under a new scale of customs duties. Believe not a
word of it : it is a mere delusion to entrap a vote. Whatever
may, heretofore, have been our wishes or our feelings ou that
momentous question, of one thing we may rest assured.
Protective duties, under any form, however specious, have
vanislcil for ever; yet, cases may arise where agricul:ural
interests will require protection, and I, for one, infiuitely
prefer plating my confidence is Mr. Cavendish, who plainly
and honestly tens us that he will guard those interests with
vigilance, than iii ➢lr. Disraeli. who holds out the flattering
and delusive expeetation. that by some legislative thimblerig
be will restore a system which popular principles and liberal
opinions have alike and for ever condemned.

So again, Mr. CALVERT :
Agricultural protection had been referred to that evening.
Why, he asked, was it difficult, when the food of this country
failed, to get it elscwh re ? it was because we were main-
taining a dangerous and an irreligious system—because
we were afraid of giving the people too much food. He
had a pieee of advice to giva to agriculturists. Cultivate
your acres as much as you can. Don't be arraid of getting
too much corn, still leas of sending too much to the market.
Campol nature to produce what it can. Well, but the
price ? Wh encourage your commerce and your manu-
factures, and depend upon it, if you increase them tenfold,
the demand for bread will be tenfold. The more corn you
have to sell, the greater nuiub, r you will have to buy.
And such clear, common-settee views were received
with vociferous applause, while the quaint oddities of
Mr. Dl.enAer.l seem to have excited more laughter
than aught besides.
In Essex the contest seems to have degenerated
almost into a personal squabble between the whig and
tory candidates sad their personal friends. The county
Loy gentry—talked of as protectionist candidates in
the place of Mr. Itousp, who seems to have had a
call to Oxford—having one by one hack?d out as the
pulse of the constituency was felt, Mr. REBOW, the
whig, seemed likely to walk the course, when Sir
Jolts 'fyient:u. and the high-flying monopolists
brought out Major Ileimseonii, Mr. Axrwolip's
nominee for Harwich, as the protectionist great gun
for North Essex.

The maor ecems to rely on a power of speech
somewhat llibcrnian, and a force of religious bigotry
truly " orange." Ile of course hints obscurely at a
possible revival of protection at some undefined
pet iod, and under some unexplained combination of
circumstances; but all that goes for nothing, as none
know better than the Essex farmers, that protection is
gone for ever. If Sir JOHN TYRRELL carries the
election of his iiiiiti;y;" Major BEREsFORD, ho could
probably carry his bailiff or his gamekeeper as mem-
ber for North Essex.

It must not, however, be forgotten that Mr. RI,
COW has pitched his political note too low ; he pro-
fessed himself " on the aide of protection," and joined
in the silly abase lavished by the protectionists on
kw ROBERT PEEL's "tergiversation." His address,
too, seems to have bees so ambiguous, that it is only
in the last sentence the reader discovers that the
writer intends to support Lori. JOHN RUSSELL'S go-
veniment. This has been constantly thrown in his
teeth by his opponents, while a large section of the
liberid electors has publicly declined to support him
on the ground of the backward and indecisive cha-
racter of his political views. If the leading liberals
are wise, they will not neglect the signs which the
two county contests, we refer to, exhibit for their in-
strction.