The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1849.

done whilst commanding the Raj:ship in that har-
bour ; and in fact represented him in each colours to
the electors of the inland borough of Devisee, that
when Captain Derides main came amongst them,
public feeling respcotisg hum bad very materially
dime/
The occasion of that next visit arms from Captain
having boss waisted Clerk to the Ordnance.
rill woaddo rather op
that that ap-
watt
Wt rather operate in his favour than
him. Bat lieutenant Hill was not to be pro-
ne tories determined to bring forward
a ennui antidote, and they selected Mr. Walker
Mama of Compton Basest, a gentleman whose
elms ewe little brew bat whose connexions in
the twisty were somewhat ineesetial.
Mr. Neasage, besides the favour of Mr. Hill,
to bear open the skaters of Devises an in-
very usassally exerted at elation% bat whisk
Is as agrioaltand Metric& may sot be without
smith.
That interest was—the kowodo. Ambit=
a neither-in-law of the boa. member, boated the
assity. No looser was Mr. Homage fairly in the
per Devisee than the master of the hounds fixed •
sent in the market plow, and the whipper-641r00m,
heaths" haws is red oats, top-boots sod mars,
buss., length, sad all, went to pay their
worths free sat thispodist, and to rvg_:7l4lB
of their votes mail interest en behtat of Mr.
Swagel Whet main this nueseding the Mae
somethable, was that Mr. Anisette- Smith inflamed
at fie time to be High Sheriff of the very meaty,
111 *s meths town of while his mama wen thus
flea hartsfoeemmiise
Ilitdeaden amasses& is the spirit this was,
maM=S. be eiLeeted to be very. Yawne-
d.: We d, upon examination, that
this mintiest was altogether the most disenditable
that ever occurred in Devises. Public homes
wee opened oa both sides, and drunken mobs
the streets night and day. Oa the
ip Captain Daisies waste mailed
hisb the infuriated tisans ofd
Hill and hominids assume. Some disgusting
/glows, alter trying to shoat him down, at length
esmassneed *Wog at hiss through pertheeters ; and,
by the time he left the hastier, be was covered with
saliva. Some of these men woes taken into custody
and carried before a losal tory magistrate, who fined
them a aliliwy ! Bo the election went on.
Oa the poll, se it was declared by the re-
turning rear, Captain Dundee was elected
by a majority_ of 5, the *ambers being for
Dundee 109, Mmeeige 102; but it subsequently
appeared, on the hearing of a petition before a com-
mittee of the House of Commons, that in :asking this
return a sheet containing the votes of persons who
had polled for a.particular street bad been omitted,
and as the majority of such voters had recorded
their serer; for Mr. Htip, the committee un-
seatedretCS Dundee, and ared that "O.W. H.
Hensel% was duly elected, and ought to have
been
This was the end of Captain Buodas's connexion
with Devisee. Lieut. Hill subsequently obtained an
appointment on full. pay from the government, and
was reported in Dermas to have owed it very mate-1
rislly to the exertion of Admiral Dundee's intermit.
If this be so, it is highly to the gallant officer's
wiour2.and sot a little indicative of the Christianity

of his disposition.
Devises, subsequently to this election, became a
thoroughly tory borough. In 1841 there was no op-
to the re-election of Messrs. Sotheron and
When Sir Francis Burdett died in Fib.,
1844, former accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, ie
order to become a candidate for North Wilts. Mr.
Ludlow Bruges, who had been thrown oat for Bath,
in 1841, and who was Recorder of Devizes, was
elated to the seat which was thus vacated, though
mot without a show of opposition—Mr. Christopher
Temple,* barrister, having been sent down by the
, League to advocate the principle of free trade, and
having decided upon taking a poll. At the general
electioe of 1847, Mr. Homage and Mr. Bruges were
re-elseted. In February. 1848, however, the latter
The cause assigned for his resignation was
71rItli." The member started to supply his place wee
Lieut.-CoL J. B. Fatoourt, second eon of the late member
for Oxford University, and brother of the member for
North Wilts. Thus, at the present time, Devises is
mealy in the position it was in antecedent to the
Reform Bill, and all the struggles of its independent
voters have gone for nothing.
At the last election of 1848 it was very much de-
sired to bring forward Sir John Cam Hobhouse as a
candidate. It is probable that the eight hon. gentle-
man might have been returned. His place of reii-
dance, Erlestokepart, which formerly gave a mem-
ber to Devises, brings him into connexion with the
lboroogh, where he has made himself more popular
than most of the neighbouring gentlemen. The
farmers round about esteem him, sod upon their in-
fiance at the present moment hinge, in a great mea-
sure, the future electioneering prospects of Devises.
For the present representatives are Peelites, whilst
the tales of Devizes are extreme protectionists. The.
consequence is, that Messrs. lineage and Retessat
are not one whit more popular with their own fries& '
than they are with the independent liberals. In fact,
if they come in for Devizes awn, they will owe their
election more to the forbearance of the free trade
party than to the support of their own friends.
A " Loyal Political Protection Society," has been
formed in Devizes, of which one of Mr. Henesge's
most active agents has been appointed secretary.
A principal proprietor of the Old Bank, to which
Mr. Walla= Locke owed his election in 1832 and
1835, is reported to stand aloof from at leant one
of the candidates whom he formerly a'sisted.
The farmers have threatened to practise "exclu-
sive dealing," in the town—to sell, that is, to anybody
who will buy of them, but to buy, in return, only of
their own party—a system which has been tried in
other places and failed signally. Indeed, amongst
the Devizes tories there has been lately quite a split,
and all eyes are said to be turned on a gentleman in
the borough who has gone over to the protectionists,
and aspires, it is thought, to honours parliamentary.
If the farmers of Devises must have a member of
their own, perhaps they will permit no to offer them
a piece of advice. "Do not return any half-bred
squire or local dealer, who protases himself your
" friend," but look out for one of your own class. Get
such a man as Mr. Shaw, a practical agriculturalist,
who understands and can represent your pecu-
liar interests. Such men as these are want-
ing in the House of Commons, and you may
benefit your own interests by returning them. But
you can do no good by assisting the election of the
little landowners who want to get rent out of you, or
the small country banters whose notes you are so
obliging as to circulate."
And now to conclude. The town of Devizes con-
tains not more than 4,700 souk ; the limits of the
borough about 8,000. The rentals here are low, and
bat a very small proportion of the houses are of the
value of IW. There are said to be about 500 houses
rented at that amount within the borough, but
the member of registered voters is not more
than 350. Now, there are several reasons for
this. The rents, as we said before, are low, and ge-
nerally, since 1832, they have declined. That is one
canoe of the mall number of voters. But swum
reuse is to be fmnd in the electoral position et the I
town. It is weft interest al these who milk to get
a borough at this sort into their own hands to do any-
thing that is Wedded to immune the number of
voters. Fee their pm the fewer there are the
better. Is Ike thirdace, it mast be mentioned that
essay peewee in Devises are anxious not to be on the
list of voters.' If we had votes," they my, "they weal
be of now io us; we cannot use them as we win*
wish, and therefore we would prefer having none at
all." What is the rim* for this P Give as, thew
reply, the ballot, NA we should not then Imitate fa
place ourselves cm the register.
Devises might be very properly thrown into aMr ,
Mist et berceghsi sr united with a seeced at ,preee
retnising two repeematatives to whams& The
of the Wiltshire boroughs is in hot'
=tab:agroin abase of the representative system.
Boma althorn,
Caine,
, (bhp Devises, Maireturn ms-
bury, Maelberos W , and W
Ms representatives,gh, although have alt ilton,
etzt:
popuktion net ameeding 42,000 and aa
lel less then 1,900!

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