The Express.
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to Roman eMbaliss eir protestant' t—Yes.—The sheriff took
a show of hue. Tie anima Named to be nearly unanimous
for Mr. Fergus; but emly SIM thirty or forty hands ware
held up fur Mr. Balimr, eashosive of his own supporters on
the hustingc—Tba add, Rhea dipalared the show of hands
to be in favour of Mr. Fero', sad a poll haying been de-
manded on the part of Mr. M.lfour, the polling days ware
fixed to take place as Monday (thu day) and Tuesday, and
the declaration to be made on Thursday.

GLOUCESTERBHI. ,
This contest hu terminated in the return of 'Mr. Orantley
Berkeley, as will be men by the final state of the poll, pub-
lished in another column. Much excitement war mani-
fested, and the police were mustered is large force to sup-
press the riotous conduct of a portion of the mob. In one
of the struggles that characterised the day it is said Mr.
Orantley Berkeley had an arm brokm.

IRE (WEST).
Mr.

KENT (WEST).
The polling for this division of Kent was resumed on
Saturday at eight o'clock, and at the close the election was
said to have terminated in favour of Hodges and Rimer.
The numbers were stated to be—Fileser, 3,222; Hodges,
3,133 ; Austin, 3,087.

LINLITHG 0 WSHIRE.
The election for the county of Linlithgow took place on
Friday.—Mr. Hope Vere proposed Mr. George Dundas as •
tit and proper representauve for the county of Linlithgow.
—Mr. Durham Weir, jun., of Boghead, in seconding
the nomination of Mr. Duodu, said, he is, I em happy to
say, a gentleman who is a warm and steady supporter of the
protestant religion—that religion which is the glory of our
land, upon whose foundation alone the safety of the crown
and the efficiency of the constitution can rest with security.
I —The Sheriff then asked if any other candidate was to be
proposed, and no one appearing, the learned gentleman
called for a show of hands in favour of Mr. Hondas, which
having been responded to, he declared that gentleman to be
duly elected member for the county of Linlithgow.

NORTHUMBERLAND (NORTH).
The nomination of candidates for the representation of the
northern division of Northumberland took place at Alnwick,
on Saturday. Sir G. Grey, Bart , arrived at his committee
rooms, from his seat, shortly after nine o'clock, and was re-
ceived with loud cheers by a dense crowd, assembled to re-
mire him. At ten o'clock he and his friends proceeded to
the hustings, accompanied by music, and with a large num-
ber of banners ; and were followed almost immediately by
Lord °sudden and Lord Lovaine, who were greeted with !
prolonged hissing and hooting, mingled with the cheers oil
their supporters. In front of Lord Oasulston a placard weal
raised, exhibiting in legible characters the number of divi-
lions that have taken place in parliament since his lordship,
has had a seat—namely, 610; and the number of divisions
in which he has taken a part, namely, 47. The display of
this fact caused a good deal of amusement, and was the occa-
sion of frequent comment during the proceedings. The
sheriff arrived on the hustings shortly after ten, and as the
kcal formalities had been disposed of so the court-house, he
called upon some gentleman to nominate a candidate ;where.
upon Mr. C. W. Orde, of Nunnykirk, proposed Lord Ossulston
as a fit person to represent the division.—Mr. B. Burrell, of
Broom-peck, seconded the nomination.—Mr. 0. A. B.
Creswell, son of the retiring member, proposed Lord
Lovaine—Mr. F. Sitwell, of Barmoor, seconded the nomi-
nation in a speech of great length, and amidst repeated ex-
pressions of impatience. He recommended Lord Loraine as
a friend of the established church, and as ore who would
contend for the advantage of the agricultural clam, as con-
tradistinguished from the other classes of the community.—
Lord Frederick Fit:chrome then came forward, amid loud
cheers, to propose Sir Geo. Grey. The noble lord refemdto
the party of which Sir Geo. Grey is a diatinguished orna-
ment, to prove that they had ever been found the ,demotes
of popular rights; and on this ground, coupled with the red.
=able private character of the right hon. hart., he recom-
mended him to the support of the independent electors of the
county. hie. Prideaux Selby, of Twirell House, seconded
the nomination.
Lord Ossuurrow, cn appearing, was received with con-
flicting expressions of feeling, in which, however, those of
disapprobation greatly preponderated. He denied the asser-
tion that he had neglected the interests of his constituents,
and affirmed, on the other hand, that he had carefully
watched every measure in any way affecting the landed in-
terest. True he was absent during the last session on account
of the state of his health, but the votes of the House of Com-
ment proved that he had not been unmindful of his duties.
Elected a protectionist, he had avoided contagion from
the bad example of Sir Robert Peel ; and he
pointed with pride to the successful efforts of the
protectionist party in behalf of the factory operative', op-
posed as throe efforts were by the combined strength of
whigs and tories. It had been alleged that between himself
sad Lord Lovaine a coalition existed, but surely his own
position in the county entitled him to aspire to the honour
which he now sought. His votes 'hewed that he had acted
independently, not as the nominee of any one. He had
represented the great conservative party of the division, and
hence he was disappointed at the conduct of many clew-
men of the established church, who had on this occasion
withheld from him support which before he had freely
received. He must infer frees this either that the church
had ceased to be conservative, or that her ministers
built their hopes rather on those who are, than on those who
lad been. in power. Personally, he was a sincere friend of
the church, and for this meson should strenuously oppose any
attempt to endow the Roman catholic church. (Cheers and
hisses).
Lord LeVAINS was received with moderate cordiality. He
came forward, he said, at the request of an influential por-
tion of the landed gentry, and connected as he was with the
Duke of Northumberland, it could not be believed that he
was otherwise than friendly to the agricultural interest.
He had no personal exertions of his own to refer to, but the
good deeds of the house of Percy here needed no
flourish. It was necessary, however, that he should
explain his political faith. In the first place, as a
friend of the protestant faith, he maintained most decidedly
that the introduction of the Jews into the representation of
this country was, or would be, a decided act of national
apoistacy. Ile was glad to find that the endowment of the
catholic priesthood was disavowed by the leaders of all the
parties in the state. At the risk of being charged with illi-
berality, he contended that the attempt to repeal the statute
of morn:min was to be condemned moat decidedly. To edu-
cation he was friendly, but no system ought to be tolerated
in this country which was not religious in its character. He
had many doubts as to the alleged advantages of free trade,
end certainly thought that u the farmer was exposed to
esnionition in corn, he ought also to have the benefit of
wMeer Mem and cheap cottons. The navigation-laws were
nestioud by free trade, but be never would consent to
MINIM* what had been found so advantageous to the
offietry. An elector called Lord Lovaine's attention to the
pesie-laws, but his lordship made no reply.
Mr Geoeoe GRIM then addeessed the electors as follows :
--efflestlemen, while I regret to say that there were many
epielollls uttered by the gentleman who as ably seconded the
netnination of the noble Lord Lovaine,of which I disapprove,
there were some opinions expressed by him in which I cor-
dially concur, and eons more so than those with which he
opened his address, reminding you of the importance of the
occasion on which you are now assembled. The day hue at
last arrived for which the note of preparation has hug been
heard, when you, ma portion of the constituent body el this
county, are called on according to law, and by dee meth*
of the conatititkin, in the exercise of a valuable privilege,
and in the Mielsarge of a responsible and important duty, to
choose two oat lithe three candidates who now stead before
you, and to send them to parilemat en )!!' Fn.
sentatives, there to take a part, ea year teshem, in the
delibetatiem whisk mad secupy the &deaden elf the legiala-
tore touching dime gesellean which will allase—ast ealy the
interests of zzerticaler lemlity—met them dem Worlds—
(loud chess which en appal hag been made, but the
interests of wilds of this embed and at those
exteentee depentheass which hew been peolzam:_ist.idenee
beneath the Heidi rule--the nets et ea
rests varied soil mixed, wr*.imeral, beam, mei eremseer-
cial,—intereste of rich sad poor, of the loinseen end the
capitalist—Mamma of the employer of labour-6mi lad, not
least in importance, the interests of a still mere munerous
clam, who, eartalseg their living by their daily labour,have con-
tributed so meentall , by their honest, persevering industry,
and by their imeami in placing this country on
that pedestal ming the satins of the earth which, by the
blessing of Puoidensee, iteesephe. (Cheers.) Looking, then,
at these important questiony awl et the magnitude of those
interests with which yew sepeesuatatives will be intrusted,
and at the part their imastitimede will have to take, it is, I
assure you, with no light hellos et responsibility that I place
myself before you as a ammilskile for the representation of the
northern division of this important county in parliament.
(Cheers.) I stand hem, reed is avow it, that I am attached
to that great party which ban been spoken of by Yr. Sitwell
in terms of which I ban nothing te complain,
but for which I thank him. I stand hem before
an agricultural oonstiteemeg M FOAM WNW a whit
I (Loud cheers.) Iltr. Shwa teal yea that the =iii
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of the whig party cos dui the vein of PlllOll s
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heard. I thank him ter thet delteltiva ef ear
and I am here to amen that litmdele-7(eheemMti
mks of the peoples shoal& be hied eiedy eat ormairatism,
ally—that it should be heard he amsedwalll with the spied
olthat constitution for the existeatie af width we have se
mach cause to be thankful. (Cheers.) I don't steadied,*
to-day to make any palmitin the fine timed
deal principles. lam hen, seer 16 ims'
public life, and derdeamestomess sr. have hi M
take a more than warm peetiathe elheemieee efthe Rem
of Commons upea these lasedeas abide ham sees iteseas
the period under the attendee of the isgilleame,
hrieees;a., It wee the knewtii my public eeriest
sad sot ia of
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to tu
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me to became a emendate la ram wi~ eat it ie
accordance with dint invitation that I stand hire Moog.
I (Cheers.) I wanted no seat in parliament. Te gin UMW
she parliaments have 1 been returned by one ecaidtessey,
between whom and myself, I am proud to say, that a grow-
ing and increasing confidence subsisted, and I bad a most
perfect assurance of being again returned by them, had I
again, as I earnestly desired, offered myself to their sow*
ance. (Hear, hear.) I was anxious when it was deal
proposed to me to become a candidate for this divides et
Northumberland to decline that honour. I shield meet
readily and cordially, as one of yourselves, as a (mistier et
Northumberland, assisted in returning, with rasa
mint a man who would have maintained the in
of the county, and who would have opposed more sabblly hate
Ido the coalition to which I now stand opposed. (" Hear,"
and cheers.) I speak not of this coalition in any invidious
geese ; for while I am anxious to thank the hon. gentleman
and the two noble lords on the other side for the absence of
ell personal feeling and appeals to party motives—en ex-
ample which I hops to follow, would my a word or two
in cequenee of what fed from Lord Ossuhton. Gentlemen,
of -the fact of a coalition there can be no doubt whatever.
( Hear.) The two noble lords have a perfect right, if they think
fit, to form a coalition, and I can see no reason why
Lord Ossulaton should be ashamed of it. (" Hear," and a

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laugh) He may be • great master of the English language,
and attach memos to tenon which we plain, unsephisti.
ceded men cannot understand. (Laughter.) We can oaly
' deduce inferences from ordinary premmes. I was led to bao
liens that there was • coalition, having had sent to me m
freeholder • month ago an address emanating from the tw:
noble lords, dated the same day, issued from the same
place, Alnwiek, and printed on the same piece of paper.
(Loud laughter.) I Sod also that there ia &joint committee
sitting in this town, and I believe there are similar
joint committees throughout the various districts of
the county. (Hear, bear.) I find the canvassing arch
are on behalf of both the noble lord,. I need not,
therefore, waste your time in proving that a coalition exists.
Yon know full well that I stand here opposed to the united
efforts of the two noble lords. (Hear.) I don't stand boa
for the first time to make a profession of my principles. I
stand here avowing myself a whig, and glorying in the fact
that amongst those designated by the name of whim are meta
whose names have been associated—not to go back to ancient
times, as my noble friena Lord Fitzclarecce has already
done—but in our own times—whose names have been asso-
ciated with all the great social improvements which have
taken place through the acts of the legislature. (Cheers.)
I stand here u one of the party who, whether in or oat
of office, advocated, and eventually, in office, carried,
the abolition of negro shivery. (Cheers.) I stand here
as one of that party through whose efforts, aided and backed
by the people—as I hope ministers will always be when they
propose measures for the good of the people—was passed the
Reform Bill, which conferred on many of those whom I now
see before me that right to exercise the elective franchise
which before they did net p 006064. (Cheers.) On this point
I will only allude for a moment to a sentence in the speech
of Mr. Sitwell. He told you, in language which, so far
from complaining of, I most thank him for, that 1 was your
friend, equally with the two noble lords ; but that, as I was
a minister of the crown,. you might as well reject me, end
send my two noble friends, as I hope I may call them,
to parliament -- that I should be sure to find an-
other seat there to do the work of a represen.
teative—so that in point of fact you would elect me as
! your third representative by proxy. (A laugh.) I think
Mr. Sitwell must have forgotten the changes which have
taken place of late years, He said it was a long time since
he had stood on the hustings ; perhaps it was before the
Reform Act passed ; for who, I ask, can scot:Meet a minister
of the crown in those days addrening a constituency like the
' present ? You are aware that before the reform bill passed
it was usual for a minister of the crown to go down to what
were called pocket boroughs. (Hear, hear.) He did
not come down to the people of a great consti-
tuency be did not meet the intelligent, honest faces
of • large assembly like the present ; he did not
Imbibe the spirit of freedom which your cheers breathe.
(Great applause.) It is a wholesome thing for a minister of
the crown to stand before such assemblages as the present,
who come to interchange their opinions with those whom
they desire to see, and after • fair avowal of their political
principles to decide on their merits as candidates. (Hear.)
Among other measures proposed by the party to which I
have the honour to belong, have been those of municipal re-
form, both in England and Ireland. (Clime.) There are
other questions to which I need not advert, except to
notice one to which Lord °nekton alluded, arid on
which he claimed your support on the ground of
having voted on the factory question. lie said, we—l
don't know who he means as having been associated with
him—" we pursed the factory bill"—that bill haring been
carried this sear in the absence of my noble friend. (Level
laughter.) He maid, " You must thank our tender means
for the factory bill which was opposed by the united forces
of the whim and Peelitea." (Hear.) I can excuse my Roble
friend's ignorance of what took place in the house whilst he
was absent. (A laugh.) On more than one ecetsion, divided
as the whip and Peelites were, I voted fur that measure;
my yoke was repeatedly raised on behalf of the measure,
ailed for as it was by the interests of humanity ; and
I contributed with my noble friend Lord John Russell
to the pegging of that act. (Laud cheers.) We have always
been advocates for the removal of those restrictions on trade
which have been devised for its protection, but which have
been found to impede the development et trade and com-
merce. On what grounds lam opposed by my noble friend,
if he will allow mew call him 60 (Lord Lovau e), I am at a
loss to conceive. He stated that he would offer no factious
opposition to the ministry. lam not aware that he alluded
to a single act or item in the policy of her Majesty's revel-
ment. He alluded to some bills brought into parliament,
which were private bills, and which her Majesty's muggers,
in reference to those parts of them to which be
objected. did not support. (Hear, hear.) I claim
him
from an acknowledgment of his candid opinion
that we are fit to be trusted with the government of this
country. (Cheers.) But I find that the Freund on which
I am epposed is an attempt to revive the old cry of protec-
tion to agriculture. On this point, addressing as lam a
large agricultural constituency, I am moat anxious to say a
few words. (Hear.) The gentleman who proposed or who
seconded Lord Omulston did so on the ground that he had
been true to the interests of agriculture. I don't deny it.
He went on to say that the noble lord had resisted the con-
tagion of Sir ltobert Peel. Gentlemen, there is one
way of resisting contagion, and that is keeping at
• very long distance from it—(laughter)—and if that
placard which we have seen here to-day contains any
approximation to an aecuratiseatimate of the votes given h 7 the
noble lord, tie had taten a most effectual means of avoiding
any contagion which might be caught within the walls of
the House of Commons. (Loud laughter.) I don't mean
to object to my noble friend an the groued of his absence
during the last parliament. I know the fatigues consequent
upon a constant attendance to parliamentary duties. (Hear.)
I am not prepared to say that his motives were at all repre-
hensible in wishing to meet you again and enter your servin
with recruited strength and vigour. (Hear.) I hive no de-
sire to dispute his classical taste in his having for the
first time in the winter of 1846 and 1847 visited the Eternal
City, and spent that interval in the genial climate of an
Italian atmosphere. I have only to regret that her Majesty's
ministers hsd not the advantage of his services ; but I must
observe that during the last three weeks he has been very
constant in his attendance in parliament, and I am notional
that on one occasion he gave a vote except in favour of her
Majesty's ministers. (Hear, hear.) Although Mr. Sitwell
thinks it is too late to revive the old corn law, be
considers that there is yet some latent design
to take away all your property and tend you to the
union workhouse. Now Mr. Sitwell supported Lord Loraine
as a scion of the house of Percy. I wou:d speak of that
illustrious house with the most unfeigned respect ; but both
the late duke, and the present, when Lord Prudhoe, voted
with Sir Robert Peel. 'I suppose ! am held up sa a son of
Mlez, but I beg to say, if the agricultural interest is to be
I shall be the first to feel that ruin. I vim a practical
=ltmyself, and I ant in the possession effete) acres,
endeavouring to farm to the best advantage.
Bat, gentlemen, I believe that true protection to agriculture
consists in an enlightened system of agriculture ; on grant-
ing leases to the tenants at fair and reasonable rents;
in a fair remuneration to the landlord, at the was
time that the tenant is allowed to lire fairly on the land;
No true protectionist can, in my opinion, be justified is
keeping up large quantitiee of game to consume the prods*
of the laud, in order—not to enjoy the rational sport whisk
I derive from walking across a few fields with dogs and
gun, and bringing down a few partridges and hares—but is
the 'sake of collecting great masses of game, destroying meek
food, and then publishing in the local papers the great quer
tity of game which a given number of gentlemen kill at what
is called a bailor. (Cheers.) I believe that the only ter
protection to agriculture is to be found, as I said before, is
that self-reliance of the British agriculturist on his era
resources, with that fair and liberal aid from his Iseel-
lord, without which, I admit, he can do little, bet
with which, I believe he will be enabled to eoeledo
succenfully with all the nations of the earth. (Chien)
Remembering, as we mast, the ever-increasing de'
mead for the fruits of the earth, occasioned by
the continual increase of our population, in order to most
this demand, the farmer will have to bring more land bee
cultivation, and to cultivate the whole 02060=thut
present; and I am happy to find, from the in Meat
of drainage which is going on, that the necessity of this
exertion is generally felt. (Renewed cheers.) But niell
I believe that to talk of protection in any other sense wool
be absolutely absurd. I'll tell you what has inflicted a gnat
blow on protection—the facilities of intercourse between
one country and another. (Hear, hear.) Mr. linden, to
whom we are much indebted in this respect, calls himself a
protectionist, and really believes himself to be so; bat I
think it would puzzle him to define what protection Emma
He, and such as he, b 77 means of their capital, talent, lad
exertion, having eontH6ufad to the extension of nulway
00•11111d610A014b0” beaded the heaviest blow and greatest
dius,inssNmg;iaa=ka. hissaass they have made the
estihnorant of inns obsolethely
time wh impoesitsliche. ,
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and hoes Rio roger le to keep up the imaging
Thick poidleliny dillies lave hitherto
Thus, iastood or Weft bask goods became they seu ?!.
Mclefts ranUise, the of Providence will be xry
inty ellierwing the freed intieshoor of otennod.iul!
wlniever predand, (Cheers.) I den'tlineweebotharyn
to beer any awe apes this waldest. (" You") I thiee_t
have said eon* arm nom from myself the rePeu•°'
of being as mow to ogrkiattare. At all events I mad
fairly apes this *at, that the egriculturiets will ham iu as
a representative MINN deeply interested in their prosperity,
nehap, than eilbor of ay noble friends. But another
jeetion of a mast extraornary kind has been made to
sr-
Lord Lovainejf I remember right, said, that although
posed to give a faksaggert to the government, he rather "'"
trusted them, because lea saw that they were all the repteme•
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towsw
not for the essemirry. If there is any truth in this, if e'
,
interests are In bmatters
e the only which you are to seam'
der, the beet thing you can do to remedy the defect will be
to send one member of the government as a representative tit
a great agricultural constituency. (Laughter and &Wet
If you elect me, I shall at all events be one Wive Of
an agricultural constituency, and I shall berereria your
behalf to pockets.wath sinister designs which the ministry wal
h.aveopoen
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qu(esLotiuod.la.uhgthaterh.anved
bc.heen mot
by my noble friends, and upon which I may be exert*
to express my opinion. One is the abject for
cation. I was not able clearly to ascertain the _
entertained by either of m 7 opponents on this subject
flir as I understand Lord Lonme's expression of cynics.
=Ly concur with hint in this, that education ).
,Mor
t—that it is most desirable to extend as wicks) se
poseible the development of intellect, and the extend,* MI
that moral and religious principle which you An
us
effeesandly communicate to youth by a system of d?.
struetion. It was with a sense of the deficiencies of tes
exist*, means of instruction in this country, and witk t
sense of the ruinous mutts which arise from the error ~!
crime in the most ignorant parts of the country, that It
Majesty's government became more and more 01100 se
extend more widely through the country the net,:
enable bleedings of education. (Cheers.) Upon WI