The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-12 00:00:00

218-BLECTIONS.

ELECTION FOR NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND.
(Frain the Newasetts Ciotti& of this day).
The re-election of the Right Hon. Lord Lovable for
North Northumberland, on his aoceptenos of cake raw of
the Junior Lords of the Admiralty. took place at Alawich,
=y. At ten o'clock the High Bberiff off the county,
J. H. Allgood, accompanied by Wm. Foster, Esq.,
Under-Sheriff', entered the Town-hall, sad shortly after Lord
Loraine, with a number of county gratleatea, his supporters
and friends, made their appearemos. Among those present
were Sir M. W. Ridky, Bart., Charles Wm. Orde, Req.,
Bryan Burrell, Eq., Hoick Taylor, t;y, Wm. Dickson,
Be,
Hugh Molest, Eq., , Esq., Glop
Bunks, Esq., Rev. L. 8. 0 Grd:rEiv. C. Charlton, &a.
Alter the usual formalities had been concluded, and the
writ read by the Under Sheriff, and the Okay oath ad-
mislead to the
a
Mr. 01,D1, Nu=k, rose and proposed that Lord
Lavabos be again tenoned. He bad served the county for
six years with honour to himself and credit to the county.
HL principles were those shadowed forth in the speech of
the Earl of Derby, end west alike cousisteat with the
supportstrain-
of oar present Institutions and their properly,
and le improvement. During the period he had repre-
sented the county he had at all times evinced the greatest
attention to our boil Wren', and in the position to which
he bad been called his leftism sad abilities would be exer-
cised for the bandit of the general community.
Mr. Bynum., Broomparke, brkfly seconded the wad.
nation.

No other candidate being proposed the High libmilf de-
dared Lord Lovaine duly elected, but without calling for
any show of hands.
Lad LovAINE then came forward, and returned thanks
to the electors for this the third time they had returned him
to parliament. A month ago he had not the alighted notion
that be would have to-day to solicit a renewal of their octal-
demos. He had been appointed to Milos he could safely say
without expecting it, without making it, and without wishing
it. But it had been a rule with him never to shrink from the
ce of any duty to which be could be fairly called.
hirec"aree"gnation of the late government had bees brought
about by an act of the party with which he was connected.
He commented on the circumstances under which that re•
Va="had taken place, and the manner in which Count
ld's angry despatch had been treated. He expressed,
he ere
noi terms, his utter detestation feeling in which
all ishteen would join—at ties And and abominable
alms umasination, and his wish that everything should
be done to repress or punish it. Still, peeking to making
any new law, the present state of the law should be ens
clearly ascertained, more particularly as our highestliV
authorities were not agreed upon the subject. And be would,
he no case, allow any Infringement on the inviolability of the
law of uylum. He next adverted to Indian affairs. The
change contemplated by the measure proposed by the late
government be thought premature. Bat the whole case was
now in the hands of a nobleman, Lord Ellenboeough, wen-
loftily the greatest authority on Indian affairs in the country,
and he had no doubt • wife and satisfactory nesseure for km
future government would be devised ander hie saperintendemoa
With reference to a reform bill he mid, after having bean
promised by every government for the list bar years, it was
sot to be expected that Lord Derby, with melt a mass of
other business before him, could be expiated to do jambe, to
it in this session, but he was prepared to ester upon the in-
quiry, sad not to make any partial changes, but user
& ret possible, so that it should need so Mims alt
He complimented the late government upon the present state
of the navy, and generally of our national dehisce', and con-
cluded by referring to the sdodaistration of the Duke of
Northumberland of the affairs of the Admiralty, where be
bad inaugurated reforms, the Weal of which were only sow
beXfully understood.
bail was very fairly tilled during the proceedings,
which did not occupy more then half an hour.