The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-21 00:00:00

JULY 215 1852.

Liberals. Ministerialists.

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THE GENERAL ELECTION

STATE OF POLLS..-(THIS DAY.)

MIDDLESEX.
SECOND DAY, ELEVEN O'CLOCK.
Grosvenor ... ... 4,020
•••
Osborne
... 3,332
••• ••• •••
Blandford ••• ••• ... 3219

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Gm:senor
Osborn,
B►_andford

... 4,220
... 3 493
... 3,374

ONE O'CLOCK.

Grosvenor ...
O)born©
Blandford

4,468
... 3,705
... 3,533

TWO O'CL'_CIK.

Grosvenor ... 4,823
•••
Osborne ...
...
Blandford
..• ... 4,003
...
HERT••• 3,893
FORDSHIRE.
FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Halsey
•••
•• • •••
MeuX
Lytton ... •••
••• ...
Trevor • ••• ••• •••
Puller ••• ...
Bosarl"" ...
BERKSHIRE.
FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Vansittart ...
••• •••
Palmer ••• •••
Barrington ...
••• ...
waiter
,••• ...
••. ...
EAS r SOMEIiSETSHIR.E.
FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.

... 2,219

▪ 2,211
... 2,148
• 2,046
... 1,908
... 1,865

-. 1737
-. 1,703
-. 1,637
155

Miles ... 4,647
Knatchban •.. ... 4,307
Elton 2,974
BUCKINGIiaIis am&
FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.

THE ELECTIONS-THE LIBERAL PARTY,

It would be ungrateful to overlook the fact that the elec.
Lions have deprived the Liberal party of some men whose
long services, high personal character, special attainments,
powers of commanding Parliamentary attention, and devo-
tion to the popular cause trill render their absence from the
new Parliament a Ices to the friends with whom they teed so
faithfully and usefully laboured. Some few of them will, it
is yet to be hoped, regain, on petition, the scats of which
they have been deprived—but others of them can only, it is
clear, re-enter the House of Commons by the favour of other
constituencies than those whore public spirit has failed them
on the present occasion. As legislation—like other grave pur-
suits—is a business to the due
performance and transaction of
which men are not born ready made, so in any of the gen-
tlimen whom we areabout to mention, boroughs in which va-
cancies may occur may find representatives of experience, of
character, and of popular qualifications.
Foremost amongst these losses may be placed Mr. Bernal.
There are few old Members on either side of the new House
who will not miss the late Chairman of Ways and Means;
so intelligent, so courteous, so accessible; sa ready with
information on matters cf detail, so constant in his
attendance, and so business-like while presiding over Com-
mittees of the whole house. Yet there was nothing servile,
nothing merely plausible, nothing showy about Mr. Bernars
suavity; in his hands the House was in the hands of a
thorough gentleman, careful of its character, its honour, and
its dignity; who knew everything relating to its proceed-
ings, and who, unostentatiously, had done -much to improve
those proceedings, and to adapt its manner of transacting
private business to the vast and various increase that would
otherwise have overrun Parliament. Mr. Bernal was a fine
specimen of thorough liberality of political opinions, and
complete independence of mere cliquerie, accompanied by
cultivated understanding, good taste, and courteous manners.
He had become, too, part and parcel of the House; and on
its re-assembling the question will instinctively arise to
many tongues, when advice is wanted or information is
sought, " Where is Bernal ?" Rochester may well blush
for his exclusion ; the loss is public ; but the disgrace is local.
The absence of Mr. Bernal in the next Parliament will,
moreover, be the more marked, seeing that Lancaster also has
excluded Mr. Greene, who was Sir Robert Peel's Chairman
of Ways and Means. Two men of great Parliamentary ex-
perience in the details of its business are what the House of
Commons can ill afford to lose, when led by a raw and inex-
perienced Minister, without a majority. The loss will, how-
ever, tend to render the re-election of Mr. Shaw Lefevre to
the Speakership a political necessity; and the probability is
that Mr. Wilson Patten's pretensions to be Chairman of
Ways and Means will be adopted and promoted by a Go-
vernment iu which he also has no great confidence. Mr.
Wilson Patten is, no doubt, a sensible business-like man, and
will fill the chair creditably; but he is far inferior in every
respect to Mr. Bernal, and not equal in any to Mr. Greene.
Next to the loss of Mr. Bernal we would place the ex-
clusion of Mr. Horsman and Sir Edward Buxton; and to
them we might appropriately add, in a House where eccle-
siastical reformers will be few, Mr. Hardcastle. It is now
some sixteen veers ago since Mr. Horsman entered Parlia-
ment a young and active Whig of the Edinburgh school;
and for years he laboured hard in the ranks of Whiggery,
But he, too, found it " dry bones ;" and long ago Mr. Hors.
Long, arduous,
its
manf d
renounced its trammels and its alliances, as he bad also
aprofitsit daCnodstelnlyosltuumdyenotfs t hQe uae
xl i fiy stinging conditionhimself b o
by af
the Church of England, he boldly occupied the vacant field
of ecclesiastical reform, and, by a succession of motions and
speeches during the last fly
Wtsiggery and the hostility ejars, in spite of the sneers of
Toryism, he had brought the
sickle to the rank and luxuriant growth
epis-
copal weeds; when coercion,
and
of church and
ntimidation, and corrup-
tion at Cockermouth, have withdrawn Mr. Horsman, for a
season at leant, from the scene of hislabc'rs
In many of his later efforts he received.
much
effective (because practical, intelligent, arl(l informed) fed) cordial and
as-
sistance from Sir Edward Brixton and Mr. Hardcastle,orm
of whom the dull men of Essex have rejected. But thatboth
is
not the only, or perhaps the chief, ground on which the loss of
Sir Edward Buxton is to be regretted. Sir Edward did
more than represent South Essex; he represented a large
class of moral sentiment, of humanity, and of philanthropy,
useful in the House of Commons as a corrective to the hard,
meterial coarse spirit which excludes the feelings, and al-
most the vintner, of life, from its philosophy.
The next Parliament will be the first in modern times in
which the heir apparent of the liberal house of Fortescue has
not had a seat; and many a man in the Liberal ranks could
have been more easily spared than the present Lord
Ebrington. For though, in general politics, very apt to
adhere too rigidly to Lord John Russell, Lord Ebrington
had a speciality; and it was sanitary reform, This
cause—the cause of the poor and the helpless—had
almost become a passion, certainly an enthusiasm with Lord
Ebrington. In his zeal for health and cleanliness even his
hereditary Whiggesy cooled; and for it there was no labour
or trouble he would not undergo. There are few who have
Lord Ebrington's ardour in this respect ; let us hope, then,
that a petition will restore him to the House. And whilst on
Lords, let us pay a passing tribute of regret to Lord Dun-
can's absence; for he too, and even in a higher and better
degree, rose above the prejudices of his order; and two suc-
cesses of his past Parliamentary career gave presage of still
greater future usefulness. It is to Lord Duncan that the
country owes such reform in the composition of the Boards
of Woods and Works, and in the administration and manage-
ment of the Crown property, as it has yet got—to him also
we are indebted for the repeal of Pitt's abominable tax on
light. There is too large a capacity for public business, com-
bined with a thorough liberality of opinions, in Lord Duncan,
for him rot to be missed in the new House of Commons. _

„.
Why Oldham should have rejected Mr. W. J. Fox puzzles
people who have not the advantage of living in Oldham ;
except, indeed, that the very name (though unaccompanied
by the genius) of Cobbett, has irresistible fascinations for its
constituency, or that Oldham finds enjoyment in being
eccentric, and capricious, and ungrateful. But so it is ;
Oldham has deprived the House of Commons of the elo-
quence and suggestive, if not always accurate, thought of
bir. Fox, and has preferred to his great exertions on behalf
of secular education, the vain and illusory promises and
professions of that nondescript political animal—a Derbyite-
Rad ical.

Mr. Anstey, too (whatever Whigs may say, and in spite
of the injustice he was ever doing himself), is a real loss.
For Mr. Anstey was a leader of forlorn hopes ; and though
sometimes rash ani. boisterous, be was full of courage and
gallantry, and fuller still of learning and ability. Mr.
Austey ran the whole gamut of politics; nothing was too
large or too small for his zeal. To him were consigned all
the motions for which other people had neither the taste nor
the ability, neither the industry nor the courage.
The Whigs have to mourn the defeats of Sir John Ro-
milly and Sir William Somerville. But in the absence from
Parliament of the former, the best interests of the public,
gain. And it
and the purity and character of justice, will
might be well, now that the Master of the Rolls is absent
and the question could have no Personal bearing, for the
athies and
Legislature to perpetuate the exclusion of that great func-
tionary. Though of late oppressed by official
the Wh absence
gery,
Sir W. Somerville had larger kYn)p
of his large and accurate acquaintance with Ireland will be
felt in the new House of Cumulous.
On all occasions Mr. Hey worth was a good steady intel-
ligent Radical; Sir Edward CAlebrooke was a Member whose
'
real merits wore often obscured by modesty add want of
force; Colonel Thompson's was an old familiar face that all
will miss and regret; though the seats formerly occupied by
Mr. D'Eyncourt and Mr. G. Thomps)n are still filled by
Liberals, we cannot part with old friends without thapking
prais
them for aid and assistance in times when©iberll hang
them
were far less popular than—Heaven b
crowded;ear as to
are now.
Still, even with these losses, our rank.
no are
and we shall give Lord Derby battle w
it t
whose will be the victory.-31orning &M

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.
The following list of all pensions granted between the
20th day of June 1852
20th day of June, 1851, and the
Civil List, was issued yesterday--
and charged upon the
, •
1851.—August 30, Anna Jameson, '
100... in consideration of
her literary merits. In trust to Mr Maria Long, 1001., in
. William Thackeray and
Mr. John Murray. September 1,
consideration of the services of her late husband, Mr. Frede-
rick Beckford Long, Inspector-General of Prisons in Ire.
land, and of his having died from illness contracted while in
the execution of his duty, by
which she is placed in circum-
stances of great distress. In trust to the Hon. Edward Cecil
Curzon and Mr. John Martin, U•"
Silk Buckingham, 2001, in consideration September 1, James
eration of his literary
works and useful tr rale in carious countries. September 2,
in Robert Torrens, F.R.S., 2001, in consideration of his valu-
able contributions to the science of political economy. Oc-
tober 10, John Wilson, Professor of Moral Philosophy in
the University of Edinburgh,
eminent literary merits. Octob in consideration of his
er 10, Elizabeth Reid,
50/. (widow of Dr. James S. Reid, Professor of Ecclesia- R
tical and Civil History in the University of Glasgow) "
; and
Jane Arnott Reid, Elizabeth Reid, and Mary Reid, 501.
(daughters of the above, and for the survivors or survivor of
them), in consideration of Dr. Reid's valuable contributions
to literature, and of the distressed condition in which his
consideration of the
Aoll9axinannderM acA.ReridthurMp
widow and children are placed by his deem;
andofini\sector of the Dublin
In trust to
the Rev. George Bellis and James Seatone.
mFeebri.tsB,olfBhse2r,
lEatleizatilulsabcaAndrt,huDr,r.s
been attackedational Education in
su-
perintendent of model schools,
by mental derange-
ment,
edistrictut ,
attributedunder the
itsosihoniserustibounded exertions in the
Ireland, and of his having
discharge of his official duties,nn ll m and alio in consideration that
Csoelmelym,
the pension of 2001. per a
during the lifetime of her h ) which was granted to her
In trust to Dr. usband, has lapsed by his de-
cease. Mackenzie. April 5, George Beilby and Captain Alexander
his literary merits and John Britton 75/., in consideration of
Mary Fitzgibbon, 75/impoverished condition. April 5,
vices rendered by her fath
in consideration of the signal ser-
various occasions in Ca ra Colonel James Fitzgibbon,.
.0n
in which she will be leftnaa a, and of the destitute c
letirzuft
to Mr. G. de B. Attw t her father's death. IV od
accountant ood, secretary and Mr. T. o ,
of the Bank • ' • Total,
1,2001. of British North America.
1

-1----------(4.LA STONN.—Ar.
FURTHER MONITION Cr .uat. -------D Free Ep.s-
Gladstone, who has accepted the pastorate toohave preached
copal Chapel at St. Mary's Torquay, Was nrevented by a
there on Sunday last. This, however.
the 15
„„„ of Arches,
further ecclesiastical document from the decision of
arising out of, and admonishing him Sr. Ciladstone's plans
preach on Sun-
that Court. In consequence 0102 ~ not
° ' 11 6'l; •d °
therefores° until,
heincludes has
taken
e
„„„ embraces the whole
day last, as advertised,
are for the present.. frusTtnrboarete:virain
ilid.esaid
further legal advice.
0. terbur;
of " the province of ,Tx.l_,, gr. Gladstone 's new church is
diocese of Exeter, in ww"
osriTAL.—The annual general
of this charity was held yesterday
situate.
v°et. ralsren°:(rnsstitutton during the year, the num-
TmheCeetriiineApg:tori!cgoß:o d room of the hospital, the chair being
afternoon in the or, in the absence of Lord It, Grosvenor.
taken OF soft conini, ittfe gave a Very favourable account
a on prcnt-s having been 17,995.
of Ps";:rbe number of accidents
Of these 1,200 were in.
bar admitted during the year
patieon,ts Of these 728 were from faUs from elevations •
was 4„- .• of ,
failing earth, buildings, &c., 93; steam-engine,
tram end crane accidents,inuries from vehicles,
Irara,, scalds, and explosions 74; immersion in water, tak-
ing delcterous articles, and noxious gases, 25; bites of
enanals, 42; p,.;.rsonal violence, blows, and stabs, 278; from
cutting instruments, contusions, &c., 580; apoplexy, 65;
hernia and ha3morrhage, 65. Of the total number of patients
16,498 had been cured or relieved, .57 had died, and '240 were
under treatment 204,858 patients had been treated since
the opening of the institution. The funds received during
the year amounted to 3,554/. 13s. 21/2d., including a former
balance of 318/.Bs. 21A d. ; and the expenditure had amounted
to 2,490/. its. 244 d., leaving a considerable balance. The
committee were very anxious to complete the upper portion
of the building, which still remains unfinished, and for that
purpose bad opened a separate building fund, the total
amount of which was at present 1,7511. As coon as this
desirable end shall have been accomplished they will have
50 more beds at their disposal, and will be enabled to ac-
commodate from 500 to 600 more patients yearly. The re-
port was received and unanimously agreed to; and. alter the
uroutine business, the meeting thanked the chairman
and
daaleparated;3. .
.