The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-03 00:00:00

DURHAM.

The polling took place yesterday, when Lord Adol-
phus Vane was returned, the numbers at the close of the
poll being 514 for Vane, and 496 for Fenwick.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS ELECTION.
The nomination for candidates for the vacancy in this
borough, caused by the appointment of Mr. Stuart to a
vice-chancellorship, took place yesterday morning ; and
although on many former occasions complaints had been
made of the disorderly conduct of the people when called
upon to exercise the elective franchise, it was universally
admitted that yesterday's proceedings were the most
tumultuous and disorderly ever witnessed in the town.
The two candidates were Mr. H. P. Oakes (Conservative),
the son of a banker carrying on business in Bury, and
Mr. J. A. Hardcastle (Liberal), who represented Col-
chester in the last Parliament. The friends of both
candidates paraded the town from an early hour in the
morning, with banners of all sorts and sizes, the
designi on many of them being of a personal rather
than of a political character. This circumstance caused
much exasperation, and it not unfrequently happened
that the two parties came into collision while
pursuing the route marked out for them. But it was
not until the candidates made their appearance on the
hustings that the bitter feelings which had been engen-
dered broke out to any very serious extent. As soon as
it was known that the Mayor was on his way to the
hustings, a body of horsemen wearing Mr. Oakes' colours,
and consisting of country squires, magistrates, and gen-
tlemen farmers, rode into the vast mass of persons who
had congregated, and took up their position in the mid-
dle of the crowd. This circumstance called forth loud
rebukes from various quarters, and some of Mr. Hard-
castle's men endeavoured by means of their flags, which
were of enormous size, to drive back the intruders. This
was resisted ; the horsemen formed themselvses into a
line, and at a given signal from one of the party, rapidly
advanced, and rode down flags, men, and everything that
came in their way. The police, assisted by a large num-
ber of special constables whom the mayor had judici-
ously sworn in, conveyed some of the ringleaders to the
lock-up, where they were confined during the remainder
of the day. This was not, however, sufficient to ensure
order, for during the whole of the subsequent proceed-
ings the disturbances continued.
Mr. Beaven proposed, and Dr. Drake seconded the
nomination of Mr. Oakes, while Mr. H. Le Grice pro-
posed, and Mr. Collins seconded the nomination of Mr.
Hardcastle, the show of hands was declared to be in
favour of Mr. Oakes, but a poll was demanded and fixed
for to-day,

GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

INSTALLATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE
EARL OF EGLINTON.
GLASGOW, Nov. 30.
This afternoon his Excellency the Earl of Eglinton,
who was recently elected Lord Rector of the University,
was duly installed into office in the Common-hall of the
college. The building was crowded in every part, the
galleries being appropriated to ladies, among whom was
the Countess of Eglinton, who was received with several
rounds of the heartiest applause. His Excellency was
accompanied to the Common-hall by the Principal and
the Professors of the University, and by Sir Archibald
Alison (the late Lord. Rector), Sir Michael Shaw
Stewart, and other distinguished persons.
After the formal proceedings had been disposed of,
His Excellency the LORD RECTOR rose, and was re-
ceived with the most enthusiastic applause. He said—
Very Rev. Principal, Professors, Students, and Gentle-
men,—There are occasions when it is no easy matter
to express the feelings with which we are animated,
and the present is one of those when it is most
peculiarly difficult for me adequately to express my
sense of the kindness which you have shown me. (Loud
cheers.) It is, indeed, most gratifying to me, or to
any man, to be singled out by any large body of my
fellow-countrymen as an object of esteem and approba-
tion ; but there is something which comes more especially
home to the heart, and which warms the feelings—to be
singled out and welcomed by the youth of one's country
—to be singled out by those whose happy countenances
and joyous looks bring one back to years long gone by,
and which also point to future energy and usefulness.
(Continued cheers.) It is, indeed, most gratifying to me
to be singled out by the members of this Univers
b ity, by
the educated youth of the west of Scotland, and y those
learned and pious men who direct their studies, to fill
a chair hallowed by the recollections of antiquity and
by the memories of those great men who have occupied
it—that wonderful list of men who have occupied this
chair, from the bold and patriotic Andrew Melville, of
the 16th century, to your own Sheriff Alison, of the
19th. (Loud cheers.) The mighty orator who has en-
chained millions by the intense power of his eloquence,
the statesman who has swayed the destinies of empires,
the poet who has enthralled the passions, the philo-
sopher who has roamed into endless space or pointed
out the hidden treasures of the earth—the skilful
lawyer, the eminent divine, the truthful historian,
have all filled this chair ; and each, in his turn,
has addressed the students in words of power, and
in the fulness of his intellect. (Renewed cheer-
ing.) I cannot claim to myself the eloquence of
a Stanley or a :Macaulay—(cheers)—the ripe states-
manship of a Peel or a Lansdowne, the varied genius
of Brougham, the brilliant acquirements of a Jeffrey or
a Cockburn, the learning of a Mure, or the pen of an
Alison ; but I will yield to none of my predecessors in
my appreciation of the kindness which has been shown
me in my earnest determination to uphold the sacred
cause of education, or in my desire to promote the in-
terests of those who have thus conferred on ine the
greatest honour in their power to bestow. (Cheeee
rs.n)
Believe me, that honour, though unsolicited, has
as
a
earnestly desired, and I have long looked_ to awn...
worthy, but perhaps unattainable, object of my
other' men,
tion. I trust I have no more vanity
e bethaandrawback to
but if anything could at such a
the gratification which I feel, itisimthat I should have
been opposed, however unwillingit y on my part, as well
as on his, to a nobleman whom I esteem and admire so
much as the Duke of Argyll—
(great cheering)—one
rea rich -
who, though young in yws,
isdis omal —one dy
in elo
who has al-
quence, in learning, andief
ready earned for himself a niche in the temple of fame,
and a high place in the estimation of his fellow-coun
-
trymen—who who has never prostituted his great ta-
lents to factious purposes or selfish ends—unblemished
in character as he is unsullied in hereditary descent—a
worthy representative of perhaps the greatest family
among the nobles of Scotland. He is worthy of the
encomium which Thomson bestowed on his greatest
ancestor—

" From thy rich tongue
Persuasion flows, and wins the high debate ;
While mixed in thee combine the charms of youth,
The force of manhood, and the depth of age !"
(Cheers.) I should have cheerfully submitted to defeat
in such a contest, and hailed him with pleasure as your
Lord Rector, in the well-known words of Cicero. I
trust I shall be pardoned for" alluding to one circum-
stance connected with my election, which has, among
the rest, given me the most sincere pleasure. It is that
I have received the almost unanimous support of the
Irish students of this university. (Cheers.) May I not
claim it as a proof that I have not forfeited the good
opinion of those whose interests are for a time committed
to ray charge—that I have not sullied the dignity of the