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APRIL 2 1852.
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'ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
EAST SUFFOLK.
• ' Instvecn, APRIL 21.--t Sir Fitzroy Kelly, her Ma-
jesty's Solicitor-Geriran the candidate for the vacant
sent which hag occurred in the eastern division of the
county of Suffolk by the death of Lord Rendleshain,
visited this town yesterday for the purpose of addressing
the farmers attending the market, attended by a few of
the members of his committee. He proceeded from the
White Horse Hotel at three o'clock to the balcony in
.front of Mr. Chapman's house, situate on the Cornhill, i
immediately opposite the Corn Exchange. Among the
crowd were a large number of watermen and dredgemebt
said to be some of the free, independent, and immaculate
voters of the borough of Hlerwich, who had been brought
up, it was conjectured, to put dotin any opposition which
'might be offered by the Free-traders. The Solicitor-
Geaeral's reception was not quite so pleasing as that
which he met with in other districts of the county;
the•ehert address ho
made was almost continually inter-
.rnpted by shouts and hisses from the body of the meeting.
Mr. J. C. COBI3ILD
.having very - briefly introduced the Solicitor-General
. to the electors, .
ser KELLY was received amid cheers and
, M.P. for the borough of Ipswich,
Gedopfat
am extremely happy to
con-
stituency of the town and borough of Ipswich;
.hfinisSdsierme.FysiHeTizteil:tdet—ror
g my old friends—the con-
trust that I meet you to-day with the same satisfaction
and goodwill I have met you on former occasions. I
Onto - now . among you to solicit at your hands the
laighe.st honour which a British subject can receive from
the hands of his fellow.countryneon._(A Voice—" why
should you claim our suffrages?") I come, gentlemen,
to solicit your suffrages because I am prepared to and I
dis-
charge my duty tower& you if you should do me the
honour of electing me as your representative.—(Cheers
awl 'hisses; -and a Voice—" We you.")
ipheaatr before you in that °bat
Gentlemen, appearing as I do before don'ton wfoarntthe first
nierte in this borough • before an
41m:tabled body of elec.
ismilltalled upon, at the
racier, and the reason why I venture to ask for your
support at the ensuing election.—(Laughter, cheers, and
L'ii:l
outset, tthoisstaetoeunwthyy, llfeallp
dissent.) Gentlemen, if you will indulge me with your
attention for a very short period, I will afterward:,
stand here to answer any question any gentlemen may
think proper to put to me-7--(Laughter and cheers.)
Any question or any inquiry upon any subject, what-
ever it may be, asked by any elector of the eastern di-
vision of the county of Stiff ilk, shall be answered by
me.—(Cries. of " Be.evo!" and hisses.) Gentlemen, I
feel that in this land of freedom it becomes an English-
man thus to address his fellow men. lam aware that I
see before me many with whom I differ widely in politi-
cal opinions, whose political opinions are entirely oppo-
site to my own, and of whom, perhaps, it would be ill n
me to solicit support; or, perhaps, it would be so it I
were unprepared to meet that, I will not say as politi-
cal opponents. as readily and as friendly as the wartnes.
of my political supporters.—(Cries of " Bravo!") Gen
tlemen. let me first endeavour to set myself right with
you, appearing before you as I do a candidate to repre-
sent you in Tenement at all. As you well know, I can
lay no claim to your support, founded upon ancient he-
reditary associenons, or founded upon the possessions of
an extensive property in your county. Gentlemen, I
am, comparatively, a stranger among You, though not
altogether unknown to you.—(' - Veice—" I should
think not." " Who bribed the tailor?"—and you may,
therefore, well expect that I should offer to you some
explanations as to the reasons why I now appear
before you to solicit so great an amount of your confi-
dence and support.—(llear, hear.) Gentlemen, let na,
assure you, and with the most perfect sincerity I do so.
that so long as there existed the faintest hope that a
gentleman directly connected with your couaty—anl.,
one
having those claims to which I have alluded, of family
interests, and in possession of great landed property
within your county—would offer himself as a candidate
—I should have deemed. it a mark of great vanity and
presumption to have ventured to have offered myself to
your notice.—(Cries of " Bravo," hisses, and cheering.)
Gentlemen, it is known to you all that, even before the
lamentable event occurred which has caused a vacancy
in your representation, attempts were made to induce
some gentleman in your county to come forward when-
ever a vacancy should occur, and to present himself
before you as a candidate to represent your county in
Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) You are well aware, gen-
tlemen, that every effort made, by some the respect-
able and respected among you, to induce a country
gentleman to come forward to represent your interests
failed, until at length one, in every way unexcep-
tionably entitled to that honour, was asked to come
forward, and Sir Charles Blois was prevailed on re-
luctantly to accept the offer, but, after some considera-
tion, that worthy and excellent gentleman felt that
he ought to withdraw, and not to press his claims upon
you.—(Hear, hear). He perhaps felt, as I believe he
did feel, that iu these trying and stirring times, when all
that is most dear and valuable to the agriculturist of
this country, and this county, are at stake and are in
imminent danger, that you should return a more effective
representative than himself—that you should return to
Parliament as your representative some one more used
to walk in the thorny paths of public life—some one
more used to take a part in the controversies now so
rife, tied iu political contests, to which a man in public
life was mote accustomed than he wits. And it was
under these circurnetancts that that worthy and Hon.
Gentleman withdrew all claims to the representation.—
(Hear, hear.) And then, and then only, I came forward
to solicit your suffrages, having been unanimously invited
to do so—(Cries of " No, no," and cheers)—by more
than one thousand electors of your county, after having,
over and over again, declared that I would not divide an
psrty, and that I would do no act to injure the great
cause to which you are all attached. Then, and not till
then, did I respond to the call, and I now present myself
before you on those grounds.—(Cheers and hisses.)
It may be expected that coming to solicit your suffrage,
—this mark of your confidence and esteem—l should
state to you the political ground upon which alone, in
these tirnen the electors of any county in England are
celled upon to consider the claims of any candidate who
may solicit their support; and the question I have to
submit to your conesderation is, and on which we mus
depend—whether you shall elect me as your representa-
tive, and whether the Gcvernment of the Earl of Derb),
of which I have the honour to be a member, is entitled
to the confidence of the country.—(Cries of "Yes," and
No," and great uproar.) Gentlemen, if the principles
upon which ;hat Noble Earl has responded to the call of
her Most Gracious Majesty—if the principles upon which
the Noble Earl has placed himself at the heed of her Ma-
jesty's Government—of the Government of this country
—are not entitled to your approbation—(Cheering and
much hissing)—that question, hownver, is not to be de-
cided to-day, but it must be decided by your votes on the
day of el. coon—(Cheering. mingled with hisses and
laughter.) Gentlemen, addressing as Ido a nume-
rous body of electors, belonging to one of the most
important towns in this county, or in this king-
dom—not only so, but also addressing as I do the in-
habitants of a county—that county being itself one of
the most purely ageiculturel districts throughout Great
Britain—(ilear, hear)—l think I may appeal with per-
fect and undeviating confidence to you aft to support the
Administration which is presided over by Earl Derby—
(Cries of " No," hisses, and cheers)—for I believe it is
to that Administration alone that you can look for suc-
cour and safety.—(Bear, hear, mingled with hisses.)
If you who hear mot You who
are inhabitants of this'
great and agricultural district—if you in your own con-
sciences believe—if you are satisfied from experience
that the cause of agriculture is safe—that the agricul-
ture of the country is prosperous and flourishing—if
such among you as are cultivators of the soil, who seek
to gain your own subsistence from it, and the subsistence
of your families from the products of the earth—(Hear,
hear)—if such of you as are members of that interest
are satisfied with the course of recent legislation, I am
not the man whom you ought to return to Parliament as
your representative.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. G. E. &mess (a builder)—What business have
you here, I should like to know? Did you not vote with
and support the late Sir R. Pees measuree?—(Cheer-
ing and hisses.)
Sir F. KELLY.—Gentleman, I was about to say to
you that I am far from denying that great and extensive
benefits have resulted from many of the measures which
pass under the well known name
of free trade.—
(Cheers.) lam quite free to admit that the best conse-
quences have resulted to all classes of the community
from many of those measures which were proposed to
Parliament and adopted during the earlier years of the
late Sir R. Peel's Administration.--(Much cheering.)
No one can doubt that it is a great blessing, a just and
righteous object of every Legislature, to make the ne-
cessaries of life—the food of the people...ets _Let_
as is
consistent to all classes of the commuovy.l.'"nep
; (Cheere.)
. I
was one who humbly, And, gentlemen, but earnestly,
/flea_
concurred in and supported those measures;
re and I re-
joiced in their consequences,l inasmuch, as they have
rendered most of the general articles of consumption,
wastaken from many of which the duty .
off, or the im-
t duties on which were
por considerably reducedoiccessible
to the very poorest
classes of the community. But when
e •
the last of those measures which that eminent states-
manto Parr
thought fit to propof" uardt w
Parliament was carried,
without any of those sa To_ ought to have
when the l
accompanied it—(Hear, helaw . y
b which theaw imposing a
duty on foreign corn, the labourer and
of the soil
the interests of the Cultivatorit that law waswtere duly
from tectel—(llear, hear)—
wheof the agriculturalelliteirs,Ge de-
pended—then upon which the prosperity
mischievous C --'-'
it wet that a , , it coursebe of legts-
-0 unties
baton was entered upon, ,
an
tall upon checked, one
universal destruction must
..voi(, those classes.—
(No, no. Cheers and hisses. A
i,"eYou had
Another Ve
better go home; you won't
_,,) Ii
? my worthy: ''
Why
didn't you stay at Harwichfriend in
i e
the crowd will onlkindness to i
, hive the ten to mto
the end he will fled that
I have taw :
of " Brea, ,t, Harwich I
will stend by here.—(Cries _ , cheers and
hisses.) Gentlemen, I
although have had the
declaration I
misfortune to find that the made at
and
Harwich, and whieh is a serious
homely truth,
storm opposition, for I believe
has brought upon me a .
I may say that fatly half toe .
newspapers of the
newspapers in the
me-
tropolis, it' not half of thecountry
cm
—(Rear, hear, and a Voice-- . And
.. Y deserved it")—
have foiled fault n 3
with m© for matting gthat
,lea I made that assertion,''
(Another Voice-n." And right, w-
too )
assertion, I said what I readily believed, and I also said,
to find it yips
at the time that I should be gladan erre-

neous statement.—(A Voice—" You knew it was false.")
Gentlemen, I believe I am addressing a body of persons
who are better able than I am, perhaps—bettor able,
practically—to judge and to form an opinion whether
that statement he true or not.—(Hear, hear, and hisses.)
Gentlemen, the statement which I then made, and which-
has drawn down upon me this tempest of opposition—
and, perhaps, of something more—(A Voice--" Yea,
you knew it was false,")—the statement I made was
this—although I admitted that in the year 1850 we had
imported fully 3,000,000 quarters of corn more than in
the year 1646, I ventured to affirm that we had pro-
duced and sold in Great Britain and Ireland 3,000,000
quarters of corn less in 1850 than in the year 1846.
(Hear, and hisses.) I stated, therefore, as a consequence
and I now publicly and deliberately repeat that state-
ment, and I challenge contradiction—(A Voice—" Give
us your authority;" Another Voice—" He cannot")—
I now repeat that statement. The result is, although
we have imported 3,000,000 quarters of corn more in
1850 than in 1846, that the people of this country have
not had one pound weight of bread more to eat in 1850
than when the 3,000,000 quarters of corn were grown in
this country in 1846. (A Voice—" That's a lie."
Cheers and hisses, daring which a respectably dressed
man held up on a stick a diminutive loaf, which he called
the " Symbol of Protection." Upon this, several fights
having taken place in the crowd, Sir Fitzroy Kelly pro-
ceeded to say)—Gentlemen, I do hope that we shall
keep at peace and goodwill with each other through the
short time that I shall venture to detain you. I only
wish that you who doubt the statement I have made
would only prove it to be untrue. (A Voice—" Prove
to us that it is true."—Laughter.) Gentlemen, I would
Nish you to prove, if you can, that the agricultural la-
bourers of this very county, who find their wages reduced
from lls. and 12s. to Bs. and 9s. are better off now than

Bbefore.h—eyaideiadri.:
1846. (Cries
o(ucldrieswoisf ~
yhtheas,tyeysol”
you
n
could prove that these labourers did procure as much
,Lbaihrgsey wf
eratit
led rui
l community—of to tohpe i
" Nonsense!" " No!" and " Why don't you go
to Harwich?") Gentlemen, if those among you who
differ nci oo nn
dwi
condition
ne t
oaa
fsnsd tiaohlrrido,negvi
lahhuotehsiiss
ocuofnuantbhtly,;
inainquire
ien i n
to obtain any rent—(Langhter and hisses) —and of the
lebourer, who does not obtain the amount of wages he
lid before—and look into the poor-houses and union-
genies and see whether the number of their inmates
ire increased or diminished, you will then see the effect
his change in the law has; produced.—Gear, hear.
sheers, and hissing.) Gentlemen, if you whom lam
now addressing, are satisfied with the state of 'things as
hey now exist, and if you feel that these aro times to
prosperity, it is high time that you get another as your
representative.—(Hear. hear.) But if you feel, as I
now do, that the tax imposed by a recent Legislature
Aiffering caused thereby upon the agricultural classes
,pon some classes of the people—that the degree of
ciui calls for immediate. lief, mei
hat
don of which I have the honour to be a 'Niember—of
'hat Government which has pledged itselii to do its best
you willand ip m
laPceera;oivu erlYcen fidence in that Administra-
'o relieve the distress of the country—if you give me
your best support, I will use my best end( avoura to as-
est you in carrying out your wishes. We have all of us
nit one object in view—the good of the country, although
we may respectively wish to attain that object by dif-
ferent means.—(Hear, hear.) It may be that there are
many among you who are labourers—persons belonging
.o that class of the people who do not find their wages
iiminish, and who are enabled to obtain their food at a
cheaper rate than others.—(Disapprohation.) Bat, gen-
tlemen, the principle on which I should wish and desire
to legislate is one of equal justice to all classes of the
community.—(Hear, hear.) If you cannot wish to have
bread cheaper without ruining the agriculturisa it is
better that bread should remain at its former price.—
(Hisses and cheering,) Gentlemen, I ask you for your
.upport, because I believe that the Ministry of the Esrl
of Da-by is prepared, when it has the power to do so, to
propose measures to Parliament, not indeed for the be-
nefit of any one single class of the community, but to
',penile equally for the wellbeing of the whole.— (Hear.)
And it is because those who act with me are determined
to seek the benefit of the manufacturing, the commer-
cial, and the agricultural classes that I now venture
to claim your support for that Administration.—(Cheers
and hisses.) I stated to you that I should not
detain you long; I said that 'should stand here prepared
to answer any question which any elector might think
proper to put to me—(Hear, hear)—and I now repeat
that I am ready to redeem that pledge.—(Hear, hear.)
should I, gentlemen, have the honour to become your
representative, I trust that the suee,ss of those great
efforts which the Government and the Legislature are
bound to make to relieve the agriculturists from the
burdens which threaten to overwhelm you—to remove
you from the deep distress under which you have se
long been labouring—to dispel those clouds which over-
shadow your prosperity, and which darken the once
bright atmosphere of agricultural prosperity, will be
fully realised.—(Cheers and hisses.) Gentlemen, should
you please to confer upon me the honour to which I
aspire—l may be less able, I may be less experienced
than many others upon whom your choice might have
Callen, but I will yield to none in attachment to your
cause, in my attention to your interests, and a faithful
devotion to your cause.—(Cheers and hisses which lasted
for some seconds.) .

Mr. J. C. COBB-OLD, M.P., for the borough, here rose

for the purpose of making some observation; but he was
received with such a volley of hisses that afters fruit-
less attempt to gain a hearing the Hon. Gentleman re-
sumed his seat.

Sir F. KELLY again presented himselr, and, after some
few moments had elapsed, he was understood to say—l
beg leave to state that my Hon. Friend (4r. 5. C. Cob-
bold, M.P.) rose for tho purpose of stating, that I am
now ready to give any explanation, or to arttver any
question that any gentleman present may wLh to
put.—(Cries of " Free trade for ever.")
Mr. N. W. JOHNSON (Wichkambrook, a tenant
farmer)—l would wish to ask Sir F. Kelly whether he
will vote for a total repeal of the malt-tax?—(Cbeers.)
Sir F. KELLY—The only answer I can give to that
question is—before any proposal be made to Parliament
ior the repeal of the malt-tax, the financial measures of
he Administration must be brought forward.—(Cries of

'• Answer the question.") If these financial measures
he accepted by Parliament, and they should have the
effect of completely relieving the agricultural interest
from the burdens under which they are now suffering,
it will then, in that case, be unnecessary to adopt any
measure or the repeal of the malt-tax.—(Cheers and
hisses.) But if the measures to be brought far ward
by the Administration of Earl Derby should fail in ob-
I aiuing the assent of Parliament, or if, being assented to,
they should tail to being for the interest of the country,
then I should be very happy to support the repeal of the
malt tax, or the repeal of any other tax by which that
great object can be accomplished.—(Cheers.)
Mr. G E. Eaniss (a builder)—Say "Yes" new.
Sir FITROY KELLY—I will say " Yea" at the proper
time.
air. G. E. Eenass—Why can't you say " Yea" now?
Sir FITZROY KELLY—The gentleman knows that,
during the remainder of the present Parliament, the
Government is in a minority,—(A laugh)—and can pro-
pose a repeal of no tax. When we have a majority in
Parliament, the measures which will be proposed for the
relief of the agricultural interest shall meet with my
support.—(Hear, hear.) If those measures should fail
in relieving the agricultural interest, and if the agricul-
wortiVtehbillernt:eraelsoi—uonld:
tural interest can be relieved in no other way, I shall be
most happy, as an individual, to support the repeal of the
malt tax.—(Cries of " Bravo!")
Mr. N. W. JOHNSON—Now, Sir Fitzroy, you ep•
pear here as the farmer's friend, end I would ask you
whether, if Mr. Cayley, or any other Member in the
House of Commons, introduce a measure for the repeal
of the malt tax, you will support it?
Sir FITZROY KELLY—I answer you—certainly not.
Until the financial measures of the Administration shall
have been proposed I cannot distinctly answer the ques-
tiuu. Will the gentleman permit me to tell him that no
member of a Government would pledge himself to sup-
port the repeal of any tax without reference to the time
and the circumstances under which it might be brought
forward?
Mr. W. N. JOHNSON—I would now ask you, Sir, whe-
ther you are prepared to support an equitable measure
of tenant-right?—(Cheers.)
Sir FITZROY KELLY—If you will tell me what you
mean by " tenant right," I will answer the question.
Mr. W. N. JOHNSON—I mean the protection to tenant
capital and skill—that the tenant should not be despoiled
of that property which he has invested in the farm, and
e
fwrhomenwhheilcehavhees has received
fraercmei.ved no benefit up to timethe
Sir FITZROY KELLY—I have always understood_
relation between landlord and tenant to be foundednfirPo_l;
a contract entered into between them, and that coent am
measure
tenanthe
question
umaynd under
eruntwt
had
de intohbtehe
en orctho
ninotstr:
—a so
this:—"
would
support no such measures. If the
d equita e
point out any means—any fairsn.
a s now
e, v ,
,t
.ahke en nas yi
re
ee hearty
landlord and tenant would be vitiahtenc3l:lstll sr se.), I
here took 'nue
shouldAg
rbeeart edaidtyt
utrobi3vroi
et
oe for any c, in the crowd,
when—
Sir FITZROY KELLY
tunny) said—l have cow a,ns Wihener°tteuhrlieandlksisnuptPorPobrettviaeneiyht
of guff
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,o andeia 1,
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free shaltll
trade,
r
v,,rsed.
cheers for the prosperity
The proposition was
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reached his hotel in safety. .
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Fitzroy Kelly and his friends
balcony
a 3 several more questions i,voe2o.
was rather prensa , .
bad he given the electers the , -
have been put to him of the far- . ' P
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