The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-09 00:00:00

THE SUN,

turally unwilling to lower their rents. He hoped, how-
ever, that they would come to a fair understanding, so
that " Live and let live" might be the order of the day.
—(Cheers.) But what was to be said of those who had
gone round the country preaching to the farmers that
they could not live without protection; and then, when
protection was removed, had refused to lower their rents?
—(Hear, hear.) He found that day that the price of the
best wheat in Uxbridge market was 523. or 535. the
quarter; the pattern loaf was 51(1. to 61d.; and was
there a Protectionist who would say that the poor man
ought to pay more? Since the last election there had
been a reduction of taxation to the extent of five or
six millions; and not only had the revenue not suffered,
but the eight millions borrowed during the Irish
famine had been paid off. He was anxious for
further reductions of duty, especially on the articles of
tea, tobacco, and spirits. At present a labourer who,
with his family, consumed 261bs. of tea annually, paid a
tax of about 60s. a year, Were this sum levied on him
as a direct tax, it would be much more than 7d. in the
pound on his income, probably three times as much. He
believed that the tea duty might be reduced by ls. 2d.
per pound without injury to the revenue, provided it
were done at the rate of 4d. a year. He was also favour-
able to the repeal of the malt-tax.—(Cheers.) That
was the relief he would give to the agricultural interest.
He believed all excise duties to be prejudicial, as tend-
ing to promote fraud. The malt-tax might be got rid of
by a small addition of direct taxation. The question of
Parliamentary reform was ono of great interest. He
was opposed to frequent changes. He approved of
Mr. Locke King's proposal to give the 101. franchise
in counties.—(Cheers.) The time was also come for an
extension of the suffrage, and above all for an equaliza-
tion of electoral districts—(Cheers)—for it was impos-
sible longer to defend a system whore 300 voters had the
same power as 300,000.—(Hear.)
A GENTLEMAN—What will you do with the West
India colonies?
Lord R. Gnoevesoa said he was desirous to see them
represented, or at least governed by their own represen-
tatives, as New Zealand and Australia would be.—
(Cheers.) Along with an extension of the suffrage, and
a re-arrangement of the electoral districts, he should
vote for the abolition of the property qualification, de-
siring to extend the basis of the choice of the electors.
—(Hear, hear.) He also thought that Members ought
to be returned free of expense. (Hear, hear, and
laughter.) He would extend the number of polling
places, and limit the poll to one day.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. OSBoRNE was greeted with much enthusiam. He
said he agreed entirely with his Noble Colleague on most
of the subjects to which he had adverted. It had been
said in certain quarters, " Why should we have Mr.
Osborne for Middlesex?"—(Hear, and " Why should we
not ?") He admitted that ho was not qualified by for-
tune or influence for such a post; but he had not thrust
himself on the constituency. He had been brought for-
ward five years ago by a distinguished inhabitant of
in
that town, Mr. Henryh,iaaehiadone
and he
a hull.—(Cheers.)
used.
1 Middlesex
—Bada
ddu(i
HteCps
ehehr
party—not exi
ed(e
altehr
rp ThateLtsfhnbee(dorgentlemaneerrirneeegd)e r
magisterial
might
too.i)atEinhhoeet
candidate.—(Hear,
influence was
v,
de
benei
rednonaewt
mtehe no
he had
pet
ft ahacedreoaeort:
ad
had apposed and still meant to oppose 'Lord Derby's
Government.—(Hear, hear.) He would not slink into
Parliament by any back door, but would come boldly
before the electors in all parts of the county.—(Cheers.)
It was for these reasons that a certain peddling
requisition had been hawked about by magistrates and
others,—(Hear, hear.)
mitted that the represenlitaetivl vha osfntohaltevclier, and
possessado-
holding at
hcee rs
taami ne
rparci kn
i pllfe sa resident country gentleman,
, county ought t
could be induced to stand,
he would retire; for he could have a quiet seat else-
where.—(Hear, hear.) But he felt, having been re-
turned by the middle and working classes of the electors,
that he was bound to stand by them.—(Cheers.) He
had been accused of Popish tendencies in a bill of rain-
bow hues, which reminded him of the present Govern-
ment—a government constructed, like the kaleidoscope,
of little bits of coloured glass, which might be turned
so as to please all eyes.—(Cheers and laughter.) He
had been returned at the lest election on free-trade prin-
ciples when those principles were less in fashion;
and he rejoiced that the corn-laws had been totally
and at once repealed, and that the working classes had
thereby been enabled to consume fifty million quarters of
grain additional.—(Cheers.) He had always voted for
tree trade in its fullest sense, and ho therefore claimed
the support of all who held those principles.—(Hear,
hear.) He had never attempted to gull those singularly
confiding men, the farmers, with promises of protection;
nor had he ever denounced the greatest minister this
country had seen for two hundred years as the leader of
an " organized hypocrisy," and then turned round and
adopted his principles. Had he done so, the electors
might well be exhorted to " beware of Osborne."—
(Cneers.) He would say—" Beware of Lord Derby," or
the Protestantism of 1852 would be left in the same
position as the Protection of 1847.—(Cheers.) A new
dodge was about to be tried on the constituency. Farmers
were now , told to exercise a temperate forbearance,
and to look only for a modification of taxation.—(Hear,
hear.) They were much in the position of the man who
supposed he had been promised an elephant by a friend
in India, but which in reality was an equivalent, and
turned out to be a Japan tea-tray.—(Laughter.)
They were promised an inquiry into the burdens on
land. What were they? It would never be dis-
covered in the House that they were any other
than Sir John Tyrrel, and Mr. Newdegate, and one
of their neighbours, who was hawking about the requisi-
tion against him—(Cheers and laughter.) As to the
malt tax, he considered that its abolition would be a
relief to the consumer. He would vote for its repeal if
any substitute could be found. Ho believed that the
alleged burdens on land were a mere sham and delusion,
got up by that accomplished juggler, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, who was a quibbler and a political Pu-
seyite—(Ceeers.) Along with his Noble Colleague, he
was favourable to removing the duties from tea and to-
bacco as soon as the condition of the revenue would
allow. He had been charged with holding extreme
political principles. He was a man of small but inde-
pendent fortune, and had everything to lose by violence.
Ho saw no danger in admitting the people to the suffrage,
convinced that if England ever fell, it would be by the
vices of the upper, not of th© lower classes.—(Cheers.)
He was an advocate for our representative system being
made a reality, and not a sham; and he was no true
Conservative who refused to throw open the portals of
the constitution and admit the people to power.
As to civil and religious liberty, he had ulways voted
with Lord John Russell for the admission of the Jews to
Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He asked no man his re-
ligious principles; that
was a matter btw n
or thohi andhis Maker.—(Cheers.) Though a member
Estab-
lishment, he had voted for the abolition of church-rates,
believing; that this paltry tax was an injury to the Church.
—(Hear, hear.) But it w
h Thissaid was a misrepresevotedor ntation.
the grant to Maynoote.
as t hat he had f
He had never done so.
y no oth
He had voted for Mr. Ward's
sahmoeunlddrobeenttaktehnatfrtohmo
additional
pmr°o4peeYrty of Ireland.forM9
—(Cheers.) Lord Derby himself was the very man
mho, on the 3d of April,
thaeddci
1845, had proposed in the
House of Lords the additional 14,000/.—(Hear, hear.)
Was not this of a piece with all the other trickery that
was going on? Ia Irelind the Derbyite candidates said
they would maintain the Maynooth grant, just as in
these benighted counties where Mr. Christopher pre-
sided, they were still taught to believe in Protection.—
(etear, hear.) But it wee said that he was a member of
" the - e--(Laughter.) He had-cer-
tainly takenl4 3
nbrass-sand."—(Laughter.)
opaesrs;band.
in the Ecclesiastical Titles
ex-
cept on the third reading, believing Bill,
that Lord John
Russell had taken the wrong course. He thought it a
disgraceful concession to a cry.—(Cheers.) If they
wished to confront ignorance—and he often thought Po-
pery and ignorance 'convertible terms—it must be done
theiro confidence. by tducetion, not by persecution.—(Cheers.) He had
resisted the Militia Bill in all its stages. Having thus
given anof account of his stewardship, he asked fur a re-
newalciples and lf a man of like liberal prin-
Maynooth.—(Flea
ready to retire; standing could be found he was
but let the electors beware of getting a
bitter Protectionist
vourable to the ball' ear.)
beneathb the cloak of opposition to
After avowing himself fa-
sat down.
Robert Grosvenor and a
ballet and reform generally, Mr. Osborne
the resolution, port of the electors of Middle
Mr. ,SWABEY moved resolutionsex. declaring Lord
mr. Mr,mouroomElty_se_conOdesdborne entitled to the sup- -1
The thanks of the meeting
unanimously agreed to. sotlhuctnionv,owtehdictho was
chairman,

SHEFFIELD.
DECLARATION OF TEM POLL.
-There was a second monster Ineotir,p; at seven o'clock
eg Wednesday evening.
in tile New ilaymarket, on the
oee3sior.
of the. decitfratlOn of the poll. It was decidedly
larger s
then the nomination meeting of the previou
day.
generally estimated at a near a p 0
The number
the hustings, about a planter before seven
matiOn to 20,000. Mr. Hadfield was loudly cheered
his arrival on
William Overend, who arrived next, was
o'clock.
reatest amount of hooting. Mr. Parker
and Mr. Roebuck
considerable amount of cheering for Mr.
trh.eg
came about five minutes to seven.
plaudits in honour of Mr. Roebuck
There
the . Parker, bat
assailedwabsya
cans,
only 20,000 pairs of lungs can simulta-
neouslywere such as 0---/
raise.
frequent bows.
the hustings at seven
the greeting by .
place on
The Honourable Member acknowledged
The MA.voit took his
o'clock. He said—Gentlemen, I
am now about to
knee as you can possibly give
have to inform you that
I
declare the state of the poll. 2,092 votes,
I me. must have as much si-
I
Mr. John Arthur Roebuck has received
Mr. George Hadfield has received...... 1,863 votes,
Mr. John Parker hat received....... • ••• 1,580 votes, and
Mr. William Overend has received... 1,180 votes.
I therefore, gentlemen, proclaim that Mr.
r
Arthu
John
..,
Roebuck and Mr. George Hadfield are duly chosen and
elected Members to serve in Parliament for the borough
of Sheffield.—((Vociferous cheering and waving' of hats.)
[A Voice—" Two Radicals for Sheffield r' Mr. Roebuck
—" Here's one, at any rate." Hear, and laughter.] Mr. PARXER, who was welcomed
with loud applause,
mingled with blight hooting, said—a 1
entL N.4emen, I am a
beaten and defeated candidate.—(That'a a fact.) I ad-
mit the fact. The poll is a matter from which none of
ns can appeal; and I am the first man in the world to
recognise and acknowledge what has happened.—(Gear,
hear.) It is not for me to say how and by what means
that course of events has taken place.—(.< Fair play,"
and slight hooting.) Now I am not going to say a word
that can disturb the unanimity of this meeting.—(Hear,
' hear.) I better know my obligation to the whole pops.
lation of this borough.—(Hear, and cheers.) You will
never find that from me, however much I may regret the
severance of a tie which has existed for twenty years._
(Hear.) And, gentlemen, though it may be a matter of
honourable, if you please, exultation, that you have at-
tained what appears to you a proper and a constitutional
[ victory, I aaaucejOu I do not grudge any man the
1 ;:i..,: tri=p:: all bootimblo r.ll au uprigttly-ooz-

tested election.—(Cheers.) The poll of England is a
fair poll. The elections of England are free elections. I
have hitherto been elected by great majorities, and I
never heard those who were not so fortunate complain
that they were left improperly in the minority. I make
no complaint. I have fought what I consider a good
fight —(Hear, hear.) I have this ample consolation,
that I retire into private life having been supported by
those gentlemen at this poll and on all occasions who
originally did me the honour of introducing me to the
favour of the borough. And, though Ido not ask you
at all to feel otherwise with regard to my successful
competitors than becomes the honourable position they
have attained, I believe that, when you come to consider
to-morrow my course of conduct for twenty years, you
will not feel otherwise towards me than as a person who
may have occasionally had the misfortune, from a sense
of duty, to take a course which you might not approve.
But we part, I hope I may go away from you thinking,
good friends. Nobody can say that I have endeavoured
in any respect to do otherwise, I think, than what was the
conscientious result of my conviction. I accept your deci-
sion. You have a right to give it. I accept it most re-
spectfully as to what has taken place, and I feel must
grateful to the friends by whom I am supported. Seven-
teen hundred good and true men at the poll have stood
by me from the first to the last.—(Cheers and uproar.)
I don't allude to gentlemen offensively. Far from that.
But I may fairly, I am sure, expect the right of a de-
feated candidate, to thank my friends. And you won't
think worse of me if I say that I hope this borough
will prosper—(Cheers)—and that its trade and com-
merce may attain that perfection and that progression
which it has ever been my object to assist and to endea-
vour to attain for you.—(Loud cheers.)
After a few words from Mr. W 24. OVEREND, the
other unsuccessful candidate,
Mr. RoEsucK, who was received with loud cheers,
said—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen—(Speak up)—l can't
speak louder, and you must be silent. It is impossible
in a meeting like this to make a speech. I cannot. I
have thoughts and feelings in my
breast that I can't
enunciate to a multitude like this. Impossible I find it;
but I do wish to say something.—(Cheers.) The only
desire I have at the present moment is, if I can, to ex-
plain here a word I uttered yesterday, Speaking of my
friend Mr. Overend, I said he was a supporter of
Westminster-hall two motions will be made
Lord Derby's Government —(Cheers.) I want to ex-
plain to him why I said so. So soon as wo meet ill
fa-
vour of the principles of free trade, the other against
the present Administration,—(gear N In favour
ion.—(Hear, hear. i bie
of the first I should expect the vote of my honours
friend.—(Hear, hear.)
. lam sure he would be against
the second; therefore I say he would be a friend of Lord
Derby's Government —(Cheers; and Mr. Overend, "No,
no.") My friend says " No, no." I will tell you how
be mods would
be put it. The second motion about to
be this, that Lord Derby and his friends, havin conductinOp
the Government based on the principles —one in
to
do.—
position always opposed free trade, are unfit
(Cheers.) Would my honourable friend
support
is on
motion? I say he would not.—Bear, hear.) Derby's
Lord
that ground that I call him a friend of
I
say. He
Government. The practical result is as hat motion
would vote against that motion, and upon rat
that
Government.—
(Loud t crnment.—
depends the existence of Lord Derby's —°v
tit I thank
(Loud cheers.) I can't talk to you to-nig—vo
of free t
done.—
you from my heart for what you
bays
I shall
(You're welcome ! God bless you!) I _
(Cheers.) I
maintain every principle I have expressed •
I have hitherto
hope to do so with all the efficiency that
And I do hops
done, whatever it may be.—(Cheers.)
11111 for otten—
that all past differences in this town will
beheffigeld shall
(Loud cheers)—and that I as Member for --
Mr Had-
be with my lion. Colleague here (pointing. to
.. a
field, which action S followed by loud cheerings).—
friend and supporter of all great liberal advaoeceest a
(Cheers.) And I hope to find in his rote at i
will I forget
great support.—(Cheers.) - Not at this hour we not
my friend. I have lost him as a colleague—
Iwill
forget him as a man.—(Cheers.) [A Voice—Lordahhas
forgotten Bath
Duncan.] I have not forgotten Lord Duncan'
forgotten him as well as me. But Ido believe thathi a
more thoroughly honest—however much I believedes
upon
in many cases to be a mistaken—P°litician (I)K n I 100 upon
exist than John Parker.—(Loud cheers.)
him as a personal friend. I differ from
that h I
will
forget as al
politician, but it is not on this day
forget our friendship or deny my alliance.—(Loud
cheers.) But I have a new alliance. I am Member
for Sheffield. I must think of that. You
have determined on a second Member. I will work
with him for Your benefit and for all the interests of hu-
manity.—(Cheers.) I hoe I trust, I believe, that I
shall not be deserted in my Course, and that in his vote
1 at least I shall have a firm supporter.—(Cheers.)Had-
He
can't go beyond me.—(Loud applause, in which Mr.
Had-
field heartily joined.) In civil and religious liberty I
hope he will be my supporter. In that trust I accept
your addition, He is a Member for Sheffield—so am I.
I accept him cheerfully and in friendship as a colleague.
—(Cheers.) I hope hereafter that the Liberal party in
Sheffield may not be divided—that we may go on with
the great business we are engaged ill---(Cheers)—so
that the people will have the power of expressing in
the polling booth that which they are expressing here.
—(Cheers.) In the belief that you have chosen a man
who will aid me in these matters, I say to you—l bow
to your decision, however much my personal feelings
may be wounded on the occaiion.—(Cheers.) I bow,
and make my thanks to you.—(Cheers, and " God bless
you.") _

- Mr: HADFIELD next returned thanks, and the pro-
ceedings terminated.

CANTERBURY.

The polling commenced yesterday morning at eight
o'clock. The following is the final state of the poll at
four o'clock:—

Gipps
Johnstone ••• ... 757
Somerville ... 569
Romilly ... 532
Smythe ... 7
Mr. Smythe put out the following handbill in con-
&caution of his resignation yesterday morning. But,
nevertheless, half a dozen of his supporters voted for
him, in the belief that, if bribery was proved against
both the other parties, the seat would belong to Mr.
Smythe:-
"TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF CANTERBURY.
" Gentlemen,—A! I understand, notwithstanding my
twice repeated resignation, by address and upon the
hustings, that it is the ill-advised, if well-meant, inten-
tion of certain gentlemen to vote for me, I feel it neces-
sary thus publicly to decline such support, not only as
ntterly futile, unavailing, and absurd, but as personally
disadvantageous and displeasing to myself.
"I am, gentlemen, always your very faithful servant,
" GEORGE SYDNEY SMYTHE.
" Canterbury, July 8."

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et om ne eyaerr
announcedits
DEVO N PORT.
closethe
the Cetoanteseervfattbievepseil tookte
b thee :
The polling took place on Wednesday, and from the
bl
eeagdt n iTc
Mr. Tut nell ..• ... 1,079
Sir G. Berkeley ... 1,056
Sir J. Romilly 1046
Sir J. 11. Maxwell .. 1,032
Sir J. lio)fluv rose amid loud cheers, but an old
sailor with a Syrian medal to his breast, in a fury of ex-
citement, threw his cap towards the Right Honourable
Gentleman. I appear before you, said Sir John, in a
character quite different from that which I expected—
that of a defeated candidate, and I assure you that the
statement I made respecting the result of this election
was no other than that which I fully and sincerely be-
lieved it would turn out.—(Cheers.) But I am disap-
pointed, and I regret the result. I submit to your deci-
sion, and congratulate the Gallant General on his return,
and I trust he may servo you as faithfully as I have en-
deavoured to do.—(Cheers.) I trust he may even serve
you more to your advantage, and that these sentiments
of free trade which he now professes to entertain may
be carried out in every stage of progressive reform for
toe general advancement of the country.—(Cheers.)
Sir JOHN MAXWELL—I also appear before you to-day
a defeated candidate, but not a dispirited candidate.—
(Loud cheers, and a cry of " You will be returned next.
time.") The Right Hon. Gentleman has shown you
that he has a fluent tongue. I only asked for the votes
of honest men—(Laughter)—and I declare to you that
if we had got all the promises redeemed, you would have
seen me returned now instead of him.—(oh, oh.) Let
me, in taking farewell of you for the present, assure
you, that in any way in which my influence with the
Government can be of use to any ono of you, it will give
me the greatest happiness.—(Cheers and laughter.)
Mr. TurrtELL then rose, and was received with a
hearty welcome by his friends. Ile said—Gentlemen,
r appear with mingled feelings of thankfulness on ac-
count of the proud position in which you have placed me
at the head of the poll, and of regret that my name as
your representative should be no longer associated with
omi
that 6f Sir John a P Ily. I will not now state by what
moans the victory has been au ieved —(A cry of
`° Bribery ")—undue influence and intimidation have
here jumped upon
the plat-
been used. (Mr. Glencross
but • it was
form and vociferated with great indignation,utterly impossible at first to catch what he said. At
last we heard the words "Prove ill A pretty joke
thatt you have had it for twenty years, and you cry out
because You have lost it."—Laughter.) That intimidation
shall be investigated.—(Tory groans.) I will take care
that the electors who have been intimidated or corrupted
this time shall have their rights asserted. Gentlemen, I
did hope that at this important crisis the intelligent con-
stituency of this borough would have returned those who
were determined to carry out to their full extent the
principles of commercial freedom, by which the whole
country is so much benefited. lam disappointed at the
result, but I am not disheartened at the cause; though
it is defeated here it will be triumphant in the country.
We shall have in the next Parliament a majority which
will show the Derby Ministry that they have no chance
of retaining power.—(Loud cheers.)
Sir GEORGE BERKELEY also briefly returned thanks,
but we bad great difficulty in hearing what he said.
Having thanked them for returning him, he said that
Devonport was no longer a close borough;l it was now
free and open, and he hoped and trusted that it would
always be no. As they had done him the honour of
electing him. he would do what he could for Devonport.
On Thursday morning Mr. Tufnell issued an address
thanking the electors for his return, and deploring the
divisions which had been the means of the Liberals
losing one of their most able and staunch advocates in
ominy.
the person of Sir John tt

door- DERBY.
Great excitement prevailed in Derby yesterday in con-
sequence of the seizure of a briber on the Tory side, who
was cleverly captured in a dark room at an inn with a
large sum of money before him. There was a regular
keeper, and passwords were used. A letter was
_found upon the briber, which, it is stated, is likely to
lead to important results. A description of three other
persona Was obtained by the Liberals, but they were uot
'c'-".'7~0 -,..—v•ct ,r73s s ,Nry .e ore ono.