The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-16 00:00:00

ELECTIHERT FORDON INVELLI
HIREGENCE.
S .
The nomination of candidates for Hertfordshire took
place yesterday. The hustings were erected in a field
in the vicinity of the town of Hertford, and the most
perfect accommodation was afforded to the spectators
and the press. A number of ladies occupied vans de-
corated with green branches and wreaths of flowers,
and the humbler classes of electors and non-electors
were spread over the adjoining fields. The candidates,
attended by their supporters on horseback and foot. ar-
rived at the hustings about half-past ten o'clock. Both
parties entered the field with bands playing and colours
flying. The Free-traders displayed as their colours
deep blue and orange, on which were inscribed Trevor,
Bosanquet, and Palter, the flag-staff being in some cases
surmounted by a loaf of monster proportions. Light
blue was the colour of their opponents, and the banners
bore the names of Halsey, Meux, and Lytton. When
both parties had occupied the positions assigned to them
the tout ensemble was extremely picturesque, and the
natural beauty of the surrounding district enhanced very
much the general features of the scene.
The High-Sheriff (Wynn Ellis, Esq.), having consi-
derately allowed about twenty minutes after the arrival
of the candidates for the explosion of public feeling, H©
-
tempted to dispose of the preliminary prooeedings.
was unable, however, to procsed, a contest for places
having arisen between the contending parties. The
horsemen of the Free-traders were excluded from the
field by the cavalry of the other side, and the Free-
traders declared that they would not hear any speakers
until their friends were as well accommodated as their
adversaries'. At length the Protectionist horsemen,
amidst a shower of missiles, were forced to retire from
the front, and the area near the hustings was thus
cleared for the people on foot.
The preliminary proceedings baying been disposedoe
Mr. R. F. RAMLIFFE proposed Mr. Halsey as a fit
and proper person to represent the county.—(Hisses
and cheers.)
Mr. Brno seconded theme proposition.
Mr. LIONEL AMISS pposed, and Mr. WILTSHIRE
seconded Mr. Trevor.
The Hon. ROBERT GRIMSTON proposed, and Mr.
'WYMAN seconded Sir Henry Metnc.
The proposition was received with loud cries of
" Lower the rents:'
proposed, and Mr. Reimers
Baron DeinspAahr-
seconded Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.
Captain ToWNSELEND, ALE, proposed, and Mr. G.
MARTzx seconded Mr. Bosanquet
The Hoe- W. CcwPElt, Mat.
proposed, and Mr. R.
HANBURY seconded Mr. Puller.
The several candidates then addressed the electors
amidst a scene of great uproar. The interruption during
the speeches of Sir E. B. Lytton and Mr. Puller was so
great, that the former had to descend from the hustings
to the reporters' table, for the purpose of obtaining
a
hearing; and the latter, for half an hour, stood in the
front of the hastiags,
a series of boxing unable to obtain a hearing, whilst
matches took place in the crowd.
Mr. HALSEY then stood forward to adpresa the elec-
tors. Ho was received with a good deal of cheering from
his own supporters, mingled with groans and disappro-
bation from the friends of the Liberal candidates. He
said that when ho appeared before the electors of Hert-
fordshire, some years ago, to solicit their suffrages, he
told them virtually what his political opinions ware, and
he defied any one of his supporters to point to any act
or vote of his in Parliament to show that he had de-
ceived them in the smallest particular. Notwithstanding
what had taken place at the commencement of the pro-
ceedings, and the unfair manner in which his supporters
had been treated, and the violence they had received, he
had no fear to stand before his opponents and declare
that he had done his duty as the representatice of the
county of Herts.—(Cheers.) He therefore felt that he
.had good ground for claiming their support on the pre-
sent occasion, and if they returned him as their repre-
sentative he should perform his duty in the same fear-
less and independent manner that he had hitherto done.
—(Cheers.) At the present moment there were two
or three topics in agitation that were of very great
interest. [Here there was a good deal of eon- '
fusion in the crowd, and the High Sheriff was obliged
to interfere.] Thu first question he should refer to was
what was called free trade; aed it was said by his oPPet
nents that he had become a Free-trader. Be begged to
say that he had not in the slightest degree changed his
opinions as to the policy or impolicy of the system of tree
trade.—(Hear, hear.) If there were no Customs duties
to protect the manufacturers—if they bad no Excise
laws to weigh down the consumer, they would then have
free trade fully carried out, and the only question would
he whether it was good policy or not. While, however,
he saw the agriculturist compelled to send his produc-
tions to the ceapest market, and while he was com-
pelled at the mile time to pay a heavy tax upon many
articles he consumed, and was also prevented from grow-
ing particular crops 'which might be very profitable to
him, he must express an opinion that the principle of
free trade was not fully carried out, and that he had a
right to complain. His opinion was that all classes
ought to be put upon a fair and equal footing; and he
would say for the farmers of England that they would
not be afraid of any competition, provided they were
opposed to it upon equal terms. The Government of
the Earl of Derby, he believed, was determined to put
all classes upon an equal footing, and thus enable the
farmer to supply that cheap loaf which they all talked
about so much. Ile had no wish to see a dear loaf, but
he did desire that the farmer should be able to sell it
cheap; and believing that the Government of the Earl
of Derby would adopt measures that would have that
effect, he was prepared to give that Government his
support.—(Cheers.) Hie opponents on the present oc-
casion did not appear to take an interest in any other
question than that of free trade; but it did appear to
him that the preservation of the Protestant institutions
of the country at this moment was a subject of at least
equal importance. No man was a greater advocate of
religious toleration than himself; but he would at the
same time take care that toleration did not degenerate
into license, that they did not give a license to those who
declared against all toleration as a sin, and who sought no-
thing short of complete supremacy. He therefore was pre-
pared to vote against the grant to Maynooth, because he felt
that it had not been kept by those who received it. With
regard to his honourable opponents, though he had the
utmost respect for them in their private capacities, he
must confess that he could not see anything in their
public condant which could justify the electors in giving
them the preference over himaelt. His opponents called
themselves Liberals, but he must confess that he could
not understand the term. Every ono knew what a Whig
was.-(A. hugh.) It did puzzle him, however, to define
the meaning of a Liberal, and he saw by the newspapers
that in the return of the general election moderate
Con-
servatives and furious Radicals were all described as
Liberals.—(A laugh.) He had been told that he and
the gentlemen who acted with him on the present occa-
sion regarded reform as revolution; but he was prepared
to contend that in the few months Lord Derby's Govern-
ment had been in office they had carried more useful
measures of reform than the Whig Government had at-
tempted during their last six years of office.—(Hear.)
Mr. TREVOR next addressed the electors. He com-
menced by expressing his acknowledgment of the
courteous manner in which Sir Edward Lytton had al-
luded to him in his address, and said he was sure that
whatever the result of the present contest might be, it
would not in any manner alter the friendly feeling that
had heretofore existed between them. At the same time
be said he felt compelled to state that it appeared to him
his Hon. Opponent had rather too hastily come to the
conclusion that he did not intend again to effir himself '
to the electors, and being a neighbour he might very
easily have called upon him, and have ascertaioed what
were his opinions with regard to the representation of
the county. Five years ago he believed that his Eton.
Friend intended to have offered himself as a candidate
for the county, and be believed it was understood that
he only refrained from doing so because he was given to
understand that his opinions were somewhat in advance
of those entertained by the Liberal ;tarty, with whom
he was then acting.—(A laugh.) He bad now thought
fit to desert that party. Ho was sure that be was act-
ing conscientiously, and that that el ,oe induced him to
desert his old friends and th,:se Liberal viw.; which,
if avowed on the present occasion, he believed
would have been the meana of his being chaired
through the town in triumph next Monday. 'The Hon.
candidate than proceeded briefly to state his
political
opinions, observing that ho should oppoce the grant
to llaynootb, although, he said, at the same time he was
Of opinion that this cry about Maenooth had been got
totlely for election purposes,h.:x7l7:atrh: and that i* was intended
placel;e of the Proteeti,m cry, which now, after
getting a good deal the worse for wear.
—Wear, heasr
sot:tattoo, hear.) With regard reforming the repre-
-e would stale at ones •
that he wigs o taat he was no Radical,
in the pposed to any ;tree' and sudden changes
represnutois,e 4
calve, with some or the system,and that he did not cam-
as 0
the
expediencygentlemen who supported him.?
yet been made out toof '
the and that no case had
system of reerat votin justify resorting to the tin-English
to the presenteniamegrei d:.elarLd himstlf favouiable
said he had no doubt tliaat thel r)olicy
oi the country, and
would answer in a very
di electors of the kingdom
propounded to them by I2rttilactmanner
the
(I°6''''i°ll
Zo ccmld not deny that the Derby upon this subject.
piano had caused a good de:l.(...dotfinchaoste that took
agriculturists; but, being himself distress among the
upon land, and being constantly nrcirrtirply dependent
tentnt-farmers,
that they now depended for a better sag
their own exertions and energy' rather 'thin to tthings upon
mea-
sures of relief which the supporters • of the eDaeny rby Go-
verament represented " loomed in the future."
Sir a msux then addressed the electors. 110 said he I
had so frequ3ntly avowed his political opinions to the
electors that he had very little to say upon the present
occasion, and he could declare that he had never upon
any occasion given a vote which was not in accordance
with those opinions; and certainly upon every motion '
calculated to benefit the agricultural interest he had
always given his support. Having referred to the votes
he hrsd given upon several subjects, Sir H. M
—eux pro.
ceeded to state that he did not believe the i'llaynooth
cry had been got np for election purposes, but that the
excitement which prevailed in the public mind upon
the subject was occasioned by the letter written by Lord
John Russell to the Bishop of Durham.—(Hear, hear,
and cries of e Oh, ob.'')
Ho believed that the unwar-
rantable attack Upon the rights of the Crown and the
people of this country by the Bishop of Rome had
created the excitement in the public mind; and a proof
of the feeling that prevailed noon the 'object appeared
in the fact that out of cand
z idates who awere now .he-
fore them, five at least declared that they should oppose
the grant to Maynooth,
Sir ED w.a.m) LYTTON then stood forward. Ha was
received with a good deal el clisaPProbation, and it was
some time before a word he said could be heir& He at
length jumped from the hustiegs
ore to the table at
which the reporters were writing, and again endeavoured I
to address the meeting. He said that he did not know
whether it was their intention to hear hire or not, but he
had got
. w I
to his present position bemuse it Was a maxim
of his lire to get as close at he
could to those who were

his enemies, and to stick as firmly as he could to those
who were his friends.—(Hear, hear.) Before be pro-
ceeded to give any answer to matters that had been
alluded to that were merely personal to himself, and
consequently of the least importance, he begged to be
allowed to direct the attention of the electors to the im-
portant struggle that was going on at the present time
in the country, and the true question which the country
was required to give a decision upon. A small section
of Whigs, under the Administration of Lord John Rus-
sell, had governed the country for six years, and
having suffered a stroke of paralysis in 1851, died of
exhaustion in 1852. Lord John Russell then
advised the Queen to send for Lord Derby, and ho
had formed an Administration; and the real question
now was—first, whether Lord John's advice to his Qacen
was so insulting and so unfair that the country ought
not to give Lord Derby a fait trial; and secondly, if
that Government was displaced, what would be the sort
of Government that would be likely to replace it. [Here
there was a great deal of noise and interruption.) He
should be very glad to know, during the six years Lord
John had been in office,
what good he had done. Where
was the reform, and where was the progress under his
Administration? Did he ever keep the few promises
that he made when he first took office? At that time he
talked of a large measure of sanity
reform. What had
become of that? Let the pestilential lanes and alleys of
the manufacturing towns and the metropolis give an
answer. He repeated, what had Lord John Russell done
for the cause of progress and reform during his last
Administration that rendered it unsafe to give the Go-
vernment of Lord Derby a fair trial? Ho also promised
a liberal measure of education for the people. and a re-
form of the courts of law and Chancery; but instead
of carrying out any of those measures, the measure
of reforming the Court of Chancery actually could
not be carried until the dead weight of the Whig
Government was removed, It was said that the
Whig Government had carried the repeal of the window
9 their assistance.
tax, but it appeared to him that that measure was car-
great deal
of noise and confusion, and the county police were
r[jAedt tihnis ssptaitgee ooff ththeepinroicnesetdetctigo3fthbere was a
called upon by the High Sheriff to interfere and remove
one man who made himself particularly conspicuous in
the crowd.] When order was somewhat restored, Sir
Edward proceeded with his address. He said that his
motto was justice. He wanted justice for all men, and
he limited for justice for the Government of Lord Derby.
He wanted to know why men who called themselves
Reformers could not give Lord Derby a trial? Ho knew
of no cause, unless they thought that they had got so
much reform from Lord John Russell that it was of no
use to try any other Government.—(Hear, and a laugh )
It apptared to him that at all events Lord John was a
very great monopolist in one respect, namely, in mono-
polising office, and he had shown them that he had not
carried out any one of the pledges he gave. He could
not deny that Lord John Russell was a man of courage,
eloquence, and genius, but no one could deny that he
was pleased with the possession of power, and that he
greejsenraitb,litenddahsims Aucdhmainnisotrliagtaiorenhsy, inusstehaaddofebveeirn
was actuated by the most restless impatience to re-
gbeLenibeseenl re, ,
in this country.—(No.) Wh •
9, it was a Government
composed entirely of his families. Every
office in it
was filled by a Grey and a Russell, or by one of their
connexions. It put him in mind of a Chinese map,
where the Celestial Empire was placed in the middle,
and all the rued the world was placed in the corners.
h c—
whi were supposed to be abodes of perpetual dark-
ness and ice and snow. Downing-street was the Celes-
tial Empire of the Whigs, and the Radicals, and
Radical Reformers who assisted to keep them there
might depend that they would get nothing in return from
the family faction. The Whigs had deceived their sup-
porters. and in the name of reform and progress he
asked Reformers to give their assistance to Lord Derby's
Government. Who or what was Lord Derby. that he
should be regarded as the enemy of the people ? Was he
the same Mr. Stanley who, when he first went into Par-
liament, stood up night after night to speak in favour of
the Reform Bill, and who principally assisted to carry
the greatest measure of reform this enuntry had
ever witnessed ? Was not the same Mr. Stanley also
the opponent of slavery, and was it not chiefly owing
to his noble exertions that at the present moment there
was not a single slave in the British dominions? Why
should any one imagine for a moment that such a man
as this, when at the head of affairs, would do less for the
cause of progress and reform than Lord John Russell?
Sir Edward then proceeded to refer to the statement
that had been made with regard to his having come for-
ward in 1847 as a Free-trader, and he said that it was
not the fact, and that Mr. Cowper, who was the chair-
man of his committee, could confirm hips in this state-
ment; and, he asserted, that either in 1845 or 1847, if
he had come forward at all, it would have been as a
Protectionist.—(Cheers.) He admitted that, under the
altered circumstances of the country that afterwards
existed he changed his opinion upon the subject of the
corn-law; but with regard to the assertion of Mr. Trevor
that he had declined to come forward because his opinions
were thought to be too much in advance of those enter-
tained by the Liberal electors of the county, he denied
that this was the fact, and said that it was merely on
the question of the corn-law, and because at that time
the Free-traders and Liberal electors would not have felt
themselves justified in supporting him, that he withdrew.
After some further observations Sir Edward proceeded
to state that ho excepted from the condemnation he had
expressed of the Whig Government two distinguished
individuals—Lord Lansdowne, who had kept himself
aloof from all those party transactions, and Lord Pal-
merston, whose talents and gallant spirit he said he
hoped before long to see again in the service of
the Crown as part of the administration of Lord Derby.
In conclusion, be said he hoped the electors would do
their duty honestly and zealously on this occasion, and
he had no fear of the result of the contest.
Mr. BOSANUET next addressed a brief speech to the
electors, who by this time were becoming impatient and
noisy, the proceedings having occupied a great many
hours in the burning sun. The Hon. Candidate con-
fined his observations principally
hto the subject of the
repeal of the corn-laws, and seid tat, although he was a
large landed proprietor, he felt the great injustice of the
tax upon corn, and said he was certain that no such tax
could in any shape be again imposed.
Mr. PULLER then stood forward, but there was so
much noise and confusion that not a word he uttered
could be heard. He complained with
Gri great
towarmth of
the expressions made use of by r. msn to the
effect that upon the subject of his religious opinions he
had been unmasked by Sir Calling Eardley, and he
the d and either retractforwar
called upon him to coma - •
n what grounds he made rt.
statement, or say upon front fth h . e . asongs, and
Mr. G wrote came to theo
.4
that he must decline to retract
amid great confusion shad uttered.
.lie alluded to the
a single syllable be had 11.
n p ace between Sir Culling
eerrespindence that bad take-
1
and Mr. Puller,
and ao still adhered to his original
statement.
Mr. PULLER then said that as Mr. Grimston had de-
clined either to retract or to justify the assertion he had
made, he would not waste another word upon that gen-
tleman. He could not help observing, however, that
hefore an attempt was made to insinuate that he was not
friendly to the Protestant religion, because he refused to
do an ~ • their Roman Catholic
act OT injustice to e brethren
without-inquiry, it would have been as well if the fact
had not been forgotten that Lord Derby was the chief
supporter of the grant originally, when he was a mem-
ber of Sir at peel's Government.—(Hear, and great in-
terruption.) They had not been told by any of the
gentlemen who expressed themselves to be supporters
of Lord Derby whether he intended to propose the re-
peal of the grant.
Mr. HALSEY contended that they had nothing to eo
with Lord Derby upon this point.
Mr• p
thin.. nuns continued—Oh, they say they have no-
The •
't° 40with Lord or Derby upon this poine—(Here
ritese and
Hon. Candid 'rimer. were renewed, and at length the
abruptly conAtaei finding he could not obtain a hearing,
A show of hen. his speech.)
in favour of me.ttt was then taken, which was declared
A poll was deem 4 rk Trevor, Bosanquet, and Puller.
day, and finally ed.i, which will commence on Mon-
elOae,
o'clock. • an Tuesday afternooo, at four I

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6,—Tilo TH).
nomination for the parts of Kesteven and-I/011,nd took place this
day. Spacious and commodious hustings were erected 1
in front of the Sessions House, and the
accommodation provided for the gentlemen connected with the press was
mot excellent; the authorities havielt in the most
°bug:trig manner thrown an awning over the hog allotted
for ;heir accommodation to protect them from the georch•
23 coDateenced at
ing rays of the au&n..aorig'oho.Tportnoiciene.linE:cl,
m...e.,
h; h
'rho precept having been read 4.1 le ll; - 1n„,,, tic 2 gone through,
sel!orrien
pore:-tiittgati._
the other 'l)7
The HIGH SEMI Ty/ briefly addressed the assembly,
re vesliag for every freeholder a fair and impartial
bearing.
~. ,
~anceby Hall, proposed,
VirusoN, of R
yr, ANTIIONY
of the count
Iroisopa as a fit and proper
third timer Sir John
of Linceln in Parham
tenant•furmer of g ,
Lau hton in 7
HEALY,
nomination,said that no doubt somesur-
Mr. RICHARD rtscuthern division
pfoerrstoh: tor7preSen.t
Recent:line- the arse which ho was taking
' but ho had determined to
prise would be felt at 60 c,_n had merged his political
on the present occasion,ho
fetlings in . his order, ancli
support Sir john ,Trolior, 1 feari,,sly sup-
wt'-alat h°neBtlY, zealously, and ne, of England.--
(Cheers.) -qt the farmers and labouring c`abgelieViil3:ulttehda: oh:
been
(Cheers-) The agriculturists laid . be ashamed
pressed, and cheated by men who ought 'ID of having succumbed to the interestthe roanufae-
of _
and
turers, who had made their money out of
A ked Sir
bones of the people. These men had hoodwinked
Itohert Peel, and Sir Robert Peel had hoodwinked a
largo portion of the aristocracy, but he trusted that the
people generally would be hoodwinked no longer.
Mr. CHARLES CHAPLIN, of Blankuey, then nominated
the
.blocel
Lord Burleign, who, during the five years he had been
in Parliament, had faithfully fulfilled his promise.. Al-
though he had no expectation that Lord Derby;
would
endeavour to impose a tax on corn, he felt coefident that
his Lordship and Mr. Disraeli would do their best to
alter the present system of taxation, end
to alleviate
the pressure which the agriculturists felt from the
13,000,0001 exclusively borne by that class of the
min_
mnnity.—(Cheers.)
Mr. G. E. WELBY, M.P., of Denton, seconded the no.
minatien of Lord &thigh, recommending him to the
conititnency as a supporter of Lord Derby, and an op.
ponent of the Maycooth endowment. He did not ex-
pect the restoration of a duty on corn, but felt convinced
that if any man could do anything to benefit the farmer,
that man was Lord Derby.
No other candidate having been proposed,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared Sir John and
Lord Barleigh to be en!), elected,— (Lot id cltareceirlel e
r.,ii. ,161114 TROLLOPS and Lord BUBLEIGII -then 6E'
ye ily addressed the electors.
' -I'll% CHAPLIN proposed a vote of thsidis to the High