The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-17 00:00:00

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.—THE NOMINATION.
(Fecal OUR OWN REPORTER.)
Tile nomination of candidates for the county of Buck-
ingham took place yesterday in the County Hall, a
email inconvenient building. No accommodation was
provided for the representatives of the press; and it was
with the utmost :difficulty that the reporters were en
tabled to discharge their duties. It is true a table wa
set apart for them by the Sheriff, but as they were no
in attendance an hoar before the proceedings were
opened it was not thought necessary to retain it
any longer, and it was accordingly surrendered up to the
(
" free and independent" supporters of the Right Hon.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who were certainly
more free in their behaviour towards the reporters than
civil. Dr. Lee, the Liberal candidate, and friends, were
the first to presset themselves on the bench, taking up
their position on the right of the Sheriff. There were
five can, idate3 in the field, namely, the Chancellor
oZ the Exchequer and Mr. Dupz i on the Derby side,
and Mr. Cavendish, Dr. Lee, and Mr. Herndon, on the
Liberal side. The two former gentlemen were escerted
through the town by an exceedingly
noisy brass band
and a eumerous body of mounted supporters. They
were welcomed in the hall with an outburst of cheering,
and the two Honourable Candidates having bowed their
acknowledgments, seated themselves on the right of the
Sheriff; the Marquis of Chandos and Sir Harry Verney
were on the bench, while a large side gallery was eppro-
printed to the ladies, who were gaily attired in the
colours of their respective parties.
The HIGH SHERIPP (C. R. S. Murray, Esq.) e took his
seat on the bench precisely at ten o'clock, and reminded
the electors that they were called to elect three knigehts
of the shire to serve in the next Parliament.
The usual formalities were then gone through, alter
which
The Hon. G. Ives IRVINE, of Hill House, came for-
ward to propose as a fit and proper person—.
A Voice—Name. What's the candidate's name.
Mr. IRVINE—Wait a bit, and you shall hear.
A VoICE-013! something looms in the distance
then.—(A laugh.)
Mr. IRVINE.—WeII, something was a good deal
better than nothing, even though it loomed in the dis-
tance.—(Cheers.) He was not going to propose a man
who would betray the Constitution, or seek to remove
their wives and daughters from their legitimate sphere.
—(A laugh.) For twelve years the gentleman he had to
propose had well represented them in Parliament, and he
thought they were in duty bound to return him again.—
(Hear, hear.) He begged to propose to them, G. C-
Duin 1, Ea q.—(Hear.)
Mr. T. 1). BARNARD seconded the nomination, and
reminded the electors that Mr. Duptfl was heir to a
large and valuable estate in the county, and was pecu-
liarly adapted to represent the county in Parliament.—
(Hear, hear.) Nearly thirteen years Mr. Dupla had
done his best to promote the interest of the county, and
although he would be no party to calling upon the Hon.
Gentleman to make any pledges, he was satisfied Mr.
Dupti would only support the present Government so
long as they conducted the administration upon upright
honest principles.—(Cheers.)
Sir THOMAS DIGBY proposed Mr. Cavendish as a real
English gentleman, who had served the county for up-
wards of thirty years, and one who was still ready to
perform his duty honestly and straightforwardly.-_
(Hear, hear.) He was convinced if they returned him
again to Perth:meat they would have no cause to regret
their choice, and be had therefore very great pleasure
in proposing the Hun. Mr. Cavendish.—(Cheers.)
Sir HARRY VERNEY seconded this nomination, and
said he did so with the greater satisfecion because he
was enabled to refer to the past Parliamentary conduct
of Mr. Cavendish.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Cevendish's
Parliamentary(flr, lae ar)
reform,. Mr. Ca
!conduct, in fact, had been such as to pro-
mote the interest arid welfare of the people.
vreendeiasih 0
flbad e aTtlepsptora. encld
thet p C aporation Acts, aad municipal reform, the com-
mutation of tithes, the emancipation of the slave,
penny postage, and many other measures of social and
national reform.—(Cheers.) Mr. Cavendish was also a
supporter of our new commercialpolicy, and as it was to
such wise measures of commercial freedom that the
country owed its escape from a pbysical revolution, he
hoped the electors of Buckinghamshire, would feel some
little gratitude for those who had assisted in carrying
them out.—(Hear.) The Hun. Baronet then adverted
to the conduct of Austria in reference to the expulsion
of the missionaries, and read the electors a homily upon
foreign affairs, which was received with unmistakable
signs of impatience. The Government, he said, had dis-
played a lamentable weakness in reference to this and
other Church matters, and they were, therefore, not en-
titled to the confidence of the country.—(Hear, hear.)
In addition to all the measures which he had enume-
rated, Mr. Cavendish had supported a reform in the
county-rate expenaiture, and had for years advocated the
mural and religious education of the people.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Cavendish was, besides, a good friend, a good
neighbour, a good landlord, and he hoped he would be
allowed to remain a good. Member of Parliament.
The Marquis of CHANDOS next pie posed Mr. Dis-
raeli, and declared his belief that, so long as the present
Government remained in office—(A Voice —" It will be
about a month")—they would conduct the Legislation,
not for the benefit of a party, but for the good of the
whole nation.---(Cheers.) They would not legislate for
party interests, but they would do their utmost to ex-
tend to every individual the fullest measure of civil and
religious liberty consistent with the due preservation of
the Throne and constitution.—(Cheers.) They bad no
intention to disturb our existing commercial system, but
they did intend so to economise the expenditure of the
country as to be enabled to afford relief to the only class
that was buffering in the country.
Mr. M. KNAPP seconded the nomination of Mr. Disraeli.
They were fully conversant with the views and opinions
of the Right Hon. Gentleman.—(A Voice---" Why, he
never had any; they were always `dizzy.' "—A laugh.)
Mr. Knapp reminded the electors that the Right Hon.
Gentleman had done the work of the Whigs well, and
if the electors of Buckinghamshire honoured him with
their confidence once more, he had no doubt the county
would be greatly benefited by the result.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. J. T. SENIOR proposed Dr. Lee, a tried
and valued servant of the county, and one who,
if elected, would do them justice in the Legit;
lature.—(Hear, hear.) The present was a do-nothing
Government, for while their borough candidates were
Free-traders, those who came into the counties talked
largely about justice to the agricultural interest.—
(Hear, hear.) He had abstained from interfering in the
two previous elections, wishing to give the Government
an opportunity of propounding their measures, bat they
had none to propose, and the time had arrived when the
farmers, if they wished for justice, must help themselves.
Mr. Glans seconded Dr. Lee's nomination for twenty
reasons, but perhaps one would be enough to satisfy
them —(Hear, hear.) Dr. Lee was a good landlord, an
exemplary magistrate, and a member of an old Buck-
inghamshire house. Indeed, many of the Doctor's te-
nants had held their farms since the reign of Henry the
Eighth, and he was beloved throughout the county be-
cause he was the champion of the poor man's rights.
The Doctor was opposed to the game-laws, a supporter
of free trade, an advocate of an equalization of poor-rates,
and a friend to the religious education of the people,
and as they bad to choose between him and the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, he called upon them to elect
the Doctor.
There being no other candidate to propose,
Mr. DUPRE stepped forward, and was received with
cheers. He said he admitted that it was somewhat
presumptuous in him to solicit the suffrages of the elec-
tors of the county, but he had been solicited to come
forward by an iefiaential body of friendsthwehoesleo
eloquence
he could not disregard. He had t
no
andcidetere-
of some Members, but had the independencebe done to all.—
mination to see that justice should
the manufacturing (Hear.) He readily allowed that
and the people
in-
terests of the land were prosperous
happy,suffering but there was one class from a sudden
change in our commercial systems and with the view to
be
ready to support
their real relief he should always
an alteration in the mode of levying the taxes of the
andcheers.) bear,
mittedcountry.—(Hear,
distress of theagricultural interest
that the
was great and serious, and he was sorry that his Hon.
Colleague had not supported ot
the
motion which was made
.
nt for inquiringthe cause of that
the last Parliament into
in
distress.—(—
re" t
r hear.) His Hon. Friend, however,. was
now ready to support
such an inquiry, and he did hope
J
in a future
Parliament his Hon. Colleague would support
all such measures
(Hear, pressed unduly upon the farmers.--. as
bear.) Dr. Lee told them
forwardbecausethe overnment was anxious to come
re-
store protection, which the Doctor said he was opposed
to; but he could assure the Doctor that he and those who
acted with him had no desire whatever to revive pro-
tection.—(Hear.) That was a question which had
been settled by the voice of the country, and he had no
wish to see it renewed.—(Hear.) The Learned Doctor
however, was right
in supposing that he was opposed to
the ballot; it WaS an• English, and so long as he had a
teat in Parliament he should oppose it.—(A Voice
--" What are you afraid of? yoteballottin the clubs.")
He was, however, not only opposed to the ballot, but to
all those revolutionary principles which formed the chief
features of the Chartist creed.—(Cheers.) Not that he
was opposed to any wise measure of reform; and he
looked with confidence to the present Administra-
tion to propose such measures as the exigencies and wants
of the country required.—(Hear.) But, setting these
questions aside, what do the electors expect if the present
Government was broken down ? Why, it would be
succeeded by a party that would rob the country of every
constitutional safeguard, and embark, the national
barque upon a revolutionary sea.—(Hear.) The pre-
sent Government, however, were prepared with well-
devised measures of reform, and they would have his
earnest support if he was again returned to Parliament.
Mr. CAVENDISH next addressed the electors.
_ Heg
five years had elapsed since he last addressed_.
them.
His chief claim to their support, then,
was simply that
he was an admirer of free trade, and he thought those
. then
must had watched the progress of events
sinceen
must be satisfied that free trade succeededTueardit
had left beyondtn
the
all expectation.—(Hear, hear.)
agricultural interest in distress,always be
in.
ready to support any just measure for affording this
he should
ls
retest relief.—(Cheers.) lie, wasn
regard to the question
opposed to rash
on
Par-
liamentary reforms, while with
of ,Maynooth _
he was ready to support inquiry,
Protestant,
being a sincere Prote and if the result should
show that the grant was _
not advantageous to the nation
d to vote for its repeal.--
(Cheers.)at large, he should berea ready
politicalviews, and he trustee,
These were his
lectora
confidence of the country, the elector,
would they had the
_.
more return him to Parliament. .
would once
be electors,
Mr. DiseeEal then presented himself to t
and was greeted with tin outburst of cheering that
lasted tor several minutes. He complained that his
Liberal opponents, who were so anxious to hear all on
their own aide, had been exceedingly free with

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