The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-05 00:00:00

EVENING,

and Dolliave slightly nclv.,..nced. Of the new crop,
as yet only a small quantity has come in from Candeish;
other descriptions Will soon make their appearance, but
we do not look for it-in large qurintiiips flit Mason pext.
Opium—Notwithstanding (meow:ging accounts of
the o:;irkets which have hi-en received from China, the
market has continued atcady, and prices have even
advanced.
Freights to Great Britain continue scarce-2/. 7s. 6d.
for LiVerporil and 21. 10s. for London. To China it has
declined to 13rs. to 14irs, per candy.
Exchange en England, in consequence of the supply
from China being 'rather small, h-as declined to
2s. OP. to but in the interim there has been a
great de9l of fluctuation; it has been as 'low as 2s. 03c1.,
and as.,higlt as 2s. 13,3. Oo China 217r8. to 218 per
100 doEtars. On' Calcutta 1 per cent. premium at 60
days' sight.

THE ELECTIONS.
COLO EIE STE R.
RE-ELECTION OF LORD J. MANNERS.
On Wednesday, Mr. George Waugrove Cooke, who,
it will he reevlh rated, opposed the return of Lord Jubn
Alanners, in" February, 1350, again paid a visit to the
town, and yesterdy
.-<Thursday) morning, although
it was understood that the matter would not be carried
further than tho -nomination and show of hands, ap-
peared..with his friends upon the hustings and was
loudly cheered by the crowd below. The Conservative
candidate met with a'somewhat 'chequered reception,
the cheers' of ,his supporters. though aided by the
good sprinkling of the farmers of
neighbourhood, being occasionally drowned by the
the hearty lungs
hissei-erthose of the Opposite party.
having been gone through
with from the Mayor (Arthur
Laing, formal;i
brief proceedings
address
na
E,co; 'bespeaking a patient hearing for
all the gentlemen who might have -to address
them, the business of the nomination proceeded.
Lord John 'gunners beines.,
The
proposed by George
Round, E.,:q , banker, and seconded by W. W. Haw-
kins, Esq., who is mentioned as the probable second
candidate in the Conservative interest at the next general
election. Mr. Cooke was proposed by Samuel S. Brown,
Esq., a corn!merchant, seconded by W. R. Havens, Esq.,
a non practising barrister and gentleman of property,
resident in the neighbourhood.
Lord J.OHN MANNERS first addressed the electors, and
claimed the renewed suffrages of the electors, on the
ground that the principles which he professed in 1850
he had not swerved from; that he stood before them the
same man as on the occasion when they first returned
him to represent
_them; and that, .as he had been in
1850 and down to the present time, they had every
repot) to;believe he should remain in 1853 and 1854.
Mr. Cooxe said, he appeared before them again to
make a deliberate protest and claim, on the part of the
Liberal electciany ra of Colchester, against
conclusion
being drawn 'from the tact of this election going prac-
tically unopposed. Supposing the constituency to be all
Conservatives, they might well be proud of Lord John
Manners as a representative; and from those who enter-
tained his (Mr. Cooke's) opinions, the Noble Lord de-
served personally the highest respect, and his principles
all the opposition they could possibly give to them. He
came behare them as a member and the advocate of a
Government which confessedly existed solely upon the
mercy of its friends and the forbearance of its opponents;
but still it might have been hoped that the Noble Lord
would have satisfied a little of that curiosity—which was
natural even in the male mind—(Laughter)—as to the
prineiplei which that Government intended to act upon.
For aught they:knew, it might after all turn out a, good
reforming Govcrnment. Its leader, Lord Derby, when
Mr. Stanley, fought his last great battle in the House of
Commons in the passing of his own. Reform Bill, with
his present. Lord Chancellor, and was the colleague with
Lord Althorpe in a Cabinet which supported measures
of reform.—(Hear, hear.) Then, in its great leader in
the House of Commons, they had a man who had de-
clared in print that he was not for the ballot and house-
hold suffrage.—():lear, bear, and laughter.) And where
were the -recognised champions of the agricultural in-
terest—such men as the Duke of Richmond, who would
have insisted on- the re-imposition of protection, and
the Marquis of Granby, who was for a long
time the leader of the Protectionist party in
the House of Commons7.--(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
He had great hOpes of the Government in a reforming
point of view, and he had great hopes even of the Noble
Lord who now solicited their suffrages; but as to what
principles they would advance in the meantime, he ap-
pealed to the Noble Lord to give a more distinct answer
than he had hitherto done; because, if they meant to
proceed upon no-reform and upon anti-free trade prin-
ciplea, it was right that the country should know it, in
order that the supporters of these measures might take
their position for defending and advancing these men-
sures,---(Cheers.)
Lord JOHN MANNERS declined being goaded to pre-
mature tevelation s.
The show of hands which was taken being greatly in
favour of Mr. Cooke, a poll was demanded for Lord John
Manners; after which the proposer and seeonder of the
former gentleman withdrew their nomination, and Lord
John Manners was declared duly elected.
The NOBLE LORD briefly returned thanks for the
honour, and the proceedings terminated.

DROI rVirICEf:

RE-ELECTIONOF—SIR JOHN PAKINGTON.
The office of Colonial Secretary in the new adminis-
tration having been accepted by Sir John Pakington,
his seat for this little borough became, of course, vacated
thereby. The election took place yesterday, and the
Right Hon. Baronet was re-elected. Sir John has made
himself very active at Quarter Sessions, and always
managed to keep himself well with the small squires and
other persons of that sort in the neigbourhood, and these
in return manage to keep alive a certain sort of influence
in Sir John's favour at Droitwich.
The poor persons
engaged in the salt trade, who work very hard for a very
little money; both male and female, care little about Sir
John Pakington, and they grouped sbout the streets
yesterday hissing about the bread-taxers, and gloomily
crying out for the " big loaf."
There was a sort of attempt this morning to get up a
little show of enthusiasm. The bells rang; one or two
of the inhabitants hung out a flag, but the usual banner,
".Protection to British Industry," was somehow or
other missing.
The concourse of people was not what may be said to
the b
be large; the parish containing a poporoughulation of from
three to four thousand; within
is com-
prised-mere than double that number; yet it would be a
stretch 0 say that on the ground below the hustings
(which only contained Sir John Pakington's personal
friends), there were three hundred persons.
:The MAYOR' (J. G. Smith, Esq.), - read the writ from
the Crown-office to the Sheriff.. "Reading on slowly, and
coming to thatpart where her gracious Majesty
scribed as " Defender of the Faith," his Worship, in the
is de-
borough over which
he
presides, described the Sovereign
es" Defender of the Borough."
fulness probably
A great guffaw from the
,people below followed. His Worship then addressed the
of his anxiety for the welfare of the
public:—" Who (he said) will you have for your mem-
ber? " He repeated
; after the first there were half a
score cries of . Sir John P
a akingten; after .the; second
appeal the number increased, and the last time there
were more, appearances of spontaniety in the expression;
there was a pi etty general cry of cc
the• phrase three times distinctly,
W. H. RICKETTS, Ea-,.,
'1 in a neatly laudatory speech
nominated the Right Hon. Sir J. Pakington as a fit and
over person to represent the borough of Droitwich in
Parliament.
purpose
Mr. E. BEaanitorr seconded the nomination.
No other candidate having been proposed,
Sir John Pakington."
The MAYOR forthwith declared the Right Hon. Bart.
duly elected.
. •
There was no cheering even then--a quieter lot of people
assembled for an election
beforejteen.' At length 801120 of Sir John's zealous friends
called out "Give him a good 'un " whereupon the people
good-humouredly obeyed' and a ' was perhaps never
got up a round or two of
cheers.
The Right Hon. Sir Joatal D
.... ARINGTON commenced by
observing that it now became his duty, for the fourth
time, to return to them his most heartfelt thanks for
the confidence they had reposed in him, and for their
kindness in again returning him as their representative
in the House bf Commons. ea
—e had on that occasion to
thank them, not as heretofore for the renewal of their
confidence on the expiring a
-- a Parliament in the regular
course, but because it had become their constitutional
privilege to decide whether
eemoelifetothuarseedmelfsteC,iMenimpolilertant, and at the same time
her Most Gracious Majesty tc,
entrust him with the
ecrnteh,eyaftewrouiltd
with reference to public affairs.—(Hear,
under the Crown. He
felt, then, in those circumstances doubly the duty that
hadlie nd
pleased him
backsoenaelso
of t
of one
hot
enh
devolved upon him to speak to them frankly—to state
)hisTvhitewparesent,Parliament was now fast drawing
peeled elapsed must
necessarily be dissolved; that would probably be the
more fittiug time, perhaps, to speak of subjects of na-
tional interest more in detail; but there were three sub-
filthoeiaralryelose, and before a very long
in which he had felt a large interest from time to
an active part, and
jteinictes,etshpaectiaolnly
einaewhhoicfhtnheenihadhetakbeengg
; second, the remark-
some remarks..--(Hear, hear.) Tile
fiercletlweaavee
theto offer
ear consequent on the
tress and suffering into which our. West India colonies
measures of the Pope of Rome, e0,133_
e.y
0 1 celled the
been'
at
tThel unfortunatelymeve
i eet plungedf
iaety
Papal Aggression; end, thirdly, the plans supposed, or
rather the attempts made, to obtain relief for the suf-
hahalde
fering agriculturists of this country.—(Hear, hear.)
The first subject to which he would call their atten-
tion was that at the West India colonies. The Act
for the Regulation of the Sugar Duty a. passed in
He (Sir
,John Pakington) 1846. ) had no hesitation
in saying that, in his humble judgment, D eta, no act ot
the late Government was
' more reprehensible than that
one affecting the sugar duties s and
our West India cold
nies; by which prospectively
slave-grown sugar was
idmitt6ii on alasl terms as it was from our own
in every respect .
--(Hear, heat fact,
and - . this measure of
1846 was uncalled for, unjust,
it' the illusory to all whose
interests were bound up
of that
prosperity of our West
India. 6°l"i"' The
resultsl
the evil effect measure of the last
Parliament
8 he had predicted;
this flit that inlB4B, such was the distress
so much was .
t was his fortune to be associated
that hid ensued, that i
man, the late
with that most excellent
,f Lord George
of the House
Bentinck, in a Corn
alitt
condition anal° Commons ap-
pointed to inquire into the
After' the labourscause of suffer-
ing of that Com-
of those colonies.
1, ressed a motionthe LI of
on ouse
Mittee were over, me p. _
f of the Suffering I hits—
' Commons for ,the relief
consequenceof no
on
•
*a
(Hear, hear)--and i.
, was involved in Ms motion he
which the slave question
had the support of many of the most zealous of the free-
trade party and of the majority of the members of Sir
Robert Peel's Cabinet. .
occasion
On that ' it was only by
f fifteen that her Majesty's Minis-
tersthe narrow majority o
[leer, hear.) The result was
escaped defeat.--(
Oat the Government WI" way. They filtered the Act