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his enemies, and to stick as firmly as he could to those
who were his friends.—(Hear, hear.) Before he 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, ho 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 tho country for six years, and
having suffered a stroke of purely sis in 1851, died of
exhaustion in 1852. Lord John Russell then
advised the Queen to send for Lord Derby, and he
had formed an Administration; and the real question
now was—first, whether Lord John's advice to his Queen
was so insulting and so unfair that the country ought
not to give Lord Derby a fair 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.] Ile
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 wts the progress under his
Administration? Did he ever keep the few promisee
I that be made when he first took office? At that time he
talked of a lame measure of sanity reform. What had
beeous of that? Lot the pestilential lanes and alleys of
the manufacturing towns and the metropolis give an
answer. He repeated, what had Lord Jelin Russell done
for the cause of progress and reform during his last
Administration that rendered it unsafe to give the Go-
vernment of Lerd Derby a fair trial? He also promised
is 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 bad carried the repeal of the window
of by their assistance.
[At assistance.
I ried is spite of them instead
tax, but it appeared to him that that measure was car-
proceedings there was a great deal
and. the county police were
o[
fA t
noise this satangde
High Sheriff to utterer° and e
called upon by the . emove
himself particularly conspicuous in
one man who made
the crowd.] When order was somewhat restored, Sir
Edward proceeded with his address. He said that his
oc
of nsfh; i o n ,
motto was justice. He wanted justice for all that
and
he asked 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? He 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 appeared 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
was actuated by the most restless impatience
re-
gain it, and bit Administrations, instead of
fhe to
mg Liberal,
resembled as much an 3 * oligarchy
..had ever been seen
in this country.—(No.) Why, it was a Government
composed entirely of his families. Every office in it
r h
was filled by a Grey and a Russell, or by one of their
connexions. It put him in mind p
of a Chinese map,
where the Celestial Empire was placed
in
thecorners.
and all the rest of the world was placed
in the middle,
which were supposed to be abodesof perpetual
dark:
dark-
ness and ice and snow. Downine-s treetwas the Celes-
tial Empire of the Whigs . and the Radicals, and
i
Radical
Reformers
who assisted to keep them there
i 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
1 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, end who principally assisted to carry
the greatest measure of reform this country had
i 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 Ed ward 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 face, and that Mr. Cowper, who was the chair-
man of his committee, could confirm him 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-tredurs 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 he 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 pert of the administration of Lord Derby.
In conclusion, he said he hoped the electors would do
their duty honestly and zsaleusly on this occasion, and
he had no fear of the result of the contest.
Mr. BOSINQI7ET nee., 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 obtervatious principally to the subject of the
repoal of the C32T,.!Air2, and seid that, although he was a
large landed proprietor, he fhlt the great injustice of the
Itax 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 c infusion that not a word he uttered
could be heard. He complained with great warmth of
the expressions mode use of by Mr. Grimston to the
effect that upon the subject of his religious opinions he
had been unmasked by Sir Culling Eardley, and he
celled upon him to come forward and either retract the
statement, or „y upon. what grounds he made it.
Mr. GertisTos came to the front of the hustings, and
amid great confusion said that he must decline to retract
a single syllable he -d
h. id uttered. He alluded to the
correspondence that bad taken. place between Sir Culling
and Mr. Puller, and he still adhered to his original
statement.
Mr. PULLER then said that as Mr. Grimstnn had de-
clined either to retract or to justify the assertion he had
made, he would not waste another word upon that gn-
tleman. He could not help observing, however, that
before an attempt was made to insinuate that he was not
friendly to the Protestant religion, because he refused to
d , an act of injustice to their Roman Catholic 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 R. Peel's Government".—(Bear, and great in-
terrupt., •
, ione The had not been told by any of the
gentlemen who expressed themselves to be supporters
fo Lord Derby whether he intended to propose the re-
peal of the grant.
Mr. Hewer contended that they had nothing to do
with Lord Derby upon this point.
Ir. PULLER continued—Oh, they say they have no-
ththl:g to do with Lord Derby upon this point.—(Hero
tnsise and uproar were renewed, and at length the
Hon Candidate, he could not obtain
abruptly
e3n 1 ' finding
A ,how
feuded his speech.)
in favour 0") f
_hen& was then taken, which was declared
A poll wal-es ,issrs. Trevor, Bosenquet, and Puller.
da, and finally",anded, which will commence on
si
Mon-
o'clock.o33 on Tuesday afternoon, at four

INCOLNsuiRE (SOUTH).
SLEAFORDL, THURs .kyo. jimy 16.—The nomination
for the part: of Kesteven aud Holland took place this
day. Spacious and commedious hustings were erected
in front of the Sessions House, and the accommodation
provided for the gentlemen connected with the press was
most excellent; the authorities having
ebox in the
allotted
most
ehliging manner thrown an awninft over
for their accommodation to protect thaw from the s corch-
ing rays of the Bun. The proceedings
eleven commenced at
o'clock, George Tomline, Esq., m.p., high
s,i„rifr, presiding. The precept having been read and
c ERIFF briefly addressed the ass
The HIGH
embly,
freeholder a fair a d
tae other formalities gone through,
n impartial
hearinee
NY WILLSON, of Ranceby Hall, proposed,
mr.'ANTHO-
Sir John Troilope as a fit and proper for the third
for every
time,
the southern division of the county
requesting
Parliament.
of Lincoln in
LY, tenant-farmer of Lsughton, in
Mr. RICHARD HEA ; said that no doubt some sur-
•nation,
seconding the nomination,
the course which he was taking
person to represent.
prise would be felt at
he had determined to
feelinga in his order,
and
aunPort Sir John TrHope, believing that he
°
on the p resent occasion, but he had merged his political
would honestly, zealously, and fearlessly sup-
port the farmers and labouri
been insulted, op-
((-Theeru.) The agriculturists had
to be ashamed
pressed, and cheated by men who oughtf the of having suc-unabed to the interest o
the blood and
ng classes of
reanufac-
turers,England.—
who had made their money out of
Sir
h -mes of the people, These had hoodwinked. men
large portion of the aristocracy, but he trusted the
Robert Peel, and Sir Robert Peel had hoodwinked a
people generally would be hoodwinked no longer. . 4 d
Jr. CHARLES CH pd of Bla,keey, then nomtba-e
Lord Barleigo, who, during tile are -years he had been
in Parliament, had faithfully fulfilled his promisee. Al- '
that
though he had no expectation that Lord Derby would
chd'',Avour to impose a tax on Corn, he felt confident that
his Lordship and Mr. Disraeli would do their best to
him to the
alter t'ae present system of taxation, and to alleviate
I flie pressure which the agriculturists felt from the
13,000,000 Z exclusively. borne by that class of the coat-
i munitUers,)
me, G. E. WELBy, ALP., of Denton, seconded the no.,
1 minatiGu of Lord Burlcigh, recommending ! constituency
hasa a supporter of Lord Derby, and an op.
1 con tit
of Mayziooth endowment. He did not ex_ p _ct the resturation of a duty on corn, but felt convinced
that if any man conld do anything to benefit the farmer,
that man was Lord Darby.
No other candidate having been proposed,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared Sir John Trollope and
Lord Burieigh to be duly elected.—(Loud cheers.)
Si!' JOHN TROLLOPE and Lord BURLEIGU then se-
verally addressed the electors.
fir. CHAPLET propesed a 'rote of tbank3 t') the Egh
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