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

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ELECTION INT
D SHL
lELIGENCE.
HERTFORRE.

The nomination of candidates for Hertfordshire took I '
place yesterday. The hustings were erectsd in a field 1
of the town of Hertford,and most
rertfh9e vicinity
ct 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.blae and orange, on which were inscribed Trevor,
Bosanquet, and Faller, the flag• staff being in some cases
surmounted liy 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
ranch the general fea'ures of the scene.
The High-Sheriff (Wynn Ellis, Fhq.), having consi-
derately allowed about twenty minutes after the arrival ,
of the candidates for the explosion of public feeling, et- '
tempted to dhipeee of the preliminary prooeedinge. He
was unable, however, to proceed, a contest for plates
having arisen between the contending parties. 'rho
horsemen of the Free-traders were excluded from the
field by the cavalry of toe other side, and the Fre-
traders declared that they would not hear any speakers 1
until their friends were as well accommodated as their
adversaries'. At length the Protectionist horsemen,
amidst a shower of missiles, were forced to reCre ffom
the front, and the area near the husticgs was thus
cleared for the people on foot.
been disposed of,
in,
h y
The preliminary proceedings e Halsey
as a fit
Mr. R. F. RADCLIFFE prepesed Lir.
and proper person to represent the county,—
(Hisses
and cheers.) i
Mr. BIGG seconded the p-vonosition — -,
Mr. LIONEL AIMES proposed, and Mr. WILTSHIRE
seconded Mr. Trevor.
The Hon. ROBERT GBIMSTON proposed, and Mr.
WYM.LN seconded Sir Henry Melia.
The proposition, was received with loud cries of
" Lower the rents."
proposed, and Mr. ROBERTS
Baron DixsDALE
seconded Sir E. Bulwer Lytton.
Captain TOWNSHEND, zp., proposed, and Mr. G.
MARTEN seconded Mr. Bosanquet.
The Hon. W. CowBER, M.Pe
proposed, and Mr. R.
HAN-BURY seconaed Mr. Puller.
Twe 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 hustings, unable to obtain a hearing, whilst
a series of boxing matches took place in the crowd.
Mr. Efsh.sev then stood forward to adprees the elec-
tors. He 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 he appeared before the electors of Hert-
fordshire, some years ago, to solicit their suffrages, he
told them virtually what his political opinions were, and
he defied any one of his supporters to point to any act
or trot,, of his in Parliament to show that he had de-
ceived them in the smallest particular. Notwithstanding
what had taken place at the commencement cf 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 be had done his duty as the representalice of the
county of Herts.—(Cheers.) He therefore felt that he
had good ground far 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 rzere of very '
interest. [Here there was a good deal
of ;great
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fusion in the crowd, and the High Sheriff was obliged
to interfere.] The first question he should refer to way
what was called free trade; and it Was said by his oppo-
nents that he had become a Free-trader. vie begged to
say that he had not in the sli'htest dcgrae changed his
opinions as to the policy or impolicy of the system of free
trade.—(Hesr, 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
be whether it was good policy or not. While, however,
he saw the agriculturist compelled to send his produc-
tions to the cheapest market, and while he was com-
pelled at the same time to pay a heavy tax upon many
aricles 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 bo 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 eqUil footing, and thus enable the
farmer to supply that cheap loaf which they all talked
abort so much. He 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, ha was prepared to give that Government his
suppert.—(Cheers.) His opponents on the present cc-
casion did not appear to take an interest in any other
gueetion than that of free trade; but it did appear to
him that the preervation of the Protestant institutions
oft pc tuntry C this moment was a subjeti; of at least
rqu importance. No man was a greater advocate of
religious toleration than hirnsen; but he would at the
831 LP time tithe care that, toleration did not degenerate
into license, that they did not give a license to taste who
declared tigtiri3t all toleration ae a ein. and who sought no-
thing short of complete supremacy. He therefore was pre-
pared to vote against the grant to Meynooth, bemuse he felt
that it had not been kept by those ,vho received it. With
regard to his honourahla opponents, though he had the
utmost respect for them is their private cepecitien, he
must conteas that he could not see anything in their
public conclu.:t which could justify the electors in giving
them the preference over hicoseit. His opponents calFd
themselves Liberals, but be must confess that he could
not understand the term. Every one knew what a Whig
was.—(A. laugh.) It did puzzle him,
however, to define
the) meaning of a Liberal, nod he 84w by the
newspapers
that in the return of the general electi on moderate Con
servatives and furious Radicals were all dp
Liberals.—(A laugh.) Ho had been told that he
pGreopvare
the gentlemen who acted with him on the present occa-
sion regarded reform as revolution; bat he was
to contend that in tno few months Lord Derby's
meat had been in ofilee they had carried more usefuln
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
o that
•
whatever the result of the present contest might be, it
would nos in any manner alter tea friendly feelin
had heretofore existed between them. At the *aeon time
he 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 offer himself
to the electors, and being a neighbour he 'night very
easily have celled upon him, and have ascertained what
were his opinions with regard to the represttaation of
the county. Five years ago he believed that his Hon,
Friend intended to have offered himself as e candidate
for the county, and he believed it WIS understood that
he only refrained from doing so because he was given to '
understand that his opinions were somewhat iti advance
of those entertained by the Liberal party, with whom
he was then acting.—(A laugh.) He lead now thought
fit to desert that party. fie wash sire Viet he was act-
ing conscientidusly, and that that alone induced him to
desert his old friends and those Liberal views which,
if avowed on the present occasion, he believed
would have been the means of his being chaired
through the town in triumph next Monday. The Hon.
candidate then proceeded briefly to state his political
opinions, observing that he should oppose the grant
to Maynooth, although, he said, at the same time he was
of opinion that this cry about Maynooth had been got
up solely for election purposes, and that it was intended
to take the place of the Protection cry, which now, after
six Years, was getting a good deal the worse for wear.
, hear.) With regard to reforming the repre-
Bntation, he would state
that he seas 0 atonce that he wasno Radical,
hi the
representative
to any great and sudden changes
expedienc
ceive, with
3":° 'Tthsystem, and that his did not con-
as to the
utth ballot, and that no case had
ef) gentlemen who supported him,
yet been made out7t- : :;, . -shfy resorting to the un-English
i aiiive declaredouey
oof the to the present coultelact;c.
system of secret vet'.
thhiena secl,faatr favourable
and
said he had nu doubt thawould answer in a very tdtited electors of the country,
propounded to them b. Lorddistinct manner the question
He could not deny Viet the Derby upon this subject.
place had caused a
gooddealsudden change that took
agriculturists; but, bein, himself enures
distress atnoog the
upon land, and being aotutanmuself entirely dependent
that they now depended for a
bitter state
tenant-farmers,
their own exertions and energy thanrathesrtsteof things Islam
sures of relief which the supporters of th 9 tonally in ea.
Go-
vernment represented " loomed in the future." Dewy
Sir H. Meux then addressed the electors. He said h 9
had so frequently 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
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any occesion given a vote which was not in aeorclanc - , e
tied
with those opinions; - certainty anon every motion
calculated to benefit the agricultural interest he bad
gv&l:i his support. Having referred to the votes
i
always
he had eiven upon several subjects,.
Sir 11. Meux pro.
ceeded to state that he did not believe the Maynooth
cry had been but I.lp for election purposes, bat that the
excitement which prevailed in the public mind upon
the subject was oecasioned by the letter written by Lord
John Russell to the Bishop of Darlaara.—(Hear, hear,
and cries of " (.), 0-") lie believed that the unwer-
ranteble attack aeon the. riathti of the Crown
and the
people of this country Ire the Ilieliop of I-Zorne had
crestel the excitement in the pahlic mind; and a proof
of the feeling that
prevailed open the subjeci; appeared
in the foct that out of sip candidates who were now be-
fore them, five at least declared that they should oppose
the grant to Maynooth.
Sir EDWARD LYTTON then stood forward. He was
e 14 ee received with a good deal of
disapprobation, and it was
e-
tr.
q , some time before a word he said could he heard. He at 77:•. .
---"'" . --,/,!. TA length jumped from the hustings on to the table at
k.A.4,.. which the reporters were writing, and endow.
again end
I' -, ' •'''''Y.... , --, ~, i• address the meeting. He said that he did not know I
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1. he whether it was their intention to hear him h
Il'"Vels . or not, but e
) ,;,....:1,7, had got to his present Position because •
it was a maxim
ur hp +i fa to 8U as eissee as he avoid to those iTh
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