The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-08 00:00:00

GLOUCESTER CITY.

Yesterday the nomination of candidates took place
the Shire Hall. On the whole the affair went a
off
quietly, but there were a couple of fights in the hall, by
way of diversifying the proceedings of the occasion.
There were no exhibitions of colours nor bands of music.
Mr. INNELL, the sheriff, opened the proceedings with
the usual legal forms; after which
_ I,SI r. KENDALL, merchant, proposed Admiral Frederick
b'iz hardinge Berkeley as a fit and proper person to re.
present the borough in Parliament.
Mr. GUESS barrister seconded the nomination.
Mr.t,Tom.rWeptra:sTeLtiEt
thep'utin nomination Mr. H. Thomas
H°p©
Mr. CLu
Mr. ri 00DR city.
posed a flew
rrEenueE seconded the nomination.
Tibberton and
nuic Mayor of Gloucester, then
candidate,pro-
o Mr. Nathan Philip Price, of
Mr.
W.
wAsanueester.
cT"NE
himself, but desisted.
seconded the nomination.
Mr. J. G. Faara
, merchant, then rose to pro-
poseisted.
Mr. C. TROTTER,
tZTlettuln'
also appeared on the
platform, and called
and put
electors of the city by
name to come forward
nomination, but this the him (Mr. Trotter) in
g
said, in the midst of some confusion, declined. He then
nlusion, that if they would
do not nominate him he would
~ it for himself, for "he
' did not care for man nor
to ears polite.
a Personage not named
Admiral BERKELEY then addressed the electors. He
avowed the existence of something like a coalition bo-
tvreen him 3elf and Mr. Price. He expla .
med his conduct
on the Militia Bill. Ho did not like the first Bill, but
the second Bill was not the same as the first. It had
been mended for the worse. When the first Militia Bill
was brought before the House, he had not a petition sent
up to him for presentation against it, but no loss than
eight petitions were seat up to him from Gloucester
against the Derby amended Bill. He had been charged
with being a place-hunter. Now, there must be a Go•
vetuusent, and if he, as a naval officer, was offered the
geveierneet of the naval affairs of the country, and if he
we fitted for the effice, he could not see why ho should
not accept
it. lie girl not mean to say that any Go-
ver
nment could always be right, but if they were always
to he following their own crotchets, aed not supporting
l:heralis •
tla le „7,1 in iei true guise, they might lose it altoge.
whether. they
beii. Jai infant,
were all Free-traders neal, lett, free trade
1 woul'd trust athLt' he would put it to them
Igu,sol, wh t infant to the eg
Ellis' of Lord John
0 'would cherish it and bring it up in the

right path, or to the other n trse, Lord Derby, who
would strangle the child if the could.—(Laughter.)
He was for an extension of the , . franchise and vote by
ballot. _ _

Mr. HOPE thought the Adr ail ?al had been taking a
leaf out of Punch's book whe a he compared her Ma-
jesty's Prime Minister to an old woman, Ile showed
that the Militia Bill did not nee; sitate any ballot at all,
but was in point of fact a free 31 distment, and he did
not vote for the compulsory clan st lin the Bill. (Here
a handbill was exhibited by one , of Mr. Price's friends
on the platform, which having hi to n thrown to the crowd
below caused a great commotio, s, but after a fight of
clear after this exhibition tit; re if fighting men were
about five minutes peace was re stored.) It was pretty
wanting they had them in Glou tester, but as he was a
it again either in iat ball or in Europe.
peace himself, he hoped there would be no dis-
claimed the merit of having effected the Ttmuhar bne a
Whigs
nf
he
gn
sf
alte-
ration in the corn-laws, but this ~was a fallacy; the alte-
ration was caused by the con r lotion of the late Sir
Robert Peel. He (Mr. Hope) hi u I studied Adam Smith
in life, and had adopted the principles of that
great man,
early
and he denied that b a; had ever been ought
else than a free-trader. As u ;on as the corn-laws
had been repealed, almost the first vote which he
had given had been for the repeal of the naviga-
tion-laws, which he always look ed upoit as following on
in the policy of the late Sir Ro but Peel. He believed
that before the repeal of the c ern-laws the labouring
classes were not convinced of i be policy of that step;
they thought their wages would be reduced in propor-
tion as the price of bread was re aimed; but in this they
had found their mistake, and th, ly were now fully satis-
fied of the advantages which t hey reaped under free
better condition than they were before th
The agricultural labour, e, too, were also in a
tomru
de.re,
e repeal
e corn-laws.—(Cheers.) I Co had told the new. f a
th
Mi-
nistry that if they went for an y- reversal of the free-
trade policy they must not calct t/ ate upon his support,
for ho should vote against any each reversal. He did
not think taxation could be mucl a reduced, and as to the
suggestion for making the poor- r ates a national impost,
he thought that plan most perni, s. ious.
Mr. PRICE avowed himself a Liberal, with an inclina-
tion to Radicalism, and a free tr vier.
The show of hands was declar ed to be in favour of NIL
Price and Admiral Berkeley, A poll was demanded,
and fixed for tce day.