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

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
HERTFORDSHIRE.
The nomination of candidates for Hertfordshire took
place yesterday. The hustings were erected in a field
in the vicinity of the town of Hertford, and the most
perfect 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 blue and orange, on which were inscribed Trevor,
Bosanquet, and Puller, the flag-staff being in some cases
surmounted by a loaf of monster proportions. Light
blue was the colour of their opponents, and the banners
bore the names of Halsey, Mena, 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
much the general features of the scene.
The High-Sheriff (Wynn Ellis, Esq.), having consi-
derately allowed about twenty minutes after the arrival
of the candidates for the explosion of public feeling, at-
tempted to dispose of the preliminary prooeedings. He
was unable, however, to proceed, a contest for places
having arisen between the contending parties. The
horsemen of the Free-traders were excluded from the
field by the cavalry of the other side, and the Free-
traders declared that they would not hear any speakers
until their friends were as well accommodated as their
adversaries'. At length the Protectionist horsemen,
amidst a shower of missiles, were forced to retire from
the front, and the area near the hustings was thus
cleared for the people on foot.
The preliminary proceedings having been disposed of,
Mr. R. F. RADCLIFFE proposed Mr. Halsey ass a fit
and proper person to represent tho county.—(Hises
and cheers.)
Mr. BIGG seconded the proposition.
Mr. WILTSHIRE
Mr. LIONEL ADIES proposed, and
seconded Mr. Trevor.
The Hon. ROBERT GRLIISTON proposed, and Mr.
WIDIAN seconded Sir Henry Meux.
The proposition was received with loud cries of
" Lower the rents."
Baron DISISDALE proposed, and Mr. ROBERTS
seconded Sir E. Bulgier Lytton.
Captain TownessEND, M.P., proposed, and Mr. G.
MARTEN seconded Mr. Bosanquet.
The Hon. W. COWPER, M.P.. proposed, and Mr. R.
HANBITRY seconded Mr. Puller.
The 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. HALSEY then stood forward to adpress the elec-
tors. He was received with a good deal of cheering from
his own supporters, mieglsd with groans and disappro-
bation &aro the friends of the Liberal candidates. He
said that when he appeared before the electors of Hert-
fordshire, some years ago, to solicit their sufftagest
he
told them virtually what his political opinions were, and
ha defied any one of his supporters to point to any act
or vole of his in Parliament to shew that he had de-
ceived them in the timeliest particular. Notwithstanding
what had taken place at the commencement of the pro-
caedings, 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 end declare
that he had done his duty as the representatice cf the
county of Hurts.—(Cheers.) He therefore felt that he
had good ground for claiming their support on the pre-
sent occasion, and if they reoirned him es 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 were of very great
interest. [Here there was a good deal of con-
fusion in the crowd,
and the High Sheriff was obliged
to interfere.] The first question he should refer to was
what was called tree trade; and it was said by his oppo-
nents that he had become a Free-trader. He begged to
say that he had not in the slightest degree changed his
opinions as to the policy or impolicy of free
of the system
trade.—(Hear, hear.) If there wore no Cuetoms duties
to protect the nsaLufactarero.—if they had 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 raw the agriculturist compelled to send his produc •
Lions to the cheapest market, and while he was com-
pelled at the same time to pay a heavy tax upon many
articles he consumed, and was also prevented from -"row-
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 be put upon a fair and equal footing; and 11,,
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 equal footing, and thus enable the
farmer to supply that cheap loaf which they all talked
about so much. He had no 1. ish 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, he was prepared to give that Government his
support.—(Cheers.) His opponents on the present oc-
casion did not appear to take an interest in any other
question than that of free trade; bat it did appear to
him that the preservation of the Protestant institutions
of the country at this moment was a subject of at least
equal importance. No man was a greater advocate of
religious toleration then himself; but he would at the
same time take care that toleration did not degenerate
into license, that they did not give a license to those who
declared against all toleration as a sin, and who sought no-
thing short of complete supremacy. He therefore was pre-
pared to vote against the grant to Maynooth, because be felt
that it had not been kept by those who received it. With
regard to his honourable opponents, though he had the
utmost respect for them in their private capacities, he
must confess that he could not see anything iu their
public conduct which could justify the electors in giving
them the preference over himself. His opponents called
themselves Liberals, but he 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, and he saw by the newspapers
that in the return of the general election moderate Con-
servatives and furious Radicals were all described as
Liberals.—(A laugh.) He had bees told that he and
the gentlemen who acted with him on the present occa-
sion regarded reform as revolution; but he was prepared
to contend that in the few months Lord Derby's Govern-
ment had been in office they had carried more
useful
measures of reform than the Whig Government huasdael
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
whatever the result of the present contest might be, it
would not in any manner alter the friendly feeling that
had heretofore existed between them. At the same 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 might very
easily have called upon him, and have ascertained what
were his opinions with regard to the representation of
the county. Five yearn ago he believed that his Hon.
Friend intended to have offered himself as a candidate
for the county, and he believed it was understood that
he only refrained from doing so because he was given to
understand that his opinions were somewhat in advance
of those entertained by the Liberal party, with whom
he was then acting.—(A laugh.) He had now thought
fit to desert that party. lle wag sure that he was act-
ing conscientiously, 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, hear.) With regard to reforming the repre-
sentation, he would state at once that he was no Radical,
that he was opposed
in the to any great and sudden changes
con-
ceive, with some representative
system, and that he did not con-
es to the expedl3 of the gentlemen who supported him,
of the ballot, and that no case had
yet been rude ancY
system
of
secret voting. tto justify resorting to the un-English
He declared himself favourable
to the present commernialoleg.
said he had no doubt that policy
of the country, and
atdt.he electors of the kingdom
would answer in a very
Lord Derby manner
uponthe question
that
this subject.
He could not deny that the sudden change
place had caused a
agriculturists• but, goodbei deal of distress among tooktii
upon land, and being constantly
gathimself entirely dependent
upon
that they now depended "ill/ among tenant-farmers
their own exertions and foraenergy better state of things upon
auras of relief which the Supporters rather than to any mese
vernment represented" loomed
ntn of the Derby Go-
Sir Ti. MEux then addressed the
ele future."
had so frequently avowed his political opinions
He said he
opinions to the
electors that he had very little to say upon
the present
occasion, and he could declare that he
had never upon
any occasion given a vote which was not in accordance
with those opinions; and certainly upon every motion
calculated to benefit the agricultural interest he had
always given his support. Having referred to the votes
he had given upon several subjects, Sir H. Meux pro.
needed to state that he did not believe the Maynooth
cry had been got up for election purposes, but that the
excitement which prevailed in the public( mind upon
the subject was occasioned by the letter written by Lord
John Russell to the Bishop of Durham.—(Hear, hear,
and cries of Oh, oh.") He believed that the unwar-
rantable attack upon the rights of the Crown and the
people of this country. by the Bishop of Rome had
created the excitement in the public mini; and a proof
of the feeling that prevailed upon the subject appeared
in the fact that out of six 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
received with a good deal of disapprobation, and it was
some time before a word he said could he heard. He at
length jumped from the e
eataings on to the table at
which the reporters wore writinv, and again endeavoured
to address the meeting. Re said that he did not know
hear whether it was their intention to-
him or not, but ho
had got to his present position because it was a maxim
of his life to get as close as he could to those who were

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, he 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 the country for six years, and
having suffered a stroke of paralysis 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.] He
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 was the progress under his
Administration? Did he ever keep the few promises
that he made when he first took office? At that time he
talked of a large measure of sanity reform. What had
become of that? Let the pestilential lanes and alleys of
the manufacturing towns and the metropolis give an
answer. He repeated, what had Lord John Russell done
for the cause of progress and reform during his last
Administration that rendered it unsafe to give the Go-
vernment of Lord Derby a fair trial? He also promised
a liberal measure of education for the people. and a re-
formoarorfyig
then courts of law and Chancery; but instead
of
out
the Court those
actually the
of reforming th
not be carried until the dead weight of the Whig
of measures,Ch
auoery
Government was removed. It was said that the
Whig Government had carried the repeal of the window
tax, but it appeared to him that that measure was car-
ried in spite of them instead of by their assistance.
[At this stage of the proceedings there was a great deal
of noise and confusion, and the county police were
called upon by the High Sheriff to interfere and remove
one man who made himself particularly conspicuous in
' the crowd.] When order wen somewhat restored, Sir
Edward proceeded with his address. He Baia that his
motto was justice. He wanted justice for all men, 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 give. He could
not deny that Lord John Russell was a man of courage,
eloquence, and genius, but no ono could deny that he
d impatienceofbaing Liberal,to re-
gawas pleased with the possession of power, and that he
wasin actuated by s
ild
mthinei
smtroastti
onrse,sitnl east:
resembled as much an oligarchy as had ever been seen
in v
eoffice in int
icnomtphoissedcouenntirryel; country.—(No.)
Why, it
Ea sa r Government
was filled by a Grey and a Russell, or hycyone of their
liiminwmasindie
ofda
in ntihneesmeidmdaipe:
cwohnenreox
thei n s
Celestial It ut
Empire
and all the rest of the world wasP placedplaced in
the corners.
which were supposed to be abodes of perpetual dark-
ness and ice and chow. Downing street was the Celes-
tialßeformers-
t depend that they would the
get; nothing in return from
tial Empire of
t
Whigs. and the Radicals, and
Radicaln,
who assisted to keep them there
m
o family fecticn. The Whigs had deceived their sup-
porters.he, and 'in the name of reform and progress ho
asked Reformer; to give their assistance to Lord Derby's
Government.
should be regarded as the enemy of the people ? Was he
Who or what was Lord Derby, that he
the came Mr. Stanley who, when he first went into Par-
liam;nt, stood up night after night to speak in favour of
the Reform Bill, and who principally assisted to carry
the greatest re.nasure of reform this country had
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 Edward 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 fac', 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 ho 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-traders 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 part of the administration of Lord Derby.
In conclusion, he said he hoped the electors would do
their duty honestly and zealously on this oecadon, and
he had no fear of the result of the contest.
Mr. BOSANUET next 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 observations principally to the subject of the
repeal of the corn-laws, and said that, although he was a
large landed proprietor, he felt the great injustice of the
tax 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 confusion that not a word he uttered
could be heard. He complained
Mwith
Ggreat warmth of
the expressions made use of by r. rimston he
effect that upon the subject of his religious opinions he
had been unmasked by Sir Culling Eardley, and he
called upon him to come forward and either retract the
statement, or say upon what grounds he made it.
Mr. GRIMSTON came to the front of the hustings, and
amid great confusion said that he must decline to retract
a single syllable he had uttered. He alluded to the
correspondence that had taken place between Sir Culling
and Mr. Puller, and he still adhered to his original
statement.
justify
made, he would not waste another word upon that gen-
the assertion he had
clined either to retract or to
Mr. PULLER. then said that as Mr. Grimston had de-
Mr.
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
do 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 ho was a mem-
gfenLfloevinen
ber of Sir R. Peel's Government.—(Hear, and great in-
themselves to be supporters
o
terruption.) They had not been told by any of the
whroante.xpressecl
Lord tierby.whetber. ho intended to propose the re-
peal of the g
M•• "nine 7 contended that they had nothing to do
with Lord Derby upon this point.
Mr. PULLER continued—Oh, they say they have no-
thinge noise and to do with Lord Derby upon this
point —(Here
th
in favour uproar were renewed, and at length the
_o
o
u. Candidate, finding he could not obtain a hearing,
abruptly.
concluded his speech.)
show of hands was then taken, which was declared
Messrs. Trevor, Bosanquet, and Puller.
A poll
day, fieryddemanded, which will commence on Mon-
o'clock, close on Tuesday afternoon, at four

SLEAWORD LINCOLNSHIRE (SOUTH).
T
' -IrUtsbAY, JULY 16.—The nomination
for the
day. Spacious and emit/110d- h stings were erected
in front of the Sessions ..... ions u
parts of Kesteven and Holland took place this
provided for the gentlemen,
"Louse and the accommodation
most excellent;
.the auteolatie h • g in the most
obliging manner thrown an awn.
eonn'ected with the press was
for their accommodation to protect them from the scorch-
ing rays of the sun. The proce
4 eavveirnthe box allotted
eleven
o'clock, George Towline, commenced at
~ h
sheriff, presiding. The precept having (4 * . and
beenread an
the other formalities gone through,
re het HIGH &mum. briefly addressed the assembly,
requesting for every freeholder a fair and
partial
Mr.--
hearing.
SONY WILLSON, of Ranceby Hall, prooproposedA-'- time, Sir John Trollope as a fit and probe;
for the third
represent Way
person
•12 Parliament. thethern division of the co -
HEALY, tenant-farmer of Leighton, in
Mr. RICHARD
said that no doubt some sur-
seconding the nomination,
felt at
of rLsionneotoin
the course which he was taking
prise would be .
d he had determined to
on the pre
• order, an
'n that he
feelings in his
John Trollope, believi g
support Sir and fearlessly sup-
sent occasion, bat he had merged his politioal
would honestly,
labouring classes of England.
port the farmers and , . had been insulted, op-
(Cheers.) The agriculturists
who ought to be ashamed
ho
pressed, and cheated by men of the manufac-
turers, having succumbed to the interest
t of the blood and
turers, who zealouslY,
had made their money
bones of the People. These
had hoodwinked a
Robert Peel, and Sir Robert Peel d that the
trusted large portion of the aristocracy, but he
people generally would be hoodwinked no longer' .
m noted
Mr. CHARLES Cuaent, of Blankney, then ne-1 been
Lord Barleigh, who, men had hoodwinked Sir
during the five years he had
Al-
though he had no expectation that Lord Derby in Parliament, had faithfully fulfilled his
promises'
wendeavour to impose a tax on corn, he felt confident that
his Lordship and Mr. Disraeli would do their best to
alter the present system of taxation, and to alleviate
the pressure which the agriculturists felt from thes
0
13,000,0002 exclusively borne by that class of the oildcom-
munity.—(Cheers.)
Mr. G. E. WELBY, M.P., of Denton, seconded the no-
mination of Lord Burleigh, recommending him
to the
constituency as a supporter of Lord Derby, and a, 0
ponent of the Maynooth endowment. He did not apx: pact the restoration of a duty on corn, but felt convinced
that if any man could do anything to benefit the farmer,
that man Was Lord Derby.
No other candidate having been proposed,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared Sir John Trollope and
i I L: rd Burleigh to be duly elected.—(Loud cheers.)
i Sir JOHN TP.OLLOPE and Lord BURLEIGH then se-
verally addressed the electors.
Mr. CHAPLIN proposed a vote of thanks to the High