The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-14 00:00:00

F uneral of the Earl of Carlisle,

It was announced it the close of the meeting that
the hon. and learned gentleman had subscribed XlOO
to the guarantee fund.

The Representation of North Warwickshire.

COLESIIILL, Dec. 13.

The election of a knight of the shire, to supply
the vacancy caused in the representation of this
division of Warwickshire, consequent on the death
of Mr. Spooner, took place here to-day. No oppo,.
sition was offered to Mr. Davenport Bromley, and
the attendance of freeholders was small, there being
not more than a couple of hundred persons present.
The hon. candidate rode up to the hustings on
horseback, accompanied by Mr. Adderley, M.P.

The usual formalities having been gone through,
and the High Sheriff (Mr. Beech, of Brandon),
having put the question as to whether any elector
had a candidate to propcse,

The Right Hon. C. B. ADDERLEY stepped to the
front of the hustings, and said that he had a gentle-
man to propose ES a fit and proper person to repre-
sent the constituency in Parliament. He named
Mr. Davenport Bromley, of Baginton-hall, in this
county. In discharging the duty cast upon him on
that occasion he could not help indulging the ex-
pression of his own feeling, and he was sure it was
shared in by every body in the count!, of sorrow at
the occasion which had brought them together.
Mr. Spooner had passed a long life of usefulness; his
integrity and other estimable qualities had endeared
him to all who ever came into contact with him :
his business capacity, his sound reuse, good-
ness of heart, and adherence to his principles, as
well as his private virtues; would cause him to be
long remembered. (Cheers.) The best consolation
was that he died at a good old age, while all who
knew him might cherish the recollection of his good
example. (Hear, hear.) It was not easy to supply
the place of such a man as their late representative,
but he believed that.Mr Bromley would do so with
distinction as regarded himself, and with credit and
satisfaction to the county. (hear.) Mr Bromley
was not ;o young a man or one so unknown as to
require any eulogy or recommendation from him;
he was a man well known, a man of mark in the
county, (Hear.) He had been an eye-witness of our
great campaign in the Crimea ; he was a foremost
man in the hunting-field, and an actual participator
in all those field sports which were distinguished from
those of other nations, and he (Mr Adderley) did not
doubt but that the same gallant spirit which
distinguished his hon. friend in the hunting-field
would also distinguish him in the House of Com-
mons. But he had been engaged in more important
services; he had himself organized institutions for
the benefit of his poorer fello ,v countrymen with
success and usefulness. Those who were acquainted
with:the working of the Poor Law in the crowded
population of the metropolis could bear testimony
to his hon. friend's having volunteered services,
though he was in a private station, which were a
great public) advantage. (Hear, hear.) What we
want is a man to represent the county who will
be able to express our minds for us as well as we
think or wish we could express them for ourselves
in the Legislature of the country.r (Hear, hear.) It
has been said that party strife was at an ebb, and it
had been suggested that as the coming Session•
would be the last before a general election,
that great party questions would not be
mooted. He was not quite sure that that would
turn out to be true ; it might turn out that
the approaching general election would tempt
some men to moot those questions which they had
the faculty to raise rather than settle. (Hear.) But
if it was true that Mr Bromley came before them
without any party catch-words—compounded with
may of those election cries which were only resorted
to by men who felt that they had little capacity for
dealing seriously with the details of public business.
—(cheers)—he, for one, liked Mr Bromley all the
better for it. (Hear, hear.) He has put forward, in a
manly and straightforward address, his views on
various public questions. He has stated himself to be
a Liberal Conservative, and that he belongs to the
party of Lord Derby, but without factiously adh-ere
ing to that party while it remains in opposition.
(Cheers.) It has been asked by the organs of the great
Whig party, What is the use of a Liberal Conserva-
tive ? (Laughter.) Those who make that cry think
that nothing but a thoroughbred Whig will do, and
that it is to that party we are indebted for all
the reforms which have taken place. (Hear.) It
was true that that party, whose vocation it is to
fish in troubled waters, must have had a hand in
everything that comes to land, but he doubted
whether that party to which Mr Bromley professed
to belong, had not rendered much more valuable
service. Mr Bromley says he is a Liberal Conser.
vative ; that is the party which is not perpetually
changing, but which deals with public questions in
a spirit of caution and reverence. (Hear.) It takes
the long life of a Whig, it is not until after a
very long political life that he comes to a maximum
of wisdom and says, " Rest and be thankful."
(Laughter.) But the Liberal Conservative starts in
life with some such maxim, and through his life and
public conduct bears in mind the maxim of wisdom
to let well alone. He remembers he has to deal with
the intricate and delicate constitution of his coml.
try, the lot of which has been such that institutions
have grown up under it which are the envy of the
world, and he will not change those institutions until
there is a call for some change, and then he will con.
duct those changes with deliberation and care. The
right hon. gentleman next alluded to Mr Bromley's
address, which he declared to be manly, straight-
forward, and satisfactory. He told them that ha
would have a careful regard over the public expen-
diture, and if he did so he would do much more than
many of those who made that pretence their stalk-
, ing.horse, and were absent on every supply night
in the House of Commons, Bat while his hon.
friend made the promise to which he (Mr Adder-
ley) had referred, he also said that he would not do
so in such a way as to impair the efficiency of the
Public service. (Hear, hear.) Some sapient critics
said that they would prefer a man who would melee
more promises; but those persons did not seem to
.be aware of the fact that any
mere political propo.
action in the abstract WAS nothing
but a delusion.