The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-23 00:00:00

WILTS, NORTH (2).
Walter Long
J. S. Sotheron
WILTS, SOUTH (2).
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert
W. Wyndham
WINCHESTER (2).
J. B. Carter ...
Sir J. B. East
WINDSOR (2).
P. Grenfell
Lord C. Wellesley
WOLVERHAMPTON (2).
Hon. C. P. Villiers
J. Thornely
WOODSTOCK (1).
Marquis of Blandford
WORCESTER (2).
0. Ricardo ... sae
W. Laslett
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WORCESTERSHIRE, EAST (2).
Hon. Captain Rushout
J. H. Foley
WORCESTERSHIRE, WEST (2).
General Lygon
F. W. Knight
WYCOMBE (2).

Sir G. Dt6h-wood ...
Mr. T. Smith ... ..
YARMOUTH (2).
C. E. Rumbold ... ...

Sir E. Lacon
YORK (2).
W. M. E. Milner

J. G. Smyth ... ...
YORKSHIRE, EAST (2).
Lord H.thatn
Hon. Captain Duncombe ...
YORKSHIRE, WEST (2).
Richard Cobden ...
Evelyn Denison ... ... ...
YORKSHIRE, NORTH (2).
E. S. Cayley
Hon. 0. Duncoml;t3
YOUGHAL (1).
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ELECTION IN TEL LIGENCE.
HERTFORDSHIRE.
Yesterday being the day appointdd for the official
declaration of the poll during the election for this
county, a large assembly. including a great number of
ladies in carriages, collected together to witness the
closing scene of a contest which had been keenly car-
ried on by both sides. The declaration took place in
the Gaol-field near Hertford, where the ceremony of
nomination had been gone through about a week pre-
viously.
The High Sheriff having reached the hustings about
twelve o'clock, announced the state of the poll to be as
follows:

Halsey ... ... 2,225
Meux 22:219190
Lytton
Trevor ... 2,043
Puller ... 1,890
Bosanquet 1,868
The HIGH SHERIFF consequently declared Mr. Hal-
sey, Sir H. Meux, and Sir B. 'Lytton to be duly elected
knights of the shire for the county of Hertford in the
ensuing Parliment.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HALSEY then stepped forward amid applause and
returned his sincere thanks for the honour the elec-
tors had conferred on him, not merely in choosing him as
their representative, but in placing him at the head of
the poll. They had had a hard contest with worthy
opponents; but the electors had come forward in
defence of the cause for which they fought, and spared
no trouble or exertion to support it.—(Hear, hear.) It
would be for their representatives to use their utmost
endeavours to maintain that cause in Parliament; but
now the conflict of the election was over, he begged to
extend there the open hand of amity, instead of the
clenched fist of strife.—(Hear, hear.) All his efforts
would be emplo)ed to serve them faithfully in Parlia-
ment, and as a representative he should always remem-
ber he represented both opponents and supporters, and
he trusted that no partiality would be discovered in his
conduct.—(Cheers.)
Sir 11. MEux said it was his pleasing duty for the se-
cond time to thank them for the confidence they reposed
in him by returning him as one of their representatives.
—(Applause.) He and his two colleagues had been re-
turned in the way in which Members ought to be sent
to Parliament—unfettered by any pledges.—(Hear,
hear, and laughter.) The constituency bad trusted en-
tirely to the principles they advocated, and had felt
confidence in them on account of the course they had
hitherto pursued. He had no hesitation in saying that,
in looking at the result of the contest as a party
triumph, it was one of the greatest achieved throughout
the country during the elections, for unquestionably
they had had to contend against the best men in Hert-
fordshire on the opposite aide. He felt certain that the
exertions they had made would give a majority to Lord
Derby's Government.—(No, no.) They sent their re-
presentatives to Parliament as independent supporters of
the present Administration; and in his soul he believed
that no man at the present time was so capable of con-
ciliating all classes, or of carrying on the affairs of this
great country, as the Noble Lord now at the head of the
Government.—(Applause and disapprobation.)
Sir B. LYTToN, who was loudly cheered, said, that
when he last stood on those hustings it was in prepara-
tion for a severe contest. They were now at the close
of a bard fight, but glorious victory.—(Cheers.) He
stood before in the face of friends and foci, bat be
trusted he might now hope that the foes would soon va-
nish, and that only friends would remain.—(Applause.)
It was once said by a prince, who had many enemies to
encounter before ho came to the throne, that it was not
for the king to remember the enemies of the subj,et; and
they might rest assured that their representative wowd
never remember one single attack made against him
when only their candidate.—(Applause.) As to the
three opponents against whom he had had to enter the
lists, he had never struck at their Shields except
with the blunt end of the lance. He had endea-
voured to place the contest on general political grounds,
and ho heartily trusted that he bad never embittered the
strife by a single personal attack.—(Applause.) And
now he begged to return to these opponents his most re-
spectful thanks for having shown the same courtesy to
himself.—(Renewed applause.) Ho recollected that
when he was at school he always liked a boy the better
after he had fought with him.—(Laughter.) He had
the same sentiments now as a man, and he honoured his
opponents the more because, like true Englishmen, they
could not believe even to the last that they could be
beatera—(Cheers and laughter.) He wished to, say a
few words with respect to Mr. Trevor, as being ihe op-
ponent with whom he was most brought into contact,
and wham he had most cause to apprehepd. Though
Cdr. Trevor had failed, it must be some comfort for him
to lean, that ho had gallantly stood by the wishes of his
Party; and it must also be some comfort to his party to
know that he now retired from the field as much be-
loved
.
by his opponents as by his supporters.—
(Cheers.) He should say but a few words more,
as there were now but few materials for a
speech. If he were to touch on political subjects
he should only revive the quarrel after the battle
had ceased; and he should be ashamed to enlarge on the
victory gained, as that might seem to be done with the
view of insulting the vanquished.—(Hear, hear.) He
had, however to express his deep gratitude for the kind.
ness and zeal with which he bad been honoured with
support--a support he owed to the concurrence of many
circumstances, but especially, be believed, to the good
sense and intelligence of the majority of the electors.—
(Hear, hear.) Upon the day of nomination they were
honoured by the presence of those whose gentle task
through life it was to calm down the angry passions of
men; and again upon that day, now that the strife was
Over, they saw the same fair faces appear, as they
always ought, wherever their smiles could reward the
victorious, or their sympathy console the defeated,—
(Cheers and laughter). It was in their presence that he
felt inspired with a more deep and lively sense of grati-
.tude for the honour which had been conferred on him;
and he should go hence with a still more earnest resolu-
tion so to discharge the arduous duties of political life,
that they might never be ashamed that that day, when so
many bright eyes were around, they had assembled to
hear the name of their new representative for Hert-
fordshire,—(Cheers.)
Mr. TREVOR was received with great applause. He
said he stood before theta a defeated candidate, yet he
felt it would have been unbecoming in him not to have
availed himself of the present opportunity of returning
his most sincere thanks to that large party of electors
who had honoured him with their support.—(Hear,
hear.) At the same time, he expressed regret and dis-
appointment that those principles which they entertained
la common were not that day in the ascendant. He was
rare that ho must attribute his defeat to the strong and
formidable opposition which bad been arrayed against
him by a class of men for whom he felt the highest re-
'Peet, and with whose interests he felt himself bound up
--he meant the tenant-farmers.—(Hear.) He felt that
they had opposed him because he could not conscienti-
party whose avowed object,
"sIY give his support to the
while out of office, was to overthrow that system of com-
mercial policy which be felt to be essential to the best
interests of the country, and who, the moment they
came into office, abandoned their professions, end now
stood a Government without any principle.—(Cheers,
and cries of "No politics.") Ho was afraid, moreover,
that that partywere holding out expectations to the
lauded interetwhich never could be realized.—(Hear,
hear.) Though he and his friends had been defeated in
that election, the constituency might rest assured that
the cause of free trade was safe, for he felt confident that
the n
people of this country would never submit to any al-
teration, or even any modification of the system, tending
to throw an additional weight of taxation on the great
hody of the population.—(Applause.) He thanked his
opponents as well as his friends for the kindness and
courtesy he had experienced during his
canvass. Though
he had lost his stint he had not lost his temper, and, not.
withstandin that they had thought proper to discard
him as theirgepresentative,
ho shouldthe feel detenacte:
r
interest in all that ccneerned the welfare and prospersit'3;
of the county.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PULLER, next expressed his acknowledgmen
those who, during theght election,support,
ah:47oexilteansdteod
generous and unbou htiou htihrare ea
Hon. Opponents for their courtesy throughout the
con-
test. The constituency had now got as representatives
three Protectionists, or rather, he Should Bay, three
quasi-Protectionists (Laughter and hisses) three
s—ad
r
would -if - they- could -be Protectionist& --.. (R
laughter and uproar.) But they had not got protection
itself, and they had no chance of getting -
Mr. Disraeli might tickle their
(Cheers
about fiscal revision and Com-
pensationwithspeeches, to the I,anded interest, and
future' —(Laughter)
ing in the r . --but met ing loom-'
ven-
ture to set httnanli against the of
h"esowoulhd. not
the people.— ,
(Applause.) Mr. Disraeli
. •.
mausged the -thing so well