The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-14 00:00:00

.ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
HAMPSHIRE (NORTH).
There-election of the Right Hon. Charles Shaw Le-
' ivre, Speaker of the late House of Commons, and Mel-
-, Portal, Esq., took place at the County-hall, Win-
' leer, on Tuesday at ten o'clock. There were few
;fors present beyond those residing in the city of
iichester, there not being certainly a score of tenant-
,.43 in the hall.
.!:he High Sheriff of the county (F. N,Jervoice, E,q.)
having opened the proceedings.
score, of Rotherfield Park, near Alton, pro-
posed the Right Hon. Shaw Lefevre as a fit and proper
person to represent the county in Parliament. Mr.
Scott said he had had the pleasure of doing so before;
bat this would be probably the last time. It had been
said that, in sending the Speaker to the House of Com-
mons, they were practically disfranchising the country
but such an argument was double-edged. In the House
of Commons he must be harmless to the party whose
policy he was opposed to, and the moment he left it he
would enter the House of Lords, where he may become
mischievous. It was a credit to the county that it sent
to the House of Commons a man so capable of control-
ling a body of between 600 and 700 gentlemen, many
of thorn of the first-rate ability, and whose resp-et and
este-9ra his Right Hon. Friend so eminently commanded.
lie (Mr. Scott) was proud of the honour of proposing a
man who was an honour to the county that returned
him.

Mr. H. J. MULCOCK, of Bratudean, seconded the no-
mination of Mr. Lefevere,
Sir WILLIA3I HEATHC;TE, Bart, of Elmsley Park,
proposed the late Member, Melville Portal, to
again represent them is Parliament.- Sir William,
after paying a very eloquent and elegant tribute
to the taleors and position of the Speaker, said if was
most necessary that public aim in this country should
attach themselves to some party or other in the State--
not to be a blind follower ..of fitly man or party; but a
Britieh statesman could not maintain a neutral positton.
He believed Mr. Portal would support the Government
of Lard Derby.—(Cheers and hisses.) That Nobifhculty.le. Lord
Hares the reins of power in Ub of great difficulty.
He was at the head of the strongest of the four parties
into which the House of Commons was at present
would h-rtainly prefer to
di-
vided, though he (Sir W. B.) ,
have seen his Government placed on a more extended
basis, and some names
of great weight and importance
added to it. But he hoped the Government would receive
fair play. Mr. Portal was well qualified to serve them
as a Member.
He resided amongthem, was a holder
of large landed property in the county, and would bring
his best abilities to
the consideration of the subjects
that must necessarily come before him, and which his
education and judgment would enable him to master.
Tho Hon. T. GAGE seconded the nomination of Mr.
Portal.
The Hens SHERIFF having inquired if any elector had
another candidate to propose. aed no reply being made,
he declared the Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre and
Melville Portal, Esq., to be duly elected for the northern
division of the county of Hants.
Mr, LEFEVRE, in returning thanks, said he was
grateful for the honour they had again conferred on him.
He had spent twenty years in the public service, but he
would not enlarge on the duties of the office he had
filled, which had been so well described by his Hon.
Friend Sir William Heathcote. He had endeavoured to
fulfil the duties of that office faithfully and impartially,
but they were quite aware that he had thereby been
withdrawn from the ordinary duties of a representative.
He could, however, recal their attention to the time
when he bad sought their support as lan independent
county member, when he had ventured to give his
opinion on that agitatiag topic the corn laws. Had the
plan he then proposed (an Bs. fixed duty), coupled with
the repeal of halt the malt tax, been adopted, much of
the distress and loss which the agricultural body had
sustained would have been spared them, and the adop-
tion of the present policy have been gradually brought
about without any "injurY to the community at
large or to the farmer. With respect to the future mea-
sures that he should recommend he would name the
abolition of the law of settlement. He thought that
every county should be compelled to adopt a rural police,
and that the cost of such force should be borne by the
public at large. The whole expense of the public pH-
sons and of prosecuting and punishing offenders should
be defrayed by the Government; but the most important
of all was the promotion of education, which he should
wish to see placed on a permanent basis by which the
rising generation of this country
may procure a sound
moral
education. The duties of
a Member of Parliament
must, he believed, in future be laborious and responsible,
but to whatever duty he may be called, he would endea-
vour Co give agood account of hisstewardship.—(Cheers.)
MELvii-LE PORTAL, Esq., asked their forbearance
while he thanked them for the high honour of again re-
tai-ling him—a strong proof of the confidence they re-
Puse<l iu him. He should have shrank from the task of
representing them had he not felt a strong desire to
Mete what talents he possessed in their cause. He had
presented himself to them three years ago, a compara-
tive stranger, when he had told them the strongest
security be could give for his honest intention was, that
he and his ancestors had lived upwards of two cen-
turies among them, that his interests were their in-
terests, and they possessed in common everything that
could bind man to mita. He could fearlessly ask
them to point to one question by which their interests
had been affected on which he had been absent, and from
the first day on which he entered the House of Commons
to this time he had endeavoured honestly and impar-
tially to do his duty. He could not expect that they
would go with him on every question, and he had had
the, misfortune to differ from them on one, and, indeed,
With some o his warmest friends, whose opinions he
highly valued. With respecr, to that question, it ap-
peared to him that the grew principles of eivl and reli-
gious liberty were endang-red by the measure of the Go-
vernment, however that measure, may have been neces•
vary by the insult offered by she Papal emissaries to the
Crowu o, this country. The vote he had given on that
oco,si na was the only one he hai incurred displeasure
by, but it he lost his seat through it that vote would
a:ways be a source of pleasure to him. His attachment
to tue Church of England was as warm and devoted as
Was that of any of his accusers. Ills attachment to the
Protestant Church of his forefathers was unabated. He
desired to see her more useful and her institutions re-
formed.—(Cheers.) They had that day given a verdict
upon his conduct, and he was proud to say it was in his
favour., and he crusted that they would not at a future
time xegret, the choice they had made.
s. A. vote of thanks to the High Sheriff having been cor-
al,Fdly given, the newly-elected Members were girded
with swords, &c., and the proceedings terminated.

ROPNORTH).
Yesterday SH
morning theseß trien(ds of Mr. W. Ormsby
Gore and Mr. J. W. Did, the former representatives for
the Northern Division of the county of Salop, were met
ist the railway terminus, Shrewibury, by a large number
of their supporters, who had arrived
o'clock by a special train from Oswest.
at half-past nine
a procession, they proceeded, headedaccompanied b Having formed
y a bn
accompanied by flags and banners, to the hustinad, and
gs, near
St. Chad's Church, the Court having been previously ad.
lounded to the place from the To ,vn•hall, which was not
arge enough to hold the number of persons who had as-
sembled. The usual preliminaries having been gone
through,
Sir R. HILL, in a highly eugolistic speech, proposed
Mr. Ormsby Gore as a fit and proper person
to repreavat the northern division of the county in Par-
liament

Mr., 0. X. MAINWARING seconded the nomination
Si A. V. CORBET then proposed, and Sir B. LEIGH-
TON seconded, Mr. J. Whitehall Dod.
7.:i0 other candidate having been proposed,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared the above-nun:id gentle-
%nen duly elected.
Mr. W. ORMSBY GORE then returned thanks, de-
elitiog himself strongly in favour of Protection and
Protestanti.m.
Mr. DOD addressed the electors in a similar strain.
A.Fter a vote of thanks to the Sheriff, the procession re-
Ito ned in the same order as it came, and the Members
entertained their friends respectively at the Lion and
the Riven.

MONOUHHIRE.
Captkin Somerset who i T
s nowS et the Cape of Glod
Elope, engaged !n bF9ittle M
with the IKArs, and Mr. OJ
teviut Swincerton Morgan, brother of Sir Charles Mor-
gan, of Tredegar Park, both of whom represented. this
connty in the late Parliament as Protectionists, will be
e-eleeted without opposition.

'ESTMORELAND COUgTY.
APPLEBY', MONDAL—The elocti4
She county Westmoreland took place to-day.
,n of gernbers for
A. W. RASELL proposed the Hon. Gdunel Low-
e; seeoaded by Mr. ft-TILL.
Virms 3N of li.nd v d Colonel Thor:Op-
tion- Ur. tissey'seconded4. P."
The
The p eding 4 vvere very orderl
%rim Nienlhers Were refereed
lie supporters
of the Derby ktioiltry.
yw.ithout opposition

WORCESTERSHIRE (EAST).
Yesterday (Tuesodfayv)vothe election of the eastern divi-
tion of the county
roaster took place at Droit-
svich. The candidatelfinisteriarst, and lirs were
the
Ron.eatahl
Rushout,
CaPtaixi Rushout ve;ej. li;
H. Foley, Liberal'
nominated by Mr. JAstus TAT..
'Lou, of Moseley Hall, air seconded by Mr. C. Nom, of
Bell Flail.
DumMr. Foley was nominated b 7 Mr E HOLLAND, of
ableton. and secondc d hy
before J:c E.
Slr. F. WOODWARD said before it vilAildeccEi.dad to pr
-rose a third candidate, Le would ask Mr. Foley whether
he would vote for a>3• compensative measures to the
agricultural interest?
Mr. FOLEY declined to make any pledge.
The Bias SHERIFF having declared Captain Rushout
And Ur. Foley atily elected, the two candidates respec-
tively addressed. the electors, thanking them for the
lacraour which Lad been done them.

SOMERSET (WEST).
The „,,y,:ination of two knights to serve in Parliament
Ttorithe W extern Division of the County of Some-set,
I,ZzojEsr.e yesterday, under the presidency of the High
of the coun:Y- There WAS no opposition.
Ivh,t. J. WOOD propossd fir. Charles Aaron llooiy
Ny ?V 3, Olnded by Mr. G. HARBIN.
Goreroposed for re-election Mr. William
20,,ri0-sZsa. lAngtOn, which was seconded by
No othq
The 11;a candidate
was proposed, and
Than SHERIFF declared Messrs. C. A. Moody
41141 . 11- Gore
She Western Div.L3egtoo duly elected to represent
Xarl3amen 61°'1 of the county of Somerset in
Roth candidates returned thanks.

NORTHUMBERLAND
The nomination tookplace (SOUTH).
•ttezham, in the presence
se
Yesterday in a field near
/erg thousand persons.