The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-26 00:00:00

MINORITY-NOES, 47.

Adair, R. Shaf to Greene, John Pilkington, James
Alcock, Thomas Hardcastle, J. A. Reynolds, John
Armstrong, Sir A. Heard, J. I. Robartes, T. J. A.
Bell, Jacob . Heywortb, L. Scobell, Captain
Bouverie, E. P. Hindley, C. Scully, Francis
Brotherton, J. Holland, Robert Scully, Vincent
Brown, H. Keating, Robert Smythe, George
Crawford, W. S. Keogh, William Smollett, A.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. Kershaw, James Sullivan, Michael
Douglas, Sir C. Lulea, William Tollemache, F. J.
Duff, James Meagher, Thomas Walmsley, Sir J.
Duke, Sir J. Mahon, O'Gorman Williams, John
Duncan, Viscount Mowatt, Francis Wood, Sir W. P.
Duncan, George Murphy, F. S. ,
Duncombe, T. Honeys, Sir 1). TELLERS.
Ellis, John O'Flaherty, Anthony Anstey, T. C.
Ewart, William Pechell, Sir G. Scholeffeld, W.

THE " COUNT OUT" OF LAST NIGHT.
The following Members were present when the House of
Commons was counted out last night:
Lord Robert Grosvenor Mr. D'Eyncourt
Mr. Sharman Crawford Mr. Hindley
Mr. Smith Child Mr. Lacy
Mr. Howell Gwyn Mr. G. A. Hamilton
Mr. Hayter Colonel Gilpin
Lord Duncan Mr. G. Greenall
Lord Dudley Stuart Colonel Thompson
Mr. T. Hobhouse Mr. Thornely
Mr. Anstey Mr. Meagher
Mr Scholetield Mr. V. Scully
Mr. Spooner Mr. O'Flaherty
Sir Joshua Walmsley Sir B. Bridges
Sir W. Page Wood Mr. Packe
Mr. S. Carter Mr. J. Greene
Mr.
. T. Duncombe Mr. H. Brown
Captain Schobell Mr. Grogan
The O'Gorman Mahon Mr. Tancred
Mr. W. Williams Captain Fordyce
Mr. John Williams Mr. J. Ellis.

THE CANTERBURY ELECTION.—COLO-
NEL ROM-ILLY AND MR. SMYTHE.
We bave been requested to publish the following
letter:—

TO THE ELECTORS OF CANTERBURY.
Gentlemen,—lnasmuch as Colonel Romilly has
thought proper to issue an address,am
re a"e whichta
atly I
compelled shall
stain from oharacterising," I
to follow him through the mazes of a difference which I
had hoped was at once and for ever at an end.
I had hoped so the more, because I had been led to
believe that our dispute terminated in the common for-
mality which Colonel Romilly and myself went through
on Friday last, for which I sincerely feel that an apology
is dee
to you, gentlemen, in the present temper of Bri-
tish opinion. But at least it was not my fault if British
ground on that occasion was profaned, and nothing but
the insuperable scruples of my gallant colleague " for
private and family reasons of his own" against an issue
abroad, prevented me from showing that deference to
the general mode of thinking in this country which I
feel that you have a right to exact.
At any rate, I am confident that you will approve of the
feeling in which I met my adversary's second half-way,
when, with honourable promptitude, he expressed his
anxiety to me on Friday morning that thenceforward,
throughout the contested election, all bad blood and all
ill-feeling might cease to exist.
Colonel Romilly, however, has since thought it expe-
dient to re-open the whole question. First of all by his
insisting upon the publication of " the minutes of a dif.
ference," to which Captain Vivian, on my part, was
strongly opposed, and to which he only, after long
delays and grave objections, finally consented; and, se-
condly, by the address now lying before me, which is
very imperfectly correct.
My gallant colleague states " that he had no commu-
nication with me previous to the election of 1850." I
never said that he had; but I asserted, what he does not
contradict, that I wrote to the chairman of the meeting
which introduced him, for the first time, to the electors
of Canterbury, calling upon all my friends to support
him. Colonel Romilly goes en to say, that " his being
then elected " was not, in his belief, owing to my sup-
port. I believe that it was so owing; and a reconcile-
ment between these two contrary beliefs is obviou.lls,y
impossible. I am glad, however, that Colonel Roan y
does not deny, if he somewhat ungraciously acknow-
ledges,t my assistance, in his phrase, " The fact of
support lam ready to admit." My gallant
support colleague
oa
goes on to state,—" On the subject of the nowapproach-
ingMr.
pch-
ing election I never had any formal interview with
Smythe." Here, again, I never contended
occasions, he
that he had.
"It is true that, having met me °
(Mr. Smythe) has originated conversationsattssentence sseveral
consists with me en
the subject." Now, the point of h
in the word which I have ventured to italicise.
against It is precisely my charge Colonel Romilly that
he did allow me to originate conversations
thersaetsieo:t
At any rate
on the coming
election. My spoken words were
it was under the hallucination that our coalition, as I
had heard nothing to the contrary, still subsisted, that,
directly after the certainty immediate . of an dissolution,
spoke to my colleague in,t,he sense of making imme-
diate and joint preparations.
Colonel Romilly remarks, very truly, that " Mr.
Smythe appeared to be annoyed, and expressed himself
warmly on the occasion;" but the gallant officer is under
a complete misapprehension when be continues—"but be
afLerwards distinctly admitted to me that I had acted
towards him fairly and openly in the matter." The
matter to which I alluded iu these expressions had n 9
reference whatever to Colonel Roinilly's general conduct
towards myself ; they were simply used in courteous ac-
kovsledgment of a letter which Culonel Romiliy had sent
to me, intimating his intention to hold a meeting of his
friends in Canterbury; and had I known that at that
meeting Sir William Somerville's name was to be pro-
posed, I certainly should not have complimented Colonel
Romilly either upon his openness or his frankness.
There is but one more point in my colleague's address
on which I desire to animadvert. Not, perhaps, with-
out an object, he seeks to impress upon your noi,nd.t%.st
lam animated by some spirit of " vengeance. tb%all
word he has carefully isolated from the context of
speech of the 17th.
But there is no one among you who doss not per-