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JULY 91
1852.

' ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND.
The nomination of candidates for the Northern Division of
Northumberland in the Commons' House of parliament took
place on Monday last, in the market-place, in front of the
Town-hall' at Alnwick, where a- spacious and substantial
hustings had been erected. The Under-Sheriff; H. W. Fen-
wick, Esq., presided; and the Various candidates, accom-
panied by their most influential supporters, having taken
their places on the hustings, Sit. George Grey, Bart., stand-
ing on the right of the sheriff, and Lord Ossulston and Lord
Loraine on the left, precisely at ten in the forenoon the
proceedings were commenced, many thotlsands of parsons
having by that time assembled as spectators.
Amongst the supporters' of 'Sir- George Grey upon the
hustings we observed—Sir Walter Trevelyan, aßart., J. P.
Selby, Esq., of Twizell House, D. Robertson, Esq., Lady-
kirk, William Smart, Esq., Trewhitt' House. P. Selby, Esq.,
Swansfield, William Grey, Esq., East Bolton, G. G. Win..
drington, Newton Hall, Hon: F. W. Grey, Howick Grange,
thou. H C. Grey, Rev. R.- W. Goodenough, Rev. Percy
Gilpin. Elsdon, Rev. G. Rooke, Embleton. Rev. T: Ilder-
ton, Felton. George Grey, Esq., 'Milltield, Captain Mier-
tan, W. Woodman, Esq.,'. J: A. Wilson, Esl., Ralph.
Carr, Esq. licdgEly, Colonel' Bigge, Linden, E.
Esq.. Arthur Bigge, Esq., Charles ' Otter; Esq., Richard
Thompson,, Esq., Stony Hills,- R. Compton, Esq.,
J. C. Weddell, Esq. G. MilVairi, Esq., Dr. 'Wilson, It.
Morton, 01.,' A. R. Esq.,
Esq J. Grey,' Esq., Ralph
Walters, Esq.-, W. Lambert; E'sq., the Mayor of New-
castle, _Robert De Lisle, Esq., Rev. D. Donaldson, Rev. J.
Walker,-Rev; Lowe. A. Charlton, Esq., T. D.Seiby,
H. D. Selby, Esq., E. Thew, Esq., Jos. Forster, Esq., Hon.
H. F. -Howard, Edward: Stamp, Esq., E. Storey, Esq., Ele-
law, --Loquiur, Esq.
C, W. ORD, Esq., of Nutmykirk, having proposed Lord
Ossfllsron, whose nomination Vi- seconded by BRYAN Bun-
OLL, Esq., . • •

• Sir W. TREVELYAN stood forwareausid loud cheers. He
phi he considered it a great honour to stand there to nomi-
-pate the Right Hon. Sir George Grey as a most fit repreeen-
intive for this division of Northumberlanci.—(Cheers.) He
need not, he was sure, enlarge on the merits of the Right
Hon. Baronet as their representative. Those merits were
well known. For many years he had been the able advocate
of all the most useful and important measures which
had been - brought before the House of Commons.
which, measures,
h e
needand ,hardlyth at policy,s
a y w any h
He had been always ready at his post to advocate those
aettaemttepntded with h
to revetrsee
would
greatest calamity to this country.—(Loud cheers.) And
these were measures which, he was sure, came home to the
hearts of most present; they • were measures which had
brought prosperity and happiness to the hemes of all classes
—and to the landowners amongst others, as well as to the
labourer. Thus much he could safely assert of those mea-
sures; and he confidently trusted that the returns made by
the constituencies of the country generally would effectually
prevent any such calamity-as the reversal of these measures.
—(Cheers.) He knew that there • was a division in the
Tory camp on this subject; and, with their leave, he would
read the opinipne—or be ought to say one of the last opinions
of the supporters of the present Government upon this sub-
jeet.—(Laughter.) At the election for one of the divisions
of Devonshire, a Right Hon. Baronet, an honest man,
and a supporter of the Government, was asked
if he would not vote for a re-imposition of the
corn-laws, - if such a measure was proposed, di-
rectly or indirectly. His answer was this : He said, a verdict
on this question had been solemnly given by the country,
after many, many years' consideration ; and he was not the
man to dispute that verdict, nor was he aware that such a
man was to-be found, unless it was in some one who had
escaped from a lunatic asylum.—(Cheers and laughter.)
He (Sir Walter) trusted they would guard against such
escapes, and that this division of the county would once
more do their duty by returning Sir George Grey at the
bead of the poll.—(Cheers.) He concluded by nominating
Sir George Grey as a most fit representative for that divi-
sion of the county. (Loud cheers.)
P. J. SELRy, Esq., briefly seconded the nomination,
calling attention to the public life of Sir George Grey, as
a triumphant proof of his fitness to represent them, and,
of his having fulfilled the promises which he made to them
when they last elected him.
Oswin CREsSWELL, Esq., then proposed Lord Lovaine;
and his proposition having been seconded by JoRN COOK-
SON, Esq., the candidates addressed the meeting in the order
in which they bad been proposed.
Sir GEoRGE GREY on standing forward to address the as-
semblage' was greeted with loud and prolonged cheers. He
addressed the meeting nearly as follows:—Gentlemen,
sincerely thank you for the cordial and gratifying reception
which I have this day had at your hands.—(Cheers.) I
know that amongst this goodly assemblage of Northumbrians
there are many who do not possess the right to vote for
Members of Parliament; but let me tell you this, that I prize
highly the good-will, the attachment, and the hearty good
wishes of those who, though they may not be able to record
a vote at the poll, are yet, from the increase of their daily
comforts, degrees of testifying their appreciation of that
policy of which I have always been the humble, but the
consistent advocate—that policy which, on every occasion on
which I have met you, I have recommended,- as identified
with your best interests—and that policy. let me add, which
if you return me again to Parliament, I an still prepared
again to-maintain and adhere to.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
during the course of my canvass, and up to the time
when I came into Alnwick_ this morning, I did not
know whether I was to meet my noble opponents as
Protectionists or Free-traders.— (A laugh.) There has
been so much shuffling and evasion upon this question
—so 'much talk about the farmer's friend in one
direction, and so much about the labourer's friend and
the big loaf in another, that I did not know, I say, whether
I was coming to-day to meet a Protectionist opponent or a
repentant sinner, converted, though late, to the advocacy of
free trade.— (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I heartily congratulate
you on the fact which is now beyond dispute, of the late,
though I doubt not, the sincere repentance of my noble friend
Lord Ossulston.—(Cheers.) He has added one to that
goodly list of funeral orations over a departed friend--
(Laughter)---which through the length and breadth of the
country we have lately heard from candidates professing an
unbounded confidence In Lord Derby's Administration.--
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, all that I could extract from the ad-
dress of my Noble Friends was, that they were confiding
supporters of Lord Derby and Lord Derby's Government.
I accordingly came here prepared to ask them whether they
were prepared to support the Protectionist Lord Derby of
1851, pledged if ever in office to attempt are-imposition of the
duty on corn, or of Lord Derby the Free-trader, who through
his nearest relation, Lord Stanley, who has lately had to meet
his 'constituents, proclaims, that a return to protection is
absolutely impossible.-_(Hisses from the supporters of Lords
Lovaine and Ossulston.) Gentlemen (addressin the oppo-
site sida of the hustings), I am really surprised that this sen-
timent should meet with the slightest disapprobation for I
was stating, not opinions of my own, but opinions of the son
of the Prime' Minister; and I see that your confidence in the
Government is evaporating alreadye—(Clieers and laughter)
and that von cannot even bear to hear that they have
abandoned that which, during five or six years of opposition,
they-have sedulously maintained.(Loud cheers.l
e Gentle-
men, my friend, Mr. Ord, has alluded to Lord to
ssuLston as
the farmer's friend. Now, I wish' he had defined what he
meant by the farmer's friend. I believe that the true friend
of the farmer is `the man who dares to tell him the truth--
-(Cheers) —and not the man who panders to delusion, or
endeavours to induce you to follow and expect what is now
admitted to be a phantom—e(Lood cheers.) Gentlemen, I
have always told you—l said it on these hustings five
years
ago, and I have said it wherever I have, in agricultural meet-
ings or elsewhere, met any large portion of my constituents
(and always happy have I been to meet them, and I thank
them sincerely for their kind reception of me)-1 have al-
ways held, I say, that the true interest of the farmers con..
sisted, not in following what is utterly
impracticable, but in
procuring equitable arrangements as to their rents, and ap.
plying their energies to increase the production of the soil,
and not by seeking through Acts of Parliament, to raise the
price of corn, or, in other words, to raise the price of
the
people's sustenance.—(Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, I am
happy to learn that my friend Lord Ossulston is also now of
that opinion,-and I hope that those electors who have made
their vote to depend upon the fact will remember that ne
noble opponent has told you, that the Government, of which
he is a pledged supporter,olo not intend the re-imposition of
the corn-laws.' There are those who have said their vote.,
will depend on that fact—that they having been honest and
sincere Protectionists would vote for a candidate who would
manfully stand up for protection, but if they did not find
such a- a man they would vote for me.—(Loud cheers.)
n_nne abandonment .of Drametian does not rest upon 140,4
Derby's statement alone.. It is true she Cha.aeoltor of the
Duchy of Lir:master, in addressing his constituents said, -yr,"
the innocence of his heart that the Government—
intention of abandoning
protection.. We find Mr. }lorries
also declaring to his
George Grey replied).coltstiistuents—(Hisses, to which Sir
hardly possible to advert to anything said
extraordinary, it seems
the present Government without" thatsal' by members of •
statement
with disapprobation from the ' s meetiny g
Friends. We have had, Mr. 'terries,
say,
against attempting the re-imposition of stile corn-laws,
Cave had at the same time, Mr. Henley—and there .B.n„,- e
believe, a more shrewd man in the House of Comie"n
adopting an illustration from 'Lord Palmerston, thou
perhaps, so cleverly applying it as my Noble Frietid not,
saying that it would, be easier to make the Thames'flancl
back to its resources. than to bring back Protect.:4"7
Indeed, were it not for the vague and misty Meng lon.
sometimes made use of by the Chancellor of the Eeehasge
and others, no man would suppose that any such lateen"; er
existed on the part of the Government. The question, which
the question of the elections, has been settled, rfinci to be
ticipation. Here, at least, we are not called upon' 1' n.n.
cide between protection and free-trade. Unless ure.v. !an-
Friend Lord Levaine, who bas not addressed oble
yo,,J
contradict Lord Ossulston, we are all equally Free-traders,
I therefore come on an equal feoting with my noble 'r •
oppo-
nents; and, feeling I have done nothing to render me_
worthy of the confidence which your ep_osed in me in lou.
7,
rrely upon your support again; ad I trust that b,„
independent efforts I shall be placed in tile same
po'''tion
which by your suffrages I have occupied. hitherto._ (Lou
t(li
cheers.) I am not now going to enter into any statistical
specimens of tue benefits which have followed. from free trade.
There is not a man before me who does not in his own fa‘tral .
enjoy a portion of those benefits, and I am confident that
there would be
this county were polled throughout, a decided
majority in favour of the maintenance of that sYstein. Bet
then we are told in ambiguous language, by Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer,' that there is something
" .00min
in. the future"—that there is something which thge
Government may hereafter do, which will benefit the farmers_
and that this something is to consist of a revision or re-ae:
j ustment of taxation. I say, ,however, you ought to know
what the eatufe of those measures are before you
give Your
confidence to the 'Ministers who contemplate them. you
ought to know what this mysterious " something" is -which
they promise you (Cheers.) It is veiled in the same im-
penetrable mist in which the Government base hitherto
•
succeeded in shrouding all their intentions. Darn g the last
session, they said; we are in a decided minerity inthe House,
and therefore ".we cannot be expected to briig forward
thole measures of interest to the country, which we shall be
prepared to bring'forward the new Parlianent." But
surely (continued Sir in
when we are. not on the
hustings, and'
,George),
when yeti are called up na to perform that
great and most im
your ititerests, and PeiPei Oltapt duty of choosing m to repro-
sentnlv but to .ake part 'in
all those deliberatiai)s not yours 0
intents of this
eingh.te, empire,—surely et which affect t
time e
as ths, we ought
to .know what 'tire .te such a
and what be policy of
the wen Who seek 3o e principles. .
our suffrages,One word t tllO tenant

farmers in reference to this propoaed re-aljustment of taxa-
tion. Let me warn them not to be led
may with a cry 01
that nature. Let them take care that fiat matter be not too
narrowly looked into—that the exemptims whiCh already
exist in favour of agriculture are not assaied ; for without r.T.
ference to the income-tax which presses dike upon all—it
may turn out that the vaunted re-adjustment may be more
likely to leave you more heavily burdetpedthat at present.—
(Cheers and disapprobation.) But this re-adjustment of
taxation is only another teat taken out of the book Of
their opponents. Sir R. Peel advocated tie same, and it is
from that the free-trade policy has been established—
(Cheers)—and that those barriers have leen broken down
which for a long time were placed between the wants of the
people and that supply which a bountiful Providence has
provided for them from all the nations d the earth.—
(Applause.) Gentlemen, I hope my Noble Friend will
be required to promise you, the farmers of Northumber-
land, - some advantage clearly defined, before you give,
your vote in order to displace me. I find, gentlemen, that
the issue is now attempted to be shifted. It is not now to be
between free trade and protection,—(Beer, hear.) The
proposer of my Noble Friend, Lord Ossalston has said—and
I sins ebliged to him for it7-that in my private capacity he
respects ine, but that in my political capacity the Constitu-
tion may not- be safe if you return me to Parliament.. I see
before me a banner bewail* the colours of my Noble Oppo-
nent, an inscription—" Our glorious Constitution, may it
never be polled down;"—anti to that 'sentiment I most hear-
tily respond, I believe lam as ardent a friend of the Con-.
stitution as my Noble Opponent can be, and, judgicg of the
future by what .my Parliamentary career, and that of those
with wham' I have acted for the past has been, I leave you
to consider whether.or not this charge has any foundation.—
George Grey was obliged (Cheers.) [At this stage 'of the proceedings an exceedingly
heavy shower of rain came on, and' the greater portion of
thhetere
na, e
been obliged to go hastily off to take
s
t ,Siri n g having GeoGeo
to break off his
discourse.' The shoWer having gone off in about ten
minutes, hoWeyer, the people returned, and the Right
Honourable _ Baronet proceeded ass followse.--4---Oentle-
rinse, he continued, I regret for your sakes the tempo-
rary interruption which has been,caused in your proceedings.
I hope, my friend, Lord Lovaine
el
, may be favoured with sun-
shine during the time he may address you. I musl, how-
ever, ada a few words in defence of myself against the
charges brought against me, though I am almbst ashamed to
repeat charges so unfounded. It. has been said by my friend
Mr. Ord, in proposing Lord Ossulston, that though as a
private character I was unexceptionable, yet in my public
capacity I am prepared to ally myself with men who would
conspire to fait down the constitution and to undermine the
monarchy under which we so happily live, and to establish a
republic in its place. To all the ohargesof this nature which
have to-day been brought against me I make no denial and
no assertion ; but I appeal to a public life of twenty years—
to my life as a Member of Parliament and &Minister of the
Crown ; and I ask yon •if I have not done as much to up-
hold those institutions as my Noble Friend Lord Oasulston,
who has brought those charges . against me—(Hear,
hear) -if I have not always sought to uphold the
constitution and promote order and good govern-
ment tinder it—and whether we had not the satisfaction of
leaving to our. successors in office, the present Administra-
tion, a people contented, happy, and prosperous, and firmly
attached to the Sovereign under whose benignant sway we
live.—(Loud cheers.) If, by these charges, it is meant that
you should desire to send a Member to Parliament who will
say no to every proposition for extending popular rights and
franchises, then I say lam not your man.—(Cheers.) I
would not go to Parliament for any constituency on such a
principle; ten thousand times rather would I retire at once
into the ranks of private life, than go to Parliament as a mere
drag upon the wheel of progress. I have during my public
life given my careful and honest advocacy to measures and
principles which I believe have conduced eminently
to the peace, the prosperity, and the good go-
vernment of the country, and the consequent hap-
piness and contentment of our population; and I
say I am prepared to consider from time to time whether
popular rights and popular franchises may not be extended
within the strict limits of the Constitution, and in propor-
tion to the growing intelligence and growing education of
the people —(Cheers.) And I ask my Noble Friend, if he
can, to put his finger upon any act of mine, either as a Mi-
nister of the Crown or a Member of Parliament, which bears
out the assertion made concerning me; let my Noble Friend
do so, and I will retire at once from the contest, for I feel I
should then be wholly unworthy to present myself to your
notice. My public life is before you. I stand before you to
give no new promises, no new pledge. My public life, gen-
tlemen, from its beginning to its end, is before you. In a
large constituency like this it cannot be that all of you have
agreed with every vote I have given or with the sentiments
I haVe expressed on every particular occasion; but I appeal
to my general policy. Look at the course I have generally
and uniformly carried out, and compare it with that of the
party which my Noble Friend supports ; and if you still share
those principles which since I firstaivealed to you I have pro-
fessed, then let those principles be maintained on your part;
then only, do I' ask for your support. I now turn to that
formidable bugbear which, from time to time, as I have
been upon the track of my Noble Friends in this contest, I
have found has been left associated with the names of Cob-
den and. Bright in connexion with myself in order to lead
you to displace me and to elect one of those Noble Lords in
my place. And here again I ask you not to be led away by
assertions, not to be frightened by a bugbear. I ask you
again to look at my conduct. I dare say you have already
watched it, and you will be able to judge whether my course
in reference to those respected representatives of the largest
constituencies in the country, all those persevering advocates
of the free-trade policy, has been such as to lessen my claim
on your support; and you will have observed that it has been
my misfortune repeatedly to oppose them in those opinions
which they have felt it their duty to support in the House
of Commons.—(Cheers.) There is no alliance between me
and any other man. be he Mr. Cobden or any one else, than
an alliance of principle. If I find a man agrees with me in
an important principle, I rejoice to act with him.--(Cheers.)
I rejoice all the more if I find that be has been se-
lected as the representative of the largest constituency
in the empire; and whatever constituency a man may
been sent by, if I find him dangerous or unsafe 1 shall
always, offer him my determined opposition. Why, sir, en
the
whole speech of my Noble Friend to-day - has been of in
not measures. And indeed, he supports a Government
n
which have no measures except those which they have
borrowed from their predecessors —every one of that goodly
list of measures which has been paraded through the coun-
try, as coming from this able, this efficient, and this strong
Government, having been bequeathed to them in ani.ad-
vanced state of preparation by their predecessors, of whom
I was one, and, as such, I. am bound to say I regard them
~,,
as good measures, with the exception of the Militia Bill,
the efficiency of which remains to be tested. I ask yen ' .
support men who take no pains to ehroud their intention:.
You ought to know what principle Will guide Your repren ,
tatives before you tender them your support. Your
myself,
am prepared, ifyou send me again to Parliament, to advocate
the same principles which I have hitherto advocated and,,
acted upon. With regard to a re-adjustment of taxation, 1,
may be a most important subject, and it might be mostbs
be-
neficial; but it is one which has been acted upon
the preceding Governments. But if that prophecy walellicesp.
Chancellor of *he Exchequer so lately indulged in at
port, in an after-dinner speech,—and from it, as such, we
,
may be allowed to make some discount,—if the Governmen ::
I say, after they have left us in total ignorance as to theiric
tentions so long, probably because they were in ignorancete
themselves what they should do--(A laugh)—if, if
the
flowing and glowing language of the Chancellor o
1
Exchequer, they after all succeed, as he anticilns'sa.
"bringing forward measures which will be hailed with,l._,„
tisfaction by the whole of the great interests of the empire,
there is no man who will gfve them heartier suPPeert_m me
I shall; any measures for this object shall receive from
measures
a candid and fair consideration, and to such
.hm:able
I shall 'be glad to give nay adhesion and the
support, if I really believe them benefit
calculated to rally,
cgricul urists and the interests of the country
g:etitken
But I ask you not to suppose that burdens should
from the shoulders of ene man to be placed on the shoulders
islation,
of another. I would abandon all attempts at class
sicountry
and have you to seek in the general prosperity of the.
cheers.)
your own future happiness and prosperity.—(Loua
ilent s
Gentlemen, this Government, although it has beerns
. ossuisa.
to its measures—and although the Noble Lord n
Loed their
ton) has not lifted the yell which has hitherto siren, d to you by
future policy, yet. this Government is proclamie . ever ex-
Lord Ossulston as the strongest Government
the
fisted, and is contrasted with the feebleness of Government
of which I had the honour to be a member, and as a
to carry out
that feebleness it is stated they were unable t do we find
their own principles and measures. Yet wile -
u ernment
4 a OV
in the .resent Administration ? Ni g, here .9- the princple
which, it it. has any prunapie en its vwu, it was (Ace it has of protection, yet before it is well installed init pow •tancla
been convened to abandon that principle, aendsecrecy which
before you with claims supported the iees, which I
it maintains, and by vague and niceindePruraointment and
will venture to predict will end only in disaPcP,rd more as to
mortification.—(Cheers and hisses.) One we and constitu-
our opponents' talk of maintaining the ON°
then talk of main-
tion, and then I will take leave. When aii of the Ex-
taining the constitution,—when the Cllanae a the existence
chequer, in another after-dinner meeting, say maintenance of
of the present Government is essential to tidef their principles
the constitution, I naturrally reply, that 1
in thwarting the
had been successful. if they had succeeded
had succeeded
it tbeY
benevolent policy of Sir Robert Peel,
con, in recoverite nt
by their various motions while in opP°9",lreate discon ng
that policy, it would have done more to than any man in
and dissatisfaction throughout the couat -rY
'ys, let me tell
this assemblage can imagine, —(Cheers.)
eeurope was convulsed
you this, that in the year 1848, whene a- if the.great body of
in a manner we all too well remenwee injustice of the
the, people had been left to complain oftso patriotism were
corn-laws, I doubt when their loyalty
appealed to as they were then, whetherit
wag the happi-
been that noble response which
country in 1848 to
nese of the Government of
tlii bee were respected by
receive from a people who felt their whist, _
d done all it could to
the Legislature, and that Parliament nets of Providence.
render available to them the beneficent
_,a.the people of this
It was this policy, I say, which indace patriotism, and to
county to respond to the appeal theirto
stitution ; and we were
rally round the throne and the CO
,_n.ouiere to the defeat of
indebted to the failure of the Peotect
spectacle which the
their policy and plans, for the noble.land then exhibited to
E g re also with regard -to
loyal and contented people of u ,
Europe and the world. One word ino d
to by my Noble -
allude
one of those political changes ,em of secret voting. I
Friend, namely, the ballot or a 53'9'
I do that the advantages
will only say this, that, thinking asboh greatly exaggerated,
and dangers of int system are
and not being forward to
and doubtiog as I do its effieien arsons amongst us, who ex-
ado.pt it, I must say that those P
coercion over the honest
erciee an undue iufluence
and eton. here cried out " Name,
voters_.[ Mr. Collingwood, of Clanton. George continued.] name, and and no insiimatioas," and air George e
e leeo hove exercised
I am asked to name hose
undue Inflitence over voters, anti Si who have created on their
e
said their name
part a deman had almostd for the ballot. ) Bat I could name honour-
legion.— (Cheers and hisse•f• who have abstained from
able exceptions to that—of men who purpose of the
exercising their influence for ` rivilege which the depriving
•
consta
elector of the. free exercise of that P
.e
I am haPP3• to lied that these
tution places in his hand. -thethey surest way to
practices are unpopular; ,-- irresistible• b ,
ballot 1 any Govern-
meat. the demand for the ~,(,,, . , e.rn-
ellence is 111"aaantlY denied
ment. I reoice that the s .would have •
those voters id me they
ee voters who have to
their You know how we are tied" _1
votes, but have said" d ' el" of Mr. Coll'
hope after he • the indignant eta _
t._
se ingwood
and his friendsaring
e in feel released from h 11: Stlppose,-,
~ the w i my favour. - -
d vote only in ~ _
Previ, Daus ehli t'
ga ions and vote
Onnoeite Side of the hustings)
Mt. C94lNowoo (
D frora

—I still call up
name the individual
ing observations. you, sir, to name those individuals, and to
ss
ILEY—Mr. Collinga-ood has asked me to
make no insinunan'
nail to Whom I have referred in my preced-
stated, to namaecteaAiy.
to,,
Name!")
true.—(Cheers and disapprobation, and
Sir GEORGE (tIOnS.---(Much excitement.).
awnhostth erl cryssyo f
can do in fay
pninion whrernice;ll
individual. I only wish to say that
and I tell Mr. Colli speak in the presence of men who know
in this way do more than any argu-
mentsour of those who advocate the ballot;
would scout me from this
I refuse, for the 'reasons rhave
ili
I ood, if he calls upon rhe to repudiate
the statement, thatn
opened,
men who have
speak in the presence of men who
they know it to be true hustings if I repudiated it, because
you
ranch•— (Cheers and hisses.) Gentlemen,
members in
inl atliliustdecdojnussttitnnoewbc)t.ostuhde
ency between individual
as they do in the general
ofrepresentative.time that
I am. not going now,
must exist iii a large constitu-
Idiwfft nne.oetsdoeftaoi
their representative, agreeing
policy of their
after
proceedingsthe
to any measure. I
may to aldress myself particularly
say this, however, that I feel
deeply grateful to those-who,
notwithstanding their ob-
jection to certain measures
supported
rously tendered me their supporby me, have gene-
willing.to magenerous and a t, and shown that they-are
charitable allowance for the
views which from a conscientious feeling I have taken.—
(Cheers.) Again, therefore, I tender
cere, my hearty and cordial thankser here to-day my sin-
supported me before, and who are Prepared to those who have
to do so again,
and again to show their attachment
principles which it is my glory to
.to those enlightened
if I detain:you longer lam afraid I maintain. (Gentlemen,
shall fall under the cen-
sure of my friend, Mr. Ord, who recommended Lord Ossuls-
ton, because he thought a silent member was the best mem
bee that yon could choose.—._(Cheers
a -
only say to this that from the nositionil l: laughter.) I can
have occupied, it has
been my duty to address the house frequently. If you think
I have close so too often—if you thiuk Iha -
much" No, ho,") —I must be allowed to ve spoken too
have a nurciseasier Site l. only came in saY Plat 1 shouleL
von make that a condition
for divisions and if
of your member, I should' be
happy to pair off with my friend Lord Ossul t
leave the s (conductedon—Lauter
and cheers) - and to . debating to be
by others, whose constituents wish the voices of their
sentatives to be occasionally heard. Without. some exreppro-
sion of your opinion to that effect, however, I shall still rfeese-1
it my duty on certain occasions to exert myself in advocacy
of those principles which I believe to be conducive to your
interests—l shall still, notwithstanding, what has been said
by my friend ivir• pod, feel it my duty, when the Muse of
Commons will listen to me, to address them on subjects of
myreat impartanee..-.(Cheers.) Gentlemen, as I have saidm in
address, I know the powerful influences which are
mar-
rayed against me. I counted the cost when I entered into
this contest
"was aware I should have to contend against
;
a most formidable opposition, and I should gladly, if I had
wn ease, have lett the field. But, gentlemen,
consulted my o last
so was I opposed at the l election ; yet you placed me J
triumphantly at the head of the poll, and I felt if I now de- :
serted you, you alight not be able to find another candidate
—(Cheers)—that you might not have been able to find a
man who, professing the same principles,: would have
offered himself to your acceptance, and whom I should
gladly in my individual capacity have supported. I felt,
therefore, that it was my duty to offer the free and inde-
pendent electors an opportunity to resist the invasion of the
independence of the county, and to endeavour to deprive
the liberal portion of the constituency of any voice in its re-
presentation.--(Loud cheering.) I stand here th f
presentation.—(L , ere ore, to
tight not my battle, but your own. If you think I can serve
you usefully—ifyou think I have done nothing to forfeit
your support, then I ask you to record your votes in my
favour. On the independent electors of this division I
throw myself—l ask not their support on personal grounds,
but I hope I shall again have the distinguished honour of
receiving a renewal of your confidence. I trust you will
not undervalue the opposition we shall have to meet with
in combining against that combination of my noble friends
by which I am opposed ; and that yon will
therefore record your votes early, firmly, and in as many
plampers as yon can —{Cheers.) If, on the other hand,
after hearing the opinions of the respective candidates, you
are satisfied that I am an unfit man any longer to be trusted
.with a share of the representation of this division,—if you
think I am a dangerous man to the Constitution, I won't
afterwards condescend to ask your support; I shall feel
somewhat mortified at the result, but I shall retire to the
ranks •of those I have tha honour to address with a grateful
recollection of past experience, with a conviction in my own
heart that I have endeavoured faithfully and efficiently to
discharge my duty, yet bowing to your decision with de-
ference. Gentlemen, I have now done my part. It remains
for you to do yours. Nothing is left for me except to thank
you for the attentive manner in which you have listened to
the imperfect observations—accidentally interrupted as they
have been—which I have had the pleasure of making. I
ask you again, if you agree with mein principle, and wish to
carry out those principles by means of a Liberal representa-
tive, to give me your hearty, your prompt, and your cordial
support, at the poll on Thursday next.—(Lbud cheering.)
Lord LOVAINE then addressed the meeting. ,
The show of hands was then taken.
The show of hands was, after some hesitation, giveri llc
the Under-Sheriff ('Mr. 11. W. Fenwick), in favour of lord
Lovaine and Lord Ossulston, an announcement which created
much surprise, and the justice of which was loudly dis-
sented from by the supporters of Sir George Grey. The de-
cision of the Under-Sheriff will be a • t ds PPrecia e wh en we
state.that he appeared with the " favours" &the two Lords.
A poll having been demanded by Sir W. Trevelyan, on the
part of Sir George Grey, the latter moved a vote of thanks
to the Under-Sheriff for presiding, which was seconded by
Lord Ossulston, and the further proceedings were adjourned
till Thursday at nine o'clock, when the polling booths will
be opened.

NORTHUMBERLAND (SOUTH).
DECLARATION OF THE POLL.-RIOTOUS PRO.

CEEDINGS AT HEXHABI.
The town of Hexham has been in a state of great excite
ment since Friday last. Mr. Liddell's committee rooms at
the Black Bull and the Sun Inn were beset on Saturday by
crowds of people, who insisted on that gentleman's colours
being withdrawn. • This demand not being complied with
the crowd threw volleys of stones, and the windows of both
men were broken. • The Newcastle police were then sent for,
and the appearance of about twenty of these officials armed
with cutlasses did not tend to allay he excitement. A col-
lision took place during the night; the police charged the
crowd, and used their staves pretty freely. Several heads
were bruised or broken.
The official declaration of the poll was as follows :
Beaumont
* •• .. 2,306
Liddell ... • •••• •
Ridley • •
2,132
... •.••.• • 2,033

BERKSHIRE,
ISEADING, TUESAY NIGHT.
The returns from the eight polling districts iDn
this county
have been received by the central committee at the Great
Western Hotel. The following is the final state of the
Vansittart
.. 1,737
Mr. Palmer
Lord B ... 1,703
arrington ... ..„ ... 1,637
Mr. Walter ... ... 155
The votes recorded on behalf of Mr. Walter cannot be
taken as a test of the strength of the Free-trade party in
this county, as a large number of electors refrained from re-
cording their votes owing to the demand for a poll having
been withdrawn by Mr. Walter's friends on account of that
geritletnan's name having been proposed to the constituency
without his knowledge or approval, and at so late an hour as
not to afford a fair opportunity of contesting the county on
the great question at issue.
The official
n Thursdayialodeclaration morning,will
be made by the Under-Sheriff,
at
The contest, we hear, has been carried on with much ex-
citement at Newbury, and, in the affrays that have occurred,
the polling-booths have been attacked and the Sheeiff 's
depnty injured by a set of ruffians. The timely interposi-
tpieornpeotfrattheed.local police prevented any serious mischief being

BUCKINGHAMSEIIRE.
SECOND DAY'S POLL.
The poll yesterday, possessed little excitement, and compa-
ratively few of the freeholders came up to register them-
selves. The close of the poll showed the following results:•—
Dupre ... 1,999
Disraeli 1,968
Cavendish ... ... 1,403
Lee ... ... 656
The number of electors on the register is 5,000 0r_6,000,
and it will be seen how few have voted.
At four o'clock Dr. LEE addressed a large assembly on
thy iktuaket.-utn, and ...nphined bitterly that the Whigs of
Cavendish had coalesced with the Disraeli and Du Pre Con-
servatives to overthrow him. He also stated that his own
friends had polled for Mr. Cavendish as well as himself. If
so, plumping for Lee would have left Cavendish in a sorry
figure on the poll.
Mr. Disraeli is expected to dine at the George to-night,
if he can get here in time, after attending the Cabinet
Council of to-day.
The poll will be officially declared before the end of the
week in the County Hall.