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

NOTTINGHAM.

The electors of this important manufacturing commu-
nity assembled yesterday in their Town Hall to choose
representatives for the new Parliament. There were no
flags, bands of music, processions, or other party mani-
festations, while the retirement of Mr. Gisborne, one of
the Whig candidates, at the last moment, has tended
equally to knock down any excitement which the pro-
spect of a severe contest might have excited. Mr. Wal-
ter's friends mastered in great force in front of his hotel,
the George IV., shortly before ten o'clock, and accom-
pani.-qt him to the hustings. The other candidates—Mr.
Strut and Mr. Sturgeon—were also accompanied by
their supporters; and, singular to state, the uqual pre-
tornaF, which are generally in the most retired
constituencies gone through in dumb show, were com-
plied with by Mr. Ball, Vie sheriff', amid perfect order
and silence. As the proceedings advanced the conduct
of the assemblage became noisy and tumultuous, but all
the candidates were listened to very patiently.

Mr. HEMMING proposed Mr. Walter as al.; and pro-
per person to represent Nottingham in Parliament.
Mr. G. NEWHAM sece'lded the nominwiou.
Mr. PAGET proposed Mr. Strutt.
Alderman BIBKIN seconded the nomination of Mr.
Strutt,
Mr. LlEmm proposed Mr. Sturgeon.
Mr. BEEELcx seconded the nomination of Mr. Slur-
goon.
Mr. HURST proposed, and Mr. JAMES seconded, the
nomination of Sir G. Larpent.
Mr. WALTER addressed the electors at great length,
and was listened to with much attention.
Tho other candidates having addressed the electors,
The SHERIFF took the show of hand
is for each cand
Mi-
date successively, and declared it to be n favour of r.
Walter and Mr. Sturgeon. Scarcely. any bands were
shown for Sir George Larpent, and this
inuced much
laughter, which was increased by a man the body of
by great cheering.
the hall exclaiming, " Oh! Virhiggery s dead here."
The announcement was followed
A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Strutt, Sir
George Larpent's name being withdrawn from the con-
test.
On the proposition of Mr. WALTER, seconded by Mr.
STURGEON, vote of thanks was then accorded to the
sheriff, and the proceedings terminated.
The poll will open at the temporary booths in the
great market-place, at eight o'clock this day (Wednes-
day).

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and Captain Townshend.
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The usual formalities having been gone through,
Mr. E. B. I.IAmEL proposed Captain Townshend.
Mr. INGLE, of Wigginton, an eminent agriculturist,
seconded the nomination.
Mr. BRAMALL, in proposing Sir Robert Peel, said he
wag proposing the son of one of the greatest statesmen
that the world ever produced, and at the same time one
of the greatest benefactors with which this country was
ever blessed.

Mr. W. ROBINSON seconded the nomination, and ex-
pressed a hope that the commercial policy of the late Sir
Robert Peel might long be continued.
No other candidate being proposed, Captain Town-
shend and Sir Robert Peel were declared duly elected.
Captain TOWNSHEND acknowledged the honour con-
ferred upon him. He (Captain Townshend) was, and
ever had been, a free-trader. He wished that every
Catholic t i
tlsehdo,all the liberty to which he
w
should
dut enjoy
he(Captain Townshend) supported
the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill without hesitation.—
asen
(Cheers.) 11e thought the franchise might be
extended, and that a man who held a 51. house was as
mach entitled to the franchise as the man who occupied
a 10/. souse. The Gallant Captain expressed his oppo-
sition to any Militia Bill whatever. An increase of the
army would, in his opinion, be preferable to any militia
force. He (Captain Townsend) bad the highest opinion
wi
th
Lord Lord John Russell, and as he believed he would,
Lord Palmerston, be carried back to power, he should
support him if he pursued the same policy a 8 mole 9-
He (Captain Townsend) agreed with Sir 2:
Lot Derby,
Der'
0f
worth in his de-eription of tho character be eon.
and as for his Chanceller of the Exchequ
el., inciple—in
sidered him entirely destitute of p pr
political
fact—a political Mawworm. „12 loud cheers; and
Sir ROBERT PEEL was receivedhown,
peculiar position in
in the' first place alluded to
ictOrti in tho scene before
which, as one of the principal Honourable Baronet
him, he was then placfcleicb
of the last Parliament,
proceeded to givo a it
y . mania which during that
and to the revolu 5.
is of Europe, and de-
period overavrept
~I!`oir, of Louis Napoleon in France,
fended the usurptiti
, was elected by the voice of the
who he contenac be (Sir R. Peel) considered to be the
d which
people, an d_.(Cheers and disapprobation.) But in the
voice of GO
o revolutions to which ho had referred, ano-
midst °f. t-e • had occurred—he meant the discovery of
°Lotion
they rev
id fictds in California—and whi h c must ulti-
the go— believed, produce great social effects in this
telh he
r" ..., He defended the amendment of the naviga-
coun‘../ •
tier)
laws. In the winter of 1851 he supported the Ec-
clesiastical Titles Bill of Lord John Russell; and that
brought him (Sir R. Peel) to the Maynooth grant. He
bolieved that grant, intended by the late Sir Robert to
be perrnanmt, and he believed it would be harsh, unjust,
and impolitic, because of the intolerance of some eccle-
siastics to deny to Ireland the benefit of that parlia-
mentLry provision; and, moreover, so long as the Pro-
testant Chu: eh of that country was in receipt of ita pre-
sent large endowments, it would not be generous or just
to deprive the Roman Catholic people of the Maynooth
grant. Ele (Sir Robert) next advocated free trade, and
it Lord Derby attempted to re-impose a corn duty, he
would Shortly find himself in a very different position
to that which ho now occupied.—(Cheers.) The pre-
sent Government, he admitted, had done some good.
They had introduced a Bill for the Government of
New Zealand, which had met with approbation,
and law reforms, which had promised much good.
As regarded education, he admitted that ho was in
favour of a national system of secular education, free,
enlightened, and liberal.—(Cheers.) By this mega the

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people would be able to apprehend not only what was to
their own interests, but to the interests of the country,
It remained for the country to decide whether they
wished for an advancing or a reactionary policy. They
could not remain stationary.—(Cheers.) " Much," said
the Honourable Baronet, " had been said of the cheap-
ness of the necessities. To what was this attributable?
Free trade.—(Cheers.) By whom was that policy in-
augurated in Parliament? By my father."—(Great
cheering.) The Honourable Baronet concluded by ex-
pressing his devotion to the interests of the borough of
Tamworth, and then withdrew.

A vote of thanks to the Mayor was then carried, and
the crowd dispersed.

WINDSOR.

Yr.sterday morning, at eleven o'clock, the nominaion
for tte eleeti4 n of two members to serve for this bo-
rough teak place in the market-place, beneath the
-Town-hill, t.nd long before the proceedings commenerd
it was densely crowded with as noisy but at the samo
time as food-tempered a sat of partisans as ever nar.,t. In
feet, to such .a pitch did zeal for their respective friends
carry thorn, that the cheers, groans, and j,:kcs•they in-
dulged 10, completed drowned the voices ut alt the
speakers, so that those who stood close beneath them
could only each a few 6isjointed sentences.
The sta!utory provisions having been read by the
Town and the Mayor haring stated the business
iorvC ark,
iellll they
were met,

Mr. JOHN bLADE, amidst great chepring, proposed
and Mr. HENRY DARVILL seconded the nomination of,
ec
Mr. P. Greutell to serve in the ensuing Parliament,
and both staid that tbey had no doubt but that be
I would to-morrow be placed at the head of the poll,
' juil4ing as they did from the result of hii2srlaicsecntthe nitios;
el ou
Lord Charles Viellvsley, t, a. then,
deafening )eils from one party, and cheers from the
other, proposed and teconcled by two gentlemen. whose
names we ur deratoOd to be Messrs. PEARL and JEFFRY
Mr. HARRIS then proposed, and Mr. EXLYN seconded
Mr. Ricardo.
Mr. WILLIAM Moss proposed a fourth candidate in
the person ut Captain Bulkley, who, as a Liberal and
resident in the town, was best suited to forward the
interests of the borough, and represent the views of the
electors.

Mr. JOHN LAWRENCE, in seconding the nomination,
alluded to the exertions made by Captain Balkley in get-
ting the great agricultural show held at Windsor, a cir-
cumstance alone sufficient to prove him a staunch friend
to the interests of the borough.
Mr. GRENFELL, amidst great cheering, briefly re turned
thanks for the honour that had been dose him, and
hoped the electors would renew the confidence that they
had already placed in him. He should not trouble them
with any reiteration of his views. There could be no
mistake about his principles, and upon free trade he
thought his acts were enough to speak for him.
Lord CHARLES WELLESLEY then came forward, and
his appearance was the signal for an outburst with re-
doubled force of the noise that greeted those who pro-
posed and seconded him. After some prefatory remarks,
he went on to defend the policy of the Maynooth grant,
which was made in a true spirit of amity. Since then
the recent conduct of certain members of the Catholic
clergy had rendered it necessary that a full
in and most
searching inquiry should be made, to ascertain, if pos-
sible, whether recent aggression had any way arisen
out of the grant that had been made. He was favour-
able to Government grants to religious bodies for educa-
tional purposes. He had from the first supportEd the
abolition of the corn-laws. and should always vote in
favour of any measure of improvement and reduction of
taxation, and he wished it to be clearly understood that
he was not a Government agent.
Mr. RICARDO trusted that with his colleague Mr.
Grenfell he should be returned. He was for free trade
in everything, and warned the electors of being cajoled
into returning a Derby candidate. His views were that
no interference should take place in the Employment of
capital, and in conclusion, he trusted that the electors
twouldonce show that Windsor was no longer a nomination
borough.
Captain RULICLEY briefly said that, as a townsman,
he had been solicited to stand upon the Liberal interest,
he should go to the poll, but unfettered by party pledges.,
His principles were to vote for measures and not
not for men.
A show of hands was then taken, and the choice
declared to have fallen upon Mr. Grenfell and Lord
Wellesley.
The announcement created much uproar, there being
great doubts whether the number held up for Mr. Ri-
cardo did not exceed those for Mr. Grenfell. The
Mayor refused to again put it to the assemblage, and a
poll having been demanded, the proceedings terminated.

COVEN FRY.
Yesterday the election to k place at Coventry, and
for the first time (as our reporter was informed) for more
than forty years, it passed off without opposition. Mr.
Hubbard, the Deputy-governor of the Bunk of England,
issued his retiring address on Saturday evening. The
city, which had been in a state of ferment for the last
week or two, at once lapsed into comparative quiet, and
at eight o'clock on the m )rning of the nomination
scarcely any signs of an election were to be seen.
After the usual formal proceedings,

Mr. T. BANnunr proposed, and Mr. GOODE, book-
seller, Ecc,,nch-d, the noannatiun of the Right Hon. Edw.
Ellice.

Mr. JOSEPH CASH, a mt mber of the Society of Friends,
propcsf d, and Mr. HENRI GARDNER etcunded, the Do-
mination of Mr. Geach.

No other clndidate having proposed, the Muer
(%V. Sergeunt, E'q.) Teetered the Right Hon. Eliitird
EUice and Charts Geach, Esq , duly elected to repre-
sent that city in P,,rliara, or. The ahnouncernent was
reci-ived with vi.cifereui ct-it

Mr. ELLicE espresso d the satisaction he had experi-
enced at the result et. the election, and trusted that Co-
ventry "could redeem itself from the memories of past
elccrir.neering disorders, lie said that though he and
his colleague might cliff,r on points of detail they never
could differ on any question tavolving the improvement
of the people or the extension of their rights.
Mr. GEACH accepted this unopposed return as a tri-
un3ph of the people's cause. Although ho might enter-
tainpolitical opinions much in advance of many of his
friends, he had never been insane enough to do that in
the promotion of those principles which served the cause
of the common enemy. His fixed determination was to
do his duty to the men of Coventry who, after twelve
months' trial, had given him a renewal of their confi-
dence, and to show his fixed resolve never to swerve from
the advocacy of those advanced reforms for which, from
the outset. of his political life, ho bad invariably strug-
gled.—(lmmense cheering.)
The two newly-elected M.P.'s afterwards entered a
carriage, and, preceded by a band, banners, &c., paraded
the town. After the procession was over, they each ad.
dreseed their friends from the Craven Arms and Castle
Hotels; with the well-known Coventry "rabble" and the
good-humoured shouts and enthusiasm of the populace,
the election terminated.