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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
EAST SUFFOLK.
Irswica, APRIL 21.—Sir Fitzroy Kelly,. her Ma-
jesty's Solicitor-General, the candidate for the vacant
seat which has occurred in the eastern division of the
county of Suffolk by the death of Lord Rendleshatn,
visited this town yesterday for the purpose of addressing
the farmers attending the market, attended
1°37 a fewei
the members of his committee. He proceeded from the
White Horse Hotel at three o'clock to the ;balcony in
front of Mr. Chaernan's house,
situate on the Corn> ill.
immediately opposite the Corn Exchange. Among the
crowd were a large number of waterrnen and dredgemen,
said to be some of the free, independent, and immaculate
voters of the borough of Harwich who had been brought
up, it was conjectured, to put down any opposition which
might be offered by the Free-traders. The Solicitor-
General's reception was not quite so pleasing es that
which ho met with in other districts of the county;
the short address he made was almost continually inter,-
rented by shouts and hisses from the body of the naeelieg-
Mr. J. C. CORRDLD, M.P. for the borough of Ipswich,
having very briefly introduced the Solicitor-General
to the el,-ctors,
Sir FITZROY KELLY was received amid cheers and
hisses. He said—Gentlemen, I am extremely happy to
find myself once more among my
con-
stituency of the town and borough of Ipswich; and I
trust that I meet you to-day with the same satisfaction
and goodwill I have met you on former occasions. I
yyeouurifre
come now among you to solicit at your hands the
highest honour which a British subject can receive from
the hands of his fellow-countrymen._
old friends—the
(A Voice—" Why
should you claim our suffrages?") I come, gentlemen,
to solicit your suffrages because I am prepared to dis-
chargehahahryou should do me th's
Dior
and hisses, and a Voice—,, W©
don't want yen.")
e 1e dutyct electing
g towardsme
a
Gentlemen, appearing as I do i?efctre yo {,the 4rat
tithe In this borough before an asseuabled hefty of elec-
tors of this county, I fell that T presentative.—(Cheers
- am called upon, at the
outset, to state why I appear before you in that cha-
racter, and the reason why I venture to ask for your
support at the ensuing election.—(Laughter, cheers, and
dissent.) Gentlemen, if you will indulge me with your
attention for a very short period, I will afterwards
stand here to answer any question any gentlemen may
think proper to put to me.--(Laughter and cheers.)
Any question or any inquiry upon any subject, what-
ever it may be, asked by any elector of the eastern di-
vision of the county of Suffolk, shall be answered by
me.—(Cries of " Bravo!" and hisses.) Gentlemen, I
feel that in this land of freedom it becomes an English-
man thus to address his fellow men. I am aware that I
see before me many with whom I differ widely in politi-
cal opinions, whose political opinions are entirely oppo-
site to my own, and of whom, perhaps, it would be ill it.
me to solicit support; or, perhaps, it would be so it I
were unprepared to meet them, I will not say as politi-
cal opponents, as readily and as friendly as the warmest
of my political supporters.—(Cries of " Bravo!") Gen
tlemen, let me first endeavour to set myself right with
you, appearing before you as I do a candidate to repre-
sent you in Paliament at all. As you well know, I can
lay no claim to your support, founded upon ancient he-
reditary associations, or founded upon the possessions of
an extensive property in your count,
J Gentlemen, I
am, comparatively, a stranger among You, though not
altogether unknown to you.—(A V i
- (`-ce—" I should
? hink not." " Who bribed the tailor?"—and you may,
therefore, well expect that I should offer to you some
explanations as to the reasons why I now appear
before you to solicit so great an amount of your confi-
dence and support.—(Hear, bear.) Gentlemen, let me
assure you, and with the most perfect sincerity I do so,
that so long as there existed the faintest hope that a
gentleman directly connected with your county—any one
having those claims to which I have alluded, of family
interests, and in possession of great landed property
within your county—would offer himself as a candidate
—I should have deemed it a mark of great vanity and
presumption to have ventured to have offered myself to
your notice.—(Cries of " Bravo," hisses, and cheering.)
Gentlemen, it is known to you 311 that, even before the
lamentable event occurred which has caused a vacancy
in your representation, attempts were made to induce
some gentleman in your county to come forward when-
ever a vacancy should occur, and to present himself
before you as a candidate to represent your county in
Parliament.—(Hear, hear) You are well aware, gen-
tlemen, that every effort made, by some the respect-
able and respected among you, to induce a country
gentleman to come forward to represent your interests
failed, until at length one, in every way unexcep-
tionably entitled to that honour, was asked to come
forward, and Sir Charles Blois was prevailed on re-
luctantly to accept the offer, but, after some considera-
tion, that worthy and excellent gentleman felt that
he ought to withdraw, and not to press his claims upon
you.—(Hear, hear). He perhaps felt, as I believe he
did feel, that in these trying and stirring times, when all
that is most dear and valuable to the agriculturist of
this country, and this county, are at stake and are in
imminent danger, that you should return a more effective
representative than himself—that you should return to
Parliament as your representative some one more used
to walk in the thorny paths of public life—some one
more used to take a part in the controversies now so
rife, and in political contests, to which a man in public
life was more accustomed than he was. And it was
under these circumstances that that worthy and Hon.
Gentleman withdrew all claims to the representation.—
(Hear, bear.) And then, and then only, I came forward
to solicit your suffrages, having been unanimously invited
to do so—(Cries of " No, no," and cheers)—by more
than one thousand electors of your county, atter having,
over and over again, declared that I would not divide the
party, and that I would do no act to injure the great
cause to which you are all attached. Then, and not till
then, did I respond to the call, and I now present myself
before you on those grounds.—(Cheers and hisses.)
It may be expected that coming to solicit your suffrages
—this mark of your confidence and esteem—l should
state to you the political ground upon which alone, in
these times, the electors of any county in England are
celled upon to consider the claims of any candidate who
may solicit their support; and the question I have to
submit to your consideration is, and on which we muse
depend—whether you shall elect me as your representa-
tive, and whether the Government of the Earl of Dertn ,
of which I have the honour to be a member, is entitled
to the confidence of the country.—(Cries of " Yes," and
" No," and great uproar.) Gentlemen, if the principles
upon which that Noble Earl has responded to the call of
her Most Gracious Majesty—if the principles upon which
the Noble Earl has placed himself at the head of her Ma-
jesty's Government--of the Government of this country
—are not entitled to your approbation—(Cheering and
much hissing)—that question, however, is not to be de-
cided to-day, but it must be decided by your votes on the
day of election—(Cheering, mingled with hisses and
laughter.) Gentlemen, addressing as I do a nume-
rous body of electors, belonging to one of the most
important towas in this county, or in this king-
dom—not only so, but also addressing as I do the in-
habitants of a county—that county being itself one of
the most purely agricultural districts throughout Great
Britain—(Hear, hear)--I think I may appeal with per-
fect and undeviating confidence to you all to support the
Administration which is presided over hisses, by Earl Derby—
(Cries of " No," and cheers)—for I believe it is
to that Administration alone that you can look for suc-
cour and safety.—(Hear, hear, mingled with hisses,)
If you who hear me, you who are inhabitants of this
great and agricultural district—if you in your own con-
sciences believe—if you are satisfied from experience
that the cause of agriculture is safe—that the agricul-
ture of the country is prosperous and flourishing—it
such among you as are cultivators of the soil, who seek
to gain your own subsistence from it, and the subsistence
of your families from the products of the earth—(Hear,
hear)—if such of you as are members of that interest
are satisfied with the course of recent legislation, I am
not the man whom you ought to return to Parliament as
your representative.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. G. E. &Less (a bailder)—What business have
you here, I should like to know? Did you not vote with
and support the late Sir R. Peel's measures?—(Cheer-
ing and hisses.)
Sir F. KELLY.—Gentleman, I was about to say to
you that I am far from denying that great and extensive
benefits have resulted from many of
the measures which
pass under the well known name of free trade.—
(Cheers.) I am quite free to admit that the best conse-
quenceshave resulted to all classes
of the community
from many of those
during measures
which were proposed to
Parliament and adopted the earlier years of the
late Sir R. Peel's Administration._( Much Ruch cheering.)
No one can doubt that it insest
.sglraetat blessing, a just and
righteous object of every L i
of gthe uere,l to make the ne-
cessaries of life—the food
the community,—(Cheers.)
al) e—as cheap as is
consistent to all classes of alunitY.—(Cheers.)
was one who humbly,
And, gentlemen, Ibut earnestly,
those measure •
concurred in and supported . s, and I re-
joiced[Woes, inasmuch, as they have
in their conseq
articles of
rendered most of the general
taken Fonsumption,
was
from many of which the
duty
considerably red off, or the im-
port duties on which were
f the community, to the very poorest classes o
that ty- But when
the last of those measures
whichto eminent states-
man thought fit to prope Parliamentwhich ought
was carried,
without any of those safeguardso
when the leaught to have
accompanied it—(Hear, hear) by
which the vfl
imposing
a
duty on foreign corn, the law labourer and
of the soil were duly -
the interests of the cultivator f pro-
tected—(Hear, that law was token tected—(Hear, hear)--when
the agricultural clasremue
upon which the prosperitye, mischievous course eeselsais
de-
pended—then it was that
unless it be e'--
lation was entered upon, and,
t tall upon .010,0 1 checked, one
universal destruction inns-
3.
A Voice -aoeyaoBB".
(No, no. Cheers and
bis
sdeo." Another Voice—,?Whhati
better go home; you won't:
~
, -) frien
? If my worthy d iny
didn't you stay at Harwicn
It. dness to
infatten to nee to
the crowd will only have the
I have said Harwich I
the end he will find that .
~ a „
•es oh
Drave, cheers and
will stand by here.—(Cries a .
lthough e have had the
hisses.) Gentlemen, a c declaration I
misfortune to find that
the I
and homely made
at
Harwich, and which is a sebtrl9tb,
opposition, for
has brought upon me a storm
newspapers of thee believe
I may say that fully half the
pa ers in tea me-
tropolis, if not half of the
newspapers
you des a country
—(Bear, hear, and a Voice-- )
hare found fault with me for making that; assertion.—,
(Another Voice—" And right, toy")—when. I made that
believed, .
and I also said
assertion, I said what I reaJilY
lit flu' time that I should be glad to And it Was sii ono-

neous statement.—(A Voice—" You knew it was false.")
Gentlemen, I believe I am addressing a body of persons
who are better able • than I am, perhaps—better able,
practically—to judge and to form an opinion whether
that statement be true or not.—(Hear, hear, and hisses.)
Gentlemen, the statement which I then made, and which
has drawn down upon me this tempest of opposition—
and, perhaps, of something more—(A Voice—" Yes,
you knew it was fal-e,") —the statement I made was
this:—although I admitted that in the year 1850 we had
imported fully 3.000,000 quarters of corn more than in
the year 1846, I ventured to affirm that we had pro-
duced and sold in Great Britain and Ireland 3,000,000
quarters of corn less in 1850 than in the year 1846.
(Hear, and hisses.) I stated, therefore, as a consequence
and I•now publicly and deliberetely repeat that stete-
ment, and I challenge contradiction—(A Voice— Give
us your authority;" Another Voice—" Ho cannot")—
I now repeat that statement. The result is, although
wo have imported 3 000,000 quarters of corn more in
1850 than in 1846. that the people of this country have
tot had one pound weight of bread more to eat in 1850
than when the 3,000,000 quarters of corn were grown in
this country in 1816. (A Voice—" That's a lie."
Cheers and hisses, during which a respectably dressed
man held up on a stick a diminutive loaf, which he called
the " Symbol of Protection." Upon this, several fights
basing taken place in the crowd, Sir Fitzroy Kelly pro-
ceeded to say)—Gentlemen, I do hope that we shall
keep at peace and goodwill with each other through the
short time that I shall venture to detain you. I only
wi3h that you who doubt the statement I have made
would only prove it to be untrue. (A Voice—" Prove
to us that it is true."--Laughter.) Gentlemen, I would
wish you to prove, if you can, that the agricultural la-
bourerscould
in
before.—(Hear.)aslabourers of this very county, who find their waffesreduced
from lls. and 12s. to Bs. and 9s. are better offnow than
theye ad w
in 18146. would
d(cidriersrwooicsfuh,rie
ythaes as;t
muchotyoru
t :
" Stuff!" Nonsense!" " No!" and " Why don't you go
to Harwich?") Gentlemen, if those among you who
differ from me in opinion will pass through this county
and inquire into the condition of all classes of the
agricultural community—of the landlord, who is unable
to obtain any rent—(Laughter and hisses)—and of the
labourer, who does not obtain the amount of wages he
slid before—and look into the poor-houses and union-
houses and see whether the number of their inmates
are increased or diminished, you will then see the effect
this change in the law has produced.—(Hear, hear,
cheers, and hissing.) Gentlemen, if you whom lam
now addressing are satisfied with the state of things as
hey now exist, and if you feel that these are times of
orosperity, it is high time that you get another as your
representative.—(Hear. hear.) But if you feel, as I
now do, that the tax imposed by a recent Legislature
spun some classes of the people—that the degree of
.uff-'ring caused thereby upon the agricultural classes
:squires and imperatively calls for immediate relief, and
that you will place your confidence in that Administra-
tion of which I have the honour to be a Meneher—of
'hat Government which has pledged itself to do its best
,o relieve the distress of the country—if you give me
your best support, I will use my best endeavours to as-
sest you in carrying out your wishes. We have all of us
but one object in view—the good of the country, although
we may respectively wish to attain that object by dif-
ferent means.—(Bear, hear.) It may be that there are
many among you who are labourers—persons belonging
ro that class of the people who do not find their wages
diminish, and who are enabled to obtain their food at a
cheaper rate than others.—(Disapprobation.) But, gen-
tlemen, the principle on which I should wish and desire
to legislate is one of equal justice to all classes of the
community.—(Hear, hear.) If you cannot wish to have
bread cheaper without ruining the agriculturist, it is
better that bread should remain at its former price.—
(Hisses and cheering.) Gentlemen, I ask you for your
support, because I believe that the Ministry of the Earl
of Derby is prepared, when it has the power to do so, to
propose measures to Parliament, not indeed for the be-
Refit of any one single class of the community, but to
operate equally for the wellbeing of the whole.— (Hear.)
And it is because those who act with me are determined
to seek the benefit of the manufacturing, the commer-
cial, and the agricultural classes that I now venture
to claim your support for that Administration.—(Cheers
and hisses.) I stated to you that I should not
detain you long; I said that I should stand here prepared
to answer any question which any elector might think
proper to put to me—(llear, hear)—and I now repeat
that I am ready to redeem that pledge,—(Hear, hear.)
Should I, gentlemen, have the honour to become your
representative, I trust that the success of those great
efforts which the Government and the Legislature are
bound to make to relieve the agriculturists from the
burdens which threaten to overwhelm you—to remove
you from the deep distress under which you have so
long been labouring—to dispel those clouds which over-
shadow your prosperity, and which darken the once
bright atmosphere of agricultural prosperity, will be
fully realised.—(Cheers and hisses.) Gentlemen, should
you please to confer upon me the honour to which I
aspire—l may be less able, I may be less experienced
than many others upon whom your choice might have
fallen, but I will yield to none in attachment to your
cause, in my attention to your interests, and a faithful
devotion to your cause.—(Cheers and hisses which lasted
for some seconds.)
Mr. J. C. COBBOLD, M.P., for the borough, here rose
for the purpose of making some observation; but he was
received with such a volley of hisses that after a fruit-
less attempt to gain a hearing the Hon. Gentleman re-
sumed his seat.

Sir F. KELLY again presented himself, and, after some
few moments had elapsed, he was understood to say—l
beg leave to state that my Hon. Friend (Mr. J. C. Cob-
bold, M.P.) rose for the purpose of stating that I am
now ready to give any explanation, or to answer any
question that any gentleman present may wish to
put.—(Cries of " Free trade for ever.")
Mr. N. W. JOHNSON (Wichkambrook, a tenant
farmer)—l would wish to ask Sir F. Kelly whether he
will vote for a total repeal of the malt-tax ?—(Cheers.)
Sir F. KELLY—The only answer I can give to that
question is—before any proposal be made to Parliament
or the repeal of the malt-tax, the financial measures of
the Administration must be brought forward.—(Cries of
" Answer the question.") If these financial measures
he accepted by Parliament, and they should have the
.ffect of completely relieving the agricultural interest
from the burdens under which they are now suffering,
it will then, in that case, be unnecessary to adopt any
measure for the repeal of the malt-tax.—(Cheers and
hisses.) But if the measures to be brought forward
by the Administration of Earl Derby should fail i❑ ob-
taining the assent of Parliament, or if, being assented to,
they should fail to being for the interest of the country,
then I should be very happy to support the repeal of the
malt tax, or the repeal of any other tax by which that
great object can be accomplished.—(Cheers.)
Mr. G E. ELLIss (a builder)—Say "Yes" now.
Sir FITROY KELLY—I will say " Yea" at the proper
time.

Mr. G. E. EraAss—Why can't you say " Yes" now?
Sir FITZROY KELLY—The gentleman knows that,
during the remainder of the present Parliament, the
Government is in a minority,—(A laugh)—and can pro-
pose a repeal of no tax. When we have a majority in
Parliament, the measures which will be proposed for the
relief of the agricultural interest shall meet with my
support.—(Hear, hear.) If those measures should fail
in relieving the agricultural interest, and if the agricul-
tural interest can be relieved in no other way, I shall be
most happy, as an individual, to support the repeal of the
malt tax.—(Cries of " Bravo!")
Mr. N. W. JOHNSON—Now, Sir Fitzroy, you ap-
pear here as the farmer's friend, and I would ask you
whether, if Mr. Cayley, or any other Member in the
House of Commons, introduce a measure for the repeal
of the malt tax, you will support it?
Sir. FITZROY KELLY—I answer you—certainly not.
Until the financial measures of the Administration shall
have been proposed I cannot distinctly answer the ques-
tion. Will the gentleman permit me to tell him that no
member of a Government would pledge himself to sup-
port the repeal of any tax without reference to the time
and the circumstances under which it might be brought
forward?
Mr. W. N. JOHNSON—I would now ask, you, Sir, whe-
ther you are prepared to support an equitable measure
of tenant-right?—(Cheers.)
Sir FITZROY KELLY—If you will tell me what you
mean by " tenant right," I will answer the question.
Mr. W. N. JOHNSON—I mean the protection to tenant
capital and skill—that the tenant should not be despoiled
of that property whictilie has invested in the farm, and
from which he has received no benv,fit up
when he leaves the farm.
understood the
Sir FITZROY KELLY—I have always
relation between landlord and tenant to be foundeodeutpeoent
a contract entered into between them, and that e
er.r.
...,
a tenant may enter into or not as he thinks prop
a❑
• " WOUld I support Y
the question put had been this:— 'ate between
measure under which the contract entered i
I would
landlord and tenant would be vitiated?: y
I ©lector would
support no such measures. If the worth
tall©
measure. taeblo means—l
up_ t 9 the tim®
point out any means—any fair
should be ready to vote for anythe crowd,
took place in
A great disturbance here
when— advantage of the oppor-
Sir FITZROY KELLY (taking a ,
ered all tne uestions
tunity) said—l have now 9.118 W
ad I shall nowt ake v
which have been put to me, a u
IYO " Throe rici."
hearty
leave of you. by proposing that To
Suffolk."
cheers for the prosperity of
responded to.
The proposition was heartily
as seve,..raehl mtohree qul estions would
Three cheers were then given ford
fro trade, when Sir
Fitzroy Kelly and his friends reti . Fa the balcony,
saunedhfreeu.
from the balcony
reached
hhaeef tdesrhjwiiisacrihdteostre.
Solicitor-General's
left
ent theer a,safety.s h
retirementu se b y th 0 ba c k doo r , an d
Manygof the e ctors tho op-
portunity of doing so.
hwaayserhaetheehrppurtemtoahtaimre
,nothing"farmersr were heard
to remark that there was ' . in his speech, and
that he had in reality promised to do "nothing" for
them. The crowd, after a little skirmishing, dispersed.
'had he 1,,

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ABOLITION or GRAND JURIES.—Yesterday Sir F.
Metropolitan
elationa are to be fled,
Thesiger's Bill to abolish the grand jury system, and also
indictments within the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal
C
Police District, was
and the charges to be tried. Ad_
43T be named when
the alterations are to ommence, _
proiunrtte, d.and wlieituhionf t