The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-30 00:00:00

ELECTION MOVEMENTS.

SIR CHARLES NAPIER
AT AND
RMO W. T. M'CULLAGH,
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.YAUTH.
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On Monday afternoon, March 29th, these two gentlemen
.met a large body of the Liberal electors at the Star Hotel,
to enunciate their political creed, and to commence an
acquaintance with the constituency, which it is hoped will
not easily be terminated.
J. W. SMELLY, Esq , was called to the chair. He craved
'their kind indulgence while he endeavoured to put before
them the business of the meeting. A requisition, numerously
signed, had been entrusted to Mr. Jackson and himself for
presentation to Admiral Sir Charles Napier and Mr.
(MH`Ceaurl, hlageba.,rM.P., to whom they must all be grateful for
having accepted their invitation to come forward to
rescue the borouh from their degraded position.—
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to end his days, but it was their disgrace that not only had
they been unrepresented, but they had been misrepresented ;
and if their memories were so short as to forget it a call upon
their pockets ere long would bring back the remembrance,
and they would then find that the Public Health Act was
no party cry. It was for no party purposes that Mr. G. D.
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tracted from the poor man a large tax upon his food. To such
a course the gentlemen present were osed. And they
would probably remember that Sir Edmund Lawn's father
was the man who declared in the House of Commons that
barley-bread was good enough for the Door man ; and
when they saw the son of such a- man joined
in unholy alliance with the
man who kicked
his father out of the borough, they had a right to recollect
why he had ceased to be their member. As to Mr. Rum-
bold, perhaps, the less they said the soonest mended. He
would not undertake to go through the numerous reasons
why, on account of his short comings and false doings, he
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was unworthy to represent them.
Sir C. NAPLES was received with loud greetings. lie had
come among them in compliance with a requisition nume-
rously and very respectably signed, and he was perfectly ready
to hoist the flag of free trade in the borough of Yarmouth,
if he met with that support to which, as Free-traders, they
laid claim. He attributed the fall of Lord John Russell%
Ministry, mainly made up of his own relations, not to-the
'Militia Bil., but entirely to its own internal weakness,-...
the gross mismanagement of the colonies under Earl Grey,
through whose means mainly the Kafir war was brought
about, a war that would cost the country as mach as would
probably equal the savings effected in revenue last year—the
indiscreet dismission of Lord Palmerston, who was the right
hand of the Ministry. He deprecated Lord John's peddling
measure of reform upon which he had intended to appeal to
the country, and he hoped never to see Lord John back
again with the same Ministry. He declared himself in
favour of a repeal of the corn-laws ; expressed his conviction
that the question of protection was one that concerned the
landlord and not the tenant, and quoted several instances in
proof that with increased care and improved science agricul-
ture would not fail to improve. If estates in this country
were encumbered by the jointures of dowagers, or the por-
tions of younger ehildren, so that the proprietors could not
hold them the sooner they passed an Encumbered Estates
Bill the better, for then they would get into the hands of
men who would cultivate them as they ought. With regard
to the navigation-laws,l he believed they were repealed too
suddenly; he did not think Mr. Labouchere had obtained
sufficient concessions from foreign powers, but their repeal
had passed, and Lord Derby had confirmed them ; so that all
they could do was to search for means to remedy the evils
they complained of and benefit the shipping. The Crown
had reserved to it the right to reverse those laws to any na-
tion who did not give back the same advantages. In his
opinion it was the duty, and ought to be the inclination, of
their representatives to do everything in their power to pro-
mote the shipping interests of this country, and if other
nations did not reciprocate they would be right
to call on the Privy Council to re-impose the restrictions. The
safety of the nation demanded that the commerce of
this county should be preserved. With regard to reform,
Lord John Russell had brought forward his measure and it
was scouted ; Mr. Hume, when he brought his measure for-
ward, got only 89 votes. Now he went pretty nearly the
length of Mr. Hume, but he was an advocate for making tits
extension of the suffrage, vote by ballot, and triennial Par-
liaments separate questions.! He was for the equalisation of
the franchise, as he could not see why a man in business
voting for a 10/. occupation should, on retiring to the
country upon the hard-earned savings of his business, be de-
prived of his vote if he happened to pay 6d. less than 50/.
a year rent. He deprecated such an extension of the
franchise as proposed to enlarge the pocket boroughs,
of which there were 66, and of which 29 sent
but one member, by adding thereto other pocket boroughs,
and was favourable to the extension of that privilege, partly
to such large towns as were still unrepresented. Sir Charles
went at some length into the expenditure"and:naval defences
of the country, and referred ,to his acts when last in Parlia-
ment. Yarmouth had been represented by Admiral Anson,
by Sir John Jervis, and Captain Troubridge, men most de-
servedly esteemed ; and he hoped he might look forward to
the honour of representing this independent borough.
Mr. MiCueLacl, in a very effective address, disclaimed
any intention to make professions he did not purpose to
fulfil. He should refer them to his votes in the House
of Commons, and especially to one he gave when
he was among the small minority that opposed
the introduction of the Public Health Act into Yarmouth,
against their own representatives, because he thought every
large place ought to be able to manage its own local affairs.
He had supported the retailiatory clause in the Act repeal-
in. the navigation-laws; he was favourable to the measures
Olt had been mentioned by Sir Charles Napier, and, although
himself a conscientious member of the Church of England,
he was a strenuous supporter of civil and religious freedom.
Mr. R. liAmisiAND, jun., in moving a vote of thanks to
the chair, promised to exert himself to secure the return
of the Admiral and his learned colleague, and hoped they
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hold a public meeting in the evening.