The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

MANCHESTER ELECTION.

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MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY, —This being the day fixed
for the nomination of the candidates, according to the
Boroughreeve's precept, shortly after eight o'clock a crowd
of persons began to assemble in St. Ann's-square, where
the hustings had been erected.
The Corporation dispute, as raised by the question of
who is to be the proper returning officer, continues, and
the corporators have been endeavouring to detach the beer-
sellers from Colonel Thompson's party.
The double election is still to be carried on, and the
Mayor's nomination commences to-morrow. Both parties
will, however, poll at both elections, so far as it is at pre-
sent understood.
Mr. Part, the Under-Sheriff, has disclaimed the act of
his egenta in issuing a precept to the Boroughreeve, and
some correspondence has taken place on the subject.
Shortly after nine, the Boroughreeve having opened the
proceedings of the day with the usual formalities, was
served, together with the constables, with a protest against
this election by Mr. Greg's friends. The protest was
signed by James Kershaw, Richard Cobden, and C. J S.
Walker, Esqrs., the latter Chairman of Mr. Greg's Com-
mittee.
The BOROUGHREEVE then addressed the electors, and
requested them to maintain the character of Manchester
by the decorum and good order of their proceedings. He
then called upon any gentleman who had a candidate to
propose to come forward.
Mr. KERSHAW accordingly came forward, and proposed
Mr. R. H. Greg. He deeply regretted that Mr. Greg
was absent from town, and he feared that his cause might
suffer in consequence. The absence of Mr. Greg had
been much misrepresented, but he had the highest autho-
rity for stating that Mr. Greg was solely absent for the
benefit of the health of his family. He contradicted the
assertion that Mr. Greg had one halfpenny invested in ma-
nufactures abroad. Mr. Greg was for the Ballot, for the
Extension of Vie Suffrage, and the Shortening °tithe dui -
tien of Parliaments. Were the Tories, he would ask, ad-
vocates for the same measures? He was for a repeal of
the odious and abominable Corn-laws. Mr. Greg was
now opposed by a strange gentleman who could not be
expected to know their local interests or wants—by a sol-
dier, whose only fame was arms ; and, for his part, be pre-
ferred a candidate bred in a mill to one bred in a camp.—
( Hisses, and cries of " Off.") The interruption was here
so great that it was impossible to hear a sentence ; but the
Boroughreeve, having begged of the meeting to hear Mr.
Kershaw out, the speaker proceeded to repeat that the
Reformers were now called upon to elect a man, the re-
presentative of a party who was formerly anxious to de-
prive them of a vote. The eyes of Glasgow, London,
Edinburgh, and, in fact, of every hamlet and town in the
kingdom, were fixed upon this election ; and he confi.
dently expected that the people of Manchester would
maintain their consistency by returning Mr. Robert Hyde
Greg to Parliament as their representative.
Mr. COBDEN seconded the nomination. They bad three
parties before them—the high Tory party, the rational
Radical part), and the Chartist party. Why was there no
Whig, no Ministerial party here? It was because the
Whigs had followed too much in the footsteps of that
wicked Tory party whom they had turned out. The
Whigs did not acknowledge him as a Whig. The Whigs
called Mr. Greg a Radical because he voted for Radical
principles ; and if the Government possessed Mr. Greg's
principles, corn would now be at one-half the price ; and
if they could bring 400 such men into the House of Com-
mons they would have not half-time at the mills, but full
employment. They had found on the canvass this time 2,500
removals ; 2,000 empty houses in Manchester. To what was
this state of ehings owing but to the Corn-laws? It was
said that Mr. Greg had gone abroad to invest his capital.
Why was this? He had predicted that if the Corn-laws
were not repealed the capitalists would go abroad. But could
they think that if Mr. Greg intended to do so hia self. for
the sake of making 20 per cent. of his' money abroad, he
would have thrown out that warning? He warned them
out of a desire to prevent such an event, and, upon his
honour, he had not gone out on any such mission. Who
was opposed to Mr. Greg? Sir George 'Murray. Did
be understand commercial and manufacturing questions?
He belonged to an order who had no symyathies with them.
A certain churchwarden had taken him through his mill,
and there was some little difficulty to make him understand
the differences between cotton and lamb's wool. There
was another candidate—Colonel Thompson, his friend, if
he would allow himlo c ill him so; but he would rasher
have seen Colonel Thompson heading a party any where
than in Manchester. Colonel Thompson's sell ices as an
advocate for the repeal of the infernal bread tax had been
great. The Colonel put himself forth as the genius of Re-
dicalism ; but unless every body agreed exactly with him
Col. Thompson would separate from his party, and stand
on his own ground ; and he had heard that the Colonel had
twenty-nine places on his list, where, whenever an elec-
tion took place, he would go and stand en the question of
Radicalism.--("Well, that's brave at all events.") Mr.
Cobden then complained of the conduct of the Radicals,
who supported Colonel Thompson in opposing the efforts
of the delegates to repeal the Corn-laws, on which occa-
sion he got his hat knocked off and nearly lost his life at
the hands of those very men who were now supporting Co-
lonel Thompson on his anti-Corn-law principles. He re-
We hear that the Venerable Bishop of Bath and commended Colonel Thompson, before he entered any of
Wells (who is residing at his cottage at Banwell) had a those twenty-nine great towns, to wait for a sufficient in-
s America,
evere attack of illness a few days ago, but we are happy vitation. In a country which the Colonel much
to state that his Lordship is now considerably better.— applauded, candidates waited quietly and modestly till they
Bristol Journal, were invited, and the American constituencies were hot
The Bishop of London has purchased the beau- i
accustomed
Colonel Thom to, and would not tolerate, such visitations
towns
as
Ofutestate at Riseholme, the residence of the late Francis pson threatened these twenty nine
phaplin, Esq. Riseholme is within two miles of Lincoln. with. He would not keep them longer in the rain. He
seconded the proposal of his Hon. Friend
It is the intention of the Bishops to build a church at 'Robert Hyde
Riseholme. Greg, Esq., as a fit and proper person to serve Manchester
BISHOP OF WINCHESTER. in Parliament
—On Saturday last The crowd had now increased to abaut 6,000 despite a
the Bishop of Winchester held an ordination at St. Helier's, heavy shower of rain which began to fall.
Jersey, when Mr. Samuel Wright was admitted to priest's Mr. T. FIELDEN (the brother of the Member for Old-
order. On the same day, being the anniversary of the ham) then stood forward to nominate Colonel Thompson.
horrible massacre ofiSt.Bartholemew,when 70,000 French He did so because he was a Radical Reformer, and an ad-,
Protestants were ruthlessly massacred in cold blood by the vocate for Universal Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, the repeal
Roman Catholics by order of Charles IX., the Rev. Dr. of the odious New Pocr-law. and the Factory Bill. He
leune, Dean of Jersey, preached an eloquent sermon, spe- would not detain them by making a speech. He considered
cially relating to that fearful outrage on humanity, when the Colonel as the most fit person to represent their inte-
priestcraft stained the altars of a God of love with hcca- rests, and if they were of the same opinion they ought
tombs of his creatures, who could not subscribe to the triumphantly to return him as their representative.
mockery of transubstantiation. On Monday the Bishop Mr. CONDY then came forward, and spoke forcibly and
confirmed several hundreds of the youths of both sexes in eloquently against the errors of Whig Government, who
the parochial church of St. Helier and in All Saints since they came into office had increased the national
Chapel. On Tuesday the same ceremony was performed debt by more than 40,000,0001,, and had deluged Canada
at St. Lawrence, for the parishioners of St. Lawrence, in blood, in order to rob the inhabitants of that
anal St• Mary's, and St. Peter's, for those of St. Peter's, colony of about 180,0001. which was in their treasury.
St. Ouen, and St. Beelade. On Wednesday confirmation The Whigs professeal liberality to the people, and
was held at St. Martin's, for that parish, and the parishes declared tbat their liberty should never -be compro-
of Grenville and Trinity. On Thursday his Lordship raised ; they condemned a standing army, but they
preached at St. James's Chapel, in favour of the introduced all over the country a blue-bottle tyrannical
r children's schools. —Guernsey Paper. force ; they spoke of the right of the people to power,
THE EARL OF DERBY. On Wednesday but their professed democracy knit together brute force
, last we saw a letter from this highly esteemed Nobleman, against
laws—if laws they could be called—they were to be
in his own handwriting, to a gentleman of this town, against the common mind ; and if the people opposed
which satisfactorily afforded us the evidence that his Lord- bludgeoned. Mr. Cobden had been wonderfully wits; in
ship has recovered, in a great degree, the effects of his late remarking that Colonel Thompson had thirty boroughs,
severe attacks, and that his general health is much
int but he would ask if that was not 'a compliment to the Co.proved. Long may the Noble Earl be
sparedtoado—rn !hriel's popularity? The electors of the borough had been
the circle in which he moves, and to confer blessings on all nicely humbugged (to use the only expression perfectly
)around him.—Preston Chronicle, applicable) by Mr. Poulett Thomson, their late Member.
THE NEW CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHE- As to free trade he gave them a deal of it—lie reduced the
duty on sallad-oil, figs, &c., which the people could not
QVEL—Mr. Francis Thornhill Baring,s the New Chancel- luxuriate in, for their money was exhausted from their
for of the Exchequer, is the oldest son of Sir Thomas Ba- pockets by the Government for other purposes.—(Cheers.)
.
ring, Bart., and Nephew of Lord Ashburton.
has always differed in politicswith Mr. Baring The Learned Gentleman concluded by saying that if they
his relative. three I
whew have seats in the House. At Oxford Mr. BaringGreyn,s wanted free trade, the withdrawal of the duty on corn, and
obteirted distinguished honours, and during Lordl Suffrage, Colonel Thompson was the man ; and
Universecalled a Chartist Colonel; but he had more stake
administration held the (Ace of Lord of the Treasury. he was
condition of the t' his
He has sat in six Parliaments. Mr. Baring in the peaceable . country than any o
married a opponents. He would advise the electors to bestir them.
niece of Earl Grey's, sister of the present Sir 0. Grey. selves, and return the Gallant Officer to represent the in-
Lord Dinorben left town on Saturday last for
habitants.
Kinmell Park, accompanied by Lady Gardner. His Mr. GEORGE CLARKE came forward next to propose Sir
Lordship intends to receive company about the middle of George Murray. He supported and proposed Sir George
the month ; among others the Prince and Princess of
Capua. Liberal Conservative and not bound to any faction. Mr.
THE EGLINTOUN TOURNAMENT. Ti . Its gor- Clcrke concluded by proposing—The Right Hon. Sir
George Murray as their representative —(Cheers.)
geous chivalric display has formed a subject for the pencil Mr. WooD, a Wesleyan Methodist, the nomi-
ot fan itinerant showman, who drags a frail vehicle about :
naoon in a most able and eloquent speech.
he streets of the metropolis, which carries a box, re-
inscontain-
" A grande Exhibition," as the proprietor of the The BOROUGHREEVE then proceeded to call on the
sal.d„, spective candidates to address the meeting.
show informs us on a written (?) paper, "of the reserivee
Turnament in Scotland, with trew representation of all the his
.h- Ir. WALKER came forward on behalf of Mr. Greg, but
Lordes and Ladys present, all coloured." A sight of this of Colonel
proceedingo lonelThompson's
was objected to by Mr. Candy and some
friends.
..
" magnificent " exhibition, the showman further tells 1"
Mr .CONDY protested against bearing theßepresentatne
can be obtained for the very reasonable sum of one half- of an invisible candidate.
Penny. Mr. Dower Mr. WIIYATT, and another elector de-
Sheridan Knowles is returned from a two month's mantled that & qualification with should be administered
residence in Scotland, where he has been occupied in to Colonel Thompson, their candidate, and also to Sir
writing a play fur Covent-garden Theatre. Madame George Murray and Mr. Greg; and protested against
Vestris will perform the principal character in the drama. proceeding with Mr. Greg's election if he were not pre-
The approaching musical festival at Worcester, sent to take it.
under the patronage of her Majesty, will, it is expected, The oath was accordingly administered to Colonel
prove highly successful. The performances commence on Therapson.
.Tuesday fortnight, and will continue for the three follow- The BOROCUHREEVE then called on Mr. Greg to take
ing days. The unprecedented demand for schemes end the oath, on which a long discussion ensued.
the
oto inquiries for lodgings lead to the conclusion that after This proceeding interrupted the business full an hour
expenses have been defrayed a considerable sum will and a half.
?main available for the purposes of the excellent charity, Colonel THOMPSON then came forward amid the loud
In support of which the celebration takes place The Lord cheers of his supportere. He alluded more particularly to
op 0 Worcester as president, '
Binh - f
Paul,E with the Lord Sandys, Sir J. Mordaunt, H. St.. the topics on which for many years he had dwelt, viz.,
Faussett, the Rev. J. sq., M. P , the Rev. Dr. Universal Suffrage, the Abolition of the Corn•laws, the
Lucy, &c., the stewards, it is under- Ballot, Annual Parliaments, no Property Qualification for
stood, intend to be present.
Among the 14 individuals who were sworn in question
Excise Assistants, was Members of Parliament, and the Now Poor-law. On the
of the Corn-laws be had, for a length of time
was John New-during
as her Majesty's Hop
his public career, endeavoured to impress upon all
land, who, although in his 90th
walked from Leominster, his native year, had that maiming connected with
who were in any way .
manufactures or
place, and appeared commerce, that the restriction on the exchange of their
more hale and hearty than many of his brother officers manufactures for food operated precisely in the same way
who are his juniors by scores of years. —Hereford Times, as would the building of a wall round a town—Manches-
Mr. Feargus O'Connor addressed the workine ter for instance—and obliging the inhabitants engaged in
classes of Carlisle in the Theatre on Friday evening last manufactures to give two yards of cloth instead of one for
The house was crowded to excess. The main object of a peck of corn to the owners of such patches of land as
his address was to praise his own disinterestedness. Dr. acre capable of growing corn within the inclosure. The
Taylor also addressed a very crowded audience in the same owners of land said to them, " Give us two shillings for a
place on S,-.tut-day night. He declared that a large mind- peck of corn instead of one, and we will spend two shillings
rity of the present Convention was composed of "ties, upon !sou instead of one, and buy two yards of cloth of
1 traiters, and cowards." He advised that the body should you instead of one." He should have thought that any
-) be dissolved, and a new Convention elected, to a bieh none man who could keep his fingers out of the wheels of a
of the old members should he eligible. He stated that if machine could have seen into such a question in the light
he could be provided with seven men, who would implicitly he had put it. He was in favour of the principle of Uni-
obey his orders, and whose fidelity could be entirely relied versal Suffrage, because the numerous classes were almost
on, he would secure immediately all the objects the people entirely!ry cut off from any share in making the laws by which
had in view. If any one of the seven should tutu traitor cndition was to be deter 'd • the
la respect to
the lives of all the others would be sacrificed. The meet-
d Dr
eng was also addressed by Mr. Borne, of Newcasoe.— .
Warne was present, but did not speak --Tyne Mercury.
\
.il is scarcely credible the extent to which
in a hundred is discovered. The receivers of stolen the Ballot, he was its d minhe ' that the voter w
fully without
nent of log
1t lengthenedar
luticn of gulling
corn or hay are generally bottlers at a road-side public- of annually, and it amountedun law assumed
a hocate, because the , ,
as
intimidationmore likely to exercise his trust faith-
p than with it. He was an opPo-
iadmoents, as it was evident to his mind that
Lisaccounts
were to come to the reso-
casets every seventh year instead
farmers are plundered by their servants at this time of the to give the people threatsir was nothing but an invention
year, and the system is so artfully carried on that not one appear ridiculous if a
tradesman ort end of the lever. It would
Louse, and by their contrivance the dishonestly inclined 1 statesman.
agriceitural servants are encouraged in continuing their
illegal actg. On Monday morning, Bennett, a carman in Therefore he
Suffrage. It was, he thouNvglaist
should wish for the to the same thing with a
in favour of Universal
principles
of
,n,obvious why a person
the employ of 1.4 h. Wetberby, farmer at Stone, in Kent, for Members of Parliament and the'
was detected at an ealt; INV disposing of thirty-nine The poor man paid eleven times its
pounds of clover hay, to Wi 1e3,, hostler at the Turk's- ling 's worth of tobacco than did the rich •
head, in the ()in Kent-road. g
Both the thiett were taken , was some talk of a property tax, that
into custody, and re-committed - bythe Magis- thousand a year should pay a slightly h•
• !rates
for another examinatio to prison
n, property qualifications
itauyeTednt of Members.
bututy on his shit-
'the when there
higher per
age than the man of two hundred, the rich set
man of ten
cent.
up a

Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, visited
Viseount Palmerston yesterday afternoon, at the Fo-
reign•ofice.

Oeneral Sir Richard Jackson bad an interview with
the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home-
office.

Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Tuesday
evening from his seat, Broadlands, Hants.
Mr. Poulett Thomson returned yesterday from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle.
Lord Monteagle arrived at his residence, in Downing-
street, yesterday, from Tonbridge Wells.
Lord Glenelg left town on Tuesday for the Continent..

WINDSOR, SEPT. 4.—The Queen, accompanied by
the Duke Ferdinand and Prince Leopold of Saxe Co-
b"rg, and attended by her suite, rode out on horseback
at four o'clock this afternoon. The Duchess of Kent
and the Princess Victoire of Saxe Coburg occupied a
Pony Phaeton ; and Lady Charlotte Dundas, Baroness
Pen
YevessY, Hon. Miss Pitt, and Lady Harriet Clive,
rode in a carriage-and-four.
This morning, at twelve o'clock, the Duchess of
Rent, attended by Lady Dundas, Miss Quentin, Co-
lonel Wemyss, and Sir George Quentin, rode out on
horseback in the Park. Mr. Dawe had the honour
this morning of submitting to her Royal Highness a
proof impression of the engraving, from his picture of
her Majesty. The Royal Duchess was pleased to ex-
press her approbation, and graciously permitted the
Work to be dedicated to her Royal Highness.
Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Surrey, and the
Earl of Uxbridge, are expected to join the dinner party
authe Castle this evening.

ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Sir Francis Burdett, in St. James's•place, from Dover;
sLuo_rd.John Russell, in Wilton-cr
eseent, from his villa at
Ts Elill ; Sir Bethel Codrington, in Park-lane, from
Brighton ; Lady George and Miss Murray, in Green-
street, Park-lane, from Chequers Court, Bucks; Lord
Seaford, in Audley-square, from a tour; Captain B4illie
Hamilton, M. P., Patenry Hotel, from the Baroness Wrn-
raan's seat, Thame Park, Oxfordshire; Colonel Maberly,
in Lower Berkeley-street, from Cheltenham ; Sir George
Hill, Bart., and Mr. Beresford, from Ball's Hotel. on a
'Continental tour.

DEPARTURES.
Sir James Duke, M. P., from Sussex.place, for the
Continent ; Mrs. and Miss Tyrwhitt Drake, from Bel-
rave-square, for Amersham Park, Bucks ; Lord Russell,
.(31). the Marquis of Tavistock's, Spring-gardens, for
Germany ; Lord and Lady Stuart de Rothesay and the
Hon. Miss Stuart, from Carlton-terrace, for the north ;
General Sir W. Lumley, from Green-street, for Winkfield
Lodge. Berkshire; Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Cavendish,
trorn Burlington-street, for St. Leonard's B ; General_ Lordr.
Lyned
°eh, from Stretton.street, for his seat, alnagora ,
fr`u,L shire; the Earl and Countess of Morley, from South-
%lee, Knightsbridge, for Sa:tram, Devonshire ; Lord
ount Edgecumbe, from Mivart's Hotel on a tour;
the Earl
and
Countess of Orford and the Ladies Wal-
Pole from the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, for their
Feat,i Woelterton ; the Bishop of Peterborough and Mrs.
"318 and family, from Kensington, for Peterborough; Mr.
mid Mrs. Kingsmili, from Lambeth Palace, for Sydmonton ;
Pants: the Bishop of Norwich, from Grosvenor-street,
~,r. Norwich ; Lord and Lady Lilford and family, from
tirosyenor.place, for Lilford ; the Earl and Countess
of
Kinnoul and family, from Hampden House, for Dup-
Phn Castle ; Lord and Lady Dunally, from Mivart's
Hotel, on a our ; Lord de Manley, from Hanover-square,
.refor,Canford House; Lord and Lady Colchester, from
" at Cumberland-street, for Kidbrooke Park, near East
Grinstead.

CHANGES.
The Right Hon. Sir Charles Vaughan, G.C. 8., from
Antwerp, or, a tour up the Rhine; the Earl and Countess
of Clarendon, from ditto, for ditto; the Marquis and
Marchioness of Queensberry and Lady Georgiana Douglas,
at Kinrnount, Dumfriesshire, from Eglintoun ; Sir John and
Lady Jane Ogilvie, at Inverquharity, Fifeshire, from ditto ;
the Marquis of Douglas, at the Isle of Arran, from Hamil-
ton Palace ; the Earl of Fife, at Duff House, Fifeshire,
from Eglintoun; the Hon. Capt. C. Forester, M. P., from
ditto, for the Moors : Sir David and Lady Ann Baird,
on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailsa, at Cul-
zean Castle, Ayrshire, from the Tournament; Lord and
Lady Middleton, from the Lakes of Killarney, on a tour ;
the Earl of Suffolk and Lady F. Howard, at Sir John Ogil-
vie's seat, Inverquharity, from Eglintoun; Mr. and Lady
Sophia Desbreux, from Drakelow Hall, Derbyshire, on a
tour in the north% and Major- General Lord Greenock,
on a visit to Earl Cathcart, at Cathcart Castle; Lord
Poweracourt, at Powerscourt Castle. from Glasgow ; Mr.
and Lady Jane Hamilton, at Roselle, Ayrshire, from the
Tournament.