The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-01 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE, WEST RIDING.

WAKEFIELD, MONDAY NIGHT, JULY 31.—The nomi-
nation of candidates for the representation of this division of
till county took place to-day. At a very early hour the
usual symptoms of a county election began to manifest them-
selves. The partisans of the Liberals, Lord Morpeth and
Sir George Strickland, and of the Conservative, Mr. John
Stuart Wortley, had assembled in considerable numbers at
sit o'clock in the morning, and paraded through the streets,
preceded by banners and bands of music ; by ten o'clock
immense numbers of persons had arrived from the various
districts of the riding ; and by eleven, the hour fixed for the
nomination, the area in front of the court-house, where the
hustings were erected, was thronged with the friends of the
candidates, amounting to many thousands, wearing the
favours of their party—the Liberals orange, and the Con-
servatives blue. Lord Morpeth and Sir G. Strickland were
loudly cheered by the orange favours, and Mr. ‘Vortley by
the blues.

Shortly after eleven o'clock the High Sheriff arrived, and
the usual formalities having been disposed of,
Sir FRANCIS WOOD proposed Lord Morpeth, and Mr.
JONATHAN ACROYD seconded the nomination.

Sir E. VAVASOUR proposed Sir George Strickland, and
Mr. WARBURTON, of Sheffield, seconded the nomination.
The Hon. EDWINLASUELLE s then proposed Mr. Wortley,
and Mr. John BaooK seconded the nomination.
Lord MORPETH then came forward, and was received with
loud applause by his friends, and with disapprobation by
the blues. He said—Gentlemen, after no long interval of
time I meet you here again, and I flatter myself that we
now meet not as those who never met before. I now stand
before you again, as within the 'last fortnight I have stood
in every important town and place of this important Riding,
before their congregated electors and inhabitants, to render
up the charge they had committed to me, and to give up my
guardianship of it to their scrutiny and their sentence, and,
if these be not unfavourable, to solicit its renewal.—(Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, I have the honour of being confronted
with the same opponent as before, and that he is a worthy
one I trust is no less congenial to your feelings than I am
sure it is to mine. With respect to the proceedings in
Parliament in which I have been mainly concerned
since I had the honour to be sent thither by your last
decision between us, I have in England acted under
the Government of Lord Melbourne.—(Cheers.) I have
in Ireland formed part of the administration of Earl
Mulgrave. Here at home in England I have supported a
searching and complete reform of our Municipal Corpo-
rations, with a view to render them accessible and available
for popular controul and popular benefit. I have assisted
to effect such a general commutation of tithes as will ren-
der their burden less burdensome, and to render them effi-
cacious in their application to .their improvements in agri-
culture.—(Cheers and groans.) I have endeayoured to
remove every obstacle which was obnoxious to the con-
sciences, or grating to the feelings of our Dissenting brethren.
I have lent my cordial aid to every attempt that has been
made to extend the efficiency, and heighten the purity of
the Established Church—( Loud cheers, and cries of " Oh,
oh !")—and I have given my latest votes for a further di-
minution of capital punishments. I have been called upon
to labour more particularly in the sphere of Irish politics.
Gentlemen, the soil of Ireland has long been the booty
of successful invasion, and the prey of contending fac-
tions. One species of property alone has survived them—
the property of the Church, the patrimony of the poor.—
(Cheers and groans.) Now, it so happens that an im-
mense majority of the Irish people profess one form of re-
ligious faith, and that some proportion including the most
destitute portion of the most destitute community on the
face of the globe. Now it happens that all the revenues
which had been given by munificence and liberality in
former ages to minister to the spiritual wants of all have
been appropriated not in proportion to the numbers, the
poverty, or the ignorance of the people, but solely to the
uses of a scanty proportion of the great mass—that por-
tion whose constant boast is that it engrosses all the
wealth, the education, and the learning of the country—and
concluded, therefore, that it was right not to deprive the
small minority of its more than share—but to apply a slight
offshoot of the national fund to the use .of the majority—
to allow some small dribblets to stray from the resources of
the lords of castles and of acres to refresh the hamlet and
enlighten the cabin.—(Vehement cheering.) Every at-
tempt, however, of this nature has been fiercely opposed
and perseveringly thwarted by the Tory, or, as it is called,
the Conservative party in Parliament, and I find that Mr.
Wortley fully concurs in and abets this policy.—(Cheers
and groans.) Gentlemen, I have mentioned to you the
Reform of the English Corporations ; abuses, far more
extensive and shameless than those which existed there, ex-
isted and are acknowledged to exist in the Corporations of
Ireland. We attempted to extend a corresponding reform to
Ireland because we felt that the Irish people had received a so-
lemn national compact and pledge that they should be ad-
mitted to all the privileges of the people of England. Here,
Gentlemen, the same Tory party step in again, acting on
this occasion under the special guidance of Lord Lynd-
hurst, backed by Princely, and now Royal Cumberland.—
(Laughter.) And they say that till they are satified that
the exclusive possession of Church property shall be re-
moved beyond danger—that is, till every attempt to effect
a more fair distribution of its revenues be defeated, they
will not entertain the abstract and independent question of
a reform of the crying corruptions of the Irish Corporate
system ; and Mr. Wortley has identified himself with the
policy of the Tory party, and the leadership of Lord Lynd-
hurst. Gentlemen, I have also done my best to introduce
a system of legal relief for the poor of Ireland. Now, I
need not say a word more on this subject, for as far as re-
lates to an Irish Poor-law, there is no dispute between me
and. Mr. Wortley or his party. Indeed, I fancy that as far
as the English Poor-law is concerned, there is little prac-
' tical difference in the eourse that either of us would pursue.
There arc, Gentlemen, parts of .the law, relative to the ASCNNT OF MRS. GRAHAM'S BALLOON.—Not-
' machinery, to the constitution of the Board of Guardians withstanding the melancholy catastrophe which so recently at-
and the mode of inspecting and auditing accounts, wh'nei, tended the descent of the parachute of Mr. Cocking, the rage
ought to apply everywhere ; but I think also there is for gazing at balloons appears to have suffered little or no di-
in the law itself ample power and elasticity to adaptminution. Yesterday evening a great crowd of persons as-
s
adjust its provisions to any particular cireuir".tanc and lo and
-
sembled at the Rosemary-branch Gardens, at the further ex-
calities ; and all I shall add is, that if its pr c
ovations arc found tremity of Islington, to witness the ascent of Mrs. Graham.
,
on experience of them, to need to ' It had been announced that Mrs. Graham and another lady
clearly defined, or if the existieigv'e' oe extended or more were to be the occupiers of the car, and the comparative va-
gulations shall be proved riety of two ladies ascending together, had, no doubt, some-
to have been pushed on veep'•
Liously in districts where they thing attractive to the spectators. If such were the case, they
are needed or forced. or where they are not needed, I shall were in part disappointed ; Mrs. Graham ascended not in com-
bo as ready as Mr,
ortley to promote inquiry and exact parry of the lady who was announced, but with her husband.
redress.—(ClYzer,.) But, gentlemen, judging from all I This substitution was, considering all things, a very judicious
It will be quite as well, after the recent calamitous re-
have seen eala *heard in this Riding, I ant convinced that the one.
attempt suit of experimentalizing, for ladies at least to confine them-
-° fasten upon the Whig party the exclusive sup-
port selves to the surface of the earth, and itw illbe equally edify-
patronage of the Poor Law Amendment Act, is
infg fo;:itlinet pu b Ipi cv tor
thwitness ans
tees
redeanyt without
was w
e managed and
all:*au.y seen to be a mere electioneering clap-trap and de-welllthme
ltreon. It has lived through its little day and served its oconadcuicteed.s. At half-pastg6yoe'clock the inflation being corn.
puny purpose, like the old dish of " O'Connell and his plete, the balloon ascended, and took an easterly direction, the
tail," with which I was so plenteously regaled on the last wind blowing tolerably fresh from the west, with a slight in-
occasion, but which I stn happy to say, I find no frag- clination to the south. Shortly before the ascent took place,
ments on the track of my Hon. Opponent in the present the balloou of Mr. Green, which ascended front the Yorkshire
year.
Stingo, passed nearly over the grounds of the Rosemary-
At this moment (as appears from the report of the branch; he was hailed with shouts, and the apparent rivalry
of the two balloons was the cause of increased interest to the
tween the two rival arties, the Blues and the Yellows,
Morning Adver titer) a most terrific conflict commenced be-
p beholders. We arc happy to say that Mra.t ainidratiNlrs.inGErasham
and Mr. Green effected a safe landi
n
the former espousing the cause of Mr. Wortley, and the within half-a-mile of each other. Afte6 packing u
; 'p
their Essex
xll
latter that of Lord Morpeth and Mr. G. Strickland ; but loonss Mr. and Mrs. Graham and Mr. Green, and the gentle-
so closely were the combatants mixed, and so sudden was
man who accompanied him, came to town by the same convey-
the affray, that it was impossible, beholding it from the Lust- twee, and arrived at the Gardens shortly after 11 o'clock.
ings, to say which party were the aggressors. 'I i
The contest
aIV
On Saturday morninz, the d instant, the captain
as commenced, and continued for a considerable ntery
and mate of the sloop Jatnes, of Perth, were aroused from
with slight sticks, with which the combatants appeared to have sleep about five o'clock by cries of " Fire,"' and running ott
deck they found a great quantity of smoke issuing-froth the
been casually provided, rather than deliberately armed for
any purpose of premeditated hostility, but the contest soon hatchway of the forecastle, in which the crew slept. The
assumed a fiercer and more sanguinary character ; thick captain called down to alarm his men, but receiving no answer
branches of trees, as well as the poles of the colours and ho went below and found the poor creatures lyin-' dead front
banners, which were mutually wrested by the one party suffocation. A coroner's inquest was held on 03 bodies in
from the other, serving as more efficacious and deadly in_ the course of the day, when the following verdict was returned :
strutnents for the gratification of their reciprocal animosity. Th homes Gow,te
—" That the deceased, James Goa', aged 25.;
()ca.
In many places might be seen individuals whose condition
19 ; John Ferrier, 16 ; and John Pope, 14, were suffocated
afforded a trim-
afforded indisputable proof of the savage determination of by the vapour front the fire caused, Georgelliseandle against the
the contending factious. lleads laid open and faces dim- was employed. The
mer, improperly and orgligic;iltvsl.3:ltitte&hueig
figured with blood, met the eye in every direction. The jsi de of theidt.
as,
no pi t
heant s,a
strongest terms a usage which has led to
iron.railiog enclosing the Court-house, had given way a short thuirsylcaomien'table result, and earnestly recommend to shipowners
time previously, and it is a mercy that the bars composing that means should be im:nediatvly issued to put a stop to so
it were net resorted to to render still more fatal the cow- l dangeNus a Pragti"'"

this was effected loy smashing the window-sashes, and by
leaping from a considerable height into the body of the
Court, which thus became intensely thronged in the course
of a few minutes. Into an adjoining chamber many
wounded persons were conveyed, and the gashes which
they had received were temporarily dressed. In about an
hour after this period, we were enabled, by making a con-
siderable detour, to get out of the town, matters for the
moment being a little more tranquil, and the High Sheriff
being in the act of addressing the surrounding crowd, for
the purpose of endeavouring to restore order. Not less
than 50,000 could hare been engaged at one time in this
fearful battle.

WORCESTERSHIRE—(MONDAY.)
The election for the West Division of the county took place
to-day, when the Hon. Colonel Henry Beauchamp Lygon,
and Henry J. Winnington, Esq., the old Members, were
returned without opposition. The former Member is a
Conservative, the latter a supporter of the Queen's Go-
vernment.