The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-27 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

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RADNOR BOROUGHS.
The election of a member for the Radnor
Boroughs—viz., New Radnor, Knighton, Cefu-
Llys, Knucklas, Rhayader, and Prosteign—in the
room of the late Sir G. C. Lewis, took placa at
New Radnor on Saturday. New Radnor, which is
dignified with the titleoi " town" is a small village
in a retired situation among the Radnorshire hills
and forests, within six miles of a railway and 20
miles of telegraphic communication w ith the rest of
the world.

The proceedings took place in a building called
the Town-hall, where some 200 persons assembled.
The returning officer is the Rev. G. R. Turner, who,
in opening the proceedings of the day, necessarily
alluded to the loss which the nation had sus-
tained in the death of the late Sir G. C. Lewis,
who, he said, had been recognised by all parties as a
model statesman, while his kind and courteous de-
meanour had gained the respect of all, as was testi-
fied by the tributes which had been paid to his me-
mory by the press, of all shades of opinion.

After the usual preliminaries,
Mr. PRICHARD nominated Mr. Richard Green
Price, of Norton Manor, as a fit and proper person
to represent the united boroughs in Parliament. In
re-echoing all that had been said by the high bailiff
as to the late baronet, he said the sorrow which they
felt in Radnorshire at his death was a sorrow felt
throughout the length and breadth of the land. Mr.
Price's politics were in accordance with those of
their late lamented member. He would support
the Government of which Sir George had been the
brighest ornament► and would especially support
that foreign policy which, under God's blessing,
had saved us from the miseries of war. (Cheers.)

Mr. CUMMING seconded the nomination, and ex-
pressed an opinion that Mr. Price would be found
to be a thorough Liberal, and therefore a worthy
successor to their late member. If they elected him
they would not be putting a round man into a square
hole, nor a square man into a round hole, but would
have the right man in the right place.
No other candidate being put in nomination, Mr.
Price was declared duly elected amid cheering.
Mr. PRICE then addressed the electors. He com-
menced his address by alluding to the great loss
which the nation, and Radnorshire in particular,
had sustained in the death of the late Sir G. C.
Lewis. In deference to the feelings of the family
at Harpton Court, he said he could have wished to
defer the election of a successor, but the writ hav-
ing issued on Monday the election was bound to take
place at once. The business of life must go on, and
they were hurried on with it. The seat having
been declared vacant, the next question was, who
was to fill it. In some further allusions to the per-
sonal character of the late member, Mr. Price said
he would be regarded hereafter as a great moral and
political philosopher. He had been bred and born
among them, and they might live ages before they
saw his like again. He was a most exemplary
landlord kind and amiable towards his tenantry and
dependants ; and he had read in the newspapers
that day that the highest lady in the land, our be-
loved Queen, who had herself suffered all the dis-
tressing bereavements which had fallen upon Lady
Theresa Lewis, had communicated those feelings to
her ladyship. (Hear, hear.) With regard to his
(the speaker's) political opinions, he must say that
on that point he had been met by the electors with
one general feeling of trust and confidence. He had
not had one refusal, nor had any one catechised him
on the subject of his political principles. It might
be supposed that he was a mere nominee—a politi-
cal locum tenens to uphold the Government, but he
was bound to say on that score that the censtitu-
ency of the Radnorshire Boroughs was as indepen-
dent as any in the land. They would have here-
after an opportunity of seeing what were his votes
in Parliament, and whether, in fact, he was the
Liberal man he professed to be. If he changed his
colours they would know how to receive him when
he came down again to visit them. He did not
think that at the present moment it was worth
while for him to enter upon any political question.
He hoped he would soon be more alive to the sub-
jects that would come before Parliament than he
then was, but he might tell them that he had en-
joyed the confidence of their late lamented member,
and that his opinions were, as his votes in Parlia-
ment would be, very mush—nay, the very same as
his. (Cheers.) As to the question of civil and re-
ligious liberty, when it was a question between the
many and the few he should vote for the many. He
was a Liberal Conservative, as he had told them in
his address, and he used the word Conservative in
its strict sense. The verb " conserve" meant "to
preserve," but it did not mean "to preserve every
wrong in the constitution." (Hear, hear.) On
the contrary, he would repair, improve, add to,
or progrees. Why should the term be borrowed by
those who seemed to obstruct rather than to im-
prove ? He had also told them in his address that
he was a supporter of Lord Palmerston's Govern-
ment; but perhaps some people remark that that
was not saying much, because they knew many re-
spectable men in the Opposition, strong Conserva-
tives, who were said to have a feeling towards Lord
Palmerston. But he would go further, and say that
he admired especially Lord Palmerston's foreign
policy. And what was his foreign policy ? Liberty
on the Continent. He was the friend of Poland, the
friend of national liberty in Italy. (Hear, hear.) In
conclusion, the hon. member said he had received
from the present baronet, Sir Gilbert Frankland
Lewis, approval of his principles, and he added that,
bad it not been for the family of Lewis the Rad-
nor Borough would not now have a voice in Par-
liament, but would have been placed is Schedule
A of the Reform Act.
Thanks to the returning officer having been voted
in the usual form, the proceedings terminated.