The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-11 00:00:00

NORTH WILTS.

THURSDAY.—The formal declaration of the poll was ap-
pointed to take place this morning at eleven o'clock, and
punctually at that hour, the High Sheriff, attended by the
two successful candidates, appeared upon the hustings. The
muster of Sir Francis Burdett's friends was very strong,
and as the greater number of them were covered almost
from head to foot with ribands, their appearance was suffi-
ci:ntly gay ; it must be admitted, too, that it was very
highly respectable. The supporters of Mr. Long yielded
nothing either in numbers or respectability to the friends of
Sir Francis, but they were not garnished with so much
finery—they did not owe half so much to the mercer or
milliner. No one appeared on the part of Mr. Methuen,
and as few of his supporters mingled in the thron;, the
friends of the successful candidates had it all their own
way, and had nothing to do but to oheer. There was no
repetition of the disgraceful proceedings which took place
at the nomination. The coalition which was formed on
the second day of the poll between Mr. Long and Sir F.
Burdett, and to which the former owes his election, re-
moved all differences between their supporters, and made '
them unanimous in their applause of both. A better-
tempered or better-conducted meeting never assembled.
When the cheers which the approach of the newly-elected
Members awakened had subsided,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared the numbers to be as
follow :

For Sir F. Burdett
Mr. Long
Mr. Methuen
This announcement was received with great cheering.
The HIGH SHERIFF then declared Sir Francis Burdett
and Walter Long, Esq., to be duly elected as Members

o represent the northern division of Wilts in Parliament.
—(Great cheering.)
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then presented himself amidst
the most enthusiastic cheering. When silence was ob-
tained he said—Gentlemen, give me leave in the first place
to congratulate you, the electors of the county, on the suc-
cessful termination of those exertions you have so nobly and
public-spiritedly made on the present occasion.—(Cheers.)
In the next place let tpe express my own satisfaction at
the proud situation in which you have placed me—having
the honour of addressing you now, not holding out hopes,
but speaking of certainties.—(Cheers.) Being now your
representative, it is my business to pay every due attention
to your individual interest, without any marks or distinc-
tions between you—(Cheers)—for I consider myself the re-
presentative of the whole county. I hope and trust that
like Englishmen, when contests are ended, however
spiritedly they may have been carried nn and resolutely per-
sisted in, you will be willing to shake hands when the fight
is over, and feel no animosity towards each other.—
(Cheers.) We may hope that the proud spirit of inde-
pendence and patriotism which you have shown will have
a most beneficial influence in supporting the unrivalled,
long-tried, and glorious Constitution of cur country ; and
at the same time let me express an earnest hope that
you will consider in the same spirit of fairness that those
who have been opposed to us have a right also to follow
their own honest opinions, and that those over whom we
have gained an advantage in this county are not to be
looked on in any other light than as conscientious and
honourable adversaries.—(Cheers.) I hope, further, that
from henceforth all animosities and rivalries, disagreeable
as they may have been, which have arisen, and which must
necessarily arise when great contests are depending, will
entirely subside, and that all the men of North Wilts wid
feel as noiehbours and friends, and none the worse for
having had this great and glorious struggle.—(Cheers.) I
have had some experience in matters of this kind, and it is
but due to the people of North Wilts to say, that if I
were to look back to any contest in which I have been en-
gaged, or of which I have known or heard anything—from
the beginning to the end, from the first moment I received
your honourable requisition— a requisition more nume-
rously signed than perhaps was ever before presented to
any individual—you have with unswerving fidelity acted
upon those principles, in support of which you called on me
to serve you, have fully justified the course you took, and
shown that in North Wilts at least promises are not different
from facts and performances. I am, therefore, proud in-
deed of the situation in which you have placed me—proud
to be put forward to fight the great battle of the country—
(Cheers)—for we live, gentlemen, in a crisis when more is
to be obtained or lost than at any period that has ever oc-
curred from the time of the great revolution of 1688 up to
the present moment.—(Cheers.) This is but a continuance
of that great struggle, and you have given a sample which,
however, 1 will not say is the only one by many whi,ch has
been given throughout all England in the present contest—
you have given a sample that you have not loss the spirit
of your ancestors—(Cheers)—that you have not lost that
sense of the importance of our great institutions, and that
like them you are :sow fighting—l own with a very puny
enemy in comparison—(Laughter)—the same great battle
in defence of the Constitution of this great Protestant
State.—(Cheers ) You have shown, too, that you are de-
termined to maintain it is defiance of all gainsayers—and,
above all, against the assaults of insolent, domineering
Popish priests, with their great paid coadjutor, Mr. Daniel
O'Connell—(Groans)—who is not ashamed, nor, as it
seems, is an ignorant Papist priest ashamed, to receive the
homage of a man failing down upon his knees in the
mud before him.e—(Cheers.) I have little now to say to
you, for I should not like to indulge in any appearance of
triumph on an occasion like the present. We have suc-
ceeded in a great contest with our countrymen, and the only
hope I now express is, that my conduct will be 01.44 as to

give satisfaction to all parties--(Cheers)—and that those
who in this struggle have been my opponents--I wit
not say Ply enemies, for they are my countrymen—wi!l, tt
further experience of me, abate their opposition, and become
my friends—(Cheers)=-so that whenever I again meet an
egsdttibly of the electors of North Wilts I shall find. them
all unanimous in my favour, and meet with nothing but the
smiling congratulatory countenances which I saw in my
progress to these hustings, and which I have now the plea-
sure of addressing.--(Cheers.) With these observations I
now take my leave, sincerely thanking you, and expressing
My warm admiration of the energy of your conduct, and my
pride at having the honour to fill the high situation in which
you have placed me.—(Continued cheering.).
Mr Lore next presented himself, and was received with
great enthusiasm. He said—Electors of North Wilts, if,
on ordinary occasions, I have felt a difficulty in conveying
to you the deep sense I have felt of the flattering and kind
manner in which you have invariably received me, how
much greater must that difficulty be when I have to thank
you for the high honour you have conferred upon me, in
making me, for the second time, oue of the representatives
of this important division of the county—(Cheers)—and
that, too, with comparatively very slight exertions of my
own.—(Renewed cheering.) I told you when I had last the
honour of addressing you from this place, that I should leave
my cause entirely in your hands, and you have, indeed,
carried me through triumphantly.—(Cheers.) I feel, how-
ever, that I should not be doing justice to you if I were to
end my observations here : it is to the agriculturists and to
the Conservatives of this division of the county—(Deafen-
inn cheers)—l repeat, it is to my friends the agriculturists
and the Conservatives of this division of the county that I
owe my return upon the present occasion—(Renewed cheer-
ing)—for those upon whom I had a greater right to rely,
and towards whom I might confidently look for support,
have abandoned me in the most shameful manner—(Con-
tinued cheering, and cries of " Bravo.") It is a source of
very great gratification to me to know that, amidst the viru-
lence and violence of party spirit which arc always insepa-
rable from contested elections, not one word of reproach or
disrespect has ever been uttered against me—none at least
has ever met my ear.—(Cheers.) Stories have circulated
among you—and stories there always will be on oecazions
of this descriptionbut one tale has gone forth which, I
confess, has surpriied me, and which I cannot allow to
pass by unnoticed. It was stated on Monday last—l
did not know it t;11 the latter end of the day, or I
would at once have contradicted it from this very place
—it was stated, and, I regret to say, by a clergy mats of
the Established Church, that I was engaged during the
greater part of Sunday with Sir John Hobhouse, at Erle
Stoke, in the discussion and consideration of political sub-
jects ; and to this assertion the charitable observation was

added, that if I had gone to church, I should have obtained
more votes. Now, the fact is, that on Sunday last I at-
tended divine worship twice at my own parish church,
and spent the whole of the remainder of the day with
my family, never having visited Sir John Hobhouse
since Friday, when I made a personal call, and left in my
carriage without either seeing him or alighting from my
carriage.—(Cheers, and cries of "No Ilobliouse!") I
feel it unnecessary to enter now upon political top'cs—l
feel convinced that with the aid of my honourable friend
Sir Francis Burdett the business of the county will be con-
ducted with as much regularity and advantage as it has
ever been.--(Cheers.) I have very great pleasure in
having him for my colleague, and I hope I shall derive
very great advantage from his experience in the House of
Commons.—( Cheers, and cries of " Don't kick over the
traces, Long r) As I have said before, Ido not wish now

to enter upon political matters. Be assured it will always
be my best endeavour to promote and support such

measures as shall insure the stability of the Constitution,
and promote the prosperity of the agricultural, commercial,

. .
and manufacturing interests of this great empire. •
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then proposed a vote of thanks
to the Sheriff for the impartiality of his conduct throughout

,he whole of the election.

The proposition was seconded by Mr. LONG, and carried
by acclamation.
The HIGH SHERIFF returned thanks.
The new Members then retired amidst the loudest cheers.
Sir Francis Burdett was conducted in great state to Ncw
Park, the residence of Mr. Estcourt, M.P. for Oxford Uni-

versity, where he had been staying during the whole of the

election.

Shortly afterwards the crowd dispersed, and the town was
restored to its usual quietude.

IRELAND.

Every post from the sister isle brings us accounts of
some new victory obtained over the klanoverians by the
friends of the people. The enumeration of the elections
already brought to a close, as well as those now il,rogressing,
is the record of a series of triumphs. Ireland has, in truth,
nobly done her duty in the present glorious struggle for
the rights and liberties of the United Kingdom ; and tiLe
history of the present period will live in the grateful recol-
lection of ev ‘ry man capable of appreciating undaunted
zeal, generous sacrifices, and pure patriotism. The people
of Ireland have evinced, by their conduct in retard to the
elections, an a'lmirable unity and determination of pur-
pose. They have not fainted on the way, they have
not succumbed to the enemy—yielding to no ob-
stacles—spurning bribes—defying menaces—aud tramp-
ling under foot those foul influences which the To-
ries in some parts of England have succeeded in bringing
to bear against the people, they have manifested to the
world an uncompromising hostility to Toryism, and an ar-
dent love of liberty, worthy of imitation, and beyond all
praise. All the Irish elections, tco, o; which we have any
account, appear to have gone off quietly, with one excep-
tion—we mean Dawnpatrick, where two Tory candidates,
Kerr and Keown, were opposed to each ether, and certainly
there never was a more dreadful system of outrage prac-
tised at any election than that to hick has prevailed from the
beginning to the close of the contest in Downshire.
ltuthvcn has resigned ; Messrs. O'Ferrall and Archibo'd
are consequently the members for Kildare.

In Cork (city) the state of the poll on Tuesday evenir g
at 4 o'clock was--.

C.Naghan
Bearnish

......
Mr. Hume's return for the city of Kilkenny is gall and
wormwood to the Tories. They have issued orders to their
evening organ to throw as much dirt upon the electors as

the Conservative scavengers can collect. Kilkenny is ac-
cordingly called by the Mail " The Hospital for Outcasts,"
and ivi,h equal truth of assertion and felicity of diction,
O'Connell, Hume, and Ewart, are outcasts thereunto be-
longing. In the same paper we find also the following
morccau relating to the Tralee election :—" Mr. Bateman
returned against Maurice O'Connell by a majority of
eleven—Mr. Bateman had four men unpolled. Mr.
O'Connell and his father had themselves chaired, to the
disgust of the respectable part of the inhabitants of the
town of Tralee." But the defeat of the faction in the city
is the stock subject. We have mysterious threats—dark
insinuations, intermingled with oracular words, such as

" A petition has been finally determined upon, and that
eminent Counsel are retained." Then a little lower down

lc hostile column is conspicuously printed—'

A petition

hos been determined upon : await its result." The defeat
of
Messrs. West and Hamilton is, of course,. merely tem-
porary and nominal. It is morally impossible, according to
our amusing contemporary,.that they should not succeed in
driving from their seats Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Hutton.
C• arts verrons. The Reformers have nothing to dread from
a terutiny. Can the Conservatives say as much ?