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cry of " confiscation !" This pointed to the propriety
of abolishing property qualification : and with respect to
the remuneration of Members for their services, he rd..
vocated the principle just on the same grounds on which a
master would employ his servant, and not make him work
for nothing but the perquisites or privileges to be gathered
from the nature of the office. It was astonishing to find
men who would not go on opposing the new Poor-law
Bill. as that measure was a manifest injustice and outrage
on all policy, especially as the Corr. laws prevented the
industrious poor from obtaining their own bread. He
was the determined opponent of a system of education
which was sectarian, and as religion was not made the
subject of a squabble at the door of a cook's shop, he did
not see why it should be at the door of a shop for food for
the mind. Knowledge was power, and those who disliked
the power of the people disliked their knowledge. ROI,
gion had in all ages been perverted into an instrument of
oppression. The different religious sects might get over
the difficulties in the way of appropriating the national
funds to education in three ways—first, by consenting to
introduce such instruction on religious subjects as all
could unite in ; secondly, by agreeing to leave religious
instruction to the teachers of the several sects at the or-
dinary times and places; and, thirdly, by directing
that those who were to be instructed should pass an
hour or other fixed period in receiving religious instruc-
tion from their respective teachers before they entered the
general school, the teachers and parents of the scholars
being bound to provide arrangements for the same. The
Colonel then proceeded to speak at some length on the
state of Ireland, the imbecility of the Whig Ministry, and
the hopelessness of being enabled to obtain the rights of
the people at the hands of the Whigs. The Radicals
were acting at fearful odds, but resolution and persever
ante might accomplish everything. He concluded amid
loud cheers.
Sir G. MURRAY then came forward. He considered
the chief security of liberty to be a preservative of the ba-
lance of interests,,, and that there should be no oppressive
ascendancy in the system. With respect to local Govern-
ment, he thought a local administration of affairs most likely
to preserve freedom, but he strongly objected to con,
tralisation, or, in other wards, there should not be in
the head of the Government a controlling power to
extend into the minute concerns of individual communities
throughout the country.—(Loud cheering.) As to the
Corn-law question, he thought that subject naturally con-
nected itself with the principles of free trade. It would be
indiscreet to remove every restriction on trade, and take
away prohibitions from every branch of industry ; but it
was their duty to come as near as possible to that principle,
and he thought that there should he such duties imposed as
would serve as a!protection to all the branches of industry.
Many persons in all departments of industry began to think
whether it would not be better to have a fixed instead of a
fluctuating duty. On that subject his mind was completely
open. Sir George concluded a cautious, not to say an
ambiguous, speech, by declaring that he did not consider it
consistent with the institutions of a free 'country, in which
even the standing army of the Crown was an object of jea-
lousy to the Legislature, that the Secretary of State should
have a standing army of police all over the country, sub-
ject to his control alone. lie: was partial to local autho-
rity for the administration of local purposes. With respect
to the charter of incorporation. its validity yet. remained
to be decided in a court of law, and to that decision he
should bow with due respect. He was no friend to the
Poor-laws.—(" Suffrage.") The Gallant Colonel on his
Taft had distinctly stated his anxiety to promote several
changes which be mentioned. He was net prepared to go
quite so fast as his brother officer on that subject. He re-
peated that before they tried more changes they should
abide the longer working of the present machinery.
An ELECTOR—WiII you favour us with your opinions on
the Ballot?

Sir G. MURRAY said he was persuaded the Ballot would
not answer the object of keeping the votes of the elector
secret, and that he preferred the open and frank expression
of public opinion.
A series of questions, many of them prepared in writing,
was put to Sir George Murray by Mr. Nightingale, a
leader of the moral force Chartists in Manchester. They
embraced the subject of the New Poor-law Bill's immediate
almlition,Universal Suffrage,.Short Parliaments, the remis-
sion of the sentences and prosecutions of Chartists, and the
resistance to any measure introduced into Parliament to
legalize a charter of incorporation whiCh might prove to be
invalid. Sir George expressed himself in favour of amend-
ing and improving the present Poor-law Bill if it could
be made into a good law; if not it would be far better at
once to return to the law of Elizabeth. On the subject
of the other questions, and the employment of the po-
lice, and the charter, be repeated the opinions expressed in
his speech, but declared that he thought no charter of in-
corporation should be forced on the inhabitants ; on the
contrary, that it ought not to be granted unless it were
shown beyond a doubt to be the general wish of the
borough, and that it was considered as a decided boon.
He was most anxious, he said, on all these points to ex-
press his general views, but would not consent to fetter
himself by anipledge as to detailed and particular measures.
Mr. PRENTICE came forward to put some questions to
Sir George Murray, one of which was whether Sir George,
when Member for a Scotch county, had attempted to la
beralize the Scotch Poor-law ?
Sir GEoRGE MURRAY said there were not the same com-
plaints as to the administration of the Scotch Poor-law as
the English. (It was with great difficulty that the crowd
would permit him to answer the question, and on Mr.
Prentice attempting to persevere in his interrogatories he
was compelled by a storm of hisses to retire.) Sir George
then retired.

The declarations of the qualifications of the three candi-
dates were then demanded, on a request signed by six
electors, put in by Mr. Dixon.
Sir George Murray and Colonel Thompson made the
declaration required by the Act of 1 and 2 Victoria ; an.]
Mr. Greg not being forthcoming to make the declaration,
Mr. Dixon, on behalf of Colonel Thompson, requested the
Boroughreevc to take notice that he consequently protested
against a show of hands being taken for Mr. Greg, or his
name being put on the poll.
The Boroughreeve then proceeded to take the chow of
hands; after which he declared the election to have fallen
upon the Right Hon. Sir George Murray, upon which a
poll was demanded on behalf of Colonel Thompson and
Mr. Greg.
The poll will take place to-morrow, as will also the
Mayor's nomination.

CAMBRIDGE ELE,CTION-THE

NOMINATION.

CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 4.--After the preliminaries had
been gone through at the Guildhall, the friends of both
candidates repaired to Parker's Piece, Mr. Manners Sut-
ton's taking precedence. There were about three or four
thousand persons present. Shortly before eleven,
The MAYOR called upon the electors to propose such
candidates a's they thought proper to represent their irate•

rests in Parliament.
GEORGE FISHER, Esq., proposed the Hon. Henry Man-
ners Sutton.
Mr. BARTLE rT rose amidst loud cheers and hisses to
second the nomination of Mr. Manners Sutton. He ob-
jected to the sole possession of power in the hands of one
party on public grounds, because the Conservatives, having
an equal interest and influence, ought to share in the re-
presentation of the borough. He had shown no mean
talent—( Great laughter)—no slight ability. His courtesy
and affability were allowed on all hands—they were appre-
ciated by his opponents. Mr. Bartlett then proceeded to
pull to pieces Mr. Gibson, after which he said he intended
nothing personal to him. Mr. Sutton would perfectly sa-
tisfy them all that he knew nothing about the bribery—
(" Oh 1 will he?" and uproar)--and he bad for himself,
and on the behalf the Committee, to disclaim all con-
nexion with the transaction.—(Uproar.) It now only re-
mained for him to conclude with the pith of the story—
that was to second the nomination of Mr. Henry Sutton.
Professor HENSLOW then presented himself. After se-
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a total change in Mr. Gibson's political opinions, and he
would beg to observe that any man who changed his
opinions, upon conviction and deliberation, was likely
to be more steadfast in that opinion than in any opi-
nions that were casually taken up.—( Cheers.) But there
were some parties who wished to take to themselves all the
judgment, and to cast a stain upon every action of those
who, from conviction and mature deliberation, adopted a
different line of policy. What then, he should like to
know, did the same party think of Sir James Graham, of
Lord Stanley,and others, and what plea would they bring
forward for their conversion ? The Rev. Professor said
he would not trespass further on their time, especially as
he should be succeeded by a more able advocate than him.
self, but would at once propose Thomas Milner Gibson as
a fit and proper person to represent this borough in Parlia-
ment.—( Shouts of applause, intermingled with groans
from the right.)
Mr. Alderman RICHARD FOSTER briefly seconded the
nomination.
Mr. SUTTON then came forward, and as he was proceed-

ing, some one shouted out " bribery 1" to which that gen-
tleman immediately responded, by saying, "As to that I
have only to declare on my honour as a gentleman I know
nothing whatever of the matter."--( Cheers.) Mr. Sutton
then proceeded to state the grounds on which he was op-
posed to national education, to the repeal of the Cern-la es,
the introduction of the Ballot, and Reform generally. He
then earnestly implored his friends to be early at the poll,
and if they did this he was sure they would be not only tri-
u,srlphant, hut win the day by an overwhelming majority.
Mr. GntsoN, who was received with enthusiastic cheers
from his own party, and groans from the opposite, said he
had been called upon to explain to the electors the reasons
for his change of political opinions. 1‘ How is it," asked
the gentleman to whom he alluded, "that I had two years
.ago the ;pleasure of meeting you (Mr. Gibson) at a Con-
servative dinner?" when he now appeved in Cambridge
as a Liberal candidate for their suffrages. He could ex-
plain this satisfactorily to his own conscience, and this was
the only reward he asked or cared for, even though the
explanation should not prove equally satisfactory to those
before Here an interruption took place immediately
ander the hustings, which for some minutes put a stop to
the Hon. Gentleman's address.) He called, upon the op -
posite party, whO arrogated to themselves the character of
maintainers of law and church, and religion, to remember
that by their uproarious behaviour they were coinromising
the candidate whom they supported. The Mayor inter-
fered, and Mr. Gibson continued, in a powerful and con-
vincing speech, to state the reasons that induCed a
modification in his political opinions. As be was
making some remarks on intolerance, a scene of
dreadful confusion occurred with cries " D—n the Roman
Catholic religion." When order was restored, Mr. Gib.
son said he wished to know by what principles of truth or
justice it was that Roman Catholics and Dissenters should
be excluded from the benefit of even that partial education