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TUESDAY, JULY 25.—The
,ugh
took place this day. The two
~ Mr,
Heathcoat (the proprietor of the e: factory
carried on in the town) and Lord Palmerston, again offered
themselves. The Tories brought forward Mr. B. B.
Dickinson, of Knightshayes.
Mr. ROSSITER, presented himself, for the third ertlal to
propose their worthy friend and neighbour, John flool,
coat, Esq., as a fit and proper person to repretant theln in
Parliament.
Dr. KETTLE seconded the nomination 4 Mr. lialtVat,
Dr. WILLIAM HOLE proposed Lord Viscount Pill:aims
ton,_ amidst cheers, and disapprobation from the Pories.
Mr. CHARLES WARREN seconded the norniVition.
Mr. GEORCA BARNE then proposed Mr, ro,ekineeh.
Captain SOLLEY HODOEI seconded nnmination,
Mr. HEATIICOAT then presented I.).inisvlti
end Was welt
received by his friends and stier,orters,
Lord PALMERSTON We received with three hearty qhd
long-continued cheer!—Gen, belief is that 4 sg
tern has been extensively pursuedentle
to deter the electors, y
b*
y
fear of injury to themselves and their families, from doing
that which we heard read this morning, to elect freely and
indifferently the-persons whom they may think fit to rerre-
sent them in Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) Now, gentle in
this is not a solitary case ; it is the regular Tory practicn,
e,
as you will hear when you see the proceedings
oi the dif-
ferent elections. You will hear that the same thing has
been practised wherever a- Tory candidate Inks opposed
men of liberal and reforming princie,les.—(Give the ballot
then!) We are told by some tliat the remedy for this is
the secret suffrage by ballot. Now, I will say this, that if
there is any get of men who are doing more than others to
taring the ballot about, that set of men are the Tories, who
are using those practices throughout the country. I am
not one of those who think that the ballot would ac-
complish the purpose which many of you expect it
would fulfil. I am inclined to think that the
same intimidation and coercion- would still be practised
to obtain the promises which are now used to obtain the
vote ; and when a man has given his promise for a particu-
lar candidate, it would be impossible for him, however
secretly the vote was given, as an honest man, not to vote
according to it. If the practice had been general for. every
man to record his vote in secret, how should we have those
expressions of feeling which are so intimately interwoven
with the practice of the Constitution, and which, in nay
opinion, produce such great, important, and salutary results
to the country ? And if, gentlemen, vote by ballot were to
be the resource 'for those who wish to withdraw themselves
from the pressure of compulsion, those few would still re-
main a small and suspected minority, liable to the suspicions
of both the parties who are anxious to enlist them in their
ranks. It is not to be wondered at if the Tories should be
more than usually active on the present occasion. It is in
this election as the general election of the country—this
election call: from them she dying- effort of an expiringfac-
tion.—(Cheers.) . They feel that the game is almost up
with them, they k!,ow :hat their political existence depeeds
on the result of this election, and we cannot- he surge iced
that, as drowning men catch at every floating straw, they
should struggle to obtain every single vote which they
could extract-from men who differ from them, by threats
ar'rg uperitheir persenal and private interests. Now,
gentlemen, it is curious to trace the workings of this party,
in their attempts to fasten upon the feelings and pas-
sions of the public in this country. When the Reform
Bill was first proposed the cry they set up was, " The
Constitution and the Crown are in danger, the Monarchy
is imperilled, and the Refordi Bill, if carried, will knock tbo
crown from the brow of the Sovereign." The Reform Bill
was carried, the people of England were not made the dupes
of such a cry, and, so far from the Monarchy having suffered.
it derived additional strength from the extension of the privi.
leges of the people. I will tell you what you are the better
for that Reform—l will tell you what you are the better for
the Reform of Parliament. Every one of you is reisea in the
scale of civil society—every one of you is let into n duo share
of the representation of the Government, eitlver of his bo-
rough or his county ; and I say that the min, who find in,-
parted to them privileges of which every man ought to be
proud—of men who are removed from the moral degradation
of finding themselves excluded from, their rights—l say that
these men stand higher in, the respect and esteem of
their fellow-countryme.-i—,l say that that alone is a
great advantage ; but I say more : the habit of publicly
discussing political affairs, the habit of discussing them
with the view tg ,going something thereby, forms th mind
and matures the judgment—is a moral and political edu-
cation, :enduring the people higher in the scale of civiliza-
tion, and more fitted for those purposes for which we were
sent into life.—(Great cheering.) [Here Mr, Heathcoat
put a letter into the hands of the Noble Lord, exclaiming
" London is ail right !"—Three tremendous cheers for Lon-
don.]_.-I congratulate you on this cheering intelligence from
the great metropolis of this empire. London ! the city of
London has done its duty I—(Cheers.) The Bill for
Church-rates would, if it had passed into a law, been
greatly advantageous to the Church, while it would have
relieved the Dissenters, and not have imposed any undue
burden upon any class of men, but it would have provided
at the same time sure and certain funds for the mainte-
nance and repair of the buildings of the Church. The
friends of the Church defeated the Bill in one branch of
the Legislature, and it is not our fault if the present sys-
tem of levying Church-rates still continues a matter of ob-
jection to a large portion of the community. He appealed
to them on the faith which her Majesty had reposed in the
Ministers of William the Fourth. He wished them to show
whether the people of England reposed the same confi-
dence in the Ministry which the Queen did. His Lord-
ship took a view of his public life, and demonstrated that
he had always been an advocate for liberal principles, with
regard to a taunt that had been thrown out on the other
side. He said that when defeated in Hampshire lie might
have had a seat in the Upper House ; and as for a pension,
be never would accept one.
The Mavou called for a show of hands, when at least
five to one were held up in favour of Heathcoat and Pal-
merston.
A poll was demanded for Mr. Dickinson.
Thanks were unanimously voted to the Mayor, and the
meeting broke up. There is no doubt felt in the borough
of the success of Lord Palmerston.

As Queen Elizabeth was returning through Lon-
don, after her coronation, amidst the enthusiastic acclamations
of her subjects, a boy, personating Truth, presented ber with
a copy of the Bible from one of the triumphal arches erected
in honour of the occasion. She received the book in the most
gracious manner, and placing it next her bosom, declared, that
amidst all the costly testimonies that the city bad that day
given her of their attachment, this present was by far the
most precious and acceptable. Elizabeth possessed in the
highest degree those arts which facilitate the acquisition of
popularity, and though similarly brilliant and costly pageants
have frequently been displayed upon such occasions, perhaps
there never %i a s one where the warmest affections of the heart
were so fully reciprocated between the sovereign and the
people.—James's Memoirs of Celebrated Women.
ERROR IN GOVERNMENT.—Nature does not give
the same degree of strength to the footstalks of the leaves of a
tree destined, as these are, to be shed every year, and to
the roots, which are design( d to hold the trunk fast to
the ground. If she did, either the one would be far too strong,
or the other too weak, or both of these inconveniences might
take place at once; yet this is the error committed by almost
all governments. The same machinery is provided to facili-
tate or to impede every change alike, in great or in small
matters ; the same mode is prescribed for the maintaining, or
abrogating, or introducing of every law and every institution
alike. For instance, an Act for regulating the manufacture
of soap, or an Act which should introduce a complete change
in the Constitution—which should take away or restore the
libe, ties of half the nation—must go through exactly the same
forms, and be passed or rejected by the same authorities under
the same regulations ; in short, such proceedings are like a
tree whose leaf-stalks and main-roots have neither more or less
toughness and stoutness the one than the other.--Lady Mary
Fox's Expedition into the Interior of New Holland.
RAPID TRAVELLING.—A gentleman left Liver.
pool last week by the half-past two railway train for Birming-
ham; thence, he posted it to London, which, after sundry
disasters on the road, he reached at six the next morning,
From London he proceeded, by an ordinary stage coach con,
veyance, to Birmingham, and arrived in Liverpool, by the last
railway train, shortly after eleven next night. The whole
journey, upwards of 400 miles, was thus completed, in 3of
hours ; the quickest, there can scarcely be a doubt, on record.
EXTRAORDINARY FATAL ACCIDENT. A few days since Thomas Proctor, a respectable inhabitant of Wel-
sham-le- Willows, accidentally took up a needle, and while
carelessly bending it between his teeth it snapped, and the
greater part of it passed into his throat. Severe inflammation
following, after twelve day's illness he was prematurely re.-
moved from the circle of an affectionate family.
STORM.—On Saturday, during a violent thrthder-
storm, the trunk of an oak tree belonging to Thomas 'Sheldon,
Esq., at Abberton, five miles from Pershore, was
its bark by the lightning, and one of the large stripped of
branches was
split to atoms. The tree has now a remark%ule appearance;
if the bark-rippers had been at work with. their instruments,
they could not have denuded the loWin part of it more effec-
tually.

CIWI;;Ls RoYAI4.‘--There are six organists at-
t'"2LnAt to these eAablisliments—Messrs. Attwood, Elvey, Rut.
teridge, Knyvett, Roberts, and Sir George Smart. Their
deputies are—Messrs. Massey and Cooper. The new organ
at St. James's is, we understand, to be removed to Bucking.
ham.palace, as the chapel at St. James's is but ill adapted for
The chapel at Whitehall is excellently constructed for
a choir, and the organ, small as it is, has still a fine and power,
ful et-rect.—Musical World.
Among the curiosities at Apsley-house is the truckle
'bed.in which the Duke of Welliggton sleeps. " Why, it is
so narrow," exclaimed a friend, " there is not even room to 4,
turn in it !" " Turn in it," cried his Grace, " when once a
man begins to turn in his bed it is time to turn out,"