The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-19 00:00:00

feries have introduced new movements for increasing
or diminishing the speed of their original haymaker,
and have given the springs more power. Cranston's
American haymaker excited much attention by the
grotesque action of its semi-rotary forks.

Messrs. Jacob Wilson and J. Thompson, the
judges of agricultural vehfcles, have given prizes as
follows :—For pair-horse waggons, £lO to the
Beverley Iron and Waggon Company, £6 to Ball,
and £4 to Milford ; for other waggons, £lO to

Hayes ; for single-horse carts, £4los. to Hayes,
£3 to Woods and Cocksedge, and £2 10s. to Ball ;
for two-horse carts, £4 10s. to Hayes, £3 to Mil-
ford, and £2,105. to the Beverley Company ; for
harvest carts, £4 10s. to the Beverley Company ;
£3 to Hayes, and £2 10s. to A. and J. Fry ; and

for market carts on springs, £6 to Puckering and
£4 to the Beverley Company. The awards to

mowing and reaping-machine prizes are not fully
fully completed in time for the despatch of this re-
port.

To-morrow is the last half-crown day, and then
Thursday and Friday will open all the wonders to
the public at the fee of one shilling.
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Eir E. B. Lytton in Hertfordshire.

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The nomination of members for the representation
of Hertfordshire took place yesterday at the tem-
porary hustings, erected in the Plough Field, at one
extremity of the town of Hertford, Mr. F. A.
M‘Geachy, the high sheriff of the county, presiding.
There were four candidates for the three seats to
which this county is entitled—namely, the Right
Hon. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Mr. A. Smith, and Mr.
11. E. Surtees, who were the members in the late
Parliament, and one Liberal, the Hon. 11. Cowper,
a brother of Earl Cowper.
The usual legal formalities having been disposed of,
Mr. R. W. GAUSSEN proposed the Right Hon.
Sir E. B. Lytton as a fit and proper representative
of the county. (Cheers.) The right hon. baronet
had first been returned as their member in 1852,
and he had ever since continued to deserve and to
receive their confidence. (Cheers and uproar.)
Mr. W. ROBERTS seconded the nomination.
Mr. C. HALE nominated Mr. Abel Smith ; and
W. WYMAN seconded the proposal.
Mr. PARKER nominated Mr. Surtees, who had for
the first time been elected in the month of March
of last year. But he (Mr. Parker) believed that
the more they knew Mr. Surtees the better they
would like him. (Cheers and clamour.)
Mr. H. B. Brandram seconded this nomination.
Mr. G. J. BOSANQUET, amidst continued cheers
and uproar, proposed Mr. Cowper.
Mr. JONES LLOYD, in seconding the proposal, said
the Liberals had been extremely moderate in their
putting forward only- one candidate ; but that was
the last occasion in which they would be content
with that number.

No other candidate having been proposed,
Sir E. B. LrrToN came forward amidst enthusi-
astic cheering and waving of hats, and proceeded
to address the meeting as follows :—Gentlemen,
electors of Hertfordshire, on the first day that I
began my canvass I expressed a hope that, however
exciting this contest might be, we should fight it out
with good humour and perfect courtesy towards
opponents. (Hear, hear.) Hitherto we have done
so ; and now, on this day of nomination, we appeal
to you, and I ask you to show us the same good
temper and courtesy which we have been endea-
vouring to show to one another. (Hear, hear.)
Now, gentlemen, for my own part individually, I
should be quite content to leave my case to what
has been already said by the gentlemen who proposed
and seconded me. It is now thirteen years since I
first asked for your suffrages. You have since then
elected me four times ; and I cannot find among
those who first supported me a single man who says I
have betrayed his confidence or lost his good opinion.
(Cheers.) I will humbly believe that even among
those who oppose me—that even among those fellow
Englishmen in the crowd who are not prepared to
give me their support—there is not one who thinks
that if he were to go to the most distant part of
the country and say that I am or have been his
member, he would be told by any other man
he might meet, whether Whig or Tory, or Radical,
that he need be ashamed of his representative.
(Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, there I leave my case,
and I now trust to the same kindness which has
already supported me four times. Upon this occa-
sion we have only a single opponent. For my own
part I wish that we had three, and that the gentle-
man who seconded the nomination of Mr. Cowper
was one of the number, for we must admit to Mr.
Cowper that, in thus standing alone, in addition to
his own very considerable merits and those of his
family, there is something plausible in the argument
which is advanced on his behalf, namely, that a
party which comprises so much property and so
much intelligence as the Liberal party in this county,
even though it has been proved at former elections to
be in a minority—(hear, hear, and no, no)—is still
entitled to one representative out of the three you
have now to elect. (Yes and no, and uproar.) But
that argument, although plausible, is exactly the
argument of the representation of minorities, which
has always been rejected by the Liberal party. (Hear.)
If it is to hold good in Hertfordshire it must hold
good in other parts of the kingdom. But Ido not
know one place in which the Liberals, after having
ascertained by former elections that they had a ma-
jority, have ever granted a single seat to the Con-

servatives. (Hear, hear.) 'We may take the next

county—the county of Middlesex. Middlesex has
a population of 4,500,000 persons, who return four-
teen members to Parliament. Nobody can deny that
the Conservatives possess a large proportion of the
wealth and intelligence of the metropolitan county ;
and yet how many seats out of the fourteen in that