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tided Reform Members,—of men who will vote for
the Bill,—the whole Bill,—and nothing but the
Bill. Ireland is doing its work gloriously, and will
soon become as dear to England as she has hitherto
been hated. In Scotland, also, there will be a ma-
jority for Reform; and never did the people of any
country rouse themselves so nobly as the people of
the North are now doing. They have no voice in
the elections; but all that they can do, they are
doing, and we know enough of their spirit to say,
" Woe to those of their countrymen who shall take
upon them to act in contradiction to it !"—Morn-
lag Adm., /iscr.

GENERAL ELECTION.

D ORSET SHIRE, MIT 12.
THIRD DAY.

Again has the good cause triumphed, in spite of
the menaces of the landlords, the cajolery of the
attorneys, and the pitiful prayers of the parsons of
Dorchester. At half-past five o'clock the High
Sheriff declared the poll.
_ _ _

Mr. Powratas came forward to address the free-
holders. He bad again, he said, the satisfaction of
coming forward to return them his thaeks for the
honour which they had conferred upon him in keep-
ing him in the same position on the poll in which
they had placed him yesterday. Feeling that though
they might be kept there for fourteen days, they
would be kept there to enable them to state their
sentiments on the Reform Bill to their excellent and
patriotic King, he would take leave of them for the
present by saying, that lie was proud of the situa-
tion in which they bad placed him on the poll, and
that he returned them his heartfelt thanks for plac-
ing him in ir.—(Cheers.)
Mr. CALCRAFT requested them to continue their
present exertion,, for when they recollected the
great number of voters which yet remained in the
county unpolled, they ought not to consider the
cause of Reform gained. Indeed, they ought not
to consider it gained until a majority of the free-
holders of the county had declared themselves in
favour of Reform. He was sorry to say—and he
did not mean to say it invidiously—that a degree of
vexatious inquiry, quite foreign to the points into
which alone inquiry ought to be made on these oc•
casions, had taken place into the qualification of
every freeholder who had tendered a vote for him,
and that this circumstance had created such a delay
in the reception of votes, that at no county election
at which he had ever been present had so few votes
been placed on the poll during a poll of three days'
continuance.—(Cheers.) The only way in which
ee could account for this was, that unnecessary diffi-
culties had been thrown in the way of the fair exer-
cise of the elective franchise.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BANKES then came forward to address the
electors, but was received with some slight dissa-
tisfaction. There were cries, not of "No Bankes,"
hut of "No Blacks," which created laughter.—
When these had subsided, there were cries of " We'll
have him salted ;" alluding to Mr. Bankes's votes
against the repeal of the salt tax. When silence
was obtained, Mr. Bankes said, that he was much
obliged to the two gentlemen who had preceded
him,—gentlemen with whom he was sorry to have
to enter into competition on any subject—(Cries of
"Then why don't you retire ?")—for having fairly
des-red their supporters to keep silence whilst an-
other person was speaking for himself, and deliver-
ing sentiments not in unison with the majority of
those then present.—ec Well ! that's a confession.")
He hal to complain, nor of the proceedings of any
gentlemen in that town, for he acquitted them of
all participation in the outrages w hich he was about
to denounce, but he had to complain of the pro-
ceedings which had taken place in other pars of
the county, and he specifically meant those which
had taken place in that town, which was the great
access to Dorchester from the eastern pacts of the
county.—(iris-es.) There had been in Blandford
and its vicinity ebullitions of violence, by which
those persons who had intended to come in his
• favour to the poll had been most unwairantably im-
peded.—(Hisses, and cries of " Hear.") He begged
that he might not be misunderstood : he %sus not
speaking of violence that had Liken place either in
Dtechester cr in the neighbourhood. The manner
in which the poll had been conducted here was most
honourable and most !lir. He had no complaints to
make against it. He put it, however, to those who
politically were most inimical to him,—and per-
sonally he hoped that no freeholder of Dcrsetshire
was inimical to him—(Cheers)—whether it was
fair, when ell the candidates wished that all the
freeholders, whether they were high or low,—whe-
ther they were in exulted or inferior stations,—
should be induced to come to the poll ;—he put it
to his greatest political enemy, whether it was fair
that any of the freeholders in his interest should be
obstructed on their road to give their franchise ac-
reeellog to the dictates of their own conscience.—
(Cheers.) He promised the meeting, that, as fir
as he coal, he would prevent any friends of agents
of his from producing unnecessary delay in the poll-
ing-booths.—(Cheers.)
Mr. RurrFat then appeared at his old pest on the
hustings, and was received with great eteering. As
fur as his own personal feelings were concerned, he
Must say, on his conscience, that, whenever he rose
to answer the °lista% ations of Mr. Bankes, and saw
that he was an elderly gentleman, weuk in body, if
not in ruling—(A laugh)—he felt intimidated and
innost unable to proceed.—(Laughter.) Had Mr.
Bankes been a young and vigor ius moo like him-
self, he should buys felt greater pleastee than he
then did in coming forward to reply to his argu-
ments.—(Here there was some interruption from a
noisy Bankesite in the crowd.) nut interruption
was a specimen of the sincerity of Mr. Bankes's sup-
porters, when they declared that their desire was that
individuals of all parties should be heard fairly.—
(Hear.) He had as much right to address the free-
holders of Dorsetshire as Mr. Bankes himself had.
Bankes had alluded to the vexatious delays
which had been created in the poll-booths to the re-
ception of votes. He could state that to his own
knowledge, those vexatious delays were made prin-
cipally by the agents of Mr. Bariiies, and were made
upotigr
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sessors' books—tor he had sat in the asses;ol'
booths from ten o'clock in the tnornittg till the close
of the poll, in order that he might be able to deter-
mine from what quarter these unnecessary delays
arose. After the attention which he had given to
the subject, he felt himself obliged to say, that they
occurred more numerously front the agents of Mr;
Bankes, than from the agents of Mr. Caleraft.
The election was then adjouroed till the next
morning at ten o'clock. Some idea may be formed
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there are forty for Calcraft and six or seven for the
other candidates.

Every thing has been most tranquil during the ilay.
Mr. C.'craft repeated this evening to his Com-
mittee his pledge to vote for the Bill, the whole
Bill, and nothing but the Bid. He also said that he
would forego any objections stihich he might have
to the details of the Bill, rather than endanger
the success of its great and leading principles. This
declaration was received with the greatest enthusiasm.

CHESTER, MAY 12.
The following, hand-bill has this evening been cir-
culated in Stockport, to the great mortification and
disappointment of the freeholders in the interest of
Lord Belgrave and Mr. Wilbraham. Their Com-
mittee was sitting at the moment the placard ap-
p ea
red. It isimpossible to describe the feeling of
contempt it created. Extensive arrangements had
been made to convey the voters to Chester, and the
La W Committee had finished their laborious duty of
cxamining the qualification of such freeholders as
claimed a vote. The hunched of Macclesfield, in
which Stockport is included, has upwards of 3,000
good votes, and out of this number Lord IL Chol.
Imondeley would not have polled 200 ; and even in