The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-18 00:00:00

NoRTHAMPTON, MAY 17.

Lord Althorp yesterday afternoon published an
address to the freeholders, which has in a great de-
gree silenced the absurd charges of his political
enemies. But it has had a better effect oven than
this. It has relieved his Lordship, once arid for all,
from the necessity of replying to these paltry attacks;
and has left him free to grapple with the great na-
tional subject of the Reform Bill. In his address,
accordingly, from the hustings at the close of the
poll yesterday, Lord Althorp uttered not a word in
vindication of his own personal conduct. He as-
Bove(' the paramount importance of " the great po-.
htical principle" which in Northamptonshire is " put
issue;"in and he called upon the freeholders to re-
gard this contest not as a trial of strength between
one private interest and another, but as between the
high interests of the people of England and the
narrow pretensions of the boroughmongers, who had
so long oppressed and insulted them. His Lordship,
with reference to a statement which had been im•
puted, he doubted not inaccurately, to the Lord
Advocate of Scotland, that it was the intention of
his Majesty's Government to admit essential altera-
tions in the Bill, affirmed most, distinctly that no
alteration whatever would be countenanced that
could in the slightest degree affect the great prin-
ciple of the measure. This declaration was received
with the most enthusiastic cheers, and will be
doubtless hailed with equal approbation throughout
the United Kingdom.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
There is no shift, it appears, be it never so base
and despicable, to which the boroughmongers will
not resort, in their present sta'e of desperation,
in order to gain their point. The agents
or friends of Mr. Cartwright, knowing that Lord
Althorp is safe, and Sir C. Knightley distanced, and
that in truth the race is between Lord Milton and
Mr. Cartwright, are now resorting to the mean ex-
pedient of canvassing for Lord Althorp and Mr.
Cartwright. One instance of this at least has just
come to our knowledge, with regard to a freeholder
of the name of Forscutt, residing in Long-lane,
Smithfield, who was thus canvassed; in how many
other eases this has occurred time will show. At
present we can only say "Ex uno disco wanes."

TRIUMPH OF REFORM IN CHESHIRE.
Cheshire has nobly done her duty by sending two
Reformers as her representatives, in Lord Be!grave
and George Wilbraham, Esq. Lord Henry Chol-
mondeley would not venture to come to the poll,
but sneaked off to take refuge in his brother's bo-
rough of Castle Rising. There is an almost uni-
veral regret that a contest did not take place, as it
would have shown the Anti-Reformers how utterly
insignificant they are as a party, even in Cheshire.
It is now upwards of a century (July, 1727)
since there was a contested election for this county,
or, we believe, a regular trial of strength between
the Whig and Tory party, who have for a long
series of years past divided the representation of the
county between them. How much longer this ar-
rangement will be suffered to continue it does not
require the gift of prophecy now to foresee. The
day is gone by, as Mr. Wilbraham justly said, in his
excellent speech on the hustings, when a knot of
Cheshire squires could meet in the three-cornered
room at the Crown Inn at Northwich, and say who
was and who was not to be a membtriof this county.
The contending parties on that occasion were Crewe
and Cotton; the latter, who was the successful com-
petitor, the grandfather of the present Lord Com-
bermere. `I he contest was a most severe and ex-
pensive one. The following notice of the chairing
appeared in the Chester Journal of July, 1727, in
the grammatical and highly descriptive language of
some learned Theban and talented gentleman of the
press of that day, possibly the printer of the paper,
who, most probably, united in his own person the
functions of editor and pressman also ;
"Mr. Cotton and 11Ir. Cholmondeley was chosen mem
hers in Parliament for this county, and they was carried
on men's shoulders up and down the streets, and the
people shouted as if they was mad and hewieht."

BIRTHS.
On the 16th inst. in Huntley.street, the lady of F. J. Prescott,
of a son.
On the 16th inst. in Connaught square, the wife of W. IL
Place, Esq., of a daughter.
On the pith inst. at Vauxhall, Mrs. Charles L. Francis, of a
slaughter.
On the 15th inst. Mrs. Wyndham Portman, of a son.

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On the 17th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Right
,Eialouigl.hltteorboefrtLoGrarocsl,:o•Tor, to the Hon. Charlotte A. Wellesley,'
On the 17th inst. at Marylebone, A. F. Bainbridge, Esq. to
Lily Matilda, eldest daughter of R. Rickards, Esq., of Wimpole-
street.

ED.
On the 17th inst. Mary, wife of Mr. W. H. Humpleby, of the
Borough-market.
On the 15th inst. 'Ali's. Gray, the wife of E. Gray, Esq. of Har
ringay, near Hornsey, Middlesex.

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