The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1831.

to put one other interrogation arising out of the
fast. Will the Hon. Baronet oppose any attempt
,o raise that qualification above 101.?—(Cheers.)
Sir G. SKIPWITH—I shall support the 101.
franchise, Mr. Parkes.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. PARKE 4 said he now came to the second
part of the interrogatories, economy and retrench-
ment. Has the Hon. Baronet that sense of the
pressure of those national hardens, that he will sup-
port all mot ions for the purpose of reducing the ex-
penditure of the country, and, more especially, the
Oivil Ust ?•—(Cheers.)_

Sir G. SKIPWITII—Most certainly : I have every
disposition to do so; but to answer for my support
of every motion is more than I can pretend to do.
Mr. PARKES--The meeting must be aware that
he put this question as a general interrogatory only,
and he therefore merely asked Sir Grey, would he
particularly support economy and retrenchment in
the public expenditure ?—(Cheers.)
Sir G. SKIPWITH—If I accept a seat in Parlia-
ment,it is for that express purpose.—(Cheers.)
Mr. PARKES—Sir Grey Skipwith having, with
his characteristic frankness, most satisfactorily an-
swered those questions which I have deemed it my
duty to put before this meeting, I beg leave to say,
he will receive my humble but most cordial sup-
port. Mr. Parkes then resumed his seat amidst
reiterated cheers.

The candidates addressed the electors, and a vote
of thanks was, after some discussion, voted to Mr.
Dugdale, the late representative of the county.
The meeting then after three cheers for the
King, three for the Queen, three for Mr. Lawley,
three for Sir Grey Skipwith, and three times three
for the independent electors of Warwickshire,
broke up.

YORKSHIRE.
(Abridged from the Leeds Mercury. )
GLORIOUS TRIUMPH OF REFORM.
This election has terminated in the undisputed
triumph of the reforming candidates.

On Friday morning, between five and eight
o'clock, a heavy storm of snow—a phenomenon at
this period of the year—was experienced; yet it
did not appear to have prevented many freeholders
from attending at York.
The number of persons assembled in the Castle-
yard was about 12,000 or 14,000; and though
large meetings have been seen there, we believe so
great a number of freeholders was never congre-
gated there before.
At a few minutes before eleven o'clock, G. H.
SEYMOUR, Esq., the county clerk, read the procla-
mation for silence.

Sir EDWARD VAVASOUR, Bart. then rose and
proposed Lord Morpeth.

• JOAN MARSHALL, Jun., Esq., seconded this no-
mination.

Mr. FAWKES, seconded by Sir G. CAYLEY, pro-
posed Sir John Johnstone.
Mr. 14ImunADuKE WIvILL, and the Hon. and
Rev. W. HERBERT, proposed Mr. Ramsden.
Finally, Mr. F. CIIOLMELEY, seconded by Mr.
RAWSON, nominated the fourth member, Mr. Strick-
land.

The candidates then severally addressed the elec-
tors, and the speeches being concluded, the HIGH
SHERIFF put each candidate separately to the meet-
ing; and every hand in the yard seemed to be held
up for each. The result was received with several
rounds of cheers, and much clapping of hands,
The Sheriff declared Lord Morpeth, Sr John
Johnstone, Mr. Ramsden, and Mr. Strickland, to be
duly returned.

F. H. FAWKES, Esq., proposed three times three
cheers for our patriotic King, which were given
with unbounded enthusiasm ; and afterwards the
whole meeting sang the national anthem of " God
save the King," uncovered, with a heartiness and
harmony which, proceeding from so vast a multi-
tude, had a thrilling arid truly sublime effect. At
the instance of Sir George Cayley, three loud
cheers were given for his Majesty's Ministers.
The Members afterwards briefly returned thanks
for the honour conferred upon them. The chairs,
or rather thrones, in which the Members were to be
chaired, then entered the yard: they were lofty
chairs, placed on a broad base ornamented with
scrolls, in the manner of an ottoman; the backs of
the chairs were profusely adorned with ribands and
gold, and also with wreaths of laurel. Of course
the whole of these beautiful chairs were of the pure
and bright orange colour. They were severally
drawn by four fine horses, with postillions dressed
in orange. The Members entered them in the order
of their return, arid, alter parading the streets of the
city, they alighted at Etridge's.
After the election, nearly 200 gentlemen dined
together in the Fes'ival Concert-room, at Etridge's
Hotel, Hawkesworth Fawkes, Esq., in the Chair;
and it is scarcely necessary to say that the evening
was spent with the greatest hilarity and enthusiasm.

with apparent cordiality. The preliminary business
having been gone through, the Hon. Newton Fel-
lowes proposed Lord Ebrington again to their notice,
a-s 7 a fit representative for the county of Devon. He
cautioned them against being deceived by bit-and-
hit Reformers. The King had appealed to them,
to know whether or not they approved of their late
Members' conduct. He (Lord Ebrington) had al-
ways been a Reformer, and went to the full extent
the measure introduced by Ministers.
JOHN QUICK, Esq., Seconded the nomination.
Sir G. BAMPFYLDE, Bart., proposed Lord J.
Russell.

Sir HUMPHREY DAVY, in seconding this, was
fully confirmed in his own mind that Reform was
necessary to the salvation of the country.
No other person being proposed, the Sheriff de-
clared it to be the opinion of the meeting that the
Noble Lords were nominated as the representatives
of the county of Devon.—(Loud cheering.)
Lord EBRINGTON then came forward. The Noble
Lord declared that he was an advocate for the Bill,
the whole Bill, and noshing but the Bill.—(Cheers.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL now came to the front of
the hustings, and was warmly cheered. Had the
House of Commons at once rejected it by a
majority of the House chosen by the 'people, it
would have been plain it was not approved
Of, and Ministers must have resigned. On
the second reading, however, the majority was
so trifling that it could hardly be said to be the ge-
neral sense of the House, and when they asked to
go into a Committee, the House of Commons de-
cided that they should not, unless fettered by a re-
solution contrary to all their previous declarations.
It was, therefore, apparent, that the House would
not admit the Bill fairly, and no good could have
been expected from their further debates. The
Ministers, therefore, thought it best at once to ad-
vise his Majesty to refer to the sense of his people
whether their opmions were in accordance with the
opinion given by their representatives. He again
thanked diem for the honour they had conferred
upon him.—(Loud and continued cheering.)
The Court was then adjourned to Tuesday next,
to proceed to the election.

D 0 RCHE S TER, 31.4 y 6.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
We have this instant (half-past three o'clock) re-
turned from the nomination : such a sight, and such
enthusiasm, such unanimity and spirit, were never
before witnessed in this county. I have only time,
as the post goes at four, to state that Mr. Bankes,
-knowing the entire feeling and sense of the county
to be so decidedly against him, and that his cause
is hopeless in every way, his agents have had re-
course to the disgraceful expedient of engaging a
number of hired ruffians, armed with bludgeons, who
attacked, indiscriminately, the persons around them,
and wounded and otherwise ill-treated several.—
The Hon. Mr. i',..sonhy, the M.P. for Poole, and
Captain Granby Calcrui-i, a gentleman from
Weymouth, whose name we do no,: L., when
riding quietly past Mr. Bankes's inn, in Dorchester,
towards Mr. Calcraft's Committee-room, were
stopped by these ruffians, their horses and them-
selves struck, and they were obliged to retire. Mr.
Ponsottby afterwards, in the most spirited way,
charged through them, and was followed by Capt.
Calcraft and their other friend. Captain balcraft
had his hat struck off and cut through by a blow of
a bludgeon, but was luckily not hurt. An investi-
gation is on toot, which, we trust, will satisfactorily
trace the engagement of those ruffians (mostly
paupers and smugglers) to a known agent of Mr.
Bankes, of infamous character ; if so, his cause is
worse than hopeless.

HEREFORD, 31er 7.
I deem it an act of duty to the reforming public
generally, to send you a copy of a letter which was
on Monday last sent by an anti•reforming gentleman
to one of his tenants. You will perceive that the
proud Duke of Newcastle is not the only man who
insults the independence of Englishmen by endea-
vouring to force their fellow-countrymen to pay the
uttermost farthing of rent, arid also to think and act
as commanded by these modern Neros.
You should know that Mr. Adams is a staunch
reformer, and has supported the cause by exerting
himself to insure the return of Sir Robert Price,
Bart., and Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq., as representa-
tives of this county. Mr. Adams's landlord, W. C.
Hayton, Esq., is a Magistrate, and a staunch sup-
porter of our Ex-Member, Sir J. G. Cottervll,
Barr, the late representative of the High Church
and Ultra-Tory parties of this county. The inde.,
pendent men of Herefordshire having simultaneously
risen, and with unequivocal voice told Sir J. G.
Cotterell that, however they might respect him as a
private individual, they cannot falsify their political
opinions by again electing him as their representa-
tive, Sir John, with very good generalship, retired
from the hopeless contest. This defeat, peaceful as
it is glorious, has made the proud-speaking Tories
" bang their nether lip." In the anger of disap-
pointment, Mr. Hayton addressed his letter to Mr.
Adams, who returned the rent to the morrified
landlord. It may be as well to intimate that the dis-
loyal gentlemen of Herefordshire would consult the'r
real interests by not following the example of Mr.
W. C. Ha}ton.
(cory.)
" Mr. Adams,—Now the election mania is over, and
you will by this time have arrived to your more saw,.
senses, I will thank you to pay the whole of n-iy rent, up
to and including the Candlemas rent, on or before the 14th
inst., as I see no reason why I should oblige to any way
those persons who will treat me with ingratitude and dis-
respect. I wish your darling Reform Bill may work in
the way it is expected ; but I am sadly mistaken if those
wiseacres who have been so trot-headed in support of it
will not live to rue the slay of its commencement.
" I am, your's, &c.
" Moreton-court, May 2. " WM. C. HAYTON."
Directed to John Adams, New-house, Marden.

WORCESTER SHIRE.
The poll on the first day of the election
1 for Worcestershire is no criterion of the ul-
timate rest
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ty°o(fiufilil. (e'it:rionionn retiolevLtehYre last day allowed by law. We pre-
of recording success. We know the potency of the
the Reformers in Worces-
tershire, f . ffi ceer,t ands
of purse of the Beauchamps;
but the u
will surmount tershire, as elsewhere, all difficulties.
credit of Birmingham, an active committee
To the
f professional gentlemen, giving
their aid gratui-
tously,sits at Dee's Hotel daily, and liberal sub-
o
scriptions have already been raised towards carrying
the voters in the interest of Foley and Spencer to
property,
xi:tiler efforts
the Poll' Although not a single voter from this
town has yet been sent down to deliver his suffrage
in favour of the Reform candidates, we are given
to understand that Colonel Lygon, with a view of
making a bold front on the first day of the contest,
has almost exhausted his resources in this neigh-
bourhood.
It is a favourable omen to the eventful success of
.Foley and Lygon, that the two first votes were in
their favour, and that the second was given by our
worthy townsman, Mr. Rowlinson. We believe
that on Monday and Tuesday 500 voters will be sent
down from Birmingham and the neighbourhood, in