The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-07 00:00:00

WESTMORELAND ELECTION.

It 13 to be apprehended that some jockeyship is
being attempted with respect to the election for the
county of Westmoreland, by which the great prin-
ciple of Reform may sustain a defeat in this quarter.
Last night the Blue Committee assembled at the
City of London Tavern, to receive communications
from various parts of the county. The secretary,
Atkinson, read a letter frem the Blue Commit-
tee at Kendal, stating that they had acceded to a
proposal from the Lowthers, that Mr. Nowell, of
Underler, near Kirby Sowerby, should be returned
with Colonel Lowther for the county, and that,
therefore, they had advised Mr. Crackenthorpe to
withdraw hie pretension!. This intelligence ex-
cited the greatest sorrow and indignation amongst
the emen present lag night; the more particu-
larly as Mr. Crackenthorpe's canvass has been at-
tended with unparalleled succe.i. In Kendal alone
he has received promises of 233 plumpers. It was
asked, very pertinently, why, it' Mr. Nowell were a
sincere Reformer, the Lowthers should prefer him
to Mr. Cmekenthorpe, It was the unanimous feeling
of the Committee that the latter gentleman should
be proposed for Westmoreland, in defiance of the
Lowthers.

Mr. BLACKBURN', the barrister, moved a
r
inlotion expressing the regret which the Committee'"6-
felt that the friends of Reform its Westmore
should have entered into any negociation with the
Lowther., which was unanimously agreed to.
It is understood that the Committee of the Pa-
triotic tund have offered to advance a sum to sup-
port Mr. Cracigenthorpe's election.
Among other plezes of good news, it may be
stated that the. WestatoreLand _contest is likely to be
terminated in favour of .Reform, ...It appears that
Alexatider Nowell, Esq., of Underley, has been pro-
posed by the Reformers to a party of the supporters
of the Lowthers, whom they had been requested to
meet. This gentleman-had been rejected by them,
and Mr. Carus Wilson, one of their firmest adhe-
rgts, had been brought forward in the place of Lord
Siwtber, rho ;s about to contest Cumberland, Mr.

Wilson's name was, however, so badly received by
all patties, that four days after his address had been
published, another interview was requested by the
Lowther party, and it was then agreed that Mr.
Nowell should be invited by both parties to allow
himself to be put in nomination ; that the Lowthers
should withdraw Alt.. Wilson, and the Reformers
should withdraw their candidate, Mr. Crackenthorpe,
who bad consented to be proposed very much agaitist
his inclination, and merely because no other suitable
candidate could be found. Mr. Nowell has pledged
himself to support the Ministerial Bill of Rtform.
This is surely a gland victory for Westmoreland.

YORKSHIRE.
RETIREMENT OF MR. DUNCOMBE.

The great and opulent county of York will this
day do itself the immortal honour of elec:ing, with-
out opposition, four Members, all pledged to support
the Bill. The anti-reformers have in vain attempted
to obtain candidates.

The anti-reformers, at their meeting held in York
on Friday last, deputed Edward Beckitt Den'son,
Esq. to go to London, and there to see Mr. Dun-
combe, and ascertain what could be done for the
cause of the " friends of the Cons:itution," as they
are pleased to call themselves. That gentleman re-
turned to York on Tuesday, and it was soon spread
round the city that Mr. Duncombe would stand to
the last. Their adjourned meeting was held on
Wednesday, and Mr. Duncombe having arrived in
the city, a faint hope was raised in the breasts of
some of his supporters that their case was not alto-
gr Cher hopeless. But alas ! how soon were those
expectations blasted ! After being in secret con-
sultation (no reporters for the liberal press being
admitted) for about three hours, they came to the
resolution that it was not advisable or expedient for
Mr. Juncombe to be put in nomination. The news
rapid;y spread round the city, and a smile of plea-
sure beamed on every countenance that the friends
of corruption and enemies to Reform were so com-
pletely beaten by the popular voice of a loyal and
patriotic people.

CIRENCESTER ELECTION.—Mr. Cripi:s, M.P.
(who is returned with Lord Apsley), although he voted
for the second reading of the Reform Bill, did not approve
of the whole Bill. However, at the election, the Quakers
(of whom there are an immense body) came forward and
required a pledge from him that lie would support the
whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill ; which he accor-
dingly gave, and thereupon was duly elected.
SOUTHAMrTON, MAY 5. —The town still continues
firm, and seems determined to do its duty. The county
Member, Mr. 'Fleming, has4ng resigned, seems to have
given a death-blow to the Anti-reformers in this county,
and people are much pleased.
DERRY, MAY 5.---Mr. Vernon is about completing a
very hurried canvass of the county. On Tuesday he was
at Alfreton and Chesterfield, and yesterday at Bakewell,
Tideswell, Glossop, and the adjoining places. The uni-
versal zeal for the cause, the respectability and high-stand-
ing of the Vernon family, and the pleasing manners of the
candidate himself, cause him to be received every where
with unprecedented enthtsiasm. Per contra—Sir Roger
Gresley changed horses here yesterday, in the course of
his retreat from Newark. About two hundred people
assembled to witness the departure of the baffled Baronet,
and greeted his appearance with tremendous hootings and
execrations, in the midst of which his carriage drove off,
and the multittide burst into a simultaneous peal of loud
and continued laughter.
CALVE.—The Earl of Kerry, eldest son of the Marquis
of Lansdowne, who will attain his majority on the 21st
instant, has announced himself as a candidate on the next
occasion of an election for this borough.
PETERBOROUGH. —The election of two representatives
for the city of Peterborough took place on Friday, when
no other candidates appearing, Sir R. Heron and Mr.
Fazakerly, both Reformers, were duly elected.
HUNTINGDON (COUNTY), MAY 6.—The election com-
menced yesterday. The show of hands were taken by the
Sheriff, and a respectable number was h-Id up for Lord
Mandeville, but a very few for Lord Strathaven. On the
mention of Mr. Rooper's nime, an immense and appa-
rently almost unan mous show appeared for that gentle-
man. A poll was then demanded fur Loid Strathaven.
DORCHESTER, MAY s.—Mr. Ca.lera,t's cinvass goes
on with increasing success. We regret that a fulling, or
rather fallen, cause should receive even a temporary prop
from the assertions of any indiscreet friend ; it is most
true, with a few patriotic exceptions, that Mr. Bankes has
not only found attorneys to accept his retaining fees, but
has enlisted in his unfriended cause nearly the whole
ii power of attorney." Yet, alas ! all that they have to
sliovr for his money is a " most beggarly account of empty"
canvass lists. The whole feeling, energy, and intellectual
force of the county are so strongly against him, that, in
spite of his attornies, out he must go.
65-HER-BORNE, MAY s.—This town has been put in the
most lively sate of enthusiastic excitement by the unex-
pected arrival of Mr. Crlcraft, accompanied by his son,
Captain Granby Calcraft. To-morrow being fixed as the
day of nomination, we trust such an overwhelming ma-
jority wi:l appear for the cause of lib Arty as will leave poor
Mr. Bankes no alternative but to follow the example set
by his younger brother in unpopularity and obsolete pre-
judices, Mr. Fleming, in the sister county of Hants, and
relinquish a fruitless contest, opposed as he is by the uni.
versal feeling of the enlightened freeholders of Dorset.

WEYMOUTH, MAY 4.-The poll closed here this day.
The Members returned are Richard Weyland, T, F. litux •
ten, and Masterman Ure, Eire., and Colonel Gordon.
Oa Monday forenoon Messrs. Prendergast and Tancred
arrived from London, on the side of Reform, but were too
late to make a successful stand, a compromise with the
leading parties having been entered into with Colonel Gor.
den on the Friday previous, that the friends of the Bill
should return two Members (Weyland and Buxton), and
the enemies two (Gordon and Ure). If this compact
had not taken place, Colonel Go:don must have been
ousted, the universal feeling being against him on account
of the recent disclosure of his proceedings with Sir E.
j 3. Sugden. The latter gentleman did not venture to
present himself.
Coartwati, ELEcTioN.—The cause of Reform proceeds
gloriously throughout the county, and there is no doubt
the freeholders will reject Sir Richard Vyvyan and Lord
Valletort.

1311.11)EWATER, MAY 4.—After a protracted election,
terminated by a 'scrutiny, which was demanded by the po-
pular candidate, the Members of the last Pailiament were
returned yesterday. Mr. Tynte is an honest Reformer,
and had a majority of 124 over Mr. Astell, the East-
India Director, whose patronage for a series of years has
raised many families of this borough into comparative opu-
knee. Mr. Tynte was received with loud acclamation ;
but no effort of the returning officer, or the other candi-
dates, could induce the assembled crowd to hear the Leaden-
ball merchant's speech. Mr. Tynte, who supported Mi-
nisters in their measure of Reform, met with the most en-
thusiastic reception ; and, though he did not canvass for
a single vote, was placed at the head of the poll, having
received the free and unso'icited suffrages of four-fifths of
the el, ctors. The popular excitement was so great against
Mr. Astell, principally because he was an opponent of the
Reform Bill, that it was with difficulty and danger he
was chaired. 4n immense body of special constables were
unable to protect hint ixtirely from the rage of the multi-
tude; several stones were Untied a,t hiin, one of which, it
is said, wounded him in the.face ; and the wipdows of his
lodgings, and the houses of his supporters, were broken.
OLD SARUZt.—The election took place on Monday at
nine, under an elm tree, about 100 yards west of the ci-
tidel of the Old Castle, in Sarum. There was a table and
two chairs, the two Members (Alexanders), and eleven
more—a few minutes, 4 little form, anti the mummery was
over—the two gentlemen were for the last time said to be
duly elected ! Several hundred Reformers went from here
about ten o'clock with a flag, inscribed " The King and
Reform." The Reformers proceeded to cut down the
tree of corruption, and it was divided into small pot Lions.
Mikrenx+9.—Ott Saturday the election, as it is called,
took place in this town. Mr.. Luttrell and Lord Villiers
mounted the hustings with a g.cctl deal of confidence, and
declaimed with much vehetnenee agairu;t the Bill ; which
was, they asserted, the most unjust, tyrannical, 'and revo-
lutionary measure ever introduced into Parliament. "We
are det,ermin4," said one of them, " to fight against it so
Long as we 4rp fighting for your rights." The
people, however, received thcm fijeTy coolly, and laughed
heartily at the folly of flick' masters, ip supoSiPg' they
were so ignorant as 7;4 to know that the struggle was to
maintain tyrannical and illegal inflgence:
WINCHESTER, MAT s.—Haropaitirella97lafitled anotherl
laurel to the wreath of our national victory. Mr. Pier',"
1,7, the anti-Reformer, oveorcfwoltlieheaolginuteie,do,,ess,aisrhlatlesysr.aeytH.isr,eeadbtybfcrtoohmte
theei7enieteldm,nwtba,i:id, dheilsusiloonte"
thought it more prudent not to enter,
two
od
Reformer,,there is no longeer
any impediment to' the return of ce;
donald and Le Fevre. The election willtake place
Mac-
morrow morning. Hampshire, 'lull alit is ofpepolaosicteeeraot:od-f'
rotten boroughs, will return eleven or twelve au
the Bill, instead of five as is the last Parliament, out of 26'
Members.