The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-17 00:00:00

NEWARK ELECTION.

This t•rwn is again the scene of a great political contest.
This (Wednesday) morning the election commenced for a
Representative, in the room of Colonel Willoughby, who
was the nominee of Lord Middleton and the other part-
ners of the Duke of Newcastle, in the boroughmongering
trade carried on at Newark.
At ten o'clock the doors were thrown open, and the
usual preliminaries being gone through, J. J. BIGSBY,
Esq., the Mayor, took the oaths as returning
officer.

Mr. Alderman THORPE proposed, and Mr. GILSTRA?,
of the Hotel, seconded the nomination of William Farn-
worth Handley, Esq , their fellow townsman.
Mr. WM. KELP, in a long and able castigation of the
" United Interest," and the advocacy of the vote by ballot,
proposed, and Mr. HENRY HAGS seconded, the nomiria.
tion of Mr. Serjeant
_ _

Mr. JOHN LYNE SIMMITT proposed, and Mr.
seconded the nomination of Charles 'Wilkins, Esq., of
Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire.

W. F. HANDLEY, Esq. returned his grateful acknow-
ledgements to his townsmen for the invitation which be
bad received to offer him-elf, and declared himself an ad-
vocate for every practical measure of retrenchment and
Reform.
Mr. Gitsox appealed to the electors in behalf of Mr.
Serjeant Wilde. Their fellow townsman's system of Re-
form was not sufficiently explicit, but the Learned Serjeant
was an advocate for the vote by ballot, and for making the
voice of the people heard.
CHARLEsLitm, Esq., (who was proposed for the
purpose of giving him the right of speech,) in an eloquent
address, which occupied above an hour i❑ the delivery,
advocated the cause of radical Reform, and called en the
people to take up, not the cause of Serjeant Wilde, but
of themselves and of the country; he urged en them the
example of Preston, and gave unanswerable arguments in
favour of the ballot.
Mr. HITCHENS, (Editor of the Newark Tinges,) also
advocated the ballot, from the examples that Newark af-
forded.

The MAYOR then put it to a show of hinds, which wag
itnmensiy in favour of Serjeant Wilde, and a poll was
demanded for Mr. Handley.
The people appear determined, like those of Preston, to
work themselves without a candidate.

NEWARK ELECTION.--Since our last, the
town has been a scene of activity and bustle,—the Red
, party have bee❑ actively engaged in the canvass, attended
by banners and band, and from the circulars put forth by
Mr. HANDLEY, after each day's canvass, it would appear
he was very successful. The Blue party, as representatives
of Mr. Serjeant WILDE, on Thursday morning com-
menced their canvass, and the spirit which manifested it..
self, and the attachment which was uniformly expressed
towards the Learned Serjeant, was the theme of general
conversation, and the success which accompanied the can-
vass was such as to leave no doubt whatever of a success-
ful issue. Mr. PEARSON, before he left, pledged himself
that tke Serjeant would be at the poll oo_ the day of no-
mination, and the Committee entered most actively into
the canvass. Each night the town was paraded by torch-
light, and upon arriving at the Market-place, Mr.
HITCHINS, in favour of Mr. Serjeant WILDE, addressed
the assembled multitude; at the conclusion, the meeting
quietly separated. On Saturday night, the state of
the canvass in favour of the Learned Serjeant, left
no doubt ae to the final result, and the electors seemed
inspired with a confidence of success unexampled. On
Sunday a letter was received from Mr. PEARSON, stating
that Mr. Serjeant WILDS: could not come, as his avocations
were of that important and pressing nature as to render it
not only inconvenient, but quite impossible, that be should
leave London. No thermometer ever fell from summer
beat to freezing point with more rapidity than did the en-
thusiasm of the Serjeant's partisans. On Monday morning
the band was out, and also the flags; the committee not
re•-commencing their canvass, soon spread round the town
that Mr. WILDE was not coming, and many were the re-
marks which were made. Mr. HANDLEY was seen driving
in his gig, personally canvassing those who were from home
when he had before called, which was considered strong
evidence of his doubting his success. Serjeant Wurix'a
Committee determined, from the success of the canvass, to
carry on the contest, and yesterday resumed with unabated
vigour the canvass. They have written to Mr. Paunisorr,
of Louth, to be the attorney, and they seem determined to
contend it to the last. Our private opinion we shall not
offer. —L incoln Times.

We regret to learn that among the unfortu-
nate individuals who have lost their lives by the late storm
was a female who had wandered off the road, near the old
barracks at Musselburgh, and had got into a lane close by,
where she appears to have been entangled hi the snow,
which was lying very deep, and Theperipsivaless.eh led
bodyt was
discovered perished.
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search, when the corpse was found.—Edinburgh Advert.
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and Behring's Strait, undertaken by direction of the
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of co-operating with Captains PARRY and FRANKLIN,
will, we understand, be published in a few days. Captain
BEECHEY, during his long voyage visited Easter Island,
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