The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-10 00:00:00

ES SE X-C HELMSF 0 RD, MA y 9.

Tle Blues, it would stem, are determined to die
game, and in this Toryish and hitherto parson-go-
verned county, the expiring s,ruggle of a disap-
pointed and defeated faction will be a desperate one
Seeing that they have no possible chance of success,
they have resolved to put the Reformers to as
much inconvenience and expence as they can ; and
it is reported that they have received a large remit-
tance from the Charles-street gang to enable them
to prolong the contest. But all their efforts will
not do; they will only add to the disgrace of their
ultimate discomfiture. The freeholders came up to
the poll at their own expence, they refuse to accept
of any kind of treating; and it is a fact highly cre-
ditable to the solicitors of Essex, that they have
given their able and zealous services to the cause
without fee or reward. The contest, is likely to be
protracted till the latter end of the week. A great
number of parsons came up to-day from various
parts of the county, and of course tendered plumpers,
for Tyrrll.
The poll was open until half-past six o'clock.
Mr. WESTERN came forward amidst much ap-
plause. There was now a great crisis; the question
was whether they should have a full, fair, and free
representation, or have a boroughmongering repre-
sentation.—(Cheeis.) lie denied that he had made
any coalition. It was the cause which had united
in indissoluble bonds those who were determined to
rescue the representative system from its present de-
graded state. Would any one say that it was a per-
sonal coalition which had driven Sir E. Knatchbull
from Kent, Sir Thomas Acland from Devon, Mr. j
Palmer from Berkshire, and Mr. Ward from the city '
of London ? No ; it was the spirit which had gone
abroad amongst the people of England, and which
had made them determine that the cause of Reform
should be triumphing.
Colonel TyRELL expressed his satisfaction that
the contest was catried on with so much good hu-
mour. He repeated that he had no intention what-
ever of retiring. He was only fourteen behind his
opponents on that day's poll, and if he were asked
when this contest would terminate, he would say
that, to the best of his opinion, it would not be
ttrminated until the last hour of the 15th day. He
denied that the people of this country had called
out for R-form until the events which had occurred
in France and Belgium. Up to that period that
which was now described as the ruling passion of
the people was as cold as a vestal virgin, and had
no more Wood in it than an oyster.—(Laughter.)—
There was no man who now said he was for the
whole B;ll.—(Cries of " We are all for it," " We
must have it.") He was no advocate for the borough-
mongers, but if there was in future to be no other
channel for getting into the House of Commons than
by the popular voice, he thought that a certain
number of boroughs should be reserved to be sold
publicly by auction, the money to be applied to the
exigencies of the State, so as to afford a number of
independent Members the means of getting into
Parliament, where they might express their un-
biassed opinions free from the trammels of mobs and
democrats.

Sir F. AGAR said, that this day was the most
glorious one for the great cause of all that had al-
wady passed. Ire was sure that the contest, so'
far from continuing until the 15th di, would be
over in a very few days.
Mr. HARVEY having been loudly called for, ad.
,aced the freeholders at some length. He was
surprised, considering the number of despatches
which had been forwarded on Saturday night to the
various clergymen throughout the county, to em-
ploy the pulpit as a place for issuing proclamations
in favour of the Tory candidate, that that candidate
was at the bottom even of that day's poll.—
(Cheers.)—He did not wonder that the clerical
army of the faith had stood forward in such a man-
ner, and in such a cause, to support their own
aggrandizement; for one of the best effects which
would be sure to follow a Reform. in Parliament,
would be a proper reformation of the tithe system.
Shortly before nine o'clock, the Court was ad-
jammed until ten o'clock this morning.