The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-11 00:00:00

Mina Villt

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1847.

Wherever a Liberal candidate has appeared upon
the county hustings remarkable evidence has been
afforded of the progress of those principles which tend
to the perfect emancipation of commerce, and the
furtherance of constitutional reform. Almost, with-
out an exception, the county elections which have
been contested have terminated in the triumphant
return of men devoted to the popular progression, as
well as of men devoted to the Protectionist retrogres-
sion. In consequence of those successes the Conser-
vative influence has been nullified in several of its old
strongholds ; for the balance of the Free-trade Mem-
ber and the Protectionist Member for one and the
same shire will materially lessen the force of the
latter upon the division lists of the approaching Par-
liament. Thus, for North Durham there are SHAFT°,
a Liberal, and SEAHAM, a Conservative ; for South
Durham there are VANE, a Liberal, and FARRER, a
Conservative; for the Southern Division of Northum-
berland there are OGLE, a Liberal, and BELL, a Con-
servative; for East Somersetshire there are PINNEY,
a Liberal, and MILES, a Conservative ; for South
Essex
there are BUXTON, a Liberal, and BRAM.'
STON, a Conservative ; for North Cheshire there
are STANLEY, a Liberal, and EGERTON, a Conserva-
tive ; for Bedfordshire there are RUSSELL, a Liberal,
and ALFORD, a Conservative ; for North Lancashire
there are HEYWOOD, a Liberal, and PATTEN, a Con-
servative ; for West Kent there are HODGES, a
Liberal, and FILMER, a Conservative ; for North
Hampshire there are LEFEYRE, a Liberal, and HEATH-
COTE, a Conservative ; for-West Glcsncestershire Mere.
are BERKELEY, a Liberal, and MALE, a Conseriaave ;
for South Staffordshire there are ANSoN, a Liberal,
and INGESTRE, a Conservative; for West Surrey
there are DENISON, a Liberal, and DRUMMOND, a
Conservative; and for East Worcestershire there
are FOLEY, a Liberal, and RUSHOUT, a Con-
servative. In . England alone, therefore, there
are already fourteen important county con-
stituencies where the Protectionist influence is
nullified by the coupling of Liberal candidates
with those who are staunch adherents to the
Country Party. Besides these there are five
of
other county constituencies immense interest, either
by their numerical strength, o
their magnitude, or
their position, which have re posed
th their confidence
entirely and implicitly in men
of
opinions : these five constituencies beinge most liberal
North Der-
byshire, South Lancashire, East Cumberland, the
West Riding of Yorkshire, and Middlesex.
The decision recorded yesterday at the polling-
booths by the electors of the metropolitan shire is
one of no ordinary importance. It recalls to our re-
collection the days when Middlesex was satisfied only
with representatives pledged in the most decisive
manner to the furtherance of constitutional reforms.
It reminds us, moreover, not only of the historical
triumphs of JOHN WILKES in 1768 and 1769, and of
the equally memorable return of the then glorious Sir
FRANCIS BURDETT, in 1802, but it revives a retro-
spection of the reception given by the Middlesex
constituents to the late Father of the House of Com-
mons during the contest of that memorable election.
It reminds us, too, of 1820, when GEORGE BY Sc was
again associated with a l
Whig, •
SAMUEL CHARLES WHITBREAD ande the person of
afterwards of
the successive elections of 1830, of 1831, of 1832,
and of 1835, when GEORGE
sent to Parlia-
YNo, the Whig,
and JOSEPH HUME, the Radical, were I 3
ment together as the representatives
te
of
recollectionthe electors
of electors
of Middlesex. It must still be in h
some thousands that, in 1837, Mr. HUME was thrown
out, afi4 Calmat (then Captain) THOMAS WooD,

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