The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-28 00:00:00

BE VERLEY ELECTION.

The following is a brie' outline n! the proceedings,
with the speeciies of Mr. L. Murray on Thursday and
Friday. On Ar. Fox being nominated, he addressed the
electors ',Teri '--riefly.
T. Last: ls MURRAY, Esq., was then announced, and or
his name being mentioned, it was the a gnat for laud and
enthusiastic cheering. After this had subsided, he ex-
prtssed the pleasure he felt on witnessing in their intel-
lectual countenances the determination of men who were
ready to discharge an important public duty. They had
' heard words from the gentlemen on the other side, but he
w,is afraid all their ideas had gone fox-hunting.—
( Laughter.) They would see the next day who would
get the brush out of the tail.—( Applause.) He stood
th re for two important objects the first was to
give them an opportunity of sending a Member to Par-
liment who would fully and fairly represent their
opinions, and the other was to give them the opportunity
of saying whether the present Liberal Government should
remain in office.—(Cheers.) If returned (as he con -
dkatly expected he should be) it would show in some
ia-legsure, that the people of this country were determined
' the obstructive principle which had hitherto guided the
Turks should no longer continue. This state of thing.

must not continue. The Government of the country
sick of their situation, but the Tories had not the
eiyirage, even if they had the power, to take it from
them. Their sole wish was to produce exasperation
and confusion in the country, for the mean object of
throwing contempt on the Ministry.—( Applause.) But
the electors were too wise to be tricked by such machi-
rritions ; be came among them for another reason, and
tic. t was to give them an opportunity of saying yes or no
to the question, "Shall Beverley be a close Tory borough ?"
--(Shouts of " No")—whether they weu d be the serfs of
the Tories, or assert their independence. —( Cheers.) His
Hon. Opponent was a very gentlemanly man certainly, but
he ( Mr. M.) was afraid if Mr. Fox were sent to Parliament,
be would not trouble the House very much.—( Laughter.)
That was not the time to send Members who could not
deliver their sentiments on any of the great public ques-
tions which agitate the country, but w,iuld allow Sir
iillbert Peel, or any ether Mini!, er, to ou• their votes in
pocket. If they roturriud him (.I'l-. Murray) he did
not intend always to give the IVlnistry his vote. but he
would do so when they w i ere n danger from the
—( Applause.) He should be ashamed of himself it
asking their suffrages. if he did net feel an innate Cor.
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leading questiolA of the day. The state of
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by the transfer ,f 4 pocket horou,-e) from oil-, portion of a
family to another. It they allowed sucks practices, the
country would cry shape upon them. He could well
untieratand some such conversation as this between two
brothers after dinner—" It does not suit my convenience

to go to Parliament this year; just go down to the elec.
tors of Beverley ; they are good fellows, and will sent
you.—(Laughter.) And when we have exhausted the
i faasily of the Fox, perhaps we nosy get come of the family
of the Goose, and it willed° just as well."—( Renewed
j laughter.) ...icriously speaking, he believed on that
occasion they were not prepared to submit to any such
transfer. They had heard some of the Tory orators talk
of foreign diplomacy. If there were one thing more than
another which the Tories ought to feel ashamed at, it was
the very notion of Tory diplomacy. By the diplomacy of
I the Tory Government. Turkey had been left to the prey
of Russia, and the Dardanelles had been closed against the
British flag, the design of Russia in the treaty of Adria.
nople was, by having possession of the Black Sea, to con-
quer the inhabitants of Circassia—those indomitable
people who had resisted Russia for ages, and whose
women were so beautiful that they were the lights of the
harems of the Princes of the East.—( Great applause.)
But that country had been defeated of its wishes, and
our flag shonld still wave victoriously without the firing
of a gun over the waters of the Black Sea. He then
alluded to the blunders of the Duke of Wellington and
the Tories-in the treaty of Vienna, which had allowed the
independence of Poland to be destroyed ; and with regard
to Algiers, Tory diplomacy had given that country and
the great power which the Caliphs once possessed, into
the hands of the French. The divisions in Canada, too,
had originated from Tory blunders, yet by good manage-
ment Canada had been preserved to us. Mr. Mur-
ray then declared himself in favour of House-
hold but not Universal Suffrage, as had been represented ;
he would, however, be content at present with the repre-
sentation given to them by the Reform Bill, stripped of
all its machinery by which persons were deprived of their
votes. In the borough of Beverley, for instance, he would
make it a duty incumbent on his worship the Mayor to place
every man who had a vote on the register, without the pay-
ment of a shilling, the giving of notice on a particular day,
or substantiating the vote in a Registration Court. It was
also said he was in favour of Annual Parliaments. This
was not the case; he did not wish the agitation of a con-
test to be renewed once a year; the habits of the
people; the state of employment in the country; the
variety of classes and interests rendered it expedient
that elections should not be more frequent than once in
three or five years. Triennial Parliaments were no
infringements on the old Constitution ; they were the
ancient right of Englishmen, and he wished to restore
to them their birthright.—( Applause.) With regard
to the Ballot, he observed that the intimidation of the
landlords had rendered it necessary. What would be
the worth of a piece of property, if it had no hedges or
fences, and their enemies being stronger than them, were
able to make incursions on it and destroy it—and what was
the value of a vote without its 1-2ing protected ? If the To-
ries did not wish to have the Ballot, let them cease to exert
their influence over men v;hn earned their bread by means of
' their capital; let them not strike the poor man in the face,
and not allow him to lift his hands to prevent it. He said
the Ballot was a defensive measure ; the p3or man was
merely tantalized with a right, who had not an oppor-
tunity of enjoying it—but that was Toryism to the
ibackbone.—( Cheers.) He next adverted to national
education, and that sacred book which the Tories had
the impiety to suppose nobody read but themselves.
However, they read it as the Hebrews did—backwards,
skipping all those magnificent maxim: which ferns the
moral code of every Christian notion, and which exp‘„ce
Tory iniquity.—(Applause.) Did they think the peer
c ought not to be educated? D'd they think that those
lonly who were born gentlemen should understand the prin-
'ciples of religion, morality, and science? He thought
some of their honourable opponents would do well to go to
school for the next six months.—( Laughter.) He was
for the education of the people. He knew that some of
the greatest- men who had evor borne the brunt of battle,
and who had distinguished themiel7es in literature, or as
improvers of the arts and sciences, had been horn amongst
the people, and he was proud to say that he ( Mr. M.) was
cue of the people. Education was a right as inde-
feasible as the common air. Why should there be light,
and persons not able to see it ? Why should people be
born with knowledge within their reach, and not have the
i means of obtaining it ?—( Applause.) Did they think that
f if the people had been properly educated. Fcargus O'Con-
i nor would have been able to have deluded them as he had
I done ? Did they think, if such had been the case, that
itl,e people would have sacrificed their own lives, and that
/ those unhappy men, Frost and his companions, would have
been sentenced to be executed and quartered for high tree.
son ? No ; those statutes which had remained almost oh-
solete since the time of Edward 111. would have still re-
mained so.—(Applause.) What they contended for was
I education without proselytism—education with conscience
' unfettered. They had forced from the Tories the Catholic
Emancipation Act, and what had been its effects? Why
to reduce the army in Ireland from 30,000 or 40,000 to
only a staff.—( Applause.) If his honourable opponent,
) who said he was half an Irishman, had been compelled to
pay share and share alike with the other landed proprietors,
he would have been for granting emancipation many years
ago.—( Applause.) He would next address a few words to
them on the subject of the Corn-laws. The Tories not
only claimed exclusive loyalty, but exclusive attachment
to the farmer. just as if the Members of the present
igovernment and their friends had not quite as much inte -
I rest in land as they had.—( Hear, hear.) He was not
I only in favour of cheapening the loaf, but of placing it
i in the power of the labourer, by other means, to purchase
, his bread and beer, without which labour was neither fruit-
ful nor pleasant, at whatever price they might be.—( Hear,
( hear, hear.) He should like to put some of the Tories
len the starvation diet which their Corn-laws produced
—he would like to see them breaking stones on the high-
! road, just by way of an experiment.—( Laughter and
i applause.) The present Corn-laws neither protected the
firmer when there was an abundant harvest, nor the poor
t elan in a season of scarcity —(Applause.) It was said
that he was an enemy of the farmer; he denied the
emerge. What was the farmer but a producer ; he gave
botilethiat labour and his capital to his employment, and he
es-assure thererwas not a labourer in the country who did
I not see-that it-Was his interest for the farmer to prosper.—
( Great alise.) He then referred to the flattering re-
I eetion which he had met with in Beverley, and in highly
eulogistic terms thanked the ladies for their good wishes
for success, by stating that he bad nailed his colours to
the mast, and he hoped on the following day to be re-
-1 turned as their representative.—(Tremendous
cheering' )
The MAYOR called for a show of hands, which he de-
eared in favour of T. Laurie Murray, Esq., on which the
cheering was renewed. The demonstration was at least
two or three to one. The Tories, on behalf of Mr. Fox,
demanded a poll, which was fixed for the following
morning.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor, and the
assembly separated.