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pect of the former, and to ridicule the hopes of con-
sumers by setting the late event before them. Now clearly
onl onJ naif of the Noble Lord's charges can be just. If
he u, d studied these questions any otherwise than as a
school-boy conning a declamation, he ought to have made
up his mind which half he really imagined well-founded.
Election placards, and Mr. M'Culloch's pamphlet
are Lord Stanley's alternate authorities. Of which of
the two is he most disposed to credit the Calculations ?
Clearly he cannot charge upon Ministers the contents of
both. They tell opposite stories. Is it not perfectly
puerile to seek to heap opposite charges on the same
heads ? And was it not for Lord Stanley, as a states-
man, called to decide upon grave questions, to seek
seriously to make out which of two sets of consequences
would follow proposed measures ? Not a--bit of it ;he
seeks nothing in the opposite conjectures of those con-
sequences but missiles to direct against the heads of his
party opponents.
COURIER.—The elections are progressing as steadily
favourable to the Conservative cause as the most san-
guine could have anticipated. Up to the hour we
write the clear absolute gain of the - Conservatives
amounts to twenty seats, eight on the cities and boroughs,
ten on the counties, and two on the returns for
Scotland. But our object in referring to what has
been achieved is not so much for the purpose
of enumerating our gains, however grateful and in-
viting may be the task, as to cheer on our friends
to other and greater achievements still. As yet we
have had no returns of any interest or importance
from Ireland. We have ample grounds, however,
for entertaining a strong and confident hope, that nei-
ther the ruffian violence of the habitual disturber of his
country's peace, nor the fierce and malignant denuncia-
tions of the spiritual tyrants whose tool and fitting
agent he is, will succeed in wresting from us any
of the seats now in our possession ; or should par-
tial success attend in one or two places, the employ-
ment of such villanous agencies, it will be more than
counterbalanced by the advantages we are in a fair way
of securing in other and more important constituencies.
It is only upon the counties of Carlow, Kerry, and Sligo,
amounting to four seats, that Mr. O'Connell and his
clerical allies have fixed their greedy eyes ; two Conser-
vatives will, we have reason to feel confident, be re-
turned for Sligo by a triumphant majority ; and not-
withstanding the crusade undertaken against Colonel
Bruen in Carlow, and the diabolical means re-
sorted to for the purpose of exciting popular
hatred against himself and his supporters—means which
combined the murderous attacks of an infuriated rabble,
with denunciations of eternal punishment by a bigoted
priesthood—there is every prospect of the Galant
Colonel's triumphant return. Mr. Fitzpatrick, as we
announced before, has fled from the Queen's County, not
daring to show his face on the hustings ; and as respects
the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, and Tipperary, the
prospects of Conservative gain are bright and cheering.
Nor can any one feel surprised at this, considering the
questions upon which the Irish constituencies are now
called upon to decide. Ireland, as all know, is
purely an agricultural country • and therefore
there would be nothing to shield her from im-
mediate and terrible ruin, if her staple produce were
bereft of the protection it has hitherto enjoyed. Devas-
tation, ruin, and universal misery throughout the length
and breadth of Ireland would be the first and inevitable
consequence of the Ministerial project ; to her the ex-
tension of the foreign market for British manufacture,
which the free trade speculators predict as the result of
the repeal of the Corn-laws, and which they set down as
an equivalent for the enormous injury British agricul-
ture would sustain, would bring no counterbalancing ad-
vantages. The proposed change would bring upon her
population evils of gigantic magnitude, and be attended
by no possible benefit.
STANDARD. The county elections proceed, as
some Conservatives may be disposed to think, very fa-
vourably ; but we own not to our satisfaction. We
grudge the Whig-Radicals a single county seat ; and we

know- that if all- personal considerations were cast on
one side, if common prudence and due diligence were
used, they would not have one. It is true that the
last of the Russells has been driven from Bedford-
shire, that Dorsetshire has been cleared of its one
remaining Whig-Radical representative, that the repre-
sentation of West Sussex has been all won, that seats have
been gained from the enemy in Herefordshire, Cam-
bridgeshire, West Kent, East Gloucester, West Worces-
ter, North Stafford, and doubtless, in other places. It is
true, that of about eighty English county Members re-
turned, not more than ten are Whig-Radicals. All this
we see, and rejoice in seeing it ; but why is there any
alloy to the general exultation of all good men ? Why
should the Whig-Radicals have ten seats out of
eighty ? Why should they have ,one ? We are jea•
bus of the honour of the gentry and yeomanry of
England ; and we cannot but feel that that honour is
tarnished whenever an agricultural community submits
to be misrepresented by an enemy or a false or even
doubtful friend. Mr. Byng might have been sent from
Middlesex with the utmost ease if only men had been
honest in the opinions they profess. North Derbyshire
might as easily, by an exertion of honesty, have substituted
two Conservatives for its two Radical representatives.
West Gloucester was fully ripe for a complete Conservative
representation; we may say the same of North Hants,
South Northumberland, South Stafford, and West
Surrey, though all are still unfortunately disgraced
by a Whig-Radical representative. It is no sufficient
excuse to offer, to ask the question, as we hear it
asked, "What could we do?" " What could I do?" may
be sometimes a satisfactory apology in the mouth of
an individual ; but " What could we do ?" must
never be listened to from more than half-a-dozen per-
sons, because half-a-dozen persons, devotedly resolved
in an honest cause, can do almost anything.' Half-a-
dozen persons, so resolved, in any of the electoral dis-
tricts we have last named, would have purified it from
a Whig-Radical representation.
The Times of yesterday morning observes, in allusion
to Lord flowick's election speech in Northumberland--." If
there is one man in the whole Whig party who is dis-
trusted and disliked by both opponents and friends, Lord
Howick is that man."—The Morning Advertiser expose;
at some length Lord Stanley's " incongruous arguments"
in his Address to the North Lancashire electors. The
Morning Chronicle, speaking of the present Regis-
tration system, says—" It is a defect in it that it does
not prepare for such a reference to the people as has just been
made." The Morning Post contains an article whose prin-
cipal object is to rebut "the assertion that in the English
towns the Conservatives have not gained."—The Morning
Herald praises Lord Stanley's speech as "a clear, practical
analysis of the scope and effect of the Ministerial propositions.'
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—It must have struck the minds of all who have
read the election harangues of the Conservative leaders,
that while assuming the present struggle to be decisive
of the question whether the Tories are to succeed to the
administration of affairs, not a word has been said by
which the nation can judge how, in the event presumed,
affairs are likely to be administered. Coming forward
avowedly as candidates fur office, it might seasonally
have been expected that the monopolists would have given
something like an outline—however indistinct and shadowy—
of their intended policy ; but, on the contrary, they seem to
have studied the " philosophy of mystery," and to have felt
that their , only chance of obtaining approbation for
their plans is in rendering them utterly inscrutable.
The whole upshot of all the Tory eloquence, with which
the land has been flooded for the last fortnight, is this :—" We
will obstruct the measures of the Whigs;"—hut if asked what
the Conservatives intend doing themselves—each embryo Mi-
nister has imitated Lord Burleigh in the play, and shaken his
head with a portentous gravity, the meaning of which is utterly'
untranslatable. The obstructive policy which the Tories have so
long exerci,vd, and the obstinate silence they still observe on
(as they boast) the very eve of power, would induce one to sup-
pose that their Government would be that of King Log, had the
country not learnt by very long experience that the lifeless pon-
derosity of Log changes to the voracious activity of Stork, di-
rectly a footing is obtained in the Treasury. 'Taking their
own speeches as a criterion of the qualities they pos-
sess for the task of government, it would seem that an ob-
stinate desire to get between the legs of the party devoted to
safe and salutary progress, for the sole purpose of tripping them
up, is the great peculiarity on which the Conservatives rest
their claim to the confidence of the Queen and the support of
the people. A talent for getting the machine of Govern-
ment into what the Americans would call a fix, is not
precisely the sort of attribute to entitle a party to its super-
intendence. The speech of Sir Robert Peel, at Tam-
worth, professes to be a most candid exposition of what he has
been doing for the last ten years, but says nothing of what are
his intentions as to the month or so during which he may pos-
sibly be invested with the name of Minister. Everybody
knows that he has beentrying with all his might and main to
" widen the foundations of his party," and every one knows
he has succeeded, for the foundations are too wide—the ele-
ments too discordant and far apart to admit of any superstruc-
ture being raised on a basis so devoid of compactness and union.
STANDARD.—In the northern division of Durham the
okLindiriteilniembers, the Hon. H. T. Liddell ( Conservative) ana
tst
injuries,hoe
rne
Nrn:set .
l vote
to
Mr. Lambton (Whig-Radical) have been returned. We
,cia tehwahreatehteerr
wthis
areis al
eedatsoe ofh compromise,that
it
is n oatn: diu frr.oLmamMhr-.
mislead
dst
the
elinisters onop hopeethe sugarduties may have
electors, but the same gentleman's
on the 4th of June ought to have undeceived
vote
It is aovfoctmheeat, and nothing less, to pretend to resist
while you continue to preserve in the hands of those
who attempt them instruments for the commission of such in-
juries. Every vote givenio in Parliament for the present Mi-
nistersi
lflosbl arvietpirseyi;r
continuanceisa y,forforthtehe
ruslianveo- slave-trade, .
colonies,
and
Ministers
and the ruin of
cruelties .of the sowagr:plture, and for the sa-
vagehailaneacrf
an
ne
otor-lase ; and every vote
the hustings is no less a
given for a supporter of
Bute for all these things. No ma
" who does an act by the' says the just maxim of
uilsl
raesainlyotthteo
see the chain of consequences.
other, o d
author of the act ;" and the reasonableness our law,
of the rule car,
never be more clear than in the
identification
of a Ministry with the acts of its of the acts
porters, and the identification of the acts of Parliamentary sup-
with the acts of their constituents. Whoev
those supporters
does not, to the utmost of his *power,
opposeera supports, or
candidate, is really responsible for whatever of
evil isterial
Ministers contemplate. Let not then a single vote
~ the
re-
ceived as a title to support for any man who is b- a
supporter .
of Ministers. Either the vote generally
or the gene-
ral support has been insincere and dishonest ; and an in-
sincere and dishonest man is an unfit representative for an
upright English constituency. We pass, however, from
North Durham, which has been thus neutralised, or to I
speak the truth, been disfranchised, by mistake, neglect,
or some unworthy compromise, to better prospects. We
piss to counties where contests have been raised,
and where, for that reason, Conservative principles
are manifesting their ascendancy. In the West Riding
we find, at the close of the first day's poll, her Majesty's Secre-
tary for Ireland, Lord Morpeth, in a minority of 829 below the
second of his Conservative competitors (Mr. Denison), and in
a minority of 1,092 below the first (Mr. Stuart Wortley). In
1837 Lord Morpeth defeated Mr. Wortley by a majority of
1,087. We are always slow to proclaim a victory before it is
actually won; but at present we have all rational ground of
hope that the Conservative candidates in the West Riding
will replace Lord Morpeth and his Whig-Radical colleague,
Sir G. Striekland. It is remarkable that in the opulent and
intelligent districts of Leeds and Wakefield, the success of the
Conservatives has been the most conspicuous; it is plain that
the electors have not forgotten Lord Morpeth's compliment to
their wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters, borrowed from
Mr. Daniel O'Connell.

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100 5!. Chelmer and Black water lOOl. sh . 101
500 321. Coventryi 1001.3 h. 400
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2,5491 255. Grand Linton lool.sh 26
1,500 Grand Surrey
1,000/ 41. per cent • Ditto (optional) LCian 1001.
398
600 131.125. 6d. Glamnrgansbire, Aver. cost 17'.d. 13s. 4d. 230
749 121. Granthitr, ..... l5O/.sh. ea,
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980 ISt. Warwick and ciaptem" 1001.8 h. 139
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100 66, Wpslev and Essington 1251. sh '74
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J,OOO
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,0,0001 Si. per cent. Ditto Bonds
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1,20015 h, 51. Birmingham F ire ',SW. sh. 551. pd 107%
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11,000 Is. Eagle. 50!. sh. 51. pd 5
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20,000 51' G ua:dian
30,000 4s. 01. Hope
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