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THE. SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1841.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM TAB DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—The Conservatives continue their pleasing
occupation of " counting their gains ;" but in the long
run, they may yet be a great deal out in their reckoning.
As it is, each of the monopolist journals appears to have
some peculiar system of arithmetic of its own ; for with
the same data before them, they contrive to come to dif-
ferent results, the Times of this morning fixing the Con-
servative gain at eight borough and city seats in Eng-
land, while the Morning Post brings it up to nine, and the
whole number most clearly to twenty. The peculiar re-
putation of the Times might induce the supposition that
the Post may be right ; but that the inventive power of
the former lies—as is well known—entirely on the side
that happens to be favourable to the party of which it is
the organ. The Herald's application of the rules of
Cocker produces a result different from that of the Post,
making the Conservative gain amount to nineteen, or on
a division, as is acutely shown by an ingenious process
of multiplying by two, to eight-and-thirty. The Chro-
nicle gives to the Reformers a gain of thirty-one and a
loss of forty-five—making a loss of fourteen instead of
nineteen ; and until the calculators have agreed
upon their result, it will be as well to take that
as the true one, which, among the party that has
arrived at it, there seems to ke no dispute about.
A great deal has been said 4,10ut the triumph of
Convervatism in Westminster, which is truly alleged
to have been for many years one of the strongholds of
Liberal principles. There is no doubt that Westminster
has temporarily forfeited a portion of the character it
has so long possessed, but there were causes quite inde-
pendent of the questions now pending between the mo-
nopolists anil the anti-monopolists, which led to the de-
feat of one of the Reform candidates. In the first place
the Liberals were too confident of success, and their exer-
tions were therefore languid compared with the reckless
energy evinced by the Tories in their apparently despe-
rate effort to seat their candidate. Again, towards the
close of the election, when the apathy of many voters
on the Liberal side had allowed the Tory to gain the
ascendancy, a sort of panic ensued among the respective
friends of Evans and Leader ; and as almost every
man who votes has some preference, however slight
or unfounded, for a particular candidate, there were
many, who, fearing that Evans might be thrown
out, injudiciously plumped for him ; while others,
under a similar apprehension, pursued the same
course with regard to Leader. Thus the Reform inte-
rest in Westminster was unfortunately divided at the
very point when union was of the most vital conse-
quence. Enough votes were given on the Liberal side
to have returned by a large majority both the Liberal
candidates, but by some plumping for Evans, anda great
number towards the close of the day, when Leader was
the lowest on the poll, voting exclusively for hirn,`the un-
fortunate result that ensued was unavoidable.
STANDARD.—We lament that Ministers have been
permitted to retain one of their county supporterA, in the
person of Mr. Cayley, of the members for the North
Riding. This is a great misfortune, and if the prin-
ciple to which Mr. Cayley owes his escape prevail
to any extent, the result must be fatal. Mr. Cayley
professes to be a friend to the agricultural interest,
and in proof of his friendship he went so far as to
vote with the Conservatives upon Lord Sandon's reso-
lution, condemning in strong language the meditated
attack of the Ministers upon the three most important
interests of the empire ; for although the sugar duties
alone were mentioned in the resolution, it was notorious
to every one that it was directed against the whole Mi-
nisterial Budget ; Mr. Cayley himself will scarcely
deny that he contemplated the threatened repeal of the
Corn-laws in voting with Lord Sandon. On the 18th
of May we find the name of Edward Stillingfleet
Cayley in the list , of the, majority condemning the
financial plan of the Ministers ; but on the following 4th
of June we find the same Edward Stillingfleet Cayley
voting in the minority, declaring their confidence. in
the Cabinet by whom that budget was brought forward
as their only resource. Mark this, agricultural readers ;
the Ministers told Mr. Cayley that without a repeal
of the Corn-laws they could not carry on the
Government, but Mr. Cayley said in little more than
a fortnight after, that they should carry on the
Government. Was not this plainly saying that.they must
be permitted to repeal the Corn-laws, and to resort to all
fair and foul means that might seem necessary to compass
the object ? Can any one believe that Mr.
Cayley was sincere in his vote of the , 18th of
May, or that he sought more by that vote
than to deceive his agricultural constituents ? The
most common kind of burglary (we forget its technical
name) is that in which some servant or inmate of the
house holds a communication with the robbers ; and when
a burglary is committed under circumstances to excite
suspicion that it was of this kind, the officers of justice al-
ways make it a rule to inquire who seemed most busy in re-
pelling the attack, and if they can trace to this person
any connection with doubtful characters, they are
sure that they have the' robbers and their treacherous
confederate together. Now the electors of the North
Riding ought to have taken a lesson from this example,
They saw Mr. Cayley affecting great zeal for the
agricultural interest, and they saw him also so in-
timately connected with the declared and irrecon-
cileable enemies of that interest, as to exert himself
for their continuance upon the vantage ground of
office, from which only they could attack it with any
prospect of present success—they saw him voting for
a Ministry which had at the time actually made its pre-
parations to throw the country into confusion in order to
ruin the farmers of Great Britain—yet they suffered
Mr. Cayley. to return to Parliament again to support
their enemies by his votes. Our correspondent, indeed,
tries to acquit the farmers of the North Riding as left
absolutely helpless by the unexpected desertion of one
of their candidates, upon the eve of the contest. We
cannot accept this excuse.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT
ROTHERHAM.

[FURTHER PARTICULARS.]
The following, from one of the local papers, is the
latest account received of this dreadful calamity :—" We
are happy to find that some of those whose lives were
yesterday despaired of, are, in some degree, reco-
vered ; others are yet lingering in a dangerous state,
and great doubts are entertaied for th safety of
their lives. The greatest exertions have been made
by the medical gentlemen of Rotherham, to whom the
greatest praise is due, and also to Mr. Chambers, the
proprietor and builder of the boat, for his attention to
the wants of the sufferers ; the whole of those missed
were got out of the water by seven o'clock, and from
what we have been able to learn, we trust that the
whole of those who met their death by the accident
have been taken out of the river ; the greater part of
them were taken to their respective homes, others to
the adjoining public-houses, where they await the C4o-
ner's inquest, which will be held this afternoon at two
o'clock ' - the immediate cause of the accident has not yet
transpired. Many rumours are prevalent ; some assert
that the planks from which she was pushed into the
water were too short, and that she struck the water too
soon ; others state that being launched sideway into the
water, the people on board running to the lower
side, and the keel not clearing the stocks in sufficient
time, the boat was overbalanced ; be this as it may, we
cannot yet speak positively or certain, only from hearsay.
Among the sufferers is the only son of Mr. Yates, iron-
founder, who is nearly distracted at the melancholy be-
reavement. The names and ages of the dead will be
found below, amounting to fifty in number. The young
man named John Greatorex, whose name appears below,
was of age yesterday, and would shortly have come into
the receipt of considerable property ; his relatives and
friends are in the greatest distress; the occurrence ap-
pears to have cast a gloom over the whole of the inha-
bitants of Rotherham, and in every street are signs of
mourning and affliction. The awful calamity is the
general topic of conversation throughout that town
and Sheffield, and the most anxious inquiries are made
after the names of the sufferers. Nothing can equal
the sensation it has caused among all classes ; and the
vessel, which is considerably damaged, has been visited
this morning by a great number of persons.
The following are now lying dead in the township of
Masborough :—James Shaw, 10 ; Chas. Robinson, 11 ;
John Hargate, 15 ; Geo. Brown, 15 ; Jos. Furriers, 12 ;
Thos. Woodyer, 11 ; Geo. Earnshaw, 11 ; John Jacques,
11 ; Chas. Hanley, 12 ; John Fox, 16 ; W. Greenfield,
10 ; Alfred Garfield, 5 ; W. Boler, 10 ; Thomas Date,
7 ; John Bradbury, 15 ; John Haywood, 15 ; John
Gillett, 17 ; John Smith, 40 ; Charles Smith, 8 ; H.
Smith, 5 ; William Wood, 11 ; George Carter, 16 ;
Samuel Freeman, 16 ; W. Freeman, 8 ; George Rams-
den, 14 ; R. Shaw, 17. _ _

The following are now lying dead in Rotherham :
Charles Matthewman 14, Samuel Woodhouse 18, John
Shiletto 14, Richard Shiletto 11, Joseph Earushaw 10,
John Pattison 10, William Hall 8, George Nixon 7,
Andrew Dobson 8, H. Goodhall 8, William Bradshaw
14, D. Cundell 13, Henry Crowther 8, John Kent 10, J,
Buckley 33, Alfred Buckley, son of Joseph Buckley, 6.
Samuel Heathcoat 41, Robert Lancaster 13, Samuel Dobb,
10, W. Blackburn 14, John Parrott 19, James Yates 11,
John Greatorex 21, and David Cundy 11.

" THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
AGAINST THY NEIGHBOUR."—One of the Members just
returned for Bradford is Mr. John Hardy—a gentleman,
we have been told, who makes a peculiar profession of
sanctity, and who, therefore, it might be supposed, would at
leastbe free from the odious vice of falsehood and slander.
Yet how stands the fact ? It appears from the report
of the Lecds Mercury, that, in his speech at the Brad-
ford nomination on Tuesday, he made the follow-
ing observations :—" Look at Lord Melbourne.
Lord -Melbourne was Home Secretary at the time
the people of Manchester were cut down, and
moved a vote of thanks to the yeomanry." This
statement is a direct falsehood. The Home Secretary,
at the period in question, was not Lord Melbourne, but
Lord Sidmouth ; and this is a fact which, if Mr. Hardy
did not know, a very slight investigation would have
shown him ; and that investigation he ought in duty to
hav' made, and not have come forward without it to
endeavour to blacken the character of a political adver-
sary by the utterance of a downright untruth. It is
nothing to say,
as possibly may be said, that Mr. Hardy
believed the statement. The man who, to disparage
an opponent, makes a statement which ordinary in-
quiry would have shown him to be without foundation,
is only one degree less culpable—he is not at all less
malignant—than the one who invents and propagates a
naked and deliberate lie. Manchester Guardian.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF ONE OF- THE
an inquisition was taken before Mr. Wakley,
CLERKS AT CHELSEA COLLEGE.--On Tuesday afternoon
at
the King's Arms, Fulham-road, on Joseph .Mumford,
aged 42, one of the principal clerks at Chelsea College,
who terminated his existence by hanging himself on
Monday last. Mr. F. Goderich, surgeon, had attended
the deceased professionally for the last fifteen years.
Up to four years ago he never observed anything strange
or peculiar in deceased's manner, but since That period
his head appeared affected. Verdict, " Temporary
in-
ea 1

ELECT•IO N MOVEMENTS.

LINCOLNSHIRE *NORTH—PARTS of LINDSEY.
LINCOLN CASTLE, MONDAY.—On Monday, at an
early hour, all was bustle and animation; in every part of
the city were to be seen the light blue colours of Lord.
Worsley; indeed, so extensively were they worn, that it
looked much more like a city than a county demonstra-
tion; there was a large show of,purple and orange for
Mr. Christopher, and a smaller sprinkling of pink for the.
Hon. Mr. Cust. At a quarter to eleven the Castle gates
were thrown open, and immediately several thousand
persons thronged the yard.
Lord Worsley .and his friends took the south, and the
Conservatives the north side of the hustings..
GODFREY TALLENTS, Esq., Under Sheriff, having read.
the writ of election and the Bribery Act
Sir JOHN CHARLES THOROLD, Bart., High Sheriff, took
the oaths prescribed, which were administered by the
Rev. Sir Charles Anderson, Bart.
The HIGH SHERIFF briefly stated the object of the
meeting, and requested an equally candid hearing for all.
G. F. HENEAGE, Esq., of Hainton-hall, had to pro-
pose as a candidate, not one who was untried, but
who had in four successive Parliaments faithfully dis-
charged his duty as their representative. As they had
on all former occasions, so he hoped they would again
return him at the head of the poll, as they had done his
father and grandfather before him.—(Mr.Chaplin, "That
is a mistake.") He would be as concise as he could con-
sistently with his duty on the present occasion. He
wouldask, who was there that had occasion to apply to
his Lordship on parliamentary business .that did not re-
ceive the kindest attention ?—(Hear, hear.) During
eleven years had they ever found Lord Worsley 'to be
absent from .his post ?—(No, no.) The Noble Lord, Mr.
Christopher, and Mr. Chaplin had all sat for boroughs
before being elected for the county, and Mr. Corbett had
qualified by long service as an active magistrate and an
extensive farmer. But what experience had Mr. Cust ?
What single qualification had he ? He should like to know
how it was that he was brought there, and who sent for
him ? He called upon them to return Lord Worsley at
the head of the poll, and he finished by proposing the
Right Hon. Charles Anderson Worsley Pelham, com-
monly called Lord Worsley, as a fit person to represent
them a fourth time in Parliament.
J. ANGERSTEIN, Esq., seconded the nomination of the
Noble Lord, having, when representative for a metro-
politan borough, witnessed the zealous discharge of his
duties, in which he was exceeded by none. After a few
words in commendation of the Government, which called
forth some Tory yells, which were speedily drowned in
Liberal cheers, Mr. Angerstein objected to their new
candidate, that, being a soldier, he might be sent out to
Canada next week ; he cordially seconded the nomina-,
tion of the Noble Lord.
Sir JOHN NELTHORP, Bart., had. comparatively an
easy task, in proposing for re-election a gentleman who
was well known to• them, who had uniformly done his
duty as a representative, and had opposed all the mea-
sures of a Government that would infringe upon the
rights of agriculture. He was once more a candidate,
and they could not hesitate to renew their confidence in
him.; he begged to nominate Robert Adam Christopher,
Esq.—(Cheers and yells.)
ALGERNON MASSINBERD, Esq., considered it-a high
honour to propose such a Member to such a con-
stituency ; and seconded the nomination made by Sir
John Nelhorp.
CHARLES CH ApLIN, Esq., would begin by explaining
why he had exerted himself so mach in opposition to the
return of his friend Lord .Worsley ; .and that was in
consequence of the unfortunate vote the Noble Lord
had given in favour of that reckless Administration
which had declared they dissolved Parliament in order
to carry a measure that would ruin the farmers not only
of Lincolnshire, but of all England.—(A Voice—" Then
lower your rents.") He saw before him the whole te-
nantry of the Noble Lord's father ; he would ask them;
with a fixed duty of Bs., whether their farms would be
worth keeping ? . It was true that the Noble Lord had
voted against the alteration of the Corn-laws, and would
do so again, but what was his individual vote ? He had
supported the Ministry, and he would be swamped by
the majority in the large manufacturing towns, and then
he might whistle for his property. It was on these
grounds that they opposed the Ministry, and not Lord
Worsley personally. As he could not himself stand.
forward, he had endeavoured to procure the best man
he could, and he would leave the result with the free-
holders and electors. It had been foolishly asserted
that his Honourable Friend had not an acre of
land in the division • 4 would be much better
if people confined themselves to facts ; and be-
fore the Chairman of the Noble Lord's Central
Committee at .Rasen had allowed such a statement
to be published, he might have looked to the re-
gister, where would be found Mr. Cust's name as a
freeholder, and no inconsiderable one. Mr. Chaplin
then read a letter that had been sent to him from the
Reform Club, of ivhich the Noble Lord was a member :
it asked for a siihscription'in aid of the Printing Corn-
mittee of the Reform Club, to take 101. worth of placards
and handbills and other squibs against the Corn-laws,
for distribution. in his neighbourhood, by which the
funds of the Society would be greatly helped. He had
another little document •„ this -was a letter from the Isle
of Wight,- where Lord Worsley's father had great pro-
perty, and where the letter stated that the Noble Lord's
influence was being used in favour of the Anti-Corn-law
candidates, and' the writer, a Mr. J. Hamilton, thought
the electors of Lincolnshire should be acquainted with
the fact. Now, if these gentlemen had been returned
from the Isle of Wight, they would have been voting
against the Corn-laws, whilst the
.Noble Lord was giving
his single vote in their favour. On these grounds he
should support his Gallant and Honourable Friend,
who would oppose any Ministry that would not uphold
the Corn-laws. Lord Worsley had determined to stand
by his party, who, for the sake of place, would ruin
agriculture, would set the West Indies in a flame, and
risk another rebellion in Canada. In conclusion he pro-
posed the Hon. 'Charles Henry Cast.—(Cheers and yells.)
Colonel'SuritioaP, M.P.. said that, in seconding the
nomination of the Hon. C. H. Cust, he had little to do,
as the recommendation of Mr. Chaplin was sufficient to
claim their regard. He had no personal animosity to
Lord Worsley, but in political conflicts private friend-
ship was but as a feather in the scale. Colonel Sibthorp
then launched out into a tirade against Lord John Rus-
sell in particular, as the rejected of so many places, and
against the Ministry in general. He said their only re-
trenchment had been the leather tax and that on dogs'
tails, which had done no one' 6d. worth of good. He
spoke of the COrn-laws is. their last dirty shift to keep
office, and the trick to create two new equity judges ;
speaking of Sir John Campbell, as the Whig Attorney-
General, a fellow most odious to him.—.(A loud tumult
of hooting soon drowned the faint Tory cheers at these
expressions.) Of the cry of "cheap sugar, they were not
so treacle-mouthed as to be invited by 'so paltry a
bait, which would not alter the price a halfpenny a pound;
or of " cheap timber," that would not save 10s. in
the cost of building a cottage worth 801. or 1001. ; and
then there was the proposal to put a fixed duty on corn,
which three measures the Whig Attorney-General had
said were to be considered as one common proposal. He
begged to ask the Noble Lord whether he had not said
in June, 1838, on Mr. Warburton's motion respecting
Lord Cawdor's tenantry, that he regretted he had voted
for the 501. clause. He found it so reported in the
Times newspaper.—(Yells, and cries of " the bloody old
Times.").
Lord WORSLEY dared say he had so expressed himself.
Colonel SIBTHORP—They would perceive that his
memory was good , and' yet after such a vote they pre-
tended to call his Lordship the farmer's friend ! Colonel
Sibthorp, continued to speak for some time in his usual
" miscellaneous estimate " style, and the disturbance
rather increasing than otherwise, notwithstanding Lord
Worsley's interference, he concluded rather abruptly
by seconding the nomination of the Hon. Charles Henry
Cust. . •
Lord WORSLEY (after the tremendous cheering with
which he was received had subsided) said—You have
heard Mr. Heneage and Mr. Angerstein, two very large
landed proprietors of this division, recommend me to
your notice as a proper 'person to represent you in Par-
liament. Do. you think that these gentlemen, or any
other of their class, would have come forward to recom-
mend me if they thought that I was not the farmers'
friend.—(" No, no," and cheers.) I have been rather
surprised at many of the statements which I have heard
made against me brine- my canvass. My friend and
colleague, Mr.' Christopher, in a manner which I have
never before heard of being used by one-colleague to-
wards another,' spoke to me in the House of Commons
with regard to what I had said at the county 'meeting
at Lincoln. Ido not
,say that it was intentionally unkind
of him, he might have stated what he did in consequence
of the disappointment he felt at my not supporting Sir
Robert Peel's motion after what he thought I had said
at the County meeting. Gentlemen, .after a very ex,
tensive canvass, a large majority in the division who
attended that meeting are not of the same opinions with
Mr. Christopher.—(Hear, hear.) Some of my politi-
cal opponents who attended that day and heard. what I
said, tell me that they thought I should have voted as
I did after what I had said.—("No, no," from some of the
Tory party.) I tell you What I have heard them say—if you
do not believe me I cannot help it. I state what I have
been told by my political opponents ; I hare been in-
formed that .Mr. Christopher, in his speech at Horn-
castle, stated that he was surprised that I should rise
up in my place in the House of Commons to oppose the
motion of Sir R. Peel, and pull, out of my pocket a piece
of paper, which was the report of a speech of mine
made at Lincoln, which I had corrected and then taken
from the Li rii.oln Gazette. I did see a copy of my speech
made at that, meeting, which I corrected ; but I never
saw the speech of Mr. Brailsford, and my reply, until
I saw them reported in the Morning Post, and I took
the report from that paper, because it was possible that
some Members might have got hold. of . a garbled report
from some of the London papers.—(Hear, hear.) This
I will tell you that nobody asked me to speak when I
did on the motion of Sir Robert Peel, and no person
connected With the Government, either directly or in-
directly knew, within a short time before the decision
upon that motion, hoW I should vote. Did Igo to Par-
liament to oppose everything Sir R. Peel brought for-
ward, when he was in office ? Did I not tell you on
these hustings that I would not offer a factious opposi-
tion ? Did I not assist them oh their votes of supplieS?
Indeed; I should have opposed them much more than I
did, if I had been determined to oppose everything they
proposed. This I would say, I had much rather have
measures of reform proposed by those who wished to pass
them, than by others who only do it bectetise the country
forces them to pass them.--(Great cheering.) Now, I
do approve of the general conduet of the Government,
but they have committed one of those errors upon
which I oppose them. Mr. Chtistopher has stated,' in
the course of his canvass, that at a meeting in London
I stated that I thought it " a
profligate act of
the Government to • attempt a repeal of the Corn-
laws. I say so again, if they believed they had not
measure for-
the power •to carry their proposed
"
Ward, if they only did it for the rpose of creating ex-
citement. But I have fitichconfiae,nce
• •
our cause, that

I do not believe any such measures can be carried in cur
lifetime. Before I could think it right to vote for
Sir Robert Peel, I must have asked myself what reason
I had for leap in.,,ti• fdtmer Mends: Wleat reason had
I, except that they proposed a measure which I disap-
proved of ? And I must be able to place implicit confi-
dence in Sir Robert Peel on the Corn-laws. I cannot.do

this.—(Cheersi) !hate been told that I have misrepre-
sented Sir Robert Peel's sentiments on the COrnslaws.
I have beard him say that he is opposed to a fixed duty,
but he is not prepared to pledge himself to maintain the
present graduated scale. Rave I not a right to suppose
that he May alter that scale •so as not to be a sufficient
protection ? Mr. Christopher, I am informed, when
speaking at Boston, said that he would not pledge him-
self to support the present Corn-laws, but he would ad-
vocate a: just protection to the farmer.
-Mr. CHRISTOPHER—I did not say so.
Lord ;WORSLEY—Two friends of mine who were there I
at the time, took down - the words unknown to each
other, and afterwards compared notes, and both had
taken the words alike. I wish: to remind Mr. Chaplin,
that because I am a member of the Reform Club, it does
not follow that I am therefore responsible for what may
he done by its committees, any more than that. Mr.
Christopher is to be responsible for all the acts of the
Carlton Club.—(lrear, hear)—because they sent a gen-
tleman round to give lectures in support of slavery, at
the time of the antislavery cry. The letter Mr. Chap-
lin has read, is not addressed to me ; they know my
opiniong on that subject too well to send me-one.—(A
voice, ".Perhaps you've had one before.") I never saw
or heard of it before now. Sir Robert Peel, in his
motion,. stated that it was unconstitutional in the Govern-
ment to retain office. Sir Robert Peel, when he was
about taking office in 1839, knew that the majority of
this country had iro confidence in him—and what did
he state ? "He wished so to constitute her Ma-
jesty's household, that ,her Majesty'Sl servants might
have the advantage of a public demonstration of her
Majesty's full support and confidence." IT e knew
he had not the confidence of the country, and as he could
not turn out the Ladies of -the ,Beesshamber, he resigned.
—(Cheers.) It is said by many of those who canvass for
Mr. Christopher that I am not a friend of civil and reli-
gious liberty. Have I not on all occasions been the sup-
porter-of liberty of conscience and of freedom of election?
—(A voice from the Tory party, " The Ballot.) Yes,
the Ballot; I have' always stated that I think there are
many objections to ,the Ballot, but I know of no other
way of putting an
.end -to bribery and intimidation. I
should like a less objectionable remedy, but it is acknow-
ledged even by many Of the Tory Members, that the
evils of intimidation exist. This reminds me of almost the
only words I heard front Col. Sibthorp, on my saying I re-
gretted having voted for the 50/. clause. I did say, that if
`I had any idea that it would have worked as it has, I
would'have taken the advice of Lord Spencer, and voted
against it. What was the intention of that clause,
but to give" to persons of respectability, tenants to
the amount of 501., a :right.
to vote, that they should
have their opinions represented.? Now I contend that
it has been too much used to represent the landlord's
opinions, and not the. tenant's. A man occupying at
501. a year ought to have a share in the representation,
'and I believe if you hid the vote by ballot you would
have the feelings and opinions of that class of persons
repreSented, and then I should be delighted with it.—
,(Immense cheering.) Before I wits interrupted by some
one alluding to the Ballot I was going to ask whether
the charge against me of my not being a friend to civil,
and religious liberty, was well founded. lam not aware
of any votes I hale ever given which show that I. am not •
inclined to respect in every way the rights of conscience.
Am I to be stigmatised with not being a friend to the
Church because T allow every man to have a decent
place erected on land of my family, in which he may
worship his God as he pleases ?—{Cheers.) Can I not
be a Churchman, and yet. be a tolerant Churchman ?
' They thought I could not be a friend to religious
liberty because • I subscribed towards the erection
of a Wesleyan chapel in Brigg, and did not give anything
for a new , Church: When I was applied to as to the
new church, I said I thought my father, who held the
property in that part, should subscribe to the new church;
they applied to him, and he gave them 50/.—(Cheers.)
Task you *ether I have not succeeded in representing
you diligently, faithfully, and with constant attention?—
(Cries of "You have," "you shall again.") But because
I will not awn a. Tory, therefore, you the Reformers,
who sent me to the House of Commons, are to oust me,
.a.et to take, in my stead a person who, so far as personal
,and private character, gees, is perhaps better fitted than
myself.--(No, no.) But he has not had that experience
in the House of Commons ; and I believe'he will not be
able to discharge his duties to you, if he continues in his
profession, and intends to discharge his duties as a sol-
dier.—(Hear, hear.) I will tell you why I think so. I
have had experience in this, and I found that when the
House of Commons was sitting, I had enough to do to
attend to your business, and do not believe I could
attend to any other without neglecting your interests.—
(Hear, hear.) I .forgdt to state that one of the mea-
sures condemned in Sir Robert Peel's motion was the
Penny Postage Act. Why did the Tories let that Act
pass ? There were ninety and some odd Members amongst
the Tories who voted for that' measure—(Hear, hear)—
and now -they wish to cOnderrin it. They voted for it
because they had seen their constituents, and their con-
siituents were for it ; and because I had presented pe-
titions in favour of it from my constituents, and none,
that I am aware of, against it, I voted for that measure.
Now the Government is blamed for carying that measure,
which one4hird of the party helped them to do. They
tell you much about the state of the finances, but you
will remember that it is only a comparatively short
lime since that they paid twenty millions, which was
voted for that • noble • object, the doing away with the
slave trade, and three millions of the taxes have been
taken off. They tell you that there were three millions
left in the Exchequer, but they don't tell you of any
deficiencies that caused there to be no such. surplus in
reality at that period. The Government, you are told,
have put Baron Cainpbell into a situation, in -the
place of an old man who resigns,—(Lord Plunket)—
and that this is done that Baron Campbell
may have the retiring salary as ex-Chancellor of.
Ireland, as he will soon have to retire also. Now, I have
made inquiry,, and I find that Baron Campbell took
that appointment, with a condition that- if the Tories
came into power and he holds only for a' short time, he
will not claim the pension.—(" No," from Colonel Sib-
thorp.) Colonel Sibthorp seems to doubt what I am
stating.—(Colonel Sibthorp—" I do ;" hisses and signs
of disapprobation marked the interruption.) I will give
you my authority, it was Sir George Grey who told me,.
and do you think that he would not be able to know
that ?--(Loud cheers.) Let it be recollected that this
Government, that they say
,is so fond of patronage and
jobbing,- the first thing they did was to reduce their
own salaries,--(Hear, . hear.) They reduced above
3,700/. annually in the salaries of persons who had
been employed by the Tories- to collect the taxes.
Who showed • themselves, when •in office, most fond
of jobbing?—(Hear, hear.) Who opposed the Whigs
when they tried to look into the state of the Pen-
sion List*? Who got it into that state ? Not the
Whigs.—(Cheers.) What state was the country in when
the. Tories left 'it ? Were there not incendiary fires
blaring in every direction ? Were there not Political
Unions in Birmingham and other places ?—(" Who en-
couraged them ?" from the Tory party.) If you want
to know who encouraged them, I tell you, it was the
Tories refusing to listen to the wishes of the people.
What state was• Ireland- in ?—(Hear, hear.) Yet last
year, wl4n the -Chartists, brought into notice and power
by the Tories, by getting up a cry against the New Poor-
law, raised a fearful riot in Wales, the Government
sent for troops out of Ireland to put those riots down.
He defended his consistency in opposing the Ministry
on questions of finance, but supporting them on Sir Ro-
bert Peel's motion. He would censure the Ministers for
bringing forward measures, if they thought themselves
unable to carry them. Mr. Macaulay had said they
miscalculated,. and it seemed they had done so grieve
ously. Sir Robert Peel had declared himself against
a fixed duty, .but would not pledge himself to make
no alteration in the present scale. He (Lord
Worsley) had looked very carefully at the speech of
Sir. Robert Peel at Tamworth, and had adopted that
speech as a tone of the party that would come into
office. Sir R: Peel said he would not alter the present
system, but wished so to alter the scale, that the protec-
tion to farmers would not be less. The present system
had worked well, and he (Lord-Worsley) advocated its
continuance.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER and Mr. CosT afterwards addressed
the meeting. .
Sir C. ANDERSON, Bart., wished to set himself right
in regard to the public meeting that had been referred
to ; he fully understood that the Noble Lord would op-
pose the Ministry on the proposition of a fixed duty, but
he did not expect him to do so on any other question. As
an old constitutional,Whig of sixty years' standing, who
had supported' the' Noble Lard, and hia father and
grandfather before Min, he did not expect that he
should turn round, give up his former friends, and at once
turn Tory. Such was the impression on his own mind
as to what the Noble Lord. would do, and he had acted
accordingly, although he must also, admit. that others,
and those of his own family, had understood Lord Wors-
ley differently.
EDWARD HENEAGE, Esq., M.P., would not have
offered himself, but that Mr. Christopher had referred on
his canvass to the Poor-laws ; such professions on the
approach of an election were an appeal to clap-trap to
catch a few stray votes. He had to congratulate them
on the prospect of an abundant harvest c the crop of
Conservative candidates grown .in the South Division
was so great, • that not content with their couple for home
consumption, they had exported two for the especial
good and benefit of the Northern Division.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER explained that lie had given .notice
of a clause in the Poor-law Bill to give a majority of
two ahieds of the Board of Guardians the discretion of
granting out-door relief, without reference to the Com-
missioners, and he Should renew that proposal.
On the show of hands being called for, it was im-
mensely in favour of Lord Worsley ; Mr. Christopher
and Mr. Can' were nearl? equal. •
The HIGH SHERIFF d6clared the show to have been
in favour of • Lord Worsley and Mr. Christopher, and
Mr. Chaplin (for Mr: Cust) demanded a poll.

IiEREFORDSHIRE—TUESDAY.
When I communicated to you yesterday that Sir B.
Price had been nominated as the second Liberal candidate
for the County of Hereford, I little contemplated the li-
beral electors being made the victims of base and dis-
gusting treachery, and robbed of their elective franchise.
Sir B. Price was not only duly nominated and seconded,
but the show of hands was declared to be in. his favour
(as is most decidedly the feelings of the freeholders and
electors of the county), upon which his friends commenced
an active canvass on his behalf, after which Col. Powell,
his proposer,. withdrew his name, and E. B. Clive, Esq.,
one of the Members for the City, on the behalf of W. M.
Esq., the:seconder, did the same, although not
Authorised by him to do so, so that whilst the Liberals of
the Qunty were actively engaged in the struggle, a strug-
gle of principle, and which would have ended in a glori-

ons triumph, their friends had actually sold _them. Nro
sooner was the disgraceful termination of the contest
known than the utmost disgust was felt by every honest
voter of principle and integrity throughout the county,
-0111011 nOw returns three monopolists, Messrs. Basker-
vale and ilitiley; Tories, and Mr. K. Hoskins, a half-and-
ball Whig, but void of those steady political principles
which has ever distinguished Sir IL Price, and to whose
pay alone, the county is mainly indebted for the dis-
gracefgl Compromise, for'the sport and triumph of -Tory
monopoly. Tbe return being unquestionably illegal, Sir
IL Price jvill of course claim his seat, and Mr. K. Hos-
kins maybid farewell to the representation of the County
of Herefqd, having deserted his Liberal principles, for
which he: was retnrned in 1831 and 1835 so triumphantly,
and placed a very large majority of the Liberal electors in
the humiliating position of being actually misrepresented.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Lord ABINGER and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS )
Hanna,h Covington 15,- married, and Mary Long, 28,
spinster,:were indicted. for the wilful murder of Thomas
Briggs. •
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Espinasse, the
prisoners were undefended. .
The first witness •called.was Mary Williams, who de-
posed thiit she lived with the deceased as his house-
keeper. Deceased was 74 years of age. On Friday,
the 25th'June last, about six o'cloch in the evening, the
deceased left his house, and witness never saw him alive
afterwards. ghe siai the body of the deceased on the
Sunday following.
Ann Holme deposed that she lived-in Blu!gate-fields,
Shadwell. She was in the Royal Sovereign public-
house on the day in question, about seven
o'clock in the evening. • The prisoners were talking
together about the landlord having been the cause of
the death of Long's mother, Saw the deceased that
evening; it was just after the convereation she had heard
between the prisoners. He was coming up the street in
the direction of the Royal Sovereign. The deceased
was on the opposite Side of the street, and the prisoner
Long ran across the road, and stopped him and said to
him, " You b—y old wretch you have been murdering
my mother, and for two pins..l would knock your b—y
old head off." She was then in liquor. The other pri-
soner Was more in liquor than Long. They both struck
the deceased,[and he said, "-What does all this mean ?"
Long then rushed on the other -side, and struck him a
severe blow. After he had received the second blow he
turned back down the street and both the prisoners fol-
lowed him, and struck him •several times with a stick,
and the witness saw him taken into Mrs. Hardy's house.
Thomas Hill was in Bluegate-fields on the 25th June
last, about seven o'clock in the evening; saw the deceased
there, also saw the prisoners at the Royal Sovereign;
they ran out to the deceased as he passed, Long laid
hold of the deceased by the collar and struck him on the
face with her fists, and dragged him down against the
wall ; she said to. hini, ". You were the death of
my mother, and • I will .be the death of you ?"
Heard the prisoner Long say, ." Don't give him any
more I have given-him enough." Long then struck de-
ceased' again. His head was bare. After Covington
struck the - deceased, witness endeavoured to keep both
of thorn away froth hina. 'Went subsequently to seek
the prisoners. Saw the deCeased an hour after he had
seen him asseulted,. when he (deceased) was quite dead.
Saw Long wipe the face of the deceased with a hand-
kerchief, to wipe the blood from it. It was the blood
that came from his nose. .
Robert Reed being sworn, said—His house was near
the Royal Sovereign. Was in his house on the evening
of the 25th'June about seven- o'clock. Saw the pri-
soners: in the street standing on the opposite side of the
way ; also saw the' deceased there. Long was standing
by the side of him: SaW her strike him a blow on the
face with her fist. Also saw Covington strike him in
the face with her fists; The deceased then raised his
stick and struck at Covington. Did not notice whether
he struck her or not. Did not see the deceased do any-
thing before he was struck by Long. Saw the last wit-
ness then. Does not know what became of the stick.
When Long struck the deceased his hat was on, but after
she had struck him it fell. off. Witness never quitted
his room.
Margaret Ann *Harvey lived in Bluegate-fields ; the
deceased was her landlord. On the 25th June the de-
ceased called at her house about seven `o'clock. A little
time after she saw him bleeding at the nose and mouth in
the street. His face was all over blood, so that she could
not tell where the marks of violence were. The de-
ceased appeared .to be. "„stagnated" (staggered). The
deceased tried to get into. witness's house, but the pri-
soners kept him back by holding him by the arm. Wit-
ness succeeded in getting- him into the house, and she
set him in a chair .; but he fell on the floor, and she tried
to lift him up, but she could. not. The deceased turned
black and blue in the face; and witness sent for a doctor.
John William Bird deposed that he was a surgeon, in
Ratcliffe-highway. On the 25th June was called in to
the deceased at the house of the last witness. He was
lying on the floor. quite dead. He had a severe bruise
on the right eye. He had all the appearance of a person
who had died of. apoplexy. On the following morning
witness made an,examination of the head of the deceased,
in company with another medical man. A considerable ex-
travasation of blood was perceptible on the removal of the
scalp. The immediate cause of death was effusion of
blood on the brain. That effusion might have been
caused by blows on the head and face. Considers such
an effusion not to be the natural result of apoplexy.
Pretty deposed that he was a surgeon in the Rat-
cliffe-highway ; had seen the deceased on the day in
question, and concurred with the last witness as to the
immediate cause of death.
W. Ross deposed that he was a surgeon of High-street,
Shadwell, and had also examined 'the . deceased, and
should say, from that examination, that the immediate
cause of death arose from hemorrhage between the mem
branes of the brain, the result of external violence.
This being the last witness the prisoners were called
upon for their defence.
Mary Long said that She recollected nothing of the
circumstance.
Hannah,Covington said she was very much in liquor,
and that she only struck the deceased because he struck
her, and that she did not. recollect what occurred after
the first blow.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then summed up the evidence,
and the Jury shortly afterwards returned a verdict of
—Guilty 9f Manslaughter only.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS' then addressed the prisoners.
He said the Jury had Very properly, in his opinion,
found them guilty of the crime of manslaughter, as be
thought it would have been rather too much to come to
the conclusion that they hail by design caused the death
of the deceased. But it was impossible not -to perceive
that they had brought themselves into their present posi-.
tion by reason of indulgence, and that propensity to
liquor, which they had made a principal ground of de-
fence. But the Jury very properly deemed them re-
spozisible. However, as there was something to make
the Court believe that there was not any malice afore-
thought, and seeing also that there was a certain provo-
cation, the sentence would be a light one, viz., that they
be imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for the term of
six calendar months.

STORY OF AN APPROVER.--A., a well known
blood-thirsty character, proposed to B. and C. that they
should join him in committing a burglary where a good
booty was expected. "I've no objection to the swag,"
said B. ; " but if we go out together, mind hill have no
crokers (dead men). If we can't do our business without
them, why,'-then, I'd sooner follow some other game."
C. agreed with 8., both consenting to join in the robbery,
on the express condition of no violence being offered to
any person. The same night the thieves entered into a
house occupied by a single gentleman and his house-
keeper, who was deaf. The booty notbeing found where was
expected, they agreed to proceed to the gentleman's sleep-
ing-room and search there—both B. and C. again protest
ing that they would have no violence used beyond that of
restraining him from leaving the house to give an alarm.
The gentleman, either having no concealed property, or,
being obstinate, refused to disclose where it was. A.
became irritated from disappointment, and menaced the
gentleman, who was sitting up in his bed, every moment
becoming more furious and minatory, till at length the
ruffian actually aimed a blow at the unfortunate gentle-
man's head with a small crow-bar. B. arrested his arm
with one hand, while with the other he forced the
brutal as-,ailant from the spot. C., Whilst thiS was going
on, kept watch at the door, still commanding a view of
the room ; and, witnessing the attempt of A., rushed
forward to assist B. in preventing a fatal result. The gentle-
man, then becoming alarmed, suddenly sprang out of bed,
and, seizing a sword which hung near him, made a pass
at 8., whose back was towards him. The latter, feel-
ing himself wounded in.the shoulder, turned round, and
with a blow from his clenched fist knocked the gentle-
man down. A., who had recovered himself, then turned
round, and levelled a blow with the before-named bar,
which he stilt held in his hand, at the fallen gentleman's
head, which caused instant death. B. and C. imme-
diately denounced their comrade as a blood-thirsty
villain, and left the house, resolving never again
to be associated with.him in any other scheme of rob-
bery. ,All the property stolen on that night
was subsequently carried off by A A few days
after this murder was perpetrated, a proclamation
was issued, offering a reward and promise of pardon to
any accomplice, not the actual murderer, who would
impeach his 'companion in the crime. A. was the(first
to avail himself of ,this offer ; and making out his own
statement of the affair, caused the execution of C., and
the transportation of 13. These particulars were first
collected from the malefactor that suffered ; they were
also confirmed by his companion, whose sentence of
death was commuted to that ,of transportation, and,
finally; were. verified by the actual murderer, who a few
years subsequently was executed at the Old Bailey for a
similar brutal offence.—Frazer for July.
DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On
Monday afternoon as the Rev. Mr. Freeman, of Langley,
near Sloagh, was driving Mr. Maurice Swabey, one of
the Magistates for the county of Bucks, in his fourwheel
chaise', on the, Slough road, within about a mile of his
residence, he was met by a man just as he was turning
into a lane leading to Upton, with some barge-horses,
who was proceeding at full gallop. Mr. Freeman's horse
took fright at the noise caused, it is supposed, by the rat-
tling of the chains at their heels, and upset the chaise,
throwing both out with great violence. Mr. Swabey fell
upon Zr. Freeman, and providentially escaped with only-
some slight bruises. The Rev. Gentleman, however,
upon being picked up, was bleeding profusely from the
;ose, mouth, and ears, and totally insensible. lie was
immediately Conveyed to the residence of Mr. Smith, the
brother-in-law of the 'Vice-Chancellor, nearly opposite to
\there the acci4nt happened, where, in less than a quar-
ter of an hour, he was attended by two surgeons, but all
attempts to-revive him proving fruitless, he continued
gradually to sink, until four o'clock yesterday morning,
when lie breathed his last: .
The female boa constrictor at the Garden of
Plants recently hatched three eggs, and three young
serpents that have issued from them are of the greatest
Meoenger.