The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-27 00:00:00

ELECTION MOVEMENTS.
BATH.

TUESDAY EVENlNG.—Electioneering has begun in
this city in good earnest, and the friends of the pre-
sent Members, as well as those of Lord Ashley (to
whom a requisition, inviting him to offer himself in
the Conservative interest, was presented some time
since) are taking active measures to secure the re-
turn of their respective candidates. Lord Duncan
and Mr. Roebuck arrived here on Saturday evening,
having (it is said) been specially urged to do so by
their committees, and their address was forthwith
issued and extensively circulated among the electoral
body.
Last night a meeting of the electors of the exten-
sive ward of St. James, convened by the Central
Committee of the Liberal Association, was held in the
large room of the Lamb Inn. The chair was taken
by Mr. Cox, a circumstance which was regarded with
much satisfaction by Mr. Roebuck's friends, inas-
much as it had been stated that that gentleman was
one of a numerous party of the electors who had taken
offence at some of the recent Parliamentary proceed-
ings of the lion. and Learned Member, more parti-
cularly in reference to the subject of education.
Mr. ROEBUCK delivered a lengthened address in
explanation and vindication of his Parliamentary
policy. He said he first sought their support as
a Radical, and he had adhered to Radical princi-
ples ever since, and hoped to continue to possess their
confidence.

Lord DUNCAN also spoke at some length, and ap-
pealed to his past proceedings as an earnest of his
future conduct.

Both Members were most cordially received, and
resolutions in approbation of their conduct were passed
with acclamation.
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A very numerous meeting of the friends of Lord
Ashley was held to-day at the Assembly-rooms, and
was attended by most of the influential Conserva-
tives of the city. ➢lr, W. Sutcliffe took the chair,
and introduced

Lord ASHLEY, who addressed the electors at con-
siderable length, and touched upon the leading poli-
tical topics of the day. His Lordship touched upon
the various matters of social reform, in which he has
taken so deep an interest, and expressed himself to
some extent in favour of the policy of Lord John
Russell, whom he believed to be a statesman of
fine understanding, and of generous and patriotic
mind.

A vote of thanks to Lord Ashley was passed, and a
canvass on his behalf will, it is understood, be imme-
diately commenced.

BUCKINGHAAISIIIRE.

The following address has been issued to the elec-
tors of the county of Buckingham by Air. Disraeli:—
" Gentlemen,—As one of our present respected Mem-
bers does not intend to renew his offers of service at the
general election, and p there is now no hope of obtain-
ing a successor to him in that quarter which would re-
ceive the support of all parties and interests, I beg to an.
nounce my intention, on the dissolution of the present
Parliament, of soliciting your suffrages for the high
honour of becoming one of your representatives.
" It is now many years ago since, in your County
Hall, I upheld the Cause of the Territorial Constitution
of England as the best and surest foundation for popular
rights and public liberty, imperial power and social hap-
piness. The maintenance of the agricultural industry of
the country is the necessary condition of the enjoyment
of that Constitution; and I have, therefore, indepen-
dently of all other considerations, opposed, during the ten
years in which I have had the honour of sitting in Par-
liament, every attempt which had a tendenry to diminish
the numbers and influence of those classes which are
directly dependent on the land.
" Influenced by this principle, I offered, during the
recent assault on our protective system, a faithful, though
fruitless, opposition to that project. What has since
occurred has not, in any degree, changed the conclusions
at which I then arrived as to the scheme of the late
Administration. The temporary high price that is sti-
mulated by famine is not the agricultural prosperity
which I wish to witness; while, in the full play of un-
restricted importation, I already recognise a disturbing
cause, which may shake our monetary system to its
centre, and which nothing but the happy accident of our
domestic enterprise has prevented, I believe, from exer-
cising a very injurious effect on the condition of the
working classes of Great Britain.
"Notwithstanding this opinion, I am not, however,
one of those who would counsel, or who would abet, any
attempt factiously and forcibly to repeal the measures of
1846. The legislative sanction which they have obtained
requires that they should receive an ample experiment ;
and I am persuaded that this test alone can satisfy the
nation either of their expediency or their want of fitness.
If, however, as I hold the result of this great change
must be a reconstruction of our financial system, it will
behove the various classes connected with the cultivation
of the soil to be vigilant, that their interests may be
adequately represented and fitly enforced at a crisis when
their more compactly organized rivals will not be obli-
vious of their claims or over scrupulous in urging them.
"A domestic affliction precluded me from being pre-
sent during the recent debates on the subject of National
Education. It is but fair, therefore, that I should state,
that had I been in my place I should have supported the
measure of the Government. I should have done so
upon two grounds ; firstly, that it was a considerable
advance in a right direction ; and, secondly, because the
tendency of that measure is, not by investing them with
any exclusive privileges, but by securing them a fair
occasion for their erertions, mainly to place the educa-
tion of the people in the hands of the clergy, whom I
have ever wished to see in the van of civilisation, and
occupying their legitimate posts as guides and instruc-
tors of the people.
"Although I have always been of opinion that our
Constitution in Church and State has been a union far
more beneficial to the State than to the Church, which,
under all circumstances, must exist and flourish from its
inherent principle, I shall, at all times, heartily maintain
that alliance, since it has become identified with the
habits and best feelings of the people, and has, for a long
series of years, happily secured to us the blessings alike
of orthodoxy and of religious freedom. For these,
among other reasons, I thought it my duty to oppose, in
1815, the grant to the College of Maynooth, leading, as
it inevitably and avowedly did, to the endowment of the
priesthood of another Church. I see no reason to regret
the opposition which I offered to that measure, and I
hold it to be quite consistent with an earnest desire to
secure to our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects the civil
and political equality to which they are entitled.
"In the great struggle between popular principles
and liberal opinions which is the characteristic of our
age, I hope ever to be found on the side of the people,
and of the institutions of England. It is our institutions
that have made us free, and can alone keep us so, by the
bulwark which they offer to the insidious encroachments
of a convenient, yet enervating, system of centralisation,
which, if left unchecked, will prove fatal to the national
character. Therefore, I have ever endeavoured to
cherish our happy habit of self-government, as sustained
by a prudent distribution of local authority. For these
reasons I am of opinion that the right of supreme con-
trol, necessary to the due administration of the poor-
law, should be exercised by the chief depositary of power
in every county, and that the supervision of our parishes
should not be entrusted to strangers.
"It is unnecessary for me to state I shall support all
those measures the object of which is to elevate the
moral and social condition of the working classes, by
lessening their hours of toil—by improving their means
of health—and by cultivating their intelligence. These
are objects which it is not unpleasing for me to remem-
ber, I endeavoured, in common with some of my friends,
to advance before they engaged the attention of Go-
vernments, or were supported by triumphant Parlia-
mentary majorities.
" It is with these views that I come forward to solicit
your suffrages. I am deeply conscious how high is the
object of my ambition. It is the greatest honour that an
Englishman can receive from the hands of his fellow-
subjects; but if the honour be great, I at least know how
to appreciate it. Amid the universal crash of parties, I
advance to claim your confidence with none of the corn-
mon-places of faction. I am not the organ of any section,
or nominee of any individual. All that I ca❑ offer to
you is the devotion of such energies as I possess. All
that I aspire to is to serve you as becomes the represen-
tative of a great, undivided, and historic county, that
has achieved vast results for our popular liberty, our
parliamentary reputation, and our ❑ational greatness.
" I have the honour to remain, Gentlemen,
" Your faithful servant,
" B. DISRAELI.

" Bradenham, May 22, 1847."

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NORTH NORTHUMBERLAND.—Since our last there
has been an active canvass made for Sir George Grey,
and the result is described as highly favourable to
the Honourable Baronet. In this town, as might be
expected, a large number have pledged themselves to
Sir George ; and if present appearances may be
trusted, his success is not so doubtful as was at first
supposed. There is a growing feeling even amongst
the Conservatives, that the services of Lord Ossul-
ston, " the absent Member," as he has been called,
should be at once dispensed with ; and if the elec-
tors consult their own dignity and the reputation of
the county, they will close accounts with his Lord-
ship, and leave him at full liberty to pursue some-
thing more congenial than attending the House of
Commons.—Netocastle Guardian.
INVERNESS BURGH. —We are enabled to state, upon
good authority, that Mr. Morrison, the present Mem-
ber for the burgh of Inverness, Forres, Nairn, and
Fortrose, will not be allowed to go unopposed at the
ensuing general election. Rumour asserts that Sir
John Macpherson Grant, of Ballindalloch, is to oppose
Mr. Morrison. He is said to be a Liberal ; but we
would caution the electors not to pledge themselves
to any candidate whose opinions upon the various
questions which now engross and agitate the country
are not properly and explicitly defined and under-
stood, and in accordance with the views of the ma-
jority of the electors.—Edinburgh Weekly Express.
EAST LOTRIAN.—Lord Elcho has this week corn-
' menced a canvass in East Lothian on behalf of his
son, the Hon. F. Charteris. Another candidate is
expected to appear as an opponent of the game-laws,
on which question a powerful body of the tenantry of
all parties have resolved to unite.—Scotsman.
NEWCASTLE.—We are still without any appear-
ance of a second liberal candidate. here are ru-
mours of certain individuals being in readiness to take •