The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-30 00:00:00

EVENINGt POLL.

Law
Field ng
GottWarn
L,,tevre
The pull will he re-commence i to-an Tr.w.
CAMBRII '6E BOROUGH.
The eandid3tes are Mr.
.Carnpi.eil and Mr. Adair
(Liberal.), and Mr. Manners Sutton, the old Member
(Peelitt.). The marnatlon t ok place yebteiday, and
the show of hamis was in favour ot- Meabrs. Adair and
Campbell.

583
469
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CANTERBURY.
TIMUDAL—The nomination of candidates for this

city took place this day. There are fTuTgentlemen in
the field—the Hon. Mr. Smythe, a liberal supporter of
Sir Robert Peel, and a member of his Governm,nt; Lord
A. Conynghtim, a Whig; Lord Clinton and Mr. Vance,
Conservatives or Tories. There has been a junction of
effort and interests on both sides. The supporters of
Mr. Smythe and Lord A. Conynghana have united, and
those of Lord Clinton and eir. Vance have done the
same. So that, for all practical purposes, the election
has been conducted as if there were only two candidates.
The nomination was fixed for 11 o'clock, and at that
hour the Cattle-market was CrOWli.:(i.

The contending parties were e,cortcd to the scene of
action by their friends b proces,ion, with the usual tic-
compniments of battlers and music; the di-play made by
the Consetvative party was the mot etfemive mid con-

spicuous. Lord A. Con)lignain was not present, baying
met with an accident; a handbill, staling the fact. and

containing a certificate from his Lordship's medical at-
tendant, was issued in the course of the morning. The

usual preliminal it s having been gime through,
The SHERIFF (Mr. W. J. Uocper) opened the proceed-
ings in a brief address, Exhorting them to give every

candidate a fair hearing.
Alderman BRENT proposed Lord A. Conyngham as a
fit intLproper person to represent the city of Canterbury

La ParlLm-ent.

Alderman PLurnt ER seconded the nomination.
Mr. WO, iTTON proposed the Hon. G, P. S. Smythe,
eulogizing the manner in which that gentleman had dis-
charged his public duties.
Mr. %V. SLADDON seconded the nomination.
Mr. GURNEY CROASDAILL proposed Lord Clinton, and

;he nomination was seconded by. Mr. W. 61VITHSON.
Mr. J. Vance was proposed by Mr. PnILLPOTTS, and

secohded by Mr. HotirTux.
The Hon. Mr. SMYTHE then addressed the electors.

In the op,ning of his speech he referred exPlusively to
local and personal eircutustinces connected with the con-
test, and in particular to the conduct of Mr. Siniths..n,
the seconder of Lord Clinton, wno had been a supporter

of Mr. Smythe, and is the editor of a local journal. In
this paper the Hem. Gentleman said he had been misre-
presented by mutilatims of his speeches, and otherwise.
There is also a squabble about the rignt of property in
certain flags, which, having belonged to Mr. Smythe or
his committee, are said to have been appropriated by the

other party. who had used them in their precession with
some of the inscriptions altered by the suppression of Mr.
Smythe's name and the substitution of Lord Clinton's.
The Hon. Gentleman also charg(d his former friends
with receiving money from hum for the purposes of
the registret on committee long after they knew his
votes and opinUms on religious questions, now made the
ground of objection, and then using the registration
books he had paid for against him. Having disposed of
Mr. Smithson and his " idiotic gazette," and taunted
his opponents with using what did not belong to them,
when it would have been more creditable to have ap-
peared " with their own breeches pockets for banners,"
the Hon. Gentleman gave a truce to local politics, and
turned to questions of more general interest. lie was
in favour of the great principles of fr. e trade, which
had been carried by Sir It. Peel at a most costly sacri-
fice, regardless of anything but the welfare and well-
being of the great commonwealth of England.—
(Cheers.) He was in favour of that principle, and its
still fueeher.extensien and development. He believed,
consistently with having a great increase upon the Cus-
toms' duties, they m.ght reduce the duties on tea end
tobacco.—(Cheers.) Should he be recurt ed to Parlia-
ment, as he had no doubt he should be, he should lose
no occasion of furthering and promoting that principle.
—(Cheers.) One word on the question of suffrage. Ile
had been misrepresented as an advocate of universal
suffrage. because he opposed the principle of fleality.
Many persons declared themselves opposed on
principle to any extension of the suffrage teyond the
limit of the 10/. householder; he understood and re-
spected that principle, but it was not his; he would not
vote for any crude measure, introduced abruptly and in
a factious manner, for the extension of the franchise;
but he could foresee the (lay when by the immense ee-
velopemen, of wealth and population, consequent upon
the operation of the principles of free trade, and the
more general diffusion of intelligence, they would all be
entitled to the franchise.—(Cheers.) He wished to
shirk no subject. It had bt en said he was a favourer
of the Roman Catholics, because he had voted for the
grant to the College of Maynooth. He wished to put
this question broadly, and in reference to it he would
appeal to their pockets. William 111., whom the gen-
tleman opposed to him much admired, once wished that
Ireland was a thousand miles off; but as Ireland existed
and was not a thousand miles off, they could only govern
it in one of two ways, by conciliation or by the sword.
If they determined to govern it by force, the people of
England would be the first to cry out against it; for to
do so a war establishment must be kept up, which the
people would be taxed to maintain.—(Cheers). If to
govern by force was a Conservative principle, and if they
advocated it in Ireland, he told them the principle was
miscalled, that it was fraught with insurrection and big
with civil war.—(Cheers). He wished to correct an error
that had been ascribed to hum in the report of a speech
recently published. It had been supposed that he at-
tacked the aristocracy, because in speaking of the Ad-
ministration of Sir R. Peel, he had raid, at one time, it
stagnated beneath the slime of aristocratic-approbation.
He applied the phrase to the inertness and stagnation
which prevailed under their auspices; and he would add
this—it was for the aristocracy to vindicate themselves
from the reproach; it was for them to justify themselves
in the eyes of England; it was for them to say that they
would not be connected with any policy to which the
term stagnation could be applied.—(Cheers.) Let
them support those principles which they all knew must
prevail whoever was returned—the principles of progress.
—(Cheers.) Let the aristocracy put themselves at t'ie
head of the movement, and they might depend upon it,
in the words of Mr. Cobden, that most eloquent public
man, the people of England would follow the aristocracy.
But it was somewhat too much, too insolent, too out-
rageous on their intelligence, for gentlemen to come
forward to contest the honour of representing that city
with the opinions and prejudices of their ancestors of
two centuries ago.—(Cheers.) They must recollect what
the English aristocracy was; it was, happily, in a com-
mercial country, a young aristocracy, full of life and lusty
vigour. An aristocracy in a commercial nation was in
the commercial class, and nothing could be so ab-urd as
that it should come forward, like a young actor
playing an (bid part, and imitate decrepitude, adopting
opinions and principles as obsolete and ancient as they
would have them believe are their seutcheons and pedi-
grees.—(Cheers.) His opponent, Mr. Vance, had 'irked
if he was a Tory of the year 1689? He would frankly
reply he was; had he lived in those days he should have
been a Tory; but Mr. Vance was not, perhaps, aware
that such was the confidence of William M. in the
honesty of the party, that ho formed half of his first
Ministry of Tories; and as he grew in years he grew in
wild en—his last Ministry was entirely composed of
them.—(Cheers.) Having answered Mr. Vance': ques-
tion, perhaps he would permit him to give him a piece
of uovice—a certain countess once said to her niece,
" We must part ; you have no character at all, and I
have not enough for two."—(Great laughter.) Were he
Mr. Vance, he should say to Lord Clinton--" We must
retire; you have no intelligence, and I have not enough
for two."—(Cheery.)
Lord CLINT" on coming forwrd, was warmly cheered
by his supporters. He reproved his opponent for re-
sorting to- personalities, and defended Mr. Smithson.
He expressed his sense of the kindness with which
he had b en met by the constituency of Canterbury,
and stated that he came forward te give a large
section of them an opportunity of supporting their
principles. Judging from the sentiments expressed
towards them, he had no doubt he and his colleague
would be in the majority. He (lei ply regretted the
absence of Lcrd Conyngharn and its cause, and then
briefly recapitulated the principles on which he had
come forward. He stood mainly on the principle of
Protestantism—against that creed which was constant
in its effoits to annihilate what he had been taught was
the truth. Ile was opposed strongly to all endowments
of the Catholic Church, and exhorted them to bear in
mind that the Catholic Powers and the Vatican were
watching the issue of the 4 ction. Let them not afford
that Vatican one cheer of triumph. On political ques-
tions he professed perfect independence; he was bound
to neither party, nor was he biassed by bigotted rdir an-
tiquated notions. He should be anxious to anaernek and
remove abuses, but be would resist useless and
s. l thouse s s
innovations brought forward for party purpose s•
regard to their effect on the co
" Name them.") With respect to free
with foreign na-
they ought to insist on a e? e,
r tri oriute free trade at that
dons. He did not think a s u lit (Cries of
:tie trade he thought
be more obnoxious than in-
and direct tax:itioia wouldhe
moment possible,
Poor-law, be denounced the
direct. Referring .
as the revenue must 1) maintained,
abirt(:lgecit of the city and the country at
tnieretrorgi edh e persons
would, inif.
returned,
large.
halisgdtbecacotolfardste'bdPe i uteres
Three cheers were given for Lord Conyngliam as a
substitute for his speech.
Mr. VANCE called on the inhabitants of the seat
of the Primate of England to choose representatives
of Protestant and English principles. Those of Mr.
Smythe he could not characterise, though, as he
called. himself a Tory, he would an
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denied
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toile support,
which he greatly valued, of the artisans. The first
leading principle on which he stood was to oppose farther
concessions to the Roman Catholics. tie approved of
the measure of Catholic ernani.ipation. but he insisted
that the compact made on behalf of the Establishment
and the maintenarce of its revenues ought to be observed.
He was the advocate of free trade betore Mr. Smythe;
he had always advocated the principles as applied to the
raw material of their manufactures; but it was of the
utmost importance that the farmers should be enabled to
mike a subsistence. The only doubt he had
principle of free trade was, the ditiliieuv,ltLlid not disturb
had. of
.i
making it
reciprocal with other nations. Still
.e a
fair
trial. He
the present arrangement,
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eraretnalk. d on the contours .
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position to that of
Mr. Fox and Lord North in
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