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This lady had the following letter inserted in the "Times" news-
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SOUTH LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
An election, to supply the vacancy caused by the
determination of the doubly-elected Hon. C. P.
, Villiers to sit for Wolverhampton, was held yesterday
at ten o'clock, in the large room of the Horse and
Jockey Inn, Newton .in-the-Willows. Mr. Alex-
ander Henry, a Liberal, was the only candidate, and
it will be seen by the sequel that no opposition was
made to his return. Special trains were run from
both Liverpool and Manchester, and the result was a
very numerous gathering of electors.
Mr. R. COBDEN, on presenting himself, was re-
ceived with loud applause. After expressing appro-
bation of the former return of Mr. Villiers as a due
testimony to his great exertions, he stated that the
same committee who had conducted his election had
chosen Mr. Henry. He said it was not at all inapt
that the first merchant in Manchester and the first
merchant in Liverpool should represent South Lan-
cashire. Mr. Henry, who was the friend of civil
and religious liberty, was in favour of the ballot,
and he (Mr. Cobden) had never heard a rational
objection urged against it. (A Voice--" How do you
like that Mr. Br own ?"—Laughter.) The very
parties who did object, singularly enough, came from
the Carlton and other Conservative clubs, in which
the ballot was employed. The ballot was not
only used in America, but when he was in Spain, the
election for the Cortes was so conducted; and every
parish and village in Russia had not only household
suffrage, but vote by ballot.—(Hear, hear, and loud
applause.) Then Mr. Henry was a Church and State
reformer, and he (Mr. Cobden) believed there was
not now any party in the community which was not
favourable to Church reform.—(Applause.) Mr.
Henry had also declared himself the uncompromising
advocate of free trade, not only in corn, but he would
be prepared to carry his views on commercial sub-
jects deeper than the corn-laws, and would be able to
deal with it in all its ramifications, for his experience
enabled him to judge of the effects of restriction upon
commerce not only in corn, but in all other articles.
Other subjects would also occupy the attention of
Parliament. There were the navigation laws. This
was a subject with which Mr. llenry and Mr.
Brown were as competent to deal, probably, as any
man in the House of Commons. Then there was

the question of the sugar duties, which would, in
all probability, be brought on by the friends of
the restrictive system. There was a great outcry
in the colonies against any tampering with the sugar
duties. The planters asked for more protection, to
bring► them out of their difficulties. Why, had they
not had protection ? What could he (Mr. Cobden)
adduce as a better proof of the results of protection
than the present state of the West India interests ?
(Hear, hear.) But there was another view of the
free trade question which he ventured to say his
friend Mr. Henry would be disposed to take. He
(Mr. Cobden) wanted not only free trade in corn, in
sugar, and in shipping; he did not want that we
should have only sugar and bread for our mouths,
but he wanted the spirit of free trade to enter into
the hearts of the community.—(Hear, hear, and ap-
plause.) He wanted the Legislature to be alive to
the great moral revolution which free trade neces-
sarily implied, if it was understood. He and th^
party with whom he acted proposed to abolish, or, at
all events, greatly to modify, our navigation laws ;
to give free access to our ports to the ships of other
countries, coming from all parts of the world,
bringing all kinds of produce, without regard to
differential duties or protection to native industry.
What did that imply ? It implied a growing
sympathy and dependence between the people of
this country and the people of the whole civilized
world. Well, to what must that conduct us ?
Must it not conduct us, if we were right in our prin-
ciples, to a spirit of friendship, of amity, and peace
throughout the world ?—(Loud applause.) If this,
then, was the moral tendency of their principles (and
he himself should never have given twelve months'
work if he did not think it was), what was the use of
increasing our armament or.our fortifications?—(Hear
and applause) He had ventured to express this
opinion at Stockport the other day ; and what he then
said had been misrepresented. It had been assumed
that he had said there he would save the country
17,000,0001., being the whole expense of the army,
navy, and ordnance. " Gentlemen," continued Mr.
Cobden, "I did not propose anything so good as that
—(Laughter)--but what I said was this, that if we
are right in our free-trade principles, we must be
very wrong if, a year after we have adopted them, we
begin putting up fortifications.—(Applause.) I said
that the great item in our expenditure in this country,
upon which we could make a diminution of our ex-
penses, was that horrible item of 17,000,0001. a year
for our army, navy, and ordnance ; and I said then,
as now, that if we could not make a reduction in that

item, I did not think we could make any reduction in
our taxes, which would be sensibly felt in the pockets of
the people. I said that the reduction could only be
made by a change in public opinion in this country,
by having free trade, not only in our ledgers and our
counting-houses, but having it in our hearts, and
having faith in our principles.—(Loud applause.)
Now, since I came into this room, a gentleman has
put into my hands a paper on the subject of the
tea duties. I have not read it ; but I can guess
what it is.—(Laughter.) They want a reduction;
to have is. a pound duty upon tea instead of 2s.
Well, it is a necessary and proper change.—(Loud
applause.) Then comes the question, how will you
supply its place, how make up the revenue ? (Hear,
hear.) Now, I perfectly concur with the gentleman
that it would be to the advantage of the people of this
country to make that change • nay more, I go fur-
ther, and say, that if you could make a reduction of
ls. a pound on tea, it would do more good in extend-
ing your trade in China than by sending out two or
three line-of-battle ships, or taking possession of
territory in the Indian Archipelago to serve as a
sort of half-way house.—(Cheers.) Reduce your
tea duties, and you will have an augmentation
of your trade with China without another line-of-
battle ship or another regiment being sent there.....
(Loud applause.) But, gentlemen, you want the
money—you want the means, to reduce this taxation,
and I see no one who comes forward to reduce the
expenditure who meets this difficulty. They have
different plans of shifting the expenditure, but shift
it as you will, gentlemen, you will find the load will
gall your shoulders, place it as you may.—(Laugh-
ter.) Now, I am one who believe that this country
has nothing to fear from any country so long as you
advance in the present principles of free commercial
intercourse with all the world. The great jealousy,
rivalry, and hatred which the world entertains to-
wards us has arisen from the monopoly of this coun-
try—(Hear, hear)—from the grasping ambition
which t;as led us to seize upon territory, to have its
exclusive possession; but the moment you proclaim
to the civilized world not only that your ports are
open, and your colonies open (tbr the latter claim it
now), the moment you abandon the privileges
of the navigation-laws, that moment you
change the feeling of the civilized world,
now against you, and they will be as ready
to enter into peaceful relations with you, to
maintain an amicable understanding, as they have
on former occasions to display a spirit of antagonism,
occasioned by your monopolies, and the spirit of war
and aggression which this country has manifested
during. the last century.—(Loud applause.) I do

not speak here as an Utopian. The views I express
here now are the views which first made me ac-
quainted with the people of Lancashire out of my
own business--I mean as the author of certain pam-
phlets twelve years ago. These were the views I had
then. Free trade has only been a labour of love with
me, that I might carry out those views ; and I believe
we are fast tending towards the time that the whole
community will be brought to the conviction that it is
not by warfare, not by armaments, not by brute force,
that the interests of the country can be advanced. I
want us to hold out not the nettle, the stinging
which diplomatists have. held out to foreign Powers,
but the olive branch in sincerity. —(Loud applause.)
And if we do so, our Moral influence will be such,
you may depend upon it, that the rest of the world will
be glad to follow your example." Mr. Cobden went
on to say that there was not a country on the globe
that was not groaning under the cost of its war es-
tablishment. It was not a popular expenditure.
" I have a high mission for England and English
statesmen, I want England to take the lead in a
partial disarming of the great European powers. In-
stead of sending diplomatists to contest, to quarrel
with them about the marriages of boys and girls, or
squabbling over an invitation to dinner, I want us to
send our diplomatists to those countries, and say we
have been pursuing a wrong and foolish course; we
have been building snore ships of war ; ' they have
been doing the same in Prance. France has increased
her army; Prussia, 'Russia,
and Austria have done
the same; you would all have been on the same level
if none had taken . this step. Now, instead of in-
creasing our armies, let us agree to a pro rata reduc-
tion of them.--(Loud applause.) 'Was there aught
Utopian in this ?" asked Mr Cobden ; "it is common
sense." After a few other remarks, the Honourable
Gentleman sat down, amili Aottd and continued ap-
plause: '
Mr. R_4.TIMONE Seconded the nomination.
Mr. HENRY began by returning his sincere thanks
to the gentlemen by whom he had the honour of
being proposed and seconded. He considered it no
small honour to have been proposed by that distin-
guished philanthropist who had so nobly, through
good report and evil, advocated and established the
principles of free trade, upon which he (Mr. Henry)
now stood before them.—(Loud applause.) When he
resolved to stand for this division of the county, he
determined not to palter with the constituency in a
double sense. He had therefore stated, what he now
begged to repeat, that he was the friend of civil and
religious liberty in the largest acceptance of
the term—favourable to the utmost diffusion
of education, without regardto sect or party
—an advocate for the utmost extension of
commercial freedom, and for the abrogation of all
monopolies and exclusive privileges.—(" Hear, hear,"
and loud applause.) These principles, he believed,
were becoming the sentiments of that great
constituency; and if it were their pleasure to
send him to Parliament, his votes and efforts
there would be constantly directed to carry those
great principles into effect.—(Loud applause.) They
necessarily implied the passing of just and equal laws;
the enlightenment and moral improvement of the
people; the abrogation, as he said before, of unjust
monopolies; lithe admission of the principles of free
trade ; the cultivation of peace and goodwill ; the
practice of rigid economy in the public expenditure,
and the honest endeavour of the Legislature to im-
prove the condition of the people.—(Loud cheers.)
He believed there sentiments were rapidly becoming
the opinions of that great and enlighted constituency.
He referred, as a proof of this, to the absence of that
fierce opposition which the principles he enunciated
would at one time have inevitably called forth. The
fact was a compliment to their own good sense and
intelligence. The people were becoming tired of
party politics, and applying the same principles of
good sense to public matters which governed their
conduct in private affairs. Mr. Henry concluded by
referring to the kindness and courtesy with which he
had been received in the various districts which he
had visited.

Several parties in the room then put to Mr. Henry
a number of questions, all of whiCh ho answered to
their evident satisfaction. He avowed himself against
the exemption from legacy and probate duty which
agriculturists enjoy; in favour of an extension of the
suffrage, and in favour of secular education uncon-
nected with religious instruotion. in answer to a

question whether he would vote for an abolition of
church-rates, Mr. Henry said he was of opinion, in
regard to religious matters, that every denomination
should support itself. The answer called forth loud

applause. -
:The HIGH SHERIFF having asked in the usual way
if there was any other candidate to propose, and no
answer being returr.ed, he declared, followed by loud
cheers, that Mr. Alexander Henry had been duly
elected.

Mr. HENRY returned thanks.
Mr. W. BROWN, M.P., addressed a few words to
the audience, and, after a vote of thanks to the High
Sheriff, duly acknowledged, the meeting broke up.
•

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Mr. Buckingham's tour in Scotland has been at-
tended with the greatest popularity, as the Scotch
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which have been attended by audiences exceeding 1.000
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President
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MILITARY MOVEMENTS IN SCoTLALD.—The fol-
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t 72 Iro.
days before Christmas :—Depot iblilanders, from
Cork to Paisley ; depOt lstbattalion Royels, from
Paisley to Glasgow ; Ist battalion.. 71st Highland Light
w to Ldinbur h Casale ; Ist
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about four days, were re-kindled on the forenoon of
Monday, since which time they appear to bo carried on
with their former spirit. This circumstance has in a
great measure dispelled the gloom which was becoming
manifest amongst the inhabitants. Their recommence-
ment is the more opportune when the state of the ti)wn
and neighbourhood as regards disease is taken into ac-
count.—Ayr Advertiser.

THE PREMIER and the PRELATES:
(From the Weekly Dispatch.)
Mr. Editor,—A second-rate actor in a theatre,
who thinks he ought to be first, is sometimes com-
forted by being put into a part in which he has a
scene to himself. And when it comes does he not
make the most of it ? By stamping and staring,
whispering and bellowing, he renders himself the
hero of the moment, and takes care that the audience
shall remember him after the progress Of the drama
has reduced him to his due proportions, and returned
him to his original insignificance. Sir, the Church
is striving to have her scene on the great national
stage. She is in danger and distress—in a fever and
a fury. Irish famine and commercial distress must
be quiet and retire, to make way for her piercing
screams and frantic gesticulations. The unexpected
and appalling calamity which has thus frightened the
'venerable dame from her propriety is, that Lord John
Rusell has recommended Dr. Hampden for the
.vacant bishopric of Hereford.
The rebellion in the Church is beyond all prece-
dent. The. hostile movement began with various
meetings and deprecatory resolutions of the provincial
clergy., As in other cases, the natural history, the
tail of the creature has moved the head, or, rather, • a
"half of its many heads. Thirteen Bishops have pro-
tested against the appointment. How virtue grows !
There were only seven intractable prelates when King
'James wanted to make the Church papistical. And
now, when Lord J: Russell would inoculate it with
a little Liberalism, there are no less than thirteen
Abdiels faithful among the faithless. The laity of
the Church has rushed•to the rerue of its bishops,
smarting under the Premier's rebuke for their pro•
test, and has,fired off its own protest also, to receive
a similar rebuke. Lord John's sarcastic logic has
" stomach for them alt." The. "485 lay members
of the Church of England, including several peers,
Members of Parliament, &c:,7 take nothing by.taseia
motion but an admonition to charity. Last comes
Henry of Exeter, himself a host, in three mortal
Tunes columns of small type, whacking and thwack-
ing the Whig Bishop-maker, and stimulating the
Dean and Chapter of Hereford to disregard the royal
conga d'elire, and dare the martyrdom of a pro-
munire.
It is one of the evils of a false position that it turns
right into wrong. The Church of England is
founded on a false principle, and entangled in an un-
holy alliance with the State. Hence the very qua-
lities which adorn the office of a true bishop, a real
spiritual overseer, become a relative unfitness for its
dignities. Dr. Hampden is a sound philosopher, but
an unsound believer. He has more faith in the
moral nature of man than in the three creeds. His
writings are in a wise and lofty spirit, but they are
not in the spirit of the Chatechism and Prayer-
book. It is vain to blink the fact, that the man is a
heretic ; and the heretic is too much of a true man to
be fit for a Church of England bishop, if we take the
constitution of the Church itself for a standard. Here
is the weak point of the appointment. The Church
demands orthodoxy of all, and especially of its pre-
lates. Technically, the reply is good, that Dr.
Hampden has subscribed the 39 Articles. But what
is it morally ? Dr. Hampden would have been a
greater man had he kicked the mitre with his foot in-
stead of bowing his head to wear it. He might have
risen to martyrdom ; he only sinks into a bishopric.
But thus it must happen in the practical working
of such a system as that of the Church of England.
It does not require merit, but conformity; not mind,
but faith. The consistently truthful are out of place
in it. " What dost thou here, Elijah ?" We
must make allowance for this inherent incongruity.
And when we have done so, and look at the Church
simply as a political corporation, over which the Mi-
nister of the Crown exercises a legitimate influence,
the appointment assumes a different aspect, and does
Lord J. Russell more credit for moral courage than
any other act of his Administration.
Indeed it never is courage that the Noble Lord
wants. There was courage enough, and to spare,
in the pertinacity with which he persisted, at the
close of the last Parliament, in forcing a bishop upon
the inhabitants of Manchester. He then offended
the Dissenters, and now he equally offends the
Church. The protests of the one no more affect him
than did those of the other. Both seem to " pass by
him as the idle wind, which he regards not." lle cuts
up the episcopal protest es coolly as if it were a
cucumber. His reply is a choice morsel of critici,m.
How cleverly he hits the cowardice of the Bishops in
not avowing their own conviction of Dr. Hampden's,
heresy, but falling back upon the alarms of others.
how neatly he reminds them of their having (some
of them at least) required candidates for holy orders
to have attended the lectures of this obnoxious Pro-
fessor. How cavalierly he sets aside the authority of
the University of Oxford, like one who was mindful
of its .expulsion of John Locke. How quiet his
allusion to the poor old Primate, whose repose at
Lambeth is likely to be sorely disturbed. And what
a significant hint is given of that supreme authority
vested in her who inherits the throne of Elizabeth and
of Hairy VIII. ; the living head of the Church and
disposer of its d7gnities ; the Lady Pope of Anglican
Protestantism. The episcopal knuckles are smartly
rapped by his Lordship ; and the royal conga d'elire
goes to Hereford as if nothing had happened.
Why should this outcry about Dr. Hampden be
raised just now ? He had promulgated no new doc-
trines of late. Nothing offensive, even to the most
unreasoning fanaticism, has been perpetrated recently
on his part. Ile has pursued a quiet course, holding
the confidential position of Regius Professor of
Divinity, and fulfilling its duties unquestioned ; and
for aught that appears, unquestionably. His cer-
tificates to his pupils have been required and accepted,
as preliminary to their ordination. For these ten
years there has been no protesting. No episcopal or
collegiate watchdog has barked at his heels as he left
his lecture-room. Apparently, he might have lived
and died in the arms of the Church and the odour
of sanctity, had not the Prime Minister picked him
out for a mitre. The commotion is made by the
promotion. The bishops quarrel, not with his laxity,
but with his luck. There are some dislocated ex-
pectations occasioned by the recent changes. Dr.
Hampden's main offence is to hare been fortunate in
a political friend. When will those godly men learn
to mind their own business ? Zeal slept soundly till
roused by the clink of cash and crozier. Then it
awakes, to begrudge the Liberal Doctor his new
honours and emoluments. The weights and scales of
orthodoxy are brought out; and Dr. Ilampden is
weighed and pronounced wanting. Surely these
curators of religion shonld not have been silent so
long; or should not have spoken so bitterly now.
They have committed themselves by their quiescence,
or they commit themselves yet worse by their outcry.
There is no escape from the dilemma. Either they
were false in their silence or in their clamour they
are factious.
A better way was open to them, and they may
adopt it even yet. Let them strike work, and turn
out, like honest operatives when an unpleasant asso-
ciate is forced upon them by the master. The right
of the Queen to employ Dr. Hampden as a bishop is
clear. Equally clear is the right of the Bishops of
London, Exeter, and the rest, to cut and run, if
they cannot agree with their new companion. It is
never too late to say " Nolo Episcopari." The
whole thirteen may unfrock themselves in a twink-
ling. Nobody will prevent them. A baker's dozen
of mitres would be a magnificent windfall for the
Minister. Plenty of candidates would be found, who
would make no question of Dr. Hampden's sound-
ness. The two halves of the Bench might then be
fitly joined together. The whole team would pull
one way, instead of half being yoked to the rear of
the ecclesiastical waggon. They would thus wash
their hands effectually of Hampden and heresy. A
peaceful retirement would show Christian meekness
combined with orthodox conscientiousness. The
turn-out of thirteen Bishops, on a theological scruple,
would be a nine days' wonder. The world would
enjoy the novelty of an Episcopal strike.
By the reply of the Bishop of Norwich to an ap-
plication for his signature, it appears there has been
a sort of secret canvass to get up the protest. The
protesting Bishops were not satisfied with each speak-
ing independently for himself. They have been beat-
beat-
ing up for recruits. They have caballed to raise the
whole Bench against the appointment. They have
acted not by the impulse of a common inspiration ;
not by the fair and formal decision of an aggregate
meeting,
,Lut by private applications and corre-
spondence. Was this right in itself? Was it frank
and just towards Dr. Hampden ? I may add, was it
decorous towards the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Primate of all England, the head and overseer of
these plotting prelates ? The Archbishop is no party
to the protest. It has been in his hands, but does not
boast his signature. Yet his Grace was the party to
hive stirred, had any stirabout been required. The
fitness of Dr. Hampden was a question for Lambeth
rather than for London. The government of the
Church is taken out of the Primate s hands. C. James,
of London, acts as viceroy over him. The busiest of
Bishops originates an Episcopal movement without
the concurrence of the Archbishop. He blows the
trumpet of clerical agitation without his captain's
orders. He leads the troop as if he had been its
commissioned commander. This would be irregular
anywhere; most of all in the Church. Dr. Howley
is not dead, though he may be dormant. The Canter-
bury throne has not been canted over. Ihese for-