The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-25 00:00:00

BEVERLEY, JAN. 23.

BEVERLEY, TR I.7RSDAY NIGIIT.—This day the nomina-
tion of Candidates for the representation of the Bo*ough
of Beverley, in the room of G. L. Fox, who has accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds, took place, on a commodious hus-
tings in the Mar'ket-place. The concourse of people was
not very large, titre being probably from 600 to 700 per-
sons in front of ti ie hustings. Several banners were dis.
played, none of yr hich had any particular inscription.
The Mayor act .ed as returning officer ; and after the
writ, and the act against bribery and corruption, had been
read by the Tow] 1-Clerk, his Worship entreated that they
would give every gentleman a fair and impartial bearing.
J. W. THORN, 'ON DrJESBERRY, Esq., then proposed S.
L. Fox, Esq. (ly other of their late Member); which was
seconded by a gel itleman whose name we did not learn.
J. SANDWITU. Esq. (ex-Mayor), proposed T. Lamie
Murray, Esq., of London, as a 'fit and proper person to re-
present them.

JAMES BELL, Esq., Major of the Beverley Militia,
seconded the nomination.
Mr. Fox addre iSed the ?lectors in a short speech, which
was badly deliver ed and very imperfectly heard. He de-
clared himself a 4 Conservative, and said that if returned, he
would be true ai id faithful to those principles. During
his canvass be ha d been told by some gentlemen that they
could not suppe rt him, because they were old Whigs ;
that was the very reason, be said, why they ought to give
him their support :. It was the jealousy of the oil
of Popish influet ice that drove James the Second from the
Throne; and therefore the Whigs ought to support the
Tories in frustratiing the objects of Mr. Daniel O'Connell.
--(Hisses.) • v ith respect to the national debt, for
which the Tories were blamed, he observed that they
ovght to bear the luarthen without comp Lining ; for had it
not been for this, England would have been a province of
France—that gigantic power would first have conquered
Europe, and then it would have conquered England. He
concluded by stating that the Popish Emancipation Act
was granted to conciliate Ireland ; instead of doing that it
had increased her agitation, and that country would never
be quiet whilst enure was one individual who could offer the
Queen the allegiance of seven millions of subjects on his
Own conditions.—( Applause.) He hoped Sir Robert
Peel would soon be brought again into power, and then
the country would again go forward in its career of glory.
—(Cheers and hisses.)

Mr. LAMIE MURRAY, en coming forward, was received
with enthusiastic cheering. He said that he stood before
them for two important objects ; the first was to give the
electors an opportunity of sending a Member to Parlia-
ment who would fully and fairly represent their opinions,
and the other was to give them an opportunity of saying
whether the present Liberal Government should remain in
office.— ( Cheers.) That Government were sick of their
offices, yet the Tories durst not take them—the sole wish
of the Tories was to produce exasperation and confusion
in the country, for the mere object of throwing contempt
on the Ministry.—( A pplause. ) The electors, however,
were too wise to be tricked by any such machinations.
He trusted they would never let Beverley be a close Tory
borough, but that they would manfully assert their inde-
pendence.—( Applause.) He then alluded to the inability
of his Honourable Opponent to deliver his sentiments on
any of the public questions of the day, and said this
was not the time to send members who would allow Sir
Robert Peel, or any other Minister, to put their votes in
his pocket.--( Applause.) If they should return him (Mr.
Murray) he would only support the present Ministry when
they acted rightly, and when they were in danger from
the Tories.—(Cheers.) He trusted they would never
allow one brother to say to another, " It does not suit my
convenience to go this year to Parliament; just go
down to the electors of Beverley—they are g )od fellows
—and will send you ; and when we have exhausted the
family of the Fox, perhaps we may get some of the family
of the goose—it will do quite as well."—( Loud laughter.)
The Hon. Candidate then referred to Tory diplomacy,
showing that it had closed the Dardanelles against the
British flag, sacrificed by the Treaty of Vienna the in-
dependence of Poland, nearly lost us India, given the
Algiers, with the enormous power the Caliphs once pos-
sessed,to the French, and nearly sacrificed Canada. But by
the wisdom of the Liberal Government, without a life al-
most being lost,' except in predatory warfare, Canada had
been preserved to the British Crown, and by their nego-
tiations their flag should soon float on the waters of the
Dardanelles. He then declared himself in favour of house-
hold suffrage and v•ee by ballot, the latter of which he
said Tory intimidat'on had rendered necessary. He was in
favour of triennial Parliaments, which he said were no in-
fringement on the old Constitution, but were the ancient
right of Englishmen.—( Cheers.) He approved of na-
tional education being given without proselytism. The
Tories had the impiety to suppose nobody read the Bible
but themselves ; however, they read it backwards as the
Hebrews did, skipping all those magnificent maxims which
form the moral code of every Christian nation, and exposed
Tory iniquity. He then urged that Chartism would not
have prevailed—that the Monmouth rioters would not have
been left for execution—if education had been communi-
cated to the people. The worthy candidate next referred
to the state of Ireland, remarking that by the wise and
conciliatory policy of the Government, instead of having
30,000 or 40,000 soldiers in that country, we bad only a
staff in Ireland.—( Loud cheers.) He next referred to
the Corn Laws, declaring himself in favour of an exten-
sive modification of them; and, after adverting to sonic
local topics of no general interest, he concluded a bril-
liant Address (which we regret we are not able to give
fully) by thanking them for their promises, and express_
kg his full conviction that on the following evening
he should be returned as their Member.—(Cheers.)
A show of hands was then called for, which was de..
Glared in favour of Mr. Murray. Mr. Fox demanded a poll.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor, and the
assembly separated.
The contest is expected to be very severe, end we un-
derstand large sums are being offared by the Tories for
votes. Mr Fox is a gentleman of greet landed property,
both in Yorkshire arid Ireland; Mr. Laurie Murray is from
London ; he is one -f the Directors of the National Bank
of Ireland, and Chairman of the National Loan Fund;
an eminent financier, and a Reformer of large and en-
lightened views. The poll takes place to-morrow morn-
ing ; and Mr. Murray's friends are very sanguine of suc-
cess even in this hot-bed of Toryism.

ERIDAY.
STATE OF THE POLL.
HALF-PAST NINE.

Lamie Murray
Fox ...

A QUARTER TO TEN.

Murray
F0x.....