The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-13 00:00:00

gone through the usual preliminaries, called on any elector to
come forward and nominate a cindidate.
Sir W. Ai AX WELL then came forward, and proposed Mr.:l.
Blair, as a lit and proper person to iepre,ent min Parlia-
ment. He was secondart by Colonel li. Blair, of runllcey.
The unite createdby the Liberals made him quite inaudible.
Mr. M'TAcc A WI, M.P., for the Wigton district of burghs,
came forward and proposed Captain Dalrymple, as a tit yen-
tidate for their !‘ufr.ag•s. In doing this, •he bore testimony
to Mr. Blair's, the late Member's z, alous attention to the in-
terests of the county. lle had hone-tly done his duty to
c.hose who returned him. But who had returned him? A
knot. of 20 or :30 Tories. It was for them to decide whether
~hey would rmrport Captain Dalrymple, the scion of a noble
'u use, who had Liberal principles born in him, or Mr.
Blair, who had not even the advantage of being a Seotchman.
—(Laughter and cheers). lie hoped they would follow the
?xample of Kirkcudbright, and return Captain Dalrymple by

a triumphant majority;
Mr. Garronn, of 13Iairboy, seconded the nomination of Cap-
tain Dalrymple.
Mr. J. BLAIR, the Conservative candidate, then stepped
!orward to address the electors. 'The noise and uproar cretited
were, however, so great that we could not distinguish a word
're said for a long period. We undcrstaod him to deprecate
the budget brought forward by her Majesty's Ministers, and
the manner, when beaten on that, that tl ey had appealed to
the country, without the hope of success, merely to embarrass
their opponents. More than half of the population, the capital,
and the industry of this great country were engaged in agri-
culture, and yet the Ministers hrd brought forward measures
calculated to effect the ruin of that great interest. he la-
bouring population would in no way be benefited thereby, for
wages would be reduced by the propesed Corn-law in greater
proportion than the price of bread. They had been told not
to submit to the dictation, of Tory landlords, but were there
not many of Lord Stair's tenants who would gladly vote for
him, heart and soul, if they dared do Si ?--( Tremendous up-
roar.) He concluded amid loud cheering and uproar.
Captain DenascarenE then came forward. He hoped to
deserve the commendation which had been bestowed open him
by his mover and seconder. He had Inv claims ou the electors.
lie had no public character and no political experience, and he
'elt great diffidence in corning before them. But be came for-
ward on their invitation so struggle for the advancement ef
those principles which were dear to them, and to overthrow
those of their opponents--( Hear, ) Mr. Blair had made
the Corn-laws a very prominent topic, and claimed the
snpport of the farmers from his support of that law.
He denied that Mr. Blair wt s more a friend of the
farmer than he was. How could he be an enemy of the
farmer, when the whole of his support, and that of his fa-
mily, were derived from the land? He was against the present
Corn-laws, because all the great authorities of England op.
ansed those laws, as injurious to the landed propietor, and
still more so to the farmer. They had been made for the
purpose of creating high rents. The great evil of the Corn-
laws was that they created uncertainty anti fluctuation,
and ;ambling transactions, by which the Corn-law merchants
made great 'fortunes, and the farmers were often ruined.
tut there were ether subjects besides the Corn-laws—there
were such things as civil and religious liberty, and this was
the occasion on which to speak of them. He wished to give
a full and free representation to the people arid protection to
the voter. Would Mr. Blair do this? He wished enfran-
chisement to go hand in hand with education, and that 'all
should have a vote who had intelligence and education to
justify it.—(Cheers.) He wished to extend the benifit of
education to all classes of the community, without any exclu-
sion whatever on the grounds of religious creed. Would Mr.
Blair do this: He would give entire freedom of conscience to
the Dissenters.—(Cheers.) These were the great points of
difference be..wern the Whigs and the Tories. He would read
to them a statement of what were tho effects of Toryism when
the Tories left office in 1830. The Gallant Captain then read
a long statement from the Annual Register, stating that mid-
night burnings and incendiarism took place all over the coun-
try, that great disorder prevailed, and finishing with the climax
that the King had been obliged to refuse to dine with the
Lord Mayor. The Gallant Captain then proceeded to a state-
ment of the amount of the national debt in 1784, when the
Whigs left office, and compared it with the amount when the
Tories left office in 1830. The Tories had lost us America,
then our most valuable colony, now our most formidable rival.
The people of Scotland were now an enfranchised body. Who
had given them that franchise? and who hid tried to with-
hold it from them?—(Hear.) He wanted to see the farmers
happy, rich, and independent, and to secure these objects he
should think it his melted duty to attempt, if returned by them
to Parliamen'. But there were those who called themselves
the farmers' friends, who, after the farmer had paid his rent, in-
sisted on his vote. and did their best to ruin him if he refused it.
He wished to look on the farmers as friends. and not as slaves.
—(Cheers.) •In conclusion he begged them to come early to
the poll, and come all, and then they would make such an ex-
ample of their opponents that the very boldest Tory in Scot-
land should feel lit hair stand on end.—(Cheers.)
The SHERIFF then put the question to the electors to choose
their representative, and declared the show of hands to be in
favour of Captain Dalrymple.
Mr. Blair, having demanded a poll, the Sheriff appointed the
poll to commence on Tuesday next at nine o'clock, at Wigton
and Stranraer, and to conclude at four o'clock on Wednesday.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAM B It I I)G E.—The honours in civil law for the. year 16'40-41
have been this year adjudged, at Commencement, in the follow-
ing order :
First Class.--Howes, Trinity Hall; Stonestreet, St. John's
College.
Second Class.—Jeuner, Trinity Hall ; Caldwell, ditto.
Third Class.—Roche.