The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-04 00:00:00

4, 1847.

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He appraled to the electors of Drotrheda and (on Werts )
nesday next he anticipated a triumphant verdict iu
his
favour.—(Cheers.)
Mr. L. MuitrtaY said that, their late representative had
uttered many nothings. He did not intend to attack the
private character o Sir William Somerville, nor to
follow him through his drawling; defense. lie did not
mean to dwell on his betrayal of confidence, though
never before did he hear of a Minister of the Crown
betraying confidence repoSed in him by a respectable
citizen.—(Hear.) He had fifteen years' character from
the great man whose remains were arriving aoaotigg
them, at a time when the country was suffering under
Whig misgovernment. He could show the half of that
Court-house full of letters thanking him for what he
had .done in introducing capital into that country.--
(Cheers.) They were not discussing private letters with
Mr. Boylan, nor private conversathins; but :hey met
there to decide a great principle. and a great question—
that of a repeal of the union. But his opponent was a
placernan, and could not but speak as his master bid him.
lie had often heard good arguments in favour of repeal,
but Sir William Somerville's speech was the best argu-
ment he bad ever heard respecting it. He could say for
himself that eight out of every twenty-four hours of his
life were engaged with Irish affairs; and the reason he
was for repeal was, that Englishmen did not understand
the affairs of this country. He felt convinced from his
canvass that the success of repeal was inevitable, and that
Sir William Somerville, and other large landed proprie-
tors, would yet beg for it. Sir William knew well that
the English press had imposed a poor-law upon Ireland.
—(Hear.) Nothing would have induced him to oppose
an Irishman, if he did not desire to prove that it was
not enough for Ireland to make an Irishman the Chief
Secretary for the country: He wished Drogheda to
give an example to the rest of Ireland, so that more,Re-
peal Members might be sent into Parliament. And why
not have had repeal before now, as it had been promised
by Mr. O'Connell? It was because too many bad repeal
on their lips and place-hunting in their hearts.—(Cheers,
and cries of " They think out-door relief gond enough
for us, and make us pay for it.") He was for tenant-
right—not at indefinite tenant-right, but a substantial,
equitable adjustment between the occupier of the land
and the owner in fee. He had between that and Dublin
seen more, weeds in the fields, drawing more nutriment
from the land, than would support the paupers in the
town. The Whigs considered nothing as capital but
money or fixed property, and omitted from their calcu-
lation as capital the store of wealth to be found in hu-
man industry, the human will, and human energy. He
declared he had no place to seek•for from Government.
He had been the friend of Mr. O'Connell, and had sug-
gested the plans which the wisdom of that great man
had carried out. He concluded by appealing to them as
Repealers to support the cause of repeal, a measure
which he hoped to see carried in 1850—(Cheers)—and
affirmed he would poll to the last man.
Dusze.made a speech, and concluded by declining
to go to the poll.
a. show of hands was then called for, when the High
Sheriff declared that they were in favour of Mr. L. Mur-
ray. A poll was demanded on the part of Sir W. So-
mervil:e.

The Sheriff fixed it to be taken on Wednesday, and
to commence-at eight o'clock.

Thanks were proposed to the High Sheriff by Sir W.
Somerville, and secondi.d by Mr. L. Murray.
The Court was then broken up a few minutes after
three o'clock.

Was•eause to .take offence at, his political conduct, would
.t not have been better for the person finding it to have
called together the electors and have told them so, in-
stead of going to the castle and whispering his bitter
spite to its lordly owner.—(Cheers end uproar.) So far
he alluded to Mr. ,Josiah Hunt.—(Groans and uproar.)
Now, he asked them, whether Grenville Berkeley was
not a nominee, and he would tell them why. He said
that he was not dictated to by the castle, but he (Grant
ley) called upon.hitn, Man to man, to state—and he
Itrusted that no relation' of .his, and a gentleman and
soldier too, would deviate from the truth—he asked
him to state:' Man to man,' who paid his election ex-
penses I—(Hear, hear; and cheers.) He asked him if he
was not a nominee, how came he to have his name in-
serted in that disgraceful document which offered him
(Grantley) money to get out of his way ?---(Cheers and
confusion.) - Those were stubborn facts, and all the
special pleading in the world, and all the lip blotting
paper which could be produced, could not erase that dis-
graceful fact from the rec 'rds of county representation —(Cheers.) It was necessary that he should now advert
to the as onions which had been so shamefully ute and n
candidate
hlushin2ly put forth, that he was a Popish an
It was true he had married a Catholic lads- ; but he.
asked them, if having remained a sincere Protestant for
i 2 years after his marriage, it was likely be should Le
changed now ?—(}Tear,) It Was hot true that he kept
Catholic servants ; he had never had a Catholic servant
lin his life. It was true that he had taken his lady to
chapel, and he would do so-again. He was as strict a ?
Protestant as man could be— (Cheers)—but he was a
friend to civil and religious liberty, and was for the re- i
!novel from all sects of civil disabilities on I
account of religious belief.—(Loud cheers.) Every I
man had a right to judge of spiritual affairs
for himself. The game-laws had been used
as a cry against him, and he would buckle to that ques-
tion. Mr. Grenville Berkeley had in his address taken
advantage,of that cry, and had sedulously used it against
him. Now, he judged of a man by the company he
kept.—(Hear, hear.) Had any of them seen a printed
placard stuck-up nearWotton• under- Edge, by the castle,
stating that every man who even looked a rabbit in the
fate would be taken up, and dealt with with the utmost
rigour of the. law?—(Hear, hear.) Would any man
possessed of the most ordinary judgment tell him that
he believed, for one. moment, that Lord Fitzhardinge
would send a nominees in for the county who would vote
for putting down the game-laws, when every one knew
that sporting was his Lordship's chief amusement ?
(Cries of "No one," and " Yes.') He (Grantley Berke-
ley) would tell them what he would do—he would sup-
' port any Member of Parliament-who would bring for-
ward any remedy for the game-laws.—(Cheers, and
" Oh, oh!") •it had been thrown in his teeththat he dfd
not vote for free trade—but why did he not do so? He
had two interests in the county—a large body of agricul-
turists, . and also a manufacturing interest. He did not
attempt either to deny that he regarded Lord Fitshar-
dingo as his local leader, the same as he had recognised
in Lord John Russell his political leader; and Lord
Fitshardiage it was who prevented his voting on the
corn-laws. There stood Colonel Kingacote, and let him
contradict it if he dared.—(Cheers.)
Colonel KINUSCOTE here said a something, which was 1I
not heard in the confusion.

Mr. BERKELEY continued—lie would ask Colonel
Kingscote whether he was not at a meeting at Gloucester
when he (Grantley Berk.,ley) proposed from the castle
what was his line, and did he not say that if he did not
follow a neutral course on the question of free trade,
neither he nor many other gentlemen who were opposed
to f ee trade would richer like it or stand it?
Colonel KINGSCOTE, in reply, said—l was at that meet-
ing at Gloucester. I believe _that the great part of those
in the room were Protectionists, and I was then a Pro-
tectionist myself.—(Cheers, and " Ohl") We had a
long discussion, and at last Mr. Grantley Berkeley said
he did .not know which was the strongest party, Lord
Fi?zhardirge or the Duke of Beautort. The conclusion
of that meeting was this, and the words I used to Mr.
Berkeley were; " Vote wx.oiding to your conscience."
If I don't mistake, Mr. Berkeley said, " I do not like not
voting at all; I must vote one way,or another."—(Cheera
and uproar.) _
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Mr: BEIIIkELET continued—Colorel Kingscote, with
his usual fairness, had stated that he (Mr. Grantley
B ‘rkeley) had wished to vote upon the question, but
Lord Fitzhardinge would not let him do so.—(" Oh, oh,"
and great contusion.) He had omitted to state one
thing in regard to the religious part of his opinions.
He had always opposed the Maynoeth grant—he bed
opposed the Government plan of education. He was a
trieud to the education of the people, but he wished
every sect to have fair play, and would oppose every
measure which did not give them fair play.—(Cheers.)
After referring to his cocnexion with the Forest of Dean,
and to measures he had taken for the benefit of the fo-
resters, sad after
.criticising some placards which had
been put out, and satirising his opponent as a nominee,
aNd as the " golden image of the castle," Mr. Berkeley
concluded by appealing to them to support him, and at
the same time to give a fair hearing to the mushroom
candidate which had just sprung up.—(Cheers.)
.31r. HALE then addressed his friends, but owing to
some uproar on the side of the hustings where our re-
porter was squeezed into, could not be very well heard.
fie was understood to declare his attachment to the
Protestant religion, and his objection to any further en-
dowment of Popery, either out of the property of the
Establishment or by taxation of the people.--(Cheers.)
He was attached, as hig votes had alma n, to the agricul-
tural interest, and, upon the question of education, he
assured them that he would support any plan conceived
in a spirit of Christian fairness, because he believed that
it was the duty of the Government ,to educate the
people.—(Cheers.)

GRENVILIA: Baal ELEY was received with warm
cheers from his friends and great opposition from his
opponents. The principles he avowed were those which
he had entertained from the time he was first able to
form an opinion.—(Cheers.) Ile came before them as a
thorough Liberal. He was an honest Churchman, but
%visited to do full justice to all other sects.—(Cheers.)
He was a friend to civil and religious liberty, and an
ardent supporter of the principles of free trade—(Cheers
and hisses)—and he appeared before them a determined
opponent of • any further endowment of any church
whatever.—(Cheers and hisses.) Although he had a
deep impression of the truths of his own Church, he did
not wish to force them upon any one else. He wished
all to worship their Creator as their consciences dictated.
He would oppose either directly or indirectly giving one
penny.towards the Roman Catholic religion.—(Cbeers.)
As to his coming forward to oppose Mr. Grantley
Berkeley, it was well known that for a very
long time that gentleman's constituents had been
displeased with his public conduct, and had he
not come forward some . one else would have don.
so.—(" Hear," and " Ob.") He had been taunted with
saying that he had all the respectability of the Liberal
party with him ; let them look at the friends around
him.—(Cheers and contussion.)
_There stood by his side
the son of one of the brostAtraightforward, consistent,
honest Liberals that ever lived—Earl Ducie—there he
was.—(Lord Ducie's son was here presented at the front
of the hustings, amidst cheering, disapprobation, and
cries of "We don't want•any more lord riding.") He
had been called a nominee, which ho denied; but his
opponent had confessed that for fourteen years he had
been serving the interests of the castle.—(Cheers, and
" He's all right now.") Let them look at the other
brothers of the Noble Lord (Fitzhardinge). They found
them voting as their consciences dictated; and he dis-
tinctly stated that he had given no pledge or promise of
any kind to the castle, and that he would go to Parlia-
ment an unpledged man.—(Cheers and uproar.) He
was decidedly opposed ro the present game-law system,
and he. would do his utmost to get a remedy for it.—
(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentletnan concluded by expressing
a hope that they would return him to Parliament.
The show of.hands.was then taken, and being largely
in faVour of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley and Mr. Hale,
?tr. Grenyille Berkeley's friends demanded a poll, which
will commence On Friday.
The impreision here is thitt Mr, Grantley Berkeley
will be returned.. There is a good deal of drinking
going on at the open houses, and it is feared there may
be a row.

HAMPSHIRE (NORTH).
Right Hon. C. S. L?fevre (the late SpeAker) and Sir
W. Hesthcote were yesterday re-elected without op
positipn.

HERTFORDSHIRE.
Sir Henry Vieux and Messrs. Halsey and Brandon
were yesterday elected.
KENT (WEST).
The nomination took place yesterday on Pennenden
Heath. The candidates are Sir Edward Filmer and
Colonel Austin, Protectionists, and Mr. Law Hodges,
Liberal. The show of hands was in favour of Filmer
and Hodges. The polling is fixed for Friday and Sa
tuiday.

• KIRKALDY.
Col. Ferguson re-elected without opposition.
LANARKSHIRE;
The election is fixed for to-clay. There is 130 opposi-
tion to the return of the late Member. Mr. Lockhart.
LANCASHIRE (NORTH).
Mr., J. W. .Patten (Conservative), the late Member,
and Mr. James Heywood (Liberal), of Manchester, Were
yesterday •returnad i;hout opposition. The Tories
talked of starting the eldest son of Lord Stanley, but
thought better of it. NEwity.

Lord Newry re-elected. T
. . • NORFOLK (EAS ).
Messrs. liVoilehouse and Burroughs re-elected.
NORTIIAAIPTONSHIRE (NORTH).
items. Moonset" and Stafford O'Brien were 'Aster.
day re• elected.
. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (NORTH).
Lord, Bentinck and Mc. Houldsworth re-alerted
without opposition.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.
OXFORD, TUESDAY EVENING.—This protracted con-
test has at last terminated, • having finally closed th-s
(Tuesday) afternoon, at five o'clock, when the Vice-
Chancellor declared the following to be the close of the
poll:
Sir Robert H. Inglis ... 1,700
Mr. Gladstone
."
... 997
Mr.. Round
824
• Majority for Mr. Gladstone —173
It will also be seen from the. above numbers that Sir
R. Inglis has a majority of 703 over Mr. Gladstone. and
of 87G over Mr. Round. The total number of members
who have voted is stated to be 1,851 and there have
been 154 pairs. All parties seem ,the
poll has at length closed, for the proceedings during
to be glad that
the
last few days have been of so dull a character
_IPA. tohnve
completely wearied out all who were scinwnNici therein.
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Lord Norreys, MOr. XGranORDSHIREviIIe Harcourt, and Mr. Hen-
ley, were yesterday. re-.oected.
PAISLEY.
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xvir:saftstie re-elected without opposition.
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