The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-09 00:00:00

N0.17,537.] LONDON, SATURDAY 3 VENING
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WEST RIDING ELECTION.
TO the ELECTORS of the WEST RIDING
of YORKSHIRE.
Leeds, December 4, 1848.
Gentlemen —I should not have addressed you again so soon
merely to report progress. My friends deem the result of our first
week's proceedings highly satisfactory, but I have such important
communications to make to you on matters of principle that I will
not waste your time by anticipating the poll. My object is to de-
serve success, even more than to obtain it.

Imputatlons of rancour towards Catholics were made
against me at the beginning of the contest. No one has at-
tempto,l to substantiate this imputation at any of tho meet-
ings which I have attended. With my • controversies on
purely religious topics, Electors feel they have no con-
cern. The only question with them is, have I ever proposed,
abetted, or contemplated injustice to any class of religionists? If so,
let it be proved. lam ready to demonstrate that I have used no
arguments about the contemplated endowment of the Roman Catho-
lic priests which they would not be perfectly welcome, if our position
was reversed, to use against me. Henceforward, if men of honour
think fit to assail me on this point in my absence, I am sure they
will have the manliness to try to substantiate it in my presence. I
am ready to meet them, in fair argument, on the day of nomina-
tion. I only ask to receive beforehand a written statement of the
imputation against me, and of the facts by which it is thought to be
sustained.
Failing such proof, I call upon all friends of Civil and Religious
Liberty to support me. I call on them to be as true to their princi-
ples as my opponent is to his. Mr. Denison, at Halifax, on Satur-
day, declared that he should, upon principle, have voted against Mr.
Fitzwilliam, as an adv.cate of the endowment of the Irish priests.
Liberals of all classes and of religions, be not outdone by a Con-
servative in fidelity to your convictions. You desire equality for all
religions, and that is my desire too. I will not be a party to en-
dow the Roman Catholic church, neither will I consent to pay out
of the public purse additional Colonial Bishops of the Church of
England.

Mr. Denison said on Saturday, that he concurred in a system
of National Education based upon religion, but that he disap-
proved aiding the Roman Catholic schools, unless on condition
that the religion taught their should not be the religion of their
own teachers 1 I can only express my astonishment at such a de-
claration.

On the broad ground, then, of principle, I appeal to the Liberil
Electors of the West Riding not to be-ashamed of their colours.
Let Toryism hoist false flags to lead the Unsuspicious to believe that
it has changed. Let it lower the " Blue" standard, to which even
its enemies never refused the name of " true," and let it hold forth
the white flag of a hollow and dishonest truce to men 'who wish to
be deceived ! But let those who have inherited from their ancestors
the principles and the symbols of liberty, rally round the Orange
standard I Best assured that, of all impolitic things, a hollow co-
alition is the most impolitic. The party which adheres to principle
is the only one which can count upon success, because it is the only
ono which deserves it.

I am, Gentlemen,
Your faithful and obliged servant,
C. E. EARDLEY,

110 THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT
JL ELEC FOBS of the WEST RIDING of YORKSHIRE—not
forgetting the NON-ELECTORS.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

In responding to the hint—from the refusal of ROEBUCK to work
out a manly duty at this crisis, as the song says of England's hope,
"In the good time coming, boys," (coupled with white. feathered
DENISON'S gout-fear of yellow-question by Orange Club adherents,
as motived by dandylion EARDLET'S Catholic abuse—" bad luck to
'em"—at this pious-moment) emboldens one, of practical utility, to
be up and stirring in the people's behalf against a pot-and-kettle
Fitz-Whig-Conservatism. You may, therefore, nominate me at WAKE-
FIELD on Monday next, and God bless your laudable intentions.
York-fists Iye shall have my hearts-core address touching my past
upright and downstraight services by land and sea, as an earnest for
future usefulness, in the LEEDS and YORK papers (if thought worthy).
In the interim, understand that the undersigned "sailor" candidate
for male and female interests, in special protection, is a bachelor
of independent fortune, kin to the oldest Yorkshire " traditional "
engraft, ftom " Ivo Tailleboiz's Daughter of Lancaster de Romney
and Kendal," on De L'isle Aldborough's—A.D. 1386 —Ryther Fairfax..
Ckamberlayne "in abeyance."—Vide Burke's "Landed Gentry"
The person soliciting your suffrages is the " Captain" Ackerley, so
long-abused and calumniated for his " unflinching" scrutiny by the
London " dirty-work" press.
In conclusion of this off-hand epistle, at the eleventh hour 1 mark
well, that the undersigned's " mission-call as interpreter" of your
griefs must be considered a religious duty ; no drinking, no riotous
conduct, should disgrace any rational man. His standard of the "six-
points," the Ustiost-. Jack" His breast-plate distinction, the win-
ter laurel-colour of OLD "Ireland's tenureal fixity," for her EVER-
GREEN "leaf-tenant's"—denoting a universal suffrage of thought-
endowment, of all religious teachers of youth—be they CATHOLIC
or Dissenting instructors of a handycraft-trade for married life
(without a "Ragged-school name" to go to bed with), since paro-
chial " apprenticeship" is suspended for foreign free-trading. His
motto—Equal Justice to all—Like education for Rich and Poor.
(Signed) CHARLES HENRY ACKERLEY,
of Lancaster-Stow -Chamberlayne.
United Service Institution, Scotland." yard,"
London, Dec. 8, 1848.

THNIC O L L,
REGENT-STREET and CORNHILL.

THE NICOLL : this is an abbreviation of the
title given to a Patented Outer Coat, called " The Nicoll's
Chlamys Paletot," the said curtailment being first suggested in the
daily correspondence of the several Agents appointed under the above
patent, and it will no doubt be generally adopted in preference to the
name in full, through being more convenient to use.

It is perhaps unnecessary to observe, that although the original
title may thus be cut down, the Patentees will not hesitate duly to
forward, upon application to their Ware-rooms, 114, 116, 120, Re-
gent-street, or 22, Cornhill, the useful and elegant garments in ques-
tion, thougha very blue or even a rather green Nicoll be desired.

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11/FIDL AND RAILWAY.
LOANS ON DEBENTURES.
The Midland Railway Company are prepared to receive LOANS
on security of their DEBENTURES, for periods of three or five years,
in sums of 1,0001. each and upwards, at interest after the rate of 5/.
per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly.
Application to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's Office
Derby. By order,
Nov. 17, 1848.

J. F. BELL, Secretary.

READING, GUILDFORD, and REIGATE
RAILWAY.
(BRANCH to LONDON and SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY;
EXTENSION to GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY and REEKS
and HANTS RAILWAY).
Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made to
Parliament in the next session, for an ACT to authorise the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company to make a Branch Railway
of the length of five hundred and fifty yards, or thereabouts, corn-
rnencing by a junction with the line of the Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate Railway, as at present authorised to be made at a point
where the two fields numbered respectively on the plans referred to
in the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Act, 1846, 65 and
67, in the parish of' Farnborough, in the county of Southampton,
unite, or at a point in one of such fields near their said union, passing,
thence from, in, through, or into the several parishes, townships,
and extra-parochial, and other places following, or some of them
(that is to say), Farnborough, in the county. of Southampton, and
Frimley and Ash, in the county of Surrey, and terminating in the
Chapelry of Frimley, and parish of Ash, in the last-mentioned
county, by a junction with the main line of the London and South-
Western Railway, at a point about two hundred yards from the
bridge of the said railway over the river Blackwater, on the London
side thereof.
And it is also intended by such proposed Act to authorise the
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company to make a rail-
way in extension of their said railway, commencing in or near a cer-
tain field, numbered 18, in the parish of St. Lawrence, in the
borough of Reading, in the county of Berks, on the plans referred to
In the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Act, 1846, and ter-
minating in the parish of St. Mary, in the said borough and county,
by a junction with the line of the Great Western Railway, and with
the line of the Berks and Hants Railway, or one of them, at or near
the junction of such last-mentioned railways ; which said extension
railway will pass from, in, through, or into the several pa rishes,
townships, and extra-parochial, and other places following, or some
of them (that is to say), Reading„ the borough of Reading, Saint
Giles s, Reading; Whitley, Saint Lawrence, Reading; Saint Mary,
Reading, Theale, Tinehurst, and Southcot.
Al
And it is intended by such proposed Act to take powers to stop
up, alter, or divert temporarily or permanently all turnpike and
other roads and highways, railways, tramways, aqueducts, pipes.
41e7ters, canals,. streams, had rivers within the 'before-mentioned
parishes, townships, and places which It may, bo necessary so to stop
up, alter, or divert for the purposes aforesaid.
And it is intended by the said proposed .Act to enable the said
company to raise a further sum of motley for Carrying into effect the
several objects aforesaid (should any further capit el be required),
and to purchase, by compulsion or agreement, lands and buildings for
the purposes of the said proposed new works, and to levy tells, rates,
and duties in respect of the use thereof, and to grant certain exemp-
tions from the payment of such tolls, rates, and duties.
And it is further proposed to vary or extinguish all existing rights
and privileges connected with the lands and buildings proposed to be
purchased or interfered with, or which would in any manner impede
or interfere with'the objects aforesaid, or any of them, and to confer
other rights and privileges.
And notice is hereby further given, that maps, plans, and sections
describing the lines and levels of the said proposed branch railway
and extension railway, and the lands to be taken for the purposes
thereof respectively, together with books of reference to such plans,
and a copy of this notice as inserted in the " London Ga zette, ' will
be deposited on or before the 30th day of November, in the present
year, with the Clerk of the Peace of the county of Surrey, at his office
in North-street, Lambeth, with the Clerk of the Peace of the county
to
of
tshoomouevcheroof
psourcihohpoloansor, and books of reference, as relate
places in or through which
of Berks, at his office in Abingdon, and with the Clerk ofthe Peace of
the county of Southampton, at his office in Winchester ; and copies
the said intended works are proposed to be made, together with a
copy of this notice as inserted in the " London Gazette," will be de-
posited on or before the said 30th day of November, as follows :—ln
the case of parishes with the parish clerks of such parishes respec-
tively, at their respective residences, and in the case of every extra-
es/Trtairpasro,
parochial place, with the parish clerk of some parish adjoining
thereto, at his residence.

And it is also intended by the said proposed Act to confer powers
uopn the said company or other the proprietors, or lessees for the
time being of the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway, to use
with their engines and carriages the line of the London and South-
Western Railway, from the Farnborough Station, on such line, to
the terminus thereof, in the county of Surrey, at or near Waterloo-
bridge, and to use the stations and other works and conveniences
upon efeonnected with such part of the said London and South-
Western Railway as aforesaid, and to authorise the said Company
and the London and South-Western Railway Company, or other
the proprietors or lessees for the time being of the said railways
respectively to enter into agreements for the use of the said line,
stations, and conveniences by the said Reading, Guildford, and Rei-
gate Railway Company, or other the proprietors or lessees for the
time being of the said Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway and
for the payment of tolls and rates in respect thereof. And it is
also intended by the said proposed Act, to confer powers upon the
said Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company or other the
proprietors or lessees for the time being of the said Reading, Guild-
ford, and Reigate Railway, to use with their engines and carriages,
the line of the Great Western Railway and the several branches
thereof, and the lines of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway, of
the Oxford. Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and of the
Oxford and Rugby Railway, and to use the stations and other works
and conveniences upon or connected with the said Railways, and to
authorise the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Company or
other the proprietors or lessees for the time being, of the Reading,
Guildford, and Reigate Railway, and the Companies to whom such
other railways may respectively belong, or be leased, to enter into
agreements for the use of the said lines, works, arid conveniences re-
spectively, by the said Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway Com-
pany or other the proprietors or lessees of the said Reading, Guildford,
and Reigate Railway, and for the payment of tolls and rates in respect
thereof. And It is also intended by the said Bill to grant exemptions
from payment of tolls, rates, and duties upon or in respect of the said
London and South-Western Railway, Great Western Railway, and the
several branches thereof respectively, Birmingham and Oxford Rail-
way, Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and Oxford and
Rugby Railway, and to vary such tolls, rates, and duties, and to
confer, vary, and extinguish other rights and privileges in respect of
such tolls, rates, and duties, and also in respect of the use of the
London and South-Western Railway, Great Western Railway, and
the several branches thereof, Birmingham and Oxford Railway,
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway, and Oxford and
Rugby Railway respectively, and of the several stations, works, and
conveniences connected therewith respectively.
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And it is also intended by the said proposed Act to amend, so far
as may be necessary for the purposes thereof, the Reading, Guildford.
and Reigate Railway Act, 1846. and the Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate itatiway Amendment Act, 1847, ana
following, or some of them, relating to the Great Western
Railway and the branches thereof, the Birmingham and Oxford
Railway, the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway,
the Oxford and Rugby Railway, and the London and South-
Western Railway (that Is to say), :local and personal Acts, 5
and 6 William IV., chapter 107 ; 6 William IV., chapters 36, 38,
77, 79; 1 Victoria, chapters 91, 92, 24, and 26; 2 Victoria, chapter
27 ; 3 Victoria, chapter 47 ; 3 and 4 Victoria, chapter 105 ; 4 and
5 Victoria, chapter 41 ; 5 Victoria, session 2, chapter 28; 6 Victoria,
chapter 10; 7 Victoria, chapter 3; 7 and 8 Victoria, chapter 68 ; 8
and 9 Victoria, chapters 40, 53, 155, 156, 184, 188, 190, 191 ; 9 Vic-
toria, chapter 14 ; 9 and 10 Victoria, chapters 166, 181, 236, 239, 240,
278, 313, 315, 335, 337, 338, 369, and 402 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, chap-
ters 60, 72, 76, 91, 101, 139, 149, 154, 226, and 243 ; 11 and 12 Vic-
toria, chapters 28, 77, 82, 135, 74, 159, 158, 59, 133, 95, and 131 ;
4 and 5 William IV., chapter 88 ; I.Victoria, chapteri7l ; 2 Victoria,
chapter 28; ; 4 and 5 Victoria, chapters 1 and 39 ; 7 and 8 Victoria,
chapters 63 and 86; 8 and 9 Victoria, chapters 165 and 185; 9 and
10 Victoria, chapters 252, 131, 174, 175, 370, 173, and 391; 10 and 11
Victoria, chapters 88, 115, 145, 249, and 244; 11 and 12 Victoria,
chapters 85, 87, 89, and 125 ; 51 George 111., chapter 196 ; 10 and 11
Victoria, chapter 297; 8 and 9 Victoria, chapter 93; 10 and 11 Vic-
toria, chapters 97, 98, 58, and 57 ; 11 and 12 Victoria, chapter 75 ;
9 and 10 Victoria, chapter 129 ; 10 and 11 Victoria, chapter 243 ; and
11 and 12 Victoria, chapter 157.
Dated 10th November, 1848.
HODGSON, CONCAIk.TEN, and NOYES,
Solicitors for the Bill, 5, Lincoln's Inn.flelds.