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DECEMBER 6, 1848.
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You may talk as you like, but I say as Yorkshiremen you
• would be ashamed of yourselves if it was to go through the
world that you have to go out of the county to seek a re-
presentative. You have done yourselves no credit in electing
one alien (Mr. Cobden), and, -therefore, don't go out of the
county again for a second. Don't let it be said there is not a
man in the West Riding capable and fit to represent you and
your interests in Parllament.—(More hubbub and noise.)
You have in Mr. Dension a man of the West Riding, he
lives amongst you, you can appeal to him on all occasions.
As to his ability to serve you, I leave him to answer any
question you may put to him.—(Cries of "We won't have
him," and much noise.) I tell you this, Mr. Dension is pre-
pared to answer any question in a straightforward, frank,
and manly manner, without any shuffling. He is no shuffler,
and without any equivocation or shuffling he will answer any
question you may put to him. I beg to introduce Edmund
Denison, Esq.
EDMUND DENISON, Esq., then presented himself, but the
cheers from the friends who surrounded him were drowned in
the tumult of groans and hisses from the people below. He
said—Gentlemen, I appear before you as a candidate for the
honour of representing the West Riding in Parliament, not
for the purpose of gratifying my own feelings alone, but in
obedience to the earnest request presented to me by parties
of all shades of politics, that I would give the electors of the
West Riding the option of choosing between two candidates
as to their fitness to represent them in Parliament.—(Hear,
hear, and uproar.) It is on the ground of duty, and duty
alone, that I now appear before you; and in order to make
my observations as short as possible I will promise you
this most safely, that whatever occurred in 1847 with
respect to myself, I will on this occasion most undoubtedly
give you an opportunity of going to the poll.—(Cheers
from the Tories, and cries of " We don't want you," "We
wont have you.") Most of you in this large district
of the Riding are more or less engaged in trade, and
therefore I have no doubt that much attention has been
paid by you all to the question of free trade. My Hon.
Opponent has done me the honour to quote, though some-
what ambiguously, my opinions on free trade. Gentlemen,
do as you like with his definition of free trade, but do me the
honour to listen to mine.—(Hear, hear.) I say if by free
trade is meant a reduction of the duties on all the articles
imported from abroad, especially if those imported are neces-
saries of life, then I am in favour of such redaction ; and I
tell you that, with the exception of one article, which I
shall not leave unnoticed, during the time I had the honour
of representing you in Parliament I supported every such
reduction proposed by her Majesty's Ministers most heartily.
klaving state6d.ll4.tikagageat- the.!epeal of the-cormir.
laws, which he would lief seek to re-enact, Mr. Denison
repeated his opinion, previously expressed at Brad-
ford, that free trade meant a total abolition of
all duties on articles imported into this country,
and contended that as his opponent did not go
this length he was not, any more than himself, a thorough
free-trader. He suspected that in Halifax, as elsewhere,
those who advocated free trade had got more of it.than they
liked- (" No, no," and a cry of " Then you would go back,
would you ?")—and those who advocated a repeal of the
corn-laws never meant them to be abolished. and wished
part of them back again.—(Cries of " Nought o't sort ;"
" Don't you ;" "We don't believe it.") I find, said the
Hon. Gentleman, that a great number of respectable persons,
advocates of free trade, said, " I did not mean free trade t
applAto me, only to my neighbour."—(Laughter, and cries of
disapprobation.) " I want," say they," protection for my
goods, but to make free with those of others."—(No, no,
and disapprobation.) It was a very popular subject; and
although some said it was humbug, a great many per-
sons thought it would lead them into a land flowing
with milk and honey.—( Laughter, and cries of " Non-
sense.") " Oh," said these persons, " but we did not
mean this." But you have got these laws repealed,
and I tell you I will not vote for the reviving of them. So
much for trade, and so much for the cern-laws. My friend
(Sir Culling) did me the favour to refer to a private trans-
action of mine, not connected with Parliament, and he al-
luded to some observations of mine relative to a reduction of
the salaries of the clerks engaged on a railway with which I
am connected. He said, I should have begun at the top.—
(Hear, hear.) How does
_he know I did not ?—(Laughter
and cheers.)

Sir CULLING—I will tell you how I don't know. You
said you had cut down the salaries of the clerks, and you
said nothing about anybody else.—( Hear and cheering.)
Mr. DENISON—That may be a satisfactory reason for my
Honourable Friend making the observations he did, but
it would have ill become me to boast of any reduction with
regard to myself. But I tell him, if he will become a share-
holder in the railway of which I am chairman, and ask me
the question, I will give him an answer, but I wont answer
him here. Mr. Denison then proceeded to the question of
economy, and professed himself as anxious as his opponent
could be to retrench, if it could be done with safety to the
constitution of the country. His Hon. Friend had promised
to vote for the ballot, but he would not, as it would give
additional facility for deception. On this point he referred to
a conversation with a respectable tradesman at Leeds, who
had complained that a good customer, two days after he had
voted, came and paid his bill, and left his shop, because he
had voted against the customer.—(Cries of" That's common
enough in Halifax.") Mr. Denison observed—Now, if
we had the ballot, and this man had been applied to, he
would have said, "Oh, to be sure, you are a very good
customer, and I shall be happy to give my vote as you
wish. Pray give my compliments to Mrs. So-and-So, and
say I hope she liked that sugnr I sent her."—(Laughter.)
Well, he then goes quietly into a corner, and puts a ball into
the wrong box.—(Laughter and hisses.) Now I do hope
tradesmen will exercise their own judgments, and set their
customers at defiance, if they wish to compel them to act
contrary to it. After stating that he should oppose any ex-
tension of the suffrage, he spoke at length on the subject of
State education, concluding his remarks by observing that
he would call upon the State to furnish money enough to
enable the working classes to insure their children a good
religious education. As to the endowment of the Catholic
priests, he was with his opponent on that matter, and should
vote against any measure of the kind. 'The Hon. Candidate
concluded by answering a question put to him from the
crowd, as to whether he would vote for the separation of the
Church from the State. M-. Denison replied that he would
not, and, added he, " I'll tell you another thing, when the
dissolution between those two elements does take place, they
will both fall to the ground. I will vote for them being united
as long as I live."—(Cheers, hisses, and groans.)
Sir CULLlNG—Gentlemen, I want to say a word on a sub-
ject which has been referred to elsewhere by my Hon. Oppo-
nent. I have told you already that what I say behind his
back I will say before his face, I have told what I am about
to mention behind his back, and I now repeat it in his pre-
sence. I have been reading what be 'said at Barnsley the
other day. He said, "if he had studied his own interests he
would have remained quietly at home, and he would have
been content to do so, and allow them to elect the son of their
respected neighbour, Lord Fitzwilliam. But that young
gentleman retired, and he had no hesitation in saying he did
wrong." Now, gentleman, did not Mr. Fitzwilliam tell you,
did he not tell the whole world that he intended to vote for
the endowment of Popery in Ireland ?—( Hear.) Then why
did not my friend oppose him, holding, as,he did, the opinion
which is so opposed to that entertained by himself.
For qui facit per alium, qui facit per se, which means
that if a man will do any act through another
man, he will do it himself.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Now,
Gentlemen, I don't mean to say for one moment that my
Honourable Friend does not mean now what he says, but it
appears that a fortnight ago he would have voted for a
gentleman who openly professed himself to be favourable
to the endowment of Popery in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.)
How, then, do we know that before the end of another
fortnight my Honourable Friend may not change his opinion
again ?—( Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Mr. DF.NisoN--My Hon. Opponent, though not inten-
tionally, I am sure, does me a great favour by reading my
speeches.—( Laughter.) I cannot say that I return him the
compliment of reading his.—(More laughter.) Now I wont
quarrel with the words he has put into my mouth, for I
believe the reporters are perfectly correct. lie says I was
favourable to the return of Mr. Fitzwilliam. I say now
what I have said for the last month or six weeks. I have
said that if any one gentleman of respectability belonging
to the riding had come forward I would not offer him an
opposition, whether that gentleman should happen to be
Mr. Fitzwilliam or any other good Whig.—(Laughter and
derisive repeats of " A good Whig.") I would not have
come forward, for I did not wish to disturb the peace of the
riding, but to keep it quiet.—(Laughter and interrup-
tion.) And I was anxious, rather than to have engaged
in this contest, to have remained quietly in my arm-
chair at home. I had had the honour of representing
you once--(Cries of " Misrepresenting us")—and a great
honour I considered it to be; but I tell you that,
looking at the laborious duties a representative of this
large constituency is called upon to discharge, I was not
anxious for the honour a second time. I will tell you how
it was. Those who suggested that the son of a Noble Lord
should come forward as a candidate, afterwards not being
very well satisfied with him, asked him to retire from the
field.—(lnterruption. and cries of " It's not true.") I say
those who met at Normanton passed a resolution in favour of
young Mr. Fitzwilliam standing as a candidate, and I must
say that it would have been quite as well if, before doing this,
they had had a slight acquaintance with him before doing so.
But without knowing him, or what his opinions were, they
pass a resolution in his favour, and afterwards, when he will
not comply with certain conditions, they say, " Oh, you are
not the man we took you for."—(Laughter, and repeated
cries of "It is not trae.") Well, they set to work to make
the progress of the canvas so hot that the young gentleman
is obliged to retire. Well, one word on another point as to
myself. I never promised to vote for him. And I tell you
another thing, if he had asked me I should have told him I
would not vote for him ; and I will tell yen why. Because
I had long ago made up my mind on this] subject of the
endowment of the Roman Catholic priests.—(Cheers
from the Tories.) I could refer you to passages in
my speech, delivered when Mr. Cobden was brought
out to oppose me.—(Cries from the Tories of " We'll have
him out next time.") I hope you have had enough of
him.—(Cries of " No, no," and " We'll have him again.")
I say I can refer you to passages in that speech, which many
of you, I dare say, have read; and if not, it is here, I have it
in my pocket, and I said in 1847 I would vote against the
endowment of the Roman Catholic priests. It is not, there-
fore, a new-fangled opinion, as my opponent now suggests to
you, taken up to suit the humour of the day. It was then a
settled conviction in my own mind, when I was a candidate
for this Riding before, and I expressed it fairly and openly.
—(Hear, hear.) But my Hon. Friend says, why do I
was in
him, and would not oppose Mr. Fitzwilliam, who
favour of the endowment of the Roman Catholic priests
whilst I am opposed to it?
Sir CULLING—Yes.
when 1 first read the account of the retirement of Mr. Fitz-
Mr. Ditinsorr—l will tell you why. I was in London
william, at which I was very much surprised; and on the
following morning I saw in the newspapers an exceedingly
well-penned address to the electors of the West Riding,
signed Culling Eardley Eardley.—(Laughter.) I said to
myself, this is the man for them—he will walk over the
course—he is a thorough-going free-trader, and everything
else that seems delightful.—(Laughter.) I said, Well, Mr.
F it
whatnvm; aynd do as they please, they may do
they, the electors, may do as
theyill iamt 'hs
think
friendspro
proper; a pthey like, it is all the same to me." I came home from Lon-
don on Friday night, when I heard there bad been a meeting
at Normanton of the Conservative party, with some Whigs.
I understand they said "This is too bad. We wont stand
passedbeing resolutions in my brought in." They
Fitzwilliam being turned out, and Sir Culling Eardley, who
is
accordingly
connectedw withentto wtohrek riding,an d
fa-
vour unanimously. This was the conversation.---(Cries of
"We don't want it.") No, but you shall have it all. It is
owing to your friend on the other side. He accuses me of
getting up opinions for the moment, which I have proved to
you is not the cue. I have living witnesm within two

• igejer. T y lan
Denison 1. the pe Yorkshire he will give omen
Catholic teache,"s m°
they pay no regard to their o ,
• principles.
Mr. DENISON (wh'h much warmth)—lderd sO,--
("''-oudila —B
youa did.
C
ou: friend said be would give them
ey to each their ch:hicen the principles of the Church
o nd.—( Hear, hear, etci cries of " Yes, yes, he did.")
lam sorry to contradict him, .11„t appeal to you who hear
me if he did not say that the education he would give
should be in accordance with the Dri,:ciples of his own
church.—(Cries of "Yes, yes.") Well, nem we understand,
stud the reporters will take down what has bees: said to-day.
Remember this, respectable Roman Catholics, remember' that
every one of you, if you are to hive money for your ,schools
according to our friend Mr. Denison, it is. to be on the con-
dition that yon teach your children according to the princi-
ples of the Church of England.—(Loud cries of "Hear.") I
am glad our friend has shown himself in his true colours.
(Cheers.) lam glad he has taken down the white flag and
hoisted the blue.—(Loud cheering.) Whigs, listen ! you
who thought you were going to vote • for a man who, to a
certain extent, supported religious liberty.—(gear, hear.)
He tells you plainly and fully he will vote for assistance to
no sort of schools of one denomination or other unless they
will abandon their principles and teach those of the Church
of England.—(Cries of " Capital," ." Excellent," and loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, I have a question to answer which has
been handed to me, as I said before, in writing. It is—
" Will I vote for a national system of secular education
entirely free from all religious dogmas." Gentlemen, t
will tell yon why_ I wont. I consider religion an essential
part of education. A man is imperfectly educated who has
not been religiously educated. I should deprecate any Go-
vernment supporting any system of education in which reli—
gion was left out; therefore, on conscientious principles, I
should think it right to vote against such a measure. One
word more about free trade. Our friend on the other side
spoke of somebody who had got more free trade than
they liked. I am sure it is not I.—(Loud cheers.) I. do
not think it is you.— (Laughter, and cries of " No, no, he
doesn't know what he's talking about.") From what he
said I am almost convinced it is himself.—(Laughter.)
Mr. DEsasost—Well, Sir Culling, have you done
Sir CULLING—My Hon. Opponent asks me if I have done.
It is almost time I had, for I think I have done for him.—
(Laughter and cheers.) I am sure I shall have the sup-
port of every man who does not mean to have a thorough
Tory to represent him. My opponent is a most respectable
man and an excellent magistrate I have no doubt ; but he
always was a Tory, is a Tory, and always will be a Tory.
Mr. Deursost—Gentlemen—(Groans and interruption from
the crowd belew)—you will permit me to have one word
before Kpull off my!hat. My friend says he his not had enough
of free trade. I should have thought he had.—(Laughter.)
I know no particular gentleman here who complains of
free trade, but I have met persons who have. For myself,
I have nothing to do with it, and I have no right to com-
plain, for lam not a manufacturer. But as far as the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer can go with safety in the reduction
of duties, and such reduction will enable him to believe that
he can get more money into the Exchequer, so far I win-
g() with him.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I have-other
places to go to, and therefore I will not detain you. When
the day of nomination arrives I shall be at my post, and
when it does I trust -I StUdi have the honour of being
your Member, whether my colour be blue or white.—
(Laughter.) If my Hon. friend thinks that from this
change of colour my politics are changed, he is mistaken •
neither is my regard for my colour or my principles changed.
The reason, as I believe, that white was adopted instead of
blue was simply because to many parties it was thought to
be less offensive—(" Hear, hear," from the Liberals)—and
when all is said and done, I may add that if my friend was
to adopt a white favour instead of an orange one, it would
be quite as likely to ensure his election.—(Laughter.)
Those whose colour he has adopted will not have him. He
knows they will vote for me, and he winces under the im-
pression that whether he bids high or bids low they will not
have him.—(Cheers and hisses.)
Immediately Mr. Denison had concluded his speech, the
Tories began to move off, when it was suggested by Sir
Culling that they should remain till a vote was taken.
They, however, only moved the more rapidly, and therefore
one of Sir Culling's friends immediately called for a show
of hands in his favour. Every hand appeared to be upraised,
this manifestation being followed by great cheering, whilst at
the same moment the Tories were to be seen hurrying out
of the yard in all directions as fast as their legs could carry
them.

Several questions had been handed up in writing, but any
interest they might under other circumstances have excited
was entirely absorbed in the discussion which took place
between the candidates. The questions were not further
pressed, and the assemblage immediately separated.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE COAST OF AFRICA.

PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Siren, 16, Com-
mander Chaloner, arrived this afternoon from the above
station. She left St. Paul de Loando on the Ist of Oc-
tober,St. Helena the 19th, Ascension the 25th, and
Sierra Leone Nov.t 7. The squadron was distributed
thus at the latest dates :—The Penelope and Philomel
at St. Paul de Loando ; the Amphitrite in the Bights ;
the Tortoise at Ascension; the Alert left Sierra Leone
on the sth of November for the Gambia; the Bittern
off Loango and 111ayumba; the Bonetta in search of the
Commodore; the Britomart cruising between Cape
Mayumba and the river Settee; the Contest off Ben-
guela; the Cygnet in the Bights; the Dart cruising off
Ambriie; the .Dolphin in the Bights; the Favourite
gone to Loango with provisions for the Bittern; the
Pantaloon, from England, in search of the Comthodore;
the Ranger, recovered, and gone under sale in search of
the Commodore to report herself all safe; the Rapid
left Congo on the 16th of October, to go northward ;
the Star in the Bights; the Wanderer off Cape
Lopez ; the Blazer en route to St. Paul de
Loando ; the Cyclops left Sierra Leone, Nov. 6,
for Ascension; the Firefly in the Bights; the Grappler,
in Elephant Bay; the Pluto up the river Congo;. the
Snap tender, en route to Ascension ; the Sealark and
Adelaide sailed from. Sierra Leone on the 7th of No-
vember, the latter en route to Port Adelaide; the Water •
wLeh cruising off the Gallinas. Commander Rutherford
has invalided from the Commodore's vessel, and gone to
St. Helena to recruit, and First Lieutenant Charles B.
Bailey was made Acting Commander of her. The slave
trade was very brisk. The Siren, since she has been on
the coast (for the last twelve months cruising off the river
Settee), has captured two prizes herself and shares for
two others. The Penelope, Siren, and Bittern, were
lying at anchor in Mayumba-bay on the sth of August,
when a vessel was sighted becalmed ; the Penelope got
up her steam, went cut, and presently made capture of
the celebrated slaver Polka, a fine brigantine fitted for
the traffic, and having twenty-four slaves on board at the
time. The Britomart has taken two—one empty and
one having 425 slaves on board. The Dart has taken
one empty prize since the last mail. The Philomel, which
lay outside of St. Paul de Loando on the Ist of October,
reported the Grappler having taken another prize a day
or two before, which she had destroyed in Elephant-
bay. The Kingfisher had not arrived on the coast. The
Siren has lately been very healthy. - She lost a man
named Richard Sapper, a supernumerary from the Phi-
lomel, yesterday, in a heavy gale; he fell overboard and
although every means which could safely be adopted for
his rescue were put in practice, he was lost. Another
man, a sailmaker, from the Tortoise, died on the passage.
The Island of Ascension was exceedingly healthy, and
it was computed that there was a three years' ample sup-
ply of good water; all the turtle ponds were full, and
vegetation and food for the flocks plentiful.
The Siren was commissioned on the 9th of May, 1845.
She has been ordered to land her pay books, supernume-
raries, and sick, and proceed to Sheerness to be paid off.
The Prince Regent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin, has
been ordered to take on board among many other sup-
plies fur Sir William Parker's squadron, a number of
seamen, gunners, and gunners' mates from the Excel-
lent, to the number of 25 in all.
Wind, west; strong breeze and squally.

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_
W OOLWICH_ DEC. s.—Captain Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and Mr. Lloyd,
Chief Engineer of Steam Machinery at the Adasiralty,
visited Woolwich Dockyard on Saturday, and remained
some time on board the Arrogant, 46-gun frigate, ex-
amining the machinery fitted by the Messrs. Penn in
that vessel for working her auxiliary screw propeller.
She is now taking her guns and stores of various kinds
on board, and will shortly have her sea-going speed
fairly tested.
The Samson steam-frigate, Captain T. Henderson,
arrived at Woolwich on Saturday afternoon to be paid
off, and commenced taking down her topgallants and
rigging to-day.
Mr. Field, senior inspector of police at Woolwich
Dockyard, has been promoted to be senior inspector of
the detective force of the metropolis, and left on Satur-
day last for that duty. Mr. Macgill, second inspector,
has been promoted to first inspector; and to have the
charge at Deptford Dockyard; and Mr.Feltham returns
as senior inspector at Woolwich Dockyard.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—"It appears that
several desirable improvements are about to be effected
in the densely populated neighbourhood of King's Col-
lege Hospital, at the instance of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests, and the new institution about to be
erected instead of the present limited one in Portugal-
street. At the recent quarterly court of King's College
Hospital it was observed that the intended new street
would, in all probability, require the removal of the
houses
.in Cleinent's-lane, and an opportunity having
offered, the committee secured the advantages of having
a frontage both in Carey-street and the proposed new.
thoroughfare, by purchasing the whole for 7,600 L
MURDER IN A LlTNAXlCmelancholy
occurrence took place on Monday morning, in the
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inflicted several dreadful
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