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117ESTMINSTER ELECTION.-CAPTAIN
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday the sales were 3,000
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but little done in Railway Shares.
The debate in Parliament is almost the exclusive subject of con-
versation hero today, and all arc hopeful of the free trade measure
being carried.
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on not onlya—vett4saidad - - -
Ilute dear it

absolute _me In prices in most instanes. The • 4#les
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ONE CLOSING
BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. .. • • • . .. .. 207% 207%
Three per Cent. Annuities .. .. .. 97 95% % % 95%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 96% 96 95% 96 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 98% 97% 9814
Long Annuities, Expire Jam. 5, 1860 .. 10 9-16 % 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 10% 5-16 10 5-16
India Stock .. .. . • • • • • . .. 260 258 258
Bank Stock for Account .. .. • • • . 207% 207%
Consols for Account .. .. • • • • .. 96% 96 96% 96%
Exchequer Bills. lifd. I%d.
1,0001... .. .... 36 39 . pm. 39
500 L .. .. •• • • 36 39 pm. 39
Ditto, Small •• • • 36 39 pm. 40

CLOSING
PRICES.
88%
23

WEST MINSTER ELECTION.
- NOMINATION.-(YESTERDAY.)
To-day, at twelve o'clock, the nomination of a Member to repre-
sent the city of Westminster in Parliament, consequent on the resig-
nation of Captain Rotts,iby his appointment as one of the Lords of
the Admiralty, , took place in front of St. Paul's Church,
Covent-garden. The number of . persons assembled before
the hustings could not be less than 5,000. The candidates were the
late Member, Captain Rous, who again.offered hhnse f, and General
Sir De Lacy Evans. When these gentlemen, accompanied by their
respective friends, came on the platform, the crowd, which seemed
pretty equally divided in opinion as to the merits of the candidates,
expressed their partialities by the most discordant noises ; and one
gigue, whose begrimed aces proclaim:A that they belonged to the
genus coal-heaver, favoured the company with a series Of yells that
would have done honour to an Indian war dance. A strong body of
police were in attendance to preserve order, but it was soon very
evident that they were insufficient for the purpose, and after gal-
lantly withstanding for nearly half an hour the efforts of the assail-
ants to get close to the plattbrm, they at fast, by command of Super-
intendent Pearson; retreated in good order behind the breastworks,
from where no effort of the enemy could dislodge them. This ma-
noeuvre was beautifully effected, with only the loss of one policeman's
baton. •

serAviesni°-*Lgortillierrgea'n'tellsenEhlrmi.ohlot, Laocerr lamancieds Stuart,tie
Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lord Elphinstone, Lord W. Bruce, Lord Can-
talupe, Colonel Fox, Mr. lionverie, M.P., Mr Tennyson D'Eyncourt,
M.P., Mr. B. Hawes, M.P., Mr. Ellis, M.P., Colonel T. Wood, M.P.,
Hon. F. Byng, Mr. Merryweitther, &c., &e.
Mr; SMEDLEY, the High Bailiff, then came forward, and, as well as
caLondrdida3treasre we
usll oibll:
we could hear him, for the gentlemen who composed the crowd were
too much engaged In listening to their own sweet voices to attend to the
speakers, said that he had that day the honour of attending there as
the returning officer for the city of Westminster. The electors were
assembled to express their opinion as to who of the two gentlemen
who solicited their suffrages should be their representative in the
Commons House of Parliament. The electors were no doubt aware
that the present vacancy had taken place in consequence of
one of
their representatives—he meant Captain Rous-- having accepted
office under Government.—(Cries of" More shame for him," from one
section of thacrowd, and cheering from the Gallant Captain's partisans.)
That gentleman was, however, eligible to be re-elected, and he was
there to offer himself to them. The other candidate was General
Sir De Lacy Dvans. -lie need not point out to them the importance
of the privilege Orgy were met that day to exercise—(Shouts of" We
know it")—but lie would at ones conclude by causing the writ to
be read.
The preliminary forms*are gone through amid much interruption,
when

as a fit and_iirnr7

could, however, only be heard
him ; when shortly afterwards

*, the faro

few Itlo stoCod beside

Lord F. EGERTON seconded the nomination. He was equally in-
audible, the terrific noises which issued from the persons in front
completely drowning every sentence.
Mr. 'BOUVERIE then rose to propose General Sir Do Lacy
Evans. He said that the electors were met that day for the
purpose of returning a Member to Parliament, and it was with
great pleasure that he proposed to them General Evans.—
' (Mingled cheers and hisses.) They had unfortunately elected
a Tory and monopolist once before, thus rendering the city of West-
minster a nullity in the House of Commons; for irons of their
Members on all of the great questions which concerned the happi-
ness of the people said " yes," the other Member as invariably
said "no (Cheers.) If the one sought to advance every
great social and political reform, the other opposed
him. If the one contended that these reforms were ne-
cessary, the other maintained that they were not.
The city of Westminster had at one time always been considered in
the front ranks of liberalism, and the period was now come when she
should resume her former position—(Cheers)--when she should show
that she had within her the first, the most liberal, the most enlight-
ened constituency in England.—(Cheers, laughter, and cries of
" Don't come over us," &c.) They had that day a place at their
disposal, and they had two applicants for it. It was no place of
emolument, although, judging from Captain Rous, it was a mode by
which a place of emolument could be obtained.—(Cheers and great
S confusion.) One of the applicants had always been a free-trader
and he was so still— (Cheers) —he had always been against the
present corn-laws anti he was so still ; he had always been a Reformer
and he was so still.—(Contiaued cheering.) They had one who had
always been on the side of popular rights and lie was so still. But
the other applicant what had they had to say for hills He had
been a Tory. What was he now ? He was a most extraordinary
combination of opposite opinion. He seemed a sort of amphibious
animal, a kind of horse-marine, not one thing or another. They
had been asked the question by Sir Robert Peel, would they have
free trade in the country ?—(Cheers.) Let them, as electors, answer
yes.—(Cries of " Yes.") Then let them return General Evans for
he was a staunch Liberal.—(Cheers.) Would they have Captain
Rom? Let them loudly answer "No."— (Conuningled cries of " No"
and "Yes.") They had no confidence in the fixity of his opinions.
They would rather that Westminster were represented by one who
was for the people and not against them. Let them, then, be early
at the poll and return General Evans to Parliament.
Dr. .BAINBRIDGE seconded the nomination of General Evans, and
he now appeared before them for the sixth or severah time, to pro-
pose or second the nomination of the long-tried friend of the people,
General Evans -- (Cheers)—a gentleman who had always been op-
posed to the corn-laws, and a stern defender of the. rights of the
people.—(Hear, hear.) He was a supporter of free trade principles
when they eid not lead to place or emolument, anti he was still the
same.—(Cheers.) His Hon. opponent (Captain Rous) had told them
that he was still unchanged. He came into Westminster as the
child of the Tories and the Opponent of free trade.—(Cheers and
hisses.) On a former occasion, on these very hustings, he spoke
against free trade, and told the electors that it would be
carried out, and send the labourers and artisans to live on
bread and onions and a suck at the pump.—(Cheers and laughter.)
Latterly, however, he had made a chauge, and he (Dr. Bainbridge)
must say, judging from that, that the Gallant Captain's judgment
must be very defective, or he must be acting dishonestly. If he has
not changed his opinions, and is in favour of a repeal of she corn-
laws, then he must in the previous election have spoken in opposition
to his convictions— (Hear, hear)—and thus have acted dishonestly,
or he must have laboured udder an aberration of judgment, and did
not know what he was doiug. In either view of the question such a
gentleman was not a fit representative for a great and intelligent
city like Westminster.— (Cheers and uproar.) He (Dr. Bainbridge)
would leave him on the horns of this dilemma. Just before the as-
sembling of Parliament, a great meeting of the electors of
Westminster was held on the question of the corn-laws,
which was then so extensively agitating the country,
and a requisition was sent to the Gallant Captain, most numerously
and respectably signed, inviting him to attend. But he refused to
do so, because he (Dr. Bainbridge) supposed the Gallant Captain
did not then know the course the Ministry would take.—(Hear.)
Was such a person a proper representative for them ?—(Cries of
" No, no," and " Yes, yes,"from the suppporters of the respective
candidates. He might add many other reasons why they
should vote for the Liberal candidato—(Cries of "So we will,")—
and reject Captain nous, but he would leave them to be given by
the Gallant General himself, who was much more able to enter into
en explanation of those '"sons than no (11r. Bainbridge) was. He
now called on them to emancipate themselves and tree great city
from the disgrace of being represented by an apostate Tory—
(Loud cheering, and great uproar(—whom no one can
understand—a' nondescript politician, who is neither fish,
flesh nor fowl, but a sort of marine monster with a long tail and
1,0001. a-year tied to It—(Laughter, cheers, and hisses)—who comes
to Westminster expecting the electors to help him to a good place.—
(Cheers.) He (Dr. Bainbridge) trusted that they would rescue their
fair fame, and restore the city to the former high and proud position
from which it had been hurled ; and to enable them! to do so, he begged
leave to second the nomination of Gen. Sir Le Lacy Evans.—(Cheers.)
Captain Rous then came forward to address the electors, and was
received with loud hisses and groans from the supporters of General
Evans, and cheers from his friends. The Gallant Captain, who was
much interrupted in the course of his speech, spoke to the following
effect :—lle came forward at the present crisis to take the sense of
the electors of the city ofWestminster on the measures of the Govern-
' ment. He considered that it was the duty of all who wished well
to the measures of Sir R. Peel to unite and say we will support no
half-and-half men, who desert their colours every day, but men who
will labour faithfully to serve their country, and also will support
measures calculated to advance its true interests.—(Hear, hear.) In
1841, when he was first elected, there was a great stagnation in the
commercial, manufacturing, and agricultural interest of the country;
they were engaged in two wars, the funds were low,. mid a general
despondency pervaded all classes. Whets Sir It. l'eel accepted office
such was the state of the country ; but under his Administration
trade hmended, the wars were brought to an end, 'the- funds rose,
and general prosperity pervaded all ranks of society.—(Hear, bear,
and cheers.) To what but to the policy of Sir Robert Peel could he
(Captain Itsus) attribute the change. In 1841 and 1842 he was a
pro:ectionist—(Hear)—but the events that had taken place during the
last three years had caused an alteration in his views. What had
taken place since the alteration of the tariff in 1843, had shown him
the great advantage of the working of the free trade principle, and
therefore he could come to no other conclusion than to advocate
free trade now, and support the Government in its endeavours to
carry, them into effect.—(Cheers and hisses.) Upon the pre-
sent occasion it would be necessary for him to state that in
the House of Commons, ho proposed that Australian corn should be
admitted at a greatly reduced duty. In September last, when in
Suffolk, he told his friends, not only that a free trade in corn must
soon come into operation, but he went further, and said that as
population increased, it would be necessary to give a bonus on the
importation of foreign corn. That disposed of the asser-
tion that he had changed his opinions in order to serve Sir
Robert Peel. His (Captain Rous's) opinions had been changed long
before the proposition of Sir Robert Peel had been submitted,
or perhaps before that Right Hon. Baronet had hirtiself changed.—
(Hear, hear.) And now ho (Captain lions) supported the Govern-
ment of Sir Robert Peel, because he believed no mats was so Writ
calculated to carry out free trade as that Right Iron. Gentleman.
He considered that no person could more effectually carry out the
principles of free trade than Sir Robert Peel. The electors of West-
minster will recollect (continued the Gallant Speaker); that, in no
single measure calculated to promo! e their interests had he been
unfaithful to his duty.—(Tremendous uproar and confusion.) He
had supported a motion for the repeal of the window-tax, and
he had opposed the contemplated alteration in the Vestries Act.
He would support the present measures of the Government, as being,
in his opinion, likely to conduce to the welfare and promote the hap-
piness of all &asses of the country.—(The confusion at this time be-
came tremendous, and a combination of the most discordant sounds
entirely drowned the voice of the speaker.) In conclusion the Gal-
lant .Captain stated that whatever should be .the issue of
the contest nothing • should erase from his :mind the
memory of that confidence which four years since
had returned him as the representative of a constituency
which, for a quarter or a century, had not been represented by a
Conservative Member. Time electors of this city had brought him for-
ward ; they turned the current of opinion in his favour, mid he
defied his opponents to point out a single vote or act of
his during the four years ho had been their representative
which was not for the benefit of his constituency
anti the people at large, and he felt convinced that he had not for-
feited that confidence which had been so honourably reposed in him.
Ile had accepted office, not to promote his own advantage, but for
the simple reason that he thought he should, however humble his
abilities, be made useful in effecting those much to be desired re-
forms in the office of the Admiralty to which' her Majesty
had been graciously pleased to appoint him.—(Great cheering and
uproar.) To morrow will decide the question ; sad, he repeated,
that whether beaten or victorious, he should continue to feel an inte-
rest in the welfare and prosperity of the city of Westminster, and to
remember with feelings of gratitude the confidence they had hitherto
reposed, in him.
General EVANS (whose appearance was the signal for most voci-
ferous cheering from his own supporters, as well as groans and other
marks of disapprobation from his opponents) then said that although
it was not his first. appearance before the electors of West-
minster, he never felt a greater interest in their
'
prosperity or more desire for the success of a measure
than for the one which now affected not only their interests but the
werehid beenno
w
met *on such'
interests of all classes of the conanuuhiety.
reason The
thatreturreturning
officer had
Theyy
saved him the duty of declaring t
an occasion as the
present.
told that it was because his Gallant Opponent had ac-
ceptedf the Lords of the Admiralty.
of one o
the office
In all fairness to his Gallant Opponent, he must bear witness to his
his unblemished and man' character
qualities, to t
if y
excellent personal
aced to say that any any remarks should
in society, and bet. . the feelingsof to wound op.
fall from him calcUlated
all intention of
s disclaimed doing so,
ponent, he at met.
Ills opponent had stated that he would support Sir It. Peel ; and he
(Captain lions) believed that the measures proposed by him
were
calculated to promote the interest and happiness eif all classes. Sir
• the tret teles
Robert Peel had not alwayshears ha
o dpposedin tees
Meof asurhe fose c a classes
r the
at heart ; .he had for y
emancipation of the slaves, and also his Roman Catholic fellow-
subjects. He also opposed the
Before Bill, awl ,even when that
measure was carried, has he not since opposed to his utmost by the
tem Courts, and he extended the opera-
tiontechnicalities of the Registration m that measu
of the benefits to be derived fro alts the cornmu-
) Th C
ion and uproar. e Jaimspeaker said
pity at large.--(Cinfus
that lee had supported the
principles of free trade e
for upwards of
twenty years, and would continue to do so. He Considered that
e of opinion
the true test of sincerity
°i)a2gshould considerthat laid doau
by Sir J. Graham, he said that theywhether or no
t Vrel dd result from this change of oei-
any advantage or emolument
that the change • =
nion, if not, it was pretty opinion was
clear
conscience. Applying this according to the dictates of this test
lie could hardly give him credit
.to his Gallant opponent,
change of opinion.
Is or was he not
for disintereStodness in his
this
emolument from change Of opinion He
receiving advantage or
of one of the Lords
had obtained by it the situatioi
Gallant
of the Atli
Ills opponent irevious to his
ralty.—(Tremeudous uproar.) ___ ,1 .
with no eery great national taste,
appointment, had stated
that the removal of the corn-laws would give them only
at the pump:es Cr
bread and onions, and a suck _ ( e eat laughter.)
as not for emohnnentary purposes.
If he were to seek the office it w a pi),
He was always the friend of the People—he s always the oPPO-
• t •
nent, of restrictions on trade—and lie would now ell Captain Rous
of free trade did not depend on them.
and his party that the question
Ittlid not depend on either Peel
Sir Robertor Lord John Russell—
that amiable and enlightened nobleman—but_ it depended on the will
and the disposition of theSpeople.—(Tr_oememous cheers.) Yes, the
people of England had decided onair free
and it mattered
not who were the parties in power, trade would, and should
His honourable 'oppone
be carried.—(Nreat cheering.)sai
d
that now
of tine Diana. aristocracy, the
that he had among his supporters
election of 1841 he said nothing of that kind ; it was not then fashion-
able to entertain such principles. But ho (General Evans) could also
boast of having some of the aristocracy at Lis-side—those illustrious
familics rho wtre an honour to this !I:
count —ha resv:cted and ad-