The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-02 00:00:00

LONDON. SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 2, 1848.

IRELAND.

Dunr.rx, EareAY ivilliNlNG.—TheSpecialCou, mission
for the trial of the leadet And other parties implicated
in the late insurrection was fixed yesterday to be held
at Nenagh on Tuesday, the 19th instant. The presiding
Judg-es are to be the Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench
and Chief Justice Doherty.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
LEICESTER.

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the representation of the borough of Leicester took plac,
at the hustings, in the Market-place, this morning. Pre-
cisely at ten o'clock Mr. H. Harris and Mr. J. Ellis.
with a I,,rge number of their friends, arrived at the
Lusting.: in procession from tbe New Hall. They were
loudly cheered by their supporters, but there were no
colours displayed nor banners exhibited. Soon after
Mr. H. Paget, with his friends, entered the Market-place
and ti.,ok their stand on that side of the hustings occupied
by the Conservative party.
The Bribery Act having been read, and other preli-
minaries gone through,
Mr. JOSEPH BIGGS nominated Mr. H. Harris as a
gentleman of the highest character, who had the inte-
rest of his townsmen and of his country at heart. He
called upon the electors to support Mr. Harris, from
his independent character, his uprightness as a citizen
and his sympathies on the side of the people.—(Cheers )
The late Members were unseated by means the most
cowardly and unwarrantable. If their opponents
had gone into court with clean hands—had not been
Equally culpable, then they could have understood
their motives and respected their conduct; but it was
notorious that those men were always the foremost in
bribery and corruption. Mr. Biggs then, at great length,
went on to declare that the party to which his oppo-
nents belonged were always the abettors of bribery. He
did not wish to unjustly disparage the character of the
candidate who had entered the field as an opponent to
Mr. Harris and Mr. Ellis; but he must say in reference
to the qualifications of their opponent, that if the Mini-
sterial bench was an ale bench, the House of Commons a
skittle-alley, and political principles ninepins, then Mr.
Paget would be just the man.
Mr. A. BURGESS seconded the nomination. He re-
commended Mr. Harris, because he was a man of business
in contra-distinction to a man of talk.
Alderman FIELDING (late Mayor) nominated Mr.
John Ellis. Mr. Ellis had resided amongst them from
infancy, and his political creed needed no elucidation.
In every movement for the political and social welfare.
of his townsmen, and for the welfare of humanity, Mr.
Ellis had always been in the foremost rank.
Alderman NUNNELEY seconded the nomination.

Mr. T. KoxoN, on the Conservative_ side, then came
forward to nominate Mr. H. Paget, of Birstall, near Lei-
cester. Mr. Paget, he said, was an independent gen-
tleman, an advocate of free-trade, but an enemy of revo-
lutions. Messrs. Harris and Ellis were only warming-
pans for the late Members.—(Uproar.)
Mr. HIND, of Grooby, seconded the nomination.
The MAYOR then took a show of hands for the can-
didates, which appeared to be about equal for the three
candidates. The Mayor declared the show in favour of
Mr. Harris and Mr. Ellis.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. AloxoN demanded a poll for Mr. Paget.
Mr. H. HARRIS then addressed the electors, stating
his regret that the town had lost the services of the late
Members, which were the best Leicester ever had. The
evidenne, too, on which they were unseated, was false in
a great measure, poor men having been induced to give
it from tempting promises. He (Mr. Harris) was in the
Committee- room of the House of Commons and heard
evidence given in reference to himself which was false,
and which ho could have shown to have been untrue had
he been allowed, but he was not allowed. He (Mr.
Harris) had no ambition or interest to serve in going to
Parliament, and had only come forward at the earnest
rrquest of his fellow-townsmen. They had appointed
him to the highest offices of honour in his native town,
and, after due deliberation, he felt that he could not de-
cline to serve them in the present emergency.—(Cheers
and uproar.) His principles were well known to them
from the part he had taken during the last forty years
in every effort for progressive reform. Those principles
he should act up to, if sent to the House of Commons,
in au independent manner. Be was independent, and
should have no inducement to swerve from that con-
sistent advocacy of cheap, enlightened, and liberal go-
vernment which, through a long life, he had supported in
his native town.
Mr. J. ELMS next addressed the electors. He stood
before them in furtherance of the principle of purity of
election. His political principles were too well known
to need any definition of them at the present time. If
they sent him to Parliament he should faithfully adhere
to them.
Mr. PAGET also addressed the electors. The reason
he appeared as an opponent to Mr. Harris and Mr. Ellis
was, that those gentlemen were only keeping the place
warm for Walmsley and Gardner. His (Mr. Paget's)
principles were of the old Whig school. He did not
agree with Mr. Gardner that the Church should be
pulled down; it was a useful appendage to the State.
He was a free-trader. He believed also that an eaten-.

sion of the suffrage might be granted if the people were
educated. Education must go first. If they sent him
to Parliament he should vote independently.
Mr. 'T. MacsuLEY then begged to address the meet-
ing, in answer to the charges that had been made against
the Conservatives. It had been said that they had not
clean hands iu the last election. So far as he was con-
cerned, he must emphatically deny it. The corruptions
of the old corporation were thrown in their teeth. He
would say, let the old corporation alone—it was dead;
and " a live donkey was better than a dead man." It
had been asked why Mr. Parker did not come forward
again. Mr. Parker would be ready when he could get
sufficient promises of support to secure his return.
The meeting was then dissolved, the polling to com-
mence at eight o'clock this (Saturday) morning.

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ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
HORSHAM.

Mr. CALVERT, on behalf of the electors of Horsham,
resisted the application of the petitioners for an amend-
ment of the return, so as to substitute the name of Lord
Edward Howard for that of William Robert Seymour
Fitzgerald, Esq., on the ground that the fact of the latter
gentleman's disqualification had not been proved at the
time of the last election either before a Committee or
any other properly constituted tribunal.
Mr. CROWDER insisted, in reply, that it was impos-
sible that the disqualificatio❑ could have been proved,
but the rule of law on the subject was, that if it was
afterwards proved that, in point of fact, the disqualifica-
tion did exist at the time of the election, and that due
notice was given before the polling day to the electors
of such disqualification, there was no alternative for the
Committee but to seat the qualified, though unsuccessful,
candidate, for whom the seat was claimed.

The room was then cleared, and the Committee having
deliberated for a short while, strangers were re-admitted,
when

The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had
unanimously come to the following resolution:—
" That Edward Fitzalan 'Toward, commonly called
Lord Edward Howard was duly elected at the last
election, and ought to have been returned to serve in the
present Parliament as a burgess for the borough of
Horsham."

The return was accordingly amended, and the labours
of the Committee closed.

FRAN CE.

In the sitting of the Assembly yesterday the decree
of the Provisional Government abolishing imprisonment
for debt was abrogated by a majority of 456 to 237
votes.

The ./floniteur publishes the returns of the corn trade
in the different markets of France, from which it appears
that the hectolitre of wheat sold on an average, for
17f. 26c. at Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, and Marseilles ;
15f. 36c. at Marans and Bordeaux ; 15f. 92c. at St.
Laurent and Le Grand Lemps ; 16f. 39c. at Mulhausen
and Stralburg ; 14f. 4c. at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Sois-
sons, Paris, and Rouen ; 14f. 9c. at Saumur and Nantes;
llf. 87e. at Metz, Verdun, and Charieville ; 16f. 16c. at
St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper, and Ilennebon.
The Moniteur du Soir adduces facts to prove that
Austria must place no reliance on the Emperor of RUSSIA
in the event of a war, the CZAR having expressed himself
to General CAVAIGNAC in terms so friendly as to amount
to an assurance of his neutrality in the event of a conflict
between France and Germany.
" The Executive Government," says the Democratie
Pacifique, "yesterday gave orders for the formation near
Paris of two active divisions, which are destined to move
to Metz and Strasburg."

A journal of Blois announces that Sir Henry Bulwer
passed through that city on the 30th ult., on his way to
Italy.
We read in the Journal de 1' Oise, published at Beau-
vais:—"A piece of news is current here, which, though
it needs confirmation, is too important to be passed over
in silence. It is said that the prosecutions arising out
of the affair of May 15, the invasion of the National As-
sembly, are to be tried before the Court of Assizes for
the Oise. The following is the manner in which this is
explained. The Government, being unwilling that these
trials should take place at Paris, where they might occa-
sion fresh disturbances, application will be made to the
Court of Cassation to send them before a Court of Assizes.
The Government is said to be wavering between our
town, Versailles, and Laon. Versailles is thought to be
too near Paris, and Laon too far off, so that Beauvais
alone remains. The distance from this town by the rail-
road is sufficiently short to enable the Government to re-
ceive prompt intelligence of any serious incidents that
may occur in the course of the trials, and sufficiently long
to prevent any coup de main. It is added that a camp of
10,000 men will be formed on the plains which surround
the town."

future be kept at the stations advanced to the second I
degree, so that th it final fittings would Occupy but an
tticonsiderable t me, s! ould necessity call for their corn- i

uhission.

ENTRY OF PENSIONERS IN THE FLEET.—The Ad-
miralty have put dished an order regulating the rating
in future to be given to pensioners on their re-entering
for service, which is to be no higher than that of able
seamen.

STOREKEEPER AT DEPTFORD DOCKFARD.—This ap-
pointment has been conferred upon Mr. Archibald Couch,
clerk in Devonport Dockyard.
The Andromache and Andromeda store-frigates are
ordered from Killybegs and Galway, Ireland, to Devon-
port, to b© put out on commission.

n The Radler, screw steam-sloop, one of the advanced
squadron of steamers at Portsmouth, will be undocked
to-day and tried with a new description of screw.
ANNUAL ADMIRALTY INSPECTION OF THE OETPORTS.
—The Lords of the Admiralty will commence their an-
nual inspection of the various dockyards and victual-
ling establishments at home, immediately after the pro-
rogation of Parliament, beginning with the arsenals on
the Thames.