The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-04 00:00:00

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WEST RI ING ELECTION.
LEEDS, FEB. 2.—Owing to ill health, Mr. G. Lane Fox, at
the advice of his physician and friends, has declined the
honour of representing the constituency.
Mr. Fox has addressed a letter to the electors announcing
his resignation. He gives his reasons for so doing In the fol-
lowing words
1 "TO THE ELECTORS OF THE WEST RIDING OF TORKSIIIRR.
" Gentlemen,—Since my interview with Mr. Busfeild For-
rand, on the 28th of last month, I have consulted with my
friends and medical adviser, and it is their decided opinion,
that in my present state of health it would not be advisable
for me to take my seat in Parliament if elected. Under
these circumstances, I beg leave to thank those friends who
have interested themselves on my behalf, and hope they will
put themselves to no further trouble on my account.—l have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
" Bramham, Feb. 2, 1846. " G. L. FOX."
Mr. Ferrand has addressed the following letter to the
friends of native industry :
"At a moment when our success was approaching to a cer-
tainty, we are doomed to the bitter disappointment of being
deprived of our leader, Mr. Fox, by the decided opinion of
his friends and medical adviser, that in his present state of
health it would not be safe for him to take his seat is Par-
liament when elected.
" He has just laid this decision before me, and I consider
myself in duty bound to inform the inhabitants of the West
Riding that, under these circumstances, I do not consider I
should be justified in taking any further part in the present
contest, for I could not introduce (now that the election is
so near at hand) any other candidate to their notice, with a
sufficient prospect of success, to justify me in going to a poll.
"This being the case, I shall withdraw from further oppo-
sition to Lord Morpeth, consoled with the conviction that I
at least have done my duty in endeavouring to rescue the
Riding from becoming A 1 in the list of nomination boroughs
at the disposal of the Manchester cotton lords.
" I cannot conclude this address without expressing my
warmest and most grateful thanks to the working-men of
the West Riding, who have so nobly, so gallantly, so de-
votedly rallied round me during the last week, although
the black book' was suspended over their heads.
" Their conduct at Leeds I have already proclaimed to the
world ; at Bradford they boldly and successfully defended the
platform on which I stood against the repeated attempts to
invade it that were made at the expressed orders of the mill-
owners and their supporters; at Huddersfield they rose as
one man and rescued me from the hands of the millowners
themselves, after they had attempted to push me off the plat-
form, and had commenced a cowardly and brutal assault
upon me; but n t content with this expressien of oe'd English
feeling, they formed themselves into a body-guard, And es-
corted me to my hotel.
" I need not inform them that through good report and
through evil report I will stand by their order, and continue
to expose the tyranny and oppression under which they
groan.
" Lord Morpeth will now go to Parliament, not as the re-
presentative of the West Riding, but as the tool of a body of
men whose cruelties to, and oppression of, their factoryslaves,
he, on the 27th of June, 1832, thus denounced in the House
of Commons:—' There have been revealed to us (before
Sadler's Ten Hour Bill Committee) facts not of single occur-
rence, but of established practice, of which I cannot speak
in any terms short of horror.'—l have the honour to be, fel-
low-countrymen, yours very faithfully,
" 13. FERRAND.
" Central Committee-room, Royal Hotel,
"Leeds, Feb. 2, 1846."

LORD FARNHAM.
The following letter has been addressed to the editor of a
Dublin paper by Lord Farnham, who, it will be remem-
bered, declined to second the address in the House of
Lords :