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-help of people from all parts of the kingdom, there were
great things yet in store. He had come forward to sup- --
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.port Sir Culling Eardley, believing him to be an honest
and enlightened man .. With them he would cordially
-work at all times. Let them but be energetic, and 'the
-independence of the Riding would be achieved, and Sir
_Culling would be their represenititive.-:-(Cheers.)
Mr. DENISON then presented himself,. and.- was re-
ceived with loud noises from his opponents and cheers''"
-by his friends. Ile said, so great was the importance of
an . election for the West Riding, that a maxi of. the
highest pretensions might well quail on standing before
so vast an assemblage to ask them for their support.
'Well- might the electors pause to consider how they '
.would vote and to whom they would entrust the - --
high honour of being • their representative. • The re-
in all parts of That
suit of this contest was watched
"kingdom by Churchmen and. Dissenters ; but great
.would be the dismay if they were to allaw it' to be
recorded in favour of his opponent. . Nothing
but the most urgent appeals- from politicians of both
'parties could have induced him to leave the privacy
•of -domeatic life to have become a candidate; but be
.hoped that the course which this election would take
would show that tills Riding would not sanction so impu-
dent a dictation as that which had been attempted. With .
respect to whit was called free trade he had this to say— ' •
that whet.] iu Parliament he had never epposul any pro-
posal for The reduction 'of duties on the principle of free • -.-- trade • but he was satisfied that the principle shou'd he__ _ c applied with caution. There were those who_ did not ,-
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-think they had derived all the adiantages which had been ,
~..., anticipated. He was free to admit that freedom should be-the rule and restriction the exception; but where the , , freedom should end and the restriction begin it was dif&
cult to decide. In all the discussiens on the
aubjecthe • '7: '
would give his best consideration to that point. As altthe protection had been taken off agriculture, the agri-',;.n,e, -
eulturist had a right to expect that what he required for
-
consumption should be made also cheap to him. " Ile' ' '''.7
would say, "Deal" out justice to all ;" and •he "n"- -
would tell the manufacturers that. • -as they had - r.:,-; got egriculturel duties repealed, they -must also . :iata
be prepared to give up the -duties on
~ ,or,
factures imported. There were no" Radio:4ls menu- ,
aed .)
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Chartists. in the agricultural districts ;, they -were„ all.' all.-... ~,,it
fostered in the hotbeds of disgent—the towns ; and they
were told that, if they could get the-ballot and such like . ',4.. 4:r.,i
things, they would have a land flowing with milk and '
honey. Re did not believe,that ;- they were the working '-:' '. -
bees of the hive, and neither the ballet nor universal suf. • frage would remove the pressure from them. -He would -
'do what hncould to lighten their burdens ; he had .no interest in keeping up large expenditure. If he could be assured That 80,000 soldiers would do instead Of . ' - 100,000, he would not object; but in order to catch their
votes he would nut promise to cutdown the army or the
navy. • He would retrench where practicable ; but he' •- '
would not for any personal purpose do what might be
unsafe. He came next to the question of the education
of the people. As it was the duty of a parent to edu-
cate his child, so he believed it was the duty of the State
to do it when the parents could not. He would say, give
them a sound religious education and they would become
sound, loyal, and industrious fellow-subjects, and make •
greater progress than otherwise they could do. Sir
Culling Eardley objected to giving money to educate
anybody, especially se it was to educate them in religion. But that was not so; for the education to be given was
not to be religious but secular; and the Government
inspectors were not called on to report on the religious
education, but only as to that which was secular. And
therefore, he said, that, to refuse to Roman Catholics
their share of the grant for education would be unjust,
because they pay taxes the same as others. He was
asked if he would give money to Church of England
schools; and his, answer was that he would. He respect-
fully ventured to tell those who entertained different
views, that if they neglected to assist the schools in their
respective neighbourhood's' they failed in their duty.
Give them but the Bible, and a good usefuleducation, and
they would be brought up in the religious views of the
denomination they belonged to. The chief point in dis-
pute at the present election was between chapel and
church, though the endowment of the Roman Catholic
Church was adroitly put forward. They were
excellent sappers and miners. No endowment
of the Roman Catholic Church, said Sir Culling;
no endowment whatever said his cunning friend, Mr.
Baines. But, says Sir Culling, " Let me get into Par-
liament on the anti-endowment of Popery question, and
then I will see what can be done in another direction."
The electors were not to be taken on the weak side in
that manner. Were they prepared to see their parish
churches stand on the voluntary principle?—(No.)
Would they see Westminster Abbey or York Minster
stand on the voluntary principle?—(No.) He knew they
would not; but they must look to what things were tend-
ing.---(Hear.) Every man had a duty to perform, and
if the electors were determined to put their confidence
in hire, he had no proper ground for refusing. He knew
what were the arduous duties of the office; but if it were
their pleasure, as their pleasure he knew it would be to
elect him, he would promise them thatnothing should in- _
duce him to give a vote that would endanger the constitu-
tion in Church and State.
Mr. Cen..zr, of Bradford, asked, if Mr. Denison
should be returned. and his party bring in a Bill of ,
which he disapproved, would he fraternize or be guided -
by principle?
- Mr. Definkirt—l would stick to principle.
Mr. COPLEY asked why he had changed his colour,
and deserted his principles?
Mr. DENIsoN said he had not deserted his principles.
and with colour he
-had nothing to do. If those who had
hitherto opposed him thought right to vote for him now
he should make his bow and thank them.
- Mr. COPLEY was proceeding with his questions, but
the Sheriff intimated that they ought to have been asked
long ago, and he desisted.
1 Mr. KYDD then addressed the assemblage. He ex-
pressed his approval of the address which had been read
from Sir culling Eardley, because it enunciated that
beatitiful principle of "do as you would be done by."
Mr. Denison on the other hand seemed to think that the
reflective intelligence of the "country had no claim to re-
presentation in the Legislature ; but it should be borne
in mind that public opinion was intelligence when
Ministers were ignorant. It should also be remembered
that the Tories, of whom Mr. Denison was one, had
fought those long wars with the French at the close of
the last century. He complained that the landed gentry
had driven the people off the land, a fact which he said
was demonstrable by the Parliamentary returns, which
showed that in 1842 there were 287,000 fewer persons
employed in the agricultural districts than there were in
1815, tpough the whole population had been increased
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394 per cent. Ho then attacked the "execrable Whigs,"
who had attempted to treat poverty as a crime by the...
passing of' the Poor Law Amendment, Act. There were
now a million and a half of people out of employ, and
if they begged they were sent to gaol. He recommended
a return to the principles which Characterised the
Original poor-law of Queen Elizabeth.
The UNDERISHERIFF then proceedeclito take the show,
which: he declared to be in favour of Sir Culling Eardley.
A poll was then demanded for Mr. Denison. Mr.
Kydd withdrew from the contest.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE SQUADRON op EXERCISE.—A change of wind
detains this force at Spithead. Her Majesty, it was
conjectured, would have witnessed the departure of the
squadron, had it sailed yesterday. A message was sent
from Osborne to Sir Charles Napier upon that subject
yesterday morning.
On the arrival of the Calliope, 26-gun frigate, in Eng-
land from New Zealand, she is ordered to be put out of
commission at Portsmouth,
The Rifleman, 10-gun screw-schooner, Lieutenant
Cropton, R.N., commanding, took a cruise yesterday to '
test the working of her engines, &c., before joining Sir
Charles Napier, whose squadron she is ordered to
sail with.
The superb, 80 guns, Captain E. Purcell, was hauled
to the jetty at Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday, to be
speedily refitted.
Lord Frederick Fitsclarence, G.C.8., the Commander-
in-Chief of Portsmouth Garrison, visited the fleet at
Spithead yesterday, and was saluted by the flag-ship.
THE AMERICAN FElGTESTir.LgAawte,miwNhcicEh.--:, Zthheoufgolh-
lowing is the armament of this f
Called a " 44," mounts in reality 50, and could, if neces-
sary, point 54 guns:—
No. Pounders. Weight. Length.
Main 26
Deck j 4
Upper I 16
Deck 4
••• I ft. 6 in.

Total .. 50 weighing 125 tons 5 cwt.
The crew musters 483 ; she is 185 feet long by 45
beans, and draws 21 feet aft and 19 forward. She will
leave Southampton in a few days for Lisbon, intending
to winter in the Tagus.
Mr. Tucker, late foreman of shipwrights on the lakes
of Canada, has projected a new boiler, and has invented
a new method of fitting the screw-propeller, and the Ad-
miralty have ordered models to be made of them with
the view of their practical application.
WOOLWICH, DEC. 11.—The Teiseer steam-vessel,
Lieutenant Commander Selwyn, was taken into dock
to-day to have a false keel put-on, and her departure tor
the Coast of Africa will, consequently, be deferred to
about the end of the month.
The Flamer steam-vessel was put out of dock to-day,
and taken into the basin during the same tide. The
Black Eagle, Master Commander S. B. Cook, was also
taken into the basin to-day.
The Black Prince, 72-gun ship, taken to this dock-
yard from Chatham, to be fitted as a convict hulk instead
of the Justitia, is to have the requisite alterations made
in her by contract and hired workmen.
Commodore Henry Eden is expected to assame the
duties of superintendent of this dockyard on the 16th inst.
The converting of timber for two 60-gun frigates, from
designs by Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, R.C.8., sur-
veyor of tbo navy, has been commenced at Deptford
Dockyard, where they arc to be built.
ROYAL MARINEE.--Lieutenant myth, 1 corporal, and
10 gunnirs of the Royal Marine Artillery; 1 sergeant,
1 drummer, and 10 privates of the Chatham division of
Marines, landed at Woolwich, on Saturday, on being paid
off from the Sampson, and the Royal Marine Artillery
proceeded to Portsmouth, and the others to Chatham, on
Monday.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 10.-11-er Majesty's frigate Amazon,
16, Captain E. N. Troubridge, left the Sound this morn-
ing, and sailed for the East Indies. Mr. Thomas, the
President of Liberia, left in her. She also took out
Messrs. Burt, Hicks, and Johnson, third-class assistant
engineers.

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The Nile, 92, was decked on Friday.
The Express packet is having her defects made good,
and will be out of the hands of the dock-yard at the end
of the month.

Notice has been served on the person who contracts
for the purchase of the waste chips, shavings, and saws
dust from this dock-yard, that the contract will termi-
nate at the end of three months. It is intended to con-
sume these materials at the steam-engines in the smithery,
by which it is expected that a wing will be effected,.