The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-16 00:00:00

WEST RIDIING ELECTION.

WAKEFIELD, FRIDAT.—This morning the poll was
opened at eight o'clock. Though at the close of the first
day's polling, Mr. Denison, according to the return of
his committee, had 2,756 votes more than Sir Culling
Eardley, the friends of the former did not relax their
exertions during the evening, in order to be ready to re.
new the contest with vigour this morning.
Sir Culling Eardley's friends appeared to be even
more energetic than their Opponents, as was evidenced
by the fact that the number of votes registered for him
this forenoon, both at Leeds and Wakefield, was greater
than the number polled for Mr. Denison at those places,
whereas yesterday Mr. Denison had the lead during the
whole day. It was announced by Sir Culling Eardley's
central committee that at the close of the first day's poll
there remained 17,000 voters unpolled, and that there
still remained hope for their candidate. The 17,000,
however, was an error, as, deducting the number of
double entries in the register, and the deceased voters
there remained only about 13,000 unpolled.
The return of the gross poll published last night by
Sir Culling Eardley's committee showed a majority of
1,446 votes only for Mr. Denison, but in a return pub-
lished at noon to-day of yesterday's poll, they give Mr.
Denison a majority of 2,318. These discrepancies in
the returns no doubt arose from mistakes made in their
transmission by the electric telegraph, which was en-
gaged by the committee of both candidates. In addition
to the telegraph it was also necessary to employ horse
expresses from three or four remote districts, and this
necessity of course considerably delayed the making up
of the aggregate account.

Mr. ffenlion has been most active to-day, as he was
yesterday, in going from committee to committee, and
encouraging them by his presence to vigorous exertions
to secure a triumphant majority.
GENERAL STATE OF THE POLL.
SECOND DAY.-.-TWELVE o'CLocx.
Polling Places. Denison. Eardley.
Aberford ... 487 ... 58
Barnsley ... 610 ... 425
Birstall ... 351 ... 320
Bradford ... ... 1,044 ... 1,092
Dent 144 ... 80
Doncaster... ... ... 832 ... 209
Gisburn 281 ... 88
Halifax ... 556 ... 676
Hebden-bridge 165 365
Holmfirth ... 176 ... 269
Huddersfield ... 559 ... 737
Keighley ... 263 235
Knaresborough ... 692 ... 97
Leeds ... ... 1,058 ... 826
New Delph 132 287
Otley ... 256 ... 286
Pateley-bridge ... 146 ... 152
Pontefract ... 382 ... 113
Ripon ... ... 311 60
Rotherham ... 288 ... 183
Selby ... 32i3 ... 52
Set le ... ... 366 ... 109
Sheffield ~. ... 689 ... 731
Skipton ... 278 ... 250
Snaith ... ... 327 ... 12
Wakefield ... ... 746 625

11,541 8,582
Majority for Mr. Denison ... 2,959

TWO O'CLOCK.

Mr. Deniscn
Sir C. Dudley

••• ... 12,173
••• ... 9,479

Majority ... ... 2,694
QUARTER PAST THREE O'CLOCK.
Mr. Denison ...
... 12,379
Sir C. E. Eardley ... 9,477

Majority ... ... 2,902
FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.
FRIDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK.

Mr. Denison ... ... 14,745
Sir C. E. Eardley ... ... —. 11,805

Majority ... 2,940
This includes all the districts except Dent, which is a
very small one, and too distant for transmission to-night.
SIR C. EARDLEY.—We are happy to state that Sir
Culling E. Eardley is much better; and it is his full
intention to be present at the declaration, at Wakefield,
on Monday, to return thanks to the many thousands of
electors of the West Riding aho have honoured him
with their support at this election. We hope the
Liberals will be present to manifest their attachment to
their candidate. We have the authority of the Under-
Sheriff for stating that the declaration will take place as
soon as the
_operation of summing up the returning
officers' books shall be completed. This operation com-
mences as early as eight o'clock in the morning. It is
not expected to be completed:before twelve o'clock; and
the declaration must by law take place before two
o'clock. All parties, therefore, desirous of hearing the
declaration should be present not later than twelve
o'clock. Of course Mr. Denison will speak first as the
Member returned, and Sir Culling Eardley will follow.
Let us hope that each party will on this occasion vie
with the opposing party in displaying the spirit and
temper of gentlemen; and that no unseemly exultation
on one side or bitterness of disappointment on the
other, will be allowed to interfere with the right of all
parties to a fair and patient hearing.—Leeds Mercury.

MR. SMITH OTRIEN.—It will be recollected that
a short time since a number of members of the Oxford
and Cambridge University Club signed a requisition to
the Committee, calling upon them to convene a special
meeting of the members, to consider the propriety of ex-
pelling Mr. Smith O'Brien from the roll of the club. The
meeting was fixed for yesterday, and, as a proof of the
interest excited, it may be mentioned that before two
o'clock upwards of 200 members had assembled. The
Hon. C. Ewan Law, Recorder of London, occupied the
chair, and opened the business in a few remarks, made
in a conciliatory spirit. The Honourable Member's
observations appeared to have a great influence upon
the gentlemen present, and all the succeeding speakers
avoided anything calculated to create an unpleasant feel-
ing. The suggestion of one gentleman to adjourn the
consideration of the question until the annual general
meeting of the club, was ultimately adopted without
opposition, and Mr. O'Brien's expulsion was not even
moved. He will now have an opportunity of resign-
ing, or if he does not take this prudent course, his mem-
bership will become forfeited by the non-pay ment of his
annual fees. Mr. Smith O'Brien was not a member of
any other London club.

7ihe abolition of return tickets by the Great Wes-
tern Railway Company must or will injure them, more
persons travelling now, when possible, by the third-class.
At the 45 minutes after nine train from Slough to Pad-
dington, on Saturday morning last, there were only one
second-class passenger, and three first. I have usually
seen from 40 to 50, and even more.—Correspondent of
the Builder.

RUSTY BACON.—A lady of considerable experience
in a farm-house had, for many years, rusty bacon, until
the cause was pointed out by a friend. Until that time
the bacon was salted and kept in tubs, the brine not be-
ing able to escape. The advice was to salt it and lay it
on stone shelves, packed one flitch upon another, and the
brine running away and falling into a basin under the
shelf. When the bacon is sufficiently salted, it is hung
up into the kitchen to dry, and when dry washed over
with limo wator the ooncieteney arrow.- When this:is
dry it is packed in the corner of a cool room, boarded
off, laying first a layer of lime, then a layer of bacon,
and so until the bin is full. When the bacon is wanted,
cut off as much as you require, but be careful to cover
the flitch up again. It' this is attended to, you may keep
your bacon free from rust for many years.—Agricul-
tural Gazette.
Yesterday an inquest was held at the London Hos-
pital on the body of James Sheen, aged nine years. The
poor little fellow was removed from his parent's resi-
dence, in Blue Anchor-lane, Whitechapel, to the hos-
pital on Saturday, and, as his friends alleged that he had
been severely kicked in the groin by a person attached
to an itinerant show, he was admitted. The medical
gentlemen, however, were unable to perceive any signs
whatever of a kick having been inflicted, but as he still
continued to complain of severe pain in the groin, he
was retained in the hospital. On Monday morning un-
mistakable symptoms of Asiatic cholera set in, and in
less than twelve hours afterwards he was a corpse. Mr.
Birch, the house apothecary, had made a post mortem
examination of the body, and had been quite unable
to discover the slightest mark indicative of a kick in the
groin. Under these circumstances, he had no hesitation
in saying the deceased died from Asiatic cholera. Ver-
dict accordingly.
DEATH 01' LORD DUNSANY....-We regret to have
to announce the death of the Right Hon. Lord Dunsany.
His Lordship expired at Clevedon, in Somersetshire, on
Monday, the 11th inst. Lord Dunsany, the fourteenth
Baron of that title, was one of the Representative Peers
of Ireland, end lieutenant and custos rotulorum of the
county of Meath, and formerly Lieutenant-Colonel in
the Coldstream Guards, in which he served in Holland
and Egypt, at the landing in which latter country he
was severely wounded. His Lordship was in his 76th
year, and is succeeded by the lion. Randal Edward'
Plunket. The late Lord had been a constant resident on
his property in the county of Meath, where he gave
much employment to the poor.
ILLNESS OE DR. HOOK.—The Rev. Dr. Hook is so
qii,,u,;y i,,,ii.1,.. ,,1 ,I, • ;.j.:. p}«-zician iurbids I,:m :L!-
tAnpting to preach at tinenton, near this town, on 'Tues-
day next. It gives us pleasure, however, to be able to
add that he hopes to be able to fulfil his promise at no
distant date.—Aottingham Journal.