The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-10 00:00:00

HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION, JAN. 8.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)
This morning the poll commenced, and at the end of
the first hour the numbers were--
For Mr. Blackburne...
98
Mr. Sadler l3
Captain Wood 3
At four o'clock the poll closed, the numbers being—
For Mr. Blackburne 230
Mr. Sadler
Captain Wood 9l This is quite decisive. The Tories themselves never
expected that more than 480 vots would poll. The
other parties believe that boo is theer limit.
On Tuesday evening Mr. Blackburne addressed the
electors in heed ourt.house in an excellent speech, in
which he stthe grounds on which he supported
Ministers, and his principles generally. He was most
warmly received.
If Mr. Sadler should not resign to-night (Wednesday),
which he is expected to do, the poll will be kept open
till tomorrow afternoon. On Friday the result will be
declared. Mr. Blackburne is of course certain to be
elected by a very large majority. Mr. Sadler has been for
the last week entirely repudiated by the Radicals, who are
disgusted beyond measure at his attempt to deceive them
by professing to entertain their sentiments. He will have
the reward of his duplicity, and be pitied by nobody.

(From the lluddersfield Etpress.)
of
himself
on exhibition which poor Mr. Sadler made elt'
on Monday, before the electors of Huddersfield, must have
excited the disgust of his own partisans, and the contempt
of every lover of consistency and integrity. His speech
was full of the most paltry and most palpable shufflin,4 : so
much so, indeed, that we should almost insult the intellects
of our readers, were we to enter upon a serious examination
of his sophisms.
The imputation of nomineeship, on which he dwelt with
so touch feeling, and from which he so kindly desired to
relieve Mr. Blackburne, had a strange sound from the lips
of my Lord Newcastle', ex.nonainee ; and it must rather
have grated upon the ear of more than one of Mr. Sadler's
committee; for amongst those who are now so loudly depre-
catin
who g Sir John Ramsden's influence in the borough, and
have, as they say, brought forward Mr. Sadler to eman-
,, eipate the electors from their thraldom, are the very men
who have, on two occasions, invited two sons of Sir John
Ramsden to offer themselves as candidates for Huddersfield !
This is consistency ! One of these sons is a Whig, and the
other a Conservative, but they were both Ramsdens. This
also is consistency ! ! And the parties could not have
coveted a finer climax to their consistency than their choice
of Mr. Sadler, of nomination notoriety, to head their crusade
against the alleged nomination of Sir John Ramsden !
But the electors of Huddersfield are not so destitute of
sense as to be deceived by such quackery ; and the result
of the first day's poll is exactly what we anticipated, from
our knowledge of their character. They have shown a
proper spirit ; resisting alike the dictation of a Tory
aristocracy, and the intimidation of a Radical democracy.
The attention of the whole kingdom has been drawn to
their conduct on this occasion ; and they have merited
that best. and purest reward of patriotism—the cordial
approbation of their fellow countrymen.
Mr. Sadler will now, perhaps, go back to Lt eds, and
try his luck against Mr. Baines; but the electors of that
borough, like those of Huddersfield, set some value, at
least, on consistency, and have something like a respect
for political integrity. Mr. Sadler must ever forego any
claim to either. He may, when it suits his convenience,
ebaunt the praises of Wilberforce and Andrew Marvel;
but his own political character stands, and ever will stand,
at the antipodes of theirs.