The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-17 00:00:00

LEEDS ELECTION.

LEEDS, FEB, 15.—This place has been, for the last
two or three days, the scene of bustle and excitement al-
most unparalleled in the annals of electioneering contests.
The polling commenced yesterday morning. The Blues,
friends of Sir John Beckett, mustered early in consider.
able numbers, and before an hour elapsed, had placed
their candidate 200 above his most formidable opponent,
Mr. Baines, the Orange or Whig candidate. At eleven
o'clock, Sir John was 300 a-head of Mr. Baines, and
from that time Mr. Baines's friends c gne more freely to
the poll, and succeeded in gradually reducing the majority
against him to under 100. It is impossible to give a
positively accurate return of the numbers, until they are
declared by the Mayor, as the accounts of the two parties
have differed from the very commencement of the poll.
At the close last night, Sir John Beckett's friends claimed
a majority over Mr. Baines of 84 ; hut Mr. Baines, in
his printed address, only admitted t,.e majority against
him to be 59, though he states it, in his paper this morn-
ing, to be 70. Under these circumstance., I shall pre-
fer giving you the reports put forth by Sir John Beckett's
Committee:—

Beckett Baines. Bower.
Ten o'clock
Eleven o'clock

Twelve o'clock 1,080
One o'clock 1,294 1,115 ..„

1 Two o'clock 396
1,253
___ _ _

Three o'clock 1,602
Four o'clock 1,677

Mr. Rtines's Committee, in their amended report, state
the numbers st the close to have been—
Beckett, 1,663 ; Baines, 1,593 ; Bower, 19.

Great preparations were made during the night, par-
ticularly by the orange party, for the struggle of to-day;
and when the poll opened, at eight oclock, the majority of
the voters who were in attendance to register their votes,
gave them to Mr. Baines. At nine o'clock the numbers,
as stated by Sir John Iltchett'sCommittee were:—

Beckett, 1,720 ; Baines, 1,650 ; Bower, 19 ;
but Mr. Baines's friends took credit for having reduced
Sir John's majority to a much smaller number than 70,
S ion after eleven, the orange party boasted of having a
majority of five; but at half.past twelve, Sir John
Beckett's Committee reported the numbers to be equal
for Sir John and Mr. Baines—nitnely, 1,R17 each. At
two o'clock the blurs stated that Mr. Baines had a majority
of 11, but Mr. Baines's friends claimed to have a majority
of 36—namely, Baines, 1,874 ; Beckett, 1,838 ; Bower,
22. This majority was slowly increased till four o'clock,
when the poll finally closed. The numbers, as given by
Mr. Baines's Committee, ate:—
Baines, 1,943; Beckett, 1,901 ; Bower, 24.
Majority for Mr. Baines, 42; other accounts make up his Ma-
jority 50.
The statement of Sir John Beckett's Committee is:—
Baines, 1,943; Beckett, 1,920; Bower, 23.
Majority for Mr. Baines, 23.

The result of the poll will be officially declared, and
the return made on Monday, by the Mayor; and in the
mean time Mr. Baines may be considered as one of the
future Members of this important borough.
. _ .

When Sir John Beckett addressed his friends from the
window of his Committee room, there were loud calls for
"a petition," " a scrutiny." One of the speakers pro-
mised the poll-books should be carefully examined, with a
view to see if the allegations were weli•founded, and in
that case an appeal to Parliament should be made.

ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
g to 0 to 7 Z
w . . 0
From Whence. m LI r. . = - .0,
Qrs. Z' . rID V
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks.
Aldboroligl• 373 1077 22 59 115
Boston
Bridlington — 530 4
Clay — 700
Dartmouth — 20 10
„, Colchester 155 63 455 273 45 775
tS Ilarwich
a I.eigh 438 170 . 15 305 30
5' Muldon 714 308 112 25 423 114 1489
Exeter
Grangemouth —
Grimsby
Hastings ll3
Hull — 4,M25 360
Ipswlch 4ll 1349 850 79 20 532
Kent 991 431 110 53 605 181 892
Louth
Lowestoft 64 245 741 285
Lynn 392 587 665
Newcastle
Newhaven
Newport '' 151
Poole 347 281 223
Southampton
Southwold ..... -
Spalding
Stockton 3 480
Weymouth
Whitby
Wisbeach ll9l 772
Woodbridge 529 950 60 15 8 165
Yarmouth 469 3305 3425
Aberdeen — 250 —a
' Banff — 2428 14
Berwick
Cuntlee l3 129 140
Ir.verness 230 580 39
Kirkaldy
Leith — 50 25 10
Montrose 1139
6943 8768 8606 9838 1998 543 11588
IRISH.
Cork 345 250 375 99
Limerick 795 4221 24 i 458
FOREIGN.
Calcutta
Heiligenhafen — 550
Kiel lO9O 135
Pillau — , 20 79
Total
AGGKEGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER RINDS OF PULSE.
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