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London, England, 1834-06-14 00:00:00

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT BILL.

Mr. EWART moved the third reading of the
Capital Punishment Bill.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the
clause which subjected only to capital punishment
those who entered a house with the whole of their
bodies. It was well known that the most guilty per-
sons generally stood outside, armed, and assisted the
less guilty to enter the house.
Mr. BERNAL and Mr. LLOYD supported the bill.
Mr. SHAW objected to the clause to which the
Attorney-General alluded.
Mr. E WART contended that although the bill
might be open to some objections, it was, upon the
whole, a great improvement in the law, and if the
house would support him he would press it to a divi-
sion.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the omis-
sion of the clause relating to burglary.
The gallery was cleared, but we understood no di-
vision took place, but that the clause was omitted, and
that the bill passed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the house adjourned at half-past one.

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION, JUNE 13.

The election having terminated last evening, the
successful candidate, Mr. Spring Rice, appeared this
morning on the hustings, for the purpose of returning
thanks to the electors. The right hon. gentleman
was attended by a large party of his friends, and a
very considerable body of the electors assembled on
the front of the hustings to hear him speak.
On the making up of the books, the numbers ap-
peared to be—

For Mr. Spring Rice 615
Sir Edward Sugden 590
giving Mr. Rice a majority of 25 over his opponent.
Numbers of the electors at the hustings wore a
laurel-leaf in their hats, as an emblem of their victory,
and all were decorated with Mr. Rice's favours, com-
posed of light blue and buff colours. Beyond the line
of the people a number of carriages, filled with very
elegantly dressed ladies, took up their stations.
The necessary preparations in closing the books and
other forms having been gone through,
The Mayor declared the state of the poll ; and on
announcing the majority of 25 in favour of Mr. Rice,
the cheering was very enthusiastic.
Mr. RICE then presented himself, and was received
with long-continued cheering. He rose, he said,
under feelings of the deepest emotion and of grati-
tude, to return thanks to the electors of the town of
Cambridge: for the great favour they had conferred on
him in returning him ; and he could assure them that
there was no individual who would discharge the im-
portant trust they had reposed in him with more zeal
and fidelity•than he would. (Cheers.) He had ad-
dressed them frequently in the course of the election
under alternate feelings of " hope and fear," and he
now met them, he rejoiced to say, under one feeling
—that of heartfelt gratitude and joy. (Cheers.) The
independent electors of Cambridge deserved high cre-
dit for the manner in which they had acted on this
occasion, for every means had been exercised to sway
them in the disposal of their votes, and to corrupt
them. They had nobly resisted those means, and had
achieved a victory for themselves, their children, their
friends, their town, and their country. (Loud cheers.)
They had shown themselves worthy of the elective
franchise which the Reform Bill had conferred on
them, for they had used it as men ought to use it.
(Bravo.) The experiment of intimidating and brib-
ing them had been made ; and had they allowed them-
selves to be corrupted they would have lowered them-
selves in the estimation of their oppressors, and
have stood degraded in the eyes of their country.
( Hear, and applause.) If those means had succeeded
what would be the use of the Reform Bill ? Sooner
far would he see a man get into parliament by the
purchase of Old Sarum, or rotten Gatton, than that
such corruption should succeed under that bill ; and it
would be a far less foul thing for a man under the old
rotten system to get into parliament by paying 50,0001.
for his seat, than for a man trying to get in under
the present to offer 101. for a vote. This had been
done, and nothing worse could have been attempted
by an old Jew parliamentary broker. (Laughter, and
much cheering.) He had been opposed by a most
powerful body in the town, and if he could have con-
sented not to meddle with the abuses of certain insti-
tutions in the country he could have had the highest
authorities in the town to canvass for him. He could
have had the heads of the University, he could have
had the Vice-Chancellor, and he could have had the
Corporation. (Much laughter.) The electors of
Cambridge proved that they were not to be influenced
by gold. ( Cheers.) The right hon gentleman here
asked what was that gentleman's name who was
treated rather scurvily in the town on a former occa-
sion? (" Thompson, was the name," answered some
of the meeting, which produced much laughter.) It
was then the custom to say to the voters, " Don't
dispose of your vote to-day, and you will get double
for it to-morrow." (Much laughter.") He re-
gretted the threats that had been employed against
those who supported him, but should any one of them
be attempted to be carried into execution, let (said the
right honourable gentleman) the persecuted in-
dividual call on me, and I now pledge myself in a
solemn contract to them, that I will take up their case
and bring it before the House of Commons, which will
deal with those persons. ( Enthusiastic cheering.) He,
however, hoped that the threats were idle, and that
they would never be attempted to be enforced. He
believed they were empty threats, and that they would
not be carried into effect. He, however, trusted that
the electors would disregard such threats in future,
and that they would use the elective franchise which
had been conferred upon them in a manner becoming
freemen. ( Cheers.) He had heard much since he
came there that established ties of connection between
him and the electors, and to these ties were added the
ties of the risk that they had run—the threats they
had scorned • and the intimidating influence which
they had nobly despised. (Cheers.) One point he
could not but remark upon. A gentleman near him
(the Mayor) had said, however the election might go,
that he Sir E. Sugden and his party had all the ladies
on their side. (Laughter.) He (Mr. Rice) thought
not. The ladies, who were the only legitimate can-
vassers ( A laugh) and those against whom no man
could say a word for any course which they might pur-
sue, had not been all on his hon. and learned oppo-
nent's side. But it was still contended that they were,
sweethearts and wives ( Laughter), all for the Chancery
lawyer, and none for the Irishman. ( Much laughter. ) He
( Mr. R.) might be now on his way toLondon but for the
kindness of the ladies, to whom he owed much passive
obedience ; and as far as the allegiance to them was
concerned, if they would take the word of a veteran,
he assured them that they would find in him a most
faithful subject ( Laughter), and that there was no
man who more valued or honoured them. He should
return to his duties in Parliament deeply impressed
with the responsibility which he owed to the consti-
tuency of Cambridge ; and he assured them that, in
returning to official life, he would pay the most devoted
attention to the interests of their town, and of the
country. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) If his polling-
book could be anatomised under the present Reform
Bill, and contrasted with the rotten proceedings on oc-
casions of this kind which preceded the Reform Bill,
if there was one thing which would show more than
another the improvement under the present system, he
thought the exhibition they would present would do
so. ( Hear hear.) He was now going away from the
hustings, and he assured the electors that one of the
first questions to which he would give his attention—one
of the greatest importance to the town of Cambridge
—would be corporation reform (Loud and long-con-
tinued cheering), and by the manner in which he
would deal with that question, he would prove to them
the sincerity of his pledge. ( Loud cheering.) He 1
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protection of trust-property, a removal of abuses and
waste of charities, and termination of " Rutland'
clubs." (Laughter and cries of " Bravo.") He
thanked the electors for the support which they had
given him, and their return of him answered the
often-repeated assertion that he would be now on his
" Peterborough." (Laughter.) He would now give
his hon. and learned opponent, Sir E. Sugden, leave to
take that road. ( A voice from the crowd, " and let
him go home to his own fireside,' " much laughter.)
He ( Mr. Rice) was beginning to feel exhausted, and
he again thanked the electors from his heart, and

assured them that he was now about to return to his
duties, gratefully and deeply impressed with a sense of
their kindness towards him, and of their independence.
The hon. member concluded by again acknowledging
the deep responsibility of the duties which he had to
discharge for the electors, and by re-assuring them
that he would discharge those duties with zeal and
fidelity. (The conclusion of the right hon. gentle-
man's speech was marked by loud and long-continued
cheering.)
Mr. GUNNING then presented himself, and having
congratulated the constituency on the choice they had
made, said he now appeared before the electors as a
voter under the Reform Bill, a situation prior to the
passing of which he, in his wildest wishes, never sup-
posed he should stand ; for under the old system there
were three ways of qualifying for a vote—one by pur-
chase, for which he was not rich enough—by service,
for which he was too proud—and by arts and trickery,
for which he was not capable. (Cheers.) After al-
luding to the threats which had been used during the
election, Mr. Gunning observed, that in his canvass
he called on a woman, and requested her to get her
husband to vote for Mr. Rice. She said she should
like to do so, but that, in consequence of his having
done so on the last occasion, a noble captain had dis-
continued taking milk from them. (Laughter.) He
would not say that captain was the mayor, who now
stood near him. ( Much laughter.)
Mr. FOSTER addressed the electors, and strongly
impressed upon them the necessity of registering their
votes, and the great care that they should take to see
that they were properly registered. The time for re-
gistering them was quickly approaching, and he
warned them not to allow any delay to take place.
Mr. SKRINE observed that a cry had been raised
about the pulling down of the• Church, but the only
church they wanted to pull down was the old church
of Barnwell. Sir Edward came down an almost
"dead man" in a gallopping consumption (Laugh-
ter), and attended by no less than six doctors, which
were enough, he thought not only to kill Sir Edward
but to kill the devil ; and if they were not sufficient,
he would recommend him " Morison's pills." (Much
laughter.) Stones had been liberally shied in this
contest, and he was himself struck by a large one
which he had in his pocket. Gold dust had been pro-
fusely distributed from the " Charles-street" Ex-
chequer ; but if the agent of that party should again
make his appearance in Cambridge, the electors would
most certainly duck him in the river Cam. ( A laugh.)
Mr. RICE said that he had just received a communi-
cation of which he felt very proud, it was, that the
ladies of Cambridge had presented him two flags to
be used in the procession on this occasion—the one
exhibiting his paternal arms, and the other the arms
of Cambridge. (The flags were very handsome, and
excited universal admiration.)

CHAIRING OF' MR. RICE.
The business having concluded, the cavalcade in
tended to accompany the right hon. gentleman in his
procession, advanced in the most imposing order towards
the hustings, where he was to enter the triumphant car.
The cheering which marked his entry into the car was
loud and long-continued, and on his looking around
and bowing to his friends, as he stood erect in the
car, the cheering was renewed in a most deafening
and enthusiastic manner.
The following was the order of the procession :-
4 The Marshal on horseback.
Three Trumpeters on horseback.

Chairman of the Committee.

f, Gentlemen on horseback, three abreast.
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THE TRIUMPHAL CAR,
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cz Electors, six abreast.
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FT; Carriages to close the Procession.
The procession altogether was one of the most splen-
did pageants of the kind, perhaps, ever witnessed, and
the mutitude of persons forming it was surprising.
The car in which the right hon. member was seated
was beautifully and classically formed, covered all c) er
with blue and buff silk, tastefully fluted, and decorated
with rosettes. It was drawn by six blood horses,
richly caparisoned, and conducted by three outriders,
wearing rich silk dresses, composed of the right hon.
member's colours. The horsemen, three abreast, and
all wearing favours, numbered about 300. The musi-
cians and wand-bearers were numerous, and all deco-
rated with sashes and rosettes. The carriages, filled
with very elegantly dressed ladies, all wearing the
right hon. gentleman's colours in their bonnets, reached
more than a quarter of a mile in lenv,tli.
On the close of the chairing, Mr. Rice, accompa-
nied by Mr. Barrington, Mr. Empson, Mr. Humphreys,
and another gentleman, entered his carriage, and pro-
ceeded to London.

Sir Edward Sugden left Cambridge at the close of
the poll on Thursday evening.
The University printers, who had come up to vote
for Mr. Rice, in the event of his election being in
danger, were not polled.