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PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery. made in the matter of the Estate of ELEONOR
STURMAN, late of Pembroke-square, Kensington, in the county of
Middlesex, spinster, deco sued, and in a cause " Orme against Bawl,"
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Dated this 26th day of February, 1858.

CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
EWBANK and PAItTINGTON, 3, South-square, Gray's-inn,
Plaintiff 's solicitors,

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THE BE-ELECTIONS.

OXFORDSHIRE.

PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.
The re-election of Mr. Henley, rendered neces-
sary by his acceptance of the Presidency of the
Board of Trade, took place in the County-hall,
Oxford, on Saturday morning. Among those on
the platform were Lord Dillon, Mr. Hamersley,
Mr. J. Lecbmere, Colonel Fane, Mr. J. J. Henley,
Captain Drake, Col. Dawkins, Alderman Spiers;
Alderman Sadler, and others. There was a very
scanty attendance in the body of the hall, and the
whole proceedings lasted barely three quarters of
an hour.
The High-Sheriff (Mr. H. L. Gaskell) presided,
and having duly opened the proceeding,,
Mr. HAMERSLEY proposed, an Mr. LECIDIERE
seconded, the nomination of Mr. Henley as a fit
and proper person to serve in Parliament as a
knight of the shire for the county of Oxford.
No other candidate having been proposed, the
right lion gentleman was declared duly electeds and
was girt with a sword in the fashion prescribed.
Mr. HENLEY then addressed the electors, and;
after thankiLg them for the honour which had been
for the sixth time conferred upon him, and accept-
ing the smallness of the attendance as an evidence
of the unanimity felt respecting his re-election, said
—Had this been an ordinary occasion I might per-
haps have been content simply to thank you for
the honour you have done me ; but I feel that this
is no ordinary occasion, and that, I am calved upon
to express to you, and (through the press, which is
here represented) lo such of my constituents as are
absent, what are my opinions ou some of the lead-
bireigaqwuasestteionosf day.oyfotuhretimet o trace (Hear.)
thewouldonly
causes which have brought me here to-day. The
cet anylt length
late Prime Minister, with a majority at his back
wholly unequalled in modern times, for some cause
or other for which it is not very easy to account, SO
played his cards that his majority was net found to
support him when be wanted it. In not a thin
house be was placed in a position which left him no
other choiceas a man of honour than toresign into the
hands of hia Sovereign the trust which she had
given him. Under these circumstances the head of
the party with whom I have had for many years
the honour and plessure of acting was sent for by
her Majesty, and, his friends in the House of Com-
moos having joined in the vote which led to the
overthrow of the late Government, it was not for
him to refuse to endeavour to form a Ministry in
its place. I need not conceal the great diffi-
culties which any Government, coming in under
such circumstances, must necessarily have to en-
counter. I will not pretend to describe to you—
because, from the events of the last six months,
every man throughout this kingdom must be aware
of them—the great anxiety existing in every mind
respecting the state of that mighty empire in India
which the skill, the valour, and the enterprise of
our countrymen have won for us. For the last 100
years it has been one of the most difficult problems
with which English statesmen have had to deal,—
how that vast and growing empire should be best
governed for the interests alike of the people of
India and of this country. Various changes have
at different times been made, all tending to one
point, which naturally was that this great empire
—originally won by a company of British merchants
—should pass quietly and easily, and with as little
disturbance as possible, into the hands of the
Sovereign of England. In point of face, that was
done upwards of 20 years ago, when the virtual
power passed into the Queen's hands ; but, from
circumstances on which it is unnecessary to dwell,
it has been carried on in the name of the East India
Company, they acting as trustees of the Crown.
Now the will of Parliament has beyond doubt
been expressed on that subject. Very little dif-
ference exists either on the part of the house or of
the country that it would be more desirable for the
Government to be carried on directly in the name
of the Queen. Many of us thought, indeed, that
while war was raging it might have been as well
to postpone legislation respecting that empire
until another session. Parliament, however,
and I believe the country at large, thought
it better that, as the question had been mooted,
it should be at once examined and settled.
I do not believe much difference of opinion prevails
as to the general principles upon which that ques-
tion ought to be settled. Some d.fferenee there
undoubtedly will be upon matters of detail. I think,
indeed, that even among those who spoke in sup-
port of the measure of the late Government general
objection seemed to be taken to some or other of
the details. It will then be for the Ministry of
which I am a member to see if, adhering to the
great principle which Parliament has affirmed, they
can submit a measure less objectionable in its details
than the one at present before the House of Com-
mons. That will he no easy task, and will occupy
much of the time of Parliament. I need not tell
you that at this season of the year no small inter-
ruption to public, business has taken place owing to
this change in the Government. It has lost four or
five Government nights at a period of the session
when important financial business is usually trans-
acted—when the estimates regarding the various
branches of the public service are decided upon—
and when the national expenditure is fixed for the
ensuing year. The question which led to the resig-
nation of the late Government and to the stoppage
of pubic business gvew out of one of the most atro-
cious actions whiclt history has ever had to record.
I need not tell you that I refer to the attempt re-
cently made to assassinate the Sovereighn of a
neighbouring country—an attempt not only atro-
'iollB in itself, but rendered doubly so by the reek-
lees cruelty of the zr ieans adopted. With the object
of destroying one roan instruments of destruction
were thrown cloven indiscriminately among hun-
nay
dads, thoueAnds -of innocent moons, towards

whom these people eould not have had the slightest
ground for ill feeling s and,
as generally happens
in these cases, the, parties whom it was wished
to injure escaped,' Wholly untouched, whereas
upwards of one hundred and fifty persons were
either killed or wounded -whom probably there
was not the slightest desire to.injure. Hereupon a
strong feeling naturally arose throughout this coun-
try. It was a cause of regret to us that any human be-
ings should have had the wickedness to attempt any
such act, and these men having found here the asylum
which this country always has, and I believe al-
ways will and ought to afford—(bear)—it was felt
as a still greater misfortune that persons who had
received such great kindness at our hands should
have so abused that kindness' and that hospitality
as to have concocted here sehemes which every
Englishman holds, as I do, in the greatest detesta-
tion and horror. (Hear.) It is, I think, not less
a matter of regret to us that there have been—at
least we have reason to fear there have been—men
have disgraced the name of Englishmen by mixing
up in those,horrible and detestable acts. It is a
matter of the gte stoat possible grief that such men
should have so disgraced their country, because dis-
graee I think we must all feel it to be. Under such
circumstances it is not to be wondered at that our
neighbours on the other aide .of the Channel felt
annoyed and angry at what had taken ,place. A.
correspondence ensued 'between the two Govern-
meets,.in which our owp- was requested to see if
there were any means by wbieh such acts could be
better prevented for the 'future ; but I do regret,
and'l believe the country entertains the same re-
gret, that while taking these steps, and while de-
nouncing the atrocity of the attempt to assassinate
the Emperor, her Majesty's Ministers did not take
care to state at the same time to the French Go-
vernment in firm and deliberate language that under
no circumstances -could they ever interfere with
that asylum which it is our pride to offer to exiles
from every country in the world. (Cheers.) This
asylum I hope will always be maintained ; but if
the result of the trials which are now likely to take
place here of some of the misguided men mixed up
in these transactions should prove, not according
to the opinion of this judge or of that attorney-
general, but by a solemn decision of our courts of
law, that our laws are in any way defective—if it
shalt be seen that those laws do not place foreigners
in this country in the same position as Englishmen,
we must take care that those foreigners, enjoying
the same protection, shall also not be exempt
from the same punishment which Englishmen
under the same circumstances would have to under-
-go. (Cheers.) That, I think, is what we ought
to aim at. Great men in high places entertain
exactly
stands in this
of arriving at a conclusion on the subject when our
judges shall have
particular.
howl
believet h
given
weshall
hei r op inion liave the best means
from the
broth upon cases brought judicially before them ;
and then 1 mistake the temper and the feelings of
my countrymen if they wish that a foreigner resid-
ing in England shall have the power of doing leis-
ch of here or elsewhere without Iseir6 amenable to
those laws which Eeglishmen are expected to obey.
(Hear.) While we regret the abuse of our hospita-
lity (for abuse it is) which these foreigners have
committed, one cannot but feel also that the acts of
these guilty men will have a fatal effect upon the
cause of constitutional government and of liberty
throughout the whole of Europe. Attached as I be-
lieve all Englishmen are to constitutional liberty,
it is impossible for them not to see that the cause of
free government and of liberty has of late gone back
upon the continent. (Hear.) It is impossible not to
see and regret this ; and one must feel that guilty
acts like that of which I have been speaking—acts
not confined to attempted assassination, but embrac-
ing those struggles we have seen made abroad within
the last 10 years—that these, I say, have a strong
tendency to throwback the cause of constitutional
liberty throughout the world. (Hear.) It has been
said by a distinguished personage in this country
that the cause of constitutional government has of
late years been uric( its trial here. I think we
cannot help feeling that this observation is to a
great extent true. Looking back at our history for
the last 200 years, and, observing the struggles we
have gone through, we cannot but see that the
great ends at which we have arrived have been
achieved by prudent, careful revision of our laws
and institutions. I hope the time will never come
when that progress shall tease to be carried on. I
know there is a claptrap kind of question talked
about by meny•seotions ofpoliticiaes, who go about
the country etilling—rhenaiselves this, that, and the
other name ; but -I, for one, have never belonged
to any school of that kind. (Cheers.) lam speak-
ing among those who know me, and I can say that
I have always been one of those who think it bet-
ter to do the m ist good we can with the tools we
have to our hands, than to run about whooping
and hallooing after something else, leaving undone
what ought to be and might be done with the means
already at out disposal. I have been questioned in
this hall during stormier times than the present and
in larger meetings. I have been asked what I would
do upon this or that question, and among the rest
it has been said to me, " What about Reform?" To
that question I have always, before my constituents
or otherwise, given this frank answer when other
men have been in power, "Let me see what they
are going to do, and then I will tell you whether I
will support them or not." That has been the an-
swer I have given here beforeell, and many may re-
member it. Now, I will t
you how I stand on
this question at present. I could not have joined
any Government in which my hands were to be
tied upon that subject. But I feel that the question
is one which has been dangling for some time before
the eyes of the country, which has been put into
the mouth of the Sovereign by several successive
Prime Ministers, though none of those Ministers
have brought any scheme before the country, for I
don't think the most ardent reformer will affirm
that the one or two bills introduced by Lord Joun
Russell 7or 8 years ago, can be call( d schemes of
reform. For this reason, no question having been
brought fairly before the country, I have not felt
in a position to say whether this or that particular
measure should be adopted. But this I may tell you
—that I would not have joined any Government if
I were not able to say to my constituents that I
stand unfettered upon this subject, that I am free
to take into consideration that or any other subject
I please, and that I am at liberty to act respecting
it according to what I think to be for the good of
the country ; and whether the support I receive in
that line of conduct will be small or large, or none
at all, to that I will adhere. This I think is as free
an expression of opinion upon the subject as you can
expect any man in my position to give. I believe
there is not a single person now stsnding before me
who three weeks ago might not have considered he
had as good a chance of being called to the councils of
his Sovereign as I had. (Hear, and a laugh.) Mem-
bers of a party who see 400
gentlemen sitting op-
posite them in the House of
Commons, you may
conceive that about the last thing in the world which
these with whom I have the honour to act could
expect was to be called on to form a Government.
Under these circumstances it was not natural that
the party to which I belong should discuss or consi-
der among themselves any of those great questions,
because we naturally said, "Let us see what Lord
Palmerston is going to bring forward, and then, if
ever he brings forward anything (which was thought
far from an impossibility), it will be quite time
enough for us to discuss it among ourselvev, and to
see whether we can support it altogether, in part,
or oppose it." Ido not know whether there is any
other subject of public importance to which I need
refer. (A. Voice—" How about church-rates I")
You ask me my opinion about church, rates. I don't
believe there is any man among You who does not
know it. (Laughter.) However, that is no reason
why you should not have it over again. Now, I
will tell you. I believe that out of about 12,000
parishes
in England, between 9,000 and 10,000 pay
church-rates, their own open vestries, where every
ratepayer has a right to vote, agreeing so to pay
them. Now, I have never heard any reason ad-
vanced why, if the vestries choose to agree upon
the rate after full discussion, Parliament should
take from those 9,000 odd parishes that which they
have always had the right of voting beyond the me-
mory of man. (A Voice—" But the rich man has
six votes and the poor man one.") As to the other
2,500 parishes, they, following their own will, as
pronounced in open vestry, do not pay church-
rates. Well, now I really don't think it is very easy
to put things on a better footing. In this countrywe
are bound by majorities. .All parishes are just in the
same position. Those who like to have church-
rates pay them, and those who don't like them
don't pay them. But then I have something to
say upon this subject. I inherited my estate,
and my father bought his estate subject to
these payments provided the rated inhabitants
If church-rates were to be
chose to levy them.
done away with by law that money would go into
my pocket. (Hear, and laughter.) Every tenant
when he comes to take a farm says, " What are the
rates and taxes and the rent ?" Generally speaking
he asks for the amount of the rates the first thing.
is ape-
s are less the rout will
Now of course if the rate
t;
be more—(laughter)—and, therefore tha
induced 1110 tO ACC no xenon
tiler thing which has

EAST SUFFOLK.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
The vacancy which was occasioned in the repre-
sentation of the Eastern division of Suffolk by the
acceptance of the office of her MajestY's Attorney-
General by Sir F. Kelly was supplied on Saturday
last by the re-election of that hon. and lamed
gentleman without opposition.
The elections for the division - of this county are
usually conducted on the large open space known
as the Corn-hill, in front of the Town-hall of Ips-
wich,
and no exception to the ordinary custom was
observed upon this occasion, although a biting east
wind prevailed, and the snow fell with unrelenting
perseverance during the greater part of the pro-
ceedings.
A hustings, however, had been rapidly run up,
and some protection was thus afforded against the
inclemency of the -weather. A large group of la-
bourers and others had assembled in front of this
erection ; but the absence of opposition deprived
the proceedings of that spirit which characterises a
contested election.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, accompanied by a considerable
body of his more ardent supporters, who had met
him about half-way between his residence at Chan-
trey and the town, and had escorted him thence
o'clock,
when Ipswich, arrived at the hustings at 10
when the proceedings were at once opened under
the presidency of Mr. P. R. Burrell, the !high
sheriff.
The ordinary formalities having been observed,
Mr. SCHRIEBER proposed, and Mr. BARTHROPP
seconded, the nomination of Sir F. Kelly, the for-
mer observing that in his opinion the hon. and
learned gentleman would be the " right man in
the right place," and the latter that Sir Fitzroy
Kelly had always voted in a manner satisfactory to
the constituency of East Suffolk.
No other candidate having been proposed,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared Sir F. Kelly to be
duly elected, an annoiancement which elicited loud
cheers from the assemblage.
The Hon. and Learned ATTORNEY-GENERAL then
proceeded to address his audience in nearly the fol-
lowing terms:—Amid the inclemencies of this March
morning, to which your patriotism or your kindness
has exposed you I Inuit begin by offering you my
sincere and grateful thanks for the high distinction
which you have now, for the fourth time, conferred
upon me. Considering that, when I first ventured
to present myself among you I was comparatively a
stranger to you all, having no direct claims upon
your suffrages; considering also that since you did
me the honour of returning me as your representa-
tive the incessant public occupations in which I have
been engaged have prevented me enjoying that
association and that frequency of intimate commu-
nication with you all which I had myself so anxiously
desired, I feel that it cannot be to any merits of my
own that I can ascribe this oft-repeated kindness on
your part; it can only be that in my public conduct I
have faithfully represented your principles, your
opinions, and your feelings •, and to that I owe the
kindness, the cordiality, and the unanimity with
which you have once more declared me your-repre-
sentative, and for which I have now again sincerely
and heartily to thank you. (Cheers.) My worthy
friend who has seconded-my nomination has alluded
to the votes which I have given in the House of
I Commons in your behalf,. and it is perhaps fit-that
at the outset of bhis"txty address I aghculd allude to
the last and most • important vote which has of late
years been given in Parliament, and to which may
be ascribed my appearance among you at this
moment in that position to which the unmerited
favour of the Crown has lately raised me. You all
know that by a resolution of the House of Com-
mons the late Ministry has been dissolved. I was
a party to that resolution, and you have a fair
right to expect that, appearing here once more to
solicit your confidence and support, I should lay
before you the reasons which justify the vote
that I have given, and should satisfy you that
I have done my duty as your representative.
(Cheers.) In alluding, as I must do, with some
reserve, to that important question, permit me to
siy that no man in this country feels more deeply
than I do the high importance of an amicable, a
permanent, and a firm alliance with the neighbour-
ing country of France, our connexion with which
was supposed—and not incorrectly supposed—to
be involved in that resolution of the House of
Commons. (Cheers.) Believing, as I do, that the
peace of the world depends upon the maintenance
of peace between France and England; believing,
as I do, that those peaceful relations cannot be
maintained unless an intimate confidence and com-
munion of national objects and sentiments subsist
between the Emperor of that country and those
who conduct the affairs of Government in this, I
own that I should look with great sorrow—l will
not say with alarm, but with great regret—on any
occurrence of a public nature which should for a
moment threaten the permanence and stability of
those peaceful relations. It may be that the French
people have not the advantage of enjoying the same
free institutions in which we justly glory in this
great country ; it may be that the form of Govern-
ment in France is not that of which we approve, or
to whicli, as Englishmen and English habits and
English sentiments, we should think it right to
submit; but that is a consideration belonging exclu-
sively to the people of that great country (hear) ;
and if they are satisfied with the form of Govern-
ment and the institutions under which they live, we
have no right even to comment on, far less to criti-
cise or assail, the character of those institutions. It
is enough that we have fought side by side with the
brave soldiers of that country ; it is enough that
the Emperor of that country has been the firm, the
faithful, the unflinching and unyielding ally of Eng-
land to induce us as Englishmen, true to the char-
acter which belongs to us, to do our best to main-
tain that alliance, and to render those peaceful
relations which now forso manyyears have subsisted
between these two mighty nations permanent and
stable to the end of time. But, having felt bound
to make these few observations upon our relations
with France, permit me briefly to allude to
the circumstances under which I now appear
before you, and which have led to the dissolution
of the late Government. You know that at an
early period of the present session of Parliament a
bill was introduced for altering and rendering more
severe the law in respect to conspiracies to murder.
It has been thought, and .1 do not hesitate to say
that I was of that opinion, that, whatever may be
the merits or demerits of that bill, it was introduced
into the House of Commons, and sought, as it were,
to be forced upon the Parliament of this country,
at a most inopportune period, and under circum-
stances calculated to alarm the jealous feeling of na-
tional honour which I trust will never cease to per-
vade the bosoms of Englishmen. (Loud cheers.) I
would say more upon this subject—l would fear-
lessly and frankly attlmpt, to the best of my ability,
to vindicate the course which has been taken by the
political party with which I am proud to be asso-
ciated; but I must venture to remind you that under
the law of political conspiracies, or of conspiracies to
commit crime, as it now exists in this country, some
two or three persons are at this moment charged
with a criminal offence, and are about to be put
upon their trial. Holding as I do, under the fa-
vour of my Sovereign, the position of the first law
officer of the Crown, it will be my duty to taket_e
the leading part in that prosecution, and, as
representative of the Government, to put the
representative
men upon their trial. I feel that I
under
these cir•
address you
cumstances you will pardon me if
with reserve, or even if I feel it necessaryto taomat
emain-
tainr entire silence upon all that relates
which will come under consideration
of meh who
justice, affecting the personal safety in a court of
are put upon their trial. under the laws of this
country. (Hear.) Permit me, then, for the pre-
sent to remain silent on all else that relates to that
important subject, and to pass at once to other
questions in which you, in common with the rest of
your countrymen, take a public interest. (Cheers.)
The Government with which I have the honour
to be associated hare many arduous and d 4.