The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-20 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE (COUNTY).

MONDAY, JAN. 19.—The High Sheriff (Richard Hud
dleston; Esq.), at a little after 12 o'clock, appeared on the
hustings, on Parker's-piece, and the necessary forms having
been gone through, declared that the election had fallen on
Eliot Thomas Yorke, Esq., Richard Jefferson Eaton, Esq.,
and Richard Greaves Townley, Esq. Loud and enthu-
siastic cheers followed the announcement of Mr. Townley's
name,

Mr. YORKE then stood forward, and was received with
mingled cheers and interruptions. He regretted extremely
the badness of the day, as unfavourable to the celebration
of so great a triumph as the county had achieved on the
present occasion—(Loud groans and cheers)—but he never-
theless congratulated the county on the gallant opposition
which it had, in the contest for that triumph, offered to the
republican doctrines which were lately attempted to be
forced on the country.—(Cries of " No, no," and much
groaning 9

Mr. EATON then stood forward, and was received with
loud interruptions,' mingled with cheers. Now that the'po-
Utica' contest in which they had been engaged was at an
end, he hoped they would publish the protocol of peace.
—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. TOWNLEY (who was received with loud cheers)
then came forward. As a supporter of the late Govern-
ment, he felt bound to state that he had no confidence in
the newly formed Administration now holding the reins
of government. In the meantime he expressed his per-
fect readiness to co-operate with those gentlemen who
were now his colleagues, in support of every measure cal-
culated to benefit, not only that county, but the country in
general. He would not, he was bound to state, from any
factious or party motives. oppose any good measure which
might be proposed by the present Administration.—(Ap-•
plause.)
Mr. HAWKINS then returned thanks in the name of his
excellent friend Mr. Childers, who was absent.
The business having terminated, Messrs. Yorke and
Eaton were chaired through the town.
Mr. Townley and the friends of Reform who supported
him, amongst whom were George Pryme, Esq., M. P.,
Henry Gunning, Esq., Julien Skrime, Esq., George Ash-
ton, Esq., Ebenezer Foster, Esq„ &c. &c., dined together
in the evening at the Red Lion, where the Hon. Member's
committee sat during the election.

EDINBURGH COUNTY ELECTION,

DECLARATION OF VOTES.
The crowd assembled this day (Jan. 17) at noon, in front
of the hustings, was no less numerous than on the previous
days. Sir George Clerk, the fortunate candidate, and Mr.
William,Gibson Craig, took their places on the hustings a
few minutes before twelve o'clock, and were received with
immense cheering by their respective parties.
The SHERIFF (Duff) declared Sir George Clerk elected
Member of Parliament for the county.
Sir G. CLERK stood forward, but could not obtain a
hearing.
Mr. GIBSON CRAIG entreated that Sir George should
be heard, otherwise the party who supported him (Sir
George) might endeavour to prevent any hearing on the
opposite side. The noise and clamour, however, still con-
tinued, and Sir George proceeded to address the crowd,
but he was heard only by those who were close to the hus-
tings. He said—Gentlemen, I congratulate my friends on
the success which has attended their exertions in the cause,
which is their's equally with mine. I congratulate my friends
also on the general result of the elections that have been
taking place in England, which shows that the Govern-
ment will be supported by many of those who, like your-
selves, have always been the firm and consistent friends of
reform. I trust that
,the whole country will be inclined
to give us a fair trial, and I have no doubt, that when
the heat and excitement has passed by—when the pre-
judices that exist against us be dispelled, that you—
the electors of Edinburgh—who are now opposed to us
will give a verdict in our favour.—(Hear, hear.) Let me
address one word to the citizens of Edinburgh, to those of
them who are not immediately connected with the county,
who form so large a proportion of the meeting. I appeal
to your liberality if you should not allow your brethren of
the county the same liberty of choosing their representa-
tive as you had in choosing your's ? They have done so ;
and I ask you have they not a right to their choiee of a
Representative ? Although I am the Representative of
the county, I beg to state to the citizens of Edinburgh that
they will find me—although many of them differ from me in
general political questions—ready to promote every mea-
sure that can conduce, in my estimation, to their happiness
and the prosperity of the city.
Mr. Wst. GIBSON CRAIG was received with tremendous
and long-continued cheering. He said, Gentlemen, my
honourable opponent bas said that ho congratulates himself
and his supporters in the victory, as indicative of the con-
fidence of this county
.on the views and measures of the
present Administration. I am always unwilling to enter
into topics which may be disagreeable, in any degree, to
any man ; but I feel myself bound, both for the sake of
the party to which I belong, and regard to the county and
the country at large, to explain in some degree how the
election has been lost.—(Hear.) My hon. opponent has
boasted of his triumph in the county, his triumph in a majo-
rity of 28.--(Cheers.) Thirty-one votes are apparently in his
favour ; but as three of those votes were given by gentlemen
who had no right to vote—(Cheers), his majority against me
on the old roll of the paper voters, is .57 ; but of the new,
and which is the real constituency of the county, there is a
real majority in my favour.—(Hurrah.) If you are also to
deduct the number of voters that have been made in Dal-
keith by properties being purchased by those who are not
connected with the county, and some of them by the ser-
vants of a certain establishment, I say that the majority in
my favour of the real constituency is still greater.—(Great
applause.) But, Gentlemen, I beg you to recollect the
manner in which I came'forward on this occasion. When
I started, the canvass had been going on for three weeks.
—(A cry of " Two years.") Preparations had been mak-
ing for it on the other side for two years previous, as was
observed by some of my friends in the crowd ; while, until
the day I commenced, not one vote had been asked, nor
one arrangement of any description made, by me or my
friends. The next day after I started, a requisition ap-
peared, with 480 signatures attached to it, calling on Sir
George Clerk to come forward, as an active canvass had
already commenced against him.—(Hear, hear.) Now,
every man of those names had been obtained to this re-
quisition before any canvass had commenced, and many
of them on the positive assurance that there was to be
no canvass at all—no opposition to Sir George ; and
many of them on the assurance that in signing that requisi-
tion, they were not pledging themselves to vote for the Hon.
Gentleman, and other misrepresentations were made of a
like nature ; and altogether I cannot help saying that I
consider the proceeding in such a way most unfair towards
the constituency thus to have their votes entrapped. To
what extent, then, does the triumph of my hon. opponent
go ? You, gent: emen, are aware, also, of the immense in-
fluence in this county which has• been working against me ;
and you are aware that not the most unscrupulous use has
been made of that influence.—(Cheering, and cries of
" Bribery and corruption !") Public-houses have been
opened in almost every village, and night after night, scenes
of intemperance have been exhibited, which could not be
beheld but with feelings of pity and disgust. This course
of proceeding, 1 have objected to on every occasion. There
was no precedent for it at the last election of my Hon.
friend Sir John Dalrymple; and 1 have not followed the
example set down by my opponents on this occasion.—
(Cheering.) You are well aware that the moral character
of the people in this country is one of the greatest boasts
in Scotland ; and I hope that I never shall by any means
do any act which shall endanger their morality. Mr. Craig
retired amidst immense cheering.
A vote of thanks was then given to the Sheriff, who re-
plied, when the assemblage dispersed With the utmost
quietness

WRECK OF A FISHING SMACK. For some
weeks past considerable fears were entertained for the safety
of the Thomas -and Caroline, a fishing-smack belonging to
Barking. About eight weeks ago she
sailed from the Creek
for the Dutch coast, commanded by John Bowers, her owner,
and eight persons, four men and four boys, on board. In con-
sequence of her not returning in the usual time, and nothing
being heard of her, it was generally feared that she had been
wrecked, and that her crew had perished. These fears have
within a few days been confirmed, as a part of her stores were
picked up on the coast of Holland, and there is no doubt as
to her total wreck. Mr. Bowers, the captain and owner, 11;s
left a wife and four children to deplore his loss, and the other
four men on board have left 12 other children, who, with their
mothers, were solely dependant on them for their .support,
fatherless.