The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-20 00:00:00

Guildford Election.

GUILDFORD, Wednesday.
Tho official declaration of the poll was made yesterdaY
morning at twelve o'clock.
Mr. Garth, Q.C., the successful candidate, and his opPo-
nent, Mr. Pocock, were both present, and the former wee
loudly cheered by his supporters upon his entering the
hall. The proceedings, however, were much more orderly
and quiet than on the day of the nomination.
Mr. P. W. JACOB (the mayor) announced the numbers
polled for each candidate to be as follows :—For Mr. Garth,
339 ; for Mr. Pocock, 301 ; majority for Mr. Garth, 38"
(Great cheering.) Ho therefore declared Mr. Garth to he
duly elected to represent the borough of Guildford in the
present Parliament. (Renewed cheering.)
Mr. GARTH then briefly addressed the electors, thanking
them for the honour they had done him by returning hill:
to Parliament as their representative. He also thanked
his opponent and his supporters for the very fair mariner
in which they had conducted the contest, and for thor
endeavours to make it a fair fight. (Hear, hear.)
could not, however, help considering that the Conserve-
tive electors of the borough had achieved a very great
triumph on the present occasion, and he did not attri-
bute any of the merit to himself, but to their attachment
to the great cause of Conservatism with which he was asso-
ciated and which he had the honour to represent. (Cheers')
The hon. member then repeated that the fight on the Pre-
sent occasion had been fought as a fight should be on both
sides, fairly and honestly. (Hear, hear.) In conclusion 311.'
Garth said that he considered the trust that had been re-
posed in him a most sacred one, and he assured them that
he should use his best endeavours to repay the confidence
that had been placed in him by devoting his best energieS
to their service. (Cheers.)
Mr. POcOCK also briefly addressed the electors, and dis-
claimed entertaining views favourable to universal suffrage]
and said that in this respect he had been very much nits
represented by his opponents on the present occasion.
A resolution of thanks to the Mayor closed the proceed
•
ings.

A FARMER OF HISTORIC NOTE.—A farmer'
named Rolfe, has just died at Beaconsfield, at an advanced
age, about whom a passing word is but justiceto
aid
of
memory. This Mr. Rolfe was son of the farm bailiff,
the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, and had been the original
of the famous picture, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, of
Infant Hercules." Mr. Jesse, in his " Favourite ',Taunts'
recounting his visit to Beaconsfield in 1845, thus refer,
to the circumstance :—" Mr. Rolfe's mother-in-10'4
writes Mr. Jesse, " told me a circumstance that I /V3A-
little prepare.' to hear—it was the fact that her g°°-,i
honest, and portly son-in-law, whom I saw before me,
been the very infant whom Sir Joshua Reynolds took ag
the model of his well-known picture of The Infant
cules.' The infant's father was the farm bailiff of 101::
Burke, with whom he was an especial favourite, thile
e'.
great man in his happier days frequently coming to
cottage, sometimes eating potatoes roasted in the ember:
of a wood fire, and once trying the merits of a rook
jackdaw pie, or rather a mixture of both." Sir Joshua BO;
nolds, it seems, when visiting at Burke's, happened
to s e
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the infant Rolfe sprawling on the grass, and was Wee!,
with the look of strength the child possessed, and be tin
him for his model of the demi-god, all powerful eV° 11-6
his tenderest years. Rolfe did not belie the opinion '2i to
painter. He grew up a very strong and stalwart 113314,305,
so he appeared even in his old age, when he was fau'ilieife
known to the last as the " Infant Hercules." r'
t° ()tbe
lived in a snug farm close to Beaconsfield and ed
statesman's favourite spot, " Burke's Grove," and he
to receive strangers visiting his cottage very courteously
and would show them sundry relics of the Burke fanliii•
Among other curiosities he would, with great prides es .1,1
bit a dagger, which he maintained was the;identical
that Mr. Burke threw down in the House of Conam°l3s. of
THE OXFORD RIFLE CORPS.—A large nuniber„se
the members of the Oxford Rifle Corps dined together y
of
terday afternoon in the town-hall, under the presideoa t7O
their commanding officer Capt. Parsons. With the viefsgtho
bring the dinner within the means of every Inomba ° v
corps, the officers, and other friends of the volunteer nil,
ment contributed largely towards the entertainment' earl,
liberal supply of game was given by the Duke of ce
borough (the Lord Lieutenant of the county). 'lie b-ia-
and many other distinguished persons, who had bcerl rico
vited to the banquet, were unable to attend in consecluecob
of previous engagements. Among the guests were
North, M.P., Mr. Spiers (the mayor), and most of the
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cers of the corps. -
GLOOM ..
Y WINTER PROSPECT AT GREENOCK'
the stoppage of a shipbuilder in Greenock, whose difnellth
ties have arisen from the losses of a French house wl
which he is connected, no fewer than 2,000 menhav° been
thrown idle; and 50 men lately employed in the follll`-1
of this builder, and upwards of 200 hands recently enag::,
with another shipbuilder having been paid off, there
2,250 men unemployed in the town. This calamity, {ole
lowing so immediately after the return to work of tile
shipbuilders from their strike, which resulted in their 5Ci
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cepting the former terms, presents an alarming prospect
severe privation during the winter months.