The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-13 00:00:00

GATESHEAD.

Our correspondent has sent us a full report of Mr. Rippon's
speech at a public dinner given to him at the Half Moon,
Gateshead, in commemoration of his election. We have only
room for the following extracts
" So long as the late Ministers hesitated from carrying into
effect the Bill for Reform—so long as they abstained from per-
forming that duty for which they were appointed, they were
honoured with the Royal sufferance—but the moment that they
evince a determination to be honest to the people, they re-
ceived a brief dismissal from office. Now, gentlemen, I main-
tain that the power placed in the hands of the Sovereign
should be used by him, merely to preserve a unity of opinion
between the people and his advisers ;-a Ministerial defeat in
the House of Commons, or the superior force of an adverse
party in that House, confesses at all times to the Monarch, that
the measures of his councillors are such as meet not the views
of the nation declared by a majority of their representatives;
but if the Ministers arc to be dismissed merely to please
the whim of one man, to gratify personal partiality, or
private humour, or satisfy the vengeance of a tyrannous
oligarchy, then see the position in which a statesman
would be placed ; he must no longer seek to retain office
by the power of public approbation, but by pandering
to the extravagance of a Prince, the licentiousness of a
Court, the rapacity of a Church, and to the needy cravings of
Royal parasites. Ile must be the creature of the Court. He
must be their minion, and not your servant—he must propitiate
his masters by the betrayal of your interests--he must no
longer regard public favour, but maintain his position by place
and power, plunder and a pension-list. Such in my opinion
must be the effects of proceedings such as have lately taken
place; but of this fact let our rulers be assured, the people will
obtain their rights—they will have cheap and good govern-
ment, with equal laws to all : they seek to obtain them by
peaceful reform ; but if they are withheld by fraud or power,
they or their children will wring them from the hands of those
who withhold them by that other means than reform, which no
man can mention without shuddering—l mean by revolutionary
force. Reports are abroad that in the event of the new Par-
liament not being pliant to Tory purpose, that they will again
be dissolved. I will not give ear for one moment to so mon-
strous a notion. No monarch can be so weak, no councillors so
treacherous, as to venture on so fatal a course, which would
probably ensure the destruction of the peerage and the throne.
His Majesty has required your advice. You have tendered it to
him through me, your representative. Would he dare to tell
his people that they had been treacherous to themselves
in the choice of their delegates, and that he commanded them
to revise their choice ? If so, let every constituency who are
satisfied with their members, command them remaining in the
neighbourhood of Westminster until they had again made re-
turn to the new writs, and thus thanking his Majesty for his
kind opportunity of re-considering their late resolve, tell him
that they had no intention to reverse it. But how would the
supplies be furnished during this interregnum of discussion
between the Crown and the people ? Not one shilling would
be suffered to pass from the public treasury, and then another
point must be settled, seeing that the present prerogative may
be used to the injury of those who confided it, it will be proper
to impose a further limit upon its exercise ; thus abridging
the power which was delegated for the public welfare, and em-
ployed for the common injury. But I scout the very notion of
such infatuation. I know that our King has a truly British
feeling, and I pray that he may seek his guidance in the an-
swer to his present appeal, and not regard the interested whis-
perings of a rapacious and fanatical Court."

HELSTON (CORNWALL.)
The election for this borough took place on Thursday, ,tviien
Lord James Townsend, the nominee of the Duke of Leeds,
was elected without opposition. The Reformers in this place
have been shamefully inactive. Helston is still a close borough;
but all that is wanted to open it is a Liberal candidate at the
next election.

CAMBRIDGE (COUNTY). __NOMINATION_
The nomination for this county took place on Monday.
There are four candidates—namely, Mr. Childers and Mr.
Townley (Reformers, and lately its Representatives), the
Hon. Mr. Yorke, and Mr. Eaton, the former, brother of Lord
Hardwicke, a thorough-paced Tory,:and the latter a young sa-
dier, of the Wellington school of politics.
The contest, it is rumoured, is expected to be between Mr.
Townley and Mr. Eaton, the Conservatives deeming their best
chance of success to be, to make a run against the former
gentleman.

- Mr. PATON proposed Mr. Townley.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HAWKINS seconded the nomination.
Mr. C. SMITH proposed Mr. Childers.--(Cheers.)
Mr. PRYOR seconded the nomination.
Colonel PEMBERTON proposed the Hon. EdMnira Yorke.
Mr. GinmEsToN, of Ipswich, seconded the domination.
Mr. PAGE, of Ely, proposed Richard Jefferson Eaton, Esq.
Mr. BALLS seconded the nomination.
The Rev. Mr. MABERLY proposed Lord Charles Somerset
Manners.—(Groans.)
No one seconding the nomination,
Mr. TOWNLEY stood forw'ard, and said, he had pleasure,
when they last elected lalm, in acting with the reform Mi-
nistry, because found them pursuing a course calculated
to save
t/:.-e institutions of the country from destruction.—
(147,-u, hear.) He could not but speak with great respect of
Lord Grey.—( Hear.) He should be inconsistent, should ho
be returned to Parliament, were he to say he would support
the present Government—( Ilear)—because, when in the last
Parliament, he saw, while sitting on the Opposition Benches,
the course they were pursuing.—( Hear, hear ! and " They
are enemies of all reform !") Those now in power did not
possess the principles consonant to the times. He would not
say he doubted their sincerity ; but he would say, that they
are not the men to support reform.—( Cries of " Bravo !")
Their ideas of reform and his did not at all agree.—( Hear,
hear, and cries of, " They must go out.") His family was
interested in the Church ; but he most earnestly prayed that
the first Bill which should be brought into Parliament would
be for the settlement of tithes, believing it to be essential to
the interests of the people and of the Church itself.
Mr. CHILDERS expressed his regret that the late Ministry
had been dissolved.—( Cries of " The Queen.") The late
Ministers, during the last four years, had done much good;
they had latterly discovered, he was sorry to say, that thero
was disunion in the late Government ; and much as he re-
spected the talents of Mr. Stanley, he was bound to say he
was glad that that individual had left the Government.--
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Hon. Candidate then pro-
ceeded to observe on the circumstances which were alleged t
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have induced the King to dismiss the Reform intr4 that
ay, and!
proceeded to observe, with regard to Sir Robert
that individual was always in a false position; he was in
false position on the Catholic Question.—(Cries
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f Commons, his (Mr. Childers's) belief was, that instead of
doing much, he would do nothing for the country—( Hear,
hear)—for the Corporations and Aristocracy would then say,
_ We have now a Conservative House, and will not submit to
further measures of reform."—( Hear and cheers.)
The Honourable Mr. YORKE then presented himself, and
proceeded to remark that it had pleased his Majesty to dismiss
the late Ministers for the desertion of those duties which they
owed to him and their country. —( Great groaning.) He would
give them from print the character of Lord Brougham of the
late Parliament—( Great groaning)--and he thought what
appeared in print more worthy of credit than mere assertions.
—( Cries of " No, no.") He was about to speak of their own
oracle, their own idol, who was now trampled in the dust—
( Loud groaning, and cries of, " We'll not hear you.")
Mr. EATON said, should he be sent to Parliament, he would
go there convinced that the agricultural interest was not half
represented. —( Hear, hear.) He would not long detain them.
Should he be sent to Parliament, he assured them he would
ever be b. friend of the rights of the people—( Cheers)—and
farther, that one of his Arst votes would be for a commutation
of the tithe system.—( Cheers.)
The HIGH SHERIFF then proceeded to take the show of
hands, which he declared to have fallen on Mr. Townley, Mr.
Yorke, and Eaton.
Upon which, Mr. Childers demanded a poll, which will
commence on Thursday.

HANTS ( SOUTH.)
Public anxiety here is rising to an almost painful degree.
The return of Lord Palmerston will be hailed by the Reformers
as a glorious omen, and his defeat will be looked upon by the
Conservatives as the greatest triumph they have yet achieved.
As the struggle approaches, both parties appear to work on
with double ardour and energy. They seem as if they had
set their political lives on this cast, and were determined in-
trepidly to stand the hazard of the die. But Palmerston shall
go coute qui coute, say the Tories : " Out I will not go," says
his Lordship. His friends back him well, feeling that he de-
serves their support. It will be all they can do, however, to
pull him in ; for a more detestable system of " forcing " sup-
port was never yet heard of. Landlord influence is constantly
appealed to ; and when this fails of effect, hints of a most
ungenerous character, but such as can very well be understood,
are very freely dropped. Decency and propriety, fair dealing
and honest principle, seem to be completely abandoned. The
intimidation which has been practised in this district, not
merely with reference to the county, but in regard also to the
borough elections, must, I think, of necessity, come before
Parliament. It has been of the most flagrant description.
Still, I think we have strength enough to put Palmerston and
Staunton at the head of the poll.

CA RNARVON (BOROUGHS).
SATURDAY.—Throughout the whole day the polling has
dragged slowly on, owing to the administration of the bribery
oath and other oaths--sometimes in English and sometimes in
both English and Welch—to every elector as he came up.
This was done by the friends of the Reform candidate, in
order to consume the prescribed hours, and thus to counteract
the arbitrary influence so assiduously and so successfully em-
ployed by the Tories. Such a state of things is humiliating
in the extreme, and calls aloud for some measure of relief.
Colonel Parry, the Liberal candidate, has a majority of 33 on
the aggregate poll of the associated boroughs, and he will be
returned on Monday.

CA.RNARVON ( COUNTY).
Mr. Madocks, the unsuccessful Reform candidate in the
Denbighshire boroughs, is spoken of as a probable competitor
with Mr. Assheton Smith, for the representation of Carnar-
vonshire. The election will be on Tuesday.

DURHAM (SOUTHERN DIVISION).
There are rumours that a Tory is to be started, in opposi-
tion to Mr. Pease and Mr. Bowes, but nothing certain is yet
known.

DURHAM ( CITY).
Thursday was the nomination day. The show of hands
was in favour of Mr. Harland and Mr. Grainger, the Reform
candidates ; but fears are still entertained that the London-
derry interest may put in Mr. Trevor, the Tory.

ST. IVES ( CORNWALL).
Mr. liaise has been returned without having been opposed.
He professes to be a Reformer, yet is designated a Tory ; and
I believe the latter appellation to be the most appropriate ; in
proof of which he has been marshalling all his forces to sup-
port Lord Boscawen in the Western division of the county, in
opposition to that tried friend of the people, Mr. Pendarves.
The election for the Eastern division of the county will take
place on Monday, and that for the Western division on Tues-
day. There is no contest in the former, but the struggle in
the latter will be severe.

HANTS-(NORTH.)