The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-31 00:00:00

STATE OF THE POLLS.

COMBINED COUNTIES OF ROSS AND CROMARTY.
Mr. Mackenzie of Seaforth (a Reformer) is returned by a ma-
jority of 41 over Mr. Mackenzie of Applecross. This ►s the last
of the Scotch elections, with the single exception of Orkney, where
Mr. Traill (also a Reformer) is secure.
At the close of the Poll for Ross and Cromarty the numbers
stood thus.
Mr. Mackenzie of Seaforth had a majority at Stornoway of 51
At Tain
At Janetown _ _ _

He was in a minor:ty at Ullapool of
At Dingwall
At Cromarty

Majority for Mr. Mackenzie of Seaforth
••• 41

BRIGHTON.

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A King's messenger arrived here on Thursday with de-
spatches for Sir Herbert Taylor, which were immediately laid
before his Majesty. The communications of late between the
King and his confidential advisers have been very frequent.
Thursday forenoon the King gave audience to Rear-Admiral
Sir William Parker and Captain Sir Henry Duncan, after
which his Majesty drove out on the road to Shoreham, accom-
panied by his daughter, Lady de Lisle.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince George, Earl Howe,
Miss D'Este, styli Miss Hope Johnstone, drove to the entrance
of the ct•iz-.:n Pier, where her Majesty and attendants alighted
4,4 walked for some time. Lady Mary Fox, Miss Bsgot,
Lord De Lisle, and several of the Court party joined her Ma-
jesty in her promenade.
The Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss WyLfard,
drove out in the course of the afternoon. Her Royal -Highness
is now convalescent.
The, dinner invitations to the Palace -yesterday were con-
fined to the following personages : --Sir Charles and Lady
Ogle, General Sir Charles ar.l.t Miss Dalbiac, Captain Sir
Henry Duncan, Rear- Admiral Sir William Parker, Baron.
Ompteda, and Sir James and Lady Whitshed.
Baron Ornpteck took his departure on Friday afternoon for
town. }l4 Ekceilency is a great favourite at the Palace.
kriaengst the latest arrivals are Viscount and Viscountess
Beresford, Sir Charles and Miss Dalbiac, Lieutenant-Colonel
Mair, and Lieut.=General Sir Thomas Montressor.
There is every reason to suppose that the Court will return
to St. James's Palace on the 23d of next month, where their
Majesties will sojourn for about three weeks, and then proceed
to Windsor.

The Grand Falconer will, it is said, shortly exhibit his
hawks here. His Grace last year delighted the lovers of fal-
conry on more than one occasion during his sojourn at Brighton.
The Countess of Winterton is about to give another grand
ball at her residence on the Parade ; the day is not yet fixed.
Several more entertainments are on the tapis.

NOTTINGHAM JUNIOR COUNCIL

ELECTION.

(From a Second Edition of the Nottingham Review.)
The town of Nottingham has this week been the scene of a
contest which has excited greater interest than any corporate
election for many years. The turn has been given to it on the
long mooted question of an enclosure, or appropriation of the
common fields of the town. Notice was given on Friday last,
in the usual manner, by the crier, that on Monday the elector,
would take place ; and on Saturday, a hand-bill, bealt„g the
Town Clerk's signature, was published, annour,,eing that
bribery was an offence punishable by law.
The circumstance,that no candidate would bffered of po-
litical opinions in accordance with thou,. ottb-e majority of the
electors of Nottingham, and he,th the annwanced candidates be-
ing of Conservative polities, both of Ole same Profession (the
law), and both young men of ',amines well known in Notting-
laaira, caused considerable interest.
On Monday forenoon, by nine o'clock, the doors of the
Town-hall were opened, and the burgesses began to assemble ;
at a quarter before tell o'clAok Mr. Parsons and his friends ar-
rived, and too){ their• place on the bench on the left hand of the
ohf4l a jw minutes afterwards, Mr. Percy and his friends
entered the hall, and were loudly heered, taking their station
on the right hand side of the bench, the place Wing imme-
diately completely crowded.
Mr. SAMUEL ROBERTS,
.30,„,, proposed Mr. William Par-
sons, and was seowicci Mr. Edward Gregg, solicitor.
Eirl. proposed Mr. Edmund Percy ; Dr. J. M.
B. Pigot, seconded the nomination.
The question was then put to a show of hands, which the
Mayor declared to be in favour of Mr. Percy.
A poll was demanded, and was,incact
pios with directly ; the
votes for Mr, p too sCPIA ilgoa:nao Kodominant, and before
noon the. FOCA cu '4 O. wasp increased to los. a vote. At
t6iPo'ao,c4 the pea was adjetirimi.
FRIDAY, FAVTH AND LAST DAY.—This morning the polling

was feeb!e, during four hours not 100 presenting themselves to
vote. The burgesses from Birmingham and Worcester were
brought up, the farmer for Parsons, and the others for Mr.
Percy ; there were also individual electors from Castle Don-
nington, Chesterfield, and many market towns and villages of
all the adjoining counties, as well as from Derby, Leietester,
Loughborough, Mansfield, &c. Several members of the'•So-
ciety of Friends voted also for Mr. Percy, whose majority
kept constantly and progressively increasing, and at one o'clock'
he vats 81. a. head of his opponent.
At half-past one o'clock. at the time that many or the peo-
ple were at dinner, Mr. W. Parsons entered the hall, and ap-
prised the Mayor that he declined all further contest, express-
ing himself courteously to the successful candidate for the
manner in which he had conducted the contest.
The numbers were the summed up, when it appeared that
99 had voted this day; 31 for Mr. Parsons, and 68 for Mr.
Percy, making the total number of 2,793 burgesses polled.
The numbers were declared to be—

Percy
Parsons
Majority for Percy -- 81
The oaths of office, and of supremacy and abjuration were
then administered to Mr. Edmund Percy, and the declaration
under the repeal of the test act, after which he received the
congratulations of his friends, and was loudly cheered on leav-
ing the hall.

.11r. E. PERcY appeared at the window of the Barley %ow
Tavern, 'and congratulated the burgesses on the triumph they
had achieved.

At two o'clock the bol's of St. Peter's rang a mean peal to
announce the termination of a contest, which it is ;aid has cost
from 4,000/. to 5,0001.

RICHMOND (YORKSEIRE).

We have been here in all the hustle of a contested election,
I mean the North Riding—trainers, music, shouting, and fight-
ing. The Iriumph of the Reform party was most marked and
decisive. At the last election Mr. Duncombe's majority over
his Whig opponent was more than 1,500, which induced Von
and his party to believe that they could easily bring in a se-
cond man. They accordingly hunted out a Mr. James Walker,
of Sandhutton, near York, a young man who had an abound-
ing Toryisth, and a large fortune to recommend I:lb.r. : nothing
else was wanting, but mark the result. Mr. Duncombe's ma-
jority over Mr. C4ley is reduced to 166 ;and Mr. Cayley's
over Mr. 'Walker's, that is, Reformer over Tory, is 675. This
triumph is the more remarkable when the character of the con-
stitneney is.considered: Here is a thinly-peopled and totally
agricultural district--a decided majority of the great land_
owners, and nearly all the Clergy, are for Duncombe and
Walker—they have active and paid agents in every town,—all
that money and influence unsparingly used can effect, is done_
Lord Feversham (Mr, Duncombe's father) alone has 800 te,
nants, all of whom are voters. Mr, Cayley is poor, and aad
no paid ageuls, and
yet look at the issue The Tory -,,arty,
on the second day of the election, became their colours4ell
they looked exceeding blue. Our Rector, Mr. Piarnes, was
Chairman of Duncombe and Walker's committee, orange and.
blue. Songs, squibs, and addresses were 'unsparingly dealt
forth. The orange band, gavP mortal offence to the Tories by
going and playing 1"'"tor':.: their com;nittee-room at Raw's, as
soon as it wal /-"I", that Walkei Would be beaten, " 0 dear,
what can the -•'"ratter be !"