The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-14 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

DEVONPORT.—Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C.,
accompanied by the Hon. Geo. Denman, M.P. for
Tiverton, arrived in Devonport on Friday evening,
and attended a meeting of Liberal electors. The
learned candidate was well received, and in his
speech said—" He utterly disapproved of the dis-
franchising clause of the Reform Bill. He did not
say that merely to please the artisans in the dock-
yard ; but he objected to the 16th clause on prin-
ciple, that when they were seeking to extend the
franchise it was an anomaly that they should dis-
franchise any class of men. He would urge upon
the electors that the present election should be a
rigidly legal one. No money should be spent on his
part, except purely his private expenses, but what
should go before the election auditor and be pub-
licly announced. If they would return him on those
conditions he should be proud to be the represen-
tative of Devonport. The meeting pledged itself
to accept Mr. Chambers as a candidate in
the Liberal interest. Lord Eliot, the eldest
surviving son of the Earl of St. Germans, is the
other Liberal candidate, and they have commenced
their canvass. Mr. W. B. Ferrand, ex-member, and
the new Conservative candidates, the Hon. Regi-
nald C. Abbott and Mr. Raikes, addressed a large
meeting of the Conservative electors of Devonport
on Thursday evening, and were favourably received.
Mr. Ferrand, in introducing the new candidates,
inveighed against the Government for bolstering up
the petition through which he was unseated after it
had been abandoned by its original promoters.
ABERDEENSHIRE.--The contest for the representa-
tion of this county promises to be a keen and ex-
citing one. The two candidates—Sir James Elphin-
stone (Conservative) and Mr. Dingwall Fordyce, of
Brucklaw (Liberal) have now addressed the electors
at some half-dozen places in the country, and usually
together. On Friday they met the electors of the
Aberdeen district in the Mechanics' Hall, Aberdeen.

THE HELSTON ELECTION.—The Cornwall Gazette
referring to the remarks upon the strange conduct
of the Mayor of Helston in giving a casting vote in
favour of the Liberal candidate, Mr. Campbell, has
the following :—" We, unlike our contemporary,
are at no loss to know where the mayor derived his
ideas from, because the fact is familiar to us that he
is in partnership with his son, Mr. Henry Rogers,
the Radical leader' and paid agent of Mr. Camp-
bell, and therefore the mayor himself was virtually
the paid agent of Mr. Campbell, and was stimulated
in his decision, not only by partisanship but by
pecuniary interest. His inspiration he received from
his son, Mr. Henry Rogers, who said to him, Give
your casting vote_and risk it.' He adopted that ad-
vice in opposition to the opinion of Mr. Campbell's
other paid agent, Mr. Plomer, who told him he had
no power to give a casting vote. Therefore our con-
temporaries are hardly dealing fairly with the
mayor's intelligence when they impute his decision
to ignorance. On the contrary, he was fully in-
formed on the matter, and his vote was deliberately
given in contravention of the law for a personal as
well as a party purpose, and in order to gain a brief
Radical triumph."

Redistr:bution of Spats.