The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-19 00:00:00

NORFOLK (EAST.)-NOMINATION.

(FROM A SECOND EDITION OF THE NORWICH MERCURY.
This morning at half-past nine o'clock, the friends of
Messrs. Windham and Gurney met at Mile-cross, without
St. Augustine's Gates—those of Lord Walpole and Mr.
Wodehouse at the first mile-stone on the Earlham-road.

At a quarter before eleven the Court was opened, and
immediately filled to suffocation,

Mr. Windham and Mr. Gurney were very loudly cheered
on entering the Court. Mr. Wodehouse and Mr. S. Wal-
pole were received with loud cheers by their party.
The HIGH SHERIFF then opened the meeting, after
which,

W. E. L. 131iLwEa, Esq., proposed Mr. Windham as
one of their representatives in parliament.
Sir W. BEAUCHAMP PROCTOR seconded the nomi-
nation.

H. N. BURROUGHES, Esq., nominated Lord Walpole.
Colonel PETRE briefly seconded the nomination.
The Hon. W. R. Rous proposed Edmond Wodehouse,
Esq., of Sennowe.
Mr. HANSON BERNEY seconded the nomination.
Mr. LOMBE proposed R. H. Gurney, Esq.
Mr. HARBOR seconded Mr. Gurney's nomination.
Mr. WINDHAM spoke nearly as follows :—Gentlemen, I
appear before you an independent man—a zealous, a sin-
cere Reformer—a well-wisher to the Monarch—and equally
so to the other branches of the constitution ; but it is be-
cause I am such, and because I wish to preserve the just
balance, that I am anxious to eradicate every species of
abuse, both in Church and State. I shall naturally be
asked, by the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, whether I will
support the Government of Sir Robert Peel ? But what-
ever I may think personally of that Right Hon. Gentle-
man, however I may estimate his great talents and ac-
quirements, when I see the persons whom he has selected
for his colleagues, I must candidly confess that I have no
confidence in his Administration. Would you, I must
ask, entrust the revision of the pension list to Lord Ellen.
borough ? Would you entrust the grievances of the Dis-
senters to Sir Robert Inglis? Would you entrust. the
commutation of tithes to the Bishop of Exetp•:? And,
lastly, would you entrust Corporation ret m to Lord Vis-
count Stormont ? Gentlemen, we (17-c on the eve of a great
n`:.eiermine who shall be your
reeoprteess, and
etntativeits.is for you to

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Mr. Winclb_
rl.:est cheers.
speech was frequently interruifed with
SPENCER WALPOLE, Esq., then rose and said—l will
crave your indulgence for a few minutes, while I address a
few words in the absence of my honourable relation.—
(Cheers and noise.) The Hon. Gentleman then stated
that Lord Walpole -was a friend to the institutions of the
country, which had raised it to its present greatness, and
continued—l will state fearlessly and candidly that he is
not blind to existing abuses, for our institutions are human
institutions, and nothing on earth is perfect ; but wherever
abuses are found to exist, he will exert himself to improve
and amend them.--4 Cheers, and question.) But he will
not reform to destroy, but to preserve—not to reform to
substitute anything else in their stead.—(Cheers and hisses.)
If the desire is only to remove every grievance, and do
away with every abuse, Lord Walpole will heartily support
such reform ; but he will at the same time stand by and
support the institutions of the country.—(Cheers.)
E. WODEIIOUSE, Esq., presented himself amidst loud
cheers, mingled with much disapprobation, and said I stand
here as an independent gentleman, and without the slightest
violation of that principle, I avow myself a supporter of Sir
R. Peel. It is not my intention to speak with asperity of
the late Government, with many of whom I am intimately
acquainted. Their conduct, however, to me appears per-
fectly inconceivable : they continued to leave the agricul-
tural interest in a state of doubt and perplexity, which was
certainly perfectly unwarrantable—(Hear)—and Heaven
forbid we should meet with anything like it in the Admi-
nistration which is now formed.

RICHARD HANBURY GURNEY, Esq.—Gentlemen, Mr.
Wodehouse has told you he supports the present Adminis-
tration. Now I will tell you I put no faith in it.—(Loud
cheers, and " Hear.") He calls Sir Robert Peel the head
of the Administration. I call the Duke of Wellington, who
formed the Administration, the head of the Administration.
He calls the Duke of Wellington the most straightforward
man in the kingdom. Now, Gentlemen, for a specimen of
the Duke's straightforwardness. Out of office the Duke
of Wellington opposed the repeal of the Test and Corpo-
ration Acts—in office he carried them. This is one speci-
men of the Duke's straightforwardness.—(Loud cheers and
" Hear.") Out of office the Duke of Wellington said the
Protestant Establishment had been carried by the sword,
and should be supported by the sword. In a few
8} brt
months in office he carried Catholic Emancipat;:nn. An-
other proof of this straightforward man, Furthermore, out
of office, when my Lord Grey's Ref:; f
.--rm Bill was before the
House, which, in my opinion is one of the best measures
ever passed, he said itiere was no necessity for Reform ;
..
but he then "j2,ered to take office upon the condition of
carrying
1 0 out the Reform Bill.—( Cheers.) The represen-
.attve of the Noble Lord has said that he will support the
present Administration because they will not give way to
the pressure from without. Now, many of the above mea-
sures were carried during the Duke's Administration, by
his own admission, by the pressure from without. Ido not
say, but I believe it will come to pass, that the Duke will
not only carry Church reform, but Corporation and all
other reforms—not with, but against his will.—(Cheers,
and hear, hear.) When I last appeared before you, I
called your attention to the commutation of tithes ; by
wishing that measure to be carried, I contend that I was
the firm friend of the Church ; for if there be one thing
more than another that will tend to the stability of the
Establishment, it is a commutation of tithes. In allusion
to the malt-tax, gentlemen, I am one of the warmest and
sincerest advocates for its repeal—(Loud cheers)—but it
will not do to look at it as a mere local measure, but for
the community at large.—(Hear, hear.)
Thanks were then voted to the High Sheriff ; and a poll
being demanded, it was appointed for the following day
but one.

STAFf ORD (COUNTY/.
NORTHERN DIVISION.—The election for tho Northern
Division of this county took vIAOO tit the Shire Hall, in this

C
Monday last. Sir Oswa c osley and Mr. Bul-
ler, entered the town, each accompanied by retinue of
friends, at half-past nine o'clock.
At ten o'clock, H. H. Williamson, Esq., the High She.
riff, entered the Nisi Prius Court, and the usual prelimary
forms were gone through.
The Rev. THOMAS GISBORNE, M.A., of Yoxall Lodge,
Prebendary of Durham, &c., rose amidst the most enthu-
siastic expressions of approbation, which were long con-
tinued. When they had subsided the venerable and Rev.
Gentleman said—This election must be considered as a part
of the universal contest which now subsists throughout the
nation between the electors adopting the principles of the
late Administration, and those who advocate the principles
of the party to whom the reins of Government are now
committed.—(Cheers.) The leaders of the present Go-
vernment have published what may most properly (without
any disrespectful meaning) be called a manifesto of their
intentions, views, and purposes ; partly in order to explain
to the country at large what those views and purposes are ;
and partly, no doubt, with the object of convincing the peo-
ple of England that they are the most proper persons to
whom the administration of affairs could be committed. It,
therefore, becomes requisite, with reference to the choice of
representatives, to consider what the declared views and
principles of - the new Administration are. I give to the
present Ministry entire credit for veracity, when they state
that the Reform Bill shall not be assailed, because I
believe that no upright man, with a full share of intelli-
gence, would attempt, directly or indirectly, to overthrow
the Reform Bill, whatever his own private opinions of it
might be, because, in short, I believe that such an attempt
would be an act of absolute madness.—(Loud cheering.)
It seems then to me, that the determination not to attempt
to injure the Reform Bill, though highly proper in itself, is
no special qualification for the office of Prime Minister of
this country.—(Hear, hear.) The next declaration which
I find in that manifesto is, that the present Administration
are ready to take into consideration all alleged grievances
in the state of our institutions, with a view to the correction
of acknowledged and proved abuses, and in order to reform
that which needs to be reformed. This is, certainly a
highly laudable declaration. But who would not say the
same ? Would not any man say that he was ready to take
into consideration alleged grievances and to correct abuses
proved and acknowledged to exist ?—(Applause.) But
the question is, abuses acknowledged by whom ?—(Great
applause.)--No doubt by the Ministers themselves.---
(Cheers.) Grievances proved to the satisfaction of whom ?
—(Hear.) No doubt to that of the Ministers themselves.
(Great cheering.) The true question is—What are the
grievances which the Administration are likely to consider
as grievances ? What are the abuses which they are likely
to consider as abuses t That question must be decided by
reference to their past conduct.—(Cheers.) What, then,
was the conduct of the present members of the Administra-
tion ? What was their conduct respecting the Reform
Bill, which is the great foundqion of our hopes of all fu-
ture reform ? Their conduct was that of decided, deter-
mined, inveterate, persevering hostility.—(Cheers.) There
is one subject on which I may be expected to speak. I re-
fer to our ecclesiastical institutions—( Hear heat-I.—institu-
tions deeply needing reform. Iwish to guP:rd against it
being supposed that I should advocafr principles which
deny to the supreme Legislature of. 1/1C realm—the King,
the Lords, and the Commons.: whom the authority of the
nation is concentrated an(' deposited—which deny to that
supreme national alfnority the power of revising, from time
to time, ever; one of our public institutions, particularly re-
s e
Pecti"--, the temporalities of those institutions, and of nev-
i
Sating every one them, as the public welfare may be found
to require.—(Applause.) But I deprecate the idea that
the revenues of the Church of England should be in any
way diminished or applied to other purposes, because great
and injurious as I believa the inequalities to be in their dis-
tribution, especially as it regards that meritorious and
often most ill-requited part of the clergy, who are by far
the larger portion of the body, the parochial ministers of the
country, I think the revenues of the Church of England
very far from being more than, with the fairest dis-
tribution, would be indispensable to afford that class a
comfortable maintenance, and to make a provision for the
additional numbers still wanted in various parts of the
kingdom, which are now destitute of religious instruction
according to the forms of the Established Church.—
(Hear.) But for an ample and speedy amendment of the
state of the revenues of the Church, and to the apportion-
ing of a larger part of it amongst that class which is rightly
denominated the " working clergy," I am decidedly solici-
tous. We have been told that to oppose the present Mi-
nistry is, in fact, though not in words, to resist the Royal
Prerogative. The Royal Prerogative in appointing Minis-
ters I hold in great respect, but I would ask is there no
prerogative—l wish to use no objectionable term—no right
on the part of the subject, to endeavour to prevent the ap-
pointment of Ministers adverse to his views of public
good ?—(Cheers.) Is there not a right of judgment as to
the persons most likely to further the public interests?
We are, however, told, that the present Ministry ought to
be tried. Tried ! Are, then, the present Ministers young
noblemen and young gentlemen, lately released from their
studies at the Universities—recently returned fro':a foreign
travel—are they men who have spent their days in the im-
penetrable solitudes of a forest, or who con-,e fresh from the
recesses of some mountain glen ?—(near, hear ! and ap-
plause.) Are they not veteran statesmen ; men well known
in public affairs, who have peen " tried " and "tried" to
the very utmost ? Haw:, they not been " tried on the
very point of ReforeL—that point on which this question
wholly turns ?"--Applause.) But some of their advocates
say, " You •
c,mista e the men ; they are changed ; they are
not wi• ,
they once were , you are in error respecting
; if you think they will be adverse to reasonable and
moderate reforms, try them, and you will find yourselves
very pleasantly disappointed." I confess that lam not dis-
posed to rest the welfare of the country on the hope of the
chance of the possibility of a pleasant disappointment—.
(Rapturous applause.) I therefore beg leave, on public..
grounds, on private grounds, on agricultural and commer-v,
cial grounds, to recommend your faithful and tried Mem:,
ber, Sir Oswald Mosley, as a fit and proper person to be--
come your representative in the next Parliament.—(Loud
and long-continued cheering.)
HENRY JOHN PYE, Esq., seconded the nomination.

Sir THOMAS COTTON SHEPPARD, Bart., nominated Ed-
ward Buller, Esq., and was seconded by Charles Wicksted„
Esq.

No other candidate being put in nomination, and the
High Sheriff having declared the return of Sir 0. Moseley,
Bart„ and Mr. Buller.

Both the Honourable Candidates then addressed the
electors, and declared themselves sincere advocates for the
progressive advance of reform, both in Church and State.
They were exceedingly well received ; and after the elec-
tion had been declared in their favour, they were chaired
from the Hall to the Swan Hotel.

YORKSHIRE 1( WEST RIDING).
TWO REFORMERS RETURNED.
The election of two Knights of the Shire to represent
the West Riding of the County of York in Parliament,
took place on Saturday last at Wakefield. This is the ~,,)",&).
largest constituency in the United Kingdom, the population ,*r4cans,.
of the Riding being nearly a million souls, and the number
of registered electors upwards of eighteen thousand. The
friends of the present ministry, aware of the great impor-
tance of gaining some support from such a constituency,
exerted themselve to get up an opposition to the Reform
members, Lord Morpeth and Sir George Strickland ' • a —-0 i
requisition was obtained calling on the Hon. Edwin Las- wog
celles to offer himself, and a subscription was opened to de- wo;
fray the expences ; but neither the names nor the w „ aya and
means offered were thought at Harevvood-house to justify fISM
so chivalrous an enterprise as storming the very citadel of rirattifi.
Reform, tilt West Riding, Mr. Lascelles, therefore, de-.'tarsi na
clined ; and Mr. Wynn and Mr. Beckett Denison also uPubiw
refused to obey the call of the second Tory meeting held at -1'1.'9"
Wakefield.
Sir FRANCIS LINDLEY WOOD, Bart., proposed Lord
Morpeth.
Mr. GERVASg WALKER SeCOLlded the nomination.--
(Chcers.2
The :ion. Sir E. M. VAYASOURs Bart., proposed Sir
G, `..;trickland, Bart.—(Cheers.)
F. H. FAWKES. Esq., seconded the nomination.
Lord MORPETH came forward, and was received with
cheers. After some preliminary observations, he said :
With the general posture of political affairs I have not to
acquaint so inquiring and so intelligent an auditory as this
the late Government has been dismissed—the late Parlia-
ment has been dissolved—for what reason ? I ask any man
here to put his hand on his heart and tell me whether for
any reason but this, that it was apprehended that both the
one and the other were too deeply pledgcn, too closely
wedded to the cause and the work of real reform ?—( Loud bui
cheers.) It is then for a decision on this point, that now, :41 11,5' •
here at this the largest, and all but the last election for
English counties, his Majesty appeals to, what I thank
Heaven to believe is, both his free and loyal people. Our
political opponents seem to wish to fix a charge upou us of
making light of the King's prerogative. At the first gather..
ing held in this good town of Wakefield, whence the fiery
cross of Toryism was sped over all your borders, hill and.
valley, moor and town—only, unhappily, the clans declined
to muster—what is the awful statement of the first, resolu-•
tion ? " That in times like the present, when the King's
prerogative and unquestionable right to choose 'his own ad-
visers is so unconstitutionally assailed, it is incumbent on
all loyal subjects to rally round the Tkrone." To rally
round the Throne is the bounden duty, and will, I trust, be
the spontaneous act of Englishmen;'whenever faction, force,,
or fraud shall dare to assail the sacred person, or the lawful
prerogative, of him who fills it.—(Cries of " Hear, hear. ii;
What are the facts now ? The King dismisses Lord,Bl4•ooei
bourne, confides the entire intermediate government of Axon* I'o4
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ock, fatal goal of ancient ambition.—(Cheers andlaughter.)
In all this there would seem no very shackled or sickly use
of the prerogative ; never did it wear a lustier appearance.
But,says the first council of Wakefield, the King's un-
questionable right to choose his own advisers is unconstitu-
tionally assailed. What !—did the Radicals rush to arms ?
Did the Destructives lay hold of torches ? Was Birming-
ham in array, or London in flames ? Listen to Sir Robert
Peel. What does he declare at the Mansion-house ?
" It is impossible to deny that since the occurrence of the
important events that have taken place within the last
six weeks, there has been a calm and tranquillity in this
country which, after the political excitement in which we
have lived for some time past, could not have been anticipated.
If the present Ministry obtain a majority in the ensuing
Parliament, I shall oppose what I think wrong, I shall sup-
port what I think right, but I shall offer no factious or
wanton opposition to the conduct of public business.—
(Hear, hear.) If they have not a majority, any one who
understands the working of our constitution, before or after
the Reform Bill, will admit that they must sooner or later
give way to . the party that has it.--(Cheers.) If, after
twenty years' tenure of office, twenty years of undisputed
pre-eminence and unrivalled service to the Protestant reli-
gion and dynasty, Sir Robert Walpole was compelled reluc-
tantly to yield before a majority of one, why is the sense of
the nation not to operate in a similar way on Sir Robert
Peel ?—(Cheers.) My duty will be to shrink from no
improvement which can give to all classes, Churchman and
Dissenter, high and low, rich and poor, a fuller and readier
command over the blessings of Divine bounty, and the
benefits of social institutions. It is, I conceive, with as
close a care for the humbler as the loftier interests of
society, that while I disclaim all the characters of an
exclusive politician, I quite as vehemently repudiate the
title and designs of a Destructive.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
Of our political opponents I ever wish to speak without
disrespect, as I should meet them without alarm ; contest
on this occasion I would not wantonly court, but should
willingly confront—(cheers)—come when and how it may.
From all I hear and see, around, beneath, the breath of con-
quest fans our golden banner—(cheers)—the Anti Re-
former may call " back," the Alarmist may cry " halt," the
Anarchist may shout " plunder ;" avoiding alike the lag-
ging crawl, and the precipitate rush, the motto of our
steady march is " Forward I."—(applause)—it is the path of
safety when we see the moving masses on every side of us ;
it is the path of duty, as long as we have no interest but
our country's, no object but human happiness, no homage
but for virtue.—(The Noble Lord concluded amidst loud
sheering.)
Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND, Bart., was received with loud
cheering. He said,—Gentlemen, it does not appear to
me that the Administration now formed is much improved
by the First Lord of the Treasury, Sir Robert Peel, who
has published a manifesto to prove that he is not an apos-
tate, and that through a thousand inconsistencies, he has
been a consistent Reformer.—(Laughter.) Gentleman, no
man at all acquainted wit the history of Sir Robert Peel's
life, can suppose for one moment that he is a Reformer at
all, and whatever may be his proftssions, his measures will
fall short of the wishes of the people.—lear, hear.) Tlie
Hon. Baronet then entered into a detailed statement of his
reasons for generally supporting the late Ministry. (The
Hon.'Baronet concluded amidst great applause.)
The SHERIFF again asked if any other elector had a can-
didate to propose ? and being answered in the negative, he
took a show of hands, and declared Lord Viscount Morpeth
and Sir Gerge Strickland, Bart., duly elected.
At this moment, CHARLES WATERTON, Esq., spoke
from the top of a stable opposite the hustings, and said—l
wish to ask the two candidates whether, if elected, they will
support the separation of Church and State ?
Lord MoaFETH—Never.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Waterton, without waiting for the reply of Sir G.
Strickland, took the orange card which he held in his hand,
and deliberately tore it in pieces, and scattered the pieces
to the winds ; he then retired from the elevated position he
had assumed, and left the meeting. The circumstance ex-
cited some sensation, but no expression either of approba-
tion or disapprobation.
Lord MORPETII and Sir G. STRICKLAND briefly re-
turned thanks, and moved and seconded a vote of thanks to
the Sheriff, who acknowledged the honour.
The Members then entered a carriage and four and went
round the town with music and banners.