The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-17 00:00:00

REFORM DINNER AT LIVERPOOL.

On Wednesday evening a splendid dinner was given in
the Theatre Royal to Messrs. Ewart and Morris, the can-
didates on the Liberal interest at our recent election. Ac-
commodation was provided for five hundred gentlemen, and
that number of tickets was accordingly issued. The theatre
was most elegantly fitted up for the occasion.
At the head of the tables, John Ewart, Esq., John Wy-
berg, Esq., James Aikin, Esq., William Rathbone, Esq.,
and Mr. George Robinson, officiated as vice-presidents.
At the back of the stage stood the chairman's table, over
which our talented and indefatigable townsman, James
Brancker, Esq., presided as croupier. He was supported
by William Wallace Currie, Esq., and Lawrence Hey-
worth, Esq., as vice-chairmen.

•Every possessor of a gentleman's ticket had the privilege
of introducing two ladies to the boxes. The number of
ladies in the boxes exceeded a thousand.

After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been given,
the chairman proposed " the health of their worthy repre-
sentative, William Ewart, Esq."
Mr. EWART rose, and addressed the company. After
some observations, in a light and pleasant strain, he said he
would turn to a more serious subject. Since we last met
(said the honourable gentleman) the election has been
kindling, as it were, throughout the country. Thank God,
the cause of national reform has triumphed.--(Much
cheering.) What his Majesty's Ministers may say of this
demonstration of public opinion I cannot tell ; but if they
still continue in place, they will remind me, as they have
reminded us, of a passage in that admirable novel, " The
Vicar of Wakefield." After many calamities had befallen
the Vicar's family, after they had incurred many serious re-
verses of fortune, and were pretty much in the situation of
the present Ministry, one of the chapters commences with
this announcement—" The family still resolve on holding up
their heads."—(Much laughter and cheering.) This, I
suppose, gentlemen, is now the magnanimous resolution
of his Majesty's Ministers. I think it a most mistaken
and fallacious one.—(Hear, hear.) The time is approach-
inc, when your representatives will be called upon to do
their duty, to judge of those Ministers by the very criterion
which they have themselves chosen to be judged by—by
men, not measures ; and if it comes to that, I must say
that I, for one, shall openly and without hesitation, as I
have told you before, vote at once for turning them out.
—(Enthusiastic cheering.) What is the use, gentlemen, of
concealing or compromising our opinions? That is my
opinion of what ought to be done with the present Minis-
try.—(Renewed cheering.) We have been told again and
again that Conservatism is the only safeguard of property.
Ah, gentlemen, in my opinion, there is a wide difference
between Conservatisnz and conservation. But, gentlemen,
who are the persons that thus cry out for the security of
property ? Who have been the great agitators during the
last three months.—(Hear, hear.) On my faith, gentle-
men, I think I bestow on the present Ministry an epithet
not unworthy of them, when I call them the " agitating
Ministry."—(Laugliter and cheers.) Gentlemen, if ever
there was anything contrary to the principles of genuine
Conservatism—contrary to the security of property—it is,
as I have often said, and will now maintain, the continuance
of abuses.—(Loud cheers.) This has always been the fer-
tile source of disorder—the primary cause of revolution.—.
( Hear, hear.) What caused the thirty years' war in Ger-
many ? The denial of justice. What caused the separa-
tion of the Netherlands from Spain,—what caused the
French Revolution,—what caused the second revolution in
France,—what caused the rebellion in England, what
caused the separation of the North American colonies
from Great Britain,—what was it but the denial of justice,
and the refusal of just reforms?—(Loud cheers.) Gentle-
men, we therefore maintain that we are the real Con-
servators. We will not dispute about the title Con-
servative, but leave that to be monopolized by the cele-
brated club in London.—(Loud cheers.) The names of
Reformers will go down to posterity as those of the real
friends of property and order. Farewell to the superannu-
ated dreams of interested politicians—the ghosts of past
ages raised to scare the common sense and reason of the
present ! We believe in no such paradox as that justice is
inconsistent with safety.—( Loud cheers.) The Honour-
able gentleman, after some further observations in the same
spirited and vigorous style, proposed " The health of Earl
Grey and the Members of both Houses- of Parliament, to
whose exertions the country is mainly indebted for the Re-
form Bill."

The CHAIRMAN then gave " The health of James Mor-
ris, Esq., who, though unsuccessful, made a noble stand
against Tory principles and Tory influence."
Mr. Moan's returned thanks in an able speech, for which
we regret our columns do not afford room. _ _

The healths of Geo. W. Wood, Esq., and Lord Moly-
neux, the liberal candidates for the southern division of the
county, were drank with the warmest applause.
Mr. WOOD, for himself and on behalf of Lord Molyneux,
returned thanks.

A number of other toasts were drank and the company
separated at a late hour.

SUICIDE.-Yesterday morning a youth named
Fuller, the son of a respectable barge builder, at Mill-wall,
committed a most desperate act of suicide, by stabbing himself
with a knife, from the effects of which he died in five minutes
afterwards. It is said that the cause of his committing the
fatal act was a disappointment to his addresses, having been
rejected by a young woman, the daughter of a neighbouring
publican, to whom he was attached.

We learn that a measure of large, and we trust of
enlightened, Church Reform is to le immediately brought for-
ward by Sir Robert Peel on the opening of Parliament. We
are also informed that the Rev. Dr. Pye Smith and the Rev.
John Clayton have had an interview with the Premier by his
desire, with the view of making some arrangements as to
what are called the Dissenters' grievances. Both of these
gentlemen have stood aloof from the mere political agitators,
calling themselves Dissenters, and have little communion of
sentiment with those who are capable of penning the low and
intemperate resolutions to which the name of Mr. Timothy
East was appended. We believe Sir R. Peel is disposed to
go as far as any reasonable Non-conformist ought to desire, in
removing the few remaining civil disabilities of the Dissenters,
and we trust that the respectable portion of that body will not
suffer the intentions of the Government to be defeated by men
who have no stake in the countr3, and who derive more than
half their importance from the bustle and excitement of trou-
blous times.—Record.

STATE OF PORTUGAL.—A gentleman who arrived
in the last Lisbon packet informs us that public affairs in Por-
tugal present a most complicated appearance. The assassina-
tions in the capital, at least, had subsided ; but the connivance
of the Government with those who had perpetrated the most
horrid acts continued. In the provinces the murders, however,
continued under the eyes of the authorities. A letter from
Odemiva mentions that a political prisoner had been taken out
of the common gaol, crucified upon the iron guards of one of
the windows, and his ears cut off, and afterwards fried in oil
and pop by one of the cannibals who presided at this revolt-
ing ceremony. In the districts of Mincle Froxp de gspd4
4 Gintra alone since the Convention of Cintra the assassina,
tlops 1111)Q4nt fg thirty-five, and all with impunity, The Mi
nisterial clubs now carry on the police in the capital. Sal-
danha Went to Cintra not to be present at the closing of the
Chambers. A now batch of seven Peers is spoken of in order
to:support the Ministry. An action had taken place between a
Guerrilla party in Algrave and a detachment of regulars, which
ended in the defeat of the latter. Carlist parties having ap-
proached the Portuguese frontiers on the side of Leon and As-
!pre, 4 detachment of Portuguese troops was sent against
them, which ftnterp4 the Spanish territory and was driven back:
•I
—Morning knit

Since the Whig-Radical Press has had the exceed-
ing candour to confess that it makes common cause
with O'Connell, we cannot wonder at the extreme vi-
rulence of its attacks upon Sir Edward Knatchbull,
who is one of those English gentlemen that in Parlia-
ment has never shown the least disposition to truckle
to the demagogue whom the Whigs have servilely
courted. On the contrary, he gave him cause of mor-
tal offence in the last Session, by the manly and de-
termined manner in which he came forward to rescue
from his vindictive grasp the venerable Irish Judge
whom he would have immolated on the altars of the
demon of repeal agitation. Already was the sacrifice
prepared. The victim was bound and delivered up to
him by the Whig Ministers as the first of the offerings
of propitiation which they had resolved to make. Be-
fore he could strike, hut while he yet brandished the
sacrificial knife, Sir Edward Knatchbull interposed
the shield of the Constitution between the victim and
the destroyer. The monstrous injustice was prevented
—the House of Commons made atonement for its first
iniquitous and obsequious vote. The result gave satis-
faction to all who hate tyranny and oppression in every
shape, as much as it mortified the vanity and baffled
the revenge of the Agitator. Why, then, should not
they who admire and applaud O'Connell denounce Sir
Edward Knatchbull ?—Morning Herald.
By the last accounts from Dublin, it appears that
O'Connell was in a minority after two days' polling ;
but as the Irish elections may continue for four days,
we cannot yet pronounce the great mischief-maker de-
feated. Should he fail, such a disaster to the repeal
tyrant will not be remedied by his subsequent election
for any other Irish city, or any county, however popu-
lous and important, even if he attempt to cover-himself
by such a rally. The capital is the darling object of
his ambition. Dublin is the centre and citadel of his
strength. The representation of Dublin is worth
more to O'Connell than that of any other dozen places
in Ireland ; and the desperate endeavours he has made
to retain his hold upon it may be regarded as the
measure by which he will estimate his loss. The tem-
porary defeat (we hope it may turn out to be a final
one) is no doubt owing in a great part to the indignant
exposure of his late barbarous denunciations, which
Mr. Latouche had the manliness to make before the
assembled electors. It will be found in the letter of
our Dublin correspondent ; but, as we cannot make it
too conspicuous, we reprint it here in a more striking
form :

" I beg leave to state my reasons for now opposing the
party with which I have always co-opeiated. It was not my
intention to have voted at the present contested election ; but
when I heard and witnessed the threats and shameful intimida-
tion resorted to by the opposite party—when I saw that men
were menaced with Death's-head and cross-bones being placed
over their doors, and that it was threatened that a circle should,
be drawn around our shops and our establishments, I felt bound
as a true friend of peace and good order—l felt myself impe-
ratively called upon to step forward at this important crisis, to
vote for Messrs. Hamilton and West. For although I may
differ from these gentlemen on some political matters, such for
instance as the question of tithes, yet I think that any reform
must be a political humbug which interferes with the freedom
of election by threats and intimidation such as that now re-
sorted to. I therefore wish to set an example to my fellow-
citizens, to protect their property, their lives, and the lives of
their children, and, what should be more dear than property
or life, to preserve the integrity of the constitution."
From the mountebank O'Connell himself, we will
now turn to his Merry-Andrews. The priests are
playing tumblers' and jugglers' tricks in all directions,
with a view to cheat or intimidate the ignorant country
voters—to procure, perfas vel nelas, the rejection of
all loyal candidates, and the return- of repealers ; but,
if we may judge by present appearances, they will, in
Most instances, fail.—Times.
Our correspondence from the United States in this
day's Times will be read with interest, not only be-
cause of the exciting nature of the subject, but from
the minute and intimate knowledge of persons,
parties, and principles of action which the writer pos.
sesses and communicates. We stated yesterday the
bias of our mind to be, that no rupture was likely to
follow these mutual demonstrations of the President in
his address to Congress, and of the French Govern-
ment in its recall of the Ambassador at Washington,
and its delivery to Mr. Livingstone of his passports.
It was difficult to suppose that expressions of reproach
and disapproval like those employed by General Jack-
son in his message would have been slurred over by the
Ministers of Louis Philippe without some effort, how-
ever feeble, towards asserting the " national dignity."
True it is, that the first, and indeed the only, outrage
on that dignity was committed by the representatives of
the French people themselves, who refused an act of
acknowledged justice, and put themselves and their
country, apparently from mere party motives, in the
condition of wrong-doers towards a friendly nation.
The conduct of France, in the present instance, is
contrasted with that of England in the discharge
of her stipulated indemnities to the United States,
which were paid off with a promptitude and punc-
tuality reflecting credit upon her deep sense of justice,
and drawing from the President of that day, Mr.
Adams, a glowing tribute to the national honour of
Great Britain. We may collect from the letters of
our .correspondent, a " Genevese Traveller," who dates
from Philadelphia, that there are various, and per-
haps not quite harmonious, elements to be considered
in calculating upon the course of the United States'
Legislature and people on this question, which the
injustice of France has provoked. He represents that
the excitement is general and increasing—that there is
a " war spirit" among the people of that country,
which the prospect of a foreign quarrel tends rather to
animate than to repress—that the northern and Eastern
States, the focus of manufactures, would be desirous of
any event which might give a stimulus to their produc-
tions by the supply of military stores, &c., and by the
enhanced expense attending the importations of foreign
go .ds, the rivals of their own—that, moreover, the majo-
rity of the House of Representatives will vote, and their
committee on foreign relations will report, according to
the wishes of the President, who has, on the other hand,
to encounter the reluctance of the Southern States, the
great growers and exporters of America, to engage in
a maritime warfare, and is likewise opposed by the
majority of the Senate, with Mr. Clay, one of the
ablest politicians and most powerful orators of the
whole nation, at its head, and who, if his judgment
and stability bore a fair proportion to his talents,
would be irresistible. Our correspondent traces, in a
spirit of curious observation, the windings and subtle-
ties of party tactics, which may be looked for from
Mr. Clay and his opposition friends, with a view either
to thwart the policy of the President, or in promoting,
or at least permitting it, to throw upon him and his
abettors a burden of odious responsibility, which may
destroy them. The attitude thus to be taken by the
tSenast_e, and by the large minority in the House of
Representatives—like that of so many crouching
iger
must produce something of the political pictu-
resque in the grouping of parties throughout the present
session. The overflowing prosperity of the finances, with
a debt which has been liquidated to the last farthing,
and a revenue leaving a large permanent surplus in the
treasury, must not only create the highest respect for
the maxims of policy on which the Government of the
Republic has been conducted, but for the magnitude
of those resources which are so extensively and abund-
antly applicablecable to the wants of civilization and of in-
ternal commerce, to the arts of peace, and to warlike
emergencies. Were Frarlce inclined, which we hope
and mist she is not, to push to further extremities
the wrong which in reference to this taansaction she
has already inflicted on the United States, she would
still do wisely to pause ere in her actual relations with
European Powers she forces an unjust collision with
a country so well prepared to stand it. But we can
hardly persuade ourselves that the petulance of mere
punctilio will even dispose, much • less decide,
the will of the Chatnhe; cif Deputies in favour of
40 inauspicious a quarrel. It is true that General

Jackson may "suspect" the sincerity of Louis
Philippe and his Ministers upon the question ; but how
he can reconcile to common sense a suspicion s.o in-
jurious with the fact of the Ministers who signed
the treaty having quitted office, because they were
unable to execute it, we think it would be difficult to
answer. No Government which has mastered the first
alphabet of political science can dream of serving itself
by violating the rights which its own acts have ad-
mitted, and the veriest fool must see that the most
flagrant absurdity of all is an outrage upon a powerful
nation. Nor can there accrue, strictly speaking, a
shadow of disgrace to the Chamber of Deputies from
its repairing by a vote, in consonance with the formal
recommendation of its omit Government, the error of a
preceding vote passed in defiance -of that Government.
There is, properly, no question between the French
Chamber and the United States. The question is be-
.

tween the French Chamber on the one side, and on the

other the French Government, whose contracts have
been disregarded, and the people of France, whose
peace and commerce have been by their own Deputies
endangered. A few hours, however, will enable us to
judge more positively of the result.—Times.
The eyes of all men, be they Tories, be they
Whigs, or be they Radicals—though, thank God,
there are now no Whigs, no Radicals, nor any other
party on the side of the people but those who are
Reformers—are fixed upon the result of the Middlesex
election—a result most important, not on account of
the individuals who are to win or to lose the election,
but on account of the great moral and political influ-
ence which it will exercise, both upon. the elections
which are still pending, and upon the course of policy
which it may befit the ensuing Parliament to pursue.
Let Hume be thrown out for Middlesex, and there
will be no end to the " .Io Pans" and exclamations
of re-action on the part of the Tories—let him be
brought in triumphantly, and their mouths are not
only sealed for ever, but the cause of Reform placed
upon a pedestal from which no power can move it.
From the able, manly, and eloquent speech of Mr.
Hume, which will be found elsewhere, and for which
we are indebted to The Sun, it will be seen that he
has been most unhandsomely treated—that his voters

have been impeded, and that those generally who
voted for Mr. Byng voted also for Mr. Wood, who
does not avow his military honours. What does this
conduct teach all true Reformers to do ? Why, to
plump for Mr. Hume, if they desire to see a true and
undoubted Reformer in the House as the representa-
tive of Middlesex, and to leave Byng, who is safe—
and Mr. Wood, who is an Anti-Reformer—to their

fate. It is of the utmost—of the most vital import-
ance, not only that Hume should be elected, but that
he should be at the head of the poll. Electors of
Middlesex, be up early then—be at the poll with all
possible speed—give plumpers for Hume—and the
battle of Reform will be decided for once and for
ever !—Morning Advertiser.
The election for the Metropolitan county is over—
most triumphantly over ; and, against " untold gold,"
that is, gold, the application of which in a free coun-
try, and in the fear of men, who feel and who act as
men, dares not be told—Mr. Hume, the searching
inquirer into every extravagance, has been returned by
a majority of upwards of 400 votes ! This is a splendid
victory for sound and manly political principle—for
that principle which is dear to every honest man,
and true Englishman. The Conservative Candi-
date (that is a prostitution of the name, for the
self-named Conservatives conserve abuses only), is no
doubt what, in the common way of estimating men,
we tali " a poor thing"—a sort of infant gentle-
man who is " most negatively great ;" but the victory
is over the corrupt principle. Money to any amount
was known to be at the disposal of Mr. Wood,—
Dukes, by the brace, at ten thousand a head, and the
smaller fry in proportion to the hopes which they had
in the spoliation of the public by a Conservative
Cabinet and a Conservative House of Commons. Nor
is there any doubt that, judging by the baits with
which they themselves would have been most readily
caught, the friends
.of the bad cause did hope that
by money they could buy the electors of Middle-
sex, even as they themselves can, every day, be
bought. They no doubt contemplated that, because
Mr. Hume, unpurchaseable himself, would not seek
to degrade any one by purchase, but content himself
with the free votes of freemen, would not expend much-
money, or allow it to be spent by others in Pr^:.noting
his return, they could buy the Middlesn. electors at a
price. But the result of the fl:::ction has shown how
sadly they were out '7, this calculation, and that the
people of this country are not to be bought at any
rp
price. 1 nis is a most important result, not merely on
account of the defeat to the abettors of ancient
corruption and the triumph of Liberal principles,
but on that of the death blow which it gives to the
abominable system of bribery, to which the Tories
have upon all occasions resorted—and which, in-
stead of concealing, they have made their boast,—
as if their cause could not prosper by any other
means than the direct and palpable demoralization
of the people. This is a grand point—it is one in
which we have always had very poor faith ; but for
the benefit of the parties who believed otherwise, it is
all the better for this signal demonstration. The peo-
ple of England are not to be bribed ; and those of the
county of Middlesex have cried, in the emphatic lan-
guage of one of old, to whom a bribe was offered, "thy
money perish with thee." Altogether, Middlesex has
done nobly. The city, the metropolitan boroughs
—and last, but not least—the county, have returned
liberal members, and nothing but liberal members :
and they have done this with Tories in the field in
almost every instance, and money at command in sup-
port of every Tory candidate. Now, if there be any one
county within the four seas, the opinion and conduct
of which may be taken as perfectly independent, and
swayed by no wish or bias, save the best interests of
the whole people, it is the county of Middlesex. It
is, if we may venture to use the expression, the very
" seat of the Beast," the place where the merits of all
Ministers, and of all public measures, of what kind
soever, are best and most immediately known ; and
both Ministers and people may depend upon it that the
county of Middlesex, in its cities, in its boroughs, and
in its general character as a county, does express the
general opinion of the aggregate population of the whole
empire. Therefore, let the people look to it, and let
them follow its example ; and if there are any places
where its example dares not be followed (and, un-
fortunately, there are such places), let the people bear
in mind that, in order that they may be able to act as
honest men, without persecution, there are some fur-
ther reforms indispensably requisite ; and that as it is
solely for the want of these additional reforms that the
Tories are able, in any one case, to coerce the people
info the support of candidates, who are as repugnant
to their feelings as they are injurious to their interests,
the assistance of such places as Middlesex, where
there is the best knowledge of what is going on, and
also of the characters of those by whom it is per-
formed, is of the most essential service. We sincerely
trust that this noble example will not be lost upon
those who have still their Members to return. The
good cause is, indeed, already safe ; but who that has
the heart of a man and a Briton, would not participate
in the glory ?—Morning Advertiser.
The elections proceed in a manner highly favourable
to the friends of order and good Government. In the
southern division of Leicestershire Mr. Turner, an ex-
cellent Conservative, has become the worthy colleague
of Mr. Halford, Mr. Dawson, the Whig candidate,
having been fairly put to the rout. UVQVI Middlesex
has made a stand iq defeno- o 1 Conservative
prin-
.
eiples, md has given a blow to the u-- ii
.':_iabie and pro-
fligate Greek Loan-monger
irom the effects of which
neither he nor the wretched faction of which he is the
organ can ever recover. The difference is, indeed,

sion and at the general ele,
the most obstinate or pei
deny that there is a great ,
metropolitan county, or th
England are at length opei
views of the mischievous,
who is yet, as it seems, to
Middlesex ?—Morning Post.
The polling for East Surrey commences on Mon-
day next. If the Reformers do their duty, the issue
cannot be doubtful ; for we will not insult the electors
of Surrey by supposing that they have changed their
principles, like his Majesty's Ministers, since 1832.
Major Beauclerk and Mr. Briscoe have discharged
their duty faithfully as representatives of East Surrey ;
and it would be strange, if tried men were to be dis-
placed for a Tory candidate never before heard of,
except in India shipping-lists. We make no doubt
that Mr. Alsager is a good judge of all that re-
lates to the management of an Indiaman, and that
he has given good satisfaction to the passengers
who have uartaken of his board, in the tedious
voyages to and from our eastern possessions ; but
some better evidence than this is required of
his qualifications for a repreSentative of East Sur-
rey. The Tories, we know, are not so nice. They
require only that a candidate should be opposed to
Reform, and ready to vote for the continuance of all
abuses in Church and State ; and when once this is
ascertained, every parson is instantly on the trot for
Ym from morning till night. Mr. Alsager will have
the support of every parson in East Surrey ; and we
fear too many of the squirearchy will follow their ex-
ample. But it becomes the Reformers to exert them-
s Ayes the more strenuously in support of the men who
are hated by the corruptionists of all ranks, solely be-
cause they are devoted to the interests of the people.
We cannot for a moment believe that the Anti-
Reformer will be successful. No ; the electors are what
they were when they last defeated the Tories, and they
will again defeat them. Should our consistent con-
temporary, the Times, use its mighty influence with
the three-fourths of that part of the population falling
under the .description of electors of East Surrey, of
which it so impudently boasts—should this powerful
means, in its fiercest forms, be added to Mr. Alsager's
monopoly of hack-horses, coaches, post-chaises, Ma-
gistrates, Parsons, threats, and intimidation—we hope
and believe that the whole will be as fruitless as the
efforts of the Son of the Lady of the Queen's Bed-
chamber in the county of Middlesex. But the enu-
meration of the forces of the enemy suggests the ne-
cessity of well-directed efforts on the part of the Re-
formers. England expects that East Surrey should do
its duty.—Morning Chronicle.

GENERAL ELECTIONS

IN THE COUNTRY.

DURHAM.

SOUTH DIVISION, DARLINGTON, JAN. 13.--The electors
assembled in Darlington in great force. The only candi-
dates were the late members, Mr. Bowes and Mr. Pease,
who were enthusiastically received by the assembled multi-
tude. In the course of the proceedings an accident oc-
curred, which might have been productive of melancholy
results. The hustings, on which more than a hundred
persons were assembld, suddenly gave way, with a tre-
mendous crash, and for a few minutes all was confusion and
anxious suspense. No serious evil, however, occurred ; and
the mischance was afterwards very happily and eloquently
referred to by Mr. Bowes, as a symbol of that fate to
which the Conservatives were hastening, by means of the
present election. The electors of South Durham have
done their duty.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
The election for the county of the Isle of Wight baying
been fixed for this day (the 15th) te-morrow the polling
commences at nine o'clock, and a vc,N..ry sharp contest is an-
ticipated. Sir Richard Simeon, the Whig candidate, has
declared, in express term... that he will subject himself to
no heavy electioneer;...-ig expenses, but will be brought in by
the unbought. Unbiassed suffrages of the electors, or not
at all. Creorge Henry Ward, Esq., of Northwood Park,
the Tory Candidate, is making the " needful" fly in all di-
rections, and apparently with considerable effect.

BUCKS (COUNTY.)
Shortly before twelve o'clock, the three successful candi-
dates appeared with their numerous friends in the Town-
hall. In the gallery we observed Lady Chandos, Lady
Caroline and Lord Temple, &. Mr. Praed made his first
appearance in pablic to-day. So that the election has ter-
minated without that gentleman saying a syllable to the
electors on the subject of his principles. He will take his
seat in the new Parliament certainly the most unfettered
of representatives!

Tl;e numbers were for—
The Marquis of Chandos
Sir William Young
.4 M. Praed, E5q.....,,, 2,179
Dashwood, Esq, , 1,672
Dr. Lee ...... ...
1,365
The HIGH S:;IERIFF then declared the Marquis of
Chandos,
duly P/..ected.
S::r William Young, and J. M. Praed, Esq.,

The Marquis of CHANDOS, on presenting himself, was
welcomed with tremendous applause. He said the an-
nouncement of the High Sheriff called on him to come
forward to return his grateful thanks to the electors of
Buckinghamshire for the high and distinguished honour
again conferred on him by returning him as one of their
representatives. That was not the first contest he had to
meet for the county of Bucks. It was the third contest
and the third time the freeholders, confiding to him their
rights and interests, had returned him triumphantly at the
head of the poll.—(Great cheering.) On this occasion
there was a difference from the two preceding elections.
He had been prevented from canvassing, and had been
unable to solicit votes ; yet, notwithstanding this, he had
been returned by the freeholders without one shilling
expense.—(Cheers.) He had not canvassed for one vote,
and he now returned them his grateful and heartfelt
thanks for their kindness, their noble, generous, and inde-
pendent conduct in his behalf. If any thing were wanting
in his former conduct—if there was any thing in which he
would more faithfully and honestly serve his constituents,
such a return would make him use every exertion to make
up in what he was deficient. He was not conscious, how-
ever, of any dereliction of duty, and he appeared before
them then as be had appeared before, and was proud to
say that his purposes had never for a moment been shaker
either, on the one band, in devotion to his Sovereign, ;so,
on the other, in unflinching determination to support the
rights of his Constituents.—(Great cheering.) He went
to Parliament with an anxious desire to do everything he
could to protect the rights of Englishmen, and preserve
the institutions of the country—to rescue the British fanner
from the hardships and difficulties that surrounded him,—
and, also, to bring relief to those depends.mt on him—the
honest and industrious labourers, During the previous
polls he had majorities—these wtijorities had been far sur-
passed by the present, and he therefore might venture to
say, that the freeholders of Bucks had now full and perfect
confidence in his principles. He had never deviated from
his duty to them, and had never allowed personal objects
to interfere with his public duty. It had been said that a
coalition had been formed among the three successful can-
didates. Now, he declared in the face of the electors of
Bucks and before the country, that on his part he had not
directly or indirectly canvassed or asked for a single vote
either for himself or others. When consulted by electors
how they should vote, his answer was, " In God's name,
exercise the franchise as you choose." It was his duty
to say so, as well in justice to himself as to them, He
hoped lie might be useful to the country, though
his talents, he was afraid, were not such as to enable him
to do much, but he trusted to other Conservative Members
who had been returned in such numbers from almost
every part of the country. Before he retired he wished to
express the most sincere respect and the kindest feeling for
Mr. Dashwood, their late Member. In no one instance,
public or private, had Mr. Dashwood shown any thing but
the utmost courtesy, kindness, and attention. In remem-
brance of the kindness which Mr. Dashwood evinced
towards him in his early days, as well as of the honourable
and generous manner in which he had treated him on all
occasions, he could not do less than make that public ac-
knowledgment.—(Tremendous cheering.)
Sir WILLIAM YOUNG also returned thanks for the proud
position which he held on the poll, and for the generous
exertions they had made, which he was afraid no exertions
of his could fully repay. Their confidence, which he flat-
tered himself he now possessed, he should endeavour to re.;
tain by his future conduct. Ho coon forward in defence
of the dignity and
.prerog!itives of the Sovereign, and the
m
civil and religious stitunon!, of the country. He appealed.
to the eleetura, and deelared his principles were Conserve-
ti‘:C7l43"ll)les r...:iculated to preserve those institutions IT
which this Country enjoyed a degree of practical freedom
uns-7..0wn to any other, and by which she was enabled to
hold that proud station which she did among the natioo_,fir,
the earth.—(Loud cheers.) That appeal had
answered by the electors,of Bucks, for they "444 eappisfgl
daY;
ward voluntarily, and from all parts of the eoat ..e
own expense, to record their votes in favour of such
ciples. He concluded by saying that he trusted he would

dd his duty, and that the farmers «ould have no reason to
repent of their choice.—(Loud applause.)
Mr. P4AED briefly returned thanks.
The unsuccessful candidates were no't present, but a sup-
porter of -Mi. Dashwood proposed three cheers for him,
which was readily and enthusiastically given. Scme one
proposed three groans for Dr. Lee, to which the multitude
responded with good will.
A vote of thanks to the High Sheriff was then passed,
and the meeting broke up.