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

HEREFORD ( COUNTY).

FRIDAY.—This is the first contested election for the
county of Hereford since 1818, and this contest has proved
that the Reformers have the power of returning three
members. Out of the seven members for the county of
Hereford, five are Reformers, and are opposed to the
Wellington-Peel Administration.

LANCASHIRE ( SOUTH).—NOMINATION.
The nomination took place on Saturday, at the small
town of Newton, from which Schedule A took away the
privilege of returning two members. The representation is
to be contested by Lord Francis Egerton and the lion. R.
Bootle Wilbraham, on the Conservative interest ; and the
old members, Lord Molyneaux and Mr. Wood, on that of
the Whigs.
WILLIAM BLUNDELL, Esq., of Crosby-hall, proposed
Viscount Molyneux.
WILLIAM EARLE, Esq., of Liverpool, seconded the
nomination.

E. J. LLOYD, Esq., nominated Mr. Wood.
SHARSPEARE PHILIPS, Esq., seconded the nomination.
Sir JOHN GERARD proposed Lord Francis Egerton.
JOSEPH BIRLEY, Esq., seconded the nomination.
Colonel P. TEMPEST then put in nomination the Hon.
R. Bootle Wilbraham.

Joux Moss, Esq., of Liverpool, seconded the nomination.
Lord Viscount MoLYNEUX presented himself to the as-
sembled multitude. When last he had the honour of ap-
pearing before the electors of South Lancashire, it was in
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to carry any further measures through a Parliament which,
according to their declaration, had been unduly andim-
properly elected.—(Cheers.) This was the motive for the
former dissolution. But he asked them, as plain English-
men,?. was there any motive for the present dissolution
(Cheers and cries of no.) The difference was indeed vastly
wide. The object of the present dissolution was to crush
and counteract the effect of that wise and just measure.—
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—by divisions over which it could not get—that it wasgoinc, too far—that it was going to plunge the nation into
destruction--and it was leading the way by what their op-
ponents were pleased to call clamour, but what they would
now very gladly call public opinion.—(Creers and laughter.)
Great boons had, however, been granted to Englishmen
by this Ministry—of their dissensions no man know any
thing—(laughter)—but every Englishman knew that
they were united and persevering' in one object—
the good of his country. His Majesty, however, in the
exercise of his undoubted prerogative had dismissed those
servants in whom the people had confidence—(Cries of
" No")—and in as summary a manner had dissolved Par-
liament. Having done so, his first act svotA not to choose
men whose moderate principles might have brought about a
happy medium, but he sent for the great enemy of all Re-
form—(Hear, and hisses)--that great and noble military
chief, the Duke of Wellington.—(Cheers.) No man pre-
sent would join in cheers to that great man more heartily
than himself, but not in his civil eharacter.—( Hear.) He
did not think that ho was fit to take in hand the govern-
ment of the rational people of England. So convinced
was the Duke himself of this, that he did not attempt such
a task. He knew that his drill-sergeant notions were too
much for the people—(Hisses and laughter)—and there-
fore he looked about him for the cleverest man that he
could see in the country—(Loud cheers)—and who he
thought would go down best with the people of England.—
(Hear.) With all the haste that post-horses could carry
him, he brought that great man, Sir Robert Peel, to under-
take the Government—( Loud cheers)—and no sooner had
he arrived than he informed the people in what way he in-
tended to govern them, by publishing to the electors of
Tamworth an address, which had been alluded to at the
other end of the hustings—ably written and admirably eon-
structed--but which meant nothing.—(Cries of " Oh
and laughter.) It was acknowledged, indeed, to be one of
the cleverest, but, at the same time, one of the most vague
pieces of sophistry..-.(Laughter and cheers.) For him-
self be would say, that lie never would trust such men ; it
was impossible that they could retain office for two months
without the most disgraceful recantation of their political
faith—without such perfidious apostacies as honourable
men would bo ashamed to perpetuate.—(Cheers and hisses.)
He hesitated not to say, that he was a thorough-going
church Reformer, and wished to support the edifice of the
Church by a repair of its foundations.—(Cheers.) He
wished to see the Church, as he had said before in that
place, supported and elevated by its purity, its chastity, its
charity, and its tolerance towards all men of all sects.—
(Cheers.) He wished it to be distinguished by the good it
did, and not by the pelf it pocketed.—(Cheers and hisses.)
Mr. G. W. WOOD was received with loud cheers. He
had generally acted in support of the late Government,
from his belief that the principles on which they acted were
calculated to advance the prosperity and welfare of the
country, and to place those interests on afirm and secure
basis. That Ministry had recently been dismissed, and a
party which had opposed every measure of reform and im-
provement brought forward by them had been called in to
succeed them ; and the Petbamont had been dissolved, to
give to lip PIPPtarS the opportunity of deciding between the
two Governments, which it was more inclined to support.
If they preferred the present to the former Government,
they were changed, and not he ; if they preferred a Tory to
a Whig Government, he was not the ittan for them. He
has little debt a goomi fooling upon that question.
tie °Quid 'not tAle'Ve and put his trust in the present Minis-
ters as honest in their intentions as Reformers. In that he
had the satisfaction of being borne out by one whose opi-
nions were entitled to the highest respect—Lord Stanley.
Lord FRANCIS EGERTON was received by enthusiastic
manifestations of fceliogi. The vltmoll 11R4 hoop told upon
be §l-14114 Pet stop to question—that of
the Noble Lord to whom he had the misfortune now to be
opposed—that his (Lord F. Egerton's) political opinions
disqualified him for the representation of this county in
ornament. If that attack were personal to himself—if
that sentence of exclusion from Parliament was to be en-

deavoured to be enforced against him individually, he could
submit to it with little regret ; but he viewed in that in-
dictment, framed by the Noble Lord, the application of a
principle put forward by one party with a view to effect the
exclusion of another party from the councils of the nation,
and as such he would venture to try the question by the
voice of the county, and to put it to the test of a poll, only
regrettinc, that it could not be tried in the person of an
abler advocate than himself.—(Loud cheers.) He consi-
nered the enforcement of that principle involved the defeat
of the exercise of the King's unquestionable prerogative—
a prerogative recently exercised without any pretence or a
shadow of ground for saying that it was influenced by fac-
tion or intrigue.—(Renewed cheers.) That principle would
exclude from power those very men whom the voice of the
country acknowledged in every respect to be able, proper,
and fit to wield it.—(Cheers, and some disapprobation.) He
did not acknowledge the justice of such a call on the part
of those who, with impotence to do good, had firgotten
their impotence to avoid mischief.—(Continued cheering.)
Let this party be assured, that if they should succeed in
their attempt to effect the return to power of those now in
the councils of the Crown, the loss of many acres would
follow to those now in possession, who must then take rank,
not beside, but beneath the levellers whose assistance they
sought.—(Cheers, and partial hisses.) It was in vain to
think they could benefit by such assistance ; or, that having
used it, they could get rid of those whose aid they had
sought and attained by cajolery or menace, reward or pro-
secution ; on the contrary he believed they would find that
the dissolution of the partnership they had formed would
not be so easily and suddenly effected—(Cheers)---they
would discover that the facility by which these (like the
ministers of forbidden arts) could be dismissed when once
aroused, was very far from perfect.—(Continued cheers.)
These were the dangers to which he looked forward ; and
if he knew the length (of which he was anything but
certain) that the other candidates who had addressed the
meeting would go, if the power was committed to their
hands, he should feel less disposition to come forward on
the present occasion. It was in contemplation of such
dangers that he owned that he clung with increased attach-
ment to the essence of the institutions of the country.
He disallowed no claim of the Dissenters to the best edu-
cation which could be provided for them ; but he did dig-
allow, and he should to the last resist their claims, to en-
trance into the British Universities.—( Hisses.)
The Hon. RICHARD • BOOTLE WILBRAHAM next ad-
dressed the freeholders. He declared his principles to be
Conservative, and that he put himself forth as an unflinch-
ing and uncompromising supporter of the Constitution in
Church and State.
The show of hands was declared to be in favour of the
Conservatives. A poll was demanded on behalf of Lord
Molyneux and Mr. Wood, and fixed to take place on Tues-
day ane. Wednesday.
A vote of thanks to the Sheriff having been carried.
meeting separated at half-past two.