The Sun.
London, England, 1835-04-25 00:00:00

itliE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1835.

would accrue, by the establishment of national schools in that
country. In conclusion, he galled ,wpon them ,not,, to oppose
Lord_John RuiselllS establishing schools in Ireland, as they
would enable the people of Ireland to become good citizens,
arid to think and judge for themselves.---( Cheers. )
ThomAs limas, Esq., M.P., Said; after the address of the
Noble Lord, I shall say little, lest I should by any means en-
feeble it. I cannot, however, but take this opportunity of
congratulating you on the removal not only of an obnoxious, but
on the re-instating Of a Ministry who has our entire confidence.
Among the first is Lord John Russell. I feel convinced that
all persons present will use all their exertions to secure his
Lordship's return. Most perfectly do I concur in all that has
fallen from the Noble Lord sitting by me on the subject of the
Irish Church. We are told that the late Ministry were turned
out by a factious opposition—l canaot find this out. The divi-
sions on which the late Ministry were in a minority were all
on vital principles. Had we wished to have been factious, we
might have been so on the Malt Question. The Speaker
concluded by declaring that he should always act up to his
principles.—( Cheers. )
JOHN COLLIER Esq., M.P., spoke to the effect follow-
ing :—I can have very little to say to you on the present
occasion. My votes will best prove to you what principles I
profess. When I last had the honour of meeting you, I said
the Reform Bill would work well—it has worked well in dis-
placing a set of men who were not deserving the confidence of
the King or the people.--( Cheers.) It was not a factious
opposition, as my worthy colleague has very properly said,
that turned out the late Ministry. On the Speakership, the
addresses, and other questions, they were in the minority.
On the question of granting a Charter to the London Univer-
sity, they were left in a minority hardly ever before known--
there was about two to one against them. Look, too, at the
appointment of Lord Londonderry to the embassy of St. Pe-
tersburgh—the sense of the House was expressed, and Lord
Londonderry resigned—they could not stand against it—for the
sense of the House was the sense of the country. But we must
have your support on the present occasion.--( Cries of " You
shall have it," from all parts of the meeting.) If you do not
return the man who has deserved so well of you and your
country, it will be a disgrace to you. I cannot sit down with-
out saying I think there is a debt of gratitude due to my Lord
Elri irigton for his attendance here this day, and for his general
conduct and character as a Reformer. I had the honour of
supporting Lord Ebrington by my vote in 1819. Until then,
there was scarce an instance of a Reformer being returned for
the county. Lord Ebrington has stood forward on all occa-
sions for the people, particularly at the time the Reform Bill
was rejected by the Commons. Mr. Collier concluded by
moving a vote of thanks to Lord Ebrington.
THOMAS BEWES, Esq.-, M. P., with much pleasure seconded
the resolution.

GEORGE LEACH, Esq., of Devonport, was then loudly called
for by the meeting. He rose and spoke as follows :—I con-
gratulate the lovers of freedom, and of civil and religious
liberty, on the assembly I see around me. As a native of this
division of the county, I feel anxious that we should not dis-
grace ourselves by displacing Lord John Russell. Mr. Leach
then referred to the Irish Church question, and speaking of
Toryism, said its sun had set for ever. He concluded by stat-
ing that Lord John Russell merited our support, and that if
he could judge by the feeling expressed by the meeting Lord
John had the advantage.—(Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was carried
unanimously. After which three cheers were given for Lord
Ebrington.

LOl2l EBRINOTON returned thanks ; after which the meeting
broke up. .
....

Previous to the separation of the meeting thanks were given
to the Chairman.

Lord Ebiiugton left this place (Plymouth) this evening for
Tavistock, where his Lordship intends addressing the electors.
On Saturday his Lordship is to be at Okehampton.
Lord John Russell is to be here (Plymouth) on Thursday
next to address the electors. The returns received to-day are,
we underitand, decidedly in favour of Lord John Russell.
To-morrow Mr. Dawson intends dining with his Devonport
friends. Mr. Parker, the candidate for the southern division
of Devon, as well as Sir J. Y. Buller, M. P. for the southern
division, intend being present on the occasion.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24.

(From a Second Edition of the Nottingham Journal of
yesterday.)

" The re-election of Sir John Hobhouse, in consequence of
his having accepted the office of President of the Board of
Control, took place this day in the Exchange-room. After
the usual preliminaries had been gone through,
Lord RANCLIFFE, in a short but animated speech, proposed
Sir John Cam Hobhouse as a fit and proper person to repre-
sent the town of Nottingham in Parliament.
THOMAS WAKEFIELD, Esq., seconded the nomination in a
speech, during which he commented on the present state of
political affairs, and on the ability and principles of the Right
Hon. Baronet.

No other candidate being proposed, Sir John Hobbouse was
declared duly elected.

Sir JOHN HomousE, Bart., M. P., on presenting himself,
was received with cheers, when he said, that if it was gra-
tifying to the Noble and Hon. Gentlemen who had pre-
ceded him, to be permitted to speak to them on that oc-
casion, it was much more so to himself, and it was with
honest pride, and true unmixed joy and satisfaction that he
came before them. After what has been called a fair trial
—he meant a parliamentary trial—they, the electors, had
been pleased to confirm their original choice. This was
the third time they had invested him with the highest
trust that could be reposed in the hands of an English-
man—the delicate, the difficult, and the honourable trust
of representing an enlightened community in Parliament.—
( Loud applause.) In nine months he had presented him-
self three times before them, and in four years he had been
nine times before large constituencies of his fellow-subjects;
and it was a great pride to him to have found, on these re-
peated occasions, so many of his countrymen willing to repose
so important a trust in his hands. He hoped he had con-
vinced them of his sincere desire to do his duty in the best
posiible way. Great events have taken place since they last
elected him ; they had sent him to Parliament to do his utmost
to displace the late Administration, which he knew the electors
of Nottingham distrusted, and which he believed the country
considered were not entitled to their confidence. Without
the slightest reserve, and without the slightest pretension,
from the first moment he entered the House of Commons, be
had declared he was one of the men who did not intend to give
them the fair trial which they pretended to solicit, and his
whole exertions had been employed to overthrow that Admi-
nistration, because he considered they had already had that
fair trial, and were too well known, and, in fact, better known
than trusted. His whole life had been spent in a dreary con-
templation of their misdeeds; he was satisfied that the
electors of this town were well acquainted with them, and
the verdict they were called to deliver, was not as a re-
ward for future measures of good, but it was something
not unlike punishment for their former conduct. To
have continued the late Ministry in office, he considered
would have been not only highly detrimental to the best in-
terests of the country, but would have fixed a stain upon public
morals. After ridiculing the pretensions of Sir Robert Peel's
Administration to be called a Reforming Ministry, he stated
his conviction, that had the late experiment succeeded, it
would have been injurious to the progress of Reform and the
prospects of the people. He then referred to the short but
sharp struggle in the House of Commons (of which he thought
the people must approve), and the manner in which the Oppo-
sition had succeeded; he considered that it was not only a good
cause, but that the contest had been well conducted, and that
the battle had been well fought.—( Applause.) He was con-
vinced, as Lord Melbourne had truly said at Derby, the Re-
formers could not afford to be disunited ; for by this time the
people of England must be convinced, that divisions of Re-
formers had given advantages to the common enemy, and it
was only by the admirable union of all Reformers in the House
of Commons, that they had succeeded in compelling the late
Ministry to resign.--( Applause.) It is well known that some
of the Government do not hold the same opinions as have been
expressed by some of their allies in Parliament ; but, said he,
I am bound to pay a just tribute to those men who have so
gallantly, so uniformly, perseveringly, and successfully fought
the battle in the House of Commons. Nothing could be
more admirable or more honourable than the conduct of
these Reformers ; and if I may be allowed to give a hint
to you, and through you to the people of England, I
would declare, that it is only by a continuation of this con-
duct that the Ministry has the least chance of remaining in
power--( Hear, hear)—it is only by the support of the popular
Representatives of England, of Scotland, and of Ireland—
( Cheers)--who have only done their duty to their country, that
we can remain in office ; and for myself (continued Sir J. H.)
whatever others might do, I will not forget their services—
and as I was willing to fight with them in the day of difficulty,
I trust that I and my colleagues will have a proper sense of
their merits in the day of triumph. It is only by this union
that we can hope to face the great difficulties that now sur-
round us.. Do not deceive yourselves • I do intreat you, and
those great constituencies now appealed to by my colleagues,
to consider the vast obstacles we have to overcome. You are
all aware of the hostility of a large majority in the Upper
House of Parliament, and of the many influential classes op-
posed to you and your views ; you are aware that the late dis-
solution of Parliament (by means, I am afraid, which honest
men would blush to employ) effected a great change in the
representation of the people. The late Ministry succeeded in
bringing to the House of Commons a body of men, who will
now form the most powerful Opposition that ever sat in Par-
liament, except that with which I was connected, and which
now occupies their places on the Ministerial benches.--( Hear. )
How are we to contend with that Opposition? I will tell
You how the present Administration intends to make
head against that formidable minority, and why we hope
to succeed.—(Cheers, and bear, hear.) In the first place
we intend to be true to our own characters, and those assu-
rances which we have given to the people : whatever may Le
the event, by pursuing such a line of conduct, we hope to
secure from you and our own consciences, that approbation
which, after all, must be the proper reward for those honest
public men who shall endeavour uncompromisingly to do their
duty. I can assure the Noble Lord who proposed, and y!
Honourable Friend who seconded this domination, that we do
not intend to truckle to any party in the State whatever—
( Cheers)—but we shall fearlessly propose good measures,
carry them if we can, and if we cannot, let the fault and
failure rest upon the heads of our adversaries _( Cheers, and
hear, hear.) For myself it is a matter of perfect indifferenc.,
whether or not •I continue to be a Minister of the Crown. I
care not for that high station, for high it may be called, if it
enable me to st-Tve you more effectually, except inasmuch as it
extends the sphere of public utility.--( Hear, hear.) And
in accepting the office which his Majesty has conferred Ron
me, knowing as I do the frailty of that tenure—remembering.

what occurred in November last--( Hear, hear,)—l am aware
that we have more obstacles than ever beset an Administra-
tion, but f will topeat that with you and the honest consti-
tuencies of England to back us, we are net afraid-..we are
sure that one way or the other we shall be able to accom-
plish the great object we contemplate in holding the
reins of power; to do justice to Ireland—( Hear, hear)—and
that we shall also accomplish, in this country, those simi-
lar reforms which the increasing state of intelligence in this
nation so imperiously demands ; that we shall proceed with
no intemperate haste, but with a steady determination, in the
course you have been pleased to approve ; and shall, by being
Ministers of the Crown, show that we only continue the ser-
vants of the people—that we know our duty to our fellow-
countrymen, and knowing that duty, we are resolved to dis-
charge it.—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Baronet then pio-
ceeded to thank his auditors, in eloquent terms, for the
kindness and respect with which he had been treated; assuring
them, that whatever might be the result of the present politi-
cal struggle—whether he might be driven, by the opponents
of the Ministry, shortly to meet them again, or not, he should
meet them with a mutual good will—or at all events he would
endeavour to show, that he set a proper price on their good-
will, and those suffrages by which he was again enabled to
take his station as one of the representatives of the people. In
conclusion, he had merely to inform them, that most of his
colleagues who were now away from London, he hoped would
be elected : of Lord John Russell's return for Devonshire, he
trusted he might be permitted to say, he was all but certain,
at least he knew every exertion would be made to secure it.
Under these circumstances, in the absence of so many of his
colleagues, he should feel it his duty, immediately on leaving
that room, to return to his post, and while there, he trusted
that they would find he would not only be performing his own
duty, but that he was also doing their's.
The Right Hon. Baronet was greeted at the conclusion of
his speech, by three times three cheers, and after receiving
the congratulations of his friends, the meeting separated.
[We beg to express our thanks to the proper authorities for
the excellent accommodation afforded to the gentlemen of
the press.]

YORKSHIRE ELECTION.

WEST RIDING.

LEEDS, TIIURSDAY EVENING.—This day has decided what
had hitherto been doubtful, whether we should have a contest
for the West Riding. We are to have one. The Tories met
to the number of about 150 at Wakefield this morning, when
George Lane Fox, Esq.. of Bramham Park, was called to the
chair, but what passed afterwards is not known, the reporter
of the Leeds Mercury, and all not hearty in the cause of Mr.
John Stuart Wortley, having been requested by Mr. Beckett
Denison to withdraw before business commenced, as he con-
sidered the meeting one of a private nature. This is certain,
however, Mr. Wortley, who is Lord Wharncliffe's eldest son,
and the defeated candidate in Forfarshire at the late general
election, arrived in the course of the morning, was hailed
with great cheering by the assembly, announced his wil-
lingness to accede to the desire of his friends, that he
should stand on the Tory interest, and subsequently pub-
lished an address, " venturing " before the electors " as a
candidate." His friends in all parts of the country will
now doubtless be arriving for the approaching fight. Ever
since. Lord Morpeth's acceptance of office was known, the Li-
berals in Leeds and other places have been actively engaged in
making preparations for the battle, which the Tories murmered
about, but only announced a contest as likely really to take
place in a miserably small placard at Leeds, on Tuesday morn-
ing. At a numerous meeting of his Lordship's friends in the
Rotunda of the Coloured Cloth Hall here, yesterday evening,
James G. Marshall, Esq., in the Chair, it was unanimously
resolved—That this meeting entirely approve of Lord Mor-
peth's conduct as their Representative in Parliament, and that
the most active and persevering measures be adopted to secure
his re-election for the West Riding. By to-morrow it may be
expected that the Liberals of the whole Riding will be aroused.
The accounts from those places which have given returns to
Leeds are very favourable, and the Reformers expect confi-
dently to gain a victory over the enemies of reform in this its
strong-hold.

BRISTOL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Being a constant reader of your most excellent paper,
and being also well aware of your truly valuable assistance to
the cause of Reform, I venture to send you the following ac-
count, hoping that you will, in one of your earliest papers, in-
sert a feu, remarks, to stir up the Reformers of this city, and
by that means to convince our fellow-countrymen that we are
not so much under the iron rod of a Tory Corporation as is
generally supposed. About ten days since a few friends began
a subscription of sixpence each, to give a piece of plate to
Lord John RusSell, as a trifling acknowledgment of his ser-
vices in turning out the late Ministry, which was believed
would realize perhaps about 151. ; but I am happy to
say it is taken up now so warmly, that a meeting held last
night at the Full Moon Tavern, Broad-street, it was found
that there was already about 1201. in hand. We are still going
on, and on Saturday an advertisement will appear in the ./Ffer-
cu) y, calling upon all the collectors to exert their utmost be-
tween that and next Thursday, when another meeting will be
held, by which time, I am convinced, THAT IF YOU WILL REN-
DER YOUR MOST POWERFUL ASSISTANCE BY STIRRING UP THE
BRISTOLIANS, we shall be able to present him with a piece of
plate worthy.both of the givers and the receiver. I hope you
will excuse the liberty I have taken, and believe me,
Your's most truly,

April 24. H. P.
P. S. There is also a subscription going on, to be sent into
Devonshire to further his return. When I saw the list 110/.
was down ; that was yesterday morning.