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peat the experiment. If they did not resort bribery and
corruption, he had no doubt the Liberals would beat theal by
a large majority. He felt it incumbent upon him to bring the
matter before the House of Commons, and if the Blues were
again returned by bribery, another petition would be presented,
to which he anticipated the same result.—( Hear, hear, any
cheers.) He expressed his surprise that Colonel Broke had
come forward on this occasion, and said there could be but one
opinion of the respectability of that gentleman's family. As
Mr. Holmes had been proposed by a Conservative Whig, he
should like to know how he would feel, if called upon to be
whipper-in of such a strange class of politicians ? His (Mr.
Morrison's) political opinions were well known to the electors
of Ipswich. He was as much attached to the Kingly Govern-
ment, and as friendly to the agricultural interest, as his oppo-
nents. As to Corporation Reform, he hoped to see such a
measure carried as would be beneficial to all classes. If they
returned him to Parliament he would support those principles
to which he had always pledged himself, and he had complete
confidence in the final result of the election. The Hon.
Gentleman retired amidst general applause.
Mr. WASON then stood forward to address the meeting, but
was received with loud hisses and partial cheers.
Mr. HoLmas interfered, and entreated the meeting to give
Mr. Wason a patient hearing.
Mr. WASON again attempted to address the meeting, but
was frequently interrupted in the course of his speech. He
assured his honourable opponents that no expression had ever
fallen from his lips imputing to them any personal blame.—
( Loud cries of " It's false ;" and a person hi the crowd said,
" You charged me last nigt with false and dishonourable con-
duct.") Let the issue of the contest be what it might he was
willing that his public character should be publicly canvassed,
and he claimed the same right with respect to his opponents.
He lamented that the Gallant Colonel had been put into the
hands of that party, whose proceedings at the last election no
man except a renegade at Ipswich could possibly characterize
as just and honourable. The Hon. Gentleman then referred
to a speech lately delivered by Mr. Fonnereau at a public
meeting, urging the electors to be true to the cause ; and if
they used the same honourable calculating means as at last
election, their triumph would be secured. Now he wished to
ask Mr. Rodwell whether he would recommend the electors to
have recourse to such measures ? He would pause for a reply.
Mr. RODWELL said he did not approve of putting such in-
terrogatories in the course of a speech, but he had no objec-
tion to state in reply, that whatever honourable means were
used at the last election, might with great propriety be used
on the present occasion.—( Loud cheering.)
Mr. WASON said the answer was equivocal, and not satis-
factory. He (Mr. Wason) had put the question with the
view of directing attention to the word " calculating," as ap-
plied to the means of bribery and corruption used at the late

election.
Mr. RODWELL had no hesitation in st;:ying that any
means calculated on to secure that election which were not
honourable never should have his approbation.—(CheeCs.)
Mr. WAsoN said be was satisfied with the explanation, so
far as it respected Mr. Rodwell personally, but he did not
believe it of the party with which he was connected. He was
surprised to see Mr. Holmes nominated by Mr. Fonnereau,
who had, before eleven Members of the House of Commons,
sworn that he was a Conservative Whig.—(Laughter.) He
should now ask Colonel Broke a question, which he hoped
he would answer on the honour of a soldier and a gentleman.
Colonel BROKE said he would answer no questions put at
that moment. It was altogether irregular.
Mr. WASON said he would put that question in Colonel
Broke's presence, and he would ask how the respectable por-
tion of his party would feel when they saw it stated in the
newspapers that Colonel Broke was seen parading the streets
of the town with Edward Bolton Finch.—(Laughter.)
Colonel BROKE said he should be quite ready to use his own
discretion in answering any question properly put to him when
his turn came to address the meeting.—( Cheers. )
Mr. WASON then expressed his sympathy with the four per-
sons who were in prison in consequence of the part they took
at the last election. He would never do any thing to strike
Mr. Sparrow off the roll, but was ready to sign a petition in
his favour. He only regretted that those who were the real
principals in the transaction, Messrs. Dundas and Kelly, were
not placed in prison, instead of those four unfortunate indivi-
duals, and no effort should be wanting on his part to place
them there.—(Cheering and uproar.) If the same calculating
means were used at this election he would take care that their
net should be larger, and equally strong, so as to encircle a
few others; and he had no doubt they would not be allowed
to escape. If the Blues now succeeded, he would state that
he already knew at least of. three cases of bribery, which were
quite sufficient to upset their election.—(Cries of " Name,
who offered 151. to bribe the butcher.") One of them was
perpetrated the day before yesterday. They might mark the
fact, and if the matter demanded an investigation his state-
ments should be amply authenticated. With respect to inti-
midation, he would state one case iu which Mr. Rodwell was
deeply and personally implicated.—(Cries of " Name.")
Mr. RODWELL here came forward, and requested that the
name should be given of the individual that had been re-

ferred to.
Mr. WaSON said he would, immediately after the election,
give Mr. Rodwell the name. He would now, however, state
some circumstances that might bring the case to his recollec-
tion. An elector told him that Mr. Rodwell had called six or
seven times to solicit his vote in favour of the Blues ; and the
last answer given to that solicitation was, that although a poor
man he respected political consistency, and although he had
worked for Mr. Rodwell on one or two occasions, it was as
unjust to call on him to vote for Colonel Broke and Mr.
Holmes, as it would be in him to call on Mr. Rodwell to vote
for Mr. Morrison and Mr. Wason.—( Cheering.)
Mr. RODWELL declared most solemnly that the whole state-
ment, from beginning to end, was an utter falsehood.
Mr. WASON said he believed the testimony of the honest
elector, although he had not a fine coat on his back, in pre-
ference to that of Mr. Rodwell.—( Cheers and confusion.)
He pledged himself to give the name of the elector imme-
diately after the election, and till then he must be allowed to
keep his own counsel.—( Cheering and hissing.)
Colonel BROKE then advanced to the front of the platform,
and was received with loud cheering. He thanked them for
the very favourable reception they had given him. He wished
it had fallen to some more able and eloquent champion to an-
swer, as it deserved, the speech they had heard from Mr.
Wason. Had he been present in a private capacity he
would have left the Hall in disgust, when he heard that
gentleman, in a strain of bitter irony, inveighing against some
of the most respectable men in the borough, and con-
cluding by asserting that he believed the word of an in
former in preference to the solemn declaration of a gen-
tleman whose character was altogether unimpeachable.—
( Cheering.) But standing as he did, he was there to perform
a solemn duty. He had no feelings of ambition or of vanity
to gratify in being returned as representative for that borough.
But the present was a peculiar emergency ; and although he
had no disposition to put himself forward, yet as a freeman
of the town, he had no hesitation to stand on public principle.
Such feelings had placed him before them that day ; and to
prove how strong that feeling was, he might state that a do-
cument existed in his own hand-writing, which pledged him
that whenever the Conservative interest would not be endan-
gered, or could be advanced by his retirement, he should be
most happy to place the important trust, should it be confided
to him, in the hands of the electors.—( Cheers.) He con-
tended that, because one or two individuals had been con-
victed of bribery, it was most un-English to say that the whole
of the party had irretrievably disgraced itself. Why should
the whole party by such a proceeding be stamped with dis-
grace? He had come forward to give the honest Conservative
electors an opportunity of recording their independent and
unbiassed votes, and he hoped the return of Mr. Holmes and
himself would offer a most satisfactory refutation of the as-
persions which had been thrown upon the whole party. With
respect to the question which had been put to him, but which
ho had formerly declined to answer, as to his having paraded
the town arm-in-arm with Mr. Finch, who had been convicted
of bribery, he had only to say that he had no knowledge what-
ever of that gentleman. He did not even know him by name
—that was the shortest way of disposing of the argument by
which a calumnious prejudice was attempted to be got up
against him.—( Cheering.) If he was returned to Parliament,
he would give no pledge other than that he would, to the ut-
most of his power, consider every question submitted to his
attention, and give his vote according to his conscience for
measures that would be beneficial to his country, following, at
a humble distance, the course of Sir Robert Peel—(great
cheering)—convinced that the measures advocated by that
great Statesman would tend to advance the welfare of the
country, uphold its best establishments, and support its already
tottering constitution.—(The Hon. Gentleman retired amidst
loud cheering.)
Mr. HOLMES was loudly cheered. He observed that he had
been asked, and very justly, what had brought him, a total
stranger, to offer himself as a Representative for that borough.
He came forward upon the requisition of a number of most re-
spectable electors, and had been promised support by upwards
of 500 of the voters. Some expressions of surprise had been
expressed respecting the possibility of his (Mr. Holmes)being
made, if returned to Parliament, the whipper-in of the Con-
servative- Whigs.—( A. laugh.) He could only say that he
wished such was the case. The Reform Bill, by which every
man's sentiments must now be guided, having now passed into
a• law, unless there was a strong union of everything that was
liberally Conservative, and liberally Whig, for those were the
elements alone which could now be useful to the country—
without such a union their Constitution must give way before
the assaults of rash, unprincipled, and selfish innovators. He
declared most solemnly, that he hoped the cases of bribery
would be found out which had been mentioned by Mr. Wason,
and the parties prosecuted.
The BAILIFF then called for the show of hands, which was
greatly in favour of Mr. Morrison and Mr. Wason.
A poll was demanded on belalf of the other candidates,
which is to commence to-morrow (this morning).
The town is in the most tranquil state.

A correspondent complains that almost every week
one of the wings of the beautiful winged heads which adorn
the front of the gallery of the Inner High Courch are theft-
uously carried off ; and he hints that the depredation must be
committed by some of the relique-collecting Goths who visit
the Cathedral at this season. He hopes the person in charge
of the church will look sharply after this in future, and hand
over transgressors to the Police.—Glasgow Herald.
Great excitement was created in Uppingham-market
on Wednesday by the sale by auction of four ewes and two
lambs, belonging to Mr. Burgess, of Ridliugton, which had
been taken under a distress warrant for church-rates. Mr.
Burgess, being one of the Society of Friends, had consci-
entiously refused to pay the rate. The populace expressed
their indignation in no measured terms, and earnestly exhorted
every one present not to purchase ; the animals, however, were
at length sold—the ewes for FT• 155.. the lambs far
Stamford Mereurq.