The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-14 00:00:00

GREAT YARMOUTH.

.The Liberal candidates addressed their supporters
at considerable length on Monday, night. Mr. j,
W. Shelley, one of the borough magistrates, pre-
sided.

Mr. %VATKIN contended, with reference to the
assertion that the Reform Bill of the Governmeht
might have been modified in committee as to its
details, that the Liberal party quarrelled not with
its details but with its main principles---the dis-
franchisement_ of county freeholders resident in
boroughs, the non-reduction of the f
fran-
chise, borough ran-
Th_v.,ivaenElt. the retention of nomination boroughs.
was
'tot, keep
of all this, the hon. gentleman argued,
few gre'at
tPe the.
.rep.resentation in the hands of a
that was thattorial interests. The consequence of
country that
tihe Executive Government of the
representatiOn the hands of a tew ; and as the
Government
also at
monopoly, 'So the Executive
was. that which flower e.a monopoly. The result
—viz., inefficiency,. Tfiriorn every kind of monopoly
from filling the right best men were prevented
of England came intoPearl4.and when the people
o. f some other county. 1180,1°11 with the people
in the case of the war in th—e .systemas it did
from its own inefficiency, aej.runea—broke down
superior wealth and superior England, with her
spite of her intrinsic power. Population, sunk, in
ment dissolved, not to carry a Pr"Llit Govern-
but to. keep in office ; they ac
t71°21„1,.
despised. the national danger which it ihe and
were going to the country upon merenvo:vea' and
siderations. (Cheers.) party eon..
Mr. YOUNG, M.P., said the question was
whether
the House of Commons acted rightly in thelate
division. He had voted with the majority, and he
was ready to stake his election upon the issue.
Taking into account the territorial influence the
Bill of the Government would have created and
maintained, he. believed, if it had passed, the
people would have been worse represented than
at present. It wholly ignored the existence of the
working artisans throughout the United Kingdom,
except those who happened to live in £lO houses ;
and although he himself was not an extreme Re-
former, he must insist on a fair extension of the
borough franchise. The Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer had endeavoured to take the Liberal
element out of every county, but his object was so
transparently evident that it was a aiatter of won,

der that he could ever have hoped to pass his bill.
Tho opposition of Lord John Russell was said to
have been factious, but the noble lord's co.,rse was
taken immediately after the introductiin of the
bill, when he got up and expressed those senti-
ments which he afterwards put into a resolution.
Adverting to the ballot, Mr. Young t- aid he had
always been of opinion that electi ~,s should be
conducted on that principle, having witnessed its
successful, quiet, and peaceable application in
Australia, where intimidation and bribery were
unknown, because every man was independent.
The hon. member, in conclusion, stated that the
promises of support tendered to Mr. Watkin and
himself, after six days' canvass, were more nume-
rous than those given to Mr. Watkin and Mr.
M'Cullagh in 1857, after 14 days' canvass. (Cheers.)
In the course of the proceedings it was stated
that Mr. M'Cullagh had abandoned all idea of
offering himself as a candidate for the borough.