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London, England, 1859-05-05 00:00:00

agitated it would not be laid down, as it had been
taken up, as the plaything of a party. The Liberal
party would have it out now, or, in the words of
the song, they " would know the reason why."
(Cheers.)
At the conclusion of Colonel Adair's speech, Mr.
CHILDS, of Bungay, from the same side of the
hustings, attempted to address the crowd, but the
Conservative partisans refused to hear him, and he
was obliged to withdraw.

The High Sheriff then took a show of hands,
which he decided to be in favour of Colonel Adair
and the Attorney-General ; and a poll having been
demanded on behalf of Lord Henniker, it was
arranged to be taken on Saturday, beginning at 8
in the morning and concluding at 5 the same
afternoon.

SUSSEX (WEST).
The nomination of candidates for this division of
the county took place yesterday, in the Guildhall,
Priory Park, Chichester. The candidates (the Earl
of March, President of the Poor-law Board, and
the Hon. H. Wyndham) were met at their resi-
dences by a large body of yeomen on horseback,
who accompanied them to the hall, where a consi-
derable number of the inhabitants of the city had
assembled. The noble lord and the hon. gentleman
were received on entering with cheers. The High
Sheriff, W. W. Blaauw, Esq., presided.
S. DICKENS, Esq., proposed, and Colonel
CARR-LLOYD seconded, the nomination of Lord
March.
W. BARTELLOT, Esq., proposed, and Major SAND-
HAM seconded, the nomination of the Hon. Henry
Wyndham.
No other candidate being proposed,
The High Sheriff declared the two former repre-
sentatives re-elected.
The Earl of MARCH then addressed the assembly
in an able and argumentative speech. He first
alluded to his again appearing before them so soon
after the recent appeal he made to the constituency
on his appointment as President of the Poor-law
Board. Next, he dwelt at great length upon
the circumstances under which the dissolu-
tion of Parliament had taken place, and de-
fended the policy pursued by the Earl of Derby.
As to the course pursued by the Opposition, he
considered it factious, and believed that the people
of England would prefer the Conservative policy of
Lord Derby to the democratic attempts of Lord
John Russell and Mr. Bright. The resolution pro-
posed by the noble lord did not, in his opinion,
forward the cause of Reform, but prevented the
Government from proceeding to the settlement of
that question, which they could not again intro-
duce during the present session. He did not believe
that Lord John Russell's object was to facilitate the
settlement of this very important question, but to
oust the Ministry, in order that he and those who
coalesced with him might step into their shoes. If
the Government bill had been proceded with it
would undoubtedly have been greatly improved in
committee ; and he might remark that, even as it
stood, it would have had the effect of doubling the
numbers of the existing constituencies. The noble
earl then referred to a late speech made by Mr.
Bright, at Manchester, and said that the words he
then made use of, if hey meant anything, meant
very little short of exciting a revolution in the
country. With regard to the ballot, he was de-
cidedly opposed to it, because he believed that it
was wholesome, right, and proper that those who
enjoyed the franchise should vote openly, so that
the people might see how they exercised their
franchise, and that they were not influenced either
by sordid motives or the interest of gain. If we
adopted this system of secret voting, we must, in
order to carry it out to its legitimate extent like-
wise have a penal enactment that no voter should
divulge the name of the candidate for whom he
voted, or we, in reality, would have no ballot at all.
In short, he believed that if the ballot were
adopted it would make the electoral body of
this country a mass of humbugs and hypo-
' crites. Having disposed of the " democratic
tendencies" of the speeches and conduct of
Mr. Bright, his lordship adverted to the present
threatening state of affairs on the Continent. He
said he believed it was the duty of this country to
preserve an armed and dignified neutrality, and, if
possible, to keep out of this great conflict. Our
policy ought to be a policy of peace ; at the same
time that would be best secured by our being pre-
pared with a fleet and an army to go to war, if
compelled to do so. He believed that not only the
electors of this division of the county, but the
people of England, would stand by her Majesty's
Government at a great crisis, and maintain our
constitution unimpaired.
The Hon. HENRY WYNDHAM next addressed the
electors, and the proceedings terminated.

SURREY (EAST).
The nomination of candidates for the election of
two knights to serve in Parliament for the eastern
division of the county of Surrey took place yesterday
in the Town-hall at Croydon, Sir Walter Farquhar,
the High Sheriff, presiding.
Mr. J. H. PALMER nominated the Hon. Peter
John Locke King.
Mr. HUTTON seconded the nomination.
Captain FITZROY proposed Mr. Thomas Alcock.
Mr. W. A. WILKINSON seconded the nomination.
Mr. C. WOOD proposed Mr. Anthony Cleasby.
Mr. STENNING seconded the proposal.
Mr. LOCKE KING then rose, and said he was so-
liciting their suffrages in a most momentous crisis.
His opinions were so well known to most of them,
and so much too well known to his opponents, that
he would not talk about himself. (Cheers.) He re-
joiced to think that the £lO franchise had been
touched upon, because the more it was ventilated
the more beneficial it would be to the Liberal cause.
(Hear, hear.) It had been said that he had attempted
to introduce into this country the French law with
regard to property, but that he denied; for the
French law was founded on injustice. His proposal
was only to provide a proper distribution of pro-
perty among a family where the head of it died in-
testate; whereas the French law did not allow the
testator to will his property as he pleased, but di-
rected him as to how he should dispose of it. He
then explained the working of the English law and
the nature of the bill he introduced into Parliament,
which did not interfere with the power of a man to
will his property as he pleased, but only prevented
the eldest son taking all and the rest of the family
being left destitute in the event of the father dying
intstate. Passing on to the conduct of the Govern-
ment, he said Parliament was dissolved at the most
untoward moment that it was possible to conceive.
They had every prospect of a general European
war, and in the face of such a crisis the Conserva-
tive Administration dissolved Parliament. An able
man would scarcely have had the hardihood to do
so, but, on the contrary, would have applied for ex-
traordinary powers to keep it together. But the
fact was the Government had not the confidence of
the late House of Commons, and was therefore en-
deavouring by some means or other to obtain the
confidence of the country. Lord Derby had been
playing fast and loose with the foreign Powers—at
one time the friend of France, then assisting
Austria to trample on the liberties of Italy, then
asking Sardinia to disarm, and thus he had been
playing with them all. And what was their con-
duct in the House before the dissolution ? They
put off the explanation in the House of Commons
until the last day of the session, when nothing could
be said, and then Lord Derby went to a dinner at
the Mansion-house' and made a speech diametri-
cally opposed to that which had been made previ-
ously. But he would ask them which speech would
they believe—the before,dinner one in the House of
Commons, or the after-dinner one at the Mansion

house? Then whom had they at the head of foreign
affairs ? Why, Lord Malmesbury, who, but for the
seriousness of his position, would be the laughing-
stock of Europe. (Cries of "..No, no.") The Reform
Bill was not a Reform Bill, but one for the perpe-
tuity of the Derby Government, and he could prove
that it was one of the most unprincipled that ever
existed. (Uproar, and cries of " Those are strong
words.") He said it advisedly, and he would prove
it. (Hear, hear.) How did they come into power ?
When Lord Palmerston brought in the Conspiracy
to Murder Bill they formed a disgraceful coalition
with the ultra-Radicals, and defeated the Govern-
ment, so that they might get place. They had since
then sacrificed their feelings and let Jews into Par-
liament, and they had also assisted them to pass the
Property Qualification Abolition Bill. He thanked
them for that, although by so doing they had aban-
doned their principles. The next thing he hqd to
refer to was the £lO franchise, and in that they
were consistent, for they uniformly opposed it ; but
he beat them by a thundering majority. (Cheers.)
Looking at the Government as it was constituted he
did not believe the honour of England was safe in
the hands of Lord Malmesbury, and as soon as the
Parliament was assembled would do all in his power
to turn them out.

Mr. APTED asked whether he would do all in his
power to prevent England being entangled in the
approaching war ?
Mr. LOCKE KING said the policy he would advo-
cate would be to express sympathy in the strongest
terms for Italy, but at the same time to observe a
strict neutrality.
Mr. ALCOCK and Mr. CLEASBY having addressed
the meeting,
A show of hands was taken, when the High
Sheriff declared it to be in favour of Mr. Locke
King and Mr. Alcock.
A poll was then demanded on behalf of Mr.
Cleasby, and a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff
terminated the proceedings.

WILTS (NORTH).
The election of two knights of the shire for the
northern division of the county- of Wilts Was held