The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-13 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

HEREFORD.
The nomination took place at the old Town-ball yester-
day, the Mayor, Mr. Wm. George presiding. There was
a large attendance of electors and non-electors. -
Mr. C. T. BODENHAM, of Rotherwas, proposed, and Mr.
Alderman AFTHOWY seconded, the nomination of Mr.
George Clive, the Liberal candidate.
Mr. F. H. THOMAS and Mr. EDWARD WEMYSS per-
fumed the like office for Mr. Kevill Davies, the candidate

brought forward by the Tory party.
Mr. CLIVE fast addressed the electors at considerable
length. He stated that he sought the suffrages of the elec-
tors as a genuine Liberal, and an independent supporter of
the Palmerston Government, because in his opinion that Go-
vernment coin prised the le.'itim ate successors of the men who
carried the Reform Bill, and in fact all liberal measures,from
the time when the Tories were first dispossessed of office
down to the present period. It was true that the credit of
passing liberal measures was claimed on all sides, and that
eminent Conservative statesman, -Sir J. Pakington—for
whom he prophesied the post of Secretary of State in the
event of his party obtaining power—had been recommend-
ing "perseverance" as the only way to secure an exten-
sion of education, showing that the Reform Bill, Catholic
Emancipation, and the repeal of the corn laws had been
canied by_ perseverance ; in fact, claiming for Conser-
vative - statesmen the parentage of all those great
measures.. He was also prepared to support Lord Palmer.
1 ston's Government, because they had brought the Russian
' war to a satisfactory termination. " Oh, uh," from the
Tories.) No doubt many thought a better peace might
have been made, and would not have been• unwilling for
Russia to have had another year of the war; but, for his
own part, he thought the Government had made the best
peace they could. Austria was unwilling to go on longer,
France had had quite enough, and England was left in the
position that she must have continued the contest alone.
And no one, he felt, wou wish England to meddle wish
European politics, and fight the battle of freedom there by
herself. He dissented from the supposition that the power
of Russia had not been weakened, and, having given some
facts in reference to her great loss of men, he came next
to the question of the income tax. His belief was that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer had no intention to continue
the impost of what was called the " war 9d.," unless it was
necessary to do so for the purpose of paying debts already
contracted. If this were not clearly shown to be the fact,
he was prepared to vote for the abolition of that part of
the tax in April next. He professed himself anxious for a
reform of the law, particularly referring to the law affect-
ing the transfer of land, and the system of ecclesiastical
tenures as requiring amelioration. On the question of
dealing with our criminal population, he was opposed to
the ticket-of leave system, and said it was quite clear that
onr homes must be kept sacred from men who, after a year
or two's imprisonment, are enabled to get a remission of
their sentences by making a number of civil speeches to
the chaplain. But then, what are we to do with these men,
our'‘T willr "Transport
some of whom were no doubt sincere in their professions of
repentance, and would, if they could surmount the obsta-
cles that beset them return to the paths of honesty?
sentence, haveort them"
them :
andmight bh ee theoa n response;
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toth e but
conclusiono ur colonies
that
convictsia smustneh be
works
a semployed,the duringconstriction the
more prudent to and docks of harbours
7- works which might not be otherwise
undertaken. On the question of education he contended
tending the franchise without that the tendency of the being
tion. He was therefore it would be
of education, and thought
. educational means than by ex-
tending
exercise of that power by prepare to e xttheen d the
people franchise,
afno cr h
thei s ,
wrezthout the accompaniment of educe-
favour of the general extension
good school in every
glbyalolnetthe ne
parish.no one could object to see a
touchedhimself
vueproyn s t theron
some measure to secure the voter for the adoption of
prepared r 1 the rightful exercise
of his trust, he said he was
question,The h°ll*
and
after candidate
expressing next
to vote for the ballot,
or any other measure which would s the desiredoe m command
sonb-
jec t , if it were at all reasonable anletlirlecely to o d
public approbation. Coming to the subject of church
rates, Mr. Clive said he was willing to support Sir Wm.