The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-30 00:00:00

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The contest in Kidderminster
one between the Right Hon. R.. 40, tilt-11a,
member, and the • Conservative candidife, lklr W.
Boycott, a local solicitor. On Saturday: last—the
polling day
y--the electors were allowed to exercise
their privilege in a comparatively quiet.manner up
to 2 o clock in the afternoon, nothing beyond a
little -senseless groaning occurring at either of the
polling booths. Tie various carpet mills closed on
Saturday at 2 o'clock, and shortly after that hour
the liberate 1 workmen haFtened towards the south
polling booth, situated on Blakeway-g, een, and by
about 3 Q'ClOCk. there could not have been less than
5,000 or 6,000 men and women of the lower orders
assembled upon this large open space. This vast
congregation of BoYcott's supporters soon dispersed
the respectable persons who had attended at the
booth during the morning, and a scene ensued of
the most abominable and barbarous cLaractor.
Every one who was thought to 'be in favour of Mr,
Lowe was hissed, groaned, and vilely treated.
Forty special constable, and one or two regultir
policemen, und-r the superintendence of the chef
constable, Mr. Merrifield, contrived to preserve a
apace for voters to pa-is through the crowd to the
la.oth but whenever at, elector gave in his vote
for Mr. Lowe the mob assailed h,ro: With groans
and execrations, spat upon him, kicked' and cuffed.
him, and subjected him to the most dastardly ill_
usage.

The cars in the service of the unpopular candidata
were stoned and broken; but those of Mr. Boycott
were allowed to pass along unharmed. Mr. Lowe
remained in the south booth from 1 o'c!ock in the
day until after the closing of the poll, and-Mr. Boy-
cott visited the place occasionally, amid the up-
roarious cheers of his admirers. Between •3 and 4
o'clock, when the mob ascertained that -their man
was likely to lope, stones were hurled into the
booth at intervals. Mr. J. Holmes, Mr. J. Par-
doe, and Mr. G. Hooinan, friendi of Mr. Lowe,
we, e wounded by the missiles. On the close of Vie
poll, at 4 o'clock, Mr. J. Kiteley, the mayor, an-
nounced the-numbers of votes recorded.-- This as--
&trance of Mr. Boycott's defeat seemed greatly
to exasperate the mob, and several senseless and
malicious individuals were observed inciting the
people to at-aek the right hon. gentleman and his
friends, who had triumphed. Stones were thrown
into the both. Loud imprecations were uttered
against Mr. Lowe and Mr. James Pardoe, and nit-
merous Tory adherents prepared themselves with
manifest premeditation to attack Mr. Lowe and h's
supporters. Loud calls were made for Mr Boy-
cott to " come out, and let us kill the --," and
with a desire to quell the rising fury of the multi-
tude Mr. B iycott.and one of his friends, Mr. Best,
mounted the hustings and requested the people
quietly to disperse. The ruffians did not heed the
advice given, and threw a volley of stones into the
booth, injuring most of those inside it ; upon which
Mr. -Boycott and his
-friends retired and prOceeded
-Cowards the tows, the mob making way fir then -
aud cheering them as they passed. Their depar-
ture was a signal to the cowards surrounding the
hilted), and instantly missiles of every description,
stones, brickbats, palings, and even pennypieees,
were thrown at Mr. Lowe and his friends, accom-
panied by oaths of the most fearful character. Mr.
Superintendent Merrifield, by the direction of the
May. T, then proceeded to form his policeman ; and.
Mr. Lowe, with Mr. James Pardoe and Mr.
Holmes and others, walked up the lane, preserved
here by the special constables. By this means the
right hon. member got in front of the mob, although
stoned all the way, and waited with the Mayor for
a few moments while the constables formed them-
selves into an escort. Before, however, Mr. Mer-
rifield's men could arrange themselves in order,
showers of missiles literally rained upon Mr. Lowe,
his supporters, and the officers. Mr. Lowe was
bleeding copiously from a wound in the head, en.d
nearly every person around him was cut on the face
and head. Under these circumstances a retreat
became necessary, and the right hon. member and
his friends retired towardi Mr. Shepherd's school,
some 300 yards distant, hotly pursued by the
infuriated mob, who atoned them with re-
volting letutality., Luckily the pursued gentlemen
gained
refuge in Mr. Shepherd's house, which
stands back from the road, and is protected by high
iron gates and a seven-feet wall. The mob endsa-
voured to force an entrance into the place, and
'tried to wrench the locks off the gates ; the atteinpts
were unsuccessful, but they did considerable da-
mage. Hundreds prowled about the spot for several
hours, swearing that they would kill both Mr. Lowe
and Mr. Pardoe, and it is pretty certain that they
would have carried out their murderous intent hai
an opportunity offered. Mr. Lowe was so seriously
injured and weakened from loss of blood that it was
found necessary to secure the services of Mr. S tret-
eon, surgeon, forthwith. The mob allowed the
medical man to pass through theja into the house,
d directed him to inform iiistbriit that They
were determined "to do for him" before he left
Kidderminster. - Mr. Stretton discovered that Mr.
Lowe had sustaked a fracture of the right parietal
bone of the skull, in addition to a lacerated scalp
wound and two severe contusions on the side of the
head. Mr. Pardoe hid suffered contusions on the
head and- body. Mr. Holmes received an incised
wound on the scalp, from which blood flowed freely.
Before the surgeon had attended to the gentlemen
named Police-con-table Jukes was carried into the
house in a state ofiusensibility, covered with blond.
The poor fellow- had been struck nearly all over with
stones. One missile had fractured two bones of
his nose in a frightful manner, and another had •
caused a large lacerated wound of the skull. It
appears that part,of the mob, ou being foiled from
fur-her injuring their higher victims, commenced
stoning, beating, and kicking the policemen; they
very soon scattered the specials, every one of whom
exhibits marks of the fray, and it is almost miracu- •
lons that Mr. Merrifield and his nine regular officers
(all there are in the town) escaped comparatively
unhurt, notwithstanding that they were struck re-
peatedly
on their heads and bodies with stones.
Having pelted the police as long as they pleased, and
imagining that Mr. Lowe had escaped from Mr.
Shepherd's by the back way' to the Albert Inn, in
Bewdly-street, kept by Mr. Potter, the mobsmashed
every window in front of the building. Mr. Merri-
field and what few of his men were not yet disabled
made a bold stand against the crowd while they were
committing this outrage, but of course seven or
eight persons were powerless against hundreds.
Tne crowd then defiled into the town, amusing
themselves by the way with occasionally smashing
windows, insulting every well-dressed person they
met, and lustily yelling "Boycott for ever." For
several hours hundreds of the populace paraded
the thoroughfares; shouting and screaming. In
order to vary the entertainment, the throng also
engaged themselves in pulling down the shutters of
establishments kept by unpopular persons, and in
bonneting all who dared to remonstrate with them.
About 12 o'clock symptoms of a row were mani-
fested by the mob collected in High-street, the
Preparatory tokens of hostilities being the breakage
of windows in the Lion Hotel. At this juneturei
however, the clatter of arms and horses' hoofs an-
nounced the arrival of a troop of 50 Hussars frOm
Birmingham, which had been telegraphed for
shortly after 4 o'clock, and the fear of cold steel had
quickly a quieting effect upon the rioters.
The Mayor and magistracy, who had been sitting
en
_permanence made their appearance under the
protection of the military, and his worship at once
rest the Riot Act, orders were giveir to clear the
streets, and the soldiers and the police effected this
operation in- the course of two hours. The Hussars
remained on duty until 4 o'clock in the morning,
and will stay in the town for one or two days, as it
is feared another outbreak may occur on Monday. •
The police managed to apprehend four of the
ruffians engaged in the riot, and will summon be-
fore magistrates a number of the local mobocracy
who are known to have taken an active part in the
melee.
Mr. Lowe was removed from Kidderminster be-
tween 10 and 11 o'clock at night. In addition to
the gentlemen we have named Mr. Green, tax-
collector, Dr. Ronald, and Mr. Stockdale,
of the
Swan Inn, have been wounded. Hundreds of the
people were cut and bruited about the head and
face, for when the 'lot was at its height the mob
attacked both friend and foe.

NVALn the occasion
naval reviews to take place at
Toulon o
occasion of the Grand Duke Constantine,
about the 21st of April, are to rival the fatuous txhibi-
tions at Portsmouth..
A. splendid kang net was given by the Scots Fusilier
Guards at •the London Tavern on Saturday evening
Covers were laid for forty. Among the company were
Rioley, Seymour,' Walker, C. 8.,
Lieutenant-Colonels Neville,
Lion R. Charteris ; General Knollys ;
Ron. W. Sear!. a, •
W• t M
on, hi core,Viscount Kirk-
Captains Fail titian.
enrill°l"vel'SMte°pVernielne';
wall,
Bow, hiakLambton, Wheatley; Majors Lindsay,
Fraser, Astley, bripps, Gage.
Two Boys DROWNED.—Yesterday afternoon four boys
having surreptitiously unfastened a small skiff from its
moorings near Dockhead were borne along by the tide
against a tier of colliers and upset. Two of the bOys
contrived to take hold of the mooring-chains of the col-
liers and were saved ; but' the others, named Alfred
Harris and Charles Hatch, living in Long-lane, Ber-
mondsey, were drowned.
OFFICIAL APPOIXTMENTEL—Lord Cowley, her Ma-
jesty's Ambassador at Paris, is to be immediately raised
to an earldom, by the style and title of Earl Cowley, in
consideration of his eminent public services. Mr.
Donald M'Lachlan is appointed her Majesty's Consul at
Snurabaya, in Java. Mr. William Lawless is appointed.
her Majesty's Consul at Guadaloupe. Mr. G. F. Cros4
thwaite is appointed her Majesty's Consul at Cologne
°boner.

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NEWSPAPER
DISGRACBPTIL RIOT •
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Lo' ' laieir•

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. C. Dillon.
THIS EVENING, HAMLET. Mr. Charles Dillon, Mr.
Stuart, Mr. J. L. Toole, Miss Woolgar.
Followed by the gorgeous burlesque of CONRAD AND
MEDORA. Miss Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, &c.
The box-office open (lady, from 11 to 5, under the super-
intendence of Mr. Chatterton, jun.
Carriages conveying parties to the Private Boxes to set
down at the State entrance in Burleigh-street.

MR. J. L. TOOLE, of the LYCEUM
THEATRE, respectfully anmunces his
FIRST BENEFIT for TUESDAY next, 31st inst.
THE WONDER. Mr. and Mrs. Dillon, Miss Woolgar, Mr.
Stuart, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Toole.
TOMINIQUE THE DESERTER. Mrs. B. White, Miss
Wilton, Mr. Toole.
GOOD FOR NOTHING. Miss Woolgar, Mr. Toole.
MY FRIEND FROM LEATHERHEAD.

And the Dazzling TRANSFORMATION SCENE.

Tickets, &c., at the Box Office ; Keith, Browse, and Co.,
Cheapside; London Tavern; and Mr. Toole; It, Cecil-
street, Strand.

illp) OYAL PR•INCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, will be performed
Shakespere's tr!gedy of
KINI RICHARD THE SECOND.
King Richard 11., Mr. C. Kran ; Queen, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by MUSIC HATH CHARMS.

117HEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
THIS EVENING, to commence at .Seven,
A LIFE'S TRIAL. Messrs. Buckstone, Compton, Howe,
W. Farren, Rogers ; Mesdames Reynolds, Poynter, Fitzwil-
liam, &c.
After which, A WICKED WIFE.
And LA FOLIE ET L'AMOR.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI
Lessee—Mr. Ben. Webster.

THIS EVENING, will be performed PAUL PRY Paul
Pry, 'Kr. Wright.
Followed by a new and original domestic sketch, entitled
WELCOME, LITTLE STRANGER. Mr. Wright, Mr. Paul
Bedford, &c.
After which, A NIGHT AT NOTTING-HILL, in which
Mr. Wright and Paul Bedford will appear.

OYAL SURRFY THEATRE,
Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek.
THIS EVENING, BRUTUS. Brutus, Mr. Creswick.
After which, VIE QUIET FAMILY.
To conclude with JEN!, THE DODGER.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, a new drama, called DADDY
HARDACRE. Mr. Robson, kc.
The new drama, by Tom Taylor, Esq., A SHEEP IN
WOLF'S CLOTHING.
To conclude with THIEVES ! THIEVES ! ! Messrs. P.
Robson, G. Vining, &c.
Commence at half-past Seven.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMP EIITH EATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke.
THIS EVENING (the last week before Ila.ter), Shaks-
pere's Play of KING HENRY THE FOURTH, with Mr.
Wm. Cooke's equestrian illustrations. Hotspur, Mr. James
Holloway ; Prince henry, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.; Falstaff,
Mr. J. W. Anson.
After which, the SCENES of HORSEMANSHIP in the
ARENA.
To conclude with FORTUNE'S FROLIC.
LommeLce at seven o'clock. Dress flexes, 4s. ; Upper
rloxes, 3s. ; Private Boxes, from 1/., no charge for booking ;
Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.
Fox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager,
Mr. W, West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke, jun.
A New Grand Military Spectacle will be produced on
EASTER. MONDAY.

CANTERBURY HALL. Westminster-road.—
OPEN EVERY EVENING. —The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the performance of
Selections from all the popula': Operas, Madrigals, Choruses,
Glees, Duets, dm., viz.: Miss E. Pearce, Mrs. J. Caulfield,
Miss Brunell, Miss Summers, and Madame Marietta ; Mr. J
Caulfield, Herr F. Jonglimans, 11. Grover, T. Farrant, S.
Jones, J. Barker, W. Melling, P. Corri, Senor Antonio M.
de Solla, and E. L. Hime ;Masters Austin, Bennett, and
Corti; Messrs. Sam Collins, E. Mackney, and C. J. Wilkins.
Pianoforte, Mr. Cecil Hicks; harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun.;
director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at Seven o'clock pre.
cisely. Suppers, &c., until twelve o'clock.

aIGH WATER AT LONDON BRTD(“4..

Tina DA'!—Morn. 42 min. aft. 4—Evening 5 rata. aft. 5
rn-MABltow—Mona. 26 min. aft. s—Evening 50 mitt.aft 5

THE WEATHER-813N OFFICIX, MARCR 29.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
55 highest since soon yesterday
45 -lowest this morning and during the night.
55 —this day at noon.

BAUOMETER, 983.
Wwn, S.W.—Light, with dull weather. Slight rain it
the morning.

MARCH 30.
5(1 highest since noon yesterday.
43 -'owost thin morning and during the night.
5g thia day at noon.
BAROWSTRR, 29.25—a fall of more than half an inch
since yesterday.
WIND, S. W.—Light, with mill, dull weather in the
morning. Heavy rain in the night.
ArrEßNom—Wind, S.W.—Rather fresh, with sun-
shine and heavy scud.

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LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 18b7.

Altogether; the Elections are going gloriously.
The cities and boroughs alone having already
given Ministers a clear majority of Twenty! So
that, even now, Lord PALMERSTON has his com-
pensation for the obnoxious Sixteen !
The Manchester School Leaders have been
"bowled down" like so many Nine-pins ! Tiat
is the principal feature in the returns already
received. Manchester itself has nobly vindicated
its patriotism—having thrown off scornfully the
champions of that miserable and most tin-English
policy, of which Mr. JOHN BRIGHT and Mr. MIL.
NER GIBBON were the vaunted exponents. Hud-
dersfield has, if that be possible, still more 2ig-
nally repudiated any complicity whatever with
that same most
despicable and de-nationalising
policy—the policy whicsuccessively became the
h
apologist, first of all cf Russian, and afterwards of
Chinese barbarism.

Lord PALMERSTON has ample cause for selr-
gratulation at the results of "the appeal to the
country"--more so than even he himself could
have contemplated when ho delivered bis post-
prandial oration at Tiverton on Friday evening.
That oration was the natural sequel to the Address
to the Electors already noticed in The Sun. It
was delivered in the very hour of his individual
triumph, when he had enjoyed an easy " walk
over the course," and been returned without op-
position for his favourite constituency. At such
a time, and under such circumstances, he might
have relaxed a little, and offered even a faint out-
line of the domestic policy which he intended to
pursue. Although he no longer required such aid,
it might have been valuable to his avowed sup-
porters—might have turned the scale with many
wavering voters, and returned triumphantly Pal-
merstonian Candidates who may yet feel the want
of such assistance. The Noble Lord, however,
clung to his strong position —to the
potent intrenchment from which he cpuld
not be displaced. In his address he slurred over
the domestic policy as a matter of comparatively
trivial importance. lie stood on the China ques-
tion, the only point on which ho had been left in

a minority, and on which he was well aware that
the voice of public opinion was altogether in his
favour. There he was unassailable. There the
people were altogether opposed to the factious
majority, and there he was certain of a complete

triumph. But on matters on which the welfare
and prosperity of the nation greatly depended
on the all-important questions of Parliamentary,
Fiscal, Financial, Monetary, and Legal Reforms,

he was contented with a few vague platitudes, not
containing the shadow of a Principle or a Policy.
It is true that he declared that "at home his
guiding principle will be a judicious and well
regulated economy (an admirable phrase, but not
committing him in the slightest degree), progres-
sive improvement in all (I) that concerns the
welfare of the nation, the continued diffusion of

Mr. COBDEN, it will be remembered, wanted to
sell the Ministry for 2,000,0001.1 Well, be
has been sold, "regularly sold, himself, not for
2,000,0001., but for 24G !—the majority by
which his supporters were outnumbered by thope
of the rival candidate ! Perhaps no political de-
feat of modern times has, in AA way, been
more ignominious. We speak of the
occurrence, we think of Mr. COBDEN, we
refer to his downfall, at this moment, more in
grief than in indignation. There is something
despicable, of course, in striking a man, still more
in kicking a man, when he is prostrated in the
very dust. We have no inclination to retort
upon Mr. COBDEN his own indecent scurrilities—
the scurrilities with which he outraged the public
mind very recently upon a public platform in the
City of Manchester. We recognise in him at this
instant a man who is down—who is profoundly !

education among the people, and stcch, well-consi-
derd reforms as from time to time may be required
by changer of circumstances, and by the increasing
growth of intelligence.." All this is very fine. But the
most
uncompromising Tory might have said the
very same, and could not have been called to ac-
count for any vote he might subnquently be
pleased to give.

As we have Stated, the subsequent oration does
not in any degree help the preliminary address.
even touch in the slightest way on these
interesting and inipoitant topics. Everything
couldtlhitatdetrocesstnil:gt
' be desired is given respectirAg that of
whick
information
tlie
nationwas already satisfied. Nothing
where was required, and vrhere the

TO THE INDEPENDENT ELECTORS OF THE , humbled—who is utterly and signally defeated.
BOROUGH OF FROMB. Remembering what Mr. COBDEN has been before
GENTLEMEN,
p
now, remembering what he has already accom-
tEhßlTTanks formtehetogrreturn
io n oyuoru you m y
h al i te- ea r ttfr: li
st
day conferred upon me by returning me as Representative of been, and what he might still have accomplished,
your borough in the Commons' House of Parliament. To
have received the free suffrages of so many honest electors is had he but been true to his owa antecedents—
an honour of which any man may be proud, and it is grati-
we can only mourn at an occurrence which is
tying to kncl‘v that the united numbers polled in favour of
my opponents—Lord Edward Thynne and the Hon. Major only the culmination or climax of what has
Boyle—only exceed by two the record thus made in my be- been to us during the last few years a
half. The value of my present triumph is enhanced by the
remembrance of my want of success in former struggles. source of bitter and protracted disappoint-
' am assured by it that the principles of Reform and
Social progress, which I ventured to enunciate, on first com- went. While, however, we cannot find it
jog amongst you, are fast taking wider, deeper, and stronger
in our heart to exult over this downfall as
root in the public mind; and I am also emboldened to believe
that your confidence in me has grown with your opportu- far as Mr. COBDEN is individually con-
nities of knowing me.
Whilst I congratulate myself on having attained the proud cerned —we regard it at the same time as
position to which your favour has raised me, allow me also to an event involving in itself so profound a
congratulate you that your borough cannot in future be spoken
of as an appendage to the estates of either of the two noble lesson to politicians generally that we conceive it
families whose claims upon your suffrages are now negatived.
absolutely and imperatively demands, from us all,
Your borough will from this date take rank amongst the free
and independent constituencies of the empire. very particular observation.
The first duty I owe to you will be to make an earnest ap-
peal to calm the excitement called forth by the contests for Mr. COBDEN'S defeat, we repeat, is a defeat
the free representation of your borough, and in which strug. doubly if not trebly ignominious. Never was
glee (for the time within three years) I have been almost
continuously engsged. there a more painfully ludicrous illustration of the
The confidence you have so generously reposed in me de-
engineer—" hoist, with his own petard 1" It is
mands my warmest gratitude and I feel that the best return
I can make you will be the dedication of my best energies in HOGARTH'S Clown seated astride upon the sign-
your service. So long as I shall have the honour of repre-
senting you it will be my unceasing endeavour to carry out post protruding from the wall to which the wise-
the political principles I have professed, and to promote the
social and commercial interests of your town. acre has his face directed at the very time he is
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, coolly sawing the beam supporting him in midair !
Your faithful servant,
DONALD NICOLL. Here is the Originator of the whole of this grand
14, Park-lane, Hyde-park, London, March 28th, 1557. Political Agitation—the Mover of the " Resolu-
tions" upon which the Cabinet was placed in a mino-
rity, and thereby driven to a dissolution of the
Legislature—himself sacrificed ! It is the contriver,
the Brazen Bull of Phalaris—himself roasted alive
in it, first of all by way of experiment. It is Dr.
GUILLOTINE—himseIf guillotined ! It is GUY
Fa.wius—blowing himself up by mistake instead
of the Houses of Parliament ! Never was there
a more preposterous political recoil—a more
laughable electioneering anti-climax ! The quondam
glory of Stockport, afraid to adventure upon a
struggle for the West Riding of Yorkshire, with-
draws from the latter constituency and tries to
win- over to his cause the electors of the little
borough of Huddersfield. There—at Hudders-
field—he is deliberately weighed in the balance
and Rejected ! Rejected for a comparatively un-
known man (Mr. ACKROYD) by the liberal pos-
sessors of the elective franchise in a small borough,
having in round numbers not more than 1,500 as its
Constituency ! Mr. COBDEN is not merely rejected
himself by a clear majority of 246 out of the num-
ber of that constituency of " True-Born English-
men," the independent, and patriotic, and out-
spoken electors of the borough of Huddersfield.
But he goes to Manchester a little before that : and
there, in that recognised capital of his Political
School, advocates, as energetically as his bold
voice can advocate anything, the cause of his
two most conspicuous political associates, Mr.
Gllssosr and Mr. BRIGHT—onIy to find them im-
mediately afterwards peremptorily and haughtily
refused as their representatives by the free and
honest electors of the populous and intelligent city of
Manchester. Honour to these British -Voters !
Honour to these men of Manchester and of Hud-
dersfield 1 They have in a signal and startling
manner demonstrated the utter unpopularity of
the really monstrous views latterly advocated by
the Manchester School of Politicians 1 They have
entered their emphatic and decisive protest against
the miserable Peace-at-any-Price Humbug ! They
have responded to the appeal made for their de-
cision by Messrs. COBDEN and Ginsosr—but they
have done oo in a manner those gentlemen little
anticipated I Who was in the right now, Mr.
COBDEN I What views do you think, now, are
popular, and what unpopular ? Verily, there
was much wisdom in that sagacious observation
of the landlord of the Lansmere Arms, in My
Novel--" Gumptious is gumptious, and bump-
tious is bumptious !" SONEBO.Y, we need not
say who, was wonderfully cockahoop of late—but
the "crow" has been suddenly taken out of him :
shall we crack a pleasant little joke about it
and say—we have had to pluck it with him f
Nevertheless, while in the abstract, politically
speaking, we cannot but exclaim, with OTHELLO,
"'Tis better as it is !" we cannot, at the same time,
but lament that such an " is" should have been
rendered in any way necessary. We cannot but
regret that Mr. COBDEN should have rendered it
imperatively requisite for a liberal constituency
to reject him, as he has been rejected—deliberately
and ignominiously rejected—by the liberal consti-
tuency of Huddersfield. So it has fallen out,
however, and Mr. COBDEN has only himself to
thank for that the House of Commons will hence-
forth miss (for some time at least) the perverse
logic and vigorous rhetoric of the Mr. BUCKET of
Debate with his undercurrent of forefinger!

utmost anxiety was entertained as to the views of
the popular Premier.
Now, we would earnestly desire that the elec-
tors, where there is yet time, should obtain de
cisive pledges from the claimants for their suffrages
on these topics. We believe that more can be ob-
tained from Lord PALMERSTON than from any other
possible Minister. He will give just as little
as practicable, but as much as may be indispen-
sable to the maintenance of his position as First
Lord of the Treasury. He would not bind him-
self when his retritn was certain. But he is far-
tunately not pledged on the other side, and any
reform, however extensive, may still be enforced.
There is no opposing "principle. It is merely
the vis inertice that is to be conquered. Yield-
ing to a judiciously and well-applied " pres-
sure from without," Lord PALMERSTON will go as
far as can reasonably be anticipated. But there
must be that pressure. The prize must be won
by the Reformers. They must prove themselves
worthy of that for which they profess to be
striving. The first great issue is on fo-
reign affairs, and there the " Chinamen" have
not a leg to stand on. Even those who voted in
the majority are ashamed of what they have done,
and whining apologies are offered by a large pro-
portion of those who have dared to come to the
scratch ? That problem has already been solved,
and without in any measure endangering the great
issue. Internal matters may now receive a fair
share of attention. It depends on the several con-
stituencies whether they are to be shelved for a pro-
tracted period ! We trust that professing reformers
may prove equal to the emergency. The critical
moment has arrived, and on the events of the next
few days will depend the fortunes of the country
for, perhaps, the following seven years. Electors of
England—a great trust is confided to your charge
Execute it faithfully and honestly, and you will
have cause to rejoice in blessings that will descend
to, and be appreciated by, your children,Jand your
children's. children, during many successive gene-
rations.

It is very noticeable how egregiously the in-
tended Defeaters of the Government have over-
reached themselves. Out of the memorable
Majority on the China Question in the House of
Commons, how many, do you suppose, have been
defeated in consequence t Why, already positivley
as many as THIRTY-FIVE I Beginning the list of
these Thirty-five Unfortunates with—actually---
the "Two Tellers" themselves ! Several of the
unhappy delinquents who have thus summarily
expiated their vote in favour of Mr. COBDEN'S
Motion have, it is true, fallen, without any ado,
voluntarily ! Acting upon the Fat Knight's hint
that "Discretion is the: better part of valour,"—
Ten out of the Thirty-five have "Retired" from
the contest, thus warding off the blow
which must otherwise have descended
upon them overwhelmingly. For example,
Mr. BILLHOOK retired from Shrewsbury.
Viscount CHELSEA 7) IP Dover.
Mr. HENEAGE Devizes.

„ „ Dartmouth,
I) ~ Rochester.
Mr. SANDARS )) „ Wakefield.
Capt. SOOBELL... „ „ Bath.
Mr. SUTTON
” Newark.
Mr. VEBN ON lf ))

Admiral HERBERT
Sir H. MADDOCK

Harwich.

Mr. WA.DDINGTON .....
Nine out of these ten exceedingly modest or " re-
tiring" candidates being Conservatives, who dis-
appeared from the scene in order that they might
make room for Liberal substitutes—Reformers.
However, besides these, Ten voters in the Obnoxi-
ous Majority (one Liberal and nine Conservatives)
who have throWn themselves overboard rather
than be roughly pitchforked over. by their respec-
tive constituencies—there are twenty-five others
who, with a certain amount of pluck, appear
to have stood up for the contest precisely for the
very purpose, it would seem, of being knocked
down I Foremost among them, as we have be-
fore intimated—

TIER Two TELLERS I

Mr. COMMIN defeated at Huddersfield.
Manchester.

Mr. GIBSON .

WITH TWENTY-THREE OTHER OFFENDERS.

Earl of ANNESLET defeated at Great Grimsby.
Mr. BIGNOLD Norwich.
Mr. GEO. BUTT Weymouth.
Marquis of CHANDOS f) Buckingham.
Mr. T. S. COCKS
)5 Reigate.
Mr. H. B. COLES Andover.
Mr. J. DRAM Wareham
Hon. W. DUNCOMBE East Retford.
Mr. B. FOLLETT
27 Bridgewater.
Capt. J. GL'ADSTONE Devizes.
Lord W. GRAHAM. /) Grantham.
Mr. H. GWYN Penryu & Falm.th.
Lord A. HERVEY... ff Brighton.
Sir E. LACON
1) Yarmouth.
Mr. A. H. LAYARD. )1 Aylesbury.
Mr. J. MACGREGOR /, Sandwich.
Mr. J. 13, MURROUGH 1) Bridport.
Sir S. NORTHCOTE.. Yf Dudley.
Mr. J. OAKES Bury St Edmund's
Mr. R. PALMER Plymouth.
Mr.J.G.PLTILLIMORE 9, Leominster.
Mr. R. J. PIIILLIMORE Tavistock.
Captain STUART
5) Bedford.
Altogether twenty-five who voted in the ma-
jority on Mr. COBDEN'S Motion (including Mr.
COBDEN himself and his seconder, Mr. GissoN)
have been formally, because of that vote, rejected by
the constituencies. Ten others, as we have seen,
having deemed it more prudent to withdraw before
the certainty of an equally ignominious discom&
ture. In all, " Thirty-five" of the Majority,
directly or indirectly, have paid the penalty of
dancing the kotoo into the Lobby of the Opposi-
tion to the sweet pipings of the two unfortunate
Tellers--six out of the Thirty-five being Liberals,
and the remaining Twenty-nine Conservatives.
It must not be imagined, however, for
an instant that the Ministerial Gains are re•
stricted to these Twenty-nine. Not a bit of it 1
Upon the first rough calculation, while the losses
of the Ministry may be estimated at 19 or 20—
their gains may be taken at the very least at 39
or 40. Leaving a balance of about a score, just
to begin with ! The precise details of the op-
posing catalogues we give elsewhere in our
impression of this evening. From which it will
be seen, almost at a glance, how heavy has been
the vengeance already wreaked upon the Opposi-
tion—and how large, even at this stage of the
General Election, the consequent advantages ac-
cruing to the Government.