The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

ELECTION HUMOURS.

The Daily News contains an amusing article under toe
heading " Country Election Humours." " Voters," it
says, " will turn stupid if much pressed, and sometimes
they will leave town, or stick in the house and not come
out till the books are closed. One old man, who had
never been quite staunch, was once looked up by the
Blues at five o'clock on the polling morning. You
needn't come nigh me,' he said; 'the Yellows were here
an hour ago, and I'll get up for none of you ;' and so he
kept his bed all day. We remember another who had
been dozed through his beer, and then put away
peacefully to bed. His shoes, coat, waistcoat,
and bat were also removed from the chair, as a
precaution, in case he did awake too soon. As good luck
would have it, he awoke about twenty minutes to four,
instantly realised the situation, and, rising from bed, just
as he was, in his trousers, shirt, and stockings, ran down
stairs and into the street, amid loud cheers, and just got
polled off in time. His friends and the committee had
been looking for him everywhere, and thought that the
other side had taken him out of town for the benefit of the
air, although they bad guarded all the approaches night
and day, and looked into every suspicious cab. In one
borough bottling rose into a science, and it is among the tra-
ditions of its head inn that forty men were once kept
there in bed, or (as they put it) out, for fear that the
other party should secure and tamper with them. That
borough knew its value to a nicety. It always returned
one member for purity's sake, and if the second member
would not pay the regulation price per head, both parties
understood each other's views so well on the currency
question through their mutual solicitors, that a third was
brought down to ruin him, and beat him if he did not con-
sent to pay. In some boroughs the electors got pay
from both parties. A well-known money-lender used
to tell plaintively how he invited eighty doubtful
electors to an early breakfast, and that they found
a twenty-pound note under each of their plates. They
took the notes and enjoyed their breakfasts very much,
but when they departed, after cheerfully grasping his
hands, it was not to the poll, but to a second breakfast at
their host's opponents, who gave them ' a pony,' and
secured their ultimate support. The modes of paying
by the Man in the Moon' and the Good and safe
man' have all been told. At one of the university
towns the members got a daring spirit—a second year
man, and afterwards a very distinguished Indian
officer—out of one of the colleges, to hold the sack,
and he was such an able financier that he won
the election. When the petition was tried before the
House of Commons committee, the college tutor, finding
that matters were becoming hot, gave him an exeat. He
took a cruise in a yacht till all was over, and the com-
mittee failing to discover the missing link, upheld the
mayor's return. An M.A. was also very much implicated,
and the opposite party having searched high and low to
find him, it transpired afterwards that he had been looking
on disguised in the very committee-room where he had
been daily inquired after with much affection, and when
all was over he returned to the place and wrote a very
lofty letter, saying he was surprised at the remarks
which had been made upon his absence at the call of duty,
and that he was there to meet his assailant,' and with
that flash of safe valour a most interesting crisis ended.
Some quaint old fellows hang on the skirts of elections.
They seem to live for nothing else, and annual Parliaments
would be meat and drink to them. One of these was so
staunch to his colours, and some old common rights, that
when he was buried a bunch of yellow gorse, plucked from
there, was thrown, like an immortelle, on his coffin. In
another borough the Blues were so proud of the Liberal
cause, that one desired to be buried by the paved
footpath through the churchyard, so that the voters might
pass his grave when they went to poll in the porch. A
veteran miner sported an immense blue hat. Under its
shadow he bad drunk oceans to the health of the cause,
but once when a mean candidate came who
wouldn't even ' give a poor fellow his beer,'
his feelings were so outraged that, at dead of
night, be marshalled a small procession of sympathisers,
dug a hole, buried his bat, and abjured the
cause for ever. Some voters never will be on the losing
side if possible, and watch the temperament of the
candidates, and other indications of the political
barometer, up to the eleventh hour, for guidance. A
veteran of this sort, as usual, refused to promise his vote
in a county. A day or two before the nomination he
came and voluntarily pledged himself to plump for the
Liberal. I won't vote for Vother men,' he said, they're
bate (beat). One of them's been to me and given me such
a blowing up for not promising—he's bate, I know it,' and
the old political weather puppet was right at four p.m.
Votes are often lost through nervousness. Men won't
take cards, or they fling them down and can't refer to
them. Some of them tremble like aspens when they are
asked the question, and perhaps give the wrong name,
and down go the fatal marks before they can recover
themselves. At the Chelsea election one deaf man put
down his card and shouted Freake and Hoare.' in a
stentorian voice, and then came, Oh, no—stop ; Dilke
and Hoare,' in a still louder key, and only just in time.
Some voters, again, never care to get the candidate's
name into their bead—they all name the Premier of the
day, and refuse to amend ;' and for some time after the
late Earl of Carlisle had joined the peerage, a West
Riding yellow would always declare for Morpeth, and
nowt else.' Richard Cobden' was also honoured after
this persistent fashion. Such are termed the freaks of
elections. There alway 3 will be some spirit thrown into
them ; and all's well that ends well."

TIIE JARROW MURDER. —The coroner's jury in
the case of the Jarrow murder have returned a verdict
against Patrick Convery, and he will be sent to the assizes
on the capital charge.

AN IRisit BULL.—One of the two Liberals
returned for an Irish constituency thus congratulated a
large meeting of his supporters :—" The Liberal triumph
is complete ; so complete that I cannot help remarking
the absence of gentlemen of the county. I cannot see one of
their faces in the court•house."

THE SUNDAY EVENINGS FOR THE PEOPLE.
At a numerously attended meeting of subscribers to the
defence fund, .held at the Freemasons' Tavern, it was
resolved to present Mr. J. Baxter Langley with a con•
gratulatory address on his able and successful defence of
the case in the Court of Common Pleas.

Tan PUBLIC HEALTIL—During the week ending
Saturday, November 28, there were 1,561 deaths regis-
tered, exceding by 54 those of the previous week. The
annual rates of mortality in fourteen of the principal
towns per thousand of the population were as follows :
Bristol, 23 ; 13Irmingham and Dublin, 24 ; London, 26 ;
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 27 ; Sheffield, 29 ; Liverpool and
Hull, 31; Salford and Bradford, 32 ; Edinburgh and
Manchester, 34 ; Glasgow, 35; Leeds, 36.

"ALL THE YEAR ROUND."--The first number in
the new series of All the Year Round is published,
accompanied by the following notice :—" A very unjusti-
fiable paragraph has appeared in some newspapers, to the
effect that I have relinquished the editorship of this publi-
cation. It is not only unjustifiable because it is wholly
untrue, but because it must be either wilfully or
negligently untrue, if any respect be due to the explicit
terms of my repeatedly-published announcement of the
present new series under my own hand.—CIiARLES
DICKENS."

A FRIENDLY CA ETTION.—The banquets to Reverdy
Tohnson in England have lately been fax too numerous to
chronicle. We fear the effects of these constantly recur-
ring banquets upon Mr. Johnson's health. The English
are tremendous eaters and enormous drinkers at their
" banquets." The solid, sanguinary meats and strong,
heavy liquors are such as no American constitution can
long stand ; and, though we have no doubt Mr. Johnson
is willing to suffer and undergo a great deal forhis country,
yet there are limits beyond which patriotic endurance
should not be tested.—New York, Times.

We have to announce the death of Lieutenant-
Colonel Wiliam Bruce, K.H., a Peninsula and Waterloo
veteran officer. He entered the 79th Regiment at an early
age, with which he served in the Peninsula from 1812 to
the end of the war in 1814: and was present at the battles
of the- Pyrenees on the 28th, 20th, and 30th July, the
blockade of Pampeluna, battles of the Nivelle and the
Nive (10th to 13th December), investment of Bayonne,
and battle of Toulouse. He served also the campaign of
1815, and was present at Waterloo, where he was severely
wounded. He was made a Knight of the Royal Hano.
verian Gnelphic Order in 1837. He left the 79th Regiment
for the 48th Foot, from which he retired in November,
1841.

AN IRISH VOTER.—A ludicrous episode is ro-
ported to have Occurred during the polling for the county
of Cork on Friday. A simple voter from Carbery, who
was not accustomed to the exercise of the franchise, and
did not understand how to go about it, was prompted by
his ardent attachment for Mr. Downing to go into
Bandon to vote for him. A person standing in the booth
which he entered asked him, by way of joke, to vote for
Barry and Boyle, judging from his emphatic observations
that it was one of the last acts he would think of com-
mitting. The farmer got enraged at the proposal, and
while the usual question was put "For whom did he vote?"
he kept repeating in petulant tones, " BarTy and Boyle,
indeed !" The poll clerk recorded it as a vote for those
gentlemen, and when the excited elector discovered he had
voted the wrong way and could not amend the error, he
gave uproarious expression to his' disappointment, and
finally, as the story runs, knockoff down tho practical
joker who. had entrapped him

THE N:

1W PARLIAMENT.

* New Members.—t Old Members for New Constituencies.

Constituency.

Members.

Mr Lindsay
Mr Fortescue
Mr N Rothschild
Mr Smith
* Mr Mellor
* Mr Davies
Hon G C Morgan
Mr T Cave
* Captain Williams
BILr Whitmore
Mr Samuelson
Mr Tite
* Mr Dalrymple
Mr Whitbread
* Mr J Howard
* Lord Bury
* Mr J Stapleton
Sir H. Edwards
Captain Kennard
* Sir R Glass
Mr John Laird
Mr John Bright
Mr Dixon
* Mr P H Muntz
Mr W H Horuby
Mr J Feilden
Hon F L Gower
Lieut-Colonel Gray
* Mr J Hick
Mr Malcolm
* Mr T Collins
Mr W E Forster
* Mr Ripley
Mr A. W Kinglake
Mr Vanderbyl
Mr James White
Professor Fawcett
Mr H Berkeley
* Mr S Morley
Sir Harry Verney
* Mr R Shaw
- Mr Philips
Mr Hardcastle
Mr Greene
Mr F C H Russell
Colonel Gilpin
Mr T A Mitchell
Hon W 0 Stanley
Mr Howel Gwyn
Right Hon B Disraeli

Mr7Du Pre
* Mr Lambert
Mr Benyon
Colonel Loyd Lindsay
* Mr John Walter
Hon C Howard
f Mr W N Hodgson
Captain Lowther
Hon P Wyndham
* Colonel Torrents
* Mr Fowler
Lord George Manners
Lord Royston
/ Right Hon H Brand
Mr Butler Johnstone
ICaptain Brinkman
1 Colonel Stuart

Mr E Potter
* Sir Wilfrid Lawson
* Colonel Stepney
I* Mr Sartoris
* Mr John Jones
Mr W B Hughes
I * Captain Parry
Mr G C Legh
Hon W Egerton
Mr Otway
* Mr H B Samuelson
Earl Grosvenor
* Mr Ralkes
Lord H G Lennox
Mr Goldney
Hon A Bathurst
Mr R Assheton
Mr Eaton
* Mr Staveley Hill
* Lord E Fitzmauriee
Right Hon S Walpole
Mr Beresford Hope
t Sir Thomas Lloyd
* Mr Richards
* Mr C W Dilke
* Sir Henry Hoare
• Mr E Haviland-Burke
* Mr J Fletcher
Mr Rebow
* Dr Brewer
Sir D Gooch
* Hon F Cadogan
* Sir John Trelawny
* Mr B Willyams
Mr St Aubyn
* Mr P Vivian
* Mr E C Egerton
* Mr W Legh
Mr Tollemache
Sir Philip Egerton
* Mr Williams
Sir Watkin Wynne
* Mr Morgan .
Mr M Chambers
* Mr Lewis
I* Mr Backhouse
Mr M T Bass
* Mr Plimsoll
Sir T Bateson
Serjeant Simon
Major Dickson
* Mr Jesse!, Q.C.
Sir John Pakington
Mr Henderson
* Mr Davison
Sir H Williamson
* Mr Elliott
Mr Pease
• Mr Beaumont
Colonel Sturt
Mr H B Sheridan
* Sir T Gresley
* Mr R Smith
* Hon H Strutt
* Hon Captain Egerton
Lord G Cavendish
Mr. Arkwright
t Sir Massey Lopes
Mr Kekewich
Mr T D Acland
Sir Stafford Northcote
Sir L Palk
t Lord Courtenay
Hon Mr Portman
Mr Floyer
Mr Sturt
Col Bourne
Mr Coleridge
* Mr Bowring
* Mr W Baker
• Mr A Johnstone
Lord Eustace Cecil
Mr S Ibbetson
* Mr Rou,d
* Colonel Brise
Lord Barrington
Mr IWC Torrens
Alderman Lusk
t Mr T. Hughes
Sir John Hamner
* Mr Fowler
• Mr Eastwick
Lord R Grosvenor
Colonel Talbot
Mr H Vivian
Right Hon Sir W Hutt
Mr Price
Mr Monk
* Sir C Wingfield
t Captain Tomline
Mr Alderman Salomons
:t Rt Hon W E Gladstone
! Mr Onslow
i* Captain Cholmeley
j* Hon F Tollemache
Sir M Beach
Mr Holford
Colonel Kingscote
* Mr Marling
Right Hon W Cowper
t Lord H Scott
Hon H Cowper
Mr A Smith •
' Mr H Brand
* Mr C Reed
* Mr Holms
Mr Stansfeld
Colonel Akroyd
* Mr T Brassey •
* Mr F North
* Mr Young
Mr R Dimsdale
Mr Clive
* Mr Wyllie
Mr Biddulph
Mr Bailey
* Sir H Croft
Mr James Clay
Mr Norwood
Baron N de Rothschild
Mr W B Beach
Mr Sclater-Booth
Major Jervis
Mr T Baring
* Mr Jackson
* Colonel Edwardes
Mr Hurst ) double
3. Major Aldridge f return
Lord R Montagu
Mr E Fellowes
Mr E A Leathern
Mr H E Adair
* Mr West. Q.C.
Sir J Simeon
* Mr Mills
1. Mr Talbot
Lord Holmesdale
Mr Hart Dyke
Mr L Pemberton
* Hon G Milles
Lord Stanley
* Hon R Bourke
* Mr Lea
• Mr lilingworth
' Mr Whitwell
* Alderman J Lawrence
* Mr W M'Arthur
Mr Baines
* Alderman Carter
• Mr Wheelhouse
Mr Taylor
Mr Harris
Lord J Manners
* Mr Frewen
Lord Curzon
▪ Mr Pell
* Mr Cross
Mr C Turner
Hon A F Egerton
* Mr S Henry
Mr Arkwright
Colonel Clive
Mr Goschen
Mr Crawford
Mr Lawrence
• Mr Bell
t Rt Hon Robert Lowe
Lord G ; Lennox
Mr Henry Lopes
Mr C Seely
* Mr H Palmer
Sir M J Cholmeley
* Mr R Winn
* Mr Amcoats
* Mr H Chaplin
Mr Welby
* Mr Tumor
Sir Arthur Buller
Lord Pelham
Colonel Dyott
Mr Graves
* Lord Sandon
* Mr Rathbone
Colonel Wilson-Patten
t Hon F Stanley
* Mr Holt
' Mr Starkie
Mr C W Wynn
* Mr Bentall
* Mr Wetherhed
, Mr Mitford
* Mr 0 Brocklehurst
* Mr Chadwick
Mr Lee
Mr Whatman
. * Mr Powell
. Mr Barley
Mr Jacob Bright
* Mr Birley
, Mr H Lewis
Mr T Chambers
* Mr Richard
* Mr Fothergill
, * Sir J Ramsden
Hon C Fitzwilliam
Lord E Bruce
* Mr D Williams
* Mr Bolckow
Hon C H Tracy
Sir G Grey
Mr C Morgan
Colonel Somerset
Viscount Enfield
Lord G Hamilton
Mr E Howes
Mr C S Read
Mr G Hodgkinsou
Mr,E Denison
Mr Headlam
Mr Cowen
Mr Allen
Mr Buckley
• Mr Hutton
Lord Henley
Mr C Gilpin
Sir W Russell
* Sir H Stracey
* Sir R Clifton
* Mr Wright
Mr Martin
t Sir E Lacon
* Hon F Walpole
Sir W Ilagge
Hon T De Grey
r Mr Ward Hunt
Mr S Stopford •
f Major Cartwright
Sir Rainahl Knightley
Right Hon J Denison
* Mr F C Smith
, Mr Barrow
Mr Hildyard
* Earl Percy
* Mr Ridley
, Mr Beaumont
Hon H Liddell
Rt Hon G Hardy
t Rt Hon J Mowbray
. Mr Henley
Colonel North
* Mr Cartwright

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I. C. gn

Constituency.

OLDHAM

OXFORD

PEMBROKE
PEMBROKESHIRE
PETERBOROUGH

PETERSFIELD
PLYMOUTH

PoNTErnAcT

PORTSMOUTH

PRESTON .

POOLE ..
READING

RICHMOND
RIPON
ROCHDALE
RYE
RETFORD, EAST

RADNOR ...
ROCRIESTRR

RADNORSHIRE
RUTLAND

SUFFOLK, EAST

SUFFOLK, WEST

SALISBURY

SUSSEX, WEST

SOMERSET, MID

SOMERSET, WEST

SOMERSET, EAST

SOUTHAMPTON

STROUD

SURREY, EAST

SALFORD

SANDWICH

SCARBOROUGH

BIIEFFIELD

SHREWSBURY

SOUTH SfintLDS
8017TH,WARE

STAFFORD

STOCKPORT

STOCKTON
SUNDERLAND

SHAFTESBUItY .
SHORMIAX ...

STALEYBRIDGE
SURREY, MID .

SURREY, WEST

SUSSEX, EAST

STAFFORDSHIRE, EAST'

STAFFORDSHIRE, WESTI

STAFFORDSHIRE,NoRTri

STAMFORD
SHROPSHIRE, NORTII

SHROPSHIRE, SOUTH

Sr. IVES
STOKE-UPON-TRENT

SWANSEA
TAMWORTH

TAUNTON .

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Tom HAMIXT2

TRURO....

TYNEMOITTN .
TAVISTOCK .
TIVERTON .. ,

TIIIRSK
WAKEFIEL D
WESTMORELAND

WALLINGFORD
WARRIIAM
WARRINGTON ,
WARWICK

WEDNESEURY
WESTBURY ..
WESTMINSTER

WEYMOUTII

WHITBY
WHITEHAYEN
WIGAN

WINCHESTER

W,NDSOK
WOODSTOCK
WORCKSTED

WORCESTER, EAST

WORCESTER, WEST

WYCOMBE
WALSALL
WZNLOCK

WILTON
WILTS, SOUTH

WOLVERHAMPTON

WARWICKSRIRE,NORTH

WARWICKSHIRE, SOUTH

WILTS, NORTH

YORK

YORK, N.W. RIDING.

YORK, S.W. RIDING

YORKSHIRE, N. RIDING

Yo.yuc, E. RIDING

YORK, B.E. W. BIDING

ABERDEENSHIRE, LAST'
ABERDEENSHIRE, WEST
AYR BURGHS
AYRSHIRE, NORTH
ARGYLESHIRE
AYRSHIRE, SOUTH .• • •
ABERDEEN
Bo RDERDISTRICT
BUTESIIIRE
BANFF
BEnwicicsni RE
CLACHMANNAN
CAITHNESS
DUMFRIESSHIRE... . • • •
DUMBARTONSHIRE •• • •
DUNDEE

DUMFRIES
EDINBURGH

E DINBURGHSHIRE
ELGIN BURGHS
ELGIN AND NAIRN .. • •
Fo RFARSHIRE
FIFESIIIRE
FALKIRK BURGHS
GLASGOW

GREENOCK
HADDINOTON BUROPIS.
HADDINGTONSHIRE . • •
INVERNESS
INVERNESS-SHIRE
KINCARDINESHIRE .• •
KIRKCUDBRIGHT

KILMARNOCK BURGHS..
KIRKCALDY...... . .....
LANARKSHIRE, SOUTH..
LANARK+ HIRE, NORTH
LINLITHOOWSIFIIRK .• • •
LEITH Bu ROHS .•••••••

PERTH
PAISLEY
PERTHSHIRE
PEEBLES AND SELKIRK
ROXBURGESHIRE .•

ROSS INDCROMARTY
RENFREWSWIRX
STIRLING BURGHS •• • •
STIRLINGSHIRE
SUTHERLANDSHIRE .. • •
ST. ANDREWS BURGHS
MONTROSE

WIGTOWN 81/RellE4 •. • •
WICITOWNBHIRE
WICK Bunom

ANTRIM COUNTY ......

ARMAGH COUNTY

ARMA G H
ATHLONE
BANDON
BELFAST

CLAnz COUNTY

CARRICKFERGUS
CARREL
CARLOW
CORK

CORK COUNTY .... . ....

CLONMEL
COLERAINN
CAVAN COUNTY

CARLOW COUNTY .....

DONEGAL COUNTY....

DowNsninz ..

DOwNPATRICK
DUNGANNON
DUBLIN

DUBLIN UN .VERSITY

DUBLIN COUNTY

DUNDALK
DUNGA RVAN
DROGHEDA

ENNISKILLEN
ENNIS
NER3LA.NAOR COUNTY

GALWAY COUNTY .

GALWAY

KERRY COUNTY

KILKENNY
KILKENNY COUNTY

KINSA.LE
KILDARE

KING'S COUNTY

LEITRIM COUNTY

LONDONDERRY COUNTY

LONDONDERRY ..
LIMERICK CITY ..

LIMERICK COUNTY

LONGFORD COUNTY

LOUTH COUNTY .

LISBURN
MAYO COUNTY

MEATH COUNTY

MONAGHAN COUNTY

MALLOW
NEw Ross
NEWRY
PoRTABLINOTos
QUEEN'S COUNTY

ROSCOMMON C,4UNTY

SLIGO
SLIGO COUNTY

TRA LEE
TIPPERARY COUNTY

TYRONE COUNTY

WEXFORD
WATERFORD COUNTY

WATERFORD OITY

WESTMEATII ..

WEXFORD COUNTY .

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