The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-11 00:00:00

ELEC7ION INTELLIGENCE.

CHESHIRE (MID).—The Hon J. Leicest,,r War-
ren, son of Lord de Tabley, the Liberal candidate
for this new electoral district, delivered his first

address to the constituency on Tuesday, at Al-
trincham. He supports Mr. Gladstone on the Irish
Church, is in favour of amending the laws relating
to land in Ireland, and is prepared to aid in re-
casting the Reform Act, especially in regard to the
ratepaying clauses and the redistribution of seats,
while he has no objection to compulsory education

f all other means failed.
CIIICIIESTER.—A meeting of the working men

of this city was held on Tuesday for the purpose of
hearing an address from Mr. George Potter on the
Irish Church and other political questions of the

day, which he concluded with an earnest appeal to
the electors to return the Liberal candidate, Mr.

•
John Abel Smith, which was heartily responded to.
A Liberal association of working men is about to
be formed in the borough

CORK (CITY).—Mr. Macarthy Downing, solici-
tor, Skibbereen, has issued an address offering to
contest the county of Cork at the next general elec-
tion as a supporter of Mr. Bright's policy regarding
Ireland.

HULL.---In the course of their canvass, Mr. Bax-
ter and Mr. Atkinson, the Conservate candidates

for this borough, addressed a special meeting of the
members of the various branches of the civil service

at this port. Mr. Atkinson is stated to have a spe-
?,ial claim on this new class of voters, as having

been the first person to sign a petition from dull
praying for the bestowal of the franchise on the

civil service.
NORFOLK (NORTH).—The Liberal candidates for
this division, Mr. R. T. Gurdon and Mr. Wode-
house, have been pursuing an active canvass during
the past week. Oil Tuesday evening they addressed
a meeting at Great Yarmouth, at which Mr. W.
T. M'Cullagh- rorrens, J.P.N for Finsbury, also

spoke.
NOTTINGHAM.—At a meeting of the Liberal party,
recently held, a resolution was passed expressing
regret at the retirement of Lord Amberley from the
representation of the borough. The noble lord has
returned a reply, and expressed his sincere satisfac-
tion at receiving such a mark of good feeling and
sympathy. His only claim to the thanks of
the meeting tendered to him for his slight services
to the constituency in Parliament is that he
had been earnestly desirous of acting with a
single and conscientious regard for their interests
and for those of the country at large. Engaged
as he is in an arduous struggle for Liberal prin-
ciples in a district where they have long been under
a cloud, and having unusual difficulties to encoun-
ter and unscrupulous efforts to overwhelm him by
calumnious accusations, such a declaration is pecu-
liarly grateful to him. It is understood that Mr.
Bernal Osborne will shortly begin a personal can-
vass in the town.
SUFFOLK (WEST). —The Liberals are endeavour-
ing to start a candidate in opposition to Major
Windsor Parker and Lord A. Hervey. The name
of the candidate selected has not, however, been yet

announced.
SURREY ( M ID).—A, formal address to the consti
tuency of this district has been published by Mr.
Charles Henry Robartes, in which he states that
the immediate issue before the country is whether
Mr. Disraeli or Mr. Gladstone shall direct the na-
tional counsels, and he declares for the hearty sup-
port of Mr. Gladstone, inspire I as he is by personal
respect and political sympathy. In a full exposi-
tion of his opinions he shows himself to be unequi-
vocally in accordance with that right hon. gentle-
He is opposed to the income tax as a con-
nuous impost, so long as, in its adjustment, no
distinction is made between precarious and perma-
nent incomes ; and he is in favour of Mr. Locke
King's plan for assimilating the devolution of real
and personal property in cases of intestacy. Ano-
ther Liberal candidate—Mr. Marsh Nelson—has
formally addressed the constituency. There was a
very full meeting of the Liberal committee at the
Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, yesterday, to
meet Mr. Robartes. Mr. Marsh Nelson was pre-
sent, and explained ;his reasons for issuing his
address. The committee decided unanimously
to support Mr. Robartes as the second Liberal
candidate with Mr. Julian Goldsmid. It is thought
that Mr. Marsh Nelson will retire, as his object was
'to aid Mr. Goldsmid, and he now clearly under-
stands that his coming forward is not so received
by that gentleman and his friends. The Conser-
vatives held their first public meeting in this divi-
sion of the county at the Drill Hall, Kingston-
evening, the Bth instant.
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candidates—the lion. W. Brodrick and Mr. Peek—
to the meeting. The former gentleman he com-
mended to them on account of the long residence of
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rey in the shape of subscriptions. The two candi-
dates addressed the meeting in full.
TIVEnTON.—Mr. Denman, one of the present
members for the borough, and who seeks re-elec-
tion, is engaged in a personal canvass of the con-
stituency, and addressed a large meeting from a
window of the Palmerston Hall. He entered with
great minuteness into his political opinions, which
may be described as being strongly Gladstoniae.
The proceedings terminated with hearty cheers for
Mr. Denman, Mr. Amory, the other Liberal candi-
date, and Mr. Gladstone.
WIGAN.--Yesterday the Liberal candidates for
Wigan, Henry Woods (one of the sitting members)
and John Lancaster, Esqs., issued their addresses
to the electors. Mr. Woods, in asking re-election,
states that he shall vote with the Liberal party
for the disestablishment of the Irish Church, as
he does not believe that the majority of his
countrymen are in favour of the endowment
by the State of several religious denominations
in Ireland. After advocating the improvement
and enlargement of the opportunities for primary
education, Mr. Woods states, that to each one of
the following questions submitted to him for his
consideration by the public meeting of working men,
viz. :—That for the protection of the electors from
intimidation and other unlawful influences voting
ought to be by ballot ; that the Irish Church ought
to cease as an establishment ; that Parliament
ought so to legislate as to protect workmen of all
trades from preventible dangers while working in
their calling; that the laws relating to masters
and workmen should be so amended as to place
both on an equality before the law ; that there
should be legal protection for the funds of
trades unions ; that the ratepaying clauses of
the Reform Bill of 1867 ought to be re-
pealed ; that provision ought to be made for
the education of all the people; that Mr. Glad-
stone ought to be supported as the leader
of the Liberal party—he has already by letter to
their chairman, and in his spoken addresses, given
his hearty assent ; and if any means more satis-
factory than the present can be found for the set-
tlement of questions between employers and work-
men, he will bring to its consideration a sincere
desire for its success. Mr. Lancaster declares for
disestablishment in Ireland, vote by ballot, the
-repeal of the ratepaying clauses, reduction of ex-
penditure, &c.
YORK.—The Liberal party of this city, by an
almost unanimous vote, have declared themselves
in favour of Ur, 13:ont-Wepthead (who formerly

man.