The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-17 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

GREENWICH. Last night a densely-crowded
meeting of the electors residing in the three divi-
sions comprising the borough of Greenwich was
held at the Literary Institution, High-street, Dept-
ford,' to adopt measures for securing the return of
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone as a representa-
tive of the borough at the next election. The chair
was occupied by Mr. W. Angerstein, one of the
candidates in the Liberal interest for West Kent.
Mr. Dixon, secretary of the committee, read letters
from Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P. for the
borough, expressing the highest approval of the
movement, and regretting his unavoidable absence.
A. resolution, pledging the meeting to support Mr.
Gladstone, was unanimously agree I to.
DEVON (EasT).—A. large and enthusiastic meet-
ing was held last evening at Newton Abbott. Mr.
Wade, Liberal, addressed the electors. A resolution
in hii f ivour w is carried unancnously.
GLOUCESTER.—Oue of the largest meetings ever
held in Gloucester was Lield on Ttt,fsclay night, and
was attended by Messrs. Price and Monk, the Li-
beral members fur that city. A resolution pledging
the meeting to support them at the coining elee-
lion was proposed by Sir William Guise, seconded
by Mr. W. C. Lucy, corn merchant, an' unani•
mously passed.
GREAT AlARLOW.—Captain Edmund Hope Ver-
ney, R.N. (eldest son of Sir Harry Verney, the
member for Buckingham), has issued au address to
the electors, soliciting their votes for the single seat
left by the Reform Bill to this borough. He pro-
fesses himself in favour of the disestablishment of
the Irish Church, au extended system of education,
and a reduction in the national expenditure.
Nons (SOUTH).—Mr. Barrow and Mr. Hildyard,
the present members for this division, have just
issued their addresses seeking re-election in the
Conservative interest.
SUFFOLK (EasT).—A. meeting of the friends of
the Conservative candidates, the Hon. J. M. Hen-
niker-Major and Major F. S. Corrance, was held
at Ipswich on Tuesday afternoon. Both candi-
dates spoke at considerable length, and were well
received.
THETFORD.—Mr. R. J. H. Harvey, one of the
sitting members for this borough, has issued a vale-
dictory address, in which he observes :—" I lament
very much the disenfranchisement of our ancient
borough ; I struggled against it, as you know, with
all my power." Mr. Harvey has been invited to
contest Norwich in the Conservative interest.
WEDNESBURY.—Mr. A. Brogden has beEn ac-
cepted by the Liberal electors of this new borough
as their candidate. He will be opposed by the
Conservatives.
WENLOCK.—Mr. Alexander Brown, a son of the
late Sir William Brown, of Liverpool, has accepted
a numerously-signed requisition to come forward
for this borough on Liberal principles.
WEST YORKSHIRE (EASTERN DIVISION.)—The
Two Liberal candidates for this division of the
county of York—Mr. Harry Thompson, who for-
merly represented Whitby, and who is the chairman
of the North-Eastern Railway Company, and Mr.
Isaac Holden, at present one of the representatives
for Knaresborough, addressed the first public meet-
ing of the electors on Tuesday at Leeds. The
meeting was held at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, in
the area of the Coloured Cloth-hall-yard. About
2,000 persons were assembled. Mr. H. S. Thomp-
son expressed himself in favour of extended edu-
cation to the people, saying that he should sup-
port the plan proposed by Mr. Bruce and Mr.
Forster in the last session of Parliament, which
gave to the ratepayers in any parish the power of
adopting or refusing a compulsory system as they
thought best, but, if that plan failed, then he should
favour a compulsory system. On the subject of
the Irish Church Mr. Thompson said—l propose to
take up a definite position on this question. In the
first place, then, I am in favour of disestablish-
ment. The principal effect of disestablishment will

be that the Irish Episcopal Church will no longer
be called the National Church, and that four Irish
bishops will no longer sit in the House of Lords.
(Cheers.) Secondly, lam in favour of disendow..

ment, by which I mean the withdrawal of all pros
visions for the clergy out of the State funds—(hear
hear)—reserving to them everything which has
arisen from private sources, including the churches
and glebe houses, which to some extent have been
erected or restored from private funds. (Cheers.)
Thirdly, I am in favour of strictly respecting all
vested rights, which means that all bishops and
clergy who have received their appointments for
life should continue to receive their incomes for life,
until they should be commuted upon some principle
to be hereafter determined. (Hear, hear.) The
same principle, in my opinion, ought to be applied
to the Maynooth grant and the Regium Donum.
Fourthly, I hold that no new endownments should
be created for the benefit of either Protestants
or Catholics. (Hear.) I believe, he added, that
the Irish Church when freed from the stigma
of being a State Church—l believe that when
there is restored to it the invaluable privilege of
liberty of action, and when it comes to rely upon
the strength and purity of the Protestant faith, in-
stead of upon the support of a civil power, it will
regain its reputation, that it will increase its use-
fulness, and that it will attain a rate of progress
to which for centuries past it has been an entire
stranger. (Cheers.) Mr. Thompson next made
so ale remarks in favour of Mr. Gladstone as a
national financier, and charged the present uovern-
ment with increasing the taxation of the country by
extravagant expenditure. Mr. Holden next ad-
dressed the meeting, enunciating views quite in
harmony with those of Mr. Thompson. In addi-
tion he advocated the introduction of the ballot at
Parliamentary elections. On this subject, he said,
he had that day had the pleasure of receiving a letter
from a distinguished gentleman in London, stating
that Mr. Gladstone had given the first intimation
to him that he was willing to consider the question
of the ballot. A resolution, pledging the meeting
to support both candidates, was agreed to.

rriii SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES.—A circular, nume-
rously signed by members of the medical profession,
has been issued, inviting the support of their
brethren for Dr. Lyon Playfair, C. 8., as a candi-
date for the Universities of St. Andrew's and Edin-
burgh, " likely to represent to the best advantage
the interests of science and medicine."

EDINBURGH.-At a meeting of the general com-
mittee for promoting the requisition to Lord
Stanley, held on Tuesday, it was stated that a depu-
tation had had an interview with his lordship in Lon-
don on Saturday. The deputation explained to his
lordship the circumstances that had given rise to the
requisition and the success with which it had been
attended, and stated that they hoped soon to be iu
a position, in presenting it, to report such prospects
of ultimate success as would justify his lordship in
acceding to it. Lord Stanley expressed his sense
of the high honour done him by the requisitionists,
and said that, while it would be injudicious in him
to commit himself in any way, in the meantime he
would give the most anxious consideration to the
course of action it would be his duty to take in any
way; in the meantime he would give the most
anxious consideration to the course of action it
would be his duty to take in the event of the sub-
sequent reports of the committee being equally
favourable with that which the deputation had laid
before him.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

PLYMOUTH, Thursday Morning.

Iler Majesty's screw steam gunboat Tyriau, Lisul. and
Commander E. J. Church, from Malts, artivod in the
Sound this morning.

GRAN-ESE:ID, Thursday Morning.
Arrired, Sept. 16.—Pitford, from Cronstadt ; Aurora,
'rorn Riga.

Arrived, Sept. 17.—Goethe, from Richmond; Baron
Osy, steamer, from Antwerp ; Richard Cobden, from Lis-
bon ; Fitzwilliam, steamer, from Dania ; Ranger, steamer,
from Rotterdam; Ida, steamer, from Dantzic ; Concordia,
steamer, from Boulogne.
Sailed—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed, Sept. 16.—Ann Duthie, from Loudon, for
Sydney ; Sydney Hall, screw_ steamer,fromr,Londop, for
Mogador ; ,iurora, screw steamer, from London, for
doomc.