The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-15 00:00:00

BRIDGEWATER...4I/NT II

The hustings began to be erected this afternoon in front of the
neW, handsome, but only 'partially finished market-place, prepa-
ratory to the nomination for the county to-morrow (Wednesday.)
Planks are laid upon beer and cider barrels. An immense assem-
blage iitexpected. The old Members, Sir T. Lethbridge (who is
not remarkably popular) and Mr. Dickenson, make no great et--
ertions, a ppeuring confidenrof success ; while Mr. Hunt has driven
about from town to town :Canvassing, and his men have chalked,
Or rather painted on all the walls " Hunt for 'ever ;
.no Lath.
bridge," in characters precisely similar to those on the Hyde Park
and other walls, desiring the public to buy " Ilimettmatchless ja-
mottredly. Mr. I hint, it said, can poll at, least 800 votes, and
pan." Hitherto the contest has been carried on very good hu-
will hold put for the 15 day'.

READING.—Tittan DAY, WY-°tVFtin.A'4'.
At nine n'elock, before the poll WB4 resumed, the Mavna
itelciretnied the electors in the Town-hell. lie had done all in his
power this morning to make such arrangements as would afford
the titmost facility to voter., for the exercise of their undoubted
right to come up uninoleeted to the poll ; and he called upon the
constables to protect the inhabitants while so engaged, without
reference to party,. favour, affection, nr reward. (Applause.)
The usual electioneering joke, were played off by the crowd hi
the hall during the day, and hand-bills of all kinds were circulated
by the retipeetive parties to stimulate their friends to renewed exer-
tions. In one of the placards the case in point was put so as to he
plainly intelligible to the simplest understanding-.-viz., " You who
vote for Monck and Palmer
.vote a
tfriti;td'. y vu.
poutil!,o foraiii:dgi'.vote for having strong beer at 4d. a
ng from
Wakefield and Spence, vote for
of this liquor
apparentlyconSUmed b the crowd in the streets, this is really
y the quantity
a point of great importance to the expenditure of the people.,
mid will no doubt he duly weighed during the moments of
r
reflection. ' Of the first foor voters who came to the poll this
merning,Mr. Champion said that he gave him vote for 'Vivian. Monek
and Palmer, beeause he respected. their publinvervicee ; the aecend
voter, Mr. Ward, gave a similar vote, when Mr. Wakefield re-
marked, " You promised me, Mr. Ward." The latter replied,
i. Yee, butprornisee extorted under falseil
wetences are not binding;
bear that in mind, 41r. Wakefield." , he struggles of Messrs.
Wakefield and Spence to get up their friends towards the close, of

this day, appeared to relax towards four o'clock, And the following
were the numbers at that hour :
Mr. Monck - 420
Mr. Palmer -
Mr. Spence - 1387"
Mr. Wakefield - 3'85
The " No Popery" errbaving been entirely disclaimed by the
new candidates, has sunk into a hollow rumbling noise, not heard
above the weak and vulgar. The Dissenters generally have voted
for Messrs. Monek and Palmer.

NORTHUMBERLAND.—(From a Correspondent.)
Every thing gives unquestionable indication that the Ninthiiiii-
beriand Election, which commences this day week, will be one of
the most tremendous contests that ever occurred in the whole
history of Great Britain. Various are the concurring causes
which conspire to produce this impression. An eminent writer
affirms it to be almost as criminal to hear a worthy man tra-
duced, as to be the author of the calumny against him. To some
such general feeling as this, it is, undoubtedly, in consequence of
the ill-natured tirades of Mr. Lamhtnn upon Mr. Beaumant, that
• the columns of this day's Newcastle Paper teem with philippics
and hostile attacks upon the former gentleman. One writer, after
commenting upon the extreme unfairness of the Howick party al-
ways harping upon Mr. Beaumont's private affairs, which, as he
justly Observes, have as little to do with the county of Northum-
berland, as Mr. Lambton's private quarrels have with the county
of Durham, forcibly remarks..—" The county (of Northumber-
land) sees the folly and the vile spirit of the cause, which can
rake up private animosities in aid of pretended patriotism ; and
there is but one feeling of indignation, that any party, possessing
liberality, and supposed to be possessed of common sense, could
believe that the county was to be hoodwinked and played with
like an infant or an idiot, 'es they have shown by their practice
that they believed." And the same writer very significantly
adds—" Has Mr. Lambton had no private quarrels? Has he bad
no correspondence upon delicate subjects? And would he not
think it base and infamous in any perion to drag these subjects
again before the public to gratify private malice, or to serve the
purposes of an election ?"—'-.Another writer, addressing himself to
Lord Grey (his Lordship, it should be stated, delivered a long
harangue to the freeholders at Alnwick lately), observes—" I can-
not but approve of the nature of the advice you have given to your
son. But is this display of parental authority, right as it is in
itself, quite in the right place and time? We should have ex,
pected that the presumptive representative of a,great county, a
legislator in the British Senate, shindd have had other qualities
than a facility to be governed—should have been manumitted at
donatus jam rude,' and no longer liable to be schooled
by parent or pedant in the presence of his constituents, whose in-
telligence, interests, and privileges, he was ambitious to personate."
If a Peer of the realm will venture upon an invasion of our poli-
tical Constitution, he must abide by the consequences. The
county is roused ; Mr. Beaumont has public feeling in his favour,
and cannot be put down,• let his enemies carry their refinement
of political chemistry to the utmost possible extent. Whilst the
penis in my hand, I have received an express from Morpeth,
where the County Meeting was held this afternoon. Instead of
the Whig• party having made play there, as they vainly imagined
they would, it seems that Mr. Beaumont, and the Hon. Mr.
Liddell, were decidedly the most popular candidates, both by the
show of hands at the hustings, and by the general acclamation of
the multitude. Mr. Beaumont was nominated by Joseph Lamb,
Eeq., of Lehunington-Hall, and seconded by Thomas Reed
Batson, Esq., of Higham Dykes. John Clennell, Esq., of Mir-
bottle Castle, nominated the Hon. W. T. Liddell, and was se-
conded by William Clarke, Esq., of Belford. Matthew Bell,
Esq. wits put in nomination by Sir Charles Loraine, Bart., and
seconded by Dixon Dixon, Esq. ; and my Lord Howick was-no-
minated by Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart. M.P., and se-
conded by William Ord, Eeq., of Whitfield. The almost imme-
diate departure of the post constrains me to a condeltsed statement
of the proceedings at Morpeth. —Neweastleupon-Tyne, 13th
June.

LIVERPOOL—TursnAv EVENING.

Our worthy, and I may say, beloved representative, Mr. Hos-
•kiralon, was chaired to-day, and nothing could exceed the splendour
and magnitude of the procession, nor the enthusiasm of his friends,
for the un-removed delusion that some of the working classes un-
fortunately labour under has excited more than a common interest
in his behalf ; it has caused a. general feeling of affectionate regard
and sympathy for hint in the wrong he has suffered in the estima-
tion of some of the working classA; and moth pains appears
tit have been taken to impress upon their minds that he is not
the poor man's friend, and some of them maintain that it was
his with in the measures in the I louse to limit them to a small.
pittance of wages per week. Now, it is really cruel to poison the
minds of these own, and to till them with hatred against a person
who has stood forward as their peculiar friend ; for when rslr.
flume brought before the House his, motion respecting the
Combination Laws, ulr. littskissm4 with that philanthropy and
honesty which so eminently distinguish him, declared 'that the
Combination Laws gave advantages to the master over the
men, which was not consistent with the true spirit of the
British Constitution. A Committee was appointed, and of
which he was a Member,-and laboured hard Jim the very class
. who have now suffered themselves to be deluded by designing
men ; who have artfully kept alive the impression these men bad
received from corrupt sources, insiduously • circulated amongst
them. His chairing, however, passed off without the least inter-
ruption, and it may be estimated that there was in his train, and
opposite Mr. Bolton's, from ten to fifteen thousand persons, and
they consisted of a large portion of penams of the first respecta-
The General was pretty well. attended in his route of
chairing. •

Mr. fit/mosso), addressed his friends at great length from the
balcony of Mr. Bolton's, which address was received' with rap.
tnrous applause.

YORK—TursnAy.

Yesterday blue was the prevailing colour; to-day it is the uni-
versal colour, and it requires no artificial index to discover it—
every face looks blue. What a disaster ! Last night the city was
full of hope and drunkenness—_this morning it was full of despair
and sobriety. Mr. Bethel notified his intention of retiring fron►
the contest at 11 last night—still it would not be believed. He
was far the most popular candidate, fur the best speaker, and evi-
&tidy a man that Possessed a considerable share of talent. With
such a character to cenfirm the hope of success, he had far the
largest show of kends yesterday,—nearly all the Milton
party supported him, and a great part of the Blues.—
When the rumour was first spread, I heard bets of five
to one, ten 'to one offered, that Bethel had not resigned.—
However, this morning put at rest all doubt. My landlady, who
treated such a rumour with contempt last night, was the first this
morning to communicate the intelligence to me. Her rueful coun-
tenance and dejected air bespoke her unmeasured disappointment.
San had six beds, all of which were engaged by one of the Com-
inittees at half a guinea a night; during the fifteen days of polling,
one of which she gave me last night at the Mlle price, as a great
cmnpliment, being an old customer. This, she said, she lost, or,
what she considered the same, she did not gain forty-five guineas,
and all on account of that chicken-hearted, shabby fellow, Bethel,
who would not spend his money. Some estimate of the change
may he formed, when I state, that I only pay, 28. (id. for the bed
to-night, for which I paid 10s. 6d. last night. The town was
so crowded last night, that many of the freeholders slept in stables,
but most of them were unconscious of the place in which they lay.
-Such a disgusting scene of drunkenness I have never witnessed. I
am sure there were few of the 80,000 persons assembled in
the Cantle-yrrd yesterday who went to bed sober. Every
hotel, tavern,
,and public-house, both in the city and
neighbourhood, were filled with persons drinking. wine.
Nothing hut wine would ke drank. The credence of such a con-
test in so large a county, where there were so many freeholders,
and at so great a distance. 'Mot be dreadful. Mr. Bethel, though
possessing an affluent fortune, it is said from 12 to 16,000/. a.
year, does not possess that aristocratic fortune, which could suffer
a large diminution, and still leave its possessor in affluence. Such
are the reason'', as far as I could learn, of his resignation. All
the other candidates arc men of immense fortunes. Mr. Mar.
shall, Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Duncombe, it is said, are each
worth 100,0001. a year—fortimes ample enough to admit a huge
curtailment : and the Fitxwilliam property is known to
he one of the largest of the aristocracy. Mr. Marshall
appeared to be the most unpopular of the candidates. The landed
interest have a bigotted prejud►ce towards commercial men who
of these times, but to Mr. Roe-
aspire to distinction. They admire their intelligence, their skill,
their enterprise, because the exercise of these contribute to their
parent of the science of
own wealth ;. but the moment ambition spurs them to aim at the
dignity of equality, they would affect to despise them. But as
one of the proposere of Mr. Marshall raid yesterday, who Was
it that rescued Europe from the darkness which shrouded the
middle ages, but a family Of Venetian merchants--to whom were they
ce political
but Mr. iticardo-to wham were they indebted for
the , ,
e
t
etherthohPireetuiteemagMari7liatisrh.all was hit age. He is 64., and
a Criminal Code,
ioenetnifide:abratedvmermisearflo:brintt_th:etew
lust to Mr. Peel, the son
re-
move
they consider an age at which no
Marsh as a commercial man.
mores* was to re-
i:hiTthliwetraasotibthntce t of this
Mr. F. Wilson little is known, hay-
mon should seek to be the
His chief claim to distinction is
Representative of a County, which required a most laborious at.
itnogitialliwatyas litieveldliteinrerittitiliremOefnt.

his fortune, and known rooted hostility to Popery. Mr. Dun-
combs is a young man about SO, and though he had been in the
last Parliament, was as unknown to the public as if it were the
first time he appeared on a hustings, having preserved a modest
Parliamentary silence during the long term of seven years. Of
Lord Milton it would be unnecessary to say any thing.- He is so
long before the public, his character and principles are well
known: By the resignation of Mr. Bethel!, these candidates have
saved 50,0001. each. The expellee of yesterday, though only the
nomination day, is estimated at 15,0001. Lord Milton has been
most anxious about this election. Before his influence was di-
yidesl with Mr. S. Wortley, but if the four candidates came in
upon distinct interests, it would he diminished by half. He there-
fore wished to bring in Mr. Marshall to his assistance. and
thus preserve his influence unimpaii•ed.