The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-02 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27.--Wind W.N.W.--High
water 34 minutes past four.—Arrived the Etua,
—, from Dublin ; Hazard, Chace, from Savannah ;
Bahamian, Pearce, from Calcutta ; Marianne, ----,
from Demerara ; Wm. Smith, , from Demerara ;
from Guernsey.
Sailed—The Congress, , for Barbado ; Ceres,
Craighead, for Naples and Messina; and Ilibernia, for
New, Orleans.
SaTußmair, Feu. 28.—Wind E. S.E.—Arrived the
Nelly, Davis, for Lisbon ; Lord Byron,
Campeachy ; Plato, , from Charleston ; Julius
Caesar, from Savannah ; Santa Anna,

'from Corunna.
Sailed_The Lancashire Witch, Rolstone, for Lisbon ;
Amelia, -, for Genoa ; United States, Wilson, for
New York ; Naiad, Stewart, for Gibraltar ; Quixotte,
, for Je►sey ; Brunswick, Stanrow, for Virginia ;
Zellust, -, for Dordt; and Jane Haddow,
for Charleston.

The Anti-Catholic Petition was kept .open at
the County Hall, in Nottinzham, for 17 days, and received
no mote than 2,800 signatures ; the one now open at the
lown Hall, in favour of concessions .being made to the
Catholics, has not yet lain half the above time and is signed
by upwards of 4,000 persons,—Nottinyham Mercury-

The concourse of members was visibly less this
morning. The certainty of success. seemed to sit
upon the countenances of Sir - Robert In lis's
friends—and the calm, but equally certain,
feeling of defeat was clearly evident among the
supporters of Mr. Peel. " It's all up" was the
common salute in the morning, and no sooner did the
poll begin than the supporters of Sir RObert rushed
forward, and polled more than two to one-for the
first half hour. As the numbers were_told through-
out the Hall and the avenues from the Coavocati on-
square,there were murmurs of satisfaction. The general
observation then was, " Why does not Mr. I'eel re-
sign ?" and " When will the poll close ?" " Its
useless to prolong the contest, now that there is no
earthly chance of success." Snell were the feelings
and expressions of the parties up to ten O'clock ;
and the rumour ran that Mr:Peel had actually re-
signed last night.
Tile VICE-CHANCELLOR expressed himself in
' v our of receiving the votes up to one o'clock, in
Order to allow gentlemen who had arrived, and were
expected from various and distant parts of
the ,countr:f,• -m opportunity of putting their. &en'
titnents upon record at this eventful and most ex-
traordinary election.
The polling opened at a quarter past nine o'clock,
and proceeded in the following manner :

half-past Nine.

Sir R. Inglis -
Mr. Peel

Three-quarters-past Nine.

Inglis
Peel
Ten.

Inglis
Peel

Quarter-past I'en.

Inglis
Peel

Eialf-past Ten.

Inglis
Peel

Three-quarters to Eleven.

Inglis
Peel

Inglis
Peel

Eleven.

Majority.

Ilalf-pa.9t Eleven.

10- 1

37
17-20

46
19 -27

23-ES

55
37-19

55
38-17

56
13--16

Inglis
Peel
Two gentlemen of the name of Short, one of
Christ Church, in favour of Mr. Peel, the other of
Trinity, in the opposite interest, voted the one after
the other for the respective candidates, which ex-
cited much cheering and amusement.

Twelve o'clock.

Inglis 60
Peel 49-11
Mr. SIIORT, On behalf of the friends of Mr.
Peel, stated, that they had now no longer any wish
to prolong the termination of the election, feeling,
as they did, their inability materially to alter the
state of the poll.—(Cheers.)
The VICE-CHANCELLOR declared, after this state-
ment especially, he should keep the poll open til'
two o'clock, and then certainly close it.
Half-past Twelve.

Inglis
Peel
At this moment, a gentleman arrived from France,
for the purpose of voting for Sir IL Inglis, and pro-
ceeded immediately to do so. His name is Mr. A rney,
of Brazenose College. He had got information of
Mr. Peel's resignation, and of the period at which
this election was to take place, through the medium
of the newspapers, and came here unsolicited for the
above purpose.

One o'clock.

Inglis
Peel 59-3
At a quarter past One, one of the officers stood
up and called out, " Magistri ad suffragandum
Prima vice."
(It is usual for this call to be made three times
at certain intervals, and if no Master appears with-
in a short space of time after the last, the polling
closes.)

OXFORD, 2.5 MINUTES PAST TWO.
At 20 minutes past one Dr. Ratcliffe, Vice-Prin-
cipal of St. Mary-hall, who was so ill as to require
to have been brought into the hall in a sedan-chair,
was assisted up to the table, arid gave his vote for
Sir Robert.

Half-past One.

Inglis
Peel
From this period the hall began to till both with
milks and gentlemen, all anxious to hear the
result of this important contest declared from the
chair by the Vice-Chancellor, who secured to him-
self the admiration of all present, for his perfectly im-
partial conduct, and most courteous manner through-
out the whole of the proceedings. Some members
of both committees, particularly of that of Sir Ro-
bert, likewise came forward and gave their votes ;
they were loudly cheered as they retired.
At a quarter before two o'clock the officer made
his third call.

Two o'clock.

Inglis
Peel
Leaving upon the gross poll a majority for Sir
Robert Henry Inglis of 146.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR rose and said, is there
any one here who has the right of suffrage, who
yet remains unpolled, and desires to poll ?
No Voter appearing at the poll table—
The VICE-CHANCELLOR then declared " the poll
is now closed." And after a pause, the Vice-
Chancellor announced the numbers polled this day,
for Mr. Peel are 59, and for Sir Henry Inglis 79.
The total numbers polled during the election
are—

For Mr. Peel
For Sir 11. H. Inglis...— 755
Majority in favour of Sir H. H. Inglis —146
This announcement was received with loud ac-
clamations throughout the Hall, which lasted for
several minutes, intermingled with various enthu-
siastic e:jaculations of " Bravo, bravo."
The VICE-CHANCELLOIt now withdrew from his
seat, and took his place in the chair or throne of
the Convocation Hall, and pronounced in the Latin
tongue, that Sir Robert Henry Inglis was regularly'
and properly elected one of the Burgesses to re-
present this most Learned University in Parliament.
' On the annunciation of this decision, the accla-
mations were renewed to an almost deafening sound.
The VicE CHANCELLOR then commanded silence,
to hear the return read to the Sheriff's precept
upon the writ from the Crown Office, which Witi,
according to the form prescribed on such occasions,
immediately read by the Registrar.
The VIOE-CHANCELLOR then enquired, in the
Latin language, whether the Doctors, Masters, and
Scholars, were agreed to the return of Sir Robert
Henry Inglis. (Cries of " all, all," and again loud
cheering.)
The VIOE-CHANCELLOR then signed mid sealed
the return from the University, and said we now
dissolve this Convocation. Ile immediately
left the Throne. One of the Doctors then ex-
claimed, with great enthusiasm, three cheers for
the Vice Chancellor. The call was obeyed with equal
zeal,
and again the Hall resounded with acclamations.

In another part of the Hall a Doctor rose, and
called for three cheers for the King.
Here our duty as impartial chroniclers of passing
events, compels us to record, to the disgrace
of a portion of this most learned body, that hisses
burst-for the first time upon the triumphant har-
mony of the Hall ; and those hisses appeared to
come as nearly as we could collect them, from one ,
half of the Convocation. In fact, the hisses and
cheers appeared to be equal. •
Another Doctor called out for three cheers for Mr. ,
Peel—this appeal was partially cheered, but the
hisses decidedly predominated, and was intermixed
with groans.
Finally, a Doctor exclaimed, with supererogatory
triumph," One cheer more for Inglis." Then the
Hall was cleared in the midst of the loudest accla-
mations.
By an Express which was dispatched to Mr.
Peel at twelve o'clock on Friday; it was an-
nounced to him, that unless some extraordinary
movetpent could be made in the Metropolis,
to britig down a considerable body of :voters, his
election was lost—because the outvoters from all
quarters were coming up for Sir Robert Inglis, and
the conveyance provided by Mr. Peel's Committee,
particularly from the West of England, where Sir
Tho Mas Acland, and other liberal men, had insti-
tuted an active canvass, were returning " promise
crammed," or rather literally empty. The Clergy
of the Diocese of Exeter were making no adequate
effort, while those of Bath and Wells were must
actively engaged in the cause of Sir Robert Inglis.
Ac six o'clock this morning (Saturday), an
answer was returned from Mr. Peel, that so far
as reliance could be placed upon any exertions
in the metropolis, it would be unavailing to
prolong the contest. The members of the Bar had
been already polled, with the exception of sonic
whom no inducement could rouse to make a country
excursion on the eve of their circuit, and that as far
as the country was concerned, the impuhe had
gone abroad, that the clergy were fighting the battle
of No-Popery, and it was too late to remove that
delusion; even those who had promised neutrality
were swerving from it, and in small parties coming
to the poll.
Upon receipt of the town express, Mr. George
R. Dawson left town for London, leaving direc-
tions merely, that such votes as came in the course
of the day, should be permitted to be polled.
Some idea may be formed of the efforts of Sir R.
I►iglis's friends, from the fact, that in the course of
this morning two voters came directly by post
from Holyhead, who only left Armagh, in
the North of Ireland, on Wednesday night,
and two voters came from France in the course of
the day. There is no doubt that were the poll
prolonged till Monday, Sir Robert Ingl►s's majority
would have been encreased far beyond its present
amount.

It is a very singular circumstance, as connected
with this contest, that from the beginning it was
fought as " the Catholic Question," and the
Clergy "as such" voted against Mr. Peel, declar-
ing at the same time their unabated attachment
to him personally, and their belief that he was
acting under an influence which he could not con-
trout. The neighbours of his father, Sir Robert
Peel, in Drayton, Staffordshire, came to poll against
him, armed with -even parental sanction for their act.
It is in vain to deny that this supposed influence
is the Duke of Wellington, and that the present
effort is meant (whether right or wrong) as
a demonstration of Protestant feeling against •
his Grace's Administration. How far it
can affect the Catholic Bill, to be introduced not-
withstanding, is a very different question. There is
no doubt that the re-election of Mr. Peel for Ox-
ford, which is, as it were, the cradle of orthodoxy,
would have given anew sinew to the arm of Govern-
ment in carrying the Catholic Question—it is not
equally obvious that the converse of the proposition
is true, that his defeat will retard the completion of
that great act of nationd justice, which his Majesty
and his Government have announced from the
throne.