Star.
London, England, 1830-09-16 00:00:00

ELECTION OP THE REPRESENTATIVE PEERS OF

SCOTLAND.

The Caledonian Merow►y says:" We understand that after the mi-
nutes of this election had been drawn up, the agent for the Earl of
Stirling tendered a written statement, entitled a protest, and intended as
an answer to the observations of the Earl of itosebery ; which statement
has been put up with the other papers relative to the election." The
protest is as follows :—" I, Ephraim Lockhart, writer to his Majesty's
Signet, specially authorized by Alexander, Earl of Stirling, to do all
and every matter and thing necessary and pertaining in and to the as-
serting and maintaining of his right of voting at the then ensuing elec-
tion meeting. for choosing the peers to represent the whole peers of
Scotland in Parliament, considering that the said Alexander Earl
of Stirling is a peer of Scotland, and as such has by a signed
list named 16 peers of Scotland to sit and vote in the House of Peers
of the ensuing Parliament of the united kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, upon the sailing of the great roll, and the production of which
signed list, the BRA of Rosebery stated • he should not oppose the re-
ception of the list signed by the gentleman who had assumed the title
of the Earl of Stirling, particularly as his vote had been admitted
on a former occasion; but at the same time he was desirous of express.
ing his opinion that it would be far more consistent with regularity
and propriety, were those individuals who conceived they were entitled
to dormant peerages to make good their claims taken before the House
of Lords, previous to taking the titles and exercising the privileges be-
longing to them ;" and considering that the said statement, while it ad-
mitted the right of the said Alexander Earl of Stirling to have his
signed list received, and give his vote thereby, contained matter irregu-
larly expressive of the opinion of an individual peer. and, although
received by the deputies of the Lord Clerk Register officiating at the
election meeting, was nevertheless invidious towards the person to
whose case it referred, as well as derogatory to the dignity of the peers
of Scotland generally, in assuming to dictate to them that they ought
to submit the jus saaguinis for their honorial successions, to previous
determination before a tribunal which is invested with no original right
of jurisdiction, either by the law or by the constitution ; wherefore I,
the aforesaid Ephraim Lockhart, specially authorised as aforesaid,
do hereby protest against the opinion of the said Earl of Rosebery,
duly expressed in the aforesaid statement, and maintain that
the aforesaid Alexander, Earl of Stirling, ought not to make
good his claim of peerage before the House of Lords, which to do,
would be to confess a doubt of his own character, do what in him lay to
surrender the rights of the peers of Scotland, and concede a jurisdiction
which, in any case of Scottish peerage, is not recognised by the
act of union, or made imperative by any other statute of the Legis-
lature.

" Whereupon I take instruments, &c. this second day of September,
in the year 1830. _ _____ • ___ _ _____ _ ___

“ EPHRAIM LOCKHART.*

" MR. HUSKISSON.

(From the Liverpool Courier of Monday.)

It gives us great pleasure to state, that the health of our highly.
esteemed representative, Mr. Huskisson, is so far restored, that he lass
not only been enabled to perform the journey from his residence to lA.
verpool, to visit his constituents, but that he has given them the meet
unequivocal evidence of the benefit which he has received from his
sojourn in the Isle of Wight.
Yesterday, accompanied by Mr. Bolton, Sir John Tobin, and other
friends, Mr. Huskisson walked on 'Change. About half post three in
the afternoon a vast multitude (having had some previous intimation
that the right honourable gentleman was expected) had, in addition to
the gentlemen who usually attend about that hour, assembled, to hell
his approach once more, after the disappointment they had experienced
by his non-attendance during the election, owing to severe indisposition.
The large Exchange-room was crowded to excess: we never, we believe,
saw so many persons assembled on any former and similar occasion.
If there be any who suppose that W. Huskisson has, in consequence
of his secession from the toils of public life, lost any of his popularity
amongst his constituents if they bad been there to have witnessed the
enthusiasm with which he was received, they would be of a very differ-
ent opinion; the right hon. gentleman was never more warmly greeted;
and we are persuaded that there never was a period when his observa-
tions were listened to with a deeper interest. After the right honour-
able gentleman had passed through the room, amidst the most enthusi-
astic cheers, he addressed the assembled muldnade to the following el.
fect :—As I perceive among those who have honoured me with this.my
flattering reception many who are my immediate constituents, and as I
trust that you will allow me to consider myself as the representative of
all the collective interests of this great community, without distinction
between those who honour me with their support, and thou who are op-
posal to me, or between those who have votes and those who have not
in the election of the members who are returned by this town to Par-
liament, my first anxiety in meeting you to-day was to express my
earnest regret that I was not able to be present, when it was so much
my particular wish to have been here, at the late election..—
Genten, I was about to offer you some apology for my voluntary
absence; but if I had any thing suitable and appropriate to offer on the
occasion, I fairly own that your kindness has driven it out of my head.
But the very reception which has superseded any explanation which I
might have wished to offer, has most strongly impressed upon my beset
those feelings of gratitude which are so-pre-eminently due for your in.
dulgence on the late occasion, almost the first, I believe, in modern
times, in which a member for Liverpool has been restored to the coofi.
deuce of his constituents without making his appearance among them at
the hustings. Gentlemen, this loyal town is about to receive the visited
a distinguished individual of the highest station and influence in the
affairs of this greet country. I rejoice that he is coming among you. I
am sure that what he has already seen in this county, and what he will
see here, will not fail to make a great impression on his mind. After
this visit be will be better enabled to estimate the value and im-
portance of Liverpool in the general scale of the great interests of
this country. He will see what can be effected by patient and per-
severing
industry, by enterprise, ;and good sense, unaided by mo..
nopoly or exclusive privileges, and in spite of their existence
elsewhere. Lientlemen, be will, I hope, find that if you are not friendly
to monopoly in other places, it is not because you require or want it
for yourselves. He will see that you know how to thrive and prosper
without it; that all you expect from Government is encouragement,
prmection, facility, and freedom In your several pursuits and evocation',
either of manufacturing industry or commerce. Gentlemen—l have
beard with just satisfaction, and from many concurrent quarters, that
every thing connected with these interests is in a more healthy and pro.
mising state than it was last year. I rejoice at the change for the better.
I hope and believe it will be permanent. But do not let us be supine,
and think that the energies under which difficulties :ire diminishing,
may relieve us from the necessity of unremitting exertion. In foreign
countries you have powerful rivals to encounter ; and you can only hope
to continue your superiority over them by incessantly labouring to lighten
the pressure upon the industry of our own people, and by promoting every
measure which is calculated to give increased vigour, fresh life, and greaten
facility to the powers which create, and to the hands which distribute, the
almost boundless productions of this great country. I trust, gentlemen,
that, by a steady adherence to these views and principles, I shall most
faithfully represent your wishes and feelings in Parliament. So long
as we are in unison upon these points, I shall be most happy and proud
to continue to be your representative, under the sanction of your confi-
dence, and so long as health and strength shall be vouchsafed to me to
fulfil the duties of the station which I now hold, as one of your member
in the House of Commons. lam persuaded, gentlemen, that by this
course I shall best consult your prosperity ; and I am still more im.
moveably convinced, that whatever advances the general interests of this
great mart of commerce, will but advance all the other great interests of
the country; and first and foremost, that interest which is the oldies
and the greatest of all—the landed interest, upon which, as the example
of the country so well demonstrates, industry and commerce have shady
conferred so many benefits."
The conclusion of this speech was followed by nine times nine as
hearty cheers as ever bUnt ftorn the lips of a Liverpool amenably. Mr.
Huskisson then visited the Underwriters' Room above, where be was
as warmly received. He then left the building. and, as be
through the crowd, shook hands with his numerous friends, on brill;
to the King's Arms.