Star.
London, England, 1831-05-20 00:00:00

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO
Fermanagh (County).—General 41
STATE 01
Northampton (County), Blay 19. I
Four o'Cloe
Althorp - - - 2415
Milton - - 2076
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Cartwright - 1952
Knightley - - 1377
Dublin (City), May 16.
Lard Mayor . 1831
Mr. Perrin . 1826
Mr. Moore - . 1459
Mr. Shaw - - 1458

THE NRW PARLIAMENT.
Arehdall ; Lord Cole.
IF POLLS.
Pembroke (County), May 17.
Owen - - - 1490

Greville . -

- 1433

Cavan (Connty)-3d Day.
Maxwell - - 598

Young . . 661
Southwell - - 316
King's County, lit day.
Lord Oxtnantown - 1
Colonel Bernard • 1
Captain Wistenra - 1

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The following address has just been issued by Lord
Milton:

"TO MT FELLOW-COUIPITSTMEX.

" I understand that some observations have been made upon my con-
duct, which require from me a statement of facts. To the facts I
shall confine myself.
" On Thursday, April 21st, a dissolution of Parliament was inevi-
table. On that day I wrote from London to Mr. Hanbury, to request
him to stand for the county of Northampton. in opposition to Mr.
Cartwright On Saturday, April 23d, I received Mr. Banbury's an-
swer, stating that the attempt would be unsuccessful. In reply to this
letter, I wrote ag to Mr. Banbury, stating my reasons for thinking
otherwise, and again pressing him to stand. To this second letter I
received an answer on Monday, April 25th, in which Mr. Hanbury
positively declined standing.
" On Wednesday, April 27th, I received a letter from Mr. Curtis, of
Wellingborough, in which a wish was stated to be entertained in that
place that I would stand for the county. My answer, written April
27th, was, that ' I should infinitely prefer seeing any other person in
the situation of member,' that no power on earth should induce me to
engage as a candidate in a popular election,' but that, ' under certain
circumstances, I might feel it a duty to obeys call strongly made on me.'
" On Monday, May 2, I received a letter from Kettering, stating,
that there was a rumour there, that Lord Brudenell was to stand with
Mr. Cartwright, and that the friends of reform in that town wished MC
to stand.

" On Tuesday, May 3, I received a letter, signed by 45 freeholders at
Towcester, inviting me to stand.
On Wednesday, May 4, I received a letter from Daventry, ex.
pressing s trust that I would allow the freeholders an opportunity of
voting toe me.
" My answers to the letters from Kettering and Towcester were
analogous to the one I sent to Mr. Curtis of Wellingborough.
" My answer to the letter from Daventry hu bean printed : it is
conconnable with the others.

" While my correspondence with Mr. Hanbury was going on, I endea-
voured, through the intervention of two friends, to obtain requisitions
from some of the inhabitants of Northampton and of Wellingborough,
calling upon that gentleman to stand. In this matter, however, nothing
i was done, and all my attempt/et° induce any body to come forward against
Mr. Cartwright crated on the 25th April. unless you consider in that
light a letter that was published in the Stamford and Huntingdon
papers about the last day of April. This letter was signed 'One of You.'
It was addressed to the inhabitants of the northern parts of the county.
Its -object was to draw their attention to the advantages which
they, in particular, would derive from that section of the reform
bill which provides for taking the poll in districts; and to point out to
them the obstacle which Mr. Cartwright presented to their obtaining
that advantage. It neither mentioned nor alluded to any individual asi
an opponent to Mr. Cattwright. With the exception of my father's
agent, whom I desired to get it published in the papers I have named,
and to distribute some handbills of it, nobody knew that it was written
by me, till Mr. Cartwright asked me the question on Tuesday the 10th
instant. The letter had neither external nor internal evidence of being
mine, and, for aught those who read It knew, any body else might have
been its author. A letter unsigned by the writer cannot be considered
as a canvas, either for the composer of it, or for any other person.
It is perfectly absurd so to consider it.
" Having brought before you one letter that I wrote without affixing
my name to it, I will mention another, and then you will be in posses-
sion of the whole of my conduct.
" While my correspondence with Mr. Hanbury was going on, I wrote
a letter signed 'A I. reeholder,' pointing out that gentleman as a fit
person to suceed Mr- Cartwright. It was sent from London by the post
of Saturday, April 23d, and was published in the Northampton Free
Pres, of Tuesday, April 26th.
" When my endeavours to persuade Mr. Hanbury to stand were at
an end, Lord Altborp knew that I had been corresponding with him,
and that our correspondence had terminated, but he never knew that
was the author of either of those anonymous letters till after the com-
mencement of the election.

"6 It has been stated that a committee, either for me or LordAlthorp,
or both of us, sat at Peterborough about three weeks previous to last
Thursday. This Is not true.
" On the 4th of May, two days before the election, a Committee
for Lord Althorp was formed at Peterborough by my 'desire. Being
in London, I had received on the 3d a letter from Lord Althorp, at
Northampton, in which he inquired who would be the proper persons
to make arrangements for the conveyance of his friends in the soke of
Peterborough in ease of a contest. In consequence of this letteri I wrote
to Dr. Skriinshire, recommending the formation of a Committee, and,
in writing to that gentleman, I told him that I thought it not impos-
sible that I might be nominated. I gave him this intimation, because
I had then received the invitations from Wellingborough and Towces-
I ter; and declarations had been published by several populous villages
in the western part of the county, expressing their desire to vote for
some gentleman of the same principles with Lord Althorp.
" On Wednesday, May 4th, messengers were sent to the villages to
the soke of Peterborough, to apprise them that a contest was possible.
"6 On Thursday, May 3th, a message to the same effect was sent to
Warmingtoo, a village near Oundle. The assertion that any canvass
was made for me or even for Lord Althorp by my desire, previous to
the 4th of May, is unfounded. Error may have led to he assertion,
but there is no truth in it. These are the facts.
" You, fellow-countrymen, will form your own judgment upon them.
" I remain your moat faithful servant,
" Delapre, May 18, 1831. MILTON."
The Irish elections are rapidly drawing to a close. It is
quite impossible to account for the conduct of Messrs. Moore
and Shaw in keeping open the poll in Dublin, when it is ob-
vious that not the slightest chance of success awaits them.
In Down, we are sorry to say, that Lord Castlereagh con-
tinues to have a majority over Mr. Crawford ; however,when
we consider the many recommendations of his Lordship to
t:ie electors of Down, we feel the less surprise, but not the
less regret at his success : it has been a bravely-contested
battle. In Clare and the King's County, reformers are op-
posing each other, and in both cases, as in Meath, it is
likely the late members will be re-elected. How much bet-
ter it would have been to have arrived at the same result
without a coutest.—Dublin Times.

We may announce that Mr. Shell will be returned without
opposition for Louth. Sir Patrick Bellew has raised himself
much in the estimation of the constituency, and has cer-
tainly given himself an undoubted claim on their future
confidence, by withdrawing for the present, to prevent such
a split in the reforming interest as might have given a mem-
ber of the Tory faction a chance of slipping in. We avow
the great gratification with which we learn that Richard
Shell is certain of being returned for an Irish county : it is
the fashion latterly to decry his pretensions, on the score of
alleged political aberrations. We know not precisely what
these are•—but we believe that Richard Shell is utterly inca-
pable of saying or doing any thing which ho would suppose
calculated to inflict an injury on Ireland, and it is, in our
humble apprehension, too soon to forget that when the great
struggle was undecided, his services, and his utter and
entire devotedness, placed him second only to one name in
the long roll of sterling and unpurchaseable Irishmen. On
the score of talent, it is admitted, on all hands, that Ire-
land ought to be proud of Shell. He has already made a
figure in parliament, honourable to her school of speakers
and politicians: it was, indeed, the omission of the picture
of the Roman patriots, in the public procession, to have him
excluded from the list of her representatives, and we rejoice
that the disreputable anomaly is to be corrected.—Morning
Register.
From the accounts which we have received of the feelings
which pervade the freeholders of the independent county of
Londonderry on the question of reform, the friends of that
measure may rest satisfied that one reformer, at all events,
will be returned. The election of Sir John Byng is, beyond
all doubt, secure, and the only question for the electors is,
which of the late representatives they will choose. Not-
withstanding the wavering conduct of Sir Robert Batmen,
since he was returned for this county, and during his canvass
since the dissolution of parliament, his senatorial career has
proved bun to be a most efficient and useful member, in for-

warding the inteiesta of his constituents. As Sir Robert
Bateson is what is called a moderate reformer, he and Sir
John Byng, who is a supporter of the ministerial measure,'
will, it is expected, be returned, to the exclusion of the
useless Captain Jones, whose only pretensions to so di..tin-
guished a station is his connection with the Beresford family.
He was utterly unknown to the people until the la- t election,
when he was thrust upon them by the same family. He is
not possessed of a single acre of land, nor is he identified
with any existing interest in the county. Under all the cir-
cumstances, it is incumbent on the electors of Derry to get
rid of a gentleman, who has proved himself so utterly unlit
to represent them.—Dublin Times.
EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS IN CLARE.—Satur-
day evening, Wm. Mahon struck Maurice O'Connell in
the street, in hopes of urging him " to the field ;" 1111..
O'Connell coolly replied " that he would inquire into it
after the election." This morning Charles O'Connell, the
Solicitor, and a Mr. Cummins, had a difference with re-
gard to a voter, and it terminated by the former knocking
the latter down. This, it is supposed will lend to a message.
The election will not end to-day. The town is now densely
crowded, the temper in which business is conducted, it is
feared will lead to some more serious encounters. Mr.
O'Gorman Mahon has the start, but there is no doubt he
will be the beaten candidate.

COUNTY WENFORD.—State of the poll at 12 o'clock on
Monday—Chichester, 494 ; Lambert, 472 ; Lord Valentin,
418: Majority, 54. No doubt is entertained of the Re-
formers' success.

LEITRIM.-Mr. Peyton has very wisely resigned. Mr.
S. White and Col. Clements were therefore returned with-
out opposition.
FERMANAGH.— General Archdall and Lord Cole—
elected without opposition. Both are anti-reformers.
COUNTY or SLIGO, MAY 15.—The absence of General
King has militated against his return for this county. At
' the dose of the poll yesterday evening, the Sheriff declared'
the number of votes to be : for Mr. Cooper 84, Colonel
Perceval 69, and General King 40. Several circum-
stances, however, concurred to give Colonel Perceval
this trifling majority. Twenty-six voters, that are still
deemed good, were objected to, and were not ruled by the
assessor at the close of the poll. The sheriff's deputy closed
the poll for the day just as two tallies for General King
were coming up, and thus very unfairly left the other can-
didates two tallies each, a-head. The old tactician,
Mr. Wynne, of Ilazlewood, immediately sent in all his
forces, with the view of giving his favourites such a ma-
jority on the first day, as would discourage the simple-
minded country freeholders from continuing to adhere to
the side which, he calculated, they would deem ominously
weak, as they generally do deem that of the first minority ;
while on the other hand, yesterday being chief market day,
the trading classes of this town, who are almost to a man fa-
vourable to reform, were occupied in their respective shops,
not apprehending any danger from one day's absence from
the hustings. But notwithstanding this unfavourable be-
ginning, Mr. Martin and the other respectable friends to
reform, are quite sanguine, and calculate upon a decided
majority over Colonel Perceval tomorrow. I hope that their
best wishes may be realized.

CITY. ONE O'CLOCK.
The eat 2feite from Pails has arrived, but its contents are
unimportant : all appeared tranquil in the above capital.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 821 for the Account,
opened at the same price this morning, and are at present
alternately buyers and sellers at the above price, with little
doing.
In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet.

Letters of the 6th of May from Madrid state, that infor-
mation had been received there from the Havannah, stating
that M. Claude Pinellos, intendant-general of the island of
Cuba, was to embark for Spain, charged with a mission
from the Mexican Government, to demand of Spain the ac-
knowledgement of their independence ; for which the Mex-
ican
Government would conclude with Spain an armistice for
ten years, with a treaty of commerce.
The accounts from Seville state, that the number of dis-
tinguished persons imprisoned there were 34; of which four
officers of the Queen's regiment made a part.

The last letters from Cadiz inform, that about 5,000 per-
sons have been expelled that city.

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, since the early part of the day, have improved to
82j, 83 for the account; at present they are 82fj. This
rise is attributed that some arrangement will take place
between the Dutch and Belgians.

In the Foreign market little or nothing doing.
EPSOM RACES THIS DAY.
BY EXPRESS.

POUR O'CLOCK .
The Oaks Stakes of 50 sous. each, h. ft. for 3 years old
fillies, Bat. 41b.—Eighty six Subscribers.
Duke of Grafton's Oxygen
Lord Exeter's Miss Catton
Lord Lowther's Pennytrumpet
Lord Lowther's Circassian
Only the above placed. Twenty-one started. Won by a neck.

YA R 11011TII, MAY 19.—Yesterday morning at four
o'clock, the Swedish ship ',WWI, Christopher Stephenson muter, from
Oottenburgh to Ipswich, with a cargo of timber and deals, (the weather
being thick,) drove on Cotton Sands, the master and crew, twelve in
number, have been landed here ; anti should the weather continue mo.
derate. probably the ship and cargo may lie saved. Sailed in ballast
the Sundbury and Obey, for Rottenbro' ; in ballast, the Ann, for
Faroe, and the Ferewskride, for Amhus.

ANTIGUA, M A ucu:29.— Martini law has been in forec,
since the 21st Instant. On the 20th, the Bill for the Abolition of
Sunday Markets was enforced against the ncgroes, and 'event patches
of cane on different estates set fire to. An attempt was made to corn.
munieate fire to the town, by firing a patch of came which adjoined it;
but by the prompt exertions of the inhabitants it wall extinguished.
No combined attempt at rising has been made by the negroes. The
people are perfectly orderly and attentive to their work in the day.
The French Papers state, that the cholera tnorbus has
appeared in Gallicia. A letter from Tarnopol announces its appearance
in that town and some other places on the Russian frontiers. The
people die so fast, that it is with much difficulty they can bury them.
The whole of the circle of Cborostlow is encumbered with dead bodies,
as is also that of Colon.

POPULATION.- In the approaching enumeration of the
inhabitants of every place, on Monday, the 30th May instant, the in-
tention clearly is, that every person shall be reckoned orce, and not
oftener ; so that those who happen to be travelling, or absent from home
on business, or for any other purpose on that day, shall be reckoned as
if at their usual residence ; and if they leave directions at home accord.
ingly, they may assign that as a reason for refusing to be !atoned else-
where. It is not easy to define in all eases what constitutes residence ;
gonerally speaking, the enquirer may reasonably ask at every house far
the number of persons who lodged there during the preceding week, or the
last night, and proceed to reckon all such as residents there, un.
leas sufficient reason be even for thinking that they or ary of them
will be enumerated elsewhere. It may conduce to accuracy in po-
pulous places, to observe, that the larger the number of selected
Enumerators, the less capable and intelligent some of them must be ;
nor is it certain that Ilagistrates will think themselves justified In al-
lowing payment in the amounts of overseen, beyond the day's-work of
one enumerator toa hundred houses or sir hundred persons, unless in
very thinly inhabited districts.