Star.
London, England, 1826-06-28 00:00:00

ELECTION INTI4:ILICENri:.

PRESTON ELECTION.
Mos:DLy, Jun 2e.
The polling commenced this morning at
o'clock. The Duke De Monte Bello aid hie fri#;ii
appeared again in the liiyor's box to-day, on th.e:
retnt n from the Westmoreland Election.

On Mr. Woodcock, one of Mr. Wood's Conpr:tte!
conning up to vote, Captain Colquit said, .Ir.
I teque,t you'll put the bribery oath to that man.

Wooncocc—Then it nsust he put to every man round.
The MAYOR—Don't be offended—l have seen it put 1.7
tft
other side to the most respectable Gentlemen. I expect i: :o
put to my own soo.
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Wooncoce having taken the bribery oath, the polling the% pr,.
ceeded quietly and rapidly. —There are no dragoons in sigi:t 0:
Hustings to-day. The dour to Cobbett'a booth is open to all
Everything is tranquil.
Voudoock. to whom Capt. Colquit put the 13: ibe-r
Oat') a few minutes since, has just mounted a warch,....e
window, and made an oration to the Woodites—"
tiemen, I understand that Capt. Barrie his sent a c t '
lenge to Mr. Wood—lie wants to provoke him in hg
• —not a boxing match, Gentlemen, but a &lei. city,
Cillquit, too, has challenged Mr. Wood. No, , (;ence.
men, is this fair? Will we let a Reformer ht put d
in this way? (Husrza.) No; he absent fight—we wr,ll',.
. let him, but will fight for him in the lawful way, Gt.,l.
tlemen—we'll vote for him—we'll bring him in—and
if the two Captains want to shoot, we'll give them tau.:
to despair—well defeat them—and if they can't survive
it, let them shoot themselves, or each other. ftr„,„,..i
Gentlemen, I Can't speak to you, I am so botbeted with
joy. Not that I want words—no, 1 have w, xJs, gnat_
tiful words, if I could only recollect them ; 11;4,
t dents and cleatness, Gentlemen, but I'm played
devil with by gladness. Gentlemen, this day of odr
triumph will go over the fire quarters of the globe—it
will be seen by our posterity from one generation to
another—it will be talked of in history—the History of
Lancashire, Gentlemen, the very rorxt edition. Gentle-
men, remember what your fathers did b, fore you,
remember what your children will say when you itie
all dead and damned. The eyes of Europe, A
Africa, and America, are turned upon you—upon you,
Gentlemen, and John Wood I! England is looking up
to you, and all Lancashire to boot. Return John Woud
to the House of Parliament in Lunnan—confer mortal
honour on yourselves, your wives, and ehilder unborn
—and support the rights of Magnur Carter—put your
shoulders to the glorious Revolution of 1638. and rhea
come to me, and you shall get as gond a mug of ale as
ever went into a freeman's face. Let your cry be,
John Wood and Parliamentary reformation for ever."
(Huzaa, huzza, henna.)
We hear nothing this morning, but duels, challenges, and emits.
Mr. Orator Woodcock's mention of the challenge was not quite
without foundation, as will be seen by an account of the affair.
Mr. WOOD, in one of his evening speeches, horn the
window of his hotel, last week, alluding to the circum-
stance of Captain althea using the national flag in his
procession, said that Captain Barrie bad no private tight
to appropriate the public colours, and that such ap-
propriation of them by a patty, was unjust and improper.
One newspaper reports him to have said, that st
any individual to assume the national flag to himself :s
a piece of the most presumptuous pride, and that the
flag was thus disgraced.
A consultation was held by Captain 13.irrie's (lie ids
as to the propriety of demanding an explanation in his
name. But it was deterroined that, under existiqg
circumstances, it would not be strictly etiquette in him
to act the part of a principal on the occasion, and Capt.
Colquit agreed to perform that office for him. On ule
evening of the above day, Captain Magtiay, on the part
of Captain Colquit, waited on Mr. Wood at the Red
Lion inn, and requested to see him in a private room.
He then stated the object of his unplrasant mission, and
said he was authorised, on the part of Captain Colquit,
to know if he had said that Captain 13arrie had di,gracci
the national flag ?
Mr. WOOD said that under the present circumstances
he could take no other course than refer him to a fricrd;
that friend was at present in Manchester, and he would
lose no time in sending for him.
Mr. John Edward Taylor (of the Manchester Guar-
dian), the Gentleman alluded to by Mr. Wood, ar-
rived in The course of Saturday, when a correspond.
ence was opened by him, on the part of Mr. Wood,
with Captain Maguay. There are various versions of
the story, and one is that Mr. Wood gave a vet bal and
afterwards a written denial of the words imputed to
him. A friend of Mr. Wood's next, in a communica-
tion with a friend of Captain Colquit's, pointed out, in
a newspaper, certain strong words r-ported to his
been applied by Captain Colquit, on the hustings, :1
Mr. Wood. They were these—
Captain Csmover—" This all arises from Mr. Wood's infanioas
harangues--from the cowardly treachery of Mr. Wood.".
Mr. Wood's friends requested that Captain Colquit
would state whether he used the words ; and if he had
used them, that he would evlain th.m a .vay in some
apologetic manlier. Capt. Colquit being informed of
this request, sent a letter to Mr. Wood, stating that he
did use the expressions, and that he svnuld not retract
one syllable of then:. This was bringing m.riters to a
point; a message from Mr. Wood to Capt. Colquit was
expected as a matter of course. The next morning came,
but brought no challenge ; but in its stead the unexpect-
ed news arrived that Dr. Crompton had been with the
Mayor, and got him to bind the inoffensive Mr. Wood
to keep the peace, not only to Captain Colquit, but
all his !Majesty's subjects, himself in the stun of 2,000::
and two sureties in 1,0001. each. Dr. Crompton and
Mr. Baxter were the sureties. Captain Culprit was
afterwards brought before the Mayor, but upon his
giving his honour that he would keep the peace, he was
allowed to depart.
In the course of this day, Mr. P. Horrocks, a muturl
friend to Captain Barrie and Mr. Wood, waited on tile
latter, and after sonic conversation Mr. Wood consented
to make the following declaration:
I am not account'able for Newspaper reports; but I have no he-
sitation in saying that the report of my speech is inaccurate in man!
important points, and that I did not utter the words as quoted
the Chronicle. And I have further no hesitation in saying, that
never said or meant to imply that Captain Barry had in any viA'
whatever disgraced the National Flag; or that he (Capt. Balm)
had brought up his men to vote against their consciences by ik
price of bribery.
June e 6. ../OIIN WOOD.
The report in the Preston Chronicle was a copy of
that of a London Paper, whose reporter observes, Pr
himself, that had it not been for the unqualified denial
which Mr. Wood has subscribed, that he used the ob-
noxious expressions, the reporter would h tee ventured
respectfully to vincUcate the accuracy of the report.
At three o'clock this obstinately contested election
terminated, the polling having been kept in activity until
the last moment that the law permitted it to be kept
open. It was curious to observe the emulation of tle
electors to come up to the roll. Oue nun preseutell

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'-nself at the hustings At ten o'clock, Who appeared on
examinstion to have been qualified at the moment just
for one hour. He came to reside in Preston on the 26th
December, at nine o'clock in the morning, and he now
wi,hed to vote on the 26th June, at ten o'clock in the
morning, being exactly six mon.hs and one hour a resi.
cent. A question arose as to whether the day of election
was not in law to be takers as the first day, in which
the man would have been disqualified. But, on
c isideration, the Mayor ruled that he was qualified,
end his vote was received. The state of the poll at its
4.1.11 dace was as follows:

Stinky
Wuod
Barrio
Cobbett

• 2,944
. 1,974
. 1,653
▪ 995

The moment the dock struck three, there was a tre.
r:eidous shout of triumph, and the announcenient of
..:e state of the poll was received with hats off, and'
amidst the loudest acclametilos.
The Maros-- Now, Gentlemen. the polling is over. thank Goa—
:4 we return the Hon. E. G. S. Stanley and John Wood, Esq. as
:re Members to save in the ensuing Parliament for Preston.
Their friends immediately surrounded the successful candidates,
d congratulated them.
The several Candidates subsequently addressed the Electors.
Mr. StanSey's speech was long. 31r. Cobbett did not appear on
the Hustings at all.
Mr. WOOD assured the Electors of his regret that the poll had
closed before every one of them had had the opportunity of regis-
tering his vote, conliitat that in that case his majority would have
been greatly increased.
13,,th Mr. Stanley and Mr. Wood received much applause.
C3pr. Samara then made bisappearance in front of the hustings,
and when silence was partially restored stated that he attributed the
1.:.s of the Election, not to a want of votes, but to the obstruction
I,...rielids had received. He expressed a conlident intention of
r..tioning against the election, and said he hoped to meet the elec.
sets again about March next, and be elected their representative.
Mr. Stanley, attended by a numerous and respectable procession
of bis friends, and Mr. Wood, attere4ed by a similar procession of
his friends, then returned to their re*ective Inns, the Bull and the
Red Lion. and, about a quarter past four o'clock, Mr. Stanley, en
a horse, richly decorated with orange favours, act out to make the'
customary route throughout the town.
After the lapse of *beta half an hour, Mr. Wood, on a horse
splendidly dressed in green favours, set out to take a similar circuit.
In the evening the members and their friends dined together at
their respective inns.
The Catholics attended the procession is compliment to the two
Members, from abstaining from putting the Oath of Supremacy.

SOMERSETSHIRE ELECTION.
haungs, MONDAY, Jun Si.
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This day the polling commenced briskly on the part
of Mr. Dickinson and Sir Thomas Lethbridge, but Mr.
Hunt's friends came in small numbrs. A number of
Ladies and Gentlemen were mixed amongst the coarse
and brawny voters, and their curiosity was certainly in
the wiry highest degree gratified before they quitted the
building. It would be injustice not to state, that the
tone of animosity which manifested itself in the conduct
of the friends of the two old members is no longer heard.
Mr. HUNT entered the Court before four o'clock, and
upoi seeing Sir Thomas Lethbridge move towards the
door, addressed the High Sheriff—as I wish, Sir," said
he, " to mention, as I see the worthy Baronet leaving
the Court, that I have something to communicate
which may be of importance to him and Mr. Dickin-
son, after the polling for the day has closed. I would
not now address you, but that I ace you are not now
occupied."
Sir T. Lethbridge made no reply, but pirtly went oat
of dourt ; he paused at the dock; and then left this
Caurt. Mr. Dickinson also left the Court; and both
Mr. Dickinson and Sir T. Lethbridge walked away arm
in arm. Neither returned into Court again; but shoit'l
afterwards kft the town in their carriage: to their re-
spective residences. Mr. Hunt remained in Court.
At five o'clock the Under Sheriff declared the state
of the poll to be as follows :
The day's Poll. Aggregate Poll.
Mr. Dickinson 226 • . 1704
Sir 'Thomas Lethbridge 267 . 1551
Mr. Hunt . sit . . 576
The H Wit SHERIFF, addressing himself to Mr. Hunt,
said ha had a question to put to that Gentleman. It
was this—whether, from all that had passed, he thought
he had any chance of success? and he put it to him as
a freeholder and a Gentleman, uhether, if he thought
he had no chance, he considered himself justified in
putting the County to any further trouble and expense?
(Hear). Of his own trouble he thought nothing. It
was not on that account he spoke, but for the sake of
the freeholder: of this extensive county.
Mr. HUNT—Mr. High Sheriff, Ladies and Gentlemen,
and Gentlemen of the Law, of whom I see a great
number, perhaps itwould become me to say, that I have
no right to answer that question. Mr. High Sheriff, if,
Sir, you think that the majority of the freeholders have
polled, and there is no use in keeping the poll open any
longer, it is at your option to put an end to the election ;
but it must depend entirely upon your own discretion.
Whatever be, your decision, I assure you that I shall
bow to it, and shall not take advantage of any step which
you may think proper to take—(Loud cheers). I did
hope (addressing himself to the Court), for I had heard
something of this, that the other candidates would have
waited to hear what I have to say. I have been attacked,
most grossly attacked, by the other candidates, and by
certain individuals, who, o hers I stood on the first day in
t :is Court,- drowned my words in clamour, and vented
a,,!.rinst me most contemptuous and menacing language.
Have I not been insulted by them in the persons of my
freeholders, whom they stigmatised as dishonest men
because they voted for me? Have they not dishonoured
their characters as legislators and magistrates, by en-
couraging the violation of the laws which they have
made, and are bound to administer with justice?—(Load
Cheers.) I spoke of Mr. Dickinson's conduct in Par-
liament. He says th I was mistaken in what I men-
tioned about Mr. Denison's motion, as to his vote ; but
1:e says that Le would have opposed that motion if lie
had been present. 'llse press, then, was incorrect, and
;lot I ; and he sanctioned the error by not contradicting
it when he had the opportunity. As to Sir Thomas
i etlibridge, I charged hint with a dereliction of
}is pubic duty, in refusing to support your pe-
t;firnc. I made no personal allusions to him until he
attacked me, by saying, that no honest man would vote
for rue; and there are some insults which it is not in the
nature of man to hear without retaliating. I retaliated.
(( 'Aura) Ile said, he knew me when I was an honest
n!..rn ; he recollected me when 1 wore a smockfrock.—
( 4 lough.) I recollect the circumstance to which he
refers. He was on a visit in a family with which I was
acq.lainted, when we were both very young men. We
were abort( the same age—eighteen. I remember that
-a& hitn riding one day. I had a sntackfrock on, and
I straddled one of the horses belonging to my father,
who rented between 2,0001. and 3,0001. a year at that
time. I had no saddle ; a stag was turned out ; off
Eir Thomas ran. I could not resist the impulse, but
away 1 u ens too. We had a 15 miles' chase, and I came
ire time enough to save the steg,which would have other-
wise been I,nlied to pieces, for Sir Thomas was not
there to help him--(Lartg*/). The smockfrock, my
t,:e .1%, is no disgrace. !s nettl:er x lest ul disho.

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''nesty nor of its opposite. I only state this to show you
that I was able, even at. that early period of our lives,
to give Sir Thomas Lethbridge the " go-by'L(C/reers)
He has spoken of the qualifications for a County
Member, and amongst them he has mentioned that of
high blood. Now, suppose I asked who his grandfather
was, and was asked in answer whether I had not heard
of a foundling who had been found in a ditch, wrapped
up in a pair of leather breeches, which gave him a
name that was afterwards curtailed and improved, and
adopted by his successors—(Loud laughter and cheer
ihg). But what, after all, are the qualifications of the
Hon. Baronet? You had him in three Parliaments, and
what has he done? [Here Mr. Hunt adverted to the
uniform support which Sir Thomas Lethbrage had
given to the system of taxation, and was interrupted by
a drunken blockhead, who cried out 0 Sir Thomas and
Mr. Dickinson is the Gentleman as is fit to represent ttee
county." The Sheriff silenced him without cert-monya
A great variety of opinions, I admit, exist as to the corn
b 11. There are many farmers who thii,k that Sir Thomas
has been in the right in the course he has adopted, but
many also think that he has been actuated mine by pri-
vate than by public motives—(A laugh) The fact is,'
that he declared himsel to be, when the corn was at a
low price, a complete Radical; but when it rose to Sr.
or 9s. he suddenly became a church-and-king man—
(Laughter.) But did he ever lower his rents to me. t the
price? (Cries of" Never," and cheering.) Was he ever
known to do so? (No, no, no.) I state now what I have
said to his face; he can come here and contradict me
if he pleasei. But I don't think he will again say,,
" You lie; it is a d— d lie," as he has before said to me.
Now I differ from in my on the subject of this bill.—
Lord King gave it eie name of the landlords tax, and
a better, I think, it could not have ; for I am sure it
was never intended to do the farmer any good—(cheers)
With respect to Mr. Dickenson, I have done all I could
to draw from him the substance of his threat to me,
but in vain. I shall say nothing of what I have heard
of his private history, although I have it upon other
than newspaper report. He did not treat me with
similar delicacy in my absence. In the House of Com-
mons he reviled and abused me while I WAS in that jail
(pointing to the prison). He and, his colleague denied
the truth of everything I complained of. They abused
and vilified me when I had not the power of answering
them, having the double check upon me of confinement+
as to my own person, and Parliamentary privi!ege as to
his--(Cheers). My crime, I declare before the Goo who
looks down upon us, was no greater than that which I
am now committing. It was for making just such a
speech as you have now heard. My brother candidates
cannot expect to be forgotten. Can I forget this treat-
ment? No. I might forget it, if it merely regarded
myself; but my family—(Here the firmness of Mr.
Hunt's Voice for a moment was broken, and many in
Court were affected). They played with me as a cat
would with a mouse. They put me to my family and
pulled me back, and put me again is them and pulled
me back. Three times did they torture me and them.
If ever I forget it, may 1 forget myself. If my poor boys
ever forget it, may they forget their father (Cheering—
a great many in Cott were in great agitation), I have
the clothes which I wore km my prison; I wore them on
the day of nomination, and I shall wear them on all
occasions that remind nie of my degradation and suf-
ferings—(Loud and tohtinued cheering). If I fail now,
I shall see you again at the neat election. I shall go
home and look after my blacking—(cheers) and prepare
to meet my antagonists again. As long as that ga .1
stands there, shall I visit this town, and renew in
the breasts of my oppeMsors the recollection of the
scenes that passed there —(Load and long-continued
cheering). Mr Hunt concluded by again expressing his
acknowledgments to the High Sheriff.
The Serserrr--Then I am to understand, Mr. Hunt, that you
decline consenting to my elegies the poll?
Mr. Heirs-4 have said as mach as I can. I have pledged my.
self to the freebolders to keep open the pull, and I should be a dis-
gracefol fellow if, by any act of mine, the poll were dosed.
The Sneerer—That's enough, Mr. Hunt; I have nothing more
to say ; officers adjourn the Court till to.morrow morning.
The Court adjourned accordingly.
LUCE/MIL—We learn horn good authority, that the
proceedings at our borough election will be brought
before a Committee of the House of Commons, whtn
the legality of the conduct of the Returning Officers
(which has been so strongly protested against by the in•
dependent interest) will come under discussion ; and the
disputed points as to the right of voting which exists
in the borough will be decided by that ti ibunal ; before
which the question as to the honorary fremen will also
ble tried. Until the result of these proceedings shall
be known, it is by no mem% certain whether the
election of Sir Charles Hastings and Mr. Cave will
stand good, or whether Mr. Evans may not yet be one
of the sitting Members.—Leicester Chronicle.
Sussex.—Sir Gotiftey, on Friday, published a hand-
bill, declaratory of his intention of Keeping the poll open
to the utmost limit of the law; the contest, thereat',
may continue until three o'clock on next Saturday after-
1100n. The Brighton election fever, it appears, had
spread•to Battle, where Mr. James Smith, of Rye, and
Mr. Tilden Smith, jun. were severally wounded on their
return from the election. The latter Gent'eman's bead
was so much hurt, that he was in consequence confined
some time to his bed. An old freeholder, who had tra-
velled upwards of 70 miles- to vote for Mr. Curteis, by
mistake polled for the Baronet; and another, who had
lashed a little too freely, said he should poll for Sir God-
frey, but not for Webster.
BEDFORDSHIRE ELECTION.
mem. WM OP WWI PULL vesveitemr.
Mucilages • • 1505

Taviitock leg
Prn loss
)dr. ryas having resigned, the two *lst were retortied.—At
Ave o'clock Mr. Nugget's was chaired.—Lord Tavistock will be
chaired to-day.
GALWAY BLECTION—(COUNTY.)
Or 1145 011011 TOLL-...TBSILD DAT.
Daly . 1,900
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Lambert
Martin .

. 1,433
. 794

Galway has 'oeen the seem! of the most violent corn-
motions, and some serious affrays have taken place, in
which a man and woman lost their lives, and others
were seriously injured. These commotions occur in
consequence of Mr. Daly btinging into the 'town non-
resident voters, who, if met by the town's people, are
sure to be ill.treated, even to the danger of being mas•
sacred. The police are active, of course endeavour-
ing to protect the voters, and in this way the above
persons lost their lives. Several Gentlemen have
been. assaulted in the streets by the mob, and some
voters coming into town on Thursday were resisted
by the freeholders in the opposite interest, and the
police, in endeavouring to keep the peace, were
obliged to fire, when a poor v. qman was shot dead, and
two persons dangerously wounded. On the same Jay
the mob tore down the Clam iearde Arms from Kilroy's
Hotel, and from a shop 'n Abbe.% gate-sti vet, and bur t.t

them in the most public part of the main street. S:veral
other severe conflicts between the mob and the police
took place in diffeient parts r t the town, and ii butcher
named Monaghan was killed by a bayonrt wound from
One of the police. On the day before, Mr. Daly was
obliged to retreat into one of the barracks from the fury
of t'..e mob, and was afterwards protected and esc,rted
to the Mayrr's house by the Roman• Catholic Bishop.
Mr. Recorder O'Hara having a majority of 270, was,
nearly securing the election for the town by the res;gn
Lion of Mr. Perse, who united all interests in his favour;
hut a new candidate, Mr. Gi,bot ne Burke has started,
And it is to prevent the out voters from coming in
against him that hese outrages occur.