The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-29 00:00:00

NEWARK ELECTION.

NZWARK, Nov. 25.—At ten o'clock this morning Mr.
Thesiger made his entry into Newark. and was received with
the greatest enthusiasm by a numerot... and influential body
of conservatives. Atter being introduced by Mr. Godfrey,
the chairman of his committee, he addressed a large assem-
blage of the electors in front of the Clinton Arms Inn, and
expressed in glowing terms his firm attachment to our vene-
rable institutions in church and state, and condemned in the
strongest terms the vacillating policy of the present infidel
government. After briefly expressing his political senti-
ments, which were loudly cheered, he immediately proceeded
on his canvass, with a numerous attendance of his friends;
and with full confidence of being elected. Sergeant Wilde,
with his party, were canvassing when Mr. Thesiger arrived
in the market-place, in a carriage and four, with pink favours.
Mr. H. Handley, member for agricultural South Lincoln-
shire, joined the sergeant on his canvass in the course of the
morning, a pretty plain hint to the electors of Lincolnshire
what they may expect when their member unites himself to
Mr. Sergeant Wilde and party, who are determined foes to
the agricultural interest.

A gentleman resident in the neighbourhood of Newark,
and an elector of the borough, states that, from the local
sources of information to which he has access, there is every
reason to believe that the new Solicitor-General will not
again represent that borough in parliament. Many reasons
might be assigned for the present and daily increasing unpo-
pularity of the learned gentleman ; some being of a merely
local character, and arising from causes interesting only to
the people of Newark ; but the greatest being the extreme
falling off in all parts of the kingdom in the Whig-radical
ranks, and the consequent increase of strength to the con-
servatives ; and such falling off and increase being nowhere
greater in proportion than in the little borough of Newark.
On Friday last the Nottingham Journal, a newspaper very
zealous in the good cause, and of great influence in its imme-
diate neighbourhood, contained the following paragraph,
which, be it remarked, was written on the spot by one able
to command the best intelligence :—__
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" The bestowal of the Ace of Solicitor-General seems
only to puzzle our blessed rulers. Not even yet have they
ventured officially to announce the man, though rumour still
confidently points to Sergeant Wilde. We think it right to
call attention to the current report, for the purpose of re-
minding our Newark friends of the duty which may be pos-
sibly required of them. We know perfectly well that a just
appreciation of their own strength, and a hearty unanimity in
its exercise, will enable Newark to add another leaf to the
laurels of conservative Nottinghamshire, and to give another
great discouragement to the waning reign of misrule in these
kingdoms. Then be the conservatives of Newark well
prepared."

Mr. Sergeant Wilde possesses, it is true, many advantages
over his opponent, Mr. Thesiger. He has been long con
nected with the borough of Newark, and on the present
occasioci has had some days' start in his canvass. He has,
moreover, the patronage of the treasury men, and the support
of treasury gold. But, nevertheless, if Mr. Thesiger be true
to himself and to his cause, and if the worthy men of Newark
come forward boldly and zealously, and manfully do their
duty, the conservatives will have nothing to fear.
Mr. Thesiger is one of her Majesty's counsel, and one of
the most able lawyers at the bar. He has distinguished
himself highly on many important occasions, particularly
before election committees of the House of Commons in
support of the conservative candidate. Every influence that
can he legitimately used in his behalf by the noblemen and
gentlemen of Nottingham, Newark, and their neighbour-
hoods will be afforded. If the worthy electors of Newark
will cut off at once and for ever the shackles of whiggism,
now is the time, another opportunity may not soon present
itself. It rests with themselves to gain a high name among
the constituencies of England, and it would be insulting to
them to doubt that they will avail themselves of it.