The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

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TUESDAY

MORNING, AUGUST 10, 1852.

DISCOVERY BY THE TIMES OF MARES

NESTS AT BURY

HAD HORACE lived in the days of newspapers, he

certainly would have described the just man firm
of purpose, as disregarding even the attacks of the

periodical press

The civi cum ardor pravu juben-

tium could not have been more influential in mis-

leading a weak and vacillating public man in the

old time, than is the declamation of the factious

Statesmen, and all

empire would scarcely find time to take account of their
shouts, their placards, or their rosettes. They were sig-
nally mistaken. Not immediately after the election, but
on the 23rd of July, after ample time given, and no doubt
used, to communicate with Lord Derby, they were each
of them served with the usual notice by Thomas Statter,
agent on behalf of Lord Derby. to quit their tenements at
the ensuing week."
So far the prosecutor ! But audi alteram partem ?

From

Mr. STATTER'S before-mentioned letter, it
appears, in the first place, that Lord DERBY'S first

of the circumstances referred to in this

charge must have been obtained from the article in
the Times, which contained it; and, in the second
place, that his lordship had not expressed to his

agent, nor to any one as far as he knew, any predi-
lection in favour of either candidate. It next ap-
pears that the oppressed and injured triumvirate

but three stalls in the
new market, a spaciousbuilding erected by his lordship, used
as a public market for the town of Bury, and regulated by
act of Parliament. On theevening of Saturday, the day after
the election (itbeing market- day), several persons, profess-
mg to be respectable, went round the market and pointed
out to the country people the stalls of the electors who
had voted either for Lord Duncan or Mr. Peel, recom-
mending them to purchase from the one class and to
abstain from dealing with the other. Several tradesmen
exhibited tickets and party badges on and about their
stalls, and by shouting and party cries tried to induce
purchasers to deal exclusively with themselves. Much
injury was done to individual tradesmen, and large quan-
tities of meat remained unsold. The clerk of the market
remonstrated with the parties, and afterwards consulted
with me. I directed him to warn them that if such con-
duct were persisted in, we should be compelled to give
them notice to quit, and it was decided to wait another
week, in the hope that the objectionable practices would
be discontinued. Our expectations were in some degree
real'zed ; for on the following Saturday only the three
parties named by you, Rathmel, Burrows, and Entwistle
(so far as I can learn), persisted in their former course.
On that day, more than a week after the termination of
the election, Rathmel persisted in the use of party cries,
and in disturbing the market. On being reasoned with
by the clerk of the market, he refused to discon

inue them.
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On the same day Burrows wore a party badge
being requested to take it off refused to do so, and swore
he would wear what he liked, and do as he liked.
Entwistle had hung up at his stall a list of electors, show-
ing for whom each had voted. The clerk desired that, as
it was a party sign, he would take it down, which he flatly
refused. In consequence of this course of conduct on the
part of Rathinel, Burrows, and Entwistle, the notices
to quit were given to them, according to the general
intimation previously given."
- - -

Mr. STATTER further declares that, on this sub-
ject, he did not think it necessary to consult Lord
DERBY at all, and that the whole responsibility
rests on him alone. Who will dare to say that Mr.
STATTER did not act well and wisely ?

Such are the facts upon which " the leading
journal" founds a charge against her Majesty's chief
adviser, of having, "in the most public and noto-
rious manner, exhibited his contempt for the rights
of the elector, and set an example to his orderwhich
those who wish for its speedy and violent extinction
will do wisely to follow."

When the Times brings fresh charges against the
Premier, it will be sufficient answer to say—" R-
emember the Bury Election."

THE POLITICS OF BEDLAM

WERE any one to seriously propose that the inha-
bitants of Bedlam, and the other lunatic asylums of
the kingdom, should be represented in Parliament
by members of their own choosing, peoi
in all probability, be ill-natured enough to suggest

that the proposer of the scheme ought at once to be
qualified as a voter under it. Nevertheless, in sober

sadness, we are almost forced to believe, from the
records of recent events in Ireland, that ordinary

lunatics are quite as competent to exercise the pri-

vilege of the electoral franchise, and are likely to

conduct election proceedings with at leas

intelligence, reasonableness, consistency

and pro-