Star.
London, England, 1826-06-21 00:00:00

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=en& INTELLIGENCE.

REA DING.
11103/ OUR OWN COMO

At the dose of the
.poll on Monday afternoon, Mr.
Jatzeles. superiority continued nearly the lame, and
Messrs. Palmer and-Spence equal, each4B4.`Yester day
the exertions of the Committee brought a few stragglers
from different parts, and the majority did not exceed
one vote, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the
other. At length the tw•o contending candidates mu-
tually agreed to put an end to the contest at twelve.—
At that time. Mr. Spence had the ascendency, and he
was declared by the returning officer to be elected'. So
much .extraordinary violence and uncommon occur-
rences took place during this long protracted contest,
that it is thought the matter will not rest here.
Had the four candidates remained to the last, Mr,
Palmer would have had a great majority ; but by the
.deep manmuvre, which made Mr. Wakefield throw his
weight into the scale of M. Spence, the latter succeeded.
At the conclusion, the poll stood thus :
Monck
Spence
Palmer

878
40
489

Another Account.—From " The Times" of this Morning.
At five o'clock yesterday evening, the election for the
borough of Reading terminated, in pursuance of an
arrangement for the hour of finally closing ,the poll,
:aside early in the morning by the respective candidates.
Throughout the day the greatest bustle pervaded the
town, and every vehicle which could be put in regnisi-
don was dispatched throughout the surrounding
country, in the almost forlorn hope of finding some
straggling voter. The last few in the immediate per-
sonal reserve of the contending candidates (about.eight)
were polled as the day advanced, and aged and infirm
men were brought up for Mr. Spence, who were under-
stood to have resisted eli previous solicitations, and to
have promised a strict neutrality. One of these, an
aged member of the Society of Friends, attracted par.
denier attention, and his case will, it is said, undergo
the scrutiny of the religious Society of which he is a
Member. A curious scene took place on the hustings at
Om minutes before five o'clock ; the clock (a small table
one), which was placed by the Mayor upon a bracket,
oncb the mace of the corporation, was found to have
stopped. This led to a bustle upon the hustings, and these
were not wanting those who attributed the circumstance
-to any thing but accident. Watches, however, were im-
mediately held up; and as it happened (a very common
occurrence) no two agreed within a fractional division
of time, the offer of assistance to the Mayor was very
unsatisfactory. Somebody ran out to look at the church
clock, and when it sounded five the close of the poll
was formallY announced by the Mayor. Loud applause
followed, and the hall rang with the cheers of Mr.
Spence's friends.
The Mayor declared that the election had fallen on Mr.
Monck and Mr. Spence; and the publ:c business termi-
nated in the chairing of the successful candidates, who
lit their tern addressed the crowd from their respective
places of residence.
Mr. fifist:mc, in allusion to the loss of Mr. Fyshe
Talmer's election, said, that their business ,had been un-

fortunately only half clone: they must miss, as he did,
those banners of his late excellent colleague which gave
such grate and support to the purple—(Cheers). He
hsd knOwrithat Gentleman ever since they were school-
boys together, and he could confidently state, that in
private life there could not be a more worthy or more
amiable man ; and as a public man, the sun itself could
not be more true—(Cheers). If it had remained for
hirn and not for them to choose, there was no man living
that he would have preferred for his colleague to Mr.
Fyshe Palmer. The majority, however, of this day
harm decided otherwise, but they would recollect it
only amounted to four, and might be reduced still less
before a Committee of the House of Commons, where
alone such a scrutiny could be determined—(Lowd
cheers, and cries of " We will have Palmer").
We regret to state, that just at the closeof the poll
•Mr. Monck's barouche was upset in the street, and two
of his servants and a female were hurt.
The I, lends of Mr. Palmer formally protested against
the return, and demanded a scrutiny.

In the letter of the Rev. 11. H. Nlilman' in enr Paper of yester-
day, for " the fixed insult," read " thefirst insult."

HUNTINGDONSHIRE.
TUZSDAT ONE O'CLOCIL
The proceedings are going on very languidly ; in-
deed, it is understood to be the intention of Lord John
• Russell to keep open the poll as long as possible, af-

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ford time for his agents, who are now scouting the
country in all directions, to bring up the stragglers who
yet remain.unpolled. With this view be is now bring-
ing up his Committee at one per hour; and, as he is
said.to have nearly thirty unpolled votes there alone,
the contest cannot be considered as yet determined,
• especially as neither exertion nor expense will be spared
to accomplish his return. •
Ji •A. little previous to the close of the poll last night, a
general s&ittle took place among the mob before the
hustings, for priority or places, in which the London
. pugilists who a. e down here took a very decided part
against the Blues, which is Lord John Russell's pasty.
The Sheriff oh.erving this, directed them to withdraw,
which, after some murmuring, they did; at the same
time, he. expressed his determination of committing
them for the very first breach of the peace in which he
might find them engaged.
A Gentleman on the hustinp observed, that he understood
they were down by the partisans of one of the candidates,
• to •

The Snyttir, replied, that he could not believe it, as each of the
candidates had pledged his honour to him that he had nothing to
do with the bringing of them down.

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The Gentleman said, that might be; but still he ha good rea-
sons fur believing that some of their agents could explain how it
happened that they had come down here.
• The Sheriff made no reply, and the conversation dropped.
It appears they came into the town on Friday last, in
a post-chaise and pair, and ewer since have constantly
been seen loitering about the Fountain Inn, which is the
:'.}card-quarters of Lord Mandeville arid Mr. Fellowes.
At a quarter to two o'clock the numbers were as follow :
Mandeville • 957
Fellow's • • . . 890
• Rowell • • 845
re LEICESTER, Juna 19.--Sams Dar.
The polling commenced this morning at eight o'clock
in both booths, and proceeded rapidly with equal ad-
vantages to both parties.' The people are quiet and
well-behaved, and nothing can proceed more orderly or
uninterruptedly than the polling, to which there is the
direest access. .
A list of the Clergymen among the honorary free=
men halPeen sepawely publi,hed, with their plops*
residenct in a large sheet, encircled with a broad black
funeral border. A hand-bill is is circulation, headed
" Honorary Clericals, or the Hundred Chaplains of the