The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

THE BRIGHTON ELECTION

RETURN OF THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE.
BRIGHTON, MAY 6.—Between five and six o'clock this
morning the conservatives sent their bands round to arouse
the electors and prepare them for the victory which awaited
them. Lord Alfred Hervey took the lead the first half hour
of polling, and swelled his majority every quarter of an hour
to such an extraordinary extent that the most sanguine of his
supporters were perfectly astonished.
At five o'clock this afternoon the returning officer declared
the state of the poll as follows :
Lord A. Hervey (Conservative).. 1,277 (Loud cheers).
Harford (Whig)
Brooker (Chartist)
Lord A. Hervey, the declaration having been made, said
this was a proud day for him, and for the Conservative party,
who brought him forward, and to the latest period of his
existence he should never forget the kindness and the courtesy
by which he had been received by gentlemen of all political
opinions, and the warm and zealous support which he had
obtained from the kind friends who had placed him in his
present triumphant position. (Cheers.) He considered this
not as a personal triumph only, but a triumph also of politi-
cal opinion. He had told them in his canvass that while he
should be most anxious to remove every practical grievance,
and to reform all real abuses, he should feel it to be his duty
to oppose all measures calculated to destroy and not to im-
prove the British constitution. His lordship then repeated
his determination to support the present Government, and
to promote all their local interests, and having again re-
turned thanks bowed himself from the hustings.
Mr. Harford and Mr. Brooker also addressed the electors,
who then quietly dispersed.
A most extraordinary change has taken place in the poli-
tics of this borough. From rampant radicalism the borough
has become conservative, as will be seen by a comparison of
the numbers at the last general election and the present one.
We subjoin the numbers of the last election :
Pechell (Radical)
Wigney (Radica1)...
Dalrymple (Conservative)

THE STATUES OF THE MARTYRS, CRANMER,
RIDLEY, AND LATIMER.

We briefly noticed in our last the safe arrival of these
statues from the studio of the late Sir Frances Chantrey.
They were executed from the designs as well as models of
Henry Weekes, Esq., to whose powers of thought, classical
taste, and admirable workmanship that great sculptor, by his
last will, entrusted the completion of his professional engage-
ments. It might have been feared, from Sir Francis's ina-
bility to give to the work the benefit of his genius, that we
should have had to regret the loss. But of the scholars'
knowledge and feeling, and his adoption of the feelings and
purposes of the Committee, have given to the statues of
these holy men aspects and attitudes most characteristic,
not only of their mental and moral endowments, but of their
peculiar acts and offices in the work of the Reformation.

The venerable Cranmer bears on his left fore-arm that
sacred volume which, in his preface, he calls " light in dark-
ness, food in hunger, and in coldness, fire." The edition is
noted by a deep cutting in its cover, " Maye, 1541." It
was the year which witnessed the first positive rnd peremp-
tory circulation of the Bible through the parishes of England,
under a notification of the royal authority on its title-page.
It may be recollected that the.foundation stone of the Mo-
nument was laid in May, 1841—three hundred years after-
This donum regium was obtained at the earnest

intercession of the Archbishop. It was therefore due to his
piety and patriotism to exhibit in the most expressive way
his special claims upon the gratitude and veneration of our
Church and country.
It is known that it was one of the misfortunes which
clouded the early rising of the light of the Reformation that
there were differences of opinion upon matters which have
long ceased to disturb and distract men's minds—the law.
fulness of official vestments. Bishop Hooper was with diffi-
culty prevailed upon to conform and wear " the rochette,
surples, cope," at his consecration, according to the ritual of
1549. But the mind of Bishop Ridley, entirely occupied
upon his perilous conflict with the enemies of the Gospel,
did all he could to prevent these vestiary questions from
creating differences among those who were ready not only to
be bound, but to die for the name of Christ. The robing of
Ridley's statue indicates his constancy in this matter; it
points out his undisturbed conformity with what had become
the law of the land in respect to episcopal apparel, whilst his
hands, firmly locked together, his erect countenance, and
well-balanced stability of body, aptly represent the firmness
of his faith and the integrity of his confession. They suit
the Confessor as well as Martyr, who said' " I believe the
Holy Catholic or universal Church, which is the communion
ocfhSriasitnAsh,ethellhaoruasnedofstGayodo,
fthteheCity of
.God, the spouse of
Truth. I believe in the
Rule of this Church which is the Word of God."
pious Themttlestatue is that of Bishop Latimer : it faces the
of four.
Corn
to the will of God; Market, and is the very image and representation of
crossed over the lir
humility,fourscore years
or rather of old age, stooping underthe burthen
But there is also theert
, but mainly indicative of submissiveness
, and of holy resolution to do it ; the arms
the aged Latimer t greatly aid the expression of humility.
you to be good to ()sok of that self-possession which enabled
good memory, and mine :7 to his disputatious Judge, " I pray
the better, I moist, for the nnee!ld man. Disputation requireth a
marvellously weakened, and never
erred, and doth err.
ing but spiritually. The 1.;:s no mention made of any eat-
TIL/Tlson. The Popish Church hath
of transubstantiation " 0 Pluish Church begat the error
• --- .rjord Herald.

( The Earl of Devon, Henryjoh
Stephen, and Robert
Metford have been appointed conitu-isns
an inquiry into the late forgery of exchequer bills.
under theact for
IMPORTANT TO OVERSEERS.—In the borough
11! to:exhi-
of Lich-
field, two overseers neglected to make out aud
municipal burgesses, and of course they were unable
the list of
bit the list when demanded. Actions were 'moan
each by a person named Gregory, and each defendant paid alftlehe
fine of £5O, for his neglect in not making out the list!
gory then brought other actions to recover the like penaltiese-
for not exhibiting the list when an inspection was demanded,
but the Court of Exchequer, on Monday last, decided that
the actions for the second penalties could not be sustained,
and gave judgment for the defendants.