The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-08-23
Elections In England.

The results of some of the parliamentary elections
have disappointed and astonished some of the mos,
knowing calculators in England The accomplished
Macaulay has been defeated at Edinburgh by Mr. Cowan,
and advocate of excise reforms and beer
drinking" SrJ c. Hobhsuse member of the cabinet is
defeated at Nottingham, the correspondent of the New
York Tribune says by Fergus OConnor, the leader of
the chartists; the correspondent of the New York
Courier says, by the of Mr. Walter chief proprie
tor of the Times newspaper, whose death has occurred
since my last Mr.. Walter senior deserved well of the
people of Nottingham and in many respects of England
large Sir John felt quite certain of his election and
made special effort to it; while Mr. Walter.
un put in nomination at the eleventh hour without
his own knowledge, and owed his success, in a very
considerable degree to the fact that the news of his
fathers death reached Nottingham on the very morn ne
Of the election
The London correspondent of the New York Tribune
adds 4" II Buwer Macaulay, and Warren, three popu-
lar writers, rejected there are still Monckton,
Mines, Ialtourd, and DR.. Bowrny among the elected
members. Roebuck is dismissed from Bath, ION the nc
Popey cry and the cotton-spnner and hard working
advocate of corn-law repeal, Mr. Felden, meets with
similar treamentfrom the people Of Oldham who have
returned Mr.. Fox, the league orator and Unitarian
preacher George Thompson, the abolitions is returned
for the Tower Hamets.' (This George Thompson is
well known to the people of the United States as an en-.
thusiast and fanatic) Hudson the railway king, Ste
phenson, the eminent engineer, Locke equally eminent
Peto, the extensive railway CONTRACTOR Cubtt the
builder Chaplin, the carrier, and Wild, the map.selIer
of Charing Cross, are all elected The cities and bo
roughs from which returns have been made have elected
1926 members of the House of Commons The
members of the three parties lS9 liberals, GO
Peelites and So protectionists The ministerial cause
has, therefore, gained considerable strength"
The London Morning Chronicle of the 81 August.
mentions among the many indications which the recent
elections have afforded OF silent but decisive advance
in liberal opinion and feeling there have been none
remarkable than the circumstances connected with
the return of Jewish gentleman for the city of Lon
don. The fact is, in itself, sufficiently novel and ex-
traoriinary to mark an important move in public sen
ment very few years ago, ii may safely be SAID the
and political prescription which has heretofore excluded
such men as Baron Rothschd from the common rights
of British citizenship, would have encountered an over
poweng resistance, both ecclesiastical and popular ANY
such attempt as that OF which last week witnessed
the signal success would not only have failed but il
would have stirred traditional and half sImberinp bigo
res into tumuliuous life, that might probably have
retarded, Tor indefinite PERIOD the eventiul Triumph
OF religious liberty We have now beheld not mereI .
the of of the bodes appeals ever ma ie ~
the good and justice of the community but lie
quiet successand this, too, one of our largest ponu-
lar constituencies"