The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-01
Foreign News.

Foreign News
Our foreign files have been received to
the 18th inst. The papers are chiefly
occupied with the details ofthe elections.
The Times says:
If the first day of the elections may
be taken to indicate the course of the
contest, the Liberals have every reason
to be satisfied. The returns are every
where in their favor"
The voice of London is decidedly on
the Liberal side, although the Tories
are said to have spent large sums of mo-
ney. John Bright was reelected from
Birmingham without opposition. In o
speech which he made at that time he
sets forth with his accustomed cfearness
the state of the elective franchise as fol-
lows:
"There are nearly 1000, 900 of grown
up men within the United Kingdom. If
you turn to the blue-book which gives
the number of electors you will find that
the whole number on the list in the
United Kingdom is 100000. If you
deduct from them all the double entries
and all who lose their qualification in a
year from one cause and another, you
will find the number brought down to
less than 200, 900; and if atthis election
every man was polled throughout the
United Kingdom who, by any'kind of
argument or hiring of cabs, could be
brought to the poll, and if every seat
was contested, / believe not one million
of electors could be brought to enregister
themselves at the poll. Well, of these
electors, how many go to the boroughs
and how many to the counties?-57O, 900
belong to the boroughs and $50, 900 to the
counties. Therefore, the number of
county electors is nearly half as large
again as the number of borough cleo
tors. Now, the counties number, 1
think, III or llS in the United King
dom. Do you find the county electors
generally in favor of Liberal measures
and Liberal men?
From some cause or other the landed
proprietors and the great proprietors are
supreme, and the great body of the coun-
ty electors may be regarded as " dumb
dogs that never bark" daughter and
cheers.) In fact, the county represent
tation is almost like dead body tied to
the living body of borough represen-
tation, and is of almost no avail in pro-
noting those great Liberal measures on
which the prosperity of the country de-
ponds. (Cheers.) Why, you know per-
fectly well that 1t is not customary to
consult the farmers as to the candidates
who shall be brought forward. In the
one hundred and eighteen. county divl-
sions of the United Kingdom it is very
likely not one hundred and eighteen
tenant farmers have been asked who
shall be the candidates for the counties
Ia laugh)-candidates for whom they
are in the main expected with all hu-
mility to vote. A laugh.)
1t NAV be said that the large boroughs
have members, and thatthe have large
and VARYING constituencies :, but the
number of members which the large
boroughs have in proportion to their
numbers and wealth are far fewer than
thew ought to have, and therefore the
poWer of the House of Commons is less
important and weighs less in division
than it ought to do. Well, the general
result we come to is that the great body
of the people, 100000 men, who work
for their living, the bulk of whom have
houses and families, who are entrusted
with the education and rearing of their
families, who are always reckoned in
the census, whose consumption and
whose payment of taxes Mr.. Gladstone
always estimates in the amount of the
reyenue-these 100000 are totally and
absolutely and purposely excluded from
any share in the government OF their
country" vr
Lord Palmerston, who was returned
from Tiverton, in the course of his
speech, thus referred to American affairs:
ave are upon good terms with all the
great powers of the world; and the way
in which we have observed neutrality
in that affecting war which has DESC
lated the provinces of North America,
in snite of the strong expression OF pas
sionate partiality which broke forth
from different classes of the country
some i'm favor of the North, others in
favor of the SOUTH say that the stead
fast and persevering manner in which
we refused every solicitation and soilel-
tations. too, which came from America,
as we'll as from England, entities us,
think, to the thanks, as they contributed
to the welfare, Of the country. (Cheers.)
While the South imagined at the outset
that by stinting us in our supply of cot
ton, we should be compelled to take
part with them, the North imagined
that their determination to abolish sla-
very in the South would enlist in their
favor the philanthropic feelings of the
British nation, and that on that account
we should assist them. Well, that cot
ton famine was great calamity to this
country. (Hear, hear.) 1t lasted seve-
raj years, and its pressure was extreme.
But noble, on the other hand, was the
conduct of that part of our manufactu-
ring population who were thrown out of
employment by the cessation Of the cot
ton SUPPLY n
Riots, arising from election proceed
ings, have occurred at Grantham, Hud-
dersfeld, Tavistock, Belfast and other
places.
They have news by way Of Paris