, 1866-06-12

Tic British papers have great deal Of
fault to find With the mode In which elections
are conducted In tLis country. An American
tourist gives description Of an Eng i,t
A,1stings which he attended on the 1ith Of
a1ay, which is too graphic not to lay before
onr readers. lie says:
An election has Just taken place nt Noting
ham, to supply places Just yncated In cousc
4uence Of bribery and the scene presented
was SO good an Illustration Of what
have Just said that will lay brief account
before your readers; the candidates were Lord
Amberle5. very young man, the SOD Of
Earl Russell; Handel Cossham, of whom /
recently gave description, man Of exceed
ingly radical views, aud teetotaler; Bernal
Osborne, late VI. 2. and great buifoou !;
and two others OF whom know nothing. In
England candidates are nominated in tho
presence of crowd Of citizens, and are ex-
peeled to make harnngues. On lis no,nlna-
tion at Nottingham there WAS howling mob
Of &, LOO persons about the hustings, and the
following Is a report Of the speeches:
Lord Amberlcy said lle should not havc
press desire OF the unlteu Liberal party
tcheers and sroansl; but having received
such m ins sitntton lie considered It to be l,s
duty to endcayor to unite the Liberal party
in Nottingham cheers and hfsses], and to OBJ
thin victory for the Liberal cause. "a voice,
received witt terrific Jefls from thousands f Of
throats, and cheers from his friends on the
hustings. He said he trusted this contest
would be conducted In fair and
,n1 orderly p! manner: {cries Of "Te!!
the honor Of being invited to the
[groans} By the Liberal party. His views on
political subjects were of . most Liberal
character. The Conservatives, who hated
reform, Ind brought Mr. Osborne to divide the
Liberals, but they did not want butloons or
testers In the House Of Commons, and Is for
Sir George Jenkiuson ,{the Conservative can
didntc. he did not know as much of com-
merce as he did Of q bulls toot. IUpsoar.]
Mr.. Faulkner was received with ridicnle and
partial applause. 1c pulled OF his coat be-
lore he addressed the meeting, and made
most eccentric speech amid great Interrupt
tion.
"Slr. Bc1pal Osborne was received with
tremendous cheers, waving Of hats, groans,
hisscs. dc. He congratulated this great
constituency on the goo1ly array Of caudi.
dates standing before them. Five was a
lucky number; five Was the number which
carried the bill for the extension Of the fran
chise. [Cheers.] lie hailed No. s with ac-
clanation, and ho would tell the paid Lire
lings OF tho sham Liberals that he should be
first Of the No. s tomorrow. r. You
must be-" and cheers.] The Eve candidates
presented the appearance of happy, but
not Of u united family. [Chcers.] They know
they were all teformers now. They had their
Libasal refomer-thcy had their Liberal aud
Independent Ee!ormer, which was himself,
[hcar, hear,] aud they had their spouting,
longitudinal reiormer, thai Was Handel Coss.
ham, {l'oolng aid uproarl-t1tey had their
moderate retoz1ucr, that was Sir George Jen-
kinson, [chcers md hfsses ]-and they had
their eccentric rctormer, Ar. Faulkner. They
bad a nice lot, [uproar]-whnt was called III
the hosiery trlde, choice artic1es.' Lord
Amber]ey proiessed to be moderate Whig,
but was not certain what he was. They
werc putting. jbbing horse by the
side OF runaway. Loul applRuse.1
They had heard about the reduction oEthe
franchise. His opinions upon THAI question
were uttered when Lotd d Amberlcy was In his
perambnlator, [laughtcr] and before Mr. Cos
sham was being polished as Bristol dis
mona. Sir George Jenkinson waa greeted
with cheers and Kisses. a quantity Of metal
spoons were held up by Lord Ambcr1ey's
friends, upon which Sir George said lo pre-
snmed the spoons were to feed my Lord Am
bctlcy. EGreat laughter.1 Sir George pro-
iessed himself Liberal Conservative, and
was in favor OF reduction Of the franchise"