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      Election Matters. Mr. Bbbesfobd, The Sec...

      ho wished to see the poor man ' s beer untaxed , which was now burdened with a duty of seventy-five per cent . On Mr Beresford leaving the ground , and on his way to the hotel , a long pole was prominently paraded , in the crowd , to which was affixed a large loaf , with the price distinctly marked , " Five-pence . " Mr Bankes , the Judge-Advocate-General , was rejected without opposition , on Tuesday , for the county of Dorset ; and in his address to the- ejectors , notwithstanding several taunting cries of " Free-trade !" " Cheap loaf ! " and the like , he totally avoided all allusion to the future policy of the ministers , and

      confined his observations to eulogy of Lord Derby , jokes at the Whigs and their connexion with Mr . Coppock , the Times , the " late" Reform Bill , and the militia . On the same day , Mr . A . Duncombe was re-elected , without opposition , for the East Riding of Yorkshire . Mr . J . W . Henley , President of the Board of Trade , was re-elected on Wednesday for the county of Oxford . The election took place in the County Hall . Sir H . Lambert proposed , and Mr . John Lechmere seconded , the nomination of Mr . Henley . Mr . Faulkner proposed Mr . John Towle , " an intelligent , industrious man , deserving the confidence of the electors , not a party Cheers

      ' man , but a man for the million . " ( . ) Was protection to be revived ? Did they want to go back , or to go forward ? Was Mr . Henley to receive the congratulations of his friends , and to say that there was not a voice raised at his nomination in favour of free trade ? ( No , no !) They had lost Sir Robert Peel , who had put on an income and property-tax , which he supposed the new ministry were going to take off ; they were also going to take off the malt-tax , which would enable people to get jolly drunk at a cheap rate ; while the judge addressing the grand jury the other day , said that three-fourths of the crimes of the

      county were committed in public-houses . Mr . King seconded the nomination . Mr . Towle said they would no doubt shortly have a general election on the great question of taxing the people ' s food . Mr . Henley was a gentleman deserving esteem as a judicious and soberminded man ^ but as a landholder he had always stood in a suspic i ons position with regard to this question . It was intended to bring forward Lord . Nbrreys at the general pJeotioii as a freetrader , and in conclusion he begged to withdraw from his candidatesliip . No other

      candidate having been proposed , the High Sheriff declared Mr . Henley duly elected . Mr . Hetiley said , that since the time when those great changes in the laws , affecting the trade and commisree of the country , had taken place , they had been afflicted throughout the length and breadth of the land , ( A voice , " With plenty of bread" ) more particularly in Ireland , with a great and grievous famine . ( " Then why do you want to tax bread P" ) He had never advocated the corn-laws on selfish motives . He believed that the tenant-farmers

      and occupiers of land had suffered more by the repeal of the corn-laws than any other class of the community , but he confessed that he had expected the working people would have been more affected "b y it in their wages than they had been . ( Cheers . ) He now went at some length into the case of the formers and labourers , referring to what his expectations had been in 1846 . He said : —• " I think that you will agree with mo that tho price of labour very much depends upon the supply and demand in fcho market . If labour is in excoss in tho market , the employers of labour in this country , where thorp is a poorlaw , immediately uso tho powor that that gives thorn in pressing labour down . At tho noriod that I am now

      speaking of , labour was very much moro in excess in tho market than it is at present . It is impossible for any man who knows what has been going on not to seo that in conn ? uonco ° ^ wnat has happened in Iroland—something jiko 1 , 800 , 000 people , oithor by doath or emigration , waving passed from that country , —and also in conso-P ' ft 1 ?? " ° * tl > 0 cnormoU 8 numbor of people that havo also ion tins country , thoro havo been fur iowor labourers in tins country to do tho work that haa boon required of tnom . Now , whether I believo that this circumstance has provontod tho wages of tho labouror being pressed down Doiow their present amount or not , I rejoice for tho sako 01 tho labourer , that this has happened ; but I think that

      i . V o i ! ' ° mn whftt anv 1 Tlftn llfuI ft ri e h < 110 oxpecfc would iiavo followed tho repeal of tho corn-laws . " With rospcet to tho future , it was quite clear that wns greatl y agitated question must bo settled nt tho next gonorol election . ( Hear , hoar . ) Our opinions , individually or collectively , must in this freo nation bow to tho majorit y . If tho minority find their opinions ovopvroig lHMl . l , a majority , it is not only their duty uil mow-interest to give way . ( Hear , hoar . ) « I havo oxproaBod this ho often , that I hardly feel it necessary m > express it again . " ' -

      A » o hrsfc . battlo for the , Derby ministry fought on JMhu ground was docidod on Monday in favour of tho Movorinnont . After a koon contest for tho minuto -onsutuenoy of tho borough of Enniskillon , of whom a s 5 « T fl % -tllroo camo to tho poll , Mr . Whitouo ° B oUcitor-Ctoneral , was declared thp winner by

      a majority of nine . Colonel Dunne , the Clerk of the Ordnance , was re-elected on the same day for Portarlington . The Government is still in some apprehension with regard to Lord Naas ' s return for Kildare ; but their friends are confident of his obtaining a " respectable majority . " Mr . Napier , . the Irish Attorney-General , was reelected without opposition , on Tuesday , for the UniveiS sity of Dublin . The election" took place in the Examination Hall , and the proceedings were frequently interrupted by unseemly vociferations emanating from

      that part of the Hall set apart for the students . In his speech , Mr . Napier alluded to the land question , " on the satisfactory solution of which the prosperity of Ireland in a great measure depended . At the opening of the next session of Parliament , therefore , he should be prepared to lay on the table of the House a bill Which * while it secured to the landlord his just rights , would also give to the tenant fair compensation for his outlay in valuable improvements , and which measure , he trusted , would reduce to something like order and method the relations between landlord and tenant , As he had previously done , he should again support the claims of those who had lost their hard-3

      earned money by the failure of the savingsbanks . " With regard to law reform , he was opposed to the cheap system , believing that it was the interest of the public to support a respectable and well-informed bar . He thought that education in all Christian countries should be scriptural , and that its extension formed a just claim on the public funds . Lord Derby intended greatly to improve the national system of education in Ireland . Mr . Napier denied that the present Government were enemies of progress , demanded a fair trial for them , and repudiated and denounced " the heartless logic of political economists . "

      Ti _ - •_ _ ¦ Jl J . T . -i . i" 1~—J—2— 1 XT T 3 ^~ l T > " \ T «« ^ -P It is announced that Captain W . Peel , R . N ., son of the late Sir Robert , is to be a candidate for the representation of Westminster at the next election . It is the intention of Alderman ¦ Sidney to present himself as a candidate for the City of London at the next election ^ on principlesof "liberal conservatism . " Some months ago , before Mr . G . F . Young ' s return for Scarborough , a requisition was-sent to him , signed by a majority of the electors of Cambridgeshire , under the supposition that this step would induce Mr .

      Townley , the Whig member , to retire at the close of the parliament . Mr . Townley has declined to do so , and being a favourite of long standing , will poll a good many of Mr . G . F . Young ' s requisitionists . The " county people , " though liking Mr . Young ' s -politics , look upon him as a parvenu . Unless one of these two gentlemen give way , the seat of one of the other two members , Lord George Manners and Mr . Yorke , will be jeopardized ; but if only one of them remains in the field , these two gentlemen will also be probably reelected .

      Sir Joshua Walmsley docs not intend to stand again for Bolton , having bettor prospects in company with Mr . Richard Gardner , at Leicestor . The liberal electors of the borough of Cambridge being much dissatisfied with Mr . W . F . Campbell's votes , have fixed upon Mr . Francis Mowatt , the present member for Falmoutli , as their candidate , who has consented to stand . Sir M . J . Chohnoly , tho " Whig-Protectionist" (!) member for North Lincolnshire , addressed a largo body of farmers at Barton-upon-Humber , on Monday , in answer to tho strictures upon his conduct made by Mr . Bankes Stanhope and his canvassers . Ho said lie was a true Protectionist and a Liberal ; he should support tho present ministers , and vote for the repeal of tho Maynooth grant . (!)

      In tho event of Mr . Matthew Boll , tho Tory member for South Northumberland , retiring , Mr . Beaumont , of Byowcll , a free-trader , will come forward . Lord Lovaine , son of tho Earl of Beverley , and nephew of the Duko of Northumberland , will oppose Sir George Grey in tho Northern division of tho county . It is understood that Mr . William Ord , tho veteran Whig member for Nowcastlorupon-Tyno , will not ofl ' or himself again . If so , Mr , Blaekott , a Libortil , of an old county family , will start in conjunction with Mr . Hoadlam .

      It is stated that Mr . Georgo Hudson will ofl ' or himself for re-election at Sundorland , mid that Mr . 1 'Vnwick , a . barrister , of tho Northern Circuit , who has family connexions in tho town , will bo a candidate in tho liberal ihtoroRti Mr . Vincent Scully , Q . C ., author of Free Trade in Land , and other pamphlets on tho Irish hind question , has issued an address to tho doctors of tho county of Cork , offering himself us a candidate Ho declares that until such u system as shall " secure to tho occupier a x ) ornmnont interest in his holding , and ovontually idoutify tho actual occupation with tho absolute

      ownership of the soil , " shall be established , he will " strenuously advocate the tenant ' s right to full compensation for his industry and outlay . " He is for " the utter abolition of the present tithe rent-charge system in Ireland . " He declares uncompromising hostility to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . With an " hereditary zeal" derived from , his father , the well-jknown author Of The * Statement of tlie Penal Laws , he expresses his concurrence in the policy pursued by the Irish Parliamentary party , and his " deep hostility to the base and treacherous Whigs , whom the Irish brigade have at last deprived of mischievous power . "

      The coming election for the county of Cork may be regarded as a pitched battle between the Roman Catholic clergy and laity , and the issue is very doubtful . Mr . Vincent Scully stands under tho sheltering wings of " the church , " there being upon his managing committee no less than 14 priests to 9 laymen . The staff of Mr . Alexander McCarthy , on the other hand , is composed of 32 lay and but 4 clerical electors . Lord William Fitzgerald , uncle of the Duke of Leinster , has addressed the following letter to his bailiff , for the information of his tenantry in the county of Kildare : — " Dublin , 20 , Fitzwilliam-place , March 5 .

      " I never Lave interfered , and never will interfere with the voting of my tenantry . I hope now they will not be guided by lord Derby and Protection , as it is called , which means no more nor less than to put on the screw for rackrents . Live and let live— -never coercing 1 industry—is the true protection for us all . I wish , you would let this letter be seen by the tenants . It only means to put them on their guard at the moment of a coming election for the county of Kildare . " I remain , & c , "WlLXIAat FlTZGEBA £ X > . " To the Bailiff of the Manor of Graney . "

      Lord Duncan , the present representative of Bath , has been induced to go down to Bury by an influential deputation , and has put forth an address . He refers to his conduct in the House for fifteen years as proof of his consistency as an unflinching advocate of free trade . He is for the extension of the suffrage , the ballot , the shortening of Parliaments , a system of general education which , does not interfere with the rights of conscience , and is a Financial Reformer . It is said that Lord Goderich will also be a candidate for Bury at the next election . ^ .

      Mr , James Caird , the author of a work on High Farming under Liberal Covenants , and lately Agricultural Commissioner to the Timts , has declared his intention of standing for the Wigtown boroughs at the next election , in opposition to the sitting member , Sir J . M'Taggart .

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      Letters From Paris. [From Our Own Corres...

      LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XI . The result of the elections has been just what I had led you to expect . Tho majority of December 20 was to be recollected , by all , and any means . The Government candidates have been returned with a success that only wavered in about sixteen circumscriptions . Five deputies of the Opposition arc elected , one Republican ( General Cavaignac , ) and four Legitimists : MAT . do Kcrdrcl at Fougorcs , do Civrac at Beaupreilu , Bouhior do PEcluse at Sables d'Olonne , and another whose name escapes me , somewhere else . In nine circumscriptions , tho election was null : viz ., Brest , Nantes , Dinan , Rennes , Chateau Goutier , Lyons , Lille , Arras , and tho 4 fch arrnndissemenb of Paris .

      Now , as to how these results wore obtained . First , at Paris : not to speak of tho administrative obstructions to proclaiming candidates , and placarding and distributing their addresses , tho grossest electoral frauds have como to light . The proportion of bulletins deposited in favour of General Cavaignac was as 3 to 1 . Tho wholo arrondissement declare they voted for him . In tho official depouilloment , ho had barely 1000 majority . On tho Monday , electors in tho different distric t wore munitioned by domiciliary injunctions to vote : so excessive was the zeal of tho administration in some instances , that fresh electoral tickets wore sent to persons " of good report" who had already voted onco ; tho fact ; is authenticated to nto in the 2 nd arrondissement of Paris .

      In the fifth circumscription , whore tho Government candidate , M . Perrot , was opposed by M . Gomklmux , tho Republican banker , tho olcotion was , in tho first instance , found to bo null for want of a mifliriont nuinbor of votes . On tho Tuesday moriiing , it was ho reported throughout Paris , and by electric telegraph in Belgium , and , I suppose , in England . Indued , on this information I had written to you that tho elections in tho < tfch and 5 th arrondissements were cancelled . On Tuesday overling , tho Government announced that a new reckoning of tho white tickets had been taken , and ( . hat according to this now reckoning , M . Perrot having obtained the required number of votes , wna

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13031852/page/3/