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      farmers and induce them to believe that a modification of a theory was a fair equivalent for the destruction of a real principle , were not the arts which would be approved of by the British public . This has been the course pursued by Lord Derby . The ' Rupert of debate haa become the Jesuit of the Cabinet , ' the chivalrous Protectionist leader is the Loyola of the Lords . ( Loud cheers . ) Fair , plain , speaking has fled for the first time from a British Cabinet , and your confidence is sought for men whose Ministers , when addressing their constituents , call the non-electors ' the vilest rabble they ever saw . ' ( Loud cheering , and shouts of 'No , no ! ' 'Humbug ! ' 'Demagogism ! ' ' Claptrap ! ' &c . ) Gentlemen , some great stickler for the rights of the people , —some friend of the Marquis of Blandford whispers ' Claptrap ; ' but I would ask you , is it fitting that the intimate friend and known adviser of Lord Derby ,

      who has been raised from the rank of ' whipper-in' to be Secretary-at-War , should call the non-electors ' a vile rabble ? ' ( Cheers and uproar . ) That is language I would not use to even these paid supporters of my noble friend . " He was in favour of reform in Parliament , Free-trade , and the ballot . (' It ' s un-English . ' ) When it was obiected by the mob of gentlemen on his left that the ballot was un-iEng lisb , he would ask them if their ideas of English fair-play consisted in intimidating the noor , and in bully ing the occupiers ? ( Cheers . ) As to going in upon a religious cry , " he would tell them that not all the wealth of B lenheim , nor all the glories of the noble marquis ' s position , could tempt him to seek their suffrages . " After a little more repartee , quite as smartly delivered , he retired eanid enthusiastic cheering , and a bass accompaniment of groans , set off by hisses .

      The Marquis of Blandford wag subjected to reprisals on account of the treatment accorded to Mr . Osborne . For some time he could not be heard . Mr . Osborne begged they would give the Marquis a better hearing than they had given him . The Marquis replied , " Thank you for the rope , Mr . Osborne . " Then he spoke . The first part of his speech was a lecture on the proprieties and improprieties of electioneering . After that he rather incoherently replied to Mr . Osborne . He came as a Conservative : if he had voted

      against the motion of Mr . Villiers , so had Sir James Graham , Sir Robert Peel , and Lord John Russell j he faced his antagonists " on the ground of truth and of the ridiculed religion they had heard talked of . " " Expressions have been used , " . said he , " about a daw cawing from a steeple , which implied that the church was his measure , and he was the daw cawing from the steeple . " The Marquis continued , using a charming non-sequitur , " The honourable gentleman has no right to say I have not the real interest of the country at heart . " He was a Free-trader . He wished to see

      sugar , tea , and coffee cheaper . " I am for perfect religious toleration ; in the Protestant religion alone there is perfect religious toleration . What would be thought of a man who would let every body out of prison , so that people should run the risk of having their pockets picked ? A certain amount of restraint is necessary to be imposed on those religions which show a domineering and grasping tendency . Certain restrictions ought to be placed on the Roman Catholic Church , because it is only by such means that fair justice and toleration can bo secured . "

      With respect to education , all sects should share the public grant ; but the basis of education should be the Bible . Somebody cried out "Game Laws ! " "Game is as much a species of property as anything else ( ' Oh ! ' ); its as much property as — chickens . " ( Laughter . ) He was no sportsman , and regretted the contests about game . Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr . Osborne had the show of hands . A poll was demanded . There was a great squabble as to whether or not Sheriff Swift had put off the election for his own convenience ; and the dispute was very hotly conducted . The poll took place on Tuesday and Wednesday , terminating in the election of Grosvenor and OHborno .

      Whatever may have been Lord Blandford s chances with the voters , Mr . Osborne was unquestionably the popular candidate . An instance of this occurred at King ' s CrotJH , just an the poll closed . There was n goodly crowd , who caught wight of their favourite , and lie mudo a speech to them . lie did not know then whether ho had . won or lost , and told them ho . Hut , Haiti lie" My feelings are with you ; my wishes are wkh you—( a voice— 'Muynooth' );—and to you who cull out Maynooth—to that gentleman , whom ! tfee—1 accept lltooincn , io has crape round his but , ho iH in mourning for Lord Wandford and hia defeat —( great laughter ) ; to you I way ¦—lor 1 will Hhrink from nothing—1 am not to be deterred by a base and bigoted cry , and you , my friendsare not to

      , bo deceived , 1 trust , by what in ho evidently fallacious . ( Cheers . ) I am obliged to my friend with the crape round « h ha ^ i I nut obliged to my iriend wif . li uu upparontHinilc •> n hiu face , but a mournful feeling in his heart —( laughter ) ~ I am obliged to him , because 1 anticipate that ho will follow na chief mourner at ( . ho funeral of Protection—( cheers and laughter)—and 1 should feel utill more indebted to him iij on thin occanion , ho would liguro tin a mute . " ( Laughter . ) Again : — " My 1 ' eolingH are not witli the Pope , nor with Cardinal Wiseman , but with you and Huch as you , with the great mans of the intelligent British Imblic . ( Cheers . ) Don't believe what has boon told you > y tho old Tory ( rang , who , being tthort of a cry at the preaonl election , myo dug out vi iU grave , and liavo

      brought to ' revisit the glimpses of the moon '—for they work by night —( laughter )—the old ghost of the no-popery cry . It iB not the Pope ; it is bread , it is tea , it is sugar —it is your beef that is in question . That ' s the real papal bull ; it is not a bull from Rome , but English beef that is at stake . " " Let me show you a good omen , " said Mr . Osborne , pointing to a cab with one of the Marquis of Blandford's placards at the side , and a portmanteau turned upside down at the top , " the Marquis is going out of town . If my vision does not deceive me , it is not the Marquis who is inside , but the Duke of Marlborough . ( Great laughter . ) Give him three cheers , and send him home . " ( Laughter . )

      " Well , I have told you that the question is not one of Popes . J > o not you , the working classes , be deceived by the Derb y disguises . Do not allow your attention to be distracted—do not let your energies be exhausted—by being drawn off to a religious discussion . Calumnies the most atrocious have been uttered—insinuations the most unjustifiable have been made against me ; but ray broad principle , declared before you with the open sincerity of my heart , is this , that no man has a right to interfere with the religious belief of any of his fellow-countrymen . ( Cheers . ) You have Protestant champions , members of the aristocracy , who live upon tho consolidated fund , and who resemble Maynooth in this one respect , that , like it , they are supported out of taxes levied upon the people of h is from the

      this country . The Duke of Marlboroug paid taxes of this country ; the college of Maynooth is supported in the same manner . I would vote against bothagainst the Duke , because I hold that he ought to support himself out of his own means , and against the grant to Maynooth , because we are not entitled to pay public money for the support of any religion whatever . ( Cheers . ) You have been told , forsooth , that I am the champion of Cardinal Wiseman . Now I put it to you—I am afraid the ladies won't think me a handsome man —( laughter)—for I have not the advantages of Lord Robert Grosvenor , nor the flowing hair of the Marquis of Blandford—( laughter ) —I put it to you , do I look like a Jesuit ? ( Cheers and laughter . ) Do I look like a supporter of Lord Derby ' s government ? " ( Great laughter . )

      Mr . Osborne pointed out what every one must have observed who has watched the contest—the very cool support rendered by the aristocratic Grosvenor . " I envy the position of my Lord Grosvenor , though I think he might have given me a more helping hand . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) He ' is an honourable man ;' we are ' all honourable men ; ' but it is a difficult thing for a man to act against his second cousin . ( Laughter . ) Still , I don't grudge him his position . Keep him up to his work , and whether I am there or not , he will be obliged to walk straight . I don't grudge his position , but I think he might have exhibited towards me a more kindly feeling . I think

      if I had been a Lord Tom Noddy , father of the sun , brother of the moon , lineal descendant of the great baboonif I had had a pedigree of that length—I should have stood higher on the poll . But this I know , that I should not then have stood in so proud a position as I now occupy —I should not have been in a position so gratifying to my personal feelings as that which I occupy through the heartfelt , unbought exertions of those who have voted for me . Many a man has come to me during the progress of the election , and said to me , ' Let mo plump for you ; ' I have invariably replied , ' No , I will keep my part oi the compact ; vote for Lord Robert Grosvenor as well . " ( Cheers . )

      The contest , which had been most spirited and severe , terminated in favour of Grosvenor and Osborne . Grosvenor 5196 Ortborne 4377 Blandford ... .... 4226 NoimnriTBEniiANr ) ( Nobth ) . —The candidates , Lord Ossulston , Lord Lovaino ( Derbyites ) , and Sir George Grey ( Whig ) , were nominated , on Monday . Tho two lords , who are acting in coalition , had tho show of hands , but a poll was demanded for Sir Georgo Grey .

      Tho spcechmaking was uninteresting . Lord Oasulston and Lord Lovaino gave up protection , and confided in Derby . Sir George Grey uttered tho mildest Whigisui , yet menaced his opponents with the ballot , " which ho would bo slow to adopt , " yet which their practices in coercion and intimidation would render necessary . This , with the faintest allusion to tho alleged compact between tho Whigs and tho men of Manchester , which ho would neither allirni nor deny , formed tho gist ol his speech . Tho poll commenced on Thursday . In 1847 Sir George Grey headed the poll .

      The coalcHced Porbyite lords have beaten the lut < Whig Homo Secretary on the first day '» poll . Louvaino 1 U 46 OssulHton Ii 271 Grey 122 <> Nottingham 8 in me ( NoitTir ) . —Lord Henry Menl . inok and Lord Robert Clinton were elected without opposition . In the course of bin speech , Lord Henry . lientinck made the following extraordinary assertions :-

      —" There were three paramount objects which the ( Jovernjnent of Lord Derby Hought to obtain . First , justice to tho landed interests ; Hocondly , security for the church ; and thirdly , a firm reniHtaneo to the progroHH of democratic opinions ( great uproar)—Uioho democratic notions which had been unfurled by Sir . laineH Graham at Carlisle , shaken in the faces of Lord Derby by tho Duke of Newcastle in the II ' oiiho of Lords , acknowledged by Mr . Bright ou boluiif of tho ManchoHtor school , uinl vub&uribud to by

      Archbishop Cullen on the part of the Irish brigade . ( Laughter and groans . )" Sukret ( West . )—Mr . Druramond , Mr . Evelyn , Derbyites , and Colonel Challoner , Free-trader , was nominated on Saturday , at Guildford . Mr . Drummond was the first to speak . He dwelt mainly in local and personal matters , but some points in his speech were very humorous . Some one asked " why he did not reduce the tithes ? " Because , rep lied Mr . Drummond with great readiness , '" if I do I rob the parson and pocket the money myself ! " When he said that he was convinced the public salaries could not effectually be reduced , the farmers cried , " Yes , you ought . " Speaking of the state of parties , he exclaimed , " As the Times said . Lord John sold Ireland aforetime

      to O'Connell ; the question now is , whether lie has not sold England to Manchester . " He asserted that twenty-seven years ago he had told them that their fortunes were not safe unless they had corn leases . " In the pamphlet which I then addressed to you I said , that the landlords' monopoly of corn was the highest tax that the people had to pay ( cheers ); that the landlords and their families were the onl y persons who gained by that tax ; that all other classes , including the farmers ; were injured by that tax ; that , of all taxes , it pressed most hardly upon the labourer ; and that the gain to the landlords by that tax was not so great as the loss to the people . ( Cheers . )

      I have told you how I have acted in the House of Commons , considering myself as the member for West Surrey , and not the creature of a faction . I now tell you more ; I tell you that when there was talk of an appeal to the country upon the question of a bread-tax , my answer was , — ' Yes , do appeal to the country , but I will not appeal to the electors only , I will appeal to every breadeater in the country . ' ( Cheers . ) To every man , to every woman , and to every child in the country—to you is the appeal made . ( Loud and protracted cheering . ) And there can be np question that , from one end of this country to the other , we must consider that all duties upon corn are gone for ever . ( Reiterated cheering . )"

      Then in illustrat ion of a bad feeling on the part of some Free-trade electors , he told them a story : " I saw a man the other day , whom I canvassed , and the answer I received was , ' I shall not vote for you ; I shall plump for Colonel Challoner . ' ( ' Hear , hear , ' and a Voice — ' He was a good sort . ' ) Oh , yes ( hear , hear ) , and you shall hear the man ' s motive too ; perhaps yours is the same . I talked to him about beer , and making it cheap by removing the malt-tax . ' Oh , ' said he , ' the labourers to do for

      were never so well off ; we don't want any more them . We had better reduce the duties on wine . ' I remarked— ' I see you drink wine . ' ' Yes , ' said the man , ' I am obliged to drink it ; I have got a gorged liver . ' ( Much laughter . ) So there he was drinking his wine and eating his pineapple . ( ' Name ! ' ) No , I am not going to name him , but I will tell any of you his name in private . Hia argument was— ' the labourer pays tho malt-tax now , but if you take it off and put on a property-tax I shall have to pay it . ' ( Hear , hear . )"

      He seemed decidedly in favour of Palmerston as a minister . He wound up by a touch of humour . " I have been very much flattered by the reception that has been given mo in the course of my canvass . When I have said to an elector , ' I suppose you are going to vote for me , ' I generally got for answer , ' Oh , you are sure of your election ; its no use to vote for you . I shall plump for Challoner . ' ( A laugh . ) Another would say , ' You are quite safe , and I shall plump for Evelyn . ' ( Continued laughter . ) What ! gentlemen , are you going to play at an Irish election P It would be the veriest practical bull that has ever been perpetrated at an English election if you do so . They agree with my political conduct . ( ' No . ) All I know is they all said so . Those who were going to bring forward Colonel Challoner all told ma that they iiad no wish to peril my neat . ( ' Oh ! ' ) Forgive mo if for onco in a way I believed them . ( Laughter . )"

      Neither of tho other candidates said anything peculiar . The show of hands was in favour of Colonel Challoner and Mr . Druininond . At tho clo . se- of the poll , the numbers were — Evelyn 1 G 49 LVruinmond 1 G 1 G Chnlloner 13 ( 59 West Riding ( Yorkhuih / k ) . —Mr . Richard Cobden and Mr . Edmund lleckett Denison were re-elected , on Saturday , without opposition . The nomination took

      place at Wukefield . Mr . l ) eni . son with a host of friends and blue flags , came up first , and was loudly cheered . Mr . Cobden , accompanied l > y Sir ( 'hurlcH Wood , who had acted as chairman of Inn election-committee , a concourse of supporters with orange Mugs , followed . Tho whole iiilah' went oil" very peaceably . Mr . Cobden wiw proposed by Mr . Milner , M . I' ., and Heconded by Mr . ( Jarhutt . The Hon . A . LascollcH proponed , and Mr . . 1 . Rand seconded , Mr . Donison . After they were declared duly elected , Mr . Cobden addressed his const , it . ucnt . s .

      He O |> 0 ] ied hin speech with a personal explanation , of some importance nn matters stand : — He would stale id once tho circumstances under which he ntood before them for the . Hccond time . " 1 winli to Htate hero openly to every one interested in the representation that , until the advent , of the Derby ministry to power , 1 had decided , a » my friends immediately around me well know , not to appear again hi the Went ' Hiding to auk for your Huurageu . 1 had reason to calculate that I nhouM bo safely returned for another constituency } but believing when Lord Derby camo into

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 697, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/5/