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      SHEFFISL .. - ffe publish at full length tha apeeeh of Mr Thomas Clark , delivered by bim at the nomination on Wednesday « edc Mr CuaKon presenting himself was rewired with the most enthusiastic applause . He said , —Mr Mayor , Eleetors , and Ifon-electors of Sheffield , I hare much plea ? ur < - in presenting myself before yon this day , and of soliciting at your bands the honour of becoming one of you . representatires in parliament . ( Cueers . ) I will , gen . tlemen , first deal with the orjections made by one ot my honourable opponents , Mr Ward , against the principles set forth in my printed address , and in doing so I acknowledge the candour with which such objections have been urged , aud I hope to bs equally candid in my answers . ( Cheers . ) I agree with Hr Ward tbat we are not now to treat hits as an individual member

      of parliament , but as part and parcel of the government to which he belongs . ( Hear . ) Ton will understand that I shall deal more in general terms and principles than either of the gentlemen who haTefproposed and seconded me . They have necessarily confined themselves a good deal to local matters which I am not acquainted with , and In which I have no desire to interfere . ( Hr Ward : ( Hear , hear . ) I object tomy honourable opponeutt , hecaese whilst they state they have not violated any of the great principles they were sent to represent , we har t not heard from them ' to-day one great principle , or a principle of any kind , for which they contend . 1 looked in vain for the enunciation of some principles of reform . I expected from Hr Ward , at least , the announcement that he Was favourable to the extension

      of the Suffi-age , but I « u disappointed . ( Mr Ward . I am for Household Snfrnge . 'j Gentlemen , the excuse efMr Ward far leaving the house when Mr "Duncomb «' s motion was made for repealing the ratepayiag clauses , it , that as part of tbe administration , he was bound to give support to tbe opposition or leave tbe house , tbat he zo'ebt not rote against the gorernmeat . But I want to know why bis conduct was not regulated by tha same principle on the Ten Hours * BUI , The noble lord , at the head of the government , gave his support to that popular measure . Mr Ward gave it his decided and unmitigated opposition . ( Mr Ward : « I did . ' ) If the Cabinet allowed the Ten Hours' Bill to be an open question , and Mr Ward conld rote against the Administration , why could not be have done the same on the ratepayiag

      clauses ! ( Hear , hear . ) An 4 , gentlemen , the country had a pledge from lord John Bas * ell , ; that the member ? of his administration should giro their votes freely on such subjects as they considered important . It was understood , from the declaration of tbe noble lord , that be would not coerce , bnt -would allow them to vote f reel i on every subject on which they differed in opinion . ( Mr Ward : Ko—only on such as were specified . ) But Mr Ward would not even leave ( he house when the Ten Hoars' Bill was under consideration . He voted against it . Did he represent yonr opinion on that subject ? ( Mr Ward : « I said I did not . ' ) He did not represent yon , though as a member of the administration , he was net bound to vote against yen . Mr " Ward has not opposed Church Extension , as it was understood he

      would do from his motions on the Irish Church . "When the bill to create a new bishop was under consideration , why did he not act asbe did on Mr Buncombe ' s motion , rather than vote in favour of it ! ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , I attack the principles of my boa , opponents , I believe Mr Parker io bs equally culpable « icn Mr Ward . ( MrParker : 'Hear , hear . ' ) I tee no reason to male * any distinction . ( Mr Parker : 'Hear . hear . ' ) Tbey were both for the Bishops' Bill . ( Mr Parker : « Hear , hear . ' ) And they voted for that against thefeelings and interest * of the people of Sheffield . ( Mr Ward : « Their interests were aot concerned in the matter / j MrjWard wishes the connexion eft be Church with the State to continuv . He callt It the National Church , but tne only national featareaboatitis . the tithe which the people are compelled

      to pay . I am anxious to learn on what principle they compel me , as a Dissenter , to pay for tbat Church . ( Cheers . ) I dissent frem it , and I ask my hon . opponents on what principle or ground they stake me maintain it ! Hy hon . opponents neglected to state the principle . They said that , in their opinion , hut they gave no reason , it was a national institution . ( Mr Ward : It is the Church of the majority . ' ) They know it is not national , and I wilt undertake to demonstrate , on any occasion , that it is not so . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr Parker tells us that one reason for his support of theNe w Bi « hop « Bill is , that no additional f and * will come outofyour pockets that we axe to have an additional bishop without additional funds . Is that the conduct of Reformers Are these men Reformers 1 They have voted for more

      bishops , rather than give back to the people the large sums to be taken for their maintenance . ( Cheers . ) It is the dntyof Eeformers to reduce expenditure . If there are sufficknt funds to pay for new bishops , why not retarn the money to fche nationalfandi , to lighten come of the Duxdens under which tha people labour t ( Cheers . ) I object , also , to the coadnctofmyhonourableopponeats , because they are supporters of soiaeef themostnnpopn * ar measures brought in b y even any administration . Mr Wai d is a supporter of the infamous and abominable New Poo-Law . Sow , I believe that , on that point , he does not represent tbe feelings of the men of Sheffield . Knot , Why should he be sent to Parliament ? It is the duty of a representative not to Speak his own sentiments , feelings , and wishes , but those of the people whom he repre

      ¦ en * . In regard to ths New Poor Law , I differ from my honourable opponents , because I believe it to be a cruel law , an infamous law , whieh no man of right and Christian feeling can vindicate . ( Cheers . ) I am sure , atall eveate . it is a law Mr Ward would never assent to if he were ever likely to become one of its victims , ( Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) Bat , gentlemen , I have a further Objection to the conduct of my honourable opponents , as totfceHewPoorLsw . Mr Ward is aware that a proposition wumsdeliy Peter Boi-thwick , providing that old married couples , of sixty years of age end upwards , should be allowed to live together iu the workhouses , which | metion was resisted by Lord John Kussell . What was the conduct of my honourable opponents on that occasion ! I appeal to

      jou , a » feeling » en , a « fathers , as husbands , aud I ask you what you think they did « ( Cheers . ) Did tbey openly declareagainit ' sorevoltingandbarbarous apte . e of conduct on the part of the Prime Minister ! Did they vindicate their feelings as men by supporting the pro . position ! Or did they leave the house , as Mr Ward did on the subject of theratepayiog clauses , and leave tbe Minister to stand or fall by his own acts ! "K 6 : they remained , and they recorded their votes that aged per . one , of sixty years of age , should not live together . ( "Shame , shame . ") I oppose the honourable gentle , men because they support tbe New Poor Law . I observed that throughout the addreues ofbotb candidates , ¦ o allorion was made to that law . I believe it to be a disgrace to them a * men , a stigma upon their characters

      as parents , anda scandal to the house of Commons that npported such a proposition . ( Hear , hear . ) As Mr Ward has told you , I anted in my address that I would provide an honourable competence for industrious old age , just on the same principle that Mr Ward , if he retires from office after a certain period , will have a pension . On tbe same principle , when a man bas given nit Blood , his sweat , his sinews , his marrow , Ms bones , to the creation of wealth , be surely deserves as well of the country as a Secretary of the Admiralty . ( Hear . ) Mr Ward is aware that such provision is made for soldiers aad tailors- They , in their old age , enjoy a kind of honourable <« mpeteney . And if these men , who spend their lives , not usefully , but , as I believe , in a useless and saischievani manner , —if they can be provided by

      the pubEc wMj a competency , on what principle is the man who has spent his days in useful labror , who , by his industry , intelligence , and skill , has augmented tbe resources of bis country , —on what principle is he to be neglected and ill treated in bis old age * ( Hear , hear . ) Why should not be , too , be supported by tbe public ! It is the men who create the wealth of England—not the men who man her wooden wall *—who constitute ber greatness , ( Hear , hear . ) We owe ear country * * power t » Oefr geuiu ? , ( ietr sfeill , tirir intelligence , and industry , and before we provide pensions for Secretaries of the Admiralty and Prime Ministers , we should do so for those who are England ' s great " support-, her Industrious artisans ( Load cheer * . ) M y honourable opponent ( Mr Ward ) is opposed to universal infiraee ; but on what

      principle « I ask , who has conferred on him the authority ofsayingtotfae millions of intelligent men , 'Yon shall not have the suffrage ? Who gave him this authority and power ! Whence does he derive the right ! Do not both my hon . opponents exercise the franchise ! So net they claim Itas a right ? I , too , claim it as a right . I hare it for myself , and I exercise it in supporting Mr Wakley and Mr Buncombe . Bat I claim ft also for ¦ even millions of unrepresented men . Neither of the men who oppose this , can represent you upon this really vital question . It is clear they do not agree with yon . They may represent tome small portion of the eonstituency . but I believe that at the poll they will find a less number of men voting for them than ever voted for them before . It is fifteen years since the Reform Bill was

      passed . Both these gentlemen profess to be Reformers ' —progressive Reformers . Mr Ward says "he advocates household sufi-rage . wai Mr Ward recall to oar minds the time when he moved in the Abase- ef Commons that tbesuffrage shonldbegiven teever / honseholdier ! How do we know he U in favour-of-it ! . When did he vote forit ! When did he make a motion for it ! Neva . And yet he says he is to favour of it .- ' "f ou want men of principle , who will not content themselves with giving a nleut assent to their opinlonk-- « en who will stand op , and with the duatonee , power , aud ability possessed by my" honourable opponents give their principles all the-isapport in their power ! I have stated in my address that I believe tbe House ol Lords to be a burlesque upon the common eesse of Eui , ' - jL" ** B «« , Whenever the Commons of England are in-

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      diuadtapast anymeature , there ia no power in tie House of Lords to resist them . If then , the House of Lords csnnot oppose the lower House , it is a practical anlliiy . It is of use merely to provide places for bishops and members of the aristocratic class . I now call the attention of my hon . opponents to the principle on which the House of Lords is con stitnted . It is ( an hereditary branch of the lesislature . Men do not owe their seat * there to intelligence or virtue , bnt to birth . Men go to the House of Peers not because they ar * fitted for the work ot legislation , bnt because , being the sons of Peers , tbey become Peers themselves . If this principle he good , if it be right and just , and proper , if tbis upper branch of the legislature it constituted in sucb a manner as to approve itstlf to the judgment of men of sense , then

      all men skould act on the same principle . In America they are governed witheut Lords and Bishops ; and if they can do without , why cannot we ! What liberal measures do the bishops support ? Do they support the extension of the suffrage ! Just as much at my hon . opponents . ( Laughter . ) They are not for Church reform , notwithstanding this , my hon . opponents will maintain this institution . Mr Ward sajs it it necessary to check the enthu-iasm of the lower house . From the cool manner in which my hen . opponents have addressed you , I should say there is seldom a large exuberance of feeling on their part . If they are a fair specimen of the House ;—and is point of talent they are not , for they are both far ia advance of nine-tenths of the men who go there—I say there is no reason to dispute their

      coolness and calmness , or to place any check upon them . Mr Ward is perfectly cool , calm , and collected . My other hon . opponent is equally so , and I see no reason why there should be a bench of bishops , and a number of coronetted men in a second branch of the government , to restrain their feelings and passions . ( Cheers . ) If they are really so enthusiastic , so warm and so passionate , as to require a curb , that is a reason why you should not return them . ( Cheers . ) Tou should send men who require no curb . Tbe fast is , I believe Mr Ward is too ranch curbed already . He wears one curb—the government curb . ( Cheers and laughter . ) Lord John Russell bat hold of one rein , and I think that it quite soffieJent . ( Laughter . ) I mean this not offensively . No one will say tbat Mr Ward bas not a right to he a

      member of the administration ; * r , as a member of the government , he is not entitled to a fair reward . I dare say his duties are onerous . But It is our impression that many of the offices that now exist might be abolished , with advantage to the people . I am Opposed to the existence oi the House of Lord * , because it it founded on the hereditary principle . If tbat be a right principle , why have we not hereditary barristers , lawyers , and generals ! If that be so , we ought to have in the Marquis ot Bowro another hero of a hundred fights . If tbis is to be tbe principle , tbe son of a cabinet maker should be a cabinetmaker , and the son of every rogue should be a rogue , because bis father was a rogue . ( Laughter and cheers . — ' Henry , how does tbon like that ! ' ) Then the tout of honest

      men sbomd be honest aien , because their father * were so . This may appear very ridiculous to tome who are in tbe habit of avowing tbeir admiration and respect for the House of Lords . But I believe the practical good sense of the nation is not in the House of Lords , and that Mr Ward would find as much in tha countinghouses , ay . and in the workshops of the country , as in the House of Lords . ( Cheer * . ) 1 do net withheld my opinions . I tell yeu honestly , that if returned , I will , without fail , vote for the abolition of the House ef Lords . Neither Mr Ward or Mr Parker has stated a satisfactory reason why the Suffrage shuuM not be extended . They are well aware that when the Reform Bill was agitated , the working men of England banded themselves together to aid the present electoral body to get the franchise .

      They told you that if . you would assist the upper and middle classes to obtain it , tbty would us * it with a view of securing the Suffrage to every male adult . Has that part of the compact been kept ! How bare my honourta'a Opponents fulfilled it * Are they prepared to give their support to it f They have honestly stated , they will not . fbat should be considered by you tbe first ground for their disqualification . There i * now a feeling in tbe country in favour of Universal Suffrage such a * there never was before . Millions are beginning to read and think . And these reading and thinking men imagine themselves a * much entitled to the representation as any other dais . In the House of Commons , the lords represent tbe aristocracy—the landlords the land—the fundholders the funds , —there are captains , colonels ,

      generals , and admirals , all representing their respective interests . Labour only is unrepresented ; and why should not Labour have justice . ( Cheers . ) I am sorry that Mr Ward sbouldbsve any fear © fallowing tbe geaius and intelligence of the labouring men to find their way into the Senate House . There is as much intelligence among the commercial , trading , and operative classes , asbelongs to any other class in tbe State . Are these arguments true and valid ! Hare yon intelligence ! Or if you have not , w * -ten did they attempt to supply it f Have they done anything for yaw education ! They tell you you are to he enfranchised when you are intelligent . But at what point of intelligence do they expect you to arrive before you are to have the franchise ! Will tbey say what yon are to learn Are yon to learn te make shoes ,

      or eoats , er hats ! Are you to learn grammar ? or the sciences ! or to become acquainted with the geography of the world ? What kind at Intelligence do they want t ( Cbeers . ) Will Mr Ward say what it the point of in . teliigenceyoB are to reach ! If ignorance bea disqualification , on what ground do they allow the farmers to vote ! ( Laughter . ) Aretheymoreintelligentthanyou Are they more independent ! Taking them as a tlass , and coraparingtbem with you , I assert tbat you possess 1 , 000 per cent , snore intelligence . ( Mr Ward : 'Ton are quite right . ) Mr Ward says I am right . If I am right , why does he not admit of your enfranchisement ! Or , why does he net bring in a bill to disfranchise the ignorant farmers . ( Laughter . ) I think that , on refection , my hoa . opponents must admit ' that there it not

      oue solid er substantial argument ia tbeir favour . ( was this morning reading the very able speech of Mr Ward against the Ten Hours' Bill , and there I find htm advocating cheap labour . He says we can maintain ottr position only by cheap labour .... ( Mr Ward : ' I said cueap ' gooda , not cheap lab » ur . ) MvGl' uk' . Ih & vaquoteu the speech as I read it , and if it be not accurate , I am not responsible far tbat . I give the honourable gentleman the benefit of the correction , and what dees it amount to ! Substitute cheap goods for cheap labour , and what then ! Mr Ward holds a distinguish to position among the political tcoaomii'i of England , and I put It to his good sense , how can joanm cheap goods without cheap labour ! ( Hear , hear . ) Both teims mean the same thing . You cannot have cheaper boot * and p * y

      the same price for making them . You cannot have a oaeap coat and pay the tailor a high price for making it . So that , after correcting me , my honourable opponent still remains the advocate of cheap labour . I do not complain of cheap labour if cheap labour will purchase as many comforts as dear' labour , bnt when they cheapen wages , they iheold alia reduce taxation . ( Cheers . ) If they reduce your wages from 100 millions t * 75 million * , they must not continue to take 53 millions in taxes . Justice demands tbat , when the wages of labour are reduced hy tbe laws , or by any other cause , there sbculd be a corresponding reduction in taxation . Mr Ward says , we must maintain national faith aud private honour . I hope he do ?* notmaanto insinuate tbat anything I have said or published it opposed to the

      maintenance of national faith . So far from wishing to eadangsr the nation ' s faith , I would compel those who contracted the national debt to pay a large portion of the interest of it . I have told you my opinion that property , and not industry , should be taxed . Mr Ward take * exception to that . Every man should ae taxed in proportion to his meant . I would have a graduated property tax . If a man he * £ 20 a-year , or £ 1000 a-ytar , I would tax him proportionately . I ste nothing anfair , dishonest , or disgraceful in such a principle . ( Cheer * . ) Will my honourable opponent support that principle f No , he will oppose it . The time has arrived for the tolling- tnUlioBsfto be heard in parliament , and I say , confidently , with all respect for the talent * and character of my honourable opponentt / tbat neither of them will

      represent the people . Mr Ward admits fairly that , )** a membtr ot the administration , he cannot do to . He sayt to in bis published address , aad , at he has commented with franknett and fairneas upon mine , I will deal in the same way with hie . He says , a man cannot join the government without forfeiting seme degree of independenet . 'How mash doe * he give up ! I * It to be ene vote In a year , or two , three , five , or tea ! The fact Is , gentlemen , the true meaning ef that part ef Mr Ward ' * address is , that his conduct matt be regulated by the want * and conduct of the administration . If required to vote once against his conscience , he must do to . The next day , if required , he must do the some . The next weak , he may be again called on to do the same thins ; . Then , it appears , hit old

      practice of coming among you every year it te be abandoned . He cannot do that now that he has joined the administration . It it a pity for the character and preriout reputation of tbe honourable member , that he has become part of so contemptible a government , that he cannot be allowed to continue that wholesome and patriotic practice . Nothing is mors aeeetcary than that members should come before their constituent * every year . Now , look at the conduct of the government in reference to Ireland . What have they done ! Tbe honourable gentleman says , they have voted large sums of money to save the lives of the people . Yes , they starred them first , and then voted your money to save . them . ( Cheers . ) [ Mr Ward : Do you snppote we destroyed the potato crop » J In the true Irish style they first give a cnt on the head , and then apply a platter . Tbey have voted twelve million * of your money to support the Irish . Tbat course they were bound to pursue , to provide for thettarviDg peopl e . Bnt I complain that when they

      were voting the money , they took it out of your pockets , instead of outof those of the Irish landlords . [ Mr Ward ! We could not get it from them in time . ] Mr Ward says , they have it not to pay . But the estate * were there ! the tand was accessible , and I say tbat they had no right to tar yon to maintain the destitution canted by landlord oppression and tyranny . ( Cheers . ) What have they given Ireland ! A poor-law , when they were forced to iti In the firtt place , when they came into office , they gave her a Coercion Bill . ( No , no . ) In 183 * . they gave Iieland a Coercion Bill . Tbey then gave-anetber Coercion SUI , in n mitigated form . - . It was opposed b y Mr Sherman Crawford , who thereby lost hi * seat fdrDau . dais , because Mr O'Conneil supported the government . Many of Che members of the -Whig administration have large traoU of territory in -Ireland , and a 'deal" of . the money that has been advanced ,- has been- swallowed op by leading : members of the Whig party . ( Mr Otley : It ha * gone to pay the Irish landlord * theirrerrte . i QJTE

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      million of the people of Ireland have perished of famine . Could this have taken place in a rightly governed country ! I advocate the repeal of the union with Ireland , because Ireland cannot be worse off toon she haa been . - She cannot suffer a greater calamity . I advocate the repeal oftbe union , because it was obtained by corruption ; and stcondly , because the people are driven from tbeir native fields into our large towns , aud there greatly increase the competition in the labour market . Under a domestic legislature , tbe government would be bound to hud employment for them at home . I thereforeadvocate the repeal of the union . The Irish people know better how ' to govern their own country than ray honourable opponents can teach them . Perhaps nel . ther of those gentlemen bas seen Ireland . They may

      know nothing about the country , its capabilities , resources , extent , the feelings of its people , and can it then be said tbat they bare a better right to govern Irelaud than ths Irish people . Therefore I would repeal the legislative union as an act of justice to Ireland , and a * a means of withdrawing the Irish population from the large towns of England , ( Cheers . ) One good men . sure , founded on a right principle , was brought in by the government of Lord John Russell . It had reference to the cultivation of the waste lands of Ireland , That measure was burked . There was not time to carry it , because the Irish landlords and their friends were determined to oppose it , If the government had been manful and courageout enough to stand by that measure , the people of England would nst have failed to enable them

      to beat down the opposition . If my honourable opponents should goto Parliament again , though I hope they will not—I . am sure they ought not , —( Cheers , )—yet if tbey should ro again , I trust they will see that measure speedily reintroduced and carried . In consequence of the great exertion I have made for the last two or three days , itis impossible for me to go through all the points of the addresses of my honourable opponents . They bare not stated to you any great principle on which they are prepared to act , Tbey will maintain the connexion of Church and State . I nth the electors , the non-con . forming electors , if tbey are prepared to stultify thera sekss by voting for them t Working men , trill you show your good sense by supporting them ! They tell you you are too ignorant to have the suffrage , ( Hear , ) If so ,

      then yon are too ignorant to understand their capabilities , and to hold up your hands forthem , ( Cheers . ) I leave tbe matter with yon . I come before you as an advocate of civil and religious liberty . I would uBtranHnel ; the conscience Of England . I will advocate every necessary reform , If you return me to Parliament , I shad consider it my duty to support every class in the State that requires support at mr hands . I will not consent to be a party man . It bas been stated that it is net my intention to go to the poll , as my honourable opponents are so sure to be returned . Allow me to disabuse you of that error . I mean to go to tbe poll , ( Cheers . ) I will afford you an opportunity of wiping from tbe character of tbis constituency the disgrace , the positive disgrace of returning two men to support the Whig government . Another

      objection made against me is , that I bave risen from tbe ranks of labour . ( Mr Ward : 'No , no . ' ) I say , to their credit , that this objsction has not come from either of tbe honourable gentlemen . I am alluding to reports that bave been spread through the town . Gentlemen , I have risen from the ranks of labour ! ( Loud cheers , in which Mr Patker and Mr Ward joined . ) I am proud of it . Cobbett did the same . These hands have often borne the blisters of labour , and I consider them quite as honourable marks as the stars that glitter on the breasts of the titled and noble born , ( Cheers , ) I feel a pride and pleasure in appealing to yonr love of liberty and independence . Let me give you one single piece of advice at to tbis contest . 1 hope we shall conduct it with good humour and with respect for each other ' s feelings . It

      bas been intimated to me that several of my friends have urged threats of exclusive dealing , to induce men to give me their votes , l denounce most emphatically any at . tempt Of that kind . ( Mr Parker and Mr Ward ; ' Hear , bear , ' aud lend cheers . ) 1 should feel myself disgraced if any vote wat given in my favour through fear . 1 want no vote * recorded in my favour , but such as are the free and spontaneous offering of generous minds . 1 do uot come here as a party man . 1 war not on any class or party . 1 war only on principles , 1 respect the talents and even the prejudices of my opponents , 1 ask at tbeir bands only that which 1 hare a right to expect , and that whieh I have received—fair and manly candour . ( Cheers . ) Nowl appeal with confidence to you . Electors , nonconforming electors , especially , whateverof democracy ne

      enjoy is due to tbe non-conforming spirit of your forefathers . 1 hope tbe non conforming spirit of the present day knot less pure aud true . Though 1 would be no party to anything fanatical , 1 say that no dissenting elector can honestly vote for two men who tell you tbey will maintain the oonuexion of Church and State . ( Chesrs . ) 1 have stated my principles , and 1 am now prepared te give every honest man in Sheffield an opportunity to vote for honest principles . 1 come before you , as Hr Ward states he came on the former occasion , a stranger , You bave now the opportunity to replace bim by another man , to whom you may give an equal trial . I hope you are prepared to hold up yonr hands , not for me , but for my principles . 1 have declared them in antagonism to

      tbe principle * of my honourable opponents , if they bave any . You will not give yeur rotes to-day in favour of an insignificant perton like myself , but for the great principles of civil and religious liberty , of which 1 am an humble advocate . 1 thank you for the great kindness and patience with which you have heard me . Te the Mayor , who has presided Attn , such candour and fairness , and who kindly advised me on several occasions when there was a movement in the crowd , 1 return my sincere thanks . My honourable opponents are equally entitled to ray thanks for tbe candour , tbe manliness , and tbe spirit of fair play they have evvactn . And now 1 retire , confidently leaving the matter in your hands , ( Loud cheer * . )

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      WORCESTER , The result of the election for this city has a strong tendency t * establish this point , that the advocacy of Universal Suffrage , Ballot , 6 o ., Is the way to secure not only the pepulir voice but the suffrage of the electors . Mr Hardy , th * Chartist candidate , hat lost the election by about 200 votes ; this it mast be recollects * " it bat a tmall'mintrlty out ef upwardt of 3 , 000 tleetor * . Mr'Hardy did not canvass a tingle eltcttr , employ a tingle lawyer , or spend ene shilling ; be is not an aleentat speaker , and i * near seventy years of ag * . The ConttTVfttiVt candidate spared no ex-Mate , nearly every public-houst m the town being ktpt oatn , Mr Hardy , oa the other hand , in his aidr * st , telling the electors that he shtald aet even appoint a siagle committs * to look after his election , that whatever wat done , it was tbeir duty to de and not hit .

      When such facts it these are brought to light what do ** it show ! wby , tbat the'day is rapidly coating , if aot already arrived , when any candidate throughout th * country , professing Chartist principles , wight secure hit election at on * tenth ef ths expense a Whig or Conttrvalive mutt disburse .

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      WOLVERHAMPTON . As toon at the Dudley Election terminated on Wednesday , the Chartists ef Dudley and Bilston localities resolved to put Mr S . Cook forward at a candidate for Wolverhampton , in opposition to the great advocate and champion # f Corn Law repeal—Mr Yilliers . Oa Wednesday evening Mr Cook issued an address to the electors and non-electortof Wolverhampton , which wat well distributed through the town . This created a great Mutation amoagrt th * Inhabitants , and filled th * minds of Mr Yillisrs and his supporters with doubt and anxiety ; indeed so apprehensive were tley of a defeat , that th . y and tUslr friends crowded to the hustings long before the time appointed , and when Mr Cook and bis friends arrived it was with the greatest difficulty that they forced

      their way on to the platform . As soon as the other candidates wtre propottd , Mr Linney proposed Mr Cook , at a fit and proper person to represent the borough of Wolverhampton in Parliament . Mr Linney was lustily cheered by the majority of the werklng classes , but recelvtd insults and sneers from seme ef the respectable tupportert of Mr Yilliers , Even Mr Yilliers wat astonished that gentitmtn on the platform should conduct themselves in such a disgraceful manner . Mr Linney explained the principles Mr Cook would : support should he be returned , and was much applauded . A werking man seconded the nomination of Mr Coek . The Returning Officer refuted to allow Mr , Cook to address the meeting until th * y paid , er gave a guarantee that they would pay , a fair proportion of the election expentes ; this Mr Coek and Mr Linney objected to , contending

      that tha destands were premature , « nd tbat the proper time wa * when they demanded a poll . This was of no avail , they positively refused to take a show of heads , and declared Mr Yilliers and Mr Thomley duly elected . The great champion of Free Trade principles was evidently afraid to discuss the principles of the Charter . Soring his address , a working man in the body of tbe meeting , asked him to explain his reason for voting against the Ten Hours' Bill ; be sneered at the question , and laid he was not aware that tha working men wanted lest money for working for than they had at present—( disapprobation and groans )—if they reduced the hours of labour tbey would not be paid for twelve hours ' work , he was not aware that working men wanted a bill to restrict their labour , it ought to be left to matter * and men .

      Mr Ln-XET here stepped forward , and charged Mr Yilliers with answering tbe question in an unfair way ; be had left women and children ( for whose benefit the measure wat projected ) entirely outof sight ; he told Mr Yilliers and bis friends , tbat were their wivet and children compelled to work from twelve to 14 hours a day in an unwholesoJie factory , breathing obnoxious air , whilst they , tbe hatbands , were nfglected and degraded by depending on the fair lex for support , they would quiekly change their opinions . ( Approbation and cheers . ) At the conclusion of Yilliers oration , T . Almond asked him

      if he' recognised the multitudabefore him as an intelli . gent body of men , ' 'Yilliers : 'Yet . " Thenareyoupre . pared to support a measure which will give the political frimcbUe to every ntan who hat attained to matnrity-of years , and who it nnstained b y crime . ' Villlere : I have a ' sked for your tiuTrages , on oondl ion tbat we should bare mutual confidence m each other , and should a measure to that effect he brought forward , srafl \ m that It should bi supported I will do ro , but I claim the right to act ioi accordance . whh my owoiopiuton . ' ( Loudmutmurs , and slight applause . )

      The above evaswe and unprincipled answer wai given intucha way that many pirtiei thought Mr YilUert actually promised to give his topport to Universal jSof-«? " - ?* & *? , ? " - "" -atoondrosB to show the equivocation that Yillieri u ** d , Mr Barker put the vote of thankt

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      amidst great tumult and confusion . This it the treat , ment the Liberal Corn-law repealers bave give to the working clauses . They are worse than the wont ot Tories ,

      Greenock. Mr Im'crae, The Chartist Candi...

      GREENOCK . Mr iM'Crae , the Chartist candidate for this burgh , arrived in town en Wednesday , and addressed the electors and non-electors in the Mechanics' Hall-The meeting was a bumper , and his address was rapturously applauded throughout . . , " . Several eleutors and non-elecfors asked various questions relating to the legislative union between Ureat Britain and Ireland , as also on the voluntary Church principle ! , and the Currency Question , all of which he answered to the seeming aatisfactioa of tbe auerists , and the audience generally . _ _

      Thursday , being the day fixed for the nomination , ! Hr W . Crae ' a committee waited on the voluntaries and Repeal electors , to solicit tbeir support ; but did not get that encouragement to warrant them in carrying Mr M'Crae to tho poll . They , therefore , agreed that he should withdraw from the contest alter the nomination was over . Twelve o'clock arrived , and the several committees , with the respective candidates , repaired to the hustiegs . After the usual preliminaries were gone through , tho sheriff addressed the great multitude assembled , in a manner both creditable to himself and satisfactory to his audience .

      MrPunlopand Lord Welgund having been proposed and secsnded , Mr M'Crae was proposed by our old veteran , Mr John "Neilson , and seconded byMv Alexander M'Kinzie , MrNmsoN cave the other proposers and seconders a most severe flogging , which told well . The whole audience cheered him on most heartily . MrW . M'CitAB , also , gave the Whigs a dreadful slashing . When the sheriff took a show of hands for the several candidates , there were about 10 , 000 held up for Mr M'Crae , 7 , 000 for Mr Dunlop . and 400 for his lordihip .

      Tbis ia the third time Mr M'Crae has been declared by the sheriff the man of the people ' s choice . The polling commenced at eight o ' clock on the following morning . Both Lord Melgunu ' sand Mr Dunlop ' s committees were busily engaged the whole night ; some in kidnapping the doubtful , others in watching , toprevent them from leaving the town . Many pledges were broken . Bribery , intimidation , threatening , and corruption of every description , ia said to have been in active operation . The wealthy of tbe inhabitants were real Christians on that day .

      They were active in the performance of their Christian duties , viz , in visiting the afflicted—clothing the naked—feeding the hungry—and bountifully supplying the thirsty with drink . When questioning , the various candidates on the Suffrage , the bribery and corruption carried on in Liverpool , and other wrporato burghs in England , was the only excuse for sot extending the Suffrage ; but Liverpool could sever cope with this town on this occasion . Almost every spirit shop was opened , and many of them by both parties .

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      GREENWICH . This has been a glorious week for Chartism in this borough . Early on Monday , the Chartists were busy in posting tho addretsea ef Mr Samuel KvudtOtlie electors and non-electors , and placards calling a meeting for Wednesday evening on Blackheath . On Wednesday Mr Kydd arrived in Greenwich , and in the evening proceeded to the heath , accompanied by the Electioneering Committee , who , having engaged a van , the committee , with Mr . Kydd , mounted . Mr Joseph Mohgak was called to the chair , and in a brief speech introduced Mr Kv »» , who addressed the hundreds present for upwards of two hours , and was frequently interrupted by the immense applause .

      A vote of thanks was given t « the steaker and the chairman , and the meeting quietly dispersed . On Thursday , for two hours , a vast crowd of some six thousands—of all classes—from wealth and its carriages , to wantand its rags—listened with marked attention te a speech delivered by Mr Kydd , reptete with fact and argument , satire and eloquence . Men of all parties paid a tribute of respect to talent , whilst the courtesy manifested by the speaker won for him thefavour of all . Tho leaders of all the cliques admit that at the next election the contest would be a doubtful one . Hundreds of the electors affirm that Mr Kydd will sit in the House of Commons as the Chartist representative of Greenwich , Mr Kydd had it in hit power to insure the return of Salamoae

      against Barnard , and we will always remember his words on the huitingg , in reply to tbe questions ;—' Kydd , will you assist Salawons V ' No , sir ; there is no advantage in the change . 1 will aid the return of no Whig . Barnard is an old Whig , Salamons a younger . Neither of tbe men are for the people . ' ' You will not loosf , Mr Kydd , by supporting Sal omons . ' 'I do not know you , sir . I always loose if the people do not gain . Whig money is of no use to me . ' If the country do not reap the advantage of a full report of Mr Kydd ' s speech , it will far ever live in the memories of those who . heard it . Despite of interest and faction , even Admiral Dundas honoured

      our candidate ; and the committee of the opposition candidates who were on the hustings , unanimously praised Mr Kydd ' s address . It was cool , temperate , and logical . "When Mr Kydd had concluded his speech , the high constable called for a show of hands for Dundas and Barnard , when there did not appear above fifty hands held up in their favour . Salamons had a goodly number held up for himself . On the call for Mr Kjdd , tUere was sot a hand but was up , and the high constable declared Mr S . Kydd and D . Salamops duly elected , which was received with tremendous cheering and waiving of bats . Dundas and Barnard demanded a poll . Mr Kydd did not stand the noil .

      After the nomination , the Democrats of Woelwiols solicited Mr Kydd to address a public meeting in tbe Market-place of that town in the evening , Mr Kydd proceeded directly to Woolwich , where he addressed a meeting « f between three and four thousand persona . He treated at great length on the Charter , the Poor Laws , tho Laws of Primogeniture and Entail , and tha Enclosure Bills . He wai listened to with breathless attention throughout his address , when the meeting separated , highly delighted with the evening ' s proceedings . Never was there such a show of OharUst strength in this borough since the commencement of the Chartist agitation .

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      HALIFAX ELECTION . The nomination took place on Wednesday , the 28 th ult ., in the Piece-Hall . Tbe Chancellor of the Exchequer , Mr Ernest Jones , Mr Henry Edwards , and Mr Miall , were the candidates . The proceedings were to commence at 10 o ' clock in tbe morning , at twenty minutes before which Mr Miall and his committee entered the huutings . Soon afterwards Mr Ernest Jones and his committee , followed by an immense procession , entered the Hall , amid the acclamation of tie assembled thousands , who gave additional and hearty cheer * lor Mr Miall . They were followed by Sir Charles" Wood and Mr Henry Ed wards , and their committees . beth of whom were received with groans and hisses . Tbe

      Chancellor occupied the compartment on the right of the Returning Officer , Mr Ernest Jones that on the left , and Mr Miall and Mr Edwarda those on tbe right extremities respectively . By this time there conld not have been less than twenty-five thousand persons in the Piece-Hall . None of the candidates had distributed any favours or colours , with tbe exception of Mr Edwarda , the Tory , all the gentlemen of whose committee wore large white cards in their hata , with 'Edwards , our townsman , forever ; ' a rather ludicrous device for the detachments of men who kept pouring in all the morning from the country in bodies of two or three hundred each , having been collected at & distance , to cheer the hon candidate . They were , however , soon dispersed and scattered through tbe body of this immense meeting . Mr E , N . Albxander , returning officer , having gone through the preliminary proceedings ,

      Mr Michael Stocks oame forward to propose the Right Hon . Sir Charles Wood . He appeared before them to nominate a gentleman , one who was not a new candidate , not a man inexperienced , not a perton unknown either to them or to fame . The candidate to whom he referred , was the same man as ever ; he was not changed . He was one of the most eminent ministers , and he was in every way most admirably qualified to represent in Parliament "what the returning officer had appropriately termed the inflaential boraugh of Halifax . ( Cheers . ) He had always supported public rights , whether in or out of office , ( avoice , 'The Ten floura' Bill , ' and cries ' What about the suffrage f' ) If he went to the extent ol tho men of Mr Jones ' s party or cf Mr Miall ' s party did , he ( Mr Stocks ) could not support him . ( Groan * and hisses . ) Mr Wm . Mobbis seconded the nomination .

      Mr Jonathan Gaukbookb came forward to propose Mr Jones . He was received with loud cheers . After they had subsided , he appropriately ; alluded to the death , so sudden and unexpected , of their fellowtownsraen , and then descanted upon Universal Suffrage , and the separation of Church and State—both of which were advocated by the candidate he had to propose . Mr E . Jones could traee descent from one of the first families in the eountry , which might be a recommendation to some , though to him ( Mr G . ) it was but as a trifle . He bad written several works , and had been tho editor of several ethers , whieh had been applauded by tbe reviewers of the day . He was well known as the advocate of the people ' s rights of the principle to do universal justice , justice to all classes , politically , religiously , and socially . In tonelusion , he said , he had great pleasure iu proposing Ernest Charles Jones , Esq ., as a fit and proper per-»< m tovepresent tha borough of Halifax in p ^ lU ment . ,

      MrJoHif Soxoum seconded the nomination of Mr E . Jones in an able , temperate , and most effective speech . MV John Abbott eame forward to propose Mr Eenrr Edwarda . ^ Ho would appeal to them on behalf of a candidate who held opinions highly import tent to the borough . ( Disapprobation . ) If they

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      appointed a stranger to represent them , he might be told of their wants , but never would flee them . If thev elected a townsman to be their representative , he would not only bo told of their wants , ; but he would feel and see them . It was said that there was orpitment ad eaj > tcw « Ittt » and the argument ad hominem ; but he believed there was another argument also , and that waa the argument adpocfcittMw . ( Groans and hisses . ) In addition , the candidate be had to propose , besides being a towsman possessed the qualification of being a commercial man . ( Hear , hear . ) They required a man ai their representative who , when he opened his letter bag in the morning , read intelligence from every p » rt of i it . — i ,. : nl . tk

      the world , who would bo able to take his seat among the Peela , the Barings , the Fieldings , the Browns , and the other merchant princes of the day , who were the admiration of all nations . ( Hear , hear . ) They rcouired a man also acquainted with the lan-leu interests . ( Interruption . ) As a landed gentleman he appealed to tfeem for the manner in which Mr Edwards had taken care of bis own estate , and if he took as good care of theirs as he had done his ewn , they would not be so very badly off . And as a man ol pledges , his father , and his grandfather had alwajs been pledged to Toryism and the Church , and he put it to tha assembly whether they had ever deviated . ( Groans and laughter . ) , Mr F . H . Nichoisoic seconded the nominatien .

      Mr F . Cbossm-, then came forward , and after ex-Eressin g his concurrence with everything that had eensaid byMr Morris with respect to the private and public worth of the late Mr Attojd , Ue 9 to , WA « l Mr Edward Miall as a candidate , whose political and religious views he strongly supported , and whose return as a representative in Parliament he constdered would be one of the greatest triumphs ever obtained for civil aud religious liberty . Mr John Edwards seconded the nomination of Mr Miall , in a truly argumentative speech . Sir CHARMS Wood then presented himself , and was received with a universal groan . He adverted to his long services and unaltered principles , and continued , gentlemen , I am a Reformer , but 1 do not go lo the extent of the extreme principles which have

      been put forward today as those of my rivals . ( Disapprobation . ) I am not in favour of the doctrines embodied in the Charter . ( Continued disapprobation . ) 1 will now refer to what has been the nature of the legislation carried en by the last Parliament . We have lately cea & ed to agitate for great organic changes , and in the House of Commons we hare heard little upon the subject of Universal Suffrage . I believe that this agitation has caused great injury to the Liberal cause in this country , for I can recollect that when this question was agitated in the House of Commons and ti . e country , the result was , a Conservative majority was returned to Parliament and the Liberal government was excluded from the management of public affairs . ( Disapprobation . ) The

      government have removed all duties existing on the importation of not only corn , but upon almost all other articles—( bear . hear ) -and I myself at the end of the session , brought forward a measure which I find has had tbe efiect of reducing the price of an article almost equally necessary to man as bread—I meansugar . { ' No , no . ' ) During the last session , an act was passed which I will not say was for your benefit , because npon that point I entertain considerable doubt , but certainly at your request , under the impression that it would tend to your advantage—I allude to the Ten Hoars' Bill . ( Disapprobation . ) I hare always entertained great doubt upon this subject . I believed , and do believe , that the reduction of time would be followed by ft reduction of wages ;

      and , unless I am wrongly informed , I believe you have reason to know tbat such will be the case , ( Laughter and groans . ) My friend , Mr Edwards , has alluded to two or three measures which he says were passed for the benefit of the aristocracy- First he mentions the auction duties , but these have bsen repealed ; and then he adverts to the game laws . What ground of complaint he has against these laws I know not ; the obnoxious portions of the old game laws have been repealed , and the only protection which a gentleman now enjoys is that he can say to & party who may enter his grounds in pursuit of game that he will punish him for a trespass . ( Loud groans , and continued disapprobation , during which Mr Ernest Jones , at the wish of the returning officer stood up ,

      and requested silence for Sir Charles Wood , which was instantly procured . ) I will now refer to some questions which have been put to me in the course of my canvass . I have been asked , if I am prepared to endow the Roman Catholic priests ot Ireland . Now there are many persons who entertain a conscientious , objection to tbat measure . I have no hesitation in telling you that I do not participate in that objection ; but though I don ' t entertain it myself , I deeply and sincerely respect it in others ; and I should not think myself justified in neglecting a feeling of religious seruple so largely and extensively entertained . I hare been asked if 1 will vote against such a measure should it bo proposed . Gentlemen , I will give you no such pramise . ( Loud disapprobation , )

      I never have given , and I never will give you a promise as to how I intend to vote . ( Continued groans . ) It is true , as somebody has stated , that the Roman Catholics have repudiated the measure , and that whatever arguments may be brought forward in favour of such a measure , I confess I do not think that it isa question which is likely to be agitated in the next Parliament . The right honourable baronet then read the declaration made . by Lord John Russell at the meeting of his constituents in London last week upon this subject . The next question to which ! shall refer is that of the separation of tbe Church from the State . I have never understood what those who advocated the separation of Church and State exactly meant ; but adverting

      to the two points that are generally considered to be involved in the question , namely the removal from the House of Lords of the bishops who sit there , or the taking away from the Church the property with which the piety of our ancestors endowed it , I may be permitted to state that I am opposed to a separation under any such circumstances . ( Vehement groaning . ) I have always been , as you know , a freetrader . ( Laughter . ) The righthon . gentleman then dilated at great length on the Education Scheme , to which he gave his unqualified support , and endeavoured to fix that was tbe great question which had raised the contest in the borough . The right hon . baronet sat down amid continued groans and hisses .

      Mr Ermkbi Jones then rose amid enthusiastic cheering and waving of hats , and said : Mr Returning Offleer , Electors , and Non-Electors ! I have been listening with profound ; attention to what has fallen frem the lips of the right hon . gentleman en my right—and I confess 1 am much disappointed . From an experienced member , from a Minister of the Crown , I had expected to have heard some exposition of a leading principle , some explanation of the past , soma guarantee for the future . ( Hear , ) The country ia plunged in misery—he never alludes to it ; it « struggling for redemption—he never points the way . Not one great principle , not one sound measure has fallen from his lips ' . The right hon . gentleman has talked much , and said nothing . On one point , however , let me at ooce correct him

      he endeavours to make education the battle horse of his election . 1 tell him , I do not contest tbis borough on the education question , but as an advocate of Universal l uffrage , and separation of Church and State . ( Loud cheers . ) Let him not think the great question of the day beneath a Whig trick . ( Applause . ) We struggle for civil and religious liberty—if he is unable to grapple with those questions , let him at once give up , and not dare to oppose what he cannot appreciate . He tells you he has served yeu' fifteen years—and that he is the same now as he was then . Are the people the same ? Sir , we have been going onward , while yow have been sitting still , and you come here , the retrogresbive minister ef a progretsivo people . ( Loud cheers . ) Yon

      have pronounced your own condemnation ; the stock of political capital you began with fifteen yenra a ^ should have been fifteen per cent better by this time , or you are but a worthless ' ste-t-ard of the people ' s rights . How does the right hon . gentleman treat the great questions ot tbe day ? lie tells us he is opposed to the Charter but he does not tell us why , ( Hear , hear . ) I am a Chartist , and I question whether the right hon . baronet knows what the Charter means . If ho did , ' or if he had anything to say against it , be sure he would have said so . ( Loud cheers . ) He will tell yeu a Chartist is a leveller , a destructive and an . infidel ; 1 wilt not tell the right hon . gentleman that he is one—but I do say tbat he belongs to a levelling , a destructive , and an in tide )

      cabinet . Levelling— ior has it not levelled labour to the dust ? DiStructive—for has it not murdered a million in Ireland , and glutted the jaws of death with Indian slaughter , and with Chinese massacre ? Infidel—for does it not make religion a stool of the state , worship a golden calf instead ol God , and supersede holy writs by acts of Parliamant * Prolonged applause . ) They will tell you , Irish famine was avwiutitm from God . Was it a visitation from God , sir ! when you sent tke corn out of the oountrv by the bayonet * of your soldiers ? On the next great SlF ^^^ rW . ho gentleman seems equally » the dark . He himself tells us , he does hot know what separation of Church and State meant . I will explain it to him . It means , no fat 17 ! , * , A P . y ° u" 8 er sons . No selling the eur « K ' Ul 8 , ^ ° P W S * « d ^ don ' t believe ia N ^ falt -f m " *^™ fo , carving congYeptions , JK £ f ¦ ° n t § tonRl with tUe of God

      * , , ° w'o . S ^ J ^ T'l ^ ^ 8 » ^ «»™« Property , 1 centiderthe Church is entitled to ita private property , thesarae as any individual . That 1 would tSSEl K " ght h 0 ^ eman i , opposed £ m , " - "f to ' W'tops o « t of the House of Lords " bat do they there ? Send them to their Churches I "yonr bishops aave a right to be in the House of «> rd 8 , why not place Dissenters there as well ? Where is the right for the one , if not for the other J * or my part I would exclude thera both . On minor questions the right hon . baronet seems equally misinformed . He tells lis the Game Laws are perfection , he don't know what we would have . Ho asks us Whether we would wish to trespass on a gentleman ' s land to take hie game ; I say , "No ! " but then his game must not trespass on our land and destroy < Mir food . So much for the justice of the Game Laws ' .

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      ( Loud applause . ) On tbe Ten Hours * Bill hT ^ more explicit . He says be is Opposed to it if . JS bring wages down . What , lower ? Why , »/ r J ! S risklt , for that ' s impossible ! Wc are told tbe 2 u hon . gentleman is a free trader to C-o back ban * Do you remember tbe meeting , when \ ou told jl men of Halifax , that ' when yeu found that evt * J body else was in favour of free trade you would be j ? favour of it too . ' There is a free trader to the back bone , for you . ( Laughter . ) I ' m a better free trad ^ than that . Why did you not say a word abut tha Navigation Laws ? Repeal them , too , or you ' re bnt half a free trader I We are told , however , that th » right hon . baronet bas , somehow or other , assisted te procure cheap food , and tbat , therefore , the wortjin * . classes must have plenty to eat . Have there 1 ^ 5 l / r ... j . «« . « .. \ n .. i * .. tn— 11 . « ... ^ S

      n * cheap wages as well 1 Oh ! sir , you Whigs are hot p »» r political economists . The facility of obt » inu » food for the poer does not alone depend on its cheap : ness , but also on the amountef labour in th © market and of money in circulation . Cheap f 0 wj and starvation may go band in hand . ( Hear , hear . ) As to the franchise , the right lion , gentleman hag not said a word about it . It ' s quite right as it is , * , it not ? although your pledge-breaking Ministry said ' Reform was but to be a preliminary step . * Some of you gentlemen go farther , they extend tha franchise on the nomination day , and close it up again at the close of the pell . ( Laughter . ) TJiei « is one thing , however , to which the right hon . gen . tleman alludes with much apparent satisfaction -. he .

      actually himself , ' at tbe end ot tne session brought iorwaTd a measure which beQnds has bad tbe effe ct of reducing the price of an article , almost equall y necessary to man as bread , he means tugar , ' There ' s a great measure for the great statetmaut What , do you think the people are children , to b » pacified by a sugarplum ? No doubt the right hon , gentleman has a sweet tooth , but if he wa * as han . gry as a working man , he'd prefer the wheaten l 0 « f to his slave-grown sugar . ( Hear , bear , and load cheers . ) There is one important point I have ia . tentionally postponed noticing till the last ; it j y , Roman Catholic endowment . Sir Charles Wood is in favour of this measure . He endeavours to atom for this bstatinhe does not think the Cabinet

      y g , will bring it forward at present , and quotes from Lord John Russell ' s speech in the City , a paragraph . somewhat to that effect . Now , we all know , but little reliance is to be placed on what Lord John Russell says , and , unfortunately for your argument , I hold in my hand three extracts from three several speeches of tho noble lord , held in 18 * 3 , 1845 , and 1846 , in all of which be announces bis intention of endowing the Roman Catholic Priesthood , ( Mr E . Jones here read the several extracts . ) Now ,. sir ! something better can be done with the people ' , money , than endowing a Church . Endow Labour with its rights , and it will worship God with a more Hateful heart . ( Loud applause . ) You have stated thines vou would wish to renal—you hare stated the

      Church lives on her own money , and costs the people nothing . ( 'Oh ! ' ohV ) Oh ! then it ' s alia mis . take - ^ the Dissenters , after all , don't pay towards tho Church Establishment—tithes are a Divine diipensation—and church rates only a form of prayer . ( Laughter . ) Then , after all , you never spent £ 7 . 500 in sending six bishops in six line-of-battle ships oa something like a pleasure excursion ! Bayonets and bishops ! Birds of a feather flock together . ( Loud cheers , and laughter . ) That £ 7 , 600 had far better have been added ( o the secret service list—money , the spending of which you are ashamed to account for . ( Hear , hear . ) Ay , well may you be so , when you spend ^ £ 50 , 000 on civil contingencies , which means badges , and stars of Bath and Garter , for

      foreiim princes , fitting up a atate chapel for Ibrahim Pacha , and lavish follies amid a dying popula . tion . ( Shame !) This is the way in which a Minister of the Crown comes before his constituency . Did you ever see a mere pitiable exhibition ? ( Prolonged laughter , while the honourable candidate stood looking at the Chancellor . ) Is this the Minister to rule the destinies of a mighty people * Liberal electors ! he is against an extension of the suffrage . Farmers ! he is in favour of the Game Laws ! Working men ! he is opposed to tbe Ten Hoars' Bills ! Free Traders ! he is your reluctant , standstill advocate , and Is silent on the Navigation Laws . State ehurchmen ! he is in favour of Roman Catholic Endowment . Dissenters ! he is in

      favour of bishops in tbe House of Lords—and of the union between Church and State . G » back , air , — go back to your falling Cabinet , and tell them what you have heard and seen this day . Lord John Russell has been called yonr noble-hearted chief . I call him "Finality John , "—a political weathercock stuck on the top of a state church steeple ! Tell bim yon bave sat here tbis day , a political trembler in the face of truth . Tell him it is in vain to resist the tide of progression , and that he must either swim with the people , or sink with monopoly . ( Tremendous cheering . ) For myself , my opinions are so well known to you , I need -carce to allude to thera to-day . You know I am a Chartist , and why . You know I wish to separate Church

      and State , and why ;—to repeal the New Poor Law , the Game Laws , and the Law of Primogemtarc ~ -to extend in its full meaning the great principle of Free Trade , thus to break down the golden barriers hetween God and man , and between a atarving population and the plenty of God ' s giving . You also know I wish to injure no man—1 abhor bloodshed and violence—respect the rights of property , in all , and merely wish to establish a Christian government over a Christian people . ( Enthusiastic cheering . ) I will now conclude—indeed , I feel as thoogb I bad been pronouncing a funeral oration above Wbiggery and Toryism—the right honourable baronet en my right , and the gallant captain on my left , look like the chief mourners—and , in truth , they wear very

      long faces this morning ; but , whatever may be the result of this contest , I feel we have already achieved a victory ; we have taken an onward step monopoly can never reeal ; and , like a conquering army , we are marching to the goal of civif and religious liberty . Mr Jones resumed his seat amid a perfect storm of applause—often renewed—and when it had subsided , MrHaNRT Edwards came forward to address the meeting . He was was received with groans and laughter , and made a long , unintelligible speech , in which he talked much about bis grandtather—called tobacco the greatest necessary of a poor man ' s lifethought tha Bank Charter was an important measure , because it was an important one—invited the meeting to smoke a cigar with him at Hope

      Halllost no temper , and descended to personal abase , and sat down amid the laughter of the audience . Mr Francis Maodb then addressed a few questions to the honourable candidate ; some of which " . he answered—and tben declined , saying he was ' devilish dry , and did ' nt want to have another pill to swallow from that little fellow , ' pointing to Mr Jones , who heartily joined in the laugnter of the crowd . Mr Mull , on presenting himself to the meetin ? , , was received with vehement and prolonged cheering and spoke as fellows : —Gen tlemen , electors , and in- habitantsof the borough of Halifax , whatever may be the issue of this contest , I rejoice at the opportunity r it affords me of meeting a distinguished member of E her Majesty ' s government face to face , and of ex- - plaining tbat some of the opinions held by tho dig-

      sentmg body have been greatly mistaken both bv the e government and the legislature of this country . . ( Hear , hear . ) The notions which the legislature c entertains respecting some of tbe principles which h we , as . Nonconformists hold , resemble very netrly V some of the views , political and ecclesiastical , which h they themselves enunciate npon other questions . I I don t come before you to tell you that what my opi- U nions were fifteen years ago , they are now . ( An- x plause . ) I don't appear before you to tell you that 1 , t am not an advocate Co finality . ( Loud cheers . ) I I have told yon frequently and fully that I believe ve every man untainted with crime ought to have a » voice in the appointment of tbe government of the he country . ( Immense cheering . ) I have advocated the he

      extension ot this right-not privilege—to every man , n , and I have nothing which I wish to withhold from to you on that subject ! but I wish to have it clearly rly understood than I appear before you on this occasion on to solicit the honour of being returned as one of th * h » representatives of the borough of Halifax , in order ler that I might lend my energies and devote my mind nd to the accomplishment of what I regard as an all all important object . ( Hear , bear . ) The question be-before us is not as to whether there should be mere or ¦ or ess education of the people , although I must confess fees that I am one who entertains the opinion that if a if a E J f . be made ^ the hawk to educate th e the s arrow , I , as the . sparrow , would say , ' Thank you , fou , f !! S ^ ' } . ? , eduCilt ! l * f- ' ( Laughter and and pplause ) Gentlemen

      a . , I never knew of a govern-emment m possesion of political power endeavour tor to educate the people and to afford useful informationition to their minds , but that tbey intended to make t-attat very knowledge subservient to the accomplishmeritnerit of their own ends . ( Loud cheers . ) Why , this scheraeieme . ol education , which , according to the statements cits off the right honourable baronet , is to empty our gaolsgaolsi and to extend , to the lowest depths w ot povettyvetty * and crime amongst the people , and of disseminatingatingj amongst them the blessings of education-thH-tbH ! scheme , which , it has been said , has been passed fond foil the purpose of elevating the condition and charactetracteu of the working classes of the country , will no * noil render education a stiver cheaper to the worfcinprkintt man than it was before . It leaves the workingrking :

      man to pay for his education just as he has dont dom < before ( hear , hear , and applause)—and the enl * a enlj : thing which it does , is to give large stipends to sohoohohooll masters , and to place more extensive patronage iiage in the hands of tho government . ( IU-ar , and applauscilausc .. The Whigs have treated the Dissenters in the saow saow manner they have served all their friends—they havsy hav " used them up and then turned them off —( hear , hear , bean and applause)—and now they actually reproach ujach uu with tho support we then rendered them , and use i use ii a « an argument against the course we are takin | takin (| ( Hear , hear , and applause . ) But let me tell thtell thb right honourable baronet and the House of Commontnmonm that the Dissenters are nut the men to put up witup witt an inauhvof this kind , and that whatever they maey maa forget and forgive personally , they will not forget an-get air forgive an insult offered to a principle they hold dcioid dcu as life itself . ( Lend applause , A word or two ( two u

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Aug. 7, 1847, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_07081847/page/6/