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      TEE WEST BIDING ELECTION . DOMINATION . The nomination of candidates for the representation of tie Wesi Riding of Yorkshire look place &t Wakefield on Monday last , at which time there ¦ were probably forty or fifty thousand persons assembled , from all parts of ihe Riding , a . very large proportion of-whom were Chartists . The factions , who lock at the West Riding as a prize worth contending for , musve-red their forces in considerable numbers , each being determined , if possible , to overawe the other . Tne yellow partythe " base , bloody , » nd brutal , "—were particularly active ; and hired b > nds of armed ruffians in their pay , entered the town at an early hour , by all the

      avenues leading from the manufacturing districts , for whose especiaS convenience all kinds of con-Teyanees , from the railway traiu t ^ the donkey cart , were plao&d in requisition . The Wentworth House purse paid the piper . The Tories , also , sported a luge baad of hired men . The Chartists , who have no lordling ' s purse to which they can look for supplies , proved , iacontestibly , tbeir superior determination in the good ¦ work in whieh they are engaged , by mustering in thousands , and walking to Wakefield , accompanied by their handsome green banners and several bands of music . Tfle body of the " lads" arrived in the town soon afw eigns o ' clock , and mustered on Westgate Common , where they were j iined by their

      candidates , Mesas . Pitkethly and Harney , who drove up in an open carriage , from Dewsbury , and after listening tc the joyous shouts with which they were welcomed , proceeded at once to their committee room , to make the necessary arrangements for the day ' s proceedings ; whilst those already assembled , after being joined by accessions from Dewsbury , Hnddersfield , Bradford , Barnsley , and other places , waited with patience for the time when they should be marshalled to the place of meeting . Tnese brave fellows , inured to toil , and inspired by the glorious strangle in which they were engaged—the struggle of right against might—were a pattern to the others in their cheerful devotion to their cause , and in their peaceable and orderly demeanour throughout the day .

      The hustings ( a wretched erection ) were formed on a portion of the ca-ttle market , and faced a gradual descent , oa vfhicb . there was sj > aee fcr probably 30 , 000 persons . The High Sheriff was in the centre , ibe Yellows to his right , and tke Blues to his left . The Chirti ? t speakers had tickets granted them for the High Sheriff ' s box ; ai , d here we observed Messrs . Pitkethly and Harney , their proposers and seconders , and numerous other leadiDg men from Leeds and various parts of the Riding . The Blues first entered the ground in procession- ;

      and shortly afterwards they were followed by the mass of Chartists , who took up their position directly in the frcmt centre of the hustings , stretching back to the fall extent of the ground , and forming a dense barrier between the Whigs and Tories . The mottos on the Caartist banners included the six points of the Charter , and on one side of . each the p ace from whence they came . Un one we observed " Justice to one and to all , " and on another " We demand Universal Suffrage and the Ballot . " The ChanisU generally wore green cxrds and favours .

      An Ezlroordxnary Mercury was published in Leed 3 oa Tuesday monrlcg , professing to give an account of the proceedings ; arid a most " extraordinary" lying affair it is . Neddy seems determined to enjoy the unenviable notoriety he gained from the immortal Cobbe ' . t ; he i 3 determined to continue throughout all time , " the great liar of the norrh !'" K The few hundred Charuits" — wretched looking band "— " armed with heavy sticks Md bludgeons " —with " green nigscontainHigiU-speitinscripuoD . s " are a few amongst many slanders he has chosen : o pnt forth to plea-se those for whom he works .

      AcJ cow , Mr . " Extraordinary" liar , if yon could see at all , pray teli us if you could nut see more thousands than you have acknowledged to hundred- ? Tdl n ? , if you can speak truth at all , ir the Chartists were not the real peace-preservers of the meeting I and whether your hired ruffians , who had been purposely furnished with short stave 3 made at Hu ' dtieriSeld for the occasion , -were cot panting to exercise these said slaves on tne skulls of their adversiricf , at the bidding of a Whig Justice , who disgraced himself and his office by acting as fugleman , Lad they net been overawed by the noble and eonrageousbearirg of the " wretched-looking band !' the number

      Pray tell us how your optics magnified of yellows so far abjve the Chartists ! ^ ky ; most w Extraordinary" Sir , what an " extraordinary " vision you must have , and what an extraordinarily capacious mawyoa give your gulls the credit of possessing ! Did it never occur to you Mr . Liar u Extraordinary'" that other people had travelled as ¦ well as yourse lf ? The yellows—your hired ruffians —intended to have had a row , and greatly were they disappointed when they saw , from the force they "would have to contend 2 galnst , that they should on 3 y come off second best . To dignity such fellows as you had there with the name of reformer ? , is a farce ; thev had nc other principle than to do your dirty

      biddicg . The thousands having assembled and the candidates Laving MLke-n iheir station on the hustings , —Lord Morpeih is . a ocked hat and sword , by ¦ wav , we suppose , of showing that he was tae leader of the " Bloodies "—silence was proclaimed , and The HIGH SHERIFF ( Frederick "William Thomas Yernon Wentworth , Esq ., of Wentworth C » stle > , case forward and said , —G % Jitlfcmen , in obedience to her Majesty ' s commands , we are met together for the purpose of electing two Knights of the Shire to represent the West Riding in Parliament . I hope that the proceedings of this day will be conducted in a peaceable

      and orderly manner . ( Hear , hear . ) The occurrences which t * ok place at the last nomination for the West Riding will be fresh in yonr recollection , and I hope ire shall not hare to deplore the same results to day . ( Hear , hear . ) I hops every man will feel it his bounden duty to assist in preseivicg order , and if you expect your ottb frieads to be heard , yon must likewise consent to bear the other party to whum you may happen to be opposed . ( Hear , hear . ) As Englishmen , you shall have fair play ; but there can be no fair play unless JOU give to every speaker a foil , fair , ana impartial bearing . ( Hear , bear . ) If any elector has a candidate to propose , let him come forward , and he shall be hair A ( Load cheers . )

      FRANCIS HAWKESTTORTHFAWKES . Esqaire , presented himself , and proposed Lord Viscount > iorj * tb as a fit and proper person . JAMES LEES , Esq ., of Delph , seconded the nomination of Lord Viscount Morpeth . GODFREY WENT W 0 RTH , Esq ., then cameforward to propose Mr . Wortley . He spoke as follows ;—Electors and non-electors of the West Biding of Yorkshire , in addressing this vast and numerous assembly ¦ which I see before me , I must claim a patient bearing , and , as I &m sore that a cumber of gentlemen will be

      called on to do so , I will promise to occupy but a little time in my address to you . Gentlemen , the purpose of my appearing before you here to-day , is to nominate a gentleman as a candidate for your suffrages in the ensuing ejection of members of Parliament ; and When I name that gentleman to yon , I am sure that you will be confident as I am , that ha possesses all the abilities and taJents necessary for a man who aspires to so high a situation . iCheeis . ) Gentlenun , without further trespassing upon your piiienee , I will at once propose to yon Mr . Wortley . ( Cheers . )

      JOHN BROOK ., Efq-, of Axmitage Bridge , said-Mr . High Sheriff , Electors and non-eJectore , and the Working Classes of the West Riding of Yorkshire—( cheers )—Gentlemen , —If ever I took upon myself to perform a public duty , I never kto forward with greater satisfaction than I do on the present occasion , to secon : the nomination of Mr . "Wortley . ( Cheers . ) Gentlemen , it is unnecessary for me to state to you ' what Mr . Wortley ' s political views and sentiments are . i He has already , by his printed address , sod by the i speeches which he has had to deliver in tha different towns throughout this Riding , come forward and explained them in a very straightforward , manly , and entrgetic msntii i Cheers . ) He has woa ever to his } favour , not on 3 y those who Were lukewarm in his cause , but those 'who « n former occasions voted against him , I

      snd have hot ? aa * de tip theii minds to come -forward , asd do all in their power to return Mr . Wortley , Well , knowing , Gentlemen , that he is not the poor man ' s ! friend by promisee , but that he will be the poor man ' s ; friend by perfonaasces . . Hear , hear , and loud cheers . ) ( Gentlemen , coming forward thus publicly as I do to < advoote Mr . WortJey , you have a right to ask me why it is that I wish to displace one >* oble Lord , and send , * n » ther Noble Lord back to his father . sGheers&cd laaghter . > Bat before I answer that question , I will ' also ask a question ; I "will csk why it is that they \ themselves have sent to the right about Sir George ' Strickland ? ( Hear , hear . } Poor Sii George : I -wish ' to know -what fault he has committed ? ( Cheers and j r"w . ; Is it , Gentlemen , thit Sir George does not ] possess the talent , the energy , and the activity to ad- i Tocate in Parliament their partisan views , that they j must send for the more energetic , the more lalerJed , j Lord Miltonto th

      the more highly minded , carry em forward ? ( Cheers . ) But , Gentlemen , while I ask this question , there is another indi'rida&l of a very different : character , who , I am persuaded , has also asked that question . I asj persuaded that the late Secretary for ; Ireland has himself put thai question , and that he has not received a very satisfactory answer . ( Loud j applause . ) I am perfectly persuaded , Gentlemen , j that my Lord Jlorpeia would much prefer having Sir George Strickland as a felloe-candidate , however much I he might prefer having mj Lord Milton as his colleague i in Parliament . < Cheers , i Gentlemen , I certainly did ; complain thit the mover * nd seconder of the Right j HonoKrable Lord should have made such long speeches ; end I fear you wiil thick I aiu something in the same way . I now th&sk you , Gentlemen , most heartily and : cordially , for ibe patient and kind manner in which yon haTe listened to me . ( Applause . ) I will conclude , |> y be&rtily seconding the nomination of the Honourable John 8 tnsxt Wortley .

      CHABLE 3 VTOOD , Esq . M . P . after landing the jgioexplea jmd taienta of bis grandfather and father , j vbo bad both represented Weatvrcrtli Honse in Patliajnant , proposed Lard Mil ion . The announcement that he mi & / & person to rejresent the Riding drew forth

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      the jeers of every man of common sense in the as- ; sembly .. J . B . GABFORTH , Esq . of Coniston Hall , seconded the nomination . ' The Hon . EDWIN LASCELLES said , Electors and 1 Non-Electors , I b . 3 ve the satisfaction of introducing to j your notice Edmund Beckett Denison , Esq .. as a fit j and proper person to represent the West-Riding in the ; ensuing Parliament . We know him well . He has re- sided amoncst ns for many yeaw , and he has been one

      of the most active magistrate * , tad one of the most intelligent men of business , that -ever came into this Riding . Mr . Denison , from ha position , is as well adapted , or perhaps better , to snpport the varied interests of this Riding , than any man I know . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr Denison is a countty gentleman himself , and connected with one of the oldest commercial families in the West-Riding : and taking both the agricultural and manufacturing interest , into account , I say there is not a fitter man in the whole Riding to repre sent it in the House of Commons .

      JOHN RAND , Esq ., of Bradford , said—Electors and non-electors of the West Riding , it is to me a source of satisfaction that I hare this day fcbe pleasure of seconding the nomination of Mr . Beckett Denison . The interests of the poor and the interests of the rich we alike safa in his bands ; and I feel persuaded that , ere this week elapse , be will be retained to Parliament as one -of your representatives . ( Cbeers , and shouts of " No , -no . - ) Ton have watched well the conduct of her Majesty ' s Ministers , and having carefully txamiiied the amount of their promises , you bare contrasted them with the amount of their performances , and this accounts sufficiently for their fast waning popularity .

      - Mr . CHRISTOPHER WOOD , of Honley . then stood forward amidst great cheering , which continued for some time , to propose Mr . Lawrence Pitkethly , as a fit and proper person to represent the West Riding in Parliament ( Great cheering . ! Mr . Pitkethly was the advocate of the working classes , and he ( Mr . Wood ) was sure the time was not far off when the labouring classes must be represented equally with the other classts . ( Hear , hear . ) They had been long neglected , but justice must be done to them at last . ^ Cheers . ) He hoped every man there was prepared to do hia duty , to hear all parties as they wished to be heard theni-Belves , and not only to act like men while they wtre

      on that ground , bat when the meeting wu over , to prevent any disturbance being made by either Whig or Tory . ( Hear , and cheers . ) Peace , law , and order , was their motto ; and their endeavour , as men . must be to create a feeling of brotherly love amoakst all classes , let the issue of the contest be what itnii ^ ht —( cheers)—to convince ali that the Chartists , a powerful and ( iaily increasing parry belonging to neither faction , wished well to all , without diff-rence of sect or creed , which to them was of no importance . Thanking them fur tbeir patience , he contended by proposing ilr . Pirketblv . ( Tremendous cheeriDg , waving of hats , tc . which lasted for some minutes . )

      Mr . JOHN SADDLER , of Doncaster , seconded the nomination . Mr . JAMES PENNY , of Mill-Bridge , came forward amidst the most enthusiastic cheering , to propose Mr . George Julian Harney , as a candidate to represent them in Parliament , and in doing so , said , he would not trespass upon tfceir time by any lengthened observations , as there were many other gentlemen of talent , or who at least ought to be so , who would have to address thbm at this important crisis . ( Hear , hear . ) He need not txpatiate on his principles—they -were well kr . o-srn He was the tulvoCite of Universal Suffrage—Universal right—( tremendous cheers ^—and be came forward on the broad principle that every man who was called upon to obey the laws , ought to have a voice ia the making of those laws ( Renewed cheering . ) He advocated

      neither oi the two parties , for he knew that neither Whig nor Tory , wou ' . d do anything for them till they wtre com p si led by the pressure from withont ( Great cheering |—They both told the people they were not fit for the suffrage—ibear , )—that they were too ignorant — ( hear , )—that they had not sufficient intelligence—; hear , hear : —bat tbey could , at all events , m soon s ^ r ve an apprenticeship to become electors as to becom e npresentalives . ( Great cheering / The gentlemen on the other side had the advantage—their men had the Qualification , but they had not the talent ( Cheers . ) Mr . Penny ' s further remarks fvere delivered amidst interruption bj" th 3 hirf'i yellow iuffiacs , who , evidently , ck " . not 'srish to bear tte tru ' -h told of their employers , as < i after some otaer observations , he concluded , amidst preat chwring , by proposing , as a fit and proper person , Air . Geon-e Julian Hartley .

      At the mention of Mr . Harnev ' s name , a most tre mendaus s _ : cut rent the uir , and the waving of hats and ci . pping uf hands continued for some time . Mr . BENJAMIN PEAK 50 N , of Mirfield , seconded the nomina'ion of Mr . Harney . Lord MORPETH , on presenting himself , was cheered by his frienOs ; their cheera , however , did not seem to encourage the Nuble Lord . He was evidently ill at ease—Ubcnring nnder an anticipation that the ground oa wlikh he had so long stood was fist slipping from benearh his feet . The green fls ^ s were to him " the hafid-TrritiEg on the wall . " In the introduction of his " essay , " he said—it cm be no matter of complaint with me , that candiaaUrs representing every class of soritty , and everr shade of opinion , should be submitted

      to your chuica and your decision . ( Cheers . ) I have as little rigfct to cocipLiin that every opportunity should be afforded to J \ . u of choo&in « & Chartist , as cf choosing s Tory Mtruber . But the lint l > f duty which seems to lie before me is , that holuir . g opinions widely distinct frczn either , I s ^ ali st ale bt / cre you , Gentlemen , who form this vast assemblage , and , through you , to this great Riding , the reason of the appeal which I now come forward to make to yon on my ourn parr . ( Hear , hear . ) I do not make that appeal entirely in a single capacity . I make it both as a Minister of the Crown—^ cheers )—and I make it in what , ¦ without pretence or fhttery , is to me a still more valued title—1 make it as your tried and often-chosen representative . After thus admitting , because he saT it expedient , what he has

      hitherto denied , he al ' uied to the warm reception' which he and bis colleague had experienced during their canvass , and then once more turned to conciliate tha Chartuts , by & reference to the Eufftrlng 8 if the working classe ? , which received no other response from the people than an assurance that " it -was aU humbug , " and then , after finding that he had got oa a wrong tack , he at once began to show his teeth , and feigned to consider that Messrs . Pitiethly and Har ^ ej- -were onlj jvkinj -with him . He said , " What I conceive to be the question before the constituency of this Riding , and the constituencies of the empire at large is , —to decide between the practical line of conduct set befDre them by oureelvts aod by our opponents . ( Hear , hear . ) When

      I talk of opponents , I mean to signify Mr . Wortley and Mr . Denison , because with all tha deference -which may be cue " to Mr . Haxr . ey ar . d Mr . PitXttbly , 1 cannot consider thfcm as our substantial and hohajide antagonists at che present election . ( Hsar , hear , and hisses from the Cinrtists . ) I might have adverted to some of the topics which were briefly iknced at by the proposers and seconders of those parties . ( Great diseatiifaction and interruption in various parts of the meeting . )—I say 1 might have adverted to some of the topics which were briefly glanced at by the gentlemen wbo proposed and seconded the nomination of Mr . Hamey and Mr . Pitkethly ; bat as I do not think tha real brunt of the battle lies in that direction , and as the time for immediate action draws near , i -win not suffer niy forces t ) be dirtcted to any side skirmishes , but I wiil pour

      them at once on the real heat and heart of the fray . " iBravo ! my Lord ! " the real brunt of the batt ' e" does lie in a direction of which you do yourself credit by professing ignorance . ) The Noble Lord then , in a series of well turned periods , cot off for the occasion , referral u > the measures which the Govenmsent had brcoght forward , hanging the future destinies of England on corn , sugar , and timber . During his harangue he was frequently interrupted by cries t > f " 3 a * iiK-s , " " Them ' s all fiattery , "" Who kidnapped Froat , Williams , and Jones ? " " £ 70 , 000 for royal stables , " " We want something to eat ; " " Give us beef first , and then we wil ! get bread . ; " " Tax property , " < kc &c He conclurred , aaiiust great dissatisfaction , and retired pitied by friends , declaring that he would not believe be should ever be the rejected ef Yorkshire .

      TheHon . JOHN STDART WORTLEY camoforward tad was received trith cheering . He said—Gentlemen , Fellow-YoTkshirenien cf this vast district , it now bececes my duty , in turn , to present Myself to your notice , in order to submit a ; r claim for the hoaour which it is ^ sa your poweT to botow , by that decision which yon wiU have shortly to pronounce between myself and my ftpponeut 5 . And , Gentlemen , on preeeating mysslf on this occasion , 1 need not say that I appear upon the same iooticg as that oa which I have presested myself on former occasions . ( Cheers . ) My object here is to lay a eliim , for the great party which has done me tie honour to give me their support , to a share in the representation of the Wist Riding : mj object is to assert their right to a ponicii ^ tion in its legislative

      voice , and to rescne it frjm that waich , at the present moment especially , would appear to wear the aspect of an attempt to establish what my Noble Friend has called the monopoly of the purse . ( Lend cheers . ) I shall comprise my observations ia as short a space as - possible , and I feel that there is the less necessity for me to occupy any large portion of the time of this [ meeting , because I have had , duricg the course of the i canvass that it has beea my duty to undergo , repeated j opportunities of explaining my opinions and my principles , ' and laying before tha people of this Riding , those claims and pretensions which I ' presume to think entitle me to ask for their sup- port . Gentlemen , in the course cf that canvass nothing has given me more unmixed satisfaction thaa to find j that in spite of all the endeavors that have been '

      made to pervert , to bias , and to orerpower the opinion of the great mass of the population ; though it has been my duty to argue the great questions submitted to ] the country by her Majesty ' s Government on that side ' which has hitherto been deemed the unpopular one , ' thaf notwithstanding thiB , on every cccaiion hive I ' r-jund that the people of the West RidiDg have j behaved like men of sense and rational citizens . \ Lyud : heers . } They have taken what I tbonght proper to ' : xpress , in the sense in which 1 intended it , and even ¦ f they differed in opinion with me , they would hear ; uy reasoning and my statements . They have not over- ; x > rne me with clamour , and stopped my month with : lap-traps . They Lave refused to be made the tools of j hose delusions which have been thrown abroad to I leceivo" their judgments . ( Loud clieers . ) Gentlemen , j oy Noble Friend has told you that there has been i

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      no intention on the part of Government to excite agitatiea . It will be fwr you to pronounce upon that question . Bat , Gentlemen , in the meantime I will ask him to settle the question with his own colleague , Lord John RusselL Lord Morpeth tells us that the Government sought for no agitation on this subject , lord John Russell tells as he thought agitation was justifiable and expedient . ( Loud cheers . ) It was only the other day , -when he spoke to the cititeas of London , that be s&id there were occasions , and that was one , on which a Government was justified ia appealing —( booting by the YeUowa ;—in appealing , by means of agitation , to the sense of the country . Gentlemen , they tell ns always , and we see It on some of their banners here , that the ? will have no class legislation , as

      they call it . But let us look at tbeir performances . Have they not attempted on this occasion to sway ciass against class , in their endeavour to excite tbe manufacturer against the agriculturist , and the agriculturist against the manufacturer . Have tbey not endeavoured to raise the population of the towns against the populaof the country , and the population of tbe country against the population of the town ; and yet they tell us in the same breath they will have no class legislation . Gentlemen , it is because having watched the proceed ings of Government for the whole of the period during which they have retained their power , you have seen they have omitted , up to the last moment , to do Wliat it was in their power to perform for toe good of the people . Whtn they had the power they let it Blip , and

      when you placed almost omnipotence in their hands , — when you gave them all they aaked , and a popularity beyond tbeir expectations , what did they do to promote a repeal of tbe Corn Laws ? In the whole course of the period tbey have continued in office they have allowed this great question to lay dormant . ( A vuiee— " No . "; No , I was wrong , gentlemen . A person below has corrected me . They did no £ uch thing , for they did more . They actually allowed other persons to propose in Parliament measures in opposition to tae Cora Liws , and they set themselves in resistance against them . ( Loud cheers . ) I ; was only in the year 1839 , that the chief organ of the Government told you that any man who made Buch a proposition was a madman . It was only in the year

      1840 that the same chief organ of the Government told you he would not even agitate for a fixed duty on corn ; and yet we are now arrived at the year 1841 , and what is tbe change which has taken place within the limits of that period ? Was there no manufacturing distress in the year 1 S 40 ? Was there no deficiency in the revenue ? These are what they tell us ; and the paramount reasons fur the proposal they make in the year 1841 . Taey existed in the year 1840 . But they found it convenient to omit one other conclusive and irreiistible reason they had for making the proposal in 18 U rather than in the year 1840 , and that is , Gentlemen , that they had not then received such conclusive proof of the withdrawal of the confidence of < tho nation , — they had not then received an ignominious bluw from

      their own Parliament But , gentlemen , in the course of the canvass , there is one subject that has given me signal satisfaction , and that is , that amidst all tho pressure of distress oa the working classes , or those with whom the popular cry was expected to have must effect , whose passions were supposed to be most open to excitement , and with whom I firmly beliuve that the stratagem was most confidently expected to succeed , — I say that with them universally , notwithstanding tbe pressure of the moment—the pressure on their industry —they have uniformly dealt with this most exciting and interesting subject , as the other classes bare with temper aud wiih reason , aud tbey are about to form a sound and calm judgment on the various bearings

      of the great questions of which I have spoken before . Gen ' . lemen , I believe that thiBe classes begin to see that wten they are invittd to take up the cry of cheap bread , it is worth their vrhila to go a little further—it may be -worth tbe trouble to examine the professions and practices of those who asked them to second them in making use cf these phrases . Btfore I conclude , 1 will make soaie few observations upon a subject on which I thi ; : k it right , not only to myself and to my supporters , but to the West Rising , that I should not !< j . ive entirely without notice . 1 have now fought the contest for the representation of this Riding upon two several occasions ; cu these occasions I have had my Noble Friend , Lord Morr > eth , as on antagonist , and I ha-re also bad another Honourable Getitfenian who lias

      now britn withdrawn from us , for reasons beat known to those who have displaced him . Before the public there are no apparent reasons whatever . We . know pretty well now that has occurred , but let that pass . But , Gentlemen , on these occasions 1 say I was upposed with all tho energy of a contest tf coi . flieting parties . In the course of my canvass I have heard from time to time , and from place to p 1 a ; e , complaints of unfair interference and undue practices , but none but such as all in a struggle must expect to hear . But on this occasion some changes coiue over the f-ce of affairs . We are not only now o ^ posed by iuy Nobie Friend , but by another Nobio Friuad of mine—the son of & N-oble Lord of whom I wish to say nothing disparaging—of whom I make no complaint as an

      antagonist ; but gentlemen , he comes not only backed by the irflnence of the powerful house , but , whether rightly or wrongly I know not—he comes , or it is supposed so , supported by the resources of an ample and intxhaustible pursa . Aud . gentlemen , I rcptat again , that having twice undertaken the canviss for the Riding , it is remarkable that now on tho third time , and under tbej-e altered circumstances , do 1 hear of a now feature introduced into the case , ana now for the first time have I heard , not from one district , or from one part , but frequently , aud so much in detail , as to give the statement tbe character of notoriety that there has been , in addition to other unjustifiable means of interference , attempts at direct and base corruption . For my part , Gentlemen , I fairly tell you that I look upon all such endeavours with the utmost contempt . I firmly believe that tbe West Riding is beyond the

      means of purchase . But , Gentlemen , it doeB not relieve those who suffer such practices from tbe infamy that must attach to their conduct I believe , as I said before , that the voice of the West Riding is not to be purchased ; if I thought otherwise , I would not ( stand on these hustings . iLoud cbeer 3 . ) If I thought that the independence of this vast district couH be bought , I would throw its representation to the winds , to be picked up by the first man -who thought it worth while to stoop . Nevertheless , I do net choose to leave thy-u hustings without allowing it to fee known at , least that we were not blinded on the subject , and that those who have introduced attempts like tbeae should not be allowed to carry through their portion of the contest without suffering the penalties of degradation that must follow on such a charge . After some other personal observations , the Hon . Gentleman retired .

      Lord MILTON then mounted the rail in front of the platform , and certainly a more miserable txbioition was never presented to an assembled niultitudo than tke Noble Lferd afforded . His imbecility was too palpable even for his friends ; they would gladly have slunk away if they could , but the West Riding must be carried , and carried it only conld be , if car ied at all , by the Wentworth House purse , whieh purse the silly dolt who owns it , would not consent , should be opened , except the heir sLouhl traverse the length and breadth of Uie county , to pryclaim bis sire ' s disgrace , and his own incompetence . Poor , poor L ^ rd Milton . ' The laughter of his friends and the derision of his opponents , prevented him from bein ? heard , and the sounds that he sung fell still-born without an embodyment in words . There is a speech published for him in the Liar Extraordinary ; it were a farce to say it was delivered by him . He never uttered a complete sentence .

      EDMUND BFCKETT DENISON , Esq ., next presented himself , and was received with cbeeriug frem the Bin- , a . He commenced by saying , it was now four years ago since an appeal was mada to the electors of the United Kingdom by her Majesty ' s then Government , and tbe electors thought proper at that tinw to return two Members for tke West Riding who Were favourable to them . They then commanded a working majority of thiriy or forty . That majority had gradually dwindled down irem year to year and month ta month , until , at last , tbty had been left in a minority of one on the most important question that could come before tbe Honse , namely , the question of confidence . Now , in 1841 . finding themselves deserted by their own

      friends , despised by their opponents , hated and diatrusted by all , they appealed to the electors again , in the vain and delusive hope of putting of for a few short months tbeir appearance in tho Gazette . The Mlnistty now appealed to the country under the delusive cry of cheap corn , cheap sngar , and cheap timbar . Now , tho working classes of these districts knew Very well that cheap br < -ad must be accomapnied by low wages—( louii cries "No , no , ";—and , therefore , knowing that the remedy proposed would do them no good whatever , but on the contrary , render their position still worse than it wis , they ha < . l the good sense not to be deceived and galled by tbe delusive promises which had been held out . He believed the manufacturers did not care

      two straws whether tats meca&mc or toe operative got 6 s . or 3 s . a-week ; and , in point of fact , so long as they could sell thMr manufactures , thay cared not for the unfortunate whites slaves who proAucetrthem . ( Cheers from the Chartists . ! He ( Mr . / Denison ) had listened with very great attention to the speech of the Noble Lord Morpeth : and certainly anything more divested of everything like practical suggestions or recommendations , he never heard in his life . He admitted the existence of a great amount of distrt . " ^ but he never once touched upon the n medy . The iJoble Lord had talked about exchanging their HianufactuTes . He ( Mr . DenLsen ; quite agreed with him in the dt -sirableness of doing that , if it were practical . But the q uestion was , whether the Government propositions were . t ail likely to produce the remedy sou < Ut for ; and he n . 'aintained

      rith all sincerity that , if carried it ; to effect , 8 ° far ora removing existing difficulties , it would j ' ncreaee iem ten times over . ( Hew , hear , and loud c ' leers . ) aws might produce a temporary increase t » f their 1 . ianutctured goods ; but the ultimate result would b ' to lin ten customers at home for ons whom they wo ^ d » t up abroad . So highly uUl he value the Lot . * iarket , and so anxious was he to see the ] abourin r - asses of this country maintained in comfort and conmt , that he would not be a party to making any \ cperiment for giving men employment abroad to grow i irn for the peoplt ef England , when the latter could } ¦ o w it for themselves . He wou ^ d tell them fairly , that I 3 '; ess he could defend the Corn Lswa as a protection I r tho poor , he would not defend them at a ! L He j aintained that nobody would suffer n-. ore fit m frw j peal of the Corn Laws than the working c ' .: tses , be

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      cause , if they were thrown out of employment , they could get no bread . Mr . PITKETHLY then came forward , and was received with tremendous cheering . He said he hadfeU it his duty to come forward on this occasion , to give his voice in opposition to botu the factions Who had preceded him , whose oppressions had brought the country to its present state of destitution . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) It was now about ten years since they were called together by the same faction who had brought them there that day ; at which time they were called upon to shout for " tbe Bill , the whole Bill , and nothing bub the Bill" ( Loud cheers . ) That Bill they had carried by the voice of a deluded people , who were led to straggle for their own degradation and

      injury . ( Hear , hear . ) They had bean promised by the same faction who were now attempting to delude them again , that that Bill , when once obtained , should only be a stepping-stone to secure tbeir further tights ; then , they said , the country would abound with high wages , with abundant employment , and with plenty of roast beef . ( Hear , bear , and tremendous cheers . ) Since that time they had been sinking day by day , week by week , and year by year , till at last they were down to tliat point when they could have no roast beef at all . ( Cheers , and cries of " red herring soup . " ) Yfcs ; red herring soup and such like garbage were now Considered good enough for the working classes , and tho organ of their party had furnished them with a receipt by which , for the cost of flvepence , they were

      to find a meal for six able-bodied men . ( Cheers , and cries of " Hear that Neddy , " " Groan again , Neddy , " and loud laughter . ) Tho Whigs had set an example , by agitating in tho nio&t revolutionary manner furnished by modern times , for that bill ; they had themselves set an exumple to the peopleji and when they followed it in order to obtain their just , their natural rights , what had been their reward 1 Five hundred of their most valued friends had been incarcerated in dismal dungeons , and treated with evefy indignity that could be heaped upon them . ( Applause . ; Mtica was said at that time by a Noble Lord whose Bon they had ihat day before them ; he recommended tUe people to button up their breeches pockets , in order to stop th « supplies by paying no more taxes , btcause the passing of that

      measure had been refused . ( Hear , and cheers . ) The doctrine was joined in by Lord Brougham , and his brother William . ( Hear , hear . ) Henry ( now Lord ) Brougham openly proclaimed that king's beads should roll iu the duet sooner than tha will of tho people should be thwarted —( hear , hear , )—and the organ of the party in Leeds dressed tlie king in petticoats and the Queen in breeches , aud paraded them through the streets , preceded by a man carrying a bloody axe . ( Loud cheers , and " Hear that again , Neddy . " ) He did not say they gave him the axe and wiebud him to cut their hearts off ;—( hear , hear )—but the same faction bad excited the people to envelope Bristol in flames , — ( hear , hear , )—tho same party had caused them to burn Nottingham Castle . ( Great cheering and uproar . )

      Drive the faction from power and they will go to the same pitch of rebellion again . O Connell , their master , had done the same in Ireland . ( Great cheering . ) The Noble Lor-. ' ( ilorpethj had told them what the Whiga had doue for Ireland ; and what had they done ? They had given them a Coercion Bill , under the provisions of which unoffending people coald have bteu thot in their houses if they did not put out their lights at the toll of the curfew bell . ( Hear , hear , and cries of shame . ) And what had they done for England ? ( Hear , bear . ) They Iiad passed tue accursed New . Poor Law , to grind tbe faces of the poor ; they had inundated the country with brutal police : they had sent thousands of the working classes into exile in foreign lands ; they had brought the country to the very verge of

      bankruptcy—( hear , hear)—and now they came forward to seeh suyportby the cry of " monopoly oranti-niouopoly . " ( Loud cheers . ) They themselves declared that unless they hud the power to produce goods at a less price , they would not be able to carry on competition with continental nations—( hear , hear , )—and how did they expect to produce at a less price without iirst reducing wages ? Not one of them would s . iy they did not intend to reduce wages . ( Cheers . ; One of their own authorities had tliown tiir . t at Bonn on the Rhine , the workmen ' s wages , were fourpence n day ; they had no taxes to pay out of that , consequently the wages in this couutry , at that rate , would , be 1 « S 8 than eveu that , as one-tah' -went in taxes . ( Hear , hear . ) He could tell them the " monopoly" cry of the Whigs was

      a greater delusion than their cry for " the BiiL" ( Cheers . To begin at tbe top was a b . td system of reforming ' He knew the Corn Laws were bad , but they were not ' the root of the evil—( hear , hear )—and it was sheer folly to Fay that if they took off or reduced the taxes , the working population would Lave cheap brtad ; but if they gave three-haifpenee -worth moro tread in a wtifck , and took three shillings off their wages , where , he should like to kuow , would be their advantage ? ( Hear , hear , and great cheering . ) They wanted plenty of furniture , plenty of clothing , and plenty of the necessaries of lifefoijthemselves , before they thoughtof exporting to others . ( Cheers . ) They had beeu going on iu this w ^ y long enough , and it was now time to turn the stream , and think of themselves . The three

      propositions now brought forward by the Ministry would be very good if the Government expenses were reduced as low as those of any other Government in the world ; and if they intended to carry out their principles at all , he hoped they meant to carry them completely in all things . ( Cheers . ) He did not say take everything off at once ; but let them begin at the beginning , and tako off their own salaries ) , and then they might go oa until they had got all things complete , and the poor would not have to suffer . ( Hear , hear . ) The tide of public opinion bad now set in , and he hoped the people were determined to have a full share of everything for themselves before they let anything go out of tho country . ( Great cheering . ! Mr . Pitkv-thly then alluded to the exportation of m < ifchiniry ,

      contending tliat the Government were acting falsely in saying that they supported the manufacturers" interests , whilst they granted licences to some of their supporters in Manchester to export machines , along with which went out of the country England ' s best workmtn , tu instruct foreign nations , not only how to work them , but how to construct them for themselves , by which means they were enabled to produce goods cheaper than ourselves , and thus compete with us in our own markets , by which tueaus , England , instead of being an exporting country , must soon be an importing country ; ami tben where would bd the talk about increaMug the revenue , raising the workmen ' s wages , or extending the sources of his employment . ( Hear , bear ) The Whigs bad made a great outcry against a standing army in time of peace , and yet had established a rural police ,

      the most unconstitutional force ever before thought of . ( Cheers . ) He was for cheap government , for good wages , for moderate employment , and for equal rights , equal laws , and equal justice to all classes . ( Cheers . ) He stood there as the advocate of the working classes—( cheers )—tUo advocate of those who were the most oppressed , und therefore who needed the most protection . ( Great cheers . ) Lord MorpatU had not shewn one iota of good which he and his colleagues had donenot one beneficial act that had ever emanated from them for tha benefit of the poor ; and therefore it was clear they were utterly incapable of carrying on the government of the country , and the sooner they wore displaced the better . Tbe speaker then , after thanking them fur the paticuae -with -which be bad been heard , retired amidst loud and long continued cheering .

      Mr . GEORGE JU ; . I 4 N HARNEJT next presented himself , and was received with tremendous cheers by his fnends , and mingled groans and hooting by the hired yellow ruffians at his right hand . He once oi twice essayed to speak , but was as often interrupted by the mob . He stood firm and undaunted , and after some time , the row still continuing , he turned to the blackguards and said , " You shall Lear me , " and afterwards s ; iul if they wanted to go home they had better listen , for they should hear him if he stood till midnight . This produced a display of the " staves" of the yeliows , ; i sight , which , in an instaut , raised high in air the sticks of tbe ChartLats aud the blues , wbo Ujurished their weapons in defiance . Lord Morpeth at oucj turned pallid ; and seizing tlie " silence" board , he

      entreated his " allies" to be still , and give tbe speakei a hearing . Tho other gentlemen amongst the Whigs also similarly exerted themselves , and no sooner were the yellow ruffians pacified , than the Chartists were at once siill , and the t ^ esker proceeded . He came befoTe thorn not as tlie tool of a faction , not as the advocate of . any-party , buthecametoask for justice for the unrepresented millions—to plead for the common cause of their common country . ( Great cheering ) It was true , he was not a lord ; be did not belong to tha aristocracy ; he had not title * to dazzle nor wealth to ailure —nor had he hail much experience as an elect on speaker . He had not had a college education like Lord Miltoa—( applause and laugktev )—but he was a working » uan . ( Chetrs . ) Yet with all thtsuimperfections on his head ,

      he came to plead the cause of the working man—( applause!—without distinction of sect or colour—( applause ) —ami ho was as proud to ackcowlege that he belonged to tho order of working mtn as any aristocrat amongat thoso by whom he was suvn . unded was to boast of his order . ( Gre . it cheering . ) Ho came there to ask fer justice and ri ^ ht—( hear , hearj —he came to ask the factions to restore those times when the couutry was knovu as merry England—when tlie people were the most happy and comfortable , aud consequently the most contented . ( Gieat cheering . ) As -an English man , he a ^ ked , did they condemn him ? ( Cries of "No , no . ") He claimed credit for sincerity in the opinions which , he expressed . ( Cheers . ) » If Lotus Morpeth and Milton were sincere—be was sincere also ; they agreed in tbe existence of evil , their difference was as to the means by which it was to be ended . ( Hear . ) And now , after having patiently heard

      from the other parties ail their remedies for the distress , be called upon them to hear his . ^ Cheers . ) He r . ppeaitd as the humble advocate of tbe unrepr tented mattts , who , were too little thought of by both parties . ( Great cheering . ) He appeared on their behalf and us their advocate ; and he told them plainly , the lueses had rights which aa much belonged to them .-is to uny other section of the community . ( Cheers ) He came before them as the advocate of Universal Suffrage . ( Tremendous cheeriDg . ) He camo btfore them aa tha advocate of the Charter . ( Renewed cheering . ) He came before v he Whigs as the advocate of those rights which hud ^ en bo ably advocated by E ? rl Grey aud all the other retL irmera . ( Applause . ) He came before the Tories , jlgo to ask from them the institutions of Alfred ; ascd then s ke working clashes would b ? Conservative's too . He pi' ^ * 'hero tor lha right of the working rn-in f . o the fraii < 5 &fie- \ GksX cheering . ) A great writer b d

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      said , " every man has a right to one vote , and no more : it appertains to him in virtue of his existence , and hia person is his title-deed . " ( Loud cheers . ) Could any one controvert that doctrine ? (" No . " ) Would either JDord Morpeth or Sir . Wortley attempt to show that their order held from nature ' s God any rights which bis order bad no claim to . ( " No . " ) No , they dnret not ; not one durst defend the keeping in slavery and subjection the toiling and suffering working classes . Then why was it that the right of the franchise was withheld from them ? There were two groands : —One , they were ignorant—the other , they had no property . ( Hear , bear , and loud cb « ers . ) They were told they were ignorant ( Hear , hear . ) He roust confess there was some truth in tbe charge : and the

      proof was furnished in the fact that they bad allowed either faction to ride over them roughshod so long . ( Cheers . ) Like the horse they ba 4 not known their strength . ( Cheers . ) But this ignorance was fast being dispelled by tbe glorious light of reason and pore knowledge . ( Cheering . ) The day bad arrived when tbe working classes would show tbey were fit for the franchise by taking it ( Hear , bear , and loud cheers ) But the truth was , it was not the ignorance of the euduring working classes tbey were so much afraid of—it was their knowledge they most dreaded . ( Cheers . ) The factions were afraid that if the people had Universal Suffrage , protected by the Ballot , they would know too well for them to what good uses to put their votes . ( Great cheering . ) If tbat was not

      the case , give them the Suffrage to-morrow , and pnt an end at once to all tbe clamour and discontent . I Cheers . ) It was an insult to tall those who made all the clothes that were worn—who produced everything tliat was enjoyed by all parties—to ttll them that tbey were ignorant I Great cheering . ) They never told them what sort of knowlege it was which they required . Was it necessary to learn astronomy , or mathematics , or music , or dancing , or any other polite accomplishment before they could tell how to vote f Or was it only to fenow how to read and write ? If this was the case , where , then , w . ys to be the test ?—Who was to judge « f tbeir fitness ? ( Hear , hear . ) Were the clergy of the Church of England to be the test for reading ? No , surely ; for there were amongst

      them so mo of the worst readers he ever heard . ( Laughter , and cheers . ) And for writing , were the aristocracy to be the judges ? There were very few amongst them who could write at all so as it could be read ; and fewer still wbo strung together twenty consecutive sentences in common senBe English . ( Lmgbter . ) Give them their rights , and with their rights they should obtain the power not only to educate themselves , bui their children . ( Loud applause . ) But then tkey had no property . He was surrounded by " property" gentlemen . ( Hear , bear , and great cheering . ) Tbe working classes were told tbey bad no property by tlie gentlemen who prevented them from having a vote . ( Yellow interruption—cries of " Goon , " and cheering . ) Did they never hear of a property called

      labour ? ( Cheers . ) That was the foundation of property , and without which no property , save the land and the creatures of God ' s creation , could ever have existed . ( Loud cheers . ) They were told they had no stake in tlie country . He would like to know , supposing Providence were to remove to another world a . 'l the landed proprietors , and fundholders , and capitalists , aud so on . what would become of the World to-morrow morning ? Why it would go on just ns before : the sun would shine as usual ; the rain would fall as it had hitherto done ; the seasons would still alternate ; and tbe working classes , so far from rinding that they had no stuku in tbe country , would find out that they had not oniy a stake in the country , but could get beefsteaks into the bargain . ( Great cheering . ) But supposing a'l tho

      labouring clnsses to be swept away—those who were called the rabble , tbe mob , the scum of society , where would the world be then ? Why , Mr . Beckett Denjson wouhl have to batuke himself to the plough-tail , Mr . Woi-tley to the anvil , my Lord Milton mipht put himself ou the tailor ' s shop-beard , and Lord Morpi tfi might go and work at the loom , to taste in his own precious person the blessings of free trade . ( Laughter . ) Who -were the parties tvho now might have votes , whilst the producers of all the wealth of the country were forbidden ? ( Hear , and cheers . ) The shopkeeper , who lived in a £ 10 house , and was able to pay his rent by banding over the counter the produce of their Libwur , whose interest it was to buy their labour as cl ' . eap , and sell the fruits of it as dear ns possible , but

      who himself did nothing . ( Loud cheering . ) The ginpalace keeper , who tkalt literally in death and destruction . ( Renewed cheering . ) The pawnbroker , whose interest it was that no working man should have a second shirt , and wbo literally fattens on the miseries of others—( cheers )—he had a vote , whilst the working man was denied . ( Renewed choers . ) The keeper of a hell , or , more politely speaking , a gambling-house , where the aristocracy of Whigs and Tories spend in the company of sharpers and thieves that wealth which was wrung from the toil of tbe millions , he had a vote , whilst the honest working man was denied . ( Cheers and further interruption from tbe yellow-men , and on which Mr . Harney said they had better go home if they were tired . ) The keeper of tho brothel , where tbe

      daughters and sisters of tbe working men were seduced and rendered miserable in order , to pander to the passions of tbe wealthy—he bad a vote , -whilst the honest working man was denied . ( Cheering . ) Was it right , was it just—would either party Niy that such a state of things should continue without alteration ? No ; they would not , ( Cheers . ) Hi- bad devoted 16 years of his life to their service , and by the blessing of God he hoped to live t » see Universal Suffrage tbe law of the land iCheeriDg . ) The speaker then entered into an explanation and defence of the principles of the Charter , when he was stopped by the High Sheriff , wbo told him he thought it would be better for the peace of the meeting if he concluded . Mr . Harney accordingly , after saving

      that he should bow to tho Sheriff , wound up Ins observations , by calling upon them to continue their efforts , and pledging himself to meet his opponents ngain nrsd again until the People ' s Charter became the law of the land . He called upon Englishmen to be firm to the cause in which Hampden hud died on the field , and Sydney perished on the scaffold : —on Scotchmen , to support the cause in defence of which Wallace had fought and bled , and Hardy , Baird , and Wilson had fallen victims at tbe shrine of Tory despotism : —and on Irishmen , totally round the cause fur which Fitzgerald bad suffered , and Emmett perisbeii . ( Cheers ., * He left tbat good old cause with them : be had done his duty ; he did not doubt that they would do theirs . He retired amidst the most enthusiastic applause .

      The HIGH SHERIFF proceeded to take the show of bands . Lord Morpeth ' s friends first were called upon , then Mr . Wortley ' s , Lord Milton ' s next , then Mr . Denison ' s , and lastly the supporters of the Chartist candidates . The show of bunds for each party was nearly equal . Each patty accompanied their show of hands with vociferous cheering , clapping of bands , &c . The Sheriff said , I . declare it as my opinion that the show of hands is in favour of Lord Morpeth and Lord Milton . This announcement was received with demonstrations of applause on one side , and hooting on the other , which lasted for some time . When it had subsided , Godfrey Wentworth , Esq ., on the part of Mr . Wortley , Bnd John Rand , Esq ., on the jmxt of Mr . Deniaou , demanded a poll . The meeting WOS then adjourned . The poll was fixed to commence ou Thursday , and the declaration on Monday next , at eleven o ' clock , at the hustings in Wakefield .

      Lord MOKPETH proposed , and Mr . Wortley seconded , a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff , which wag carried by acclamation . The vast assemblage then quietly dispersed .

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      MINISTERS AND THE "CHEAP BREADCRY . The " cheap bread" manoeuvre proves a failure for its employers . The English town elections are over ; ami thus far the progress of the election has verified the anticipation that there will be a good lumping majority for tLe Opposition . The campaign began badly with Lord John Russell ' s damaging victory ia tbe city , heralded on many a hustings as a defeat— " a little gloomiug light , much like a Bbade . " All was risked on that first c :. st ; to have been defeated would bave been destruction : defeat was just avoided . Tbe break-down of a hackney-coach , a quarrel , or a hundred other petty chances , might bave converted tbe Government leader ' s " working majority" at the poll into a minority . And at what cost is tbe success gained ? If Lord John ' s presence at tbe most important and one of the earliest nominations was expected to give a fillip to tbe Liberal cause , dying of inanition—if the sauction of the first

      city of the empire was regarded as a pri * s worth a struggle—was it never considered that tbe same impulse which Lord John ' s presence gave to bis friends might be imparted to foes ? that tbe standard which was set up for supporters to rally around would be the very signal for coucenttated attack ? Of course the Tories profited by the excitement which be helped to give to the election : Lord John Russell was worth beating : the " Conservative Democrat" wh » possessed a vote was exalted into an antagonist of the Minister , with the eyea of the world upou him . Honce a press of combatants wbo almost succeeded iu cutting off Lord John himself , and quite succeeded in cutting off the band that took Lord John for leader . Such is the cost of Lord John ' s bravado : be has given London b . titled and titular representative , and has deprived it of oil representation iu tbo Legislature , by neutralizing its vstes . So fearful , however , waa tie risk which he

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      ran , so fatal the hazard , that when the danger was over —when he found himself safe—rectleas of the two who had fallen in the conflict , he appeared on the hustings , all smiling exaltation , and beasted of his " trinmph 1 " Close upon the heels of this triumph followed the similar victory in the Bister city of Westminster ; where a Tory sailor , unknown to fame political , though bis committee assure the world that he is famous among bis craft , baa thrown out the illustrious Spanish General , of bold words and easy votes ; and Westminster , like London , will sec tbe votes of its Liberal Member neutralized ; thonch . to judge from the new " Member ' s upecimens , Mr . Leader ' s . speeches stand a fair chance of suffering no very formidable conn , teraction .

      In the mean time , came a flood of news about adverse elections in the country . Whig faces began to look long ; Whig papers began to seek consolation in the idea ttat these were " only tbe agricultural boroughs , * which "would of course go against Ministers : wait , said tbey , for tbe large towns . The large towns have come into the field . To begin with the largest , Liverpool : there a second Minister sought to win for tbo Government policy tbe support of tbe second city in the king . dom . by offering to the suffrages of the electors no leas & personage than the great—perhaps not arbiter , but at least meddler In the affairs of tbe whole globe , " from China-to Peru : " the citizens had tlie opportunity of grading thefr representation by placing it in the hands of

      him who . represents the nation to the world—a tempting bait . ' Lord Palmerston , however , was not quite so bold as Lord John ; for he first got himself snugly secured at Tivercon ; and , instead of facing the fortune of war at Liverpool , ho had all that uncomfortable work performed for him by a Mr . Brocklebank . The absent Alderman Pirie was lowest on the London poll ; and perhaps Lord Palraerston ' s non-appearance helped at Liverpool to augment tbe majority against him to more than eleven hundred . Coming forward on hypothetical grounds , preparing for defeat , is not tbe beat way to command success : daring generals have used to burn tbeir ships when determined to conquer an invaded country .

      Defeated at Liverpool , wbat consolation do Ministers find in other large towns ?—in Hull , for example , where Mr . Hutt , safe himself elsewhere , makes room for Siz John Hanmer ? or in Leeds , whence Si ? William Molesvrorth forbearingly retired " , " not to let in a Tory , " and whither Joseph Hume went to " keep out tbe Tories "—and failed . If not so tractable as Mr Hume's , Sir William M' ) le 8 worth ' s would have been a more convenient vote for the Whigs , especially in opposition , than Mr -Beckett ' si ; while Ultra- Whitish young Mr . Aidant will * hudly cut BUcb an imposing figure in the " heavy business" of genteel comedy in the House a * Edward B lines . What consolation , again , can they ssek in Lincoln , where the great " literary Whip , " Si * Lytton Bulwer , is thrust out , to make room for some obscure Tory as a colleague with Colonel Sibtborp ?

      No—their ; consolation must be sought in Bath , and in the return of Mr . Roebuck , upon whose stf rn politics they were wont to lo » k askance ; in Stockport , and the return of Mr . Cobrten , the representative and prime mover of tbe policy to tbe skirts of which tbey have clung for safety ; in Bolton , and tbe return of the Free Trader , Dr . Bowring . The glory of even these returns , however , will be tarnished by the exclusion of Colonel Thompson from their anti-Corn L-tw Parliament that was-to-bave-been ; the exclusion of the popular teacher and most ingenious illustrator of anti-Corn Law doctrines—the man who with the breath of his body has kept life in the coals which they are now blowing fot tbeir own comfort . Of course . they , tbe neophytes in the faitb , were zealous over-much ? Of course , they over-exerted themselves to secure his return for

      Hullmade it a point cf life and death ; and will now find room for him somewhere else ? It would be easy enough : there is one gentleman gone into the House fully prepared to vacate his p ' ace for a candidate better qualified—Colonel Fox . Besides , there would be s sort of compensation in tho act , since lliat aecomodating gentleman has been unfortunate enough to help in excluding the hereditary anti-Cora Law ngitater , young Mr . Thompson . Had Lord John Russell been fifth oa the London poll , instead of M * . Wolverioy Attwood , Colonel Fox would bave made his bow at once .- bnfc la an anti-Corn Law Parliament , or even in one whUh was to have soHiethinsr of an anti-Corn Law appearance —just enough to let down the Queen ' s Speech easily —• the presence of Colimel Thompson were scarcely less requisite , if only sis a matter of form , than tbafe of Lord John himself ! .

      It does not need tbe neglect of such a hint to disabuse the people of the delusion which has been attempted upon them . Through all the bustle of a general election a certain flstneas and Iangour evince the diminished interest which is taken in the event . Election-agents whip up to the poll , and write to tbe papers ; and brutish vagabonds g ^ t drunk and breed riots heTe and there , pour encourager les autres , and to give the true electinn-air to the season ; but the hustings business goes off tamoly . As Mr . Leader said emphatically at Westminster , when a Tory—and that not even a Burdett , but a R ' ous—was put by his side , the Whigs have so disappointed . the expectation of the people , that when at last they were about to propose measures fot tbeir advantage , the people distrusted them . For the

      results now developing are not the work « f the moment , or of the day , or of the month : —no Tory want-ofconfldenco has reduced the Wbigs to their present straits , but popular want of confidence . The difficulty of this time has been making ever since tlie Parliament waa last elected—and before that : under tlie guidance of the Whiga , suicidally successful , Parliament has been employed unceasingly as the instrument of disappointment on nearly every question that could possibly be devised to raise expectation : each session fcas s& » . n some new measure set up for no other purpose ; and as the want of the moment , the need for keeping up appearances in sight of the country while the vout ' ne of Parliament exposed Ministers to tho popniar gaze , bad passed by . so surely tbe approaching recess saw tbe coun «

      terfeit flung * . nside ; to be used again if possible , et otherwise to be replaced be some new one . " Nothing . " " saith the teacher , " is dc-nied to weli-dfrected industry : " the industry of tho Whigs illustrating the futility of trussing to appearances had been unceasin *; and now they obtain their reward . Yet their industry ceaso not . even wbHe they reap their wages : they do their Utmost to givo theit new Free Trade agitation tbe air of a humbug . Thus the Morning C / ironide , whicb exhorts all who . want , accurate information on election matters to consult Us columns , adopts the new nomenclature which classts Ministerialists and Oppositionists as " Monopolists "' and "Anti-Monopolists , "—as if any raiders of decent understanding would not see at a glance f he folly of a pretence , wblch lamps tho

      Worsley Wbigs , wbo will vote against Lord John ' s Corn proposition , with the economists , whom the Chronicle delights to call * "Anti-Monopolists . " If it he objected that Whig Ministers are not responsible for the tricks of Whig newspapers , let us take a Minister himself : Lord Palmerston at Tiverton—the Liverpool eltction not yet having taken place promised for " next session " a " grave consideration" of the New Poor Law : what say his colleagues , Lord John Russell and Mr . Baring , who were not going to Stand for any Lancashire town t Lord John , beforctbe electors of London , adhered to his main principie , tbat it is right to enforce" independence" among the p « or ; and Mr . Baring refused to repeal the Poor Law , even if the Corn Law be not repealed . Perhaps tbo Liverpool ejectors read Pal meraton by tbe lights of Baring and Russell .

      Such are the ways in which the Whig Ministers work out their " triumphs ; " and the county elections are coming next week , to give more scope to their ingenuity . — Spectator .

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      ¦ ? THE ELECTIONS . From present appearances , it seems probable that the-Tories will have a small majority , and it is certain thata small majority will not suffice to carry on Sir Robert Peel ' s Government against tbe powerful opposition that will be arrayed against it . A popular opposition , above three hundred stronjv has never yet been seen . The Tories , indeed , have had a minority of tbat numerical force , but of far inferiorcapabilities , a Tory opposition being , from its nature , confined to an obstructive position , blockingout , defeating some proposed good , and in tbeir most active sallies only manifesting a wish beyond their strength forth © accomplishing of , sorao positive evil . But a Liberal opposition has a wider range of operations ; it resists w ); at is unpopular instead of what is popular , and it maintains principles and proposes measures which interest the people , and call forth their spirit

      The Liberals will % o into opposition with a just and a great cause , and they will have ample power to combat for it . Every day , after tbe formation of a Tory Government , will add to their strength , and to the diffi . culties . and divisions of their adversaries . Upon what a « ea of troubles will Sir Robert Peel have to launch hia crazy ba : k ! Coming into office en the principle of refusing the relief to the springs of industry by which th « finances of the country would recover their buoyancy , he has te deviso new taxes , and with new need of them , for a third of the kingdom , under his away , cannot be governed by the unexpensive means of conciliation , which has dispensed with the presenea of battalions of soldiers . But a task harder to Sir Robert than keeping down the people of Ireland will be the restraining of his own partisans , the

      Orangemen , whose violence , In the supposed restoration of their ascendancy with a Tory Ministry , will be nnbounded and intolerable to the people exposed to it In England , Wales , and Scotland , the Chartista will be lookiog for lbs requital ot their services to the Tories in the present elections , and when they find the sabre , whose edge was felt in Manchester in ' 19 , placed by their new allies between them and their objects , tbeir wrath will be as wild as their reliances have been irrational . The anti-Poor Law agitation , excited by the Tories , is also to- be dealt with by the unhappy Sir Robert , declared by his main supporter in the press unfit to govern if he fail to repeal the law which he glories in having assisted to pass . Upon this flame , fanned by his own bands , the new Minister Will have to throw oil smooth denials , exasperating the discontent by disappointment . .

      The hardest trouble , however , of this Job in office will probably be in finance . He , too , will haye to fish for bis budget , and . with the ticklish t& * of dropping his book into the pockets of ' the--public . As an avalanche is bronght down by the sound , the Ooveranst-nt of Sir Robert Peel will topple down with the very name of a new ^ aXi—Examiner .

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      Thk Lords of the Treasury have directed that Maryport be made a free and independent port , for the purpose of exporting aud storing bonded goods . The Armstrong Liver Pills are recommended as an Anti-bilious medicine , to every sufferer from bilious complaints and indigestioH , or from an inactive liver , and are procurable at all Druggist ? , and at tho Northern Star office . It is only necessary to see that the stamp has "Dr . John Armstrong ' s Liver Pills" engraved on it in white letters , and to let no one put you off with any other pills . N . B . The Pills in the boxes enclosed , in marbled paper , and marked B ., are a very mild aperient , and are particularly and universally praised . They are admirably adapted for sportsmen , agriculturists , men of business , naval and military men ; as they contain no mercury or calomel , and require neither confinement to the house , nor restraint in diet .

      G&Gt;Pur(T Of Fyt ?$Xt&$.

      g > pur ( t of fyt ? $ xt& $ .

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      6 THE NORTHERN STAB .

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), July 10, 1841, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1117/page/6/