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he wished to seo the poor man ' s beer untaxed , which was now burdened with a duty of seventy-five per cent . On Mr . Beresford leaving the ground , and on his way to the hotel , a long pole was prominently paraded in the crowd , to which was affixed a large loaf , with the price distinctly marked , « Five-pence . " Mr . Bankes , the Judge-Advocate-General , was reflected without opposition * on Tuesday , for the county the electors
of Dorset ; and in his address io , ' notwithstanding several taunting cries of " Free-trade !" " Cheap loaf ! " and the like , he totally avoided all allusion to the future policy of the ministers , and confined his observations to eulogy of Lord Derby , jokes at the Whigs and their connexion with Mr . Coppock , the Times , the " late" Reform Bill , and the militia . On the same day , Mr . A . Duncombe was re-elected , without opposition , for the East Biding of Yorkshire .
Mr . J . W . Henley , President of the Board of Trade , was re-elected pn Wednesday for the county of Oxford . The election took place in the County Hall . Sir H . Lambert proposed , and Mr . John Lechmere seconded , the nomination of Mr , Henley . Mr . Faulkner proposed Mr . John Towle , " an intelligent , industrious man , deserving the confidence of the electors , not a party man , but a man for the million , " ( Cheers . ) Was protection to be revived . ? ' Did they want to go back , or to go forward ? Was Mr . Henley to receive the congratulations of his friends , and to say that there was not a voice raised at his nomination in favour of
free trade ? ( No , no !) They had lost Sir Robert Peel , who had put on an income and property-tax , which he supposed the new ministry were going to take off ; they were also going to take off the malt-tax , which would enable people to get jolly drunk at a cheap rate ; while the judge addressing the grand jury the other day , said that three-fourths of the crimes of the county were-committed in public-houses . Mr . King seconded the nomination . Mr . Towle said they would no doubt shortly have a general election on the great question of taxing the people ' s food . Mr . Henley was a gentleman deserving esteem as a judicious and soberminded man ; but as a landholder he had always stood
in a suspicious position with regard to this question . It was intended to bring forward Lord Norreys at the general election , as a free-trader , and in conclusion he begged to withdraw from his candidateship- No other candidate haying been proposed , the High Sheriff declared Mr . Henley duly elected . Mr . Henley said , that since the time when those great changes in the laws , affecting the trade and commerce of the country , had taken place , they had been afflicted throughout the length and breadth of the land > ( A voice , " With plenty of bread" ) more particularly in Ireland , with a great and grievous famine . ( " Then why do you want to tax bread ? " ) He had never advocated the corn-laws on selfish motives . He believed that the tenant-farmers
and occupiers of land had suffered more by the repeal of the corn-laws than any other class of the community , but he confessed that he had expected the working people would have been more affected by it in their wages . than they had been . ( Cheers . ) He now went at some length into the case of the farmers and labourers , referring to what his expectations had been in 1846 . He said : —> " I think that you will agree with me that tho price of labour very much depends upon tho supply and demand ill tho market . If labour is in excess jn tho market , tho employers of labour in this couritry , whero there is a pooriaw
, immediately use tho power that that gives them in pressing labour down . At tho period that I am now speaking of , labour was very much more in excess in tho market than it is at present . It is impossible for any man who knows what has boon going on not to seo that in consequence of what has happened in Ireland—something hko 1 , 800 , 000 people , oithor by death or emigration , having passed from that country , —and also in consoquenco of tho enormous number of people that have also jolt this country , thoro have boon far tower labourers in this country to do tho work that has boon roquirod of thorn . Now , whothor I bolievo that this circumstance has prevented tho wagos of the labourer boing pressed down Dolow their ft
present amount or not , I rojoico or ho sako ot tho labourer , that this lias happened ; but I think that it is more than what any man Una a right to expect would "avo followed tho ropoal of tho corn-laws . " With respect to tho future , it was quite clear that this greatly agitated question must bo settled at tho next general election . ( Hear , hear . ) Our opinions , individuall y or collectively , must in this free nation bow to the majority . If the minority find their opinions overwei j ^ hed by a majority , it in not only their duty » nt their interest to give way ., ( Hear , hear !!) " I have expressed this so , often , that I hardly fool " it necessary to oxproNs it u < nun . "
I he first battle for tho Derby ministry fought on nmh ground was decided on Monday in favour of tho Uovormnont . After a koon contest for tho minutu constituency of tho borough of Enniskillon , of whom a nnndrad and flfty-tln-eo camo to tho poll , Mr . Whito-HKlo , tho Solicitor-Gonoral , was doolarod tho winner by
a majority of nine . Colonel Dunne , the Clerk of the Ordnance , was re-elected on the same day for Portarlington . The Government is still in some apprehension with regard to Lord Naas * s return for Kildare ; but their friends are confident of his obtaining a /' respectable majority . " Mr . Napier , the Irish Attorney-General , was reelected without , opposition , on Tuesday , for the University of Dublin . The election took place in . the Examination Hall , and the proceedings were frequently interrupted by unseemly vociferations emanating from
that part of the Hall set apart for the students . In his speech , Mr . Napier alluded to the land question , " on the satisfactory solution of which the prosperity of Ireland in a great measure depended . At the opening of the next session of Parliament , therefore , he should be prepared to lay on the table of the House a bill which , while it secured to the landlord his just rights , would also give to the tenant fair compensation for hi 3 outlay in valuable improvements , and which measure , he trusted , would reduce to something like order and method the relations between landlord and tenant . As he had previously done , he should again
support the claims of those who had lost their hardearned money by the failure of the savings' banks . " With regard to law reform , he was opposed to the cheap system , believing that it was the interest of the public to support a respectable and well-informed bar . He thought that education in all Cliristian countries should be scriptural , and that its extension formed a just claim on the public funds . Lord Derby intended greatly to improve the national system of education in Ireland . Mr . Napier denied that the present Government were enemies of progress , demanded a fair trial for them , and repudiated and denounced " the heartless logic of political economists . "
It is announced that Captain W . Peel , R . N ., son of the late Sir Robert , is to be a candidate for the representation of Westminster at the next election . It is the intention of Alderman Sidney to present himself as a candidate for the City of London at the next election , on principles of " liberal conservatism . " Some months ago , before Mr . G . P . Young ' s return for Scarborough , a requisition was sent to him , signed by a majority of the electors of Cambridgeshire , under the supposition that this step would induce Mr .
Townley , the Whig member , to retire at the close of the parliament . Mr . Townley has declined to do so , and being a favourite of long standing , will poll a good many of Mr . G . F . Young ' s requisitionists . The " county people , " though liking Mr . Young ' s politics , look upon him as a parvenu . Unless one of these two gentlemen give way , the seat of one of the other two members , Lord George Manners and Mr . Yorke , will be jeopardized ; but if only one of them remains in the field , these two gentlemen will also be probably
reelected . Sir Joshua Walmsley does not intend to stand again for Bolton , having better prospects in company with Mr . Richard Gardner , at Leicester . The liberal electors of the borough of Cambridge being much dissatisfied with Mr . W . F . Campbell ' s votes , have fixed upon Mr . Francis Mowatt , the present member for Falmouth , as their candidate , who has consented to stand . ,
Sir M .. J . Cholmely , the " Whig-Protectionist" (!) member for North Lincolnshire , addressed a large body of farmers at Barton-upon-Humber , on Monday , in answer to the strictures upon his conduct made by Mr . Bankes Stanhope and his canvassers . He said ho was a true Protectionist and a Liberal ; he should support tho present ministers , and vote for tho repeal of tho Maynooth grant . (!) In tho event of Mr . Matthew Bell , tho Tory member for South Northumberland , retiring , Mr . Beaumont , of Byowcll , a free-trader , will come forward . Lord Lovaine , son of tho Earl of Beverley , and nephew of tho Dulco of Northumberland , will oppose Sir" Georgo Grey in tho Northern division of the county .
It is understood that Mr . William Ord , tho veteran Whig member for Newcastlc-upon-Tyno , will not offer himself again . If so , Mr . Blackett , n Liberal , of an old county family , will start in conjunction with Mr . Hoiulltun . . It is stated that Mr . George Hudson will offer himself for ro-oleotion at Sundorland , and that Mr . Fonwick , . a barrister of tho Northern- Circuit , who imB family connexions in tho town , will be a candidate iu tho liberal interest .
Mr . Vincent' Scully , Q . C ., author of Free Trade m Land , and other pamphlets on tho Irish land question , has issued an address to tho electors of tho county of Cork , offering himself as ft candidate . Ho declares that until such a system as shall " secure to tho occupier n permanent interest in hia holding , and eventually identify tho actual occupation with tho absolute
ownorship of the soil / ' shall be established , he will " strenuously advocate the tenant ' s right to full compensation for his industry and outlay . " He is for " the utter abolition of the present tithe rent-charge system in Ireland . " He declares uncompromising hostility to the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill . With an " hereditary zeal "( derived from his father , the well-known , author of The Statement of the Penal Laws , ' he expresses his concurrence in the policy pursued by the Trish Parliamentary party , and his " deep hostility to the base and treacherous Whigs , whom the Irish brigade have at last deprived of mischievous power , "
The coming election for the county of Cork may be regarded as a pitched battle between the Roman Catholic clergy and laity , and the issue is very doubtful . Mr . Vincent Scully stands under the sheltering wings of " the church , " there being upon his managing committee no less than 14 priests to 9 laymen . The staff of Mr . Alexander McCarthy , on the other hand , is composed of 32 lay and but 4 clerical electors . Lord William Fitzgerald , uncle of the Duke of Leinster , has addressed the following letter to his bailiff , for the information of his tenantry in the county of Kildare : — " Dublin , 20 , Fitzwilliam-place , March 5 .
" I never have interfered , and never will interfere with the voting of my tenantry . I hope now they will not be guided by Lord Derby and Protection , as it is called , which means no more nor less than to put on the screw for rackrents . Live and-let live— -never coercing industry—is the true protection for us all . I wish you would let this letter be seen by the tenants . It only means to put them on their guard at the moment of a coining election for tho county of Kildare . . " I remain , &c ., " "WtliAam Fitzgkebaxd . " To the Bailiff of the Manor of Gxaney . "
Lord Duncan , the present representative of Bath , has been induced to go down to Bury by an influential deputation , and has put forth an address . He refers to his conduct in the House for fifteen years as proof of his consistency as an unflinching advocate of free trade . He is for the extension of the suffrage , the ballot , the shortening of Parliaments , a system of general education which does not interfere with the rights of conscience , and is a Financial Reformer . It is said that Lord Goderich will also be a candidate for Bury at the next election .
Mr . James Caird , the author of a work on High Farming under Liberal Covenants , and lately Agricultural Commissioner to the Times , has declared his intention of standing for the Wigtownjboroughs at the next election , in opposition to the / sitting member , Sir J . M'Taggart . ~ -
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LETTERS FROM PARIS . [ From our own Correspondent . ] Letter XI . The result of the elections has been just what I had led you to expect . The majority of December 20 was to be recollected , by all , and any means . The Government candidates have been returned with a success that only wavered in about sixteen circumscriptions . Five deputies of the Opposition are elected , one Republican ( General Cavaignac , ) and four Legitimists : MM . de Kordrel at Fougeres , de Civrac at Beaupreau , Bouhier de l'Ecluso at Sables d'Olonno , and another whoso name escapes me , somewhere else . In nino circumscriptions , tho election was null : viz ., Brest , Nantes , Dinnn , Rennes , Chateau Goutier , Lyons , Lille , Arras , and the 4 th arrondissement of Paris .
Now , as to how these results were obtained . First , at Paris : not to speak of- tho administrative obstructions to proclaiming candidates , and placarding and distributing their addresses , the grossest electoral frauds have come to light . The proportion of bulletins deposited in favour of General Cavaignac was as 3 to 1 . Tho whole arrondissement declare they voted for him . In tho official dtipouillement , ho had barely 1000 majority . On tho Monday , electors in tho different distric i wore Rummoned by domiciliary injunctions to vote : so excessive was tho zeal of tho admimsti'fttion in some instances , that fresh electoral tickets wore sent to persona " of good report" who had already voted once ; tho fact is authenticated to mo in the 2 nd arrondissenient of Paris .
In tho fifth circumscription , whore tho Government oandidato , M . Porrot , was opposed by M . Goudchaux , tho Republican banker , tho election was , in tho first instance , found to bo null for want of a sufficient number of votes . On tho Tuesday morning , it was so reported throughout Paris , and by electric telegraph in Bojpjimn , and , I suppose , in England . Indeed , on this information I had written to you that tho oloctions in tho 4 th and 5 th arrondissetnents wore cancelled . On Tuesday evening , tho Government announced that a now reckoning of tho white tickets had been taken , nnd that according to this now reckoning , M . Perrot having obtained tho required number of votes , was
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Makch 13 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 239
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Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 239, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1926/page/3/
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