intentions on the subject, when he said "I power of impugning the practice of pledges, will vote for their repeal." In 1819 he had because, in a printed address, he had given a declared at the election for the city of West- pledge upon the subject of the house and minster, that he would resign his seat when-window taxes. He could not, therefore, im. ever he was called upon to do so by a majority pugn the practice of pledges. If he (Colonel of his constituents. Here were two distinct Evans) were to be asked whether, if the Ruspledges, and he would ask, had they been un-sians were to take Constantinople, or if the necessary for election? If after such conduct he was allowed to take refuge in the sea of parliamentary oil, wherein he slipped away from every grasp, it would be the electors who were the fools, and the hon. Baronet ought not to be blamed. (Cheers). He would now ask the gallant Colonel if he would vote for the repeal of the Septennial Act.

French were to march an army to the Pyrenees, he would pledge himself to vote for war, he should say that he would not, the subject, being mixed up with so many different circumstances as to require great consideration. But these now put to him were great questions, which bad agitated the country for years; and without meaning any offence to Colonel EVANS declared he would; and he the hou. candidate, he would say that any subsequently declared, as the several questions gentleman who had not made up his mind were successively put by Mr. Wakely, that he upon these questions was unfit to represent would vote for the repeal of the house and them. He must confess, however, that he window taxes, and the corn-laws, and in fa- did think that the hon. candidate had made vour of vote by ballot; each of which an-up his mind, aud that he could tell it if he nouncements was received with great satisfaction.

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Mr. WAKLEY said, that if the honourable Mr. WAKLEY acknowledged the candour Gentleman (Mr. Escott) had not made up his of the gallant Officer. He had been averse to mind to vote for the repeal of the Septennial the returning of any officer of the ariny or Act, he could not represent them, because navy to Parliament; but he put more than they had made up their minds. "All those ordinary faith in the gallant Colonel, and (continued he, addressing the crowd) who are should give him his firmest support. (Cheers). for the repeal of the Septennial Act, hold up He believed him in politics to be honest, and your hands (all). All who are for the repeal in his profession to be a skilful man; and as of the corn-laws, hold up your hands." He the Tories had their Wellington, he did not was not the man for them; he liked his cansee why the Radicals should not have theirs. dour, and he lined him for a Tory; but he re(Cheers). He did not see why they should membered the conduct of the Tories-of the not have also a Radical general in Pariia-cut-throat, Castlereagh. (Crics of shame, ment. If Government went on in the pre-shame). He did not mean to allude to the sent way, they might, before long, have some red-coat business to do on their own account. (Vehement cheering). He would also ask the gallant Officer if he would resign his seat if called upon to do so by a majority of his constituents?

Colonel EVANS said he had expressed his intention to do so at a meeting he attended last night, and would repeat his determination to the meeting. (Cheers).

Mr. WAKLEY then put the first of these questions to Mr. Escott.

Mr. ESCOTT wished to put a question to the gallant Colonel-How he thought he could do bis duty in a deliberative assembly after the pledges he had given? (Groans). He (Mr. Escott) had told them that on the house and window taxes he had made up his mind ; but he would not tell them how he would vote upon the questions not yet discussed; but if he went into Parliament, he would exercise his best discretion. (Groaus). The honourable elector had said that he could not conceive how there could be political honesty without pledges; but he would ask whether there had been grosser instances of political falsehood than where there had been pledges?

Colonel EVANS said that the hon. candidate had asked him whether he considered himself a free agent, and fit to go into a deliberate assembly, fettered as he was by pledges; but he (Mr. Escott) had deprived himself of the

last act of that unfortunate man's life, but to his disposition to cut the throats of other people. He despised the whole of the Tory gang from the bottom of his heart. But never more would they have the opportunity of grinding the people to the earth. He had the authority of Sir John Cam Hobhouse him self for saying that the Whigs had done all they could to oust the Tories, merely for the purpose of serving themselves, and then betraying the interests of the people. (Loud cheers). But they should withhold their indignation and not look to the conduct of parties, but at the conduct of the man who had been their representative. He would bring to their notice a letter which had escaped from the pen of the right hon. Baronet on Wednesday morning last. The question of the house and window taxes having been brought before the House on Tuesday, one of their representatives had voted directly against them, and the other had resigned after having deserted his duty, in the fullest hope that they would send him back to deceive them again. (Cheers). Suppose the right hon. Baronet was about to wed a damsel, and when she was at the altar, he slipped a note into her hand, saying he was sorry, but he had found that there was something more to be done after, and as he was not in a condition to do it then, he would resign all pretensions to her. (Long and continued laughter). The right hon. Baronet had,

morrow I will write a little note, saying I have resigned my seat, because I could not fulfil my promises, and that I have also resigned the secretaryship for Ireland." (Laughter). He (Mr. Wakley) had once been a great supporter of Sir John's, but he was compelled to state, that he had forfeited all his confidence, and that he had committed a most disgraceful breach of trust. (Loud and continued cheers). He begged of the electors to consider the whole of England was looking with the most intense interest to what would be the result of this contest. Whig, Tory, and Radical, were now before them, and he begged of them to recollect what the conduct of the Tories had been from the first hour that they held the reins of Government. It was the people and not the Ministers, who succeeded in carrying the Reform Bill-it was the people who replaced the Ministers in their office to discharge a sacred duty, and would they be so forgetful of what was due to their children and their families, as in the hour of triumph, in the very moment of victory, to wither the laurel on which they had so long delighted to look. (Cheers). He would call upon them not to be deceived in the reformed Parliament

in effect, said, "I love you still, but there are others I love better." Great stress had been laid upon the fact of his giving up office, but he would ask, who was nurse to the Irish secretary? Why, Daniel O'Connell! But that same Daniel O'Connell had got an ugly way of making the bed with nettles. If Sir John had gone to Ireland, he would, in forty-eight hours, have been so hot, he would have thought himself in the East Indies, and so stung that he would have been put much in mind of musquitoes. He had a large fortune, and was not in want of the five thousand pounds, so where was the great merit in his resignation of such an office. In his (Mr. Wakley's) opinion, he was most heartily glad to have had such an opportunity of getting quietly out of it. Sir John's own published former opinions were, that the people were entitled to full, fair, and free representation in Parliament. Now, what had the Reform Bill done in Westminster? Why, reduced the constituency from 14,000 to less than 9,000; and where was the name of Sir John in the list, on Mr. Grote's motion for the ballot? Why, in the majority against it. The reformed Parlia ment had done one good action by voting for not to be deceived by Factory Bills, for the the repeal of the malt tax, yet that vote they House of Commons had actually sent a comhad rescinded in less than three days. Now, mission to inquire whether children could work he would just give them a representation of four-and-twenty hours in four-and-twenty what might have taken place in the Privy hours. (Laughter). If the expenditure was Council the morning after the vote with re- managed economically, the man who now spect to the malt tax was come to. Lord Al-worked twelve hours would only have to work thorp comes in and says, “Here's a pretty kettle of fish we're in; we are taken by surprise, for these chaps have voted directly against us; what shall we do? We must have that vote rescinded, because it was for the benefit of the working people." Sir John then gets up, and says, "Oh, my Lord, it's very well for you to talk in that way, but I am pledged. (Loud laughter). I'll tell you what, my Lord, if you determine on rescinding that vote, I must either throw up my secretaryship or resign my seat." "Well," (says Lord Althorp), we can get somebody else to take your office, and if you resign your seat, we must look out for somebody to stand for Westminster." "But (says Mr. Hobhouse) look how I shall be disgraced." (Laughter). "Oh, never mind that (says Lord Althorp), we are all disgraced in turn, you know (continued laughter); but there is one thing, if we are disgraced, it is not without sauce, for we have got 6,000l. a year for it. (Laughter, and cheers). Give up you secretaryship, and resign your seat, for you will soon get it again." "Very well, (says Hobhouse), don't you decide anything till I see you again." Away goes Hobhouse to Mr. De Vear, and having ascertained from that diligent and very active man that by a little trickery it would all succeed, Sir John posts off to my Lord Althorp, and says, "It will be all safe-De Vear promises 1 shall be elected. He says there is no doubt about it, and, therefore to-night I won't vote -I will cut my stick. (Great laughter). To

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The deputy returning officer then called for a show of hands-and not a single hand was held up for Sir John Hobhouse-a complete forest appeared for Colonel Evans--and not more than twenty for Mr. Escott. deputy returning officer then declared the show of hands to be in favour of Colonel Evans.

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poll was demanded on the part of Sir John Hobhouse and Mr. Escott, which was appointed to commence to-morrow, at nine o'clock in the morning.

The assembled crowd then separated peaceably.

During the ceremony of the nomination, when Sir John Hobhouse quitted the hustings, he returned to his committee-room, surrounded by some of the most distinguished reformers in Westminster. Among them we particularly distinguished Thomas Duncombe, Edward Lytton Bulwer, Paul Methuen, Esqrs., Lord Ebrington, Mr. Carlton, Mr. Lamont, Mr. E. B. Clive, Mr. E. G. Stanley, &c. &c. On his arrival in the rooms, he was heartily greeted by his friends. He expressed in warm terms his regret that he had been prevented from

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replying to the base accusations his opponents" in French, but which you will be continued to make against him. He stated emphatically that he was most completely out of obliged to adopt whenever you have office, and had been so from his first announcea government really free); every one ment; that he had no intention to return to it; "minds his business, sleeps, eats, makes that he never would unless he was convinced, love, cheapens a horse, deprecates or and his friends the electors also, that he could exalts a candidate. The holy place do more good to the public in the King's Government than out of it. (Cheers). He had "is deserted; silence for the first time intended always to vote against the conti- reigns around the pulpit; the full nuance of the house and window taxes-it" moon, though in her mid career, is was well known to Ministers on his taking" veiled by a passing cloud, and everyoffice-that was no secret. (Applause). He" thing seems to invite to repose and to should most certainly have done so had it not been so mixed up with other matters as to 66 place him in a more painful situation than" any other public man. He knew he felt that he had taken the honest, the conscientious

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a suspension of the labours of the day; when-a preacher who has remained alone kneeling within the pulpit, rises up slowly; inspiration begins

(Cheers). He hoped and trusted that the electors would do bim justice, at least" to visit him; he begins a hymn at first as to his motives; and then let the result be" with a very feeble voice, but which, what it might (and he, for his part, did not doubt it), at least he was certain it would "crescendo by degrees, soon attains the sooner or later be admitted that he deserved melody of Stentor. Some pious souls to share the confidence of those patriotic citi"retake their places upon the seats, zens with whom, under the banner of reform, "other preachers join him, and curiohe had continued to fight until they had "sity soon reproduces an auditory. An planted it on the summit of the mount. (Great" enthusiastic and pathetic prayer folcheering). Mr. Fearon, Lord Ebrington, and other "lows: he engages the saints to pray gentlemen strongly deprecated the ungenerous "for the conversion of the poor sinners conduct of part of the assemblage before the" who are in the midst of them ; hustings, in refusing to hear a defence while.. they heard a charge. And a resolution was passed by acclamation, applauding Sir John Hobhouse's compliance with the earnest so!icitation of his friends in quitting the hustings" on that occasion.

A resolution was also passed with great applause, to redouble their exertions to place Sir John Hobhouse triumphantly at the head of the poll, to which they now most confi-" dently appeal.

Three cheers were given for their candidate, and the committee separated for an heur.

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THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. (From Cobbett's Magazine.)

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swiftly in the company of a beloved "tained over Satan. Methodism equaobject, perhaps for the first time, and❝lizes everything; so that you may see "in the spring of life, dreaming of ages negress preaching to her master, "of happiness in a cherished union, a negro praying by his young mistress. "tasting perhaps its reality in passionate" You think I am joking, that I am "declarations;....suddenly she is re- speaking to you of the farces of Saint "called to her senses by this clutter," Medard, which made so much noise "her spirits still agitated, her soul in a "in the time of Voltaire; but what strange state of emotion, her nerves "will you say when you know that, "stunned and shaken. She approaches, among a people eminently reason"is troubled, fright seizes her; at first" able, this sect is the most diffused, "she believes herself damned then" and reckons three times as many "converted-she enters within the sa- "members as any other? It augments "cred enclosure, there she is soon" every day, and will, probably, in a few "stunned nnd seized with hysteric con- years, be the only religion among the "vulsions; she cries out, weeps, sobs, ignorant classes of the people." "rolls herself on the straw in a fright"ful delirium. The assistants, the preachers, and the saints, redouble "their vociferations, the people cry "Amen! The clutter and tumult in66 crease: a conversion so sincere, so exemplary, must not be hidden by the "shades of night; torches of pitch-pine, gathered from the neighbourhood, are soon brought, and cast a vivid light "upon this scene of horror. The mother, "the sisters, of the young girl, run "thither on hearing the noise; but in"stead of helping her, admire the mercy "of God, who is pleased to call her among his saints. They join their "voices to those of the people, and do "not convey her into their cabin until "she has become quite insensible. The "following day she believes herself to "be a saint, and no more subject to sin, whatever she may do. Further. "she will give her experience, as it is "called, for the edification of the community, and relates in public, by what winding paths the Lord has been Thirty years ago," says M. Murat, pleased to conduct her to himself, and "Thomas Paine was all but stoned for "exhorts others to follow her example." advocating doctrines which are now "And such is the power of imitation on propagated by five or six papers in the "the nerves, that it rarely happens that" United States. There is certainly an a conversion of this sort takes place" improvement." We really do not un"without some other persons falling in-derstand whether M. MURAT is serious "to hysterics also. Frequently, twenty or joking in calling this an improvement, 86 persons, of every age, sex, and colour, It is certain that the author of the " Age "roll themselves together pell-mell of Reason" was buried in America, like upon the straw, with haggard eyes a dog in the corner of a field, no church "and foaming mouths, in the midst of or Quaker congregation being willing to "the saints, who pray, sing, sob, and cry let him be interred in their burying"with joy, to see so signal a triumph ob-ground. And though M. MURAT Speaks

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of improvement at this time, we remem- "from a number of persons, called ber hearing it asserted by American" Separatists, stating that they enterlawyers, no longer ago than the year "tained a religious scruple on the sub1821, that the publication of such books "ject of oaths, and praying to be put as PAINE's was against the common law" on the same footing in that respect of America. An American judge having "" as Quakers. The hon. Gentleman seen PALMER'S " Principies of Nature” “ expressed his satisfaction that the exposed for sale, told the bookseller that "hon. Member for Cambridge was he was liable to a criminal prosecution; "about to introduce a bill to relieve all whence the question arose ; and the opi-" sects from the inabilities under which nion of the lawyers was on the ground "they at present laboured from similar that such works were contra bonos mores, scruples. as the law terms it, that is, tending to do "Mr. O'CONNELL supported injury to the morals of the people. The prayer of the petition, and said he prosecutions of this kind which, up to" knew of an actual denial of justice nearly the present day, have taken place arising from the conscientious refusal in England, have not been dictated by "of an individual to take an oath. In political wisdom, anxious for the good "an important case, an insurance office of public morality. They have been" actually lost a large sum of money, government acts of vengeance upon the" for want of the evidence of a man attackers of its corruptions. If PAINE" who could not be induced to take was answered by Bishop WATSON, the "an oath. That fact alone showed discussions should have dropped there;" that the abstract principle on which that would have been the best policy. "oaths were insisted upon was erBut the Bishop, unfortunately, did not roneous, and ought to be relinfight PAINE with the infidel's own weaquished. pons; was not satisfied to stop at the first page of his book, which any merely reasonable man might have done in refuting him; but he seems rather to" would arrive when the legislature have recognised PAINE as a brother pro"would wipe off the stain of illiberality fessor of theology, actually compliment" by which persons who, from religious ing him, as he does, upon the "sublime scruples, declined to take an oath, ideas" contained in his book. And were refused the exercise of some of what has been the result of the law pro"the most valuable civil rights. ceedings against CARLILE and other" was hard that a man's morality should publishers of the book? If the intend-" be impeached simply because he was ed object were to create disgust against "conscientious. As the law stood, a the works they published, how far have" man who was conscientious declined the prosecutions succeeded? Have to take an oath, and that man's evithey not merely placed PAINE's Age of "dence was rejected, while a man who Reason, &c. on a footing along with the was not conscientious, took an oath writings of VOLTAIRE and other infidels, "without hesitation, and his evidence whose books, impugning Christianity, was accepted. have all along been left wide open for every man, woman, and child, to read?

Connected with church reform, come the objections to taking oaths, and the emancipation of theJews, who have been so much persccuted as to be amongst the richest people in the country! In the Morning Chronicle, of the 21. of March, there is the following report of a proceeding in the House of Commons.

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"Sir F. BURDETT also supported the "prayer of the petition."

(To be continued.)

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