Yarmouth Notes, 1830-1872. Collated from the File of the Norwich MercuryPalmer, Frederick Danby
History
Yarmouth Notes, 1830-1872. Collated from the File of the Norwich Mercury
Palmer, Frederick Danby
Great Yarmouth (England) -- History
A poll was determined and immediately opened and continued till five
o’clock on that and the following day, when the numbers were
announced by the Committee of Anson and Rumbold to be—
For Col. Anson 748
Mr. Rumbold 748
Mr. Colville 503
Mr. Bliss 497
The poll was adjourned till Monday.
On Sunday morning, however, Messrs. Colville and Bliss left the town,
or, as our correspondent writes, “May Day became more than commonly
exhilarating, by the agreeable information quickly diffused through
the town, that the enemies of freedom and of the Constitution had
fled, happy in evading and escaping from merited punishment, so
irritated were the minds of the lower class of society against these
obtruders, without a shadow of claim to their suffrages, that, by
their flight on Sunday morning, they probably escaped an ablution in
the waters of the beautiful river Yare.”
On Monday the books opened, and at the close the final numbers were—
For Col. Anson 903
Mr. Rumbold 903
Mr. Colville 547
Mr. Bliss 541
This vexatious contest, for it was vexatious, inasmuch as it was
opposed to the general wish of the inhabitants, as not the slightest
chance of success prevailed from the commencement, and the only
object of which was to extract money from the purses of the two
Members, terminated, not only in the triumphant defeat of the
Boroughmongers, but by affording a lesson to the Charles Street
Society in London, whose only object is to continue corruption, by
the means of corruption, a proof that true independence and love of
country is far beyond the purchase of the greatest wealth. But the
friends of Reform at Yarmouth have set a noble example of
consistency, for they have commenced among themselves one of the
modes which the Reform Bill will enforce. They have determined to
raise among themselves a sum sufficient to defray the legal expenses
of the election, and to return their well-tried Members as unhurt in
their finances as they are independent in principal, and by this mark
of gratitude and esteem to repay the obligations which the
inhabitants of Yarmouth in common with the country at large owe to
the supporters of the Reform Bill—£1,750—has already been raised. We
say to the rest of the nation, “Go thou and do likewise.”
The Chairing of the Members had taken place amid the most
enthusiastic cheers.
May 19th.—The thanks of the Yarmouth District Committee for saving lives
from shipwreck was voted to Lieut. Harmer, R.N., on saving the crew of
the schooner Fleece, which had been wrecked on the Scroby Sand on the
14th inst.
May 26th.—The men employed by Messrs. Grout, Baylis, and Co., had an
excellent dinner provided for them at J. B. Bales’, Apollo Gardens.
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