PETERSFIELD ELECTION.

     The election of a member for this borough took place at the Townhall on Tuesday. The Mayor (Mr. S. W. Seward) presided. The attendance of electors was not very numerous, which was doubtless to be attributed to the fact that there was no opposition. 

     The Recorder (Mr. J. Williams) having read the proclamation, &c, 

     Mr. J. Waddington, of Langrish Honse, proposed Sir W. G. Hylton Jolliffe as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament, and urged as a reason for his re-election the consistent and straightforward manner in which he had for so many years devoted himself to the maintenance of those principles which he honestly avowed. Mr. Nichols seconded the nomination.

     The Mayor having asked if any elector had another candidate to propose, and no response being made, declared the right hon. baronet duly elected.

     Mr. Elkington called Sir William’s attention to the fact that his constituents were £10 occupiers, and inasmuch as they did not evince any tendency towards those democratic and wicked principles which were deemed so dangerous, he suggested to him whether he would support a £10 franchise for counties as well.

     Sir William, in thanking the electors for the honour they had again conferred on him, took a cursory review of his Parliamentary career, more particularly with reference to the Union Chargeability Act, the Highway Act, the Reform question, the foreign policy of Government, finance, and taxation. In answer to Mr. Elkington’s suggestion, he was quite prepared to support an extension of the franchise, and in fact Lord Derby’s Reform Bill contained the very thing now referred to, and to that measure he gave his hearty support; but he could not consent to such a lowering of the franchise as would necessarily swamp the present constituencies, nor could he ever countenance any Reform Bill that did not emanate from the Government of the day, as he considered the weight of the responsibility of so important a measure should rest with those who, for the time being, were charged with the conduct of the affairs of the country.

     Thanks were voted to the chairman, on the motion of Sir William, seconded by Mr. Elkington, and duly acknowledged.