LEICESTER JOURNAL.

FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1859.

THE ELECTION OF TWO KNIGHTS TO REPRESENT THE NORTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER, MAY, 1859."-We have been favoured with an impression of this humorous print. The scene represented is the Nomination at Loughborough, on the sixth instant. The windows of the Plough Inn are occupied by the several candidates and their supporters. In front of the centre window stands Mr. Hartopp, concluding his speech by communicating to Mr. Frewen the gratifying intelligence that in North Leicester shire "he will never be without an opponent !" On his left, against the wall, stands Lord John Manners, the burden of whose nomination address was "Lord Derby's Administration." In the window on the right, we recognise Mr. Hartopp's proposer, Mr. Abney, who never before had the pleasure of addressing so "delightful an assemblage" as the Loughborough roughs; and there can be no mistaking the Germanizing physiognomy of Sir F. Fowke, Mr. Hartopp's worthy seconder. The other window is occupied by Mr. Frewen's reverend proposer, Mr. Cave, who endeavours by the weight of his personal authority to throw oil upon the tumultuous rabble before him. There also stands Mr. Stevenson, the anabaptist preacher, giving energetic utterance to the libel of "Religious Tyranny," which Mr. Hartopp immediately afterwards repudiated. On the platform before the inn appear our noble selves and our brother reporters and in front of us lolls Mr. Frewen, uttering the epitaphium-"Alas! poor Bostock!" The foreground of the scene contains the humours of the day: "The Archimedean Screw," emblematic of the coercion supposed to be used by the houses of Belvoir and Groby: the "herrin's and 'taters," apportioned, as they say, by the aristocracy and gentry to the great illote: Frewen's Patent Sponge," for obliterating the names of certain screwed voters at Breedon the rebus of Hartopp,-a calf's heart on the top of a pole, and the letters UP underneath it: "The Prize Lobster:" and "the Whipper-in to the Belvoir Hunt," transported to Loughborough from Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Handbills of the event commemorated adorn the walls of the street, and placards are hoised about on boards by the paid agents" of the respective candidates. Mr. Frewen is evidently the favourite of the day he is reminded of his avowal that he will save £2,000 a year for future contested elections. "Lord John Manners' compliments" are obligingly presented by his opponents to the Leicester Radicals and the Loughborough Liberals." The wit of the populace has been caught alive ere it evaporated, and a photograph of the Nomination-day is thus handed down to posterity.

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Saturday, May 14, 1859.

THE MONITORIAL SYSTEM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LEICESTER ADVERTISER. Sir,-If instances of the abuse of the monitorial system in public schools were made known, they might tend to the abolition of it, or at any rate to its being kept within due bounds. I will relate one which occurred to me some years ago at the then head master's at Harrow.

It was considered by the sixth form boys at that time that the rolls, bread and butter, and tea, provided for us were not so good as they might have been, or at least not so good as the monitors had a right to expect. They therefore issued an order that none of us should eat any, but leave the breakfast-room as soon as they were placed upon the table,-or something of that kind. Not being so particular in respect of the quality of the viands, or not rightly understanding the authority upon which the mandamus rested, I and others remained and eat our breakfasts as usual. The consequences of this contumacious behaviour towards the sixth form as regards the other delinquents I do not precisely remember; but I myself received for it from one of the monitors, and in the presence of a second, a castigation with a whip (I do not say equal in severity to that lately administered at Repton, but) infinitely the most severe of any I ever experienced during my whole school career. The executioner in that instance is now an Augel, or something. among the Irvingites. I sincerely hope that young S- may live to repent, and become as an Angel elsewhere

May 10th, 1859.

Yours very faithfully,

A LOVER OF Bors.