The Express. — London, England, 1865-07-12 00:00:00

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Of the sixteen members assigned to *be cities and boroughs of the metropolis twelve have been returned ; the Tories have been de feated in two hard fought battles, and when the list is completed to-morrow evening, there will not be one follower of Lord DERBY among them. This is the example of the capital to the country ; this is the reply of the greatest constituencies of the realm to the bout of Conservative reaction. The City of London has rejected the Con servative candidates by a majority that is reckoned by thousands of votes. Mr. LYALL and Mr. FOWLER were personally unexceptionable, gentle men of high character, business habits, and closely connected with the constituency. It is only the spirit of jealous and obstinate opposition to reforms de manded by the just and equitable feeling of the age which is condemned in their persons. The City of London is one of the most conservative constituencies in the world, in the honest sense of that abused word, and it is as conservative after this vote as it was yesterday morning. But it will have no thing to do with that spurious Conservatism which is born of distrust, and which only discerns a fresh truth to recognise a new enemy. When the Liberal candidates put forth their addresses it was remarked that the most aggressive of them was that of Mr. COWRIE ; and now Mr. Goscusx heads the poll. The fact may be com mended to those who are entering on public life, and who will find some to tell them that compro mise and reserve are the cardinal points of political prudence. Let such persons rather learn that Englishmen despise nothing so much as half heartedness and insincerity, and that in the long run no public man has anything to gain by palter ing with convictions. Mr. LYALL, who polled more votes yesterday than Mr. Fowixit, appears not to have received so many by a thousand as were given to Mr. Cuarrr at the last contest in 1861. The election of Mr. Bwrrit for Westminster would have been a serious party defeat ; but the return of Mr. MILL with Captain GROSVENOR is much more than a great party victory. It is, in the first place, the triumph of purity of election in its severest form. When Mr. MILL was called upon to permit himself to be nominated, far from seeking to recommend himself to the constituency by the ordinary arts of candidates he doubted whether he could be so useful in Parlia ment as in the pursuits which have made him known wherever the English language is spoken. He distinctly declined the burden of local business, and would enter Parliament for no other purpose than to advance his well known opinions. He would spend no money ; if elected, it must be u a person willing to undertake gratuitously an onerous duty to the public. He declined even to offer himself to the electors, although ready to enter Parliament in obedience to their calL And, to the lasting honour of Westminster, it is on these conditions that Mr. MILL has been elected. There were those who sneered at the idea of a metropo litan constituency returning a distinguished poli tical philosopher from pure esteem of his merits. It was too ridiculous to suppose that the voters had ever beard of Mr. Mit.L. The fact is that Mr. Sierra and Mr. MILL together polled 8,300 votes in a constituency of about 12,500, and Mr. MILL has a net majority of somewhere about 700. Westminster has raised the character of al 1 the metropolitan boroughs by this honourable conduct, and has signally rebuked those who presumed to believe that the representation of the City could become the prize of wealth. There is another reason for which we may all rejoice in Mr. M/LL's success. It has been achieved in the teeth of a special opposition—with which we are far from associating Mr. Sierra—dis tinguished by a licentiousness of misrepresentation suck as has rarely been displayed even in times more exciting than these. We refer to the per sonal attacks made on Mr. MILL in the name of religion. It is a terrible fact that there is no un scrupulousness like that in which those indulge who have persuaded themselves that they are in an especial manner fighting the battles of Heaven. The recklessness with which the moat sacred names have been abused for party purposes in this West minster election is such as must revolt all pious minds. It is satisfactory to know that the illegiti mate weapons of religious rancour have not pre vailed against a gentleman whom his Pharisaical assailants might usefully take for an example of Christian virtues. The election for Lambeth is not less satisfac tory, whether we regard the result or the means by which it was won. The mutest was entirely be. tween Liberals, and one more honourable to all parties was never fought. Mr. Tana as Huouss went to the constituency trusting to nothing but his character. He was received by the working Glasses as an old and triedfriend, one who had often counselled and aided, and sometimes reproved, but never flattered them. They organized their own electoral machinery, and worked it themselves, and, with the approval and assistanm of all classes of the constituency, placed their candidate in a tri umphant position on the poll. It was unfortunate that Mr. HUGHES could not be brought in without Alderman IsawaannE being shut out ; but that gentleman, who was the first to congratulate Lam beth on having elected in Mr. HI:JOWLS " a nand " whom the borough might be proud," is not likely long to remain without a seat in Parliament. In .Mr. Hoaxes the working classes have a member who is better able than any other gentleman of the middle claims to represent their sentiments and interests in the House of Commons. In Mary lebone, Mr. Moira Crunneas haa shows how well he had taken the measure of that constitu ency. He has gained the seat which Lord FiIIMOY has held for the last six years, and will probably avoid the errors which proved fatal to his pre damson We can only hope that as long se it is convenient to him to bold the sea, he may be as useful a member of the legislature as Lord The metropolitan elections of yesterday were, as • whole, the most satisfactory from a Liberal point of view that have taken place for many years. There was lem tumultuous excitement than usual, but more genuine political energy, and there was • good result. To-day Fins. bury has had to choose its members, and we are glad to see that the electors of that borough have not fallen below the standard which those of Westminster and Lambeth had set up. In Mr. Toalisss they have • member who will find his ►ppropriate place between Mr. him and Mr. Humus. Be four o'clock this afternoon some 200 Mem bers of the New House of Commons will have been returned, and therefore on the action of the constituencies to-day will depend in a great mea sure the issue of the electoral contest. At this stage of the battle, when nearly every one who is going to give • vote at all has made up his mind to whom to give it, it may seem almost useless to offer any general advice. But there are always some few waverer. who remain such up to the last minute, and it is well to keep thee* people in view until the polling is absolutely at an end. In cases of this kind there are two considerations which may exercise a disturbing influence on the mind of the Liberal voter. He is not perhaps an ardent politician, and the Con servative candidate may have superior local claims to any which can be put forward by his opponent ; or the contest may lie, not between candidates of conflicting political sentiments, so much as be tween opponents nurtured in the same camp, and using the same watchwords. To the first class of voters we have only one thing to say. Let well alone. The very reason why you are not a more eager politician than you are is the absence of any grievance to make you such. If the money of the people were being wasted upon objects in which the people felt no concern, if the honour of England were being pledged to take part in continental wars, if the taxation of the country were imposed with • paramount reference to class interests or a consistent deference to class prejudices, your en thusiasm would not thus remain at low water mark, you would be active because you would be alarmed. We are not going to tell you again that the prosperity which has made you apathetic is the result of a Liberal policy ; we are content to take • lower tone than this, and to ask you whether, at all events, the prosperity and the policy have not been at least contemporaneous. There may be no link to unite them in the relation of cause and effect ; but they have hitherto been found in conj unction, and it is the part of a prudent man not to do anything which may introduce • break into his run of luck. England has been singularly fortunate under the present Go vernment, wait till her chances look less promising before you try the experiment whether she will be equally so under a Conservative administration. Be content with the goods which you have, instead of exchanging them, in idle dissatisfaction, for others which you have never had the opportunity of testing. The other difficulty does not admit of quite so decisive a solution. On the one hand, it must be admitted that a former election ought not to give a man • vested right to be returned on every subset- quent occasion, and that an elector's most obvious duty is to vote for the beat man. But on the other hand, moral considerations have • claim upon our regard as well as purely intellectual ones ; and the mere fact of a new Liberal candidate disregarding all the past services of an old member, and the certain confusion and possible defeat which his rivalry with him will entail upon the party to which they both belong, may imply • degree of vanity and recklessness which outweigh his intel lectual qualifications. We can only recommend the electors to bear these two facts in mind, and not to reject an old member unless the proposed substitute is very decidedly his superior. Above all, we would ask them not to reject • really eminent man because re cent events may have developed considerable differences of opinion between him and them. We do not say that the gulf between a member and his constituents may not become so wide as to make • severance of the connection inevitable, but the latter at least should be slow to recognise the necessity, and unwilling even in appearance to resort to ostracism as a protection against political eccentricity. The interest of to-day's elections turns chiefly upon the new men whom they may result in in troducing to the House of Commons. At Brighton, Mr. Fawns-Tr has been gallantly con tending against physical disadvantages, to have surmounted which is in itself no bad index of unusual intellectual vigour, and still more uncom mon resolution ; and we trust that the electors will follow the example of Westminster, and send up to the House of Commons one of the ablest of Mr. May's disciples. The borough has now an opportunity of repairing the error into which it was led two years ago in returning • Conservative. The same is to be said of Leicester, which Mr. 1:111YOATE was Only able to misrepresent through the disunion of the Liberals. For the sake of the Liberal cause, it may be hoped that no relic of the old discord may survive ten o'clock this morn ing. At Harwich, Mr. Menem. Wiva, an able man of business and a sound Liberal, is making a gallant fight against the influences which have so long degraded that town, and has in Mr. FITZJAMEB STZPHEN a colleague of considerable originality of thought, and one who will contribute to the legal debates of the House of Commons a philosophical element in which they are too often conspicuously deficient. If early and marked moms in political literature is any evidence of aptitude for the practical part of the study, Mr. TacveLvan's return for Tynemouth ought to be the first step in a distinguished parliamentary career. Chester will not, it is to be hoped, pay so bad a compliment to the Cameo:twit of the Ex- CHEQUER as to refuse his son that opening into public life which be may fairly claim alike for his father's merits and his own pro mise. At Bridgnorth an English Roman Catholic appeals to the liberality and good sense of an English constituency, and Sir JOHN Acron's return will afford most gratifying evidence of the decay of religious prejudice, while it will retain in the House of Commons • member who, in spite of the too prolonged silence which he has hitherto maintained, is respected by those in both parties who are best qualified to judge of his ex traordinary political knowledge and his genuine breadth of sentiment. To vote for the best man and the truest Liberal should be the common aim of every Englishman to-day. At 2 o'clock to-dry the returning officer (Mr. Omlow) atteoded upon the hastiags is Coveatigardwa, sad made a declaration of the poll as follows: °fogyism Smith 4534 45es 3224 The announcement d the malign was remind with the most vooderoue sheer* by the immense crowd which bad amembled in frost of the hustings with WWI at " Where's the Tories now!" Capt. Grammar sad Mr. Mill cm presentiag themselves is front of the hustings were received with a hurrioase of applause. Both gentlemen addressed the mortis`, thanking the electors for the proud pasitioss in which they hail been placed. Mr. Smith did set appear. ELECTION NEWS. OFFICIAL DECLARATIONS OF POLLS. THE CITY. The official declaration of the result of the City alectime took plain et 1 o'clock, at the Multiage, Guild. hell. The attendance was emelt compared with that on the nersiestice day, be lag, no doubt, greatly dhcialehed by the immense interval between the liberal and the ocaurvative votes and the COINIKOMit shown of curiosity or excitement Mr. Crawford tad Kr. Gesobea first appeared on the platform aid were bailed with Marty cheers; they were immediately followed by Alden= W. Lawrence, who wee received is saimilar meonar. Mr. Sheriff BIBLZY declared the molt of the poll to be as follows : Garksa 7102 asurked 7084 Lawyer* ItereskiM 1525 Lya Fowles 4OBB The four first-named candidates were then declared duly elected amid loud chews from the assembly. Mr. Gowan then addremed the elector. Ifs reasgratst lard them on the great victory they bad aohired—a vir tory that had gone fu beyond their anticipatioas. They hoped to win by hundreds, but not by thousands. (Cheers.) The errors of the City of Load= had determined to get • good example to the country. No single vote had be obtained by compromise or conordon—Ute voting was one of principles, sal the majority was • complete rat:dirk= of liberal policy in the City of Lerida,. (Cheers.) The leader of the conservative party in parlia ment bed said that this purl election would probably be a landmark in history, and such it had iodised proved. He took the election fur the City to mesa approval of the finsasial and commercial policy of the Chardlor of the Rudiequer, and that civil and religious freedom was not to be sham in ally of its proportions. (Cheers.) Mr. IL W. CRAWFORD spoke nest. He lurked where was the oreervative reactioe which bad been predicted. ("Hear, beer," and laughter.) It was certainly ,it to be found in Use City of Loadoa or in Westminster. The tower of liberal opinions was purely manifested by the return of Mr. John Stuart Mill. (Loud cheers.) He them congratulated the electors on the absence of personal acrimony during tie contest. It was now seen that Londe* elections were not t• be won by bill-stickieg ; if they were, their °presets would certainly have bees successful. The result of the election for their City would, he believed, be seta is the issue of many in other pasts of the country. Aid. W. LAWIINCI said he felt the grave responsibility of the trust which had teen conferred upon him. The re sult of the City election had already told on that of Middle au, Lord Readagh having since declared that he would not put the voters to any farther trouble. (Okras and laughter.) That sleekest had been carried on with great courtesy on both sides, and/as most compliment their opponents oa their outrage in going to the poll when they knew that they were merely playing a keiog gaine. (Cheers.) That rowed the pluck which distinguished the English character. ((Laughter.) This election had been such • failure oa their part that he did not think tree experiniaot would be repeated. Mr. NATRAMILL BOTWICHILD, the newly-elected member for Aylesbury. then thanked the meeting on behalf of his father Barr Rothschild, observing that he felt the honour mom deeply because of the disadvantages under which he laboured in consequence of beiuglept at hour by ill health. Mr. Liam, who was received with gnat laughter misfiled with err of " Fair play !" which roared for him at first a good hearing, said that 30 year ago his father stood on the platform of ter a similar defeat to that which he himself had just sustaird—and be then oh. served that he would not exchange hie positioa for these of his successful competitors! (Roars of laughter.) He congratulated the liberal party in the City on having such gentlemen to represent it. (Cheers and uproar.)—[Mr. Lyall persisted in spooking for some minutes but could obtain no Luther hearing,' Mr. Forum then came forward, and with the usistsace of Sheriff Beaky secured attention. He thanked his op ponents for the courtesy and kindness ha had received at their hands, after which' he defended the candidature of hinted! mad Mr. Lyell, by observing that at the elections of 1857 and 1859 there were no conservative candidates ; and therefore it was impossible Wry what would be the result of this contest. He then paid a high tribute to the character of the successful candidates. and said although he differed from them he felt that the City of London was ably and worthily represented, adding that any savior which he could reader would always be at the disposal of the citizens. Oa the motion of Alderman Fulmars, seconded by De puty ()BEARD, • vote of thanks was accorded to Sir James Duke for his long senior as a member for the City. Thanks wore afterwards voted to the Sheriffs. MARYLEBONE. This morning, at 11 o'clock, the official declara tion of the poll was made by Yr. Tamplin, the returning °nicer, as follows : Lewis Chambers Fermoy Mr. Law's thee aims forward, sad was received with load chews. He said that the declaration of the poll justified the expectations which he formed before, and daring the election. He bad dose his duty to the electors, and the el did their duty towards him. He had attended °sly three public meetings, and be had been raked only one question. He therefore would go aupledged and unfettered to parlia ment, but though unpledged and unfettered he promised that he would follow the seine course which bed hitherto won their confidence sod support. (Hear, hear.) He denied that there bad bees any mis understanding between him and Lord Fermoy. Not an unkind word had pseud. and he hoped never would pass between him and hie late oolleegue, but be thought it his duly to the electors, whim there were two other Bland candidates in the fi eld, from expreesing any predereoce for the one over the other. (Hear, hear.) lie now returned them his thanks tor placing him at the head of the poll. He felt that he represented not only the electors bat the non-electors of Xarylebone, and as he had worked cordially with hie late colleague, he hoped he would work cordially with hie present ow. (Cheers.) He hoped they would now forget any ill feeling that might have existed and that when they went hone they would shake hands. (Loud cheers.) Mr. CSAMBIZIS seat retureed thanks for the cordial and eathwisetio reception with which he bad been received by the electors of Ilarylebone. That day week be was un knows to them, and now he stood there as their repress°. Wive, sled for this reason, that he and the constitusecy IMO agreed upon certain points. The victory wee won, end won in an unexampled manner. fur, after a canvass of only four days, he obtained our 6,000 votes in a constituency of 25,000. (Hear.) By . elweing him they 'hawed that it was not rank. or medal position, or transcendent abtlitias, or any great former werviose that placed him where he now stood, but the conviction that he sad the coostituarey were agreed in midi meet. (Beet.) He carried on the contest on constitutional ground oaly and had Dever need a bitter word against any of his opponents. (Hear.) It was ea incidental drawback to snorer that somebody else meet lose, but defeat was the widest of warfare. The ooetest, however, had been carried on without scrimoey, and if any seduneite were enendered during the beat of the battle he bowed it would be forgotten sow that it was over. (Hear, hear.) Be promised that he would perform his duty to the electors of klaryleboae both with regard to their tili e t sad private interests, end if he neglected to do so he the electors would ad him to account. (Cheers.) FIRMOT, who was very warmly received, said that he for the fist time appeared cc a bandage before them as a beaten candidate, end he hoped it would be the last. (Beer, bear.) His first duty wee to thank the 4.000 and odd Gleams who remedial their TOWS for Wm That was about the number that first made him their remmentative. He had therefore lost so friends, or if some few had fell= ca be had gained others. (Hoer, bear.) He believed that if the sliders of Masylebone bad but one vote to record that he should now be at the bead of the poll (" Hear, hear," and " No, no.") How did be aooonnt, thee, for his &lest? He was defeated because he was se advanced literal, sad Me comervatime of the borough voted for his opponent to a man. (Cheers, end eras of " No, no.") Though defeated bed disappointed he was not aidisiriseed, and et tile fed of the Gooiest he de that ▪ sineorely that be felt oaths' aairoceity nor hostility to anyone ia the borough. He woad in for a high prise, and he lost it, bet perhaps these would soon be an opportuaity of going is for another high prise, and perhaps he shaukl be thea more snemsetel The gentleman they elected in hie place mot be mare able but he could not be a mere d ams and 14110.fel title. thou he woe TM s, Moems el the peopie =borne he should sever her bet whatever his fate m a ponder! ere be never walla advocate say of palsy, or as; other pria ciples then them whisk bed ease mechalaies .amber for the borough. (Mem) • vete of *sake te W Manias dim teneisstml tie presidia. LAMBETH. The declaration was made this day at the hustings near the Horns Tavern. There was a considerable crowd ool looted, amounting to some 3,C30 palms, and there was a great amount of fee, arising principally from the ementric pramedinp of Mr. Haig, the coneersative candidate, who came in a anise and four, and who was greeted with roars of laughter. The RITORNING Ormuz& (Mr. H. Oaalow) declared the poll es follows : Mr. Thome Hughes Mr. F. Melton Mr. F. C. Lawrence 4743 Mr. Jamie Haig 614 giving a majority for Mr. Hughes over Mr. Doniton of 93, and a majority for DT. Doulton over Mr. Leet•ooo of 1,537. He therefOredeclered that Mr. Thomas Hughes and Mr. F. llculton were drily elected. (Cheers.) Mr. Hooggs thee addressed the electors at considerable length and amid the greatest attention from the crowd. He declared himself opposed to the ballot, as he had stated all along throughout his canvass, Red in favour of an eitee• aim of the trivialise. He should also be in favour of the substitution of direct taxation for indirect taxation if be saw a way of imposing dived !mallet' on the working claws, but he did not see any such way. He congratulated the borough on the honourable way in which the election I had been conducted. Mr. DOCLTON said be was glad to echo the sentiments of his colleague with regard to the manner in which the election had been conducted. He thanked the electors for bevies showed their confidence in bile by again returning him. He did not begrudge Mr. Hughes the position be had obtained and he trusted that they would wick in harmony together for the good of those they represented. Mr. LLWIIIINCI tendered his hearty Meeks to the 4.700 e'eclora who had voted far him, and expremed his disappointment at the result. He had good grenade to expect that he should be elected, bat in some district net more than a third of those who bpi promised him their votes had voted for him. He was not, however, dia .. opursiod or disheartesed at the result, for it was no dis graee for any man to be beaten by Mr. Thomas Hughes. (Cheers.) He thought it en honour that in the face of a manifasto from the trades of Loudon in favour of Mr, Hughes, he had polled al many votes as be bad. Mr. Lawrence thee went on in • speech of oonsiderable length to state his pgitioil °pinkies, and how he sympa• thoed with the working classes, and be stated that before he put up for Lambeth he had two offers from small boroughs, in either of which he could have been returned with little trouble and little coot, bat he preferred to sit for Lambeth, counting that a rester honour. Mr. HA(G then promoted himself, and his appearance was the signal for the renewal of the uproarious merriment with which he was at first greeted. He made a long rambling speech amidst muds laughter in which be related how it was that harems to stand for the borough. He received a ►etter from a gentleman, he would not say who, who stated there were fifty conservative gentlemen who would be on his committee. He (Mr. Haig) had • nice little de posit of 3001. in a bank —Ovate of laughter)—and he went and got it out. He then described how he wrote his address, and how he went to the papers with it, and parted with his maw like • man ; mid how be put it to the writer of the letter that another 1,003/. ought to be sub scribed by the 50 ooniersative gentlemen, but they would Net SUbSOSibil a penny. Upon which he determined to find the mosey himself, and he had done it with out borrowing anything except 10!. from his nephew, Not only, however, had the 50 conservative gentleman appointed him in not fading money, but they had desert( I him altogether, and he had to sit in his committee room by himself, and do all the work himself, and he was so tired that in the middle of the day of the election he fell asleep ' for two hoots. (Loud laughter.) The learned gentleman was then proceeding to relate the particulars of • charge which he said had formerly been made against Lord Westbury, then Mr. Bothell, but there were loud cries of "Time," and before he could finish the story he was induced by the gentlemen on the platform to stand aside . for • moment until thanks had bees voted to the return , jag officer. Mr. Hugon then moved, and Mr. DOULTON seconded, • cordial vote of thanks to the returning officer, which was carried unanimously. Mr. HAIG then recommenced his story, but the gentlemen on the platform and the crowd moved off, and seeing he should be left alone, be moved off likewise, and wee escorted to his carriage by a number of working men, who patted him on the back, and seemed to regard him as a prime mover of fun. SOUTHWARK ELECTION.-(THIS DAY. The norpination of candidates for the borough of Southwark took place this day on a hustings erected in the immediate vicinity of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway station in the Southwark Bridge-road. Mr. W. Gresham, the high-bailiff, prelidcl. The only candidates were the late members Mr. A. H. Layard, the Under- Seeredary for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. T. Locke, Q,.0. The absence of opposition divested the premed inp of the interest which has peerally been mani fested on other occasions. We looked in vain for a placard or an "adman, and an inspection of the meagre gathering in front of the busting@ showed that it was composed of a few idlers attracted by enriceity and a large number of very small &adroit. Mr. Locke arrived is as open carriage shortly before the hour named for the nomination, but there was no cheering or demonstration of any kind. Mr. Layard followed closely in the wake of hie colleague. There were not a hundred per- sops present during any part of the proceedings. The writ having been read by the High Bailiff's assis tant, and the oaths administered to the Returning Officer, The MOH Bauur briefly addressed the weemblage. He mid he was augured from the quiet upset presented that each of the speakers would receive a patient bowleg, and that the borough of Southwark would be le this respect, ea it was is others a model to other constituencies. Mr. JONAH °AIMEE proposed Mr. Locke as a fit and proper person to represent the borough. He bad already served the electors in two parliaments, and bad paid great attention to the interests of the borough. He was a thorough liberal, was at all times aoceesibbe, and had great claims upon the support of the electors. Mr. THOMAS Wax's' seconded the nomination. Mr. Locke during the time be had been in parliament had de voted greet attention to their local interests, sod bad earned ;heir good will and cordial support. He had advocated the abolition of toll-gates with such such ruccess, that in No- vember they would all diappear on the south side of the Thames ;he had also supported the Union Chargea bility Bill and had When an active part I. protecting the commons and open 'pose in and around the metropolis from the aggressions of those who wished to take them away Irons the public. Mr. 01:0801 Bowman proposed Mr. A. H. Ward, who, he said, bad paid great attention to the local interests of the borough, and had proved a faithful representative. Alluding to political measures, he expensed his regret that the government of which Mr. Lanni was a member had sot fulfilled their pledges with regard to reform. He trusted that are of their first acts in the new parliament would be to introduce a reform bill ; and if they failed to fulfil the jut expectations of the people in that respect, he, for one, would withhold his support from them. At the mime time he thanked the government for the ooze martial treaty, the Union Chargeability Bill, and for the great reduction of taxation which had takes place during the time they had been in office. Dr. BINDIS seconded the nomination. He warmly eulo gised the conduct of Kr. Layard in parliament, and praised the government for the successful efforts they had made to preserve pesos with foreigs manes. By this muses they bed bees able to redoes the taxation of the oonstry, and to mist is the devekmment at nests' domestic reform. The Woo BAILIFF asked if any elector had any ether candidate to propose. (Cries of "Ne t no.") As there was so INIMOSSB, the Hum BMW? declared Mr. Locke sad Mr. Layard duly deeded. , 1865. Mr. Local, wbe woe reeeive 1 wi h china, mid $ wee the fourth time be bad bad the hoer at name*" the for belag sleeted as their mewed give. Is 1857 he was Mused a. a supporter of Laid Palmerston is the Mae war, sad, duds; the eight yeses whisk had elapsed dm hie AM election he had eentionod as lads. panda& supporter of the goveressest, He now ciamo Isserd, for the fourth time, wad he wee seed to lad that he bad not Welted their sonfidenin He believed that the country, ou the whole, was satisfied with the government who had praerved pease, redeem& Matins, sad on the whole promoted liberal men erne. Amen Ober things, he Mak& them for the aid they lad gives Mr. Morsel( in carrying the bill for the abolitisa of Roman oatholie oaths through the Hoes of Comma. Unions• &Sly the bill was sinned in the Ham of Lords, mainly through the oppositios of Lord Derby, who in reality ow posed it on amend of it liberality and for the religiose freedom which it °Mend Relemos had ►ass made to the Union Chargeability BM He was glad to my that that bill had passed through both hems of parliament, and he believed t►at it would wort M a most eatistattory sanest. He farther &premed a hope that next masks the govemeneat would bring in a bill for the egudisatios of the poor rates in the metropolis, which would hem the effect of relieving the pariah of Southwark from the liability j of supporting a vest body of poor thrust upon them by the more wealthy parishes. (Cheers.) During lest session he bad presided as chairmen over the oommittee moved for by Mr. Drolton for inquiries into the militias of the ammo& and opus plaeas in the neighbourhood of the ma tropol The inquiries of the committee had bees greatly protracted, but he Metal that the report they had mile would resat is preserviog for the metropolis in fetus those open spaces, which might be fairly regarded as its lunge. Upon thia quasi& he might add that the efforts to obtain a park for Southwark had been emeref al, and that on the 29th of September it would be open to the public. Ho appeared before them se die advocate of the same liberal principles which b• professed in 1867, sad that those grin• aides had bees successful the present satisfactory state of the country abundantly testified. The *sada schemes of Mr. Gladstone bad been eminently successful, which was more than could be sald of any which had ever been pro pounded by Mr. Disraeli. As Mg as his health sight be spared he trusted to remain the representative of the borough of Southwark. (Cheers.) Mr. LATAIII; who was warmly cheered, said that South wark had redeemed the charaoter of the metropolitan constituencies in having returned their representatives without the annoyance and expense of a union. He also congratulated the metropolitan constituents* generally upon the &sewer they bad given to the my of "Coaservative reaction" by the tehnophant return of the liberal engirded.» for the City, and of Mr. Mill for Westminster, sad Mr. Hughes for Lambeth. He urged that there wee a material distinction between the liberal sad the cooservative party, end referred to the course pur sued by the conservatives in reference to the Roman Catholic Oaths Bill, and other measures, as foreshadowing what the country might expect if the tory party canoe into power. At the last election the Roman catholica opposed him, but he thought they did so under a wrong in:preemie°, namely, that the government were supportiag a party in Italy who were endeavouring to overthrow the power of the Pope. He totally di►claimed say »teed» of that kind. Oa the contrary, their policy throughout I. reference to foreign questions had been one of non-interfereme and Dos-inter vention. He reminded the Roman utholice that it was to the liberals they owed all the m 1141004 freedom they OW joyed, and that sll the measures fee their retied had mesa sated from theliberal perky, and had bees exposed to the full extent of their power by theouservatives. (Cheers.) Having adverted to the course which the government had pursued in reference to Nowak and the civil war in America, he proceeded to touch upon the question of reform. He ad mitted that the government in that rasped had not fully answered the expectations of the country, but he thought the principal fault rested with the constituencies them selves, in not having evinced a greeter interest in the question. He himself had redeemed the pledges he had given upon the &abject, and four years ago he was one of the forty members who voted for Mr. White's motion, and who gained for themselves the title of "The fatty thieves." (Laughter and cheers.) His opinioas with reseed to re form remained unchanged. On the cosdrary, everyday more oonvinoed him that t►e time was won when the working classes ought to be admitted to the franchise and to have a voice is the legislation of the country. The government had been reproached with having intermeddled in the again of foreign countries. He denied that the charge was true, sad pointed to the advantages which had resulted from the commercial treaties which bad been entered into with France, Pravda, the Reifying», Italy, Belem» and Turkey, se a proof of the sundae» mad wisdom of their foreign policy. (Cheers.) A vote of thank, to the High Bailiff brought the pea• eeediap tea slow POLLING.-(THIS DAY.) FINSBURY. The excitement of nomination day having blown off the political stews of the borough, the real business of the election commenced this morning at the various polling booths. At the central booth on Clerkenwelligreene Torre= and Leek were decidedly the favourites. At St. Luke's, King's-Kamm the polling was is favour of Ter race, who ii exceedingly popular in the perish. At the other booths, the fortunes of the candidate. were *rarities. The polling has been as follows : 9 o'cLacc. ...... Last . Tatman C 0:.... . Phillips Porn& .. 1160 .. 1146 .. ON .. 136 10 otwcz. Tomas • Perfiti ••• • Tarries Lusk .. 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