The Sun. — London, England, 1835-01-10 00:00:00

GENE R-2 CTION WESTMINSTER. From our Third Edition of last night. Long before four o'clock the mass of people collected before the hustings exceeded all previous assemblages on such an oc casion. Not less than 10,000 persons were seen filling every avenue and crowding every building, and the roofs of the va rious shops were filled to suffocation. About a quarter-past four the Committee appeared upon the hustings, when Dr. BAINBRIDGE stepped forward and said—Electors of Westminster, I am sure you will have patience for a few mi nutes until the whole of the returns are brought up to the close of the poll, when Colonel Evans will have the pleasure of ad dressing you.—( Cheers ) In the mean time he (Dr. B.) would say a few words at this unexampled success. The as semblage before him proved the 7:nterest they felt in the cause of this great contest. Lord Durham had told them they would one day have a stand-up fight with the Tories, and so far as Sir Francis Burdett and Colonel Evans were concerned they had a fair stand-up fight ; but has it been so with their adversaries?—(Cries of " No, no.") They had assumed all the small arts that man could conceive or devise to oppose them; the had spent thousands of money in this opposition, and even the influence of the fair sex was enlisted in their cause.—( Shame, shame.) Lady Cochrane and her fair daughter had actually engaged themselves in canvassing— ( Shame, shame.) They all knew there was such a place as Exeter Hall, hard by, which commanded 90 voters in the pro prietorship, and all these had been recorded in favour of Sir Thomas Cochrane ; but you know what sort of people as semble under the roof ; they are a set ofnondescript creatures, —( A laugh. ) --being neither of the masculine nor the femi nine getyler—( A laugh. )__wearing such things as aprons before a'nem. These gentlemen had taken care that all the votes they could command should be recorded ; now he would urge the present meeting, those who Only had three shillings and ten-pence a week to take care that they were qualified for the next election.—( Cries d" We will," ) You have now got the Tories under - our rev . of One thousand feet are at this moment on ' &no Ind. of Sir Thomas Cochrane.—( Immense cheeit g.) Dr. B.) when at college learned, with other actenefaa, the art of boxing— (Laughter) and his ;: ist r uct i asns i n pugilism taught him Stever to give a elanee to his opponent, or throw a t'hance sway, at the same time always to fight fair, which he believed -was the:cause of their present success.-_( Cheers.) He re joiced to say that Dr. Waklcy had been returned for Finsbury. He would be a useful assistant to his profession, which unfor tunately was little regarded in that House, for all their cor porations were filled by a certain conclave ; which required re iforming.—( Hear, hear.) MI% I. BROWN, member or the Central Corral ittee for the City of London, said he had be e n unexpectedly called upon to address them, and although not an elector of Westminster, he had no doubt they waahr give him a patient hearing, as one engaged in the name triumphant cause.--( Cheers.) The City of laondon ha'! returned four reformed members, in spite of the - vast eff_rts made in behalf of the Tories, and the large sums expended in that cause,—(Cheers,)—and he had no doubt the whole country would return such men to Parliament as would sjanail: the true feelings of the people.--( Cheers. ) Mr. DE VEAR—I have to thank you fer having placed our sold and triad friend of reform Sir Francis Burdett once again at the head of the poll; here (said Mr. I).) is my speech, (ex. hilating the list of candidates, and numbers polled).--( Cheers. ) Colonel EVANS (who was received with great cheering )—I am here to congratulate you upon the large majority which lhas this day returned me as your Representative to Parliament. Yesterday I exulted in the number of 500: to-day you have surpassed all my anticipations, and made it 1,200.--( Cheers. ) You have good reason to be in good humour at your triumph —tha true interests of the people will he promoted by this struggle.—( Cheers.) [Here Sir F. Burdett arrived, who was received with immense cheering, which was, for a rno _ ment, checked, in consequence of the platform upon which a number of persons had assembled, in front of the hustings having given slay, and precipitated several hundred persons to the ground there was an evident anxiety in the minds of all, particularly the two returned candidates, but it being announced no injury had been done, Colonel Evans pro ceeded.] I feel pleasure in giving way to m y co ll eague, Sir F. Burdett, y our o ld an d tried r epresentative.—(Cheers. ) Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, on making his appearance, was re ceived with the most enthusiastic cheering end waving of hats. When the app:ause had subsided the ;lon. Baronet said— Gentlemen electors, I told you *..'ne other day that we had met here not with a contest,l - at with a trial.—( Cheers.) That prediction has been full{ ratified ; for the littl e oppos i t i on we have met with freat tle Tory eand;date is scarcely worth being mentioned. (he only thing I regret is, that a gentleman should come se tar for such a purpose as he has stated—no re lieve West - ,,inter from the state of thraldom in which it !was 1 ,1 %-ed. lie has stated that he came to relieve it from the . .gnorelnious domination of the rump (although what that is I scarcely know), but I suppose he meant by that, that you were in the lowest state of degradation, and not the masters of your own privileges and independence, as we know you arc.—(Great applause.) The gallant ex-Gover nor has come forward to rescue you and the country from the state of thraldom in which you are placed, and the manner in which he has been met will scarcely encourage him to un dertake so unnecessary or so uncalled for an office.—( Laughter and cheers.) It is too late in the evening to go into any details, but I shall meet you again, gentlemen, when pro bably I shall haee an opportunity of saying more to you.— ( Hear, hear.) I shall only now express to you the pride and matisfaction I feel at the position in which I have been hlaced by the El ec t ors o f t h e Ci ty o f W estm i nster.—( Hear, ear, and cheers. ) But it seems to me that in placing me and my hon. colleague at the head of the poll you have only recog nised the principles by which you have been always actuated,and Lave selected those men whom you believe will do their duty fully tto you and to the public. Therefore, gentlemen, on this occa - -sion it gives me the most sincere satisfaction to find that you have maintained that high character for which your city has been proverbial ; and I assure you that I appre ciate and value as highly the character of the electors of the city of Westminster as my own individual character. I am equally jealous of the one as of the other.—( Hear. ) I think that the present is, if possible, a more triumphant texhibition of patriotism and independence than has been ex hibited by the electors of this great city on any former occasion. I shall not now detain you longer—the present is merely a moment of triumph, there is no room for discussion.--( Hear.) Our duty is plain and straight before us, and I have no doubt but that your representatives (the men whom you have ho noured with your choice) will do their duty as well to you as you have done it towards them.—( Great cheering.) If per mitted, I should now wish to take my leave of the elec tors, as I am desirous of going early to-morrow morning to my family in the country.--( Hear, and cries of " Of course.") We clearly understand each other, and I hope that the elec tors will not suppose that it is owing to any want of respect to them, if to-morrow, when the declaration is merely to be made by the proper officer, I will not be here to repeat what I have now stated.—(Cheering.) I shall now, gentlemen, bid you farewell, again expressing my gratification at this triumphant result of the attempt that has been made on the independence of the electors of Westminster.—(Tremendous cheering. ) Colonel EVANS then re-appeared in front of the hustings, and said—Gentlemen, why do I rejoice in seeing this vast aaa seroblage around me ? Not surely on account of the small arid petty triumph which I have participated ;n.--(Cheers.) 'No, Gentlem en , but it is b ecause you h ave come forward to participate in the triumph of good government, liberty, and independence, and the overthrow of those men in whom we have no confidence.---( Cheers.) It is, Gentlemen, very difficult to please those who have got into Downing-street.—( A laugh.) We have often here discussed the subject of military flogging, and although the subject is an unpleasant one, I cannot help calling to your recollection the story of the Irish drummer, who, when he was flogging a man, struck him rather too high on the shoulders—the man cried out " not so high," and the drummer struck him lower down, upon which - the man again cried out " not so low."—( Loud laughter.) The drummer provoked, exclaimed, " strike high or strike low there is no pleasing you."—( Renewed laughter.) It is so with these great Tories—( Great laughter and groan ing)—and they will find out their mistake, I suspect, in a very short time, with regard to the agitation and re-action which they allege have taken place. When the people of Englaed are assembled to exorcise any of their great and important privileges—when they are convened to express their opinions upon public affairs, however determined they may be to ac t contiitutionally and cautiously, still the Tories continue to cry out against the agitation of the people, and exclaim that it will never have an end, A short time since you felt it your duty -to convey your sentiments upon the great change that had taken place, to the foot of the throne—those sentiments, while couched in the most respectful terms, at the same time were expressive of your deep satisfaction at that change. A week had scarcely elapsed, until those gentlemen cried out that a re-action had taken place—that your address should be taken no notice of ; but if they had been present to witness *tat has taken place here this evening, and throughout the rest cf the country, they would be satisfied that no re action had taken place.—(Loud cheers.) It will, perhaps, require some half-dozen years to right ourselves properly after this attempt of the Tories, notwithstanding all the trouble and exertions the people have had to obtain that second great charter of their rights, the Reform 13111; but still of this I am satisfied, that the people will be on all occasions ready to come forward and support the cause of freedom and inde pendence, until the victory be achieved.--( Great applause.) Gentlemen, I would advise the electors very anxiously to pay more attention, and to see that the overseers are compelled to pay attention to the registration of the voters. lam sorry to say we have lost many votes on that account. —( Hear, hear.) In the parish of Saint George's alone, owing to the neglect of the overseers, we have lost more than 100 votes. I hope, Gentlemen, you will bear this in mind at the next registration, till we can get an Act of Parliament to amend this defect. I will not now trespass more on your time, as I shall have the honour of addressing you again to-morrow.—( Cheers.) There has now been a great victory achieved in this metropolis, only two more Reformers are left to be returned, Mr. Hawes and Mr. Tennyson. lam sure that you feel as well as myself great anxiety on their account.—( Ulcers.) I hope you will therefore go home and use every means in your power to se cure the return of Mr. Tennyson for Lambeth—( Loud cheers) —and leave no stone unturned to secure the election of Mr. Hume for Middlesex.--( Loud cheering.) I once more return you my sincere thanks for the high and distinguished honour you have conferred ion me, and will not detain you longer as it is rapidly getting dark. I must confess that from the commencement of this contest I felt not the least anxiety as to the result, being confident that you would put me as high on the poll as I could expect. Here the Gat lant Colonel retired amidst loud cheering. Mr. TYRRILI, came forward and stated he had canvassed a large part of Westminster, and said that the Tories who had not paid their taxes were put on the list of voters—( Hear, hear)—but that the Liberals who had not paid their's were omitted. He strongly advised ths electors to see to the regular registration and entry of their votes, as the tax-gatherers were Tories.—(Loud cheers.) He complained of great unfairness in the registration, and strenuously advised all round to attend to the regular insertion of their names in the register, as it was all a Tory trick, and they ( Sir Francis Burdett and Col. Evans) would have had at least 500 more votes but for want of attention to the re gistration. The vast concourse of people then quietly separated, and we are happy to say that no one was hurt by the fall of the temporary scaffolding in front of the hustings beyond a few slight bruises. FINSBURY. From our Third Edition of last night. It is utterly impossible to describe the degree of interest that existed on Islington-green for some hours before the poll was closed. The crowd was immense. Great numbers of banners were flying from windows and various places throughout the neighbourhood, and hands of music playing. As the electors went to the poll for the two favourite candidates, more especially for Mr. Wakley, the cheers were deafening. The multitude continued rapidly to increase till four o'clock, when it was one of the greatest, probably much the greatest, that has yet assembled at any of the elections. At four o'clock the returning officer declared the poll to be closed. Mr. DuNcomnE then came forward. with great cheering. Ho s , ''' Finsbury, the poll h- .suti Ova seess' we a .......—sClais!inien electors of -.4 ACM finally closed ; the contest before you, even at this late hour oreasi, to offer you my sincere thanks, and to con/Tres you, the Reformers of Finsbury, on the great and noble triumph that you have this day achieved.—( Loud cheering.) I am proud, gentlemen, to say, and I am satisfied you will Le rejoiced to hear, that I have polled more votes upon this oeeasion than ever have been polled before by any candidate—since the elective franchise was conferred upon the borough of Finsbury—(Cheers) —and yet, Gen tlemen, we were told, previous to the contest, that this was the borough that was to disgrace itself by returning a Tory is Parliament !—( Laughter and cheers.) I hear, gentlemen, that as fat as the returns go from the country—and you all know what has occurred in the metropolis—that the Tories are perfectly satisfied with the returns !—( Great, laughter. ) Now, gentlemen, by the returns that I have seen, about 159 members are already returned, and in that number there is a majority of twenty in favour of the people.—( Loud cheers.) If the Tories are satisfied with the returns, I am sure the people are—(Laughter)—and I am quite sure I am— ( Continued laughter )-and it only rests now with myself to prove to you, that I am worthy of that distinguished honour that you have conferred upon me.—( Cheers.) To-morrow, gen tlemen, the state of the poll will be officially announced to you at twelve o'clock, by the Returning Officer. Until then, I shall take my leave of you, and only thank you once more— at the same time, repeating my most grateful and sincere acknowledgement for the zeal, the enthusiasm, and the good humour with which this contest had been conducted.—( Hear, hear, hear.) I say the zeal, because I know from my Committees that when it was proposed to the independent elec tors of this borough to carry them yesterday and to-day to the poll by coaches, their answer was, we want no conveyance ; the cause is our's more than Mr. Duncombe's, and we will walk to the poll.—( Loud cheers.) I say the zeal and enthusiasm is great, because I know you all feel as honest men. An elector said to me just no ,v, Mr. Duncombe, my heart is ready to break with joy that the Tories have been defeated."— ( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I again thank you for the distinguished honour you have done me ; but if I were to stand here till midnight in attempting to return you thanks adequate to my feelings, I should fail.—( Hear.) I will come here to-morrow, and renew and repeat those thanks I now offer ; and I beg you to believe that I can never, and shall never forget this, which I consider the proudest hour of my life."—(T remen d ous c h eers. ) Mr. WAXLEY now ascended ti:e steps in front of the hust ings, amidst many rounds of the most enthusiastic cheerings. Mr. Hobhouse stood at his side. Electors of Finsbury, said the hon. member, behold my first act after my triumph. ( Here Mr. W. stooped and seized Mr. Hobhouse's hand,which he shook most cordially, which seemed to delight not only the defeated candidate, but the meeting, in the most extraordinary manner.) Observe, gentlemen, that is the emblem of peace and good wig—(Loud cries of " Bravo, bravo")--and follow ye the example. The contest is at an end—the cause of the people has triumphed, and now let us for ever bury every angry feeling which the proceedings have originated—( Cheers, and cries of " Bravo.") I have been opposed zealously and earnestly, opposed by gentlemen whom, I believe, considered it was their duty to act in opposition on this occasion. I for give them ; and I believe that, within a very short period, they themselves will be satisfied that instead of being entitled to their opposition I merit their best con fidenc:..—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, you have returned to Par liament one of yourselves.—( Hear.) You have returned a man who has mixed, and who has laboured with you, in the humble walks of society.—( Hear, hear ) Gentlemen, as lam so hoarse, Mr. Rogers, my kind friend, has requested me to beg that I may be excused addressing you. because I shall have to do so to-morrow, and I should be glad if you would excuse me, as I am much exhausted.—( Cries of " Yes, yes," and a few " Noes.") I will only say now, then, that as I am your Re presentative, I shall be your Representative—and that if ever I forget, or fail to redeem one pledge that I have made on these hustings, execrate me to the last hour of your lives. —( Hear, hear, and cheering.) I have long fought your bat tle, but I have never yet had an efficient field for fighting it in until now. You at last have furnished the ground; and accuse me of being a traitor and a coward, if I do not take advantage of the position which I occupy.—( Deafening cheers. ) Mr. Honnous next stood forward to address the meeting amidst cheers and some disapprobation. Gentlemen, he said, I have very nearly lost my voice, and I have altogether lost my election.—( Much laughter and cheering.) Gentlemen, although I should have been better pleased to have congratu lated you on the triumph of reform in my own person— ( Loud laughter and jeering) I am perfectly well pleased that the Learned Sergeant has been beaten—(great cheers)—and that the cause of Reform has been at last trium phant in Finsbury. Gentlemen, I came before the electors of Finsbury on the assurance that your present Hon. Member ( Mr. Wakley) could not command sufficient votes to be: . one Learned Sergeant.—( Cries of " But n o w y ou h^-.- ; 5 o another. assurance.") Gentlemen, you have cer:- • s surances, and that is enough : or me np; ie ( Cale% Oi " Bravo,lth,n , o t t liberal interest hej ‘ bravo.) The moment Is - mild that I might b e d e f eat i ng t h e tsinabur,y this morning—( C r i es o f no , no )_ I mean t 9, say the snoment I saw the possibility of that, tisal moment I resigned the contest—(Loud although I think I had, at least I am assured I had a great number of votes unpolled, that might by some possibility, I do not know how they would have gained me my election.-- ( Cries of " No, no.") Nevertheless, as I said before, I congratulate you that Reform has triumphed here. I congra tulate you upon the great good humour with which this election has been conducted—l hope have not displeased my of vou—l had no interest myself but the cause of the peo ple at heart—l never shall have any interest but their's—l shall always in my public conduct identify myself with them on any future occasion on which I may present myself, and wishing you all a very good night, as it is now time for me to go home, I beg to take my leave of you.—( Great cheering.) Mr. ROGEREI then presented himself, and was received with loud cheers. The electors of Finsbury had accomplished the triumph that he had promised them, and he now knew that they would not only enjoy their triumph, but that they would enjoy it like free citizens.—( Hear.) They would now be peaceful, relying upon their strength, and he knew they would be, as it had always been said that the people of England were powerful in action, quiet and peaceable when their conquest was closed. At last they had put Mr. Wakley into the House of Commons. There had been repeated struggles, but this was a great victory—and a victory of the people, too, without the assistance of any part of the press. Cheers.) This (said Mr. R.) has been done by the peo ple alone. And now, Gentlemen, I am going to tell 3ou a piece of news that will be almost as gratifying to you as Mr. Wak ley's triumph, and that is, that William Cobbett is elected for Oldham.--( Loud cheers.) Mr. PANE now came forward, and stated his accurate name, which, he said, had yesterday been mistaken for Bain. He said—l am called upon by a gentleman of Mr. Hobhouse's Committee to retract an expression which he says I made use of yesterday, but which I deny having used. I have ap pealed to the gentlemen of the press who were present, and they say I did not make use of it —namely, that Mr. Hobhouse had come here as a sheep in wolf's clothing. —( Hear, hear.) I deny that I did make use of that expres sion ; but I say that even if I bad done so—(Cries of " It would have been right")—l could have justified it. But gen. tlemen, we do not meet to-day to exult over the fallen —we meet to triumph over the great cause—over the great victory that has been achieved.—( Cheers.) Mr. Hobhouse very nobly and very prudently resigned the contest this morn ing —not that his standing would have at all prevented Mr. Wakley being returned, but it has considerably augmented the majority which has been obtained over the Tories— ( Cheers)—and I hope that the victory which has just been achieved in Finsbury will be a warning to the Finsbury Mock Reform Club—( Loud cheers)--and a lesson to them, by which those who composed that Mock Reform Club have not the power of nominating a candidate for Finsbury.— ( Cheers.) A gentleman says lam not speaking to the ques tion.—( Cries of " you are, you are.") I was challenged here by one of the members of the Finsbury Reform Club, and I will meet him here now, or at any other time to repeat what I stated yesterday, or on any other occasion.— (Cheers.) I said no thing yesterday, I believe, but what was straight-forward and manly—nothing but what was the sincere conviction of an honest heart, and having done so, I think it was ex tremely impolitic in Mr. Hobhouse's Committee to tax me with having made use of an expression which I never thought of.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, I shall not detain you longer, but will merely propose three cheers for the successful candi dates, the friends of the people. Three cheers were given with great enthusiasm. is over, and T of t Three groans were then called for for Spankie, and which were given in a truly hideous style. Three groans were next called for, and given with equal warmth, for Sir Robert Peel; and the same for the great Military Dictator. The immense meeting then quietly and orderly dispersed, preceded by banners and bands of music. TOTVER H4MLETS. From our Third Edition of last night. DEFEAT AND RESIGNATION OF THE TORY CANDIDATE. Throughout the day considerable confusion prevailed, on account of the proceedings of the friends of the Tory candidate, who, though denied at the first request, persisted in soliciting the electors very much to their annoyance. Much disgust was also occasioned in consequence of about 100 poor men parading the borough with a placard inscribed—" We are starving ; Captain B— has deceived us, and wont pay us our wages." They went to the committee of Dr. Lushington, and stated that they were employed by the chairman of the Tory Candidate's Committee, a Mr. a builder, who promised them Is. 10d. a-day, but which they were unable to obtain, and were discharged without a moment's notice. Captain BURTON came forward amidst great confusion. Partial silence having been obtained, he said—Those of the electors who read my address must have perceived the reason of my presenting myself before you. The sentiments con tained in that address I will maintain to the latest peri- 1 me existence. In the same address s— laughter.) I beg also to --•-••• Ut .._a-v-aa:CA pause and —.urn you that those principles I to death,—( Great laughter etitl erica of _.avo.") Ma- firm belief Is that the policy which I profess ha, a gMIU• tendency to promote the well-being of this coun try than any other.—( Hisses and laughter.) lam happy at all events of giving an opportunity to those electors who have done me the honour of recording their vette; in illy Savour. I assure you it is impossible for me ever to express the deep feeling of grattude I feel towards them. To those of the electors who differed in opinion with me, and recorded their votes against me, I entertain towards them feelings of the kindest nature.--( Bravo.) Whatever difference we may have in political sentiments, I really believe they wish for the wel fare of the country_( Bravo.) I told you when I first presented myself, that I was neither h Whig nor a Tory--( What then ?) 1 repeat it—the only principle I have is the well-being of the country—l look to that alone, and I belong to no other faction. It was my determination to continue this election as long as there was an elector remaining to poll ; but by the advice of my friends, and with the good feeling which I have towards this borough, I assure you I should be the last man to wish to excite any unkind feelings amongst you, or to give you any unnecessary trouble—it therefore only remains for me to assure vou that, as long as I exist, I shall entertain the kindest fed i :gs towards the electors of the Tower Hamlets, as I anxiously desire that everything done for them may be for their interests and welfare.—( Cheers.) It must be perceptible to all those who noticed the polling this day, that it is quite impossible for me to contend against a coalition.—( Cries of ‘• there is no coalition, and off, off.") I can only assure you from the re turns to my Committee, my votes are nine- tenths of them piumpers. It now remains only for me to assure you that I shall a' , .va)s entertain an anxious desire for your welfare, and that I retire from you in the best humour in the world.— ( Cheers. ) I only regret that there have been some mistatements made of my political sentiments, and that some clamour was made when I came forward to address the electors, which I h ipe I did with manliness, and I trust I may also add, with proper gentlemanly feeling. (Cheers.) Dr. Li'SHINGTON presented himself, and was greeted with loud cheers. He proceeded to address them as follows : Electors of the Tower Hamlets, the battle has been fought and the victory won.—( Cheers.) I regret not the trouble, the expense, or the anxiety, which that struggle entailed upon me, though I may regret that my friends have been compelled to exert themselves and to occupy their time. But I am proud for myself, for the viedication of my character —( Hear)--for the support of my principles, and that a mag nificent majority has rescued this borough from being stamped a Tory borough._( Cheers.) I rejoice at the estab lishment of those principles that I have advocated, and the example set to the metropolitan county and to the kingdom at large. lam humbly grateful and proud, as an Englishman and an advocate of our general cause.—( Cheers. ) Through the whole of this contest there was no one point upon which my mind was not made up, except that I saw myself the victim of the bitterest abuse and un bounded calumny, and therefore, without condescending to follow the example of my political opponents, I have taken care that not one word has escaped me in impugning the cha racter of any who attacked me.—( Cheers.) These arc the weapons with which I will not fight. Every man has a right to his own political principles. He has a right to be a Tory if he thinks fit, I quarrel not with him, it is a question for his own conscience to settle ; but if he is a Tory, let him, be found where he will, politically speaking, be supported ; but wherever he is found, I am his resolved and determined foe.—( Cheers.) Coalition !—( Laughter.) Why, it so hap pens that between myself and my hon. colleague, after two years' service in Parliament, where the most important ques tions ever agitated were discussed, we have not differed on ra-re than live votes on the utmost ; and was it not na tural, then, that the friends of Mr. Clay should come for ward and support the individual mho supported the same principles that he did?—( Cheers.) Was it not natural that they should not only support Mr. Clay, but recollecting who was in the field against those principles, or at least a gentle man whose principles, upon his honour, he did not yet know— ( Laughter)—but be they what they may, they are not those of my colleague and myself, for he did not what we have done, hoist the banner of Reform —not such reform ne Sir Robert Peel professes---( Hisses)—but that Reform in State, and that alteration in Church, those great changes throughout all the institutions of the country which the people of England understand, (call them by what name you please) which they understand and covet, and ask for, and ask with loud voice, and shall and must have.—Vehement cheering.) Now then, no wonder that a large majority of the electors of the Tower Hamlets, united in their sentiments, have supported Mr. Clay and myself, as I humbly hope a large majority of the electors of Middles sex will support Mr. Hume and Mr. Byng.—( Cheers.) We are strong—strong first in the justice of our cause, strong next in the knowledge of that justice, and strong again from the immense majority of the people having adopted those opinions ; but strong as we are, let us remember the wa-' of my Lord Melbourne, " We are not Strom , -- to be divided." We must unite, and a- ' not merely of the Oct , - _ ',nen si7e . ak ae o u f g u h ,e, to i afford spak dlesex, or or _ass of the Tower H am l ets , or o f Mid:. .ue metropolitan boroughs) but to All the people _ ,ngland—( flear)—who ?smite the Constitution, and value the Conatitetiem and tkire to have the Constitution preserved in that state in which, when a rational man looks upon it, he may say it is not deformed by abuse and corruption— ( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) I concur in all the kind feeling expressed by the gallant Captain, but I must may when all that was dear to me lam et stake, I looked tia you, and to your verdict, not merely yob acquittal, but your honour, truq, and confidence ; and my deep sense of thankfulness for the patriotic manner that you have supported me, is beyond my expression. The Learned Gentleman then retired amidst the most en. thusiastic cheering. Mr. COATES said—The proud triumph of the present mo ment is, in some measure, depressed by the absence of Mr. Clay, who is kept, by domestic circumstances, from returning thanks in his own person. But when I tell you that Mr. Clay is watching the sick, perhaps the dying, bed of a beloved fa, ther, I am sure you will not think the less of him as a public man, because he has attended to the endearing charities of rrivatc life.-4 Loud cheers.) My maxim is, never to triumph over the fallen.—(Cheers.) The gallant Captain has declared that, notwithstanding the result of the election, he is determined to stand by his principles. If I c ould c oll ec t what those principl es are , I wou ld he in a COtidttldn to judge of the wisdom of this resolution.—(Laughter.) But as there is a difficulty, I can duly collect them from his great master, Sir Robert Peel---( Tremendous groaning)—in every word of whose jesuitical address the Gallant Captain says he COneUrs. It comes to this, that the Gallant Captain is as much a Tory as Sir R. Peel himself.—(Groans and cheers.) Ido not object to the Tories retaining their opinioti3---4 AM too tole rant to object to opinions which I think to be mistaken. The Tories, then, are welcome to their opinions ; but they are not welcome to put their hands into the pockets of the people to maintain those opinions —Cheers.) T took the nett) , of telling the Gallant Captain, when he otrered hlmself as a candidate, that he did not stand the most remote chance.---( Cheers. ) He did not listen to my suggestion. lam glad he came to the poll, as I hope he will go away wiser than he came.— (Cheers.) I know the men of the Tower Hamlets to be firm, wise, and resolved never to part with the reat princi ples of C ons ti tut i ona l Reform. (Cheers.) But there is a small, insignificant, and exclusive body of persons here, but who know nothing of our virtue or our patriotism, or our resolution to take our stand upon the great principles of Constitutional Reform. I hope those persons will be now satisfied that this borough is determined to maintain those great principles.—( Loud and continued cheers.) Something has been said about a coalition. If such had existed, it would have been laudable to all parties—for men to unite in a just cause is laudable, but no such thing has existed.—( Hear, hear.) What you have witnessed is the independent conclusion of different men acting together to maintain these great and constitutional principles common to you all. The attempt to palm a Tory candidate upon this borough will, I hope, be a lesson to that party.—(Loud cheers.) I have now only to return you my most heartfelt thanks and those of Mr. Clay, for your noble devotion and magnificent exertion in this great cause. I wish Mr. Clay were here to tender them himself, but you have a better reward than thanks, the approbation of your own consciences, and a knowledge that your votes were given to secure your own interssts. When you look back to the great struggle that has been made to cheat the people out of their great charter, Fit will be a sufficient reward for you that you fought the battle of right against power, and of purity against corrup tion ; and that you joined to maintain the interests of the ' many against the interested and factious object of the few. I will conclude by thanking you, in the name of Mr. Clay, and of all the other Reformers of England, and by congratulating you on the triumphant issue of the contest.—(Loud cheers.) C. WHARTON, Esq., the Returning Officer, said that he had just received a letter from Captain Burton, stating that he waived the poll which he had demanded, and retired from the contest. ft was his duty, therefore to de- am ready to in- Clare W. Clay, Esq., and Stephen Lushington, Esq., duly returned to serve in the ensuing Parliament. The following is the state of the poll at tho close : FOUR O'CLOCK. Clay Lushington Burton 2,779 2,580 465 LAMBETH. From our Third Edition of last night. This day at Four o'clock the polling ceased, when Mr. HAWES came forward and said,— The last return of the poll chews that you have placed me in the post of honour— you hav e d one me t h e h onour to place me in the first situation on the poll. Gentlemen, lam deeply grateful to all of you, and that gratitude I will endeavour to shew, not by words but by deeds.—( Great cheering.) I think, Gentlemen, that we may now safely say, that in the Borough of Lambeth, all the crying about re-action and the division among the Reformers is false—( Cheers.) It happens that Mr. Ten nyson, from some unexplained cause, is prevented from appear ing before you. I know that a short time ago he was very unwell ; there is a gentleman present, however, on his behalf, who is deputed to return his sincere thanks to you—( Cheers. ) You must now remember that our adversaries have decided on continuing the election throughout to-morrow.—(Great and continued disapprobation.) lam delighted, gentlemen, to hear those shouts on my left hand (the Conservative because before four o'clock to---- cheering will 9") , i know how much their worth.—(Great cheering, and laughter.) ...it proud majority you have given ti to-day has, in pokt of fact, virtually settled the cloak:in for tile llorotigh. -( Great cheering; 1 Anti, Oentletiten, ism quite sure that the testilt *lll that iteXt day's Vdfit itlil better spak the feelings of the people of this borough, than to-day. Cheers, and great noise.) Some of the friends of the Alderman think that I am speaking for him. I can only say that I am speaking for myself, without the slightest in flammation of the chest--( Great cheering and laughteT)— and Ide P.5.!,1Arr.! Pltk that Will be indeed, if, after agking your suffrages, I think of making that an excuse for not facing you.—( Great cheering.) This day's poll will add one more to the proud triumph of Reform.--( Cheers.) It will go through the country, and help to keep up the good cause of liberty and freedom.—(Greet cheering.) As I said to you when you first sent me into Parliament, that you would find me a most staunch advocate of that cause, so now I will only say, that while 1 have breath, it shall not have a more dt!tcr mined supperter.—( Cheering.) 1 ask you to rally round us (" We will, we will")—rally round the same standard to morrow as you have done to-day, and show our opponents that if wisdom directed their councils, they would have put an end to the contest at once. But, gentlemen, I assure you, if they have no objection to the contest, I have eane, because I know that the r es ult will be Shell ati one as not to justify th em i n continuing it ; but it will pl ice me in a more proud situation than lamin at present. I only ask you to continue the same exertions to-morrow as you have nobly done to-day, and let us shew those who are hired to stop the freedom of discussion here, that our efforts far outrival their's by our position on the poll, —( Cheers. )—which, after all, is the way in which we can speak loudest. I call upon you to exert yourselves—bestir yourselves, and not let it be said that beeatt!ti we are §ard we are indolent.—( Cheers, and et ies of " We will show them that to-morrow.") I say again, that if you return me to parlia meet, you send me as the steady advocate of the rights of the people—dissenters as well as churchmen. You will find no truckling or trimming in me,_( Cheering)—and wherever you find me voting against the principles of llaform, against the liberties of the people, or against sound eeonotily, then turn your backs upon me. The Hon. Gentleman con cluded amidst immense applause from an audience (never ex ceeded in resFectability at an election) of more than 2,000 persons. J. H. PALMER, Esq. (son of Mr. Tennyson's proposer), then came forward on behalf of Mr, TPniiytoii, tie said, " I have been RAH, And I took the task with very great Leasure, to return thanks to you, on the part of Mr. ennyson, for the high and distinguished honour you have done him in so freely and nobly tend - !ring him your suffrages. When I heard the shout raised on the other side when Mr, Hawes spoke of the Right 1-ion, Gentictilan'4 I thought it came from a very had Motive and in exceeding bad taste.— ( Cheers.) Mr. Tennyson is never afraid to face the people, and he would never descend to so low a pretence as illness to prevent him from appearing here.—(Cheers.) 'We already know that Mr. Tennyson's intera.ts ar e •afe le yti, 3 / 4 „th we know you will rush to the poll, and I have no doubt but that you will place the Right Honourable Gentleman in that situation to which his public spirit entitles him.— ( Cheers. )—At all events, I think that those who make elle sions to any one's indisposition tight not to have sent here a hired band of men to make disturbance and noise.—( Great cheering, which drowned the Hon. Gentleman's voice.)—l feel perfectly confident, gentlemen, that you will nobly do your duty.—( Cheers.) Great as a trilnivh migUt iic io the electors, it would rot be merely the triumph of the borough of Lambeth, but of those principles uron which I sincerely believe the liberties of the people rest. If the same spirit as you have shown were felt to actuate the people generally, I would say that there was no doubt but that the Tories would find they were going," " going," " gone."—( Loud laughter.) Ido believe that the result of this day's poll will be a great stimulus to the cause of Reform throughout the country, and I cannot for a moment doubt but that the result of the elections generally would greatly tend to accelerate the pace of Reform in place of retarding it. I again return you my most sincere thanks, and beg further to say that Mr. Tennyson feels strongly for the honour you have done him. I entreat you to come early to the poll to-morrow, and crush—at once and for ever---the spirit cf Toryitin in this horongli—(Lotri dreering..) Our object is not merely to return our late representatives to the House of COaimons with a triumphant majority, but by an overwhelming one, to show to the country the opinions of the electors of Lam beth upon those great principles which are now at stake in the country.—( Great cheering ) 1 agt_lti Ittlifil you lay most hearty thanks, and again beseech you to strike a blow to-morrow which will make the hearts of tyrants tremble.—( Cheers.) Mr. LETT ( Alderman Fairbrother's chairman) then came forward, and was about to make some observations on his be half, but was received with such. yelling and groaning that hot a word could be heart!. Att, 1 - IAWEs entreated as a personal favour, as well as for the good of the cause in which they were engaged, to give the gentleman a fair hearing. Silence having bean r. , ?.storatl2 Mr. Lair' tlien prOneetiedLne wished to detain them but for moment, while he detailed the reasons of the worthy Alderman's aliskned:-.-L e Jean) it wits occasioned by very serious iiino§, tie ha attempted to come b e f ore tti§tn, kltiti had got as far as his Committee-room, and un doubtedly he would have appeared among them, if the medical man had not stated that sudden death would be the inevitable consequence of an exposure to cold on the hust ings.—( Groaning.) He would ive them an opportunity of Coming to this poll se.4norrenr, and registering their tot es f or g tilt independent men.—(Much hissing and groaning.)_. He would do so on these grounds—to give every elector an opportunity of registering his vote either for Tennyson, for Hawes, or for Farebrother—( Disapprobation and laughter. ) He had sanguine hopes that the poll to-morrow would show a very different complexion to what it then did.--(Great lattaliter, and eries "No doubt of it.") He was sine that' na gentleman iclio Ithe* him *mild say that he kept the poll open from factious motives. He had ascertained that they had a full proportion of the electors of the borough in their favour.—(Great laughter.) He re turned thanks on the part of Alderman Farebrother to those who had voted for him, and hoped his other friends would etime forward early to-morrow. After a few words from Mr. M‘LEoh, which was not heard in consequence of the noise, the meeting separated. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The elections are proceeding with varied success as re gards the two antagonist parties ; but, on the whole, com paring the returns, the Ministers are gaining a sensible ad dition to the Conservative party. Whether sufficient to level the great previous inequality between their own num bers and those of the combined Whigs and Radicals, it will require some weeks to ascertain. Government must suffer inconvenience from the defeat of four of its official friends, two of whom have been designated for Lords of the Admi ralty, one the Secretary to that Board, and the fourth, who was a Secretary to the Treasury under the Duke of Wel lington, vim., the two Admirals, Cockburn and Rowley, and Messrs. Planta and Dawson. We may say that the loss of a person so experienced as Sir George Cockburn, both in the naval service of the State and in the civil, would he felt also b 1 the Rouse of Commons, whenever it became necessary to seek information upon the details of that great department with which the gallant officer has for many years been connected. But so far as the returns have hitherto gone, there seems to us a fair prospect that Sir Robert Peel's Administration, provided always it shall fulfil the promise of redressing acknowledged grievances and promoting real reform, will, between its own regular adherents, and the assistance it may look for on important questions from independent and dispassionate men of the Liberal party, be strong enough to hold its ground in Parliament until the temporary excitement shall be at an end, and the nation feel at once sufficient confidence in its own constitutional power to. smile at the possibility of serious mischief from even the worst disposed and most insidious Minister, and sufficient reliance on the good intentions of the Conservatives to lend them a willing, frank, and confident sup port. But the sine qua non of such a friendly relation between the people of England and the Conservative Government must be the absolute surrender by the latter of those pre judices and repugnances towards the Reform principle which were formerly imputed to its members. Let it be well understood—and it is not the first time by many that we have enforced it—let it be well understood that no ap proximation towards anti-reform "men or measures" will or can proceed from the people—the approach must be to wards them ; and unless this datum be admitted and stea dily acted on by the Conservatives, their case maybe set down as utterly desperate and rotten. We ought, perhaps, to apo logize for this repetition, in substance, of that which in different language we have ,pften urged before, and whi c h i n d ee d within the first few days after the announcement of the King's resolution to have a Peel or Wellington Government, was laid down by this journal most distinctly as the sole condi tion on which the new Ministry could hope to be tolerated by the country, or to be befriended by the press. ‘. A Reform Administration it must be, or it would not re main so vouch as three months in power." That same con- 835. viction, we are more and more satisfied, is shared by Sir Robert Peel, and the majority of his col leagues ; their carrying that contiletion into action is the hinge of their political life ; their resistance tift it would be a practical paradox ; it might produce a ter rible revolution in England, but of that revolution the first victims would be the maniacs who h!td caused it, Meantime, as we stated .at the beginning of this article, we see no reason, in spite of the metropolitan returns, to suppose that the cause of constitutional liberty is lost. There is time enough to redeem those failtiFes, Whin hate hitherto been owing to inordinate confidence, and a conse quent want of exertion in the opponents of the ultra-Radi cals. To such person§ We redorilmend ine.addreis 6f Mr: Sergeant Spankie to the electors of Finsbury, distinguished as it is by excellent temper and excellent sense. He ex poses, with pointed but not harsh rehnke, those in-door friends of what they proclaim to be the sacred cause of the constitution, who ; from indolence or timidity, shrink from an open support o f, their ottnl phoßfm ehompion. The re- MOnStraned may stilt be u se f u l i n other plug !--= " I may be permitted to say a word to another class of my well wishers, whose good intentions (and I believe they were sincere) brought forth nit frliit! Owl h! 4 4.1/4 t„ },a visited by the winds Of helVen too roughly. The first day of polling, was very cold bleak : at I experienced at seven in the morning, aft& my - bivouac of the night. Some were gone to their fields and some to their merchandise, and they were everywhere but where they ought to have been, not for my sake, but for the cause which they feel and acknowledge to be the cause of the constitution, and of the order of society under which they enjoy that ease and com fort of which th e y will not sacrifice a partic le to the discharge of a e,seentiial to the public and to themselves. ig Thd eleCtiail in the sit of the three Conservative candidates (for nothing shall induce me to tigS the foolish, mischievous nick names of Whig and Tory) was entirely lost through the sluggish ness, indolence, and supineness of those Conservatives who wished well and did nothing. The termination of that contest has had a very bad effect in Finsbury and other places, and the City Conser iqiiiVeg ilVattistl their doty deserve to be cursed with the curse of Meroz." The joy which Mr. H. Hohhouse expresses on the terniis nation of this contest will, we suspect, after a week or two. be a matter of some surprise to himself. Meantime, there is a sort of magnanimous ambition in his showing that Finsbury as well as Athens has its AristideS, who can re joice that its precincts contain a man whose wisdom and talents aft flreitllttl a,« e n to his own.—Times. It has no doubt been observed toy that lifflited portion of the public who read a paper called the Morning Chronicle , that whatever collateral and desultory topics may find their way into the columns of that some-years-ago respectable journal, the main and standing Siiliktt; that to which every other is but an introduction or a mask, has for five of AIX months past been no other than wanton, milignant, virulent virulent abuse of the Times newspaper. Whose pay it Vag In Non the Mtlialdlleettient of 411;s dirty practice, on whose speculation it was purchased, for whose pergollal ends the adventure was embarked in, could not be unknown to ilfit be.eatise it Was no secret among a certain clique, whose digcretioti pot lids their pnritr, Now we never went an inch out of our way to notice that paper, whether for good or evil. It might have twaddled absurdi ties by the German mile, without taking the trou ble to laugh at or censure them. But we leave it to any tißttlrf of Joblier Journal to say whether a single number has made its appeaiauce for ThOnflir, without its thrusting under his nose the garbage and of-scourings 61 every pothouse in every alley of London for materials of abuse against the Times. What would be said of two shopkeepers, one of whom covered every dead wall of the t 31411 ill which they both eartied nn I?toutiqks, with slan derous and defamatory placards against hiS heighli6tif; while the other tradesman moved on quietly in his own course without. ever vouchsafing a reply? What would be said or thought about the relativ e h ones t y or pro b a bl e prosperity of tttB physlelans, one of rbom was eter nally advertising the number of patients iihtt bad swallowed his pills, the succession of shop-boys, or hackney-coachmen, or omnibus-cads, who had declared their preference of his nasty nostrums VI tot thipllal littlerlinitur3 of the other, while the latter person did his own business, tliid itt0.14161 with nobody else's, being least of all desirous to ex change syringes of filthy liquid with his offensive assailant ? f thtl`e two !Tonicl. men who knew the world be called the safe and upright practitioner, and Chit+ the worthless and rapacious quack ? When the Chronicle or any other member of the public press attacks our . argu gitrit§ alit) Pad thrir fanny) . he is welcome to do so. He exercises his undoubted privilege, and possibly io our ito. provement as well as for the public good. But if he makes it his daily and almost exclusive object to fling dirt open 0...—t0 ra ti tiq " ahando,Red," and " profligate," • , and "unprincipled," an d " corrupt,' he dal Matt no jour nalist has a right to attempt with another. He knows nothing of our opinions but that we differ from him. He knows, and can by possibility know nething of our tootiVe§ I and itlwo he dat'as fn charge them, as he does every hour, because of our mete 116iitlefil opinions, with dishonesty, we retaliate too quietly when we chtlfge him with malignant impudence and falsehood. His paper yesterday, the contents of which were retailed at tt3tt by , an erFttitiff joornahtrading pretty much on the same bottom, had for its design to cciniß't ti§ of hi- consistency, because we now make war upon the Ultra Radicals, " whereas we took their part," or words to that effect. against Lord Grey. Now, there is not a shadow of trUtli Ili this fdpfe§enfai•ioti: never allied ourselves with the Ultra-Radicals ; the name of " DeSirtletiVe§" was first applied to them by us ; they were always the objects of our political fear and animosity. Our occasional quarrels with Lord Grey were not for his refusal to act upon tiottrinesr tins for his tardiness, hesitation, and feebleness, in executing his otiqi avowed plans of policy and fulfilling his own repeated pro mises. It is true, we told Lord Grey he had nothing to rely upon but the " people ;" and so We tell Sir Robert Peel. But as O'Connell is not, though he professes to be, " the people of Ireland," so the ultra-Radicals and " Destructives" of this country are not the British " people." So we leave their respectable charlatan to the use of his penny trumpet in puffing his own shop. He need not meddle with ours , w hi c h we flatter ourselves we can manage independent of his neighbourly assistance. We ought to beg pardon of our readers for expending so many words on the worthless brawlers to whom we have referred : we may, however, ,take credit for no common quantity of forbearance in having let them rave at us so long and so uninterruptedly we believe that this is only the second time we have condescended to turn upon them ; but the finest tempered horse, though it disdains the mongrel curs barking at his heels, may at last be moved to bestow a gentle salute on the jaws of the yelpers, and send them whining and howling away in complaint of the blow which their own brutal impertinence provoked.—Times. We have but to record triumphs —most gratifying tri umphs—in the cause of Liberalism. The metropolis has justified its high character for spirit, intelligence, and libe rality, and set an example to the country which it will be in haste to follow, and will do itself honour by following. Finsbury has returned two Reformers, and sent Spankie to find a seat elsewhere than on its shoulders. The Tower Hamlets come within the same circle, having returned Lushington and Clay, and got rid of Burton. Westminster remains true to the character for liberal and Reform prin ciples which it has sustained for years past—and Green wich, Brighton, and Manchester, with many others, have to be added to the list. But the state of the polls, and the list of returned Members, furnish the most conclusive an swer to the false assertions of the Tory press, of the people having lost their affection for Reform, and of a re-action in favour of their party having taken place in their minds.— Morning Advertiser. Sir John Campbell, the late Attorney-General, in his speech to the electors of Edinburgh (a speech which the Whigs have since thought of importance enough to pub lish in the shape of a pamphlet), has promulgated some doctrines which, notwithstanding his high and deserved rank in his profession, we must make bold to canvass the correctness of. Sir John Campbell, while he speaks of the King in terms very different from the Learned Civili an o: the Tower Hamlets, is exceedingly angry with his Majesty both for dismissing the Ministry and dissolving the Par liament. After asserting a truism, which nobody disputes —viz. that " the prerogative has been given to the Crown that it may be exercised for the good of the people, and whenever it is exercised the public good ought alone to be considered," he goes on to apply this maxim to the present case, in the following terms Look," says Sir Joh n , "at the prerogative by which an Administration is to be dismissed ; one of the most important and delicate prerogatives which is lodged in the Crown. It is not to be exercised unless there be a vote of Parliament against the existing Administration, unless there be petitions front the public, or unless the Sovereign does complain of the con duct of his servants ;" all which conditions the Learned Gentleman goes on to assert were wanting on the late oc casion. As to the importanceof this bra nc h o f t h e prero gative there can be but one opinion. It is in fact the only act which the Crown is called upon to perform in the ne cessary absence of any responsible adviser ; b u t we w h o ll y dissent from the idea that it requires either of the prelimi naries here set out. We deny that the dismissal of a Ministry need be preceded by any vote of Parliament, by any petition from the people, or by any expressed dissa tisfaction on the part of the Ki ng . W ere such either the letter or spirit of the Constitution, we k now o f no sec urer ground for keeping bad Mi n i s t ers i n off i ce than the way in which each o f th ese pre li m i naries to their dismissal might be evaded. But the best proof that these are not indispensable preliminaries to this exercise of the prerogative is that furnished by the very in stance which has just occurred—viz., the King's conviction that his Ministers were incapable of carrying on the busi ness of the Government. That this was no capricious opi nion on the part of the Sover e i gn , i s prove d b y t h e unde niable fact of its being that of a large proportion of his subjects —a fact proved to demonstration, by what i 3 curring at nearly every election in the United kingdot°' It does not follow, therefore, that the greatest lawyers, eV" daily when warped by personal and party feelings, are al" ways the geitititivti organs of constitutional law. In the same speech Sir John Campbell descanted largely upon another topic, which appears to have been scarcely worthy of th e Wariiith; the eetnewhat inconsistent warmth, which he has hei stowed upon it. That tapic is th e cir cums t ance o f th e Duke ° Wellington having held in his own person so many offices dos' in the short period (but that a longer than was contemplated), between Lot'd Melbourne's retirement, and the return 0 ' Sir Robert Peel from Italy. " The Duke," says Sir Joh n Pempbell, " became Dictator he combined in his own per: son the Aka of the three Secretaries of State, First Lora of the Admiralty, President of the Council, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; and he was, I may say, Attorisel golielier-yeneral, because, though I remained nominally ill office during the Dictatorship, it was only to sign par"' and to do the routine business of the office until asr eassor should be appointed." As Sir John does not go 0° to fell the good people of Edinburgh that he refused the fees of his office dewing this state of things, and as mos t people know pretty well that gentlemen of his profession 9eklern "sign papers" but with a golden pen, we may Per" haps be permitted to infer th a t th e re was a t l eas t this cur ference between the temporary Dictator and the temporaryA t ' torney-General, that the one did not receive one farthing of the emoluments, or exercise the slightest shadow of the patroller attached to the many offices he is said is have filled, viNI L° the latter, in the true spirit of his profession took all he could get. Sir John attempts to justify the use of the term " Dictator" by a parallel between Augustus COO and the Duke of Wellington. We doubt, even as a sPe: cinien of his classical recollections, whether this parallel can have been very acceptable at the modern Athens. Certain we are that a parallel bearing less analogy was never attempted. In fact, the very tern is beneath Sir John Cain ph ol to have .resorted to ; the very fact of the our posed Dictator allowing the first law officer of his opp°' nests to continue as a Wadi upon his proceedings, being proof enough that his designs could not be very dangerous, or even questionable. In a word, Sir John ettmpbell know' very well professionally the difference between obtaining e rule and making that rule absolute. On this ocer sion we suspect he will, as far as general concurreelee goe s ' take nothing by his motion. Morning Herald. The triumphant result of the election at Southampton , in the return of two Conservative Members to replace the former Whig Represent a ti ves o f th a t t own , i s wor thy 0 ' especial notice. The opposing candidates were Mr. Bill!, ham, the Recorder of the town, with much local interest and the support of the Dissenters ; and Mr. Easthope, wh ° , is a proprietor of the Morni ng Ch ron i c l e an d Ch a i rm an c" the Southampton Railway Company. We have reason to knew that the virulent articles which have appeared in the columns of our Contemporary under its new managemen t have had such an erect on the minds of the electors as t ° ensure the rejection of Mr. Easthope. The constitueot which had been perhaps favourably disposed towards 0 1 " gentleman, on account of his being a large shareholder in the intended railway, a popular undertaking at South' ampton, shrunk with dismay at the doctrines promulgat, by his Journal. At first Mr. Barlow Hoy was the ore • Conservative in the field, but the electors went to work fix eaffiest, and sent up a requisition to Mr. D e al° , which the lotto' did not hesitate to accept. The evidenc e of the zeal and activity of the town is before our readet Mr. Hoy and Mr. Dottie are returned, and swell the fiat of men of talent, character, and influence, which the pre' sent MOO has brought into the public service. In an" other point of view, the Southampton, election cannot bat be regarded as most important, we mean in respect to die t influence which it will h ave on th e sou th ern di v i s ion Hampshire. Its favourable result to the cause of order and OA government has extinguished th e h o p es of Lot Palmerston and Sir th . Staunton. Their chances of ose'' cess were before, indeed, but slight ; but if there be faith in the promises of the men of the southern division, thee portion of the county of Hants will no longer be disgrace d such a representative as the ex-Foreign Secretaryf_ the " juvenilo Whig," Th e add r e sses w hi c h th e N o bl e Mr_ has published or spoken a l mos t equa l i n num b er, l en gth' and tediousness, his celebrated protocols on the Dutch al Belgian question, with just about as m uc h pro b a bility accomplishing their object. —Morning Post. The metropolitan constituencies have nobly distinguished themselves. Every Tory has been expelled from the re" presentation. The City, Westminster, Marylebone, Finr bury, Tower Hamlets, and Greenwich, are decided. Lam" heti' ought to have been determined yesterday, by the re signation of Alderman Farebrother. The numbers were- - Hawee 1,564 ; Tennyson 1,532 ; Farebrother 775, th at is 757 below the lowest Reform Candidate. L a mbeth may, therefore, be considered settled. Mr. Alderman' Wood stated, on Thursday, that " he and his colleague s had not resorted to the practice of buying up votes by ,money, which their opponents had done." There is one way of fixing bribery on a party. Where 3 constituency consists of householders and freemen, and one party - has proportionblly more freemen than house' holders, it may be taken for granted that party has had remorse to bribery. In all the constituencies, the freemen, as is well known, are more or less accessible to bribery. Now, if we average the il - eemen for the four Reform candidates and the three Tories, we have for the former 3,166, and the latter 2,831 ; that IS, it difference between thson of only 335. But if we average the house' holders for the four Reform candidates, and the three Tories, we have 2,937 for the former, and 1,69.2 for the latter ; leaving a difference of 1,245. The only sr tional way of accounting for the balance of house' holders being so much greater in favour of the Reformer s than the balance of freemen is, that bribery wa s ex tensively resorted to among the latter. Well migh t Mr. Crawford, therefore, say, that when " they cam' to analyze the poll, they would find that the householder . had delivered the city from an intolerable thraldrom." W e . wished at one time to think well o f S er j ean t S pan ki e ; his conduct ever since the dismissal of the Melbourne Dl' nistry, and more particularly a little before and during the election, has been such that nothing gives us more satisfac: tion than his rejection at Finsbury. Mr. Spankie treated the electors with very unbecoming contempt when on We d ' nesday last he said, " He was sure that the meeting was almost entirely composed of Mr. Wakley's men.—(Heur.) He knew Mr. Wakley was a very 'good Reformer' as to the other Reformer s o r non -R e f or merh _ _ _ he believed Mr. Wakley to be the only ge; former among them. All, exce pt M r . Wakley an d himself, were disguised Reformers ; they did not under stand Reform. Wakley and himself were the only tW ° among the candidates who had read about Reform, 10 , c ' understood it, and w h o were capa bl e o f representing' the borough of Finsbu r y.—(L ou d shoutsof laughter.") Wit the opinions a d voca t e d by S er j ean t Sp an ki e i n hi s addresses , to use this language in characterising a candidate with the opinions which 'Mr: Wakley is known to entertain, is a 1 1 °' sitive insult to the common sense of the electors. Serjean i ' Spankie little thought that he was praising his own Co' querer, and he has been caught in his own s nare. Every one will say that he is justly punished . If the fair and unbiassed voice of the people can be heard in any quarter, it is in the metropolis, where the Constituencies are too numerous to be bribed, and electors cannot be easily intimidated. That the Tories have 1106 succeeded in returning one Member in any metropolita n borough, is a sufficient proof that they are condemned by the public voice. B u t th e i n h a bit ants o f t h e metro polis form not only the most independent, but the most inteil v gent, Constituencies, of the United, Kingdom. They liaT t e , the best access to political information ; and the examl; of the metropoli s h as a l ways , on t h at account, grea t ' o' fluence on other p ar t s o f th e country . I t i s, i n • tr ot ll only in the smaller boroughs, and those of the larg er ' where the householders are out-numbered by the freeme n ' that the Tories can h ave any h opes o f succ ess.-11 1 orrigg Chronicle. No fewer than eleven inquisitions on children ;;"1: to death were charged by one o f t h e Coroners of this count , his quarter's account at the present Sessions.—Bath Chrots. A SPIRITED ELECTRESS.—W C give the followil from a provincial jo urna l :—" A l ady canvasser last week 11 Portsmouth, having recei ve d a rebuff where she looked for 4, ; plumper, is said to ha ve i n f orme d t h e voter, a tradesman, thl!, he need not expect h er cus t om any longer ; on wh i c h I ' l ' better half is said to have replied, That is as you plea se ' Madam, we did not ask you for your patronage to our AO' but you came of your own free will. We exercise our discre; tion in all cases as to public matters, and are not to be blass e by any custome rs , b e t h e i r ran k and station in life w h a t I t may. BIRTH. On the 3d inst., Mrs. Dettmar, of Meeklenburgh-square,--'°°. MARRIED. b On the 6th in s t., a t L es li e H ouse, Fif esh i re, Henry .- u 4 d , Courtenay, Esq., secon d son o f Willi am C ourtenay, E sq., t o L 3 j Anna Maria Leslie, sister to the Earl of Rothes. On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, Captain Robert Watts, of th t : Madras Army, t o M argare t C arter, e ld est d aughter of W. Hare°u- Carter, Esq., of New Park, county of Dublin. ho On the 6th in s t., at. the British Ambas s ad or 's, Pans , r Kerbey, Esq., M a d ras M e di ca l serv i ce, to Emily, second daughter of Captain Holman, R.N. DIED. On the Bth inst., at the Lady Colchester's, Montagu P lat , the Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, aged 32. ~ in On the sth inst., in Cavendi s h- square, Ri c h ar d P arro tt, I his 58th year. On the 7th inst., aged 76, A. E. Young, Esq., of Orlingbu r P Nort ham ptonsh ire. On the sth in s t., M r . J o h n P ember, of Crescent-place , Ness Bridge-street, aged 65. , r elict On the Bth i ns t., i n D ur h am-place, Chelsea, Mrs. Eiib.." of the late Archibald Edgar, Esq., of Jamaica. London: Printed and Published by MURDO at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. SP: trient Jan ; the 13( Dunde A trin e 0 cieties. Act, 0 iF Sovi et Fri en d the Sc] Were ri cieties, Passin g betwee U N DE IT oyel ' e ars, k ‘i tri in n, mo. ° taer 11 t'repa: and Sor. ;ttr a di in inlackfri on f ' U P I i` .0 4 °t -oath4ar ai tabl e 60 Pat t• a Tc Just p IJNIY eon tit , do fro and the whe tion for m filth( boil( and Uld fa.ro u 11 c RC Dear comn Si