The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-18 00:00:00

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sines of the lords pared the preamble of this bill for ev
tensions of nine, power to provide .team-boats, and regale,
tion of capital.

THE LAMBETH ELECTION.

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Lambeth is to have a contested election. The
liberal interest in that borough is to be divided. A
gentleman professing reform principles claims the
suffrages of the electors in preference to one or other of
the two sitting members. Mr.TENNYEION D'Evxcounx
or Mr. WILLIAMS is to make way for Mr. HAavev,
draper, of " Lambeth House." Apinst which of the
Present representatives the opposition of Mr. HARVEY
te directed, he does not condescend to explain; and
he is equally silent on the bead of the offence given
by the gentleman ho seeks to supersede. He may,
for aught that appears, object to Mr. TENNYSON
D'EvmeounT on account of that gentleman'. aristo-
cratic and whig connexions, or to Mr. WIL-
LIAMS as approaching too closely in opinion and
sentiment to Mr. JOSEPH Home; for he does not
shop that either of the members for Lambeth has
neglected his duty or swerved from his principles.
And b 3 thus carefully weaseling the o_lject of his
attack and the cause of that attack, Mr. HARVEY
gains the advantage of selecting him whom circum-
Maness shall show hereafter to be most easily
aseailable.

This is rather disingenuous. But it is scarcely
worth while to insist upon one objectionable feature
of an opposition so utterly uncalled for, so utterly
unjustifiable, so frivolous and vexatious, so unjust to
two members who have served their constituents and
the ammo( reform faithfully, so unjust to the con-
stituency of Lambeth, upon whom it entails the
worry and annoyance of a contested election without
any shadow of reason ; so unjust to the general re-
form interest which it threatens to weaken, by
dividing the liberals in an important constituency in
face of an unscrupulous faction which has seized the
reins of government, and is lavishly distributing its
patronage with a view to the coming election.
On most occasions the only legitimate questions
respecting a candidate are : what are his principles ?
what his abilities? what his acquired knowledge and
experience of business? what his character for sin-
cerity, good intentions, and consistenc,y ? Any man
has, in ordinary circumstances, • right to aspire to
parliamentary honours • any set of men to put up a
man who they believe Will make a good member.
But when a man utterly unknown and untried in
public life oomes forward to oppose two gentlemen
whose principles are essentially the same as those he
himself professes, and that at a time when every effort
is being made, and is required to be made, to con-
solidate, to reunite, to extend the ranks of the party
I he appeals to for support, it is both right and neces-
sary to ask who and what the new comer is, and
who are his political godfathers.
The latter question it will not be easy to answer.
Mr. HARVEY, indeed, in his own flowing and redun-
dant style, or in the style of the author of his address,
whoever that may be—a style that smacks of the
Grozoz Rostms' or Mosze and SON'S school of elo-
quence—tella the electors of Lambeth that "it has
been his high honour and privilege to receive a in-
quisition," and that the said requisition "emanates
from, and is the spontaneous act of, a very largo and
influential portion of the constituency." Mr. HAR-
VEY (fives his (alleged) requisitionists a high charac-
ter ; it would have been more to the purpose had he
published their names, and left their brother electors
to judge with what justice they can be called nume-
rous and influential. Their neighbours will, of
course, know them, and Mr. HsavEY may naturally
be biassed in their favour. Their names not being
published, the constituency is left uncertain u to
what the political character and leanings of these
requisitionists may be (whether they are not tones
throwing an apple of discord, in the shape of Mr.
HARVEY, into the liberal camp); or, indeed, as to
Rather they may not be mere creatures of that gen-
tleman's imagination.
As to what Mr. Hsavzi—in all that relates to
public affairs—may be, it is equally difficult to say.
None of his fellow residents in Lambeth can recol-
lect Mr. HARVEY'S taking an active or decided part
is moral politics, or devoting his time, talents, or
soar', to promote local improvements. Mr. HARVEY
mays he was a staunch and uncompromising sup-
porterof the free-trade policy arced out by Sir
t
ar PEEL. When P or where P—for none of
his brother electors can recollect. His services in
behalf of local sanitary reform have been nil ; his
services in behalf of local educational extension,
ditto; and the whole field of local public useful ex-
ertion is left unmarked even by one solitary foot-
print of Mr. HARVEY. Mr. HARVEY'S exertions
have continued for years within his extensive cheap-
Wilestablishment at " Lambeth House." He has
l honestly and assiduously labouring to acquire a
fortune. He has been indefatigably labouring to
serve himself. But of his desire or ability to serve the
public, the public has yet had no proofs. Everything
must have • beginning—and a public career among
the rest; but Mr. HARVEY seeks to begin his rather
infelicitously. There are numerous constituencies
anted by promoters of political corruption and
ra
adversariesll of all useful and necessary reforms. By
opposing and conquering some of these—by attack-
ing some Tory—Mr. HARVEY might have served
the liberal cause, and commenced his parlia-
mentary career with a prepossession in his
favour. But by seeking to supplant one or other of
two tried and efficient representatives, after having
only • week before signed an appeal to the electors
and non-electors of Lambeth to support them as such
—he necessarily. incurs the suspicion of being a tory
or Derbyite in disguise.

Mr. Hairritv's professions are fair enough. He
promises, if returned to parliament, to support
free-trade, civil and religions liberty, vote by
ballot, extension of the suffrage, more equal
electoral districts, law reform, customs' reform,
public economy, and sanitary reform ; and to oppose
all undue oentralising tendencies in local admen'.
trillion. All very well; but what he promises
to do the sitting members have done. They have
proved themselves both able and willing to do every-
thing that Mr. HARVEY promises; but his good
faith and ability have yet to be tried.
Mr. Wituarts, it has already been observed, is a
reformer of Mr. Josr.ex Huma's school: his re-
liability, oonsisteug, industry, are not questioned.
Mr. TENNYSON D'EYNCOMIT has been 34 years in
parliament, twenty years member for Lambeth. We
know his principles from his votes—the reiterated,
consistent voted of thirty-four years. Hs was a
prominent champion of the Reform Aot ; he was one
of those staunch reformers who resisted and arrested
the temporising policy which alienated earnest re-
formers from the later years of Earl GREY'S minis-
try. He has not merely voted for triennial parlia-
ments; he has made that measure his own, and
again and wain brought it before parliament. He
has voted far hee-trade, for repeal of the navigation
laws, for extension of the su*age (as proposed by
Mr. Hulls), for equalised electoral districts, for
flnaneial reform, for an equitable adjustment of the
income-tax, for the abolition of churchrates, for
the admission of Jews to the House of Commons, for
the abolition of death punishment, for a pacific
non-intervention foreign policy. Ho has voted
against undue oentrahsation in local Obits, and
against the Militia Bill, its conscription and emotion
of the lash. Mr. TENNYSON VEYNCOVET is not
a mute, unreasoning supporter of free and liberal
principles, but an accomplished politician and
orator. _ _

From one or other of these members the electors
of Lambeth are requested to withdraw their confi-
dence and support, and transfer them to Mr. HAR-
VEY ; to reject the tried men in favour of an untried
man ; to reject those who have served them well and
take one who has hitherto served none but number
one. And why P That "Lambeth," as Mr. HARVEY
rather ungrammatically expresses it, "should possess
the advantage of a representative resident among
them;" as if a gentleman residing north of the
Thames, or in Southwark, must be incapable of
the wants and wishes of the inhabitants of
kearbent, or sympathising with them, or effectually
promoting them.
Mr. HARVEY'S sole claim to the confidence and
support of the electors of Lambeth, in preference to
his, in every other respect, more trustworthy and
experienced competitors, is that he medal in Lam-
beth, while they live a few streets off. The pretext
would bear "sham " written on its forehead, even if
it were trim; which it is not, for Mr. HARVEY, it
seems, resides at Richmond. It is as arrant a sham
as Mr. HARVEY'S numerous, influential, and spon-
taneous body of requisitionists. The plain truth is
that Mr. HARVEY'S is no uncommon case it is that
of a man who, having acquired a sufficient for-
tune by retail trade, is ambitious to write M.P.
after his name, seemingly from no higher
' motives than inspire others, similarly circumstanced,

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with a bare to make themselves conspicuous
by occupying ostentatious houses, giving ostentation.
entertainments, and setting up gaudy equipages.
In his hide to gratify this desire, ho forgets
the public good. Ho does not tight a Tory,
but weirs to upset a liberal. His, then, is a
vulgar and worthless ambition, and the electors
of Lambeth -were they to become its instruments—
would not only injure the liberal cause, by substituting
an untried and unreliable member of parliament for
one who is both tried and reliable, hut would de-
grade themselves by lending a show of plausibility
to all the trite taunts against the ignorance, folly
and fickleness of popular constituencies. This would
be to sell their character at a" tremendous sacrifice"—
u gentlemen in Mr. MuivEY's lino of business ex-
press it.