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

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-
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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 "Net 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.)