The Express.
London, England, 1847-07-29 00:00:00

THE ELECTIONS.

CITY OF LONDON.
Yesterday having been appointed by the returning
officers for the nomination of the oririrent candidates for the
representation of the City of London.
The proceedings were commenced by the sheriff's directing
Mr. Harker, the chief crier, to make the usual proclamation
for opening the election. These preliminaries had scarcely
been concluded before the shouts outside the hall
proclaimed the arrival of Lord John Russell and the
rest of the liberal candidate*, all of whom passed on to the
Chamberlain's office.]
The Sheriff then directed the hall to be thrown open to
the general body of electors. The order was obeyed, and
the rush which followed was tremendous. In a few seconds
the vast chamber was densely crowded in every part ; but the
centre area, immediately in front of the hustings, was
usurped, to the exclusion of electors, by an unwashed mass
of claqueters, comprising coal porters, dustmen, venders of
old clothes, and others, id genus omne, whose noisy vocife-
ration. throughout the day served only to protract the pro-
ceedinm, and to prevent all those who addressed the electors
from being perfectly heard, even by those who occupied posi-
tions patient° the speakers. In the midat of great confusion in
the body of the hall, Lord J.Russell, Mr. Pattison,Baron Roths-
child, and Sir G. Larpent presented themselves amidst the
most enthusiastic and general plaudits. Amongst the body
of gentlemen by whom they were attended, we noticed Mr.
D. Solomon, Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, Mr. W. H. Pres
cott, Mr. W. Hawes, Mr. Ingram Travers, Sir Moses Mon-
tefiore, Mr. Aid. Humphery, -Mr. Thomson Hankey, jun.,
&c. &c. Silence having been partially obtained,
Mr. LOYD then came forward to the front of the hustings,
and wee received with mingled cheers and hisses the former,
however, strongly predominated. The hon. gentleman said
that be returned to the hustings on which he now stood for
the third time, with a growing sense of the responsibility
which rested upon any person who ventured to propose a
candidate for the representation in parliament of his fellow-
citizens ; hot the name he had to introduce was that of
a man who at this moment stood in the foremost
rank of the statesmen of his own age, and who
would stand honoured in the future annals of
the country's history. (Cheers and partial hisses.) That
name was greedy surrounded by grand recollections of the
put, and was encircled with bright anticipation for the future.
(Cheers.) He (Mr. Loyd) was aware that he ought not on
this occasion to venture to trespass long upon the attention
of the electors, but fortunately the steady consistency of Lord
John Russell, the undeviating fidelity with which that
noble lord had fulfilled every anticipation he had ever
raised, and especially during the six eventful yearn during
which he had been in close and honourable connexion with
this great constituency, served to render his (Mr. Loyd's)
task simple and short. (Cheers.) In the address in
which the noble lord had solicited their suffrages
on the present occasion, the noble lord stated that
on the day of nomination he would appear upon the
hustings, and be ready to defend the principles upon
which he had acted, and upon which he would continue to
act ; and, in redemption of that pledge the noble lord now
appeared before them for the purpose of discharging that
engagement, as he had discharged every engagement into
which he had entered. (Cheers.) But the best explanation
of the principles upon which the noble lord bad hitherto
acted was to be found in a retrospection of his past life, and
of those great measures which that life bad been
devoted to advance. As to the defence of those prin-
ciples, on these hustings, and In that venerable hall
under which they were now assembled, and which
had been the scene of many events connected
with liberty and justice in all their forme, the liberal con-
rituency of the City of London could themselves defend
them, and there it was unnecessary to tax the energies, the
&muss, and the ability of the noble lord ; but there was
another assembly in which he feared it would be neces.
eery again and again to explain and defend those principles,
and into which the constituency meld only enter in the
person, and be heard by the voice, of their representatives.
(Applause.) Therefore it was most important that they
should send back the noble lord to that usembly, armed wit
all the influence and authority which the approbation and
confidence of the first constituency in England were calculated
to confer upon him, so that he might there maintain, with
his well-known firmness, the success which be bad already
secured for those principles, and by his talent and wisdom
mum to them and to their children's children the legitimate
benefit of them. (Loud cheers.) That they would need in
that assembly all the exertions and great powers of the noble
lord, there was but too much reason to apprehend. As to
past services he would take the question of free trade.
(Cheers.) But a few short years had elapsed since
those parties who now stood in the hustings arrayed against the
noble lord, denounced the great and glorious principles of
free trade on the walls of their committee rooms as a
humbug, but now, in order to obtain the support
of a small portion of the constitueacy, they profess
adhesion to that cause. And, therefore, under the
professions and pledges now put forth, oould any
reasonable man contemplate these things without
seeing that religions liberty was at present in real danger?
(Applause.) Could any man doubt but that there was a spirit
afloat to inflict diaabilities upon men not on account of
acts done and committed—not because they were bad citizens
or failed in the duties due from man to man and from
citizen to his country, but because they entertain an opinion
differing from others on a emotion repeating which no human
being bad any right to interfere; a question purely and
entirely between man and his Creator. (Loud cheers.) Could
any man approach the question of civil and religious liberty
without feeling that if there was an individual now living
who bad a right to appropriate that great principle to him-
self—if ever there was a statesman who had a right to sub-
scribe it on his banner and cell upon his fellow-subjects to
rally round it, it was the noble lord whore nomination he
(Mr. Loyd) was about to propose ? (Cheer.). The great
principle of civil and religious liberty circulated in the very
blood which had flowed to the noble lord from his ancestors ,•
it constituted the life and soul of the noble lord's political
existence ; for that principle his family had suffered, and for
it through life the noble lord had struggled, fought, and
conquered. (Load cheers). Was, then, the noble lord the
man whom the citizens of London would on the present
occasion abase and reject? (Cries of " No, no.") Would
they turn parricidal hands against the author and father
of their political powers and privileges ? (Renewed
cries of " No, no.") Should they do so they would bring
about their own derradatioa and disgraes in the eyes of the
whole community. He could not believe they would be
guilty of ingratitude which was repudiated ley the best
feelings of human nature and by common sense. He felt
satisfied that when the question was fairly put to all classes,
the result would be that which 'astice, wisdom, gratitude,
patriotism, all =allge , and that the noblo lord
would by their where he ought to be, viz.,
at the heed of the esseseariommons of the realm. (Loud
desire end min of "Time.") lie would now conclude—
twice the electors of the city of London had plued the civic
erown upon the brow of the noble lord. The noble lord
hod restored it without age= disturbed—undiminished in its
splendour with its purity untarnished. That crown now
lay before them, and the uncovered brow of the noble lord
was sgsin ready to receive it. (Loud cheers.) la the name
of all thine great principles with which the namo of the
noble lord was associated—in the name anvil and religious
liberty, justly understood and impartially curled out—ln
the name of public education extended equilly to all claws
of the community, without reference to religious opinions—
in the name of electoral reform, by which the masses of
this country had been raised to the privileges of self go-
vernment—in the name of the great charter of reform, under

which they were now assembled to exercise the fran-
chise, and of which the noble lord was the father—in
the name of free trade, and of those principles which
had just carried this country through a period of emergency
and difficulty of an extreme character, with the revenue on-
, injured—ln the name of all these great principles, he (Mr.
Loyd) called upon his fellow citizens to restore the noble
lord again tolls, place in the Commons House of Parliament.
(Loud sheen.) It is, said Mr. Loyd, in conclusion, now my
proud privilege to state in form, that I nominate the
Right Hon. John Russell, commonly called Lord John
' Russell, of Citeshamploce, in the county of Middlesex, as a
fit and proper person to represent the city of London in the
ensuing _parliament. (Tremendous cheers, withpartial hisses.)
Mr. WILLIAM ll•wits seconded the nomination.
Mr. T. BARING, in coming forward to propose Mr. Master-
man, was saluted with a perfect storm of groans and hooting.
He was understood to say, that though Mr. Masterman
occupied a humbler position than the noble lord who had
just been proposed, he bad always discharged his duty to his
constituents, and wee esteemed by all who knew him. He
hoped, whatever the nature of the contest, that the citizens
of London would not be forgetful of past services.
Mr. Ruson.t. Eboen seconded the nomination, in a very
brief speech.
Mr. W. H. Paxecorr proposed James Pattisoa, Esq.,
whose claims, he said, were well-founded.
Mr. Joxx DILLON seconded the nomination.
Mr. T. Witisox proposed Mr. Freshfield.
Sir C. MARSHALL seconded the nomination.
Mr. Titomeox HANISSY, jinx, proposed Sir George Lat.-
, pent, whose high character and standing as a merchant, he
said, eminently qualified him to represent this city in parlia•
meat.
Mr. W. J. HALL seconded the nomination.
Mr. HORSLEY PALMER proposed Mr. Aid. Johnson, in a
short speech, not a word of which was heard, even by those
close to him. . . . .

Mr. Deputy BROWN seconded the nomination.
Mr. PETER TAYLOR proposed Baron Lionel Nathan de
Rothschild. (Cheers.) He was a sound and conscientious
liberal, who would carry his principles into action in the
Rouse of Commons. Ilia enormous capital and influence,
which extended all over Europe,were sufficient to recommend
him to the electors of this commercial city. By choosing him
they would declare the reign of bigotry and intolerance at an
end, and that a man's religious opinions should no longer be
a barrier to his serving hie country in any capacity. (Cheers.)
By his election, Greet Britain would show the example to
Europe of discountenancing bigotry and intolerance, and
soon we might hope to see the human conscience entirely
free. (Cheers.)
Mr. J. INGRAM Taxvisaa seconded the nomination.

Mr. Anti. Slurs proposed Mr. Bevan
Mr. JOHN BRADBURY seconded the nomination.
Mr. J. B. HEELaiI proposed Mr. Payne, but was not heard ;
nor was Mr. JAN. MELLOR, who seconded the nomination.
Lord J. RUSSELL then came forward, and was received
in the most enthusiastic manner by the great body of the
hall. During the whole of his address, however, such •
noise and uproar prevailed, that though we sat next to the
noble lord it was frequently impossible to hear distinctly
what he said. He commenced by paying, I trumise, if you
be silent for a short time, that I will not detain you long. I
have been returned as your representative before, and I now
come before you, the greatest and most numerous body of
electors in the metropolis of the country and of the em-
pire, to ask you whether I am worthy again to
represent you. (Loud cries of " You are' you are !)
Gentlemen,when on a former occadon , six years ago,l solicited
your suffrages, I had to contend with these who stood by the
principle of protection to native industry. In the next year
the Minister of the Crown proposed great relaxations of
duties. The leedmakers and others who were interested in
those relaxations came to me to represent the injury they
would suffer by admitting, duty free, those articles which
they manufactured, while corn was prohibited. But I said ,
them, they might depend upon it, that if the 'Principle of
free trade wiz edmitted with respect to them, earn could
not long be excluded, and that the whole system would
become so odious that it no.:: break down. (Cheery.)
Gentlemen, I find that this assurance of mine us: been con-
firmed, in the first place, by the event; in the next place it
is confirmed by the recent address of Sir R. Peel to his
constituents, in which he affirms that after the change of
1842 the corn laws became so odious that they could not be
maintained ; and, lastly, it is confirmed by an address which
I read in the newspapers to day, in which the candidates
opposed to us have abjured the name of protectionists,
thus altogether giving up that cause for which they
contended in 1841. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, with re-
gard to other questions I will not detain you now,
because haviog very lately explained my sentiments to a
very large body of electors, I think the time is now come
for action—(eheers)—and it will bo for you to decide, to-
morrow, whether I am again worthy to represent you.
There are persons who affect • great alarm for prottnitantiam,
and endeavour to frighten you with vain terrors. Gentle-
men, protestantism is in no danger; but while we hold fast to
protestantism, let us not forget our christianity. (Loud cheer-
ing.) With great respect for that body of protestant dissent-
ers who have opposed me on the question of education,
I do say that it is a matter of national importance to pro-
mote the education of the people. (Cheers.) If the protes-
tant dissenters come to me and complain of any grievance
or any hardship which they unjustly suffer, I will use my
beat efforts to relieve them from it; but if they any that we
ought to abstain from promoting education, I declare that
on this point I cannot yield to them. (Cheers.) I am in
favour of education in connexion with civil and religious
liberty, and to that cause I mean to adhere. I will now
finish by declaring that se a minister of the crown
I am not afraid of facing this great body of my fellow-sub-
jecte, and that I shall deem it the highest honour should I
again become your representative. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. MASTERMAN then came forward, and was received
with a perfect storm of yells and hooting, and cries of " Off,
off ;we don't want you." The hon. gentleman was under-
stood to say—" Electors of London, the dissolution of parlia-
ment having again placed the elective franchise in your
hand', I once more come forward to solicit the high honour
of being one of your representatives in parliament. You
confided this trust to me on a former occasion, and having
ever acted with an earliest desire to discharge the Important
duties attached to that situation, I look forward with ardent
hopes of a renewal of your confidence. Gentlemen, the
principles upon which I solicited your suffrages in 1811
were those of a conservative, and to which I adhere at
the present moment, under the firm conviction that •
government administered upon those principles is most likely
to conduce to the general welfare of the people. I am warmly
attached to our protestant church, and am prepared to resist
any further endowments to the Roman catholies—not, how-
ever, with any unkind feeling towards the members of that
establishment, but under the conviction of it being improper
to raise funds in support of • religion against whose princi-
ples we protest. I am a supporter of the many valuable
important public Institutions of this country, but, at the
same time, am ready, where abuses may have crept
into their management, to lend a helping hand for their
improvement, but not for their destruction. The poor
law is so frequently alluded to, that I have no hesi-
tation in saying my desire has been to render it less
offensive to those who come under its provisions, and my
future endeavour will be to join in promoting any ameliora-
tion that may be brought under the consideration of parlia-
ment. The currency question is one in which I feel a deep
interest, and strongly object to the restrictive regulations in
the Bank Charter Bill, considering there should be a power
of expanding the circulation in times of pressure under pro-
per regulations, and believing the inconvenience lately sub
feud by the commercial community arose entirely from there
being no such power. The Navigation Laws I consider
are so mixed up, not only with the commercial inte-
rests, but with that grand arm of national prosperity,
the navy, that I should feel very jealous ef altering their
provisions. Taxation is a subject to which it has often
been remarked we all object; but so the national faith
cannot be preserved without taxes, I will only say my
wish is to levy those borthens in • manner to lean as lightly
as possible upon the middling and lower classes, considering
they should fall most heavily upon those who have income
from realised property. Gentlemen, I will only add that it
has been my first desire to retain your good opinion, and If
re-elected to the honourable situation to which I aspire, it
will be my constant endeavour to deserve a continuance of
your confidence, by promoting those measures which appear
to me most likely to conduce to the general welfare of the
country and the important interests of this great city.
Mr. Femisoo next came forward, and said that the pre-
sent was the fifth time that he appeared before them. In
1836 they returned him by • larp majority, and again in
1837. Ile was defeated in 1841, because be was • supporter
of free teede and advocated a repeal of the corn laws. Since
be had the honour of becoming their representative he stood
true to his flag. (Cheers.) He always supported. and
would, it orbs elected, support, voteby ballot, triennial par-
liaments, and an increase of the suffrage. (Cheer.)
Mr. FREIRFIELD, whose address was interrupted by
whistling, hissing, and uproar, was understood to say
The noble lord, her Majesty's Prime Minister, and two other
gentlemen who preceded me, have appealed to their services
as your representatives in parliament. I cannot prefer the
same claims under circumstances equally direct, but having
served my country in four parliaments, in periods of no
ordinary character, taking • full share in the political discus-
, sions, and a still larger portion of the general business of the
House of Commons, I may hope that my consistency and my
industry have not been without their use to this great me-
tropolis of the kingdom: my votes were generally in support
of the views of Bir Robert Peel, as the leader of the conser-
vative party, but not so dependent as to compromise the
claims of civil liberty ; and I may remind you that when an
arbitrary House of Commons, bold, because irresponsible,
asserted its right to create an offence—to decide upon the
guilt of the party proceeded against—and to carry into
effect its own sentence ; and, ultimately, when the illegality
of the proceeding had been established by legal authority, ac-
tally committed to custody your officers, the sheriffs of
London, for obeying the Queen's writ, to enforce the penalty
of that illegality, I had the honour, in conjonetion with your
learned and excellent recorder, and the present Lord Chief
Baron, and Sir William Follett, and others, to heave the
displessure of our leaders, to pursue the independent and
the just course of defeading the weak against the dangerous
and oppressive conduct of those who were strong in power,
though weak in argument and in justice. Gentlemen,
need I say that if my course was then straightforward and
independent, it would have been still more bold if it had
been my fate at that time to represent a constituency as
large and respectable as that of the city of London ?
It is not my intention on this busy day to weary you with a
detailed reference to my parliamentary career ; bat I may
be permitted to say generally, that my course was free from
prejudice, and when I felt it right to oppose great changes,
toe of the specific dangers which they appeared to in-
volve, I was ever ready to give theme fair and liberal trial,
if adopted by parliament, and to carry not what has always
appeared to me a sound conservative principle, by disclaim-
ing any indirect mode of frustrating a meuure delibeutely
' adopted; and in all matters directly MT, cting the local in.
terests of my constituents, my time and my la"our were
zealously devoted to the various matters which it became my

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1847.

duty to submit to the consideration of parliament ; and I re-
spectfully appeal to those services as a pledge of the faithful.
nese with which I shall discharge the responsibilities which I
msy incur if I have the honour to become one of your repre-
sentatives. Gentlemen, the parliamentary career to which I
have referred followed upon 30 years of active professional em-
ployment within your city. The particular character of
that employment gave me an intimate knowledge of the
interests and details of trade and commerce, and the means
of making myself acquainted with the higher principles of
finance. To what extent I may have improved those op-
portunities, it is neither necessary, nor would be seemly,
or me to assert. Suffice it to say, that with these circum-
stances before the conservative committee, and wholly un-
sought by me, I was invited to assume the position which
I this day occupy. My valued friend, Mr. Thomas
Wilson, formerly your representative in parliament, bas
stated to you, in terms too flattering to to quoted by me,
that I am a fit and proper person to be one of your repro-
mutative'; can I doubt then that I am well and fully
sanctioned in submitting my claims to your judgment ?
I presume not to speak of the claims of any other candi-
date. I never have, in public or in private, named or
alluded to any other candidate, and I feel for ell and each of
them entire respect; they, as well as myeel f and my colleagues,
are competitors for your favour. We cannot all succeed,
although each desires to do so, but with you and the rest of
the constituency will rest the decision. My determina-
tion to resist any further concession to the Roman
catholics, whether in the endowment of their clergy, in
grants to Maynooth, or in sty other form, has been
ex, licitly stated in the course of my canvass, and I now
confirm it. I repeat, also, my opinion that the income-
tax, if renewed in the next year, or at any subsequent
period, ought to be so modified as to exclude Schedule I),
that is, the profits of trade; Schedule B, the assumed pro-
fits of the frrmer, to bear more justly upon life income,
and to income for a limited period, or dependent upon
health, as in the case of professional men, and, as
in Mr. Pitt's bill, to relieve persons of small
income, and with families. I am desirous of seeing the whole,
or a considerable part of the window-tax repealed, and a
considerable relaxation of several obnoxious parts of the poor-
law, opposed alike to the claims of humanity and the inte-
rests of the ratepayers. I should be desirous of having the
currency question considered, that it may be ucertamed,
taking into account the late pressure and" the extravagant
value of money, how far the restrictions in what is termed
the Bank Charter are consistent with the national interest ;
and I em unwilling to contemplate any change in the
principle of the navigation laws, although I should cor-
dially adapt it to improvements in the progress of com-
merce, and desire to provide the power of relaxing
those laws whenever an urgent necessity exists—to pro-
mote the importation of food, and which might be ef-
fected by Rising authority to the Privy Council, under
the responsibility of the ministers of the crown. Gentle-
men, if I have the honour to become one of your repre-
sentatives, to these, and to every other subject affecting the
interest of the City of London, and of the country:at large,
I will give my honest and unprejudiced consideration.
Gentlemen, I have but one other matter upon which to trou-
ble you, and that shall be despatched with much brevity. It
has been supposed that your fourth conservative candidate
should have been a commercial man, and not a member of
the English bar. Gentlemen, there is no foundation for
that objection. Liverpool has freqently been represented by
lawyers and by statesmen who have not been connected with
commerce. Bristol has been similarly circumstanced—Mr.
Gibson sits for Manchester. Edinburgh is now represented
by lawyers—and, still more in point, London was re-
presented during • period of 200 years by the Re-
corder for the time being ; in more recent time by private
gentlemen not engaged in commerce, and latterly by the
noble lord ; and it may reasonably be doubted whether a
barrister familiar with the principles of trade and commerce
may not more independently and usefully represent the City
of London than u commercial man, whose interests most be
more immediately affected by some one branch of trade, and
which would occasionally clash with other claims upon the
consideration of the executive. But not to press this point
further, I hope I have satisfactorily shown that a barrister,
as such, is not an unfit representative for this most important
city ;:s. parliament; and thanking you meet sincerely for the
hearing you hare afforded me, I shall look forward with
confidence to the remit of your exertions, to place me not
lower than fourth upon the pcil.
Sir G. LAUPENT next presented hiti::elf, amidst loud
cheers. lie said, that though he could boast of no parliamen-
tary experience, or of services rendered them in parllament,
he did not feel that to be any disadvantage, when he consi-
dered that he was one of themselves. (Cheers.) They were
traders of the City of London, and be was one of its mer-
chants. His interests were, theref,re, identified with theirs,
and he would do everything in his power to promote the
trade and commerce of the City. (Cheers.) lie stood for-
ward as an advocate of free trade. (Cheers.) He would
endeavour to maintain what they had acquired, and to pro-
cure what they had not yet obtained. (Cheers.) His object
was to improve their social institutions; to promote civil and
religious liberty. He belonged to a party that bad made
these the objects of their policy, and from that party he
never swerved. (Cheers.) They had done more than anyother
party in the state to increase the civil and political rights of
the people. (Cheers.) He therefore looked with confidence
to the result of to-morrow's poll.
Mr. Alderman JORNEO?f, amidst mach confusion, was un-
derstood to say: Were I to offer excuses of any kind for
presenting myself upon this occasion as a candidate for your
suffrages, I must fall back upon a host of men who have
known both my public and private character. But no flat-
tering sentiments of theirs alone would have induced me to
place myself before you, claiming your confidence, and ask-
ing you to elect me as one of your representatives in
parliament. Gentlemen, I feel that from my long ser-
vices in the performance of my civic duties I had com-
pletely identified myself with your welfare, and that from
the very feet of my long acquaintance with your rights and
privilege., I might be enabled to render to you further
public service, upon your electing me one of your repre-
sentatives; not then being alone in the position of an
administrator of the laws, but as a legislator, unending
them where I might have found them defective. I felt
that it waft with honour I had attained the civic
chair, and that when I left it I did an, conscious of
having faithfully discharged those duties that had de-
volved upon me, acquitting myself, it is to be hoped,
with some credit to myself as well as advautage to the
public. It has been my endeavour through life, and more
psrticulsrly in my mayoralty, to show respect to all parties,
whether on the one side of polities or upon the other; and
in the dispensation of the hospitedities of the Mansion house,
I hod the singular good fortune to receive under its roof the
most celebrated literary and scientific men of the age;
foreigners as well as Englishmen, mingling themselves with
my fellow-citizens. Bat, gentlemen, I will not now further
trespass en your time, except to give you my fullest assur-
ance, that if it be your pleasure to entrust me with the im-
portant duties which I now seek, you shall ever find me
ready to guard your interests; and I pledge myself to you
in one matter especially, that so long as I may be entrusted
with the sacred charge, I will not permit any of the public
funds to be applied to the endowment of the Ronaish church,
or in any way to impair our protestant establishment.
Baron ROTH,CRILD then came forward, and was greeted
with loud cheers and a general waving of hats. He said
that, after the many addressee they had just heard, he was
sensible of the disadvantage he was under in coming for-
ward then to solicit the honour of their suffrages, and to
state upon what grounds he offered himself as a candidate
to represent them in the next parliament; but the friendly
feeling and the kind reception he bad experienced at the
numerous meetings of the electors at which he had lately
had the honour of addressing them, emboldened him to ex.
pest the same indulgence from them and to he listened to
with the same favour. He came forward to claim their sup-
port as a free trader, to ask for their votes as a firm advo-
cate of civil and religious liberty, and a zealous reformer of
all abuses. These opiniens were now more prevalent than
when he first espoused them ; but he trusted that he had
also personal claims upon their support. The long
connexion of his family with their great city had given
him every opportunity of beeeming acquainted with the
sources of its prosperity, and his extensive intercourse with
the continental states had enabled him to obtain an intimate
knowledge of their foreign trade, now more than ever an ob-
ject of the greatest importance. He did not, however, wish
to lay any stress upon his personal merits, and he would only
add that all his interests were connected with those of the
electors, and that on every occasion in his private capacity he
had contributed to the utmeed of his power to the attainment
of those great measures of reform and improvement which had
lately been passed: In assisting to the full development of
the principles of free trade, and in securing perfect free-
dom of commerce, he should be still more anxious to secure
perfect liberty in religion. On all occasions he had ex-
pressed himself hostile to grants of money from the public
funds for religious purposes; and he thought every pos-
sible extension ought to be given to eduction without
the interference of the stare in public religious instruc-
tion. The honourable candidate continued My opponents
say I cannot take my seat. I might answer that this is
rather my affair than theirs ; for, after having taken the
best advice, I am content to ran the risk, and feel well
assured that as your representative—as the represent.-
'tire of the most wealthy, the moist important, the
meet iatelligent constituency of the world, I shall not be
refused admission to parliament on account of any form of
words whatever. He (the hon. candidate) therefore called
upon them for their assistance in defence of the great prin-
ciple that political rights should not be dependent upon re-
ligious opinion. Haying stated his opinions on freedom of
religion, freedom of trade, extension of knowledge, and,
consequently, extension of suffrage, he bad only to ask the
electors of the City of London to place him in such a position
as to be able to give efficacy to those opinions which were
not only his, but ho believed to be theirs also. The hon.
candidate, who was frequently interrupted by bursts of
cheering and counter-cheering, sat down amidst loud ap-
plause.
Mr. BE AN next addressed the meeting, and was un-
derstood to say—Gentlemen, at this late hour of the meeting
it would show little judgment on my part to attempt to de-
tain you with a apeeeh; nor is there any occasion that I
should ask for your attention, for I have already, with suffi-
cient plainness I trust, repeatedly declared my sentiments
upon the main point, restiog on which I seek to be your
representative. If you do not in any numbers feel with me
the importance of preserving what remains of Protestantism
in our constitution, and of the paramount duty of seeking
the favour and blessing of the true God upon all our ways
as a nation—if, en the contrary, you think these things are
only flt subjects, for the reveries and disquiaitions of No
Popery fanatics, and utterly unworthy the attention of
enlightened and liberal minds, in that cue I can scarcely
expect that you will return me to parliament. But I do
trust that there is a deeper religious and protestant
feeling in the bosoms of my fellow citizens than some
give them credit for, and that there will be found a large
body who will at least not reject me for ray protestantiens,
but rather will think that I am on this ground the more
eligible, and that will think further that, though I am
not a statesman yet, I am so far a man of business as to

eonstitute me a fit and proper person to occupy the high
and honourable post of representative of their intereas in
parliament. Whether this be so or not, I can assure you that
I shall ever look back upon the short period during which I
have been engaged in this contest as one of some labour
truly, but sweetened by many most gratifying tokens of
friendship and kindness hom a gre►t number of my fellow-
citizens, with many of whom I have been thus brought into
contact for the first time; and I gratefully include in this
number not a few of those who have been my opponents
on the ocaaion. To all, then, especially to the honourable
and independent electors here present, I return my most
sincere thanks for their forbearance and courtesy, and will
sit down without troubling you any longer, only praying that
the result of the present election m■y be such as will promote
the best interests of this city and nation.
Mr. PATNA next presented himself, sad was received with
shoats of " Sham! Payne," ":(o! Payne," which continued
during the whole period of his address. He said that he
was the poor man's friend. He wanted to see the poor pro-
tected, and a humane system of poor laws in force. He was
a friend of civil and religious liberty, and was opposed to all
religious endowments.
The nand show of hands was then taken. At least nine•
tenths of the hall held up their hands in favour of the four
liberal candidates. Scarcely ti ty were held up for the con-
servative candidata. Mr Sheriff CHALLIS accordingly de-
clared, amidst vociferous cheering, that the show of hands
was in favour of Lord J. Russell ; J. Pattisns, Req. ; Sir 0.
Larpent, and Baron Rothschild. A poll was then demanded
on behalf of the other candidates.

Lord J. RUSSELL proposed a vote of thanks to the Sheriff',
for their fair ►nd impartial conduct.—Mr. MASTERNIAN
seconded the motion. . . . . .

Mr. Sheriff KENNARD retnm,d thanks, and hoped that
the election would tall on those who would best promote the
interests of the country.—The Crier then read the proclama-
tion, naming the different places where the polling wee to
take place, and stating that it was to continue from eight
o'clock in the forenoon to four o'clock in the afternoon, when
the polling books were to be closed.
The proceedings then terminated.