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London, England, 1865-07-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12.

LONDON has replied with no uncertain voice to the
constitutional appeal now made to the judgment of
the nation. Of the sixteen members assigned to
*be cities and boroughs of the metropolis twelve
have been returned ; the Tories have been de-
feated in two hard fought battles, and when the
list is completed to-morrow evening, there will not
be one follower of Lord DERBY among them. This
is the example of the capital to the country ; this
is the reply of the greatest constituencies of the
realm to the bout of Conservative reaction.
The City of London has rejected the Con-
servative candidates by a majority that is reckoned
by thousands of votes. Mr. LYALL and Mr.
FOWLER were personally unexceptionable, gentle-
men of high character, business habits, and closely
connected with the constituency. It is only the spirit
of jealous and obstinate opposition to reforms de-
manded by the just and equitable feeling of the age
which is condemned in their persons. The City of
London is one of the most conservative constituencies
in the world, in the honest sense of that abused
word, and it is as conservative after this vote as
it was yesterday morning. But it will have no-
thing to do with that spurious Conservatism which
is born of distrust, and which only discerns
a fresh truth to recognise a new enemy. When
the Liberal candidates put forth their addresses
it was remarked that the most aggressive of
them was that of Mr. COWRIE ; and now Mr.
Goscusx heads the poll. The fact may be com-
mended to those who are entering on public life,
and who will find some to tell them that compro-
mise and reserve are the cardinal points of
political prudence. Let such persons rather learn
that Englishmen despise nothing so much as half-
heartedness and insincerity, and that in the long
run no public man has anything to gain by palter-
ing with convictions. Mr. LYALL, who polled
more votes yesterday than Mr. Fowixit, appears
not to have received so many by a thousand as
were given to Mr. Cuarrr at the last contest
in 1861.
The election of Mr. Bwrrit for Westminster
would have been a serious party defeat ; but the
return of Mr. MILL with Captain GROSVENOR is
much more than a great party victory. It is, in
the first place, the triumph of purity of election in
its severest form. When Mr. MILL was called
upon to permit himself to be nominated, far from
seeking to recommend himself to the constituency
by the ordinary arts of candidates he doubted
whether he could be so useful in Parlia-
ment as in the pursuits which have made him
known wherever the English language is spoken.
He distinctly declined the burden of local business,
and would enter Parliament for no other purpose
than to advance his well known opinions. He would
spend no money ; if elected, it must be u a
person willing to undertake gratuitously an onerous
duty to the public. He declined even to offer
himself to the electors, although ready to enter
Parliament in obedience to their calL And, to
the lasting honour of Westminster, it is on these
conditions that Mr. MILL has been elected. There
were those who sneered at the idea of a metropo-
litan constituency returning a distinguished poli-
tical philosopher from pure esteem of his merits.
It was too ridiculous to suppose that the voters
had ever beard of Mr. Mit.L. The fact is that
Mr. Sierra and Mr. MILL together polled 8,300
votes in a constituency of about 12,500, and Mr.
MILL has a net majority of somewhere about 700.
Westminster has raised the character of al 1 the
metropolitan boroughs by this honourable conduct,
and has signally rebuked those who presumed to
believe that the representation of the City could
become the prize of wealth.
There is another reason for which we may all
rejoice in Mr. M/LL's success. It has been
achieved in the teeth of a special opposition—with
which we are far from associating Mr. Sierra—dis-
tinguished by a licentiousness of misrepresentation
suck as has rarely been displayed even in times
more exciting than these. We refer to the per-
sonal attacks made on Mr. MILL in the name of
religion. It is a terrible fact that there is no un-
scrupulousness like that in which those indulge
who have persuaded themselves that they are in an
especial manner fighting the battles of Heaven.
The recklessness with which the moat sacred names
have been abused for party purposes in this West-
minster election is such as must revolt all pious
minds. It is satisfactory to know that the illegiti-
mate weapons of religious rancour have not pre-
vailed against a gentleman whom his Pharisaical
assailants might usefully take for an example of
Christian virtues.
The election for Lambeth is not less satisfac-
tory, whether we regard the result or the means by
which it was won. The mutest was entirely be.
tween Liberals, and one more honourable to all
parties was never fought. Mr. Tana as Huouss
went to the constituency trusting to nothing but
his character. He was received by the working
Glasses as an old and triedfriend, one who had often
counselled and aided, and sometimes reproved, but
never flattered them. They organized their own
electoral machinery, and worked it themselves,
and, with the approval and assistanm of all classes
of the constituency, placed their candidate in a tri-
umphant position on the poll. It was unfortunate
that Mr. HUGHES could not be brought in without
Alderman IsawaannE being shut out ; but that
gentleman, who was the first to congratulate Lam-
beth on having elected in Mr. HI:JOWLS " a nand
" whom the borough might be proud," is not likely
long to remain without a seat in Parliament.
In
.Mr. Hoaxes the working classes have a member
who is better able than any other gentleman of

the middle claims to represent their sentiments
and interests in the House of Commons.
In Mary lebone, Mr. Moira Crunneas haa shows
how well he had taken the measure of that constitu-
ency. He has gained the seat which Lord FiIIMOY
has held for the last six years, and will probably
avoid the errors which proved fatal to his pre-
damson We can only hope that as long se it
is convenient to him to bold the sea, he may be
as useful a member of the legislature as Lord

The metropolitan elections of yesterday were, as
• whole, the most satisfactory from a Liberal point
of view that have taken place for many years.
There was lem tumultuous excitement than
usual, but more genuine political energy,
and there was • good result. To-day Fins.
bury has had to choose its members, and we
are glad to see that the electors of that
borough have not fallen below the standard
which those of Westminster and Lambeth had
set up. In Mr. Toalisss they have • member
who will find his ►ppropriate place between Mr.
him and Mr. Humus.

Be four o'clock this afternoon some 200 Mem-
bers of the New House of Commons will have
been returned, and therefore on the action of the
constituencies to-day will depend in a great mea-
sure the issue of the electoral contest. At this
stage of the battle, when nearly every one who is
going to give • vote at all has made up his mind to
whom to give it, it may seem almost useless to
offer any general advice. But there are always
some few waverer. who remain such up to the
last minute, and it is well to keep thee*
people in view until the polling is absolutely
at an end. In cases of this kind there are
two considerations which may exercise a disturbing
influence on the mind of the Liberal voter. He
is not perhaps an ardent politician, and the Con-
servative candidate may have superior local claims
to any which can be put forward by his opponent ;
or the contest may lie, not between candidates of
conflicting political sentiments, so much as be-
tween opponents nurtured in the same camp, and
using the same watchwords. To the first class of
voters we have only one thing to say. Let well
alone. The very reason why you are not a more
eager politician than you are is the absence of any
grievance to make you such. If the money of the
people were being wasted upon objects in which the
people felt no concern, if the honour of England
were being pledged to take part in continental
wars, if the taxation of the country were imposed
with • paramount reference to class interests or a
consistent deference to class prejudices, your en-
thusiasm would not thus remain at low water
mark, you would be active because you would be
alarmed. We are not going to tell you again that
the prosperity which has made you apathetic is
the result of a Liberal policy ; we are content to
take • lower tone than this, and to ask you
whether, at all events, the prosperity and the
policy have not been at least contemporaneous.
There may be no link to unite them in the relation
of cause and effect ; but they have hitherto been
found in conj unction, and it is the part of a prudent
man not to do anything which may introduce •
break into his run of luck. England has
been singularly fortunate under the present Go-
vernment, wait till her chances look less promising
before you try the experiment whether she will be
equally so under a Conservative administration.
Be content with the goods which you have, instead
of exchanging them, in idle dissatisfaction, for
others which you have never had the opportunity
of testing.
The other difficulty does not admit of quite so
decisive a solution. On the one hand, it must be
admitted that a former election ought not to give a
man • vested right to be returned on every subset-
quent occasion, and that an elector's most obvious
duty is to vote for the beat man. But on the other
hand, moral considerations have • claim upon our
regard as well as purely intellectual ones ; and the
mere fact of a new Liberal candidate disregarding
all the past services of an old member, and the
certain confusion and possible defeat which his
rivalry with him will entail upon the party to
which they both belong, may imply • degree of
vanity and recklessness which outweigh his intel-
lectual qualifications. We can only recommend
the electors to bear these two facts in mind, and
not to reject an old member unless the proposed
substitute is very decidedly his superior.
Above all, we would ask them not to
reject • really eminent man because re-
cent events may have developed considerable
differences of opinion between him and them. We
do not say that the gulf between a member and
his constituents may not become so wide as to
make • severance of the connection inevitable, but
the latter at least should be slow to recognise the
necessity, and unwilling even in appearance to
resort to ostracism as a protection against political
eccentricity.
The interest of to-day's elections turns chiefly
upon the new men whom they may result in in-
troducing to the House of Commons. At
Brighton, Mr. Fawns-Tr has been gallantly con-
tending against physical disadvantages, to have
surmounted which is in itself no bad index of
unusual intellectual vigour, and still more uncom-
mon resolution ; and we trust that the electors
will follow the example of Westminster, and send
up to the House of Commons one of the ablest of
Mr. May's disciples. The borough has now an
opportunity of repairing the error into which it
was led two years ago in returning • Conservative.
The same is to be said of Leicester, which Mr.
1:111YOATE was Only able to misrepresent through
the disunion of the Liberals. For the sake of the
Liberal cause, it may be hoped that no relic of
the old discord may survive ten o'clock this morn-
ing. At Harwich, Mr. Menem. Wiva, an able
man of business and a sound Liberal, is making
a gallant fight against the influences which have so
long degraded that town, and has in Mr.
FITZJAMEB STZPHEN a colleague of considerable
originality of thought, and one who will contribute
to the legal debates of the House of Commons a
philosophical element in which they are too
often conspicuously deficient. If early and marked
moms in political literature is any evidence of
aptitude for the practical part of the study, Mr.
TacveLvan's return for Tynemouth ought to be
the first step in a distinguished parliamentary
career. Chester will not, it is to be hoped, pay so
bad a compliment to the Cameo:twit of the Ex-
CHEQUER as to refuse his son that opening into
public life which be may fairly claim alike
for his father's merits and his own pro-
mise. At Bridgnorth an English Roman
Catholic appeals to the liberality and good
sense of an English constituency, and Sir JOHN
Acron's return will afford most gratifying evidence
of the decay of religious prejudice, while it will
retain in the House of Commons • member who,
in spite of the too prolonged silence which he has
hitherto maintained, is respected by those in both
parties who are best qualified to judge of his ex-
traordinary political knowledge and his genuine
breadth of sentiment. To vote for the best man
and the truest Liberal should be the common aim
of every Englishman to-day.

At 2 o'clock to-dry the returning officer (Mr.
Omlow) atteoded upon the hastiags is Coveatigardwa, sad
made a declaration of the poll as follows:
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The announcement d the malign was remind with the
most vooderoue sheer* by the immense crowd which bad
amembled in frost of the hustings with WWI at " Where's
the Tories now!" Capt. Grammar sad Mr. Mill cm
presentiag themselves is front of the hustings were received
with a hurrioase of applause. Both gentlemen addressed
the mortis`, thanking the electors for the proud pasitioss
in which they hail been placed. Mr. Smith did set
appear.