The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-21 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

Bir C. Napier's friend, held • meeting lest evening
at the Britannia, Southwick-bridge-road, from the balcony
of which the pliant admiral addressed • crowded audience
of some 1,600 or 2,000 electors and non-electors of the be-
rotigh.
Mr. CLOTHIER prodded ; and bring advocated the claims
of the candidate, by reference to by past services in the
navy, and is the House of Commons,
WC. NAPIER eras forward. He appealed to them to
say whether be bad dam hie duty or not. He felt eatidled
is his own 'Mad that he had not neglected the interest ref the
country or of that borough. A gentleman who should he
nameless, had aid when the Merino of the borough were
ooncemed, be Ur C. Napier) bad never been to be found.
But that was an abominable untruth. He received every
depntetloe, sad replied to every lett.r the day be received it,
In reference te the twee/reef Southwark. Parliameet, as they
knew, wee prorogued ; sod in a few day. he, like inhere,
would be sent ',bout he bushier. Many of those others
would not Lo again returned, bat be felt oonfid,nt that ha
should be emit t ock at the bead ot the poll. They bed re-
tained hire three times, the drat tree in opposites to Mr.
a gentleman of meat local frluence. He was after-
wards invited to mead spirt the late ffir W. Moriworth ;
and he believed if he had gone ern be should have bees re-
turned on that occasion and turned out one of her Mejestie
ministers, which as they had eat believed very well to bias
be would not have chimed to do. Bat be thought it more
predint to retire, acting oe the advice of some ef his friends.
At the nest erotica he was returned at the bead of the poll,
Mr. Locke being chorea as his calogua In preference to
Mr. A. Pollan. He had acted ordidly with Mr. Locke es
forSeart, though he was not joined with klm is this
elsotion. 11r. Palate had thought proper W is.. forward '
gala, either to tar oat Mr. Lodge or himself (Sir C. Ns-
peer). As far an he was conoweed, he bed ea fear of the
result, for ho wee safe dm deems et Southwark
would set set r birourritly an to tare eat
• ma they bed tw• yew ago returned by • merrity ad
ka4.o, sad she bed lbws dose Me duty. (War, beer.)
wee la parliament wbrir the China war was dieersed,
sal supported lard Paboareker la cenylag as a war edible
bad greed op in sue esesseres die pure somplre et Chino,

and had ethos resulted m otil to no aho the empire ,
of Japan, Be had opposed the m osaagft In at the th-
etas= of France in caoseqnsnae of the attempt of Orsini on
the limpasx's life. lisgthhmen were proverbially opposed
to essessinstkes, and would take all neoessary steps to prom
vent conspbscies fa this country for that purpose, bat they
did sot like to be dictated to by a foreign goverment. They
had so right to interfere with the government of France.
Tbe Truth people had a perfect right to choose whom
they plotted to rule over them; bat their Emperor wee
sotjmallisd &ends( wbst laws we &mid pea. It was
said thst lard Polmastca was hey pagssolise; be thought
the noble lard did so snore uses
-kis duty Wog the
European powers in order; and be bed, he t, err
luftedwhis duty in 11'4=i:reacts to ceder. at as lee
ved of the thll, he voted aphis. it,
though its effect was to torn Pantries, who vie his
=tfriend, out of once. It had bra Fd to vote
ick again, but be had refused to to ay mach
attempt, and he could safely say bed serer
given a factious vote spinet Lord Derby's govern.
meth ethos that goverment bed etnessied to dß=
Upon the reform quoits beer= to favour of Mahal par-
liaments, but did utt believe that annual parliamests =aid
be more advantageous to the trades of the metropolis than
they would be convenient to members of parliament. Hs
was favourable to the widest enterinon of the banal,e is
be end would give to every men who bed a boons
are7Vhead and paid mat the eight to vete. And with
=:so the county hooch* he wee is favour of the
of Kr. Look. King's proposition of a 101. ecospatiols
soffesgs, Bat the wider they opened the
protection
MOM
necomery it was they should have the al the
ballot. The government had no sufficient reason fen.
=puliament on Lord John litmeths rapolutlen being
However, Lead John Bussoire proposed scheme
ma a great haprothseent open any they 000ld hope for from
tory government, though ewe that did not go far enough to
satisfy hint. (Mare.) He would support, as he had before
supported, the aballea of church rams, as pro-
posed by 131 r John Trelawny'l bill, end would
vote for the equalisation of the poor rates, conaidering it moat
unfair that by the building of large mansions to particular
localities the poor should be crowded together in densely
peopled and =wholesome districts, and that the berthas of
=?the destitute, who were thus driven from the
Ittrold fail enolosivel on the poorer. parishes. If.
was he maintaining the ds end upholding the hone=
of the country ; bat he complained that seder that preps=
largeag ms were annually wasted. The proper mode of pro-
for the national dedmas was not by comparatively
useless cent batteries, but by always enettheiniag the navy
in a thoroughly Woolley state. With an 'Soave Beat
England might always defy the world intim'. (Cheers.)
A resolution pledging the meeting to support the has. and
t candidate Wei moved by Dr. B. JONI& end ieCOll6O4
Eft. WLINWRIORT, and carried amid great cheering—
tly no opponents.
Mr.bti.alUde:, meeting in the afternoon at the district
oemmittee room, in Friar-street, from the window of which
be delivered an address which appeared to give full eatisho-
tioa, and secured for him the usual pledge of support.
Mr. A. retract also 'Adhered a large body of electors
from the frost et the Green Man in the Kent-road ; and the
result smeared equally eatisheary to his pretension'''.
The friends of Sir C. Napier and Mr. Locke speak with
ocalidenoe of placing their respective candidates at the head
of the poll; and, although that is improbable, there appears to
be a pretty strong feeling, in the more distant polling districts
especially, that Mr. Polish will have to et ruggle hard for the
se=nd pleoe.