The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-15 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN MANAGEMENT ACT. I THE RIGHT BON. E. P. BOUVERIE AT
KIL 0• K.

ELECTION OF VEST YMEN.
ST. PANCBAS.

In the following wards, viz., Kentish Town, Haver-
stock Hill, Camden, Regent'E-park, Somers-town, and
Tottenham opposition li-ts were proposed and polls de-
manded, which will take place this day.
In the No. 5, or Hampstead-road ward, there was only
one list proposed, which was unanimously adopted.
Gray's-inn Ward.—The following were the vestry.
men elected :—Messrs. Baker, Perkins, Pratt, Williams,
Stockton, Snubbs, Laimbeer, Russell, Cbamy, Speedy,
Turner, Papprill, Eckett, Stevens, Ashley, Thurston,
Cooper, and Zwingler. Mr. Whitford was also elected
auditor without opposition.
EIT. ANDREW, HOLBORN.
Yesterday the following 24 gentlemen were elected
vestrymen :—Messrs. R. Baldock, W. Babb, J. R. But-
ter, R. M. Cartwright, C. Cadby, E. Frewin, S. Fowler,
J. Gray, H. Gordon, W. Hurlstone, E. Hagger, F.
Hibbett, W. Leadbetter, F. Linder, M. Low, W. Mel-
ton, W. Mitchener, T. Nunn, Zenas T. Purday, T. Simp-
son, W. Stannard, G. Taylor, W. Taylor, and T. Win-
ter. The following were elected auditors :—Messrs E.
Clarke, J. M. Drew, W. Edwards, G. Helder, and J.
S. Prosser.

ST. SEPULCHRE, MIDDLESEX.
At a meeting of the rated inhabitants, held at the
vestry-room, Greenhills Rents, Mr. Churchwarden
Richardson in the chair, Messrs. W. Goldsworthy, T.
Lansdown, R. Hurst, J. W. Tongue, J. H. Martin, E.
K. Whelpdale, L. Devereux, H. R. Clarke, W. Richard.
son, H. Boaden, E. T. Complin, I. Hicks, J. Lyon, E.
Turnbull, J. T. Preston, J. Newton, J. Pattenhall, and
NV. Nash, were unanimously elected vestrymen ; and
Messrs. W. S. Young, J. Richards, W. White, J. E.
Wall, and J. Saddington, were unanimously elected
auditors.
ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR.
Yesterday the following gentlemen were declared duly
elected as vestrymen :—Messrs. R. B. Seeley, Thomas
Morson, S. Bishop, J. Collins, J. Cover, W. Goater, J.
Della Torre, J. 0. Hall, Joseph. WEvan, S. Pulsford,
J. Richards, T. Southgate, E. Taylor J. Taylor, Jelley,
C. Tibbetts, W. Elliott, and H. Williams. Messrs. F.
Barough, J. Bridges, J. Donne, G. Harris, and R.
Moulton were elected auditors.
ST. GILES AND ST. GEORGE'S, BLOOMSBURY.
Yesterday, at a meeting which took place in the vestry-
room of St. Giles's church, for the election of vestrymen,
Mr. Hawthorne proposed the following gentlemen :
Messrs. F. Adlard, S. Angell, A. G. Bachoffner, J. Bas-
sett, F. A. Carrington, F. C. Chilton, A. Cocker, C.
Corben, H. Combe, M. De Loete, H. Harrison, R.
Hartwell, J. Hodge, J. Hogg, J. Leslie, H. Manning,
H. Mawiey, J. Moore, Dr. Richards, W. Rogers, J.
Soward, C. Ward, G. Ward, T. Waring. Auditors :C.
Holdernesse, J. Poole, J. Robinson, G. Matthews, J.
Reynolds.
Mr. Cooper proposed the following : Messrs. P.
Marshall, Dr. Waters, S. Benjamin, H. Cooper, J.
Hogg, G. Simpson, F.R.C.S., S. W. Pope, LL.D., R.
Wornum, G. Luff, J. H. Heal, J. Hewitson, G. Bar-
rett, B. Ware, T. Taylor, J. Francis, J. Cox, M. H.
Deed, J. Reynolds, A. Marshall, S. Phillips, J. Neve,
Smith, D. Carpenter, Parker, J. M'Laren. Audi-
tors : J. Slater, W. Sturgeon, J. A. Finney, T. Harvey,
R. Dey, The poll takes place to-day.
BLOOMSBURY DISTRICT.—The names of the elected
vestrymen are Messu., J. Ashmore, T. Bellamy, D.
Cronin, W. L. Donaldson, W. Gaussen, W. Griffith,
Hewitt, H. Horn, C. Lambert, J. H. Lloyd, R. M.
Lowe, G. J. J. Mair, Metcalfe C. E. Mudie, Park-
inson, Raggett, Reed, Sellman, Simmons, C. Skipper,
NV. H. Tinney, Thomson, Tucker, Weedon. Auditors :
Messrs. T. Ellaby, Johnstone, J. nagger, J, M. Kimp-
ton, and C. B. Thurston.

On Monday last the right bun. member for the Kil-
marnock district of burghs met and aildresseil his con-
stituents
in the 'Town Hall of-Kilmarnock, which was I
crowded. He objected to Lord S-auley's proposal that I
Parliament should meet earlier, as the only result would
be, not to accelerate public business, but only to con-
sume more time in talk. The House of Commons was
too Much in the habit of spending the early part of the
session in talk; business being put off to the end and
then shovelled through nobody knew how. He divided
the members into four classes-Ist, talkers and doers ;
2d, talkers ; 3d, doers ; and 4:41-1, the large class who
swell important divisions. The talkers in the early part
of the session had nearly all their own way, the doers
accomplishing the real business in the small hours of the
night. Last session of 213 divisions, 56 were after mid-
night ; and not much had been done, except to vote large
supplies to carry on the war. Split up into sections, the
house had no great rallying points for parties ; and instead
of showing a bold and determined front to the common
enemy had been rent by constant dissensions and dis-
cords, at a time when that assembly should have
been united and harmonious. He knew no previous
session in which four motions of want of confidence in
Government had been made; and it was not for the ad-
vantage of the country, or the credit of our representative
institutions, that there should be constant struggles for
the existence of a ministry. As to the war, much as he de-
plored its calamities, he believed it unavoidable, and that
the people had gone into it reluctantly but deliberately,
because they believed it to be just and necessary.
(Cheers.) The " peace party," in his opinion, had com-
mitted both a fault and a mistake. Their fault was, that
by their language before the war they contributed to
create the belief that, under no circumstances, would
this country engage in war ; and, since war commenced,
they had depreciated our successes, and manifested in
our distresses a feeling of something almost like exulta-
tion. The mistake, which ran through all their reason-
ing, was, that the war was unprovoked and unnecessary,
because we were peaceably inclined ; losing sight of the
fact that there are two parties to a war, and that if one
is determined to force a quarrel on the other the time
would come when the latter must take up the gauntlet.
After referring to the aggressive policy of Russia, and
its intentions, as clearly incompatible with the security
of the other great states of Europe, he expressed the
conviction that it was part of the great responsibility of
our position that we should take a leading part in resist-
ing such aggression ; and we might rejoice that this task
had fallen to us when Ireland was tranquil and prosper-
ous, restrictions on free trade abolished, and we had a
great and gallant ally to support us. (Cheers.) Instsad
of huddling up such a peace as would merely adjourn
the question, we must secure the blessings of a lasting
peace to ourselves and our children—(applause)—either
by exhausting the resources of our antagonist, or by
compelling him to yield such substantial guarantees as
would ensure the lasting peace of the world, as against
the same aggressor. He thought the allies had in the
last 15 months made great progress towards the attain-
ment of that object ; witness Alma, Inkerman, the'
Tchernaya, and Sebastopol by land, and the operations
of our fleets in the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Sea of
Azoff. Never in our history had the same amount of
success been attained in the same period at the corn-
mencement of a great war, when we had the disad van-
tage of starting with our military and naval establish-
ments on a peace footing. Still, at the end of the war,
he would have these establishments reduced, and thus
save large sums for the promotion of industrial pursuits
and then we could make an extraordinary effort when an
extraordinary emergency arose. In peace we spend on
the army and navy 12 to 14 or 15 millions, on an ave-
rage for the last 20 years ; but in war much more ; in
1854 some 15i millions more than in 1853, nearly
double ; and this year the additional expenditure was 35
millions. If instead of 14 millions we had spent 71
millions more annually, during the 40 years of peace,
that would be something like 300 millions ; which, far
any practical purpose, might as well have been thrown
into the sea. We might have been better prepared for
war at the outset, but we should have lost all the advan-
tages of 40 years' accumulation of that money for the
social benefit of the people. (Cheers.) He deprecated
the spirit abroad in some quarters of depreciating all we
had done and were doing, that spirit of detraction which
tells us that we have bad troops, generals unfit for
anything, ships not what they ought to be, batteries
that cannot float ; and in short that we are, in all these
and many other respects, worse than any of our neigh-
hours. (Cheers.) Let us discriminate fairly, and not
discourage all exertions by universal depreciation. He
saw no just ground for reproaching a ministry on the one
hand or an opposition on the other, because it was a
coalition. The difficulty was that men thus brought
together were not unapt to fall away again : like two
pieces of iron welded together when not sufficiently fused,
they were very apt to break away again at the joining.
Such was the case with the coalition between the friends
of Peel, and the liberal party. There was talk of a coali-
tion opposition between Messrs. Bright, Disraeli, and
Gladstone. He doubted very much that any such would
take place ; but, if it did, and they should succeed in
turning out the present Government, and taking the
reins of power themselves, he did not think such a coali-
tion would be acceptable to the people. Sometimes a
mixture of opposite ingredients made a palatable com-
pound—a salad, for example, with oil, vinegar, and mus-
tard, was quite palatable ; but he doubted very much if
a political salad would be agreeable to the people of this
country, compounded of the oil of Oxford, the vinegar of
Manchester, and of mustard grown in Buckinghamshire.
(Laughter.) That mixture, the people, he thought, would
find more pungent than palatable. (Cheers.) He thought
all must agree that the present administration had shown
a resolute spirit and a desire to carry on the war with
vigour and energy, and with all the power and means at
their disposal. Public opinion, as expressed in the House
of Commons, would say whether Government had dis-
charged their duty. Meanwhile, it became all true pa-
triots to create no unnecessary difficulties or impediments
in the way of carrying on the Government. (Applause.)
Our party differences, after all, were but skin deep,
while we had all one object in view, the happiness of the
country ; and if that happiness was at present bound
up in the success of our armies and fleets, we ought to
take care to do nothing by word or deed which might in
the slightest degree impede our progress to that end.
(Cheers.)
On the motion of Bailie Wlnsoss, who presided, a
vote of confidence in Mr. Bouverie was unanimously
passed.