The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-06 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY

the teachin g and practice of the former of these nniver- don of Jews into Parliament. Be was not prepared to
lilies he bolieveu the evils had sprung which had in- separate Church and State; but, for the sake of the Pro-
troduced so. much religicue discord into the country.— testant religion, he did wish to see every church support
(Cheers.) It Wa.3 easy to make promises 6c the part of itself, and should therefore vote against all church-rates.
an untried man; bat, for him,elf, he could say, appealieg Mr. /TETHER said he was not an elector, but came
to his past services, that he would support the cause of there to represent the non-electors. He wished to know
reform on every occasion, even though his profession as the length Mr. Scovell would go with regard to the
a soldier might of en prove of disadvantage to him, in suffrege and shortening the duration of Parliaments.
bringing him into political ho,tility with those outhori- Mr. Soovenr. said he had already stated that he
ties for whom he felt every respect. The Gallant Officer would go to the full extent of Mr. Hump's motion for
retired amid cheers, and was succeded by the suffrage and wo'ald vote for triennial Parliaments.
Sir J. SHELLEY, who met with a very cordial recep- 4 Mr. NETHER—Why will you not go for annual Par-
tion. He said ho would go into Parliament with strong liaments and paid Members?
convictions and perfectly independent, to do his best for Mr. SnoveLL—l will not vote for annual Parliaments,
his constituency, and to maintain the principles he had because I wilt not keep the country in an annual fer-
advocated for the last 20 years. It was true his father went. New members require more than one session to
had been a Tory, and that many years ago ‘h.rea while, yet get accustomed to their duties; and besides, it is no
very young, had represented Gatton; but alr. Cooing- joke to be annually mounted on the top of an omnibus,
ham knew well that for tars last 20 years he had in his addressing the electors. With regard to the payment of
own neighbourhood constantly and consistently main- members I should have no objection to it at all.
tained the principles of reform and free trade.—(Cheers.) several Voices—HOW much do you want?
If Mr. Coniegham had only come forward a little earlier Mr. ECOVELL—A great deal, if you bring me here
be would have been content to call a meeting of the every year.
electors and stand or fall by their decision, as he would Mr. NETHER—What is your opinion with regard to
have done in the case of Mr. Lushington, had he come the electoral districts?
forward. Mr. Coningham was, no doubt, a Liberal. but Mr. SCOTELL—I have not yet formed an opinion on
he hied diYirted the Liberal ranks, and bad induced Lord them, but shall vote for any measure that will ensure a
Maidstone to come forward. In conclusion sir J. solid and substantial system of voting.
Shelley repeated once :pore his Politics! ereed—re sidential Mr. FARNELL then moved the following resolution:—
suffrage, triennial Parliaments, vote by ballot, and a re- "That this meeting joyfully recognises that steady ad-
vision of our. present electoral boundaries. lie was op- herence to those principles of practical and progressive
posed to centraitztion, and to Stare erants for religious reform which has so long characterised the electors of
purposes, but thought the revenues of the Irish State the borough of Southwark in the still increasing en-
Church should be re-adjusted. He was' opposed to the thesiaem in favour of their highly talented and emi-
system of indirect taxation as a ra► principle, and nearly qualified candidate, George Scovell, Lq., and
as a farmer was not pr- pared to insgrestntehalt tenant-tarmers pledges itself, by personal exec tion and every honour-
should maintain animals which reudered good farming able means, to secure his return."
almost impossible. Mr. EaAN seconded the resolution, which was carried
A good many questions were put by the electors, the with about eight di-sentient voices.
substance of the answers to which are for the most part Mr. tr:COVELL returned thanks to the meeting, and de-
comprised in the above sunarnarY' and a resolution Glared his intention of going to the poll on Thursday.
'ir D L Evans and Sir
pledging the meeting to sot)
J. Shelley was finally agreePertioo,b‘.asfoteco.re . good deal of
atwenty-five or
noisy opposition on the part t
thirty persons, who particulaly objected to the resolu-
tion being applied to the first-rnamed candidate.

MIDDLESEX.

Last evening a meeting of the electors of the county
of Middlesex was held at the Albion Hall, Albion-road,
Ham rner.rnith.

Mr. CONINGSA.3I attended a meeting in the morning
at the Hanover-square Rooms, at which he went over
most of the topics alluded to in his speech on Saturday
last, which was reported in The Sun of Monday. Sir
C. Aldia tonic the chair, and the room was tolerably
tilled with ladies and gentlemen, who received Mr. Cou•
inghatn very warmly. He expressed himself in favour
of Lord
paltnerstou's foreign policy as opposed ip the
policy Of Lord Maluiesbury, of the admission of opposed
to
parliament, of the Anglo-American alliance, and of the
abolition of church-ra'es.
Au ELECTOR asked him if he was ready to vote for
the ahontion of the law of primogeniture and the law of
entail ?—(Hear..bettr.)
Mr. CoNmogsst—The first question is, in effect. this
--am I preoar..d to abolish the House of Lord,?—
Teat's it," " Why no- ?" &c.) lam ready to redress
pracieally the evils of the law of entail by Act of Par•
list:neat, but it would be perfectly absurd for me to say
I am ready to vote for that which would he, in tffec', a
great social revolt ion.—(0.,! oh!) I cannot, in the
present state of feeling and experience on this poirr,
promise to agitate the question if retutned to Paths-
mPnc.

,- Mr. occupied the chair, and among the gen-
tlemen on the platform were Lord Robert Grosvenor,
Mr. B. Osborne, and o hers. _

The CHAIRMAN commenced the proceedings by stating
that their object in meeting was to take into considera-
tion whether the electors of Middlesex would go back to
the days of despotism, or maintain the present state of
things. He considered the public to be deeply indebted
to Lord Robert Grosvenor for the repeal of the window-
tax.—(Hear, hear.) It was now the duty of the electors
more than ever to see that the Liberal cause should not
be imta'red. Than Mr. Osberne there was not a more
liberal Member in the House of Commons, and it was
was theretore must desirable that undivided support
should be given to the Noble Lerd and Mr. Osborne.
N . man who was a tried friend to progress would at- '
t, mpt to divide the Liberal interest; and tie trusted that
v,ot only in the county of Middlesex, but throughout the
country, all would be united as the ensuing election to
support those men who would support the measures that
tended most to advance the great cause of reform. The
chtiorrmdaßnotßh;RnTinGtrßiod)uveEeNdotzth,e
icmandr
ii
rising tes.to address the
meeting, was loudly cheered. He said that atter y
thin) •
years' political life he could not say that he had any new
(Hear, hear)—hut he was de-
sirous of
what
ascertaining
were the local interests of
principles co eriutiaie—
each and every district of the County which he for the
third time sought to represent.—(Hear, hear.) There
twhaesia
nut arnb,rstsmithterdistrict for Lim CO commence in than
polling district, where there were a
great number of registered electors,.and a still greater
',umber of non Electors, the latter of whom he trusted
ere beg to see placed in a parallel position with those
who at present held a superior position. There were
rumours of a contest, but up to the present time he had
v.idausaml;obstuht
awphpeythaetr
atlhierteimselasoutlod
mbaekae
Chn oi°sL it
ts:p7p:leoart rhanenocitnchdei among his constttuents.—(Hear, hear.)
lie had felt it to be his duty to give the new Ministry
support for a time, that an appeal should not be made
at an early period to the country, but he would not
consent to the third reading of that absurd measure the
Militia Bill.—(Cheers.) The various changes of the
present Administration reminded him of the popular
novel " Japhet in Search of a Father," and he should
not be surprised to find a new production from the pen
of the Chancellor of the Exch. quer, imitating this title,
under the designation of " A Minister in Search of a
Policy." He would have preferred seeing on the banner
of the present party revision of national expenditure.—
( Hear, hear.) His opinion was that all import duties
that tended to encourage the smuggler ought to be at
once reduced. His Lordship then urged the necessity
for a total abolition of the Excise law, the deficiency
arising from which might be met by a well-regulated
system of direct taxation—([}ear.) The people were
now prepare I for an extension of the elective franchise,
and the rosurdity of a property qualification for members
of Parliament should be abolished.—(Cheers.)
Mr. OsBoRNE then rose, and was well received. lie
was there to vindicate his past conduct and votes. He
was proud of having been returned by the middle and
working classes, and democracy. fie had entered Par-
liament as a friend of civil and religious liberty, and
bad advocated free trade; and he would appeal to the
proceedings in Parliament how far he had carried out his
professions.—(Hear, hear.) The present Ministry, since
they got into office, had abandoned protectiors. and the
poor man was promised a big loaf because the Deebyites
wanted the " little fishes" of office for themselves.—
(Cheers.) He had voted against the Ecelesiasticel
Fetes Bel hscsuse be considsred that the Roman Ca-
tholics should have civil and religious liberty as well as
themselves. The Bill had only led to riots, and gutting
the houses of the Itsmsn Catholics ut Siockport. Ile had
not voted fer the M.ynooth grant, hut had fur Mr.
Ware's amendment.

Tha- usual resolution of support was passed almost
Unanimously, and the m6;tii.g separated; but 4r. Co-
nin,gham
suosuquently addressed the electors and non-
electors from a window in Clare sheet, and at the Union
Tavern, Quicen-street.

At the c.,nelu,ion of a lengthy an 3 eloquent speech
the Hof.. Cr..mtleconn was loudly cheered, ttnd ti vote of
thanks terminated tht proct.edti,gs.

TO s Eli HAMLETS.
A meeting of elecors of the district of St. George's
was held last night nt the St. listherine's Dock Hotel,
to hear a s'atement of their political principles from Mr.
G. TO ,n at .d Mr. Ayrton. The chair was occu-
pied by Mr. P. Crellin.
Mr. THoutsoN, in the course of his speech, observed
that the con est bad been made to turn,. not upon the
to rits of the political principles of himself and Mr. Ayr-
ton, but upon false and scaodatous charges which bad
tb en brou: ht against Those charges had emanated
chiefly fr.,us a j nirusl in the interest of the brewers and
licensed vim uallers, which bad falsely stated that he had
ic trodsced Mr. A y rton to the borough, and which had re
sorted to thn bssekt means to secure the return of its own
nominee, Mr. Butler.—(Cheers.) For more than two
with libel,
moDths the columns of that paper bad teemed with
loading articl-a and cAismunications reeking
misrepresentation, and malignant falsehood, such as be
rb
bad ver seen eq tailed, save in the most depraved
of Transatlantic papers. Attpr some further obser-
vations i
with reterenco to the journal in question, Mr.
Thompson proceeded so state, that Mr. Butler aspired
to represent a constituency as chactdedly dissenting as
any in the country, and yet three days after the trig
he complained that his
umphant election of 1847 chat gentleman wrote a letter
party
—inthe
partyate
friend,
sCr in
al Fox—had been shamefully
beaten, and that they must recover themselves by the
defeat of Mr. Osborne fur Middlesex. The letter con-
cluded with these emphatic words Csnvav:, and let
us show the Dissenters that we Churchmen are deter-
mined to retrieve the disgrace of last week." How had
Mr. Butler proposed to wipe oat that disgrace ? By the
defeat of Mr. Berns! Osborne, and the substitution for
him of his Tory competitor, Colonel Wood ; and yet
Mr. Butler coolly describ-d himself as a disciple of Jo-
seph Hume !T (Cheers.) Mr. Tbompson concluded with
a brief exposition of his political principles, which eli-
cited considerable applause.
Mr. AYRTON then at some length also addressed the
assembly.
Mr. YARNEL.I. moved, and Dr. EA RLE seconded a re-
solution. plottgtng the meeting to support Mr. Taump.
son at the election.
Mr. BONSER moved, and
UNwix seconded, a
similar resolution with respect to Mr. Ayrton, and the
proceedings terminated.
There arc still five candidates in the field for the re-
presentation of this numerous constituency, viz., Sir W.
Clay and Mr. G. Thompson, the old Members, and Mr.
Ayrton, Mr. Butler, and Mr. W. Newton. All the cau-
didatts are Liberals of more or le,s extreme views. Mr.
Newton addri ssed a numerous assemblisge last evening
'in Banner's- fields, and also,an aggregate meeting of his
friends at the.BFikh School-room, City-road.
He bas
puor:yard tin indignant denial to the charges circu-
late by his opponents, that he has received money for
his election expenses from Mr. Butler!, Mr. H. Child,
the returning -officer, has appointed this day (Tuesday)
for the nomination, which takes place on Stepney-green.

to Captain Bacon, of the Ravens-
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signed passengers, per Ravens-
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t evinced by Captain Bacon and his crew,
and steady conduct
recent accident with the Duchess of
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Kent, on her way from
to bear our
minutes from the e. llision), espe-
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down in less than five
bringing
by
with reference to his
to save the lives of the pas-
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persons, under God's provi-
dence, tvo boats together,
Tmgera was rewarded, every
TTlce. having been rescued.
the passengers...)
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