The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-09 00:00:00

ELECTItIS INTELLIGENCES
L ABETH.
Though the contest for tni, b trough terminated at
four o'clock on Wednesday stternoon, Kt wnict lira, it
was generally understood that the suceesful
were 'sir. Wilkins ,n (by an immewe insj .ni
Vb.than:la, yet, in con,tq tent- of the scru.iriy ,o which
was round me,ssary so submit the polling lists, the
aun,unc,imeut did n,t title pl ,ce b-t.)re
o'clock yesterday, at which hour, and long previously,
a very large concourse assembled in front of the hus-
tings, at Kensington-common. •
The RETURNING OFFICER adyaneed to the front of the
platform, and informed the assemblage that the num-
bers were—

For Mr. Wilkinson •.• 4,732
For Mr. Williams_ 4,022
For Mr. D'Eyncourt •3,829
Mr. WILKINSoN came forward to address the elec-
tors, and was received with loud cheers. He said that,
at noon on Saturday last, he acceded for the first mo-
ment to the application which had been made to him
by what he supposed he might now be allowed to call
a respectable deputation.—(Cheers.) He did not wish to
stain thaael ong under the building. [A Voice--am.ts
or you'll I rive us mad.] Hehad been returnedoyes,
by the great naafis of the working classes.—(N°' n
yes, and clamour.) The poll-books would show that he
wasted the fact.—(Clamour.) He observed it stated in
ens of the newspapers of that day that a large body of
men of a particular establishment voted for him because
of his subsoriptions to the Amalgamated Association of
Eogineere. He be geed to state he never subscribed a
shilling to that beefy—(Hear, hear.) He believed one
element of his success consisted in the treatment by the
otherside of the gentleman who preceded him—(Hr.
n eearvet)—treatment which the honest indignation of
Englishmee, rose up against. (Hear, hear.) Whatever
Might har,e been Mr. Harvey's position in early years,
he had now lived in the borough thirty years, and had
ever seetained an irreproachable character and reeuta•
tion.—
-(Hear, hear.) Therefore, to have attacked his
early character is the manner in which it had been at-
tao) /eel was neither a just, a generous. or a manly ace—
(Ceheers.) rile duties of the constituency were now for
free present concluded, whilst his duties were only about
to commence; and ho hoped to discharge those duties in
the same honest and exemplary manner in which the
constituency had discharged theirs in electing him as
their representative.—(Elear, hear, and cheers.)
Mr. WILLIAMS next came forward, and was warmly
greeted. He begged to express his deep and heartfelt
thanks for the honour which they had now for the se-
cond time conferred upon him. He had been charged
with coalition with the Right Hon. Mr. D'Eyncourt.—
(Cries of "'Tie true.") He did not complain nor find
fault with any men who believed so, as all appearances
tended in the; way; but he c uld assure them that he
had no more to do with the formation of that coalition
than any individual present,—(Hear, hear, and Oh, oh.)
Between ',kir. D'Eyneourt and himself there had not
been a wend of understanding on the question of coali•
tion.—(rJear, hear, from Mr. D'Eyncoure) Now, as
regards d himself (ear. William.), he should say that, as
they t.eretotore found him so should they ever find him.
At tlee end of the next sessien he bhould iawite them to
meet him and scrutinise his every act as their repreeen-
tad ve, and the more they looked into his conduct the
mr ,re pleased should he be to meet them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. D'EYNCOURT lastly presented him-elf, and was
• ere, warmly received, there being a markAd difference
in the reception as compared with that of Tuesday last.
He said that, as this might be the last occasion on which
he should have tee honour of addressing the electors of
Lambeth, and as even it might be the last day of his
public life, he hoped they would treat him with at least
some torbe.arance.—(Cheers.) It had been said that he
lost
his election in consequence of certain slanders
heaped upon Mr. Harvey.—(Hear, hear.) He challenged
any man to say if he had ever heard him utter any
such slander, or that he had ever been a party to its ut
terience.--(Cries of" Your conecnite e") Lie was not
awn Vest his committee ever uttered those calumnies.
"eer,hear, and Oh, oh) He understood there were
papers, circulated in
reference to that gentleman; but
neither he nor
He -cou!d i./ committee had any concern in them.
not be a man if, after twenty years of intimate
ant', Confident eAlWXiOn' the bond which united them
cc' uld be severed without a pang of feeling.—(Hear,
•
`"") And now, when retiring from tnem, it was a
consolation to know that he had on the previous day
Polled in his favour a lamer number of electors than was
Bug:lir:tent to return him at the last election.--(Cheers.)
Wio„h these observations, and wishing them coil,- ()Lively
and individually every happiness, he then bade theca
feerewell.—(Hear, and cheers.)