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

LA NIBETII.

A numerous meeting of the supporters of Hr. William
A. Wilkinson, the new candidate, was held last night in
the Victoria Theatre. The chair was taken by Mr. J.
Sewell.
The CHAIRMAN said that sixteen persons in the be-
reueh were of opinion that they should re-elect their
'former repreaentutives; on the other band, a great pro•
portion of the electors bein;:: determined to hevt.
Member—(Cheers)--3 requisition had been
ntitendetwo
Mir. Harvey, but he was hafted out cf. thepreesere senta-
Lion, and almost hunted to death.—(Hear,
hear.) Thee'
honow 3.`l,otEd Mr. Wilkinson as their candidate, and
k. begged to introduce him to the notice of the meet-
" ii4,•:—(Ctiper%)
WILKINSON e:lthe forward to address the meet-
ing, and was received with loud cheers. He said that
seventy-two hours ego he bad no notion whatever of
occupying the position of a candidate. He had ima-
gined that when Mr. Harvey started he was pursuing a
hopeless courseeand that the late Members were almost
certain of being returned From that state of feeling
he had been roused on Friday evening by the gentle-
Thee who waited upon him on the resignation of Mr.
Harvey, for the purpose of inducing him to come for-
ward as a can idate. Those gentlemen had shown
him, and their statements wero borne out by all sub
sequent investigation, that a large numb,r of the
inhabitants of the. berough were dissatiteed with the
present state of the representation.—(Hear, lacer) On
that ground, and that ground only, he appeared before
them; because he confessed that his opinions were
nearly identical with those of the gentlemen who lately
represented thten.—(Cheers.) When he found there
was a large majority is the borough who were inclined
to support Mr. Harvey if he could bear the brunt of the
eonteet, he (Mr. Wilkinson) did not think it unbecoming
on his pert to offer himself as a candidate to the electors
for the purpose of supplying the want under which they
laboured.—(Cheers.) There might be a hundred rea-
sons why they should think that they were not pro
perly represented by the fete Members, but it was not
necesssry for him to ;ere: to them; it was enough for
him to know that there was a desire entertained by a
number of the electors that a new Member should be
selected.—(Hear, hear.) He del cot wholly rely upon
the statements ut the gentlemen who called upon him,
and who he had never seen before, but he had got, his
friends to apply for information in the highest quarter,
arid the ueivereal answer was, that diesatiatactien
.estate: with the present state of the representation,
that ho should go on, and that he would
wilt the battle.—(Cheers.) He perceived that a letter
frhm Mr. Conchoi bad been puelished, containing an
opinion favourable to the late Members, but an opinion
was genera:ly tcunded on the case that was put to the
party whom opinion was required —(hear. near)—and
he was flare if lie red said to Mr. Cehieti, here are two
Members eepresentieg a large constituency, nod for cer-
tain reesune a large portion of the constituency is dig-
satiatied with them, hevetl a right to put myself forward
to support the interests ut the dissatisfied parties, that
Mr. Cobden woad have said that is the business of the
elecmrs, and not my business.—(Cheers.) If they put
in a man that will vete as well us the others, let them
satisfy themselves.—(Ctteere ) He would remind them
that it was a dargertius thing to have the borough re-
presented by two Libentl Members with whom is great
number of the inhabitents of the borough were, not satis-
fied.—(Hear, hear.) Was there not danger. under such
eiretnstanee, that a Tory might, get ite—(Hear, hear.)
Whatever might be his deficiencies, he nod made some
of the au j c a most interesting to the electors his
per-healer study.—(Cheers.) lie had as much know-
ledge Of the prince:lee of political f.c,-;noaly, and ' f g )'
vertiment in general as either of the other candidates,
and he was as well qiialitied to represent tech consti-
tuents as he saw before him.—(Hear, hear.) He appeared
before them at the eleventh hour to afford teem an
opportunity of returning a new member; it was a time
wh?n very few Icentiidetes would have a chance of suc-
(tele, end he belieeed he should have little chance of suc-
cess wero it not for the exertions of the gentlemen who
had soteported Mr.. Harvey.—(Cheers.) He must ex-
press tali regret at the cooree that had been purseed in
reference to that gentlemen by the opposite side.—
(Hear, hear.). He ti:d not think it was fair or manly to
iourspe a public opponent with private slander.—
(Cheera ) If a similar attempt were made against him
he should laugh it to scorn.—(Cheers.) He was con-
scious that he %yea there in the discharge of his duty, and
he would, not succumb to any one.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GILEs moved a resolution to the effect that the
meetire had heard Mr. Wilkinson's address with satis-
faction, and pledged themselves to use their endeavours
to secure his: return at the forthcoming election.—
(Cheers) The opponents of Mr. Harvey had not only
attacked him, but they could not let his wife alone; he
had been hunted down, and his opponents had obtained
a victory.

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Mr. REDFERN SE'eonded the resolution.
Mr. ROBERTSON, after making various ineffectual
atm.% to address the meeting, moved, ii.. 3 an amendment,e
that the reasons given for introducing a
new winclidat
were insufEoli,nt.
s' M hir.
ootra addressed the meetini, in support of Mr.
Vgilkinsoo. ei
The mover of
the meeting, the
amendnaent
. g. and the original 1 .
reze_ation was carried
with acclamation.
RIBBON having ex_
vre
saed
his
the:npkill.edthe from
a s..
was then
Mr. Wn.
!embly dispersed. - . ..,

SOUTHWARK.'
Lust night a most numerous meeda • - Mr. tieovell was held at Linsdell's gof the friends of
ati:u!les tticle
site the Bricklayers' Arms, Old liet?;.ll4erotl f%e'tl,l°7
•
test in the chair. An omnibus was drawadl
'the fiefory, from which the speakers
which reached nearly across the end of the
NeW Kent-road.
Mr. ticovELL stated he was a Free-trader of old stan d Rig; and would never consent to the commerce of
th;
Country being crippled by restrictions. The time had
gone by for the renewal of protection on any branch of
commerce whatever. He was an advocate for the ex-
- :temion of the suffrage to the extent of Mr. Flume's
mo-
which•Wad, that every lodger as well as house-
,of
,tweive months' standing, should have a vote
1; in-the affairs of the nation. He was also of opinion that
, that -vote should be protected by ballot. tie was an
aoreeate- for triennial Parliaments. 110 would, it sent
4:..to_pariitonent, press tu. the abolition of the income tux,
irs•revision, to that it shmild be moin fairly adjusted.
is ld also vote for ;he revision of the property-tax,
,Jbat it might be more equitably levied, and wive tho
country tram exp,.,o of that obnoxious establish-
• -•saent which He
so heavily on the weikieg classes-
- "BExeilei • He wouli move for a revision of :he poor-
Ts,_`" but would not consent to inking it a con-
' 6011fintOd fund by ((iu,tlizing the rate, for that would
tztli4 the coaArnl of toeir own money out of their hands.
• ANOtcz—lies.,
about Maynooth?
Art. t COVELL said he iVIS LiVerSe to all future endow-
'mettle out of the public pure. The grant to Maynooth
wai-§,p'mmenced by Gee,„ llj, fifty-seven years ago,
and ,as continued annually by all Parliaments until the
Protestant Sir Robert Peel made it a FA-manent grant.
He Nusidercd the NW) of the country pledged to ir, and
he would not vote for dinturnieg that grant. It wn4 not
t-. avant fcT religious piirPoTe,ll; but for citicatiotai pur-
)9 The priests that were educated there mode bettor
;faithful subjects than WhEa sent to foreign
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