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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY

the teaching and practice of Ole former of these nniver- sion of Jews into Parliament. Re was not prepared to ,
eities be belleved the evils 'bad sprung which had in- separate Church and State; but, for the sake of the Pro-
trodaced so ',moll religious discord into the country.— testant religion, he did wish to see every church support
(Cheers.) It was easy to make promises on the part' of itself, and should therefore vote against all church-rates.
an untried man; but, for bim:elf, he could say, appealing Mr. 13M.HER said be was not an elector, but came
to his past services, that he would support the cause of thee® to represent the non•electors. Ho 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 prove of disadvantage to him, in suffrage and seoretning the duration of Parliaments.
bringing him into political hostility with those outhori- Mr. SCOVELL said he had already stated that be
ties for srshqm he felt every respect. The Gallant Officer would go to the full extent of Mr. Home's motion for
retired amid cheers, and was succeded by the suffrage and w wild vote for triennial Parliaments.
Sir J. SHELLEY, who met with a very cordial recep. Mr. NETHER—Why will you not go for annual Par-
eon. He said he would go into Parliament with strong liinprits and paid Members?
convictions and perfectly independent, to do his best for Mr. SCOVELL—I will not vote for annual Parliaments,.
his constituency, and to maintain the principles he had because I will not keep the country in an annual ter-
advocated for the last 20 years. It was true his father want, New members 1., quire more than one session to
had been a Tory. and that many years ago he, while yet get accustomed to their duties; and besides, it is no
very young, had represented Claxton; but Mr. Coning. joke to be annually mounted on the top of an omnibus,
hem knew well that for the last 20 years he bad 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.
rained the principles of reform and free trade.—(Cheers,) Several Voiees—How much do you want?
If Mr. Coningbam had only come forward a little earlier Mr. SCoVELL—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. HETEEE—What is your opinion with regard to
bare done in the case of Mr. Lushington, had he come the electoral di,tricts?
forwartU• -Mr. Coningbam was, no doubt, a Liberal. but Mr. ScovELL—I have not yet formed an opinion on
he had divided the Liberal ranks, and had induced' Lord them, but shall vote for any measure that will ensure a
Maidstone to come forward. In conclusion, Sir 3. solid and sub4tantial system of voting.
Shelley repeated once more his political creed—residential Mr. FARSELL then moved the following resolution
stiffeate, .tyiennial Parliaments, vote by bailor 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 telatralisa ion, and to State grants for religious reform which has so lung characteri.ed the electors of
purposes, lair 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 thusiasm in favour of their highly talented and emi-
system of indirect taxation as a general principle, and newly qualified candidate. George Scovell, Eq., and
as a farmer was not prepared to insist that tenant-farmers pledges itself, by personal exec tion and every honour-
should maintain animals which rendered good farming able means, to secure hie return."
almost impossible. Mr. EGAN 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. ScoveLL returned thanks to the meeting, and de-
comprised in the above summary, and a resoltstion dared his intention of going to the poll on Thursday.
pledging the meeting to apport Sir D. L. Evans and Sir
d. Shelley was finally agree
part of some twenty-five or
noisy opposition on the p
thirty persons, who particularly objected to the resolu-
tion being applied to tne first-named candidate.

MIDDLESEX.

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

Mr. CONINGSAIn attended a meeting in the morning
at 'the Hanover-square Rooms, at which he went over
most of the
es alluded to in his speech on Saturday
topi
last, which wasreported in The Sun of Monday. Sir
C. Allis took the chair, and the room was tolerably
filled with ladies and gentlemen, who received Mr. Con.
erV warmly. He expressed himself in favour
tinhorn
,d palmerstods foreign policy as opposed to the
°nOV,„; of Lord Malmesbury, of the admission of Jews to
tarlisment,' of the Anglo-American alliance, and of the
abolition of church-raies,
An ELECTOR asked him if he was ready to vote for
the abolition of the law of primogeniture and the law of
entail?—(Bear, hear.)
Mr. CoNINGHAM—The first question is, in effect, this
.—am I prepared to aboli,h the House of Lord-?
(‘ That's it," .4 Why not.?" &c.) lam ready to redress
practically the evils of the law of entail by Act of Par-
liament, but it would be perfectly absurd for me to say
I am ready to vote for that which would be, in effect,
great social revolation.—(On! oh!) I cantor, in the
present state of feeling and experience on this point,
promise to agitate the question if returned to Parlia-
ment.
~;The .usual resolution of support was passed almost
untininaously, and the meeting separated; but Mr. Co-
ninghata subsequently addressed the electors and non-
electors from a window in Clare-street, and at the Union
Tkvern, Qseen-street.

Mr. Bowling occupied the chair, and among the gen-
tl.caen on the platform were Lord Rubert Grosvenor,
Mr. B. Osborne, and others.

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 impaired. Than Mr. Osborne there was not a more
liberal Member in the House of Commons, and it was
was therefore most desirable that undivided support
should be given to the Noble Lord and Mr. Osborne.
man who was a tried friend to progress would at-
t.mpt to divide the Liberal interest; and he trusted that
not only in the county of Middlesex, but throughout the
country, all would be united at the ensuing election to
support those men who would support the measures that
tended most to advance the great cause of reform. The
chairman then intn'duced the candidates.
Lord ROBERT GROsVENOR, on rising to address the
meeting, was loudly cheered. He said that after thirty
years' political life he could not say that he had any new
principles to enunciate—(Hear, hear)—but he was de-
sirous of ascertaining what were the local interests of
each and every district of the county which he for the
third time sought to represent.—(Hear, hear.) There
was not a better district for bitn to commence in than
the Hammersmith polling district, where there were a
great number of registered electors, and a still greater
number of non electors, the latter of whom he trusted
ere long 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
awphpeythaetr
athilerteimsebsoutlod
rates
not seen trhneoitnhtleiv.idau:ilm;
obstuht
contestt:it s appearance
or
among his constituents.—(Hear, hear.)
Re had felt it to be his duty to give the rossv Ministry
,kupport for a time, that an appeal should not be made
at an early period to the countre, but he would not
consent to the third rending of that absurd measure the
Militia Bill.—(Cheers.) The various changes of the
present Administration reminded him of the popular
novel " Jsphet in Search of a Father," and he should
not be surprised to find a new production from the pen
ot the Chancellor of the Each, qaer, imitating this title,
under the designation of " A Minister in Search ot 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 ot the Excise law, the deficiency
arising from which might.be met by a well-regulated
system of direct taxation.—(Hear.) The people were
now prepared for an extension of the elective franchise,
and the tosurdity ot a property qualification for members
of Parliament should ba abolished,(Cheers.)
Mr. OsBORNE then rose, and was well received. He
was there to vindicate his past conduct and votes. He
was proud of having been returned by the middle and
working classes, and democracy. He had entered Pate
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 iffice, had abandoned protectioss. and the
poor man was promised a big loaf' because the Deetryites
wanted the " little fishes" of office fur themselves.—
(Cheers.) He had voted against the Ecclesiastical
rifles Bill because he considered that the Roman Ca-
tholics should have civil and religious liberty as well as
themelves. The Bill had only led to riots, and gutting
the bowies of tho R.unan Catholics at Stockport. He had
not voted for the M:ynooth grant, but had for Mr.
Ward's amendment.

At the conclusion of a lengthy and eloquent speech
the Hoo. G2ncletnaa was loudly cheered, and a vote et
thanks terminated the proceedings.

TOWER HAMLErs.
A meeting of electors of the district of St. George's
was held last night at the St. Katherine's Dock Hotel,
to hear a statement of their political principles from Mr.
G. Thompson and Mr. Ayrton. The chair was occu-
pied by Mr. P. Crellin.
Mr. THOMPSON, in the course of his speech, observed
that the contest had been made to turn, not upon the
merits of the political principles of himself and Mr. Ayr-
ton, but upon false and scandalous charges which had
been bron;ht against him. Those charges had emanated
chiefly from a journal in the interest of the brewers and
licen,ied victuallers, which had falsely stated that he had
introduced Mr. Ayrton to the borough, and which had re•
sorted to the basest means to secure the return of its own
nominee, Mr. Butler.—(Cheers.) For more than two
ninntha the columns of that paper had teemed with
leading articl,s and communications reeking with libel,
misrepresentation, and malignant falsehood, such as he
had never seen t ginned, save in the most depraved
tit. Transatlantic papers. After some further obser-
vations with reference to the journal in question, Mr.
Thompson proceeded so state,
that Mr. Butler aspired
to represent a constituency as decidedly dissenting as
"Y In the country, and yet three days after the tri-
urnphant election of 1847 that gentleman wrote a letter
to all intimate friend, in which he complained that his
L)earatty_the
party of General Fox—had been shamefully
con-
cluded defeat of and that they must recover themselves by the
us show the
Mr. °shorn() for Middlesex. The letter con-
ur
week."ch me n are
Ef ()w deter-
mined
bad
these emphatic words :—" Cinvass, and let
to trheetrite'etitit:rdsisgtrhaacet wofelaCsht
Mr. Butler
defeat of Irnesed to wipe out that disgrace ? By the
him of his poerrnal Osborne, and the substitution for
Mr. Disuse coon p Colonel Wood ; and yet
seph Hume;_ Aedetscrib d himself as a disciple of Jo-
a nrief exposition slrIL) Mr. Thompson concluded with
cited c,.flatier.L, -. his political principles, which eli-
setts a .
Mr. AYRTON then
tISEIF mbly. ell at some length also addressed the
Mr. PARNELL moved
solution, pledging the , and Dr. EARLE seconded a re-
son at the election. 131"ti°14 to support Mr. Tuomp-
Mr. BONSER moved, and -
similar resolution with,res lar. UNWIN seconded, a
proceedings terminated. Pkct to Mr. Ayrton, and the
There are still five candidat ,
re-
presentation of this numerous ces i - the field for the
Clay and Mr. G. Thompson, theenostiku"l"' viz"
Sir W.
Ayrton, Mr. Butler, and Mr.' W. Nala Members. and Mr.
can-
didates are Liberals of more or le,se't°l'. All the Can-
Newton add'', seed a numerous as v'tartilt4.4'ss'3' Mr'
in Bonner's-fields, 444 (do aia aggraga'agel.kat kvening
friends at. the Pri,iida School-room, Clty-niroesltiott of his
put forward an indignant denial to the charges it
bay
latod by his opponents, that he has received 0 formoney
his election expenses from Mr. Butler. Mr. H. Child,
the returning-officer, has appointed this day (T nesday)
for the.nomination, which takes place on Stepney-green.

LOSS of , given to Captain Bacon, of the Ravens.
THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—The following
testimonial bas been
bourns:—
„ We, theuudersigned passengers, per Ravens-
bourne, beg to bear our testimony to the presence of,mind
and steady conduct evinced •by Captain Bacon and his crew,
recent accident with the Duchess of
on occasion of the r Ramsgate ,
from to London (which went
from the collision), cape-
dally with reference to his
to save the lives of the by which act his deep anxiety the two boats together,
pas-
sengers was rewarded, every persons,,.
ned by thirty-live of
dence, havin-
g been rescued. "—(64
[A.Dvenaise under God's provi-
dence,
the passengers.)
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