The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-08 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
FINSBURY.
The nomination of candiiiates for the representation
-of- thi,oborough took place !yesterday. There WM a large
crc,wd, very noisy,.. bet very good helm-Arced withal,
assembled in, front of the hustings on Clerlvinwell-
green. Mr. Boykett, the returning officer, having gene
through the usual pr,Annirlaries,
Mr. J. AmusTßoNd proposed Mr. T. S. Duncombe its
a fit and proper p • non to represent the borough in f4,r-
listneut. Ho impressed upon the electors tine necessity
of returning such men as Mr. Duncembe, for the land-
lords' pea was under tha. Derby thimble.
Dr. EErs seconded the nomination.
Mr. T.: GREEN proposed Mr. James Wyld as a friend
of the people, and called on the electors to return Mr.
Dancombe..,at'the -head of thu poll in combination with
Mr. Wyld..
Mr. N. LINDCN seconded the nomination.
Mr. WILRS proposed Mr. Alderman Challis, and Mr.
W. TYLER seconded the,nomination.
Mr. DuNco#RE, who was < nthusiastically received,
then addressed the.electers. He was there that day fcr
the purpose of redeeming the pledge which he gave on
the first eccasion when they returned him to Parlia-
ment,.nanaely, that so long as the borough of Finsbury
was prepared to stand by him he should never desert the
electors of Fiztibury.—(Cheers.) He was there, be said,
to redeem that pledge; but btfore he went into any
of the questions of the ay 'he begged that he might be
allowed to say that he stood there unaided and unas-
sisted by any other candidate.—(Cheers) Ho bsel
formed no coalition whatsoever.—(Llear, hear.) It wn.s
to the electors, and the electors alone, that he looked
for support.—(llear, hear.) He had been told that he
had nut been quite so complimentary on one or two occa-
sions as he ought to have been towards his fellow•can-
didates.—(Cries of "Question." " Oer," " Turn im
out,". and ." It is the Question.") He was told that he
had 13.eri, tincourtoous to one and unkind to the other.
He could only say that, if he had, such never was his
intention.—(Bravo.) When two candidates appeared,
as it were, to unseat an old respresentative, they must
forgive him if he told them that the old representative
must look with a little suspicion and jealousy upon them,
particularly when they entered the field b.-fore any
vacancy occurred.—(Cheers.) But this was all he could
declare—

" How happy could I be with either
Were t'other fair charmer away,
But while you thus tease me together,
To neither a word will I say."
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Prime far
Minister; a s
and i Finsbury
-(Laughter and cheers.) The Queen had dissolved Par-
4cuconcerned,tom again to
send him
zo ask tiffs-constituents what they thought of Lord Derby
a
t they was
returned him
Parliament it would be his duty in his place in Parlia-
ment to tell the House of Commons what the electors of
Finsbury thought of the present Prime Minister—(Cheers)
what they thought not only of the mat, but also of his
treasures.—(gear, hear.) They know he had told the
country that he wished to have the opinion of the coun-
try upon the question of taxing the food of the people—
(Hear, hear)—and if there were a majority in his favour,
or in favour of taxing the food of the people, he would
set seriouvy to work and try to effect that diabolical
purpose. But, whether Lord Derby had 50 or 100 of a
majority, he (Mr. Duncombe) cared net. He, on their
part, should dare Lord Derby to propose, and defy him
to tp,:os
y measure for the taxation of the food of the
people.—(Loud cheers.) Ho (Mr. Duncombe) thought
the electors would say the day for his making protes-
siona was gone by.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.")
He stood there .to be judged by his votes, and by the
Opinions he had exoreshel in his piece in Parliament.
They knew full well what he had done in furthering tin
cause of reform, whether connected with the Church or
wita the State.—(Applause.) He was prepared to con-
tinue those exertions in favour of such reforms. He
was what was commonly called anti-Maynooth.—
(Hear.) Ho always opposed the grant when it was
annual, and opposed at every stage the proposal to make
it permanent. He was prepared to oppose that endow-
ment again, if it should come before Parliament, as well
as all other religious endowments—(Cheers)—proposed
to be effected by the State. He was also against what
was called the militia, and therefore an ante-mileia,•
man. At the coming of the new year the compulsory
parts of that measure would be put into execution, and
the honest and industrious mechanic would find himself
drawn away from his home. If it should be proposed
to repeal that measure, his vote should be given in favour
of its repeal.—(Hear.) It was an ill-advised, unnecessary
measure; it was calculated to create confusion at home
and jealousy abroad.—(Hear.) He had given the electors
a little bill ,of fare as to what he was against; perhaps
they would like to know what he was fur. He was for
justice to all at home, and against interference in the
affairs of their neighbours abroad.—(Hear, hear.) He
said justice and equal rights to all at home, not forget-
ting justice to Ireland. If any one wished information
on other points, he was ready to give it. He was ready
to answer for any vote, opinion, or anything he had done
since he had had the honour of their acquaintance.—
(Cheers.) He Confessed that he wished this struggle
had not been a contest of Liberal against Liberal. It
would have been more creditable to their cause, and
more satisfactory, he thought, to the constituency of
Finsbury; but, as it was, he had, acting on the defen-
sive, been obliged to unfurl the old blue and buff now
waving on the brerze.—(Applause.) Those colours had
never been defeated yet—(A Voice—" Nor sullied")—
and they would not be defeated now.—(Loud cheers.)
Ho therefore claimed their confidence and asked tor
their support in vindication of those principles he. ever
bad advocated, and in which, if a man knew himself,
he should, be it soon or bo it late, close his political
career.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. WYLD next addressed the electors, but the politi-
cal antipathies which had been suspended during Mr.
Duncombe's speech broke forth in clamour, which
lasted, with some change of performers, till the pro-
ceedings terminated. He presented himself to the elec-
tors under different circumstances from those under which
the Hon. Gentleman who had just addressed them had
appeared. That Hon. Gentleman had occasion to come
before them for the purpose of stating his political faith;
but he (Tfr. Wyld) came before the intelligent constitu-
ency of Finsbury for the first time. Renewing his ex-
pressions of regret that placards of a most scurrilous
kind should have appeared against his opponents—
(Cheers)—he expressed his belief that no person con-
nected with him would have dared to perpetrate acts so
dastardly and. base as those to which he referred. A
placard 'had been traced to a member of his committee,
and that member of his committee had been required to
resign. He would not carryon a contest with personali-
ties. They were assembled to-day for the purpose
of exorcising one of the greatest privileges of a free
people. He advocated an extension of the suffrage
in almost its widest sense. He was there that day to ad-
vocate the right of every man to a vote, on a residential
qualification of six months, the name of 04 elector being
also placed on a list of voters. They were there to cast
back into Lord Derby's teeth the declaration he made on
coming into office. The Noble Lord said that one part
of his mission was to repel the wild naves of democracy.
He was mistaken in his mission. The people de-
manded political power, and if Lord Derby, or any
other person presumed to oppose the 'mighty will of
the people, great events were before him and his
party which they would eternally regret.—(Cheers
clamour.) A party which for five years had been ob-
structive of progressive improvement, and, by the
chicanery of men who ought to have known better,
had succeeded to power, had appealed to the people
to ratify a policy which was not clearly detailed,
but which, according to the statement of the
Cban-
collar of the Exchequer, "loomed in the future." Did
Lord Derby propose to extend to the intelligent mem-
bers of that community the right of sending Members to
Parliament?—(Cheers and clamour.) With respect to
education, by the Noble Lord's late minute it would be
cribbed, confined, restricted to the peculiar teaching of
peculiar dogmas, and within the narrow limits of a sect.
—(Cheers and clamour.) Education must be co-existent
with an extension of political power. He asked hispo-
litical opponents and his personal enemies whether,
through the Whele course of his life, they had not seen
him not merely the advocate of education, lent practically
carrying out measures for its extension? There were
questions of great importance besides the extension of
the suffrage and education. There was a question which
.had been taken as for once and for ever settled—be
meant the question of free trade. The assembled people
of England were sitting at present on a mighty inquest
upon that great measure; it would seem that it was
necessary to have a ratification of the decision which
they had already pronounced. In spite of the efforts
of landlords and wealthy millionaires, he ventured to
predict that free trade would ever be the law of the
[land. There were two measures he desired to see car-
teed, one for the introduction of vote by ballot, the
other for shortening the duration of Parliaments.—
(Uproar.) Aa coaling before the electors for the first
time, he wished. io declare before them, grand jurors of
the State, what were his opinions. He repeated the
explanation formerly given respecting the absence of pia
name from lists of divisions on the ballot. Mr. Berke-
ley'had stated that he ever esteemed him (Mr. Wyld)
a supporter of that great measure. There was another
question on which a representative of Finsbury would
have to decide, namely, the expediency of a thorough
revision of the taxation of the empire. No system could
be worse than that which now existed. They had free
trade in corn, but had they real free trade? While the
labouring classes were subjected to an increasing
th '
com-
petition they were taxed to an enormous extent on their
tea, their sugar, their tobacco, their soap—articles
which entered into the use of daily life. A diminu-
tion of taxation was often compensated by an increased
consumption. There was a great question on which the
constituency',seemedd—
at present highly 1 the
question of civil and religious equal'
• ty. Though he was
a member of the Church of England, he held that the
members of every sect and creed bad a right to every
political privilege he enjoyed, whether they were ,Jewa
Catholics, Dissenters, or Churchmen. Every class of
religionist contributed to the burdens of the State; and
what right
had they to prevent onewho fulfilled every
function nobly and well of a magisterial kind from being
admitted to the highest functions he could enjoy__
namely, that of legislating for his fellow-subjects? He
was opposed to all State endowments. Taxes raised for
secular purposes should be applied to secular purposes
alone. It had been charged against him that he had
been unfrequent in his attendance in Parliament, and
had been absent from many divisions. Whatever fault
might be found with some of his votes in times past, he,
and as a Reformer in
as a friend of religious liberty, the
sincerest sense, ventured to say that
his constituents
-should have witn him in future. Ho
no fault to .find
begged the electoral:et take, not an isolated
career. If
vote hero and
there, political but to judge of a man's whole
they did so, though they might find that he had corn-
t
tnitted faults—and who was faultless _?— ye they would
also find that he had not been actuated by selfish motives
or personal fe'elinge.--(Load chess.)
Mr. Aldeeman CHALLIS then addressed the electors
amid incessant clamour; and was heard
with difficulty
even in hid immediate vicinity. He said, in presenting