The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-22 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGEYOL.
MIDDLESEX,

The contest for Midetle;eg, winch hanhoon ene of the
severest strugeles on record, terminated ycitercieY in
the de f;r:lt.gorof tohfe '
theMMarquisLrbfoßr
alia notl!nodr di
d, a
taenac.it 'jet
is conse-
quentm
possible to exeggerate the interest which wasmanifested
in the several dietriciee and which eugenentedasdhe day
wore cm, without' Exhieifiug any iasurenoutiable dispa-
rity betweett Mre Oeborne and his oppOnent. There was
one system of weakness exhibited by the conmitteolof
the latter. namely, the-non...tem, of any nuabera 'up to
'
the middle of the day ; but in the afternoon there wag
a general impression that the DerhOie hel pulled up
well in the more rural distriets' end at fcuro'clock few
would have been. prepared to lay odds on the tritunph
of the Liberal Came, To shoe,how coos® was the
at
atru
IStoggleniS easy be Mentioned that thwpolling yesterday,
i 9 give give
.190 votes to. Mr. Oshorneand 189, for
the Marquis of Blaudford; perhaps it was partly owing
to his knowleclge,of this fact, combined. with cis fears as
*to the remit in the remoter localities, that Mr. Osborne.
spoke at King's-cross, as he will be teen to have done
below, with so 'Much diffidence as to his own position.
Greet and increasing dissatisfaction was manifested yes-
terday at the alleged lakevvarrnness, amounting in ;the
Minds bf some for something like treachery, on the part
of Lord Robert Geesvenor and his immediate friends.
There were loud complaints that his Lordship, had
plhyed into the hands of the Derbyites, by conniving at
a division of votes between himself and the Marquis;
and Mr. Osborne himself, in hist speech at King's-crots•
expressed doubts as to whether he had received due sup-
port from -his past and future collee ue. Many have
threatened that at the officialedecler g
efttbe poll on,
SeldslY thatli,litstilitaid th ' x 'itru of Their
pent-up feelings on the subject.
At about a coasrter past four,
Mr. 06BoitNE addressed the assembled multitude, at
Zing'a Cross, consisting of several hundred persons,
from a balcony in front of his committee-rooms. He
said—Electors and non.electors, I have never, in any
*Position o;.' life, whether public or private, deceived any
man.—(Cheers.) I shall not, at this eventful moment,
attempt to deceive you; and I say
so for this reason,
that et this moment I am totally unacquainted with my
position on the poll. It has been said by the other
party that they are in a majority. It may be so. Come
what will, I am resigtied to the decision.—(Cheers.)
Win or lose, I shaii not complain; I have been nobly
supported, and I am proportionately grateful for your
exertions.—(Cheerw) But in the open sincerity of my
heart, I say I am not able to tell you in what position I
stand on the poll, endow; .1 have never deceived you in
Parliament; so I never-will deceive you, whether lam a
Member of Parliament or whether I retire into private
life. My feelings are with you; my wishes are with
you—(A. voice—." Maynooth")—and to you who call
out Maynooth—to that gentleman, whom I see—l accept
the met, he has crape round his hat, he is in mourning
for Lerd 13iandforehand his defeat—(Great laughter)--
to you I sey—for I will, shrink from. nothing—l am
not •to be deterred - by a base and bigoted
cry, anti you, my friends, are not to be de-
ceived, 1 trite, by what is so evidently fallacious.—
(Cheers.) I am obliged to my friend with the crape
round his hat; I am - obliged to my friend with an
apparent smile on his face, but a mournful feeling in his
heart—(Laughter)—I am obliged to him, becausu I an-
ticipate that he will follow as chief mourner at the fu-
neral Of protection—(Cheers and laughter)—and I
should feel still more Le:deleted to him if, on this occa-
sion, he would figure ea a mute.—(Laughter.) My Hon.
Friend, for I will call him so, win or lose, because I am
for the -free, public expression of opinion—calls out,
"Ilaynooth." Where was his candidate on the May-
nooth question?--(Hear, hear.) Why, his friend for
whom ho is now in mearning—(Laughter)—voted for
endowing Maynooth.—(Cheers.) I voted againet it.
But understand me well. Compesed as society is of all
opinions, I would not condescend to pander for a vote
by casting any reflection upon the religion of any of my
fellow-countrymen.—(Cheers.) No; I voted against
endowing Maynooth out of the public money, and for
appropriating funds of the Church of Ireland to that
purpose, because I thought that I had no business as a
Member of Parliament to uo otherwise,—(Hear, hear.)
My care was for the due appropriation of your money.
And mark me, electors and non-electors—mark me,
gentlemen . with crape* baiads and gentlemen with no
crape bands—mark ME', you who smile and endeavour
to ' interrupt, but have not the courage to
epeak in opposition, this is no question of
Popes, it is a question of bread, tea, and
sugar.—(Cheers.) The question is, whether you
are to be fed at the cheapest possible rate—the question
is, whether you working mechanics are to have the fran-
chise, and I do not say it to flatter you, because I think
you are often wrong, hat Ido say, locking through the
constituencies of England, that the mechanics of this
country are as worthy of the elective franchise as those
who at present possess it. That is the question-1 Many
a man have I seen during this contest, men who are my
equals in intelligence, nay, even equal tO my friend with
the crape hat-band—(Laughter)—who have said to me,
4, Mr. Osborne, our wishes are with you, hut we havointho
vote." My feelings are not with the Pope, nor
with
Cardinal Wiseman, but with you and such as youteh._
mass of the intelligent British
(Cheels.) Don't believe what has been told you
by the
old Tory gang, who heing.short of a cry at the present
the great
election, have dug out of its grave, and have broughte
to " revisit the glimpses. of the moon"—for they
work by night—(Laughter)—the old ghost of the N°-
Popery Popery cry. It is not the Pope; it is bread, it is
'lon.
it is sugar—it is your beef that is in sinestine
ThatTthe real papal bull; it is not a bull from &cwt._ i
but English beef that is at steke, that beef whicaund
wish to see quietly embalmed in your etoratehBt tat
sure am I that if the beef, the mutton, and the P(/),"0,
paPrthe
roes be there, we shall not hear much of the
Popery cry.—(A voice.— II
" lacer.".) I echo the sentiment. ilt
There is beer. Will our opponents take off the tax?—(Hear, hear.) No. Will they vote for anything.
but thing
of
but shifting the burthens off the shoulderssomefl
thousands of landowners?—(llear, hear.) Ism a 1 d.
owner. They would persuade you that lam a mere ad.
venturer. I have a small income, but I live within it—
(Laughter)—and that is more than some people on the
...-
opposite tido can say. Let me show you a good omen
the Marquis is going out of town.
(Sin Osborne here
f,d
pointed to a cab with one of the Mai quis of Ilan d
placards at the side,
an,..A
a portmanteau turned passen-
ger ord
down at the top, which was proceeding with ono
towards the Great Northern Terminus.). if my
Marquis who is
vision does not deceive me, it is not the Moll— laughter.)
Give but the Duke of Marlborough.—(Great iallghter.)
Give him three cheers, and stud him home.—(Lang of
Well, I have told you that the question is netted
by
Popes. Do not you, the working classes, be deceived
i to be
the Derby disguises. Do not allow your Bac°
ate
distracted—do not lot your energies be
exhlatiennies the
being drawn off to a religioue discussion. Ca-us the most
most atrocious have been uttered—insinuation
unjustifiable have been made against me; bo!brood
__my
principle, declared before you with the opettßerity
to inter-
my heart, is this, that no man has any right i
fellow-
fere with the religious belief of any of his countrymen.—(Cheers,) You You have Prollstapon the
Pious, reetniters of the aristocracy, who live th in this
consolidated fund, and who resemble MtaYn°°t of taxes
one respect, that, like it, they are supporweVee Duke of
levied upon the people of this country,' "'
this country;
Marlborough is paid from the taxes of ne ewe men-
the college of Maynooth is supported in tuthro flake be.
new I would vote against both-spin° of out of his
cause I hold that ho ought to support '
aeheimegooth because
own means, and against the *went to tienlf-m. the support
we are not entitled to pay public money for e
nave been
of any religion whateve*:.—(ebers.) o.,lrdinsi Wise-
told, forsooth, that I am the champion °"4 ladies won't
man. Nov I put it to you—l am afraid:
for I have not
think me a handsome man—(Laughter)
yenor, nor the
the advantages .of Lord Robert Gr°9dt_.(l,aughter.)
flowing hair of the Marquis of Mandiarte--(Cheers and
—I put it to you, do I look like a J"ulor Lord Dorby'e
laughter.) Do I look like a supporter
ere neither; bay 'I
Government?—(Great laughter.) 1 ".--e, 'the right of
stand on the groat Protestant PrineclePrcise his or her
every man and every woman to ll of religion.--
own private judgment in mattersesea denounced;
(Hear, bear.) For this I have been
t-I thrw
for
Tee f this. I have been calumniated;
beellow-coountrmy-
y-
self ' oti this enormous jury of s guilty ?"—(Loud
men, and I say, " Guilty, or not always voted con-
shouts of " Not- guilty.") I have liberty eto . the
sietently; I have voted for equaleo Catholico*' I shall
Protestant Dissenter and the It°n3,- to avoid giving re-
never shuffle; I shall never attemP
be„ sgaiii returned to
peated votes of this sort 'should I ) Well, I'll not
Parliament.—(A voice—" You are. I will promise
holloa till I am out of the 97001
returned as Member for
You, that even should I not be ias county, I will not
this are :r this proud, thia pePti2tock..—(Cheers.) No, sneak in for the borough of Woes
must be by means of the if I am to go to Perliameat, it. En.
it; eeteivtes ot the people.
free, the unsought, the lineal--
made
me what I am; I
(Cheers:) The people. have ' not deceive them.—
thank them for it; and I willeth the vulgar clap-trap
(Loud cheers.) I say not this with I say it with sincerity
motive of an expectant candidate;
they are no real Con-
of feeling. I say- further, that„it et keep from the people an
servatives who would ,seee a.,
I say that they are perilling
extension of the suffrage. tye-I say that they are
the inetitutions of this county,.
b en unneceasary ken-
drcigeite-
e tr, the aristocracy thro. ,
no el'ectore of this country—
and of mud, who call the —3O at this election—" a vile
and men in office have
.done st,
voice—}' Who has done
rabble that they despieN''''l
n the crepe who asks that
se? ') Is it the msn W"T, was the Member for
quz,stion?—(Laughter,) `ewe, at War.—(a. hear.)ear,
North &Felt, the Ssadebe"Jfee if Ito thin such lane
Secretary at Whir, indc"' ; be at war with the people
guattei 1.4 th;it, hten roan
..„. hnve heardof national lava-
at lerge,„ (enieees.) eon r : - .
:doll;
at it )5 necessary to box, a
you Lave t;,:et, told that
that
e you have to voa-d
Militia I.lio. It is not invasion
real enetaie -' ' s are in
r'g'inst, i' ' the D rbYites'
.is e e Your real enemies are led
Lea.
e wng-street(Cheetsw ,
ithed to draw off
your
..1' Loril De,b, whO forsooth '' '
,
nttention t, ..„
chi_ a ma t e
is ..y
-Man, wine:TY", P"J' I'l;tion of one cics3, liable to be
drawn away- f• exception
frolic. Peers are to ho exempted.
_....< [real., }earl) That is a Bill for which Lord Bland-
) ford eotea2 awl Serwhich I refused to vote. (At this
point a pole, Which a boy had climbed in order to obtain
a better position, suddenly gave way, and the lad rapidly