The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-03 00:00:00

FINSBURY.

Last evening a public meeting of the electors of Fins-
bury, for the purpose of promoting the re-election of
Mr. Duncombe, was held in the School-room, Cowper
street, City-road. About a thousand persons were pre-
sent on the occasion. Among those on the platform we
observed Mr. Edward Miall, editor of the A'onconformist,
Mr. J. H. Perry, barrister, Mr. John Roast, church-
warden of St. Luke's, &c. Mr. Shillibeer having been
called to the chair.
Mr. EDWARDS moved the following resolution:—
" That the long and faithful services of Mr. Thomas
Slingsby Duncombe as representative of the borough of
Finsbury, in his uniform and consistent support of the
reform, commercial freedom, economical expendi
principles of civil and religious liberty, Parliamenttuar,
rey
and local self-government, eminently entitle him to
the
support of the electors; and this meeting pledges itself
to use every exertion with the view of returning him by
a triumphant majority the future Member for Finsbury,
free of expense."
advocate of the had stood before the country as the
Mr. EDWARDS raid, theet fur 26 years Mr. Duncombe
po-
pular cause. What he wrote in 1626,when
successfully desiring
enter Parliament for the first time, he might
sentiments.
At one of his meetings the other night he produced the
w
present now to prove the consistency of histn
address which he issued in 1834, when he first solicited
the suffrages of the electors of Finsbury; and it was
quite a pleasure to observe the enumeration of the points
which had been gained by the exertions of Mr. Dun-
combe and others since that period, his opinions having
been gradually adopted by the greatest men of the land.
Seeing, therefore, that Mr. Dancombe had served them
faithfully, why should they change him?—(Cheer:.)
Could they find in Alderman Challis such a man as Mr.
Duncombe? Or was Mr. Wyld a M9ll fit to go along
with him? If they (the electors) changed, they ought
to change for the better.—(Cheers.) Whoever might be
the second on the poll, let the electors be careful to place
Mr. Duncombe decidedly at the head, and, if possible,
free of expense.—(Applause.)
Mr. Mum., in seconding the resolution, said that he
first became acquainted with Mr. Duncombe by the
, common appellation which was then given him of
" honest Tom Duncombe," and such he had ever found
him. In times of difficulty as well as in days of sun-
shine ho bad always been the same, never making loud
professions, but always fully performing his promises.
He remembered with great gratitude to him the part
which he took in defence of John Thorogood, who was
imprisoned so long in Chelmsford Gaol for the non-
payment of church-rates, and also for the help he ex-
tended to Mr. Barnes, whe was confined for ten months
in Leicester Gaol for the same offence.—(Cheers.) On
the subject of civil and religious liberty he (Mr. Miall)
had narrowly watched his votes and speeches, and he felt
bound to say that he had never found a single vote he had
' given, nor a reason assigned for it, from which be could
dissent. With respect to the suffrage, he saw him re-
, cognise a man and a brother in every one of his
fellow-citizens.—(Loud cheers.) It was needless to
speak of free trade. Protection was dead.—(A
laugh.) The present struggle was not a struggle
for the maintenance of free trade ; that principle
• was in no danger.—(Applause.) The happiest
thing that could occur to Lord Derby and his asso-
ciates was to forget all they had said and done in sup-
port of the corn-laws; and nothing, he was sure, would
• please them so effectually as that in the present struggle
the principle of protection should be entirely set aside,
and that they should be enabled to take up a new posi-
, tion.—(Cheers and laughter.) The struggle in the pre-
sent election was emphatically a struggle for the rights
, of the many against the privileges of the few, and the
. question which they bad to decide was, whether the
people of England should be allowed to govern them-
, selves, or whether they should be governed by a small
. and exclusive class. The Parliament which was about
to be returned would probably be that which would de-
' cide the basis of the next Reform Bill. What was
, wanted, therefore, was honest men, having right views,
I courage, experience, and integrity; and, judging all
these eminently attaching to Mr. Dancombe, he should
(unless summoned
elsewhere)el give at least one of his
. votes to that le he should give a , second vote he would not say; but to place Mr. Dun-
, combe at the head of the poll should be the first object
of all his friends, for, after his long and faithful services,
it would be a deep and indelible disgrace to the electors
i of Finsbury if Mr. Duncombe were allowed to take a
second place on the poll.—(Cheers.)
, The resolution was then put and carried unanimously.
Mr. DUNCOMBE then came forward, and was received
with loud and prolonged applause. He said that he had
, often had the pleasure of meeting large assemblages within
those walls, and upon great and important public ques-
tions, but never before, he believed, had he had the
honour of meeting them on a subject in which he was
so personally concerned as at that moment. He was
, there to solicit a continuance of their support and con-
fidence at the ensuing election, and he was desirous to
, appear before them in order to enable them to judge for
themselves of that which he was going to submit to
them. It had been stated to him that although he had
the confidence and support of a large majority of the
electors, and the good wishes of the unenfranchised
; thousands of Finsbury,.yet, for the good of his health, it
would not be proper to return him again to the House
of Commons —(Laughter.) Now it was true that his
, health had suffered much within the last few years, but
he was told by those who were the best judges of those
subjects, as well as by his own feelings, that with the
, commonest prudence during the next few months
he should be able to discharge the duties of their
, representatives as efficiently (if he had ever discharged
, them efficiently) as he had dune during the last eighteen
years.—(Cheers.) With respect to his political opiniont
and past conduct, he had not heard the least objection
started at any of the meetings of the electors which he
bad attended during the last ten days. lie had, how-
L ever, seen a placard signed by " A Member of the
Church of England," containing a number of severe re-
flections, not only upon him, but likewise upon the elec.
; tors of Finsbury; for if he (Mr. Dunscombe) was all
that the placard had described him to be, the electors
• were also implicated in the charge for having elected
him.—(Hear, hear.) The placard professed to be in
support of
nodeAlrman Challis. Now, he (Mr. Dun-
, combo) was going to say a word against Alderman
' Challis. He was ready to admit that he was " a Chris-
. thin," as the placard called him, and also that he was a
very good alderman.—(Laughter.) He had no fault to
find with him, except hat he was desirous of supplant-
, ing bins in the affections of the electors of Finsbury;
and people did not always speak of their rivals as he
now spoke of the alderman.—(gear, hear.) Alder-
, men were a class of men extremely useful in the House
of Commons; and whenever there was any question about
the coffee-room, or the refreshment-rooms, they always
put aldermen on the Committee. As they had lost Al-
; derman Humphery, as one of the Retreshment Corn-
, mittee, why should they not have Alderman Challis in
his place?—(Laughter.) If returned be was sure to be
put on the Committee, and he could not help himself;
be must look after the cooks, the kitchen maids, and
waiters; and see that the Members had good fare.—
(Continued laughter.) He had no complaint then against
Alderman Challis, except that he had allowed the offen-
sive placard to which he' had referred to be stuck all
over his committee-rooms, though he could hardly be-
lieve he could have sanctioned such rubbish. After
quoting and replying to several passages in the placard,
Mr. Dancombe proceeded to say that it was false througb-
out asrtehgtauridetod
thhiemspelifo.dg He maintained that he had
been fai
h
be-
ginning of their acquaintance. e
done so, but, if anything. he had rather gone beyond
them—(Cheers)—and as he bad acted in the past so
would he act in the future, Nay,gave
btehemhadat
not the
only
if they re-elected him as
their representative.
Wish respect to the Maynooth
sneplheetaletotell them. When
steadily voted against it;
when Sir
thn questionßrent
ha
nd a
H. Peel proposed to make it a permanent
rant under an Act of Parliament he opposed the Bill
an annual one
in every stage in the House of Commons. and if ever
it should be proposed to repeal the Bill (which he hoped
would be the case) they might depend upon it that such
a proposal should have his hearty support, not, however,
because tho grant went to the endowment of a Roman
Catholic seminary—he should be ashamed of himself
if he supported it upon any such narrow and sectarian
ground—(Cheers)—but because he was opposed to
all religious grants and endowments whatever by the
State.—(Renewed cheers.) Let the Roman Catholics
have Maynooth and tthitetihr:tanows nnp
fboyr heel all
maintainedmeans, butthalet
to nothing
one a _
aoytshYifsnaternliltesostfhetemhdausucealpvteeiorsn-;
secution, oppression, and tyranny,
for the religions faith of anothe.r.-01 man pay
in conclusion, to assure the sons of toil and in
dustry that, if returned to Parliament, he would, as ho
had always done, endeavour to protect their interests
principles
and extend their rights to the utmost. Believing, as he
dwihdichthhaetwtahaeprici
ready
n
to promote the best interests and welfare of the country
ovuhuaadte h iutghaeirht,o
were calculated
advocated, and
—(Cheers)—he was there again to solicit that confidence
which, during eighteen years, he had had the honour to
receive at their hands, and which he could conscientiously
say that ho had never wantonly betray
, Mr. Parry, barrister, and Mr. Washington Willis, a
betrayed.—(Cheers.)
I non-elector,•
!
the proceedings, which
having respectively addressed the meeting
in support of Mr. Duncombe,
were exceedingly harmonious throughout, were closed
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.
The nomination takes place on Wednesday next on
Clerken
well-green, the-polling on Thursday, and the
declaration on Friday.
A meeting of Mr. Wyld's supporters was held last
night in the Adam and Eve Tavern, Liverpool-road •Mr
James in the chair.

Mr: WyLn was received with loud cheers, and pro-
ceeded to state his views on the leading topics of the day.
There was no person, he thought, that cast his eye over
the representative system who would not say it was a
great sham. Was property represented? Were perm na
represented? No; the present system was nothing but
a system of compromise. To have a full, fair, and free
representation of the people there ought to be a greater
extension of the suffrage. The mass of the people ought
to be represented, but so that personation and fraud
should be prevented. The abstract principle was that
every man 21 years of age, who bad neitheriis waso, civil
that
ilnor
mental disability, ought, to have a vote.
principle to be worked out?* The elector should have
same qualificatieu which the parochial ftlad local 1101tU-e ,

tione of this country required; be should have the quell•
fieation of renedence. The vote ought to be taken by
ballot. The duration of Parliament ought to be shorter.
Ingran3 n extension of education. Ho expressed
ti,n,,e
political power they ought to accorn-
pawy it b
himself as favourable to a system of secular education,
giving opportunities after school hours and on Sundays
to communicate religious education. There existed large
funds for educational purposes at present; but many
cases were known in which those funds went into the
pockets of the clergy. A large portion might be paid
into a general fund for educational purposes. He ac•
knowlz-dged the large contributions made by different
denomieetions for such objects. There was a great
English spirit peeping out in charitable, religious, and
educational institutions; and wherever the English race
had diffused itself there would b 3 found the hospital, the
school, the church, carrying out what appeared to be the
feeling of the English race in favour of religion, bene-
volence, and education. A people actuated by such feel-
ings was, he argued, worthy to be entrusted with en
teeded suffrage; but education must go hand in hand with
f
an extension of pelitical power, and the disappointment o
the people of the continent in their endeavours to secure
freedom seemed attributable to their having neither se-
cular nor political education. He impressed upon those
whom he addressed the necessity of guarding spinet
encroachments on the great principle of local eelrgo-
'eminent. In their parishes and districts, the people.
ought earefuily to watch the least attempt on the ea"
of the Imperial Government to lay a hand on their prie
vileges ; because they might depend upon it the great
English mind was instructed in the exercise of political
power by exercising the pewee it did in the parish, in
the county, or the division. Political progress had not
maintained itself abroad, because the people were not
used to the exercise of power in their local character.
The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to express his
conviction that tree trade was the only policy for the
people of this country who were the receivers of the
whole world ; and adverted to the necessity of altering
a system of taxation under which great inequalities
existed, the 2s. 2icl. of tax paite on tea, which
did not cost the merchant at Canton more,
perhaps, than 7d. per lb., being imposed 0:1,
the inferior qualities used by the poor as well
as the higher qualities used by the rich. ma
deprecated the continuance of the taxes on knowledge,
and assimilated the advertisement duty to the tax on tee,
the tax paid by the richest merchant being the same
with that paid by the poorest maid-servant. He de:
clared that his desire was to conserve what was good,
and to reject and amend what was bad. He thought
that this country ought not to be called on to PO
4,000,0001. for its colonies, reversing the ancient rule,
and making the mother country the tributary of those
colonies for the sake of some patronage to Ministers. A
saving might also be effected in the diplomatic establish'
recurs. With respect to the question of civil and reli-
gious liberty, he held that there ought to be religious
equality—that every person, whether Jew, Roman Ca'
tholic, Dissenter, or Churchman, was, without inquiry.
into his creed, entitled, as a citizen of the State, to all
its privileges. He thought also that the Government
ought not to pay for any religious teaching. He bp
been asked if he was in favour of the grant to Maynooth.
He was in favour of no grant. The taxes raised for
secular purposes ought to be applied to secular purpoeflt
alone. The Hon. Gentlemen resumed his seat wile
loud expressions of applause.
In answer to questions,
Mr. WYLD said he had always voted for the emend-
'Dation of the Jews. There was a distinction in the
Houso of Commons between public and private BO'
many of the private Bills being public jobs; and the
reason why his name did not appear in so many diw
sions as others was, that he never did vote for a job, se'
he hoped he never would With respect to his absence
from divisions en the ballot (an elector had stated that
the Hon. Gentleman had been absent from four), be
had written to Mr. Berkeley on the subject. lur,;
Berkeley thought he paired off, and suggested that, °-
reference to the Times or some other journal, the cit.'
cnmstance would be found mentioned; and Mr. Berkeley
added that the feeling on his mind was, that be (1511..
Wyld) had been and would be a supporter of the ballot.
There was no public question on which he thought his coo"
stituents interested on which he would not vote, whether
he were ill or whether he were well. On every ocett•
sion on which even the poorest and meanest of his eon'
stituents had an interest he should be present. [AU
e
elector stated that the Hon. Gentleman had voted
the Whig Government, and when not, that he had beep_
absent; and asked whether, should the Whigs come ilittt
office again, he would sit for Finsbury independent of
Whig or Tory ?] He had been a perfectly independent
Member; he was no liker of the Whigs, who had failed
in fulfilling their promises. He should be very carafe
again in trusting such promises, and he should vote so a
perfectly independent Member. The Hon. Gentleman,
in reply to further inquiries, stated that he should cer-
tainly go to the poll, having given a pledge of his sin ad
rity in paying his contribution for the hustings. He bile
voted for the repeal of the malt-tax, would repeal
his
tax on fire and life assurances, give an account of lit':
stewardship annually, and resign on receiving a rentlfd
sition as numerously signed as that on which be ha
become a candidate.
Mr. MASON, printer, urged the meeting to BOPPn- drt
Mr. Wyld, in conjunction with Mr. Duncombe, an
moved the following resolution:-
4. That having heard Mr. Wyld's declaration of his
political principles, and being of opinion that the pro;i
motion of such principles will advance the happiness eu
prosperity of the nation, we pledge ourselves to promote
his return to the House of Commons as one of the repro"
sentatives of the borough of Finsbury."
Mr. MANNING seconded the resolution, which vial
carried by acclamation, and
The proceedings terminated.

There will be a strong contest in this TOWER
borough constituency in the kingdom, the effect of whi°
will be to split up the Liberal interest into a variety a.
sections. Mr. G. Thompson hss now publicly coalesced
with Mt.
similar arrangement has been virtually made between
Sir W.
Clay and Mr. Sainsbury Butler. Mr. W. Nev
the bagel
ton, of the defunct Amalgamated Society, stands alone!
resting his claims upon the advocacy of the rights 0f
labour, and his hopes upon the Compound Householder°
Bill, which confers the franchise upon a numerous clues
in this borough.
In the list of candidates for the Tower Hamlets, Pub-
Milled yesterday, the name of Mr. Butler was omitted.

LAMBETH.
Mr. Joseph Harvey has retired, the excitement muse'
quent upon a contested election basin.. proved altogether
too much for his physique. It is stated by his supporters
that he had received nearly 7,000 promises out of a re:
gister of something less than 18,000, so that if he hat
persevered his chances would have been considerable.
The field is thus for the present left free to Mess".
D'Eyncourt and Williams, but attempts are being made
to introduce other candidates. Amongst them Mr. D. W. -
Wire has been waited on, but it is not probable that be
will consent
to stand, or, if he does, that he will be re'
turned. An address to the electors from the chairmen
of Mr
• Harvey's committee, and the copy of a medical
certificate as to that geutleman's state of health have
been circulated in the borough.
There has been no talk whatever of a Conservative,
candidate. It is rumoured that the nominations
take place on Thursday.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 2.
mited,STGCs
but prices were firm. The only transaction reported
Excaugcm.—The business to-day was
rathewas—Bristolll
r and Exeter, 100%.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 2.
STocK ExcnAxax.—We had a very quiet market today,
and prices had a downward tendency. The transaction;
were as follow :—Eastern Counties, 10%—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 83 ~6—Ditto, Fifths, 3% dis.—Liverpool, Crosby,
Ditto, New Quarters, 3 -Manchester
and Southport, 20%—London and North-Western, 130,5 r
colnshire, 34—Ditto, New 61. Preference, t p.—Midland,
739/B—York and North Alidfand, 26 ,—Durch Rhenish,
Sheffield, and "al-
-23A dis.

3121VIMGHAM, JULY 2.
d encvSTOCK EXCHANGE.—Prices to-day had an upward ten-
, and the market was somewhat firmer. The trans-
actions reported were - Coventry and Nuneaton, 126—North
Saiffordshire, 6 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B),

• MONEY MARXET.—The quotation of gold at Pall
is about 4 per mule prem. (according to the new tariff), Whir
sattantdhaerdEnggellidsh,
gMivienst
an price
ex ochf
a3nt.g
et 70sf. 1201 d 2.7
;p per
do utnheee
ex() f.
change at Paris on London at short being 25.271, it follow"!
that gold is about at the same price in Paris and
London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold
is about 430 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13.71; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London et
short being 13.8, it follows that gold is about 0.23 per cent'
dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The course of ex'
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' 1101 per cent., and the par of exchange between England
and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.92 per cent. in favour of England.
And, after making allowance for charges of transport,
al
present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of gold
from the United States. sight is