The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-29 00:00:00

EVANS and SHELLEY for WESTMINSTER.
The CENTRAL COMMITTEE for conducting the ELEC-
TION- of Gneral Sir DE LACY EVANS and Sir .TOI.IN SIIELLEY,
Bart., SIT DAILY, at No. 32. Charing-cross.
Public Meetings have been held in every parish in Westminster,
at, all of whicliSir John Shelley (who came fbrwar4 on the retire-
ment of Charles Lushington, Esq.) has baen most enthusiastically
received; and resolatipus agreed to, adopting him as a fit and proper
Person to supply the vacancy in the representation; and a Tory',
tinder the auspiCes of the. Carlton Club, being announced, the
Committee fife of opinion tbatthe time has now arrived when Re-
ormers of every denontination should combine against the common
The Committees of both candidates have therefore *lea, in order
to secure the triumphant return of the two Refonners--EVANS and
SHELLEY

P. LOCKE KING, Chairman.
WDL GEESIN, Deputy Chairman.
Central Committee-room, 32, Charing-cross,
June 24, 1852.

.110 THE 'ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER.
aentlemen,
I had the honour of addressing you on the 6th of March last, and I
then stated my intention of briefly doing so again on the nearer ap-
proach of .the dissolution of Parliament, now at hand.
The first duty of It candidate to whom the important office of a re-
presentative has been previously confided is respectfully to invite a
consideration of his conduct en th 3 great questions of national policy
ander dlscussion during his stewardship.
Shoula you deem such a retrospect worthy of adoption, I venture
fearlessly to anticipate you will be of opinion that I have fairly and
honourably adhered to the principles avowed by me, and sanctioned
by you, when I first presented myself to your notice.
In dson:with these principles I have ever, endeavoured to support,
to the best of inyability, every proposition for the practical advance-
inent of political liberty, religious equality, popular rights, and aim-
Mervin' freedom.
lily vntea in Ilse manner will be found recorded for the Enfran-
chisement of great Towns, for the Disfranchisement of decayed Bo-
roughs, the Extension of the Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, Emancipa-
tion of Colonial Slaves, Extension of Secular Education, Abolition of
Church Rates, of the Taxes on Knowledge, of the monopoly duties
on bread; sugar, and a variety of other articles entering into the
:consumption of the great body of the people.
The aristocratic and excessive endowment of the state episcopacy,
• the impolitic creation of colonial bishoprics, the abuses of ecclesias-
tical' courts, and the recent Militia Bill, as being unadapted for its
professed objects, have had my strenuous opposition.
Parliamentary Reform I have always considered as the founda-
tion of all other reforms. My first entrance into Parliament was
by opening a borough which represent regularly sold in4he market
for above a ,century. While ing .that borough I gave an
unwearied support to the Reform ill of 1832, which enlisted so
powerfully the popular synipathies, Band was So long and violently
opposed by the party now In power.
Tb my efforts, however imperfect, during that prolonged conflict I
have to attribute the high honour of the invitation to become a can-
didate for your city, 'now about 20 years since ; I have on all occa-
sions supported ...M.r.,llume's proposition for a fuller development of
'the representation of tbe,people. •
Having failed in •repes.ted attempts to abolish the Rate-Paying
clauses, about three years ;Since I carried into effect myself a mea-
sure for extending the period of rate paymenfi. This measure I
have the satisfaction to learn, from competent authorities, will
bring at the present election to the metropolitan poll booths up-
wards of 20,000 electors Previously =enfranchised, of whom about
2,000 will be in Westminster.
svtth regar4 tedocal matters,-*Which—frattr: scr oonskierable a part..
of the business of a member, without going further back than the
Leg two or three years,' I beg leave to appeal to the inhabitants of
the Quairant, of Leicester-square, of St. James's, and my consti-
tuents generally, as to my anxious attention to such matters.
I have always considered that the petty arts by which candidates
are wont to ingratiate temselves with smaller constituencies were
wholly inappropriate to u city such as•yours, whose population com-
prises, pethaps beyond that of any other in the world, every ele-
ment of greatness, and above all of intellectual pre•emittence and
discrimination. My course has therefore been independent, but I
trostnot less characterised by deference and respect. •
Gentlemen, the facts I have thus submitted may perhaps read
as mere humble details in comparison with the brilliant promises by
which your confidence may be sought by other suitors.
The results of former contests, however, embolden me to hope
that you.will deem them sufficient proofs of my sinceritynce and good
faith, as well in regard to the past as to the fd that on
those gtounds you will again honour me with your suffrages.
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your faithful and obedient
servant,
Bryruistbn-square, June 26, 1852

DE LACY EVANS.

`MO THE ELECTORS OF .WESTMINSTER.
1 (Gentlemen,
' In a few days Parliament will be dissolved, and you will be called
Upon to elect your representatives.
The reception 1 have experienced at numerous meetings held in
the various parishes of Westminster since I did myself the honour of
issuing my address to you as a Candidate in
with c Februnfiary
dence to last, embol-
dens rue to hope that I may look forward o the
attainment of that great distinction which I seek at yonr hands :
and that you will confide in me the deeply important trust of re-
presenting ydur opinions and interests,' and of defending your
lights, and the rights of the people in the Commons mouse of
Parliament.
I ask your confidence as a determined advocate of those princi-
ples of civil liberty and religions equality, which are theteacon and
bnlwititof freedoni. .
In order to carry out those principles in their Integrity, I shall
ever bo found the supporter of an extension of the suffrage, of vote
by ballot, of a return to the ancient practice of triennial Parlia-
ments, andof 1l stich measures as may best tend to the widest
diffusion of education, and thereby most effectually promote the
religious, moral, and social welfare of the great mass of the com-
modity.
lam an enemy to grants from the public purse for other that,
Secular purposes, end shall be found at all times an eager advocate
for the strictest economy in the expenditure of the public money.
, As a landowner and, practical farmer, I have, through evil report
and good report, advocated unflinchingly the repealof the corn-laws,
and I rejoice in the contiction that those] laws, so justly odiouse
to
the consumer, and in their operation so inurious to the grower, ar
how repealed. I shall continue strenuously to oppose any measure-
for taxing the food of the people, and will support to the fullest ex-
tent the principles of free trade.
Lord Derby's Administration andits supporters, finding that the
" Genius of the Epoch" is against Protection, would
Persuade the
country that they are now Free-traders. Protect
Inisnob professions the
people can have no faith, and I feel a strong conviction that, looking
o the WCalare of the nation at large, a Government is required which
Shall be firm enough and sufficiently in earnest to give the fullest
practicable effect to the principle of Free Trade.
Let lit hope tbat a Government may speedily be formed Wien the
distinct principle of a liberal progression, resisting any re-enact-
Silent of religious disabilities, and cordially proMoting.the due exten-
sion of political privileges.
In addition to questions of genetal polities I shall be prepared to
devoti my best attentioi to all matters of a locabg
e hahracter connecte
ts
d
with the interests of your great city, believin that such subjec
cannot be neglected consistently with afull performance of the duties
devolving on a representative.
our very faithful servant,
I am, Gentlemen, y
Sous vammts SHELLEY.
Albemarle-street, June 24, 1852.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS
for Orphan and Necessitous Children, Wanstead.
PRESIDENT —John Masterman, Esq., M.P.
A GENERAL COIJET of this Institution was held at the London
Tavern, on Monday, the 28th hist , JOHN MASTERMAN, Esq.,
M.P., in tho Chair, at which an Election of Children for Admission
into the Schools took place. At the Close of tho Poll the result was
declared as follows:

BOYS.
alledwell, William John .• .. 4801 Moss. Arthur Geo. Alex. • • 568
*Blakesley, Allred Angus- *Palmer, Geo. Thomas • • 4349
tus •• • • •• • ......... 8209 Patten, William Henry.• 155
*Cooper, Frank ...• • • ...... 4256 Patterson, Thomas.• .. • .
• . 1179
Davies, Wm. Hargrave .. 649 *Pinto, Charles.. 7556
*Davis 572
Arthur • • • • • • ...... 5866 *Sanders, George.. • • • •
.... 41500
Xempston, Robert. • .... • . 123 Spencer, Charles ........
Lloyd, Bennett Wensor .. 134 Whining, Edmund Victor. • 3694
Maud, Henry Alfred.. •• .. 683 Williams, Robt. Haworth.. 594

, . . GIRLS.
•
*Edwards, Lucy Harriet • . 39351 Gillard, Rosina . • .... '. • 712
*Evans, Alice •. • ...... ... 41301.1Iorrison, Elizabeth. •.• • • 4301
' ' jrhoietnarked (*) thus are the SuccessfUl Candidates.
'' ' ALFRED LENCH SAUL, Secretary.

Offices, 81, Cheap.sido, Jane 28, 1852.