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

-- 7 JULY 7, 1852.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
TOWER HAMLETS.
The nomination of candidates for the metropolitan
district of the Tower Hamlets took place yesterday, at
Stepney-green. At twelve. o'clock the returning officer,
Mr. Child, appealed on the hustings, where the candi-
dates, accompanied by their. respective committees, had
Previously taken their places. A very largo crowd oc
par7sons surrounded the hustings,: principally composed
of the lowest classes of the neighbourhood; many of
whons had evidently been employed for the purpose of
serving the candidate who had been fortunate enough to
obtain their "free and independent" support by ehoudeg
down his opponents. Daring the whole of the proceed-
ings the uproar was so great and so well sustained, that
it was quite impossible to present anything 1 ke an ac-
curate report of the speeches delivered by the candi-
d ites.: Those of the movers and seconders were totally
inaudible, even to those persons in their immediate
ne:ghbourhood.

The returning officer opened the proceeding by re.
qir sting that all parties might obtain a fair hearing.
Mr. F. CLARKE then proposed Mr. Cr, Thompson as
a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Par-
liament.
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be inconsistent with the principles he had uniformly
advocated, and he believed that, as certain
as that the sun was then shining, the
decision of the electors, as declared at the poll
would confirm that opinion to-morrow. He, therefore,
branded as miscreants and cowards all those who had
dared to impugn one act of his public life.—(Great up-
roar.) At not less than fifty meetings held in the bo-
rough he had branded the slanderous weapons which
had been used against him for the last two months as
the basest that could be employed, and had challenged
his accusers to the proof. The base and brutal means
which had been resorted to, in order to eject him from
his seat, would, however, recoil upon the heads of the
perpetrators. The Hon. Candidate then proceeded,
Amid great confusion, to set forth various articles of his
political creed, which were, he said, well known to all
the electors of the borough, and called upon the electors,
by returning him, to ensure a continuance of the
triumph of religious freedom, of radicalism, and of
honesty. With respect to his opinions on religious sub-
jects, he stated that he knew nothing of toleration, his
object being to secure perfect religious equality for all.
(The remainder of the address was completely lost to
us, in consequence of a few of the more riotous sup-
porters of the rival candidates coming to blows on the
hustings, whence they were ultimately removed by the
police.)
Sir W. CLAY then came forward to address the elec-
tors, but was for some time quite inaudible, in conse-
quence of the noise and interruption of the crowd. The
Honourable Baronet finding that he was speaking in
dumb show, at length turned round, and addressed him
self confidentially to the reporters, who even then found
great difficulty in catching his words. He was under-
stood to call upon his audience to look at the important
question of the grant to Maynooth College like men of
sense. This was a charge upon the Consolidated Fund
of 26,0001. a year, granted in the year 1845, to which
the faith of the country was pledged, and which should
not be withdrawn without cause shown and approved of
by the representatives of the people of England. He
had supported a motion for inquiry into the system of
Maynooth, in the former Parliament, and if he were
returned to the next Parliament he would support a
similar motion.—(Cheers and uproar.) If the charges
brought against Maynooth were proved, he would join
in abrogating the grant; if they were disproved there
would then be only one other ground upon which they
could justly abrogate the grant, and that was, the ge-
neral ground that it was a violation of the rights
of conscience to take money raised by taxes from
the whole of the people to support the religious
doctrines of one portion of that people.—(Loud cheers)
That was a sound objection, and, in theory, it was, he
believed, unanswerable. No religious endowment by the
Government of a Protestant country was logically to he
defended.—(Cheers and renewed uproar.) It was con-
trary to that right of private judgment which was the
corner-stone of the Protestant faith, Such endowments
could only he defended on the ground of general policy,
as tending to produce kindly feeling amins: men who,
united by the tie of a common allegiance, differed in re-
ligious opinions.—(Uproar.) But if they failed to do
that, if they did not succeed
in their object, and if, in-
stead of being a bond of peace, the grant to Maynooth
was only to be a fresh source of religious animosity, then,
he agreed with them, that it must be withdrawn. Let
them change their system if they would—let them adopt
the voluntary system, and there would be an end of the
present discussion; but let them not ccmmence the
change by an attack on a small sum granted to the
humblest, the weakest, and the poorest of their fellow-
citizsns.—(Confusion.) These were not his senti-
ments alone. He had the satisfaction of knowing that
they were the opinions of almost every eminent man,
'without exception, in the House of Commons of every
shade of opinion—Whig and Tory—Conservative and
Radical. He would ask what would be the result of the
test which was laid down by the authors of a placard that
he had seen that morning? Why, it would be to turn
out Lord J. Russell from the city—(Great confusion)—
it would turn out Disraeli from Buckioghanoshire, Sir
James Graham from Carlisle, Cardwell from Liverpool,
Gladstone from Oxford University, Sir William
Moles-
worth from Southwark, Cobden from the West Riding
of Yorkshire, Bright and Gibson from Manchester, and
last but not least, it would prevent Macaulay, the glory
ej our age, from coming in for Edinburgh. Whom
would they have instead? Why, Spooner and Newde-
gate, and a few other orange.coloured gentlemen from
Ireland. Let them imagine such a Parliament. A crew,.
without a pilot, an army without an officer, a troop of
actors with all the stars left out, and the principal parts
performed by walking gentlemen—a pudding without
plums—such images as these would give a faint notion
of such a Pisrliamene—(Cheers and tremendous uproarh)e
—He held in his hand a copy of the placard to which
had alluded, and to which he would again refer, as he
s
had a still graver charge to bring
The following is the placard spoken of by the bon,
baronet. It was distributed extensively among t
crowd that stood about the hustings previous to the no-
mination:— against its authors.

" TOWER HAMLETS ELECTION.
"Fellow Protestants—The general election is at hand
—show by your votes that Protestantism is
the great
anii paramount question of the day. Sir William Clay
is the only candidate for the Tower Hamlets who re-
fuses to pledge himself to vote for the repeal of the May-
nooth Act! Protestant money is given to educate
Popish priests to propagate Romish error, intolerance,
and hatred of our national liberties! Row long shall
this be? Read the class-books taught at Maynooth,
which abound in impurities, justify falsehoods and the
breach of oaths, and claim for the priests universal do-
minion over the consciences and property of men.
Rome shows every day that she is unchanged, tyran-
nical as ever, and disloyal to our beloved Queen. Pro-
testants of the Tower Hamlets, be consistent and ear-
nest. Maintain your liberties, and hand them down,
unimpaired, to your children.
" East London Protestant Alliance Committee-room,

Juno 1852.
" In the short reign of Mary the Papists burnt to
death 277 persons, of whom 55 were women, and 4
children.
" A Romish History, written for English children,
and published in London, in 1805, justifies these
murders.
" What is Popery doing now in Austria, Hungary,
Naples, Spain, and in Rome itself?"
interruption.)
Ought and four children.—
At the toot of that placard he found it stated that in the
short reign of Mary the Papists burnt to death 277 p r-
sons, of whom 55 were women,
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the precepts or follow.
(Cheers and confusion.) He could scarcely trust
evidence of his senses when be read those words, and he
finEnitgslatund;
wanted language to express the sorrow and humiliation
with which ho had learned that that placard came from
the East London Protestant
„Aililimene:
Did those gentlemen think that they
professed to be members of the
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fauescioornd)in—gotoatkinhoewylewdegere—o(bTeyrienmgendous uproar and con-
ing the example of their Divine Master, in thus raising
tohreapdazierskioannsdofintlrupmeaonplaeg,
age, when
recalling to mind the events
was persecuted ?—(Cries of "no
Ought such a placard as this to be cast about as a fire-
brsnd to stimulate the deadly passions of hatred and re-
venge, and thus to bring about again the time of Lord
George Gordon and his riots? DA its authors wish to
make our streets red with the blood of our fellow-citi-
zens, and that the scenes of Stockport should be acted
over again in the streets of London? But he would
quit this painful subject. lie had no fears as to the re-
sults of that placard. He knew the electors of the Tower
Hamlets too well, that they were too just to take so par-
row a view as the authors of this placard had done Of those
obligations which common sense, Christian charity, jus-
tice, and sound policy alike imposed.—(Great confusion.)
He saw that they were not disposed to give him that fair
play which wax the boast of Pogitshmen•----(Cheers and
increased interruption.) Certain charges were brought
against him in the placard to which he had alluded, but
he
,begged to tell them that that placard was a tissue of
misrepresentations, partly from containing statements
which were totally unfounded, and partly from stating
the truth in such a mode—and this was the worst kind
of misrepresentation—es to lead to a false impression.
He could give a complete and crushing reply
to every
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Mr. AsteToarent.hlen stoeoirdn:fligOirrrnewaaarisd:, and was received
with a variety of discordant noises, in which it was im-
possible
of
dtbisetinguish whether expressions of approba-
raarnydaicehre;creacbteci•roreprheivmsa,
lion or
- placed by
speaker, who, insteadl)lining of the coquet of the previous
large and intelligent k
hadd. delivered
of addressing his remarks to the
theta solely to the
ate epresentatives of the press. The ho-
nourable candid
ple that set tam. stated
and he would not follow the exam-
unable to fyis,,,
than n consequence we are perfectly
which more
ocehasi"oncliythe substance of a few remarks
of
his reached
us above the continuous
cheers and yells auditors. We understood the
honourable gentleman to
the ballot, and to give
his exprees himself favourable to
adherence to the greatest and
first of all political truths—that every man in the coun-
try, without reference to creed, class, or profession, was
entitled to the suffrage, and to exercise that right with-
out being affected by the force and insolence of wealth,
such as had been exhibited in
man
He stated that he had come toparts of the borough.
electorsy
the rescue of the Tower
Hamlets; and called upon the
returning him, the triumph of those to continue, by
great principles
which had been achieved at the
last
Mr. Bureeit next attempted to addressection.
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M areelf hed. the electors,
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if he had been in Parliament, and 'Militia itite
that he had spoken-
against -
meeting s p en
against it at every in the Tower Hamlets which
he had attended. The best means of defending
country would be by increasing the standing army the
(Tremendous uprose) He was in favour of the balloyi
(Cheers)—because be. believed it to be necessary for the
proper discharge of the greatest and most honourable
duty which a citizen could be called upon to discharge:
—(Cheers.) He would not consent to pull down the Es-
tablished Church, because he was convinced that if they
pulled down the church the chapels would be sure to
follow.—(Oh, ob.) lie was an untried man, and could
not promise them that he would be a very eloquent Mem-
ber of Parliament, but he would engage himself to prove
independent in thought and in action. He was not fight-
but only aimed at advancing the honour
ing for himself,
and interests of the borough. He was one of themselves,
and that was the reason why they ought to give him
thei votes.—(Cbeers and confusion.) It had been said
that all the ladies of the Tower Hamlets were in favour
of Mr. Butler. When his opponents said this they had
told the troth for once in their lives, for there was not a
pair of bine or black eyes in the borough that would not
glisten with joy as sood
n ashisses.) his election was announced.—
an
(Laughter, cheers,
Mr. NEWTON next came forward, and was most vo-
ciferously cheered by his supporters, who occupied the
ground in great force. He said that the four candidates
who had preceded him had each stated that he would
be at the head of the poll tomorrow; as no party had
claimed the second place, he thought he might fairly
) • In put forward his claim to it.—(Laughterpo •
int of
tact he desired nothing more than the second place.
There were 60,000 non-electors in the borough, and he
contended that they ought to have one representative at
least in the House of Commons. As the candidate of
the " people" he stood before them on that occasion,
and felt confident that he should be returned.—(Tre-
mendous cheering.) They wanted men to represent
them in Parliament who attended to the interests of the
borougb, who knew the wishes of the people, and who
mixed with them. There had been no one in the House
of Commons who represented the interests of this great
borough, the largest is the country, He hoped
that by their decision on this occasion 'an end
would be put to this state of things. He was
proud to say that throughout the contest the
working classes had asserted their cl" •
ignity, and
had acted with propriety. He admitted that they had made
a great noise, but it had been of a good-humoured sort,
and no angry vindictiveness had been displayed, and if
they then listened patiently to him it was because their
opinions were in accordance with the principles which
they knew he advocated. His opinion on the rights of
labour was well known to them—it was, that the
responsibility should rest upon the Legislature
of the country of finding employment for the
people.—(Great cheering.) He believed that opinion
would soon be enforced upon the Government. It was
a principle which was already gaining great favour
among the masses of the people, and he would continue
to use every effectual means of spreading it -still further,
The duties of his audience that day would, to s great
extent, cease with the show of hinds; he would, how.
ever, urge upon those of the non-electors present to do
all that they possibly could to induce those possessing
the franchise to come forward and support the rights
of labour, by giving their votes for the candidate of
labour. It had been said that his supporters had
beena paid by Mr. Butler, one of the opposing candi-
dtee, for the purpose of splitting the Liberal inte-
rests of the borough. He believed that no one
would venture to assert h sue an opinion before them
upon that occasion, for he knew perfectly well, if they
were
to
do so, they would receive such an answer as
would convince them that they could be honest men as
well as themselves.—(Cheers.) When the news of the
victory gained tomorrow
(this day) was conveyed to
the industrial hives of the north, the toiling thousands
the
would thankelectors of the Tower Hamlets for
having given the m
law
it arepresentative of " labour." Pro-
perty, baronets, and were already sufficiently repre-
sented in the Legislature;was now high time for
labour to have its exponent
itihere, and he had no doubt
of a
that, by the exertionsclasses, electors and non-
electors, this desirable result would at length be ob-
tained.—(Cheers.)
The Returning Officer then proceeded to take the usual
show of hands in favour of the es p?ctive candidates, and
declared as the result that the respective
election had fallen upon
Mr. Newton and Mr. Thompson. A poll was then de-
manded on behalf of the other
candidates, which was
ordered to take place to-morrow (this day),
commencing
and concluding at the usual boars.
A vote of thanks having been
officer, the immense assemblage separated.