The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-14 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 14, 1837.
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REPRESENTATION OF WEST.
MINSTER.
_
Last night there was a densely craWded meeting of the
electors of Westminster, held in the great rooni of tho
Cider Cellars, Maiden-lane, for the purpose of adopting the
best means of securing the return of the Liberal candi-
dates at the ensuing election. Previous to the chair being
taken considerable confusion was created by a person named
Clarke, who was said to be a member of Sir George Mur-
ray's Committee, taking forcible possession of the chair, al-
leging that he had been moved thereto. Mr. M'Kay wai
afterwards called to the chair by acclamation, and the in-
truder forcibly ejected, not, however without a scuffle and
interchange of sundry blows, which threatened to entirely
destroy the harmony of the meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said that the ruse just attempted, was
a pretty fair sample of the disgraceful manoeuvres to which
the Tories would have recourse to attain their object.—
(Cheers.) They had been threatened for years with the
advance upon their citadel of the Bombardier Murray, and
they had been told too that one of the "thimble rig" fra-
ternity was about to try his slight of hand. The latter
lie believed, however, had retired. The electors were no
longer insulted with " pismire" manifestos.—(Cheers.) And
it now remained for them to redeem the pledges they had
given of their attachment to the great principles of reform.
(Cheering.) The Tories had made a stepping-stone of Sir
P. Burdett—a warming-pan for Sir G. Murray. Their
Queen and their country expected that they would wield
the franchise in the cause of Reform, by supporting Leader
and Evans.
Mr. WALKER proposed the first resolution.
r Mr. NicHoLL briefly seconded the resolution, when Mr.
Clarke, the person who had usurped the Chair, attempted
to address the meeting, when a scene of the most inde-
scribable tumult ensued. General Evans, who had entered
shortly after the commencement of the proceedings, endea-
voured to obtain a hearing for the speaker, who was sur-
rounded by a number of friends, but most ineffectually, as
every attempt was met by cries of " Turn him out," " He's
drunk," &c, At this stage of the proceedings Mr. Leader
arrived, and was hailed with deafening demonstrations of
applause.

General Evarrs, when quiet was restored, addressed the
meeting. He fully participated, and was proud of, the
feeling they evinced at the approach of his fellow-candidate
and colleague, Mr. Leader.—(Cheers.) He despised all
tl e attacks made against his character for the last two years.
He had certainly observed silence on the subject, conscious
in his own integrity ; but humble as he was, posterity
would do justice to his metives.—(Cheers.) [The Gallant
General here entered into the whole history of his cam-
paign in Spain, adducing the most convincing refuta-
tions of the scandalous calumnies regarding the flogging
of women, &c., so industriously circulated in his absence.]
He bad felt all these accusations as compliments, be-
cause the Tories set some value upon the columns of
their congenial organs, and they had squandered many
miles of columns upon him in the assertion of those false-
hoods.—(Great cheering.) One of the interrogatories in-
tended to be put to him .by the Tory gentleman who was
so anxious to address the meeting, was—he had ascer-
tained privately—with regard to his opinions on corporal
punishment—a question upon which he had ousted Sir John
Hobhouse from the representation of Westminster. The an-
swer he would give to that was, that his opinions on that
subject were neither vague nor indefinite, but were on re-
cord and in detail.—(Cheers.) So far from being disposed
to:sbrink from that question, it was impossible for him to
do so as a man. He had delivered these opinions before
a Committee two years and a half ago, and these opinions
were in complete accordance with those of Mr. Hume,
and others, whose attachment to Liberal principles
could not be disputed.—(Loud cheering.) He was ready
to re-state these opinions in the Il_oue of Commons, and
he flattered himself with increased effect. In Spain there
was considerable latitude allowed the Press, and many
:of them there in support of despotism exercised consider-
able freedom of thought and language ; but an tl inz so
mes,-t eHerald
also, 5.9...1vjp.t„
, and the Po s[, he
never met with in the whole cours inf • had
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samers) assassinate
obliquitytl ;;;A: ;E. 'ea nosf
morality, would incite them to act in the same way with
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the English people.—(Great cheering for several minutes.)
Mr. BROAD briefly proposed the second resolution, to
the effect that Mr. Leader, by his votes in Parliament, and
him-
selfh
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support
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of
fne occasion,vaerlayteßeformer.
Mr. TAPSTER seconded this resolution.
Mr. LEADER thanked the meeting sincerely for had en titled
of their confidence. They had evinced great hatred
Tories to-night ; he trusted they would carry that feeling
this
to testthe
prevent one from becoming their repre-
sion some of Parliament.—(Cheers.) Upon the last occa-
his
steonttahteivheusitninpg
airl4Prancis Burdett's friends doubetebdenbefiutt
that he was still a Reformer, and they gave him th
of that doubt. But there could be "no mistake" on t
occasion, and they would entail eternal disgrace them-
selves if they again returned a Tory. Mr. Leader
address the meeting at great length, frequently
upon
conti-
nued
to a
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eliciting the most boisterous plaudits.
During the evening other speakers addressed the meet-
mectim -larated.
ing ; after which, thanks being voted to the Chairman, the

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REFRESENTATION OF MARY-

LEBONE.

Yerterday evening a crowded and respectable meeting
of the electors of the east division of St. Pancras was held
ar the Burton-rooms, Burton-crescent, for the purpose of
considering the pretensions and hearing the sentiments of
Hall as a candidate for Marylebone.

Mr. Stockton, (foreman of the celebrated Celthorpc
Jury) was, on the motion of Major Revell, called on una-
nimously to preside
The CHAIRMAN having Ibrieffy stated the objects of the
meeting,
najor REVELL rose. lie thought the borough would
do their duty by returning as their representative a tried
and independent man—one who would give his time to
their service, and, from his fortune and high station in
life, would be placed above bribery and corruption. In
Mr. Ilall they would find such a man—he was not untried ;
he had served an apprenticeship of six years in the House
of Commons, and he had ever been found the consistent
and tried advocate of Liberal measures ; and on those
grounds he considered Mr. Hall entitled to the confidence
or the electors of this great and enlightened borough.
The CHAIRMAN then read the resolution proposed by
Major Revell.

Mr. LIMISERT seconded it, and it was carried with but
one dissentient voice, which created much laughter.
Mr. HALL was then introduced to the meeting by Major
Revell, and was received with much cheering. He had re-
presented the Monmouth burghs—(A voice in the room
was here heard to say, " Why did you leave them ?") Ile
would answer, that he had left them because he found that
corruption had made its way there ; they were to be bribed
by the full purses of the Tories ; and he, therefore, consi-
dered that he was justified in resigning them, when he was
assured an enlightened metropolitan borough would, from a
sincere political feeling alone, send him as a Member to re-
present them.—(Cheers.) He was not one of those politi-
cal Pharisees who would swallow pledge after pledge. Ile
was fearful, very fearful, that from the split between the Li-
beral interest, the borough would be represented by one
Tory. He was not prepared for the coalition which had
so unexpectedly taken place in the Liberal interest ; but
this he was prepared to say, from the favourable reception
he had met with in the borough, he had, if the electors
acted up to their promises, no doubt that he should be chosen
as one of the representatives of this great and in
borough. .(Loud cheers)
gGIT—N4LEStAN here said he wished to ask Mr. Hall aAou
question, which was, whether he intended to stand the poll,
as it had been in circulation that he would not do so.
Mr. HOVENDEN said, as Chairman of Mr. Hall's Com-
mittee, he would stand the poll to the last hour.
Mr. BYE then moved a vote of thanls to the Chairman,
who in a very able speech returned thanks, after which the
meeting separated.

OSE TREES.—" There is a classical custom ob-
served," says Camden, in his " Britannia," 1603, " time out
of mind; at Oakley, in Surrey, of planting rose trees on the
graves, especially of the young men and maidens, so that this
church yarde is full of them. It is the more remarkable,
since it Was anciently used both among the Greeks and the
Romans, who were so wry religious in it, that we find it
often annexed as a codicil to theyr wills (as appears by an
old inscription at Ravenna), by which they ordered roses to
be yearly strewed •and planted on their graves. Old Ana-
croon, speaking of it, says that it doth protect the dead."
M &N•--Philosophers have puzzled themselves how
to define man, so as to distinguish him from other animals.
Burke says, " Man is an animal that cooks his victuals."
" Then," says Johnson, the proverb is just ; there is reason in
roasting eggs." Dr. Adam Smith has met this case. " Man,"
says he, " is an animal that makes bargains ; no other animal
does this---one dog does not change a bone with another."

PRICE sd.

SHIPPING INiIELLIGE'ATE.

ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-
HOUSE, JULY 13.
The Batavier, Dunlop, from Rotterdam ; Queen Adelaide,
Aitken, Havre; Kent, Tune, Boulogne; Cater, Merrels,
Dunkirk ; Princess Victoria, Britton, Antwerp; Medemblik,
Gray, Medemblik; William Pitt, Walters, Guernsey; Ocean,
Morfee, Antwerp ; Sovereign, Compton, Guernsey ; I'ctrus,
Schottey, Brussels ; Prince of Waterloo, Page, Antwerp ;
Adbur, Tanner, Guernsey; William Fawcitt, M'Lean, St.
Sebastian.