The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-22 00:00:00

possible to hear one ward except those in his immediate neigh-
bourhood.
Mr. Russett. ELLICE seconded the nomination.
Sir JAMES DUKE then came forward, and requested an im-
partial hearing for all the candidates.
Mr. Alderman Wows first came forward amid tremendous
cheering, which lasted for several minutes. As soon as the
cbe, ring hai subsided, the worthy Alderman addressed the
inreting as follows:—Grottier electors, here I am again.
(Tremendous cheers ) It is my great delight to be here so
rally with you, --(Cheers.) This is what I like—once in
three years is not enough.—( Great cheering.) I live among
you, And you know my acts in the House of Commons.
(Much cheering and confusion.) I ask you to point out any
fi4t of mine in which I have deviated from the cause I pledged
myself to pursue.—(Cheers, and much confusion.) If any
gentleman hat anything to say against the course I have pur-
%tied, let him come on the hustings and state it.—( Cheers and
'Saproar, ) Give Me, Gentlemen, a fair hearing, and if you do
14.0 you !Mall have one yourselves, and no f play, _(Cheers,
and much eOliftision.) Here an individual on the platform en-
Veavour-ed to adzifees something to the worthy Alderman, but
Was prevented by thoit around him.) Let the gentleman
( aid the worthy Alderman) any other individual, come upon
it)r, hustings and state his opinions; 1 can not answer him
the!Ne. If there is any change at all, It Is among those
who ate now opposing clamour, and do not liketohear me.
•--(Great -eonfusion. ) wished to be judged ged even by nay
enemies. 1 i..tve not the slightest objection that they should
come forward and state what they have to say against me.—
(Cheers and confusit..." I never told the Tories I was in
.
their favour—( Cheers)_.hough they have been kind enough
on some occasions to vote for me.—( Laughter.) I will
never desert you or nay princ:ples—(Cheers, and cries of
wre know you won't")—and whe.? I am unfit to represent
you, I will immediately give up my situaticn.—(Great cheer-
ing and confusion.) Gentlemen, these little interruptions are
most agreeable. I have been at three or four public meetings,
but they were all upon one side, but here there is a little to
eitsite one.—(Cheers.) I know that you will re-elect me,
and all that I ask you to do is to be early at the poll on
Monday ,morning.—(Cheers.) Not all the influence to the
world, frots: the highest to the lowest, shall ever alter my sen-
timents.—( (;;seers.) I will go to my grave with the same
sentiments I hav,l entertained for the last forty years, and if
any change should Sake place I shall not be myself, but only
fit to inhabit Bedlassi.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to
my colleagues, I am bound to say that no men have
been more attentive to the: interests of the City of London
than they have ; with regard to ail their acts they are before
you. Their votes are known and it is for you to judge, whe-
ther we have acquitted ourselves properly fmr not. I feel great
gratitude gentlemen for the honour that you have hitherto
done me of electing me as one of your representatives. I
wish to live in your esteem, and that is the only reward that I
seek. The honourable Alderman concluded amid much
cheering.
Mr. GROTE then came forward, and upon presenting him-
self to the electors, was received with tremendous cheering
and waving of hats and handkerchiefs, which lasted for seve-
ral minutes. After quiet had been in some measure restored,
the Hon. Gentleman proceeded to address the electors as fol-
lows—Gentlemen electors of the city of London—( Cheers, and
confusion, which prevented the Hon. Gentleman from speaking
for some minutes.) I appear before you, for the third time,
as a candidate for the honour of your suffrages.— ( Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I appear before you with clean and pure hands.
---(Tremendous cheering.) I feel confidence in your judg-
ment and patriotism, and I entertain the strongest hope that
I shall again be elected as your representative.—(Tremen-
dous cheering, and cries of " You shall f") Gentlemen, I
know that it is a great honour to represent an enlightened
constituency of 15,000 electors.—(Tremendous cheering.)
Great, howeaer, as that honour is, it would have but little
value indeed in my eyes, unless it enabled me to assist in pro-
ms:ting the. great, the all-important, and the overpowering
work of Reform. Gentlemen, I appear before you with sen.
timerats unaltered and unchanged. lam the same man, and I
hold the same political opinions I held in 1835, when you first
did me the honour to elect me. Gentlemen, lam sure that
you are not changed. I am sure that you see that the
contest upon the present occasion is the same, in circum-
stances and principles, as it was in 1835. We are still called
upon to co.atend against the unclean spirit of Toryism.
we have the same enemy to contend against, and the same foe
to defeat and crush, and I am sure that the electors of London
will not be found less faithful to their important trust than in
former years.--(Tremendous cheering. )—I shall go into par-
liament, if again returned, to promote the same principles and
opinions I have always held—to give protection to the elective
franchise by means of the vote by ballot—to do all I can to
secure household suffrage and triennial parliaments. Above
all to promote the cause of civil and religious liberty in all its
branches and in all its bearings.— (Loud and reiterated cheer-
ing.)—l shall go with a fixed determination to support
the government of Lord Melbourne in all those
sectary reforms which I hope ,they will orig;nate,
and I can only express my strong wish and hope that
they may be so animated by the beautiful countenance
ofour gracious Queen—( Vehement cheering)—as to be
more vigcrous and animated in the cause of the. people than
they have Is.;therto been. I shall go with a full determina-
tion to impart equal rights and privileges to all the natives
of those realms,, e
more gespecially our brethren in Ireland—
(Cheers)--and notspbe backward in trying to expose
'
those miserable preten "eiisebt ywiiich the Tories seek to with-
draw equal rights from t suffering people. Gentlemen, I
shall be found your faithful' representative in the future, as I trust
I have been in the past, prepared to uphold anything good in
our institutions, but also prepared to co-operate in the more
dif£cult task in removing what is odkius, and rooting out what
is poisonous and incurable. You will find me a hearty Re-
former, and anxious to discharge faithfully the trust—the
honourable trust—you have already conferred on me.' I shall
be the advocate of every reform and every improvement which
may be called for by the exigencies of the age or the wants of
the people —(Great cheering.) Gentlemen,—My heart is
in the people—it is them I desire to serve with all my heart
and energies, and while they are pleased to elect me,
I can assure them I will not ba backward in discharging
honestly and faithfully my duty towards them.—( Uproarious
applause.)
Gentlemen, as I said before, the contest is now
what it was in 1835, only that now we have one Tory instead
of three, and I am sure that your good sense and discernment
will vevent the representation of the City of London from
being neotralized by introducing one Tory to nullify the votes
of the thress Reformers.—( Hear.) I rely with unabated con.
fidence upon /he result of the present contest, and I fully hope
and trust that the Reformers of the City of London will appear
early at the poll on Monday morning, and ratify by their votes
the liberal sentiments and opinions for which upon all former
occasions they have been so justly celebrated.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Cat: W:ORD then came forward, and was most e .thasias-
tically cheered, He said—Gentlemen, I thank ycu for the
cordiality of the reception which I have experienced from yr u.
The state of this hall is a safe augury of the termination of the
election, if many other circumstances did not confirm in my
mind that result. This is not an occasion on which
it would be possible to trace with any satisfaction the shades
of difference of political opinions. We are met here to-day.
in order that you may decide, by your votes on Monday,
between Tory principles and a Tory Government, and Li-
beral principles and a Liberal Government. That is the
Oraly question at issue—an issue of which there cannot be
- entertained the slightest doubt whatever, in spite of the
agency which the Tories have employed ; for, gentlemen, if
you had seen, as I have, the placards which have been ex-
hibited, where his satanic .majesty is called in aid to settle,
you would be disgusted.—(Geoans.) We are united, and we
I tat be free, so long as we have your support. Gentlemen, you
may
all remember that on the IGth of June there was a great
Conservative muster in Gray's Inn-lane.—( Hear, hear, and
laughter.) Two thousand Tories were then got together, and
a respectable individual was selected as the most fit and pro-
per person to be their generalissimo.—(Laughter.) Mr.
(st'orge Palmer, the elder brother of the Tory candidate,
presided at that meeting, and had the assurance to tell the
Company then present when he was safe from an answer, that
lime Reform Members for the city of London were so many
joints in the tail of Mr. O'Connell.—( Groans and hisses.)
Wm. have had no opportunity to rebut thin ; the present is
the first occasion, and I hope that gentleman is here to listen
to what I have to say. The mighty mountain then was raised
up, and the fruit of it you have exposed in the Tory candidate
who has come forth.—(Laughter.) Gentlemen, it was my
intention to have gone to some length—to have met a sort of
challenge of defiance which my excellent friend, the Tory
Mr. Palmer, has put forth in his defence.—( Laughter and
cheers.) He says he has an advantage over me as a com-
mercial man, He represents himself as a heaven-born free-
man of the city of London.—(Cheers and loud lausister. )
I am not able to estimate tne degree of happiness
that that circumstan:le gives to him, but ia all others I stand
here as Mr. Palmer's coital in every respect.—( Loud cheers. )
My experience has not been gained entirely in the City of
London ; but it is not the less valuable, because it is the re-
sult of toil in another climate.—( Cheers, and a cry of " It's
tsil the better.") Gentlemen, I want to bring Mr. Palmer
i Sh. I avant him to be honest and to avow his sentiments.
I want him to tell you what lie thinks of the Poor-law Amend-
ment Aet.—( Cheers.) I will tell you what I think of it.
In its principle, and in its workings, it is the most beneficial
measure that ever passed the Legislature of this country.—
(Cheers.) Without equivocation, without evasion, I ask Mr.
Palmer to tell you whether he approves or disapproves of the
Poor-lawthat Amendment Act, in its principle. That is the
stkilking-horse
isa las been made by the party around
him ; but it
horse upon which Mr, Palmer cannot '
ride.—( Loud cheers and laughter.) You will hear his
RPntiinents I hope from his own
principles
He agrees with us
retc.:mers on the general por of the Act, or he does not.
Ilowds-er distasteful the vortex rof the Tories may
be to his mind when he cornea on tresleti
nsd•etitheisisyeono;
listed by th; Tories; he has taken the bnioustm!itnyg,sa,
fault if you do not make him serve, or turn him out.—( Vehe-
ment cheering.)
JAMES PA TTISON, Es*,?. then presented himself, and was re-
ceived with the most deafening shouts of' applause
He said,—Fellow Citizens, I appear before you as a.
Candidate again for the hoaltir of your suffrages,
and I ask your support, from being conscious I have fulfilled
every engagement I made with you from the time I first ap-
pe.ared before you. I shall continue, if you elect me, faith-
fully to do my duty to you, my constituents.—(Cheers. —( Cheers.)
I undertook to be a Reformer in every sense of the
or
and I My votes are on record ; you have teen them
trust you will every one of you say I have proved rny,
self a Reformer.—( Loud cheers, and a cry of " and a stanch
tile too.") I shall continue to pursue that course ; I shall
cs,:sose Toryism
which I shall ever consider a curse in the
laud as
long as I live.—_(Cheers.) My worthy friends who
have preceded me have so fully into the different subjects
that particularly interest you all, that it is unnecessati for tt,tti
to say anythingportedl,ooupon_ them, I for one have anxiously sup-
ported Government, tllg Qovernment in