The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-08 00:00:00

DECLARATION OF THE POLL.

The official declaration of the poll took place on
Saturday at the Town-hall. The Sheriff, accompa-
nied by the Mayor, entered the hall at 11 o'clock.
The Under-Sheriff was occupied nearly two hours
in casting up the poll-books. A great crowd had
in the meantime assembled, being nearly as nume-
rous as at the nomination. The Lord Mayor was
present with his principal supporters. Considerable
impatience was manifested by the meeting, who
amused, themselves before the proceedings com-
menced with various cries, which excited loud laugh-
ter.

The polling books having been cast up,
The SHERIFF said, I declare the state of the poll
to be as follows :
Rose
Mangles
Majority
I therefore declare that Wm. Anderson Rose, Esq.,
has been duly elected a burgess to represent this
borough in the House of Commons. (Great cheering.)

The LORD MAYOR then rose and said—Mr. Sheriff
and electors of the borough of Southampton,—You
may readily understand with what feelings of emo-
tion and anxiety I rise in this crowded assembly to
return you my sincere thanks for the important re-
sult which has been announced by your worthy
sheriff. We have heard the result of one of the
most tremendous struggles that has ever taken place
in the history of our constitutional country. You
have nobly fought this battle, and when I told Capt.
Mangles the day before yesterday in this hall that
he would be beaten, I truly represented the state of
feeling in Southampton. Capt. Mangles came to
Southampton, and the result of the election, had
you returned him to the Commons House of Parlia-
ment, would have been to make Southampton the
pocket borough of the South Western Company.
(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, Captain
Mangles has fought the battle—(" nobly")—with
energy. His friends did all that any mortals could
do to place him in the position which I have the
honour to occupy to-day. I eo not underrate your
exertions or the importance of the victory one iota
when I say that there was never greater anxiety,
greater energy, or zeal, displayed in any contest
than was displayed by my opponents; but they
failed. You have extricated yourselves from the
difficulty which beset you, and you have placed me
in the proud position of representing honestly,
faithfully, and zealously, the true interests of the
borough of Southampton. When. I say that I think
I understand what the interests of Southampton
are, after the opportunities which I have had of
addressing numerous meetings of the electors, giv-
ing them opportunities, on every occasion, of put-
ting questions to me upon all subjects affecting
your interests, affecting my political opinions, and
affecting the responsibilities which I should incur
were I elected your representative. And I think I
am entitled to say that the result of this election
shows that Southampton is going to be what it
ought to be—free from the stigma which has at-
tached to it, that men could not express their opi-
nions without being subject to mob law. (Loud
cheers.) Gentlemen, that has been settled, and we
have now to consider, unitedly, what is best for
Southampton. I respect my opponents; they have
fought, and fought nobly, and have been de-
feated. But it is now my province to do all that
can that Southampton shall be faithfully and
properly represented, and that you shall have
all the advantages of an independent member of Par-
liament. (Cheers.) And I will go further and
tell Captain Mangles and the South Western Com-
pany that if I live—that if I am sp
power
with t hf
aneynemrgayn
to represent you—if it is in the
ulwchaya s h
intoa vseo returned
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supportedme— w e N
have
n as
nt iot
tube
eure
Yrasi
sill
ton. (Great cheering.)
When I say that, it is not
in the power of one
wan to make a railway, but one
man can do a great deal if he is backed by those
whose interests he has at heart, if he is supported by
men who have the sinews of war,and who are prepared
for the benefit of the cause, to follow up and assist him
in all he does. Gentlemen, such is the support I shall
require from you, and if I have it, I believe that no
legislature can dare say that Southampton,with the
important position it Occupies, shall not have two
railways, or more. (Cheers.) And what is more,
I hope I shall have the opportunity of showing that
company 50 constituted buys up shares and absorbs

what has been already done—not with the inten-
tion of carrying out in good faith the powers which
the legislature has given them to make railway's,
and to give Southampton the benefit. of them; but

to burk them and shut them believe the legis-
lature will listen to those representations, and that
they will not assist a monopoly to complete its

arrangements, as this has been done. On the ocea-

sions that I have had the pleasure of meeting you
I expressed my political opinions, and at a meeting
like this it is not considered necessary to go over
those matters again. (No, no.) What I want the
electors to understand of me is, that I am a tho-
roughly earnest, conscientious, and sincere man ;
and that I would by no means go into the House of
Commons to represent your opinions and your in-
terests without telling you what my views are—I
would not come forward to represent you saying
that upon all the great questions of the day my
mind was not made up, that I was not informed
about, that I had not made them my study, and
that in fact I was prepared to swallow it all.
i (Laughter and cheers.) I think that any man who
comes forward to represent such a constituency as
this ought to be a man who has made up his mind on
the great questions of the day, and who is not only
prepared to give his opinion, but likewise to state
it in such a form that the arguments by which he
has convinced his own mind shall be so arranged,
and with such force, as to carry conviction to those
who hear them; these are the views with which I
came forward to ask you to make me your repre-
sentative, and these are the principles on which, if
I understand rightly, you have returned me your
member. (Loud cheers.) I have now thrown my-
self on the indulgence of the electors of Southamp-
ton. I have been working for the last three weeks
double tide; I have been attending all my duties
as the chief magistrate of the City of London, and
I have addressed two or three meetings a night in
Southampton, therefore I am sure you will make
great allowance for me on this occasion. I feel very
much exhausted, and shall therefore ask you to
listen very patiently to the few remarks I have to
make before I conclude. I mu't say a few words
of those noble men who invited me here, and who
carried me triumphantly through the ordeal of this
election. I said when I came to Southampton that
I would be no party to anything like bribery
and intimidation, but if you want an earnest
and an honest man to represent you, I am prepared
to take the chances of the battle. I believe the
principles which I possess will predominate at the
next election, and I am prepared to take my share
of the risk in coming down here if you will support
me. No man ever had such supporters as I have.
I saw them yesterday, when I could scarcely re'
strain my own feelings of anxiety, going about
everywhere, and straining every nerve, feeling that
the cause which they had in hand was one almost
of life or death. To be surrounded by men like
these what must a man going to Parliament feel r
He-must feel a load of responsibility—that he re"
presents earnest men—that he must do his duty;
and not only so, but that he must try to rival the
energy and zeal of those who placed him in this
proud position. These are the feelings with which
I pray I may, if life be spared me, represent Yee,
and if I do, I have little doubt that this day will
be the commencement of , a long association, je
which I trust we may come to know each othef
better and respect each other more. (Cheers.)
would name my friends tut for this difficulty. 1-
cannot name one without doing injustice to the
others. I will again repeat that were Ito mention
the names of the gentlemen I see about me, and wh°
have done so much to make me a great man---be-
cause to represent Southampton is a great positil
—I should have to mention them all, and I cane
°t
that, because I will do an injustice to no marl'
therefore I only name the three official gentlemen,
my honourable proposer and seconder, and my ":
nourable chairman, and the others will consider thou
they have put upon me a debt of obligation and re'
sponsibility which a life time will not suffice to dis-
charge. Before I conclude I must pay a last trit
bute to your returning officer. Yesterday I wens
from polling booth to polling booth in the diseharg.
of an anxious wish that things were going on sue
cessfully. I found your honourable sheriff at his
post doing his duty, and I believe that a difficult
election was never conducted more successfully that
your sheriff conducted the election of yesterday.
will conclude by thanking you again, and earnestly
soliciting on all occasions your advice and sympathy
and your support, and I trust that this day will
0
be the commencement of an association which you
,„
will think has been one that justifies you in placing
me in this proud position. (Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to the sheriff closed the pr°^*
ceedings.

The result of the Southampton election has OS'
prised every one. Not many years ago, when ttle
Liberal party was almost equally divided into tic°
sections, and each section brought forward its en'
didate, the Tory candidate was not successful. 111-
talk of a reaction in favour of Toryism is nonsense'
The Liberals in Southampton far outnumber the
Tories, but through a variety of circumstances thiS
could not tell upon the election. In the first Pi he
Captain Mangles was not a popular candidate. lb:.
townspeople have for several years been at Wsi
with the South Western Railway Company'
°
which the captain is chairman, about the introdor
tion of the broad gauge into the town, and the COur
pang has just obtained a signal and final victor,'
over its opponents, who are therefore BEOII4
under defeat. This told very much against the OP;
tain. Many Liberals refused to vote at all, so in
did they dislike his conduct on the railway questi°l3;
Again, the Liberals only made up their quarrels 0
the last moment, and after the Lord Mayor and th
Tories had gained the start in organising and Wolf;
polising the local machinery for carrying on the
election. So recent was the reconciliation that .°eo
the municipal elections the Liberals voted for Toll
rather than for members of the opposite Liberal sec;
tion. This was a grievous mistake, for the triuroPha°l
return of a number of Tories to the borough o°ll
gave them heart to fight for the parliamentary sell
The Lord Mayor, as soon as he came into the tecvll,;
engaged almost every lawyer here, who coirinleye:a
canvassing for him night and day. He alsoecgss;,
a very large number of hotels, taverns, and 13. eel t
houses, where his friends drew night after vim
itl
wavering voters, and the good old Tory
of feasting and jollity were revived. CaP i4e
Mangles had scarcely any paid agents..
v
.
patronised no public-houses, and owing to op'
ponent's lavishness of money he could not
th %::
secure cabs enough to bring his voters to e p 2A,
0
The election will cost the Lord Mayor about
£3,_,
and Capt. Mangles considerably less than
tta
The Peninsular and Oriental Company, which ste'is
with the Tory, spend three times more money
the town than the Royal Mail Company'
sided with Capt. Mangles, so the election wttsl,oo
fact, a struggle for supremacy between the 1100.
companies rather than a fight for political princiPio
A large number of the employes of the Perlin° jo,
and Oriental Company were, and are now, Libel'
so
told yet they voted against Capt. Mangles, becaTtli
le
he is chairman of the Royal Mail Company
dei
Tories sunk all minor differences, if they l'au
and voted for the Lord Mayor, who limp lor'io
himself an adherent of Lord Derby. The Libertier,
do not sink their minor differences in this 113513°die..
They aro composed of teetotallers, peace reetheir
centers, and churchmen. They
views upon liquor laws, have each
intervention. If they all cordially joined in /°:o,i.
for a man who would give a general and disct.lisof
nating church matters, and fcreio6g
support to a Liberal Administration'
could elect him with ease. Ono fatal 'Distal., 000
Liberals made. They could not believe that 0,
haa Pr
voters evge'nl,poll, and knowing that thel
„note
miles: nom' a majority of that number, the at
too sure of winning. The most univual nui:.oea
nearly 3,400 voters polled. Such a mistake
not and will not be made egain.

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The French Academy of Inscriptions and Bei' a
Lettres, in its sitting of Saturday, elected r 1• Ilaurcau
M. de Slane as members, in the room of M. Joraardanc"'"
Magnin, deceased.