The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-12 00:00:00

ELECT

.GENCE.

BRIGHTON.

The nomination of candidates to represent the
borough of Brighton in Parliament took place yes-
terday from a hustings erected in front of the Town
Hall, and the proceedings were conducted with more
than usual goodorder. Thisresultwas probably due
to the fact that the mayor, having experience of the
violence displayed by the mob at the election two
years ago, had taken theprecautionnot only to erect
strong barriers and to bring into action the whole
available police forces of Brighton and Hove, but
had the ground swept clear of stones and carefully
rolled, that those who meant mischief might not
have missiles ready at hand. There was, however, a
deal of uproar and interruption, but in this the
platform set the example to the audience below.
After the proclamation and the other preliminary
ceremonies had been gone through,
The MAYOR, in appealing for a fair hearing for all
speakers, announced that in consequence of the dis-
order prevailing at the previous election, he had on
the present occasion taken additional precautions
for the preservation of peace and the promotion of
order. If Brighton sullied its reputation for order at
the last election, there was now an opportuDity to
retrieve it. (Cheers.)
Mr. GEO. TATHAM then came forward, as he said,
to nominate one whom the people had loved wisely
and well, and who had served them wisely and well.
He spoke of their old friend James White. (Great
cheering.) It was scarcely necessary that he should
expatiate upon that gentleman's services, for they
were well known ; but he would remind them that
all the votes he had given in Parliament had been
strictly, literally, and thoroughly adherent to the
pledges he had given, and if returned again, as he
was sure he would be, he would carry out still fur-
ther those measures for which the country had been
long seeking. Mr. White had always done his best
to improve the condition of the poorer classes and to
eradicate pauperism. (Cheers, oh, oh, and hisses.)
He felt confident that Mr. White would be returned
at the head of the poll.
Mr. SAVAGE, in seconding the nomination, said
that by electing Mr. White the town of Brighton
would gain credit and benefit the nation, for all that
gentlemen's votes in the House of Commons had
been of the progressive kind.
Mr. Alderman WiLsoN, amidst cheers, hisses,
and considerable interruption, proposed Mr. Henry
Moor, who, he said, entered Parliament in February
last year as an independent member, and in that
capacity had fully recognised the expectations of the
electors. (Hisses and cheers.) Mr. Moor had
attended in his place as regularly as any member of
the House of Commons ; and as a resident member
he attended to all the local institutions of the town,
spending a princely income as a private gentleman
--(oh, oh)—and contributing to all the useful socie-
ties of the borough. (" Oh, oh," and cheers.) Mr.
Moor was an advocate for the education of the
people, and within the last few months had been
the chief cause of a reduction in the price of gas.
(Derisive laughter and cheers.) But if there was
one thing more than another upon which he recom-
mended Mr. Moor, it was that he was a thorough
man of business. He urged the people not to be
led away by eloquent speeches characterised by an
amount of sophistry almost unheard of in the town
—(" Oh, oh," and hisses)—but to poll for the resi-
dent candidate. (Cheers and hisses)"
Capt. ConnlE seconded.
Col. FawcErr nominated Mr. Henry Fawcett—
(great cheering)—a learned, energetic, sincere, and
honest advocate of those principles which they all
held so dear. (Cheers.) Those principles Mr. Faw-
cett had worked out in his private study, and by a
learned and assiduous attention to the political
state of the country he had arrived at certain con-
clusions which he was happy to find were in unison
with the opinion of the electors of Brighton. They
knew how well this gentleman was able to expatiate
upon those principles, and to stand up in the House
of Commops and maintain the great principles of
liberty, reform, and progression. (Cheers.)
Mr. W. HALLETT having seconded the nomination,
and there being no other candidate to be proposed,
Mr.WitrrE came to the front of the hustings, and
was greeted with vociferous cheers. He said his gal-
lant friend who introduced the learned professor had
said to him, "White, don't give them a long yarn.
All you have to say say in 10 minutes, and that will
give the greatest satisfaction." (Cheers, and a Voice
—" Talk of yourself !") That was the sixth time
within the last few days that he had addressed the
electors, and he should claim their suffrages because
he had carried out every promise that he had made
to them five years ago. He had to the best of his
ability unswervingly adhered to those great liberal
principles which had always characterised theborough
of Brighton; but if he wished to prefer a still higher
title to be returned to the House of Commons, he
would saythat-he had been honoured with the friend-
ship of that great and good man Richard Cobden.
Cobden's birth was an honour to that county, and
he thought it a fitting occasion upon the nomination
of members to represent the principal town in that
county to pay the homage of respect to the memory
of one so good and distinguished. (Cheers.) He looked
back with a melancholy interest to the conversation
he had with his departed friend this time last year,
the last time that Cobden spoke in Parliament,
Mr. Cobden was then about bringing forward a mo-
tion in reference to the wanton extravagance and
mal-administration of the manufacturing depart-
ments of the Government, and came to him in the
library, and said, "White, I feel that I have very
nearly done my work." That observation gave him
(Mr. White) a feeling of great sorrow; but when Mr.
Cobden did address the house in reference to the
question of which he had given notice his speech was
marked with the same inexorable logic and the same
force of reasoning as his earlier addresses, and by the
confession of all who heard it, his last speech was one
of the best, if not the best, that Richard Cobden ever
pronounced in the House of Commons. (Cheers.) Ile
might be permitted without egotism to add, that on
the occasion of which he had been speaking Mr. Cob-
den came to him and said, " I wish you much to take
part in the discussion." As he had not looked into the
matter very closely he told him that he did not intend
to speak, but at his friend's urgent recommendation,
which he received almost as a command, he did ad-
dress himself to the subject, and it would be a life-
long satisfaction to him that Le had had the oppor-
tunity of supporting the very last motion Richard
Cobden ever made in his place in Parliament. (Great
cheering.) The opinions of the borough were the same
as when it returned him to Parliament, amidst all the
cant and fashionable imposture of reaction ; and if it
was said that there was a feeling growing up dif-
ferent to that which once prevailed as regarded the
urgency of reform and the onward movement of those
great principles they loved, the electors would on
Wednesday give the most emphatic contradiction to
all such assertions, and show not only to that county
but to England and the world that Brighton was a
stronghold of thorough, uncompromising, and de-
termined liberal principles. (Prolonged cheering.)
Mr. MOOR, who was received with cheers, hisses,
and laughter, and whose appearance in the front
was the signal for the hoisting in the midst of the
mob of a placard with the words, " Moor in his last

agonies," said he did not think he looked like a man

in his last agonies. (Laughter and cheers.) He had
represented the borough during two sessions, and no
one had yet come forward to say that he had ever
neglected his duty or deserted the principles upon

which he was elected. (Cheers.) Those principles
were principles of independence, and seeking to do
the largest amount of good for the largest number of
the people ; and now he appealed to the judgment
of the electors, and their sense of fairness, whether
they thought it right that a coalition should be
formed against him, to keep the representation of the
borough in thehands of a clique. (Hisses and groans.)
During the two sessions he had sat in Parliament for
Brighton he had been enabled to work with Mr.
White in all local and other matters, and, as he had
been told by that gentleman himself, to his satisfac-
tion. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) As he had voted in
the past so would he vote in the future, regardless
of all those petty distinctions of party, which did no
good in passing legislative measures which ought to
be passed wholly and solely for the benefit of the
people of this country. On the question of foreign
affairs he had invariably gone upon the principle of
non-interference with other nations, in order that