The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

5011711.4MP7 ON ELECTION.

THE NOMINATION.
The nomination of candidates to fill the Vacancy
occasioned in the representation of Southampton by
the death of B. M. Willcox, TEsq., took place at the
Town Hall yesterday :corning, at 10 o'clock, pre-
vious to which the members of the two council were
invited to assemble at the Audit House. The win-
dows of the -hall were strongly barricaded. Shortly
after nine o'clock a crowd assembled outside the
doors anxious to gain admission, but a limited num-
ber of the friends of each, candidate, together with
the corporation, were first admitted by a private
entrance. The Lora Mayor, accompanied by a few
of his committee, was the first to arrive, followed
shortly afterwards by Captain Mangles and his
leading "Apporters, amid a hearty round of cheering
and clapping of hands.
Immediately upon the door at the main entrance
being opened, the building speedily became filled
with an immense crowd, and as the partisans of each
candidate called for cheers for them it was heartily
respor,ded to by groaning and hissing.
rne Under Sheriff (Mr. W. Hickman) read the
writ, and the usual formalities were gone through.
Colonel TRYON proposed Captain Mangles. (Loud
cheers and groans.)
Mr. J. T. TUCKER, amidst the greatest uproar,
seconded the proposition.
"Mr. LE FEUVRE Proposed Mr. William Ander-
son Rose as a fit and proper person to represent the
town in Parliament. (Groans and cheers.)
Mr. JOSF.PIi LOCKE seconded the motion.
Mr. Sc.:RASE proposed the Right Hon. W. F.
CowprJr, the First Commissioner of Works, as a fit

anti proper person to represent them in Parliament,
but there was no seconder.
Captain Al4kN GL.fig, who was received with cheers
by his friends and groans from his opponents, said
implore my friends, of whom I am happy to see
a great many present, not only to listen to me, but
to give th.e Eight Hon. the Lord Mayor of London
a fair i:oad impartial hearing. We are, or ought to
be, :searching after truth. Having fought and con-
quered my hon. opponent at Newport, we still pre-
served our tempers, and were as good friends at the
cnd of the election we were when it began. I
hope this will be the ease now, and no words shall
cross my lips whcb can be construed as personally
offensive to m-4. opponent. Let me, before I pass
to the part,' caller object of the meeting, pay a just
tribute 4,t, your late excellent and liberal member,
Mr- illcox, who has passed away from us, lam
acnily to say, full of years, and yet with a vigour
s•afacient to justify our hope that he would
have served you with the same ability and same
honesty of purpose that he had for many years
past. If I were for the first time addressing
you it would be necessary for me to enter more
fully than I propose to do into my political
opinions ; but 21 years ago I stood before the con-
stituency of Southampton, and then, as now, I was
an advocate of the ballot, extension of suffrage, and
abolition of church rates, and when I am returned,
as I am sure I shall be to-morrow, as your repre-
se-ntative, it will be my duty and my pleasure to
pursue the same Curse as I did then. I will allow
it is sad to th;,,nk how little has been done in the
movement of reform since I then addressed you,
electors rjf Southampton. But be not downhearted,
the truth must prosper, and we shall ever honestly
carry that, as we have previously carried those just
aid liberal measures which are for the benefit of
the people at large. The Tories are apt to disguise
themselves in very strange garments, and my hon.
opponent calls himself a Liberal-Conservative. He
is brought forward by a party whose object it is to
try and turn out your respected and esteemed neigh-
bour, Lord Palmerston. He asks you to return
him pled.ed t.y a party not to intrude on institu-
tions; he sticks to the old fashioned tyranny of the
party he seeks to represent. He drops altogether
the question of an extension of the franchise, and
instead of the abolition, of church rates, proposes a
compromise ; but, Mien of Southampton, you will
not be such fools as that. Having got rid of church
rates yourselves, you are not going, I hope, to allow
them to f:e re-established here ; and if I were to
search She country through I know no town which
cotil.a be adduced as a stronger argument in favour
of the abolition of church rates than Southampton.
-
yet the Established Churches in this town are in
beautiful order, and there is no fear of the
fabric falling to decay. You and I who are
Churchmen, or attend the Established Church, or
are members of it, will not allow such a thing,
hut, at the same time, we do not wish the conscien-
tious Dissenter to put his hand in his pocket for
our church as well as for his own. He tells us,
look to America, look to France, to see the working
of the ballot. Does he mean to say they are parallel
cases ? Does he mean to compare England with
America, moved and swayed about by every
element of discord ? Does he mean to compare
America to our blessed constitution, with Queen,
Lords, and Commons ? Does he mean to compare
France with happy England ? Either he has been
deficient in his history, or I am afraid he was at-
tempting to impose on your credulity. He now
shirks the question of the extension of the fran-
chise. At present you have only one man in six
who has a right to vote, Let me ask you, would it
be dangerous to make it one in three ? Would it
be dangerous to extend the franchise to the £6
householder, and not confine it, as it is at this
moment, to £10? In many boroughs, and it is so
in this, a £lO man gets so large a house that he
lets out a part of it, whilst a £6 householder has
not room to do it, and, therefore, the £6 house-
holder really pays more rent than the £lO man, be-
rouse the £lO man gets a great deal of it back again
in the shape of lodgers, I have mixed a great deal
during my canvass with non-electors, and found
them fully as intelligent, and as fully deserving the
franchise as the £lO man ; and where can we draw
the line, and say the right of representation is to be
confined entirely to a man who happens to hold a
£lO house ? It is unnecessary for me to enter into
my political opinions ; they are of 21 years' stand-
ing in this town, and whilst I feel a pride in having
shown that I have been both in and out of Parlia •
meat consistent in my political opinions, I think it
must also be an assurance and a comfort to you that
you will return, as you undoubtedly will tomor-
row, a man who has acted for the last quarter of a
century as consistently and as honestly as I have
done. I feel unwilling to trespass upon you longer,
and T will, therefore, sit down with a few words of
consolation to my friend, for I will quote, if he will
allow me, a few lines of poetry :
" Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomable caves of ocean bear,
Full many a rose is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness in the desert air."
(Enthusiastic cheering.)
The LORD MAYOR then addressed the meeting.
The Principal claim which he had for their suffrages
hwaes that he was an independent man ; but whilst
y
was anxious to reciprocate to the utmost the
to
neat w
feel
in g expressed by his honourable oppo-
"' him, yet he felt that he was bound to
express to the electors that between Capt. Mangles
and himself there could be no comparison in regard
to the interests of thepossebisea
aPdenPle of Southampton. South-
ampton
in the kingdom, but Cvaapnttag:is second to no port in
in the honest discharge or
the
Tangles had succeeded,
reposed in him
as chairman of the South-larehtr:st
pang, in securing a railway Railwayino,i4ota. Com-
t the
interests of the electors. He had alsYoatgold a
liamentary committee that the port was not capable
passenger
b
for sailing ships, but only for large
steamers, and had said that Southampton did not
trade, did not want more railwa
ys, did
not want more c mils and iron ; and f they returned
the captain
he believed that he would carry out his
Prophecy.
therf fore, did not think that they
would entrust him with their interests. The An-
doverwas a
Railway very fair speci-
men
Capt • Mangles would
and Redbridge
of the kind of interest
exercise in their behalf. He did
wouldrot blame him for
themto
his conduct in the matter, but
en t them continuo to allow Capt. Mangles to represent the
South-Western Company, and
Mangles had
be to raelps
in parliament. Capt, a company
ape been the
means of driving away from the port
sum.
He
which would have yearly expended a 1... r,.,
was an active director, and gave valuable assist-