The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, DEC. 6, 1862.

The borough of Southampton is earning for itself
a peculiar and distinctive reputation. Not an en-
viable reputation by any means. But one of a very
exceptional character. It is precisely the
constituency where a successful hit may be hoped
for, by any adventurous candidate who may care to
"go in and win"—or, at any rate, trust confidently
upon the chance of winning—by what billiard players
call a Fluke. The least likely name among those
submitted to the selection of the electors, so often
turns out, there, to be, after all, the name of the
" returned"—of the new M.P. for Southampton!
The constituency, as we all know, is essentially a
Liberal constituency. Among the registered elec-
tors a very considerable majority is notoriously
made up of advanced Reformers, men dead against
Toryism, men but the faintest degree, if at all,
tinctured with the flavour of Conservatism. Yet,
out of this Liberal borough, there has just now
emerged, in the person of the new Lord Mayor of
London—the Right Hon. WILLIAM ROSE—a
thoroughly true blue or bigh Tory representative.
It is for all the world like that charming little
trick of the laboratory—so often witnessed by the
frequenters cf the Polytechnic Institution—the
turning of a lump of ice out of a red hot crucible
After the sharpest contest that has long been
witnessed, even at Southampton, out of the partu-
rient mountain of the great Liberal constituency
comes forth—a ridiculous ROSE!

Again the ball flies iuto the winning pocket—by

a fluke!

It is idle to talk of the mere contest of political
parties having led to this surprising result at
Southampton. For political parties read—rival
companies! Instead of Whig and Tory, or let us
say Liberal and Conservative, having been pitted
against each other, in the two opposing candi-
dates, Lord Mayor ROSE and Captain MANGLES
—it should be said that the MONTAGUES and the
CAFULETS there at daggers drawn in the streets
of our great southern outport, were severally repre-
sented by the Peninsular and Oriental Company on
the one hand, and on the other the West India Mail
Steam:packet Company—the latter plying across
the Ati.antic, the former across the Mediterranean.
'The result is as we have now witnessed. From
nine o'clock in the morning until the close of the
poll at four o'elock in the afternoon, the candidates
may be said to have run almost neck and neck.
If, when the poll was closed eventually, the com-
petitors oame not in by a dead heat, there was but
a very small difference perceptible between them.
Accordingly as the numbers were looked at
through the yellow or jaundiced glasses, or the
glasses delicately tinged with the faintest suspi-
ClOn of the couleur de rose they looked thus
differently :

CONSERVATIVE RETURN'.

Rose
lianßies
1,674

LIBERAL RETURN.

Rose .
Mangle.; 1,681
A difference
' 119.11te1,,Y' of 54 against 43. Un-
der the circumatan„'
a
difference so insig-
nificant as to amount to little more than
that discernible 'twilctTweedledum and Tweedle-
dee. But, in any caSe,
e difference, it will be per-
ceived to have been, in favour
is this ofthe Conservative
Candidate. Insomuch
now
be factlooked upon confi-
dently ensured, that
the
new
IP.
Lord Mayor RosE may
by friend and foe as
for the
borough of Southampton. The Conservative
presentative of that Libe.'al Constituency vatthi re-
of ice turned out of the red-hot crucible. lump

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Altogether the result of this late stormy contest at
Southampton amounts to this, that again the House
divided against itself has fallen. The Liberal ma.
jority there has been its own greatest enemy. It
has allowed little petty rancours and the merest
sordid rivalries to fritter away its inherent
strength collectively. It has forgotten the interests
of the United Kingdom for the pettier interests ap-
pertaining to the borough and out-port of South-
ampton. According to the narrowed view of the
lihtral Electors of Southampton of late—Britannia's
rule over the waves would almost seem, in
their
eyes, to have been restricted to the rip- ,
plea of the Southampton Waters! The causo