The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-29 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

This morning the election of two Members for the
ensuing Parliament to represent this borough, took place at
the Town Hall at nine o'clock. John Holmes, Esq., High
Bailiff, appeared on the hustings, accompanied by Charles
Calvert, Esq. and William Brougham, Esq., the only
candidates, who were received with loud cheering.
The usual pro forma business of reading the bribery
act, and the precept having been gone through, the High
Bailiff addressed the electors upon the subject on which
he had called them together, and called upon any person
to come forward and propose a candidate.
Mr. SOLOMON DAvis came forward to nominate the
old friend and representative of the electors, during seven
Parliaments, Charles Calvert, Esq., a man who had been
for twenty years the uncompromising supporter of the true
interests of his country.—(Cheer'.) He adverted to the
conduct of Sir R. Wilson, for whom, and for all like
him, a little of that discipline exercised during the early
part of the American war—tarring and feathering—
(Laughter)—would be a just punishment.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. Joni.; Ews seconded the nomination. Reform was
now the only question thought of; the electors of South-
wark, he perceived, bad already reformed, for at this elec-
tion he perceived no parade, no procession, no music, no
banners, and no disturbance.—He eulogized the conduct
of the King and of the Ministers who had acted directly
reverse to what all former Ministers had done. While all
former Ministers hail pocketted the ptiblic money, bur•
thened their relations on the public, the present ones, in.
stead of looking after the income of the country, watched
with a jealous eye over the expenditure of the country.
The Honourable Gentleman contrasted the conduct of

the present King with that of the two preceding Mo-
narchs, and drew a conclusion that William the Fourth,
acting like a patriotic King, attending to the wishes of his
people, anxious only for their happiness, had grandly and
nobly entitled hiss to their gratitude and support.
Mr. JOHN RICHARDS came forward to propose William
Brougham, Esq , as a candidate for the representation of
the borough. If ever there was a period in the history of
this country when the people should act with incorrupted
and incorruptible integrity, this was that period—(Loud
cheers)--and no desire of place or of power should induce
their representatives to forget that they were merely trus-
tees, appointed to execute a public trust.—(Cheers.) The
House of Commons had been partly composed of the no-
minees of Peers and wealthy Commoners, and as it was
natural for men so appointed to look to their own interests
as well as that of their patrons, the people had been robeed
and plundered without remorse.—(Cheers.) The eyes of
England were on the electors of Southwark; the King
had appealed to his people, and it was now for them to
answer that appeal by throwing off the yoke, and breaking
asunder the bombs of the boroughmongering oligarchy.
Mr. WM. DAVIS, in a brief speech, seconded the nomi-
nation of Mr. Brougham.
Air. CALVERT then stepped forward, and was received
with loud cheers. This was the eighth time he had had
the honour of addressing the erectors of Southwark from
these hustings. In 1807 he was first called upon by them
to advocate the cause of civil and religious liberty, and he
thanked God he had lived to see his exertions in that
cause crowned with succes..—(Cheers ) He was now in-
vited still to be their representative to assist in carrying the
great measure of Reform : he somewhat regretted they had
not some Tory candidate on this occasion, because he
should like that party to see with what contempt any person
would be treated who ventured to avow his hostility to
that measure.—(Cheers.) He anticipated that the Re-
form Bill would cause a reduction of taxes, and spread hap-
piness from one end of the land to the other.—(Loud
cheers.) It would give also cheap bread to all clas-es, and
cheap beer they had got already.—(Laughter, and a cry
of "It ought to be cheaper.") For twenty years, he was
proud to say, he had advocated their interests, and could
only promise, that as his past conduct had been, so would
he act in future. He could tell them, that it was probable
the assessed taxes would soon be taken off.—(Cheers.)
To a question put to Lord Althorp in the House of Com-
mons, whether the ten-pound qualification of voters should
not be upon the assessment instead of the rental, his Lord-
ship answered no, for be hoped the assessment would not
last long.—(Loud cheers.) Of all taxes, the house-tax
was the most iniquitou,.—(Cheers.) He related one in-
stance :—The Marquis of Salisbury bad a large mansion
in Hertfordshire, which was only assessed at 1001. a-
year, while he (Mr. C.'s) small house at Twickenham was
assessed at 2201.—(Cries of " Shame !") 7he Hon. Gen-
tleman, at considerable length, stated his opinion regarding
certain measures, and thou withdrew amidst shouts of
applause.
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Mr. BROUGHAM was received with immense cheering,
which seemed to affect him considerably. In calling him
to the high and distinguished station of one of their repre-
sentatives, he trusted he should be excined at feeling a
little overcome at a moment when he was overpowered by
his feelings ; he could assure the electors that he did not
mean to use the sentence as one of mere electioneering
form, when he declared from sincere feelings that this was
the proudest moment of his life.—(Cheers.) He was
proud also at luving to follow his Hon. Friend and Col-
league, whose acquaintance, however, he had not until
this day had the happiness of possessing, and at knowing
that he was second in their estimation to a man who was
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the long and tried friend of the people.—(Cheers.) His
Hon. Friend had never flinched from his post in the House
of Commons when the interests of his constituents or of
the country were at stake, and whose example he (Mr. B.)
would feel proud and bound to follow, even if he
were bound so to do by no other ties. Coming
before the electors young in years and inexpe-
rienced in politics, it was natural that they should
require some pledge of those principles by which
he meant to be guided ; he first threw in the teeth of those
who had said—and he despised the insinuation—that he
was the nominee of the Lord Chancellor ;—it was said if
the Lord Chancellor had sent his wig among them they
would have elected it; but he (Mr. B.) was not the no-
minee of any man ; he stood there as the friend and at the
choice of the electors, and although he was proud of his
connexion with the Lord Chancellor, it was not because
he was Lord Chancellor, but because his name was Henry
Brougham, and was the long-tried friend of the people.—
(Loud cheers.) The specticle of to-day was an answer at
once to the nomination system ; no Lord, however high
in rank, or however wealthy, should ever have any influ-
ence with the electors of Southwark—(Cheers)—and if
there was one part of the Reform Bill that he pprovtd of
more than another it was that part which put an end to
the nomination system.—(Cheers.) In a few words
he would state his principles, .nd by which he hoped
to stand or fall. He avowed himself the ardent
uncompromising friend of Parliamentary Reform, and
not having yet had an opportunity of performing any public
act by which he was known, he would answer all doubts
by saying he was the true friend of that great question of
Reform, and he should advocate it, because he was the
brother of Henry Brougham—(Cheers)—it he should
flinch from that course he would be a traitor to his brother
and the electors; he was bound by every tie to be true to
people; and on the word of an honest
ad no desire to betray that great cause.—
the
Englishmanause o f thee b

(Cheers.) If he should ever he so mad, so idiotic, so pro-
fligate, or so unwise as to depait from this principle, the
electors had the remedy in their own hands, which they
had very recently exercised—(Laughter)—and could exer-
cise again on hint, if there should be any part of his future
political life with which the electors would he displeased
they knew where to find him, and they also knew where to
send him.—(Cheers, and a cry " to the right about.")
Yes, to the right about.—(Laughter.) What was now
taking place in the borough of Southwark would be
a rich lesson to all parts of England ; there never
had been a more signal triumph of the cause of Reform
than there hail been in the course of the few last days,
He was in hopes that Southwark would have had the first
proud victory ; but, however, he was happy to say that
Dover had outstrii.ped them, and sent a Tory to the right-
about.—(Cheers.) The instant Sir John Rae Reid en-
tered that town, a black flag—the signal of a pirate--
(Laughter)—was hoisted, and he instantly turned hack.
—(Ctteers.) There were, therefore, now two good Re-
formers for that place, and Southwark was about also to
return two Reformers. Their cause was sure to succeed ;
but he cautioned the people of the exertions made to defeat
them. The boroughmongers were making great ex-
ertions, and he therefore called on the people to use all
their exertions ti defeat the oligarchy ; for if they beat
tl,e people this time, God knew when they would have
another opportunity to fight them again. The borough-
mongers died hard; every beast died after its own nature,
and the boroughmongers, the lowest in public estimation,
were determined to die as game as the veriest fox.--
(Loud cheers, and laughter.) The boroughmongers had
been hard at work for the last ten days, and were using
every means by subscribing money to use in bribes and
purchasing seats in Parliament, thinking thereby to beat
the King, his Ministers, and the people of the country.
But where there was " a pull, a long pull, and a pull
altogether," with integrity and virtue to support it,
the " pull altogether" would be sure to beat the
crew.—(Loud cheers.) No arts that could be devised
have been spared by the boroughinongers to defeat
this great and glorious measure; moat astonished were
they when the Ministers, despite of their predictions, that
our magnanimous and patriotic King would desert his
people,—great indeed was their astonishment when they
found that the King was determined ever ready to stand
or fall with his people.—(Loud cheers.) The King had
acted a noble parr, and the people would do no less than
follow his example.—(Cheers.) Now, for the first time
in their lives, perhaps, in the history of this country,
had the King proved himself the real friend of hi+ people,
and was believed to be so by every man in the kingdom
except by the boroughmongers.—(Loud cheeers.) When
the faction found they were defeated, they resorted to every
means of oppt obrium, to every measure that infatuated mor-
tals could devise for the purpose of defeating the measure;
they declared it was treason, and that Ministers ought to
be impeached. Who, he asked, should impeach them?
Would the people of England ?—(Lowl cries of " No.")
The owners of Gatton and Old Sarum might perhaps
draw up articles of impeachment, but they would find no-
body to second them.—(Laughter and cheers.) They
wished to excite the people by saving it would disfranchise
all freemen who did not hold a house of 101. a year; that
was a falsehood ; for the Bill would not disfranchise
any one except the non-resident freemen.—(Cheers.)--
The Hon. Gentleman then adverted to the letter of Mr.
Spencer Perceval' inserted in the Times, in which that
gentleman accused the Lord Chancellor in no measured
terms of falsehood, in asserting that the House of Com-
mons had stopped the supplies ; he declared that the term
applied by the writer of that letter to the Lord Chancellor
would be better applied to him, the writer ; for as the
ordnance estimates came on according to an order of the
dry, and Mr. Bankes moved an adjournment of the House,
that was a virtual stoppage of the supplies. Among the
enemies of the Reform Bill, none w ts more active than Sir
Robert Peel; Sir Robert was no fool—(Laughter)--and
while in office lie was always open to conviction; he was
at first an enemy to the Catholic claims, but, owing to
the agitated state of Ireland, he became convinced of the
necessity of the measure, and he proposed its adoption,
and it was carried by the forbearance of the reformers; the
consequence was that lie continued in office. Would the
reformers of Engl tnd now be satisfied if the Reform Bill
was not carried ?—(Cries of " No.") It was impossible
for Sir Rob-rt not to be convinced that born one end of
the kingdom to the other the measure was loudly called
for, and if Sir Robert were now in office he would
use that very argument. Sir Robert was not a reformer,

becaueetheßillwoulfl produce revolution, or cut off the

King's head, but because he was no longer, nor was he
ever likely, to be again a Minister of the Crown.—(Loud
cheers.) If the present Ministers were turned out, which
God avert, and Sir R. Peel should come in, it would not
be 100 years before he would himself propose such a
plan of Reform—(Cheers and laughter)—so hgh was his
(Mr. Brougham's) opinion of Sir Robert's love of self and

I?ve of office. AM one. the devices used to defeat

the measure was the active canvassing now carrying
on by high and learned personages, no less than
Judges of the land.—(Cries of " shame," and name.")
He would not name them, because they had already suffi-
ciently disgraced their station, and let their own punish-
ment be that of their own consciences.—(Cheers.) The
lion. Gentleman proceeded to thank the electors for having
elected him to the high and distinguished office of their re-
presentative,
and said they might be sure he was no
place hunts, for he held a situation already which
rendered it impossible fir him to accept office under
any set of 111;ni.ters ; after again repeating his
fixed delerminaticn to vote for Reform, economy, re•
trenchment of the public expenditure, and reduction of
taxation, so as to mike every article cheap, and to afford
more labour to the working classes, he retired amidst the
most enthusiastic cheering.
There being no other candidate, the High Bailiff called
for a show of hands, which of course was in fivour of the

above gentlemen, whom the High 13aiiiff:d;Iaredtoce
duly elected.
The Members then bri, fly returned thanks.
A Mr. WALKER addressed the meeting, with a view of
putting a motion to the effect that the useless and un-

necessary ceremony of chairing the Members shoul i be
dispensed with, hut the majority of the meeting was
Strongly opposed to the ()mission of that favourite elec-
tioneer.ng display of music and riot.
Thanks were then voted to the High Bailiff for his
attention to the requisitions of the electors upon all occa-

sions. The High Bailiff having returned thanks the
meting quietly dispersed.

THE INEW PARLIAMENT.

MEMBERS RETURNED.
STEYNING. DOVER.
G. R. Phillips Right Hon. C. P. Thomson
Edward Blount Capt. Robert Henry Stanhope