The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-04 00:00:00

CITY ELECTION.

The poll closed yesterd iy afternoon as the Guildhall clock
struck fOur, when both the candidates, acc;nnpanied by
their frLnds, appeared in front of the hustings. The hall
was densely filled with electors, who gave three cheers for
Baron Rothschild, three for the people, with three for the
Queen, and the candidates then retired. .

Mr. D. W. WIRE then presented himself to congratulate
the electors on the glorious victory they had achieved in
favour of the cause of civil and religious liberty, and as to-
morrow the poll would be declared, and would show to them
a triumphant majority, he hoped he should have the honour
and pleasure of telling them the exact result, as well as of
demonstrating the influence it would have upon the
country.—(Hear, and cheers.) He could not but express
his unfeigned surprise and regret that his Honourable
Friend, George Frederick Young, should have deluded a
young nobleman to come there and contest the election, after
all the respectable Tories and merchants of the City had de-
clined to do so. —(Hear, hear.) It was strange, but no less
ridiculous, that after every respectable man had refused to
enter the field with Baron Rothschild, Mr. Young should
have been obliged to go to the west end of the
town to seek a young nobleman in order to fight what he
knew to be a losing game.—(Cheers.) But they would set
them a good example—they would use their victory with
moderation; but they would tell them at the same time that
they were not to be dictated to or controlled. They did not
intend to - rest quiet in the city of London until
this remnant of bigotry should be wiped from the
statute-book, so that all men should be free.—(Cheers.)
It might be that the House of Lords claimed the privilege
of rejecting the Bill. Well, they would concede them that,
and all their constitutional rights—they would defend their
privileges, but at the same time they would vindicate
their own right to perfect freedom of election in choosing
a fellow-citizen to represent them in Parliament —(Cheers.)
What right had the House of Lords to say that the gentle-
man
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would say that if they had passed this Bill,
the Queen would have been at liberty to
make a Jew a Peer, but still that gave them no right to re-
ject the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Suppose her Majesty had
made a Jew a Peer, and this Bill had passed the House of
Commons, enabling him to take his seat—(A Voice—" But
she can't do it")—they would then have had the singular
anomaly of two branches of the Legislature opposed to
one and one opposed to two.—(Hear, hear, and cheers )
Some one said the Queen could not make a Jew a Peer.
Why she had made two or three Baronets.—(Hear, hear.)
She had sanctioned the appointment of Jews to the magis-
tracy, she had given her sanction to Acts of Parliament ad-
mitting them to municipal offices, while in the Speech from
the Throne what did she do but give a recommendation
to the House of Lords and their faithful Commons to pass the
Bill?—(Cheers.) So then they had the Queen with them
—they had the House of Commons with them—they
had the electors of the city of London with them, and, finally,
they had the Liberals of all the kingdom with them.—
(Cheers.) It was useless, therefore, their Lordships attempting
to make an example of the Jews. Let them rather hear
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to the greatest city in the world.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. HALL then came forward and was received with
loud cheers. He said he was not going to excite their
feelings ; he was desirous of appealing to their
clear and dispassionate opinion upon the position
in which the city of London had been placed through an act
of one of the branches of the Legislature, which had not re-
sponded to the return of the city of London. In
doing that he felt it to be his duty—(Cheers)—
a fearless one, to draw the attention of those present to what
had passed in the House of Lords, in the debate on the third
reading of the Oaths' Bill.—(Cheers.) The Bishop of
Oxford—(Hisses, and cries of " Oh, oh")—the Bishop
of Oxforo, undisguised in his place in Parliament, screening
himself with the privilege of a Peer of the realm, was pleased
to say that the citizens of London had been bribed with
Jewish gold.—(Cheers, and cries of " Shame.") Such was
the twaddle of a prelate, a member of the Bench of Bishops,
and such were the means by which the Bill was thrown
out of the House of Lords.—(Cheers.) He was de-
lighted to hear that the old friend of the people, Harry
Brougham, had become again, after many.backSlidings,-. the
friend and advocate of the cause of the people and the sup-
porter of civil and religious liberty. (Cheers.) That Noble
Lord had in the most masterly manner advocated the
second reading of the Bill, and put the Bishop of Oxford on
the shelf; together with his stupid nonsense, for argument he
could not call it.— (Cheers.) He (Mr. H.) represented the long
shore men. He gloried in doing so—( Cheers and laugh tet )
and being their representative, he asked would the
citizens of London tolerate or quietly pocket the in-
sult that lied been inflicted on them by the Bishop
of Oxford, when he said that they bad been bribed
by Jewish gold ?—(Cheers, and cries of " No, we will net.")
He was glad to hear it.—(Cheers.) They were not going
to allow the House of Lords to create a revolution in Lon-
don—(Cheers and laughter) but that House had thrown
down the gauntlet, and the citizens of London, to their
honour, had nobly picked it up —(Great cheering.) The
citizens of London had now that gauntlet in their posses-
sion, and the House of Lords might depend upon it that
the champion of the greatest city in the world would not be
worsted in the fight.—(Cheers.) That gauntlet was not in
the hands of Baron Rothschild—(Cheers)—it was not in
the hands of the Jew—(Loud cheers.) The citizens
of London did not look to the Rothschilds or the Jews, but
to the carrying of a great principle. The citizens of London
would carry the Jews on their shoulders; they made their
cause their own, and they would never rest satisfied till they
had given them as ample privileges as they enjoyed them-
selves. He trusted when another measure was brought in the
Lords would reject it again.—(Cries of "If they do, we
will return Rothschild again in spite of them.") He hoped
that election would open the eyes of the House of Lords.—
(Cheers.) That body had sent them a young lordling, a young
poet laureate--(Great laughter)—to teach the citizens
of London their catechism with respect to their commer-
cial operations.— (Cheers and laughter.) Now what
did that Noble Lord say ? He must confess that he

had read some ofVhis ~liandiworlca, and -lie was bound
to say that he had not profited much by that
reading, and was sorry that he had wasted so much time
in doing so; but among the twaddle the Noble Lard
penned—(Great laughter)—he had written, or thought he
had written, the epitaph of the City of London in the fol-
lowing lines :
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But save us still our old nobility."
—(Great laughter and cheering.) Ic put him in mind of an
old friend of his, a doctor, who wrote his own epitaph, in
something of the following strain:— _

" Oh, 'Cruel death, how could thou be so contrary,
As to kill thy best friend, the apothecary."
(Great laughter.) Now who, he would ask, was the
Noble Lord a most amiable young man, doubtless,
and one of the sprigs of the aristocracy, but was it to
be said that the city of London was so devoid of
men of talent of Conservative principles, that they could not
find a man of mind and comprehension to come forward, and
were obliged to go to the west-end for one.—(Laughter.) He
would say to the citizens of London, show to this young
nobleman a generous sympathy and kindness, for could they
doubt that he had been deceived ?—(Cheers and laughter.)
He had written on subjects in poetry that he
knew nothing about—(Laughter)— and he trusted he would
go back to his papa, the great Duke of Rutland—(Hear)—
and tell him that in the City of London he had not re-
ceived a hearty welcome—(Cries of "He never will")—
that there they blew great guns, but not for him.—(Cheers.)
He hoped when the Lords threw out the Bill again they
would have another lordling, and that he would find
that in the city of London there were plenty
of tar and feathers.—(Great laughter.) In conclusion, he
trusted that the citizens of London would never rest till
they had carried out to the fullest extent the great
principle of civil and religious liberty—(Great cheering)
—together with electoral rights.—(Cheers.) Let them nail
their flag to the mast, and let their last prayer be that they
might have just, free, and open electoral rights for all sects
and creeds. _ _

___Proclamation was then made by the crier that the Hall
would meet to-morrow morning at eight o'clock for the
purpose of enabling the Sheriffs to east up the poll-books,
and that the official declaration of the poll would be made by
the Sheriff at twelve o'clock.

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The hall during the ceremony resounded with cries for
Baron Rothschild.

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should have returned thanks to the electors, instead of re-
questing him to do so, but the Baron was really
so much excited and overpowered with gratitude
for the victory he had this day achieved, that it might
prove of serious consequence to him were he, in the present
state of his health, to attempt to give utterance to the grate-
ful feelings that overpowered him.—(Loud cheers.) His
friends had, therefore, thought it more advisable for the
electors as well as himself that he should have one night's
interval and a few hours' rest before he addressed them, so
that he might come before them to-morrow like a giant
refreshed, for the purpose of communicating to his constituents
the grateful sentiments he felt towards them for the triumph
they had this day achieved.—(Cheers, and some slight
hissing.) He was sorry to hear that any one present re-
gretted even for a moment the vote which the liberal electors
of the City of London had this day come to.—( Hear.) During
the contest there were many who would rather that the
Baron should not gain the day—(Hear, hear)—but he felt
confident that every true Englishman—every true free
man—every true Briton—every one who possessed
the blessing of liberty both social and religious, would
consider, not that the citizens of London have gained a
triumph, but that this great country—this great king-
dom -had laid down a principle that would do it
as much honour as any work that had ever been
accomplished by the united hands of Englishmen.—
(Loud cheers,) He would not repeat what had been said
throughout this contest about sinking the name of Roths-
child, and treating the Baron as the beacon of a great prin-
ciple. It was the cause of civil and religious liberty they
had been struggling for—a cause which had worked cut
such changes, such great and glorious
vastreformationsand inbentehfiicsiacl ountry—a cause which insisted
that no law should interfere with the conscience of
a man or with the duty he owed to his Creator. Let it
go forth from this day throughout the whole country that
every man might have the privilege of worshipping his
God according to his own conscience—that no punish-
ment, no penalty, no disability should henceforth re-
main on the statute-Look to be put in force
against any British subject.—(Cheers.) He had just had
the majority put into his hands; but, of course, at that time
they had not been able accurately to make out the
poll. Sufficient calculations, however, had been made
to enable him to announce that the majority was
between 3,4u0 and 3,soo—(Cheers)—a larger majority than
any candidate had enjoyed in the cite of London for a vast
many years.— (Renewed cheers.) lie had now done; he was
sure the electors would be glad to obtain a little relaxation—
they had been working hard in the great and good cause,
and as he had been labouring with them, he knew that they
must by this time require some little rest.— (Hear, hear.)
In cor,clu,ion, therefore, he trusted the vote of to-day would
convey throughout the kingdom the feeling of the City of
London, that those who may be chosen to fill high stations
and places in society; that he and others who by their suf-
frages and he locked forward with a pleasureable ambition
to the attainment of the honour—might be elevated to the
office of Lord Mayor, were equally worthy of a seat on the
green benches of the House of Commons.—(Cheers.)
Three cheers were then given for the Baron, and the occu-
pants of the hall quietly dispersed.

THE LATE COLLISION ]N THE ATLANTIC..--WE
understand that the British and North American Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company have voluntarily intimated
to his worship the Mayor their intention of forwarding,
free of charge, by their two next steamers to America,
the persons saved from the vessel which unfortunately
came into collision with the Europa steam. ship. The
offer is only characteristic of the unvarying generosity
of this enterprising and successful company.—Liverpcol
Standard.

" The Animals' Friend Society," of 457, West
Strand, on Thursday caused Edward Oxenham, a drover,
33, to be fined in costs by Air. Sticker, at Southwark,
for having ill-treated some cattle. Not paying, he was
committed to prison for Boren days.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF

TUESDAY.

LORD CIIAMBERLAIYS OFFICE, JUNE 30,1849

The remair:s of her late Rya Highness the Pt incess
Sophia were this day removed from the catacomb under
the chapel in which they were placed after the funeral,
and deposited in the vault prepared for their reception in
ihe General Cemetery, Kensal-green.
The Lord Chamberlain and the Vice-Chamberlain of
her Majesty's Household were present, and also Baron
Knesebeck and Sir William Martins.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 29th day of
June, 1849, present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council; this day the Right Hon. Sir David Dundas,
Knt., was, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her
Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took his
place at the Board accordingly.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 2.

_ .
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. and
Rev. Gerald Wellesley to be Resident Chaplain in Or-
dinary to her Alejesty, in the ruom of the Hun. and Rev.
Charles IA slie Courtenay, resigned.
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