The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-01 00:00:00

donee of me. Mr. Young gave--unjusly gave—the high opi-
nion of various constituencies in labour of Colonel I,hompaon,
I respect Colonel Thompson, and whatever political casual
'collision takes place between us, I know he is still my
and I entertain not a shadow of hostile feeling
against him.—( Hear, hear.) But, Gentlemen, I am proud
to say, that since I was rejected at Liverpool, not by the
inhabitants of Liverpool, but by the wealthy men there, who
rule the freemen. Since I was rejected .by those wealthy
men, through their poorer instruments I had been invited to
conic tOrward at no less than ten different places, where they
expected a vacancy during this Parliament. —( Cheers.) I
mention ths not uninvitede- Mr. Young ha; forced me to
mention it., but I do it simply to show that a man who devotes
his energies as honestly and as strenuously as he can iu the
cause of his country, will not go unrewarded bythat
country.—( Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) Mr. Murphy
has done me the -honour to make not only political
but personal attacks on me. Gentlemen, in making those
personal attacks I will not imitate the example of Mr. Mur-
phy.—(Cries of " Give it him—give it bins.") Mr. Murphy
has ally led to the science of phrenology, and he wishes a man
before he comes to the hustings to be measured as to his poli-
tical capacities by the shape of his skull.—( Laughter.) Now,
gentlemen, whatever political developments he may' discover
on my skull, I venture to state a phrenologiat would find on
his a very large development of Combativeness—(Great
laughter)—and I think that if the scientific phrenoloa
gists pursued his inquiries into Mr. Murphy's pericra-
ntm, he would further find that there was silently and
slowly but steadily developing itself the nascent organ of
Toryism. (Renewed laughter and cheering, and cries of " that
is right, give it to the Tory coal merchant.") So much, gen-
tlemen for Mr. -Murphy's personalities. I now proceed to his
political objections. Mr. Murphy has come forward armed
w.th some old book rummaged from the dusty records of his
library, on which he seeks to charge me with having voted,
against the repeal of the Septenial Act. Now I have leceneneL
a
tept
of the
constant voter in favour of the repeal of
act. There was a time gentlemen when t,e, publicationi
votes of the House of Commons was not sanctioned by Par.
liament. lam one of those who voted for the publication of
the votes, and since that time the votes have been correctly
gublished,--(Bear, hear.) Previous to that time they could
not be relied on, and I dare say Mr. Murphy has found a mu-
tilated copy of a mutilated edition of the votes he refers to at
that period. —( Hear, hear.) In the next place he says I
voted against aAnquiry into the Pension List. I have voted
for inquiries into the Pension List.—( Hear, and cheers.)
And on one occasion, when there was an inquiry before a
Committee of the House of Commons, because I could net
vote in two ways, Mr. Murphy comes forward and charges me
with opposing the inquiry into the Pension List.—(Cheers.)
The third question is one of great interes to you and to me ►
I mean the Poor-law Amendment Act. I now proceed fear-
lessly and unhesitatingly to speak to that question, as well as
to every other.—(Cheers.) Mr. Young has done me the
honour to cite a speech of mine, in which I vindicated
the system of centralisation.-_( Much confusion.) Now it
is a rule in a court of law, and Mr. Young, being a lawyer,
must have known this, that where you cite a document you
should cite the whole, and not a part of it.—(Cheers.) Now
Gentlemen, if Mr. Young had cited a fair copy of what
I said on the occasion he has referred to, he would
have added that I also said, "If you make a sys-
tem of centralization to create uniform good government,
you must not make that system lasting—( Hisses and cheers)_
and I added, also in the House of Commons. Do not make
ycur Commissioners perpetual, make them temporary—giving
them not a perpetuity in parish government, but only a lease-
hold interest.—(Cheers, mad cries of " You oppose the Poor-
law Bill.) Gentlemen, I oppose the undue controul of the
Commissioners. I was the very man to do all that I could
to shorten the duration of the Commission ; and if you
will only consult my votes upon such odious measures,
as plural voting, you will find I voted against them, and,
Gentlemen, I will as soon as the Commission is expired—as
soon as the Poor Law Commission has expired, I will main-
tain the restoration of the ancient representative parochial
system of Great Britain.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, Mr.
Young and Mr. Murphy have done me the honour of calling
me a Whig. I know that you will not be led away by tnat,
hut I am sure that they did not wish to deceive 'you.
I trust, however, you will not be led away by any such meagre
arguments.—( Cheers.) Gentlemen, you know that I have
stood in the House of Commons as an independent Member.
You know that I have not backed the Whigs or their Whig
measures.. You know that I have only supported them when
their measures were popular.—( Cheers, and confusion.)
Gentlemen, the records of Parliament arc before you, and
those records will show that I have been the friend of civil
and. religious liberty—(Cheers)—else my honoured friend
Mr. Weymouth would not bo here to second m©; and I feel
honoured by the support of such an independent man.—
(Cheers.) You know that I have supported the personal ex-
tension of your rights ; you know that I have supported the
I3aliot-4Cheers)—you know that I have supported triennial '
Parliaments, and you know what I have done for the political
cease of the people—(Great cheering)—and you know,
further, that I have been the steady and consistent friend
of popular education—( Cheering)—and to that sacred
cause I will adhere. —( Continued cheers.) I have adhered to
it hitherto, against the Whigs and as well as the Tories, and
to the extension of that sacred cause I will confine myself as
long as I have voice to support or power to defend it.—
(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, I have not been inattentive
to the cause of the labouring classes. My fellow countrymen
know, gentlemen, that many of the measures I have
advocated have been mainly for their interests.—( Hear,
hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, I was the man who introduced
both againstsWhigs and Tories, a Bill to enable prisoners to
be defended by Counsel. This was opposed by Whigs as
well as Tories, and though I did not succeed in carrying that
measure to the extent that I wished, yet I d.d succeed in
establishing its p inciple.—( Cheers.) I moved for a Select
Committee to encourage the extension of the Arts among the
people, and in consequence of that we are having the Na-
tional Monumen.s, and Institutions of the people, thrown
open .to the inhabitants, in order that they may enjoy
those works of art which they have paid for, and I am happy
to say that two institutions have sprung from the labours of
that Committee.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, after your patience
has been so long tried, I feel that it would be unkind in me
to detain vou longer. I have elecady told you that I come
forward invited by tho peat constituency of Marylebone.—
(Cheers.) Unless I was supported by that constituency, I
would not persevere. But lam convinced I have the support
of the majority of thone—( Increased cheering, and much
confusion.) I believe I have the support of the majority of
the constituency.—(Cheers, hisses, and groans, which
tested for a considerable time. The noise was so great
till the conclusion of Mr. Ewart's speech that it could not be
clearly heard.) Nothing shall prevent me from going to the
Cheers.) Let us he united against our common ene-
mies; the Tories.—( Cheers.) Let not the great metropolitan
districts tall like recreants into the hands ofthe Tories. Above
all, let not that which has ever been the stronghold,
the fastness of Reform—the boroughs of Marylebone—be the
first to set such an inglorious example—(Cheers)—but let us
rally round the standard of Reform on Friday next, to defeat
our common enemy the Tories.—(Tremendous cheers and
groans.)

- The Returning Officer then proceeded to take the show of
hands ; for Colonel Thomps3n there were held up a great
proportion of those present • for Lord Teignmouth only about
fifty hands appeared, but ail the ladies ;vho were looking out
of the windows in Portland-place waved their handkerchiefs
in favour of the Noble Lord. For Mr. Ewart by far
the greatest show of hands appeared, and the Returning Officer
declared the election to have fallen upon him. The announce-
ment was received with loud cheer jug from his friends, and
with hisses ai:d groans from the opposite parties.
A poll was then demanded on behalf of Lord Teignmouth
by Mr. Painter ; and on behalf of Colonel Thomson by Mr.
Murphy.
The polling will commence to-morrow morning at Eight
o' Clock.