The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

TOWER HAMLETS.
STATE OF THE POLL.
O'CLOCK.

Clay
Fox
Robinson
Hutchinson
Thompson

TWO O'CLOCK.

2,240
1,912
1,326
792
426

2,842
2,431
1,029
1,531
527

Clay
Fox
Hutchinson
Robinson
Thompson
CLOSE OF THE POLL.

Clay
Fox
Robinson
Hutchinson
Thompson

5,268
4,497
2,460
2,011
783

LAMBETH.

The Returning:Officer had fixed yesterday, at twelve o'clock, for
declaring the state of the poll. The successful candidates arrived
on the hustings at that hour, but it was near two o'clock before the
books were made up. The Tories did not show upon the occasion.
He then came forward, and declared the numbers to be-
51r. Hawes 2,601
D'Eyncourt
Baldwin
Cabbel
Whieh was received with much cheering.
Mr. Hawse then said it was with no common feelings of grati-
tude that he came forward to acknowledge the disinterested and
unpurchaseable support which he had received from the great
borough of Lambeth, which had now returned him at the head of
the poll for the fourth time, although their opponents gave them
no notice of their purpose, although they had met and planned at
night and in secret, still the public spirit of the borough had given
them a signal defeat.—(Cheers.) He was deeply indebted to their
Tory friends, for by their miserable attempt to seize upon the bo.
rough, they had firmly united all Reformers in one eemmon inte-
rest, by which, without one hired person to interrupt the proceed.
ings, they had been able thoroughly to beat the enemies of Reform,
of Liberty, and of the People.—(Cheers.) He would ask, was
the proprietor of the Standard a friend of the people.—(Laughter.)
What would Ireland say to that.--(Cheers.) There the cause
of liberty—of religious liberty and reform was kept down
by a small and selfish party, which party was warmly supported by
that able, but detestable, paper.?—(Cheers.) Every one in the
borough knew his opinions, for he held it to be his duty to attend
large public meetings, in order to be examined as to his poiitics and
his political conduct. All he asked was a fair field, he asked favour
of no one. The borough of Lambeth had nobly responded to the
call made upon the country by her Majesty, they had
sent two Members to the House of Commons to give
an indignant answer to the question of whether the '
country was to be governed by the Tories. By their kind-
ness his Right Hon. Friend and himself were now united for one
common purpose, and he would venture to say that neither of them
would give one single vote that had not for its object the benefit of
the people. They were still friends of the Ballot, of shortening
the duration of Parliament, and they were willing to extend the
suffrage according as intelligence spread among the people.—
(Cheers.) They were going to Parliament to make war unremit-
tingly acainst that monopolizing party, who used the money they
take from the pockets of the people, for the purpose of forging
still tighter the fetters in which they bound them. They went to
endeavour to secure for the industrious man a proper reward
for his labour and cheap food, by removing all monopoly.
They went also to protect the principles of religious liberty.--
(Cheers.) if there was to be Church extension, and more Church.
rates, it would not be by their votes—(Cheers)—it would not be by
the electors of Lambeth that the parties not belonging to the
Church were taxed for their support. There had been no intimi-
dation on their parts. They had net hired any poor men to
come and put down free discussion--(Cheers)—still they stood
triumphantly at the top of the poll. In gratitude they would tell
them that whenever either he or his Right Hon. and Gallant
Friend failed to give satisfaction, whenever they failed to explain
in the most satisfactory manner their public conduct before a public
meeting of the electors, they would at once relinquish the power
which had just been put into their hands.—(Cheers.) It then only
remained for him to return them his warmest thanks, and assure
them that he wonld remain faithful to the opinions which had so

unequivocally met the approbation of the borough.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HAWES was about to retire, but again came forward to say
that his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. T. D'Eyncourt), in consequence
of indispositiDn, was unable to address them, but he was happy to
say that one of his own name and principles—his own son—would
return thanks fo•. him.—(Cheers.)
Mr. LOWS D'EYNCOURT then came forward and said that he was
sorry to say that his father, owing to the exertions he had made in
addressing public meetings during that short but effective struggle,
had ruptured a small blood vessel, and his medical attendant had
told him that it would be dangerous to address them to return his
. _

warmest thanks for the honour they had done him in placing him
for the fourth time in the proud station of their Representative in
Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) He (Mr. L. D'Eyncourt) was unable,
being but young and unaccustomed to address any public meeting—
(Cheers)—te express with half the warmth the deep sense which his
father entertained for the strenuous exertions they had made to
place him in the high position he again held.—(Cheers.) The To-
ries had taken them by surprise—they had come upon them like
thieves in the night—(Loud cheers) —they were totally unprepared
to meet them; but notwithstanding intimidation—notwithstand_

ing Tory lawyers—(Loud cheering)—netwithstanding To;
parsons—(Cheers)—and Tory tax.collectors.—(A voice, " And
Tory poll-clerks.") Aye, and notwithstanding Tory poll-clerks
and the arrangement of the polling booths—(Cheers)—notwith_
standing that meanest of all modes of obtaining a vote, threatening
a tradesman with the loss of custom—(Cheers)—notwithstanding
every species of Tory corruption that had ever been practised at
an election—(Cheers)—by their spontaneous efforts, by their high
and noble principles, and sense of duty, they had obtained the
greatest triumph ever obtained in that borough.—(Loud cheers.)
Their opponents thought to find the great giant of Liberalism
in Lambeth sleeping ; they had found him partly slumbering, but
they had roused him, and he had given them a " back hander,"
such as it would be long before they would recover from or
forget.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Hawes had expressed to them
much better than he could, the principles on which
his
(Mr. L. D'Eyncourt's) father had acted and meant to act.
He (Mr.
T. D'Eyncourt) had always acted upon those principles,
which had first recommended him to their notice.—(Cheers.) For
years he had
repeal of the repeat
those measures which her Majesty's Minis.
tars now pr
ed
his father's
Cornolaws.—(Cheers.) And he need not assure them
the country. From the first he had advocated the
public character was a sufficient guarantee that he
would continue to act on the same principles.—(Cheers.) So far
was
rat
shorn'
as his father
concerned no elector need call for
himteing (Mr. L.the D'EduyneonTtn of Parliament, for he had desired
) to assure them that if any numerous
body of electors at any time should express a wish that he
should resign his trust into
their hands, he would be ready to
do it.—(Cheers.) They had.n rresponded to the call which their
truly patriotic Queen—(Loud"
country to rally round her meicshecTiog)—had made to the
would obtain a majority in the next The Tories, no doubt,
them await the result. They were norliament—(No, no)—but let
and advocates of the extension of
trawdefull of liberal professions,
short, for all the measures the Liberals th, of
lveducation, and, in
vocated, but they were advocates in words mil" had
so
long
ad.
He dared say many of them had heard of a body .--(oLof
tud cheers.)
India called Thugs, who would meet a man with professionsissassins in
greatest respect, eat and drink with him, and insinuate themselves
into his confidence in every possible way, but when he slept
trusting to their friendly protection, would strangle him as he '
slept.
The Tories were full of these liberal professions,
,but as soon as
corresponding measures were proposed in the House, their only
object would be to strangle them.—(Loud cheers.) The Corn.
law monopoly would be continued, that monopoly by which a class
was supported by the robbery of many.—(Cheers.) They would
have national education, but it must be taught by high church
schoolmasters—(Cheers)—and no vor man's child would be taught
to read and write until it had been first thoroughly imbued with
the 39 articles.—(Loud cheers.) These were the only liberal
measures they would receive from the Tories, and he
doubted not that before long such would become the
abhorrence of Tory misrule that our noble Queen would again
appeal to the people, and appeal with success.—(Loud cheers.)
Before he retired, he wished to mention one circumstance. During
the short time they had had to prepare for that struggle their
united Committees had placed their whole reliance on Mr. William
Hawes, and every thing that was not owing to the spirited con.
duct of the electors was owing to him.—(Cheers.) He wished
therefore to say on behalf of his father's Committee who had now
for the first time united with that of Mr. Hawes, that they en-
tertained the highest sense of that gentleman's truly valuable ser_
vices, and also of the manner in which Mr. Hawes himself had
advocated their cause.—(Cheers.) He would now only detain
them further by expressing to them again, on behalf of his father,
his most grateful thanks for their generous support.—(Cheers.)
Mr. BARKER then came forward to propose a vote of thanks to
the Returning Officer for his conduct during that election. He
(Mr. B.) was truly grateful to him for the disinterested assistance

that he had given him yesterday, but having said

that, he feared he must stop there, for, to his own
knowledge, there was not a single metropolitan borough so
badly registered or arranged for polling purposes.—(Loud cheers.)
Would they believe it, the very hustings he stood on, and beneath
which they had to transact their business, was only of an elevation
of five feet six inches or five feerseven inches? Moreover he
(14,8.), who Bred IA the Keht.rerul wee opyge4 to come there