The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-20 00:00:00

LAMBETH REFORM FESTIVAL

On Wednesday evening the electors of Lambeth enter-
tained at a public dinner their representatives, Messrs.
Benjamin Hawes and Tennyson D'Eyncourt, in celebra-
tion of their late triumphant return for the Borough. The
dinner was served in the Rotunda of Vauxhall-gardens;
every disposable seat was occupied during the evening,
and the utmost enthusiasm seemed to pervade the Assem-
bly. A number of ladies were seated in the gallery.
Wm. HAWES, Esq., filled the Chair. On the right of
the Chairman sat his brother, Mr. B. Hawes, M.P.; Mr.
Warburton, M.P; Mr. S. Palmer, &c.; and on the left of
the Chairman Mr. T. D'Eyncourt, M.P.; Mr. Larpent,
M.P. ; Mr. Easthope, M.P.; Mr. Morris, M.P.; Mr.
Hutton, the late Member for Dublin, &c.
The dinner having been disposed of, '
The CHAIRMAN rose to propose the first toast on his
list— " The Queen."—(Loud and long continued cheers.)
Her Majesty had endeared herself to her people by the
interest she had ever manifested in their welfare. It was
rare in the history of any country to find a sovereign as-
sociating her cause with that of her people; and it was
this circtunstanoe which made her present Most dracious
Majesty the admiration not only of this country, but of
the whole civilised world.—(Great cheering.)
The toast was drank with unbounded applause.
The next toasts were—" The Princess Royal ;"
" Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Family ;" and
"The People, the only source of all legitimate power."
The toasts were all duly honoured.
Mr. WARBURTON, M.P., then came forward, amidst
great cheering, to propose the health of Mr. B. Hawes,
one of the Members for the borough. No duty, he
would assure them, could afford him a deeper or a more
sincere pleasure. He had been long and intimately ac-
quainted with Mr. Hawes, and in his belief there was
no individual in whose industry and undeviating recti-
tude they could place a greater confidence, or who was
more worthy of representing their borough.---(Cheers.)
No gentleman had ever given him a vote who did not
anticipate how he would use it upon any one occasion,
and no one had ever, in any instance, felt disappointed
in his expectations. Consistency was the most valu-
able quality in a public man--(Hear, hear)—and
if Tories themselves respected that quality, how
much more was it entitled to the gratitude and
confidence of the friends of freedom and 'of justice ?
Their Member, Mr. Hawes, had the additional recom-
mendation of being intimately acquainted with those com-
mercial subjects which so deeply interest a metropolitan
constituency. For his (Mr. Warburton's) part he be-
lieved that out of every hundred subjects he agreed in
ninety-nine at least with their honourable representative.
He agreed with him as to the necessity of extending the
basis of popular liberty l and he agreed with him in
supporting those emunsercial improvements which would
tend so materially to promote the happiness of the com-
munity, and to alleviate the distresses of the Vsiglish
people. With the utmost pleasure, there&re,, he pro-
posed the health of their osteentesi Tel?reseistative,
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Mr. B. 114wESIITA loudly ehotged in rising to •
respond
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hear.) Anxious as he was
o_ceaelen to give expression to that gratitude,
which y tilled his bosom when he saw so large an
assenshlege the electors of Lambeth met for the
purpose of celebrating the late triumph of reform in
the borough ---anxious as he was to express to them his
acknowledgments for the honour they had done him,
he would tell them, 418 he had often told them before,
that the hest thanks he could offer them would be the
COnsistent advocacy of the principles upon which he had
sought their suffrages.—(Cheers.) Of personal obliga-
tions to the electors he had many to acknowledge--the
kindness, the disinterestedness, the zeal, the labour, and
the anxietywhieh numbers of those around him had en-
countered, in order that he might have the honour of
representing them in Parliament, might indeed well de-
serve a grateful return. But he knew them well—he
knew they were men of principle, and upon principle
alone lie would address them ; and he should thank them
by the services which, in his public capacity, he should
endeavour to perform.—(Loud cheers.) They all knew
that, at the recent election, they were somewhat taken
by surprise • and he understood that Mr. Baldwin, who
had been his opponent upon the occasion, had been
pleased to say that he had pulled down his ma-
jority.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") But he would tell
Mr. Baldwin, that he should ever look in vain fox'
the suffrages of the electors of Lambeth. He would
answer for the zeal—the unpurchaseable zeal of the
electors of the borough, in upholding the cause of Re-
form, of which he (Mr. Hawes) was the humble and un-
worthy representative.—(No, no.) He believed that
if the Tories ever again showed their faces upon the
hustings—and he was told that they would, cost what
it might—he believed that they would, in such a case,
be defeated by a sufficient number of votes (if votes
would satisfy them) to deter them from ever again con-
testing the borough.—(Hear, hear.) He had heard,
however, cost what it might—that was the phrase—they
would again endeavour to return a Conservative Mem-
ber for Lambeth. Yes, cost what it might, "there was
the rule."—(Hear, hear.) Now what did it cost his
Right Hon.. Friend and himself during their late can-
vass ? Nothing but thanks.—(Great cheering) And
he would tell their opponents that they might open their
purses in that enlightened borough, but that they would
only meet with indignant reproofs.—(Hear, hear.) He
was perfectly aware that ite some cases he might have
given votes displeasing to some among his constituents ;
and every effort had been made in consequence to pre-
judice him in the eyes of many of his supporters. And
what was the result ? Why he had again, by a most
triumphant majority, been entrusted with the honour of
representing the borough in Parliament.—(Cheers.)
The history of the past, however, would teach them in
future, even upon the rumour of a dissolution, to prepare
for the contest.—(Hear, hear.) They were now on the
eve of the meeting of a new Parliament, and, peradventure,
a new Ministry. When he had, upon a former
occasion, stood a candidate for the borough in the
year 1835, he had offered himself in opposition to
a Tory Government headed by Sir Robert Peel ; and he
was likely, in conjunction with his Hon. Friends around
him, to be opposed to Sir Robert Peel in the newly
elected House of Commons. He had, since he first soli-
cited their suffrages, lost none of his hostility to the
principles of Toryism. A better acquaintance with the
men, a more close examination of their principles, and a
deeper knowledge of the interest they had in opposing
the interests of the people—(Hear, hear)—had not in-
duced him to waver in the slightest degree in giving his
determined opposition to the policy which they invariably
pursued. He thought they were entitled to ask what
course he meant to adopt upon the groat questions likely
to arise in the ensuing Session, and he should willingly
give them every explanation upon the subject. Let him
say, in the first place, that the expectations of the people
in the Parliament that was about to assemble were great.
Their friends were no doubt in a minority, but they
looked to their energy and perseverance to supply their
inferiority in numbers ; and, for his part, he believed
that there was a spirit among them which would make
the minority on the occasion. almost a governing party.
—(Cheers.) The public would expect in future some-
thing more than the mere struggle of parties —they
would not be content to look on while
"Tories mar what Whigs have scarce begun,
And Whigs undo what Whigs themselves have done."
They would expect, and justly upon the part of their re-
presentatives in Parliament, steadfastness of action and
earnestness of purpose ; and even if those representa-
tives failed they should not at least fail from a want of
honesty and exertion.—(Hear, hear.) For his part he
did not know any subject upon which his constituents
were not already acquainted with his sentiments. Upon
the great question of trade he was an out-and-out free
trader.—(Loud and long continued cheering.) And he
was attached to the principle of free-trade because he
believed it was based upon justice and upon truth, be•
ciluse every effort they made to place their commercial
legislation upon a sound basis was an effort towards
placing the legislation, aye, and the taxation of the coun-
try upon an honest basis—(Cheers)—and because while
any set of men put their hands into their neighbours'
pockets he held them to be neither more nor less than
men voting dishonestly for selfish purposes.—(Hear.)
His Hon. Friend had stated that in ninety-nine ques-
tions out of a hundred they were agreed ; but he, for
his part, should be at a loss to find out the hundredth
upon which they differed. He agreed with his Hon.
Friend in thinking that the Reform Bill was a measure
in which they might introduce important improvements.
He was an advocate, too, for the removal of every enact-
ment which interfered with the honest exercise of the
franchise.—(Cheers.) He was therefore for vote by
Ballot.—(Renewed cheers.) He should not feel satis-
fied until two things were accomplished through the in-
strumentality of the Radical party in Parliament—the
first of which was the abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts;
and the second was the total abolition of Church-rates.—
(Loud and long-continued cheers.) He had ever been a
friend to the principle of religious liberty ; and he was
most anxious that they should all join heart and hand
with their fellow-labourers, the Irish Liberals, in ob-
taining a repeal of the grievances of the Irish people.—
(Cheers.) This was a time at which the English people
ought to arise and proclaim with one voiee that no Go-
vernment should rule in Ireland which was not based

upon the affections of the people.—(" Hear, hear," and
loud cheers.) They ought to support the great leader
of the Irish nation who had ever been the advocate of

justice and of liberty for his country. His Right Hon,
Colleague and himself were heartily united in principle,
and they would continue to be so united, and to struggle
in the same cause as long as they had the honour of
representing the Electors of Lambeth. He should ob-
serve, in addition, that if the Tories when in power
proposed just and honest measures, they should havQ the
cordial support of the Liberal party. And if Sir Robert
Peel should again play the tergiversator, they would
offer him no opposition. If the Tories proceeded upon
the principle of justice and of true policy all would
rally round them, and endeavour 40 make England a

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" Where wealth and commerce lift their golden heads,
And o'er our labours, liberty, and laws,
Impartial watch ; the wonder of the world."
The Tion, Gentleman then concluded by thanking tho
friends amnia him AA, the mu &yours he had received
at their hands.

Mr. LARPENT then proposed the health of Mr. T.
D'Eyncourt—a gentleman whom he had known and re-
spected through life—who had been the companion of
his youth, and the friend of his riper years.
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