The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-26 00:00:00

EVEN IN& EDITION.

ITS ELECTION.

WARD OF FARRINUDON-WITHOUT.
A meeting of the Electors of the Ward of Farringdon•
without, was held at the Inquest-room, St. Andrews'-court,
Holborn, yesterdw evening, for the purpose of receiving
Alderman Wood, Messrs. Crawford and Pattison, and in order
that measures might be taken to secure the return of these
gentlemen with Lord J. Russell. The room was crowded
some time before the hour (six o'clock) announced for com-
meneing the proceedings, and was throughout the remainder of
the evening filled t.-,% overflowing.
Upon the molion of Mr. PONTIFEX,
Mr. Deputy Elackett took the chair amidst the cheers of
the meeting.
Alderman Wood, and Messrs. Crawford and Pattison here
entered and were received with repeated and vehement acela-
mations. . .

The CHAIRMAN then said that as it had pleased the meet-
ing to place him in the chair, he would assure them he felt
duly grateful for the honour. The present occasion reminded
him of occuerences which had taken place ten years ago when
the Reform Candidates were returned triumphantly by the
Electors of the City.—( Hear, hear.) He hoped, and he be-
lieved, that a similar success would attend them now.—
(Cheers.) If the people of England felt deeply interested on
that occasion, how much more should they feel interested new
when it was attempted for the first time to work some good
out of the Reform Bill. He would not, however, trouble them
with any further observations. Their cause would be placed
in better hands than hi.. He had only to express a hope that
the ward would act upon the occasion in a manner worthy of
the importance of the present crisis.—(Cheers.
Mr. PRENDERGAST, the Barrister, then came forward and
said, that they had met upon that occasion to welcome their
candidates, and to meet those who were soon, he believed to
be their representatives.—(Cheers.) If there were to be a
contest for tee City (and of that he very much doubted), he
thought that the issue could not be for one moment doubtful.
—(Loud cheers.) It could not be doubtful, because the
Whigs and the Tories cf. the City had all resolved that an al-
teratu n .:f the Cern-laws should take place.—(Cheers, and a
cry of " No.") Repeated addresses from the citizens of Lon-
don and petitions to Parliament had shown that the citizens of
Lendon weie unanimous upon the subject.—(Cries of " No,
no," from a very few individuals in the meeting.)
He bad always understood that the citizens of
London, from the first moment of the passing
of the Corn-law had been unanimous in its condemnation.—
( Cheers.) '1 hey had hitherto had divisions of Whigs and
Tories, and on most occasions the latter party had been sig-
nally defeated ; but upon the present occasion they had four
candidates who did not start merely as Tories or as Whigs, but
principally as men determined on altering the restrictions on
thneeteszaties of life. If there were any contention, it would
be between those who had the confidence of her Majesty, and
also the coididence of the people—(Loud cheers)—and those
who had the confidence of neither.—(RenesVed cheering.) It
had been objected to tne Alinistry, that under their Adminise
tration a deficiency had taken place in the revenue ; but that
deficiency arose either from causes which the Tories them-
selves hail sanctioned, or from the passing of measures benefi-
cial to the people. It was because the Ministry were anxious
to facilitate the connection of distant parts of the kingdom, to,
give the father the means of communicating with the son, that
they resolved to reduce to a small sum the charges on postage,
and thus caused a deficiency in the revenue-. There were other
causes to which he would wish to advert if time allowed. He
should however say that the Tories were the very first
to find fault with her Majesty's Government for
not going to additional expense in the mantling and fitting
out of our navy. But they found that when the efforts cf the
navy weie required, it was able to take its usual stand as the
protector of the country. With respect to the deficiencies in
the revenue, they were highly honourable to her Majesty's Go-
vernment. There was another point to which he would with
to advert—namely, that of national education. The present
Government had resolved that the people of England should
be educated, and not individually the member of the Esta-
blished Church—not the Catholic, the Dissenter, nor the Jew,
but emphatically the people. of England as such—(Lond
ebeets )—while the Tories declared that all out of the pale of the
Established Church should remain in ignorance.—(Cries of
" No, no," and " Yea, yes.") There was another question
which should never be lost sight cf. He alluded to the esta-
blishment of the London University. 'Mere were two mis •
named national Universities, those of Oxford and Cambridge;
but surely they could not be called the Universities of the
kingdom ? He was anxious that merit, and merit alone, should
be the source of collegiate hononrs—( Hear, hear, hear)—
and such being the principles upon which the London Uni-
versity was established, a deep debt of gratitude was due
to those who established that truly national institution—
(Cries of "Question, question)—in the present day—the
19th century—there was an establishment founded, where the
candidate for examination, either in betany or physiology, was
not obliged to express his belief in the doctrines taught in the 39
Articles.—(Cries of " Question," and " Poor-law.")
The CHAIRMAN having intimated to Mr. Prendergast
that the objects of the meeting bore more immediately on the
ensuing election,
Mr. PRENDERGAST said he was not justified in saying any-
thing about the Poor-laws, but if Sir Robert Peel were here
himself he would pronounce an eloquent panegyric on the ope-
ration of these laws.—( Vehement cheering.) He (Mr. Pi en-
dergast) had not the slightest doubt but Sir Robert Peel would
say they worked beneficially, and even that the Duke of Wel-
lington would admit he was ready to advocate them, and that
in his personal examination of the workhouses he was highly
pleased with their excellent order and arrangements.—(Loud
cheers.) He should conclude by moving the following resolu-
• ton :—"That her Majesty having been graciously pleased to
dissolve Parliament, with the view of ascertaining the sense of
her people 'on matters which deeply concern their welfare,'
and had expea,ed her patriotic wish that ' the exigencies of
the public service would be provided for in the manner least
burdenseme to the community,' and with an especial view to
the paramount importance of the trade and industry of the
country, it is the duty of every member of the State to respond
to such beneficent intentions,"
Mr. Woon came forward to second the resolution. This
country, as a trading and manufacturing community, could no
longea he said, exist, unless such measures for a revision of
our import duties were carried into effect.—(Cheers.) There
was no other instance in history in which an attempt had been
made to increase the revenue, and at the same time to reduce
the burdens upon the people. The Legislature of this king-
dom had hithe. to consulted class interests ; and when, for in-
stance, a proposition had been made that bonded corn should
he let out for the benefit of our merchants, the measure was
contemptuously rejected. Was that supporting ships, colonies,
and commeice? Were the millions lavished in the late war
supplied by the agricultural part of the community ? No,
those expenses were sustained by the nerve and arm of Great
Britain, its commerce, and the industry of its manufacturers.—
(Cheers. ) The Tories talked of the reduction they had made
in taxation ; but was it not true that it was they who had
raised the national expenditure from 20,000,000/. annually to
50,000,0001. Again in their papers, why had they not talked of
the 00,000,000/. paid for the redemption of eOO,OOO slaves
in our colonies ? (Oh, oh, and renewed interruption from a
feW individuals.) Gentlemen would act much more fairly by
listening to him, arid afterwards refUting him if they thought
they could do so.—( Cheers.) He was not to be put down by
interruption ; and he felt that he, and all who were there as-
sembled, hod a seered duty to discharge, which they should
not be deterred from fulfilling.—(Cheers.) The unrepre-
sented millions looked to them for help, and from no other
quarter otuld they obtain it. The nation at large were de-
termined on removing the burdens which now cramped our
industry--the middle and labouring classes were united upon
that subject, and with these they had a Liberal Government
and a liberal and 'enlightened Qucen.—(Loud cheers.) The
measures of the Government would tend to lower the prices of
the necessaries of lif e and it was an undeniable truth, that
lowering of prices must ever tend to an increased consumption.
Was it not clear that if bread bad been last year Gd. instead of
9d. per loaf every poor man, every 9s. a week labourer, would
have had an increase cf one-third in the bread consumed by his
family ? That magnerihnous and upright statesman (Lord
John Ilussell)—(Loud cheers)—though connected himstlf
with the aristocracy, had placed himself at the head of the new
movement ; and it could not, surely, be said that he had le-
solved on the ruin of the landed interest. Her Majesty, too,
had, in the speech from the Throne, appealed to her people for
the maintenance of their own tights, and the people should
not now prove false to themselves. These new commercial
measures would promote the interests of all parties;
and prohibiting duties, while they ruined our manufactures,
would equally ruin in the end the agriculturists. Let them
return their three Reform candidates, and with them Lord J.
Russell, a man whose name was associated with civil and reli-
gious liberty, and whose success would reflect honour upon
them, and a ould set an example to the other constituencies of
the empire.—( Loud cheers.) •
Mr. Tire wished to contrediet a statement which hid been
made by a gentleman who had addressed the meeting, to the
effect, that the citizens of London were unanimously in favour
of the commercial mearires of the Government; now he was
directly opposed to those measures.—(Cheers. hisses, and
great uproar.) The Hon. Gentleman then said he would put
it to the meeting whether if the Corn-laws were repealed
thousands of acres in this country would not be thrown out of
cultivation ?—(" Yes," and " No, no.")
After a scene of great confusion,
Sir M. Wool), who rose amidst the loudest cheers, begged
that the meeting would give Mr. Tipe a fair hearing . For his
part lie should be perfectly ready to answer any questions that
might be put to him.
re;u'cnr.edTihrise belief that a repeal of the
his
cultivators who had of late
Corn-laws would be unjust to
those
Inca this country.
reclaimed thousands of Inrren acres
soaagtainnftaerttreempiettaetdingto address the meeting, but soon
:61:'el":7r
are the best g
.1 to propose the next resolution..
Mr. TAYLOR came forward
ed to entertain those resole-
eheTehrse, rweistohluotniolyn
itseadsistsheenntigst. and rl led amidst repeated
tobubterhpere.oll:laer.
The late Parliament had riefbus
He trusted that the constituencies.
them. Mr. Taylor then pre_
answer that appeal as became
jteiostnys vathii edlits
dissolved
Al irii
thatstryh had
Parliamentr brought gahntd faorrpvreasri
odd;
of the kingdom would now
posed the second,dfred resolution,
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and Lord J. Russell—(Tremendous
(sAcl abtetenrese.)
and nain)—whose avowed o • '
i)on. They were called
n
guarantees that they will Pin"is
tracaneihnietdedultipirtgtot,itil:roi.
and those gentle-.
of free trade dof devote
epeated again
themselves to the promotion
_ ari every sound
hahtmitsiansovr_ei,r. f •w(arts
liberalaurpidponr
unn had many claims up.
on them. The first of them was en-
deared o Ls measure.uypNpeoitrt tseeo'fn'o—duer(dLL
theit Liberal
lleistocliust.
candidates,
to them by ancient ties—(Cheers)—the next, Mr-
(aLgaaiZnter )--
Crawford, had shown upon all occasions en u ibending jute-,
honest'eeentdat
oAEngnir.iliaPi
carryine y ace.— o-
moved 1a:,,.
Finally, they had Lord John Russell, Wise
e.
"though little
ignriietyspNeNo.lniiainlchieentatlelor
fs
olaifo uhrleocicovrme
was made of good mettle"—(leauF:hter)—and
who had lately made the noblest speeches in deferir,e of the doc-
trines of free trade. There was another subject, to which he
felt pound to allude—he meant Ireland—(Cher,es)—and surely
they would nut forget that the triumph of .iberal principles
was identified with the prosperity of that co entry.—( Renewed
cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried, amidst vehement
acclamations, with only twenty-six di entients.
Sir 111. WOOD said, as the meeting hoed been addressed be-
fore by gentlemen with so much eloquent e, and as he and his
respected colleagues had to attend at th e meeting of Alders-
gate and the adjacent Wardi, he should, 'be very brief in his re-
marks. He should, however, say, that there were sixteen dis-
sentient votes to the motions that were: Tut from the chair, yet
he did not despair but some of the vary gentlemen who held
op their hands amongst that number would yet vote for him ;
for, although they withhold their assent: up to the last moments
yet they eventually say, " We can't els to against that old fel-
low."—(Loud cheers and laughter.) He had indefatigably
attendci to his duties in the !louse of Commons, and although
sometimes from the effect of years he was obliged upon pro-
tracted questions to seek a pair, yet. his younger colleagues
were always to be found at their posts.. He should now come
as even
a n orator when
the
sir Mat thew
andNohae Lord
a as himself after
to the fourth candidate for their suffrages—one who, from his
high station, should have been the firs t —he meant Lord John
Russell.—(Trentendous cheering for• several minutes.)
an He
llis capacity
as,.a
poli-
tician.—(Cheers.) (Sir M. Vs ofd) had been my years. with him in the House
of Commons, and had heard him six ale after the first orators of
leaving his bed of sickness—.a,ld was electrified by
theday—and
his talents
If he Wood) so. nght his
own comfort he would !tot ask them for their suffrage. He
was actuated alone by a feeling of at • for the of
arety goo the