The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-28 00:00:00

Mr. JonN MACLAREN seconded the nomination of Mr.
Waltley, and, in sn, ot,s,rvrsti that that: r•nntlamgn
and Mr. Dune).i,b: 'would nA t..nly be the two first
but the two best Members returned to the'new Parliaui nt.

The RETURNING OFFICER then put the names of both
the candidates to the electors, and declared them both to
be duly elected Members to serve ia Parliament for the
borough of Finsbury, amidst the most tremendous
cheering.
Mr. WAnLEY then came forward to return thanks to
the electors for the honour they had done him and his
Hon. Co!league in again elec:ing them as their represen-
tatives in Parliament. The Hon. Member was received
on presenting himself with the most vociferous cheering,
which lasted for several minutes. After silence had been
in some measure secured, Mr. Wakley said that he stood
before the electors of Finsbury again to discharge a
pleasing duty, that of returning thanks for the
honour they hal done him. He was sorry,
however, that that pleasure was accompanied
with great pain, in consequence of the ab-
sence of his worthy colleague, who was labouring
under so severe an attack of indisposition that it might
cost him his life if he attempted to appear on the hust-
ings. Mr. Duncombe, he was sorry to say, in conse-
quence of his great exertions in the House of Commons,
had been for some time suffering most severely from in-
disposition. Why, he would ask, had his health suffered
so severely? The question was easily answered—it was
because he had displayed the most unwearied zeal in the
cause of the people and the electors of Finsbury.—
(Cheers.) Tom Duncombe was one of the most gallant
fellows that ever entered the House of Commons—
(Cheers)—and he (Mr. Wakley) esteemed him far more
than he could mention.—(Cheers.) He trusted that as
long as he had the honour of representing Finsbury in
Parliament he should have the pleasure of having Mr.
Duncombe as a colleague. He was a man that would
never flinch in any public cause, and if he would only
pay that attention to his health which his condition
required, he (Mr. Wakley) was in hopes that he would
soon be able to return to the scene of action in the
House of Commons, and would be ready as a fresh giant
to fight over and over again the battle of the people in
that arena. Of this he was sure, that such was Mr.
Duncombe's constitution, that no enemy could make him
quail, or prevent his advocating the interests of the
people.—(Cheers.) He firmly believed that no man
in the House of Commons was so true a friend of the
people as Tommy Duncombe.— (Cheers and laughter.)
The proceedings of that day at Finsbury were, it was
true, rather flat; they had no enemy to cope with.—
(Laughter.) If they had, he was bound to say it would
make the proceedings a little more pleasant.—(A laugh.)
The truth, however, was, that Sam Warren, who had
sought to be their opponent, had given up the thought
of representing them.—(Laughter.) Now, he would tell
that gentleman that he would be called a coward if he
did not come forward on another occasion and try his
luck in Finsbury.—(Great laughter.) Mr. Warren had
stated that his reason for not coming forward was, that
his friends had gone out of town—(Laughter)—but where
was Mr. Warren himself ?—(Laughter.) Surely he
could not complain of his friends running away, when
he had decamped himself.—(Roars of laughter.) Mr.
Warren had told them, in his parting address, that he
was on the Northern Circuit. If he was, he (Mr. Wak-
ley) thought he bad better stop there.—(Laughter.) He
understood that Mr. Warren was a lawyer—(Laughter)
—but he was also a writer ; he had written a parcel of
trash called " The Diary of a Pysician," although he
(Mr. Wakley) believed that, if he was asked
the question, that he would not know a dose
of salts from a dose of rhubarb.—(Great laughter.) But
why, he would ask, had Mr. Warren come forward at
all? He might be wrong; but he strongly suspected
that he had come forward from feelings of personal re-
sentment to him (Mr. Wakley). All present must re-
collect that at Hounsluw, last year, a poor wretch died
from having his flesh torn from his back by being
flogged, and he thought they must all equally know that
the surgeon that stood by and saw all that done without
attempt.ng to interfere was a person of the name of
Warren.—(Cheers.) On that occasion his duty as
col oner compelled him to hear that case. The course
that he pursued on that occasion had been unpalatable to
some persons; but he trusted that every right-minded
man was of opinion that he had discharged his duty to
his Queen, the people, and to humanity. If on that
occasion he had leant to the side of humanity, he was
sure he would have had the support of every humane
and thinking man—(Cheers)—but he had done no such
thing, he had not leant to the right or the left, and for
having done that he had been most atrociously libelled.
He did not complain much of that—(Great laughter)—
because misrepresentations, and lies, and calumnies made
people inquire, and if a public men could not stand all
that he was totally unfit for the position which he held.
—(Great cheering.) But when men descended to false-
hood and malignant lies against public officers, it then
became the duty of public men to appeal to the country
for protection from such attacks.—(Cheers.) Now he
(Mr. Wakley) had applied to the Court of Queen's
Bench for that protection, not so much for
himself, but for the protection of the office which
he held.—(Cheers.) Well, he got what was called
a rule nisi, and there the matter stopped for some time.—
(Cheers). It was curious, but yet not more curious than
true, that, in some instances, the law was uncommonly
tardy, but confoundedly quick when a man was in debt.
—(Great laughter). Well before the proceedings came
on in the Court of Queen's Bench a charge was brought
against him in the House of Commons, and if he mistook
not, the part) bringing forward that charge was utterly
ashamed of himself, for he got a little flogging there as
well as poor White at Hounslow. The Hon. Member
then proceeded at some length to detail the
proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench,
which are so well known to our readers as
not to require repitition. After paying a high
compliment to the electors of Finsbury, whom the Hon.
Member denominated as the most independent consti-
tuency in the empire, he said he would not detain them
much longer, because they had other duties to perform
elsewhere.—(Cheers.) The electors of Finsbury had
done their duty nobly—(Great cheering)—but there
were other places in which they must perform their
duty as nobly.—(Cheers.) In the City there were four
men as candidates whom he hoped, in the course of a
few days, to see the Members for that great constituency.
—(Cheers.) In the choice of representatives it was
the duty of the electors not to cavil at a few
omissions on the part of any particular candidate, but
to select such as were best calculated to produce the
most public good.—(Cheers.) Now, among the can-
didates for the City, the first name that caught his eye
was that of Russell.—(Cheers and hisses.) That was a
name that was not only great in former, but in the
present days. It should be recollected that Lord John
Russell was a Reformer when it was a crime to be so.
—(Cheers.) The electors ought not to be forgetful of the
past services of any one; let them recollect that Lord J.
Russell was the first who ventured to move the repeal of
the Test and Corporatian Acts and when they
saw him united with such men as Pattison, a thorough-
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another trial, and if they found that he did not do his
duty, then let them call upon him to resign.—(Cheers.)
Would it not, he would ask, be much better to select
those men as Members who were for some reform than
those who were for no reform at all ?—(Cheers.)
It was almost needless for him again to repeat
his opinions with respect to taxation.—(Cheers, and
cries of " No.") He was and ever had been of opinion
that the income-tax ought to be abolished—(Cheers)—
that a property-tax ought to be put on and continued to
the end of time.—(Great cheering.) All taxes on the
necessaries of life, in his opinion, ought to be taken off,
especially the malt-tax, the tax on sugar, and the
window-tax—(Cheers)—and the burden of taxation
ought to be placed on the property of the kingdom.—
(Great cheering.) They were now about to have a
new Parliament, and he was glad to see that they had
mad a radical beginning.—(Great cheers.) The last
Parliament had done much good, but he hoped the new
or e would do much more.—(Cheers.) He and his col-
leagues were the first Members who had had the honour
of being returned to the Parliament of 1847, and he
trusted the electors would ever find them grateful for it.
—(Cheers.) He was sorry to see the apathy of the
electors in many parts of the country, because he felt
convinced that if that apathy were removed, many mea-
sures that had been introduced in the last Parliament
would not have met the fate they did.—(Cheers.)
Among many of the proposals to be introduced in the
next Parliament would doubtless be one for the
endowment of the Catholic priesthood of Ireland.—(Cries
of " Shame.") He (Mr. (Wakley) was no bigot. He
would as soon endow the Catholic as any body,
but he was against all endowments, and he would caution
any Minister against adopting any such course.—
(Cheers.) He hoped the public opinion would be
strongly pronounced during the present elections on the
subject of endowments.—(Cheers.) The Honourable
Member concluded a long and most excellent speech by
thanking the electors for the honour they had done him,
and assuring them that they would ever find him the
same faithful servant to their cause and that of the
people that he had been for so many years. The Hon.
Gentleman retired amid loud and protracted cheering.
Mr. ARMSTRONG, the chairman of Mr. Duncombe's

committee, addressed the electors on behalf of that
gentleman, regretting his absence and the cause of it.
A vote of thanks, on the motion of Mr. WAKLEY,
was unanimously agreed to to the returning officer, and
the meeting then broke up.
The result of this election is, that Mr. Duncombe and
Mr. Wakley have the honour of being the first two
Members in the new House of Commons of 1847.

INSOLVENT COURT--(THIS DAY.)
IN RE ROBERT BEAN THE YOUNGER.
This insolvent whose case was noticed in The Evening
Sun on the 7th instant, again appeared. He had been a
stock and sharebroker at Hull, and was opposed on the
part of Messrs. Al'sop and Son, and Mr. Cornish, share-
brokers in the same place. Two points of opposition—
fraudulently contracting a debt and vexatiously defend-
ing an action--were urged against the insolvent, and
eventually his case was adjourned for him to describe
himself as a jobber in the funds.
This morning on the insolvent appearing for judg-
ment, it was stated that the opposing creditors did not
pray the judgment of the Court.
Mr. Commissioner Pnitaapps told the insolvent that
it was exceedingly well for him that no judgment was
prayed. The case had occupied him a considerable time,
and now that the opposition had been withdrawn, there
was an end of it. " I will only tell you," added the Learned
Commissioner, " and it may be a warning to you, that I
had marked you for eight months imprisonment."
The Attorney for the insolvent (Mr. Lewis) said the
Court bad held that the opposition for fraudulently con-
tracting a debt could not be sustained because there had
been no continuous dealings between the pa, ties.
The insolvent was ordered to be discharged.

The Hon. William Ashley left town yesterday for
Bushy House, Bushy Park, the residence of her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager.