The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-28 00:00:00

FRIDAY.

The poll opened this morning at eight o'clock, and for
the first two boors Mr. Murray had the advantage. It
was obvious, however, that the Tories had resorted exten.
sively to their old practices, and cash began to fly in
abundance. In some instances 15/. was given by them
for a vote ; the general price was 101, and men might be
seen openly displaying the bribes they had received. To
show the extent to which parties carried their intimidation,
we may mention that respectable tradesmen, whom we
should have thought independent of any neighbouring
petty despot, declared to the Reformers, " Our principles
are with you—but our custom is against yuu, and so we
must vote for trade."

At four o'clock Mr. Murray with his friend 3 pr.:cqeded
to the busting 3.

Mr. MUltitAT came forward amidst loud cheers. He
said he wished to ask them one question ; did they see
anything like the traces of defeat in his countenance ?
(Cheers.) Did they see there anything like disappoint-
ment at the result of this contest? ("No," and cheers.)
He was there then with a spirit as indomitable as when he
addressed there after the magnificent show of hands they
honoured htm with upon bi riaionitlon. If they thought
that tlmt effigy of a toz--((hcers)—wilieli perh-ps had
if or,,,,bad ja its pericranium inteiligenee equal to some
t !,uman beings they had seen on tnis occa-oit; if they
Ithought that miserable exhibition ;.ad created any dismay
in Isis breast, they very much belied tie character he ought
to occupy in their minds.—(Cheers.) Certainly the poor
devil of a goose—(Loud cheers and laughter)—had
been -very badly treated, and though he had no
i wish to occupy its place, he must say, he would
j rather . be _..the goose and himself, than the fox and

the Hon. Member.—(Loud cheers.) He felt proud to
hick that the coolest had been conducted with that gen-
rlemanly feeling which had characterised it throughout•
He (Mr Murray) came forward to offer to represent
them in Parliament, and declared the sentiments on vthich
ne asked their suffrages. It appeared from the poll that
they differed with him in his opinions—( Shouts of " No")
—he spoke of the electors—and they had therefore pro-
perly returned another gentleman. Properly, he meant,
as regarded the law 3 which now control the electric
franchise. He might have occasion to find fault with
those laws shculd h ever obtain a sea in the Legislature,
but so long as they were the law, they were bound to respect
their observance. They had received him with kindness,
and the popular expression of opinion was triumphantly
it
in his favour. They might, perhaps, deem due thathe
should give some explanation of the cause of his standing
forward to contest the borough. It was no feeling of a per-
sonal nature towards Mr. Fox that led him to oppose him—
be never would have stood in the situation he occupied yes-
terday, nor have gone to the poll, had he not been led to ex-
pect, from calcubitions that had not turned out in the result
to be true, that be stood a fair chance of being sent to
Parliament by a majority of their suffrages.-(A cry of
" Treachery.") How that defalcation had arisen time
would probably unravel; at the present moment, the
opinions he had on the subject were his own, and he should
not be justified in statirg them without having investigated
the facts. He had been proud to meet in Beverley many
Reformers who would do honour to any town or place in
England. Messrs. Sandwith, Bell, Hodgson, and Pen-
, nock Tiger, were especially alluded to. There were
others who formed his Committee who were also worthy
of the good opinion of any community. But it was his
bounden duty to tell them that these gentlemen were
never, from the first, responsible to him for his return.
They put their names down as sanctioning his election ;
but it was thought more advisable that it should be
managed in another manner. He knew nothing of
that management, as he had net been honoured with
a knowledge of anything the gentlemen who under-
toek that duty had performed ; but he knew tnis_
that the result was very different from what he
had been led to expect. He must tell them,
a,th feelings of shame, teat the electors of Beverley could
Lever, in future, get any man of spirit and independence
to contest their borougn.—(Loud cheers, and shouts of
We never shall ") You will never, (said Mr. M., hold-
ing ue an or inge handkerchief). get a man to lift that
at:lege oat cf the mire in which it is now—never get a
me.. who eau co ~t: at with e chance of succ. as the goad
cruse. He witiie I teem to look seriously at the circum-
tencee of t- ea, . Teat was virtually a close borough
of ; I 'oris —( Loiiii cheers.) That spit it of purity
which eulite of them might have had in their dreams might
have been expected 'o have been ntanilested now ; but
what had taken place on the present occasion ? A gentle-
man not far from Beverley may reap the results of the
fight he (Mr. M.) had fought for them. —(Cheers.)
He gave it as his opinion that the Liberal interest
could not place confidence in exertions tliat had on
the present occasion turned out so disattreus. Per-
sonally he telt no disappeintment ; as he bee told them
before, a seat in Parliament was not an obj-et of very
great ambition to himself. He could tell them—though
he did not wish to boost of it before—that seats in Par-
liament were much more accessible to him than to the
Gentleman whom they had elected, who, with all the
respect he had for him for his gentlemanly conduct, he
must say, he thought, was not likely to have an invitation
from any other constituency.—( Loud laughter.) He
said this without any desire to disparage Mr. Fox, who,
no doubt, would discharge his duty to the best of his
ability.---( Laughter.) He (Mr. M.) must tell them that
never again could they be called the free and independent
electors of Beverley—except in mockery of language
and with a smile of derision upon the face of the man
who pronounces it.—(Cheers.) They had bound them-
selves to the God of Mammon, and they would not
raise themselves until they took their affairs more seri-
ously into their own hands. The circumstances of this
election forced the question upon them, whether the
electors of Beverley ought to be longer entrusted with
the eleetive franchise ?...te(" That's right.") Let them
recollect, that so far as any market could be made of that
franchise, it was spoiled for ever ; therefore, disfran-
chisement could, in that point of view, make no differ-
ence to them at all. Never again would they be asked for
their votes in a contested election—their votes, so far as
the Parliarrentary franchise was concerned, were only as
useful to them as cold water. These circumstances might
shortly become the subject of investigation in Parliament.
He did not pledge himself, but he did not know whether
certain matters might not arise which would induce him to
have the public spirit to go into that investigation.—
(Cheers.) He should do so without any animosity to the
gentleman they had elected, but upon public grounds--
and believe him, if he did undertake it, they would in the
end thank him for his conduct.—(Cheers.) He was about
to take leave of them, but he must say that he liked the
people of Beverley very much, though the electors had
not liked him on the present occasion. During his canvass
he had seen many things among the people worthy the very
best days of uid England. During his sojourn he had been
received with the most kindly feelings ; he left them with
those feelings, and should ever be ready hereafter, when
his services could be useful in a public capacity, to render
them, though they had not returned him to Parliament.—
(Cheers. ) His mind was entirely filled with higher con-
siderations than the question whether they had or had not
elected him, and he could say that if ever he should be
asked for a favour from Beverley, he should recollect the
women of the borough.—(Cheers)—and he could not re-
fuse a favour within his power if the application was backed
by them. —(Cheers.) He had not thought it worth while
to answer the squibs put out against him; but in one of
these he was styled an adventurer. He was proud to say,
that like many other men, several of whom had risen
to eminence, he had adventured in life, and had suc-
ceeded in all his adventures.—(Cheers.) It had been
stated the previous evening by an Hon. Member of the
House of Commons, that he bad made inquiries in the
House of Commons as to who he (Mr. M.) was, and
that he cmill not find any person who knew him.
He ( Mr. M.) would undertake to say one of two things
tots true—rither the Hon. Gentleman was not extensively
acquainted with Members of the House—)Laughter)—or
that he did not state the whole fact. He believed the for-
mer was the case, and he had a guarantee for it in the
fact that he (Mr. M.) was intimately known to more than
one-half of the Members of that House.—( Cheers.) He
owed every thing he had to himself, and could tell them
that as regarded the confidence placed in him by others,
he was engaged in transactions over which he had con-
t.and management which had a capital far more than
he believed would buy all the Tories of Beverley—( Loud
cheers)--both lie present and past, up to their great
grand it hers,—( Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman again
exprs-sed his sense of the kindness of the people of Be-
verley, and repeated that on any occasion they might com-
mand his services, the application were backed by the
women. He retired amidst loud cheers from the crowd.