The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-03 00:00:00

TOWER HAMLETS ELECTION.

(Continued from our Evening Edition of yesterday. )
A loud call having been made for Colonel Thompson, who
sat next Mr. Clay on the hustings,
The GALLANT COLONEL rose and said he knew nbt to
what cause to attribute this ebullition of kind feeling on the
part of the meeting, except it Was to the extreme kindness
they had shown to his tion, and an appreciation of his bumble but
unceasing elforts in the cause of free trade, They had been de-
feated in their endeavours to teach the poorman what ought to be
the rights of a maritime nation like England; still there was many
a shipwright who had learned it t but beefsteaks and strong
ale prevailed over their convictions—that part of the glorious
constitution which rested on gin and bitters proved too strong
for the sense of justice. It was a pitiful sight to seethe drunken
and degraded voters wheeled to the hustings in a carriage,
while the honest artisans who stood aloof from such corrup-
tion, and the respectable middle classes and shopkeepers were
persecuted and intimidated. They had an union of parties, the
most extreme, from the Whig of the old school to the Radical
rifleman and Chartist renovator, and he would entreat of all
who stood up like him for the people's charter, to recollect
that in the present struggle they had advanced their political
status in the Constitution, and given an eminent instance of
determination of purpose and self-possession. Abstract poli-
tical questions have in some degree merged in one, in
which every sane and honest man can understand, and that is
whether industry shall be free and unshackled, or whether it
shall be trod wider foot for the benefit of the monopolists.—
(Loud cheers.) They knew what hurt them, they knew the
Poor-law pressed sorely upon them, but they also knew it was
the Corn-laws which drove the poor to seek refuge in the Bastiles.
Hard and bitter as were the Poor-laws, the prime source
of evil was the Poor-laws, whieh made it impossi-
ble for the poor man to go through life without
the chance of ending his days in the workhouse,
He was certainly out of Parliament, and as he could not assist
the cause in-doors, he would try what‘he could do out.—(Tre-
mendous cheering.) He looked on the scenes he had just
gone through was well calculated to inspire their friends
with success at a future time. They had learned one
secret which they must turn to account at a future
period. To give their best exertions to the promotion of their
common good, and to the best of means of bringing forward
that intelligent class—the working classes—the man of toil
and labour, and placing him at that point of political infleence
to which he had consistently a claim.—(Loud cheers.) He
would take that opportunity of thanking them for allowing him
to address them—assuring them that when it was heard of, as it
would be throughout the country, the honest men in whose be-
nefit he had been engaged, and who would make themselves
heard, would rejoice in the reception they had given to him, as
one engaged in the common service of all. The Gallant Colonel
then retired amidst great cheering.
Mr. CLAY then came forward and said that he had
a very pleasing duty to perform, which was that of
proposing a vote of thanks to the Returning Officer.—(Loud
cheers.) That duty would conclude the business of that
election. The good order and regularity that had prevailed
throughout the election entitled the Returning Officer and his
assistants to their best thanks.—(Cheers.) Every one, he was
sure, must have seen that every opportunity had been afforded
to every elector to reeord his vote in behalf of the candidates
he supported.—( Hear, hear.) Every voter gave his vote
at the different polling-booths without the slightest
molestation or hinderance, and for this they were indebted to
the arrangements of their Returning Officer.—( Cheers.) He
had great pleasure in moving that a vote of thanks be given
to the Returning Officer and his assistant for their exertions
daring this election.
Colonel Fox having seconded the motion, and the Return-
ing Officer having returned thanks, three cheers were given for
the Queen, and the meeting separated.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Lord John Russell's return for the city of
London is a distinct recognition of, and an indelible
testimony of approbation by thd first commercial city
of the world, to the great measures for reforming our
fiscal and commercial policy, on which the Government,
sanctioned by the Sovereign, has appealed to the coun-
try. The Noble Lord was especially identified with
those measures ; and disdained to enter the House of
Commons in any other capacity. than as the chosen of
a constituency capable of appreciating their importance
and value to the commerce of the country.. With
the boldness which conscious rectitude inspires in minds
of a superior order, he entered the arena as their cham-
pion ; and sustained, as was to be expected, the brunt of
the contest ; having directed against him the special
energies of the powerful class interests which those
measures sought to deprive of privileges injurious to the
public weal, but which, by long-established possession,
they claimed as vested rights. The retainers and de-
pendents of those powerful corporations and confedera-
tions were up in arms ; and all the influences
they could bring to bear in favour of their cherished
purpose were put in motion. Wealth, beyond any
amount ever before expended in an election contest in
the City of London, was subscribed and lavished, to
obtain the votes of a class of the Livery who regard
the franchise as a possession which is worth just what
it will fetch at elections, whether of the corporation, or
for Members of Parliament. This class, as the pub-
lished poll will prove, were remarkably unanimous in
their preference of the Monopolists' candidates. But,
malgre all the efforts of the City Tories—in spite of all
the aid they derived from the bigots in religion—from
the alarm of the worshippers of Mammon, trembling
for the safety of the idol of their adoratiou, on whose
altar they would offer up the life-blood of their country
—in spite of the sickening venality of the numerous
class of purchaseable voters, and of the intimidation and
coercion practised upon all over whom such influences
were likely to prevail—Lord John Russell is one of the
Members for the City of London. The champion of
Commercial Reform is one of the representatives of the
first commercial city in the world ;, which has, by his
election, pronounced its fiat of approval upon the mea-
sures, and upon the Government which had discernment
to perceive the advantages they are calculated to confer
upon the country, and courage to face the combined op-
position of those who profit, or imagine they profit, by
the monopolies these measures will destroy.
COURIER.—We shall have all the " large towns "
with us, sung the Ministerial prints, with stentorian ac-
cord, before the dissolution. How have all the " large
towns," so atrociously libelled by the imputed
kinship of opinion, and the disgustingly profferred
embraces with ministerialism, responded to the im-
pudent fraternization ? The great metropolis, which
was again to be flooded with four Whig-Radi-
cals, returned as before by bribery, false swearing,
and the personation of absent or dead men elec-
tors, has at the first heave cast off One half of the
night-mare by which it was ridden, and under whose visi-
tation it has been groaning, and we trust that Mr. Wol-
verley Attwood will not let the matter rest until he
have re-established himself in his proper place on the poll,
and relieved the abused and suffering constituency
from one other fourth at least of the incubus by
which it is oppressed. Westminster, another of the
" large towns," as we take it, has sent to the right
about the only apostate Whig-Radical by which its re-
presentation was disgraced, and had another Conserva-
tive been started, would, with equal ease, have despatched
the more honest but mistaken Radical as a " co-mate in
exile" with the " blood-red knight" of Hernani—that is,
if he would have kept such company. Birmingham has
made a gallant struggle, but for the nonce in vain.
Leeds has divided its honours between a time-honoured
Conservative name, and a Radical of reputed integrity
of political sentiment, however deplorably ill advised
and ignorant in constitutional principle. But Leeds, any
how, would neither tolerate longer the hypocritical trim•
mer and jobber who, by timely retirement, avoided an
ignominious rejection, nor contaminate itself by alliance
with the representative of that perjuring code of Greek
morality, the first avowed element of which is to swear
black to be white, or white to be black, at the profitable
and political convenience of the affidavit-monger.
STANDARD.—We have still to continue our record
of Conservative gains at the city aid borough elections—
at Leeds one—at Barnstaple one—at Wigan two ; and
we doubt not that we shall have to make additions before
our time of going to press. On the other side, the seat
for Marylebone, lately occupied by Lord Teignmouth
(the panegyrist of the New Poor-law), has been lost.
Various solutions of this loss have been offered ;
and it is difficult to account with certainty for a result in
this wealthy district so different from what has been seen
to follow similar contests in the adjacent cities of West-
minster and London. We think, however, that, without
imputing blame to the Conservative party in Maryle-
bone, their defeat may be explained by the mischief
of a succession of changes in their candidates, and by
the legacy of unpopularity which Lord Teignmouth be-
queathed in his uncalled-for eulogy upon the most odious of
all the odious measures of the Queen's present Ministers.
Lord Teignmouth was not elected as an admirer of the New
Poor-law, but as a member of a party, the great majority of
whom are opposed to that law, and the electors of
Marylebone might naturally enough apprehend that
in voting for the Conservative candidates they
would vote for men likely to imitate his Lordship. Be
the cause, however, what it may, the seat for Mary-
lebone has been lost to the Conservatives, and
probably will remain for some time with their
adversaries. There is something capricious and peculiar
in the character of metropolitan boroughs, which must
ever render success in them extremely doubtful, except to
Persona who are ready to follow all the fluctuations o
opinions from day to day. From the extent of these bo-
roughs and their total want of organization, or, indeed, of
uponon,except the day ofelection, it is scarcely possible
that a candidate can be even in a slight degree known to any
considerable
number of electors ; while the transitory con-
dition of the electors themselves forbids that any candi-
date can, whatever his wish, personally cultivate their good
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opinion. Thus it happens that a person having once crept
into the representation, and thus becoming the only
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difficult ; and when he is removed, the first bidder for
popularity is almost sure to succeed him if he only em-
ploy ordinary diligence, and bid high enough. It is
thus that Sir Charles Napier may have come so
easily
into the representation of Marylebone.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY, 8 O'CLOCK: -_The
utmost indignation was expressed here this evening on
the arrival of the packet, for which all Dublin was on the
qvi vive, at the lie attempted to be foisted upon the public
by the Standard, in publishing a falsified state of the
poll, for the purpose of gaining paltry triumph for a few
hours or minutes by such a discreditable ruse. I have
seldom known, even on the part of the Tories, anything
so disgraceful. I can assure you, with the most perfect
truth, that the utmost joyous excitement pervaded the
people of the Irish metropolis, notwithstanding that
two Tories were returned, when it was known that the
leader of the House of Commons, and the hereditary
enemy of the oppressors of the people was ahead upon
the poll.
FALMOUTH.—Her Majesty's steam-packets
Magnet, Lieut. Griffiths, and Pigeon, Lieut. ;Tames, arrived
on Thursday ; the former from the Brazils and the latter
from Mexico, having a freight of 11,000,000 dollars. A
change of Ministry had taken place at Rio ; the result of
an interview of the Government with the Emperor
relative to the affairs of the disturbed provinces. Late
mercantile arrivals preclude our furnishing any other in-
telligence of interest.
The Primate of Ireland has resigned his rec-
torial tithes at Donaghsdee, amounting to 3504 per annum, to
augment the income of the Vicar.

DREADFUL RIOTS AT LIVER

POOL-FIVE PERSONS SHOT.

We regret to state that this election has not passed off
without serious rioting having taken place, in the course
of which four men and one woman were shot, and others
severely, nay, dangerously wounded. It appears that a
party of the Conservative ship-carpenters and a large
party of the Irish, met after the nomination, and had a
regular pitched battle.
At one time there could not be less than 20,000 per-
sons congregated in St. James's-street. A large body of
the police, under the command 'of Mr. Whitley,
and a Icily of Chelsea pensioners, made every endea-
vour to restrain the riotous disposition of the mob, but
they were unable to do so for a great length of time.
Several persons were taken into custody.
In Fisher-street others of the Irish got upon the tops of
the houses, and were engaged in hurling bricks and mis-
siles therefrom at a most alarming rate. The mounted po-
lice immediately charged, and a party of foot police was
placed between the belligerents in Parliament-street, by
means of which they confined the Irish to the old bo •
rough and the Conservatives to the Park. Many of the
Conservatives had, however, by this time been severely
wounded, and as a natural consequence the party became
very much excited. The police then endeavoured to dis-
perse both sides, but were unable to do so until about
ten o'clock. In the meantime the Irish party were engaged
in smashing windows in Mersey-street and that vicinity,
and were so determined on doing injury that they kept
for a considerable length of time a large body of police
in pursuit of them. A body of the ruffians broke all the
windows in the house of Mr. Taylor, publican, in Simp-
son-street ; Mr. Gubbins, publican, of Park-lane, and the
Globe Tavern, in Kent-street—places where the ship-car-
penters have beenin the habit of resorting, and which are
known to be held by-Conservative landlords. The same body
then assembled in front of the public-house kept by Mr.
Casewent (Conservative), at Salthouse Dock. He warned
them of the consequences which would result if they pro-
ceeded to do any nuschief, but, heedless of aThremonstrance,
they smashed every window in his' dwelling, and one
of the missiles, we regret to say, struck Miss Casement,
his daughter, and hurt her very severely. Mr. Case-
went then fired two pistols, loaded with slugs, amongst
them, and shot four men and one woman—one of the
men was very dangerously wounded, the others not so
dangerously.
The mob then threatened to have vengeance, and
hearing that fatal consequences might ensue, Mr.
Casement was conveyed to Bridewell under an escort
of police, and constables were sent to guard his house.
He was to have been brought before Mr. Rushton
to-day on the charge, but should the wounds prove
mortal, a very general opinion prevails that a verdict of
" Justifiable homicide" can only, under the circum-
stances, be returned. Then the Irish rallied, and were
proceeding with a green flag along the streets, when
they wero met by two bodies of police and dispersed.
In the meantime, the whole of the north end of the
town, generally speaking, was in a state of the most tre-
mendous uproar. Somewhere about eighty persons who
had been engaged in the disturbance were taken into
custody, lodged in Bridewell, and were to have been also
brought before Mr. Rushton to-day. Hundreds of win-
dows, and, in some instances, the doors of houses, were
smashed to pieces.
Late at night an attempt was made to break into two
shops in Tithebarn-street, after the families retired to
rest, for the purpose of robbing the premises ; but the
police arrested the fellows in the act, and put them in
Bridewell.

These are the short facts of what occurred. The
scenes were of a very alarming character, and consider-
able injury to persons and property were the lamentable
consequences.