The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

EVEN' NG ED ITION.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR,.

Tne polling commenced yesterlay morning at nine,
and continued with great activity throughout the day.
The approaches to the hustings were kept clear by a
large body of the City police, and the voters met with
no other annoyance than the hissings, hootings, or
cheers of the friends of the respective candidates who
filled the body of the Hall. The Guildhall-yard also
presented a very animated appearanee, being crowded
with placard bearers, ballad singers, and the itinerant
venders of wares of every description, while in one
corner a disciple of the Temperance movement was
distributing tracts, and addressing a large and good-
humoured audience in an impassioned strain in favour of
the pure element.
At three o'clock the poll-book; were closed, add
at
that hour the body of the Hall and hustings were densely
crowded.
In about a quarter of an hour the numbers at the
close of the day's poll were posted up on the boards at
the back of the hustings, as follows ;
Alderman Pirie 1,904
Alderman Johnson
Alderman Harmer 1,565

The two former were received with iningled cheers
and hisses, while that of Mr. Alderman Harmer was
received with loud and vociferous cheers.
Mr. Alderman HARMER. then came forward and
was greeted with bond and very general cheering. He
said, Gentlemen, I have again to thank the Livery
for the kind support they have afforded me. My op-
ponents have increased their majority, but there ie no
reason to despair.—(Cries of " No, no,". and cheers.)
Before the last contest for the Mayoralty a mush
larger majority towards the close was against Sir
John Key, but he pulled up arid succeeded.—Cries of
" So will you," " No, no," " Yes," " It's no go," and much
cheering.) If the contest were to end now I should
consider myself as being in a most triumphant position.
—(Oh. and cheers.) I consider that the Livery have
behaved most handsomely, becauoe they were told. that
if they came and voted for me they would be held up to
odium ; and yet they have dared, netwithstandieg that
threat, to come forward and enrol their manses in my
behall.—(Hear, and cheers.) My opponents little
thought that that threat would ba defied, and that I
would have so respectable a numbest as that
board exhibits.—(Cheers and laugister.) Gentle-
men, I again repeat what I told y*u yesterday,
that I throw myself upon the Livery. I consider that
I am fighting their battle, and, humble individual as I
am, I am defending their rights and privileges.—(Tre-
mendous cheering.) Gentlemen, I aria somewhat ex-
hausted, and therefore I hope you will excuse my ad-
dressing you at any greater length to-day. Allow me
to add, that I regretted, on coming to the Hall to-day,
to see a yellow placard about the streets, and beg to
say, unequivocally and distinctly—and no one who knows
me will doubt my word—(Cheers)—that I did not
sanction that placard, nor did I know that it was in ex-
istence. I declare, upon my honour, that I never au-
thorised it, nor did I know of its existence till I saw
it this morning.—(Tremendous cheers.) I now take
my leave of you, with many thanks for your kind sup-
port.
Mr. MEEK then presented himself, and was received
with a storm of hisses, hootings, yells, &c. After bear-
ing the brunt of the battle for several minutes, Mr. Meek
retired, and
Mr. Alderman flaitmEa again presented himself,
when the cheering was again renewed. He said he
understood that the Gentleman behind him (Mr. Meek)
wished to address some words to the Livery in his
(Alderman Harmer's) hearing, and he begged they
would give him a patient hearing.
Mr. MEEK then came forward, but the uproar was
again renewed, and was continued without the slightest .
intermission during the few minutes he continued to
address the meeting. We understood from the reporter
for the Herald, who stood upon the platform with his
ear close to Mr. Meek's mouth, and who was the only
person in the hall who could have heard a word of his
address, that Mr. Meek entered into some explanations
relative to Mr. Moore's signature.
Mr. Alderman HARMER again presented himself and
was most loudly cheered by a large majority in the
Hall. He said, the Gentlemen who had just ad-
dressed them had said he wished to say a few words
in his (the Alderman's) hearing, but what he had said
was all between himself and the reporter, into whose
ear he had unfolded what he had to say—not one
word had reached the ears of any other person.—
(Hear, hear.) Yesterday that Gentleman and an•
other bad impeached his veracity, respecting a cir-
cumstance which he had mentioned, and they asked
him to give names. He did so, and Mr. Marriot,
upon whose authority he (the Alderman) had made
the st ttement, was then present, and would tell the
Livery the facts connected with it.
Mr. MArtatorr said—Gentlemen of the Livery, having
read to the Times of this morning, " that Mr. Alderman
Harmer's veracity was impeached respecting a declaration
mane by him upon my authority, I have left a sick room,
in nrci,, to come here and substantiate the assertion
then nt Oft. I was the author of the declaration made
by Mr. AlLicrnixa Harmer, and I am now here to sub-
stantiate it.—(Loud cheers.) On Saturday, the 19th
oF last month, a friend of mina was in a public office in
Bridge-street, Blackfriard, when Mr. Baldwin, the pro-
prietor, and, as far as I know, the editor of the Sian-
'ard newspaper, came in with a largo sheet of
p iper, printed on three sides, in his had, to which he
requested the gentlemen present to attaeis their sigma-
twee. They did so—but one of them, a gentleman
named Moore, immediately asked what the (lowliest
was to which be had attached his name. He was
told it was a declaration against Mr. Alderman Har-
mer. Mr. Moore, as every honest Klan would
do wader such circumstances, said—" I have inadver-
tently avaelied my signature to a paper, of the purport
of which I was not aware. Before I part with the pen, as
I do not agree with the declaration, I will erase my
nansie." Because these facts were denied I left a sick
room in order to tell you, the Livery of London,
that I have this day seen Mr. Moore. I asked
" Was all you told me respecting the trans.
action of the 19th of September true':" His answer
was that ' The statement in the Times, as made by
Mr. Alderman Harmer, is correct in every particular—
(Loci cheers)—with one exception ; in the statement
in the Times it is said my signature was obtained gni-.
rqpritiously—l did not use, that word, but inadvertently."
—(Cheers.) I have now had tile satisfaction of laying
the whale of the facts of the case before you. Before 1
sit down, allow me, a Liverym in of forty years' standing.
daring the greater part of which I have had the honour
d pleasure of knowing Mr. Aldermao Harmer inti-
mately—if those who do not know him will take it from
m. I v;i:1 assure them that a more honest and upright man
des 2.0 t exist, and I trust there is virtue yet left among
the onpall •cl Livery of London to do justice to a into
who upon every occasion has proved himself the deter-
iniaed advocate of public principle, the people's rights,
And everything dear to mankind.
Hall was then adjourned till this day at nine
o'clock.

SUNDA\ FUNERALS.—The following is a
i-recimen of the tyranny which the " Poor's Man's
Chinch" in Sco;land now exercises over those who have
the misfortune to be under their dominion. It is from a
Correspondent of the Scotsman, and certainly forms a me-
lancholy contrast to the state of society which prevailed in
that country before tha bigots raised their heads over the
modtrato party in the Kirk ;--" A labouring man, whose
family reside in CausewaysidA, but is himself at present
engaged in harvest work in the country, bid the misfor-
tune to lute one of his e:lildren last week, but in conse-
giviiec of the prohibition of Sabbath funerals in the
VLst Church parish, the poor man was forced to
abandon his work, that he might perform the last sad
duty to his offloring on Saturday, The pecuniary loss,
which, in his circumstances, was a a erious one, he
would have submitted to without a murmur, but what
rett the feelings of this humble but well-conducted
family was, when the hour for removing the body arrived,
and 1.4 tong after, nobody appeared to assist in the solem-
nity. The bereaved mother, in a fit of agony, rushed from
the how, and implored some of the neighbours to give
their preaenee, but all were from home, attending their
several vocations. In her distraction, she applied to a most
respectable family near at hand, who, immediately upon
beafing her sad story, attired themselves in a suitable man-
ner, and accompanied the sorrowing father—in all, a com-
pany of three —to pay this, the last tribute due to our com-
mon nature. NO doubt, cases of this kind are of frequent
occurrence ; but the astonishing thing is, that the people
of this country should submit to it for a single day Why
should the ministers of the West Church, or any church,
have such dreadful powers of oppression lodged in their
bands ?

ANTWERP, SEPT. 27.—Yestarday evening a
pa;.--,enger was arrested on board the Belgian ship National,
bound to Rio Janeiro, Valparaiso, and ima. The reasons
for his arrest are not known.
The Courrzcr de Bordeaux relates the following
catastrophe :—"
A lady of this city, who had been for a
long time persecuted by the addresses of M. B. de
Fa
man for whom she fait no attachment, repeatedly rejected
them, and at last made,p2,,hp? mind to escape from his
importunities by leilvflig•tl4.ol/2v114, Y.rl7 on Saturday
mor,iine, M B. de F. suddenly made his ipPearriineoneihe
foot of her be a; and in answer to her demand of ivirpisir,
wanted with her, presented a pair of pistols. The lady,
with a mother's instinct, sprung towards a bed where her
children were lying, to protect them. M. B. de F. imme-
diately fired one of the pistols at her, end believing from
her screams that she was mortally wounded, put the muzzle
of the other pistol to his right eye and discharged its con-
tents into his own head. Ho lived to be carried home, but
died in the course of the day."
_ The Rev. Dr. Solomon Herschel, the Chief
Priest or Rabbi of the Jews„:plet,..yr4
~...Atr.erre, accident
one day last week it, stepping out of 'an OnTh'ittlilW4itia=
routtry. Bein
had time to was the act of slighting, when before Ins-
dilotor,
tt,
is
sputtr iris feet to the ground, the omnibus con-
. right," and
thaJodeusually the practice, celled out " All
si Tor was thrown with great force into the
road. It has
hipbone out of joi,.lt been ascertained that ha has put his
. ! and the medical gentleman who
attends him is of opmio-
his right leg aBsla.
121,: that bo will never be able to use
fair) Herschel had paid the conductor
of the vehicle his
curnstance may be beforezttributrl he got out, and to that rir-
rP:t. police succeeded, we . the unfortunate occurrence.
number. believe, in taking the conduc-
tor's