The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1841.

to vote and pass a polling-booth on his way.—(Shame, shame.) He
thought, however, Mr. M`Lean and the body who had acted under
him were entitled to their best thanks .for their able services.
He would now give them a parody, he thought at that mo.
ment might be fitly applied to the Tory Candidates. They all re.
membered the old school verses called the " Beggat's Petition."
He thought he might say of them—
Pity the sorrows of two poor old men,
Whose trembling limbs have borne them to your doer,
Whose cause has awindled to the shortest span,
Pay their expenses and they'll come no more.
—(Loud cheers and laughter.)

lighted to inform Sir George Cockburn of the high terms in
which his name had been alluded to.—(Hear, hear.) It was
unusual for a British Admiral to be beaten, but he must sub-
mit to it like a man; and he would now take leave of them,
congratulating them that the election had terminated so hand-
somely.—( Cheers. )
Mr. Young then shook hands with the two Members, wished
them success, and retired.

On the motion of Captain DUNDAS, seconded by Mr. BAR-
NARD, a vote of thanks was given to the Returning Officer,
Mr. Fisher, for his impartial conduct during the election.
Mr. FISHER. briefly returned thanks.
Three cheers were then given for " The Queen," and " One
cheer more for the Administration ;" after which the meeting
broke up.

Mr. Wm. HAWC3 came forward and said he should protest
against any vote of thanks being given to the Returning Officer.—
(Cheers and uproar.) From the first moment he was in possession
of the writ, every obstacle that one man could throw in the way of
the proceedings of this election, had been used by him.—
(Cries of " Shame.") The returning officer denied that.
When the writ was issued there was no opposition thought of, and
the nomination might have taken place on Monday, if he had acted
as the High Bailiff of Southwark had done.—(Cheers.) He was
applied to on the night he received the writ, to appoint a day for
the nomination, but he would not do so.—(Shame, shame.) And
during this delay an opposition was formed. Every other arrange-
ment of the election was in accordance with this. He (Mr.
Hawes) resided at Denmark-hill, and he had to pass
1 y that place (Kennington) and go to Stangate to give his vote.—
(Hear, hear, and cries of "Shame.") Gentlemen living at Den-
mark-hill and Brixton, and its neighbourhood, almost all kept their
carriages, and were mostly Tories, and it was no matter where
they went. (Cheers and laughter.) But the hardship was thrown
on the poor man, who was called from his work to poll at booths
several miles distant. By the arrangements of the returning officer,
all sorts of difficulty was thrown in the way.— (Shame.) With re-
gard to the vote of thanks, he would not propose an amendment to
that motion ; but as chairman of Mr. Hawes' Committee, on be.
half of them he would protest against that vote.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. nom (the Returning Officer) then came forward, and said
he could not see why they should throw blame on him, as he had
nothing whatever to do with the distance parties had to come to vote,
as he was obliged to put 300 voters to each booth, and he took them
numerically as they appeared on the register, and not with regard to
the residences of the parties ; therefore, he thought that the
charge against him with regard to the residences of the voters was
not made out. With respect to the construction of the booths,
he would refer them to the time that was given for their erection,
and let that speak for itself.—(Uproar.) It would have been quite
impossible to have constructed them in any other way in the time
allowed. Had he not ordered the booths to be built as they were,
the electors would have had no place to have given their votes in.
—(Hear, hear.) He had endeav oared to throw as little
delay in the way of the proceedings as possible, and in the
arrangements, politics were never considered. He was not even a
voter on the register. He would scorn to use any influence, if he
possessed any, to the prejudice of any one.—(Loud cheers.) He
would tell them that he was not a paid officer.—(A voice in the
crowd—" Who gets the Is. for registering I'') He did not—he
got no payment whatever—his services and his trouble were unre-
quited. The poll-clerks were paid, but he was not.—(Uproar.)
He had also been charged with delaying the Proclamation. He
could not have issued it earlier, as he had previous engagements
which prevented him.—(Cries of " Name them.") He made the
Proclamation within the time limited by law. Here great confu-
sion arose, and Mr. Hope became quite inaudible, and at length
retired.

BRIGHTON.
STATE OF THE POLL.
TEN O'CLOCK.

Pechell (Whig) 709
Wigney (Whig 661
Dalrymple (Tory) 305

.DEV ON PORT.
STATE OF THE POLL.

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Grey
Tufnell
Dawson

846
879
730

SOUTH SHIELDS.
TWELVE O'CLGCK.
150
20
103

Wawn
Fyler
Ingham

MEMBERS ELECTED.

Anti- Mono-
Monopolists. polists.

LONDON.

Sir M. Wood
Lord John Ru55e11'*...........
George Lyall, .......
T. Masterman, Esq.* .

WESTMINSTER.

Captain 'Thus"
J. T. Leader

LAINIRETII.
Right Hon. T. D'Eyneourt ... I
Benjamin Hawes 1

FINSBURY.
Thomas Duncombe, Esq
Thomas Wakley, Esq. ...,,. ........

GREENWICH.
E. G. Barnard, Esq.
Captain Dundas
STAFFORD.

E. Buller, Esq.
Captain Carnegie*
GATESHEAD.
___

------
W. Hutt, Esq.* — --- ---
OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

Mr. Cox said he wished to put a question to the Returning
Officer ; he would ask him if the arrangements were the same as
at the last election ? 'We understood Mr. Hope to say that they
were not.

Sir R. Inglis
T. G. Estcourt, Esq.
OXFORD (ciry).
J. H. Langston, Esq.*
D. Maclean, Esq
BEAUMARIS.
Col. Paget

Mr. Cox then came forward amidst great noise and confusion.
He said be was one of those who liked to hear both sides of the
question. He had done so on the present occasion, and he would
say that a more lame defence than that of the returning officer he
had never heard in the whole course of his life.—(Cheers.) He
(Mr. Cex) was one of the parties who had felt the inconvenience of
Mr. Hope's arrangements. Mr. Cox proceeded amidst great up-
roar, and concluded by moving, That the censure of this meet-
ing be given to the returning officer for his conduct on this occa-
sion.''— (Cheers and uproar.)
Mr. SELL, a gentleman in front of the hustings in the crowd,
said he wonld second the motion.

WA RE HAM.
W. E. Drax, Esq.*...
J. H. Calcraft, Esq

REIGATE.

Lord Eastnor..

PRESTON.

Sir H. Fleetwood ....
Sir G. Strickland* .

Mr. PAT...31E11 came forward, and said he thought they
were rather hard upon Mr. Hope. He (Mr. Palmer) would
take it for granted that the lesson they had given him (Mr. Hope)
would be all sufficient.—(Cries of " Put the amendment.'') He
(Mr. Palmer) hoped the gentleman would withdraw his amend_
ment.--(Great uproar.)
Mr' Cox said he should not do so, as he saw no reason for it.
Mr. Cox then put the amendment himself, which he declared to be
carried ; but the meeting did not seem to understand the ques-
tion, and very few hands were held up.

STROUD.
W. H. Stanton, Esq.*
G. P. Scrope, Esq ...

SHEFFIELD.

J. Parker. Esq
G. H. Ward, E5q...........

KENDAL.

G. W. Wood, Esq

COLCHESTER.

Sir G. H. Smyth.
R. Sanderson, Esq....

A vote of thanks was then proposed and carriel unanimously
for Mr. Wm. Hawes.

MERTHYR TYDVIL.

Sir J. J. Guest..,

Three cheers were given for the Queen, and three groans for
he Tories, and the meeting separated.

GLOUCESTER.

J. Philpots, Esq
Cart.' Berkeley*

GREENWICH.
DECLARATION OF THE NUMBERS.
The declaration of the numbers polled for the several candi-
dates took place yesterday at the hustings, but in conse-
quence of the inclemency of the weather, the crowd was by
no means so great as on Tuesday.
At twelve o'clock the Returning Officer, Mr. Fisher, having
cast up the poll-books, came forward, and announced the num-
bers to be—

NORTHALLERTON.
W. B. Wrightson, Esq
BLACKBURN.

W. Fielden, Esq
J. Hornby, Esq.* ....

LA UN CESTO N.

Sir H. Hardinge
G RIMSBY

E. Heneage, Esq.

BEWDLEY.

For Captain Deans Dundee ........ 1,747
Mr. W. Barnard 1,592
Sir George Cockburn 1,274
The announcement was received with loud and genera.
cheering.
Captain DUNBAS then came forward amidst enthusiastic ap-
plause. He said he was sure, from the moment he had come
amongst them, that the people of Greenwich would return two
Liberal Members. He had told Sir George Cockburn that he
had come on a very bad errand, and advised him to haul down
his flag two days ago.—(Cheers.) At all events, they had
beaten a very honourable man, and he hoped it wonld be the
last time they would ever see a Tory flag flying in Greenwich.
In the course of his canvass through Greenwich, and they were
aware that he had " padded the hoof" pretty well—(A laugh)
—he had found almost every man in favour of the
Ballot. He should certainly vote for it, and he hoped that
any Government that came into power would make it a Cabinet
measure.—( Loud cheering.) His attention had been drawn
to an article in the Tones newspaper of this morning, in
which he was accused of having gone through the Dock-yard
to induce the men to vote for him. Now it so happened that
he had never canvassed a man either in the Dock-yard, Ar-
senal, or College.—( Cries of " Look at the intimidation of
the Steam Navigation Company." Great groaning.) He re-
gretted to say there was one establishment near Greenwich,
belonging to merchants, where the workmen were called up
and told not to vote for himself or his Hon. Colleague...
(Shame.) He thought such a proceeding most disgraceful.
The labourer was worthy of his hire, and ought not to be co-
erced as to the manner in which he should give his vote, but
he trusted they would have the Ballot and an extension of the
suffrage, and then such intimidation would be put an end to.
Every man who paid taxes should have a right to vote.—(Loud
cheers.) Sir Robert Peel had said that if he had undertaken
the Government and dissolved Parliament, he should be quite
sure of twenty seats which were under certain Government
influence, but lie (Captain Dundas) would tell him that
Greenwich was not one of these.—(Cheers.) There was one
subject which was interesting to them, and on which lie would
say a word, as he wished to do everything in a straight-forward
manner. They had seen exhibited near the hustings a large
flag with the words " Down with the Poor-laws." Now, he
said, " Up with a good Poor-law." How were the old and
infirm and the poor to be supported, if there was not a law to
compel the rich to do so ?—( Great cheering.) He should
certainly vote against many clauses of the present Bill, but he
would support those parts of it which were meant for the pro-
tection of the poor.--(" What do you think of separating man
and wife ?") He did not, think an old fellow and his wife
ought to be separated.—(Great cheering and laughter.) They
all owed a deep debt of gratitude to the 600 gentlemen of the
three towns who had acted as their Committee, and so long as
these gentlemen remained true to their principles, there was
no fear of a Tory being returned for Greenwich.—( Cheers. )
He hoped all animosity would now cease, and that, like English..
men, they would give three cheers for their beaten enemy.—
( Great laughter and cheering.) They had had an honourable
man for an opponent—he had made a good stand-up fight, and
he hoped everything would now be forgotten, and that Sir
George Cockburn would never come there attain. He thanked
them heartily for their support, and hoped when next he ap-
peared on the hustings, that they would say he had done his
duty. —( Loud cheering.)
Mr. Ba.awano then presented himself, and was received
with great cordiality. He could not adequately thank them for
the honour they had conferred on him in returning him a
fourth time to represent them in Parliament. His only return
would be by deeds and not by words. His deeds were before
them—they had approved of them, and for these reasons they
sad sent him again as their representative to Parliament.—
(Cheers.) Highly as he prized that honour, which he consi-
dered one of the highest that could be conferred on him—that
of being elected by an independent popular constituency__
he prized it still more highly because by it they had insured the
independence of their borough. Only let the electors
continue to pursue the same course, to return min who would
faithfully and honestly represent the feelings and wishes of the
constituency, and the independence of the borough would be
secured, so long as the British Constitution would endure. He
fully concurred with his Hon. Collergue in all he had said as
to the gentlemanly conduct and demeanour of their Gallant
Opponent throughout the contest, and he beggedleave publicly
to thank him for it.—( Hear and cheers.) The result of the
election would, he trusted, promote the interests of the borough,
for he could say for himself, that time he had been
in Parliament, he had never sought any favour from
the Government except those public ones to which
he considered Greenwich fairly entitled. Whenever they
thought he could promote their interests in any way let them
sign a petition anti forward it to him, and he would support it
to the best of his ability. It had been said that the Whigs
had changed their colours, and that, in order to bring Brazilian
sugar into the market, they were encouraging slavery. He
(Mr. Barnard) had always voted against slavery, and he de-
nied that such was the fact. The sugar question was purely a
mercantile one, and they had the assurance of the Foreign
Secretary that treaties were pending with every foreign na.
hion to do away with slavery.—(Loud cheers.) With
regard to the Ballot, it should have his best support,
as he had always considered it the only means of securing the
independence of the humbler class of voters. He had seen and
heard so much of intimidation that every year his convictions
were more and more strengthened on that point. If gentlemen
in the higher classes resorted to the Ballot, why should not
the poor man have the benefit of it? Why it was that Lord.
John Russell, his favourite leader, and a man whom he almost
worshipped, should oppose it, he really knew not, but he would
ask Sir R. Peel and Lord John Russell why, if it was good for
the rich man, it should not be equally good for the
poor man ?—(Loud cheers.) Some of them might, perhaps,
remember that at Blackheath, ten years ago, he had supported
the Reform Bill, and addressed 20,000 men on the subject.
By the gentle pressure of the people of England upon Parlia-
ment they had gained the Reform Bill, and the present propo-
sitions of the Ministers were some of the fruits of the Bill. He
had voted for the whole of these measures, and would do so
again, although they were prevented from discussing the
Corn-laws by a majority of one, and the consequence was a
dissolution of Parliament. He thought these measures would
benefit the humbler classes, and relieve them of 2,400,009/. of
taxes, because he really knew net how that sum was to be
raised unless it was by the imposition of new taxes upon the
people. He assured them that he watched the proceedings
of Parliament very carefully, and although he did not speak
much, he listened very attentively—( A laugh)—and weighed
well every vote he gave at night, knowing that it would be
oesecigoo:
support
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justice,
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tvntorcoeieecrdgywen:and canvassed next morning by the electors of
ld
Greenwich.—(Loul cheering.) There was one part of the
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He should watch every attempt made by Lord Stanley, to re-
introduce his Bill, the efforts of which would be to disraanchise
one-third of the constituency of that country, and he should
oppose it the more resolutely, because he felt convinced that if
he succeeded with regard to Ireland he would make a similar
man concluded by thanking themattempt upon England.—(uf hear.) .)
the Thehind Hon.
support
they Gentle-
had given him.
George Coekkurn, re- _Lass wet k, as a new married couple at Paysac,
31r. YOUNG, in behalf of Sir Ge
supported him. He young nan,
iovasothele PI►nerudeOhg ne were returning home with the procession
turned thanks to the electors who had
who .casions in the country, they were met by
dead
.red a double-barrelled gun, and shot
begged also to tender his.acknowled nte
nts tleman who had been retained forto the Hon. Ger,- the fat' air of the 124 ,We. It appears that enraged at the mfiari
given of the Gallant Admiral who highh character they ;sad riage, he had in the .morning armed himself, and gone toa elt
butad been defeated. under pretest of woiSakg, but in reality to w aylay intended He did not intend to touch upon poNes, he would 'oe de. vietir He was rirrest4\l7 and delivered over i 43 the authorities
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Sir T. Winnington
R. Monteith, Esq. 4...
PLYMOUTH.

T. Gill, Esq.*
Lard Ebrington* ., ..
EXETER.

Sir William Follett
E. Divett, Esq

HULL.

Sir William James
Sir J. Hanmer* .

LIVERPOOL.

Lord Sandon
C. Cresswell, Esq

STOICE-UPON-TZENT.
J. L. Ricardo, Esq. * ...
Alderman Copeland

FLINT;
Sir R. B. W. Bulkely* ..... ... ...... 1 ...

WOLVERHAMPTON.
Hon. C. P. Villiers
Thomas Thornely, Esq .....

BRADFORD.

G. Hardy, Esq,*
W. C. Lister, Eiq•*•••

HUDDERSFIELD.
W. R. C. Stansfield, Esq. ...
LYME REGIS.

Wm. Pinney, Esq. ••• •••

BANBURY.
H. W. Tancred, Esq.... ...... ...„
HEREFORD.

T. B. Clive, Esq.
H. W. Hobhouse, Esq. .......
FROME.

T. Sheppard, Esq.
WALSALL

W. C. Scott, Esq. *
xxoDEßmnisTrft.

R. Godson, Esq.
EVESIIA

Lord M. Hill
Borthwick, Esq.*
MORPETII.
Hon. Captain Howard
OLDHAM.

J. Fielden, Esq 1 ...
General Johnson
THETFORD.
Hon. B. Baring (Liberal)
The numbers for Lord Euston, Liberal, and Sir J. Flower,
Tory, were equal.

ROCHESTER.

J. S. Douglas.* ..
Bodkin, Esq.*
STOCKPORT

H. Marsland, Esq
R. Cobden, Esq.*

CANTERBURY.
Hon. G. P. Smythe ........,
J. Bradshaw, Esq

LICHFIELD.

General Anson
Lord A. Paget

BOSTON.
J. S. Brownrigg, Esq .........
Sir James Duke

MANCHESTER.
M. Philips, Esq• •
J. M. Gibson, Esq.'

RICHMOND.

Hon. J. C. Dundas*.....
Hon. W. C. Colborne*

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.
Right Hon. H. Goulburn ... ......
Hen. C. E. Law

romss.
Hon. F. Prmsonby
G. R. Pkillips, Esq

DEVIZES.

H. Sothceron, Esq. ....
G. Hemeage, Esq. ....

DARTMOUTH.

Sir J. Seale

:WALTON.

J. Childers, Esq.
J. Denison, Esq.*

CARMARTHEN.
D.,„ Morris, Esq.

NEWPORT.

T.V. Martin, Esq.
Hamilton, Esq.