The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-16 00:00:00

CITY ELECTION.

Several Reformers waited upon the Lord Mayor yester-
day, and requested that his Lordship, as it was so difficult
to induce a sufficient number of the City Magistrates to
assemble to constitute a Court of Aldermen, would summon
a Court of Common Council, in order to save their Wor-
ships the trouble of assembling to swear in the popular
candidate. Mr. Pritchard and Mr. Wire, the Common
Councilmen, represented to his Lordship that two ineffec-
tual attempts having been made to gather together 13
Aldermen (the number necessary for the formation of a
Court), the Court of Common Council, who could do the
business as satisfactorily as the Upper Court, would readily
perform the duty of swearing in the future Member. The
Lord Mayor said that he, of course, would attend to the
requisition, and summon a Court, if the City Solicitor
stated it to be his opinion that the Court of Common
Council could act upon the occasion. The City Solicitor
was then referred to by Mr. Pritchard and Mr. Wire, but
he expressed a doubt of the authority of the Court of
Common Council in such a case, and the Court is not to
be held. The Lord Mayor, however, issued summonses a
third time to his brethren to wtend this day, for the pur-
pose of swearing in the Hon. C,ndidare, and it is supposed
that the disappointm nt will not attain be. repeated.
At four o'clock the piling ceased, and Mr. Sheriff Peek
stepped fort: and upon the hustings and informed the elec-
tors 'hat Mr. Crawford would address them.
The numbers wete—
crawford 4061
Kemble

Majority --2073
Mr. Ciatiwiroau then came forward amidst acclama-
tions. Hie honourable opponent wa,. a dis,inguished
member of an association which was accustome,i to calcu
l'e probattilities.—( Laughter.) He not know
what were the oata upin which the calculation. were
made, but be h“ped that the members of the Lite Assu-
ral,ce Office, to which Mr. Kern!,le belongeo, were in
the habit of going upon better data than those which had

produced the present result —(L tughter and cheers.) H
should reserve his address to the constituency for the day
when the declaration should be made by the Sheriffs, bu.
be would state two grounds of probability which occurred
to him, as sources from which a return to Parliament
might be expected to emanate—there were two roads to
successful issue—the one was through the intelligence of
the head, the other through the corruption of the belly.—
(Great laughter and cheering.) Through the latter he
had never attempted to go. Upon his honour as a man.
not one farthing had been expended by him in that de-
grading passage to the representation.—(Loud cheers.) He
had not (as it was complained against him by a Morning
Paper, in allusion to his contest for Brighton), even paid
for a single glass of wine and water.—(Cheers.)
Mr. KEMaLK then came forward and was received
with a great deal of applause and laughter and a few
hisses. His Hon. Opponent had, be said, stated that he
(Mr. Kemble) was a calculator upon probabilities. He
had about the same means of calculating probabilities, ac-
cording to the insinuation of Mr. Crawford, as Mr. Craw-
ford bad of ascertaining the contents of the packages in the
docks, of which the Hon. Candidate was a Director.—
(Cries of " Oh," and laughter and hisses.) He should
not think it worth while to notice little election jokes, for
he knew that his Hon. Antagonist's insinuation went no
further; but he bad been attacked in the newspapers as
a stipendiary, and he thought it necessary to contradict
so false a statement. It was a source of high gratification
to him that the poll-books contained two thousand names
in favour of his claims and principles, and he should
,read over those names with infinitely more delight than
any book in his library.—(Cbeers and laughter.) His
opponent would do his duty as a Member de facto, and
he would succeed the Hon. Gentleman, and do his duty
as a Member de jure.--(Laughter.) In all probability
a dissolution of Parliament would, in twelve months,
send them both to the right about, and then the consti-
tuency would again have the opportunity of deciding
between them.—(Laughter, cheers, and hisses.)
The meeting was then adjourned.