The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE Punic JOURNALS.

It has often been to observers matter of equal
surprise and pain, that while the Tories have
been ever at their posts, watchful to cuff down
all endeavours at amelioration of our institutions,
and alert to sitpaort all ancient and " venera
ble" abuses, the Liberals have been generally
content to lazily look on, and g,lsd enough to
see an improvement should one take place, but
reluctant to make a single effort to effect so
desirable a result, though they are not ashamed
to utter bitter complaints at the want of success,
which the slightest exertion on their part might
have secured. But we trust that better days
have arisen, and that a disposition is daily grow-
ing among the fielders of right opinions to jus-
tify their faith by works as well as words, and
to heat down the enemy by his own weapons—
unceasing activity and untiring energy. Two
opportunities will occur this day for the Liberals
to show the true spirit of men who are in earnest
for the cause which they profess to support. One
is, the ballot for the Committees nn the Coleraine
and Warwick election petitions. It is obvious that
a thin attendance of the friends of free and inde-
pendent election may necessarily throw the decision
of the questions to be brought before these two
Parliamentary sections into the power of men
who, however upright and honourable, are, by
the force of prejudice, incapable of viewing the
subjects submitted to them with clear and un-
biassed minds. The second occasion will be
the nomination at the Covent-garden hustings.
Here it is evident that the victory of truth and
justice can only be gained by the most vigorous
personal exertions of the friends of Sir John
llobbouse against two factions who spare no
means of bodily energy, of mental activity, of
gross misrepresentation, of la ckless calumny, to
upset a wan who is dreaded by the ultra-Tories
because his honesty, and sagacity, and firmness,
portend destruction to their corrupt hones, and
is hated by the ultra-Radicals because he is too
high-minded to he made the tool of those mean
and envious charlatans whose ambition does not
aspire to gain respectable pre-eminence,but merely
to degrade all superiority in talent, virtue, and
station, to their ()willow level. It is impossi-
ble to hear without unmeasured disgust the
dirty insinuations still uttered against Sir John
Hobhouse. He has declared,- in language
which cannot be misunderstood by any honest
man, that he has decidedly and without reserve •
resigned his office, and that he will not resume
it. How can such a declaration be a matter of
doubt ? To doubt is at once to pronounce Sir
John Hobhouse not merely one of the falsest
but one of the stupidest of men ; for if, after
such a declaration, he should resume office, his
reputation would be so utterly ruined, that even
the most friendly Ministry would be compelled,
as an act of self-preservation, to eject him from
their councils. For ourselves, we have the most
implicit reliance on the sense and integrity of
the Right Hon. Baronet ; but if we find him
treacherous (a supposition too absurd to he
stated), we should express as frankly and
earnestly our contempt for his perfidy as we now
do our admiration of his uprightness.— Times.
The second reading of the Irish church Tern-
poralities Bill was, of course, opposed by the
Conservatives ; but in how different a temper
from that which would have been displayed a
few years ago, when even to hint that there was
anything wrong in the church was an inexpia-
ble offence. But times are altered ; and the
advocates of the church of Ireland in the
House of Commons feel that they must not
take such high ground now, as they might have
taken in a boroughmongering Parliament. The
great difficulty now will be, to reconcile the
people of this country to the continued appro-
priation of so large a share of the public money
to a church to which so small a fraction of the
people of Ireland belongs. The gentleman
who opened the debate, Mr. Shaw, approved
of the abolition of church cesQ, the proposed
augmentation of small livings, the required re-
sidence of the clergy, and the abolition of
; and he seemed to throw out a hint that
the principal fault of the Bill was, that it was
brought in by Ministers. " He must say that
if the church was to be reformed, the Ministers,
in reforming it, ought to make use of the
friends of the church rather than of its ene-
mies." But why did the friends of the church,
as the Hon. Gentleman terms himself; and those
who share his views,—leave what the Hon. Gen-
tleman admits to be—great improvements in that
church to be proposed by its enemies? How
happens it that the friends of the church clung
to all the abuses in it to the very last ? The
second reading was carried by a large majority
317 to 78—or 239. The inconsistency of Mr.
Shaw, who approved of so much of the Bill,
And yet mortal that it be read a second time
Chip day six months, was very happily replied
to by Mr. Stanley. " He would ask (he said)
the warmest and most devoted sticklers for the
property, the privileges, and the prejudices of the
church, was it friendly or safe to that church
to say—there may be, and indeed there are,
gross abuses in it. This Bill goes to correct
them. I agree in the evils, and in the neces-
sity for a remedy, yet at this tune of day, and
in the present state of public feeling, I will not
adopt the remedy, but leave the church to
stand or fall by its own abuses." In answer to
the objection to the reduction of the Bishops,
who would in consequence be unequal to the
labour imposed on them, Mr. Stanley showed
that in Ireland, as compared with England, the
number of parishes were as one to ten, while
the Bishops, even the reduced number pro-
posed to be retained, were as two to five. Sir
Robert Peel, and most of the other opponents of
the Bill, admitted, that for the sake of the stabi-
lity of the church, reform was necessary. Had
the reforms now proposed been introduced one
hundred years ago, and the treacherous aid of
penal laws have been withheld, the stability of
the church might not, perhaps, be now problem.
atical. But we suspect the case of the church
of Ireland is now hopeless. In vain is it at-
tempted to connect the two churches of England
and Ireland. The people of both countries wih
not swallow this clumsy argument for the mail.
tenance of an establishment which must stand
or fall by its utility. Mr. S anley thinks that
" he 11'- taken up -a
position tv'tere a stand
against the enemies of the church might be se.
curely made." We shall see. But we cannot
forget that the great body of the people of Ire-
land are Roman Catholics. The Protestant
church of Ireland may be a very excaien,
church ; but, unfortunately, the people of Ire-
land belong to another. however, whatever ma)
he the ultimate fate of the Protestant church.
iris q;ite clear that the Ministerial Wu is a con-
sideri )1e improvement, and that if it do not
rende the church perfectly secure in all time to
come; it will n,,t diminish the ability of the
church to stand its ground ; while it will remove

many sources of irritation, and open a door to
many improvements.—Morning Chronicle.

SECON -1) FDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Half past Five•

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

(Continued born our First Edition.)
Mr. EscoTr again attempted to address those assem-
bled after stating, that coming there as a candie
date for the representation of that great city, he
was desirous of stating the grounds on which lie
solicited their support, and what his olijections avert
t-o the gen•leseen who had appeared before them tha
day, and which he thought, under all the cireumsoances,
they were not fit to represent the electors of Westminster
in Parliami nt.
The cries of " Off, off!" " Down, down !" the shout-
ing, the groaning, and yelling, became so overpowering, as
completely to drown the candi fate's voice, and he accor-
dingly stopped.
The quantity of cabbazea, dirt, &c., thrown for the
space of half an hour was very great. At length,
Mr. SMEDLEY, the Deputy Sheriff, put it to
the meeting to say whether they would allow the pro-
ceedings to go on. Those who thus threw dirt at the
electors were not Englishmen, but cowards. If what was
going on continued, he should he obliged to call in the civil
/nice. This address, however, seemed to proeuce very little
effect, the dirt, baskets, and pieces of tile, being poured
in with increased violence, Mr. Macneil, the Conservative
candidate at the late Oxford election (we believe it was)
endeavoured to obtain a hearing for Mr. Elena, but in
vain. The riot continued to rage, the diastmen who were
said to hare been hired by Mr. Escott, fer a short
time obtained almost sole possession of the front of the
hustings, distinguishing themselves by the number of the
cabbages, baskets, basket-lid", mats, sacks, &e. they threw
at Mr. E-cott and his friend', and evidently, by the fero-
city of their conduct, keeping all the respectable part of
the crowd round the hustings in a state of alarm. After
some time Mr. WAKILEY stepped forward, and was re-
ceived with loud cheers. He entreated them, as they
valued the cause of radical reform—as they valued their
own independence and respectability—to give the Hon.
candidate a hearing, or otherwise they would b • unable to
compare his sentiments with these of his rival. When
Mr. Escott had concluded his address, he should have some
questions to put to all the candidates.
Mr. ESCOTT then came forward, the crowd showing
after the request of Mr. Wakley, a disposition, thou, k a
reluctant one, to hear him. He knew that it had been
said that he was unknown among the electors of West—
minster, and that, therefore, he was an unfit person
to come forward. It was true lie was not
known among them, and he would ask how it was
possible he should he known if he was not heard.—
(Cheers and hiss-s.) The electors of Westminster were
called upon to decide the present contest, not by the pro-
mises which some men may have formerly given and
basely broken—(Loud cheers)—but by the public princi-
ples of those who had put themselves forward, and upon
those public principles it was to he a fair stan d
up fight.—( Cheers.) He trusted that in the observatior ri
he should make he should pursue that gentleman-like
conduct which had been adopted by the Gallant Colonel.
—(Cheers.) The first thing he thought it right to con-
sider with respect to standing for Westminster, was whe.
tiler the two candidates in the field were such as, iu his
'minion, were best calculated to represent the electors in
Parliament.—(Cheers.) With respect to Sir John
Flolihouse—(Hisses)—be must say a few words. In his
opinion political honesty was above all consideration.—
(Great cheering.) All party and politics, in his opinion,
ought to jbe based on fair conduct, such as woti'd be ap-
proved of by upright and fair men.—(Hear, hear, and
cheering.) Now. Sir John Hohliouse, though he miy
not at the meeting at the present moment, had published a
declaration in explanation of his former conduct. To
that document lie wished now to advert; and if Sir John
Ilahhouse could at any future time explain what be %VIA
now going to state, he would be the first to admit that lie
was in error, and that Sir John Hobhouse was right.
He told the electors he had resigned his seat, because he
could not support the Ministers : now lie would tell that
Right [lon. Baronet as the representative of ve people,
he was hound to retain that seat and oppose the
Ministers.—(Loud cheering.) In his opinion of po-
pular representation, the chief use of a House of Commons
was to be a check upon a profligate Government.—
(Cheers.) Now lie would say that the present Govern-
ment was the most profligate that ever existed in this
country.—(Cheers, and crries of " No, no.") Sir J. Hob-
house, who had declared that lie could not support Minis-
ters, had, in his opinion, deserted his duty to the electors of
Westminster by not regaining his seat and opposing them.
The Right Hon. Baronet stated, as another reason that
lie could not give a vote for a motion, which, though it
was mixed up with the repeal of the house and window
tax, would, if carried, deprive the Ministers of power ;
he had just before thought them unworthy of his
support, and yet li wished not to drive them from
power ; he proceeded to say, that had the question
been simply one for the repeal of those taxes, he
should without hesitation have voted in the affirmative. His
(Mr. Escott's) charge against the Right Hon. Baronet was
that the qiiestion was one, simply and solely, of repeal, as
the electors would Hee, for the motion was—" That it is
expedient to grant relief to his Majesty's subjects, by re-
pealing that portion of the assessed taxes charged on in-
habited houses and on windows.—(Hear, hear.) Whe-
ther tee Right Hon. Baronet had any mental reservation
about inhabited houses and windows, he (Mr. Escotr)
could not say, hut that was the simple motion, and yet the
Right Hon. Baronet desertsd his place in Parliament, and
preferred serving the Ministers to serving his constituents.
—(Loud cries of " Shame.") Now a few words as
to what that Government was which the Right Hon.
Baronet deserted the electors for, rather than oppose it.
That Government was popular some time aao, but popa-
lar only because it held out a promise which it has not
since perforined.—(Cheers.) It promised to afford an ex-
tended protec.ion to the liberties of the people, and
to economise the public expenditure. The pledge it
Cleo gave to support the liberties of the people, had been
redeemed by the most despotic law that was ever passed in
this country, or was ever introduced by the most Tory
Government. How had it economised ? Invead of doing
so it had from liist to last added to the purdie expendi-
ture ; and when motions were hrought forward to repeal
distinct taxes, were met by "Oh ! you are too early ;
-nly wait until you see our excellent budget, and then you
will see what relief there will be from taxation"—
(Laughter)—at last the budget cane, and the relief it
afforded was about sixpence a hundred from tiles, and the
exciseman was permitted to go round a market town in
an untaxed cart.—(Laughter and cheers.) Other motions
were then brought forward, but then the people and their
representatives were told, " Oh ! you are too late; our
ludget is propounded—don't disturb the Chancellor of
the Exchequer's budget—don't disturb that honest and
aonourable man, Lord Althorp, who was twice flatly
contradicted in the course of list week."—(Laughter.)
That conduct was in his (Mr. Escott's) mind so
atrocious, and so unlike that which ought to be adopted
by fair and upright men, that he believed the time was
come when those who would do any good for the country
should take the matter into their own hands, and seriously
consider all interests with the view of giving relief from
an overwhelming distress.—(Cheers.) It would not do
to be trifled with any longer.—(Cheers.) He f elieved
that a great deception had linen practised resp,,eting the
motion as to the repeal of the house and window tax.—
(A cry, " Will yoga vote for it ?") He would fearlessly
act on that belief, for it would be trifling with the people
on let the pledge that had already, been given by the
House of Commons prevail against the general di-
sire to bring it forward again. He was prepared
o declare that, in his opinion, those taxes must he re-
!waled, and he, for one, would help it.—(Loud cheers.)
There was another extraordinary vote given by a Reformed
Patliametit—he alluded to the Bill for regulating the
jahour in factories; that Bill, he thought, was called for
T every feeling of humanity, and yet it wan rejected by a
majority of one.—(Here Was a great noise in the crowd,
who were apparently getting impatient.) He only wished
to put a few more, as an Hon. Gentleman wished to put
few questions to him, which, if he thought proper, he
would answer.—(Groans and hisses.) The electors would
have a fair opportunity of considering those an:wers.—
(Loud cheers.) He would now tell them why he did
not exactly approve of the political opinions of the
the lion. and Gallant Colonel (Evans) and why he felt ii
lois duty to conic forward in opposition to so Honest and
independent a man.--([fear, hear.) He thought the
•ime had arrived when political agitation should cease, and
,ehen every means should be adopted to promote peaceful
industry, social order and happiness, fur political agitation
ad d:tne its utmost to impede industry, and to work
'own the industrious closes. Whether the Galant Colonel

entertained violent opinions, which were likely to hoped,
~arch u.eful work he could not say, for he had not beard
t,e Gallant Colonel very clearly to.day. The countr)
had too long been disgusted with h.,th parties ; and the)
tight now to have a lair ruand-up fight, not between Sit
Giro Hobhouse and the other candidate,, becaus
ne had forfeited his engagement!, ; hut between the Gallan,
Colonel arid himself (Mr. .E.teott) in aiding the country
At tt.e present emergency.—(Loud applause.) It was

determined at all events to persevere with the contest to
to e last, and to give every elector who intended to honour
him a vote, a fair opportunity of recording it.—(Cheers
and hisses. ) The shortness of the p-riod from the occur-
rence of the vacancy to the time of election, would pre-
vent him from cal'ing personally on,the electors; but this
he did not think material, although customary, as its none
observance prevented any personal engagement or low
spirited cringing. lie should leave the m-eting with the
belief that he should have a majority of their suffrages,
and a full determination, if successful in the contest, to do
whatever was most likely to advance the interests of the
country.—(Much applause mingled with hootings.) He
would repeat, that from which he had that day heard
and seen, he was convinced he should be returned by a
triumphant majority.—(Applause and hootings.)
Mr. WAKLEY called the attention of the meeting to
what had been gained by silence; they had bad a speech
on his right hand and on his left, and the latter he should
designwe a basin of bubble and squ•ak.—(Cheers.) He
intended to address the two candidates, and he hoped
to obtain from them distinct answers to a few
plain, honest, and straight,Orward questions.—(Cheers.)
Wi,hout pledges he would not trust his own brother—
(Cheers.) The electors had had a practical commentary
on the necessity of pledges; for when the necessity of
the repeal of the house and window taxes were agitated a
few weeks ago, Sir John Cam Hohhouse was applied to
to express his intentions on the subject., when he said "
will vote for their repeal. In 1819 he declared at the election
for the city of Westminster, that he would resign his seat
whenever be was called upon to do so by a majority of
his constituents—here were two distinct pledges, and he
would ask, had they been unnecessary for elections ? If after
such conduct be was allowed to take refuge in the sea of
parliamentory oil, wherein he sliped away' from every
grasp, it would be the electors who were the fools, and
the Hon. Baronet ought not to be blamed.—(Cheers.)
He would now ask the Gallant Colonel if he would vote
for the repeal of the Septennial Act ?
Colonel EVANS declared he would, and as the several
questions were put by Mr. Wakley, that he would vote
for the repeal of the house and window taxes, and the
corn laws, and in favour of vote by ballot ; each of which
announcements were received with great satisfactiora
Mr. WAKLEY acknowledged the candour ot- the Gallant
Officer. He had been averse to the returning of any
officer of the army or navy to Parliament ; but he put
more than ordinary faith in the Gallant Colonel, and
should give him his firmest suppiirt.—( Cheers.) He be-
lieved him in politics to be honest, and in his profession to
be a skilful man ; and an the Tories had their Wellington,
he did not see why they should not nave theirs._
(Cheers.) He did not see why they should not also have
a Radical g.neral in Parliament.—(Cheers.) If Govern-
ment went on in the present way, they (the meeting)
might have some red-coat business to do on their own ac-
count.—(Vehement cheering.) He would also ask the
Gallant Officer if he would resign his seat if called upon
so do to by a majority of his constituents ?
Colonel Evaals said-he had expressed his intention to do
so at a meeting he attended last night, and would repeat
his deterintnatson to the meetang.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WAKLEY then put the first of these questions to
Mr. Eecott.

Mr. ESCOTT wished to put a question to the Gallant
Gdonel—How he thought he could do his duty in a de-
liberative assembly, after the pledges he had given ?
(Goons.) He (Mr. Escott) had told tl at on the honse
and window tax he had made up his mind, but he would
not tell them how he would vote upon qusstious not yet
discussed, but, if he went into Pat liatnent, he would ex-
ercise his best discretion.—(Groans.) An honourable
elector had said that he could not conceive how there
could he political honesty without pledges, but he would
ask whether there had been grosser instances of political
falsehood than where there had been pledges?

Colonel EVA NS said that the honourable candidate had
asked him whether he considered himself a free agent,
and fit to go into a deliberative assembly, but he (Mr.
Escott) hid deprived himself of the power of impugning
the practice of pledges, becotpe in a printed address he
had given a pledge upon the house and window taxes.
He could not, therefore, impugn the practice of pledges,
but he would limit the In :ker. If he (Colonel Evans)
were to be asked, whether if the Russians were to take
Constantinople, or if the French were to march an army
to the Pyrenees, he would pledge himself to vote for
war, he should say that he would not, the subject
bring mixed up with so many different circumstances.
But these now put to him were great questions, which
had agitated the country for years, and without meaning
any offence to the Hon. Candidate, he would say that any
gentleman who had not made up his mind upon these
questions was unfit to represent them. He must confess,
however, tle.s he did think that the Hon. Candidate had
made up his mind, and that he could tell it if be liked.
Mr WAKLEY said, that if the Honourable
Gentleman had not made up his mind to vote for tha
repeal of the Septennial Act, be eould not represent them,
because they had not made up their minds " All those"
(continued Sir Samuel). " who are for the repeal of the
Septennial Act, hold up your hands."—(All.)—
" All who are for the repeal of the corn laws hold up your
hands." Ile was not the man for them ; he liked his can-
dour, and he liked him for a Tory ; but he remembered
the conduct of the tories—of the au'ocrat Castlereagh.—
(Cries of " Shame, shame.") He did not mean to allude
to the last act of that unfortunate man's lie, but to his
disposition to cut the throats of other people. He despised
the whole of the Tory gang from the bottom of hfs heart.
But never more would they have the opportunity of grind-
ing the people to the earth. But looking at the blackness
of Old Nick, I see something still more odious in the
shape of a Whig. He hail the authority of Sir John
Cam Hobhouse himself for saying that the Whigs
had done all they could to oust the Tories, merely
for the purpose of serving themselves, and then Irtraying
the interests of the people. (Loud cheers.) But they
should withhold their indignation, anti not look to
the conduct of parties, but at the conduct of the
man who had been their representrive. He would bring
to their notice a letter which had escaped from the pen of
toe Right Hon. Baronet on Wednesday morning last,
the question of the house and window taxes having
been brought before the House on Tuesday. One of
their rept esentativea had voted directly against them,
and the other had resigned, in the fullest hope that they
would send him b irk to deceive them again.—(Cheers.)
Suppose the Right Hon. Baronet was about to wed a
damsel, and when she was at the altar, lie slipped a note
into her hand, saying lie was sorry, but lee had found
that there w• s something more to be done af:er, and as he
was not in a condition to do it then, he would resign all
pretensions to her.—(Long and contir wed laughter.)
Ele, in (free, said I love you still, but there are others I
love lett, r. Then let the electors tell him to repair to
those of whom be was so fond, they did not want, lie
declares that lie will make no pledge—that he will go into
Parliament free, that free meant that he might la, free to
deceive them again. Then great stress was laid upon tho
tact of Ills giving up office', but he would ask, who
I was nurse to the Irish Secretary? Why, Daniel O'Connell,
who had got an ugly way of making the lied with nettles,
If Sir John had gone to Ireland, he would, in 18 hours,
have been so hot, lie would have thought himself in the
East Indies, and so stung that he won d have been put
much in mind of mosquitoes. He had a large fortune,
and was riot in want of the 5,000/. ; SA where was the
great merit in his resignation of such an office. In his
(Mr. W.'s) opinion, he was most heartily glad to have
itad such an opportunity of getting quietly out of it. Sir
lahn's own published former opinions were, OA the
people were entitled to a full, fair, and free repre-
sentation in Parliament. Now, what had the Reform Bill
lane in Westminster ? why, reduced the constituency
from 11,000 to less than9,ooo, and where was the name
of Sir John in the lists, on Mr. Grote's motion for the
ballot? Why, in the majority against it. The Reformed
Parliament had done one good action by voting for the
iepeal of the malt tax, yet that vote they had rescinded in
less than three days. Now be would just give them
a representation of what might have taken place in the
Privy Council the morning after the vote with respect to
the malt tax was come to. Lord Althorp comes in, aed
;aye—, Here's a pretty kettle of fish we're in ; see are
taken by surprise, for these chaps have voted directly
:gainst us, what shall we do ? We must have that vote
rescinded, because it wail for the benefit of the working
peo tae." Sir John then gets up, and says—.. Oh my
Lord, it's very well for you to tali in that way, toot I
tin pledged."—( Loud laughter.) " I'll tell you what, my
Lord, it you detertnisneecroettai
rytessim I must.
hcipclirng that vote,
t ~
oritmlOkvitil'ilo)ri7" we can get someway eft to take
our office, and if you resign your seat, we must look
rut for somebody to stand for Westminster." " But,"
says Mr. Hohhouse, " look how I shall be disgr ce
(Laughter. ) " Oh, never mind that," says Lord Alt,,orp,
We are a!1 disgraced in turn you know—(Contioned
4if we are digrace4, it
1, i t)—bu throe i
o ith
ctit t
,jtatsauce,,
for
onewe thing,
got 6,000/. a year forve
it."—(Laughter and cheers.) " Give up your Sect etary•
ship, and resign your seat, for you trill soon get in again."
Very well," says Hohhouse, "don't you decide anything
ail I see you again': Away goes Hablieuse taigr. Da Vear,
,nd having ascertained trom that diligent and very active
man that by a little trickery it we tt d all succeed, Sir
John posts off to my Lord Althorp, and says, " It will
oe all safe--De gear promises I shall he elected—lie says
:here is no doubt about it, and, therefore, to-night I won't

vote-1 will " cut my stick,"—(Great laughter,)--
" to-morrow I will write a little note saying I
have resigned my seat, becau:e I could not fulfil
my Promises, and I have also resigned the Secretaryship
for Ireland."—(Laughter.) Ile (Mr. Wakley) had once
been a great supporter of Sir John's, but he was com-
pelled to state, that he had forfeited all his confidence.
and that he had committed a most disgraceful breach of
trust.—(Loud and continued cheers.) He begged of
the electors to consider the whole of England was
looking with the most intense interest to what would he
the result of this contest. Whig, Tory, and Radical, were
now before them, and he begged of them to recollect
what the conduct of the Tories had been from the first
hour that they held the reins of Government. It was the
people, and not the Ministers, who succeeded in carrying
the Reform Bill, it was the people who replaced the Mi-
nisters in their office to t!ischarge a sacred duty, and
would they be so forgetful of what was due to
their children and their families, as in the hour of triumph,
in the very moment of victory, to wither the laurel
on which they had so long delighted to look.—(Cheers.)
He would call upon them not to he deceived in the re-
formed Parliament—nut to be deceived by Factory Bills,
for the House of Commons had actually sent a
commission to inquire whether children could
work four and twenty hours in four and twenty hours.—
(Laughter.) If the expenditure was managed eco-
nomically, the man who now worked twelve hours
would only have to work four, but the Aristocracy
were everiastingly praising that which they never pray
tised, he meant labour.—(Loud cheering.) Why, if
labour was so very good for the poor, why the d--1
was it not so good for the rich.—(Loud cheering.)
In conclusion, the worthy gentleman tru►ted that the elec-
tors of Westminster would prove themselves the friends of
their country bo electing Colonel Evans.
The Deputy HIGH BAILIFF then called for a show of
hands—and not a single hand was held up for Sir John
Hoblionse—a complete forest for Colonel Evans—and not
more than 20 for Mr. Estcotr. The Deputy High Bailiff
the❑ declared the show of bands to be in favour of Col.
Evans. A poll was demanded on the part of Sir John
Hotalmuse and Mr. Estcott, which the Deputy High
Bailiff informed the meeting would commence r.n Thurs-
day next, at 9 o'clock in the morning.
The assembled crowd then separated peaceably.