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

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.

quences that he believed were not very common; at least,

he could not find many parallel cases.—(A voice, " Why
resign ?") Sir John. That's the question. If the repeal
of the assessed taxes had been the question, he would have
voted for their repeal ; but he could not vote for the re-
peal of the malt tax—it would have led to a property tax
of the most odious nature, and one that he could not Live
supported, but he would have supported a graduated pro..
pet ty tax. Again, had hi, vote been given, it would have
tended to have deprived the country of the services of the
best men that had presided over the affairs of the state
fur a long series of years. It had been asked, why
not vote against them ? Had he done so, no one
could have known the effect, no one could have
contemplated what many other members might have
done. The Ministry must have been prepared for a dis-
missal—that Ministry who had given to the country
a real representation.—(Hear.) He would ask, was he
st such a time to turn round upon such men, and by such

a vote, and by so doing, in effect vote for men who had
never given up one tax unless forced to do so? Desert such
men, at such a purchase ? Never, never, never : no,
if it was at the sacrifice, had he them, of 10,000 hands.
(The cheering was here immense.) Some people might
have been wrong, although there could not be a doubt
but that they acted on principle. He thought that he had
acted on principle, however some might have differed from
him. He had thought that he bad no other honourable

course to pursue, and had shown that had he pursued any
other it might have bey n destructive to them, and have
brought us hack to the worst days of anarchy, and perhaps
something worse. He was ready to go to the poll, and
if it was their opinion that be ought not so to do, he should
retire to his home satisfied that he had done right, and
should only feel sorrow that his motives had been mis-
taker. That line of conduct that he thought would have
been applauded by many it would appear had been mis-
taken, but that would not alter his purpose. Let the re-
sult be what it might, he should show by his conduct, for
the remainder of his days, that he had deserved their ap-
probation.
The Hon. Baronet sat down amidst the cheers of all
pr.sent.

H. F. Stephenson, Esq., Mr. Pitt, and Mr. :Abbot,
having made some pertinent remarks as to the course to be

pursued, and the upright conduct of their late represen-
tative, the meeting was dissolved, a vote of thanks having
been passed to the chairman, and Sir John Hobhoute re-
tired from the meeting cheered by all present.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY,

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, MAY 6.—Wind N.E.—Arrived and sailed for
the river the Duke of Bucclench, from Bengal.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 6.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the
Sultan, Scott, from St. Michael's.
FALMOUTH, MAY s.—Wind N., light breezes.
Dovint, MAY 6.—Arrived off port the Robert, Quayle,
from Bombay.

CLYDE, MAY 4.—Arrived the Euterpe, Brown, from
Trinidad; and Freedom, Cox, from Palermo.

GALWAY, MAY s.—Arrived the Asia, Ward, from
London, leaky, bound to Quebec.

LP/Earoor., MAI, s.—Arrived the Fie!Hire, Robinson,
from New Providence; and Fanny Connelly, Joy, from
Lisbon.

GIBRALTAR, APRIL 15.—A brig, of about 200 tons,
supposed to be a Dine or a Swede, abandoned, and only
the bowsprit and mainmast standing, was fallen in with off
Cape Finisterre, by the Vautur, Grillett, arrived here to-
day from Bordeaux. 18t11.—The Africa, Hos Santos,
from Lisbon, has been ordered away, in consequence of two
deaths on hoard, and has proceeded to the Mediterranean,
PENZANCE, May. 4.—S,rine pieces of mahogany,
marked " F," have been picked up and brought here.
They correspond with those found the beginning of March.

The Eagle, Wi:son, from Liverpool to Newfoundland,
ran on shore in Carnarvon Bay on Saturday night, and
bilged—crew saved.

The Earnest, Hart, from Memel to Sunderland, ran on
shore on Coquet Island the 4th instant.
_ _ _

Arrived Off Bantry Bay the Berwickshire, Thomas ;
and Edinburgh, Marshall—sailed the 12th January.
Arrived at China the Moffat, Cromartie, from London
and Sing•rpore; and Sir David Scott, Ward, from Bengal.
Arrived at St. Helena the Feegee, Bewlay, from Ma-
nilla ; and Bland, Calland, from Bengal.

iN IA R RIED. —On the 4th May, at All-Sours
Church, in the parish of Marylehone, and afterwards at
the Spanish Catholic Chapel, Manchester-square, Do❑
Ysrono LOPEZ DE ARZE, sun of the Chevalier Don LOPEZ
DE ARZE, .Cl'., to HARRIET JANE, youngest daughter of
Sir GERARD NOEL NOEL, Birt., of Exton Park, M.P.

BARING WALL, ESQ., M. P.—Yesterday
morning Mr. HUMPHREYS, the solicitor to the above men-
tioned gentleman, delivered a Special Jury list, with no-
tics of
solicitor,tr
i.:at lla
Lo ndt
t,n_
Sittingsoo,ga rl(en,
employedaf
after Term, to Mr. TOM-
mby
PA LMER, the
discharged policeman, fur the prosecution. Mr. CEARICsON
is retained for the prosecution ; and Sir JAMES SCA ItLETT
and Mr. Pimurs are for the defence.

By the death of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir
HENRY HOTHAM, K.C.8., the command of the British
squadron in the Mediterranean has become vacant. Sir
HENRY succeeded Vice-Admiral Sir PULTENEY MALcor.m,
as Commander in-Chief, on the station, March 30, 1831,
and consequently one year's service remained unexpired at
the time of his demise. Sir HENRY has left a widow
(Lady FRANCIS HOTLIAM, sister to the Earl of STRAD-
EnoxE), and three children. He commanded the Fleche
t!oup in the Mediterranean so far back as 1794, and attained
post rank in 1795.

Yesterday a numerous Meeting of the Committee ap-
pointed for the conducting and securing the re-appointment
of Sir John Hobhouse as one of their representatives for
the city of Westminster, took place at Richardson's hotel,
Covent• garden.
About 8 o'clock Mr. DE Vstaa,'the chairman, entered
the room, and was followed by Sir John Hobhouse, T.
Duncombe, Esq., Pascoe Grenfell, Esq., R. Todd, Esq.
M.P., the Hon. F. Carlton, H. F. Stephenson, Esq., and
miny other gentlemen.
The CIIAIRMAN shortly stated, that in consequence of
the resolution of Saturday, a deputation had waited upon
Sir John Hobhouse, who instantly expressed his willingness
to attend the committee or any meeting of the electors, and
give any explanations they might please to require. Sir
John was there, and would answer any questions that
might be put to him. (Cheers.)
Sir. J. HonuousE said, that when he thought it his
duty, as a gentleman and man of honcur, to take the
steps he had done, he had done so spontaneously and of his
own free will, both with regard to his Majesty's Govern-
ment and his resignation of his seat as one of the repre-
sentatives of the enlightened electors of the city of West-
minster. It was his intention to have retired into private
life, as he had stated in the letter be addressed to the
electors. He had been surprised to hear that a report the
most calumnious had been circulated, that he had not re-
tired horn place, that he had in fact kept his appoint-
tnent in his pocket, and had consequently appeared be-
fore them in a false character. Gentlemen, said the Hon.
Baronet, no charge could have been snore base or false—
nothing so untrue. He thought (though it was painful to
speak of himself, yet the whole question was personal)
that he might appeal to the past to show at once
that he had never acted with duplicity.—(Great
cheering—" Never, never.") Had no other cause led him
to depart from his original intention to retire into private
life, he should have felt bound, in justice to himself,
to his character, to have come forward to put that
matter right by rebutting such a malignant falsehood.
But a large meeting had been held, and the electors, after
having so repeatedly re-elected him, had again wished
hint to come forward. That wish he could not but obey,
when made by those by whom he had been so long, and
so much respected. He would not shrink from their
wishes; they should be obeyed, and with cheerfulness.—
(Great cheering.) He had before so done, and would
continue to act with them, and for them, through good
and evil report.—(Hear, hear, and vehement cheers.)
He would not say at what sacrifice he had endeavoured to
serve them with fearless honesty of intention. He would
only say, that if the electors at large agreed with those
present, he was there to take the field, and also to take
whatever share of disgrace or danger there might be, and
he was hold enough to say, with character untainted and
above all suspicion, ay, and he would do so without pledges.
—(Hear, hear; " The last thirteen years is sufficient
pledge for your future conduct.") They knew what
they could do without risking their reputation. They
knew what be was prepared to do. He was the can-
didate; it was for them to choose him if they thought
fit. He would ask theni to look bark at his past
life, and he thought that recent events ought to
explain the integrity of his conduct, if such expla-
nation was necessary. Pledges he would not condescend
to give, conscious as he was of the rectitude of his con-
duct. Some electors might differ with him, and if they
did, they (the Committee) were bound to tell him so, and
be as candid to him as be was to them. He was asto-
nished at the mistakau impression that had been made, but
he hoped he had said enough to explain. If not, he
would add, that his late conduct carried with it conse-

TRICEs OF STOCK' THI,
Hank Stock
3 per Cont. Red. B7 636 1
3 per Cent Cons. M 7, 8 7;41
3,4 rer Cent 9I4N j
Ditto Red 0414% I
New 3% per Cent 35%
3 per Cent. Ann. 17'26 - I
4 per Cent. 14*26
Rank Long Ann. to expirp
Jan. 5, 186. l6 9 15-:6ln
Oct. 10, :85 ---1
Jan. 5, 1860 N 1 1-16
Jan. 5, 1880 .....—
Aprils, 1880 --
Jan. 5. 1870....... ..... -

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds 9114
Belgian Bonds P 514

Ditto Account
8554
Brazilian Bonds 654
Ditto Account t15!4 ii
Buenos Ayres Bonds o4y,', 4
Ditto Account ......... .....
Chilian Bonds 2l
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds l5-14
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds, 189 A
Ditto Account —
Danish Bonds -0.%
Ditto Account —
Greek 80nd5...-. ............ 32 011
Ditto Bonds, 1825 -1
Ditto Account...... -1
Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 25!.4
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per cent '33 4
Ditto Account 334
Neapolitan —
____

DAY AT 0.,e
New sper Cent. ....
India Stock .. 5 71/
Ditto Hondo ........
ISouth Sea Stock
I Old
INevtt.
3 per Cen Anni lsi0!
Ex. Bills, 1,0t,'".' $1
,
Ditto !twill
Ditto Conante
!Ditto Adverti •
ieo
IBank for Account un
India for Acco
Cone. for Account

:HIS DAY AT O,VII °V
Per Bonds
..
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto Acc0unt...,',441
Regency
' Ditto Account,'/
D
Pruitto Bo nds
ssian Bonds ...,;;,,;1
Russian Bonds, tr,.-/d
Ditto Account.o,/
New LOan ......
1,
.........
✓
SpaniSh BOndS,18:
Ditto Account..":„'
Ditto Bonds,ount
Ditto Acc..,c,
French Rentes, 5P'
Dutch, = p. c ....
...,
Ditto Account „,
Ditto, sp. .......,
Ditto Account.
Fnench Scrip

t... 4

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PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT DO °C
Paid.
Anglo Mex. Min, Co. (ins, at 5/. Pin.)Lloo
Bolanos Mining Company •£l2 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (ss. at 5/. pr* ) C`"
17g
!lino National
[
Ditto St.. John Del Rey
Ditto Cocaes
British Iron Mining Company
Columbian Milling Co. (is, at 51. pm.)
English Mining Company
122 g 0
General Mining Association
Mexican Mining Co.
I!
Real del Monte Mining C 0...., --
II
Tlalpuxahua Mining Co sal
0,
United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. tam.) 4°
Ditto New Sctip 5 Pi
10 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp Y
Protector Insurance Comp.
Australian Co
Canada Company l7
1__.....................„/
General Steam Navigation Co. 3
25
Provincial Bank of Ireland

MAILS. / i
Arrived. Due. Arrived• g ..". 1
0 America 0 0 Hainbur ... .","1
0 Holland •
..,,,
0 Brazil
3ic- riio
0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jam d 10,,,,1
0 Carthagena 0 0 Leeivar •
..,
..... ",
1 Dublin 0 0 Lisboa•• .. " ~,,
0 Flanders 0 0 Malta., ..... „,,,,,
I France 0
0 Guernsey' &Jersey 0 01 swurtiere ad' "°
el
HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 000,40 ,
Morning ...50 minute; after 4. I Evening...ll'._./

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LONDON,
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TUESDAY EVENING, MA •'

hs"l
Several shopkeepers of Westminster win/
some days past had placards in their be P$
announcing that no assessed taxes will tiorli
by them in future. We do not melt odth
because we believe that the vapourers in3lillls
" future" to extend beyond the nett
by the tax-gatherer—for we arc Persu desire
their chief, if not only motives, are the but
notoriety and of advertising their sh°o---f. 011:,
cause we take them as collateral Pre° I
really great excitement which preva'o-; 00,
public mind with respect to the house %tic('
dow taxes. Let the sense of their
kept alive, and fall they must. Under t
viction we will proceed to lay before Our of )'
one or two facts, which no sophistrY•i
SPRING RICE'S can deprive of thell e)f`
The Hon. Gentleman made a great reettli,oll,
circumstance of only one-sixth or sever' ith
houses in Great Britain being charged vi•
of 4.
house duty. For the space of a (in3rterof
hour did he trumpet forth the poise',
aristocracy, and point to the circumstance' to 11.
the cheers of the House, as an ansvveprdtlie
charge that the tax imposers always sPariiis cc'
selves. Let us see how fact bears out r 353
elusion. The reason why- the , 111„gell
the working population is not e°3-tv es
t
the house and window tax is, th'3gerlr
the smallest sums could not he rased,'
from them, because their provisions are
such a variety of shapes, that they havemroti"','
left but a subsistence. But, giving the 111-the
mongering Parliament, which irurse for ji
taxes, whatever credit it may elaillt,re
desire only to make those pay who sc-rottot
able to pay, we must conclude, thart: botPl
being exempt from the payment of tyeerty cr
and window taxes, on account of the P°lori,.°l'
11
their inhabitants, palaces would, a ibriitg%ed
account of the wealth of their owners, be -JO'
least in equal proportion with the housesdiogi:
middling classes. Yet we saw that, aceuri:o)..
the scale of the window duty we gave uitja sesth:
directly it began to touch the upper c.,,,50te(1)
burden was lightened. Mr. RICE atle"i,,,,
get out of this by comparing the
,Pie 3.
made by a Nobleman with those 1113'1,do'°'
man living in a house hating ten vito,0111)
He clearly showed that the Duke of
paid somewhat more in proportion 01031,113 tit ht
earning thirty or forty shillings per "'eel e 17!
carefully abstained from saying whether tiger!'
more than a shopkeeper, in the loves/ street
London. He took an extreme ease, be; 001 Y
suited his then purpose. He saw nothhir"
in this on Thursday night ; but on fridY'reeeil'
Mr. COBBETT compared the duty on and Pc
stamp, paid by a poor man, for "21., a" 0011'
paid by a wealthy man for 10,000/./ theoleti°
Secretary, knowing the convenient nle
113'11
possessed by his audience, said-- boro,
mu" In every.scale of duties, be it long °I. 91 tbelsio,l
trust necessarily be a point or extreme, wbich' oacill'tti/
it, it would be most unfair to found any general,_e:,e 0r.,10
upon ;—take, for example, tLe ten-pound francu'ootre,,vid
stamp receipt minimum, or any other extreme; der
being tl3o'
being valid, because not true and fair,
from the average or mean duties." t
What a pity Mr. RICE did not teen
the night before ! He thus proceeded
" The Hon. Member founded all his statemendt,
0-0 tic
tremes, when, in fairness, they should he bald we
tr
Ic
mean or average duty. Ile (Mr. It ice2o:ti..7eomt
etl;et ti
counter.a, etnent on the average tluties,
result would be a total overthrow of the 1100'
gross misrepresentalens."
It is proverbial that a certain class ofPersetel;;
Unfortul° to
ought to have good memories.
rne
for Mr. RICE (not that we presu
say he belongs to that class), all his ore rocs
misrepresentations" of thenight befhe clearly exposed by the very rule "Ad „re
,
lays doAn. He, as we have said above, 01,1 f
t1...t not
with espeet to the window duty, boic-s
did the aristocracy pay more than nice
cordil
but actually let off altogether, those wh°.
tereo
:rot pay... So loudly did the landed Irld
"41
be
cheer this statement, and so fully convinceof the
be valiant Secretary of' the gullibilitY.vioo:
F.rdish that lie has permitted the ealcePh to 12
lie referred to in the course of hip sPee