The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-31 00:00:00

BOROUGH OF FINSBURY.

The great room at White Conduit House, holding about
2,000 persons, was last night filled with electors and others,
assembled to express their opinion as to the several candidates.
Messrs. Duncombe and Wakley were present.
Mr. RUTT being called to the Chair,
Mr. SAVAGE said that there was now an opportunity for
publicly expressing their opinions as to the candidates for their
suffrages—a step rendered the more necessary, from the pro-
ceedings of the self-constituted " Finsbury Reform Club,"
who had attempted to hoodwink the electors, by asserting that
Mr. Hobhouse was the choice of the borough in conjunction
with Mr. Duncombe.—(No, no.) It bad been, therefore,
deemed advisable to call this public meeting, in order that the
real opinion of the electors at large might be made known.
(Cheers.) He then read the letters which had been received
from Mr. Hobhouse and Sergeant Spankie, in answer to a
communication which had been made to them by the Com-
mittee to attend the meeting. They are to the following
effect

" Gentlemen, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of yesterday's date, and in reply to it I have to state
that. I take a totally different view from yourselves of the character
and proceedings of the Finsbury Reform Club. With regard to
your invitation to attend the meeting this evening at White Con-
duct House I beg respectfully to decline it, as I consider it a meet-
ing called by Mr. Wakley's friends exclusively, and as such not
competent to come to any public decision as to the candidates who
alone ought to stand on the Reform interest of the borough.—l am,
Gentlemen, very respectfully, your most obedient servant,N
" HERY WILLIAM HOBHOUSE.
" To Dr. Epps and others of the Committee."
" Gentlemen, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
a letter, signed ' John Epps, M.D., 89, Great Russell-street :
William Mason, 22, Clerkenwell-green ; James Tupp, King-street,
Long-acre ; John Euston, 206, Tottenham-court-road ; Thomas
Chapman, 22, Chenies-street ; Thomas Savage, 213, Tottenham-
court-road,' stating certain proceedings of a self-constituted body,
calling themselves The Finsbury Reform Club,' and that a meet-
ing is to be held at White Conduit House to-morrow evening, the
30th of December, for the purpose of counteracting the proceed-
ings of the self-elected bodies, and of freely considering the pre-
tensions of the candidates. lam glad that you, who are respecta-
ble and independent, have thus early discovered that the clubs must
be converted into tools of meddling and officious individuals who
have no other object than to gratify their own self-importance, or
some other personal end. I should have great pleasure in concur-
ring in any proceedings calculated to defeat the petty monopoly of
influence which the persons composing this pretended Finsbury
Reform Club are trying to establish.
" I doubt exceedingly, however, whether there can be any meet-
ing of the kind you propose got together, which cannot at all as-
sume to speak the sense of the electors of this borough. By no
possibility can one hundredth part be expected to attend. It is
vain to attempt in this way to set up the resolutions of this partial
meeting as the general sense of the constituency. Being of this
opinion, I should hesitate to attend, were I free from engagements
which prevent me from attending. I am, by appointment, to meet
at ten in the evening a number of the electors, who are desirous to
promote my return. Without presuming that such meetings can
speak more than the sentiments of those present, I have already re-
ceived such assurances of support as to warrant me bringing for-
ward my pretensions on the day of nomination, and I confidently
believe with success at the poll. In this way it appears to rae tha't
the true sense of the numerous constituent of Finsbury can alone
be ascertained.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, with thanks
for your communication, your most obedient servant,
" R. SPANKIE."

Mr. MASON moved the first Resolution, to the effect that the
meeting had been called with a view to ascertain, from their
public expositions, which two of the candidates were the best
men to be elected.

Mr. WiiirrLE seconded the Resolution, which was carried
unanimously.
Mr. JOHNSON moved the next Resolution, which called upon
the candidates to declare their sentiments. Of Mr. Dun-
combo's re-election there could be no doubt, from the high
and universal satisfaction which his Parliamentary conduct had
given. —( Loud cheers.) Of the other candidates Mr. Wakley
was the only one who merited their suffrages; it would hardly
be consistent with the dignity of the electors to re-elect a man
who had so betrayed them as Serjeant Spankic, or return a
man who had, for his shuffling conduct, been so recently re-
jected by the Bath electors.—(" We won't have him.")
Mr. DUNCOMBH was received with loud cheers. The King
had thought proper to deprive them, and the country at large,
of their representatives in Parliament.—( Hisses.) Why his
Majesty had done so remained to be seen. and must be ac-
counted for in the new Parliament.—( Hear, hear.) They
had heard of a speech of Sir Robert Peel's, delivered at the
Mansion-house, before the Lord Mayor—(" Ah, the night-
mare !")—in which the Premier had stated that the people
were tired of agitation, of excitement, of the pressure from
without—( Oh, oh 1) ; but who were the agitators on this oc-
casion ? Who was it excited the public mind throughout the
country ?—( Hear, hear.) Who, but the miserable faction
whom the King had; thought proper to set over the people.—
( Hear, hear.) He would again state that he had not formed,
nor would he form, a coalition with, nor express an opinion
about, any other candidate. He had over and over again stated
his full advocacy of triennial Parliaments, of the vote by ballot,
and of an extension of the suffrage.—( Cheers.)
Mr. WAKLEY was received with much applause. In the
first place he would not only profess himself an advocate for
triennial Parliaments, but if they should elect him he would
pledge himself unconditionally to return tb franchise into
their hands at the end of three years.--k kleers.) Short
reckonings made long friends. He would have all the fiscal
clogs which now encumbered the franchise done away with ;
he was a staunch advocate for the ballot, commutation of
tithes, and that every man should have the fullest liberty of
conscience ; in short, his most anxious endeavours should be to
effect complete civil and religious liberty, and the happiness of
his fellow creatures.—(Loudcheers.) _ _ _

Dr. EPPS moved the next Resolution, which declared that a
show of hands should be taken far each candidate. The Re-
solution was seconded.

The show of hands being then taken, the result was, the
unanimous acceptance of Messrs. Duncombe and Wakley by
the whole meeting, with the exception of two persons, who
held up their hands for Mr. Hobhouse, and one who declared
for Serjeaut Spankie.
A Resolution, founded on this show of hands, was then agreed

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to, and-thanks being voted to the Chairman, the meeting se-
parated.
Mr. Honnousslast night addressed meetings of electors at
the Blue Coat Boy Tavern, City-road ; at the King's Head
Tavern, and Georg the Fourth, Islington ; all of which were
most numerously and respectably attended. Resolutions, ex-
pressive of their determination to support Mr. Hobhouse, were
unanimously passed at each of the meetings; and committees
were formed, consisting of the most influential persons in the
neighbourhood.

TOWER HAMLETS.
Yesterday evening a meeting of the electors of the Tower
Hamlets, friends and supporters of Mr. Clay, was held at the
Earl Grey Tavern, Mile-end-road, for the purpose of devising
measures to secure the re-election of that gentleman as the
representative of their borough in the ensuing Parliament.
Mr. John Simpson in the chair.•
The CHAIRMAN moved the first Resolution :
That this meeting, satisfied with the Parliamentary conduct of
Wm. Clay, Esq., and his manly and unflinching advocacy of the
cause of the people, hereby resolve to give him their hearty and
entire support at the approaching election, and bind themselves to
use every means to secure his return to Parliament, free of all
expense.''
The Resolution wasipassed unanimously.
Mr. CLAY, in rising to return thanks, said that he had ever
supported the reform of abuses in every department of Church
and State; and if he should have the honour of again being
returned as their Representative, he should continue to follow
the same course which he had chalked out for himself. Ho
thought it right, on the present occasion, to refer to the meet-
ing which had taken place the other day at the City of Lon-
don Tavern, as considerable obloquy had been cast upon him
for the part he took on that occasion. He and his brother
Reformers had been accused of disloyalty, because they had
not let the Tories alone, when then wished to express their
loyalty to the Monarch, by congratulating him on the recent
change of his advisers.—( Hear.) Now, he would defy the
most red-hot and thorough-paced Tory to be more loyal than
himself. The Reformers thought it their duty to meet on
that occasion, and show their attachment to the King by
letting him know what the City of London really thought of
the men who had been so suddenly, and, he would add, so
imprudently, called to the helm of affairs.—( Bear, hear.)
They were thus testifying their loyalty more surely than
if they had abstained from attending the meeting. If they
had not done so, it would have been imaginedthat the citizens
of kondon "(ere indifferent spectators of the great events
which were 11:: tf taking place, and the Tories, ever watchful
and on the alert, 'mid immediately have said that the capital
city of the empire confided implicitly in a Tory government.
He had not the least hesitation in saying, that the loyalty so
much boasted of by the signers of the address, was but a spu-
rious loyalty—such in fact as drove the unhappy Stuarts to
their destruction ; and as to the number of the signers—
Heaven save the mark I—they all knew, there were a great
number of every thing in London. Why, there were ten
thousand tailors in London, and it would be very hard indecd
if the Tories could nct muster half that number ! However,
that meeting bad done great good ; and the result of it will be,
that the present Tory member will be turned out, and a Re-
former elected in his place—( Cheers.) This was not ri hat
the getters up of the meeting intended ; but they will find,
to their cost, that this will be the only result of their ma-
noeuvres—( Cheers).
After some able speeches from the Rev. Mr. Aspland, Mr.
Smallfield, and other gentlemen, committees were appointed
for the different districts of the Tower Hamlets, and the meet-
ing separated.

TOWER HAMLETS.--A meeting of the parish of St. George-
in-the- East was held last night, at the George Tavern, New-
road, which was most respectably and numerously attended ;
when it was unanimously resolved, that notwitkstanding some
small shades of opinion among Reformers, they should, at this
crisis, all unite in favour of liberal candidates, and that accord-
ingly the meeting should pledge themselves, each in his indi-
vidual capacity, to support and forward the return of Dr.
Lushington and Mr. Clay, the present liberal and enlightened
members. The Resolution was most cordially carried.

MARY-LA-BONNE.—Last night the friends of G. A. Young,
.Esq., met at the Colosseum Tavern, in the Portland-room,
for the purpose of adopting final measures to secure that gen-
tleman's return as a representative for the borough in the en-
suing Parliament; various resolutions were moved and adopted,
for the securing the same, and Friday next was named for
holding a public meeting of the electors of the borough, when
Mr. Young will publicly express his sentiments.
BOROUGH OF LAMBETH.—Mr. Hope, the returning Officer
for the Borough of Lambeth, yesterday evening received the
writ for the election of new Members ; and we understand
that he has appointed Friday se'nnight for the day of nomina-
tion, and Monday and Tuesday in the following week for the
polling to take place. There is little doubt bat that the late
Members, the Right Hon. C. Tennyson and Mr. Hawes, will
be again returned by triumphant majorities. This great and
influential metropolitan Borough is determined to convince the
Tory Administration, that it will only return such members as
are pledged to carry on, to the fullest extent, the benefits con-
ferred by the Reform Bill.

IlAomNoToN.—Mr. Laurie reached the Haddington Burghs,
on the 23d instant, to canvass on behalf of his uncle Sir Peter
Laurie; but finding that Mr. Stuart had gone over the ground
four days before Sir Peter's address appeared, and that he had
secured a majority of the votes, he deemed it useless to proceed
to the poll. Sir Peter Laurie, therefore, will not go to
Scotland.

Canwsvicn.—We understand that Mr. Angerstein has
written to hiragents declining being put in nomination as a
candidate at the ensuing election. A very numerous meeting
of the electors was assembled last night, to hear the address
of Sir John Scott Lillie, who was loudly cheered; and reso-
lutions were passed unanimously to return him and Mr. Bar-
nard as representatives for the Borough.

tEPRESENTATION OF THE WEST RIDING

OF YORKSHIRE.

WAKEFIELD, Dace 29.—1 t has at length been determined
that the sitting Members for this district of Yorkshire shall
not, in case of a dissolution, resume their seats without a
struggle. On Saturday a preliminary meeting was held at
Leeds, at which it was determined to call a general meeting
of the freeholders and other electors of the Riding at this place
to-day, to consider the propriety of calling out the Hon.
Edwin Lascelles, fourth son of the Earl of Harewood, to
contest the honour of the representation of the Riding with
the present Members. About 500 or 600 gentlemen assembled
in the Music Saloon in this town, and Sir John Lowther,
Batt, was invited to take the Chair.

After a few prefatory remarks from the Chairman, it was
moved by Sir CHARLES IBBETSON, Bart., seconded by JOHN
GOTT, Esq., of Leeds, and resolved unanimously,
" That in times like the present, when the King's prerogative
and unquestionable right to choose his own Advisers, is so uncon-
stitutionally assailed, it is incumbent upon all loyal subjects to rally
round the throne, and declare their firm determination to uphold
his Majesty in the exercise of a function so essentially connected
with the liberties of the people."
The next Resolution was proposed by Major TERRAND, of
Harden Grange; and seconded by GEORGE BANKS, Esq., of
Leeds.

Mr. BANKS'S address, in seconding the foregoing, was terse
and pointed. He has usually been considered a Whig, and,
therefore his remarks are entitled to some degree of attention.
He said,—After the broad avowal which has been recently
made by certain parties of their ultimate intention, I can have
no doubt at all but that those intentions are not to renovate (as
they state) the Constitution of the country, but, in my opinion,
to injure it.—( Cheers ) I am not for a separation of the
Church and the State.—( Cheers.) lam aot for annual Par?
liaments.—( Hear.) I am not for household Suffrage.—( Hear. )
And as to the vote by ballot, I do not care one farthing about
it, for I don't care who knows which way I vote ; and if it is
more satisfactory to Englishmen to vote by ballot so as to
screen their votes, let them take it—l have no objection ; for
my part I care nothing about it. With these views I very
heartily second the motion. _

The resolution was passed unanimously.
EDMUND DENISON, Esq., of Doncaster, and the Rev. Dr.
CORBETT, of Wortley, in very animated and able speeches,
proposed the next Resolution.
U. BECKETT, Esq., of Leeds, and J. ARMITAGE, Esq.,
of Milns Bridge House, proposed and seconded the fourth
Resolution.

On the motion of HENRY TAYLOR, Esq., of Pontefract,
seconded by Colonel RAMSDEN, of Halifax, Mr. DErisom
was appointed Chairman of the Central Committee to pro-
mote Mr. Lascelles's return, in case of his acceptance of the
requisition.
Thanks were voted to Sir JOHN LOWTHER for his services
in the Chair, and the business was concluded by the gentle-
men present signing the requisition, to the number of several
hundreds.

Another meeting was appointed to be held on Thursday,
to receive Mr. Lascelles's answer to the requisition ; but no
doubt is entertained that he will comply with the call made
upon him.

The number of registered voters for the West Riding is
18,0G7, and there are 15 polling places named in the Boundary,
Act, some of them 50 miles from the place of election.

LORD JOHN SCOTT.—His Lordship left Montagu
House (the Duke of Buccleuch's) on Saturday evening, and
embarked on board the steam-packet for Leith on his way to
visit his noble relations in the north. Lord John made a very
interesting tour in the East in company with Viscount In-
gcstrie (Captain of the Tyne frigate), Colonel Harcourt, Sir
Robert Inglis, Mr. Drummond, and the Hon. G. Talbot.
They made an excursion to the Holy Land. At Jerusalem
they took up their quarters in the house of a German mis-
sionary, where they remained a week. The party were six
days in accomplishing the journey from Tripoli to BAainascus.
They proceeded by another rout to Behroot, and thence pro-
ceeded to Judea. His Lordship went on board the Tyne at
Jaffa, and thence went to Malta, where they were twenty-six
days under quarantine. Captain Levison Gower left the parts
at Corinth while they were en route to Constantinople.
INROADS OF THE SEA AT BRIDLINGTON QUAY.
—On the 31st of September last year a considerable portion of
the jetty between the sea and the cliff on the north side of the
harbour at Bridlington Quay, not having been methodically
built, was washed away by the force of the tide. Since that
period no steps having been taken to prevent a recurrence, on
the night of Wednesday last, such was the violence of the
waves, that a great inroad was made into the cliff itself ; in
consequence of which two elegant mansions are now being
taken down, and unless some effectual means are taken, the
probability is that the promenade and the row of beautiful
houses behind it, will eventually have to be taken down,.
to prevent their falling a sacrifice to the waters of the great
deep.—Leeds lutelligeneer.