The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-21 00:00:00

FINSBURY ELECTION.-
TO THE ELECTORS OF FINSBURY.
GENTLEMEN,-11l consequence of the disgraceful proceed-
ings persisted in by a certain class of persons wilfully disturb-
ing every Meeting called by Sir Morton Peto, salad by incessant
clamour and violence preventing him from being heard, we
have resolved henceforth to decline to expose Sir Morton
Peto and his friends to such cowardly and un-English treat-
ment, and to leave his cause entirely to the calm and unbiassed
judgment of those whose condemnation of such proceedings
will, we are fully conscious, be shown in a manner which will
be as honourable to them as it will be gratifying to Sir Morton
Peto. Signed, on behalf of the Committee,
ROGER CUNLIFFE, Chairman.
Committee Room, April 20th, 1859.

CITY of LONDON ELECTION, 1859.—At a
very numerous and highly influential Meeting of the re-
quisitionists to Lord Stanley, M.P„ and Thomas Baring, Esq.,
M.P., held this day, at the London -Tavern—COLERIDGE
JOHN KENNARD, Esq., in the chair—
It was moved by George Frederick Young, Esq., seconded by
David 'Ward Chapman, Esq., and resolved—
That, considering the character, talents, position, and re-
corded sentiments of Lord Stanley on all leading questions of
public interest, moral, social, and political, it is the opinion of
this meeting that he is eminently adapted to represent the
varied aid extensive interests and opinions of the metropolis
in Parliament, and that his return to the House of Commons
as one of its members would confer honour alike on the con-
stituency and the reprrentative.
That the appeal of her Majesty to her people, in her recent
speech on proroguing Parliament, imposes it as a duty on
every patriotic and loyal subject to assist her Majesty to the
utmost of his power. in conducting the government of the
country at the present imminent crisis of public affairs, by
strengthening the hands of the Executive Government in its
efforts to maintain' the honour and interests of the country,
and to preserve the peace of the world ; which great and
beneficent objects would be severely endangered by a change
of administration at this critical juncture.
That the unjustifiable attempt of the so-called Liberal
Committee to dictate to the whole body of the constituency
of London, as to the disposal of all their votes at the ap-
proaching election, calls for the prompt and vigorous resist-
ance of every independent elector, as calculated to reduce the
constituency to the position of slavish followers, of a party
faction, and candidates to that of submissive nominees,
requiring the surrender of all exercise of individual judgment,
degrading the representative system itself, and sapping the
foundation of all independence of political action.
That for the foregoing reasons it is the opinion of this
Meeting that loyalty, policy', and independence alike require
that a fit and proper candidate should be presented to the
electors of the City of London, for the exercise of their un-
biased choice, and that Lord Stanley is precisely the in-
dividual in whose person those great principles may be fitly
and consistently indicated.
That Lord Stanley be therefore forthwith announced as a
candidate, and this Meeting pledges itself collectively and
individually to use every exertion to secure his return.
It was moved by C. H. Stewart Esq., seconded by. Henry H.