The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-07 00:00:00

VIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1835.

GENERAL ELECTIO_,.

the enemies of the King and the people._( Cheers.) The
time is arrived when you shall no longer be satisfied with
general professions. It is not enough to know that the
candidates call themselves Reformers, for so many take
the name of Reformer, that, I confess, it almost stinks in
the nostrils of almost every honest man.—( Hear, hear, and
laughter.) It is not enough, I say, for a man to call himself
a Reformer, for Mr. Lyall professes to be a Reformer.—(Loud
laughter.) Mr. Ward is a Reformer—(renewed laughter)—
and Captain Burton is a Reformer.--( Continued laughter.)
In these times the test of Reform is this--s-will you, by every
Constitutional means in your power, drive from the Royal con-
fidence those men who have used all means first to oppose the
snd then to nullify it.—(Cheers.) It is because
Reform Dili,
"esision, and is prepared to act
Mr. Clay has shown this cos,—
-'nation, and you are
upon it, that I am here to second his no's_
It is a
here to support his triumphant return.—(Cheers.
delightful task to second such a man as William Clay. There
is nothing in his past conduct for me to explain, to palliate or
to defend—ut, an the contrary, everythiog to admire. If
'it be true, as' the poet soys, that " an honest man is the noblest
work of God," who will say that William Clay is not such a
man ?—Cheers.) I ask, in one word, what do you want in
the character of your representatives ? You want intelligencce
_yoti want them to understand your rights: and ko have
firmness to maintain them.—( Hear.) If these are the qua-
lities essential to represent the feelings and opinions of the
ricer) of the Tower Hamlets, who will say that they are
not pre-eminently found in William Clay ?-s (Loud Cheers.)
I call upon you not to look to words, but to deeds.--( Here a
band of persons in the garb of sailors joined the assembly, and
commenced creating the greatest uproar. They had all the
appearance of a hired band ; and though not composing a hun-
dredth part of the meeting, they continued to interrupt the
proceedings throughout.) Capt. Burton requested them to
take the flags away which they bore.
Mr. COATES.—I am glad the gallant Captain orders his
colours to be taken down.--( Laughter. )
Capt. BURTON—No ; a little further off.--( Hear, and re-
newed laughter.)
Mr. CoaTes.—l think the result of this election will show
that you will take them down --(Cheers.)
Mr. SCATCHARD came forward to propose Captain Ryder
Burton, amidst much confusion. When he saw the good-
na u ed counter awes by which he was surrounded, he was sure
they e•osld indulge him, as this was the first time he had
attOmpted to address a public assembly.—( Cries of " That is
false, as we have heard you before." He was independent in
principle and property, and not to be bought, and possessed a
love of country, a veneration for its institutions, and loyalty to
his King. No Englishman could ever sanction the striking of
of the colours of Great Britain ; he, therefore, proposed to
represent the Tower Hamlets, Capt. Ryder Burton.--( Loud
laughter and groats. )
Mr, MORRIS seconded the nomination. He was one of the
manufacturing classes, and had a great stake in the trade of
the borough. He seconded Capt. Burton, because he was a
member of a talented and honourable profession, and because
he was a defender of those principles, which, at the pre-
sent juncture, were in peril.—(Cries of " Oh, hear!")
He knew not what better exposition of the princi-
ples which he meant, he could give, than by referring
them to Sir Robert Peel's address.—( Loud groans.) He felt
confident that Captain Burton was prepared to give his time
and labour to the interests of this great commercial borough.
—(Cries of " Go home I Off, off.")
Captain BURTON here presented himself to the assembly,
and persisted in speaking first, though contrary to usual
etiquette, until the returning officer and the clamour of the
crowd prevailed upon him to give way to
Dr. LUSIIINGTON, who, on coming forward, was hailed with
loud cheers by the whole assembly, with the exception of the
noisy band before alluded to, who continued to disturb the quiet
attention of the electors throughout, notwithstanding the re-
quests of Capt. Burton and Mr. Scatchard to the contrary.
At lengthlDr.Lushing-ton proceeded—" Gentlemen Electors, I
wish to address you, and I find that you are ready to hear
me, for those who are making the disturbance are not electors,
and it is most unbecoming in those who have sent them here
not to remove them. I call upon you to do justice to your-
selves by hearing all—l call upon you to do credit to your-
selves by impartially listening to what can be advanced on both
sides, for it is to your judgment, and to your decision, that one
and all the candidates are now appealing--( Hear.) If two
years ago I addressed you from this spot with deep anxiety on
account of my own prospects, and with regard to the great
interests of the nation which were then at stake, you may form
some judgment with how much more intense feeling- I address
you on the present occasion, whether in reference to my own
character, or the aspect of public affairs, an interest ten
thousand times greater--( Loud cheers, rsisiclt lasted some
time)—an interest which is now to be guarde,"
decision ; and on that decision—on that appeal to the ins7'.'s
pendent electors of the Tower Hamlets, I cast my character.
—( Cheers ) You have knosin my public conduct for the last
two years ; and you who have known it for many years pre-
viously, know that I have always pursued the same course.—
( Cheers.) I addressed you, on the former occasion, when
you had an Administration whose wishes and feelings were in
unison with those of the people ; when the great triumph of
the Reform Bill had just been obtained ; when you hoped,
through the mcdium of your representatives in Parliament,
to acquire the enjoyment of some of those benefits which the
Reform Bill was intended to confer upon you—( Hear.) I
now address you, when you have a Ministry in power, whose
whole political lives, whether in or out of power, were at all
times and seasons devoted, not merely to oppose Reform in
Parliament, but all those great measures of just concession to
our dissenting brethren, to all those great and important reforms
of abuses for which the people had so long cried in vain.
If that Administration stood away with all the hopes and wishes
of the people—if that Government once obtained a majority in
the House of Commens—they might bid farewell to every
chance--(great cheering)--farewell to all our hopes.—
( Cheers.) He would ask, for a single instant, why were the
present Administration in power ? Who could answer that
plain question? The present Government were in power—
hut Sir R. Peel had not told them why. Now, if the present
Government had been in power because the late Government
had been justly deposed from authority, should he not ask the
reason why?—(Hear, and cheers.) When Sir R. Peel
could have obtained permission from his Sovereign to avow
publicly the cause, why had he not avowed it ?—( Cheers.)
If the late Government had been dismissed for good and sound
reasons, it would have been in favour of the present Adminis-
tration ; but if those persons, whose interest it was to make
it known, had not done so, what had he and the people to
infer, bat that Lord Melbourne's Administration had been
hurled from power because it had been proceeding honestly,
boldly, zealously, wisely, and prudently, to fulfill
the dearest wishes of the great majority of the
people of England, by eradicating all those abuses which the
people had so long cried out for—by reforming all those cor-
ruptions in Church and State which the Tories while in power
so strenuously advocated.--( Loud cheers.) If ever there was
a period when all those who were seriously attached to Reform
—when all those whose hearts were warm in the cause—when
all who valued the advantages of the people's liberties—when all
those who sought for essential improvement in the Govern-
ment should come forward to support candidates advocating
such principles—now is the time and now is the hour--( Tre-
mendous cheering for several minutes.) Various, observed
the learned Doctor, have been the rumours and reports circu-
lated respecting the grounds of the opposition which has been
raised to my return. It has been said, would you return to
Parliament one who is disloyal to his King and to the Con-
stitution ? Gentlemen, allow me to say that I know the
Constitution—( Tremendous cheering, which lasted some time. )
allow me to say, that I yield to no man, be he who he may,
in just attachment to that Constitution.—( Loud applause.)
Allow me to say, that I am well aware that the Constitution
of King, Lords, and Commons, is the constitution of the land.
Allow me to add, that in the hour of danger and tribulation,
when the public weal is threatened by the return of the luvers
of despotic rule, I take it that no man will discharge his duty
honestly to that Constitution of King, Lords, and Commons,
who does not speak his opinion openly, fairly, and boldly.—
(Tremendous cheering.) Gentlemen, those who heard me on
a former occasion, well know this, and that not a word did I
say in derogation of his present Majesty.--( Hear and cheers.)
What I had said was, that unfortunately it had happened ra-
ther on account of the attachment to reform, or from mere
caprice, than from any just cause; and if that should be de-
clared publicly, it might go far to endanger the monarchy.—
( Great applause, and cries of " Yes, yes.") The safety of the
monarchy was the love, affection, and attachment of the peo-
ple. If any act was done by bad advisers which had a ten-
dency to induce the people to believe that their best interests
are not consulted in the formation of an Administration,
will any man tell me that such a crisis would not endanger the
monarchy.—(Tremendous applause.) In the course of my'
whole public life' I have abstained from speaking of the Sove-
reign on the throne. I have uniformly held, in opposition to
the Tories, that he was not responsible, but his advisers.
Gentlemen, I am old enough to remember, and I had a scat
in Parliament when that great and leading Tory, Sir William
Grant—a man of first rate abilities—had come forward to de-
fend the dismissal of the Whig Administration, and said that
no man had a right to be called to account for it. This is
Tory doctrine—not mine. My doctrine is that the throne is not
responsible for any errors, but that his Ministers
should certainly be held responsible.—( Hear, hear.)
I have yet to learn that after a Sovereign has departed this
life, his conduct and his character are not a matter of history.
I want to know what number of years it is that will shield
from observation and inquiry the past conduct of monarchy--
whether we were to have waited, when we spoke of James the
Second, until his grandson had expired.—( Immense cheers
and laughter.) Whether, in the time of Queen Elizabeth,
we were not to speak of the deceased tyrant Henry VIII., or
whether the mouths of Englishmen were to be shut when we
spoke of the bloody Queen Mary.—( Hear, hear.) Gentle.-
men, if this were so, we should shut out our most valuable guid e
as the surest test of our conduct is past experience—b y
your past experience, I ask you to judge of my conduct, an d
by that I am willing to stand or fall.—(Great cheering.) But:,
gentlemen, I am the most unfortunate man alive,—(Laughtet.,
and cries of " No, no.") Last time I had the honour of a
special opposition in the person of Captain Marryatt—l hay e
now another special opposition in the person of Captain Bur -
telt —(Laughter, and cries of " It will do you no harm."')
To-day it is for you to decide and to determine upon the T nen
before you. I certainly shall not say more, for I have. the
good fortune not to be an utter stranger to you. I have the
fortune to be long known in the public world, and I have the
good fortune to be well known to my constituents, If f. have
neglected my duty—if any man can say he has so ught al I in-
terview with me on public business, and I have dented his, 1—
that I have been negligent to the best of my abilities in ft 'l-
- the duties that were imposed on me, I can only say the
I am utterly ignorant of it.--( Cheers, and cries
of " No,
no.") My public life is before you—l go to Pall'
thewes
for
trie for
nnial
to vote as I have voted before—l to • baltriennial
Parliaments,
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I"r*

THIS DAY.

TOWER II M LETS.

The election for this extensive borough took place this day
at Stepney Green, and at an early hour several thousand per-
eiernd the hustings.
sons were curreume eteese their appearance,
The respective candidates, on mite...
were received with cheers and hisses by their respee.....
friends and opponents.
The Returning Officer, C. Warton, Esq., jun., having
read the precept, and the other usual preliminaries having
been gone through, came forward and addressed the Electors
is follows :
Electors of the borough of the Tower Hamlets : You are
convened for the purpose of exercising one of the dearest
rights belonging to Britons, a right which many of you have
out recently possessed I congratulate you on the acquire-
ment of it, and myself on
,having the honour to preside on
such an important occasion—an occasion on which you are
about to select a Gentleman into whose hands you will intrust
your valuable interests and liberties. I trust that the order
mad good temper with which you will conduct yourselves
luring the election, will prove that you are worthy of such a
crust. You will be addressed presently by Gentlemen who are
shout to propose candidates for your choice—gentlemen,
perhaps of different opinions, but should there be sentiments
tittered in which you may not coincide, I trust you will afford
that to others which you would think very hard were it denied
to yourselves—a fair and candid hearing. This far allow me
Co suggest as to vour duties, which will render mine easy and
tgreeable. As for myself, it will be no less my determina-
tion, than it is my obvious duty, to observe the strictest im-
pa, tiality. No gentleman shall have the opportunity of saying
or feeling that he has been at any disadvantage on that score.
I shall not detain you any further, having been chiefly anxious
to impress upon you the necessity of good order and candid
Attention to every speaker, but now proceed to call upon you
'0 say whom von think fit to put in nomination to serve you as
burgesses in Parliament.
Mr. B. WADDEN came forward to propose Dr. Lushington.
He said, Englishmen, brother Reformers, and be ther electors,
I have to tell you this day, that your character for 'prudence,-
ror calm discussion, for judgment and for impartiality, that
your character for zeal to uphold the glories of the British
constitution, that amenability to the law, your dispeeltion to
uphold the magisterial auther:ty, and hand down those bless-
ings which well ordered society has produced in this country,
Comprising a population the most numerous on the habitable
globe, is this day at stake. That character has found its way
over the civilized earth, and everywhere Englishmen are
acknowledged to be cool and dispassionate. My object
in calling your attention to this character, which has been esta-
blished throughout the civilized globe, and which I trust you will
secure us an inheritance to your postesity is that you will pre-
serve that character, and give to the mover and seconder of
the several candidates a fair and impartial hearing,—( Great
cheers.) I appear before you not attired in the garb of any
party colours, or as a party man—my boast is that I belong to
no party. I am neither Whig nor Tory, but I appear as a
zealous advocate to maintain the rights and privileges of the
people, and uphold the prerogative of the throne.—( Great
hooting and hissing.) lam an advocate for combining in one
phalanx of strength those three great Estates of national ad-
vantage, Kings, Lords, and Commons ; but although this is my
view, and this the doctrine which regulates my conduct, I appear
l:efore you this day as a reformer to the back bone.—(Tremen-
dous cheering.) As a reformer of every abuse that has found
its way into the constitution of the country—anxious to
withdraw from the British constitution everything that might
lead to destroy its beauty—( Applause)—l appear before you
not as an Englishman, although I live, thank GOD, in peace
and harmony among you. But I cannot forget the wretched
and deplorable state of my unfortunate country Ireland.—
(IGreat cheering.) I cannot overlook this important fact, that
last Session an Act was passed for the purpose of giving peace
and security to that country, and by which every clergyman was
secured a sum of 771. les. per cent., and by which peace and
good will would be rendered permanent. I cannot forget that
this act has been rendered abortive, nor by whom. It was by
the Duke of Wellington and his party.---( Great uproar.) Let
no man call me a Destructive,—l hurl back with contempt and
indignation the term Destructive, if applied to me. Who are
the Destructives ? to whom was to be ascribed the torrents of
blood that had been lately shed at Rathcoemac ?—( Cries of
"the Tories.") lam inclined to lay it at the door of that
party who threw out the Bill, which, if it had passed, would
have saved my country from such, a deplorable event. With these
views I beg to propose to you as a fit and proper person to take
care of ,your interests, to guard your freedom, and to uphold
your prerogatives—l propose for your use as a representative
a man who has been always found a faithful servant, 'and who
was that man ?—Dr. Lushington,—(Tremendous cheering,
and waving of hats for some-minutes.) As there are so many
to address you, I think it my duty to leave the Doctor in your'
hands,' satisfied you will not discharge a faithful servant, but
that you will give him increased confidence in a renewal of his
commission to advocate your interests, which he has hitherto
done with a moral courage equal to anything that was ever
exhibited.—( Gs eat app!ause. )
GEORGE OFFFL Esq., Magistrate, came forward amidst loud
cheers. He said—You know me, Gentlemen, to be an inde-
pendent man--soindependent am I known to be that not one
of the candidates have been near to ask me for my vote, all
knowing that I would vote according to principle, and not ac-
cording to any stuff that could be said to me. I must look at
my men, weigh. them, and prove them to be good and true, and
such as will cleanse our beloved monarchy of all that is abusive
and improper.—(Hear hear and cheers.) Such men I will
support with all my heart, and do all that I can do
to return them as your representatives.—( Hear.) We were
told a little ago that we would return democrats, and such
trumpery stuff as that, but I would ask you to look back to
what we have done ; and I will tell you that Rome in her
brightest senate never boasted of two such independent, inde-
fatigable, and honest men---( Loud cheers)—never boasted of
men so ready to attend to your wants, who felt more anxiety
for your interests, stuck more closely to your rights, and
who had proved themselves more highly talented and
thorough patriots in all they have' elsewhere clone.—( Hear,
hear.) I do feel, I may say happy, that any man
should come to agitate our peaceful hamlet. If we had on a
former occasion returned two Tories to Parliament, and if a
Reformer had now come to try to agitate us, just fancy how
the Tory Press would have stigmatised us, and been at a loss
to know how to have emitted forth their venom upon the in-
dustrious and peacefid inhabitants of this hamlet._( Hear,
hear.) Gentlemen, lam used to public speaking, and lam
happy to see you feel an interest on the present occasion, be-
cause it satisfies me that you know you have an important
duty to perform, and that you.will prove that you know how
to discharge that duty aright.—( Loud cheers; and here
there was volley of opprobrious epithets directed to our-
selves, taking us for the Reporters of a morning paper, which
had denominated the electors of the Hamlets a parcel, as they
vociferated, of "wild beasts; " and such an interruption did
that cause, that we had to declare openly that we were report-
ing for " The Sun.") If there are any wild beasts here, (con-
tinued the speaker) we shall know how to muzzle them.—
I will not detain you longer than to say I have watched most
narrowly the two men you did return, and that I found
them true British men, Without any falsity whatever; there-
fore, most heartily recommend to you the Doctor, whose bril-
liant talents, indefatigable exertions, and independence of
mind) I am sure will promote your liberties, your commerce,
your happiness, and all that is dear to you—( Loud cheers.)
JOHN SIMPSON, Esq., came forward and entreated their at-
tention for a few moments, in order that he might have the
opportunity of proposing William Clay, E,sq., as a fit and pro-
per person to be their representative. Gentlemen, he
said, you well know the great and indefatigable attention
he has paid to our interests during the last two Sessions
of Parliament—( Hear). He then gave an earnest of the
constant industry he will pay during the time to come. He
has been found worthy to be placed the first and foremost in
the ranks of our best friends and of the friends of the country.
Gentlemen, if we should proceed to a poll on this occasion,
I trust you will place him in that high and distinguished sta-
tion which will best show our desire and our exertions for cur
own welfare.

WIC COATES, Esq., then came forward and said, Gentle-
men and fellow Englishmen, you are now assembled to exer-
cise an important right—you are assembled to-day to exercise
that right which distinguishes freemen from slaves, and to
return to the Legislature men who will make the laws by
which we are to be governed. Gentlemen, his Majesty has,
in dismissing the late Parliament, exercised the Royal prero-
ga ire ; but we are here to exercise the people's prerogative.
—( Immense cheering.) The exercise of the Royal preroga-
tive excited alarm throughout the country; but the exercise of
the people's prerogative will re-assure the public mind, and
prove to the whole world, that by means of good order, peace,
and firmness, we are determined to secure to the people
all those effects which the Reform Bill was intended to
give—( Cries of " Hear, hear")—and without which ef-
fects that Bill itself would only be an insulting mockery
to the community of England.—( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen,
in the language of the Royal Proclamation which I saw last
night in the Gazette, his Majesty calls upon the people to
meet him, and to give him their advice in Parliament. By
God's assistance, we will give him that advice._(lmmense
cheering.) That advice will be given by gentlemen who have
the image and objects of our interests engraven on their hearts,
who understand our interests, and who are determined to main-
tain them in the House of Commons.—(Great cheering. )
What is it that the people of England desire ? Not violence,
not disorder, not anarchy, not confusion, else would they go to
the Tory faction.—( Loud applause.) Gentlemen, we desire
the peaceful fruits of the Great Charter of our liberties.
The enemies of the Reform Bill have abused the public mind,
and stigmatized the people of England when they said that
Reformers were wanting in loyalty to the King.—( Hear.)
We love the Monarchical Government and institutions of our
oountry. Not even the Gallant Captain—(Laughter)—
though he had risked his life in the defence of his country—
( Cries of " When ?")—felt a higher attachment of loyalty to
the King than do the Reformers of the Tower Hamlets.—
(Hear.) Our loyalty and our devotion to the King is the
principle and feeling of patriotism. Our love for his Majesty
is the love of freemen, and not the adulation of slaves.—
( Cheers.) He is a King, not for himself, but for the people.
What has one of our most moral poets said?
" He is ours to administer, to guard, to adorn the State,
But not to thwart all change."
—( Hear, hear.) You are to serve him nobly in the common
cause ; you will be true to the death, but not to be his slaves.
Cheers.) It is this feeling of affection that calls upon us
to show that demonstration of the public will, that will drive
those evil men from his Majesty's Council, who have abused
the Royal ear, and who have ever proved themselves equally

of the corn laws--the entire extinction altogether of
flogging in the army and navy—the abolition of impressment
—in short, I go to forward your interests as I did upon the
question of seamen's wages, when you recollect how I joined
against the Government, who were my friends, as an act of
justice to the seamen, that they should no longer pay their
sixpences to the Hospital ; and you know whether my exer-
tions did not contribute in some degree toNobtain that ad-
vantage—(loud cheers)—to a most worthy class of men.
Now I will detain you no longer, relying, as I do,
with the most perfect confidence in the judgment of the
electors of the Tower Hamlets. By the tests of your
votes you will judge of the comparative merits of your candi-
dates. Ido not attempt to defend myself against some of the
petty slanders that have been issued against me. You know
me, and I confide in your judgment. Cheers.) I shall
never, for a single instant, attempt to disparage any one who
stood in competition with me. You are the persons who are
the candidates. lam of opinion that persons
to dem: : 'non
embarking in cons...:'
Ls like these, ought to remember that, al.-
:Icvn pretensions, yet the decisions
though they set forth their .
undoubtedly rest with you, and an; attempt to impeach the
character or conduct of an opponent ought m.;;;!4, be resorted to.
One word, and I have done. You are well aware gat three
or four votes of mine have been unacceptable to my consa--
tuents. I trust I have explained them ; but, if I have not, at
any rate the Tories ought not to blame, for Peel himself was
with me. ( Here Mr. Hume came on the hustings, and was
greeted with loud cheers.) Recollect the importance
of the Tower Hamlets, a borough that ranks not second to
any in the kingdom when I consider its population, intelli-
gence, and property.—( Cheers.) I would, therefore, call
upon you to elect that candidate who, knowing the importance
of the trust committed to him, will discharge his duty to his
constituents with the greatest courage and fidelity.
Mr. CLAY come forward and was received with the most
enthusiastic cheering, when silence was obtained, he pro-
ceeded. I request the favour of perfect silence while I ad-
dress a few observations to you. Let me state, that while I
recognised personal acquaintance, by shaking hands with the
gentleman on the right (Dr. Lushinghton, not that I have any
ungentlemanly feeling towards him on my left (Capt. Burton)
( Loud cheers. ) Any one might be proud of your approba-
tion, and I feel the greatest pride at being brought uncle:-
your notice once more. I entreat the honour of being again
the representative of the vast and important borough of
Tower Hamlets, second to none in the kingdom, in mo-
rals, and the public spirit of its inhabitants.—(Chee s.)
The being your representative would confer honour on the fi
talents in the country.--( Cheers.) I now utter sentiment;
timilar to those which actuated me when I first had the honour
of standing for your suffrages. Then I had nothing but me
private character, and a candid avowal of my principles, which
I could bring forward as entitling me to your confidence,
and I felt a great anxiety when claiming yonr reliance on
me; but now I stand in a different si-uation, I have
been before you as your representative ; you have seen whether
my former pretensions to your support were just, and I have
now something more substantial on which to claim your confi
dente.—( Cheers.) I will not now say what I will do--
but look at what I have done.—( Loud cheering. )
You are now well able to judge whether I am
fit to be the assertor of your honour and the guar-
dian of your rights.—( Yes.) A calm consideration of the
merits of the different candidates is at all times right, but
now doubly necessary.—(Cheeers, and " Hear.") The King,
in the exercise of his prerogative, has thought fit to dismiss his
Ministers, who were acceptable to the people. Ido not ques-
tion his right to dismiss them, but I know not why ho should
confide in those who were unacceptable to the people—
( Cheers)—and by their advice he dissolved the late House of
Commons. I should conceive his present Ministers offered
advice somewhat like this—" Sire," I fancy I hear them say-
ing, " we could not hold office a week with the present par-
liament—( Laughter and cheers)—please your Majesty the
present House of Commons does not fairly represent
the people send these troublesome fellows about thier busi-
ness, and the people will doubtless send us a Parliament who
,will be as much satisfied with us, as this Parliament was with
our predecessors.—(Much laughter.) I unequivocally declare
myself a determined opponent of the present 'Ministry.
—( Cheers.) Do you ask me why ? is it because I am a Whig ?
lam no Whig. Is it because they are Tories? No, it is
not. I care not what they call themselves. But it is because
1 believe them opposed to those reformations in Church and
State necessary alike for justice and the well-being of
our country.—( Much cheering.) They (the Tories) have
said " Look at the factious men, they oppose every motion in
Parliament, whether it is good or bad, because it comes
from a Tory. Now I need not take up any of your time in
in refuting such miserable invective as this.—( Cheers.)
Neither of the candidates before you, I am sure, would op-
pese any motion on such a ground as this—but we believe
.42, present Ministers took office with the intention of opposing
every sr_-zies of beneficial reform.—( Hear.) Look at the
co::.ilusion in a Second Edition.

FINSBLTRY.

The neighbourhood of Islington-green was thi2 morning a
scene of bustle and merriment. ' Long before the hour of no-
mination, twelve o'clock, Islington green was crowded with a
vast concourse of persons, anxious to be present at the nomina-
tion of the candidates. The different candidates came to the
hustings preceded by banners and flags.
Mr. Serjeant Spankie, on arriving upon the hustings, was
loudly hissed, and cries resounded from the crowd of, " You
will be out on Saturday, Spankie," ". You have got a bad
suit," " Do you think you are before the real people now."
" Here's your hobby-horse coming—how's your master, Bobby,
the rat-catcher."—( Great laughter.)
Mr. Wakley, on coming upon the hustings, was most en-
thusiastically cheered. Among the crowd we noticed an old
lady, over whose head at least 75 summers' suns had shone,
who appeared a most inveterate enemy of the Learned Ser-
geant, repeatedly shaking her hand at him, and sayinz,
" Don't you wish you may get into Parliament, Learned Ser-
geant."
Mr. Duncombo was loudly cheered, and cries resounded
from the crowd of " Mind your pockets, Duncombe—the
Spankites are there ;" " No Bath Cakes." —( Loud laughter.)
Hobhouse won't come, he's gone to Bath." The Precept and
Bribery Act Writ were read, and the oath administered by the
returning officer, J. Raphael, Esq. At the conclusion of the
ceremony Mr. Hobhouse arrived before the hustings, and was
received with mingled cheers and hisses.
J. RAPHAEL, Esq., then came forward. The electors were
called upon at the present crisis to exercise the valuable pri-
vileges of electing two members to serve them in the new Par-
liament. It was his duty as a returning officer to record their
votes, and return them to the Sheriff of Middlesex.—( Cheers. )
He would endeavour to discharge his duty to the uttermost,
and he trusted that the electors would do theirs, and give
every gentlemen a patient and impartial hearing.
WALTER SKIRROW, Esq. (a Chancery Barrister), came for-
ward, and said it was the privilege of every elector, upon an
occasion like the present, to address them ; and he was quite
sure they wonld give every candidate a patient attentive, and
indulgent hearing. He would only ask them ae do that which
he would do for every one, not to prejudge, but .first of all to
hear what every elector might have to say, And if he
expressed himself in sentiments, of which they disztoproved,
he should lament it for his own part extremely.—( Cries of
" No soft soap.")—but he hoped they would give to every
person present the hearing which he was entiiled to. I",'e
King having, in the exercise of his rightful prerogative..
( Groans and hisses)—dissolved the Parliament, they were
called upon to return two. Members to Parliament,
—(not Spankie or Hobhouse) and in the exercise of the
elective franchise he was sure every one would agree with him
that it was their duty and interest to elect such persons who
were best able to discharge the important trusts which they
would have committed to their hands.—( Cries of " That's
Wakley.) He had to speak of only of one individual, the
other candidates, he had no doubt, were honourable
men, and they would be able to speak for themselves
but he would beg to remind them that Mr. Sergeant Spankie
(the groans and yellings at the mention of the learned
Sergeant's name became so great, that Mr. Skirrow could not
proceed for some time. Amidst which we.e cries of "We
want nothing of Spankie." He wants to get on the woolsack.
" He is a spanking Professor." At length the learned gentle-
man finding it was impussible he could be heard, notwithstand-
ing the entreaties of the Returning Officer, at length said he
would conclude by proposing Mr. Spankie as a fit and pro Fer
representative to serve the electors of Finsbury in Parliament.
( Loud groans and hisses.)
C. WOODWARD, Esq., then came forwasd to second the
nomination of Mr. Sergeant Spankie, amidst yellings and
hootings, and great uproar, which indeed continued through-
out the whole of this gentleman's address, and it was with
great difficulty that we could hear what he said
He had not unfrequently appeared before the inha-
bitants of that village to advocate the cause of the poor man,
yet this was the first time in which he had ever presented him.
self as a political character, yet he had great satisfaction in
doing so, because he knew he was concerned in a good, a
great, and glorious cause. , But in his thus offering himself to
them, they might inquire what were his principles and what
were the principles which he would advocate ; They might
ask whether he was a Whig or a Tory? but he would tell
them that he had very good reasons for believing he was nei-
ther.—( Increased groans and hisses.) He would tell them
why. He found one person calling him a Tory, and he found
another calling him a Whig, while lie, as a practical man,
knew that he could not be both. He would, therefore,
tell them that he was a Reformer, and he came ;before
them :as a reformer, to advocate the cause of Reform.
Further, he always had been and ever would be a reformer,
and he would never support any candidate who would not ad-
vocate the case of Reform.---( Hisses, and cries a " Then why
do you support Spankie.) It would be useless for him or any
other man to say there were no abuses, every man knew that
in proportion as his family and his little circle increased so
there would be an increase of dilapidation and abuse also, but
all that he had to say was that he was ready to reform them
when he could find them. If he found abuses in his own
house he would reform them, not by pulling down the
House altogether, but he would reform the abuses themselves
while he evleavoured to support the house, so with reference
to the nation itself, while they attempted to reform all abuses,
let them support the constitution, and surely no cne would ob-
ject to that. He (Mr. W.) was a Reformer, and a downright
Radical Reformer.—( Cries of, " A reformer in 'disguise.")
He would advocate the cause of that reform which would make
every, man begin to reform at home. He hoped that they
would return to Parliament Mr. Spankie, who had ever been
distinguished for his talent and integrity.—(Here the deafen-
ing cries of " Off off!" and the groans and yells, became so
loud that Mr. Woodward said that he was very happy to se-
cond the nomination of Mr. Sergeant Spankie, who was such
a reformer who would cleanse the house, but not pull it down.
He therefore called upon them to assist him in placing Mr.
Sergeant Spankie at the head of the poll.