The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-17 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

From our Second Edition of last night.
MIDDLESEX HAS DONE ITS DUTY!!!

In consequence of the place Mr. Hume occupied upon the
poll, the neighbourhood of King's-cross was crowded from an
early hour, and during the whole day every statement of the
poll was received with great acclamation, in consequence of
the gradual rise of the favourite candidate upon the poll. At
near four, great interest was excited by persons arriving from a
distance, who eagerly inquired into the probability of Mr.
Hume's return. The good humoured smile was instantly
raised upon the countenances of all, from the assurance that
Mr. flume's services were still at the command of his country.
Mr. Hume arrived at his committee room about three
o'clock, and was received with loud shouts of congra-
tulation from the immense multitude assembled. It was
arranged that the Honourable Gentleman should address
the people assembled from the balcony belonging to Mr.
Adams, of the Tile Manufactory, immediately opposite the
Committee-room. Mr. Hume, as he crossed the street,
was received with several rounds of applause, which
were again repeated when he appeared on the balcony.
The cheering upon Mr. flume's coming forward was so en-
thusiastic, that it was some minutes before he could address ,
the assembled multitude. As soon as silence was obtained,
Mr. Hu is addressed the crowd as follows :—Gentlemen, I
am not surprised at all at the anxiety and interest which I see
excited in the course of this most important struggle.—
( Great cheering.) Gentlemen, as far as I understand the state
of the poll, I am at least 300 a-head of the Tory candidate.—
( Great cheering) For my own part, Gentlemen, it would
have been a matter of utter indifference to me, whether I had
or I had not been above that gentleman, because after 25
years of public life, I could have retired to my own home,
where I am always happy, instead of continuing in the
turmoil in which I have been so many years engaged
in order to advance the public interest—( Tremendous
cheering.) I can only assure you, gentlemen, that if it had not
been for the important struggle in which the people of
England were now engaged, against the party who have
ever opposed all good measures, I should not have
taken one-twentieth part of the trouble I have done in
the great cause of the people.—(Tremendous cheering. )
In order, gentlemen, to judge of the importance of the
struggle we are now making, you have only to look at the
efforts that have been made against me on the present occa-
sion.—( Cheers.) I will venture to say there is not a single
engine which the Tory candidate, or the Tory Government
could put in motion, that has not been exercised against me.
Cheers.) It is lamentable to me to know and to state to
you how many honest men have come to me and said, " What
shall we do ?—We have been called upon, and threatened—
and told if we do not vote against you and for Wood, we and our
families shall be ruined for ever."—( Tremendous groaning. )
This shows the great importance of the ballot to protect the
interests of the country.—(Tremendous cheering.) At the
present moment, I consider the struggle in which we are
engaged, a struggle whether we shall have those who have
fattened for ages at your expense—whose relations and
connections are saddled on the taxes of the country—
( Hear, hear)—whether you will allow the overgrown
rotten establishment of the Irish Church, the food of so many
of the titled nobility—whether you will allow these as the means
of political corruption—whether we are to have improvement in
the courts of law—any mitigation of taxes ; in short, whether
you are to have civil and religious liberty extended all over
this empire? This is the struggle in which you are en-
gaged, though I have been the humble organ in your
hands.—(Hear..) Gentlemen, I cannot look to this
election, without thinking bow lamentable the disgrace it
shows, in reducing the glorious majority of 3,200 which I had
in opposition to a Tory candidate at the last election,
by nearly 1,000. Of these a number have changed
their opinions, and some have been compelled by peculiar
circumstances to vote ; but I have had a great majority of
them against me, and voting for Wood, crying out " Wood
for ever, and no flume !"—( Hear, hear.) They did not know
they were supporting the very men that oppressed them, and
that they were joining their voices to take from the people
of England and themselves the sacred rights--( Hear,
hear,)—to which they were entitled by the constitution,
and which I hope you are determined to have in spite of the
Tories and all your enemies.—( Cheers.) By the paper
which I hold in my hands, I find the numbers at the present
election, as far as they can be known, to be for—
Byng 3,167
Hume 2,871
Wood 2,505
leaving a majority of 366 in my favour.—( Cries of " Bravo,
bravo I" and "It is enough ") It is enough, gentlemen, to
carry the object. lam pleased with it, but I wish that it had
been ten times more, in order to show those who have so poisoned
the King's ear, that there has been no re-action in this county;
but nevertheless it is a great victory.—( Cheering.) Yes,
gentlemen, it is a victory, and I trust that we shall yet mar=
shall a majority of 100 in that House where only your complaints
can be constitutionally carried, and where I hope that the
Lords will be brought down to their own proper bounds, so
that the people may have an amelioration of their grievances, and
a reform of all their abuses. The struggle which you have now
been fighting is a struggle for this—whether the Peers and the
Aristocracy, who stopped all reforms during the last Session
—who stopped, the paltry I will call it—( Cheers)—the paltry
boon that your Dissenting brethren should have their sons edu-
cated at the Universities, in order to allow of their competing
with Churchmen in their different walks in life ? They are the
same parties who also stopped that improvement towards re-
forming the Church of Ireland, by which the collection of
tithes might have been carried on in Ireland without the shed-
ding of blood.—( Cheers.) The House Commons passed that
measure by an overwhelming majority, though they were lately
cashiered ; but it was thrown out by that body who are now
trying all in their power to stop all the reforms by which I
think all the best interests in Church and State, the best inte-
rests of the whole country, would be protected.—( Cheers. )
I agree entirely with every word that fell from Lord
Durham in his speech at Glasgow.—( Immense cheering. )
I know not how any man can call himself a Reformer who
admits, or can allow, any known and pointed abuse to
remain a single day longer in existence.—(Hear, and
great cheering.) We have been dallying with our enemies.
The late Government were afraid of the Tories—they knew
that they had the entire possession of the Court—that they
had the ear of the King, and they truckled to them instead of
throwing themselves upon you—the people. --( Immense cheer-
ing.) I hope that a very few days will show to the nation
who are its friends in the House—who are willing to drive the
Duke from that place which he has usurped. lam delighted
that you have sent the Duke's eleventh lieutenant away, and
that in spite of all obstacles thrown in your way by the
aristocracy—( Hear, hear, and cheers)—and the whole weight
of the Church.—( Groans.) It is a clear proof, however, my
friends, that the prayers of the Church upon this occasion have
been of little avail. I hope you will not forget
the way in which the power of the Church has been
exercised in this county upon this occasion. Every man
of you, in every parish, should make it your business to enquire
into the way in which the clergyman of your parish
has acted.—( Heal', hear.) When you see the immense
power which the clergymen has in a country parish, you
will wonder at our victory, and see that it was no wonder
that we should lose some voles M Bedfont, Enfield, and other
country parishes. In London your societies teach man
to think of what is going on—they tell them who are
their candidates, and what are their opinions.—( Hear,
hear.) Conviction is brought home to the minds of all who
attend those places where a good man holds forth, and good
Reformers are thereby made. In the country no such ad-
vantages are to be found. The farmers and the labourers, by
being insulated and so widely separated, become the prey of
those masters upon whom they depend.—( Cheers.) I trust
that the consequence of this election will be that we shall
know every man who supported the Tory, and such a
Tory 1—( Laughter.) If he had been a man fitted
for the station of your representative, you all well
know the situation in which Mr. Byng is at pro-
sant. He cannot be expected to do all the duties belonging
to your representative, and what a precious colleague you
would have sent him, had you sent the Tory ? Then what
can you say to the 2,505 persons who have supported the
eleventh Lieutenant of the Duke's Guard ? Why, that it is
an insult to the common sense of the county; and you ought
without delay to adopt such measures as shall mark the in-
' ducements which have been held out to them to vote on that
side.—( Cheering.) I can tell you that the purse of the Tories,
and they are able to make a purse by having rich incomes arising
from the abuse of your property—( Great cheering)—it is
a death's struggle with them, and they will rather risk the
half of those riches in order to save the whole—when you look
at who has been your opponent, and who I am—(laughter)—no
wonder then you laugh, Gentlemen, but I dare say you have
seen the bill of " Who is Hume ?"—as if you had not all
known me for the last 25 years. Gentlemen, I therefore
beg you to listen to me for a few moments. I stand
before you elected—brought amongst you by the wishes
of a large portion of the constituency. You have
now returned me three times as your representative, and
I have always continued the same line of public duty,
sometimes supporting the Ministry, and sometimes
being opposed to them ; but at all times, and at all seasons,
setting my face firmly against the return of the Tories to power
—of those men who, in the course of a few years, loaded
you with taxation, which is now almost pressing down
the industry of the country—of those men who have always
been benefitting the few at the expense of the many. —( Great
cheering.) I have always been doing my utmost to obviate
the evils they have brought upon the country, to reduce all
useless expenditure, and to put an end to all sinecures, and
those gross and multiplied pensions given to persons who
have probably much less right to them than you—( Cheers. )
I will not, gentlemen, mention many other points which I
could advert to, but this I will say, that I defy the bitterest
opponent I have to mention any motion or measure that I ever
brought forward, which had not in view the promotion of
the interests of the people, and the reduction of the
overgrown power of the aristocracy.—( Great cheering.) I
have ever fearlessly pursued such conduct—(cheers)—I have
truckled to no party —(cheers)—neither Tory nor Whigs.—
(Cheers.) I have excited, no doubt, the jealousy of the Whigs,
and that may be all, but I am the bitter enemy of the
Tories; they know that, and they have therefore made me the
object of their most bitter attacks.--( Cheers.) But here I
am among you, gentlemen, in defiance of those attacks,
trinmphant.—( Cheers.) I have been told, gentlemen, that
the people are fickle,--( Cheers,)—that some of them are so,
lam sorry to say,—( Cheers,)—but why are they so ? why,
from necessity.—( Loud cheering.) I am, therefore,
anxious to carry through the other important
measures of the Reform Bill, in order to make the suffrage of
snore value.—( Cheers.) The Tories know very well that I
will advocate the Ballot—vote for Triennial Parliaments—
and that I will advocate such measures as are calculated for the
public good,—knowing that they have opposed me