The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-16 00:00:00

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,gZECTION INTELLIGENCE.

MEETING OF LIBERALS.

Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the Liberal
electors of the City of London, convened by " The
Liberal Electors' Committee," was held at the Lon-
don Tavern, for the purpose of giving them an op-
portunity of hearing statements from Lord John
Russell, Baron Rothschild, Sir James Duke, and
Mr. R. W. Crawford, the four sitting members,
and who are candidates for re-election. The meet-
ing was very fully attended. Mr. H. G. Prescott
was called to the chair.

Sir JAMEF DUKE, Bart., M.P., first presented
himself, and was received with loud cheers. He
said he was quite sure the meeting would not ex-
pect him to address them at any length before the
noble lord, because all present knew what were his
views in respect to progress and reform, and all he
should have to do would be to act under the noble
lord, with whose views he entirely concurred. For
many years past he had acted with an honest
desire to further the great work of Reform, and, if
elected, he should pursue the same independent
course he had previously pursued. At the same
time he was bound to say that he could not pledge
himself to the details of the measure, which, in his
place in the House of Commons, Lord John Russell
had faintly shadowed out. As far, however, as it
went, he cordially agreed with the brief view his
lordship had given. He thanked the citizens for
the kind reception they had always accorded o
him, and whether again returned to Parliament or
not, he should always retain a grateful sense of
the kindness he had received.
Baron ROTHSCHILD said this was the first time
he had had the opportunity of addressing his con-
stituents since the House of Commons passed the
bill enabling him to take his seat. During the
short time he had been in the house he had voted
several times. He voted, after due consideration,
for the resolution of the noble lord on the Govern-
ment Reform Bill. He believed that if they had
gone to a second reading, and then into committee,
the bill might have been made a very good one,
but it would have been so entirely altered that at
the end of a month or six weeks, after deliberating
and thinking over it every night, they would have
arrived at precisely the same conclusion to which
Lord John Russell's resolution had led them, and
the Government would have been so beaten on
points of detail that they would have been obliged
to give up their bill. They never could have stood
being in a minority so often. Under those circum-
stances he considered that the .noble lord's was the
only course that could have been adopted. (Hear,
hear.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who was very warmly'
received, said—Gentlemen, I rise to address myself
to the important question of the approaching dis-
solution, and the election for the City of London,
and I fear that I must detain you for a con-
siderable time longer than either of those gentlemen
who have preceded me have done. The reason is a
very simple one ; they have taken, no doubt, a
very clear and liberal course, but they have not
had, as I have, to sustain the blame and the
reproaches arising from different quarters, for my
having taken a very prominent part in the events
of the last year. I hope you will indulge me while
I give some historical notices of what has happened
during the course—l should say of the last 15
months. The noble lord then gave a resume of the
proceedings of the session of 1858, the defeat of the
Conspiracy Bill of Lord Palmerston, his consequent
resignation, and the formation of Earl Derby's
Government, charging the Conservatives with
illiberal and factious conduct towards Lord Pal.
merston, and with ignoring their Conservative
principles and taking up Liberal measures, in order
to keep their offices—among other matters instan-
cing the Jew Bill. The noble lord took great credit
to himself for the course he pursued in saving the
Government from the consequences of their India
Bill, but said he did not consider he was for ever
to play the part of a Royal Humane Society's
officer to save the Government from drowning. The
bnroobuleghltorfdortwhae,rdn came to the Reform Bill of the
present session and said—When the Government
such that it seem
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that such a measureon
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told me that it was impossible
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me mention to you
others to refer to—_which
thing—perhaps I may have
.11was not controverted
during the seven nights' debate.- It -was this :—lt
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was proposed in this bill that there should be the
power to create non-resident freehold voters in
boroughs. Many of those boroughs—in fact, a
large proportion of them—have 100,000 acres of
land. The borough of Midhurst, as we were told
by its late representative, goes into 19 parishes. It