The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-12 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

At a little before two o'clock the High Bailiff (Mr. Morris)
Sir Francis Burdett, Sir John C. Hobhouse, and their friends,
appeared upon the hustings to announce the result of the poll,
A board was exhibited before the High Bailiff; on which the
numbers were stated to be—

Burdett 3248 1 Evans 1096
Hobhouse .3214 I
Mr. MORRIS having announced the numbers, stated that
Sir Francis Burdett and Sir John Hobhouse were duly elected
to represent Westminster. The cheering lasted for some
minutes, and completely drowned the small portion of hisses
who mustered against Sir John Hobhouse.
Sir F. BURDETT then addressed the electors, and said that
it was a most gratifying part of his duty to congratulate the
electors of Westminster upon having shown to the world that
they still maintained that independent and intelligent character
for which they had been so long distinguished. They had
shown they were neither to be deceived nor deluded out of what

they considered their proper course. He had little now to say,
for he wished to take no notice of any thing unpleasant which
might have occurred in the course of the recent contest.—
(Cheers.) He was now the representative of the electors of
Westminster at large, (Cheers) and in the performance of his
duties, he hoped all would hereafter be able to acknowledge
that he had not borne in memory any thing unpleasant which
might have taken place in the course of this election. It was
with pride and exultation he was able to say that the electors
of this great city had, if any thing, raised themselves in public
estimation, by their recent conduct.--(Cries of " No, no
—and yes, yes.") He could still say to the rest of the king.
dom, if you want intelligence and independence—if you want
an example of good conduct—if you require a model
of public spirit, I can still point to Westminster,
and say, look. He was now placed in a situation more ardu.
ous and difficult than any on which they had before placed
him on former occasions. Heretofore he had only to fight an
honest and straight forward battle, with a set of corrupt 80.
roughmongers in Parliament—(Cheers). But the system under
which those enemiess of their country existed, was now ex-
ploded for ever. He was now loaded with the additional
duty of snpporting those great public interests in
which they were so materially interested, and he trusted that
upon all great questions he should not be found any more than
heretofore to have looked to any private considerations, but
to have acted solely with a ►iew to public advantage.
—(Hear, hear.) They had placed him in a situation of
proud pre-eminence, which ne man of honourable
feeling or even of ambition could wish to change for any of
which it was in the power of any man or body of men to

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bestow. They had come triumphantly out of what at first
appeared likely to be a trying occasion, but he again ex.
pressed a hope that all animosity between fellow-citizens, look-
ing forward with equal ardour to the benefits to be derived from
the Reform Bill would be buried in ob.ivion, and that the
united authority of the electors of this great city would, as
heretofore, give weight to the measures which the public in-
terest might require to be passed. The Hon. Baronet con.
eluded by expressing his feelings of gratification for the honour 1
they had done him, and the pride he felt at the conduct of his
constituency as a body. He begged to assure the electors they
would always find him their arduous and decided servant.

Sir J. HOBHOUSE then came forward, and although
his opponents before the hustings did not appear to be
very numerous, compared with the rest of the assemblage,
they kept up such an incessant noise, that it was impossi-
ble a word could he heard which the Hon. Baronet uttered
beyond the second or third row. It was with much pride
and satisfaction, he said, he presented himself to the
electors on this great and most important occasion.
If at any former occasion there had been any doubt of what
the opinion of the great body of the electors of Westminster,
the result of his contest had settled it.—(Cheers.) He trusted
they would allow him to add his recommendation to
that of his honourable colleague, to bury all animosities
in oblivion, in order that the friends of Reform in
Westminster might continue to co.operate for the
public good. As the opposition had been directed
more particularly against himself—(Cries of" Very justly," and
" Off, off.") When he stated that he felt no kind of ill.
feeling against any elector who had conscientiously preferred
another to himself, of course, none of themselves could
indulge in such feelings towards fellow.electors. He
trusted that his conduct would justify the confi.
dence his constituents had ever pleased to place in him.
At any rate he would endeavour to show those who had pre.
ferred another to himself, that though they had not the ho.
nour of their choice, they would not have much to re.
gret in having him (Sir J. C. Hobhouse) to be their
representative. It was never the good fortune of any man
to meet with unanimous approbation of his public conduct,
and he trusted that when his motives and intentions were
fairly weighed, that though gentlemen who were discontented
with him—God knew on what account, for he himself was
unable to divine any reason—he trusted they would ac-
knowledge their mistake. It would ill become him to
indulge in any of those promises which had been the
fashion for some candidates for popular favour to give, but
this he would say, that if he had shewn in his former conduct
that he had any respect either for himself or for them, he
would continue to exhibit the same disinterested behaviour;
and when he next addressed them, he would surrender his trust
pure and unsullied, without having given them, he hoped,
any reason to regret the confidence they now reposed in him
After a few words from Mr. Simpson, explanatory
of Colonel
Evans's unavoidable absence in the country, and expressive

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majority--expresaive also of the gratitude of that Gal-
lant Gentleman, and the hope of the speaker that they
would hear no noire of " Rumps," except of rumps of
be et on their CI ristmas boards.

The High Bailiff d.a.olved the meeting.
Mr. Da VICAR moved A vote of thanks to the High
Bailiff, which was carried unanimously.

THE CITY.
This morning the Sheriffs met at nine o'clock, in order
to cast up the books of the different poll clerks who had
attended at Guildhall to receive the votes of the Livery-
men, and also of those who attended at the 14 stations to
receive the votes of the inhabitant householders who have
been enfranchised in consequence of the Reform Bill.
Before the business commenced their were various
retnarkings with regard to the progress of the late contest.
Some said that one of the candidates had not had fair
play—viz., Scales, but all agreed that he had at the hust-
ings. It has, however, been agreed on all hands that his
committee were not the most alert or au Pit at their ho-
miness who have ever undertaken to espouse the cause of a
candidate. Yesterday, when one gentleman came to poll,
he saw the three Aldermen elected Members opposite, and
lie said emphatically, " I shall vote for no Alderman
except Scales—he has been the victim of your Court,
and he is the cleverest fellow among you." Mr. Lyall
received more " plurapers" than any other, and
that gentleman appears only to bays lost his election from
the fact that so many Liverymen voted for the four can-
didates who stood first in nomination, and have secured
their election. A considerable number of Liverymen had
not been returned as such by the clerks of their Compa-
nies ; hence the Sheriffs would not allow them to vote.
This is mentioned merely to put these gentlemen on the
alert, so that the like error may not occur in future. So
far as the polling went, everything went off with great
quietude, and this was thought to be one of the first good
points of the Reform Bill.

At 20 minutes to two o'clock, Sheriffs Humphery and Peek
came on the hustings, accompanied by all the candidates. The
formal announcement of the State of the Poll seemed to excite
but little interest with the public, and very few persons were
present.

The Sheriffs announcod the following to be the state of the
poll:

Mr. Grote 8412 Sir John Key
Alderman Waithman 7452 Mr. Lya11......... ....5152
Alderman Wood 7488 Mr. Scales ...... ....... 569
They then declared Mr. Grote, Alderman Wood, Alderman
Waithman, and Sir John Key to be duly elected to represent
t he city of London in the ensuing Parliament —( Loud cheering.)
Mr. GROTE came forward amidst loud cheering. He
said if ever there was a human being who had cause to
stand before an assembly of the people with feelings of pride
and gratitude, he was that man.—(Cheer&) Four days ago,
he stood on those hustings an anxious candidate for their
suffrages, and now they have done him the distinguished ho.
nour, by a commanding majority, of electing him to the great
pest of one of their representatives. He now stood before
them in the felicity of the greatest triumph which cou'd be
conferred on a free citizen ; no triumph on the earth could
even equal it, much less surpass it—(Cheers)—for what were
all the gorgeous titles which the smiles of Court could bestow'
compared with the independent sufftages of an enlightened body
of free citizens.—(Cheers.) It was that alone which carried
merit with it, and which carried triumph to the heart of a
free citizen. In thanking them for this great and unexampled
honour—for unexampled it was, as no other individual had ever
so great a number of votes—he felt a full sense of the obligation:
with which it was accompanied; he felt with religious awe the
mighty powers now placed in his hands, and assured them, with a
solemnity he never before experienced, that he would feel himself
disgraced if he did not employ those powers to the fullest
extent for their benefit. The mission with which he was
intrusted could not be paralleled with any other either in the
power or the labour which it required, and he was resolved to
consecrate to their service the full measure of his faculties and
energies, particularly in favour of that nameless untitled mul-
titude which most needed the protection of the Legislature, be.
cause they had the least means of protecting themselves.—
j.oud cheers.) As he had repeatedly announced, his poli-
tical principles were his own long tried and long cherished
convictions, and not assumed for the moment or to
catch at any ephemeral popularity.—(Cheers.) If those
principles were before sacred to him they were now far
more so, because they were stamped with the seal of their ap-
probation.—(Coutinued cheering.) As he well knew,
both by study and by observation, hew very great and
irresistible was the temptation in public men to slumber at
their posts, he called on the electors to watch narrowly his po.
litical conduct with care and attention ; he exhorted them to
do that, not merely for the sake of their own interests, but as
a guarantee and a preservative of his own political virtue.—
Cheers.) He begged of them to look him through and
through as he worked on the political stage ; and if they saw
him conniving at, or consenting to the continuance of the
abuses which he had denounced, or incompetent to the discus.
sion of any great public question, then to repudiate him
without indulgence, and to kick his banner out of that Hall
with all the disgrcce it would then deserve.—(Cheers.) But
if they saw him acting otherwise—if they saw him in the van-
guard of those who denounced public abuses, and if he acted
in the way he had promised to act, he should then call upon
them for a continuance of that generous confidence they had
now placed in him—not as a matter of favour, but as a matter
of justice. He mentioned that with more peculiar interest,
because he knew that his political principles would mark him
for the enmity of all those jobbing fraternity who infested
the high-ways of the Government, and who blocked up all th e
paths to sound and good legislation.—(Loud cheers.) He
feared not their open enmity ; but they were accustomed to
attack their opponents with poisoned weapons, and if they
should aim their calumnies at him, he would appeal to the
calm and deliberate judgment of his constituents whether he
had done any thing to forfeit their good opinion.—(Cheers.)
One of the candidates (Mr. Lyall) had announced his claims to
their suffrages not on political grounds, but on mercantile
grounds. He alluded to that gentleman with the greatest feel-
ing of kindness, because, although they differed in politics, he
knew him to be a most amiable man, and possessed of great
talent and habits of business—(Hear, hear)—but Mr. Lyall's
party, in putting him forward, expressed their apprehension that
if he ( Mr. L.) were not returned, the interests of the commercial
part of the community would not be faithfully representaet,
He (Mr. Grote) would venture to assert that that prurbecl
would be false so long as he was in Parliament Be was im
much identified with the mercantile interests of London, as
Mr. Lyall could be, and he would vindicate in the Legisla.
cure all the interests of the Merchants of London
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but he would never advocate or assist any of those proposi.
tbioodnys wofhit
demanded an unduc protection, or when the great body of the
people were to be taxed for their benefit. From that moment he
would become not their champion or advocate, but their moat
determined opponent-- He would now take leave of the
electors, with the renewed expression of his gratitude for
the unexampled support they had been pleased to afford him.
He now stepped forward to public life a new
and untried man, and with nothing io recommend him, bu t
the testimony of respect from 8,400 individuals—(Great
cheering)—but if there was honour or generosity in
the human bosom, that testimony was quite sufhi
cient to prevent him from falling into those
habits of indolence and relaxation, which he was sorry to
sty had acted so fatally on many public men. The lion.
Member concluded amidst long continued cheering.)

We shall give the conclusion of all the other
Meetings in a Second Edition.

STAMFORD, Aric 11.
The poll opened this morning, and displayed, at its close
this evening, the first day, a result equally surprising in its ex.
tent, to all parties. The influence of the Marquis of Exeter,
and the corporation united, with the effect of the new boun-
dary, has overwhelmed the public.spirited and gallant reform.
ers, whose exertions and disinterested sacrifices, have gained
for them the admiration of the country. The popular candi-
date, Mr. Gregory, cannot overtake the majority of Mr.
Finch against him. Every thing which Intimidation and cor.
ruption could accomplish, has been directed against the free ex.
ercise of the elective franchise ; and the farts connected with
this contest, will illustrate the absolute necessity of the ballot
or disfranchisement. Representation is a curse and a mockery
under the circumstances of the electors of this borough. The
poll will open on Wednesday, and probably close early in the
morning by the return of Colonel Chaplin and Mr. Finch. The
numbers were as follow :
Chaplin
Finch....
Gregory .

................. 525
.................. 463
.................. 296

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK
New York Papers to the 21st November, Montreal to the
15th November, Quebec to the same date, and Bombay to
the 16th August, have been received at the North and South
American CoTee-house.

(From New Orleans, Nov. 2.)
Yesterday, the number of deaths reported was 162, but they
were generally confined to the Negroes of the lowest class.
HALF-PAST ONE.
All is in expectation for further accounts from Antwerp,
to hear if Fort St. Laurent has been stormed by the French.
We do not hear of an express from Paris in the City as yet.
Consols have continued the whole of the morning at 83.1
for the Account, at present they are a shade better, 83, with
little or nothing doing. The Saving Banks have been pur-
chasing, and it is expected that the Commissioners will begin
to purchase next month.

We continue without any arrivals either from Oporto or
Lisbon, which causes anxiety to the merchants.
The Foreign Market is in the same stagnant state as the Bri-
tish ; prices much the same as yesterday.

Commie for Account 83N,

TIMER 0' CL OCI 4

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.
Af
With hearty congratulations to all friends of
law, and order, and wholesome, government, we
refer to our columns of this day for the result of
yesterday's election throughout the vast metro-
polis and its dependencies. We do not con-
dole with or pity those turbulent intriguers
whose notion of the natural state of a political
community is, tli-at it should be kept from fall-
ing asleep by a frequent exercise of the " holy
right of insurrection ; " nor have we .much com-
passion for those maniacs of an opposite stamp
who esteem law, and order, and peace, after
their fashion, to be very orthodox ingredients
in a state, provided only that the " law " shall
be made by themselves, and for their personal
uses,—provided that they shall have the main-
tenance of " order" in their own hands, and that
the " peace" which they tender to the nation
shall not be disturbed by cries from those over
whom they rule of famine, oppression, or mis-
government. These two classes of politicians,
we apprehend, have been by this time pretty
well sickened of appeals to the people of
London and its neighbourhood for proofs
of their approbation and support. Con-
servatives and Destructives have been spurned
alike by the central, the most intelligent,
and affluent, and commanding constituency of
the whole United Kingdom. The prospects on
which we dwelt with such cordial satisfaction in
our last number have been confirmed and tri-
umphantly realized by the final issue of the poll,
which, out of the 16 Members to be elected by
London, Westminster,Marylebone, Tower Ham-
lets, Finsbury, Lambeth, and Southwark, has
sent 15 supporters'of the Reform Bill as it stands
—l5 friends of the liberal Government which
proposed it—as many contemners of the prin-
ciple of stagnation in politics, and conscientious
haters of wanton change and of the confusion
and misery in which it so often terminates. It
would have been difficult to anticipate a return
for this great division of the country so en-
couraging to all honest men as that which has
just been completed. Nowhere have the anarch-
ists prevailed; all their uproar and bullying have
ended in utter mortification. If it shall produce
such a sense of their own thorough insignificance
as may render them hereafter less obtrusive upon
public notice, and less offensive to public de-
cency and morals, the various " Rumps" of
the metropolis will have gained something by
their own exposure and by the kickings just
inflicted on them. Upon the whole, the
country must feel satisfied with these first
fruits of the Reform Bill, as it has acted
upon the metropolitan representation ; and an
impetus as well as direction will thence, we trust,
be so imparted to the political mind throughout
every quarter of Great Britain, that liberal men,
independent men, determined but intelligent and
safe men, may be preferred to both extremes of
faction, and may impress their character upon
the first Reform Parliament, whose acts for the
application of Reform principles must be of
such inappreciable value to all future times. It is
impossible to look over even the scanty list of
Members already returned without being struck
by the glorious contrast between a free and a
trammelled constituency. The tranquil and de-
cent conduct of the polls, as well as their result,
is a subject of the highest satisfaction to every
one who feels the importance of the trust reposed
in electors, and the solemnity of the occasion on
which they are summoned to discharge it. Riot
and debauchery, and systematic brutality, as
means of succeeding at elections, have been ba-
nished by the Reform Bill, and for ever. We
have got by means of the Reform Bill the incal-
culably extensive steam-power to correct all the
evils of the State, and instead of a wild igno-
rant mass of fools, we have enlightened engi-
neers to manage the machine. With such power
and such managers the friends of Free government
may confidently expect the most important re-
sults.— Times.

To a long tirade in a morning paper of yes-
terday, respecting certain attacks on the opinions
and on the conduct of its correspondent in Bel-
gium, all that seems necessary in the way of re-
ply from us is, that our own correspondent, who
originated those charges, assigned sufficient
reasons for believing them to be well founded,
and that his object in exhibiting them was not
to gratify private spleen, but to set the public
right in a matter of great importance. The as-
sertions, that any apology has been made by
our correspondent, or that he had any share an
causing the correspondent of the other paper
to be denounced and apprehended as a spy,
have not the slightest foundation ; neither could
we suppress such apology, for the best reason—
viz., that it has never reached us. For any
further notice that the charges against us may
appear to require, we refer to our own corres-
pondent, who is not a man to make rash asser-
tions, and certainly not a man to retract through
fear, or any motive but conviction, anything
which he has advanced. We have written to
him on the subject, and shall leave him to ex-
plain it. The sympathetic yellings of some 01
the evening curs on this occasion are amusingly
characteristic of the paltry habits of the mongrel
race.— Times.

The progress of the elections has hitherto,
with a few exceptions, been decidedly favourable
to liberal principles, without evincing any thing
of that revolutionary spirit in the reformed con.
stituency which the opponents of the great
measure of Reform had anticipated, and which
even some of the sycophants of the existing Ad-
ministration had recently prepared the public to
expect. The augurs of evil had predicted that
the elections for the metropolitan districts in
particular would be characterised by those exhi-
bitions of violence and tumult which often dis-
grace the exercise of the most important and
valuable of all popular rights ; yet, with the ex-
ception of some disgraceful maltreatment, rather
of an insulting than injurious nature, experienced
by the Secretary at War and Sir F. Burdett, at
the hustings in Covent-garden, we have not heard
of any act of personal violence committed at the
present elections in the metropolis or its imme..
diate vicinity. And it must be recollected that
inasmuch asWestminster is not one of the districts
that has been enfranchised by the Reform Bill,
the outrages of the election are not chargeable
on that measure. Besides, every one re-
collects that, some years before the Reform
Bill was dreamt of, both Sir Francis Burdett
and Sir John Hobliouse were pelted with even
more vigour than on the present occasion, and
were obliged to fly from the enraged populace
even although the election was uncontested. In
the city the whole four Members returned have
come forward on liberal principles, and two of
them were under no necer sity of professing such
principles—we mean Aldermen Waithman and
Wcod—tbe former of whom had shown himself
one of the most firm and consistent men that this
country has produced in the advocacy of liberal
Principles, when liberality was,. far from being

either the safe or fashionable doctrine of the
day. Nor are we less gratified to see the de-
cided support which Alderman Waithman re-
ceived, without soliciting a vote by personal can-
vass, when we recollect the manly, strenuous,
and indefatigable exertions which he has made
for a long time past to combat the destructive
theories and pernicious principles of pseudo-
statesmen and addle-headed " philosophers," to
whose ignorance and vanity the commercial
greatness of England, the capital of her ship-
owners and manufacturers, and the interests, nay,
the daily bread of her skilful and industrious
artisans, have been sacrificed to promote the
bubble of " free-trade"—that fatal delusion,
through which our commercial advantages are
surrendered, without reciprocity, and which
must, under any circumstances, while the
enormous taxation of this country remains, con-
tinue to be a delusion, and nothing else. It
is, therefore, that we should like to see a great
many men of Alderman Waithman's principles
in the new Parliament ; for it requires a good
deal of sturdy honesty and practical good sense
to save the best interests of the empire from the
quacks of " political economy," who are ready
to dose with their nostrums whatever remains of
the commercial prosperity of the country to
death. As to the Westminster election, it may
not be superfluous to say that the return of the
two worthy Baronets, who treated the consti-
tuency of that populous city as if they were the
lords of a nomination-borough, does not make
us think better of their principles or conduct
than we did. We can have no respect for those
men, as political characters, who took their early
stand in public life on the ground of the extreme
and impracticable doctrines of annual Parliaments
and universal suffrage—who took pledges of the
most extravagant sort by wholesale, and now
fling contempt on all who propose that candi-
dates should bind themselves to the sentiments
of their constituents by the most moderate and
reasonable obligations. We shall still continue
to think that the assessed taxes ought to be
abolished, notwithstanding the shock which the
bare mention of the subject gives the sus-
ceptible nerves of the ci-devant radical Mem-
bers for Westminster, and we shall still take every
fair opportunity of reprobating the barbarous,
inhuman, and degrading practice of military
flogging, though it has lately been so well re-
gulated as to disturb none of the tender sensi-
bilities of the Secretary at War. While the
elections have been conducted v►ith so much
quietness and regularity in town as has almost
universally distinguished them, we regret to find
that in some parts of the country outrages have
been committed that ought to make a civilized
people blush. We may instance Coventry,
Hertford, and Norwich. Surely they can have
no idea of the value or object of political rights
who, at the moment when they have the oppor-
tunity of exercising them, disgrace them by
brute violence. It is as impossible for despotism
and popular privileges to be reconciled as for
licentiousness and true liberty to co-exist. We
know that those advisers who, at the former
elections, told the people " to strike at the
faces of their enemies" are greatly answerable
for this state of things ; but as the exceptions
to general good order are few, so we hope the
bad examples will not be contagious.—Morning
Herald.

Our readers will find in another column an
abridged report, taken from the Brighton He-
rald, of an interesting meeting, held in the
Town-hall of Brighton, on the important sub-
ject of capital punishments. It will be seen
that Mr. Milford, a respectable and intelligent
Magistrate, of 40 years' experience, presided,
and gave his decided opinion, founded on that
long experience of the administration of penal
justice, that our code of criminal laws, from its
sanguinary severity, has contributed, and is con-
tributing, most powerfully to demoralise and
brutalise the people, and consequently to promote,
instead of repress, the commission of crimes.
Three of the candidates for the representation of
Brighton spoke at this meeting, on the side of
enlightened justice and the interests of huma-
nity.—Morning Herald.
We yesterday observed that the course of the
metropolitan elections the first day might be
pretty safely deemed conclusive as to.the result;
and at the final close of the poll yesterday, all
of them, with one exception—the advance of
Alderman Waithman on Alderman Wood—will
be found to have kept the relative positions t hey
occupied the first day. Messrs. Grote, Waith-
man, Wood, and Sir John Key, are returned for
the City ; Sir Francis Burdett and Sir John
Hobhouse for Westminster ; Messrs. Brougham
and Humphery for the Borough ; Sir Stephen
Lushington and Mr. Clay for the Tower Ham-
lets ; Messrs. Grant and Spankie for Finsbury ;
Mr. Portman and Sir William Horne for Mary-
lebone ; and Messrs. Tennyson and Hawes for
Lambeth. Thus there is not one Tory candidate
returned for the whole of the metropolitan
boroughs. The greatest constituency is in the
City, where about 12,500 electors are said to
have voted. The gentleman who stands on the
poll above one thousand higher than any other
—Mr. George Grote—has, from his entrance
on manhood, been a most decided Reformer.
When a very young man, about twelve years
ago, he published a very able pamphlet on
Parliamentary Reform, at a time when all
sorts of substitutes for a thorough Reform were
in vogue even among men claiming to be Libe-
rals, and when the praises of a variegated system
of representation were sung in the Edinburgh
Review by a great man now no more, in which,
with equal courage and ability, he advocated a
measure of Reform in which the electors should
be identified in interest with the nation and the
ballot. Mr. Grote is, therefore, a thorough
Reformer, and we hail the distinction he has re-
ceived by the largest borough constituency in
England, as a favourable omen for the New
Parliament. We were much struck by the
earnest tone of the observations which, at the
close of the poll, he delivered to the people.
" He could not (he said) refrain from noticing on
that splendid occasion—an occasion unequalled
in his short life—he could not refrain from de-
claring how proud he felt at obtaining the sup-
port of so many thousands of his fellow-citizens.
He would make it his first and most fervent
prayer, that their choice might be as auspicious
to the city of London and the country at large,
as it was ex.ulting to him. He could assure
them that his heart beat high with the love of
the principle of liberty, and a desire to promote
the happiness of the people, which were
strengthened by seeing before him the majesty
of the people of
England as they were repre-
sented in great multitudes in that splendid place.
The power of the people he recognised, and to
them he owed fealty and allegiance, and here
(said Mr. Grote), on this spot, I vow to devote
my best services to them, to the utmost extent
my humble talents will allow me. I shall es-
teem myself eternally base and dishonoured, after

having gloried in your confidence, if I should eve r
do ought to giveyou cause to repent." We have not
the smallest fear that this covenant, into which
Mr. Grote then entered with the people, will
be righteously observed. His first consideration
will be the happiness of the nation ; and he will
never give his countenance to any measure which
tends to promote interests opposed to those of
the people. Throughout the country the elec-
tions appear, with few exceptions, of the same
character. Mr. Edward Ellice and Mr. Bulwer
have polled six times the number of their oppo-
nents. In Harwich, Mr. Herries, we are sorry
to see, is at the top of the poll, but there has
been a split in the liberal interest in that borough.
Mr. Town, the next in order, is a Whig, but so
recent a convert, that at the election for Essex in
1830, Tyrrell was even too liberal for him, and
he proposed a candidate still more illiberal. If
a better man had been started, Henries could
have had no chance whatever. In Norwich Lord
Stormont and Sir James Scarlett are at the top
of the poll ; but there have been sad doings in
that corrupt city. The advertisement from scot
and lot voters, some time ago, wishing to be
bought, speaks volumes. Upon the whole, we
may confidently say a new era has commenced.
The gentlemen of England will now see that, to
be honoured by the people, they must sympa-
thise with the people. The aristocracy, which,
of all others, is the most offensively exclusive,
must change their character, or reconcile them-
selves to insignificance and contempt.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.

We are glad to find, from the Dublin Even-
ing Post that the prospect of Sir Henry Par-
nell's return for Queen's County is now better
than it was represented to us :

" The Chronicle" says that Paper, " no doubt, will be
glad to find that its information on both the points re•
fel red to in the preceding paragraph, is erroneous. Domi-
nick Brown has not yet resigned, nor will—and Sir H.
Parnell will he returned for the Queen's County, in spite
of the machinations of Old Treachery and his Tail. It
is true there may be opposition, and the names of several
gentlemen have been mentioned, as ready to stand on
the repeal pledge—Mr. Gale, Mr. Lalor, Mr. Cassidy,
Mr. Trench, and others ; but it is not true, we ima-
gine, that up to this moment, any of these gentlemen
have explicitly declared their intention to stand for the
county, much less their desire to disseat Sir Henry
Parnell. The Queen's County Club resolved to support
repeal candidates on Monday last, but the parish priests of
the Queen's County had assembled previously, and come
to a resolution that they would not, individually or col-
lectively, oppose any Member who would pledge himself
against the present tithe•system. So that at all events,
the repealers, if they should go the hustings, cannot cal-
culate on the moral influence which so justly belongs to
the Catholic priesthood of the Queen's County. Indeed,
it would be very extraordinary, if among that body were
found an opposition to the able, strenuous, and consistent
advocate of Irish liberty, Sir H. Parnell."

I❑ the same paper appears an advertisement,
which explains the allusion respecting the Ro-
man Catholic priests. They came, it seems,
to the following resolution :—" Resolved, that
at the ensuing election for the representa-
tion of the Queen's County, we will not op-
pose any candidate who will pledge himself to
vote for the total extinction of tithes and
Church rates, and the enactment of a law to
support the poor out of the property of the
Church." This resolution was agreed to at
a meeting in Maryborough, on the 26th No-
vember, the very Rev. N. O'Connor in the
chair, and it is subscribed by fifteen parish
priests. A pledge, however, to vote for the
total extinction of tithes and Church rates, and
to maintain the poor out of the Church pro-
perty, must be taken by every candidate who
wishes to be returned. This is a sign of the
times which cannot be mistaken. The English
must abandon the idea of cramming their own
religion down the throats of the Irish.—Morn-
ing Chronicle.

The result of the metropolitan elections,which
terminated yesterday, as it may be regarded in
various aspects, may excite sentiments of dis-
appointment or satisfaction. It is unpleasant
to reflect that the whole body of Members of
Parliament returned from the metropolis are
men, more or less, committed to the principles
of revolution ; while, on the other hand, it is
satisfactory to observe that a considerable ma-
jority of their number are also men who may be
expected to admit by their speeches and votes in
the Legislature, that black is black, and white
white, however Ministers may be compromised
by the confession. This latter quality in the
representation of the London districts is the
more to be prized, that the executive Govern-
ment has, upon the present occasion, exerted
its great local influence unsparingly, and that it
results from the working of a measure devised
by Ministers for the purpose, not of giving the
nation faithful representatives, but of obtain-
ing for themselves devoted partisans in Parlia-
ment. In the city of London we have to lament
the defeat of the Conservative candidate,
Mr. Lyall, who polled, however, 5,322 votes
without the least assistance from any of the other
four candidates, each of whom was assisted
by the combined influence of all. This mis-
fortune only shows the folly of the Conser-
vative party in not having brought forward
four candidates instead of one. Had this
been done Mr. Lyall's friends would none
of them have voted for Mr. Grote, or have
thus enabled him to attain a position in
which he could safely direct the chief atten-
tion of his peculiar partisans to the success
of Sir John Key. As it is, however, his Ma-
jesty's Ministers must not, if they can help it,
blunder during the next session as they did
during the last, or they will find that the four
Members for the city of London will be com-
pelled to know the difference between black and
white. The city of Westminster, under the
dictation to a considerable extent of the official
boards, has given his Majesty's Ministers two
Members who will probably be as blind as even
the present Administration can require, one of the
o being a candidate for the Peerage, and the
other a subaltern Member of the Government.
From the borough of Southwark-Ministers
get one Member in the person of Mr. W.
Brougham, who will be ready of course, as often
as it may be necessary, to vote that black is
white, or anything else that their service may
require ; for is not his brother Lord Chancellor,
anti is not he Master Brougham ? Mr. Ro-
bert Grant and Sir Wm. Horne are also per-
sons upon whom Ministers can. depend in any
emergency ; for, however it may be the duty
of the Member for Finsbury and the Member
for Marylebone to assist in correcting the blun-
ders or in punishing the crimes of an Adminis-
tration, it is the more cogent duty of the
Judge-Advocate and the Attorney-General to
support the Administration that supports them.
Thus, from the metropolitan districts, Ministers
have obtained five Members out of sixteen who
will support them through thick and thin ; that
if we may judge from their past
is to say, who will give them the only kind of
support which,
conduct, is likely to be of any use. The
remaining eleven, now that the Reform Bill is
passed, and Ministers are probably not yet quite

prepared with any other nostrum wherewith to
drug the country into delirium, will probably be
inclined to admit, now and then, that black is
black, and not white, and must therefore, unless
Ministers are greatly improved, of which we see
no symptom, vote quite as often against them as
in their favour. There is nothing more re-
markable, in connection with the metropolitan
elections, than the very small proportion of the
whole registered constituency that have actually
polled at the greater part of them. Many Con-
servative electors in each of the new districts, as
well as in Westminster, have, we know, thrown
away their votes, with the view, not to support
the Attorney-General, or Sir John Hobhouse,
or Mr. Tennyson, or Mr. R. Grant, but to keep
out the Joneses, the Evanses, the Wakefields, and
the Wakleys; while there can, we suppose, be
no doubt that most of the voters who disdained to
approach the polling-booths at all, or to in-
termeddle with an election in which they could
give no vote to their satisfaction, were Conser-
vatives also. We know how painful it must be
to men of gentlemanly habits and feelings to un-
dergo the rough ordeal of a contested election in
the metropolis. But while we cannot condemn
this feeling, we must deeply lament that it has
prevailed to so great an extent upon the present
important occasion. We have no doubt that,
had proper leaders of the Conservative party
come forward in suitable numbers, and with
proper spirit, the election of several of them for
the metropolitan districts would have been se-
cured. One especial pleasure we have derived
from this election in witnessing the deplorable
figure cut by the Radical Jones at Marylebone.
Out of the immense borough of Marylebone,
where he has been canvassing and speechifying
for at least a year, this favourite contributor to
the Times journal could find only 318 voters
infatuated enough to give him their suffrages. It
is perhaps an omen of similar humiliatio❑ to
another equally important individual connected
with the same establishment who has presumed
to set himself up as a candidate for the county
of Berks.—Morning Post.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY SERVANTS.—CharIes
Stean, formerly sbopman ; Hannah Jones, cook;
Philip .Fudger, porter ; and Mary Ann Parker,
housemaid, in the employ of Mr. Gray, chymist and
druggist, No. 97, New Bond-street, were charged
with having stolen a very large quantity of the stock,
the property of the firm of Messrs. Gray and Co.;
and Wm. Weir, Rebecca Weir, and Thomas Weir,
were also charged with having received portions of
the property, well knowing them to have been
stolen.

About the latter end of last November, Mr. Gray,
having suspicion that something wrong was going on
in his establishment, and from a communication
made to him, was induced to question Fudger, the
porter, who had been two years in his employ, and
whose honesty had never before been suspected, and
also Hannah Jones, who had lived in his family as
cook for about two years and a half. Upon looking
into some drawers in the scullery, Mr. Gray disco-
vered a quantity of articles which had been taken
out of his shop, and in her box a miscellaneous as-
sortment of property, all of which had been either
purloined from the shop or the dwelling-house.
After this discovery, Jones took Mr. Gray into the
kitchen, and pulled down a basket, which she gave into
his hands with the observation that it contained the
remainder of the articles she had stolen from him,
and she hoped he would forgive her. The porter
(Fudger), when questioned, said that he had no
portion of Mr. Gray's property in his possession,
and readily agreed that Goddard and another officer
of this establishment should search his lodgings in
Woodstock-street. The officers, on searching, found
only three articles of about the value of 1 Is., which
Mr. Gray identified as his property. The witness
accounted for their possession very plausibly, but
his statement was ascertained to be totally untrue.
Mary Anne Parker, the houQemaid, whie. had left
just before the discovery, having called to see the
cook, was also interrogated, and a promise was made
to her, that if site would confess, even if she had any
of the property, she should be forgiven. She, how-
ever, positively denied having anything belonging to
Mr. Gray ; but when her boxes were searched, a
number of articles from the shop were found, the
greater part of which she stated were given to her
by the cook and Stean. Stean, the shopman, who
had left the service of Mr. Gray some time, and
was, at the time of the discovery, in the employ of
Mr. Gill, Charing•cross, was questioned by the two
officers, and his boxes searched, but nothing what-
ever was found to criminate him. Goddard, how-
ever, proceeded to Grove-terrace, Camberwell, where
a brother of Stean lived, and where he had depo-
sited a trunk, and on looking into the trunk, a quan-
tity of valuable essential oils and miscellaneous arti-
cles were discovered, all of which were sworn to by
Mr. Gray. The officers returned to Charing-cross,
to communicate the result of their search to Stean,
but they found he had quitted Mr. Gill's house,
leaving a note of apology for his abrupt departure.
The officer went back to Camberwell, and there
found the prisoner, who acknowledged that the oils,
&c., were his property, and asserted that he had ac-
counted to the till for their value.

Mr. Gray, in contradiction, said there were no
entries of this description in the book.

Rebecca Weir, a feinale occasionally employed as
charwoman at Mr. Gray's, was next taken into cus-
tody, and on searching hei lodgings, in Ormond-
street, a great number of articles were found, which
she acknowledged had been brought from Mr.
Gray's house. William Weir, her husband, having
left a can and a bag at a baker's shop where he
dealt, the contents were examined, and they proved
to be a further portion of property belonging to Mr.
Gray. When taken into custody, he said it was
nudger and the cook who had brought him into
this trouble.

The remaining prisoner (Thomas Weil), a plumber
and glazier, in White-streer, Borough, was taken
into custody, some articles but of trifling value being
found in his possession.
_ _ _

All the pri;oners declined to say anything for the
present, and they were all committed.

HATTON-GARDEN.

A TROUBLESOME CUSTOMER.—Yesterday, Ann
Freneham, alias Smith, was charged under the fol-
lowing circumstances. On Monday morning the
defendant went to the County Treasurer's office,
Clerkenwell-green, and demanded a sum of money
from Mr. Wright, a clerk there; but failing to pro-
cure it, she struck him, and forced a bunch of seals
value 71. from his watch, with which she made otE
In the course of an hour she returned with an
infant, of which she was the mother by Mr. Wright,
and having laid it on Mr. Wright's desk, she threw
down a pawnbroker's duplicate for the seals, and
ran off. Mr. Wright paid ss. a week to Clerken•
well parish for the support of the child, and was
constantly annoyed by the female, who is noted for
her bad language. She was ordered to find bail.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
THE POLICE AT ELECTlONS.—Yesterday James
111-artin, a young man, a bricklayer by trade, was
charged with assaulting two policemen of the B di-
vision. On the preceding afternoon a fight took
place between two men in the crowd a,sensbled op-
posite the polling booth erected in St. Margaret's
Church-yard,
.Westminster. The policemen being
on duty there interfered, and eventually succeeded
in putting an end to the conflict, which arose out of,
we believe, some party feeling. This abrupt termi-
nation of the pugilistic contest appeared to give
umbrage to the defendant, who, with a disgusting
expression, called them Peelers, and observed, that
they would before long be obliged to dispose of

their clothes to help to keep themselves. One of
the policemen desired him not to molest them in
the execution of their duty, and, placing his hand
upon the defendant's shoulder, ordered him to go
about his business. This proceeding of the police-
man was met on the part of the defendant by a
violent kick on the shins, and as matter of course a
scuffle ensued, during which the other policeman
came up, but, before they could place the defendant
in safe custody, they had much to encounter. The
mob collected round the booth followed them to the
station-house, calling out " rescue !" and pelting
them with mud and stones.

The defendant denied the greater pact of the
policeman's statements, and had he been aware the
complainants were policemen, should not have re-
sisted at all.

Mr. WHITE—What ! were the policemen not in
uniform ? Defendant—No, they were in plain
clothes.

Mr. WHITE—It is very extraordinary—half the
disturbances which take place arise in consequence
of policemen not wearing their uniform.
Policeman—The defendant must have been aware
who we were, or he would not have called us
" Peelers." Besides, he saw us with our staves in
our hands.

Mr. WHITE—I will not encourage the practice
of going about in plain clothes. If you like to in-
dict him at the Sessions, you may, but I will not
entertain a charge of assault under such circum-
stances. A great many charges brought before me
arise from policemen wearing coloured clothes.
Inspector—The men have been requested to at.
tend in plain clothes by the Commissioners.
Mr. WHITE—I, don't care who they are re-
quested by. They can refuse if they like. If they
do so, they must take the consequences. I hate
spies, and I hate the system.
The defendant was then discharged.
THAMES POLICE.

DEPRAVITY, WRETCHEDNESS, AND ATTEMPTED
SUlClDE.—Yesterday seven wretched females of
loose character, named Jane Green, Martha Higgs,
Sarah Gardner, alias Jane Harvey, Mary White,
Ellen Martin, Elizabeth Mellington, and Ann
Friends, were charged with riotous and disorderly
conduct. The woman Gardner, who is better
known by the name of Harvey, has been committed
from this and the Lambeth-street Office more than
fifty times during the last eight years. Though not
more than twenty-five years of age, she has the
appearance of being more than sixty, and a more
pitiable spectacle of human misery than she pre-
sented was never seen in a police-office. But a few
years since she was living in splendour with a
Captain Harvey, whose name she adopted.
Mr. Fagan, an inspector of K division, said the
district was in a constant state of disturbance from
the disorderly conduct of the prisoners, and in con-
sequence of the complaints of the inhabitants he
had lately taken measures to suppress the nu"-
sance occasioned by that clues of unfortunate wo-
men to which the prisoners belonged. On Mon-
day night, between twelve and one o'clock, he
found White, Martin, Friends, and Higgs, in a state
of intoxication, and making a disturbauce in Shad-
well High-street. Higgs was using the most obscene
language, and Martin was fighting with another
woman of the same abandoned character. A po-
liceman, on taking White into custody, was as-
sailed with the most dreadful abuse, while the noise
made by friends caused the inhabitants to get out
of bed and throw open the windows. About the
same time Green was found lying dead drunk in the
street, with her infant crying by her side. Soon af-
terwards he discovered Harvey on a dung-heap.
She was quite insensible with the liquor she had
drank, and almost suffocated. He was compelled
to borrow a truck to convey her to the station-
house, and he believed that, but for the assistance
of a surgeon she would have died. She had been
often brought to the station-house in the same
state, and the commissioners had been put to great
expense for medical attendance upon her.
Wheeler, a policeman, No. 160 K, stated that he
was informed that Mellington, who lived in New
Gravel-lane, intended to commit suicide, and had at-
tempted to throw herself out of a window. He
went to the house and saw her struggling with ano-
ther female at the window of the second story, but
she succeeded in throwing herself out. He fortu-
nately caught her in his arms, but his whole frame
had received such a shock that he thought he should
never get the better of it. The prisoner was also
much hurt.

Mr. BALLANTINE said, if the fact was not placed
beyond doubt, the mass of profligacy and misery
before him, if d scribed to the world, would appear
a matter of fiction. Here were seven young females,
all of whom were in a continual state of Intoxica-
tion ; and, though young in years, were in constitu-
tion and appearance old women whose days were
almost numbered. With respect to the wretched
woman Harvey, whom he had frequently sent to her
parish, she was a nuisance of the worst kind, and
had been found in a state truly horrible. It would
be a charity to her and to the public to send her to
prison instantly, and he committed her as a vagrant
to the House of Correction for three months, to be
kept to hard labour. White, Martin, Friends, and
Higgs were sentenced to one month's imprisonment
each ; and Green, more on account of her infant
than herself, was discharged. The Worthy Magi-
strate then questioned Mellington as to the cause of
her attempting the dreadful crime of suicide. The
prisoner made no answer; in fact she was too ill to
speak.
Mr. BALLANTINE said the crime of self-murder
should be decried as much as possible; it was op-
posed to all laws, human and divine. It was for-
bidden by God, and the Christian religion de-
nounced it. He was satisfied that the best th,ng
for morals as well as religion was to mark the
atrocity of self-murder, which, if winked at by the
constituted authorities, would be productive of much
harm. The worthy Magistrate then stated his rea-
sons at great length for adopting a particular line
in these cases, though he was opposed to the opi-
nions of others for whom he entertained great re-
spect. He did not wish to do anything hastily,
but he was satisfied in his conscience that he was
doing right, and that a person who attempted sui-
cide ought to be punished. He should endeavour
to find out whether the prisoner was in a sound
state of mind, for insanity alone could palliate her
offence. If she was a lunatic she should be sent to
a proper asylum, but if she was not, she should be
compelled to find bail to answer the charge at the
Sessions. In the meantime she should have every
attendance her situation required.

M. MOZINHO DE ALBUQUERQUE, Minister
of the Interior to Don PEDRO, and who accompanied the
Marquis PALMELLA to this country, is going to Madrid,
it is said, to sign, on the part of the Ex-Emperor, the
treaty of negotiation of Donna MARIA.

It appears certain that General SOLIGNAC is
about to take the chief command at Opoi to. It is asserted
that he has had lately an interview with Queen Donna
MARIA and the Duchess of BRAGANZA.-Journal du
Commerce.

DEATH OF J. S. GRlMALDl.—Yesterday
morning died, after a sudden illness, at hit lodgings,
No. 24, Pitt-street, Tottenham-court-road, Mr. J. S.
GRIMALDI, the son, and, as it was once thought,
the successful successor, of his highly-talented father.
The deceased had performed last weak, at the Totten.
,ham-street theatre, the parts of Scaramuuch, in Don
Juan, and Black Cesar, in the Slave's Revenge, and
then appeared in his usual bea!th. On Monday, how-
e ter, he became delirious, but dressed himself, and as-
sumed one of his principal characters ; he was then mildly
restrained, and medical aid called in, but all proved in-
effectual, and at 9 o'clock yesterday morning he breathed
his last. The deceased was unmarried, and in his 30th year.

DUELLING.—SWIFT'S observations upon
duelling is certainly the best reason that can be assigned
for the continuance of its practice. He says, " I should
be exceedingly sorry to find the Legislature to make any
new law against the practicing of duelling, as I can dis-
cover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and
rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their
own, where the law bath nut been able to find au ex-
pedient,"