The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-10 00:00:00

FINSBURY.

This morning, as early as'ten o'clock, Islington-green (the
place where the central hustings were erected, and where the
returning officer had made an arrangement to declare the final
result of this contest), was crowded With numerous groups of
persons and bands of music, which, together with the fineness
of-the w,:athcr, rendered the *hole an unusually gay scene.
The.. multitude increased rapidly, and at half past twelve
o'clock the successful candidates arrived, escorted by an im-
mense procession, bearing banners inscribed " Duncombe, our
Tried Friend ;" Duncombe, and Freedom of Election ;"
" Wakley and Independence ;" " NVakley, the Advocate of
the people's rights," &c., together with splendid colours and
union-jacks, preceded by heralds and a military band on horseback
playing " See the conquering Hero comes," and greeted by
the loud and repeated shouts of the assembly, who evinced the
most enthusiastic joy. Before proceeding further, we must
take this opportunity of .tendering our thanks to the Return-
ing Officer for the very excellent accommodation afforded to
us under his management ; and to the police of the N division
for their civility, protection, and excellent conduct throughout,
under the superintendence of Mr. Johnston. -
Several persons_in the crowd during the settlement of the
preliminaries made use of some opprobrious remarks towards
the Reporters, and we are sorry to state that they were en-
couraged
by Mr. Rogers, who called out from the hustings,
" Never trust the Newspapers ; they are always the enemies
of the people." We need scarcely say how unjust such a
sweeping condemnation as this is.
At one o'clock, Mr. Sheriff Raphael, -the returning officer,
announced the final state of the poll as fellows :
Duncombe
Wakley 3359 (Cheers. )
Spankie
Ilobhouse
Majority of votes on the side of the Reform Candidates-
-3707 !

Mr. Sheriff RAPHAEL declared Thomas S. Duncombe, Esq.
and Thomas Wakley, Esq. duly elected Members to serve in
Parliament for this borough.
Mr. DUNCOMBE then presented himself, and was received
with loud cheers--he proceeded thus : Gentlemen and electors
of Finsbury, You have now heard from the returning officer the
official state of the poll, and well may you congratulate each other
upon the glorious triumph that you have achieved, and well,
indeed may I be proud of beinr, the representative of men who
could obtain so noble and so glorious a victory. Gentlemen,
I have claimed your support, and you, have accorded it to me
in consequence of the consistency of my political principles,
and' the integrity of my private character.—(Bravo 0 Gentle-
men, I allude to this, because you know full well that attempts
have been made to undermine me in your good opinion.
I feel it a duty that I owe to you and to myself to
state that there never were slanders so unjustifiable, so false,
and so insidious.--( Hear.) I only regret that any portion of
the public press should have lent itself to the propogation of
such slanders.—( Hear, hear.) That portion of the press to
which I allude is the Morning Post---(Groano—and I allude
to it in this Ivay because, gentleinen, the other morning I ob-
served an additional slander in the shape of an advertisement.
On the evening of that day I sent a denial, but the answer of the
editor was this. No, those who have inserted the slander have
paid for it, and you must pay for the denial.--( Shame, shame. )
Gentlemen, I appeal to you, whether an innocent man ought
to have money extorted from him on those grounds.—(No,
no.) I have submitted, therefore to the non-refutation of that
slander in that paper. But I have appealed to you, and when.
I bear any more of these slanders in public, I shall
answer the charges by pointing to those 4,497 votes
nr,s49 electors of Finsbury who have done me the honour to
supportme.._hear.) But if in private society party
malice and personal prejudice Ahould deprive men so far of
their understanding as to• make them attack me, the only an-
over I have to make to them is, that I am ready, and willing,
and anxious to refer the question to any of my bitterest politi=-
cal opponents ; nay, I go farther, to any three of the members
of my traducer's own family, and they shall say that I have
shown the greatest forbearance, or I will resign the trust
you have now conferred upon me.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.)
morn on this subject, I shall not now say, but go to matters of
(Treater importance, and of a public nature, which must
"'he first question that must present itself to
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interest you.
yOut. liepre4entatives in ear.
den ildffilnittt(atiOn i*oft-Ity the
sentatives.—(Criei PfBi oef;/9 WI4
that Sir Robert Peel has stated- that ;ie eCr,i4ri titta
Bill final and irrevocable—irrevocable he must well
cause such boroughs as the constituencyof Finsbury,Maryleboii€7,
ard Soiolsriarl, do you suppose that they would
part with that wilien 111.5, !,.f)W possess ?—( Great
cheering.) But, gentlemen, as to did Rtferra Bill,
being final, what a delusion that must be ; for, if it is Ltil,
what has it already done for you ?—(Cries of " Nothing.")
is 6illf Illltig that ttraltes it valuable to you at all is, that the
people should have the flit tying renresentatives to
Parliament, whose views, interests, and plinclpla fttottM
identified with their own. But upon the judicious exercise of
that power, the success of all future reform must depend ; and
enticrnen , I am one of those who think that some-
;e nn-lias beef! dttfiri# the, !KO !AVE% R.P.iions of Parliament,
yet mt:ch-L-vcry much more f 0 lid el-one,—(Bravo)
for,• be. it remembered that the pension list is 113'f yet
.purged.—( Laughter and cheers.) Be it remembered that
torperatioo abuses still exist.—( Hear, hear.) Recollect that
both in 1145giknl anti Ireland, remains unreformed
—(1-icar, hear)—re6nteti tlitit itgrn'tltaristint ;r1 the navy and
flogging in the army still disgraces the country.—( ftql-rt )
Recollect that the electors of the whole kingdom require yet
some security against intimidation, and that security is the
rote by ballot,—( Cheers.) Recollect also that there are re-
StfictiOes 014 littfo pft.o,crifotl ntany an honest man giving his
vote at this election contained in flit o,o'oret Pith I cannot
give you a stronger instance of that than bfajog that
suppose a gentleman who lives in that house (pointing to d
house on the Green) exchanged houses with his neighbour, or
it might bo edip,'etilent them' to do so on the 19th of July.
On the .sth of August afterwards lie is dleralified from voting
at this election, though he lives in the same place, It; the same
parish, and on this very Green, and has paid his taxes accord-
ih#tB law,--( Shame, shame.) Well, gentlemen, I cask you
are the present Adminlstrafkil Men that arc likely to give you
this relief? elir Robert Peel tells you be is friendly to in-
but when he has got the inquiry, I want to know w‘aat
he will do for . you.—( Giles of " Nothing, trust him for
that.") But, gentlemen, when was he friendly to inquiry ?
Vr'hen he was turned out of office, in 1830, were not the very
members of the present Government defeated, because they
would not allow inquiry into the civil list, which the unre-
formed Parliament said they ought to do ? Therefore the
Tories were then elected from office.—(Loud cheers.) I
gay, upon the grounds I have now stated to you. an honest
representative cannot safely give his confidence to the Tory
Government, but ought to do his utmost, if he wishes to do
justice, immediately to eject them from their office.—( Loud
cheers.) Now, Gentlemen, with regard to what has occurred
during this election, I offer my best thanks to you, and I also
offer my thanks to the candidates who have been engaged in
this contest? I offer my thanks to Mr. Hobliouse because he
had undoubtedly, and so has any man, a right to come and
offer himself for the adoption of the electors of Finsbury. It
is an open field, and therefore I do not complain of his coming
forward, but though he had a right to come forward he had no
right to endanger the, cause of Reform—(Cheers)—and he
proved to me, and lie has proved to you, and honourable
I .say,:it is to him, but when he saw he had no chance of car-
rying his own election-L-(Leughter and cheers)—he would not
y
endanger Reform—( 'Cries of " he could not")—but immedi-
ately
resigned.—(P fear, hear.
Spatiltie—( Groans )—the last dia.! we know of him is from an
ad dress that he liar. -published this morning in the /iforning
Post; and as man
. otyou:may
;,41,Ti.et1hy regard to Sergeant
know how he accounts