The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-02 00:00:00

MARY-LA-BONNE.

A very numerous public meeting of the electors of this
borough, was held last night at the King and Queen public-
house, Paddington, for the purpose of hearing from two of
the candidates, Sir Samuel Whalley and Henry L. Buiwer,
Esq., an exposition of their puttied sentiments.
Mr. LANCE tuts called to the Chair.

Mr. HAYDON moved the first resolution. It was very
clear, from Sir W. Home's past conduct, that he was not
a man suited to them : of this, one fact alone would be suf-
ficient proof : in sixty divisions, most important in their
results, not only to his constituents but to the country at
large, the warthty knight had only been present four times,
;lame.) A barber's block would be a much
biter representative than such a man,
ivir. PATON seconded the resolution.

Sir S. WHALLEY, on rising, was hailed with loud cheers.
The act which disposed of his seat was a most sudden and
unauthorized one ; unauthorized, because it was without
the sanction of the people, or their Representatives.—
(Loud cheers.) Happily, however, for the people, the men
who were now set over them were well known-they were
tried men—there was no mistake about them—(a laugh)they had certainly committed the mistake of thinking the
people would accept their Reform professions, but they soon
threw off even the mask of Liberalism, and Lord Stormont
was the first to denounce the very name of Reform.—
(Hisses.) The asses laid aside the lion's skin, and stood
confessed.—(A laugh.) It would be an insult to the people,
to suppose for a moment that they would submit to be go-
verned by that good General, but worse than mediocre
Statesman, Wellington, or be deceived by the rigmarole
professions of Sir Robert Peel. His own principles were
well known ; he was an advocate for the Ballot, for Tri-
ennial Parliaments, and for the extension of the suffrage,
for the attainment of cheap justice, for the promotion of
public education—in short, for the perfect reform of all spe-
cies of abuses, whether in Church or State. The Hon.
Knight sat down amidst three rounds of applause.
Mr. H. BULWER was received with cheers. He was an
independent English gentleman, not without education,
and who had served his country in Parliament for three
years, during a period unexampled for its importance and
its results.—(Cheers.) He had voted for shortening the
duration of Parliaments, for the Ballot, and he had de-
clared his decided opinion as to the necessity of an exten-
sion of the Elective Franchise. He entirely concurred in
the sentiments uttered by his Hon. Friend as to the neces-
sity of giving the earliest and closest attention to the just
demands of the Dissenters, and to reforming a Church
which sent out the parsons as the leaders of bands of sol-
diers, and which, in the name of God of Peace, was at
this moment sacrificing the lives of our Christian brethren
as victims to its grasping avarice.—(Cheers.)
In reply to a question from an Elector, whether, in the
event of their departing from their principles, and a ma-
jority of the people required them to resign, they would do
so, both gentlemen answered in the affirmative.

The Resolution declaring the two candidates present the
fittest men as Representatives for the borough, and pledg.
ing the electors to return them free of expense, was then
agreed to with acclamation.

The two candidates then proceeded to meet another party
of electors.

FINSBURY.
The political excitement which has been rapitry on the
increase in this district since the probability of a speedy
dissolution of Parliament became manifest, has attained
its utmost height ; and the friends of the different candi-
dates have- been actively bestirring themselves. Three
meetings of the friends of Mr. Hobhouse took place yester-
day evening.
The first place at which Mr. Hobhouse met the electors
yesterday evening was the Macclesfield Arms. The Hon.
Gentleman recapitulated the opinions expressed in his
printed addresses, and avowed his stedfa4 determination to
adhere to tittem
off."l-iontionsE then proceeded to the Vernon Arms,
Southampton-street, Pentonville, where he expressed his
determination to give the present Ministry his unqualified
and uncompromising opposition, and stated that he should
vote for a retrospective revision of the Pension List, for
the purpose of striking out all those pensions which had
been granted for unmerited services.—(Cheers.) He was
opposed to the imposition of church-rates, whether direct
or indirect, on the Dissenters.
Mr. MUST moved a Resolution to the effect that at the
present crisis it was of the utmost importance that none
but persons of decided and thorough reform principles should
be sent to the Commons' House of Parliament.
Mr. CHANDLER seconded the Resolution, which was put
and carried unanimously.
Mr. FISH moved the second Resolution, which was
agreed to unanimously ; and thanks having been voted to
the Chairman, and three cheers given for Mr. Hobhouse,
the meeting separated.
The next place of meeting was the Wheatsheaf, Kenton-
street, Brunswick-square ; but we are sorry to add, that the
same cause which rendered the procedings of the first meet-
ing unsatisfactory, greatly impaired the harmony of the last.
A GENTLESIAN begged to ask, whether the charge made
by Mr. Wakley, in his letter to the editor of the Morning
Chronicle, and which appeared in Tuesday's paper, was or
was not well founded ? The statement was, that Mr. Hob-
house, after the last election for Bath, had published the
poll-books. Could Mr. Hobhouse deny the fact ?
Mr. HOBHOUSE indignantly disclaimed having had any
participation whatever in the proceeding. On his word and
honour as a gentlemen, he had.. never been privy to it in any
way, directly or indirectly.---(lmmense cheering.)
A Resolution expressive of confidence in Mr. Hobhouse
was proposed, and, we believe, carried ; after which the
Hon. Gentleman, accompanied by his supporters, retired
amidst the warmest plaudits of the electors who had assem-
bled on the occasion.

SOUTHWARK.

RESIGNATION OF MR. BENJAMIN WOOD.

A meeting of the friends of Mr. B. Wood having been
announced to be held at the St. George Tavern, Old Kent-
road, yesterday evening, our reporter attended ; but, before
the hour appointed for takinc, the chair (seven o'clock), it
was whispered about that Mr. Wood intended to resign.
Shortly after the appointed time, Alr. WOOD himself ap-
peared and addressed the meeting, which, be said, circum-
stances that had occurred during the day had rendered a
matter of mere ceremony. Having consulted with his friends
as to the present posture of the borough, there were unani-
mously of opinion, that it would not be advisable for, him
just now to contest the borough. The reason for his resig-
nation must be obvious to them : the struggle was a strug-
gle of principle, notof individuals ; and as there were already
two other candidates before them professing the same prin-
ciples which he held, and as both had already been Repre-
sentatives of the people in Parliament on those principles,
it was considered that his coming in might have a tendency
to divide the constituents, and open the icay for a Tory
candidate.

Thanks were then voted to Mr. 13. Wood, and the meet-
ing resolved itself into a committee to aid in the return of
the reforming candidates for the City.

A numerous Meeting of the friends of Mr. D. W. Harvey
was held last night at the Queen's Head Inn, in the Bo-
rough. Mr. Partridge was voted into the Chair.
Mr. HARVEY rose, and was received with tumultuous ap-
plause. He must confess, that he never, in the whole course
of his experience, remembered so much ready compliance as
he found in his canvas of this place ; yet he would not con-
ceal that he had met with some gentlemen, even at this ad-
vanced period of the public contest, who seemed in a sort
of terror, as if they knew not what political obligation was,
or if they did, wanted experience to point out to them the
mode in which they ought to discharge it. He was sorry
to find, not only here, but elsewhere, including alike those
who possessed the franchise of old, and those whose acqui-
sition of it was of recent date, that the mighty importance
of political duty was not sufficiently appreciated. Let them
remember that all eyes were directed towards them ; that
they were standing amongst a population of a million and
a half of men, who, in the short period of ten days, would
have to acquit themselves of a mighty obligation, by setting
a splendid example—who, within that space oof time, must
either declare, " We, the people of England 'will be free,"

or hear the epitaph of freedom—(Great cheering.) In this
case, the Court and Cabinet had dissolved the Parliament
because it was too independent for them ; and they rec-
koned on obtainin? a Parliament that woud be sufficiently
servile for their objects. He did not desire to level distinc-
tionS i all he desired was that they should not level the
people. a wished tO see equal laws applied to unequal
conditions. Sir Robert Peel told them the people wished
for quiet, that they wished agitation to cease ; true—but
would Toryism make them quiet ?—(Cries of " No") In-
dustry should be unburdened, and tx. fair play. Mr.
Harvey next spoke of the necessity that existed of ;91brm-
ins- the abuses in the Church. He liked to see pious men
administering at the altars raised to the Deity throughout
the country ; but it never was intended for individuals to
be riding over God's heritage, and bearing away each some
30,0001 or 40,000/. a year, a sum more than sufficient to
spread the light of religion over the whole kingdom.
Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting
broke up. _ _

The nomination of the candidates is fixed for Monday.

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.-JAN. 1.

The Grand Jury were sworn in this morning. Mr. Raw-
linson, in the absence of Mr. Const, presided.
James Robertson was indicted for robbing a person un-
kncwn, in St. James's Park, on the 16th of December.

The Jury did not, require the Chairman to sum up, but
pronounced a verdict of Not Guilty.
J. Nathan was convicted of stealing a cloak.
It was attempted to be shown that the prisoner was in-
sane, and it appeared that he bad been confined in an
asylum. The court sentenced him to one month's im-
prisonment.
The other cases were for trifling petty thefts.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

A French gentleman attended to state the result of his
inquiries after his wife, who had eloped with a clerk of the
French Treasury, named Schan.
Schan it seems was a very intimate friend of the appli-
cant, and about the beginning of November last he took
advantage of his absence on a journey to Rennes to carry
off his wife and two children from Paris. The matter did
not reach the ears of the injured husband for some days,
but he ultimately traced the guilty pair to London, and
obtained a letter from his own Government recommending
his case to the notice of the Government here. Mr. Capper,
of the Alien Office, was accordingly instructed to assist
him, and it being understood that the wife was sojourning
in the district of this office, Roe, the Guildhall officer, was
employed to trace her. Roe found she had been lodged at
a house in Finsbury-circus. She was described as a tall
haughty woman, about thirty years of age, while her para-
mour was a very small spare asipificant looking personage
with a brisk walk.
- took
Roe now reported to the Magistrate that the
the lodging about the 10th of November, and went away
on the 18th, her luggage, in seven trunks, being conveyec:
away in a cart with a white horse. Nobody about the
house had observed to whom the cart belonged, nor where
strangers were going to. No tidings of them could be
gained among the steam-packet agents or elsewhere till
they accidentally fell in with a town cart drawn by a white
horse, the driver of which at once remembered doing the
job for the foreign'gentleman and lady. He said he was
first ordered to go to Back Church-lane, and from thence
he was directed to the St. Katherine's Dock, where he put
the parties and the goods on board the Ontario, New York
packet, which sailed that day. lie was recommended to
the job by Mr. Jensen, at Messrs. Dovaux, merchants, in
Fenchurch-street. Roe immediately went to that gentle-
man, who said he had assisted the parties to remove at. the
instance of a friend at Paris, who wrote to him, but he
refused to tell that friend's name, or give any further ex-
planations whatever, and even threatened to kick the of-
ficer down stairs. The carman described the parties and
the two children precisely.
Sir PETER LAURIE said Mr. Jensen's conduct was very
unreeling. He did not suppose a respectable man could
be found who would not commisserate the sufferings of a
husband and father treacherously deprived of his children.
as well as his wife, and who had travelled 500 miles to gain
intelligence of them. He should send another messenger
to request Mr. Jensen's attendance upon him.
Fester, the Marshal's man, was despatched to Fenchurch-
street, but he soon returned with the message that Mr.
Jensen was not in the way, and that he was told it was not
probable he would come except a warrant was issued.
Sir PETER LAURIE regretted that he could not give the
applicant (whose name did not transpire) any farther aid.
It was clear the parties had flown to New York. He still
hoped that Mr. Jensen would, for the sake of his character,
give the applicant every information in his power. He was
very glad to see a mutual understanding established between
the the English and French Governments to facilitate the
apprehension of criminals who succeed in getting out of
the country.
The gentleman thanked the Magistrate, and retired.