The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-08 00:00:00

HACKNEY MEETING.

At a meeting on Tuesday evening of the rate-payers of Hackney,
at the Tyssen Arms, Dalston; both Dr. Lushiugton and Mr. Clay
attended. We have not room for a full report, of the proceedings,
but we think it right to give the most important passages from the
addresses of the two candidates.

Mr. CLAY, after some preliminary observations, proceeded as
follows :—He came now to the subject of the meeting. It was a
gross calumny to say that the people wanted to interfere with the
prerogative of the Crown in the choice of Ministers. It was not the
1:Tal exercise of the prerogative which the people questioned, but
the wisdom with which it had been exercised on a late occasion.
No doubt the immediate dissolution of such a Parliament would be
legal, but yet the Minister who should recommend such a measure
would deserve impeachment.—(Applause.) Sir Robert Peel's
address to his constituents certainly evinced the Right Hon. 'Ba-
ronet's usual ability. He endeavoured to shuffle out of the subject
on which he professed to write.
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De. LusnierceoN then rose amidst loud cheers. Whether his
past political life had been right or wrong, lie thought he might at
least say that it had been uniformly consistent.—(Cheers.) He
had always been the advocate of perfect freedom of religious opi-
nion when that doctrine was not as palatable to his coun-
trymen as he was happy to find it now was. On the sub'
jest of Parliamentary reform he should only say that he had
been its unflinching advocate when the very name was
odious to a large portion of the people of this country.--
( Cheers.) As to the questions put to him, he need only say, that
lie had voted for the ballot, and as to triennial parliaments, the
lion. member who brought forward that question (Mr. Tennyson)
had done him (Dr. Lushington) the favour to say, that his speech
in support of the measuie was the most effective of the night.
Whenever he addressed the house it was to advance the interests of
his countrymen, and not for the purpose of obtaining celebrity
or applause—( Hear, hear.) On the subject of pensions, he was
of opinion that sinecures and useless places ought not to exist at
all ; but there could be ne doubt that in some cases, and within
proper limits, pensions must be granted. Having disposed of the
questions addressed to him, he would now offer a few remarks en
the .existing circumstances of the country. He fully concurred
in the excellent observations of his late colleague (Mr. Clay)
with regard to the exercise of the prerogative • of the Crown by
the dismissal of Ministers. What was the ground of that (Ili-
missal? Lord Melbourne had stated that the dismissal of Minis-
ters was not the consequence of any difference of opinion amongst
the Members of the Cabinet on public questions ; but he stated
ne more, for his oath of office prevented him from stating the true
cause of the dismissal. Sir Robert Peel, however, who was now
the accredited Minister of the Crown, was not bound to seeress'.
He had written an address which had certainly undergone some de-
liberation and revision, and yet in that address he had not written
a syllable as to the cause of the dismissal of his predecessors. NoW
he (Dr. Lushington) put it to any man of common reason whether
if the cause of that dismissal had been just and satisfactory, or that
the statement of it would have been favourable to the new Ministry,
Sir Robert Peel would have hesitated to explain it? The inevita-
ble conclusion was, that the late Ministry had been dismissed for
reasons which dare not be stated by their successors on the eve of
general election.—( Applause.) The nation thought the late Mi-
nistry went too slow, the present Ministry thought their reede-
cessors went too fast. If the present Ministry now put thentselves
forward as Reformers, he would tell them to JeSA at their
past lives, when they opposed all reform and re'igasd dominant
through the medium of a corrupt House of ominons. It Was
preposterous to talk of trusting the Me7e‘bers of the present Ad;
ministration. They had not even
grace to come forward
and confess their sins. There w
truce, clear in Sir Robert P one sentence, and but one sea',
that he was no apostaf-,,, eel's address—that in which he state°
or, in other words, that he was as great
an anti-
Re:twine': as ever. With respect to the prospects of the
borough as 'one ensuing election, he knew it had been said that if tswere ,
not for his intemperate speech on the 12th of December, all
would have gone on smoothly in the Tower Hamlets. That pre:
position he did not believe. No doubt he might have made what
Mr. Hume called a " mealy" exposition of his sentiments, and
called upon the electors to take pity on their poor old represents;
tive ; but if he had adopted that course, he had no doubt tha
some enthusiastic admirer of reform would have callod upon some
friend of his as a candidate, and with three candidates on the
beral interest a Tory might have had some chance in the borough'
but he (Dr. Lushington) had been actuated by no such narrow
views. He came forward on the 12th of December on no false
pretences. He was not one of those moderate men, with lukewalls
feelings and cautious temperament ; he thought and felt strongly'
and was apt to speak so.—(Loud cheers.) But in doing
if lie had unintentionally spoken offensively of any man per"
sonally, he should feel it his duty instantly to retract;
On the occasion to which he referred, however, he had
nothing to retract, and his Honourable Friend (Mr. Clay) hal
authorized him to say, in corroboration of his own recollection, the
it was the political character alone, and not the personal honour of
Sir Robert Peel which lie (Dr. Lushington) had attacked in the
speech in question. In reference to that speech, he had:leen
charged with nothing less than disloyalty and treason to the King:'
The individuals who filled the high station of mouare'es of the
realms were necessarily public characters, and as such were open
every imputation to which their conduct exposed them. Was l
because they lived more than a century back that King 'lentse
VIII. was called a tyrant, and bloody QueCn Mary a bigot? I!„°
(Dr. Lushington) had spoken of late reigns--of poriods fresh i 5
the recollection of the people ; and he spoke what he felt a%
thought of the monarchs who then swayed the destinies of th
country. Of his present Majesty he had not spoken in terms of the
slightest disrespect, because, whatever might be the errors or t t
failings of the reigning Monarch, it would be unbecoming a subjee
to allude to him in terms the slightest degree disrespectful. It yio
as a loyal subject he deplored the dismissal of the late MinistrPt
What was it that supported the Monarch on his throne h'it
his acts being in unison with the wishes of the people ? „
was ridiculous to conceive that the people of this country we.ri;
attached to the Crown merely from affection to the fan
of of the Monarch ; it was because they felt a thorough conven,l-
- that an hereditary monarchy was the best form of Pr,
vernment to live under.--( Cheers,) After thanking the eleet°rd
for the confidence reposed in him, the learned candidate concludefr
as follows :—" Rough days are at hand ; England is likely to Wint
ness, before this year has run out, scenes the like of which have 11,0,-
occurred for a century.--(Cheers.) My judgment, in plain 'Or f
is, that stop where we are we cannote—go back in the coursefe
reform we will not ;—to go on in honestly pursuing that course, wg,
are determined.—(Cheers.) Whatever may be the consequenc.;
and whatever acts of violence k desperate Government may be 1 e
duced to adopt, we must never be dismayed when we only tilleopf
to reform, but retort to the faces of the opponents of it. Be
you the guilt and the consequences of having endeavoured to ireij
trate the people of England in the exercise of their dearest al
best rights. "—(Loud applause.)
The meeting then voted that an address should be present g,
his Majesty by the Earl of Durham ; and after a resolutioP rod
dernuatory of the conduct of the churchwardens, thanks were,/
to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated.

BIRTHS.
gr.
On the sth inst., at Oak-ma
Henry Cristall, of a son. age. Nbtherhithe, the wife of
On the sth inst., in Dorset..square, the lady of James Foot, q't
of a son.

AR r
RIED. aver
On the inst., at St.M
Mary's, Islington, Mr. David 1 n7-tbio
"dtlIP: and harness maker, to Elizabeth, the fifth daughter o'
ate John Waters, Esq., Islington-green.
On the 6th inst., at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, Mr. Rl~b of
Nicholas Jenkins, of Windsor, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter
Mr. Andrew Northcroft, of Chancery-lane. of
On the Ist inst., at South Stoneham, A. Armstrong, to
Galen, King's County, Ireland, nephew to Lord Ashtof..-uitlr
Frances, daughter of G. A. Fullerton, Esq., of Westwood,
ampto n.
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On the Ist inst., at St. Pancras, the Rev. C. Thompson,„rocv
of Holley, Oxon, to Priscilla Eliza, second daughter of W.
ford, Esq.
On the 6th inst., at Bisham, John Aldridge, of the
rutl;
Temple, Esq., barrister, to Georgians Emma Mary, Y
daughter of Thomas Wethered, Esq., of Great 111510n_112,....,,c,,t.5..--,"

DIED. , job
On the sth inst., at Cloudesley-terrace, " Islington, oir.
Catterson, in his 51st year.
On the 3d inst., Mary, relict of Peter Wynne, Esq., 0-f Elthsiag
Kent, in her 51st year.
of J. 5'
On the sth inst., •Eleanor Anne, eldest daughter
Brooking, Esq., of Chester-terrace, Regent's-park. , Mot'
On the 4th inst., Catherine, wife of John Dobson, Esq., ''''
timer, Berks, in her 734 year. of
On the Ist inst. •hi 87th - T Br' Est'

_.., in his year, _'homas :lige.% -
Seend, Wilts. VT'
On th e sth inst., in Cavendivh-square, Richard Parrott/
in his 58th year. Clisr
On the 3d inst., at Greenwich, in his 62d year, Cleixieut
pie, late of Pall-mall.
Oa Dr
On the sth inst., at Dorchester, Charles Augustus eldestal 024
of Captain Handley, King's Dragoon Guards, aged five years
ten months. , r•
On the 6th inst_., in her. 49th year, Alice, wife of Th°ra—
Co, •tb°

ioper, Esq., of Upper Clapton. - 'pr'
On the 4tli inst., at Battersea, Henry Slade, Esq., late
Navy Pay-office, aged 68. erg'P
On the 4th inst., at Dunmore-house, near Collumptcm, be isto
the lion. Leveson Granville Keith Murray, third son, of
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and brother of the present Earl of Dunmore.
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