The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-08 00:00:00

GENERA I ELECTIONS.\

(THIS DAY.)

SOUTHWARK.

Pursuant to the public notice of the High Bailiff, the
electors of this borough assembled at the Town hall at
nine o'clock, to nominate the candidates for the representa-
tion of the borough in Parliament. The number of per-
sons before and upon the hustings could not have been less
than 2,000. The candidates able to attend ascended the
hustings with the High Sheriff at a quarter past nine
o'clock. The writ and bribery oaths having been read,
and all other forms duly gone through,
Mr. W. DAvis came forward to nominate Mr. NV.
Brougham. He regretted to inform the electors that Mr.
Brougham was so seriously ill as to be unable to be present
this day. He was with the Hon. Candidate last night,
and was certain then that such would be the case.—(Hear.)
Mr. Jacxsosr then came forward and read a letter from
Mr. Brougham, making his apologies to the electors, and
another from Sir Henry Halford to Mr. Brougham abso-
lutely prohibiting the latter gentleman, on peril of his
life, from stirring from his chamber to-day.
Mr. W. Davis said that he trusted that the documents
which had just been read, would prove a sufficient excuse
for Mr. Brougham's non-attendance.
After paying a tribute to the memory of their late Mem-
ber Mr. Charles Calvert,
Mr. Davis observed, that when they last met on those
hustings, the solemn mockery of an election was going on
at Garton, Old Sarum, and Bletchingley ; but, thank God,
the Reform Bill had done away with all that rubbish.
Southwark, then, was the first to stand forward in the
cause of Reform, anal she was now first, in every sense.
Not only was Southwark the first borough, in point of
wealth and importance, in the kingdom, but the first in
point of time, for it had three hours good start of most of
the metropolitan districts. It was well for this ancient free
constituency, thus to set an example to the new and
wealthy electoral districts of Lambeth, Finsbury, and
Marylebone, anal those hives of industry, Manchester,
Birmingham, and Leeds, which nothing but stone-blind-
ness—but stark-madness, could have so long excluded
from the elective franchise. The knowledge of the people,
which the Tories could no more stem than they could
govern the ebb and the flow of the tides, had thrown opera
the franchise to those great towns, and he trusted that
that same knowledge would prevent the slight division
that had arisen among the friends of Reform, from bein,
widened in.() such a breach as to be attended with evil
consequences. The Tories took care when they were in
power to be always united, for without it they could nor
have accomplished their grand object of picking the
pockets of the people. Now that the friends of Re-
form were in power, it became t! em to be a•
least equally united, for without union neither could
they accomplish their grand obj, et of preventing their
pockets being picked in future.—(Cheers.) Let them ha
united, liko the bundle of sticks in the fable, and they
might safely defy Tories, Conservatives, Conformers, or
hoc genus omne. One thing he congratulated himsep
upon with respect to Southwark, that at least they
aw no orange colours there. For himself, he had
(ways been true blue, and scorned the nasty orange.
He trusted that the majority of the electors did the
like. If so, they could not but approve of William
Brougham, Esq., who early and late had attended
the Hnu'e of Commons, and voted, in every division or,
the Reform Bill, in favour of the people. Mr. Brougham
was the friend of civil and religious liberty, and the hater
of all tyranny aud oppression. He voted against the Selee,
Vestry Bill, for throwing open Coroner's Courts to the
public, and for the abolition of capital punishment in case,
of forgery. In short, there was no act of hi,

life which was not identified with the interests w
the country. The speaker then regretted that either b.
t; sir own fault or the fault of the tax-gatherer and over.
er, the constituency of Southwark, including the Clink
Liberty, Rotherithe, and Bermondsey, instead of being
nearly eight thousand, was only about four thousand seven
hundred. For his own part, however, if it were any
consolation to those who had not the franchise, he
begged to say, that he loaked upon it in his own
hands, as a trust for those who were less for.
tunate. The time was fast approaching, when the
aristocracy must come nearer to the middle classes,
and when the middle clases must become more intimately
linked with those whom some called the lower classes, but
he called the industrious classes. A reduction of taxation.
and of the price of the necessaries of life, was necessary
for the welfare of those classes. Two things, therefore.
were essentially necessary—the removal of the tax upon food
and the commutation of tithes. When those objects were
accomplished, and he thought the time of their accom•
plishment was not far distant, they might hope for a pound
of rump steaks, a quarters loaf, a pot of porteri and
change for a shilling..—(Loud cheers.) Indeed he did notate
what materials there were for this desirable consummation
of their labours; for Tories were so scarce that if a real
thorough-faced, back awl hone Tory could be got, he had
no doubt that Mr. Cross, of the Zoological Gardens,
would bid a good price for him as a curiosity. After a
few more general observations, in the course of which Mr.
Davis likened the Reform Bill to a ship, the people to a
good crew, and the Liberal candidates to deserving officers,
now hoping to be promoted, concluled by begging leave
to nominate Mr. William Brougham.
Mr. LUDLOW briefly seconded the nomination.
Mr. SOLOMON Davis rose to nominate Mr. Allen, hut
not being at present an elector, was obliged to retire, opal.
which

Mr. LONGAIORE came forward to propose Mr. Allen,
but was received with such a shout of groans and hisses,
that it was with difficulty we heard a word he said. W.
understood him to Bay, that the fact of Mr. Stlomm;
Davis, an old and staunch supporter of their late lamented
Member, Mr. Calvert, was a sufficient guarantee that Mr.
Allen, whom he now supported, was a Reformer.—
(Loud cries of "No, no, no," and groans, with a
few cheers.) He himself proposed Mr. Allen, because
he was fully convinced that he would zealously advocatt
those measures of reform and retrenchment which had now
become so necessary for the welfare of the kingdom. 0;
this he was certain, that if the promises which had been
made to him were kept, Mr. Allen could not fail to suc-
ceed.—(Hisses and cheers.) Whilst speaking of those
promises he might as well state, that a hand-bill had been
published by the advocates of the pledge system, calling upon
those who had pledged themselves to Mr. Allen to break their
pledge.—(Hisses and some cheers.) The man who pro-
mised and pledged much was more to be suspected than
be who promised little. Not dcubting that at this im-
portant epoch of Parliamentary history, the electors of
Southwark would be anxious that their representatives
should do them honour, he confidently proposed Mr.
Allen.

Mr. CHADWICK seconded the nomination, observing
rhat Mr. Allen was a Reformer long before he thought of
Incoming a candidate for their suffrages.
Mr. Ems came forward to put Mr. Sheriff Hum-
phery in nomination. They had now got that excellent
machine, the Reform Bill, but it was for them to see that
superintendents were engaged to work it to the best ad-
vantage. Their old and tried representative, Mr. Brougham,
it was but justice again to return. They must supply the
place of Mr. Ca'vert by the next best min presented to
their notice, and that man, he hesitated not to say, was
Mr. Humphery, whose residence awing them was likely to
give him the greatest interest in their welfare. With re-
spect to the other candidate, he was a placeman under
Government, and he should not like to place him in judg.
went upon his own sinecure.
Mr. ALLEN—It is a lie. lam not a placeman under
Government.
Mr. Ews—You are.
Mr. ALLEN—The place I hold is under the Mister of
the Rolls.
Mr. ECUs—lt is all the same.
Mr. ALLEN—If you choose to advance falsehoods, you
ought to be prepared to prove them.
While this dispute was goin., on,
Mr. WHITE seconded the nomination of Mr. Ellis, and
said that Mr. Humphery, besides being a resident among
them, was pledged to advocate the reaUx ation of those great
measures from which only benefit to the country could
accrue. They should not be satisfied with empty words,
but compare the situation, conduct, and character of Mr.
Humphery end Mr. Allen. If they did so, they
could
not but decide in favour of the former. Mr. Allen was
no doubt a respectable individual, and they owed him re.
spect for the uprightness of Lis decisions as a Magistrate ;
but he was a placeman, and he thought they paid
sufficient respect to the Lord Chancellor in return-
ing one placeman in his brother.—(Cries of " Mr.
Allen is not a placeman.") They might say he was
not, but he was, being one of the six clerks in
Chancery; a Court which did not seem so bad a place to
those who were in it not as suitors; but he did not approve
of it as a nursery for candidates, and hoped therefore that
neither Mr. Allen nor Lord Henley might succeed : with
respect to the former, he had no hesitation in saying that be
was a Conformer, and not a Reformer; fur in the palmy
state of Toryism, when did they hear of Mr. Allen op-
posing abuses on those hustings. Besides, lie was a laws er,
and hr did not think they would show their apprecia-
tion of the benefits conferred upon them by returning two
lawyers. Weak people calling themselves moderates spok
of nut going too far ; but they could not go too far in