The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-25 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

AGE, YOUTH, AND JEALOUSY.-Yesterday Mrs. Sarah
Simpkins, a lady rather " in years," was charged with
an a'sault on Julia Wilhehnina Thomas, a good-looking
young female. The complainant said that sbe lived within
a few doors of the defendant, who bad lately taken it into
her head to be jealous, and to suspect witness of seducing
the affections of her lord and master. The other day they
had a dispute about the affair, and Mrs. Simpkins, uncon-
vinced by witness's argument, took to enforcing her awn
by sundry blows and scratches.

Mr. CHAMBERS said Mrs. Simpkins was old enough to
know that such conduct towards one who might be taken
for her granddaughter, was very discreditable.
Mrs. Simpkins, after tossing up her nose at the com-
plainant, said, " Ah, your Worship, if you did but know
all. Why, my husband, for the last three weeks, has done
nothing but call out the name of Julia, my dear,' when
he is asleep in bed. I'm sartin there's something wrong,
and I can tell your Worship I've caught the young baggage
and my husband winking at each other."

Mr. CHAMBERS asked the age of Mr. Simpkins ? Mrs.
Simpkins said, that she could not exactly state the age of
Mr. Simpkins, but would recall a circumstance to the
Magistrate's memory, by which it would be ascertained
with tolerable accuracy. "I have had 18 children by
my husband," added Mrs. Simpkins ; " I married him in
Dublin, and he was exactly 30 years of age upon our
wedding-day, and that took place on the memorable day
of the landing of the French in Bantry Bay."
Mr. CHAMBERS-IPhy that is full 40 years ago ; and,
lintriguing with
itititi-eungereatiere, -17itioirr pletraVe
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treated in a very cru and unjust manner.
Mr. CHAMBERS then ordered her to find bail.

THE ATROCIOUS MURDER AT ENFIELD.

ADJ 0 URNED INQUEST.

Yesterday the inquest on the body of Benjamin
Couch Danby, aged 27, who was barbarously mur-
dered in Batches-lane, leading from Enfield to Bar-
net, was resumed at the office of Henry Sawyer,
Esq., the Coroner. The hour appointed for the re-
assembling of the Jury was ten o'clock, and long
before that time a number of persons had assembled
in the vicinity. The Jury-room was crowded, and
the proceedings appeared to excite an intense inte-
rest among the inhabitants. The following evi-
dence was adduced :
John Mead, beadle of the parish, examined
—About twenty minutes before seven o'clock on
Thursday morning, I was walking in Enfield town,
when I received information that a man had been
conveyed to the Sergeant public-house dead, and it
was supposed he had been murdered ; I sent my
informant for Watkins, the patrol, and went to the
public-house, and saw the deceased in the parlour ;
he had a severe cut on the right side of his face,
from the mouth to the ear—also a kind of stab in
the chin, and a stab on the right side of the neck ;
the deceased being an entire stranger to me, I asked
if any one knew him, and I was informed he was a
cousin to Mr. Addington, the baker, who was
then present; I then inquired of Mr. Adding-
ton where the deceased had been on the
previous night ; Mr. Addington said the deceased
went out about six in the evening, but he did not
know where he had been to; Watkins accompanied
me to the spot where the deceased was found;
there appeared to have been a good deal of scuffling,
and there was a quantity of blood in the ditch and
road side; the ground and grass were very much
disturbed by the struggling which appeared to have
taken place; I made inquiries, at two beer shops,
at the top of the hill, and ascertained that the de
ceased had been there in the morning, with his gun,
but had not been seen since by them ; subsequently
I was informed the deceased had been, on the pre-
vious evening, at the house of Mr. Perry, the
Crown and Horseshoes, in the company of Samuel
Fare, William Johnson, John Cooper, Charles Jack-
son, Richard Wagstaff, John Wagers and John Tay-
lor; in consequence of this information, Watkins
and myself apprehended 'William Johnson and Sa-
muel Fare ; on apprehending Fare, I told him I
wanted him, and said he must come with me; he
replied, " Don't be in a hurry—let me drink my
tea first ;" on searching Fare, I found on him two
sixpences and fivepence halfpenny, four knives, and
a key.—[The knives were produced. One appeared
to have been an oyster knife, two were large clasp
knives, and the other a pen knife.]--In his right-
hand waistcoat pocket, I found some shot and the
bowl of a tobacco-pipe.—[The shot were inspected
by the Jury, and pronoun*, by a competent judge,
to be exactly similar to those found near the de-
ceased.]—l have compared the shot found on Fare
with those found by Cutliff near the body, and be-
lieve them to be of the same description. Watkins
searched Fare's box, and showed the bowl of the
pipe to Mr. Addington, who identified it as the one
he told the deceased to fetch from the loft.

Mr. Addington was called, and the bowl of the
pipe shown him ; but although he did not like to
swear to it, he had not the slightest doubt of its
being the same that he lent the deceased to load his
gun with.
Examination continued—After we had placed
Johnson and Fart in safe confinement, we went after
Cooper, and apprehended him at Potter's bar, be-
tween nine and ten o'clock on Thursday morning;
he was with his master's dray at the time; we had
previously passed him on the road near where the
murder was committed; Watkins took Cooper's cap
off, and asked him the cause of the blood being upon
it; I also saw the blood in the cap, and on placing
my finger upon it, found it was quite wet. Cooper

said he had been carrying some dogs' meat, when I
replied that the meat would not stain the inside of
the cap. Watkins said the story would not do for
them, and told him to jump up in the cart. Some
hours after Cooper's apprehension, Cooper sent for
me and Watkins. and on going to him, he said he
would tell us all about it. We told him it would
be much better for him to state to Dr. Cresswell
what he wished to state to us. He consented, and
Watkins took the prisoner to Dr. Cresswell, and I
proceeded on some other business, without baying
any further conversation with him.
By the Jury—The men going up in the morning
it was impossible to compare the footmarks with
the shoes of the prisoners; the neckerchief of the de-
ceased was cut in several places, and appeared to
have been jobbed by a knife ; the cap, containing the
gloves, some shot, and a paper bag, which I now
produce, was delivered to me by John Catliff; I said
to Johnson, "Bill, I want you ;" he said, " very
well." He never sleeps in a bed.
Richard Watkins, one of the Bow-street horse
patrol, stationed at Enfield, was next examined, He
corroborated the evidence of the previous witness in
every particular, and added the following :—On
apprehending Johnson I asked him what time he
returned home on siorsparziOs night ? He replied
that he did not know. I then told him a murder
bud been committed, and it was believed he was
implicated in it. He denied having any knowledge
of the murder. I searched him when I arrived at
the watch.house, and found on him a small tobacco-
box, with a number of duplicates and a shilling.
A Juror—Have you examined the duplicates ?
Are they of recent date ? Witness—l have not
looked particularly to the dates ; but they are all
for his own property, he having lately parted with
almost every thing he had.
Examination continued—After leaving Johnson
in confinement I went to Fare's mother, and asked
her to show me the room her son slept in ; she went
with me into a room up stairs, and told me that it
was Sam's (her son's) room. I broke open the
box which Mrs. Fare said belonged to her son, and
found eleven shillings scattered about at the bot-
tom ; Fare's mother said she was not aware he had
any money; I asked whether Fare slept at home
that night, and his mother replied that he came
home at 10 o'clock and went to bed. On appre-
hending Cooper, I asked him whether he slept at
home, and if se, at what time he went home; he re-
plied that it was about I I o'clock ; and in answer to
further questions, he said he went straight home, and
never turned to the right or left; I then took the
cap now produced off his head, and asked him
how the blood came on it; when he said he bad
fetched some meat for his master's dog on Satur-
day; he denied having heard of a murder on Holt's
White's-hill; I then asked him if he did not take
notice of the people assembled in the lane as he
passed with his dray, and ask some questions about
their being there; he said no; but afterwards ac-
knowledged that a Mrs. Bird, with whom he left
some beer, had mentioned the circumstance to him;
he appeared very much aanfused ; I never saw a
man more so; his clothes were muddy, but more
particularly the trousers, and he appeared to have
been rolled in the dirt ; on Saturday, when taking
the prisoners to town, I minutely examined John.
son's trowsers, and there were evidently several
spots of blood on them. They were also torn at
the bottom of the right leg, and a piece of cloth
which was found on the spot where the deceased
inches in length; the tear nag ue'etesei;y&,
searching his great coat pocket at the same tame I
found the glove which I now produce, and which has
several spots of blood on it.
Mr. Brown, a resident at Enfield, stated that on
the night of the murder he saw two parties of two
men each conversing together, near Mr. Holt
White's house, and near the spot where the mur-

der was perpetrated.
William Burt, gardener to Holt White, Esq., said
he picked up a piece of cloth on Thursday morning
within a few yards of place where the murder was
committed; he gave it to Mr. Perry, the landlord
of the Horseshoes. _ _ _

This cloth was examined by the Jury, and found
o be the identical piece torn from Johnson's
trousers. It had marks of blood on it. _

Mr. Asbury, surgeon, examined—On Thursday
morning, about seven o'clock, I was called upon to
attend at the Sergeant, Parsonage-lane; the mes-
senger stated that a man had been found on the
Chase shot, and that he was lying dead at the Ser-
geant; I went immediately, and found the body of
the deceased quite dead, and the face and head
covered with blood; there was a large wound on
the right side of the face, extending from nearly the
right angle of the mouth to below the right dar,
passing over the angle of the lower jaw; it was an
incised wound, made by a sharp instrument ; there
appeared to have been feur attempts in making
this wound, as there were the marks of four

cuts of a knife on the face, as if the person
had failed it► his object ; another wound appeared
on the chin, and one before the right ear;
there was also a stab on the right side of the neck
made by a sharp instrument, which transfixed the
common carotid artery, and the point where it di-
vides into the external and internal carotid artery.
From the excess of hemorage which would follow
this wound being made, would cause instant death.
The wound in his neck was about two inches in
depth, and large enough to admit the finger, and
was the immediate cause of death ; I should think
the wounds were inflicted by a knife, about three
quarters of an inch wide.
By the Jury—l should think the knife had a
round point; the man appeared to have struggled
desperately ; the wounds on th9.face would not have
produced death ; it was almost impossible the de-
ceased could have inflicted the wounds himself.

At the conclusion of the surgeon's evidence, the
Jury adjourned until six rclock.

At six o'clock the inquest was resumed.
Thomas Newman, on Tuesday morning, was
standing near the Hollybush public-house, talking to
Fare, when the deceased passed in Mr. Addington's
cart. Fare said." Tom, is that the man (meaning
the deceased) that is worth so much money they
_ _

talk about ?" Witness replied he did not know;
and Fare then said " I wish I knew he had it, I
should like to have some of it, and would cut his
wizen (throat) if I could light en him in the dark."

At the conclusion of this witness's testimony the

inquest was adjourned to Wednesday morning. The
proceedings did not conclude till nearly I o'clock
last night.

THE KING'S THEATRE.—The Italian Opera
bids fair to be highly attractive this season, if we may
judge from the engagements which, we learn, have now
been completed. Mr. SEGUIN returned to town late on
Thursday night from Paris. Amongst those engaged for
the operatic corps are—Madame PASTA, Madame DE
MERIC, Madame BOCCAHADATI (her first appearance in
this country), Madame CINTI DAMOREAU, &c. Of the
male vocalists we are to have DoNzELLI, ZACHETTI,
GALLI, DE BEGNIS, TAMBOURINI, &C. The ballet
to be under the direction of DESHAYES, who is shortly
expected in town.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.--On the 29th
of November last, as. Mr. JOHN EWBANK was shooting
on Ebden Moor, in draven, he killed a moor-cock with a
brass ring round his leg, with the following inscriptioi
engraved upon it—" Colonel THORNTON, 1812 ; Thorn`
ville Royal 30." The ring is in the possession of MI.
THOMAS JOY, I-1
. innkeeper, in ,bden, near Grassingic4
in Craves.. Leeds llfercar •

stances imposed as to propose universal freedom
of trade. Sometimes war,—sometimes national
antipathies, sometimes a mistaken desire of se-
curing impossible advantages, led a Government
to prohibit the use of certain productions of fo-
reign industry, and to cultivate at a loss domestic
manufactures. In many of these cases a change,
though advisable, might be difficult, and could
not be effected in any, without a derangement of
labour, and the displacement of capital. In
other cases protection was only required till the
domestic manufacture was improved, so as to he
able, with little aid from custom-house regulations,
to withstand foreign competition.
The Minister, wishing to remove all alarms
on his proposed measures, declared that he was
as warm an advocate for protection to domestic
industry as any of his predecessors ; but he
stated it as his conviction, that protection did
not always require prohibition, and that the re-
venue might gain, while the manufacturer could
not lose, by relaxing those exclusive laws which
only favoured the trade of the smuggler. He
therefore proposed to relieve trade of all those
regulations which were useless, vexatious, or
extravagant, without permanently benefiting any
class. The high protection afforded to one
branch of industry might be injurious to another
as well as to the general interest. In such a
case a change was demanded even from the sup-
porters of a restrictive policy. " Every prohibi-
tion which is not necessary," said his predeces-
sor, "is an evil. Certain prohibitions may be
indispensable, but the protection resulting from
taxes is always preferable to that resulting from
prohibitions.

On these grounds M. D'Argout, after an
apology for being able to effect so little, ex-
pressed the desire of the French Government to
give the greatest possible freedom to foreign
trade, and to relieve it from all injurious restric-
tions, by substituting in some cases duties for
prohibitions ; and in other cases, where too high
duties existed, to reduce and modify them.
He proposed specifically to do away at once
with the existing prohibitions against the impor.
Cation of fine cotton twist, of Cashmere shawls,
of Russia leather (cuirs Gclorans) of certain
embroideries, and of watches and watchworks ;
and also the prohibition against the export of
raw and thrown silk, and to substitute mode-
rated duties. He further proposes to reduce
; anb,-'auverung IV miler prupusea
ane-
viatious, he concluded by justifying and recom-
mending the reduction of tonnage dues which
has lately taken place upon British ships in
French ports ; and lie particularly stated this
was only the beginning of a series of measures
of a similar nature which the Government will
have to propose. _ _

We dome time ago inserted the petition of the
Lyons Chamber of Commerce to the Legisla-
ture in favour of free trade, and we may consider
the publication of M. D'Argcut's principles in
this document, combined with that petition, as
a great stride in the progress of commercial
knowledge, and true liberality among our neigh-
bours. If adopted by the Chambers, and gene-
rally admitted by the nation, they will even mark
an era in the history of modern civilization ; for
what can be a surer sign of increasing civilization
than the removal of noxious international pre-
judices, and the extension of that commerce
which is the instrument and the means of in-
creasing our, sources of moral as well as phy-
sical enjoyment, and enlarging our social inter-
course ?

The substitution of moderate protecting duties .
for absolute prohibition is an evident improve-
ment on the old system, as it opens the door for
experiment, and renders future changes only
questions of degree or adjustment. Without
trial it will be difficult for even the French them-
selves to pronounce on the fitness of the specific
rates of protection now to be adopted; that is a
question which the custom-house officers must
settle with the smuggler : but we are convinced
that the enlightened principles now about to be
carried, however partially, into effect, and the
specific alterations proposed, must be beneficial
to both countries.

On Thursday, the 13th, about a minute be-
fore 6 in the evening, a remarkably brilliant meteor made
its appearance in or near the zenith; it proceeded in a
southerly direction through Andromeda and Pegasus, then
entering Aquarius disappeared at an altitude of SO degrees
above the horizon; from this point to within 20 degrees
of the zenith a train of apparently innumerable star, was
visible for more than two minutes after the disappearance
of the meteor. The sudden transition from comparative
darkness to a light equalling that of mid-day produced an
extraordinary effect upon the minds of those who wit-
nessed it. A friend, who happened to direct his eye to-
wards the zenith before the meteor appeared, says, tl at
from the larger ball of light smaller ones were discharged
in various directions for a moment only previous to its
rnuv i ng. Medical Gazette.
HORRIBLE CASE OF POISONING.---The
village of Wighton, near Wells, Norfolk, was last week
damrivedingWamloaoladzo,
thrown into a dreadful state of alarm by the following
Cley, for Mr. MACK, became violently ill, and on arriviniv'
fagcoedrn4tlo,
circumstanceson
nthe
saturd
at Cley, was obliged to call in the assistance of Mr. BycK,
acy—mAorpnoinorg,mwahnenn
surgeon, who paid him every attention, but he died on the
following morning. His wife, who resided at Wighton,
was sent for, and as the people of Cley conceived the case
to be one of cholera, she consented, with apparent reluctance,
to the burial of the body on Sunday. On returning to
Wighton, Mrs. WRIGHT found her father, RICHARD
DARBY, who had lived with ber, also dead. This excited
some attention, anti a girl accidentally was heard to say
that Mrs. Ward= bad been buying poison at Wells. It
then appeared that she bad bought four ounces of arsenic
a few days previous, on the pretence of wanting it for a
rat-catcher in the village, and that she had put sonic in
two mkop, which she gave to her husband and father.
Theittodies were consequently disinterred on Friday, at.d
on eismanation, poison was found in their stomachs. TI e
womaii was tfrell taken into custedy. Two of her chil-
dren died verydwitlenly abort time previous to her ho'
band's death, Ail thwilieneral opinion is that the woman is
Insane, and' that in killing_herhusband the laboured under
'a tit of jealousy. She has • been committed to Norwich
cfitieirrt•Sujjait Ciammicks

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GENERAL ELECTION.

MIDDLESEX.
(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.) •
Mr. HUME'S speech continued—This was the opinion
of Ministers, for whom the Nob'e Lord had spoken, and
by whose directions he brought forward the Reform Bill,
which cannot he complete unless this ancient principle be
carried into effect; and as it has not already been
done, it will have to be carried by a Reformed Parliament.
But there has been always an excuse against this species of
Reform. I have been often told, " You cannot trust the
people--they want information, and they cannot discrimi-
nate who are and who are not fit to be Members." I have,
however, always said that there is no class, however
low, that may not he respectable,—the very lowest equally
so with the very highest. I for one don't attach respecta-
bility to the mere acquisition of wealth, or to the posses-
s•mn of—as they have been termed—dirty acres—(Cheers)
--but that if a man be even a chimney-sweep, if he only act
in a manner becoming his station, I believe him to be a
man of more honour read move honesty than many men in
the higher classes.---(Cheers.) Every man who performs
his duty to his country, to society, to his friends, and con-
nexions, may be as respectable as the highest, although he
may not have a shilling in his pocket.—(Cheers.) I cm
never admit the old doctrine, that respectability applies
oely to men of riches. I wish to extend the right of suffrage ;
and in order to prepare the people for it, I would extend
the benefits of education, and thereby enable them to dis-
eriminate who is fittest to represent them, and what mea-
sures are the most conducive to their interests.--(Cheers.)
I hope that the community at large has an increased
interne-once, though I do believe that there are
many who have strugeled hard with poverty, and have
bean unable to devote their time to instruction, so as
to have become what they ought to be—members of
a free State. The man who is taxed, and is without a
vote, is not a freeman. He has a stain put upon hint
which I would remove if possible, and I would thus add to
the number of the constituents, and thereby add to
the permanence of the Government and to the security
of property.—(Loud and continued cheering.) I would,
in lid, remove all causes of dissatisfaction. I have been
told, " Don't trust the people ;" but why not? I have
always found them honest; there are certainly bad men
io
all classes of society, but it has not been my lot to find fewer
of them in the higher than in the lower classes.—(Cheers.)
Indeed, if I speak the truth I am deserted by my rich
friends--(Laughter)—who were anxious for my assistance
when it suited their purpose, but now when the tug has
come they have deserted me. I have found as much
honesty in the middling as in the higher classes; and I hope
I shall never desert the duty I owe of taking care of the
interests of the middling classes. If we cannot do much,
we will, at all events, point out what ought to be done,
and I will leave it to the public to call on their represen-
tatives to put an end to all corrupt influence. If we cannot
do that, we can dry up the resources of the Exchequer—
(Loud laughter)—and that will be the surest means of
obtaining redress.—(Cheers.) I expect great and im-
portant results in the course of a few years. I do not
think it necessary now to go through all the Reforms—
(A cry of " The Church")—because I speak of the prin.
eiple generally ; hut I am just reminded by a friend
near me of one part—namely, Church Reform. It
may appear surprising to you, Gentlemen, that I our
not so great a Church Reformer as many who are around
roe. Indeed I have been considered rather an ultr
as a Church Reformer ; but they refused all Reform
twelve years ago, when that which would have satisfied
the people then will not satisfy them now.—(Loud
cheers.) I will state what I am prepared to do. lam
not prepared to pull down the Church establishment, but
lam prepared to reduce or abolish all pluralities—to di,
tribute the public money among the working classes of the
clergy, and to remove those drones that take the
money but do no duty. I am prepared to take off the press nt
onerous charge which presses on the Dissenters to support
the Church.—(Cheers.) There are ample funds to sup
port the Church establishment ; and if we are to have
civil and religious liberty complete, it can never be so
while I am obliged to pay another man's clergyman
to support his Church.--CCheers.) With regard to the
Bishops, I am desirous to remove them from the House of
Lords; and while I say so, I am quite satisfied that I ant
friend to that establishment which is at present in danger
of being destroyed.—(Cheers.) I would have no clerical
Lalagistrates—let them be confined to their pulpits
and their p rrishes, and then the bad feeling which now
exists will Ire destroyed. I am quite satisfied that if
these changes are effected as regards the Church, and if
thett'Are entirelyeemoved by commutation, and thereby
in-
the want of employment arises from persons being unwil-
ling to employ capital for improving the land from the
stead they have of the interference of the clergy-
man. The people must, however, bear in mind
that a little patience is necessary, and that everything
cannot be done at once. Sudden changes are liable to
produce evils which ought to be avoided, and therefore I
will riot hastily advomate any measure whatever. An-
other question is the operation of these changes
as affecting the public creditor ; I, for one, am not
tor defrauding the public creditor.—(Cheers.) Let
us reduce our public expenditure, and let us not act
unjustly ; but so take care of our own money, and ap-
ply it in such a manner, as to give relief to the country.
It is not the amount of taxes which is so mischievolm,
but it is the bad distribution of them.—(Cries of,
True, true," and cheers.) I will give you one instance.
The landed interest claims to be protected, while all
other interests should be alike protected. Personal inte-
rests are of inferior value; and the qualification for a
Member of Parliament is made in land, as if no
other interest were at stake. The landowner.
have been our legislators, and they it was who made
our Taxes.—(Loud cheers,) If you look at the in-
heritance of land and that of money, there can be no
doubt that the Legacy Tax is one which ought imme-
diately to be abolished. If the legacy be land it passes with-
out taxation, but if you have a hundred pounds, or five bun-
rhee pounds, to leave to your children, then a tax is
placed upon it. I hope that a reformed Hoses of
Commons will take an early opportunity of putting an
end to that qualification, and put the rich and poor
.in an equal footing in that respect. One of the favourite
maxims of relief with me is the employment of the la-
h,:uring classes. I will state, confidently, that in this
country five-eighths of the population are manufacturers;
and as there are so many unemployed, and many others
badly employed, it is the duty of a reformed Par-
liament to create employment; and one means
of doing so is to take the duty from all
raw materials, and thereby give full scope to the work-
ine cl rases. There is certainly a great error
with respect to trade. Some people imagine that this country
flourishes best if we restrict and limit our trade ; bet then
the labour on land is necessarily limited. We should
.chest our attention not to that in which we cannot succeed,
but to that in which we may succeed. Therefore, in every
new source of manufacture, every thing that wili employ a
bend should be encouraged until we have supplied the whole
esf gee labouring chews ; for people do not refuse to buy
Kood.s tancause they don't want them, but because they
cannot Nord to pay for them, and therefore the cheaper
they ate made the more will people be able to buy them.
If the corn laws, were taken off and encouragement given
to the manufacturers, the whole world wiil father
them ; but the policy has been, hitherto, to cramp
tine industry of the cuuntry.--(Hear, hear.) I declare
myself therefore a friend to free trade,on the principle that
if any two men of different trades made an exchange
with each other, they could make it advantageous
to them both ; carry that principle among mil-
lens of people; and there is more benefit to be
derived from it than from anything else. I confess my opi-
nion to be in favour of free trade all ower the
world.—(Loud cheers.) England bra more facilities,
and, I am sorry to say, more unemployed labourers, than
any other country. I have no hesitation in declar-
ing, that all monopolies are an injury to the country,
end it is only by letting iwan all the springs
ofindustry that we can expect to see the country com-
fortable and happy.--(Cheers.) Much of thet crime
which we now see arises from poverty and dis-
tress, and if we remove the causes that give rise to them, it
is evident tin it the effects would soon cease.—(Cheers.) In
short, to sum up, I am not a person to promise
snore than I think may be effected; but as all Govern-
, mews are formed for the benefit ef the millions, and not
for the benefit of the few, all the acts of the few should
have in view the interests of the many and not the
interests of the few. I will follow that great
principle which ought to be the object of all
the
Governments. It is my present intention to act on
• principles I have declared, by which alone it is my belef
that the country can expect to have peace, content,i
and happiness. The course lam about to adopt gives me
renewed energy and strength, supported and backed as I
am by the people ; and I am the more anxious to fulfil
the duty now intrusted to me, -in order that I may
render, at the close of the next Parliament, a faithful
account of my conduct ; and then, if 1 should appear to have
neglected my duty, turn me out as a recreant unworthy
of any longer enjoying your confidence and respect.
Mr. Bveto came forward amid shouts of disapproba-

•
ton intermixed with some plaudiN ' After braving the
storm for some time, he said, Gentlemen, if you will favour
me with a hearing, I should feel that I was treating you
with great disrespect if I did not come forward to ex-
press my best thanks to those who have done me
the honour of supporting me at this election. I also
feel bound to state to you my sentiments upon many
' subjects upon which my Worthy Colleague has expressed
himself—(Bravo, and great confusion)—but if you will
not allow me to speak, the fault is with you and not with
myself, therefore, adieu.—(Great jeering and laughter.)
Mr. B. bowed and retired.
Sir CHARLES FORBES then came forward, and the
noise, tumult, and uproar that prevailed in all parts of the
crowd, it is utterly impossible to describe. Notwith-
standing this, our reporter being near the Worthy Baronet,
we believe the following to be nearly every word
he uttered. (The Sheriffs male one or two ineffec-
tual attempts to obtain silence.) I am determined
to speak, and your noise shall never put me down.—
(Laughter.) 1 should almost suppose that you were all
Members of the House of Commons, and that you had
changed your sittings from Westminster to the hustings at
Brentford. I believe that many of you are as worthy
of a seat in the. House of Commons as a great num-
ber who have found there way there.—(Laughter.)
Many of you have, no doubt, fought your way in the
.world in a honest and industrious way, and are as de-
serving of a seat in the House of Commons as some who
are now in it.—(Laughter.) Now, Gentlemen, I have no
desire to make a long speech ; I detest long speeches. Ycu
have been treated with one nearly two hours in length by
Mr. Hume, who has promised you a great many
things; he promised you more in the course of
an hour than he can accomplish if he live for a cen-
tury.--(Loud laughter, and cries of "We shall
see.") Now, what I promise you is this, if you
are determined to support the remaining institutions of our
country, that you shall enjoy that peace, comfort, and
happiness which Mr. Hume, and all his Reform in Church
and State will never be able to give you.—(Laughter, and
cries of " Oh, that wil4lo withlome, but we don't believe
you.") In coming forward" as I! done, to cffer my-
self to the electors of Middlesex, I have had no private
objects in view, I had only the good of my country at
heart.—(Cries of " Oh, oh!") I therefore completely
placed myself in the bands of the county, and those re-
spectable electors who called upon me to come forward at
the eleventh hour. I did so in order to afford them an op-
portunity of recording their votes in favour of those prin-
ciples which I have always maintained, and always will
to the last moment of my life, fearlessly, and without the
expectation of favour or affection.—(Loud laughter.) I
treat with contempt your interruptions ; you shall not
put me down.—(Great confusion.) I am a man that
never was put down yet, and never will be. Nothing
shall deter me from speaking out in the presence of any
man or body of men. Abuse has been heaped upon rue
in every possible way ; but I regard it all with utter con-
tempt. You may call me an Anti-Reformer, a Conserva-
tive—any thing you please but a Whig or a Radical. I
mean, by the word Whig, the Whigs of the present day.
In that, however, I must make one exception, and that
exception is, your worthy and long tried representative
Mr. Byng.—(Cries of " Oh, oh,—but he don't like a re-
peal of the corn laws.") He is a Whig of the right sort.
He is consistent, and stands by the principles with which
he set out in life, and will stand by them as long as he is
your representative. lam sorry that he should have met
with such a reception as he has met with from you to-
day. I feel that much more than your treatment of my-
self ; for, to tell you the truth, I fully expected in what
manner you would receive me on the present occasion.—
(Laughter, and " How could you have been mistaken ?")
I am not accustomed to measure my language to suit men
of any party. I like only the measures and not the men.
My conduct in Parliament has been always guided by the
principles in which I have stood firm to be your re-
presentative ; and if I should again have a seat in
Parliament—(Cries of " Hear, hear," and " You never
will")—it will only be upon those principles. I
have been told, at least it has been hinted, that
I have been guilty of corruption in procuring votes. 1
deny the assertion. It was unworthy of the man that
made it, knowing him, as I have done, so many years.
I understand that, in my absence, on a former evening,
Mr. Hume alluded very facetiously to this subject. He
stated that I had been ill—confined to my bed and bled
—(Laughter)-esrneaning by that that my pocket had
been drawn upon.--(Laughter.) I deny it " in toto."
It is true I have not withheld what has been necessary
and legal to defray the charges incurred on my par
at this election; and the only difference between Mr
Hume and myself,_ of

_ I'g—destruction
which threatens it-.:(Laughter and Hear)—to save it
from the destruction which has been threatened to it
by such men as Mr, flume.—(lmmense confusion.)
All that remains of our religion or liberties I consider to be
threatened by Mr. Hume. He tells you, it is true, in fair
language and sweet words, that it is not so ; but mark his
conduct, and this is evident from the principles he stands
forward to advocate, It is a proud circumstance to me
to notice, that no fewer than 1,500 independent electors
of Middlesex have come forward to support the cause and
principles I advocate ; nearly one-fourth of the registered
voters of the county, and probably three-fourths of the
property of it.—(Laughter and confusion) 1 consider the
Reform Bill as I always have considered it, a revolutionary
measure, the consequences of which we cannot see.—
(Great laughter.) I trust you will consider that I
have come forward only for the purpose of keeping you
from the thraldom in which you are likely to be placed. I
trust that some gentleman of independent principles and
property in the county will, ere long, put himself forward,
and ask for your suffrages upon the principles I advocate,
the adoption of which, you may believe me when I say,
can alone save the country.—( Great uproar.)

Sir JOHN Scorr LILLIE then came forward amidst loud
f,heerg, and said, Gentlemen, I have not to thank you for the
same number of votes that the two gentlemen who have pre-
ceded me have thanked you for, neither have I to thank you
for the same reception you gave them.—(Cheers and laughter.)
There is one observation, however, which I shall make at
once, and that is, that upwards of 1,000 honest electors have
honoured me with their votes, which have neither been
booght nor solicited, nor obtained by any undue influence ;
and there are many votes that I have lost through that
undue influence which haslbeen made, and which can alone
be removed by vote by bAllot.—(Loud cheers.) I do
not complain of those who have been induced to vote
contrary to what they intended some time ago, but I
would tell them that they are voting against those who
might have it in their power some time to injure them—
(Cheers.) A few hundreds or more is no object to me—
(A laugh)—but I will venture to say, that when undue
influence has been used, and noble Lords by their
deputies and agents influence persons to vote as they think
proper, it is an encroachment on the Constitution. (Cheers,
and a cry of "How do you like that, Byng ?") Mr. Hume has
just alluded to what Lord Grey said in the House of Lords on
subjects connected with the freedom of election, and Parlia-
,.;entary Reform. I will now state to you what Lord Grey
said when in the House of Commons, on that subject—what
we all ought to, and do know :—" That it is a high infringe.
ment on the liberty and privileges of the people, and highly
criminal in Ministers who serve under the Crown, to interfere
with any election." Now I will venture to say, that it is true
that some of the leading Journals, which are supposed to be
the organs of Government, have stated that Ministers have
tried to influence the Middlesex electors.—(Cries of" No, no,"
and " Yes, yes.") I will only refer you to a certain Paper
called the Globe, in which it is thrown out that if they
(Mr. Hume's Committee) did not contradict a report of coali.
lion with hive (SiF J. S. Lillie) plumpers should be given
to Mr. Byng.—(Cheers.) Now, Gentlemen, it is unnecessary
to deny what never existed; but flags have been held up in
Hammersmith, with " Hume and Liilie" upon them, and was I
to say, they should not be so ? The electors have a right to unite
what names they please on their banners and their placards.
The only apthority that I could have, was the Committee-room
windows of the Hop. Baronet who has last addressed you.—
(Laughter and hisses.) I do not think that the Hon. Baronet was
a party to that, but there were " Ityng and Forbes" one
side, and " Hume and Lillie, the Destructive?" on the other.
Now, Gentlemen, I beg leave to state to you with respect to
Destructiyes, that Igm a Destructive. But lam a Destruc-
tive of the existing abuses, And the Conservatives are for
preserving c(l those abuses.—(Loud cheers.) So far I
have no fault to find with those placards; but there is no in.
consistency on the face of the globe more glaring than
for an insinuation to be thrown out that Ministers would
enLe ;the elections, after what I have stated to you Lord
Grey said 1,-; the blouse of Commons. I will just give you
what is reported, :' that if a deviators from the prineiple
on which those principles were founded was right, the resolu-
tions were inconsistent, it would be better to expunge them
from the Journals of the House, than allow them to remain
while the theory was so inconsistent with the practice." Now
I can hardly conceive that Earl Grey would have said that in
the House of Commons, and ealck.-avoured to exercise undue
influence eusong the Middlesex elector;,. howl du not
attribute to the rf:spectable Editor of the Globe such
behaviour—(Hear,
hear)—for I believe he was absent at
th
e tirr,e; but I only point it out to you to show that a great
number of persons have been iuduced contrary to their original
intentions. I could gives good many names if I thought pro-
per.—(Cries of " Name, name.") I have been called ou tp
name, but if I were to begin to give them to you, I
should detain you much longer than it i? My intention to do.
Mr. Hume has referred to the distres of the country, but
what the ether gentleman said in answer to it, I copld not
hear. I tel myself a parish officer, for Magistrates when they
do their duty, are nothing more than parish officers, '
and a great deal of distress 4s Come to my knowledge. I have

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passed many hours in the workhouse, and it has eler beets my
wish to kewp some of you out—(A laugh)—and 1 will first
give you a statement of the increase of the applications
for relief, within the last three years, in Hammersmith.
In 1329 there were 5,040; in 1830, they were increased to nearly
a million, and in 1831, they were 11,89.0. Now there are in
three years double the applications for parish relief; and unless
this system is altered, and the oppressions now so heavy
on the lower classes are thrown on the higher, I am apprehensive
that the consequences will he such as every one who hears me
to-day will be glad to avert.—(Cheers.) Sir C. Forbes made
allusions as to what was said elsewhere about his being bled,
but I beg to say there was no personal allusion to him. But
the gentleman who was there, said he was ill in bed, and could
not attend, and that he had been bled. I shall not trespass
longer on your time. I have to express my best thanks
to the candid and liberal feelings of the Middlesex
electors, and more especially to the gentlemen of
Hounslow, who came in a body to vote for me.—
I hope, with respect to Mr. Byng, there will be no
animosity shown on the present occasion. Mr. Byng
assured me that with respect to the property tax, he was not
opposed to it. The reason for my coming forward was to prevent
a Tory getting in, and I am very glad it has terminated as it
has. We are now about to separate, and I hope that the
Reformers now present will not act in a riotous manner. I
have been told that a disturbance was to take place to-day.
(Cries of " No, no, no.") I hope that every honest man
will prevent it. Perhaps on some future occasion I may be
more fortunate than at present. 1 only came forward to keep
the Tory out, who was in the field when I entered, and if I
have succeeded in getting rid of one of those Tories, I think I
have accomplished a great object, as I have thereby tended to
secure the return of your worthy and valuable repre.
sentative, Mr. Hume. I thank you, Gentlemen, for the
houour ybu have done me, and shall trouble you no longer.—
(Great cheering.)
Mr. Hymn then said—Gentlemen, I have a pleasing duty to
perform, and I have only to beg your attention for one moment,
while I propose a vote of thanks to the Sheriff who has presided
on this occasion.

Mr. BYNG seconded the motion, and
Mr. Sheriff HUMPHERY returned thanks.
We are highly indebted to the Sheriff for the accommoda-
tion he affbrded the Press.