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

LAMBETH.

Twelve °clock being the hour appointed by the returning
officer (Mr. Hope) for announcing the final state of the poll,
long before that period Kennington Common presented a scene
of great bustle and excitement. Mr. Wakefield arrived at
the hustings as early as half-past eleven o'clock, and was re-
ceived by the assembled multitude with immense cheering.
Mr. Hawes arrived about one o'clock, and on coming for-
ward was greeted with hissings and hootings from every
quarter, and cries of " Turn him out, we want no soap_
boilers. Have you brought your Doctor Hawes ? for you will
have plenty of broken heads before you go home. You want
a dose of Russell's purge."

Mr. TENNYSON arrived shortly afterwards in a carriage
and four, accompanied by Mr. Palmer, and preceded by
splendid banners, and several horsemen on cream.coloured
horses. The Right Honourable Gentleman, on arriving
at the hustings, was most enthusiastically cheered. The
Right Honourable Gentleman seemed highly delighted at the
favourable reception he met with. The casting up of the poll-
books by the Returning-officer occupied nearly two hours,
during which time the distribution of electioneering squibs was
carried on in great profusion. We select the following, which
will convey some idea of their general purport :
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
BY MR. PEARLASH,
At-the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1832,
at Twelve o'Clock, all the valuable Electioneering
STOCK IN TRADE
OF A SOAP BOILER,
Consisting of Promises made by Contract, Stale Professions,
Counterfeit Pretentsions to Whig Independence, numerous
Pledges, mock Plans for Improving the Borough of Lambeth,
and its Charitable Institutions, empty Tallow Butts, a quantity
of Soap Ashes, and a large assortment of old Clothes, amongst
which are to be found several Coats turned upon a new pattern.
For the convenience of individuals, any particular Lot may be
previously had by Private Contract.
LOT I. Promises of enriching the borough of Lambeth, by
importing large quantities of soap, tallow, and soap ashes, but
from its being repeatedly washed and boiled, it is not supposed to
to be of any great value.
LOT IL The shares lately held by him in charities and insti-
tutions ; the valuable original painting of a body of select vestry
men ; a quantity of waste paper, contamingpetitions for increas-
ing the parson'f salaries, and for increasing the magistrate's
power for licensing the publicans, thereby making all their acts
private and without appeal.
LOT 111. A new-invented instrument, supposed to belong to
a soap-boiler, from its similarity to a machine used in that trade
for ramming candidates down the throats of the electors, thereby
saving the trouble of asking the electors for their votes who are
not genteely dressed, wealthy, or influential, and turning his
back on the poor and destitute.
LOT IV. A number of chairmen, committee-men, secreta-
ries, bill-stickers, cryers, bawlers, pledge-men, dissent'ing-men,
approving-men, leading-men, public-men, tory-men, influen-
tial-men, drunken-men, well-dressed-men, but no gentlemen.
In this lot are a number of speeches, including bets, ifs, and
pledges never intended to be performed. Peculiar construoted
muzzles for the head of his Committee, never yet used. Also,
a painting of a Moor supplicating on his knees for mercy, whilst
master bites his lips with rage, but discharges him conditionally
that he never opposes him again.
LOU V. The balance of the subscription paid to the credit of
his Committee. This lot will be found of codsiderable value,
notwithstanding the heavy drafts made upon it by the Com-
mittee.
Refreshments and the best of wines will be furnished gratis.
A few minutes before two o'clock the Returning Officer an-
nounced the official state of the poll to be as follows :
Tennyson 2632 I Wakefield. 762
Hawes 2093 Moore ...
and declared the election to have fallen on the two former
gentlemen,

Mr. WAKEFIELD immediately entered a protest against
the return of Mr. Hawes, on the ground of bribery and cor-
ruption having been exercised by him or his agents in procuring
votes.

FINSBUR
Mr. Satchel', the returning officer,Y.
declared the election
to have fallen On the Right Hon. R. Grant and Mr. Ser-
geant Spankie. The numbers were for—
Grant. ................ 4278 Wakley 2151
Spankie ................ 2848 Temple 787
Bahbaue .............. 2311 I
The Rt. Hon. R. GRANT came forward amidst loud cheers.
He declared that he wanted words to express his sense of the
gratitude which the conduct of the electors had excited in his
bosom. He knew it was not the private individual, but his
public principles which they had meant to sanction.
—( Hear, hear, hear.) It was not the champion,
but the cause which they supported.—(Cheers.) That very
circumstance inspired a far deeper pleasure than any feeling
of gratified personal vanity could bestow,—the pleasure arising
placed
ofi,is at
from the conviction that they had been pleased to consider
him as not at all unworthy to sustain the cause, of which
he
on edhimselftabcehfinoreentto
them as the humble sustainer. That
it was that would ever delight him, that they had gratified the
hthose
principles on which he stood
before them. The principles to which he alluded were those

on which the Government intended to sot, during the time of
their being in office, and especially la connection with that
great measure which had called into political being, that great,
important and enlightened constituency.—(Hear, hear )
Their enemies had said that it was impossible, all the com-
plicated machinery of registering, of voting, and of multiplicity
of booths, could go on without disturbance; but the conduct
of the Finsbury electors had proved the contrary. The
authors and supporters of the Reform Bill, on bringing
it into the House, showed that they gave their confidence
to the people, and the people were every where answering the
call that had been made, by returning such members as would

best support their interests. He trusted Government would
retain the public confidence, and that by retaining it, they
would be enabled efficiently to discharge their public duties by
proceeding on the principle of correcting all abuses, and intro-
ducing all introducable improvements; ofaltering nothing for the
sake of alteration, of retaining nothing for the mere sake of re.
tention, but by firmly sustaining the institutions on the basis
of independence, of purity within, and strength without.—
(Loud cheers.) Government would attempt throughout to

strengthen the bulwarks of the British Constitution, by fixing
them on the rich and generous soil of the people's affections.
Happy would he be, if hereafter he might be enabled (and he
thought his endeavours would entitle and enable him to do so)
to face them again, and to give them a satisfactory account of
the stewardship they had placed in his hands. The Right
Hon. Gentleman retired amidst loud cheers.
Mr. Serjeant SPANKIE came forward amidst hisses, and

groans, and partial cheering. He felt thankful to the'elec-

tors for allowing him to occupy the second place on the poll.
—(A laugh.) He wished well to the present Government,
and intended to support it when it deserved the confidence of the
country. He was proud of the station in which their favour had
placed him, and it would be his endeavour to procure for them
all those advantages which the Reform Bill was intended to pro-
duce. The opponents of the Reform Bill would now see that
every man was able to vote according to his pleasure and his
conscience ;—(Loud cries of "No, no, no,")—and the
whole country would thank the electors for the peaceable way
in which they had conducted themselves during the election.
Those from whom were expected tumult and disorder, had
shown themselves peaceable, and it was impossible for him not
to acknowledge the good humour with which they had borne
the disappointment of seeing a candidate returned to whom
they were opposed. He then stated that a misunderstanding
existed between him and Mr. Babbage, which he felt it his
bounden duty to explain. Mr. Babbage had stated in the
"Times" that he had been opposed by the influence of a great
powerful corporation. That, of course, meant the East India
Company—(Hisses and groans)—.and he was sure that the
Hon. Gentleman, who was a man of high honour, would not
have said so if he had not been misled. But he (the Learned
Gentleman) could say that the East India Company had
taken no part in his favour. Not one vote had they
interfered to obtain for him. On the contrary, several
persons of that Corporation had been on Mr. Grant's com-
mittee, and canvassed for him. He meant to support the pre-
sent Ministry as an instrument to obtain for the people that which
they were entitled to, the correction of abuses and the Reform of
all departments in the State that would admit of it. If Members
of the next Parliament did not do their duty, the people would
have the opportunity of correcting them. The people would
have every thing in their power, and their representatives
would hang upon the confidence they might obtain, according
to the manner in which they exercised the trust imposed on
them.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. BABBAGE said, that though unsuccssful he had
been placed in a very proud situation by the number of votes he
had received. He would state a few words in answer to
an allusion to an address inserted by him in the " Times."
It was not surprising to him that an advocate of monopoly in
the East, should be opposed to monopoly in the West. A
person to whom five of his friends had applied, for his vote
hal stated that he felt himself in a position which would be
injurious to him if he voted for Mr. Babbage. His friend
said, go and vote as you are obliged to vote. Mr Babbage
said that he firmly believed that was the influence of the
E. I. Company. He was called on to state who the individual
was who was placed in this difficult position, but if he did
so, it would do that individual the same injury as if he had
voted against the Learned Sergeant. He hoped there would be
times, when they would have more freedom than they had on
the present occasion, and that the frindships which he had
iormed with the constituency of Finsbury would never oe
erased from his memory. Mr. Babbage then retired amidst
loud chrer.

Mr. WA KLEY then came forward, amidst the most deafen-
ing cheers, that lasied for some miautes. Although he was
not the highest on the psll, yet he mighi state, without fear
of contradiction, that the cause of Reform was triumphant.
For when they considered the means which have been
adopted to produce the results which they saw there, he had
only to appeal to their own feelings, and ask their good sense
what must not be the desire to produce a change, when they
saw that 2151 electors had come forward spontaneously to the
poll to vote for a pledged man.—(Loud cheers.) If, there-
fore, he had lost the election, the cause of the piople
was not lost. He had nothing ao complain of the con-
duct of the Committee of his opponents, and never saw
any election conducted with more fairness than the preseut