The Sun.
London, England, 1835-03-03 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

On Friday last, a large number of Mr.. Hume's friends
dined together at the Cherry Tree Tavern, Southgate.
Mr. John. Robbins, of Enfield, was in the Chair ; and
among the company present were Thomas Edgley, Esq.,
Thomas Webster, Esq., Henry Gostlin7, Esq., Captain
Lovegrove, R.N., —Longnnate, Esq., and a great number
of gentlemen of the first respetqability.

The CHAIRMAN rose and said=Fellow countrymen and
brothers, we have commenced our march, and by carrying
at our front the banners of reform, we shortly shall drive
the despicable Tories for ever from the field, We are this
day met here for two perposts—first, to congratulate each
other upon the return of our most excellent, indefatigable,
and patriotic friend, Joseph Hume, Esq., as Meniber of Par-
liament for our county of Middlesex, opposed, as we have
been, by all the troop of the clergy, by all the pensioners
and placemen, and by all the force the Great Captain and
his Tory crew could bring into the field. We have con-
quered, and gloriously won the battle. Now, Gentleman,
I have another and very important statement to make to
you, which is—that you will not, under the present serious
crisis, for a moment slumber at your posts, but that you
will, with all the energy in your power, and true En-
glishirien, endeavour to get up meetings in every part of
this district, for the purpose of destroying at once and for
ever, the treacherous pretensions of the Conservative party.
—(Cheers.) Mr. Robbinr, in alluding td the House of
Lords, observed—" that What he had long feared, was at
length come to pass. From the profusion of lawyers in
that Houie, it was no longer a House of Lords ; it was
converted into a mere Court of Law, where all. the solid and
honourable principles of truth and justice were sacrificed tl
the low and miserable chicanery used in Westrninster-hall.
That once venerable and august assembly now resembled
more a meeting of pettifoggers, than a House.or Parliament
—(cheers)—and, Gentlemen, it has filled myltreast wtih in-
dignation, when I have seen good measures brought up
from the House of Commons, day after day, thwarted and
opposed by men who resemble more a set of Cornish at-
tornies, than members of that (called) Right Honourable
House.—(LOud cheers.) The-Hon. Chairman, after a low,
and eloquent speech, concluded by proposing the health of
their worthy and excellent representative, Joseph Hume,
Esq., which was "drank with the most lively enthusiasm ;
after which, Thomas Edgley, Esq., Captain Lovegrove,
and other gentlemen addressed the meeting. The Chair-
man next proposed the healths of George Bvng, M.P. ;
Colonel Evans, M.P. ; D. W. Harvey, M.P. ; and the
Editor of The Sun Newspaper, which being drank, the
meeting separated.

WESTMINSTER CONSERVATIVE

SOCIETY.

A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the con-
stituency of the city of Westminster assembled for the pur-
pose of establishing a society of the above description at
Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, yesterday at two
o'clock. On the platform we observed Lord Eliott, the
Hon. Robert Scarlett, Admiral Sir R. Stopford, General
Sir E. Barnes, Mr. 'Alderman Farebrother, Mr. Baring
Wall, M.P., Mr. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. Nichol', M.P.,
Hon. Captain Dundas, M.P., Lord Francis Egerton, M.P.,
Hon. John Lowther, M,P., Mr. Neeld, M.P., Sir John
Hay, M.P., Mr. Drummond, the banker; Lord Deerhurst,
Digby Wrangham, Esq., Sir John Walsh, Baronet, Captain
Burton, Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, Sir W. Wilman, Bart.
At half-past two o'clock Lord Eliott was called to the
chair, amid the loud and long-continued cheering of the
assembly.
His LORDSHIP said that he should state the objects of
the association, and the means by which it proposed to:attain
those objects.—( Hear, hear.) They had no other object
but to return to Parliament men of well-known and tried
integrity, moral courage, judgment, and experience, who
were absolutely necessary to uphold those rights and insti-
tutions which were threatened by the march of Radicalism
and the machinations of faction.--(Cheers.) This they
would do, and what they would not do his Lordship would
state very briefly. The Westminster Conservative So-
ciety would neither cajole nor threaten the Executive or the
Legislature. It would not summon forth bodies of men to
overawe the Parliament, or organizations cf Unions, or what
title soever they might rejoice in, with serried ranks and
banners unfurled, to crowd and clamour round the Palace-
gates, and intimidate, if it were possible to do so, the So-
vereign. The Members of the Westminster Society were
not adverse to, nor would they be foremost in retarding the
march of, real liberty or rational reform. In saying this his
Lordship ventured to say that he spoke the sentiments of
every gentleman present : that they were truer friends to,
the improvement and amelioration of the human race than
the pseudo patriots of the day, who, with liberty on their
tongue, but tyranny at their heart, deceive and delude the
miserable and infatuated multitude who are led by them,
and who foolishly believe their professions.—(Loud cheers.)
The electors of Westminster needed nothing but unanimity
and firmness to ensure them victory when the proper time
should arrive.—( Hear, hear, hear.)
Mr. BAItWISE, in moving the first rerolution for the for-
mation of the Westminster Conservative Society, spoke at
some length on the necessity of such an institution, to ena-
ble the loyal and well-disposed electors of the city of West-
minster to stand by their King and the Constitution, and
put at defiance the intimidation and threats of faction held
out to them by the Revolutionist party, and which for want
of unanimity and proper organization on their part lost
them the late contest in which they were so disgracefully
overthrown.
The Hon. J. S. WORTLEY seconded the resolution.
The Hon. Mr. SCARLETT said that the Church of Ire.-
land was threatened. It was not only the bulwark of the
Church of England, but the very tenure by which England
held the sister country.—( Hear, hear.) When bad men
conspired good men should unite to oppose them.—( Cheers)
Mr. FREEMAN moved the second resolution, relative to
the annual subscription of one guinea to the society, which
was seconded by

Sir J. WALSH, Bart., who remarked that it was an ano,
maly in the late returns to Parliament that the City of
Westminster, which contained such a majority above all
other classes of the middle and respectable order of society,
was so imperfectly, in fact was not at all, represented.
This anomaly in future could only be prevented by the
plan contemplated by the present Association, which, if
there were others set on foot through England, to protect
the honest electors, the country would be preserved from
the horrors of revolution, which were already beginning to
appear in the distant horizon.--(Cheers.)
Alderman FAREBROTHER moved the 3d resolution, rela-
tive to the formation of a Central Committee.

Mr. R. TREVOR seconded the resolution moved by the
last speaker. In speaking against every thing like exclu-
sive dealing, he was satisfied he expressed the sentiments of
every gentleman in the room, who should feel ashamed of
countenancing such a disgraceful mode of proceeding in
the remotest degree.—( Hear.)
Sir T. OMMANNEY moved a resolution on the mode of
admission of members.
Mr. DELMAR seconded the resolution.
Mr. WALFORD moved the next resolution en the subject
of branch or divisional CoMmittees, wIL•11 was seconded by
Captain Dundas, M.P.
Lord FaANcts IEORRTON proposed the Noble Chairman
as a fit and proper person to fill the high office of Presi-
dent to the Westminster Conservative. Society.
Mr. MARSHALL seconded this resolution.

Ml'. BARING WALL, M.P., moved a resolution relative
to the expenditure of the subscriptions of members on the
inceidental 'costs • of registry, and (Alicr purposes prepara-
tory to the next election, which was seconded by Mr. Spike.
General Sir E. BARNES moved the thanks of the meet-
ing to the Noble Chairnian for his proper and dignified
conduct on that occasion.

Mr. FRASER seconded this resolution ; after which the
meeting separated at four o'clock.

THE TEA TRADE.

Yesterday the East India Company's qUarterly sale of teas
commenced at the East India House. The attendance of the
wholesale-dealers and other parties interested in the trade was
very numerous, a more than ordinary interest being felt in the
result of the sale, in consequence of the late excitement pro-
duced among parties engaged in the trade with China, by the
news from Canton, obtained by the last two arrivals from
thence. The Company's declaration for the present sale was
as follows :—Of Bohea, 800,000Ibs. ; Congou, Compoi, Pekoe,
and Souchong, 3,800,0001b5. ; of Twankay and Hyson Skin,
4,200,0001b5., and of Hyson, 200,0001b5. ; making a t..tal of
6,000,0001b5. This declaration was 3,000,0001b5. less than
the previous sale.
As soon as the presiding Director had taken his seat, and
the precmble to the sale was read,
Mr. MILLAR said, before the sale commenced he wished to
put some questions to the Chairman, which were of consider-
able importance to the trade throughout the country. He
wished first to ask whether it was the intention of the Court of
Directors to make any alteration in the upset prices of teas at
the next June sale, and what quantity of teas were to be de-
clared for the ensuing sale ?
The CHAIRMAN said, Cat with respect to the first question,
he could state that it was not intended to make any alteration
in the up:et prices at the June sale.—( Hear, bear.) With
respect to the other questions, the quantity to be declared by
the Court of Directors for the June sale would materially de-
pend upon the state and prospects of the tea trade at the usual
period for issuing the declaration.—( Hear.)
The sale then commenced, and the Boheas, as usual, were
first offered. The first offers were as high as 2s. 2id. per lb.,
and throughout the day prices were given from 3d. to 4d. per
lb. above those realized for similar qualities at the last sale in
December. The biddings were extremely brisk, and between
10,000 and 11,000 chests passed the sale yesterday. The
whole declaration will not be got through for nearly a fort-
night. At the conclusion of the East India Company's sale
there will be offered about 10,000 chests of private trade teas.