The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-28 00:00:00

Hon. A. Kinuaird

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

NOMINATIONS THIS DAY.
LAMBETH.

The nomination took place this morning at the Tri-
angle, Kennington-Park, where a commodious hustings,
with every convenience for the press, had been erected
by order of 11. Omlow, Esq., the returning officer.
The attendance at the commencement of the proceedings
was very small, considering the severity of the contest.
The candidates arrived shortly before 10 o'clock. Mr.
Fti ilkinson arrived first, and was faintly cheered. Ho
was followed by Mr. Williams, who was loudly cheered.
A few minutes after these gentlemen and their friends
had taken their places on the hustings a long train of
carriages was seen to leave the Horns, at Kennington,
and almost immediately the " man of the people,''
the millionnaire, came dashing along in an open
carriage and pair, with postilion in livery, followed
by two carrikes containing ladies, friends of the
honourable gentleman, and these followed by others
containing his friends and supporters. His appear-
ance was hailed with loud cheers, which was re-
peated on his appearing in front of the Lustiogs. After
the proceedings had commenced the assemblage of per-
sons greatly increased. There was the usual amount of
shouting and singing, the favourite being a parody on
" Villikins and his Dinah," in which frequent allusion
was made to Roupell's " siliver and gold." Some amuse-
ment was created by the exhibition of a placard with the
words " \Viscount Villiams fur Lambeth," in conspicu-
ous characters, in allusion to the hon. gentleman's state-
ment a few days since that he had withstood all the
seductions of the Government to become a Ministerial
supporter—even to the refusal of a title. During the
delivery of Mr. Williams's speech a man on horseback,
grotesquely dressed, and covered all over with Roupell's
bills, followed by another man on horseback, repeatedly
rode rour.d the triangle, distracting the attention of the
crowd, and interrupting the delivery of the hon. gentle.
man's addrees, which caused him to exclaim rather
pettishly, "Don't pay attention to that mountebank."
The proceedings, on the whole, were very creditably
conducted for an election.

The usual preliminaries havirg been gone through,
Mr. ON SLOW (the Returning Officer) addressed the
electors on the importance of the duty they had to per-
form, and called on them to give every speaker a patient
and impartial hearing.
Mr. IL ELLINGTON, in proposing Mr. Williams, said
represent the views of the majority in the house of Com-
mons on great and imperial questions, and who was
ready at the same time to give every attention to local
matters. Mr. Williams was well known to them as a
tried man, and during the time he had been in Parlia-
ment he had fearlessly done his duty. He had also at-
tended to all local matters, which was of as great im-
portance to them as imperial questions. After referring
to Mr. Williams as the auditor of the public accounts,
and one who, by resisting Extravagance, was worthy of
their support, he concluded by gloving Mr. Williams as
a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament.
Mr. SILVESTEIS seconded the motion, and in doing so
he alluded to the sarcastic remarks of the Times on Mr.
Williams, in which he had been daubed Viscount Wil-
liams—( aughter) —and said that notwithstanding these
sneers Mr. Williams had earned high honours. He had
worked his way from the working classes, and as
the representative and follower of Joseph Hume, he
greatly checked the extravagance of the Government
(cheers)- -and was therefore entitled to support.
Mr. RHODES nominated Mr. Wilkinson. (Cheers and
hisses.) He had practically carried out the principles
on which he was returned—(cries of " No," "yes,'
and cheers)—and in addressing his constituents he had
by manly arguments sustained his principles and con-
duct. (Cheers and hisses.) After some furiher remarks,
inaudible from the noise and confusion that prevailed,
Mr. Rhodes concluded by expressing his conviction that
Mr. Wilkinson would be returned at the head of the pol.
Mr. R. A. GRAY seconded the nomination.

Mr. F. DOULTON nominated Mr. Roupell. (Cheers.)
He expressed his regret that the electors had not given
a patient hearing to the previous speakers. He asked
them to support Mr. Roupell for various reasons.
(Cheers.) The first reason was—(a voice, " Because he
has plenty of money," cheers and hisses)—that he was a
resident and an employer of labour within the borough ;
secondly, on account of his attachment to the great prin-
ciples of reform ; and, thirdly, that be was not a sup-
porterofany party. (Cheers.) He expressed hisconfidence
in Mr. Roupill'sreturn, and called on the electors toratify
that statement by placing Mr. Ruupell at the head of
the poll on Monday.
Mr. Gftovss seconded the nomination of Mr. Roupell.
Mr. WILLIAMS said that he had. represented the elec-
tors for nearly seven years. He had served them as a
faithful and honest man, and he asked them to renew
their confidence in him. (Cheers.) No man in the
last Parliament bad taken so much care of their pockets
as he had—(cheers, hisses, and cries of humbug)—and
be had attended to his duties in the House of Commons
more than four times that of any other member.
(Hear, and laughter.) They would hardly believe that
the present was' a liberal Government when he in-
formed them that they required six millions of
money more than was wanted in the last year of peace
by Lord Derby and Lord Aberdeen. It was necessary,
therefore, for the people 'to return mon to Parliament
who would oppose such extravagance. (Hear.) Since
be bad been in Parliament he had devoted more time to
his Parliamentary duties than any other member, in
order to protect their pockets, and those of the country
at large, from being drained by official extravagance.
(Cheers.) He had also accomplished two of the most import-
ant financial reforms that bad ever been accomplished with-
in the memory of man, that of compelling the six mil-
lions paid for collecting the revenue being brought into
the accounts and paid out again by votes in Parliament
instead of its being intercepted as formerly, whereby
they had now a complete supervision of the expenditure ;
and the other was the imposition of the legacy duty on
land, which from the landholders having been so long
the law makers, they had for 60 years been relieved,
whilst every otherdescription of property bad had to pay
the tax. (Cheers.) It had this year taken two millions
from the pockets of the landowners and relieved the tax
payer to that amount. (Cheers.) The hon. gentleman
then stated his opposition to the income tax, and denied
that his motion in reference to it at the sodden termi-
nation of the session was intended as an electioneering
claptrap. (Hear, and cheers.) He entered into a
defence of his vote on the China question, and in con-
clusion asked the electors to look at his conduct and
that of his opponents, and then to fairly judge between
them as to which was most likely to faithfully anal
honestly represent theta in the present Parliament.
(Cheers )
Mr. WILKINSON then came forward, but from the
uproar that prevailed he could scarcely be heard. He
said that he came forward on the last occasion at the
last hour, at their request, and he now asked them to
place him in his late position.
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