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ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

LAMBETH.

Last night Mr. Willci son met the electors at
Hawkstone-hall. The hon. gentleman gave a.short
summary of his public conduct during the period
he has had the 11,,nour of representing the borough,
triumphantly vindicating every Vote ho gave, and
proving that it was for. the public ipteresr, and in
accord.:nce with the opinion of the great majority
of the electors of Lambeth. The hon. gentleman
especially dwelt upon the importance of upholding
the national flag against all comers, referring at the
same time to the disgraceful coalition by the peace-
at-any-price party and the place hunters in their
attempt to overthrow the Government of Lord Pal-
nlerston upon the'Chinese question. A resolution,
approving of Mr. Wilkinson, and pledging the
meeting to use every exertion to secure his return,
was carried amid vociferous cheering. A vote of
thanks concluded the proceedings. Judging from
the unanimity of the meeting, Mr. Wilkinson's re-
turn is placed beyond a .doubt.

FINSBURY.

- Mr. Sergeant Paris, addressed the electors of this•
borough lbst evening at the Winchester Hall, 'Pin•
chester-street, Pentonville, and a resolution pledg-
ing the meeting to secure his return was carried.
A second open air meeting was held last evening
in the space opposite the Lansdowne Arms, Isliug-
ton-green: Majorßeed at some length vindicated his
Parlipmentary conduct ; and, from his addresses at
Liskeard and Abingdon, defended himself from the
charges of Conservatism made by Seigeant Parry.
A resolution was with acclamation adopted- to se-
cure his return.

humble represen.i,ative of my Mnd, Mr. B•ight—
(three cheers were here given for Mr. Bright)—and
in his name I thank you for the all but Ullatlllll,US
vete with which you have announced his candida-
ture at this election. Now, I appear before you
on the present occasion under circumstances which
I certainly never expected to encounter again. I
have, on former occasions, found my name promi-
nently associated with measures ill the House of
commons and in. the country that have led to dis-
solutions of Parliament, and to the fall of Minis-
ters. That was .wSee I was connected with tue
movements in which our object was to cause disso-
lutions of Parliament and destruction of Ministries.
For three times, I believe, Parliament Las been
dissolved, arising out of questions with which my
name was prominently connected, but I certainly
never did expect to see again a dissoluton with
which I should be associated. Now, what are the
circcmstances. under which this has arisen ? On the
as=embling of Parliament, we found 'ourselves en-
g tgecl in two wars, the one with an ernpere of
-350,000,000 of people, witli a territory about eight
times as great as that of France, and about tee
times the population ; the other was with Persia,
anwher of the most ancient empires in the world.
Parliament and the people had had no voice in de-
' elating these ware ; troops were moving from India
to Bushire, troops were moving from Ceylon to
-Hong Kong, and war was going on at our expense,
and you had had no voice in
!leclaring that war.
(Hear, hear.) On the asseeibling of Parliament, a
Inland ova's made fr -m Minitry for informa-
tion respecting the Persian war. The answer we
-got was that it would be contrary (it is the stereo•
typed answer), that it would be prejudicial to the
interests of the country that any papers should be
given referring to the origin of the Persian war.
Bids I found on the table of the House of Commons
all the papery having reference to the Chinese war ;
and it is a very rare thing indeed that we are so for-
tunate as to find a record of what is going on in our
flame and behal. I read the iepapers, as I was in duty
bound to do, awl, coming to the esnviction that
the origin of this war was a blunder and a crime—
(A. Voice—" No," and enthusiastic shouts of "Yes,
yes ")—I framed a resolution, which I showed to
my right hon. friend here, and asked him it he
would like to second it ; and, without consulting
any other human being, I put that motion On the
paper of the House of Commons, and it lay there
for a fortnight before my turn came for bringing on
the motion. Singular to say—for it is an unusual
one word of that resolution was altered
to aceemmodaSe the mind of any member of the
House of Commons. (Cheers.) Well, I am told,
and we hear it daily repeated in some of the columns
of the London !spent, whose au lacity of assertion
sometimes astounds me, even though I am habit-
uated to the perusal of the Times newspaper—
(laughter)—there is still every day the reiterated
falsehood, as if the people had not yet had enough
of it, that this was a motion brought forward in a
factious spirit, and with a coalition of parties, in
order, forsooth, that we . might 'overturn the Go-
vernment and get possession of their places.' Well,
now, there is a great question involfed in this,
which I think the people of this country ought to
take very much to heart. Do you want the mem-
bers of the House of Commons to look after your
interests, and watch the expenditure—(yeas yes)—
and to guard you from getting
expensive wars ? (Yes.) Well, but you are not
going the right way to work, into needless and
if what I learn in your
newspapers is going to be verified in the course of
the election, for I am told that those members who
joined in that vigilant care of your interests, end
voted according to the evidence before us on the
question of that war, are all to be ostracised—sent
into private life—and that you are going to send
up other men—{no, no)—to do what ? to look after
your interests ? No ! to go and do the humble
dirty work of the Minister of the hour. (Loud
cheers.) In fact, that you are going to constitute
Lord Palmerston the despotic ruler of this coun-
try. (No, no.) Well, but if he is not checked by Par-
liamsnt—if the moment Parliament does check him
be dissolves Parliament, and instead of,sentliugup
men who are independent enough to assert their
and your rights, you send up mere creatures of his
will, what is that but investing hint withthe powers
of a despot ? Aye, and let me tell you that it is a
despotism& of the olumsiest, mo..t expensive kind,
and at the same time tree • most irresponsible on the
face of the eat th, because you surrourri the Minis-
ter with the sham appearance of a representative
form of government ; you cannot get at him while
he has got a Parliament beneath whose shield he
can shelter himself ;" and if you don't do your duty
in your elections in sending men • up to the House
of Commons who will vigilantly watch the Minister
of the day, then, I say, you-sere in a worse plight,
because governed in a more irresponsible way than
if under the Xing of Prussia or the Emperor of the
French. (Cheers.) But who is Lord Palmerston
that we are to invest him with this power? Who is;
he ? (A traitor.) No, I will say nothing worse of him
here than I have said to his face in Parliament ;
bet whsn I avant to know what a man is, I ask;
What has he done ? (Cheers.) There is no other
test like that. That was Napoleon's question always,
if anybody talked to hitn about anybody being a
great man—" What has he done ?" Lord Palmers-
ton has been fifty years in Parliament—(fifty-two)
—fifty-two years in Parliament. Well, he has be-
longed to every Government excepting one during
those fifty years. (Laughter.) I remember the
Times newspaper, which spent about 15 years in
trying to blacken his reputation, and is now polish-
ing him up every day day—(laughter and cheers)—
and when it had said everything else that was gross,
vulgar, and vituperative about him, wound up by
saying that he had been "boots" to every Adminis-
tration for 30 years. (Renewed laughter.) Now, I
beg you to understand this is the language of the
Times, and not mine. (Laughter.) (But with what
has his name been associated ? (" Peterloe.")
Yee Peterloo. I am reminded that on this very
spot of ground—(c yes, yes,'')—when the people
were ant down and trampled upon by the yeomanry,
Lord Palmerston
Ives one of the Government and
voted in favour of that outrage. (Groans and cries
of " Shame.") Well, but what has he done since ?
—because men may have been, in the early part of
their career, by circumstances, like Sir R. Peel,
put into a certain
groove, and hardly answerable
for the course they were obliged to run. What has
he done since he has been able' to take his own
choice What does he propose now to do ? (" Ruin
us.") He was a member of the reform ministry in
1831, ho left his old party and joined the Whigs as
a reformer. But was he one of those who put for-
ward the cause of reform, or was he there as a drag-
chain ? I have seen to-day a speech which has been
sent to me, delivered by Sir J. Graham, at Car-
lisle. He says, " I and Lord J. Russell are the
only two Cabinet Ministers remaining alive who
formed the Government which brought in the re-
form bill of 1831 ;" and he says, " We had Lord
Palmerston amongst us ; bet I very soon found
out that he was not very much disposed for the
work that we were engaged upon." (Sear, and
cheers.) In December, 1843—little more than
three years ago—Lord Palmerston belonged to the
Ministry of Lord Aberdeen. Now, Lord Aberdeen
was considered a.very liberal man ; we were all de-
luded with the idea that Lord Palmerston was the
great champion of democracy, and that Lord Aber-
deen was always the friend of despotism ;—I was
not token in by that, but a good many people were.
(Cheers.) Well, but what did Lord Palmerston do
in December, 1853, when Lord Aberdeen's Go-
vernment was preparing a new reform bill, to be
brought in in the session of 1854 ? Lord Palmer-
don left Lord Aberdeen's Government because he
objected to that modicum of reform that was then
proposed—(hear)—that bill, bearing on its back
the names of Lord John Russell and Sir J. Graham
—certainly not two very rash or democratic re-
formers—(laughter)—which proposed to give a
ten-pound franchise to the counties, and a modi-
fied franchise to the boroughs--so slightly reduced
that some of my friends thought it would rather
operate as a restriction in some boroughs than an
extension ; that bill was too much for Lord Pal-
mlBs3, and he left Lord
Abeersrren t
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Aberdeen's
Cabinetsalow in
l avowedly because he objected
to that bill. (Hear, hear.) Well, what has he
done since? What has he done this very session?
Why, he has opposed everything that • can bear
the mere semblance of reform ; he voted against
Locke King's motion for a ten pound county fran-
chise, part of the bill of 1854 ; he has
p
Scot-
land, if you may believe the Lord Advocate of
opo s ed which
even formedthe 4os
feehold franchise for Scot-
Scotland, who is in the Ministry, for he has gone
down there, and announced that the Government
are opposed to it. Now, will you tell me on what
ground I am to be called upon to surrender my in-
dependence and freedom of thought and action to
the will of a Minister such as this? Why, what do
you propose to get by such a policy ? It appears
foutaovmer o
it is
your credulity that ever was practised in this coun-
try, to think of raising the cry at an election in
foanbooluntaitlliefmoretehere is no other cry t audacious attempt upon
at-
tempted on the hustings ; and for that man to be
the leader of the Liberal party,
without having one
Liberal tenet in his profession of faith. (Cheers.)
Why, when I read of men that I WV hitherto 00117

sidered to be earn..st reformers—when I read their
speeches and addresses, in which they have said,
" I am for_the the extension of the sufferage,
shortening Parliaments, against churc,h rates, and
will give my-hearty support to Lord Palmerston 's
GoYernment," my natural question is, -" Are these
men idiots ?"—(" Yes l")—or aro they dishonest ?.
("Dishonest.") If you attempt to carry out a
business in priyate lite, you don't g) to -a man that
yeti know ii directly opposed, in his view, to what
you wish to accomplish, and put yourelf unrler his
guidance. Lord Palmerston is not content w;th a
mere passive resistance to what you desire as re-
formats. He lends an active opposition,—he votes
and spealcs against every measure of reform that is
brought into the House of Commo'ns. (Cheen.)
But we are told that Lord Palmerston is a great
f. lend of freedom abroad. (Laughter.) Well, now
go and ask those men in this country who represent
freedom abroad ;—ask Kossuth. (Loud clieers.) I
wdl tell you.what happened my, knowledge
—it is no breach of confidence to say it. When
.that illustrious Hungarian was expected in Eng-
land, af, er hisimprisonmetit 'n Turkey, my lameritt'd
friend L' rd
_Dudley Stuartwhose d.o/otion to,

the cause of these foreign refugees wasas unbounded
as it was sincere—went do:vn to Seuthamptoe to
meet Kossuth, and 'receive him on his arrival.
Haying.te wait a day or two there,, and being in
the neighbourheod of Broadlands, where Lord Pal-
merston live., he went there and saw the •noble
lord, and received from him a request to bring Kos-
stall over t Wiiadliari&s;l6-see him. rementh
receiving a letter from Lord Dudley Stuart, an-
nouncing to me this piece of intplligenco with the
greatest glee. He was .delighted at the opportu-
nty of raking Kossuth over to see'Lord Palmer-
sron ' • and as soon as he arrived he announced to
him the pleasing informatiOv. To his ast .nishment
ho found Kossuth would not accept it. He would
not go near Lord Palmerston—(cheers)—and I have
got a letter from Lord Dudley B•uart, 'asking me to
us 3 all my influence with Kc.sutli to induce him.to
go and call upon Lord Palmerston.. He would not
do it ; and my answer was this, " You may depend
upon it, Kossuth knows a great deal more about
Lord Palmerston than you do." (Laughter.) Why,
_I could not go into the particulars now ; but they
are all familiar to me. Every transaction of Lord
Palmerston's foreign:policy is known to me. I defy
any human being to show an instance where any-
body on the face of the earth has been happier or
freer in consequence of Lord Palm ?rston's foreign
policy. (Cheers) He endorsed the ,invasion of
Rome by. the, French. (Hear, hear.) We have it
in the blue &las. He was the first in red-hot
baste to Cengratulate the present Emperor of the
French after his usurpation, when the blood was
still flowing in the streets of Paris. He refused to
see an envoy sent from the Hutigariares because he
said he could treat with nobody but the Austrian
Government. He treated the. Italians in the same
way: Are these facts or not? (Yes, yes.) Nobody
denie3 them. Do you think, then, it is consistent
with common sense that the man who 'has no love
for liberty or progress at home should have any
love of that kind to export to foreign countries ?
(Cheers.) Do you 'not think that liberalism like
liberality, and 'progress like charity, should begin
at home ? Welt, what other title does he present
to our confidence, that the people of this country
should be called upon by the impudence of three
or four metropolitan journals, which for reasons
best known themselves—(hear)—which I hope will
be exposed some day, are calling upon the English
people to lie' down upon their bellies in the dust
before this man ? What has he done ? We are
told he carried the Russian war to a triumphant
conclusion. Now I will tell you what he did in
that war. Lord Palmerston was a member of the
Government which declared tho war. (Hear.) If
he be the man of talent, w;th the powers of ad-
ministration which we are told he has—if he be a
man of this towering genius, thst we are all and-.
denly called upon to discover at the age of 73--
(laughter)—was he not likely, at-least, three or.four
years ago, to have had a share of t oat energy, so
th at he might have imprinted a portion of his
policy upon the Government during the time he was
one of them ? He was responsible for every blun-
der just as Feuds as any member of the Government.
And what is the cabinet now 7 Why the majority
of the cabinet now was the majority of the cabinet
then. Lord Paltnerst,n was not called upon to make
a new cabinet in order to carry on the war; certain
members of the cabinet—a minority—receded from
it, and left the majority, of whom Lord Palmerston
was at the hew]. That majority is quite as respon-
sible for everything that occurred during the early
progress of the war—(loud cheers)-38 they can
claim to be entitled to any merit for any improve-
ment in the conduct of the war after that minority
had seceded. But did Lord Palmerston ever him-
self lend his word to thisimposture that is practis:d
in his name? No ; to do him justice, his toadies
practise the imposture, but he has told us manfully
and in a straightforward way that he did not share
in the delusion himself. (Laughter.) When Lord
Aberdeen secede 1 from the Government Lord
Palmerston told Sir James Graham and the rest of
the friends of Lord Aberdeen who remained in the
Government, that he would carry on the Govern-
ment and' the war upon precisely the same princi-
ples that had been carried on by Lord Aberdeen ;
and that there should be no change in his foreign
policy ; and that he would only ask the s 'me terms
of peace as Lord Aberdeen would have been
oontent with. (Cheers.) That was only men-
tioned privately in the course of their discussions
amongst themselves, but it came out in the house
of Commons. Did Lord Palmerston himself ever
come before us to complain of anything that had
been done in the early conduct of the war whilst he
was a member of the Cabinet ? No, on the contrary
he defended everything. When Mr. Roebuck
broughforward his motion—(olieers)---for influir-
ing into the scenes going on before Sebastopol, to
try and hunt out, if he could, the cause of the ruin
and disaster that had befallen our army, did Lord
Palmeretou get up in his place in the home and say.
"Here are admitted evils. I grant to the hon. and
learned gentleman that this is a fair subject for in-
quiry 1" No, he stood by things as they were—de-
fended everything, and resisted an inquiry by the
committee. But what is more, after the committee
was appointed and had sat and inquired into the
proceedings at Sebastopol, when Mr. Roebuck
brought forward a mottos( in the House of Com-
mons consequent on the inquiry, did Lord Palmer-
ston psist him ? No, he voted against him again.
What has he done besides ? Atter sending out a
couple of men, able and competent men—Sir John
M'Neil and Col. Tulloch—(cheers)--and after they
had brought home a report, certainly as able, and I
believe, as conscientious as was ever made by public
men, what did Lord Palmerston do ? Did he back
up his own commissioners ? No. He would have
done, if it had been Smith, Jones, or Robinson,
that had been concerned, but they were lords and
earls who were in question, and what did he do?
He appointed a commission of military men to in-
quire into the conduct of the commissioners.
(Shame.) And then when public opinion rises to de-
mand some improvement upon this state of things,
what does he do ? He insults these distinguished
rasn by sending them a present each of a thousand
pound, which they sent back again—(hootings and
groans)—just the amount that was paid some time
ago to a policeman for having captured a celebrated
sortpoli of mantical criminal.thatwe are c
(Laughter.)
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fall down and worship. Why, I say the brazen
image shall have no worship from me. (Cheers.)
But I want to ask these people that are here in
Manchester. I will first fake Mr. A. Turner.
(Groans.) No, no, no ; we will deal with them
with reason, and not with clamour. (Hear, hear.) I
want to put something before you that you may
probably have the opportunity of asking them.
The great complaint against us, on the part of these
gentlemen, is, that we are to independent of this
Minister. Now, ask them this question : What
would they have had us do in the case of that vote
the other night, that was threitened to do justice
to Colonel Tulloch and Sir John A/RN-ea? I was
in the House of Commons, waiting for the division,
and certainly should have voted against the Go-
vernment ; but Lord Palmerston, seeing which
way the wind blew, after having spoken against the
motion, got up and said, "I won't divide the house
upon it." Now, I want to know bow Mr. Aspinall
Turner would have voted on that occasion? Would
he have considered it very factious if lie had joined
the member for Devonshire, who sits on the other
side of the house on this question ? Why, I see
this gentleman's (Mr. Turner's) name as president
of the Commercial Association, signed to a memorial,
in which he states the whole of the facts I am stat-
ing, and says Lord Palmerston has not only failed
to do justice to those eminent officers who went out
to make the inquiry, but has also given encourage-
ment and promotion to the very men proved to
have been culpable and neglectful. (Laughter.)
Now, I must say I think Mr. Aspinall Turner is
looking very much like a "conspirator" in this;
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