The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-25 00:00:00

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

TOWER HAMLETS.—Last night a meeting was
held in the Greencoat School, Stepney, for the pur-
pose of hearing Mr. J. I)'A. Samuda, M.P. for
Tavistock, and one of the four Liberal candidates
for the borough, express his political opinions. Mr.
Harrison occupied the chair. Mr. Samuda's rising

was the signal for great uproar, mainly created by
a small but determined body of men at the end of

the room. A scene followed that almost defies de-
scription. The meeting rose and stood upon the
benche3, and a labouring man climbed up to a shelf

near the ceiling and posted on the wall a large pla-
card announcing an open-air meeting in support of
Mr. E. Beales, one of the rival candidates. In about

half an hour it became evident that no business

could be done, and the chairman, having declared
the meeting to be dissolved, vacated his position.

The meeting, however, refused to adjourn, and

continued to hiss and cheer

The man on the

shelf essay ed to address those present, but
nothing could be heard, though his gesticulation
was highly energetic. At last he gave up the at-
tempt to make himself heard, lit his pipe, and
pointed to the Beales bill. Several attempts were

made to drag him from his position, but they
were strenuously resisted by a compact body of his

supporters. Some posters of Mr. Coope, the Con-
servative candidate, were then exhibited, and were
received with some enthusiasm, followed by a dis-
play of physical force on the part of those to whom
they were not agreeable. The room was still
crammed to, suffocation when Mr. Samuda, sur-
rounded by his friends, forced his way out of the
hall, pursued by alternate groans and cheers.
IficKNEY.—Last night Mr. C. Reed addressed a
meeting of the electors at the Shoreditch Town-
hall, which was much crowded. Mr. Samuel
Morley took the chair, and congratulated the elec-

tors that it was not a class which was about to vote,
but, in a large sense, the people of England. Ile
felt confident that Mr. Gladstone's majority would

be at least doubled in the new Parliament.
He considered that the electors of Hackney would
be perfectly safe in entrusting their repre-
sentation to his old friend, Charles Reed. No public
man could be competent to give an opinion or ex-
ercise an intelligent judgment upon questions con-
nected with Ireland without visiting that unhappy
country. He had recently seen the condition of
the people, and it was a disgrace to a Christian
country. Ile had visited a large number of what
he could not call the cottages, but must call the
dwellings of the poor, in comparison to which his
own pigstyes were palaces, and that on property
which ought to be made to do its duty. Should

he be fortunate enough to obtain a seat in the
House of Commons, which he expected he would,
he should feel that, next to this prominent
Church question, which could not and ought
not to be delayed, he was bound to unite in
any reasonable effort to compel property to do its

duties. Same means must be fuuud by which men
who were our own flesh and blood and our fellow-

countrymen should all be lifted out of the
state of misery and wretchedness in which they
were living. (Cheers.) The great curse of Irc-
land was an obsentee proprietorship. He saw in
the measures of Mr. Gladstone hope for the coun-
try at last. Mr. Reed gave a general exposition of
his political opinions, dealing chiefly with the Irish
question. Ireland, he said, was the Poland of Eng-
land. This country had ruled Irishmen by penal
laws, and had goaded them into disloyalty. They
had forced Popery on the Irish people centuries
ago, and now they wanted, by the bayonet and the
sword, to force Protestantism upon them. Bat he
felt it possible, before Mr. Disraeli went to the
Mansion-house dinner, that he might yield to public
opinion and give up the Irish Church. (Laughter.)
He (Mr. Reed) should give a hearty support to
the policy enunciated by Mr. Gladstone. A
number of questions were put to Mr. Reed and
answered by him. A resolution pledging the
meeting to support his candidature was passed.
Mr. John Ilolms addressed a meeting of the electors
last night in the school-room of the Methodist
Chapel, in Packington-street, better known as
Britannia-fields Chapel. The place selected for
the meeting is Just without the boundary of the
new borough ; the reason assigned for holding the
meeting out of the borough was inability to obtain
rooms sufficiently large within its limits. Mr.
James Martin was called to the chair. In reply to
questions, which were freely addressed to him, Mr.
Hams said he had nothing to do with the dis-
turbances created at the meeting of the Conserva-
tives held a few nights since at Shoreditch Town-
ball. Ile wished the contest to be conducted in
a spirit of generous and gentlemanly rivalry.
Ho would like all trades' unions t) have the
same !protection extended to them and their
funds as was extended to benefit societies.
He was not in favour of long Parliaments, and he
believed that so many great questions would
have to be decided by the voice of public opinion
that without any legislative action whatever
the duration of Parliaments would be, shortened.
Upon the motion of Mr. Andrews, seconded by Mr.
Bull, a resolution pledging the meeting to support
Mr. Holins was unanimously agreed to.
ANGLESEY.--Mr. Richard Davies, of Benarth,
Conway, is now the only candidate for this county.
He is a Liberal,:and was opposed till lately by Lord
Clarence Paget, commanding Mediterranean fleet,
also a Liberal; but the latter gentleman, finding his
chance of being elected during his absence exceed-
ingly small, has retired. Mr. Davies is a Noncon-
formist, and very popular in Anglesey. The Hon.
W. 0. Stanley, M.P., Penrhos, Holyhead, a Radi-
cal, is so far the only candidate for these boroughs.
BIRMINGIIAM.—Ward meetings are being held
nightly by the candidates on both sides. On Wed-
nesday evening Mr. Sampson Lloyd and Dr. Evans
addressed an important meeting of the gun trade.
The interest and excitement incident to the election
increase daily. It is expected that Mr. Bright will
take part in the strife about the second or third
week in Otober. It has been suggested that he
should address four or five divisions of the consti-
tuency, that mode being regarded as more suitable
to the occasion than set speeches in the Town-hall,
but on this point nothing definite has yet been de-
`ermined.

BLACKBURN.—At Blackburn, on the evening of
the 23d inst., the Irish Church question was ap-
proached from a point of view differing from that
in which it has been treated of late in'the majority
of Parliamentary boroughs. A meeting, under the
presidency of Mr. R. Hutchinson, D.L., assembled
to hear a statement on the subject by the Rev. S.
G. Potter, M.A., rector of Dunc3rmack, Ireland.
The rev. gentleman attributed the attack upon the
Irish Church directly to the machinations of the
Jesuits, and called upon those whom he addressed
to join the only organization that had shown itself
able to cope with them—the Orange institution. So
many who formerly held aloof from their body had
joined it since the recent agitation commenced that
Mr. Gladstone might well be called " the Orange
recruiting sergeant."
CARNARvoNsniftE.—There is a very prevalent
rumour that the Hon. G. D. Pennant, the Conser-
vative M.P. for this county, and eldest son of Lord
Penrhyn, will be opposed by Captain T. L. D.
Jones Parry, of Madryn, Pwllheli, in the Liberal
interest. No address has yet been issued by Cap-
tain Parry. Tke election for the Carnarvonshire
boroughs, which comprise the city and borough of
Bangor and the boroughs of Carnarvon, Pwllheli,
CI icuith, Conway, and Nevin, promises to be a ra-
ther severe one, and the Hon. T. J. Wynn, son and
heir of Lord Newborough, standing in the Conser-
vative interest, and Mr. William Btilkeley Hughes,
M.P., again soliciting the honour of re-election as
a Liberal. The supporters of the latter candidate
he'd a meeting in Bangor on Saturday evening, at
which Mr. Hughes appeared. Many attended who
evidently did not share the opinions of the speakers,
who were all local, but the meeting was orderly to
the end, and resolutions in favour of the candida-
ture of Mr. Hughes were carried. Bath candidates

are pursuing an active canvass.
DERBYSHIRE (EASTERN DIVISLON).—The Liberal
candidates, the Hon. Captain Egerton and the
Hon. Henry Strutt, attended at Chesterfield on
Monday evening a meeting of the county electors
in that neighbourhood, and they were heartily wel-