The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-30 00:00:00

EOTJI-3.

Apsley House is in the course of improvement.
Earl Fortescue is making extensive alterations in his
mansion at Castle Hill, and the state apartments at
Devonshire House are being &reatly enlarged.
Captain St. George Lister is spoken of as a candi-
date for the office of Commissioner of the City Police.
Mr. T. B. C. Smith, it is said, has been appointed
to the office of Solicitor• General for Ireland, and it is
also rumoured that he will contest the vacancy in the
University in the room of Mr. Jackson against Mr.
Alexander Hamilton.

COMPLETE SUFFRAGE MEETING
A public meeting convened by the advocates of com-
plete suffrage, as propounded by -Alr. Joseph Sturge, was
held last evening, pursuant to public notice, at the large
hall of the National Association, 242 A, High Holborn.
The hall was crowded to excess, and at eight o'clock
precisely, the Committee entered on the platform
amidst loud cheers.

On the motion of Mr. Lovver, Joseph Sturge, Esq.,
took the Chair, which he assumed amidst three distinct
rounds of most deafening applause.
The CHAIRMAN then said-111y friends and fellow-
countrymen, I cannot but feel deeply the manner in
which you have received me. Feeling that lam so re-
cent a labourer in this great cause, I am sure it would be
bad taste for me to occupy much of your time as chair-
man. Perhaps I may be asked why lam here, as lam
only the President of what some perhaps call a mush-
room society.. I confess I do'nt feel any right in the
presence of those- I see around me, to hold the eminent
situation in.-which you have placed me this evening.—
(Cheers.) But I was one of those who was often visited
by my working friends—the Chartists. We used to
discuss the matter in private. I was told that those
whom they trusted had disappointed them ; and. I said I
wished that they were able to fight their own battles ;
this they could not do, but as the middle classes could
give them some assistance, I for one would
take that course, and would use my influence
to make others do so too. After an examina-
tion of the subject, I felt that I had such a
power to contend against, that nothing but a firm union
of middle and working classes could peacefully and suc-
cessfully triumph over them.—(Loud cheers.) Some
people may perhaps say, " Why will you not join the
Chartist Association ?" Now lam one that think very
little about names—(Cheers)—and I think it as absurd
to charge on those who hold the principles of the Char-
ter any of the wild acts of those who assume the name,
as to charge on Christianity itself any of the horrors
which have been committed in former times under the
sanction of that name.—(lmmense cheering.) But we
know whilst human nature remains as it is, how far pre-
judice will extend ; and I found, amongst my own
friends, that if I only named the "Charter" it produced
a universal panic, and I could not get them to reason.
or to think.—(Loud cheers.) I thought, then, if we of
the middle 'class could put forward the great principle on
which the Charter rested, of "Justice for every man,"
and could prevail on the middle class to confess this
principle, we might get them by degrees—one by one—
to consider the six points of the People's Charter. I
think the occurrences of the last twelve months show
that we have not • altogether laboured in vain —(Loud
cheers.) I may perhaps be permitted to allude for a
moment to a few of the contested elections which have
taken place duriFg the last few weeks. First of all I
understand that one of the candidates for Southampton
openly avowed that he was for Universal Suffrage.—
(Cheers.) At the close of the poll he numbered 500
votes, being not more than three or four less than the
Whig. It was besides admitted, •in an article which
appeared in the Times itself, that had the election taken
place at Reading, we should have been able to have
polled there at least. one-third of the electors on that
principle.—(Loud cheers.) I shall only briefly allude to
Ipswich, because Henry Vincent is present, and will tell
you himself what occurred there.—(Loud cheers.) I
will only tell you-here, that he, identified as you know
he has-been -with .I.hb People's Charter—(Loud cheers)
—withoiit one pot-son to canvas-s, or even a polling-clerk,
polled 472, votes.; and that, be it remembered, in an j
agrieuitiiritl 'flistrict.7--(Loud cheers.) It may appear
pehsonalp to allude at all to the Nottingham election—
(Cheers)—but I will tell you that, when I was first asked
if I would 'have, my name put in nomination for that