The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-06 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.-- The prospects of tLe suc-
cess of the Liberal cause—the cause, in this instance, of

fre3dom and purity of election—are hourly increasing.
The recent decisions _of Election Committees have

alarmed.the Tories, and they have not employed any
messengers or colourmen. Bribery in this form having
ceased, the parties who have been accustomed to look
!or this kind of "consideration" for their votes are hang-
ing back, :.nd ninny of them have declared openly their
intention to vote for Lord Nugent and Mr. Thompson,
unless they receive an equivalent tor the loss of their
customary employment at elections. . The popular feel-
ing is very strong in favour of the Liberal candidates, and
a decided re-action appears to be taking No-
thing can prevent the return of the Liberals but the most
gross bribery, and this will probably. be put in practice on
oe night of Sunday, the day preceding the polling.
A meeting will be held this evening at Andrews'
Bazaar, at which Lord Nugent and. Mr. Thompson will
be present.
-I..here is no treating going on, at least there is none
op.mly. No public-houses and beer-shops are opened,
ott the Tories will only resort more-extensively to direct
bribery on this account, should there appear a chance of
,lu winning the seats by such means.
An immense number of the inhabitants of St. Mary's,
the Liberal Ward, assembled in St. Mary's-street, last
,light, to listen to addresses which it was announced the
candidates would deliver from the balcony of a house in

at street.
A delay having occurred in the arrival of Lord

Nugent and Mr. 'Thompson,
Sir JOHN EASTHOPE, Bart., came forward, and said,

he felt great pleasure in telling them that the canvass
was proceeding very well.—(Cheers.) Their opponents
are so well satisfied with the canvass as to say they-
were confident of success, and that there was nothing
left for them to do but to express that confidence. He
believed the meeting were of a different opinion. There
was something else to do. They (the Tories) must pur-
sue their old course of bribery before they could be con-
fident of success.—(Cheers.) Without bribery there
was no success for the Tories in Southampton.—(Hear,
hear.) That had been the practice of Toryism in all
times. They had been lavish of their money, but they
had corrupted the people in order to ruin the best interests
of the country.—(A voice, " What have the Whigs
done ?") Why they have passed the Reform Bill, and if
the Reform 131.11 had not done all that it should have
done, yet it depended on their future exertions to make it
the means to an end by which they were all to be bene-
fited. One of those ends was a larger loaf at a cheaper
rate.—(Cheers.) Another was more extended commerce.
—(Cheers.) If the Whigs did not go on to increase the
good then Jet them leave the Whigs behind, and go on
with somebody that would do better.—(Cheers.) But
That had the To-ies done ? They brought in a sham
corn reform measure, which had done no good.—(Hear.)
They had increased taxation. They had put a tax on
industry, a tax which would oblige the masters to reduce
the wages of the artisan.—(Cheers.)
At this moment Lord Nugent arrived and presented
himself on the balcony, when he was greeted with loud
and long-continued cheering. The Noble Lord had just
commenced his address when G. Thompson, Esq.; ar-
rived and came forward. His appearance was the signal,
for renewed cheering, which was continued for some time.
Lord NUGENT said he would begin with what at the
present moment interested those who heard him perhaps
more than any other subject. He had all day, as it was
his duty. for their common cause, been endeavouring to
persuade himself what were the grounds on which that
cause stood in Southampton. He had been all day can-
vassing, and he now told them that he believed they had
a fair chance, and he called on them to go in with him-
self and his Hon. Friend and win.—(Cheers.) lie had
been well received, not on his own account, but on ac-
count of the cause he humbly represented, and he
had received cordial promises from persons who he
was told had been before afraid of pledging their pro-
mises to a candidate, fearful of being punished for doing
so. Now he knew that unless their antagonists bribed
grossly, he and his Honourable
.Friend must win.—
(Loud cheers.) And if they did bribe, let them look
to themselves. There was a Parliament which, if pro-
voked a third time by Southampton, might be tempted
to the strongest measures of :punishment, and there was
a receptacle open for corruptors called Newgate. He
warned the Tories to beware. If they were brought
before the Legislature a third time they would be sen-
tenced as incorrigible. To the briber—no quarter !He
would call on his antagonists to make the same declaration
as he would do on Saturday—he would give his word as
a man of honour that he had never in his life bribed,
and that if he found that any friend or agent had done
him so much wrong as to offer a voter a bribe on his be-
half, from that moment he would retire from the con-
test.—(Cheers.) lie would go through this struggle
with the assistance of his friend Mr. Thompson, and test
whether there were enough honest men within'to save the
city. If they won, the honour of Southampton would be
saved. If they failed, at least they should have all that was
honourable and inctrruptible in Southampton as the
partners of their defeat.—(Loud cheering.)
GEORGE THOMPSON, Esq., then addressed the as-
semblage. He congratulated the frienda,of independence
and purity of election on the progress' of the canvass
during the last two days.—(Cheers.) The reception he
had met with throughout the town gave him confidence
that within four days they would see the people of
Southampton rise from the mire into which they had
been cast by the enemies of the constitution and the
enemies of the popular cause ; and that, instead of
standing before the eyes of their countrymen sullied
and disgraced by the pollution of bribery and suborna-
tion, the constituency would vindicate their claim to be
considered pure, patriotic, and independent. He was
their coadjutor in this good cause. Let him have their
opinions in his favour. Let them have their thousand
voices pleading for them in the various circles to which
they belonged. The way to carry a great reformation
wa a for men to talk about it, to meet at the corners of the
streets, to discuss it in their workshops and their homes.
He was encouraged by the canvass as far us he had been able
to prosecute it. Ile had resorted to no dishonourable
means for the purpose of obtaining promises. The honest
grasp of the man in the street who told him lie should
have one hundred votes if he could give them, convinced
him it was only necessary for a man to plant himself on
principle, be consistent, and abhor the thing that is base
and dishonourable, and the people will honour and sup-
port him, carry him on to the goal of victory, and plant
their laurels on his brow. If he and his noble colleague

had nothing else to recommend them to the notice of the
costituency, whatever might be their political views, they
would be at least entitled to their conscientious appro-
bation for coming forward as they did, to cast themselves
upon their honest convictions and unbought sidfrages.
But they had more than this to recommend them to the
notice of the electors. They embodied principles which
they believed to be vital to the interests and prosperity
of the empire at large. He desired to go to Par-
liament for no other object than to be additionally
useful to his countrymen who were in circumstances
of physical depression, political enslavement, and
commercial thraldom. (Cheers.) Above offering a
bribe without the walls of Parliament, should he be
elected he trusted to be preserved from the contamina-
tion of a bribe when in Parliament. He here pledged
himself to return his trust to the constituency, should
there be anything in his conduct after being elected in-
consistent with the plain and irrevocable pledges he had
given in this town.—(Cheers.) Belore he bade them
good night he would say a word on the prospect before
them. He believed there was not so much tranquillity
in the Tory camp as the silence that reigned there
would seem to indicate.—(Cheers.) It was for them to
be active, vigilant, energetic, and persevering, till fiur
o'clock on Monday; to demonstrate to the world the
self-reclaiming principle of Southampton.—(Cheers.)
Reform begins at home. It was for them to put an end
to corruption amongst themselves. To them he com-
mended their own cause, and on Monday might they be
entitled not only to the thanks of himself and his col-
league, but to the thanks of the town and of all who love
purity. Mr. Thompson having concluded a most elo-
quent address, was most enthusiastically cheered as he
left the balcony.
The crowd separated in the most orderly manner,
The nomination takes place this (Saturday) morn-
lin the Town Hall.

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.
CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Mr. Walter
Mr. Sturge

1,885
1,301

Majority •

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. lackheath, once
so notorious as the scene of some of the most desperate
highway robberies, has been for many years free from so
daring an attack as that made on Thursday night. Mr.
LoYegrove, the proprietor of the Crown and Sceptre
Tavern, Greenwich, and of the York Hotel, Bridge-
street, Blackfriars, left his house to accompany a rela-
tive over the heath, about nine o'clock on Thursday
evening. lie had passed along the upper wall of Green-
wich-park, from the top of Maize-hill, towards Mont-
pelier-row, and there parted with his friend. The night
was closing in, and by the time he reached the cross-
roads near Vanburgh-fields, it had become so dark that
he did not perceive two men, who had been following
him. They carefully watched an opportunity, and,
springing from behind, threw him on his back with a
violent blow on the head. He cried out " murder,"
which one of the men, in a glazed hat, partly stilled by
griping his throat. The other villain ripped up his
clothes from top to bottom, dragged a valuable gold
watch and guard from his neck (breaking the latter)
taking his cravat, and whatever else they could find.
lie had left home without a purse. By this time. fortu-
nately for him, he had become so Insensible that he
made no other cry of alarm, and the thieves, having
secured their booty, were content to escape without com-
mitting any further violence. Mr. L.'s recollection only
serves :o describe the rubbers' drvss as something like
that worn by sailors, but, from the darkness and sudden-
ness of the attack, he knows nothing inure. Indeed, the
only clue seems to be through the watch, a particular de-
scription of which was obtained from the makers,
Mes.rs. Bennett, of Stockwell-street, Greenwich.
VAUXHALL GARDENS.— Mademoiselle Caroline,
from the Cirque Olympique, made her debut last night
at this popular place ut entertainment, and we suspect
that the Prench reputation of her birth_ did as much for
alt,atisiiblit(t,tnedisnuai_sssturiawhegeEcaoTsid-
-181 cetir sestCleicdcsfsorambeorligisnt lu'sraaisic
wayward thing ; yet Mademoiselle Caroline richly de-
serves all the success which she has obtained by her very
beautiful riding. She does not belong to the muscular
school of exertion, but is unrivalled in the elegance and
manavement of her powers. The horse she rode (a
hcaut.ifel chesnut mare) seemed to understand her very
wish, and N$ altzed, galoped, and country-danced with
marvellous precision. tier guidance of her was as Per-
fect as it well might be. The company were wealthy in
the capacity of enjoyment, if not very numerous--a fault,
which we hope to see remedied in the succeeding nights
of Mademoiselle Caroline's performances.