Star.
London, England, 1826-06-09 00:00:00

CITY-OF LONDON ELECTION.

This day was fitted for balding a Common Hall of
the Livery for the election of the Members for the City.
At twelve o'clock, the time appointed for the com-
mencement of business the Guildhall was opened, and
in an instant every place was occupied with a dense,
mass of persons, and a scene of uproar and cnnfusion
ensued which bases desctiption. The galleries were
occupied by elegantly dressed Ladies, who displayed
the popular colours of the Candidates. The deep blue
of Mr. Alderman Wond appeared to preponderate.
At one o'clock, the Lord Mayor, Secondary, and
Court of Aldermen, entered the Hall, and upon his
Lordship appearing upon the hustings, he was received
with immense cheering.
Mr. Alderman Wood then made his bow, and was
followed by Mr. Alderman Waithman, Mr. Alderman
Thompson, and Mr. Alderman Wood. The candidates
were received with every demonstration of applause.
The precept, the writ, and usual forms being gone
through by the Secondary, the Lord Mayo' and Sheriffs
severally addressed the Livery upon the object of their
assembling, and the respective Candid rtes were putting
in nomination when our Paper was going to press.
Die Loan MAYOR addressed the Livery at conside-
rable length, and with much animation ; and stated the
principles upon which he came forward to receive their
suffrages were perfectly constitutional, and at the same
time he had no bias or attachment to any party n!prz-
soever. His Lordship was received with great cheering.
Mr. Alderman Garratt was put in nomination, as were Aldermen
Thompson, Wood, Waldman, and Mr. Ward.
Mr. Alderman Garrett did not appear on tie hustings.
WESTMINSTER ELECTION—THIS DAY.

This day being appointed by the High Bailiff of
Westminster for the purpose of returning two Members
to serve in Parliament for that City, the neighbourhisid
of Covent-Garden became more than usually animated.
At an early hour a vast concourse of people was seen
flocking to witness this interesting scene ; and by eleven
o'clock, the hour appointed in the hand-bills when Sir
Francis Burdett and, Mr. Hobhouse would appear on
the Hustings, the whole of the space on the east of
St. Paul's Church, between Richardson's Hotel on the
north, and the houses on the south side of the,Square,
presented one dense mass of people; who, on the whole,
behaved themselves in an orderly manner.

At half-past eleven the two Candidates, accompanied
by Mr. Morris, the High Bailiff, the Select Committee,
and other of their friends, proceeded from the Rainbow
coffee house, to the Vestry room of St. Paul's Church,
and a few minutes before twelve they appeared on the
hustings, amidst the immense cheering of the assembled
populace. The assistant to the High Bailiff having read
the writ addressed to him for the returning of two
Burgesses to serve in Parliament, also the Act against
bribery and corruption,
Mr. LINDON stepped forward, and, having made some
high eulogiums on the conduct of Sir F. Burdett,
briefly nominated him as a proper person still to repre-
sent the City of Westminster, a nomination which was
seconded by Ma. Pun sa.
Mr. Dc Veer, in a short speech, nominated Mr.
Hobhouse, and was seconded by Mr. Wilson. As
there was no opposition, nor indeed any expected, the
High Bailiff declared, after a show of hands, that Sir
Francis Burdett, Ban. and John Cam Hobhouse, Esq.
were doily elected.
Silence having been in some degree obtained, Sir F.
BURDETT came to the front of the hustings, and re-
turned thanks for the high situation in which they
had again placed him. • He congratulated them on
the disappearance of the corruption which had so often
reared its head on former occasions, and professed that
his whole attention would be applied to serve them to the
best of his power, and particularly to obtain a thorough
reform in the Commons H•:wse of I.3.irliament. He
congratulated the people upon the likely ret irn of that
gallant advocate of reform, Sir Robert Wilson, for
Southwatk. The I-lon. Baronet concluded by again
returning his thanks to his constituents, when he retired
and made way for
Mr. Hosuousa, who, in a bi ief speech, returned his
thanks, and observed, that in returning Sir F. Burdett
they had done honour to themselves; he adverted to the
state the electors had found him in on a former occasion,
when he wai brought forward under much disadvan-
tage, but by the unanimous suffrages of the people, he
now stood on a prominent altitude. He professed to
f ;How in the steps of his colleague. in advocating a re-
form in the abuses in Parliament and the Borough
mongering System, and concluded by saying, that
where a free representation of the people was admitted,
they were sure to gain the victory.
The Hum flamer made a short speech, which was inaudible
where we stood, and the Members and their friends retired front the
hustings at a quarter before one o'clock, when the multitude be-
gan to disperse, though a few remained to indulge in the old sport
of pelting each other with cabbages and such vegetables as were in
their way.