The Sun. — London, England, 1831-11-05 00:00:00

(, 0 stele. 4, in p O 5 , brw er nst i° o he I - ( .he OP )1 ree nt one thel (it p ri r is I o°4 '0 ,11 9 o f Co!' i le ' cli. c d ,d Itr P e°r I ?, 6. We C ' I t1 " : 5 e 1141 rjro6.-..4,1 4.0 11 71 en °s.l,dl Wt - BRISTOL, Nov. 4. rut e IBf s lo sit 0' oi l .40 0 . j 1 aot 1.# 7 : it !f..°.0. er' HlOl ~~ hi~b ,eP wee cil Sir :ett or the - at , i t foo l. ° ]dreg s ,ese" . cy,f or° y c h inlu sf ii eting' e c of of 1.:A0 I co - t declared themselves the firm •alcocatcs of ith enati ure ' and who, by their subsequent duct have gnu') their on at large, the amplest reason to repose full confidence 4 eir Ll7,9arations that they arc determined not to relax in h e ne ' t l u , _ . tinn s to obtain the object which the great majority of 'Oration I_f° Much desire—a full and ample Reform of the . rcpre• the people in Parliament, by a measure which, in ttnr e th` en, lllay be found not less efficient than that brought e Legislature in the last Session. Having, upon a ( Path -cea4o /1, laid before *our Majesty, and both Houses uld ,ainent, our humble on great measure, we na ve• opinion . this your '&09,4 s had ought it unnecessary again to havc. addressed , , e ,ad not the opponent; bf the lath taken limns td I,t i l 4s , 'M't4, - ae!ti'me..bi! of the Ciiioitt were changed, and "t N !'erb ifecoine lukewarm, if not averse to its enact ".'estY th e , therefore feel it incumbent on us to assure your if our sentiments are in no respects altereet ; that we more fully than ever convinced that a real Reform iii the representation (a Reform, i't„"Yed em brace in its full extent, the extinction of de. ghee of a I,! er oination borouhs and the substitution in their - '"'rge and respectable e'nistituency, drawn from places I fetiti)°Polat i or , nbined) is necessary for th e and opulence are coi A•„, t hatth Peace, the safety, and the prosperity of the conincry, t t ,i rt F lt e Pee ,n of the Bill introduced in the last Session 1 1c1f Ca. P 4 lated to attain that object ; and however we la. t „e,e, disappointed at the failure of . that i met , i d su t re e , a y the matter is more fully conside t ret a ,a t i i, t e , p,., ‘"S a sce " t. . public to their former sentim h s ad fins ts t 'ul.ed, that, a measure will e,s efficient, in all Y 0 its main provisions, will be speedily adopted and mister of y o „'elned by the Legislature ; and we feel further ~ser, °urto ajes:ty's readiness to exercise, and of your /-".tyise such exercise of the Royal prerogative feposcx . l t i - t , °lll , sh a a j es , tY bY the Constitution, as your Majesty In your 2 e atit - , d Most expedient and effectual for that purpose. k " .44 t .4a 3' please the SUPRENIE DISPOSER of all events ' trLY➢sce your m il „ --a-eqy a !brig and prosperous reign ; that you ti,7'... o nlin'iono flourishing under yourpaternal govern_ he seciiiit - v . and 'happiness ; and that you may re ,' f 4 tf ' s Ar ll'ily - n ew li r'd due to the zeal and attention which you have h rid-1_ bited for the attainment o . f . t . hose object l s, is our "Plause of a loyal and affectionate peop e, 0 'o and constant prayer." ,li"terd (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) t-n gtir l a Y ' s tneeting exhibited a pretty specimen of it s is isnd er,..rgY among the inhabitants . , and it is , ttld he credited that fears were entertained that it el)?A`lr'ffaltogether without doing any thing for want qpit, airman. Such a circumstance speaks volumes in uatio n „ IN ; , °I . the state of public affairs in this city, and ": ' tith e , 4co ount for the proceedings of the corporation, the want of any proceedings when they were 444 Y.called for. The special constables are still out, hourl y on the alert receiving stolen property, and r i N z L e Portio n of valuable articles have already been se , t t : e furniture is injured, but other things not so ; fire. in jury have been found little or nothing ; Ere.l 3o Strict orders have been given against the sale 1 41'1 by any individual, or of other combustablo 1 1, i t tg: 4 ,:" i tnecessary act of caution to keep such k prohibited at . present. It is supposed the " eu nsiderably reduced by the fortunate results 4, 111, the exertious of the constables in the active 'idtic 'ley still continue to make. A great many in -447e been arrested for having property in their lea ," ; L ull have been lodged in the gaol, which has guarded. The search for dead bodies con tili4LtTlnng the ruins, and several more have been Sh, 7 are greatly dgured, and much burnt. y et :l n u d oniing gradually round, but very little is t 04 . 1 ,1 the commercial travellers are indulging in I L ept h 'lilts. A good must while must elapse before I ! ;:, , tay ' Z t tl e a l , u , em barrassments can . be removed. To-morrow u'er, hy dedicated to squibs and crackers, being the I ;:fort,l, l Y of the Gunpowder plot, but as all these things 1, it is hoped no attempt will be made in such W n144(1 'ati,, s at present, dangerous practices. The town 4 nr NI of military, and no fear is entertained ,11 444 rruption to good order. The Committee ap ,4lll,,h,ati _the meeting yeterday,. met at three o'clock, l t , tey,,,,""angements for having the address signed ed to Government. b4er,l 4 COLT/ask OF 'EXCHANGE YESTERDAY. a t : i u . ; .......... C. 12 1 Leghorn 4 B ll ALtle'rdaing,lt ............... 11 18 Genoa 0 5 55 .............. 2 U 12 14 Venice 47 P° a a .... ........... ....12 D Malta 46 ........... M ‘ ll 13 12! Naples rit h .. ... ...... 25 '122- .393 i to 3 Per oz. 119 . t ight 25 Lisbon TjN ............ 2 U. 25 55 Oporto 47!4 ....................... 2.5 60 Rio .laneiro y e i t teoZt or; . ....... .N. 7.1501 Bahia a os Ayres 27 Vi tirl a, - 4 ), ruble, ' 3 ' lss. 10 Dublin, '2l days' sight ly, k.t,ste active t. 2M. 10 0 Cork IRI C 40 1 .".. do UA ........................ 37 s. d. "*". ........... 37 Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Ana .. 37 Foreign Gold, in bars 317 104 ...... ....... N Doubloons .................. t 0 0 0 36'4 New Dollars 47jA Silver bars. standard 0 0 0 ....................... ; C P TA TO R'S ANATOMY of the ' 44 ' 11) ); 1 4- :-. 11 , A GE Will be Published TO-MORROW, ID " of that Journal. Wellington-street, Strand. gv Asi eeS, SAT LONDON, ullb AY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1831. It is ° l l;i i w ith pleasure we are enabled to state, (141 4 e authority of a medical gentleman at Sun turtiad i that no f res h cases o f c h o l era h a ve oc- Th tt that town since the 31st of October. k am f°ll °wing is the official statement of the o f Health established at Sunderland : (corv.) toyed ,- -1 f of urn directed by a General Meeting of the th el health, established in this town, to report to you, , t 4 i t ' l llation of th e B o ard in London, that no case t i , r4 Ni t4 4 1143 occurred since the report which was last N th ' '' , (l t o it at , have You ; and that the town remains generally have much satisfaction is making the present I have the honour, 84,!. by (Signed) G. ROBINSON, 441 Chairman of the General Board 444, N ov. o 14 . 3, 1831. ' e Yrnour, Secretary to the Board of H ea lth. "e ieh. II .ainburg Papers, in alluding to the c ho ahtj 4 Y' " It is some consolation to ourselves,. Ali' cl h u k g h t to be so likewise to those countries bith lt - ‘l4V e not yet received the dreadful visit, that er to , ithl v , the mortality of 1831 falls very consider i'l ;1 ) 4 : 1°4 0 1 that of 1830, although we are now PI4o . thir d Week of the cholera, which in most . .. e4 1 t ler it i ' a s Proved the worst." There has evi- Slee t ? 1 , be en much silly exaggeration on the subto beli . th is disorder, which we have reason . ( 411; e is neither so contagious nor so formi- N): 43 i t is represented to be. Cleanliness, be st : len " , and a due attention to diet, are the lip ' 'eser vative s : k ti. Ls pato. , Ocr. „ 44}k" ' 23.—A1l Germany has for some t.rtuos, wh'ir.resented one great chaos any of quarantine regu one case to have t1"1 the 4 d° not appear in ' in lethough ti r)tiv,' progress of infection foi . a s g .. : e 'ke 4114 t naftY th lands of their usual means of sub -4;4,it'll;l4cearlarritou°su'effects of the visitation have been consolation to ourselves, t 4 i t ; 9 sg r ht to heea:oedlik It i is t s o on t i l e iose countries which have a a lin t f lecs%ivrie,da.t.he dreaded visit, that hitherto the mor iderahly short of that of 1830, Ilttitt,th 1,7,e ,arielisr, very. 1 1 1 1 ), in ~i iot 1 now bas n on t s he third week of the cholera, proved the worst. 1 1 (i t i f „ t ! )t dk i4 , 11°w ing l) itaebisle, w as hich we . find in the Nechnichien 'l4g the .'l,eccin the comparative mortality in Hamburg . ' ' 0 eas 1930. 3 1 , 7 50 1. i v rbilblifi:soi:epttlor,teorbJ e..r u .. l . " . 31 . . . ..... 3,3417-ii 0 I, the n . . 8 August .............. ..... 381. 387 355 0 Z 14,0,1,,e ortality to correspond at the . ;;( . 1 of October, 414 111, ' be hat 536 deaths should occur , at : t its il_4ll dorim, thepresent month : down to yesterday . 1 , ati,,„, fro _ c. c. 'TN 4 t hoNe _T cholera amounted only to 189. V 4 tilt wnwe r elatives have been suddenly snatched I:0; biltttitohis Statement. will afford but little consola ,,:4 t ,., . ken in a statistical point of view, ' l ke - d'Pel much of the apprehension that has for some it ought to , tided Lva—lt4h'ev4i,kiii• The Panic which has every where pre- , v ett "" era bas bad a most pernicious effect. Abject . 1 44tNeeY'ialwaYs sure to shorten the period of human ef c i i i. ~.7) O tte : , ~14, 0 doubt, in hundreds of thousands i u. 4 ~a, followed imposition of those severe preea . 4Ely regulatiOng which, we repeat it, do not appear in 44,1"ti0: instance to have arrested, for a single day, the of \ltzt Pxr4ogress of the infection. t ile 20,k 1 1'; " cT• 22 . —The 0 f from the and esth Journa -"" ' It appears o ffic i al reirts, that from the 13th June to the 18th instant, the cholera had appeared in 2,962 places, when the number of persons attacked was 335,711. Of these 150,020 bad re covered ; 151,731 died ; and 32 957 still remained under m,dical treatment. The disorder had ceased in 1001 places; it had appeared in 125 places." The Petersburgh Journal of the 21st says, that the cholera had much abated on the 16th, 17th, and 18th, the number of new cases having been seventeen, ten, and five, in the same three days; thirty-seven recovered, and nine died. On the whole, the disorder has been far less fatal at Presburg than elsewhere, the total number of persons attacked from 9th September to 18th October, having been 1,012, of whom only 169 died-107 re covered. At Vienna, Oct. 22, there was no new case; eight recoveries, and one death. BERLIN, Our. 24.—The blowing table shows the number of persons who have died the Asiatic cholera in different citiee, out of 1,000 inb tbitants, up to the 52d day from its first appearance : Lemburg, nearly 53% Mitau .. 35 Riga 3l Posen I'eter,burgh K onigsburg Elbing 1(1 Dantzic Stettin Berlin lIANOVER, Our. 15.—Our new Constitution:does not proceed so rapidly as many persons at fiat hop and be lieved it would, though the proposed plan is already on its way to England, whither M. nick, Councillor! of Le gation, has teen sent, and though the building of the Hall for the Second Chamber is so forward that the Dawes m iy meet again in December. Many Prussian troops are marching through the province of Helglesheim to the Rhine, and the moat conflicting re pons are circulated. Tha great Sussex Reform meeting took place yesterday at Lewes. This, it may be remem bered, was one of the counties which the boroughmorTers asserted had evinced strong symptoms of re-action, and which was already penitent on the subject of Reform. Truly the re-action and the penitence of Sussex were yester day most conspicuously displayed ; first, in the numbers of freeholders assembled at the meeting ; secondly, in the language of the speakers ; thirdly, in the way in which Mr. GEORGE DAw- SON'S Anti-Reform diatribes were received ; and fourthly, in the quality of the resolutions pro posed and unanimously adopted. What a re markably repentant spirit develops itself in the observation of Lord CHICHESTER, that " every honest Englishman, who values the liberties of his country, should labour heart and hand in the promotion of a measure which went to put an end to a find system, and to substitute in its place one conducive to the development of the energies of a moral and Christian people !" What can ex ceed the contrite disposition of Sir GODFRY WEBSTER (one of the most respectable, intelli gent, and influential landowners in Sussex), where he says, " I will never rest from my efforts, nor relax my purpose, till I see the Bishops removed from their seats in the House of Lords, and confined to the exercise of their spiritual duties. ( Tremendous cheering.) Unless they mend their ways, I tell them that their tithes and their Bishoprics will have a common end, that is, a common destruction ?"—(Cheers.) But if Lord CHICHESTER and Sir GODFREY WEBSTEIt are repentant, Colonel EVANS is a positive ultra in his contrition, the ne plus ultra of the spirit of re-action. The gallant Colonel regretted that " the language of the resolutions was not more forcible. He was one who thought that the term unjust' was most correctly expres sive of the conduct of the House of Lords in rejecting the Reform Bill ; and he was also one who considered that the Right Rev. Prelates on that occasion were conducive to the perpetua tion of a most immoral, most irreligious, a most unjust system !" Truly these are symptoms of repentance and re-action with a vengeance ! When the boroughmongers asserted, both in pamphlets and in Parliament, that the freeholders of Sussex were becoming indifferent to Reform, they were guilty either of a most brazen false hood, or most unpardonable ignorance. If they lied, then they have proved themselves no longer trustworthy, no longer to be believed on their oaths ; if they merely erred from ignorance, then it is abundantly manifest that men so profoundly —so unblushingly—so unpardonably ignorant, are not the men to legislate for a mighty kingdom in a season of convulsion like the present. On one of the horns of this dilemma they must be content to be spiked. We give them their choice; either is quite enough to damn the reputation of any Legislator, or body of Legislators. But incompetent as these men have shown themselves in every act of their political lives ; unacquainted as they are with the real feelings of the country, and stone-blind to all interests but those of their own party ; hated—scorned —feared—and yet laughed at, as they are by all classes of the community, still they are strong, like the old man's bundle of faggots, in unity, powerful by wealth—the plunder of ages—and mischievous from the necessities of their nature. They must therefore be sharply looked after ; their proceedings must be watched ; their calum• nics must be exposed ; and a mark must be set upon their spies; for the faction has as many heads as the Hydra, and as many hands as Briareus. Even now it is at work in a thousand dif ferent directions ; stirring up disturbances, and sowing the seeds of disunion among the Reformers, in die hope that when all parties are fairly set together by the ears, it may slip into power during the squabble. But we tell this perverse—malignant faction, that the eyes of the country are upon it : that already it is un masked, and stands out in all its naked defor mity ; and that even the presence of the cholera itself; in the very heart of this great metropolis, would be viewed with less dread than the return of the boroughmongers to office. Nevertheless the battle is not yet won. The people must still meet—still persevere — st ill in sist—on a full, sweeping, and efficient Reform. But above all things, they must be peace fill and orderly in their proceedings. There must be no violence—no display of energy beyond what reason and the laws of the Constitution allow them to exhibit. To the working classes we more particularly address these exhortations, and would add, besides, that if they really desire to obtain a Reform, whi c h may tend to lighten the burdens of each indivi dual among them, their only sine way to gai n such a blessing, is to show, by the moderation of their proceedings, that they are entitled to it, If they be violent or outrageous in their conduct, this alone will be a convincing proof to their well-wishers that they are not fit to be entrusted with an elective franchise. Universal Suffrage indeed ! For the benefit of men who cannot even meet to discuss their rights without exciting a commotion, and putting the peace of the neighbourhood in jeopardy ! Preposterous idea! Such will be the language of every respectable class or the community, should the lower orders degrade themselves by violence and uproar. We conjure them then, for their own sakes, to be peaceable. The day is not far distant which will bring justice home to their own doors. Let the present Reform question be once fairly settled, and they will at once be put in the way of obtaining all they can with reason demand. The Court of Alde►men has had at length the discretion to meet the wishes of the Livery, by elect ing Sir JOHN KEY to the Mayoralty of the City. The conduct of the Aldermen, in twice defying the civic commonalty, is so absurd as to be an excellent burlesque on that of the House of Lords, and the result has been, what the result will assuredly be elsewhere—that the voice of the many has triumphed over that of the few. Sir JOHN KEY was chosen by the Livery, wholly and Solely because he was committed to the sup port of the Reform Bill, and his triumph is con sequently the triumph of the Bill in the City. Beyond his zeal for Reform, it must be con fessed that the claims of Sir JOHN KEY to a second Mayoralty were not peculiarly forcible ; for his behaviour on the occasion of the KING'S intended visit to the City was singularly foolish, and his expressions towards the rioters at the general illumination were not such as a perfectly independent Magistrate, without a particular bias, would probably have used. He was known, however, to be a thick and thin supporter of the reforming Ministers, and that impression has been sufficient to carry him through tho most arduous contest that is recorded in the City an nals. The perseverance and unanimity of the Livery throughout the struggle is beyond all praise, and ought to be an example throughout England of what can be effected by undaunted firmness, and especially by a close union for the common cause, to the exclusion of all the sects and divisions of parties of minor interest. Much has been said against the Political Unions that are now in the course of formation, on the ground 41 the divisions in society, the imperia in imperio, which they are supposed to be the means of raising up. But such ob jections appear to us to consist rather in words than in facts. It was not the Catholic Asso ciation that disturbed the peace of Ireland, but the long wrongful withholding of the rights of the Catholics. So, it is now the rejection of Reform that endangers the public peace, and not the formation of the people into Unions— for those Unions have the preservation of the public order as much for their object, as the acquisition of popular rights. If the Bir mingham Union be an imperium in int perio, as it is called, what matters it, so long as its proceedings arc conformable to the law, and calculated to advance the national welfare' The truth is, we have come to that point, that the people are convinced of the necessity of taking their own affairs in hand, and of looking after them with the watchful- vigilance of those who seek to rise up early, and late take rest. The people place all reasonable confidence in an upright Government, but that is no reason why they should give up all active interference with the concern in which their stake is far greater than that of any Ministers, or others under au thority—for in the last resort the people must always be sovereigns, happen what may. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK - - - . - - - It is with great pleasure we have to communicate to the public the following extract of a letter, received at the North and South American Coffee-house, from a medical gentleman at Sunder.. land, dated November 3 :—" No new cases of cholera have oc curred for the last two days." The only arrival we have this morning is from Madras, of the 16th of June. The following is extracted from the Madras Gazette of the 15th of June, received at the North and South American Coffee house :—llis Majesty's ship Success is hourly expected here, and is to convey home the remainder of the gallant Royal regiment. In the Hurkaru of Monday last we stated that the station of Berhampore, and of his Majesty's 49th regiment, was reported to be unhealthy, but by a communication from the commanding officer of the 49th, dated Berhampore, 25th instant, we are en abled to contradict the paragraph, that fine regiment is particu larly healthy, not an officer in the corps at the date of Colonel Bartley's letter was indisposed, except the Assistant-Surgeon. From Bombay they state that the plague was making great ra vages at Bussorah. It is mentioned in a private letter from Bombay of the 2d inst., that 11,000 chests of Malwa opium, were expected to be exported to China this season from Bombay and Demacun ; cotton is repre presented as falling in price. By the arrival of the Company's brig of war, Nautilus, from Barbary, we learn that the cholera had been making fearful ravages among the natives there; whole aistricts have been depo pulated. We have no further political news, Other from Holland or Belgium, to the present hour. THE FUXDS. This day being the sth of November, the Bank, Stock Ex change and Foreign Market are closed. The Royal Exchange will be opened at two o'clock. Consols may be quoted, as done in the Court, at 82% to %. HALF•PAST ONE. The anxiety expressed in the city, respecting the cholera mor bus having appeared at Sunderland, is still great, though, ac cording to all the accounts we have seen or heard it is by no means ,iarming. It is generally thought amongst the well-in formed that it is the typhus fever, as no new cases have occurred fr, two days ; the public mind is at present a great deal snore calm than yesterday, and the matter is now treated lightly. The Royal I.:xchange has been opened since twelve o'clock, at which place most of the stock-brokers and jobbers have assims bled. There is but little doing in the Funds. Consols have been done at 82% %, and 8'2%, at which price they are at present. A report prevails that the meeting at the White Conduit_ house, fixed for Monday, is put off. This is only report. Nothing doing in the Foreign Funds. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND had a grand dinner party on Thursday, at their residence at Kew. The Knights of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem held a Chapter on Saturday, at which his Royal Highness the Prince FREDERICK of Wirteniberg attended as a visitor, and was received by the President, Count MARTARA. Prince GEORGE of Cumberland partook of the diversion of hunting, on Wednesday, in Richmond Park. A Cabinet Council was summoned by Viscount MEL BOURNE, on Thursday, to meet at the Foreign-office yes terday afternoon. The Ministers assembled at four o'clock. Those present were—Viscounts ,MELBOURNE, PALMER STON, GODERICII, and ALTIIORP ; the Right lion. C. GRANT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Duke of RICHMOND, and Mr. STANLEY. Despatches from Sunderland, for Viscount MELBotiltrtE, were received yesterday at the Home-office. An express was afterwards forwarded to the Marquis of LANSDOWNE (the Lord President of the Council), at his seat at Bowood, Wilts. STRONG SYMPTOMS OF RE-ACTION.-011 Thursday at noon, FRANCIS HAWKSWORTII FA WKES, Esq. left York in his travelling carriage and four, with the Yorkshire addresses, voted at the late county meeting, to the KING, Earl GREY, and the 'Ministers, as also a pe tition to the House of Commons. They have each ly.- tween 140,000 and 150,000 signatures, and the three to gether are in length nearly 1600 yards, and weigh up wards of twenty-four stones. Despatches were sent off this morning from Earl GREY to his MAJESTY, at Brighton. Despatches were received this morning, at the Colonial-office, from St. Vincent's. ,•--~- MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES. A meeting of the members of the Committee of this body Was held yestetdar even;ntr, at the Commercial Coffee-house, Fleet-street, for the pUrpose iif Colii(ttilk the greet meeting of the National Union on MOnciay next; du the §fthifitl. +l3titisite White ConduitAi6USe. A Chairman haVing been appoi*d;.nd the business of the meeting opened, the reauiutions proposed to be adopted on Mon day were read, and, after a few bbsei4ations from some of. the . members, the subject of the reports which have been lh circula tion, relative to the intentions of the working classes at the meet. ing on Monday next, was introduced, and immediately discussed. Mr. CLEAVE declared that the accounts which had appeared in the Papers, relative to an intention on the part of the working classes to commit violence, had waenished him as much or more than even-those who had declared such to he the fart. Amongst the reports to which these announcements had gften rise, WaS one, that the inhabitants Of Spitalfieids intended to be gUilty of violence. He was sure that nothing of the kind had for a mo ment been thought of. The speaker declared his ihoroUgh Con:. viction that not a single individual of those who either pr6jected or meant to attend the meeting, contemplated a resort to mea: sures which would lead to their being sabred or shot, as was the case at all meetings at which commotions had taken place. attended this meeting from the Committee which met at the Pitt's Head, in ipitalfields, for the purpose of declaring, in the name of the COMmittee, that the aecounts which had appeared in the papers of any illegal intentions, were, as far as Spitalfields was concerned, totally false. TwelvC conductors of the union of the working classes in that district had been appointed to superintend tin procession to White Conduit_ house, and these twelve were v. Ming and anxious to go before the Magistrates to state every thing that they knew, and be re sponsible for the good order of the men in their district. Ile knew not how the reports had got abroad, hut he believed it was through a police-officer, who had come to his shop in come:. quenee of information conveyed to the Magistrates by the pa rish beadle, and asked him if an order had been given to some turner for a number of staves, and then inquired if he (the speaker) had not got one ? He had, and showed it. to the officer, who asked what he gave for it? He said so much. Why was it made? Because the Union which was going to White Conduit_ house on Monday were apprehensive that persons who did not be. long to the working-classes at all, but bad-intentioned men, might be disposed to create a disturbance, and the Union was resolved to keep the peace and act as special constables, whether to pre vent the breaking of windows or any other acts of violence. This, he declared most positively, was the feeling with which they were about to attend, and any of the conductors would cheerfully go before a magistrate to testify to the good inten tions of themselves and the whole Union. It had been said that the people in Spitalfields had been furnishing themselves with fire-arms. Why, they had not bread to cat, much less money to get guns or pistols. It would take half a dozen of many of the hard-working people in that neighbourhood to raise a spare shilling- No one knew, none could conceive, the distress which existed there. Thousands of the people of Spitalfields were daily on the verge of starvation, and it was to state their feelings as to the rights about which so much had lately been said by the higher classes, that they had determined on assembling on Monday. As for any other intention, he de clared that it was a false aspersion ; and that many persons in that neighbourhood were rejoiced that these reports had been raised against the poor. They had actually set the vestry bell tolling, and put the whole place in the greatest state of alarm, while the objects of it were all asking one another what it was for ? Another MEMBER stated, that while the object in taking staves was to ensure peace, it had been resolved in his district, and, he believed, everywhese else, that not a stave should be shown. It was feared at all the Unions that numbers might join them who did not belong to them, and who had improper intentions. Their presence they - could not prevent; but any attempts at violence that might be made, they were resolved to suppress. A MEMBER, also from Spitalfields, confirmed in the fullest manner the statements of his predecessor, and handed in the names of the twelve conductors who had been appointed. A COMMITTEE MAN from Kensington made similar declarations as to his district. Mr. LOVETT feared that these charges against them had arisen from some most improper sentiments uttered by a person who had attended a meeting at the Rotunda, but for which the Unions were in no way responsible ; and on proof of any expressions used by any member of their body which were calculated improperly to stir up the working classes, he should move that that man be expelled from them.—(Hear, hear.; Indeed, he would take the opportunity of forcibly impressing on their minds the propriety of their even being struck with out returning it. Great violence towards them, such as might be used by the class of men who had acted so wickedly at Bristol, they never would permit. For this they had resolved to be provided, against whomsoever the violence might be di rected. There should be no insults, no hissing, no throwing of stones, or breaking windows. They would take their staves, but no man would show it unless violence took place (Here a staff was laid on the table. It was a plaits light staff, about the length of a constable's hand-staff.) Every one knew they I had them. There was no secret about it. Surely, when Lords had armed men in their houses to protect them, and carried, avowedly, pistols about them, the working classes were not to be unprotected against the objects of badly designing men, or the ill-treatment of the police, should it be offered. They had fully resolved to give no cause—to offer no incitement. They would rigidly abstain from drink of any kind, and if any one of them wfts seen about to go into a public-house, he hoped that the reasoning and reflecting members would dissuade him from such an act. • Mr. CLEAVE expressed his regret that any one should have made use of unworthy language at the Rotunda. It was highly wrong. He believed that the crowd, or the mob, at Bristol, had its counterpart in London ; but these formed no part of the Union. The members shunned such men. But still they did exist in the metropolis, and if the Tories chose to instigate them to violence, he firmly believed that the houses of himself and John Watson, and all those who were favourable to the Union of the Working Classes, would be the first to be sacrificed. He grieved to say, that the truest friends of the people in all Bristol were amongst the first and the greatest sufferers there. The CHAIRMAN of the Rotunda meeting said, that it was especially declared there by himself and others, that the opi nion of individuals were not the opinions of the meeting. The person who had used the expressions objected to, ex pressed his willingness to resign from the Union to which he belonged, if they wished him to do so. It was here stated that the resolution in which it had been recommended that they should take staves, declared that each man should consider himself bound to act as a special constable Mr. WATSON declared that the objects of the proposed meet ing had been grossly and malignantly represented. The Times had charged them with intending to repeat the Bristol scenes. Why, .he meeting had been proposed and announced ten days before the Bristol riots took place. The Times also said it had been ap pointed in order to counteract the Union which might take place at Sir F. Burdett's meeting on Monday last, although the White Conduit-house meeting had been determined on long before the Crown and Anchor meeting was thought of. It was easy, too easy indeed, to charge them with bad intentions. Anything might be insinuated, but he defied them to prove that evil was in agitation, or that the staves were meant to be unjustifiably used. He had himself a great interest in preserv ing order; as great an interest as the Editor of any paper. He was well assured that no rioting, no disorder, no bloodshed (he scorned the charge) was for a moment thought of by any but the Press. As they went out, so should they return, with pleasure and gratification that they had declared their senti ments as a great, powerful, and intelligent body of men, in a peaceful and becoming manner. He warned them that the enemy was abroad. Why, the liberal papers had been telling them for months that the Tories were sending bad mess amongst them—men who would try to incite them to ill conduct, and yet, now that they were taking measures against these de signers, they were turned upon by the Papers, and charged with the worst intentions of which men could be guilty. Mr. WAKLEY being then called on to speak, rose and said, that he felt great interest in the welfare of the working classes ; he had from his boyhood, he did in his manhood, and he gave a proof of it in his having consented to take the chair at the ap proaching meeting. If he had felt any anxiety as to the meet ing, it was because he knew that if violence occurred, the evil would fall most heavily upon the working classes. This was the firet time that he had attended any oftheir meetings, public or private, and he had now therefore to say, that as soon as he had agreed to take the chair, he heard from his friends that he had committed a sad error. But he did not regard this, and on Monday last he moved the resolution for the Union of the two classes. The word " classes" was deprecated, but it was a divi sion which had been forced upon society by the Aristocracy—it was now almost impossible to act with a disregard for the term. hoped to unite them all, and he was never more re joicedwhen the meeting of Monday last bad had the good n adopt the resolution. Some busy people had, however, bsee He sense e at than o sincerely wor k , and he had now to tell them that he had felt it his duty to go to Lord Melbourne, and had learned that such infor mation had been laid before the Secretary of State, relative to of Monday next, as might almost justify the Go vernmentyesterday received a l e tt er f r o m a ge ntleman, who was most t friendlyh e meeting to in t -hteakwionrg the whole Committee into custody. He had working people, stating that the writer knew that 400 staves had been made, and that he knew for a positive fact there were a set of thieves and ragainuffians, near a place called Brick-lane, whose intention it was to go to the meeting, the Unionists gone Y purpose of making a riot. Against these villains should be prepared. This information had for the very before Lord Melbourne, who had also read the declaration which had been print e d ; and his Lordship candidly said that if the various points in it were ratified at the meeting, he had no doubt that an owes t..a , st of treason would be committed. They talked of opposing hereditary distinctions, as injurious ; but did they reflect that, for instance, the Heir to the Crown was Prince of Wales as soon as he was born, and that in declaring for the abo lition of all hereditary distinctions they struck at the very root of the Monarchy P Seeing, then, this article in the declaration, and having read the accounts in the Papers, he had gone imme diately to Lord Melbourne, and told his Lordship all he knew of the meeting that he believed none of the working classes were desirous of breaking the peace, that there was nothing to conceal, and he hoped for equally frank conduct from his Lordship, begging, that if the Government thought it right to employ soldiers and policemen, they would keep them out of sight. Now it is for you to decide how you will act. • His tory tells us, that whenever violent revolutions have occurred, the working classes have invariably been the greatest sufferers. I know that it is not your object to break the laws. But will you tell me that there will not be numbers there who will be sent to create a disturbance ? And if you take these staves, will not that be challenging violence P Is it consistent for you to go to meetings with staves at all 1' Be :firm to your intentions. I shall attend the meeting and endeavour by every Metit..• it" my rawer to ensure peace. It was only with this feeling that I ac - c?pfert . the chair. Lord Melbourne having stated to me this morntrig, Fleas it would probably be the opinion of the Law Officers that the .11`ertiterrient might lead to a seditious meeting, and that he had ret - e,44.4•ettylotts ififormatlial cm the subject of the people being prepared itli-th Alt !i4 A fie Stated rick tet state to his Lordship that it would, under such ciretittol:iikOr:. Ms . fluty, either to prevent the meeting from taking place, or e'oe ac would ensure the public peace, feeling assured t.haf, oilierwile, the well-in tentioned working classes might become Lici ;;C r !iiVi . ..: of pitin neli . tttl conspirators. His Lordship remarked ; flitti the whole subject - , :ta , t tinder, consideration. Coupled with these facts, a circumstance pia' COVe to my knowledge this evening, calculated to produce some &vie I have Iy:ten told that there are to be magistrates on the Pfki .4 o'ren , find waggons with us at the meeting, and if any expression r.W•Citlt . fe tstird I . chiCri they may think seditious, the whole party will tk; hitt, Now, if this be the fact, can I say that persOns May nut achey cOnse there for the express pur pose of saying something wilicit witl I ,rrs4tsce Mich a result Hdw could T prevent a traitor from speakifig Why, the taking the Chairman and speakers into cust6,4s . ' :";;791t1 act like a tirebraiid Vn a mass of combustibles, and it might he l'rn. possible to prevent time Trl9 o , lamentable effect,. I certainly should recommend you to consideC ;theiher it would not be ad_ visable to postpone the meeting until your 61..4CiAs are better un derstood by the public, and whether, also, it would ilt be pru ' dent to expunge the resolution which refers to the abolitioi'i tSf all diStindithis of birth, believing that it is your object to obtain )our rights by peat'eablt tnrftro,—!Hear, hear, hear.) Messrs. Osborne, Watsoil, fiefettj Cooper, and Cleave, felt disposed to act upon these suggestions; and oixprei:sed their fears that individuals were about to attend the rritefifig *lid did not belong to the Union, and would be sent there for the veil Ptt pose of creating a disturbance. Eventuallr it was carried by a large majority, that the clause declaring the prOpficly of abolishing hereditary distinctions should be expunged—that a deptilation of five should wait upon Lord Melbourne this day, to communieate with his Lordship on the subject ; and to state with the most perfect opehriess, not only the objects of the promoters of the meeting, but to ClEcirie their readiness to postpone it, if his Lordship considered tht,ts it might be attended with dangerous consequences. 'lt is but justice to the Members to state that they all expressed a most earnest desire to Maintain public tranquillity, and to rely upon the force of opinion in struggling for what they considered to be their rights. The deputation is, we understand, to make its report to the Committee at eight o'clock. The meeting, which consisted of about fifty persons, did rot break up until nearly one o'clock this morning. MEETING IN SPA-FIELDS ON MONDAY. In the course of this morning, a Mr. a stick maker, residing in London, waited on Lord Melbourne, at the Home-office, ard we were credibly informed that the object of his visit was to acquaint his Lotriship that within thel:e few days he had sold no less than four thousand bludgeons, in the shape of constables' staves. He gave the information to give the Government ample opportunity for making the necessary arrangements to guard against any breach of peace and good order. The whole of the Tower Hamlets Militia have been called in to do duty to Monday next, and all the troops in the outskirts of Lon don have been ordered to be in readiness. ROLLS COURT, Nov. 4. GLASSINGTON T. THIVAITES. In this case, which was deei 'a I to-day, his Hossoua de livered his judgment to the following effect :—Two bills, be observed, had been filed connected with this suit ; one by Mr. Glassington against the other co-proprietors of the ...Vorning Herald newspaper ; the other by the proprie tors, exclusive of Mr. Glassington, against that gentle. man. The former bill had three objects. First, that certain sales which had been made to Mr. Henry Thwaites, jun., of shares in the concern might he declared invalid; secondly, that partnership accounts should he taken ; and thirdly, that an injunction might be issued by his Honour against the employment of type and materials belonging to the Morning Herald in the business of another paper called the English Chronicle. The material part of the case was involved in the first proposition. The question on which it turn: d arose upon a proviso in the deed of partnership between the proprietors of the Morning Herald to the following effect :—That no partner should be at liberty to dispose of his share or shares in the concern to a stranger until he had offered the same to the other proprietors collectively; and in case of their declining to become purchasers, then to each one separately; the offer to be made in writing, at a last monthly meeting of the proprietors. The complaint of the plaintiff was that the stipulation of this proviso had had not been duly observed in the sales of the shares of Mr. Henry Thwaites, senior, to the defendant, the only indication of the intention of the former to dispose of his inter, st having been given by a notice to that effect in the minute brink of the partnership. It was said, on the part of the plaintiff, that this descriptive notice was irregular I and insufficient, and that the sales attendant on it were consequently void, no distinct offer and opportunity of re jection of the shares in question having been presented to the majority of the proprietary, or to the individuals of it, and, amongst others, the plaintiff. It was not necessary, his Honour observed, for the Court then to declare what ought to have been the course adopted by the parties with a view to the proper execution of the clause of the deed of pat t nership upon which the point was thus raised. The question was, whether Mr. Glassington and the entire body of the partnership had adopted any other course of proceeding having the same object? If this had been the case it was too late for Mr. Glassington to come forward subse• quently, and impugn the results of a line of conduct in which he had himself concurred, merely on the ground that it had not been conformable to fie abstract meaning of the original stipulation with which it was intended to act ' conformably. The first sale which took place, after the date of the deed of partnership, in the deed of 1816, was that by which Henry Thwaites, sen. conveyed to his son his two and a half shares in the concern—a notice hav ing been previously given in the minute-book alluded to. It was not asserted that any other notice was given to the proprietors collectively or severally, but nevertheless, Mr. Thwaites, jun. was received by them all without observa tion or remonstrance as a shareholder to the amount speci fied. But then arose the question, did Mr. Glassing ton acquiesce in this transaction ? The first evi dence on that point was an affidavit made by the plaintiff in the year 1818. The law, it ap peared, required that, on a change in the proprietors of a newspaper, new securities should be entered into at the Stamp-office, an I on this occasion a customary affidavit was made, in which Mr. Glassington joined. It was therein stated that Mr. Thwaites, jun., was a shareholder, and chief proprietor. True, Mr. Glassington had not sworn to that effect, but, nevertheless, he should be taken to have been aware of the contents of the affidavit to which he was a swearing party. It was impossible, in that document, to refuse the inference that Mr. Glassington was perfectly aware that Mr. Thwaites, jun., had become a partner in the room of his father ; and also that he had informed himself of the manner in which his title had been acquired. In that instance, therefore, he had silently assented to the mode of notice which had been adopted in supposed compliance with the partnership deed. The next assignment of shares had been effected by a Mr. Radcliffe, in the same manner, and with the like notice in writing in the minute-book, at a last monthly meeting. That this was done far the benefit of the part nership, and with the assent of Glassington, although he had nut been present at the meetings at which it occurred, had been fully proved. On this occasion again an affidavit WAS made at the Stamp-office, in which he joined, and which was to the same import as that which bad preceded it. Was it not, then, a necessary inference that Glassing , ton, having been aware of the manner in which Rad cliffe's shares had been sold, and concurred in their assignment, had approved of the mode in which the stipulation as to the notice in writing had been exe cuted, although it might be doubted that by it the true intention of that stipulation had been carried into execution ? Although, at law, parties might com pel, under such circumstances as those, a strict ad herence to the letter of a deed, whatever might be the result, yet in the ccnisideration of the Court of Equity it was otherwise; and when parties had concurred for a certain period in a particular interpretation of a legal in strument, as Mr. Glassington in this instance had done, they could not afterwards complain and seek a remedy for their voluntary relaxation of severe principle. His Honour therefore declared that he should dismiss the first part of this bill with costs—that he should extend the same decision to that part of the prayer which concerned the types, &c., and of the Morning Herald establishment, because lie had already, on a former occasion, granted a sufficient injunction on the mime subject. The prayer for the account Mr. Glassington was entitled to; with respect to the costs attending that part of the bill, his Honour said he should reserve his opinion until the accounts should have been arranged, which he stronsly recom mended the parties to effect among themselves, without a further pursuit of expensive proceedings. EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—The Corn wall county meeting took place on Wednesday last, at Bodmin, and did not close until four o'clock in the after. noon. The whole of the speeches were published in The Sun London Newspaper, On Thursday evening, which Paper the propiietors forwarded to our office, wh,re it reached on Friday evening. The distance from Bodmin to London is 230 miles, and from London to this town `217 ! Journal. SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURNALS. In Bristol the hots and conflagrations having been quenched by the military power in blood, the civic authorities and the inhabitants in gene- ars, busy in throwing upon each other the foul ;Dame vi' s ieevittg suffered a miserable rabble to violate all lave--etc' overthrow all order—to apply the torch of the ineendievy W public buildings :Jed to private dwellings—to Pap and devas tate, end establish a reign of terror, under whiCh ti,ey in daring crime and frantic licen tiousness. But these mutual critninations may he spared—where so reach blame attaches to all ret!its, it is of little conscrp)e.nce what por tion of it felie to each man's share. The auda city of the rioters CZE , only be equalled by tht pusillanimity of the pestles, whose duty or whose interest it was to repress the violence which has produced such dreadful results, and which re flects deep disgrace not only upon Bristol, but ;upon the civilization of the English people in the nineteenth century. It is now said, in vindi cation of the Magistrates, that "when they found the armed force of the city was too weak to quell the disturbance, they called upon their fellow-citizens to meet at the Guildhall, and consul, the best means of restoring the peace of the city but their fellow-citizens kept aloof." We are not told en what day this meeting was called ; but it is quite evident that, on whatever day it was, the '' Politica! Union" did not show its fate 3 The pillage, the burning, and the de vastation vote* on unmolested, except by the soldiery ; and into whatever holes and corners the members of that peace-preserving Associa tion had run, they left the protection of the town, in its desperate extremity, to the troops and the spteial interpositon of Providence ; 'end when tranquillity was restored, by an afflicting waste of life, they came forth from their hiding places to show with what seasonable intrepidity they could act in defence of the outraged laws, when the danger had subsided, and the time of action was past. We know not what number of Magistrates there are in Bristol, but surely the heads of the Corporation, if they had only half the capacity and inclination forgoing through public duty which they bring to a aorporate least, ought, with the aid of 50 stout constables, to have routed, and that, too, without shedding blood, the drunken rabble of 40 or 50 ruffians and boys, who are described as having burnt down the Mansion-house, the Bishop's Palace, and other public buildings. This, we say, ;h e y might and ought to have done, although :dl their fellow-citizens of the " respectable classes" kept aloof. As to the citizens who were invoked, and who " kept aloof," not!..ing can be said in their defence. Whether they were Re formers or Anti-Reformers, they acted in that manner which had all the effect of connivance with the crimes of the rabble. While the mob became phrenzied with strong drink, and lost all self-controul, the sober citizens seem to have be come panic-struck and lost their senses ! As far as an unmanly passiveness could be an encou ragemeet to aggression, they were accessaries to the sacking of their city and the devastation of their own property. As to the troops, nothing that has yet been stated can satisfactorily account to us for , their having left the city completely in the possession of the mob during a whole night and a day, when occasion was taken to commit excesses at which humanity shudders. But while we reprobate in strong terms the conduct of the Bristol populace, or at least than portion of it which was engaged in the disturbances, let us recollect that the work of the incendiary did not begin until intoxication had excited the passions to a state of phrenay. We hare often remon strated with the Government upon assisting to demoralise the people, by encouraging the use of spirituous liquors, which deprave the heart and madden the brain—which make a wreck of health and comfort, and banish the domestic virtues and the decencies of life. When the Administration of the precise Sir Robert Peel and the pious Mr. Goulburn lowered the price of gin, in compliance with the suggestions of certain political economists, who assured them that the diminution of revenue would be more than compensated by the increased con sumption, we foretold what the consequene would be. The present Lord Chancellor ad mitted that the consumption of gin had increased to an extent which produced a lamentable aug mentation of licentiousness. If a Government tempt a people from the paths of sobriety, they cannot but be in some measure accountable for the errors and the crimes which the temporary madness of intoxication produces. The. Beer Bill also (as is now almost universally admitted) has had the effect of making the populace more besotted and licentious than before. What a contrast do the lower classes of this country — which boasts so much of its superior morality — exhibit to those of France, who during the three days' sanguinary conflict in the streets of Paris neither got drunk nor violated the rights of property. Yet the laws of France are not so l severe, or rather vengeful, against depredators upon property as our own. We never reed of a people degraded ou r and ocef st of vicious i c governing i ous habits that we cannot demoralisation pow t e o r. t — he v e s and trace of ti e the errors s Mo rn ing Herald. The Government has very properly taken steps to counteract any mischievous consequences likely to arise from the meeting which is intended to take place at White Conduit-house on Mon day next. We shall make no comments on the motive of those who, at such a time, have at tempted to array the Reformers of tke working classes against the Reformers who are not of that class. The motive is too plain to be mistaken. But we appeal to the working classes themselves —and we do so with every confidence in their good sense—not to be led astray by pretended friends. If they wish for a real Reform of the House of Commons, and they are as much in terested in it as any other class of the commu nity—it is by the union, and not by the divi sion of all ranks of people, such a measure must be carried. • If none but the working classes, the industrious laborious inhabitants of London and its neighbourhood, were to attend on the occa sion we speak of, there would be no reason for apprehension ; but persons of a very different cha racter are likely to compose the meeting, and we advise all honest men and good Reformers to avoid mixing themselves up with such a cdection. Government, as we have already stated, has taken steps to prevent mischief. The Police Commis sioners and Magistrates, and the parochial au thorities, are all on the alert. Circulars have been sent round to the different parishes, recom mending the appointment of special constables. Nleetiegs have been held with the same view, and many are to take place this day, for the pur pose of adopting precautionary measures. The military, too, are to be in requisition, several regiments having already reoyed towards the metropolis, to be ready if occasion should require I their interference ; but, though it is right to be $Y.`B