The Sun. — London, England, 1831-04-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, We cannot too earnestly inculcate the necessity of making the greatest exertion to return everywhere ReFetmers in the true sense of the word. The Entroughmongers are stirring heaven and earns to compass their base en d s , an d mone y will be lavished en the worthless Englishmen who, Tor a mess of pottage, will sell the rights of themselves and their children. The majority and minoritly on General Gascoyne's motion, on the mitt, printed by Mr. Ridgway, in the form of a ebeet, should be distrie bitted throughout eve.} corner of the three King. Aleuts, in order tc be posted up in all paces of re sort, that the enemies of the people may b e thoroughly known. Whoever voted for that ?rodeo taught to be excluded from every place where the people have any influence. Another point is o f great importance. Let there be no divteions among the Reformers themselves. We account every man, no matter what his professions and pledges, who offers himself as a candidate in place of any of the men ssho have declared themselves for the whole Bill, and who have voted for the second reading and against General Gascoyne's motion, an enemy of the people. By reason of th e di v i s i on t h us created i the enemy may come n. We are sorry, therefore, to see a Reform candidate start for CVestmiester Sit Francis Burdett and Mr. Hobhouse ought to have rivalsamong Reformers. The Reformers havequite enough on their hands without opposing f ach other. It must not be forgotten, that in the election about to take place many of the motives which stimulate candidates to make exertions to secure their return are weak ened, while, on the other hand, the boroughmongers are fighting for their all. Vanity comes in power fully to the aid of public spirit on ordinary OCC4I , sions; but the Parliament about to be chosen meets for a specific purpose, and then ceases to exist. There are many individuals who would stand the ex pences of a contest for a seat in a Parliament ex pected to be of the ordinary duration, who on this occasion would rather give way to others. The people should bear all the , e things in mind. It is peculiarly their cause which is now agitated. The enemy are united—their movements will be skilfully directed. Nothing but the union of the people, and an enthusiastic determination to make every sacrifice for this one occasion, will carry us suc cessfully through. If the people be not true to themselves now, the consequences will be unspeak ably calamitous. Every man who votes for an Anti reformer votes for despotism —votes against the liberty of the Press—against education —against all that has made England what she is, in spite of the abuses from which she has suffered. Sir Robert Peel, the head o f the Anti-reformers, has not hesitated to ':teriAre himself an admirer of the system ofCharlee X. and an energy to the liberty of the Press, whic l e he chooses to term Journalism. He talked OR Friday of " the despotism of Journalism —that despotism which had brought neighbouring countries, once happy and flourishin e s, to the very brink of ruin and despair." Joseph Surface has at length spoken our. This was the overflowing of a full heart. Happy France, if Charles had succeeded in destroy ing the Chimer, and annihilating Journalism ! So, if this man and his party succeed, we may see what happiness is in store for us. We shall have, no doubt, gagging Bills in abundance, a re. a - ction against every thing liberal, fresh crusades against the Press, by Sir James Scarlett, fleshed by a spirit of vengeance on account of his late mortifications We understand that several of the leading borough mongers have had a meeting, to agree on supplies for the contest, and that a stock purse of a hundred thousand pounds was subscribed fur without delay. Some of them subscribed as high as twenty thousand pounds. To counteract these great exertions, sub scriptions must be liberally entered into at Man chester, Birmingham, Sheffield, Glasgow, and ell other great towns about to receive the franchise. We repeat, the greatest exertions are required. The boroughmongers have every motive for open ing their purses liberally ott this occasion. On the one hand, their power to plunder will be annihilated by Reform ; on the other, victory would soon enable them to repay their outlay out of th e poc k ets of the people. The poor wretches, who for gold should sell themselves to this crew, would soon feel the consequence in increased burdens. The victory of the borotighmongers would be reaction, and the liberal squandering of the public money, in order to protect themselves by the dispensation of patronage. We state matters fairly and without disguise, because we would not have the people to allow any advantage to he obtained over them, through ignorance of the extent of the danger. There is no cause for despair, if the people be only true to themselves, because an united and determined people must triumph over their enemies. But then every man must put his shoulder to the wheel, and contribute in purse and exertions according to his abilities. The man who is not true to the cause on this occasion, may never be able to atone afterwards for his fault. Every elector should consider the fate of the country to depend on himself. Public opium' should be made to bear powerfully in every neighbourhood on teleceeni, so that the man, who, from pusillanimity might be led to betray his country, may tremble at the odium he will have to encounter. It would be an eternal reproach to Englishmen, were they to allow the boroughmongers to triumph over them. — Morning C7lrmacle. We trust the illumination, which the Lord Mayor has recommended for the city to-night, will begeneral throughout all parts of the Metropolis. Such a ma nifestation of public feeling is peculiarly approptiate at this time. His Majesty is deserving of every homage which a grateful people can yield, and we are sure the people of the Metropolis require no sti mulant to induce them to show in a becoming man ner their sense of the noble manner in which the King has responded to the wishes of the people.— Morning Chronicle. - With the people of England now res's the cause of Reform : their gracious Sovereign has delivered it into their hands, and whatever use they make of it,—whether it suffer and sink with them, or increase in strength, and pass on to victory, the obligation to the Sovereign is the same—he is entitled to the eternal gratitude of his people. There is no ques tion but the struggle will be a fierce one; the con flict on the dissolution in the House of Commons, and the tumult in that other more orderly body, the House of Lords, are preludes of the more tempe tuous scenes which will take place in the kingdom at large on the present general election. Who would have thought that, in support of a cause :so manifestly unjust as that of nominating mock- Members to sit in the House of Commons, wider the semblance of the representatives of the people of England, any party or faction of men could be found to array themselves publicly ? It is a proof that the long practice of political vice, like that of moral vi c e , not only depraves the . heart which at first may have hardly been tainted by it, but per verts I s , the un d erstan di ng an d stu pifi es t h e f acu l t i es . 'w many years have the wise and good of all parties decl are d t h at a R e f orm o f t h e H ouse o f Commons WEIR necessary : and now that it has been attempted,—attempted t dtoo a legal and constitu tional way, --it is resisted as a wrong of the most atrocious kind. inflicted on whom ? On those who never cou\ r d on h g a i o v e a right, and who always exercised their unjust with a secrecy and stealth that showed the power with their being engaged in criminal proceedings,„et now they come forward and call out openly,Giv e us our rotten boroughs, suffer us to have something to offer to Ministers in barter for places,—, • PPenntinents in fact, for a support for ourselves and our families t of the national purse.—or we will stop the suppliels we will rob the navy and army of their pay, and dissolve the civil administration of the co untry." To what a st a t e would England have been reduced if these men could have effected their purpose There is no slavery which h'story, ancient and modern, could exhibit as a pa rallel to what might be found here, (we do not mean slavery mingled with brutal cruelty on the part of the oppressors, but simply the absence of safeguards for freedom, the want of a due Aare to the people is to r,' ariministration of their own affairs), if first a , et of privileged men should be allowed for ever to nominate their dependents, to mpresent the people of England in their town }rouse "tr)f legislation, and then should ba\re, the peiver to stop the march of the civil gOve.rntifent, as soon as any attempt should li ot the part of the King or his subject' to arrest their practices. The strtiggh t';.) prevent such a state of things (a state 'Only theoretically w rong , but felt to have productive of the most grievous evils) began with the introduction of Lord :join nusell's Bill into the late lion'ie of Commons. There it was carried en y Cite Ministry on our part, till they were rtreliowered by the fri en d s o f corrup tion, w!lett, by the dissolution, they transferred the derence of their own cause to the people at large, so far as the people can act under that system still in vigour, and now struggling for existence, which it is attempted to r4 - .move. Money in this case, as in other:, is the sinew of war, and the boroughmongers are said not to be slack in supply ing funds to support their cause. Thar must be met by the same means which th,,y Vise. It particu lady behoves the large 4 ',OWns which hope to be represented, to rome forward on this occasion, for otherwire they may be said to stand by with their arms folded, whilst others fight their battles. Our journal of Saturday supplied a list of counties and boroughs whence, with proper vigour, the advocates of the boroughmongera might be ejected. In these, and in more too, we hope the good cause wilt pre vail, We want nothing unreasonable—no revolu tion,--but reform to prevent ;evolution. If this de mand be eluded. we know not what may follow. The people never again sit down tranquilly under the atrocious wrong of having mock represeres tatives sent to impose taxes on them in Parliament. —Times. The following resolution has been adopted at Windsor: it reflects great honour on the Royal borough, and the example will, we trust, be followed by every borough in the kingdom 40 Wirid!or, Saturday Morning, April 28. " The undtstigned, deeming that the anticipated disso lution of Parliament presents a proper opportunity of eX pressing the high sense which the inhabittnits of Windsor entertain of the patriotic anti thliihtened conduct of their present RepreseotatiVes, do hereby invite John Ramsbottom, Pst. and the Right Hon. Edward G. Stanley, 'gain to become candidates for the represen tation Of the borough, and do pledge themselves to parti tipate in any arrangement which may be made for re turning these gentlemen free from all expense. [Signed by 93 of the principal inhabitants of Windsor in two hours.] We repeat to every borough,—" Go and do like wise." But more must be done : we call upon every man in the kingdom to consider the cause as his own, and the victory as depending on his individual sxertions. The enemies of Reform are most active. Meetings are held every hour for the purpose of raising money to brot up the rights of Englishmen. English Dukcs, and Scotch Dukes, arid Right Hon. Baronets, are in league to crush the noble and patriotic attempt of the King and his Ministers to restore the ri;hts of Englishmen These worthie have revolved that a seat in Parliament shall be sold like mackerel at Billingsgate. They have resolved that the people of England are so base, so degraded, so incapable of moral feeling, so deaf to the call of national honour, that they will, like Esau, rush for ward to the market and sell their birthrights for a mess of pottage. People of England ! do these Noble and Right lion. Conspirators judge rightly of your character ? Arse, and trample on the calumny! Come forward as one man, arid help those who are exerting every nerve to help you. The Bill will give the right of voting to .500,000 persons : let etch of these persons subscribe his mite forthwith, and in a few days so overwhelming a fund will be created, that the boroughmongers must fly away in despair. It is, as we have before stated, the last struggle. The corruptionists, who struggle for their dirty existence, fight the last fight of despair. The people of Englind fight for liberty, for justice, for the emancipation of themselves and their posterity from the most &grading of all slaveries,---:the de gradation of volunta-y submission to a yoke, which one great effort may shake off for ever. Let each of the persons who by this Bill will be raised to the dignity of freemen, subscribe, if only U. each on the average, and in a few days we shall have half a million of money to be expended in the most right eous of causes. In the mean time we recommend the following as a sketch of the resolutions which might be generally ivlopted, but more particularly in the unrepresented towns:— " Resolvd, 1. That the unrelenting enemies of Reform and of the people are making every exertion to defeat thu measures of his Majesty's Government in favour of the good cause. " 2. That those enemies, besides resorting to other mea sures, are subscribing large sums of money, to form a fund for overwhelming the voice of the people, by tneans of corruption, treating, and all manner of extravagant expen diture, at the approaching elections. " 3. That this desperate effort of the expiring borough faction may prove successful, unless it shall ho vigorously resisted. " 4. That it is the bounden duty of every friend of the people, and of Reform— o f ever y man w h o c h er i s h es t h e • .•. .• n free institutions of our couutry—to rally round our beloved Sovereign, and save him and the country from the fangs of this desperate faction. " 5. That the ►nest effectual constitutional means of performing this duty is, for the people to form associa tions, in order to defray the legal expenses, and bear the I ibours of contested elections all over the country. " 6. That besides local exertions, a subscription of not more than a sovereign each he immediately begun to form a general fund for opposing by all lawful means the corrupt and illegal efforts of the borough faction. " 7. That bankers, do receive subscriptions for this purpose, and that be appointed a committee for the management of the fund so raised." Let these resolutions be adopted, and the triumph will be decisive, and as speedy as decisive. We know our countrymen—on their determined spirit and irresistible energy we rely with perfect con fidence. — Times. The most glor'ous exertions are making at Lin coln in favour of Reform. The moment that the dissolution was known, a public meeting was held at the Guildhall," to protect the rights of the people against the enemies of the Reform Bill." The hall was overflowing. A string of patriotic resolutions was passed with acclamation. The two present Members were declared to be unfit to represent that loyal and public-spirited city, and a Committee was formed, under the presidency of Alderman Cartledge, who have sent requisitions to candidates of Reform principles. We understand that Mr. Corbett and another gentleman are already in the to‘vn. The City of London and the Borough of Southwark are acting with the most patriotic zeal. The county of Gloucester is strenuously exerting itself in the good cause. Sir T. Acland has, we see, retreated from the impending storm in Devonshire. Sir E, Knatchbull, in Kent, would act wisely in imitating the example of his brother Baronet.—Thnes. We hear with pain that a most excellent Judge is canvassing actively for Messrs. Goulburn and Yates Peel, who oppose Lord Palmerston arid Mr. Caven dish at Cambridge. We respect the zeal of private friendship, and we honour the virtues and talents of the Magistrate to whom we now allude ; but surely, on reflection, his own admirable sense must tell him, that Judges should confine themselves to their judi cial functions, and not descend to canvass in club houses in favour of political partisans.—Times. The boroughmongers have been, and still are, la bouring to alarm the country into a persuasion that the Reform Bill is a revolutionary measure. If such were really the case,it could not be too warmly resisted. That it is not such, is unanswerably the readyof thousands proved by t hi s one f act, t h at i t h as rece i ve d t h e unequivocal h n e s al ocal supp or t o f t h e M onarc h, o f a great ma jority o f m independent u pn thousands portion o of the House of Com mons, of those very ranks of the lution w ou ld b e ruin. But tommunity to whom revo let us try these virtuous alarmists by their own test who deprecate r evo l ut i on in woLredtsus bso see how they it by their acts. Let us as k them whethertel court closing scene of the late Parliament, in _y the both Houses, lon Pridal' posie';4 More of a really revolti. tioniry 'character than arty thing Which hits trans - - 1 pired in the annals of this 'country since the period which preceded the Comf , 'tonwealth. What is a revolution but the subversion of one state of go verraTet:nz and the substitution of another or none; in its stead ? Let any man read calm}--le; tie actors in the scenes look. back t.l.izt'aSeives upon what took place in th'-!: 4 ,;W0 'Houses on Friday and ask what c6';' - ald more resemble a prelude to revolution. 'W e will not pollute our columns by repeating the dis gusting recitals, still less will we be the means of propagating the infamous aspersions upon our pa , . triotic King, which these pretended friend' of .10- narchy-and of ths'! Constitution t,re giving utterance to whettver their slanders . can be intrud e d ; b ut we feel no hesitation in stating that the eor ,n duct exhibited on that day amounted td very little short of treason, and that some at least of thC offenders may think it fortunate that they are not now ruminating in the Tower over conduct v, hich, in times even of far less excitement, would have led to such a termination. 'We respect freedom in all its rational bearings- - ---me respect freedom of debate—we respect the privileges of Parliament as among the surest safeguards of public liberty; but, making ever allowance oh these heads, we feel quite confident that, had the actors in these scene changed places, and had the violence exhibited by some of them emanated from the party who now hold the reins of Government, that the strong arm of the law would have been called in to vindicate the Monarch, the Parliament, and the people, against something very like a levying of war upon their all. Yet these are the people who prate of revolution ! who, insidiously, dastardly, and un truly, impute to the king and his Ministers a de sign to subvert the Constitution by a measure the train effect of which will be to take from these men an unconstitutional, usurped, and illegal power, which they themselves would risk a revolution to maintain. Whether the actors in the scenes we have alluded to look back with shame and sorrow to the parts which they have taken in them, we cannot tell. We do—the better part of the people of England de—all who respect authority do—and if there are, as we fear there may he, too many to whom a subversion of the present constituted authorities would not be disagreeable, how delighted must they be to see examples of anarchy and sedition thus set them by those who as long as they could revel in the nation's wealth, were patterns of loyalty; but who, as soon as their darling but unrighteous influence is assailed, assume the very tones and gestures, and all the maddening excitements which in persons of inferior grades would have consigned them over to the Attorney- General and the gaoler.—Morning Herald. The closing scene of Parliament displayed more animation than dignity. It may be said with truth, that when at the point of death, Parliament became more lively than it ever had been before; the prospect of immediate dissolution seemed to give it an ex uberance of vigour, as if the solemnities that pre ceded the last hour of its existence had brought it the accession of a new vitality. It is true that it died young, which may account for its disinclination to (lie at all; but young as it was it had brought one Administration to a violent end, and was about to sacrifice another, when it was summoned to its ac count at the judgment seat of public opinion, where its privileges are no longer respected, arid its misdeeds are not forgotten. It seems as if it were for the last scene of this short-lived, but eventful Parliament, that Sir Robert Peel reserved his energies ; for it was only then that he threw off the mask of a wily, but placid, opposition to the measure of Reform, arid became its fierce and menacing opponent. He had hitherto, as it were, fenced with the question in that dextrous style of petty tactics, or sham encounter, in which he is so practised a hand. It was only when he almost heard the footsteps of that awful personage, who, armed with the Black Rod, comes like the grisly herald of mortality to knock at the door of the collective wisdom, and announce its approaching fate, that he threw away the foil of mimic combat, and brandished the weapon of earnest and furious warfare. He then cut at the Ministers with a bold ness and vehemence for which they could not have been prepared by any previous display of his politi cal strategies, and what would have been the con sequence it is impossible to say if he had not been cut short himself by that " knock," in which even the omnipotence of Parliament hears the presage of extinction. Who could have imagined, a few months, or a few weeks ago, that Sir Robert Peel would openly, in his place in the House of Commons, have declared that " it really ceased to be an object almost to any man to enter into the service of the Crown, so unthankful was the obligation ?"—We did not know that the Crown had ever been un grateful to Sir Robert for such services as he at any time rendered it. If we take into account the pa tronage which he so liberally exercised for many years, and by which his family and friends, including, of course, his numerous cousins, profited so largely, we should think his abilities and merits were rather overpaid than underrated. It is only, however, since he has been out of office that he has discovered what a thankless indifference the Crown has for obligations conferred; and we presume, after making this avowal, he does not intend to put himself again in the way of experiencing its ingratitude. If the Crown has been ungrateful to his merits, he is re solved to serve an early notice upon all the world that the present Ministers never can have any claims upon the Royal gratitude, for he says that, during their short possession of power, they have e-tablished a character for more incapacity, for more unfitness for business, than ever was displayed by any set of men who ever attemp•ed to rule the destinies of this country ! He also charges them with having advised the Sovereign to dissolve Parliament merely for the purpose of protecting themselves from expulsion from office—and this, too, after he had previously declared that it had ceased to be an object to any man to enter into the service of the Crown. Hear this, electors of England ! and so act that, if the Administration be weak, the real representatives of the people in the next Parliament may be strong. — Morning Herald. The Proclamation for dissolving Parliament was on Saturday published in an Extraordinary Gazette, and the mails were detained an hour for the purpose of conveying it, together with the writs, to every part of the empire. The writs, it will be seen, are returnable on the 14th of June, but Parliament is not expected to be sammoned to meet for the dispatch of business before the 21st, or 28th of that month. The elections will not commence before the end of the present week. Beaten at all points, and disgraced in the eyes of all rational men, Mi nisters have thus ventured to appeal from the sense of Parliament to the decision of the nation. Instead of pursuing the course which more upright and dis interested men would have adopted, they prefer en dangering the peace of the country, by dissolving the Parliament ; and for this act of sheer selfishness, desperation, and folly, they stand fearfully respon sible to an abused Monarch and an injured people. The expedient, however, there is every reason to expect, will not only fail of success, but sink its authors still further in disgrace. The country can never have confidence in men who do not hesitate to sacrifice its interests in furtherance of their own unworthy purposes. As was justly said of them by a contemporary (who is now their fiercest advocate, on the occasion of the General Election so late us autumn last), " the experience of nearly fifty years has proved the real character of his party. At once haughty and pusillanimous, rash . iand short-,ighted-- noisy Democrats when out of place—insolent Aris tocrats when in—ignorant of the noble qualities of their own countrymen and timid depreciators of their glory, while they are ever vehement and ready to applaud and magnify the successes of foreigners." The men whose character is thus justly drawn by one who appears to have had a correct knowledge of the arts of \Vhiggery, are the very same who, on the present occasion, have the hardihood to crave the support of the people in their atrocious endea vours to destroy their best interests and the prime "sources o. national app mess. nut their motives are so well known, and their conduct so perfectly understood, as to remove all ground of apprehen sion in, regard to the result of the appeal ; and with the exception 'of a fetv Treasury boroughs, the re preseetntion of which they can of course command, there is every reason to hope that the returns will be triumphantly on the side of the Constitution. — Morning Port. The result of the contest for the Univere'ty of Cam bridge will be the fist important manifestation of opinion that the reckless arid desperate conduct of Ministers will elicit. The issue of this struggle will be known before the, county elections commence, and thue is it left with the tJniversitti to set an ex ample by whith, ere it is too late, the gentry of the country may be roused into action, and the tottering fabric of our Constitution upheld, Ministers, we have reason to know, look with intense anxiety to the result of this struggle, and their minions are leaving unessayed no effort by which they can hope to corrupt, cajole, oe intimidate, the electors of the University into a decision destructive alike of its safety and character. Lord Palmerston presents himself to the University for re-election as a promi nent Member of an Administration that has thought it proper, becoming, and honest, to purchase a tem porary continuance of its own power by an appeal to the voice of an excited nation ; arid must not there fore complain if he finds personally that the weapon be has employed has a double edge. Moreover, it can scarcely be unknown to his Lordship that there have long been members amongst his constituency, with whom it has been a subdued reproach, that his Lordship's dexterity in his generation has gained him admittance into more Cabinets than are usually accessible to the same honest man. But now surely, to every man ' s apprehension, the wheel has come round full circle; and the pliant colleague of Perce val, Castlereagh, Liverpool, Canning, Godeiich, Wellington, and Earl Grey, may without ill-nature he twittered with having completely boxed the compass of politics, arid be called upon to ex plain to plain and simple men, by what recognised route of morals or politics the High Tory opponent of Lord Henry Petty became the Radical coadjutor of the Marquis of Lansdowne. Leaving his Lord ship to the reminiscences which Lord Henry Petty's name ought to awake, we proceed to address one line of solemn warning to the tribunal before whom he is about to be arraigned. Three hundred Mem bers of the House of Commons, for merely defend ing those institutions under which the Universities of the land had their being, and on whose destinies their very existence hangs, have been wantonly and contumeliously dismissed from the councils of the nation, and in a moment of great public excitement and irritation have been sent back to their consti tuents, to have their characters assailed, their for tunes crippled, and their persons exposed, by the reck lessness of a Cabinet of which Lord Palmerston forms a part. Hefter this act of cruel aggression against its real defenders, the University makes not with them common cause—if it treats not their enemy as its own foe, and metes not unto him out of his own bushel—if it puts not its hand to the plough and looks not back—if it leans on the hand of power, and bows itself down in the house of Rimmon—as suredly it will not be pardoned in this thing. shrink from its duty how it may, elude it by whatever subtlety, justify it by whatever necessity, neverthe less will its name stink in the nostrils of all the true friends of our institutions. Whereas, if it comes forward at this momentous crisis, in a manner be fitting its rank amid the ancient institutions of the land, if it intimates its disapprobation of the Go vernment by a firm and disinterested demonstration of constitutional reproof—the country, be it assured, will pause in its headlong career, and wise and tem perate councils may yet prevail. But if, without check from the virtuous and enlightened, the thoughtless multitude are to make selection of those by whom that Constitution is to be settled, under which we, our children, and our children's children are to live—if that form of Government under which our institutions have grown up, and under which, in spite of apparent defeats, liberty and property enjoy a security unknown elsewht-re— if that form of Government is to be recast by such hands at such an hour, we can only thus early record our dismal forebodings, that the ancient Comneous House of this land will be sup planted by an assembly that will force, one by one, the strong holds of the rich and privileged, until, amid the desperation of the attacked and excitement of the assailants, a gem ral prostration of rank and property will ensue, and the far-famed fabric of our Constitution afford one other melancholy memento of the frailty and instability of all human institutions. —Morning Post. Men of the United Kingdom ! the decree has gone forth—the Agitation Parliament is dissolved, —an appeal is made to you by your Sovereign, — and a high, an important, and sublime duty devolves upon you, on the discharge of which depends not only the restoration of your own rights as freemen, but the salvation of the country from anarchy and revolution ! That you should fail in the accomplish ment of the wishes of your Sovereign—that you should not display the heroism and devotion in the exercise of the political rights which still remain to you, and for the regaining of those which have been wrested from you, by a lotig series of base usurpations on the part of the oli garchy, and which usurpations have been employed for purposes of legal plunder, that you have so often manifested in combating the foreign enemies of your country—and that you will not roll back the tide of oppression upon your oppres sors, by choosing as your representatives such men only as will rote for the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing, but the Bill, which has received the sanc tion of your Sovereign, and which you have already sanctioned by one unanimous shout of approbation, rid the Legislative Council of the people of men who have disgraced you, and disgraced the country in the eyes of all Europe—we say that you should fail in executing this—the first, the last, the only— duty which you owe to yourselves, to your country, and your King, at this awful crisis, is an idea which we will not harbour for a moment—an anticipation which we would scout, come from whatever quarter it might ! Up then, and be active, vigilant, and persevering l—unite prudence with patriotism, and join interity with union ! Let no local contests—no Partial grievances —no person a l quarre l s —di sun i te you . Unite as brethren in preparing the means for carrying the Reform Bill; turn not to the left or to the right in the prosecution of this important pur pose, and your efforts will be crowned with success. In the adoption of these principles lie the safety, the salvation of the country. Reject them, and all is lost ! The battle of freedom will have to be fought over again, and though the result could not be doubtful, who would undertake to aver that it would not be wained by the hor rors of national convulsion ? We address you thus strongly, because, in the first place, although we tremble not for the result, we are a nxious that this era of our political history may b e distinguished by an achievement as noble in man ner, as noble in result ; and in the second, because your enemies are already in the field in all quarters, and are not only usi ng every stratagem to retain their unjust supremacy over you, but also because t edme degrading,—no to g' — pu n t ° i n f r f a g o u a r:C i n e i t h ere is no stratagem so base arid mean,—no guil e so so ing y in o n or fm ( a tilerr o pt u ol s u , en td a y s ti, er eadv noto rights g o r h b r e s leveaciclpnrtivYi°letgi privileges s r l As re a specimen, among many, of t h e recklessness and desperation of the anti-re formers, and the sort of coalition which, if not formed, is on the eve of formation, or attempted to be formed, the following recommendation from the columns of an Evening Print—pledged against Re form, and pledged, we should have thought, against all connection with those whom it has so long held up to the execration and contempt of all good To ries, since their apostocy on the Catholic Bill, may suffice : " Now, putting on the temper of zealous and deter mined men," says it, " how are the Tot les to act ? The first step towards a great effort is, to wend out of our own ;reacts all selfish considerations, In this, as in all other cases of man's duty, conscience and policy speak in the same voice. If we are to embark conscientiously in a public cause, we must fling far from us all private regards. If a party is to act with effect, we must do the same. 'There are, besides, however mixed feelings, in part public, in part, though the least obvious part, private ; as when we resent what we think public wrongs,—and resent then, the more if committed by those in whom we confided. But why waste words in describing indirectly what we mean, when we can at once shew it in the very example. There are feelings of resentment existing in some honest men's breasts against Sir Robert Peel, and those who acted like him upon the Roman Catholic question ; such feelings now rannet be otherwise than selfish. Let them be offered up at once, upon the altar of our country; let the conduct of the anti-revolutionists, who opposed us upon that occasion, be forgotten at once, and Jr ever, though ever be remembered the services of those, now the hope and head of the conservative party, who stood by the Constitution. " A new Popish question has arisen ; let us recruit our ranks even from those who have groun wiser by the experience of the past, and prepare us for the contest, under the guidance of those honoured leaders, of whose wisdom and power the past has given us proof; as well as of their fidelity." What Popery has to do with Reform would puzzle a wiser than Solomon to discover, and we shall not, therefore, attempt to discover it ; but we deem it proper to put the country on its guard against the attempted coalition, and the attempted cry—in proof of the recklessness of the party and of the necessity of meeting their desperate efforts by others of equal vigour and greater honesty. But, seriously, will the party really have the impudence to attempt a coalition on the ground stated ? What faith can be reposed by those who honestly and consistently oppose Reform, in those who, after op posing, with equal obstinacy, numerous Catholic B lls, came down to the two Houses and had a Ca tholic Bill passed. " To those," observes a Sunday paper, likewise in the anti-Reform interest, "who have the true interest of Eng land at heart, the honest and honourable conservative p arty of the State, a party with which we flatter our selves, we have some influence, we should recommend the choosing of persons wholly without the taint of political tergiversation and treason. Let them not trust a single man, no matter what may he his professions now-a-days, who ratted upon the Popish question—not one ! Who ca❑ depend upon such people? on men who, as the Edin• burgh Review truly says, went down at two o'clock on the sth of February, 1829, ready to make the walls of St. Stephen's ring with cries of 'No Popery,' and at five o'clock in the same afternoon, wheel d round to vote for more than the most clamorous of the O'Connell gang had dared to beg for ? No—they cannot be more noisy anti- Reformers now than they were anti-Cw.holics then —their zeal against Lord John Russell more excited at present, tha❑ it was then against the Irish agitators— their vows are not more ardent, their voices more lofty, their bearing more indignant, against the Revolutionary Bill of 1831, than they were once against measures far weaker than the treasonable Bill of 1829. No, no—trust them not. If, by your means, they get into Parliament, and thereby into power, what guarantee have you that, to secure a quarter's pay, they would not bring in a Bill car rying all that Lord John demands, and throwing in uni versal suffrage and vote by ballot, as an additional con cession to the brawling of the mob ? Trust them not— for place and pay they would repeat, on proper occasion, the conduct of Judas Iscariot. There are some of them who would perform the part of that red-bearded rat for as many pence as he required shillings." This is sound advice, and we hope will be acted upon ;—but should it be otherwise, and should a coalition be formed, the country will have one proof more of the want of principle on the part of its ene mies, and have an additional reason for treating them with the scorn and contempt which they so richly merit. In the mean time we say to all friends of Reform, be active, be zealousbe prudent, be united: —and elect no one who does not pledge himself to support the Bill—the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill. In it is the salvation of the country. — Morning Advertiser. APPROACHING GENERAL ELECTIONS. CITY OF LONDON. On Saturday the Committee appointed to watch the proceedings on the Reform Bill in Parliament, with the view to give Ministers all the support in the power of the Corporation of London, assembled in the Guildhall. Their labours for the present are of course suspended ; but they expressed the firmest determination to aid his Majesty's Government in every possible way agarist the vile opposition mar shalled against them. Although, as a Committee of the Cow t of Common Council, they would not at all attempt to interfere with the Livery, they ex pressed their individual opinion as Liverymen as to the course most advisable to pursue in conducting the election. They came to an unanimous determi nation to give their most decided and unequivocal support to Aldermen Waithman, Wood, and Thompson, who have so zealously devoted them selves to the support of the Reform Bill, arid to use all possible means to return such oth(r candidate as shall appear to them calculated to add to the strength of Ministers, and to reflect credit on the choice of the great body of the Livery. The plan by which the Livery can effect the object of oust ing Mr. Ward, who makes the experiment upon the supposition that the outvoters will back him on ac count of the operation of the Bill upon non-residents, is by unanimity, by resolving to vote for four Re formers, casting aside all personal grounds of pique or anger, and by making common cause against the common enemy. Various societies of the Livery all through the town are on the alert. They are recommended to keep but one thing in view—that of keeping out their tried and convicted en emy . A meeting of the Livery to fix upon four can didates, the advocates of Reform, is to be held forthwith. YORKSHIRE. A meeting of gentlemen connected with the county of York was on Saturday held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James'-street, for the purpose of concerting measures to procure the re turn of four reforming Members at the ensuing elec tion for that county. There were from thirty to forty gentlemen present. Lord MILTON was called to the Chair. Mr. MARSHALL could safely state that a great majority of the freeholders of Yorkshire highly ap proved of the measure of Reform which had been brought forward by his Majesty's Ministers. That measure they considered as pregnant with many and great important advantages—as tending to prevent any disturbance or commotion, or the carrying of any revolutionary measures. It was of great im portance that the great county of York should take an early and decided part in support of that wise and popular measure. Yorkshire had had the ad vantage of three of its Members supporting that Bill in the House of Commons. Two of them gave it their full and hearty support; one was decidedly opposed to it; and the other, who h a d u p t o t h e present time voted for it in all its stages, had, both publicly and privately, expressed some doubts as to the whole of the measure. During the last week there had been some meetings held on this subject:in the West Riding of Yorkshire, particularly at Leeds, where there had been a meeting of delegates from the principal towns in Yorkshire of those who acted together on the liberal side of politics, and they had decided that they woulel support by . their votes and by all their interests only two of their present Mem bers, Lord Morpeth and Sir J. Johnstone, and Mr. Ramsden and Mr. Strickland, who had taken the field as candidates. That was all, as far as he (Mr. Marshall) knew, that had as yet occurred in York shire, in reference to the ensuing election. Although the freeholders respect :el very highly their present Members, they thought it was their duty to sacrifice all private feeling to promote the cause which they considered the good of the nation. The Hon. Gen tleman concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that the meeting, highly approving of the measure of Reform which had been brought for wardit by his Majesty's Ministers , hailed with thi greate stl,hteoappeale x t satisfactionretosols h people e determination on the subject. of his Ma jestytion pledged the meeting to do all in their power to promote the return of four Members for the county of York who would give their cordial and zealous support to the measure o Reform introduced by Ministers. The resolution was agreed to with one disgen tient voice, that of Mr. Stapylton. Mr. CHARLES WOOD said, that Mr. Bethell had stated that he could not make up his mind to sup port the two schedules of the Bill. He therefore moved a resolution to the effect that the meeting saw with regret that Mr. Bethell would not go the whole length of a measure, the main provisions of which they regarded as indispensably necessary for the permanent protection of the liberties of the people, and the welfare of the empire. He (Mr. Wood) regretted this circumstance very much, as \lr% Bethel] had been very attentive to his duties in Porliament, but he thought it nec,c, , lsa.7 to have some gentleman who would support the whole tin. —Tile resolution was agreed to. Mr. C. WooD then moved a resolution, pledging the meeting to support Lord Morpeth, Sir John Johnstone, Mr. Ramsden, and Mr. Strickland. He hoped that no jealousies would prevent unanimity, A person in the arose of Commons, who had gone further than the Bitl, had already done it more mis chief than its opponents.—(Llear, hear.)—Resolu tion unanimously agreed to. Lord MORPETII very briefly returned thanks for the support tendered by the meeting. Sir Joms JOHNSTONE expressed his heartfelt sa tisfaction at the approbation his conduct in Parlia ment had received. A resolution was then agreed to, that a meeting should be held at York as soon as convenient, to promote the object stated in the resolutions. Lord MottPrrn moved the thanks of the meet ing to their Noble Chairman, which were bestowed with acclamation. Lord MmToN returned thanks. The meeting then broke up. (From the Leeds Mercury.) We have authority for stating that the four liberal candidates for Yorkshire—Lord Morpeth, Sir John Johnstone, Mr. Ramsden, and Mr. Sirickland—will make common cause at the ensuing election. The freeholders of Yorkshire, we confidently believe, will do their duty. The reformers have already banished from their creed the pitiful notion of balancing the representation of this great county. They have drawn the sword of constitutional resistance to cor ruption, and thrown away the scabbard. This was done in the Castle-yard at York, on the 22d of March, when the assembled county addressed to his Majesty the following request and solemn pledge : ‘• And should the Bill introduced into the House of Commons unhappily be defeated, they humbly beseech your Majesty to appeal to your people by a dissolution of Parliament; in which case your faithful subjects will, to the very utmost, support your Majesty's Government, by returning such representatives as, notwithstanding all the power of the enemies of Reform, will carry that measure which will be the glory of your reign," The county of York will not forfeit that solemn pledge. Every reformer in it will vote for our re forming candidates, if opposition should venture to show itself. The candidates are determined upon ; and we state from the best authority, that the Whig Aristocracy, and the masses of reformers in the mercantile and manufacturing districts, are perfectly as one as to the men to be supported. Lord Mor peth, Sir John Johnstone, Mr. Strickland, and Mr. Ramsden, the sworn friends of the Reform Bill, will rally together, under the Orange flag, all the friends of their country's liberties. SO UTHTVARK. On Saturday night Mr. William Brougham, brother of the Lord Chancellor, presented himself to the electors of the Borough, as a candidate to represent them in Parliament, and addressed various bodies of them at the Duke of Clarence, the Nag's Head, and the King of Prussia Taverns. At the latter place about 200 electors assembled between seven and eight o'clock. Mr. J. C. Barns, of Too ley-street, was called to the Chair. Mr. Brougham was received in so enthusiastic a manner as must have been highly gratifying to his feelings. ELECTOR—State what you will do, and I think you will not betray us like one of our late Members. Mr. BROUGHAM—He would never deceive them, nor promise more than he would perform. He would prove the most unflinching and uncompromising ad vocate of Reform arid retrenchment, and the name he possessed of Brougham would be a surety to them that he would be the undeviating asserter of the people's rights and liberties.—(Cheers.) He would do all in his power to abolish sinecures, and to cut down unnecessary pensions ; and it was a subject of deep regret to him, that his Majesty's Ministers had not succeeded in lopping off the Pension List.—(Hear.) He detested the horrid practices of West India slavery, and would exert himself to effect its speedy abolition, if returned to Parliament.—(Cheers.) After some further obser vations, the Learned Gentleman said he would offer nothing further at that time, as he had to address another body of the electors.—(Cheers.) Mr. PENFORD Thomas addressed the meeting with much force and eloquence, in favour of Mr. Brougham's pretensions, and concluded by moving the first resolution, which was seconded by Mr. PEAKE, and carried unanimously. All the resolutions having been carried unani mously, and thanks voted to the Chair, the meeting broke up. When the Crown was about to be placed on the KING, preparatory to his entering the House of Lords, his MAJESTY took it from the hand of the attendant, and placing it himself on his head, exclaimed to the LORD CHANCELLOR, who stood near him, "this, my Lord, is my Coronation Day."— Observer. CAITHNESS COUNTY MEETING.—We refer our readers with pleasure to the resolutions of perhaps the most enthusiastic county meeting, in the cause of Reform, held in Scotland. Th e different parties, as they art ived, says our correspondent, cheered and were greeted with cheers in return. About one o'clock they formed into an immense circle, gave a general huzza, and then closing round the Committee, pro ceeded to business. The resolutions were passed unani mously and by acclamation. The business being finished, three astounding cheers were given, the first for the sailor KING, the second fur the patriot Ministers, and the third for the Bill, the sheet anchor and palladium of the British nation. The day was fine and all was harmony, delight, and enthusiasm. The various parties, after a few more parting cheers, left the ground with their flags and music, and returned home, to muse on the proceedings of a day which will not be soon forgotten in Caithness. Our cor respondent estimates the number present at 3,000. STANDARD NOVELS.—The next number of this very popular work will contain " The Spy," by Mr. COOPER, complete in one volume, beautifully embelLshed by engravings from original designs by MACLISE. The chief attraction will, however, consist in a new Introduc tion, Notes, and other illustrative matter, written expressly for the present edition by the Author, who has also re vised and corrected the text, the former editions being very incorrect. The volume to be published June Ist will comprise the whole of " Thaddeus of Warsaw," by Mi ss JANE PORTER. BIRTHS, On the 22d inst. Mrs. Rippon, of Bartholomew-close, of a son. On the 2lst inst. Mrs. Graeve, of Grosvenor-place, Camber_ well, of a daughter. On the 20th inst. at the Shrubbery, Froyle, Hants, the lady of H. Burningharn, Esq. of a son. On the 19th ►nst. at Edinburgh, Mrs. Admiral Campbell, of a son. MARRIED. On the 23d inst. at St. Pancras, Mr. Edward Joyce, of King's-. square, to Sarah Entwistle, youngest daughter of Mr. J. Gun. ning, of Judd-place East, New-road. • On the '2.ld inst. at Islington, Mr. J. Clabon, of Mark-lane, to Miss Martha Dickson, late of Twickenham. On the 13d inst. at Kennington, Mr. Harvey, of Thavies Inn, to Maria Rosetta, eldest daughter of E. A. Gibbons, Esq. of South Lambeth. DIED. On the 2.'3d inst. in Verulam-terrace, Frances Mary, second daughter of Sir F. H. Doyle, Bart. On the 22d inst. in his (31th year, Major-General Sir G. A. Wood, of the ltoyal Artillery, C. 8., K.C.11., and Governor of -Carlisle. On the 2-'3,1 inst. W. Gordon, Esq., of George-street, Adelphi, and Mincing-lane, aged 30. On the 24th inst. Sarah, the wife of Mr. G. Ward, of Tudor.' street, Bridewell Precinct, aged 26. On the 24th inst. J. Laing, Esq., of Streatham, in the county 01 Surrey, and of the island of Dominica, in the West Indies. On the 23d inst. in Clarges-street, J. Wedderburn, Esq. On the 23d inst. at the Vineyard, Hammersmith, Mr. Si•. Lee, in his :Nth year. 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