The Sun. — London, England, 1831-09-27 00:00:00

11•Ww-1 the er° l4 ow , as pos. telegrap h ' wait for th e st violent of j l ury to to manifest dversion to :be Govern; the cr on e in it. The n a ssuring on to singing r w hich r, name o n of 31. ed upon the L spirited n.e" am idst ail, .e traitors : cannot po erday.) gen re of th e tiler?, The neral Coo° the 13: m 21S 133 4 he Duchy that it ` ras cholera into w h e nce it Allgenreine Austri fol-lossing cholera hag, le numbera 0i whom mlli His 31ajeatV , )resence, and .asures taken that base ity now Prove carr iedinto denness with Probable that At Pre s " of the chn: l a mburg an a Russian be tendered er gas lozk, Le clemency 77 1 ; ; Teri t 0 s addressed hi, expressiq b e a stowed cv lt st o, sty's gra n „ him the Lir !, does not I'l O ur at a late il 'riday. 14 , h frontiers °I: of the Pt a the F°l°h ‘ a zrzee2, and th en pu rsue d th e re mnant, on the 50th, tithe direction of Brzesc-Litewski." A Supplement to the Courier contains the Proclama ef" General oles, n o t to consider the Rozvolci in which he calls upon the period of the armistice as one of *Se; but t o employ it in preparing for renewed efforts reconquer the independence of their country. The Warsaw country of the Poles," he says, " is not confined to i prt;hethen:uhgo,raensdotfhtehe Duna,Nritula, the Niemen,. Ititnhave in earlier times e "ed the heroism of the Polish nation ; we must not the et our oat h , to defend, to the last drop of our b loo d , last square foot of our native soil." POLISH FRONTIER, SEPT. 7. —According to all °:eoUnts, the Polish troops that left Warsaw have taken ti,tPfatai zonlalacoirsoteizle yn. position in the neighbourhood of Modlin Ar The appearance of a new paper, the Gazette, is att r ib u ted to some of the Members t the Diet, who have accompanied the army. The first tiueu rn her) which has just appeared, contains a proclaim addressed to the Polish nation, calling upon all ca - Able of hearing arms to continue the struggle. de tFrom Augustown we learn that some days ago a small „ 4 °uh - tent of Polish insurgents arrived there. The Rua ;llan garrison of Augustowo retreated on the first appear zee tif the insurgents, whose force had been greatly ex ta-gp "a r t 'l hut they soon returned, drove the insurgents c r) b ‘ W h"rn many . were taken and punished with death. SEPT 21. —Privatd letters from 'Warsaw, vihot,ee bil _f :aie: l city the mails now arrive regularly twice a without newspapers, by no means gives up to k ep eau " of the Poles as lost, but a ffi r m that n the t s an dguard Warsaw will be an immense burden us.si. arm . Nay e Polish Gerals go b ° far R „ . 4n Y it assert that the the surrender of en Warsaw i ron , Y a st rarazem to ent i ce P as k ew i tsc h i n t o a snare, ii "" w hich he will not extricate himself without loss. It as said that the Grand Duke Michael will reside in War lie fro th e same capacity as Constant i ne did b e f ore . and '.recl u ently rides o n horseback through the streets, lo ud is ""Ywhere received as he was on his entrance with lie has already given many proofs of :, 4 " , % and presence of mind. thi "N A, SEP T . 16.—. The Russian Ambassador at At:teturt has received the following note from Field Pask ew i tsc h . far t This letter, dated Warsaw, Sept. 8, is almost word taki word th e same as the first account of the 84g t, ti Warsaw; as given in the Prussian tut. G azette, only that the first person is used through erieuiv I sent an officer—l regret the infatuation of the rnati B ce• The Field-Marshal concludes in the same hY saying The sh rmy and ntin hav in e ltt e d to law „ theirlawful Sovere Poli a nd ign, a the Polis a h o tro o o z p_s, e to ,7 ri Trrnity w i t h the Emperor ' s man if es t o , go to Pik, Rwait his orders." ~,"e EO, SEPT. 23.—1 n Vienna it appeara, that 1) , til t ;',` e iai notice, published in the Vienna Gazette, in 41 10;,! ght of the 13th the cholera manifested itself with ho p "l• that its presence could no longer be . ques tlere".ll.n. jhe issue of clean bills of health was again or suspended. n s n : p i t 7 . nr . Z Taken ill. Recoveries. Deaths. 41 1 10 15, 120 1 BERLIN, SEPT. 21. CHOLERA. New Cases. Recoveries. Deaths. S ept. 9.0 , 51 11 23 21, 27 1 10 (The p ra There remains 214 from ,"l and. 9sian St a t e Gazette of the 22d has no news I ) liA„„ -8- - ll SEPT. S I NI n o 23.-11onscx-HALLE.....-Th?. supply fro, heat, durin g the week, has been limited, particularly tie r , the Upper Elbe. Some small purchases for exporta ga. W ere made, for the purpose of completing a few car pril hut our own consumers bought very sparingly, and Ih e , B la consequence declined. In Rye little doing. The : ( t P l ies from Mecklenburg and Holstein, though small, 1 4 ,, re i disposed of with difficulty. In Upland, Mecklen :;;ta:ratntaloHeo),:stein Barley nothing was done. From the w er Elbe we received some parcels of Summer and which were promptly disposed of at the criFrom the 10th to the 16th inst., 11 cargoes of corn ID%----, through the Sound. Of these, 3 were ound for t : .e ''' and 5 fur Norwegian ports; 2 for Bre:n b en, and 1 Gu ernsey. Wh Weight Rix-dollars. -eat, Slesian and Bohemian 120 to 125 —to -- ~........_"--------- A i nhalt ' white ll5 to 122. .... .120 to 131 --......._7" ---- -- 2 red ... 1............11 ._ ,ye --- D, ls LH l ot ec oz,,li, k t l e e i n n b urreag It 110 to 124 ...... 110 to 130 Lower Elbe 118 to 125 110 to 130 116 to 123 110 to 132 116 to 120...... 85 to 88 .------: li t l ' ant.? 114 to 118 B3 to 83 ----- Alecklenb 'h 116 to 118 S4 to 92 ............ _ , Uri, . b . . retershurgh and Riga 115 to 118 B5 to 90 `4.lriey, Silesian anti Bohemian 102 to 100 to -- 7,7" -- Lower Elbe 90 to 96 56 to 62 °Th 1-T PI . 1 d - .............. 60 to 70 45 to 50 '""-- ke:ltilenbur ... "- Clal t ' Lowero ie r a E n l i b a t n g 6O to 70 16 to 40 50 to 61...... 20 to 36 —to 1 1 ' 1 4 1,0 1 1 1, yellow —to Pr's............................................ —to 65 to 7-1 . oistein Rapeseed — to —......124 to 127 Sin " Tuesday funds have been daily declining , owing Pilh" be to th e high rate of di scoun t, and partly to the ap i-n,l:abee of things in France. Sales for time are difficult - e effeeted..—Diseount 6 per cent. End of September. AAnilto:Dßanish Lo b ln n 3 per Cent. Ha.. assian R ussian Loan BO ir.silnscriptions, 5 per Cent. 100 °llsh B onds 8,0 1 , an Inscriptions, 1831. Atlst •,. Austrian Bank Shares 925 vette Nletalliques Cep Austrian 4 per Cents 66 Exchange upon London, at Two months l3 53. 2 lb 'e position of the French Ministry does no ( f - t e ar to have been materially altered by the late th e " on the foreign policy of France , although th a gitation of the subject in the Chambers , at e „ 11 ?° 1- nent of so strong a popular excitement , can wlth'Y hav e d one o therwise than add to the odium i which th e C a bi ne t is surrounded. The ex t4nations of the Ministers have been anything i,, ta l satisf ac t ory t o the Journals, or to the gene °Pi"ion of Paris,. and they have assuredly fe er eased th e i n di gna tion which is felt by the a b le "' of humanity all over Europe, at the all a Ptonment of the Poles by those whose duty I C interest a lik e seemed to call on them to aid th e nation that was fighting as the vanguard of ot e freedom and civilization of the western states tu rope. A s to any assistance being rendered by the t t 4l , s of France during the present summer, the bla b' no doubt, was impossible, for the Prus- ON and Austrians were ready to dispute every I t le , s ll , a ground to be passed over between the " I ne and the Vistula. The time when a vigo to" h " interposition would have been successful b: ; (1 b een suffered to elapse without any thing — nl; done, although from the fi rst of the stru ggle, the cries of the Poles were backed by trie su Pplications of the people of other coun- IP There can be little doubt that, if the wfit4ll and French Cabinets had, during last f a i l l r er, remonstrated forcibly with Russia, and a fleet up such remonstrance by despatching of e i et to the Baltic, and, under the protection Ittwo flags, reinforcing the Poles with the j t e '" of war, Poland would have been saved. W as not the power of succour that was. want lag, but the will. The Whig Ministry of Eng ti:d, and t h e C a bi net o f F ra nce of the revolu iap had not sympathy enough with freedOin to lice them to take courage to be its defenders. le sad result is, that we now behold Poland prostrate under the rod of oppression, and that e h ave heard as bitter a shriek of Liberty, at th e fall of Warsaw, as when Kosctus KO perished. fo after the Poles had actually shaken off the Th rei gn yoke, and established a native Govern teent defacto, there was as much a case for in .. tio l entio n i n t h e i r d e f ence aga i nst f ore i gn aggres ,n, as there w a s for the ass i s t a nce lately af forvved to Belgium by foreign Powers. There a u as good a justification to England and a nee for succouring Poland, as th er e was tic, t, three Powers who aided the Greeks againg rke Y, or to the five who have protected Bel- gium against Holland. The difference is, how ever, that an intervention for the Poles would have exposed England and France to the hazard, though by no means to the certainty, of war. The question, - then, after all, is, whether, sup posing there to have been unanimity in the views of the Cabinets of WILLIAM IV. and Louis PHILIPPE, it belonged to that sound and libe ral policy which looks less to present ease and convenience, than to the establishment of lasting peace and happiness for future as well as present generations, to suffer the Russian autocrat to triumph over the subjugated independence of Poland. The policy of Great Britain was, perhaps, less clear than that of France. But after the designs of Russia against the principle of Go vernment which the three days of July had set up, were made manifest upon the plainest evi-. deuce, there was much ground for contending that it was the part of France to perform some overt act in testimony of her determination to aid the maintenance in other countries of the principle she had established at home. The situation of France in 1831, in friendship with England, is wholly different from her position in 1794 (with which the Messo,ger des Chambres draws a parallel, to show the equal impossibility at both periods of aiding the Poles), for, at the latter period, France must have fought single-handed against England, as well as the continental despots. At the present time, England would have been either actively in alliance with France, or neuter in regard to her proceedings, and on either supposition there is much reason to believe that France would have' materially strengthened her character, and the permanency of her institutions, by refusing a passive acquiescence in the destruction of Polish independence. It remains to be seen whether the indifference to the sufferings of foreign nations, which has been so conspicuously manifested on this oc casion, will have the effect anticipated from it, 'timely, the preservation of the peace of Europe. such should be the result, and we are actually destined to witness such a miracle as the gene ral disarming of the Great Powers, we shall re joice with thankfulness at so happy a termination of events ; but it will nevertheless not be for gotten in history, that it will have been brought about through a course of things in which the most flagrant iniquities have been witnessed with unconcern by two Governments, in whose power it lay to have prevented their commission. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O' CL 0 CK. New Brunswick Papers to the 28th August, and Prince Edward's Island Papers to the 30th of August, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, by the Halifax mail, arrived this morning, having sailed on the 7th September. (From the New Brunswick Papers.) We have undoubted authority for stating that three aditional Councillors are immediately to be appointed in this province, and that an equal number are also to be added to his Majesty's Council in Nova Scotia. This ar rangement, we presume, is made in consequence of the de termination in future that the Judges shall not be ap pointed to seats in the Council. Prince Edward's Island Papers are void of information. The accounts from Brussels state, that the law on the credit of 10 millions of florins, and that in the Foreipi Office, have been adopted by the two Chambers. The French officers will now receive their commissions. The information from Berlin states that General Rozycki bad entered Kalisch, owing to the Russians having left a feeble garrison there, and being assisted by the in habitants pillaged a great number of German and Hebrew houses, but on the approach of the Russians the Polish General retired. A French paper states that we must recall to mind that upon the Russians threatening Warsaw the first time the Government declared that, if the enemy entered the town, they would retire with the army. They have kept their word, and Poland is not yet vanquished. The Russian army has suffered severely at the storming of Warsaw, and will scarcely be able to follow the Poles, who can establish their Government in another point, perhaps in Lithuania, and there commence another war. The Hamburg steamer still remains due. THE FUNDS. Consols, wide', left off yesterday at 523 for the Ac count, opened at S 2. Nothing doing as yet. We understand that the treity of peace between Hol land and Belgium is daily expected by Government to be signed. HALF•PAST ONE. We have received the Journal des Debuts of Sunday, rom which we copy the following : " BRUSSELS, SEPT. 22.—Count Duval de Beaulieu, our Ambassador at Berlin, has returned this morning; he was not received at the Prussian Court. A report prevails to day of a new protocol (44th), according to which the con ference grants to Belgium all the territory situated on the ft bank of the Meuse, but we are to renounce all that on the right, Venloo included. We are to have Zealand, Flanders, and Luxemburg ; but we must cede to Holland the half of the sovereignty of MaestriAt, for which she will pay a proportion of the debt; but we are not as yet assured that all this is true, and do not attach much credit to it. M. Lion, secretary of the Minister of Finances, and M. Bech, left yesterday for London, the first charged on a special mission to discuss the debt, and the second to settle the limits." Extract of a letter front Dantzie, dated Sept. 10 : " The cholera is abating here ; for several days past we have only had one or two sick per day, and we may say the malady has entirely ceased. This happy result we may attribute to the wise measures of the Commission San itai re." From the frontiers of Switzerland of the 17th September they state that a complete anarchy exists in the Canton of 13,s'e, :he peasants are fighting amongst themselves, and the Diet are uncertain in regard to the measures they are to take. Ou the 17th the alarm was beat at Basle, and all the strangers were obliged to leave the town. 1,000 troops have left with some pieces of artillery, and divided themselves into three columns, their destimition not known. We copy the following from a Prince Edward's Island Paper of the 30th August :—" The brig Venus, from Dublin, bound io Quebec, with 150 passengers on hoard, put into Three Rivers, and was supplied with provisions ; sa il e d again on the llth inst. ; she was t en wee k s ou t, f o r . tie last ten days of which time the crew and passengers had been on an allowance of a biscuit each a-day ; ablut 40 of the passengers remained on the island." No account as yet of the arrival or the Hamburg steamer; it is supposed that hazy weather has p reven t e d her front We have no political news , i n consequence of which ( nl arriving in due time. the Funds arc rather heavy. Conso's, whi c h were i n t h e e arly part' of the day 82i are at present S2 l ; for money to Little business has been d one d ur i ng 1. the morning. In the Foreign Matket Brazil Steck is not o good as yesterday. THREE O' CL O CK. Consols, 824 FOUR 0 CLOCK. —CLOSING PRICES. Consols ........... 82 Danish 63 Ditto for Account 824 Greek, 1825 Brazilian Bonds.. 471 Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres.... ---. Peruvian ...„ ___ Chilian Ditto ..• • Russian 994 Columbian, 1824 Spanish ...... 3:1- Despatches were received this morning at the Colonial-office from General Sir H. TURNER at Bermudez ' dated August 21, and from Lieute nant- General the Hon. Sir P. MAITLAND, at Halifax, dated Sept. 7, upon matters connected with the Colonies. At one o'clock this day a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office in Downing-street. Lord FITZROY SOMERSET held a levee this day at the Horse Guards, which was well attended. REFORM MEETINGS. SO UTHWARK.—( THIS DAY.) In consequence of a numerously signed requisition, ad dressed to the High Bailiff (John Holmes, Esq.), this morning was appointed by him for a meeting of the elec tors of Southwark to petition the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill. Notwithstanding the wetness of the morning, by eleven o'clock a very large body of the electors had assembled in the Town-hall to prove their unabated attachment to the cause of Reform. The High Bailiff Was prevented from presiding by ill ness. The Lord Mayor was solicited, and had assented to Occupy the Chair; but this morning he felt some scruples as to being deputy to one of his own officers, in which he was confirmed by the City Solicitor ; accordingly, this morning the Committee received a letter, stating the diffi culty which had arisen, and expressing his sorrow for the trouble he had caused. After several gentlemen had been proposed, and had declined on account of irregularity, they . _ being in office at present, Mr. .JOINaS proposed and unanimously elected. On the arrival of the Members for the Borough, they were received with great acclamation. The CIIA IR3I AN on taking his seat said, that the electors of Southwark were called upon again to express their opinion upon the all engrossing subject of Reform, for being almost the only scot and let borough in the kin dom, it was necessary for the inhabitants to state their opinion (for it was entitled to much weight) whether their fellow countrymen were to he allowed the same privileges as they themselves enjoyed. Being placed in the chair, it was not competent for him to say much on the (Cries of "Go on.") However, he would content him self with saying, that if the Bill only consisted of sche dule A, it would be a great boon and blessing to the country, as it would act on corruption as a powerful purge. Mr. RICHARDSON, in rising to propose the first resolution, expressed his satisfaction that the Bill had got so far. It was stated by the hireling writers of the borough mongers that the people were lukewarm on the subject, and did not want Reform. This was the cause of their meeting to day—were these statements true ? (No, no.) He expected such an answer, and hoped the Lords would yet, before it was too late, look further into the state of the people's feeling. It was also stated by these same writers that the Lords would reject the Bill. The Lords might reason in this way, " We can make no thing by this Bill, therefore we will threw it out ;" hut can they lose nothing, first of all they would inevitably lose the respect of the people, and then it might be asked of what use they were. The people might look across the Atlantic where they would see the descendants of English men who carried on their trade and their Government, without such a House to oppose itself to the wishes of the people and their representatives. The gentleman con cluded by moving the first resolution, which is as follows : " That this meeting having watched with intense anxiety the progress of the Bill brought into Parliament by his Majesty's Ministers, for reforming the representation of the House of Commons, fee's the greatest delight, that a measure alike demanded by policy and justice, has at length passed the Honourable House." The Rev. Mr. KENNY seconded the resolution, and stated his anxiety to see such a beneficial measure passed into a law, not only as a man but as a minister of peace. He supported the Bill on two grounds—first it would prevent an increase of the burdens of the people—and se condly it would give the aristocracy an interest in the corn fin to of the people. Mr. BLACKETT proposed the second resolution. He paid a warm tribute of respect to the High Bailiff, and expressed his hopes of soon seeing him again amongst them, in which he was cordially joined by all present. He stated that this was the fourth time of their meeting on this same subject, and all this trouble was caused by a Noble Marquis and a particular friend of his, an editor of a very powerful paper, the Morning Post, who was pleased to amuse themselves by calumniating the people, saying that the people were not in want of Reform. But they would meet and meet again, till they got what they wanted, and what was their right.—(Great cheering.) A great deal had been said about the wisdom of our an cestors, but if the wisdom of our ancestors had reasoned in the same way when would we have got Magna Charta? All we asked for was that we should have some little con. troul over the money which we paid to the State, and this Bill would give us such, and therefore let us have it. He then gave in the second resolution as follows : The resolution was put and agreed to unanimously. " That this meeting are not willing to entertain the fearful apprehension that the House of Lords will disap point their just expectations and fervent wishes, by either delaying or mutilating a measure so essential to the best interests of the country, or endangering the peace thereof, by the fearful hazard which in the expectation of this meeting would attend its rejection." Mr. DAVIS seconded the resolution. It bad often been asked, " What will the Lords do ?" He thought it was equally right to ask, " What will the unrepresented people do ?" Led on by a glorious and patriotic King, and al lowed by the House of Commons, they would demand their rights, and not cease their efforts till they had got them. The resolution was then passed unanimously. Mr. BARNES, in proposing the third resolution, had a better opinion of the wisdom of the Lords than to believe they would oppose the wishes of the united people of three nations. The resolution was as follows That this meeting, in its solicitude for the preserva tion of our valuable institutions, the security of property, the safety of the Constitution, the prosperity of the king. dons, and the well-being of society, most earnestly en. treat the Hruse of Lords to grant the prayers of a united nation, and thereby emulate the conduct of their noble an• cestors on the field of Runnymede —evincing like them a firm attachment to the rights and liberties of the people, the only mode in the opinion of this meeting to secure their affection, and to transmit to posterity the blessings of a glorious Constitution." Seconded by Mr. BEAK. The petition baying been read, Mr. RICH ARDSON, in moving the fourth resolution, paid a high compliment to the liberal portion of the Prer. The resolution was that a petition be presented in the terms cf the foregoing resolutions.—Carried. Mr. BLACKETT then moved a resolution of thanks to his Majesty's Ministers, and imploring them not to leave the head of affairs, as the meeting were of . opinion that such abandonment would cause grea t confusion an the country. (LEFT SPEAKING) MIDDLESEX.—( THIS DAY.) A numerous and respectable meeting of the freeholders of the county of Middlesex was this day held, pursuant to r quisition, in the Mermaid Tave(n, Hackney, for the purpose of petitioning the House of .Lords to pass un mutilated, and with all possible expedition, the Reform Bill into a law. AL half.past twelve o'clock the Sheriffs took the chair, supported by Mr. Byng, M.P., Mr. Hunt, M.P., Col. Jones, Dr. Carpue, Sir J. Lilly, Mr. Serjeant Pell, and other influential gentlemen connected with the county. Mr. Sheriff MARSHALL then addressed the meeting. Having received within the last three days a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, of the freeholders of the county, it had afforded him and his colleague much pleasure on the last day of their holding office, to appoint this morning for the consideration of one of the most important subjects that could engage the attention of the British community.—(Cheers.) Surrounded as he was by gentlemen of so distinguished merits and at tainments it was unnecessary for him to say anything upon the general question, or on the resolutions that would he proposed, fcr the sanction and approval of the meeting, but at the last hour of holding of. tire he could not but congratulate the meeting on the occasion of their assembly together. The discussions of the day he hoped would bz conducted in that temperate manner which should do honour to the county; that no violent lan guage either in the resolutions or declamation might be used, as it was equally unworthy of the occ.e, , ion, and incon sistent with the true national character of Englishmen. The requisition was then read by the Under Sheriff, and— _ . .• Mr. Serjeant PELL came forward to address the meeting. He had the greatest pleasure in presenting himself on this occasion; and if there was any thing which would make him regret the occurrences of the day, it would be the state ment he had just heard from the Sheriff, that this was the last day he shou!d have to fulfill that office, which during: the last year he and his colleague bad filled with so much benefit to the public and credit to themselves.—(Cheers.) This was the first county meeting that had been held on this great question since the Bill had passed the House of Commons, and it ought to be the first, because the county of Middlesex contained as much as any county could con , tain of integrity, opulence, political wisdom, and British firm ness .—(Cheers.) The meeting was called for a great purpose ; he would say with the greatest truth, as far as the experience of his whole life extended, that the present in every respect was the most awful crisis that had ever impended over the British empire.--(Hea r.) He knew what the country wanted, and also what they should have. They wanted firmness but not violence, consistency but riot coarseness, they knew what their rights were, and by consistency and firmness they would, tinder God's blessing, have theni..4elitera.) He would not have any one deceive himself upon that point. Intimidation used to any man never did good, but above all intimidation to an Englishman always did honour, as it made him resist snore than he other wise would that which his reason told him he ought to adopt. If then, in proceeding to address the House of Lords, praying them to support, uphold, and carry the great measure of British reformed representation, the meeting felt that they were Englishmen, they ought not to forget at the same time that that illustrious body were Englishmen too.—(Cheers.) He did not anticipate an unfavourable result from the measures of that . day. He did not anticipate a hasty, splenetic, arbitrary, captious rejection either of the entire measure, or of any essential part of it. He was bound to believe, and he did believe, that the Bill would pass— because it ought to piss—because it contained that which was essential to the prosperity, peace, and happiness of the country, and because public opinion had decided that in its present state the Bill should lie passed into a law.— With these few remarks he trusted he would be allowed, by those even who had, in their opinions, a shade of difference, to make a few remarks upon the measure in itself, and with reference to the 'winner in which it had fortunately arrived at it present stage--(Hear)—and in what way he hoped it would ultimately reach the haven where the country with universal expectancy desired it to be. As to what it was in itself, it gave to England a real repre sentation—it gave to property, united with population, a power of melting those laws by which Englishmen were bound, and under which they were governed—it gave to the great towns that from which they had been so long and so iniquitously debarred—that representation which ought to be possessed by them, but had long been vested in such places as Gatton and Old Sarum. It took off the expences of contested elections from the shoulders of those who it was desirable should represent the interests of the country, for really no honest man in the present state of things with a moderately independent fortune dare embark in re presentative contests, because he felt all along that while in doing so he was attempting to support their independ ence, he was in substance and in fact losing his property and destroying—in another sense indeed, but still an important one—his known independence. Such was the measure in itself, and such the important ad vantages which constitutionally it proposed to confer upon the country. By whom had this measure been opposed ? By whom had it been supported ? It had been supported by the country at large—it hail been supported as far as poin t of constitutional punctilio could admit, by the head of the country—the King—(Cheers)—the most patriotic and the most honest Monarch that ever sat on the British throne.—(Here the meeting gave three times three cheers ) It had been supported—he said it without hesitation, and without dreading the aspersions which might be thrown on him— it had been supported by that great engine, great in its power—universal in its extent—moral in its influence — legitimate in its exercise, and searching in all its attri butes—be meant the public Press of the United King dom.—(Loud and continued cheers.) He had heard— anti the meeting had heard constant charges against the i public Press—many persons had smarted under it, but they had deserved the smart.—(Hear.) Ile would ask, had any honest, principled, straight-forward man been made to smart under it.—(Cries of " No, no.") Had the men whose course was clear, whose motives were be yord suspicion, men of private and public virtue ever suffered through injury by the public Press? No, he would tell who have suffered from it--who, if they had not suf fered in that way, could be made to smart by no other— he meant those half and half men, who were waiting for the turn of the tide to see in what way public opinion should flow, that their own bark might he waited by its shifting into the desired harbour, while they rejoiced in the wreck of others, who if they started along with them, had less manoeuvring, policy, and prudence, perchance than they.—(Cheers.) Another class of men there was, he held them in the most unfeigned contempt—who with all their boasted and affected friendliness to the liberty of the public Press, would do all in their power to crush and to wither its influence.— (Hear.) Who, when they would attack it commenced by etating their sincere attachment forsooth to its freedom, and then followed it up by something that showed they would cut down and abridge it as much as in them lay. These were the men who would bold up the Press to scorn ; and who would unjustly for their own private purposes put their hands into the public purse, or make the public a stepping-stone to their own ambition. In the House of Commons there was Sir Robert Peel, that man of cotton and consistency—that soi-disant of Protestant ascendancy—that supporter of political Catho licism—that gentleman who he believed from his heart would be found to assert that there was something in this Reform Bill which was more deserving of his attention titan lie had hitherto expected ; but who could forget that when he had the opportunity of throwing the represen tation of East Redford, under a convicted state of bribery and corruption, into one of the great towns of the north of Engla n d, ne glected the opportunity, anti armed with Minis terial influence, directed it into the hundred of B issetlaw —from one channel of corruption to another.—(Cheers.) Yet he too, upon the present occasion, had declared that an alteration should take place, and that the great towns should he represented, not because he approved of it, but because th e country demanded it.—(Cheers.) Then there was Sir C. Wetherell, who as well as Sir J. Scarlett, had been .ttkwtotorknineyg;Goefneßrarel,ntflonirdt so no long been smellinger, b at o th t like t lie same nosegay—(Laughter)--a nosegay made up of all the weeds and thistles and nettles of corrupt barousehmonger ing representation. But he would now come to thos e who had supported the measure.—[Here Sir Francis Burdett appeared on the hustings, and was loudly and most enthusiastically cheered by the meeting.] H e (the Learned Seijeant) would not vie late good taste by alluding personally to tho s e illustrious and patriotic indivi duels p res ent, who hail so nobly maintained the country's ni ipo,l,le ; o(o, n inLgn n goe e_ ti r in , g cause.—(Loud cheers.) But he could not forbear to mention the name of Lord Althorp, who from first to last in an English, plain, straight-forward, inflexible unswervingly performed his duty. Who had never betrayed a single nceiviti:ea'rieltrhibneege.,2ank of the Peerage, hail come forward guilty of a single inconsistency, but every possible occasion . to maintain the people's rights and defend their privileges.—( Loud cheers.) The Learned Se.rjeant then alluded to the opinion of Lord Althorp upon the liberty of the Press, and stat e d, that although the Bill was now deposited in the House of Lords, and reading, as no Noble Lord had direct opinion, it did not upon that point. He would hoped few would he found to i sah l s : yr d oy tie p nht a ei noci f toa : esrpp fi : e) r tsa s hi kt:ai that nehueac opp ose the wishes of the King and the nation. It was, indeed, an awful suspense, and be was under much apprehension ; because, let him think as w e ll as he iiiigta i of that nob le and illustrious body, the House of Peers, he could not but tremble, lest from some cause or other, —some, he would not say the majority, might go wrong. Sore lie was of this, that those who had oppose d the measure would present touch the same aspect as those who had opposed it in the Commons. lie could not but think tha t some private interest—a great deal of prejudice —a good deal of party spleen—much disappointed ambition would be found more or le-s to weave that web in which might be attempted, perhaps, to entangle this Bill of the nation's tights and constitu tional privileges,—(Loud cheers.) If that should he the case , which he trusted in God it would not, the people would have another opportunity of expressing t h e ir sentiments. It might happen that the ul timate success . of the measure might turn on the votes of Right bot e m v. of ` iii ßishops, s,,, t )t h d e . f t a i t i h a e i i-s ti t l i e f lie e tei ß e.erp ' nme l i l it.. l : C wses h ,liainot t leoc i ud l il e l,d,o. b vif e .:bre n roere e n h t the Church, would give. He hoped it would not come to that. shipwrecked at izN at hs all, rdei ibdi not k os i t o that t h description.ai t t s hould be shipwrecked through and in such a channel. Ther of a very irg there were which abroad concerning our church estab lishment wished all to be on taeir guard, that their enemies might not h ave t h e opportunity of saving, look to the measure, see what it is, anti judge of its efficacy by the strong means that have been resorted to to carry it. He was as great a f r i en d to tolerat i on as any man , an d respecte d the Dissenters greatly, to whom England owed so much, yet still he must be allowed to have his opinion as well es they theirs. He was a member of the Church of England himself, and Ile wished to have that church as pure as it could poesibly he.—(Great cheering.) He trusted that this country , w ou ld not h ave to b e dragged throu g h so lore it debate as that which had taken place in the liouse iftN v of Comioons, i n the House of Lords. Yet if it was, it ho was their duty to b ear it pat i ent l y , an d h e cou ld assure them, N so t , enforcing fmme•cainnsg, theytlteir rights would, up upon e the o long, House h m o e f i,,,id all they so ardently desired.—(Cheers.) But to attempt to gain that desir e d en d b y c l amour an d di s t ur b a n ce would ultimately bri ng us all to i rretr i eva bl e ru i n .—(L ou d r the e opponentsthissuspected o f gre a a c t ti ng measure? fro Liaihoeeneehr.asdb)u by they vy legitimate those whomlooked throu g h the country, and be could find unworthy motives. From the east to the west, from the north to the south, and from the highest to the lowest, all were friends and staunch supporters of it, and lie trusted l that an me an aste on hi interest e d lr few would thewould eyes benot of h allo t ev e ed w to bo t l h e wa c r o t un th tr a y t great were pitted, and on the fall of /AA tire happiness or misery of the country depended. The whole country had come forward like Englishmen, sensible of their rights and wrongs—the House of Commons had done what it ought to do, and he trusted the House of Lords would do the same. He had always been, and he always should be, a fast, fi xe d, an d resolute friend to Reform. The Learned Sergeant cinclud etl by moving the following resolution :—" Resolved, that this meeting have full reliance on their patriotic King, that they duly estimate his sympathy with the public feeling, and confidently trust that his Majesty will neglect.no legal means within his power to vindicate the rights and re establish the prosperity of the country."—(Cheers.) Mr. WILK'S, M.P., seconded the resolution. The basis of election had been recognised and established by the present Reform Bill in the House of Commons. By that great measure property was to be represented, aid six or seven hundred thousand of their fellow-country men were added to the constituency of the country. When measures like these were brought forward,supported by a pa triotic King and an enlightened Ministry,ought not the pre sent meeting, he would ask, and the whole country, to be proud of a King who had acted in so determined a manner. He trusted that the present measure would be the means of giving joy to all classes.—(Loud cheers.) Fears, how ever, were in existence, that the Bill would be rejected by the House of Lords. In those fears he could not concur, for he could never think so ill of the descend ants of men who had been so wise, and great, and good, who owed so much to their country, who de rived from it their fortunes and their all, as to suppose they would so far forget the wishes of the people, which had been thundered in their ears in so conspicuous a manner—(Loud cheers)—as to realize those fears ; but if try throwing out this Bill they did realize them, it was not tnr the country or himself he trembled, but for them. —(Loud and long-continued cheering.) The people would then be induced to ask why do these persons venture to oppose themselves to us—who and what are they? Is it their high and influential authority, or their great wealth, that entitles them to act so ; their wealth is not equal to ours, nor to their class did belong the poet or the mecha nical man ; and what right, therefore, can they have to oppose themselves to our wishes ? Such, doubtless, would be the language of the people if that fortuitous event, which he did not anticipate, should take place. He trusted that the present meeting would not address the House of Lords in vain. If, however, they did so, other resources were abundant, not tumult, confusion, and dis order—not the burning of houses or the raising of cla mour—but in the joint exercise of that constitutional power which the people of this country, and, thank God, its patriotic Sovereign, professed. He felt exceedingly happy that the Ministry had not created a sufficient number of Peers to pass the Bill, that would, in his opinion, have been an unconstitutional and unwise proceeding. They had, however, determined to leave the measure constitutionally for the consideration of the Lords, and if in that House the Bill was rejected, it teas extremely probable that the Ad ministration would prorogue the Parliament. The people would then know that their Loribliips did not sympathize with them, and they would join hand and heart in begging of their King to exercise his high prerogative in increas ing the number of Peers to such an extent as would ensure the ultimate success of this great and important measure, which would ensure to this country prosperity, happiness, and peace; The resolution was carried unanimously, amidst the most enthusiastic applause. Sir Jolts' SCOTT Ltr.Ly moved the following resolu• tion t—" That his Majesty's Ministers deserve the best thanks of the community, for their honest and cotnprelien sive plan of Reform, and for their able as well as persever ing exertions to pass the same into a law." The lion. Baronet was speaking when our reporter left. ALNWICK, (NowrnumßEßLAND).—On Friday a meeting, convened by the Chamberlains of the town took place at the Town-hall, John Carr, Esq., in the Chair. One of the speakers, Mr. Bushy, in addressing the meeting observed that " He had no fear that the Lords wou!d re- ject the Bill, but if they did, Englishmen had too much sense to plunge themselves into acts of violence in the as sertion of their rights. There was a moral power in the voice of principle anti truth that would effect as much as the demonstration of physical force. The House of Com mons had virtually declared themselves an imperfect echo of the wishes and sentiments of the people; the latter had not then their complete and constituti )nal voice in the Legislature. The petition of rights (3d Charles I.) de clared that the people shall not be taxed hut with their free consent in Parliament. It will then be for the House of Lords to consider bow, in the present state of the House of Commons, the people will be legally bound to pay taxes and obey laws to which they are debarred from giving their assent. Language cannot be too strong for their address to the Lords. The Bill of Rights was a model for their imitation. The great men of that day said we claim, demand, and insist upon the premises as our un doubted rights and liberties,' and one of the premises' was, that the election of Members of Parliament should be free.'" A petition to the Lords, to be presented by Earl Grey, was agreed to, as was an address to his Majesty on the occasion of the coronation containing stronrullu sions to " the Bill." BRIDGE WARD.—In compliance with the requi sition of a large body of the inhabitants, a meeting of the ward of Bridge was held yesterday, at the Swan Tavern, Fish-street-hill. BRIGHTON.—At two o'clock yesterday, a numerous and highly respectable meeting was held in the Town-ball on the subject of the Reform Bill, the High Constable in the chair, when a petition to the House of Lorde was una nimously adopted. BELFAST.—A requisition to the Sovereig❑ lics on tl.e table of the Commercial News-room, and has already re ceived nearly 100 signatures. We do not recollect ever B,,eing a requisition which, in so short a period, received so numerous and respectable a list of signatures.— Northern Whig. COVENTRY.—At four o'clock on Thursday, the news of passing the Reform Bill in the Commons was announced in this city. The intelligence spread with', rapidity, and in a short time after the bells of St. Michael's church stoick off, and continued ringing until a late hour at night. The ringing was resumed next morning.— Coventry Herald. CORK.—The citizens of Cork had a preliminary meet ing on Tuesday, to arrange for an aggregate meeting to pe tition the Lords. The Mayor, on being applied to, refused to convene the meeting, or in any way connect himself with it. Sir T. Deane, one of the Sheriffs, granted the use of the Court-house for the intended meeting, which is axed for this day. Thete will be a county meeting in a few days. Kinsale was to meet on Friday. DARLINGTON.—On Wednesday a meeting was held in the Town-hall, in compliance with a requisition to the Bailiff of the Manor, Thomas Bowes, Esq., for the pur pose of considering the propriety of presenting a petition to the House of Lords in favour of the Reform Bill. The meeting was numerously and respectably attended, and, alt,r disavowing the report propagated in Parliament that the pmple had become lukewarm with respect to the Bill, it was unanimously agreed that a petition should be forth with sent to the House approving of the measure, and praying their Lordships immediately to pass it into a law. —Durham Chronicle. in our Pap!' of yesterday. 1 Nri ittive only to skid, the a petition to the Peers " to pan the Bill with all possible dispatch" was agreed to. AIAIDSTONE.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Maidstone was held at the Town-hall on Friday last, for the purpose of petitioning the Howe of Lords to pats the Reform Bill. The Mayor presided on the occasion ; but nearly all his hrsthren of the corporation were absent. The towns people, however, mustered in great numbers, and the meeting was one of the most animated that has taken place in Maidstone for some time past. NORWICH.—On Saturday last a requisition to the Mayor, to call a public meeting to petition the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill, was signed by the most respectable citizens in a few hours, and in compliance with which the Mayor has fixed next Thursday for the meeting to take place. The enthusiasm prevailing in this city in favour of Reform is only equalled by the fixed de termination of the inhabitants to support his Majesty's Mi nisters in any resolution they may come to, to carry the Bill into a law, should the Peers reject it. A Committee to watch the progress of the measure in the Lords will most probably be appointed, in order that steps may in stantly be adopted should their Lordships think proper to insult their Sovereign and his people by deciding against the Bill. NEWPORT.—At Newport, Monmouthshire, on Thurs day last, at a public meeting, Thomas Phillips, Esq., in the Chair, a firm yet respectful petition was adopted; one of the allegations of the petition is worthy attention, com prising, as it does, the sentiments of the residents of that great shipping port for the extensive produce of the mineral district of the county--" That the delay which has taken place in passing the Reform Bill through the other House of Parliament has already paralyzed trade, commerce, and manufactures." NORTHAMPTON.—A meeting was held in the Guild hall on Saturday, the Mayor in the chair, when a petition was voted to the Lords, to be entrusted to Lord Pomfret. NOTTINGHAM.—A Reform meeting was held in this town on Thursday to petition the House of Lords. NORTHERN POLITICAL UNION.—The petition of the Union and other friends of Reform was signed by 30,734 persons, and measured 157 yards in length. Since it was sent off, parchments containing n 9 signatures have been received, making the total numbers 31,063 ; other two parchments have not yet come to Land. The petition rec-ived 965 signatures in A lnwick and the neighbourhood, and the village of Felton. —Newcastle Chroxicle. PADDINGTON.—Yesterday a very respectable meet ing was held in the Vestry-room at Paddington, to con sider of a petition to the House of Lords, praying their Lordships to pass the Reform Bill. We have not room to insert the speeches delivered on the occasion, which were highly creditable to the gentlemen who delivered their sen timents. Resolutions were moved seriatim, and a petition founded thereon was agreed to, conformable to the objects of the meeting. An account of the subscription received by the Reform Committee was presented to the assembly, which skews that they discharged their trust with zeal and economy. SURREY.—The meeting of the freeholders has peen fixed by the High Sheriff to take place on Friday at Epsom, at twelve o'clock precisely. WESTMINSTER.—A meeting of the united polishes of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, was held yesterday at the workhouse, in Dean-street, Mr. Pink, churchwarden, in the chair Mr. Sturgeon, a barrister, !tlr. Richmond, and several other gentlemen, addressed the meeting-, when a petition was adopted, and entrusted to Lord Grey to be presented to the House of Lords. The Provincial Papers are cbirfly filled with long re ports of these meetings. In addition to those which we have briefly noticed, the same spirit is perceptible in the fallowing towns and parishes which have met, or are tak ing steps for that purpose :—Bothwick, Frome, Bridge water, Bradford, Trowbridge, Winchester, Romney, Taun ton, Bideford, Dartmouth, Stoneham, Cliffe, near Lewes, Stroud (Gloucestershire), Leicester, Redruth, Sheffield Political Union, Mansfield Political Union, Newark, Wi zan, Bolton (Lancashire), &o. Northallerton, the York Reform Association, Carlisle, Durham County, to met on Friday next ; Richmond (Yorkshire), Wakefield, Stoke (Potteries), Burslem, Lane End, Wolverhampton, Lichfield, the Birmingham Political Union, Birmingham town, Sal ford, and other towns in Lancashire. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. STANDCATE CREEK, SEPT. 26.—Arrived the St. George, Celli, from Genoa; Sylph, Barton ; Spring, Spence ; and Timms Baker, Baker, from St. Petersburgh. DEAL, SEPT. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Wemt hrooke, Smith, from Jamaica, and Hindostan, from Quebec. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Haracouta packet from Bermuda, saiird the 21st ult., and from Halifax the 7th inst. HOLYHEAD, SFrf. 25.—Arrived off port, the o , prey, From New York. LIVERPOOL, Sm. 25.—Off port, the Mary Ann, from Demerara. POOLE, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Rileline, Tucker, from Op qto. GLOUCESTER, SE2T. 25.--Arrived the New Draper, Barwin, from Quebec. DUBLIN, SEPT. 24..--Arrived the William, Parry, from Leghorn ; and Viada, Meaquentor, from St. Übe's. DUNDEE, SEPT. 25.--Arrived the Mediterranean, Mill; Margaret Bogle, Smith ; Minto, from St. Pe— tersburgh ; and Sovereign, Miller, from Pernau. MONTROSE, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Active, Straelan ; and Jean, Wylie, from Archangel. The Hampshire, Angus, from St. Petersburgh to Lon don, was totally lost 4th inst. on Gottland. One of the crew drowned. The Neptune, Baker, from Liverpool to Elburg, was stranded, 21st inst. near Tobermorey, and it was feared would be totally wrecked. The squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir E. Codringtoa was off Cork on Saturday. Letters from Frankfort mention a report of the death of Marshal PASKEWITSCH, in consequence of the contusion be received in the chest. It was stated in the Russian bulletins that he was obliged to surrender the command on the second day of the attack to Gen. TOLL, and that be was not able to make his entrance into Warsaw on horseback ; but this was not geuerally believed. The Treaty of Peace between Belgium and Holland, as arranged by the Conference, it is expected, will be signed by the 10th of October. Luxemburg is to belong to the former, and the compensation for the claim of Holland thereto is to be settled by Austria and Prussia. The German Diet, of course, acquiesce in this adjustment. The remaining Fiench troops were to commence their tie parture this day from 13elgiurn, which the whole will have quitted by the 30th instant. The establishment of a Chair for Pathology, in Edinburgh University, has just been determined on by the Crown. It is understood no salary is to he attached to it. Dr. JOHN THOMSON is appointed Professor. The inhabitants of Sheffield have addressed requisitions to Mr. T. A. WARDE and Mr. J. S. BUCK INGHAM, inviting them to allow themselves to be put in nomination for the representation of that town as soon as the Reform Bill shall have passed. Mr. WARDE respect fully declines for the present ; Mr. Burxmcriam, whe was waited upa by a deputation from the town, while in Staffordshire, accepted the invitation. FIRE.—An alarming fire broke out yesterday night week in a barn full of corn, on the premis.es of BEN raarni STEER, at Limpstieid, Surrey, near Westerham, which completely burnt it dowr, together with the pro duce of twelve acres of peas and beans. A new hop-kiln, with ten pockets of hops ready for market, w.s a's° de stroyed. The damage is estimated at 6001. No doubt this was the work of some vile incendiary, as the barn was seen a light in three different parts.—County we think,c e. TILE I RISH D ISTILLEns .W e can state with an a ssurance upon w hi c h t h e pub li c ma y, rely, that there is every prospect of a satisfactory moat of the proceedings of the Conunittee on the malt drawback. The Chairman of the Excise Board was examined and cross-examined with great power, by Messrs. Noatnt and O'CoNNELn, before the Committee, and he was forced to admit that the statement of the Board was deiived, not from his own knowledge, but from the representaLions of interested persons, Even some of the Scotch distillers by the I themselves admirih gisttt s ed the :Lets,general T truth Committee, o ftlte w s t .teern are made satisfied, must report against the drawback s ) stem, the meantime we shall in s ist on t h e p of the lrishudnirt7i tillers, on the necessity of suspendin g the a general scheme of arrangem e nt be dr6a theitl I tra Y de is en- re tied. This is only simple justice. and it ;s w hat but as titled to. —Dublin Evening P . .si• The letters from I i ta nts hare sent a r.quiaation to ult. The English inha fearing the island would this Government for P e r :i g i on irom erceira ; but the a be attacked by the anticipated hie NAJESTI S .Ministers, they plication is tched a naval force to that is.ltad, having already e Aiadeira are dated the t ~ { DUBLIN.—A requisition far a meeting of the free- holders and inhabitants of this county, to petition Parlia• ment in favour of the Reform Bill, is in progress of signa ture. Many of the leading gentlemen of the county have already given their names to it.—Dublin Morn. Register. FROME.—A numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Frome was held on Friday at the George inn, pursuant to public notice by the churchwardens and overseers, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords on the important measure now brought before them. William Sheppard, Esq., in the Chair. It was then moved that the Earl of Cork be requested to present the petition, and that Lord Polti • more be also desired to support the prayer thereof. HAMPSHIRE—A numerous and respectable meeting was held on Wednesday last of the inhabitants of Ports. mouth, to petition the House of Lords to pass the Reform that assertion so often rerated by the enemies of thi.. Bill. The proceedings were a triumpha nt refutatio n of measure, viz., that there this is a re-action in the public feeling. The Portsmouth petition, like others, was carried with acclamation. HEREFORD. —On Saturday evening a requisition was presented to the Mayor of this city, to convene an early meeting of the freemen and inhabitants, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning the Lords in favour of the Reform Bill. The requisition bears the signature of 115 highly respectable freemen and inhabitants, and had there been any necessity the number m ight, without much exertion, have been quickly anti considerably increased. The citizens are waiting anxiously for the reply of the M a y or . LIVERPOOL. —Th e p e titi on t o th e L or d s h as a l rea dy obtained 6,000 s i gnatures, embrac i ng i nd i v i duals " who have be as the aenith and th e na di r i n th e i r p o liti ca l cree d s " LAM BETH.—A meeting of this extepaive parish was held yesterday, part 0 the proceedings at which we inserted,