The Sun. — London, England, 1831-10-27 00:00:00

11AM PSHIRE GREAT COUNTY REFORM MEETING, (BY EXPRESS.) This county, which has long been known as one bear ing a high Tory character, resolved not to be the last in the field to address the King in favour of the rejected Re form Bill. The following requisition, signed by up war d s of 500 freeholders, w as , on the 14th inst., present e d to Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, Bart., of Tichborne Park, High Sheriff for the county :—" We, the undersigned freeholders, request you to convene a meeting of th e county at the earliest convenient day, to consider the pre sent state of the great question of Parliamentary Reform, and to take such steps thereupon as a elms SO important demands. The requisition was signed by many men of great ereilltti and influence in the county, including, many clergy men ; among them were the county Members, J. B. Carter, E-q., M.P., R. Etwall, Jun., Esq., M.P., Sir Themas Baring, Bart., IMP., the Reverend Doctor W. H. Newholt, the Reverends E, Polter, C. Richards, T. Gamier, C. J. Isdell, J. Ellis, J. Hewer, L. 13. Wither, R. G. Richards, .1. Barber, L. 0. Ilwood, D. Williams, R. Carleton, &c. &c. In pursuance of the above requisition, the High Sheriff appointed the meeting to take place at the Castle, at Winchester, yesterday. Much importance was attached to the teattlt of this meeting:, from the former political feelings of sonic of the requisitioniatr. It was known at an early hour yesterday morning that 3lr. Cobbett and his son Richard had ar rived at the Barley-mow, and that the former intended to move an amendment to the address, and if possible to ob tain by a skilful manoeuvre a first hearing, so as that his addreea should he first read. Its this attempt it will lie seen be succeeded, and he was also within an ace of having it adopted. The proceedings were conducted with any thing rather than with a disposition to keep order. Long before twelve o'clock, the hour fixed for the commence ment of the 'ansiness, and notwithatanding the unfavourable aspect of the weather, a vast number of persona flocked to v: sat is called the Castle-yard, and at twelve o'clock we should suppose there were from 4,000 to 5,000 persons present. The principal personages forming the Com mittee assembled at the George Inn, and from thence pro ceeded to the Grand Jury-room, from the windows of which the speakers addressed the meeting. We cannot refrain from expressing our surprise that no hustings were erected in the Castle-yard, or other arrangement:, made, by which most of the dis orders that ensued would have been prevented. The Grand Jury room has; four windows in it, each of which, as well as the body of the room, was crowded with persons. The High Sheriff took his stand at one of them, and as there was no aocommodation for the public Press, and as per sons spoke from each window, and sometimes two persons from different windows at one time, the inconvenience was a very great one. To Mr. Dunn, the Under Sheriff, our thanks are cue for endeavouring, as far as he was able tinder existing circumstances, to enable 118 to obtain a tolerably accurate report of the proceedings Amoog the gentlemen in the room were Sir James Macdonald, Bart. and Shaw Le Fevre, Esq., 'Members for the county; Sir F. Baring, Bart , M.P., Francis Baring, Esq., M.P., John B. Carter, Esq., M.P. for Portsmouth, G. P. Jer voise, Esq., late M.P. for the county, Sir R. Simeon, Bart., a Reform candidate for the Isle of Wight, P. St. John Milditiay, Esq., M.P. for Winchester, Henry Marsh, Esq., of Reading, &r. A variety of handsome banners were displayed in the Castle-yard; amongst them we noticed those containing the following inscriptions:— " Union is strength ; the envy of the Poroughniongers is the glory of the Reformers." " No mitred Priest or Prelate's crown Shall pull the cause of free•_tom down." " We will thunder in the ear of the Boroughmongers . Justice is our shield, reason our battle-axe, and liberty our prize.'" The proceedings commenced by the Under Sheriff, Mr. Dunn, reading the requisition. The HIGH SHERIFF stated that in compliance with a requisition which be had received, signed by persons re siding in all parts of the county, he had convened the present meeting at a crisis of unusual importance, and he, therefore, hoped that every attention would be paid to every gentleman who might wish to address the meeting He wished that a fair and impartial bearing would be given to all parties, and he hoped that as this was a mo ment of unusual interest, whoever intended to speak would confine himself to the object for which the meeting was called.--(Cheers. ) Mr. Bunn, town-clerk of Newbury, stepped forward to propose en address to hie Majesty. At this crisis he wa, of opinion the people ought plainly to point out what hi. Mijesty ought to do under the present circumstances; hi should therefore propose an address for the approval of the meeting ; there was no doubt that they would have another address proposed to them, but he would read his at 011(r., and then he would leave it to the meeting either to adopt his, or one that they could more highly approve of.—(Cheers.) Mr. Budd then read the following ad dress, " TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. " THE ADDRESS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY OF HANTS, IN COUNTY MEETING ASSEMBLED, THIS 23TH DAY OF OCTOBER, " MAY IT PLE VOUR MAJESTY,—We, the people of Ilamp. shire, being thoroughly convinced that your Majesty's Royal office and powers exist for one good, and that your Majesty has constantly exerted those powers with the most anxious solici_ lode for our welfare, deeply lament, that instead of confining ourselves upon this occasion to an expression of our gratitude towards your Majesty, a due regard for the welfare of our country and our children, as well as for the stability of your Majesty's throne, compel us to complain that another branch of the Legis lature has dashed from our lips the cup of renovation, of p eace, of prosperity, and happiness, tendered to us by the paternal and gracious hand of your Majesty. " Having for many long years seen our undoubted right of choosing our rep, esentatives daringly usurped—having been be reft of all that protection for our property, which had been pro vided for by the laws of our fathers—having seen the usurpers of our rights take to themselves, or squander on their kindred or creatures, the incomes from our estates and the fruit of our toil —having sects them mortgage to loan-mongers and Jews every inch of our country, every house, every tree, the sweat of our brow, and even that of the child in the cradle—having endured from their merciless hands burden heaped on burden, stripe fol lowing stripe, the last always still heavier than the former— having seen them, by their cruel exactions, take from the far mer the means of paying the labourer wages sufficient to supply him with food fit for man—having seen them, at last, reduce our once free and happy country to a state of poverty, misery, and crime, in which the world could recognize of England nothing but the name, and that name, instead of being our glory, hav ing become our shame—thus brought by this band of usurpers to choose between the basest bondage and deadly civil strife, and seeing your Majesty nobly step forward to rescue us from this sad alternative, to restore us our rights, to redress our wrongs, to raise us from our degradations, what has been our indignation at seeing a hundred and ninety-nine persons, enriched and made • great only by taxes extorted from ourselves, scornfully reject all our claims and supplications, and treat as nothing worth even the Roya;, gracious, and earnest recommendation of your Ma jesty : But, if language would fail us in endeavouring to give 'rent to our thoughts relative to this whole band, where shall we find words to express our feelings with regard to the conduct of those mitred enemies of our rights and our happiness, who, roll ing in wealth and lodged in princely palaces by means drawn from our property anti labour, and thus exalted as the immaculate guardians of piety anti virtue, have by this their vote stamped the seal of their approval on scenes of drunkenness, fraud, cor ruption, subornation, and perjury, inure flagrant, more shameless, more teeming wills abominations than were those, on the actors in which God, by the mouth of Job, pronounced that the con gregation of hypocrites should be desolate, and that fire should consume the tabernacles of bribery; more flagrant, more /WI of abominations than the acts of the apostate sons of Samuel, equal in turpitude and cruelty to the despoilers and destroyers of Naboth, and yielding in point of wickedness to the deeds of none but Judas Iscariot himself: " Thus, finding the most bitter enemies in those, whose calling and whose professed hatred of vice taught us to look for the warmest of friends, we have now no reliance but in the wisdom and the justice of your Majesty • and most firmly relying on these, and on that love for your" faithful people which has been conspicuous in every act of your :Majesty's reign, we humbly implore your Majesty to exert your Royal powers, by issuing in accordance with ancient usage your writs for a new House of Commons, agreeably with the provisions of the Bill, which has now been rejected by the Peers, and thereby insure the oat , . means of restoring safety, peace, and harmony to this now suf fering and troubled kingdom, and which blessing we shall the more highly prize as being the work of a Sovereign endeared to 113 by every tie that can bind to a gracious King a loyal, dutiful, and g rateful people." LMany passages in the address were meet enthusiastically cheered, particularly the allusions to the Bishops, and the advice to his Majesty to issue writs for a new House of Commons in accordance with the provisions of the Reform Bill.] Mr. Budd then stated that it was a common saying that one false step often occasioned others, and so it was in this case, for if his Majesty had been ad vi•ed to set the matter.at rest at once, there would hav e been no occasion to have asked fur the sinction of the House of L er ds.—(Cheers.) Ihere was one resolution on the Journals of the House of Commons, d ec l ar i ng that it was a breach of privilege for any Peer to interfere in the eleCtion of any of its Members, and yet in violation of that rule they all at once and by wholesale, asked the Peers to give their consent to the Reform Bill.—(Cheers.) They had no business to go to the Lords at all. Mr. COINSZTT then came forward, and was much cheered by the crowd in the Castle-yard, and hissed by those in the room. He bogged to second the ad dress, i n which there was nothing that ought not to be said to a. good King by an oppressed and industrious people.—(Loud cheers and hisses.) There was one thing that ought always to be attended to. either in addressing the Kin g p r an y bod y else , and that was the truth ; and if every thing in that address was true—and he believed it was—there was nothing in it that ought to be otoitti d. In many e°unties in which h t . had been, he found a very great delic ac y prevailing in speaking of the conduct of the Bishops. Now the people must recollect, that the cup of bliss had been dashed horn their lips by those Bishops—(Loud cheers)--bY those wen who had fattened and been made rich by the labour of the poor•--(Cheers, and a cry of " Down with them.") Only two Bishops voted for the Bill, twenty-one voted against it, and all the rest were absent ; he felt, however, gratified to notice those two who voted for the Bill, and who were the venerable Bishop Bathurst, of Norwich, anti Dr. Maltby, Bishop of Chichester. Then there was the Irish Church, consisting of 15 Bishops, and they must surely have a great deal to do, for they had only sixteen resident Clergymen belonging to each Bialsoprie in the whole country. Of these eighteen, four of them sat in Parlia ment as what were reined Representative Bishops. These men n•ere ail pampered in luxury, revelling in palaces, tolling in wealth, and able to leave behind them 200,000/. or 300,0001. when they died, although they were not worth a halfpenny when they were appointed.—(Cheers ) All those Bishop!, but two, voted against restoring to the people sty portion of the liberties that belonged to them.— (Cheers.) He therefore asked, whether it would not be a great omission to addrese, Ms Majesty without alluding to the conduct of the Bishops ?—(Cries of " Yea.") — Shaul 1 the people of Hampshire do this? There was one Bishop who had a palate at Farnham, and one at Chelsea : that at Chelsea was sold by an Act of Parlia ment, and the money put into the funds, but the Bishop te terved the interest of Shame l") If lie could do with one palace less by the authority of an Act of Parliament, could he not de with another less, and then why should not tilt money be placed in the Treasury? If one palace could be taken by law, what was there to prevent a second being taken iu like manner?—(Cheers.) The Bishop would then be reduced to something like an Apostolical life, and be obliged to work like St. Paul and Timothy with his own hands the thing that was good, and that he might give to those who needed it.—(Cheers.) Of all the counties in England, the people of Hampshire would lie base to be silent on the conduct of the Bishops.—(Cheers.) They had not only a Bishop, but two sorts of half-Bishops —for Bishops were in the habit of breeding in Hampshire. —(Laughter and cheers.) That county had not only one but three Bishops. There was the Earl of Guildford, who held a prebendal stall in Winchester and several livings ; did the people think that his Lordship would vote for the Reform Bill, which would take from him all his livings but one at least?—(Loud cheers.) The people of Manchester were about to elect him, Mr. Cobbett, if the Bill passed into a law, but he had told them that un less they would support him in appropriating the Church property in a proper manner, so that the people might have a little more religion and a little less tithes to pay, they might look about for another man.—(Cheers.) Then there was the present Lord Waleingham, whose name was De Grey ; he was Chancellor of the diocese of Surrey, Prebend of Winchester, and had the livings of four parishes in Hampshire. Would he, did they think, vote for the Reform Bill?—(Cheers.) He had good reasons for not voting for it. They were, however, good reasons for the people to tell the King that they bad no hope in the Lords, and to request his Majesty to exercise his undoubted right of calling on all the towns to send Members to Par liament without the permission of the House of Lords.—(Loud cheers.) That was the great point iu the proposed address.—(Cheers.) There was another thing which they ought to attend to. They had h •ard from their boyis'i days a great outcry raised by persons against the Catholic religion—the Catholics had been called idolatrous and superstitious, and the head of them had been likened to the whore of Babylon. The people not knowing that their great-grandfsthera were of that re ligion, also adopted that cry. Their forefathers had built that (Winchester) Cathedral, but many persons believed that it was built by Protestants.—(Cries of " No, we do not.") There had, however, been an abolition of that penal and cruel law affecting the Catholics, and for that abolition they might thank the Duke of Wellington. Altogether there were now twenty-eight Catholics in Par liament—nineteen in the House of Commons, and nine in the House of Lords. Out of the nineteen in the House of Commons only one voted against the Re form Bill, and of the nine in the Lords, only one voted against it. As to Lord Arundel, who voted against the Bill, his better-half was a Protestant.— having married a Protestant. Now there were forty-four Protestant Bishops, and only two voted for the Bill, while of the twenty-eight Catholics only two voted against the people's wishes, After this statement he (i'slr. Cobbetr) thought they would he satisfied that the address ought not to be silent on the score of the Bishops.—(Cheers.) The hope of every man was that a Reformed Parliament would soon relieve the people from the monstrous and iniquitous oppression of tithes.—(Cheers.) Therefore the not pass ing- of the Bill was productive of serious injury to the people ; it was a substantial evil if the Bill did not peso. If it had passed, after a few months there would be no more disputes between farmers and their labourers— (Cheers)—and those taxes which pressed so heavy upon the farmers and the labourers would be taken off.— (Cheers.) Only look at the malt tag. Was it not an evil to tax the barley that a farmer grew in his field, and the hops that would grow in his hedges if they would let them ? Then the farmer was ruined if he converted his malt or his hops into drink for himself or his servants. The farmers had their choice—either to be ruined by p ty ing all the heavy taxes imposed upon them ? or by pinch .. ing and grinding, their labourers; for his (Mr. Cobbett's) part he would bring it to an upshot ; he would pay no paron—he would pay nubody--(lmmense uproar, with mingled cherts and hisses)—he would only pay the labourers and he would pay them enough to lire upon—( Cheers)—and the rest should get it how they could.—(Cheers and groans.) He now begged to remind the whole of the assembly that they had a right to be wri e r e they were ; it was a right that no one could prevent enjoying ; and he begged them to bear in mind tha a great deal depended on the vote. they should give this day. The Sheriff would put the address to them, and if the majority, as ha trusted they would, held up their hands for it, it would go to the King, and what was of more im- purtance it would be published in every Newspaper.— It would be the decision of a county steeped in tithes and Church lands, and would be of more importance than that of any other county in England. If they carried this ad dress, more would be told to the King and his Ministers than was contained i❑ the thousand flummery speeches and addresses that would be tent up. That man (pointing amongst the crowd) with a smock frock on, and that young fellow with a red waistcoat and chipped hat, were of much greater importance than the persons about him (Mr. Cobbett). Such men were those who brought the mutton and beef to perfection. He now begged to tell them that if an address should be proposed which did not contain matter relative to the Bishops, by all means instantly to reject it.—(Cheers and cries '' We will.") If one was read to them containing any compliments to the Ministers, and expressing confidence in them, he begged of them to shun it as they would a thunderbolt. —(lmmense noise of cheers outside and groans within— loud cries of "off, off," and "turn him out.") Ah, that little groupe were tax-gatherers. This meeting, he verily believed, had been called by persons who had nothing in view but that of adopting a flattering address to the Ali- . . niters—(lmmense uproar again)—and to pray the King to keep his Ministers in office. Did they never see a big fellow heat his wife, upon which she held her chili up to him, telling him to beat his own offspring.—(Laughter.) Just so was Lord Grey. He was the baby in the hands of he Tories.—(lnuneme uproar again, and a cry of " Give him rope enough, and he will hang himself.") Mr. Cobbett pointed to a few persons in a corner, who were conspicuous in hissing him, and said—" Ah, there they are—the tax-gatherers—the tax-eaters—the bailiffs— the stewards—all stuck in a corner.—( Hisses and cheers.) He hoped the meeting would show that they knew how to counteract such proceedings.—(Groans again front the same quarter.) There tvas a great fraud intended to be practised on them to get them to approve of another ad- dress to his I%lajesty,:tying him to retain the Mini%ter, in their places.—(Cheers, and cries of " Yes, we will.") For his part he would say nutting against the Ministers, although he could say plenty against them ; but if any one attempted to eulogize them be would state what he had to say.—(A cry of " We won't believe you.") Yes, he had plenty to say against them, particularly when he recollected the deeds they committed on that very spot. Ile would now leave the address in their hands; some gentleman would, he knew, move an amendment to it, and he begged them to vote against that amendment..—(Cheers and hisses. ) Then Mr. Build's address would be put, and if it should be carried, he begged them to give a shout which would _ . rend the skies and frigLten them out of their senses. G. P. JERVOISE. Esq., said he did not appear before the meeting as a public character, but as a straight-for ward private country gentleman.—(Cheers.) Once he had the honour of serving the county, and happy would he have been, could lie have given a vote in the House of Commons in favour of the Reform Bill. He deeply la- mented the rejection of the Reform Bill in the H'euse of Lords; it had been sent up by a majority of the House of Commons, and as it spoke the sentiments of that House it ought t o h ave b een p asse d.—(Ch e e rs .) He did no! wish to deceive the meeting, as he believed the respect dile , gentleman who spoke last did.—(Cbeers, and cries of " lie is not going to deceive us.") He had the happiness of living in a free country, and to entertain truly consti tutional principles. They had heard what Mr. Cobbett had said about the Bishops ; he was not the man of suck a despotic character as to say, that property should be un lawfully taken from any individual. Let every man possess his property until it was taken from him by the law.—(Heie there was much nom, and a manifestation of impatience. the High Sheriff with some difficulty procured Mr. icrvoise a hearing.) He hoped he was speaking to honest men, who possessed honest principles. It was his province to propose certain resolutions to the consideration of the meeting, and upon which their decision would he re quired. Mr. Jervoise concluded by moving the following resolutions : " That we, in comsr on with the whole people of England, h ave watched V, ith deep anxiety the progress through the House of Commons of the wise measure of Parliamentary Reform brought forward - by the Ministers of the Crown, under the auspices of our most gracious' and beloved Sovereign; and have Witnessed with the utmost diiappointment and indignation its peremptory rejection 1w 'he other House of Parliament. " That we deem it our duty at such a moment to approach his Majesty's person as well to assure him of our heartfelt gratitude for his paternal care of the constitutional rights of his people, and our conviction of the integrity and wisdom that have directed his Councils, as to express to him frankly our firm persuasion that no measure of Reform in any respect loss efficient will satisfy the wants and wishes of the community. " That believing the internal iwace and well being of the country to depend upon the speedy restoration of the people's rights in the election of representatives to their own House of Parliament, we humbly thank his Majesty for continuing his entire and unhesitating confidence in his present advisers, satis fied as we are that on their firmness and integrity the nation may safely rely for the early realization of its just expectations." HENRY MARSH, Esq., on stepping forward to second the resolutions, said he never had less reason for despair at the present moment. They had heard what Mr. Cob bett had said, who boasted of being an old Reformer ; he was an older man, but not so old a Reformer as he (Mr. Marsh) was. He was a Reformer when it was not only not the fashion to be one, but when the Reformers were compared with Falstaff's ragged regiment, which had only two shirts and a half amongst them, and those they were accused of having stolen. He was a Reformer when old George Rose said the country gentlemen must glee up a por tion of their property to save the other, and old Rose made pretty good pickings out of it. At that time when he Mr. March was a Reformer, Mr. Cabett was an Anti- Reformer.—(Cries of " No.") He would say yes. Often did Mr. Cobbett shoot his porcupine quills, making r them reach from America to England—(L=aughter and sheers)—.and be it remembered that all his quills whe.• ther goose or porcupine, told, and left a visible wound for years afterwards. Mr. Cobbett was a man of very com manding talents, but at that time he was young and unac quainted with the boroughmongering system. But why should they now despair, now when they had the King, the Lords (not a m jority yet, hut he hoped they soon would have), the majority in the Hcuse of Commons, and twenty-two millions of people, acting in one great cause, and only a few Lards against it.—(Cheers.) What was the conduct of these Lords ? Was there any arrangement being made that could interfere with the privileges of the Lords? No ! It was only respecting the Commons House of Parliament.—(Cheers.) They arrogated to themselves the power of the Deity, that of übiquity, and of being in more places than one at the same time ; they could lie in bed at home, and vote in the House of Lords at the same moment. There were 45 Lords ab sent from the division, probably at home and in bed, while a decision was taking place upon a nation's fate—(Cries of " Shame")—a decision which should place thii country either in a free and prosperous conditions or in a state of anarchy and confusion. So much for the Temporal Lords; now for those spiritual. Let it be remembered that for a century past those Bishops had never voted in favour of the people, but always wills the Ministers until now. He did not quarrel with what Mr. Cobbett said of the Bishops. Man was the creature of circumstances, and human nature was the same whether it was found under a Bishop's petti coat or a cobbler's apron—(Laughter)—and, by the bye, they were both menders of soles (souls). He would however, like to mention an exception to the general rule ; if these was one man who could be held in greater estimation than another it was a truly independent and virtuous clergyman, and for this reason, that its the exact proportion of the value of the temptation was the merit of resisting that temptation. It was well known that a great temptation was held out to clergymen to become sycophants and time servers. How were the Bishops made ? The fact was they were made nut of that bo rouglimongering system which it was the object of the people to destroy.—(Cheers.) He, Mr. Marsh, once said to his learned friend Dr. Valpy, of Reading, " If you fi sd served your country, you would now be a Bishop ;" but his friend knew better than he hose' Bishops were made, for he replied, " Oh no ; the only wa y to become a Bishop is to he either a Lo r d' s t on, a Lord' s brot!ser, or a Lord's tutor." Indeed if they looked to the history of the country they would find numbers of Bishops hail been tutors to young Lordlings, and by that means had been put on the clerical railway, and obtained immediate pro. motion.—(Cheers and laughter.) Their sole and imme diate desire was lucre.—(Much noise in the crowd, who were becoming impatient.) He hoped that as they had beard Mr. Cobbett speak about the Bishops, they would also hear him. Hudibras, when asked " What makes the Church a den of thieves Id" . replied, A Dean and Chapter, and lawn sleeves." —(Laughter.) He (Mr. Marsh) would, however, give . a more appropriate answer, and say the cause was ". Old Sarum, Gatton, and lawn sleeves." He hoped they would persevere until they got a Reform in Parliament, which would soon afterwards produce a thorough Reform in Church and State.—(Cheers.) He did not wish to attack Mr. Cobbett, for if there was one man on earth who had a clear insight into the opera tion of the Pitt system it was that gentleman. There had been a great deal of go,d stuff in Mr. Cobhett's address, and he should like to read it in the next Register, but lie put it to the meeting whether all the world had not said, whether Mr. Cobbett had not last week said, when speak ing of Lord Grey, that if his Lordship had hen an am bitious man he would have resigned directly, and thus the whole country would be thrown into disorder and con fusion. But Lord Grey would not resign. He had a character to lose. 'Where would they find a man who for forty years had preserved his consistency like Lord Grey ? —(Loud cheers.) Were they then to be told that they ought to deprive him of their confidence and support ? (Cries of " No, no.") The answer of Lord Grey to a deputation was said not to be satisfactory. Let it be recollected that he was the Prime Minister, and sworn not to divulge the King's secrets. He had, how ever, pledged himself not to introduce or support any mea sure less efficient than the late Bill. Then was it not true that he had laboured more than any former Minister, and had been defeated by 41 Lords, who wished to see him kicked out of office. Were they to refuse, then, confidence to such a man ?—(Cries of " No, no.") They ought to express their gratitude to him. He (Mr. Marsh) did not wish them to believe that he was going to put a veil over the acts of the Administration, if he could he justified in finding fault with it ; on the contrary, if they should in troduce a Bill less efficient than the former one, he would join in the ' roar of execration against them. But he would give his confidence in Lord Grey's Govern ment until his Lordship proved himself unworthy of it. Mr. Cobbett, in his address, advises the King as to what he should do. Now it was a maxim of our Constitution that the King could do no wrong, hut the said Constitu tion said that the Ministers might do a great deal of wrong, and might perhaps lose their heads for it. The responsibility upon them therefore was immense. Then, if the people believed the King to be that straight-forward and gracieus Monarch who lived amongst his people, who permitted no back-stairs influence, and who tolerated no whisperers behind the throne, the county of Hants would differ from all parts of the kingdom, would differ from the Birmingham 150,000, if they agreed to Mr. Cobbett's address.. Should they bold up their hands for that address merely because it pleased Mr. Cobbett in his last Register to charge Lord Grey with uttering sentiments not satisfactory to the people. He (Mr. M.) hoped the people would think for themselves, and no doubt they would approve of the amendment. He hoped the people would be united, and remember the bundle of sticks, by an act of separation they would be playing into the hands of the borouglimongers. They all wished to attain the same end, and he prayed them to be unanimous, for they were bound by sentiments of gratitude to support the Administration until some other reason had been shewn, fur a forfeiture of the people's estate. — (Cheers.) He should feel sorrow and pain if they were not united on this occasion, and, though he approved of many parts of Mr. Cobbett's address, still he did not ap prove of the whole of it. Mr. Cobbett asked the King to summon a new Parliament agreeably to the Reform Bill, without the consent of the Lords, lie (Air. M.) did not mean to say, that a day might not very soon arrive, when that extreme step might be considered necessary, but on the present occasion it would be establishing a dangerous precedent, and one which might be exercised by some future King without justice to Support it. Such advice was bearing too hard on his Majesty. The amend ment was full of good constitutional spirit.—(Cheers, and cries of " No, no.") It was to the meeting, to the middle class of society, to stand in the gap between selfish ness on one side, and too great violence on the other, to say to the one party, " you shall not prevent us having our just rights ;" and to the other, " all this shall be done in an orderly and constitutional manner, peace ably and without bloodshed."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Marsh concluded by seconding the resolutions. Air. TWYN AM came forward amidst much noise in the crowd. He felt as a private individual that he was pre sumptuous in introducing himself to their notice, and hr should not have done so had not Mr. Cobbett taken such in extraordinary step.—(Cries of " Off, off," and much confusion.) He wished to speak to the friends of Mr. (A)bbett,—,"Much noise again.) He would be heard, as every person had a right to be.—(Great uproar and disapprobation.) Suppose a quarrel had existed between him and Mr. Cobbett, would they not make a ring and see fair play ?—(Great noise again.) He appealed to their candour fora bearing, and he assured them that lie would be brief. Mr. Cobbett thought, no doubt, that the pre sent was an opportune period to come forward and make a division.—(Loud cries of "No, no.") Whoever supposed that gentleman to be a bona fide friend to the Reform Bid, —(Groans)--if any one was so silly as to think so, he was grossly mistaken.---(More confusion.) The strictest unioa amongst the Reformers was absolutely necessary, and he appealed to their good sense whether Mr. Cobbett had not acted wrong. He put it to them whether it was fair to put him down, and pre vent him answering Mr. Cobbett. It was unjust and oppressive, and depriving him of a right which every Englishman possessed.—(Hear, hear.) They all knew the principles of the Reform Bill. It was a total extinc tion of the representation of some boroughs, and a partial extinction of others ; and it gave a great extension of the elective franchise in the counties and large towns. It was a measure of relief so great, that it excited astonishment even in the breast of Mr. Cobbett ; but in that breast it did not excite feelings of delight._(lmmense uproar.) He despised what he called a clumsy Reform, his principles of political architecture were so broad and so sublime, that he utterly ridiculed the Ministerial Reform Bill.—(Much hooting, and cries of " It's false.") Mr. Cobbett would prefer to see universal suffrage introduced, for the purpose of bringing about universal alteration and universel destruction.—(Great noise.) Feeling conscious of his powers of fishing in troubled waters, he hated the Reform Bill, because it destroyed those flattering visions which he himself enter tained. Lord Grey, by the Reform Bill, would cut away the vantage ground on which Mr. Cobbett had for so many years stood.—(Cheers, and cries of "No, no.") After that Reform Bill shall have passed the functions of Mr. Cobbett would ceale, his political occupation would be gone, and the custom shop for his Register and other political trash would be shut up.—(Loud hooting and yelling, which lasted for some tine.) He was sorry that fair play was not given to him. He had stated that Mr. Cobbett's shop would be shut up, hut perhaps it might be turned into the Temple of Reason, in which Mr. Cobbett could hold. forth, and exhibit Tom Paine's bones.--(Cheers.) He (Mr. T.) implored the meeting to give confidence in Earl Grey as long as his Lordship stuck to them.—(Cheers.) The meeting were confounding their real friends with their enemies. They wanted various ameliorations, but they could not have them until the Bill was carried. He therefore called upon them to unite in favour of that great measure. It was a dangerous and insidious trick of Mr. Cubbett's in bringing forward his address, but it was to be hoped that that great county would not be bamboozled by such a per son.--(Cheers and hisses.) Mr. Seetsco, a broker at Portsmouth, addressed the meeting at same length in support of the amendment. Sir JAMES MACDONALD then addressed the meeting. He first alluded to the character of the minority on the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, a minority which for many years had done their best to promote the civil and religious liberty of the people of this country. He bed often in a minority in the Commons House of Parlia ment raised his voice against those laws which had from time to time been proposed by the Ministers of the country, who knew nothing of the people— Jaws which militated against the interests of the country. --(Cheers.) He appealed to the meeting to mark the day's proceedings by giving to their representatives and to others a fair and impartial hearing, and to decide what was the right and fittest course to take. Before he said a few words as to what had been suggested by Mr. Cobbett and by the Hun. Gentleman who was Clerk of the Peale, but who from the nature of his suggestions should rather be set down as Secretary at War for Mr. Cobbett, when be supplanted Lord Grey—(Laughter)—he wished to say a word or two concerning himself. He called them to wish himselfand his colleague joy in having survived Sir Charles Wetherell, as compared with whom the cholera morbus was nothing.—(Laughter.) Many a victim had fallen under the leather lungs of that long winded, but redoubted Knight.—(Laughter.) Many wets the Coroners' inquests which lay at his door, but thank God, their representatives stood there that day as well in bodily health to state what they had already done, and to take their pleasure as to what they should do hereafter. —(Cheers.) When they last met on that spot—endeared for ever to himself and his friend, by a recollection of the generous and ample confidence bestowed upon them—con secrated in their country's eyes by the noble display in favour of that great cause,—when they parted, they parted with mutual bonds to stand by the people's Bill, the Bill that was to he the charter of their restored rights and liberties.—(Loud cheers.) Where was now that Bill ? Did any man believe it was lost ? No such words, he could assure them, were written on the countenances of the majority of their Lordship when it was declared that the non-contents had it.—(Cheers.) They rather appeared to recoil from the consequences of their own act— an act calculated for any other purpose rather than to drive the King, his Ministers, or the people from their tin alterable put pose.--(Loud and continued cheering.) If it had been lost what a scene would the three kingdoms have presented ? He turned with horror from the con templation of it. Such an occurrence would not, however, happ e n. A few weeks, more or less, and all the essen tial parts of the Bill would be recorded on the Statute-book.—(Loud cheers.) It had been suggested to them to dictate to his Majesty's Ministers what the mea sure should be by which they should carry their inten tions into effect. He disapproved of those suggestions al together. The question was, had they or had they not sufficient confidence that his Majesty's Ministers meant to bring the Bill through.—(Cheers and cries of " No.") If they had confidence they should state so, as recom mended by the resolutions of their late representative, Mr. J.rvoise.—(Hear.) If they had not, he agreed with Mr. Build and Mr. Cobbett that they were bound to 84y so, but they had no right to falter between two opinions. Mr. Colthett had written the Ministers up one day, but to write them down the next. He (Sir J. Macdonald) felt assured that the Ministers were entitled to the full confidence of the people of England.—(Cries of " No," and " Yes.") They had a right to expect it, and nothing short of it. Let the meeting recollect the cir cumstances wider which his Majesty's Ministers com mitted themselves to this great measure. With a House of Commons more than doubtful—with a House of Lords half of which were composed of men selected because they were opposed to the people's rights, and before the firmness and fidelity of their Sovereign had been put to the test—a Sovereign who had since endeared himself to the hearts of the people, and who called forth the grateful admiration of mankind—those Ministers, looking straight forward, boldly brought in the inca sure, and cut off for themselves all chance of an ho nourable retreat.—( Loud cheers ) Who were those men? They were not the political adventurers of yesterday ; they were men bearing names most distinguished in England, to whom power could have no cutely charms, lint for the opportunity it gave them of doing great public service. It had been thought that on the rejection of the Bill they would retire front office, but so long as they had the con fidence of the people, and so long as they stood high in the estimation of the best of Sovereigns, they would net desert their posts. Retire they never would so long es they found their services useful to their Sovereign and their country.—(Cheers.) Those who proposed to this meeting that address, which Mr. Cobbett told them contained all that they ought to say, but which, in his opinion, and in that of every considerate man, had better not be said, were deluding them.—(Cheers and cries of " No.") Mr. Cobbett bad looked at the first prospect which lie thought was afforded them of a majority in the House of Lords. Their object should be, merely to turn the scale to the number of about twenty-one. Now he (Sir J. M.) thought it might fairly be expected, that in the next session they would have the support of the majority of those who ran away with the re-actiou" cry, which was got up by Mr. Hunt and the To ries. Seeing the feeling of the people from the one end of the country to the other in favour of the measure, it was but fair to presume that they would now have the support of that class. There was another class—those who being afraid of what they wished to be afraid of, had voted against the measure. He thought they would have that class also on their aide. There was another class who thought it their duty, Sy all the means in their power, to resist the Bill, hut who will now think it their duty to see the impropriety of continuing any further oppo sition to it. There was yet another class upon whom he rk who v o t e d b y proxy, wit h out h ea ring any of the ad e arguments. Must of those Noble Lords doubtless had a disposition in favour of the Bill, but they were lot_ pressed by the Tories. He had no doubt that those persons would come forward on the next di vision and secure the peace and tranquillity of the country by turning the scale in favour of the Bill. There was, therefore, no room not only for despair but even for a doubt of success. Then, as to the Bishops, their con duct had exposed them to great obloquy. Mr. Cole_ belt had told the meeting that he had observed a great shrinking on the part of the p eople from speaking in the terms they ought on the con, duct of the bishops. He (Sir J. M.) could not but won der, though he participated in all the regret and indigoe.• tion respecting the conduct of the Bishops, that then should be found on the part of thinking and considerate men, some to speak as Mr. Cobbett and Mr. Budd had done.—(Cheers.) He did not stand there to justify the Bishops. Even the metropolitan Bishop had said that their conduct might be unwise. He said so likewise, and he said also that their conduct was marked by a great deal of unfairness towards the Government, for never did the Ministers expect to find arrayed against them so formidable a levy en masse of lawn sleeves. The ar arrival of the Prussians on the field of Waterloo could not be more inopportune or nnlooked for by the enemy, than was that of the Bishops, when they thought fit to take the Government in the flank, to make them lose the day.—(Cheers and laughter.) It was now too late in the day to think of entering into argument in favour of the great and efficient measure of Parliamentary Reform. The day for argument had passed away, the day of action had arrived.—(Cheers.) He would say, that nothing less efficacious than that Bill could satisfy, or ought to satisfy, the reasonable wishes of the people.—(A person in the crowd asked the Hon. B.arone•t a question, which we could not hear.) In answer to that question he would state, that if he were to give his sanction to any measure in any degree short of that which had been pro posed, be should consider himself disgraced is the eyes d,f those who, by their free and independent voices, had sent him to represent their interests.—(Loud and continued cheers.) As to the question of Parliamentary Reform, it had been proved beyond ail doubt to be indispensably necessary. It was notorious that there had been for a long period springing up a power which bad been super sealing in some degree all the estates of the realm. Look before the throne and behind the throne, and they would find it controuling the King's prerogative. In the Lords it would outnumber the ancient Nobility of the realm. In the Commons it was superseding the legitimate repre sentatives of the nation. Did they not see in all its dimen sions and in all its staged that monstercorruption?—(Cheers. ) Had not that system arrived at such a height, that it was able at this hour to cope with the united will of the King, the Commons, and the people?—(Cheers.) It was, there fore, for the people now to say whether they would not do all in their power to strengthen the hands of those who bad embarked in the conflict.—(Cheers.) He hoped they had followed in some degree the course of proceedings—not on the late Bill, but on " the Bill"—for the Bill was still alive. Never was there such an array of learned gentlemen work ing in silk attire against a little Bill.—(Loud laugh ter.) It seemed as if Counsel had been engaged against it. They had lawyers by the dozen ; a twice Attorney-General; plenty of froth and fume; much abuse —anti how was all this borne ! He hoped they were aware of the good temper and patience displayed by his Majesty's Ministers during all that period. Now, with all their labour and exertions, a few days' relaxation were attempted to be turned against them, and even this meeting was asked to be an exception to the rest of the country— Mr. COBEETT—NO, look at Birmingham. Sir J. MACDONALD said be would read a resolution which was passed at the Birmingham meeting. It stated their entire confidence in Lord Grey, and their determina tion to stand by him, and declared that if he were driven from power by the machinations of his enemies. he should he carried back on the shoulders of the people.—(Loud cheers.) Did the meeting believe that men were so stupid or so blind, that only one man could light them to their liberties.—(A cry of " We won't be humbugged.") There were more ways than one of humbugging. and they should take care that whilst it was the desire of him and others to put down one species of humbugging, there were others amongst them trying other ways. He put it to their good sense what they would think if some of tie bitterest of the people's enemies had been there to-day— what would that enemy have desired more than than Mr. Cobbett should start up in the middle of them, to distract and divide the people, and to lead them from their own interests.—(Cheers.) He (Sir J. Macden Id) declared, that those who abided by the recommendation of Mr. Cobbett to-day, were playing the game of the Anti- Reformers.—(Cries of " No, no," and great cheer ing.) He called on them to mark a speeimen of ' that gentleman—an instance of his justice and his fairness to that man who was immortalizing himself by making a struggle for the people of his country.— (Cheers. ) Mr. Cobbett could not refrain from introducing the name of the Duke of Wellington, by stating that the Duke -bad the merit of breaking the chains of religious bondage—those chains that bound their Catholic bre thren. But he did not tell them that for thirty years Lord Grey had excluded himself from power because he could not bear to witness those chains, and his power was not strong enough to break them. lie (Sir James) wondered that Mr. Cobbett did not also tell them that the Duke of 'Wellington had trampled on the Test and Corporation Acts, and he wondered that Mr. Cobbett had forgotten to state that the champion of the repeal of thp-e Acts was the man who bore the dis tinguished name of Lord John Russell.---(Cheers.) But that man had a purpose to serve—a humbugging purpose. —(Cheers and hisses.) If that was to be the measure of justice, j that public men were to expect from the people Lord have mercy upon them, for he did not know who would dirty his hands by taking their affairs.--(Cheers.) God lie thanked that was not the case, for the people of England were not made of Mr. Cobbett's stuff.—(Cheers.) It was painful to see such prostituted talents—to see a man of such great Went professing himself one day one thing, and the next day another tning—true to nothing but expecting to be able to seat himself on the confidence of the noblest people on the face of the earth.—(Cheers.) If this county, which sent two Reformers to Parliament, had experienced so great a change, it was time to declare it, and with pleasure and delight he would give back to their han'ls the trust which they had reposed in him.—(Loud cheers.) He was exceedingly anxious to witness the result of that day's proceedings, and seeing so large an assembly, he should be surprised on their account if he did not go from thence confirmed in his opinion of their good sense. Mr. Bunn came forward to reply, but was assailed with loud cries of " spoke." Having stated, however, that he wished merely to reply to some observations made upon himself, the High Sheriff endeavoured to procure him a hearing. He, however, gave way in consequence of the extreme desire of Mr. Cobbett to reply to the observations upon him. The moment Mr. Cobbett appeared the shouts were deafening fur a long time : he was unable to speak. At length he said that he wished the meeting would not hold up their hands until he held up his, and he bogged them to take care that they were not humbugged.—(lmmeiase uproar.) lie then concluded by stating, that the best re ply he could make to the attacks upon him, was that they were afraid to hear him. The UNDER. SHERIFF then came forward to read the address proposed by Mr. Jercoise. _ . " TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY : " We, your Majesty's loyal and devoted subjects, the free holders of the county of Southampton, beg to lay at the feet of your Majesty's throne the assurances of our unalterable attach ment to your Majesty's person and Government. We, in com mon with the whole people of England, have watched with deep anxiety the progress through the House of Commons of the great measure of Parliamentary Reform, brought forward by the Ministers of the Crown, under the auspices of the best of Sove reigns, and witnessed with the utmost disappointment and in dignation its peremptory rejection by the other House of Parliament. " We deem it our duty at such a moment, as well to assure your Majesty of our heartfelt gratitude for your paternal care of the constitutional rights of your people, and our convic tion of the integrity and Wisdom that have directed your Coun cils, as to express frankly to your Majesty our firm persuasion, that no measure of Reform, in any respect less efficient, will sa tisfy the wants and wishes of the community. " Believing the internal peace and well-being of the country to depend upon the speedy restoration of your people's rights in their representation to their own House of Parliament. We humbly thank your Majesty for continuing your entire and un hesitating confidence in your present advisers, satisfied as we are, that on their firmness and integrity the nation may safely rely for the early realization of its just expectations. " And, as in duty bound, we shall ever pray that every earthly happiness may attend your Majesty's reign. (Signed by the order and on behalf of the meeting.) " HENRY JOSEPH TICHBORNE, High Sheriff:" That part of the address which stated that the meeting reposed confidence in the advisers of the Crown, produced loud cries of " No, no," and cheers. ' Mr. COBBETT—There is nothing about the Bishops in it..—(G.eers.) That address, being the amendment to Mr. Cobbett's, was then put ; the show of hands for and against was as nearly as possible eqoal. The HIGH SHERIFF said, it appeared to him that there was a majority in favour of it. Mr. COBBETT said it was hardly possible to decide, but he thought there was a small majority in favour of it. Mr. BUDD again attempted to speak, but the noise and confusion in the crowd were so great that he desisted. Mr. SHAW LE FEVRE came forward to address t h e meeting, but the interruptions were so frequent that it was difficult to catch a sentence that he said. He alluded to the labours of the last Session of Parliament. when he was compelled to listen night after night to the speeches of Sir Charles Wetherell, with the patience of Job, and he asked them but to afford him a little of that patience which he had hen ooliged to display in order to promote their interests.—((; real uproar.) When last he had the honour of address ing them from that spot, he did not conceive it was possible that the Loids would have rejec , ed the Reform Bill, which had been sent up from the House of Commons by so large a majority. Ile did not conceive it possible that the seltim policy of some individuals,or the per verse blindness of others, Would have caused such feelino of regret as had been produced by their rejection of the Bill.--(linmenee uproar in the room.) He only begged RI them to hear him for a rnoment.—(At tbis period s , display of confusion and uproar took place, which ° Air. Le Fevre from speaking.) The Iliou Soeitirr having endeavoured to silence without rEct, said as they were deternair Rive any one a fair hearing he declared the The people then gave several loud cheers, separated. Th e f i , Sect, io n of of at • In the evening sever:ll public ordinaries the principal inns in Winchester, at which I , awl patriotic toasts were given until a very midnight. The Members for the county had the George Inn ; Henry Marsh, Esq. took th' the ordinary at the Black Swan ; and Mr. sided at the dinner at the Barley-mow. 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WORKSOP, OCT. 23. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Cie,,—As you were good enough to insert in , of the Bth inst., my letter on the subject of the petit:on to the House of Lords in favour prhapi, now Parl'ament is prorogued, you can the necessary space for a few observations on splenetic cifiliion, i.igned "J. (for S.) Beardshan'i alter a fortnight's I Ltiour, illumined the columns Morning Post of Friday's date, (received here ' purporting to be a reply to that letter, but in tabling only an unusual combination of bad worse taste. Despite of this " rollicking" rhodomontade, eiev," Daniel, " for the word,") the substance 01 letter remain, uncontradicted, and " the yet count!) , correspondent" unconfirmed ; for true that I quoted the Morning Post as to Newcastle having asserted that the Vicar of signed the declar 'thin against as well as the favor of Reform, it is not true that I refr Paper for the other invidious observation that signed " entirely b Catholics and Dissenters," words used by a reporter for another Journal, haps, in strictness, I ought to hare named. mitre of the Vicar's " intimate friend and ass; clerk—or that of the infant Roscius, I beg p infant Richard Gilbert" should be " on the pc they re d/) , were there,—ate abuses of the right, I cannot, in justice be considered accountable' Wake," it is observed, " is a Catholic,"—grar sincerely do I hope that in future his practice ligion may be less in arrear with his theory than has been ; but inasmuch as no Committee for this petition ever existed, it must, of course be reverse of true, that " out of a Committee dozen, all workers, there was only only one of the pale." lam proud, however, thus pub. dare, as an honour rather than a shame to my - often stigmatised by the ignoraace of its enemies! tified with despotism, that the sending a pea' from Worksop was the suggestion of a Catholi petition itself was framed by a Catholic,—that Catholics, ineludin 4 the respectable Pastor, w` its existence, (not numbering, I am sorry to says about 25 names out of ne illy 300,) signed that that it was transmitted to town for presentation tholic,— a nd finally that it was actually pi House of Louis by a Citholic—mil that premier Duke of the realm, and the bead of the Howard !—and yet, atter all the petition,: as little connected with the Catholic religion, religion of any kind, as the author of the letter called forth these observations can By the by e , thi s Caine letter lies b e en held before in terrorein, for these la s t t en d a y s , and b u zzed ears, at every c o rner , as a " ro d i n pickle,l lrn a in by anticipation, — a b ou t to appear in the and daily h ave I l oo k e d for it in that Journal with thing like f e ar an d t rem bli ng . Judge, therefore. surprise, wh e n, a f ter h av i ng b ee n nursed and fr least half- a -d ozen nurses , t h e b an tli ng is at length to th e publi c to find it a little deformed and animal, th e v e ry b eau id ea l o f t h e rirliculus ' which, as I r e m em b er rea di ng a t sc h oo l, " t h e laboured." possibly be I purposely omit all observation on the sill, meaning attack on the Vicar and his son, from those gentlemen, should they think it worth their ‘‘i thing by no means probable, are quite capabl e c p, fending themselves. Indeed, but for one except o 5 b otherwise perfict harmlessness of this mountsino,9l, tion, I should have suffered the paper in I, : bl i c a pt wrapped to h ave gone unheeded and u nnottee i to rt trunkmaker's, the only place where it could p0" 1b1 chance of making a noise in the world. ki tY Although " a.serti on i s a mere shadow, uo le° , 4 : ' l td by the subst ance o f trut h , " yet, like the arrpirist! glanced fr o m a t ree t o th e h eart o f R u f u - , a n In' cr calumny will sometimes inflict as deadly a wourloc i , ratter as a dir ec t an d o p en one . Knowing this, a n o d' , ing the utt er groun dl essness o f the accusat i on la tios 4 , , but at the same time knowing also that an insion jo d sometimes assum e a shape th a t s h a ll g i ve t o fall e , r iti l , indistinct r esem bl ance to trut h , t hi s " polite letter:o, with an ami a bl e en d env i a bl e f eel i ng, says, i n all/ truth, " I am sorry to find, since be submitted toa_fro, accusation, h e thi n k s li g h t ly o f the word"—tire intended to he drawn from which, "he who 411 4 read." O f / This particular sor t o f persona li ty, com i ng fr"— jor it does—from the olivi,us propriety and ge ntlenla n e ije of it—will p ro bA i l y b e sa id to b e beneath my Poc?;? it certainly is unworthy of my resentment. .AlO t this may be true, and I shouhl have treated the , 4 4 11 ' ebullition of fretfulness with the silent contempt 111'F its merits entitle it, h a d it appeare d i n a prov inri t erj whose circulation was confined to a aistrict of sO ne te be or thirty m i l es aroun d W or k sop, or e l sew h ere , "' hid+of the parti e s ar e equa ll y we ll k nown; w i t hin 4' 01 cuinscribed limit I beg to assure all those whom ti ll :pa cern, I would rath er cour t t hi s i n di v id ua l cens ureol!)i praise; and s h ou ld j ust ta k e as touc h trou bl e to fr;„bile from any imputation, either direct or insinuated , m o o , might at any time attempt to cast upon my' tb t as the prop r i e t or o f t h e P anorama o f L on d o n 3 t 4 it." lossetun, would to r e m ove th e d ec i ma l o f a fly itt A i by the ail of his microscope he would discover: rnensity of canv ass . Th ese are nut t i mes f or ll a butterfly on th e w h ee l," or crus hi ng a obitspolej Sttetfield tilt hammer. But when I remember oi Times (1 think) h as sa id t h at " t h e M orn i n g some readers besides the writers of its miserab! : and consider th a t it i s therefore possible that t bi t er:t lees collection of mer e t r i v i a li sms , as regar ds 0 0 0 0 ,/ puerile exhibiti ons o f mor bid f ee li ng, as regar(l'ol,.', which ...domed the colum ns o f th a t J ourna l on r il may meet th e e y e s o f some o f my distant friend* o, ni it ° O l the writer of it m us t b e w h o ll y un k nown , I d'e right, in addition to what I bare said above, ° j olt insinuated accusation, once f oe a ll, a pos i t i ve , de 4 flat contradiction. (Of Although by this we a k en d eavour on the p art correspondent of the Morning Post, unwind.' et 1!€ 0 0 own '• glass-house," to throw a p e bbl e at 1 1 ?' 11 0 „itl° rendered hims e lf o b nox i ous to i t, I f ee l no dol l , d iffc have recourse t o recr i m i nat i on. As li tt l e d o I (Cesebe°t.iil to " return good for evil," by bestowing pr4',6iekaref P lid clination would l ea d ma to reproach ; f or 1 wr" be o d the object of undeserved eulogium is more dot/ than the victim of unmerited censure." Besides? I° , pig, o o I should only relined your readers of the followt r % r and ' with whi c h I s h a ll ta k e my leave of this f r i v ol° interesting suhject for ever : " Ju parles mat par-tout de moi, Je dis du bun par-tout de toi ; ouci malheur, done, est le noire, Von lie croit rri l'un ni l'autre 04.4, I remain, Si r , your obliged and obedient ae rv, AV H. s• ' 1-3Pr t AN UGLY CUST OM ER.—,A SCOtCh celebrat e d i n hi s ne i g hb our h oo d f or hi s immens e 11 1 ,01 V- 0 1 and skill i n a ll at hl et i c exerc i ses , ver y frequentlY had pleasure of fighting people who, led by curioeitY, o f f t , try if they could settle hint ur not. Lord 1). s g r t o O ft l giltst amateur, had come front London on purr °e „ilte o fl the athletic Scut. The latter was working in inneb et a little distance front his house, when the 0(1'1 Arrived. His Lordsliqr tied his horse to a tree, , sreoil dressed the farmer—" Friend, I have heard talkolidoil deal of yon, and I have come a long way to see o rith i Is two is the best wrestler." The Scot , b0 341 ;', 1 , (I ( u t e nsw e ring, seiz,l the Noble L or d by the 'P ia " - t ob j Cl p oody, pitched him over the h e dge, and th en working again. When hi s L or d s h i b a d got tip?, to tr,;,11 said the farmer, " have you any thing more to sai d l e if ° No," replied his Lordship, " hut perhaps y ou enough to throw me my horse." to )11 gati, 011, pots , i r , - Veil ( ' I 4 tbil OnYle It; , 11 a e h t o E 1 ,1 14 Ye Lf; 11 1 r - ) be( A.