The Sun. — London, England, 1834-12-23 00:00:00

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Iso7 ll 3ett rlY as eleven o ' c l oc k th e s t a i r s leading to the great reacie were crowded to excess, and the utmost exertions were the to have the doors open, but nothing could prevail upon i ti r ePrictor, a l t h oug h repeate dl y warne d o f t h e pro b a bl e il it gp' that would result from the staircase giving way, to open 11 00 4 4> ars before one o'clock. Previous to the opening of the ttet. se veral discus s i ons t oo k pl a ce as to the int e nti o ns of the t l}on i ng, and many were the imprecations upon the Tories. th e ,. t he doors being opened the rush W: fa tremendous, and tt ° Onl was full in less than two min u tes. The Reformers Aiding th e meet i ng were most respecta bl e. 're a b i h alf -past tw e lv e , a d e p u t a ti on f rom th e gentlemen as !o4l, a d outsid e , and headed by Messrs. Clay, Grote, Craw trer,,enal Fearon, waited up o n the committee in the ante t43, , and stated th a t th e i r o bj ec t was t o ascertain whether r, v ltaild be ad m itt e d t o th e h us ti ngs . as into a public meet 4e:ere a public discussion of the principles embodied in the 4(1,1 was to tak e pl ace ; or w h e ther they, by some mistake, theC l3 understood the advertisement calling the meeting, and kite` was to b e a mere mee ti ng o f th e f r i en d s o f that Com ? , t4 4 t W. WARD, the Chairman of the Committee, stated 4k e he was the framer of the first advertisement, and must 111J1en himself any responsibility that might be attached to h eyb ," L e thought it p er f ect l y c l ear , b u t some gen tl emen having tth,rt Otherwi se , it h a d b een d eeme d a dvis a ble t o insert the too kiti 'dvertisem en t, w hi c h h a d a pp ear ed in the papers of that Aft te Committee, some further discussion between the deputation and k r , '„ ( nnmittee, Mr. Alderman Lucas, Mr. Wilson, and Ward, all belonging to the Committee, agreed that tt a ii , t he meeting bad not been called for discussion, krt ed and as the other party had had'their meetings undis- N rt l they thought that they were entitled to be afforded an Itt e u nity of expressing their opinions in the same manner. e ttl .s . then agreed that the address or declaration should be Arm it as the declaration of the sentiments of those only A rm it was signed. e w gentlemen who had gained admittance to the large rtett, through the Committee-room, were then invited to pro- A t t° the latter, and attach their signatures to the address. ° lle o'clock the doors were opened, and a tremendous , ; , 011 sued. In an incredibly short time the room was crowded ktg er Y part , and loud cheering from the body of the meet inkrenneunced the entry of Mr. Tennyson. Immediately G iot 'd the chair we observed the City Members, Messrs. kr. .Play, and Lyall, Sir C. Forbes, Alderman Lucas, 1 %1 ( t ;, l 'sen, Mr. H. Hunt, Mr. Solly, &c. Mr. W. Ward tat!. "e chair, b u t f rom th e confusion that prevailed, we could ettuear whether he had been moved to it by any person or f T he cheering, groans, hisses, and uproar still continued, N l ' , several minutes all was dumb show. Gaon got upon the table, and the cheering, groaning, Proar was again renewed. r ot : CRAIRN(AN requested the 'meeting would hear Mr. )4,7 .-- -(Great uproar.) CRAWFORD then got upon the table, and said—lf l~ Rill only allow the Chairman to proceed, you will be satis kte"{, Cheering and uproar.) A resolution will be pro pN.'-t that will satisfy you all.—( The uproar here was re -17 continued several minutes without intermission.) S e4i r c i Sou v then got upon the table and requested that they 4 11 tat, give him their attention for a few minutes.—( Great 1,11 )1 :yrs from the lower part of the room broke through the tha Placeid in front of the Chairman, and completely filled thr, Bl3 ',ee around him, amid loud cries of " Adjourn, ad kile") Mr. Solly continued—lf the meeting would te t c;iiste n to him a few minutes every gentleman would be 'ike: e ,,,d• It was impossible to know what the object ty r o , ," \ they did not listen to them.—( Loud and continued I te l , -.1% ) He wished to ask the Chairman what the object of °De tt ,ting was ? He would now ask him was this meeting kt3 1 .,0 Persons of all political sentiments, and intended to it t i an opportunity fo r a f u ll discussion of the principles ern l'hi,l," in the address inserted as an advertisement, and to Nlr. W ar d' s name s t oo d affixed in the Times of that 1 0O,‘" 11 g?—or w as it an e x c lusive meeting composed only of per kiri,,tvcc were prepared to declare that the above mentioned 4 41 i„ s i s . fully expressed their opinions on the recent change that Ord n place in the Ministry, and intended therefore solely idd,. - " r ut au opportunity to those who intended to sign that th o ;la to express t h e i r o pini o ns ? If such were the case, t ile 'he agreed with him, and consequently differed from q "'he contained in the address, would of course retire, tt: l ucil as their object was not to interfere with others in the Re s f e l s , si nn of their sentiments. He again repeated, if such Ittit .46 r object, then those who differed in opinion with the kkit?ients contained in that address had no intention of re kat In g any longer. He begged they would allow the Chair r°,,l:seturn an answer to these questions. 4 t 4 , 1 " WARD then got up, but scarcely anything could he 1 14: af What he said from the confusion that prevailed. We 'N et i rs teed him to say that the gentlemen then present had i puderstood the purport of the advertisement in the Morn er.„°Bt of that morning. That was a meeting of those who SA I L," 4'ndly to the address that had appeared in the Papers . Np t e lbY him. Other meetings had been held, and uninter- N b e t'lL, on the other side, and gross attacks had been no al F ily at the Tower Hamlets, and even in the Ay" He, for one, would never allow it to go forth to the see that' such were' the sentiments entertained by the great of , of merchants, bankers, and the other respectable portion citizens of London. That meeting, he repeated, k eh , l have been one only of those who joined in the senti trial3, of the Address, and he considered that, as an English ts h he had as good a right as - any one to hold such sentiments Pleased, and he thought he ought to have an opportunity, well as those who thought with him, of expressing them. wziheconfusion heard by any throughout was so tremendous that not a word one who was placed one yard from the Hon. tientlern an. Mr. STEvny. for the --- got uon the table, and said, if we are here t , Purpose of understanding the truth, let us act fairly by ever gentl e man . ,he ch • 'nenii --ai rman here left the chair, and, along with his s l retired into their committee-room, where they locked tnselves in ),,.r• . 'l STEVENS announced the fact of their running off, which ifreceived with loud derisive hisses. ttit r ' PEaaom then held up a placard to the meeting, which th e " The Tory arrangements having precluded discussion, och e xteformers are now meeting in the London Tavern on the P side of the way." Another placard, " Hobhouse for hits" was exhibited in the body of the meeting, and was :with loud cheers. t tl jaid much confusion, Mr. WADE requested the persons at (Thlng the meeting to adjourn to the City of London Tavern. to cries resounded on this occasion from all parts of the ' " Let us meet them here—let us meet them on their ground.") j o TORY COMMITTEE-ROOM. MASTFRMAN Esq., while a few persons were signing at p_ •• , ' tr ess, which had not at that time received the signatures vrt ln -0 persons, proposed a vote of thanks to the Chairman , With the others, had retired from the public room. lot CHARLES FORRES said he had great pleasure in seco nd- T it:4T. vote of thanks. Although their proceedings (he said) tkiteueen interrupted in the other room by a certain set gfgen er,4—( A laugh)—the largest portion of the audience Iho evidently most decidedly in favour of our cause. ketr the pr ocee di ngs o f thi s d a y will induce us to unite to lloti er More c l ose l y an d more s t ron gly to stand by our King Constitution, Church, and State. s tat e °th er Gentleman begged to take an observation. He R- 4 d that he had been so completely disgusted with the lan kiZe he had heard used in the other room, reflecting on the \ 'etZ,, t 'e Queen, and his Majesty's family, that he was pre tend ( 1' fro m even attempt i ng t o ex p ress his o pi n i o ns. If he Ibl‘ n cl e so, he was quite sure that he would have been hoo t ed With d °Y those present ; therefore he had left the meeting WARD said—l beg to return my warmest thanks for reeirkindness to me on this occasion. I have indeed always is e l . ( ' great kindness and public support whenever I have I, r e ° "''ard by those around me. I confess that my feelings lh„ strong upon the occasion on which we have met, that tho°l,lll determined the language used at the Tower Hamlets soh, llot go f or th, w ith o ut the King's knowing he had better o r , i ` et 'l in his kingdom than those wbo could use such language. sorry to say that the state of the room was such as that th e ' lll d neith er p rocur e an audience for myself nor others ; at lh kj 4 k lrin time the support which I received while I was in Pn rt hair far e xcee d e d all I had expected. To wield that sup rlNt.equires no violence but the exercise of such temper, I ° ll , and firmness, that will not be misunderstood. 'believe re t? „,i'ri ,-, (1 of our history is a most importantone, !old those that tor ' d the g reat bl ess i ngs o f th e Constitution, liberty of per , protection o f p ro perty, will surround that wonderful 'fa r ,' Duke of Wellington, and place confidence in the ti w hom the King has chosen ; so that the public may not Il derstand w h at our o bj ec t s and means are—( Hear, hear) 4 1e 1 ; 11. ' means are honourable—becoming respectable English :l.l. -- and I hope they will be supported by all respectable 14htnen—by all becoming means.—( Loud cheers ) ANOTHER ACCOUNT. fl e eter the meeting had separated, about forty or fifty p..,en- f ki i n retired into the committee-room for the purpose o At ag the address. a go•aj el . j °}lN MASTERMAN said, that before they separated they v : /Love a vote of thanks to their respected Chairman for si' r Y Proper and efficient conduct in the chair.—(Cheers.) CHARLES ' I L FORBES seconded the resolution. He had " Witnessed more efficient conduct in his life, and he was k t r e PY to state, that although t h e i r proceedings had been r ,, "'or e l „ 'en by a certain set of gentlemen, the greater and thei r respect a bl e por ti on o f th e a udience were in favour of onl y muse—( Cheers.) The proceedings of that day would ali„Tunee them t o un ite more firmly together, and more stre ktit44l to stand by their King and what remained of the Con- Cheers. ) Aire resolution was passed unanimously. t `ize t i . W ARD (the Chairman) returned thanks. He recog- Ae r i„ and felt g ra t e f u l f o r the personal support he had ex rtit,i'lleed on that day—(Loud cheers.) The larguage l aitt e ed ila e of at th e T ower Hamlets should not be per other t o pass without their Sovereign knowing that he had t he ~,and better subjects in Lis kingdom.—( Cheers.) From . „tor hi ate in which he had found the room it was not possible 'eri: l to procure an audience for their adversaries or hearing Pnrt il ia i sel f• He had great satisfaction in stating that the sup 'tom. received while occupying the chair far exceeded 8 11 e ,„ 1 , 11 ,;?,' he had calculated upon. He trusted that they would ti the world that spirit, moderation, and, and at the same I, lt 'Peau... -r4la ess which could not be misunderstood.—( Loud übe rt ,7;) Those persons who were desirous of preservi ng P'ergott and security of property would he was satis- find rally round that extraordinary man the Duke of Wellington—( Loud cheers)—and • place confidence in the Chief Minister whom his Majesty had chosen. They would use no means but such as were honourable, respectable, and becoming Englishman, and he trusted that they would be sup ported by all who were honourable and respectable in the com munity. LONDON TAVERN. REFORM MEETING at the LONDON TAVERN, The vast crowd that had assembled adjourned to the Lon don Tavern. Among those on the platform we noticed Mr. Clay, Mr. Grote, Mr. Thomas Tooke, Mr. P. Grenfel, and Mr: Fearon. On the motion of Mr. FEARON, (Great cheering.) He and his collesgues enabled us to pass the Reform Bill—still what trial was given to them ? And will it be said that a new class of Ministers—unfortunately not new, for they have been long enough in office to do us no good, but much mischief.—( Much cheering.) I say, Gentlemen, what kind of trial are these men entitled to receive, when we remember the sufferings that we have endured from them ?—( Renewed cheering.) Gentlemen, I will carry your recollection back only four years, and I will ask you whether, previously to the election of 1830, when the ' Duke of Wellington and Peel were in office, we did not hear of every rank Tory candidate being a Reformer ?—( Hear.) Were they not all Reformers, and what did they do? Why, in the month of November, 1830, the very first you heard from the Duke of Wellington was a declaration against all Reform. It was an unexpected, but a glorious declaration.— ( Hear hear.) It was a declaration that has given us the Re form Bill, and it was one that I trust in God the people of this country will retain.--(lmmense cheering for some time.) Gentlemen, that parliament was tried. First, they carried the Reform Bill by a majority of one. Then came a motion made by General Gascoigne, which would have the effect of setting aside the Reform Bill, and it being carried by a ma jority of six, I believe that Parliament was sent about its busi ness. The new Parliament met—the Reform Bill was again introduced, but what was the conduct of the Tories on that occasion? They strenuously opposed Reform, and up till within the last fortnight—till the very moment that they came into office, they opposed Reforms of all kinds.—( Great c h ering. ) Office, however, had worked wonderful changes on them ; for now not a Tory was to be found who was not a reformer.—(lronical cheering and laughter.) All English men are reformers, and Tories the very best.—( Great laugh ter.) I will call your attention only for one moment to a meeting which was held of the Clergy—Members of Pa, liament newly pledged, Baronets and Lords assembled to speak treason against the people. It was held at Ashford, and there that worthy Nobleman, Lord Strangford, declared " that now there was a fine prospect opening for the country. The Duke was now in office, and the Reform would be got rid of." Sir Robert Peel was not at home at that time, but is the case much altered now ?—( Cheers, and loud cries of No, no !) Now, Gentlemen, don't interrupt me for one moment because I am going to praise a Tory Minister. I know there is not a more honourable man breath ing than Sir Edward Knatchbull. Yet he was present when Lord Strangford made those declarations, and perfectly agreed in them all.—( Loud cheers.) One thing was certain, that Slr Edward at that time had not the slightest expectation of being made a Cabinet Minister.—( Cheers and laughter.) Now of course be agrees with his master, Sir Robert, that the Reform Bill shall remain as it stands, and the country shall be goverred in its spirit. With all these things coming upon us, is it ru3siLla for one Reformer to put his trust in them ?—( Loud cries of " No, no.") What, then, is the course that we must take ? I trust that the people at large, and God grant that even the Tory people at large, may see the necessity—the absolute necessity—of governing the coun try in a different spirit than what they did in former times. If they are really Reformers, why are they making now such an uproar throughout the country ? If all arc to be Reformers, as they declare themselves, why not let us send quietly such men :into the House-- such men es we can put our trust in ?—(Cheers, which lasted for some time.) If they believe the assertion they themselves make, would they now be making such exertions throughout the country to get rank Tories returned? Would they be now using all the means they used to do in former times. I need scarcely say intimidation and bribery are the principal—in order to get a house according to their own liking?—( Hear, hear.) I will coeclude by heartily seconding and supporting the resolution.—(Tremendous cheering.) Mr. CLAY, the Chairman, then rose, and said before I put this resolution to the meeting, I will ask, according to my pledge, whether there is any gentleman present who wishes to speak to this resolution ? If any wish even to oppose it, I will pledge myself, on the part of the meeting, that he shall have a fair and patient hearing.—(Cries of " Yes, yes," and cheers.) No one, however, rose, and the resolution passed amidst immense cheering. Mr. Alderman HARMER next rose, and was rebeived with loud cheers. After the very able speeches they had heard it was not his intention to detain the meeting long, but he had to propose to them a resolution which he knew would be car ried unanimously—it was a vote of thanks to their excellent Chairman. There was one observation, however, he wished to make. He was one of those persons who liked to hear all sides, although his principles were pretty well settled, and he trusted they would be settled, namely, that of being a thorough R form r.—(H an) He happened over the way to meet Mr. Lyons, Mr. Attwood, and one or two other gen tlemen of that clique—(Laughter)—and they said, s' What do y6u here, Alderman Harmer ?" He answered, " Why, I came to hear what you had to say. perhaps I may be con verted."—(Laughter.) No, said the gentlemen, you won't be converted, for you will hear no speeches ; so that, if that's your object, you may depart. Well, he stated, I should like to see what's going on here. But the answer was, We only came here for one purpose, and that is to sign the declara tion ; have you not seen it, Alderman Harmer? No, I have not. Oh, you should look in the newspapers, and then you will see what the declaration is. What does it consist of? Why, that the Kin g has a right to exercise his prerogative in dis missing his Ministers.—(Laughter. ) Have you any thing more ? Oh yes ; there is another that the present Ministers are better than the last. Well, I can't agree with you in that, we ought to have some consideration for the late Mi nisters, seeing the difficulties they had to contend with." He would ask the meeting whether they had not had difficulties to contend with, difficulties they were not before aware of, and which they could only now, for the first time, see.—( Cheers. ) Who was it who bad created those difficulties ? Why, the very men who came forward now and said they were Reformers. Reformers were not to be gulled in that way. He trusted they knew full well who were their friends and who were their foes, and he trusted that there would be but one unanimous feeling, that the Reformers, would oppose the Tories.— (Cheers.) He would now beg to read the resolution. Mr. FEARON said he merely wished to state, in point of order, that previously to putting the resolution containing their thanks, which were so eminently due to the Hon. Chair man, that they cught to put upon record their thanks to their two worthy representatives who had appeared before them to da--( Cries of " Hear, hear, hear,")—and who, indeed, ap peered before them always when Reformers met, but who had appeared especially in the contest that had been carried on over the way. He begged to move " that the warmest and most cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to G. Grote, Esq. and C. Crawford, Esq. as our Representatives in Parliament for their consistent support of the principles of reoras, for baying atten'el the proceedings of this day, and for coming forward as they had upon this occasion to state the sea.. timents of their fellow citizens. A Gentleman upon the hustings said he begged to state that Alderman Wood, on account of being present at a contested election in one of the Wards, was unable to Mr. CLAY took the chair. Oa coming forward he was cheered most enthusiastically, and addressed the meeting amidst the most profound silence. It had been thought expe dient by those around him to confer upon him the honour of taking the chair. He undertook the task with great pleasure. ( Cheers.) He had attended the meeting over the way, as he had an undoubted right to do, having been both born slid bred a merchant and a shipowner, and being descended from a family who had been connected with that occupation for more than half a century. He yielded to no man in loyalty to his Sovereign, but he could not agree to the address that had been published If that meeting had been an open one, he should have stated his sentiments at it, but they had been told that it was not so, and the disturbance that had taken place there had been so great that it rendered it impossible for any person to be heard who attempted to address them.—( Cheers.) As, however, it was most important to the country that the King should know the sentiments of his people really and truly, the present meeting had been called.--( Great cheering.) He had no doubt that the meeting would hear every person, let his principles be wi.at they might, with the greatest impar tiality.--( Great cheering.) Mr. C. W. NORMAN came forward to propose the first reso lution. He appeared before them upon an extremely short notice, but before he proposed the first resolution he would, with the permission of the meeting, shortly state the reasons that had called the meeting together. All present most be aware that an advertisement had appeared in the newspapers, which seemed to express that a general meeting was to be held at the city of London Tavern, which might be considered as affording an op portunity of trying the strength of all parties that at present divided the country.—( Loud disapprobation.) He had at tended that meeting to express his dissent to the address to be proposed for the acceptance of the meeting.—( Cheers.) Mr. Grote and Mr. Clay went as a deputation to the chair man of the meeting over the way, and the Committee, by whom he was surrounded, for the purpose of knowing a hat the real character of the meeting was, and they had learned from him that it " was not to be a public meeting"—( Much disapprobation)—that it was not for the purpose of discussion generally—(Hissincs)— but was merely for the attendance of those persons who should approve of the address to his Majesty, such as it had appeared in the Times newspaper of that morning.—(Groans.) In order that there should be no mistake, and that, when the meeting was over, the Tory newspapers should not declare that the friends of Reform had not attended the meeting, the deputation thought it proper that the answer of Mr. Ward should be given on the public hustings. That answer, or rather conversation, we intended should be heard by the whole meeting, but in consequence of the confusion that took place, it had been found impossible for Mr. Ward, Mr. Grote, or any body to make themselves heard. The deputation thought it better that a meeting should be held in the place where it was now assembled, leaving the other gentlemen to adopt any course they might think fit.— ( Cheering, and cries of " Let them do what they like.") The deputation had also thought it necessary to adjourn to the pre sent place, in order to allow the vast majority of the intelli gence, patriotism, and wealth of the city of London to express their opinion, and not to let it go forth to the country, that in the change of the Administration that had taken place the ma jority of that wealth and intelligence saw any cause for satis fection, but the greatest a2prehension.—( Loud and long-con tinued cheering.) The resolution might rather be considered a declaration and statement of facts, its object being to put upon record the opinions regarding the present Ministry clearly and distinctly. The resolution was as follows : " That a meeting having been called at the City of London Tavern of the merchants, bankers, ship-owners, traders, and others connected with the City of London, desirous of expressing their assurance of loyalty and attachment to their Sovereign on the occa sion of the late exercise of the royal prerogative, we, the merchants, bankers, ship-owners, traders and others assembled ourselves in pursuance of such advertisement; but the Chairman of that meet ing having publicly declared that such meeting was not called for the purpose of discussion, but simply to agree to an address previ ously prepared, and that persons who did not concur in the senti ments therein expressed had not been invited to attend that meet ing, have adjourned in consequence to this place." Having read the resolution, he would state shortly what he thought of the prospect of affairs. Call the matter as they would, twist and turn it as they liked, the declaration put for ward by the present Administration—the honied phrases of Sir Robert Peel, that it was their intention to grant no Re form.__( Hissing.) He hoped and trusted that all present were reformers.—( Loud cheers, and cries of " We are.") The meeting over the way consisted of Anti-Reformers only. —( Loud cheers and disapprobation.) He concurred in what had fallen from the Chairman as to his loyalty to his Sovereign. He thought that the people for many things ought to be greatly obliged to his Majesty for what he had done.--( Cheers.) He had now exercised, however, a prero gative which undoubtedly belonged to him, and it was un doubtedly the prerogative of the people to exercise their's. His Majesty had a right to appoint such Ministers as he thought fit—it was the right of the people to return such a House of Commons as would render the existence of a Mi nistry like the present, totally ineffective.—( Great cheering. ) Such a Ministry, in his opinion, was inconsistent with the public good.—Great cheering.) The present Ministers were Anti-Reformers, they might say and declare what they pleased, but he had no hesitation in saying that they would oppose reform, and every measure that they brought forward would either directly or indirectly tend to that object.—(lm moose cheering.) W. G. PRESCOTT, Esq., rose to second the resolution, amid the most deafening cheers. The resolution was only a decla ration of facts of what had taken place at the other side of the street.—( Great cheering.) They had been met there by the declaration that it was a private meeting of those only who were prepared to agree to the address that had appeared in the Times that morning.—( Hear, and disapprobation.) It became necessary, notwithstanding that the advertisement could hardly be deemed sufficiently authoritative, to put the question to the Chairman of that meeting in his official capa city, in order that they might ascertain whether it was a public meeting or an exclusive one, where their presence was of course unnecessary.—( Hear, hear.)—( Mr. Prescot here stated what the questions put to the Chairman were, which we have already mentioned in a previous part of our report.) These were the questions, and the answer of the Chairman was that the meeting was not a meeting for discussion—( Hear, and great laughter)—that in publishing the advertisement it was supposed the public would understand that it was a private meeting—( Renewed laughter)—and that it was the intention of the Chairman in publishing the advertisement to have it considered es a private meeting, and nothing else.— ( Hear I and loud laughter.) _The meeting was then asked if it was satisfied. and it stated that it was, and it was then inti mated to the Chairman that they should not have thought of interfering in his private meeting, if they had been aware it was such.—( Cheers. ) The resolution was then put and carried (with the exception of three hands, which were held up against it) amidst loud cheering. HENRY WEYMOUTH, Esq., in moving the next resolu tion, said it was a very common practice of the Tories to assume to themselves a monopoly of loyalty.—(Laughter.) His (Mr. W's.).definition of loyalty, and he thought they would be of the same opinhin, was, that - they - should tell the King the truth at all times, and if ever there was a period in which the opinions of his Majesty's subjects should reach his ears, it was the present—( Applause.) They had now reached an unparalelled crisis after having fought for four years man fully, and obtained the Reform Bill, to which they should na turally expect further additions—at such a moment, without the slightest expression of dissatisfaction on the part of his Majesty with the measures proposed by his Ministers—at a time of profound peace and without any dereliction of prin ciple on the part of his Ministers ; on the contrary, at a moment when they were about to introduce more efficient re forms, under such circumstances his Majesty had thought pro per to dismiss them, without the slightest notice whatever. — ( H ear.) He could scarce imagine to what cause this extra ordinary proceeding could be attributed.—( Cries of " Hear.") Gentlemen—l am persuaded this meeting will concur with this resolution, expressive of regret at the dismissal of his Majesty's Ministers.—(Hear, hear.) I am very well aware those Ministers did not perform all that was expected of them, but at the same time I would beg you to recollect the difficulties they had to encounter.—( Cheers.) I would beg you recol lect the difficulties they had in every measure which had for its tendency any thing of a liberal nature in the House of Lords.—( Much cheering.) We are now better informed on that subject ; we now know more of the difficulties Ministers had to contend with than before, therefore we are prepared to give them great consideration, and . not to cast those reflec tions upon them which otherwise we might have done.— ( Hear, hear.) Although they have not obtained all we ex pected, yet it is very well known measures of reform were about to be introduced into the House of Commons with respect to the Church both in England and Ireland, as well as other measures of a similar nature, which have still more endeared them to the public.—(lmmense cheering.) I beg to read the following resolution. " That this meeting does not s ield in loyalty to any class or as sembly. of his 3lajesty's subjects, and are at all times desirous to recognize and uphold his Majesty in the Royal prerogative ; but while avowing these sentiments, they cannot refrain from express ing their deep regret at its recent exercise in the dismissal of the late Ministry, and in the appointment of Ministers who, whatever may be their present declarations, are not, from their past conduct, entitled to the confidence of the country." BENJAMIN Woon, Esq. (brother to Mr. Alderman Wood), said, in seconding, Gentlemen, the Resolution which has been read I have very great pleasure, and I shall occupy tut a vary few minutes of your time. Gentlemen, it has been stated in the Address of Sir Robert Peel, and more particularly by those friends Who have supported him on the present occasion, that the present Ministers ought to have a trial.—( Uproarious cries of No, no ! and a voice called out—" A trial at the Old Bailey."—Laughter, and cheers.) Gentlemen, you will not misunderstand me. Allow me to ask you what trial the late Ministers had when Lord Melbourne was in office as Prime Minister? Had he any time to accomplish those objects he was appointed to accomplish ? What trial was given to him ? Who had shown himself a more devoted friend to Reform ? attend. e - a Mr. FE/MON said he begged to include Mr. Alderman Wood in the Reiolution, because he was among the party who had conducted the interview that had been referred to with great abi:ity. The Resolution having been seconded, the Chairman put it to the meeting, and it was carried unanimously. Mr. GROTE then came forward, and was received with deafening acclamations. He begged leave to return his most cordial thanks for the kind manner in which they hid received the mention of his name, and he c nigratulated himself in thinking that he had the gratification of experiencing that favour at their hands on so many and such different occasions, he should not have thought it necessary to t-ouble them with a single observation, were it not that he should d 3 injustice to his own feelings did he not congratulate them on the new and important triumph which the cause of Reform had achieved.—( Cheers, and hear.) by the result of this day's proceedings.—( Cheers.) It would have been an indelible disgrace to this country if the citizens of London had allowed such a proceeding to pass un noticed. —( Hear, hear, and cheering.) They had been tali' there was not any intention on the ILI of the Tories to make the meeting on the opposition side of the way any thin beyond a private and conversational assembly. No doubt that had been uttered with great sincerity by the leaders, yet the meeting would recollect how all the Tory newspapers, and with what exertions they endeavoured to get into the House of Commons all the Tories to be found in the country.—(Loud cheers.) He had no doubt that when they recollected all this, they would not wonder that he congratulated them upon their determination that day to beat the hopes of the enemy. He thought:their enemies would learn one or two important lessons from what had happened that day, and which, he trusted, they would profit by,—one was to write their advertisements in future in the ' newspapers in a less ambiguous manner.—( Laughter.) If they had from the beginning inserted the advertisements in the News papers, in the words in which it appeared in the Morning Post and Times of this morning, he was quite sure that no one present would have thought,,,, of interrupting them, and although they might be attached to their own opinions, they (the meeting) were no less attached to the great rights and privileges of all English subjects, which Was that they would not allow the Tories to father their children upon the citizens of London.—(Loud cheers.) He knew of nothing more necessary to be said to that most commanding and unanimous meeting, except that he trusted every gen tleman in the room would remember that when he retired from it it was only for the purpose of preparing himself to resist their enemies at the forthcomtng election.—( Loud cheering.) Mr. CRAWFORD came forward, and was received with loud cheers. He offered his acknowledgments to them for the ho nour they had again done him on that day, by coupling his name with those of two other of their Representatives, in offering their grateful thanks, for the exertion of those repre sentatives at all times, and on all occasions—( Cheers ) On a former occasion it might have appeared that he bad made some sort of an excuse for not addressing them at any length by saying that his Hon. Colleague and Friend had left him little to say. Since that time, it had been imputed to him that he had fol lowed in his Hon. Colleague's footsteps more closely than had been anticipated by some of his friends. Whatever political shades of difference might exist - eetween him and them, he was proud to repeat the words he had formerly made use cf and he cordially concurred in language which he could not expect to equal.—( Cheers.) Having said this much, he did not think that it was necessary for him to say more than repeat his thanks, and again express his gratitude for the favour they had just conferred upon him.—( Great applause. ) JosEPn BLACKETT, Esq., seconded the resolution. He was proud of the manner in which they had conducted themselves that day. He trusted they would be always thus ready. They had an election coming on shortly,._ and he would recom mend to them to take the advice of Mr. Grote, to be united, and lie was satisfied that the people of England had nothing to fear from Peel or Welling - ton.—(Tremendous cheering.) The THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1834. Tories united together, could never injure the Reform Bill.— ( Cheers.) Improve it they might, and perhaps after all the present juncture might be most fortunate for all those who were sincere Reformers. Let them be but firm at the ensuing elections, and they had nothing to fear.—( Cheers.) The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously. Mr. CLAY came forward. and was loudly cheered. He had stated at the commencement of the meeting, that he under took with satisfaction the task imposed upon him. Their con duct had caused that task to be a source of pleasure and gra tification. He knew not to what cause he might attribute the honour which had been conferred upon him, further than that of his being; a merchant and shipowner, and largely connected with the commercial interests of this great city. It gave him sincere pleasure to preside at a meeting for the purpose of giving full, fair, and legitimate expression to opinions in which he entirely concurred.—Tremendous cheering.) I never have sought—l trust I never shall seek—with a restless and bustling aspiring, to appear on all occasions for the pur pose of thrusting myself forward on the notice of the public. but having come forward from privacy to take some sort of lead among my friends, my fellow citizens, I have put my shoulder to the plough, nor shall I ever desert either in or out of public, those duties my public life may be supposed to have fairly imposed upon me—( Immense cheering.) Three cheers were then given for Alderman Harmer, who was seen on the Hustings. Three groans were called for for the Lord Mayor, and heartily given. Three cheers were given for Mr. Grote, and the meeting quietly dispersed. At half-past three the City was as quiet as if nothing had happened. (The following appeared in the Morning Papers.) The following is a copy of the Address intended to be submitted to this Meeting. If there be any persons who do not concur in the sentiments therein expressed, they will be pleased to understand that the invitation to attend this Meeting is not addressed to them. Leaving to all such parties the choice of their own mode of ex pressng their sentiments, this Meeting will confine itself to the support of the following Address : " To the King's Most Excellent Majesty. " We, the undersigned Merchants, Bankers, Shipowners, Traders, and others connected with the City of London, request permission at the present juncture to approach your Majesty, for the purpose of renewing the expression of our dutiful and loyal at tachment to your Majesty's person and Crown. " Deeply sensible of the practical blessings we have hitherto en joyed under our wisely-mixed Constitution of King, Lords, and Commons, and feeling that the free and legitimate exercise of the Royal Prerogative forms an integral part of that Constitution (as essent:al to the maintenance of our own liberties as to the power and dignity of the Throne), we beg humbly to assure your Majesty of our determination steadfastly to uphold the same by every means in our power. ' " Feeling in common with all classes of your Majesty's subjects the deep importance of applying to all real abuses, wherever they may be found, a wholesome and timely correction, and of effecting in our excellent institutions whatever improvement careful exami nation' and experience may show them to be susceptible of, we de sire further dutifully to express our entire confidence that these useful purposes will ever occupy your Majesty's paternal care. Nor can we permit ourselves to believe, that the importance of these objects will be less apparent to those to whom the powers of Go vernment have been recently entrusted. " That your Majesty may long continue to reign over a dutiful and loyal people, and that your subjects may always show them selves thankful to a Gracious Providence for the public blessings they enjoy in this land of rational liberty, is the humble prayer of " Your Majesty's dutiful Subjects." FRENCH PAPERS. Pam, DEC. 20.—The journals of Bayonne and Bordeaux bring only news anterior to that which has been received at Paris by other channels. The Election alone speaks of the affair of Carascal which it places on the 11th. According to its account the columns of Oraa and Cordova lost 120 men, and Zumalacarreguy 230. This journal says that on the 12th, Zumalacarreguy, with 10 battalions and 150 horse, occupied Aredo, Encia, Legaria, and Aleina. " Brigadier General Lopez," says that journal, " caused forty custom-house officers to be surrounded in a vil lage in the environs of Viana, where they had retreated into a house to resist the troops of the Queen ; but the latter, by way of reprisal for the scene which had just taken place at Villa Franca, set fire to the house. Only twelve escaped out of the town, but they were taken prisoners, and will probably be shot. " By order of the Administrator General, the Carlists of Na varre have very recently placed posts all along the frontier from Vera to the valley. of Roncal, in order to levy the duties on merchandise coming from France. " The Carlist Juntas of Navarre and Guipuscos were, on the 14th, at 7 o'clock in the morning, at Santesteban and Sumbilla., with many sharpshooters, smiths, and shoemakers." The Memorial des Pyrenies says,— " There is a report that the corps of troops on the Pyrenees is going to be increased. It is affirmed that the regiment of Hussars in garrison at Auch has received orders to advance, and that two batteries of artillery are going to leave Toulouse. Three battalions of infantry arrived from the neighbourhood of Bordeaux. This unexpected display of force has again given rise to reports of intervention but unless in case of some very imperative necessity, it is difficult to imagine that the Government would have delayed taking such a resolution till the approach of winter." A convoy of arms, destined for Spain, has passed through Weron, escorted by a piquet of infantry. The chests came front Bayonne, and are said to contain muskets of English manufacture. The sale of M. Lafitte's pictures has been advantageous. The prices in general are pretty high. The beautiful Virgin of Andrea Sarto sold for 42,000 franes. A letter from Madrid of the 14th December, says—" The Queen returned to Madrid to-day. Snow was falling at the time, but that did not hinder the crowd from surrounding her, and welcoming her with acclamations." The accounts from the interior of the kingdom are much more satisfactory. Wherever the rebels have en deavoured to excite disorders, they have been kept down and punished. In Navarre alone, arc the rebels in any force ; and their attempts to excite revolt in the neigh bouring provinces have failed, and the accounts from General Mina of the 11 th give the greatest hope of success. Rein forcements successively join his army ; the Government every day sends him the means he wants ; the slowness of these preparations is succeeded by the most energetic activity. It is affirmed even in the Ministerial circles that within two months the rebellion will be suppressed in Navarre. It is announced that the conversion of the stock forming two-thirds of the Active Debt into New 5 per Cent. will com mence on the Ist of January, 1835. —Messager, Dec. 21. HAMBURGH PAPERS.. DEC. 19.—Our Corn-market manifests little activity, and all the principal descriptions of grain are heavy. From the 7th to the 12th inst., seven cargoes of corn passed through the Sound ; three were bound for England, three for Norway, and one for the Mediterranean : Rix-dollars. ] Rix-dollars. Wheat, A iihalt, w hite ... to ' Oats, Uplan , ' ~ ---. red 74 to 82 -- Me6Llenburg 33 to 41 Marks.... .......... . 74, to 80 -- Lower Elbe 34 to :i8 M ecklenburg ..... 63 to 82 Petersburgh & Riga to Holstein Lower Elbe ...... - ........... ... —to Rye, Mecklenburg Ho lstein ',B to 6t I Beans Danish to Tares 95 to 112 B irley, Anhalt ............... to —1 R a peseed 11 , 0 to 20.1 Holstein ............ 41 to 5! 1 Ditto Cakes Lower E1be......... 44 to 511 Linseed ditto 9O to 110 SUGAR.—The principal holders still keep from the mar ket, and the business done in raw sugars has therefore been again very limited. In refined the transactions have also been unimportant : Bahia, Wh ite, fine mid 7 714 ord Brown, fine 64i 6,,, mid 6 6 ord. ...... Havannah, White, fine mid ord COFFEE.—The sales of the 1,1 0 bags Brazil 1,3 0 bags St. Dom ngo Havannah, Yellow, fine 7 to N mid. & ord Ii F¢a Brown RYA 614 Manilla, Yellow ...... fin Rawl', fine .... 10 1 01 4 fine mid. 9% IA: ord 8i y . Melis, fine English lumps in loaves . 7 1 4 7% last week are estimated at— ...... ....... 5 to 5n 5% to 6 Funds have varied a little since our last. Spanish 3 per Cents. have fallen to 25, and Austrian Bank Shares are a shade lower ; upon the whole, however, the market is firm, with little real business doing : Discount, 2 , , per cent. End of December, .. . 7 3 ,,i 102 A A t i l i g g l i n- o.l l l ) , a i i: s i i s a il , Loan, three per cent Russian Inscription, h per cent., 111 7 ./0 ........... 95N 3iitto, ditto, IRII 951, Otto , ditto , 183 4 rertificAtes Polish Bonds KA% Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares, 1832 11.:80 Ditto Metal holies :1974 Dato 4 percent. Ditto 4 per Cent. (1834) Suanish 3 per Cents 24% Spanish Cortes (A. F. Halditnand and 7ons) Ditto 4 per Cent. D ut ch 2 !'si per Ceuta..... Ditto 5 per Cents Portuguese Regency, 5 per cent Bl% DittP, 6 per cent. ' 91% —Hamburg Reporter, Dec. 19. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. ITAmtu , na, DEC. 19.-13 7% • two months, 15 64. Sl'. PETERSIBURGII, DEC o.—Three months, I. 19.32. n ""- I N. Dt:E. 16.—Three months, 6 25. I.Rmitc. Dix. 12.—Two months, 6 164. STOCKHOLM, DEC. 9.—Two raontoe, 12 22. The Prince of Montfort, Jerome Buonaparte, has arrived here from Florence. VIENNA, DEC. 12.-5 per Cents., 991 ; 4 per Cents. 91 1 } ; Bank Shares, I,274.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Dec. 17. RASA > DE C . 11.—Every appearance of winter has now nearly vanished about Riga. The river is almost entirely free from ice. The husbandmen have in many places began to till the ground. LORD STANLEY.—This gentleman and his friends with a number of gentlemen from the town and the country, on Wednesday dined with the Principal and Professors in the Fore Hall of the College ; and on Thursday his Lordship, with a select party, dined with Sir Daniel Sandford. On Thursday Lord Stanley received deputations from various public bodies in Glasgow ; and amongst others from the Mi nisters and Elders of the presbytery of Glasgow, who pre sented him with an address expressive of their approbation of the . sound Pr o t estan t p r inciples he lately avowed, and on which he separated from the late Administration. Deputa tions from the Church and Education Societies also bad in terviews with him, and laid before him the present state of Scotland in regard to her Churches and Schools , and were highly gratified by the intelligent questions which he put and the cordial interest he seemed to feel in these topics.—Glas gow Courier. COURT CIRCULAR. Their Majesties left town yesterday morning at five minutes Wore 11 o'clock for Brighton. The King gave an audience at St. James's Palace previous to his departure to the Duke of Dorset. Prince George of Cambridge, accompanied by his pre ceptor, the Rev. Mr. Wood, left Cambridge-house, Picca dilly, at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon for the Pavillion at Brighton. The Marquis of Worcester and Mr. Herries visited Sir Ro bert Peel yesterday. Viscount Lowther attended yesterday at the Board of Trade for the first time since his appointment as Vice-Pre sident. The Right Hon. Alexander Baring came to town yesterday from Addiscombe, near Croydon. Sir Edward Knatchbull arrived in town yesterday. The Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner to all the Foreign Ministers at Apsley-house on Saturday evening. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, DEC. 22.—Wind N.W., hazy, light airs.—Arrived from the river and sailed, the Don Giovanni, Wilson, for To bago ; Strath Eden, Cheap, for Portsmouth and India. Arrived and sailed, the Charlotte, Kron, from Havre for Sun derland. Arrived and remain the Providence, Volbrecht, from Havre and Portsmouth, for Dantzic. with a brig from Riche bucto for Hull.-4 P.M. A ship, with a poop, apparently 400 tons, turning in from Westward, since reported to be the Eldon, of Greenock, from New Swath Wales.-5 r.x. She remains. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 22.—Wind N.N. E. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 21.---Wind variable.—Arrived the So lace, Barrett, Denia; off port, Atholl, from St. John's, New Brunswick. .ILMOt7TH, DEC. 21.—Wind E.N. E. to N., moderate. POOLE, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Flora, Neale, from Cadiz. PENZANCE, DEc. 21.—Arrived off port, the Christana, Wilkie, from Quebec. LIVERPOOL, DEC, 21.—Arrived the Westmoreland, Harri son, from Bahia ; Rangle, Stewart, from St. Petersburg ; and Neptunus, Dahl, from Stockholm. BELFAST, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Thetis, Patrick, from Riga. DROGHEDA, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Nimes, Noble, from Quebec. WATERFORD, DEC. 20.—Arrived the Liberator, Angel, from London. CORK, Dec. 20.—Arrived the Malcolm Brown, Plummer, from London. Off port, the British Heroine, Shoal, from Quebec. The Eleanor, Hagerty, from Riga to Londonderry, was wrecked near Bornholm, 9th inst.—crew and part of the cargo saved. The Malvina, Croakell, from Quebec to Graigemouth, was on shore near Wick, 18th inst. _ _ _ The Christiana, Morstrom, from Helsingford to Leghorn, was wrecked on the coast of Sulband, 11th inst. Pos r-OFFIcs NOTICE.—A Packet will be provided for the Lisbon Mail of this day. Letters in time to-morrow evening. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS At per Imnd of 3R Trusses . CUMBERLAND. Cons.' heavy Lowland f. to £4 0 New Meadow Hay . .... 4 5 6 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay ...... Cio•er Hay Oat 5traw........... CI Bto El 10 I Wheat Straw 1 )2 1 13 SMITH Fl ELD. Coar e htivy Lowland Meadow Hay ................ 15 to .£4 0 New Meadow Fll7 ............... ........ ..... 4 6 3 Uge6 I Old Ditto _ Fine Upland Me.,dow and Ilye.grass Mir Clover 1-lay extra tine .....a 5 In.. * Generally ~ ... 4it 5 5 Oat S raw ......... x I 4 c., .0 I 6 ! Wheat Straw .. k S I 10 lIUNGERFORD. Cmr.t. Meadow Hay £5 lb to .E 4 0 New Me iilow Hay 4 4 15 Useful Old Ditto _ Fine tirland Die tdow and Rye grans Hay Clover Hay . 4 10 5 5 Oat Straw .t.o 0 to £0 0 1 Wheat Straw ..... 8 1 10 COLONIAL MARKETS.—( Tars DAY.) The markets for the principal descriptions of Colonial produce will close this week for the Holidays, and there is, in consequence, but little doing, the trade having laid in their stocks for the ap proaching festive season. Sugar, coffee, fruits, and spirits, are, therefore, but in limited demand at last week's prices. The deliveries of British Plantation Sugars were not above 2,000 hhds. last week. . . _ Of Rum, the clearances for exportation having almost entirely ceased, the shipments for the more northern parts have ended for the season. In home consumption, however, about 500 puncheons were taken out of bond last week. In COFFEE, Berbiee qualities have realized 102 s. to 103 s. 6d., and Demeraras, are at 80s. per cwt., being held for higher prices. Foreign Coffees are dull. SPICES.-These articles have met a good sale to provide for the wants of the season. Pepper maintains the advance. Cinnamon has been sold at a rise of 9d. to Is. per lb. ; and Cloves and Cassia Lignea are also bought at full prices. COTTON.-The sales are not heavy, but prices are firmly main tained. _ _ - Woot..—There is an improved demand for Wool, and manu factured Woollens have also been sold more extensively within the last week. HOPS.—None bat the finest qualities, which are scarce, com mand either advanced prices or a ready sale. TALLow.—The market for Russia is at 465. Gd., and for home produce at 465. 6d. per cwt. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are French and Hamburg► mails, without a single arrival of ship letters. We have this morning an official account in the Post-office list of the Mexican packet, which was spoken with in lat. 25., lon.z. 90., on the 16th inst., intending to put into the Havannah. A general excitement prevails this morning in the city in consequence of the grand meeting at the City of London Tavern. TIM FUNDS. Up to the present hour there is a stagnation both in the British and Foreign Market. Consols, which left off yester day at 991 opened at the same price this morning. Spanish Stock is not so good as previous to the meeting of the Cortes Bondholders, which took place yesterday, when it had reached 55k. Soon after the result was known, Spanish Stock receded to Mt, and closed at 35; at present it may be quoted at 541, 55, - Portuguese firm, et 86} ; Dutch 2i per Cents., 541 53. QUARTER-PAST TWELVE. - People are now proceeding in great numbers to the City of London Tavern, several men carrying boards with bills on them—" Tory Meeting !" others with boards bearing on them, " The Reformers' Meeting I" which are seized by the police, and carried off. • HALF-PAST ONE. MEETING AT THE CITY OF LONDON TAVERN THIS DAY) OF THE BANKERS, MERCHANTS, AND SHIFOWNRRS.—At the hour of 12 o'clock, hundreds of persons, Reformers, Whigs, and Tories, took possession of the grand staircase leading to the great roam, where the meeting was to be held, hallooing and hooting for the door to be opened before the appointed hour, which was 1 o'clock, but the committee did not comply with their request. They threatened to burst the door open, in Which they did not succeed. Reports were immediately spread, that the committee had let the Tories in through the private door, which led to the back staircase, and placards were exhibited amongst the mob, with the words—" Reformers do not go away " exhibited on them, which were immediately seized by the police, who carried them off, amidst the groan ing and hooting of the mob. At one o'clock exactly the door was opened, when a great rush took place, and the room was immediately crowded to ex cess. Hundreds were obliged to retreat. The Royal Exchange, Stock Exchange and the various Coffee-houses in the city, are almost deserted, owing to the anxiety of the public wish ing to obtain entrance to the meeting. All is quiet at p resent. Consols may be quoted at present 92i for the account, with little doing. Spanish is not so good as in the early part of the day, 54,i- Portuguese maintains its price, 86i I. THREE 0' CL 0 CIC. The meeting, which was to have electrified the City, has ended as it should have done. It broke up, leaving the address on the table to be signed. The Reformers afterwards met at the Old City of London Tavern. Consols for the Account, 92i f. Lord Brougham is expected to arrive in town this day from France, and will take his departure probably imme diately to dine with his mother at Brougham-ball, according to his annual custom. Married yesterday, the 22d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Sir A. Malet, Bart., to Miss Spalding, daughter of Lady Brougham and Vaux. After the ceremony the newly-married pair left for their scat, Wilbury, Wilts. LEWES, DEC. 21.—The ball at the county Hall, on Thursday last, was attended by most of the principal fami lies in the neighbourhood, and dancing was kept up till a late hour. Amongst the most distinguished of the company pre sent, we observed—Lord and Lady Gage, Hon. Miss Gage, Earl and Countess de la Warr, Hon. General and Mrs. Tre vor, Miss Brand, Hon. C. Cavendish, Sir John Shelley, Lord Lynedoch, Hon. Edmund Phipps, the Misses Beauclerk, Ge neral and Mrs. Hepburn, Lord Cantilupe, Hon. H. Fitzroy, Mr. Shelley, Mr. Codrington, Mr. and Mrs. Dorrien Magens, Sir George, Lady, and Miss Shiffner, Mr. and Mrs. Kemp, Mrs. and Miss Upton, Hon. Misses St. John, Sir William Ingleby, Mr. and Mrs. Partington, Miss Wilson, &c. Weip pert's excellent band was in attendance. The annual supper ball takes place in January. To RQVIA 17, D EC. 21.—The first ball for the season at this charming and salubrious resort, went off with the usual eclat on Tuesday, tho 16th instant ; most of the leading county families, as well as many of the residents and visitors, being present. Among them were—The Duke of Somerset and the Ladies St. Maur, Lord Algernon St. Maur, Viscount and Viscountess Newark, Lord and Lady Sinclair, Lady Ribbles dale, Dowager Viscountess Bolingbroke, Sir John and Lady Yarde Buller, Sir Charles and Lady Dashwood, Sir Laurence and Lady Halstead, Lady Carew, Sir Laurence and Lady Palk, Lady Buller, Sir \Vatter Carew, Colonel and Mrs. Seale, Mrs. Wilson Patten, Mr. and Mrs. Cary, Colonel and Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. and Mrs. Hartopp, Mr. and Mr. Stanley Cary, Colonel and Mrs. Dunbar, Mr. and Mrs. Sheddon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Palk. Lady Anne Scott, the sister of the Duke of Buceleuch, is among the late arrivals. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS*. 'We yesterday announced the appointment of the Earl of Roden to be Lord Steward. The Courier s2elfls to have been at first inclined to take our account of this appointment as a joke. Our evening contem porary observes truly of this appointment, and those of Lord Hereford and of Colonel Perceval, " They distinctly mark the character of Sir Robert _ Peel's Government, in a more decided manner than his own address ;" and that " he has gone entirely to the camp of the Rodens, Stormonts, and O'Sullivans." Well may the Times observe, that " it is not the persons of the Cabinet—Sir Robert Peel, or even the Duke of Wellington—to whom the industrious Aristocracy of London adhere." No ; after seeing their associates, Roden, Perceval, and Co., they will be somewhat slow, we trust, in adhering. In these appointments, vast respect has been shown to the intelligence of the country. Truly a man must be far gone in his eafer ness to defy " the mania for inevitable revolution, ' to be able to stomach Roden. The following further ap pointments are said to he intended :—The Duke of Dorset, Master of the Horse. Lord Sidney, Lord Verulam, Lord Minto, and Lord Sheffield, Lords of the Bedchamber. It is now said that the Duke of Buccicugh is not to be Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. He must be a bold Conservative indeed, who at the City Meeting this day shall dare to stand up for a Mi nistry which can offer such an insult to public opinion, as to name to a high office Earl Roden, the originator of what was called the great Protestant Meeting at Dublin, at which invitations to rebellious risings were held out. The account of eleven men killed in a tithe-battle in Ireland, received by the post yesterday, was a suitable accompaniment to the entrance of Earl Roden into the Ministry. The country will under stand what is meant by these things. They will serve as an opposite commentary on Sir Robert 'Peel's ma nifesto, which the Times tells us ought to inspire the most ample confidence in the Administration. Not such was the langugge of the Times at a similar con juncture (12th June, 1832.) " But, above all things, the nation must be on its guard ag - i!inst the trick of changing the Ministry bcfore the dissolu tion of Parliament—a Court manoeuvre, which would throw the management of the dissolution—of the election—and of the new House of Commons, on its assembling—into the bands of a well-practised, Conservative junta. This must never be. Rouse, then—rouse ye, countrymen. The question is— will you have the name only, or the thing ? Will you have re form a living principle, pervading—moving,— cheering—invigo rating the nation ? Or, shall it be a dead letter to our mortifi cation, disgrace, and ruin ?"—Morning Chronicle. Who advised the dismissal of the late Ministry ? Who but the Ministry who succeeded them ? We had imagined that no position was better established than this—that the King can do no wrong, because he always acts through responsible Ministers ; and that when a Ministry is displaced, their successors, by the mere acceptance of office, thereby afford a proof of choir approbation of the dismissal of their predecessors. No mat► can be forced to take office, but there must be a consent to take office befor^ effect can be given to a dismissal. The Times cavils at the expression in the City Resolutions, of " the advising the abrupt dismis sal of Lord Melbourne's Administration." " His Ma- jests (says the Times) had no other Ministry but Lord Melbourne at the time. There was none other responsible for any public act of the Sovereign." Lord Melbourne could not dismiss himself. The Duke of Wellington officially communicated him that his Majesty no longer requi , -'4,: . his services ; and the Duke of Wellington, ther'l 1 a& vised the proceeding. No matter in what ft ceeding originated. One great excellence of the Eng 7 lish Constitution consists in the limits it imposes on the will of a King, by requiring responsibla men to give effect to it. Kings, like other men, arc indivi dually liable to all the infirmities of our nature ; and in their political capacity, if left to act without re straint, they would often. no doubt, sacrifice the in terests and happiness of their subjects to the gratifi cation of their passions and caprices. But the Con stitution has carefully provided against the possibility of detriment from this source. The dismissal of a Ministry possessed of the confidence of the nation, might at times be productive of the greatest inj ur y to a country; hut then as the responsibility of advising the dismissal is implied in the consenting to succeed them, the public are thus secured against the dangerous and injurious agitation which would be caused by improper dismissals. _ . The King must not dismiss lus servants with out the allegation of good and sufficient cause like an individual in private life. The Ministers who take the places of the dismissed must be prepared to show that their measures were injurious to the interests of the community, and that the King was justified in ridding himself of them. The resource of a dissolu tion of Parliament is a sufficient check against factious combinations in a House of Commons ; and, on the other hand, the inability, when the dissolution has taken place, to obtain a majority in the new House favourable to the Ministry, must be taken as a proof that the dismissal was factious and ill advised, and that the Ministry who approved of it, by taking office, are unworthy servants of the Crown, because they have deprived it of . the' con fidence of the Representatives of the nation. It. is not necessary to inquire whether the present Ministry did or did not really advise the dismissal. The Times wishes the public to believe that the King alone could have determined on the dismissal, because it was not the interest of the present Ministers to advise such a proceeding. "It is, we believe" (says the Times), altogether unquestionable that the Duke of Welling ton was taken as much by surprise when the news of the breaking up of the Cabinet reached him, as was any one of Lord Melbourne's colleagues, when his Lordship announced it to them on his return from the King ; nay, more, that if the Duke himself had been under the palace roof at that moment, he would have been very apt to dissuade his Majesty fram the prompt and, in some respects, invidious measure of dismissing the late Cabinet when he did." But this leaves the matter precisely where it was. That the dismissal was ill advised, does not surely prove that Ministers should be responsible for it.—Morning Chronicle. The scene which occurred at the late aggregate meeting in Dublin could hardly, we think, be called deliberative—and yet its discord and uproar were just as expressive of the impartial, unbiassed sentiments of the respectable and intelligent classes of the city of Dublin, as the unanimity of any " aggregate meeting" at which Mr. O'Connell has figured for the last twenty years. Those sort of meetings in Dublin, as well as in some other places, are usually got up and managed by the agitators in such a way as to ensure about so much free opinion as can co-exist with the tyrannic domination of an intolerant party in a packed assembly—such freedom of opinion may be best de scribed by the phrase which has been applied to what our English Doctrinaires call " free-trade,"—viz., a " one-sided reciprocity " of feeling. Any man who had the boldness to stand forward and utter sentiments adverse to those which the meeting was intended to palm upon the world as the result of free discussion, soon found that the only " freedom " which he was allowed to practise in safety, was the freedom of agreeing to whatever .the managers of the drama set down for the actores, labulce to recite, and the audience to applaud. At the late aggregate meeting, however, the O'Connellite faction , who used to have these things all their own way, were met upon their own ground by men who proved that they were not afraid to face them on their own ground, and, what was of more consequence, that they could make as much noise as themselves. Party confronted party, the Orange met the Popish agitator—John Judkin Butler stood opposed to Daniel O'Connell, and When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war." A fierce tug it seems to have been—a tug of sound and fury such as in the cave of -Solus, when all the winds arey in a state of riot and mutiny, could hardly be equalled. Ossian might compare the tumultuous din to the fall of a hundred hammers on the anvil, or the rushing of a hundred mountain streams ; but the poet's powers of illustration would fail to convey any adequate notion of the " dread reality." The con fusion of Babel was order and tranquillity compared with it. The shout of the multitude in the Roman Forum, that stunned with its shoek the passing eagle or the crow (we do not well recollect which) was tame compared with the roar of the " Dublin aggregate," when all became " simultaneous" orators and listeners N