The Sun. — London, England, 1834-12-17 00:00:00

IMP ORTANT MEETING. IN WEST SOMERSET. abandon his principles now ?-e-( Cheers.) No great progress has yet beets thede In the eatqe of Reform. We want to be secured against the possibility of iosiiig that which we have gained. We mu t wlia i t tee liked; tend then look for mtre.--(tiolitl cheers.) All will now feel that pit; Ot the people cannot be tampered with—(Hear, hear)—that man, so great with his sword, will cot con quer the people of England—( Immense cheering)— though he has done much on the battle-field, he will be worsted in this.—( Yea, yes.) The military dictator will not, shall hot subdue the Ilbeielee of Britaiti.34 Enthusiastic cheering whith continued for a long time.) But we must be united—We shall then be invincible. The Learned Doctor sat down amidst general applause. ANDREW CROSSE, Esq. I had the pleasure of recommend ing Mr. Tynte. I have watched his doings in Parliament, and there is not one of his votes from which I differ.—(Loud cheers.) He has advocated the rights of the people in a firm, manly, and constitutional manner.—( Cheers.) He has shown himself free from insolence on the one hand, and above influ ence on the other. I must pay the same deserved compliment to Mr. Sanford—(Cheers)—though there are shades of diffe rence between them, they are but shades ; and it becomes our duty to unite against the great military dictator--( Cheers ) who has been induced by a few aristocratic families to set him self against the people of England.—( Immense applause.) If you were barbarians the sword would indeed be necessary to rule you ; but you are civilized and intelligent men ; you must be governed by reason and argument ; and if this mili tary dictator shall attempt to command us with his bayonets, we shall meet him face to face. Better he had died on the battle field, than accept office under circumstances so de grading,—( Loud and continued cheering.) A gentleman of great ability I admit has come forward to oppose our pre sent Members. He has eloquence, but we want more than that—we want liberal political principles.—( Loud cheers.) All that reformers require is the restoration of their just rights, and I trust that by you; votes you will restore these gentlemen to the place where they can most effectually assist you in sup porting them.—( Cheers. ) Mr. BALL being loudly called for, rose. lam glad of an opportunity thus early to express my sentiments on the late alarming changes. I say alarming, for all who love their country must be alarmed at the appointment of a Ministry hostile, whatever their pretences, to the progress of civil and religious liberty.—( Cheers.) We are on the eve of a mo mentous crisis ; but I do not fear it, for the people of this country arc true to their principles and to themselves.— ( Cheers.) Gentlemen, the Reformers are stigmatized as Destructives ; they are not so ; the true Destructives are the Tories. We should have had destruction enough ere this but for the Reform Bill. Shall we go on with the work of Re form, or must we now stop? Where is there re-action? Not here. What is it ? I fancy that it is of another sort ; it is in favour of further Reform.—( Cheers.) Are we not now in a state of intense political excitement? Why not at high pressure point ? Because we are confident of our strength— because the Reform Bill has given us the means of using that strength —aye, and k e will use it —( Cheers.) I defy the Duke of Wellington and all his bayonets.--( Immense cheer ing.) What is a military dictator to do against the hearts and bodies of Englishmen ?—( Loud cheers.) He cannot beat us now—he shall not subdue the " foolish gentlemen," as we have been called by Mr. Escott, of Somerset.—( Cheers. ) We owe all the abuses of which we complain to the misgovernment of the Tory faction. Why, if these men come again into power, may we not have the same abuses, the same wrongs, the same oppressions, the same massacres ?—( Cheers.) We are told that Sir Robert Peel is come.—( Laughter.) No doubt he is a man of principle, but it is Tory principle.--( Cheers.) So the Duke is an honourable man, therefore I do not believe that he will turn Reformer for the sake of place, and abandon the principles of a long life, to be condemned to everlasting in famy.--( Great cheering.) Gentlemen, the Tory party has no conception but of a Government by brute force ; their ar ursuant to notiee, a Public Meeting of the Electors of the Co es e e te ty ni te D j . ‘:7,ion of the C oun ty o f S omerse t was h e ld at t h e -.all, in Taunt on , on M on d ay l as t. Op • t iii ed t o meth motion . Hof Sir T. LETBRIDGE, Dr. Blak e wa i t The CHAIRMAN stated the °Wet of the meeting. It ti,ss) to de c l are their unalterable attachment to the great prin eel'," of Reform, to express their opinions on the recent re ges of Minist r y, an d t o appo i nt a Committee to secure the tlaeleetion of th e i r present lib eral Members, H. A. Sanford, e, r C • J. R. Tynte, Esqs —(Cheers ) jV T• B. LETHBRIDGE - - rose to move ' a series of reselutiOn . s. e , r egret that, owing to some delay and the pressure of the er q, we are unable to report his admirable speech at length. The following was its substance. He had not expected to t o l d et b 3 ,° large an assembly that before him it, however, ti shn 'ern that their zeal in the " cause of Reform had not dimi t: "n• He appeared before them anxiously hoping that by ir i er „ .l. u nanimity on that day they would tell the electors who m en present, and the whole people of England, that the P ond °t- Somerset were awake, that they were alive to the im uTanee of the present crisis, and were resolved to do their t o Yc The resolutions he should have the honour to submit b,:gent would commence by thanking his Majesty, who had th e ll t he nursing parent of Reform, for that charter of their Pr e e rtie setbe R e f orm Bill ; an d a d m i tt i ng fully his Majesty's Vngativ e to select his own counsellors, it would declare also or ti ght and d u t y o f t h e peop l e to express their opinions or t hat ch o i ce, and approve or disapprove the measures of th at King' s advisers. It would declare the sati s f ac ti on th ei '"e meeting at t h e past Parliamentary conduct of toil' present Members--its resolution to return them again, tq,lithe necessity of appointing committees to ensure their re el, -- (Cheers.) It required no common energy to carry on k d w ork of Reform—it had been begun—but to have it begun 'Snotno completed, would be to stultify all those who have cou llimslY supported Hear, hear.) You (said the Hon. eo k -ti et) have chosen to return two gentlemen in every way Vetent to represent you ; it is a gratification to me to re tie-;" t hat I had proposed one of those gentlemen to your no to ---- (Cheers)—and he is now present among you, prepared eilarenver any questions which may be put to him respecting butPnst conduct.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Sanford is absent, tp de unav oidably so, and th e cause o f t h at a b sence we must all or e.—( Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, I will not say that I pp p o l 'avit of all Afr. Trnte's votes ; but I am pleased with him e... ep ri e t t whole ; P 2together he has done all—more than I had 1ee„,7 1 . Be has proved himself your truly independent ro inate--"`*—( Immense applause)—he has voted with Mi t t a, When he thought them right, and against them when ue i iieved them wrong.—( Cheers.) When I look around 10 e , 401 0 not doubt but that the re-action which we have heard doCe‘ .te li of will be found to have vanished into thin air. I cannot St n . : 4 it when I look at this meeting. There is a gentleman, let a ll i d of mine, of some small property, influence, and re tie mean Mr. Portman—(L ou d applause)—in whose L):d ther e has been no re-action, and who w ill aga in propose '. S anford to your notice as a tried Reformer; nor has there tie a re -action in the mind of the humble individual who soggses you, for he hopes again to propose to you Mr. y Tynte.—(lmmense cheering.) As far as we are r ed, then, there has been no re-action ; and I'll tell °re "Ye--Reform has but just begun—the principles tot nrliamentary reform if good for any thing, are goo IteLptllis--that abuses of Church and State must be ' e cl• I say Church and State, because lam not for tO L -n g them. I believe their proper union to be beneficial %e e " e Country ; and it is because I would not h a v e th em tipo'h,d that I would have th e Ch urc h ref o r me d. Th ose bl ots tip„'Lt which ti me an d corrupt i on h ave ma d e I w i s h to see Wriged, and I am sure that she will never stand so firm as eea c e s tbe prun i ng knife bath taken away her faulty excres- St eta . As for the State, th ose re f orms must f o ll ow ; an d l et knot fo rget how much we owe to our King for what be has, Pe t 0 1 : 1 " - ea Kin g i n w h ose m i n d, I b e li eve, t h e interest ef his sttC e h is ever upperm os t. I l oo k upon i t as e great benefit L k te e R eform Act that publi c o pi n i on he henceforth govern 4 i ilil try.—( Hear, hear.) I n ve l e . now f or men, l et t h em N-ery so signally great itt tiller things, to say to reform, t he re - flair—it cannot tie—(loud cheers)—because, as yet keile,nialmencement of reform only bath taken place. Re te, stow as - warmly desired as ever—(hear, bear)—and I t i)) , , 3 ° 4 this lit of consolation—you are sure to ha v e it un d er g ill e et nnstances—( Cries of "We will.") I If know you " e ,t abuse it—you will not destroy, but repair. any ti ee tt a The to j o i n i n d es t ro yi ng an y o f our valuable msti- V , I would say to him, " Never ; my dead body you may \te d ol r, but while I live I will stand up for them"—(cheers) t e itine r - „ e ; say so because I think them in principle niost ro tb ,, l 7Y fitted for producing social happiness and national 7 4 , es,, t 'tY. I have said perhaps too much.—(No, no.) lam f `gef - ' 4 l Than. I own that I look more to the measures g el ' e ` l3 th e men from whom they come, and measures ti tle on independence will ever have my support. t 81 411 n ien, I tru s t th a t t o i nsure th e progress o f rea l R e f orm, .Agi a this day tell our brother electors, and the people of t ucl, that we Reformers still resolved to procure or . 4 °,4 t 1 ) --- ( Immense cheering.) I would recommend no coa h e i t Ween the Members—the electors should vote for whom t ie rease--if for both so much the better—but Ido not think a t :tion fair. I have just seen . an address from another can -11;11'. That gentleman is a private friend. lam connected r oe i nn also in another way ; but though he is such I differ iil, iiiprinciple, and though I have not always received . ,`°l, 4l , ie `,lee it, I have ever sacrificed private interest and feeling 4^ `• 11 e duty.__( Loud cheers, which lasted for a long time.) re,'„ u sure that the electors of Somerset, being Reformers, still e e got, and will not, give their support to that gentleman 0f t Y li go forward until they have obtained the full benefits I Vti o e Reform Bill. The Hon. Baronet then moved the reso e..s, ayTl,„resumed his seat amidst loud applause. Site THOMAS rose to second them.. I come-forward . o u unusual i ~ly to Westanxrniety at such amoment as this, so important not Sn-ers.et, but to the empire at large ; and I he fr°lll anY doubt of my principles, but from the t"iirfienedult;tof advocating them properly at this time. As the 4 will of • Mr * Sanford, his neighbour and representative here, not be necessary for me to apologise for his absence, for Nr eaus e of it sufficiently appeals to the heart of every husband, t hY. parent, every man in this meeting. One great object of th is Meetin g I conceiv e to be the carrying on the principles it h_c Reform Bill. I have been asked " What has it done? for 0,4 done nothing yet—what can we expect of it hereafter ?" k' 4 e e t til en) it has done much, and it must do more. It has I °lt a great proportion of the people of this kingdom the e ,° l electin their own Representatives.—(Cheers.) It `se °' v en liberty to 800,000 of our fellow beings—relieved tl s f fr°4l personal as wel as mental slavery. It has relieved thi ez °Ur or five millions of taxation. It has done many other 441 1. and man more it would do. It will take away the tho tieor_betwee.n me and my flock. Gentlemen, it will effect "IllaatlOn of tithes.--( Loud and continued cheering.) "ea asingular announcement in a Western paper, that the ~lit4tltnd Chapter of Exeter had met to petition for a corn ,' te 4 n l oftithes. To what do we owe that but the agitation 14i, 4 subject consequent upon the Reform Bill. I differ from ,41 , „en. Baronet to the support that we ought to give to ab e lies •—(Ch as eers.) The best way of judging what men ei t.iL te . by seeing what they have been.—( . Immense . chee . rs a .) "li g of men in their public, not in their private, cap - ; L ie' IV I ask whether the men his Majesty has chosen to 1,40,..11114-en,.nisters, have not . been strenuously opposed to the e l ler Yes.) Did not one of them, the Military_ : enter his solemn protest against the Reform Bill e, th e T h e n, entertain any hope . that such . men will be sui tey ° II/terse...4 Immense cheering, and cries of their. N . o, n . t it In aY be traitors to themselves, and to principle.. ) I tt/ i 4 ele de not think so.—( Cheers.) I . would not think so .. men,' of them --(Cheers.) My opposition to them, as pub . • • 1,.1404is grounded upon their past conduct, and therefore necessary for us to return men who, ifthey take a :the t ' 1 , 41 course will give them uncompromising opposition i t ti ti leet t t . '"e Words ' of my friend, Sir Thomas Lethbridge. th,°'! coalition. lam riot opposed to either Member ; roostbestTtrest way will be to go straight forw h ard, e . ach doing he can for himself, and I doubt not t . at, in the end, h of th e voters will come to the same point, and support e u; %Int L'lrxertee rose. A more critical period than the pre- I nte'entit occurred in the history of this countr We are '1 7 1 4 ' or whether Englishmen are to e$ their liber egn l ei ° he enslaved by an oligarchic faction.—(L e oud cheers. ) tOtive e ll e el l'ies decl are d i n the resolution have for their object e tt ,, e th e r i ghts and liberties of the people. The change tie eeeitm,ttaken place in the Government was most alarming. b t he ad c alculate our h o p es o f th e f u t ure by our experience ht 4r er u d s t- For th e l as t fifty y ears th e p ar ty now in power ab e f d 2he country—what had been the result ? That power t Pt e Jz,been directed against the rights and welfare of the , L hat party had made the people labour, and robbed le e Ute e te e e fruits of their labour. They have saddled us with I ' ll te - e " - -they have refused to us education—but we should de mand our own rights.—( Cheers.) They have suf lii,g4teh4llds, villainous abuses, to visit every department of 'M 4 ° an d Stat e • an d are t h ese th e p r i ncip l es to b e recog ehel°---t ed b v obe p l ace d in power ? Are we to be again go yrie • the s ame rapac i ous, tyrannical faction ?—( Immense 1, tot e a rol cries •f " No, no, we wont.") Now is our t o ° •etti eke a st an d. A n Ad m i n i strat i on h a d b een f orme d t i t io Na, Zilci ct ent upon re d ress i ng gr i evan ces and effecting re- Pe e tit t o t hey were dismissed—dismissed when they were e te e gratify the expectations and just demands of the (y ear.) If th e R e f o rm Bill had been worked as le o t ha t l' ii " b e should h ave now t h e mos t gratifying prospects ot . - t e tp„ Pee t% erty and happiness—but a cloud has come over our 1 4essi ott a nd sudde n ly we are t o b e thrown back into our old 44 I ( t o and slavery.—( Loud cheers.) . Do not mistake 11 1, 44 o._ "t believe that the Tory Government will openly, I;, t the y " er., 'Depose all Reform. No. They willgive a little, tl ee t 0 bab e withhold a great deal.—( Cheers.) They will Itl e ;Pe, ( I ,' us into quiet, that they may enchain us when we Ii ch ) How can we believe that the men . 0 4 ) 4v, _ eers. 1 ,, a . ever taught that ' an arbitrary Government alone whey t ain social order, can ever rule us as freemen—that it v e le ree' n "e look e d on the people as tigers to be subdued tritie s --- ( Loud cheers)--who have held that the few had all tl,. syeh arld the many all wickedness—( Immense cheers)- 4 e In ca will see k t h e goo d o f t h at rev il e d many, rat h er %1 is a dvanta ge o f that flattered few ?—( Loud cheers.) eltl'ortkeur s ituation at p resen t, an d suc h it mus t b e , un til t h e 4 q( bo erlt i S in the hands of men who think that liberty is r e YOl t ", but a right.—( Continued cheers.) Shall we, I So ,?lee e e e n e clore a Government whose past acts prove . that they o to our best rights and liberties ?—( Cries of the liel'e,rree lt h as been said that any persons might carry on go od Pie's re,n, because it is the King's Government, and not the ti:nvernment. Absurd 1 Kings are appointed for the "tle iaq e f te e P e° le.—(Loud cheers.) The King is the guar . - si t ours e iiherties of the people, aed if they be attacked his le t tet e tunst answe r for it, We admit his right to appoint tt lrle ?ull ' -e llors but if he did well in calling Reformers to 'is three or four years ago, who has advised him to gument is to call out the yeomanry.—(lmmense cheering, which continued for some minutes.) Such has been their conduct before, such it will ever be. I have heard one of the yeomanry of this county say, that he would not hold his com mission under a Tory Government.—( Immense cheering.) I hope you will do your duty, by returning the present Mem bers.--(" We will.") If• the candidates do not coalesce, the Reformers must. We must unite, to prevent the triumph of Tory principles. Do you think that the proceedings of this meeting will gratify the Duke of Wellington, that he will be well pleased to hear that the electors of West Somerset have thus publicly declared their hatred of his principles, if he acts up to them—their detestation of the man, if he abandons them ?—( Loud cheers.) As for Mr. Tynte, his actions speak for him, and his votes must have gained for him the approba tion of the electors of West Somerset. After a few other observations, explanatory of some personal remarks, Mr. Ball sat down amidst loud cheers. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE rose to reply. He was happy that his resolutions had been so well received, but a few expressions had fallen from the speakers of which he did not approve. We must stand well with ourselves, with the country, and with the people of England, who will know what we arc doing to day. Harsh things had been said, and received with general applause, of men not present, and whom his Majesty had thought fit to make his advisers. Now, Ido not mean to say that they will be what we require ; on the contrary, I do not think they can be real Reformers—(Loud cheers)—and all must feel that they have incurred a very serious responsibility; but I cannot believe thet the King would take to his counsels any men not prepared to carry Reform—aye, a great Reform. If they can conscientiously so vote, I would take those Re forms at their hands.—( Cries of " No, no.") It is the King's right to choose his counsellors, the people's to denounce them. —( Cheers.) I do not know what they will do. I doubt whether they know themselves—( Laughter)—but we should try them. Ido not believe they will satisfy us.—(Cheers.) J. SNOWDEN, Esq. rose. I confess that I shall go from this meeting with much less anxiety than I came hither, now that I find that there is no re-action in the minds of Mr. Port man and Sir T. Lethbridge.—( Cheers.) Still Ido not en tertain the sanguine hopes of some of the speakers who have preceded me. I think that this is a great and awful crisis of our liberties.---( Cheers.) The question now to be decided is, whether' you will have a mild species of military despo tism, or a liberal Administration, acting upon your own principles and consulting your good.—(Loud cheers.) I cannot but express my admiration of the conduct of Sir T. Lethbridge, in thus standing by the cause of liber ty.—( Cheers.) I have grown grey in the service of Reform, and, even when opposed to the Hon. Baronet, I always gave him credit for honesty of purpose.—(Cheers.) But, gentle men, I must publicly differ from him, when he calls upon us to give our support to the present Administration. Sir T. EETIIBRIDGE-LNO, no, J. SNOWDEN, Esq.---I beg pardon, Iso understood him. If they were untried men, I would say try them ; but I object to them because they have been tried, and have been found want ing.--( Loud and continued cheers.) If we review their con duct during past years, up to the very day of their taking office, is there a single measure of Reform which they have not opposed--a single popular Bill, which they have not endea voured to overthrow ?—( Cheers.) Having watched them nar rowly during the past sessions, I ask why they have become thus suddenly converted? Gentlemen, it is that they may be placed in a situation where they may mutilate the Reform Bill. Call them Reformers ! Why, gentlemen, almost in the last iay of the session, did they riot throw out the Irish Tithe Bill ? (Loud cheers.) Can we put faith in such men ? (" No, no 1") Sir Robert Peel is only the puppet of the Duke of Wellington.—( Cheers.) That is another of their tricks, gentlemen. They say, tco, " I'm not a Tory, I'm a Conser servative !" They want to hide from us the odiousness of Tory principles, under a new name.--( Great cheering.) But we are all Conservatives—the tine Reformer is the true Conservative. If they be honest men, how can they carry on the Government ? When they come to measures in their Cabinet, they will find the Reform Bill in their way.— ( Loud cheers.) But, gentlemen, they will do all they can to deceive you ; they will promise much, and do little, but they aim at more ; they would destroy the Reform Act. How ? Not certainly by restoring Old Sarum, but more easily by raising the franchise to 2.0/., and then half the boroughs in the king dom will be close.--( Cheers.) Good-bye then to the liberties of England. Gentlemen, I must tell my brother Reformers• candidly, that they have injured themselves; some of them were too hasty; they discouraged their friends, and encouraged their enemies. I hope that this will be a lesson to them not to leave those who are their real and tried friends, because they cannot do all they desire. But has Reform done no thing ? Let us see. Abroad, it has rescued the liberties and preserved the peace of Europe.--( Cheers.) At home, it has destroyed the East India monopoly, reformed the Irish church and the poor laws, improved our legal institutions, and reduced the public burdens four millions a year. Is this nothing ? ( Loud cheering.) It has abolished slavery in our colonies, and advanced the cause of liberty in our own land.—( Loud cheers.) Therefore, I say, the Reformers acted most unwisely when they goaded the willing horse, end were discontented that more was not done than it was possible to do against such an opposition as that which we now find was ranged against all Reform.—( Hear.) But still, if the people of England be united, the cause is safe ; but remember, that if your adversa ries, by appealing to the passions of the ignorant, and by alarming the timid—by promises and threats and influence, should succeed in obtaining a Parliament, our liberties are lost. Let us be as one man—let us drop all minor differ ences.—( Cheers for a long time.) An eminent man hps said, "If you would go far, go not too fast." By attempting to move too fast, you awaken false fears, and array against those who would otherwise be your friends.--( Cheers.) Let the electors of Somerset be an example to the rest of our empire, that they are still devoted to the liberties of their count 'y—_ that they know their rights, and knowing dare maintain them. The learned Gentleman sat down amidst enthusiastic cheering. Sir T. LETHBRIDG E explained. He quite agreed with the learned gentleman who had just sat down, and he must have been greatly mistaken if he was understood to call upon that meeting to trust the present Ministry. He thought that they could not be trusted. It was quite fair to judge what they would do from what they had done. He only protested against condemning them, when they were not present to defend them selves. It was because he thought they could not be trusted that he called upon the people to return real and proved Reformers to the House of Commons—( Cheers. ) Captain BUNTER being loudly called for, said, I had in tended to make a few observations on the speech of Sir T. Lethbridge, but they are rendered unnecessary by the expla nation of the Honourable Baronet. We have heard a good deal lately of measures not men—as usually —as lately em ployed, I may say in the words of a great man now no more, " that expression is the language made by knaves, and uttered by fools."—( Immense cheers.) I ask you, if in the common affairs of life you wanted to employ a servant, would you em ploy one who had deceive,d and robbed you before ?—( Loud cheers.) If you had a disease, would you prefer a Surgeon who had studied medicine, er a quack who told you that you had no disease at all, and that medicine was a THE SUN, LONDON, W.EDNIBDAV, DECEYIB_ER 17, 1834 humbug ?—(Lgud cheers.) The men who would now rule us stand in this situation—either they have no principle at all, or they are going to turn traitor to their principles, and act the dishonew able part of doing that which they have in cessantly denotinea-za( Cheers,) Were they in earnest when they opposed Reform, or are they Ili earnest when they pro mise it now. Are we to believe the Duke in oppoSititm or the Duke in office ? Can such men be trusted ?—( No, no, and cheers.) Would it not be an eternal disgrace to our country, if such a spectacle of moral degradation should be exhibited in our Government ?-.--( Immense cheers.) If they are Tories, the people Will oppose them—if they come under false colours, and profess Reform for the flake of place, the high heart of the people of Britain will spurn such dishonour.—(Loud cheers.) Our duty is plain. We must return tried Reformers ---(" We will")—we must be up and doing—it must not even be supposed that there is a re-action. It will be fOr you to de cide whether you will be slaves or freemen—and you cannot better shew your opinion than by re-electing your present liberal members.—( Loud cheers.) Will you have a Govern ment for the good of the few, or one that seeks the welfare of the many ?—( Cheers.) I say to Mr. Tynte—Go back to Parliament—tell the Ministry that you represent the feelings of the men of Somerset—that it is their firm resolve that no Minister shall rule them on Tory principles, and that they will not permit the moral dignity and reputation of England to be sullied by enduring political profligacy and dishonour in the highest officers of the state.—( Loud cheers.) Let the House of Commons make such a declaration, and then let these men, if they dare, turn apostates from their former principles for the sake of place.—( Cheers.) Lord Wellington left office be cause he could not stand against the public call for Reform—. he was true t o his principles then, will he be false to them now ? For his own glory, I hope he will not.—(Loud cheers.) Who would not prefer a Ministry that will advance with the public voice, than one that will give as little as possible, and then only when they are forced to it ?—( Cheers.) Why have we had a change of men, if there was not to be a change of measures ?—( Cheers.) Lord Melbourne was not disliked, personally—no—but he was dismissed just when he was pre paring measures that would have satisfied the whole of the people—just when they were going to do all that was expected of them. They have fallen on the people's cause, and if they do not bestir themselves their liberties and the liberties of their country are lost perhaps for ever—( Loud cheers. ) The resolutions were then put by the Chairman and carried unanimously, amidst loud and continued cheering. C. J. K. TYNTE, Esq., M. P., rose, and for some time was hailed with repeated cheers.—Mr Chairman, Fellow countrymen, and Constituents—When last I met you in this Hall it was on the day upon which I was declared your Re presentative in Parliament, and I then thought that I never could experience a prouder moment than when tendering to you my thanks for the triumph which had been achieved through our generous exertions ; animated as I then was with yid holiest ambition of serving you in Parliament, anticipating the labours of the coming Session, I then considered it impossible again to feel a more proud and happy moment ; but, Gentle men, the feelings which now possess me are still more gratify ing—still mere proud—for if I then felt an earnest hope, as I did a zealous determination faithfully to discharge my duty to my Constituents, I also felt the difficulty of satisfying all as to my conduct, and some anxiety as to the future. Now, Gen tlemen, after two Sessions of Parliament have passed over, I stand before you overcome with gratitude for the cheering and unanimous manner in which you testify your approbation of my past conduct—(loud cheers )—and your recognition of my zeal in the advocacy of your rights in the House of Commons.— (Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, from the first moment I ad dressed you as a Candidate, I distinctly told you that I came forward on the broad principle of thorough independence— (cheers)—that my party was my country--(hear, hear) —and that I would pursue the direct path of my duty to the best ofmy ability, without diverging to the right or to the left...--( Cheers. ) Gentlemen, have I not trod that path ?—( Cheers.) It is true that I generally supported the measures of Lord Grey's Administration, and when I name Lord Grey, it is with the respect and veneration, and gratitude that every Reformer must feel to that great Statesman, to whom we owe the Re form Bill.—( Cheers.) But painful as it was to me to oppose on some few occasions the measures of Lord Grey's Admi nistration—painful as it was to do so, when a sense of " stern duty" told me that I must oppose them, I thought alone of my Constituents and my country, and voted as my conscience whispered me was right.—( Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, there were some faults in Lord Grey's Administration—the greatest fault was from an attempt, an amiable attempt, perhaps, it may be called, to conciliate an implacable enemy—(hear, hear) — an attempt that has proved vain, and ever must prove vain. But I feel assured, that it was from the fear of a collision be- twcen the two Houses of Parliament that Lord Grey made the attempt, and though that collision has been hitherto averted, yet the attempt at conciliation has only tended to give confi dence to the anti-Reforming party.—( Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, the horizon brightened, there was an infusion of more liberal spirits into the, Cabinet. My Right Hon. Friends, Sir J. Hobhouse, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Ellice, and others, became Members of the Administration--( Cheers) — and that excellent and able Nobleman, Lord Melbourne, was called by his Sovereign to guide the vessel of the State, confi dence was placed in him, those who knew him knew him to be a cautious but resolute and uncompromising Reformer— ( Cheers.) A steady and certain removal of abuses was anti cipated, when it pleased our Gracious King to dismiss Lord Melbourne from his Councils, and call upon those who had ever been the avowed opponents of Reform. It was the undoubted right of the King to exert his Prerogative, but it is the undoubted right and the duty of the people of England to give their opinions upon the conduct of the Ministers that • Piave been placed at the head of public affairs, and the people of England will not shrink from the exercise of that right and duty.—(Loud cheering.) Gentlemen, you must now speak out.—( Cheers.) I would say with the Poet— " Curse on the coward and perfidious tongue, That dares not e'en to kings avow the truth." I have heard there is a re-action A laugh)—that the people sleep ! if so, it is the sleep of the giant who will awake refreshed !—( Hear, hear.) lam attached to the Constitution, I would lay down my life to defend the Constitution in it s purity—( Cheers)—King, Lords, and Commons. And though the people have now a power given them by the Reform Bill, which they can exercise and will now assert, yet they will stand by the Constitution. Some gentlemen have spoken of " mea sures not men ;" give us proper men I say, and they will give us proper measures—( Hear.) What said the great Canning, " Away with the cant of measures not men, do you suppose it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along." —( Cheers.) No gentlemen ! be assured that the men wh o have recently been called to power, who have opposed Reform for so many years, who opposed the Reform Bill itself, who have opposed all other reforms, be assured that they are not re men who will work out the benefits that you expect from that tree which planted by Earl Grey, would have borne full and fair fruits under the culture of a Melbourne.—( Cheers.) cannot describe the present crisis so well as by quoting a sen tence f:-om a speech lately delivered by a . Noble Friend of mine ( Lord Durham) when alluding to the late change from a Liberal to a Tory Government. "If the battle is to be fought, a., it necessarily now must be, let it at any rate, b 3 what is called a fair stand up fight.—( Cheers.) Let us have a clear stage and no favour.--( Cheers.) Let us see who are to be the victors. If indeed the people arc become anti-Re_ formers, the sooner the fact is knovVn the better.—( Hear) Who are !hose about to fill the places of the late Ministers ? Who are they ! but those very Tories, who have voted, strangled and intrigued against every measure of Reform that has been proposed up to the present moment."—(Cheers.) Those are the persons who are now called to administer the affairs of this empire, and it remains to be proved by your declaration at meetings of this description, and by the result of the next dissolution of Parliament, whether this party possess your con fidence. Gentlemen—l will detain you no longer; lam gratified beyond expression at the energy which you display, and by your kindness towards mc.—( Hear, hear.) It shows me that there is no re-action—( Cheers) in Somersetshire.— ( Hear.) I stand forward for your suffrages, independently and urcoalcsa.d, bit I Inould ill discharge my duty lo my friend and colleague did not I lament with you the cause of his ab sence ; and assure you that I have ever found him forward in your cause, and attached to your interests.—( Hear, hear.) Again let me congratulate you on the unanimity of this im portant meeting, on the main question of Reform.—There may have been some little difference of opinion, but like man and wife, little differences may harmlessly occur—( Cheers and laughter)—but let akind person interfere, and woe to that un happy wight.—(Cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen—l am again a candidate; I throw myself upon the kindness of those tried friends who have heretofore so nobly supported me—l have done my duty, I will affirm honestly, by you, and as long as I have the honour of a seat in the Senate as your Repre sentative, so long will I honestly and fearlessly continue to discharge that duty.—( The Hon. Member sat down amidst loud and long cheering.) Three times three cheers were then given for each of the Members, and three cheers for the Chairman, when the meet ing separated. _ _ It was one of the largest we ever saw in this town ; at least 3,000 persons were present. The greatest enthusiasm pre vailed, and it was impossible not to notice the evident detes tation of the Tories and the Tory Ministry. Symptoms of the returning season of Christmas and its festivities arc approaching, for rustics now begin to stand at the street corners with boughs of holly and laurel. The cheesemonger sports a sprig of evergreen in the centre of his half butter-tub, and hangs the griskins and chines at his door posts. The show of over-fed beasts is advertized, and graziers and farmers loiter about to see the prize -cattle, and prizes ad judged to the best feeders. Butchers begin to whiten their shambles and strew sawdust in the avenues to the scales and little counting-house box, in which sits the female accountant full of the " Ready-reckoner ;" poulterers are early at mar kes, and their shot's are filled with poultry in a state of nudity and death. The greengrocer has decorated his window with his best fruits ; and whilst the charms of Christmas has given temporary bustle to all classes of tradespeople, the pew-openers have obtained leave of the churchwardens to buy quantum sql ficit of holly and other evergreens to tie in bunches to the sconces and interior parts of churches. SIR JONAH BARRINGTON'S MEMOIRS OF IRE LAND AND THE UNlON.—Considering the great importai.ce of the subject, and the numerous persons who take a deep interest in the affairs of Ireland, we learn, with much satisfaction, that a new and cheaper edition of Sir Jonah Barrington's impor tant work is preparing for publication, in six monthly Parts, at the price of Bs. per Part, the first of which will appear with the Magazines, on the Ist January. This edition will contain, we understand, all the portraits and other embellishments of the original very expensive publication. Orders should be forwarded immediately to the booksellers, to insure its deli very on the day of publication. Mr. Cumming, of Dublin, is the agent appointed for Ireland. FRENCH PAPERS. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-SITTING OF MONDAY, DEC. 15. The sitting opened at half-past two o'clock, M. Dupin in the Chair. M. Anisson Duperron entered into the development of his proposition (relative to the clearing of woods and forests) submitted to the Chamber last session. The Hon. De puty's expose seemed to obtain but slight attention from his colleagues. The proposition, however, was provision ally admitted by the Chamber. The order of the day was the ballot for the nomination of a Vice-President, a vacancy having occurred in conse quence of the appointment of M. Passy as Minister of the Finances (during the Ministry of three days), and his sub sequent obligation to be re-elected as Deputy. The names of the Deputies were according called over, but our reporter was obliged to leave before the result of the ballot was known. A ors of East several Di notes of the non-arrival the Direc as direct ;i1 the Custom ors received ?Ave to the re regretted for officers, e Directors !se letters• in pressing ver to alter [ the power D A Y.) t the whole igden, the o ut a week together vs open t° 1r and ft' absence of little bus'. ,d vv hether iot. ~ It 1 ' king a scat ns all 00- DAY.) m a jestP 11. G Ai gt,ss, pothecal m of 3 r If the aei pnent ° ttendance ray, Jut !onstantu AUPD gar ,g to t A ll and a— the up A Wall; s such 10 ho tiff, that t e ,ther de ‘stablish- 131aci [ant, an d nedieja° ' ld , n Ivo u tonal' t , ° l he h - i as his l y rieg% busaio DAY' ) , EDA L 'eh tb's Ak e r, o pri detri- -11, and 51. f or in 0° 1011 Of COURT CIRCULAR. The King gave au audience yesterday at St. James's Palace to Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister. His Majesty had a small dinner party last evening. There were present to meet their Majesties, Prince George of Cam bridge, the Hanoverian Minister, and the Baronness d'Omp teda, the Danish Minister and Baronness Biome, the Saxon Minister, the Earl of Denbigh (Master of the Horse to the Queen) and the Countess of Denbigh, the Earl and Countess of Mayo, Lord Hill, Lord Byron, Sir John Woolmore, Sir A. Barnard, Rev. Dr. Kupar, Rev. Mr. Wood, Mademoiselle D'Este, Colonel Hill, &c. A Cabinet Council, the first since the formation of the neiv Ministry, was held at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel (First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer), Lord Lyndhurst (Lord Chancellor), the Earl of Rosalyn (Lord President of the Council), Lord Wharncliffe (Lord Privy Seal), Mr. Goulburn ( Secretary of State for the Home Department), the Duke of Wellington ( Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), the Earl of Aberdeen (First Lord of the Admiralty), Lord Ellenborough (President of the Board of Control), Sir Edward Knatchbull (Paymaster of the Forces), Sir Henry Hardinge (Chief Secretary for Ireland), Mr. Her ries ( Secretary at War), the Right Hon. Alexander Baring (President of the Board of Trade), and Sir George Murray, ( Master-(.;eneral of the Ordnance). Earl de Grey arrived in town from his residence, Newby Hall, Yorkshire, and had an interview with Sir R. Peel. The Marquis of Chandos has left town for Stowe, Bucking.. hamshire. Viscount Combermere and Sir James Scarlett visited the Duke of Wellington yesterday, at the Foreign office. Mr. Baring transacted business yesterday at the office of the Board of Tra.e. - - The Right Hon. Charles Grant has left town for Inverness. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, DEC. 15, 1834. The King has been pleased to appoint the Earl of Jersey Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household, in the room of the Duke of Devonshire, resigned. OFFICE of the LORD CHAMBERLAIN to the QUEEN, Queen's-House, St. James's, Dec. 16, 1834. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Earl Howe to be Lord Chamberlain and Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Earl of Denbigh to be Master of the Horse to her Majesty. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, OCTOBER 6. The Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household has appointed the Rev. Philip Stanhope Dodd, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, in the room of the Rev. Dr. James Stanier Clark, de ceaeeii. WHITEIL 4 2.L. DECMBEIL 16. The King has been pleased to con;:: +ute and appoint the Right Hon. John Charles Herries, to be his Majesty's :_ 4 meretary at War. At the Court at St. James's, the 15th day of December, 1834, PRESENT, The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. This day the Right Hon. Stapleton Viscount Combermere ; the Right Hon. James Archibald Lord Wharncliffe ; the Right Hon. Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart. ; Sir James Scarlett, Knt. ; Sir Edward Sugden, Knt. ; and Alexander Baring, were, by com mand of his Majesty, sworn of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board ac cordingly. His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare the Right Hon. James Earl of Rosslyn President of his Majesty's Most Hon ourable Privy Council, and his Lordship took his place at the Board accordingly. His Majesty having been pleased to deliver the custody of the Privy Seal to the Right Hon. James Archibald Lord Wharncliffe, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Seal was this day administered to him, and his Lordship took his place at the Board accordingly. His Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Honour able Henry Goulburn to be one of his Majesty's Principal Secre taries of State, he was this day, by command of his Majesty, sworn one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State accordingly. His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Alexander Baring President of the Committee of Council ap pointed for the consideration of all matters relating to Trade and Plantation. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 13. Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain R. B. Rawnsley to be Captain, vice Clibborn, deceased ; First Lieutenant J. H. Griffin to be Second Captain, vice Rawnsley ; Second Lieutenant T. B. F. Marriott to be First Lieutenant, vice Griffin, Nov. 21. Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Lieutenants with temporary rank, to be Second Lieutenants with permanent rank—W. G. Hamley ; A. Beatty, Aug. 5 ; P. J. Bainbrigge, Dec. 1. Gentlemen Cadets to be Second Lieutenants, with temporary . . rank. John Cameron, John S. Hawkins, James H. Freeth, William H. Mould, Dee. 12, 1834. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of the County of York. Wm. Mauleverer, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Dec. 6. In the Gazette of Friday, Dec. 12, the appointment of Edward Clarke, Esq., as one of his Majesty's Gentlemen at Ar ms , s h ou ld have been da ted November 27, instead of Dec. 9, 1834. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. CHARLES CLARE BERRY, merchant, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS WILKINSON and EDWARD DOWN, bill-bro kers, Piccadilly, to surrender Dec. 26, at half-past one, and Jan. 27, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Robinson and Son, Half Moon-street, Piccadilly ; Lackington, official assignee, Ba singhall-street. JOHN SMITH HUTCHINSON, leather-seller, Montague close, Dec. 22, at two, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Close, urnival's Inn ; Lackington, official assignee, Basinghall-street. CHARLES ABERCROMBIE, merchant, Liverpool, Dec. 30, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Ad lington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London ; Thomp son ; Crump, Liverpool. JOHN 'WHEREAT, tavern-keeper, Portsmouth, Dec 27, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Commercial Hotel, Portsea. Wimburn and Collett, Chancery-lane, London ; Martell, Portsmouth ; Lowe Portsea. JOHN GLOVER, watch-maker, May's-buildings, St. Martin's lane, Dec. 23, at two, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Murphy, Castle-alley, Royal Exchange; Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street. THOMAS WELLS, farmer, Binham, Norfolk, Dec. 29, and J an . 27, at the Globe Inn, King's Lynn. Withers and Son, Holt, Norfolk ; Faithful', King's-road, Bedford-row, London. EDWIN COCKER, hardwareman, Wood-street, Dec. 29, at one, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Burt, Alierrnanbury ; Clark, official assignee, St. Swithin's-lane. CHARLES FOX OPPENHEI3I, merchant, Leadenhall street, Dec. 26, at one, and Jan. 27, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edward, Pancras-lane, official assignee, :Richardson, Ironmonger-lane. SAMUEL THORPE, wharfinger, Nottingham, De e . 30, an d Jan. 27 t at eleven , at the Ram Hotel, Nottingham. Payne and Daft, Nottingham ; Taylor, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn, Lon don. DIVIDENDS. T. Buckley and R. Kennan, merchants, Liverpool, Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. W. A. Ohmann, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 6, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. J. Andrews, stock-broker, Threadneedle-street, Jan. 8, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. Nicholls, apothecary, Wells, Somersetshire, Jan. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. A. Gibson, grocer, High-street, Whitechapel, Jan. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. Bell, linendraper, Norton Folgate, Jan. 8, at half-past one, at the Court Bankruptcy.. — p7ixCher and 4 G: Archer, merchants, Botolph-lane, Jan. 8, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. R. L. Andrew, market-gardener, Wandsworth-road, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. T. Shadrake, jun., Coal - merchant, Hope Wharf, Commercial road, Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy W. 0. Attree, draper, Newbury, Berkshire, Jan. 8, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. Watson, baker, 'Milton-terrace, Southwark Bridge-road, Jan. 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. L. Kensington, merchant, Mincing-lane, Jan. 8, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. Challinor, grocer, Bolton-lc-Moors, Lancashire, Jan. 7, ai twelve, at the Star Inn, Manchester. M. Fisher, provision dealer, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Jan. 30, at ten, at the Pack Horse Inn, Huddersfield. J. N. Holbrook, lace-manufacturer, Nottingham, Jan. 20, at eleven, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham. J. Hardisty and W. Beck, druggists, Liverpool, March 3, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. J. J. Evans, surgeon, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, Jan. 6, at nine, at the George Hotel, Huntingdon. E. M. Bouchier and S. Bonsor, tallow-chandlers, Oxford-street, Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. G. Children, hop-merchant, Tonbridge, Jan. 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. H. Clark, woollen-draper, High Holborn, Jan. 7, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. W. P. Holroyd, plumber, Great Scotland-yard, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. J. Fielding and J. Fielding, calico printers, Catterall, Lanca shire, Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Town-hall, Preston. W. Hobbs, druggist, Bristol, Jan. 7, at one, at the Commercial rooms, Bristol. CERTIFICATES.--JAN. 6. E. Lloyd, bookseller, Harley-street, Cavendish-square. W. Beck, druggist, Liverpool. J. Forth, hatter, Nottingham. E. Whitbourn, coach-proprietor, Percival-street, Clerkenwell. J. S. De Pinna, feather-broker, Bucklersbury. E. Cottingham, surgeon, Bexley, Kent. It. Nott, sen., iron -merchant, Bristol. J. Jackson, draper, Whitehaven, Cumberland. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Threlfall and W. B. Jones, boatbuilders, Liverpool. J. Gibson and R. Rowlinson, iron -founders, Warrington, Lan cashire. C. Grafton and Co., paper-makers, Aston, Warwickshire. W. Ice and J. Haworth, varnish-manufacturers, Preston. T. and W. Cave, engravers, Manchester. T. Briercliffe and G.• Barnes, brewers, Tyldesley-cum-Shacker ley, Lancashire. S. and E. Richardson, innkeepers, Sheffield. J. Cleg and Co., commiseion-agents, Manchester. M ‘D D. APDonald and Co 'brewers, Salford (so far as regards D. onald). A strong proof of the cordiality which exists among all classes of Re',Ormers, and their determination to make com mon cause against the enemies of the popular interest, has been evinced by a considerable increase of members to the Westminster Club, established last session by the liberal party of the House of Commons, in Great George-street, at the re sidence of Alderman Wood ; who, from the advantage of its situation, gave it up to his brother members, and others not in Parliament, for the purpose of establishing an association so particularly desirable at the present important crisis. (From the French Papers of Monday.) Yesterday, the Danish Minisier had an audience of the King, to deliver letters notifying the death of Prince Wil liam of Hesse Philipsthal Barchfeld, husband of the Princess Julia Sophia of Denmark, on which account his Majesty will go into mourning for five days. The Ilfenzorial Bordelais of, the 12th inst. has the fol- lowing from St. Jean Pied-de-Port, of the 7th ." Zuma- lacarregui manifested the native ferocity of his character a few days ago, at Villafranca. A certain number of Ur banos, who were surprized in that town, had only time to take refuge in a church, with their wives and children. Zu malacarregui set fire to the place, and the wretched people perished in the flames. During the progress of the confla gration some women, followed by their children, left their retreat to implore the clemency of the General, but being perceived by other women, they were immediately put to death, and horribly mutilated. The Election of Bordeaux states, that Lorenzo, who was at Pampeluna without any command, has been appointed Viceroy of Navarre, ad interim, by General Mina. Extract of a letter, of the 28th ult., from Stockholm : " The committee of the constitution has referred to the High Court the whole of the King's Council, as having vio lated that provision in the constitution which declares that no bill, once rejected, can he brought in again during the same Diet, by delivering the Royal message to the States on the subject of the foreign loan. The committee, how ever, has made a misapplication of the law. The King's message is not a reproduction of an affair of the present Diet. The King proposed this loan at the close of the Diet of 1830. The four orders highly approved of it, and solicited and obtained the Royal sanction to it. The loan not having been realized, because the bank commissioners . did not think the tenders acceptable, the delay was taken a j v .,:cage of to obtain from the States a vote, declaring that they withdre . :7 their assent to the loan. But as the King cannot, without the i;`Qcnt of the States, make any legisla tive act, neither can the 5t a t.,7.... without the sanction of the King, abrogate any act that may been made. His Majesty, therefore, knowing the law of 18L' f l tp be in force, and that it could not be annulled but by a new lam, ;rnt the Royal message ; but the Opposition has succeeded in ;;;.- clueing the committee, by a majority of 10 against 8, to con sider the Royal message as a resumption of an affair of this Diet. Facts prove the contrary ; nevertheless, this majo rity of two votes has been produced, and the ridiculous im peachment must take place." The Prussian State Gazette quotes the funds at Berlin on the Bth inst., Four per Cents., cash 99k, paper 100. The Augsburg Gazette of the 11th inst. has the follow ing from Constantinople of the 18th ult. :—" Hope was entertained that Syria was tranquil and the excitement of the people allayed, but according to the latest accounts they were for the most part in a state of insurrection. In the first half of the last month a rising took place in Aleppo, where daily executions had occasioned universal indignation. It was only suppressed after several sanguinary conflicts, and the number of executions was then increased. About the same time the people revolted in Beirout. The Egyp tians again obtained the mastery, but not without the loss of many of their men. A few days later the whole popu lation of the Kesroan, a part of Anti-Lebanon, broke out into open conflict, and threatened to intercept the communications of the Arabian troops. This would have been done had not the Emir of the Druses, hasten ing to their assistance, decided the victory in their favour. He was in consequence rewarded by Ibrahim, and entrusted with the surveillance of that part of the country, where the people are still in a state of warfare with their oppressors, although with diminished force. The Egyptians, with the corps of the Druses under the command of the Emir were about 14,000 strong, and have recently received a reinforce ment of 5,000. Redschid Pasha, on first receiving accounts of this state of affairs, deemed it advisable to concentrate his army on the borders of Adana, and to make arrangements which left no reason to doubt of a speedy breaking out of hostilities between the troops of the Sultan and the Vice roy. These circumstances gave rise to a premature report that the Turkish General had actually passed the frontier, and had attacked Ibrahim, who in fact is in a state of pre paration for battle. 'Both armies are in presence, and may come to an engagement at a moment's notice, and it would be likely to take place if the Egyptians should not succeed in quelling the insurrectionary spirit of the peo ple. An idea may be formed of the painful anxiety which prevails in this capital, and the apprehensions which are entertained lest peace should be broken. The transport of troops to Asia is still continued with the greatest acti vity, and a regular interchange of couriers will very shortly be established from Scutari to the head-quarters of Redschid Pasha, in order that the Sultan may obtain speedy information of what is going on. Several ships of war are being fitted out, and will set sail for Smyrna, to watch this coast, inasmuch as Egyptian ships have been seen there. The admonitions of the French Consul in Alexandria to the Viceroy to change his conduct towards the Porte, and to discontinue his oppressions in Syria, have remained without effect, for the people are still oppressed, and Ibrahim has taken up a menacing position at Tauris. Mehemet Ali has not abandoned his design of declaring his independence." This journal has the following from Naples of the 2d :—" The French Ambassador, General Scbas tiani, has not been able to change the sentiments of the King relative to the constitution ; nevertheless, the so-often talked-of alliance of the Princess Mary with the brother of the King is again the subject of conversation. It is an error to suppose that the King has been hitherto withheld by personal considerations, when he refused to give his con sent to this marriage. On the contrary, he is greatly attached to all his relatives, and never fails to speak of his aunt, the Queen of the French, with great respect ; but has felt it his duty to sacrifice his private feelings to what he deems the good of his people. It is thought that the bar rier against revolutionary principles, which the love of his people has erected, might be endangered, if not altogether destroyed, by a closer family alliance with France. The scarcely yet cicatrized wounds of 1820 cannot be forgotten." The Gazette quotes the funds at Vienna on the 6th, 5 per Cent. Metallics, 99 : 1 ; 4 per Cent. ditto, 904 ; Bank Ac tions, 1,272. _ _ _ AFFAIRS OF SPAIN. PARIS, DEC. 14.—The Indicateur says,—" General Mina has not returned into Pampeluna, but he occupies strong positions in the environs of that city. He has now 10,000 regular troops, and 1,000 Volunteers. " It is completely false that orders have been given to the English ships which blockade the coast to suffer the supplic: , to pass which are destined for the Carlists." The same has a letter from laca of the 7th, of the following tenor f---" There has been a severe action, which continued two days, the valley of Roncal. The Carlists are said to have been cut is nieces. We are not acquainted with the details. All we ii; .`,lw is, that the Carlists attempting to fly are stated to have :;:'en inter cepted in their retreat by a column of Mina's troops, occupied Sanguesa, Adiz, Roncesvalles, and Salaear. The rebels occupied Roncal.—Constilutionnel, Dec. 15. We regret to say so, but our letters from Bayonne of the 10th of December, reduce to nothing all the news of pre tended successes lately obtained in Navarre by the Queen's troops. Mina, in order to come to the frontier, to receive a sum of 500,000 francs, which had been sent to him from Bayonne, was obliged to employ three of his divisions to clear the ground from Pampeluna to the Aldudes, and lie passed over the ground at the head of 8,000 men. This is very different from the hopes that were entertained of the effect of his name on the ancient theatre of his success. We were told that he returned to Pampeluna out of spirits, and that he has vowed not to leave it again till' he has re ceived reinforcements to the amount of 10,000 men. The Reparateur (a Lyons journal) says that the fortifi cations of Lyons, which, by the original estimate, were to cost five millions, have already cost more than ten millions, and are not half finished. Lord Brougham yesterday visited the Central School of Arts and Manufactures, where he was not expected. He minutely examined it, and promised to correspond with that useful establishment. On Monday there will be a general sitting of the Court of Cassation, to try two causes in which the Attorney-Ge neral will speak. Lord Brougham will be present—lV/es sager, Dec. 15. 13OURSE, MONDAY.—The 3 per Cents. hare declined a little to-day. The reported refusal of Lord Stanley has a bad influence on the speculators. The price of the 3 per Cents. is 76f. 60c. It was expected that the news from London in regard to the Spanish &luck would have a bad effect on the price of that st oc k, b u t ;business is so totally extinct in it that the price has not vari from that of Saturday last. Last Prices, I ialf4past Three o'Clock.-5 per Cents., 106 f. 50c. ; 3 per Cents. 76f. 70c. ; 5 per Cent. Spanish, ; 3 per Cent, xditto, 26 ; Cottes, 38i ; Royals, 43 ; St . Are.•:. ht.; Vtkl.\ :~ .'`\. , Coupons, 22), ; Differes, 14i ; Ducats, 93+ ; Pi. O c i Z: Belgians, 98i ; Pedros, 841 ; Miguel, 27i- ; Dutch, 54 0. FRENCH FUNDS.—PArtts, L'Ec. 15. Five per Cents., W& 4" c. 25c. 30c. Four per Cents., 92f. FOc. Three per Cents., 76f.'4 1 1c 30c. 50c. Bank Actions, 1,79:if. Rents de Naples, 93f. •L'O.:!. 25e. Roman Five per Cents., 241 05 Rents d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 34 1 4 1 414. Bente irEspague, Three per Cents., 23% 26. Royal Spanish Loan, 43 1 ,4 42% 434. Rente Perpet. rPEspagne. Five per Centg, 40!4 41%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 81. 1 4. Portuguese Loan, Six per Cents., 94%. Haytian Loan, 275 f. —c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 2rif ; money, —f. —c. three months, paper, 25f. 17X,e.; money, —f. --c. —Court Authentique. SIR F. BURDETT. A meeting of the inhabitants of the parishes of St. Mar garet and St. John, Westminster, was held on Monday night at the Prince's Head, Prince's-street, StOrey's-gate, for the purpose of passing resolutions and presenting an address to his Majesty on the crisis. Colonel Evans at tended. Several resolutions were passed, and the meeting separated at half-past eleven. The following was read by the Secretary : " Foremark, Dec. 14. " S►a - I take the earliest opportunity o► acknowledging the receipt of your very flattering letter, communicating the de sire of my constituents of St. Margaret's and St. John's to know my opinion respecting the late change of Administration. Upon this subject I am so totally in the dark, that I feel my self quite incompetent to offer one worthy the least attention. All we know is, and that from most indisputable authority, that all the statements and surmises hitherto made through the press are entirely unfounded. Under these circumstances. I can only express my regret and deeply lament it. The time, however, will soon arrive, when an explanation, authentic and in due form, will be required and given. When that time shall arrive, I shall be at my post, and the best of my ability and judgment, and uncompromisingly, do my duty to myconsti tuents and to my country. No doubt the electors of West minster and the electors throughout England, will do theirs in case of a dissolution, by returning to Parliament such men as they can confide i❑ for integrity and understanding. I will add, that I have no apprehension of the Duke of Wellington or any other man or men. The rights and liberties of the people of England are now placed upon a rock from which no power on earth can remove them. Nothing but the rashness of the people themselves can bring them into the least danger. Let us only act upon knowledge, not surmise, steadily, reso lutely, and rationally. What's the army, with twenty Dukes of Wellington, against the people of England ? For myself, my motto has always been, "Scepe )pro ;Tye, semper pro patria." Such I have been, such am I now, the devoted and very humble servant of the people of Westminster. "FRANCIS BURDETT." DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The comedy of the Clandestine Marriage, the joint 'produc tion of Garrick and the elder Colman, was revived at this house last night to the great satisfaction of a crowded audi. ence. The re-production of this piece does great credit to the taste and (with regard to the performers) discrimination of the manager, who is really indefatigable in catering for the amusement of the public. Farren as Lord Ogleby, Mrs. Gloves* as Mrs. Heidelberg, Webster as Canton, and Harley as Brush, ;-cre excellent in their respective places. The act ing of Farren and Mrs. Glover called forth frequent burts of applause from all parts of the house. Yet the feelings which predominate in the mind durivt; the whole performance of this excellent comedy are not those zhick provoke laughter. With all his follies and his excessive va,:ity, we pity Lord Ogleby, whom we know to be at bottom a inzn of high honour, with naturally good feelings, and a warm heart. We laugh at his extravagant airs before his mirror, and wt are disgusted with his significant nods to Canton when Fanny £rst attempts to disclose to him her marriage with Loveweii ; but, in the first instance, our mirth is only momentary, and is succeeded by regret and humiliation at the spectacle which age presents under the guidance of folly ; and in the second we see rather an at tempt to appear consistent before a domestic privy to his master's past delinquencies, than any premeditated wickedness even in thought. His honourable proposals to Fanny and her father con firm us in our good opinion of him. Farren was equal to himself throughout, which is saying every thing. The acting of Mrs. Glover was really excellent : Mrs. Heidelberg's affectation of the language and deportment of the people of quality—her zeal for the honour of the family—her hearty contempt for what she considered vulgar in her brother—and, above all, her conduct in the closing scene, where the whole dis covery of the marriage takes place— were personated with astonishing truth and humour by Mrs. Glover. Mr. Webster performed the part of Canton in a manner highly creditable to him, and• Harley, as Brush, was excellent. King, as Sir John Melville, played as usual. We wish we could persuade this gentleman to stand straight when a stooping position is not necessary. The other parts of the performance were re spectable, and the curtain fell amid great applause from all parts of the house. o tint t ~==~ -- ~=::_ - TEA DUTIES. The transactions in tea, under the new system, still form a very prominent feature of London business, and several valu able experiments have been made for the purpose of collecting facts decisive of the utility or otherwise of discriminating duties, and of ascertaining whether London or the outports afford the best market for the commodity. One mercan tile house, that of Jardine, Mathieson, and Co., by way of putting this latter question to-the test, consigned three vessels from Canton—the Camden, to Glasgow ; Georgiana, to Liverpool ; and the Frances Charlotte, to London. The cargoes of these vessels were made up of assortments of a similar quality, and in some in stances a " chop" of tea was parted and divided among them. All were sold at about the same time, and un der similar circumstances, except that in Glasgow there prevailed a great scarcity of tea, the stocks of the dealers, on the arrival of the Camden, having become extremely low. On a comparison of the respective sales, it appears that the London prices were rather more than 31 per cent, higher than Glas gow, and 7-1- per cent. higher than Liverpool, and the differ ence would probably have been greater, but that the London dealers were large purchasers at the sales of both those out ports. A striking proof of the uncertainty of the present mode of levying the duties occurred with respect to the cargoes above-mentioned. In the " chops" of souchong divided among them, and being of the same mark and quality, the tea which in London and Liverpool has been charged a duty of 3s. as souchong, in Glasgow was charged 2s. 2d. as congon tea. A remarkable case of difficulty arising out of the discrimi nating duties is thus stated in a letter from a correspondent, and refers to a sale now in progress at the Coramercial rooms, Mincing-lane : " The Postboy, which arrived about ten days ago from tho Cape, contained, in addition to a parcel of fine ouchain or young hyson (a tea hitherto almost monopolized by our trans atlantic brethren), a quantity of black teas of the lower class, but many of them good of that class. In America nearly all black teas are customarily called souchong, and even bohea is packed in what we call souchong chests, bearing also the name ' souchong' legibly on the outside of the package, and it is within the memory even of' the writer when the finest souchong teas were invariably ordered by the highest families in England by the designation of your best bohea.' It will be seen, then, that the most descriptive names are arbitrary, and subject to much confusion when taken as a standard of value. The black teas ex Postbag are declared for sale, and are entered and posted up as bohea, subject consequently to the lowest duty—viz., Is. 6d. per lb. : the three first chops, how ever, which are in strong chests, and marked souchong, have been stopped by the inspector, and the broker subjectod to fine for alleged false entry." Another correspondent furnishes the following argument, which we are in fairness bound to state also, in favour of the discriminating duties : " The tendency of the new-rated duties is to can the atten tion of the retail dealers, and the public generally, to the dif ferent descriptions of tea by strongly marking and distinguish ing them by name, under duties approaching as nearly as a fixed rate possibly can to an ad valorem, and the know ledge thus gained is the only protection of the public from the mixing and other expedients of the wholesale dealers. Circulate this knowledge, or the means by which such know ledge will be called forth, throughout the country, and good and genuine teas, being understood, will be circulated by 1 7:..me, and not by price, as hitherto ; the public taste will be come ::',Vroved, and the consumption thereby increased to such an extent as to enable the Government ultimately to afford cheap tea to the pblic, and yet to maintain the revenue by one moderate and unifoin rate of duty." In whatever way this quest nn may be disposed of, it is evi dent in the meantime that the tract: in this article is proceed ing with a degree of activity which cannot fail to benefit both the country and the Government, though the eagerness of the competition may subject some of the importers at _first to serious losses.—Morning Paper. It deserves to be generally known, particularly since the Whig-Radical paper here, a while ago, took upon it to assert to the contrary, that Sir James Graham declined the retiring pension of 2,000/. per annum, when he resigned the office of First Lord of the Admiralty.—Carlisle Patriot. MR. 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