The Sun. — London, England, 1831-10-03 00:00:00

: rio ds olio ° rn fro. — v. re iS I Wei) , valv ( , in the Constitution for the !mot frying emergenv,ies, and that they have only to be firm in order to irsvre ti,e triumph- of that great measure on Which, it not too much to say, that the peace of the entintry.is now wholly dependent.—Morning Advertiser. E DITI ON. - - SUN OFFICE, Seven o'ckck. PERLA 1 PARLIA MEV] THIS EVENING. PIOUSE OF COMMONS. Colonel EVANS presented petitions from a district in Manhster, and from Newton, in Aylesbury, praying o further inquiry into the case of Mr. and Mrs. Deacle. of Mr ' TIDD presented a petition from the landowners liridgewater against the Bill for the registry of deeds. life 'Alr. LAMBERT presented twelve petitions from r rent parts cf Ireland, praying for the disbanding of the se Yeomanry corm The Hon • Member went into the case of the Nexvtownharry affair. . M. Vbc:I'LICER. had been requested to support the PraYer o' the petition. and had also a number to present himself on the same ssu'l'ect. b It.' 6ICONNELL hoed that the Honourable Ment tie'er question mak e a motion on the subject, and let t Lave it in " be brought fuily before the House, end no Sir ist. this way, day by day, in detached plece ti e .en. rnatir ' LATFSON defended the conduct of ' ) be b lained Y i f n or g !, fl i eral, and hoped the whole body would not Arr. ~,..!' misFonduct of a few. . Aitiohes3ritAL said that he agreed with the Honourable plac e b for Is:errY, that an inquiry should take te:ini ni; ,Y a motion, in order that the whol! que,s -d the he brought forward at once. It might be r e rtrintiatjt would take up too much time, but he aTthen. Gentlempn that there was a case point,in dd m o t_h u .e a ' s t 1ai,,,, a , e,2:re o'f ti:e Deacles, and surely the' 14 . ca s b o d u i _ d be',, ar ' 'Newtownbarry demanded that a little time b 1 e. :.% ii i. cd for an investigation. th e : HENRY GRATTAN was decidedly opposed would takZallry force, and hoped the Government .- ' i dergi": P r aYer of these petitions into their serious con 11 ''. i 'e Petit' con- L° nniii Were then ordered to lie on the table. the hril,gio ALTIIOIII° moved the Order of the Day f or .v th:whit', up of the report of the Committee of SuP.i. idter a few words from Mr. Hunt and Lord A IA L0r,411 itgrcel to. itself !‘ ALTHoIu, the then moved that the House resolve chair:4) a Committee of Supply. —The Speaker left Th e TT FI NANCE. 'iii,,piylssse h aving resolved itself into a Committee of Committee of Lord ALTPIT-ThTs ,ent, r 1 . --,-,rtc- rose and made a lengthened state- The sN'iihje Le.4lWe to the Finance of the country. Th e 1 .,, e ?"1 stated that there was a 46,75 G ee',,P,being 47,250,Q00/., and the expenditure re f i ll , surplus of 500, 1 00 . 0 ,1 1 ; t he c n ' t r u `• The No; Lord then proceeded to defend h hde e a I lt of the Lank of England against the accusation.,] curroney th e ganist it Iran the e materially 1 , that it hail been timpering w ith 4Q hle ti ni ' t a 4 well known ' that exchanges had been de against this country ; and as the Bank Pin ned,Pil ni . edi hni on which the circulation of the country itueilli• e.ireetnstatices had caused a considerable draft of Li n% j: i,owever, the Bank were to refuse to disc- I lpor t er ,;,' the effect would be, to produce great . pres•ure (Lord A-4141e,ree• It had been an object withhim o , the JA, L i hr) not to allow the amount of the securities .. I I 4a K tO • applying th e 40, 14 of ~ Increase; instead there of _in, a large portion the revenue to the purchase of thrift deddeb o t, i tleficier of it had been applied to . the . purchase.n. titl es .): hills at the Bank, in order to diminish the sr e I,had ittien Its hnds. Though in the present quarter t i , er t , eordi n " a grCat fall off in the receipt of the Custome, }e in , nPes thatgto the reports laid before him this day, , he was t-orci dittlitititi not continue. } The Noble L.. eo rieki , on would "'lilted thousand" eo hy moving the grant onh million eight A 1 n Pound s'°l7l.ltuttli rose;.and was left speaking. ______ _____.______ At a„ 110 USE OF LORDS. Ib to th e jjoeuasetlY hour this afternoon every avenue leading lu stre orde of Lords was thronged with peisons . having -41. the d e b ate rs and others, wishing to obtain admission to f ellonstahle Upon the Reform Bill ; a strong posse o terr4veres oflwis.wre::_la.e..!d in ., the various to pre oft or e, ~r, High (, onstable of Westminster, passages under the kstialsa.to keep a free passage for Members, a task 11, ds *a rab le diffi ) -eu itY, and when die doors of the House of . ',, Hous e r opened the rush to gain admission was tre pslaZil,lentaaelVe are happy in bearing our testimony to the ~ N l e Ar tautodations which have been made for the , r ei.s. ,4, , -,,arqui, , i11ip.; "1 . 3 . 4ty of Dui CLEVELAND presented petitions . from fr o „,' at fsvo.. l m, and from Willingtou,. To . " ~!he Kish of of Reform ; and the following petition in Shrop ltiitp ittg"„nf St. Mary -le-Strand:— AS. NtkiliAL Az,IIIT HONOURABLE THE LORDS S .- "rtikb. TEMPORAL IN PARLIAMENT AS -, lit, ~..,..AN,I, ' t.i .l BLE pET/7,,,N, ot . THE INHABI . MA-4(nfSEHOLbiRS OF THE PARISH OF pbtIa•sLE.STRAND IN THE COUNTY OF 44WTt,,j'Ut tL f,_„X A /,11) LIBERTY OF WE_§.7'..?4_l_l-4._Tr-Bny ob`l.ta/t et;-• MEETING DULI CONVENEfi DAY zi,rit SEPTEV,..,II,„C_HWARDENS, THIS 30T11 wain4tefo;rZthat yo":..rtti.e:itlol. have long been satisfied i l tlat 'l,B,,‘lt'Y to th! rePresentatiZrosf the people in Parliament T r ot. and - -241e h o r happiness and prosperity. c,.. 111 tlic,•,"Oxit, Oseholders, en amiddle in various kinds of busi. a,-,4rilyti,elat,F „''.atteh with the class of society, and ler.ed," o ,"ad ri';'."hg blltribera of working people, they have ne teriii i;,eroivi'LtlY op p o rtuniti es of -observing, and havieiopha thia7senta,l art ia Zg ... desire of these classes of persons fo r r et s ern h as IhiaZTO f led 411 yes, i t Zejl .... _t 8 would enable the Iwcple to t te the best t a yo tt 4 try .ott tr:'_l9 should appear to . them s4,ct ,s_tl!str,ketitto,,T business of the nation. T fit4i"'tltiZt. an 47.0 e would be now not but entertain the fear that I , ,, Nr eoi nity ton, ad w i ndispensable . measur d ‘Zar ati Petiti 4 ; l l opt ed. ' gone by when it could have been ad ctl,l,lo44tifi'tltts Were therefore highly gratified with the e l a lit, B l : t o t d; Woirtrde,ent Ministers that they with the saLi e cti a o e n . '.. of .iltheire,Teopte:a,ll),bisilae I.leforT f.e wh ie i e c e h t , w , Id i g cu assembled, i nt otiir 414hisi2titude to th ejg t o n oil n a i nt l i gracious King for his 4. '„ ek i „ h e e t tlher sa li thfect s , 'veritti„elrritaiZittllfY convinced that the Bil e l n for s am a e: i d se . I :Zi tiiiie 1,1111, roitbooomtheea iliae,o,p,lie„eitnhePmarelainams of t i promoting aloTtl*tb7,,„olierf se. ;',ltterrihrost dirrc, also fully p loci that if the Bill be re- W°4l‘q. be t' e th4a-e'ul cense quen e c t e s s ua N c vill ensue--consequences h ot %, h ot .I.t.!onets any ever before witnessed in this country. V ill it i llin t rili noy have property,' of vlrious kinds, which they t'ali,irkiat'oadt,,,,iinTt,,l 1111te,ehtn-jeopardy,an'd lives which they would 1) 14 '111 4 - C1 tine Lroo i l u e r Y cannot eonceal.from.themselvees,tuat ppoll 141)041,7 !Ilatter Itty 4. l lrt y Zi k e t Rill be rejeccetZelli basLoprordships, theF delib e e r r e ate e ly f r li quished ; t o o e t u a r r t o b ed Y Hon. House, every Yi Ne rdri k titi o liv es of ke v 'ili be endZogered, and above all the t ll1 ; h ,nt:era ha,„_lgher ranks of society. . i .. s very t4'ejl3atkted: LtitZiti alarmed with reports . t i it il. reject the Q tif 4,4 Ilitt°,Tver, werL°rdshiPs w Lordships will feet fra:lotiori,o4.Your 1 , - satisfied that V . -Ardsniis sliall be t B il l to ed that a ma 4-orditiNtr rice, aectlieel.ned eligible by th:,, Bill to exercise the . i .,r ea b...ns, tt!titiotier.. e.airous that it should be the law of the t't?elhenY,ea..ro,i;',7itth,y L 11,0,,, tnheerofore, most solemnly aarsrisuesr tl do. thil:q.44,rlajarityY4'6t olall; of doubtme Pe that it i s very II I d c but by an eB4 4 , I.t he M o ttle W bkrob al l e e rp n u s la a tio u n • to, this is not th at Of o ei llor re aien, neith er i I . L 'n desire fbr some.ft, hoth t 13,,r„, stless desire ' s 1 a g val but that it is the (41 a I,i O lS h ot IF, cousideratiot chan-e o eo o 4i tlt otp u i : p assing of 7 fle ar t ict lla thorough conviction h ountry i t tboUroetitiw,d nort,iont in bedich Ou i r c a a d n mi s ra iit i i t .- .4111 1 ,. ° , le rg d - ---..1Y d e t the ?'seo" e ettie 1 ePreeate all vi o 1 rtti3cedhoges,tboelt3i'o-cceo°i:v:eisnrtngrumtchttactitdt, l th e ritnet torte aw, it wi c:() ~. ifi;rtie,"ofor thritrve thud perog p a r t7 i r e so e f the Crown, and • Al)l e le delay tiir h d, e tesPle s ; T e i n t s i t it restores, and will maintain, 110,,_Yeaa roai O'l_4l beYpleeasreeTr must humb ly e . l 7 ; i3ll l) ,A r l y th as , ‘44 . , ‘-os steut with the ' f i' oir ) ; l is ss or your Honour ti• "41 1.0 , (31 giled b • Or o h Nt 0 .,,,,, y the inhabit thouseholders.) lo that --tirh ~e 4l)Eit t), .an . . thtth:,o_ 444frit; I.7lio ,.. atviitoit -.. a , in reference to the petition though there were many persons Ilt Pi: e Wer e I ... ur of RetUrm, yet lie was satisfied to r e 4 teas " u 'Y Wbo Were strongly opposed to so A go ' h AD ure * 4 he ed r i _ h Y u p 41,°,11 pre, len . te do petitions from Renfrewsliire, ,fit•OrPdm-eZ, all ?,-, 8 6,, i f ._ Pennons, and from vatious , et f , L,rooi !avow of the Refor m 13ffi 1 .0,,, r(411 4 n.. te'RE Prestmt d • • . t o •,, eL, - .nu ee of . --e petitions to the same 44ty tVp0,,,... towns in Devonshire. Lordof be„, 41-) presented a similar petition from the ti t , )Ic,„ , agreed to at a count nleetit, . t°4 t a 'l2. a ddress all e .' -ed th a ed the Rout! at songte length. t 4 k od u tlu ed to, ta front the thin attendance at the meet +e this ndeonsiderg the state of the public ,„, 10 a • 3esti on a , k th e 1 , lu th, _ _ snort time ago, there had been t ‘ ttat 4 24 k, of ii'cunutrt• pet. attic th r, er e had b een 10ND asked the Noble Lord, as lie Lord _ sere had the 13? a re-action, whether he had got Itt)lloLLt _a di? tio4act bin he L _' al certainly n0t......(L0nd cries of hear, 41s, t° the i u n ew a great part of the country was op. . W itt AI it r e ' ' au d he should do 1* - out gard to the intim.eat. IS duty fearlessly, fp 11'7 'but , I i n that had been °N s h -•••e of If the 'Meld • N°IIFOLK _.) e h. 1 sisned by presented a petition nrd,,,, ..56111, a n d 'Seed 19,135 persons, in favou r he ti"_ i r ie t o h.: .?Dese_rv.e.d that he would entreat their .;:40_,:roclurA9t7tulin...t.,:l__It. w:Lillidita liilEluolinreeptthroeefeesganrkteeiantogifmstephvoeerrtcaahlna;r:ea;citteironost Ref said the peopl e had discovered that there was in the Bill how before the House that Consti tutional Reform which they so much desired.—(Hear, hear.) They were now at the commencement of one of the most important discussions that ever had come before the House, and he entreated Noble Lords to pause and deeply to consider the , übject before they voted against it. The Marquis of HASTINGS presented several petitions in favour of Reform. The Duke of SUSSEX presented a petition from the merchants, hankers, and other inhabitants of the city Of Bristol and its vicinity, to the number of 25,740 persons, in fsvour of the Reform Bill. His Royal Highness stated that the whole of those signatures were obtained to the petitions in the short space of five days; no person under 16 years of age had signed it, nor had any names been inserted twice over. Up to the hour at which we went to press, the discus sion of the Reform Bill had not yet commenced. ON the AFFAIRS of the BANK of ENGLAND (From a Correspondent of the Times.) --" But even now worth this; " And now worth nothing."—Merchant of Venice. When the affairi of the Bank were investigated by Parliament in the year 1819, the Bank Directors delivered in a statement, and of ►which the following is a copy : " DEBTS AND CREDITS OF THE BANK. 1)r. the Bank. March 27, 1819, Cr. To Bank n0te50ut....£24,710,770 By advance on Go- To other debts, viz., vernment securi. Drawing accounts, ties, viz.:— audit roll, Excise- On Exchequer-bills, quer-bills deposit- on malt, &c., 1819; ed, and various Bank loan, 18CS other debts 9,237,7911 supply, 1816, at 4 33,948,560 per cent.; interest due, and loans to Government on un claimed dividends £9,078,330 By all other credits, viz.:— Cash and bullion; Exchequer-bills purchased, and in terest, bills and notes discounted ; Treasury bills for the service of Ire land, money lent, and various other 30,101,420 Balance of surplus in favour of the Bank of Eng land, ex clusive of the debt from Go vernment at 3 per And the • advance to Go vernment 5,2:11,190 per 56 Geo. 111., c. 96, at 3 per cent. 3,000,000 J;39,179,750 £39,179,750 By the permanent debt due from Go_ 'cerement for the capital of the Bank, at 31. per centum per annum £11,696,800 By the advance to Government per Act 545 Geo. 111., c. 96, at 3/. per centimi per annum :1,030,000 DAWES, Accountant-General. .819." (Signedl " WILLIAM Bank of Lngland, March 31, 1 From this statement, it therefore appears, that independent of the original capital of the Bank lent to Government at 3 per cent., the Bank also pos sessed a❑ active disposable capital of 5,231,190/. ; but then it was understood (and we believe there is little doubt of the fact), that in the large lumping sum of 30,101,420/. for which the Bank takes credi', there is included 1,000,000/. for the value of the premises in Threadneedle -street, and this being de ducted from the before mentioned 5,231,1904, would leave a sum of 4,231,190/. applicable to all the pur poses of the establishment. However necessary it may be that an establish ment which has the entire direction and controul of the currency of the country, should publish regularly and periodically the state of its affairs, yet, strange to say, this has never been required either by Par liament or the Bank proprietors; and since the year 1819, we know nothing officially of the affairs of the Bank. This defect we will now endeavour to supply. We have very diligently considered the subject; we have been assisted in our researches by men of great and extensive information ; and having carefully put things together, the following, we be lieve, will be found to be a pretty accurate account of the present position of the Batik of England : Dr. Dr. Debts,—viz., I Credits,—viz., Bank-notes in circu- Exchequer-bills £4 , 100,000 lation £18,000,000 Deficiency bills 1,500,000 Private balances 5,000,000 City bonds Due to public offices 1,200,00) Mortgages Public companies 31'0,000 Dead weight annuity 11,100,000 Bills of exchange, ad vances on Exche quer-bills, &c 1,700,000 Cash and bullion '3,000,000 £9.4,`200,000 N. 13.—This account, it will be seen, leaves out the value of the Bank premises, and which in the former account delivered to Parliament was put down at 1,000,000/. .£ - .23,900,000 Balance 300,000 X 24,200,600 From this statement it therefore appears, that so excellently have the affairs of the Bank of England been conducted, that in the period from 1819 to the present day, the Directors have worked a diminution in the active disposable capital of the establishment of 4,531,1901.: for in 1819 this capital stood at 4,231,1901., and now it is 300,0001. worse than nothing ; and when a few circumstances which we shall proceed to relate are taken into conside►ation, there is in all this nothing very marvellous. The Act for the resumption of cash payments was passed in 1819, and from that moment the pro fits of the Bank began to decline very material') ; and so that, reckoning from that period till 1823, it is quite impossible that the net profits of the Bank could have exceeded 900,0001. per annum; and yet during all this time, and up to October, 1823, the Bank paid a dividend of 10 per cent. per annum. Now the dividends on Bank stock are made on a capital of 14,553,000/., and this during a period of four years and a half will make a sum of 6,548,8501. But the profits made during this periodamounted at the rate of 900,0001. per annum, to only 4,050,000/.; and therefore dividends to the extent of 2,498,850/. were made out of capital, and this was so much in reduction of the balance which existed in 1819. In the year 1823 the Bank reduced its dividends to 8 per cent.; and in that year it also purchased of the Government the annuity of 585,740/. for the sum of 13,089,419/., payable by several instalments, the last falling due in July, 1828. Now were all other things to remain the same, this was a bargain whereby the Bank would be able to improve its in come; but then all other things would not remain the same, for the Bank having at the period of this purchase but very little disposable capital, could only pay for the annuity by the creation of fictitious money,—that is, by an immense issue of Bank ' notes : but the natural tendency of so large an issue of Bank notes would be, to reduce the rate of inte rest; and accordingly this happened, and of this the Government availed itself to reduce the interest on Exchequer-bills. And again, by overstocking the market with money, but very few bills of exchange were presented to the Bank for discount; and to that what the Bank gained by Elie annuity was in good measure lost again by the reduction of the in terest on Exchequer-bills, and by the great d'minu tion in the amount of bills discounted. And there fore, all these things taken into consideration, it may very fairly be presumed that the profits of the Bank since 1823 (if we even leave some large losses of which we shall speak presently entirely out of the question) havb not been adequate to the payment of the reduced dividend of 8 per cent., and that a p or _ tion of this dividend has regularly been paid out of capital. Having gone through the period from 1819 to the present time in a general way, we now come to two marked distinct circumstances by which the Bank suffered severely, viz. the forgeries of Fauntleroy, and the panic of 1825-26 ; by some the loss of the Bunk on these two accounts is computed at 1 , 5 00,000/., but no one at all versed in these mat ters has ever estimated it at less than 1,000,000/. And then take this remark, that the panic of 1825-26 was entirely produced by the operations between the Bank and the Government. In 1823, the Bank bought the annuity of 585,740/. In 1824 , the Government reduced the 4 per Cents., and to pay off the dissentients it borrowed .6,000,0001, of the Among the recent arrivals at Brighton is HARRIETTE WILSON, who now occupies apartments in Waterloo-place. --Brighton Gazette. HAMBURG, SEPT. 25. Letters from Vienna of the 17th say, that con trary to what has been found in other places, persons of the higher classes are attacked by the cholera— nobles, bankers, merchants, &e. Sudorifics have not proved beneficial (as they have elsewhere), leaving behind a very dangerous debility; but ipecacuanha, as an emetic, had been found salutary. Prince Lichtenstein, Prince Illt-tternich, Prince Auersberg, Count Czernin, &c., had been attacked, and were under the care of the physicians.—Hamburg Papers, Sept. 27. BORSEN HALLE, SEPT. 27, FOUR P.M.—Funds have risen since Friday, and have maintained them selves with much firmness tr-day. Several buyers were in the market, and some considerable purchases were made for the end of the month.—Discount 6 per cent. End of Sept. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan Hamburg-Russian Loan Russian Inscriptions, 5 per cent SI% Ditto, ditto, 1831 BO Polish Bonds lOO Austrian Bank Shares 9 44 Austrian Metalliques New Austrian 4 per Cent. Dr. Searle, who has lately been observing the cholera in Warsaw, after having contracted a per sonal acquaintance with it in India, is at present at Berlin.—Hamburg Reporter, Sept. 27. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 28.—The funeral ceremony at Sr. Gudule was performed yesterday with great so lemnity._ The King set out for Antwerp yesterday evening. A French diplomatic agent, who had been here for some days, set nut yesterday for the Hague. SEPT. 29.—The Moniteur Beige contradicts the news given by a French Journ.d, that Russia, Aus tria, and Prussia have resolved to support by arms, after the 10th October, the claim of the King of Holland. A British Cabinet messenger set out yesterday evening with despatches for London. ANTWERP, SEPT. 27.—General l3elliard is ex pected here, to examine and organise the brigade in this city. All the authorities attended to-day a fu neral service in the Church of Notre Dame, for the brave men who fell in defence of their country. Several vessels have arrived from Naarden, &e. with 369 Belgian prisoners, to be exchanged. General Ticken is ill at Liege ; General Goekels is to take his place in the command of the camp at Diest. Vessels laden with provisions continue to come to he citadel. GHENT, SEPT. 27,—When the King was here, lie said at table that hostilities would not be renewed. DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, SEPT. 29.—0 n Wednesday morn ing two persons set out from Tilburo. to Bergen op-Zoom to . inspect the fortress. They will then proceed on a tour to inspect the fortresses and troops in Zealand and Dutch Flanders. The youngest son of the Prince of Orange, ac companied by Captain Arceris, of the Navy, is gone to Bergen.op-Zoom to his father, and will after wards, as we hear, pass some time on hoard the fleet in the Scheldt. His Royal Highness Prince Albert of Prussia is gone to the army. Detachments of our troops, who have been pri soners of war in Belgium, continue to arrive. Alan• of them have been kept in Belgium ever since the insurrection broke out. Java Papers to the 28th April have been received, but contain no news of importance. M. Hendrik Von Hyn, member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, and Keeper of the Archives of the Kingdom, died here on the 27th, at the age of nearly 9-1 years. - . CHOLERA AT VIENNA. New Cases. Recoveries. Death•. Sept. 19, 117 17 41 20, 99 11 115 From the beginning of the disorder there have been, up to the 20th, at noon, 764 persons attacked. 47 recovered, 303 died, remaining 414. • AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 30. Actual Debt, 9.K, per cent 37X, to 37% Aniort Syndic &A to 58% Ditto, ditto, :31, per cent. 47% to 48% Exchange on London ll-99 Two Months TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—l am just returned from a very numerous and highly respectable meeting of the citizens of Worcester, who have this day met to give the lie direct to the base insinuations by which the Anti-Reforming press, aided by their coadjutor Mr. Hunt, wish to convince the House of Lords that the people of England no longer feel that in terest in the Reform Bill, which the result of the late elections proved to a demonstration was once felt by them; a petition firmly but respectfully worded was agreed to, stating their sentiments upon this vital measure to be unalterable; several most spirited speeches were made upon the subject, votes of thanks to Lords Altherp and Russell, as well as to the city and county Members, passed, and the meeting separated after giving three times three tre mendous cheers for our beloved Reforming King. Whe ther the people, both high and low, of Worcester are not favourable to the great measure will be shown by a con trast of the meeting I have just mentioned with an attempt made yesterday to convene a meet • ing of our corporate body to petition against the measure. Tile Corporation here consist of 24 senior and 48 junior Members, and it was necessary in this case that a majority of each of the estates should agree upon such petition, before it could go forth as the petition of that body ; and I feel convinced that you, Mr. Editor, as well as those of your readers who may take the trouble to peruse this, will be convinced of the intense in terest which the success of the great measure has excited here, when I tell you that the required majority could not be made up. Report says twenty only out of the neces sary 38 and the whole 72 could be found to sanction a petition against the declared wishes of the British nation —at all events, it is certain that the requisite number could not be mustered, and the proposed meeting, conse quently, was abandoned. May such be the fate of every like attempt. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, Worcester, Sept. 30, 1831. BRITANNICUS. ANOTHER ACCIDENT TO STEAM-VESSELS. —Saturday night between twelve and one o'clock, a col lision took place between the Leeds steam-boat and the City of Dublin steam-packet, which proved nearly de structive to the latter. The City of Dublin was on her way from Liverpool to this port : she had, at the time, her lamps lighted, and was proceeding at a rapid rate, when at the distance of a quarter of a mile another steam vessel was seen fast approaching. Loud cries were raised from the City of Dublin for the other vessel to keep off; but they were not heard, and it was seen that a collision must be inevitable. For some minutes before the vessels struck, the male passengers were on deck—numbers were running about in a state of the greatest distraction—some caught up planks, and others ran up the ladder. The Captain desired the steatn of the vessel to be worked as highly as possible, to keep as much out of the way as he could of the advancing ship. A most agonizing suspense for a few seconds succeeded, and at length the crash of the conflicting ships was heard. The City of Dublin was struck a little behind the paddles, and several of her planks were stove in, and immediately the waves dashed in a torrent into the ladies' cabin. In the first moment of horror and affright at what had occurred, the Captain of the City of Dublip called out, "All is lost, we must all go to the bottom!" Shrieks, cries, and groans burst from the ladies in the cabin, and, for many minutes, the vessel was in the greatest disorder, each person lamenting or preparing for the mortal and final struggle which the sinking vessel would expose him to ; at the same time it was seen that the engine was stopped, and, as the vessel had lost her helm, she was become unmanageable. This scene, which is described by two of the passengers who were on board the City of Dublin, lasted for about three quarters of an hour, until the Levis steam-boat, by which the damag e had been done, returned to the City of Dublin, h d conv e y e d h er b ac k aga i n to Liverpool. It is probable ” the dang er t o w hi c h t h e pass e ngers wer e exposed i n i this n.stance would h a v e b een avo id e d h a d the City of ZluPlan been p rov id e d w i t h a speaking trumpet, to warn the Leeds of the danger its Captain was exposing others to, or had the Leeds used the preiution to have night lights burning, which would have enabled the other ship to escape in time the peril it had to encounter.—Dublin Morning Re s Wm, • - REFORM MEETINGS. BIRMINGHAM TO IVN MEETING. On Saturday a most numerous and reapectable body of the inhabitants of Birmingham was held at D, , e's Royal Hotel, for the purpose of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill. Our correspondent states, that he never recollects to have ssen before so numerous and respectable an assemblage of " the heads of houses" con gregated for a political purpose in the town of Birmingham. The meeting was attended by several magistrates, bankers, merchants, and clergy, both dissenting and of the esta blishment. We have not room for more than the following extract from the speech of Mr. Joseph Parkes, in seconding the motion that his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex be requested to present the petition to the House of Lords. France, previous to her first revolution, was honoured in the ministry of M. Turgot. That great enlightened Mi nister, like Lord Grey, attempted by timely reforms to save his country from anarchy and revolution. But a blind and infatuated aristocracy prevailed. Condorcet, his philosophical biographer, records the unhappy causes. H e la a sacrifice to courtiers, needy place-hunters, prejudices, and fears, and Turgot was driven from office. The revo lution followed, and all its consequent horrors and evils ; and fatal would it be for England, if the fate of Turgot was the fate of Earl Grey. But he would not contemplate, lie could not anticipate, without overwhelming feelings, such a catastrophe.—(Cheers.) He (Mr. Parkes) was per. suaded that the Bill would pass the Upper House. In that House it would be most ably debated, and with cor responding influence. The Peers would probably best know how to work on one another. They had no in terest as a body in boroughmongering, and there was scarcely an instance on historical record of any great mea sure lost in that House. He would not at that late hour enter into any minute historical details.—(Cheers. But the Lords imposed charters on the ancient Kings. The Lords consented to repeated alterations of the national re ligion. The Lords passed the Attainder Bills of Land and Strafford. The memorable Triennial Bill had passed the House of Peers, as he (Mr. Parkes) hoped it again would, in substitution of the felonious Septennial Act.--(Repeated cheers.) The Lords assented to the revolution of 1688. They had, in the memory of every one present, virtually acquitted the late persecuted Queen; and Ice (Mr. Parkes) thought that he recollected Lord Harewood, or some Noble Peer, admitting., that in his vote he voted for peace, and from respect far the voice of the country. More recently, the Peers had stood by the Duke of Wellington and passed the Catholic Bill. On the whole, he rejoiced that this meeting had not used menace or intimidation in their peti tion and resolution. Peers were a peculiar order of society, who associated little outside their own class. As a friend to the Constitution, he trusted that the Peers, as at present constituted, would pass the Bill. If they did so, without obliging the Crown to increase their number, it would heal all wounds, and (as an eloquent speaker had said) would even bide the scar. If they threw it out or smothered it, on their heads be every responsibility ; the question of the utility of an hereditary Peerage would infal libly arise. No after-step—no increase of the Peers, even if it subsequently carried the Bill—could retrieve the blow to the Peerage. But if they should blindly oppose it, his Majesty possessed a prerogative, not for orna ment but for use—a wise appurtenance of the Constitu tion calculated for occasions of peril. He would say no more; but hoped he had proved his own modera tion, but now he must lea allowed to say that he (6,1 not blind himself to the peril of the crisis. He hoped and believed the nation would be saved a possibility of anarchy; if anarchy occurred, its horrors in this country would far exceed any ever recorded. We subsisted on credit, and our monetary system exposed us to evils which no man could exaggerate. The men of property might, in a revolution, slink into holes and curlers, and bury their money bags ; but the numbers were ruined and undone with a cessation in the demand fur labour. The people ware really, above all, as a body, interested in or der, and averting any extreme political change : they knew it, and proved it by their actions. But if, unhap pily, an Anti-Reform Administration should befal them-- if a cheat were substituted for the Bill—if scenes of civil discord did arise, similar to those in which the blood of Hampden, the Russells, and the Howards, was the seed of English liberty—he (Mr. Parkes) should go with his ; order—the people.—(Loud cheers.) The resolutions and the petition proposed at this meeting were unanimously agreed to. To-day the meeting of the Birmingham Union takes places. The expectation is that it will be attended by many thousands from the town and neighbourhood. DEVON COUNTY. (Abridged from the Western Times.) Castle of Exeter, Friday, Sept. SO. The meeting of this great county once again was held this day, and few will say, after seeing the number who were present, and the rank and respectability of the gen tlemen present, that the opinion is not increased in favour of the all-healing measure of Reform in this large and in fluential county. The requisition, signed by three hundred most respec table men, having a very considerable stake in the county, was presented to the High Sheriff on Saturday last. The hour appointed for the meeting was twelve, but long before that hour the crowds were seen from every quarter crowd ing towards the Castle-yard, with a quietude of manner best fitting the fixed resolution with which they asssem bled, and the gravity and all imposing importance.of the object for which they met. Thus may the gathering to gether of the men of Devon ever be ! The chief speakers at the meeting were Lord Ebrington, the Hon. Newton Fellowes, Messrs. Elton, Divett, Parrott, Nortbmore, Fankerley, Hamlyn, Sandford, Michelmore, and Colonel Pell. A petition was unanimously agreed to, in which the pe titioners state that they have viewed with intense interest and lively satisfaction the progress of the Bill, and that they indignantly repel the false and malicious imputation of their feeling lukewsrrn on the subject. " That they venture to express, with much earnestness, the hope that your Right Honourable House will give to a measure, so admirably calculated to guarantee the future enjoyment of the just rights of the people—to al:ay much existing discontent-- and to restore the long-needed and most necessary sympathy between the House of Commons and the intelligent and indus trious body of the community, your immediate and favourable consideration. " They therefore humbly pray that 'your Right Honourable House will pass into a law a measure which they believe calcu lated to remedy numerous evils, and the failure of which they cannot in any way contemplate without unmixed and serious ap prehensions. And your petitioners will ever pray, &c. ISLE OF WIGHT. was bell on Wednesday, the 28th ult., i n a l arge A public general meeting of the inhabitants of t h e I s l e of Wi g ht, building, formerly used as a brewery, in Quay-street, New port, no public room in Newport being sufficiently capa sir R. S i meon , Bart., an d 100 other persons, most B ei a o r u t s „ to hold the persons expected to attend. Th e not i ce calling the meeting was signed by Sir W m . O g l an d er, of whom are men of influence and importance. The build ing was fitted up with a platform, capable of containing 100 gentlemen, And accommodation - provided in the gal leries for the number of ladies who attended the meeting. Charles Day, Esq., of Cowes, was proposed to the chair, amidst the most enthusiastic cheers. The number of per sons _ _ _ present exceeded 1,000, being nearly double the null ber of former meetings. The CHAIRMAN opened the business of the meeting by stating that reports of change in the public mind on the Question of Reform having been industriously circulated, this oe eting had been convened to prove the truth or false hood of the assertion, in order that the House of Lords might not not be deceived by misrepresentatkn. He would now ask whether there was a n y c h ange ? —(Lcud cries of " No, no," from the assembled multitude.) It was very evident that whatever change had taken place in other parts, the Isle o f Wight was clear from the imputation. This meet ing h e had no doubt would prove that the Isle of Wight was second to no place in the kingdom in patriotic feeling and ardour in the cause of Reform.--T(Laind cheers.) Sir R. Simeon, Hughes Hughes, Samuel Pring, H. El w i n , A. Clarke, and Gloucester Sheridan, Esqrs., pro posed resolutions declarative that the solicitude of the meet. ing for the success o f t h e Reform Bill was undiminishcd,...- that they had viewed with disgust the protracted and vexa tious o pposition to the Bill in the House of Commons,— that they felt it an imperativ e duty to urge on the consi• eli e deration of the Honse o f L or d s the expediency of passing the Bill with the least p oss ibl e d e l ay, an d i v i t h out any a and efficiency, believing d i i n d t t e h r a fe t r t e h e w r i e t j h ecti i o ts n os theiri measure t alteration would excite ving Ly they wa y in a alarm and dismay amongst all classes of his Majesty 's subjects, and disturb the foundations of public security. These resolutions were carried by acclamation, and a pe tition founded upon them unanimously agreed to. KING'S -L YNN, NORFOLIc. On S...turday last, in consequence of a iNui3ition most tt n h : ee m tc e o r wh o an u il s: vir y easrnedirprlterespeenFettt:avvbklyee9:gr.ed, a rdeeting took place at the Tnurn-all,. The Mayor of Lynn, L. SELF, Esq., in and Lords G. Bentinek and Nlt'.heLllenlenlb,erthfoeri‘tiheembeocrusnftoyr, Mr. SELBY moved the first resolution, that a petition be presented to the House of Lords, praying them to pass into a law the WA now before them, and entered consider ably into the genet.a.l question. 1 9 the course of the meetinat thardill were voted to his !Niliesty's Ministers, to Mr. Coke and Sir W. Fowkes, and to Lords G. Bentinck and W. Lennox, for their indefati gable and unflinching exertions. Sir W. Fowxts was happy that his conduct had met their approbation. He certainty had been, and would remain, at his post until the me,i , ur e CV is carried, however much it might inter fere with his domestic comforts. Lord G. BENTINCK trusted to the wisdom and integrity of the House of Lords to pass the 11 , form Bill. He felt that noble body had always done their duty ; and that if any thing could make them forget it, it would be the threats and intimidation that had been held out by a por tion of the Press. Lord W. Ls:NNox congratulated the town of Lynn for having called the meeting. It was a proof that they were alive to the interests of their fellow -countrymen, - and it also refuted the calumny, a weak invention of the enemy, that the people had grown indifferent to Reform. They had steered their bark through the rocks and quicksands of the House of Commons—they had weathered the storm, and they felt confident that the House of Lords would furnish them a haven where they might anchor in safety. They had been taunted with departing from the principle of the Bill. He denied that they had. The paramount object of the Bill was the destruction of the nomination system. No less than 120 boroughs—many that had been conceived in iniquity, born in rottenness, thriven in Ve nality—had been committed to schedule A and schedule B, those charnel-houses of corruption. The time had come when the people had declared that corruption should no longer exist, that the execrable system of bartering their rights should be put an end to ; and by whom was this opposed ? By many who, under the stern surveillance of their patrons, voted for their rights against the Consti tution and dearest interests of the nation ; " but what were 1,000, or twice 10,000 slaves, matched against the vigour of a single arm that strikes for liberty ?" His Lordship, in conclusion, alluded to the arguments that had been advanced against the Bill. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Mayor for his conduct in the Chair, and attention to the wishes of his fellow-townsmen ; and after three cheers for the King the meeting separated. NORTVICE. A requisition to the Mayor of this city (signed by 100 of the principal magistrates, bankers, merchants, and ma nufacturers, in the course of a few hours) to call a meeting of the inhabitants for the purpose of petitioning the Lords on the subject of the Reform Bill, was instantly corn plied with by that worthy chief magistrate, and the meet ing accordingly took !thee on Thursday last in St. An drew's•hsll. The platform erected at the upper end of this noble room was filled with the most respectable people of the city ; besides the Mayor (J. H. Yallop, Esq ), we observed several of the Aldermen, both the late, and one of the present Sheriffs, also the Members R H. Gurney, Esq, and the Right Hon. Robert Grant, who came from town purposely to attend the meeting. At one period of the meeting there were not less than 6,000 persons pre sent, but the numbers varied between that and 4,000 till the close of the proceedings. The most strict order pre vailed, notwithstanding the enthusiasm and earnestness which appeared to possess the mind of every individual in favour of the " great cause." " There was never such a meeting before here" was in every one's mouth ; and this is the place, where i❑ last March the Reformers were afraid to call an assembly of the people to petition for the Bill, owing to the number and vigour of their op ponents. So much for the " reaction," and so touch for the " Lords!" The proceedings were opened by Alderman FINCH, who moved a resolution, that it is expedient to prepare a petition to the House of Lords, praying that they would pass into a law that great measure of Reform which had been so triumphantly carried in the House of Commons. Alderman SPRING FIELD seconded the resolution. The Maxort then put the resolution, which was carried by acclamation, not one hand being held up against it. Mr. J. W. ROBBRRDS (amidst deafening cheers) ad dressed the meeting in a very energetic speech, but we have room only for the following extract from it :—" The Peers of England know their province, they know that they are the guardians of the State against undigested theories, phrenzied ebullitions of wanton violence ; but that it is consistent neither with their duty, their dig_ ni-), their glory, nor their safety, to resist a question h.c!i, after seventy years of deliberate consideration and di-cussion, has at length been placed on so proud an ewin , nce, and comes before them for their suffrages, rati fied by a commanding majority of the House of Commons, sanctioned by the avowed approbation of a generous Sove reign, and endeared to the warm and confiding attachment of the great body of the people themselves. Yet it is mar vellous to see the nature of some of those arguments which have been used in order to away the judgment of that body. Men, who aspire to be thought Statesmen, have reasoned in such a manner as either to convict themselves of insincerity, or to show that they are ignorant alike of the past history and present condition of the country. They have talked of our Constitution as of a scheme of Government propounded, at once all perfect and com kpnleotew,ninantltriegnuinth ty fa ;t o h m ey ab h l a have veddrkn described of remote and u edit a aaannnaiterabn ie , s , y f s t a e m o h , a n t g ha t e; a ha nd s never its ve undergone rydefeota a t hey c hg h a a n ve e or a shadow p , roclaimed to be not blemishes, but the essential principles of ita vitality, the inherent energies to which we owe all the greatness, glory, and prosperity that we ever possessed. Would not the veriest school-boy who has read only cursorily the annals of his native land, be able to answer such reasoners? Our freedom has been of slow and progressive growth; and the main excellence of our Constitution is this—that after it was brought into being, it was found capable of adapting itself to all the changes and all the wants of a people continually advancing in industry, in wealth, in intelligence, and in power. Mr. Robberds concluded by proposing a petition, earnestly imploring the Lords to pass the Bill. Mr. BRIGHTWELL seconded the motion for adopting the petition. The MAYOR put the question to the meeting, and was carried by acclamation. Mr. HUDSON (the banker) said the meeting having unanimously adopted the petition, the next question was into whose hands it should be intrusted ? With leave of the meeting he should move that it be placed in the bands of the Earl of Albemarle, a Nobleman resident amongst them, and well known for his steady, political principles, and for his private worth.—(Cheers.) Mr. ISAAC WinailAN seconded the nantian, which was agreed to. After very spirited speetles from Mr. TllO3l AS BIC-. NoLn,•R, H. GURNEY, Esq., awl the Hon. R. GRA>V::, the meeting separated with three cheers for the ging, and three groans for the boroughmongers, ST. PAUL'S COVENT -GARDEN. On Friday night a numerous and highly respectable meeting of the inhabitant householders of the parish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, was held in the •vestry-room of that pari,h, for the purpose of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the Reform Bill introduced by Lord John Russell. Mr. Sawru, the senior churchwarden, was called to the chair. Several resolutions were proposed and seconded, and a petition founded on them was read, which was unani mously adopted. It was then moved and seconded, that the Alarquia of Westminster should be requested to present the. y-etition to the House of Lords, which was agreed o.• Thanks were then voted "in the Chairman, and the meeting broke up, On MuTllky (this day) the parishioners of St. Martin's in-the Fields meet to petition the Hot= of Lords to pass the Reform Bill, and on Thursday next the parish ioners of St. Clement Danes will meet for the same purpose. WILTSHIRE COUNT Y, 44 -, ,v TING. [The following is the speech a Mr. Paulet Scrope, at the Wiltshire meeting, held at Devizes, on Friday last] : ,c Men of Wiltshire!—Are you for Reform, or are you dtleenotnbtehtheem e ne s mw ut i li et e sh c o t : : nut ? Are you for an honest and cheap G,ornnment, or for a dishonest and a dear one? Aye you for the cause of virtue, morality, reason, and liberty, or for that of corrup tion and political . profligacy ? In two words, are you of the party. of your country, or of that of the borough, mongers ? This is the question you are called here this day to answer. And answer it I know you will, in a voice which will be echoed back from countless thousands I. aA e ti fn 4ti r it m }:et in giuerai of your countrymen this day assembled like yourselves, in g lis to exp d r i e si s l s u i expression tollfayt!qytteruclfinteyr mloinngaetriocnarfeodr a tile ving r provoked yo a u ffe t c o ti t n i o ß r er t o h r o m ui b h y t about it. '1.14 allow that some time back election, for instance, they heard of some sseb feeling. But that they declare is now all over : it was but a mo lt', iv4o,vicge place,lhi Bahl ad m st a a d r mo mentary excitement,—a passing tla,Aneris— ,. But like the lightning, which does cease to be Ere one ca; s:iy A lightens." , there w 4, swine. anxiety Is this true, f2ltotv countrymen ? or is it a foala.nit lying lbel on ye ? I need not pause for an answer, No ! they are mistaken ! Are they not my frienels, stupidly. blindly, utterly, dangerously, rnistisenif they think you ha ve renounced one ,Ickt 0; your determination for Reform, one particle of your eagerness to be rescued from their sander Mercies, and to be enabled to exercise the dearest and most valuable privilege of freemen l 444 which aloaa can dis tirgtridi you from the slaves of the cion4mental d the privilege of choosing your own representatieee in the legislature of your own country ? I ask, are theynot mistaken ? Your opinion changed forsooth ! Yes ! i•is chenged. It has changed as the child change; into the man! It has grown, and strengthened, and mantred itself in the interval. It has been strengthened by the elequent end convincing arguments of the friends to Reform. It hes been still more strengthened by the weak, and contra dictory, and selfish, and hypocritical grounds on which alone the Reform has been opposed. Yes ; our opinion has changed. That which we lately asked for as a boon, we now see the necessity of claiming es a right. That which we then but hoped and desired, we are not' deter mined to obtain. Well, then, let Us approach the House of hi l ßea , ea i v r froe ti tr e sim) f e eo o .f r n t the ilLieede tpptue people undeceiving sp p il o itee s el e loilef o y f telE,entmhgelacnaidml mpl Iluayyd:e s tn u ewtm c a h frxa e o li f elait t el eolomineyi td owards s swap,ta m ertcel a t may fully, but yet firmly and seriously,—that R•form we must have ; and that as no other such an opportunity is eves likely to he offered us, we have sin our hearts upon the Bill, and are ready to stake our lives upon it likewise, and to " stand the hazard of the die." I do not repeat the stale cry of "the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing hut the Bill." I have no objection to such altera tions as are of the nature of improvements. Like all other t efforts of human wisdom, But if,a,edon not t the accept and B s i e l l has c ure s t i l t ) mpe shall re fe t.; ever get a better ? Therefore I would soy to the Peers, improve the Bill if you can, but damage it not, disfigure it not, mutilate it not ! What we want is, the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing less than the Bill. Ido not wish to be driven to call in question the constitutional privilege of the House of Peers to exercise their unbiassed judgment upon this Bill as on all others ; but I cannot conceal from myself, that this Bill does differ materially from any other that has ever come before, or is likely in future to he brought before their Lordships. Many of the Peers are, by universal notoriety, and the undisputed acknowledg tnents of their advocate., convicted of lithitually exercising en illegal and unconstitutional controul over the election of the Members of the House of Commons. Now it is the main object of the Reform Bill to put an end at once, and fsr ever, to this infraction of the Con. stitution ; and is it not fairly open to question, whe her these Peers can be fit judges in their own cause, whether they are the proper parties to decide if the p ewer they have usurped, and illegally exercised, shall or shall not be taken from them ? Can they claim, ' under the sanction of their constitutional privileges, the power to retain their unconstitutional privileges? Can they he allowed to shelter themselves under the Constitu .ion for the purpose of destroying the Constitution ? These are grave questions, which I hope and trust the House of Commons and the people of England will never be driven seriously to debate and determine. The Peers, trust, will see the delicacy of their pesitiou, and dis creetly abstain from any thing which may render it neces -Ary to moot these points. Bat it will be said, perhase, ay some of the moderate Reformers, some of the more ecent converts to the doctrine of Reform, that we ought not to attempt, or appear to bully, or m intimil a t e th e l'eems. Bully the Pet rs ! No. What I am anxiou t s z: de , for e to convince an d to persua d e t h eir. Intimidate the i'eers ! Y es . If t o po i nt out t h e danger, the disc rase, he criminality o f any part i cu l ar l i ne of conduct tee to in tnl i t m o i u d r u e t° ;l7e m— if i t s o chef, paint h to con t f il uio the Peery the sin in s s t e i Z g i insecurity butto true and business, the probeble convulsion, the possible d e . struction, to themselves and others that may, nay must ensue from their rejection of the Reform Bill,—if this be to intimidate them, then who will say we ought not to intimidate the Peers ? What ! if I see a friend about to put his head into a lion's mouth, am I not to caution him of the risk he runs of leaving it behind :here, least he should think I meant to intimidate hint ? Oh ! my friends, let us not cavil about words ? It is the duty of every friend to his Country, and to his ccuntry's institutions, anti to the peerage cspecielly, to endeavour to awaken the Peers to a sense of the true character of the al ternatives that now lie before them. We may tell them, and tell them truly, that it is in their power to win and to secure for ever to the aristocracy, of which they are the leaders, the hearts and affections of the people, by follow ing the example of their noble Sovereign, who has secured them for the monarchy. But we must._ w e ought t o warn them, at the same time, that it is in their power, by one false step, to precipitate their order into an abyss —to dig a gulf between them and the rest of the community to alienate from themselves, for ever, the regards and at tachments of their fellow-eountryenen. We may implore them t 1:e carefol how they place themselves at issue witl, the nation at large on a point of vital importance to the welfare of the nation, lint in which they have, or ought to have, but little personal or peculiar interest, We may remind them that, on time further side of time Atlantic, nation of ig,000,000 of freemen, English in blend, lan guage, manners, have thriven in an unexampled degree, for more than half a century,—witheut any Peerage at all ; that in France, /Ail; nearer home, hereditary Peerage is on the eve of abe.lit;on. And we may add, that in Eng land at this moment the Peerage is on its trial. The English do not at present question the benefita they derive from an hereditary Chamber of Peers, hut I do not hesi tate to give my opinion that it depends on the result of the momentous debate about to open in the House of Lords whether they shall question ita—perhaps whether they shall itr shall not decide against When we say this we do not bully the Peers. We simply lay bare the question on which they have to decide. BRIGHTON.--Upwards of 3,000 signatures had, up to last Friday evening, been attached to the petition. CAMBRIDGA Oci. I.—The requisition for a county meeting to petition the House of Lords to support the Re form Hill, was signed by several of the wealthiest land owners in the county, and a numerous body of the yeo manry. The High Sheriff has refused to convene a meet ing, but the freehohlers are determined the public voice shall not be thus stifled, and are taking other means of conveying their sentiments to the House of Lords. A meeting of the freeholders has been held to-thy at the Red Lion, when R. G. Townley, Esq., of Fulhourn, was de clared to be the most proper person to succeed Lord J. Osborne in the representation of the county, from which he is about to retire. A, requisition was immediately signed by 120 freeholdera, at the head of whom stands the Marquis of Tavistock, soliciting Mr. Townley' to be put in nomination. It is to be forwarded to the principal towns for signature. It is understood that Mr. Townley will comply with the wishes of the freeholders, and not a doubt is entertained of his success. His political sentiments are liberal and patriotic, and his private character no one dares to assail. Na opposition to his election is expected. In truth, he would poll the Tory party out of the field in a few hours. CITY OF HEREFORD.--in compliance with a nu merous and respectably signed requisition, oar Mayor ap pointed Friday for the meeting of the freemen and inhabi tant, of this city, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning the Lords in favour of the Reform Bill. At half-past ten o'clock this morning, the Miyor took the Chair ; 6hortly afterwards, E. B. Clive, Esq., the Re forming Member far she city, arrived, and was received by warm and general applause, and the entrance of Sir G. Carnwall, Bart., Colonel Money, the Rev. J. Dun, corebe, J. Griffiths, and G. Terry, Elqrs., all Reformers, were very ardently greeted by the meeting. Immediately after the open‘ek of the business by the Mayor, Colonel Money eon to propose the first resolution and petitiot.S The resolution and petition were seconded by Sir G. Cornwall, Bart., and carried unanimously. The meeting separated with a long and unanimous cheering for the King and Reform. A requisition foe a Reform county meeting is now in the course of signature. CORNWALL.—It having been found that the in. tended county meeting, to consider the propriety of peti tioning the Lords in favour of the Reform Bill, would he too late fo:- the second reading, sevecai copies of a petitioe have been circulating for signatures within these few days; the signatures will be attached to the origind petition, which will be forwarded immetliately.—Cornutiae. CHR ISTCHURCH.—This morning, at eleven o'clock, the inhribitants of the parish of Christchurch, Surrey, met at The Fehool-room in Marlborough -street, in pursuance of a numerously signed requisition addressed to the church tvardens, for the purpose of agreeing to a petition to the Rouse (1 f Lords, praying them to pass the Reform Bills &iv. Peter Davis, the senior churchwarden, took IPleottheto, me,--to the present, the chair. Mr. Hawes, jun., Mr. Locke, Mi. Dwyer, Mr. liurslem, Mr. Lines and other gentlemen addressed the meeting, strongly urging the necessity of the House of Lords passing tlte Bill, as the only means of pre serving the happiness and tranquillity of the country, by giving the people that due, shave in the reprewoution of which they had hem Deprived by a set of interested borough dealers. Resolutions expressive of she sense _ o i the inhabiteeete and of their unabated desire to Bill Uptight into speedy operation, were areal to, " w " e petitien to the House of Lords, e ee ed th ed e pe gP :ition. now for DALKEITH.—The 4noteres have the warding ate more than t, to that of the lest general now! nu t : . be;:f l t a kase igna a tu tt re ae s he t d o the fo_emer petition a mount 1,745. - - petition in favour of the Mi got up at thi s p l ace, wniibich n: bl i a EAST' o been E ReformTfO signedß A by Wort bas mobn reee than four-fif th s o f tlao I =