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planes in 1314, we were rather surprised that hi should have chosen the assault lately attempted on the King es the French by the cabriolet of M. Berthier, as an evidence of this republican hatred of rank and station. The fact is, that 31. Berthier is a furious Royalist, who lately returned fYoui I lie lyrood-house to Paris, with malice prepense against Louis Pb nip, s hom he calls a usurper, and whom he endeavoured to run down in front of his palace, not because he himself ever dreamt of be_ crag a Republican, but because his Majesty was too Republican for his Ultra principles. Lord Althorp, being called upon by Mr. Baring to explain what advice Ministers had tendered to his Majesty, on the rejection of which they tendered their resigea tions, rose amid loud and long cheering, and gave that explana tion t f which nobcdy was previously ignorant beyond the body sf the House, although some pretended ignorance within it His Lordship alluded to no specific number of Peers of whom Ministers had proposed the creation, but stated that they ,equeeted power to create as many as would insure the .access of the Bill, Mr. Hume replied to Mr. Baring, and particularly repelled those attacks which the Hon. Member directed again: t the working classes and the friends of deform " out of doors." Mr. Hume,. in tracing the his tory of the Reform Bill from its first auneuncement to iti present stage, endeavoured to show that the King's Ministers, or the King himself, must have behaved with duplicity, in not taking, or in not permitting to be taken, the only steps by which it could be brought to a triumphant eel, elusion. It could not be the Ministers, as they had resigned In consequence of their inability to proceed with it ; and it was unnecessary to state the other side of the alternative. Ile proposed the stoppage of the supplies till means were taken to secure the people in the enjoyment of their rights. Mr. Ro binson, though differing from Ministers on other points, yet s_greeing with them on the subject of Reform, declared that to would support the motion. Lord Sandon could not be dis tinctly hears in the gallery, but was understood to express nis eontinuel adherence to the great principles of the Bill, and regretted the resignation of Ministers, though be would not agree to the resolutions of Lord Ebrington. Sir Robert Peel srgued with more vehemence of manner than force of argil_ sent against the resolutions, particularly the last, which he regarded as opposed to the resolutions proposed in 1507 by the friends of the present I.ord Grey. He was answered by Mr. Ma eaulay, in a very brilliant speech, remarkable alike for its power of reasoning, its felicity of diction, and its solemnity of warning. His justification of the exercise of the prerogative in the creation of Peers, to insure the success of a specific measure, seemed to the House conclusive and unanswerable. After a speech from Sir Charles Wetherell of the usual coin_ age, and an appropriate eulogy of a morning journal by Mr Huut, the House divided, when the numbers were in fa vour of the motion to 208 against it, leaving a majority of tSO in favour of the late Administration. This large comparative majority, in the face of an Opposition who conceive that they have power and place within their grasp, or at tbeir disposal— this courageous adherence of the great body of Reform Mem bers to their former votes and pledges, notwithstanding all the seductive blandishments of an oligarchical faction, enriched with the :puha opine of their Court intrigue, will be hailed by the country with satisfaction and hope. It cannot for a mo ment be supposed that the House of Lords will proceed in its work of mutilation, in contempt of such a vote. Mr. Macaulay distinctly stated, that though the resolutions did not advise his Majesty to recall his late servants to his council by name, yet that such a recall would be expected from the success of the motion. He showed that no other set of Mi nisters could carry through the Reform Bill ; that " the declarations of the anti-Reforming candidates for ofl.ce were too recent, their inconsistency would be too glaring, and their motives too obvious," to permit them to undertake the task. We therefore are bound to believe, reasoning upon principles of eommon sense, and being indisposed to anticipate aneehing so monstrous as another insult to the whole commu nity of England and their representatives, tnat Lord Grey's Ministry will be requested to resume their office, and that a suffiCent number of Peers will be immediately created to secure the final triumph of the measure. The division sets exactly the same as that which secured to the metropolis its new Mem. bens The majority would have been greater, had the resolu tions been put in a less decided form—had they not so directly approved of the advice to create Peers. This was considered so offensive to the relatives of some of the Noble House, that it lost Lord Ebrington some votes—among the rest, we are told, that of Lord Sandon, who had at first proposed to support the address. This memorable address of the House of Commons will probably be laid before his Majesty this day, when Lord Lyndhurst is also expected to make his report to the King of the success of his negotiations for a new Ministry. Can the conserva tive conclave of new.fledgedßeformerswhich met atApsley.house yesterday, produce such a result of their deliberations as the triumphant decision of the House of Common ? Lord Lynd hurst may lay before his Majesty a list of violent enemies of eteform suddenly startled into a reluctant recognition of all the principles which they had repudiated—egregious objects for Royal confidence and public respect. The Deputation from the Commons will present to his Majesty resolutions-1. Of un abated confidence in his Majesty's Ministers ; Of anxiety that the King should "call to his councils such persons only as will carry into effect, unimpaired, that Bill which has re cently passed this House." Such resolutions must, we think, secure the Sovereign's regard, in the same degree in which they are triumphs to the people, with whose sentiments they harmonize, and whose uneasiness they may, we trust, help to quiet. At all events, they destroy at a bloW the cunning but trimly plot of the Conservatives, and kill the Anti. Reform Cab.net in the egg.— Time. It will be seen by our report, that Lord Altherp last night state i in the House of Commons, that Ministers would have tetired at any moment, when they should cease to entertain the conviction that they had power to carry the Reform Bill in the Arouse of Lords. The following are, we understand, the exact facts. When it was ascertained that the renewed support which the country had given the Bill during the prorogation, arid the increased majority on the second reading in the House of Commons, had not produced the effect which they anticipated in the HOUriC of Lords, a direct application was made to the Crown for further support, either by an actual .-reation of a specified number of Peers, or by the promise of the exercise of the prerogative of creation to any extent which the necessity of the case might at any time require. We have reason to think that the promise was given in as e tensive a manner as would, in any decision against . Lnisters, such as that of Monday last, hare been required. li we mistake not, it was communicated both to Lord Mir rowby and Lord Wharnclitre, and if our statement should be doubt,..d, these Noble Lords are best able to contradict it. Their promised support on the second reading removed the ne cessity on that occasion. It is now, it seems, pretended that the promise was to apply to a creation for the whole Bill, and not for clauses in the Committee; and those who are able to ra a the distinction between the vote on the postponement of thedisfranchising clauses and a vote against the whole Bill, illbe able to judge to which side either mistake or deception it Tmputabla. After the candid explanation of Lord Althorp, t question will probably be allowed to remain where it is. The House of Commons was evidently satisfied with Lord Al thorp's statement ; but if further disclosures are required, either for the satisfaction of Parliament or the country, we are convinced Ministers will not shrink from the demand of the most ample explanations.—Times. The House of Commons have adopted the motion of Lord Ebrington by a majority of to 208, or 80. This is unques tionably a large majority in a House of 496. Not anticipating the premature fate of the Bill, several Reform Members are at present in remote parts of the country, whither they betook themselves with a view to take a part in the proceedings of their respective neighbourhood s. Lord Ehrington's motion expressed the regret of the House at the change which had taken place in his Majesty's Councils ; their conviction that any attempt to mutilate or impair the efficiency of the Reform Bill would be productive of great disappointment and dismay; and earnestly implored his Majesty to call to his Councils such persons only as would carry into effect, unimpaired in all its essential provisions, that Bill for Reforming the Representatio❑ of the People, which had passed that House. " What was really meant by this Addreaa was, to tell his Majesty that he had lost Ministers which that House desired he would take back again." This observation of Mr. Baring was received by loud cheers from the Opposition, and answered by loud cheers from the Ministerial side. But an alternative was alluded to by Lord Ebrington—" A strong and sudden change of opi nion :said his Lordship) is reported to have taken place in certain qUarters in. another place in favour of the measure of Reform." Mr. Baring does not surely despair of the possibility of his friends' changing principles once more. The Duke of Wellington has only to say, I thought once, twelve months ago, that the wit of man could not improve our rotten borough reprosentatton ; but it is no longer convenient for me to entertain that opinion. I altered it to please the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of New castle, Lord Lonsdale, arc., tbrough whom only I could con 'finite Premier' I would have been equally ready to condemn rotten boroughs, to answer any good purpose, for the expres sion of opinion is merely means to an end, and that end the advantage to be derived from it. There would not be much difficulty with Lord Lyndhurst. He has aheady done stranger things than spring in a moment from the extreme of Anti-Re form to efficient Reform. Lord Ellenborough has already taken the salto mortale, for he would even go the length of a scot and lot qualification. Does Mr. Baring, then, think so meanly of his friends, as that having already made expediency their only guide, and shown an utter inditTerence regarding opinions, they would now all of a sudden lose the fruit of all their tricks, all their hypocrisy, all their fraud, rather than eat their principles ? Lord Grey, accordin; to Mr. Raring, should have taken 4S hours to ascertain the sincerity of certain Peers. But is not 48 hours a long time to be occupied in inquiries to ascertain what can be ascertained in one minute ? There is hardly cue of his friends who would not almost deem it an affront to be accused of possessing principles. It would look like irony. Besides, Mr. Baring knows that they may profess a devotion to Reform, for the sake of getting into place ; and yet, after _ . cast Reform to the wind:. Ilea who are little scrupulous 4bout principles Can profess any. Mr. Baring should not think so meanly of his friends, as to suppose that they would forego th• fruits of their intrigues for such a tribe as affecting a fond ness for the Reform Bill. Dissembling is not confined to gentlemen who enrich themselves by contracting for Luans. Baring, by way of elucidating the question of sincerity, observed, " lie must say that he believed that the real feeling of the ;louse of Peers was, that they felt a dislike to the general principles of the BilL—(flear, hear.) He would go further, and say that not only those who formed the majority, Out that two-thirds or three fourths of the minority were of the same opinion.--(Hear.)" Does not t►is show that voting has nothing to do with conviction ? and that in calling on his Majeity to choose Ministers who will support the Reform Bill unimpaired, it is not implied that the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Ellenborough, &e. &c. be ex- Mded !Yam Gal" but merely that they shall act in the tiu. spirit of the other Pears, in speaking against tbeircorvie_ tion ? We should he very sorry to have a cause of ours advocated by Mr. Baring, and we really think that the Peers would do well to trust their cause to abler hands. He has a wonderful knack at damaging the cause which he embraces, and the friends whom he takes under his protection. There are people who might attribute this to malice, acting under the disguise of gaucherie ; but we place it to the account of an ill_ conditioned mind. A good deal of mysterious language bay. ing been used respecting the creation of Peers, Lord Althorp, in his usual open and frank manner, said, " I have no objec tion to state, for the better satisfaction of my Hon. Friend (Mr. Baring), that the advice which we thought it our duty to offer to his Majesty was, that he should create a number of Peers sufficient to enable us to carry the Reform Bill through the other House of Parliament in an efficient form."—(A tremen dous burst of cheering, from all sides of the House, here fol lowed, and was continued longer than perhaps any cheers ever heard in that House before.) Mr. Hume made an admirable speech, which he concluded by stating, in an open and manly manner, that the Ring behaved with bad faith towards Mini sters; that his declarations on the subject of creating Peers were known before hand (which settles the estimation in which his Majesty ought to stand, as a Reformer, with the nation) ; and rendered it irnposaible to manage the House of Peers. " This," observed Mr. Hume, " he would say, know ing what he did of the other House of Parliament, that he would stake his existence that if the King had given Earl Grey a carte blanche to make as many Peers as were wanted, not ten would have been requisite.—(Much cheering.) From the course taken by the majority on the late occasion, it was evident that some little bird had whispered them, that the King would not consent to the creation of any Peers.—.(Hear, hear.) Somehow or other they had obtained a knowledge of that fact; and, under the circum stances, Ministers had no choice—they were perfectly right in what they had done, and they stood juitified to the country." Sir Robert Peel made a speech of some length, but of very little significancy. The House of Commons has vindicated it self, and set an example to the country. The House of Lords are now opposed to the House of Commons, backed by the nation. It is clear that the question must have an issue in some way or other. The nation must crouch to the House of Lords, or that House must pass the Bill, which, according to Mr. Baring, revolts nearly the whole of its Members. We protest, and shall always protest against the monstrous doctrine, that any order of men shall dare to gainsay the nation. This is faction—vile faction. The Constitution has pointed out a way of solving the difficulty ; and if that way is not resorted to, on their heads be the consequences who provoke the issue.— Morning Chronicle. There is no use in denying that the King has not kept faith with Earl Grey, who, before he consented to take office, made an efficient Reform a sine qua non, and his Majesty was collie ' quently bound to place at his disposal all the means within the competence of the Crown, necessary for the effecting of that object. But though we cannot rind any apology for the deser tion of Earl Grey, we are not of the number of those who sup pose his Majesty was not in earnest when he consented to the proposition of Reform, and when he gave his approbation to the particular plan of Reform embodied its the two Bills. We have already attributed the change in his Majesty's views to the influence over him, possessed by the Queen and others—an in fluence which has been exerted to the worst purposes, both as regards his Majesty's future peace of mind and the interests of this great nation. There is a material difference between irre soluteness and insincerity. It is incident to Kingly Government that causes seeminglytrivial often determine the most momentous events. A cup of coffee spilt by the Duchess of Marlborough on the gown of Mrs. Masham, Bed-Chamberwoman to Queen Ann, brought the Torics (Harley and Bolingbroke, &c.) of that day into office. The family of his Majesty have not been slow to perceive the advantages which they might personally derive from their influence over his Majesty. We have always felt little disposed to draw aside the veil which concealed the movements of the Fitzclarence family from the public eye; because, aware of their influence, we deemed it on the whole advisable, for the sake of the great cause to wink at many things which in themselves might not be strictly justi. liable. We almost wish that Ministers had, with respect to this family, yielded more than they were disposed to do. It is, however, understood that some unwillingness on the part of Go vernment to feed the insatiable cupidity of the Fitzclarences, has sealed the fate of the Reform Bill. The Queen, the Fitz. clarences, and the Princesses were its bitter enemies. The Earl of Munster, it is true, voted for the second reading of the Bill ; the vote on that occasion was, as has been proved, a very unequivocal test of sincerity to the cause. From the Quarterly Review of March last, it would appear to have been by that time ascertained that Lord Munster was a good Tory. The Reviewer, speaking of a publication of his Lordship's, observes—" We must for the present leave Lord Munster. Throughout, his little volume is full of interest, evidently the work of a humane and gallant mind—an enthusiastic soldier of Wellington, e.ta hearty Tory." However, hearty Tory as this humane and gallant mind is, appliances might have been found, perhaps, to neutralize his Tory propensities.— The extent of the influence of this family in defeating the Reform Bill, might, like many other things, have been more a matter of inference than of direct knowledge, were not cupi dity a passion which is sometimes so strong as to overcome pru dence. Where there are rival pretentions, there will often be jealousies and bickerings ; and, as in the case of many other great families, the affection of the Fiizclarences for each other has not always been proof against the workings of a stronger passion. In short, it appears that the peace of this family has been too often disturbed by quarrels respecting what, for want of a more decorous phrase, we must term the division of the spoil. Some allowance must be made for the weakness of the King, good-hearted as he is known to be, under all the el, curnstances of the ccse. We understand that he actually cried like a child, on taking leave of a favourite minister ; and it is even whispered that he regretted that he must sue. cumb to the wishes of his wife and children. The people of England should know that the Queen and the Fitzclarences are the real causes of the loss of the Bill. History affords some instructive lessons with regard to the influence of Queens over their husbands; and her Majesty herself might profit from these lessons. Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth—the two Monarchs whose fate is held up by Tories, as a proof of the danger of yielding to the people; and by Whigs and Re formers, as an example of the danger of driving the people to the necessity of doing justice to themselves—were both sufferers from yielding to the counsels of their respective Queens, Hen rietta-Maria and Marie-Antoinette. The results are known. The Queen might profit by calling to mind that Henrietta- Maria, a stranger like herself in this country, and unable to divest herself of that partiality for absolute power which she had acquired abroad, brought her husband to the block and herself to beggary, having been indebted to the charity of the Cardinal de Betz, for the means of purchasing coals to escape death from cold in a severe winter. When we consider the situation of the Fitzclarences, it appears to us to be downright infatuation in them to provoke the hostility of the people of England. They have been exceedingly ill-advised. They should have steered a quiet and inoffensive course, and have borne in mind that their title to consideration can gain nothing from too curious an examination. Boroughmongering Lords may claim a sort of prescriptive right to indulge in the wantonnessi of power ; but the Boroughmongering Lords will not forget if the Fitzclarences are disposed to do so, the difference between their respective titles; and a time may come when this family will bitterly regret that they used their influence to deprive their old fattier of the regard of a nation, which, in its fondness, hailed him as the Patriot King—a regard which to them would have been as a shield, when deprived of other protection. So much for the Queen and the Fitzclarences. The infatuation of the Tories is extraordinary. The French Nobles have just now exhibited another proof to Europe, in the attempt, in the South of France, of their inability to comprehend the difference be tween the power of a s:parate order and the power of a nation. A corporal's guard was sufficient to put down their grand in surrection. To hear the language of some of our Aristocracy, Captain Boladil is nothing to them. A certain Noble and Military Friend of the Duke of Wellington was lately heard to say Now is the moment to call out the army. Do the Tories really suppose, that if we had an army ten times snore numerous than the present, it would be of any avail against an united nation In the case of local disturbances, arising out of disputes between masters and men, our little army may be useful in checking the progress of violence. In general, the army has shown no eagerness to overstep its duty. We can tell the Tories, that in all cases of national impulse, the army is necessarily hurried along with it. The army will never prove traitors to the nation. The army is composed of men who remember that the land they are called to pollute with blood is the land of their birth, the land which contains those to whom they are bound by the. ties of kindred and affec tion. The infantry, we know, will never act against the peo ple. If the oligarchs think the cavalry, * being privileged nien, will be restrained by no such scruples, we answer, the cavalry will, at all events, profit by the example of the Garde Royal and the trots journee•s de Paris. But the Tories are already falling by the ears. Lord Grey pointed out the absurdity of leaving the Reform Bill at the mercy of a majority four-fifths of whom were men who objected to all Reform. As an instance of the sort of harmony now prevailing among the Anti-Reformers, we may mentieu that Sir Charles Wetherell, indignant at the disclosure of Lord Ellenberough respecting the measure of Reform the anti-Reformers were now prepared to give, transmitted a strong Protest to Lord Ellenborough, in which he declared that he, for one, would never consent to the smallest disfranchisement. Sir Charles is at least consistent. All anti-Reformers may not be so tenacious of principle; but still it is absurd to suppose they can agree on any plan of effi cient Reform.—Morning Chronicle. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S DEAL, )!AY 10.—Wind N.N.E., strong.—Arrived from the and sailed, the Euphrates, Buckham, from Ma•lras. PLYMOUTH, MAY 9.—Wind K, fresh breezes.—Arrived the Matilda, Davie; and Ocaan, Forrest, from Bordeaux; Mary, Snell, from London. FAMOUTII, Mar o.—Wind E., fresh gales and squally.— Arrived the Thomas, White, from Port-au-Prinee. Sailed the Reindeer packet for Jamaica and Carthagena. Arrived of the Wight—the St. Thomas, Memnon, from Porto Rico ; and President, Moore, from New York. TORBAY, MAY 9.—Arrived the Rachel Squires, from Gijon. HOLY HEAD, MAT 9.—A rrived off port—the Furness, James, flom Mobile; and Eagle, Lyon, from New York. LIVERPOOL, MAN 9.—Arrived the Lord Stanley, Hall, from New Orleans; and William Harrington, Miller, from Sierra Leone, .„ ... BELFAST, MAY R.—Arrived the Agenoria, Best, from Mar. sala ; and Fame, Brown, from Alicant. CORK. MAY R.—Arrived the Velocity, Baker, from Pernam buco ; Lord Eldon, Dawson, from Bengal ; and Cordelia, Weaver, from Bombay. BARBADOS, MAICII 31.—8 y accounts from St. Lucia, of the 28th inat ., the Pandora, hence to Liverpool, put into that island, had discharged the whole of her cargo, consisting of 14 hhds. of sugar, damaged. She was repairing, and expected to proceed about loth April. LOWESTOFFE, MAT 10.—It has blown a gale from N. to N.N.E. Yesterday and to day several ves,els have lost anchors and calika.. .4 . :*(6r" rbe zest mct, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 11 1832. The conduct of the House of Commons last nigh is beyond all praise. We indeed find difficulty to express our admiration of the nob* spirited, and patriotic manner in which they have stood to their country in the hour of danger; and we trust that when the Bill is carried (and carried we may say it now is), and a new election takes place, every Member that voted on this occasion in favour of the people will meet his reward in the unanimous and grateful support of his present con stituents. It is highly honourable to the House— it is honourable to human nature, to find in so large an a-sembly (wan) , of its Members, too, tempted by promises of places or pensions) nothing like ,kuiking, nothing like timidity, nothing, in short, but a straightforward, manly, and dignified support of the people's rights. The vote this mottling has preserved the peace of the coun- try, and we cannot help feeling some pride —some exultatiou in rt fleeting, that as this Journal was the first to convey, to many parts of the kingdom, the sad news of the defeut of Ministers, it will also be the first to convey to thousands in England, Scotland, and Ireland, the glad tidings of peace, arid revive the droop ing► spirits of a confiding and generous people. The vote of the House of Commons in fact decides the question of Reform. There is no alternative. The representatives of the people have spoken to his MAJESTY in a voice that cannot be misupdcr- stood ; the people themselves are rousing in de fence of their just rights ; eve!) , town and village and hamlet is displaying its ardour iu the great cause. Men who have kept aloof from politics and political clubs, are now flocking to join these union• ; nay, the very Quakers, the most peaceable of man kind, are lending their countenance and support to societies, which are denounced by the enemies of the people as revolutionary and subversive of all or der and security. Will facts like these not open the eyes of the political blind ? Will even the most bigoted anti-Reformer now stand up and say that no Reform is necessary ? Can there be a man found in the country so lost to all discernment as not to perceive that the crisis is now come, and that the nation will have Reform % There can be no doubt about the answer, and there can be as little doubt about the men who are to catty the measure to a happy consummation. W o uld it not be the most cruel of insults, even to the people themselves, to rob of their prize those Ministers, who, for the last eighteen months have, through good report and bad report, fought the great battle—would it not be the height of injustice to transfer to the hands of enemies the palladium which they had reared and so faithfully defended at the moment when the victory was won, and the idol of the people's wc.rship was about to be exhi bited to the gaze of 24 millions of spectators ? His MAJESTY, we know, still loves his people, and will not disappoint them. We confidently look to this consummation of our wishes, because this is the highest !need of honour which the KING could con fer on Earl GREY'S Administration, end above all, because it would be the surest means of restoring to the SOVEREIGN the affections of a grateful and hind-hearted people. We have barely space left to direct the attention of our readers to our reports of the very important meetings that nave taken place this thy at the Crown and Anchor, and at Guildhall. At the former meeting, Colonel JONES observed, amid tremendous cheering—" For my own part, great as I think the evils and misfortunes which would undoubtedly fall on the country by such a proceeding (the non-payment of taxes) I should consider them infi nitely preferable to the pros ration of a great empire, before a base and grasping oligarchy." As a further sign of the times, we may add that the Manchester Reform petition, deprecating the loss of the Bill, received fivc and twenty thousand signatut es within fintr hours ! It has been currently reported, if a Toiy Govern ment can be made up, that Sir JOHN LEACH will hold the Great Seal. The MASTER of the Rims left his Court this morning for a considerabl e time, which occa,,ioned a great sensation at the Bar. The Boroughmongers, it they :did not advise, were advised of, the late attempted descent of the Duchess of BERRY Of/ the coast of France, the dis comfiture of which has occasioned among them a reebn g of disappointment, approaching to dismay. Ilad they been able to announce any thing I,h e counter-revolutionary movement in France at this moment, they flatter themselves it would h ave ,vorked wonders in their favour. The idea is at ..ord, but nothing is too absurd for the Borough mongers. A " Conservative Council of Five" sat for some hours yesterday at Apsley-house. " The Council of Five" is said to have consisted of the Duke of WELLINGTON, Lord LYNDHURST, Sir ROBER T PEEL, : GoULBURN, and Mr. JOHN WILSON CHOKER. i l'he Earl of MANSFIELD at one time joined " the Council." After " the Council" broke up, Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord LYNDHURST let town for Windsor, to communicate the result o their deliberations to his NIAJEaTi. The crisis—so long foreseen—so long dreaded has at length arrived. All England is on the move The earthquake is at work. We are literally within eight-and-Forty hours of a convulsion. If, within tha , space, the Whig Ministry be re-instated in office, all may yet be well. If otherwise, we tremble for the consequences! The resolutions passed yesterday at the Birnahig- ham Political Union area solemn, decisive declaration of public opinion, the truth, justice and neces , ity of which the whole country will at once acknow ledge and reecho. Indeed, as will be seen by some of our communications from the country, many of the more influential provincial Unions have agreed to be guided in their conduct by Birmingham. That Union now numbers amongst its Members all the most respectable, all the most influential inhabitants of the neighbourhood. Men who, like the Quakers, have hitherto kept aloof from politics, now throng by hundreds to enlist under its banners. Not later than yesterday, five hundred individuals of the very 61 , 4 respectability in Warwickshire, publicly avowed their conviction that the time had at length arrived when it was necessary to take a decided part ! In Manchester the same spirit predominates. There, too, as in the metropolis, the refusal to pay taxes, and to petition the House of Commons to withhold supplies until the Whigs be reinstated in office, has been been made the subject of general consideration. This, by the way, we may add, is the leading feature in all the great public meetings of the Political Unions that have yet taken place throughout the country. Reverting to the Birmingham Political Union— in what sense, weak, in what spirit, is the follow ing awfui—for it is really awful—paragraph from the petition just passed at that Meeting, to be un derstood ?—" That your Petitioners find it declared in the Bill of Rights that the people of England may have arms for their defence suitable to their condition, and as allowed by law,' and your peti tioners apprehend that this great right will be put in force generally, and that the whole of the people of England will think it necessary to have arms for their defence, in order that they may be prepared for any circumstances which may arise." Is this the language of men who can be intimidated—who can be bullied—who will basely and passively yield to a further withholding of their just—for they ask nothing more—constitutional privileges ? Is it the language of ?—But we forbear. Earnestly —most earnestly do we hope that the lesson taught by the barricades of Paris may not be forgotten by a British Aristocracy There is one way—and but one—to avert the impending cloud, to charm down the despe rate feeling that now agitates England to its heart's-core, from one extremity to the other. Let but Earl GREY be reinstated in office, in accordance with the spirit of the Address voted last night to his MAJESTY by the House of Commons, and tranquillity, as by a iina. 4 ician's wand, will be instantly restored. We solemnly declare, we know of no other means but this to calm the almost maddened spirits of the people. As for a Tory, or even a patch-work, Government, it is no longer possible, not even though such a Government should hold out the promise of the Ballot, Universal Suffrage, and Triennial Parliaments. And the reason for this is obvious. All public confidence is lost in the Tories. Henceforth they will not be believed, even on thei r oaths. We wa►ned these misguided men that it would come to this. We knew well the feeling of the country on Reform, and rightly appreciated its energies in the hour of need. But our warnings were laughed at and despised. And behold the consequences ! England at this pre sent moment is literally a living volcano ! Nevertheless if the people desire to succeed, they must be tranquil. Firmness and tranquillity united, will carry all before them. Violence will do nothing. It will even injure the public cause, with all the reflective and well•diiposed members of the community. Let the people then, we re pear, but continue tranquil, without abating one jot of their energies, and ere another fortnight hay elapsed, Lord GREY will be reinstated in office. Of one fact we can assure them, and to this one fact w•e defy contradiction. The Tories can not form a permanent Administrmion, if they can form one at all. In the first place, in the general scramble for office, they cannot agree among them selves, and in the next, they are trusted by none, and cannot trust each other. TRICIS Of SHARES THIS DAT AT ONE creLOcr. Paid. Per Shan Angto Mex. fin. Co. (iss. at M. pm.) .E. 1410 BoLams Mining Company £lio 150 135 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (ita. at 51. pin.) E• 211 1:G 4., Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Coeaes l4'4 British Iron Mining Company .£so KEY, Mayor. ACOMMON COUNCIL, holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, Thursday, the 10th of May, 18:32: Resolved, That this Court views with the greatest grief, morti fication, and disappointment, the extraordinary and distressing communication made by his Majesty's Ministers, that his Ma. jesty had refused to them the means of carrying through the House of Lords the Reform Bill, passed by a large majority of the House of Commons, and required by an overwhelming ma. jority of the people. Resolved, That this Court is of opinion, that whoever may have advised his Majesty to withhold from his Ministers the means of insuring the success of the Reform Bill have proved themselves the enemies of their Sovereign, and have put to im minent hazard the stability of the throne, and the tranquillity and security of the country. Resolved, That under these circumstances, this Court feels it to be its duty, as a necessary means of procuring for the people of this great country an efficient Reform, to petition the Commons House of Parliament to withhold the supplies until such a Re form shall have been secured. Resolveti,TY;tiiiepeJiion now read be adopted, and that the same be fah le transcribed, and signed by the Town Clerk, and presented this evening to the Honourable the House of Com mons by the Sheriffs, attended by the Remembrancer, and the whole Court. Resolved, That the representatives of this city in Parliament, and such other Members of this Court as have seats in Parlia ment, be earnestly requested to support the prayer of this peti tion, and to decline voting any supplies to the Government until the Reform Bill shall have been satisfactorily secured. Resolved That this Court entertains the hi g h es t respect and regard for Earl Grey and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers, for their great, able, and unwearied services in the cause of Reform, and admires their distinguished integrity in refusing to lend themselves to a delusion, and readily abandoning ettice when they could no longer as Mi n i s t ers promote th e carrying of the all important measure which it had been from the first the loam object of their administration satisfactorily to accomplish. Resolved, That this Court oiews the present crisis as being of so much importance, and so pregnant with danger, that it is ex pedient that a Committee should be appointed, consisting of all the Aldermen, and commoners, and twenty-one members being a quorum, to meet from day to day, to consider and adopt such measures as to them may seem necessary, in respect of a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament, and to report from time to time to this Court if they deem it requisite. WOODTHORPE. COMMON-HALL.-(THIS DAY.) In consequence of the Tory triumph of Monday evening, a requisition very numerously signed, was presented is the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, calling upon him to appoint a day for holding a Common-Hall, in order to take into consideration the propriety of addressing the King, and beseeching him to take such steps as would insure the passing of the Reform Bill. This requisition was sent in before the Ministry had resigned, and this day had been appointed by his Lordship. Since that event was known another requisition had been presented, so as to bring under the notice of the Hall the present state of that Bill, and the propriety of refusing to pay taxes till It had been passed into law. A very numerous meeting was held, and the liberal members of the Court of Aldermen were much cheered as they arrived. At one o'clock the Lord Mayor attended by the usual officers entered and took his scat. The Town Crier hereby read the requisition. The Lord Mayor came forward and said, that he was sorry for once to meet his fellow liverymen, he had hoped that they would never again have been called upon to meet upon the subject of Reform, unless it had been to celebrate the passing of the Bill. What had been the conduct of the party that had disappointed the wishes of the people ? They had by a swindling trick, by a low intrigue, procured the throwing out of the Bill. In them he had no confidence, though they were told by their friends that they would pass an efficient measnre ut• Reform; but they had so often changed their opinions on diftbrent subjects, that no confidence could be placed in them. He had confidence in Earl Grey and the late Ministry, who even by their last act had shown that they would not abandon the people's Bill. He would call upon the Crier to proceed with the businessof the day, and not detain the Hall any longer, He thanked the meeting for the hearing they had given him. The Crier again read the requisition, when Mr. FEARON rose and said that when they last met, he had declared that they were no longer a faction, but that they were supported by a Ministry every way fitted to the exigencies of the country, and that they had on their side, what he considered a power of strength, they had then the King's name with them, but did they now retain that power of strength.— (No, no.) A gentleman on the hustings here said that the constitu tional doctrine ought be held in mind that the King could do no wrong, this gave rise to great contusion. There were loud cr ies of " Turn him out, turn him out." We believe the gentleman was Mr. Blackburn, a barrister. Mr. FEARON resumed. He believed the best way would be to let the gentleman alone ; he had a perfect right to deliver his opinion, but not in a disorderly manner. He said that he had been told by the I)uke of Sussex, on the occasion of the Lite throwing out of the Bill, " That the King was firm ; " and what was now the case ? why, where the blame lay, the people had been most grossly deceived—(Cheers) — he must say that whoever was to blame, lie had no hesi_ ration in saying that they were traitors—(Great cheer ing)—that they were traitors to their country. There was now only one course to be pursued, the King could only give Reform by a creation of Peers, which was the way in which the Constitution had provided for obviating the difficulty of a breach between the two Houses. The people had been called upon and they had most nobly responded to the call. He wished to sa y a word upon the conduct of the men of Birmingham. All had heard of the heart-stirring meeting lately held there, that meeting had been imitated only yesterday, and three gentlemen ,s a deputation from the Reformers of that town were now on . he hurting —(Cries of come forward Mr. Green, Mr. and Mr. Parker, then carne forward, and received three eles.l-,. Mr. FEARON then continued that a Committee had pre pared a set of resolutions, and on those resolutions was foundeo an address to his Majesty, in which they told him that the only men in whom they had any confidence were Lord (; rc) and the late Ministry, and the resolutions went on to ,ay that they should instruct the representatives to resist all legislation but such as would pass the Bill. They h a d no con fidence in the Tories, nor in those who were, in fact, the most desperate and despicable set—the Waverers. He would not trouble the Hall further than by proposing the first resolution, to the following effect : Mr. PONTIFIX seconded the resolution. He would be sorry to use any violence, but he was one who thought that violence would be justifiable, in order to keep the people from the chance of losing all that was dear to them. He wished to advert to a sentiment which he found in a resolution passed at the great meeting at Birmingham , n amel y , that by the common law of England every man had a right t o arms in order to his own defence. He did not think th e emergency yet suffi ciently great for their use, but quite so fo r t h eir being provided. The resolution was then put, and carried u nanimously. e s so of an astonishment, s audacious 1. That the Livery of London have learned with mingled feel ingsdnaischiomuesnt;ndreitrteetresatednd faction indignation, intheir ceaseless efforts to defeat, or to delay the passing of the Bill to Reform the sue c the Commons House of Parliament. That by such defeat, how ever temporary, the past declarations of the King and the re peated decisions of the House of Commons—the fling, of an enlightened Administration, and the voice of the people, have all and equally been disregarded and set at nought by a small majority of the House of Lords ; and the peace, tranquillity and public credit of the country put to hazard, in order to aid the machination of a despicable faction, or to promote the personal objects of individuals directly interested in the continuance of a corrupt systern of Government. Mr. DILLON—As they had met in consequence of the de cision of the House of Lords, it might be as well to know who and what the Lords were. They were a faction—an isolated faction ; and, in the words of one of our poets, none but themselves could be their compeers, But apart from all that, what was the faction who had defeated the Bill ? They were the representatives of the tyrant monarchs of the war faction ; they were the representatives of Russian lords and German la- dies— (Immense cheering for some time.) He could tell them that all the talent did not lie in Lord Ellenborough's head ; nor all the consistency in the conscience of Lord Lyndhurst, nor all the sincerity in Lord Eldon's tears, nor all the gentlemanly de meanour in Lord Londonderry's manners. This comparison forced on them, for the Lords arrogated to themselves so much that it became necessary to do so, He would ask now what would the House of Commons do, let them only remain firm, and let the people remain firm to the Grey administration, and Reform was certain. He concluded by moving the second re. solution. 2.. That the Livery of London regard with distrust and ab horrence attempts, at once interested and hypocritical, to mis lead and delude by pretended plans of Reform, promised or pro-. posed by the insiduous enemies of all Reform, at the very mo. inent of their having succeeded in defeating the people's Bill; and that looking at the unexampled importance of this measure, and the strong necessity that it should be finally settled in a manner satisfactory to the judgment, as well as to the rights and interest of the people, this Common Hall declare that no Ad ministration can, in their opinion, be now formed, in which the country can or will place confidence, except the Administration of Earl Grey and his colleagues." Mr- WILKINSON seconded the resolution. He would say nothing farther to the Livery than what they had al ready heard, they did not require to hear more, if he was speaking to the House of Lords it might require him to say much more. The resolution was carried unanimously. - • - Mr. WOOLER proposed the third resolution. He would not say much, for he was well aware that the time for talking had gone by and the time for action had come. The people had been challenged by a faction, and he had no doubt the people would accept the challenge, as they always did the challenge of their enemies. He was afraid that the mad appeal which had been made would not be net in the country with the same equanimity as it was here, he was afraid that to-morrow would bring bad news. He im_ plored the people to keep together, refuse the supplies, and Reform was certain. Time was precious, and he would only move the third resoution. " 3. That this Common Hall have witnessed with the highest gratitude and satisfaction the patriotic exertions of Lord Grey and his Majesty's Ministers in the cause of Reform, and the promptitude with which they have refused to lend themselves to a decision, when the only means to secure the success of that measure was denied them ; and this Common Hall are now called upon to express their conviction, that whoever may have advised his Majesty to withold from his Ministry such means, have acted traitorously to both King and people, have been in!. thienced by faction, and have sought to obtain personal aggran_ disement at emininent risk to the stability of The throne and the peace of the community." He hoped that their meeting would hare the effect they had a right to expect, if not they must tell their enemies they knew no word but battle. Mr. PRIOR seconded the resolution. Mr. BLACKBURN rose, but was so loudly hissed, that the Lord Mayor came forward, and begged that they would give every one a fair hearing. Mr. BLACKBURN then said he did not come before them as a young liveryman ; Sfty.four years ago his father was ad mitted into a company, of which the Duke of Sussex, Lords Grey, Brougham, and Althorp were members. His object was the same as that of the Hall; he only hoped that the Bill, and the whole Bill would speedily pass into a law. He only wished to make this explanation in order to set his character right with the Hall. This resolution also passed unanimously. Mr. TAYLOR then proposed the fourth resolution, as follows : "4. That a loyal and dutiful address be presented to his Majesty stating the delight and gratitude with which his Majesty's loyal subjects had learned his gracious declaration, made on the 27th April, 1831, when proroguing the Parliament, that he resorted to that measur for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the people on the expediency of snaking such changes in the repre. sentation as circumstances might appear to require;" and also his gracious declaration made on the 21st June last, on assem bling the new Parliament, when his Majesty was graciously pleased to say, " that he had dissolved the last Parlia ment for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of his people as to the expediency of Reform," and " recommended that important question to the earliest and most attentive consideration of Par. 'lament, that his Majesty's subjects, firmly relying on such decla rations and intentions on his part, proceeded to elect representa tives who responded thereto, and who by a large majority passed a Bill proposing " such changes in the representation as circum stances required," that the loss or delay of the said Bill by a small majority in the House of Lords and the proposed retire ment of the Ministry in consequence, had spread terror and dis may among his Majestys subjects, and threatened to shake the credit, disturb the tranquility, and put to hazard the highest in stitution of the country, that in such a case of extremity, our sole dependence is, that his Majesty will continue his faithful advisers in his council, and adopt the measures provided by the Constitution for removing the obstacles to the passing of the Reform BilL He was left speaking. GREAT WESTMINSTER MEETING. (THIS DAY.) Pursuant to advertisement, a very numerously attended meeting of the inhabitant-householders of the City and Liberty of Westminster took place this day in the great room of the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, for the purpose of petition ing the House of Commons, imploring them to continue firm to their recorded pledges—to grant no further supplies, nor any money payments whatever, until an Administration be formed, known friends to that measure of Reform which has already received the sanction of the House and the Nation, and to adopt what further measures should be deemed necessary in the present alarming state of public affairs. Shortly after twelve o'clock the room became much crowded, and the hustings were thronged with electors, and the old friends of Reform. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT entered the room, supported by 151 r. Devear and Dr. Tracy, the Hon. Baronet's medical attendant. Ile appeared to be suffering under much indispo sition, and walked very lame. At this time we should think there were about two thousand persons present, by whom Sir Francis was received with deafening acclamations. An ELECTOR stood forward and stated to the meeting, that although one o'clock had been fixed for the commencement of business, it would not in fact begin till two; the object of the Hon. Chairman's coming upon the hustings at so early an hour, being an easy access to his seat. Upon this information many retired; but in a short time after the Hall was crowded to suffocation. Mr. O'Connell, on making his apearance, was received with loud plaudits, and it was not without considerable difficulty that he could reach the Hustings. Sir F. BURDETT, skortlyi before two o'clock, was called to the Chair, amidst loud and long continued cheers. When morea part in the indelicate n d e li proceedingsc a t e eaaror f ofins temporary,he, dte then t day.ihl a i , t the deafening clamour had subsided, the Hon. Bart. addressed the meeting to the following effect :—Before he opened the business of the day, he wished to say a word or two respecting his Hon. Friend Sir John Hobhouse.—{Hear.) He would assure the meeting that not a more sincere and ardent friend in the cause of Reform ever breathed. Under all the circumstances, he considered that it would have been improper for his friend to have been present. As he was in that upon every occasion sonic degree on trial—a party concerned in an action which it was fur them to consider whether it was to be blamed or ap proved.--(Hear.) His conduct was made general consideration, . . . . _h eyesi(is, cp. h e o eesh n er s , n t .n i . c - ,j. . where the great cause, the general liberty was concerned, and i h t l t u te n e d w n s e lo t r ' os hue w ul o dl ir h d t d a et hi f t h o d o e l v:l h e ene e r o , b c t n t e ' l a i k u e r y ' e'er', which country.—(Cheers.) tt e r m o d yb s . s— t uuo a t tm, to circumstances, c h s s s a e , e i r t ns h i. e) to y , Would ible e djualiti utnh:tyi, nyit n isegh.o e rheti , ~ Bo' ti e. Right Hon. colleague flinching from his c w- . c ho m uic t di .i enw we arc o a rsea own y p , it theplaced, cde do :s i, aspectthe n,oatya o bp f ep e srr c rt o oo u um i i i i t de r ed y i n has, t,h,, persons rather an untoward appearance, though the great ques tionslothAnd o although fth (: u I t i c e : : feel ma ygbreeatcaalnledxieut upon n t t t o he p st er a fo te rn i , n , at the same time I have the satisfaction to express not only confidence in the result, but my exultation in the manly, noble, and triumphant mariner in which the people of this country have, like their forefathers, to whose circumstances I am sorry to say ours are ISO nearly approaching, have shown the same spirit and the same determination, and I have no doubt that the same Union will exist throughout the people of this country, that will render permanently and proudly triumphant that great irresistible call for Reform which has so long sounded without effect in the ears that have been shut against it.—(Cheers.) As Chairman, he was anxious to reserve something to the conclusion of the ineeting.—(Hear.) But he was anxious that the resolu tions which should be propounded should first be heard by the meeting. This he would say, that lie never read any resolu_ tions or petitions emanating from any portion of the people of this country that expressed more fully his feelings and sentiments, and the measures that were absolutely .nd imperatively necessary to be brought in the ' present circumstances of the country into action. People - ef . Ulla country, with a determined patriotism and man sacrifices and efforts, had returned to the House of Common such an assembly as he believed had not for a century um within its walls—the real representatives of the people. Still th country had assumed an imposing attitude ; and by the power the House of Conunons possessed, they would acquire for them those rights and liberties to whirls they were indisputably enti tied. T'ais was his consoling hope in the midst of that gloom which might appear spread over the country. The counts would be saved from the imminent danger which seemed n surround it, by the steady conduct of the House of Common, exercising those constitutional powers with which it had bee invested by the people, and for the people by placing them selves in that situation of the Government, which theoreticall they were presumed to possess, and were now dispose to get and to maintain. After many long years of difficulty during which he had been enabled by the Westminste electors to sustain the great cause of Parliamentary He form—for they had kept this sacred fire--at least th sparks of it--always alive, and itjwas chiefly owing to then that its bright, pure, steady flame and genial warmth had bees famed through the country, and would be productive of th. happiest results.—(Cheers) After many long years he served during which he had exposed the conduct and delis quency of the House of Commons, it gave him tin greatest satisfaction to state, that the House of Commons had nobly done their duty—(Cheers)--they had never don( their duty better than they did only last night.—(Vehement cheering.) Scotland, England, and Ireland on that occa. sion were equally and admirably represented. Under these circumstances they had little to do at present, but to declare their confidence in the representatives, and in their conduct last night. In that honest Minister, Earl Grey —(Vehement cheering)--whose resignation his Majesty un. fortunately for himself and his country, had, he should say, compelled. From what quarter, how, and where this poison got instilled into the Royal ear (Loud cries of " The act, h e the had possible been prevailed Queen, the Queen.") He was sorry fur the eircurnstanc. 5, in which his M a j es t y h ad placed himself, and it was most un. for froma o i n led seq u u p e o n n ces of any whi quarter to a,, tu commit fortunate t e an that ch it painful to contemplate, and which possibly might embitter the rest of the acts of his Majesty's reign.—(Loud cheers.) He spoke thus much with feelings .f the deepest sorrow. Earl Grey, perhaps, had been too conciliatory, and had thus afforded an opportunity to those who would net fail to take advantage of it. But the base and dirty intriguers, who had, to use the language of Scripture, " digged traps for others, and had fallen into them themselves." While the Noble Earl had adopted a course which entitled him equally to the respect and conf slime of the public, and which placed his reputation on a rock from which no Court intrigue could displace it. The Hon. Bart. called upon the people by all the means in their power; and, by giving effect to the resolutions proposed, to support Lord Grey and his Bill of Reform.—(Cheers.) After some further re marks, the Hon. Barb sat down amidst most enthusiastic cheers. Colonel JONES, in proposing the first resolution, said, the present crisis was the most important and extraordinary that had ever occurred in the history of the country. If the people, however, did their duty their cause would be completely triumphant. They had heard of many means of proposed resistance to a Government, if such could exist, without the people's confidence, and among the means of making that resistance in a manner the least likely to lead to unfortunate consequences, every one had heard of the non-payment of taxes in money.—(Vehement cheers.) A very large portion of the people of this country had resorted to it. For my own part (added the Gallant Colonel), I do think, great a► the evils and misfortunes, which would undoubtedly fall on the country by suds a proceedikg, I should deem them infinitely preferable to the prostration of a vast empire before a base and grasping Oligarchy.—(Deafening cheers.) He did not think that any Administration, other than Lord Grey's, could be formed, which did not come under the denomination of a Polignac Go vernment.—(Cheers.) The Gallant Colonel then moved the first Resolution. 1. That this meeting, under a strong sense of duty to their country, do solemnly declare their bitter disappointment and deep indignation that the King's Ministers should have been forced to resign —at the ery hour when the public hope was high and animating, that the Bill of Reform would speedily be. come the law of the land. The following are the remaining resolutions and petition which were to be proposed to the meeting :- 2. That this meeting have firm and unchanged confidence iu the patriotic motives of Earl Grey and his late colleagues; and urge the necessity, in these times of imminent peril, that all Englishmen should come manfully forward to express their utter detestation of the insidious conduct of the enemies of the late Administration, of Reform, and of the country. 3. That a petition be presented to the House of Commons, im ploring them to continue firm to their recorded pledges—to grant no further supplies, nor any money payments whatsoever, until an Administration be formed, known friends to that measure of Reform which has already received the sanction of the House and of the nation. TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED, THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE INHABITANT HOUSEHOLDERS OF THE CITY AND LIBERTY OF WESTMINSTER. We, the inhabitant-householders of the city and liberty of Westminster, beg to approach your Honourable House, to ex press our deep sorrow and indignation at the event which has driven from the Councils of the King, men in whosewisdom and integrity the people place the most entire reliance. We honour the motives which have impelled them to give up every other d rd'e w er i n t ec h emk th lie e s. se consideration for their country's good, and they have our warmest thanks that they have stood by their measure of Re. i r n io fa u t s u d a a ti l o ig n e o rs f form, and have fallen with it, rather than it should be mutilated t r suit id a l Thoughthe Reform,w base, can e look purposes red pt f itshy pity impressed w s men who think to stop the nation's will by the mockery of a no. into which the country may be plunged by having such men in his Majesty's Couneils. We can set no limits to the conse quences which may ensue, when the people find that they have been cheated of their just hopes, and are again placed at the mercy of rulers, who can see nothing desirable or perfect but the corruptions under which they and their families havo pros pered. Rather than submit to a recurrence of the evils under which we have so long groaned, had we no other resource, we could cheerfully peril our lives to avert such a national calamity; but happily we are not driven to this necessity, while we have the safeguard of our liberties in those Members who have been returned to your Honourable House the real representatives of the people. To you, the Commons of the United Kingdom, the majority of whom have nobly redeemed the pledges made to your consti tuents, we look for protection in these times of peril to our liber ties and tights. You will not, you cannot, suffer us to be de frauded of that Reform which you have yourselves triumphantly sanctioned and ratified by your votes. We most respectfully, therefore, implore you, that you remain firm to your recorded judgments—that you suffer no measure of Reform to be palmed ui on you by its pretended friends, one jot less efficient than that wide!, the na•ion has unfortunately lost—that you continue to give your strenuous support to those who have honestly sup ported the peop!e's cause—and that you hesitate not to exercise the Constitutional power with which you are invested, by stop.. ping all further grants of the people's money until that measure of Reform, which they' eventually must have, be established as the law of the land. And your petitioners will ever pray. 4. That the Petition to the House of Commons now read to the meeting be adopted ; and that Sir Francis Burdett he re• quested to present the same, and, with Sir John Ilohhouse, to support the prayer thereof. 5. That the thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby given, to Earl Grey and the rest of his Majesty's Ministers, for their courage, patience, perseverance, and unexampled eri durance in the cause of the people whilst promoting the Reform Bill. G. That the thanks of this meeting be given to our excellent Representatives in Parliament, for their most efficient services in the great cause to which they have devoted themselves. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, 7' WELVZ O'CLOCK. By the arrival of the American Papers to the 17th we have the following :-- _ "Consulate of the United States, Tampico, March 14. ‘. have the honour to inform you, that on the night of the 10th inst. the troops in the place declared against the present Government, and have espoused the cause of Santa Anna. My fears at first were entertained for the safety of persons and pro perty, but the change was effected without the least disturbance, persons and property were protected. The port will be closed against foreign commerce." NEW ORLEANS.—The schooner Two Brothers, from Tam pico, fridn whence she sailed on the 18th March, brings accounts that General Santa Anna had had au engagement with the Go. vernment troops, in which he was victorious. THE FUNDS. The disturbed state of our domestic anirs causes much confu sion and alarm in the City, and every thing appears at a stand still. Up to the present time we do not heat of the new Adtni. nistration being iformixt, but the general opinion is, that the King must recall:the late - Ministry. Consols are rather heavy this morning; thay opened at the same price they left off yesterday, 53% for the Account, since which they have receded to 83X;%; at present they are 5.1%, and for next Account 84 to %, with little doing. Not a feature in the Foreign Market worth attention. Consols have this moment receded to 83%. RALF-PAST ONE. The following is a list of the newts inistry handed about on the Royal Exchange and at the CoiThe-houses, but on perusal we do not attach much credit to it : WELLINGTON. Mr. Baring . Chancellor of the Exchequer Earl Carnarvon President of the Council Lord Hill Commander-in-Chief Sir Robert Peel Home Secretary Lord Wharncliffb Paymaster of the Forces Earl of Aberdeen Foreign Secretary Lord Ellenborough Board of Control Earl of Rosslyn I or d Privy Seal Mr. Croker First Lord of the Admiralty Duke of Buckingham Lord Lieutenant of I reland Sir James Scarlctt Attorney-General Sir Edward Sugden Solicitor-General Lord Lyndhurst Master of the Rolls Earl of Wicklow Lord Chancellor Sir John Leach Ditto Sir IL Hardinge Secretary Mr. Herries Secretary ot War Up to the present hour we have no authentic news of the new Ministry, but we hear that the Duke of Wellington and Lord Lyndhurst are to have the answer of the King this day. We have unfavourable reports afloat of Manchester, but not as yet to be relied upon. Consols in the course of the morning have been done at 83lir to i i i, at present they are 83% j 2 for the account, for money .;:1•%. A great quantity of money stock has come to market ; we hear that yesterday 150,000 sovereigns were drawn out of the !lank ; in some of the county towns there is also a demand for them. Little or nothing doing in the foreign market. It is again currently reported that the D..ke of Wellington lia 4 ..ccepted the office of Minister. 7 HREE 0 CL U CK. Consols fur Account 8:4 l• FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. Consols . Dittofor Account 831 Gretk, 1825 27 Brazilian Bonds 471 Mexican, 1825 3 ll Buenos Ayres... Peruvitn ... ..... Cbilian Ditto.... Russian 97 Columbian 1524 Spanish NTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT Vila SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LON EON.