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tile Howls 's' appr6.‘ l , was agreed not to he deelrahl, to enter into a discussion on the subject,—(Cheers.) must, however, beg to state to the Hon. Gentleman, if he does not sce what every other Member must see, and what the whole country does see, that the question in the Rouse of Lords was not, as he assumes, a mere question of detail, but a question which materially affected th, principle of the 11111.—(Cheers, and cries of No, no.) After the late decision, Ministers could not attempt, con sistently with their own pledged honour, to carry the Bill through the Committee of the other House. It is, there fore, vain to say that it was only a trifling question• of detail. How was it argued? Was it argued as a trifling question of detail? Certainly not. We always put the principle of the Bill upon this—that nomination boroughs were an evil that must be got rid of ; and yet the clauses for their abolition were to be postponed to the enfran chising clauses. No person who knew the effect of the division, could doubt for a moment that it was not pos sible for Ministers, with honour, to carry the Bill farther. Mr. BARING—I hope that the observation of the lion. Member, under the circumstances, may be allowed to pass without further reply, in order that the discussion may atop here.—(Cheers.) Whatever may be the anxieties, and there are none greater than my own, Hon. Members must be sensible that in the course of the ar rangements to which the Noble Lord has referred, no thing can tend more to embarras, and do injury, than the prolongation of this discussion.—(Hear.) If it be con tinued, of course it will be impossible for me and other Members to remain silent, but I entreat the House to let the subject drop here.—(Cheers.) I only beg to be allowed to make a single observation, not likely to provoke controversy, but to remove an impression which has pervaded the country, and in some degree this blouse. I am not authorized to speak for any body, but I think it just to sly, on the part of his Majesty—if on his Majesty's part I may be permitted to say it, and it is due to him that the country should know—that at no one period did 1 ever understand, as, indeed, I said on a former occasion, that it was the King's intention in the slightest degree to vary from the pledge he bad given to the country, or to form an Administration which would not carry the efficient principles of Reform.—(Hear, hear.) I state distinctly that to be the fact. It is competent to all to throw as much opproprium as they please upon those who might be dis posed to enter the King's Councils in the face of such a pledge. I have ventured very humbly to contend, that it might be done with honour and consistency ; but what ever slur is applicable to the Advisers of the King, in no part of the negotiation can it be said that there was the slightest departure by his Majesty from the pledges he had given.—(Much cheering.) The petitioa was brought up and read. Sir R. PRICE observed, that during the discussion not a word had been said against his Majesty or the Queen. He should refrain from presenting a petition he had re ceived, but be could assert, that even in his quiet part of the country the deepest interest prevailed. Mr. HUNT remarked that in some parts of the metro. polis people bad talked of sending a certain family to Hanover. It was but justice to the King, that what had fallen from the Hon. Member for Thetford should be known. Mr. CURTEIS referred to the late meeting on the Steyne, at Brighton, attended, as was asserted, by 10,000 persons ; be bad received a petition, signed (we understood bim to say) by 2,000 names, the presentation of which he should delay until a more convenient time.--The pe tition was laid on the table. DEATH FOR FORGERY. Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Athy, against the punishment with death for forgery. He ex pressed a hope that the Attorney-General would ere long bring in a Bill to amend the law in this respect. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expected soon to be enabled to do so, and that it would go as far as the mea sure that bad passed the Commons and hid been rejected by the House of Lords; it would abolish the punishment of death in all cases of forgery, as it had been done in all cases of coining. Sir R. PEEL (in consequence of something that fell from the Attorney- General, which did not reach the gal lery) protested against the doctrine, that Judges could not carry the existing law into execution, because the House of Commons had passed the Bill, which was not approved by the other branch of the Legislature. Mr. LENNARD said, that the whole commercial and manufacturing interest of the country were united against the present state of the law. Mr. H. GRATTAN contended that the severity of the law prevented its execution. Sir E. SUGDEN said, that all parties were not agreed oa the expediency of abolishing the punishment of death in cases of forgery. Dr. LUSHINGTON argued that the punishment of death ought never to be inflicted in any eases where a se condary punishment would sufficiently deter from crime. The ATTORNEY GENERAL denied that he bad ever broached the doctrine attributed to him by Sir R. Peel. Sir R. PEEL, Mr. EWAAT, Mr. BARING, Mr. CAMP BELL, Mr. HUNT, and Sir J. SCARLET; each said a few werds on the same subject. The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr O'CONNELL presented a petition of a similar na. ture, from the inhabitants of Folkestone, in Kent, pray the House to take into consideration the means by which the severity of our Penal Code might be mitigated. CORN LAWS. Lord MILTON gave notice of his intention to postpone Li. motion upon the aubject of the Corn Laws till Thurs day, the 30th of the present month. FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. ------ Mr. 'HUNT gave notice that upon Wednesday, the 9.2 d instant, he shohld move that the punishment of flogging in the army he suspended for the period of one year. BEER BILL. Mr. TREVOR presented a petition from the clergy, &c., of Ormskirk, respecting the operation of the present Beer Bill. The petition was underst, , od to be adverse to the provisions of the existing Statute. The Hon. Mein ber also presented a similar petition from the magistrates, clergy, &c. of Reading , in the county of Berks. The LORD ADVOCATE presented a petition from Cupar arid Fife in favour of the plan recently proposed by the Ministers for improving and extending the system of education in Ireland. He also presented a similar petition from the inhabitants of Pearth. REFORM. The LORD ADVOCATE presented a petition from the magistrates and corporation of Dumfries in favour of the Reform Bill, and he called the attention of the House to the petition, because it recommended that a plan should he adopted different from that which the Bill proposed with regard to the registration of votes in boroughs. In stead of having all the duties incident to the registration of votes iu all the places in a county cost upon the Sheriff of that county, the petitioners suggested that a part of that labour might be removed from him by throwing upon the Corporations and Town Councils of all the burghs the duty of effecting that registration of votes in their respec tive burghs. The /kTTORWILY-GENERAL, the Loan ADVOCATZ, Mr. KENNEDY, and other Gentlemen, stated that they had in their possession petitions relating to'the present state of the country, agreed to in consequence of what had lately oc curred with regard to the Reform Bill ; hut that, under existing circumstances, they should forbear to present those petitions at this moment. Mr. C. GRANT presented a petition from the inhabi tanta of the colony of Sincapore, relative to the state of that colony. Mr. HUME trusted, that if the Right Hon. Gentle man continued in office, he would take some steps to s e _ cur e to th e i n h a bi tants o f th a t colony the benefit of an u ninterrupted administration of justice. He had lately received letters from that colony, complaining of the in convenience that had been suffered in consequence of the absence of the Recorder. Mr. C. GRANT was aware that there had been an Opinion among the inhabitants that justice could not be administered when there was no Recorder in the colony, but that opinion was erroneous, and the error had been corrected, He had the pleasure, however, in being able to inform the Hon. Member that a Recorder was now ap pointed, and would shortly set sail. The other O r d ers of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Seven. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL's, THE DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Trustee 8 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Harriet colt 8 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Beiram 10 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Margrave 12 to 1 agst Mr. Yansittart's Perion 15 to 1 agst Lord Mountcharles's Minster 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Folly The rest as before. Nothing doing in the Oaks or St. Leger. SIR R ALPH ESHER .—" Among the most striking passages in this work is the picture of the plague in London.- It is sketched lightly, bit every word tells, and the personag es called to play their parts on the scene are such as will not be easily forgotten. The episode too, of the naval engagement between the English fi et under the Duke of York, and the Dutch, off LowestotTe, is en titled ti our highest praise, and gives us the most striking proofs of how cavaliers and roundheads could fight in unity when the honour of Old England was in jeopardy. Scotsman. REFORM - MEETINGS. GREAT MEETING AT EDINBURGH: EXPRESS CONCLUDED FROM OUR SECOND EDI TION OF YESTERDAY. Agreeably to the instructions of a very numerous meet ing of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, held in the Waterloo. Rooms, on the 11th inst., the Committee then appointed called a General Meeting of that important town and its ❑eighbourhood, which took place (Sir THOMAS Dice LAUDER in the Chair) on Tuesday last, at two o'clock, for the purpose, amongst other things, of petitioning the House of Commons to stop the Supplies. Advertisements calling together the meeting were signed by seventy-two of as respectable, talented, and influential gentlemen as probably ever affixed their signatures to advertisements of any similar nature. From the earliest hour of the day appointed for the meeting to be held, the streets began to fill with persons, many of whom appeared to be of great respectability—the attention and conversations of all being occupied exclusively on the present most perilous crisis at which they had arrived, and the termination of the whole ever being, " Reform, Reform—we must have Reform !" As the day advanced, so the multitudes increased, until at length a meeting took place, which, as regarded numbers, in fluence, talent, good order, independence, determination, respectability, &c. &c. must have gratified the heart of all true Reformers, and was sufficient to bring conviction to the minds of the most obdurate Tories, that in the face of such a people, so conducting themeelves, it is as utterly im possible for a Tory Administration now to be formed, and to go on, or that the borongh❑mongering system can longer exist, or that full and efficient Reform must not be con ceded, as it is for the notable handful to transplant Cal ton-hill entire into the city of Westminster. The Young Duke de Bourdeaux was seen at a window in the Palace as we passed Holyrood House into the King's Park, and a great number of the Royal suit were seen at the windows and upon parts of the roof of Holyrood, eagerly and anx iously attending to all that was going on from the time the assemblage began to take place until the meeting was die. solved and the processions had returned. At two o'clock all the speakers had reached the hustings, where there was also ample accommodation made for the Press. At this period, too, a vast number of persona had assembled in the Park, and at half-past three the various companies (twenty, and two deputations from surrounding towns)began to march into it, four (either four or six) abreast. A re port was in circulation that the procession was neither to display banners, nor to be atte❑ded by music, it being considered far from an occasion of rejoicing. On the ap pearance of the procession, however, it soon turned out that this report was unfounded, as the companies carried with them an immense number of handsome flags, and were at tended by bands, partly muffled, and playing alternately " Rule Britannia," and " Scots wha has wi' Wallace bled," but no other national air. This, with the banners and the poles that supported them being all black, produced a most imposing effect. By the time at which six of the companies had arrived in front, and in any way near to the hustings, and, indeed, when it appeared that few more could get into the Park, it was announced to the gentlemen on the hustings that there were fourteen more companies, besides the deputations, who had to join the meeting. On the interference of one or two gentlemen, the most econo mical mode of packing was resorted to, and in a very few minutes there was one of the most splendid assemblages that could possibly be expected to take place on any occa sion. We would say there must have been from '70,000 to 100,000 persons. The day was most propitious, and if any thing could have been wantinl to fill the bumper of gratification to the beholder, it must have been doubly supplied by casting the eye over the heads of the multitudes in the Park, to the brow of Salisbury Craig, which was completely studded with large groups of respectable per sons, many of whom were ladies. THE HUSTINGS At one end of the hustings a pole supported an immense broom ; it was made of the Scotch broom, and was about twenty-five feet in circumference. It had a most signifi cant appearance, and afforded great satisfaction. At the other end was a large painting of the Scotch thistle, with a garter underneath, bearing the words—" He that toucheth me shall nut go unpunished." BANNERS. Among the numerous flags that were carried were the following—a small piece of black wood, supported by a black pole, into which were fastened three large black feathers with a branch of broom. It bore the words "Re form." A large square flag, black bordered, with a representa tion of a bundle of sticks tied together, and bearing the words—" United, who shall break us?" A large black square flag with the words—" We shall be free." Another with—" No compromise." A large black crape flag. A large square flag with black borders, having inside the words—" Put not thy trust in Princes,—our numbers are thousands—our hearts but one,"—and below— " Reform." The City Arms with " Nemo me impune lacesset." A tricoloured flag, with " Union is strength." The next thing was a small bundle of sticks, tied firmly round with cord, fastened to the end of a pole. This was loudly cheered. Then appeared a large square black flag, with a skull and cross-bones, bearing the inscription " Liberty or death." This was likewise hailed with immense cheering. A black flag, with " Trust not in Princes for Reform." The St. Andrew's masonic colours. A large black flag, with " Scotchmen, be firm and united." A ditto, with " A Reform Rill or no Supplies." A large black flag, with the words " Grey, Brougham, Russell, Althorp, and the People." An immense black square, with the representation of Death, and bearing the inscription " We shall live." A large black flag, with " Firm and united ; deceived, but not defeated." A large black flag, with the representation of Death by exhibiting a raw (as it was called) head with cross bloody hones, and having written underneath, " Ere we yield." Holyrood House was almost rent with the cheers that this drew forth. A large black flag, with " Grieved, yet not without hope." A ditto, exhibiting Death, and with the words, " Pity the poor old King." Thi s was hi s s e d by some, and passed A ul." A lha d der i ir t ted t t o oew , : cewwr were many 0 ‘ na : ,ns ; T i e r ioik m ut e_ b rp u rfix t :bi f gn a as i ,b t ls b aynh f by in silence by othe rs , as i t was b orne a l ong . simi t ise in battle." e d i n h s a c y r e i p g t i i o v n e s n o a f s very . cient specimen of what they were. " Chair, chair!" having been now loudly vociferated for, and it being a quarter to three o'clock, Sir Jas. GIBSON CRAIG rose to move that the chair he taken. In doing so, he said—Gentlemen,we have now ar rived at a crisis of greater danger than perhaps this country ever witnessed before. The hopes of the nation have been blasted.—(Hear, bear.) The oligarchy, the base kw roughmongering oligarchy, has triumphed over the wishes of the people.—( Hear, hear.) A King has surrendered himself to that triumph ; and the question, gentlemen, is, are we to submit ?--(Loud cries of Never, never !) The answer to the question, gentlemen, lies with the people. --(Hear, hear.) Is the voice of the people to be heard? —(Yes, yes, it shall, it shall.) Or is it to be totally and for ever overpowered by the voice of a few individuals? (No, no, it shall never be.) Gentlemen, it cannot be. The cause, though it is not now in such favourable circum stances as it was formerly, still it is in your own bands. —(Hear, hear.) The cause, if you are firm, if you are united, if you are temperate—if you avoid all confusion and tumults of every kind—(Cries of We will, we will !) and if you obey the laws, as every good man must do, your cause must. triumph. Gentlemen, it is necessary at such a meeting as this we should have a person in whom we can thoroughly depend to preside over it. It is absolutely necessary to have one whom you know to be a true Reformer to fill the chair.—(Hear, hear.) It is ne cessary to have one who shall dare to be honest in the worst of times ; and, therefore, I shall take the liberty of submitting to you that Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, of Foun tain Hall, be called to the Chair on this most important occasion. Sir THOMAS a CI( LAUDER was then called to the Chair by universal acclamation. The cheering having subsided, Sir THOMA s said—Reformers of Edinburgh—(Hear, hear)—your unanimous call of me to the chair of this meeting of Reformers of gentlemen and of my fellow citizens might well have filled my breast with pride, if every spark, if every atom of feeling had not been extin guished by that gloom which has so . suddenly and so un expectedly obscured the political horizon of these islands. When we recently met here, under very different pros pects, who could have expected that those prospects were to have been so soon clouded ? Who could have expected that ever such a meeting as this could have been necessary to have been called ?—a meeting, the necessity of which by every one present must be deplored, as it must be by every patriot and by every thinking man throughout the whole of these Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, whatever may now be the aspect of the sky---whether it may portend sunshine, or whether it may portend tem . pest, I say that Reform, that Reform we must have.— ( Hurrah, and immense cheering. ) Gentlemen, your cheers, which now aweicea the echoes of thtsse rbralUltle hills of .aura, will be so responded to from every part of Scotland and from every part of England, and from every part of of Ireland—(Hear, hear,) —that we must have Re form—(Hear, hear)—a Reform, as broad and as deep, and as satisfactory in &I respects, as that measure f ee originating which, and for so honestly and for so perse veringly enfarcinc it up, even to the last moment of hope. we owe to Earl Grey and his colleagues so endless a deb , of gratitude.—(lmmense cheering from all quarters.) Nay, gentlemen, even for their very last act—that act— the act of resignation, which we all of us so much deplore, we cannot help loving and honouring them.—(Hear, hear. hear.) For, by their retirement with all the purity of unblemished statesmen, they have spread a departine , I lory—a departing glory upon that Bill, of which they were the honoured authors.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen. very strange rumours have been going abroad, and have reached my ears—rumours, indeed, which I can hardly credit. It has been said that some of the most deter mined, and some of the most uncompromising enemies of Reform have agreed to take office, and to carry through the Bill—nay, the whole Bill.—(— the fellows! and loud laughter and cheering.) If this reall) be the case, I must say that such political apostacy has never before been carried to so lamentable a state of de gradation during the whole of our history of all political affairs.—(Hear, hear !) I remember a saying of the ce lebrated Leviathan Hobbes, whom I dare say you have all heard of—(Laughter) —he declared, on one occa sion, that if he were cast into a pit, and the devil were to have the politeness to come up to him and say be would put forward his foot to help him out, he certainly would avail himself of the limb of his Satantic Majesty, in order to assist himself out of the pit into which he had fallen.—(Much laughter.) Now, looking at the question on this occasion in the abstract, it certainly may be a matter of little consequence to us Re formers from what set of Ministers we may receive a full and an efficient system of Reform—(Loud cries of Oh ! yes, it does !) But, Gentlemen, we have too much British feeling—we have too much of British firmness; we have too much of British courage—above all, we have too much of Scottish warmth of heart—(lmmense cheer ing)—ever to forget the services of such men as Russell —(hear, hear)—Althorp—(hear, bear)—Brougham— (hear, hear)—and Grey.—(Hear, bear.) And refreshing and renovating as the fresh draught of free election might be to our thirsty souls, I do say, that the whole sweetness of the cup would be embittered to us, if it were to be offered to us by the foul and polluted hands of men who have so shamefully disgraced themselves—(lmmense cheering)—men who have been all along struggling by every possible dirty means--(hear, hear)—to put into our cup dish-water, ashes, and wormwood...--(Loud cheers.) No, my friends, we can never put confidence in such men as those. We can never put our trust in such pretended converts—in such shameless renegadoes even to their own principles—(Hear, hear)—men whom even their own party must despise and abhor.—(Hear, hear.) In such men surely we never can put confidence.—(Hear, hear.) And for my own part, gentlemen, I am free to confess that I would almost be content rather to remain at the bottom of the pit into which they have just flung us, than to lay hold of the cloven foot—f Hear, hear)—which they might thrust down to help us out with.—(Very great cheering.) Gentlemen, as I know it to be the intention of the speakers generally to address you very shortly, so I shall feel it to be my duty, in order that you may the more speedily get rid of the extreme pressure, and other in • conveniences that you are now subject to, to draw my speech to a conclusion, and to allow the important bu siness of the day to be proceeded with. But before 1 do conclude, I beg leave to say, that whatever farce may be enacting elsewhere, we must remember that we are met here to perform great and important duties to our selves and to our country.—(Hear.) I shall merely therefore call upon you, only re-echoing, in fact, what my friend, Sir James Gibson Craig, has already so much better expressed than I can do—merely call upon you to be united—(Cries of We will, we will !)—to be firm—(We will, we will !)—to be temperate—(We will, we will !)—to be prudent—(We will, we will !)—to be orderly—(We will, we will !) The duty of presiding over so vast a multitude as this might very naturally be considered, even by my self, as involving a very awful responsibility, did I not know the materials of which it is composed;—.(Hear)-- but if I had not been all my life long acquainted with the character of my countrymen, the remembrance of their orderly conduct when congregated here the other day— congregated in this Royal Park—would have made me fill this chair without one anxious thought, as 1 shall now do.—(Loud cheers.) Allow me, then, to re quest that in proceeding to the business of the day you will hear the resolutions which will be laid before you, and the admirable and highly constitutional petition that is founded upon them, with attention, and give them all that consideration which is due from deliberating Scotchmen. In conclusion, I have only to, entreat that when the meet ing shall have been dissolved, you will all disperse and re tire, every wan to his home, with the same decorum and good order which you are in the habit of observing every Sunday on retiring from church.—(Hear, hear, hear.) JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY, Esq. (Advocate)—My friends and fellow-citizens, I require all your indul gence, suffering as I now do under a cold, which may make it extremely difficult for me to cause myself to be heard at any great distance. I address you now with feelings very different from those with which I ad dressed you in this field but a short time ago. It was then joy, hope, and confidence. Now it is regret, sorrow, dismay, and 811 but despair—despair we never shall.— (Immense cheers.) From what has all this arisen? First, from the vote of 151 individuals—(Cries of " Shame, shame !" and hisses)—then from a refusal to follow the advice of Earl Grey and the late Ministers.—(Yes, yes— down with them !) By what means that has been brought about, whether by domestic intrigue—(Hear, hear, and hisses)—or by foreign gold, we know not; but in tune, and in due time, too, the truth will be known.-- ( Hear.)—What we have now to consider is, what it is that we have to do—what it is that it is our duty to do. It is to have recourse to that House of Parliament which is firm and steady to iis duty--to the Commons House of Parliament—(Loud cheers)—to them to address our pe titions; to say to them, that we are ready and steadfast in our duty, and to pray them to be so in the performance of theirs.—( Hear, hear.) But while that is the subject of our meeting, and the great duty we have to perform this day, I cannot allow this occasion to pass away without addressing to you some further observations. It is not the duty of this day alone, but of every day to come, for us to be firm and steady. We have times to face of great difficulty and of great peril; and how to judge of them now is perhaps beyond the ken of the wisest man, still we must form our opinions uncertain as they may be of the future, by a recollection of the past.—(Hear, hear, hear.) What is it that has hitherto, and for the last 40 years prevented our formerly attaining what appeared lately to be, and what I hope is still within our teach—that Reform to which the country is entitled ? (Hear, hear.) Is it the efforts of our enemies?— (Hear, hear, and cries of Yes, yes.) But is it the effort of our enemies alone ?—(No, no!) They were, indeed, aided by other circumstances—(Hear, hear.) These is, alas ! a body of men in this country, who look upon their fellow-citizens with distrust—( Hear, hear)—and with abhorrence—(Hear, hear)—and who have no idea of governing them but by fear., by chains and by outrage.— 'Loud cries of Hear, hear.) But let me tell you how are they able to do that.—(Sneers and laughter.) How have they done it hitherto ? I say from the want of pru dence, of firmness, of caution, on our part, and from fill ing into the snares which they lay often for the honest, and always for the unwary.—(Much cheering.) Look back to past times, and they will enable you to look forward to the future. I trust that which has been will not be again, but no one knows what may be attempted.—(Hear, hear.) We may see an attempt to establish despotism abroad and military Government at home.—(Hear, hear, hear.) We have seen the aspirations of freedom formerly in every country checked by British gold, and despotism supported in British blood.—(Shame, shame.) But in what way are we to act against that ? There are men, no doubt, now, who would rejoice again to see the Habeas Corpus Act suspended, green bags carried into Parliament-- (Hear, hear, and laughter)—and citizens condemned to chains ; but if we are wise, if we are prudent, if we are firm, if we are united, they never can nor dare bring about those scenes again.—(Much cheering.) How has it been done ! I don't know if any of you have ever heard of what is called a decoy for wild ducks.—(Much laughter.) How is that done ? They get some four or five or six wild ducks, keep and feed them well, teach them to go under nets, and then send them abroad to decoy their wild brethren to come into those snares.—(Hear, hear.) Such things have been done—such things have been at tempted with success; but I say if Scotchmen are now wise—and I pray that Irishmen—whom next to my own countrymen I behold with affection and love—(Cheers) —l pray that they may be equally prudent, because whatever we may have felt in this country is a mere nothing to the horrors that have been inflicted on Ireland—(Hear, hear,) it' we are wise and prudent any such attempts in future must fail.—(Cheers.) 1 know that in this country, how ever, there were sufferings for political crime. I dent wish to revive the old calamities or disgraces of my coun try, and I should never have alluded to them it it were not as a caution to all—to all, even the most im prudent, and the moat unwary. Beware of such times. It is possible that they may occur again. 1 say follow the wise come...follow the safe path—follow the line of the law, and then I say you will be safe. But do you tsk me how ! I say, say nothing in private which you .vould not now say. I say in the presence of these thou. ands, and thousand., and tens of thousands, do nothing night or in secret which you would not do in the open ce of day.—(Loud cheers.) Then, I say, you will he 'tie ; but on the contrary, the person who acts otherwi-e —the person who shows violence and who forgeta the safe guards of the law, not merely does harm to himself but the greatest injury to the cause, and gives the highest tri umph to the enemy.—(Hear, hear.) That is the source of all triumph to them as it is of all evil to you, and if there can be a means of getting such men I rought for yard, in all probability, if the times grow worse, it will '); attempted. Be wise and be prudent, and they will be 'educed to the necessity of only hanging their own spies.— (Great cheering.) Gentlemen, in these circumstances I conceive you are all united, all firm—(cries of Yes, yes ! from all parts,) all resolevd to be moderate and good tem red—not that moderation which consists of a mere mawkish indifference or yielding up of your opinion—and out those feelings which some religious sectarians have, hating all those whom they approach the nearest to—Re formers are to love all Reformers.—(Hear, hear) you are to have no difference with any who are honest and sincere in the cause.—(Cheering.) If Reformers act thus they are sure of triumph. This triumph must and it will be achieved. Whether a course of violence shall be attempted, or whether there shall be Reform yielded up and doled out to us, in either case our triumph is certain if we are firm and united. The speaker then proposed the first resolu tion. (See Advertisement. ) Sir JOHN HAMILTON DALRYMPLE-Well approving, Mr. Chairman and Gentl-men, as I do of the resolution brought forward by my Hon. and L.arned Friend, it is with pleasure that I offer myself to you as the seconder of it. My Hon. Friend has addressed you with his usual eloquence and ability, and has, in fact, so completely dis cussed the resolution he has brought forward, that he has left only very little for me to say. But, gentlemen, that is of the less consequence, as I presume we are all come here more to do business than to make or to hear long speeches.—(Hear, hear.) I shall content myself, there fore, with saying, that as a staunch Reformer—(Hear, hear)—and as one alive to the best interests of his country, I sincerely, most sincerely regret to find that• a temporary impediment has been thrown in the way of this greet mea sure, upon the accomplishment of which your hopes did and still continue to rest.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, it is some consolation to us all to know that Earl Grey and his colleagues (as has been stated to you before) have acted an excellent part throughout this business.—(Hear, hear.) They have been under touch difficulty, but they have acted in that way which makes them deserve, and richly deserve, to be honoured by their country.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, the late Administration have, in fact, carried Reform.--(Hear, hear, hear.) Gentlemen, Earl Grey has made all men Reformerss—(lmmense cheer ing.) Why, we have heard from the chair, and I have heard elsewhere the same, that even the Duke of Wel . _ _ lington—(Great hissing, and cries of Away with him, away with him !)—well, there is another great Anti-Re former—Lord Ellenborough.—(Deafening hissings.) Why, gentlemen, he is for scot and lot suffrage.—(Hear, bear, hissings, and laughter.) He is not satisfied with the 101. franchise. We would all joyfully accept that ; but he will make you all scot and lot men.—(Cries of Away with him away with him ! and hisses.) But there as still a greater favour that Earl Grey has given us—he has favoured us with a definite object to pursue, and that object is the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Throughout all my experience it was ever cast in our teeth—" What would you Reformers be at ? What would you have ! One man, like Lord Ellenborough, is for scot and lot—you are for 101 franchise—others are for something else, and there is no knowing what will please you." But, gentlemen, Lord Grey has now given us what we want—that is the Bill, and the Bill, 1 tell you, is what you are to stick to.— (Cheers.) I wi , h there was a riband manufactory in this town, for then I would propose that ribanda were made with the words woven in them—the Bill—and I am sure our country ladies would atl show themselves reformers.— (Hear, hear.) I wish also that the gentlemen who are taking down what is said, would take this hint—l wish, if Parliament shoul I he dissolved, that at the elections throughout England, every man who carried the Bill in his heart, should carry it also in hie hat.—(Much cheer ing.) Earl Grey has united all parties, therefore his mea sure must have given general satisfaction.—(lt has, it has.) Earl Grey's measure must be carried. The voice of the country has declared in favour of it ; and I, as your friend, and as a true friend of my country, have only to say, as indeed my friend has said before me ; but it cannot be repeated too often, that all your enemies wish is to get you into a state of disturbance, to get you out of temper ; but continue to be as you are now—be firm, be prudent, and Reform you will have—the 101. franchise will be yours—yours will be the Bill. I beg to second the reso lution.—(lmmense cheering.) The resolution was carried by acclamation. JAMES Arrow, Esq., Advocate—My friends, fellow townsmen and brother Reformers, here we are once more in the field—the field of liberty—(hear, hear) and when towns like this pour out their thousands and their tens of thousands to demand their liberty and their rights, success must be the result.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, we must, and we shall, be free.—(Hurrah, hurrah—we shall, we shall.) My friends we are all animated by one soul, we are joined together in the noblest cause that ever sun shone upon, to obtain freedom for ourselves, freedom for our children, freedom for our chi dren's children—(Hear, hear, hear,) and, let our enemies tremble even in their high places, for freedom we shall have.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, our numbers are at least 60,000—our hearts but one— (Great cheering.) My friends, we meet to-day in sad ness—the progress of the Bill has been thwarted—the faction has triumphed—the House of Lords has gained a victory ; but let us tell that House that it is a dear bought victory to them.—(Heir, hear, hear.) I am afraid, I say it with regret—l am afraid that that vote of theirs has sealed their doom—(lmmense cheering.) They ap pear to have been actuated by the madness which pre cedes destruction.—(Hear, hear, hear.) But, my friends, although we have been defeated, yet we have not been altogether vanquished, as is expressed in one of your flags.—( Hurrah, hurrah.) What is delayed is not to be regarded as lost; and by peaceful, constitutional means, whatever our rights be, we can compel our enemies to give in.—(Loud cheers.) Let but the House of Commons refuse the supplies, and where are they?—(The very hills resounded the cheers that followed this ; and the good humour was greatly heightened by a person in the crowd calling out Not a hug [ls.] let them have!) But even supposing the House of Lords should be dastardly enough, which I do not anticipate—(No, no)--to give in, still I say the people have peaceful, and what I will call consti tutional means, within their own power, whenever they may be driven to the necessity, by which they can enforce their own rights. Let the people refuse the payment of taxes.—(Great cheering, and cries of No tax-gatherers!) But, perhaps, we shall be told that the Duke of Wel lington.—(Great hissings.) Oh, the Duke of Wellington (Cries of Hang him, hang him ! and much hissing)— the Duke of Wellington—(Hang him, hang him !) —will be able to put this all right by the bayonet, the sabre, and the grape-shot of the artillery.—(Never, never !) They tell us be will be able to do so. It has been hinted at, too, that he thinks he will be able to do withoutithe vote of the:House of Commons—(Laughter)— and to govern these dominions by ordinances, like another Polignac—(Hear, hear)--whom he is shrewdly suspected to have advised to have made such attempts as we have heard of against the liberties of our friends the French.— (Cries of Hang him, hang him !) Will the Duke do this, I say ?—(Cries of Never, never !) I suspect not, indeed. He knows the stern stuff of which Britons are composed; he kn ows th e coo l d e t erm i na ti on o f th e ga ll a nt English ; he knows the true courage of the chival rous Irishman—(hear, hear, hear)—and, above all, the field of Waterloo, and other well-contested plans, must have taught him the fearless intrepidity of the hardy Scotchman.—(Deafening cheering, which lasted for many minutes.) He must also have received a lesson from the days of Paris.—(Cheers.) He must there have learnt how freemen can fight for their rights; arid if he has seen Britons conquer the valiant French on the field of battle, does he think—can he madly think, that Britons will yield in courage and in promptitude to Frenchmen in the field of liberty ?—(lmrneuse cheering.) But if he does once try anything of that sort, he will, I can tell him, receive a still further lesson.—(Cheers.) He will learn that the peaceful citizen, when in the field for his rights, can advance with his naked bosom as fearlessly against the cold steel as the hired soldier can when his breast is pro tected by a corslet of brass.—(Cheers.) No, Britons never will be s laves.—(Cries of Never !) Freemen we stand, and freemen we will fall.—( Hear, hear.) Now my friends, one word with regard to our old friend Earl Grey, that ill treated Minister.—(Hear, hear.) Gentle men, when Earl Grey was in the full zenith of his power, I was always cheery of his praise, but now that he is out of office—now that his beck is to the wall, I will tell you my conviction of him. Gentlemen, Earl Grey h a s acted nobly.—(Hear, hear.) His last Ministerial speech said that rather than allow the 101. clause to be raised a farthing—rather than allow a single rotten borough to be taken out of schedule A, he would resign—and he has re signed.---(Hear, hear.) Earl Grey has died game.— (Hear.) He is a fine old spirited Englishman, and if there has been, treachery, the treachery has not been on Earl Grey's side...(Muoh cheering.) Therefore, I sav my friends, we will stick to Earl Grey.—.•(Repeated cheers.) He has been turned out of office, but we will bear him back to it again upon our shoulders—the shoulders ol the people's hopes who dare oppose ?—(Hurrah, hurrah.) Gentlemen, now I have only one word more to say, am that is with regard to King William—; Hi•sing friar( every part.) Alas, poor William !—(Pointing to one o the flags. )—Alas, poor William, and is it come to this? —(Laughter.) A few short days ago the very mention of that name would have called forth the plaudits of hundreds of thousands, whereas it is now only resounded to by hootings and hissings. But I wish no ill to the poor unhappy old man. All I would say is, may God re move the scales from off his eyes—(Hear, hear, hear) — may God enable him to perceive betwixt his true friends the late Ministry, and that artful and corrupt set to whom he appears to have delivered himself over, bound hand and foot, and who seem intent on the destruction of our liberties, that they may advance their own selfish and paltry ends.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, with these observations I shall now only move the resolution which has been put into my hand. It expresses our opinions of rotten boroughs, but I would not insult you by offering a single argument on such a subject. Sir Rosetta. KEITH DICK seconded the resolution. He did it most cordially. In doing so, he only begged to add to what had already been said (which he was sure was the sentiment of that vast assembly), that determined as the people were to follow up legal and constitutional mea sures for the restoration of their rights, the corrupt boroughmoagering system would soon, very soon, be anni hilated, and the foul and corrupted stain left by the term, never again soil the fair historic page of English future glory.—(Cheers.) The motion was carried unanimously. ADAM BLACK, Esq., merchant—Sir Thomas and fel low citizens,—l am sure that the motion which I have the honour to bring forward, will meet with your cordial and unanimous approbation. The hopes of the nation have been cruelly disappointed.—(Hear, hear.) Base intrigue has done its worst. The secret and envenomed breath of court minions has poisoned the ear of the King.—(Hear, hear.) We have lost the services of the most upright, and of the most patriotic Ministry that ever conducted the affairs of a nation.—(Much cheering.) Earl Grey and his colleagues will carry with them into their retirement the affections of a grateful people and the approbation of good consciences ; but though the Ministry his retired, is the Bill lest?—(Cries of No, no, no.) Have not the people of Englend—have not the people of Ireland—have not the people of Scotland resolved that they will have the Bill, and the whole Bill—the Bill in all its extent, and in all its efficiency ?—(Yes, yes.) Never were the minds of a mighty nation so uniformly, so unanimously, and so in tensely set upon any one object before.—(Hear, hear.) Never did the irresistible current of public opinion set in with so uncontrollable a force in one direction ; and is it to be supposed that the barrier of some 150 coronets and mitres, with baubles to boot—(Laughter)—that that shall ever be able to stem so mighty a torrent ?—(Hear, hear.) Will Mrs. Partington, with her mop and pail, be able to sweep hack the Atlantic ocean, or will the Atlantic carry away Mrs. Partington, her mop and pail, and all ? —(Hear and laughter.) The people, gentlemen, have but to be true to themselves, and they have the means of ac complishing their own object—of accomplishing their own object without exposing themselves either to the cold iron of the Great Captain, or the tender mercies of a political Judge.—(Great cheering.) Money, gentlemen, is the great indispensable for all purposes—(Hear, hear)—and for all parties. Neither King nor cobbler can do without money—high and low must all have it.—(Hear, hear.) The House of Commons holds the purse ; and though that House still contains all the contamination—all the filth of the rotten boroughs, yet while the spirit of the British Lion is raised, there is a sufficiency of independent spirit there to balance the weight of corruption, and to leave a large majority to insure the success of that struggle which has now commenced between a great nation, determined to be free, and a small faction of a too domineering, insane, but privileged incurables.—(lmmense cheerings, and great laughter.) Let the House of Commons but determine to withhold the supplies—( Hear, hear)—let them persevere in that determination, and they will assuredly ultimately succeed in carrying that Bill, the progress of which has been thwarted by a base faction.—(Hear, hear.) Were the present House of Commons to withhold the sup plies, the same unhappy and mad councillors by whose machinations the ill-advised King was induced to dismiss the most upright and the most patriotic Ministry, might have influence enough to get that House of Commons dissolved which has shown itself determined upon procur ing those rights to itself and to the people which a small faction--a base oligarchy—has filched from us, and which they have shown themselves mad enough to attempt to re tain at the most fearful hazards.—(Hear, bear.) But surely there may be remaining one notable circumstance which may remind his Majesty what Charles the First gained when he played at this game.—(Great cheerings.) And, gentlemen, is it to be supposed that if the present Members of the House of Commons were sent back to their constituents, that there is any place that has the mere shadow of a claim to representation that will not send back a Reforraer?—(Hear, hear.) We have every reason to hope that if there is now to be a new House of Commons, the country will send back a much larger array of Reformers than have ever yet entered the walls of St. Stephen's—( Hear, hear)—a host of Reformers, determined to carry forward the Rill—the whole Bill—the Bill in all its extent and in all its efficiency.—(Loud applause.) I beg to move the third resolution. J. REID, Esq—Fellow Citizens, the people have pe tioned the House of Lords and they have been insulted— (Hear, hear.) Treachery has been added to insult, and it is only by the House of Commons now refusing the sup plies that the country can be saved from revolution.— (Curers.) We looked to the prerogative for the establish ment of our rights ; but that prerogative, so long wielded against the people—(Hear, bear)—bis Majesty has re fused to put in exercise for their• benefit—(Hear, hear, and hissess.) We prayed that collision Letween the two Houses of Parliament, might be prevented by a creation of Peers, because in such a creation of Peers we saw a constitutional means of insuring the safety of the people's Bill, and of destroying the faction opposed to our views for ever. Let us now, with the determination of men resolved to obtain Reform by all means, call upon the House of Commons to join in our support, and to bring about tee fulfilment of our wishes to the fulest extent—so that we may show even the dullest Tory that the House of Commons, backed by an unanimous and indignant nation, can overturn our unflinching enemies, though basking in the sunshine of royal favour.—(Hear, hear.) If the House of Commons put itself at the head of the nation—if it redeem the pledges it gave at the last elec tions—if it will now stop the supplies, the battle is won. —(Cheers.) Let the Tories dissolve Parliament if they dare—(Hurrah, hurrah !)—and then the people will send them in such a House as they at present are little aware of. —( Hear, hear.) Do they think that we are defeated, be cause the King has abandoned our cause?—(Hear, hear) —or that we are to be governed by female influence?— (Hear, hear)—or by the influence of a foreign power—a power which, by defeating Reform in England, hopes to extend its barbarous and unholy sway to far distant lands ? —(Cheers.) Are we to be made the passive instruments of foreign or domestic intrigue ?—(No, no.) Scotchmen, you will never submit to such abject degradation.—(No, no ! Never, never.) You will never submit to see your rights trampled down—never submit to be the slaves of the vile and despicable boroughmongers.—(Never, never.) If the House of Commons should be faithful to its trust, you will stand by it—(We will, we will)—if it should de sert although after its last vote lam not apprehensive of that, you will rely upon yourselves, and you and our fellow-countrymen will and must conquer.—(lmmense cheering.) Are you to accept of a Bill less efficient than that which has been offered by Earl Grey, and responded to by the whole nation ?—(No, no.) Are you content to abate one jot in the degree of disfranchisement ?—(No, no.) In the extent of enfranchisement?—(No, no.) In the 10/. qualification ?—(No, no.) We know the measure that has been offered to us—we abide by that measure.— (We do, we do.) We abide by that measure, one of the greatest excellencies of which is the boroughmongers' hatred of it.—(Hear, hear.) I therefore call upon you, as men r , solved to obtain this Bill at all hazards—(Hear)—to supplicate the House of Commons to refuse the supplies— (Loud and long cheering)—to supplicate them not to grant a farthing to a dishonest or Anti-Reforming Minis• try, but to insist upon the return to office its this way 01 Ministers honest and upright, who will insure to you the success of the Bill—a Bill which, I say, and which you say you are determined at all hazard& to obtain.—(lin inense cheering.) Resolution carried by acclamation. BOYD GREENsilmns, Esq. (Advocate,) My friends and brother Reformers, I come forward with pleasure to propose a resolution which I know will meet with your entire approbation. I mean to propose that we express unabated confidence in that great man who lately he'd in his hands the destines, not of Britain alone, but of all Europe. Need I name Lord Gr ey ? (Cheers.) My friends, it is grateful at all times to pay a ti ibute to worth, but it is doubly grateful to pay that tribute at a time when our motives cannot to suspected. (Hear.) Earl Grey is no longer in power. Inte rested individuals will sneak from him—the obliged will desert him—the vain will cut him now that the splendour o station has gone from him; but, Gentlemen, that is just the moment that men of worth will seize in order to express ~ 4y a_„v.-~ their tAitniratiott of ideidwparablit uuktt.--(l,o‘a I call upon you, therefore, my countrymen, to declare youet niabated confidence in, and admiration of, that Nobirt 'eird. (We will, we will.) Noble I call hint—enobli‘ et in compliance with unmean i ng folios of speech. hut " e•cause he is noble in the only true and oroper r i ms., of the word.—(Hear, hear.) He is noble by nature.—( Hear, ear.) However greatly we may regret the late event, it es been propitious to Earl Grey's time. My felerals, !teeny persons from the vehemence of their own temper , . 'tents, but with the most excellent intentinna, were lei to complain of Earl Grey—to question his ability —nay eve . to doubt his probity. I, thank Gud, never was cf tha umber. I formed my opinion of him, would it lie presume. roo m to say, by myself. I claim no resemblance to him xcept in this, that I am, like him, not a Reformer ~f modern growth.—(bear, hear, hear.) I saw that iis talents were undiminished, and I said it wee ifs possible that this man should cease to held fast his integ rity, and to sacrifice at the end of a long well-spent life the high reputation he had earned for all that Kings could give.—(Cheers.) Did I judge rightly ?—(Yes, yes.) I heard your answer, and you and I did judge rightly. All those suspicions that were thrown for a moment on his fame are now gone; all those vapours that rose, and for the instant dimmed the lustre of his reputation, have die. appeared now that the splendor of office has quitted Why is he now no longer in power ? I will tell you whiy. You all know that old houses are generally invested by vermin. —(Hear, hear.) Nuw the Courtin an old house— ( Hear, hear)—and we know another old Louse with which we have had some very intimate concern lately.-- (Hear, hear.) Those houses are haunted I.y the worst of vermin —(hear, hear)—by vermin which have the sem blance of men—l might say something of women too— ( Hear, hear, and laughter)—and who have some charee terestics of human nature, but certainly the worst and most debasing characteristics.—(Cheers.) Those are per sons who live and who exist on intrigue—whose wisdom is cunning, and who hesitate not to employ any artifie" that they may overturn whatever is hostile to their desires and accomplish their own sordid purposes.—(Cherry.) We do not know all the intrigues of Court, but we know nough to satisfy us that there has been the foulest hypo cricy—that there has been the greatest and the most undue tampering. We may say, perhaps, with some consider able confidence, we know that the shaft which struck Earl Grey came from a German bow.—(Much laughter ) It has struck him, but its venom has reit laid bold. He lives to guide us by his councils—he lives to lead ua on to victory, for victory we shall oletiiu.—(Great cheering.) We shall obtain it, for it is in oar hands. I we are united—if we join heart and hand we must curry that Reform which is the object of our wishje. end most earnest hopes. And why should we be d'eentted (Hear, hear.) What are we all but brothers, u&ting end united to redeem our common inheritance trom the spoilers ?—(Hear, hear.) Let us thee, fire ga ou—let us show by our conduct that we are deserviee of ti ; and let us in this great meeting, under this gkricus canopy, vow that we never will desert the e:e.:,..lard of liberty—(Deafening bursts of Never, never, n ver !)—md that we will never relax in one endeavours, satil we shall have accomplished a complete and . fficiei,t IteMna ot our CAmstitution.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, I beg to propose the fourth resolution. ROBERT WILLIAM JAMILSON, W. S. Esq.—Amid all the gloom and consternation which the appmlling ei,eum stances of last week have been well calculated to circulate thoughout the land, and amidst the people's indignation And resentment at hopes excited and deferred—deferred only to be blasted—(Hear, bear)—and rights ostenta tiously effered—offered only at lest to be as shamelessly 14 itbdrawn--(Hear, hear)—it is no sm consolation to entertain a resolution of the nature which I have the ho nour to second—a resolution so well and so wor thily propounded, that it needs not my feeble aid to recommend it, but a resolution that convinces us that though we have been defrau,hed of our rights, yet that we have not been deserted by those to whom we bad intrusted those rights —(Cheers.) Our happiness is still in this, that our chosen leaders, though by the blackest treachery they have been betrayed into a perilous ambushment, and there op. nly beset by enemies, who, under the smiles of a crown, bare thought them selves secured—that they are still aisle to rally menu their standard, still able to encounter a fierce resistance. and still able, if you are but sincere and united, to et cere a victory for us as complete as it shall be bloodless.—(Mu di cheer. ing.) I know it has been said by many that Eirl Grey ought either to have made Peers long ago, or to have re signed ; but I would say, without stopping to ask a ques tion about what pledges were given, at what time cou'd the Ministers--the parents—the nurses of the Bil;—at what time could they, supposing them to hare been °blip d to resign, at what time could they have left it more maturea —more fully fledged—more capable of being able to make its own way, than at the moment at which they took their leave of it ?—( Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, when the King dissolved the late Parliament, the principles of the Bill be came for ever secured. The King then put it out even of his own power to alter what he did, because the majority of reforming Members then sent up to the House of Come moan was too great ever to allow the principles of the Bill to be destroyed.—(Hear, hear.) And, gentlemen, let that great and steady act of patriotism, performed at a most momentous crisis—let that act in some manner atone, if are old man of infirm age, an infirm old man to when) domestic peace—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—must be the greatest blessing he can enjoy—an infirm old loan, surrounds: by the vermin of a Court—the vermin arising from the pro lific spawn of a whole century's corruption—(Hear, hear) —if that old man by those minions has been decoyed into an act which maims loyalty to blush, and allegiance to tremble—(Hear, bear, hear)—oh, let that fociner act of his claim for him some of your pity—some share of your commiseration. lam borne out in my expeetati , nm that this will be so, when I see on one of your flags, that while you are determined to face death rather than submit to have your rights destroyed, you cars utter " God pity the poor old King."—(Hear, hear.) But not to continue that painful subject, I would say, if the principles of the Bill were then secured, what is it but the temper, the pa tience, the moderation, and the persevernrice of the people, as well as their unabated confidence in Earl Grey and his colleagues, that can be wanting to make the vic'ory cam p'ete ?—(Cheering.) And if we do remain firm and true to each other, I am sure the House of Commons will go to the King and tell him that they will never be satisfied with anything short of the Bill—the whole Bill—the Bill without any mutilation.—(Cheers.) Let us then with a stern, calm, and unflinching determination, go on to achieve our object by all lawful means; and while we are doing this our enemies may, perhaps, form some conception of what we could do were we compelled to go beyond the law. —(Cheering.) Gentlemen, you are nut here to l/a tickled or amused by speeches—you are here in the face of your country to swear allegiance to liberty, and eternal hatred to oppression and the oppressors.—(lrntnense cheering.) And taking upon yourselves such voWe,.ll_ rthi of thou- s inds, as you are now doing, you are to look each man hi 6 fellow in his face, and be the witness of his edema oath.—.. (Hear, heir.) And when you retire from this, you will have to recollect that you retire not as you came, but that you retire pledged and plighted men to devote your fortunes your families, your lives, if neceiviarv, fur the victory of Reform.—(Hear, hear, hear.) When you retire also to your homes,: you will he bound to go each to his neighbour to tell him of what you have done, and to obtain his pkdge that he will go hand in hand with you in accomplishing the grand object. Nay, even to your children, as they climb about your knees, you must sly that as they value your happinrss—.49 they value their own—:“. they regard their country's weal—they must, aceor4ing to their strength, devote themselves as you have 4;5 what it may, to the achievement of litierty.—(Great theerist4.) I beg to second the resolution wk;ch has beet read to you. Resolution carried unanimously. W. GIBsON CRAIG. EsQ., Advocate—Gee:it:eaten, I rise to propose that the petvion I hold in my hurl tw pre sented to the House of C , munions. This meetiroz lam sure will not be insulted to-day by the propr.srt 0' one to the House of Lords.—(Hear, Lear.) The monce'avre by which Earl Grey was lately defeated, shoes OW the ma jarity of that House have no fetling in carnrro,u with the people; and the base trick by which they bare ricce , ved disclosed to us the deep d , .si;.:n tiny had formed of also deceiving the people.—(Ctieers.) The House of Lords, however, is not omnipotent.—(Near, hear.) The people have still their own branch of the legi-ature to ap peal to, and gloriously has it done its duty; placing itself in the front of the nation, and nobly redeeming the pledges it had given to the country. This is not a petition pray ing the House, in vague and ambiguous phrases, to listen to our half formed wishes, but it is entreating them in plain, open, manly terms, as they reg ird the peace and safety of the country, to take the last resourco whioh the constitution has afforded us against oppression and misgo vernment—namely, to stop the supplic3.—(Great cheer ,ng.) This is a measure which in our day has never been resorted to, but in former times it was adopted as the safe guard of the liberties of the nation. It is the noblest privilege which the Commons of this country possess—it is the last warning which, the people can g.ve of their determination—and God grant that the watutug may be effecival.—(Great applause.) It is welt sand in t , to pa. tition that this is a remedy not beyond the o, Vit , ioll.-- (Hear, hear.) A Ministry is about to be foro o d of the enemies of Reform, which can wily come iota power on either of these two principles :—ls!, To relu e all Re form, or what the country will outsider a. sash or, 2,1, 'I