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mite Wedging themseteei CO entry the Bill. The first, I num, is impossible ; the latter would be incredible, had not experience taught us, that with the men who are spoken of as likely to form that Administration, their principles never stand in the way of their love of office.— (Hear, hear.) But will or can the country trust them No:—(Cries of Certainly not.) The country is aware that these men abhor the very name of Reform, and every trick end chicanery will be used to render the measure in efficient, which they themselves may bring forward. This mill not he easily done in England, whose Bill has passed and received the a pprobation of the House of Commons ; taut with us it is different, our Bill has just been intro duced, its provisions hardly known to the country at large, and it is now to be shaped, modified, rendered safe, and comervative by the hands of its bitterest opponents. They may think, that if they satisfy England, they may defy us, and that poor Scotland may he treated as she has :own, like a paltry province of the empire, whose opinions and feelings are not worth regarding.—(Criers of They will he mistaken.) Yes, if they do, I, too, tell them they are mistaken; that day is past.—(Hear, hear.) Scotland knows its rights, and is resolute and unanimous ;n the determination to possess them. In the beautiful end forcible language of this petition, " we have sworn on the altars of our country never to desert this cause," and we never shall.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, with your ens/mission I will read the petition. Mr. GEORGE ADAM, President of the Trades' Council, seconded this resolution. He had no doubt .hat it would meet the ready and entite approbation of the meeting.— (Hater, hear.) The Duke of Wellington could never pay etsidiers with chairs and tables; and most assuredly any thing in the shape of supplies to be obtained from him 'Xlr. Adam) would have to he had only in the shape of some pieces of furniture.—(Hear, hear.) Ile earnestly called on all housekeepers to refuse to pay taxes. His epleion had always been that the Conmltuticn of this country did not know soldiers.—(dear, hear.) The mi litary were only soldiers for a time, and on certain twee si a s..—(Cheers) —and whenever it might he necessary for tetizeam to become soldiers, the Great Captain—(Cries of Ha g the fellow l)—would find that they would corns forward as wilrngly. and maintain their ground as bravely, ass any bearer of arms that he might be able to bring into his inglorious contest, that those citizens might afterwards enj y their hcnies, their righm, and liberties in peace and c e eiet.--(G , eat cheering.) Ti:. resolution that the petition be presented, and the p;t hion itself, were agreed to, and carried by acclamation. ANoxaw SX - ENE, Esq. Advocate, said—Mr. Chair man and gentlemen, in pronoeing the sixth resolution, I need not, I am sure, recommend to you firmness and un wearied perseverance in the great cause in which we are engaged ; because that cause is just, and ye are Scotsmen. _(Year, hear.) But some may think that it is necessary to recommend to you prudence and undeviating sub mission to the laws, though I hope and trust it is only ne esseery to remind you that that is your only chance of s.ucceee. You have been accused elsewhere of being in capable of assembling without riot and bloodshed— Cries of Shame, shame !)—because you are Scotsmen— (Laughter)—and this calumny may he excused, although it is said to have been uttered by Scottish lips, because it was uttered by one of 'hose who have been facetiously d-norninated your representatives, and who know as little of your tree character and feelings as you are indifferent atont theirs.—(Cheers.) Your conduct, during fourteen moths of unprecedented excitement and extreme provoca tion, gives the lie to such assertions—(Hear, hear)—and the meeting held by you on this very spot, and within these few weeks, afforded only an additional proof of its titter want of truth.--(Cheers.) But still, under the circumstances in which we have once more assembled, I exhort you to patience, and by that I means not the sub mission of a slave, but the calm, and peaceable, and firm ammtion of your rights, which, as it evinces the fixed determination of your souls, strikes more terror into your enemies, than a hundred petty ebullitions of childish, puny oetrege.—(Cheers.) Every some that is thrown—every rant that is raised—every breach of the peace and violation of the law, are arguments in favour of your enemies, and they desire no better news than to bear that you have justified their calumnies: and disgraced your cause by open acts of victim - me. I therefore move this resolution in the firm reliance that it will not only be approved off, but fillowed by every one in this great assembly.—(Cheering.) Mr. Seenteter seconded the resolution in a short em phatic speech, which having been put by the Chairman, -was carried unanimous'y. G. J. Foaarme, Esq., (Advocate) in moving the seventh resolution, said, that from what had taken place after the last dissolution of Parliament, and at the last general election, • he thought there could hardly be a doubt, that every man who had a vote or the slightest interest, and who bad any anxiety at all for the welfare of his country, would give that vote and exercise that interest only in favour of candidates who would pledge themselves by the most sacred ties to withhold the granting of any supplies until after Parliament had conformed to the wishes of the nation.—(Hear, hear.) He considered it unnecessary for him to detain the meeting to any length in dilating on this point. Had be a voice of thunder, he would send it lorth to the ears of every Reformer, imploring them to know well the men whom they returned again to Par liament. On that return, it might almost be said, every thing depended. Let there be a Reforming House of Parliament, and it would be utterly impossible for the Home of Lards to succeed in their system of oppression ref snirchy.--(Cheers.) A CrENTLEMAN, whose name we did not learn, seconded the resolution in a short but energetic speech, expressive of the most perfect confidence in the good sense and un flinching eetermination of the voters throughout England, Ireland, .end Scotland, to return such Members to Parlia ment only as would go there under a pledge which would give satisfaction to their country, and which it would be impomible for them ever to relieve themselves from. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. CURRIE moved the eighth resolution, in a short bet animated speech, complimenting the gentlemen who had formed the two committees of which it was intended to compose the present committee, for their great industry and esteeming zeal in the great cause of Reform ; and, leaving stated lame important it was that all persons who were chosen to take any leading part in these affairs should be true, warm, and spirited Reformers, he had no doubt that the motion would meet the cordial assent of the meeting. CRALIEUILD, Esq. Advocate, rose to second this lesohition for the appointment of a committee to arrange and forward the petition.—(Loud cheering.)— In doing so he said—l am sure, my fellow Reformers, I need not call on you to sien it, I know you will flock in thousands to append your names to this glorious testimony of your fixed deterteiration that you will have Reform.— (Hear, hear.) Yes, my friends, the tables of the House of Cenamons will groan beneath petitions, petitions hrsathing the true spirit of firm and high resolve.— (Cheers.) This is the time to try the zeal and sincerity of Reformers. Any man can be a Reformer when the cause is prosperous, but now is the time to put them to the test. -._(Cheers.) No half-measures will do now. Let us be iimmal, therefore, only by the hounds of that Constitution which we venerate in its essence, and which our enemies Manire in its abuses.—(Cheers.) No step within the ;intim of our constitutional rights is too strong for this momentous occasion ; any step beyond them would be fatal in our cause.—(Cheers.) He is no patriot who, in rescu. lug torn the deep the drowning honour of his country, would scruple at the familiarity of plucking it up by the locks. But, let us remember, that while they are no true friends to cur cause who would desert it when clouds have passed over it, they are its worst enemies who would now disgrace it. Lat us persevere in our course calmly, or resolutely. We have been all bitterly disappointed, but who amongst us despairs?—(Cheers.) None. Then let ns imitate the conduct of our royal Bruce,—(Hear, hear, hear), who drew from the repealed failures and the ultimate success of the spider, whose efforts he watched, the great lesson of perseverance, which terminated so tri amphantly.—(Cheers.) We hope much from the fidelity of toe House of Commons ; we hope much from the pa triotism of those Noble Lords who have preserved their honour and their purity uncontaminated by corrupt so ciety— (Hear, bear) ;—hut we hope mote—we hope all things from the firmness and temperance of the people— from that union of all hormst hearts which binds as together in one common cause ; and while one watchword swells from every tongue, and one prayer rises front every heart--each grasps the band of his fellow reformer M frank and cordial amity.—(Cheers.) Let us proceed thus, and success, though delayed, is certain. From the polished shield of firm and cairn resolve the ar rows of corruption will glance in impotence aside. Soon shall we see a Ministry pledged to the whole measure of Reform fixed in power more firmly and permanently than ever; and th en , un d er th e bl ess ing of God, will peace and harmouy be restored to our native land.—(Hear, hear.) Then will the hum of meal a busy voice, and the click of many an active wheel, tell of a trade revived and a confidence restored—(Cheers)—then will yon sun beam on the gladdened countenances of those I now me around me sorrowing, but not despairing; anal von ancient rocks again re-echo to the exulting shouts of thousands of eman cipated Sotsmen.—(Great applause.) The resolution wale carried unanimously. THOMAS GRAHAME, Esq. W. S. then moved the thank s of the meeting to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, for hie very elate and excellent conduct in the Chair. In mem: so he hoped to be ,tcused for expressing his 'wish that this should not be a vote of mere kern and maiter of course.—(Hear, hear.) The meeting bad already by their conduct throughout the day evinced their respect for decorum and the constitutional authority of the Chair- man.—(Cheers)—and he trusted it would still further de so by implicitly following the advice they would doubtlee, receive, to disperse speedily and quietly.—(Cries of Wt will, we will.) But more was still due, and a more di rect testimony should be borne to the tlutis so well and so ably performed by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder ; and it was worthy of consideration under what circumstances he had officiated.—(Cheers.) How different from our last meeting were the people of Edinburgh's situation ! Then they were full of hope, and had their hearts relieved of heavy burden. They felt as if they bad just escaped from the dangers of a most perilous abyss. Now they were in a situation different far ; disappointed of their dearest wishes, and he might justly say irritated by the bane and treacherous means which had been resorted to for the ac complishment of that end, as much as by the temporary defeat they had sustained.—(Cheers.) Under such cir cumstances they hail now taken a b ild, and as I e c insi dered, a judicious position : one from which there was no means of retreat, from which they could not swerve without at once sustaining a most disastrous defeat, as well as de served ignominy and disgrace.—(Applause.) They were all now pledged, heart and hand, before Heaven and their country, never to desert tie great cause of Reform — (Hear, hear)—nor to yield one foot of the ground they had that day taken. In this, he would say noble unani mity, the Honourable Chairman fully concurred ; and had, as one of the Committee, a share in the preparation of those reesolutione and that petition which had that day been so enthusiastically adopted. They were now ad vanced on a path full of peril he admitted, but also promising success ; at the same time a path from which one weak or vacillating step might plunge them into the gulf of anarchy on the one hand, or military despotism on the other.—(Hear, hear.) Boldness, firmness, and pru dence, were now, if ever, necessary. These were the try ing circumstances under which the Honourable Chairman had come forward manfully, and in conjunction with the other Members of the Committee, to take the field against a despotic oligarchy—(Loud cheers)—and well had they been supported by their fellow-citizens. He begged to move that the thanks of this meeting he tendered to the Chairman, and, through him, to those Gentlemen who had previously ai:dt essed the meeting, with three cheers, than whom they could not cheer truer friends to liberty and their country. —(Much applause.) The resolution baying been seconded, and put to a show of !made, the very air seemed to vinrate with the peals of applause by which it met the concurrence of all—old anti young—male and fereale—who formed this vast as semblage. The CHAIRMAN rose to acknowledge the compliment that had been paid to him. He could not express any thing like the satisfaction he felt on finding that his con duct had so cordially met with the approbation of those around him. He only wished it had been in his power to have used other language than the English vocabulary could supply him with, the more to convince the meeting that he was a true Reformer, and of his most anxious desire that all men should become so. The salvation of the coun try depended on having the Bill ; and whoever either hid the opportunity of witnessing, or of hearing a true descrip tion of this splendid meeting, could not, by any possibility, he so blind as to suppose that anything short of the most efficient measure of Reform could or would be re ceived by the people of Scotland, or the nation at large. —(Loud cheers.) Thanking the meeting for the extreme decorum that had been ofserved throughout the whole of the day, he again implored them to return to their respec tive homes, maintaining the same order, forbearance and good humour which bad characterized them heretofore, as such conduct could not fail to hasten in no tardy way the accomplishment of that end to which they were all so anxiously looking. So long es they continue to be firm. united, determined, and orderly, so long might they rely on receiving his most hearty cooperation on all occasions on which his services and presence could be of the slightest use to his townsmen, his friends, and his country.— (Immense applause.) The meeting then sang in the true Scottish style and spirit " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled ;" and the pro cession having turned round, it marched away to the play ing of the same air, followed by the others who firmed this vast assemblage, in the most decorous, peaceful, and gratifying manner. One portion of the procession was peculiarly gratifying—that was the part formed of the Leith and Newhaven sailors and waterman. They formed a vaat body, marched altogether, in regular order, dressed all alike in handsome, and apparently new blue jackets, waistcoat , , and trousers. On the whole it was a meeting that did honour to Edinburgh ; and as one of the speakers said, must show not only wh,t the Scotch can do by law, but may give a foretaste of what they could do if they were unfortunately compelled to go beyond the law. We cannot close this report without acknowledging thus publicly the great civility we experienced from Mr. Hamilton, the manager of the Leith and London Shipping Company at Leith, as well as from Captain Bain, of the Soho steamer, who delayed the starting of their ve , sel for a considerable time, in order that The Sun newspaper might on this occasion convey its express by steam (as well as by land) an experiment which was regarded with great interest by all on board, and who cheerfully consented to the Soho's waiting until the na , eting was over that The Sun's efforts might have a full opportunity of trying this aquatic novelty. Mr. Hamilton was informed by a telegraphic movement from Calton-hill, of the moment the meeting WAS dissolved, he then by a sig nal—raiming a flog half-mast high at Newhaven—apprised those on board the Soho, which was out at sea, that in a few minutes she must be under weigh. Very speedily our reporter reached Newhaven, Mr. Hamilton conveyed bin on board without delay, the ship sailed, and she ac tually strived at Blackwell in the short space of forty five hours from the moment at which she weighed anchor ! and bad it not been for the great importance of what passed in Parliament last night we should have been able to have published the full report of the meeting which we give to-day in time for yesterday's post. The public are certainly greatly indebted to the accom modating spirit of Messrs. Hamilton and Rain on this occasion, and we duly appreciate their obliging conduct. REFORM MEETING OF THE INHABI- TANTS OF LEITH. On Monday, the 14th inst., between two and three o'clock, placards were posted throughout Leith, announcing that a meeting of the inhabitants of that influential and independent town would be held at the Excb inge-build jugs, at half-past six p.m. of that day. Before the hour arrived, from the appearance of the Assemblage, it became evident that it would he quite in vain to attempt to hold the meeting in the ordinary Sale Room agreeable to inten tion ; accordingly those who had met adjourned to the large Assembly-Rooni, where the meeting was held, and which was almost instantaneously crowded to suffocation. A vast number of highly respectable persons found it ut terly impossible to gain admission. At the hour appointed it was proposed that the Chair should be taken by the Chief Magistrate of Leith, JAMES SCALES, Esq., which was carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN, on taking the chair, entreated that the meeting would not give way to any undue excitement. He knew that circumstances had occurred which were prohahly calculated to irritate or create confusion and -Anxiety of mind. The object now was to consider what would be the best course to pursue Certain he was that no violent or disorderly conduct could forward the object or wishes of those who bad assembled on that occasion; and as they were atl as sensible of that as himself, he deemed it unnecessary to say more on the occasion. Captain CARNAGIE then rose, and proposed that an address he presented to his Majesty, on the present alarm ing state of affairs. This address was moved by a speech of considerable length, and delivered with an energy and a-al almost amounting to vehemence. It was evident that the speaker's heart was warm in the cause, and that Re form in him has a true friend. He was cheered repeatedly throughout his animated address. JOHN IlAitviE, Esq., W.S., seconded the resolution in a very neat, temperate, and appropriate speech. The resolution was put by the Chairman, and carried unanimously. Mr. PERKINS moved that a petition he presented to the House of Commons, expressive of the regret felt by the iuhabitants of Leith of the late vote of the Upper hlouse of Parliament—of his Majesty's determination not to take. the advice of Earl Grey and his colleagues to c reate Peers—of his Majesty's acceptance of the resignation of those Ministers rather than create Peers—and of their firm conviction that the House of Commons would remain true to the cause of Reform, and praying them to prevent the formation of any administration that would be . likely in any way to he adverse to the passing of an efficient Re form Bill. This resolution was likewise brought forward by a short speech that did credit to the mover, and shovreo that he was anything but a bit-and-bit Reformer. In the delivery of his sp eec h, h e was frequently interrupted by immense cheering. The motion having been seconded and put to a Cow of hands, was carried I.y acclamation. CASTLES, Esq. (Banker) then proposed a vote of thanks to Lord Ebrington, for the very manly manner in which h e had on different occasions come forward to assert the dignity and consequence of the House of Com mons, and particularly for his noble conduct in hriaginF WHITE HAVEN. .:From the Whitehaven Herald of Tuesday, May 15.) REFORM BILL—We understand that the Proprietors of The Sun, in their usual prompt manner, expressed the intelli. gence of the defeat of Earl Grey to Carlisle, where it arrived, in consequence, `2.4 hours sooner than by the usual course. Whitehaven was not so fortunate. We received, on the Thurs day, a second edition of The ,Sun by post, which it had evi dently been expected would reach us the preceding day, but had been marked " too late" at the post-office. The first in. telligence of the event was conveyed in a brief memorandum made on the back of a way-bill. It was generally discredited, but on the arrival of the Countess of Lonsdale, from Liverpool, in the evening, great anxiety was felt for a confirmation or a contradiction of the news. To the surprise of every body, no one on board the steamer seemed to know any thing about the matter. One individual was at last found, who had seen a late edition of The Sun in Liverpool that morning, but had not thought the fact worth communicating to any of his fellow_ passengers' The particulars which he stated, on being ques. Coned, turned out subsequently to be perfectly correct. • ::sward hi; motino last Monday night, by which he 110 •hown his ardent desire that Parliament should act con •istently with the expressed wishes of the country. Th. mover was sure he need only mention the object of hit motion to insure the approbation of it of all present. While he was speaking an alarm was raised, that in con. ••equence of the immense crowd in the room, part of th. beams were giving way, and an immediate rush se the door was the consequence. A few in the room actually precipitated themselves from the windows. This of course was done most hastily and incautiously. Slight injuries were the result ; but owing to the firmness of several gen tlemen, who assured the meeting that if those in the room remained quietly there was no nger, order was in a few minutes restored. No serious injury was inflicted, and the usiness of the meeting was proceeded with. Mr. Car_ ties finished the few observations he had to make by stating that he had been early in the morning solicited to bring for ward eve of the motions, hut that he had for a time refused to to so on the ground that he felt in so excited a stste as to be scarcely able to trust himself to speak on the occasion The resolution, however, put into his hand was one cal culated only to produce satisfaction, and to carry with it consolation. It was to vote a compliment, and a most deserved one, to the eldest son of one of the most ancient Peers of the realm, who had on all occasions shown him self to be a true friend of the country.—(Loud cheers.) THOJIAS HAY, Esq., Merchant, seconded the resolution, in an appropriate speech, and it was carried with the most rapturous applause. GEORGE YOUNG, Esq., Merchant, moved a vote of thanks to the Worthy Magistrate in the chair, for his able conduct therein ; which, having been seconded by another gentleman, and duly acknowledged by the Chairman, the meeting immediately dispersed in the utmost harmony, and preservieg every possible good order. It was acknowledged by all present that it never occurred that so large and so respectable a meeting bad ever been called and held in Leith on any former occasion, upon any thing like so short a notice; and that the a. ntimenta of all in Leith continued unimprired in favour of Reform. THE SUN NEWSPAPER EXPRESS. DUBLIN. Baron Tuyll presents hie compliments to Messrs. Johnston, and is directed by the Lord Lieutenant to return them his Excel lency's best thanks for the very early intelligence communi cated by The Sun this morning, upon the subject of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, which is all his Excellency has, as yet, received. Phcenix-Park, May 9, 1532. SHEFFIELD• At a meeting of the Council of the Sheffield political Union, held at the Town Hall, on Saturday, May 12, 1832, It was proposed by Mr. BRAMLEY, seconded by Mr. INNocwur, and unanimously resolved, " That the thanks of this Council be given to MURDO Yourio, F_sq., the Editor and Co-proprietor of The Sun newspaper, for his spirited conduct in sending down to Sheffield and other towns, special expresses with the latest political intelligence." LUKE PALFREYMAN, Chairman. EDINBURGH. `(From the New North Briton of Wednesday, May 16.) THE PRESS.—We feel it our bounden duty, as an act of justice to the Proprietors of The Sun newspaper, to state that the news of the issue of Lord Ebrington's motion last Friday morning, was forwarded by express, and was widely circulated in Edinburgh on Saturday evening. The debate closed at a quarter past two o'clock on Friday morning —the express set off from London at three, and reached Edinburgh about eight P. u. on Saturday evening —and before nine o'clock, the fourth edition of the North Briton promulgated to the citizens of Edinburgh the decision of the House of Commons on this most important question—the second and third editions which we had previously published, after the arrival of the London post about half-past two, containing the whole of Lord Ebrington's speech, and other news connected with the changes of the day. We roust also express our thanks to Messrs. Taylor Smith and Co. the agents for The Suu, for their great attention on such occasions. BATH. From the Bath Chronicle, Thursday, May 17.) In the hurry of publication last week, we omitted to ac knowledge, with our best thanks, the kindness of the Proprie tor of The Sun in forwarding to us, on Tuesday, two copies of his paper, containing the whole of the important debates in the House of Lords on the preceding night —ln now expressing our obligations for this courtesy, we feel called upon to say, that for early information on important political subjects, the local press, and country newspaper readers, are infinitely more indebted to The Sun, than to any other public journal. IV 0 L VERHAIIIP T ON. (From the Wolverhampton Chronicle, Wednesday, May 16.) It is no more than due to the Proprietors of The Sum to state, that we obtained the above important intelligence from the third edition of that paper, supplied to us by express, from Messrs. Mansell, of Birmingham, through whose exertions the news ar rived in this town by half-past seven o'clock this (Wednesday) morning. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, MAY Pi. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCE'. a second edition of the Tyne Mercury you will see an account of our grand demonstration yesterday, and of the resolutions, address, and petition, unanimously adopted at the most numerous and respectable meeting ever witnessed in New castle. The business commenced at one o'clock. It occupied two hours and a half, and at nine the same evening the petition was sent off to the Commons, signed by 1.9,12 A men. The exertions of yesterday have been followed by a numerous meeting of freeholders this day, (C. W. Brigge, Esq., of Lin den. in the Chair,) at which a Central Committee has been ap pointed to correspond with the various Local Committees formed and forming throughout the county of Northumber land. Before you receive this communication the whole county will have been canvassed, and the freeholders pledged in writing to send back their present reforming Members, free of expense, whenever it shall please our English Polignac to dis solve his Chamber. A. BRIERLY HILL, NEAR DUDLEY, MAY 17, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The information we received (per express) as to the re. instating of Earl Grey and his colleagues in the Ministry, corn. pletely altered the proceeding of the Unions in this place. We had prepared a petition to the House of Commons to the same effect as that of other Unions, praying the: stoppage of supplies, &c. &c., but in consequence of such information, we have substituted an address to Earl Grey, which is now on its way to London. The meeting we called for the purpose was attended by 8,000 or 10,000 Unionists and Reformers, who passed the address unanimously, and who proved themselves stanch to the great cause of their country, by enrolling their names in numbers with our Union, at the same time pledging themselves to be united and firm, always to follow the example set before them by the great head. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, T. J. A deputation arrived yesterday morning, in London, from the town and neighbourhood of Halifax, bring ing an address to his Majesty, praying the restoration of his late Ministers to his Councils—a petition to the House of Commons, and an address to Earl Grey and his colleagues. Nearly 14,000 signatures were obtained to the above in about 24 hours. The assessors and collectors of taxes at Bir. rningharn have suspended their proceedings for the present. _ . No trial of any importance took place at the Old Bailey this morning up to the moment when our reporter left. Amongst the criminals in the calendar is a fellow named Shepherd, charged with stealing a pair of breeches, the Pro perty of Miss Anna Maria Porter, the authoress' NIANCHESTER.—A commercial house in Manchester, which is in the country trade, the weekly sales of which at this season of the year, usually average 2,000/. a-daY, on Thursday made contracts to the amount only of 1701., and on Monday to 1551. The buyers will do no business until the pre sent political prospects change. • - - LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Evening.—lt ls impossible to describe the sensation which the news of the recall of Earl Grey and his colleagues to office has caused if , this town. As soon as the fact made known, by the arrival of the evening papers, all was joy and congratulation. In the Exchange newsroom, where all men in business assemble, the news was received at the time of high 'change with three times-three hearty cheers within, reechoed by the equally hearty cheers of the crowd without. The same exuberant joy was manifested throughout the town, every man con gratulating his neighbour on the triumph of the cause of Re form, on the defeat of the Duke of Wellington, and the re turn of Earl Grey and his colleagues to (ace, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 18 18232. Summonses were issued this morning at an early hour, convening a meeting of the Cabinet Ministers at twelve o'clock, at the Foreign Office. At that hour the LORD CHANCELLOR, 14:311 GREY, Lord ALTHORP, Lord HOLLAND, Lord PALMERSTON, Viscount MELBOURNE, Lord CODE RICH, the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord DURHAM. the Right Honourable CHARLES GRANT and Mr. STANLEY, were in:attendhrice. The meeting had not terminated when we went to Press. The proceedings in the House of Lords last night are of the deepest interest. The Duke of WEL LINGTON opened the discussion by a sort of defence of his recent conduct. This explanation, or justifi cation, or whatever else his Grace may please to term it, is from first to last mere clumsy special pleading. It tells us nothing that we did not know before; it sheds no redeeming - grace on a character on which public opinion is unalterably and irrevocably made up. The Duke sets out by lamenting that his MAJESTY should have " been left alone, most unex pectedly left alone by his entire Government ;" as if the Tories had not already established a precedent for this species of resignation, when they resigned seven of them in one day, nay, in one hour, without form or ceremony, because Mr. CANNING had been appointed successor to Lord LIVERPOOL ! His Grace's next remark is one of the daintiest bits of simplicity we know of. So little communication, it seems, has his MAJESTY had of late with any public men, save and excepting his re sponsible advisers (notwithstanding that the Pavilion parties have, for the last ten months, been almos t invariably made up of Tories, and the predilections of a certain Illustrious Female have always been notoriously of a Tory complexion) that " he of ne cessity sent for a Noble Lord whose judicial func tions took him almost compktcly out of the line of politics." What ! Lord LYNDwurtsT "almost com pletely" out of the political line : he who hatched, methodized, brought to maturity, and proposed the late insidious amendment, which had lot its ob ject the destruction of the Bill, and consequently the resignation of Ministers ? No, no, my Lord Duke. This hoax will never pass. The people have some little discernment left; they know a hawk from a handsaw, and will never endure such an outrage on their common sense, as this explanation amounts to. We now come to an other remarkable feature in his Grace's speech, h e tnhaeacnt acted. more r u e b T e t r ii a :ite n yl t w hich is, neither thosem s o i r n‘ e : ietr n he o s r %tve l hd e o s nm s e , s th a n o t f he di ev ,: i e rig° re igni t u t P l i l n , w it i appears, otYlt simple as sucking doves. Not a man among them wished office for himself— he coveted it only for his country. In deed ! What a band of patriots they must have been! Imagine CATO WELLINGTON, CINCINNA TUS LYNDIIURST, REGULUS ELLENBORGUGH, and CURTIUS CROKER, giving up all thoughts of self it, heir overpowering affection for that country whirl :s so supremely honoured in the ability to ranl , them among her Indigetes! But the pith of his c10gu..3,ne,0 11 , 1 in hie declaration that a area, 6011 of i'eers for the purpose of carrying the Reform Bill into effect, is uncomstilutiotud, and " destruc tive of the independence, indeed, the very legislative existence of the House of Lords." If this be really the case, pray, how is it that the discovery has not been made till now ? For the last forty years and upwards, not a Parliamentary session as passed, but the " legislative existence" of the Upper House has been more or less endangered by a creation of Tory Peers to carry Tory measures. But this was not unconstitutional, it was all according to propriety and precedent. But when the game comes to be reversed; when the Whigs, represent ing the wishes and wants of the people—for whose benefit alone a House of Lords exists—when these high-minded men demand the usual powers to enable them to carry a great popular ques tion ;—then, forsooth, we are to be told that what they demand is unconstitutional, arid must be re fused, for that though it is stricly legal to create Tory Peers to carry anti-national measures, it is altoge ther illegal to create Whig Peers to carry Rational ones ! Fortunately on this point there cannot be two opivions. New Peers must be made, if only to settle the balance of parties—if only to give the people's friends, at least, as fair an influence in the House of Lords as their enemies. As at present constituted, that House is not national, but Tory ; not the mirror of the people, but of a faction. It must, therefore, be augmented in its numbers, or it will be perpetually coming into collision with the House of Commons. Lord GREY'S declaration was manly and decisive —as was to be expected from so great and en lightened a statesmen. He would carry the Bill through Parliament in all its integrity, or he would again resign office. But this he knows he will not be compelled to do. The Bill is already carried, and nothing remains for us to do but, in the words of the Psalmist, to wish the bewildered Tories " a happy issue out of all their afflictions." Of Lord LYNDHURST'S apologetic statement we refrain, out of compassion, from saying any thing. It was just what we were prepared to expect, and, we believe, will take no one by surprise. We have little to add. The question between Lord GREY and his opponents stands thus :—The former is still in office, and waits only his Soya. cßaErlrGyN' the s a u R t ho ef r o i r t m y to invest o him i with aw. That authority, tho r t t y o , we have every reson to believe, will very shortly be given. The Tories, on the other hand, are still re solute, still unflinching. Be it so. Resolution without sagacity, and obstinacy without resources, are mere bugbears, calculated not to affright, but only to engender pity and contempt. The debates in both Houses last night have had two happy results. One is the assurance from good authority in the Commons, (Mr. BARING) that the KING has never had but one opinion on the question of Reform, that he never had, even for a moment, withdrawn his pledge to Earl GREY to carry into effect the Reform Bill in all its essential points. Notwithstanding the rumours to which the last ten days had given rise, and which have raised doubts in some minds, he confidently trusted, that when the mysterious proceedings of these days were cleared up, the honour of the KING, and the brightness of his name, would again shine forth untarnished. It has never been asserted by any authority in either House, that there is any doubt as to the feeling of his MAJESTY on Reform. Ru mours from without, however, prevailed, and these rumours have been but too greedily caught up by a disappointed and suffering people. Let Ministers therefore lose no opportunity in confirming what has been stated by Mr. BARING, in order that the blame of all this commotion may fall on the proper heads, and that our So- VEREIGN may again be restored to the affections of his people. The other happy result of the evening has been the furious display of disappointed rage made by those, whose obstinate resistance to the will of a whole nation has brought their SOVEREIGN into such difficulty. Their hatred of the press and of po!i tical unions stands pre-eminent above all other topics of abuse, and exhibitsa sad foreboding of the state this country would be reduced to were the party again in power. Lord LYNDItVRST makes no hesitation in declaring that were he ATTORNEY-GENERAL he would at once institute proceedings against the Press. What melancholy blindness I Can not the Noble Lord see that prosecutions are useless, when they are instituted against a whole nation, and that such an attempt at the present moment would only expose their authors to ineffable contempt ? Nay, were the language used by the Press ten times stronger, we declare it as our firm persuasion, that there would not be found a jury of twelve men in the me tropolis, or in any part of the country, to convict. What I a people convict their best advocate, whose great merit has been a determined, constant, and en thusiastic wish to put down oppression, restore rights unjustly withheld, and reestablish in peace and harmony, on a sound foundation, the three great estates of the realm I Gagging Bills they might try, but what House of Commons could be found that would not reject them w ith horror and indignation ? The present would—the 288 who have hitherto stood so nobly by the people, would spurn them with contempt should any Minister be found mad enough to advise his SOVEREIGN to dissolve Parliament. In the pre sent state of feeling, it is clear as the sun at noon that a still more intractable—a still more devoted House would be returned. Pledges would then be required on the hustings, not only for Reform in the Commons House, but in another House, whose obstinacy has convulsed the country, lowered themselves in the estimate of every disinterested spectator, and brought the Throne it ' self into danger. form NVe point meeti attention Meet i ng, w to t hich t oo le g took place o n o nT Edinburgh uesday l Re. a st, and was attended by upwards of eighty thousand individuals. If this do not convince the Tories that there is no longer the slightest possibility of staving off the great question, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. The speech of Mr. AYToti, the barrister, is particu larly deserving of attention. It smacks of a reso lute spirit, by which the last resolve, in case of fur ther resistance from the Tories, has been taken. Yet it speaks not the sentiments of one man, but of all Scotland, and not of Scotland only, but the universal empire. Various other Reform meetings (and among them a most gratifying ore from Dublin, another from Devizes, a third from Derby, and a fourth from Newcastle) have reached us, but we have literally no means (from want of space) of doing th em the justice that their signal mportance deserves. We have the less regret on this score than we should otherwise have had, fot we look upon the battle as already fought and won. M. CASIMER PERIER has, at length, closed his mor e.' career. He died on Wednesday morning, about eight o'clock. During the previous forty-eight hours S,MITHFIELD MARKET In this clay's market, which exhibited a limited supply through; out, the trade was very dull with each kind of meat, with Beef at a depression of 2d., Veal 4d. per stone ; with Mutton, Lamb, and Pork, at Monday' s p r i ces . Mulch Cows barely supported their list week's prices, but exceedingly few short horns, with their small calves, having produced more than 191. REFORM MEETING AND RUN ON TIIE SAVINGS-BANK AT WIGAN. Wigan, May 16. The news of the defeat of Ministers and their subsequent resignation was received here with marks of the most un feigned regret and indignation. On this mournful occasion a muffled peal was rung on the bells of the parish church, a ceremony otherwise only observed on the decease of a branch of the Royal family. The excitement caused by the events of the last week, is already producing ruinous effects on the trade of the town by the depression of the Manchester market and consequent reduction of cotton manufactures, its staple trade. A simultaneous movement has taken place among the depositors in the savings bank ; notices were given last Monday to withdraw to a very large amount—(that amount is not ex actly known) —larger even than in Manchester, in proportion to the size of the town. The meeting held this day, pursuant to requisition, was respectably and numerously attended, the Mayor in the Chair. No symptom of reaction appeared. Charles Standish, Esq., of Standish Hall, whose large landed property and great influence in this county entitle his sentiments to consider able weight, declared, that he for one would never be satisfied with any measure less efficient than " the Bill," which the Captain Duke would, if he dared, in his iron rule render as de lusively useless as the jewelled but empty cup raised to the lip of the fevered patient. This gentleman's liberal remarks relative to a thorough revi sion of the Corn Laws, and the redress of many other abuses, which would be the first fruits of a Reformed Parliament, elicited rapturous applause. The principal resolution was, praying the Commons to stop the supplies. This was ably supported by R. Greenough, Esq. (Mayor elect), in strong and constitutional language : also by Mr. Alstone, Mr. Joseph Acton, &c. &c. After three cheers for Earl Grey and his colleagues, three groans were given for the Bishop. Half-past Six. This moment a second edition of The Sun has arrived, an nouncing the recall of Earl Grey to office. Joy beams in ever y countenance, mutual congratulations are being exchanged, bells are ringing, and guns firing, On this, as on many other occasions, the inhabitants of Wigan are indebted for priority of information on important subjects to the proprietors of The Sun. BRADFORD, WILTSHIRE, MAY 16. The gratifying intelligence by the second edition of The Sun that Earl Grey was restored to the Ministry, diffused the most general joy throughout the town and its vicinity. The bells im mediately struck up a merry peal, and the countenances of the inhabitants betokened their satisfaction, forming a striking contrast to the gloom that pervaded the place ever since the resignation of Lords Grvy, Brougham, &c. The great room of the Political Union has been crowded to excess every evening since the 9th ult., and the Union has nearly trebled its number. On Friday they agreed to a petition to the House of Commons, praying them to withhold the supplies until Lord Grey was recalled, and the Reform Bill carried into full effect. The County Members were requested to present the petition, and earnestly entreated to support the prayer. A large meeting of this manufacturing district was arranged at which the inhabitants of the towns of Bradford, Trow bridge, Melksham, and the different populous villages adjacent had intended to attend en masse to petition the House of Com mons to stop the supplies, and to address the King ; for the above reason it is at present postponed. The Unions are daily increasing; the town of Trowbridge formed one on Monday ; Melksham and many other places are about to follow the example. A grand meeting of the Unions of Bristol, Bath, Frome, Wells, Bradford. Trowbridge, Kensham, &c. &c. will take place on the first urgent occasion. The place of meeting has not yet been decided on ; Claverton Down, near Bath, is, however, spoken of. PRICKS OP STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent.. Red FL'N %I 3 Per Cent. Cons. ....... ..54 3 /oi% 3il, per Cent. Ditto Red 9 '!i14 14 1 New 3 ,, 4 per Cent. —92% % 3 per Cent Ann. 172 K 4 per Cent. 1B Bunk Long Ann to expire DAY AT ONF. O'CLOCK. New S per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds 1 9 dls 'South Sea Stock tt4 Old Annuitiv New Ditto..-....-.—. — 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 Ex. Bills, .£l,OOO 7 Rpm. ..... 9 7 pm. Ditto Small ... 9 8 Ditto Commercial pm. Ditto Advertised Bank for Account India for Account . Cons. for May 21. S43,'NV% Jan. 5, 186 0 - - Oct. 10, 1850 - Jan. 5, 1860 - Jan. 5, 1880 - Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870.- - PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 914 Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 74; Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account. 48%4 Buenos Ayres 80nd5......... .77 Ditto ACcount 23 4 , / .; Chilian Bonds Ditto Account l6 Columbian Bonds 19 , A Ditto Account _ Ditto Bonds, 1844 ..... . _ Ditto Account Danish Bonds 67 Ditto Account — Greek Bonds ....-- 25% I3itto Bonds, 18:25_ Ditto Account a 3 2 Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 27 Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent .325 Ditto Account Neapolitan THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. ;Peruvian Bends 1 3 14 Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account Regency Scrip dis'. Ditto Account ... O %% Prussian Bonds 99 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1922 Russian ponds, 1822 98%4 Ditto Account 94% Spanish Bonds, h* - 21 Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, Ittr3 Ditto Accotint French Rentes. sp. c. —f Exchange ...... —f —c. —V , per cent. —f —c. ---• Exchange...—. —f —c. Dutch Scrip 44 Ditto Acoount.....— ..... 44 11 ,-; 4 French Scrip , it r ' riot *lllll4 Le had boon tutting to at that hit phyticiane stov that no human skill could keep him long alive. His ,nentsl faculties returned at the commencement of 'his crisis, and only left him with the extinction of life. As his dissolution had been daily expected, the event did not produce any great sensation. Public expectation is now directed to his successor. On this subject we quote the following from the Private Correspondence of the Times;— " Public attention is now directed towards the course which the King will think proper to adopt in conse quence of this event. The Perier Cabinet is virtually dissolved, and if the usual course be pursued, a complete remodeling of the Administration must immediately take place. Rumours have, of course, been again abundant on this head. If M. Perier's death had taken place ten days earlier, all eyes would have been immediately turned on M. Dupin and his friends. At this moment it is ge nerlly believed that the Learned Deputy would not be applied to for advice and aid in the formation of a new Cabinet. The Duke of Wellington's return to power will probably heir no trifling influence in the •election of men here ; and the Duke De Cazes, who, till now, through inces santly labouring to get into office, was, of all aspirants, the least likely to succeed, apparently now stands the beet chance. He was in the Ministry at the same time as the Duke of Wellington, under the reign of Louis XVIII. ; therefore it is thought Louis-Philippe will look upon him as the person most skilled in the necessary task of insuring a continuance of that good understanding between the two Governments which has been established under the Grey and Perier Administration. " But M. De Cazes can never be a popular Minister in France, and the sentiments of the majorities in the Cham bers regarding him are not yet known. TLis considera tion may occasion delay, and with the view of sounding the Ministerial Members on the subject before the decisive step is taken, it is possible that the present Ministry will be patched up, and retained until the meeting of the Cham bers. ,‘ It is said that the Duchess de Berri, disguised in male attire, and General Bourmont have been arrested on the frontier, when on the point of crossing together to the territory of Nice. We must wait until the report is repeated from other quarters before attaching any faith to it, still it must be acknowledged that there is no improbability in such an occurrence, as it seems by this time pretty well ascertained that she had been on board the Carlo-Alberto, and no one can or will te'l what has since become of her. The Government must be in possession of many particulars, which the public are anxious to get at; but, notwithstanding former promica of publishing all that came to its knowledge on the sub ject, its organs of the Press coutinue to maintain the strictest silence. " The Bourse was excessively crowded to-day by per sons who were anxious to learn the effects of the news of M. Perier's death, and the intelligence regarding the Eng lish Ministry, but there was much less agitation there than yesterday and the day before, and the Funds have improved." FRENCH FUN D9.-PARIS, MAY 16.-Five per Cents., 95f. 10c• sc. 10c. 20c. 15c. '2oc. 30c. 35c. 50c. 95f. 70c. 60c. 55c. 60c. boc. 60c. 55c. 50c. ' • Four per Cents. Slf.; Three per Cent s ., 681. 10 c . 25 c . 45c. 40c. 35c. 30c. 25c. 40c. 45c. 68f. 50c. 60c. 55c. 50c. 40c. 55c.60c.; Bank Actions, 1,67,1 f. Rente de Naples, 80f. 25c. 90c. 81f. 10c. 81f. ; Roman Five per Cents. 804 SO 804 81 ; Rent,: d'Eti pagne 10; Royal Spanish lean, 77 774, ; Rente Perpetu. elle Aspagne, 56 h 57 57!i 4 57% % ; Belgian Certif. 74 74 1 ,4 Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 70c.; money, 25f. 65c.: three months, paper, 9.5 f. 55c. ; money, 25f. 50c.-Court Authentique. The accounts from Berlin are more pacific than ever. The German papers received this morning contain no other news:— VIENNA, MAY 7. • Five per Cent. Metalliquos RS 7.12 Four per Cent. Bank Stock 1148 -411gemeine Zeitung, May 12. The Birmingham Deputation, which consists of Messrs. THO3fAS ATTWOOD, JOSHUA SCHOLEPIELD, JOSEPH PARKES, WILLIAM BOULTBEE, De Bos- COE ATTWOOD, BENJAMIN HADLEY, and W. G. LEWIS, brought up addresses to the KING and Lord GREY, on the present awful state of things, from nearly all the large towns and several of the small ones in the Midland Districts. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(TIIIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S DEAL, May 17.—Wind moderate.—Arrived and remains the Bombay. Killarney, from China. FALMOUTH, MAY 16.—Wind N.N.E. to N. fresh breezes.— Arrived the Elizabeth, Nuttel, from Honduras. COWES, May 17.—Arrived the Jane sherriff, Dory, from Havannah. LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.—Arrived the Annandale, Ferguson, from Bombay, sailed Jan. 11 ; James Bailey, Smith, from Mobile; Crickston Castle, Fisher, from Savannah ; Robert Browne, Baker, from Charleston. GIftENOCK, MAY 15.—Arrived the Margaret Mowart, and Nestor, Creaford, from Grenada; Mircator, Wilson, from Charleston. CORK, MAY 15.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Orestes transport for Quebec. NASSAU, MARcti 29.—The velocity, Griffiths, of Halifax, from Ragged Island to New York wai totally lost on St. Salva dor's in March, the crew and materials saved. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There are abundant supplies of all kinds of Grain this week, and a large return of Flour. The Wheat trade since Monday has been very dull, and on all sorts Is. per quarter lower has been taken. Barley, Beans, and Pease, are unaltered. Oats may be noted Is. per quarter lower. Flour dull, and unaltered. English Irish Foreign ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. ' Oats. Flour. 1 5,177 qrs. 1,764 qrs. 9,318 q rs. 112,4/48 sacks. 4,2•20 30,538 1 - 4,090 610 1 - brie. PRICES PER STONE Or BLISS. TO SINY THE OFTALS. ---.-- -- ------ -- -- -- s. d. toe. d. s. d. toe. ii• werior Beasts 2 0 2 2 Large Lambs ..... ....0 0 0 0 , Second quality ditto 210 3 2 Prime small ditto... 5 4 6 4 ,, Prime large O xen 3 4 3 6 Largecoarse (' aloes 3 0 3 '. 4 ,, Prime Scots, &c 3 6 3"1.1 Prime small ditto.. 4 2 4IS Inferior Sheep 3 0 3 4 Large Hogs ... ..... 3 tS 3 ! Second quality ditto 3 4 4 0 Small Porkers 4 2 4 ° Coarse-woolledditto 4 2 4 6 Suckling Calves 12. s to3oi,ea ,l4 S nandown Wethers 4 8 5 0 Quarter old Pigs 12s to 18s. cart' SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. 366 8,060 275 110 ..... NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. a. d. to s. d. s. d.tos. 'wet, inferior 222 41 Mutton, Inferior,,, 26 9 - middling 2 4 2S - middling.. 3 0 3 0 - prime large 3 0 3 2 ---- prime 3 8 4 - prime smalL.. 3 0 3 4 Pork, large 3 4 4 ; Veal 3 0 4; 6 ---small 3 8 4 Lamb 46. Cd. to ss. 10d. CHOLERA NIORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT' CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.--(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last Report, IS...)—New Cases, 27—Deaths, Recovered, 20—Remaining, 17u. Total Cases since the CO'' mencement, 9,994—Deaths, 3,753. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretan, THE FUNDS.7(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLOCK. „DI The debates in the Hou se of Lords last night, were read r'f is ; and, instead of confirming their ann' s ti interest by the public, expectations, and the prevailing reports of yesterday, of r_.'" r e Grey resuming his office, they . have been disappointed, and tr2 . ,`,.,, more rancour between the two parties than beio'is arears to be left—both parties are obstinate—and it ,d No alternative is now for the King to decide, and immediately, as the coua` Csaonnot remain much longer in its present state. 2z fo r Conso l s , which left off yesterd ay at t. , !4, opened at 84N I. b e t h e A c count; at present they are 8”4 si, with little doing. ', h e, only a rrival of importance is the e s t a fette f rom P ar i s, w ith c onfirmation of the death of Perier ; and we hear that De 0325 t • is to succeed him. French Rents, &sf. 80c. In the Foreign Market there is nothing doing. I I ALE-PAST ON 0.% t e Since our Foreign article was written we have received pri;Sill information from Pari s , s t at i ng t h at the Ki ng of F ranc e , not appoint a new Ministry before ours is settled. Vie contlflot in the samedilemma as in the early part of the morning—notD;pe authentic in regard to the settlement of the Ministry—but general opinion is, that Earl Grey must resume office, altll o ° we had a report to the contrary. CC "' In several part s o f t h e country a ll b us i ness i s a t a s t an d. oie sols have been, during most part of the morning, at 8434.34 fo r Account; at present they are 84 % with little doing. 7BREE 0' CL 0 Clo Consols for Account 84i. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. Consols Ditto for Account 84i Greek, 1825 Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 1825. 94 Buenos Ayres... Peruvian ..... ..• 13 Chilian Ditto.... Russian 961 Columbian 1824 Spanish OLD BAILEY.---(TIIIS AFTERNOON.) - ' Maria Poulton, aged 27, was indicted for the wilful murder oi new.born female child, o n t h e 13th of April last. Verdigt-' Not guilty of the murder, but guilty of concealing. ~,•• iII PRINTED AND PUBLI SHED BY MURDO YOUNG, -- Ar SUN OFFICE, 112, araciD, Loptp4o,