The Sun. — London, England, 1832-05-12 00:00:00

to be worn out with ea. , e, and having their own wants cuppli:-.d. to have no conception of the wants of others.—(Hear.) They Verrforced - to draw the Supplies frOm the productive claisei,a?c, if the productive classes refused it, what could they do ?—(No thing.) lithe! would not consent to draw their supplies in a fair, just, and equitable manner, they should not be permitted to draw them at all.—(Hear.) The House of Common. had, upon one occasion, voted the army to be within its prerogative, and, it circumstances called for it, he did not see why they should not do so again.—(Hear.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously, with the exception of one gentleman. Mr. HAM said that now the Ministry had resigned, it was not improbable that a dissolution of Parliament would take place; he did not see upon what grounds, as the people had beed appealed to so lately, unless the King was indeed led to belie►e that the people of England were weathercocks. He rhould therefore move a resolution, pledging them to show, supposing such an event should take place, that they were the same now as they were then. Mr. H. then moved, That if the resignation of Ministers should be followed by a dissolution of Parliament, this meeting pledges itself to return such Members only as will truly represent it according to the spirit of the foregoing resolutions. Mr. J. G. POWELL would second the resolution most cordially. The resolution was then carried unanimously. A vote of thanks was then passed to Mr. O'Connell, with three times three. After which— The CHAIRMAN announced that the business of the meet. ing was concluded, and trusted that it would disperse peace ably ; as if any act of violence were committed, it would be charged upon the Union. If they did as he wished them, the soldiers might burn their fingers with their powder, and keep their bullets to bite when they were flogged, for neither bullets nor powder would be employed against the people. Thanks was then voted to the Chairman, with three titers three.—(Cheers.) A vote of thanks was also given to the Deputation from Bath, with three times threo ; and Mr. YOUNG, in return ing thanks, proposed three cheers for Bristol and its genuine Reformers, which were most cordially given. The meeting then peaceably dispersed. in PETERBOROUGH, Mly 11. O THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta b —it is now half-past eight; a meeting of the inhabitants was hastily got up this afternoon, and I have only time to send you a copy (the best I could get from the notes I made, but it may be depended upon) of the petition which was agreed upon by the hundreds of Reformers who could get place in the Town hall Dr. - Skrimshire in the'Chalr. '"" At a meeting of the inhabitants of the city of Peterborough on Friday evening, May 11, the following petition to his Ma_ Jolty was unanimously agreed to, without the Bishop, Dean and Chapter, or any Church of England parson : " TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. "May it please your Most Gracious Majesty—We, the un dersigned inhabitants of Peterborough and its neighbourhood, assembled at our Town-hall to express our deep regret at the resignation of your Majesty's Ministers at this most awful and momentous crisis, and humbly do assure your most gracious Majesty how painfully our just hopes have been dissipated by the virtual defeat of the Reform Bill, and your Majesty's ac ceptance of your Ministers' resignation, and beg most humbly to petition your most gracious Majesty for a restoration of Earl Grey and his colleagues in (Alice to your Majesty's Councils. Feeling deeply and roost intensely the awful responsibility that attaches to your Majesty's First Lord of the Treasury, and how (.ential it is he should enjoy the entire confidence of your Ma jesty, and your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, we beg leave most respectfully to assure your Majesty's late Admi. itistration, and pray most earnestly for their restoration. " And your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful inhabitants 164 . of the city of Peterborough will ever pray." 16 LEEDS ASSOCIATION. At a full Meeting of the " Leeds Association for promoting Within the County of York the flee return of fit representa tives to Parliament," held at the Commercial Buildings, Leeds, , Po Thursday the 10th of May, 1832, at seven o'clock, GEORGE RAWSON, Esq., in the Chair; It was unanimously resolved, I.—That this meeting has heard, with the greatest concern and indignation, that the Reform Bill, which has received the cordial and almost unanimous support of the people of England, and has twice been passed by large majorities of their Represen tatives in the House of Commons, has been again yirtually de feated in the House of Lords, and that the upright and patriotic Administration of Earl Grey, who had the full confidence of the nation, has, in consequence, been compelled to retire from office, thus leaving the great measure of Reform, so essential to the m a intenance of the rights and interests of ie nation, and to the preservation of public tranquillity, at the mercy of those who are interested in upholding the present system of corruption and misgovernment. 2.—That in the danger which now threatens the country, of the total loss or very great curtailment of the Reform Bill, and of the appointment of a Ministry resting solely on the support of the borough faction, and destitute of the national confidence, it is highly expedient that public meetings should be held without delay, for the purpose of petitioning the House of Commons, on whose decision and energy the hopes of the nation rest, not to Rrant any further supplies until that Bill has received the Royal Assent. Also for the purpose of presenting an address to his Majesty, humbly imploring him to recall to his Councils the only Administration in which the people have confidence, And that it be recommended to every parish in this county and in the e , Quntry to present petitions and addresses in support of the same great objects. 3.—That a requisition be presented to the Lord Lieutenant, or proper authorities of the West Riding of the county of York, requesting that a public meeting of the inhabitants of the riding may be called, to be held at Wakefield, on Wednesday, the 23d of May, to take into' consideration the propriety of presenting petitions to the House of Commons, praying that no supplies maybe .granted until the Reform Bill has received the Royal Assent, and also of addressing his Majesty to recall to his Crum. ells the only Administration in which the people haveconfidence. 4.—That the following requisition, for convening a meeting of ttbe inhabitants of this borough, be adopted, signed, and published tel the usual manner:—" We, the undersigned inhabitant house. tialrlers of the borough of Leeds, under feelings of deep regret and concern at the virtual defeat of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, and the consequent retirement of the. patriotic Admi. nistrarion of Earl Grey from his Majesty's Councils, hereby con vene a public meeting of the inhabitants of this borough, to be held on Monday next, the 11th inst., at four o'clock, in the Court-house, for the purpose of considering the propriety of pe titioning the House oft ommons not to grant any further sup plies until the Reform Bill has received the Royal Assent; and also of addressing his Majesty to recall to his councils the only Adniinistration in which the people have confidence." s . —That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded by the first post to. the Lord High Chancellor, Earl Grey, and the Members for the county. 6. That the resolutions be printed, and copies forwarded to inftuential Reformers, urging upon them the importance of prompt and energetic efforts In every district of the county. 7.—That copies of the resolutions be forward&t (post-paid) to the Editors of t h e principal London Newspapers favourable to Reform, with a request that they will take such notice of them as they may think ( c s a i lg ed lar ... to d ur the public interests. eZ RAWSON, Chairman. Itesolved,—Taar-the cordial thanks - of thismeeting be presented to Mr. Rawson, for Isis able ' conduct in the Chair. - ,Nt A ttSII ALL, Jun. -aewvturvi : - 30IIN MANCHESTER, \lnv 11. (PROM' OUR CORREgPONDENT.) TWELVE O'CLOCK, NOON. The petition to Parliament, from the merchants and inhabi tants, which was taken up by deputation for presentation yes. terday, in the.short space of three hours received no less than signatures . Crowds of persons were assembled in front .of the Town-hall the whole of the day, and upon the express le?Ying, the deputation were loudly cheered. Indeed, such a scene of bustle in the Town-hall of Manchester has not been witnessed fur a length of time. Flags were pendent from each side of the Hall, bearing the inscription, " Reform, or no Supply." After the express's departure, the " Hunt mob," from St. George's-road, turned out with flags and banners in procession, some bearing the inscriptions, " Vote by Ballot," Universal Suffrage," " Annual Parliaments," and " The Voice of . the People is the Voice of God, and must be obeyed." A full.lenth portrait of the " Man of the People," Mr. Hunt, was also displayed. The procession proceeded to St. Peter's_ field, about nine o'clock at night. Several persons addressed the assembly. A meeting was held in Salford on Wednesday night, called by the following handbill : T 3 TILE II lI,"..I3ITANTS OF SALFORD. A - public' ineeting Wilt be' held it the Spinners' Arms, Chapel_ street, Salford, on Thursday evening next, the 10th instant, for the purpose of. augmenting the Salford branch of the National Every body must now see • that people are miserable because they are. ignorant. They must see the powerful effect that knowledge to besinning to have. They trust tiee that tyrants rt!::•.le, a 3 people become intelligent. People fleeing thesettniqs,:their for knooledie must be getting stronger, as that is the only instrument by which they can effect their freedom. The Council of the Salford Union seeing these things verr clearly, and seeing that Political Unions a re th e mo s t etti.ctual machine for diffusing knowledge amongst the people, very urgently call upon the 'people of Salford to come forward and Join the' Union, so that every man m a y h ave i n hi s own pos . Ression that instrument (knowledge) by which alone he can effect his freedom and happiness. Signed, by order of the Council. JOSE ofP H HAItDING, Secretar Mr. lI ETRINGTON, editor the Pour Man's Guardianov y. ill etissress the . , . Thls , morning 'Me following Mstructio;i9 the people on the best method to pursue, in order to obtain Reform, was pub_ fished at the Times office, from the pen of the editor of that paper (Mr. Prentice) : HOW TO OBTAIN REFORM. People of L ancas hi re-1n this crisis " England expects that every man will *do his duty." There is a peaceable mode of car rying the Reform Bill in spite of the boroughm . on ering faction, whichihas gained the ear of the King. Let us g t ff the sup cu „ - ,Zzs I not teeommend to refuse the taXeity.hccaas that r_co payment ° of the mercy Of thernrt gat jainiuriti a!lo w 4 il l , oil i vgg ii p a tt i ni n e a ‘ t r the in power, but I will, myself, refuse to pay them, take the con sequences. Fortun a t e ly th ere is no law against my advising von . to discontinue the use of taxed commodiCies. One half of the amountof taxes is levied on articles that are not obsolutely neces saries. Deprive the Tory Government of that one-half, and o . Y must either cease t o pay t h e army and navy, or the interest the debi. V rit se • ZZ Youirits or wines. Out of every shilling you pay for ropay ninepence tx. of i a t& price is tax. There is more non- I in a,,lu . :4 ll :Ahrylgpcunywort4 of bread aztd glass of water than • • Use no T ° „ l b eer. '.. E n o,r ond . on a . _ one third of its price is a tax pai to Gvern use no su L r t . hird a tax paid to the East India Company and you are taxed Drie.half of it $ pric.l is a tax to Government, to assist the slave o'id" to th e amount of Four Millions a.year raise it. - wners in keeping down the negroes who Use no Tobacco. Its . in g and smoking are nearly all tax. Besides, snuff Let your motto be 14 c t t 'bits• tioned the Common s t o grantontrothe Supplies " You have peti. paased. Follow down petition byuPPIY till . the Reform Biil be Modifies. Cut the revenue oln .mst,nung . from taxed corn ggat ;vill have not only rh e hal f e l t by this abstinence, and ctie . Bilk" • A shorter way, , iii ,c zr d iet b h e in t g , more than ayment of direct taxes,, but this, the law says,l must not advice you to. I will do it myself, at all hazards. You wilt as you like. t 54,0 I have pointed out-the peaceable way of effecting our purpos , . should any other means be necessary I shall not be slow to A c omi,,end them. We must have [letOrm —peaceably if we cd o-- out whatever it co,ts, t. moot and shall have it. A' REFOR ME The Committee fur furthering the cause of Reform are noo sitting at the Town Hall, to arrange the business for a great meeting in St. Peter's-tields, on Monday next. Since the re signation of Ministers the party spirit which previously existed with respect to the creation of Peers, and the 104 franchise, has fled, and instead of two meetings, as originally intended, there will be only one, when all well-wishers of their country in the town: and neighbourhood, it is anticipated will attend and lend their support to the meeting and to its objects. BITNGAY, MAY 11. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stn,—We have great pleasure in forwarding you a copy of your own express, and of an address which we yesterday sent to our county Member, Sir 11. Bunbury. We shall always be happy to cooperate in any of your exertions in the good cause. Sir, obediently, yours, J. R. and C. CHILDS. " Bungay, Three o'clock P.M., Friday, May 11. " Messrs. Childs have received an express edition of The Sun newspaper, containing information that the following resolu tion was last night moved in the House of Commons by Lord Ebrington, and carried at half past two o'clock this morning, 2SS By Against '2.OS Majority for the motion —Bo " That in the progress of this measure the House of Com mons considers itself bound in duty to state to his Majesty that his subjects are looking with the most intense interest and anxiety, and they cannot disguise from his Majesty that the taking of any step which would impair its efficiency would be productive of the greatest disappointment. That this House is therefore impelled, by warm attachment to his Majesty's person and throne, humbly but most earnestly to implore his Majesty to call to his Councils such persons only as will carry into effect unimpaired in all its essential proYisions, that Bill for the Re form of the Representation of the people which has recently passed this House." SOUTHWARK MEETING.-(THIS DAY, Pursuant to a requisition presented to Mr. Holmes, the High Bailiff; by upwards of 160 of the most respectable inha bitants of Southwark, a public meeting was this day held at Twelve o'clock, at the To*n Hall, to take into consideration the present alarming state of the country. The High Bailif took the chair precisely at twelve, but offered not to commence the proceedings till Mr. Brougham's arrival, Mr. Calvert stating that he had promised to be present at the time. Mr. Brougham did not arrive for the space of half an hour, but when he did come he was loudly cheered, as had been Mr. Calvert. At a few minutes after twelve, Mr. HOLMES directed the requision to be read, and stated that he had immediately appointed the meeting for today, having chosen both the day and hour at the suggestion of the requisitionists. Mr. THOMAS then moved that the meeting should adjourn to the outside of the Hall, on account of the great crowd col lected there. The HIGH BAILIFF expressed his fear that the noise of passing carts would prevent the speeches from being heard.— (Cries of " There is plenty of room here," and " Adjourn, adjourn.") He understood that a Committee of the Requisi tionists had prepared the resolutions that were to be proposed, and he had no doubt that the whole proceedings of the day would be characterised by that gentlemanly conduct which he had always found to prevail at the meetings of the inhabitants of Southwark. The country was in a most alarming state,but he trusted that the proceedings of the day would be such as to do credit and honour to the inhabitants of the first borough in the empire.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ELLIS said, that he rose to move the first resolution, but before doing so, would take the liberty of making a few observations, which he trusted would meet with the appro. bation of the !netting. They now found themselves in this po. action, that a small majority of the House of Lords were placed in direct opposition to the wishes of the whole people.—(Hear, hear.) They had encountered a crisis which they had no rea son to expect when they last met, for then they had the expectation that long before this time the Reform Bill would have been carried, and that they should have been enjoying some of the fruits of it. If the people did not succeed in the Constitutional struggle which was about to commence, they would be in a situation of slavery, and insist look to be still ground down by taxes. Society at large must be degraded in proportion as society ad vanced, for with the advance of aristocracy, after the late con duct of the House of Lords, what could they expect but ;tyranny ?—(Hear, hear, hear.); He could not bring his mind to s fielieve that his most gracious Majesty William IV. had given up his people. [The speaker paused slightly here as if expect ing a cheer, but the silence of the meeting was most marked, perfect stillness having succeeded to the slight hum which mostly prevails in large assemblies.] He could not bring his mind to believe but that his Majesty wished well to the country.— -(The same silence.) It was to the base advisers who had altered his Majesty's mind that they must attribute the frustration of their hopes.—(A solitary " Hear.") What had those advisers done ? They had deprived our gracious Mo narch of the love and admiration of the people.—(Hear, hear, hear.) They had placed him in the most unpleasant of situa tions, and if they were tostfered to proceed in this course, they would, he feared, but 114Ped not, endanger the Throne of this realm. It was not right to avoid speaking openly on this sub ject.—(Hear, hear.) Any man of common observation might see which way the tide was flowing; and that as it had flowed so far it would not stop.—(Hear, hear.) In his opinion it ought not to stop.—(Cheers.) [The cries for an ad journment of the meeting to outside the Hall here became general; but on Mr. Calvert suggesting that the reporters would not be able to hear so well outside as in the Hall, Mr. Ellis proceeded]—The House of Lords had, by their conduct, stopped all public business. The state of Ireland—the agricultural pauper population, and many other subjects, had not been considered as they would have been had the Lords passed the Reform Bill. The shouts of the people outside for an adjournment of the meeting became now so loud, that on the motion of Mr. Richardson, it adjourned accordingly. The High Bailiff (the Members for the Borough) and the different requisitionists who were entrusted with bringing forward the resolutions, took their stations in waggons prepared for the purpose. Mr. ELLlSproceeded—The Houseof Lords somewhat resem bled the old man in the fable, who,although deaf, blind, and lame, would not take warning of the approach of death. If they did not see that the fate of the nobility of France might,. if they obstinately resisted the wishes of the people, also be their's, they must be both blind and deaf.—(Cheers) His Majesty, with the most gracious condescension had been in the habit of receiving all classes of his subjects ; but the consequence had been the prevalence of the influence of base intriguers. No other conclusion could be come to, when they saw the change in his Majesty's conduct. after having been for twelve months in favour of the Reform Bill. What, however, was the conduct now becoming in the people i He did not recommend any thing like a repetition of the Bristol riots ; but, on the contrary, trusted that no set .of people would proceed to the demolition of public buildings or property.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") It was unnecessary ; for it was impossible for any thing to pre vent the Reform Bill passing. Besides, they must consider they had nothing opposed to them but a faction in the House of Lords; whilst their own regular regiment, the House of Commons, was firm in the discharge of its duty, and had already given one dis. charge of its artillery in the shape of Lord Ebrington's resolution. They had all heard of the ancient prophecy that Richard the Thirdahould lose his crown when Birnam Wood came to Dun sinane.—(Laughter, and Oesof!: Macbeth.")' It was so, but it did not matter for the purpose of his illustration ; fur what he meant to say was, that if the House of Lords did not take warn ing, Wapping would come to Whi tehall. —(Cheers and laugh ter.) If they did not take warning, he was convinced that Birmingham steel would be Opposed to Westminster gold After a few more observations, in which Mr. Ellis said that the people had before them, as the glowing reward of their exer tions, freedom, retrenchment, said economy. ' 'th'en named the following resolaticiii,'Which was received a ith loud cheers : That the inhabitants of Southwark having firmly relied upon his Majesty's declaration,_ and the con s i s t en t support w hi ch he has hitherto rendered to Parliamentary Reform ' are struck with grief and consternation at finding th a t his Majesty has been counselled to refuse the only means that were left of over coming the base intrigues of a faction leagued together for the purpose of driving from the councils of the So7ereilin an honest Ministry, who possessed Ctx ;i.l:.fidenet; • riot only tit 'their King, but also of the-people. Mr. RICHARDS seconded the resolution. When he had last the honour of addressing them, the question in everybody's mouth was " What will the Lords do ?" That question was put with anxiety, but not with uneasiness, for at that time they had on their side him they considered a patriotic Monarch— him who they thought went with the people—him who they thought would stand in the breach against the oligarchs, because he called on the two Houses of Psrlisansnt to consider the question of how the abuses in the•represtntatibn*of the people might be redressed.-- I He was sorry to say, that owing to bad advisers the King was no longer on their side.—(Cries of " Nu, no; not he.") They were all aware that for the best and wisest purposes, it was not usual to impute to the King any wrong— but they might impute wrong, and they did impute wrong on this occasion, to his base and feeble advisers.—(Cheers.) Whe ther those advisers were clothed in petticoats or in purple— whether they were foreign women or ba.:Lrdz, was immate. rial to for tse•they 3vhbi thoy;mlolit,'he ' imputed blame to th:61 . 6 Who Ocretly and isresponsiply gave advice to the King, directly contrary to that of his honest, awe and constitutional advisers. Ho hoped the King would yet see reason, and be guided by those Ministers who were actuated by a sin_ cere desire to promote his welfare and glory in common with the safety and happiness of them all. Hewes born, as Canning had said, under a monarchy, and he felt it his duty to support the kingly office, but one of the objections to hail always appeared to him Ss be :he King was. liable to back-stairs influence and -thitiiistreating .or fetuales—which was equally objectionable, whether they were courtezans or women of rank, binding themselves to the purposes' of Al! hist ory showed the ill censeqilenCpS'ef'WqlllP4 0'1443 ilnitlence in th e souncils of the state. They all knew that Ahab, King of Israel, was advised by Jezebel his wife—and that Louis XVI. was advised by a German. He hoped and trusted that -,ur Monarch would not lend himself to the insinuations of a roreign woman, when even that woman might be against the advice of his honed, responsible, and constitutional Ministers. —(Loud and long-continued cheer:; had been said although he pretended not la Itnaw' the fact, that there was another adviser 'near the King, beSides a foreign woman. It had been said that the man who was lately created Earl of Munster had been busy upon this occasion. It ill became him, looking at his origin, _considering _ that he was the -son oe i. player-woman, to advise his father to act against tin sense, interest, and welfare of the English people.— It had been said, but. he hoped it was not true, that the smia Earl of Munster, and they all knew that ambition grew upon what it fed, having already had high honours conferred upoi him, was desirous of having greater, and had been consultim with the Duke of Wellington with a view to set aside ths legal succession to the throne. It became them, therefore, this occasion to guard against the possible dangers of a civil war. As he had before said when they last met, the question in every body's mouth was, " What will the Lords do ?" But now the question was, " What will the people do ?"—(Loini cheers.) He was sure that it was not required of him t, recommend order to so peaceable and well-disposed an assembly as the present. He was sure that it was not required of Lin. neither to recommend submission to the laws, for they must know that it was only by moral force that they were to overcome the abominable practises and insolent attempts of the borough. mongering faction. The matter at issue between that faction and the people was, whether they should be obliged to sur render what little was left them after the excessive taxation they had been subjected to.—(Cries of " No, no," "they shall not have it.") He knew that such would be their answer, and doubted not they would use every constitutional means to oppose a base oligarchy—they could not do better than trust in the House of Commons, the tendency of whose late reso lution on Lord Ebrington's motion was as far as possible to stop the supplies. Unfortunately the supplies had been granted ; but the Appropriation Act had not been passed ; so that even if the boroughmongers came into power, Mrs. Ar_ buthnot would not be able to profit by it.—(Cheers.) A dis solution of Parliament was spoken of, but that would only produce a more impracticable House of Commons. Another mode of resis:ing the boroughmongers which had been sug gested, was to refuse the payment of taxes. Hampden had refused to pay taxes, and his example had always been held up for the imitation of Englishmen placed in similar situations,— ;Loud cheering.) There was no necessity for entering into any agreement or combination; for common sympathy would at the proper time direct Englishmen what to do—(Cheers) and if any person should think it his duty to refuse payment of taxes, he trusted if his goods were seized, no one would pur chase them.—(Continued cheers.) The speaker then referred to some morning paper which had, he was informed, ratted from the cause of Reform, but the name of which he could not mention, as he had not heard it. He trusted that no friend of Reform would continue to take in such a paper which had gone over to the enemy. After a few farther observations, Mr. Richards retired amidst cheers, and the resolution was carried with acclamation. Mr. WOOD said, approving as he did of every word that had fallen (torn the two gentlemen who had preceded him, it would be unnecessary for him to take up much of the time of the time of the meeting, yet in proposing the next resolution, he could not but notice the last observation which had fallen from the Gentleman who spoke last—he meant that which noticed the report of a morning paper having gone over to the enemy. He was aware that some of the parties connected with that paper were intimately connected with that great statesman the Duke of Buckingham—(A laugh) but he would tell the editor and proprietors of that paper, that though their circulation was large, it was raised to the present pitch by the advocacy of the people)s rights, and they had better look to the signs of the times before taking a step which would sink the paper below even that so much beloved one of the Tories, the Morning Post. It was now upwards of two months since they had all seen the circular letter issued by the Earl of Harrowby, that lettar had never been denied, but rather avowed, in explana. tion it was said that it never was meant for the eye of the pub. lic—he fully believed that, but it having been before them, could they not now trace the intrigue which had led to the defeat of Ministers on Monday. In the letter the Noble Earl says he knew that Earl Grey had power, if the Bill was thrown out on the second reading, to insure its final success, therefore lie counselled that it should be allowed to pass that stage and then they could, in Committee, make such mutilations in it as they chose, but if Lord Grey was forced to take his measures, they would then have no chance of doing so, because he would then be too strong for them. Now what had been their conduct —had they not allowed the second reading to pass, but the mo ment they had an opportunity in the committee they began their other plan of tactics ; and defeated the Bill effectually, by voting against schedule A under a weak pretence of only poSt poning it. The next in order of the opponents of the Bill was the Duke of Buckingham, that illustrious pauper who was now' paying off his debt by instalments. Then came my Lord Lyndhurst, that Learned Lord, the most grateful and the poorest man in the kingdom, who was content to live by means which the poorest man he then addressed would spurn at, a means, which, through delicacy, he would no more hint at. The Noble and Illustrious Duke of Cumberland—(Hisses)—must nor be forgotten—he well de served those marks of disapprobation from all honest or moral men : he also, the man who had been by his immorality, the cause of the death of a brother Peer, must be the enemy of the people. It had been said in the House of Commons that it was indelicate to speak of a woman in political matters. He cared not for that advice, for if women meddled with things with which they had no earthly business, they must put up with those remarks to which they rendered themselves liable by their conduct. He would say look to history, and it would be seen that a Queen had. led a King of this country to the scaffold—had it not been for the conduct of Catharine the First, Charles the First whould never have ended his life ou the scaffold. Instances of the same sort were to be found in plenty in the annals of France, and he would advise our King to take warning by these lessons which were laid be. ibre him: lie would give the King every right to act as he pleased, but in his Kingly character he must act for the peo ple's benefit, or the people must take care of themselves—it their bounden duty to do so. If it beCatne a question whether the King, the Peers, or the people, the unanimous people of England, should give Way, was there a man who could say in his conscience that it was the duty of the people. He had almost forgot another:enemy of the people in the person of the Duke of Wellingtcat man had been praised much above his deserts.- 7 -(Cli4era.) He hhd been too well paid for anything that he h:ad . ever done.—(Great cheering.) That was the man also who was the most consistent that had ever appeared in the political horizon of our country. They would all remember that when Mr. Canning was appointed Prime Minister, the Duke could not hold office, though a sub ordinate one, because Mr. Canning was in favour of Catholic emancipation. The Duke had also said that he would be mad if he would take that same office, yet no sooner had he by his wiles got over that weak Monarch, George the Fourth, than in he stepped ; and when the Catholics said to hint We must have emancipation, he, with true soldierly feeling, said, " yes, I will gjve it you ; I am afraid of you, and, therefore, you shall have it." There was consistency for them with a vengeance. The same game would now be attempted with Reform—he had heard that the Duke of Wellington was appointed Minister—(Loud cries of " No, no)," and he had no doubt that he would now attempt to carry that Bill which he had so much cried out against, but would they accept it from him—(No, no,)—he trusted in God, thcy would not, but that the people would never pe quiet till the late honest Ministry was once more in their places, Lord Grey had kept his pledge in bringing in an efficient Re. form Bill, therefore the people could never leave him in the lurch.—(Loud cries of, "We will not.") Lord Grey had been accused of being the cause of all the agitation that was now in the country, but he denied that Lore Grey could be charged with that ; he, by introducing the Bill, had forwarded the ques tion a little, but it had long slumbered, and must soon have burst forth. He had great pleasure in proposing for the adop_ tier of the meetingthe secomi resolution, asfollows:— That the refusal of the ruling powers tt',e hjsteri tc, the lust demands of the people hat nefony it put' own country, but also in foreign stat•:s, isedi 'the' anise of anarchy and confusion, the deposition of Monarchs, and the subversion of Governments, and we feel it to be our duty most earnestly and anxiously to entreat his Majesty to use every means in his power to avert the danger which now threatens this country, of similar effects from a similar cause. Mr. ARPTIIORP seconded the resolution, which was aLe carried unanimously. Mr. DAVIS said he had t cen .: -. 4.4ted to propose to th&rn the third resolution, whieli Ire did with great pleasure. lie had been born, and had lived for 42 years within sight of where he then stood, and all that time he had been a sincere Refoimer lie had .opened the Reform account in his ledger in the names of Grey, Brougham, Althorp, and Co.—(Laughter.; The dbbt• was now large, and was every day increasing, but though 'lt should be paid by . Wellington, he could ar.f.ure him that, , b, never would get credit 'Li' pardefit tn lie bo4s;,(4reat cheering., - 44, 'Oren theenemies of the people, were o o w Reformer.; ; but it was only a stale Tory trick, lint it would fail to deceive the people. It mattered not to . 601 whether the evil advisers of the King were dressed in petti&)ats or not--(Cheers) but he could only say the people of. England would not now be led by petticoat government, there . waf a time, and if the same things were to be done again, they•Wculd yet put up with it, he referred, to the time.cf .I.li.abetl: when the tobk smock-frocks and the lawn sleeves from the Bith - ofs.—((kre4t cheering.) The time was now getting on fast, 4,10 -inq,ny?l'ioi'e who were better able to'tell the people , : vl;at, they might to do 1 1 had yet to speak, WP.1114 t4roleie Conclude by calling on the people to continue then confidence in the late Ministry.--7 Xlieers.) He then proposed the third resolution 3. That the people of England canna haVe any confidence in an Administration composed ofinen who have invariably opposed' all Reform, or who have pretended to be Reformers, only.:. a cloak for their own interested views, . Mr. LOCK seconded tho 4“..tiou witO great pleasure. He never head one proposerbto a f?nbliremeeting in WAich he so ennliallyjoirit& -- There was a spirit abrwtd ! ip tha breasts of Englishmen, whicii iyokic tlot Allow them to be trampled under foot Up AKY .111411----.1.10 a dictator; or the Duke of Wel lington, He could not believe that the King could again place confidence in that man ; but if his Majesty should be so weak as to offer to trust again with the Government he has an humble individual, would advise the Duke to look arid consult the spirit of the times bef're he eitxepciAl The resoluti'_-:. Chen put , and; th'e' Others, *riled unanimously, • • • • • • - Mr. THOMAS proposed the fourth Teinintiot, and was • The folle7ill6 Me the remaining resolutions whieh were sub. ed mitt the meetin g: - 4. That an address be presented to his Majesty, pointing out the alarming danger which now threatens the stability of the throne, the safety of the Church, an d t h e ex i stence of the privi leged oriteil of society, from the disappointment which i 4 sect lry the people at the forced retirement from the Adminlitration• of the supporters of Reform -1'9111;41s ',rating With hir Majesty for having allowed his faithful Ministers to tesign,l'teprysentrinz want of confAcnO of ihe , peofile'iri any Adritinistratien ttos GOITI• POSed of men who haVe''steadily and t,e4busly supported and al vocatedpieform, 'and earnestly' entreating him to reinstate those Ministers who have so faithfully discharged their duty to their King and to the people, and to support them by the exercise of his prerogative in such a manner as is necessary to carry the great measure of Parliamentary Reform. 5. That the Address now read be approved ofand adopted, 'hat the High_ Bailiff, .accompanied by. our . Represeutati Parliament, be requested to present the Same to his Majesty - ,at the earliest opportunity. 6. That in this important ctisis, it is the duty of the people i t. adopt all constitutional means of enforcing their undoubted right be fairly and truly represented in the Commons House of Par liament; and, therefore, that a petition be presented to the Ho:i of Commons, praying them to refuse all supplies not already granted, and not to appropriate those which are granted until the Reform Bill now pending in the House of Lords shall 1 passed into a law, unmutilated and unimpaired in all its provisions. '7. That the petition now read be approved of and adopted, and that Mr. Calvert be requested to present the same to the House of Commons, and that lie and Mr. Brougham be requested to sup port the prayer thereof. and to vote against all supplies. &c., until an efficient Reform Bill shall be passed. 8. That we hereby express our sense of the steadfast fidelity of our Representatives, Charles Calvert and William Brougham, Esqs., and our most warm, heartfelt gratitude to the great honourable majority of the House of Commons that voted th, timely and salutary addr ess t o hi s Majesty, which was moved by Lord Ebrington. RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. ADDRESS AND REMONSTRANCE TO THE KING. (Abridged from a Second Edition of the She f field courant o: Friday,) Rumours of the resignation of the Cabinet reached this phci by the Courier coach, about eleven o'clock in the morning of yesterday. The leading articles of the Times and Chronicle had previously excited very anxious feelings as to the extreme jeopardy in which the Reform Bill was placed by the events of Monday night. The arrival of the Express coach, a few hours afterwards, all but confirmed the melancholy event. At length the Evening Papers left no doubt as to the worst. Measures were immediately taken to call iogether the inhabitants, to con sult as to the proper measures to be adopted in such an extraor dinary crisis. A dumb peal was rung on the parish church bells, the town crier, with his bell covered with crape, sounded the tocsin, and in a few brief words summoned the inhabitants to meet at six o'clock. In little more than two hours and a half after we had received intelligence of the fate of the Ministry, there was a., sembled in Paradise-square, as numerous a meeting as the one held on Monday. A more active and patriotic display of feeling never before took place in Sheffield. I'. A. WARD, Esq., the Town Collector, was called to the chair. _ _ Mr. WARD addressed the meeting as follows —Our determi nation is to petition the King and the Commons only.—(" Keep the King out, and petition the Commons only.") We do not propose to address the House of Lords—(Hear, hear, hear.) We had hoped that the Lords were corrigible, but we have now arrived at an opinion, which has been expressed twenty or thirty years ago, that the House consists of incor rigibles • we, therefore; prop ose no t to address them—(Bravo.)Mr. iltAlMLEY—Gentlemen, the Reform Bill, we are told, is lost, and Earl Grey and his,colleagues have resigned. Arp not these words sufficient to recall the dead from their graves? If there is a latent spark slumberiug in the bosom of any man, I think this circumstance if sufficient to call it forth. The time is arrived when we must act ; and if any one hesitates, or de spairs, or looks back, he is unworthy the name of Englishman. In emergencies r f this magnitude, our forefathers have set us a noble and a glorious example. Shall we, then, prove cowards, and unworthy of such sires ? Shall we bow down and cringe at the feet of a polluted —nay, I would rather call it a damnable oligarchy ? Now we will approabh the King of England in this language; we will say to him " You have done wrong," and we will say, " if you do not recall Earl Grey and his colleagues, the peril, the danger, and the consequences must he upon your head.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, if it be required, I will, and I know that you will sacrifice your heart's blood rather than sub mit to this oligarchy.—(Deafening cheers.) Gentlemen, we will tell the King that the monarch who listens to the voice of a foreign woman, and disappoints the hopes of the people, is un worthy the affections of a free people.—(Cheers.) When the King;pledged himself to his Ministers, he said " Stand by the people, and I will stand by you." I ask you, has he done this It only proves to you, and confirms an opinion which I have long entertained, that there is no virtue in the upper classes. Gentlemen, in the people rests the government, and the King, his Ministers, and the Houses of Parliament, are only trustees for us. As trustees, we have a right to call them to account, and, what is more, we will call them to account.—(Cheers.) Although the King may have lowered his flag, yet we have not lowered ours—we have' ailed our flag to the mast, and we will fight the faction to thelast —(Cheers.) If the Birmingham Po litical Union will but call upon us we will join them.—(Cheers.) I care not for the consequences which may result from what I am now saying, -_I am an Englisman ready to perish in a dun geon. I conceive that the•best plan that we can adopt is to dis patch by this night's snail, a pctiiion to the House of Commons, praying them to remonstrate with the King in a similar spirit to ourselves, and that if the Reform measure is not passed, not to grant the supplies.—(Loud cheering.) Mr. PALFREY'MAN.—GentIemen, we find from the news which has travelled through the means of that powerful engine, --more powerful even than Lords, and which experience has told us is even greater than Kings,—namely, the press, that those noble Peers who had pledged themselves to carry through the great measure of Reform, and who had identified their ex istence as Ministers, with the success or non-success of the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill, have been after all compelled to resign their situation, because, as it was emphati cally expressed by Earl Grey, the King declined to accede to the advice which they thought it their duty to give, in. order to insure the success of that important measure. The time is now past when we shall humble ourselves to the slavish and nn- English.like form of tinie,serving petitions.--(cheers). The time is not, how ever , past, w h en recourse should be had to the consti tutional mode of remonstrating with the King---(loud cheers.) Gentlemen, the occasion now requires deeds not words, our language has been sent up in countless thousands, and I shall now do little more than read my resolution. That a remonstrance be sent to the King, a Monarch who, I fearlesly say, has deceived the just expectations of the people. This is no time for mealy mouthed language. I say the spirit of the English language (a distinction which it possesses above all others) is to express forcibly what the person speaking means to say; this we have done in the resolution which I beseech you -to pass with one unanimous voice, for now is the time when our enemies, the enemies of Reform, are ready and willing to throw amongst us the torch of discord and the seeds of disunion; but I know their efforts will be in vain. —(Cheers.) Mr. Palfreyman then read the first resolution. Mr. BAILEY said—Gentlemen, it is but half an hour ago, that I received the intelligence which has arrived from London, but immediately on my obtaining information I set out to join you—(Cheers.) • I confess that when I first heard that dumb peal at sounded at - my heart like the knell of liberty. lam not yet given up to despair, and I think there is, no reason for it. Let us be united, tirm, peaceable, and determined, and we shall carry our point ,- -(Cheers.) It was afterwards put and unanimously carticd. Dr. 110 LL A N D.—Gentlemen, I beg to second the petition Mr. BRAMNIALL proposed .the next resolution, which. was briefly seconded by Mr. Dunn. Mr. FISHER should briefly propose the next resolution,which was seconded by qr. Aleock, who made a few remarks. Dr. PHILLIPS proposed the next resolution, which was se conded by Mr. Charles Congreve. Thanks were voted to the Chairman Three cheers were given for Reform and the late Ministers, and three deep groans for the King. The meeting then separated. • The following are the resolutions, which were passed unani mously : Resolved—That an address to the King be sent from this meeting, remonstrating with him on the danger diSmissing his Ministers at this eventful crisis, and praying him, as he values the peace of the country, the 4aplAnesspf his subjects, and the stability of tho Crown, so recall Earl Gr e y an d hi s co ll eagues to his Royal Council, and enable them, by an immediate creation of Peers to carry the Reform Bill unimpaired through the House of Lords. • ResoVeed—That a petition be sent to the House of Commons, praying them to address the King in a similar manner, and to grant no further supplies until the Reform Bill be passed by the House of Lords, in all its efficiency. That the address and petition now read be adopted • and that the address be sent to the Duke o f N or f o lk , and th4tktiori to Mr. Strickland. TO THE lIONOURABL-; Tkl OMMONS OF 'THE UNITED KIN(',.DOM . (IRE AT BRITAIN A 1•11.) IRELAND'IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. THE tHiMBLE.UTITION o I,‘ THE INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF SHEFFIELD, Sheweth,—Your petitioners have received, with poignant grief the melancholy tidings of the resignation of Ministers, .in conse quence of their not being duly supported by their Royal Master. Your petitioners humbly hops, that at this great cr i s i s your Honourable House will not be deficient in energy suited to the occasion, but that you will speedily address a strong remon strance to his Majesty, expressive of the dissatisfactio:i) y rtt raitst certainly feel ; and urging him to recall his late - 1'4145 , M Minis. ters to his Royal Councils, and enable thor'.., by a large creation of Peers, to overturn a factLiy Pay of interested and unpa. triotic men. `lout pctitiouers forther pray, that should his Majesty not lend a gtaci,ais ear to your wholoome advice, you will exercise your undoubted privilege of withholding all supplies till a redress of grievances can be procured. TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. The Humble Address and Remonstrance of the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Sheffield, .i.i the eclunty of York, in public meetin g assembled, this 44.y o,f' May, 1K312, and consisting of upwaids•of 2_5900 persOn,s, yo - oar iGN zald thltifdi stiNee,.ts, CU. people of Shef field. hurnbly,apprOa'ol )'our Majesty's throne, to represent . the inexiiretsSlbledisapp,olotwent we nave experienced at the resig. ri;ttioli of Ministers iu consequence of the want of support they • have experienced from your Majesty in the non-creation of Peels. The measure of Reform, in the opinion of petitioners, is in, despensable- for the peace and happiness of the nation and the preservation of the fights of every c l ass i n the itin - diern No confidence can be placed in a Minkatry disinci i intlf - tO cOiiapleto _Reform, and we therefera humbly - pray tiiiit, y`ov i - t• es ty values the pea, GI the courstiV • tlyelosOuess ' , our subjects, and ti.e stabikity . of the •CeoAti, yul, Majesty • will reed' your late Mintstey'td ye'Or Itoval and by an immediat two of PeerS e ifietn to sec ure th e Success of a t'onserea titu- ti"4 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, , .7' iyE.z . V 74; O' CL 0 CK, We have no arrival:, at consetjuenCe tins morni . n., u,..t a ship letter has come to . hand. 'Up to . the,pxesent Lonr there appears tO'be , a tie - ad calm in'the city, all an,N;.:.t.v.ly waiting for the list of the new Ninisters. Our rAttatmn at - this moment we may com pare.to iib ! L cAi tbat tho explosion will take place soon : after the new r e`-, o \iti. to 411 eruption.of Mount Vesuvius, and we nave Ministry Is known. Ile public are alio very anxious for ac counts front the various manufacturing towns. It is•generally reported that Parliament will he dissolved on Monday next, but it is tPQ ll 5ht that the new Government will not . profit by that bvent. THE Fr Nr)::;. Consols opened at the ca,ne prive they left yesttrday, e 3 tottho Acutrani, and fur thejury 'Account 83 .;. :he,Prenetr Trail attired tktis tuc.r.l;ng we have the follow ing,. tyklte from t rui,m3is that Colonel Krusewski has eted `%e tV4Vico or the Belgians, and several other Polish ()dicers Ore ialso going to enter. It is stated by accounts from the Vistula, that the Poles who are in Prussia are immediately to proceed to France, having had permission of the French Go vernment, dowse hear t h at a number of shops have ti k , in _heir win . " This house pays no taxes untiA tl4Fteforin I,Allpasses ( it . i i t t ° y a A l ( a id sv; ss, It is said that, has refuted to, receive the 24-4.47 - ,M Sle ONE. At length we hear, as ahnos 2;.,siti ve, that th e D u k e of Wer lington h as accepted the aiveolMinister, and is busy in collect Consols, l i nc ; his. cOC•ai r nes in the best manner lie can ; but nothing Alvial will be communicated until he has aocomplished his task. ,o much 'for this new collection. The grand question is, how long th isjunta will last, Ile must dissolve Parliament, or I,v in a continual turmoil with them; it is said he will .2c` with none hilt Tories. Great events will soon be on "'4 tapir, c; with one ~ 1 : ~,7 ~ can-foresee the results. which were 411 the early part of the morning At En% % have improved to 63A *idle Act4int, and 8-4 14 iur the July A7c:c.v,ut, • .., , , --- ,-- .. • T 4V'Express front Fali,:',2 *At understand, brings the Rents ~. • , • 7 P. 1 0P. leavin g ug. l - 4 we tit) 60, ther e f ore it see ms as yet that our changethe Ministry has not had much effect on the prices prices from P ar i s. U p t o t h e present hour we do not h ear of any account s f rom the country to be relied upon. In the the same as Yeste r d ay , Foreign Funds little or nothing doing---Prices much THREE 0 CLOCK. cwwltfot Account asi. • TO NEWSAGENTS. , We have received several letters from subscribersicottipl:-.1, tog of the irregular delivery or non-delivery of The Sun, trust that they will be more particuiar, as the grieyance it ti more telt curing the present excited state of public feeljug, The agent who supplies Tlic SMil . at Wootton.under-Edge informed that no paper arrived 'on Thursday, • • • "'"'"- arb • • *ltin 11-`. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 18S2. ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND QUEEN AINII THEIR RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE. ft being known that the KING would come t( town to-day, the greatest popular feeling was ex cited, and the line of road from Windsor to St James's Palace was thronged with people read) to receive him. At a quarter past twelve o'clock,, the Royal carriage reached H owns l ow , w h ere a strontt guard of about twenty men of the 9th Lancer joined the Royal carriage, in which were the KING and QUEEN. The postilions passed on at a rapid rate, and on entering the town of Brentford, the people who had assembled in great numbers, began to groan, hiss,-and make the most tremendous noises that can be imagined-- The escort kept behind and close t o the car-' riage ,windows, or in all . probability mischief would have ensued, as we were told a number of clots of dirt were hurled at the car riage. Along the roads to London the people expressed their feelings in a similar manner, and when the carriage entered the Park, the mob sa luted their MAJESTIES with yells .and.execra tions of every description, which we refrain from publishing. The moment the carriage entered the Palace-yard the gates were closed. Shortly after the arrival of the KING, the Duke of WELLINGTON arrived at the Palace, and, if possible, the people treated him worse than they did the KING. The Duke remained in conference with his Majesty about twenty minutes, and then left the palace, amid the most astounding yells of the populace. It is with feelings of deep and unfeigned re gret we announce the above—'-a week since, only a short week since, the KING was in full pos session of the greatest popularity any earthly MONARCH could enjoy, and now behold the change—by whom has it been effected ? The New Administration will not be an nounced to-day, it cannot before Monday.— Will it ever be announced at all? It was expected, by many well-informed per sons, that the Duke of WELLINGTON would have shown himself on the Treasury Bench in the House of Lords last night, although n,: new Administration existed, to the formation of which many difficulties have presented them selves. The faction, however, are desperate, and in a phrenzy of despair are capable of at• tempting anything. A conservative Cabinet will be formed ! And what is a conservative Cabinet ? Fellow-countrymen, you know by long and painful experience, it is a standing Committee to promote the interests of the Oli garchy at the expense of the nation. It cannot last however,—the attempt is as monstrous as its success is happily impossible. Sir ROBERT PEEL declines office, though he promises to support the Anti-Reforming Administration. This looks well—Sir ROBERT is a man of exceeding shrewd and quick discernment on some occasions. Lords HA R ROWBY and WHA RNCLIFFE both decline office: although they opposed the Reform Bill, they did not seek the dissolution of Earl GREY'S Ministry, and the latter is said to have intimated to the Duke that he must not reckon on his support. This again looks well, and will influence the votes of other Members in both Houses. It is of course impossible for an Anti-Reform Government to attempt to go on with the pre sent House of Commons, and immediately a Cabinet is formed a dissolution is contemplated. although the supplies are not voted and appro priated. That, however, signifies but little, — when a general enters an enemy's country, he takes what he likes for supplies without asking leave of the owners : that is strictly in accord ance with the acknowledged rules o the militar art. The people, hAever, must fly to their posts ; every wan should act as if a dissolution hail already taken place, and be were on a Com ' mittee to support Reform and Reform Candi dates, in every county, city, and borough where the people have the smallest influence in returning those who ought to, he their representatives. Above all, te4 them observe order and preserve the public peace, and beware of emissaries cram the head=quarters of the enenv—Avolye in sheeps' clothing. Union, , perseverance, good order and determination, will insure their triumph. ••- Let no reliance be placed on, Foraises and protestations. The Tor_, s will promise any thing or every, tlAi,ng, but perform nothing They wilipeoalise to pass a Bill, or Me and to do all or more than Lord GREY'S Mi nistry ; but believe them not, " the trutjt is not in them." Lord GREY WOll4l, Peers and passed the WI; wilt they do this ? Unless they 40, 4 0, wait can believe them. It they 44.4 Wotild they not have swindled their opponents They will, however, create Peers. The SPEAKER, it is said, is to be created a ton, Peer; the M ASTER of the, Ait,ILLS is t o b e created t to L ,014 thePeer,by,oo i l e kt a i tc s o e f at, V ise L o t i, o i r l d ,t twn4.l.:, it is said ; , goes, to the Rolls; Sir JAM ES SCARLETT iy to be Chief Baron ; Sir E. B. SuGimi, Attorney-General; Sze. &c. Mr. BA RING is to be Chancellor of the Ex chequer, a very appropriate apoointment, ,as he represents " his breeches,-pockets r• Tin principal duties of the. oica, however, are likel) -to devolve Hums, \\ ho is expected to give gratuitous assistance, that the new Chancellor of the Exchequer may have sufli ciant leisure to attend to his darling object the " conservation" of the rotten_, LADroughs of Ca inelford and Thetford. The Bris4ol PutitTeal Union has proved itself a worthy ally of that of Birmingham. .::A report of its most reeent proceedings iftir be fuund .io another part of The Sun, and those who Alesire to become acquainted with the opinions anus feelings of freemen ; to kop,w - how . they think, what they say, and haw they are prepared . to act, in a case of ercasi9g emergency, will„ do well to read it with, the. attention which its paramognt . importance demands. It is no empty,:ostenta,tiouk declaration of opinion. No Bnbadi,i7 display of valour. The Bristol Reformers are 136 . Ancient` Pistols,no Waverers, every se once has meaning in it. I A a word, every man among them, is stanch to the back-bone ; every -man among them is prepared f or any an d every e x i gency. Such as is Bristol, so is all England. The public ferment increases every hour, hut the public energy keeps pace with it. The re• solution to.. pay no time is -.universal. The-1 :esolution to cut i‘ff sl,,,plips through the Hie. diurn of the Ct . t:c.upnous is equally universal. bY, It- is under. these circumstances that his Grace • of- WELLINGTON takes, or is re ported -to take, office. Truly a raost , nisinvbegirming, and such as holds -out a Most tempting opportunity for military dictatorship! But unluckily the Prince of WATkitioci---svho should• have known better than to attempt' "'to r►val in his old age, Don Quixote's assault on the Windmills,—is stopped at the very threshold of his great resolves, by the refusal of the people to pay taxes. Not only this, but at the present moment, from one end of the country to the other, they are busily engaged in drawing up directions to their repre sentatives in Parliament to stop all further sup plies, until the Reform Bill become, entire and uninutilated, the law of the land. A dissolution of the House of Commons will not remedy this evil. It will only ward off— if it even do so much—the day of reckoning. Another House will instantly be formed, pledged. more deeply than ever to Reform. The people, with the eyes of Argus, and the hands of Briareus, will allow of no further subterfuge-- : -no further compromise. They will return no rats to Parliament. All who are not for them, they will declare against- them. All who cannot speak out, aye, and . to the point too, will have their free permission to refrain from speaking at all. - , The Parliamentary glories Of Lord CH A r A L Es. ; and C 110 K ER'S, and 1 - lERfttEs'S are thus at an end. The race of titled humbugs, political adventurers, and rank ignorant upstarts is thus extinguished for ever. The country has at le►,gth learned to distinguish its friends from its enemies, and will act accordingly. Possibly the Duke of WELLINGTON relies: on the army for support. Alas ! his Grace is here leaning on a prop, compared to which a bull-rush were a stout oak. The army, placed in opposition to the wishes and feelings of three kingdoms, can and will, do nothing. Fifteen years of peace have taught the soldier that he is a citizen; and were even this lessOn unheeded, still he will not be slow to remember the bar ricades of Paris. Besides, the soldier who would: act must be paid. And how this is to be ac complished except by the joint-stock purse of the Charles-street gang, we cannot, for the life of us, imagine. But another manoeuvre of the Duke's party has also come to our ears. They talk, we un,. derstand, of tiring out the people by shifts, by delays, by the Tory plan of alarming their pockets. But the people, we solemnly assure them, wilt not be beggared into submission. They will insist on their rights at all hazards. Mark this, Prince of WATERLOO, at all hazards ! ! The following forcible, but respectful, petition to his MAJESTY, imploring him to restore his late Ministers to office, has been resolved on by the Council of the Birmingham P o li t i ca l Union, It is pregnant with important facts, expressed in language of suitable earnestness and solemnity : TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. SIRE,—We, your Ma4esty's faithful and loyal subjects, call r, ourselves the Council of the Birmingham Political Union ,, irn- Pelied by the consideration of the present alarming crisis el 011 t country, beg leave respectfully to approach your Majesty. We have abundantly participated in the sentiment, of loyalty and devotion to pour Royal person, which your Majesty's paternaZ regard for your people has so generally inspired into the hearts. of our fellow.subjects throughout the empire These sentiments, cordial and enthusiastic, were in great reset. sure occasioned by thel Royal messa g e to Parliament, in whieb, in your solicitude for your people's welfare, your Majesty directed loth Houses to consider of a measure of Reform in the represen. tation of the people in the House of Commons, such a measure as should be calculated .` to secure the prerogative of the CroWe,, the authority of both Houses of Parlia usiot, and the rights see liberties of the people." In pursuance of the Royal instructions your Majesty's Mile's. ters introduced Bills iete both Houses, the object of which was to produce those beneficial results so wisely and so graciously con. templated by your Majesty, The House of Commons has with indefatigable labour, carc,, and pereeverence, entertained. and finally passed, the said Dill e , much to, the satisfaction of the whole nation. At the time when the question of Reform was submitted to the consideration of the Legislature, your Maiesty's faithful people were oppressed by grievous and almost intolerable burdens, and were sufferiog the most severe and general distress—burdens and distress which had been occasioned h• that system of m is.. government to which it wee your Majesty's paternal dishy, sition to put a happy and irrevocable determination. This grievous distress has gone on increasing in extent ens,. intensity, until almest all the whole of the industrious pe:pulii ;ion comprising the commercial, the manuthcturing, the tradit4, and the ekticUlettral classes of the community art on the brink of 1 7 1 . 11 .11, and ixinsequently the labouring millions dependent :in them fox support, are reduced to a state of privation bordce ng upon &mine ; but your Majesty's faithful subjects, ezec-oo r iged by your benevolent regard for their we are, have ratlently borne their accurettlated evils in the hope that a House of Com mons, chosen by themselves, would be able and willing to proceed. to the consideration and redress of their grievances. Your Majesty's gracious intentions for the good of your People have been conternissupusly frustrated, the House of Commons wanzonly ins:sited, and the people of England scorn fully defied by a ciess oiC person., whose interference in this great have so little sympathy with the King, the I - louse of Comrnom„ or the peeple, 44 to claim to be, in defiance of all three, the or ?nears recognised by the Constitutions, and wile. Living In the midst of the people of England, of whom wa constitute a portion, we are well acquainted with their senti bmi te a r s : of e t i h s e b r y ate of this great and powerful netion. ments, and that acquaintance enables ux to assure your Majesty your Majesty's gra c i ous most respectfully, that th e i r h opes have given way to the wildest despair, and that their pzekleut, cheerf u l, l oya l confidence- ir. r'r- , , , -eajOrnAiititheir regard has been changed into violent ex aspereizeo alseiltet those who haves° callously disre arded the wisb,ea.of theis s ing, the /louse o f C ommons, and the people. In tllieaWfsi,latete of the public mind, of which one day's con t i inAznce is. f,ra ;kht with thegreatest damger,we look up to your NialeetY s ia NYbosii hands are still placed the destinies of a nation, and we respectfully implore your Majesty, as the father of your people, to raise from the deep,. of despair, to call to the Royal Councils those Ministers in whom only they can place corr° fidence, and forthwith to exorcise that prerogative with which your Majesty has been issvcsted by the Constitution, so as to orotect the Royal ze,thority against the usurpation of an Olt. earchy, to tout arm the legitimate functions of the House of Commons, and by the.reetaration of their indispeztable rights, to miss'. again in the . sieerts of a happy and gratelul people. THOMAS ATTWOOD, Chairrmin, And Thirty-nine Members of the Council Birmingham, May 11, 1832. We understand on goud authority, that this morning Sir. R. PEEL was offered a high situation in the new Administration, Which he it once declined, 'rile latest rumour respecting the embryo eOLIGNAC Administration, now just about to chip the egg-shell, and launch •itself into life and action, is that the great Duke has resolved to act only with Tories. So much the better. It will precipitate the crisis—that awful crisis, which every hour hurries forward, which the country has long foreseen, long deprecated ; but for which it is fully prepared. Happen .vhat may the dungeon, or the sc:Afold, the Aeople's resolution is taken.. They will not yield, till their rights are restored to them. At the meeting of the Members of the House of Commons, which took place at BOODLE'S on Thursday, previous to Lord EBRINGTON making his motion, his Lordship, %ho was in the Ch a i r , a dd resse d hi mse lf t o M r . O'CONNELL, and inquired whether he was to xpect his supports Mr. O'CONNELL immedi itely and ma , ifully replied, that although Lord GREY'S Ministry had effected little for Ireland, yet as the interests of England were at stake, she brew. her grievances overb oar d f or t h e moment, and that he would cordially assist in promoting he great cause of Reform—a declaration that vas received with enthusiastic cheers. We re :oice th a t a rea l UNION o f f ee li ng an d sent i men t s at len g th t a ki ng place between the two ountries. The Sheffield Courant, announcing the re ignation ot . Ministers, has, we perceive, been it into deep mourning. R ECO RDER OF NEW CASTLE.—This gen -I,lnan, whose name, is COOKSON', died rather suddenly ou hunklay. Mr. LQSa and Mr. Nurfax afe spoken of as hi, iiccestari,