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LONDON :
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 9, 1837.

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN !

HAPPY AND GLORIOUS,
LONG TO REIGN OVER US !-

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN !

The weather, which for the last two or three days
has been inclement and foggy to a degree, has this
morning completely cleared up. For the time of year,
we never remember to have seen a finer day, or one
better suited to the purposes of the Royal procession,
which at this moment engrosses the attention of every
individual in the metropolis. Even while we write,
we can hear the loud roar of artillery on both sides
the river, and the hum of busy thousands along the
main road of the procession, which, even at this early
hour, is thronged almost to suffocation.
The Sun shines as refulgently as on a September day.

The Civic Festival of this day will be a memorable
one in the annals of our metropolis. It is always an
event of some interest and importance, when a Sove-
reign leaves for a moment that dignified seclusion
which is the ordinary condition of Royalty, and con-
descends to appear in a popular assembly. But on
the present occasion the event is doubly interesting,
when the heroine of to-day's pageant is a young
QUEEN on the bare verge of womanhood—radiant in
the bloom of youth and beauty—anti whom nature
and art are seen uniting to adorn. Nor are personal
graces the only ornaments of Queen VICTORIA. Her
MAJESTY has happily been endowed with what is more
valuable and more lasting, namely, an intelligent and
virtuous mind—a mind comprehensive enough to per-
ceive and know the duties of her high station, and
vigorous enough to fulfil them through evil report,
and through good report. We have little desire to
echo the strains of the thousand-and-one Court flat-
terers, who, at all times, and under all circumstances,
are fawning upon Royalty ; but we use no more than
the plain language of truth in asserting, that in all that
depends on the person and character of the SOVEREIGN,
no reign in our history, has ever dawned more auspi-
ciously than that of Queen VICTORIA.
If we recal the state of affairs at the time of the
late KING'S accession, the contrast is very favourable
to the present period. The late KING reti-,ined the
Tory advisers of his deceased brother for some months
after his accession. Those advisers (particularly the
Duke of NVELLINGTON) openly declared their hosti-
lity to Reform ; they counselled the KING not to com-
ply with the just wants and wishes of his people. And
what was the conscqUence ? The unpopularity of the
Ministers became such that the peace of the metropolis
was disturbed—the elements of sedition were set in mo-
tion—and neither the Ministry nor their 'loyal Master
could visit the city of London in safety. The intended
banquet to the KING could not take placc—and a
. very short time elapsed before the Tories were ousted

from office, and Lord GREY was made Minister upon the
strength of the cause of Reform, and the confidence of
the people. We need not relate the sequel. Suffice it to
say, that the country relies upon the Government of her
present MAJESTY, as one that is essentially based upon
Reforming principles, that is, composed of the friends
of free institutions—of the advocates of civil and religious
liberty throughout the world. There are differences among
Reformers, it is true ; but those differences are hap-
pily not such as to afford any encouragement to the
schemes of the Tories. The people have sense enough
to discern their real friends. They know that Lord
MELBOURNE, with all his faults, is better than Sir
ROBERT PEEL, with all his plausibilities. They put
their trust in their QUEEN, because all they know of
her is good—all they hear of her disposition leads
them to believe that she has at heart the welfare of
her people.

The English are a loyal nation. They are also a
gallant nation. They have'greeted to-day with a truly
chivalrous feeling the young and delicate woman, who
is carried along in the highest worldly splendour—the
SOVEREIGN of the most powerful people on the face
of the globe—the Mistress of populous and widely-
spread dominions in both hemispheres—dominions
on which the Sun never sets ! At the age of eighteen
Queen VICTORIA has attained the summit of human
ambition—she is not only the SOVEREIGN, but the
Idol, of a great nation. May she live long in the
hearts of her subjects ! May she never be approached
by those pernicious advisers who would estrange her
from them—who would teach her to fear popular liberty
—to dread the progress of constitutio:ial freedom !
May her Counsellors ever be such as are impressed
with the great truth, that the Crown is worn in trust
for the benefit of the people—that the administration
of the Government for the good of the Many is a so-
lemn duty for which they must one day answer to GOD
and their consciences—and that upon them is cast the
responsibility of using the powers committed to them,
to the end " that peace and happiness, truth and jus-
tice, religion and piety, may be established among us
for all generations."

It is only a few days since we had occasion to notice
an entertainment given by a section of the North
Cheshire Reformers to their excellent representative,
Mr.E. J. STA N L EY, at Staley-bridge. In our paper of
to-day will be found a report of a meeting at Hyde, where
a similar demonstration of the attachment of the men
of 'North Cheshire to the principles of Reform, and to
the Hon. Gentleman whom they have so judiciously
selected to advocate those principles in the House of
Commons, took place on Friday last. The Tories in
these northern puts have had the impudence to as-
sort, that there is here, as they fancy there is else-
where, a re-aclicha in the popular mind on the
question of Reform, and have taihed big of the
achievements which they will perform at the next
election that occurs in the district. Whatever
can be done by cm rupt and unconstitutional means—
the only means by which they can further their cause—
they will do ;. but it w:11 not be easy for them to im-
prove upon their past exertions in this Way, and we
cannot suppose that they consider their prospects
much bettered by the determined attitude which the
Reformers have assumcd, in consequence of their ini-
quitous proccetlings and vain boastings. The men of
North Cheshire feel as Englishmen, and are resolved
to assert the rights which belong to Enolishmen.
They will not sit quietly down, and see, with the in-
difference of slaves, the privileges which the Constitu-
tion of their country has conferred upon them, trodden
under the hoofs of an all-devouring aristocracy. They
know, that although individually they may fight the
battle of freedom at a disadvantage, united they are
invincible ; and under this conviction they are taking
measures to combine their efforts, and concentrate
their power, against the enemies alike of their liberties
and their happiness. With this noble object in view,
they have instituted a Reform Association, which,
while it affords a rallying point to those who hold
liberal principles ; will also, by the mutual support
which it affords, and the sympathy which it creates,
encourage the timid, fix the wavering, and make the
pulse of Reform, throughout the country, beat with
a livelier throb. Why is there not such an
Association in every county and every town in the
kingdom ? Will nothing rouse the Reformers to the
necessity of that organised co-operation which their
opponents have adopted, and the benefits of which
they have so largely experienced ?

At the first meeting of the North Cheshire Reform
Association,' a spirit has been displayed which we re-
gard as an earnest of success in the attainment of the
great and truly patriotic ends for which it has been
established. Between six and seven hundred per-
sons of high respectability assembled to form what
may be called merely the nucleus of the Society.
The speeches delivered were such as might have been
expected on an occasion calculated to call forth the
enthusiasm both of speakers and hearers. They were
full of animated eloquence—instinct with the genuine
spirit of liberty—and although they appear in our
pages from necessity in a greatly abridged form, they
will, we are sure, be perused with delight by all who
feel as they ought in the great cause which this Asso-
ciation is intended to advance. That of Mr. STANLEY
we think admirable. It is what may be called in the
best sense of the term an effective speech—not
from its personalities, for the speaker never des-
cends to these ; but for the truth, the manliness,
the force with which he utters what he has to say. To
use a trite but expressive phrase, he always hits the
right nail on the head, and, we may add, he never
fails to drive it home. On this occasion he stripped
the Tories to the skin, leaving them not a rag of hy-
pocrisy, either to cover their deformity, or to save
their backs from one of the severest castigations ever
bestowed upon them. If they are men of flesh and
blood.—which we very much doubt—they will long
writhe under it. Well may Mr. STANLEY
ask, when the senseless cry of " destroying
the Church" is raised and reverberated by an unprin-
cipled faction," what action of the Ministry has ever
manifested the remotest tendency to the destruction of
the Church ? To every person not divested of the
last particle of honesty—not entirely given over to the
tyranny of party—it must appear as clear as the sun
at noon-day, that there never was an Administration
that did so much as the present one has done, to con-
solidate and strengthen the Church. The Tithe
Commutation Act alone is sufficient to prove the
falsehood as well as the ingratitude of the charge.
Let those clerical firebrands look at the feeling mani-
fested on the Church-rate question in England. Let
them next cast their eyes towards Ireland, and contem-
plate the spectacle which the Established Church
there exhibits, and then let them reflect on the posi-
tion in which Mother-goose, as the Oxford parson very
happily designated her, would have found herself, in
a brief space of time, without the Tithe Act.

There is, however, no part of Mr. STANLEY'S
speech conceived in a happier manner than that in
which he alludes to the " No Popery" clamour. 'We
cannot, limited as our space is, avoid pointing the at-
tention of our readers to the following striking pas-

saae :
" But we are going to establish Popery. What act of the