The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-24 00:00:00

THE FtINDS.7-_-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Our arrivals this morning are the French Mails, and ship
letters from Berbice, Valparaiso, Demerara, Rio Jancrio ;
Singapore, 19th September.; Calcutta, 9th, loth, and 25th
September ; Madras, 31st August ; Mauritius and New York.
We have also received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 20th
November; Calcutta, to the 21st September ; and New Bruns-
wick Papers to the 10th December.
(From the Cape Papers.)
" ITaraxn,toE, Nov. 9.—The rage for Emigration to
Natal still continues. Many families and their flocks are
already on the road to the promised land. This district has
been visited by some copious showers."
(From the New Brunswick Papers.)
10 PROVINCIAL. LEGISLATURE.—The representatives in Ge-
neral Assembly for this quarter, are about taking their de-
parture for the seat of Government, to be pment at the
opening of the Session of the Legislature on Tuesday next.
Recent important dispatches, received by the Executive from
the Home Government, leads us to anticipate a session of
great interest."

- Buenos Ayres papers to the 13th November have been re-
ceived. We extract the following :—" Our readers will per-
ceive by the abstract of official documents, that changes have
taken place in the administration of two of the interior pro-
vinces, but changes effected in a constitutional mode. Cata-
marca has followed the example of Salta and Jugui.
Monte Video journals to the oth inst. contain very little
news. Exchange at Rio on London, 37 ; Stocks, 881 ;
Exchange at Buenos Ayres on London, doubloons, 1221 ;
Exchange, 7i.
In the course of yesterday the terms mentioned at which
the dead weight would be disposed of by the Bank Directors,
was 171. 10s. for every 11. of Annuity ; but on some offers be-
ing made at 17/., the parties were given to understand, it is
said, that 17/. ss. would be the lowest sum accepted.
Late yesterday afternoon several commercial failures were
announced on 'Change.

THE FUNDS.
Consols opened this morning at 893- for Account ; Money,
891 ; Exchequer Bills, 24 26 ; India Bonds, 19 20 ; Bank
Stock, 206 207 ; India Stuck, 256 258.
• Spanish Active, 254- 4-; Passive, 7+ ; Deferred, 11 12i ;
Portuguese, 481; Three per Cents., 301 a ; Colombian, 251;
Dutch Two-and-a-half, 53:f 54.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
We continue in the same dull state as in the early part of
the morning, without any further arrivals, and with little busi-
ness doing in either of the markets. The speculators and
monied interest are looking to next Thursday, when it is ex-
pected some communication or hint will be given by the Bank
Directors respecting the dead weight, the sale of which ap-
pears almost as certain.
Consols may be quoted at 89 43_ for the Account. Ex-
chequer Bills, 24 26 prem. ; India Bonds, 19 21; Bank
Stock, 206 205 ; India Bonds, 258.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 25i ; Passive, 7 ;
Deferred, 11 ; Portuguese, 48 ; Three per Cents., 301.;
Columbian, 25 ; Mexican, 241; Dutch, 53,- 54k._
From the Buenos Ayres papers of the sth of November :
The following is a copy of a note addressed to the Chairman
of the Committee of the British Merchants, by Mr. Mande-
ville, H. B. M. Minister :

Sir,—l have been informed by the Minister of Foreign
Affairs that hostilities have commenced between Chili and
Peru. (Signed)... .

'MANDEVILLE.
(From the Buenos Ayres Papers of Nov. 12.)
Another note was sent by Mr. Mandeville, stating that ac-
counts had been received of a convention being concluded on
board his Majesty's ship Talbot, on the 28th of August, by
Nihich an amnesty was agreed upon for four months, giving
time for a final settlement of the differences.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 89a 11.

There is• no truth in the report that one of the
daughters of Sir Thomas Lethbridge is about to be united
to E. A. Seaford, Esq., M.P.
The conduct of the Mayor of Hull, in refusing to
accede to the wish of a requisition, and convene a meeting
on the subject of church rates, does not meet with imita-
tion. A requisition has been presented to the Mayor of
Lincoln, requesting that he will call a public meeting in
that city, which he promptly acceded to ; he states in his
answer—" Believing it to be my duty, as a public officer.
to afford my fellow-citizens every facility in giving expres-
sion to their opinions upon subjects of public import, I
feel bound to comply with the above requisition."— IM
Advertiser.

PEEL'S KNIVES ANI) FORK-S.—The. knives and
forks used at the Peel banquet amounted to forty-three
gross, and weighed eleven hundred weight.--Doweaster
Gazelle.

The increase in the Customs at Yarmouth, for the
year ended sth January, 1837, is 7,0001.
A gentleman, of Henley-on-Thames, offered a
farmer, when at the market, a dinner and a bottle of wine,
if he would bring with him a grain of wheat on the follow-
ing market ,day, anti double the quantity each week until
that day twelvemonth. This was readily acceded to fin
the -moment ; but the following statement will perl..aps
satisfy those who have never entered into any simi-
lar -calculations o the impassibitity of fulfil.':,,cg such
an etigagemera of the munbe:r of grains,
4,503,599,627,57Q,4g:ii number 0tThubhe15,12,509,998,9j4 ;
number of Quartersi 1.;t^,_,3)749,870; munber of loads,
f. 112,749,974.., •

If we refer with pride and satisfaction to the
magnificent meeting held yesterday in Drury-lane
Theatre, it is not, assuredly, because we deem any
such manifestation necessary ao prove that the people
are not their own enemies ; that they are not possessed
with burning impatience to be once more plundered
and trampled on by the Tories ; that they are not in-
eetsitile to the blessings of civil and religious liberty ;
anxioir; to strip theirrelees of all the privileges ex-
torted from the oli,arcliv by the Reform , • Bill, to lay
them at the feet of the boroughtnongers, and to bend
their necks to the yol;e of virtual representation. We
have no taste for any such work of supererogation. To
the enemies of the people great efforts are no doubt
necessary to carry on the war of falsehood and decep-
tion, by which alone they can have the remotest
chance of succeeding in their objects. To produce in
any quarter a persuasion that a change has come over
the public i that there has been a reaction—that
the people arc sick of the Reform Bill, deeply ena-
moured of the men who sought to prevent their obtain-
ing it, and bursting with gratitude to the Tory Peers,
who have done so much to render the Reform Bill
al:ortivois evidently a task or no ordinary magnitude;
and the Tories who enter on that task must ride and
run, and make the most of their. forces; by due parade,
if they hope even a partial success in their work of de-
lusion. But the people have nothing to gain by de-
ception. They have the consciousness that in them-
selves all poc.'er is centered, and that whenever they
choose to put forth that power it must be irresistible.
They do not, therefore, deem it necessary to seek to dazzle
the senses by gaudy structures of colossal inagnitude,
and much idle pomp and show, but are satisfied with
meeting in their different localities to give an honest
expression to their constitutional feelings, and testify
their sense of the conduct of their representatives.
Viewed in that light, Reformers may well be proud of
the display of yesterday. We never witnessed more
order and regularity in so great a multitude. The whole
house appeared to be so arranged as to give admission
to the greatest possible number. Stage, pit, boxes,
and galleries were all thronged, and the Tory must
have been strangely constituted who could look on the
numbers and respectability assembled around him, and
yet retain the persuasion that, notwithstanding this
splendid exhibition, there was no doubt of re-action.
The contrast between the noise and fury of the Tories
and the calm bearing of the Reformers was very hap-
pily drawn by Mr. Clay :
" Now," said the Hon. Gentleman, " it is the masses
who are tranquil, and the upper classes are disturbed. I
protest the most turbulent class of the community, at this
moment, is the Tory aristocracy ; and if at any meeting
language of a very dangerous and almost seditious kind is
used—such, for instance, as drawing the sword, civil or
otherwise, according to the discretion of the speaker, against
the constitutional power of the majority—ten to one but it
is a meeting of Tory peers and squires, and reverend gen-
tlemen, most of them worth two or three livings. Let, how-
ever, these well-dressed agitators not reckon too much on
the calm attitude of the people. They are tranquil, but
their tranquillity is not indifference : it is the repose of con-
scious strength—it is the slumber from which the giant will
awake refreshed—it is the pause of the mighty river, which
seems to sleep in the bosom of the lake, until it again pre-
cipitates itself on the obstacles that oppose its onward
course."

There seemed to be but one feeling among all the
Reformers present as to the importance of having
power in the hands of a Reform rather than a Tory
Ministry. " Is it nothing (exclaimed Mr. Clay) to
place at the disposal of our opponents, and to array
against the progress of our own principles every source
of influence, from the ermine and the mitre to the post
of a tide-waiter in the Customs ?" We are glad to
perceive that on this point all were united, so that the
hopes built by the Tories on the disunion of the Re-
formers r2st on a very insecure foundation. The ses-
sion which approaches will undeceive them. All Re-
formers will support Ministers ; they will not commit
the unspeakable folly of assisting in driving Ministers
from power, in order that their places may be sup-
plied by those who hate them, because their measures
are too liberal. The people may be assured that all
who atK;ct to view it as a matter of indifference,
whether Lord Melbourne, or Sir Robert Peel, be
at the head of affairs, are not honest Reformers.

Such pretended Reformers found assuredly no
countenance at the Drury-lane meeting. The speech
of Mr. Byng will be read with much interest, on ac-
count of the valuable points of comparison it sup-
plies. They who are dissatisfied with the present
times, may see that Mr. Byng commenced his career
in much worse. The great enemy of the people in all
times is ignorance. Against that enemy they cannot
be too much on their guard. Ignorance is the great
ally of the Tories ; whenever they are strong, it will
be found that ignorance fills their ranks. The humi-
liating confession made by Mr. Byng, that nine out of
ten of the people of this country were in favour of the
unjust awl impolitic war waged against France at the
breaking out of the Revolution, ought to be a warning
to make constant head against ignorance and prejudice,
its offspring. The Reformers are now united and
strong ; but they can only be strong and united by
adhering to principles, and respecting the civil and
religious rights of each other. Among the most de-

Ugrian] exhibitions of this great festival was the truly
admiral le manner in which the Noble Chairman dis-
charged the dutieS of his post. We congratulate the
friends of reform on this bright and important acces-
sion to their ranks. The advocates of popular rights,
whik have grieved at the apparent dearth of high talent
amongst the younger branches of aristocratic families,
may well rejoice in the evidence which Lord Russell
afforded last night of his well-founded claim to take
his place amongst the public men best able to per-
form useful services to their country. In all our ex-
perience of public meetings, we never saw the duties
of a Chairman discharged with more easy elegance
and dignified propriety ; and we are sure the sense of
the meeting will bear us out in our assertion
that it was impossible to enforce liberal sentiments with
more happy and effective eloquence. The rare union
of brilliant talent with a deportment at once manly
and graceful, justify the people in looking forward to

a continuance of the connection between themselves
and the distinguished family which has so long been
associated with the support of the liberties of the
nation. Many of the speeches delivered last night
were excellent. Mr. Ward's and Mr. Charles ]3ul-
- told with great effect. Mr. Hume spoke with
his usual cordiality. Our opinion of Mr. Clay's
speech may be gathered from the use we have made of
it ; but where there was so much excellence we must
content ourselves with a general reference. Our limits
preclude our doing more.—Morning Chronicle.
We point the attention of our readers to the report
which will be found elsewhere of the great Middlesex
Dinner yesterday in 'Drury-lane Theatre, with a de-
gree of satisfaction and delight which it is impossible
for us to express, but which those of our readers who
know our enthusiasm in favour of Reform can readily
enough comprehend. Those who previously calcu-
lated upon a disunion in the Reform camp, and built
upon that disunion the hope of once more introducing
themselves to power and place, and the patronage of
corruption and abuse in every department of the State,
tvill now learn that their hopes were but a rope of
sand, and that there is About as much chance of
the Shah of Persia or the Great Mogul disinheriting
the legal descendants of his present Majesty, is of
the Tories ousting the present Administration by
means of any domestic feud among the Liberals of
Great Britain and Ireland. No, there is no disunion
among the Liberals. Difirences do exist among them
respecting the time when—and the extent to 'which—
certain measures ought to be brought forward and
supported ; but there is not the slightest question or
division of opinion with respect to two main points—
the keeping of the Tories out of office, and the
maintenance, in opposition to them, of a Liberal Ad-
ministration. Not only were all the speakers most
unanimous upon this point, beginning with Mr. Byng,
the father of the present House of Commons, and
closing with those whose sentiments, growing with
their growth, and strengthening with their strength,
are somewhat in advance of that venerable gentleman—
but the company present were equally so—and
where, we ask, has a more numerous or more re-

speetable company been seen ? The thunders of
applause which echoed from side to side of the
immense dinner circle, upon every allusion to
the destruction of the Tories, was only exceeded

by the still louder thunders which followed
every appeal to union among Reformers, and to sup-
port of Lord Melbourne's Government. Never, in
fact, was tjicre a more foul, or a mere foolish, slander
upon the Liberals of the United Kingdom, than the
bare imagination that any considerable portion of them
would, for the purpose of even expressing their own
individual opinions—much less urging them—expose
the Government of Lord Melbourne to jeopardy or
hazard. The idea was scouted, as it ought to have
been, by every one present—and by none more strongly
than Mr. Hume, who laughed to scorn the attacks
which had been made upon him, because, in an
imminent crisis, be had declared that he would
vote that black was white, rather than expose
the country to greater perils than could possibly result
from his supposed defection from Reform principles.
With regard to open questions—that is to say, fair
discussion of debateable matters, such as the Ballot,
Triennial Parliaments, and others—the feeling of the
meeting was pretty strongly, though not universally,
evinced in favour of them ; but even with regard to
these questions, there was not one present who was
not ready to surrender them, rather than by their dis-
cussion assist the Tories in their madness for office.
Many other points were mooted in the course of the
evening—such as confidence in hiS Majesty's Minis-
ters—justice to Ireland, &c.—to which we have neither
time or space to allude till to-morrow. Suffice it to
say that we have given the spirit of the meeting, and
that to-morrow we shall endeavour to do justice to the
admirable speeches and sentiments expressed upon the
occasions—Morning Advertiser.
Drury Lane Theatre—the scene of many a good
and bad performance in its time—was crowded yester-
day by the Whig-Radicals, who, having resolved to
get up a Reform dinner, strained every nerve to give
stage effect to the undertaking. A report of this la-
boured effort will be. found in another place. One of
the great objects of the meeting was to exhibit the nu-
merical strength of a party who, with all their talk and
boast of Lumbers, have latterly manifested anything but
a tendency to increase. It would, indeed, be strange,
if, with all the pains that have been taken, and with
all the facilities which a crowded and diversified popu-
lation affords, the attempt should be found to fail
altogether in the metropolis, with its Radical boroughs
and their Radical Representatives at command. Ac-
cordingly it appears, that they made a very tolerable
muster at head-quarters. As a dinner patty the thing
was well enough, but as a national manifestation of
the preponderating power of Whigs and Radicals, which
is the exhibition we were threatened with, the display
was nothing short of contemptible. What comparison
can there be as a test of party strength between the
1,200 or 1,500 Destructives collected in the metropo-
lis of London, and the 3,000 Conservatives assembled
in the remote city of Glasgow, without any beating up
for recruits ; in short,without the exertion of any other
influence than the spontaneous energy of the Conser-
vative principle itself. But there was another object
in this meeting, which, if not so plainly avowed by the
prime movers or principal performers in the drama, was
one which they had quite as much at heart—that object
was to keep the present Ministers snug in their places.
It is well known that the extreme Radicals have lately
become rather restive in the traces, and begin to think
it hard work to be dragging Ministers through the dirt
without any corresponding advantage to themselves. A
blow-up seemed therefore inevitable, unless something
could be done to sink what are called, strangely enough,
" minor differences," in order to restore that good
understanding between Whigs and Radicals which is
necessary to the continuance of the Whigs in office.
Mr. Hume laboured hard, as he has always done, for
this purpose. The burden of his song was, that the
Conservatives must be kept out, or in other words that
the Ministers must be kept in—a very cheering note
fOr the present occupants of Downing-street. His fa-
vourite expedient is that of keeping certain questions,
and those the most important in a constitutional sense,
open questions in the Cabinet. Now, however the
theory of open questions may be glossed over by inge-
nious painters of language, the practical operation is
this—that open questions, such as vote by ballot, an-
nual Parliaments, and universal suffrage, involving in
their consequences no less than the utter subversion of
the British Constitution, the Ministry as a Ministry
shall have no opinion of its own. How long Mr.
Hume intends that the Ministry who could accept such
a compromise should remain in power, we have no
means of ascertaining ; but we think we can venture to
assure him that hours and not days would be the mea-
sure of their political life. It is not, however, our in-
tention to criticise the performance of yesterday with
any degree of minuteness. Having called the attention
of our readers to the subject, and placed the report
before them, we shall have done enough to show that
the great effort of the Whig-Radicals was one which
may be contemplated without much alarm. If their
numbers be so moderate, and their expedients so im-
practicable, we may safely rely upon the good sense of
the-community for protection against all their manceu-
vres.—Morning Herald.
The great Middlesex Reform dinner, which has given
occasion to so many preliminary puff's, was the per-
formance of last night on the stage of the Theatre
Royal Drury-Lane. We believe the meritorious per-
sons who usually perform upon this stage are entitled
to designate themselves his Majesty's servants. Last
night, however, none of his Majesty's servants
ventured to present themselves to the audience'.
And they judged wisely : the assembly would
not have suited them, nor would they have suited
the assembly ; for the meeting at Drury-Lane con-
sisted chiefly of persons who seem at least to
mean something, and, what is worse, who seem to be
fully aware that the King's servants mean nothing but
to keep themselves in place. Had the meeting been
intended as a Ministerial manifestation there could have
been no hesitation in pronouncing it an unequivocal fai-
lure. But to do justice to it we must not regard it in
this light. It was a meeting, to judge from its proceed-
ings, neither decidedly friendly nor decidedly hostile to
his Majesty's Ministers—a meeting intended ostensibly
to promote objects which his Majesty's Ministers do
not yet venture openly to avow—a meeting of which
the distinct, specific, and immediate purpose seemed to
be to save, if possible, Mr. Joseph Hume's seat for
Middlesex. The assembly was numerous, and, re-
garded as.an assembly in support of Mr. Hume's next
election, it was as respectable as could have been ex-
pected. But yet it presented very satisfactory evidence
that Mr. Hume's re-election for Middlesex is perfectly
hopeless, and evidence still more satisfactory that Mr.
Hume, unpopular as he has evidently become, is still
popular in comparison with those Ministers to whom
lie professes to give a qualified support. Of the ora-
tory displayed at this meeting we may convey an accu-
rate idea to our readers by the simple statement that
Mr. Hume was, beyond all comparison, the best and
most effective speaker who addressed the Chair. This
remark may seem excessively severe ; and Mr. Clay,
Mr. Grote, Mr. Duncombe, Mr. Ward, Mr. Charles
Buller, Mr. Warburton, and the Chairman, Lord
Russell, who were the other orators of the assembly,
may perhaps think that, in making it, we do them
less than justice. But we confidently appeal to every
man who was present, whether the observation be
not strictly and undeniably correct ; and the public will,
we imagine, be at no loss to judge from this circum-
stance what was the average display of talent upon
the occasion. The effect, Indeed, upon the meeting
was precisely such as would naturally be expected
from effusions of which those of Mr. Hume were the
most eloquent and glowing. We never before had the
misfortune of being present at a festive assembly of
so cold a temperament, or so dreary an aspect. Mr-
Clay laboured hard to excite sonic degree of enthusiasm
when he invited the assembly to resoond to the toast
of " Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers,"
but he laboured in vain. He was surrounded by
living masses of ice, and the successive periods of his
well-studied oration fell ineffectual from his lips. Nor
was the fate of Mr. Grote much better, although lie
had to deal with the more stimulating subject of short
Parliaments and vote by ballot." These well-known
sounds, and the topics with which they are habitually as-
sociated, failed to arouse the assembly from its lethargy.
The cheers, when cheers there were,proceeded evidently
from something less than a twentieth part of the meet-
ing, while all the rest were in a state of torpor, from
which nothing could awaken them. Even the
O'Connell cry of " Justice to Ireland," the Whig-