The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-05 00:00:00

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LONDON :
TFLURSDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 5 1837

Lr another part of The Sun of this day will he found
some interesting particulars relative to the QUEEN'S
visit to Brighton. It ha. been our duty for some time
past to give accounts of public meetings and dinners.
where party spirit—quite a :natter of course on such
occasions—prevailed to a considerable extent ; but in
the instance of this great gatherin2; of multitudes, hut
one seutiment prevailed—namely, that of enthusiastic
loyalty. Tory, Whig, and Radical vied with each
other in the ci,::monstrations of their ardent attachment
to our " youthful QUEEN." The scene by all aconots
must have been an extremt!ly imposing one, for the day
was propitious, and the crowd; of people were enor-
mous, amounting, it is said, to nearly a hundred
thousand. We have heard that the present is her
MAJgSTY'S first visit to Brighton. Sure we :'re that,
it will not be her last ; and sure also are we, that she
will never enter it under more auspicious circumstances.

The City of London has given another practical
proof of the absence of all sectarian bigotry among
the great body of the wealthy and intelligent citi-
zens of the metropolis, by the election of Mr. MOSES
MONTEFIORE—a professed Jew—to the honoura-
ble and important office of Sheriff of London and
Middlesex. It is by such appointments as this that
the ignorant must be convinced of the folly and
the wickedness of the prejudices so long and unjustly
maintained against the professors of the Jewish
religion. The nomination of the Jews to offices of
honour and trust in the City of London will be at-
tended with two important advantages, namely—
it will prove that the Reform body are
sincere in their professions of universal toleration ;
and it will afford the members of the Jewish body
signal opportunities of manifesting their worthiness of
being placed on a footing of perfect equality with
the rest of their fellow-subjects. It cannot be de-
nied, that the man who is fit to discharge faithfully
and impartially the duties of Sheriff of London and
Middlesex is, as far as regards religious sentiments,
perfectly qualified to represent either London or Mid-
dlesex in the Commons' House of Parliament. We
therefore hail the election of Jews to the office of She-
riff as a positively preliminary step to their election
to seats in the House of Commons, should the House
of Lords continue to render such a step necessary to the
passing of th• bill for their °emancipation. Our
report of the speeches delivered at the Sheriffs' ;.11-
auguration dinner well displays the feeling at present
abroad on the subject of granting equal rights to the
members of the Jewish as well as every other religion.

We direct the attention of our readers to an abstract
of the speeches delivered at a public, entertainment
given by the enlightened Reformers of Stockport to Mr.
Alderman BROWN, on the occasion of presenting him
with two pieces of plate, in testimony of the high
estimation in which his fellow townsmen held
his exertions to overthrow Toryism in that ancient
borough. The perfect unanimity with which the
several gentlemen, who addressed the meeting, recom-
mended a cordial support of her MAJESTY'S present
Government, calls for our marked, and entire appro-
bation. It was well observed by Mr. MARSLAND, the
liberal representative of the Borough, that the strength
of the Reformers consists in their Union—in their
forgetfulness of all petty differences of opinion—in
their merging of all personal jealousies in the great
struggle for the obtaining of justice for Ireland—for
the empire. The speech of the Hon. Member for
Waterford, Mr. WYSE, who attended the meeting,
and was received with shouts of applause by the
honest Radicals of Stockport, eloquently illustrates
the great advantages of a general system of na-
tional education. No man in the British empire has
laboured more assiduously to promote the education of
the humbler classes than has the Hon. Member for
Waterford. It was he who concocted the plan of
Irish education adopted by Lord STANLEY, when
Secretary for Ireland. The Government Bill for the
general education of the poor of Ireland was no more
than a transcript of a Bill previously submitted to it
by the Hon. Gentleman. His opinions, therefore, on
the subject of national education are entitled to great
respect. But perhaps the most important speech de-
livered in the course of the evening was one by Mr.
JAMES COPPOCK, Secretary of the Reform A ssocia•
tion, on the necessity of increasea activity on
the part of the Reform body. " Years of per-
secution and plunder," he observed, " had made
the Tories adepts in the arts . of bribery and
corruption. Almost every Lord Lieutenant was
Tory—every Magistrate Tory—from the Judicial
Bench to the beadle of the Court Leer, every office
was filled by Tories. The subalterns too, in every
Government office were Tories, and with the tactics j