The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON M(NDAY, MAY 20,

upon truth, than that founded on fallacy.—( Hear.)
Nothing could be more constitutional, nothing could be
more graceful, falling from the lips of a British
Minister, than this. Gentlemen, I believe it fully--I
believe it from what I have heard to day—l believe that
there is good sense among the people, and that dis-
cussion will advance the truth.—(Cheers). But you
will also allow me to say that discussion should be ac-
companied by moderation—violence retards Reform
—it must progress, but violence shocks it and gives a
hindle to its enemies—violence creates a weapon against
yourselves.—(Cheers.) I must also say that the people
have suffered much from democratic demagogues—
(Hear)—demagogues who, not of the people, raise them-
selves by the people—(Cheers)--and who are ever ready
to abuse the confidence reposed in them.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen, I can give you no stronger specimen of this
than is to be found in the conduct of that renegade poli-
tician Sir Francis Burdett.—(Cheers.) What stronger
illustration can I give you in asking you to beware of
them ?—( Hear.) I remember the day when Sir Francis
Burdett was an advocate for Universal Suffrage,
Annual Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot ; I can re-
member seeing him in Westminster mount his car
like a modern Juggernaut, with the people ready
to immolate themselves beneath its wheels.—(Hear,
hear, hear.) His was no peaceful track—it was
marked by blood. Yes, the blood of the people was
shed in support of the principles of Sir Francis
Burdett.—(Hear.) What could dry the tears of the
widow and sooth the sorrows of the orphan but the
support and sympathy of the man for whom the husband
and the father had sacrificed life.—(Cheers.) They
shed their blood for him, but where is he now ?—laugh-
ing to scorn the very principles in behalf of which they
suffered.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, if Sir Francis Bur-
dett can be likened to anything, it is to Trinculo in
Shakspeare's play of the Tempest.—(Laughter.) Like
Trinculo, he has been shipwrecked—not on the shores
of an enchanted island, to be sure, but on the sunken
rocks of disappointed ambition.—(Cheers.) Like Trin-
culo, too, he has found a monster, and has sheltered
himself under the folds of his gaberdine, and there he is
to be seen, night after night, hugging his newly-found
Caliban on the Tory benches of the House of Corn-
mons.—(Cheers and laughter.) And, gentlemen, may
I not say for Old Glory, as Trinculo said, when he took
shelter beneath the gaberdine of the monster, " Mi-
sery makes a man acquainted with strange bed-
fellows ?"—(Loud cheers and laughter.) As I have
resorted to the drama for a resemblance to one great
demagogue, you will allow me to say that there is
another who is suspected, at least—a man of splendid
talents—capable of electrifying assemblies by his elo-
quence—sound in some points, but I am afraid, showing
evidences of disappointment and pique—l mean Lord
Brougham.—(Hear.) Look, for instance, at his con-
duct towards Lord Durham, and as regards Malta. I
will not liken him to Trinculo, but I will say that he re-
sembles anothi'r character in the same play ; he has not,
like Trinculo, sheltered himself under the gaberdine of
the Tory monster, but, like Stephano, he has com-
menced a flirtation with the monster—(Laughter)—
and has asked him to partake of his bottle.—( Cheers.)
But the genius of the British people shall rise, like
another Prospero, and chase the monster and his
companions back to their den.—(Prolonged cheer-
ing.) It is not my intention to say much more,
but I will let the last word be on the subject of
our gracious Mistress.—(Cheers.) She has called upon
her Ministers to stand by her now, and she expects the
people of Englund to do so also.—(Great cheering.)
But how are you to do so ? I have already stated that
the Reform Bill requires amendment, and I am sure we
are all sensible that the Registration Courts require
amendment.—(Great cheering.) We may conjecture
such a thing as an officer entrusted with the adminis-
tration of the law in those Courts, being a violent poli-
tical partisan—(Cheers)—we may believe that there are
some men whose minds are so constituted as to admit
of their going any lengths to advance the interests of
their party, regardless of the dignity of their office and
of the high and important duties which they arc called
upontolperform.—( Hear.) We may imagine the possibi-
lity of there being a corrupt and venal officer, capable of
perverting the law to the scandal of justice. This subject
must come before the Legislature, and to this 'pledge rey.
self, that whenever it does come before the House of
Commons, Bristol shall form a conspicuous figure. I
will now tell you what you can dc to show your
devotion to the Queen. Hasten to the Registration
Court ; suffer not your enemies to overpower you ;
support those conscientious men who are ready to serve
the city, and are friends of economy, in your municipal
elections ; register yourselves ; do not let the Tories
steal a march on you ; you have shown what you can
do; do not go to sleep at your posts.—(Loud cheers.)
We have had many compliments paid to our illustrious
Queen ; one lately paid her by Sir Robert Peel, as
handsome as it was deserved, forced upon him by the
Queen's own merits. When Sir Robert was elected
for Tamworth, he attempted to be complimentary to the
Queen, hut his attempt was not so happy as it might
have been. Gentlemen, he compared her Majesty to
Marie Antoinette, who, as you remember, fell a victim at
the period of the first French Revolution. If Sir Robert
had compared her to the most beautiful woman that ever
existed, her Majesty would have considered it gross flat-
tery, and turned from him with contempt. I am unable
to account for his doing this, unless with the in-
tention of quoting Burke; but he should not have
quoted Burke, the great orator though mistaken
politician, whose situation I now unworthily
fill.—(" No, no," and cheers.) He should hay e
quoted Burke, the fine writer, and there he would have
found words in which he might worthily compliment
the Queen. In Burke's " Essay on the Sublime and
Beautiful," there is this passage—" By beauty I mean
that quality which causes love." Is not Victoria then
beautiful?—(Tremendous cheers.) I assure you that
I shall feel honoured in laying your address at the feet
of the Queen.—(Cheers.) You have named with me
for that office a noble relative, and on behalf of Lord
Segrave, I can assure you that he will feel it an honour
conferred upon him by a meeting so numerous and re-
spectable as this. The Hon. Gentleman then sat down
amidst the most tumultuous plaudits.
After a vote of thanks to the Mayor for the use of
the hall, and to the Chairman for his obliging conduct
in the chair, the meeting broke up, giving hearty cheers
for the good cause.

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

THE ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY.

On Saturday, at a meeting of this Vestry, Mr. Flood
the Clerk, read a memorial from the Parochial Commit-
tee (which consists of 500 members), in which they ap-
plauded the patriotic and prompt conduct of the Vestry
respecting the recent Address to the Queen.
On the motion of Mr. HOVENDEN, seconded by Dr.
PRITCHARD, the memorial was ordered to be entered
on the minutes.

The CHAIRMAN (Mr. A. Daniell) having read the
minutes of the Address to her Majesty, and the pay-
ment of 91. 141.9 d. for advertisements relative thereto,
Mr. FOSTER (a Conservative) said the Vestry were
bound to disburse the rates that were placed at their
disposal faithfully and economically, and they had no
right to apply them to political instead of parochial pur-
poses. It was quite 'clear that the Vestry Clerk had
paid the money in his own wrong, and he should re-
luctantly move (but he did it upon principle), " That.
the minutes, authorising payment of the sum, be non-
confirmed."
Mr. WING seconded the motion.

Mr. COCPIRANE said, Alien the public 'saw money
cellected for one purpose devoted to political ends, he
could not but believe that the precedent would be of
a very mischievious tendency, and no person could fore-
tel where the evil would end.

Earl MaNvEns should hold up his hand against the
confirmation of the minutes.
After some discussion,

Mr. BAGSHAWE moved as an amendment, " that the
minutes be confirmed."—(Cheers.)
Mr. HANNAY seconded the amendment.

Mr. Josurn characterised the proceedings of the fac-
tion to which Mr. Foster belonged as a gross attempt
to deprive the Vestry Clerk of 9/. 14s. 9d., which he
had paid out of his own pocket.—(Hear, and No.)
Mr. FOSTER having replied, the question was put,
and the minutes were confirmed by an overwhelming
majority.
Sir BENJAMIN HALL, M.P., explained that he had
forwarded the address to Lord Durham for presenta-
tion, and that his Lordship had acknowledged the re-
ceipt of it in a letter dated the 13th instant. The
Hon. Member then read the following letter, which he
stated he had subsequently received from the Noble
Earl

" Cleveland-row, May 15, 183 9.
" SIR,•-.-It appears by the Gazette of last night that
her Majesty's Levee is postponed till further orders. I
have therefore to repuest that you will inform me
whether it is wished that I should forward the Address
from the Vestry of Marylebone to the Secretary of State
for immediate presentation to her Majesty, or retain it
until I can present it myself at the first Levee.
Your most obedient servant,

(Signed)
" Sir B. Hall, Bart., M.P." '° DURHAM.
A few observations between Mr. Young, Mr. Bag-
shawe, and Sir Benjamin Hall, then ensued, as to the
course to be pursued respecting the Address, and it was
finally determined that it should remain in'the hands
of Lord Durham until the Levee, which takes place on
the 22d instant, when it will be presented by his Lord-
ship. _ _

Some other business was transacted, and the Vestry
broke up.

Among the inventions of the day in the Tory
Journals, we find it confidently repeated that Lord John
Russell is immediately to leave the House of Commons,
and to be raised to the Peerage. For our part, we have
no hesitation in expressing our belief that there never was
a particle of foundation for the report : and may we be
permitted to add, that we should ♦iew with sincere regret
now, or at any other time, the removal of such a statesman
as Lord John Russell from the popular branch of the Le-
gislature.—Observer.

THE FORCE OF A TORY QUERY.

Of all the forms of speech for force and signifi-
cance, and a certain mystic charm—a je ne sais
quoi of pleasing wonder—which it diffuses, or may
diffuse, commend us to the interrogative. The
poets know the value of it, and ever when they
want to wake a reader thoroughly, it is by a
question—a question in a place where no question
was looked for—where the affirmative, not the in-
was the form to be expected. There is
terrogative,
not a greater agent of mystery than that same
" little crooked thing that asks questions." By
it the commonest sentence becomes uncommon—
the washiest remark is invested with significance—
the most obvious affair grows dark and fearsome.
If instead of saying " It's a fine day, JONES,'
BROWN should say " Is it a fine day, JONES ?"
only observe what a sudden strangeness of
effect ! By a mere verbal transposition, JONES
finds himself thrown somehow upon an obscure
responsibility—he hardly knows what he may
not be accountable for—the weather ? impos-
sible I yet something is implied, Heaven
only knows what, and meanwhile the consequence
is, JONES feels uneasy in his mind till he knows
what the devil BROWN means. We all remember the
elctrical nature of that once popular challenge," How's
your mother ?" a question never intended to be an-
swered, but purely gratuitous, according to the cri-
tical canon of QviNcTILIAN, in his Institutions
(Book ix., cap. 2), where by the way, he places
the Interrogatio at the very head of his list of
powerful moving figures. 01
-,,LTINCTILIAN explains
the prime force of this figure to be an invidious
implication. He says that questions are asked
with various motives, but first of all invidics gratia.
Then he shows the great viktu6 of die interrcli-ative
generally. Of the celebrated opening of the CA-
TA LINE Oration, Quousque tandem, &c., he remarks,
how insipid it would be if divested of its interroga-
tion—if instead of saying " How long, 0, CATA-
LINE, will you abuse our patience ?" CICERo had
said, " You have abused our patience, 0, CA TA-
LINZ, a long while 1" And he notices that use
of the interrogative embodied in " How's your
mother ?" which he says is not put for the sake of
information, but with the object of stirring people
up—" Non sciFcitandi gratia assumitur, sed in-
standi."

We have been led into these marks of our admi-
ration for marks of interrogation by the masterly
use which our honourable friends, the Standard
and the Herald, have been making of them ; or
rather not they, we believe, but certain intelligent
and cautious—very cautio us--Correspondents of
theirs.

" 'We have been furnished," says the Standard of
'Thursday, " with the following queries by a highly intel-
ligent and very cautious Correspondent :
" Is it true that the Marquis of Normanby was at Buck-
ingham Palace on Tuesday the 7th, from 10 o'clock A. AI.
till 6 o'clock 1.. m , without seeing the Queen?
" Is it t►ue that during the first interview Sir R bert
Peel had with her Majty, Lord Melbourne was in an
apartment immediately adjoining ?"

If our veracious friend had begun " It is true"—
the paragraphs would have had no effect at all,
for a reason which he, probably, himself took into
account—not without a pang ; for the reason, we
say, that every reader would instantly have con-
cluded "it was false." But in modestly putting
it as a question, and in still further removing it
from the discredited source of his own authority by
deriving it from " a Correspondent," our friend con-
trived to give it all the credit and importance which
could possibly be attached to a paragraph appear.
ing in a journal in the peculiar circumstances of
the Standard. It is a matter of common observa-
tion respecting that class of people which (to avoid
an uglier, though shorter word) we may call the-
thing-that-is-not-arians, that when their ordinary
assertions are good for nought, they think their
interrogations may pass for something. Our friend
the Standard appears to be one of these.
But the thing is unreasonable. What I when
all his affirmations arc matters of question
does he think his matters of question are to have
the force of affirmations ? This should rather be
an honour belonging to truth in the highest degree
than falsehood's forlorn hope. Nevertheless, such is
the efficacy of the interrogative, being, as QUINCTI-.
LIAN says, totum plenum varietatis," that this effect
is one not unusually produced by it ; a fact of which
some papers in the peculiar circumstances of the
Standard have of late not unfrequently, but hitherto
unsuccessfully, endeavoured to avail themselves
The Standard has so often bid the country beware
of one wolf or another that never came, that lie
could not now—and he feels he could not—
command a moment's attention by his ordinary pro-
testations for any new wolf, however near and
howling. Though the PopE himself were in
Hyde Park with 30,000 Roman Catholics
in full armour, our honourable friend could not
singly persuade anybody of that fact ; we might
all have to go to mass next morning
for anything he could do to save our souls.
But how far this new plan of asserting things by
way of question is likely to serve him, we dare not
say. If our honourable friend had been the boy
in the fable, we doubt not he would have hum-
bugged the good shepherd much more successfully.
Instead of " The wolf's coming, father I" he would
have tried it the other way about—" Is it true, fa-
ther, that the wolf's coming ei" and so would have
sent the unfortunate man another fool's errand.
But the moving questions of the Standard, found
a response in the congenial soul of the Herald—
at least that Irish sort of response, which consists
in asking more questions. This venerable matron,
after duly reciting the questions of the Standard,
thus " cautiously " extends the mysterious cate-
chism :

In addition to the above, it may be asked, was not
Lord John Russell seen going into Bucking-ham Palace on
Thusday morning, between the time of the first interview
of Sir Robert Peel with the Queen on that morning, and
his return with the Duke of Wellington ? And was he not
in the Palace, in another room, during the period of the
Duke of 'Wellington's conversation with her Majesty?"

These questions remind one of those which Sir
Christopher Hatton asks Sir Walter Raleigh in
the Critic. Sir Christopher—described by Mr.
Puff'as a " cautious conjecturer," like the Stan-
(lard's Correspondent, begins thus importantly :
" There is a question which I yet must ask ;
A question which I never asked before"—
But after asking this and various other cautious
questions, it turns out that Sir Christopher did not,
in fact, ask any one question, for his own infor-
mation," for he knew all before, the real object (as
with our Contemporaries) being to " insinuate the
plot into the boxes."

We have only been surprised that the chain of
inquiry begun by the Standard has not been con-
tinued further by other Tory Journals. It
was so easy to go on adding more bits, and
bits more, and linking them together by
the simple expedient of—" In addition to the
above it may be asked," that we eo4ess
we expected to see the Standard's originlext
transferred, in succession, to every Tory Paper in
the country, with new additions each time, till it
became, like one of the minor classics, swallowed up
in the volumnousness of the commentators. Such
queries set the imagination all on fire, and posi-
tively invite the efforts of imitation. We have
ourselves already some humble additions which we
are tempted to make, if only to induce abler persons
to follow up an inquiry of so much importance. We
extract some of them from our note-book, where
we set them down from time to time as they occurred
to us

In addition to the above it may be asked :
Is it true, that, during Sir Robert Peel's first interview
with the Queen, Mr. O'Connell was stationed in the
door-way with a barrel organ, playing " St. Patrick's day
in the morning ?"

is it true, that the sweep boy was up the chimney the
whole time and heard every thing ?
Is it true, that a detachment of the Life Guards was
placed in the hall, and that the commanding officer had
strict orders to poke Sir Rob: rt in the ribs, and say " Who
arc you? as he came from the Royal presence?
In addition to the above it may be asked

Is it true, that the Great Mogul was in the wine-cellar
playing at Beggar-my-neighbour with Sir John Cam
1-lohhouse from 10 o'clock A. M. till 8 o'clock r. NI. on
Tuesday the 7th?
Is it true, that as the Duke of Wellington came out of
the throne room he saw the American President sitting on
the bannisters smoking a cigar?
In addition to the above, it may be asked :
Was the Pope in the parlour?

rRURO.—ADDRESS to THE QUEEN

AND DEFEAT OF THE CHARTISTS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1839.

Yesterday evening a meeting was held in the Town-
hall of this borough, pursuant to a requisition sent to the
Mayor, to consider the propriety of addressing her Majesty
on the present political crisis, and to express a hope that
the Ministers she has restored to her Councils will uphold
her Royal prerogatives, and at the same time promote the
cause of Reform. At the commencement of the business
the room was not more than half full, but shortly after the
meeting was densely crowded, and the greatest interest
was manifested in the proceedings. There were some
Tories present, and a very large number of Chartists,
whose subsequent conduct exhibited a species of insanity
that is unaccountable, seeing that they arc playing most
completely a game for the Tories which that party have
not the courage to attempt themselves. There is scarcely
a meeting held in this borough in which some of the
Chartists do not attempt to get up a "demonstration" in
favour of the Charter; and thus, by causing interruption
and feuds in all our meetings, they are, through their vio-
lence, driving from them all the advocates of order, peace,
or good government.
J. HODOE, Esq., Mayor, on the motion of J. F. Beu-
NALLACK, Esq., seconded by J. BORLASE, Esq., took the
chair.

The CHAIRMAN opened the meeting by stating the cir-
cumstances that had taken place with reference to recent
Ministerial changes, alluding particularly to Sir Robert
Peel's attempt to controul her Majesty's household, and her
Majesty's resistance of such a tyrannical interfer-
ence. In consequence of this, said his Worship, no
administration could be formed by the Tories, and Lord
Melbourne was sent for. His Lordship, and the other
Members of the Wing Cabinet, would not allow -her Ma-
jesty to be left in the predicament of being without a Go-
vernment, and they therefore resumed office, and this
meeting had assembled to vote an address of thanks to her
Majesty, for her spirited and noble conduct in resisting a
shameful attempt to shackle and control her choice of
her friends and companions in a manner heretofore un- i
known to a British Sovereign. He thought that the
Queen had acted in a manner that every Englishman
ought to be proud of.—(Loud cheering.) His worship
then called upon the meeting to give every gentleman a
fair bearing, and concluded by reading the requisition.
ROBERT MICHELL, Esq., said he had been very unex-
pectedly called upon to move tho first resolution, aad he
was totally unprepared to make any speech on the occa-
sion. Still he was quite ready to give his warmest con-
currence to the sentiments expressed .in the resolution
that be was about to move, and he had no doubt, from the
feelings manifested everywhere else on the subject that
had occasioned that meeting, that it would have their
entire approbation. Mr. MICHELL then moved the follow-
ing resolution " That the inhabitants of the borough of
Truro beg leave to approach the throne with their tribute
of grateful admiration of your Majesty's magnanimity and
firmness on a late trying occasion, when an ambitious
Statesman, taking advantage of your Majesty's gracious
condescension in consulting him on the formation of a new
Ministry, had the audacity to propose to your Majesty,
and to insist, as an indispensable condition of his taking
office, that your Majesty would dismiss the ladies of your
Royal Household, the faithful and accomplished friends of
your Majesty's choice."--( Loud cheers.)
J. F. BECNALLACK, Esq. said he must make the same
apology as Mr. Michell had made, but on an occasion of
this sort he trusted that he should be able and ready to
discharge his duty to his Sovereign. He felt that the
breast of every Englishman must beat with indignation at
the insult that had been offered to the Queen.—( Cheers.)
The small majority that the Whigs had on the Jamaica
question had rendered it necessary that they should retire,
and Sir Robert Peel had been called upon to form a
Ministry, but had failed. Ile (Mr. B.) was very glad of
it, for he had lived long enough, and had seen enough of
the domination of Tories, never to wish to see them rein-
stated in power any more.—( Cheers.) He remembered
the time when, in that borough, my Lord could have re-
turned his coach horses as members if be pleased ; but
they had outlived those days, and they would never return
again to the Tories. He hoped that they would now have
such a Ministry as would follow out the advantages that
the Reform Bill conferred. Ile was one of the commu-
nity, and he wanted no especial right for himself; but be
would take good care not to give the Tories an oppor-
tunity of depriving them of what they had obtained. He
would make no compromise with them—he would hold no
communication with them—they should have his continued
and determined opposition.— (Loud cheers.) With
respect to the Chartists, he would support no men who
were not obedient to the laws. —( Cheers and hisses.) He
would support no individuals who would not support
the cause of Reform, which ought to flow on while any
grievances remained to be redressed, as freely as the stream,
and as rapidly as the light from heaven. But when they
found those men, who were the advocates of everything
that would tend to break up society, stalking through the
laud, he could not help thinking that it was a pity that
they did not consider a little more the improbability of
their obtaining their objects by their present mode of pro-
ceeding„ before they attempted to excite the people.—
( Cheers, anti great uproar by the Chartists.) iie was
ready to meet the Chartist in single fight or combat, in
reason and argument, to support every constitutional power
vested in the Government that would give better laws,
greater freedom, and prosperity to the working classes ;
but he would not support that equality'that went to the
destruction of all property.—( Cheers.) Let them all meet
to advocate the good cause of legitimate government,
seeking to promote by every legal means whatever might
be necessary to redress any grievance, and then they would
carry with them the support of every lover of his country,
and go on to a successful issue. The Learned Gentleman
then went on to notice the conduct of Sir R. Peel, and ridi-
culed his assertion about having resorted to the " Red
Book," in order to ascertain who formed the Ladies of her
Majesty's Household, after which he noticed what had been
the custom with former Queens when there had been a
change of Ministry. With respect to the relative merits
of the two parties, Mr. Beuriallack asked who incurred all
the debt by which the country is now almost overwhelmed?
Who had tried to reduce that debt in the best pos-
sible way ?—( Cheers.) Who first opened the way
to the respectable tradesmen of this country to give a voice
in the return of Members to Parliament? He remembered
when 343 Members went out of the House of Commons
at half-past five o'clock in the morning in favour of Reform.
What did Sir Robert Peel do then ? The very minute he
found that the people were about to be e!evated in the
social scale-4 Mr. Spur, the Chartist leader, " Not the
people")—l am. said Mr. Beunallack, as much one of the
people as you, Mr. Spur ; I do not wish to exclude you
from any advantage that you can obtain by legal means—l
will give you my support for a great deal that you require,
but I like to see your cause bottomed on reason, and not
carried out by violence.—(Loud cheers.) lam no advo-
cate for putting down any class of the community, so long
as that class conducts itself in a manner that is peaceable
end not dangerous to society.—( Cheers.) In reference
to the question that they had met to consider, how differ-
ently they were circumstanced now to what they were that
night week. They were then about to be delivered over
to Tory thraldom, and if a woman had not interposed be-
tween the Tories and the people, they might have had a
revolution to have brought them back to their former posh
tion as bloody as the French revolution of 1,93.-4 Hear.)
But they had by some kind fortuitous circumstances been
able to effect a bloodless revolution, and they were now,
he hoped, placed upon a pinnacle from which they,
should never be removed. He thought. that the posi-
tion of Lord Melbourne was such as to defy any Tory
enemy ; but if the support that he received in the
House of Commons was insufficient to carry on the
Government, he hoped Lord Melbourne would go to
the country ; and he had no doubt his Lordship
would be supported by the people.—(Cheers.) He called
upon them to sanction and approve of all that her Majesty
had done. She bad shown herself to be a true scion of
the House of Brunswick—not of such men as George the
Third and the Duke of Cumberland—(Groans)—but of
William the Fourth and the Duke of Sussex—(Loud
cheers)--of men who possessed the affections of the
people. He hoped that the Ministers would carry out the
cause of Reform, which had received such valuable support
from her Majesty. The Learned Gentleman concluded
by seconding the resolution.
Mr. SPUR here inquired whether he might be permitted
to move an amendment. After some discussion, he agreed
to postpone it till the address was moved.
The MAYOR then put the resolution, which was carried,
there being about half a dozen hands held up against it.
0. Wieetems, Esq. moved the next resolution :—" That
this meeting begs leave also to congratulate your Ma-
jesty and the country on the restoration of a Liberal
Government, and at the same time we would humbly
express our conviction that upon a strict adherence by
your Majesty's Ministers to the principle of Reform, and
the continued support and encouragement of Civil and
Religious Liberty, must depend the stability of the throne,
and the prosperity of the British empire ; and we hail with
joyful confidence your Majesty's recent decision, as the
strongest demonstration of your Majesty's sentiments on
these important points."---(Loud cheering.)
Captain KRUPE seconded the resolution, which had his
cordial concurrence.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
G. N. SIMMONS, Esq., town-clerk, then read the ad-
dress, which was formed of the two resolutions already
noticed.
JOHN PADDON and JOHN BAYNARD, Esqrs„ having
briefly proposed and seconded the adoption of the address,
Mr. SPUR rose, and said it appeared that the battle- was
to be fought between Mr. Stokes and himself.—(Laughter. )
All the preceding speakers " had been going round the
Church to see for the tower."—( Laughter. ) They had
all to-night a duty to perform. Each of them, as men and
as citizens, had a most solemn duty to perform. The
address which was going to her Majesty the Queen was
calculated to lead her either into right or into wrong. It
either bad a tendency to make her course through life a
comfortable, or on the contrary an unhappy one. A false
step with her now might be her ruin, and a false step with
them might injure the cause of the people and throw them
back three or four centuries in the rear. He was sorry
that be had no one to come forward to back him in the
cause which he had espoused, and which he was there ready
to fight for the people single-handed.—(Cbeers, and a
voice, " There are plenty of Tories here.") He was not
there to defend the common enemy of the people and of

good government—the Tories; and, on the other hand, he
was not there to support as base, brutal, and bloody, a fac-
tion, he meant the Whigs, as ever existed.—( Laughter. )
One of the motions submitted to that meeting stated that
her Majesty had called back a Liberal Government. The
gentleman who read that resolution knew that more illi.
beret, more unpopular measures had never been brought
forward than by that Government. They had formerly
passed a vote of confidence in 'hat Ministry, and had given
their support to Lord John Russell, but he had become a
finality man, and the Editor of The Sun said that he
had been obliged to give up the hope of his not being a
finality man. Lord John had gone over to Sir Francis
Burdett.—( Hear, hear.) It was a wonder that Mr.
Beunallack had not pekted out the good deeds that the
Whigs had done, but that was left for Mr. Stokes to do,
and as he ( Mr. Spur) was determined that the meeting
should not hear of their good deeds alone, they should
have their bad deeds from him.—( Cheers and laughter.)
When Lord John was beaten on the Jamaica question,
which he ought to have been—(" No, no," and great up-
roar)—that was his opinion. No aristocracy went about
reforming itself, and if the Jamaica Assembly was too
aristocratic, Lord John, instead of depriving the island of
its Constitution, should have poured into the Assembly a
strong decoction of democracy. That would have been
justice ; but instead of that he attempts to take away their
Constitution. Then, when the Whigs resigned, who did
they recommend? Oh, tell it not in Gath, publish it not
in Askalon 1 They recommended Sir Robert Peel and
the Duke of Wellington. Thus the very men who had
been keeping back reform themselves, recommended the
Queen to send for the Duke of Wellington and Sir Ro-
bert Peel.—(No, no.) That was the fact. He would
give the Tories credit ; the devil must have his due.—
(Laughter.) He admired them for their energy and their
zeal, and he would to God that the Reformers would take
a leaf out of their book. Mr. Spur then went on to de-
nounce the conduct of the Whigs in opposing the Char-
tists. They would tell the people, when they wanted to
be carried into office, that it was their duty to arm; but, lo
and behold 1 when the poor man attempts to get arms he
was told that it was unconstitutional, that it was against
the laws of his country. It was as much a constitutional
right of the poor man to keep arms in his house as it was
foe the rich man.—(Tremendous cheering.) They had
been told by a high authority, that when the Govern-
ment made bad laws it was their duty to resist
that Government.—( Cheers.) The Chartists maintained
the right of every man to have arms, and aguinst that
claim there had not been the shadow of an argument. The
arguments of the Chartists had never been met. The
people demanded nothing but their right, and nothing but
what they would have.—(Great cheering.) The people
had-beenenothing-less than a hack-horse—the Tories rode
them one time and the Whigs another.—(Laughter.)
What had the people to do with the Whigs or the Tories
either? Let every man see that he has a good coat on
his back, food in his house, and education for his children.
The MAYOR—It must be an industrious man to do that.
—( Cheers and laughter.)
Mr. Stela admitted that; but the fact was that English-
men were too industrious—that was the evil.—( Uproar.)
If that address went up to the Queen it would lead her to
believe that she had a Ministry in whom the country had
confidence ; but he would ask them whether they had con-
fidence in Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russell ?
(" No, nor) It was throwing the mantle of love over
them to send up this address. However much they might
respect them for their talents, they must hate and abhor
them for their conduct, inasmuch as their dignity and ta-
lents had rendered them more powerful in oppressing the
people. Mr. Spur then went on at great length to de-
nounce the New Poor-law, particularly those clauses that
related to the division of the man from his wife. Then
what did Lord John Russell do for the Dissenters ? He
proposed to abolish Church-rates, and he ran away and left
the Dissenters in the lurch.—(" No, no 1" and cheers. )
He would prove it. Supposing that they had been employ-
ing a number of men, and had given them good board and
lodging and excellent wages, for the purpose of carrying a
Bill to Chacewater, and after four years' employment they
got up as far as the turnpike gate, and were there stopped
by a few old women in lawn sleeves, who caused them to
tuns back. What would be said then ? Why, that they
ought to have done the same as Sampson did with the
gates of Gaza—they ought to have taken up gates, posts,
house, and all, and run away with them.—(Great laugh-
ter.) He then dwelt much upon the conduct of the Whigs
towards the Canadians, said that they had h.creased the
national debt 37,000,0001. in four years, had paid twenty
millions for the emancipation of the slaves, and thereby
acknowledged a right to property in man, and concluded
by proposing that it is not expedient, under present cir-
cumstances to present an address to her Majesty.
Mr. JOHN LONGMAID said he was sorry that the gentle-
men on the platform did not like to hear what Mr. Spur
had said. Mr. Beunallack began by broyv-beating the
character of the Tories, and now because Mr. Spur had
been brow-beating the characters of the Whigs, they could
not agree with him.—(Cheers.) Mr. Beunallack was at
one time a very great Radical. He was then appealing to
the people of Truro as to the principle of working out the
Reform Bill, and on this particular occasion be was trying
it on again. He had not done so for the interests of the
working man ; if he had, he thought that gentleman
would have come forward at the last meeting here, con•
vened for the purpose of obtaining a repeal of the odious
Corn-laws. That gentlemen never figured. on the plat-
form to try to get away that heavy tax on the life of the
poor man.
The CHAIRMAN called upon the speaker to address
himself to the Amendment. He was now addressing Mr.
Beunallack.

Mr. LONGMAID said that, he was addressing his observa-
tions to the Mayor, but Mr. Beunallack might apply them
to himself if he felt disposed.—(Laughter.) Mr. Long-
maid then seconded the amendment.,

H. S. STOKES, Esq., rose to suggest some reasons why
the original proposition should be carried, and he had to
congratulate the Chartists of, his town with the possession
of two such hopeful charac.c r to represent their interests
n the National Conventr.,, _Spur and Longrnaid, and,
when they got to Birmingham, whither the Convention
had now flown, they would foil that the prudent, the dis-
creet, the well-meaning of the Chartists had all deserted
their posts.—(No, no.) They had heard a great deal of
falsehood, of lies, of most atrocious lies.—(Great uproar,
in which Mr. Spur, who had been particularly noisy all
the evening, was very conspicuous, and continued to inter-
rupt Mr. Stokes throughout the greater part of his speech,
denying most of what he said.) It was notorious that
numbers of the well-thinking, the most intelligent, the
most respectable, of the Chartists belonging to the Con-
vention, as they sat in London, had protested against the
atrocious doctrines originated in that Convention, and had
withdrawn their names.—(No, no.) He asked every man
in that room whether they ever heard him say a thing
which he did not believe to be true.—( Cheers.) He
asked them whether any Chartists present could bring
their minds to believe that an appeal to arms—that vio-
lence and bloodshed was the means to obtain freedom.—
( Hear, hear, and great uproar.) Listen to me, said Mr.
Stokes, I don't wish to denounce your Charter. When I
read it I was delighted with it, and if I dissented from the
principle of Annual Parliaments, still I was charmed with
almost the whole of the Charter, and I defy any man to
read it without admiring it, but I ask you that belong to
the working Men who carried the Reform Bill, whether
you think that that Charter can be carried by the
means that have been advocated. ( Hear, hear, and
great uproar.) Is it not better to do as you did
at the time of the Reform Bill agitation—to do as
the two hundred thousand men of Birmingham did on
that occasion.--( Spur, who war, like a madman, here kept
calling out " Question.") It is most disgraceful 1 He has
denounced Whigs and Tories one after another, and has
given a number of reasons why the address should not be
supported, and I now rise to say why it should be sup-
ported. If the object of the people is to get the Charter
passed, let them do it by peaceful agitation—by such
means as those adopted by the Birmingham men, who,
when they assembled by hundreds of thousands on Newhall
Hill, sung—
" God is our guide, no sword we draw,
We kindle not war's battle fires ;
By reason, justice, order, law,
We win the birthright of our sires."
_ _

—(Loud cheering, and great uproar by the Chartists.)
We never heard of pikes, and of instruments of the most
deadly nature. By peaceful means was the Reform Bill
carried, and that should be the means we should now
adopt.--(" Will you help us ?") I will help you almost
the whole way.--(" Will you sign the petition ?") I will
sign for Household Suffrage, which is all at present that
any honest man can require.—(" The lodger pays his
taxes.") So will I sign that the lodger should have a vote
when he comes to years of discretion, when he is SO years
of age. But when you come to talk about lads who are
not out of their apprenticeship having a vote, it is absurd.
--(Great uproar.) I stand here to support the original
proposition. First of all we congratulate the Queen that
she has not allowed herself to be domineered over, as re-
gards her Household, by Sir Robert Peel, and I ask every
man in this assembly whether he does not approve most
heartily of the conduct of his Queen ? There is not a man
here that will say he does not.—( Cheers.) There is not
a man here who will not admire the estimable qualities of
that excellent Lady. She was asked to dismiss her
friends ; she would not, and I ask you do you not approve
of her conduct in abandoning the old barbarous maxim that
" Sovereigns should have no private friends ?"—( Cheers.)
The second part goes to congratulate the country on the
restoration of a Liberal Ministry, and then it goes on to
express a hope that those Ministers will follow out the
cause of Reform in earnest--that there should not be, as
the Duke of Sussex said the other day, any shuffling.
(Loud cheering.) Now that is the way in which the ad-
dress is worded. If that address had been for the Ministry
as it existed, I would not have signed it. It is nothing of
that kind. It is worded so that we should congratulate
the country at our escape from Toryism. It is next to
certain that Lord John Russell will not be there.—(Loud
cheers.) It is believed that Lord Durham will form a
part of that Ministry—(Cheers)—and if he joins them
there can be no doubt that we shall have the ballot, house-
hold suffrage, and triennial Parliaments. I ask every man,
for the love of humanity and patriotism, to unite with me
in carrying on the work of Reform, and help such an Ail-
ministration as that would be. It is by that policy that
has been attempted to be played here to-night that men
that would be the best friends of the people are driven
from them—they are alarmed—they are disgusted when
they hear of bloodshed and every other kind of violence.
When they hear of such deadly instruments they think of
all the horrors that disgraced the first French revolution.
—( Hear, and great uproar.) We must avoid all thnt kind
of thing. We must not only avoid the suspicion of having
a desire to rob our neighbour and to shed his blood.—( Spur
Who shed blood at Peterloo ?") Every man who
wishes to have liberty must convincetlt.hooe
asnt abne tor w' ee n propertym a man
in England that he means to do
and man ; that he only asks h!srirsjuh;s; and that he seeks
only by peaceful means to obtaini those rights.
Mr. Spnr here interrupted Mr. Stokes, and the greatest
confusion prevailed for some time. The object of Spur
was to get the reply
to M. r.
r. Stokes, but this was decided
by the Chairman to be irregular; and after much discus-
sion, Spur gave way, and
Mr. STOKES then said he proceeded by Mr. Spur's per-
mission. The learned gentleman went on at considerable
length to support the address, and adverted to most of th