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who would attend the Committee, and had done this on the
ground of the respectability of the signatures; therefore
he thought there had been a fraud committed ; but while
they executed judgment, they ought to do it with mercy,
and he would support the motion for reprimand.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL would suggest that
he be ordered to attend at the Bar on a future day and be
reprimanded.
Mr. WYNN considered that the interests of the public
required that the House should mark its sense of such
conduct by a heavier punishment than a reprimand.
Sir C. BURRELL agreed with his Hon. Friend, and
moved that the Report of the Select Committee be agreed
to.
The question was put and carried without a division.
Sir C. BURRELL moved that Mr. B. Lovibond be
committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
The SOLICITGR-GENERAL moved as an amend-
ment that Mr. B. Lovibond be ordered to attend at the
Bar on Thursday, to be reprimanded by the Speaker.
Mr. WYNN thought that if the House decided that a
reprimand was sufficient, he should be reprimanded directly.
Lord STORMONT thought that some apology should
be made
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that Mr. Lovi-
bond had confessed his offence, and thrown himself upon
the mercy of the House.
Mr. HUME was of opinion that he should be called to
the bar, and reprimanded at once.
Mr. JONES suggested that Mr. Lovibond should be
committed to the care of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and dis-
charged forthwith, after a reprimand.
The question was then put, and strangers were ordered
to withdraw. It was, however, ultimately determined that
Mr. Benjamin Lovibond should be called to the bar im-
mediately, and reprimanded by the Speaker.
Mr. Lovibond was accordingly brought to the bar in
custody, and received the following reprimand from
The SPEAKER.—Benjamin Lovibond, the House
have considered the Report of the Select Committee, to
whom the investigation of your conduct has been referred,
and 1 have to inform you that you have incurred the severe
displeasure of this House. You have procured a petition
to be 'presented to this House against a private Bill, one
of the names at least attached to which, you knew to be a
forgery. You have been decidedly guilty of a breach of
the privileges of this House, in the conduct you have pur-
sued, and if such conduct were to be passed. over without
censure, the consequence would be that petitions would
cease to be regarded as authorities by this House, or if
they continued to be so regarded, the House would be led
to do an injustice. You have expressed your sorrow for the
offence, and the House, in its merciful consideration of
your case, has directed that you be reprimanded, and you
are reprimanded accordingly. I have also to direct that
you be discharged on payment of your fees."
At the conclusion of the Speaker's Address there were
Irud cheers from both sides of the House, during which
Mr. B. Lovibond was removed in custody.

ADDRESSES TO THE QUEEN.

WARD OF CRIPPLEGATE WITHIN.

A meeting of the inhabitants of the Ward of Cripple-
gate Within took place yesterday, in the Ward School-
room, Philip-lane, for the purpose, in the words of the
requisition, which was very numerously and respectably
signed, " of testifying to her Majesty their admiration
of her conduct, in having so nobly withstood the despo-
tic attempt of the Tories to deprive her of her un-
doubted right of choosing her associates and domestics ;
and also to express their satisfaction at their escape
from Tory misrule, which, as in the present instance,
has been invariably characterised by unpopular and des-
potic tendencies."
At a few minutes past one o'clock the Chair was
taken by Alderman Sir MATTHEW WOOD, M.P.,
amidst loud cheering.

The CHAIRMAN said they bad assembled on the pre-
sent occasion, in consequence of a requisition addressed
to him to call together the inhabitants of the Ward ;
and it was quite impossible, when so respectable a re-
quisition was placed in his hands, to refuse doing so.
He was at all times most willing to comply with the
wishes of the inhabitants of the Ward, as it was his duty
to convene them whenever any portion of them were
desirous of meeting together. He would say that on
this occasion a more respectable or a larger requisition
he had seldom seen.—(Hea-.) He would take no part
in the proceedings himself, but he would attend to all
the gentlemen who might think proper to address him ;
and he hoped, whatever difference of opinion there
might be in the course of the debate, that all parties
would obtain a fair and a patient hearing.—(Cheers.)
The requisition calling the meeting having been read,
Mr. WILSON rose to move the first resolution. He
regretted that some more efficient person had not been
selected, but he was proud on other grounds, namely,
that he fully concurred in the sentiments which it con-
tained.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Wilson then read the re-
solution, which was to the effect that an address be pre-
sented to her Majesty. It would be also his duty to
submit to them the address which it was intended to
propose, in order that any discussion which would take
place (and he had no doubt there would be a good deal)
might be taken upon that proposition. When last they
had met in that place they had carried by an overwhelm-
ing majority a motion for a repeal of the existing Corn-
laws. The Ministers had agreed to leave that an open
question, and it was in the efforts of that same Ministry

to carry out to its fullest . extent the principle of the
emancipation of the slaves in the West Indies that they
had been compelled to resign their offices. Mr. Wilson
then went into a detail of the proceedings connected
with the. late resignation of Ministers, and then read the
address which it was intended to submit to the meeting,
and which was received with loud cheers. He would
call their attention to the fact that it was very judi-
ciously and cautiously worded, avoiding all irritating al-
lusions to the conduct of other parties.—( Hear, hear.)
If the principle contended for by Sir R. Peel on a late oc-
casion were recognised, it would render the Crown a non-
entity, and prevent the Sovereign acting independently
or hearing what were the real sentiments of her sub-

jects.--(Hear, hear.) The address referred to that
most important subject—education—(Cheers)—and he
would observe that without education there could be

little morality or religion. Mr. W. then referred to the
system of national education in Ireland, which he highly
eulogized, and which he said bad been productive of the
happiest effects in that count-I.y, by bringing up Pro-
testant and Roman Catholic children together, without
regard to religious distinctions.—(Cheers.) The next
point alluded to in the address was the amendment of
the Reform Act, and there was no person present who
would assert that it did not require some alteration and
amendment. Mr. W. concluded by moving the adop-
tion of the address.

Mr. HEELES seconded the motion. Her Majesty
had been happily deliveied of a faction who had attempted
to make a slave of her in her own palace.—(Oh !) That
faction had always laboured to obtain power for them-
selves in order to make slaves of the people.--(Cheers
and hisses.) They had met to congratulate their amia-
ble Sovereign upon her wisdom, her discretion, and her
good sense in rejecting the tyrannical propositions of the
ories ; and be felt satisfied there would not be a dis-
sentient voice on such an occasion. What had been
always the conduct of that hydra-headed monster, To-
ryism ? Had not the Tory aristocracy always opposed
themselves to the repeal of the Corn-laws, which would
give the people cheap bread ? Had they not on every
occasion oppressed the poor, and filled the pockets of
the rich.—( Hear, and cries of "Oh F') On the other
hand, look at the results of the labour of the manufac-
turing districts of the country—that class which had
been called the offscourings of society. Was it not
owing to their intellect and labour that steam had been
brought to such perfection, reducing the cost of labour,
annihilating time and space, and bringing even the shores
of the Atlantic within twelve days' journey. If the pre-
sent Ministers remained in office, he would venture to
say that in twenty years the Tory Aristocracy at the
country would be a Whig Aristocracy.—(Cries of
question:7) How otherwise could they provide for
their numerous families,?—•-(Cheers and laughter.) He
'remembered an old saying •'
" When the devil-was ill, the devil a saint would be,
When the devil got well the devil a saint was he."
. .

So it was with Pic Tories, who tried to be Whigs, but
if they once got into office they would prove them-
selves what they always had been—Tories.—(Cheers
and laughter.) He cordilly seconded theaddress.
Mr. MOORE said various topics had been " lugged"

into the speeches of the proposers of the address—
which had not been included in the requisition, but
which were thought calculated to gain votes.—(Hear,
hear.) A great deal had been said about " anti- ,
sectarian education," which meant, the undermining of
all education.—Hear, hear, with loud cries of " No,
no," and great uproar.) The Reform Bill had also
been complained of—that Bill which had been lauded
by the Whigs as " the final measure"—" the Bill, the
whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill."—(Hear, hear.)
Then there was the' arbitrary and despotic Jamaica
Bill, which had been nearly kicked out of Parliament.
—(Cheers.) Lord Melbourne had declared that he
would stick, to office, while he possibly could, in spite of
the feeling of the country—(Cries of " No, no")—for
his Lordship himself had admitted that the men of
wealth and education were almost entirely on the side
of the Conservatives. (Laughter, and cries of
No, no.") With regard to the Queen's conduct nobody
could speak of her Majesty without respect.—(Hear,
hear.) But who did not remember when his late M
jesty, a most well-meaning monarch, had appointed Sir
R. Peel his Prime Minister, a meeting had, in this ward,
protested against that appointment, even without allow-
ing the new Ministry to have a fair trial?—(Hear, hear.)
Sir R. Peel had, in his recent measures, done nothing
which deserved the character of " dictatorial." He
would have been a traitor to his Sovereign, a traitor to
his country, a traitor to himself if he had not advised
her Majesty upon her Household appointments.—
The most accomplished statesman of the age—and the
most illustrious person in the world had been discarded.
For whom ? The Marchioness of Normanby.—(" Oh,
oh," and cheers.) The feeling of the country was in
favour of these celebrated Conservative statesmen—
(Cheers)—and was her Majesty to be thanked for
acting
and ‘,
in opp n t o the public feeling of the em-
pire.—(Hear,N
no.") Decidedly, the
majority of the Members of the House of Commons,
the intelligent Gentlemen of England and Wales, were
in favour of the Conservatives ; though those who were
elected through the Irish Priests—(Cheers and immense
uproar)—were supporters of the Administration. Why
as to this Household question, Lord Grey refused to
yield upon that question to George 111. ; and the Whig
Ministers of the late reign bad, not satisfied with the
King's Household, interfered with the Queen Consort's
Household, and dismissed Lord Howe, because he re-
fused to support their wicked measures.—(Cries of
" Oh, oh.") The conduct of the Wlags had been so
despicable, both as men and Ministers, that he (Mr.
Moore) did not know if he would speak to them in
private —(Loud cheering and roars of laughter.)
They had always shirked and modified their principles,
a' they wanted more Radical support.—(Hear, hear.)
They could not be relied upon ; their conduct on the
Irish Appropriation, and the English Church-rate ques-
tions proved this.—(Cheers.) In Ireland,—(their fa-
vourite topic)—the Marquis of Normanby—it was vain
indeed to expect decency from him.—(Groans.) He
had made a practice of encouraging resistance to the
law.—(Cheers, cries of " Oh, oh," groans, and immense
uproar.) And throughout the empire, the Whigs had
continually endeavoured to undermine the National
Church—(Cheers and " No, no")—because it was in
the way of their wicked projects.—(Renewed
uproar.) Their scheme of education was an insi-
dious attack upon religion.—(Continued interruption.)
Whereas the Tories possessed " all the talents"—
(Laughter)—and all the confidence of the country.—
(Immense cheering, and cries of ,‘ No, no.") Mr.
Moore concluded by moving an amendment to the effect
that the present Ministry did not possess the confidence
of the country, and that the scheme of education was
most pernicious, as tending to disseminate equally truth
and error.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SIBLEY seconded the amendment, and proceeded
in a long tirade about the Irish priests, in which he was
called to order by
The Worthy ALDERMAN who desired him to keep:to
the question.—(Great cheering.)
Mr. SIBLEY proceeded, but was soon again interrupted
irrelevancy, and in truth, either from
for design or from
necessity, went on in a rambling, discursive strain, which
continually provoked animadversion. Some did not
scruple to call out that he was speaking against time.
He said the Whigs did not care about the education of
the poor ; but desired to make this education-scheme a
means for obtaining party support, and weakening the
Church of England.
Mr. DUTHOIT supported the address. He said the
Whigs bad certainly erred in not going forward.—
(Cheers.) " Finality" would never do for the British
nation while such monstrous abuses prevailed in the
land.—( Cheers.)
I Mr. WALTERS proposed that a resolution be passed,
• desiring her Majesty to forward Universal Suffrage,
Vote by Ballot, and Short Parliaments.—( Hear, hear,
and laughter.)

Mr. FROST declared that the meeting had been
called to support the Whig Ministry, whom he consi-
dered bad not done their duty.—( Cheers.) With re-
spect to education, it was disgraceful that men should
confine their charity within the bounds of their own sect.
(Cheers.)
On'a division the numbers were—
For the Address ........... 82
For the Amendment 38
Majority for the Address...
The result was hailed by loud cheering.
On the question that the Address be presented,
Mr. MooRR made some observations, in the course of
which he declared that the Ladies of the Bedchamber had
been placed round the Queen for the worst of purposes by
Lord Melbourne.—( Hisses and cheers.) He proposed
that those who voted for the Address should put their
names to it, and a counter-address would be presented
from the minority ; and their names would be attached to
it.—( Cheers.)
The Address was finally agreed upon, and to be pre-
sented by Sir M. Wood, at the next Levee.
Thanks having been voted to the worthy Alderman, the
meeting separated.