The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-07 00:00:00

FLINTSHIRE REFORM MEETING.

HOLYWELL, SATURDAY.—Last night the Reformers of
this County entertained the Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn,
their late Representative, at a public dinner at the 'White
horse Inn, in this town. About 120 gentlemen were ex-
pected ; but, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the
weather, the rain pouring down without intermission the
whole (lay, gentlemen exceeding in number 200 arrived and
secured tickets, and consequently other tables were found
necessary, and the division of the company into several
apartments ; and after dinner the whole were closely placed
together in the large apartment occupied by the principal
guests, and not even a corner of standing-room was left
without an occupant. The Chair was occupied by F. R.
Pryce, Esq., of Bry-y-pys, and the Vice-chair by Major
Jones, of Wepre.
After the usual loyal toasts, the CHAIRMAN, in a bri(if
speech, proposed the health of the " Honourable E.. M. L.
Mostyn, their late Member," expressing a hope that he
would soon again occupy the scat which he hid so long
occupied so worthily. The toast was received with the
most enthusiastic cheering.
The Hun. E. M. L. MOSTYN rose, evidently much
affected, and, after thanking them for his kind reception,
said—l have been reviled, maligned, and denounced as an
infidel, atheist, and the associate of the most immoral cha-
racters. I allude to the conduct of the clergy in this
county ; and when I consider their unscrupulous and in le-
licate conduct, and when I Clad some of those who promised
neutrality my most active opponents, I ea mot help again
looking at my analysis, where I find that 60 were regis-
tered, 12 of whom did not exercise their franchise, but of
the remaining 4§ that voted, 39 voted against, and but
nine for me. Now I ask what caused this extraordinary
and irreconcileibic disproportion of these reverend func-
tionaries ? Do thay wish to perpetuate the abuses in
Church and State ?—(Yes.) Do they possess superhuman
foresight, or was it the magical effect of an episcopal whis-
per ?—(Laug'..tlr.) I hope the time is not far distant when
those funkionaries will consider the wishes and the feeling;
of their. flocks ; and that it will not be said of them
Whose end is destruction, whose glory is their shame,
whose God is their belly." Gentlemen, having been born
and educated in this. county, I freely admit that I am am-
bitious to serve you. I am free to confess that I aspire
again to be your representative—[Here the company rose
and gave three rounds of enthusiastic cheers.] But if a
more fitting candidate can be found, I shall willingly with-
draw my pretensions.—( No, no.)
The CHAIRMAN next gave " Lord Melbourne and her
Majesty's Ministers"—(Great applause)—" The Liberal
Bishops, and the Clergy of the United Kingdom ;" " The
Army and Navy ;" " The Lord Lieutenant of the County,
the Marquis of West Minster ;" and " Lord Dinor ben," in
a eulogistic speech.—(Great cheering.) • •
Lord DiNonBE'N rose, and was, received with renewed
checrihg. When he could be heard, he said—Mr. Presi-
dent, when I cast my eyes around me, and see the re-
spectable and intelligent audience -that I have now the
honour to address, I cannot but ask;why my Hon. Ft lend
does not represent you now ?' To his seal and. assiduity
and attentinn to the business of the county I can bear tes-
timony, and I believe that testimony will be confirmcd by
men of all parties.—( Hear, hear.) There may be others
amongst you, gentlemen, that can account for this better
than I can, and who are better acquainted with that pro-
digality of purse aqd pronlso, and of the intimidation of
%.Yhioh, have been used to stifle the public voice. I
Relieve they have been very actively employed on a late
occasion throughout the kingdom, and I have been tnld
that they were not inactive in our own county. I have
heard of bankers' accounts being withdrawn.—(Laughter.)
I have heard of honest tradesmen boing threatened with

loss of custom—(Hear, hear)—and of farmers wit): the
!oss of their farms—the object of their industry and
the support of their fernilies.—( Applause.) Nay, still fur-
ther, I hate hear.l of party zeal chilling the impulses of
charity—(Great applause)—but such practices, I care not
by what party practised, I believe to be in contravention of
the laws of the land ; they are certainly in violation of the
first principles of the Constitution, and they ought not, they
cannot be long tolerated.—(Great cheering.) A war
against public opinion, gentlemen, must tetimately tud in
defeat ; and I will tell tl:e Conservativc-..Conservatirce of
Tory principles, because alone of those are tbr y consent,
the—that they will in vain attempt to put down opinion by
force ; and if they have constrained their depend, n't to
violate their promises, and act against their conscionee& and
their feelings, they will have established a short l'Yzd au•
thcrity upon the destruction or honesty
(Applause.) Sirs, the right of franchise ha been held by
some to be a
:privilege ; by o:here it has hero held to be a
duty. Ibe fete it to he both nee nod the ether,---tHear,
hear.) A privilege to Stiptinrt toir Own, and a duty t 4
guard and protect the eights and liberties of our cotintry.
—(Appi :use.) Itit, Sirs, if this right is to be exercised only
at the bidding of another, you are not free agents—there
is no expression of public opinion ; -your voice is but the
type of servility—the echo of nn oligarchy.—(Applause.)
Corruption, Sirs, has been too strong for the Legislature,
things have been brought to a pass that loudly calls
for reformation.—( Loud applause.) But where is the re-
medy for the wrongs of tt hich we complain ?—(Hear, bear.)
I cannot find it. The weak must be protected against the
oppressions of the powerful—( Hear, hear)—and lam com-
pelled to join the ranks of those who seek for that protec-
tion in the laht —(On the Venerable Nobleman making
this declaration the a h&c company simultaneously rose and
gave three rounds of hearty cheers, which were succeeeded
by clapping of hinds and long-countinued plaudits.) I wculd
(continued his Lordship) couple thet with the household
franchise.—(Hear, hear.) Of household franchise I have
always been a warm friend, but I confess that I have been
a late and perhaps reluctant convert to the ballot.—(Hear,
hear.) But though late and reluctant, I assure you I shall
not be the less zealous advoeate.—( Hear, hear, hear.) But
you oil remember that the subject is one of paramount
importance. The question resolves itself into this,
our representative system to recede to a state worse than
that in which it was before the passing of the Reform Bill,
or are we to realize the benefits intended for us by that Pill ?
—(Applause.) Gentlemen, I thank you for your indulgence,
and perhaps I may here conclude.--(No, no ; go on.)
Well, Gentlemen, then 'perhaps the various accusations
lavished upon us by Tory orators at Tory gatherings may
require a few observations in self-defence. Sirs, we are
called levellers and rash innovators, and we are accused of
a settled design to overturn the best institutions of the
country. Gentlemen, I deny the charge.—(Hear, hear.)
We seek only, and by constitutional means, through
a fair, full, and freely-chosen representation, to re-
store where time has corrupted the institutions of the
Constitution, and to adapt them more to the al-.ered
circumstances and the advanced intelligence and civili-
zation of the people.—(Great applause.) Progression
Sirs; is the very nature of the Constitution ; and I would
ask the Tories at what period of our history it stopped ? I
would ask them what was their period if excellence ?
(Hear.) The great principles of freedom, it is true, are
of an old date ; but the practical application of them to
the wants of society has been the slow and gradual growth
of time.---( Hear.) There are great difficulties to over-
comethe opposition is strong, but the giant power of the
people will overcome all that resists it. But you must not
be idle and paisive spectators ; every man must act as
though the success of the cause depended on his owls exer-
tions.--(Great applause.) Don't disguise it from your-
selves that the Tories are strong, and powerful, and active.
They have but one object—their power is in their union;.
let your union be equally complete. Remember, that it
is much better to concede something to those that agree
with you in the main, than to throw power into the
hands of those who disagree with you altogether.—
(Great applause.) Sirs, we cannot obtain all we wish
at once. It is better to follow than to run before the
temper of the times ; and beware how you lose, by grasp-
ing at what is not attainable, that which is attainable.--
( Hear, hear.) Sirs, we are said to be en. :I's of the Church.
We are stigmatized as athiests, deists, unitarians, sectarians,
and, to crown the climax of all and each, we are called
Papists. —(Laughter.) Sirs, I know no athiests ; Ido not
believe there is a class so irrational. And as to the Dis-
senters, of all classes, from the Church, I would speak of
them with respect and deference : they number amongst
their teachers rnen.of learning and talent, of irreproachable
character and blameless lives ; and I know of no sect that
teaches immorality or countenances vice.—(Applause.)
We all worship the same Deity, and read his laws in the
same book. The cry of "No Popery" in the nineteenth
century T. I ask, is it decent, is it Christianlike, to decry a
religion which, after all, is the religion of two-thirds of ci-
vilised Europe ? In thiseountry the cry of "No Popery"
entry be raised without danger, and with impunity.—
( Hear.) Bat it may not he so to your fellow Pro-
testants in Ireland, for the Catholics may be exasperated
to retaliate with the cry of "No Protestant." I believe
in our day, if the Church Establishment is brought to peril,
it will only be by the indiscretion of the Clergy. After
again thanking them for the honour done him, the Noble
Lord resumed his seat amidst the most enthusiastic
plaudits, and the company again rose and loudly cheered for
several minutes.
" The health of Mr. Stanley, M.P.," succeeded.
Mr. STANLEY also replied, and in the course of his speech
alluded to the accusations of the Tories that the Whigs
are void of religion and of attachment to the best institu-
tions of the country. He canvassed the claim of exclusive
loyalty of the men that, could counsel our youthful Queen
to estrange herself from seve.: millions of her people—a
Queen who was not the Sovereign of a party, but the ruler
of Protestant and Catholic, high and low, rich and poor, and
who wished to rule in the affections of her people by re-
dressing their wrongs. He also questioned the title to ex.
elusive religion of the party that etinced their religion only
by their anxiety to preserve Church abuses.—(Hear.)
There was one other subject to which he would allude.
Ably, indeed, had the right of franchise been expounded :
the franchise was not granted for their own individual be-
nefit—it was not granted them that they might render it
up to their landlords and employers ; but it was given to
them for the service of the nation, because it was supposed
that they were independent, and that they would exercise
it for the good of all—for those who were not so fortunate
as themselves in possessing that right. But tkat franchise
must be protected. Ile had hitherto, by the only vote
he had an opportunity of giving on the subject, given it
against the ballot. He was not then prepared to say that
Ile would support it ; but so many circumstances had now
come to light, so many instances had been seen of gross
oppression and tyranny, that he felt he should be doing
wrong to those to whom the franchise was granted if he
withheld from them the means of using it freely.
A great variety of toasts were afterwards drunk, and se-
veral gentlemen delivered interesting speeches, declaring at
the same time their conversion to the ballot ; and the meet-
ing, which was of a most animating description, was conti-
nued until a late hour.

A burglary of a serious nature was perpetrated at
Brockford, Li 'Suffolk, on Thurs.luy night last. Some thieves
entered the house of Mr. Tobias Rcvett, and stole from
out of his bed-room cash, in notes and sovereigns, amount-
ing to 7001. The robbery was eXected without awakening
Mr. Revett, who is an old gentlemni, very deaf and in-
firm ; and kladder was found beneath his bed-room window,
which was generally listened with a piece of string. Sus-
picion attaches to a man-servant and a female residing in
the house, who have been taken into custody.—Sufulk
Chronicle.

On Thursday, as a young man named Shepherd
was sharpening some instruments at the grindstone of the
Lane-end Ironworks at Lampleugh, in consequence of the
rapidity with which the steam-engine was going, the stone
became extremely hot, and exploded with a loud noise.
The pieces of the stone were carried with great force
against the head of Shepherd, the back of which was fright-
fully fractured, and the unfortunate man killed on the spot.
Another large piece of stone struck the wall,. and carried
away the gable-end of the budding.—Cumberland Packet.
MEDICAL MODERATION.—We have seen some
persons arriving from Paris, who mention a very strange
circumstance, which much occupies the attention of the
higher, and especially the English, circles of that capital.
A Noble and very lady, the daughter of a Noble
Duke, who had long been suffering severely in health,
would appear to have derived great benefit from the advice
of two medical men practising at Paris, though not French-
men. The lady's husband, deeming that I,oool.—some say
I,2ool.—would be, as it VMS, a handsome acknowledg-
ment of the services rendered by the two doctors, ten-
dered the sum, with every expi essiou of gratitude and
courtesy ; when, to his great surprise, it was indignantly
rejected, and the extravagant claim of 400,000 francs was
put forth. We shall abstain from mentioning some other
circumstances connected ‘iith this pretension, which render
it one unheard of in the annals of the faculty, as, although
they were very generally rumoured at Paris, when our in-
formant left, they have net been related to us in so positive
a n►a►mer.

On Monday night last,- an aged female, named
Biekerilike, who, v.ith her husband, resided at Bridgehall
Fold, near Bury, was buret to death. Her husband is
frequently troubled with fits, and she had been up stairs,
and seen him safely in bed, and, when discovered, was
kneeling beside a chair, near the fire, the whole of her
clothes burnt from her person, and the body scorched al—
most to a cinder. The. poor creature, it is needless to say,
was qu•te dead when discovered.--Bolton Chronicle.

LONDON :
TUESDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 7. 1937.

New York Papers from the 9th to the IGth ult. in-
clusive have been received this morning. On the
11th the Treasury Notes Bill passed the Senate—
havii.g previously passed the House of Representa-
tives—by a majority of 35 votes against li. It was
subsequently approved of by the PRESIDENT, and
orders given for the first issue of the Government
paper. In the House of Representatives the Bill
had a narrow escape, having finally passed by
a majority of 127 votes a,,ainst 98. Thus the schemes
of the Executive have all ended in the establishment
of a new paper currency—:a currency, too, liable to
much greater objections than were ever urged against
the issues of the National Bank. The Duty Bonds
Postponement Bill, by the provisions of which credit
is allowed upon all imports to the Ist inst., for periods
of from three to six months, with a further privilege
of renewal, has also received the sanction of the
PRESIDENT. With regard to the new Bills about
to be issued by the Treasury, it is proposed that thefirst
issue shall bear only two per cent. interest ; in order that
the interest on the remaining issues may be raised, in
the event of the paper becoming depreciated. We
look upon the whole proceedings as the prelude to
the establishment of a national system of banking
throughout the United States—for the merest political
tyro must have long since convinced himself that the
metallic currency scheme of President JACKSON was
one of the most mischievous, as well as ridiculowi