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benches, and they would have motions made by the great
leaders of the party, supported by speeches full of enthu-
siastic ardour about freedom and good Government ; but
whilst they had a Tory Opposition, by common consent,
they never heard the words " freedom and good Govern-
ment."—(Cheers.) But he would be just. He must give
the Whigs credit for having sent Lord Mulgrave to Ire 7
land.—(Cheers.) He believed that Nobleman was the
best Governor ever sent to Ireland, for he seemed to un-
derstand the true situation of the people whom he was sent
to govern, and he refused to submit to the despotism and
domination of the Orange faction.—(Loud cheers.) But
what had been the conduct of the Whigs towards the colo-
nies ? Did the people of England want to have an army
sent across the Atlantic to fight the battles of despotism in
the snows of Canada ? If they did not they ought not to
support a Whig Government--(Cheers.) Had it never
suggested itself to them there was another party besides the
Whigs and Tories ? Was it impossible that the Radicals
should come into office ?—(A laugh.) He saw this was a
new idea, but if they had not the talent of the Whigs or
Tories, they had at least as much honesty.—(Cheers.)
The following resolutions were then severally put, and
unanimously agreed to :
" That the meeting have heard with much surprise and
dissatisfaction the declaration attributed to Lord John Rus-
sell of his decided hostility to any further change in our
defective political system, and his determination to maintain
that exclusive system of representation by which a great mass
of the people are: altogether excluded from exercising the
elective franchise.
" That the meeting never contemplated the Reform Bill
as a final measure ; on the contrary, they viewed it as the
first step only in the attainment of those great organic
changes in our institutions which altered times and circum-
stances have rendered imperative ; and, deeply impressed
with this conviction, they cannot refrain from expressing their
want of confidence in any ministry pledged to resist those
changes.
" That, in accordance with these resolutions, this meeting
pledges itself to support by all lawful means any proposition
calculated to attain an extensive enlargement of the elective
franchise, the shortening the duration of Parliament, and to
afford,the electors the security of voting by Ballot.
" That the Thanks of this meeting are especially due to
our representatives. Thomas Wakley, Esq., and T. S. Dun-
cornbe, Esq. ; also, to the twenty Members who composed
the minority on the amendment to the Address."
Mr. WALLET came forward, and was loudly cheered.
He could assure them that it required no small share of
courage and resolution to do their duty honestly in the
House of Commons. If he had been a pigmy he believed
that the Ministerial cormorants would have gobbled him
up for his conduct on the 20th of the last tnonth.—( A
laugh.) It was, however, a consolation to him to find
throughout England the public voice approve most ardently
of the course he then adopted.—(Loud cheers.) He would
pursue a similar course on Monday next if he had the same
opportunity.—(Loud cheers.) He might be asked what
had been gained by that course ? Why, it had at least shown
to the people of England what was the character of the House
of Commons that had been just elected. He was told
that he wanted to bring in the Tories. He was heartily sick
of hearing the terms Whig and Tory. They were terms
which were bandied about to blind the people. The real
fact was, that they were now divided into two patties, the
aristocracy and the democracy ; and if the people really
wished to have good government they must put their own
shoulders to the wheel, and not depend upon either section
of the aristocracy.—(Loud cheers.) The Hon. Gentle-
man concluded by expressing his sincere thanks for the
honour done him.
Mr. DUNCOMBE came forward and was most enthu-
siastically received. He had to apologise for the absence
of an Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who had desired
hint to express his extreme regret at not being able to at-
tend the meeting. The gentleman to whom he alluded
was Mr. O'Connell.—(lmmense cheering.) That Hon.
and Learned Gentleman requested him to assure the
meeting that nothing would have afforded him greater
pleasure than to attend this meeting ; but he had
made arrangements for leaving London for his native
country, and he had started that morning.—(Cheers.)
They were met for the purpose of expressing their disap-
probation of the recent declaration of Lord John Russel.
Those gentlemen who had addressed them before him had
not only expressed their disapprobation, but also their deep
disappointment at
.that declaration.—(Loud cheers.) In
that disappointment he most sincerely participated.—(Loud
cheers.) During the last reign, what had the Whigs told
them when they attempted to press motions for the exten-
sion of the Suffrage, and even for the repeal of the rate-
paying clause of the Reform Act ? They said, " Do not be
impatient ; do not press us too hard ; we are as good Re-
formers as yourselves at heart, but we have difficulties to
encounter at Windsor, and until those difficulties are re-
moved, it is impossible for us to concede those measures ;
but if you will only wait till a certain old gentleman at
Windsor is called to his Hanoverian ancestors, you shall get
all you want ; wait, and you shall see what we will do for
you."—(Cheers and laughter.) They had waited, and
they had now on the throne of England a Sovereign
adorned with youth and beauty.—(Loud cheers,) Bat
what had happened on the first occasion of the meeting of
the House of Commons ? Lord John Russell, the organ
of the Ministry, got up in his place and exhibited himself
more of a Tory than before, he seemed entirely to have
forgotten the former professions which he made to the Re-
formers to induce them to wait. More a Tory and Con-
servative than before, he told the country that he should
consider an extension of the Suffrage, vote by Ballot, and
triennial Parliaments as a 'irtual repeal of the Reform
Bill. Lord John Russell told them that he did this upon
the assurance and understanding that the Reform Bill was
to be a final measure, that it was so agreed at the passing
of the Bill. Now he (Mr. Dunnombe) was in Parliament
at the time, he had advocated that measure, and had
helped to carry it out to a successful issue, and he would
only say that upon no occasion did he ever hear anythil g
about the finality of the measure.—( Loud cheers.) On the
contrary, the very questions on which the meeting had
that that night pronounced a favourable opinion were set
apart for future consideration. He had hoped that they
would have received from a reforming Ministry a most fa-
vourable consideration at the present moment.—(Loud
cheers. He had been disappointed in that hope, and now
it was for the people to say what they would do. Their
Hon. Chairma❑ had, in the course of his eloquent speech,
asked what their members would do ? He would only say,
that as far as he himself was concerned, he would endea-
vour to carry out those principles upon which the elec-
tors of Finsbury had returned him as their representative.
—(lmmense cheering.) He did not stand there as the ad-
vocate of the Whigs, and much less of the Tories, of whom
he had been, and ever would be, a decided opponent. Ile
predicted that this declaration of Lord John Russell would
lead to a change of Administration.—(Cheers.) Nothing
could save them. It appeared to him that the Whigs were
upon their last legs. He had no doubt that, shortly after
the recess, they would find themselves in some party
scrape or other upon some question in which the people
were not interested.. The Whigs would call for assistance
from the people, and the people would say, " We will not
help you out of the difficulty which you have got into. You
deserted us when you might have assisted us ; you betrayed
us when in the zenith of your power, you must now fight
your own battles ; and if you full into the pit you have dug
for yourselves, you will fall there uupiticd and despised."—
(Loud cheers.) Such, in his opinion, was the fate of the
Whigs, and they would be succeeded by a Tory Adminis-
tration. When that event occurred, they would meet in
that room to concoct measures for turning out a Tory Ad-
ministration, and every succeeding Administration, till the
people had got one on which they could repose confidence
as sincere and honest Reformers.--(lmmense cheering.)
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the immense
crowd quietly dispersed.

now

EDUCATION COMMITTEE.—Mr. Poulett Thom.
son and Mr. Hawes have been discharged from further attend•
ante, and Mr. Pusey and Mr. Gladstone added to the Cons