The Sun.
London, England, 1830-12-16 00:00:00

good—especially that clause which prevents a mas-
ter from recovering for any thing advanced on the
credit ,ef* the workinats' s wages.-- Thum
We refer with pleasure to the speech of the
Duke of Hamilton list night in the House of Lords,
on the subject of Reform, and with still greater satis-
faetion to the proceedings of the freeholders of the
county of Middlesex, held yesterday, of which an
ample report will be found elsewhere. It was time,
indeed, thia the county should redeem itself from the
stain cat upon it by being so backwatd in the elms,.
ofgeneral Reform, after aluiost every city and town
in the kingdom had met to pass resolutions, and to
petition on the subject, and more especially after
the election of one of the most staunch, if, indeed,

not the staunchest, advocate for Reform, as one of
its representatives in Parliament. It has now, how-
ever, wiped out the disgrace nobly. The resolutions
passed at it were strong, energetic, appropriate to
the times in which we live, and likely, we would
rain hope, not only to strengthen the hands of the
present Government, but to spread a just confidence
throughout the country, that its grievances are now
in a fair way of being redressed, and that no Go-
vernment can possibly maintain itself which does
not study the true and permanent interests of the
country—place the poor laws a foundation
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more consistent with the interests of the labourer,
and the comfort of the really poor—abolish all mo-
nopolies which fetter the trade and industry of the
country, com Mute, and finally settle, the payment
of tithes in such a manner as to render therwin-
noxiohs to the employment of capital and labour—
reduce the excessive amount of taxation for useless
establishments and unmerited pensions—and, finally,
introduce such a Reform into the representation of
the people as shall effectually secure the country
against a return of the abuses which now prevail,
and are universally complained of. These evils must
be remedied, and the return of them prevented,else
w hat will be the consequences? Let the Govern-
ment look to it. It is not new a question whether
the people or the aristocracy shall have the ma-
nagement of the affairs of the country, as must be
apparent to every one, but a question which in-
volves the " destruction of all the bonds of civi-
lized society." This point was broadly stated yes 7.
terday at the Middlesex meeting; and the proceed-
ings of the Aberdeen and Gosport meetings, on
similar subjects, prove, along with those of mail
others, that such is now the feeling universally pre-
valent throughout the country. But what shall we
say of the Birmingham meeting, of which an ac-
count, too brief for its importance, will be found
elsewhere ? It was, indeed, a thorough-paced radi-
cal meeting, in so far as Reform is concerned ; but
nevertheless a meeting of the highest importance,
and in all the points mooted, nut only consistent
with the opinions which we have alwt►ys professed,
but with the original principles on which the Bir-
mingham Union was originally established. We
have given a brief report of the speeches elsewhere.
Those of Mr. Attwood and Mr. Parkes will be
found well worthy of perusal; and the following is
the energetic, but very sensible and moderately
worded petition agreed toy:---