The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-22 00:00:00

dissolve Parliament—it is 'constitutional to pray him to dissolve
it—and nothing but a dissolution will ensure Reform !- All men
:oust be sensible of this truth, and all friends of Reform must
therefore be " instant in season and nut of season,"—early and
late—by day and by night,— in pressing the only prelimi-
nary measure which can save the country. Let every
ea.rish in the metropolis therefore meet immediately, to pray the
King to dissolve Parliament,—let their example be followed in
'he towns, cities, boroughs, and counties,—and, aboire ill, in
those districts and towns to which the elective franchise was
meant to have been extended by the Bill. To the people of Ire-
land and Scotland we say nothing.• A deadly blow,—a gross in-
sult,—has been aimed at them by the vote of Tuesday last ; and
we know their gallant spirit too well, to doubt for a moment,
that they will not exhibit 'a splendid example of the support
which they have already tendered ta the Reform Bill and its
authors. There is, also, another duty, tot which every one must
be prepared,—the duty of electing fit and proper persons to serve
in the ensuing Parliament. This is the great point—the only
one to which all others must yield precedence. The King's
Ministers have declared to his Majesty, that dissolution is
the only remedy, and from all that we can learn, that
dissolution will take place, if not this elay, at least in a few slays
hence. it is, in fact, inevitable. Oa his. Majesty's resolves, we
say nothing. His palace is daily besieged by the Anti-Reformers,
—by the creatures who look in at WindoWs,—peep through key-
holes, and make use of pettic sets for envelopes to their anti-na.
national desires,—the Peel and Cumberland party is hard at
work, and a co-alit ion is understood to have been formed, or all
but formed, between the Tories who opposed the Catholic Bill
and the Tories who votedefoe it, in order to defeat the Reform
Bill. There is, therefore, danger of change; but we, neverthe.
less, still rely with unabated confidence on the patriotism and
firmness ofthe King, as well as on that of his Ministers. The
" better part of valour is, , however, prudence," and we, there-
fore, again say, " Men of the United Kingdom, be up and doing,
and be prepared for the worst." Morning Advertiser.
The Revolutionary Bill is for the present abandoned, and an
immediate dissolution of Parliament is expected. Ministers, de-
spairing of being able to recover the ground they have lost in
respect to it, have resolved to oppose the full power of office to
the' sense and reasoning of Parliament ; when interrogated,
however, upon the subject in both Houses last night, they
shrunk from the inquiry, and refused to answer the necessary
questions. In the House of Comosons, Lord Althorp, in reply to
Sir R. Vyvyan, contented himself with saying that Ministers
did not intend to proceed any further with the Bill, refusing to
say a word upon the subject of the menaced dissolution ; and in
the Lords Earl Grey also declined giving any answer to Lord
Wharnelifte : in consequence of which the latter Noble Lord
gave notice that he would this day move an Address to his Ma-
jesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased not to exert his
undoubtea prerogative by dissolving the present Parliament
in the existing circumstances of, the country. This notice
was received with lou and general cheers. It is impossible that
any men of common intelligence can disguise from themselves
the danger with which a dissolution of Parliament at the present
moment threatens the peace of the country. In Ireland, more
especially, consequences are to be apprehended, both in a physi-
cal and moral point of view, whit,' every patriotic and virtuous
mind must grieve to contemplate. All the power and fraud of
priestcraft will be set in action to send forth supporters of that
" Reform" measure, ivhich, among the Roman Catholic con-
spirators in that country, is identical with the destruction of
the Protestant Church. Through this most ill-omened project
do they look for the acomplishment of O'Connell's denun-
ciation, openly made in the House of Commons a few nights
ago, en lie proclaimed that the. Established Church in
Ireland ought to be stript of a large portion of its revenues,
and that he supported the Bill because it would inevitably
lead to that desirable consummation. Such will be, incontrover-
tibly, the remote tendency of an election in Ireland at this time
—buethe more immediate resiats are equally to be dreaded. The
neglect of those who have forptten both duty and honour in for-
sakini her, has already reduced Ireland to a state bordering on
open insurrection; yet acute as is the wretchedness and formid-
able as is the disorder to which it has given birth, the condition
of Ireland is not irremediable, and strenuous though tardy exer-
tioas to relieve her might be successful. Great, however, will be
the responsibility of any set of men who at such a moment would
deliberately afford an opportunity for the bursting forth into
full action of all that turbulence and fury which, without
any adscititious excitement, i now barely kept under. We
say a General Election in Ireland would be equivalent to
a suggestion to the unhappy thousands who are ttstracted
with their misfortunes and their wrongs, and who with
eitliculty and for a time only are restrained within some
bounds—it would be a suggestion to them to avenge themselves
at once, by the exertion of their physical power, in general re-
bellion and the attempted destruction of all above them. But to
leave this painful subject and recur to the political results antici-
pated by Ministers as regards their Reform Bill. Aware that the
cool and sober judgment of the public mind would unequivocally
pronounce against them and their scheme, they rest their hopes
on the excitement which they trust will continue to exist for a
short time longer, and, to use a common expression, hasten to
strike the iron while it is:hot. We have nevertheless no fears for
the result of a general election, and are in the full expectation of
witnessing the return of a'Hotise of Commons more decidedly op-
posed to revolution th an the present The noble sentiments uttered
by Sir T. Acland are those of the gre A majority of Englishmen,and
public-spirited gentlemen and honest electors will not be wanting to
compose such a House of Commons as shall ensure the safety of the
Constitution. "The Bill" being gone forever, the opinions of intel-
ligent and sound. principled men will now be looked for on the sub-
ject of" moderate Reform :" and we cannot better commence on the
point than by citing the following passage from a pamphlet by
Mr. Pusey, Member for Chippenham, decidedly one of the best
written and most argumentative exposes that have appeared, of
the Ministerial project : Moderate Retbrin must now be consi-
tiered step by step, and two main principles must govern its con-
! duct. Reform cannot be moderate, unless it be gradual in in-
' quiry, in enactment, in execution. Reform cannot be sound
unless it be constitutional: The House, gradually restored, must
not be borne along the airy lines of a theory, nor poised upon
the unstable pivot of a single class, though that class be the cett-
tral one; it must be drawn out and based according to the an-
cient analogy of our representation, on the collateral levels of
higher, of middle, of more extended constituencies, balanc-
ing and supporting each other. From this Bill time and eon.
stitutional analogy are excluded alike. The Bill, there-
fore, must be rejected. . It must be rejected, because de-
spising these two obvious counsellors, it granted far inure
beCanse it involves a degree
of change which must .shake-idl• our institutions ; because
it canna be final, but inustesink: deeper into ballot and
than the occasion requited;
1 1 • -ti -
unlimitetrle
; .becausee, diminishing gratuitously
hasty and self-contradictory
psuaffrtiatigoen Of frant; because it must spread wider into a
general set ; ecause its provisions are
the articles of Union between the two countries ;
contrary to
because it abolishes the graduated scale of
the numbers rsrreonfdtelries
tiemelobuosie..,:gghirveepsrteoselnrtealatioirroafplrreepolainiddetroaonncee
because surrenders
°sillua.c6tle;r constituencies,, placing all power in the
loarr
nterest • because, while it removes, at once,
hands of a single
• fluence, it is afraid to touch the lower power, which
superior in
' is no longer balances.' ; bemuse, an this great and not deliberate
change,
its empiric instruments are laid, not on one wheel, but
on the prime mover; not on a foot, or a hand, but on the heart;
would bring together in the House of Commons
notgtPlaidt'llliemoagyfestry. of a -parish, but on a governing power of the
State; because, in changing the constitution of that power, it
because, by sweeping away the old conser,
would also chianntgede,
,svuitdhdein)ubly,liethaeffaiinras,fearniadlstioiefrweflofircehdtelsiieropousweorf
it would, like the famous measure of a former
Whig Ministry, take from the King the constitutional choice of
his servants ; because,. by establishing a party, bent on the de-
struction of the Peers, the Church, and the Crown, this Bill
would go far to convert a free monarchy into a despotic republic."
fyimsrat .ecstst:lcuei ricna,
accotrqvctu innovations ;
—Morning Post.

No. HUNT AND THE BIRMINGHAM
POLITICAL UNION.

mi,day last the attendance at the meeting of the Po-
liticalicry smcroimn
Hunt'sencerdecweint with
oaecdie4srual:
On W-----• 1 "at the Globe Tavern, in Temple-street, was un-
Comae' ,
tory conversationi state of public opinion in I3irminghatn on the mi.,
[ion as to the
measure of Reforrn. The Chairman (Mr. Attwood),
nisterial
1 the speakers, stigmatised Mr. Hunt's statement in
leed al
and int.
Parliament, so far as regards this part. of the country, as a gross
on Thet
e.is)ru°bejeedec t
ouncil were about to proceed with the appointed
versation,
of the evening, when •
arihaentacble misrepresentation. At the close of this con.
n HADLEY. rose and said that he considered it abso-
Mr. ry that the Reformers of Ilinningharn should con-
lutely necesumnies uttered by 11r, HUnt.—(Lond cheers.) To
tradict theca,earect,
after the deputation they had sent to Earl
him it air!' their numerous declarations in favour of his great
Grey,n nf Reform,. they would be co:npromising their own
usually nuinerous.
meure
consistency, and acting unjustly towards the . Governmentt if
ot at once step tOrWard and vindicate thernselve's from
they, did ntations and falsehoods attributed 41 Mf: Hunt.—(Loud
the imputations
had held three publiC Meothigs in Binning_
cheers.)
on each occasion by thousands, at which the
„
approved and received
ham, attendedNo proposed by Ministers was . .
fictbrill acclamation. Ii any thing could show the feelings of the
with f
i„ Birmili,ghani; these meetings unquestionably diii.—
baiu'dsinuel 's's‘. a
people ° klaving, therethre, „pledged themselves to support
(Cheers.)
Government in their magnificent plan„.having never ex-
6"he slightest distrust of their motives or intentions--it
P"' " t only not fair,but it was grossly unjust, for Mr. Hunt
was no
to come sa that the Tle. of Birmin ham Hunt
forward and y, .pe h ),i g ,
~ ,
.. t
dissatisfied with the proposed Bill.—_( eers, ri clitn,c so se
Tarliam
• ent right, and show what little Con6t enCe ought to
, .
be Praceo in the *statements- 0 -tith -IVtember fir Preston, lie
sootila propose that a petition be presented from the Council
praying tbr 'the adoption of the Bill, and contradictory of Mr.
Hunt's "falsehoods.---(Louil cheers.) What had already been
the effect of his conduct ? '1 hQ whole Press of the.kindoin
viewed him as an associate and supportor of ttic, Tery anti-
reformers. The Examiher, of Sunday, dement-iced .hint as their
~ hope and oracle." -In lils (air. B.'s) opinion Mr. Hunt
had done more injtiry to the catise of Bethnal in 'Parliamentt
within these few' days, than any' open opponent, how,cV2r
.i.l,
tented or` influential,. fOr the last fitly - years. ' 11*,, 07.4-Aining
these views, he held it to be the'duty ef ttil 4tefortners whose
opinions had been' so shainefillly Wii:4l, te• manfully protest
tlrie...,ed t
against the strange and ‘itiaccepritable conduct of the man by
whom tlie sla,iithir ,4-48
iiboviiig the thilowlnk resolution:--" The Newspapers having
Uttered. He should, therefore conclude by
reported that Henry Hunt, E.,q. had represented to the T,,,c.list
of Commons that the working men in Warwicksbsiw and Stsf-
fordsliire had very generally expressed their discontent with the
measures of Parliamentary Reform, bronglit forward by his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, this Cooncil deeply' regret these staternel44 of
fir. Hunt, knowing that
they are altogether Unfotilfdad• It is,
therefore, recolvcd by'this 'Connell, that the Chairman, together
s,
th
Nea:.rt:' Satt, Etllminlis, Botta, Hipkiss,' blunts, and T.
ilr-.
HEDlpAKlOisN'sDeSosneAnstdedtthheeirliebstloctlttittlit
%Stet`, bi re,Mested to draw up a petition to the House of Com-
mons, from this Council, contradicting the statements of Mr.
flunt, and that such petition be forthwith signed by the ci.nsicti;
and presented bY D. O'Connell, Esq."--(Load c4crs.) . '
cretary ,
of 44e greateit iniportance at the present juncture, and
Se-
be hoped the resolution' -prdposed would pasS unanimougly. ' He.
(M HiPkiss) did' not dispute Mr. 1-lunt's right to Ave CS f 4,0
and unbiassed, opinion on any subieo, Viliguced by their
c.aine hefere the
House of Commons ; ' but' Va 'in 'the, discliarge of what he con-
sidered hiS dttty,site had' tltettemeAty to tell lies, the people he
1i1,,,4,111Pe4 t',9'sl-4,114 '4.i.igt4 to tot him he did not speak the
ici:eeortwetiasyrubll
believed,
i,t
Y.- 1ti.7144*1.4.1 iN repleesenting to Parliament that the work-
ing tnaSs 5 of Birmingham and its neighbourho were discern-
twh
east.
et their
not
tt yo one
tmelninhi ut sat i
oHtal/4„Ajr, '“
whethers'i'
tonted with the Reform Bill, Mr. Hunt had said thet wle,t wir4.-
represented the feelings and interests of the peoptc,
was not satisfied ri;
as not attached to the moil ill.tl4niveisal s'uti'l.age, that
e measure of Rethrm proposed by Govern-
ment. If tire Bill Opened the doors of Parliament to men who. tceuvr
aAid the con-
sequence of their exerticns was the dillbsion of cettifort and
happiness to all classes of their constituents, the
working classes
of England would rest satisfied witiCthe Glavernrnent under
which they lived. If the'propt*.d' Referm dal 'Mt work this
exerted good, 'Which he believed it would—there was no iieces-
..t7 forthetU stundints still, but it wouldbe their duty to seek