The Sun.
London, England, 1831-02-01 00:00:00

f.-iPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is our deliberate conviction that a Reform or
Parliament is our only security against a revolu-
tionary overthrow of the Church and State of Eng-
land. Beyond all question, if the Whig Ministers
be not now supported, a Tory Government—or
rather bastard-Tory—would stand a good chance of
immediately succeeding to office. An Administra-
tion cf pure Tories, indeed—that is, of Tories
throte.r.h prejudice or fanaticism, but, according to
their lights, or blindne:=s, honest withal—could not,
we believe, be formed. The party is itself fast
crumbling to decay. Its numbers are limited—its
intellectual capacity still more limited—the public
feeling entertained towards it falls not far short or
derision. It must seek to recruit its ranks from
()tiler quarters—from among those who .were not
Tories; that is to say, from the class of unattached,
outlying, adventurers, unencumbered with principles
or opinions of any bind—waiters upon Providence
or fortune. Recruits, however, from such an order
of politicians would be caught up with great diffi-
culty by an Administration, of whose tenets the
ftshion has gone by. Political adventurers, are, for
the most part, been and shrewd fellows, watch-
ful cf the wind, sharp-sighted enough to know
a " hawk from a hand-saw" whenever their own
interest is concerned. They are usually men of
shifts and compromises, vduing the like qualities in
others, and above all things in the world, looking
with instinctive contempt on people who will not
bend to the force of circumstances, or swim with
the current of the times. Hopeless of extraneous
succour, then, we see not how the ultra Tory
coteriy (for to such dimensions does the party seem
to us to be reduced) could carry on the Govern-
ment for a single hour. Suppose we, therefore, the
-Whigs dismissed, and the wild or unadulterated
Tories disposed of; who would succeed to office'
There remains no material for a Government, that

we. con find, hut the impure, or bastard, or, for waet •
of a better word, the trading Tory faction,—your
place sod pension-men,—your men of prece-
dent, of practice, of detail, of expedient, of much
dexterity, of small retrenchment, of distant but
" not quite impossible" Reform ;—men for whom
Downingostreet comprises the only spot on earth of
which they can breathe the air without something
like a sense of suffocation. This trained, and, to
the country, most formidable band, would, it is
greatly to be dreaded, become Ministers if the
Whigs were overturned. And what, then, would
follow ? The public may guess from the means by
which they have been for some time working to
undermine the Whigs. There is no violation of
eecrecy in mentioning what seems to be admitted
among ell the best informed circles—viz, that at-
tempts have been made of late, in a spirit no less
iniquitous than daring, to persuade an illustrious
Personage that the pledge of his Ministers to meet
the universe} desire of the people of England for a
correction of those moreorous abuses which have
crept through the constituent body into the whole
of their respective system, is a pledge to revolu-
tionize the Stine! From various quarters, and
highly respectable, has it been circulated that
the Royal ear is thus abused from day to
day, for purposes the most selfish and criminal.
IF, then, they who hope to succeed the present
;Ministers found their own superior claims to his
Majesty's confidetice on their hostility to that mea-
sure,—viz. a Reform of Parliament, by which the
existing Government is pledged to stand orfall,--e-the
new Cabinet so to be formed will have " noßeform"
for its test and wuteln,vord. It cannot break faith
with the Sovereign by undertaking that same mea-
sure which he will have been prevailed upon by the
representations of its members to expel from his
councils another Ministry for promising. The new
Cabinet cannot do with the manly and plain-sailing
mind of King William what another Administration
was accused of performing during the life-time of
George IV.,—namely, make one certain policy the
pretext for destroying a rival Government, and in-
stantly ;Jae: wards carry that same policy into execu-
tion. No such project can now be meditated with
regard to Parliamentary Reform. Whatever Cabi-
net shall supplant (we speak of an event which, we
tens!, is not hhety)—whatever Cabinet may sup-
plant that of Lord Grey, by poisoning the Royal
mind with chimerical fears of Reform, will be tied
to the stake, and compelled to act upon a system
adverse to every species of Reform. Then let King
'William look round him, and examine what power
ran such a Ministry command to support a scheme
of Government so universally reprobated by his
people. Is the present Parliennent to be relied
npen ? Notoriously not. The Duke of Welling-
ton, et the opening of the session, reckoned upon
hard run between him and the reformers.
But what has happened since ? Why, England.
has spoken : towns and counties, rich and poor, the
middle classes every where, are phdged, not like
the Whig .Ministers, to grant Reform, buteas a free
people ought to do, they say with one voice they
insist, on it. Let a new Cabinet, then—we care
not who it may consist of, should even Mr. Goul-
burn himself be at the bead of it—let any Ministry
etteeept to drown the cry for Reform in that of
" Revolution," there is not a village in the United
Kingdom, from Dover to the north-westerly point
of Donegal, whence petitions will not pour in upon
the Sovereign to dismiss such a Government for
traitors;. If the King listens to the voice of obser-
eaet and disinterested men, his Majesty will learn
that to resist Reform in such an age as this, would
be to have repeated, in England, a lesson which
Providence seems to have inflicted upon other
States, expressly that their neighbours may have
the wisdem to profit by it. It is not the interest of
a King of England, or of any Monarch, that Iris
people should Huffer ; nor can it be for his happiness
that they should assail }din with remonstrances or
murmurs. Tice people of England have a right to
what they ask—to redress .of grievances, and to
•rot,^tion against the abuse of power. The King
p ea,
has a right to their allegiance in the same degree in
which he affords them protection ; and it is the
doctrine of our Constitution, that he can claim no
more. If tile people, despairing of redress of
grievances through the regular channels, should
force fresh channels for themselves (and these are
de2,at in which such things have happened), what
will be tire mournful result for the survivors of a
period so calamitous ?—Why, the internal relations
of the British - Monarchy will all have been dis-
turbed, and its Lest institutions subverted, that a
mercenary faction might prolong for a few months
the experiment of tyrannizing over King and

, -
peopte.—i
Sir E. Sugden (as our readers will see in our
Chanc;ry Report) complained of an article in the
Chronicle of yesterday (he account of the meeting of
the members of the Chancery liar, on Sa,urday), rt-
!wive to the practice -as to motions, in which it was
cstzw.d that he had made a proposal for transferring mo-
tions to the Rolls' Court, in which it was stated, in
for the purpose of placing him in an unfa-
vourable light ; but we are at a loss to understand
on what ground he complains of it to the Lord
Cnancidlor. Is it, or is it not, true that Mr. Jem-
mett, Sir Edward's son-in-law, proposed to transfer
a pertion of the motions to the Rolls' Court, in
_which' Sir Edward himself does not practice ? We
are not so unreasonable as to expeci from Sir Ed-
ward that he should he pleased with truths that are-
prejudicial to ; but-any man, whose irritability •
. nor altogettier overcome his
,diser,tio„, would
avecontriyed to keep his displeasure to himself
where he could expect so little sympathy with it
limn oti.,.2rs. If we might allowed to off,r ad_
vice to 6ir Sugden, wOuld observe, that trile
fretfulness which is apparent-, even in his demeanour
end-countenance, on all occasions since he ceased to
hold. office, is by no means calculated to obtain for
him • that deferential ' awe that is necessary to
successful excrcise of the sort of dicta..
tot,hii) to which himself or his friends have
After the lofty note of preparation
sounded .in the John Bull, of the 16ih.Lnmay? that
he is to keep the Lord Chancellor steady, as" without
tiy intention on the p:rt of the late Solicao; -Gcnc-
'

ral to intimidate his Lordship, never was Chancel•
for more afraid of a Barrister" than his Lordship is
of " that said Sugden" after being told this great
man " sends for a Lord Chancellor when he wants
him," hut " that he will by no means allow a Lord
Chancellor to take liberties with him," that he is

the man to pull Lord Brougham " off the high
horse ;" after being told, in the John Bull of the
23d of January that " Sir Edward will get hint
(the Lord Chancellor) into tolerable order in time,"
the public will be somewhat surprised to see this
ereat and commanding mortal fidgetting in the
Court of Chancery, his peace of mind absolutely
disturbed, on account of a statement in the Morning
Chronicle, which he does net attempt to contradict,
but which he merely says is injurious to him. If
the truth be injurious to him, let him look to the
proper quarter for a remedy, namely, to himself, and
not to the Lord Chancellor. But the public are
much less interested in Sir Edward's ability to play
the schoolmaster in the Court of Chancery than in
seeing an end put to the arrear in the Vice•
Chancery Court. In one Court an excellent Judge
has got rid of all arrears, and in another there is a
heavy arrear. What it would become Sir Edward
to explain is, the cause of his present opposition to a
Reform, from which suitors would derive the
greatest benefit.--Morning Chronicle.
The County of Down has led the way in Ireland
on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. A meet-
ing of the freeholders of that great county was held
some days since, the high Sheriff in the chair, when
several excellent speeches were made, arid resolu-
tions entered into, strongly expressive of confidence
in the present Administration, and of earnest yet
temperate desire of Reform. It was resolved that
the petition to both Houses of Parliament, framed
in accordance with the resolutions, should be offered
for presentation to the young Lords, Castlereagh and
Arthur Hill, who represent the county, hut upon
condition that they shall support the prayer of the
petitions ; and, in case of a refusal, that the petitions
shall be transferred to the hands of Air. Ruthven, the
popular Member for Dowupatrick, who attended the
meeting, and took an active part in the proceedings.
—Morning Chronicle.
The Reform meetings are multiplying throughout
the country, and among municipal bodies heretofore
considered close—a description well known to our
readers when applied to Corporations, Vestries, and
Scotch Burghs, as denoting that in-and-in breeding
which all judges of cattle hold to depreciate the
beast. The city of Gloucester, represented by its
Corporation, met on the 25th ult., when the Mayor,
Aldermen, Sheriffs, and Common Council of the
city agreed to a very strong, but temperate, petition
in favour of Parliamentary Reform, to which the
seal of the city was affixed. The borough of
Warwick, long since emancipated from its close
Corporation and " Parliamentary influence," has
convened, by a requisition sigeed by one hundred
and sixty of its principal burgesses, a public
meeting of the inhabitants, " to take into con-
sideration the propriety of petitioning the Legis-
lature for an effectual Reform in the Commons
House of Parliament, for the abolition of all useless
Places and Pensions, and for a thorough Retrench-
ment in the Public Expenditure of the Kingdom."
The meeting is convened by the Mayor, and will
be held at the Court-house on Wednesday. \Val-
Bilston, and all the populous unrepresented
towns in the midland counties and great central
manufacturing districts, are holding meetings of
similar object. The determination of the people to
achieve Parliamentary Reform is daily more and
more manifested. Reform, sanctioned by the
Councils of the King, can never again be " pat
down," Gagging Bills, suspensions of the Habeas
Corpus Act, green bags, sham plots, yea even stand-
ing armies, cannot now uphold the boroughmongers,
though faction should succeed in defeating the
Ministry in the present House of Commons.—
Morning Chronicle.

The continuation of the debate in the French
Chamber of Deputies on the 28th of January is de-
serving of the most serious attervion. A strong
feeling was evinced on the liberal side for the union
with Belgium, and interference in behalf of the
Poles. It came out in the course of the debate
that the Belgians would have been attacked by the
Holy Alliance if France had not interposed. We
never imagined that the King of Holland would
have spoken as he did of the assurances he had re-
ceived from his Allies, except on an understanding
that they were to overrun Belgium. One of the
speakers referred to Ireland in a manner not very
much calculated to gratify an Englishman :
" We do not fear war," said M. Mauguin, in his re-
ply ; " and if Belgium sliould offer herself, I would say,
even at the risk of war, ' Accept her !' It would be a
deadly war I know, but it would be to the honour and
glory of France. And, besides, who would dare to attack
us ? Would it be Russia? She has Poland and Turkey to
contend with.—Would it be Austria ? She knows that
with 50,000 men we should give her occupation in Italy.
—Would it be England ? With steam-boats we could
carry arms and battalions into Ireland.—(Strong sensa-
tion.)—l here speak upon the supposition of war."
Let us consider M. Mauguin in the light of a
friend, for this notice. On this occasion he has
spoken out what is thought by the generality of
Frenchmen. It is the interest of France and England
to be on friendly terms with each other ; and we
really do nut see why the two countries should go
to war because the Belgians wish to be united to
the French. There is a material difference between
one people wishing to be united to another, and
one people conquering another. The Belgians were
torn from the French, and it is not unnatural that
!bey should seize the first favotu able opportunity to
renew the connection. But, however, this may be,
it were to be wished that Ireland did not tempt the
French t o presume so much as they do on our helpless-
ness. The French take it for granted, that where
six out of seven putts of the people of a country are
exposed to the mortification of beholding the religion
of the seventh part established as the religion of the
country, with one-tenth of the produce of the soil,
and immense estates besides assigned to it, the six
remaining parts, who pay for this establishment,
cannot be well affected to the Government. There
is a cause for every thing. When we want to know
the cause of the disaffection of Ireland, we may ask
eurselves why Scotland is well affected ? Would

Scotland have been well affected if treated as Ire-
land is treated ? Will Ireland ever be well affected
till treated as Scotland is treated ?—• ikforn. Chron.
Great alarm seems to pervade those local sinks
of and corruption, the petty corporations
:lirotighout England, at this moment, lest the ap-
proaching day of " Reform" may restore to the
people those rights which they have usurped, and
those franchises which they have.most grossly abused.
In many of those corporations the right of choosing
Members of Parliament, which was originally in
the inhabitant householders, or in the community at

, .
large, have;'in a lapse of time, been wrested alto-
gether front the people, and kept in the close pos-
session of a select few, who drive a most profitable
traffic in., the art and mystery of representation.
Many of those usurpations have been confirmed
from time to time by decisions of Committees of
ihe'House of Commons—for these tribunals have,
id general, lent themselves to the narrowing of the
elective franchise, at least in former times, and
thereby created much of the public mischief, which
only a broad and judicious plan of Reform can re-
pair. They have chosen to adopt Dr. Brady's ab-
surd translation of the word communitas in the old
darters, which translation was not the result of
ignorance, but of &sign. By reading those charters
under t ha " light" 'thrown upon them from the lan-
tern of th,t ingenious Doctor, they have practically
done them into English" in a way which equally
violates the construction of language and the
principles of the Constitution. Thus, in many in-
stances, what Corporate usurpation begun, Legisla-
tive ign,,rance has completed, and the rights which,
nom time immemorial, had belonged to the com-
monalty of the boroughs, have teen transferred to a
few johbers,who generally enjoy the golden patronage
of one or two rich men of great families, who nomi-
nate the persons whom the venal electors arc directed

to return'; and yet such boroughs are Paid to be
represented. Even Governor Gesler was better re-
presented by his hat upon a pole in the market-
place, for it was his 0 s n will that it should be re-
verenced as his representative ; but the great body,
or the community of the inhabitants of those corpo-
rate towns know nothing of the individuals who are
to personate them in the house of Commons, and,
as they had no part or lot in placing them there, are
consequently in a worse condition than the Aus-
trian expounder of the doctrine of virtual re-
presentation. We are aware that Corporations
were originally created for a useful purpose,
and that their existence in earlier times of
our history, produced effects highly beneficial to
the nation. They were a power created by
Royal authority, when the feudal system was at its
height, to counteract the power of the feudal
B-
rous, who often proved too strong for the Sovereign
himself. The charters which enfranchised large
bodies of people exercising some craft or trade at
time when the cultivators of the soil were the vas-
sals and serfs of the aristocracy, raised up great and
powerful bodies of men, whose immunities and pri-
vileges were derived from and sustained by the
King, and whose interests were in collision with the
Lords of the feudal system. But tln;se corporate
bodies have outlived their usefulness—they have
survived the necessity which created them. They
ought to have been swept away with the feudal sys-
tem out of which they grew. They have not only
ceased to be useful, but they have actually become
a source of many pernicious grievances to society.
The usurpation of the elective franchise is one—the
levying of local taxes, which are too often squan-
dered in the most disreputable manner, is another.
The diverting of the funds of public charities is a
third grievance, for which many of those Corpora-
tions are answerable—and, generally speaking, the
examples of extravagance, gluttony, dissipation,
venality, and corruption, which they exhibit in their
public proceedings, have most injurious consequences
on the morals of the people at large. They are, in
short, the minor Augean stables of the State, and
can only be cleansed by the besom of a sweeping
Reform.—Morning Herald.

If general report is to be credited, another victim
has been offered up at the shrine of that demon
which, unhappily for their families and their country,
so many persons of talent and of character have
been found to worship—we mean the horrid Mo-
loch of gaming. Against this detestable, selfish
vice, we have never ceased, and never will cease, to
wield the powerful engine of the Press. And
though we may fail to hunt the nuisance from out
of the land, we have good reason to know that we
have deterred some, and shansed many, from a
career which, more than any other, entails ruin upon
its votaries, without one solitary redeeming apology
or advantage. The truth is, that the gamester is
by far the worst man who infests society. The
infidel and open robber are bad enough; but your
cold-blooded gambler has all their vices, with a su-
peradded catalogue of his own, more fiendish in their
nature than any which belong to the open violaters
of public rights and private decorum. What sort
of husbands, fathers, brothers, and friends, this
horrid vice transforms its votaries into, those into
whose uncorrupt society they sometimes fall can best
bear witness; but the catastrophe of their lives
sometimes proclaims the naked truth to the world,
when cowardice and selfishness mark the suicidical
close of the gambler's wt etched career. For patri-
otism, in any shape, the victims of this all übsorbing
propensity have no place in their heart ; or rather,
we might say, no heart for it to find a place in.
Some of them (too many, we fear) are Legislators
—hereditary and otherwise : but, if Nero piped
while Rome was burning, with still more fatal in-
difference can these persons desert the highest and
most sacred duties for the infatuated calls of a pro-
pensity to which savages are at once addicted, and
which reduces civilized man to a savage.—Morning
Herald.

The Times of yesterday renews its supplications
in behalf of the gentle Whig Reformers, whose
holiest Cabinet is said to depend upon the toleration
of honest Radicals. The Standard appeals to the
honest feeling of Protestant Tories in behalf of the
same honest Cabinet against the thunder of the
T.nmes. The Courier twaddles on in favour of a
something which it professes not to understand, and
grounds all its hopes upon the assumed assistance
of Peel and Wellington. The Moi ning Chronicle
assures us that the mountain has, after many throes
and pang., been fairly delivered of a banding,
which is already zone to Court, to be approved of
by his Majesty. The Examiner, whose hostilil
to Brougham is at least candid, assures us that
the people will never allow another man's chill
to be fathered on them, and denounces it as a
Tory wolf in Whig clothing—a deformed trans-
formed, whose sole merit will be novelty, but whose
birth may tend to perpetuate the Grey family job to
the twentieth generation. Thus, on the last day of
the that month of the great year One, we are as-
sured by all the Government Press that to prop an
honest Cabinet, Radicals and Protestant Tories,
Royal favour and popular will, are indispensably
necessary. Yet, strange to say, each party must
be on its guard against the other—each must
overmatch the other—each must nevertheless tole-
rate the other, and be at one and the same time poll
mass Nardi, as the French are to Lord Palmer-
ston, in order that an honest cabinet may hold to-
gether in spite of wind and weather. The Reform
bubble may burst, but woe to its projectors. Earl
Grey must either attempt to preserve or pull
down the Constitution. The parties who surround
him must make their choice between God and Baal,

but of both he cannot long secure the favour and
support. To please the Times and people he
must sacrifice his older. To stand by that order,
he must go against the stream which he professes
to follow—against the people whose sovereignty he
is bound to obey. In either case he must stand a
convicted quack. The great something will prove
a little nothing, and the credit obtained upon false
pretences, once blown upon, will render his Govern-
ment as unpopular in England as it is popular among
her foreign enemies. Abroad he may be loved, be-
cause he is not feared. At home he may be feared,
but he cannot be loved ; and he will never earn his
country's confidence.—Morning Post.

The multiplicity of interesting matters with which
this day's Journal is filled, has scarcely left us suffi-
cient space to do justice to the most important of
all the news which it could possibly contain—the
future prospects of the country respecting a Reform
in the representation of the people. The Tories
are in the field—they have agreed on various points
of opposition to the present Government and its
measures, and they are determined, " come weal,
come woe," to urge them to the utmost. Is this
wise ? DJ they know the real situation of the
country ? the feelings of the community ? the po-
pularity of the Government ? We think not. Re-
form, retrenchment, and honourable peace, are in
the mouths of all parties—and not only in their
mouths but in their hearts. They are the sine qua
non to the re-establishment of public confidence—
to the safety of the Constitution—to the future
prosperity of the country—to the regular payment
of the interest of the national debt. Are Sir
It. Peel and his colleagues prepared to run the
risk of effecting the reverse of these things, in order
either to regain official station, or to prevent that
Reform which 999 out of every 1000 persons in the
country deem to be indispensable to its salvation ?
Nay, more. What do they think would be the con-
sequence of either compelling the present Ministry
to resign its honourable office—an office to which
it has been called by the unanimous voice of the
country—or to dissolve the present Parliament ? Do
they think that the country would be pleased to see
them again in office ? Do they imagine that they '
could occupy the Ministerial benches for even one
short month ? If they do imagine or flatter them-
selves to this extent, we beg leave to tell them, that
"they greatly deceive themselves. The country has
cast them off for ever—at least until it has righted
itself, anti they have changed their principles. " No

Reform" proved their death blow; and their acces-
sion to office, in the present state of continental
affairs, would be the signal for revolution. Again,
are they blind enough to see that if, by intrigue and
unfair opposition, they were to succeed in displacing
the present Ministry, they would necessarily pave
the way for one ten times more odious to them ?
They could not step into its shoes, as we have
already observed ; and who then would succeed it ?
Why the Radical party in the House, whick would
sweep away at once not only the rotten boroughs,
to which both Tories and Whigs chat; with such
devout affection, but every abuse in the Church,
from which the " great ones" in the land have so
largely profited. We speak these things advisedly,
and we set them down for the serious consi-
deration of those Nvho, either from public or
private motives, are inclined to oppose Reform. We
have a word also for the ear of the Minister. His
mode of bringing forward the question of Reform
in Parliament is good, because it will shew the
country at once the sentiments of the Members or
the House of Commons on the subject, and the
manlier in which the interests of the country are
represented ; but his plan is, we fear, too limited
to meet the wishes of the people, and ought either
to be extended before being proposed to the House
of Commons, or a general understanding entered
into between the members of the Government, to
urge a more sweeping and effectual Reform. They
were brought into power by the people, and to them
they must look for support in all their measures.—
Alorning Advertiser.

We refer with unfeigned satisfaction to the ac-
count of a meeting which was held last night at the
City of London Literary and Scientific Institution,
on the eubject of the taxes on knowledge. Having
so frequ.Aitly advocated the cause of a reduction of
duties on stamps and advertisements, and our
opinions being, in every respect, in accordance with
those of the meeting, it is unnecessary to make any
observation upon them ; but we cannot, nevertheless,
help reiterating our hope that the preseut Govern-
ment will see the wisdom, as well as the policy, of
meeting the wishes of the community in this respect.
'The general report is that a reduction of one-third
has been determined upen.—Morning Advertiser.

A meeting of the Clergy and members of the
Established Church took place in Sackvilie-street, on the
t.29tli instant, at which the following petition to the KING,
praying his MAJESTY to proclaim a fast and a day of
humiliation, was agreed to :—" That your MAJESTY'S
humble petitioners are earnestly desirous that your MA-
J FSTY should be pat in possession of the anxious prayer of
many of your MAJESTY'S dutiful subjects, who, viewing
your gracious MAJESTY as ruling for Curtis; `by whom
alone Kings reign and Princes decree justice,' are thereby
hound to your MAJESTY with a devotedness that no infe-
rior motive can give, and whose loyalty being grounded
on a Scriptural basis will be found firm and true amidst all
dangers. Your MAJESTY'S humble petitioners, therefore,
at this time approach the throne of your MAJESTY with
all dutiful obedience, and seeing that the transgressions of
our country are manifold, and our dangers not few, do be-
seech your MAJESTY, as the father of your people, to pro-
claim a fast and day of humiliation for the United King-
doms ; whereby, as in ancient flays, the wrath of a justly
offended Gon may, by the mediation and intercession of
our gracious SAVIOUR, be turned away, and amidst the
distress of nations and awful convulsion of the kingdoms
of the world, our beloved country (over which your gra-
cious MAJESTY. and illustrious QUEEN reign beloved by
yosr people) may be yet spared, and become a praise in
the earth, thereby ♦erifying that immutable truth, that
righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to
any people.' That your MAJESTY may graciously listen
to the voice of your people, is the earnest desire of your
MAJESTY'S petitioners, and they, as in duty hound, will
ever pray for the peace, welfare, and stability of your MA-
JESTY'S throne."

A meeting of the inhabitants of Kinross,
Milnebort, and the surrounding country, was held at the
former town on Thursday last, when resolutions i❑ favour
of Parliamentary Reform, and particularly referring to
the peculiar representation of Kinross-shire, were unani-
mously adopted.—Scotsman.

NOTTINGIIANI POLITICAL UNION.-Dur-
ing the last week more than two hundred persons have
entered themselves as members of the Union. We under-
stand that the general meeting will very shortly be held,
for the purpose of making a declaration of opinion on the
vote by ballot, and on the Ministerial plan for Parlia-
mentary Reform, so soon as it shall be made known.—
Nottingham Review.

LURGAN REFORM MEETING.—On Satur-
day last a meeting of the inhabitants of Lurgan, and its
neighbourhood, took place in Lurgan, W. J. flAsscocx,
Esq., in the chair. The meeting was addressed at con-
siderable length, by JAMES JOHNSTON, THOMAS HALL,
JAMES BOYD, Esqrs. ; Rev. H. DOBBIN, Mr. J. PAUL,
Mr. W. M'Cutsocii, Mr. R. TRAIL, Mr. G. M‘Mus,
LEN, &c.—The resolutions adopted included vote by
ballot, triennial Parliaments, and an extension of the eke-
the franchise. This is an additional triumph of the
cause of Reform.—. Northern IVhig.
THE NORTHERN REFORM CLUB.—On
Monday a meeting of persons, inhabitants of Belfast, awl
its vicinity, friendly to the object of Reform in Parlia-
ment, took place in the Commissioners' Room, Comsner.
cial.buildings, JOHN SINCLAIR, Esq, in the Chair. The
object of this meeting was to deliberate on the propriety
of establishing a Reform Club in Belfast ; and to adopt
rules and regulations for its constitution and management.
Dr. TENNENT, Mr. ROBERT GRIMSISAW, Mr. JOHN
BARNETT, Mr. WILLIAM MONTGOMERY, of Rosemount,
and several other gentlemen took part in the business of
the meeting. It was unanimously agreed that a society
should he formed ; and that it should be made as general
as possible, not being confined to inhabitants of Belfast,
or the county of Antrim, but including such friends of
Reform, inhabitants of the Northern Counties, as might
choose to become members. It was agreed that it should be
called, " The Northern Reform Club."—Northern Whig.
There is a rumour that the approaching
meeting of the county of Lanark for Reform is the result
of some arrangements between the Duke of HAMILTON
and Lord DOUGLAS ; the Hon. CHA RLES DOUGLAS being
to propose the resolutions. Should any such agreement
have been made, no one will think that Lord DOUGLAS
has come over to the Duke, but that the Duke has gone
over to him. The word Reform has so general a meaning
that any man, whatever be his politics, may speak in its
favour, without changing an opinion of any sort. Sir
RoneaT PEEL himself, the head of the opposition to the
liberal Ministers, is for Reform. What sort of Reform ?
A Reform which would enable that class in Manchester
who formed the yeomanry cavalry, to return a couple of
Members. This is called Reform ; and Sir ROBERT
might with perfect consistency move resolutions in its
favour. But what would Lord Avriione say to such
support ? Glasgow Chronicle.
LAUNCESTON REFORM MEETING.—The
spirit excited in Cornwall by recent events has not been
confined to the freeholders, who felt themselves de-
graded by the neighbourhood of so much borough cor-
ruption, even in the centre of the borough monopoly ; the
people came forward, and for the first time since the
perfection of the present system have kicked against those
who heretofore enjoyed the whole power and influence of
the kingdom. Of this there cannot he a stronger in-
stance than the meeting held in this town, where, and in
a village separated from it only by a brook, the Duke of
NORTHUMBERLAND has returned four Members for a
number of years, without any opposition. The MAYOR
haring refused (upon a requisition signed by 53 house-
holders) to call a Reform meeting, eleven of those respect-
able inhabitants gave notice of a meeting at the King's
Arms-inn, and at noon on Thursday, the large room
was crowded by respectable persons. THOMAS PEARSL,
Esq., was called to the Chair, and stated that the object
of the meeting was to promote a Reform in the system
of electing Members to serve in Parliament, which hitherto
was so unlike what it ought to be. Several gentlemen
addressed the meeting, and it was unanimously agreed
that the proposed petition should be presented to Parlia-
ment, imploring it to place the system of representation
on that tooting which would embrace the property and
intelligence of the nation ; and so to extend it, that the
privilege and birth-right of British subjects might be
warded from any undue influence on this part of either
King, Lords, or Commons.
DEATH OF NATHANIEL GORY.—On Wed-
nesday NATHANIEL Gow, the will-known Scottish vio-
linist and composer of many popular national airs, expired
at his house in Edinburgh, after a painful illness of several
years. In his latter days Mr. GOV; had enjoyed a pension
from King GEORGE IV., who, it will be recollected, treated
him with some marks of Royal condescension, on observ-
ing him at the head of his band in Dalkeith House, in
1822.—Ineerness Courier.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE. Seven o'clock.

rim LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

At the Court at Brighton, 31st January.
PRESENT,
The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
This day the Right Hon. William George Earl of Errol and
the Right Hon. Richard William Earl Howe, were, by his Ma-
jesty's commission, sworn of his Mjesty's Most Hon. Privy
Council, and took their respective p laces at the Board accordingly.

At the Court at Brighton, the 31st day of January, IS3I,
P F. SENT,
The King's Most Exec/lent Majesty in Council.
Sheritn appointed by his Majesty in Council, for the year 1531.
Bedfordshire—Samuel Charles Whitbread, of Cardington, Esq.
Berkshire—Charles Eyston, of East Hendred, Esq.
Buckinghamshire—Henry Andrewes. Uthwatt, of Great Linford,

Ca:m:b(rir.tihd,gte,,qand Huntingdonshires—John Bendshye, of Knees-
Cneshire—Sir Thomas Stanley Massey Stanley, of Hootoa, Bart.
Cumberland—John Taylor, of Dockray-Hall, Esq_
Cornwall—John Hearle Tremayne, of Heligan,
Derbyshire—Sir Charles Henry Colvile, of Duffield, Hot.
Devonshire—Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, of Tawstock, Bart.
porsetshire—The Honourable Henry Dawson Darner, of Milton
Abbey.
Essex—William Davis, of Leyton, Esq. GeM
Gloucestershire—Sir Thomas Crawley Boovey, of Elaxley-
Abbey, Bart.
Herefordshire—John Arkwright, of Hampton-court, Esq.
Hertfordshire—Augustus Smith, of Ashlyns-hall, Esq.
Kent—Baden rowel, of Speldhurst, Esq.
Leicestershire—George John Danvers Butler Danvers, of
Swithland, Esq.
Lincolnshire—Henry Bacon Hickman, of Thonnock-house, Esq.
-Monmouthshire—William Hollis, of Mounton, Esq.
Norfolk—John Angerstein, of Weeting, Esq.,ll=
Northamptonshire—Beriah Botfield, of Norton a Esq.
Northumberland—George Silvertop, of Minster Acres, ksq.
Nottinghamshire—Thomas Moore, of Ituddington, Esq.
Oxfordshire—Sir Henry John Lambert, of Aston, Bart.
Ilutlandshire—Thomas Birch Reynardson, of Essendine, Esq.
Shropshire—Sir Edward Joseph Smythe, of Aeton Burnell
Park, Bart.
Somersetshire—Thomas Shewell Bailward, of Horaington, Esq.
Staffordshire—Thomas Fitzherbert, of Swinnerton Park, Esq.
Couaty of Southampton—Sir Henry Joseph Tichborne, of Tich-
borne Park, llnrt.
Suffolk—John Read, of Primrose-hill. Holbrook, Esq.
Surrey—Harvey Combe, of Cobham l'ark, Esq.
Sussex—William Courthorpe Mabbott, of Ucktield, Esq.
Warwickshire— George Lucy, of Charlecotes, Esq.
Wiltshire—Paul Methuen; of Corsham-house, Esq.
Woi cestersh ire—Osman Ricardo, of Brombserrow-place, Esq.
Yorkshire—Sir Henry Goodricke, of Ribstone-ball, Esq.

SOUTH WALES.
Carmarthenshire—Edward kiamlym Adams, of Middleton-hall,
Esq.
Pembrokeshire—Jehn Mirehouser, of Brownslad, Esq.
Merionethshire—Hugh Lloyd, of Cefnbodig, Esq.
Montgomeryshire—Robert Maurice Bonnor, of Bodynfol, Esq.
Denbighshire--Wilson Jones, of Gelligonan, Esq.
Flintshire—Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, of Hawarden-Castle,
Bart.

Cardiganshire—John Palmer Bruce Chichester, of Llanbadarn
fawr, Esq.
Glamorganshire—Richard Hoare Jenkins, of Lanharran, Esq.
Breconshire—Fuller Maitland, of Garth, Esq.
Radnorshire—Richard Duppa, of Llanshay, Esq.
NORTH WALES.
Anglesey—Owen Owen, of Llanfigael, Esq.
Carnarvonshire—Rice Thomas, of Coedhclen, Esq.

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