The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-19 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT DONCASTER.
The following is the state of the betting on tie St.
Leger at Doncaster yesterday' at noon :-
13 to 4 agst Lord Cleveland's Marcus
7 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Liverpool
8 to 1 agst Mr. Skipsey's The Saddler
It to 1 agst Mr. Bower's Sir John
Id to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Chorister
14 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Circassian
14 to 1 agst Lord Fitzwilliam's Creole
16 to 1 agst Mr. Sadler's Delight
17 to 1 agst Lord Scarborough's Br. to Tarrarc
18 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Hubini
di) to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Colwick
22 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's Brother to Homer

A Cabinet Council was held this day at one
o'clock, at the Foreign-office in Downing•streer, which was
attended by the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord MEL-
BOURNE, Lord DURHAM, Lord ALTHIRP, Lord Jou N Rus-
SELL, the Right Hon. ROBERT GRANT, and Mr. STANLEY.
There were no arrivals at the Foreign or Colo-
nial offices this morning.

A meeting has been convened at the Thatched
House Tavern for Tnesd iy next, upon the subject of the
Reform Bill.

TRIUNIPII OF REFORM.—On Wednesday
one of the most important and gratifying occurrences
which has taken place in this kingdom for the last two
hunared years was achieved in this town. Mr. WHITTY'S
election as a burgess of the Corporation furnishes a prac-
tical illustration of what can be achieved by a people de-
termined to be free. Fur the town of Wexford has been
reserved the honour of returning the first Catholic Bur-
gess since the time of CHARLES 11. Mr. WHITTY de-
serves much credit for being foremost to buckle on the
arms which the law and Constitution afforded him.—
Mx ford Independent. _ _

CLARENDON (speaking of the great fire of
London, 1666) relates a very characteristic anecdote of
the lawyers at the time of that occurrence :—" The LORD
Maws, though a very honest man, was much blamed for
want of sagacity in the first night of the fire, before the
wind gave it much advancement—for, though he came with
great diligence as soon as he had notice of it, yet, never
having been used to such spectacles, his consternation was
equal to that of other men—nor did he know how to
apply his authority to the remedying the present distress ;
and when men who were less terrified with the object
pres,ed him very earnestly that he would give order for the
present pulling down those houses which were nearest, and
by which the fire climbed to go further (the doing whereof
at that time might, probably, have prevented much of the
mischief that succeeded), he thought it not safe, and made
no other answer than that he thirst not do it without the
consent of the owners. His want of skill was the less
wondered at when it was known afterwards that some
gentlemen of the Inner Temple would not endeavour to
preserve the goods which were in the lodgings of absent
persons, because, they said, it was against the law to
break up any man's chamber."—[The commendable cau-
tion evinced in these instances is not without a parallel. A
tanner, it is said, invited a supervisor to dine with him :
after pushing the bottles about pretty freely, the visiter
took his leave—but, in crossing the tan-yard, unfortunate]
tell into a vat, and called loudly for assistance : the tanner
speedily ascertained his friend's situation, but declined in-
terfering; " for," he observed, " if I draw a bide without
giving twelve hours' notice, I shall be exchequered ; but
I will go and inform► the exciseman !"]

4^

COMMON HALL.-(THIS DAY.)

In pursuance of a requisition of a numerous and re-
sp-ctable portion of the Livery of the City of London,
addressed to the Lord Mayor, requesting his Lordship to
convene a meeting of the Livery, for the purpose of agree-
ing to a petition to the Howe of Lords, praying their
Lordships to pass the Reform B 11 without delay, this day
at one o'clock was named for that purpose. At that hour
the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Recorder, and a very numerous
body of gentlemen, took their places on the hustings in
Guildhall. _ _

The LORD NIAYOR. took the chair amidst loud cheers.
All the Members of the city were present, and Lord
George Lennox sat near the Lord Mayor.
The COMMON SERJEANT having read the requisition,
and the advertisement convening the meeting, which was
stated to be for the " purpose of petitioning the House of
Lords in favour of the Bill for Parflamer-vary Reform,
and to assure their Lordships of the continued, deep, and
undiminished interest which the citizens of London take
in this great national measure, and of the strong conv,e-
tion that the peace and good order, as well as the future
happiness, of the nation are wholly involved in its success,"
Mr. DILLON came forward, and stated that they had
again met on the subject of the P'-form Bill. Since they
last met touch had been done, but something still re-
mained to be done. The King was in favour of the
Reform Bill—it was long since known that the
people were in favour of it—and now the House of Com-
mons had declared in its favour. The oft-repeated question
now• arose, " What will the Lords do ?" that was an im-
portant and, looking to its consequences, an awful ques-
tion. It was important to their Lordships, because their
welfare, perhaps their existence, depended on it.—
(Loud cheers.) It was important to them (the Livery),
because they knew that the peace and safety of the
country depended up.um the issue. It was right that the
Lords should know why the people were anxious for the
fate of this Bill. They had been referred to time glorious
revolution in France and Belgium, and the state of excite-
ment in this country. What was tl.e real question going
before the Lords ? It w's not the existence of a few
rotten boroughs, but it was who should govern th,
country—whether the people of England should
have a voice in that Government, or whether they
should continue to be governed by the boronahmongets.
The Ministers had already declared that they could not con-
sult the wishes or the interests of the people, because they
were trammelled and controuled by those possessing borough
property. The people had declared that this state of
things should not exist, and they hailed the Refsrnt
Bill as their friend ; and whatever the enemies of Re-
form, or the tr dtors to that cause should say, that
Bill would be the means of saving the country from the
worst of consequences. Should, in future, any one Peer
dare to say to a Minister " remember there are seven of
os," the people in a voice of thunder would shoot remember
we are thrice seven trillions.—(Cheers.) Who were the)
n the House of Commons who had oppose I, and in Co
House of Lords who were expected to oppose, this Bill
fhe answer was, none but the boroughmongers and
their nominees, who bad a direct interest in a system
which this Bill was to put an end to. Look at that
,musing gentleman, Sir Charles Grimaidi—(.Noel
laught• r)—he begged pardon, he meant Sir Charles
Wetherell. He did not intend any personal allusion
to that most resp.ctable gewlenum lately deceased,
of Sadler's Wells, but only to say that the Le ames
Gentleman had undertaken the same host of cha-
racter a at the other House. Among the oppose',
,f the Bill in the House of Commons were three borough
nominees—Sir C. Wetherell, Mr. Sadler (himself a trad.s-
men, though he had vilified that el iss), and Mr. Attwood,
dl nominated by the Duke of Newcastle. And who was it
vho was expected to oppose the wishes of the people in
lie Lords? He would say nothing of a Royal Duke,
first, b..cause he was a Royal Duke, and second,
,meeause the splendour of his private virtues cast
lustre over his private lihs—(Lood laugher and
cheers.) Then there was the military Marquis, who ap
peared to have something else cracked besides his windows.
(Laughter.) The man who boasted that Lord Castlereagh was
his relation, and that he was the advocate, friend, and
, apologist of Don Miguel. These were the men who de-
dared they would fight to the last in defence of that
system which had prevailed so long, and that they would
die in the last ditch 4.f the British Constitution. Times
might die in a ditch if they pleased, fur they best knew their
own d sects—but to die in the last ditch of the Constitution
vas not to be their lot, for they would see the Con-
stitution rise great, glorious, and free, the admiration 4m;
surrounding nations, when these petty men should lie
silent and unhonoured in their tombs. A question might
arise between the people and the Peers; but it was to he
hoped that the Peers would have patriotism enough, or at
least they would look sufficiently to their own interests, to
prevent it. The friends of the Lords say, " Let us
have no violence, no intimidation. The people wishu dit
to be a quest on of reason and argument, as it was one
of justice ; but when the Lords were determined,
at all hazards, to resist the will of the people, be
it remembered, it was by violence the Peers of England
rescued for themselves anti the people time Magna Charts of
liberty, and that the people in this more enlightened
age could wrest from them not the Magna Chart&
but the Maxima Charta of liberty, not by violence but
by reason aid justice. Should the Peers refuse to pass tl c
Bill, who would answer for our boasted Constitution ?
Would they, the enemies of Reform, undertake, for the
peace of the country, the continuance of trade, the prospe-
rity of commerce, or the stability of public credit ? He
as a tradesman declared they would be able to maintain
none of these, if they refused to pas,' the Bill.—(Cheers.)
But another and a more important question arose. Would
the taxes be paid if the Bill were last ?—(Loud cheers.)
was to fix and demsnd the taxes? Would
the people pay taxes levied by the sixty condemned repre-
sentatives of schedule A, or by the half crippled repre-
sentatives of schedule B, whom the House w' Commons
had already declared unfit to vote ? They must have
in the House of Commons as in the chapel at New•gat,-, a
condemned pew, to separate the condemned malefactors
from the rest of the community.—(Continued cheer-
ing and laughter.) They could not revive the dead, and
were not Groton, Boroughbridge, and Old Sarmn dead ?
The lightning of corruption had extinguished them, and
they could bear neither fruit nor fl rover, Mr. Dillon con-
cluded by moving the first resolution :
"'That the Livery of London having long been convinced that
the safety of the country and the stability of its institutions de-
pended upon a Reform io the Commons House of Parliament,
have from time to time petitioned both Houses of the Legislature
in favour of that vital object. That at this momentous crisis
they cAnnot refrain from re-asserting their solemn and deliberate
conviction that an effective Reform in the Commons House of
Parliament is not only due to the people as a matter of right, but
is imperatively called rUr as essential to the stability of our po-
litical institutions, to the security of public credit, and to the
maintenance of the peace and prosperity of the country."
11r. War.asams, of Watling-street, seconded the resolu
Lion, as being in accordance with the sentiments of the
people of England. He stated it to bs his opinion that the
representatives of the city had nobly performed their duty.
It haul been asked " What will the Lords do ?" if

heir understandings were not stricken with total blindnes;

they would pass the Bill; if they expected to enjoy
their present wealth and honours, they would pass the
Bill, and that speedily, for, in the present state of public
anxiety, any great delay would throw the whole country
into confusion. Look at the stagnation of trade in
consequence of the slow progress the Bill had made. In
the manoficturing districts the greatest anxiety prevailed
lest the present state of things should continue, which
would throw whole misses of the people out of employ, and
'which might renew the dreadful occurrences of last winter.
An individual in the House of Commons, and those who
supported him, had called upon the people to look
well to France and her series of revolutions. He (Mr.
Williams) desired no better test.—(Hear, hear.) Look a t
France and her series of revolutions ! But he would asset t,
that not one of them could be pointed at which had pro •
ceeded from Reform, from a persisted in opro-ition to it
in every shape,
not one of which had proceeded from com-
pliance, but non-compliance with the unanimous wis'e
desire, and united voice of the people.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Burke, who no doubt would he considered a very'
orthodox authority with the boroughmongers, for
they bad granted him a pension which, amounting;
to 100,000/. capital money, was still paid to his
executors ; Mr. Burke stated, that when the constituent
assembly met in the year 1739, the instructions which the
representatives of the people received front every quarter
of France urged them to attempt a Reform of the
abuses of Government, and that individual added that if
ever a most distant suggestion had been raised that
they attempted to destroy, or even mat. rially to change
the institutions of the country, it would have been an-
swered with an united voice of reprobation ant scorn.
That same Assembly', in obedience to the in-
struction of the people, endeavoured to reform existing
abuses, but when opposed by the parasites, courtiers, and
clergy, who had plundered them so often before, what
did the people do, finding such opposition to their
expressed wishes? In the month of July they destroyed
that very Government which in January preceding the
thought of touching in the slightest degree would have
been scouted with horror. These were circumstances
which the House of Lords would do well to consider before
they had come to a final determination to reject the
Bill.—(Loud cheers.) They would do well to con-
sider the position in which they would thereby plae,
themselves, Let them beware lest the people of England

should direct their eyes to that period of the
their country, when the Government of Eni
carried on for years without a House of Lords-.
—and th it period was one of the brightest
the annals of this nation's politicol _ _

where the llou,e of Lords was voted a nuisan,

cheers, and a voice from the multitude, clear and

which shotit.tl " No more is it now," was followed 11';
and g-nerallaughter.) Let the Lords too consider %/b°
pay taxes if the Bill was not passed—(Hear'i
when the House of Commons had decl.ire,l
as at present chosen, not repres,nting the
_P6:?,

England. All the authorities of our country
that obedience to the laws was required of the peqlre
lieeause they ‘vere present in the persons of their ref,
tives, when the 1 iws which taxed them were passed. 0j
make only another observation, that as the city of %
had always been ctlebrated fur coining for,eard in al'
of danger, so he trusted that the Livery on this 06;
would support the K'ng and his Alini,ters, the ott, ,
House of Commons, and demand this Reform Bills:
passed by the House of Lords.—( Hear, hear.)

,eonded the resolution, the gentlt loan then ,am'
Upon a show of hands the Lord Mayor then decl'r'
r s elution passed, with two dissentients.
Mr. DILLON then came forward and proposed al
resolution, to the eff,et—
" That the Livery of London have hailed with cordial
the Reform Bill now before the House of Common;, atrh

hitherto watched its with intense ititere,t, tjin
with increased anxiety to its approaching introduction ,1
House of Lords ; that a petition be accordingly present!!`,
Honourable House, imploring them to contribute thettb
wards passing the said Bill into a law, and thus avert,
which must result from a refusal of the just rights 00
tious of the people."
Mr. FrtANKs having seconded this resolution, it
Blared unanimously aceeedrd to by the meeting.
Colonel Tourirtis was received with great Of
which having subsided, he said, the

ai conferredf nn him the honour of putt
his ban& the petition which was to be prop
the sanction of the tnectirw. lie undertook that I
tlacrity, with pleaiuro•, and with pride.—(Che,

had always been his pride to be counted amen.
Livery of the city of London ; but never h'
~ride risen so high, or btemne so intense as when

occasion they had come to a unanimous No'
ippi flying of the great measure of Hera°
before this country. When they came forwar.j
set a glorious example to their counterneOr
they w' re ready to merge their individual
adsts in the public, good.—(Loud and long cb
hus placing their peculiar prerogatives lie /
char of their country, and declaring that,,
cern ready to give up their exclusive Pri',l:be
bat they might open wide the door of '
to the country at large.—(Loud cheerini,?.)
Livery of the City of London then said " Liberty Pero
if those se drce commodities which was only purchaf
!united quantity and could therefore lie the propertYo
dw. Liberty, like the light from heaven, shines alike'hir
d ndi becomes more our own by being reflected from the 11,0
round us. Liberty ! it is the expulsive atmo'faloot
nan, and they n ho wend I pray for its seclusion, ten iti
nd selfish, know not how to breathe it in its Ptirrd
fhe boroughinongers tell us that we are about to Pulse
rate borough robbery ; now let us consider that ;
tl
•diy it is their property to return a majoriqi
ifembers to the House of Commons. Now
king the innnelyi°olil'e
itofoyf m
your pockets, hlarsas tthhe
:iraillii'llgi'llaxtvis'ewhich shall affect your lives, therefore
cower of returning a majority of the House of Coto°l°.
t to property of the borougl!mongers, then your
tr
our property are also the Iroperty of the borougbo'°°ie
Now, if their argument be worth a farthing, the }Wiley
England are no better than negro slaves—such ins,' r,
what fools must they be! The boroughtuongers dr
dopes that the Liverymen of London and other 0
...tees, who would be deprived of returning Metel'eo
Parliament, would rally around them fur the
bstructing the great measure. You prove to tbea'i:
.uch could not be the case, and now all Englani:
idle man, cried for this measure of Reform.--(C
The vessel of Reform, continu d the Gallant Gentlelo,
the vessel of Reform has been launched on the flowil:,d
of public opinion. Our glorious King has nailed flea
of England to the mast—(three times three)--a
will pull that invincible tlag down, what lo ik
inconsiderate hand would dare to touch it,
it flows triumphantly above our heads, that li,j,
that filo' has braved a thousand years the
and the breeze.s be The story of the Sybil would p
membered,—site brought her mystic leaves to the
iuthurities of Rome, and demanded a large price
was refused—she took half the leaves away, an
turned demanding h, r price again, arid was ogrf rt,
fused. The leaves were again reduced one h'',3;o4
-he came again, when they became a little 8'44
and they gave her her price. Now, CieOtleoi.
to will it li tic reverse this story. We come I°li
with this Bill, and nothing but this Bill—if they
it we will come to them demanding something fly)
yhich the House of Lords shall be inserted in sehedup
Toe following petition was then agree.l to, having;o,
seconded by Mr. Fitabxs, with only three dissentie',.!
" 'fo THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Lolo,:ji
RITUAL AND TEMPORAL OF TUE t7'014
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND ItU
IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
" THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THE LOP •
ALDERMEN, ANI) LIVERY OF THE Cie
LONDON, IN COMMON HALL ASSEMI3I',i,
" Humbly sheweth,—That the Livery of London, I(''.lte,
zinced of the necessity of Parliamentary Itefonn, have..l-4,
expressed their cordial approval of the Bill for that obJ`„(:.
posed to Parliament by his Majesty's Ministers • that “
watched its successful progress towards your llrdshiltifoc,
with still increasing interest, and they now humbly, taut,l!_i
tically, entreat your Lordships to give it the sanction
high approbation when the same shall be brought 10°4)
Honourable House, ice order that it may speedily becon'
of the land. tr
" Your petitioners venture to express their confide?)
that a measure so fitted to secure to the people their ludo
—so franght with public good—so calculated to allaY If
tent and to conciliate the attl,ctions of the communit),*,:',lK;
that favour in the eyes of your Lordshs which will le•;Ki
adoption by your Right Honourable Douse. But the,,,
their solemn duty to strengthen the earnestness of o,lol'
humble petiti,m, by representing to your Lordships,„'os,':
their opinion, a continuance of that attachment which th et,
feels to its political inquutions, and the preservation of
quillity, prosperity, and public credit of the country are
yl'
hound up with the immediate success of this vital an" fi
portant ii.easure.
" Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that the 531,
when brought betbre your Right Honourable House, 715idit
with your Lordships' approval, and may be passed withoc e
as a security against the occurrence of tremendous pub')
Lnd as a means of attaining an invaluable national good•
" And your petitioners will ever pray, off
Mr. CHARLES PEARSON then rose. He said he l'to,
:wended to have addressed his fellow.lived
compelled to do so by some opposition to the resolid
Having been challenged to it by the gentleman whotr
pertinaciously held up his hand for the borougho:, ?'
he would trouble the Hall for a few moments. lPeo"
sent Parliament I.rdre more the character of a Cep/ et)
than a Parliament. The Members were delegeee;
gated to early through the Reform Bill, and nobly
last had they redeemed themselves. And
those, he would ask, who found fault Wit" 09
system ? Why, the Lords, who dealt about their Prot
as one did cards. Many of them were at pr, i°
and yet they pretended! to hear the present notnree
question, that they would vote for, and yet these 100)
men who found fiult with the Liverymen of Loot I
slating on their representatives acting according "
pledges they gave tth !ir election.
ra°li
After a long speech this gentleman concluded by $
that the petition he entrusted to Lord Brouglolliod
Vaux, for presentation do their Lordships ; and in p
both of the question and his Lordship, that 0'
Mayor and Shcriffs he accompanied by 24 Liverpoeo.
Mr. Kenyon seconded it, and the resolution being
was carried unanimous].. it
Toe meeting had not concluded when oer reporter

It is our melancholy duty to announecci
death of Mr. STILLER, Librarian to the House dj;,,,/
mons, which took place this morning, at ten o'cl"na,,ce
his house, College-street, Westin:llst .r, in conseVe-
s he supture of a blood-vessel. reef,l
So very much is it the practice to crease
l
to meet political emergencies, that of the pre'eaedil
B itish Peers, no fewer than 460 Love been cre,i-
S
raised to a higher rank since the auession of GEO'
—Ghtspow Chronicle.
We have just received the melancholy' I or/
genre of the death of the litv. Alumna DitAK-t'l
of Bucknell, in this county. lie was married
and brought his lady home. lle died innediare'ofv'
they bad retird for the night. The parficularsar,,
sorrowful event shall appear in uur next.— Oxford IV
DEATH BY THE CORONATION 911
wouKs.—On Saturday an inquest was held 4
George's Hospital, on the body- of GEORGE l‘iPTol,,ir
fine youth, twelve years of age, who was killed 7, 6
falling of a rocket handle on his head, while witll,l'/11/1
tents looking at the fireworks in Hyde Pork, the -IWri
the Coronation. The Youth's mother, in a state °op
nising suffering, heard the fa!l of the rocket haDdle,j4i
head : he fell instantly', and bled profusely. 'r he; 'skAlf)
proved that the skull was fractured, and the briusioto,
injured, which caused his death. Vertlict---Veb.orii(l
Death. The Jury recommended that the out r,s4
should be infprnied of the ease, that in future :
sticks should not be :Mowed to tall acossos the pe°l)

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