The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND had a grand
dinner party on Thursday, at their residence at Kew.
The Knights of the Sovereign Order of St. John of
Jerusalem held a Chapter on Saturday, at which his Royal
Highness the Prince FREDERICK of Wirteniberg attended
as a visitor, and was received by the President, Count
MARTARA.

Prince GEORGE of Cumberland partook of the diversion
of hunting, on Wednesday, in Richmond Park.
A Cabinet Council was summoned by Viscount MEL-
BOURNE, on Thursday, to meet at the Foreign-office yes-
terday afternoon. The Ministers assembled at four o'clock.
Those present were—Viscounts ,MELBOURNE, PALMER-
STON, GODERICII, and ALTIIORP ; the Right lion. C.
GRANT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Duke of RICHMOND,
and Mr. STANLEY.

Despatches from Sunderland, for Viscount MELBotiltrtE,
were received yesterday at the Home-office. An express
was afterwards forwarded to the Marquis of LANSDOWNE
(the Lord President of the Council), at his seat at Bowood,
Wilts.

STRONG SYMPTOMS OF RE-ACTION.-011
Thursday at noon, FRANCIS HAWKSWORTII FA WKES,
Esq. left York in his travelling carriage and four, with
the Yorkshire addresses, voted at the late county meeting,
to the KING, Earl GREY, and the 'Ministers, as also a pe-
tition to the House of Commons. They have each ly.-
tween 140,000 and 150,000 signatures, and the three to-
gether are in length nearly 1600 yards, and weigh up-
wards of twenty-four stones.
Despatches were sent off this morning from
Earl GREY to his MAJESTY, at Brighton.
Despatches were received this morning, at the
Colonial-office, from St. Vincent's.

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MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.

A meeting of the members of the Committee of this body
Was held yestetdar even;ntr, at the Commercial Coffee-house,
Fleet-street, for the pUrpose iif Colii(ttilk the greet meeting of
the National Union on MOnciay next; du the §fthifitl. +l3titisite
White ConduitAi6USe.

A Chairman haVing been appoi*d;.nd the business of the
meeting opened, the reauiutions proposed to be adopted on Mon-
day were read, and, after a few bbsei4ations from some of. the.
members, the subject of the reports which have been lh circula-
tion, relative to the intentions of the working classes at the meet.
ing on Monday next, was introduced, and immediately discussed.
Mr. CLEAVE declared that the accounts which had appeared
in the Papers, relative to an intention on the part of the working
classes to commit violence, had waenished him as much or more
than even-those who had declared such to he the fart. Amongst
the reports to which these announcements had gften rise, WaS
one, that the inhabitants Of Spitalfieids intended to be gUilty of
violence. He was sure that nothing of the kind had for a mo-
ment been thought of. The speaker declared his ihoroUgh Con:.
viction that not a single individual of those who either pr6jected
or meant to attend the meeting, contemplated a resort to mea:
sures which would lead to their being sabred or shot, as was the
case at all meetings at which commotions had taken place.

attended this meeting from the Committee
which met at the Pitt's Head, in ipitalfields, for the purpose
of declaring, in the name of the COMmittee, that the aecounts
which had appeared in the papers of any illegal intentions,
were, as far as Spitalfields was concerned, totally false. TwelvC
conductors of the union of the working classes in that district had
been appointed to superintend tin procession to White Conduit_
house, and these twelve were v. Ming and anxious to go before
the Magistrates to state every thing that they knew, and be re-
sponsible for the good order of the men in their district. Ile
knew not how the reports had got abroad, hut he believed it
was through a police-officer, who had come to his shop in come:.
quenee of information conveyed to the Magistrates by the pa-
rish beadle, and asked him if an order had been given to some
turner for a number of staves, and then inquired if he (the
speaker) had not got one ? He had, and showed it. to the officer,
who asked what he gave for it? He said so much. Why was it
made? Because the Union which was going to White Conduit_
house on Monday were apprehensive that persons who did not be.
long to the working-classes at all, but bad-intentioned men, might
be disposed to create a disturbance, and the Union was resolved
to keep the peace and act as special constables, whether to pre-
vent the breaking of windows or any other acts of violence.
This, he declared most positively, was the feeling with which
they were about to attend, and any of the conductors would
cheerfully go before a magistrate to testify to the good inten-
tions of themselves and the whole Union. It had been said
that the people in Spitalfields had been furnishing themselves
with fire-arms. Why, they had not bread to cat, much less
money to get guns or pistols. It would take half a dozen of
many of the hard-working people in that neighbourhood to
raise a spare shilling- No one knew, none could conceive, the
distress which existed there. Thousands of the people of
Spitalfields were daily on the verge of starvation, and it was to
state their feelings as to the rights about which so much had
lately been said by the higher classes, that they had determined
on assembling on Monday. As for any other intention, he de-
clared that it was a false aspersion ; and that many persons in
that neighbourhood were rejoiced that these reports had been
raised against the poor. They had actually set the vestry bell
tolling, and put the whole place in the greatest state of alarm,
while the objects of it were all asking one another what it was
for ?

Another MEMBER stated, that while the object in taking
staves was to ensure peace, it had been resolved in his district,
and, he believed, everywhese else, that not a stave should be
shown. It was feared at all the Unions that numbers might

join them who did not belong to them, and who had improper
intentions. Their presence they -could not prevent; but any
attempts at violence that might be made, they were resolved to
suppress.

A MEMBER, also from Spitalfields, confirmed in the fullest
manner the statements of his predecessor, and handed in the
names of the twelve conductors who had been appointed.
A COMMITTEE MAN from Kensington made similar
declarations as to his district.

Mr. LOVETT feared that these charges against them had
arisen from some most improper sentiments uttered by a person
who had attended a meeting at the Rotunda, but for which
the Unions were in no way responsible ; and on proof of any
expressions used by any member of their body which were
calculated improperly to stir up the working classes, he should
move that that man be expelled from them.—(Hear, hear.;
Indeed, he would take the opportunity of forcibly impressing
on their minds the propriety of their even being struck with-
out returning it. Great violence towards them, such as might
be used by the class of men who had acted so wickedly at
Bristol, they never would permit. For this they had resolved
to be provided, against whomsoever the violence might be di-
rected. There should be no insults, no hissing, no throwing
of stones, or breaking windows. They would take their staves,
but no man would show it unless violence took place (Here
a staff was laid on the table. It was a plaits light staff, about
the length of a constable's hand-staff.) Every one knew they I
had them. There was no secret about it. Surely, when Lords
had armed men in their houses to protect them, and carried,
avowedly, pistols about them, the working classes were not to
be unprotected against the objects of badly designing men, or
the ill-treatment of the police, should it be offered. They had
fully resolved to give no cause—to offer no incitement. They
would rigidly abstain from drink of any kind, and if any one
of them wfts seen about to go into a public-house, he hoped
that the reasoning and reflecting members would dissuade him
from such an act. •

Mr. CLEAVE expressed his regret that any one should have
made use of unworthy language at the Rotunda. It was highly
wrong. He believed that the crowd, or the mob, at Bristol,
had its counterpart in London ; but these formed no part of the
Union. The members shunned such men. But still they did
exist in the metropolis, and if the Tories chose to instigate them
to violence, he firmly believed that the houses of himself and
John Watson, and all those who were favourable to the Union
of the Working Classes, would be the first to be sacrificed. He
grieved to say, that the truest friends of the people in all Bristol
were amongst the first and the greatest sufferers there.
The CHAIRMAN of the Rotunda meeting said, that it was
especially declared there by himself and others, that the opi-
nion of individuals were not the opinions of the meeting.
The person who had used the expressions objected to, ex-
pressed his willingness to resign from the Union to which he
belonged, if they wished him to do so.
It was here stated that the resolution in which it had been
recommended that they should take staves, declared that each
man should consider himself bound to act as a special constable
Mr. WATSON declared that the objects of the proposed meet-
ing had been grossly and malignantly represented. The Times had
charged them with intending to repeat the Bristol scenes. Why,
.he meeting had been proposed and announced ten days before the
Bristol riots took place. The Times also said it had been ap-
pointed in order to counteract the Union which might take
place at Sir F. Burdett's meeting on Monday last, although the
White Conduit-house meeting had been determined on long
before the Crown and Anchor meeting was thought of. It
was easy, too easy indeed, to charge them with bad intentions.
Anything might be insinuated, but he defied them to prove
that evil was in agitation, or that the staves were meant to be
unjustifiably used. He had himself a great interest in preserv-
ing order; as great an interest as the Editor of any paper. He
was well assured that no rioting, no disorder, no bloodshed (he
scorned the charge) was for a moment thought of by any but
the Press. As they went out, so should they return, with
pleasure and gratification that they had declared their senti-
ments as a great, powerful, and intelligent body of men, in a
peaceful and becoming manner. He warned them that the
enemy was abroad. Why, the liberal papers had been telling
them for months that the Tories were sending bad mess amongst
them—men who would try to incite them to ill conduct, and
yet, now that they were taking measures against these de-
signers, they were turned upon by the Papers, and charged
with the worst intentions of which men could be guilty.
Mr. WAKLEY being then called on to speak, rose and said,
that he felt great interest in the welfare of the working classes ;
he had from his boyhood, he did in his manhood, and he gave a
proof of it in his having consented to take the chair at the ap-
proaching meeting. If he had felt any anxiety as to the meet-
ing, it was because he knew that if violence occurred, the evil
would fall most heavily upon the working classes. This was
the firet time that he had attended any oftheir meetings, public
or private, and he had now therefore to say, that as soon as he
had agreed to take the chair, he heard from his friends that he
had committed a sad error. But he did not regard this, and on
Monday last he moved the resolution for the Union of the two
classes. The word " classes" was deprecated, but it was a divi-
sion which had been forced upon society by the Aristocracy—it
was now almost impossible to act with a disregard for the term.
hoped to unite them all, and he was never more re-
joicedwhen the meeting of Monday last bad had the good
n
adopt
the resolution. Some busy people had, however,
bsee He
sense
e at
than
osincerely
wor k
, and he had now to tell them that he had felt it his
duty to go to Lord Melbourne, and had learned that such infor-
mation had been laid before the Secretary of State, relative to
of Monday next, as might almost justify the Go-
vernmentyesterday received a letter from a gentleman, who was most
t friendlyh e meeting
to
int
-hteakwionrg the whole Committee into custody. He had
working people, stating that the writer knew
that 400 staves had been made, and that he knew for a positive
fact there were a set of thieves and ragainuffians, near a place
called Brick-lane, whose intention it was to go to the meeting,
the Unionists gone
Y purpose of making a riot. Against these villains
should be prepared. This information had
for the very
before Lord Melbourne, who had also read the declaration which
had been printed; and his Lordship candidly said that if the
various points in it were ratified at the meeting, he had no doubt
that an owes t..a,st of treason would be committed. They talked
of opposing hereditary distinctions, as injurious ; but did they
reflect that, for instance, the Heir to the Crown was Prince of
Wales as soon as he was born, and that in declaring for the abo-
lition of all hereditary distinctions they struck at the very root
of the Monarchy P Seeing, then, this article in the declaration,
and having read the accounts in the Papers, he had gone imme-
diately to Lord Melbourne, and told his Lordship all he knew
of the meeting that he believed none of the working classes
were desirous of breaking the peace, that there was nothing to
conceal, and he hoped for equally frank conduct from
his Lordship, begging, that if the Government thought it right
to employ soldiers and policemen, they would keep them out
of sight. Now it is for you to decide how you will act. • His-
tory tells us, that whenever violent revolutions have occurred,
the working classes have invariably been the greatest sufferers.
I know that it is not your object to break the laws. But will
you tell me that there will not be numbers there who will be
sent to create a disturbance ? And if you take these staves,
will not that be challenging violence P Is it consistent for
you to go to meetings with staves at all 1' Be :firm to your

intentions. I shall attend the meeting and endeavour
by every Metit..• it" my rawer to ensure peace. It was only
with this feeling that I ac-c?pfert. the chair. Lord Melbourne
having stated to me this morntrig, Fleas it would probably be
the opinion of the Law Officers that the .11`ertiterrient might
lead to a seditious meeting, and that he had ret-e,44.4•ettylotts
ififormatlial cm the subject of the people being prepared itli-th
Alt !i4 A fie Stated rick tet state to his Lordship that it would, under
such ciretittol:iikOr:. Ms. fluty, either to prevent the meeting
from taking place, or e'oe ac would ensure
the public peace, feeling assured t.haf, oilierwile, the well-in-
tentioned working classes might become Lici ;;Cr!iiVi...: of pitin-
neli .tttl conspirators. His Lordship remarked; flitti the
whole subject -,:ta,t tinder, consideration. Coupled with these
facts, a circumstance pia' COVe to my knowledge this evening,
calculated to produce some &vie I have Iy:ten told
that there are to be magistrates on the Pfki.4o'ren, find waggons
with us at the meeting, and if any expression r.W•Citlt.fe tstird
I.chiCri they may think seditious, the whole party will tk;
hitt, Now, if this be the fact, can I say
that persOns May nut achey cOnse there for the express pur-
pose of saying something wilicit witl I,rrs4tsce Mich a result
Hdw could T prevent a traitor from speakifig Why,
the taking the Chairman and speakers into cust6,4s.' :";;791t1 act
like a tirebraiid Vn a mass of combustibles, and it might he l'rn.
possible to prevent time Trl9o, lamentable effect,. I certainly
should recommend you to consideC ;theiher it would not be ad_
visable to postpone the meeting until your 61..4CiAs are better un-
derstood by the public, and whether, also, it would ilt be pru-
' dent to expunge the resolution which refers to the abolitioi'i tSf
all diStindithis of birth, believing that it is your object to obtain
)our rights by peat'eablt tnrftro,—!Hear, hear, hear.)
Messrs. Osborne, Watsoil, fiefettj Cooper, and Cleave, felt
disposed to act upon these suggestions; and oixprei:sed their fears
that individuals were about to attend the rritefifig *lid did not
belong to the Union, and would be sent there for the veil Ptt-
pose of creating a disturbance.
Eventuallr it was carried by a large majority, that the clause
declaring the prOpficly of abolishing hereditary distinctions
should be expunged—that a deptilation of five should wait upon
Lord Melbourne this day, to communieate with his Lordship
on the subject ; and to state with the most perfect opehriess, not
only the objects of the promoters of the meeting, but to ClEcirie
their readiness to postpone it, if his Lordship considered tht,ts
it might be attended with dangerous consequences.
'lt is but justice to the Members to state that they all expressed
a most earnest desire to Maintain public tranquillity, and to rely
upon the force of opinion in struggling for what they considered
to be their rights. The deputation is, we understand, to make
its report to the Committee at eight o'clock.
The meeting, which consisted of about fifty persons, did rot
break up until nearly one o'clock this morning.

MEETING IN SPA-FIELDS ON MONDAY.

In the course of this morning, a Mr. a stick-
maker, residing in London, waited on Lord Melbourne, at
the Home-office, ard we were credibly informed that the
object of his visit was to acquaint his Lotriship that within
thel:e few days he had sold no less than four thousand
bludgeons, in the shape of constables' staves. He gave the
information to give the Government ample opportunity
for making the necessary arrangements to guard against
any breach of peace and good order. The whole of the
Tower Hamlets Militia have been called in to do duty to
Monday next, and all the troops in the outskirts of Lon-
don have been ordered to be in readiness.

ROLLS COURT, Nov. 4.

GLASSINGTON T. THIVAITES.

In this case, which was deei 'a I to-day, his Hossoua de-
livered his judgment to the following effect :—Two bills,
be observed, had been filed connected with this suit ; one
by Mr. Glassington against the other co-proprietors of the
...Vorning Herald newspaper ; the other by the proprie-
tors, exclusive of Mr. Glassington, against that gentle.
man. The former bill had three objects. First, that
certain sales which had been made to Mr. Henry
Thwaites, jun., of shares in the concern might he declared
invalid; secondly, that partnership accounts should he
taken ; and thirdly, that an injunction might be issued by
his Honour against the employment of type and materials
belonging to the Morning Herald in the business of
another paper called the English Chronicle. The
material part of the case was involved in the first
proposition. The question on which it turn: d
arose upon a proviso in the deed of partnership
between the proprietors of the Morning Herald
to the following effect :—That no partner should be
at liberty to dispose of his share or shares in
the concern to a stranger until he had offered
the same to the other proprietors collectively; and in case
of their declining to become purchasers, then to each one
separately; the offer to be made in writing, at a last
monthly meeting of the proprietors. The complaint of
the plaintiff was that the stipulation of this proviso had
had not been duly observed in the sales of the shares of
Mr. Henry Thwaites, senior, to the defendant, the only
indication of the intention of the former to dispose of his
inter, st having been given by a notice to that effect in the
minute brink of the partnership. It was said, on the part
of the plaintiff, that this descriptive notice was irregular
I and insufficient, and that the sales attendant on it were
consequently void, no distinct offer and opportunity of re-
jection of the shares in question having been presented to
the majority of the proprietary, or to the individuals of it,
and, amongst others, the plaintiff. It was not necessary,
his Honour observed, for the Court then to declare what
ought to have been the course adopted by the parties with a
view to the proper execution of the clause of the deed of pat t-
nership upon which the point was thus raised. The question
was, whether Mr. Glassington and the entire body of the
partnership had adopted any other course of proceeding
having the same object? If this had been the case it
was too late for Mr. Glassington to come forward subse•
quently, and impugn the results of a line of conduct in
which he had himself concurred, merely on the ground
that it had not been conformable to fie abstract meaning of
the original stipulation with which it was intended to act '
conformably. The first sale which took place, after the
date of the deed of partnership, in the deed of 1816, was
that by which Henry Thwaites, sen. conveyed to his son
his two and a half shares in the concern—a notice hav-
ing been previously given in the minute-book alluded to.
It was not asserted that any other notice was given to the
proprietors collectively or severally, but nevertheless, Mr.
Thwaites, jun. was received by them all without observa-
tion or remonstrance as a shareholder to the amount speci-
fied. But then arose the question, did Mr. Glassing-
ton acquiesce in this transaction ? The first evi
dence on that point was an affidavit made by the
plaintiff in the year 1818. The law, it ap-
peared, required that, on a change in the proprietors of a
newspaper, new securities should be entered into at the
Stamp-office, an I on this occasion a customary affidavit
was made, in which Mr. Glassington joined. It was
therein stated that Mr. Thwaites, jun., was a shareholder,
and chief proprietor. True, Mr. Glassington had not
sworn to that effect, but, nevertheless, he should be taken
to have been aware of the contents of the affidavit to
which he was a swearing party. It was impossible, in that
document, to refuse the inference that Mr. Glassington
was perfectly aware that Mr. Thwaites, jun., had become
a partner in the room of his father ; and also that he had
informed himself of the manner in which his title had
been acquired. In that instance, therefore, he had
silently assented to the mode of notice which had been
adopted in supposed compliance with the partnership
deed. The next assignment of shares had been effected by
a Mr. Radcliffe, in the same manner, and with the like
notice in writing in the minute-book, at a last monthly
meeting. That this was done far the benefit of the part-
nership, and with the assent of Glassington, although he
had nut been present at the meetings at which it occurred,
had been fully proved. On this occasion again an affidavit
WAS made at the Stamp-office, in which he joined, and
which was to the same import as that which bad preceded
it. Was it not, then, a necessary inference that Glassing-
, ton, having been aware of the manner in which Rad-
cliffe's shares had been sold, and concurred in their
assignment, had approved of the mode in which the
stipulation as to the notice in writing had been exe-
cuted, although it might be doubted that by it the
true intention of that stipulation had been carried
into execution ? Although, at law, parties might com-
pel, under such circumstances as those, a strict ad-
herence to the letter of a deed, whatever might be
the result, yet in the ccnisideration of the Court of Equity
it was otherwise; and when parties had concurred for a
certain period in a particular interpretation of a legal in-
strument, as Mr. Glassington in this instance had done,
they could not afterwards complain and seek a remedy for
their voluntary relaxation of severe principle. His
Honour therefore declared that he should dismiss the first
part of this bill with costs—that he should extend the
same decision to that part of the prayer which concerned
the types, &c., and of the Morning Herald establishment,
because lie had already, on a former occasion, granted a
sufficient injunction on the mime subject. The prayer for
the account Mr. Glassington was entitled to; with respect
to the costs attending that part of the bill, his Honour
said he should reserve his opinion until the accounts
should have been arranged, which he stronsly recom-
mended the parties to effect among themselves, without
a further pursuit of expensive proceedings.

EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—The Corn-
wall county meeting took place on Wednesday last, at
Bodmin, and did not close until four o'clock in the after.
noon. The whole of the speeches were published in
The Sun London Newspaper, On Thursday evening,
which Paper the propiietors forwarded to our office, wh,re
it reached on Friday evening. The distance from Bodmin
to London is 230 miles, and from London to this town
`217 ! Journal.

SPIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURNALS.

In Bristol the hots and conflagrations having
been quenched by the military power in blood,
the civic authorities and the inhabitants in gene-

ars, busy in throwing upon each other the foul
;Dame vi'sieevittg suffered a miserable rabble to
violate all lave--etc' overthrow all order—to apply
the torch of the ineendievy W public buildings
:Jed to private dwellings—to Pap and devas-
tate, end establish a reign of terror, under whiCh
ti,ey in daring crime and frantic licen-
tiousness. But these mutual critninations may
he spared—where so reach blame attaches to
all ret!its, it is of little conscrp)e.nce what por-
tion of it felie to each man's share. The auda-
city of the rioters CZE, only be equalled by tht
pusillanimity of the pestles, whose duty or whose
interest it was to repress the violence which has
produced such dreadful results, and which re-
flects deep disgrace not only upon Bristol, but
;upon the civilization of the English people in
the nineteenth century. It is now said, in vindi-
cation of the Magistrates, that "when they found
the armed force of the city was too weak to
quell the disturbance, they called upon their
fellow-citizens to meet at the Guildhall, and
consul, the best means of restoring the peace
of the city but their fellow-citizens kept aloof."
We are not told en what day this meeting was
called ; but it is quite evident that, on whatever
day it was, the '' Politica! Union" did not show
its fate 3 The pillage, the burning, and the de-
vastation vote* on unmolested, except by the
soldiery ; and into whatever holes and corners
the members of that peace-preserving Associa-
tion had run, they left the protection of the
town, in its desperate extremity, to the troops
and the spteial interpositon of Providence ; 'end
when tranquillity was restored, by an afflicting
waste of life, they came forth from their hiding
places to show with what seasonable intrepidity-
they could act in defence of the outraged laws,
when the danger had subsided, and the time of
action was past. We know not what number
of Magistrates there are in Bristol, but surely
the heads of the Corporation, if they had only
half the capacity and inclination forgoing through
public duty which they bring to a aorporate
least, ought, with the aid of 50 stout constables,
to have routed, and that, too, without shedding
blood, the drunken rabble of 40 or 50 ruffians
and boys, who are described as having burnt
down the Mansion-house, the Bishop's Palace,
and other public buildings. This, we say,
;hey might and ought to have done, although
:dl their fellow-citizens of the " respectable
classes" kept aloof. As to the citizens who were
invoked, and who " kept aloof," not!..ing can be
said in their defence. Whether they were Re-
formers or Anti-Reformers, they acted in that
manner which had all the effect of connivance
with the crimes of the rabble. While the mob
became phrenzied with strong drink, and lost all
self-controul, the sober citizens seem to have be-
come panic-struck and lost their senses ! As far
as an unmanly passiveness could be an encou-
ragemeet to aggression, they were accessaries to
the sacking of their city and the devastation of
their own property. As to the troops, nothing
that has yet been stated can satisfactorily account
to us for, their having left the city completely in
the possession of the mob during a whole night
and a day, when occasion was taken to commit
excesses at which humanity shudders. But while
we reprobate in strong terms the conduct of the
Bristol populace, or at least than portion of it
which was engaged in the disturbances, let us
recollect that the work of the incendiary did not
begin until intoxication had excited the passions
to a state of phrenay. We hare often remon-
strated with the Government upon assisting
to demoralise the people, by encouraging the
use of spirituous liquors, which deprave the
heart and madden the brain—which make a
wreck of health and comfort, and banish the
domestic virtues and the decencies of life.
When the Administration of the precise Sir Robert
Peel and the pious Mr. Goulburn lowered the
price of gin, in compliance with the suggestions
of certain political economists, who assured them
that the diminution of revenue would be
more than compensated by the increased con-
sumption, we foretold what the consequene
would be. The present Lord Chancellor ad-
mitted that the consumption of gin had increased
to an extent which produced a lamentable aug-
mentation of licentiousness. If a Government
tempt a people from the paths of sobriety, they
cannot but be in some measure accountable for
the errors and the crimes which the temporary
madness of intoxication produces. The. Beer
Bill also (as is now almost universally admitted)
has had the effect of making the populace more
besotted and licentious than before. What a
contrast do the lower classes of this country—
which boasts so much of its superior morality—
exhibit to those of France, who during the three
days' sanguinary conflict in the streets of Paris
neither got drunk nor violated the rights of
property. Yet the laws of France are not so
l
severe, or rather vengeful, against depredators
upon property as our own. We never reed of a
people
degraded
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of
vicious i c
governing
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Mo rn ing Herald.
The Government has very properly taken
steps to counteract any mischievous consequences
likely to arise from the meeting which is intended
to take place at White Conduit-house on Mon-
day next. We shall make no comments on the
motive of those who, at such a time, have at-
tempted to array the Reformers of tke working
classes against the Reformers who are not of that
class. The motive is too plain to be mistaken.
But we appeal to the working classes themselves
—and we do so with every confidence in their
good sense—not to be led astray by pretended
friends. If they wish for a real Reform of the
House of Commons, and they are as much in-
terested in it as any other class of the commu-
nity—it is by the union, and not by the divi-
sion of all ranks of people, such a measure must
be carried. • If none but the working classes, the
industrious laborious inhabitants of London and
its neighbourhood, were to attend on the occa-
sion we speak of, there would be no reason for
apprehension ; but persons of a very different cha-
racter are likely to compose the meeting, and we
advise all honest men and good Reformers to
avoid mixing themselves up with such a cdection.
Government, as we have already stated, has taken
steps to prevent mischief. The Police Commis-
sioners and Magistrates, and the parochial au-
thorities, are all on the alert. Circulars have
been sent round to the different parishes, recom-
mending the appointment of special constables.
Nleetiegs have been held with the same view,
and many are to take place this day, for the pur-
pose of adopting precautionary measures. The
military, too, are to be in requisition, several
regiments having already reoyed towards the
metropolis, to be ready if occasion should require
I their interference ; but, though it is right to be

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prepared against the worst, we have no idea that
any disturbance will arise which the well-disposed
cannot immediately put down. The working
classes, we are convinced, will not lend them-
selves to any sinister purpose ; and as for the
idle and dissolute, it is not in their power to ac-
complish what they. seek. In a word, the
prospect of Reform is too bright, and the means
of its success are too obvious to afford any pre-
text to the friends of disorder for misleading so-
ber-minded and well-intentioned men.—Morn-
ing Herald.
All the Evening Papers of yesterday an-
nounced the alarming intelligenm that the cho-
lera morbus had made its appearance in Sun-
derland. We extent from one of them (the
CA:crier) a letter, without signature, which is
the only authority that has yet appeared on the
subject. The facts contained in this letter are
strong—indeed, if well authenticated, they see.ra
decisive as to the nature of the malady; but
there are some reasons why we should hesitate-
to accept the statements of the writer, until cor-
roborated by further accounts. In the first place,
it will be perceived that the letter is dated, not
from Sunderland, but from Newcastle-upon-
Tyne, which is about twelve miles distant from
Sunderland. Then there is nothing in the con-
text to discountenance the conjecture that it may
be only a report second-hand. Again, it is
rather singular that no direct communication
front the place itself appears to have reached
the city in the course of the day. These are
reasons not certainly for rejecting the report,
but for receiving it with caution. On the
other hand, we must admit that the credit at-
tached to the report on 'Change is in favour
of its troth ; and it will be seen, by the article
furnished by the Court Newsman, that de-
spatches had been received by Government from
the place where the disease is supposed to have
made its appearance. This directly corroborates
one of the statements in the letter—vie., that
the medical authorities had made a report, and
by inference it strengthens the others. Upon the
whole, it is evident that some cases of an ex-
traordinary nature have occurred, which, whether
they turn out to be the Asiatic cholera or not,
call for the most vigilant investigation. In the
mean while we are glad to perceive that exer-
tions are making in different parts of the metro-
polis to prepare for the reception of such an awful
guest. Whether the disease be epidemic or
contagious, cleanliness, sobriety, and firmness of
mind are the best securities upon which we can
rely either for prevention or recovery. A little
time will put an end to the suspense which exists
at present ; but whatever the result may be,
panic—disease in itself—ought to be guarded
against as one of the most fatal attendants that
can accompany any affliction.— Morn. Herald,
The efforts making to defame and embarrass
the Government, by a proud, selfish faction
which is fast diminishing in numbers, but not
relaxing in activity, are becoming more visible
and more impotent hourly. In vain certain mad
or imbecile Nobles load with hospitalities and
civilities of a meaner description all who oppose
Reform, or are to be tempted by flattery and
promises to assist in frustrating the wishes of
the nation, and the great designs of Ministers.
Useless is the confederacy formed in the differ-
ent counties by a large proportion of the ama-
teur Magistrates, the beneficed clergy, and the
attotneys, to reduce to passive obedience the
manufacturing and agricultural population ; for
it must, by this time, be pretty evident that un-
just decisions and tyrannical commitments, spite-
ful acts and abusive language, the vexations of
law and chicanery of pettifoggers, have not been
powerful enough to intimidate an impoverished,
oppressed, but determined people. Not less
abortive are the labours of the party in the city,
the petty and childish hostility of Aldermen,
fattened by the wasteful extravagance of a Tory
Government, who daily meet, but in their own
hole-and-corner fashion, to concoct puny
schemes of opposition, and thus unwittingly, but
most infallibly, prove their utter insignificance
as well as hopeless folly. Equally inefficacious
are the attempts made even in social life to aid
the resistance to that which is absolutely irre-
sistible--attempts constantly to be witnessed in
the Club-houses, where the small knots of
whisperers propagating sinister reports, now and
then mixed up with a little private scandal, and
casting all the while a peculiarly suspicious look
on every one known to entertain liberal opinions,
are regarded Only as objects of pity or ridicule.
While the conduct of some of the clerks in the

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principal public offices, their shrugs, sneers, and
insinuations, commonly produce not only a
feeling of strong disgust, but lead to the very
question which they should be carefully on their
guard never to moot—namely, the right they
have to their enormous salaries, being in general
men of not very enlarged minds, and, in most
instances, possessing no qualifications beyond
such as are to be found in those industrious
copying clerks, who think themselves well paid
by a weekly stipend, which, in the whole year,
would not amount to a sum sufficient to dis•
charge the annual tailor's bill of one of the
sensors—one of the chiefs to whom we allude.
Verb= sat. All these means, then, obviously
failing, another mode of attack has been re-
sorted to ; the natural fears of the people
are worked on ; they are threatened with a
wide-spreading pestilence—with a mortal dis-
ease that defies all the resources of art ;
and the diffusion of this malady throughout the
whole country, which is boldly foretold, is, by
anticipation, charged upon Ministers, for ne-
glecting the necessary precautionary measures.
In the Quarterly Review, published on Wed-
nesday, is an article on the cholera, which is
enough to appal the stoutest heart ;—its effect
on weak nerves we hardly dare think on. The
writer tells us that this modern pest has already
swept from the earth fifty millions of human be•
ings !—though here is an evident erratum—the
cypher having, doubtless been added inadvertently.
With the certainty, which is strongly insisted on,
- of the advent of so dire a calamity among us, the
conduct of Government is loudly impugned for
not having already prepared for the arrival of so
formidable a foe ; and the sagacious writer has
laid down and recommended a plan of proceed-
ings which in its operation would be hardly less
mischievous than the disorder itself; though not
so deadly—a plan which, if carried into effect,
would presently force us all bitterly to exclaim,
" le remede est pirc que le anal !"—What
will our readers think of shutting up every healthy
house and its inhabitants, excluding all living
beings, amid having the necessary provisions, &c.
drawn up in an iron pail, by an iron chain,
and taken in at the drawing-room
wimi-
dows ?—What will they say to ,a, project
for unfurnishing their rooms, and sending their
goods to some out-house ? How ninety-nine
out of every hundred will inquire, are the means
and materials. for breaking . in doors,—with hot
or vapour baths—wines—brandy--opium—ca-
lomel, &c. &c.; to- be • obtained 'by those who

live from hand to mouth, and whose means of
subsistence, we are told by the writer, will be
immediately cut off, as every kind of mechanical
art, and of trade, not directly neteisary to .exis-
tence, must come tn A complete stand-still ?
How, every rational person will demand, is
Government to establish depots of various kind's
of expensive stores, in every ttty, town, and
village throughout the United Kingdoms, with-
out calling uroh the different parishes for sums
whirl); at the present moment, it would be next
to imposSible to raise ? But the object of this
article is exceedingly clear t the public are not
purblind enough to be heated by so wean a tie;-
vice. The then foot immediately 'shows itself
when We are told that " the teat semblance of a
crowd must not be toierted.' Aye, aye—to
frighten the wo',.i'.en and children out of their wits
is to achieve something; but to prevent meetings of
the people just at this crisis; to prevent the pro-
gress of Reform ; to be enabled to shout out,
" A re-action I a re-ace-on t''—would, indeed,
be hailed by the boroughmongers as a master-
stroke of democratic craft and Tory policy. But,
aint all, what real occasion is there for so much
alarm as even many well-intentioned persons ex-
press ? As the cholera has moved westward in

its European progress it has spread its ravages
less widely -fewer people have suffered from it.
Less were attacked at St. Petersburgh than at
• Moscow,
and not so many at Berlin as at St.
Petersburgh. The disease has affected compa-
ratively few at Hamburg ; and at Altona, close
by the former city, only nine persons had, by the
last accounts, fallen victims to it. The deaths at
Vienna) a place calculated to afford every kind of
111,EtiOS for the rapid propagation of. the malady,
had, by the latest accounts, not exceeded twelve
hundred, and the disease was fast abating, though
it had not wholly disappeared. If, then, it should
peradventure reach this country, which in va-
rious ways is much better prepared to resist
it than any other portion of the globe, have
we not reason to hope, and very good grounds
to believe, that it will not only be less exten-
sively diffused than at St. Petersburgh, Vienna,
or even Hamburg, but that where it does attack
it will be better treated, and consequently prove
less fatal than in any of the before-named cities,
where ignorance, prejudice, and filth have aided
its progress, and assisted its operation, in spite
of the efforts of the many able physicians who
have devoted themselves to the performance of
their duties in a most courageous and public-
spirited manner? But notwithstanding the open
charges and designing insinuations of the avowed
organ of the deadly enemies of the country,
should this scourge reach our shores—should it
appear among us even clad in all its terrors, the
public may rest assured that every prudent and
humane measure, compatible with the existing,
state of society, will be resorted to for the pur-
pose of mitigating its severity, and staying its
progress. The plan laid down in the Quarterly
Review is, in many respects, of a wholly im-
practicable nature ; but were it otherwise, we
should still bear in mind the salutary maxim,
Timeo Danaos et Mona ferentes.—Morning
Chronicle.

We again caution all who have no intentions
to disturb, the peace, to abstain from attend-
ing the meeting at White Conduit-house, on
Monday next. It is in the power of a very
small portion of a meeting to throw the whole
into confusion ; and the peace must be preserved
at all hazards. If tumults arise the innocent
will share the fate of the guilty ; for how
can those who are ordered to disperse the
crowd by forcible means, distinguish between
those who attend from intentions hostile to order,
and those who attend from mere curiosity. We
like not the arming for this meeting. No disposi-
tion has been shown to prevent the people from as-
sembling to give expression to their senti-
ments. Against whom are the arms provided ?
No Magistrate will interfere till there is an ac-
tual violation of law ; and is it intended to offer
resistance to any authorities enforcing the law
These are questions which men should reflect on
before committing themselves in such a serious
matter as attending so ticklish a meeting. The
police yesterday took an account of the number
of fire-arms in every gun-smith's and broker's
shop throughout the metropolis. We know the
fact, because we were assured of it by respectable
dealers. Of course the police, before giving
themselves this trouble, must have had informa-
tion as to the designs against the shops where
fire-arms are sold ; and no doubt precautions
will be taken for repelling any attempt at ob-
taining arms by pillage. We do not wish to
create unnecessary alarm. We are far from
wishing to have it believed that the number of
individuals contemplating spoliation is great.
On the contrary, we are certain that the number
of such individuals is comparatively insigni-
ficant. But one thousand individuals may draw
clown destruction on thirty thousand, by taking
steps which will render it necessary to disperse
the whole. Thoughtless persons may too easily
take it for granted that they can withdraw from
such a meeting in time to escape danger. The
most absurd exaggerations respecting this meet-
ing appear in an Evening Contemporary (the
Standard)—exaggerations exceeding anything
in the time of the Popish plot.

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" And now," says our contemporary, " one word
about the meeting in White Conduit-fields. Does
Lord Melbourne know that ten thousand members
of the Birmingham Union are already in town, for
the purpose of attending that meeting, and that an
outbreak is contemplated either for Monday, or most
probably for next Saturday night ? We can tell his
Lordship of one house, usually occupied by the
lowest class of Irish labourers, in the neighbourhood
of Whitecross-street, from which the late inmates
have been suddenly ejected, and in which are now
contained two hundred of the Birmingham patriots,
some, it is suspected, provided with arms. This we
have every reason to believe to be a certain fact, and
that it is but one of many leading to the conclusion,
that an attempt at insurrection will be made on Sa-
turday night, or on Monday—we are inclined to be-
lieve rather the former."
Ten thousand members of the Birmingham
Union in town ! We will answer for it that there
are not now ten members of the Birmingham
Political Union in town ! In what way, pray
were these ten thousand men conveyed to Lon-
don ? Did they walk, or have they arrived by
the canal boats ? How long time have they been
o❑ their way ? Has the sudden disappearance of
ten thousand men from Birmingham excited no
sensation in that town ? A meeting of those con.-
cerned in getting up this meeting of the working
classes on Monday took place last night. We
refer our readers to an account of it in another
column. Our apprehensions of danger are not
diminished by the declarations of the speakers of
their peaceable intentions. It was agreed to with-
draw that part of the declaration which proscribes
all hereditary distinctions as illegal. We wish
the matter well over.—Moruing Chronicle.
It is with regret that we announce the intro-
duction of the cholera into this country. The
fact is, we fear, but too certain. Advises re-
ceived yesterday front SUnderland by Govern-

Inuit, and by individuals, state that there have
been seven cases in that port of the Indian
cholera, of which five have proved fatal, the
authorities of Sunderland are charged With hav-
ing allowed vesSels from Hamburg to perform
qugantine above Sunderland-bridge, through
which the malady has found its way into this
country. It was, no doubt, highly blameable
to allow any departure from the quarantine regu-
lations; but it does not necessarily follow that
the departure is. the cause of the appearance of
the malady. the following letter, which ap-
peared in the Courier of last night, contains the
Most circumstantial account of this affair :

" NEWCASTLE-UPON- TYNE, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
"I am sorry to confirm what you most likely have
heard already, viz., the breaking out of the cholera
in Sunderland. Monday and yesterday there were
six cases and five deaths of most decided Asiatic
cholera. Last night a statement to this effect, signed
by the principal medical men in Sunderland, was
transmitted to Government, and we wait here, with
no little anxiety, to know what measures will he
adopted to prevent the spreading of this frightful
disorder. No doubt is entertained of the disease
being the real Asiatic cholera, and of its being a
malignant form of the disease. The surgeon, Mr.
Kell, of the 82d regiment, stationed at Sunderland,
and who is one of the medical practitioners who
signed the official document transmitted to Govern-
ment, is well acquainted with the disease, having
seen man• cases of it in the Isle of France. All
the five cases of death terminated after a few hours'
illness. The disease was confined almost exclu-
sively to 'a single family. In which died the father,
son, and grandson, and a female. The female was
removed to the Infirmary, and died there. A
nurse in the Infirmary, who never saw the pa-
tient alive, but whose business it was to
remove the body into the dead-room, took the
disease only an hour afterwards, and was last evening
beyond all hope of recovery. You will ask to what
is the disease at Sunderland attributable ? To that
culpable laxity in the enforcement of the regulations
of the Customs, which has so long prevailed at Sun-
derland—which has oftener than once, by the Cham-
ber of Commerce at Newcastle, been represented
and complained of to the Commissioners of Cus-
toms, and without any effectual remedy ever being
applied. You will hardly believe, but such is the
fact, that three vessels coming direct from Ham-
burg, were, a few days ago, permitted to enter and
pass through the crowded harbour of Sunderland !
They passed up the river to Deptford, about a mile
above the bridge, where the river is reduced to a
narrow stream, to perform quarantine. And how
were the quarantine regulations observed ? Why,
by allowing the ship's crew to be rambling every
night ashore; and that the disease was thus imported
there can be no doubt, when I tell you that it first
showed itself at Deptford. I must add, however,
that the ship's crews are said to have been all
healthy. These are all the particulars known'here
to-day, and which, unfortunately, rest on too good
authority."_

We still entertain a hope—a faint one, no
doubt—that the cholera at Sunderland may not
be the real Indian cholera. But even if it be,
people should not allow themselves to entertain
exaggerated notions of the mortality of this
disease. We have seen a small publication by
Mr. Young, who was surgeon of the district in
which Calcutta is situated, when it broke out in
Bengal ; and he gives minute lists of the cases
in the extensive and populous district under his
charge. The deaths, we observe, did not
amount to six per cent. of the number affected.
It appears, then, that under judicious treatment
the mortality is really much less than in many
diseases prevalent at different times, which exciie
little attention. There is no comparison between
this rate of mortality and that of the typhus at
different periods in England, and still more in
Ireland. On the receipt of the intelligence, no
time has been lost in ordering the necessary pre-
cautions for preventing the extension of the
disease. A gentleman called in at our office,
without leaving his name, last night, who stated
that intelligence had been received a little while
before that the cases had augtrented to 22, and
the deaths to 19. We merely mention this,
without attaching any importance to the circum-
stance ; and it is possible many other exaggera•
tions will be in circulation.—Morning Citron.
There is now every reason to believe that the
plotters of mischief will find their projects frus-
trated. In fact, they and their partisans are a
miserable handful when compared with the
natural friends of peace, and law, and property.
The Political Union, of which Sir Francis Bur.
dett is the chief, enrolls its fellow-subjects of
all ranks, without distinction, among its mem-
bers ; and crowds of the honest and worthy me-
chanics of the metropolis have already acceded to
and swell its ranks. It is not with gentlemen or
men of property that the invidious and wicked
scheme of separating Englishmen into hostile
castes has originated. It was the machination
of a fiend, and was inculcated upon our in-
dustrious fellow-citizens for a fiend-like purpose.
However, that will be more apparent every hour.
The leaders of the " Union of the working
classes" have not, if we are rightly informed,
given in their names as members ofthe " National
Union," at the Crown and Anchor, nor have
their virtuous partisans. Indeed, they are not
wanting. Amongst an immense number of the
more respectable "working" men of London, who
have taken their proper station among the pro-
tectors of whatever is most sacred in society,
above 100 mechanics from one establishment
only, enrolled themselves in the course of yes-
terday, with the foreman of the house at their
head. The parishes, as will be seen by our ad-
vertising columns, are all in a forward and eager
state of preparation for the exercise of the so-
lemn duties about to be undertaken by them ;
and the country, we doubt not, will, before many
days, present such a front to the public enemy,
that none but candidates for Bedlam will be
found among the breakers of the peace. The
true spirit of the Union is strikingly and touch•
ingly expounded in the three following declara-
tions, forming part of a paper published by the
committee of the Crown and Anchor, and ad-
dressed
to the English people :
"This is not a union of the working classes, nor
of the middle classes, nor of any other class ; but of
all Reformers,—of the masses, and the millions.
" The National Political Union is essentially a
union of the people, and is the first instance on re-
cord of the nation breaking through the trammels of
caste, to associate for the common interest in a com-
mon cause.

" The first blessing of Reform, therefore, is al-
ready produced; among those who straggle for it,
a brotherhood is established, and recurrence made
to a manlier and more generous intercourse between
the rich and the poor."—Times.

There appears no reason to doubt that the
spasmodic cholera has made its. appearance at
Sunderland, having been transported thither
through the medium of one or more Hamburg
ships, the crews of which broke the quarantine
regulations by ranging about the shores of the
river. Four or five deaths are said—but with
what truth we know not—to have already taken
place. The first object with humane and wise
persons ought to be, to allay the exaggerated
apprehensions which such a fact, when first heard
of; might create in the minds of those whose
imaginations have been overwhelmed by the

frightful pictures drawn of the above distemper
in many letters and papers from the Continent.
We,believe that, however severe may be the vi-
sitation of this disorder to the individuals upon
whom it actually operates, the proportion of its
victims to those who escape it altogether, in any
one great town, or any given district of a
country, has not upon the average exceeded, but
has on the contrary fallen short of one out ofevery
fifty inhabitants—a proportion which is often sur-
passed by that of the deaths from other maladies.
In Moscow, where cholera raged for some time,
the average mortality was not at all increased ;
no where, as we understand, has it been more
than doubled. As for the distinct and original
causes of this migratory scourge, it would be
folly in unlearned men—and hitherto, indeed, it
has not shown much wisdom in those who called
themselves learned men—to meddle with, much
less to pronounce upon them. It may have been
primarily, for aught we know, generated by un-
wholesome air, or accident ; and afterwards, and
ever since, communicated to such constitutions
as were susceptible of the virus, by what is
termed contagion. Be that as it inay, and what-
ever differences of opinion may exist upon the
producing causes, most observers are agreed not
only as to predisposing causes, but as to some
of those which unquestionably aggravate the pa-
tient's danger when once the cholera has attacked
him. It is obvious that an evil habit of body
exposes one man to the risk of various illnesses,
from which another of sounder general consti-
tution will be more likely to escape. Such in-
dulgences, therefore, as tend to the general en,
feebling or deterioration of the health ought to
be most scrupulously avoided. Prince Lieven
ascribes the positive diminution of mortality at
Moscow during the presence ofthe cholera, as com-
pared with that of ordinary times, to the greater ab-
stinence of the poor from spirituous liquors during
the interval. So, every thing which tends to the
engendering offoul atmosphere,—namely, all hin-
drances to the circulation of air through rooms
much inhabited by day or night,—all accumula-
tions of unnecessary filth in the narrow streets
and alleys, and in the areas and the rear of houses,
ought to be objects of immediate and constant
attention, and, if required, of inspection by a
medical police ; which ought to be forthwith
established in every quarter. As the far greater
number of cholera patients must of course be
looked for amongst the poorer classes, means
ought to be taken for speedily providing increased
accommodation in all the hospitals throughout
the kingdom. By such simple precautions, and
through that religious trust in a merciful Provi-
dence which never fails to cheer and invigorate
the human heart, and to prepare the bodily frame
itself for a more vigorous encounter with the as-
saults of sickness, we doubt not that this new and
forbidding monster, which has probably put on
a more terrible aspect, because of the distance
from which, and the dim and gloomy medium
through which, the people of England have
gazed upon it, will in no long time be over-
powered. Nor can we forbear to express an
earnest hope, that even the anxiety and uneasiness
with which the approach of a danger from which
no human power_ can with certainly release mankind
may tend to the revival amongst us, where they
have been lost, or to the creation where they have
never before existed, of habits of sober and consci-
entious self-inquiry and to consequent resolutions of
amended life, the most profitable results of all the
trial; to which in this world it may please the Al.
mighty to expose his cietitures BefOre we drop
the subject of contagious maladies, it may be as well
to hint to the Commissioners of Sewers, that in-
numerable complaints have been made to us of their
gross negligence of their duties. In one quarter, for
instance, of the suburbs of the metropolis, now be-
' come as populous and important as many of- its
most central streets—we mean the line from
Hyde-park-corner to beyond the Knightsbridge
barracks, no attempt has yet been made towards
that essential work, the building of a common sewer,
although the inhabitants of a crowded neighbour-
hood have for years past been burdened with 6d. in
the pound, en the rack rent of their houses, for
sewer rates. What then is the consequence ? It
is that the general cond.tion and frequent emptying
of the cesspools are enough to breed a pestilence,
without troubling the cholera to come within a dozen
miles of them. The cavalry barracks, where be-
tween 400 and 500 men, women, and children, are
constantly residing, have no sewer whatever for their
purification, and among some of the houses between
them and town, the practices resorted to for the
clearing of the cesspools—namely, pumping the con-
tents of them nightly into the gutters, of the
public streets, constitute, as is known to the
great body of the inhabitants, a most insupportable
nuisance. We are aware that this disgusting expe-
dient is an offence at law, and ought to be so pu-
nished. Yet some nights ago, when the police
caught the offenders iu the fact of poisoning the
whole atmosphere for a quarter of a mile on either
side of them, and took them the next morning to a
certain Police-uffice, the Magistrate, without, as we
are informed, assigning any reason, thought proper
to dismiss the culprits, although in another part of
London the perpetrators of 'a similar nuisance had
within a few days been fined 51. a piece for their
audacity. We shall not on this occasion name the
worshipful personage, but we quietly
itscounsel him
thatro
that he ought to support the police in watchful-
ness over the health of the community. The Com-
missioners of Sewers, we repeat, are bound to give
the payers of the sewer-rates some reasonable value
for their money.—Times.

We are glad to see that the absurd contest
about the Mayoralty of the city has terminated,
as might have been anticipated, in the tardy
submission of the Court of Aldermen to the
repeatedly expressed wishes of their fellow-
citizens. Three experiments on public patience
were more than enough—a fourth would have
become an intolerable nuisance. The greatest
enemy of the little senate of Guildhall—of the
House of Lords east of Temple-bar—could not
have advised them to an act more injurious to
their character, or dangerous to their power, than
to " throw out the Bill" thrice sent them up
from the Common Hall in the shape of Alder-
man Key's nomination. Whether it was wise
in the Livery to depart in this instance from the
usual rotation of office, and to convert a ma-
gisterial trust into a stake of political conten-
tention, we shall not stop to inquire; but having
resolved to choose a political favourite, and hav-
ing, when at first resisted, returned the same in-
dividual again and again, their determined purpose,
or even their renewed caprice, ought to have
been a law to the Court of Aldermen. The
assumed or admitted right of the Upper Civic
House to select the Chief Magistrate from a list of
two " fit and proper persons," nominated by the
Livery, to serve the office, implies, like every other
right, a corresponding duty. It requires to be ex
ercised with proper discretion, and under a proper
sense of responsibility. It was conferred, not ulti-
mately to deprive the
Livery of their choice, but
to prevent any precipitate or indiscriminate use of
their privilege. It was given for the purpose of
securing reflection and discussion among the elec-
tors themselves on the relative merits of the candi-
dates presented, and not for defeating their deli-
berate wishes, or forperrnitting a Magistrate to whom
they are hostile to be thrust into the civic chair.
When two candidates, after a poll, are sent up to
their worships for the selection, they are not bound

to know for the first time whether the Livery has
determined on one rather than the other, and may
therefore select either ; but repetition of the choice,
—the appearance on a second trial of the same
name, shows either a deliberate resolution to which
the Court should immediately yield, or a misguided
obstinacy which it ought to enlighten and rectify.
The alleged privilege of the Aldermen might other-
wise produce confusion and agitation at every elec-
tion, aad leave the Mansion-house without an inha-
bitant, and Guildhall without a dinner on the 9th of
November. The nuisance having now been abated,
we shall not inquire into motives for which the
Court so long resisted the choice of the Livery ; but
we would suggest, that in any future contest of a s'-
milar kind, their worships, instead of concealing their
objections to the popular candidate in their ballot-box,
would be good enough to state them boldly on the
hustings. *The citizens in Common Hall assembled are
bound to present them with two " fit and proper per-
sons" to fill the office of Chief Magistrate. Every Al-
derman is presumed to be " a fit and proper person"
for filling the civic chair, as every parson is capable
of being made a Bishop, unless good reasons can
be shown to the contrary; and when the Livery
twice or thrice fix on the same individual, the Alder-
men, in rejecting him, are bound to ass'gn reasons
for their rejection. That the late popular candidate
was generally thought a " fit and proper person" to
be Lord Mayor, was evident from the fact that he
was Lord Mayor at the time of the canvass; and
if the judges of his pretensions entertained a different
opinion on good grounds, they ought, instead of
blackballing him in secret, to have denounced him
to the Livery, as having forfeited all title to their
confidence, and being unworthy of their continued
support. But why reason about an absurdity,
which we trust will not be repeated ?—Times.

We are most happy to announce that the Go-
vernment has already adopted every advisable
precaution against the threatened disturbances of
Monday next, and that there is every ground
for hoping that those who may be inclined either
to excite disturbance, to create riot, or to attack
property, whether public or private, are likely to
meet with their just deserts. Circulars have
been issued to all the parishes in the metropolis,
requesting that a proper number of the most re-
spectable inhabitants in them may be enrolled
as constables, in order that they may be
ready to act in case of necessity ; and the
advice has, we believe, been complied with,
or is in the course of being complied with,
by all of them. Every Reformer feels that the pre-
servation of the public peace is a matter which it
peculiarly belongs to him.to enforce; and we entertain
not the slightest doubt that should any attempt at
disturbing the public peace be made, it will be met
by that courageous resistance which becomes Eng-
lishmen and Reformers. What has our cause to do
with violence or outrage ? Is not our object to
make justice take the place of injustice, and equity
of iniquity ? And are there not sufficient ways and
means of a rational and pea•:eable character to effect
this object, without having recourse to violence?
The man who thinks at the present moment of
having recourse to any measure of the kind, is not
only an enemy to his King, his country, anti the
canse of Reform, but also an enemy to hirwelf,
and the proper ally of the Anti-Reformers. The
members of Political Unions will not only not have
any thing to do with such persons, but none of
them, we will venture to assert, will be found at the
meeting which is appointed for Monday next. If
they be, they will be immediately, we trust, de
nounced by the Association to which they belong,
and expelled as unworthy members. But we have
no fear on the subject. On the contrary, we rely
with the utmost confidence on the members of the
Political Unions setting an example oflpropriety of
conduct to their fellow-citizens, and exhibiting
themselves the very first in the ranks of those whose
object is to procure Reform, but to procure it peace-
ably, and to nut down riot and tumult wherever
they may break out.—Morning Advertiser.
It is our painful duty to announce that a fatal
disease, supposed to exhibit all the dreadful cha-
racters of the Indian cholera, has broken out in
one of the sea-ports of this country. This is a
calamity for which all who have examined the
facts connected with the progress of the scourge
must. have been prepared sooner or later ; but it
is perhaps an aggravation of its horrors that they
should have overtaken us at a time when the mo-
ral firmness of the public mind has been shaken
by revolutionary excitement, and when the worst
passions ,of man have been let loose by wretches
following in the wake of a miserable and selfish
Government. The letter which we subjoin attri-
butes the introduction of the disease to the
neglect of the authorities entrusted with the
enforcement of the quarantine. How fatal seems to
have been the influence of that example in which
two Ministers of the Crown were seen exchanging
loathsome flatteries and mutual congratulations with
public violators of the law ! Our earnest advice is,
that every community in the kingdom will look
within itself for prompt measures of protection
againt the ravages of this pestilence, and it will soon
be disarmed of its terrors. The last German Pa-
pers shew, indeed, that they are either ameliorated
in its progress, or lessened by ordinary precaution.
In Vienna, a city in which its ravages were parti-
cularly apprehended according to all preconceived
notions, it has already been nearly eradicated.—
Morning Post.