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

FEELINGS OF THE COUNTRY ON THE
SUBJECT OF REFORM.

MR. HUNT AND THE .RE-ACTIO.P.V.F
THE PEOPLE.
(MOM OUR BIIEFFIELD CORRESPONpENT.)
In consequence of Mr. Hunt's extraordinary, uncalled for, and
false assertion in the House of Commons last week that-i mac-
don had taken place in the country against the Reform. Billi anti
•hat only 800,000 were for the measure, and 8,000,000 opposed to
it, a meeting of the Sheffield Political Uniou Council was held
this (Wednesday) evening, when the best mode of giving the lip
direct was taken into consideration. From the remarks; of the
different speakers it was evident that the people here were
anxious for a public meeting being called immediately, to give at
,nce a refutation to the base, foul, calumny, whichliad- been
uttered. The Hon. Member for Preston, however, was consiT
dered unworthy of so much importance, as it was unanimously
resolved that the President, T. A. Ward, Esq., should be autho-
rised to write to Lord Morpeth, and assure his Lordship that the
men of Hallamshire were unanimous for «the whole Bill, and
nothing but the Bill," and that the assertion of Mr. Hunt Was as
unmerited as it is calumnious. It was also resolved, in the event
of the Bill not passing, as son as the intelligence reached Shef-
field, that the Secretary of the Union call the Members together
to consider the best means to be adopted in such an emergency.
We may just add, that we have made it our business to mix
with all classes since the Bill was first introducedinto Parliament,
and have no hesitation in affirming that we have not met with one solitary Huntile in the whole town-that is, one who is op,
nosed to the general principles of the BilL If the man who has
harangued thousands, and bearded them on to bloodshed and do-
solation, was to visit Sheffield, we do not believe he would be able
to command one hearer, unless it was to fling back the Ueda the
face of the utterer.

So far from the alterations submitted by Lord John Russell on
Tuesday night, being considered a deviation from the original
Bill, they are hailed as an improvement and worthy of another
universal burst of approbation from John o' Groat's to the
Land's-end, in Cornwall. If Ministers will only stick true to
the general principles of schedules A. and 11., unless where there
is an evident error in the population returns, they may reckon
with safety on " a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether"
to enable them to triumph over all the boroughmongering mer-
chants in the kingdom. All their efforts will avail nothing—no,
not even if Hunt's celebrated speech had been printed in gold,
and circulated through the country. It is worthy of remark that
the parcel of blacking falsehoods sent to this town were consi-
dered of such a contaodnating nature, that no individual could
be found black enough to distribute them in open day, therefore
recourse was had to the despicable mode of dropping them in the
streets, and pushing them under doors. We wish the Hon.
Member could have only heard the groans, the hisses, and the
execrations with which this celebrated declaration has been picked
up, for the extensive circulation of which the country is indebted
to the very men whom he had all his life before denounced as the
robbers and plunderers of England—we say we wish he had
heard the voice of the people on this occasion, as we are sure
he would never again have raised his voice in Parliament,
but would have accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and re-
tired for the remainder of his days into the cellars of his
manufactory, or have gone amidst the gloom of his manor of
Glastonbury, to enjoy the bribe he has received from the Anti_
Reformers.

SIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DA Y.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
CAPE CLEAR, APRIL Arrived, the Medoro, Jefferson,
from Bombay, sailed Dec. 7.
WESTPORT, Aran. la—His Majesty's ship Pylades,lB guns,
ran on the rocks at ltoona Point, about Live miles beyond Old
Head, at nine o'clock this morning, and was high and dry upon
the reef, lying upon her sides.

The Emulous, from Virginia and Fayal, Is supposed to be ar
rived off' Holyhead.

THE MARKETS.---(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
The arrivals of all kinds of English Grain this week are mode-
rate, but of foreign considerable. There have been some country
buyers at market to-day, who have made purchases of dry Wheat
at Monday's prices, other descriptions continue very dull in sale.
Barley fur Malting is unaltered, grinding sorts are rather cheaper
than on Monday. Beans and Pease are unvaried. Oats Endbuyers slowly at Monday's prices. In the Flour trade there 4
no alteration.

ARRIVALS.

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour.
English
Irish - --- 855 ---
i,oreign - brls,

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CX.
They write from Antwerp that some seditious movements took
place amongst the troops in the citadel on the 15th, and that
General Chasse had great trouble to put them down On the
14th there was an engagement on the side of the West Wezil,
between the advanced posts.
Letters from Alexandria to the 22d October, state that the
French subjects at Cairo were in danger of losing their lives,
owing to the great violence exercised against them by the regular
troops of the Pacha. Three Frenchmen have been assassinated
in the streets.
It is stated that the number of prisoners taken by far exceeds
the account in the bulletin, and the demoralization in the
Russian army was very groat. The national army, which was
in want of cannon at the beginning of the campaign, have, at
present, a sufficient quantity, with a reserve of forty pieces. The
artillery have lost their talisman. Those famous pieces of cannon
which were in the campaigns of France and Turkey, have been
captured by the Poles ; the Russians used to call them their
Grandmother.

Extract of a letter from Memel :—" A gentleman who has re-
turned here from Polangen states, that the whole town has beets
burnt by the Russians, in consequence of the insurgents having
fired from the houses on the Russians."
Private accounts from •Warsaw state that the Polish Com-
mander-in-Chief, whose headquarters were at Siennica, was near
ethasaitlyofbet; et
ankeerill
nllifleabni tkscbhy aat
PGoal
irws h 0,1
oi nips, andwht
ihcaht
wDierehe iatr hsieoedutilcd,
and in his rear was General Dwerniclu.