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rigid, like the preceding ones, amid a forest of hands held
up in favour of it.
Mr. DowiLEDAV moved-the thanks of the meeting to
the Chairman, which was carried by acclamation.
The multitude then gave three hearty cheers for the
King and Earl Grey, a groan for the Opposition, and dis-
persed in the most peaceable and orderly manner.

There were several flags hung from houses in different
. streets of Newc,stle in honour of the meeting, but one
was suspended for a part of the forenoon from a window
in the Side, which attracted so much attention at to im-
pede the passage. It was white, was " dedicated to the
199," had a strong black border, was hung with black
crape at the corners, and surmounted with a pike heal.
It represented the figure of Death holding a spear in his
right hand from which hung tri-coloured ribbons, in his
left hand he displayed the three bleeding heads of the Duke
of Wellington, the Duke of Cumberland, and Lord Eldon,
and with his foot appeared to trample on the mitre. Below
this figure were the words : " They are all gone aside,
they are become filthy: there is none that dollt good, no
not one." 'We need scarcely add that the flag was highly
disproved of both by the members of the Political Union
and the inhabitants generally. When the crowd looking
at it obstructed the passage in the street, it was taken
down by order of the Mayor.

BIRMINGHAM MEETING

YESTERDAY (THURSDAY).

BY EXPRESS.

Yesterday a west numerous and highly-respectable
meeting was held at Dee's Hotel, Temple-row, in conse-
quence of a requisition, signed by some hundreds of the
inhabitants of the town of Birmingham, having been for-
warded to the High Bailiff, requesting him to convene an
early meeting of the inhabitants of the town and neigh-
bourhood, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of addressing his Majesty to express their deep
regret and bitter disappointment at the rejection of the
Reform Bill in the Upper House of Parliament, and to de-
clare their unabated confidence in his Majesty's enlight-
ened patriotism, and in the zeal, wisdom, and firmness of
his confidential advisers, and to express their earnest hope
that all constitutional measures would be employed for
the speedy accomplishment of an object essential to the
peace and welfare of the country.
Long before the hour appointed for taking the chair,
(eleven o'clock) the large room in this capacious hotel,
was crowded to suffocation, all present feeling the most in-
tense anxiety either to hear or take part in the proceed-
ings. Among the gentlemen present, we noticed Henry
Smith, E.g., the Low Bailiff, the Rev. Mr. Kentish, Mr.
Wills, Mr. Ilstl!ey, Mr. Hill, Mr. Turner, Mr. Rice Harris,
the Rev. J. Corrie, the Rev. H. Macdonnell, Mr. Parke,
Mr. Win. Redfern, Mr. Scholefield, Mr. Blyth, and several
other gentlemen of eminence and distinction connected
with the town.
The Huai BAILIFF on taking the chair, felt him-
self exceedingly flattered with the honour that had been
conferred upon him, and he trusted, that iu filling the
arduous duties connected with it, he should be sup-
ported by that good feeling and impartiality which was sip
requisite on all occasions.--(Cheers.) He had called time
present meeting in consequence of a more than usually
numerous requisition to him for that purpose by his fel
low-townsmen, and the pleasure he felt in doing so it
would be much more easy for the meeting to imagine than
for himself to describe. Although he could feel with all
present the great excitement and bitter disappointment
which now stalked through the country, in consequence of
the Bid not having passed the Lords, yet he hoped the
persons attending the present meeting would set an ex-
ample to the rest of the country by carrying on the dis-
cussions of to-day with good temper, savoured with lan-
guage suitable for so important an occasion ; he trusted
that every facility would be given, and every attention
paid, to every gentleman who might think proper to ad-
dress tie meeting.—(Cheers.)
H. SMITH, Esq. (the Low Bailiff) then rose for the
purpose of proposing the first resolution, and had scarcely
ttered two words, when
Mr. B. HADLEY requested the indulgence of the meet-
ing in permitting him to make a few observations before the
general business commenced. He trusted the worthy
Low Bailiff would pardon his intrusion ; but he felt he
had a public, duty to perform, and could not therefore he
influenced by private feelings.—(Cheers.) ,It would be
in the recollection of the gentlemen present, that at the
last meeting held in this place, at which the present
worthy High Bailiff presided—
The HIGH BAILIFF suggested the propriety of enter-
ing into this explanation at the conclusion of the meeting.
Mr. HADLEY thought it better that lie should make the
few observations he had to offer to the meeting before any
public business took place.
Mr. TURNER expressed his dissent to such an irregular

mode of proceeding.
Mr. HADLEY had a public duty to perform, and would
therefore respectfully insist on a right to proceed. No
man felt more delighted than he did at the conduct of the
High Bailiff calling the present meeting ; the object of
which he most heartily concided with, as there appeared
in all present no disposition but to serve the public
cause.—(Cheers.) It would be in the recollection of the
meeting that, on the 30th of last September, he bad the
honour of submitting the following resolution ;
" Proposed by Mr. B. Hadley, and seconded by the
Rev. T. M. M'Donnell, that having expressed our
confidence in his Majesty's Ministers we deem
it right earnestly to request that under no circumstances
contingent upon the fate of the Bill, they will be induced
to resign their places, believing their continuance in office
essential to the tranquillity of the country, and that this
resolution be communicated to Lord Grey by the High
Bailiff." Now he (Mr. H.) after having made every en-
quiry could not ascertain that any answer had been sent
to that resolution ; he would not go so far as to say the
resolution bad nut been presented ; lie was persuaded the
_High Bailiff had too high a sense of his duty not to pre-
sent such a resolution, passed in so unanimous a mariner.
He merely called now on the High Bailiff to state to the
meeting whether any, anti what, answer had been received
from Earl Grey. He would not have brought the present
subject forward had he not known the punctuality of the
present Ministers in answering all communications. The
answer to the addresses that had been voted to them at the
meeting at Newhall-hill, had arrived in Birmingham by
the second post after they weee voted. Three weeks had
now, however, elapsed since the resolution be now re-
ferred to bad been unanimously agreed to,
The HIGH BAILIFF felt great pleasure at the Hon. Gen-
tleman's bringing the subject forward, as it had been hie in-
tention before the close of the preeent meeting to have com-
municated the answer of Lord Grey to that resolution. In.
deed the communication of that answer would not have been
delayed to the present period had it not been (which; wits well
known), in consequence of a great domestic calamity he
had laboured under in the illness of the only consolation
he had in the world, in consequence of which lie was
under the necessity of leaving Birmingham at p. moment's
notice. Before his departure however he had communi-
cated to some of his friends that be had received a letter
from Earl Grey, but he thought the proper time to state
the contents of that letter would be at the conclusion of the
meeting.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HADLEY was perfectly satisfied with the explana-
tion that had been given. He could assure the High
Bailiff that when he brought forward the subject, he was
not aware of any private calamity under which he la-
boured, but with submission to him, he thought the an-
swer ought to be read now.—(Cries of " Yes, yes.")
The HIGH BAILIFF then observed, that the letter be
had received from Earl Grey, stated that he felt greatly
obliged for the high opinion entertained of his Majesty Mi-
nisters, by the resolution be had the honour to communicate.
Mr. Hadley and the Rev. H. Macdonnell both joined in
stating that the explanation was highly satisfactory.
HENRY SILITH, Esq. (Low Bailiff), then proceeded to
address the meeting. He thought a little more courtesy
ought to have been shewn 1):m, and that lie ought pot to
have been subjected to the interruption he had reeeieeel.
He could faithfully say, that he never found himself
placed under such overwhelming feelings As he did at
the present moment, at what be might call his own
success in the taking plaoe of the present meeting, an
object that he had so much at heart. lie hoped that
every person in that room possessed sufficient purpose of
character firmly to do his duty whenever he might be
called 0n..--(Cheers.) The country was now placed in
elicit a situation that it became every man to do all lie
could to preserve it; he called, therefore, upon all good
men, upon all true Englishmen, and particularly upon
those whose sand of life was fast ebbing away, by their
firmness of purpose, by their own decision, and by every
means in their power, to leave the beat inheritance a father
could leave to his children, namely, the essence of liberty,
the possession of liberty uncontroulled, and untrammelled
by sty timing, save righteous justice and constitutional
law. (Cheers.) He thanked God,
.that be was allowed
to live at the present interesting period, when the people
knowing their rights and feeling the n, have co me forward
with one voice in the demand of the restoration of them.
—(Cheere.) Since the last public meeting had been
held in this town, it had been doubted by noble perso.ns
tvliether the people of Birmiogbarn were able to exern*'