The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-08 00:00:00

BRISTOL MBETINO.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—If you have not received an account by any other hand,
you may say upon our authority, that a public meeting was held
at the Assembly Room in this City, convened by public advertise-
ment, at which, from 1,500 to 2,000 persons were present, which
came to an almost unanimous resolution with only three dissen-
tients, thanking his Majesty's Ministers for the full and complete
plan of Reform which they have introduced into the House of
Commons.
The meeting was most ably addressed by G. Joseph Reynolds,
Esq., T. Sanders, Esq., Mr. Muncher, Mr. Visger, Mr. Mills,
Mr. John Hare, Mr. S. Waring, and Captain Hodges. Richard
Ash, Esq. was Chairman.
A petition to the House, praying to pass the plan into a lawwas
agreed to with only one hand -held up. To-morrow you will re-
ceive particulars per the Bristol Mercury, but a paragraph to
the above import will oblige your friends, among whom, please
to rank, Yours truly,
Bristol, March 7, ISII. A CONSTANT READER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
have the pleasure to inform you that one of the largest
as wellas most unammousmeetings ever held within the walls of the
Assembly Rooms of this city, took place this day,when an address
to the King, as well as a petition to Parliament (congratulating
them respectfully on the measures proposed by his Majesty's Go-
vernment were agreed on) and on the questions being put, they were
carried with the greatest applause,with only one dissenting voice.
notwithstanding every endeavour was used by the factious select
vestries and the Ultra-Tories to work up the minds of the free-
men to go and meet the reformers, and endeavour to defeat their
object, by publishing the most inflammatory placards, they
could only muster one volunteer. Some of the speakers were
Messrs. Stanton, Spence, Hare, Mills, Ash, and some others
whose names I could not collect.—The post is leaving.
I am, Sir, your's most respectfully,
Bristol, March 7, 1831. A SUBSCRIBER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Ste,—You will greatly oblige the writer of this letter by in-
serting the following impromptu on your own Paper (The Sun)
as early as convenient. The fair authore's is the landlady of the
" Cat and Wheel" public-house, whose talents, amidst the cares
of a little and increasing family, are by circumstances placed in
a situation far below their deserts.—lour obedient servant.
Bristol, March 4 F. JONES

I MPROMPTU.
When night's dark shades involve the sky,
The Sun is here, I pray you draw nigh.
Beneath his bright refulgent rays,
Of sense, of law, of daily praise.
The Sun, till eleven at night, may be seen
At the " Cat and Wheel" in Castle-green.

THE SUN NEWSPAPER EXPRESS AND

MINISTERIAL REFORM BILL.

(From the Cork Constitution.)
By a most extraordinary effort of the Conductors of The Sun,
we are enabled to lay before our readers the full report of the
speech on Reform made by Lord John Russell. This generous
attention to the anxiety with which this great question is looked
for in this, as well as in every other quarter of the United King-
dom, entitles The Sun to universal acknowledgments of thanks.
We have no time for any other remarks upon this complete re-
port—which has superseded the morebrief statements upon which
we had founded the observations which we have made upon the
general subject. It was supposed that the discussion would be '
continued to Friday. A dissolution is spoken of with great con- '
fidence.
(From the Scotsman.)
Vie have again to acknowledge our obligations to the proprie-
tors of The 'Sun newspaper, for their extraordinary exertions in
forwarding Lord John Russell's speech by express on Tuesday
evening, and for their reports of each evening's debate to a late
hour on the day of publication. To us in particular, and to the
public in general, these reports are of the greatest value.
The great measure of Reform is at last before the public. How
will it be received ? Beyond all doubt with admiration—gratitude
—and unbounded satisfaction, by the people. It is based on
principle ; it is comprehensive, safe, equitable ; and liberal and
popular beyond expectation! The Ministers deserve the highest
' credit for their courage as well ,as their sense of justice. In
bringing forward such a measure they have bearded the oli-
garchy, to which all their predecessors have been compelled to
bow. They have perilled place and character as statesmen : they
have thrown themselves fearlessly on the confidence of the people ;
and if the people do not unite as one man, and rally round them
with heart and hand, they will be traitors to their own cause,
and deserve to be trodden under the feet of tax-eaters and bo-
roughmongers for ever.

(From the Tipperary Free Press.)
We can this day merely give, from an express edition of The
Sun, an abstract of the measure brought forward by Lord John
Russell.

(From the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.)
in common with all our contemporaries we owe great obliga.
'ions to The Sun newspaper this week, and particularly to the
agent of that spirited print in this city, Mr. Somervell. The Sun
spread the glad tidings in all directions with zeal which mere
business-motives could never inspire, and deserves for this, and
many other labours, "well of its country."
Since going to press we have learned that a public meeting of
the inhabitants of this city is to he held on Wednesday first, to
express the approbation felt at the conduct of Ministers and of
their plan of Reform.
The Edinburgh Political Union are to meet on Monday, hen
a motion will be made to express their satisfaction with the con-
duct of Ministers, and their determination to support them in
their measure of Reform. This good example will, we hope, be
very generally followed.
Ministers have nobly done their duty. Their plan of Reform is
now before the country, ample and efficient ; and on the one
grand principle of a fair and full representation of the people,
going even beyond our hopes. It now remains to the people to
do their duty, in supporting, heart and hand, the King's Go-
•ernment. The Ides of March are come—but they are not past!
—not that we credit all the sinister reports abroad of an infatu-
ated and desperate opposition. The course of the people lies be-
fore them clearly defined ; and already we hear of meetings in
various quarters. Not an instant is to be lost. We are glad to
find that so respectable a body as the Merchant Company of
Edinburgh have already moved. They meet on Monday. There
can now be no delicacy in interfering—no hesitation in express-
ing opinion, to which, indeed, we are challenged by the bare-
faced assertion that the people want no Reform. Our private
letter of to-day is highly worthy the attention of all true re-
formers. It speaks the sentiments of influential and tried men,
who held aloof till it was seen that, a new thing under the sun,
Ministerial Reform, was no longer a mockery, and who now, there-
fore press warmly forward to support the Government to the utter-
most. But we cannot too frequently, nor too earnestly, impress upon
all whom our voices may reach, that not a moment is to be lost,
if they would secure for themselves and posterity those blessings
for which the reformers have been struggling for upwards of half
a century, and which never seemed so near as now. Once more
we say, meet !—your enemies are sufficiently alert. Meet! fel-
low-countrymen ! Rally round the Government, and in follow-
ing the spontaneous dictates of your own hearts and understand-
ings, give his Majesty's Ministers the support that will render
them invincible against all opposition. The plan of Reform de-
veloped in the Chronicle of Wednesday last, from the informa-
tion of a confidential correspondent, will now be seen to be in soul
and substance correct. Our letter spoke of two measures. That
for shortening the duration of Parliaments—in other words, for
enabling a Liberal Administration to restore to the country what
a 'Whig Ministry took away—is deferred for the present. Lord
John Russell said with truth that this formed a distinct case.—
One of the highest compliments, paid in Scotland, to the Minis-
terial plan, is the incredulity of the public of Edinburgh, and
even of our best friends, on that portion of our private letter,
which asserted that the whole political power of the Scottish
burghs was to be swept away at one swoop. To one party this
news seemed far too good to be true—to the other much too mon-
strous for belief. We have a right to claim, that our friends
shew faith in our sources of information in all time coming. We
shall never lend ourselves to vamped up statements.—From
many places we hear of exultations and rejoicings, but cannot
find space for details to-day.