The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-11 00:00:00

MR. HUNT IN MANCHESTER.

Mr. hunt arrived in Manchester to-day, (Thursday) on
his return ft um Preston. The immediate cause of his
present journey was this :----Soon after he was returned
for Preston, a subscription was entered into in various
parts of the country, but particularly in this neighbour-
hood, for the purpose of having a medal struck to be
given to the 3,730 " brave electors" who voted for
Mr. Hunt. " The bargain was struck," and so was the
medal, by some of the Birmingham manufacturers, and
Mr. Hunt set out from London a few days ago, for the
purpose of being present at the distribution of the medals.
Unfortunately, however, the cost of these was 350/. while
the funds in the hands of Mr. Mitchell, of Preston, the
treasurer to the subscription, amounted only to 100/. Mr.
Hunt undertook to supply the deficit, on the faith of being
refunded by the Reformers of England, whose servant and
advocate he avows himself to be. But on his arrival at
Birmingham the medels were not forthcoming, and he was
obliged to proceed to Preston without them. He appeared
before his constituents yesterday, and received a most en•
thusiastic reception. This morning he addressed the people
at Bolton, and then proceeded to Manchester, where he
arrived about half-past one o'clock.
He was met about two miles front the town by a pro-
cession of his admirers, accompanied by a band of music,
and herring a number of flap, the most remarkable
of which was a representation, in very brilliant colours,
of an incident which is said to have occurred at the " Man-
chester massacre," in 1819, when a woman was cut down •
and severely wounded in the breast by one of the yeo-
manry. The procession art ived at " Peterloo" about two
o'clock, when Mr. Hunt addressed the crowd at consi.
derable length. The number of persons on the field was
immense, and were estimated at from fifty to seventy thou-
sand. Mr. Hunt, to use his own expression, " spoke
strongly," and hia Honourable Colleagues of the House of
Commons came in for a liberal share of his censure and
ridicule. The most remarkable topic in his speech was an
unqualified condemnation of the Reform Bill, which he de-
nominated as a conspiracy by the middling and higher
classes against the lower, for the purpose of for ever ex-
chiding them from a voice i❑ the representation. He thus
described fhe tendency of the proposed measure. He com-
puted the population of the three kingdoms at twenty-two
millions, of whom there were eight millions of male adults.
The Reform Bill would give the right of representation to
somewhat less than one million of persons, whose incomes
bun averaged at 1501. a year each, or 150,000,0001. per
annum. This would leave seventeen millions of people
unrepresented, whose income he computed at 12s. a week
each, or 225,000,000/. a year. So that, according to
these elate, the Reform Bill would confer the representation
upon one million of persons, who were worth 150 000,0001.
a year, and exclude seven millions, who were worth
225,000,0001. a year! This calculation he had formed to
show the degree of respect which was paid to " population
and property," which formed the avowed principle on which
it was founded. He said he had given the Reform'Bill his
support simply because it was a change, anti any change
in the present corrupt state of the representation was de-
sirable. He then proceeded to give some illustrations of
the system of " law making" observed in the Committees
of the House of Commons, particularly in disposing of
private Bills. He then alluded to the subject of the elec-
tion of Members for Manchester. He said Mr. Hugh
Birley had been proposed ; but rather than permit " Cap-
tain Peter Birley, the master butcher of Peterloo" to be
returned, he would have Manchester in ashes; and instead
of fourteen lives being sacrificed, he would have the best
blood in Manchester spilt before the country should be so
much disgraced ! He recommended, that at the next elec-
tion for Wigan, a deputation of 20 or 30,000 persons
should go thither from Manchester, and exercise the
" constitutional influence" of the Lancashire squeeze upon
such of the burgesses as could not he induced by
more gentle persuasions to vote for Mr. Richard Potter,
the nsan of the people ! Mr. Hunt concluded by explain-
ing the state of the medal subscription, and by calling on
his auditors to make good the deficiency, so that his own
pocket might be protected from loss.
At the conclusion of his speech, Mr. Hunt moved for-
ward in procession to the house of his friend Mr. Cox, in
Dale-street. This evening he met a more select party of
his admirers at the White Lion, in Hanging Ditch.

He sets out to-morrow morning on hii way to Birming.
ham, to pay for and release the medals.

BOLTON.
Mr. Hunt arrived here from Preston, where he had been
on a visit to his constituents, lace on Wednesday evening.
The circumstance became known on Thursday morning;
and at an early hour a considerable number of people were
collected in front of the Swan Hotel, where Mr. Hunt
was staying. About ten o'clock the crowd had increased
to several thousands ; and Mr. Hunt, previous to his des ,
parture for Manchester, addressed them from the balcony
of the inn. He dwelt principally upon the defects of the '
projected Reform Bill ; and urged the people not to relax
in their endeavours until they obtained all they asked for.
He recommended them, in case a dissolution of Parliament
took place, of which he expressed himself morally certaln,
to go over to Wigan and use what he termed constitutional
influence to compel the burgesses to vote for the popular
candidate, whoever lie might be. After a long tirade
against Mr. Huston, for his conduct on the 16th August,
1619, and a strenuous recommendation of Mr. Edmund ;!
Grundy, of Bury, as a proper person to 'represent Bolton
in Parliament, he took his leave amidsi.deafening
—Manchester Guardian.
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Tile DISPATCH in June last.
EXTRAORDINARY BULLOCK.—A bullock
whichwas bread and fattened by Mt. ALMOND, of Stan.
dish, was slaughtered by Mr. JouN BOLTON, butcher; of
Wigan, a,tl sold by him in that.inarket, on Saturday ie..%
The carcase weighed 2,96-Ilia., and the whole was
posed of, before noon on that (I,y. Mr. ALMOND has been .
several times a hu fal competitor at the Wigan agricul-
tural
prize shew...--.2lfanches•ter Guardian.

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