The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-30 00:00:00

REFORM MEETINGS.

BLACKBURN.—A public meeting was called for this
(Thursday) morning, to petition for the Bill. Similar
meetings, says the Blacklp:rn Gazette, are about to be,
or had been, held in every town in the neighbourhood.
BOLTON.—The petition had, on Saturclty, received
the names of upwards of 10,000 persons. In the course
of a day or two the petition will be forwarded for pre-
sentation.

CHELTENHAM.—Our petition to the Lords has re-
ceived the unprecedented number of 3,800 signatures,
which far exceeds the names subscribed to any previous
petition from this town.— Cheltenham Chronicle.

COCKERMOUTH.—The inhabitants met on Satur-
day at the Court-house, and adopted resolutions and a
petition unanimously.
DUMFRIES—The Dumfries petition to the House of
Lords, in favour of Reform, was despatched on Thursday
Last to Lord Chancellor Brougham. In the course of four
days it was signed by 1,085 persons, being about 400 more
signatures than were affixed, even when " the steam was
up," to the petition on the same subject addressed to the
Commons. Is this a proof of luhewarinness, indyference,
disgust, re-action, and so forth? These things are con-
stantly dinned in our ears ; but none are so blind as those
that will not see.—Durnfries Courier.
EDINBURGH POLITICAL UNION.—A meeting
of the body took place on Monday night. A petition to
the House of Lords, imploring their Lordships to pass the
Reform Bill without delay, was adopted. The attendance
of strangers was very great.—Edinburgh Observer.
GLASGOW.—Monday a meeting of the Glasgow Re-
form Association was held, Hr. Stirling in the chair, when
an address to the King, praying him to ensure the passing
of the Reform Bill by a creation of nexs Peers, was agreed
to ; and also a petition to the House of Lords. Saturday
a meeting of the Incorporation of 'Weavers was held in
the Trades' Hall, to consider the propriety of addressing
his Majesty, and petitioning the House of Lords in favour
of the Reform Bill. The same day a meeting of upwards
of 150 of the rate-payers of the fourth ward was held in
the Andersonian University Hall ; John 'Watson, jun. Esq.
in the chair. An address to the King to create new Peers,
and a petition to the Lords to pass the Bill without altera-
' tion or delay, were unanimously agreed to after several
cellent speeches, and transmitted that evening, the former
to Earl Grey, and the latter to the Marquis of Lansdowne.
I Similar requisitions have been presented to the Commis-
sioners of the third and sixth wards, and others are propos-
ing to follow.—Glasgow Chronicle.
HEREFORD CITY.—A numerous and highly re-
spectably signed requisition having been presented to the
Mayor, he has convened a meeting of the freemen and in-
habitants for this day, to petition the Lords.

LANCASTER.—A meeting was held at Lancaster on
Saturday, the Mayor in the chair, at which a petition to
the House of Lords was agreed to in favour of the Re-
farm Bill.

MALINIESBURY.—A petition from Milmesbury, nu-
merously and respectably signed, has this week been sent
to Earl Radnor, praying the House of Lords to pass the
Reform Bill.

MONMOUTHSHIRE.—The High Sheriff has con-
vened his bailiwick for :Monday, at Usk.
NORTHAMPTON.—At nine on Monday night, the
number of signatures to the petition was upwards of 1,550.
PRESTON.—A requisition to the Mayor is in course
of signature in Preston, to call a meeting of the inhabi-
tants to agree upon an address to the House of Lords,
praying their Lordships to pass the Bill.
PAISLEY.—A requisition, most respectably signed,
was handed to Mr. W. Gilmour, the Provost, requesting
him to call " a meeting of magistrates, town council, bur-
gesses, and other inhabitants of this town, to consider of
the propriety of addressing the King to create as many
additional. Peers as will secure the passing of the Reform
Bill, and of petitioning the House of Lords to pass that
measure, which appears to us indispensably necessary for
the public tranquillity." To this he declined acceding,
and the requisitionists have convened the meeting on their
own responsibility.

SONIERSETSHIRE.—A requisition to the High She•
riff of Somerset, for a county meeting to petition the House
of Lords to pass the Rdorm Bill, has been very respectably
signed.— Taunton Courier.

ST. PAUL'S, COVENT-GARDEN.—The church-
wardens, upon requisition of many of the parishioners, have
appointed a meeting to be held in the Vestry-room, this
evening, for the purpose of petitioning the Lords to pass the
Reform Bill.

ST. PANGRAS.—We understand that a requi-
sition, signed by a respectable body of the house-
holders, was presented to the churchwardens, requesting
them to call a public meeting of the parishioners fur the
purpose of petitioning the Rouse of Lords in favour of
the Reform Bill, and that the churchwardens have signi-
fied in answer that they have no authority to call any
such meeting! The parishioners, therefore, have de-
termined to meet, upon their own authority, on Monday
next, when George Byng, Esq., M.P., has promised to
take the chair.

STOCKPORT.—The Mayor having, in compliance
with a most respectable and numerously signed requisi-
tion, appointed a meeting of the inhabitants at the Court-
house on Saturday ; a meeting was held on that day, and
a petition agreed upon. A similar petition was on S ttur-
day week unanimously agreed to by the incorporated trades
of the same town.

ST. MARY-LE- STRAND.—A Reform meeting of
this parish is to take place in the Vestry-room, Charles-
street, Covent- gard this evening, at six o'clock.
ST. IVES.—On Monday evening last, pursuant to
public notice, a numerous and respectable meeting was
held in the large room at the Crown Inn, in order to pe-
tition the Lords to pass the Reform Bill. The Chair WaS
t iken by Mr. J. B. Ulph, who briefly sta.ed the object of the
meeting; which was afterward addressed in splendid an
forcible speeches by the Rev. J. K. Holland, G. G. Day,
E-q., and Mr. J. Leigh ; and the various motions were pi
posed and seconded by Messrs. A. Ashton, T. Ulph, T. Hut-
chinson, F. Biggs, &c. The petition for Reform and the
several motions were carried unanimously save and except
two poor Tories, who of course held up their hands against
the measure. The meeting was more numerous and re-
spectable than any former meeting on the subject, and the
interest and excitement of the people, instead of diminish-
ing, was materially increased. Alter the business of the
meeting had terminated, the majority of the company re-
mained to spend the evening convivially, when several toasts
were proposed, and speeches delivered. Those that were
particularly marked and most enthusiastically received
were, " The linz, God bless him"..." The Queen"...

PARIS, SEPT. 6.—The King, leaving the Valais
Royal, yesterday went to Charenton. His Majesty
crossed the bridge to proceed to that of Ivry, where
he stopped half an hour. He returned to Charenton
and Vincennes, where he mounted his horse, ac-
companied by the Dukes of Orleans and. NemouN,
the Minister of War, General Pajol, and a numerous
staff, to go to Menilmontant, Belleville, La -Villette,
La Chapelle, Clichy, 1.3 Garre de Saint Otten.
The King returned to the Palais Royal at half-past
six o'clock.

(From the Journal du Commerce of Tuesday.)
PARIS, SEPT. 26.—1 t is supposed that the ex-
cursions which the King has made lately to Vincennes
and the environs, were for the purpose of causing
the works for fortifying Paris to be prosecuted with
more activity. Among other works to be terminated
immediately, a tete de pont at St. Maur is spoken of.
General Lamarque brought up on Saturday a pe-
tition from several French merchants of Port-au-
Prince, whose interests have severely suffered by the
inconceivable conduct of M. Mollien, the Consul.
Unhappily, this petition has before it 4,000 other
petitions, so that it is probable it will not be exa-
mined during the present session.
Our readers will recollect that on the refusal of
the Government of Hayti to ratify the treaty signed
at Paris in April last, M. Mollien declared to that
Government that the amicable relations between
France and Hayti ceased in consequence ; and that,
having called the French together, he advised them
to leave the country as soon as possible, and de-
parted himself on board the Juno frigate. Some
merchants doubted the Consul's authority to assume
so hostile an attitude, and protested ; and their pro-
tests have long since been received by the Minister
for Foreign Affairs. Others sold their goods with
great loss, or sent them to St. Thomas's, articles fit
only for the Haytian market, and on which the im-
port duties had been paid. Thus they lost not only
the expected profits, but probably the whole capital.
It is reported that M. Sebastiani has strongly ex-
pressed his disapprobation of Mollien's conduct;
but as he delays giving any official explanation, the
French merchants who have suffered intend, it is
said, in brir;• ectinng for fle,•nr.ascs apinat M. Mol-
lien, who will have to show whether he has acted
according to his instructions; and it will be seen
who is to bear the losses caused by a conduct which
the Minister is very tardy in disavowing.
We have to-day letters from Algiers of the 10th
of September. The Bedouins had ceased for above
a month past to harass the outposts, and the Arabs
came in great numbers with provisions to the city.
One of these letters speaks of an order of the day
of General Berthezene, announcing to the troops
their return to France in January. We suppose
this relates to a purr of the army of occupation.
The Victoire frigate from Toulon had just arrived
at Bona, where it brought a supply of provisions.
The inhabitants and the garrison defended the place
against the Bedouins, who sought to get possession
of it for the Bey of Constantia. Reinforcements have
been sent both to Bona and Oran, to secure them
against any attack.
(From the Messager des Chambres.)
The news relative to the destruction of the Greek
fleet by fire has been received with scarcely any notice
in the midst of the lively interest which the late Par-
liamentary discussions have excited. The affair,
however, is of a very serious nature, as it compro-
mises the exterior safety of Greefle, by depriving it
of its maritime defence, exposes the commerce of
Europe to the horrors of piracy, leaving the Central
Government without any means of acting with re-
gard to the Isles, and deprives the State of its prin-
cipal military and political strength.
It was a personal feeling of enmity towards the
President Caro d'lstria which caused Admiral
Miaulis to burn the fleet. No part of history can
offer an instance of party spirit carried to so cri-
minal an extent. One can regard civil war, in spite
of all its evils, or a plot to give pre:ye:epee to an
opinion by violence, with less detests icti than an
act which destroys the finest resource of a State : by
the destruction of a whole fleet an irrn less
is sustained. No excuse can be made for ,tich
offence, which effaces all'previous services, however
great, the individual may have rendered the country.
It is but just to hold up to the view of all nations
men who give themselves over to so fatal a blind-
ness from mere private feelings.
The Greek fleet was destroyed at Poros at the
very
moment time Hydriots, a seditious and rebel-
lions people,declared themselves openly against the
eslEgy
President-. They at the same moment sent emis-
saries to the fleet in order to induce them also to
revolt. The Russian Admiral Ricord, as well as
the Captains of time two English and French frigates
which were in the same roads, did all that prudence
could prompt in demanding that the fleet should be
Fent back to the officers of the marine of the three
Powers. In this way neither the insurgents or time
President would have been able to dispose of it,
and it was to be restored to the Grecian state after
troubles were appeased. Such a proposition was
perfectly admissible.
Bet Admiral M'amdis, against the wishes of the
Greek Gentr:d Ma‘rocordato, who was with him at
Poros, decided to set fire to the whole fleet, under the
false pretext that the Russian Commander was de-
sirousof
wnGovernment.
gaining possession of it for the bentfit of
The 28 ships of war which composed the Greek
fleet ate no longer in existence. Out of 2,000,000/.
granted to time new state of Europe for that impor-
tant meansW7lta Europe inflicted at Nayarit' on the
oft
i,uao
defence, not the value of a sous re
mirn -
ptian fleet, Miaulis has just accomplished
On that of his own country.
At this moment when Turkey and Egypt are
commencing the reparation of their great national
disaster, Greece has been made to suffer the same by
the caprice of a single man. As a finishing stroke to
his extravagance and folly, he and his men have razed
the fortifications which an European colonel had
built upon the port.
It is difficult now to give credit to the charges
raised against the President, and still less to the el-

triotism of the Greek Chiefs, after so monstrous a
piece of treason.
The Gazette de Lausanne contains the follow.
ing The number of troops which took posses-
sion of the castle of Neufchatel was at first only
2.50 men. It would have been easy to have re-
pulsed them on the first onset; but the assurance of
their chief, and the determined countenance of this
small body of men, caused it to be believed
that they were only the vanguard of a more
numerous corps. In the afternoon they were
reinforced by the arrival of several detachments,
so that their number amounted in the evening
to 700 men. This small corps has taken military
possession of the castle. The authorities are
obliged to supply it with provisions. In the mean-
while the inhabitants of Val-de-Ruz did not remain
inactive, but followed a movement which had been
preparing these in a different view. A body of
about 500 men had collected at Valangen, in order
to support the authority of the King of Prussia.
It was their intention to attack the peasantry and
restore the former state of things. The troops sta-
tioned in the castle having been informed of
this project, made every preparation for defend-
ing excellent position. About twenty pieces
of cannon were placed upon the terrace, and directed
against the avenues of the castle, and the st--.:ets
which lead from the mountains to Neufchatel.
In-
trenched thus behind a fortntdable artillery, the
citizen soldiers of the castle swore they would main-
tain their position till death. The two parties are
still in each other's presence, whilst the federal
Commissaries are engaged in settling affairs by me-
diation. The entrance of the federal troops into
the canton of Basle has been accelerated by passing
events. They now occupy Dieplingen, Sissach,
lung-en, Lausen, Frankendorf, and Fulinsdorf. At
Liestal there are two companies and a half of in-
fantry, a company of carbineers, and one of artil-
lerymen. The inhabitants of the country of Basle
persist in their demand, and trust that the Diet will
grant them the justice which is their due."