The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-26 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE REFORMERS

AT SOUTHMOLTON.

In consequence of the canvass made by the Tories under
the colours of Sir Thomas Acland, a meeting of the Re-
formers, friends of the present Members, took place at
Southmolton, on Wednesday last. The numerous arrivals
from all directions into the town, showed very clearly the
spirit which animates the Freeholders of the Northern
Division of the County of Devon.
After several excellent speeches, it was resolved that
every honourable exertion should be made to ensure the
continuance of a free Representation of the Northern Di-
vision of Devon, in Parliament.
Lord EBRINGTON and the Hon. New Tole FELLOWES
soon after entered the room, and they were received with
shouts of applause that made the building itself shake. As
soon as this had subsided, \Mr. Hamlyn read to the repre-
sentatives the resolutions which had been passed unani-
mausly.
The two Hon. Members then addressed the meeting at
considerable length. After which, they were invited by
the Chairman to dine at the George, whither they ad-
journed. There Lord Ebrington and the Hon. Newton
Fellowes again addressed the meeting.
Lord Viscount EnniNcroet, after alluding to the con
duct of Ministers, and the efficient services they have ren-
dered Reform, by reducing the duties on Newspapers, the
Noble Lord proceeded to observe upon the question of Re-
form of the Lords. [lt is stated by the Devonshire Chro-
nicle, to which Journal we are indebted for a report of the
proceedings—that the moment the words escaped his lips,
the building resounded with the most animated sounds of
applause.) The Noble Lord in his views upon this impor-
tant point, said, he didinot agree with that -class of politi-
cians who said that no reform must ever be made in the
Constitution of the Upper House ; because when he con-
sulted history he found sixteen electiVe Peers for Scotland,
and twenty-eight Peers, elected for life, for Ireland, and
he there found a principle laid down which had been
already acted upon.—(Hear, and cheers.) But it is
impossible, in the present temper of the House of Lords
that any such change can be effected, without a
dangerous stretch of power. He (Lord Ebrington) had
seen no plan by which this Reform could be accomplished.
He did not believe that the House of Lords as a body had
set itself up wantonly against the wishes of the country ; he
believed many of them were sincere in their opposition ;
they said to the present Government, " you have only a
small majority in the Commons, we have an overwhelming
majority in the other House, and in the elections that have
taken place, you have added nothing to your majority." It
was not then a matter of much surprise that they per-
suaded themselves, that they had a good number of the
people with them, and to show them that they are wrong.
Is had been asserted by the Tories that the Lords never
would give way upon the Irish Church ; he did not, how-
ever, place much confidence in the statements from that
party. He had seen Bishops as learned and as tempe-
rate as the Bishop of Exeter, alter a course to which
they had long and strongly adhered.—(Laughter.) They
had seen Lord Lyndhurst in 1829 answer the speech
of Sir John Copley in 1828.—(Laughter and cheer-
ing.) Nor had they forgotten when in three short
months the Duke of Wellington declared the then exist-
ing system the best which human ingenuity could devise,
and then offered to take office to reform it! He bad no
doubt the Lords bad made up their minds to reconsider
the Irish Municipal Reform Bill, which they will pass as
they did that of England, after having examined evidence
upon the question, which went to prove that that these
old Corporations were the very best institutions of the
country !—(Loud laughtet.) And he had no doubt the
Bishop of Exeter, who mixes a good deal of politics with
his religion, will also become a convert ; and
.the same
results would arise upon the Irish Church Bill, if they
thought the people of England had made up their minds'
upon the matter,—only let them be satisfied that the
public opinion is against them, and they would feel it
their duty to how ; and he (Lord E.) believed that if
any decided expression of public opinion were made, all
the difficulty would be nearly got over.—(Cheers.) Be-
fore then they advocated any arbitrary measures,
measures tantamount to a revolution, let them try the
effects of the legitimate and constitutional means they now
possess, and if that were done firmly and successfully, he
(Lord E.) had no doubt as to the result. Nothing more
was necessary than for the people to do their duty, and re-
turn such Members to Parliament as will support the prin-
ciples of Reform. The Tories flatter themselves that the
people of England will not sympathise with Ireland ; he
(Lord E.) could not believe that the people of England
were so selfish as to wish to deny to Ireland that which
they have found of so much advaiitage to themselves.
Mr. NEWTON FELLowes said—l had
.an fopinion before
the Reform Bill was passed, that the Reform Bill could not
work its way without a Reform of the Lords.—.(The accla-
mations with which these words were received, observes the
Devonshire Chronicle. it is impossible to describe ; they
prove hove, well Lord Lyndhurst has suceeeded in ex-
citing in the minds of the pueple of this country the
feeling expressed by Mr. Fellowes, and we give them this
solemn warning, that if they persevere in the same
wild course, their titles will ho held atrasEiuereye
a shortn pre
imieases:
If (continued Mr, F.) you desire pp
impres-
sion, you must signify your opinions by a ,county meeting.
Mier .some further observations to the
effect that expres-
sion through county meetings should be given to the desire
of the country for liberal measures, and that such a pres-
sure from without should hp created as would encourage
and strengthen the Government, the Hon. Member re-
sumed his seat. Some other gentiPmfm 44dressed
the meeting, and at nine o'clock they ail retired much par
tiii ed by the interesting and important proceedings of the day.

503. W - -r'Tg# MciNuMNT.—We learn
that 68 TAO'?? 9.f ;the 4.9)7,4 !ni.:;t4tntipq tr,,t present
--led whit the vexiclus designs 'arid Modeis
crow—ent hi from b... '1 ;'carters for the proposed national
been
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memorial to our illustrious coatitrynittn., re trust, there-
fore, that now, when most of the members or the committee
are in town, no unnecessary delay will take place in com-
ing to a final decision on the subject,—.Edinburgh Paper.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 24. —Letters received from Spain, by a
person who is very well informed, confirms the news which
had already been given, that the Infant Francis de Paula,
with part of his family, will come to pass a part of the
winter at Paris.

An extraordinary courier has brought the intelligence
that Queen Christina had been confirmed by the Cortes in
their sitting out the 19th, in her functions as Queen Re-
gent, Reyna Gobernadora. The resolution was passed by a
majority of 110 to 11. The Cortes, as we know, are com-
posed of t2SG Members, but there are not above 130 now
present at Madrid, and all these, as it seems, were not at
the sitting. . _

Our Correspondent at Bayonne writes to us on the 20th
November :

" Notwithstanding the horrible weather, the Carlists
opened their fire on the 17th against Bilboa la Viega, of
which they made themselves masters on the 18th. The
municipality and part of the garrison were disposed to sur-
render ; but the National Guards opposed this, for they fear
that they may be made to suffer on account of the murder
of the flag of truce.
" Espartero has not ventured to come to Portugalete.
This movement would have obliged him to come to an
action, and lie has probably feared to risk every thing on
one day.
" Gen. Lebcau seems to have had enough of the Spanish
service. He retired into the French territory yesterday.
" Probably before this reaches you, the telegraph will
have informed you of the fate of Bilboa."
Our correspondent, it appears, imagines that the tele-
graph anticipates the mails—but for some time past it has
been just the contrary.
The Court of Dresden has gone into mourning for the
late King Charles X.—Journal du Commerce, Nov. 24.
The authorities continue to increase their vigilance on
the frontiers of Spain. The Custom-house officers have
seized during the first half of this month large quantities of
saltpetre, gunpowder, brimstone, gun-flints, &c., which were
intended for the Carlist insurgents.—La Paix, Nov. 24.
(From the French papers of Thursday.)
On Tuesday evening the Saxon, Swedish, and Baden
Ministers, the President of the Chamber of Peers, the Duke
de Choiseul, and the Baron de Schonen, had the honour
of being received by the King. Yesterday His Majesty
granted an audience to the Prefect of Police, and trans-
acted business with the Minister of the Finances.

All the members of the Austrian Embassy have put on
mourning for Charles X., and on Tuesday, at the Court,
and at the party of the President of the Council, the Count
d'Apony, his Councillors and Secretaries, appeared in full
suits of black. Mourning is not worn by any other Legation.
Generel Bernelle, who recently commanded the French
Legion in Spain, lately sailed from Toulon for Bona, on
board the steamer Sphinx, in order to offer his services
to Marshal Clause] in his expedition against Constantine.—
Journal des Debats.

TOULON, Nov. 18.—The steamer Styx has arrived to-
day from Algiers, which she left on the 12th. General
Damremont was among the passengers she brought, so that
the Report of his having gone to take the command of the
military division of Oran must have been unfounded. The
Austrian frigate Guerriera, which sailed from Trieste on
the 18th ult., has put into our roads. She has on board
82 Poles expelled from Cracow, who have not come ashore.
They are to be transferred into a French vessel, and
conveyed by the latter to their destination.—Journal des
Debats.

There prevailed on Tuesday a rumour of the death of
the King of Naples. That prince has suffered from in-
disposition which assumed the character of cholera ; but
the report has not been confirmed. It is, however, known
that the cholera increases in intensity, and on the two
nights preceding the departure of the courier upwards of
400 died. Public tranquillity was restored.—four rier
Francais.

The San Spiridione, a three-masted vessel, just arrived
from Alexandria, in 21 days, states that at the time she
took her departure an Egyptian ship of the line and a fri-
gate set sail for Syria, with a number of troops, under the
command of a Brigadier-General. She left in port two
English and one French ships of war. A messenger from
the East India Company had arrived, by Suez, from Bom-
bay, in a steam-boat, and also a Christian factor in the
service of the Pacha, who states that there are several
steamers in the Red Sea. The San Spiridione, on passing
outside the bay of Malta, learned that the Prince de Join-
ville was there, and an American sloop on the point of sail-
ing for the Levant.—Conrrier Francais.
A. band of brigands at this moment infests the environs
of the forest of Bakonger, in Hungary, and keeps the coun-
try in continual alarm. They are said by some to amount
to thirty, and by others to much more. They are com-
manded by a young man, under thirty years of age. Ac-
cording to the pictures given of his person, countenance,
bravery, and generosity, be must be a second Rinaldo
Rinaldini.

The Messenger gives letters of the 17th from Munich,
stating that •' the cholera was frightfully on the increase in
that capital, and that the victims to the epidemy were prin-
cipally among the higher classes of society. King Otho
had quitfed Nlunieb for the Duchy of Oldenburgh ; and
the whole of his aides-de-canap and suite had died on the
road'. The Prince was consequently compelled io suspend
his journey, and to wait for other attendants. At Munich,
the valetde-chambre of King Louis expired in the interior
of the Palace. The greatest consternation prevails in the
capital, which has now, for the first time, been visited with
the cholera ; business is completely at a stand—private par-
ties have entirely ceased—and it is said that coachmen
have been found dead in the streets at the doors of the
houses where they were waiting for their masters. To such
an extent does the panic prevail, that all who are at liberty,
and who have the means of quitting the city, are retreating
to the country ; but this precaution is often useless, as the
fugitives carry with them the germ of the malady, and de-
prive themselves of the assistance which they might have
received in the capital."
FRENCH FUNDS.—PAnts, Nov. 24

Five per Cents., 105 f. 95c. IQtif. 105 f. 95c.
Four per Cents., 9Sf. sc.
three per ('cuts. 79f. 10c. Isc. 30c 352.
Bank Actions, 2,29. if.
Bente de Naples, 981 4Cc. 30c. 23
Roman Five per Cents., 99%34.
Spanish Actives, 19 19VAA.
Spanish Ditleres, 7%.
Spanish Passives, 5%.
Portuguese Three per Cents. 31%.
Excusivort ON LONHON.
One month, paper, 25C 30c.; money, 251. 30c.
Three months, paper, —f. --c.; money, 251. 7%C.
...Coors Authentipue.

BOURSE, QUARTER TO FOUR.—The stocks continued to
rise. The French Three per Cents. opened at 79f. 20c., and
were done at 79f. 35c. for the end of this month, and 79f. 65c.
for the next. In the Coulisse they have been since sometimes
less than on the Parquet. They were only 79f. 2.7ic. for the
end of November, and 791'. 55c. for the end of December.

The Spanish Active Stock remained without any move-
ment at 19.

LAST PRICES.—Five per Cents., 1061. 15c. ; Three
per Cents., 791. 30c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three
per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb-
hards, ; Differes, 7- ; New Loan, —; Actives, 191 Pas-
sives, 5 ; Ducats, 98 45 ; Romans, ; Pedros, ;
Belgian;, —; Dutch, —f. ; Haytians, —f. —c. ;
16 ; Brabant Bank, —; Belgan Bank, 274- ; Con-
tinuation, —e. ; New Differes, 7f; Five per Cent. Perpe-
tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —; Three per Cent. Portguese, 314.