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London, England, 1831-01-13 00:00:00

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r./re-60 fifty, thousand inhabitants, are not allowed
to return 'atty Members to Parliament.
e".l4eti.e' mbers of the York city and county Reform •
A-74-Ot4iion therefore proocHe, and most earnestly
teconernend to their countrymen, to enter into a
general union for the recovery of their rights, and
for restoring their country to that peace and happi-
ness to which it is entitled ; for we are particularly
anxious to impress on the public, that restoration
and recovery of lost or perishing rights of the people,
is the great object of the- Association.
For this purpose, we propose to enroll the names
of every adult male who feels ant interest in the good
of his country. Union is a vast source of power,
and if the people of England will, at the present
crisis, show themselves united in the good cause,
there can be no doubt whatever that we shall ob-
tain the object of our wishes. When those who are
interested in retaining the present abuses resceive
that we arc determined to gain our purpose, which
determination we can best exhibit by a general
union, they will then be compelled to relinquish
that unjust and illegal power which has reduced the
kingdom to its present prostrate condition.
The plan which seems to us most efficient for
protecting the lower classes of society in the free t
exercise of their elective franchise, is, the adoring
of the vote by ballot at all elections. This is our
sheet-anchor, without which all plans of Reform
will be little better than imposture, meant to deceive
the people, who, we are convinced, cannot longer
be deceived with impunity. We, therefore) place
the vote by ballot in the foremost of the list of
popular safeguards, considering is. indeed of much
more importance than any other plan of Reforin than
has ever been suggested; and we wish it to be
clearly understood, that we do not desire to see any
person a member of the York and county Reform
Association, who is adverse to the Vote by ballot.
The extension of the elective franchise to the
owners of property, whether freehold, copyhold, or
leasehold, if not all rate-payers above ten pounds
per annum, is, In our views, a just and necessary
part of a fair scheme of Reform ; for it is quite evi-
dent, that to allow a 'Ws. freeholder to rote, and to
deny the same privilege to copyholders or lease-
holders of a much larger amount, is a system both
irrational and unjust, and is grounded on the uncouth
and obsolete arrangement of feudal customs. We
consider, also, that the duration of Parliaments for
a less period than seven years, would be desirable for
producing an efficient Reform, such as the interests
of the people require.
'These, and all other measures conducive to the
public good, it will be our duty constantly to urge
by every means in our power. Those means will be
considerable, when the Association has increased its
members, and every one may perceive the power of
such an Association, when it has once been fully or-
ganized and heartily joined by the people.
We propose, also, to arrange some plan for dis-
continuing bribery, threats, and undue influence
at elections ; and, so far as is practicable to amend-
ment in such as the case may seem to require, all
these means of undue influence with the popular
privilege.
Our members are elected by ballot : the Com-
mittee or Council, as well as the officers, are chosen
by ballot. We court the assistance and advice of
every honest man, however low arid poor his condi-
tion of life. We act for the people, and by the
people. Justice is our object, and the good of the
community our guide. We have no secrets, and
are most careful to act according to the laws of the
land ; but having once raised the standard of Re-
form, we are determined not to desert it till we have
gained our cause, or till it appears utterly hopeless.
GEORGE STRICKLAND, Esq., was now called upon
by the Chairman, and addressed the meeting at con-
siderable length. He remarked that any attempt to
reform the aristocracy of the land, or the church
either, would be found an arduous task—particularly
the latter; for he himself had been that day labour-
tug incessantly, though he feared in vain, to screen
the clergy from that disgrace which they yet seemed
to be determinedto bring upon themselves.—(Cheers
and laughter.) He then dwelt upon the necesssity
of an immediate Reform in Parliament, and on the
great superiority of election by ballot, over every
other mode of election.
The LORD MAYOR now entered the room, and
was loudly cheered.
Mr. R. M. BEVERLEY, in introducing Mr. Wood,
the Member for Preston, wished to notice him as
the coadjutor of Mr. Hunt, who had lately been
elected for Preston. Mr. B. was glad of Mr. Hunt's
election, and would certainly have given him a vote
if he had had one, as a testimony of gratitude to
one who is a person of great talents, and who has
suffered much, and most unjustly for the cause of
the people.
JOIIN WOOD, Esq. (M.P. for Preston, and one of
the City Council of York), then addressed the
meeting in a long and very excellent speech, in which
he ackaowledged himself, in the strictest sense of
the word, a Radical Reformer.—( Cheers.) He was
not only a Radical, but considered himself as the re-
presentative of Radicals; and as fur the vote by
ballot he was one of its most decided advocates.—
( Mr. Wood sat down amidst thunders of applause.)
The Hon. EDWARD PETRE was then called upon
and was received with tremendous cheers. He re-
juiced that the cause of Reform was increasing its
friends on every side ; and he could not but contrast
the favourable views now entertained towards it, to
the infamy with which it was formerly branded,
when its friends were termed revolutionists, and
were scouted as enemies to their country.—( Cheers.)
lie approved of the vote by ballot.—(Loud and
continued cheers.)
Mr. WM. HARGROVE being next called forward,
briefly addressed the meeting. It had been remarked
that the ballot in America had not fully answered
the expectations of its advocates. In reply to that,
he should state that the ballot there gives them a
Government that costs less than 400,0001. per an-
num, whilst the management of our Customs and
Excise alone costs 2,601,6341.—(Applause.) This
plain matter of fact was worth a thousand vain as-
sertions, grounded on the fears or the ignorance of
the opponents of the ballot.—(Cheers.) He then
pointed at the Tithe System, as one pregnant with
ten thousand evils against both the clergy and the
people.—(Cheers.)
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was then
moved by Mr. STRICKLAND, seconded by the LORD
MAYOR, and carried unanimously.
On the meeting being dissolved, a great number
of freemen of the city, and freeholders of the county,
were balloted in as members of the Association, and
many other names have since been sent to the secre-
tary for admission.

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Madame VESTRIS is not the only instance in
modern times of a lady being lessee and manager of a
theatre. The late Mrs. BAKZA, mother-in-law of Dow-
TON, the actor, was, for many; years, not only lessee and
manager of the Tunbridge-Wells, Maidstone, Rochester,
and Canterbury theatres, but this indefatigable female
likewise received in person the admission money to the
boxes, pit, and gallery, every night the theatres were open.
—Kentish Gazette.

MISS INVERARITY.---In the Tacky of yes-
terday, Mr. LEI,III HUNT says, "This fair singer's patro-
nymic has indeed raised a marvellous degree of astonish-
ment. The inhabitants of this busy metropolis seem to
think that she has found out the longitude in appellation,
and complain they have not time to pronounce it. Some
wonder where it could have come from ; and others have
recommended that it should' be cut short. The name, in-
deed, might be cut into ' little stars. This is Rarity, or
Verarity, or Verari. Verari would have a pretty Italian
sound. The lady, however, does well to keep her name
as it is. She has given pleasure to those who hear it.
She is not not the person to give np an old acquaintance,
or her tones belie her ; and besides, the name is a very
good name, and we suppose there are bonnie Scots who
are proud of it on other accounts ; Inverarity ish thave
e
flange of a place near Dundee; so that there must
been Inverarities of that ilk.' Fin illy, its length is a
notion: people must utter many syllables when they say
any thing at all ; and they might as well utter these as any
others,"