The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-04 00:00:00

in reality offered up their borough patronage en the altar
of their country more than thirty years ago. During that
long period, the Dukes of Norfolk and Devonshire, and.
Lords Grosvenor, Cleveland, Fitzwilliam, and Radnor,
they, or their imar diate ancestors, had continually and
incessantly advocated the cause of Reform, and con-
stantly tendered the voluntary surrender of their boroughs.
They were nut idiots enough to give their boroughs up
into the hands of the enemy, for that would have been
merely, to enable the enemy to sow tares where the
wheat had ripened for the support of the national liberty.
But in always offering up their boroughs for the benefit of
their country, and in finally surrendering them when called
upon, the illustrious Noblemen in question, had given the
most undeniable proof of the sincerity of their professions,
and of their readiness to fulfil them at the very first mo
ment that their country required it. Mr. Attwood con-
' eluded by again recommending the strict observance of
peace, order, and forbearance, towards all classes of his
Majesty's subjects.
The resolutions which were the immediate business of
the meeting having now been passed, and the chairman
having left the chair, it was moved and seconded, that
Joseph Scholefield, Esq. should succeed Mr. Attwood in
that effire. This was passed, and it was then moved
that "the thanks of the meeting are eminently due, and
are hereby given to the chairman, Thomas Attwood, Esq.
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for his able and impartial conduct in the chair." A man,
to use the words of Mr. Sal►, the mover, who had bought
Leld.•n opinions from all sorts of people. This resolution
was seconded by the Rev. M. M'Dnnnell, who, after
having bestowed an eulogium upon the character of Mr.

Attwood, and the great services he had done to the cause
of Reform, took occasion to mention the illness of Mr.
Edmonds, and to allude to the subscription which it was
intended to enter into, for the purpose of presenting to
that gentleman a trifling memorial of the public's appro-
bation of his spirited and just labours and conduct.
Mr. SCHOLEFIELD said that, alluding to the resolution
!nought forward as a vote of thanks to Mr. Attwood, he
would only observe that that gentleman hid not only
raised Birmingham to a high station, but that he had also
exalted England. lie wished to make it knows that the
Political Union of Birmingham had done much in the pro.
motion of the Bill_of Reform.

The vote of thanks was then passed to Mr. Attwood in
the most unanimous manner, and three cheers given
for him.

Mr. ATTWOOD Faid that he felt deeply the expression of
their approbation. He would say that he had laboured
Lard in the cause, and he would not be so vain as to say
that he had entirely undeserved it. They had lavished
their favours upon him, and they reminded him of what
a clergyman at Warwick had lately said of him. That
gentleman had designated him (Mr. A.) as a man wish-
ing to stir up his country to anarchy and rebellion. He
had also gone so far as to attribute the late burnings in Kent
to his (Mr. A.'s) influence. He certainly did not relish the
idea of the but flings being placed to his account, but it
made him proud to hear that the excitation throughout the

country was owing to his endeavours. He had told the
meeting at which he was present at Warwick, that if he
had loused the British Lion he was indeed proud of it.
He could say that his heart and thoughts had been at work
for thirty years, to promote the happiness of the great
mass of the people. And such efforts were a cordial to
him. lie trusted that the King and his Ministers would
he able to accomplish the liberty of the people without
bloodshed. He would never let slip the opportunity to
say how peacefully it should be done. If it came to a
trial of physical force, it was impossible to say what might
befall the country. There could be no doubt that under
the new Parliament the right of 154 men, who had for.
merly made the Parliament, would give way to the greater
right of 100,000. Under the beneficence of a new House
of Representation, the wrongs of England, Scotland, and
Ireland would be turned away.
Mr. SALT then proposed a resolution, which though not
entering into the business of the day, was, he said, of ex-

treme importance to the nation, He then made some
remarks connected with his motion, on the present system
of the Bank of England, and in strong terms deprecated
the measures which that monopoly had adopted in playing
with the currency of the country, by forcing the supplies
of notes into the hands of the nation, and then drawing
them back again. He trusted that the meeting would ex-
press itself upon the subject. From Birmingham, said
the speaker, had gone forth a voice which had made the
dead alive, and he trusted that that voice would again go
forth with the force which had accompanied it in times not
long since past. The resolution was as follows :—" That the
Political Council be instructed by this Meeting to consider
the propriety of memorializing Earl Grey, requesting that he
will not, during the agitation of the great question of Reform,
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leave the vital interests of the country to the arbitary influ-
ence of the Bank of England." The motion was seconded
by Mr. Hipkiss ; but in consequence of its being out of
order, it was net put to the sense of the meeting. Mr.
Atttvood eventually came forward, and said that the mo-
tion proposed by Mr. Salt would be withdrawn from the
notice of the meeting, and recommended for discussion at
a future period, to the Council of the Political Union.
The proceedings of the day now terminated, and the
National Anthem was sung most enthusiastically by the
great assemblage, accompanied by the band of the Union.
Three times three cheers were then given for the King,
three cheers for her Majesty Queen Adelaide, and a groan,
long and loud, and mingled with many expressions of con-
tempt and hatred, resounded through the building for the
boroughmongers and their friends. The multitude then
quietly dispersed.—Birmingham Journal.