The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-27 00:00:00

COUNTY OF YORK.

Yesterday a pretty numerous and highly respect-
able meeting was'held at.the Freemasons' Tavern,
for the purpose of adopting measures to obtain the
return of Members for the county opposed to the
Reform Bill.

Sir JOHN LowTHER, having been called to the
Chair, said, that in consequence of the meeting of
some of the Yorkshire freeholders at the Thatched
House Tavern, on Saturday, in favour of Members
who supported the Bill, it was incumbent on those
now assembled to take prompt measures to counter-
act such influence.

Resolutions, embodying this speech, and appoint..
ing a Committee to take measures to procure the
return of Members opposed to the Reform Bill,
were then moved, and Mr. M. Morritr, the Hon.
Mr. Lascelles, Mr. Hall, and the Hon. Mr. Dun-
combe (a candidate), addressed the meeting. They
were of opinion that the Reform Bill, which would
almost solely be considered by the next Parliament,
was calculated to alter the Constitution, and do
mischief to the country. Besides, the measures
adopted at the Thatched House Tavern would, un-
less opposed, do away with the independence of
Yorkshire. They were not enemies to Refi•rm, but
they thought that a measure not so extensive might
he passed. That could be amended, but the present
Bill, from its sweeping nature, never could, nor re-
paired if it did cause mischief. The resolutions were
then passed, and it was agreed that all present
.hould (h.., Thanks having bco. voted to
the Chairman, the meeting separated.

The following is said to be an authentic ac-
count of the number ofprisoners, pieces of artillery, ammuni-
tion, money, &c. which have been captured by the Polish
troops between the Slat of March and the sth of April,
the whole of which have arrived at Warsaw :
" 12,300 Privates, 120 Officers, 8 Colonels, 3 Generals,
General Apothecary, 3 Field Apothecaries, 1 Bishop,
2 Priests, and a Church establishment.
" MONEY-88,000 rubles, 20,000 ducats.

" CANNON-21 pieces, with harness. &c.
" SUNDRIES-100,000 shirts, 7 standards, 60 bag-
gage waggons, 50 powder ditto, 11 Officers' equipages."
On the sth of April the Poles also succeeded in defeat-
ing the Russians ; en which occasion the numbers were
as follow :

" 10,000 killed, 4,000 prisoners, and 16 pieces of
artillery."
This last engagement was with Generals Geismar and
Rosen's detachments, which are supposed to consist of
about 80,000 men. General Rosen was am?ngst the
prisoners.—Morning Herald.
Mr. WILLIAM YATES PEEL, the new can-
didate for the University of Cambridge, has thought
proper, naturally enough, to apologize for his presump-
tion in coming forward to represent that Learned Body.
After all, however, Mr. P. himself is not so much to
blame as they who have the audacity to nominate him.
But we presume that the Tory portion of the University,
as GARROW said of Corporations, " never blush." Is it
to be believed that the person now put forward to repre-
sent one of the leading Universities of this country, can
have given utterance to the following trash?. Yet he is
reported, in the Mirror of Parliament, part 79, page
710, to have spoken as follows :—" This may be my
dying speech ; but though Ido not contend that my
nerves are stronger than any other gentleman's, I cannot
declare with the Honourable Member for Mielhurst, that
when I heard this monstrous proposition made, it took
away my breath ;' and I will tell the Noble Lord opposite
why it did not have th.it effect upon me : it was Sir, be-
cause I was satisfied that the dose would not go down ; I
felt that the purge would not pass. Sir, the practice of
the Noble Lord certainly differs from that of physicians in
general ; some of whom profess to cure, while others adopt
the principle of kill or cure. The Noble Lord, however.
combined both systems, and acts upon the more general
principle of kill and cure ! The Noble Lord's mode of
proceeding reminds me of the manner in which nurses per..
suade children to take physic, by telling them that it will
do them a great deal of good ; and that if they swallow it
like goad children, it shall be the last dose; provided, too,
they do not spit any of it out. So the Noble Lord pro-
ceeds, for he tells us it will do us much good, and so
forth ; but he forgets one very important thing—be omits
the accompanying bribe, the bit of sugar ; nor does he
promise, like the nurse, that if we swallow this doss
it shall be the last. And why may we not have other
practitioners come forward at a future time to admi-
nister physic to us? Why may we not have Doctor
Hume and Doctor Warburton coming forward 9 Indeed
I believe that the Hon. Member for Bridport has already
given notice of motion for introducing the vote by ballot
at elections ; that, I suppose, will be followed by some
practitioner proposing his mixture of annual Parliaments
and universal suffrage. Ido not know whether the Hon.
Member for Preston is in his place, but without meaniug
any disrespect to him, and trusting his good nature will
pardon my allusion to him, I am quite satisfied, that if the
Bill is carried, that Hon. Gentleman would nut allow the
Parliament to sit three months without saying, ' You
have not got half far enough yet—try Hunt's matchless !!'
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