The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-07 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 3.—The Senate in its sittings on the 2tl and
3d discussed the project of law relative to the treaty of peace.
The Committee to which it was referred states in its report,.that
it considers the treaty as a necessity to which Belgium must sub-
mit, till at a future time more fortunate circumstances may en-
able it to recover the losses which it is now obliged to bear. it
thinks that a refusal might bring on all the horrors of war,
and perhaps 'the restoration in case of a defeat. It believes
also, that the debate will indicate to the Mihisters what reser-
vations they may make in the accentance of the treaty, especially
that of the recognition of King Leopold as King of the Belgians.
It concludes its report by expressing its deep regret at seeing
Belgium separated from the inhabitants of Limburg and Luxem-
burgh whom the treaty subjects again to the dominion of the
Dutch. It proposes the adoption of the project.
In the course of two days' debate, most of the members who
expressed their intention of voting for the project, declared that
they did so because they considered submission to the decision of
the Conference as the only safe course, though they greatly re-
gretted the rigour of many of the conditions, especially the se-
paration of part of Limburg and Luxemburg.
M. Beyts spoke on both the days against the 21 articles, lie
was particularly dissatisfied with the omission of all mention
of King Leopold. The articles speak only of the Belgic Govern-
ment, and affect to repeat the denomination of a King of the
Netherlands. If the King of the Netherlauds,7 said he, "still
exists, there is no King of the Belgians."
M. Van de Weyer spoke more than once at great length in
answer to different objections of M. Beyts, and in favour of the
acceptance of the 24 articles, which he did not pretend to de-
fend, as he refused to sign them at London. With respect to
the omission of the direct recognition of King Leopold, lie
maintained that the Conference, by having received the King's
Plenipotentiary, had indirectly at least, if not directly, recog-
nized his Majesty as King of the Belgians. With respect to the ;
title of King of the Netherlands, it is usual with Kings to retain
their titles as long a= possille, as the King of England, for in_'
strait*, bare for mime cent Yes the title of King of France
After the close of the debate on the general question, M. As-
sembourg proposed an additional article, containing a project
against the violence employed by the Conference towards Bel-
gium, and against the violation olthe IS articles; and declaring,
that in assenting to the treaty they submit to necessity, and to a
force which they cannot resist.
This amendment was rejected.
M. Robiano then made a motion that • the senators should
agree, that as soon as a sufficient number of Members had voted
to decide the question in the affirmative, all the rest should
vote in the negative, to mark their disapprobation of the 21
articles,

This motion was also rejected.
The project of law being put to the vote, it was adopted by a
majority of 35 to 8. Two members refrained from voting.
Nov. 4.—The die is cast. It is all over with Belgium ! There
is an end of its independence! Thewerk of cowardice and base-
ness is consummated. Alas! the last gleam of hope which en-
couraged us is extinguished, &c.—Le Beige.
The Moniteur contains an appeal to the conductors of the op.
position papers respecting the unreasonableness and the danger
of the plan, which they have lately adopted, of ascribing the state
in which the country is unfortunately placed .‘ to the incapacity,
the ambition, or the culpable views of some individuals, whose
conduct, in the difficult position in which they have found them-
selves, will be impartially and duly appreciated by the country.
Such a system, while it tends to prevent the union of which we
are more than ever in need, rejoices our enemies, both domestic
and foreign, in the hope of seeing the time come, when they may
say This people is not made to govern itself; let us place it
again under a guardian."

"The danger is greter now—more real than is believed'
Others besides us have observed the Press has lately taken a most
dangerous course. We conjure them who direct it to reflect on
what they are doing in the name of the interests of the
-- country,
—of the independence,of the liberty which their talents and
generous perseverance have so much contributed to conquer;
we conjure them to renounce the bitter and passionate tone
which they have adopted. We shall always be the first to court
a free and impartial discussion of the acts of the Government.
We shall never forget the past services of the Press, or the part
which it has still to act under the rule or the most liberal Consti-
tution in the world. The fourth poWer in the State, its mission
is great and noble;
Nov.t should fulfil it with wisdom and dignity."
Brutsels Paperi, N 5.

WARSAW, OCT. 25.—News was received here yesterday that
the fortress of Zamosc has submitted at discretion to the cle-
mency of his Majesty the Emperor and King. The garrison con-
sists of 4,200 men. _ _ _

It appears from a census lately taken, that the number of the
inhabitants of Warsaw is now 113,943, not including the num-
ber of persons who arrive daily. The population has therefore
been diminished in the course of the year by 25,000,—namely,
15,000 males and 10,000 females: Among Ihe present population
are 29,214 Jews ; in the third quarter of the city they ale most
numerous, and exceed the Christians. The number of females
now exceeds the males by 7,423.
The Imperial Guards, who have lately left the capital to go
into winter quarters have been reviewed by the Grand Duke
Michael and Prince Paskewitsch. They will be succeeded here
by twelve regiments of the 2d and 3d divisions of Grenadiers.
The Ist division will occupy the environs of Warsaw.
Count Henry Lubienski, Director of the Polish Bank, re-
turned on the 20th, and brought with him the funds of the
Bank untouched, which the revolutionary Government carried
away when it left Warsaw on the Bth. We are indebted chiefly
to his zeal for the safety of these funds, which would otherwise
have been dilapidated.

BERLIN.—(THE CHOLERA.)
New Cases. Recovered. Deaths.
Oct. f.2'7
28 23 r. 24
29
There now remain only 106.
. .

From the beginning of the disorder to the 29th of October, the
numbers were—cases, 1,864 ; deaths, 1,184 ; recoveries, 574.
Prussian State Gazette, Oct. 30.

VIENNA, OCT. 24.—Five per Cent. Metalliques., 82% ; Four
per Cent. 73y6 ; Bank Shares, I,o7s.—Algemeine Zeitung, Oct. 29

HEREFORD REFORM COUNTY MEETING.

On Saturday, in pursuance of a requisition signed by nearly all
the most influential inhabitants of the county, the High Sheriff;
John Arkwright, Esq., convened a meeting of the freeholders
and others at the Town-hall, Hereford, " to take into considera-
tion the propriety of voting an address to our Most Gracious ,Sns
vereign, expressing their warm and devoted attachment to lifs
person and Government, their entire reliance on the wisdom and
firmness of his Majesty's Ministers, and their conviction that the
passing into a law of the Bill which has recently received the
sanction of a large majority of the House-of Commons for Reform
in the representation of the people, is essential to the safety and
welfare of the country." In the event of any riot occurring, the
corporation had sworn in a sufficient numberof special constables,
and the staff of the militia was ordered to be in attendance. Se-
veral banners were displayed bearing the following inscriptions:
Reformers, union, perseverance, and peace will ensure
strength, victory, and happiness." " The Bishops, whose end is
destruction, whose God is their belly, who mind earthly things
—St. PauL" " Three terrible evils,—the Boroughmongers! The
rich and idle Clergy ! The cholera morbus !" " God save the
King," Sze. The meeting was advertised for twelve o'clock, but
long before that hour the doors of the Town-hall were surrounded
by a denser crowd than had been seen in Hereford for many years,
even at an election. At a few minutes after twelve the doors
were opened, and a tremendous rush took place; the freeholders,
to the amount of nearly 3,000, almost filling both the body of the
hall and the orchestra. The High Sheriff arrived shortly after-
wards, attended by the Earl of Oxford, Edward B. Clive, Esq.,
M.P., Sir R. Price Foxley, Bart. M.P., Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq.,
M.P, T. A. Knight, Esq., President ofthe Horticultural Society,
Sir G. Cornewall, Bart., Sir J. Waisham, Thomas Davis, Esq. of
Leominster, William Hanbury, Esq., Samuel Peplos, Esq., and
several other gentlemen of the first respectability in the county.
The UNDER-SHERIFF having, at the desire of the High
Sheriff, read the requisition,
The HIGH SHERIFF then stated that he called the meeting
in pursuance of that requisition. He hoped that the freeholders
would grant a fair hearing to every person who presented himself.
Sir G. CORNE WALL then addressed the meeting, and was
received with great cheering. He observed, that when he last
had the pleasure of meeting the freeholders, it was when they
had met to return representatives to the House of Commons
from that city. He had then taken the liberty of stating his ideas
respecting the chances of the Reform Bill passing, and as lie had
then calculated, it had unfortunately since happened. The House
of Lords had thrown out the measure which had gone to them
with so large a majority of the House of Commons, and on which
the hearts of the people were set.—.( Hear.) He had no hesitation
however in saying that the Bill was not lost, but merely post-
pon ed.—(Cheers.) He besought the meeting to have no confi-
dence in those Peers and Anti-Reformers who now professed to
give way on the subject of the nomination boroughs. He hoped
the freeholders would not trust them, but were determined to
have a downright and well-digested Reform.—;Loud cheers.)
He hoped that they would never allow any thing less to satisfy
them than the Bill of Reform that had been brought in by
Lord Grey.—(Cheers.) He therefore enjoined then-, not to
place any confidence in the Tories, who now came forward to
make concessions, after opposing the cause for years. They
had at present a Ministry composed of men of highs rank and
character. They had that Administration with them; and they
had a King—long life to him—(Great cheering)—who would
stand by the Administration as long as they stood by the people;
and he was happy to say, that there was no fear of their deserting
their principles.—(Great cheering.) They had for many years
defended those principles in a minority, and it was not likely
that they would now desert them in a majority.—(Cheers.) He
hoped, therefore, that the freeholders would not allow themselves
to be affected by the cry of revolution. So far 'from the people
wanting revolution, he believed that every man there must be a
sufferer by it'---(Hear,hear.) The lion. Baronet concluded by
moving the following resolution;—" That an address be pre-
sented to his Majesty, expressing our warm and devoted attach-
meat to his person acid Government, and. our entire reliance oil
the wisdom and firmness of his Majesty's Ministers,"—(Cheers:)
1 Colonel MONEY sesiontled the tithircese. lit eollegired in
every sentiment that had been uttered by the Hon. Mover. He
felt great satisfaction in being a party to the expression of their
devoted attachment to the person and Administration of our
most gracious Sovereign—(Cheers)—of their confidence in the
,
wisdom and integrity of the Ministers, and of their conviction
that the passing of the Reform Bill into a law was essential to
the peace, welfare, and prosperity of the country.—(Hear hear.)
He believed that the question vitally affected their interests.
It was no less a one than whether or not they should have a
reconstruction of the representative system in the House of
Commons, and the mire and reasonable enlargement of the
constituency, such as would be, in some measure, propor-
tionate to the increasing intelligence of the heenle-s-Ulear)_
in the last century, Or the last centtiry and a tialf._....(Great
cheering.) Having said so- much relativy to the general clia.
racter and tendency of the Bill, he would just touch on the treat_
ment of the Bill in the Upper House of Parliament. It was
well known that it was carried through the House of Commons
by a triumphant majority.—(Hear.) was sent to the Upper
House, with an overpowering expression of public feeling in its
favour.—(Hear, hear.) It was accompanied by its most influen-
tial friends and supporters, They had a right to expect that when
it thus presented itself, the courtesy of the Nohlc-
Lords wouldhaye
induced them to receive it kindly—(Hear)—that it would at least
have received hospitable treatment.—(Hear, and a iaueN The
Bill had, however, no sooner .overstepped the threshold than
one Noble Lord said that the Bill was a kind of demon, created
by those whose only object was mischief, and the destruction of
all the best institutions of the country.—(Laughter.) Another
said, that its object was to destroy the Upper . House of Parlia-
ment. Another looked upon it as a sort of Pandora's box, which
was to let out all possible evils upon the world—such as pesti-
lence, fami nei and diseases ofevery description—(Great la!ighter)—
that it had already given the influenza to the House of Commons,
and was brought up to give the cholera morbus to the House of
Lords.. After all these invectives had been expended, the-N.o)e
Lords thought that it might be as well to proceed to something
more consistent with the dignity of their Lordships' house. They
then attempted to bring some arguments against the Bill. Their
Lordships' general argument was, what do we want with such a

Bill ?, The country, they said, had hitherto done very well
withOut.its We 'had gained great battles, our commerce had
increased; , and .our Manufactures had improved ; why not;
then, they said, go on as before? The produce of our land
and industry was wafted to the most distant shores, and we ha
Le ei living in a vast field of prosperity and happiness. Theit
Lordships could see no possible reason for bringing this Bill foil
ward. One Noble Lord had said that it was calculated to intro.l
duce discord and disunion. Now, with respect to the country'
hiving gone on well without the Bill, lie (Colonel Money)'diri
not see any great argument in that. The country had gone mil
very well in the reign. of King Alfred, who was said to be the,
great beginning—the great foUndation of our naval greatness and
superiority. In that reign the country enjoyed comparative pto_i
sperity. But who would say that a system of government of thei
days of King Alfred would ba adapted to the increased intelli4
genre of these times ?—(Hear, hear.) A similar instance of
things working well might be adduced from the reign of Eliza.
both. Also in the reign of Queen Anne the Duke of Marlbo.
rough won great battles, our navies swept the seas, and our
armies carried victory before them wherever they went ; butt no
one, he believed would say that the policy of that day could be
adapted to the- present one. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Then
the lawyers 'Were brought forward, The ex-Chief-Justice of the
Common Pleal wastroughe into the House in a gouty chair.—,
They managed to get him on hislegs somehow or other, and i
having set him in a somewhat inclined position, such as Cor.l
poral Trim took when lie read sermons to uncle Toby—(Great
laughter)—he proceeded to argue the case against the Bill. 'lei
said, however, at starting, that he had a very difficult task to'
perform, which the meeting. would, perhaps, readily believe.—
;Loud cheers.) .His. Lordship then said he would, first of all
cornhat the arguments of the Noble Lord who had immediately
preceded him. That Noble Lord was the Chancelloi- of Ireland.
—(Hear, hear.) It seemed to him (Colonel Money), however,
that after talking a long time, the ex-Chief Justice left those
arguments in exactly the same state in which lie found them.—
. (Hear, hear.) And why ? Because they were unanawerable.—
(Hear, hear.) The Noble ex-Chief Justice was succeeded-by the 1
',AC:ex-Chancellor of England. He also got up antl.Argued ,
stoutly against the Bill. He had contended that the sights of ;
corporations and burghs were vested rights, and could not be .
taken away by the fiat of an 'Act of Parliament. He would state
that it was a principle of English law that no party should be con.
demned without a hearing. He said that if the Noble Lord
(Grey) took away those tights, it would be establishing a prece-
dent which would place not only their Lordships' titles but even
the whole property of the country, in jeopardy. Now, there could
be no doubt of the truth of the principle which the ex-Chancellor
had stated. Blackstone, however, said, that there were no less
than three modes of opening corporations. First, by Act of Par- ,
liament—(Great cheering)—secondly, by voluntary surrender;
and, thirdly, in the manner hinted .at by the ex-Chancellor,
namely, by information in the nature ofa writ of quo warranto,
which was demanding of them by what right or warrant they
held their rights and privileges ? That was the usual mode of
proceeding, when it was found that the conditions on which those
rights and privileges were granted were no longer performed.
The conditions, however, had all been for the benefit of the
people.—(Loud and continued cheering.) It was, therefore, clear
that Corporations wee liable to be deprived of their rights when
the conditions were no longer performed, and the Ministry were
thus borne out in their coarse by one of the greatest lawyers who
had ever lived. It was very amusing to observe the modes of
proceeding pointed out by the lawyers. The third mode would
be an excellent one for them, for it would take a great deal of
money out of the pockets of . the people, and put it into the
pockets of the lawyers—(Hear, and great laughter)—and more
than that, it would he productive of the greatest delay. The
people, however, wished to do it in a different way, because they
did not want any of the public money to be transferred to the
pockets of the lawyers, and still less did they wish for
delay.—(Hear, hear, hear.) After this the lawyers began to
lose their temper, and called in a host of old authors to their
assistance. Finding that this had no abet, report said that
'they called in some of the officers of the House, and orderesi
them to seize the Bill by the throat—(Great laughter)- they then
tied a cord round its neck,and strangled it; and he had been in-
formed, that the greatest' Captain of the age pulled one string,
and the lawyers the others.—(Continued laughter and cheers.)
That act, however, did not relieve them from fear of the
Bill ; for, although itS body was ignominiously thrown out
of the House,- yet its spirit might walk .abroad among the
people, and do great mischief to them.—(Great cheering.)
It was, therefore, considered highly desirable to lay this spirit,
and a Right Reverend Prelate was called upon to do so.
(Great laughter and groans.) There was no one who doubt-
ed that the Right Rev. Prelates could lay any ordinary ghost,
but he (Colonel Money) would never believe that he could lay
the spiritofthe Reform Bill.—(Great cheering.) The Gallant
Colonel then excited much laughter by reciting a parody on a
part of the ghost-scene in Hamlet,making the Lords play Hamlet,
and the Bill enact the Ghost. As to which he observed that the
'Bill would soon again present itself in full spirit and vigour tc
the House of Lords. He then, after entreating the people not tc
relax in their vigilance and their support of the present ..iinistry,
and above all things to avoid acts of violence, concluded amidst '
loud cheering. . .
The resolution was then carried with the most tumultuous
cheering, waving of hats, and handkerchiefs from several fe-
males who occupied one corner of the hall.

W. HANBUitY, Esq., then nt.ved the address. He expressed
his satisfaction at seeing so large and respectable an assemblage.
He considered it, at this momentous period, the duty of every
man to do his utmost in support of the great measure. He had
been happy to find that all the county Members, except four or
five, had voted for the BilL Those Members, it would be recol-
lected, were chosen by the people, and not by rotten boroughs.—
(Cheers.) He believed that the Bill was only delayed for a short
period, and that it must soon be a law of the land.—(Hear.) The
Tories had made at least five Peers to one more than had been
made by the present Government; so that the Ministry ueadmot
fear to create a few more if it was necessary. The Hon. Gentle-
man concluded by moving, amidst loud cheering, the following
addsess

TO HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY WILLIAM IV.,
BY THE GRACE OF GOD OF THE UNITED KING.
DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND KING.
DEFENDER OF THE FAITH.

" We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the
freeholders of the county of Hereford, assembled at a meeting
Convened by the High Sheriff, beg to express our devoted attach-
ment to your Royal person, and gratefully acknowledge your
Majesty's unceasing anxiety to promote the honour and welfare
pf your subjects. We respectfully assure your Majesty that we
place implicit confidence in the wisdom and integrity of your
present Ministers, as particularly, shown by the introduction into
the House of Commons of the Bill for the reform of the repre-
4entation of the people, which has recently received the sanction
of a large majority of that Hon. House, but which has since been
rejected by the House of Lords, to the great disappointment of
the anxious wishes and expectations of your subjects. We beg
to assure your Majesty, that ,we consider the speedy passing of
that great measure, unimpaired in any of its essential principles,
to be absolutely necessary to the safety and welfare of the
' country; and we humbly implore yoUr Majesty to adopt all such
constitutional means as may enable your Majesty's Ministers to
carry into effect that important object, which we, in common
with an immense majority of your Majesty's most faithful sub..
,jects, so ardently desire. "s
-(The most enthusiastic sheeting,
`which continued for some Minute followed the reading of this
address.) IF
THO* A. KNIGHT, Esq. seconded thg moiion. He apolo-
gized -for the weakness of his address, and deplored that his
lungs would not enable him to make himself heard by all the
meeting. He was, he believed, the oldest Reformer present.._
(Great cheering.) He had been of opinion half a century ago,
that if we had not Reform we must have something a greet deal
worse. He then saw that the possession of one or two boroughs
was a certain introduction into the House of Lords—(Hear,
hear)—if • the owners chose to sell them, and vote against the
rights of the. people—(Hear.) There were, however, some
friends of the people among the Peers, and he knew of no more
sincere one than the. Earl of Oxford.—(Loud and long cheer..
ing.) He (Mr. Knight) had never supposed that England could
besoverned by an oligarchy.—(Cheers.) He believed that such
a Government would lead to a revolution.—(Hear.) That, bow_
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concluded with military despotism. The Peers who had voted
against-the Bill were not the ancient Aristocracy of the country,
but were those mushroom Lords who, Since the reign of
George 11., had sprung from the hot-bed of corruption—(Cheers,)
The Hon. Gentleman deprecated an indiscriminate abuse or
the clergy; and after enumerating the advantages to be expected
from the Reform Bill, he cautioned the freeholders against any
Reform from the Tories, and proceeded to snake some allusion
to the new Game Bill, lie said that it was one of the most vil-
lainous laws that ever was made. The farmer who held a lease was
prohibited from having permission to kill game, although he was
qualified to do so by the late law.—(Hear, hear.) He (Mr.
Knight) hoped that clause would soon be altered. If the farmer
allowed any other person to kill the game, he was liable to
severe penalties—(l-lear)—while the landlord who let the estate
was at liberty on every day of the year to take 100 men on the
farm, who might run over the crops with impunity. What did
the meeting think of such a law as that ?—(flear, and cries of
" Shame.") That, however, was not the Bill of Lord Althorp,
but of the 199.—(Hear, hear.) The objectionable clause was
taken verbatim from a Bill introduced by Mr. Stuart Wortley,
now Lord Wharncliffe. That gentleman prided himself on
being descended from the Royal Family of the Stuarts ; and
truly such a law was worthy of the descendant of such an exe-
arable race of tyrants.—(Great cheering) The conduct Of the
people had reflected the highest honour on them, as they did not
want any man's property, but only the restoration of their own
rights.—(Great cheering.
THOMAS DAVIS, ESq., -of Leominster, said that he agreed
with the address most cordially as far as it went. He, however,
shouldbe much inclined to exceed that limit, and go furtller—
(Cheers)—and to pray his Majesty that those Rev. Gentlemen
who had voted against the Bill should be debarred from all fu-
ture promotion in the Church..:--(Great cheering.) Mr. l'itt had
once so punished the Rev. Bench, and;they were ever afterwards
his most obedient and very humble servants.—(Laughter and
cheering.). Their legislative privilege was a rag of the scarlet
lady of Babylon, and ought to be abolished.,(Cohlieued cheer.
ing:) It W4lB not, he contended, to the credit of holy religion
that the leV.lleltch should be tossed like a shuttlecock from one
party to another.-=(llear, hear.) It was not tit that so holy a
personage as a Fat her of the Church should be an advocate for
divorcing an old wife for a new one for the sake of scculiar ad.
vantages. He only regretted that the address did not pray his
Majesty to place the Bishops in schedule A, m the next Reform
Bill.—(Laughter and cheers.) An Act of Charles 1. excluded
Bishops from sitting in Parliament ; that Act was now repealed,
but he hoped soon to see it revived, that there might be no
13ishops in the House of Lords—(Hear, hear)—f'i'r a Bishop in
the House of Lords waslike Sam Savoury in thefarce,—. a fish
ut of water."—(Great .laughter.)' He regretted -that the ad-
dress did not pray, in the event of the passing of the 11111
not being calculated on with certainty, firs Lift' freshen of
a • sulficient nuPtbe; of 11-v(v. Pests to enable the Ministry
to carry it, elieering ) In the reign of Charles I. many
bishoprics were kept vacant for the purpose of pocketing the re-
venues. When, however, that Monarch wanted friends in the
House of Lords, they were all filled up in one day.—(Hear, hear.)
In the beginning of the reign of Queen Amine, the Ministers ad-
vised the Sovereign to increase the number of Peers, and twelve
were created to pass one measure.—(Hear, hear.) In, a tow years
afterwards, although Lord or ford, who advised it, was impeached,
yet he was acquitted by the Hintse of Lords Would any man
then tell him (Mr. Davis) that Earl Grey wbuld not be justified
at the present crisis-in' giving shriller advice to his Majesty 1)
(Hear, imear.) If, tinderssudh circunestanees; the Xing of Eng-
land shOuld refrein from that step, the very Constitution of this
country would be annihila:ed—(Hear, hear)—and sunk into an
abominable and detestable oligarchy. They were not, however,
to be dismayed by the failure of the Bill for once. Nearly, all
the most beneficial laws that had been made had been lost when
first proposed. Such was the case with Magna Charts, the De-
claration of Rights, and the Act. of Settlement. They were all
lost at first; but soon found their way into the statute book
of the realm—(Hear, and cheering)—and as sure as the sun
shone in the heavens so surely would the Reform Bill join
them. The, people, the enlightened •peoPle of England, de.,
manded it, and what power could prevent them from getting it ?
—(Great cheering.) It had been asked what the reople would
get by this Bill ? They would get all that the boroughmongers
would lose, and it., was evident that that was worth something,

•
ar they would not fight for it as they did at present.—(Hear.)
l'he people would gain by the Bill a Reform in the Church
lithos would be commuted for land—(Great cheering)—large
mnefiecs would be emtallized, and the pampered pluralist would
oo longer be luxuriating, but he put upon wholesome diet.—
Hear, hear.) They would get retrenchment, and above all that
share in the civil government that Englishmeirwere-so justly en.
titled to., They would ,:get that liberty which for the last 'lso
years they had been deprivecl;of by the cursed borouglimongers.
—(Cheering.) It had been said that it would produce revolu-
tion. It had been contended that this Reform measure was in its
Principles a revolution —(Hear)-.-but if the restoration of the
Constitution to its original purity was to be called revolution,
what had they to fear from it. They had the authority of Mr.
Pitt for saying that the beauty of the English Constitution con.
`sited in its susceptibility of change according as cireuinstances
"temanded.—(Hear, hear.) That was just what was effected
by the Reform Bill. It took from towns that were decayed, and
.rave to those which were without representatives; and in advo.
cation of that principle, he should read them a quotation,
" which," continued the Hon. Gentleman, in the words of
Junius, " I met with this morning in the course of my read ng."
the author was Blackstone, and said thus—" As for the elec-
tions of citizens and burgesses, these are supposed to be the rner.
tmntile part or trading interest of the kingdom. But as trade is
of a fluctuating nature, and seldom long fixed in a place, it was
formerly left to the Crown to summon pro re rata, the most
flourishing towns to send representatives to Parliament ~;,,ao that
as towns increased in trade, or grew pop-ifio2r7v:therV.ere ..i-
-mitted to a share ,the leg,slature. But the ..ortune is, that
the deserted boroughs continued to be summoned as.well as
those to whom theirtrade and inhabitants were transferred."—
Blackstone's Commentaries, p. 174. What did Earl Grey but
transfer from Garton and Old Sarum to Leeds and Manchester?
If therefore Earl Grey:were a revolutionist, Blackstone-was one ;
and if so, his valuable work, instead of b,ing in every library, de-
servial to be burnt by the hangman as inucb as the North Briton
Aid:—(Hear.) After some. more animated observations, which
our limits will not allow us to do justice to, the Learned Gentle-
man sat down amid deafening cheers.
The address was read to the meeting by the Under Sheriff;
and carried with the strougest symptoms of approbation.
Sir J. WALSHAM moved, in a neat speech, a vote of thanks
to Earl Grey and the rest of the Ministers, on whom he passed a
high eulog.ium.
SAMUEL PEPLOE, Esq., seconded the =tic..
Dr. MEYRICK entered at great length into a history of the
4e form Bill, and his own political motives. In allusion to the
tithe question, he observed that tithes were not, as had been
asserted, of divine origin, but arose out of a murder committed
in that very county. One of the Saxon Kings had murdered his
brother, and to avoid the cry of the people against the murderer,
the King resorted to the power of the clergy, which was exer-
cised in his favour on the offer of a considerable portion of pro-
perty. This grant became confirmed by subsequent Kings,
although before the eighth century tithes were free offerings.
The learned gentleman concluded a long speech that was favour-
ably received, by proposing a vote of thanks to the Earl of Ox.
ford, Edward B. Clive, Esq., Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq., W. B.
Clive, Esq., and Tho Mas Becham, jun., Esq.
The Rev. T. SYMONDS seconded the resolution.
The vote of thanks was carried with cheers.
The Earl of OXFORD briefly returned thanks. He had ad-
vocated Reform in 1737, and be had no greater pleasure than in
seeing them so near die accomplishment of their wishes.
Sir R. PRICE, M.P., contended at great length, that so far
from being.enemies, as it was said that the manufacturers were
to the agriculturists, or, vice versa, it was clear that neither
could exist without the other.
K. HOSKINS, Esq., M.P., returned thanks in a speech that
was enthusiastically received. With respect to the (Lune Bill,
he observed 1 hat he was on the Committee on that Bill, and it
was as good a Bill as could possibly be before it went to the
Lords. He should never have voted for the Bill in its amended
shape but for the observations of a Noble Lord (Althorp).
KB. CLIVE, Esq., M.P., returned thanks. He had advo-
cated Reform all his life, and his experience only convinced him
the more of the necessity of that great measure. He exhorted
the people to be firm and persevering, and they would be sure of
success.—( Loud cheers.)
H. J. BRYDGES, Esq., moved that the address be presented
to his Majesty by the Duke of Sussex.
Mr. ItO HILLY seconded the motion.
Sir R. PRICE passed a very high and merited eulogium on the
High Sheriff, who is an Anti-Reformer, for his gentlemanly and
able conduct in the chair.
The motion was eloquently seconded by E. B. CLIVE, Esq.,
the city Member, and carried with great cheers.
The SHERIFF briefly returned thanks, and after sundry cheers
for Reform, &c., the meeting separated in good order.

FORMS OF PRAYERS TO BE READ IN

ALL CHURCHES.

His Majesty, in Privy Council, having ordered that his Grace
the Archbishop of Canterbury should prepare forms of prayers
to Almighty God, to be used in all churches and chapels during
the continuance of danger from the cholera morbus, the Pri-
mate of England, assisted by the bench of Bishops, on Saturday
adopted the following prayers, to be read in all the cathedral,
collegiate, and parochial churches and chapels throughout the
kingdom :

" Most Gracious Father and God ! who hast promised for-
giveness of sins to all those that with hearty repentance and
true faith turn to thee, look down, we beseech thee, from
Heaven, thy dwelling-place, upon us _thy. unworthy servants,
"Who, under an awful apprehension of thy judgments, and a deep
conviction of our sinfulness, prostrate ourselves before thee:
We acknowledge it to be of thy goodness alone that, whilst thou
hast visited other nations with pestilence, thou hast so long
spared us . Have pity, 0 Lord, have pity on thy people, both
here and abroad; withdraw thy heavy hand from those who are
suffering under thy judgments, and turn away from us that
grievous calamity, against which our only security is in thy
compassion. We confess, with shame and contrition, that in
the pride and hardness of our hearts we have shown ourselves
unthankful for thy mercies, and have followed our own inclina-
tions instead of thy holy laws : Yet, 0 Merciful Father, suffer
not thy destroying angel to lift up his hand against us, but keep
us, as thou hast heretofore done, in health and safety; and
grant, that being warned by the sufferings of others to repent of
our sins, we may be preserved from all evil by thy mighty pro..
tection, and enjoy the continuance of thy mercy and grace,
through the merits of our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus
Christ. Amen." •

"0, Almighty God who, by the many instances of mor-
tality which encompass us on every side, dost call upon us se-
riously to consider the shortness of our time here upon earth,
and remindest us that in the midst of life we are in death, so
teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom. Give us grace to turn unto thee with timely repent-
ance, and thus to obtain, through the merits ofour Saviour, that
pardon to-day which to-morrow it may be too late to seek for ;
that so being strengthened by thy good Spirit against the terrors
of death, and daily advancing in godliness, we may at all times
be ready to give up our souls into thy hands, OGracious Father,
in the hope of a blessed immortality, through the mediation and
for the merits of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."—Observer.

LORD WHARNCLIFFE AND THE YEO-
MANRY CAVALRY.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
A deputation from the Sheffield squadron of South West
Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry waited on Lord Wharlichfle, on
Saturday last, at the house of Captain Saunders, in Doncaster.
The deputation, after stating that one of the most numerous
meetings of the Sheffield squadron ever held had taken place
at the Commercial Inn, in Sheffield, on Tu.esday preceding,
presented the following Address to his Lordship, which was
unanimously agreed to :

" That although the majority of this meeting, members of
the Sheffield Squadron of the South West Yorkshire Yeomanry
Cavalry, differ from your Lordship in political opinions, we
regret exceedingly that a part of the Doncaster First Troop
should so far have committed themselves as to forward you a
memorial signed as a Round Robin. Wo beg to assure your
Lordship that we place the fullest confidence in your Lord-
ship, as Colonel of the South West Yorkshire Yeomanry Ca-
valry, and 'our assurance, that whenever you command our
services, it will be for the good of the country, the protection"
of property, and for the maintenance of the laws of the realm ;
and we trust our King and our country will continue the con-
fidence they have hitherto placed in us."

His LORDSHIP received the deputation with great alb-
and replied-7" Gentian's, I r•-,114-1. to state, in answer to
you, that I ant excec4Wgly gratified by this address, though
indeed it is 110 snore than I expected from men who have
served under me so long. If once the practice should be in.,
troduceti into the yeomanry-lthat they are to object to ‘,D.s., :sine
of politics their officers are to take—the, F4rt,6 of yeomanry
will soon be dismissed frote ssc.rvieo, I never have inter.
fered with tlialretlitlea: 1 fooling of any individual, either officer
to private; and I think, therefore, I have a right to act on my
and you all know that if I have political feel.
them without fear, and that determinnitiqs
po-
comes act
anelini upon
in my situation. Having siiid tiAss much, it
gives me great pleasure to find th:ki the attempt made by some
persons in the Ilorsq.titer Troop failed to seduce the Shef-
field ,sgssadron ; asia 'B6'iOng as you feel comfortable under my
command; I shall feel proud of your services; and if any ofSa:.
then should arise for your being called upon 491 the Vices
of the country, I trust you have "suffisie4;.c.nn4(ienc.fi in my dis-
cretion to cemmarsl'ioo.ll.
I4ia."4t•is n then retired, stating that the officers took no
part whatever in the meeting at which the address was agreed to.
Lord Wharncliffe shortly afterwards proceeded to the Town-
hall, which was completely crowded. An attempt v 4
ated made
toclamations of " Stop, loud cheers. On entering
ecrleoaoruti.bhei, hall, but it was met with let:4 a
r.04,4dr.
od reiter ex.
was received with a volley of hisses and
groans. Of the'rrieeting, which purported to be between
Wharncliffe arid certain members of his reg,ir4.rst, ai long and
apparently a strictly impartial asroytlj in the Doncas-
ter Gazette, but (NT Thalia oisfy'aliow us to mention the leading
particulars. Lord Wharncliffe set out with observing, that as
this was an affair between himself and his troop, he would nc,t
allow of any interference on the part of othcrs, either by ap.
plause or hisses, though he 4tl no, objection to all the world
hearing what he had to, say on the subject. His Lordship then
read the Round Robin, a" copy of which appeared in the Lec9l.l
MercurY of the 15th and called over the 19tr;es' of those
who signed it. Captain Childers said that two of them, Mr.
Mann and Mr. Vickers, were sorry that they had signed,
and did not • mean to resign.—(Loud• hissing.) His Lord_
chip again admonished the assembly. Captain Childers •
said he had only 23 resignations sent in, out of 33 who had,
signed. His Lordship then produced a paper, which had been
=exit to the Sheffield Troop, inviting them to resign, which paper

was sent from a meeting at which Mr. Pillin wai, chairman, and
his Lordship told Mr. P. that this was an act of mutiny. Ills
Lordship then spoke at considerable length, and said he had
never interfered with their political opinions, and that they had
no right to interfere with his ; that the King had intrusted him
with his commission, and to none but the King would he
resign it ; and that he would not allow himself to be addressed
by the men or any troop to give up the trust reposed in hint by
his Sovereign.. 'They had a right to resign, but they had no
right to dictate to him, nor to sign such papers as that they had
sent to him, nor to incite others to do so. He would not be
dictated to by any man born, upon any subject that affected the '
interest of his country.—(Applause and hisses.)

Capt. CHILDERS said that the troop had not consulted hin:
upon this measure.

Lord WHARNCLIFFE said, if the whole troop had signed,
they would have been dismissed with disgrace, but as only part
of them had signed they might resign, as he did not wish any
person to be in his regiment who had not confidence in the
commander. He should send for their arms and accoutrements
to-morrow morning.

Mr. KYEZ OR was a member of the second Donea3ter Troop,
.and 11r. Terr asl,d him if he would sign. He then proceeded
thus :—" I said I was a rank reformer.—that the King waa
reformer--that Reform was all the go, and requisite—(Cheers
and laughter)--and I hope all in this place are true reformers."
(Loud cheers.)

Lord WHARNCLIFFE—I_ beg your pardon ; but I am not
come here to discuss the questionoflteform.

Mr. KYEZOR—I do not want to discuss it in any other way
but to give you my ideas upon it.—(Laughter, and cries of " At
him again Kyezor.")
Lord WHARNCLIFTE--LaCan't want your ideas.—(Loud
laughter.)'

Mr. KYEZOR—I should be a natural foal if I signed a Round
Robin without knowing its contents ; and my idea, was, that
the King called for Reform upon principle.—(Cheers and
kaughter.)—l showed it to the men, and 21 signed it. We had
a field day—our Captain at our bead.—(Laughter.) He knew
something of a Round Robin going round, and it did go round—
(Laughter)—and the Captain told the men the consequence;
and the fact was, theyfunk'd to a man.—(Continued laughter.)
Lord WHARNCLIFFE, in conclusion, said they were at
liberty to resign ; but they were not fit for soldiers, if any thing
of a political nature entered into that resignation.
Lord Wharnclitre then left the Hall amidst tremendous
hissing and hooting, and proceeded to the shop of Mr. Torr.
His Lordship afterwards, as he proceeded to the Old Angel
Inn, met with a very ungracious reception.

MEETING OF THE WORKING CLASSES.

POSTPONEMENT of the INTENDED MEETING at
WHITE CONDUIT-HOUSE THIS DAY.

On Saturday night, at eight o'clock, a meeting of the Dele-
gates from the various Branch Unions of the Working Classes
of the Metropolis, took place at the Commercial Coffee-room,
Fleet-street, to confer upon the propriety of postponing the
meeting on Monday, opposite the White Conduit-house, and to
receive the Report of the Deputation which had been appointed
on the preceding night to seek an interview with Lord Mel-
bourne respecting the meeting.
• Mr. LOVETT having been called to the Chair,
Mr. CLEAVE rose and said, that in consequence of what
had passed at their meeting on the preceding night, himself,
with Messrs. Watson, Osborne (the Secretary of the National
Union of the Working Classes), and Boreham, waited upon
Lord Melbourne, at twenty minutes past twelve, as a Deputa-
tion from the National Union of the Working Classes.
Mr. Watson, on the Deputation being introduced, said to his

Lordship, " We are, my Lord, a Deputation from the National

Union of the Working Classes of the Metropolis, to explain the
conduct of the individuals who have called the meeting for
Monday next, about which there have been so many false
reports."—Lord Melbourne inquired "whether the persons
who had signed the printed declaration of the Union, which
Government considered highly seditious, and,.. perhaps, trea.
sonable, were present ?"—Messrs. Osborne and Watson re.
plied," Yes, my Lord, we are the parties."—Lord Melbourne
observed, " that their names being to the bill was no proof
that they were the authors."—Messrs. Watson and Osborne said
" they were aware of that."—His Lordship then asked, " if
they could attend again at three o'clock ?"—Mr. Cleave said,
they were come to give him all the information in their power,
and to answer any question that he might.think proper to put,-
arid he trusted that his Lordship would use the came openness
towards them. He, therefore, wished to know if his Lordship
premeditated any step against the deputation, in consequence
of the admission they had made concerning the printed placard
posted about ?" His Lordship had no such intention. Mr.
Cleave then stated his name, and begged his Lordship to accept
the Rules of the National Union, and an Address to the Work.
ing Classes by Mr. Detrossier. His Lordship said he had read
them, and the deputation withdrew. The deputation then

waited at a tavern till three o'clock, at which time they again
proceeded to the Home Office, and saw his Lordship, who was
true to his time. Mr. Lovett then addressed his Lordship as
follows :

" My Lord, I wish to undeceive you with regard to the in-
tentions of the working people in calling the meeting to be held
in the field opposite the White Conduit house, which the pub-
lic journals have wilfully traduced. We never had, nor do we
now entertain, any inclination to disturb the public peace, but
to use all our power to aid the peace authorities in arresting
any person who may dare to propose or to practise violenCe.
We have been charged with a desire to imitate the Bristol
proceedings, while the real fact is, that our declaration was
agreed to, and posted on the walls of London, before those
unfortunate transactions were ever known or thought DE
We offered to be sworn in as special constables, should our
rlld
be considered necessary. With regard to the principles
set fotth in the declaration, which your Lordship tells
us is highly seditious, if not treasonable, we have read
them in the works of many eminent men, and we were not
aware that the simple fact of putting such a principle into the
declaration would subject us to so serious a charge. They are
our opinions, and we saw no impropriety in ascertaining how far
our fellow.workmen agreed with us." cOnVersation took
place then between Lord Melbourne anti Mr. Watson; the for.
mer saying, that he did not advise any thing, but he would read
a circular, which would be used by the Magistrates.-(Thecirctl....
lar which has been distributed, stating the meeting to be rogA
and warning every one who wished that the pears: should be
preserved to stay away from it.) Mr. Lovett the4l said, that he
held it a great injustice that the middle ekes should be allowed
to have their Unions and their opciu air meetings, and that the
working classes, who were really ground down to the dust, shmlNt
be prevented from having theirs. The working class, wCre, tv
a dreadful state of destitution, and such meeting„ s, ere like so
many safety valves for passing oil irritated feelings. Lord M
boUrne seemed as if desirous not to ',ear iiirther, and was goin
out by a side-door, atter ts,ying " good morning," when 7.4,
Cleave told him ths,t Use resolution respecting hereditNry
tinctions h.,d been withdrawn.

Lord MELBOURNE said, thAt It ',atm nut that resolution
alone, but the whole tenor oaf the declaration, which Govern-
ment thought se lets, The calling on persons to come from
all pArtl of the country, and confer on the various subject;
scribed in the declaration, was assuming that the ciotcriument
of the country was deficient. The attTAlip4 such a meet.
ing would not only be sedititx hut the act of com-
mitting high treason.

Mr. BOREIAAN was about to make an observation, Ivlie!,!,
his LeAkhip wished them a good morning, and retired,
Mr. CLEAVE, atter making this statement: &wed his con-
viction that, under all the circumstanwmif would be very im-
politic if the meeting took 1111%o* Monday.
Mr. COOPER inc,wi 0,4 the meeting should be postponed,
as it was \.‘4c,v,,r4tiii:4 Magistrates would be on the grounfl
W4l'a l persons off

Mr, CLEAVE seconded the motion, Visw verily believed
that hundreds burned to wreak tht; Nvs4geatice on the New
Police, and what would ho gokisi an opportunity as the meet.
ing on Monday ? be better for the working classes to
obtain their .-tglits by peaceable means—(A voice "We neyvr
„K, alb by peaceable means." " Order, order")—. AvAi they
would be pursuing peaceable means by p05t4144.4; the meeting.
Mr. LAVENDER (a member of t.4.(rnion, we understand,
and not a delegate)
IQ the motion. He did not
wonder at tl3,g 11(4.#. 4-Socretary, or any other aristocrat, en.
depy.9l:4Asto put down the meeting of the working clays;,,;
'iliwunid always do so.

Mr. MANSELL (likewise, we underst, not a delegate)
inquired whether it was illegal for t',440 to meet on Monday Y
What impropriety was then at 1) If Mr. Cleave, Mr. Wakley,
and others would tG, attend and speak, the working (IkAos
would fi.n.e,l.,.:erati to come forward and do so. lu
uludon that now prevailed had been cI:LAWKI by designing
men. He for one would not be a tly,ppe to such designing men.
He would attend at Whitc.ccanit fields, whether the meeting
was held or ni4-41; tee i,onsequences be what they might.
he wa; kid,,,e many others would attend at the meetiw,-,, its was
:averse to the expunging of the resolution refkeeting hereditary
distinctions.

übe;the fncmies of the working classes to Oetto a dig,
n
Mr. ADAMS said tbat tkv- meeting might be taken &Ivan,
and so prove the destruction c4'tkni4nA amongst
the Working classes--(A voice__" A Krcci of old women in
ttagrfc4by
petticoats:").__

%Ike question was one of power—might
eeiWorking classes had right, but the Govern,
The
would prove victorious,
4.ags
analftirsi.itaDi,ti.glEhtST:
Mr. SACKSBY asked what business a deputut:on had to go
humbugging with Lord Melbourne ? The meeting should not
be edged off—it would he a dastardly act on the part of the
London Union. The meeting ought to take place, even if it
cast half their lives.

A DELEGATE thought that if the meeting did not take
place a greater commotion would be caused than if it were to
take place. He was sure, whether the meeting was officially

1-ePe°volriteio:ar4
.
tlyld;:otis,mlaron.„-leaatanPyethl.iitnntiarveil,llee. iu
Mr. I:yAliflsEY rose,
10,orsozpoovtetedromoreltitio!
arid said, the ouettion was not one of
right, but vOcience.-' .knevilp What a degraded,
unjust 411600A' • oked_.:jrccr y one
l.ne:v Mey iSI detritieff ' et' their ; hut in
attempting"- to ideetvelc the/4 they 'abdurd 'use: prudence,
they should not go beadlonefoiward and b' cioatroYed Mr.
Wakley , thought Lord ,Melbourne ,:jud -stated the truth
in saying, that those who attended. the -meeting woi.ht
beguilty of high treason, as they had expressed their intent:on
in their declaration to pass a resolution levelling, all heroditary
distinctions, which struckat the root of nionerehicalgovern.
ment. The declaration empoweied the Magistrates to 'apPre-
bend every person as he went to the rneeing.--(A wore, .../
cr
theni do it.") 'lf they did do it, he (Mr. Wakley) would
say, that the bonds of the working classes would be bound for
fifty years to come, instead of pitbably being loosened in two
years.---(Murmurs.) He had no fear of the inttntions of the
working classes, but he had fear of those vagabonds who were
not connected with the Union, and.who could nttt,be prevent( d
from attending the meeting, and who had no feeling for Re-
form but a desire for plunder and riot.
Mr. CARPENTER,supported the motion. Many were the
evil spirits abroad, and advantage would be taken by their ene-
mies, the Tories, of the schism which would, by any disturb-
ance, 13?_,, created, to as great a degree between the Government,
the supporterg of Reform, and the working classes, also sus
porters of Reform. As one instance of the evil spirit which
prevailed amongst those who were desirous to create a Ws_
turbance, and were unconnected with the Union, he would only
state,- that a man had called on him a few days siAce, and
exhibited to hint a staff with a concealed dirk and spring is, it,
which he offered for sale at two shillings and sixpence. He
refused to buy such a weapon, having no use for it_ lie In.
tended to have gone to to the meeting with a staff as a
pots of defence ; but after what had been stated that night, lee
certainly could not vote against the motion, and he would not go.
Mr. CLEAVE relatectasitailar eireurnstance respecting the
staff and concealed dirk.

Atter a few observations front othors, the room was cleared
of all but the deiegatest. —las a little time it was announced that
it had been unanimously agreed to that itninteatlng should be
postponed ; that 500 placards; announcing the fact and the
cause, should be posted as soon as possible; and that thanks
should be given to Mr. Wakley for his assistance in providing
at the meetings. It is understood that on Monday meetings
will be held by each Union in their respective meeting houses.
An immense body of speciarionstables, magistrates, &ea, will
be in attendance at Pentonville early in the morning. The
meeting broke up at eleven o'clock.
The following is the declaration of the Nations/ Union of the
Working Classes : •
" Labour is the source of wealth."
" That romeaonwealth is best ordered when the oltirsesis are
neither too nib nor too poor."—Thaass.
" At this moment of vast awilitleal excitement, It is alike the
interest as well as the duty of evesa working ream to declare nub-
lictly his political sentiments, us order "at the country and Go-
vernment may be generally acquainted witu wants and
grievances of this particular class—in accordance with setial, we,
the working classes of London—declare
" 1. All property (honestly acquired) to be sacred and invio-
lable.
"'i2 That all men are born equally free: and have certain us.
tural and inalienable rights.
" 3. That all Governments ought to be founded on those rights ;
and all laws instituted for the common benef.t, protection, and
security of all the people ; and not for the particular emolument
or advantage of any single man, family, or set of men.
" 4. That all hereditary distinctions of birth arc unnatural, and
opposed to the equal • right of man—and therefore ought to be
faeliahed.
" 5. That every man of the age of 21 years, of seund mind, and
not tainted by crime, has a right, either by himself, or his repre-
sentative to a free voice in determining the necessity of public;
contributions, the appropriation of them, their amount, mode of
assessment, and duration.
" 6. That in order to secure the unbiassed choice of proper
persons for representatives, the mode of voting should be by bal-
lot—that intellectual fitness and snore/ worth, and not property,
should be the qualification, for representatives—and that the du-
ration of Parliaments should be but for one year.
" 7. We declare these principles to be essential to our protec-
Con as working men—and the only sure guarantees for seeming
to us the proceeds of our labour—and that we will never be satis-
fied with the enactment ofany law or laws that do not recognise
the rights we have enumerated in this declaration.
" In order to isaertain the
_public opinion of the working
classes throughout the United Kingdom, as well as of all those
who think with them, we hereby call a public meeting of the
useful classes of London, to be held on the space in flout or
White Conduit-house, on Monday, 7th November, at one o'clock
precisely, for the purpose of solemnly ratifying this declaration.
And we therefore particularly press upon our fellow-labourers its
all parts of the country to re-echo these principles, on the same
day, in public meetings throughout the country.
(Signed) "J. WATSON, Chairman.
" JAMES OSBORNE, Secretary."

WORCESTER
COUNTY REFORM MEETING•

had done itself immortal bonourin electing two candidates
in favour of the rights and privileges of the people ; but
when facts so notorious stared them in the face, necessity
compelled them to speak out. The political opponents of
the great measure of Reform accused the people of being
enemies of social order ; with them the Reformer and the
lowest rabble were synonymous.—(Hear, hear.) They
said the Reformers were destroyers of private property—
they called them Radicals, and heaped every abuse upon
them which their classical vacabulary furnished them
with. He trusted that the present meeting would that
day refute such calumnies by their unanimity in urging
on that great and glorious cause in the support of which
they were all embarked, and in o hich they were sure of
victory if they proceeds d to obtain it by constitutional
means.—(Cheers.) The satisfaction of knowing that it
had been obtained without violence would he great indeed.
If the present meeting would only let their motto be
" union and forbearance," he had no doubt of being able,
in a short time to congratulate them on the passing of
that measure, which would secure the stability of the
Throne, give the Aristocracy the rights they were entitled
to have, and—oh ! delightful thought—give many years
of happiness to the people, and confer solid advantages on
his much loved country.—(Tremendous cheering.)
The resolution was then put by the HIGH SHERIFF,
who declared it to be carried unanimously.
redone] D evrEs came foreened erri.':e the most deafen-
ing pit .. which Fisted fee several minutes. He bad
great satisfaction in subiHittiii to the present numerous
rneetine Me *Rood resolution, which he was sure would
he received by all preeent with unanimous approbation, as
it was one which every man who called himself an Eng-
' lishenan could not but feel a pletteore in participating in.
The resolution was for the purpose of expressing the
thanks of the meeting to their patriot Sovereign, for the
anxiety be bed shown to promote the happiness and wel-
fare of his people—(Loud cheers)—who owed him a debt
it would never be in their power to repay.--.(Much cheer-
ing.) It was generally atropexerd. that' Moil,. eta were nee.,
too-fond of eemnoting the liberties of the subject, but the
present Monarch of England was a glorious exception to
that.—(Loud cheering.) He had shown the greet's%
anxiety twice since he had ascended the throne to rev 're
the gross abuses under which the Constitution laboured. 'I he
present were most eventful times, and such as made
it neceetary for eve, y one toraert him self to the utmost to
stem that torrent of sorruption wLie'ri had inondeted the
country in or.ler to restate the C eeetitution to its original
purity.—(Cheers.) They had teen told by those who
called themselves moderate Re(ormere, that the country did
not require so sweeping a measure cf Reform, and ti.at the
peopla were not anxious for it; to such persons be would
put the question, would the disturbances which had taken
place at Nottingham, Derby, and Bristol, have taken place
if the Reform Bill had been carried ?—(Loud cheers and
cries of " No, no.") There was now throughout the vast
population of the country a determination to carry this
question, and it must and would be carried.—(Great
cheering.) If, however, the people were driven to despair
—if the Bill should be again thrown out—the most
terrible convulsions of the country must ensue, and
they might be carried to such an extent as to carry Peer,
Prelate, and Property in one mass along the destructive
stream.—(Cheers.) It was therefore the duty of all to
come forward and join in those measures by which and by
which alone the happiness and peace of the country would
be secured.—(Loud cheers.) Those who called them-
selves moderate Reformers would persuade the agricultural
interest—the farmer, that it was the object of those who
promoted Reform to ruin him. He exhorted the men of
Worcestershire, if such wolves in sheep's clothing came
among them, to believe them not—for all that they lived
upon was place and pension, and what had been extracted
from the hard earned gains of the farmer.—(Cheers.)
The very persons who were so willing to sound into their
ears the danger resulting from Reform were themselves
men rising from the land, and if the farmer was ruined
they would be reduced to the worst situation, they would
lose their property and be left destitute.—(Cheers.) The
percent Corn Laws of the country were constructed on
the most vicious principle, throwing a weight on the ma-
nufacturer and artizan wiithout affording any good to the
agriculturalist.—(Cheers.) He (Col. D. ) hoped ere
long to see great alterations in those laws, which would
remove that weight which pressed on the manta.
facturer ; the man who could sanction such laws was
an enemy to both the agricultural and commercial
interest, for they must stand or fall together.—(Loud
chests.) He hoped and expected that a reformation
of the House of Commons would be followed by
cheapening all the articles of Wbat was it that
caused their dearness ? Why the load of taxation which
pressed so heavily on the country..--(Cheers.) And for
what was the country hurthened with such heavy taxes?
Why to keep up large establishments for those who had
influence, but who had no right to revel in luxuries with
the public money..—(Loud cheers.) When, however, the
people had a reformed Parliament of their own choosing,
they would immediately set to work to reduce the taxation
on every article of life, which would then be furnished at
a cheaper rate to the consumer, and give a more fair profit
to the producer. When such events took place the country
would be blessed with content. For himself, he (Colonel
Davies) was sure no man in the kingdom was more ready
to make greater sacrifices than he was, and no ex-
ertions on his part should ever be wanting consti-
tutionally to produce a fair and free representation
of the country; and if Government should introduce,
contrary to his expectations, a lees efficient Bill, they
should no longer receive his support or possess his confi-
dence--(Loud cheers)—but the country bad assurances
that that would not be the case—Government doubtless
would introduce a Bill in its provisions essentially the
same, and its operations equally extensive.—(Hear, hear.)
He felt most grateful to his Majesty's Ministers for the in-
troduction of the Bill ; this was the first time this country
had been blessed with a reforming King and reforming
Ministers ; let the country, therefore, make the most of
their time, and by a cordial co-operation with that King,
and his patriotic Ministers, bring to pass that great
measure, which would secure to the country its peace, its
capital, and its enterprise.—(Much cheering.) As one
of the representatives of the county no exertions should be
wanting on his part to promote that Reform which was so
necessary for the benefit of all. The gallant Colonel con-
cluded amidat deafening cheers, with proposing the follow-
ing resolution.
2. That an address be presented to the King, expressive of such
feelings, of our gratitude for his paternal care and regard for the
happiness of the empire, more especially for his desire to promote
the great object of the nation's hopes and wishes--Parliamentary
Itefir;ini, and further expressive of our most anxious and san-
guine hope that his Majesty would he graciously pleased to give
his confidence and support to his Ministers in their endeavour to
promote that full and efficient measure of Reform which is con-
nected with the best interests of the country, and the well-being
of his Majesty's subjects.
T. C. HORN VOLD, Esq. seconded the resolution, which
was carried unanimously.
Sir T110;,1A:; WtssearscToN proposed the following re-
solution.
Alp That this meeting are daeplj impressed with obligation to
Earl Grey and his Majesty's other Ministers, for their disinte-
rested and arduous exertions in promoting a measure of Reform
In the Commons' House of Parliament; further, that this meet,
tog liaye the fullest confidence in the assurance that his Majesty's
Ministers wM.,to the utmost of their power, introduce and sup-
port it Bill similar sn principle, and equally efficacious in practice,
at the opening of the ehsams Session, with the one so lately re-
jected by the House of Lortts ; and that the High Sheriff be re-
quested to forward such resolution to Earl Pro's, begging that he
txpuld communicate the same to his colleagues.
51r; AcTON rose for the purpose of seconding the mesa,
intion,,(T4e applause at this moment was almost deaf.
ening, and prestented Isf,. Acton from addressing the
meeting foe several minutes.) He felt greatly the honour
that had been conferred upon biro in being pallpil upon to
second the resolution ; he must, however, coulees that he
creme forward on the present occasion with great feelings of
diffidence, fur when he looked around him either
to the right or to the left, and beheld so many
around him who could have pet formed the task
so much better, he could not but ;aspent that so im-
portant a duty had been intrusted to abler hensls.—
(Loud gbgers, and cries of " Go on, go on.") When
hz
looked at tile patient assembly, and contrasted it with the
last lie had witnessed :n that place, he could are no signs of
that re-action which the Anti-it formers had attributed to
that great county.—(Loud cheering.) The House of
Lords, exercising its undoubted privilege, had ihmegitt
fit
to place its negative on the attainment of the people's
rights; be firmly bereeyed if the object of tke Noble Lords
who had thought fit to gise their veto against the Reform
Bill was fairly canyassed,it would lee foa.cd to consist in the
hope that by taking that course the Ilfiniat,y.gf Est-1
Grey would go to pieces, and that they would then have
been enabled t.. 0 11,2;re established themselves in power,
have introduced a new Bill, and got their hands
into the pockets of the people..,-(fireat cheering.)
Happily, however, for the country',the events
anticipated by them bad not taken place—a fresh gill
would soon be introduced under the old auspices, and a
chance would then be given to those who had voted
against the Bill of righting themselves with the people.
—(Cheers.) He looked upon the ilouse of Lori, as
the mediator betweese the King and the people, to prevent
the invasion of their rights-e. 23 a rock against which
the waves of oppression would rage in 'r'ain.—(Cheers.)
The people now knew how to appreciate their rights--
they felt the full value of them, and although they'
were satisfied that the House of Lords should possess their
hereditary privileges, yet they would no longer submit to
have their representative nominated by them, or their taxes
imposed by' representatives who did net represent them.
They were determined to make their own laws, and int-

(FROM oust OWN REPORTER.)
SATURDAY,
'The cause of Reform gill goes on prospering andtt
prosper. This great agricultural county has thrown the
weight of its influence into the scale, and recorded
its
name on that tablet which strikes the borouglirnongers
with horror and dismay in their most secret hiding-places,
telling them in the most prominent characters, that so far
from there being on the part of the people a coolness about
Reform, that their opinions in its favour are stronger than
ever. In consequence of a requisition to the High Sheriff,
signed by all the influential men of the county, calling
upon him to appoint a day for a general county meeting,
to express the deepest regret and disappointment at the
rejection of the Reform Bill by the House of Peers, and to
take into consideration the consequent critical state of the
country ; also to declare the fullest confidence in the
present Ministers of the King, and to implore his Majesty
to continue his firm support to them in their adherence
to the general principles of the measure lately rejected by
the House of Lords ; the High Sheriff appointed Saturday
Jast for the meeting, which took place in the Guildhall, in
which hustings were erected for the convenience of the
sneakers and the oulele orese: To eeesequenee of the
nesting being apntewsed to take e ,n the sth of No-
vember, the enaivereesy of the noted Gunpowder- plet,
and the excited state cf the public mind at Bristol and
other places, apprebenrioett were entertained that the
peace of the city might be endangered ; that apprehension
was strengthened by a current report that it was intended
to burn down the. Bishop's Palace and commit other acts
of outrage, and in order therefore to gnarl against any
!/,reach of the public peace every precaution was taken by
the Mayor and 'lsgistretes which they considered neces-
seessary to preserve tranquillity. On Thursday last the
,soilowing placard was circulated about the city
SPECIAL CONSTABLES. •
e Mayo- arid iTaz'.Firatas of this clti have come to the de-
tenninatilayolittist•iiew to the preservation of the public peace,
' to pocinfirei execution the provisions of the Act passed in the last
sesshm- of Parliament, authorising the swearing-in of Special
Constables. But feeliwT convinced 'hat their fellow-citizens wilt
IrPnder the issue of precepts uonecesuiryi by a vertuntary tender
on their services, the 'Mayor and Magistrates will attend at the
Guildhall to-morrow, Friday, Nfr. 4, at ten o'clock, to admit
raster the oath to such persons as may then attend.
The whole of Friday was,occtpied in swearing in spe-
cial constablee, large bodges of the respectable tree,estnen
and inhabitants voluntarily presenting themselves for that
purpose. A detachment of the 91st were atationed
at
Pershore, another Dreitesich, others at convenisLt
distaneen to be ready at a moment's notice if there iris
necessity for them. The following ~,J,kr.9 was also issued
by the Cornniittee of the Weocester Political Union :
Wofteßeerrit POLITICAL UNION.
'TO THE IVS.IIIIERS OF THE WORCESTER POLITICAL
r'SION AND THE CITIZENS OF WORCESTER.
FELLOW UNIONISTS AND FELLOW CITIZENS,
Apprehensions for the peace and safety of this city having
been generally expressed, on account of the great excitement
which recent occurrences have produced; and also from the
expectation that on Saturday next (to-morrow) a large portion of
the inhabitants of the county will assemble together to attend
the County Reform Meeting, we, the Committee of the Wor.
rester Political Union, deem it prudent to call upon the mem_
tiers of the Union and other inhabitants, to be prepared by every
proper and lawful means for the support of peace and good order.
Late melancholy, and in this country, in modern times at least,
unparalleled atrocities which a neighbouring city has been sub-
ject to, must strongly urge upon every member, and upon every
well-disposed person, the propriety of an unceasing determina-
tion, not only not to excite, or by any improper method of dis-
play of party zeal to induce any ill feelings, but to use his in_
/thence and persuasion in abating and subduing every act calcu-
lated to lead to a breach of the peace.
While we urge, at all times, the peaceful expression of public
opinion, which is, incontrovertibly, the nirth-right of every Eng-
lishman, we cannot too strongly deprecate any conduct having
a tendency to excite to disturbance or riot. The Committee
trust that, on the part of the members of the Union, even insult
And contumely may be rather endured, than by an ill-timed re-
aistanee the peace 41 good order of the city and neighbourhood
he endangered.
YRIENDS AND FELLOW. UNIONISTS,
Remember that the great cause of Reform is to be promoted
and advanced only by union and concord, and a fixed and un-
alterable determination to persevere in its accomplishment by
proper and legal means only. It is a good and a righteous cause,
and must prevail against all the factious opposition of a selfish
and interested party; and it needs not to be supported by any
'violation of the law, or any interruption of peace and quietness ;
these are weapons, wielded ever so dexterously, that must rever.
berate with double force upon the assailants, and wound, 'and
perhaps fatally stab, the cause they are aiming to defend.
The Committee beg to remind the members of the Union of
the Gth rule, of "The Duties of the members of the Political
Union, viz.—" To bear in mind that the strength of our Society
consists' in the peace, order, unity, and legality, of our proceed-
ings; And to consider all persons as enemies who shall, in any
way, invite or promote violence, discord, or division, or any
illegal or doubtful measures."
To the Civil Authorities, the Committee beg to state, that
should, unfortunately, any infraction of the law take place, they
would be willing and anxious to assist and co-operate with them
in any way which may be deemed most prudent toeffect the secu.
rity and peace of the city.
By Order of the Committee of the Political Union.
Happily, however, all these precautions were rendered to-
tally unnecessary by the good sense and constitutional de-
portment of the people of this city, every thing going off
with the greatest eclat. Immediately on the opening of
the doors the Hall was completely filled, as well as the
Prius Court, near to which the hustings were erected,
and we think we do not exaggerate when we say there
were between four and five thousand persons present.
The High Sheriff (Osman Ricardo, Esq.), accompanied
by Lord Lyttleton, Sir Thomas Winnington, Sir Offiey
Wakeman, Sir C. Smith, John Richards, Esq., Richard
Spooner, Esq., Acton, Esq., the Hon. T. H.
Foley, M.P., Colonel Davies, M.P., Colonel Newport,
T. C. Hornyold, Esq., the Rev. E. Berry, and many other
influential men of the county, entered the Hall shortly after
twelve o'clock, and took their places on the hustings.
The business of the day was opened by the Under-She-
riff reading the requisition.
The HIGH SHERIFF observed, that in consequence of
Laving received a requisition so numerously and respect-
ably signed, he had considered it his duty to call the present
meeting, and he felt assured, from the excellent and peace-
able conduct adopted by the people of Worcestershire at
the last county meeting, that they would on the present
occasion give a patient and attentive hearing to all who
might wish to address the meeting. He begged of
the persons assembled to be oeseezble and patient, not only
for the sake of their own characters, hut for the sake of
the cause of Reforni—(Cheers)—for it was only by those
means the great question of Reform could be ultimately
carried.—(Loud cheers.) The worthy High Sheriff con-
cluded by reading a letter from William Welch, Esq., re-
gretting that severe indisposition prevented him front
attending the meeting, and expressing his hearty concur-
rence in its objects.
Sir EDWARD Beounr, in rising to move the first resa-
Jution, regretted exceedingly that it bad not been placed
in abler hands. but at the same time knowing that it ex-
pressed the sentiments not only of the county of Worcester
but of the kingdom at large, it was a great source of grati-
fication to him to bring it forward.—(Cheers.) fie begged
to imprese upon the meeting the necessity of tranquillity
and forbearance, as nothing would give their enemies so
much delight as riot and confusion, that being, as they felt
assured, the only ground by which Reform could be de-
feated.—(Loud cheers.) He trusted the Antießeforrners
would not be allowed to succeed in driving the present
meeting to acts of violence; he hoped, as they valued Re-
form, they would be peaceable—that they would remember
the advice of their patriot King, and if they did so they
might feel assured of a lasting triumph,.....-,,(Lond cheers)
The Hon. Baronet sat down by moving the first resolution.
I. That the rejection of the Bill for reforming the Cop', i.ops'
I louse of Parliament by the House of Lords has aroused in the
country a strong feeling of-regret and disappointment, because
each Bill was sanctioned by the King, introduced and supported
by his Ministers, and because it was ,calculated, in a high degree,
through its principles of equable representation, to increase the
liberties and the happiness of the people.
Captain WINNINGTON felt great pleasure in seconding
the resolution which had just been propo'ed, warmly
participating in the feelings which had been expressed by
the Worthy Baronet.—(Cheers.) He would take the pre-
sent opportunity of declaring how warm an advocate he
was in favour of that measure, the rejection of which by
the House of Lords might have thrown the country into.%
state of inextricable confusion,—(Cheers.) The conduct
of the blind and infatuated horoughmongers would have
thrown the country into a state of civil war and discord
but for the firmness of its patriotic King, acid the conduct
of Lis liberal and enlightened Ministers—(Cieeece)n-but,
above all, to the cool and temperate conduct of the people,
(with the exception of one or two), who seemed deter-
mined by every constitutional means to have restored to
them those rights which had been so long withheld from
them. The opinion of the whole country wee tiow in
favour of Reform, and the present numerous meeting,
coupled with similar ineetiteo in adjoining counties, must
convince the borouehniongers that nothing could with-
stand the wi-has of the people, when expressed in a firm
and determined manner.—(Loud cheers.) The present
were not times to remain idle spectators of passing events,
when on the one band every exertion was used to
perpetuate corruption and abuse, while on the other the
noblest efforts were being made to get rid of those impo-
sitions which were adverse to the best interests of the
country.—(Great cheering.) It was not his intention
to go in detail into. the nature of the Bill, but there
was one clause I e wished to call to the atten-
tion of the ineeting—lie referred to that which
conferred the elective franchise on the ten-pound
bouseboldel, in his opinion the 101. householder was as
much entitled to the elective franchise as the 401, free-
holder—(Hear, hear)—who in many instances had been
created so for corrupt purpose..—(Hear, hear.) God
forbid that lie should say any thing to disparage the up-
TWA freeholders who on a late occasion had come forware
in a u: oet manly way, and by chose exertiont the county

pose their own taxes, Without their interference. In the
interval of delay which must ensue before the great con-
summation of the wishes of the people, it became a ques-
tion how the people of England should demean themselves
during that delay. That question bad been already an-
swered by the King and his Ministers, and it .vas the duty
of every one who wished well to his country to gird him-
self with the armour of patience—keepiag in view the
laws of their country, and that they could not better serve
the cause of Anti-Reform than by abandoning themselves to
licentiousness and excess.—(Loud cheers, and cries of
6, We never will.") What was the conduct, he would
ask, of the people of Ireland with respect to the Catholic
question ? Did they violate the laws—did they sound terror
throughout the land, or proclaim the destruction ofproperty?
No, but they pursued that very course which was calcu-
lated to give them all they desired—they drew themselves
up in an attitude of constitutional defence—and that
very combination who had for so many years denied all
their prayers and entreaties—flung at the foot of Ireland
that boon which they were nn longer in a situation to
deny.—(Loud cheering.) Let this country, one and al],
imitate their conduct, and let the present meeting bear in
mind that an Anti-Reformer may be an honest man,
as well as any one of themselves; give them the
same liberty of opinion which they themselves
would wish to have--and all things would shortly
be found to follow on to a happy issue.—(Cheers.)
When the middling class of society, that numerous body
which latter years had called into existence—when they
should be at liberty to send Members to Parliernentethe
House of Commons would be filled with men of business
(Cheers)—competent to give that Reform which the state
of things so loudly called for.—(Cbeere.) Interest would
not then he set up against interest, the landed and agricul-
tural, as well as-the commercial interest, would all then
cling to the ancient co!arnns of the British Constitution,
disencumbered from the heaps of rubbish which it had
beer; the work of modern times to cast aesmod it, which
ilia Lesesuelimeeeeere would wish to see perpetrated, but
which, thank God, they had found to their sorrow the
people would no longer allow.—(Cheers.) The
vessel of the state, with a 111onarah at her helm, who was
the beast and adoration of his country—(Cheers)—
manned by Ministers who were determined to do their
duty—(Cheers)—and the -Peers and ancient aristocracy
the people directing her in her course through the wateee
of the people's love, would soon arrive ire safety in the
haven of security, avoiding the drteiful shoals, quick-
sands, and rocks of revolution se-(Loud cheering.) What,
he would ask, had any country gained by revolution?
But few in the history of modern theree had succeeded in
founding peace. The meeting had only to look for the
proof of that to what had lately occurred in a neigh-
bouring country, where the laws have been trampled
under foot, and the rights of property involved in one
general and universal destruction.—(Cheers.) After all
where was their boasted liberty —iron despotism, such as
had scarcely been known in modern times, stalked through
her lanel : the blood of her sons was shed by millions, and
a weight was cast upon her resourcsei and industry,
which she laboured to the present day to get rid of.--
(Cheers.) The British Constitution, properly adminis-
tered, was not likely to lead to such results, and it must be
remembered that
A thousand years scarce serve to form a State;
kn hour may lay it in the dust : and when
Can man its shattered splendour renovate,
Recal its virtues back, and vanquish time and fate ?

character of many Tory gentlemen to say, that whatever
might be the impropriety of the view they take of public
affairs, a great many have advocated Tory principles, after
great doubts and under the influence of violent prejudices.
—(Cheers.) The case of the Tories Wa-s like that of his
trees in Hagley Park—a good portion of the wood in
which had gone to decay, and he had thought it expe-
dient to take away some of the older trees, notwithstand-
ing the respect he entertained for antiquity, in order to
put in their place young and vigorous plants, that might
benefit him and his posterity. In carrying on that
species of Reform, he had disturbed some of the owls, who,
if they could speak, would, he had no doubt, complain
most loudly at being displaced from their old rotten tree—
their Old Sarum-like tree.—(Great laughter.) In doing
-0 he owed no grudge to the owls, but he thought they
should keep their proper place, and not shew themselves
by day-light.—(Loud laughter.) The Noble Lord here
pleaded an excuse for the non-attendance of his gallant
kinsman, Captain Spencer, on account of the indispostion
of Mrs. Spencer, and continued, he could not but con-
trast the great and fearful change that had taken place
since they last met, with the cheerful hope that ere
long the carrying of this great and important measure
would be fully accomplished. When it was carried, as
he had told the meeting before, he firmly believed
it would tend to the restoration of all orders of the State,
and he would entreat the meeting to lay aside any thing
like harsh feeling towards those who had deprived them
hut for a short time of their darling Reform.—(Cheers.)
He trusted the present meeting had discretion enough to
separirte the politician from the citizen, and to look at a
roan's character as a whole.—(Cheers.) Look with eyes
of candour on the character of all who oppose you, and
remember the words of a great poet--
Cursed be the speech, how well soe'er it flow,
That tends to make an honest man my toe.
—(Tremendous cheering.)
The resolution was then put to the meeting by the High
sheriff, who declared it to be carried unanimously.
Sir CIIRI,TOPIIHIL SMITH moved the presentation of the
Collowing address to his Majesty :
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
We, the noblemen, gentry, and freeholders of the county of
Worcester, in county meeting assembled, beg leave to approach
your Majesty with every feeling of veneration for your Majesty's
person, and with every sentiment of gratitude for the many ad-
vantages which we, in common with the whole empire, have de-
rived from your Majesty's paternal care and regard for the wel-
fare and happiness of your people; and most of all is our grati-
tude due for the anxiety your Majesty has been pleased to ex-
press that a Reform should take place in the Commons' House of
Parliament,—,a measure we consider of the most vital importance
to the best interests of the country, and conducive to the well-
doing of all classes of your Majesty's subjects. Under the influ-
ence of these feelings, and this conviction, we experienced the
greatest mortification that such gracious wishes, in which the
House of Commons so fully concurred, should have been disre-
garded by the House of Lords, and that the Bill, so anxiously
desired by your Majesty, should have been rejected by that
branch of the Legislature, thus producing a result equally afflic-
tive, and equally to be deplored, with any to be found in the whole
raw of our country's history.
lour Majesty has forbidden despair,"and again cheered us with
the expression of an unaltered desire to promote Reform in the
Commons' House of Parliament, and with the assurance that
the attention of Parliament must be called to such measure at
the opening of the ensuing Session ; and your Majesty's Ministers
have ditffised general satisfaction by the solemn pledge that they
will so introduce, at such period, a Bill equally efficient with the
one so lately rejected by the House of Lords.
Thus encouraged, we look, in the midst of our disappointment,
to the best of Kings, in the assurance that your Majesty would
be graciously pleased to'continue to afford to your Ministers that
support which may enable them to effect the object of your Ma-
jesty's wistms mid your people's prayers, by perfecting that full
and efficient measure of Reform, which, by establishing an
equable principle of representation, will give increased solidity
to your Majesty's throne, constitutional liberty to the people,
and will allay that strong excitement which has convulsed the
whole empire, through disappointed and through blighted hope.
In times like the present it was a source of great gratifi-
cation to tLe people of England to have so patriotic a Monarch
sitting on the throne surrounded by such determined Minis-
ters, and it became the duty of the people to express their
confidence in them.—( Cheers.) Doubtless the present meet-
ing had experienced great regret at the rejection of the
Bill, but they had only to wait a short time with patience,
and where was the living man who could doubt that a
Bill equally effective with the last would ere long be the
law of the land. The excitement which had pervaded
all ranks would then be done away with, and the happiest

(Tremendous cheering.) The wishes of the people were
now likely to come to a happy consummation in the great
cause of Reform, and he really believed that the Peers and
the Bishops would take the opportunity of the introduction
of a new Bill, to set themselves right with the people—
finding it a piece of good policy to go along with the times
—that Reform was irresi.tible, and that in the year 1831,
it was not possible for a band of placeinen to trample any
longer upon the necks of the people of England—
Presumptuous men, think you yon sanguine cloud,
Raised by your breath, can quench the orb of day,
To-morrow he resumes the golden flood,
And glade the nation with redoubled ray.
—(Loud and long continued cheering.)
Lord LYTTLETON rose amidst loud applause—The cordial
congra'ulations which had been bestowed upon him at his
first appearance among the inhabitants of Worcester since
the rejection of the Reform Bill, had satisfied him that
the part he had lately taken was in conformity, not only
with his own wishes, but met the approbation of the
county at large.—(Loud cries of " Yes, it does.")
Though he was very far from thinking it incumbent upon
a Peer upon all occasions to render a public account of his
conduct to the people of England, yet upon every great
occasion, like the present, it was his duty to do so, and
vindicate the grounds on which he had exercised that great
trust which the Constitution had placed in his hands.—
(Cheers.) He had come to the present meeting chiefly for
the purpose of ascertainin¢ the opinions of the county, mis-
represented, libelled, and calumniated as they bad been
by those men who formed a small majority in that House,
of which he had the honour to belong—who had repre-
sented that during the interval that had elapsed since they
last met, that the sentiments of the country had under.
gone a considerable change, and had become unfavourable
to that great measure which you then sanctioned.—(Loud
cheers and cries of " There is no change in us.") The
chief object was to ascertain their opinions, because he
judged it to be the duty of a Peer not servilely to conform
himself to the opinion of the people, but when that opi-
nion was rationally and decidedly expressed, and with re-
spect too to a matter in which their dearest rights and in-
terests were concerned, he held that it concerned every man to
ascertain the wishes of the people, that he might carry with
him to the House of which he was the Member, the opinion
of that part of the county which he more particularly repre-
sented.—(Loud cheering.) Was, he would ask, the co-
ronet which had descended to him from his ancestors a
mere gewgaw ? God forbid—it was connected with the
most important duties.—(Loud cheering.) Was the
question of Reform a personal question ? Men with high
metal, but with little sense, had thought it so. To such
men be would say, it was all very well if they were alone
concerned ; they might, if they chose, fight a duel, and
risk their lives—(Laughter)—and perhaps the State
would not he much hurt by that—(Continued laugh- i
ter)—but what right had they, their Royal Highnesses,
their Graces, or their Lordships—(Loud laughter)__
to trample upon the rights of their fellow subjects ?
(Loud cheering.) He would now, with the approbati^n
of the meeting, enter a little into the explanation of his own
conduct—and on that chapter he should be rather short,
for it had already been vindicated by what had been said of
those who had taken a different course,—and lie should,
therefore, take it, that in voting as he did, he bad met with
the approbation and sanction of the county.—(Loud cries
of " Yes.") When last be had the honour of meeting the
inhabitants of the county, he had told them that the mea-
sure of Reform introduced by his Majesty's Ministers was
one that was constitutional anti safe, and calculated to main-
tain the splendour of the Crown, and the great privileges
of the Aristocracy—(Loud cheering)--of that opia
nion be remained still—thinking it calculated to
satisfy the just demand of every thinking man, and to
take away from the members of the Aristocracy that odium
whirls he was sorry to say rested upon so many of them
at the present moment, and which had led to those acts
which had filled the country with alarm. Ile had no
doubt in the firm determination of Ministers to carry the
measure, which should substantially be the same as the
one just thrown ou'—not one atom less popular—anti he
felt confident that nothing would induce them to depart
from that determination, If, therefore, they were not
properly supported by the House of Lords they nee's must
resign their places—the consequence will be the ap-
pointment of fresh Ministers--if time should be
givers for that in the great tionsmotion that would
than take piece throughout the country, who would
attempt to carry on the Government in spite of the
the House of Commons, and who would undoubtedly fail
in such rash despotism.—(Cheers.) Such being the course
intended to be adopted by Ministers, the expression of the
tfrtermination of that great county meeting might be ne-
cerscry e:s. the spy ect.—(Clieers.) It might become ne-
cessary to put in force Lama great exercise of the Royal
prerogative, to avert the calamities that might ensue to
case what he had been anticipating should come to pass.
The best chance of avoiding the extreme exercise of the
Ilaiyal prerogative, and to avert the chance of an addition
to the horse of Lords, was by expressing strongly the
opinions of the meeting alien the subject. For himself he
thought an addition to the House of ;sonic, to the extent
thought of would Le a great evil not only to himself
but to all who called themselves Englishmen, and
the reason why he thought it would be an evil
was because it was a great thing that the people should
have men of independent fortunes and high character to
represent them in the House of Commons..--( Loud !Them.)
A principal advantage to the people in their Members
the House of Commons was, that they were the best bar-
riers between them and any infringement on the part of
the Crown.—(Cheers.) Turn those representatives,
however, into Peers, and the people would deprive them.-
selves of good representatives, and impoverish the House
of Comm.ona of some of its best Members. With re-
spect to the Tories, when he was last here, lie believed lie
said something about them, but he certainly did anticipate
when the elections were over, and when 4 great majority of
the House of Commons had carried the Bill, that the per-
sons whom he then described as owls would have
had such a glimmering of what was going on before them,
that they would have supported the Bill. That, however,
bad not h the ease. He, however, felt it due to the

results might be expected—probably it would lead to a
greater economy of the public purse, but miracles must
not be expected, it must not be expected that it would
remove all the distresses under which the country laboured

—they were above all human power, and none bat the
all. seing eye of Providence could alleviate them.—(Cheers. )
Mr. HANFORD seconded the address. Although in the
House of Lords there were Noble Peers who were ready
to sacrifice their own interests on the altar of their country,
yet it must be remembered that there were also individuals
in the same place who dinged to their rotten boroughs
with a sort of dying, convulsive grasp.—(Laughter.) He
felt great respect for the Members of the House of Lords in
their private capacity ; he felt great respect for them as a
branch of the Legislature—not only as one of those branches
coeval with Royalty itself, but he respected them as the
representatives and descendants of those great men who
wrung from the hand of a tyrant the first great charter of
the liberties of the country.—(Loud cheering.) But still
he could not but look at them in the same light as

All the great operations of trade could not he carried on
hut for that confidence and credit which existed between
man andsman, and when once that was destroyed, the
Means by which toe labourer was paid would be entirely
uprooted—(Cheers)—and men would be soon fouud
rioting through the country, not in search of em-
ployment, but for food, by which to maintain
life.—(Cheers.) If the agit ition of the g,reat question
had caused the timid to be still more so—if it had been
the means of preventing the manufacturer from employing
the usual number of workmen, was not th.it a reason why
all should join he at and hand in endeavouring to obtain
obedience to the laws ?—(Cheers.) Since the accession
of George the Third, with but a very short interval, the
Tories have been in possession of the Government of the
country—they had hail, therefore, every opportunity offered
them of making the people prosp.rous and happy ; and
had they done so ?—( Loud cries of " No") —but you
would all directly say " Yes, yes," if I was to ask you
whether they had not almost brought the country to the
brink of ruin?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.") As a proof of
that he would say, look at the debt—(Laud cheering)--
look to the load of taxation which crushed almost
every man to the earth, and more than that, look to the
uniform, the strenuous, the determined and undeviating
opposition given by the Tories to all improvement.--
(Loud cheering.) Look to the conduct of Sir Robert
Peel—(Cries of " Sir Robert Halfway, you mean")—on
the question of East Retford.—(Cheets.) Look to the
declaration of the Duke of Wellington, that lie was op-
posed to all Reform.—(Loud cheers.) But, thank God,
the sun of the Tories had for ever set, the King was a
sincere and honest Englishman, desirous for the happiness
of all his subjects, and therefore it was that he had given
his confidence to those who now formed the present
Administration, in order that they, in their wisdom,
might introduce such measures as would give to the
people that happiness which they ought to enjoy, and
which would make the country flourishing and prosperous.
—(Loud cheers.) Could there be a doubt as to the inte-
grity of Lord Althorp?—(Loud cheering.) Could any man
doubt the integrity, the talents, and the industry of Lord
Brougham ?—(Tremendous cheering, and cries of " No,
no.") Could any mortal man cast but the shadow of a
stain on the high and magnanimous feeling of Earl Grey ?
—(Redoubled cheering.) Could the people of England
at the ❑ext important el isis, place their confidence on
better, or wiser, or nobler men, than those endeared names,
which would be handed down to posterity with venera-
tion, and whose memory would live in the hearts of
a grateful and devoted people, till time should be
no longer.—(Tremendous cheering, and cries of " No,
no.") If the Tories were to ask what was to lie gained by
the Reform Bill, he would say, was it nothing to inspire
the people with heartfelt gratitude—( Loud cheers)—was
it nothing to secure their rights—or was it nothing to
tranquillize the public mind?—(Excessive cheering.) It
was true that they could not flatter them with a Bishop's
'nitre or lawn sleeves, or with even a Deacon's stall—
(Loud cheering)—or that high honours should be show-
ered upon them, but they could at least be promised the
approb ttion and gratitude of their countrymen, compared
with which, all the high honours the country had to be-
stow sunk into insignificance. What might the Tories
not lose by their opposition to the wishes of the people ?
(Cheers.) Would they wish to see the altar of a much
loved country laid waste ? Would they wish to see the
public peace invaded, and the palace and the cottage levelled
to the ground ? Did they wish to see the domestic hearth
turned into a charnel-house—if they did, they would con-
tinue their opposition to the Bill.—(Tremendous cheering.)
What might they not expect from the rising of an injured
people ?--(Cheers.) But he would exhort the present
meeting to support to the utmost his Majesty's Ministers,
to behave peaceably, orderly, but firmly, and they might
he assured the great object they had in view would he at-
tained. If the people properly supported Ministers, and who
could doubt it, they would have time to give their attention
to other measures, after the passing of the Reform Bill,
which would be necessary to ensure the tranquillity of the
country.—(Loud chi era.) The present was a time when

it became all men to come forward. He had been a Re-
former all his life; nobody could doubt his sincerity—no
one could find fault with his consistency, and lie called
uponall present to set an example to their fellow-subjects

of a love of public order, by concurring with the resolu-
tion he had proposed. Mr. Richards sat down amidst
loud cheers.
RICHARD SPOONER, Esq., in coming forward to second
the resolution, was received with the most deafening
plaudits. He felt on the present occasion greater pleasure
than he had experienced at any other time, arising from a
conviction that victory—real decided victory—was shortly
to be reaped by the ardent advocates of Reform.—(Loud
cheers.) He felt great pleasure in seconding the resolu-
tion, because it had been proposed by one who, during
the whole time of his residence in this city, had always
acted conscientiously.—(Cheers.) There was no doubt
of Reform being carried. The mandate had gone forth
that it must pass—the King stood pledged to it—(Cheers)
—the House of Commons had said in a voice that could

had been taken by one of the previous speakers. not be mistaken, and by a majority unparalleled in its
There was one view, however, of the subject which numbers, that it did not represent the people of Eng-
that gentleman had not adverted to ; for himself he would land—(Loud cheers)—and nothing now stood between
not declaim too loudly against the House of Lords, for it the peoples' hope and wishes but 200 Peer., who he would
should be kept in mind that though 199 voted against the venture to say, if the people would only allow them to
measure, that nevertheless 150 voted for it, and among look around them, they would shortly see the necessity of
that number were to be found all those the heroic deeds of Reform.—(Cheers.) He was convinced the present meet-
whose ancestors crowded the pages of history.—(Cheers.) ing were too good Statesmen—that they were too deter-
The people, supported by a magnanimous King, and such mined not to have their victory wrenched from them by
an Administration, should give their Lordship time to their own hands, to let any unprovided act of their own
consider their verdict. The enlightened people of Eng- deprive them of that boon, to the healing effects of
land should mark the differences between moral and pity- which they had been looking so long, and through
sical force—for he would take upon himself to say the which medium a fair and full representation of the people
moral force of the country was competent, with the known in the House of Commons could be attained.—(Cheers.)
firmness of the King and his Ministers, to give the people Some years ago the Duke of Wellington could not find a
in a few weeks that Bill which bad been just thrown single fault in the representation of the county, but a few
) months ago, however, he had said that he was then speaking out, not in shadow but in substance.—(Loud cheers.
The three great leading principles of the Bill were first a, a King's Minister, and not as a Peer of Parliament,
the entire doing away of rotten boroughs—(Cheers)— and that now he admitted some little Reform was wanting ;
the extension of the franchise—(Cheers)—and the cur- the meeting might depend upon it there were a great
tailing of the wings of corporate bodies.—(Tremendous many rats in his train would soon follow his example—it
cheering.) If in the minutiae of the new Bill any im- was a sort of trick they had in that House—(Laughter)
provements could be made, let them take place. God
—and that was one reason why he thought there would
forbid that any man's mind should be so prejudiced as to be a great change among them.—(Cheers.) An intimate
euppose• the Bill perfect—(Cheers)—he thought it pos- friend of his had often battled the subject of Reform
Bible that some of the details of the Bill might be with him—be (Mr. S.) called him a Tory, and his friend
amended, but sight was not to be lost of the three great called him a Radical—(Laughter)—on meeting him the
leading features of it.—(Loud cries of "No, we won't lose other day he said he was a Reformer then, a moderate Re-
sight of that.") It had been said that Roman Catholics had former. Well, but he (Mr. S.) said why did you not
mixed themselves with the question of Reform—he thought vote in favour of the measure brought forward by Mr.
if they bad not done so they would have been unworthy of Tennyson, for conferring the East Retford franchise on
the name of Englishmen—but he spurned the idea with Birmingham. Oh, said he, that's a very general measure, and
contempt, that in doing so they had any sinister purposes I was against that.—(Loud laughter.) Well, but
to answer. It was impossible for Roman Catholics to do how came it about if you were a Reformer that
otherwise than they had done; their love of their country, you did not vote for Lord John Russell's Bill,
and their gratitude to some of the Members of the present Oh ! said he, that was too sweeping a measure, and
Administration, called loudly upon them to take the course I could not vote for that—(Laughter)—and so he went
they had done.—(Loud cheering.) Earl Grey, the head on to every que,tion that was asked him, giving some
of the present Administration, years and years ago resigned
foolish excuse for not being favourable to it, till at last he
power on account of the Catholics—at another period by (Mr. S.) told Mtn that he thought he was a very pretty
refused it from the same cause.—(Cheers.) And with moderate Reformer, but such a one as nobody would trust.
—(Loud laughter.) Such was the character of those
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who called themselves moderate Reformers. By the Con-
,
Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, who said of two
stitution of the country the Peers had no right to interfere
evils we will choose the least, and therefore we will give you in the representation of the people in the House of Cern-
emancipation. —(Cb eers. ) Earl Grey, however, had nions.—(Loud cheers.) He trusted the time was not far
sacrificed almost all that was dear to him, and therefore, distant when Peers would trust to the weight of their
if the Roman Catholics had no other object in view, coin- characters, and not the weight of their purses, to give
mon gratitude would cause them to be Reformers.—
them that influence with the people which they ought
<Loud cheers.) Allusion had been made to the corn
to have.—(Loud and continued cheering.) The property
laws, and though a subject which, if left to his own judg-
of all Peers was held in trust, that the influence executed
went, he should not have touched, yet as they had been by the holder of it should be for the good of the people.—
spoken of, he would just state one fact, which was worth
(Cheers.) He thought the present Bill would send up
twenty arguments. It was well known, that in anise- to the House of Commons men who were identified with
quence of the great depression of trade that existed in the the interest of the people, and whose first act would be
great manufacturing town of Birmingham, the consump- to cut down the loaves and fishes.—(Loud cheers.) The
tion of agricultural produce was reduced one-third.— people must not despair, every thing was sure before
That fact would carry with it its own answer, for where them—ere long the Bill would be the law of the land—
would the farmer find himself without a market the Bill, thoroughly arid substantially the Bill, for Earl
for his produce.—(Loud cheers.) He felt it itnpos• Grey had never yet made a fool of any one who relied on
Bible there could be a difference of opinion in the
him ; and he had said that he would be no party to a Bill
present meeting, the object of all was a cheap government,
less efficient than the one just thrown out.—(Loud cheers.)
and Reform would give them that. Mr. Handford con •
Ile would entreat the meeting to be no party with those
eluded amitht loud cheers,
The resolution was then carried unanimously. whet wizhed to erect the standard of discord—if they were
Jon N RICHA }ins, Esq., moved the following Resolution. but peaceable, quiet, and patient, they were cure of Reform
5. That this meeting, deeply impressed with the importance of
public order to the safety and happiness of the people, earnestly like that they
in Parliament, and those who were opposed to it would,
the owl, be thrown so much in the shade
recommend to all their fellow-subjects the preservation of the would be able to open their eyes, which had so long been
public peace, and solemnly declare their conscientios conviction
that the people may fully and safely rely on the. justice and good. closed by the pensions and sinecures which they had taken
tress of his Majesty, and
on the
wisdom and firmness ot• his Mi. from the pockets of the people. Mr. Spooner concluded
nisters, to wham he has entrusted the Iteform Bill,
a most eloquent and excellent speech, which we regret
In doing so from the long experience he had had of the time and space will not allow us to give more in detail, by
good sense and excellent disposition of the freeholders of
Worcestershire, he felt it almost unnecessary to 84). one
A. SKEY, Esq. proposed the sixth resolution.
word, but for those unfortunate events that had taken place address to his
seconding e resolution, which was carried unanimously.
Li. That Lord Foley be requested to present the
in a neighbouring city. lie was sore, however, no person INLijesty.
in the present meeting would be the rums of destioyi,,,6 QEGoitG FARLEY, Esq. seconded it.—Carried unani•
public order and tranquillity. The meeting would allow mously.
him to state a peculiar view which he took with reference Colonel Jeerates, in proposing the seventh resolution,
g
to the great question before the meeting, He was here observed that he thought the sentiments expressed by Lord
to-day merely by accident; he bad just returned front Lyttletoo, with reference ta the holding of his coronet in
the manufacturing districts) and there be had seen the trust, ought to be written in letters of gold, and sent to a
great importance of maintaining public peace and public Noble Duke in the North, to be placed on the wall of his
order.—(Cheery,) All were aware that the state of trade mansion, that it might shine like the glorious light at
and manufactures was bad—was brought to the very Helsliazz tr's feast, to warn him of the course he ought to
lowest pitch, and that the wages received did not give a pursue. The Gallant Colonel concluded a speech of some
comfortable maintenance to the labourer, but what little length, by proposing the following resolution ;
lie did get might be entirely destroyed anti taken away by I 7. That the thanks OfttleiisHmonee.t,ligablngiennto thicorHot.:irtlatot:
any infringement of the public peace and order, —(Cheers.) mtertioHnentoryttle.one d trerae'c'ts of the county, for spencer,
retChigence in the