The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-27 00:00:00

REFORM MEETINGS.

SO UTHWARK.—( THIS DAY.)
In consequence of a numerously signed requisition, ad-
dressed to the High Bailiff (John Holmes, Esq.), this
morning was appointed by him for a meeting of the elec-
tors of Southwark to petition the House of Lords to pass
the Reform Bill. Notwithstanding the wetness of the
morning, by eleven o'clock a very large body of the electors
had assembled in the Town-hall to prove their unabated

attachment to the cause of Reform.
The High Bailiff Was prevented from presiding by ill-
ness. The Lord Mayor was solicited, and had assented to
Occupy the Chair; but this morning he felt some scruples
as to being deputy to one of his own officers, in which he
was confirmed by the City Solicitor ; accordingly, this
morning the Committee received a letter, stating the diffi-
culty which had arisen, and expressing his sorrow for the
trouble he had caused. After several gentlemen had been
proposed, and had declined on account of irregularity, they

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being in office at present,
Mr. .JOINaS proposed and unanimously elected.
On the arrival of the Members for the Borough, they

were received with great acclamation.
The CIIA IR3I AN on taking his seat said, that the electors
of Southwark were called upon again to express their
opinion upon the all engrossing subject of Reform, for
being almost the only scot and let borough in the kin-
dom, it was necessary for the inhabitants to state their
opinion (for it was entitled to much weight) whether their
fellow countrymen were to he allowed the same privileges as
they themselves enjoyed. Being placed in the chair, it
was not competent for him to say much on the
(Cries of "Go on.") However, he would content him-
self with saying, that if the Bill only consisted of sche-
dule A, it would be a great boon and blessing to the
country, as it would act on corruption as a powerful

purge.
Mr. RICHARDSON, in rising to propose the first resolution,
expressed his satisfaction that the Bill had got so far.
It was stated by the hireling writers of the borough-
mongers that the people were lukewarm on the subject,
and did not want Reform. This was the cause
of their meeting to day—were these statements true ?
(No, no.) He expected such an answer, and hoped the
Lords would yet, before it was too late, look further into
the state of the people's feeling. It was also stated by
these same writers that the Lords would reject the Bill.
The Lords might reason in this way, " We can make no-
thing by this Bill, therefore we will threw it out ;" hut
can they lose nothing, first of all they would inevitably
lose the respect of the people, and then it might be asked
of what use they were. The people might look across the
Atlantic where they would see the descendants of English-
men who carried on their trade and their Government,
without such a House to oppose itself to the wishes of the
people and their representatives. The gentleman con-
cluded by moving the first resolution, which is as follows :
" That this meeting having watched with intense anxiety
the progress of the Bill brought into Parliament by his
Majesty's Ministers, for reforming the representation of
the House of Commons, fee's the greatest delight, that a
measure alike demanded by policy and justice, has at
length passed the Honourable House."
The Rev. Mr. KENNY seconded the resolution, and

stated his anxiety to see such a beneficial measure passed
into a law, not only as a man but as a minister of peace.
He supported the Bill on two grounds—first it would
prevent an increase of the burdens of the people—and se-
condly it would give the aristocracy an interest in the corn-
fin to of the people.
Mr. BLACKETT proposed the second resolution. He
paid a warm tribute of respect to the High Bailiff, and
expressed his hopes of soon seeing him again amongst
them, in which he was cordially joined by all present. He
stated that this was the fourth time of their meeting on
this same subject, and all this trouble was caused by a
Noble Marquis and a particular friend of his, an editor of
a very powerful paper, the Morning Post, who was
pleased to amuse themselves by calumniating the people,
saying that the people were not in want of Reform. But
they would meet and meet again, till they got what they
wanted, and what was their right.—(Great cheering.)
A great deal had been said about the wisdom of our an-
cestors, but if the wisdom of our ancestors had reasoned
in the same way when would we have got Magna Charta?
All we asked for was that we should have some little con.
troul over the money which we paid to the State, and
this Bill would give us such, and therefore let us have it.
He then gave in the second resolution as follows :
The resolution was put and agreed to unanimously.
" That this meeting are not willing to entertain the
fearful apprehension that the House of Lords will disap-
point their just expectations and fervent wishes, by either
delaying or mutilating a measure so essential to the best
interests of the country, or endangering the peace thereof,
by the fearful hazard which in the expectation of this
meeting would attend its rejection."
Mr. DAVIS seconded the resolution. It bad often been
asked, " What will the Lords do ?" He thought it was
equally right to ask, " What will the unrepresented people
do ?" Led on by a glorious and patriotic King, and al-
lowed by the House of Commons, they would demand
their rights, and not cease their efforts till they had got
them.
The resolution was then passed unanimously.
Mr. BARNES, in proposing the third resolution, had a
better opinion of the wisdom of the Lords than to believe
they would oppose the wishes of the united people of three
nations.
The resolution was as follows
That this meeting, in its solicitude for the preserva-
tion of our valuable institutions, the security of property,
the safety of the Constitution, the prosperity of the king.
dons, and the well-being of society, most earnestly en.
treat the Hruse of Lords to grant the prayers of a united
nation, and thereby emulate the conduct of their noble an•
cestors on the field of Runnymede—evincing like them a
firm attachment to the rights and liberties of the people,
the only mode in the opinion of this meeting to secure
their affection, and to transmit to posterity the blessings
of a glorious Constitution."
Seconded by Mr. BEAK.
The petition baying been read,
Mr. RICH ARDSON, in moving the fourth resolution, paid
a high compliment to the liberal portion of the Prer.
The resolution was that a petition be presented in the
terms cf the foregoing resolutions.—Carried.
Mr. BLACKETT then moved a resolution of thanks to his
Majesty's Ministers, and imploring them not to leave the
head of affairs, as the meeting were of. opinion that such
abandonment would cause great confusion an the country.
(LEFT SPEAKING)

MIDDLESEX.—( THIS DAY.)
A numerous and respectable meeting of the freeholders
of the county of Middlesex was this day held, pursuant to
r quisition, in the Mermaid Tave(n, Hackney, for the
purpose of petitioning the House of .Lords to pass un-
mutilated, and with all possible expedition, the Reform
Bill into a law.
AL half.past twelve o'clock the Sheriffs took the
chair, supported by Mr. Byng, M.P., Mr. Hunt, M.P.,
Col. Jones, Dr. Carpue, Sir J. Lilly, Mr. Serjeant Pell, and
other influential gentlemen connected with the county.
Mr. Sheriff MARSHALL then addressed the meeting.
Having received within the last three days a requisition,
numerously and respectably signed, of the freeholders of the
county, it had afforded him and his colleague much
pleasure on the last day of their holding office,
to appoint this morning for the consideration of one of
the most important subjects that could engage the attention
of the British community.—(Cheers.) Surrounded as
he was by gentlemen of so distinguished merits and at-
tainments it was unnecessary for him to say anything
upon the general question, or on the resolutions that
would he proposed, fcr the sanction and approval
of the meeting, but at the last hour of holding of.
tire he could not but congratulate the meeting on the
occasion of their assembly together. The discussions of the
day he hoped would bz conducted in that temperate manner
which should do honour to the county; that no violent lan-
guage either in the resolutions or declamation might be used,
as it was equally unworthy of the occ.e,,ion, and incon-
sistent with the true national character of Englishmen.
The requisition was then read by the Under Sheriff,
and— _ . .•

Mr. Serjeant PELL came forward to address the meeting.
He had the greatest pleasure in presenting himself on this
occasion; and if there was any thing which would make him
regret the occurrences of the day, it would be the state-
ment he had just heard from the Sheriff, that this was the
last day he shou!d have to fulfill that office, which during:
the last year he and his colleague bad filled with so much
benefit to the public and credit to themselves.—(Cheers.)
This was the first county meeting that had been held on
this great question since the Bill had passed the House of
Commons, and it ought to be the first, because the county
of Middlesex contained as much as any county could con-
,
tain of integrity, opulence, political wisdom, and British
firmness.—(Cheers.) The meeting was called for a
great purpose ; he would say with the greatest truth, as
far as the experience of his whole life extended, that the
present in every respect was the most awful crisis that had
ever
impended over the British empire.--(Hear.)
He knew what the country wanted, and also what
they should have. They wanted firmness but not
violence, consistency but riot coarseness, they knew
what their rights were, and by consistency and firmness

they would, tinder God's blessing, have theni..4elitera.)
He would not have any one deceive himself upon that
point. Intimidation used to any man never did good,
but above all intimidation to an Englishman always
did honour, as it made him resist snore than he other-
wise would that which his reason told him he ought
to adopt. If then, in proceeding to address the House of
Lords, praying them to support, uphold, and carry the
great measure of British reformed representation, the
meeting felt that they were Englishmen, they ought not
to forget at the same time that that illustrious
body were Englishmen too.—(Cheers.) He did
not anticipate an unfavourable result from the
measures of that
.day. He did not anticipate a
hasty, splenetic, arbitrary, captious rejection either of the
entire measure, or of any essential part of it. He was bound
to believe, and he did believe, that the Bill would pass—
because it ought to piss—because it contained that which
was essential to the prosperity, peace, and happiness of
the country, and because public opinion had decided that
in its present state the Bill should lie passed into a law.—
With these few remarks he trusted he would be allowed, by
those even who had, in their opinions, a shade of difference,
to make a few remarks upon the measure in itself, and
with reference to the 'winner in which it had fortunately
arrived at it present stage--(Hear)—and in what way he
hoped it would ultimately reach the haven where the
country with universal expectancy desired it to be. As
to what it was in itself, it gave to England a real repre-
sentation—it gave to property, united with population, a
power of melting those laws by which Englishmen were
bound, and under which they were governed—it gave to
the great towns that from which they had been so long and
so iniquitously debarred—that representation which ought
to be possessed by them, but had long been vested in such
places as Gatton and Old Sarum. It took off the expences
of contested elections from the shoulders of those who it
was desirable should represent the interests of the country,
for really no honest man in the present state of things
with a moderately independent fortune dare embark in re-
presentative contests, because he felt all along that while
in doing so he was attempting to support their independ-
ence, he was in substance and in fact losing his
property and destroying—in another sense indeed, but
still an important one—his known independence. Such
was the measure in itself, and such the important ad-
vantages which constitutionally it proposed to confer
upon the country. By whom had this measure been
opposed ? By whom had it been supported ? It
had been supported by the country at large—it
hail been supported as far as point of constitutional
punctilio could admit, by the head of the country—the
King—(Cheers)—the most patriotic and the most honest
Monarch that ever sat on the British throne.—(Here the
meeting gave three times three cheers ) It had been
supported—he said it without hesitation, and without
dreading the aspersions which might be thrown on him—
it had been supported by that great engine, great in its
power—universal in its extent—moral in its influence—
legitimate in its exercise, and searching in all its attri-
butes—be meant the public Press of the United King-
dom.—(Loud and continued cheers.) He had heard—
anti the meeting had heard constant charges against the i
public Press—many persons had smarted under it, but
they had deserved the smart.—(Hear.) Ile would ask,
had any honest, principled, straight-forward man been
made to smart under it.—(Cries of " No, no.") Had
the men whose course was clear, whose motives were be-
yord suspicion, men of private and public virtue ever
suffered through injury by the public Press? No, he would
tell who have suffered from it--who, if they had not suf-
fered in that way, could be made to smart by no other—
he meant those half and half men, who were waiting
for the turn of the tide to see in what way public
opinion should flow, that their own bark might he
waited by its shifting into the desired harbour,
while they rejoiced in the wreck of others, who
if they started along with them, had less manoeuvring,
policy, and prudence, perchance than they.—(Cheers.)
Another class of men there was, he held them in the most
unfeigned contempt—who with all their boasted and
affected friendliness to the liberty of the public Press, would
do all in their power to crush and to wither its influence.—
(Hear.) Who, when they would attack it commenced by
etating their sincere attachment forsooth to its freedom, and
then followed it up by something that showed they would
cut down and abridge it as much as in them lay. These
were the men who would bold up the Press to scorn ;
and who would unjustly for their own private
purposes put their hands into the public purse, or make
the public a stepping-stone to their own ambition.
In the House of Commons there was Sir Robert Peel,
that man of cotton and consistency—that soi-disant of
Protestant ascendancy—that supporter of political Catho-
licism—that gentleman who he believed from his heart
would be found to assert that there was something in this
Reform Bill which was more deserving of his attention
titan lie had hitherto expected ; but who could forget that
when he had the opportunity of throwing the represen-
tation of East Redford, under a convicted state of bribery
and corruption, into one of the great towns of the north of
England, neglected the opportunity, anti armed with Minis-
terial influence, directed it into the hundred of B issetlaw
—from one channel of corruption to another.—(Cheers.)
Yet he too, upon the present occasion, had declared that an
alteration should take place, and that the great towns should
he represented, not because he approved of it, but because
the country demanded it.—(Cheers.) Then there was
Sir C. Wetherell, who as well as Sir J. Scarlett, had been
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been
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nosegay—(Laughter)--a nosegay made up of all the weeds
and thistles and nettles of corrupt barousehmonger-
ing representation. But he would now come
to those who had supported the measure.—[Here
Sir Francis Burdett appeared on the hustings, and was
loudly and most enthusiastically cheered by the meeting.]
He (the Learned Seijeant) would not vie late good taste by
alluding personally to those illustrious and patriotic indivi-
duels present, who hail so nobly maintained the country's
niipo,l,le;o(o,ninLgnngoee_tirin,g
cause.—(Loud cheers.) But he could not forbear to
mention the name of Lord Althorp, who from first to
last in an English, plain, straight-forward, inflexible
unswervingly performed his duty.
Who had never betrayed a single
nceiviti:ea'rieltrhibneege.,2ank of the Peerage, hail come forward
guilty of a single inconsistency, but
every possible occasion. to maintain the people's rights
and defend their privileges.—( Loud cheers.) The Learned
Se.rjeant then alluded to the opinion of Lord Althorp
upon the liberty of the Press, and stated, that although
the Bill was now deposited in the House of Lords, and
reading, as no Noble Lord had
direct opinion, it did not
upon that point. He would
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oppose the wishes of the King and the nation. It was,
indeed, an awful suspense, and be was under much
apprehension ; because, let him think as well as he
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of that noble and illustrious body, the House
of Peers, he could not but tremble, lest from some
cause or other,—some, he would not say the majority,
might
go wrong. Sore lie was of this, that those who
had opposed the measure would present touch the same
aspect as those who had opposed it in the Commons. lie
could not but think that some private interest—a great
deal of prejudice—a good deal of party spleen—much
disappointed ambition would be found more or le-s to
weave that web in which might be attempted, perhaps,
to entangle this Bill of the nation's tights and constitu-
tional privileges,—(Loud cheers.) If that should he the
case, which he trusted in God it would not, the people
would have another opportunity of expressing
their sentiments. It might happen that the ul-
timate success. of the measure might turn on the
votes
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wished all to be on taeir guard, that their enemies
might not have the opportunity of saving, look to the
measure, see what it is, anti judge of its efficacy by the
strong means that have been resorted to to carry it. He
was as great a friend to toleration as any man, and respected
the Dissenters greatly, to whom England owed so much, yet
still he must be allowed to have his opinion as well es
they theirs. He was a member of the Church of England
himself, and Ile wished to have that church as pure as it
could poesibly he.—(Great cheering.) He trusted that
this country, would not have to be dragged through so
lore it debate as that which had taken place in the liouse
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of Comioons, in the House of Lords. Yet if it was, it
ho
was their duty to bear it patiently, and he could assure
them,
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all they so ardently desired.—(Cheers.) But to attempt
to gain that desired end by clamour and disturbance would
ultimately bring us all to irretrievable ruin.—(Loud
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those whomlooked through the country, and be could find
unworthy motives. From the east to the west, from the
north to the south, and from the highest to the lowest,
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were pitted, and on the fall of /AA tire happiness
or misery of the country depended. The whole country
had come forward like Englishmen, sensible of their
rights and wrongs—the House of Commons had done
what it ought to do, and he trusted the House of
Lords would do the same. He had always been,
and he always should be, a fast, fixed, and
resolute friend to Reform. The Learned Sergeant cinclud-
etl by moving the following resolution :—" Resolved, that
this meeting have full reliance on their patriotic King, that
they duly estimate his sympathy with the public feeling,
and confidently trust that his Majesty will neglect.no legal
means within his power to vindicate the rights and re-
establish the prosperity of the country."—(Cheers.)
Mr. WILK'S, M.P., seconded the resolution. The basis
of election had been recognised and established by
the present Reform Bill in the House of Commons.
By that great measure property was to be represented,
aid six or seven hundred thousand of their fellow-country-
men were added to the constituency of the country. When
measures like these were brought forward,supported by a pa-
triotic King and an enlightened Ministry,ought not the pre-
sent meeting, he would ask, and the whole country, to be
proud of a King who had acted in so determined a manner.
He trusted that the present measure would be the means
of giving joy to all classes.—(Loud cheers.) Fears, how-
ever, were in existence, that the Bill would be rejected
by the House of Lords. In those fears he could not
concur, for he could never think so ill of the descend-
ants of men who had been so wise, and great, and
good, who owed so much to their country, who de-
rived from it their fortunes and their all, as to suppose
they would so far forget the wishes of the people, which
had been thundered in their ears in so conspicuous a
manner—(Loud cheers)—as to realize those fears ; but if
try throwing out this Bill they did realize them, it was not
tnr the country or himself he trembled, but for them.
—(Loud and long-continued cheering.) The people
would then be induced to ask why do these persons venture
to oppose themselves to us—who and what are they? Is
it their high and influential authority, or their great wealth,
that entitles them to act so ; their wealth is not equal to
ours, nor to their class did belong the poet or the mecha-
nical man ; and what right, therefore, can they have to
oppose themselves to our wishes ? Such, doubtless, would
be the language of the people if that fortuitous event,
which he did not anticipate, should take place. He
trusted that the present meeting would not address the
House of Lords in vain. If, however, they did so, other
resources were abundant, not tumult, confusion, and dis-
order—not the burning of houses or the raising of cla-
mour—but in the joint exercise of that constitutional
power which the people of this country, and, thank
God, its patriotic Sovereign, professed. He felt
exceedingly happy that the Ministry had not created a
sufficient number of Peers to pass the Bill, that would,
in his opinion, have been an unconstitutional and unwise
proceeding. They had, however, determined to leave
the measure constitutionally for the consideration
of the Lords, and if in that House the Bill
was rejected, it teas extremely probable that the Ad-
ministration would prorogue the Parliament. The people
would then know that their Loribliips did not sympathize
with them, and they would join hand and heart in begging
of their King to exercise his high prerogative in increas-
ing the number of Peers to such an extent as would ensure
the ultimate success of this great and important measure,
which would ensure to this country prosperity, happiness,
and peace;
The resolution was carried unanimously, amidst the
most enthusiastic applause.
Sir Jolts' SCOTT Ltr.Ly moved the following resolu•
tion t—" That his Majesty's Ministers deserve the best
thanks of the community, for their honest and cotnprelien-
sive plan of Reform, and for their able as well as persever-
ing exertions to pass the same into a law."
The lion. Baronet was speaking when our reporter left.

ALNWICK, (NowrnumßEßLAND).—On Friday a
meeting, convened by the Chamberlains of the town took
place at the Town-hall, John Carr, Esq., in the Chair.
One of the speakers, Mr. Bushy, in addressing the meeting
observed that " He had no fear that the Lords wou!d re-

ject the Bill, but if they did, Englishmen had too much
sense to plunge themselves into acts of violence in the as-
sertion of their rights. There was a moral power in the
voice of principle anti truth that would effect as much as
the demonstration of physical force. The House of Com-
mons had virtually declared themselves an imperfect echo
of the wishes and sentiments of the people; the latter had
not then their complete and constituti )nal voice in the
Legislature. The petition of rights (3d Charles I.) de-
clared that the people shall not be taxed hut with their
free consent in Parliament. It will then be for the House
of Lords to consider bow, in the present state of the House
of Commons, the people will be legally bound to pay taxes
and obey laws to which they are debarred from giving
their assent. Language cannot be too strong for their
address to the Lords. The Bill of Rights was a model for
their imitation. The great men of that day said we
claim, demand, and insist upon the premises as our un-
doubted rights and liberties,' and one of the premises'
was, that the election of Members of Parliament should
be free.'" A petition to the Lords, to be presented by
Earl Grey, was agreed to, as was an address to his Majesty
on the occasion of the coronation containing stronrullu-
sions to " the Bill."

BRIDGE WARD.—In compliance with the requi-
sition of a large body of the inhabitants, a meeting of the
ward of Bridge was held yesterday, at the Swan Tavern,
Fish-street-hill.

BRIGHTON.—At two o'clock yesterday, a numerous
and highly respectable meeting was held in the Town-ball
on the subject of the Reform Bill, the High Constable in
the chair, when a petition to the House of Lorde was una-
nimously adopted.

BELFAST.—A requisition to the Sovereig❑ lics on tl.e
table of the Commercial News-room, and has already re-
ceived nearly 100 signatures. We do not recollect ever
B,,eing a requisition which, in so short a period, received
so numerous and respectable a list of signatures.—
Northern Whig.

COVENTRY.—At four o'clock on Thursday, the
news of passing the Reform Bill in the Commons was
announced in this city. The intelligence spread with',
rapidity, and in a short time after the bells of St.
Michael's church stoick off, and continued ringing until
a late hour at night. The ringing was resumed next
morning.—Coventry Herald.
CORK.—The citizens of Cork had a preliminary meet-
ing on Tuesday, to arrange for an aggregate meeting to pe-
tition the Lords. The Mayor, on being applied to, refused
to convene the meeting, or in any way connect himself with
it. Sir T. Deane, one of the Sheriffs, granted the use of
the Court-house for the intended meeting, which is axed
for this day. Thete will be a county meeting in a few
days. Kinsale was to meet on Friday.
DARLINGTON.—On Wednesday a meeting was held
in the Town-hall, in compliance with a requisition to the
Bailiff of the Manor, Thomas Bowes, Esq., for the pur-
pose of considering the propriety of presenting a petition
to the House of Lords in favour of the Reform Bill. The
meeting was numerously and respectably attended, and,
alt,r disavowing the report propagated in Parliament that
the pmple had become lukewarm with respect to the Bill,
it was unanimously agreed that a petition should be forth
with sent to the House approving of the measure, and
praying their Lordships immediately to pass it into a law.
—Durham Chronicle.

in our Pap!' of yesterday. 1 Nri ittive only to skid, the a
petition to the Peers " to pan the Bill with all possible
dispatch" was agreed to.

AIAIDSTONE.—A public meeting of the inhabitants
of Maidstone was held at the Town-hall on Friday last,
for the purpose of petitioning the Howe of Lords to pats
the Reform Bill. The Mayor presided on the occasion ;
but nearly all his hrsthren of the corporation were absent.
The towns people, however, mustered in great numbers, and
the meeting was one of the most animated that has taken
place in Maidstone for some time past.
NORWICH.—On Saturday last a requisition to the
Mayor, to call a public meeting to petition the House of
Lords to pass the Reform Bill, was signed by the most
respectable citizens in a few hours, and in compliance
with which the Mayor has fixed next Thursday for the
meeting to take place. The enthusiasm prevailing in this
city in favour of Reform is only equalled by the fixed de-
termination of the inhabitants to support his Majesty's Mi-
nisters in any resolution they may come to, to carry the
Bill into a law, should the Peers reject it. A Committee
to watch the progress of the measure in the Lords will
most probably be appointed, in order that steps may in-
stantly be adopted should their Lordships think proper to
insult their Sovereign and his people by deciding against
the Bill.

NEWPORT.—At Newport, Monmouthshire, on Thurs-
day last, at a public meeting, Thomas Phillips, Esq., in
the Chair, a firm yet respectful petition was adopted; one
of the allegations of the petition is worthy attention, com-
prising, as it does, the sentiments of the residents of that
great shipping port for the extensive produce of the mineral
district of the county--" That the delay which has taken
place in passing the Reform Bill through the other House
of Parliament has already paralyzed trade, commerce,
and manufactures."

NORTHAMPTON.—A meeting was held in the Guild-
hall on Saturday, the Mayor in the chair, when a petition
was voted to the Lords, to be entrusted to Lord Pomfret.

NOTTINGHAM.—A Reform meeting was held in this
town on Thursday to petition the House of Lords.
NORTHERN POLITICAL UNION.—The petition
of the Union and other friends of Reform was signed by
30,734 persons, and measured 157 yards in length. Since
it was sent off, parchments containing n 9 signatures have
been received, making the total numbers 31,063 ; other
two parchments have not yet come to Land. The petition
rec-ived 965 signatures in A lnwick and the neighbourhood,
and the village of Felton.—Newcastle Chroxicle.
PADDINGTON.—Yesterday a very respectable meet-
ing was held in the Vestry-room at Paddington, to con-
sider of a petition to the House of Lords, praying their
Lordships to pass the Reform Bill. We have not room to
insert the speeches delivered on the occasion, which were
highly creditable to the gentlemen who delivered their sen-
timents. Resolutions were moved seriatim, and a petition

founded thereon was agreed to, conformable to the objects
of the meeting. An account of the subscription received
by the Reform Committee was presented to the assembly,
which skews that they discharged their trust with zeal and
economy.

SURREY.—The meeting of the freeholders has peen
fixed by the High Sheriff to take place on Friday at Epsom,
at twelve o'clock precisely.
WESTMINSTER.—A meeting of the united polishes
of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster, was held
yesterday at the workhouse, in Dean-street, Mr. Pink,
churchwarden, in the chair Mr. Sturgeon, a barrister,
!tlr. Richmond, and several other gentlemen, addressed the
meeting-, when a petition was adopted, and entrusted to
Lord Grey to be presented to the House of Lords.
The Provincial Papers are cbirfly filled with long re-
ports of these meetings. In addition to those which we
have briefly noticed, the same spirit is perceptible in the
fallowing towns and parishes which have met, or are tak-
ing steps for that purpose :—Bothwick, Frome, Bridge-
water, Bradford, Trowbridge, Winchester, Romney, Taun-
ton, Bideford, Dartmouth, Stoneham, Cliffe, near Lewes,
Stroud (Gloucestershire), Leicester, Redruth, Sheffield
Political Union, Mansfield Political Union, Newark, Wi-
zan, Bolton (Lancashire), &o. Northallerton, the York
Reform Association, Carlisle, Durham County, to met on
Friday next ; Richmond (Yorkshire), Wakefield, Stoke
(Potteries), Burslem, Lane End, Wolverhampton, Lichfield,
the Birmingham Political Union, Birmingham town, Sal-
ford, and other towns in Lancashire.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

STANDCATE CREEK, SEPT. 26.—Arrived the St.
George, Celli, from Genoa; Sylph, Barton ; Spring,
Spence ; and Timms Baker, Baker, from St. Petersburgh.
DEAL, SEPT. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Wemt-
hrooke, Smith, from Jamaica, and Hindostan, from Quebec.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Haracouta packet from Bermuda, saiird the 21st ult., and
from Halifax the 7th inst.

HOLYHEAD, SFrf. 25.—Arrived off port, the o,prey,
From New York.

LIVERPOOL, Sm. 25.—Off port, the Mary Ann, from
Demerara.

POOLE, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Rileline, Tucker, from
Op qto.

GLOUCESTER, SE2T. 25.--Arrived the New Draper,
Barwin, from Quebec.

DUBLIN, SEPT. 24..--Arrived the William, Parry, from
Leghorn ; and Viada, Meaquentor, from St. Übe's.
DUNDEE, SEPT. 25.--Arrived the Mediterranean, Mill;
Margaret Bogle, Smith ; Minto, from St. Pe—
tersburgh ; and Sovereign, Miller, from Pernau.
MONTROSE, SEPT. 25.—Arrived the Active, Straelan ;
and Jean, Wylie, from Archangel.

The Hampshire, Angus, from St. Petersburgh to Lon-
don, was totally lost 4th inst. on Gottland. One of the
crew drowned.

The Neptune, Baker, from Liverpool to Elburg, was
stranded, 21st inst. near Tobermorey, and it was feared
would be totally wrecked.
The squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir
E. Codringtoa was off Cork on Saturday.

Letters from Frankfort mention a report of the
death of Marshal PASKEWITSCH, in consequence of the
contusion be received in the chest. It was stated in the
Russian bulletins that he was obliged to surrender the
command on the second day of the attack to Gen. TOLL,
and that be was not able to make his entrance into Warsaw
on horseback ; but this was not geuerally believed.

The Treaty of Peace between Belgium and
Holland, as arranged by the Conference, it is expected,
will be signed by the 10th of October. Luxemburg is to
belong to the former, and the compensation for the claim
of Holland thereto is to be settled by Austria and Prussia.
The German Diet, of course, acquiesce in this adjustment.
The remaining Fiench troops were to commence their tie-
parture this day from 13elgiurn, which the whole will have
quitted by the 30th instant.

The establishment of a Chair for Pathology,
in Edinburgh University, has just been determined on by
the Crown. It is understood no salary is to he attached to
it. Dr. JOHN THOMSON is appointed Professor.
The inhabitants of Sheffield have addressed
requisitions to Mr. T. A. WARDE and Mr. J. S. BUCK-
INGHAM, inviting them to allow themselves to be put in
nomination for the representation of that town as soon as
the Reform Bill shall have passed. Mr. WARDE respect-
fully declines for the present ; Mr. Burxmcriam, whe
was waited upa by a deputation from the town, while in
Staffordshire, accepted the invitation.
FIRE.—An alarming fire broke out yesterday
night week in a barn full of corn, on the premis.es of BEN-
raarni STEER, at Limpstieid, Surrey, near Westerham,
which completely burnt it dowr, together with the pro-
duce of twelve acres of peas and beans. A new hop-kiln,
with ten pockets of hops ready for market, w.s a's° de-
stroyed. The damage is estimated at 6001. No doubt
this was the work of some vile incendiary, as the barn was
seen a light in three different parts.—County
we
think,c e.
TILE IRISH DISTILLEns.We can state
with an assurance upon which the public may,
rely, that there is every prospect of a satisfactory moat of
the proceedings of the Conunittee on the malt drawback.
The Chairman of the Excise Board was examined and
cross-examined with great power, by Messrs. Noatnt and
O'CoNNELn, before the Committee, and he was forced to
admit that the statement of the Board was deiived, not
from his own knowledge, but from the representaLions of
interested persons, Even some of the Scotch distillers
by the I
themselves admirih gistttsed the
:Lets,general T
truth
Committee,
o ftlte w
s t .teern are
made
satisfied, must report against the drawback s) stem,
the meantime we shall insist on the p of the lrishudnirt7i
tillers, on the necessity of suspending the
a general scheme of arrangement be dr6a
theitl I
traYde is en-
re tied.
This is only simple justice. and it ;s what but as
titled to. —Dublin Evening P..si•
The letters from
I itants hare sent a r.quiaation to
ult. The English inha
fearing the island would
this Government for Per:igion irom erceira ; but the a
be attacked by the
anticipated hie NAJESTI S .Ministers, they
plication is
tched a naval force to that is.ltad,
having already e Aiadeira are dated the

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