The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-18 00:00:00

D ÜBLLY.

The Reform meeting, convened by the Lord Mayor,
was held on Tuesday, in the Royal Exchange, which was
crowded at one o'clock, the hour appointed for the com-
mencement of the proceedings. The meeting was one of
the most splendid and gratifying public assemblies we
have ever beheld, comprising men of all parties. Shortly
after one o'clock the Lord Mayor entered the hall, and
took the chair amidst loud acclamations. Amongst the
noblemen and gentlemen present, we observed the Duke
of Leinater, Lord Cloncurry, Sir Charles Morgan, the
Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Sir John Milley Doyle, K.C.R.;
Messrs. J. D. Latouche, Redmond, Maurice O'Connell,
Morgan O'Connell, (of Grena), R. Barrett, Edward
Dwyer, &e. &c. The resolutions in favour of the Mini-
sterial Reform Bill, were put and passed unanimously.

CARLISLE.—A meeting took place, on Monday, at
Carlisle, when a petition to Parliament and Address to the
KING, praying them to pass the present measure, were
unanimously agreed to. About 3,000 persons were pre-
sent. JOHN DixoN, Esq., of Knells, in the chair. The
Radical Reformers join heart and hand in the measure.

STAMFORD.—In consequence of the Mayor of Stam-
ford baying declined to call a meeting for the purpose Of
expressing approbation of the Ministerial plan of Reform,
a public meeting has been summoned by many of the most
respectable inhabitants for Friday (this day.)

LONDON, MARCH 16, 1831.
WE, the MERCHANTS, BANKERS,
and others, INHABITANTS of LONDON,
whose names are hereunto subscribed, have perused with
feelings of the deepest regret the details of a Bill which
has been just submitted to the Legislature, under the
sanction of his Majesty's Government, for the avowed
purpose of effecting an ex tensive REFORM and A LTERA-
TION in the existing CONSTITUTION of the COM-
MONS HOUSE of PARLIAMENT.

While w•e should have been far from opposing ourselves
to the adoption of any proposition so recommended, of a
temporate character, gradual in its operation, consistent
with justice, and the ancient usages of this realm, and
having for its object the correction of acknowledged
abuses, or any amelioration in the administration of public
affairs which might seem to he called for by the changes or
necessities of the times, we feel it impossible to regard in
that light a measure which, by its unprecedented and un-
necessary infringement on the rights and privileges of
large and wealthy bodies of people, would go far to shake
the foundations of that Constitution under which our So-
vereign holds his title to his Throne, his Nobles to their
estates, and ourselves and the rest of our fellow-subjects
to the various possessions and immunities which we enjoy
by law ; a measure which, while it professes to enlarge the
representation of the kingdom on the broad basis of pro-
perty, would in its practical operation have the effect of
closing the principal avenues through which the moneyed,
the funded, the commercial, the shipping, and the colonial
interests, together with all their connected and independent
interests throughout the country, or dispersed throughout our
vast empire abroad, have hitherto been represented in the
Legislature, and would thus in reality exclude the pos-
sessors of a very large proportion of the national wealth
from all effectual voice and influence in the regulation of
the national affairs.

The silence which the opponents of this project have
hitherto felt to be imposed on them by their respect for the
authority from which it emanates, so long at letst as it
was not before them in a defined and tangible shape,
having been misconstrued by the ill-informed into an uni-
versal acquiescence in its principles and provisions, we
deem it a duty which we owe to ourselves, to our country,
and to posterity, at the earliest practicable period after
the printing of the Bill, to protest against it by this public
declaration, and to invite our fellow citizens of all classes,
participating in our sentiment.i, to unite with us in every
practicable and lawful effort of temperate but determined
resistance to the further progress of a measure, which in
our consciences we believe to be rash and inexpedient in
its origin, and tending to consequences equally pernicious
and irretrievable, menacing to the peace of the country,
fraught with alarm and peril to public and private credit,
and calculated eventually to undermine and destroy all
those venerable institutions and establishments, under whose
influence and protection England has hitherto enjoyed a
prosperity, and maintained a station, unexampled among
the nations of the world.

The above declaration having already been signed by
many of the most influential and eminent Merchants,
Bankers, and others, now lies for signature at the City of
London Tavern, with a petition to the House of Com-
mons, founded upon the same.

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