The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-20 00:00:00

CORNWALL COUNTY MEETING.

(From the West Briton.)
As was anticipated, the High Sheriff has refused to call
a meeting of the county, to consider the propriety of peti-
tioning Parliament in favour of a Reform in the represen-
tation of the people. However, his refusal will not pre-
vent the attainment of the object. Ten of the Magistrates
who signed the requisition to the Sheriff have called a
meeting of the county, to be held at Bodmin, on Wednes-
day next, the 19th instant. The requisition was signed
by 17 Magistrates, several Clergymen, and upwards of
700 gentlemen, farmers, and inhabitant householders. The
reasons assigned by the High Sheriff for declining to
comply with the request of the requisitionists re-
quire very little comment. They are perfectly in-
telligible. It is, no doubt, the earnest wish of the sup-
porters of " things as they are," I hat the people, generally,
should abstain from any expression of the opinion they
entertain respectin4 them ; that they should evidence the
most perfect apathy, and leave the question of Reform
wholly to the decision of Parliament, without any ma❑i-
festation of public feeling upon the questi in, thot:b it is
confessedly the most vitally important ever discussed within
its walls, and which, unless supported by a decisive ex-
pression of the national will, would be ti eated with that
contempt which, up to the present period, has marked
the feeling with which the majority of those Hon. Gen-
tlemen who are supposed to represent the people of the
United Kingdom have regarded every proposal of the kind,
Let the people be silent, and we shall speedily see even the
most moderate proposition that the present Ministers van
be supposed to entertain rejected by an overwhelming ma-
jority, and an extinguisher put upon any hope that
slight have been entertained of the prevalence of a better
feeling in the Honourable nonse, by the formation
of an Ultra-Tory Administration. Earl Grey hag told
us, that he depends fur the success of his proposed mea-
sure of Reform, and for, that of the general change cf
system he contemplates, on the influence of public opinion
alone ; and that unless supported by it, be is without
hope of attaining the great objects he has in view. So
says the Prime Minister of England ; and Sir James Gra-
ham, the First Lord of the Admiralty, has explicitly stated,
in his place in Parliament, that should a majority of the
Honourable House decide against the measures of Re-
form which Ministers intend to propose, his Majesty's
Government will at ones dissolve the Parliament and ap-
peal to the people, as fir as the people have really a
voice in the return of the Members of the House of Corn..
mons. These are the avowed sentiments of the Mini-
sters of the Crown, whilst the I1•gh Sheriff of the county
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CAUTION TO YOUNG LADIES.—thi Mon-
day week a young female, who had been (lancing at a ball
at Monkwearmouth, Durham, sat down to rest herself,
and expired immediately. Her death is attributed to apo-
plexy, from too tight lacing.— York Courant.
MORE BEAUTIES OF THE GAME-LAWS.—
Three poachers were thsperately wounded,—and two
gamekeepers also severely haft,—in a mutual affray on
Thursday morning last, in a wood belonging to Cion-
FILEY WENTWORTH, Esq., of Woolsey Park. One of
the poachers is since dead, and one of the gamekeepers has
his skull fractured.—Stamford Champion.
POLITICAL UNION.--We understand that it
' is at present in contemplation to form a Political Union in
Edinburgh, for the purpose of
promoting, by every legal
and constitutional means, the cause of Reform. The fol-
lowing are said to be the general basis •—A wide extension
of the elective franchise ; the abolition of all the rotten
burghs; shortening the luration of Parliaments; vote by
ballot; retrenchment in every part of the national ex-
penditure; the abolition of all taxes on knowledge; and
free trade with all nations.—Edinburgh Even, Courant.