The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-11 00:00:00

MANCHESTER.

A public meeting of the inhabitants of Manchester, convened
by the Boroughreeve and constables of the town, was held in the
Town-hall, on Wednesday, to adopt a petition to Parliament,
and an address of thanks to the Throne, and to his Majesty's
Ministers, for the introduction into the House of Commons of
the Ministerial plan of Parliamentary Reform. On no other
public occasion, in our remembrance was there assembled so
numerous a body of individuals within the walls of any public
building in this town. The Boroughreeve of the town, James
Burt, ~ was called to the Chair, and the two other authori-
ties, Mr. Brandies and Mr. Dirties, were also present. The plat..
form was crowded to excess by merchants, manufacturers,
tradesmen, and professional gentlemen, and throughout the
proceedings the greatest possible degree of unanimity prevailed.
In the earliest part of the proceedings, A Man named Morris, an
operative, attempted to bring under tliseussioo the subject of an-
nual Parliaments, universal suffrage, and vote by ballot; but the
Chairman promptly interposed, and stated that, as the meeting
had been called for a specific purpose, the topics proposed by the
individual before the meeting would be irrelevant, and he could
not sanction them. Whatever opinions were entertained on
those subjects, it was the duty of the assembly to be unanimous
in their approval of the Ministers' plan of Reform, in order that
the hands of his Majesty's Ministers might be supported and
strengthened. With this brief explanation, Morris declined
pressing the topics, and the regular hnsiness of the meeting was
entered upon. The meeting was afterwards addressed in speeches
of surpassing eloquence, energy, and constitutional argument,
by a number of gentlemen. The measure of his -Majesty's
Ministers was unreservedly approved of by all parties in the
room ; the integrity of Government was dwelt upon by most
of the speakers, and the plan was described by one person as
"a voice from the wilderne,s bringing glad tidings." The
gracious regard which his Majesty has slum') for the welfare of
the nation, was a general theme of exultation, arid whenever the
name of the Sovereign was introduced, it was hailed with shouts
of applause. At the conclusion of the business, the cheers of
the vast multitude were loud and long. The petitions to both
Houses of Parliament, expressing the approbation of the meeting
at the Reform Bid, and praying that it may pass into a law, were
laid upon the table, and were instantly siged by hundreds of
persons. There can be no doubt that theny will be the most
numerously signed petitions that ever proceeded from the town
of Manchester.

ALDERSGATE WARD—A requisition, signed by upwards
of 100 respectable inhabitants of this Ward, was yesterday pre-
sented to bit' Peter Laurie, KM., Alderman, to call a meeting
for the purpese of considering the propriety of addressing both
Houses of Parliament in favour of the Reform Bill introduced
into the Commons' House of Parliament by his Majesty's Mini-
sters. In compliance with the above requisition the Alderman
has appointed the said meeting toi Le held at the Dispensary, in
Aldersgate-street, to-day, at ono for two o'clock precisely.
CLERKENWELL—A very respectable meeting was held
last Wednesday evening at the Crown Tavern, Clerkenwell, Mr.
T. Dean in the Chair, to consider of the best means to be
adopted to testify the admiration of the parishioners of the plan
of Reform introduced by Lord John Russell in the House of
Commons. It was proposed and agreed to unanimously, that
a general day of rejoicing should be appointed, and that lame_
diate application should be made to other parishes to do the same
BLOOMSBURY.—Yesterday evening a most magnificent
transparency was exhibited in front of the house of Mr. Seeking,
an extensive pewterer and beer-engine maker, residing in Duke-
street, Bloomsbury, to the success of his Majesty's Ministers in
the cause of Heform. In the centre of the transparency were a
very excellent representation of his Majesty King William and
his Consort sitting at dinner, attended by the officers of state ;
over their Majesties' heads were a motto of King William and
Reform, beneath the table of their Majesties were a group of per-
sons composed of the select, exclaiming" It is all up with us, no
/Imre jobbing, the case is altered." At the top is a large ship
under sail to Canada, the crew of her consisting of borough-
mongers. In the corner is the ex-Minister deploring his fate ;
over his head a motto of ‘' Turn about is fair play, Arthur:,
The wi:ole had a very splendid appearance, and from the novelty
of the ease attracted an immense assemblage of persons during
the night.
ST. GILES'S IN THE FIELDS, AND ST. GEORGE'S,
BLOOMSBURY.-.Yesterday afternoon a numerous and highly
respectable meeting of the inhabitants of these united parishes
was held at the Freemasons"favern, for the purpose of address-
ing his Majesty, and petitioning both Houses of Parliament to
support the Ministerial plan of Parliamentary Reform. Mr.
Ald rman Waithman was unanimously called to the Chair. Mr.
Wakley alai Mr. lingers, late Churchwardens, Mr. Tooke, a
barrister, of Bedford-row, Dr. King, Mr, Mills, Mr. Estleby,
Mr. Templeman, and several other able speakers addressed the
meeting in moving and seconding the resolutions, which were
carried unanimously, amid rapturous applause. The resolutions
-were expressive of a confidence in his-lifaresty and the present
Administration, the imperative necessity of a Reform in the
Commons' Holise of Parliament, approval of the plan of Parlia,
mentary Reform proposed by Ministers, and an unalterable de-
termination to support his Majesty and the Government in
adopting this measure. An address of gratitude to his Majesty,
and petitions to both Houses of Parliament, imploring the Le.
gislature to pass the Government plan of Parliamentary Reform
into a law, were agreed to. Lord Brougham was requested to
present the address to his Majesty, and a petition to the House of
Lords, and Mr. Alderman Waithman to present it to the House
of Commons. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the
sneeting dispersed.

ST. SAVIOUR'S.—Yesterday a numerous meeting of the pa-
rishioners of St. Saviour's, Southwark, took place in the Vestry-
room of the church, for the purpose of giving expression to their
feelings on the grand measure of Reform, which has passed a
tint reading, and to support petitions to both Houses of Parlia-
ment that it may be speedily passed into a law. Several of the
Parishioners addressed the meeting on the subject, and resolu-
tions Passed declaratory of the high sense of gratitude due
to his
'tjestre Ministers by the country for their liberal and
enlightened e0nd,,,,,, which well deserved the support of the
nation at large.

LAMBETH.—A. greataish, in Waterloo-road i-mber of the Inhabitants of Lambeth
nated their houses last nighr
t.ilie streets in its vicinity, illumi-
hyraotf them with very splendid de-
vices, in commemoration of the reading of the Reform Bill.
GREENOCK.—Immediately after
ma4he arrival of the mail in
creenock on Friday night, it was
taknown to the inhabitants
that that town was included in the number of the enfranchised
places. In both collbe.rooms the intelligence
lion, the bells were set a ringing, and theTte, gave great satisfac.
strumental baud paraded the town playing Greenock amateur in-
to have
national airs. On Saturday flags were displayedeJatalt favourite
and the ships in the harbour. The meeting whifccir the steeple
been hell this day did not, as we anticipated in our as
place ; but the 31agistrates have, in compliance with test, take
tion, called a public meeting of the inhabitants, to 1°- torsi.
Wednesday, for the purpose of sending off petitions to the Itir
and both Houses of Parliament, in favour of the Ministerimpa
of Reform.
DUBLIN, MAacii S.—A requisition, of which the following
is a copy, has already been very numerously and .
We most respectably
signed. It is addressed to the Lord Mayor :—.,
signed, request that your Lordship will convene
satis public meeting
em as early a day as possible, to exprecs our faction at

measure of Morin proposed in the Comtnons' 'House of Parli2•
ment, by Lord John Russell, in concurrence with his Majesty's
Ministers."

The Duke of Cumberland has been present under the gallery
every night during the debate on Reform, and has remained in
the house regularly until the time of the adjournments.
Sir Henry Parnell has postponed the resolutions on the ma-
nagement of the collection and expenditure of the public money,
which he had intended to move yesterday, till May 17th, in order
not in any way unnecessarily to impede the money measures,
and the great measures of Parliamentary Reform, of the
Government.
After the three motions for the Reform Bills for—l. England
—2. Scotland-3, Ireland, had had been affirmed on Thursday
morning, at three o'clock, the House instructed Lords John
Russell, Althorp, and Palmerston, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Charles
Grant, Mr. Stanley, the Attorney-General, and the Solicitor-
General, to bring in the Bill for England; the same parties, with
the addition of the Lord Advocate (Jeffrey), excepting the At-
torney. and Solicitor-General, to bring in that for Scotland ; and
the like parties, with the addition of Mr. Crampton, and except-
ing the Lord Advocate, to bring in that for Ireland.
The Bill to relieve Mr. Grosvenor from the penalties, "pains
and disabilities," in consequence of having taken his seat and
vited as Member for Chester, without having first taken the oath
p escribed by Acts of Parliament, passed through all its remain-
ing in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening,
and was thence passed to the House of Lords, where it was read
a first time, and the standing orders of the House weredispensed
with, in order to enable it to proceed. Such is the urgency of
the case—namely, to save the penalties, and qualify the Member
to become immediately a candidate to be re-elected to this Par-
liament. Who can say that there is one law for the rich and
another for the poor?

If all the Learned Member for Waterford's speeches were of
the same character as that which he delivered in a tone of such
true eloquence on Monday night, he would rise much higher in
the general respect than he has ever yet done.
Lord Duncannon, as First Commissioner of Woods and Forests
Department, will this evening move, in the House of Commons,
for leave to bring iis a Bill to make the long contemplated open-
ing facing Waterloo-bridge, in the Strand, across the site of the
late English Opera-house, to Long Acre. The title of the Bill
will be for the formation of a new street from the Strand to
Charles-street, Covent-garden, and to widen the North end of
Bow-street."

The anti reformers are becoming desperate, at least if we may
judge from the language employed by their Sunday advocate,
which contains a string of epithets, unrivalled for coarseness in
the annals of Billingsgate.

A certain Right Honourable Boroughmonger, who must be
nameless, has the unblushing effrontery to assert the immaculate
purity of the place which lie represents, while, at the very same
time, he must have been speaking within hearing of two persons,
who had successively paid him 5,000/. for the high honour of
being his colleagues.

The occupants of seats for rotten boroughs, would have us now
believe, that instead of representing the stones and mounds of
Gatton, Old Sarum, &c., they are the representatives of the
whole people of England. This surely is mis-representation in
every sense of the word.

The real, and indeed only question between the boroughmon-
gers and the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, is this:—
Are Governments established for the benefit of the few or the
many? If for the few, then are the boroughmongers quite right
in leaving no stone unturned to protect their exclusive privi-
leges; but if for the many, then it is high time that they should
disgorge that which they ought never to have possessed.