The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-13 00:00:00

LUMBER TROOP.

On Wednesday night a grand muster of the ancient
and honourable Lumber Troop was held at the Gentle-
man and Porter, New-street-square, for the purpose
of receiving a Deputation from the Loyal and Pa-
triotic Fund Committee, who, in consequence of the
zealous exertions of the troop, expressed a desire to
enter into the corps.
Colonel RICHARD TAYLOR took the Chair, and
commenced the proceedings of the night in the
usual manner, by proposing the health of the King.
The toast was drunk with great acclamation.
The Queen's health vi as next drunk with all
honour.
The Members of the Loyal Patriotic Committee
now arrived, and were received with long continued
plaudits. They consisted of the following gent'e-
men :—Mr. Hothouse, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. SergeantPell Mr. Ord, Mr. Prescott, Mr. Morice,ll Ef-
fing.:itone, Mr. Beauclerk, Mr. Menteth. Mr. Al-
derman Venables entered the room at the same time,
and was received with great applause.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES addressed his comrades
of die troop, and said he had the honour to pro-
pose the admission to the troop of a distinguished
patriot, the consistent, able, persevering advocate of
Reform—John Cam Hobhouse, Esq.—(Great ap-
plause.)
Mr. Sergeant PELL was deputed by the Members
of the Patriotic Committee present to express their
high gratification at the honour conferred on them
by the ancient and honourable Lumber Troop, which
had had so nobly distinguished itself in the cause of Re-
form, and of which they hoped soon to be admitted
members.—(Applause.) Its name reminded him
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of their property, under pretence of doing God her
vice ; in its good sense, it meant all that was best in
justice, in liberality, and in piety—the word patriot,
too, in its bad sense meant to deceive and to plun-
der the people under pretence of doing good service
to the country, but in its good sense it expressed
that love of country and of countrymen that sought
the happiness of all. The word Lumber too, in its
lowest sense, meant what was of as little worth as
old furniture—political Judges and Parsons—bo-
roughmongers and slaves—(Cheers)—and of them
he would say, whom the devil had joined together
let no man put a. sunder—(Great claecring and laugh-
ter)—hut their use of the word it meant respect-
ability, integrity, love of country, and of freedom.
For himself he might say, however strange it might
appear, that he was a Reformer before lie was born,
for he was so impatient of restraint that he made hie
escape before the usual time—( Great laughter)—
and his nurses reported of him that lie would never
allow himself to be bound up in swaddling bands,
but from the moment he saw the light continued to
maintain the liberty he had ained.—(Continued
laughter.) The longer lie had-lived the more con-
vinced he was of the necessity of a Reform that
should give to the middle class of the community
their just weight in the government of the country*.
And though he did not wish to speak harshly of
any man, yet he could not conceal the disgust he
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The several members of the Patriotic Fund then

preeste, were pioposed as mernbets of the troop, each
being proposed by a comrade.
Mr. BARRETT, in proposing Mr. Hawkins, said,
his most distinguished fault was, that he made the
best speech that was made in the House of Com-
mons in favour of Reform, for which the borough-
mongers would never forgive him.—(Applause.)
Mr. Honnouse addressed the troop oil behalf of
himselfand new-electediors e)o,mrades. The calve still
demanded
arid they should all see
everythat
portion of a farthing received was ex-
pended for the benefit of the people of England.
Mr. Hawkins was loudly called for.
Mr. HAWKINS addressed the troop in a speech
that produced an immensity of laughter and ap-
plause. He commenced by saying they had no
doubt all heard a steey Mathews told of hirreell,
who received an invitation to dine from a lady with
whom he was unacquainted, He went, and imme-
diately after dinner she addressed him :—" Pray,
now, Mr. Mathews, do be funny."—(A laugh.)
They had placed him in something of a similar si-
tuation—they had called on him not to be funny,
certainly, but to make acknowledgment for the great
honour they hail done him ; a situation in which he
should not be placed but for their having heard
some exaggerated account of the small service he
lied attempted to render the cause of Reform. He
had heard but one argument against that cause in
which the Lumber Troop and the country were so
honourably engaged, that ever excited the least ap-
prehension in his mind ; that was, when the enr-
m es of Reform held up their Tory purses and said,
" Beat that if you can."—(Great applause.) He
never heard any other argument from the ince
who sought to preserve a system that was gain to
them, but ruin to the people.—(Cheers.) When
arguments were urged in favour of Reform, up rose
Sir Robert Peel, not to answer the arguments, but
to prove that lie was the only person fit to rule
England. After him came Mr. Horace Twiss. It
was quite enough to disgust him with the Bill, that
low attorneys and countiy shopkeepers would be-
come electors.--(A laugh.) Mr. Twiss was a bar-
rister. He remembered to have heard the difference
between barrister and attorney described—that the
barrister pleaded the cause, and the attorney re-
ceived the fees. He believed Mr. Twiss hal not
much practice in either way.—(A laugh.) Then
up got two regular lawyers who had filled high
offices ; but neither the buffoonery of the one, nor
the dullness of the other, though they excited
laughter and languor, could offer any goad argument
against the Bill. Then came the Member for the
University of Oxford, and lie thought to settle the
question by the assertion that rotten boroughs ex-
isted in the reign of Elizabeth; for in the time of
Elizabeth an Anabaptist was burned in Smithfield
—ergo, burn Ana-baptists in Smithfield now.—
(Applause.) What said the people of England to
all these arguments ? They said they would have
the Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the
(Great applause.) Then came a Legislator in
kid gloves, who, after a seven-o'clock dinner, de-
litarates whether he shall amuse himself at the
French theatre or the, House of Commons.—(A
laugh.) He said you will disfranchise the lower classes.
The appeal was made to the people, and al classes are
for the Bill. Then came the Tory purse, and when
it was considered that they had the taxing of the
people for thirty years, it was not surprising that
they should be willing to spend a part of their gains
to preserve the source from which all had sprung.—
(Applause.) When he heard of their subscribing
hundreds of thousands, he was not surprised, be-
cause he knew they meant to get it back with com-
pound interest.—(Applause.) They could afford
to gild the chains of the people, if they could only
induce the people to continue bound in their chains.
It was said they had raised 300,0001., but that could
not buy a nation that paid fifty millions in taxes.—
(Applause.) The Reform would be a great revo-
lution, but it would be a happy one, produced by
the best means. Mr. Pitt, when in ofliee, could only
work with the materials he had, the borough-
mongers; one wanted a commission for his son,
another a pension for his laugh, er, who was turned
of thirty, and not yet married.—(A laugh.) Pat's
reply to those demands was, you must support me
in raising taxes. In time of war there was greet
opportunity for plunder, and such things were easily
done; but when peace came Lord Londonderry
found it impossible to continue the taxes; the ma-
jority of the Aristocracy found they lost more than
they gained by the system, arid refused to go; then
came Mr. Hume, and beat the Nlimster by his per-
severance, arid the machine came to a (had stop—
the oil being dried up in the joints.—(A laugh.)
The state of the Constitution became like that of a
street-walking female. She had been seduced by
the Tories thirty years ago—they corrupted her,
end then left her to die on clue pavement—this was
the state in which the Duke of Wellington left her
when he retired. Then came Doctors Grey and
Russell—Dr. Grey proposed sending her to the
Magdalen—let me try my patent purge, said Dr.
Russell—No, said policeman Peel, you are on my
beat—you want to kill and anatomise her :—the
hyestanders now stepped in—the people took her
in charge, sent her to the hospital, administered
Russell's purge, and in a few weeks she will come
out sound and wholesome.—(Great laughter.)
Mr. Alderman VENABLES said there was already
a majority of 106 r eturned for Reform.—(Applause.)
The CHAIRMAN said, in every place where those
who opposed the Bill were turned out, they now
say they are Reformers, so that the real Reformers
had riot only the satisfetion of turning them out, but
of converting them.—(Applause.)
The visitors then took leave, amidst the acclama-
tions of the troop, who soon after retired.

As I anticipated, the honourable conduct of
Mr. WINSTON BARRON, in retiring from the contest, has
achieved the triumph of Reform in the county of Water-
ford. Lord GEORGE BERESEORD has resigned ! I re-
ceived this gratifying intelligence by this morning's post.
Sir RICHARD MUSGRAVE and Mr. POWER will he re-
turned without opposition.

The great review of the National Guards
which the King of the FRENCII was to have superintended
last Sunday, was again put off for a week, owing to the
uncertainty of the weather. The persons entitled to wear
the order of July had in considerable numbers assumed
the original decoration, am appeared in the streets with it
on Sunday. They say they will persist in weaving that
decoration in preference to the late one decreed by the KING.
THE MODERN JOSEPH SURFACE.—It is
`whispered that Sir R. NFL has become in some sort a
convert to the proposal of Reform, on the ground of ne-
cessity, and that he has already given offence to several of
the Ultra Anti-Reformists, by observing that this signs of
the times and the opinions of the public when thus une-
quivocally expressed, ought to be attended to, as far as it
might be consistent with principle and true attachment to
the Constitution—Court Journal.

THE MILLENIUM.—At the Hampshire elec-
tion on Friday, a gentleman, named MARSH, in the course
of a very humorous address to the electors, said " he
really believed that a sort of political millenium was corn•
menced, as lawyers had refused to receive money for their
services ; and who knew but that, by-and-by, they might
hear of clergymen declining to take their tithes ; hut he
did not believe th it would occur in the year 1831.
(Laughter.) The other day, when he had an opportunity
of seeing a numerous body of clergymen swarming toge-
ther in oppos,tion to the Bill, he gave them the n !me of
; finding them very strenuous, he culled them
Hittites, which he subsequently changed, from their dis-
like of the KING'S Bill, to Anti-billites."—(Laughter.)

The following account of the eccentric ap-
pearance and costume of an Attorney-General at Otaheite
is taken from Captain BEECIIEY'S interesting account of
his recent voyage to the Pacific:—" The .Naca-rai of the
districtdressed i
tnooak
lhanisgpsltarcaewbentLe, finely plaited, and edged withen the Court and the prisoners,
fringe, with a slight cut in it for the head to pass through;
a white oakum w ,g, which, in imitation of the Gentlemen
of our Courts of Law, flowed in long curls over his
shoulders ; and a tall cap surmounting it curiously orna-
mented with red feathers, and with variously-coloured
tresses of human hair. His appearance, without shoes,
stockings, or trousers, the strange attire of the head, with
the variegated tresses of hair mingling with the oakum
cuiruicldsurpaouni
eff vet
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produced, as may he fllagined,
a