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London, England, 1831-03-17 00:00:00

HENLEY- ON- THAMES.

A numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants
of this town and neighbourhood, took place in the Town
Hall this day, to take into consideration the expediency of
petitioning the Legislature to pass into a law the plan of
Parliamentary Reform, proposed by Lord John Russell.
The meeting was called by the Mayor, but owing to his
indisposition, the Chair was taken by Wm. Parker, Esq.,
senior Magistrate.

The Rev. J. KING, Rector, in proposing the first reso-
lution, observed, he highly approved of public meetings
of this kind, as it was the only correct means of convey-
ing to Ministers and to Parliament the sense of the country
upon questions of this importance, and as calculated at
once to negative those insinuations thrown out by many
persons that the King and his Ministers were unsupported
by the people in the present question.
Wm. COOMBES, Esq. seconded this resolution, which,
with the others, were carried unanimously, not a single
hand being held up agairst them.

Mr. HICKMAN; druggist, in seconding the fifth resolu-
tion, highly approved of the measure, though it had been
said by many to be a very strong one ; disease, lie said, had
taken such deep root in the body of the Constitution, it
certainly required strong and effective means to arrest its
progress. The Russell purge, though a potent dose, he
feared would not be sufficient unless fed by the petitions of
the people, for from long disease its bowels had becomes°
constip,►ted as to render further medicine necessary; and
as his brother freeholders at Oxford, at their meeting yes-
terday, added a little rhubarb to the dose, he could see no
objection to adding a little Henley jalap to-day to render
it more effective.

The petition being short and comprehensive we sub-
join it; that to the Lords was requested to be presented by
Lord Brougham, and the other to the Commons by J.
Fane, Esq., one of the County Members.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COM-
MONS, &c.
THE HUMBLE PETPDIONr OF THE UNDER-
.SIGNED INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN OF
HENLEY-UPON-THAMES AND ITS VICINITY,
Shoveth,—That your petitioners have read with the
greatest satisfaction the change contemplated in the right
of electing representatives to serve in Parliament, by the
Bill now before your Honourable House.

4, That your petitioners most heartily concur in the
plan of Reform, believing it to be a measure calculated to
place the system of election upon a proper and just
footing,
highly beneficial to the people, and fully securing
the advantage and privileges or that most excellent Con-
stitution under which they have the happiness to live.
44 Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray your
Honourable House to pass the measure into a law.

" And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever

pray,

I TIPPERARY.
(From the Tipperary Free Press.)
In our publication of Wednesday, we called upon the brave
and high-spirited men of this county to assemble in their
respective towns and parishes, for the purpose of mani-
festing their readiness to rally round the Throne and the
Government, by displaying to the Tories and borough-
mongers, in the most unequivocal way, that the sense and
feeling of the
people were with his Majesty and his Mi-
nisters in the glorious attempt now making to weed the
country of the horrible evils so long and so iniquitously
upheld, and which old corruptionists and sinecurists are
now making the last dying struggle to uphold, by using
all the arts of misrepresentation and sophistry to persuade
the public that vile excrescences are part and parcel of our
pure and venerable Constitution ; but the hollowness and
delusion of these wolves, are too apparent, and their flat-
tering speeches will consequently fail to induce the public to
rid them of the bone with which they are now about to be
chocked, after years of greedy and luxurious feasting. The
call which we have made, has been promptly and nobly
responded to : we have already received intimation
of intended meetings in various places ; the ancient
and loyal city of Cashel leads the van, as may be seen by
a glance at the respectable requisition which appears this
day in our advertising columns, and Clonmel, Carrick-on-
Suir, Thurles, Roscrea, Btc. Sec., will immediately follow
the excellent example—as will, we may safely add, every
other town and parish in this county; but, though we
urge the necessity of having meetings in the various towns
and parishes, we are equally alive to the importance, at
this momentous crisis, of a county meeting, and we,
therefore, as the organ of the people, call upon the young
and honourable High Sheriff of this county, to convene a
meeting of his bailiwick at the ensuing assizes, for the
purpose of expressing to his Majesty the gratitude of a
loyal people, who are not the less attached to his Throne
because
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holders
franchise will be conferred if the proposed Reform Bill pass,
should come forward without distinction of sect or party ;
indeed, in the Cashel requisition, there is a judicious ad-
mixture of Protestants and Catholics, and, we trust, that
at the respective Reform meetings here and throughout
this county, men of intelligence and property will give
their attendance and assistance. Every lover of rational

freedom—every man who is truly affected to his Majesty'
person and Government, will be at his post.

ST. JAMES'S, WESTMINSTER.—A requisition hav-
ing been forwarded to the churchwardens of the pariah of St.
James's, Westminster, a meeting of the inhabitants will
take place to-morrow (Friday) at Willis's Rooms, for the
purpose of voting an address to his Majesty, and petitions
to both H
Houses of Parliament, In support of the Govern-
ment measure of Reform. Sir Francis Burdett, Bart.
M.P., will take tl'.e chair. The meeting is expected to
be very numerously attended.
BERMONDSEY.—Pursuant to a requisition nume-
rously signed, presented to the Churchwardens, a very
numerous and respectable assemblage of the inhabitant
householders of the parish of Bermondsey, Surrey, took
pla,!,e this day in the Vestry-room of the Old Church, for
the purpose of manifesting their approval of Lord John
Russell's Bill for the alteration and reform in the present
Administration of the country, and to adopt such mea-
sures as were likely to strengthen the plans of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, by petitioning the Houses of Lords and
Commons in favour of the proposed important question.
The business of the meeting was proceeding in the most
animated manner when our informant left.

BOROUGH OF LANCASTER.—On Tuesday, pur-
suant to a requisition signed by several of the most re-
spectable inhabitants of this borough, a meeting was con-
vened by the Mayor, and held in the Town Hall.—
The meeting was numerously and respectably attended,
and a petition in favour of Lord John Russell's Bill of Re-
form was unanimously agreed to.
NEWPORT.—On Monday last a numerous and res.
pectable meeting of the inhabitants of Newport, South
\Vales, was held, pursuant to a previous requisition pre-
sented to the Mayor, who was, however, unable to attend,
and Mr. E. Alfred was called to the chair. The different
resolutions proposed at the meeting, together with
the address to his Majesty and the petition to the House of
Commons, referred to by such resolutions, were pissed
unanimously.

COUNTY OF HEREFORD.—In compliance with a
requisition numerously signed, John Arkwright, Esq.
High Sheriff for this county, has appointed a meeting of
the freeholders on Saturday, the 19th instant, for the pur-
pose of supporting his Majesty's Ministers in their pro-
posed plans of Reform and retrenchment. The first re-
quisition fm- this purpose was placed in the coffee-room at
the Hotel, Hereford, and when 75 signatures had been at-
tached to it in the course of ten days, it was lost from the
room, and was supposed to have been wilfully destroyed or
purloined. In consequence of this, a second requisition
was placed in the bar on Saturday last, and received nearly
100 names in a few hours.--..ifonmouthshire Merlin.

PORTSMOUTH.—A meeting of the inhabitants
within the borough of Portsmouth, was held this morning
(Wednesday) at the new Town Hall, at which the Mayor,
Daniel Howard, Esq. presided, for the purpose of sending
a petition to the House of Commons, urging that assembly
to pass Lord John Russell's measure into effect. Francis
Baring, Esq., one of the Treasury Lords, and a Member
for the borough, attended and renewed his assurances
of undiminishing determination to support the Reform
question as proposed. The resolution expressive of grati-
tude to Ministers was proposed by George Grant, Esq.,
banker, a new convert to the popular feeling. The pet i-
tion was moved by Mr. Pafford, solicitor, and seconded
by Mr. Sharp, surgeon, and is to he presented to the
House of Commons by J. Benham Carter, Esq. and Francis
Baring, the Member for this place.
TRALEE.—The great question brought forward by
Lord John Russell, which occupies the public mind
throughout the empire, to the exclusion of every other
topic, has given universal satisfaction to the people of this
independent county, the exclusive loyalists excepted.
Kerry has the honour of being the first county in Ireland,
to tender its support to his Majesty's Ministers. The re-
rolutions passed at our meeting on Tuesday last, are per-
fectly in unison with those sentiments of disinterested
loyalty, and gratitude, which mark the proceedings of the
different meetings held throughout England, since the in-
troduction of the Reform measure. The times of ruling
by patronage have passed away, and we anticipate for our
country, years of uninterrupted happiness and prosperity.
—Tralee Mercury.

KERRY.—Meetings to support the Ministerial plan
of Reform will, we understand, be held in every district
of this county, in the course of a few days. The towns
of Kenmare, Milltown, Cahirciveen, and Listowel, are
already in motion. Dingle will do its duty, and though
last not least, Tralee will forth with assemble to proclaim
its sentiments upon this vital question. Tralee is des-
tined to become one of the most important and influential
towns in Ireland by this measure. Its interests will be
protected by the real representative of the people's
choice; its constituency will be large and independent,
and beyond the reach of corruption. When rescued from
Corporation monopoly, and the selfish influence of Harbour
Commissioners our trade will increase, and ship-canal-
work will be conducted by other, and honest, and inde-
pendent Commissioners.— Tralee Mercury.
KILLARNEY.—A most numerous and respectable
meeting of the inhabitants of Killarney and its neighbour-
hood, was held at the Court-house of that town on Thurs-
day last, to take into consideration the measures of Reform
proposed by his Majesty's Ministers. John O'Connell,
Esq. of Grena, svas called to the chair. Several resolu-
tions and a petition were adopted, expressive of the deter-
mination of the meeting to support the Administration in
the present measure of Reform brought into the House of
Commons. The petition to the Commons to be presented
by the Hon. W. Browne, who is called upon to support
its prayer. The Knight of Kerry, and Mr. O'Connell,
were requested to support the petition. Earl Grey to pre-
sent the petition to the House of Lords. This meeting is
a remarkable instance of the determination of the people to
act for themselves, and to set at defiance the power and
the insolence of the oligarchy. Why was my Lord
Kenmare from the meeting? All his creatures, too, ab-
sented themselves. How remarkable is the contrast be-
tween the patriotic and disinterested support given by the
Duke of Norfolk to the Reform measure, and the haughty
and domineering opposition of Kerry's Catholic Peer.—
Tralce Mercury.

PERTH.—The Ministerial plan of Reform has been at
last unfolded, and we cannot find language sufficiently
strong to express the admiration and astonishment with
which it has filled us. Our expectations were high, but
it is far beyond what we bad ever dared to hope for. It
is a fair, full, and unflinching Reform, entirely free from
that temporising imbecility which grants reluctantly, only
what it dares not withhold, and attempts to delnde
by the adoption of a few feeble and inefficient mea-
sures, which are calculated neither to benefit the
country nor satisfy the people. This plan exhibits
no weakness in its conception, and no hesitation in its
execution. Every feature of it is stamped with the
impress of an honest and a great mind—a mind ca-
p ible not merely of grappling successfully with the
most appalling difficulties, but of triumphing over all
those selfish and narrow considerations which would
sacrifice the welfare of the many to the interests of
the few. We have given a minute detail of this plan at
the commencement of our Parliamentary report, and no
candid man can pursue it without being struck, not less
by its simplicity than by its magnitude. The principle
upon which it is founded, the mode in which it will
operate, and the results it is fitted to produce, are all
so obvious and reasonable as must at once approve
themselves to the understanding, and satisfy the
wishes, of every impartial mind. It has burst upon the
nation like a thunder-cloud, dazzling with its brilliancy
the eyes of the friends, and quelling with its glare the hearts
of the enemies, of Reform. It has spread consternation,
and dismay among the ranks of the corruptionists and
boroughmongers, so that they can now only cry out in
despair, Revolution ! Revolution ! Revolution! We trust,
however, that the Ministry are not to be diverted from
their purpose by the sound of a mere name, however por-
tentous. Let them stand true to their Sovereign and to
themselve., and they may feel assured that the country
will not desert them.—Perthshire Advertiser.

NEWSPAPER AND ADVERTISEMENT Du-
llEs.—On Saturday last a deputation connected with the
provincial Newspaper press, consisting of Mr. BAINES, of
the Leeds Mercury, and Mr. KNorr, of Aria's Bir-
mingham Gazette, bad an interview, by appointment,
with Lord ALTHORP, the Chancellor of Exchequer, on the
subject of the proposed alteration of the Duties on News-
paper Stamps and Advertisements. His Lordship ex-
plained that the plan already proposed when the budget
was brought forward, had met with pretty general appro-
bation. In answer to the inquiry when the alteration
would take effect, his Lordship signified that the neces-
sary arrangements would occupy some time, and that they
could scarcely be made before the Midsummer quarter on
the sth of July. His Lordship was also pleased to promise
his best consideration to a suggestion made by the depu-
tation for the purpose of removing all uncertainty regard-
ing the duty of the lower denomination by adopting a
scale of words instead of a scale of lines, and it is now,
we understand, definitely fixed that all Advertisements net
exceeding 120 words shall be subject to a duty of one
shilling, and all above that number to the duty of two
shillings and sixpence, from and after the sth of July
next... Leas Mercury.