The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-19 00:00:00

REFORM.

Mr. CAPEL presented a petition from the inhabitants
of the borough of Queenborougls, praying that they may
not be deprived of their franchise.
Mr. TYRELL (Suffolk) presentied petitions in favour
of Reform, from Bury St. Edmunds, from the county of
Suffolk, and from several places is that county.
Mr. BENETT presented similar petitions from the
county of Wilts, the town of Bradford, the towns of Malms-
bury, Warminster, Swindon, and Devizes.

On the question that these petitions be read,
Sir C. FORBES took occasion to express his regret that
so many persons should be induced to express themselves
in favour of a measure which was not Reform, but revolu-
tion, and which must prove ruinous to the Constitution of
this country.
Mr. HOBHOUSE having expressed an opinion that
the Reform measure would have an effect the very reverse
of that which the Hon. Baronet attributed to it,

Sir C. FORBES said lie could not understand why the
Hon. Member for Westminster had not, after the decision
of the House that evening, asked his usual question of
when do the Ministers intend to resign ?—(Hear, and a
laugh.) Why had not the Hon. Member, after so deci7
sive a defeat, put the same question they had so often
heard him put to the late Government, of when does the
Noble Lord propose to resign ?—(Hear, ard:l a laugh.)
Mr. HOBHOUSE said his memory was not so defective
hut that he could recollect the opinions of the Hon. Baronet
to have been, on former occasions, different from what they
were now. The question which the Hon. Baronet wished
him to put was not, however, quite so appropriate at the
present moment. The country would not be gulled by
the trickeiy of the vote of that evening. The question for
them was, whether they were to have Reform or net, and
whether those who had fur fifty years been labouring to
obtain Reform were now to be tricked out of their object?
He was convinced that the day, when the Ministers re-
signed, would be a bad day for the country; but he was
satisfied that the country would nut be baulked in their
wishes by the vote of that night.
Sir C. FORBES, in explanation, said that he was ready
to vote for Reform, hut not for revolution.

Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented a petition from New-
castle-upon-Tyne, in favour of the Bill for Parliamentary
Reform ; and another petition from the Mayor and Corpo-
ration of that town, praying that they might still be al-
lowed to make their apprentices burgesses.
Petitions in favour of Reform were presented by Mr.
Roberts, from 2,700 inhabitants of Maidstone; by Lord
Fordwich, from Canterbury, and from the non-resident
freemen of that city (although they would lose their fran-
chise by the measure); by Mr. Blount, from 7,500 inha-
bitants of a town in Derbyshire ; by Sir W. W. Wynn,
from Wrexham ; by Mr. James Johnson, from Dunferm-
line and Inrerkeithing ; by Mr. R. Price, from Ross ; by
Lord Althorp, from Knaresborough, Ludlow, Rugby, and
Christchurch ; by Mr. P. Thompson, from Dover, and
St. Leonard's, Shoreditch; by Members, whose names
we could not learn, from a place in the Isle of Thanet,
Belfast, &c.

At Half-past Two o'clock this morning the House ad-
journed.

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

Lord Chamberlain's-Office, March 17, 1831.
Notice is hereby given, that the Ladies to be presented to the
Queen at the ensuing Drawing-Room are first to be pre-
sented to the King, and they are, therefore, requested to bring
with them three cards,
, one to be delivered to the Page in Wait-
ing in the Presence-Chamber leading to the Dra, ing-Roorn, one
to the Lord in Waiting to the King, who will present the Lady
to his Majesty, and the third card to the Lord Chamberlain to
the Queen, who will present the Lady to her Majesty.

St. James's Palace, March VS.
This day the Count de Moltke, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi.
nister Plenipotentiary from the King of Denmark, had an audi.
ence of his Majesty to deliver a letter from his Sovereign ; to
which he was introduced by Lord Viscount Palmerston his Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,and con-
ducted by Sir Robert Chester, Kut,, Master of the Ceremonies.

St. James's Palace, March 18.
The King was this day pleased to invest Vice-Admiral Sir Henry
Digby with the en signs of a Knight Commander of the Most
Honourable Military Order of the Bath.
By command of the Sovereign Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Digby
was conducted, with the usual reverences, to his Majesty, pre-
ceded by. Sir George Nayler (the Officer of? Arms attendant upon
the Knights Commanders), bearing upon a crimson velvet
cushion the star, riband, and badge of the second class of the
Order.

The sword of state being thereupon delivered to his Majesty,
the Vice-Admiral, kneeling, was knighted therewith ; after
which he had the honour to kiss his Majesty's hand. Then
Sir George Nayler, on his knee, presenting to the Sovereign the
riband and badge of a Knight Commander, the King was
pleased to invest Sir Henry Digb' with the same.
The Vice-Admiral, having again had the honour to kiss the
Sovereign's hand, and, having received from his Majesty the star
of a Knight Commander, retired.

Crown-Office, March 18.
IIEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT.
BOROUGH OF Eva.—William Burge, of Lincoln's-Inn, in the
county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of Sir Philip Charles
Sidney, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds
BOROUGH OF LANCASTER.—Patrick Maxwell Stewart, Esq., in
the room of John Fenton Cawthorne, Esq., deceased.
BOROUGH OF MILBORNE PORT.—George Stevens Byng, of Eaton.
square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. in the room of the
Right Hon. William Sturges Bourne, who has accepted the
Chiltern Hundreds.
CITY OF CHESTER.—The Right Hon. Robert Grosvenor, of
Eaton, in the county of Chester.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset.
It. tsicknell, Gent. to be Ensign, Feb. 18, 1831.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk.
Second or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia.
J. B. St. John, Esq. to be Captain, vice WElii,qt.e,,Hre.scig. ncedoa,peF,ebEs. 27q.:
CToombme ipsseiopnustyby tuehueteLonarndt.L—ieHut.ecnoaanpet of, the County of Essex.
R. B. Wolfe, Esq., J. A. Houblon, jun. Esq., Sir F. Vincent,
Bart., P. Z. Cox, Esq., A. Gardner, Esq.., J. Hirst, Esq,,
J. R. Brise, Esq., E. G. Barnard, Esq._, T. White, Esq., P. Mal.
lard, Esq., W. T. Robinson, Esq., W. Cotton, Esq., A. Cox,
Esq., and J. J. Tufbell, jun., Esq.; Feb. 9.
East Essex Regular Militia.
G. Blake, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Surtees, resigned, Feb. 23.
West Essex Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry,
G. Palmer, jun. Esq. to be Captain ; } - Bury, Gent, to be
Lieutenant ; B. Colvin, Gent. to be Cornet, Feb. 8.
A. Prin
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Selkirk.
gle; Esq. to be Vice-Lieutenant, Feb. 19; Colonel J.
Russell to be Deputy Lieutenant; -T. Stavert, Esq. to be ditto,
Jan. 31.

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Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Kent.
The West Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
The Earl of Darnley to be Lieut.-Colonel-Commandant, Dec
18; the Earl of Brecknock to be Major, March l 2; Lord Viscount
Sydney to be Captain, Dec. '2O; Hon. J. D. Bligh to be ditto
Feb. 14 ; Viscount Ma rsham to be ditto, Feb. 15 Sir W. R
Geary, Bart., to be ditto, Feb. 1G;to
Lord Viscount holmesdale
be ditto, Feb. 17 • P. H. Dyke, Jun., Esq., to be ditto, Feb. '2l •
J. Chapman, Jun.' Gent. to be Lieutenant, Dec. 20; A. Akers',
Gent., to be ditto, Jan. 8'; R. W. Blencowe, Gent., to be ditto,
Feb, 12; W. Brown, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, Feb. 14 ;

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