The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-21 00:00:00

SURREY REFORM MEETING.

Yesterday a meeting of freeholders of the county
of Surrey took place at Epsom, for the purpose of
addressing his Majesty on the subject of Reform.
The High Sheriff presided.
Mr. LEECH stood forward to propose an address
to his Majesty, and in doing so passed a warm
eulogium on the conduct of his Majesty and his
Ministers ; and in his animadversions on the op-
ponents of the wishes of the King and the people,
dwelt particularly, and with great severity, on the
conduct of the Episcopal Bench. He concluded
by moving that an address be presented to the King,
which the speaker accordingly read.
The Rev. Mr. COURTENAY cordially coincided
with the whole of his friend's excellent address,
excepting only the part which reflected on the con-
duct of the Bishops.—(Cries of "Oh !" and
laughter.) He would never join in the absurd and
illiberal cry which had been raised against the Epis-
r copal Bench, and he would maintain that he was as
sincere and as staunch a Reformer as any living, and
he believed his public conduct for many years sup-
ported his assertion.—(Hear, hear.) It was his
"opinion, therefore, as a sincere friend to Reform,
that a display of violence on the part of the ,people
against any particular body of men would hurt the
great cause for which we were all contending.—
(Cries of " Oh, oh !" and laughter.)
Mr. COBBETT said, that the requisition by which
they had been called together that day called them
for the purpose of considering the Bill—the same
Bill which had passed the Commons; but the ad-
dress spoke of some other Bill to be proposed, which
might be altogether different, and of no value what-
ever. It talked, it was true, of hoping to haste one
" quite as efficient"—but he would ask them what
they would say to any great fellow who should come
and force a pretty girl from their arms, and then
attempt to console them by quietly telling them—
" Oh ! pray be patient—l'll bring you another girl
as pretty ?"—(Much laughter.) Would they give
the fellow credit for speaking the truth ? A Rev.
Gentleman had denied that the conduct of the
Bishops was fit matter for animadversion in an ad-
dress to the King. He would maintain that the
conduct of the Bishops was a very substantial part
of what they had to discuss that day, for it was
their conduct which was the occasion of that meet-
ing.—(Hear, hear.) The Bishops took a very large
part of every man's wealth—(Hear)—and he con-
tended that something ought to be said of the great
mischief they had done.—(Cheers.) If public virtue,
and not private interest, had been their motive
of action on a recent occasion, the Bill would not
have been thrown out, and this turmoil would have
ceased. They had it in their power to have carried
the Bill by a majority of one, but they threw their
casting votes against it ; and all the danger, all the
turmoil, which had been caused all over the country,
and all the misery which must ensue to thousands
by the delay of the measure—the whole was to be
ascribed to the Bench of Bishops.—(Cheers.) He
had another very great objection to the address, that it
contained an expression that they had the same con-
fidence in the Ministers as before the Bill was
thrown out.—(Cries of " We have, we have !")
Lord Grey, it was true, had said he would stand or
fall by the Bill ; but now that the Bill had been
thrown out, he talked of another Bill, which he
(Mr. C.) was confident would prove to be not as
efficient as the Bill.—( Cries of " It must.") When
Lord Grey went to Windsor, and found that he
could not get a creation of Peers, it was his duty, if
he had been sincere in his desire to pass the Bill, to
have instantly resigned his post, and then the inev-
, table consequence would have been that lie would
have been thrown back into office on the shoulders
of the people—(Cheers)—and then who would have
opposed his carrying the Bill ?—(Cheers.) In his
opinion the meeting ought to receive a pledge from
their county Members, that they would support no
Bill which did not contain schedule A and B.—
(Hear, hear.) Such a pledge lie believed to be ne-
cessary for the people's security, for they might de-
pend upon it the Ministers would not offer them a
second Bill as efficient as the first. The prorogation
of Parliament, they would find, would be till Fe-
bivary next—(" No, no")—and in the mean time
the Bill would be pushed and poked about till
it would be worth nothing. During this time
dear Lord Grey would be held up to them
to quiet and pacify the grumblers, like the cradle
which the mother held up to her brute of a
husband when he was about to baste her with a
mopstick. Their child lay in the cradle, and, when
the fellow rushed at his wife, she took tip the cradle
and held it before her, crying out " Here, murder
your child, do !" Lord Grey was the cradle which
the Whigs would hold up to the people to stay their
rage, and so long as it succeeded, would the people
he verily believed, have to look in vain for a Bill
with schedules A and B.—(Cries of " We must
have it ; we'll have no other.") Well, the truth of
his predictions would be falsified or verified in less
than two months, and lie hoped they would bear in
mind what he had said. He would now propose, as
an amendment, an address of his own, to be substi-
tuted for the original one, and he should be very
much mistaken if the majority of that meeting did
not adopt it. Mr. Cobbett then read his address,
of which the following is a copy of that part espe-
cially, as lie contended, making it worthy of udop-
lion in preference to that proposed by Mr. Leech:—
" But, if language would fail us in endeavouring to give
vent to our thoughts relative to this whole band, where
shall we find words to engross our feelings with regard to
the conduct of those mitred enemies of our rights and our
happiness, who, raing in wealth, and lodged in princely
palaces by means drawn from ear property and labour,
and so exaltecl as the immaculate guardians of piety and
virtue, have, by this, their vote, stamped the seal of
their approval on drunkenness, fraud, corruption, subor-
nation, and perjury, more flagrant, more shameless, more
teeming with abominations than were those, on the actors
in which God, by, the mouth of Job, pronounced, that
the congregation of hypocrites should be desolate,' and
that fire should consume ' the tabernacles of bribery ;'
more flagrant, more full of abominations than the acts of
the apostate SORS of Samuel, and yielding in point of wick-
edness to the deeds of none but that of Judas Iscariot
himself !"

Lord KING then presented himself, and was re-
ceived with loud cheers. He said the address of
Mr. Leech expressed the confidence which was felt
in Ministers—Mr. Cobbett's did not.

Mr. Com]Err —No:Mirle is silent..
Lord KlNG—Another reason lie had for preferring
the first address was, because it was generally sup-
posed that that the same Bill would not be pro-
posed again, and confidence might be had in the
present Ministers that a Bill quite as efficient, if not
precisely the same, would be proposed. They must
bear in remembrance that the Bill would have to
pass through a very intractable assembly, and altera-
tions might be proposed which would not materially
affect the goodness of the Bill. A commission,
they were aware, had been appointed to inquire into
certain boroughs, and the a‘terations which they
might suggest for its improvement would make it
not the same.--(Hear, hear.) For his own part,
he was ready to pledge himself to support no Bill
but one which should contain schedules A and
(Cheers.) To him it appeared most absurd to sup-
Pose that any Bill without these schedules would
be proposed by the Ministers, Of this he was cer-
tain, that if they fancied they would be able to
carry a Bill wanting those schedules, they were
labouring under a very gross delusion.—((sheers.)
With respect to that part of the Hon. Gentleman's
address relating to the Bishops, he was no friend to
them, and would willingly turn those money-
changers out of the Temple; but he thought an ad-
dress to hip Majesty not exactly the proper sort of

vehicle for such language as that made use of. Some
good might come out of evil, for although the Bill
had been thrown out, there was this consideration
for our consolation, that if it had gone into Com-
mittee in the House of Lords, many of the essential
principles of the Bill would, in all likelihood, have
been compromised; but as it was, we should now
compromise.
the
eessential principles of the Bill, and no
hear.) The question now
was a very simple one—merely this— that a cheap
Government is necessary—a sine qua non—and that
in order to get it, we must hare a Reformed Parlia-
ment.—(Hear.)
Mr. MAI3ERLY, M.P., coincided in the view taken
of the question by the Noble Lord. He did not
think Mr. Cobbett had made any strong objection
to the original address. They were all agreed, he
presumed, respecting the conduct of the Bishops—
(Hear, hear)—but he no less believed all would
think it expedient that the address should be made
the means of passing a stricture on their conduct.—
(Yes, yes.) Mr. Cobbett said he had no confidence
in Ministers—we have.—(Cheers.) He would ask,
had Lord Grey or the Ministers done anything to
forfeit their confidence ?—(No, no.) If men were
entitled to confidence by the experience of their
past conduct, the Ministers were entitled to confi-
dence, if ever men were.—(Cheers.) With respect
to giving any pledge of the course lie should pursue,
relative to any measure of Reform which might
hereafter be proposed, he had only to say, as he
had said before, that he would not give any pledge,
for it was impossible to foresee how far the duties
he owed to his constituents might make it neces-
sary for him to depart from it. This, however, he
would pledge himself to, that he would agree to no
Bill which would not give them a full, fair repre-
sentation.—(Hear, hear.) It was much better to
let an honest man go free and unpledged, except to
general principles. lit the course of his speech,
the Hon. Member made frequent quotations from a
pamphlet by Ricardo, and called forth the anger of
Mr. Cobbett, who ejaculated during his progress,
Oh, that horrid Jew !" " The greatest fool that
ever lived !" " What vile trash !" &c. The Hon.
Member concluded by giving his support to the
original addrese.
Mr. DENISON, M. P. would give no pledge be-
yond this, that he would, to the utmost of his
power, endeavour to obtain for them a full, fair, and
free representation in Parliament—(Hear, hear)—
and he would put it to them, if they desired more
from him ?—(No, no.) He had no hesitation in
affirming his belief that the people would succeed in
obtaining at the hands of the Ministers a measure of
Reform as full and efficient as that which had been
lost. With respect to the opposition of the Episco-
pal Bench, he thought it of little importance. It
was ridiculous to suppose that they could eltimately
prevail against King, Commons, and Press. If they
should persevere, and, by causing more disappoint-
ment to the country, raise anarchy and civil discord
amongst the people, on their heads must be the
consequences.—(Hear, hear.)

Mr. BRISCOE, M.P., exhorted all those who were
sincere Reformers to set a double watch on their
conduct, and not to give to their adversaries by any
act of violence, in word or deed, a shadow of advan-
tage over them. He recommended them to take
for their motto, " Patience and Perseverance," and
then, by the blessing of God, their glorious cause
must inevitably prevail. With respect to giving
any pledge, he said he should have no difficulty in
doing so, but it might prove inconvenient—a single
borough might be taken out of schedule A and put
into schedule B—and this without doing any injury
to the Bill ; and for this, could it be said that he
would be justified in withholding his support from
the measure ?—(Hear, hear.) No; he hoped that
his past conduct justified him its expecting confi-
dence for the future. He gave his hearty concur-
rence to the address.—(Cheers.)

Mr. LEECII suggested to Mr. Cobbett that he
should withdraw his address, after what he had
heard ; and, after a few words, Mr. Cobbett did
withdraw it.

The original address was then carried unanimously,
thanks were voted to the High Sheriff, and the meet-
ing separated.

EARL GREY TO THE HIGH SHERIFF OF NORTHUM-

BERLAND.

The following letter has been addressed by Earl
Grey to the High Sheriff of Northumberland, in re-
ply to his letter enclosing the resolutions of the re-
cent county meeting :

" Downing-street, Oct. 14.

" have this morning had the honour of receiv-
ing your letter of the 12th, together with the resolutions
of the county meeting held en that day at Morpeth, and
ae address to his Majesty, which I shall have great satis-
faction in presenting to him on the earliest opportunity. It
can hardly be necessary for me to add how greatly I feel
myself honoured in being charged with the performance of
this duty.
" Upon the address which the meeting did me the ho-
nour of voting to myself, it is impossible for me to find
words that would convey an adequate expression of my
feelings. Such a mark of confidence and approbation from
my native county, which I had the honour of representing
for so many years in Parliament, and to which I am at-
tached not more by interest than by affection, has a value
in my eyes superior to any reward that could have been con-
ferred upon me for my public conduct—their wishes would
generally be, in my estimation, equal to commands—in the
present case they entirely correspond with my own feeling
of public duty.
" Whilst I entertain a hope of being able to bring an
efficient measure of Reform to a successful issue, I consi-
der myself as bound, at the risk of any personal sacri-
fices, not to abandon the situation in which the too fa-
vourable opinion of an indulgent master has placed me.
To his Majesty and to the country I owe my best exer-
tions to promote a measure which has received the sanc-
tion of both, and which I believe to be essential to the
future peace and good government of these kingdoms.
" For the success of this measure nothing is so imperi-
ously required as the preservation of .public tranquillity
and order, and nothing can be so adverse to it as any acts
of popular violence : the good sense and loyalty of the
people of Northumberland, however, resider any exhor-
tation of this kind unnecessary, and it is with the truest
satisfaction that I learn frosts you, though the feelings of
the people have been strongly excited, that the public peace
in that county has not been in any instance interrupted.
I ans, with the highest regard, Sir, your most obedient
servant, " GREY."

" George Silvertop, Esq., Minster Acres,
Neweastle-on-Tyne."

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Four o'Clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

BAKRUPTY
THOMAS NEIGNHBOUR,C sen.ENLARGED. and THOMAS NEIGH-
BOUR, jun. King-street, West Smithfield, wine-merchants, from
October 25 to 28, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners.

BANKRUPTS.
PETER ROYNOU LEWIS, Kent-terrace, Regent's-park,
victualler, Oct. 2S, at one, Nov. 4, at twelve, and Dec. '2, at
eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Burt, Essex-street,
Strand.
JOZE ANTONIO GONCALVES D'OLIVEI RA and
FRANCISCO GOMES D'OLIVEIRA, Otd Jewry, merchant,
Oct. 2S, at twelve, Nov. 4, and Dec. 2, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners. Swain, Old Jewry.
JOSL'PH FIRTH, Manchester, cotton.spinner, Nov. 9, 10,
and Dec. 2, at two, at the :Star Inn; Manchester. Johnson,
Weather all, Temple; Seddon, Manchester.
JAMES SHEPPARD, lA‘chlade, Gloucestershire, baker,
Oct. 31, Nov. 7, and Dec. '2, at eleven, at the fled Lion Inn,
Lambourn, Berks. Howland, Ramsbury, Wilts.
RICHARD PLINY JACKSON,• Liverpool. sail-maker,
Nov. 11, 12, and Dec. 13, at two, at the Clarendon-Rooms, Liver-
pool. Clare, Liverpool; Taylor and Roscoe, King's Bench-
walk, Temple.
WILLIAM PRENTICE, High-street, Southwark, iron.
monger. Oct. 28, Nov. 4, at one, and Dec. 2, at two, at the
Court of Commissioners. Brooking and Surr, Lombard-street.
DANIEL and COBNELIUS HOPE, Mhanchester, silk-
manufacturers.
GEORGE HENRY RICKARDS, Cowley-road, Brikton, wine-
merchant.
ROBERT DUNELL, St. John's-street, Smithfield, corn-
dealer.
SAMUEL APPLEING, Spital-square, silk-manufacturer.
JAMES HARRIS, Plymouth, painter.
ROBERT and CHARLES 111.31t11, Bentinck--treet, Man-
chester-square, upholsterer.
ROBERT VINCENT DAWSON, Chiswell.street, Finsbury,
veterinary-surgeon.
THOMAS and JOSHUA JOSEPH JOHNSON, Lant-street,
Southwark, carpenters.

Lord LowTHER is very actively engaged in
the Cambridge contests which commenceo on the 2ith

Lord HOL LAND is, we are sorry to sad
to attend to public business on account of 1%
which has cenfined him to his bed since Meow,
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY hand
his valuable pictures, busts, statues, &c., from /I'

house to Wynstay.
We have received numerous accoUnlVli
dresses presented to Earl GREY, and of big LorP7
ewers. We have not room for them, but we oil
tt
fact to show that the spirit of the country is in ft"' t
We understand that during lb%
months which have elapsed since the opening ca,,o),
pool and Manchester Railway about ,160,L/
have passed between the two towns: a result
sto i
ing the most sanguine expectations of the origins.;/Ft
undertaking. The sum received for the cooi'''
paisengers and goods during the same period ig
of 190,0001.—Liverpool Advertiser. fOr
A DAY TOO LATE.—We learn -rvii
American Papers that large subscriptions hay. 4
tered into for the brave Poles—twenty thou
.1
already transmitted; that at Philadelphia severdlYrlt
men have enrolled themselves as volunteers; %dot
public meeting was held on the 27th of SePtel"V
termine on the best means of passing throng",,
the seat of war !
LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The tits l
the Mayor of this borough commenced this morns f
WALLACE CURRIE, Esq. and SAMUEL SANDBAI,Y,
were severally put in nomination. Polling ;golf
place in the usnil way, by tallies of 10 freeole4p;,l
State of the poll, nine p. m.—Mr. SANDRAC/b
W. W. CURRIE, 561 ; Alijority 19. It is sups"
contest will close this evening.
THE BISHOPS.—A DIFFEREN`f,
Right Rev. Dr. MURPHY, Roman Catholic VP?,
Diocese, arrived last evening from Paris. We °lot
that his Lordship, while passing through Bath; fit;
dragged out of the mail coach by the poPulacie;:'
taken to be another Bishop of Cola.- who has s's 7/
hinself by voting against the Reform 13i1L---Crsc'f°i
SAILING OF SIR EDWARD COPFt;-, to
SQUADRON.— Cork Reporter Office, clnar`ses
o'clock, P. at.—At this moment we have re
following communication frost our Cove correqn."ol
Cove, Saturday, Oct. 15.—This fleet, wbinhs. a'
tained the last week by the continued gales at
S. W., sailed this morning, with the Wind at .
atl ti!!
and weather moderate. They had to make°o
.th
and have succeeded in clearing the harbour Wiest/
safety. If any thing were wanted to show t 1
vantage vantage of this harbour, as a port of eal..,,,L'ed
egress, it would be the fact of this fleet, conic•ogsa,
(dotihiseeflcecceshkkolhoyeanaortriEsneb?e)b:ro,au.fd)Rrst Iwulaee_tvAei,
aetalhlgiat:hgregaeet
leisntn ships
head
inea d the
wind.world,
T Wb
The
rot;:al ps
(ettbfErs.
that sailed, are, the Caledonia, Britans-pg
SLAVES.
—Fora
of spirits, or 139 handkerchiefs. For a wool b"lilsor
or 192 yards, or 8 rolls, or 32 gallons, or I"°r6 coif
or 9 rolls of tobacco, orbg trll:tf.
24 gallons, or 96 handkerchiefs.—" ActualLslety
Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa," in the '•
0;
P
We regret to state that the spirit "0".
co
hr
.611IyCFa
rEidraoa,F,
child,
heSillodLtr:,:aAenh6,
diadem is again manifest in Kent. Tuesday' lig
ounces, or 144 yards, °,',ate°'
W ft
eleven o'clock, a barn filled with barley, belong' sod
Pamir RAY, near Farningham, was set' on fire' 0
•
short time was entirely destroyed.
sy ,
A HINT TO THE SEDENTAR.•'„f 5,
y;:otrieu_rgfi4
reading aloud, and singing, are useful kind'
and it is supposed that this is at least one e:lirsil
greater longevity of clergymen, publicspeakers'
universities, and sehool-masters ; and
.„1:),;" re4:i
pleasantly observes, that one reason %TAY "Jneje
mr,:oonrte
biaobqizeiaoluni..ost
,lw Henceay
always
thosesing
less bodily exercise than men is, that they r
preservoatio
tionally contribute much to the
About eleven o'clock in the foreno
,•
00
turday last the embankment of a lodge of water,
❑
of Woodscats, near ,I,lotie
health. —.Henderson on the Preservation f
to Mr. JOHN HARRISON,
in-Longdendale, gave way, and nearly the 'bolt
small cotton factory was washed down, togetherthepl
machinery and three of the persons employed in girl'
ing, viz. a young man, IS years of age, and Ofilditi'l
of them 12 and the other 13 years old. The b 000
since been restored to their friends, but in a o*A' 00,
sate, one of them being carried several miles Jserr
river, as far as Campstall-bridge.— Stockport 1"'"-
A FRIEND IN NEED.—Some days argf°,oll,
saetdettetairr
Oar circumstance took place in the parisb t(;
county of Ross, which proves that friendship ;5
a thing of degree, and that mortal love is not aleip 4
as the hills. In a house no great distance fro,' iodi,
church a respectable young couple were tollotee,,
marriage. The friends met, and so did the Min the
the ceremony commenced and went so far that dere,
rend gentleman came to that part of it wiiieb re DI •
duty to request the parties to " join hands. Ao
however, the young lady would not consents
of course, took place among the friends, the,
bridegroom swooned away in the arms of a,,-°er:/.
while the bride, at this critical moment, sbal)'"PY
whatever she was, vanished " from the p
r
e
s
e
nce
.
tO
aid of cordials, the bridegroom was soon rest°rleer;ftl.
of doubtful existence ; and a spanking young,'.feri
" faithless fair," taking pity on the forlorn the
stepped forward, and shaking DONALD bi.ke_ I
offered to supply the vacancy occasioned by ▪ glaP,
conduct of her sister. The generous offer ,va" of kle
cepteil, and Mess John had the satisfactioo the!
them together, both seemingly very bappY a 11!
A f
" the aspein aspect of
f affaiairs'' which
undoubtedly
t I';4 I'l
Scotsman.
SPRING-GUNS IN FARM-1(A ED*fotr
MELBOURNE has obtained an Act of Parliatner'.o,
ing stacks against the destruction of ineendi3r,l,
wisdom of which the annals of legislation bsisellel,
parallel. This Act empowers farmers and 'operof:,
spring-guns in their yards to shoot those wl") (I)
fire their stacks, and the following is the "will /
operation :—The incendiary leans over tbeotl °Olt,
iad
a just
frie tad
ad il"
ke
,
farmyard, and discharges a fire-ball into a r',""
arises, the inhabitants of the farm-house are a's 11,/
rush into the yard to extinguish the flani,;
foremost man is shot dead by the spring-P-oi' S,
struck at the event, his fellows fly from the Irs
next day a Coroner's inquest is held, anuneo°'
‘• Died by Act of Parliament" is returned.^'' f'
tie Act, one shilling,—Preston Pilot.
LAST MOMENTS OF MR. SALrri,' Thi
BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL IN EGYPT....."'"Lif .
never ceased to haunt him that his chamber '4.„"sillt,AYSii:
and that he owed his deliverance from it to a "J• 5017,1,
of his moral courage. He entertained the elligbl'oo.,
notion that he had been for several days attennitael'e
funeral, or rather in pursuit of it ; for every
up with the procession, the horses inamediatelYrostreil'
with the hearse, when he lost sight of his °,°o,,laar,
fancied he had at length overtaken it at we bii° r
to
apartment, and he had the key of it brought ets11":310`
lie kissed it repeatedly in gratitude for
lingered through the day, and about piglitia;'::
petition of the horrors of the preceding eeenf; ,ladatc%te,
been all completsly exhausted with continue desed (00;
nearly thirty days, and it was not to be w")) rsielet,/,rP
the attendant who was left in charge was °li r,- re t'',o!,
nodding at his duty. A very few bourn bew-e/'
of the last scene his Greek servant,
s eited half asleep by the bed-side, was au"-o-t)
by the noise of some one falling on the nor: Itch
ing the spot, he found 'his master extended 04;
He had stolen from his bed, as on the pre' the Sei
his strength soon failed him, and he sunk by
a convulsion followed, which had distorted lit_ei,elV
and such was his appearance when the Greek
coped
that, in the stupefaction of the moment, be st)4°loooi
and pressed his thumbs t 2 his eielids, believing t
either dead or in the agony of dying. At chest
Mr. MONTEFIORE approached, and thrust asi"e:iitsoPor,
e
se, vent, with whom the poor invalid was feebly a fort,;
and no sooner was he released, than he stretenstiofis
cold hand, and, grasping that of Mr. I‘l°?',/,i ioosei
exclaimed, in a piteous tone—" Oh, doctors
yet
aQ
ki:NsTrtal l" These were the last words he e
tropolitun.

_
13IRTH. f
On the 12th inst. in Welbeck-street, the 13—, o
Esq., of a daughter.

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van to