The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-04 00:00:00

THE MONEY-MARKET.

(From the Times.)
Late in the day (Tuesday) a rise of nearly one per cent.
occurred in Consols, the cause of which is far from being
obvious, and hut been the subject -of much conjecture in
the city. It is not supposed to have any connection with
foreign politics, which is rendered the less likely, as intel-
ligence from the Continent seldom arrives at so late an
hour ; nor can it have any thing to do directly with the
Reform question, on the success of which most people have
now made up their minds. But what we heard assigned
as the cause, and that by persons who are likely to be well-
informed, is, that the Directors of the Bank of England,
who were under great alarm at its progress, and engaged
consequently for some time back in measures for their own
protection, in contracting the circulation, and other steps
calculated at the same time to spread distrust through the
whole of the monied interest, have at last come to the
conclusion that there was no real ground for any such
alarm, and have suddenly relaxed in their system. We are
the more inclined to adopt this explanation, because at the
same time with the rise in the funds there has occurred
also a much greater facility with regard to all money tran-
sactions out of doors, which could occur on any other
supposition. Some of the great monied houses, for ex-
ample, only yesterday (Monday) were scrupulous in dis-
counting good bills, who have become desirous to-day of
obtaining the same bills at a lower rate of discount. A
meeting of Bank Directors was held, it seems, yesterday
(Monday), which is an unusual day with that body, and on
this occasion the change of sentiment alluded to is sup-
posed to have been manifested. It may have beeen remarked
that a formal contradiction, professing tobe from authority,
was put forth yesterday by some of the daily papers, to the
statement of the rate of discount at the branch banks
having been advanced to five per cent. There is now,
however, every reason to believe that a resolution to that
effect was come to on Thursday, but that it may have been
since rescinded on a better consideration of the prospects
of the country. The quickness with which these little
revolutions in the Bank parlour travel throughout the
whole circle of the monied interest, is matter of very com-
mon observation in the city, and they are undoubtedly the
cause of fluctuations in the funds much oftener than people
in general are aware.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--on Monday,
the 2d instant, by special license, LEONARD Tnomrsost,
Esq., s eldest es" Huttonson ofp aGrEko, a
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Miss
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WORTH FITZWILLIAM, second daughter of LORD MILTON
and grand-daughter of Earl FITZWILLIAM,
we have received from Liverpool a letter
dated Monday night, and also second and third editions of
the Albion,. in which is a full account of the proceedings
on the
hustings on Monday. It is impossible to describe
the entlmst Sin which pervades all classes of that great
community in favour of " the Bill." General GAscovNE
is booted and hissed wherever he goes. The feeling
against him is. universal, and, from the organization
which the friends of freedom have made to secure the
return of Messrs. EWART and DENISON, and to oust the
General, a glorious result is anticipated. The poll
opened at twelve yelterday. If the freemen but second
the efforts
inevitable.—Times.
the Reformers, the defeat of General GAS.
coyNE is

SIR WALTER SCOTT.—The Scots Times
says—" It seems to be a sort of fashion now-a-days to get
a periodical account of the illness of this distinguished man,
for what purpose we can scarcely guess. 'Thiee short
months ago he had a stroke of palsy, when we knew him
to be very busy in the second volume of'" ROBERT Count
of Paris." Last week he had a most alarming attack,
according to the Edinburgk Conrant,—and some jour-
nals, fond of copying personal paragraphs, are at this mo-
ment busy in propagating the dolorous intelligence. We
have transferred neither piece of veracious news to our
columns, for theiingle'reason that we knew neither to be
true. What, for example, is the foundation of the last
report ? Neither more nor less than this, that the excel-
lent Baronet had a dinner party t'otber day, and in amus-
ing his guests caught a smart cold. To prevent any bad
consequences, he was advised, and, of course, submitted, to
have blood taken from him, and all was well. This is
the whole truth respecting the latest, which we hope will
also be the last, absurd story respecting Sir WALTxu.
Scarfs health. For the satisfaction of those who are so
anxious to transfer his corpus to the Necropolis of Melrose
or any other sacred spot, we may add that he is now in
excellent health, and that, in the words of Dr. ABER-
CROMBIE, who saw him ten days ago, he may not only
exist, but labour as admirably as We has hitherto done, for
20 yens to come, if he will but take care of himself."

the gallery, was received with the most enthusiastic cheer-
ing, which lasted for some minutes. When the applause
had subsided he commenced by thanking the meeting for
the honour they had done him in appointing him to take
the chair upon that great and glorious occasion, an occa-
sion in which a patriot King placed himself at the head of
his people in the great cause of recovering the lost liberty
and the lost happiness of this great and glorious, but long
misgoverned and oppressed ration.—(Cheers.) He had
never been the flatterer of Kings, nor the sycophant of teen
in power; and although his fellow-townsmen had fre-
quently honoured him with the most gratifying testimo-
nials of their favour, yet he trusted that no one could justly
say that he had ever sought to obtain their approbation by
any unjust and unworthy means. But although it was
wrong to flatter, it did not, therefore, fellow, that we ought
not to do justice to each other ; still less ought they to re-
frain from doing justice to a patriot Monarch, whose con-
duct in support of his people touched a pulse in the very
bottom of their hearts, and compelled them to break out
in one general spontaneous and universal cry of God
save the King.—(Tremendous cheers—three times three
for the King.) In speaking of the conduct of the gracious
Sovereign under whom they had the happiness to live, he
could not help remarking, that be had read much of his-
tory, and most of the great events which history recorded
were deeply engraven on his mind ; but among all those
events he could not call to mind one in which more true
wisdom, virtue, courage, and patriotism, had been dis-
played than those which had now been exhibited in the
person of their gracious Sovereign.—(Cheers.) He would
for a moment, call their attention to the particulars of his
conduct. (At this period, from the tremendous pressure
of the crowd, one of the front railings in the gallery gave
way, and for a moment much alarm was excited. When
order was again obtained, Mr. Attwood proceeded.) He
was happy to assure them, that no accident had oc-
curred. He then proceeded to state, that they must bear
in mind that the King was the common father of all his
subjects, and that it was his duty to hold the scales of jus-
tice with an equal hand between them all. Admirably had
the King performed this great duty. He had regarded no
calumnies or insinuations which week after week bad re-
presented that his Royal heart was not favourable to the
popular cause. Having discharged his duty manfully in
the first instance, according as the Constitution required,
by giving his sanction in favour of the great Bill of Par-
liamentary Reform, he had afterwards most judiciously
preserved a dead silence upon the subject, If be had not
preserved this silence--if he had suffered .the. generous
feelings of his truly British heart to find vent, he would,
in some degree, have made himself a partizan in the popu-
lar cause, and the borough faction would have laid all the
blame upon his head. They would have said to him,
" All this cry for Reform is your Majesty's own doing—
if your Majesty bad not urged them on by your own per-
sonal interference, the people would have been quiet."
In this way their gracious Sovereign would have
exposed himself to the personal malice of the bo-
rough faction on the one hand, and injured the public
cause on the other. By the wise and judicious con-
duct which his Majesty pursued, the scales of justice
t-ad been held with-an equal hand, and the great cause of
Reform bad trurnphed upon its own merits.—(Cheers.)
The borough faction now could bring no charges of undue
partiality against the sacred person of the King; hut when
the great duties of the King required his Constitutional
interference, then it was that his noble feelings all burst
out in support of his faithful people. The newspapers had
reported, that when his patriotic Ministers suddenly ap-
plied to him fel. his Constitutional interference, and when
the Royal equipages could not be suddenly got ready, the
King had said, " Bring me a hackney-coach, for I am de-
termined to do my duty.”—(Great cheers.) In that
awful moment he showed no weakness or hesitation. He
might have availed himself of his Constitutional right to
dissolve Parliament by proxy ; but it was not by proxy
that his British heart was disposed to seive the British
people.—(Cheers.) He magnanimously resolved to go
in person in the face of a disappointed and maddened
faction, who had exhibited conduct almost in the Royal
presence which the humble manufacturers of Birming-
ham had never disgraced themselves by adopting ; and
lie trusted they never would. The Duke of Welling-
ton had certainly exhibited a fine specimen of English
courage at Waterloo; but if he (Mr. A.) knew anything
of the subject, the King of England had personally ex-
hibited still more real courage upon this important occa-
sion. They must bear in mind that a majority of the
House of Commons had declared against his Ministers
upon General Gascoyne's motion ; that a majority of the
House of Lords were doggedly disposed, and that they
were in the very act of preparing an address to his Ma

. .
jesty, praying him not to dissolve his Parliament, when
his Majesty broke in upon their deliberations with his
Royal crown upon his head, and graciously ordering an
immediate dissolution, sent the Members of the House of
Commons to face their offended constituents. But it was
not merely against these Parliamentary fictions, that their
gracious King had to contend. In the very midst of his
own Palace, the enemies of the people had been spreading
all manner of calumnies, and insinuating cli manner of
fears and alarms into his Royal heart• They had repre-
sented the faithful, loyal, and devoted people of England
as working for revolution, and for the vile and destructive
changes which anarchy presented. The King had set all
these dangers and calumnies at defiance ; he had listened
only to his duty, and never did man perform his duty in a
more effectual and manly way.—(Cheers.) He could
not but again recur to the wise forbearance which their
good King had exhibited. He had retarded no calumnies,
and no slander. He had preserved silence even when his
own household, or what might be called his household,
the inhabitants of Windsor, were prevented petitioning in
favour of Reform. In this way no shadow of contamina-
tion could attach to his conduct. He had strictly done his
duty by all classes of his subjects,—he had left the cause
of Reform to triumph by its own merits, and then, when
the will of the people was made clear, he bad nobly shown
that his heart was the same as their's and that he was de-
termined to support their rights.—(Cheers.) Mr. A. then
proceeded to real the requisition, in virtue of which the
meeting was called, and concluded by requesting that if
there was any individual in that immense assemblage who
held a different opinion from the majority, that they would
hear him in a friendly way, without offering the slightest
insult to that freedom of opinion which they all claimed
and exercised themselves.—(Cheers.)
J. SCHOLEFIELD, Esq. rose amidst loud cheers. It might
seem as if he were insensible of their kindness, were he
not upon the instant to acknowledge with thanks the gra-
tifying and flattering manner in which the meeting was
pleased to receive him. He could assure them, although
he thought they overrated his talents, not a man existed
on the face of the earth of purer intentions or more dis-
interested in his object titan he was.—(Cheers ) He
would now proceed to the business of the day ; and he
was happy to say, considering that it was afternoon, there
was now no necessity for long speeches. They had no
longer the old opposition to contend with ; for, thank
God, their business, like the Bridgnorth election, was an
one way.—(Cheers, and laughter.) They must recollect,

bind prudence, justice, moderation, forbearance, and strict
legality of all their proceedings. Here was their strength,
and they must take care that they did not abuse it--
(Cheers)—for if they did, it was most sure that they would
lose it. It was excellent to have a giant's strength, but
it was damnable to use it like a giant. Here be would
beg leave to make a quotation from the spcech of en Ho-
nourable Member of Parliament, who had surrendered
his borough influence for the benefit of his country, and
whose head, or heart, he knew not which most to ad-
mire, who, upon a late occasion, when speaking of the
proud boastings of the borough faction against the people,
spoke as follows :—" I shall put forth no Vaunting de-
fiance of that giant power which now sleeps a faithful
servant at our feet—which has ever yet put forth its strength
in our defence, but against which, if ever it should turn in
madness upon its master, no defiance can avail," That
giant power (said Mr. A.) is the power of the people, that
giant power is mainly under your controul. You, the
men 01 Birmingham, by the courage, patriotism, prudence,
and forbearance of your proceedings, have acquired an in-
fluence over the mind of the English people, which you
must take care that yefiu do not forfeit. At the present mo-
ment, your influence is such, that if ever you should think
proper, at the King's call, to adopt any measure whatever,
millions of your countrymen would instantly follow your
example.—(Cheers.) He, therefore, urged them to pre-
serve, upon all occasions, the most strict obedience to the
laws, and the most generous and manly forbearance towards
all their fellow-countrymen who mi4lit possibly differ from
them in op:nion. He urged them on no account to commit
or to allow any kind of outrage or insult, whether of
person or of property, that might be offered on the occa-
sion of the illumination.— (Cheers, and cries of " We
won't, we won't.") He urged them, not only to refrain
from outrage and insult themselves, but to prevent all
others from doing so —(Cheers.)
The following Address was th-n read :--
" TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
SIRE,—We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the
inhabitants of the town of Birmingham, in town's meeting
assembled, humbly beg leave again to approach your Majesty °s
Royal presence, for the purpose of expressing our heartfelt
gratitude and admiration at the truly Royal and .magnanimous
conduct of your Majest, in dissolving your late Parliament
in person, and in appealing to the sense of your faithful
people on the great measures of Parliamentary Reform, brought
forward by your Majesty's upright, virtuous, and patriotic Mi-
nisters. We would not, Sire, intrude upon the precious hours
of your Majesty, if it were not that we are sensible that
the expression of the feelings of a grateful people cannot but be
gratifying to your Majesty's paternal heart. We admire the
wisdom and sound discretion with which your Majesty, holding
the scales of justice with an equal hand between your subjects,
after giving your Royal sanction in favour of the great and salu-
tary Bill of Parliamentary Reform, forebore to interfere further
by any public demonstration in its support until the exercise of
your Majesty's great duties required courage of the highest
order, with promptitude, decision, public spirit, and patriotism,
seldom to be equalled in the affairs of men. Then it was, that
these great qualities were nobly put forth by your Majesty, in the
extreme hour of your people's need. We humbly and dutifully
return our grateful and heartfelt thanks to your Majesty ; we
are ready with heart and soul to support your Majesty in
your great and patriotic designs, in which the wisaom of a King,
and the affection of a father, equally cambine, to insure the
safety and the happiness of the country. We implore the
Almighty to bless and preserve your Majesty, and to grant to
your Majesty all manner of prosperity in this world, and to bring
you to everlasting happiness in that which is to come.
Signed by unanimous order of a General Meeting of the
Inhabitants of Birmingham, in their name and on their
behalf,

" THOMAS ATTWOOD, Chairman.

G. F. MuNrz, Esq. said, he appeared before the meet-
ing to support a really loyal address to the King, and if
they wished to see a real loyal-looking man, they had only
to look at hi►n.—(Laughter.) For many years he was
considered by many as not a loyal man, because he did not
approve of the conduct of our late King. He did approve
of the present Kiu,g, and yet be was still deemed by these
same individuals a disloyal subject. He could not under-
stand the boroughmongers' definition of the term. They
abused every one who did not support a King who robbed
and plundered the people; and now they designated him
disloyal because he esteemed and reverenced a King who
did not prey upon the money and liberties of his subjects.
With regard to the question of Reform, be (Mr. M.) was
not surprised that'the Bill was lost in the late Parliament
—on tile other hand, he should have wondered bad it
been carried. Could they expect that a parcel of felons,
guilty of all kinds. of robberies, sitting in judgment upon
themselves, would pass a law by which all their plunder
and corruption would be for ever.terminated ? Such an
act was not to be expected. He,, therefore, thought the
King had done wisely -in dissolving Parliament ; but he
would still impress upon them, that the matter now
rested with themselves. The King had done Lis
duty—the people must new do theirs. Let the out-
voters who heard him :bestir themselves, ands•vote•'
for none but those pledged. to. :support the F,,i','l)!=,?.;.
sure of Reform. In reference .toi tltas,illiTatinuatte
would offer one or
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