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London, England, 1836-12-02 00:00:00

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town from Bengal ; the Hon. Baronet is in the COP
Civil service.
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parture in a few days for Brussels, where Sir Harn
left
Cambridgeshire,
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Dowager for
BBarrigohnteosnsn.ess
Wimpole, Arrington, the seat of the Earl of Hard
svic'e'
of Clanricarde 113 f, ia
gardens for her beautiful villa at Carlton
de Clifford lerrftheeihAeriitr atryt
LoTrdh\e'VDillivakme Russell.xossu
parent to this ancient barony is now the Hon. Euvi,i,' 0 0'
sell, eldest son of the Baroness de Clifford and graa"--11
left Mivart's Hotel on iNi al 0
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Paris.ci Marquis
The Earl of Ripon will leave' giralca°f
1 4 .11 f;
The Dowager Viscountess Lake h::
few days for Brighton. sill;
Th
her widowhood at Dieppe.Countess
Lady Caroline Neeld is on a visit to the e,
of Warwick,• with whom her Ladyship has prineiPa
liy r
sided since the unfortunate result of her marriage. before
An express arrived in town late the night
,„0
last, to the numerous members of the Cavendish farniOtoo,
nouncing the accouchement of the Countess of Borlit!gfot
at Compton-place, Eastbourne. Her Ladyship and In
son are doing well. ~, bi
-re:a:pp:sl
The infant Lord Massey, born in 1825, is n°' Peer
the recent demise of his Noble father, the youngest
of the three kingdoms.
The Duke of Devonshire has, it
given up his intention of visiting Earl and Countess (i.a_dy
ville this winter. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherl:_t_
who were said to be again about to visit the Contin
ali_.:
will pass the Christmas amid a family circle at Treoth '''
Hall. week, is the
The intended marriage alluded to last .,,..„
union of G. Corbet, Es - f 1.." colnshire, with Lady , ~f
ci., o in f the Doe w
Noel Bea 1 k,
uc er youngest unmarried sister o
St. Albans. Her Ladyship is in her 26th year. s r
is unders_toocisti:
Mr. Newton Fellowes, one of the Member for
Portsmouth, as only surviving brother of theitperaco;n_ and
North Devon, is next in succession to the
Mr. Adrian Hope is making various an..ga di
enss:d,
improvements at his new mansion in Carlto r
to the cow
joining the Marquis of Abercorn's, preparatory
mencement of the fashionable season.
r . s, there is 0°
From his well known convivial qua iti:
.11 ,_nservs.
doubt but that Scot Chairman at the approa
it! ! "
tive meeting in and will make the Was g
resent Peer"

1

GREAT REFORM MEETING AT

NORTHAMPTON.

(From our own Correspondent.)
On Wednesday evening last, Raikes Currie, Esq., the
-banker, attended a meeting of the Reform Electors of the
borough, held at the Saracen's Head Inn, to explain his
political sentiments. The room, which would contain about
:seven or eight hundred persons, was densely crowded in
every part, and the proceedings excited the deepest in-
terest, as it is anticipated that Mr. Currie will take the
place, at any future election, now occupied by Mr. Charles
Ross. The tweeting was highly gratified with Mr. Currie's
speech, a report of which I transmit.
Mr. Gnu Knv, an ironfoundcrin a very extensive business,
and a men iber of the Town Council, having been called
to the chair, briefly explained the objects of the meeting.
Mr. Cu AMU then rose, and was received with the most
unbounded applause.—lt gives me sincere pleasure to meet
so large art assemblage of the operative classes. I have
long endeavoured to acquaint myself with their position
and their opinions. I have ever found them sincere seekers
of the trtuth, and, as a body, beyond all comparison the most
honest pol iticians. They have suffered much from pretended
friends, as id they regard all professions with very justifiable
suspicion ; but let them be once convinced that a man sin-
cerely avid honestly devotes himself to their welfare, and
I believ a there are no limits to their generous confidence.
To oppose or to promote Reform, is an alternative in
which y.C.O have a deep, urgent, personal interest.—(Great
cheering ;.) I proceed, as plainly as I am able, to state
to you my political opinions. I never could understand
the err which has been raised against pledges from a
candid ate .—(Hear.) The connection between the repre-
sentative and the represented can, according to my judg-
ment, on:ly legitimately arise out of the coincidence of his
opinions with theirs, and unless a candidate be prepared to
state his, in a precise and intelligible manner, how can
the electors be assured that they agree with him ?
(Hear, lacer.) General professions, however plausible, are
by no n scans sufficient, because a man may reason incor-
rectly od . dishonestly from premises which he has not the
assuram:e openly to controvert. Every one whose judg-
ment is :sufficiently matured to aspire with any propriety to a
seat in Ps trliament, must have decided onsthe leading points
in politic s—he cannot bind himself to details, which
evidently depend on deliberation and expediency ; but if he
will declas .e the principles on which he acts, and then show
the conclusions to which they lead him, in their practical
applicatio n to various specific measures, he does all that a
thinking .constituency will ask, and not more than his own
conscience should require.—(Cheers.) I will not shrink
from any ridicule which attaches to a hacknied phrase, but
avow tha " the greatest happiness of the greatest number"
is the gu'iding principle which I adopt.—(Renewed cheering.)
I embrace it in single-minded sincerity, with all its conse-
quences, as id with no mental reservation. That portion of our
countrymc an who style themselves " Conservatives" assume,
I know not by what prescriptive right, the guardianship of
the Britisl I Constitution. I may be doubted whether, if to
this watchword they affix any very definite idea. What is
the Britiih Constitution ? A perfectly modified aggregate
of institutions.—(Hear, hear.) If we cease to ascribe to
it an organization inconceivable and contradictory—to talk
of compound forces which never can be compounded, and
call that a balance of power which leaned all one way—
(Laughter)—we may well admire that wonderful elasticity
in this aggregate of institutions, which admits their peace-
ful adoration to the changes inherent in all human affairs,
which allows them to be modified without danger, and re-
paired without deformity.—(Cheers and laughter.) What
was the " Constitution," from the Revolution of 1688 down
to the pstssing of the Reform Bill, but an Aristocracy, mi-
tigated indeed by public opinion, as public opinion forced
its way thro ugh the rents laid open by the reckless ambi-
tion of the two contending factions ? But we have fallen
on better ti mes. By the Reform Bill, power has substan-
tially passe d from an oligarchy to the people.—(Cheering.)
The machinery for working out good government is in your
possessiost ; it may require simplification and adjustment
in its deitails to make it act with greater force or more
complete precision ; but if you know how to use it to your
own re al good, that good is in your power—(Cheers)—the
representative system, no longer a shadow but a substance,
is the lever which can move a world.—(Continued cheers.)
I advocate vote by ballot.—(lmmense cheering.) The
State is clearly bound to protect every man in the honest
exercise of that trust which the State has reposed in him.—
(Cheers..) Thousands of electors vote against their con-
sciences. from fear of suffering in their worldly interests—
others offering a noble example of stern integrity, unin-
fluencsal and undismayed, record an honest vote, and are
subje(sted to pecuniary loss, persecution, and insult.—
(" rue ! true !") I could accumulate arguments in favour
of the ballot—one perhaps equally cogent, is the Immo-
di: ste diminution, and the ultimate extinction, of bribery
uitich it would accomplish.—(Hear, and cheers.) But,
resting the question on the ground of protection only,
I deny the right of the Legislature to refuse it.—(Cheers.)
1t is a measure which I will advocate earnestly and unre-
mittingly.—(Chsiers.) I will vote for the repeal of the
Septennial Act and the consequent return to triennial Par-
liaments.--(Great approbation.) I will vote for the imme-
diate extension of the suffrage to all householders.—
(asters.) The Reform Bill gave independence to the
Rouse of Commons, and thereby destroyed its sympathy
with the existing House of Lords. It produced two hos-
tile assemblies—(Hear, hear)—one of which must be prac-
tically subordinate to the other. If the House of Lords
'would recognise the nature of that change which has come
upon them—if they would yield with dignified reluctance to
the recorded wishes of the people—we would treat their
prejudices with tenderness, and their admonitions with
respect.—(Cheers and laughter.) But, I fear, they have
decided otherwise ; and, under the guidance of a leader,
-whose ''()Teat talents and fascinating manner, only make him
doubly dangerous, have ostentatiously arrayed themselves
against the House of Commons. We will not suffer le-
gislation to be brought to a dead lock—(Cheers)---we will
mot endure that our Represesstatives should be systemati-
cally thwarted by an irresponsible assembly.—(Cheers.)
I pass on to some of those results which righteous legisla-
tion may obtain for us. I advocate the freedom of com-
merce, and, more especially the abrogation of the existing
Coro laws. —(Tremendous cheering.) This is a subject
in which von have such a deep and vital interest, and which
I know that you have so long considered, that I need not
say one word on the impolicy and injustice of the existing
SYstem. Cheap publications, which demolish the fallacies
'broached on this matter, and bring it home to the under-
standing of all, are in general circulation, and we ought to
.disseminate them by every means in our power.—(Hear,
hear.) Accidental circumstances have rendered the corn
laws partially inoperative since the passing of the Reform
or I believe it could not have been maintained ; but
you. cannot be debarred much longer from freely exchanging
your industry for food.—(Cheers.) You cannot much longer
be forbidden to buy your bread at the best and cheapest
market. A system so monstrous could only have been con-
cocted in an assembly of sworn landowners—(Cheers)—a
pregnant hint this, by the bye, on the effect of property qua-
lification.—(Cheers.) I advocate effective Church Reform.
(Hear.) Every one who comes forward in this cause must
lay his account with especial misrepresentation and calumny.
--(Hear, hear.) I shrink not from them—(Cheers)—nei-
ther will I shrink, as a humble believer in the Divine Foun-
der of our faith, from avowing myself to be a Christian.
I entirely recognise the right of the State to deal with
the Church as with any other public property.—(Great
approbation.) I cannot attempt to alienate her revenues
Us England from strictly religious uses, but I do earnestly
advocate their re-distribution on the principle of supplying
the most effective religious teaching to the greatest number
of the people, and remunerating a working clergy in pro-
Portion to their services and merits.—(Cheers.) The Es-
tablished Church of Ireland I separate altogether from this
View of the question.--(Continued cheering.) It is founded
in injustice, and maintained by blood.—(Tremendous cheer-
-4'o Let the State deal with it accordingly, provide
from its revenues for the religious teaching of existing
Protestants, and apply the surplus in any way most fitted
to improve the condition of the unhappy Irish people.—
(Bravo ! and cheers.) I advocate the abolition of Church-
tates—(Hear, and cheers.) I consider their continuance
discreditable to the members of an endowed Church ;
(Cheers.) I advocate such reforms in the laws of our
Country as tend to make justice cheap, speedy, and effec-
tual.—(Great cheering.) I have now glanced at some of
,those results which good legislation may obtain for us. I
have not said one word on party politics, for I am not a
Party man.—(Applause.) I should heartily support Lord
kelbourne's Government as against the Tories, whether
Conservatives or Conformers.—(Continued cheering.) I
should endeavour to urge them forward in the path of effec-
tive Reform. I should earnestly deprecate the curtailment
13r abandonment of just and necessary measures in the vain
h"Pe of conciliating the implacable enemies of all real im-
Provement.—(Tremendous cheering.) If Lord Melbourne
" rise to the height of his great argument"—if, as my
excellent friend, Mr. B. Portman, has well expressed it, he
kill "enlarge his views"—if, as a northern Reformer quaintly
Phrases it, " he will shake another reef out of his topsails,"
the flowing tide of public approbation and sympathy will
(Loud him onward with a swell majestic and irreststable.—
sssoud cheers.) But if it be ordered otherwise, if he
Zanot or will not comprehend his mission, individually I
all much regret it ; but, in truth, it matters little—great
u,,.easions, if they do not find, create great men.—(Cheers.)
t e people will range themselves under the leaders, and
Ren, to parody a famous saying, the Whigs perish, the
eform Bill is eternal !—(Cheers and laughter.) I have
2w endeavoured to set before you my political opinions,
e grounds on which they rest, and the spirit in which I
0 tonuld endeavour to apply them. I ask you, are they con-
y ant 'with truth and reason ? If carried forward into prac-
'eel have they a tendency to lessen vice and misery—to

increase happiness and virtue ? If so, believe me, you have
a duty to perform.--(Cheers.) These objects are attain
able, but attainable only in one way, by the enlightened,
earnest, persevering efforts of a united people. You must
consider your individual votes a sacred trust, to be used for
the benefit of yourselves, your families, the class to which
you belong, the whole body of your fellow-countrymen.--
(Cheers.) Cheap government, self-government, good go-
vernment, equal laws, uofettered industry, are prizes well
worth a struggle.--(Applause.) Will you for any tempo-
rary gain, for any money bribe, for any petty personal ad-
vantage, from the abject fear of losing a little custom, or
incurring a few frowns, vote against your consciences ;
forfeit for ever that inward self-respect which waits on the
discharge of duty—(cheers)--and feel that you have lied
to your country ? I will not believe it.—(Loud cries of
" Hear, hear,.' and cheers') Your town has been taunted as
venal and corrupt. "Oh !" said some of my friends to me,
when they heard I was coming here, " don't go down there,
they will sell themselves to the highest bidder."—(oh, oh,
and laughter.) I would not believe it.—(Great cheering.)
Northampton has indeed been the scene of the basest
bribery. You can redeem its character—(Cheers, and cries
of " We will")—rescue it from these damning imputations
—(Cheers)—act in concert with those noble-minded men,
who in England, Scotland, and Ireland are preparing
honestly and fearlessly to exercise the elective franchise.--
(Applause.) The enemies of good government are many
and powerful ; their name is " Legion ;" they are fighting
for existence as law-makers and tax-eaters throughout
the country--(Hear)--they will not be conquered without
a struggle, but the next struggle is a " settler."—(Tre-
mendous cheering.) Let every one who hears me feel that
the issue depends on his individual vote. Combine--co-
operate—band yourselves together—rouse the sluggish, con-
vince the doubtingt cheer the timid—and with that peace
and order which belong to conscious strength, prepare for
battle as men who are resolved on victory.—(The Hon.
Gentleman then sat down amidst the most enthusiastic ap-
plause and waving of hats, &c., which lasted for several
minutes. He shortly after left the room.)
Resolutions were afterwards moved by the Rev. Messrs.
Meeke and J. Bennett, Mr. Lee, Mr. Edens, &c. &c.,
and a requisition agreed to. The requisition is now in
course of signature ; and it is believed by all who know
anything of the political sentiments of the voters of this
Borough that Mr. Vernon Smith and Mr. Raikes Currie
will be both returned by triumphant majorities. The
Tories are awfully downcast since losing the majority in the
Council.

THE SUE, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1836.