The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-14 00:00:00

happened precisely to the letter. But at least it would
explain naturally and easily the facts which appear
upon the surface. It were odd enough if Lord Plunket
himself were to furnish the first vacancy on the Irish
bench.—Times.

Two meetings are to be held in the course of this
evening, both of which have for their object the con-
sideration of the evils of an irresponsible House of
Lords, and of the measures which it may be deemed •
necessary to adopt for their speedy and effectual re-
moval. The one consists of a meeting of the Reform
Association of the liberal Borough of Lambeth, and
takes place at the Elephant and Castle, at seven o'clock,
and its object is to consider whether a public meeting
of the inhabitants ought to be called with as little
delay as possible, in order thereby to afford them an
opportunity of expressing their sentiments on this most
important and all-engrossing subject—the other takes
place at the George and Dragon, on Blackheath-hill,
and goes directly and at once to the consideration of
the latter purpose. The sentiments of this Journal
upon Peerage Reform have been so frequently expressed,
and are so well known to our readers, that it is unne-
cessary for us to say how heartily.we applaud the in-
tentions of the promoters of these intended meetings—
how desirous we are that they should be numerously
and respectably attended—that they should be cha-
racterized by firmness, Moderation, and unanimity—
and that the sentiments expressed at them shall be
such as not only the exigencies, but the policy of the
times, in which we live, and the difficulties by which
his Majesty's Ministers are surrounded, so impera-
tively demand. It is the duty, as it is the right of the
people, at all times, both to work out and to maintain
their own rights and privileges ; but it is an unfailing
certainty that if they fail to discharge it—no one else
—no Government, however liberal, or however well-in-
tentioned—can discharge it for them. They must be at
their posts, and on the watch, clad in the armour of
firmness, and with hearts determined to obtain justice—
or consent to live the bondsmen of needy and plun-
dering aristocrats—the scorn and contempt of sur-
rounding nations! Is there any one so blind, or foolish,
or forgetful, as not to know that Lord Grey's Govern-
ment might have' preached in vain to the House of
Lords for hundreds of years, could its members have
existed so long, without being able to carry the Reform
Bill—only a first, and by no means effective, instal-
ment, of the rights which belong to the million—if
that Government had not been strenuously supported
by the great mass of the people, and the Lords had not
been made to see that instead of the destruction of a
number of rotten boroughs, consequent upon that Bill
passing into a law, that of their own House would have
resulted from their refusal to pass it, and such a con-
vulsion of the millions of oppressed and injured indivi-
duals as might for years have involved in jeopardy the
whole property of the country? Well, then, knowing
this to be the fact, of what use are the lessons of the
past, unless they are rendered available for the gui-
dance and direction of our conduct for the future ? If
the Reform Bill was carried to a successfnl issue by
the union, spirit, and determination, of Reformers of
all classes, the same means will not only obtain Peer-
age Reform,. but every other national improvement
which the rights and interests of the country demand ;
and without their employment it is iinpossible to con-
ceive anything more silly or unjust than to accuse his
Majesty's Government of not going along with the peo-
ple, and of not carrying those measures into effect which
are demanded by the rights of the people, and the inte-
rests of the country. It is from the people that the
7novement must come—and not from the Government.
It is the duty of the one to administer and to obey—of
the latter to issue their commands, and to see that they
are obeyed. A reforming people will always secure a
reforming Government ; but without a reforming
people no reforming Government was ever known to
exist, and could not exist in a country situate like
England, for twenty-four hours. The Tories know
this well now, however ignorant they might have for-
merly been of the fact, and they are accordingly at-
tempting to practise every species of delusion upon
the people, in order to persuade them that they arc
Reformers—that they are their best friends—that the
present Government is lukewarm in their service—and
that to their hands only can the reins of Government
be safely and beneficially entrusted. Reformers, let
them be fought with their own weapons. It will not
do to rest upon your oars, when the enemy is in the field
and attempting to effect your destruction, You may
nct all be ripe for that thorough Reform of the Home
of Peers, which must eventually come ; but you must
not rely too much upon the justice of your cause.
There is a cunning, and skilful, if no; a powerful
enemy, to deal with ; and no stone ought to be left
unturned in order to defeat his purposes.—Morning
Advertiser.

Among the many improvements projected in the
metropolis there is not one so desirable as that which
was long ago proposed, but which the London Corpo-
ration has hitherto successfully resisted—we mean the
removal of the great cattle market from Smithfield to a
neighbourhood where the inconvenience and danger
which the public suffer fro-.n its present locality might
be obviated. Not only has such an improvement been
resisted by the civic body, but its best exertions were
used to keep up a monopoly, and to prevent the inha-
bitants
of the metropolis having the benefit of another
market, even so remote from their own as the neigh-
bourhood of Islington. The enterprising projector of
that undertaking has, however, succeeded, notwith-
staiidina the corporate opposition which he had to en-
counter° during two Sessions, in obtaining an Act of
Parliament for holding a market at the latter place,
which has been constructed at great expense, and
which is now open and established. It would he
well if the danger to which the public are conti-
nually exposed, by the driving of cattle through
the crowded streets and the exhibitions of cruelty of
which Smithfield is the scene, could be got rid
of altogether ; but as the reforming Corpora-
tion are not yet prepared to concede that much-
desired measure of practical reform, the next best
thing to be done is, that the public should give
every possible encouragement to an undertaking by
which the metropolis obtains the advantages of a
great market, without any of the attendant evils which
seem to he inseparably connected with that of Smith-
field. From an advertisement in our columns to-day,
it appears that a Company is about to be formed to
carry on the market under proper regulations—for the
details we refer our readers to the advertisement itself.
It appears that the market occupies an area of fifteen
acres, that of Smithfield being only five—a space far
too small to afford the requisite accommodation to the
stock sent for the supply of the metropolis. The re-
moval of the evil described in the following extract
from the prospectus of the Company ought alone to be
a sufficient inducement to the public to uphold the new
Islington market. In speaking of the benefits to the
consumer, it is stated that " many of the animals pur-
chased in Smithfield are slaughtered in a heated and
infuriated state, caused by the continued ill-treatment
they of necessity undergo to confine them in the
crowded droves in which they are sold, and the flesh is
consequently less wholesome and profitable than when
the animal is slaughtered in a cool and healthy condi-
tion, free from bruises or other injuries calculated to
render the meat unfit for human food." Thus consi-
derations of humanity, of public health, and of per-
sonal safety in our crowded streets, combine to recom-
mend Islington market to the encouragement and sup-
port of the public.—Morning Herald.
The pressure on the Money Market, as will be
seen by the communication of our City correspondent,
is still very severe. It gave rise on Saturday to some
tumours of a character at once so absurd and mis-
chievous, that we forbear to repeat them. One of the
immediate causes of the gloom and depression in Lon-
don was no doubt the run upon some of the Irish
Banks. The following intelligence, which we extract
from the Dublin Evening Mail of Friday, is calcu-
lated to remove, or atleasthe
least tostmatietigoafteavffearlyrsconside-
rably, the anxiety which
Ire-
land, at the date of the preceding accounts had occa-
sioned ;
" THE BANKS.—In our last we stated that the drafts of
the Northern Bank which reached town on Wednesday,
were refused at the Hibernian Bank, where the orders had
previously been regularly paid. We are glad to be able to
state that all the drafts were this day duly honoured by
Messrs. Watson and Co., who had formerly been the agent
of the Belfast Bank in this city. The run upon the Agri-
cultural and National Banks has almost altogether ceased.