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Reformers, Mr. O'CoNNELL heartily offers all the
;!! his 1:01VCF to the Leeds Association. As he
is a pract.:i man, 11c suggests: the following mode
of combined action

My plan, then, is, thet the Reformers in each locality
in England should elf:et delegates, to sit in a Convention,
to be held in Londuu F;e ‘,..,eks. before, and also dur-
ing the early part of,
t he approaching Session of Parlia-
ment. I propose teat it, esch district a number of de-
legates shall he selected, et ()portioned to the body of Re-
formers in that district ; end that especial care shall be
taken to have as tn:ny as ;,,Iss;ble of the cities and towns
which now send Mernbsrs t. Parliament, represented in
the Convention. Every exertion should be made to
procure the attendatteti (IS lei eliesent and influential men
as delegates, from, the tlifF•ro,t loceities.
The Irish people are eteectited by an Irish statute
from sending delegates to seell a Convention. But I
could easily get. myself eltieted by the Irish resident at
Liverpool, Manchester, et. any of tee other great towns ;
and many other Irish Members of Parliament would,
I know, adopt a sinnler course. You could reckon
on the punctual attendaeea ef many of us in the Eng-
lish Convention.
To this body should be re'erred the duty of agreeing
upon a plan for Parliatnenta-y Rctorm, sufficiently ex-
tensive to en!'srace all tine Parliamentary 'Reformers of
Great Britain. It should be carefully prepared to let in
all the sound portion et the working classes; so that a
very substantial portion of the operatives should enjoy
the franchise, and as ten' as possible be excluded. It
should embrace the Belle', the non-qualification by nro-
entity of Members, the shortening, and the precise defi-
nition of the duration el each Parliament.
When such a plan thall have been agreed on by a
majority of the Convention, it should be, as much as
possible, adhered to by all.
The Convention should also turn its attention to at•
taining funds to defrsy the expenses of petitioning, and
the other necessary -expenses of advancing the cause
of reform ; especially fer the registration of voters
in the Liberal intetest, and for the vindication
of the right of eetieg for all those unable to
assert that right I,:r themselves. It should also
sustain Liberal canii,lates upon every practical occa-
sion. It should distritaeo tracts favourable to reform.
send round lecturer;, collect instances of bribery and
intimidation, expose tie enormous inequalities and
abuses of the pr_ sent. system, and take every other
measure calculated to ()ring the moral power of the
English people to boar down all resistance to the este-
blishreent of a fiLl refry In in the representation of the
English people.
Such a Convention should sit from day to day ; its
doors should be open to the press, but no inducement
should be held out to reporting, save what may arise
from the intrinsic value of the subjects discussed.
Do not, I pray you, be te: rifled by the idea that an
attempt of this kind will fail. Believe me (and I have
some experience) that it could not fail. We should be
so thoroughly in the right in our peaceable agitation,
that we could not fail. At first there may be but few
members attendieg the Convention ; but the spirit
proceedings would soon attract to
and energy of (mt.
us all honest Refotat. is. The nature of our business
would give it puqe importance. I was mare
than three months tverking at the Catholic Associa-
tion before I had thirty members. Everybody knows
how they auenteeteel afterwards. It would be so with
us. You and I wculd attend every day. We should
get many others to assist us. The showing up of the
venality and inriall(`etion in each particular borough
would have not only a local but a general interest.
We should take Leases, Sudbury, Cambridge, Ludlow,
Harwich, and otitsr places, endpoint out the prac-
tical working in cesli of tile present scheme of mis-re-
presentation. I,a :leen there is so much real business
to be done in acm,,:•s; rating the defects, abuses, corrup-
tions, and criaiss present system, that public in-
terest never would tier.. nor would public attention be
diverted from us, Ve should gradually accumulate
so powerful a pn'.!:c, bf,dy as to secure the attainment of
all practical all soietitutional reforms.
Consult with tel.srs upon this subject. Separate
associations fir rtfcrin, in different towns in England,
cannot correspotei i.sAl each other without infringing
the law. By tiateieg a convention you could easily
procure the co-opc ration of each locality. Consult, I
pray you, every snicere Reformer of your acquaintance.
Let them either this plan of mine, or suggest
some other more p-actical one.
It is idle to conical, and dishonest to deny, that
this scheme aims at overruling or constraining the
decisions of tl.e present legally constituted Parlia-
ment by the force and union of the unrepresented
classes, aided by such of the represented classes
as see in our ;:resent unjust system the seeds
of destruction. That is the avowed object of the
proposed, Conventine. It is a means of quietly
effecting a greet revolution, and so preventing the
coming of a vide.iit revolution. Whether it will
succeed or not, e hailer the Legislature will be
wise in time, and itself take the lead in doing jus•
Lice, we cannot possibly predict, but we hold the
publication of such a plan to be an event of great
public importance. Mr. O'CONNELL does not
however give up the union for this new scheme.
He says the Irish " have darling objects of their
own which they can neither abandon nor postpone,"
and it appears that he would use the combination
to promote these objects and secure the liberties of
England.
Mr. O'CONNELL is quite right in saying that
therp'are many obstacles to a cordial union of the
two people. Their mutual animosity is the root of
their adversaries' strength. He is not very far
wrong, too, in describing the hostility which exists
between the master class and the operative class as
a great obstacle to success. Their differences give
them as a prey into the hands of the landowners
and the priesthood. Amongst the master class,
some of whom have contributed quite as much as
the Tories to make the Reform Act a failure, there
is a great and decided aversion to extend the fran-
chise. They desire to enjoy by themselves their
newly-acquired power. When they see their pro-
perty going to ruin, when they find the landowners
continually turn a deaf ear to their just complaints,
when unmitigaixd suffering shall drive men into in-
surrection, and the master class feel in their
persons a share of the numerous privations
and evils to which the unrepresented
are exposed, they may consent to a full and fair
representation of the people, as human beings, not.
as accessories to the work of their own hands ; but
till then we are afraid that the hostility of the middle
classes in England to a fair and equal representation
of the Irish, or the working classes of the English,
would be insurmountable. We deeply regret this,
because we hold it to be impossible for any combi-
nation or coalition 'Oif parties long to govern this em-
pire in peace unlese the present Legislature make
just administrative lae.s, or admit all classes without
a property qualitica. ion to a full and equal share of
‘.he representation.

Earl:, and Marquisses, would probably join in the
fun. They would not run down a customer, for the
starving wretches can buy little or nothing from
the farmers. The priests would probably bless both
the steeds and their riders ; bless their red coats and
their swords, as they went forth to the chase of the
"poisoned.heathens." The gentlemen of the Surrey
hunt who are eager for a sensation may not approve
of our suggestion, but to us it seems quite as moral
to hunt down weavers as to kill them by hunger,
and the farmers might then be saved the consci-
entious pangs of nourishing vermin for the amuse-
ment of the gentry.

In the Standard of yesterday appeared an ex-
tract of a letter from the Duke of WELLINGTON,
admirably characteristic of the old soldier. We pub-
lish it in another part of The Sun amongst our ex.
tracts. It requests the Editor of the Standard to
name any one person who ever heard him say what
the Editor declares to be well-known, viz., " that
he (the Duke) had been deceived throughout
the whole affair" of the Municipal Corpora-
tion Bill, or "deceived at all." The Editor
of the Standard entrenching himself behind we
kn©w not what—respect to the Press, declines to
name any sponsor for its statement, and prefers even
the reputation of having written falsely to "render-

ing his Journal the instrument of destroying con-
fidence." But when the Standard broadly states a
thing to be well-known, it does not imply that it
has had any secret information, and this declining
to name, appears one of the usual modes by which
our Contemporary escapes always from its state-
ments, after its purpose has been served. .With all
deference, such a proceeding appears to us more

likely to destroy all confidence, than tib mention the
name of any one of the tattling Conservative Peers
who have reported falsely of his Grace.

The pithy letter of the Duke, as the Standard
acknowledges, implies a contradiction to its state-
ment ; it is anything but courteously, it is rather
rudely expressed; but the Standard, generally so
pugnacious, so wrangling about its fair fame with
its brethren of the press, most spaniel-like submits
to the castigation, and kisses the hand which chas-
tises it.

It has, in its timidity or its terror, implicated
some " Noblemen," its friends of course, as the
authors of the calumny on the Duke, and piteously
calls on them to clear up the misunderstanding
They will be silent, and thus the care which the
Standard takes of the dignity of the press, ends in
making it calumniate some more of its own friends.
The honest soldier will see through the subter-
fuges of the Standard, and treat its yesterday's
explanation with even more contempt than its first
false statement.

We must, in conclusion, express our gratitude
to the Duke for condescending to correct the libel
with which his fame has for some time been sullied
by his pretended friends, who stick at nothing,
not even at calumniating him, to attain their base
party ends.

In another part of The Sun we publish a letter
on the Bank of England, which comments on a
statement of ours made some time ago. We
notice the letter here, though otherwise quite will-
ing to allow it to make its own impression on the
public, because the writer is not the only person
who appears to have misapprehended the gist of the
article, on a portion of which he comn ents. Our
object was merely to show that while the capital of
the Bank of England has remained stationary, and
its circulation has diminished, the great progress of
society in numbers and wealth, had made it relatively
of much less importance to the commercial worlil and
the community at large than it was thirty years ago.
We had no intention to discuss the value of its
circulation, or the propriety of its amount, still less
had we any wish to recommend an issue of
60,000,0001. paper, nor did we so recommend, as
a Morning Contemporary has stated. We only
implied that it should have 60,000,000/. paper in
circulation to be of as much importance to
16,000,000 people, whose wealth has increased
even more than the number, as it was to 12,000,000
people, when its circulation was more than
30,000,0001. From that we drew the deduction
that the Legislature had most foolishly raised the
Bank of England paper at the time when it had be-
come of comparatively little importance to the
character of a legal tender. A circumstance stated
at the begining of our article—the, great increase o
private paper—was alleged as a satisfactory reason
why the Bank of England paper was comparatively
little wanted, and we advocated no increase of its
amount.

The Queen Regent of SPAIN, who is exceed-
ingly anxious to be regarded by the different State
of Europe as a Royal martyr, has been foolish
enough to crown a tolerably long career of caprici-
ous imbecility, by addressing a pla;ntive memorial
of her sufferings to the Spanish nation. We
can excuse much in the conduct of a weal-,
vain woman so little conversant with what
appertains to the sphere of regal duties
as Queen CHRISTINA ; but we cannot to-
lerate with unruffled tamper an insidious attempt to
cast another faggot upon the gradually-expiring
flames of civil discord in Spain. The ex-
Regent, through the mouth of some apos-
tolic monk, is made to parade her many vir-
tues as a Queen, a wife, and a mother, during the
last days of FERDINAND, and her subsequent de-
votion to the Charter and the Constitution ; but a
regard for public decency should have prevented
the wife of MuNoz from recalling the death-bed
of FERDINAND ; and before taking to herself the
whole credit of giving a Constitution to Spain, it
would not have been out of place, as it is not quite
out of popular remembrance, to recal Sergeant
GARCIA'S part in that affair, and to enumerate
the rewaids which she bestowed upon him, for
having prompted her, with the point of his halbert,
to bestow such a blessing upon her MAJESTY'S
dear Spaniards I Her MAJESTY would further
persuade the Spanish nation, that in refusing to
abandon the Corporations Bill, she only evinced
her profound regard for the- opinion of the Cortes ;
but her MAJESTY takes good care not to inti..riate
that the Cortes, who passed that Bill, did not re-
present Spain ; and, furthermore, that the main
object of the Bill was virtually to abolish that Con-
stitution, which she boasts having sworn to main-
ain, and for which she professes such ,a deep

reverence.
In replying to this second manifesto of Queen
CHRISTINA, the Regency has observed a dignified
forbearance, which cannot be expected from the
Liberal press of Europe- If the Regency has
chosen not to blazon forth the faults of the
woman, and the errors of the sovereign, it is not
the duty of the press to treat a political incendiary,
of whatever sex or station, with equal courtesy.
Queen CHRISTINA, by her not very creditable
'nuptials with MUNOZ, of whom the world has
heard so much, renounced the guardianship of
the children of FERDINAND, and so stained the
royal purple, that the Spanish people lost all their
accustomed reverence for it. For the present we
care not to revive the recollections of the system Of
royal bribery resorted to by the loan contractors in
1831 and 1836, because Queen CHRISTINA being
now the guest of the King of the FRENCH, it is
likely that that sagacious Monarch will impress
\
upon her the necessity of making no further pa-
rade of her pretended wrongs. Queen CHRIsTINA
has bidden an eternal farewell to sovereignty in