The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1847

Another meeting on the subject of the currency
was held at Birmingham on Friday evening. The
immediate object of the assemblage was to re-
ceive the report of the deputation which at a former
meeting had been appointed to wait upon Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, and to impress upon his Lordship, as the
responsible leader of her MAJESTY'S Government, the
urgent and imperative necessity of an immediate
revision of the financial code, and the adoption of
large and comprehensive reforms therein. The inha-
bitants of Birmingham are an energetic and deter-
mined people. When thoroughly convinced of the
injustice and impolicy of any law, they speak out
boldly, and act vigorously and efficiently. Their
conduct when the Reform Bill, the most recent
charter of the constitutional liberties of the people,
was imperilled, need not now be recalled—what
Englishman can have forgotten the decided course
adopted when the resignation of Earl GLIM' in May,
1832, and the summons of the Duke of WELLINGTON
to office, gave a temporary triumph to the borough-
mongers, and saddened the heart of every sincere
Reformer. The inhabitants of Birmingham then ex-
hibited the glorious spectacle of a people conscious of
their own strength, and firmly resolved that no Minister
should stay the constitutional expression of their
feelings. Its Political Union took the lead in those
mighty demonstrations against which even the Iron
Duke dared not to contend. Nine days saw the
Liberal, the Reforming Ministry, restored to office
with tenfold strength, which, like the fabled
ANTAUS, they had gained from their prostration, and
the irresistible power of the people was clearly and
for ever established. The struggle then was for the
purification of the House of Commons, that it might
be practically what it professed to be—a real repre-
sentation of the people. Since that period
many important ameliorations have been intro-
duced.
Freedom of trade has been estab-
lished in
every respect, with one great
exception. Many monopolies have been swept away,
although the most pernicious of all, the most in-
jurious to the national prosperity, still exists. This
is now to be destroyed, and the people of Birming-
ham, as heretofore, have arrayed
themselves in the
foremost rank for the contest.
Mr. Sc noLEVIELD,
detailed the particulars
of the interview that took place
with the
that
and shortly stated the substance of th arguments
Premier,
had been urged on his Lordship. It was
almost
ta ti o
un-
necessary to say that the members of the deputation
the
had determinedly and satisfactorily discharge
duties they had been delegated to perform. The
mere recapitulation of the statements they had made
were quite sufficient to demonstrate that fact, and to
entitle them individually and collectively to the
marked thanks of every person opposed to the present
system. It is not, perhaps, surprising that the depu-
tation failed in eliciting from the First Lord of the
Treasury any expression of his intentions, or of the
effect on him of the information convey bu
ed, tit is
not therefore to be supposed that it was without
value. No hope was held out to the
deputation from Liverpool, and yet within
five days an important change was made—
the Bank Charter Act was virtually condemned, and
although the change was not adequate to the want,
of the country, and a ratt, of interest was thereby
fixed, which, if maintained for any lengthened period