The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1834

and other settled institutions of England, which their
friends have reason to dread. Events, at no distant period,
will, it is to be feared, speak in a language much to be de-
precated. And should the nation take on the movement,
will the Gallant Duke be able to withhold it?

sole aim of this meeting, as at first projected, was to at-
tempt (by the creation of a Society to act in concert with
the Orange agitators of Ireland) the support of the abuses
of the Irish Church, as the best means of checking reform
in our own ; and for this purpose it was proposed to invite
some of the wildest orators from the sister country, and
some of the bitten nobility of this, to give eclat to the
whole ; but not one of the movers of this scheme were so
far possessed with its feasibility, as to conceive for one
moment the thought of submitting its merits to the test of
a really public meeting. I speak within book when I state
it as a fact, that the best men of this party, both as to talent
and character, doubt the prOpriety of this attempt at trans-
fusing the saliva of that rabid Orangeism which has deso-
lated Ireland, into England via Bristol ; but the infatuation
of_the party; as a whole, clung to it, and the attempt went
on. In the meantime came the change in the Ministry—a
perfect Godsend to the meeting—which otherwise bade fair
to (lie the death of all such little hole and corner affairs.
As it is, doubtless the most will be made of it ; and you
must expect, as I fully expect, to see it made a dead point
of in support of the "Dictator." I write then to let you,
and through you the public, know who are the movers in
the affair, in order that no one may be imposed on by a
version of it distorted to suit the purposes of a party,
whether that party be of Church or of State.
In the first place, the meeting is not a public meeting :
the admission is by tickets of invitation, sent to those only
who are friendly to its object. In the next place, the
movers and friends are composed of all who lend their
united force in this city to prop up its abuses, and to make
the religion of peace a means of disseminating strife and
dissension. These are the Reformation gentry, who be-
lieve, with Captain Gordon, that every Roman Catholic,
however conscientiously pious, must inevitably be damned ;
these are the pluralists and the sinecurists ; the fat Church-
men in possession, and the lean ones expectant ; these are
the close corporators and the select vestry-men—in fact,
all the corruption of the city bands together, and following
the leader (as one sheep follows another) over the precipice
of bigotry and intolerance.
This is the same party which during the agitation of the
Reform Question got up a meeting similar in its character
to the present one, at which an address was carried to the
King and put forward as from the inhabitants of Bristol,
at a time when the inhabitants of Bristol were so unani-
mous in favour of Reform, that this party feared to contest
the subsequent election, and withdrew without a struggle.
This party, however, has one merit -it acts in concert as a
few well-known leaders shall decide—so that they have only
to settle among themselves what is desirable in their estima-
tion to be done, and they can count aptin
such as they are, to a man, This Is
_. a convenient
thing, and must give a pertain .y A—
ral citizens, who &xis-- ~gree of power against titles
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drilling
. ...(ot be expected to submit to such
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~soiutions and addresses, agreed to at meetings from which
the citizens are excluded, as though they emanated from
the citizens—though it is not denied that they do possess
some influence which, by the way, they are not very scru-
pulous in eAcreisinse-,4hotigh by dint of the worst of pray=
tices they procured a majority of old corrupt freemen at the
last election, yet they never dared to meet the citizens in a
public meeting. I appeal in corroboration of what I have
said to the Staniard, which four days before the meeting
was to take place, printed the Resolutions to be passed
thereat !—and why not ? The parties only meet in a private
way to go through the form of assenting to what has been
settled by the directing few long ago.
I am, Sit, your very obedient servant,
A BRISTOL REFORMER.

...
I am no alarmist ; yet it appears to me that the country
is in a most serious and difficult position. The people in
the north will shortly, it is evident, commence their consti-
tutional exertions. They would, even now, at this critical
moment, address the King, but they have lost all confidence
in the Court.
North Shields, Nov. 22, 1834.

HANTS—SO UTHERN DI VISION.
The Central Committee who conducted the election of
Lord Palmerston and Sir G. Staunton to so glorious a
termination in 1822, met this day at the George Inn, -
Southampton, at twelve o'clock. A large number of
the most eminent reformers in the county were present, and
the accounts from every district were of the most favourable
kind. W. E. Nightingale, Esq., of Embley-park, was
called to the chair. John Bonham Carter, Esq., M.P.,
and John Watkins Drew, Esq., who were the indefatigable
chairman and honorary Secretaries at the last elec-
tion, were again appointed, and gave assurances of
their most active services. Various resolutions were pro-
posed and seconded by John Guitton, Esq., Admiral Om-
maney, Rev. C. B. Renville, R. Best, Esq., of Botley
Grange, James Weld, Esq., Messrs. Hoskins, George
Holmes, Esq., and others. It was unanimously determined
to act in the spirit of entire union and co-operation for both
candidates in one committee. There was the most unequi-
vocal denial of the absurd statement of a re-action.
The following handbill has been issued :
" The central Committee who conducted the election of
Lord Palmerston and Sir G. Staunton in 1832, have met, and
are ready at their posts to assist the electors in taking the ne-
cessary measures for securing their return to Parliament in the
event of a dissolution. A stand must be made in the House
of Commons for the liberties of the people. Reformers—be
vigilant and active. Let not the Reform Bill be a dead letter.
.‘ W. E. NIGHTINGALE, Chairman."

BRISTOL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six—l have just been looking over the file of the Times
for the last five years, chiefly for the purpose of satisfying
Iwpm:if that my memory had not deceived me as to the terms
in which that paper was accustomed to denounce the return of
Tory domination. Its columns afford an almost continuous
philippic against the faction ; but I was particularly struck
by the articles which followed each other, day after day, in
the month of June last year. At that time the hostile de-
monstrations in the House of Lords, and the confident lan-
guage of the self-styled Conservatives, had awakened the
most serious alarm for the safety of the Whig Administra-
tion—the fearful consequences attendant on the triumph of
the Tories are depicted by the Times with equal energy
and truth, and the character of their leaders, in term- -
bitterest invective.

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Pass"---gec, not because extracts
I have transcribed a few
from that degraded
jrnat can AS such now have the least
weight or infl:“-
ence with any honest man of any party, but
bec°':.-se it had then the credit of being the zealous advocate
of the people's rights, and one of the chief organs of public
opinion. Its present base apostacy cannot invalidate facts
and reasonings in themselves irrefutable. These were eli-
cited by the bare apprehension of a crisis like the present—
the crisis then so strongly deprecated has actually arrived,
and the dangers of it and the odious character of its authors
cannot be more strikingly delineated than by that journal
which now lends its disgraceful support to those whom it has so
often denounced as the unchangeable enemies of tbttr On-
try's freedom. _ _

Bristol, Nov. 25, 1834.
P.S. I have not the slightest doubt that the public mind
here is decidedly hostile to the Duke, and that the Tories
have 'oat power hi Btigtol since the last election.

TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.
Sin—Considering any thing calculated t• mislead the
public mind at the present important crisis should be ex-
posed, I beg your insertion of the following. for the truth
of which I pledge myself. Your's respectfully,
Bristol, N0v.25, 1834. R. W. T.
Fellow-Countrymen—The Tories arc about to hold an
Orange meeting in this city to-morrow at the Horticultural
Rooms, at which Alderman Daniel is to preside. Doubtless
they would fain have it go forth to the world that it is a meet-
ing of the inhabitants of this city and neighbourhood generally.
1 therefore, in justice to you, and in order that you may not
consider the proceedings thereof as an expression of the feel-
ings or the opinions of the Bristolinns, assure you that the only
persons admissible to the said meeting are such as are of
known Tory principles, every individual of whom are fur-
nished with an admission ticket (not even transferable), the
name of the person holding such being written on the said
ticket.
Bristol, Nov. 25, 18:34. R. W. T.

PORTSMOUTH, Nor. 25.
A very numerous meeting of the general committee
which supported the interests of John Bonham Carter,
Esq. and Francis Thornhill Baring, Esq. (late Secretary to
the Treasury), at the last general election, assembled to-
gether last night to consider the proper steps to be taken
in the present situation of public affairs, to secure the great
objects of the Reform Bill, the maintenance of civil and
religious liberty, and the best interests of the country. Up-
wards of one hundred and fifty of a committee, which two
years ago consisted of two hundred, assembled at a very
short notice, and unanimously determined, " That as the
meeting believed the late Administration, under Lord Mel-
bourne, bad determined on introducing decided measures of
civil and ecclesiastical reform, and more especially that great
measure, second only in importance to the Reform Bill
itself—municipal reform on liberal and extended principles :
and as our present members, J. B. Carter, Esq. and F. T.
Baring, Esq., are known to have been friendly to that Ad-
ministration, in regard to its renewed determination to carry
out the principles of reform, they be invited to become can-
didates to represent this borough in Parliament, in case the
expected dissolution should occur."
The above resolution was followed by another, calling
a public meeting of the electors for to-morrow evening in
the largest room in the borough, at which both members
will attend. Their return is certain, though a dozen oppo-
nents are mentioned. We enumerate Admiral Napier, a
Portuguese pensioner ; Colonel Gurrwood, a thick and thin
supporter of Lord Wellington ; Admiral Sir Robert Stop-
ford, a man who, at the last election, offered to one influen-
tial gentleman to come forward on the liberal side, and to
another gentleman to come forward on the Tory side ; Sir
Edward Brown, an Admiral, a brave officer, but unfit for
anything out of a ship ; John Wilson Croker (of him the
Tories make sure, because his brother-in-law is storekeeper
of the Dock-yard) ; two Lords of the new Admiralty,
because it is deemed by the Tories that the representation
of Portsmouth of right ought to belong to the Admiralty ;
Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, because he is the King's son,
and commands a stationary yacht here, An additional list
shall be sent, for as this is now a sporting borough, some
sport may he expected here.
A splendid meeting of the Central Committee who aided
the return of Lord Palmerston and Sir George Staunton at
the last election was held yesterday at Southampton. The
feeling displayed and the information collected pretty clearly
ascertained that the return of these gentlemen would be
certain in the event of a dissolution, to which we can add,
that by a communication from Sir George Staunton, re-
ceived to-day from Brussels, he expresses himself confident
of success, supported by such friends as have already offered
themselves on the present occasion, and his determination
to strive to the last to keep the southern part of Hants out
of the hands of the Wellington influence. Fleming is try-
ing hard, but even his warmest supporters say, " that
Fleming must eschew his former conduct in Parliament—
that he must be aware that reforms in all institutions are
necessary."- But query—who will believe him when he has
said this ?

CHELTENHAM:
( From the Cheltenham Free Press.)
The Crisis, the momentuous, the long-looked for crisis,
has at length arrived, when the question so long
pending will be decided—whether the supreme Magis-
trate is stronger than the people by whose sufferance he
exists ! It behoves the people, then, every man who has
one single spark of freedom animating his bosom, to be up
and stirring; each and every soldiei of truth should be at
his post, (but not as a post) declaiming individually and col-
lectively with a voice resounding, like thunder falling upon
the astounded ears of the " advocates of vested rights, and
the enemies of all reform," teaching them that the days are
passed, and happily passed for ever, when the people of
England could be trifled with and coerced contrary to
their inclinations with impunity.

NOTTINGHAM.
(From the Nottingham Mercury.)
Since the publication of our last, Tory influence and the
unfounded terrors of a certain party at Court have pre-
vailed, and his Majesty bending to the breeze, has dismissed
his Ministers. Much as we regret this ill-advised step, as
far as the late Government is concerned, yet, as advocating
consistent reform, we have every reason to rejoice ; for the
friends of liberal measures may rest assured that no power
on earth can stay the progress of that irresistible feeling
which is sternly determined to carry reformation into full
effect.

KENDAL.
(From the Kendal Mercury.)
At the present moment we are well assured all honest
Reformers will unite heart and hand, and oppose the com-
mon enemy of our country's greatness, well-being, and
freedom. Another shock of the machine was, perhaps,
required before the Court and the Aristocracy could stretch
their eyes open to behold the gulf that yawns for them, in
case of continued resistance to the popular will. The
nation is now undergoing the electrical action, and the end
will be the peaceful surrender of what is due to justice and