The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-03 00:00:00

where they are able to witness the manifestation oi
public opinion.—Morning Post.
Public meetings are held from day to day, of which
the object is to condemn the forthcoming Administra-
tion, with regard to which nothing can be known,
whatever may be conjectured, beyond the fact that Sir
R. Peel is announced by his friends as its predestined
Chief. A meeting was convened at Rochester on Mon-
day, whereat Mr. Bernal, M.P. for that city, attended,
as did also Messrs. Hodges and Rider, members for
East Kent, all of whom took part in the proceedings.
The resolutions adopted were expressive of regret, dis-
gust, and indignation at the change which has taken
place, and of a determination to oppose, by all consti-
tutional means, the continuance of the apprehended
Ministers in office. An address to his Majesty
was likewise voted, conformable to the spirit of the
resolutions, but in terms certainly more peremp-
tory than deferential towards the Throne. The
Westminster meeting held in Covent-garden yester-
day was what may be termed a complete failure as
to magnitude, and, with very few exceptions, not less
so in point of respectability. As to the Marylebone
meeting, reported in yesterday's Times, the most pro
minent parties were Colonel Evans and Mr. Hume,
having for backers Sir F. Knowles, the gentleman who
figured on another and recent occasion in the city,
and Mr. Wakley, whom we need not trouble ourselves
to describe. Mr. Joseph Hume, being at once an
economist and a tactician, makes the most of all the
materials within his reach. Like his vast prototype
Napoleon, he redeems by übiquity the loss of time and
the lack of numbers, and shows at once his knowledge
of arithmetic and his taste for it, by an endless multi-
plication of his own person, coining a long speech,
moreover from the dross of all political currency.
In illustration, however, of the spirit by which some
of the personages who honoured the Covent-garden
meeting with their presence must have been actuated,
we would refer our readers to one resolution whereunto
a unanimous assent appears to have been given—viz.
that which pledges the parties to a great extension of
the suffrage, and the substitution of the ballot for open
voting. Now, let us ask how a considerable num-
ber of those supporters of the late Administration who
have shown such furious haste to exchange the
fraternal hug with the extreme Radicals, would have
voted. in Parliament—nay, how they did vote—when
the question of the ballot was submitted to the House
of Commons ; and if they would not there vote, and
did not vote, for the affirmative of Mr. Grote's motion,
or for triennial Parliaments, or for universal suffrage,
with what face can they, as honest men, give their
assent to such proceedings as those at the meeting in
Westminster, at which there was yesterday carried
unanimously," for so says the report, a resolution
embodying every one of the principles which but a
few short months before they negatived as re-
presentatives of the people ? This is barefaced
faction—this is downright political dishonesty ; it
is a mixture of trickery and desperation, with which
many, we fear, are chargeable, but which the people
of England, in their calmer moments, are utterly
incapable of supporting. It is that species of dis-
creditable manoeuvre, that show of false colours, as-
sumed for purposes of public deception, which must
render the alliance of such persons valueless to any
government which respects itself, and their services
unworthy the acceptance of a wise constituency. It is
not by such meetings, or by such means, that any
administration can be sensibly injured. As for the
meeting of the Finsbury people at White Conduit-
house, we see nothing remarkable in it, except that
Mr. Duncombe had the skill to command the muscles
of his countenance, and gravely talk of impeachinL,
the Duke of Wellington : while Mr. Hume, with
characteristic eloquence, expressed his determination
not to give ,‘ a farthing" to the Duke or his Master.
These threats are not very alarming. They were pro-
bably intended merely to amuse the worthy auditors,
who must have been sadly fatigued with the general
dullness of the proceedings. The assembly were peace-
able, and went quietly away, some (as an eye witness as-
sures us) apparently half r.sleep, and the rest manifesting
symptoms of considerable lassitude Indeed, it requires
no common quantity of energetic wakefulness to resist the
soporific distills l ions from_t,-
for Middlesex. The Lay Corporation Address was
presented yesterday to the King, and was answered by
his Majesty in one or two brief sentences, declaratory
of his willingness, past and future, to correct abuses,
and to improve the condition of his people, as also of
his hope that those Ministers to whom he had given
his confidence, would act so as to obtain that of the
country. An expectation had prevailed, though un-
fairly, in some quarters, that the Royal answer would
be so couched, that inferences might be drawn from it
as to the specific policy of the ensuing Cabinet. That
would have been no less contrary to precedent, than to
reason. It is enough that the spirit of the reply was
most favourable to the hope of a conciliatory Admini-
stration, and of one which would study to deserve the
national confidence—a confidence which, it must be
obvious to those who counselled such an answer, no
Minister can henceforth win who is not determined on
carrying out the system of reform.—Times.

ROLLS' COURT, DEC. 2.

NEDBY V. HAZELDINE AND ANOTHER.-INJUNCTION.

A gentleman behind the bar applied for a special injunc-
tion to restrain the defondants from collecting and getting
in the personal estate of a lady named Nedby. The
Learned Counsel read affidavits stating that the testator
(a lady of the name of Nedby) died some time since at
Herne Bay, of cholera ; when on her death-bed, the de-
fendants, who are builders at Herne Bay, were mentioned
to her as proper persons to be appointed as her executors ;
and though they were both perfect strangers to her, she
immediately consented to their appointment, and they have
acted in that capacity since her death. On several occa-
sions it has been discovered, however, that they have been
receiving money on different securities, belonging to the
estate of the testator, and applying it to their own private
use. The affidavits went on to state other reasons that
made the present application necessary.
The MASTER of the ROLLS granted the injunction rs
prayed.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 2.