The Sun.
London, England, 1833-01-08 00:00:00

FNING, JANUARY 8, 1833.

shall he ever ready to aid you in the cause of liberty, and
in promoting the happiness of the people.—(Cheers.)
, The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Members
for the Eastern Division of Worcestershire, and extolled
the exertions of the electors of liberal opinions of that
court.), who had so nobly done their duty.
Mr. COOKES returned th inks in the name of himself
and Mr Russell. He and his excellent colleague were
only the representatives of the opinions of others, and they
were prowl of their constituent., rind of a people who.
by their determined but constitutional exertions, had
wrought sec!, a great political change as the Minis-
terial measures of Reform. He h.id a deep sense of the
responsibility of a Member of the Reformed Parliament,
called to the labours of the Legislaiure at such a period ;
and never at any period of history were there more mo-
mentous questions for discussion and settlement. He
would concentrate all his exertions for the furtherance of
the public cause, and honestly, to the hest of his judg-
ment, fulfil his Parliamentary duties.—(Cheers.)
On the health of Mr. Foster being drank, that gentle-
man made a most excellent speech, which we regret we
have not room to insert. He illustrated the effect of the
currency on the trade and commerce of the country, and
called the attention of Sir John Campbell to the deep and
Paramount importance of the Bank and money subjects.
Mr. Foster was warmly applauded throughout his speech,
and stated that he thought the happiness of the working
classes and the prosperity of the nation most imminently
involved in the determination of the ensuing Parliament on
the question of the currency.
The health of the Chairman. Michael Grazehronk, Esq.,
and success to the mineral trades of the Midland District,
was proposed by Sir John Campbell, who highly eulogised
the manly and liberal conduct of Mr. Grazebrook. The
Chairman returned thank, and declared that liberal prin-
ciples, and a desire to promote the commercial and agri-
cutural prosperity of his countrymen, would ever regulate
his private and public life.
Sir J. CAMPBELL--. 4 propose the health of our patriotic
and gallant friend, Captain Gregory, who, after fighting
the enemies of his country, has been contending with the
enemies of the Constitution.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen,
I hope and trust, among the first subjects of legislative in-
quiry and redress, the wrongs of the borough of Stamford
will be remedied, and that the unconstitutional conduct
which defeated Mr. Gregory will be fully exposed and
prevented for the future ; but his triumph, and that of
others over mal-influence and illegal interference with the
elective rights of our countrymen, is nigh at hand; he
must and will ultimately succeed.—(Cheers.)
Mr. GREGORY—Although a private gentleman, a
stranger among you, I most cordially congratulate the in-
dependent electors of Dudley en the defeat of the Anti.
Reformers, and on your choice of Sir John Campbell as
your representative, whose constitutional sentiments, as
expressed this day, I admire and approve. Gentlemen, I
sincerely thank you in my own name, and for the inde-
pendent but prostrated electors of Stamford, whom you
have this day honoured by your recollection and expression
of sympathy. Gentlemen, this is the first time I have
attended a public testimony of approbation to a Solicitor-
General. Sir John Campbell is a friend of the people, not
their sworn and bitter enemy ; and instead of viewing his
office with that suspicion and hatred we have been accus-

bed to do in times past, we hail an appointment which
will secure the honest performance of the duti-s of that
office by a liberal and enlightened lawyer. You have
alluded to my contest of the borough of Stamford. I
have indeed been fighting the battles of as noble and inde •
pendent a body of electors as exists in the United King-
dom. No exertions or means on my part were wanting
to gain their cause. I found them free, but unhappily
left them slaves. lam a rejected, but not a dishonoured
candidate. I should have been with Sir John Campbell,
a Member of the Reformed House of Commons, if ti,e free
will and unbiassed suffrages of the electors of Stamford
had prevailed. You have indeed heard much of political
oppression and unconstitutional influence, but your ima-
ginations cannot picture to you the reality of Stamford

in public what an honest man would shudder at in pri-
vate; and in addition to aristocratic tyranny, a close cor-
poration spreads its deadly influence over that borough.
But, Gentlemen, I trust that men like Sir John Campbell
will throw bomb-shells into those fortresses of corruption,
and, like Antwerp, the betoeged will speedily capitulate.
Gentlemen, the Solicitor-General has liumourously referred
to the nick-name of his supporters, designated as the
" rabble." The " rabble" are the independent men who
scorn bribes, who resist intimidation—men with the hearts
of Englishmen, who hate and oppose aristocratic and ec-
clesiastical domination. The aristocracy of this country
only see the world through the crevices of their fingers;
they have often no knowledge, no pursuits, but those of
their own personal plea urea and selfish views; but we
have wrested much power from their hands, and to the
odusion of knowledge and patriotism of the middle and
lower classes we must now look for the consummation of
our liberties. The electors of Dudley will, through their
representative, see right done to the persecuted m•n of
Stamford and other boroughs. Gentlemen, several po-
litical topics have been mentioned in the course of this
evening, and among them vote by ballot. I have for years
been a determined advocate of that protection of the elec-
tive franchise. I can see no cure for the miserable perse-
cutions of the electors of Warwick, Stamford, and other
constituencies, but in the application of that remedy.—
(Loud cheering, and cries of " The ballot—that is it.")

These opinions are not, therefore, the result of my disap-
pointment. Whilst you are in triumph, too many of the
smeller constituencies in England are in mourning, and I
can only hope for their manumission from oppression and
false influence through the medium of our early and certain
obtainment of the vote by bsllot._(Loud cheering.) I
beg to thank you most cordially for your recollection of
myself and my friends, and I trust that you will ever remain
a free, enlightened body of English elecrors.—(Cheer.)
The CHAIRMAN then gave the health of Mr. Whit-
combe, Sir John Campbell's personal and legal friend,
whose services at the election were eminently known to
the Dudley electors. The Learned Gentleman returned
thanks in a spirited and eloquent speech. He urged the
electors to support Lord Grey's Administration while it
merited their confidence ; not to expect impossible or too
rapid political changes, but, at the same time, to urge it
to all practical and necessary Reform. He said that he
would stand by the Solicitor-General so long as he re-
mained true to the Constitution and the people, and no
longer ; but that he was convinced that Sir Juhn Camp-
bell, by the tenor of Ins public life, would never desert
his political princip!es.

Sir JOHN CAMPAELL—Gentlemen, I propose to you
the health of one of your neighbours, well known to you
in the cause of English liberty—than whom few have
advocated with more zeal, ability, and determination, the
great cause of Parliamentary R,form—and than whom
there are none more deeply versed in the knowledge of the
Constitution, and municipal institutionsof his own country
and of foreign nations. I propose to you the health of
Mr. Parkes.—(Cheers.) He has contributed much to
improve the laws and legal institutions of our country,
and will yet contribute more. In some few political opi-
nions he goes further than myself; but no one can doubt
his ability and sincerity, or his zeal for the good of our
common country. I propose Mr. Parkes' good health.
Mr. PARKES addressed the meeting at some length.
He said, that in his advocacy of the great measure of the
Reform of the representation, now so successfully and won-
derfully achieved, he had made great private sacrifices to
aid the Reformers, and he cordially congratulated them
on the successful virtue and patriotism of the people. It
was a peat saying, that a nation was never up but once
in a generation, and if the boroughmongers had net been
now overcome, the people would have been bound down
in political chains, or delivered over to revolution and
anarchy. He could solemnly say, that he and his friends
throughout all parts of the country, linked together in the
common cause, had unremittingly laboured to prevent re-
volution and the burst of popular power. He had always
advocated the Reform Bills as the preservation of the form
of Government, and the measures necessary to save the
nation from ultimate revolution; and he viewed popular
convulsions as the greatest calamities ofsociety.— (Cheers.)
The amended representation, however, was only the in-
strument of good Government. Lord Grey must, and he
doubted not would, go on to reform all our institutions of
Church and State, and further to perfect the constitution
of Parliament. Corporations, and our civil and criminal
municipal institutions, were among the most important ob-
jects of legislation and early reform. The vote by ballot had
been alluded to, and he declared that though under the
circumstances of the Ministry, on the introduction of
the Reform Bills in 1831, he had then cheerfully
forgone that great public question, and although 14 bad

(Parcig 7D.)

thought that we might reasonably wait the working of
the new Parliament, yet the recent elections had convinced
him that vote by ballot was essential and vitally necessary
to secure to the electors the power given them by Lord
Grey's measures, and that vote by ballot was the only re-
medy fur the shameful persecutions, riots, and false re-
turns, which had peculiarly distinguished the recent
general election.—(Loud cheering.) He was not one
who would illiberally discuss this question at a public
dinner, and in the presence of the Solicitor-Gener d, a
member of the Government, and which Government
might not he prepared to deal with the question till the
new House of Commons had discussed its merits ; but he
would confidently assert that the vote by ballot was carried
by public opinion.--(Loud cheers.) Mr. Parkes then
alluded to the currency, arid other subjects of the evening.
He said, that he had long known Sir John Campbell;
that the Solicitor-General had risen by personal merit, no
way.aided by patronage or influence, and that as he (Mr.
Parkes) had never communicated with him privately, but
in rdation to legal reforms, so he believed that when
invested with legislative or judicial power, the Solicitor-
General would be ever Mr. John Campbell in the con.
stanr advocacy of popular and enlightened political opi-
nions.—(Chters.)

In the course of the evening, the company were ad-
dressed by Mr. Gordon, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Hill, Mr. Bache.
Mr. Lyster, and other gentlemen, and Sir Jiihn Campbell
spoke on several political topics.—The most convivial
feeling was kept up to a late hour.