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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL

POLITICAL UNION.

Last night the Annual Meeting of the National Political
Union was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
Strand, for the purpose of reporting the proceedings of the
Union during the last year, and especially during the pass.
ing of the Reform Bill, and for the adoption of measures to
be pursued by the Union, with reference to those reforms
which the country had a right to expect from the new
Parliament.

JOSEPH HUME, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
At eight o'clock Mr. Hume entered the room, where
moat of the Council of the Union were waiting to receive
him, and the enthusiasm with which he was cheered told
how highly his great services in the cause of freedom were
appreciated by his country. Amongst those present we
observed Mr. Kinloch, of Kinloch, M.P., Daniel O'Con-
nell, Esq., M.P., Edward Ruthven, Esq., IMP., Mr.
Finn, M.P„ Mr. Fitzsimon, M.P., and two other Mem-
bers of Parliament, whose names in the announcement did
not reach us. We also noticed 11r. Carpenter, Mr.
Place, Mr. Daniel Wakefield, candidate for Lambeth,
Mr. Murphy, candidate for Marylehone, Mr. Savage,
candidate for the same borough, Captain Gowan, candi-
date for South Shields, and many other well-known poli-
tical characters.

Mr. HOME rose and addressed the meeting in a speech
of great length and power. He began by stating that he
had taken the Chair at the earnest solicitation of the
Council of the National Political Union, and went on to
recommend, in the strongest manner, the necessity of
multiplying Political Unions throughout the country, as
the only means by which redress could be effectually ob-
tained from the Government. To the agency of the
Unions alone he attributed the carrying of the Reform
Bill; and he was convinced that by them only would the
reforms necessary to render that measure effective be ob-
tained. He deprecated, in strong language, the late
movements of the Ministry ; and stated that, unless they
changed the course of proceeding which they appeared
about to pursue, no honest man could support them. The
Honourable Gentleman then went on to state the many
reforms that were necessary, which included vote by bal-
lot, the repeal of the Septennial Act, the extension and
unshackling of the franchise, and the repeal of the taxes
on knowledge. On these and other topics Mr. Hume
dwelt at considerable length, and proved that until these
reforms were granted, the Government would not have
satisfied the people. His speech was received throughout
with the warmest marks of approbation, and on resuming
the Chair he was cheered for several minutes.

Mr. PLACE then read the report of the proceedings of
the National Union, a document of considerable length and
excellently written. It classed the proceedings of the
meeting under two heads—moral and political, or rather
political and moral, and went on to show the means
adopted by the Union during the period of the suspense
occasioned by the repeated throwing out of the Reform Bill
by the House of Lords.

After the reading of the report was ended, Mr. Styles,
the Secretary of the Union, read the income and expen-
diture of the Union during the last year, showing thit a
balance of 681. still remained in the hands of the treasurer.

Some member of the Union here stated his objections to
the way in which a part of the funds had been expendtd,
and complained that the Council of the Union bad not
paid sufficient attention to the remonstrances of those who
were not of the Court

This was denied, and several documents were offered
to be read, to show that the statement was incorrect. At
the request of the Chairman, who observed that the most
important part of the business of the meeting was yet to
be gone through, a further discussio❑ on the subject was
postponed.

- Resolutions for petitioning Parliament for vote by
ballot, the ropesl of the Septennial Act, and shortening
the duration of Parliament, the abolition of the taxes on
knowledge, the extension of the suffrage, were then seve-
rally moved, seconded, and carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and proposed the thanks of
the meeting to Mr. Kinloch, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Ruth-
ven, Mr. Finn, Mr. Fitzsimon, Dr. Baldwin, and the
other Members of Parliament who had honoured the
meeting of the Union with their countenance and sup-
port.—Carried with loud cheers.

Mr. KINLOCH rose first, as his name had first appeared
on the list, to thank them for the honour they had done
him. He was, he said, the oldest Reformer present, and
for his advocacy of Reform, had been obliged to fly his
country. Three years and a half he had been an exile,
which, with the evils with which his banishment was
attended, was no slight misfortune, and yet the only effect
it had on him was to strengthen his love of liberty. He
approved of all the meeting had done. He was for annual
Parliaments, universal suffrage, and the ballot. After
further assuring the meeting that the object of the Union
should have his best suppott in Parliament, from which
he should not be found absent, and thanking the Members
of the Union fur the distinguished manner in which they
bad received him, Mr. Kinloch sat down amidst great
applause.
Mr. O'CONNELL then rose amidst a scene of almost
unprecedented enthusiasm. Indeed we question if he was
ever more warmly greeted in the Corn Exchange, Dublin.
He assured the Members of the Union that their proceed-
ings had his most hearty concurrence, and that he would
do his utmost to render them effectual. He stated briefly,
but energetically, the evils inflicted on Ireland by the pre-
sent Administration, and implored the English, as they prized
freedom themselves, to secure it to their unfortunate
fellow-subjects in the sister kingdom. He described,
in glowing and pathetic language, the blood of
the poor that was daily being shed to support the
abuses of a useless Church Establishment. The fields, he
said, were red with the blood of the innocent as well as
the guilty, and the massacres under the law were of daily
occurrence. In a strain of impassioned eloquence he en-
treated them to assist him in averting these evils, which
he assured the meeting was the sole study of his life. On
the conduct of Stanley towards the Irish people he dwelt
with bitter irony, and stigmatised as most unwortby the
Part the Lord Chancellor had taken with respect to the
question of the ballot. The whole of his speech was re-
markable for the bold figurative language in which it was
conceived, and the fervid eloquence with which it was
delivered. He concluded amidst loud cheers, by ad.
monishing the Union not to relax its efforts in the good
cause, and whatever might be their private differences, never
to suffer the m to distract their proceedings.
Captain GOWAN moved the thanks of the meeting to
their patriotic Chairman, Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P.—
Carried unanimously with three cheers.
The meeting bloke up at half-past eleven.
We understand that this evening another meeting will
be held to elect a new Council, the time allowed for the
duration of the present one having expirietl.

MEETINGS OF CttEDITORS,
AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET.

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