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London, England, 1834-11-29 00:00:00

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ceived them to be ; but he also thought that day had
played their cards ill, and greatly disappointed the just.
views of the reformers of this country. As regarded
the recent Administration, however, he must honestly
state what his views with regard to the conduct they would
hereafter have pursued were, and he hesitated not to avow-
that he had great confidence in it. He looked to the par-
ties of whom it was composed, and he saw in it men whose
previous conduct and political character appeared to him
something like a guarantee for measures of a stronger cha-
racter than the milk-and-water dilutions which had preceded
them.—(Applause.) He would take upon himself to state
that the Administration had prepared—nay, that they had
gone so far as to have already in print, and ready for distri-
bution amongst Members at the meeting of the ensuing
Parliament, a measure of Church Reform, and that it was
not a measure of puny dimensions or character.—(Hear,
hear.) He did also firmly expect from that Administration
that early in the next Session, on the report from the
Commissioners being laid before the House, they would
have brought forward a searching and efficient mea-
sure of municipal and corporate reform.—(Hear, hear.)
They would certainly be doing them injustice, were they
not to give them credit for good intentions, and a de-
sire to pacificate Ireland—(hear, and cries of no, no.)
if they did not believe, which ho sincerely did, that they
would have promoted economy and preserved peace. En-
tertaining these views, therefore, he had looked forward
with some degree of calmness and confidence, believing and
trusting that in the ensuing session of Parliament, he
should have felt it his cheerful duty to give his cordial
support to such measures as Ministers should propose, in-
stead of being compelled—as he had with pain been pre-
viously, but conscientously, obliged to do—to oppose their
measures. But his Majesty had been pleased to dismiss
from his councils these Ministers ;—and it Was not for him
to hint at the motives which had instigated him to that act.
They had been dismissed in the most summary manner,
and without any explanation, on the part of his Majesty to
Lord Melbourne, of the causes of that dismissal. The
Tory press had, indeed, stated that Lord Melbourne went
to his Majesty in difficulties. He, on the contrary,
would take upon himself to state that it was a base and
treacherous falsehood. The Administration had taken
measures to supply the vacancy created by the retire-
-meat of Leri Althnr.p gents -dm ElJtlir, 4 --Censrateas
and Lord Melbourtie had not, in his communication to
his Majesty, any difficulties whatever to present. (At this
moment, the demand for an adjournment was renewed ; and.
in order to ascertain the necessity of such a step, Messrs.
Wroe and Prentice undertook to examine whether any, and
what number of persons were unable to gain access to the
meeting ; Mr. Phillips undertaking himself to move the ad-
journment, if it appeared to be necessary.) He then con-
tinued : He left it to the meeting to draw, as no doubt they
had already done, their own conclusions as to the summary
manner in which Lord Melbourne was, dismissed. He now
came to talk of the Duke—of one who, like the admirable
Crichton, had recently been appointed to fill every depart-
ment of the State—who, as it appeared to him, required
nothing else to fill up the measure of his glory, but the
lawn-sleeves and mitre of his Grace the Archbishop of
Canterbury—(loud cheers)—in order to place him at once
at the supreme head both of Church and State.—(Ap-
plause.) His Grace, as they all knew, was a bold man
—he would grant him to be a brave one—but he at the
same time had been a fortunate one. He had neverthe-
less been once routed by the reformers of this country.
He sincerely trusted that he would find the people here
were made of sterner materials, and more uncompromising •
stuff, than lie found the French at Waterloo.—(Hear;)
Could they expect any reforms worth having from
an individual who had declared his belief that Reform was
unnecessary ? Could they believe that there would ever
be peace or tranquillity in Ireland unless Government was
prepared to do Ireland justice ? ample and real justice ?
And he put it to the meeting, whether they thought the
Duke was the man to render Ireland justice.—(No.)
Would be, who bad declared meetings such as that he had
the honour of addressing to be nothing more than a farce--
would he grant such a measure of corporate and municipal
reform as would enable the inhabitants of Manchester to
elect, in a popular manner, their own municipal officers—to
appoint their own magistrates and officers—to call together
' meetings in their own Town-hall, instead of being subject to
the caprice or party spirit of those whom he could designate
Ny no better name than that of mere nominees of rho aLeward
or the Lord of the Manor ?—(Cheers-) Did they expect
that the Duke of Wellington would so construct his
gr-thin of taxation as to relieve the industry of the
country-eger that, if he carried out his principles,
he could preserve the peace of Europe? Did they
think that he would maintain the prosperity of our
commerce by his views of foreign policy ? Did they
expect that he would promote the education, and in that
way the welfare and happiness, of the people ? Would
the Duke be ready, as he (the speaker) had ever been, to
advocate the removal of the stamps on newspapers ?
(Cheers.) Would he be prepared to accede to their wishes
with regard to the removal of the taxes on knowledge and
the stamps on newspapers ? Would lie be prepared to
give the people of this country an opportunity of reading
and knowing for themselves that which he would—or
rather, that which he would not—ao for them ? The
Duke of NlGllington, it was seid, intesided to have a disseess
lotion of Parliament. The meeting knew well what were
his sentiments with respect to the duration of Parliaments.
He was not, therefore, one of those who would complain of
him for giving an opportunity to the constituencies of Eng-
land to require from their respective representatives an
account of their stewardship during the last two years.
The elections of this country and the character of the
House of Commons were in the hands of the people ; an
if, therefore, they only remained true to themselves an I
to the principles which they professed only two short years
ago, his firm conviction was that success against the Duke
was certain.—(Hear.)
Mr. CHARLES HINDLEY, of Dukinfield, seconded the
motion. The London Times of that morning said the con-
version of in old sinner was always a matter of great plea-
sure to the faithful—(laughter)—and that now the Duke,
having repented of his sins, would do what the people of
England desired. But he wanted to know where were the
evidences of conversion—what the grounds on which they
were to trust him ? As a proof, indeed, that the Duke hat
not changed, he might mention the speech of a creature of
his, Lord Strangford, at the Kent dinner, where his Lordship
had declared that the change in the representation had given
too much power to the people--(" He's a liar")—that the
country must revert towards its old state, and that the
franchise of such places as Manchester must be raised.---.
(Hear, hear.) The speaker concluded by urging unani-
mity, and by expressing his admiration of the conduct pure
sued by Mr. O'Connell in merging minor differences until
the defeat of the Tories should be secured.—(Cheers.)
Mc. JOHN FIELDEN, M.P. for Oldham, next came for.
ward to address the meeting. He recapitulated the lead-
ing measures of the Grey and Melbourne Administration,
and indulged in violent invective against them for having
passed the Factory Act (the oppressive operation of which
was most sensibly felt here), the Irish Coercion Act, and
the Poor Law Act, which he denounced in the strongest
terms. He contended that their acts of omission had beets
no less flagrant than their acts of commission, and that
they had utterly disappointed the just expectations of Cis
people. He expressed a hope that the King would very
speedily dismiss, with as little ceremony as he had turned
off his Ministers, those representatives who constituted the
basest and most subservient House of Commons that- ever
sat within the walls of St. Stephen's. He concluded by
moving an amendment, which
Mr. JAMES BAKEWELL seconded. It was to the follow-
l'iy; effect :—" That we, assembled at this meeting, have
hea.'d with great satisfaction that his Majesty h.ss
dismissed from his councils a set of Ministers who
have disgraced the name of Reformers, by introducing
into Paidament and carrying a Bill to add. to fie
endured by our fellow-creatures in
cruelties seireadY
have introduced and carried through the
lioeolarni,d—aww•lisAral
cridment Bill, which is manifestly intended
a l to
trious part of the people of England of
tthoeirrohjustthewaigndus
wages,
an
reduce them to a coarser food or
starvation itself—veho have rejected every motion for alle-
viating the burdens of the people, and particularly th
it
heaviest of all burdens; the duty upon malt—who, in fie
face of pledges to the isenSrary, have refused to entertain
the question whether the dievastion of Parliaments ought not
to be shorter, and whether the ballot, as a mode of voting,
ought not to be adopted—wl.o have shamefully broken
their solemn promises to reduce Ow duty on stamps—who
have permitted an oppression over ti,s press hitherto un-
exampled, and exercised severities worses than any hitherto
known, except those of 1817 and 181'—and who have
perseveringly refused all real reform in Chorch and State ;
whilst they have, by endless delays and sa,:ocrastinations,
avoided to do that which, it is manifestly cleft*, they never
intended to do."—(Cheers.)
G. W. WooD, Esq., M.P. for South Lancashire, spoke
in support of the original motion, and urged upon the meet-
hie that the only question now was, not whether the Whigs
had' done all that they might or should have done, but
whether they desired that his Majesty should now call to
his councils men who were solemnly and sincerely deesireus
of carrying out those Reforms which the people of England
deemed desirable.—( Hear.)
Three individuals, named Elijah Dixon, Johnstis
and James Wroe, opposed alike the original motion a 4
the amendment, as being mere tricks of the Tories via

Whigs.
MT. GEORGE CONDI', Barrister-at-law, vindicated las
framers of the original motion in a speech of some length,
in the course of which he denounced the Whigs as a 4i*.
honest and perfidious party.
Mr. PRENTICE spoke in favour of the original motiqui
and a workman, named SOMERS, advocated the formation
of an ultra-radical Ministry.
Mr. DOHERTY declared his preference for the Tories bee

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