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London, England, 1834-12-04 00:00:00

STATE OF PUBLIC OPINION

AND
MOVEMENTS IN THE METROPOLIS.

There has been some more " speaking out " yesterday.
The parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and of St. Saviour's,
Southwark, meet to-day.

ST. GEORGE' S-IN-THE-EA ST.

Last night a meeting of the parish of St. George-in-the-
East, was held at the National School-room, Charles-street,
Old Gravel-lane. The chair was taken at seven o'clock by
Mr. Gole, in consequence of the churchwarden of the pa-
rish being absent through indisposition, at which time about
1,300 persons were present.
The CHAIRMAN trusted that all shades of difference of
opinion amongst Reformers would be laid aside, and that
they would all join in endeavouring to promote the objects
of reform.

Mr. SWIFT said that in the alarming situation in which
the country had been recently placed,_he thought it was the
imperative duty of every man to state his opinion. The
large body of his follow-parishioners then assembled was a
sufficient proof that the parish of St. George was not asleep
to wbat was passing around them, nor indifferent to those
events which had spread alarm throughout the country.—
(Hear, hear.) The Noble Duke's vanity led him to sup-
pose that he could conduct the chariot of the State in his
own track, but he was found incapable of holding the reins
—the want of capacity became so obvious, that public opi-
nion at once hurled the incompetent rider from his seat.—
(Cheers.) It was this public opinion that reached Kings
on their thrones, and compelled them to keep within the
bounds of justice ; it was this public opinion that would pe-
netrate even to the closet of the King, and prevent his being
influenced by further intrigue.—(Cheers.) The resolution
which he had to propose was as follows :
" That while this meeting cannot but regret the measures
which have shaken public confidence in the men who composed
his Majesty's late Cabinet, they feel it to be the paramount
duty of Re-formers, of every denomination, to unite in declaring
their unqualified detestation to any Administration formed of
the Tory faction, which shall attempt to carry on the Govern-
ment of this country."
Mr. KIRKE seconded the resolution, which was put ,and
unZinnousl:- carried. 4'
Mr. TALBOT said that the resolution which -lie Clad to
propose was expressive of the sense of the meeting at the
recent changes made in the Government. One of the
earliest advocates of reform in this country (the great and
good Daniel Defoe) said that if there was any man who
would not fight for liberty, he was a fool ; and he who
would keep it from another was a knave.—(Cheers.) He
believed that at certain times resistance to the rulers of a
country became a virtue ; and a passive acquiescence in
the measures of a Government became a crime. He thought
that at the present moment. the people of England were
justified in showing that they were determined to resort to
all constitutional measures to prevent their being placed
under the domination of the Duke of Wellington and a
corrupt Tory Government.—(Cheers. He trusted that
the united voice of the people of England would at once
shiver to atoms the Government with which they had been
threatened.—(Applause.) The late Government had com-
menced reform ; but their great fault was a want of -firm-
ness ; but he would ask, what had the Duke of Wellington
done for reform ? What had that Noble Duke done for
the people ?—(A voice in the crowd, " He robbed the
country !") He certainly had robbed the country, and
would continue to do so ; but he (Mr. Talbot) was happy
to perceive such a feeling abroad among the people, that
he would not long continue to do so.—(Loud cheering.)
Everybody admitted that the Duke of Wellington was a
bold man ; but he would not dare to attempt to repeal the
Reform Bill ; indeed, if he did attempt to do so, there was
little doubt that the exclamation of Richard would be used
and applied to the Noble Duke, namely—" Off with his
head !"—(Loud cheers, and laughter.) He thought that
the greatest evils were to be anticipated from the establish-
ment of a Tory Government, under the auspices of that
Noble Duke.

" That this meeting, viewing reform of Parliament but as
a means to an end,' feels indignant at the assumption of power
by one who, after being twice driven from office by the public
voice of the British empire, has, in an evil hour, again been
called to his Majesty's councils ; and hereby pledge itself to
leave no constitutional means untried to effect his third ex-
pulsion."
Mr. HALL seconded the resolution, which was agreed to.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meet-
ing broke up.

STATE OF PUBLIC OPINION

IN THE COUNTRY.

The Reformers of Gloucestershire are up and doing.
They have amply verified all that we prophesied of them.

GLOUCESTER.

About 5,000 of the inhabitants of Gloucester assembled
on Tuesday, in the great Shire-hall of that town, to take
into consideration the propriety of presenting an address to
the King on the "present state of public affairs.
The MAYOR, on taking the chair, briefly stated the na-
ture of the meeting, and observed, that the requisition for
convening the meeting having been signed by sixty or
seventy inhabitants, he deemed it his duty to comply with
the wishes of the requisitionists.
Mr. FRANCILLON then stepped forward to propose a re-
solution, but the moment he presented himself, shouting,
hissing, yelling, and all other kinds of noises were made, and
not one word of what he said could be heard.
The MAYOR said they had assembled to exercise one of
the proudest privileges of Englishmen—(cheers)--inasmuch
as they were assembled to take into consideration the pro-
priety of presenting a loyal and humble address to his Ma-
jesty on the present state of public affairs.
Mr. PARKER said, it had fallen to his lot to present a
resolution—(Uproar)—and express the sentiments of the
people of Gloucester on the present eventful crisis. He
did not address them as a partisan. He did not seek to
support or to decry any party, but to exercise one of the
proudest privileges exercised by Englishmen.—( Hear, hear.)
He had heard that a meeting had been got up in Glou-
cester for different purposes, and that an address, signed
by a few, had been agreed to as the address of the county
—(Disapprobation,) What was done at the meeting which
he had then the honour of addressing was frank and open.
They did not prepare in secret, in some cobweb corner, an
address, expressive of the sentiments of a partial few, and
then, by carrying it round, from house to house, obtain
the signatures of some known partisans, and afterwards
palm it off as the address of the citizens of Gloucester.—
(Hissing and disapprobation.) An address of that sort had
been taken about.—(A voice in the crowd—" That I
deny !" Cries of " Shame" from others), and signatures
obtained. Such an address, so surreptitiously obtained,
had been published as the address of the respectability of
Gloucester.—( Hear, hear.) If the meeting were content
to have the partial opinions of these men—few in number—
palmed upon them, as their opinions and sentiments, and
to be arrayed against the Reformers of England, they would
not support the address which would be proposed to them
that day, but turn to those men who would bow their necks
to the despotism of the country—(cheers)—and, instead of
being proud to wear a blue ribbon in their hats, they would.
become the disciples of Toryism.—(Hear, and noise.)
Mr. PHILLPOTTS, M. P., seconded the resolution. He
felt himself particularly called upon to address the meeting
that day, as, if he did not, it might be supposed that he was
a party to the address which a party were getting up for the
city of Gloucester.—(Hear, hear.) The object of that
party was to make the public believe that it contained the
feelings of the genernl mass of the citizens of Gloucester.—
( Hear, hear ! and disapprobation.) " You all (said Mr.
Philpotts) take no part in such an address—(" All, all, all !"
repeated by hundreds of voices)—and you feel that it would
be a disgrace to you to be supposed to truckle to the Duke
of Wellington as Dictator, and to submit to Tory princi-
ples."—(" All, all, all ! " and loud and vehement cheering-,
which lasted several minutes.)
The resolution was then put, when
W. COTHER, Esq., rose.—Englishmen, I stand before
you as an Englishman, to claim for myself and my friends
the same privileges we .conceded to the party on the other
side—(Cheers)—and it is the happy privilege of England
that her sons can approach the throne to petition his Ma-
jesty to relieve them from any inconvenience under which
they labour.—(Hear, hear.) It is the duty of every man
to perform his duty as a citizen to the best of his power.
Any man is at liberty to find fault with my opinions, but
that will not have any effect upon me.—(Cheers and hiss-
ing.) The first question to be settled is, is it proper, or is
it improper, to address the Sovereign ?—(" Yes, yes,
yes.") Upon that point I would say, that the people
do not form the constitution of England—(lt is impos-
sible to convey an idea of the shout that was raised on the
delivery of this sentence—" Ah, ah, ah ! we know what
you mean ;" " Go along ;" and some sneering allusions to
Mr. Codices profession of a surgeon were repeated by
numerous voices. Shouting and yelling issued from hun-
dreds of throats, while the cheering and shouting were
raised by others.) The Constitution signifies the power
vested in the King.—(Hissing.) Hoot the name of his Ma-
jesty if you like. Hiss and hoot his Majesty, if it pleases
you, as much as he was lauded by every gentleman who has
spoken on this occasion—(Great confusion and disturbance)
—but let all here who are well-disposed for his welfare, give
three cheers.—(Some persons on the platform shouteci and
waved their hats ; but the majority of the persons present
could not hear what the speaker said.) The King has am
inherent right, according to the Constitution given to him
by the people, of choosing for himself those—(Loud noises)
—of choosing those servants.—(Renewed uproar.) I be-

believe that a great deal that has been said respecting the
Duke of Wellington is wrong.•—(Hissing.)
The MAYOR then presented the resolution to the meet-
ing, and a forest of hands were immediately held up, cover-
ing two-thirds of the hall. The remainder of the persons
in the room held up their hands for the rejection of the re-
solution. The Mayor said—ln the discharge of my public
duty, I am bound to express my conviction that the resolu-
tion has been carried.—(lmmense cheering.)
Mr. FRANCILLON then presented himself to propose the
address, founded on the resolution.
Mr. HEANE seconded the address.

Mr. CANNING, of Hartpury, moved that the address
should be presented to his Majesty by Lords Ducie, Sher-
borne, and Segrave ; observing, that those three Peers
were always ready to give their utmost assistance for the
benefit of the people. __ _

Mr. PHILLPOTS seconded the motion, and it was carried

The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the Mayor,
which that gentleman acknowledged. Three cheers were
then given for his Worship, three cheers for the King, three
cheers for Earl Grey, and three cheers for Lord Durham.
The meeting then separated.

CONSERVATIVE DINNER AT IPSWICH

On Tuesday evening last a very large body of the most
influential Conservatives residing in the above borough, and
in the surrounding districts of East Suffolk, dined together
at the Great White Horse Inn, for the purpose of agree-
ing to an address to his Majesty, and for uniting to
strengthen by their support the cause of Conservatism in
that part of the kingdom. Upwards of three hundred
sat down to dinner; among whom were—Sir C. Broke Vere
(the Chairman), Lord Henniker, Colonel H. Broke, Major
Schriher, Captains Anstruther, Broke, and Buckley ; Rev.
Dr. Etough, Rev. T. C. Cook, Rev. Mr. G. Edgar, Rev.
Messrs. Woolmar, Tweed, Long, Dean, Kirby, Howorth,
Mills, Golding, Johnson, Paske, and several other Clergy-
men ; Hon. Major Henniker, Major Turner, J. Berners,Esq..,
R. Adam Dundas, Esq., Fitzroy Kelley, Esq. (the two
latter gentlemen mean to start in the Conservative interest
for the borough in the case of a dissolution of Parliament),
Bosanquet, Esq., J. C. Cobbold, Esq., Edward Bacon,
Esq., &c. ; and among the principal yeomen of the county
present were—Messrs. Newson, Collett, Barthropp, Gross,
Josselyn, Cockerell, Bates, Heward, Constable, Wolton,
and a great many more, whose names we did not know.
After the usual loyal toasts,
The Rev. Dr. ETOUGH rose and said—lt is a most gra-
tifying sign of the times that when men, for the basest of
motives, are leagued together to sever and destroy that
which has lasted for ages, and upon which the happiness of
all depends, others, the wise and virtuous among mankind,
whose opinions, not only in politics but in all other mat-
ters, were entitled to regard, should be so animated with
the proposal of a good old English toast ; and it is
even still more gratifying to see how of late it had
been received by the public at large.—(Loud cheers.)
Those persons may tell you that the robbery of a portion
of property belonging to the Church is the surest way for
us to keep possession of the remainder ; but while common
honesty and honour remain among Englishmen they will
not succeed in their schemes of spoliation.—( Loud
cheers.) Those persons quote scripture to prove that no
connection ought to exist between Church and State ; but the
words " my kingdom is not of this world" can by no latitude
of interpretation bear on such an argument. In making si-
milar quotations those interested persons have blinked that
scripture prophecy respecting the Church, and which they
had happily lived to see fulfilled, namely, " Kings shall be
its nursing fathers, and Queens its nursing mothers."—( Loud
cheers.) Those persons also overlook the Jewish polity, in
which the connection between Church and State is said to
be ordered by God himself, to be a precedent for future
ages, and to be his divine will throughout all time. The
charge brought against this connection is, that a national
Church must of necessity be a political one. I distinctly
deny this assertion. The alliance will not make the Church
political, but the State religious.—(Cheers.) The Church
does not want the protection of the State ; it is the State
that needs the protection of the Church. The Church is
safe under the protection of its divine founder, and though
it may suffer for a time, in the end " the gates of hell shall
not prevail against it."—(Cheers.) The State, I maintain,
can find its protection only in the bosom of the Church.
If the friends of the Church do not feel those ar-
guments its enemies do those enemies who, having
neither property nor principles to lose, and seeking for
anarchy because they hope in the scrambla to rise, ever
make the Church the chief object of their attacks.—(Cries
of " True, true," and cheers.) They know if they separate
Church and State the latter must speedily, fall. There is
in the history of our own country a bloody example of this
truth. Need I refer to those times in which a Monarch of
this country was put to death and murdered by the people ?
The same means that were employed then are in active
operation now.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Let there be now a
separation of Church and State, as formerly at the time he
alluded to, and they would soon see the Monarch laid
prostrate.
The CHAIRMAN then gave " Success to the Conserva-
tive cause."--(The toast was received with long and loud
acclamations.)
The CHAIRMAN, after a lapse of a few minutes, again
illustrious
individual—" rise to propose to you the health of an
individual—" The Duke of .WOJlington."
[lt would be rather difficult to express in writing the
manner in which this toast was received. All the company
started up at once—cheered, hurraed, struck the table, and
clashed their glasses. Scarcely were they seated, when a
cry of " One more cheer for the Duke" made them rise
again and repeat the former rounds of applause. The same
ceremony was gone through at least six successive times.]
The CHAIRMAN next said—Gentlemen, I'll give you the
health of him from whom the country expects those set,
vices he is so highly qualified to give—l mean " Sir Robert
Peel." The toast was cordially received.
Several other toasts were then proposed by the Chairman
and drank most cheerfully.
The address to his Majesty was signed in the course o
the evening by all present.
The majority of the company separated at ten o'clock.

IRELAND.—DUBLIN, TUESDAY, DEc. 2.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
IRISH ANTI-TORY ASSOCIATION.

This Society assembled to-day at 2 o'clock at the Corn
Exchange Rooms. The meeting was most numerously and
respectably attended. On the motion of Mr. O'Connel,
Michael Walsh, Esq., was called to the chair.
Mr. DWYER, the Secretary, having read the minutes of the
last meeting,
Mr. O'CONNELL rose and said that he held in his hand a let-
ter detailing an occurrence too shocking for contemplation,
he had received that morning from an excellent friend of his,
and he would now read it to the meeting, Mr. O'Connell
then read the following letter :

" This morning (December 1) a party of Police, ten or
twelve in number,were seen reconnoitering Parona, within three
miles of Keady, on the road to Castleblaney. Curiosity brought
a few country boys together, in number about eighteen or
twenty, who stood in groups without making the slighest ma-
nifestation of violence or disorder. The Police, unaccom-
panied, it is said, by either chief or magistrate, came to them
to make prisoners of them as an illegal assemblage.
The country boys resisted ; a conflict ensued, the
Police fired, and two men of the names of Hughes
were shot—the one dead upon the spot, and the other is not
expected to survive. The Rev. P. M. Larney, C. C., who
was celebrating mass at a funeral convenient to the scene of
action, was there in time to administer the rites of the church
to the latter : the other has left a wife and children, to bless
the tithes and the parsons. Shortly after the report of the
musketry was heard, the Rev. Mr. Blacker, the Protestant
rector of Deremuse, and J. Prade, went up to the ground.
It is said the first man was armed with a horse-pistol ; but I
cannot vouch for the fact. But I am told a horse-pistol was
fired at six or seven of the country people who had stopped to
carry away the dead. On his way back, he met the bro-
ther of the deceased, and told him that a friend of
his was lying on the rock over them. Four or five
of the police officers received contusions from stones
which were thrown by the country people, who had no other
weapons, the affair having occurred unexpectedly from
the aggression of the police. The vanguard of the police,
who had been convenient, watching the tithes seized this morn-
ing for the Rev. Mr. Blacker, advanced when they heard the
shots, but too late for sport, for the field had been cleared,
and they had only the inglorious duty to discharge of carrying
their contused on a cart to Keady, headed by his Reverence.
Many of them during the conflict threw down their arms and
took to the stones, the weapons which they observed their an_
rigonists weilded with so much effect. I suppose we shall have
another farcical investigation. What will the Autocrat Duke
do ? Is this a specimen of what we are to expect ?"
The reading of this document produced a powerful sensa-
tion in the meeting. Mr. O'Connell proceeded to comment
upon it in a most feeling and expressive manner, and then said
he had four Members of Parliament to propose as members of
the Association—namely, the Hon. Colonel Butler, M. P. for
Kilkenny, Messrs. Blake and Lynch, Members for the town
of Galway, and Mr. Wm. Roche, M. P. for Limerick.
Mr. O'CoNNELL said nobody doubted the right of the King
to choose his own Ministers, but if the King had prerogatives
so had the people ; and if the King called to his Councils Mi-
nisters who were opposed to the people, the people could send
into Parliament representatives who would refuse to those Mi-
nisters the supplies.----( Immense cheer.. )
The remainder of the business consisted of the admission of
members ; after which Sharman Cranford, Esq., was called to
the chair, and thanks being voted to Mr. Walsh, the Associa-
tion adjorned till Saturday.

A magnificent new Roman Catholic Chapel is now
building at Clifton, near Bristol ; the architecture is said to
be peculiarly fine. The British Society for Promoting the
Religious Principles of the Reformation, we observe, is deeply
alarmed at the rapid increase of these buildings, and of Popery
itself, in every part of this country.

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