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London, England, 1834-11-18 00:00:00

the Administration. His Majesty's Ministers, although
they failed of giving general satisfaction, had still proceeded
onward with great measures of Reform.
Mr. WILLIAMS.—What measures of Reforni ?

Mr. TAYLOR said, that nobody could deny the importance
of the Corporation Reform, and the Irish Church Reform.
The Administration had been going on with a determined
step towards the accomplishment of those great objects,
when they were interrupted by the dying effort of the Court
party to put an end to their progress. Was there any per-
son foolish enough to believe that the King had dismissed
his Ministers, to substitute in their place the Radicals ?-
-(Laughter.) No such thing. The Duke of Wellington
.—the Prince of Tories—was at the head of affairs, and he
was determined to put a stop to every project of reform ;
and as for the report that Lord Melbourne expressed his
inability to carry on the Administration, because Lord
Althorp was transferred from the Commons to the Lords,
that was as monstrous a fiction as the assertion that Lord
Brougham was at variance with the rest of the Members of
the Government. He (Mr, Taylor) knew it to be a fact
that some of the Radical newspapers had failed in attempts
to draw money from that Noble and Learned Lord, and had
therefore found reasons for attacking him ; while in other con-
cerns briefless barristers abused him because he had not pro-
vided places for their craving relatives. It had been reported
that Lord Jeffery had refused to attend a meeting because Lord
Brougham was to be there, and it happened that on the
very day the paragraph appeared in the papers, those two
noble persons actually dined together ; and on Saturday
Lord Brougham, notwithstanding the mortal differences
between his Lordship and his coadjutors, actually dined
with Lord John Russell and Mr. Abercromby, two of the
most uncompromising Reformers in the whole Adminis-
tration.

Mr. HEPPEL and Mr. WILLIAM PRITCHARD then drew
up and moved a requisition to the Lord Mayor, of which
the following is a copy :
We, the undersigned members of the Court of Common
Council, request your Lordship to call an early Court to
consider the propriety of presenting an address to the King,
expressing the general alarm of the citizens of London at
the unexpected dismissal of an Administration possessing
a large share of public confidence ; and praying his Majesty
to exclude from his councils all persons who are not pre-
pared to carry into effect those measures of reform in
Church and State which the condition of the country re-
quires, and for which wise and extensive preparations had
been made by his Majesty's late Ministers ; and more par-
ticularly to exclude all those whose conduct while in office,
and subsequently in opposition to the Reform Bill and the
measures to which it has led, has justly exposed them to
the distrust of the people of the United Kingdom.
Mr. WILLIAMS could not conscientiously admit that the
late Administration possessed a large share of the public
confidence. The public had, in his opinion, manifested that
their confidence was not so bestowed. There was another
point on which he differed from the requisition. He could
not see that the late Ministers had made " wise" prepara-
tions for carrying into effect measures of Reform in Church
and State. He really thought that the preparations were
extremely unwise as regarded the corporation reform ; for
they had proceeded in their inquiry subject to refusal of in-
formation upon the part of those who possessed the best
means of giving information. As for the Church measure,
that was at an end by the decision of the Lords in the last
session. _ _ _

Mr. WESTON said that the late Ministry were, in his
opinion, deserving the thanks of the public for what they
had done ; and that a Tory Government might involve the
country in anarchy and confusion. He hoped that, how-
ever they might differ in some points, they would unite
against the influence which now threatened them. To ex-
pect a liberal policy from the Duke of Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel, after such declarations as they had made,
would be absurd.

Mr. HEPPELL contended that the language in the re-
quisition was adapted to the conduct of the late Administra-
tion. He had not said that they were entitled to the
fullest confidence ; but he wished to identify the terms of
the requisition with the measures of reform which they were
introducing. If the matter were left indefinite, the Duke
of Wellington might say that he would propose such mea-
sures of reform as should be required, and introduce a plan
upon a very different model. Perhaps the late Ministers had
not gone so far as the corporation of London would wish
they had gone, but certainly they had done a great deal.
Mr. GALLOWAY declared that no man more regretted
than he did that Ministers had not done more than they
had accomplished ; but he was ready to admit that he was
surprised, looking to the vast impediments they had had to
encounter, how they had effected so much. They had
been dismissed because they had done so much ; and the
Duke of Wellington, the victorious captain-general of the
Tories of England, the avowed enemy of all that was libe-
ral, was now the Prime Minister of England. He defied
the efforts of a Tory Government if the representatives of
the people were assembled, but he knew what mischief the
party might accomplish between the present time and Fe-
bruary. He knew what injury they were doing to the free
institutions of other countries. If the King had dismissed
his Ministers without making so inauspicious an appoint-
ment, he (Mr. Galloway) would not sanction the proceed-
ings of this day ; but they were bound to unite against such
an Administration as was preparing for them in the most
vigorous manner.
Mr. EFFINGHAM WILSON said that no Administration
would satisfy the public, except one which was prepared to
go to the full extent in carrying the measures of reform in
Church and State. A coalition would not do, for a Mi-
nistry so constructed must soon fall to pieces ; and amongst
other evils, a most injurious effect would be produced upon
the trade of the kingdom.
Mr. WtsToN declared that an additional argument
existed in the fact that a great journal which had made
itself remarkable by its recent attacks upon the Lord Chan-
cellor, had that morning exhibited its intention to 'support
the Tory party.
After some observations from Mr. Pritchard, Mr. Law-
rence, Mr. Pewtress, and others, the requisition was agreed
to, and a deputation was appointed to present it to. the
Lord Mayor. The meeting then separated.

Now in what way do our readers imagine the Tory Lord
Mayor (from whom, on his election, a pledge was exacted
to convene a Court whenever required) received the depu-
tation ? With a ready assent, which he was bound to give ?
No, but with stammering and hesitation—with a plea that
the meeting proposed an interference with the King's pre-
rogative ; and that his pledge could scarcely be held to ex-
tend to such an occasion. Nor could he at length be
brought to give any other satisfaction to the deputation than
that he would finally give them his answer at eleven o'clock
to-morrow.
As, in consequence of recent events, and the decided
part the Lord Mayor seems inclined to make, much specu-
lation has been excited as to what led to the revival of the
toast of " Church and King" at• his inauguration dinner,
we have taken some pains to inquire into the circumstance,
and have received from a correspondent, on whom we can
fully rely, the following intelligence, which we give in his
own words :
"We find, upon inquiry, that the toast of Church and
King,' which was proposed by the Lord Mayor at the civic
banquet, on the day of his inauguration, had been long
thrown aside among congenial Tory lumber, until his Lord-
ship, with his characteristic delicacy of taste, and courteous
deference to the feelings and opinions of the distinguished
official personages who honoured the city by their presence,
dragged this symbol of party and priestly bigotry from its
obscurity. We learn further, that the merit of effecting
this resuscitation, is attributable solely to his Lordship and
his private advisers,; neither the Sheriffs, who jointly pay.
a moiety of the expenses of the entertainment, nor the com-
mittee, who superintend the arrangements, being consulted
as to the toasts that should be given." . . .

_
So that it does not appear to have that connection with
the development of the Tory plot, which was by many at
first suspected.

TOWER HAMLETS.

In other parts of the metropolis, those especially where
the working classes are most numerous, and where the ex-
treme radicals most abound, the same spirit of united de-
termination against the common foe was most strikingly
displayed ; and if the Tories found any hopes on the divi-
sion of the Reformers, or the support of any section of
them, they may depend upon it they will find themselves
most egregiously mistaken. No better proof of this can
he given, than the spirit evinced in the district of
Bethnal-green, in which, perhaps, a greater number of
operatives are assembled together than in any other district
near London. The requisition for a public meeting, which
we noticed yesterday, has not only received an immense
number of signatures, but though circulated indiscriminately
through the parish; only one person refused to sign it. The
requisition was this day presented to Mr. Sofer, the church-
warden, who most readily and handsomely appointed a
public meeting for Wednesday next, the 19th instant, at
five for six o'clock in the evening, at the rooms of the com-
mittee of the workhouse in Hare-street. _ _

An intelligent correspondent in the eastern part of the
metropolis, states that in that district the excitement occa-
sioned by the dismissal from office of Lord Melbourne and
his colleagues, increases hourly. The people here, as else-
where, appeared at first to be stunned by the blow that has
been struck ; but they are now fully alive to all its most
mischievous consequences, and are to be seen bestirring
themselves with an activity and energy in every respect
equal to the great emergency. " The universal conviction
is, that the Tories are in a state of doleful ignorance of the
feeling of the people towards them, and that it is the duty
of every man to come forward and assist in one bold and
united effort for their enlightenment. The contest, it is
evident, will be between the Tories on the one hand, and
all the Liberals in the United' Kingdom, of whatsoever
degree, on the other. The struggle on the part of the