The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-16 00:00:00

supersede the neceKsity of appealing to physical fire.
After th inking the meetin for thtir conduct this day, I
sat down amidst loud cheering.

The motion was seconded, and carried unanimously.
Mr. GREIG moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman,
which was seconded by Mr. WHITTLE, who expressed hi,
conviction that the Union formed this day would be pro-
ductive of a Political Union of all classes to carry forward
the great question of Reform.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Tilos. POTTER concurred with Mr. Whittle in
hoping that a general Political Union would result from
this day's proceedings.
Mr. littooxEs proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Hunt.

S ,me disapprobation being expressed, Mr. PRENTicE
hoped that the apple of discord would not be thrown
amongst them.
Mr. BoooKss then proposed three cheers to Mr. Hunt,
which were given by the crowd. Three tremendous
groans were given for the Duke of Wellington, three fa
the Bishops, and one groan more for the Duke of Welling-
ton. Three groans fur the petticoat government. Three
cheers for Radic d Reform, and three for Henry Hether-
ington. After which the immense multitude separated
peaceably.
As one step towards the promotion of the great object,
we may mention that in the office of the Advertiser news.
paper is placed a document pledging; the signers not to
purchase the goods of any person distrained for taxes, and
which is being rapidly signed. Silk handkerchiefs have
also been printed, hearing the inscription, " Pay no taxes
until the Reform Bill is pooled," wit►, s star in the centre,
surrounded by the motto, " Vox Populi, vox Dei," and
which are selling rapidly.

GREAT REFORM MEETING AT LIVER

POOL.

On Monday last, one of the largest meetings of
merchants, nianufaeurers, and inhabitants of Liver-
pool, was held in Clayton-squire, than is recollecied to
have taken place on any similar occasion in that port.
Long before the hour appointed for the meeting, the
square was crowded to excess, and numbers were, during
the mee,ing, flocking to the square, but unable to obtain
either sight of the orators, or to take any part in the
proceedings of the day. The large balcony in front of
the Ball Hotel, was converted into hustings, which were
densely filled by merchants and by gentlemen. The
houses around the square, both the tops and
the windows, were also filled. At the latter
a number of fashionably dressed females were apparently
watching the proceedings with intense interest.
Though the weather was rather inauspicious, yet, such
is the enthusiasm of the people of Liverpool in the great
cause of Parliinientsry Reform, the multitude who assent-
l.led on this occasion was extremely numerous. There
could not, at the lowest computation, have been less than
twelve thousand present, among whom were numbers of
the most respectable inhabitants of the town and its neigh-
bourhood. The Committee who had arranged the pro-
ceedings of the (lay, took their stations on the balcony of
the Bull Inn, whence the speakers addressed the dense
multitude c •ngregated in the square.
Mr. JOSEPH LANGTON proposed that a young nobleman
who was known to the people of Liverpool as a stanch
Reformer, should take the chair. He meant Lord Viscount
M.dyneux.—(Cheers.)
Mr. T. B. BARCLAY seconded the motion. He was
satisfied that his Lordship's conduct in the chair would
justify the choke.

Lord MotrxEux was then called to the chair by the ac-
clamations of the multitude.

The Noble CHAIRMAN, as soon as the applause had
subsided, said, that at this most momentous and unparal-
leled crisis, on this most transcendently important occasion,
he felt how utterly unfit he was to discharge the duties of
Chairman in the presence of the immense multitude he had
the pleasure to see before him. At the same time, he felt,
that no man, however humble his abilities, could hold
back, and not come forward in defence of the rights and
the liberties of his fellow-countrymen.—(Cheers.) He
did live in hopes, that we never should have been assembled
again to discuss the subject of Reform. He had hoped,
that the very name of Reform and of Reformer would never
again be heard, except in a vote of thanks to the honest
Government by whom a measure of Reform had been
passed, and a patriot King who had sanctioned it with his
approbation.—(Cheers.) To the indulgence of •uch hopes
the people of England were led by a train of circumstances,
by promises and professions from very high quarters,—pro-
mises and professions which, as they raised their expecta-
tions and brightened their prospects, had, now that they
were broken, plunged the country into the depths of dis-
appointment and desperation.—(Great cheering.) When
last the people of Live' pool met in that square, the House
of Commons—a House of Commons better selected and
more strictly the representatives of the people than any on
record, bad most triumphantly, most gloriously passed the
Bill, for the completion of which the country were looking.
They passed that Bill, and sent it to the Upper House, as
it is called, but, as he now contended, to the House of the
people's enemies.—(Loud cheers.) In that House it was
read once, it was read twice, and the Government and all
England looked on quietly and contentedly, but not, as the
enemies of the measure unblushingly said, with spiritless
apathy.—(Loud shouts of No, no !) Reaction indeed !
Where was the reaction? The people looked on quietly,
but they knew that there was yet a trial to come. They
knew that the men who were not averse to the Bill going
into the committee, would not allow it to go through the
House in its integrity and its efficiency. But they never
expected, that the first thing which its enemies would do
would be, that Lord Lyndhurst, one of the greatest foes,
one of the greatest enemies of the liberties of the people,
would propose that the vital principle, the essential clause
of the Bill should be, as he hypocritically proposed," post-
poned." The people demanded that the rotten
parts—the foul ulcers on the face of the consti-
tution, should he removed, to afford the patient
a chance of recovery ; but the state physicians thought
the nation's health would be improved if the fifty-six horrid
and loathsome ulcers were allowed to remain. On that
occasion those honest men, Lord Grey and Lord Brougham
—(Cheers)—went to their Sovereign—that Sovereign,
most of the acts of whose Government had been to lead
the people to believe that he was a firm friend to Consti-
tutional Reform—they went to him, expecting that be
would redeem his promises, for promises he had certainly
given, if not in his own person, at least in the acts of his
Government. Well, what was his Majesty's answer? It
was, that the only means by which the rights and liberties
of the people could be secured he could not grant —(Tre-
mendous hissing and groaning.) Honest men, like Lord
Grey and Lord Brougham, had no alternative but to re-
sign the seals of office. Honest men he (Lord Molyneux)
had always thought them, and honest men they Lad proved
themselves.—(Loud cheers.) Such was a brief outline of
the history of recent events. The people of Liverpool
were now met, that the opinion of this great and en-
lightened town might be expressed on those events, and,
once expressed, that it might reach the highest quarter,
as affording one more evidence of the feelings of indig-
nation which pervade this great and mighty nation.—
(Cheers)—to prove, in short, that there is neither
spiritless apathy nor reaction—(Great laughter)—to
prove that the people only want their rights, and
that their rights they will have.—(Tremendous cheers.)
When last he had the honour of addressing the people of
Liverpool, they considered themselves almost sure of their
object. And what was the reason of that security? It
was because there were then three parties arrayed against
one. There were the King, the House of Commons, and
the people against the House of Lords.—(Cneers.) But
the King has deserted us !—(Tremendous groaning and
hissing.) We have also lost the Minister, and an honest
one he was; but we have a strong, a powerful assistant in
the House of Commons.—(Great cheering.) He knew
no words which could better express his opinion on this
subject than those used by Mr. Strutt, the Member for
Derby, in the House of Commons, on Thursday night.
" Happily," said that Hon. Gentleman, " happily there
was one resource by which all danger to the country
might he avoided, and that existed in the wisdom, firm-
ness, and decision of that House. Let that House only
come forward and place itself at the head of the people__
let it show itself determined to be true to its former
professions let it show the people, that as long as they
were true to themselves, that House would not desert them
—let that House teach the people to look to it as their
natural leader, and not elsewhere ; he should then feel the
greatest confidence that all might still be safe, and
that the great measure of Reform would be carried to
a triumphant termination."—(Tbree cheers were here
given fur Mr. Strum) With the assistance of such a
House of Commons, firmly and patriotically determined t 4;
do its duty, the people must triumph.—(Cheers.) His
Lordship then alluded to the nature of *a resolution