The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-06 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Marquis of Northampton, from St. James's Hotel, Jer-
myn-street, for his seat, Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire ;
Earl and Countess de Grey and family, from St. James's-
square, for the Isle of Wight ; Henry Gaily Knight, Esq.,
M.P., for his seat, Ferbeck Hall, Bawtry, Yorkshire ; Mr.
and Mrs. Blackburne, from Park-street, Westminster, for
their seat, Hale, near Warrington, Lancashire ; Mr. and Mrs.
Handley, from Hawkins' Hotel, Dover and Albemarle-streets,
for their seat in Lincolnshire ; Viscount and Viscountess
Strathallan and the Hon. Miss Drummond, from the St.
George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Scotland ; William
Hawkins, Esq., from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's:street, for
Cheltenham; Captain Moore, from ditto, for Brighton ; Mr.
and Mrs. John Gordon, from Regent-street, for the Conti-
nent ; Major Byng Hall, from the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-
street, to join the Spanish expedition, being on the staff
of General Evans ; the Earl of Enniskillen, from ditto, for
his seat in Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. Tristram, from ditto, for
Brighton; Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Burton, from
Park-square, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, from Park-
crescent, for the Continent; Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, from
Carlton-terrace, for their seat in Lancashire ; the Right Hon.
Lord Cranstoun and the Hon. Miss Cranstoun, from Great
Stanhope-street, for Sandwich :park ; Viscount and Viscountess
Burghersh, from Lower Berkeley-street, for Italy ; Mr. and
Lady Theodosia Hale and family, on a Continental tour ;
Viscount and Viscountess Doneraile and the Hon. Hayes St.
Leger, from the Hyde-park Hotel, for Cheltenham; the Earl
and Countess of Cork, from Hamilton-place, for ditto ; the
Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, from Cheltenham, for Dal-
housie, N. B. ; Lord and Lady William Somerset and family,
for Cheltenham ; the Duke and Duchess de Napier, from
the Carlton Hotel, for the Continent ; Baron Varannes, for
ditto ; Sir John and Lady Banks, for Buxton Wells ; Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Westenra, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Anger-
stein, from St. James's-square, for Woodlands, Kent.

IMPROMPTU.
Sir Charles show'd clearly 'twas his will
To spoil the Corporation Bill.
To see his way and prove wrong right
Cannot be done by aid of Knight.

CORPORATION REFORM.

BO.ROUGII OF FINSBURY.
Last night a numerous and highly respectable public meet-
ing of the inhabitants and householders of the Borough of
Finsbury was held at White Conduit-house, to consider the
propriety of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the Muni-
cipal Corporation Reform Bill unmutilated, and without delay.
T. S. Duncombe, Esq., M.P., in the Chair.
The Chairman and Committee entered the room at seven
o'clock, and were received with loud and reiterated applause.
The CHAIRMAN commenced by stating, that there was no-
thing more imperatively demanded than that the local Govern-
ments of the nation should be placed under popular controul.—
( Cheers.) He had last night heard a corporator of Leicester
state that 10,0001. of the Corporation's fund, had been applied
to Conservative electioneering purposes. The Chairman then
read some further extracts from the report of the Commission.
He doubted not that Sir Charles Wetherell and Mr. Knight
would be amply rewarded for their labours. He had heard part
of Sir Charles's speech himself in the House of Lords, and it
was so ludicrous that the Temporal Lords laughed at it out-
.

right; nay more, it had the effect of unsettling the gravity
even of their Spiritual Reverences the Bishops.—( Renewed
laughter.) But how long was such trifling with this important
measure to be submitted to ? Why, until the people of Eng-
land should bestir themselves in earnest—(Cheers)—and he
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was proud to see the borough of Finsbury forward in doing its
duty.--( Cheers.) The object for which the present assembly
was convened was to tell the House of Lords that the people

must and will have the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill en-
tire and unmutilated.—( Cheers. )
Mr. F. 0. MARTIN then came forward to move the first re,
solution :—" That this meeting regards with the most earnest
satisfaction the successful progress of, through the House of
Commons, a Bill now pending in the House of Lords, for re-
forming the municipal corporations of England and Wales,
and had hoped that such Bill might receive the approbation of
their Lordships, as well from the reasonableness of its provi.
sions as from its framers possessing the confidence of the Crown
and of the country." Mr. Martin would only detain the meet-
ing a few minutes. Without this Bill he held the Reform
Bill was a dead letter. Mr. Martin concluded by recommend-

ing a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether for the Bill
in question, and there was no doubt but that the House of Lords
would be compelled to concede it.—( Applause. )
Mr. BARNARD seconded the resolution, which, on being put
from the Chair, was carried unanimously.
Mr. TEMPLE, the barrister, said the Bill in question was

first great fruits of the Reform measure, and the
people looked ardently therefore to sec it passed into a
law. The Lords had, however, interposed, to delay, if na
to frustrate their hopes. Let them be supine no more, but
let them tell the House of Peers, in their petition, to be pre-
sented by the Prime Minister, that they know that what they
ask are their rights, and are therefore bold in demanding
them; that they had confidence in the present Government,
and could have none in those who, by intrigue having sup_
planted its members, stepped into their places ; that what they
looked to was men as a means to measures; and that if they
found the present Ministry falter, they would dismiss them,
as they did their predecessors before them. Let them add,
that the only Ministry the people would respect was one that
did their work, and rescued them from the thraldom of an
Aristocratic domination. The Speaker concluded by moving
the following resolution ;—" That this meeting deprecates
the plan pursued by their Lordships of hearing evidence up-
on the merits of the Corporations, after their condemnation
has been long since justly pronounced by the public voice, as
notoriously corrupt ; and such condition subsequently con-
firmed, by the report of his Majesty's Commissioners, made
upon a full and patient investigation of the constitution and
management of such Corporations."
Mr. JOHN TOWILL RUTT seconded the motion.
Mr. WAKLEY next addressed the meeting. He commenced
by saying that the House of Commons had been counted out
that night, and he therefore took a look in at the other
House. They had not quite so many comic actors now as a
few years ago, and he went to see the comic actors in the
House of Lords. There they sat lolling on their crimson
cushions, in a state many of them of senility, and almost of
idiotcy.—( Cheers and hisses.) At their' bar stood a robed
barrister, with an unshorn sheepskin on his head.—( Laughter
and symptoms of disapprobation.) And what was the ques-
tion their Lordships had to decide ? Why, it was, whether
the people should govern themselves and administer their own
funds. Nothing could be more monstrous than the course
adopted of hiring advocates to stifle the voice of the people.
What right had the Lords to take the speeches of paid plead-
ers, as furnishing a moral argument against the Bill ? Law-
yers always made bad Legislators, for they were so constantly
employed in confounding together truth and falsehood, that
at last they did not themselves know the difference. It is
the people that must now make themselves heard by the
Peers. The Lords must not be allowed a single hour's re-
pose. This was the first grand measure since the passing
of the Reform Bill, and the Peers sought to smother it at
the very threshold of their House, but they would find out
that they people knew their rights, and were determined to
maintain them.
Mr. HEWITT moved the third Resolution :—" That this
meeting considers that the course pursued by their Lordships
in obstructing Corporation Reform, will tend to weaken, if
not wholly to destroy, the respect which the people have en-
tertained for the aristocracy of this country."
The Resolution was seconded by Mr. Hotchkins, and car-
ried unanimously.
Mr. BUCK then moved the fourth Resolution That a
petition embodying the above Resolutions, be presented to the
House of Lords—that the Right Hon. Lord Melbourne be
respectfully requested to present the said petition—and that
the Chairman of the meeting be requested to sign it on behalf
of the meeting."
On the mention of Lord Melbourne's name in this Resolu-
tion immense cheering took place, and it was with difficulty
and after the lapse of some time that the mover could make
himself heard by the meeting.
The petition to the House of Lords was then read, and ap.
proved of by the meeting ; it was signed by the Chairman :a
their name, and the meeting separated.
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LEEDS PUBLIC MEETING.
As soon as it was known in Leeds that the House of Lords
had determined to hear Counsel on thc: Municipal Reform
Bill, and that many of their Lordships had evinced a strong
hostility to the measure, a Requisition was immediately set on
foot, and in a few hours received 106 signatures, including the
leading Reformers, requesting the Mayor to call a public
meeting, " to consider the propriety of petitioning the House
of Lords to pass the Municipal Corporations Regulation Bill
unimpaired in any of its essential provisions." The Mayor
having declined to call the meeting, on the ground that he had