The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-11 00:00:00

HYTHE.

A public meeting, in compliance with a requisition to the
Mayor, was held at the Guildhall, Hythe, on Thursday last,
Mr. Win. Marsh in the Chair, in the absence of the Mayor,
whose attendance was prevented in consequence of indisposi-
tion in his family, when the following petition to the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal was adopted.
The Chairman, by a resolution, was directed to forward the
petition to Lord Melbourne for presentation, expressing at the
same time the high sense entertained by the meeting of his
Lordship's dignified firmness as First Minister of the Crown,
in support of the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill :
" To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in
Parliament assembled.

" The humble Petition of the underigned Inhabitants of the
town and port of Hythe, in the county of Kent,
" Sheweth—That your petitioners have ample means of knowing
the ill effects of the present system of municipal government, being
themselves the victims of it, which will be perpetuated by your
Honourable House rejecting or mutilating the pending measure for
Corporate Reform. The present public authorities of this town
and port are self-elected and irresponsible, many of them non-resi-
dent, holding no identity of interest with either the place or its in-
habitants.

Your petitioners pray your Right Honourable House to bear
in mind that the Municipal Reform Bill, as introduced by his Ma-
jesty's Government, carries in its bosom not revolution, but the
seeds of restitution ; and when your petitioners shall be permitted
to share in the election of local authorities for this town and port,
such will be but resumption. Our united prayer is, that the Bill
be speedily passed, and unmutilated."
CARLISLE.—There required no evidence to convict them
(the Corporations.) The Commission was a piece of useless
machinery—a cause of unnecessary delay. In their present
constitution the corporations are opposed to the spirit of the
times; they are a self-elective, exclusive body ; they keep
from the government of every town every inhabitant who has
not the fortune to belong to the ruling family clique. The
Lords may obstruct this salutary and healing measure for a
time, but they cannot hope to prevent its being ultimately car-
ried. The course which the House of Lords has now deli-
berately adopted will, no doubt, lead to an inquiry into the
utility of a body of hereditary legislators, totally irresponsible,
and having interests different from those of the community at
large—so that instead of one Bill to put an and to self elec-
elections, their Lordships may next year have to consider two
Bills of this nature.

SOUTIIMOLTON.-At a very respectable meeting of the inha-
bitants of Southmolton on Saturday evening, a petition was
resolved on to be sent to the House of Lords, praying that the
Municipal Corporations Reform Bill might be allowed to pass
that House as it had passed the House of Commons. On
Monday it received nearly 500 signatures, and was sent off on
Tuesday morning.— Western Times.
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PLYMOUTH, AUG. B.—REFORNI ASSOCIATION.—A meeting
of the Committee was held this morning to consider of the
best means of expressing the universal feeling of surprise, if
not of indignation, caused by the resolution of the Peers on
the subject of the Municipal Bill. An aggregate meeting of
the Reformers of the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport,
and Stonehouse,• to take place on the Hoe, was first talked of,
but anxious to prevent excitement, the leading gentlemen in
the Liberal party have expressed their desire to hold separate
meetings in the respective towns, to address the King, im-
ploring his Majesty to continue his confidence in, and support
of, the Melbourne Administration ; and especially to give
his royal consent to the passing of the Municipal Reform Bill.
THURO.-At Truro a requisition was presented to the
Mayor, begging him to call a meeting of the inhabitants,
or to grant them the use of the Town-hall for the purposo
of holding a meeting, to which his Worship returned the
following sapient answer :

" Aug. 4, 1835.
" Gentlemen—However much I may be inclined to feel at the
disappointment. which the deliberate consideration of the enact-
ments of the Municipal Reform Bill in the Upper House of Par-
liament may occasion to some aspirants at municipal appointments,
I am constrained to inform you that the respect due to my brother
corporators and to myself renders it utterly impossible for me to
accede to your request in either particular.—l remain, gentlemen,
your very obedient and humble servant,
" N. F. BASSETT, Mayor."

READING.—A public meeting of the inhabitants of Reading
will be held to-morrow (Wednesday) in order to devise what
measures should be taken to ensure the speedy passing of the
Corporation Reform Bill.
BRIDGEWATER.-Great indignation is felt here at the opposi-
tion of the Peers to the Reform Bill, and to the statement (on
examination before the Lords) of the ex-Town Clerk, that all
the respectable persons have been, and arc, satisfied with the
Corporation. The mass of " respectable persons" are so little
satisfied, that they have sent a strong petition in favour of Re-
form of Corporations to Viscount Melbourne, for immediate
presentation. Both Members for the borough are steady Re-
formers, and petitions have been forwarded to the Commons
in favour of the measure.
SCARBOROUGII.-The Reformers of Scarborough are "wide
awake." Immediately after the arrival of the newspapers on
Wednesday evening, a meeting of the Committee took place,
and a public meeting was held the following day, and a petition
prepared and signed, in the short space of twenty-four hours,
by 1050 persons, and forwarded for presentation " To the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal," to Lord Brougham. At the same
time, an address, as numerously signed, to Viscount Melbourne,
was sent off, thanking the Noble Lord for his firmness and
statesmanlike conduct at this important crisis. Such excite-
ment was never known to exist in the town of Scarborough as
at the present time ; and crowds beset the Post-office every
evening, to learn the proceedings of their Lordships' House.
BA Tit. —The petition from this city to the House of Lords
in favour of the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill, which
was transmitted to London on Sunday; and presented by
Lord Brougham on Tuesday, received upwards of 6,000 sig-
natures! It only lay before the public from noon on Friday
till Saturday evening—less than twenty hours—BathGuardian.
Da wrmount.—A highly-respectable meeting of the inha-
bitants of Dartmouth was held on Friday, when a series of
resolutions of thanks to Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's
Ministers, were unanimously agreed to. The resolutions
further state the dissatisfaction of the meeting at the conduct
of the Tory Lords, which they attribute to "mean and un-
worthy iupmeti
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immediate and unmutilated adoption of the Bill, was then
unanimously agreed to.