The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-13 00:00:00

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No. 13,391.

CORPORATION MEETINGS.

PLYMOUTH.
(FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
MONDAY, 10TH AUGUST.
This day a public meeting of the inhabitants of this boroug
was held at' the Mechanic's Institute, Princess-square, for th:-
purpose of considering the propriety of adopting an address t,
his Majesty, expressive of their confidence in his Majesty'
Ministers, and particularly in regard to their firm, manly, and
consistent conduct in introducing and conducting through the
House of Commons the valuable and comprehensive Bill for
amending our municipal institutions, the principles of which
have lately received their unanimous approbation. Some tim(
before the hour appointed for the meeting, the capacious room
set apart for it began to fill, and ere long was crowded to excess.
Shortly after on' o'clock (the hour appointed for the com-
mencement of the meeting), RINI. BAYLEY, Esq., moved
that J. Y. FOWNES Esq., do take the Chkir. This being
seconded and carried, Mr. Fownes did so accordingly.
Mr. TAYLOR then asked permission of the meeting to be
allowed a placard for public view, which was at once granted;

it was as follows :
" This is the crisis for destroying Toryism ; the Tory Lords
know this is the last strong hold left them of corruption, namely,
rotten Boroughs and Corporations, the Reform of which will be the
destruction of Toryism for ever. 1835."
The CHAIRMAN then stated the objects of the meeting.
G. W. SOLTAN, Esq said the last time he had had the
honour to address them he had had the honour of advocating
;he cause of Lord John Russell, who though supported by the
inhabitants of the three towns had failed in the accomplish-
ment. Representations the most base, calumnies the most
foul, and influence the most unprecedented, had been used ;
many persons would have been so disgusted at such conduct as
to have shrunk from public life, but it was not so with the
Noble Lord—lfeThobly responded to the call of the electors of
St. oud. The first act of the Noble Lord in the House of
Commons, was the redemption of a pledge which he bad given
them on the battings of that town, by the introduction of a
measure for Corporation Reform. Mr. S. then referred to
various parts of the Bill in question, and said that there was
scarce a Corporation in this country but required some Re-
form—the Charities had been wrongly applied—few, if any there
were, where the voice of the people had the choice of the cor-
porate officers. He concluded by moving a resolution which
was afterwards embodied in an address to his Majesty.

W. PRANCE, Esq., seconded the resolution in a speech of
some length.
The CHAIRMAN then put the resolution, which was carried
unanimously amidst applause.
Tilos. BEWES, Esq., one of the Members for the borough,
made some observations in support of the proceedings of the
meeting.
G. ALDHAM, Esq., moved an Address to his Majesty, which
he read amidst loud and continued cheering. It was as follows :
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
" May it please your Majesty,—We, your Majesty's loyal and
dutiful subjects, the inhabitants of the borough and vicinity of Ply-
mouth, humbly beg leave to approach your Majesty with the expres-
sion of our gratitude for your Majesty's timely recall to your Coun-
cils of Ministers, who have proved themselves the best supporters
of your Majesty's throne, the truest friends of all that is intrin-
sically valuable in our ancient institutions—the uncompromising
advocates of Constitutional freedom, and the incorruptible guar-
dians of the rights and privileges of all ranks and classes of your
Majesty's subjects, and who, therefore, enjoy to an extent not ex-
ceeded by any of their predecessors, the confidence and esteem of
the nation at large.
" We have witnessed with the most unfeigned satisfaction the
introduction by these, your Majesty's Ministers, of various measureE
of national benefit and importance, and, among the rest, of a Bib
fur the Reform of our Municipal Corporations, which had been long
1, It to have become notoriously inadequate to the increased wants
and complicated interests of the country.
" Having watched with anxiety the progress of this important
measure, we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that whilst our gra-
tification was great to find that it had passed by large majorities
through the Reformed House of Commons unimpaired in its princi-
ples, and unmutilated in its details, our concern and disappointment
have been proportionately great at learning, that in the other
branch of the Legislature, for whose just authority and Constitutional
privileges we entertain due respect, it has experienced an opposition
which we cannot but persuade ourselves is meant to aim at its ulti-
mate rejection, and the consequent disappointment of the hopes and
wishes of a large proportion of your Majesty's most faithful and
loyal subjects.
We, therefore, most humbly beseech your Majesty, that your
Majesty will be pleased to continue such an exertion of your Ma-
jesty's just and indisputable prerogative which may afford a reasona.
ble hope of the speedy accomplishment of the just wishes and ne-
cessities of your Majesty's subjects."
Captain PHILLIPS seconded the adoption of the Address, and
commented at some length upon the strange reception which
the Bill had met with by the Lords.
This Resolution, on being put from the Chair, was agreed
to unanimously.
Dr. HAMILTON, after a few observations, proposed the adop-
tion of the following Petition to the House of Commons :
" To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in-Parliament assembled.
" The Humble Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the
Borough of Plymouth and its vicinity,
" Sheweth—That your petitioners havi viewed, with the greatest
alarm and regret, the disposition so unequivocally manifested by ano-
ther branch of the Legislature, if not absolutely to reject, at least
so far to mutilate the Bill for Corporation Reform, lately carried by
such triumphant majorities through your Honourable House, as to
impair its efficacy and defeat its objects.
" Relying, however, with the most implicit confidence on the
wisdom and firmness of your Honourable House, we hope and pray
that you will withhold your concurrence from any alterations or
amendments introduced in its passage through the Upper House,
calculated to weaken its efficacy, or to compromise its efficiency.
" And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray."
R. W. CORYNDON, Esq., seconded the motion, which,
being put from the Chair, was also carried with aeclamation.
Thanks were then given to the Chairman—three cheers for
Lord Melbourne—three cheers for Lord John Russell—and
three groans for the Tories, after which the meeting separated.
TUESDAY NIGHT, AUG. 11.
The preceding Address and Petition have already received
about 2,000 signatures, and will, we understand, be forwarded
to-morrow evening for presentation.

DEVONPORT.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
TUESDAY NIGHT, AUG. 11.

This evening an adjourned public ic.ecting of the inhabitants
of Devonport and parish of Stoke Damerel, was held at the
Town Hall, Devonport, for the purpose of receiving the Re-
port of the Committee appointed on the subject of the Munici-
pal Corporation Bill, and adopting such other measures as might
be deemed expedient. The Meeting was numerously and re-
pectably attended. At about half-past 6 (the hour appointed
for the meeting), Mr. E. ABBOT was called to the chair.
Shortly after, the business of the Meeting was commenced
by the Chairman stating the objects for which it had been
convened. He stated the present meeting was an adjourn-
ment of one which had been held on the 3d of July last.
Mr. W. P. Ihatoutoax then moved the following Address
to his Majesty.
" To the King's most Excellent Majesty.
" The humble Address and Memorial of the undersigned Inha-
bitants of the Town of Devonport and Parish of Stoke
Damerel, in ths County of Devon.
" May it therefore please your Majesty—We, your Majesty's
memorialists, and most dutiful and loyal subjects, beg leave to ap-
proach your Majesty, to express our deep sentiments of. unabated
loyalty and attachment to your Majesty's Royal Person and Go-
vernment.
" With the great body of this nation we cannot but remember
the immense benefits which your Majesty has conferred upon us, by
the support you have given to those measures of reform, by which
vour Majesty's name will descend to posterity, as the father ant'
benefactor of your loyal people.
" Your memorialists beg leave humbly to thank your Majesty for
recalling to your councils your present Ministers, in whom we have
perfect confidence; being assured that the measures they have
already advised, and will yet advise, will tend to the security of your
Majesty's Throne, the preservation of the vital interests of the
country, and the maintenance, unimpaired, of the rights of all
classes of your Majesty's subjects.
" Your memorialists feel, that next to the great Reform Bill for
the due representation of the people of these realms in Parliament,
is the Bill for the Reform of Municipal Corporations for linglan,i
and Wales, lately introduced by your Majesty's Ministers into and
passed by the Honourable House of Commons.
" Your memorialists have learnt with the most intense alarm,
that the progress of the above Corporation Bill is likely to be im-
peded in the Right Honourable the House of Lords, by their Lord-
ships wishing to hear evidence un the Bill, beyond what they have
already, received from the Report of the Corporation Commissioners.
" Your memorialists cannot but express their decided conviction.
that if the Right Honourable the House of Lords should. mutilate
or even delay the carrying into law this most important and practi-
cal measure of Corporation Reform, the reasonable expectations pi
your loyal subjects will be disappointed to such an extent as to ex -
cite the utmost indignation, and even to endanger the peace of tl.,
whole British empire.
" Your memorialists, therefore, must humbly pray that your
Most Gracious Majesty will be pleased to give your Royal support
to your present Ministers, so as to enable them speedily to pass into
a law the above Bill for the Reform of Municipal Corporations,
which has so nobly been read a third time in the House of Com-
mons without a division.
" And your Memorialists. a:: in duty bound, will ever pray, &c."
Mr. BLACKMORF having read the preceding address to the
meeting, proceeded as follows :—The Municipal Corporation
Bill had passed the House of Commons unimpaired. It had,
however, to be considered by the Lords, they being a part
the Legislature of the country, by them it had met with a
strange reception ; they had thought it proper, after hearing
Counsel for three days against the Bill, to hear evidence also.
This might perhaps continue as long as the present Session of
Parliament. To prevent any delay, however, was the object
of the present meeting:, and therefore they had no alternative
but to address his Majesty on the subject. To whom else
could they refer but to the King—the grand, the highest
personage in the realm.—( Cheers.) He hoped that they
would not be disappointed in their just expectations that
Majesty would respond to the united voices of his people. He
concluded by moving the adoption of the address.
Mr. PINSENT seconded the motion. No one, ho couli.
conceive, who had read the Corporation Report, could
for a moment doubt but that Reform in them was ne:
cessary ; nor could any one doubt but that the Lora.,
would attempt to throw out the Bill, for they were inte-