The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-05 00:00:00

MR, ABERCROMBY.

(From the Edinburgh Weekly Journal.)
This day (Tuesday) Mr. Abercrombv having invited the
electors to meet him at the Waterloo Hotel, the large room
was completely crowded on the occasion; the LORD I'ROTOST
in the Chafe,
Mr. ABERcRomBY then presented himself, and was received.
with great cheering. He said, I appear bek-e you, gentle-
men, having been dismissed from office-4 Laughter)—and the
question upon which it will be your duty to pronounce your
opinion will be this—whether, because I have been dismissed
from the service of Soverign, I am therefore to be dis-
missed from the service of the people ?—( Cries of No, no, and
tremendous cheering.) It the people, therefore, had wished
any particular measures to become the law of the land_from
what Administration would they willingly take them
(Hear, bear.) From those bo bad uniformly opposed_
them ? or those who had all along testified their ap-
probation of them by word and Xeed?—( Hear, hear.)
I come now to the Administration of Lord Melbourne, and I
ask you whether you could select any pm ied in which the con-
fidence in the security of property was gre,lter than it was at
that period? If these things are true, how can it be true that
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that Administration was composed of a set of reckless men,
stoking nothing but to throw all into confusion and destroy all
this existed ? We were in the course of digesting those mea-
sures—we had selected those points which we thought of the
nearest and deepest interest to the public at the time, aid these
the Ministry were in the course of preparing for Parliament,
as the resd.'t of the deliberation of a united cabinet..,.-( Cheers.)
We were removed by the exercise of the prerogative, and no
man can doubt, that in the step his Majesty took he was acting
in perfect aonso.nance with the known principles of the consti-
tution. Gentlemen, that Administration was removed by the.
exercise of the prerogative; but I still think, that prerogatives-
are gives to the Sov,sreign for the use of the people...-(Great
cheering.) They are title great and important duties, to be per
calmly, with reflection and discretion ; end it is a reats
mistake to think none are responsible. There are Ministers
that must be responsible for act. I will make this quite
clear. Suppose his Majesty think fit to dismiss his Ministers,
he cannot remain without an Ad:ministration, and, therefore,
be sends for same one of his suljects, and says, " I wish,
to make you my Minister " Ile answers, " I thought yen
had Ministers ?" " No, I have dismised them." The reply
is, " Why have you dismissed them ?" Now if the persouo
whom ho offers to make his Prime Ministn thinks that an un-
fortunate step, he says, " 1 cannot widen-Ake to servo your
Majesty, because, if I do, I shall become responsible for and
am bound to defend acts of which I disapprove. ".4 Loud
cheers.) Therefore you will see that it is clear 2.:5 the sun at
noon day, that the succeeding Ministry, by accenting ;Ace;
take on themselves to defend and be responsible for the ground
on which the preceding Ministry was dismissed. The present
Administration could only look for support to that portton of
the aristocracy who had separated themselves from the people,
and also for four years thwarted the measures of the late GU,
vernment—but now eagerly rushed into the geld to aid the,,,
struggle, in favour of the present Ministry.--( Hear, hear.)
He repeated, that course which, the opposite party were-
pursuing, was fraught with fatal censetuences, which he
lamented exceedingly, not only for. the sake of the country,
but for the sake of those men themselves. .Mr. Abercromby
then alluded to the claims of the Dissenters of all denomina-

tions, and said that he wished to place them as nearly as pos—
sible in such a situation, as they might experience no incon-
venience from the fact, that they consclttntiously differed from
the Established Church.—(Cheers.) He was to enemy to
the Church—far from wished to give to the Church
a fair and honest support ; but, at the same time, he wished
Church Reforms both in England and Ireland, because he
knew that the effect of those reforms would be to strengthen
the Church. Why, entertaining that opinion, if he was ats
enemy to the Chinch, the very thing he would do would be
not to promote Reform, knowing that the withholding of
Reform was the only sourc.l of real danger to the Church.
Two questions he would notice--one of these was the Septen-
nial Act, to which be was an enemy, find had voted and would
always vote for its repeal.—(Cheers., - In reference to tho
ballot, he wished much they could do Wsthout it, as be had a
great aversion to a man exercising a duty in secret ; but if the
elector, through intimidation, could not use his legitimate pri-
vilege of voting according to his conscience, he would at once
adopt the ballot, withont the slightest hesitation. Ho con-
cluded by saving, that no feeling could be more grateful to
him, than to think that, in his progress through life, he might
have contributed even the smallest mite to the advancement of
the political, the moral, or the intellecutal conditiott- of the
people.—( Immense cheering.)
After some further observations had been tnade by several
of the gentlemen present, the meeting dispersed.

. Mr. Arfwedson, who has just published a narrative
of bis recent travels in the United States and Canada, sailed
from England for New York, embarked on the waters of the
Hudson, tracing up the river the localities of some of Wash-
ington Irving's admirable stories. From Catskill he went by
L'ad to the Lebanon Springs, one of the fashionable places a
the ;Northern States, thence through tho flourishing state of
m„,,a,laiusetts, stopping at Boston, of which he gives a very
full account, and, after some excursions in the neighbourhOoa,
returning to :New York by steam. From New York he went
into the South, taking Philadelphia, Baltimore, Richmond:,
Charleston, and Savannah, from thence onward to the Misis
sippi and the Ohio, Washington, Albany, Rochester, the.
Falls of Niagara, Montreal, Quebec, and back to New York.
By this the reader will perceive that Mr. ArfweclsOn tra—
versed a very considerable
.portion of the United StateF,
touching at the principal points of interest and going out of
his way to embrace objects that are not so well known to Eur>-
peans. Entertainment and information abound in this work.
—Atlas.

•
CLERICAL WAGGERY.—Some years ago, as tilt!
late Rev. Mr. Pringle of Perth was taking • walk one summer
afternoon upon the Inch, two young beaus took it into their
heads to break a jest upon the old parson.. Walking briskly
up to him, and making their bow politely, they eked him if he
could tell them the colour of the devil's wig. The worthy
clergyman, surveying them attentively a few seconds madp the
following reply :—" Truly, here is a most surprising case : two
men have served a master aII the dap of they life, and can't
tell the colour of hi, wig !"

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