The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-14 00:00:00

FALMOUTH.

(From the Second Edition of the Falmouth Packet of Saturday,
The report of the doings of the House of Lords during the
early part of the week, the refusal of the King to create Peers
to carry the Reform Bill, and his Majesty's acceptance of the
resignation of Earl Grey and his colleagues, consequent thereon,
having occasioned a high degree of excitement—indignation
at the conduct of certain noble Peers forming the predominant
feeling—in the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood, in
common with that which has been produced by the same causes
throughout the county of Cornwall ; a meeting of the friends
of Reform was held at four o'clock this afternoon, at Pearce's
Hote l,to make arrangements for a general meeting which it is
proposed to hold in the Moor on Monday next. The veteran
reformer, W. Lake, Esq. banker and merchant, having been
called to the chair, it was proposed that a requisition should be
drawn up, signed, and presented to the Mayor, begging that he
would call a meeting, to consider the propriety of presenting an
address to the House of Commons on the present juncture of
affairs. This proposition was immediately adopted. Mr. R.
Broad then proposed that the address to be submitted to the
consideration of the meeting on Monday should be founded on
that of the Common Council of the city of London, praying
the House of Commons to withhold the supplies until a Bill for
a full and efficient Reform of Parliament shall have been
passed. This was carried with acclamation. A committee
was then appointed to prepare resolutions and a petition to the
House of Commons. There was but one opinion as regards
the conduct of Earl Grey and his colleagues—that they had
acted with great prudence and much dignity and honour. The
meeting on Monday, it is anticipated, will be composed of a
greater number of persons than ever yet assembled in this
town. At the above meeting it was also resolved to form a
Political Union for Falmouth and its vicinity.

The dissolution of the Ministry, and the ac-
cession of the Tories once more to power, has come like a
thunder clap upon the people ; the funds hare fallen, business
is at a stand, and the dire injury inflicted on trade and com-
merce, by the cruel decision of the House of Lords, together
with all the other frightful consequences which will follow in
its train for some time, cannot but convince even the benighted
Peers, that they have acted most imprudently for their own or.
der, and the nation at large.—Nottingham Review.

EFFECTS OF TrIE DISSOLUTION IN EDIN-
Boaosr.—We observe in the English papers that the intelli-
gence of the resignation of Ministers had produced an intense
and ominous sensation in all the places which the news had
reached, and from whence intelligence could have arrived.
These we cannot possibly detail; but in Edinburgh, as we can
vouch from personal knowledge and experience, it was beyond
anything we remember, acute and universal. The crowd wait.
ing for the arrival of the post was large, and eager to hear either
of the creation of Peers or of the inevitable resignation; and
no sooner was the alternative announced as the present
state of matters, than a resolution was formed to hold an early
meeting of the inhabitants for the purpose of considering the
existing state of public affairs, and petitioning the several
branches of the legislature on the subject. A number of tried
friends of Refom were hurriedly convened by circular notes—
and at eight o'clock, about 500 of the most respectable gentle.
men in Edinburgh convened at the Waterloo Hotel—when
Sir J. G. Craig, was called to the chair, and it was unanimously,
and with a degree of enthusiasm, excited by the extraordinary
event of the day, resolved on to hold a general meeting of the
inhabitants of this city and its vicinity on Tuesday next.—Neto
North Britaun.

Men of Birmingham—fellow-citizens of this
great empire—rejoice with us, for assuredly your deliverance
is at hand. For more than half a century has a vile, wicked,
corrupt, grovelling, mindless faction tyranised over us ; but
when a mighty nation bestirs itself, the nothingness of such
despotism becomes apparent—Britain has bestirred itself—has
proved that

" This is the land where Hampden bled—
Where Hampden's tyrant lost his head."
But, above all, you, the men of Birmingham, have done your
duty. All classes, both rich and poor, with a few miserable
exceptions, have united to obtain our rights—the rights of all,
have shown the nation what can be done by union—have led
the way in a bloodless fight for freedom ; and verily you have
your reward—the grateful, the heartfelt thanks of every true
Briton. We are free to confess that the defeat of Ministers
in the House of Lords filled us with gloom and despondency—
not that we had any fear that the Peers, no longer the " brave
Peers of England, the pillars of the State," backed by a woman
and led on by a Lyndhurst, (by a Lyndhurst!) would be able
to defeat the united British nation ; but we dreaded lest they
Should throw the nation into a state of anarchy too frightful
to contemplate—a state of anarchy which would have involved
their ruin, and, which is of more consequence, the ruin of
millions of industrious men. That fear, however, has paned
away. The Commons of England have done their duty.
The Ministers must be retained in office, and the Reform Bill
must
be immediately pas4eed, or----Birmovgoloam Joyenal.