The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-25 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY.

In the Loßns' yesterday, after some comparatively unim-
portant business, on the motion 'of Lord MEtIouRNE, the
House resolved itself into Committee on the Irish Church
Bill. The clause for a revision of improper Compositions was
first rejected by a majority of 126 over 35—then the " Appro-
priation " clause was negatived, by 138 votes against 41.
Their Lordships thus, by a majority of 97, deciding against a
juster administration of the enormous revenues of the Irish
Church Establishment. The debate, it will be seen, was long
and ardent, not concluding until half. past two o'clock. Lord
MELnouaNE's speech is worthy of perusal ; he plainly told
their Lordships that if they struck out the vital clause of
" Appropriation," he would take no further charge of the
Bill. After the division the House immediately adjourned.

In the CommoNs, amongst the many petitions which were
presented, was one from Northampton, very numerously signed,
praying the House to resist mutilations of the Municipal Cor-
porations Bill ; and that, in the event of its being mutilated, to
resist the supplies, and especially to stop the pensions and
emoluments of those instrumental in causing such mutilations.
Scme conversation took place respecting the alleged ill-treat-
ment of some persons (who now petitioned the House) attend-
ing the meeting at Dublin on the subject of Mr. Shaw's con-
duct. The Customs Duties Bill passed through‘ a Committee,
and several other Bills were advanced a stage. Mr. WAL-
LACE intimated his intention to moot the question of
Bribery at the last Election for Hull next session.
On the report of the Glass Duties Bill, which was ordered to
be read to-morrow a third time, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER said that the reduction in these duties would com-
mence on the 10th of October ; no allowance would be made
fir stock on hand. Glass manufactured, however, after the
present time, might be bonded, and taken out after the 10th of
Octob6r on payment of the reduced duties. The report on
the Stamps and Assessed Taxes Bill, was brought up, and the
CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER intimated an intended reduc-
tion of the duty on Policies of Insurance, where the sum in-
sured did not exceed 5001. A Committee to prepare Militia
Estimates was agreed to. The Bill for compensating Mr.
BUCKINGHAM was ordered to be read a second time to-day,
when counsel for the Company will be heard.

LITERATURE.

THE FUDGES IN ENGLAND.
Longman and Co. London, 1835.

A new work from Tom Moore, especially if it be of
a lively character, is always sure to command attention.
He is the leading wit of his age, and will be remem-
cered and quoted as such, long after many of his most
serious and elaborate poems are forgotten. Doubtless
there are many splendid passages in his " Lalla
Rookh ;" many exquisiteklyrics scattered through his
" Irish Melodies" and his " Epistles," dated from
America ; still the tares are so mixed up with the wheat ;
glittering conceits. are so closely entwined with lofty
and impassioned thoughts ; there is so much false,
prurient sentiment, substituted for healthy feeling; that
Mr. Moore, in his serious vein, must, we fear, be
content to reach posterity as the writers of the
Elizabethan age, have reached us—that is to say, in
fragments. Possibly the entire " Melodies" may en-
dure ; but certainly not the " Loves of the Angels,"
nor even'," Lalla Rookh." Their titles may indeed be
remembered, like Sidney's " Arcadia," or Lily's
" Euphues"—but the poems themselves will be known
only by certain. striking passages ; for every day'the
age is .growing more simple and republican in its tastes,
and turning with increasing disrelish from the highly-
seasoned poetic cates that so delighted the palate of its
immediate predecessor. The Muse has thrown off her
old attire.; she no longer wears a tiara of glittering
jewels on her brow, or flaunts, like an opera dancer, in
a gaudy, meretricious, spangled vest ; but has simplified
both her manners and her dress, and even affects the
Quaker's drab. In a word, the age of clap-trap versifi-
cation is gone, and with it much of Mr. Moore's popu-
larity. As a wit, however, his fame will list as long
as the language. Here he is imperishable. Though
dwelling on subjects of temporary interest, and replete
with piquant, personal allusions, which a few years
hence:will require illustrative notes to make them in-
telligible, yet hi; " Twopenny Post Bag," his " Fudge
Family," and his " Fables for the Holy Alliance," will
be read by posterity with the same heart-felt pleasure
and admiration with which we, nearly a century after
its publication, still continue to read Anstey's " Bath
Guide." If, however, we were asked where Mr.
Moore's wit is seen to the greatest advantage, unhesi-
tatingly we should reply, in those brilliant S uibs
which he contributed weekly, for some years, the
columns of our contemporary, the Times. Compared
with these sparkling jeux desprits, all others of the
day seem dull and impertinent. They stand alone in
unapproachable excellence. It is not,, however, for
their force or vigour that we admire them ; but for their
dazzling play of wit, their elastic and bounding spirit,
their archness, their graceful, colloquial ease, and their
unstudied, ever-varying flow of rhythm. Mr. Moore
wields .his fancy, as Mercutio wielded his rapier, with
a laughing air of self-possession that proves him to be
a master of his weapon. His every thrust tells, so
quick are his lunges, and so keen his weapon's edge.
The only writer who ever came near him in these
buoyant sallies of the fancy, is the celebrated Oxford
wit, Tom Brown ; but even he is far inferior; his hu-
mour, however rich, being for the most part of an
every day character, and utterly deficient in imagina-
tion. Anstey might perhaps compare with hiM, but
he has produced only one volume, whereas Moore has
given us several. His present effort—which. we trust
will not be his last, otherwise we shall regret the pen-
sion which be has just deservedly obtained—is a se-
quel to his former volume, entitled the " Fudges in
France," and transplants the members of that ancient
and prolific family to England, where they beCome
acquainted with the Exeter Hall fanatic, Mortimer
O'Mulligan, who contrives to run away with Miss
Biddy Fudge, an old maid strongly predisposed 'to
matrimony, just at the period when her brother has
died, and willed away'all his property to his niece, greatly
to the annoyance of the Rev. Bridegroom, who finds
himself saddled for life with a pennyless wife, when he
had imagined he was espousing an heiress. The plot
of the story, it will thus be seen, is exceedingly slight,
and the characters few ; but both are handled in Mr.
Moore's most graceful and piquant manner.

In the City mercantile circles possessing any interest,
direct or indirect, in the settlement of the British claims on
Denmark, a very grave charge has been advanced against Mr.
Spring Rice. It is stated that on Saturday, the Bth instant, a
deputation, representing claimants for goods, ships, and car-
goes, waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who read to
the gentlemen composing it a minute totally differing from that
entered on the votes of the House of Commons on the 16th of
May, 1834, by which he wished to make it appear that Lord
Althorp had only undertaken to satisfy the book debt claims.
He affirmed also, that the recent motion of Mr. Parker on that
subject was never meant to include any other description of
claims. The gentlemen composing the deputation not con-
ceiving, as is stated, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
could possibly be guilty of any misrepresentation in such a
matter, had nothing to urge respecting it. The interview
closed with their acquiescence, being ignorant of the real state
of the case, in his views, and the consequence has been that
the vote of compensation for book debts has been allowed to
pass the House without any stipulation in favour of the other
claimants. All that has been said on behalf of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer is, that the minute read by him was the re-
sult of a private understanding between Lord Althorp and Mr.
Parker ; but it is, at all events, said to be in contravention of
the resolution as recorded in the votes, by which the Govern-
ment stood pledged to satisfy the just claims of all the classes.
This is a matter, however, which, if truly stated, must lead to
some farther discussion in Parliament, for English merchants
are not a description of persons to be quietly tricked out of their
just rights by any jugglery of this kind.—Times.
"We have heard thA the historical work upon
which Mr. E. Lytton Bulwer recently announced that he
had been long engaged, is all but completed, and on the eve
of publication ; it is a History of Greece."—Athenwum. We
understand the title of Mr. Bulwer's work, as here given, is
not quite correct; it is a " History of Athens and of the
Athenian People," on which Mr. Bulwer has been so long
engaged, and which, it appears, he has now nearly completed.
THE COMET.—We have been favoured by the
following Communication from the Rev. Mr. Hussey : " On
Thursday night last, for three hours, my equatorial was unsuc-
cessfully employed in hunting for Halley's comet ; at three
o'clock this morning I found it, all but invisible, like the finest
smoke, and but for my object-glass being white, which is the
case with none but Fraunhoffer's best, it could not have been
distinguished. It was about 45 *min. south of, and three
minutes of time following what I take to be 132 Tauri. I
will verify to-night, and send you particulars to-morrow.
Make this known where it ought to be..-„Hayes, Kent,
August 23." -

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IIIUNICIVAL REFORM BIL

ST. MATTHEW, BETHNAL-GREEN.
Last evening a nttinevous meeting of the inhabitants of St. Mat-
thew's, Bethnal-green, was held at the parish church, convened by
the churchwardens, in pursuance of a requisition signed by, some of
the most respectable parishioners to the churchwardens, to take
into consideration the propriety of addressing the House of Com-
mons on the present alarming crisis of public affairs, arising out of
the serious alterations made the. House of Lords in the Municipal
Corporations Reform Bill.
Mr. Atkins having been called to the chair,
Mr. OWEN proposed the first resolution :—" That the meeting
feels deeply grateful to Lord Melbourne's Ministry and the liberal
majority of the House of Commons for the enlightened, constitu-
tional, and important measure of Corporation Reform, which has
passed that House, believing that in its full efficiency it is calcu-
lated to remove the corruptions inseparably connected with self-
elected and irresponsible power." hr. Owen then remarked, that
to this Bill there was scarcely a dissenting voice in the country, ez-
cept from some corporation junta or terrified town-clerk. The
Bill, however, since it left the Commons, had been so much al-
tered, that it could not be recognised by any one favourable to
the measure. It was anything but the Ministers' Bill, or the
Bill which the people wanted.—(Hear.) He believed the Mi-
nisters would act firmly on this occasion.—(Cheers.) If the
House of Commons acted with them, and refused the Supplies,
the Bill must pass unmutilated. They were bound to refuse the
Supplies until the Bill was passed, or those Supplies would get into
other hands, as they did in November last, and be used t.,-;
coerce
the people.—(Hear.) It was therefore the duty of the people to
show that they would not be trifled with.—(Cheers. )
Mr. WHITTLE seconded the resolution, and observed, that he
had heard there was no occasion for a House of Lords.—(Cheers.)
He did not go so far, however; but he was for an elective Peerage.
—(Hear, hear.) An hereditary Legislature had too long usurped
the rights of the people's representatives, without their authority.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. PALMER proposed the second resolution :—" That this
meeting has seen with regret the course which the House of Lords
has thought proper to take in regard to the measure of Corporation
Reform, and considers it indicative of a design on the part of that
branch of the Legislature to continue unjust and unconstitutional
influence over the rights and interests of the people which may en-
danger the peace and welfare of the country."—(Cheers. ) He ob-
served that the Lords were always opposed to the best interests of
the country. It was now time to speak out and ask how long shall
these men stand between the people and their rights?—( Cheers:
It might be said what had they to dd with Corporations? They
had none. No ; but they knew by woeful experience that corrupt
Corporations had upheld bad Governments, to which they had, been
victims; and when the Lords opposed this Bill the people asked
this pointed question—Can we not do without the Lords ?—( Hear.)
Mr. YOUNG seconded the motion, which was carried by accla-
mation.
Mr. GOODWILL proposed the third resolution :—" That this
meeting implores the House of Commons to insist on the unim-
paired completion of the Bill for reforming Corporations, and to
stand on its constitutional right of withholding the supplies until
the measure be carried."—(Cheers.) When seamen became ob-
streperous it was the practice to stop their grog, and a similar course
ought to be taken with their Lordships.—(Laughter. )
Mr. SHEVILL seconded the motion.
The motion was unanimously agreed to ; and a petition, founded
on the resolutions, was proposed by Mr. Murray, a native of
Norwich.
Messrs. WALTON and GREEN also addressed the meeting in
support of the petition, which was adopted with enthusiastic feel-
ing ; and a deputation was appointed to wait upon the Members of
the Tower Hamlets, to request them to support it. The meeting
then separated, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

MARYLEBONE.
A public meeting of the electors and rate-payers of the parish
of St. Mary-le-bone was held yesterday in the Workhouse-yard,
New-road, for the purpose of passing certain resolutions, and
agreeing to a loyal and dutiful address to be presented to his Most
Gracious Majesty, conveying the strongest assurance of the una-
bated confidence of the meeting and the electors of Mary-le-bone
in his Majesty's present liberal Ministry, and expressing their deep
regret that the House of Lords should have so altered and perverted
all the essential clauses of the Municipal Reform Bill, as to render
it wholly inefficient and unworthy the acceptance of the nation.
The address prayed that his Majesty would give the present Mi-
nistry such constitutional aid as should enable them to carry their
measures into full effect, and particularly the Corporations Reform
Bill as passed by the House of Commons ; and that his Majesty
would not be influenced by the injurious and unwise opposition
now arrayed against his Majesty's Ministers in the House of Lords
and also for the purpose of adopting a petition to the House of Cool-
mons, declaring that the conduct of the House of Peers, in the muti-
lation of the Municipal Reform Bill, if persevered in, would be subver-
sive of the constitution, and contrary to the spirit and intelligence ei,
the present generation. The petition called upon the House of
Commons to remember at the present crisis that its mere-
bers were not now the tools or nominees of boroughmongeriog
Peers, but elected by the people, by whose approval the Bill was
sanctioned ; and further called upon the House of Commons not to
consent to any compromise of its essential provisions, but to fah°
every constitutional measure to resist the encroachments of the
Peers. The meeting was most numerously and highly-respectsblY
attended. Not less than 5,000 people were present during the
meeting, and the general number of attendants was between 3,(0:
and 4,000. Sir William de Bathe, Bart., was unanimously calla'
to the Chair.
Sir WILLIAM DE BATHE, on introducing the business of the
meeting, would go as far as any man in the reform of all abuses'
whether they existed in the Government of the country or in Mu.
nicipal Corporations, and he would cordially support any Adminis-,
tration which had those objects in view.—(Cheers.) He belonge°
to no party, but, above all things, he was convinced that while he
was forwarding the interests of the community, he was advancing
the security of the Crown. ti
H. WEYMOUTH, Esq„ proposed the first resolution, condemning
the conduct of the House of Peers in mutilating the Municipal Be
u:
form Bill. When public expression was so much in favour of t";.1
Bill in its original state, was the House of Commons to receive
give their sanction to the Bill thus deprived of its essential spirt'
He answered No!—(Tremendous cheering.) Then he would e%'
hort the people to be calm, be temperate, but above all to be de:A.
termined, and the same course of conduct which had been pursue
with regard to the Reform Bill, if adopted in the present emergency'
would obtain for the people a similar result.—(Cheers.) ,„,..
House of Lords had turned a deaf ear to the voice of the people, an
they had now only to depend upon their own representatives iu the
House of Commons, and rely upon them to do their duty at thu.'
eventful crisis. His Majesty's Ministers had taken a decide
course upon the subject ; one Member of the Administration had
recently declared in the House of Lords that although they (thci
Ministers) were the Ministers of the King, they also considered
themselves the representatives of the people.—(Cheers.) This de"
claration commenced, as it were, a new era in the annals of Legis;
lation, and one that was to be haired with delight by every lover ot

the well being of the country.
Mr. SAPSWORTH seconded the resolution, which was carried

unanimously.
Mr. WILSON then moved the second resolution, calling upon th*
Members of the Commons House to remember that they are th.„6
holders of the people's purse, and not to consent to the Bill
mutilated, nor to enter into any compromise that will aue_,e
the principle of the Bill, or any of its salutary clauses. There vin
no communion of feeling/existing between the people and t?.:
House of Lords. The-,people, on that account, must look to UP
House of Commons in the present emergency.—(Cheers.) They
were no longer the nominees of Peers, but the representatives c".
the people. He concluded by proposing the resolution, which"'
seconded by Mr. BOWLING.
The petition to the House of Commons was then read ; and, with
the resolution, was carried unanimously,
Mr. SAVAGE requested that the electors present, when they
signed the petition and address, would affix their addresses to thoensi"
names, that the Lords might, if they liked, find out from sa ao
the petition proceeded. Mr. Wilson had said that he had hegh,
to doubt the utility of the House of Lords ; that feeling, he as
served, was only a sign of the times.—(Cheers.) The Lords,
political body, were now prepared for the sacrifice, and he look
for the day when they would be offered up as a day of rejaieje,go
as a day of jubilee. He would have the records of the origin 0, t, ,
whole number of Peers who formed this majority held up to oble,
quy. He would teach children, very infants, to spell such recoia:
in order that they might read, learn, and live to cry " Down sc
the Peers, the curse of the country."—(Tremendous chi
When he looked at the House of Lords he was struck with asw 6
nishment, and was ready to exclaim, " Good God, and are t!r bey.
the men who are to legislate for the people of England ?1n.0.0
principal portion of the majority of Peers now arrayed d.er- 4
the people of England, were originally political Peers
who had been made for political purposes. If such Peers 0
been once created, could they not be created again ?_(LO to
and continued cheering.) He would call upon the King out
exercise his prerogative on behalf of the people. The King co of
make a Peer of any thing, but he could not make. an honest to all #
a Peer.—(A laugh.) The Peers were united to a man whet: .
blow was to be struck against public liberty. He considered, thers
r.`
fore, that the maintenance of the three estates of King, Lords, rah-e
Commons was not essential to the well-being of the people.
of
English constitution was established before the withering laws
primogeniture were introduced.—( Continued cheering.) sg
1111.. NELMES proposed the 3d resolution relative to the addrehl
to be presented. He observed that if the Peers triumphed with teif
Municipal Reform Bill, there would be no security against th
attempting to repeal the Reform Bill itself.—(Cheers.) It
is
notorious that three-fourths of that body were little better tP".i.
paupers—(Cries " and bastards")—who sought to palm thoeis
relatives upon the people for support. Ho was happy to find
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the people were to be no longer deluded.—(Cheers. ) The obi
of of the resolution was to address his Majesty, to entreat his eee,,sti
tional aid to remove this pillar of corruption. The House of rlie
were themselves like the present Corporations, an irrespeasl.ip
body—no qualification was required from them. It was also eer:j
that in the end, unless some reform took place in their House
among themselves, the Lords would be no more.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was seconded by Mr. Donn. ael
The Address to his Majesty having been read, was approved,
carried unanimously, with the foregoing resolution. ftls
Mr. POTTER then moved the 4th resolution, approving oto
conduct of the Ministers in reference to the Bill, and urgingroti,
to continue firm in their determination not to permit it to be 005t0.
lated. He was desirous of knowing who constituted the 03.1cied
cracy. He was persuaded that there were many high-1110;00
noblemen among them. But in the opposition to the Mina
eNof
Bill, Lord Lyndhurst was the great mouth-piece of the 141stical
Lords. A greater apostate, or a man of more dishonest polio theprinciples,
principles, never existed.—(Cheers.) He concluded wit
strongest expressions of confidence in the present Ministry.
Mr. KENSETT seconded the resolution.
The fourth resolution was then put, and carried unanitneasb..c*,44
Mr. LASiGHAM moved the fifth resolution, which was sec:
by Mr. JOSEPII—" That the Members for the Borough. 1;;;,, the
quested to vote for the rejection of the Bill as mutilated, dial
House of Lords ; that they do riot agree to any ccimprorniseso,
will in any way affect the great principles of the Bill, or its e!
tial clauses ; and that they will support firmly every constitut!).,
measure to resist the encroachments of the Lords. "_Carried

nimously.
meeting'
Sir SAMUEL WHALLEY M.P. then addressed the tn, ee ore
He desired that the present form of' Government should be odd
served, but the spirit of Reform was abroad, and he hoped iti°loitil
continue until every branch of corruption was lopped off, a" 04'
the House of Lords itself should be brought into accordance sot.
the spirit of the land. He trusted he should not be deemed oft
ing in loyalty in recommending that, next Session, the CorPelrisb
Reform Bill should be joined to the Mutiny Bill, and the tbo
Church Reform Bill with the Revenue Appropriation 13"18tio0
coupling these great measures with the granting and nyrretr;'
of the Supplies.—( Vehement cheering.) The Lion. Dieu'
aoa
down amidst loud applause.
Mr. H. L. BuLwEn, M.P., then addressed the meetiopcito
took a similar view to that of his Hon. Colleague. The Pritilini-Der
of some of the amendments of the Lords was to beget avastt"-- 11'
of little illegitimate Houses of Lords. ciety was iona'y the°o96.,
sidered as divided into three classes ; but this Bill increase 13i1;
classes to six. With such mutilations and alterations as woola
had suffered it was impossible that the House d CoMOVII/