The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-30 00:00:00

has not precluded " the most indigent " mem-
bers of society " from a participation in the pro-
perty of the country for has it not permitted
Lord Ellenbcirough himself to take from society,
without the shadow of merit, or justice, or use-
fulness on his part, a revenue of almost 10,0001.
a-year, without which he must himself have
stood in a much closerrelation to that very " in-
digent class" for which it will be the effect of a
reformed system of Government to facilitate the
means of living by their own industry, but to
prevent them from basely spunging on the na-
tional purse, and wasting the resources of their
neighbours ? From attempts like this, on which
we have been animadverting, to pass off a selfiih
and despairing coterie for a portion of the
" public," or its language for a representation of
English feeling; Reform has little to apprehend.
—Times.

The strange infatuation under which the anti-
Reformers are or affect to be, with regard to the
sentiments of the people on the subject of Re-
form, renders it necessary that they should once
more exhibit themselves in an imposing array.
It was hoped that there had been enough of de-
monstration to satisfy the most addle-headed
Peer in the land that the people were, almost to
a man, Reformers ; but some persons are never
to be satisfied. The Papers in their interest
continue to insult the people by the most im-
pudent statements. " In every corner of the
Revolutionary and Ministerial Papers," says the
unblushing John Bull in the number of yester-
day, " we find paragraphs, letters, statements,
and observations, all tending to exhibit and dis-
play the violent enthusiasm of the people about
Reform. Where else do we see it ? Who
cares about it ? . The labour of

excitement, we say, is still going on ; but Bull—
the nation, 'we mean—wants more stirring up
than the Revolutionists think. The country is,
at this moment, sensitively alive to Mr. Sadler's
Bill, the Northern counties care nothing for
Reform, nor its doubtful effects—its certain ills,
its uncertain benefits. Reform is, there, a dead
letter ; in London—we speak advisedly—it is
defunct, absolutely defunct." This is pretty well
after the demonstrations which we have had to
record during the past week, and more particu-
larly the grand display at Edinburgh on Tuesday
last. This is no doubt consummate impudence;
but in order to deprive the Peers even of a pre-
text for respecting such a statement, the people,
at whatever inconvenience to themselves, must be
once more stirring. The people of Birming-

ham, aware of this necessity, are about to afford
another of those displays which already struck
such terror into the hearts of the Boroughmon-
gering oligarchy. The following mandate, from

the Political Union of that town; fixes a meeting
at Newhall-hill on the very day on which Parli-
ament re-assembles :

" BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION.

" At a special Meeting of the Council o! the Birming-
ham Political Union, held at the Rooms of the Union, in
Great Charles-street, this 27th day of April, 1832,
Thomas AiTwoon, E.g., in the Chair:—
" This Council, considering that the enemies of Reform,
and of the peace and order of society, have held out the
most unfounded representations respecting a re-action, an
indifference, awl an apathy in the public mind, in the
great cause of Parliamentary Reform ; and considering
that a grand exhibition of public feeling and determina-
tion is thereby rendered absolutely necessary, in order to
contradict and refute such false and unfounded representa-
tion., and in order to assist in enabling our most excellent
King-and his patriotic itlinisters to accomplish their great
designs for the happiness of the people, and to carry the
great measure of Reform into a law, uninjured, and unitn-
paired in all its great parts and provisions_
It was resolved unanimously— t . That a General Meeting
of the inhabitants of Birmingham, and its neighbourhood,
b- held in the open space at the foot of Newhall-hill, on
Monday, the 7th of May next, at eleven o'clock in the
forenoon, for the purpose of petitionnig the House of
Lords to complete the great work of national liberty and
reconciliation, and of agreeing to such further re.olutions
as the Council may recommend, and the meeting may
approve. The Chair to be taken at twelve o'clock pre-
cisely.
" 2. That this Council having heretofore declared that
they will cease to labour in the great work of exciting
the pulslic mind to political objects, when the Bill of Re-
form shall have become law, and when the prosperity of
the lower and middle classes of the people shall have bi en
restored,' do now think it their duty to recommend to
their fellow-countrymen to declare, most positively, that
if the Bill of Reform should be retec•ed, or in any way
injured or impaired in its great parts and provisions, they
will never cease to use every possible legal exertion in
their power, to obtain a more complete and effectual re-
storation of the rights of the people, than the Bill of Re-
form is calculated to give.
" 3. That this Council, feeling deeply grateful to the
inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Birming-
ham, fur their uniform peaceful, legal, and loyal conduct
upon so many occasions, do earnestly urge and enjoin all
persons attending the meeting, as they value the great ob-
jects which they meet to promote, strictly to respect the
law, since nothing can tend so much to endanger the cause
of Reform, and the happiness of the people, as any dis-
ordtrly conduct or illegal act upon this occasion of unpre-
cedented importance.
1. That the Council do walk, in procession, frciu the
Rooms of the Union, in Great Charles-street, to Newhall-
hill, at eleven o'clock in the morning of the intended meet-
ing ; and that the members and friends of the Union be
invited to join in the procession.
" THOMAS ATTWOOD, Chairman.
" By order the Council,
" BENJAMIN HADLEY, Hon. Secretary."

The Unionists declare, that should the Bill be
either rejected or impaired, they will no longer
be satisfied with the same measure of Reform ;
and we verily believe that the people, throughout
the country, if much longer insulted, will insist
on a much more extensive Reform than that
which, on a principle of compromise, they have
consented to take. At a meeting of the Council
of the Birmingham Union, on Tuesday last,
Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, a gentleman who has
been very instrumental in the formation of Po-
litical Unions in the Nest of Scotland, was in-
troduced by the Chairman. Mr. Wallace was
on his return from the metropolis, to which he
had gone to be present at the second reading of
the Bill ; and, in an address to the meeting, he
observed :

" That he would take it upon him to say, on behalf of I
his countrymen, that they would rival the Birmingham
Union in their support of the Reform Bill; for, in good
truth, they were as one man determined—fully, firmly.
and deliberately determined—to stand or fall with the
Bill. On this the Reformers of England might depend,
and so miah that maniac, selfish, short-sighted band, the
Noble Lords and Right Reverend Prelates, who would yet
array themselves against a united people. Scotchmen
were slow to move—hut once in motion, they were still
much slower in being made to pause. Allusions had been
made to the dread alternative of physical force. If that
should ever arrive, it would spring from the madlike acts
of the titled Aristocracy ; on them would rest the blame—
on their heads would fall the disdain and the hatred of the
whole nation."
The number of persons assembled at Edinburgh
has been variously estimated. The Scotsman
says, 4, nearly the whole of the great field east of
the Palace was densely occupied by upwards of
60,000 men, with fifty banners floating above
theca it various directiuns. The slope north of
' Salisbury-hill formed a vast gallery to the arena
immediately below, and was occupied by many
thousands of well-dressed females, whose anxiety
had led them to obtain a view of the meeting—
themselves forming a very interesting part of the
splendid scene." -
Altogether, the Scotsman as-
signs 60,000 to the Park, and from 15 to
20,000 persons on the slope of the hi,l, 'in.
chiding in the more distant parts from 10 to