The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-28 00:00:00

ST. LUKE'S, MIDDLESEX.

A meeting of the parish of St. Luke's, Middlesex, was held
yesterday evening, at the Hall of Science, City-road, for the
purpose of passing certain resolutions, and agreeing to a peti-
tion to the House of Commons, complaining that the altera-
tions made by the House of Lords in the Municipal Reform
Bill were calculated to vitiate its essential principle. The pe-
tition also urged, that if the House of Lords should persevere
in their refusal to pass the Municipal Bill unmutilated, that the
House of Commons should exercise its constitt*ional privilege
of withholding any further grant of public money until they
made the required concession. Upwards of two thousand
people were present upon the occasion.
Dr. EPPS was unanimously called to the Chair.
Mr. WATSON moved the first resolution, expressive of the
surprise and indignation felt by the meeting at the conduct
of the hereditary branch of the Legislature in mutilating the
Corporation Reform Bill, and thus perpetuating a system of
extortion, oppression, and misrule. He, for one, would de-
clare himself for the people, and the destruction of all that
which stood in the way of the redress of their grievances.—
(Cheers.) For some time past the attention of the public
had been directed to the overbearing conduct of the House
of Lords. Their conduct had been perseveringly denounced
by the Prea, and the impossibility became more and more
manifest of a reformed representative assembly, like the House
of Commons, acting in concert wiAth an unreformed and irre-
sponsible body, like the House ole Cords.—(Cheers.) Were
twenty-four millions of people, he asked, now to submit to the
domination of such a party ? He answered, No.—(Cheers.)
No money should be taken. from the pockets of the people
until they had a vote in its apprbpriation.
Mr. VINE seconded the resolution, which was carried unani-
mously.
The second resolution was moved by Mr. SAUL. He was
not aware that the calibre of the intellect of a Member of the
House of Lords was greater than that of a Lord Mayor of the
City of London.—( A laugh.) He believed that taking their
intellects in the aggregate, they were pretty nearly equal.
He called upon them to agitate for this Bill ; for they must
not forget what they had done by-agitation on former occa-
sions ; nor that the House of Lords had, aS it were, declared
that the only pressure they would yield to, was the pressure
from without.—( Hear.)
Mr. STANNARD seconded the resolution.

The CHAIRMAN, prior to putting the resolution, called the
attention of the meeting to it, as one of serious importance.
That resolution once passed, they must make up their minds
never to give way. By seconding that resolution, the would
place themselves in a situation similar to that of CB39hr when
he passed the Rubicon. They must enforce it.—(Cheers, and
" We will—we will !")
The resolution, which was as follows, was then unanimously
agreed to amidst loud cheers :
" That this Meeting respectfully request the Members of
the House of Commons, and his Majesty's Ministers, on no
account to pass the Corporation Reform Bill with the des-
tructive alterations made in it by the House of Lords ; and
in case their Lordships should refuse to pass a Bill suitable
to the wants of the people, that they will not fail to exer-
cise their Constitutional privilege, in refusing nny further
supplies of money until the people's rights shall be restored
to them."

Mr. DUNCOMBE, M.P., regretted to say that every mea-
sure of a liberal or popular tendency that passed the House
of Commons, was neglected or negatived by the House of
Lords.—( Hear, hear.) There was only one way to cure
this, viz.—by a strong and powerful demonstration of public
opinion. If some alteration were not speedily made in the
conduct of that body, it would be better at once to close
the ,doors of the House of Commons. If the House of
Lords did not came to their senses, the Supplies could only
be stopped now by the refusal of the people of England to
pay taxes.—( The meeting here gave three distinct rounds of
cheers.) But he was for constitutional means, and he consi-
dered we were not yet arrived at the extremity which would
justify such a refusal on the part of the people.
Thanks were given to the Members of the borough, and to
the Chairman, and the meeting separated.
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