The Sun.
London, England, 1832-05-18 00:00:00

NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, MAY Pi.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCE'.
a second edition of the Tyne Mercury you will see
an account of our grand demonstration yesterday, and of the
resolutions, address, and petition, unanimously adopted at the
most numerous and respectable meeting ever witnessed in New-
castle. The business commenced at one o'clock. It occupied
two hours and a half, and at nine the same evening the petition
was sent off to the Commons, signed by 1.9,12 A men.
The exertions of yesterday have been followed by a numerous
meeting of freeholders this day, (C. W. Brigge, Esq., of Lin-
den. in the Chair,) at which a Central Committee has been ap-
pointed to correspond with the various Local Committees
formed and forming throughout the county of Northumber-
land. Before you receive this communication the whole county
will have been canvassed, and the freeholders pledged in
writing to send back their present reforming Members, free of
expense, whenever it shall please our English Polignac to dis-
solve his Chamber. A.

BRIERLY HILL, NEAR DUDLEY, MAY 17,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—The information we received (per express) as to the re.
instating of Earl Grey and his colleagues in the Ministry, corn.
pletely altered the proceeding of the Unions in this place.
We had prepared a petition to the House of Commons to the
same effect as that of other Unions, praying the: stoppage
of supplies, &c. &c., but in consequence of such information,
we have substituted an address to Earl Grey, which is now on
its way to London. The meeting we called for the purpose
was attended by 8,000 or 10,000 Unionists and Reformers, who
passed the address unanimously, and who proved themselves
stanch to the great cause of their country, by enrolling their
names in numbers with our Union, at the same time pledging
themselves to be united and firm, always to follow the example
set before them by the great head.

I am, Sir, your very obedient servant,

T. J.

A deputation arrived yesterday morning, in
London, from the town and neighbourhood of Halifax, bring-
ing an address to his Majesty, praying the restoration of his late
Ministers to his Councils—a petition to the House of Commons,
and an address to Earl Grey and his colleagues. Nearly
14,000 signatures were obtained to the above in about 24 hours.

The assessors and collectors of taxes at Bir.
rningharn have suspended their proceedings for the present.
_ .

No trial of any importance took place at the
Old Bailey this morning up to the moment when our reporter
left. Amongst the criminals in the calendar is a fellow named
Shepherd, charged with stealing a pair of breeches, the Pro-
perty of Miss Anna Maria Porter, the authoress'

NIANCHESTER.—A commercial house in
Manchester, which is in the country trade, the weekly sales of
which at this season of the year, usually average 2,000/. a-daY,
on Thursday made contracts to the amount only of 1701., and on
Monday to 1551. The buyers will do no business until the pre-
sent political prospects change.
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LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Evening.—lt ls
impossible to describe the sensation which the news of the
recall of Earl Grey and his colleagues to office has caused if,
this town. As soon as the fact made known, by the arrival
of the evening papers, all was joy and congratulation. In the
Exchange newsroom, where all men in business assemble, the
news was received at the time of high 'change with three-
times-three hearty cheers within, reechoed by the equally
hearty cheers of the crowd without. The same exuberant
joy was manifested throughout the town, every man con-
gratulating his neighbour on the triumph of the cause of Re-
form, on the defeat of the Duke of Wellington, and the re-
turn of Earl Grey and his colleagues to (ace,

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING. MAY 18 18232.

Summonses were issued this morning at an early
hour, convening a meeting of the Cabinet Ministers
at twelve o'clock, at the Foreign Office.
At that hour the LORD CHANCELLOR, 14:311
GREY, Lord ALTHORP, Lord HOLLAND, Lord
PALMERSTON, Viscount MELBOURNE, Lord CODE-
RICH, the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord DURHAM.
the Right Honourable CHARLES GRANT and Mr.
STANLEY, were in:attendhrice. The meeting had
not terminated when we went to Press.

The proceedings in the House of Lords last night
are of the deepest interest. The Duke of WEL-
LINGTON opened the discussion by a sort of defence
of his recent conduct. This explanation, or justifi-
cation, or whatever else his Grace may please to term
it, is from first to last mere clumsy special pleading.
It tells us nothing that we did not know before; it
sheds no redeeming-grace on a character on which
public opinion is unalterably and irrevocably made
up. The Duke sets out by lamenting that his
MAJESTY should have " been left alone, most unex-
pectedly left alone by his entire Government ;"
as if the Tories had not already established a
precedent for this species of resignation, when
they resigned seven of them in one day, nay,
in one hour, without form or ceremony, because Mr.
CANNING had been appointed successor to Lord
LIVERPOOL ! His Grace's next remark is one of
the daintiest bits of simplicity we know of. So
little communication, it seems, has his MAJESTY had of
late with any public men, save and excepting his re-
sponsible advisers (notwithstanding that the Pavilion
parties have, for the last ten months, been almost
invariably made up of Tories, and the predilections
of a certain Illustrious Female have always been
notoriously of a Tory complexion) that " he of ne-
cessity sent for a Noble Lord whose judicial func-
tions took him almost compktcly out of the line of
politics." What ! Lord LYNDwurtsT "almost com-
pletely" out of the political line : he who hatched,
methodized, brought to maturity, and proposed the
late insidious amendment, which had lot its ob-
ject the destruction of the Bill, and consequently
the resignation of Ministers ? No, no, my Lord
Duke. This hoax will never pass. The people
have some little discernment left; they know a
hawk from a handsaw, and will never endure
such an outrage on their common sense, as this
explanation amounts to. We now come to an-
other remarkable feature in his Grace's speech,
he
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simple as sucking doves. Not
a man among them wished office for himself—
he coveted it only for his country. In-
deed ! What a band of patriots they must have
been! Imagine CATO WELLINGTON, CINCINNA-
TUS LYNDIIURST, REGULUS ELLENBORGUGH, and
CURTIUS CROKER, giving up all thoughts of self it,
heir overpowering affection for that country whirl
:s so supremely honoured in the ability to ranl,
them among her Indigetes! But the pith of his

c10gu..3,ne,0 11,1 in hie declaration that a area,
6011 of i'eers for the purpose of carrying the Reform
Bill into effect, is uncomstilutiotud, and " destruc-
tive of the independence, indeed, the very legislative
existence of the House of Lords." If this be really
the case, pray, how is it that the discovery has not
been made till now ? For the last forty years and
upwards, not a Parliamentary session as passed,
but the " legislative existence" of the Upper House
has been more or less endangered by a creation of
Tory Peers to carry Tory measures. But this
was not unconstitutional, it was all according to
propriety and precedent. But when the game
comes to be reversed; when the Whigs, represent-
ing the wishes and wants of the people—for whose
benefit alone a House of Lords exists—when these
high-minded men demand the usual powers to
enable them to carry a great popular ques-
tion ;—then, forsooth, we are to be told that what

they demand is unconstitutional, arid must be re-
fused, for that though it is stricly legal to create Tory
Peers to carry anti-national measures, it is altoge-
ther illegal to create Whig Peers to carry Rational
ones ! Fortunately on this point there cannot be
two opivions. New Peers must be made, if only to
settle the balance of parties—if only to give the
people's friends, at least, as fair an influence in the
House of Lords as their enemies. As at present
constituted, that House is not national, but Tory ;
not the mirror of the people, but of a faction. It
must, therefore, be augmented in its numbers, or it
will be perpetually coming into collision with the
House of Commons.

Lord GREY'S declaration was manly and decisive
—as was to be expected from so great and en-
lightened a statesmen. He would carry the Bill
through Parliament in all its integrity, or he would
again resign office. But this he knows he will not be
compelled to do. The Bill is already carried, and
nothing remains for us to do but, in the words of
the Psalmist, to wish the bewildered Tories " a
happy issue out of all their afflictions."
Of Lord LYNDHURST'S apologetic statement we
refrain, out of compassion, from saying any thing.
It was just what we were prepared to expect, and,
we believe, will take no one by surprise.
We have little to add. The question between
Lord GREY and his opponents stands thus :—The
former is still in office, and waits only his Soya.
cßaErlrGyN'
the s a uRt hoefroirtmy to investo himi withaw.
That
authority, tho r
ttyo,
we have every reson to believe, will very shortly be
given. The Tories, on the other hand, are still re-
solute, still unflinching. Be it so. Resolution
without sagacity, and obstinacy without resources,
are mere bugbears, calculated not to affright, but
only to engender pity and contempt.

The debates in both Houses last night have had
two happy results. One is the assurance from good
authority in the Commons, (Mr. BARING) that the
KING has never had but one opinion on the question
of Reform, that he never had, even for a moment,
withdrawn his pledge to Earl GREY to carry into
effect the Reform Bill in all its essential points.
Notwithstanding the rumours to which the last ten
days had given rise, and which have raised doubts
in some minds, he confidently trusted, that
when the mysterious proceedings of these days
were cleared up, the honour of the KING, and the
brightness of his name, would again shine forth
untarnished. It has never been asserted by any
authority in either House, that there is any doubt
as to the feeling of his MAJESTY on Reform. Ru-
mours from without, however, prevailed, and these
rumours have been but too greedily caught up by a
disappointed and suffering people. Let Ministers
therefore lose no opportunity in confirming
what has been stated by Mr. BARING, in
order that the blame of all this commotion
may fall on the proper heads, and that our So-
VEREIGN may again be restored to the affections of
his people. The other happy result of the evening has
been the furious display of disappointed rage made by
those, whose obstinate resistance to the will of a
whole nation has brought their SOVEREIGN into such
difficulty. Their hatred of the press and of po!i-
tical unions stands pre-eminent above all other topics
of abuse, and exhibitsa sad foreboding of the state this
country would be reduced to were the party again in
power. Lord LYNDItVRST makes no hesitation in
declaring that were he ATTORNEY-GENERAL he
would at once institute proceedings against the
Press. What melancholy blindness I Can not the
Noble Lord see that prosecutions are useless, when
they are instituted against a whole nation, and that
such an attempt at the present moment would only
expose their authors to ineffable contempt ? Nay,
were the language used by the Press ten times
stronger, we declare it as our firm persuasion, that there
would not be found a jury of twelve men in the me-
tropolis, or in any part of the country, to convict.
What I a people convict their best advocate, whose
great merit has been a determined, constant, and en-
thusiastic wish to put down oppression, restore
rights unjustly withheld, and reestablish in peace
and harmony, on a sound foundation, the three
great estates of the realm I Gagging Bills
they might try, but what House of Commons
could be found that would not reject them
with horror and indignation ? The present
would—the 288 who have hitherto stood so nobly
by the people, would spurn them with contempt
should any Minister be found mad enough to advise
his SOVEREIGN to dissolve Parliament. In the pre-
sent state of feeling, it is clear as the sun
at noon that a still more intractable—a
still more devoted House would be returned.
Pledges would then be required on the hustings,
not only for Reform in the Commons House, but in
another House, whose obstinacy has convulsed the
country, lowered themselves in the estimate of every
disinterested spectator, and brought the Throne it-
' self into danger.

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and was attended by upwards of eighty thousand
individuals. If this do not convince the Tories that
there is no longer the slightest possibility of
staving off the great question, neither will
they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
The speech of Mr. AYToti, the barrister, is particu-
larly deserving of attention. It smacks of a reso-
lute spirit, by which the last resolve, in case of fur-
ther resistance from the Tories, has been taken. Yet
it speaks not the sentiments of one man, but of all
Scotland, and not of Scotland only, but the
universal empire. Various other Reform
meetings (and among them a most gratifying ore
from Dublin, another from Devizes, a third from
Derby, and a fourth from Newcastle) have reached
us, but we have literally no means (from want of
space) of doing them the justice that their signal
mportance deserves. We have the less regret on
this score than we should otherwise have had, fot
we look upon the battle as already fought and won.

M. CASIMER PERIER has, at length, closed his mor-
e.' career. He died on Wednesday morning, about
eight o'clock. During the previous forty-eight hours

S,MITHFIELD MARKET
In this clay's market, which exhibited a limited supply through;
out, the trade was very dull with each kind of meat, with Beef
at a depression of 2d., Veal 4d. per stone ; with Mutton, Lamb,
and Pork, at Monday's prices. Mulch Cows barely supported
their list week's prices, but exceedingly few short horns, with
their small calves, having produced more than 191.