The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-12 00:00:00

ST. PANCRAS PARISH MEETING.

(Continued from our First Edition.)
A vote of thanks having been passed to the two Members
of the Borough for their attendance,
Sir S. WIIALLEY in acknowledging it, said he was not
one of those who thought these meetings were called for the
purpose merely of expressing their opinions, but also to show
to the House of Lords that in all parts an opportunity had
been given to the opponents of the Bill out of their House—if
there were any such—but that there was not one in the
whole of the large and extensive parish of St. Pancras.—
( Cheers.) He saw the resolutions related to both of the im-
portant Bills yet in progress. He at once admitted that he did
not care so much for the Irish Church Bill, and was
very indifferent as to its being passed this year.—(Marks of
surprise.) He was a Protestant and a Churchman, and of
course was warmly in favour of the Church, but the enquiries
into the Irish Church had shown him such intolerable abuses
in it, that he was not anxious for the passing of the present
Bill.—( Slight disapprobation.) He knew the House of Com-
mons would not retrograde—they would not relax in the
slightest degree—and let the present Bill be thrown out, and
one worth five times as much would be sent up to their
Lordships next' year.—(Loud and repeated cheering.) He
was certain the House of Commons would not in any
way diminish their demands on behalf of the people. A
Tory had told them in the House that he supported the Bill,
because he was afraid, if it did not pass, the people of Ireland
would forget what tithes were—( Laughter)—or that they had
ever existed. He believed that such might have been near
the fact; and it was because he considered the Bill as a great
boon to the parsons, and not to the country, that he had less
feeling upon it than upon the great Bill for reforming Cor-
porations.—( Cheers.) Still, however, though he did not con-
sider it worth the million which the people were to pay for it ;
yet, if it would give peace, and consequently prosperity to Ire-
land, he would say he was most anxious for the settlement of the
question. The other Bill, however, for reforming the Cor-
porations was of the very utmost importance, and it was es-
sential to the welfare of the country that it should pass un-
mutilated and without delay—( Cheers)—for then the greatest
stronghold of corruption would be broken in upon, and the
people would have such a lever as would enable them to
raise all whose who were now as a nightmare upon the
country. No measure since the great Reform Bill had been
of so much importance as the one then under discussion,
and he had been most anxious to be enabled to get up in his
place, and say that his constituents, though they did not wish
for a Corporation for their own borough, yet they had a kindly
feeling for their folio N countrymen, and were most anxious
that the great abuses of thepresent Corporation system should be
done away with. In what situation did the country now stand?
He knew that there was a large majority—an immense majo-
rity of the people in favour of the Bill ; yet it was now in the
hands of those who hated it—of those who were most anxious
to, and would trample it under their feet—if they
dared.—(Loud cheers.) They had tried all they could
to delay the Bill, for the purpose of trying how far they
might go in thwarting the wishes of the people. The passing
of the Bill depended not upon the House of Lords, but upon
the people of England—(Cheers)—they were the parties in
whose hands the power was. Look at the opposition to the
Bill in the House—there was first the Duke of Newcastle
who could do what he liked with all his own, except his
tongue—brains he had none.—(L-tughter.) Then came the
Earl of Winchilsea, a man of might and valour—a man who
went out to the field with the Duke of Wellington
with a perfect certainty of not having his brains blown
out.—( Hear, hear, and loud laughter.) These were the
leaders of the farce which had been going on lately. They
might laugh at that farce were they not aware that the people
of England were the parties who suffered from it, and in the
end paid for it. He wondered how it was that any one could
dare to threaten the Government with impeachment, because
that the whole Commons of England had sent up a Bill to the
Upper House—it having been sanctioned by a majority of that
house of representatives made it the bill of the people of England,
and they were the parties insulted by such idle and unmeaning
threats.—(Loud cheers.) We see the real nature of the
farce played by the Peers; they must remember that the Com-
missioners whose conduct had been so grossly impugned were
two years engaged in making their inquiries—and yet that the
House of Lords, by devoting a few hours daily for five days were
able to set the whole of their labours aside. The Corporations
were accused of peculation in their accounts, and of perverting
the course of justice. The Report accused many of their Lord-
ships of being accessaries—to instance only one place, there
was the Duke of Buckingham, who, because two Aldermen

voted accordir, to their conscience; seat, as a matter
of course, ~rid requested that they wo reign their
gowns. So much was thi; a matter of course, that the
s!eward, in writing an account of their refusal, could hardly
florl words in which to paint his surprie, it was o strong.—
( A laugh.) These Noble Lords then were convicted of being
accessories, and yet they were t!-,e Judges in their own case,
and said we want evidence ; and who did they call—not the
people of England to prove the crime, but the criminals them-
selves to prove that they were innocent.—( Cheers.) Here
was a sample of British justice—men who could not under the
circumstances in which they were placed, act as jurymen, were
elevated to the bench, and made judges in their own case.—
(Cheers.) It had not long ago been a question " What will
the Lords do ?" They had heard evidence at the bar, in order
to prove that the Corporations were innocent—then they
muct throw out the Bill, if they believed it. If
they did so, the question that would then be in every
one's mouth would be,—" What shall be done with the
Lords ?"—( Load cheers.) They might have protested agairst
the Bill, and given it what character they liked, but now they
were in a dilemma : if they passed the Bill, they must own
that they had been beaten by the people, as they would he
in the end—(Cheers)—or otherwise they must own that their
calling evidence was indeed a mere pretext to see how far
they dared trifle with the patience of the country. He per-
fectly agreed with them in calling upon the House of Com-
MCIIIS not to pass the Appropriation Bill, for the House would
thcn have some power to prevent the reenactment of the plot
of November last.—(Cheering.) He called upon the people
to be awake and not allow themselves to he " caught napping"
as they were upon that occasion. He did- not disguise from
himself, nor did he wish to do from them, that the present Bill
was a very disagreeable demand by one branch of the Legis-
lature upon the other two : but as they would never freely
consent to it, the people must protect themselves.—( Cheers. )
Mr. 11. BULWER said he would not detain the meeting long,
as he could only re-echo the opinions they had already heard
from former speakers. He could not altogether agree in the
Opinions of his Hon. Colleague with respect to the Irish Church
Bill, for he abominated any system of religion which supported
the sublime religion of the God of Peace by the point of the
bayonet.—(Great cheering.) The Hon. Gentleman went
over the same topics as his colleague, but as there was no
difference of opinion between them, arid our columns are vory
full to-day, we are compelled to omit them. He was received
throughout with cheers.
The petitions were read, and at the conclusion cf the rnee!.
irig were signed by nearly every one present.

A Deputation from 'the City waited on Lord Melbourne
this evening, to present the Address vo:ed to his Lordship at
the City Meeting this morning.

It was reported this morning that the Duke of Wel-
lington had left town, and so statel at the city meeting this
day; but it appears that the Duke met a'lovc 150 Peers and
others, who are opposed. to the Cirporation Reform Bill, at
Apsley- House this morning, for the purpose of organizing
their plans. The result, we have heard, is, that their Lord-
!hips intend to go into Committee on the Bill, pro forma.