The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-23 00:00:00

public good, we hope they will not in these
perilous times of innovation be lightly regarded
pr not allowed to produce their due weight.—
Morning Post.

It was remarked in the Advertiser of Satur-
day last, that " it must be notorious to every one
who looks at the signs of the times, that while
my further delay in fulfilling the hopes of the
people would be fraught with infinite mischief to
till the best interests of the country, their annihi-
lation, even for a moment, would be the signal
for a general war upon all those institutions
which we have been accustomed to consider as
the basis of our national economy"—and how
amply have our words been verified by what has
since taken place, or rather by what was
taking place at the moment that they were
dropping from our pen !—verified by the un-
mingled satisfaction with which the news of
the second reading of the Reform Bill
was received in all quarters from which we
have as yet received accounts, and by the
determination which is already evinced in others

that the Bill should be read a second time entire,
unmutilated, unchanged. To us, a portion of
whose duty it is to ascertain the state of public
opinion and feeling, it is nothing new to be in-
formed that the second reading of the Bill by
the House of Lords has diffused universal joy ;
but even we were not prepared for the intensity
of feeling which pervaded the community upon
the subject, and the rapturous bursts of joy and
applause which have been manifested. The
bells were rung in almost every city and town as
soon as the news had reached it—in some, al-

though the day was one set apart for sacred
duties, the people could not restrain themselves
from uttering the most unsanctimonious signs
of rejoicing—in others, flags and banners were
displayed in honour of the occasion ; while in
several instances expresses appear to have been
sent offto meet the mail, and bring hack the news
of the reading or rejection of the Bill, in less
time than the latter could have accomplished
Such was the intense state of feeling upon the
subject—such the anxiety to know the fate of
that great measure, on which the future peace,
prosperity, and happiness ofthe country so mainly
depend—such the enthusiastic joy of a long-
suffering, eminently loyal, but determined people,
when it saw a glimpse of the fulfilment of its
hopes ! Yet the creatures and their patrons,
who have so long usurped the rights of the
people of England, and used them for the pur-
poses of general plunder and oppression—for
their own individual aggrandisement, and the per-
petuation of their own power—would have the
King and the two Houses of Parliament to be-
lieve that not only has a re-action taken place in
the public mind upon the subject, but that the
cry for Reform, which burst forth upon the de-
claration of the Duke of Wellington, that there
should be no Reform, was a mere popular mania
frenzy of the moment, which would spee-
dily have passed away,but for the encouragement
of it by his Majesty's Ministers, or at all events
been easily subdued by a few troops of dragoons.
Where, we ask them now, are the proofs of re-
action in the public mind—where are the symp-
toms of indifference to the Bill ? Where the
signs that the cry for Reform was a passing ma-
nia, or the frenzy of a moment ? But not only
is the spirit of the public unchanged respecting
the necessity of a Reform in the representation
of the country, but it is determined, so far as it
is concerned, that nothing shall be left undone to
insure the passage of Lord Grey's Bill entire
and unmutilated. The people of Leeds have
already met to petition the King to create such
a number of Peers as may be necessary for
that purpose. In Edinburgh, a meeting is
to be held to-morrow, for the purpose of
agreeing to petition the Lords—" that the
Reform Bill may speedily pass into a
a law without mutilation, or any departure
from its effective principles"—in Glasgow similar
proceedings are in agitation—and there appears
to us to be no doubt that by the time the House
of Lords shall go into Committee on the Bill,
its tables will groan under the weight of peti-
tions, all breathing the same ardent spirit in be-
half of Reform—all praying that the Bill may
soon pass—all evincing a determination that their
prayers cannot be unheeded with impunity. We
are aware that these plain matters of fact
are treated with ridicule, or attempted to
be held up to scorn, by the chiefs and minions
of that oligarchy, in whose sight the people
are nothing, and the continued power of a
fraction of the ariscocracy every thing, as
momentary ebulitions of popular frenzy, having
its origin in the persuasions of the Press, and
not in a deep-rooted and steadfast conviction of
the manifold iniquities of the boroughcracy. We
would, in good faith, bid them beware of. acting
on such sayings. They may rely upon it, whe-
ther it be the one or the other—whether the
Press be driving on the Public, or the united
voice of the public impelling the Press forward
in the career of Reform—that the same result
must be realized—that the same doom awaits all
the abuses of a long and grievous system of mis-
representation. The people were long and
forcibly held back from even pointing the finger
of friendly counsel to even the smallest of these ;
but they are now up,—rushing forward like a
torrent, and woe to those who shall attempt to
stem its course.—Morning Advertiser.

BELFAST QUARTER SESSIONS, APRIL 16.

Leonard Ingram was indicted for mangling the
corpse of Jane Cinnamond, and for taking her head
to the house of her aged mother, for the purpose of
outraging her feelings.
Ann Dickson, examined by Mr. R. MONTGOMERY
—Was present on the 7th of March, in the grave-
yard of Ballinderry, and saw prisoner standing on a
coffin in a grave which he had opened. Saw him
take out shavings, a piece of flannel, and some hair.
The coffin was full of water. Saw prisoner put in
his hand and take out a head, saying, " here's her
head; I'll take it up to old Susy (meaning deceased's
mother), and let her make much of it." Prisoner
said it was the head of Jane Cinnamond, and he went
away with it in his hand towards the house.
Cross-examined—Has heard that prisoner was
blamed for being a resurrection man. Deceased
was buried a year last Christmas. Never heard
that her friends had charged prisoner with raising
dead bodies.
Th )mas Hopes—ls one of the churchwardens.
Recollects the 7th of March. Saw Ingram on the
road coming towards Mrs. tiussel's home, between
five and six o'clock in the evening, carrying a
human head. Asked him where he was going with
it. Prisoner replied, " he was taking up Jane
Russel's head to her mother." Witness advised him
to take it back to whence he got it, but prisoner re-
fused. I saw him take the head up in the direction
of Mrs. Russel's house.
The Barrister briefly charged the Jury, who
found the prisoner Guilty. To be imprisoned 18
months.

Mr. KEAN, Who had been for some time con-
fined with the gout at his villa at Richmond, is ctiLl to be
so fast recovering as to give. expectation of his shortly ap-
pearing at Dury-lane. It is stated that for some portion
of the time he has" been confined, his knee was actually
swola to the size of his body,