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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 18S2.

ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND QUEEN AINII
THEIR RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE.

ft being known that the KING would come t(
town to-day, the greatest popular feeling was ex
cited, and the line of road from Windsor to St
James's Palace was thronged with people read)
to receive him.

At a quarter past twelve o'clock,, the Royal
carriage reached Hownslow, where a strontt
guard of about twenty men of the 9th Lancer
joined the Royal carriage, in which were
the KING and QUEEN. The postilions passed
on at a rapid rate, and on entering the town of
Brentford, the people who had assembled in great
numbers, began to groan, hiss,-and make the
most tremendous noises that can be imagined--
The escort kept behind and close to the car-'
riage ,windows, or in all
.probability mischief
would have ensued, as we were told a number
of clots of dirt were hurled at the car-
riage. Along the roads to London the people
expressed their feelings in a similar manner, and
when the carriage entered the Park, the mob sa-
luted their MAJESTIES with yells .and.execra-
tions of every description, which we refrain from
publishing. The moment the carriage entered
the Palace-yard the gates were closed.
Shortly after the arrival of the KING, the
Duke of WELLINGTON arrived at the Palace,
and, if possible, the people treated him worse
than they did the KING. The Duke remained
in conference with his Majesty about twenty
minutes, and then left the palace, amid the most
astounding yells of the populace.
It is with feelings of deep and unfeigned re-
gret we announce the above—'-a week since, only
a short week since, the KING was in full pos-
session of the greatest popularity any earthly
MONARCH could enjoy, and now behold
the change—by whom has it been effected ?
The New Administration will not be an-
nounced to-day, it cannot before Monday.—
Will it ever be announced at all?

It was expected, by many well-informed per-
sons, that the Duke of WELLINGTON would

have shown himself on the Treasury Bench in
the House of Lords last night, although n,:
new Administration existed, to the formation of
which many difficulties have presented them-
selves. The faction, however, are desperate,
and in a phrenzy of despair are capable of at•
tempting anything. A conservative Cabinet
will be formed ! And what is a conservative
Cabinet ? Fellow-countrymen, you know by
long and painful experience, it is a standing
Committee to promote the interests of the Oli-
garchy at the expense of the nation. It cannot
last however,—the attempt is as monstrous as
its success is happily impossible. Sir ROBERT
PEEL declines office, though he promises to
support the Anti-Reforming Administration.
This looks well—Sir ROBERT is a man of
exceeding shrewd and quick discernment on
some occasions. Lords HA R ROWBY and
WHA RNCLIFFE both decline office: although
they opposed the Reform Bill, they did not seek
the dissolution of Earl GREY'S Ministry, and
the latter is said to have intimated to the Duke
that he must not reckon on his support. This
again looks well, and will influence the votes of
other Members in both Houses.

It is of course impossible for an Anti-Reform
Government to attempt to go on with the pre-
sent House of Commons, and immediately a
Cabinet is formed a dissolution is contemplated.
although the supplies are not voted and appro-
priated. That, however, signifies but little,—
when a general enters an enemy's country, he
takes what he likes for supplies without asking
leave of the owners : that is strictly in accord-
ance with the acknowledged rules o the militar
art. The people, hAever, must fly to their
posts ; every wan should act as if a dissolution
hail already taken place, and be were on a Com-
' mittee to support Reform and Reform Candi-
dates, in every county, city, and borough
where the people have the smallest influence
in returning those who ought to, he their
representatives. Above all, te4 them observe
order and preserve the public peace, and beware
of emissaries cram the head=quarters of the
enenv—Avolye in sheeps' clothing. Union,
, perseverance, good order and determination, will
insure their triumph.
••- Let no reliance be placed on, Foraises and
protestations. The Tor_, s will promise any
thing or every, tlAi,ng, but perform nothing
They wilipeoalise to pass a Bill, or Me
and to do all or more than Lord GREY'S Mi-
nistry ; but believe them not, " the trutjt is not
in them." Lord GREY WOll4l,
Peers and passed the WI; wilt they do this ?
Unless they 40, 40, wait can believe them. It
they 44.4 Wotild they not have swindled their
opponents They will, however, create Peers.
The SPEAKER, it is said, is to be created a
ton,
Peer; the MASTER of the, Ait,ILLS is to be
created
t to L
,014 thePeer,by,oo
ilektaitc
soefat, V ise
Loti,oirld,t
twn4.l.:, it is said;, goes, to the Rolls; Sir JAM ES
SCARLETT iy to be Chief Baron ; Sir E. B.
SuGimi, Attorney-General; Sze. &c.
Mr. BA RING is to be Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, a very appropriate apoointment, ,as he
represents " his breeches,-pockets r• Tin
principal duties of the. oica, however, are likel)
-to devolve Hums, \\ ho is expected to
give gratuitous assistance, that the new
Chancellor of the Exchequer may have sufli
ciant leisure to attend to his darling object the
" conservation" of the rotten_, LADroughs of Ca-
inelford and Thetford.

The Bris4ol PutitTeal Union has proved itself
a worthy ally of that of Birmingham. .::A report
of its most reeent proceedings iftir be fuund .io
another part of The Sun, and those who Alesire
to become acquainted with the opinions anus
feelings of freemen ; to kop,w - how. they think,
what they say, and haw they are prepared. to act,
in a case of ercasi9g emergency, will„ do well to
read it with, the. attention which its paramognt
. importance demands. It is no empty,:ostenta,tiouk
declaration of opinion. No Bnbadi,i7 display of
valour. The Bristol Reformers are 136. Ancient`
Pistols,no Waverers, every se once has
meaning in it. IA a word, every man among them,
is stanch to the back-bone ; every -man among
them is prepared for any and every exigency.
Such as is Bristol, so is all England. The
public ferment increases every hour, hut the
public energy keeps pace with it. The re•
solution to.. pay no time is -.universal. The-1

:esolution to cut i‘ff sl,,,plips through the Hie.
diurn of the Ct. t:c.upnous is equally
universal. bY,

It- is under. these circumstances that his
Grace • of- WELLINGTON takes, or is re-
ported -to take, office. Truly a raost
,nisinvbegirming, and such as holds -out
a Most tempting opportunity for military
dictatorship! But unluckily the Prince of
WATkitioci---svho should• have known better
than to attempt' "'to r►val in his old age, Don
Quixote's assault on the Windmills,—is stopped
at the very threshold of his great resolves, by
the refusal of the people to pay taxes. Not
only this, but at the present moment, from one
end of the country to the other, they are busily
engaged in drawing up directions to their repre-
sentatives in Parliament to stop all further sup-
plies, until the Reform Bill become, entire and
uninutilated, the law of the land.
A dissolution of the House of Commons
will not remedy this evil. It will only ward off—
if it even do so much—the day of reckoning.
Another House will instantly be formed, pledged.
more deeply than ever to Reform. The people,
with the eyes of Argus, and the hands of
Briareus, will allow of no further subterfuge--:-no
further compromise. They will return no rats
to Parliament. All who are not for them, they
will declare against- them. All who cannot
speak out, aye, and.to the point too, will have
their free permission to refrain from speaking at
all.

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The Parliamentary glories Of Lord CH A rAL Es.;
and C 110 K ER'S, and 1-lERfttEs'S are thus
at an end. The race of titled humbugs, political
adventurers, and rank ignorant upstarts is thus
extinguished for ever. The country has at le►,gth
learned to distinguish its friends from its enemies,
and will act accordingly.
Possibly the Duke of WELLINGTON relies:
on the army for support. Alas ! his Grace is
here leaning on a prop, compared to which
a bull-rush were a stout oak. The army, placed
in opposition to the wishes and feelings of three
kingdoms, can and will, do nothing. Fifteen
years of peace have taught the soldier that he is
a citizen; and were even this lessOn unheeded,
still he will not be slow to remember the bar-
ricades of Paris. Besides, the soldier who would:
act must be paid. And how this is to be ac-
complished except by the joint-stock purse of
the Charles-street gang, we cannot, for the life
of us, imagine.
But another manoeuvre of the Duke's party
has also come to our ears. They talk, we un,.
derstand, of tiring out the people by shifts, by
delays, by the Tory plan of alarming their pockets.
But the people, we solemnly assure them, wilt
not be beggared into submission. They will
insist on their rights at all hazards. Mark this,
Prince of WATERLOO, at all hazards ! !

The following forcible, but respectful, petition
to his MAJESTY, imploring him to restore his
late Ministers to office, has been resolved on
by the Council of the Birmingham Political
Union, It is pregnant with important facts,
expressed in language of suitable earnestness
and solemnity :
TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
SIRE,—We, your Ma4esty's faithful and loyal subjects, call r,
ourselves the Council of the Birmingham Political Union,, irn-
Pelied by the consideration of the present alarming crisis el 011 t country, beg leave respectfully to approach your Majesty.
We have abundantly participated in the sentiment, of loyalty
and devotion to pour Royal person, which your Majesty's paternaZ regard for your people has so generally inspired into the hearts.
of our fellow.subjects throughout the empire
These sentiments, cordial and enthusiastic, were in great reset.
sure occasioned by thel Royal message to Parliament, in whieb,
in your solicitude for your people's welfare, your Majesty directed
loth Houses to consider of a measure of Reform in the represen.
tation of the people in the House of Commons, such a measure
as should be calculated .` to secure the prerogative of the CroWe,,
the authority of both Houses of Parlia usiot, and the rights see
liberties of the people."
In pursuance of the Royal instructions your Majesty's Mile's.
ters introduced Bills iete both Houses, the object of which was
to produce those beneficial results so wisely and so graciously con.
templated by your Majesty,
The House of Commons has with indefatigable labour, carc,,
and pereeverence, entertained. and finally passed, the said Dille,
much to, the satisfaction of the whole nation.
At the time when the question of Reform was submitted to the
consideration of the Legislature, your Maiesty's faithful people
were oppressed by grievous and almost intolerable burdens, and
were sufferiog the most severe and general distress—burdens
and distress which had been occasioned h• that system of m is..
government to which it wee your Majesty's paternal dishy,
sition to put a happy and irrevocable determination.
This grievous distress has gone on increasing in extent ens,.
intensity, until almest all the whole of the industrious pe:pulii
;ion comprising the commercial, the manuthcturing, the tradit4,
and the ekticUlettral classes of the community art on the
brink of 171.11.11, and ixinsequently the labouring millions dependent
:in them fox support, are reduced to a state of privation bordce-
ng upon &mine ; but your Majesty's faithful subjects, ezec-oo-
r iged by your benevolent regard for their we are, have ratlently
borne their accurettlated evils in the hope that a House of Com-
mons, chosen by themselves, would be able and willing to proceed.
to the consideration and redress of their grievances.
Your Majesty's gracious intentions for the good of your
People have been conternissupusly frustrated, the House of
Commons wanzonly ins:sited, and the people of England scorn
fully defied by a ciess oiC person., whose interference in this great
have so little sympathy with the King, the I-louse of Comrnom„
or the peeple, 44 to claim to be, in defiance of all three, the or
?nears recognised by the Constitutions, and wile.
Living In the midst of the people of England, of whom wa
constitute a portion, we are well acquainted with their senti-
bmi tears: ofe tihsebry ate of this great and powerful netion.
ments, and that acquaintance enables ux to assure your Majesty
your Majesty's gracious
most respectfully, that their hopes have given way to the wildest
despair, and that their pzekleut, cheerful, loyal confidence- ir.
r'r-,,,-eajOrnAiititheir regard has been changed into violent exaspereizeo
alseiltet those who haves° callously disre-
arded the wisb,ea.of theissing, the /louse of Commons, and the people. In tllieaWfsi,latete of the public mind, of which one day's
con t i inAznce is. f,ra ;kht with thegreatest damger,we look up to your
NialeetYsia NYbosii hands are still placed the destinies of a
nation, and we respectfully implore your Majesty, as the father
of your people, to raise from the deep,. of despair, to call to the
Royal Councils those Ministers in whom only they can place corr°
fidence, and forthwith to exorcise that prerogative with which
your Majesty has been issvcsted by the Constitution, so as to
orotect the Royal ze,thority against the usurpation of an Olt.
earchy, to tout arm the legitimate functions of the House of
Commons, and by the.reetaration of their indispeztable rights,
to miss'. again in the .sieerts of a happy and gratelul people.
THOMAS ATTWOOD, Chairrmin,
And Thirty-nine Members of the Council
Birmingham, May 11, 1832.

We understand on goud authority, that this
morning Sir. R. PEEL was offered a high
situation in the new Administration, Which he
it once declined,

'rile latest rumour respecting the embryo
eOLIGNAC Administration, now just about to
chip the egg-shell, and launch •itself into life
and action, is that the great Duke has resolved to
act only with Tories. So much the better.
It will precipitate the crisis—that awful crisis,
which every hour hurries forward, which the
country has long foreseen, long deprecated;
but for which it is fully prepared. Happen
.vhat may the dungeon, or the sc:Afold, the
Aeople's resolution is taken.. They will not
yield, till their rights are restored to them.

At the meeting of the Members of the
House of Commons, which took place at
BOODLE'S on Thursday, previous to Lord
EBRINGTON making his motion, his Lordship,
%ho was in the Chair, addressed himself to Mr.
O'CONNELL, and inquired whether he was to
xpect his supports Mr. O'CONNELL immedi-
itely and ma,ifully replied, that although Lord
GREY'S Ministry had effected little for Ireland,
yet as the interests of England were at stake, she
brew. her grievances overboard for the moment,
and that he would cordially assist in promoting
he great cause of Reform—a declaration that
vas received with enthusiastic cheers.
We re-
:oice that a real UNION of feeling and sentiment
s at length taking
place between the two
ountries.

The Sheffield Courant, announcing the re-
ignation ot. Ministers, has, we perceive, been
it into deep mourning.

RECORDER OF NEWCASTLE.—This gen-
-I,lnan, whose name, is COOKSON', died rather suddenly ou
hunklay. Mr. LQSa and Mr. Nurfax afe spoken of as hi,
iiccestari,