The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-07 00:00:00

HALIFAX.

On Tuesday, at noon, a public meeting of the inhabitants
of Halifax convened by the constables, in consequence of a
requisition signed by 125 of the principal inhabitants, was held
in the Old Assembly Room, for the purpose of considering of
the propriety of petitioning the House of Lords to pass the
Municipal Corporation Reform Bill, unimpaired in any of its
essential provisions. The meeting was numerously attended.
On the motion of Mr. Samuel Hodgson, John Akroyd,
Esq.,- the senior constable, was called to the Chair.
Mr. JONATHAN AKROYD moved the first resolution.
Mr. MICHAEL STOCKS, jun., seconded the resolution, which
was then put from the chair and carried unanimously.
Mr. SAMUEL HODGSON, in moving the second resolution,
hoped the people would be fully alive to the importance of car-
rying this measure through the House of Lords, in all its
length and its breadth ; and insist upon having the Bill, the
whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill.
Mr. G. BEAUMONT seconded the resolution.
Mr. J. W. LONSDALE then read the petition which he moved
the adoption of, the prayer of which was, that the Hoese of
Lords would pass the Municipal Reform Bill then before the
House, without impairing any of its material provisions. Mr.
Lonsdale prefaced his motion by a few remarks, showing the
necessity and extent of the proposed measure of Corporation
Reform, the passing of which they were pressing upon the
House of Lords.
• iv,`;-. Josn. NICHOLSON, in seconding the petition, said the
duty of people was to keep moving, and to bring forth
more streßztu as it was wanted.
Mr. B. IC golden, Mr. J. Hoatson, and Mr. John Baldwin
addressed the mee:.lg• in similar terms.
We never observed meeting in which there existed such
cordial unanimity. There was not a single discord in the
whole of the proceedings to ma' fur a moment the harmony
of the meeting.
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_BRADFORD.
Oa the same day, at eleven o'clock, p.m., a bl meeting
was held at Bradford, in the spacious area connecter, v;ith the,
warehouse of Daniel Salt, Esq., to petition the Hot:se et
Lords to pass the Corporation Reform Bill now before t..12`1
House, without impairing any of its material provisions. The
meeting was convened by the coristables,'upon a requisition
numerously and respectably signed..
On the motion of Mr. FORBES, the Chair was taken by
ELLIS CONLIFFE LISTER, Esq., M.P., who opened the busi-
ness of the meeting by reading the requisition.
Mr. JOHN BROODEN proposed the first resolution, to the
effect that that meeting viewed with deep regret the steps
taken to delay the Municipal Corporations Bill now before the
House of Lords.
Mr. FORBES seconded the !Volution, which was to the fol-
lowing effect :
" That the meeting views with regret the :iisposition manifested
by the House of Lords to delay the passing of the Municipal Re-
form Bill, and that it is expedient to petition that Right lion.
House to ass the Bill without impairing any of its material
provisions.'The resolution having been put from the chair, was carried
with only one dissentient, amidst loud cheering. The person
who dissented held up both his bands against it.
A petition to the House of Lords was then mail by gr.
Farrar to the same effect, the adoption of which was moved by
Mr. Leah.
Mr. EDWARD BAINES, jun. (of the Leeds Mercury), who
attended by invitation,_ came forward to second the resolution,
and was received with cheers. lie was peculiarly pleased to
second a resolution which confided their petition to Lord Mel-
bourne, because that Minister had nobly done his duty to his
country, and because all the support of the people would be
needed in the situation in which he stood, opposed and
menaced in the House of Peers. Ministers had not deserted
the people, and he was quite sure the people would not desert
them. —( Cheers. )
The petition was ordered to be forwarded to Lord Mel-
bourne, with a request that he would present it to the House
of Lords.
The meeting then separated, highly gratified with the satis-
factory manner in which the business in which they had been
engaged was conducted.

OTHER YORKSHIRE MEETINGS.
Meetings to petition the House of Lords to pass the Muni-
cipal Reform Bill are in a course of being held in every part
of the 'West Riding of Yorkshire, and the flame will quickly
spread through the whole county. In addition to these, the
details of which will be found in our present publication, an
important and highly respectable meeting was held on Wed-
nesday (but at too late an hour fir us to state the result), at
Wakefield. A meeting on the *ante subject was also held on
.7stonday last-at Otley, when- r(49lntions to petition the Holue

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of Lords to pass the Bill were utionitaariglio#6ed.4°4?-r-'9Pti
tions for the same object are also if] a,..0,--- .Nit
H uidersfield.

X•pt,
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Nothing has been talked of here te4layeitcept the at:61110ot
strangulation of the Corporation Reform Bill, as indicated by
the Tory majority of seventy in the lime of Peel; yesterday
morning. There is, perhaps, no town in his / MajesiVss domi-
nions more deeply interested than Liverp-OatinAbe •uece.s's' of
that great remedial measure, and none, perhapi, which i:xhi-
bits more forcibly the barefaced injustice of tho present 00-
pressive and exclusive system of Municipal Government. Evens'
individual in this great and flourishing community, unconnected
with the self-elected forty-one members who compose the
Common Council, is anxiously looking forward to the destruc-
tion of a system so narrow and selfish in its operation.. The
discussion in the House of Peers on Monday was looked to by
every one as decisive of the fate of the measure. The greatest
excitement prevailed, hardly surpassed by that which existed
during the progress of the Reform Bill.
A meeting of the most influential Reformers was held dur-
irim the furcnoon, for the purpose of givinr, expression to the
public indigiration at the conduct of the Tory Peers. It was
datermined to call a town',-, meeting, which is arranged to
take place on MonjaY next. The leading gentlemen present
deemed it an act of his
lly and a waste of time to think of peti-
tioning the House of Lor:42. wlt as resolved to address his
Majesty's Ministers, exhortin them to be firm, and to per-
severe under the temporary 'dis Ippointment which they have
experienced at the hands .of the Lords. It was also re-
solved to address the People's HoNe, praying them to
second the efforts of the Ministers at the present crisis, and
requesting that such portions of the suppliis as are not yet
voted may be withheld until this measure has become the law
of the land.

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