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REFORM.

The LORD ADVOCATE presented a petition from
the magistrates and corporation of Dumfries in favour of
the Reform Bill, and he called the attention of the House
to the petition, because it recommended that a plan should
he adopted different from that which the Bill proposed
with regard to the registration of votes in boroughs. In-
stead of having all the duties incident to the registration
of votes iu all the places in a county cost upon the Sheriff
of that county, the petitioners suggested that a part of
that labour might be removed from him by throwing upon
the Corporations and Town Councils of all the burghs the
duty of effecting that registration of votes in their respec-
tive burghs.

The /kTTORWILY-GENERAL, the Loan ADVOCATZ, Mr.
KENNEDY, and other Gentlemen, stated that they had in
their possession petitions relating to'the present state of the
country, agreed to in consequence of what had lately oc-
curred with regard to the Reform Bill ; hut that, under
existing circumstances, they should forbear to present those
petitions at this moment.
Mr. C. GRANT presented a petition from the inhabi-
tanta of the colony of Sincapore, relative to the state of
that colony.
Mr. HUME trusted, that if the Right Hon. Gentle-
man continued in office, he would take some steps to se_
cure to the inhabitants of that colony the benefit of an
uninterrupted administration of justice. He had lately
received letters from that colony, complaining of the in-
convenience that had been suffered in consequence of the
absence of the Recorder.
Mr. C. GRANT was aware that there had been an
Opinion among the inhabitants that justice could not be
administered when there was no Recorder in the colony,
but that opinion was erroneous, and the error had been
corrected, He had the pleasure, however, in being able
to inform the Hon. Member that a Recorder was now ap-
pointed, and would shortly set sail.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Seven.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL's,
THE DERBY.
6 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Trustee
8 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Harriet colt
8 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Beiram
10 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Margrave
12 to 1 agst Mr. Yansittart's Perion
15 to 1 agst Lord Mountcharles's Minster
30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Folly
The rest as before.
Nothing doing in the Oaks or St. Leger.

SIR RALPH ESHER.—" Among the most
striking passages in this work is the picture of the plague
in London.- It is sketched lightly, bit every word tells,
and the personages called to play their parts on the scene
are such as will not be easily forgotten. The episode too,
of the naval engagement between the English fi et under
the Duke of York, and the Dutch, off LowestotTe, is en-
titled ti our highest praise, and gives us the most striking
proofs of how cavaliers and roundheads could fight in unity
when the honour of Old England was in jeopardy.
Scotsman.

REFORM- MEETINGS.

GREAT MEETING AT EDINBURGH:

EXPRESS CONCLUDED FROM OUR SECOND EDI-
TION OF YESTERDAY.
Agreeably to the instructions of a very numerous meet-
ing of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, held in the Waterloo.
Rooms, on the 11th inst., the Committee then appointed
called a General Meeting of that important town and its
❑eighbourhood, which took place (Sir THOMAS Dice
LAUDER in the Chair) on Tuesday last, at two o'clock,
for the purpose, amongst other things, of petitioning the
House of Commons to stop the Supplies. Advertisements
calling together the meeting were signed by seventy-two
of as respectable, talented, and influential gentlemen as
probably ever affixed their signatures to advertisements
of any similar nature. From the earliest hour of the day
appointed for the meeting to be held, the streets began
to fill with persons, many of whom appeared to be of great
respectability—the attention and conversations of all being
occupied exclusively on the present most perilous crisis at
which they had arrived, and the termination of the whole
ever being, " Reform, Reform—we must have Reform !"
As the day advanced, so the multitudes increased, until at
length a meeting took place, which, as regarded numbers, in-
fluence, talent, good order, independence, determination,
respectability, &c. &c. must have gratified the heart of all
true Reformers, and was sufficient to bring conviction to the
minds of the most obdurate Tories, that in the face of
such a people, so conducting themeelves, it is as utterly im-
possible for a Tory Administration now to be formed, and
to go on, or that the borongh❑mongering system can longer
exist, or that full and efficient Reform must not be con-
ceded, as it is for the notable handful to transplant Cal-
ton-hill entire into the city of Westminster. The Young
Duke de Bourdeaux was seen at a window in the Palace
as we passed Holyrood House into the King's Park, and a
great number of the Royal suit were seen at the windows
and upon parts of the roof of Holyrood, eagerly and anx-
iously attending to all that was going on from the time the
assemblage began to take place until the meeting was die.
solved and the processions had returned. At two o'clock
all the speakers had reached the hustings, where there was
also ample accommodation made for the Press. At this
period, too, a vast number of persona had assembled in
the Park, and at half-past three the various companies
(twenty, and two deputations from surrounding towns)began
to march into it, four (either four or six) abreast. A re-
port was in circulation that the procession was neither to
display banners, nor to be atte❑ded by music, it being
considered far from an occasion of rejoicing. On the ap-
pearance of the procession, however, it soon turned out that
this report was unfounded, as the companies carried with
them an immense number of handsome flags, and were at-
tended by bands, partly muffled, and playing alternately
" Rule Britannia," and " Scots wha has wi' Wallace bled,"
but no other national air. This, with the banners and
the poles that supported them being all black, produced
a most imposing effect. By the time at which six of the
companies had arrived in front, and in any way near to
the hustings, and, indeed, when it appeared that few more
could get into the Park, it was announced to the gentlemen
on the hustings that there were fourteen more companies,
besides the deputations, who had to join the meeting. On
the interference of one or two gentlemen, the most econo-
mical mode of packing was resorted to, and in a very few
minutes there was one of the most splendid assemblages
that could possibly be expected to take place on any occa-
sion. We would say there must have been from '70,000
to 100,000 persons. The day was most propitious, and
if any thing could have been wantinl to fill the bumper of
gratification to the beholder, it must have been doubly
supplied by casting the eye over the heads of the multitudes
in the Park, to the brow of Salisbury Craig, which was
completely studded with large groups of respectable per-
sons, many of whom were ladies.
THE HUSTINGS
At one end of the hustings a pole supported an immense
broom ; it was made of the Scotch broom, and was about
twenty-five feet in circumference. It had a most signifi-
cant appearance, and afforded great satisfaction. At the
other end was a large painting of the Scotch thistle, with
a garter underneath, bearing the words—" He that
toucheth me shall nut go unpunished."
BANNERS.
Among the numerous flags that were carried were the
following—a small piece of black wood, supported by a
black pole, into which were fastened three large black
feathers with a branch of broom. It bore the words "Re-
form."

A large square flag, black bordered, with a representa-
tion of a bundle of sticks tied together, and bearing the
words—" United, who shall break us?"
A large black square flag with the words—" We shall
be free."
Another with—" No compromise."
A large black crape flag.
A large square flag with black borders, having inside
the words—" Put not thy trust in Princes,—our numbers
are thousands—our hearts but one,"—and below—
" Reform."
The City Arms with " Nemo me impune lacesset."
A tricoloured flag, with " Union is strength." The
next thing was a small bundle of sticks, tied firmly round
with cord, fastened to the end of a pole. This was loudly
cheered.
Then appeared a large square black flag, with a skull
and cross-bones, bearing the inscription " Liberty or
death." This was likewise hailed with immense cheering.
A black flag, with " Trust not in Princes for Reform."
The St. Andrew's masonic colours.
A large black flag, with " Scotchmen, be firm and
united."

A ditto, with " A Reform Rill or no Supplies."
A large black flag, with the words " Grey, Brougham,
Russell, Althorp, and the People."
An immense black square, with the representation of
Death, and bearing the inscription " We shall live."
A large black flag, with " Firm and united ; deceived,
but not defeated."
A large black flag, with the representation of
Death by exhibiting a raw (as it was called) head with
cross bloody hones, and having written underneath, " Ere
we yield." Holyrood House was almost rent with the
cheers that this drew forth.
A large black flag, with " Grieved, yet not without
hope."
A ditto, exhibiting Death, and with the words, " Pity
the poor old King." This was hissed by some, and passed
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" Chair, chair!" having been now loudly vociferated
for, and it being a quarter to three o'clock,
Sir Jas. GIBSON CRAIG rose to move that the chair he
taken. In doing so, he said—Gentlemen,we have now ar-
rived at a crisis of greater danger than perhaps this country
ever witnessed before. The hopes of the nation have been
blasted.—(Hear, bear.) The oligarchy, the base kw-
roughmongering oligarchy, has triumphed over the wishes
of the people.—( Hear, hear.) A King has surrendered
himself to that triumph ; and the question, gentlemen, is,
are we to submit ?--(Loud cries of Never, never !) The
answer to the question, gentlemen, lies with the people.
--(Hear, hear.) Is the voice of the people to be heard?
—(Yes, yes, it shall, it shall.) Or is it to be totally and
for ever overpowered by the voice of a few individuals?
(No, no, it shall never be.) Gentlemen, it cannot be. The
cause, though it is not now in such favourable circum-
stances as it was formerly, still it is in your own bands.
—(Hear, hear.) The cause, if you are firm, if you are
united, if you are temperate—if you avoid all confusion
and tumults of every kind—(Cries of We will, we will !)
and if you obey the laws, as every good man must do,
your cause must. triumph. Gentlemen, it is necessary
at such a meeting as this we should have a person in
whom we can thoroughly depend to preside over it. It is
absolutely necessary to have one whom you know to be a
true Reformer to fill the chair.—(Hear, hear.) It is ne-
cessary to have one who shall dare to be honest in the
worst of times ; and, therefore, I shall take the liberty of
submitting to you that Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, of Foun-
tain Hall, be called to the Chair on this most important
occasion.
Sir THOMAS a CI( LAUDER was then called to the
Chair by universal acclamation. The cheering having
subsided,
Sir THOMA s said—Reformers of Edinburgh—(Hear,
hear)—your unanimous call of me to the chair of this
meeting of Reformers of gentlemen and of my fellow-
citizens might well have filled my breast with pride, if
every spark, if every atom of feeling had not been extin-
guished by that gloom which has so
.suddenly and so un-
expectedly obscured the political horizon of these islands.
When we recently met here, under very different pros-
pects, who could have expected that those prospects were
to have been so soon clouded ? Who could have expected
that ever such a meeting as this could have been necessary
to have been called ?—a meeting, the necessity of which
by every one present must be deplored, as it must be by
every patriot and by every thinking man throughout the
whole of these Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen,
whatever may now be the aspect of the sky---whether it
may portend sunshine, or whether it may portend tem-
. pest, I say that Reform, that Reform we must have.—
( Hurrah, and immense cheering. ) Gentlemen, your cheers,

which now aweicea the echoes of thtsse rbralUltle hills of
.aura, will be so responded to from every part of Scotland
and from every part of England, and from every part of
of Ireland—(Hear, hear,)—that we must have Re-
form—(Hear, hear)—a Reform, as broad and as
deep, and as satisfactory in &I respects, as that measure fee
originating which, and for so honestly and for so perse-
veringly enfarcinc it up, even to the last moment of hope.
we owe to Earl Grey and his colleagues so endless a deb,
of gratitude.—(lmmense cheering from all quarters.)
Nay, gentlemen, even for their very last act—that act—
the act of resignation, which we all of us so much deplore,
we cannot help loving and honouring them.—(Hear, hear.
hear.) For, by their retirement with all the purity of
unblemished statesmen, they have spread a departine
,Ilory—a departing glory upon that Bill, of which they
were the honoured authors.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen.
very strange rumours have been going abroad, and have
reached my ears—rumours, indeed, which I can hardly
credit. It has been said that some of the most deter-
mined, and some of the most uncompromising enemies
of Reform have agreed to take office, and to
carry through the Bill—nay, the whole Bill.—(—
the fellows! and loud laughter and cheering.) If this reall)
be the case, I must say that such political apostacy has
never before been carried to so lamentable a state of de-
gradation during the whole of our history of all political
affairs.—(Hear, hear !) I remember a saying of the ce-
lebrated Leviathan Hobbes, whom I dare say you have
all heard of—(Laughter) —he declared, on one occa-
sion, that if he were cast into a pit, and the devil
were to have the politeness to come up to him and
say be would put forward his foot to help him out,
he certainly would avail himself of the limb of his
Satantic Majesty, in order to assist himself out of the
pit into which he had fallen.—(Much laughter.) Now,
looking at the question on this occasion in the abstract, it
certainly may be a matter of little consequence to us Re-
formers from what set of Ministers we may receive a full
and an efficient system of Reform—(Loud cries of Oh !
yes, it does !) But, Gentlemen, we have too much
British feeling—we have too much of British firmness;
we have too much of British courage—above all, we have
too much of Scottish warmth of heart—(lmmense cheer-
ing)—ever to forget the services of such men as Russell
—(hear, hear)—Althorp—(hear, bear)—Brougham—
(hear, hear)—and Grey.—(Hear, bear.) And refreshing
and renovating as the fresh draught of free election might
be to our thirsty souls, I do say, that the whole sweetness
of the cup would be embittered to us, if it were to be
offered to us by the foul and polluted hands of men who
have so shamefully disgraced themselves—(lmmense
cheering)—men who have been all along struggling by
every possible dirty means--(hear, hear)—to put into our
cup dish-water, ashes, and wormwood...--(Loud cheers.)
No, my friends, we can never put confidence in such men
as those. We can never put our trust in such pretended
converts—in such shameless renegadoes even to their own
principles—(Hear, hear)—men whom even their own
party must despise and abhor.—(Hear, hear.) In such
men surely we never can put confidence.—(Hear, hear.)
And for my own part, gentlemen, I am free to confess
that I would almost be content rather to remain at the

bottom of the pit into which they have just flung us, than
to lay hold of the cloven foot—f Hear, hear)—which they
might thrust down to help us out with.—(Very great
cheering.) Gentlemen, as I know it to be the intention
of the speakers generally to address you very shortly, so I
shall feel it to be my duty, in order that you may the more
speedily get rid of the extreme pressure, and other in •
conveniences that you are now subject to, to draw my
speech to a conclusion, and to allow the important bu-
siness of the day to be proceeded with. But before 1
do conclude, I beg leave to say, that whatever farce
may be enacting elsewhere, we must remember that we
are met here to perform great and important duties to our-
selves and to our country.—(Hear.) I shall merely
therefore call upon you, only re-echoing, in fact, what my
friend, Sir James Gibson Craig, has already so much
better expressed than I can do—merely call upon you to be
united—(Cries of We will, we will !)—to be firm—(We
will, we will !)—to be temperate—(We will, we will !)—to
be prudent—(We will, we will !)—to be orderly—(We will,
we will !) The duty of presiding over so vast a multitude
as this might very naturally be considered, even by my-
self, as involving a very awful responsibility, did I not
know the materials of which it is composed;—.(Hear)--
but if I had not been all my life long acquainted with the
character of my countrymen, the remembrance of their
orderly conduct when congregated here the other day—
congregated in this Royal Park—would have made me
fill this chair without one anxious thought, as 1
shall now do.—(Loud cheers.) Allow me, then, to re-
quest that in proceeding to the business of the day you
will hear the resolutions which will be laid before you, and
the admirable and highly constitutional petition that is
founded upon them, with attention, and give them all that
consideration which is due from deliberating Scotchmen.
In conclusion, I have only to, entreat that when the meet-
ing shall have been dissolved, you will all disperse and re-
tire, every wan to his home, with the same decorum and
good order which you are in the habit of observing every
Sunday on retiring from church.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
JOHN ARCHIBALD MURRAY, Esq. (Advocate)—My
friends and fellow-citizens, I require all your indul-
gence, suffering as I now do under a cold, which may
make it extremely difficult for me to cause myself to be
heard at any great distance. I address you now
with feelings very different from those with which I ad-
dressed you in this field but a short time ago. It was
then joy, hope, and confidence. Now it is regret, sorrow,
dismay, and 811 but despair—despair we never shall.—
(Immense cheers.) From what has all this arisen?
First, from the vote of 151 individuals—(Cries of " Shame,
shame !" and hisses)—then from a refusal to follow the
advice of Earl Grey and the late Ministers.—(Yes, yes—
down with them !) By what means that has been
brought about, whether by domestic intrigue—(Hear,
hear, and hisses)—or by foreign gold, we know not; but
in tune, and in due time, too, the truth will be known.--
( Hear.)—What we have now to consider is, what it is that
we have to do—what it is that it is our duty to do. It is
to have recourse to that House of Parliament which is
firm and steady to iis duty--to the Commons House of
Parliament—(Loud cheers)—to them to address our pe-
titions; to say to them, that we are ready and steadfast
in our duty, and to pray them to be so in the performance
of theirs.—( Hear, hear.) But while that is the subject of
our meeting, and the great duty we have to perform this
day, I cannot allow this occasion to pass away without
addressing to you some further observations. It is not
the duty of this day alone, but of every day to come, for
us to be firm and steady. We have times to face of great
difficulty and of great peril; and how to judge of them
now is perhaps beyond the ken of the wisest man,
still we must form our opinions uncertain as they may
be of the future, by a recollection of the past.—(Hear,
hear, hear.) What is it that has hitherto, and for
the last 40 years prevented our formerly attaining what
appeared lately to be, and what I hope is still within our
teach—that Reform to which the country is entitled ?
(Hear, hear.) Is it the efforts of our enemies?—
(Hear, hear, and cries of Yes, yes.) But is it the effort
of our enemies alone ?—(No, no!) They were, indeed,
aided by other circumstances—(Hear, hear.) These is,
alas ! a body of men in this country, who look upon their
fellow-citizens with distrust—( Hear, hear)—and with
abhorrence—(Hear, hear)—and who have no idea of
governing them but by fear., by chains and by outrage.—
'Loud cries of Hear, hear.) But let me tell you how

are they able to do that.—(Sneers and laughter.) How
have they done it hitherto ? I say from the want of pru-
dence, of firmness, of caution, on our part, and from fill-
ing into the snares which they lay often for the honest, and
always for the unwary.—(Much cheering.) Look back to
past times, and they will enable you to look forward to the
future. I trust that which has been will not be again, but
no one knows what may be attempted.—(Hear, hear.)
We may see an attempt to establish despotism abroad
and military Government at home.—(Hear, hear, hear.)
We have seen the aspirations of freedom formerly in every
country checked by British gold, and despotism supported
in British blood.—(Shame, shame.) But in what way
are we to act against that ? There are men, no doubt,
now, who would rejoice again to see the Habeas Corpus
Act suspended, green bags carried into Parliament--
(Hear, hear, and laughter)—and citizens condemned to
chains ; but if we are wise, if we are prudent, if we are
firm, if we are united, they never can nor dare bring
about those scenes again.—(Much cheering.) How has it
been done ! I don't know if any of you have ever heard
of what is called a decoy for wild ducks.—(Much
laughter.) How is that done ? They get some four or five
or six wild ducks, keep and feed them well, teach them to
go under nets, and then send them abroad to decoy their
wild brethren to come into those snares.—(Hear, hear.)
Such things have been done—such things have been at-
tempted with success; but I say if Scotchmen are now
wise—and I pray that Irishmen—whom next to my own
countrymen I behold with affection and love—(Cheers)—l
pray that they may be equally prudent, because whatever
we may have felt in this country is a mere nothing to the
horrors that have been inflicted on Ireland—(Hear, hear,)
it' we are wise and prudent any such attempts in future
must fail.—(Cheers.) 1 know that in this country, how-
ever, there were sufferings for political crime. I dent wish
to revive the old calamities or disgraces of my coun-
try, and I should never have alluded to them it
it were not as a caution to all—to all, even the most im-
prudent, and the moat unwary. Beware of such times.
It is possible that they may occur again. 1 say follow

the wise come...follow the safe path—follow the line of
the law, and then I say you will be safe. But do you
tsk me how ! I say, say nothing in private which you
.vould not now say. I say in the presence of these thou.
ands, and thousand., and tens of thousands, do nothing
night or in secret which you would not do in the open
ce of day.—(Loud cheers.) Then, I say, you will he
'tie ; but on the contrary, the person who acts otherwi-e
—the person who shows violence and who forgeta the safe-
guards of the law, not merely does harm to himself but
the greatest injury to the cause, and gives the highest tri-
umph to the enemy.—(Hear, hear.) That is the source
of all triumph to them as it is of all evil to you, and if
there can be a means of getting such men I rought for-
yard, in all probability, if the times grow worse, it will
'); attempted. Be wise and be prudent, and they will be
'educed to the necessity of only hanging their own spies.—
(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, in these circumstances I
conceive you are all united, all firm—(cries of Yes, yes !
from all parts,) all resolevd to be moderate and good tem-
red—not that moderation which consists of a mere
mawkish indifference or yielding up of your opinion—and
out those feelings which some religious sectarians have,
hating all those whom they approach the nearest to—Re-
formers are to love all Reformers.—(Hear, hear) you are
to have no difference with any who are honest and sincere
in the cause.—(Cheering.) If Reformers act thus they
are sure of triumph. This triumph must and it will be
achieved. Whether a course of violence shall be attempted,
or whether there shall be Reform yielded up and doled out
to us, in either case our triumph is certain if we are firm
and united. The speaker then proposed the first resolu-
tion. (See Advertisement. )
Sir JOHN HAMILTON DALRYMPLE-Well approving,
Mr. Chairman and Gentl-men, as I do of the resolution
brought forward by my Hon. and L.arned Friend, it is
with pleasure that I offer myself to you as the seconder of
it. My Hon. Friend has addressed you with his usual
eloquence and ability, and has, in fact, so completely dis-
cussed the resolution he has brought forward, that he has
left only very little for me to say. But, gentlemen, that
is of the less consequence, as I presume we are all come
here more to do business than to make or to hear long
speeches.—(Hear, hear.) I shall content myself, there-
fore, with saying, that as a staunch Reformer—(Hear,
hear)—and as one alive to the best interests of his country,
I sincerely, most sincerely regret to find that• a temporary
impediment has been thrown in the way of this greet mea-
sure, upon the accomplishment of which your hopes did
and still continue to rest.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen,
it is some consolation to us all to know that Earl Grey
and his colleagues (as has been stated to you before) have
acted an excellent part throughout this business.—(Hear,
hear.) They have been under touch difficulty, but they
have acted in that way which makes them deserve, and
richly deserve, to be honoured by their country.—(Great
cheering.) Gentlemen, the late Administration have, in
fact, carried Reform.--(Hear, hear, hear.) Gentlemen,
Earl Grey has made all men Reformerss—(lmmense cheer-
ing.) Why, we have heard from the chair, and I have
heard elsewhere the same, that even the Duke of Wel-
. _ _

lington—(Great hissing, and cries of Away with him,
away with him !)—well, there is another great Anti-Re-
former—Lord Ellenborough.—(Deafening hissings.) Why,
gentlemen, he is for scot and lot suffrage.—(Hear, bear,
hissings, and laughter.) He is not satisfied with the 101.
franchise. We would all joyfully accept that ; but he will
make you all scot and lot men.—(Cries of Away
with him away with him ! and hisses.) But there as
still a greater favour that Earl Grey has given us—he
has favoured us with a definite object to pursue, and that
object is the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) Throughout all my
experience it was ever cast in our teeth—" What would you
Reformers be at ? What would you have ! One man, like
Lord Ellenborough, is for scot and lot—you are for 101
franchise—others are for something else, and there is no
knowing what will please you." But, gentlemen, Lord
Grey has now given us what we want—that is the Bill,
and the Bill, 1 tell you, is what you are to stick to.—
(Cheers.) I wi,h there was a riband manufactory in this
town, for then I would propose that ribanda were made
with the words woven in them—the Bill—and I am sure
our country ladies would atl show themselves reformers.—
(Hear, hear.) I wish also that the gentlemen who are
taking down what is said, would take this hint—l wish,
if Parliament shoul I he dissolved, that at the elections
throughout England, every man who carried the Bill in
his heart, should carry it also in hie hat.—(Much cheer-
ing.) Earl Grey has united all parties, therefore his mea-
sure must have given general satisfaction.—(lt has, it
has.) Earl Grey's measure must be carried. The voice
of the country has declared in favour of it ; and I, as your
friend, and as a true friend of my country, have only to
say, as indeed my friend has said before me ; but it cannot
be repeated too often, that all your enemies wish is to get
you into a state of disturbance, to get you out of temper ;
but continue to be as you are now—be firm, be prudent,
and Reform you will have—the 101. franchise will be
yours—yours will be the Bill. I beg to second the reso-
lution.—(lmmense cheering.)
The resolution was carried by acclamation.
JAMES Arrow, Esq., Advocate—My friends, fellow
townsmen and brother Reformers, here we are once more
in the field—the field of liberty—(hear, hear) and when
towns like this pour out their thousands and their tens of
thousands to demand their liberty and their rights, success
must be the result.—(Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, we must,
and we shall, be free.—(Hurrah, hurrah—we shall, we
shall.) My friends we are all animated by one soul, we are
joined together in the noblest cause that ever sun shone
upon, to obtain freedom for ourselves, freedom for our
children, freedom for our chi dren's children—(Hear, hear,
hear,) and, let our enemies tremble even in their high
places, for freedom we shall have.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen,
our numbers are at least 60,000—our hearts but one—

(Great cheering.) My friends, we meet to-day in sad-
ness—the progress of the Bill has been thwarted—the
faction has triumphed—the House of Lords has gained
a victory ; but let us tell that House that it is a dear-
bought victory to them.—(Heir, hear, hear.) I am afraid,
I say it with regret—l am afraid that that vote of theirs
has sealed their doom—(lmmense cheering.) They ap-
pear to have been actuated by the madness which pre-
cedes destruction.—(Hear, hear, hear.) But, my
friends, although we have been defeated, yet we have
not been altogether vanquished, as is expressed in one of
your flags.—( Hurrah, hurrah.) What is delayed is not to
be regarded as lost; and by peaceful, constitutional means,
whatever our rights be, we can compel our enemies to
give in.—(Loud cheers.) Let but the House of Commons
refuse the supplies, and where are they?—(The very hills
resounded the cheers that followed this ; and the good
humour was greatly heightened by a person in the crowd
calling out Not a hug [ls.] let them have!) But even
supposing the House of Lords should be dastardly enough,
which I do not anticipate—(No, no)--to give in, still I
say the people have peaceful, and what I will call consti-
tutional means, within their own power, whenever they
may be driven to the necessity, by which they can enforce
their own rights. Let the people refuse the payment of
taxes.—(Great cheering, and cries of No tax-gatherers!)
But, perhaps, we shall be told that the Duke of Wel-
lington.—(Great hissings.) Oh, the Duke of Wellington
(Cries of Hang him, hang him ! and much hissing)—
the Duke of Wellington—(Hang him, hang him !)
—will be able to put this all right by the bayonet, the
sabre, and the grape-shot of the artillery.—(Never,
never !) They tell us be will be able to do so. It has
been hinted at, too, that he thinks he will be able to do
withoutithe vote of the:House of Commons—(Laughter)—
and to govern these dominions by ordinances, like another
Polignac—(Hear, hear)--whom he is shrewdly suspected
to have advised to have made such attempts as we have
heard of against the liberties of our friends the French.—
(Cries of Hang him, hang him !) Will the Duke do
this, I say ?—(Cries of Never, never !) I suspect not,
indeed. He knows the stern stuff of which Britons are
composed; he knows the cool determination of the gallant
English ; he knows the true courage of the chival-
rous Irishman—(hear, hear, hear)—and, above all, the
field of Waterloo, and other well-contested plans,
must have taught him the fearless intrepidity of the hardy
Scotchman.—(Deafening cheering, which lasted for many
minutes.) He must also have received a lesson from the
days of Paris.—(Cheers.) He must there have learnt
how freemen can fight for their rights; arid if he has seen
Britons conquer the valiant French on the field of battle,
does he think—can he madly think, that Britons will
yield in courage and in promptitude to Frenchmen in the
field of liberty ?—(lmrneuse cheering.) But if he does
once try anything of that sort, he will, I can tell him,
receive a still further lesson.—(Cheers.) He will learn
that the peaceful citizen, when in the field for his rights,
can advance with his naked bosom as fearlessly against the
cold steel as the hired soldier can when his breast is pro-
tected by a corslet of brass.—(Cheers.) No, Britons
never will be slaves.—(Cries of Never !) Freemen
we stand, and freemen we will fall.—( Hear, hear.) Now
my friends, one word with regard to our old friend Earl
Grey, that ill treated Minister.—(Hear, hear.) Gentle-
men, when Earl Grey was in the full zenith of his power,
I was always cheery of his praise, but now that he is
out of office—now that his beck is to the wall, I will tell
you my conviction of him. Gentlemen, Earl Grey has
acted nobly.—(Hear, hear.) His last Ministerial speech
said that rather than allow the 101. clause to be raised a
farthing—rather than allow a single rotten borough to be
taken out of schedule A, he would resign—and he has re-
signed.---(Hear, hear.) Earl Grey has died game.—
(Hear.) He is a fine old spirited Englishman, and if
there has been, treachery, the treachery has not been on

Earl Grey's side...(Muoh cheering.) Therefore, I sav
my friends, we will stick to Earl Grey.—.•(Repeated
cheers.) He has been turned out of office, but we will bear
him back to it again upon our shoulders—the shoulders ol
the people's hopes who dare oppose ?—(Hurrah, hurrah.)
Gentlemen, now I have only one word more to say, am
that is with regard to King William—; Hi•sing friar(
every part.) Alas, poor William !—(Pointing to one o
the flags. )—Alas, poor William, and is it come to this?
—(Laughter.) A few short days ago the very mention
of that name would have called forth the plaudits of
hundreds of thousands, whereas it is now only resounded
to by hootings and hissings. But I wish no ill to the
poor unhappy old man. All I would say is, may God re-
move the scales from off his eyes—(Hear, hear, hear)—
may God enable him to perceive betwixt his true friends
the late Ministry, and that artful and corrupt set to whom
he appears to have delivered himself over, bound hand and
foot, and who seem intent on the destruction of
our liberties, that they may advance their own selfish and
paltry ends.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, with these
observations I shall now only move the resolution which
has been put into my hand. It expresses our opinions of
rotten boroughs, but I would not insult you by offering a
single argument on such a subject.
Sir Rosetta. KEITH DICK seconded the resolution. He
did it most cordially. In doing so, he only begged to add
to what had already been said (which he was sure was
the sentiment of that vast assembly), that determined as
the people were to follow up legal and constitutional mea-
sures for the restoration of their rights, the corrupt
boroughmoagering system would soon, very soon, be anni-
hilated, and the foul and corrupted stain left by the term,
never again soil the fair historic page of English future
glory.—(Cheers.)
The motion was carried unanimously.
ADAM BLACK, Esq., merchant—Sir Thomas and fel-
low citizens,—l am sure that the motion which I have the
honour to bring forward, will meet with your cordial and
unanimous approbation. The hopes of the nation have
been cruelly disappointed.—(Hear, hear.) Base intrigue
has done its worst. The secret and envenomed breath of
court minions has poisoned the ear of the King.—(Hear,
hear.) We have lost the services of the most upright, and
of the most patriotic Ministry that ever conducted the
affairs of a nation.—(Much cheering.) Earl Grey and
his colleagues will carry with them into their retirement
the affections of a grateful people and the approbation of
good consciences ; but though the Ministry his retired, is
the Bill lest?—(Cries of No, no, no.) Have not the
people of Englend—have not the people of Ireland—have
not the people of Scotland resolved that they will have the
Bill, and the whole Bill—the Bill in all its extent, and in
all its efficiency ?—(Yes, yes.) Never were the minds of
a mighty nation so uniformly, so unanimously, and so in-
tensely set upon any one object before.—(Hear, hear.)
Never did the irresistible current of public opinion set in
with so uncontrollable a force in one direction ; and is it
to be supposed that the barrier of some 150 coronets and
mitres, with baubles to boot—(Laughter)—that that
shall ever be able to stem so mighty a torrent ?—(Hear,
hear.) Will Mrs. Partington, with her mop and pail, be
able to sweep hack the Atlantic ocean, or will the Atlantic
carry away Mrs. Partington, her mop and pail, and all ?
—(Hear and laughter.) The people, gentlemen, have but
to be true to themselves, and they have the means of ac-
complishing their own object—of accomplishing their own
object without exposing themselves either to the cold iron
of the Great Captain, or the tender mercies of a political
Judge.—(Great cheering.) Money, gentlemen, is the
great indispensable for all purposes—(Hear, hear)—and
for all parties. Neither King nor cobbler can do without
money—high and low must all have it.—(Hear, hear.)
The House of Commons holds the purse ; and though that
House still contains all the contamination—all the filth of
the rotten boroughs, yet while the spirit of the British
Lion is raised, there is a sufficiency of independent spirit
there to balance the weight of corruption, and to leave a
large majority to insure the success of that struggle which
has now commenced between a great nation, determined
to be free, and a small faction of a too domineering, insane,
but privileged incurables.—(lmmense cheerings, and great
laughter.) Let the House of Commons but determine to
withhold the supplies—( Hear, hear)—let them persevere
in that determination, and they will assuredly ultimately
succeed in carrying that Bill, the progress of which has
been thwarted by a base faction.—(Hear, hear.) Were
the present House of Commons to withhold the sup-
plies, the same unhappy and mad councillors by
whose machinations the ill-advised King was induced to
dismiss the most upright and the most patriotic Ministry,
might have influence enough to get that House of Commons
dissolved which has shown itself determined upon procur-
ing those rights to itself and to the people which a small
faction--a base oligarchy—has filched from us, and which
they have shown themselves mad enough to attempt to re-
tain at the most fearful hazards.—(Hear, bear.) But
surely there may be remaining one notable circumstance
which may remind his Majesty what Charles the First
gained when he played at this game.—(Great cheerings.)
And, gentlemen, is it to be supposed that if the present
Members of the House of Commons were sent back to
their constituents, that there is any place that has the
mere shadow of a claim to representation that will not
send back a Reforraer?—(Hear, hear.) We have every
reason to hope that if there is now to be a new House of
Commons, the country will send back a much larger array
of Reformers than have ever yet entered the walls of St.
Stephen's—( Hear, hear)—a host of Reformers, determined
to carry forward the Rill—the whole Bill—the Bill in all
its extent and in all its efficiency.—(Loud applause.) I
beg to move the third resolution.
J. REID, Esq—Fellow Citizens, the people have pe-
tioned the House of Lords and they have been insulted—
(Hear, hear.) Treachery has been added to insult, and it
is only by the House of Commons now refusing the sup-
plies that the country can be saved from revolution.—
(Curers.) We looked to the prerogative for the establish-
ment of our rights ; but that prerogative, so long wielded
against the people—(Hear, bear)—bis Majesty has re-
fused to put in exercise for their• benefit—(Hear, hear,
and hissess.) We prayed that collision Letween the two
Houses of Parliament, might be prevented by a creation
of Peers, because in such a creation of Peers we saw a
constitutional means of insuring the safety of the people's
Bill, and of destroying the faction opposed to our views
for ever. Let us now, with the determination of men
resolved to obtain Reform by all means, call upon the
House of Commons to join in our support, and to bring
about tee fulfilment of our wishes to the fulest extent—so

that we may show even the dullest Tory that the House
of Commons, backed by an unanimous and indignant
nation, can overturn our unflinching enemies, though
basking in the sunshine of royal favour.—(Hear, hear.)
If the House of Commons put itself at the head of the
nation—if it redeem the pledges it gave at the last elec-
tions—if it will now stop the supplies, the battle is won.
—(Cheers.) Let the Tories dissolve Parliament if they
dare—(Hurrah, hurrah !)—and then the people will send
them in such a House as they at present are little aware of.
—(
Hear, hear.) Do they think that we are defeated, be-
cause the King has abandoned our cause?—(Hear, hear)
—or that we are to be governed by female influence?—
(Hear, hear)—or by the influence of a foreign power—a
power which, by defeating Reform in England, hopes to
extend its barbarous and unholy sway to far distant lands ?
—(Cheers.) Are we to be made the passive instruments
of foreign or domestic intrigue ?—(No, no.) Scotchmen,
you will never submit to such abject degradation.—(No,
no ! Never, never.) You will never submit to see your
rights trampled down—never submit to be the slaves of
the vile and despicable boroughmongers.—(Never, never.)
If the House of Commons should be faithful to its trust,
you will stand by it—(We will, we will)—if it should de-
sert although after its last vote lam not apprehensive
of that, you will rely upon yourselves, and you and our
fellow-countrymen will and must conquer.—(lmmense
cheering.) Are you to accept of a Bill less efficient than
that which has been offered by Earl Grey, and responded
to by the whole nation ?—(No, no.) Are you content to
abate one jot in the degree of disfranchisement ?—(No, no.)
In the extent of enfranchisement?—(No, no.) In the
10/. qualification ?—(No, no.) We know the measure
that has been offered to us—we abide by that measure.—
(We do, we do.) We abide by that measure, one of the
greatest excellencies of which is the boroughmongers' hatred
of it.—(Hear, hear.) I therefore call upon you, as men
r,solved to obtain this Bill at all hazards—(Hear)—to
supplicate the House of Commons to refuse the supplies—
(Loud and long cheering)—to supplicate them not to
grant a farthing to a dishonest or Anti-Reforming Minis•
try, but to insist upon the return to office its this way 01
Ministers honest and upright, who will insure to you the
success of the Bill—a Bill which, I say, and which you
say you are determined at all hazard& to obtain.—(lin-
inense cheering.)
Resolution carried by acclamation.

BOYD GREENsilmns, Esq. (Advocate,) My friends
and brother Reformers, I come forward with pleasure to
propose a resolution which I know will meet with your
entire approbation. I mean to propose that we express
unabated confidence in that great man who lately he'd in his
hands the destines, not of Britain alone, but of all Europe.
Need I name Lord Gr ey ? (Cheers.) My friends, it is grateful
at all times to pay a ti ibute to worth, but it is doubly grateful
to pay that tribute at a time when our motives cannot to-
suspected. (Hear.) Earl Grey is no longer in power. Inte-
rested individuals will sneak from him—the obliged will
desert him—the vain will cut him now that the splendour o
station has gone from him; but, Gentlemen, that is just the
moment that men of worth will seize in order to express

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their tAitniratiott of ideidwparablit uuktt.--(l,o‘a
I call upon you, therefore, my countrymen, to declare youet
niabated confidence in, and admiration of, that Nobirt

'eird. (We will, we will.) Noble I call hint—enobli‘
et in compliance with unmeaning folios of speech. hut"
e•cause he is noble in the only true and oroper rims., of the
word.—(Hear, hear.) He is noble by nature.—( Hear,
ear.) However greatly we may regret the late event, it
es been propitious to Earl Grey's time. My felerals,
!teeny persons from the vehemence of their own temper,.
'tents, but with the most excellent intentinna, were lei to
complain of Earl Grey—to question his ability—nay eve.
to doubt his probity. I, thank Gud, never was cf tha
umber. I formed my opinion of him, would it lie presume.
room to say, by myself. I claim no resemblance to him
xcept in this, that I am, like him, not a Reformer
~f modern growth.—(bear, hear, hear.) I saw that
iis talents were undiminished, and I said it wee ifs-
possible that this man should cease to held fast his integ-
rity, and to sacrifice at the end of a long well-spent life
the high reputation he had earned for all that Kings could
give.—(Cheers.) Did I judge rightly ?—(Yes, yes.)
I heard your answer, and you and I did judge rightly.
All those suspicions that were thrown for a moment on
his fame are now gone; all those vapours that rose, and for
the instant dimmed the lustre of his reputation, have die.
appeared now that the splendor of office has quitted
Why is he now no longer in power ? I will tell you whiy.
You all know that old houses are generally invested by
vermin.—(Hear, hear.) Nuw the Courtin an old house—
( Hear, hear)—and we know another old Louse with
which we have had some very intimate concern lately.--
(Hear, hear.) Those houses are haunted I.y the worst of
vermin—(hear, hear)—by vermin which have the sem-
blance of men—l might say something of women too—
( Hear, hear, and laughter)—and who have some charee-
terestics of human nature, but certainly the worst and
most debasing characteristics.—(Cheers.) Those are per-
sons who live and who exist on intrigue—whose wisdom
is cunning, and who hesitate not to employ any artifie"
that they may overturn whatever is hostile to their desires
and accomplish their own sordid purposes.—(Cherry.)
We do not know all the intrigues of Court, but we know
nough to satisfy us that there has been the foulest hypo-
cricy—that there has been the greatest and the most undue
tampering. We may say, perhaps, with some consider-
able confidence, we know that the shaft which struck
Earl Grey came from a German bow.—(Much laughter )
It has struck him, but its venom has reit laid bold. He
lives to guide us by his councils—he lives to lead ua
on to victory, for victory we shall oletiiu.—(Great
cheering.) We shall obtain it, for it is in oar hands. I
we are united—if we join heart and hand we must curry
that Reform which is the object of our wishje. end most
earnest hopes. And why should we be d'eentted
(Hear, hear.) What are we all but brothers, u&ting end
united to redeem our common inheritance trom the
spoilers ?—(Hear, hear.) Let us thee, fire ga ou—let us
show by our conduct that we are deserviee of ti ;
and let us in this great meeting, under this gkricus
canopy, vow that we never will desert the e:e.:,..lard of
liberty—(Deafening bursts of Never, never, n ver !)—md
that we will never relax in one endeavours, satil we shall
have accomplished a complete and . fficiei,t IteMna ot our
CAmstitution.—(Great cheering.) Gentlemen, I beg to
propose the fourth resolution.
ROBERT WILLIAM JAMILSON, W. S. Esq.—Amid all the
gloom and consternation which the appmlling ei,eum-
stances of last week have been well calculated to circulate
thoughout the land, and amidst the people's indignation
And resentment at hopes excited and deferred—deferred
only to be blasted—(Hear, bear)—and rights ostenta-
tiously effered—offered only at lest to be as shamelessly
14 itbdrawn--(Hear, hear)—it is no sm consolation to
entertain a resolution of the nature which I have the ho-
nour to second—a resolution so well and so wor-
thily propounded, that it needs not my feeble
aid to recommend it, but a resolution that
convinces us that though we have been defrau,hed of
our rights, yet that we have not been deserted by those to
whom we bad intrusted those rights —(Cheers.) Our
happiness is still in this, that our chosen leaders, though
by the blackest treachery they have been betrayed into a
perilous ambushment, and there op. nly beset by enemies,
who, under the smiles of a crown, bare thought them-
selves secured—that they are still aisle to rally menu their
standard, still able to encounter a fierce resistance. and still
able, if you are but sincere and united, to et cere a victory
for us as complete as it shall be bloodless.—(Mu di cheer.
ing.) I know it has been said by many that Eirl Grey
ought either to have made Peers long ago, or to have re-
signed ; but I would say, without stopping to ask a ques-
tion about what pledges were given, at what time cou'd
the Ministers--the parents—the nurses of the Bil;—at
what time could they, supposing them to hare been °blip d
to resign, at what time could they have left it more maturea
—more fully fledged—more capable of being able to make
its own way, than at the moment at which they took their
leave of it ?—( Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, when the King
dissolved the late Parliament, the principles of the Bill be-
came for ever secured. The King then put it out even of
his own power to alter what he did, because the majority
of reforming Members then sent up to the House of Come
moan was too great ever to allow the principles of the Bill
to be destroyed.—(Hear, hear.) And, gentlemen, let that
great and steady act of patriotism, performed at a most
momentous crisis—let that act in some manner atone, if are
old man of infirm age, an infirm old man to when) domestic
peace—(Hear, hear, and laughter)—must be the greatest
blessing he can enjoy—an infirm old loan, surrounds: by
the vermin of a Court—the vermin arising from the pro-
lific spawn of a whole century's corruption—(Hear, hear)
—if that old man by those minions has been decoyed

into an act which maims loyalty to blush, and allegiance to
tremble—(Hear, bear, hear)—oh, let that fociner act of
his claim for him some of your pity—some share of your
commiseration. lam borne out in my expeetati,nm that
this will be so, when I see on one of your flags, that while
you are determined to face death rather than submit to have
your rights destroyed, you cars utter " God pity the poor
old King."—(Hear, hear.) But not to continue that
painful subject, I would say, if the principles of the
Bill were then secured, what is it but the temper, the pa-
tience, the moderation, and the persevernrice of the people,
as well as their unabated confidence in Earl Grey and his
colleagues, that can be wanting to make the vic'ory cam-
p'ete ?—(Cheering.) And if we do remain firm and true
to each other, I am sure the House of Commons will go to
the King and tell him that they will never be satisfied
with anything short of the Bill—the whole Bill—the Bill
without any mutilation.—(Cheers.) Let us then with a
stern, calm, and unflinching determination, go on to achieve
our object by all lawful means; and while we are doing
this our enemies may, perhaps, form some conception of

what we could do were we compelled to go beyond the law.
—(Cheering.) Gentlemen, you are nut here to l/a tickled or

amused by speeches—you are here in the face of your
country to swear allegiance to liberty, and eternal hatred
to oppression and the oppressors.—(lrntnense cheering.)

And taking upon yourselves such voWe,.ll_ rthi of thou-

s inds, as you are now doing, you are to look each man hi 6
fellow in his face, and be the witness of his edema oath.—..
(Hear, heir.) And when you retire from this, you will
have to recollect that you retire not as you came, but that
you retire pledged and plighted men to devote your fortunes
your families, your lives, if neceiviarv, fur the victory of
Reform.—(Hear, hear, hear.) When you retire also to
your homes,: you will he bound to go each to his neighbour
to tell him of what you have done, and to obtain his pkdge
that he will go hand in hand with you in accomplishing

the grand object. Nay, even to your children, as they
climb about your knees, you must sly that as they value
your happinrss—.49 they value their own—:“. they regard
their country's weal—they must, aceor4ing to their

strength, devote themselves as you have 4;5 what it
may, to the achievement of litierty.—(Great theerist4.)
I beg to second the resolution wk;ch has beet read to you.
Resolution carried unanimously.
W. GIBsON CRAIG. EsQ., Advocate—Gee:it:eaten, I
rise to propose that the petvion I hold in my hurl tw pre-
sented to the House of C,munions. This meetiroz lam
sure will not be insulted to-day by the propr.srt 0' one to
the House of Lords.—(Hear, Lear.) The monce'avre by
which Earl Grey was lately defeated, shoes OW the ma-
jarity of that House have no fetling in carnrro,u with the
people; and the base trick by which they bare ricce,ved
disclosed to us the deep d,.si;.:n tiny had formed of
also deceiving the people.—(Ctieers.) The House of
Lords, however, is not omnipotent.—(Near, hear.) The
people have still their own branch of the legi-ature to ap-
peal to, and gloriously has it done its duty; placing itself
in the front of the nation, and nobly redeeming the pledges
it had given to the country. This is not a petition pray-
ing the House, in vague and ambiguous phrases, to listen
to our half formed wishes, but it is entreating them in
plain, open, manly terms, as they reg ird the peace and
safety of the country, to take the last resourco whioh the
constitution has afforded us against oppression and misgo-
vernment—namely, to stop the supplic3.—(Great cheer-
,ng.) This is a measure which in our day has never been
resorted to, but in former times it was adopted as the safe-
guard of the liberties of the nation. It is the noblest
privilege which the Commons of this country possess—it
is the last warning which, the people can g.ve of their
determination—and God grant that the watutug may be
effecival.—(Great applause.) It is welt sand in t, to pa.
tition that this is a remedy not beyond the o,Vit,ioll.--
(Hear, hear.) A Ministry is about to be forood of the
enemies of Reform, which can wily come iota power on
either of these two principles :—ls!, To relu e all Re-
form, or what the country will outsider a. sash or, 2,1,

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mite Wedging themseteei CO entry the Bill. The first, I
num, is impossible ; the latter would be incredible, had
not experience taught us, that with the men who are
spoken of as likely to form that Administration, their
principles never stand in the way of their love of office.—
(Hear, hear.) But will or can the country trust them
No:—(Cries of Certainly not.) The country is aware
that these men abhor the very name of Reform, and every
trick end chicanery will be used to render the measure in-
efficient, which they themselves may bring forward. This
mill not he easily done in England, whose Bill has passed
and received the approbation of the House of Commons ;
taut with us it is different, our Bill has just been intro-
duced, its provisions hardly known to the country at
large, and it is now to be shaped, modified, rendered safe,
and comervative by the hands of its bitterest opponents.
They may think, that if they satisfy England, they may
defy us, and that poor Scotland may he treated as she has
:own, like a paltry province of the empire, whose opinions
and feelings are not worth regarding.—(Criers of They
will he mistaken.) Yes, if they do, I, too, tell them
they are mistaken; that day is past.—(Hear, hear.)
Scotland knows its rights, and is resolute and unanimous
;n the determination to possess them. In the beautiful
end forcible language of this petition, " we have sworn on
the altars of our country never to desert this cause," and
we never shall.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, with your
ens/mission I will read the petition.
Mr. GEORGE ADAM, President of the Trades' Council,
seconded this resolution. He had no doubt .hat it would
meet the ready and entite approbation of the meeting.—
(Hater, hear.) The Duke of Wellington could never pay
etsidiers with chairs and tables; and most assuredly any
thing in the shape of supplies to be obtained from him
'Xlr. Adam) would have to he had only in the shape of
some pieces of furniture.—(Hear, hear.) Ile earnestly
called on all housekeepers to refuse to pay taxes. His
epleion had always been that the Conmltuticn of this
country did not know soldiers.—(dear, hear.) The mi-
litary were only soldiers for a time, and on certain twee-
si a s..—(Cheers)—and whenever it might he necessary for
tetizeam to become soldiers, the Great Captain—(Cries of
Ha g the fellow l)—would find that they would corns
forward as wilrngly. and maintain their ground as bravely,
ass any bearer of arms that he might be able to bring into
his inglorious contest, that those citizens might afterwards
enj y their hcnies, their righm, and liberties in peace and
ceeiet.--(G, eat cheering.)
Ti:. resolution that the petition be presented, and the
p;t hion itself, were agreed to, and carried by acclamation.
ANoxaw SX-ENE, Esq. Advocate, said—Mr. Chair-
man and gentlemen, in pronoeing the sixth resolution, I
need not, I am sure, recommend to you firmness and un-
wearied perseverance in the great cause in which we are
engaged ; because that cause is just, and ye are Scotsmen.
_(Year, hear.) But some may think that it is necessary
to recommend to you prudence and undeviating sub-
mission to the laws, though I hope and trust it is only ne-
esseery to remind you that that is your only chance of
s.ucceee. You have been accused elsewhere of being in-
capable of assembling without riot and bloodshed—
Cries of Shame, shame !)—because you are Scotsmen—
(Laughter)—and this calumny may he excused, although
it is said to have been uttered by Scottish lips, because
it was uttered by one of 'hose who have been facetiously
d-norninated your representatives, and who know as little
of your tree character and feelings as you are indifferent
atont theirs.—(Cheers.) Your conduct, during fourteen
moths of unprecedented excitement and extreme provoca-
tion, gives the lie to such assertions—(Hear, hear)—and
the meeting held by you on this very spot, and within
these few weeks, afforded only an additional proof of its
titter want of truth.--(Cheers.) But still, under the
circumstances in which we have once more assembled, I
exhort you to patience, and by that I means not the sub-
mission of a slave, but the calm, and peaceable, and firm
ammtion of your rights, which, as it evinces the fixed
determination of your souls, strikes more terror into your
enemies, than a hundred petty ebullitions of childish, puny
oetrege.—(Cheers.) Every some that is thrown—every
rant that is raised—every breach of the peace and violation
of the law, are arguments in favour of your enemies, and
they desire no better news than to bear that you have
justified their calumnies: and disgraced your cause by open
acts of victim-me. I therefore move this resolution in the
firm reliance that it will not only be approved off, but
fillowed by every one in this great assembly.—(Cheering.)
Mr. Seenteter seconded the resolution in a short em-
phatic speech, which having been put by the Chairman,
-was carried unanimous'y.
G. J. Foaarme, Esq., (Advocate) in moving the seventh
resolution, said, that from what had taken place after the
last dissolution of Parliament, and at the last general election,
• he thought there could hardly be a doubt, that every
man who had a vote or the slightest interest, and who
bad any anxiety at all for the welfare of his country,
would give that vote and exercise that interest only in
favour of candidates who would pledge themselves by the
most sacred ties to withhold the granting of any supplies
until after Parliament had conformed to the wishes of the
nation.—(Hear, hear.) He considered it unnecessary for
him to detain the meeting to any length in dilating on
this point. Had be a voice of thunder, he would send
it lorth to the ears of every Reformer, imploring them
to know well the men whom they returned again to Par-
liament. On that return, it might almost be said, every
thing depended. Let there be a Reforming House of
Parliament, and it would be utterly impossible for the
Home of Lards to succeed in their system of oppression
ref snirchy.--(Cheers.)
A CrENTLEMAN, whose name we did not learn, seconded
the resolution in a short but energetic speech, expressive
of the most perfect confidence in the good sense and un-
flinching eetermination of the voters throughout England,
Ireland, .end Scotland, to return such Members to Parlia-
ment only as would go there under a pledge which would
give satisfaction to their country, and which it would be
impomible for them ever to relieve themselves from.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. CURRIE moved the eighth resolution, in a short
bet animated speech, complimenting the gentlemen who
had formed the two committees of which it was intended
to compose the present committee, for their great industry
and esteeming zeal in the great cause of Reform ; and,
leaving stated lame important it was that all persons who
were chosen to take any leading part in these affairs
should be true, warm, and spirited Reformers, he had no
doubt that the motion would meet the cordial assent of the
meeting.
CRALIEUILD, Esq. Advocate, rose to second
this lesohition for the appointment of a committee to
arrange and forward the petition.—(Loud cheering.)—
In doing so he said—l am sure, my fellow Reformers,
I need not call on you to sien it, I know you will flock in
thousands to append your names to this glorious testimony
of your fixed deterteiration that you will have Reform.—
(Hear, hear.) Yes, my friends, the tables of the House
of Cenamons will groan beneath petitions, petitions
hrsathing the true spirit of firm and high resolve.—
(Cheers.) This is the time to try the zeal and sincerity of
Reformers. Any man can be a Reformer when the cause
is prosperous, but now is the time to put them to the test.
-._(Cheers.) No half-measures will do now. Let us be
iimmal, therefore, only by the hounds of that Constitution
which we venerate in its essence, and which our enemies
Manire in its abuses.—(Cheers.) No step within the
;intim of our constitutional rights is too strong for this
momentous occasion ; any step beyond them would be fatal
in our cause.—(Cheers.) He is no patriot who, in rescu.
lug torn the deep the drowning honour of his country,
would scruple at the familiarity of plucking it up by the
locks. But, let us remember, that while they are no true
friends to cur cause who would desert it when clouds have
passed over it, they are its worst enemies who would now
disgrace it. Lat us persevere in our course calmly, or-
resolutely. We have been all bitterly disappointed,
but who amongst us despairs?—(Cheers.) None. Then
let ns imitate the conduct of our royal Bruce,—(Hear,
hear, hear), who drew from the repealed failures and the
ultimate success of the spider, whose efforts he watched,
the great lesson of perseverance, which terminated so tri-
amphantly.—(Cheers.) We hope much from the fidelity
of toe House of Commons ; we hope much from the pa-
triotism of those Noble Lords who have preserved their
honour and their purity uncontaminated by corrupt so-
ciety— (Hear, bear) ;—hut we hope mote—we hope all
things from the firmness and temperance of the people—
from that union of all hormst hearts which binds
as together in one common cause ; and while one
watchword swells from every tongue, and one prayer rises
front every heart--each grasps the band of his fellow-
reformer M frank and cordial amity.—(Cheers.) Let us
proceed thus, and success, though delayed, is certain.
From the polished shield of firm and cairn resolve the ar-
rows of corruption will glance in impotence aside. Soon
shall we see a Ministry pledged to the whole measure of
Reform fixed in power more firmly and permanently than
ever; and then, under the blessing of God, will peace
and harmouy be restored to our native land.—(Hear,
hear.) Then will the hum of meal a busy voice, and the
click of many an active wheel, tell of a trade revived and
a confidence restored—(Cheers)—then will yon sun beam
on the gladdened countenances of those I now me around
me sorrowing, but not despairing; anal von ancient rocks
again re-echo to the exulting shouts of thousands of eman-
cipated Sotsmen.—(Great applause.)
The resolution wale carried unanimously.
THOMAS GRAHAME, Esq. W. S. then moved the
thanks of the meeting to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, for
hie very elate and excellent conduct in the Chair. In
mem: so he hoped to be ,tcused for expressing his 'wish

that this should not be a vote of mere kern and maiter of
course.—(Hear, hear.) The meeting bad already by
their conduct throughout the day evinced their respect for
decorum and the constitutional authority of the Chair-
man.—(Cheers)—and he trusted it would still further de
so by implicitly following the advice they would doubtlee,
receive, to disperse speedily and quietly.—(Cries of Wt
will, we will.) But more was still due, and a more di-
rect testimony should be borne to the tlutis so well and
so ably performed by Sir Thomas Dick Lauder ; and it
was worthy of consideration under what circumstances he
had officiated.—(Cheers.) How different from our last
meeting were the people of Edinburgh's situation ! Then
they were full of hope, and had their hearts relieved of
heavy burden. They felt as if they bad just escaped from
the dangers of a most perilous abyss. Now they were in
a situation different far ; disappointed of their dearest
wishes, and he might justly say irritated by the bane and
treacherous means which had been resorted to for the ac-
complishment of that end, as much as by the temporary
defeat they had sustained.—(Cheers.) Under such cir-
cumstances they hail now taken a b ild, and as I e c insi-
dered, a judicious position : one from which there was no
means of retreat, from which they could not swerve without
at once sustaining a most disastrous defeat, as well as de-
served ignominy and disgrace.—(Applause.) They were
all now pledged, heart and hand, before Heaven and their
country, never to desert tie great cause of Reform—
(Hear, hear)—nor to yield one foot of the ground they
had that day taken. In this, he would say noble unani-
mity, the Honourable Chairman fully concurred ; and had,
as one of the Committee, a share in the preparation of
those reesolutione and that petition which had that day
been so enthusiastically adopted. They were now ad-
vanced on a path full of peril he admitted, but also
promising success ; at the same time a path from which
one weak or vacillating step might plunge them into the
gulf of anarchy on the one hand, or military despotism on
the other.—(Hear, hear.) Boldness, firmness, and pru-
dence, were now, if ever, necessary. These were the try-
ing circumstances under which the Honourable Chairman
had come forward manfully, and in conjunction with the
other Members of the Committee, to take the field against
a despotic oligarchy—(Loud cheers)—and well had they
been supported by their fellow-citizens. He begged to
move that the thanks of this meeting he tendered to the
Chairman, and, through him, to those Gentlemen who
had previously ai:dt essed the meeting, with three cheers,
than whom they could not cheer truer friends to
liberty and their country. —(Much applause.)
The resolution baying been seconded, and put to a show
of !made, the very air seemed to vinrate with the peals of
applause by which it met the concurrence of all—old
anti young—male and fereale—who formed this vast as-
semblage.
The CHAIRMAN rose to acknowledge the compliment
that had been paid to him. He could not express any
thing like the satisfaction he felt on finding that his con-
duct had so cordially met with the approbation of those
around him. He only wished it had been in his power to
have used other language than the English vocabulary could
supply him with, the more to convince the meeting that
he was a true Reformer, and of his most anxious desire
that all men should become so. The salvation of the coun-
try depended on having the Bill ; and whoever either hid
the opportunity of witnessing, or of hearing a true descrip-
tion of this splendid meeting, could not, by any possibility,
he so blind as to suppose that anything short of the most
efficient measure of Reform could or would be re-
ceived by the people of Scotland, or the nation at large.
—(Loud cheers.) Thanking the meeting for the extreme
decorum that had been ofserved throughout the whole of
the day, he again implored them to return to their respec-
tive homes, maintaining the same order, forbearance and
good humour which bad characterized them heretofore,
as such conduct could not fail to hasten in no tardy way
the accomplishment of that end to which they were all so
anxiously looking. So long es they continue to be firm.
united, determined, and orderly, so long might they rely
on receiving his most hearty cooperation on all occasions
on which his services and presence could be of the slightest
use to his townsmen, his friends, and his country.—
(Immense applause.)
The meeting then sang in the true Scottish style and
spirit " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled ;" and the pro-
cession having turned round, it marched away to the play-
ing of the same air, followed by the others who firmed
this vast assemblage, in the most decorous, peaceful, and
gratifying manner. One portion of the procession was
peculiarly gratifying—that was the part formed of the
Leith and Newhaven sailors and waterman. They formed
a vaat body, marched altogether, in regular order,
dressed all alike in handsome, and apparently new blue
jackets, waistcoat,, and trousers. On the whole it was a
meeting that did honour to Edinburgh ; and as one of the
speakers said, must show not only wh,t the Scotch can
do by law, but may give a foretaste of what they could do
if they were unfortunately compelled to go beyond the law.
We cannot close this report without acknowledging
thus publicly the great civility we experienced from Mr.
Hamilton, the manager of the Leith and London Shipping
Company at Leith, as well as from Captain Bain, of the
Soho steamer, who delayed the starting of their ve,sel for
a considerable time, in order that The Sun newspaper
might on this occasion convey its express by steam (as
well as by land) an experiment which was regarded with
great interest by all on board, and who cheerfully consented
to the Soho's waiting until the na, eting was over that
The Sun's efforts might have a full opportunity of
trying this aquatic novelty. Mr. Hamilton was
informed by a telegraphic movement from Calton-hill,
of the moment the meeting WAS dissolved, he then by a sig-
nal—raiming a flog half-mast high at Newhaven—apprised
those on board the Soho, which was out at sea, that in a
few minutes she must be under weigh. Very speedily
our reporter reached Newhaven, Mr. Hamilton conveyed
bin on board without delay, the ship sailed, and she ac-
tually strived at Blackwell in the short space of forty
five hours from the moment at which she weighed anchor !
and bad it not been for the great importance of what
passed in Parliament last night we should have been able
to have published the full report of the meeting which we
give to-day in time for yesterday's post.
The public are certainly greatly indebted to the accom-
modating spirit of Messrs. Hamilton and Rain on this
occasion, and we duly appreciate their obliging conduct.

REFORM MEETING OF THE INHABI-

TANTS OF LEITH.

On Monday, the 14th inst., between two and three
o'clock, placards were posted throughout Leith, announcing
that a meeting of the inhabitants of that influential and
independent town would be held at the Excb inge-build-
jugs, at half-past six p.m. of that day. Before the hour
arrived, from the appearance of the Assemblage, it became
evident that it would he quite in vain to attempt to hold
the meeting in the ordinary Sale Room agreeable to inten-
tion ; accordingly those who had met adjourned to the
large Assembly-Rooni, where the meeting was held, and
which was almost instantaneously crowded to suffocation.
A vast number of highly respectable persons found it ut-
terly impossible to gain admission. At the hour appointed
it was proposed that the Chair should be taken by the
Chief Magistrate of Leith, JAMES SCALES, Esq., which
was carried by acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN, on taking the chair, entreated that
the meeting would not give way to any undue excitement.
He knew that circumstances had occurred which were
prohahly calculated to irritate or create confusion and
-Anxiety of mind. The object now was to consider what
would be the best course to pursue Certain he was that
no violent or disorderly conduct could forward the object
or wishes of those who bad assembled on that occasion;
and as they were atl as sensible of that as himself, he
deemed it unnecessary to say more on the occasion.
Captain CARNAGIE then rose, and proposed that an
address he presented to his Majesty, on the present alarm-
ing state of affairs. This address was moved by a speech
of considerable length, and delivered with an energy and
a-al almost amounting to vehemence. It was evident that
the speaker's heart was warm in the cause, and that Re-
form in him has a true friend. He was cheered repeatedly
throughout his animated address.
JOHN IlAitviE, Esq., W.S., seconded the resolution in
a very neat, temperate, and appropriate speech.
The resolution was put by the Chairman, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. PERKINS moved that a petition he presented to the
House of Commons, expressive of the regret felt by the
iuhabitants of Leith of the late vote of the Upper hlouse
of Parliament—of his Majesty's determination not to
take. the advice of Earl Grey and his colleagues to create
Peers—of his Majesty's acceptance of the resignation of
those Ministers rather than create Peers—and of their
firm conviction that the House of Commons would remain
true to the cause of Reform, and praying them to prevent
the formation of any administration that would be. likely in
any way to he adverse to the passing of an efficient Re-
form Bill. This resolution was likewise brought forward
by a short speech that did credit to the mover, and shovreo
that he was anything but a bit-and-bit Reformer. In the
delivery of his speech, he was frequently interrupted by
immense cheering.
The motion having been seconded and put to a Cow of
hands, was carried I.y acclamation.
CASTLES, Esq. (Banker) then proposed a vote of
thanks to Lord Ebrington, for the very manly manner in
which he had on different occasions come forward to
assert the dignity and consequence of the House of Com-
mons, and particularly for his noble conduct in hriaginF

WHITE HAVEN.
.:From the Whitehaven Herald of Tuesday, May 15.)
REFORM BILL—We understand that the Proprietors of
The Sun, in their usual prompt manner, expressed the intelli.
gence of the defeat of Earl Grey to Carlisle, where it arrived,
in consequence, `2.4 hours sooner than by the usual course.
Whitehaven was not so fortunate. We received, on the Thurs-
day, a second edition of The ,Sun by post, which it had evi-
dently been expected would reach us the preceding day, but
had been marked " too late" at the post-office. The first in.
telligence of the event was conveyed in a brief memorandum
made on the back of a way-bill. It was generally discredited,
but on the arrival of the Countess of Lonsdale, from Liverpool,
in the evening, great anxiety was felt for a confirmation or a
contradiction of the news. To the surprise of every body, no
one on board the steamer seemed to know any thing about the
matter. One individual was at last found, who had seen a late
edition of The Sun in Liverpool that morning, but had not
thought the fact worth communicating to any of his fellow_
passengers' The particulars which he stated, on being ques.
Coned, turned out subsequently to be perfectly correct.