The Sun.
London, England, 1835-09-04 00:00:00

'AL COUNCIL

The following is the letter referred to in my last corninu
ineation, addressed to the Members for the Borough. Inas•
much as it speaks for itself, any comment on the feelings of
Me Council is needless. Ministers have played rather a clan-
, gerous game. The people are dissatisfied—the Tories are in
Txtacies at the idea of having frightened Lord John Russell.
The general wish here is that the Lords may fling the Bill
111. the teeth of Ministers, and compel them to adopt that course
which becr.eries them as men pledged to the people.
" DEAR Sias,—We have learned with alarming
dismay
that
his 111-:,,jest Ministers in the House of Commons last
nieht hz
.le they express their disagreement with some of the
alteratior,s made in the Municipal Reform Bill by the Lords,
Pear I tilling to give up many of the morn. essential proyi-
-1"3 e()mprised in the original Bill, and to accept to the fol-
ic:m
" Firin, among others, of the Lords' amendments :
I st. The clause which preserves the right of freemen by
irth servitude and marriage.
." econdly. The qualification requiring a person to be
peligiblie to serve as a Town Councillor to be possessed of pro-
erty to the amount of 5001. in towns containing a popula-
tion "der 10,000, and of 1,000/. in towns containing a larger
Popul Ltion.
t. " Irhird. The pernicious alteration made by the Lords in
he et ifranchisen:sent clause, by which the electors are required
Placed'e, Par up every description of levy and tax previous to being
foral Placedßill on the burgess roll, a condition unknown to the Re-
" Fourthly:. The clause which continues to Justices the
graating of a'l'a-house licenses.
~;g1"
13 can not, gentlemen, within the limits of becoming
Ttage, press the disgust and indignation we feel at this
lainting and inconstant conduct on the part of his Majesty's
tarlai&ters, especially when we recollect the firm and inflexible
!)f. Lod they. made against those very clauses, both in the House
;rLords aced Commons. Should these most fatal alterations
ill the a
Col Toration Bill be conceded by Ministers, we yet hope
4. St pat riotic majority of the House of Commons will be
aetin
d suffilciently alive to the value of character and consis-
-11eY) and especially to their country's good, to defeat so atro-
claus an at lempt to deprive the Bill of its essential priciples,
and its me Ft valuable provisions.
)Ifli nchi Ab"e all, gentlemen, we rely on your firm, resolute, and
n detcirmination not to concede to any of the essen-
_/,;al
House, and, stand alone in the opposition.
of Prom the 'intercourse we have this day had with all grades
opirneifoonrsmiterrres, tee have the best reason for believing that these
e ntertained by a large majority of your consti-
tuents, who in
common
with us fee that the original Corpora.
ptiir Bill, as assedby the House of Commons, was, beyond
ft)rrn
compariso )-1 the most valuable fruits arising from the Re-
tie s destruction of which will inevitably be the death
;blow to the I )opularity of the Ministers and create an enemy
saPPert
everY ma n who has hitherto given them his enthusiastic
1S utUndere these circumstances the re-organizing of the Union
perativ e and unavoidable, and however Lord John Russell
Rll beep
drec :ate its revival, to him and his colleagues the Union
" ide bted for life and energy.
am, Sirs, on behalf of the Council of the
"'Birmingham Political Union. yours, &c.
" B. HAD LEY, Chairman.
4:
To Tt " GEO. EDMONDS, Sec.
-4(bmas Atwood and Joshua Scholefield, Esqrs.,
This " Members of Parliament."
the f.„iieve I (Wednesday,) the Council again met, when
I tg petition to the House of Commons and address to
g;°Trd , ourne, were unanimously agreed to:—
the I lonourable the Commons of the United Kingdom
she,7 in Parliament assembled,
mhah., f!to,—.l hat the humble petition of the undersigned
the /P4ht s in Birmingham, calling themselves the Council of
the „I"llllxighain Political Union, have heard with feelings of
teee'biN est 'surprise disappointment, and indignation, of the
for t•11-°.11 • venich your Honourable House has given to the Bill
the ' eferm of the Municipal Corporations as amended by
/4114011 Se Of Lords. That your petitioners view those amend-
leges entirely prejudicial to the popular rights and privi-
ord,4' secured by the Bill before it was sent to the House of
eause''
s'lnd that, therefore, they must consider the popular
0111 i, shamefully betrayed if your Honourable House shall
hit° 'he amendments, alterations, and additions introduced
tie,,tue said Bill by the House of Lords. In so many altera-
4,xi_ 3 our petitioners would point out one as especially ob-
poser: for they understand that your Honourable
House pur-
eillo_ :0 admit a pecuniary qualification for the Town Conn-
'
, utterly vitiating thereby the great principle of the
t" tio making the possession of property the exclusive
cri-
ten or test, of admission to municipal offices, instead of in-
th:llt,dee( honour and integrity. Your petitioners feel the
eat concern that those who had undertaken to advocate
4,4 Popular cause, and to adhere to it in spite of the threats
sad Power of an interested faction, should so soon give way.,
Di' betray the trust which the confidence of the people had
bat ed ill your hands. Your petitioners can assure your
h (lb
durable House, that they are fully alive to the vast im-
•ance of the Bill as sent up to the House of Lords ; and
4slt
fish hithe
rather consider nine-tenths of their Lordships' amendments
dos schievous, selfish, and aristocratical; and therefore, they
mbly pray your Honourable House to reject the amended
etl than introduce one single clause which can ever
'reY trench on the just rights of the people. Your
further state, that they are fully prepared, and firmly
collision to stand by your Honourable House, in the event of
tE ,--„lsion with any faction that is inimical to the liberties of
41);v"Ple of '.'ngland.
0‘ our petitioners, therefore, humbly entreat your Honour.
itt Your ease t the premises into your serious consideration,
to. take
tioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c.
" Signed, on behalf of the Council,
" BENJAMIN HADLEY, Chairman."

I'3 the Right I-lon. Viscount Melbourne.
of 13'Y LORD, We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town
zgham, calling themselves the Council of the Bir-
youl,:". a Political Union, beg to return our best thanks to
ent for your manly, open, and honourable manage-
hitrod the Bill for reforming the Municipal Corporations,
as
your
isteed into the House of Lords. In all those points where
with 'erdship opposed the amendments we heartily concurred
ke.4 °ur Lordship, and never could have supposed that any
e,nuld 'er of the Cabinet, of which your Lordship is the head,
es°,"ol-1 have betrayed the cause of the people in the
t)ta, 04 Commons. (1).1r whole dependence now rests upon
k°"4l9rdshiP, and we therefore confidently hope that your
y the )11.c) will exert your influence to reject the Bill as amended
Inueker,"se of Lords, rather than insult the people tvi!li a
f Municipal Reform.—On behalf of the Council,
Your Lordship's obedient Servant,
" BENJAMIN ADL EY, Chairman.
" GEO. EDMONDS, Secretary."

LITERATURE.

T POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON.
EDITED BY SIR EGERTON BRYDGES, BART.,
WITH IMAGINATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS, BY J. M. W. TURNER, Esq.
In Six Vols.—Vols. 111. and IV.
London. Macrone, St. James's-square. 1835.
The pictorial embellishments of these volumes are a
full-length portrait of Satan, by Graves, from a
painting by Westall ; the Fall of the Rebel Angels,
by Goodall ; and the Temptation on the Mountain, by
Causen, both from designs, by Turner ; and a half-
length portrait of the great poet, in the twenty-first
year of his age, by Edwards, from a painting, by
Jansen. Turner's illustrations of these volumes are
by no means so happy as we were prepared to expect.
The Fall of the Rebel Angels is dreamily indistinct ;
and the sitting attitude of Satan in the Temptation on
the Mount is one of the most ludicrously unnatural
positions that could be selected. The very language
of the Evangelists, describing the temptation in the
wilderness and on the mount, ought to have satisfied the
artist that the Devil ought not to be represented in a
sitting posture, while proffering to the Redeemer the
" Kingdoms of this world and the glory of them."
Not the least valuable accompaniment to this superb
edition .of Milton's works are the editor's notes upon
the text which immediately follow each book. The
peculiar merit of these is that they embody not only
the editor's opinion of the meaning of the more ob-
scure passages, but likewise all that the most learned
commentators upon Paradise Lost and Regained, have
written upon the questions forming the subject of in-
quiry. In families where it is usual to read Milton
aloud for the instruction of the younger members, these
notes will prove of invaluable service ; and even readers
of mature age will derive much instruction from them,
of which they may be now unable to form any con-
ception. The work when completed ought, and will,
find its way into every library in the kingdom.

NEW and COMPLETE MANUAL of AUSCULTA
TION and PERCUSSION,
APPLIED to the DIAGNOSIS of DISEASES.
BY M. A. BACIIIORSKI, D.M.P.

TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM FITZHERBERT, B.d.
London. A. H. Bailey. 1835.
Without entering into any analysis of the principle
of attempting to discover the seat of distempers by
filiping or percussing the flesh with the fingers, or in-
stalments made for the purpose, we must express a
hope that a mode of treatment so liable to the grossest
abuses will never become popular in this country.
The subject is so delicate a one that we cannot ap-
proach it without doing violence to our own sense of
propriety. Every husband and father must regard it
as affecting his own honour, and the purity of those
minds which he most desires to preserve immaculate.

ARCHER'S VIEW of the PATH of HALLEY'S
COMET,
DELINEATED FROM OBSERVATIONS OF MR. LUBBOCK.
GILBERT'S GUIDE TO, AND HISTORY OF