The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-13 00:00:00

CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT.

MEETING THIS' DAY.

A large and influential meeting of the electors )f the
City of London, comprising merchant,, banker., vaders,
and others, was held this afternoon at the Guilihall—
the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presiding--"to take
into consideration the decision recently come t) by the
House of Commons, relative to the affairs atCanton,
and to Express iti high confidence in her ;lajesty's
G ivernrnent."
Long before two o'clock, the hour for commencing

the business of the meeting, the hall was denselycrowded
The interval between the assembling (f the electors
and the commencement of the business of the meeting
was devoted to the usual ebulitions of popular feeling on
such occasions as these. The named of the favourites on

the popular side of the question were Loudly cheered,
whilst those on the opposite side were received with
groans, hisses,
and other unmistakeable tokens of dis-
approbation. The whole being interspersed with a
variety of songs of liberty, the Marseillaise Hymn
being the favourite, the strAins of which rever-
berated through the vaulted hall, to the surprise and
astonishment of those sober guardians of the building
—Got, and Magog.

At two o'clock the Lord Mayor arrived, and was

loudly cheered. He was accompanied by Messrs.
Raikes, Currie (candidate), J. Dillon, Crawford (candi-
date), Serjeant Ballantine, W. J. Hall, Deputy Dakin,
Oliveira, Edwin James, Q.C., Sheriff Keats, Alderman
Wire, Whitehurst, Alderman Sir J. Duke, M.P. (can-
didat(), and ether gentlemen of influence.
The LORD MAYOR, in opening the business of the
meeting, said that he had called it at the request of 800
electors of the City. Recalled on them to give all an im-
partial hearing. The reading of the object of the meet
ing was received with mingled expressions of approval
arid disapprobation.
The following is the resolution to be submitted to the
meeting by Mr. Raikes Currie, seconded by Mr.
Dillon :

" That Lord Paltherilon having undertaken the Go-
vernment of this country under circumstances of ex-
treme difficulty, and'in the crisis of a great war which
he successfully carried to the issue of an honourable
peace is entitled to the thanks of the country, and hav-
ing by an adverse vote of the House of Commons been,
in fact, censured for hie policy in reference to the pro-
ceedings at Canton—this meeting feels called upon to
express its conviction that from the position of affairs
in China and the past proceedings there, no other course
was fairly open to a British statesman, or was compati-
ble with safety to the property and lives of our fellow-
countrymen In that quarter, and with the honour and
dignity .of the nation."

There was a great diversity of opinion amongst those
present, especially to the expre!'sions used by the various
speakers relative to the peace lately concluded being an
honourable one, that the country was in a flourishing
condition, and supporting the present Government.
To this resolution the following amendment will be
submitted to the meeting by Mr. MORLEY i-
"Tb at this meeting detests Bureauacy, which is coo-
tinentel despotism, of which Sir George Grey, the llume
Secretary, is the director. That this system has been
acted on by Lord Palmerston's Government, and is
closely connected with, and dependent on, the Episcopal
church of the land ; and because this church is the rallying
point for jobbing corruptionists and centralising tyrants,
increases taxation, and is one of the causes of the pre-
sent awful state of society. This meeting declares its
belief that it is the bounden duty of every one to
exert all constitutional means to sever the Church from
the State, and will vote for no man at the ensuing elec-
tion that will not give this pledge."
The hilowing questions to ask candidates were exten-
sively circulated in the hal by the movers cf the amend-