Star.
London, England, 1830-10-01 00:00:00

PUBLIC DINNER AT LEEDS:

On Toes* the friends of Lord Morpeth and Mr. Brougham, at
Leeds, dined together in the large room of the Comments' Buildings,
when the two members and several other distinguished guests were pre-
sent. So warm and general was the admiration of the principles and
characters of Mr. Brougham and his noble colleague in Leeds, that the
subscription for the dinner was filled up on the very day that it was
opened, and nothing but the limited dimensions of the room prevented
hundreds more from subscribing. Two hundred and twenty gentle.
men inehe largeroom (being as many as could be aeommodsted.)
Thamn "Man Tett* Eau was We clialeuraui, anti Geo. Rawson,
Esq. the vice.chahnian. Among the company were Lord Morpeth,
M.P. Henry Brougham, Esq. Lord Milton, M.P. John Marshall, Esq.
the late member for the county, the Hon. Edward Petre, (High She-
rilL) Bit John V. B. Johnstone, Bert. Charles Wood, Ifni. M.P.
Daniel Sikes, Berk _III.P. Biribeck, Esq. John Wood,
Esq. M.P. W. B. Wrightson, Esq. M.P. and the Honourable Mr.
Howard, &c.

The Coatasta.w. in giving the health of Lord Merited' and Mr.
Brougham made an ablissussaa which he eulogised the characters'
and principles of those individuals, and commented on
the valuable practical reform hod boon affected in the coun of
York, in returning the indergehmt members free of expense. [ty
We
have only room for a very bdef Wheat the speeches which followed.]
Lord VORIPETH, in returning thinks, observed that all were not
gifted with those extraordinary endowments which, in the person of
Mr. Brougham, had long ago excited the admiration of Yorkshire,
and made him the object of its spontaneous choice. (Cheers.) En-
downsans like his—so large, and so varied—are not the
but the exception and the marvel of their age. ordinary
but
As there must necessarily be four members of Parlia-
ment for Yorkshire, the froeholdets could not look for prodigies in
them all, and must be cement with a graduated scale of representatives.
With this view they had bestowed upon him the honourable post of
their member. Liberal and independent, principles he firmly be-
lieved were daily taking a wider spread, and striking a deeper toot in
this country and throughout the world. (Cheers.) He thought
that they might flatter themselves that the example of Yorkshire
in the recent election had communicated something of a noble spirit of
emulation to England at large. In adverting to foreign gantries, he
said 'if in every application of the prindples of liberty this is much
that we have to teach, them may be also something that we have to
Issas. (Cheers.) Donbas I lama have prevailed as to dm degree of
sympathy which has *Masi between the English people and the Lg.
lish overspent resposhis die late political occurrences in Pram& The
trut ems, goniktiget, earns to me to be this : I 'add ever har-
bours. implAstiopelmet its imamate* of the Doke of WiNlniten,
Got IkolitiNi*Poolleintwft Mh4.4 any /copPeh
.1111ddirie abet.
side at weettahl the late iiiIMIONIMOI kraus.
But titbit this Is t Ghat lOW an ado the it
effsereetee,--htsarikr, fakinseliees, that of the lets Ilk. On
•=t stover veldt how sees Into the abed even of a *IV
to adopt these • orbillopy mml degrade memos& (Chesia.)
Oratl. I cannot rehsh ham toying, dud every day I lint Iles;
wraith
.einl_delight tied areaiddi "111fitudilny dlitA Imbibes
thaws.
_hal* limed ue bean- and ilia;
paws toliskted, -theiellihough nto. the Arm *lns% and at* hat
view, they all seem to hivedhigetermilacesandZcialhade if their
own, they will be found. (n the Carlene ems* d to af-
fect end promote each ae. Tide Mu*, Me le the beat
tie mindless pesineeur •if stfia Sit Lkiddilp sat down
• '
Mr. Beonosam next tiddleteed the sunpany.meat I
though every part of dm coontry had dime thatty He
stis* of
the election had been laidat Leeds, ft was to womb that
the country was indebted for the rehemetion d Padliment
which Ifehire had mom I ultimo adder the leave of the
Hone of Commons. After mimed* ildelein el Leeds, populous
anb=sented, with Old Sarum ounmensed end sepespled, the
gentleman declared that ea Ih was new wan* far York.
shine, be would leave in no ether men% hie the great aims of
Pediamessary refo®. lie said, I have helped, I have ardesed
other's hitherto, but I shall now ototriet2Siboogiso ado
cause. (Cheers.) And as I have is the hot IS
years. I expect them now to rally
to which ' nowt me, so disegtheu
to the uttermost those hands in you have already put
sufficient confidence. (Loud cheers.) One of the reforms, then,
which lam to propose, is to give to great unrepresented towns, repre-
sentatives. Another is the giving all the constituents in all the counties
of England, whether they happen to have their lot of residence east
near to the hustings or remote front it, a power of voting for Members
by taking the poll the same dinars, the seam day in every quirts: of each
county. I will not have the example of Yorkshire confined to great
and wealthy, and populous counties ; I will not have it confined to
counties where there are such towns as Leeds, Sheffield, Halifax, Dews-
bury, Bradford, and Huddersfield; I will have it extend to smaller
counties—agricultural as well as commercial—where there are no great
towns; I will have them to do what the greet towns have dam. In
each ward, lath, or wapentake, the poll shall be taken on the same day,
near to every man's door. (Loud aeon.) I will not have in those
other counties, any more than in Yorkshire, candidates brought
forward by the length of their purses, and not by the strength of their
claims. (Cheers.) I will not ham the struggle carried on. by a man
who is rich enough to spend a number of thousand. of pounds, or who
is profligate enough to ruin his family ; or thoughtless and rash enough
to risk his birthright if he does not ma,n to sell again his suffrages. I
will not have any more the highest rights of:freemen exercised by poor
men, as if they were parish paupers under the control of one who doles
out a cart to take them to the hustings as if they were vagrants. or like
so many cattle. Then why should copyholders not vote, and why should
a set of men who are the very mother-water of corruption have votes?
I mean non-resident freemen, who are brought down at a great and
ruinous expense to the candidates, though they are not interested in the
welfare of the borough, but are merely brought down to see their friends,
as it is called, by the candidates chosen by the length of their purses.—
Now, last eall, when I look to your members. 'end find • that they are
unremitting in their places, and never to be found at the waiting.
rooms of the Tfeasury Chambers waiting for jobs,.-when I find
that they do their duty according to their consciences, and I
find that all they can do is of no avail,—when I see that all
this is nothing, because there are forty-five members who come rushing
in from one vast rotten borough, :the ancient kingdom of Scot-
land, in the whole of which there is not one vestige of a popular elec-
tion, but every one member at wham might be chosen by ten or twelve
man who never were out of Lombard.atrsst in their lives,—then, I say,
that in coda that Scotland may he reformed, and that its eguedtution
be changed, will be a pert oil my duty. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I
ought to ask your pardon for entering Into these details but I thought
I conkl not better discharge my duty than by intimating the beads of
that first great measure of Parliamentary reform, which I am resolved,
on the very first opportunity after the meeting of Parliament, to broach
in the House of Commons, of which you bars made me a member.—
(Cheers.) What its reeeptioi may be in that unreformed House it is
Dot for MO to say, and what lb remgdon may be in the upper house, if
it should pass the Housed . 1 cannot divines but at all
events I am confident int so of our present Sovereign will
exercise any one of the lanedens d his office, or the Ours whiehre-
nonage puts into his hand, logieean mime bits to admissive of Paw
Bement agast a plan for ,4 people mule free—mare
Lord Alt :T ow, hh heath balk, ideated thanks fore the
marks of kind's's; bestowed on him, 'iu the edema his speech mid.
thetas his boa friend had adverted to unbismo boiloi to be peeped
by him to Parliament, he begged have loadismi-,*. civereny this he
thought it his duty to submit to Puler a =ski= for
rho am laws. ((teem.)) mu he he do with halt)?
lity to 'espial.' as to ius motives in issafart of metober for the
di, of Petirhnroullh, sboa bo mkt Wm damerben he represented
On the
the pat man Yoe=
heshro irif Lir tswlrPl et a being
Lied bltivon recorded thilas,, and wok °eagles to state, that the
K4ti~ta.ef . blot Mier, with impost to db. We settintion in Plume,
rate bind IP Mao otitli which baba oopoisi see hordes
11 t 40 rotorrolltoi the! mat dess segued it wite,
weer. 'b almost an the *tile
rtipand, and that he syni
pathised with the people of Prance, and st the steam whit
had attended their ',tyranny. the @object of giving the
elective franchise to large tetras, it mot with Ws approval.

MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY.
Colonel Phillippsa,, Pembroke Militia.
Lieutenant-Colonel Stables, b. p. watt. •
Carratars—Brebant, 96 F. au passage from liladraa ; Fitzherhert,
h. p. 30 F. Coyney, h. p. 63 F. Quiche, h. p. Unatt. Bath. J. G. Camp -
bell, do. Madeira ; Kerr, h. p. Queen's American Rangers, Anther,;,
Nova Scotia.
',smutty/arra—Farwell, 48 F. India ; Mackenzie, 36 F. Ceyloa ;
Salter, lat 6 Vet. Bn. Atwritb, Wiltshire ; Murray, h. p. 21 F. Dar,-
cumbe, h. p. 52 F. Mackenzie, h. p. 73 F.
SECOND LIEUTENANT. AND gusto/re—M. Maclean, Ceylot,
Rifle Regt. Calombe ; M'lntosh, h. p. New S. Wales Vet. Comp.
Sidney.
Pexuastins--Fulton, 4th Dragoons, Dublin ; Brock, 49th F.
lieartsoak, 91 F.
QUAETELMASTERII—Rdiwatds. h. p. Bourbon Regt. Oreville, h. p.
W. 1. Regt. Carragminc, County Dublin.

MEDICAL
_DZPARTMENT.

Deputy Inspector Alexander Robertson.
Sunocons—Undsay, 18 F. Stoke Hospital, near Devonport ; Fea-
therstone, h. p. 71 F.
AsstaToarT-Surtozotrs—BrOwn, 52 F. Edinburgh; Grief, It. p.
Staff:

llosptial-Assisuat Dr. W. C. Smith, Jamaica.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

During the mess the interior of this theatre has been entirely rent..
valid, at a very contitlesable expense. We last night were afforded a:,
opportunity of viewing the new ornaments and embelinhatents, and they
struck us as being exceedingly chaste yid beautiful. The genets! -ft. t t
is light, airy, and elegant. Indeed, the only fault we heard urged against
the appearance of the house-was, that it seemed to be too gay and lively
for a winter theatre. We know that there is a sort of traditional feeling
ma this point; and many contend that there ought to he a certain porti.e,
of gorgeous gloom about a winter theatre in some degree to so::
with the aspect of the season. We have, however, at that pert 1
of the year, more than sulkiest of dulness and darkness out of door.,
and we can me no necessity for encouraging such an appearance with'''.
In decorating the theatre, a just medium has been preserved. There
is no paucity of emtaltliesitment,.-aelther are the ornaments tiresomely
superabundant. Wherever the eyes rests, it is gratified ;
Is nothing glaring or meretricious to offend it. Throughout tit.
whole design, the aimple.r seututibis has been excellently preserve I.
The centre of panels of the dress-circle is ornamented by infant bac-
chanals placed on a pale and delicate blue ground. The figural are of
Plating, finely executed in bold relief. The other portions of each
panel are filled up in borderings of light gold colour and white. Tht.
eoup (fdleil is extremely pleasing. The colours harmonise well, mid the
figures in relief are thrown forward with striking effet. The Lure
in the other circles, but the metal ornaments are varied.
The rool3riestandsoniely painted In drapery, to represent the top of a large
circular tent or marquee t and in the compartments around it are dis-
played a number of spiritedly-designed figures. We observed, immedi-
ately beneath the dress-circle, a row of ground-glass lamps, which were
not lighted on this occasion. We are rather inclined to think that
when they are put in requisition, the smoke and heat arising from them
will be anything bet agreeable to the visitants of the dress-boxes.—
A new drop-scene was exhibited in the course of the evening ; it is a
fermentation, and not a good one, of a large curtain, with its differcrt
folds and ornaments. It is poor in design, and feeble in execution.—
The admirable labours of Meson. Beasley and (`,race, by whom the in.
wrier of the theatre has been beautified, certainty deserved, in the scenic
line, a production a little more indicative of talent.