Star. — 1831-05-02 (London, England)

WHY AND BECAUSE.-Nu. VI.  F. 1  I  ; 1  I  I~  ;~ t  ! 1  , Ik it  1  '~ Ii  the Parliament, when the effigy of Admiral Sotberon, the late county member (who voted along with the boroughmongers,) was placed on al pole and carried round the town, and was a tennuts shot at, then partly burnt, and thrown into the river Leen, to drinks health to his learned friend Sir E. Sugden ! At a public meeting in Nottingham to agree on an address to the King for dissolving the Parliament. Mr. Thomas Bailey, in moving one of the resolutions, spoke in the following eloquent strain t—ls there an individual upon earth whose feelings are to be envied by the patriot and the philanthropist, it is Earl Grey—whose life devoted to his country's weal, through an ardent, active, and consistent course, has surrounded his name with a steady, unabated, and unextinguishable blase of glory, which is incomparable in its lustre, by that which adorns any other British statesman. Need I then ask the men of Nottingham If they arc willing to commit the presentation of the address just voted to their patriotic monarch, to such bands ? I need not. (Cheers.) I know that every bosom before tue is now swelling with exultation at the opportunity thus afforded to him to sbew his respect to the illustrious premier, whose talents and whore principles have originated As greet measure of parliamentary reform now before the country. Engllshoss, a crisis has arrived in theaffairs of our beloved country which demands a vigorous exercise of the intelligence and patriotism of all its dtisens to bring to a beneficial result. The elements of British society are every where in commotion ; power is oppened to principle—light is In conflict with darkness—opinions mmWd by an age of universal knowledge are struggling against precedents drawn from periods of general ignorance and barbarism--the bmdienable rights of social man are poised against rolls of musty prescriptive privileges, whose sanctions are tape, and wax, and black letter: " And the balance yet trembles with fate." (Loud cheers.) No wonder that you are so sensibly alive at this moment to all which concerns this momentous question. Not to feel an extraordinary degree of sensitiveness at this important conjuncture of British affairs—not to be susceptible of the most intense anxiety upon the success or failure of what so much concerns the public weal and so much affects the public interests, as the great plan of parks. mentary reform brought forward by Earl Grey's administration, would be to commit suicide on your own characters...would be to turn traitors to your own profession—would be to casts stigma and reproach on your own fathers, who were among the tint men in the kingdom to take up this great question, and who now for a century have contended for it against power in every form and under every name, with an unflinching pertinacity which has no parallel among the provincial towns of the empire. (Cheers.) Could ft then be expected, that whilst all the rest of the country is in motion—whilst one vast simultaneous exhibition of moral means for the accomplishment of this great work of our social improvement is taking place in every county and city of the empire, that the men of Nottingham can be silent ?—that the sons of the earliest reformers will remain inactive ? No. The country is now doing its duty; we have long done ours, even when alone and unsupported. (Cheers.) General Sir R. C. Ferguson stated that at the time of dissolution, he (Gen. F.) was in London, and observed the universal enthusiasm in favour of his Majesty; never was a King so well received by his sub• jects, and never was there a Ring who so well deserved it. Not only his own subjects, but all foreigners concurred In the feeling. Mr. M'Lean, the American ambassador, himself a staunch republican, said that he never should have envied any monarch in the world, but he did envy the situation of Ring William the Fourth on that day. (Cheers.) ~MAItJIED=Mr. Elijah Hudson, to Miss Marta Smith.—At Gil. motion, Henry H. Hewitt, Esq. of Litchfield, to Sophia, eldest daughter of the Rev. D. J. Burdett.  DlED—Mary, the wife of Mr. J. Nixon, Hounds-gate, aged 52 Mr. Wm. Broughton, only son of Mr. Broughton, Leenside.—Aged 41, Miss Charlotte Jackson, daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Jack. son, of Eastland House.—At New Buford, 33, Mr. James Robin. son, of the firm of Robinson and Widdowson.—At 'Worksop, Alm. Allinson, relict of Nathaniel Allinson, Esq. M. D. and sister of the late Richard Hird, Esq. of Bradford.—At Loughborough, Mr. Joseph Twells, aged 40; and on Tuesday, Hannah, wife of the said Joseph Twells, aged 33.—Aged 74, Mrs. Sikes, of the London Road, Lei. eester.—At Repton, Derbyshire, Thomas Walton, Esq. 85.—Joseph Stables, aged 71—At Whitworth, aged 48, Mr. William Mears, comedian.  In per Ih. 5d.--Weigh-house Bhop.—Butter, per lb. Is to ; salt ditto, per cwt. 84a to 00$; ditto, per lb. 124 to Ild ; cheese, Dunlop. per cwt. 40s to 50, ; common, 991 ; eggs, per dozen, 7d. Wheat straw, 9s 6d to Os ; oat straw, 8s 6d to Os ; and barley straw, from 7s. to 7s 64 per kemple. Hay, is 9d per stone trots.