be Sartropotts.
The Court of Common Council assembled ou 'Wednesday : having been especially convened by the Lord Mayor "to consider the propriety of expressing in a petition to the house of Commons, their anxiety that in any provisions of a bill respecting the Police of Binning:1mm, the House should not sanction any invasion of the ancient and salutary rights of local government."
Mr. Richard Taylor said, it was necessary that the Court should come forward without delay and help the town of Itinniughate. If injustke were perpetrated in Birmingham, no town in the country wets safe from a similar infliction. He felt alarmed when the constitution was thns assailed. Suppose 500 Policemen were placed in Birmingham, and a umber proportional to their pole& tion in other towns—what would be the total of this force ? It would be greater than a staeding army, Of which the people in this country were so jealous. lie deeiel that be- cause the Magistrates of a town might have been taken by surprise because a sudden tumult had arisen—that new-fangled schemes ought to be introduced. The Magistrates of Stockport, Newcastle, amid Man- chester, had conducted themselves with energy-. In the City of Lon- don. peace had been preserved in trying times by the Magistrates. As to Birmingham, let it be remembered that the Crown had appointed, the people had not elected, the Magistrates of that town. Ile moved ft series of resolutions in conformity with the objects for which the meet- ing was convened.
Alderman Venables was in favour of the principle of self-govern' ment ; but its this matter he thought the Court ought not to interfere. The Birmingham bill was only an experiment ; and Parliament could not separate without doing something to preserve the peace of that town.
Mr. Anderton, Mr. Ashurst, and Deputy Carney supported the re- solutions. They were carried, unanimously, Alderman Venables not voting on either side. Mr. Benjamin Wood, brother of the Alderman, has published an ad- dress to the constituency of Southwark, offering himself for election whenever a vacancy occurs.
Inc. Walter's friends seem to be on the alert. A party of Conserve- tiv'es.met at 'a tavern-on Wednesday, and agreed to support Mr. Walter. Mr, -Walter agreed a to support the Constitution of 16 88 " ( ! ) and de- tared that he did not wish is subscription to be opened to pay his ex- penses. A candidate who will pay the cost of his election out of his %yr' Docket, and Support the constitution of 1688, deserves to be elected by all who can tell what that Constitution is and where it is to be found. The Delegates to the National Convention are to meet on the 26th of Avast, at the Arundel Coffeehouse, Strand ; having left Bolt Court. yesterday they put forth a *solution declaring the observance of the " sacred mouth' to be contrary to the wishes of the " great body of the working people," and advising them, instead thereof, to cease work for two Or three days, " in order to devote the whole of that time to solemn processions and solemn meetings for deliberating on the present awful state of the country, and devising the best means of averting the hideous despotism with which the industrious orders are menaced by the murderous majority of the upper and middle classes, who prey upon
their labours."
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