Meetings to address the Queen, in commendation of her Majesty's
refusal to concede Sir Robert Peel's demands, have been held, since our last report, at Taunton, Devonport, Deal, Southampton, Colchester, Worcester, Winchester, 13everley, Knaresborough, mid Richmond.
The Devonport Town-Council have adopted an address, containing some compliments to the Queen, but dealing very unceremoniously with her Whig Ministers, whom her Majesty is advised, in tolerably plain terms, to dismiss. This is a specimen-
" We hope your Majesty will not fail to perceive, that to a blind perseve- rance ius a course sit' timid and temporizing policy, inny be attributed not only the fall of a Government once possessed of overwhelming power, but the con- sequent attempt at encroachment on your Majesty's prerogative, which has been so successfully and nobly resisted. * * * Let us hope that, warned by recent events, your Majesty may be graciously pleased to place your confi- dence in energetic statesmen, who will abandon vain attempts to conciliate irreconcileable foes— who will not alienate their best friends by an unqualified. condemnation of Liberal measures," &c.
[We wish the Whigs joy of such loyal addresses as these.]
The Earl of Durham, with the Members for Devonport, are to pre- sent the address. An address adopted at a town meeting is to be pre- sented by Lord Durham alone; the Whig Members being excluded, to the infinite mortification of their partisans.
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