31 JULY 1830, Page 7

MEETING OF MR. BROUGHAM AND LORD MORPETH WITH THE Yoax

ELECTORS.—On Tuesday a public breakfast was given at 31o1- lard's Tavern, in Leeds ; when these two candidates by invitation were introduced to a numerous body of thoie who in all probability are to be in a fortnight their constituents. The company, which was highly respectable, assembled at the good old-fashioned hour of half past eight. At half past nine, the company adjourned to the Coloured Cloth Hall ; where nearly ten thousand persons were already convened ; and when Lord Morpeth and Mr. Brougham were formally introduced, the former by Mr. Marshall, one of the retiring members, the latter by Mr. Rawson. Lord Morpeth dwelt at some length on the difficult position in which he was placed, from the comparison that would not fail to be instituted between him and his predecessors, particularly Mr. Wilber- force,—a man so altogether excellent, that no warmth of panegyric seems extravagant when applied to him. In the profession of his poli- tical creed, his Lordship avowed himself an advocate for the abolition of slavery—for the abolition of all monopolies,—from the East India mo- nopoly to the corn laws. Mr. Brougham,—after humorously adverting to the objection of non-residence raised against him, and observing that in point of fact lie passed every year one week more in Yorkshire than in his native county, and that he knew more of Yorkshire and its people and interests than ninety in a hundred of its population,—went on in his usual felicitous way;—we quote from the Leeds Mercury Extraordinary; where the speech, we should say from internal evidence, is excellently well reported : " The Catholic question is settled. His most gracious Majesty has begun a reign, which, I trust, will be splendid, —not by victories, which I detest and abhor, because I detest and abhor the unchristian practice of war ; not by building expensive palaces for nobody to live in ; not by squandering immense sums of money wrung from a suffering people, upon worthless favourites ; not by seducing people from their political principles, in order to add them to the House of Lords,—but splendid by all that can truly adorn a Christian Prince and the Sovereign of a free people—by the rights of the subject being asserted and vindicated—by trade being restored to its pristine pros- perity—by the people being emancipated from the thraldom which now oppresses them, which makes the bread they eat dear, without any real advantage to those who grow the corn. The splendour of the country which I wish to see, is the happiness of the subject, and no other ray of splendour do I wish see the King surrounded by. Now, gentlemen, he has begun by declaring those questions settled, and hoping that no attempt will be made to disturb them. I say Amen to that prayer ; but I also say that these questions being settled, there are others that come to have their turn, in which, forgive me for saying, we have a still nearer interest, =din which it is our duty still more to exert ourselves, to have ourselves >4i tted. We have emancipated the. Catholics, and given, peace to ;And. I say, now let us emancipate all the

middle, theeinct and all the humble class of our fellow-Was

JP, and let us9 England tranquil, and in peace and contentment. have insured them but an iron rail and gate are erected about one hundred and (Cheers.) My prin4les on the subject of monopoly are plain and short eighty yards from tie Terrace on the Pall Mall side, which bars all approach to IN4 The Park is at present not even visible, much less approachable, by the old site of will have no monopoly, positively no monopoly—neither to the East. canon- House. India Company nor to the landed interest—no monopoly." (Hears hear.) " Upon the subject of Parliamentary Reform, one word. I have uniformly supported it, voted for it, spoken for it, and I am now asked whether I did vote against Mr. O'Connell's motion ; and I say, in answer to that question, No 1 I did not oppose Mr. O'Connell's motion as op. posing Parliamentary Reform ; • but there was one part of that motion that I could not agree with,—I from him on the subject of ballot. I desire to see my fellow-citizens come forward like men and avow who they vote for, that is my opinion : and my opinion is, and I then argued that opinion, that ballot is no reform ; but I voted for Partite. mentary Reform in every other particular. (Cheers.) I am for extend- ing the rights of voting to the great towns of England. I go a great deal further, I am for extending the right of voting to that clam of the people who have no right now in any town in England—in. habitant householders; and I am against [non-resident ?] freemen voting, which 1 think is the worst class, and I am for shortening the duration of Parliaments. (Hear hear.) I am rejoiced to think I have lived to see those principles in the Commons House of Parliament supported-e- I do not say by hundreds where they were supported by ten, but by at least two to one compared with twenty years ago. Gentlemen, I have no manner of doubt that this election will do much towards Parliamen- tary Reform. I believe there are three questions which your example and your exertions on this great occasion will carry in England as ef.. factually, it may not be as speedily, but I hope and trust as assuredly as the election in the county of Clare carried the Catholic question. (Cheers.) Parliamentary Reform, a revision of the Corn Laws, and the extinction of Colonial Slavery,—all those great causes I look to as being established this day ; and I have no manner of doubt the event of this election will decide every one of these questions." (Cheers.) The reason assigned—and we believe it to be the real one—for his co- veting the representation of Yorkshire, is worthy of a patriot and an Englishman :—"Gentlemen, one word more I said I should add with respect to myself. Have I any personal interest in exchanging the po= sition in which I now stand in Parliament, representing a place which cannot by possibility give me the least trouble from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, and have not seen a constituent to speak upon a single article of business ?—have I any thing of personal interest in exchanging that situation for the most laborious which a Parliamentary or professional man can by possibility be placed—the representation of Yorkshire ? That might be the case with one who has yet to make his way in the Commons House of Parliament ; but I shall not have to say in the House of Commons that I am there unknown ; I feel that there I have a place, a name, and personal weight. Why, then, do I court the honour which you have called upon me to accept at your hands ? Not for the sake of what is glowingly termed gratifying ambition ; but I will fairly tell you, as you have called upon me, I will support you to the utmost in trying for it, and will not be diverted from my purpose, because it will arm me with an extraordinary and a. vast important acces- sion of power to serve the people of England?' (Loud Cheers) Mr. Foster asked Mr. Brougham a question respecting Mr. O'Connell's mti- tion and mentioned a case where a confidential servant, named Orrea, had been dismissed by his employer for advocating vote by ballot. The storyli. contradicted by the Mercury. Mr. Brougham—" I hope the stortMr/FoSter has Mentioned, respecting Mr. Orrell, whose abilities I have heard of, is a mistake, and, at all events, I. hope Mr. Foster will not turn Me off also on account of the vote by ballot. He acknow- ledges I have been a faithful servant of his for twenty-one years, and he must not turn me off, as he says Mr. Orrell was turned off, for the vote by ballot. (Laughter.) Poor Mr. Orrell and I are in similar dreamt- stances—he was turned off for being in favour of the ballot, and I am in danger of being turned off by Mr. Foster, for being against it. (Peals of laughter.) I have attended very much to the subject, and am an enemy to it upon practical grounds. I have stood three contested elections in Westmorland ; and I saw from them, and the Liverpool election of 1812, the bad policy of that principle." On quitting the Cloth Hall Yard, Lord Morpeth, Mr. Brougham, and Mr. Marshall, were lifted into a carriage, and drawn by the populace to the White Cloth Hall, where they again addressed the assembled people. Mr. Brougham pro- ceeded immediately to Huddersfield ; and on his return he met the free. holders of Dewsbury and Heckmondwicke. On Thursday it was his in- tention to go to Bradford, and then to Halifax and Sheffield. Every_ where the same enthusiastic reception greets him, and his noble colleague. They will be returned without a shilling of expense, if returned at all. BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION.—A most numerous meeting of this body, which daily increases in importance, took place at Birming- ham on Monday last. It was the first annual meeting, or, more pro. perly, general meeting, that has taken place since the gociety was formed. Sir Francis Burdett was present by special invitation, and in the chair. The number of spectators and members was calculated at twenty thousand. Sir Francis spoke at considerable length. To show that the Parliament, if duly elected, would perform its duty honestly, he adduced —an ingenious and humorous argument, it must be owned—the readi- ness of obedience which the members at present yielded to their constie tuents. The majority, he observed, were returned by one hundred and fifty-four individuals ; and he would defy any man to point out a case in which any one of them, so elected, had voted contrary to the will of the person whose influence had given him his seat. Sir Francis warmly panegyrized the conduct of the present King. " He had called forth gallant men who had been laid on the shelf neglected, and rewarded them for services long since performed—rewards which they must long since have despaired of ever receiving. One of his first acts was the re- calling to his court of an old and gallant friend of Lord Nelson, whose name would be long remembered in the naval annals of his country. (Cheers.) He had likewise shown the same kindly considerations for she comforts and convenience of all classes of his subjects. In the re; cent opening of St. James's Park, he had displayed a desire to comply with the requests of the inhabitants of Westminster, who had now a ready access to its walk's.* In short, in William the Fourth they now * The Baronet is mistaken : no opening has been made into the Park, nor Is there the slightest appearance of any being contemplated. Not only is the publtgg still shut out from the facilities which the royal condescension was supposed tb

had a King of England, and not the King of a faction." (Cheering.) Sir Francis concluded by pressing strongly on his hearers the pre- eminent advantages of union, and expressing his warm congratulations on the union which the Association bad already produced, and which, if prudently as well as zealously managed, it promised to complete. Se- veral resolutions were passed, among which was a vote of thanks to Mr. Davenport, for his services to the Society ; and several gentlemen addressed the meeting. Mr. Attwood, alluding to the commercial dis- tresses of the country, observed, that " in Turkey they had strange customs, and one of them was, to cut off the heads of generals unsuc- cessful in battle. Now, though he would not recommend such a policy as this in England, yet he would undertake to say, that if a law was passed to hang the Ministers whenever a general bad stale of trade occurred, the child in the cradle would never live to hear of a bad state of trade again." (Cheers.) Such a law would unquestionably make Ministers deliberate before they legislated on subjects of trade. On the usual vote of thanks to the Chair, Sir Francis Burdett again ex- pressed the feeling of pleasure with which he had witnessed the pro- ceedings of the day. He hoped they would be at once an example and a means of producing a similar movement throughout the whole kingdom.

PASSING COMPLIMENTS.—At a meeting of the Dublin Guild, on Thursday sennight, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Shaw the Recorder, were pro- posed as fit persons to represent the city of Dublin ; and the nomination was carried, amidst great cheering. Mr. Grattan having been nomi- nated, addressed the meeting at some length. Having put a question to Sir A. King respecting his conduct on a Committee of the House of Commons, Sir Abraham admitted that it was honourable, but complained that a false and scandalous libel on him (Sir Abraham) had been inserted in the Freeman's Journal, of which Mr. Grattan is registered proprietor. The epithet " false " seems to have excited Mr. Grattan's anger more than a legal term might be supposed to do.

Mr. Grattan—" As you have used the word ' false,' it is necessary for me to state that I am not the author of what you term a falsehood, nor was there any authority from me to insert it, if such it was." Sir A. King—" I am bound to believe the honourable member." Mr. Grattan—" I ask you explicitly, do you say that I printed the libel, to which you apply the word false ? ' " Sir A. King—" I cannot say whether you printed it or not • I can only say you were the registered proprietor of the paper in which was printed. '

Mr. Grattan—" Where was I at the time ? "

Sir A. King—" I cannot say." After some more explanation called for and refused, Mr. Grattan re- peated—" Sir Abraham King has made use of the word." falsehood.' I wish to know if he applied it to me ? "

Sir Abraham King-44.I say that a false, scandalous, and malicious libel against me appeared in your paper."

Mr. Grattan—" Do you mean to assert that I printed a falsehood ? "

Sir A. King—" I do not know whether it was you did it ; but it ap- peared in The Freeman's Journal, of which you were then registered proprietor."

Mr. Grattan—" I say, if you assert that I printed a false and infa. mous libel you make a false statement." Sir A. King—" I shall onlyrepeat that a false libel mine. apPearedin the paper of which you were the registered proprietor."

Mr. Grattan—" if you charge me with having printed a false libel, shall here, in the face of the country and your own, call you a liar !- (Hisses, and other symptoms of disapprobation, with cries of " Order,- order ! Chair, chair ! " and a few cheers, during which Mr. Grattan hastily seized his hat and left the room.

Sir Abraham—" Come back, you ruffian " The call was not, how- ever, attended to.

[This is jonteelity. The falsehood which formed the subject of this aligant debate was contained in some Parliamentary papers inserted in the Freeman's Journal, while Mr. Grattan was in London. Two words of straightforward English would have put down both disputants ; but then, there would have been no noise, no notoriety ; it would have been a mere dull common cerise affair, without a particle of the pabulum vita of an Irish patriot in it, at all at all.]

RECORDER OF DUBLIN —A. statement is given in the Dublin papers, with a view to show that the judicial duties of this gentleman are incompatible with the due discharge of his duties as a member of

Parliament. The number of committals during the year 1829 amounted to 3,706; of which 2,000 were to be tried at sessions, which gives a weekly average of 38 trials. It is argued, that he who has thirty- eight trials per week to go through, cannot, without some inconveni- ence to the public, spend six months a year in London. The question is one of considerable importance. Judges of all kinds are, for the most part, very unfit for legislators, without reference to the time which legislation necessarily demands for its proper performance.