The Surry Tories celebrated the anniversary of their Conservative Association
on Wednesday, by dining together at the Horns Tavern, Kennington. Sir Edward Sugden and the Marquis of Chandos were the principal orators of the evening. The company consisted of be- tween three and four hundred.
The Reformers of the County of Middlesex held a meeting ea Wednesday, at the Riding-school in Albany Street ; and agreed to a petition to the House of Commons to reject the Lyndhurst Bill for Ireland. Mr. Hume, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Byng, and Sir J. S. Lillie, addressed the meeting. Mr. Sheriff Lainson presided.
On the same day, there was a crowded meeting of the electors of Westminster for the same purpose, at the British Coffeehouse, Cock- spur Street; Mr. Otway Cave, M. P., in the chair. Mr. Hume at- tended this meeting also. Mr. Hume assured the electors, that the real question was how the House of Lords was to be dealt with— It had now become necessary for the People of England to consider well what was to be done with an irresponsible body of men like the Peers, who seemed determined on stopping all necessary reforms in England and Ireland, and chugging the wheels of good government. Neither the Representatives of the People nor she People themselves wished for a collision with the Muse of Lords, if the Lords would only consent to do that justice which, as Privy Councillors and a separate estate of the realm, they were sworn to do. lie was anxious to pre- serve the just privileges of the Peers, their titles, their fortunes, every privilege which they enjoyed ; but only so lung as they did not impede the match of a. Liberal Government, and render nugatory the best intentions of the Repiesea- tatives of the People for their welfare and tranquillity.
Mr. Ward, M. P., also warned the meeting, that they had now no child's play before them ; for the qttestions to be decided involved the very first principles of good government ; and if the People did not support their Representatives, all their efforts must be vain.
The Liberal electors of Finsbury also assembled on Wednesday, at White Conduit House, to protest against the conduct of the Lords to Ireland. The speakers were Mr. O'Connell, Mr. 'I'. Duneombe, Mr. II. Grattan, and Mr. J. Kennedy.
There was a large meeting of Reformers of the Tower- Hamlets, on Tuesday, for the same purpose, at the Eagle Tavern, Xlile-end Road. Mr. Clay, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Hume, the Reverend Robert Asp- land, 31r. Coates, arid Alderman Scales, addressed the assembly. Dr. Lushington, amidst loud cheering, denounced the proceedings of the House of Peers— The House of Lords bad opposed every extension of the privileges of the People of England ; they were, however, extorted from them, and now they sought, under the shelter of their irresponsibility, to deny them to the millions of the Irish. The people of this great borough, however, had heads to think and hearts to feel fo: a brave and suffering people; and tire fact of their being honest Catholics, and honest too when tire aud sword and pet secution were at one side, and power and place, by an act of apustacy, at the other, yet clung to their ancient faith. Ay, he would say, it was not because they were suck Catholics that the enlightened people of England would permit an act of foul and gross injustice to be committed towards them. If the liberties of Ireland were denied, the privileges of Englishmen could not long remain. If any Chamber of Peers were suffered to txist without responsibility, then the Mo- narch and the People would be subjected to an un-English despotism. He, for one, would never submit to such a domination. He was only contending for a principle of eternal justice, when he contended that equal rights, equal privi- leges, equal laws, should be granted to every subject of this free state, what- ever his religion, his country, or his colour might be.
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