In LONDON, the Common Council met on Monday. This corpora-

tion, it will be remembered, have the high privilege of presenting their addresses to the King on the Throne. On Monday also, the 'Wards of CriI egate Without and of Walbrook, and the pansh of St. Andrew's, H rn,-met. Lambeth bad a meeting the same day. Some twenty or thirty thousand of the peoldo trf Ilfafylebbne, PahefdR, and Pao:: dinyton, assembled also on Monday, in a field at the gyte Anus. Mr. Hume presided at this meeting, and made an excellent speech: Colonel. Jones declared that he would, in case of necessity, lend on the Res formers, with greater pleasure than he had ever headed an attacking. party in the Peninsula. Sir S. Whalley declared himself a descendant of Whalley the regicide ; and offered his services to the country in what:. ever way they could most usefiilly be employed. There has been it foolish dispute about the numbers of this meeting. The Standard and the Post are fond of dabbling in these petty matters, as if it signi- fied the turning of a straw whether a unanimous people assembled by scores or by dozens. The plain fiat is, that the Duke of Wellingtons could not muster soldiers crow to attend a tithe of the Reform meetings; he could not, were they all held in one day, spare a couple of rank mid

file for each. •

A very numerous meeting—probably from 15,000 to 20,000— of persons resident in the Finsbury district, was held in White Conduit Fields, on Thursday evening. Mr. Hume was in the chair. Among other good advice to the people, he gave the follow ing_ With a rouse, all that eras necessary was to carry thc thing peaceably. They would :nal:it a far greater impn•ssion eau their opponews, by sullen silence and determined perseverance, than by a furious and turbulent proeedore. It was a high. s.01,n,„ti,o, :Iva hot ow shilling's wire'. f glass had !At,L,•11 the Ir1100 ate- tropoli:. This was a triumph of tl c high st order, became it presented to the ene- mies of Reform the spectacle of a goo -sca;ed people, determined on their object., and confident of obtaining it.

The meeting was afterwards addressed by the Reverend Mr. David-

son, the Reverend L'r. Rice, &c. It broke tip with three cheers for Reform, three for the Press, mid three groans for the Bishops.

The parishes of CleAenzrell, St. Leonard's, Shorediteh, aud Si. Mat- t1u•tc's; Dethnul Green, met on Wednesday. Mr. Owen of Hackney, one of the speakers, said— I le th,:ght 1;-mean paupers into wished to ride over the free.born people of England ought to lie plods:led by being sent bark to their own country. and their original po- verty. I it deprecated in strong language the interference of the Ktug's sou, and la-- lae:ed that his Majesty's popularity had so severely suffered is not to be easily re- stored. (Cries ,tr* It mere r trill !") A general meeting of the Nat;ond LTaion took place at the rooms in Leicester Square on Wednesday. It was excessively. crowded, and upwards of two thousand members remained contentedly in the Square in the hope of I.:liming some tidings of what was going on from those-

who occasionally came out. Mr. Murphy moved a resolution-

" That th.• ;eetiug hail with pleasure the prospect of the reappointment of Eart Grey's Adminis:ration, in the confident expectation that he will make no compromise •

with ti:e of the People."

Mt. Potter, of Manchester, in speaking in support of the resolution, described an interview which he had had with the Duke of Wellington in October last as one of a deputation who had brought up a Reform petition to the House of Lords-

- wo told Mtn, that the people of the North of England were one and all Ilea:rulers, and bent on ibe.efuigg this hill. I told him, it the RelbruL13ill did not Hasa, hat heavy calamities would betel the country. We told him that the great and hid:tent mer- chants and manotheturers of Manchester were in :t state of alarm, that they were dis- charging their workmen, and that we would not answer for the eonsoquercos. The repy was this—Mu• people of England are very quiet if they are left alone; and it' they w an't, there is a way to make them

Air. Gillon, M.P. for Linlithgow, shortly addressed the LTnion

" We have heard much harped about • the pilot that weather'd the store—and who was this pilot ? Why, Pitt, who had ground the nation to the dust in taxes to oppose liberty abroad, and mainntiu despotism at home—he who had taxed even the light of Heaven, and who would not permit the rays of the sun to enter but through a taxed medium. llmbrring to a recent motion respecting the occurrences at Peterloo, in 1819, Mr. Hillon said lie was proud in being one of those in the House of Commons to sup- port au inquiry into the conduct of the persons engaged in that disastrous ; and thought that. whatever tiny; might elapse, the actors in such a bloody tragedy should be brought to einalign pauishment, or be held up to the scorn and execration of all good tarn. But all haptirics oC that kind will he stopped while the lioroughmongering tricks prevail ; mill while those are dontinaut W110121 we trail • My Lords,' and who breetl a. spawn of 11.,retli:ary despots. lint the people are now roused, like a giant refreshed Men his slumbers ; and the echo of their voice has been reverberated from the shores of Erin, and has passed through the glens of my native eoantry more rapid than 11c calls of cal...:Ionia's ,..laus to a nester—stud the voice has not been heard nor spread in vain."

Air. Hickson mentioned an anecdote worth preserving— "The Duke of Wellineion,- he said, "Lad endeavoured to ascertain not only n hat part of the Army would support. his arbitrary attempts. but what part of the, NOV P"ii•V ; and this porp,se Colonel Rowan had sent mull to inquire the dispcsi- t h,as ,,r ti.r dill:Tent divisions were towards such atteuips. From tWil the Commission:1. of Police was answered, that if :Ley were required to oppose the people, the men could not be trusted."

At a late hour, and as the meeting was about to break up, Sir Wil- liam Brabazon -carried, and enrolled his name as a member, and 'pre- . sented a donation of 51. to the funds. Sir William said he was proud to •selze the opportunity of enrollim,b his name among them—" Al- though he w- a native of Ireland, he and all his countrymen were

anxious to accord with their brethren Reformers in England in all their meditated improvements." Sir William was warmly applauded,. and when he ended there were three times three cheers for " Old Ireland."

The Livery Re-/brat Committee appointed to watch the progress of the Bill have agreed to meet every day until it be carried. The City of London Rcform Committee have also been reconstructed, and have agreed to meet every evening until the Bill pass. The National Re- form Committee, tinder the leadership of Sir Francis Burdett, have once more gathered themselves together, and issued an address to the Reformers of the United Kingdom. An association of members of the three professions, and of many persons of the middle classes, has been formed within these few days ; and at a general meeting of the subscribers, held in Lincoln's Inn, on Wednesday, a Provisional Com- mittee was formed, and a resolution passed, that the association should instantly be called together, and a permanent Chairman appointed, in the event of any further attempt being made to impede Lord Grey in

carrying the Bill. -

A petition from the English Bar, calling on the House of Commons

to adopt all constitutional means for having the Bill passed without mutilation, has been agreed to, and very' numerously sighed. There

has been an Anti-Reform petition from the Bar also, signed by 250 members. Sir James Scarlett and Sir Edward Sugden lead this for- lorn hope.

At the Kensington meeting, on Tuesday, Captain Williams said—. • ' Couriers are already flying to announce the tidings to the tyrant of Russia, who is yet reekiug with the unavenged blood of I'olaud-to the wily Austrian-the perfidious Prnssian-the bigoted Ferdinaud-the guilt-covered Miguel. Nothing can arrest his daring career, but intimidation. or, to use an imported word, 'agitation.' It was by this iustrumeut the Irish beat him down, and wrung from hint Catholic Emancipation. Let us wield the same weapon. and he shall again capitulate. The House of Commons will stop the Supplies. We are told of a dissolution of Parliament ; let it come to that. and it will be seen what a grand blow there will be struck throughout the empire. It is recommended to pay no taxes ; It every man adopt that expedient-I for one will pay none. If Wellington awl Ids minions should get into power, then the only course left to the people would be to hoist the rose., the shamrock, and the thistle, and raise one universal cry, "fo your tents, 0 Israel; " Mr. Hume, M.P., observed— The Estimates for tl:e Civil Establishment and the Ordnance, for several of the Naval contingencies, and for the whole of the Civil List of Ireland. remained to be voted. He defied the Duke or the King to carry on the Gevernment without the sauction of the Commons. He should be sorry to uphold the prerogatives of the Commons exclu- sively. He would wish to see the three wheels ofGovernment go to,;ether. Ile took an active part. because he bad better opportunities than most men of ascertaining the state of the public mind, and wished to save the country from convulsion. Ile had been charged with speaking harshly of the King. Ile never spoke harshly of the King; but if he had his will, there were some dozens of men, ay, of women too, that he would ship off to Hanover. (Tremendous cheering.) They had done vast mischief: and if the House of Commons had nut beeu true to the People, Great Britain would have been shaken to the centre.

On Wednesday evening, a large and most respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Camberwell took place in the Grove House Tavern ; the Reverend Mr. Vane in the Chair. The Reverend Chairman said— He would east no aspersions upon individuals holding high stations in this country, but he trusted the time was not far distant, when that individual, who had acted behind the curtain such a treacherous part, would be exhibited to public notice, and. should the charge be established. exposed to public execration. (Cheers.) He warred not with women, therefore he should be silent with regard to female conduct; but be would avow his opinion, that an individual high in rauk, but sunk to the lowest depth in public estimation, had been mainly instrumental in the late plot which had almost annihilated the hopes of the people. And he was not sale (for it was currently believed) that a certain criminal Judge had nut subjected himself to an impeachment for the disgraceful part he lied acted in the late disgraceful trickery.

Mr. Evans spoke of another hero of the faction—

It was with a sensation of bitter disgust that he alluded to the part the Duke of 'Wellington had taken in that proeveiling. Good Cud ! to think that a man %rho had filled all Europe with his fame should have so lusted a:ter the petty profits of place as to take office. after Ids public pro:est : but he had been rewarded by the general burst of indignation and contempt which had broken siantalt aneously from the nation. If the late Ministry were recalled.-and every report concurred in asserting it was the fact.-then he would counsel the Miuistry to give up the folly of bestowing places on their enemies -of letting Lord Hill remain Commander of the Forces, and allowing Lord Fitzroy Somerset to dispose of its whole patronage.

The freeholders of the hundred of Bcacontrce met on Wednesday, in the bowling-green of the Swan Inn, Stratford-le-Bow. Among other gentlemen, the two members for Essex, Mr. Western and Mr. Wel- lesley, and Sir P. Agar, were present. Major Richardson was in the chair. Dr. Brown, of Walthamstow, ridiculed the notion that the in- stillation of sixty or one hundred members from the Lower House- men of integrity and mind—could be at all derogatory to their Lord- ships' House. Old Mr. Burgoyne said, though now eighty-two years of age, he hoped to live to see the triumph of the great cause—

When he had heard the great military Commander, to whom the country owed much for his military services, had shown a disposition to take civil office, he (Mr. Burgoyne) thought it would be more honourable, and more consistent with the military character of that individual, to have drawn his sword in defence of mankind iu Poland, them to have opposed the liberties of mankind iu the Cabinet.

Mr. Wellesley remarked on the shortsightedness of his plotting re- lation-

He was sorry he had shown so much ignorance of the character of the British people, in supposing that they were not fit to be trusted with them liberties to which we, as Reformers, say they are worthily entitled. Ile had Wd him so often; and he was asto- nished that a man of such intelligent mind-si man who hail led them on through blood and battle, through danger to victory-should have so mistaken the clotracter of the British People, as to suppose that the red coat could change the character of the man, or to imagine that the soldier was not a citizen.

The news of the resignation of the late Ministry arrived at Ware on Wednesday. Those of the inhabitants who were members of the Mar- quis of Salisbury's Yeomanry corps immediately assembled at the Sa- racen's Head Inn, when they determined to send in their resignation, which was despatched at midnight to Hatfield House. A black flag was hoisted on the steeple of Ware church.

At the Southwark meeting, on Friday just week, the following good thing fell from Mr. Brougham—

Something had been said about the people not paying taxes. A resolution to that effect would be highly ; but people might individually refuse without rendering themselves amenable to the law. iKow this was an ittlhir easily arranged. It' a lax- gatherer wore to call upon him, and ask hint to settle his little bill for taxes, he might

say to him in reply, 1 have got a Bill of my own, which I should like to have settled ; and, uulcss you settle mine satisfactorily, you must never expect me to settle yours."