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Parliament was formally prorogn«1 on Thursday, to Thursday the 15th of January. Tile Lord Chancellor and the Earls oF Rosslyn and Jersey acted as Commissioners.

The Lord Mayor has iovited the members of the new Alinistry, and about two hundred other Tories, to a greed dinner at the Mansion-

house on Tuesday next. The object is to give the Ministers an opportunity of mystifying the people preparatory to the approaching elections. Great cautions is to he used in the selection, h st the speak- ing shouhl not be all on one side : Lord Durham's Edinburgh precedent might otherwise find followers even at the Alansimthouse.

The large room in the London Tavern was crowded last night by the citizens of London, who had been refused the use of the Guildhall by tlw Lord Mayor, and %vino met to pass A nti-Tory resolutions:, and to appoint Committees for securing the reelection of 31essrs. ‘Vood, Grote, mid Crawford. Alderman It'ood took the chair. In his open- ing speech he made some severe remarks oe the Lord Msyor's breach of faith ; many other gentlemen spoke in the same strain. The three Menntwrs addressed the meeting, nod pledged themselves to a strenuous opposition to the new Ministry. Very emphatic resolutions against the new Ministry, and the Tory intrigue which paved the way to its formation, %pre passed. At the close of the proceedings, three cheers were given for the City Members and three for Lord Brougham, and three groans for the Times.

A meeting of the inhabitants of St. Margaret's and St. John's, West- minster, was held on Monday night, for the purpose of passing resolu- tions and presenting an address to his Majesty on the present crisis. Colonial Evans attended. Several resolution's were passed, and the meeting separated at half-past eleven. The following letter from Sir Francis Burdett was read by the Secretary.

Foremark.14th December 1834. Sra—I take the earliest opportunity of neknowksiging the receipt of your very flattering letter, communicating the de.im of my totestittnents of St. Margaret's and St. John's to know my opinion respecting the late change nr Administration. Upon this sulrject I am so totally in the dark. that I sat myself quite incompetent to offer one worthy the least attention. All we know is—and that from most indisputable au- thority -that all the statements and surmises hitherto male thiough the press, are en- tirely unfounded. Under thm-e circumst limes. I can only express my regret, aunt ties-ply lament It. The t ime,bowever, At ill soon arrive when an explanation, authentic and in tine form, will be required and givi.n. When that time shall arrive, I shall be at my post, and to the hest of my ability and judgmeist. anti uncompromisingly, tin my duty to my constituents awl to my multry. No doubt the electors of Westminster and the eleettirs throughout England 'a ill tlo theirs in case of a dissolution, by returning to Parliament such men a° they can confide in for integrity and understanding. I will add, that I have no apprehension of the Doke of Wellington, or any other man or meo. The rights and liberties on the People or England are now placed upon a rock from which no power on earth can WIDOW them. Nothing out the rashness of the People themselves eau bring them into the least danger. Let us act upon knowledge. not sur- mise, steadily, resolutely. and rationally. %%liars the Army. with twenty Dukes of Wellitiwon, against the People of England P For myself, my motto has always been. ' Scrpe pro rege. semper pro palria.' Such I have been—such am I uow —the devoted and very humble servant of the people of Westminster. FRANCIS BURDETT."

Last night, a considerable number of the Westminster electors as- sembled at the Crown and Anchor Taverns, for the purpose of receiving the report of a Committee appointed to communicate with Sir Francis Burdett. Sir Francis had not arrived from Derbyshire. Messrs. De Year and Potency were tunable to find places in the coaches of Tuesday or Weduesday ; therefore they had no further information to give; and Mr. De Veer read the letter from Sir Francis to the purishes of St. Margaret and St. John, gives above.

Colonel Evans seems, from the reports, to have made a very strange sort of exhibition— He praised the letter of Sir Francis, as straightforward and manly; and took the opportunity of conitnenting upon Sir Robert Peel's address to his con- stituents,—which, although it did not, as regarded the Dissenters, and one or two other points, go as filr as he could wish, afferded him pleasure, from the assurance it gave that three was no intention ef mutilating, or in anywise touching the Refiwne Bill. !twits not a document that the country need be afraid of and if the lteformers only remained united, they need fear nothing. The gallant Colonel concluded be toying, that he was told a pia had been hatched in some of the club houses to bring in a third candidate, so as to oust him or Sir Francis Burdett ; but he was sure the electors would not suffer Westminster to be made a Whig or Tory borongh.

Dr. Bainbridge, who proposed Colonel Evans at the last election, moved a resolution pledging the meeting to support Sir Francis and the Colonel.

A long and desultory conversation ensued, in the course of which regret was expressed at Sir Francis Burdett's silence; which, says the Chronicle, " Gave occasion to Colonel Evans to make three speeches in his favour, and to throw out some reflections upon the heretofore supporters of Sir Francis Burdett, for now hesitating to support him, and to insinuate that they were in the plot ;' at, opinion in which Mr. Prout expressed his concurrence, saying he thought it strange there should be no places vacant to Derby on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning." Messrs. De Year and Pommy defended themselves from the imputation ; and the former read a letter which he had written to Sir Francis, urging him very strongly to state explicitly his sentiments respecting the Tory Ministry, and thus remove all ground for the re- port against hi-tn. The letter of Mr. De Year was applauded, and the writer received an unanimous vote of thanks from the meeting. Dr. Bainbridge withdrew his resolution ; and another was passed, to the effect that as Sir Francis bad sent no answer, no conclusion respectieg lus conduct would be come to by the meeting. The members of the Lumber Troop dined together at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, on Monday evening. Alderman Wood, Mr. Grote. Mr. T. Duncombe, and Mr. W. Crawford were present. When the healtbs of the Independent Members, for the City and of Mr. Dun-

combe were given, each of those gentlemen addressed the company, it decidedly Libend speeches. During the &inner, Alr. Grote's portsait was brought in and burg up : in reference to this compliment, Air. Grote said--

If he ever deserted the cause of the People—if he ever partook in sinister gains, or did any thing to perpetuate undue emoluments on the part of the Oligarchy —if he was ever thus corrupt Red thus dastard, he hoped they would hang his portrait with the face to the wall, and that the otiginal would be for ever de- barred from entering the society of honest and free-born men. Evers, reflecting person must see that they lived in very eventful times, and that it became more than ever necessary that the most ttnreserved confidence should he t stablisted between the People and their Representatives. Honour should he the constant thought of both. A dark cloud Was passing (wee the political horizon, but it need not give rise to uneasy thoughts, for it was only the forerunner of calmer days, and would in the sold most assuredly impart flesh force and vigour to the glue ious cause of reform and improvement. For such an occasion, amI in such circumstances, it became him to state candidly and openly to them am! to the: world, what would lie his conduct as a Representative of tire People. Ile should give to the Administration announced in the Standard of that I'Vt iurn, h is decided and most uncompromising opposition. Ile knew there were some per- sons who were so easy of faith, as to believe the protestations—not even of the 31inisters themselves, hut of stone self- sr)led representatives of them—as to cer- tain pretended intentions of carrying on the work of reform. He recogili:ed 11,1 such deception. Ile knew them only as Anti-Itcformers; the Country knew. them only in that (-barmier ; and sure W:Is he that the Country wo:IN1 never consent to know them in any other light. They might believe 'hint implieitly when he said, that ail the reform they would have front such 31inisters, would. pass through the eve of the smallest needle—that it would Inc the eery Minimum:

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He could not conceive it possible for any thing less than a miracle to work ,o sudden a change in the sentiments of men of such determined dispositictis, v. lot had on every occasion shown such a deep-rooted and unbending antipathy to the progress of Reform; mad even admitting that they were sincere convet Is to the cause of progressive improvement in the social coudition of man, he still should be of opinion that they, of all men in the world, were the most unfit to be in- trusted with tine preparation or conduct of such measures.

Mr. Crawford declared his full concurrence in every sentiment uttered by Mr. Grote. Mr. Duncombe was spirited and sarcastic in his denunciation of Tory men and measures ; and Mr. Alderman Wood- referred to the uniform conduct of his public life as a pledge that Inc would be found doing his duty in Parliament.

A meeting of the inhabitunts of the ward of Cripplegate Within was held on Tuesday, in the premises belonging to Mr. Palmer of Wood Street, Cheapsirle, for the purpose of adopting an address to be presented to his Majesty, praying him to dismiss his presernt Ministers. Mr. Alderman Wood presided ; and after considerable opposition on the part of some gentlemen, who moved amendments to the re,olutions which gave rise to much naroar, the original resolutions, with an address founded on them, were agreed to.

A meeting of tine Lambeth electors was held last night, at the Horns Tavern, Kerusington. Messrs. Tennyson and Hawes were present, and the numbers assembled are stated at upwards of two thou- sand. It was agreed to support the present Liberal Members: they were, however, severely catechised—especially 'Mr. Hawes, whose votes for the Poor-Law and Coercion Bills, and other Whig measures, are very unpopular among hiS constituents.

The inhabitants of the parish of St. Leonard, Shorediteh, assem- bled in their Vestry-room on Wednesday evening, "to consider the cause of the obstruction and delay given to the petition of the inhabi- -tants of this extensive parish to his Majesty, to take into considera- tion the alarming state of the country at this important crisis, and to adopt such measures thereon as may be deemed expedient." About two thousand persons were pi esent. Dr. Lushington, who attended the meeting, was received with hearty cheers. A letter from Mr. Clay was read, apologizing for his absence, and stating that he had attended the day after he received the address of the parishioners, and presented it at the Duke of Wellington's office. As his Grace was not there at the time, he left a note, requesting that it should at once be presented to his Majesty. As he received no communication from the Duke respecting the presentation, he wrote to him : he had beets obliged to leave town, and had requested that any official communica- tion on the subject should be forwarded to Mr. Lawrence, A letter was then read, dated the 15th instant, from Mr. Phillips, the Under- Secretary of State for the Home Department, informing Mr. Clay, by order of the Duke of Wellington, that his Grace had not tailed to lay the address of the parishioners of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, before his Majesty. The meeting expressed much dissatisfaction at the treat- ment of their address ; and another Anti-Tory address was agreed to, to be presented by Lord Durham.

The Committee of the Three Denominations of the Metropolitan Dissenters assembled yesterday, and passed resolutions declaring Sir Robert Peel's address to he most unsatisfactory to the Dissenters, and as affording no prospect of the adoption of liberal measures on the part of the Cabinet of which he is the head.