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At a well.attended meeting of the parishioners of St. Pancras, on Thursday, resolutions were passed in favour of Ballot, Short Parlia- ments, and Universal suffrage ; also condemning the extravagance of the new Civil List, and the exclusion of Mr. Harvey from the Pension Inquiry. Mr. Vigors, M. P., said that they who only read Lord John Russell's declaration in the newspapers, can have no idea of the energy with which he pronounced it, "with clenched fists and a stern coun- iennnre, on the floor of the House of Commons." Sir Samuel Whal- ley was sure that Lord John repented of his declaration : he certainly
did not speak the sentiments of his colleagues. Besides, Ministers contradicted each other. For instance, Lord John Russell had de. dared that the object of the Reform Act was to give stability to the landed interest: and Sir Samuel heard Sir John Hobbouse assert, the other night, that Lord John Russell had said no such thing! [Poor Sir Samuel Mr. Vincent said, that to the treachery and meanness of the leading Whig families was owing the loss of' the elections of Colonel Thompson and Mr. Roebuck. He reproached -Sir Samuel Whalley for voting against Mr. Wakley's resolution, which had had the good effect of making Lord John Russell avow his Toryism. Mr. Vincent's speech was loudly cheered.
At a meeting of the Westminster Reform Society, held on Thurs- day evening, it was resolved that a public meeting should be called to " protest against the series of unconstitutional and tyrannical proceed. ings of Ministers towards the people of Canada, and to deprecate a war, which ran bring neither profit nor honour, but which must cause loss and degradation to Great Britain."
On Tuesday night, about 800 persons of both sexes, from the Northern and Western parishes of the Metropolis, drank tea together in the two great public rooms of the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in commemoration of the establishment of the West London Auiliary Branch of the new British and Foreign Temperance Society. There was a good band of music in the gallery, and alternate festoons of banners and laurels ornamented the rooms. Each" teetotal" district was represented by a table, surrounded with brethren from that it/Ca- nty. The tickets, sold for is. 6d. each, entitled the purchaser to tea and coffee, and bread and butter; and those refreshments were given to every one ad libitum.
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