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Public feeling in the Metropolis remains very much in the same state as during the week that preceded our last publication. There Itave been no vioient exhibitions of partisanship, nothing like great ex- citement. But the importance of the late changes is not underrated, and there not the slightest reason to suppose that the public indifference to the fate of the Whig Ministry has been converted into any thing like regard for the Anti-Reformers. There are no signs of the "reac- tion" in London.

The Common Council assembled on Thursday; and, after an abor- tive attempt by the Lord Mayor to procure precedence for a motion of

ranks to the late Lord Mayor, proceeded to discuss the subject of the Ministerial changes. The debate which ensued was very stormy. Lord Brougham on the one band, and the Duke of Wellington on the other, came in for a full share of personal abuse. The Lord Mayor seems to have been very much " excited " when the Duke was attacked, though he sanctioned the abuse of Lord Brougham by an "approving

smile." The principal speakers were Mr. Ashurst, Mr. Richard .

Taylor, Alderman Brown, Mr. Samuel Dixon, Mr Williams, and Mr. Galloway. Mr. Asburst moved some resolutions couched in moderatelanguage, expressive of the regret and.sdarm of the Common Council at the recall of the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Tickner moved the following amendment- .. That while this Court abstains from any proceeding that would tend to interfere with the King's unquestionable constitutional prerogative to dismiss or appoint his responsible advisers, the Court cannot but express its firm conviction that of whatmer individuals the new Cabinet may be composed, they will not deserve, nor can they (in the opinion of this Court) continue longiii power. unless they proceed ill good faith to reform all abuses in Church and State.'

Upon this amendment, a division took place : for it, 60, including tellers ; against it, 109, with the tellers ; majority for Mr. Ashurst's ' resolutions, 49.

An address to the King, founded upon the resolutions, was agreed to. It is to be presented by the whole Court : and the Sheriffs and Remembrancer were ordered to proceed forthwith to his Majesty, to know when it would be agreeable to him to receive it.

Deputy Price then moved a resolution of thanks to Alderman Fare.. brother, the late Lord Mayor, for his conduct during his year of office. Mr. Pritchard moved, as an amendment, two resolutions strongly con.. deninatory of his conduct—charging him with "an undue assumption of personal importance, and a disposition to subvert the rightful pri- vileges and authority of the Court." This amendment was carried, by 88 to 44.

A conversation then occurred between Mr. Wire and the Lord Mayor, relative to the refusal of the latter to call a Common Hall. - Lord Winchester refused to " entertain the question," as there was no requisition before him. He desired the Swordbearer to take up the sword and mace ; and wasabout to break tip the Court, when Alderman Atkins interposed, and his civic Lordship then closed the business of • the day with the following speech.

" Gentletnen, as long as I fill the office I hold, I will endeavour to support its dignity ; but I will not put the question. Yet I am anxious to comply With the wishes of roj fellow-citizens ; and if they present tome a requisition divested of all objectionable matter, I will call a Common Hall." ( Cheers and laughter )

Messrs. Wood, Grote, Crawford, Clay, Lushington, Hawes, Ten- nyson, W. Broughatn, Humphery, and Dunconibe, have published the • following address to their constituents of the Metropolitan districts on

the state of public affairs. It has put an end to all hopes of gaining converts to the Government of the Duke of Wellington in this quarter.*

" We, the undersigned, your Representatives in the first Reformed House of Commons, tillable at this season to make our sentiments known in our places ia Parliament, fee: hoar duty to address you on the present critical state of pub. lie affairs.

" We rejoiced in common with yourselves, at the passing of the Reform Bill, in the confident hope that it would lead to those extensive practical ameliort. tions which we conceive the country to require; and that it would insure both redress of national grievances and continued progression in good government, without the smallest interruption to the public security and repose. " It is with deep sorrow that we now find this hope extinguished by the re- appointment of an Anti-Reforming Ministry. We can expect no prosecution of the kgitimate consequences of the Refiwin Bill fioni those who in every staire denounced and opposed it. We can anticipate no correction of social or polo:- cal abuses from those whose voice has uniformly been raised in their defence. From such men Reformers have nothing to hope; and not only nothing to hope, but in our opinion, every thing to fear. For we cannot conceal our appre- hension, that any attempt either to withhold wise and neccessary reforms, or to impose upon the people tlelusive and inefficient measures in placeof them, will be attended with serious danger to the peace of the community. " It is not our purpose In this address to express any united opinion as On the conduct of the Ministry since the opening of the Reformed Parliament. On that point we are not unanimous. Many of us are of opinion that the Minis- , try have greatly fallen short of the legitimate expectations of the People; and our conduct in Parliament shows how far we have respectively acted on tlitt conviction. Others among us think that, considering the diflicultiss with which the Government had to contend, no blame is imputable to them for not having effected mote extensive reforms. But whatever difference of sentiment there may be as to the measures of the displaced Ministry, we are all of one ac- cord in proclaiming that the recent appointment is a change for the worse—a change greatly and fearfully for the worse—a change fatal to all prospect of ef- ficient and and peaceable reforms, and involving the near possibility of perils such as we shrink from contemplating.. " We have thus, under au imperative sense of duty, expressed to you, through the only channel at present open to us, our opinions on the recent changes iii the Government ; we believe that those opinions will find accordance among the large majority of our constituents. It is not for us to suggest to you the pi oper mode of giving effect to your convictions on this momentous topic; hut we trust that you will concur with us in laying aside all slighter differences of po- litical feeling, for the purpose of preventing the restoration of Tory misgovern- ment, and the retrograde movement of the cause of Reform. " A dissolution of Parliament is, in all probability, at hand ; and, on the re- sult of the ensuing election depends all chance of future political progress, and, perhaps, even the preservation of the Reform Bill itself fiom repeal or muti- lation. We anxiously hope that you will unite in repudiating, not only the de- clared enemies of that great measure, but also the supporters of a Government avoweilljr hostile to those amendments in our institutions, for the attainnieut of which alone Pal liamentary Reform is valuable. Your example will be followed elsewhere ; and a new Parliament will be chosen, such as no Anti- Reforming

• So we infer from the acknowledgment of the Standard, that it had greatly ire creased the necessity for a dissolution of Parliament. The other avowed organ of the

Duke, the Mornirsj ;o• did not dare to insert the address at all, but follow ingfaithfut account of it : which, by the by, may affurd our readers a spe9in.en of the way in which/ads are dealt a ith in the daily announcements of political maw gave, instead. the motion in ail the Duke's journals.

" 'ill the inkmation it communicates is. that those high authreities, Mr. Aldrrmas Wood. Mr. t, rote, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Clay, Dr. Lushington, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Tenny- son, Mr. Brougham. Mr. Ilumphery. and Mr. Duncombe, regret exceedingly circumstances should have arisen which suggest the probability of a new eleedon

and that, by way of lending to each other that mutual aid of a they will set.erally stand so notch in need, they mean to cauva,s in common. The exampl, is a ;co! that.auy one; and, without expressing at present any opinion as to the pmbabilit y of a gem, al election, we fervently hope that. should such an event 'veer, emit of the abore c ,ulhe of ten will unit a competitor.combiuing in his character greater loyalty to the f hrt!.. with a more siiteere and enlightened regent to the rights awl interests of die peel& that these constitutional competitors to the ten m ill be fully aware of the necvssii y. of mutual cooperatiou and support eluting the contest; and that their Paribotaator conduct, when elected. as in this case they will he, m ry prore such as to protect thiem effectually from the terrors which now shake the botoins of their Whig and Ea, cal predecessors on the prospect of a dissolution of Parliament." iitI•y‘cill be able to encounter. This is our fervent prayer ; we rejoice to add, tit tt it itt ft tbe same time our confident expectation.

{ G. GROTE. M. WCOD. " City W. CRAWFORD. W. CLAY.

S. LUsHINCTON.

B. HAviss.

C. TENNYSON. W. BROUGHAM. J. IIIIAINIERY.

Finsbury T. DONC031111t." Copies of the above address were sent to Sir F. Bureett, Sir W. Home, and Mr. Byng. Mr. Hume is on the Continent. Colonel Evans declined being a party to the address, but has given his opinions to the electors of ‘Vestininster in a separate letter. After insisting on the right of the country to express its approbation or disapprobation of the King's choice of Ministers, and alluding to the sLort tenure of dfiee which recent Administrations have enjoyed, he assetts that this ixtabiIity and insecurity will and ought to continue, until a Cabinet is formed that determines to graple boldly with great abuses. He hopes that the Durhatn, Ellice, and Abercrotnby section of the Whigs will be " replaced in a more just and consistent Government than some few members of the last would permit it to be." This, be says, is his object ; and he goes on to say- " Those who would now resume the helm, but whose realization of the at- tempt I vet doubt, were not long since signally hurled from their seats, because they would vainly arrest ameliorations. The .Ministers just dismissed fell like- wise, not because of the hostility of the Oligarchy (that raged before as violentl,, ), but lF2eatise they pandered with questions of great practical abuse, and thus Wag the poplin. confidence and support, became defenceless to the assaults of their rivals. Within the periods referred to, the legal power of the middle and intelligent orders, the force of public opinion, the knowledge of rights and interests—which is moral power, the most irresistible of all--have been diffused, developed, awl advanced more than half a century. Is there any cause for dismay at the present aspect of affairs? None. But on the other hand, indifference were fatal. This would but enfeeble our own ranks, and embolden those of the enemy. Let it then buckle on our armour, and prepare again for the good fight. It is but thetlespai ring effort of a ruined phalanx with which we have to combat. Let our rallying eries he justice to Ireland ; justice to the Dissent,i7, ot England ; se merely aitinfilition, hut a more equitable distribution of the burdens of the "co- pie; shorter Parliaments, extended suffrage, and the ballot. BE PROGRESSIVE WO it !`i Tit E WATCHWORD. And thus reasserting our principles, anti laying ride all minor differences, in the hope that those whom we wish to see in the councils of his Majesty will profit by pasterrors, let nacombine all our efforts, and went to all constitutional means for carrying into effect these great and indispen- die measures. For conveying, then, to the foot of the Throne, the expres- sions of these our unalterable sentiments, I would respectfully suggest the con- vening, with frequency and without delay, not only those respectable parochial meetings, the sure index of influential opinion, but also such greater and more imposing assemblages as time and circumstances admit. Westminster, the seat of Government, the preeminent constituency, hitherto the light to guide the Ref ratersof the Kingdom, will doubtless continue to occupy its wonted Ration."

Mr. Hume returned from the Continent on Thursday night, and yesterday put forth an address to the electors of Middlesex. Mr. Hume concurs with the majority of the Metropolitan Members in call- ing upon the Reformers to sink minor differences, and to unite in erenuoits opposition to the Tories. The principal parts of the address are comprised in the following extracts.

I fieel that during tny absence from England, important and alarming changes have taksa place in the state of pubLe. affairs. The majority of my Metropolitan colleagues late pitilished an address to their constituents; to which, had I been present. I should have giten my w Wing assent. In so tioin„a. however. I should more especially have 1;111.1i with those amongst them, who think that we have reason greatly to complain of the untleeitbal and timid policy which M Misters adopted, after carrying the great men. tee of Iteiorin in Parliament ; thereby retarding those ameliorations it was calculated topmditee, and disappointing the just expectations of the people, who had so nobly sup. potted thin through the previous struggle. By this line of conduct, they perhaps titemed it possible to conciliate those whom they ought to have known to be Wrecon- tilsVe elle cit's ; not perceiving that they were thereby losing (or not caring to lose) the tootideue., of huaest anti sincere friends. Again and again had they been wanted by snedf at&t others, even at the risk of woundiug the feelings of men with whom we tem must assigns to cooperate, of the inevitable consequences of such irresolute and mischievous pidicy. The result beam out our ant icipal bus. The People became corn. Pretively indifferent ; reaction was openly talked of; the King, deceived as to the ttelines of the natio'', dismissed the Rennin Ministry ; and floe Duke of Wellington is the Dletann —the more than Prime Minister of E nglattd, amidst the acclamations and rejoicings or the advocates and supporters of arbitrary government here and throughout the Continent of E mope. I speak confidently as to this last point ; having just wit. Suet the excitement and anxiety produceit abroad, by the news of this change of Xinistry.

We are, initeiel, placed in an unprecedented situation. For ten days the whole re- sponsibility of every department of the Government (save that of Lord Chancellor) has hem vested in one man. It may be ten—it may be twenty more days ere'eir Robert Peel- -oil whom, it seems. oar fate depends—arrive, to say whether we have or have not au Adnii tilst ration ! had it pleased his Majesty to call to his couucils Lord William Bentinek, from India, instead of Sir Robert Peel, from Italy , we might have been kept it11t5 situation for a year." That the Tories have obtained the confidence of the People, I cannot for a moment ielieve. That the same men who so powertully struggled to obtain Reform in Portia- test. as a uterus of securing a good and cheap Government, should now expect to e'vect bat great object through a party whose political history, to this day, has been a series estravagaiic... corruption, and oppression, is what I never will believe. until I see a House ot Coiemons returned in winch that patty shall have a majority. "From such to party let us listen to no offers—accept no comproiniae. Specious hopes lay he held olit to delude and to gain time ; but, can men who opposed the Reform Bill in every stage, and denounced it as the destruction of the British Constitution. be the fit instiiiments to work out its legitimate beneficial results ? I hold that they tanuat. Let all those who thiuk with me, join heart and hand in the approaching Sal, Mr. Sergeant Spankie could not be expected to join with the Liberal Members; and he has addressed the electors of Finsbury in an epistle which tills upwards of a column of the very smallest type of the ItIvertising columns of the Times. He terms the address of Messrs. Irood, Grote, Ikc. " a curious spechnen of legal mosaic." Had they been lawyers, he should have said that their " diequisition less, much resembled that sort of opinion which is given at a grand consultation of lavryers on some litigated point," when no two are 'greed. lie then advances his own opinion as that of a" dissenting counsel," and intimates that it may prove satisfactory, because it stands alone. His production has certainly every appearance of having been Worked out fur a Treasury fee. It is wordy, impudent, and trimming_ Precisely such as a placehunting politician might be expected to put thfrtb at a tune when Ministerial changes are at hand. The substance °Luis—that the late Ministry were a set of poor, weak creatures; and

Tower :lamlets Lambeth Southwark that more real good is to be expected fi out the Duke than from theta. Let us subjoin a few specimens of this impudent but amusing docu- ment ; which is not without a certain species of cleverness, if we choose to overlook its low and bate object—that of alarming the ignorant and timid of the monied classes.

" Notwithstanding the noisy and restless agitation which madly anti vainly attempts to counterfeit the voice of the people, it will in the end be found that the great majority of the sober anti intelligent inhabitants of this want ry are still attached to their ancient constitution of King. Lords, and Commons, aud to the blessings of settled government. . . . Very few art stirprised that the King in the exereise of his unquestionable prerogative has at last changed his Ministers. The wonder is. that he should have submitted so lung to sot Aclinitlistration which bad not the least character of permanence or of real efticieocy. Since the resignation uf Lent Stanley, the Duke of Richmond, I.onl Ripon, and Sir James Graham, and filially the retreat of Lord Grey. without even the appearance of new talents and streng'11, it has been plainly impossible for them to keep their places. Even a coalition with Mr. !futile and Mr. O'Connell, admitting these gentlemen atel their ildlowers (and coripared with the late Ministers they are well eatitled) to a just partieipation of official atitkaity —the only alternative left to theta- - would not have been effectual to supp II 'hr Admieistration Under the circuinetailees in which this change 11.,s Oben place it cannot be arteribedlo any political intrigue, nor can it he al leged to have I t'r'ni adopted in order to defeat any mea- sure or set of measures immediately essential ti, the Kitety of the Stale. . . Those, indeed, whoconaider Parliamentary lleform only a mea:.s to cifevt a tot al revoluthon, will be disap. pointed by the change. The tate Ministers had idae,dtheln;elves in a situation in a hie% they could not carry even safe reforms without xiskiug, at evtey step, a convulsion In the State. Representing but a part of the community—hay ing lost the confidence of a great portion of the upper ranks, orate tiroperty, and I he respectability. and even numbers of the country —they had no resew.. hat to govern 1,!. act ire multitudes, to call in agita- tion upon every emergency, nut! to catry every 11thiblfill measure by a sort of (yap dila. They could not conduct the business of Govteritnent without making successive surrender of every bulwark of the Conatitution ; and, in a year or le\-ovhaitgfsuirntliies.t.„irt.

must have been left naked and defenceless to its enemies

and Tories in power. have boeu said to be much the same ; but the imputation implies little blame upon iudivideals, and, in truth, it involves the highest praise of the Cu*. StitUtIOII ; for it is the supreme excellence of established settled government. that its systems and maxims are more amlooritative than the ear lag opinions of individuals or of parties Willi ill joist and vigorous go%ernment, determined to cans.... the law to he respected, no severity will be required to, semi the revolutionary agitators back to their proper insignificance. With a Government capaMe of rousing and direct- jug, and if necessary, calling into action the soond parts of the pi-epic, torpid awl die- countenanced hitherto, and, thaileful of oldie support, the tither:dile attempts or agita-

tors will he repressed by public scorn :tool indignation

Terrorists of France were quite right when they said t hat their repulirlic'ecjoauelAbttungl;n6e1 established by ete Mg of :atme millions of heads ; but, in truth, ir they had realised tied generous idea, tied performed the same limeys'; of ext ernituation from time to time on t resitlIW Or till. rUptliat ion. they would Imre been just as tar off as at tine beginuing inn,, their perfect unanimity and their pore deememey. at arat's speculation has been considered the coneeption ti au at i ocious !wait and of a frantic head. It was no 9uch thing. It was the natural and well.reason.itt einoequence of such schemes of government."

Sergeant Spankie objects to public treetinge, because respectable people, he says, avoid them. He is rather puzzled to reconcile his attachment to the Anti-Reforming Duke with his desire to curry favour with his Dissenting constituents. We suspect his labour on this point has been thrown away, as we cannot think so meanly of the electors of Finsbury as to suppose he has the slightest chance of being elected again. By this time the trimming Sergeant must be well known.