REFORM MOVEMENT-MEETING AT LAMBETH.—A meeting of electors and other inhabitants of the borough of Lambeth was held at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, on Tuesday night, under the auspices of the Lambeth Electoral Association, to give expression to the sentiments of the borough upon the recent anti-reform declaration of Lord Russell, and to adopt measures in support of Mr. Hume's motion, now before the House of Commons.
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Mr. F. DOULTON then proposed as the second resolution—"That this meeting declares its conviction that the House of Commons does not truly represent the population, and that, so long as it is constituted as it is at present, it cannot become the proper organ for the expression of the nation's will, and that any reform in our representation system which fails to recognise the right of every man to the franchise, can neither be complete nor permanent; but that, regarding Mr. Hume's motion as a practical advance towards a full and fair representation of the people, it determines to give that movement its earnest and utmost support." Mr. A. B. STEVENS seconded the motion (which, like its predecessor, was unanimously adopted by the meeting). In order to show how far the Reform Bill had failed in its object, he would call the attention of the meeting to a list of boroughs, with the names of the nobleman or lady—for ladies meddled in such things as well—by whom the members were nominated:—
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Petersfield, by Sir W. Jolliffe; ... Winchester, by the Duke of Buckingham;
He would ask them to look also at the Pension list, to be found in a little publication called the "Black Book," to be had for 3d., where they would find that the country was paying a pension of 8,000l.a year to the Duke of Grafton, because his ancestor was the illegitimate child of Charles II. ("Hear," and a laugh.) Let them look, also, at our enormous naval a military establishments which furnished places for the aristocracy.—Mr. C. PEARSON, M.P., then advocated universal suffrage, and called upon the meeting to resent what he characterised as the gross and gratuitous insult offered by the Premier—(cries of "Down with the Whigs!")—to the people, in his recent declaration, by casting his party from power.—Mr. D. Pratt, Mr. A Fairchild, and the Rev. Mr. Mirams next addressed the meeting, after which a petition to the Legislature embodying the resolutions, was unanimously agreed to; and after giving three cheers for the Charter, the same for Mr. Mitchell, and three groans for those who had condemned him, the meeting, which had been rather a stormy and turbulent one, broke up.