Vandalia Whig And Illinois Intelligencer

FOREIGN.

From the N. Y. Courier and Enquirer, June 13.

RESIGNATION OF THE GREY MINISTRY--HIGHLY IMPORTANT.

Great Excitement in England.

By the arrival of the ship Marmora, Captain Low, from Liverpool on the 14th May, the Editors of the Courier & Enquirer have received exclusively, London papers of the 13th May. The news by this arrival is of the greatest importance. The King has refused to create Peers--the Grey Ministry have resigned--all England is in a state of excitement--and in the language of the London Times of the 11th, REFORM OR REVOLUTION inevitable. We will not attempt to describe the excitement which everywhere seems to prevail, but the few extracts which we are enabled to give, and the movement of 250,000 people in Birmingham alone, speak volumes.

From the Sun of the 9th May.

We are arrived at that issue which we in some degree expected last night. The Ministry is dissolved! The resignations of Earl Grey, Lord Brougham and their colleagues, His Majesty, after some conflict--real or apparent--with his own mind, finally accepted, and announced such his acceptance this morning. We of course have now no time to indulge in reflection on this most important event; we shall rather briefly enumerate the facts which have come to our knowledge. The new administration will probably be a Duke of Wellington administration: his Grace no doubt at the head of it. The place of the Lord Chancellor Brougham--(we give momentary reports of the Anti-reforming lawyers as we have caught them)--may be supplied by Sir John Leach or a commission. Lord Lyndhurst will most likely go to the Rolls, the position there being more secure. And--what next among the legal appointments? Sir C. Wetherell to Ireland, for the sake of peace! Sir J. Scarlett may step into the place of Lord Lyndhurst. A new Ministry formed with more promptitude than a batch of Peers could be made by the old one, because there is more sincerity in all quarters.

GREAT QUESTION OF REFORM.--The vote of Monday night in the Lords, in which Ministers were in a minority of 35 upon what they considered the vital principles of the bill, may be literally said to have unhinged the whole system of business in the City, whether in reference to the funds, to banking, to commercial affairs, or to any kind of transaction between one Englishman and another, or between the English merchant and the foreigner. The most intense interest and anxiety are manifested in all quarters at the unexpected stop to the proceedings on the great measure, and the most direful consequences to the country are anticipated. But though amazement, and agitation and terror, were the prevailing feelings; though their chief was beaten, they did not give themselves up to despair; steps were instantly taken on all sides to convene meetings, and to prepare addresses to the King and to the House of Commons, suited to the emergency.

From the London Times of the 11th May.

EXPRESS FROM BIRMINGHAM

THE TIMES OFFICE, Half past 6 o'clock, A. M.

Sudden And SPONTANEOUS MEETING OF THE REFORMERS OF BIRMINGHAM AND ITS VICINITY.

Birmingham, Thursday, May 10.

It is scarcely possible to imagine the spirit of excitement into which the town of Birmingham has been thrown by the rejection of the Reform Bill by the Lords and the resignation of His Majesty's Ministers. The anti-reformers in London may affect to treat this with contempt, but if they had been present in Birmingham this day, we doubt not that another and a very different feeling would have prevailed in their minds. In this town there is but one feeling--one firm, determined feeling--which it is impossible to suppress. We are morally certain, that if the Bill be not passed, the people will not pay taxes.--This they have determined. Indeed, as early as 11 o'clock yesterday, the windows exhibited a printed placard, of which the following is a copy:

"NOTICE, NO TAXES PAID HERE UNTIL THE REFORM BILL IS PASSED. May 9."

The London Times openly recommends to the people, and to the House of Commons, the refusal of all supplies to the government until a Bill of Reform, even more extensive than that rejected, shall be adopted. And the editor then proceeds to say that this advice is not idle. "The country is everywhere about to realize it. London has begun! The Common Council yesterday, among a series of resolutions, each of which is worthy of the highest applause, for the spirit, and energy, and sound good sense which it indicates, declared that the advisers of His Majesty's negative upon the proposition of his Ministers to create Peers, 'have proved themselves the enemies
of their Sovereign; and have put to imminent hazard THE STABILITY OF THE THRONE and the tranquillity and security of the country. They resolved under these distressing circumstances, and as a means of procuring for the people efficient reform, "to petition the House of Commons to WITHHOLD THE SUPPLIES until such a reform shall have been secured."

MR. BREESE'S ADDRESS

To the voters of the First Congressional District, composed of the counties of Macoupin, Madison, St. Clair, Bond, Clinton, Washington, Monroe, Randolph, Perry, Jackson, Franklin, Union, Alexander, Johnson, Pope, and Gallatin.

Fellow Citizens:

In presenting myself again as a candidate before you, I must be permitted to return my profound acknowledgments for those evidences of your confidence manifested towards me at the last election for Representative to Congress. In the last contest, I had the honor, among five candidates, many of them more known and more distinguished than myself, to receive the second best vote. In the counties composing this district my pretensions were sustained by a very handsome vote, and I with confidence again submit them to you. My political opinions have undergone no change since that time, for I am not one of those who change their opinions to suit circumstances. I am a friend to such a Tariff as will give adequate protection to our manufactures--to the most liberal system of internal improvements at the expense of the nation, and to such a change in the mode of disposing of our public lands as will place it in the power of every industrious man to provide himself with a portion of it, on the most reasonable terms. I am utterly opposed to keeping the price of the public lands above the ability of the people to purchase, while, at the same time, I am as much opposed to any system that will enable speculators to engross it, and thereby control the price. The law lately passed, subdividing lands into forty acre tracts, will, in my opinion, be productive of much benefit, to the poor especially, and with some alterations, in regard to the rights of preemption, and with some extension of its provisions so as to embrace cases not provided for by it, will satisfy for the present a portion of the desires of our citizens. On the subject of the public lands, my views have undergone no change, but I am convinced, that now, is not the proper period at which to bring the question before Congress. There are, and have been already, too many agitating questions there--at some other moment more favorable to a calm investigation, it could be properly brought up, and I pledge myself, should such an opportunity occur, to improve it. It is an important question to us, and our posterity, and I feel assured, that the time will soon arrive, when ample justice will be done in the decision of it. My views on all those subjects which concern you, were so fully expressed in my late circular, that I must be pardoned for omitting, at this time, a more full development of them. When it is known that this address is written amid the bustle of a camp, at a moment snatched from the labors of my office, on the eve of marching to the strong hold of our enemy, and with no opportunity for study or reflection, its brevity and imperfections, I feel assured, will find in those circumstances, an ample apology. From these causes also, I shall be prevented from visiting any of the counties of the district, previous to the election, as it is more than probable, that the present campaign will not be terminated before the end of two months. While on this subject, I must be permitted to remark, that as justice would seem to require, that those who have volunteered to repel a hostile invasion of the savages, should receive the early attention of the government, and their services and sacrifices in the cause of their country, meet with a speedy and liberal remuneration. So far as I am concerned, I am influenced by no personal considerations whatever, but I feel a great anxiety, that claims so strongly based, should not be passed over unnoticed and forgotten. Should I be selected your Representative, I shall endeavor faithfully to discharge the high duties of that office, and to act honestly, independently and zealously in your service. I acknowledge, in its fullest extent, the rights of the people to instruct, and the reciprocal duty of the Representative to obey, and I shall be governed in my course by this principle. I profess to be republican in principle and in practice, and believe that a Representative in Congress, is not chosen to give expression to his own views, his own feelings and his own opinions, but to reflect back the opinions, views and feelings of the people. With these remarks I heartily submit my pretensions to your decision; confident, that in the selection you may make, while doing yourselves justice, you will not dishonor, by rejecting me.

Your fellow-citizen,

[Signed] BREESE.