The Express. — London, England, 1852-03-04 00:00:00

Tricots's—Clap, Villiers,, Liviahue, Cuterbury. Loans —Harry lieu, March, Alezander ClordonLosson, William Grahams, Granary, FOTSTSI4I2II, William Pewlett, Colborne, essays, Merles L. Fitzroy, Truro, Seymour, Lyndhurst. FoloY , Broughton, Pertain. lionovasstna—Col. Demur, M.P., Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, G.C.8., Fos Mule, L. Sullivan, Sir Chu. W o od, henry Labouchere, M.P., Sir George Grey, R. ir•f• op Smith, M.P., Sir Thomas Fremantle. Dart. ilosoeustitas—Rev. Augusts' Phipps, Il i e r v . . 4 =inalrl W. Saikulle Writ, Fredenek Corp., alth Cs. peon. Ito. Henry Legge, Hamilton Duncan, Henry Par tial, .threnion F.girton, 11. Butler Johnatoue, St. John Roder, E. Littleton, Stuart Knox, M.P., 'teary Black wood. s. Vereker, It. W. Clive. Charles Gore. HtI,.NIIT. —Thomas Dyke Arland, William Jolliffe, Viso,' Bolsi? Lytton, h e nry Dukinfield, John Trollops, staonton, M l'., Robert Price, M.P. Thomas w on t.s.ni .ri Cuningharne, John B. Johnstone, M.P., WS- Inuelill J0n.... James !dell'. son, M.P. W. Clay, U.?, John ill, Beniamin C. Brodie, Ral ph 'lowan], M.P., y a w. Duke, M.P.. J. F. Herschel, Loewe O'Brien, M.P., Ales miler amplwll. Jamey Clark. :tit,. IL Then Mmidock, Charles Fellow's, David ps n a.ter, AicLihd,l I.lay Camphell, Robert Walter Car es, U.onte Nichol!. K .C. 11.. Minto Townsend Farquhar, C la rks Barry. John Nichol!. Thomas Herbert, K.C.B. lut in --Carlisle. teran's Corstszt—lloggins, Andrews, Kenyon ru bor. Jelin Stuart. Nlathews. K PPPP ESP Doett , lPt—Symon., Alexander E. Sketch spry. m i ming, Ii ,liiii.on. Vivian, Wesley, Kinaston. ir tura im -John .I.iek.ion, William S. t).Du g su t oy, Wedhain II ohm. Chary. 'taring, Henry Mackenzie, The rmo Irti.ld, hart Bargee., Ilenry Clifford Itadelyffe, Thaw.lat . Cato'.. John l'iaske Haden. Pereeval Dailey, Thomas Gregory. Tlw Ch.. lin I SIM V 1% t. - Thompani. Channel'. Do. ion.- Loruck, Holland, 'Travers ?wire, William Beers A•hley • Thr ACV- , 1.1.11-1111t iu Bankruptcy. Mamistu—Layanl, William Room. Evart, M.P., nark. Edward Jeukin., Elliott Lockhart. w . Uckh.ort, M.l'. Enshoield. SI . Portal, M.P. Sander- M ultra iayme. Vrnrboyle, Para'', Men sal*. Es-Shstiff Nicoll. Hugh Seymour, Baillie, Grenfell, M.P.. H. T. Erskine. Hellen Bribers. W. Cecil Peehell, W. IL Steer, P. Somerset Butler, M.P., Judd, W. It. Dalton. Mauro (of Novae. Francis Cavendish. Moody, M.l`.. J. E Blunt, Peter Mare, James N. Merriman, 6,Mon, t' Covendish, Ilutings Rus e/ell. E fur.t Carver, idston, Adolphus . Samuel B. Cook, Wyndham M.P., %swim in. Hugh Robert Hughes, B. W Aar r. I' F.trevene. M•P. Philip Bennrt. M.l'. W. Ravosond Gingell, Beek, 11i.P. lt. Monekton Milers, M.P.. Herbert Wodehouse, Robert Rintoul. (*huh. Bruce. V. Wytill, Babbage, Arthur St y (. m • n S:ranire, Nonaillu Rudge, Monett. M.P.. Fedoer., , Baring, William Fergus. son, Daniel Mildred. Some.. Jones (of Pantglae), Keith Ed war d Aidwir. Clinks Milk, John Shaw Lifter', H. Honey Vireos, Frederick Donde., Philip Pleydell BOW eerie. Oetasins Morose, M . Thomas Fellows' Reads, Marmite tECousell. M.P.. De Horsey, Hume, Alexander G. Maetwasse. Cartwright, Waddingtott, M.P.. William Calvet. M.P.. Ilmthan , Archibald Peel, Beauchamp Ned,, William Strachey, Sutton Elliott, W. 1). Starling. Finn Marrs st —Duke of Wellington. r tiststrista—S r James Dennis, K.C.8., Taylor, Ewart, C 8., Clitlwrier. Mac lasts. Sir George Sowell, Edmond F Water% C.R. Sir Charles Egerton, Macdonald C. 8., Thatkerey. *Lead. Cavendish. Courts:A -I'. P. Nevill, Speen Stanhope. Wood, Teter Hawker, Moulins. Sandham, Peel. Dick, M.P. Sir Ord Ilessymuse, Gordon Drummond. T. Abbott, C. 8., Earl "(Cardigan, Crembie. Hugh Beillie,lksgen Owen, K.ll. Jeer. 1-.1111% Alves, Clifford, 11. P., Rinehart, C. 8.. Lori George Paget. Gawler. John T. Leslie, C.D., Ridley, Matson. H. T. Or ewe. Virus. ALP. —Graham, Bladen Neils. De Soli', Arthur, 1). Wlute. Csrt size —Sherwin, Me Coy, Tomkinsoo, J. A. Swart, Falweril Sutherland, Want, (lu. Stevenson, Maher, J. W. Welkin/ton, Arthur Tayke, D. H. Wood, H' Henry Ritchie.. Charles Wright. Shea. needy,. bump. Litmus vire —T. S. Warden, lion. Somerset Ward. W. Pulteney Scott, Clutterbuck. H. A. Klein' Howard. W. Drummond abort, E. F. W 101444, Whitshed K. Hankies, Frederick C. Koppel, Hos. A. Fryer. It'll. o —Wianiett. APNIZALO—Sir W. Beaseltarap Netter, Bart, Houston Stewart C. 8., M P., Parris, Sir James A. Gordon. K.C.8., Sir Charles Admit, K.C.8., Sir Thomas Sir Hugh Meet, K.O 8., K.C.H., Pries, Sykes, Sharpe, Sir Charloi Napier. Ilea W. Gordan, Byeg, Sir J. W. Loring, KCB 1CC.11., Sir Charge A. Westphal, Sir Henry Hart, Lord Hadstock, Earl Cadman. ("APT (ROTAL N.lllll4 --ST 0. B. Peeked, M.P., W. It. Henderson, C. 8., illiam Loring, Has. J. K. Brainsiond, Chad', Houston, James Scott, C.H., W. H. 11.11, R. Fausbaere Stoprord, Saamaree, Collier, Sir Bald win %V. Walker, Lord C. Paget, Jame Stopford, John J. Currie, Townsend, M.P., Elite, Fuquhar, Thomas 6111, Thema Sparks Thomism. Carrel:es (Taistyy-woess).—W. Pixley, John Talked Owen. CUMWANDIRS (ROYAL NAVY).— Tudor, Edward A. Inglegeld, H. W. Hill, F. Beauchamp Seymour, (Hadrian., Richard Purvis, George Wodehouse. Lieu .. (Royal. N i•r).—Greet, Charles Ballets. Lord John Russell was prevented from attending at the levee by a revere cold. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Royal Sake, returned to Buckingham Palace after the levee. OF THE AIDE-DE-CAMP TO THE OILDNANt Z.—Captain the Has. A. E. Harding*, Cold stream Guards, has beta appointed aide de-camp to Viscount Hardicze, the Muter-General. SCrial %UT TO TUE IIiAtITE4GEMAAL.—W4I Un derstand that the office of Military Secretary hes been °fend to Viscount Seahara, one of the .ember for Earth Durham, and formerly an officer in the lot Life Guards. Profe‘sor !Hackie, of Aberdeen, was elected on Toad., by the town council of Edinburgh to succeed the We Profcwor Dunbar in the Greek chair of the university of dist city. PRINcE ALnERT's VIM' TO CIIOBI3Y-HALL . Tuesday last his Royal Highness Prime Albert inmened the evening classes for young men TIM a private sal almost unexpected visit. No reparations tot ressidie bio loyal Highness were made, beyond the Ina members of the committee as could be name/ Istgelbsr in the short time that elapsed from the bahmllles of tie Pthss beak made knows. His Royal Highs= was sesehed at the front entrance by the Right Hen. the Lord Mayer and Orveral members of the committee, and oesidueled round the building, which was in the nasal state es in the ordi eery course of the business of the institution. His Royal Highness inspected the throne room, now used as a large nom room, the reading room, where some of the younignion were saembled ; the great hall, with the eribieriteral beauty of which his Royal Mewls expand blemeelf most highly ',lewd. lie thee sited se ey teleapes see susioe the method of instructing se sedeeled by the thee lembers and lecturers, principally rebbessisi llaself le the were.ary, the Rev. Charles Idaelusade, the aeigi •troc an 7this movement, who, with the Hos. M. W. mu. and the Rev. T. P. Dale, conesegedl lis t r ems. lee ever the budding, and gave the star assy There were present cm this Stwiestler aseedes the Lewd Mayer, Sir Robert H. Inglis, the Ben. Dr. Rum% T. C. Blessfuld, C. Marshall, H. Maebeesie, J. V. Penh, T. H. Bullock, 31. Beale, Em., J. D. Powles, R. ROWAN S. J. Aldrich, E. F. Leeks, G. J. Famines, Dr. Oldham, H. Stony, J. hlastorsaan, Ens., and many gentlemen of no denim in the city. AN ENGLISH CROWN PRINCE pog DENMARK.— The rodrefeackf, of the 2Ath ult. , eontains a very remark stMe keeling ankle en England and Denmark. It Marta with the historical truth that England is a Northern Mad, a somber of the great S can di nav i an champion-nag. Its sympathies should therefore be with the other northern kingdoms, especially with Denmark, from which It le more Itertintlarly sprung. Hut England has become se groat that itchier, not care for any coufedesstiose. Hamm its Strew negket of its northern mains. Nevertheless i l s e gesgrraphwal sad political position of these northern C so important, they constitute we invaluable a hamle t %Mast Howie and Germany, and thee• milidery end naval Sam LC or mould he, m considerable, betides tit& sonesse- Oat weight as the highway for en lessen Seethe ern mace further north and east, that as &Mb ablate se long neglect them. The Of Regina dine It I. • more intimate union with the ma. s Dia sot less than the inatioet tin flomoillgloi free dein sad monsseree drives thin Diem& Tie WSW ••• Pmpo , the rapid eosin stDieldi sesesodeselse with England. The ',meal esessisseMs emit be sleep custom home sad shilplithoOl MIMS hi Ilfegfni "this would he se great ri and MIO tibias it would ant f orget ; b ut it weld I t!: Weise to D.nmeek for England Is est only the ral MAO of Dismark. it is she is weed ells.' Pleally, pebble as hes* is draws the deem ef Deemelt. Tbe Unl i t ekadle., Ai yet then is se sem eabieet wi.het le repass the Priem of I=sey. as re shout whom the !midis Mese lisle sod suss bet Ile-sides, the Deem SRO deed dSellerillig prawn from oetwooty rinaa tz in ebb 1e beep IBM MN eft from further fie if MIIIMMI bbl e "As we have seen above," the arldolSllMoig. , !_sardries Neel be Berman or &island. OR ell the bedRIM WM' ease of near nat ionality bee direetedi papas Men laitioh poem a yammer me of Cleves sad Ilds Nos mat why is e wry tamed bee•Sescerd by Aussie eel Pew& _Jiffies NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. THE CONFERENCE. The mond sitting of the Conference was held yeeterdsy et Bt. Martha's Hall, Loug-sere; the chair was takes, at a few minutes Wore WM. by Mr. Matra WALTIIIII/, of NeweesUe, aced there wen also present:— air Joshua Welateley. M.P.. president of the essortetiost ; Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P.; Mr. George Thompess, M.P. ; Mr. George Dowses, Birsaiagltata ; Mr. JaMill Jackson, de. Ile. -7 11;illIAIRMAN said, that the mearlation having does him tho berm yeeteeday to dust him me of the asaymeideste. he sew took the sheir, elder/0 bean le hire *at meant sod T s. ms rahavare Ms. lime, he meat appeal to their indulgent kilisassaas. Se trusted Nat all their dissension& wield be eheresterised by that geed feeling whisk their digest was se welleetitial te dor mend. With referees, le the mowers of mine, which this society bed eimmeed, he dangle they weald noes of dem be of mike that it went bee far. (Beer, beer.) isms of Nom mslaht think it did as. go far seengis, bee he am net to recommend any attempt to pa the wedge In by the thick end, end they might depend upon it Net they would get reform at all if they illeerresieed Sege for it all at once. (Hear, bear.) He would take this oppormaity of reminding theta of what bad fallen hem Lord Dortiy with respect to the educational question. Were they to be handed over in a mass to the parochial clergy? Would they submit to have their children, and the children in the schools of mark men as had spoken yesterday, who were, perhaps, most of then, non-conform ists, handed over to these gentlemen ? It was monstrous, and surely, if anything, this would rouse the most apathetic. (Hear, bear.) Why were the re formers in so dormant • state ? Was it because they bad foretell some great ideas of what Lord John Rus sell was to do for them ? The measure of the noble lord was indeed • sickly babe ; and its utter weakness had been demonstrated by the result. (Chests.) They must show that they had • great duty to ores to their country, and that they were really in e (Cheers.) The appearance of Mr. llama was a=lit prams for good to this society. Mr. Walesenthen the itsirelog mimes ss to the mode in which it we pamenell r andeet the beim« of the day : It is nomemended by the loneineee semmlttes to the con ference that the ppsraeeese..t sitting he bested to the discus• shin of the reeai.Ym.i read frees del leak yesterday, and that they be mediated by the eseferasee exclusively. No persons will see., semed, or support resolutions, or take part ma this diseeeden, bet members of the National. Financial, eel Penlimentsry Association. The resolu tions being illopmed ef, the rest of the day will be devoted to the reeeptiont of reports from the country." (Hear, hear.) Mr. SHAW asked if it was iatesded then to forbid any ►ut members of the emeeletios -to address the ateeting. or to move smendmenif ape any of the resolutions? The CHAIRMAN—That Is the int.:lake of the Wanes. Committee. Mr. THOMP9ON mamba that Dlr. Shaw should allow him he .she set a earl of rembeohip stir hhs, and that then he (Llt. Shaw) &slid ease sump them. beer.) After sem seameentien, It wee weal that the depu tation' ban ether emdations Amid be heard until half-past eme. sal Mist then the below of the aesociation abeaM be pessealed with, it being _elm arranged that all ppm 4111111101 of Ireakimi *MI retire and give their name to the balms seemittes Were they were allowed to mikes@ doe mitedm. Kr. SHAW, however, said that be shield not interfere any teseser, and advised eh hie kWh to follow his exam" Mr. TOWLE, of bighead perms Is Me SwF inn net to beam up the of roliesasse by thole gies restiosoet te t Mai be Id& ~kat at the devil. end s ampler.) de horn& the weeds, pile of Lomita mese the weal pellialmehiebrilmer mesa masespit. (A Isesp.) Slid that was oak lb epilog. Ns hod bees wouteeni with the rod dea ors he may yam. sod re asubssoll well the Lead Mo. the Oolootrest sod 111e = 1112 ea elms Its saw the soader =La i ties beset erre(Lori sheenhe) par felt impelled to gear The sew or sowed the dreg of the depu- Wiese was bad paged the baskss ammittem namely, Mr. 131 he sepreiewlados of the amedttee of the Chartist Pe MI that ghee& be diered in opinion trot may pet he mooed with them in think ing that a hops rtiewsles of the sitar was speseary ; and eke VIM eater the Doty wee the ReasM satin was lilt to pre It Ohm. Ls mortheate reins that the the apllellste. hop amerothelossse, the army, the chine sad rherierests wen seprosolall, Itteepht it was rill= Sot labor arid deo berierreard. They tdo seahratee to ouieer wit opus the perm of the eirodsb bee Ipso the we the ebarter ; sad it was the 'plates of a great ardarlV of then, that any re form or ester Pea of the aspr, which did not go to the Log* of arabeel eslmgr wadi retard rather than accArrane the eafraaelhosseet ilia (No, no.) Mr. Daniel Weird, of the Metispelles Temperance Union (of thirty issisties), Mr. S. ille•Ses, of Accrington, Luseashin, and Mr. Charles Henry of Finsbury, 'hay ing briefly oddment the meeting, Mr. DAVY, of Exeter, proposed:—•' That, how ever much this senferenes may regret the accession to power of a peaniment avowedly opposed to parliamentary reform, it eaeret bet esugratulate the country that one effect of the meat are of political events win be to relieve reformers Is. the dirossioa of measures isseet in themselves, art utterly inadequate to meet the isad of public ophalta." Mr. GEORGE DAWSON seconded the Nestudea with pleasure, bemuse it eontaiaed as experiential of joy at the fall of the whigs. The resolution was put sod serial uhri= Mr. JOHN TOWLI mewed the seam* "0. " That this ccahrese• eserossis the labrests of whe aten when to the orb, aid of heal esmaittees and seessia which we beat homed the same by diligently amber of the erseistioa, by the Wothrillia to the phbleadea of oirelsse by the in onlisisiisa of peeper tiesellaiss to and by evincing that generous spirit et erepoolloo Ila service of our pantry, without which Y galivant airamsat can retala thing force." The resolution having bees seeds/ wordreody, _ Mr. CHAP MAN , of Yeswerfh. pawned the Ilia m ephitis" That this esalbreamo whit deeidag the maintemenes of a tree train plim sod oreeissof that the mime preatee he it will he a Word seem of dr House of Comma dukes et Ile sorellioe to amid the 'sentry that the peemet Mae of lir ospeentedso sot only places is peril the almatiass wlddi Ile people at pesowt enjoy, but step the poem« of al asistairy pollee sad linancial reforms." . . — After some thsensolon, the romindin mos psi sad serried ononimossly. The following endless Ins the mad SO the mooting by M. G. Thompson, Y.P. DRAM 07 LW ADDAMS 71011 TO 00N711117CZ TO TAM 111011.11 ST. " Opportmsity is restared le Ike party of pogrom By the late change d niministralisa a free Geld is egssed to re formers. At say former pasted the assessisa as poster of • ministry like the prom% woad have bees • ems d serrow and dismay ; it isabl sew he ma kW/peak* Miming le • strong sad erhensing pal& spike - te adage kW!. Lot the oppestewity thus nomad is lie people our err big their pukka hs ansa embeess4 and waned sans be mode kr dli• esteliament et • mins haememises tem pirairme biped esmege ; sad a sere penelksi desermi amr Tbs Natiesel Pad= and llnenk si = Ami de*. has mated an meths lugmbillei kr papier ;o hm and kept up • einssintke Ind ems' soleika for skewed VIM whin petals bursa is =staglanthe k was tkemnst. That bedy epartmese et ii. Men, sad =ems as s re p. awe/ Mks id& amides bow L 64 the pispispesuptly W neW seek& the mut mete 2E4 deeds me • ale r disk fiemei mid their viand& UM Saba lama doe Ws rulensties has pledge& limit le amok the estsmilm of the mirage Is aD whe are In to :=lliit' The &salvias ad Maim ma atm beams the f l petitisal wady Lot the peek Ihemelres amide whallass INa. fer lb* fraashies ssasits II ability Is pay a raftwant d N. is towns mad WiL Is amass, sr les. in demos. mewed If iss I em he ed ; et la betsillissek h kiss*, Melba asid Weems- Mimefthe Pbb tka last meallened press Skew raker ills. Asa the animate kW gasified. let them es-epees.. elk in Wallesal Aro , statism le Aida in nesse bar every ampler er a house or poet a( a home need le the relief d the per, without sagest te thepaymest el rates is • tenktisa if bake ma direr. Nadi a seisms et at would Whale the awl bizir wad slam of dm semmeatty, sad if mimed midi be et host • rspresentallsa of the make bogy. Ishmiph etthie resew ef menu, if awhesullly mensunsed art jadkamby _edemas& w bell to be 'writable. Ossat peheslyine. Ihomfied be *dee and qualified with prniense, will always mmeassi the sympathies asi sopa et the ba t; and a cause whisk Weenies k the 11~ e peipts of a free Miss la ne weir Mr try peelsweed *seised lealemise sr party seisime• Wlrrwdeas,theashraaerpNsthe SIM ef edam bakes the senstrre rudiment la the Aso. et a nalkmal demamd Ise equal eleslasal elglote, an equitable appertlenwint et paling pew, end smoky for the lade imasides el Ile Ind sesteesil le the people of the g l i b k a rlikeplem. lissivel be thenmelves se he stead lid lakik Os fienand of what they bikes rsesseable sad key will ear inpsiment te say who may mg MN. to siretain ri l S sae be got. would, key held, it s erinut taker no the Injury lbws the wlesemeamet of Ode real eatemelsa of p==will nark sera withheld osier of has shwa in dm sides at which laps .to.O re D 0 eir Itsban Ind Oa Rehm DM are repreenstelles• Of late yam polka smeamsate have melnygily Inn mush weakened bp the mat ad a onerous VINO ordowdzoist e hats ig =i latessits se tie whets saker lbws yea Owls. te the emote( Oat splek mim e = =tem bare bees psemltedte wee Ye sods= • great pee*. This senemmas A nit Yoe aseembied ia rale. if it shall have demispei isac dorm; dot higher ',kit whit* sebo6ll- mantra, .10.11141110 serlyetfinilleasts the smainatent of a ammo mafiosi psi. net weal& thsesewe, error chub hover suss everywhere, is the Wo mbat meniellems et knee who (from as palliate as rise ewe), may in some demos frees rase i lsakal ps ses, the same Wm, Ory *Oast , ell unialleased by p Mes or peemarl Meerami to slept the most ost =stai direct Rem to Nears • • Merary kr rim tura Ths In. Mr. WDONNELL tier While a the hilewhis pmgragh:—st Up sow" *oh M the eseedellen eeendllee dam Y uneeeinney le dwell, ler the secedes he the cleglien of the beast end Ow short • the disreilion of • ewe =nal ripper**. blot ny of the of end the *AK= of the pro. we dr it toll ew en white Sa there can be very po dtheonse epleine.'` After a dm eiservatises 011111 Mr. . ) WATTS and Mr. the address, with the addition, was =reed to armaimonsly. Mr. Mennen CULLEN, of Nottingham...wed die ilk resole los, which was as follows That thh eisheseee conveys its hearty thanks to the =the senthere of the Nadal.] Parliamentary sod Fisamid Bab* Asoselatios, sepesisily to the precident, Si, Johns Welnshey, M.P.— (Ito)--he the ledsittlgable entetline vide b y have Node r the wee of as dirting a gob& peeersting ee ma* allimity, ad etencell" reeenneend dog is pro secute with inomemd Wow re Mint Hwy have in vlsw." Mr. T. HUNT soneultd th e meths, which after • *t iering panegyric upon Ilk haw. from Dr. Herne and other gentlemen, was serried with aeriamation. Mr. TA lICON, of Eye, • farmer moved the sloth Trio lution—" That a duty especially inerimbent on the members and local sauciest ti M animist the funds at the di« petal of the asseeiden to the began passible amount, since the suceeess of as onlendel • saaeldatery meat, iu a great degree, be proportional* to the means of keeping it in ac tive motion." (Hear. boar.) Mr. JACKSON, o Ticuranth. neeendril the resolution, which was carried ustseassedy. Mr. lIIN TON, • &hole trees the King's-iron district of the association, propped dot dm confereese recommend to all reiollll conatimeeelos In cappett the roars of no can. date fora seat in lb. OMMIIIIMI MUSS ilipmellament, at the fcrthetsming electioaa, under le pledged limelf to refuse his confitknee to say administration that woad not bring in • bill for the extremist of the franchise sad vote by bal lot. (Hear, hear.) Mr. AY fON seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. A tote of thanks was then given to the chairman, and the meeting broke up at • few minutes before 6 o'clock. test un e~gsttge- lirse - ho he of ale phi( et Ile who has inudi is milk W ilill Esib l es oak tlislimeed Meshes eeml as poseled ohms et flee Bridge atahe A• arm to shlold pose ,stabHY Par tr le a Par PI ide modelled eheo Mai d smi will Misuse susrov mmal eedinis SOS !agU l n . A et Idsleoll Mies WU wamardeas obi woo th e 'Mena et the pee*, es 4 ea lobe OM t hi , t• neloows dans me masa est. Aol both Rawlith aseeseeest and the z = r will &bkw In • Peees We Mad has a• sales, be Zig would be ea imeelloht panalse he M arlhaaerk." THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1852. THE REFORM PUBLIC MEETING. An aggregate meeting of the reformers of the metropolis was convened yesterday evening by the council of the National Reform Association, at St. Martin's hall, Long Acre, to meet the delegates to the reform conference. The attendance was extremely numerous. The following gentlemen were on the platform :—Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P., Sir Joshua Walinsley, M.P. Tureens M'Callagh, Esq., M.P., Sir C. Napier, Mr. Geacit, M.P. &e. &e. On the motion of Sir J. W A LIM. IT, seeo aded: by Mr. ll'Lxon the chair was taken at half-pest seven by Mr. Ilume, M.P. The CHAIRMAN said he felt himself placed in that position simply that he might carry oat the resolves of the meeting, and he hoped to be supported in his dints to maintain order. The object for which they were assembled was to consider how they could improve the system of government under which they lived. He had long pro tested against the &metes which prevailed, end he believed the cause of those abuses was the defective state of the House of Commons As regarded the question of annual parliaments, he believed that under such a regulation the country would have a man fit for parliamentary duty. (assent.) He was prepared to support that view. Ile con cluded by entreating that there might be such on operation as was exhibited during the struggle for the Reform bill. (Cheers.) The SECRETARY then read a statemeat of the proceed ings of the conference, and a resolution proposed by the council fur submission to the meeting: The CHAIRMAN bevies laid down the rale that every sneaker should be limited m Mass Lamm, Mr. AYRTON moved the thiseleg resolute : That this wisseiss believes reeisalipselfameatary ?sham its be the great preseisef want Kee der ; led while dasideg the maintemmas K era men* its 'sovietise dot free dom of tomb we'll haw 'amoeba If the mew had been pissed sees a rely wheel basis ; set that, in comsat with miser swift isspresat sprodum. foes lode can eely hs 'ashy desidstelise as hems if OMEN= is made a reel repreventatiss se Ms posisio." Mr. M.CULLAOH, M.P., sassaded the ressiolisa. He conceived that they were set elms there so musk es dis cuss as to resolve and sett sod be loped they wield not play the game of their anew flie ssa l allowing drniselves to be distracted by chair binniags their prejedists, but stand together as one mss. Sir C. NAPIEIt said art s es to the Refixes Bill of Lord John Russell, it was, fa Yutaka a greet blessing that it was interred. lied he Illse MEM , O the author, he could almost have imagined that it erlgketed with tory govern meat. He hard tees ts as a pad shisieithedeo. mar mid et nisi =Mal nitienese. wft maga Faint a soh= bill se patinae waft of tla esseptaase et the essatiy. (Cheers.) Mr. °EACH, M.P., hoped that they would cast aside all differences of opinion in order to get some reform. (Cheers.) He, for one, would not withdraw his aid from the Anti-corn Law League, believing its object to be right. r. BESER, whom the chairman announced as the representative of a large body of chartists, then nee to propose the following words as an addition to the resole lion:—.' That the only principles of parliamentary reform held in this meeting as just a the enactment of sosabood suffrage, guaranteed by the rallot, of short parliaments, equal electoral districts, no qualification for members, aad payment of representatives.' (Cheers.) Mr. SHAW, a delegate from the Tower Hamlets, se conded the amendment. After somi. discussion, Mr. E. JONES rose amidst great cheering, tailed with himee. He said he could not for the sake of union sub scribe to any meretricious measures which would be in jurious to the bulk of the community. He had on the previous day challenged the president of the association (Sir J. Wellesley). He now repeated the challenge melt him in public to discuss the question fully sod fairly either in that hell or in any place which he might name. They were told that they must take an in stalment. He advised them not to be made the estspaw of the monied interest, and to struggle for no interest but their own. Sir J. WALMSLEY said that having been challenged, he would now accept the challenge. He Entreated the meeting to go for something practical. He had been from one end of the country to the other to eerie his fellow men, and what he propounded was practicable. Mr. Jones had put before them as facts what he could prove to be fallacies. He would not reply to him on the question of labour sad capital, but content himself with asking the working men of this country what they could do without capital. (Hear, hear.) They had been told that the scheme of the association would increase the number of electors only to 3,000,000, and that the association had said so. That was not true. (Cheers.) It appeared tram • parliamentary document that the number of basses in England, Wales, and Sectland, was 3,280,000; In Ireland, 1,100,000; making a total of 4,280,000. (Hear, hear.) They knew what the population was. Mr. Jones had told then that there were 7,000,000 adult males. He would be SW to hear bow that was established. Mr. Jones knew it was a fallacy, sad be ems before hie him am to decieve them. (Ohm= soritaprear.) Ha (Sir J. Wallow ley) had told them them were only 27,4.50,000 geese. he the United Himont of Cheat Britain and Ireland. had dividing that number by rte for adults, the total Ember of wale adults wee under 4,008,000. There win 4011 SAN bane; mad Me email meld be so Ow to ham US W, Mdesaelskod. That I,i* 18 unheeded three who were is the arm sal am, Woad" sal dessetie servants en tirely leader the coated of Ask swam and be believed, is tact, ear all dedesehas. that the svaibir whisk would be left diseamiliell would ken be oat NW. (Hear, beer.) Whim then, was the great dillbense teams the ehardet•pospedeles sod that et the esessissisa t— or what Mks*? MAI there be linear is the eater chimed waft the am Is the sasstemehisit (Cheers.) The sweeisisa bad spin ad ends .Need the Amniats the right bead of fellowship; sad bad embed them wet to be led sway by lees who, *we they ablestel the princi ples of the darter for IS yen% bad ma k leo what soever. (Saw, beer.) Feels were MOM= sad meld sot be euelseed. Be bad wished Mr than sad would seatiwas so to de If they leek semeashbe Wipe le obtain what they Bemired. e r po lis si eW Mr. 0. THOMPSON observing that the great body of the weak, datme llauld wwe sMM obtain the charter whenever they divested lisuassives of pram. buried the hatchet of discord, awl mealibeted the essalpetente et moral power. (Cheers. It scald as* NORIO the matins. Several persona this ade=it ailing the mean, bet it being II o'clock, tie doelbeedlle lam them. Mr. 0. Thompson them, on MeV ef the daisies, road the resolution and the siessdneat, sad ea a *am of lands being takes, the Maim= inbred the eassidasat to be last. The original reeniedea win them adopted ; sad • vote of thanks to the chairman terminated proceedings. CALIM ODAVII-TAILD RAGGED BCloool.—Yee torday, the mead modes el the friends sad posseters of this ssaidishetest Wu k Ow at the Mardian's, Laseszy and thisthille loslNeliea s Bolward-street , P the lad of tholtabory k the @hair. li M m a t t s . a; nod width stated Ant the school was In sod diet does thi s : al :000 children had postai -1 poled in the bistethe Ina it. At th e raga tune 11111011 was • ley abed M and the ammo awn. those was la pee -. There was also • Need he hip whore ths • doily atandenes was 46 ; and • side asheel, the amens was U. Than woe, stereever, • Sabina day schse4 sod the easoleaes there wee about 1141 • day. The eaddilmegt • dee in. *laded • coal end elothing slab soda igeolies library, and weekly were Mil at width the loriparra were teed and si The anneal apoodienso upon the ethos& was 311/1., sad time was war • laigna dos to the besmear nionns is lin The lostitalsa wez i =te s i in a seems, whisk Wield to Oa gossoal fonds wore ado wanted to ea la. the enandeles M any Usk endsweeen to • sosseseed sod perasored bra. Thu Beri ef Witv• sod Aided Hamad 11661.1114 the saltine In eseose of the apeb width brain begs adopted, miens neeintlens wise passed in support of the inegaset, god the halos es teratiaated with • Tote of drabs to the theinnan. Torroacortm. To Da. CONNOLLY.—There ii at W hums, at Yee. Hest sad Haskell's, is New s silver piles, Muscled is commemorate the strenuous, persevering, end moossetal labours of Dr. Con nolly, the distinguished phrieisa of the Haswell Lunatic) Asylum, in improving the treatment sad emelheretioi the oesititioa of the Loewe. Its tette lo sleet OIL THE ELECTIONS. WIN LOCK . Irerester. Yeatwaa7 e sd= Os Hem. One. Oedl Wad wa l e ths Mee of Curer if her Majesty's linenedd male Lea Desire adshisentlem, wr se-elasted Ow Oho bang! K Wan* viand gZ; tin. The memisellem lea glees at en Tow-hells Waldeck, at II Andy amt. After tie usual Ibrnelesise had ben pas through, Mr. T. Menem (ali IMO* menimand the Hem. George Omen Weld Pees air se • It mod peps ardidelle to repre sent the harevgli In parliament. Mr. 0. PRITCHMAD meronded the meniestint. The Rev. W. H. Waving (ranee of Widen) pat the following questions to the candidate: I. " What are your present sentiment& M rennin to the reminding of the act of 1846 for the endowment of the College of Maymoth ? 2. " What are your present sentiments on the pending proposition . to admit Jews to a seat in parliam en t ? 3. Are you disposed to support a legislative provision for the inspection of monasteries end nunneries? 4. " What are your present views of the expediency of altering the existing statutes of mortmain, with a view to facilitate by the bequests of the dying the endowment of religious institutions?" Colonel Foascrza observed, in reply, that be fully con certed in the views of th e rev. gentleman on these subjects. Daring the last 24 years he had sat in parliament for that borough he had always opposed the concessions that had been granted to Home, and would continue to do eo. In re ference to the Jews, his vote had already been recorded against their admis si n n t o p ar li ament , and be sew no reason why he should alter it. With the third proposition he per fectly agreed, and would do everythiug in hie power to forward the views laid down in that question. With regard to the last proposition, he concurred with the rev. gentle man that some stringent measures ought to be adopted so as to foil the subtle machinations of Jesuitical priests, who extort money from the dying for religious purposes. The returning officer then called for a show of hands, after which he declared the Hon. George Cecil Weld Fores ter duly elected a member for the borough of Wenlock. The hoe. member was subsequently chaired through the town. CIRENCESTER.—Tho sitting members for the borough, Mr. Mulling., conservative protectionist, and Lord Villiers, Peelite, will offer themselves again. A third candidate la talked of, but has not yet made his appearance. Lord Derby, in forming his administration, offered a place to Mr. Molitor, but the hon. member declined the offer, on the ground that it would impede his independence in the house. EAST REWORD AND BASBL'TLAW.' Viscount Galway having accepted office as Lord In Waiting under the new administration, a vacancy is again created in the representation of East Redford and Bassetlaw. It is under stood that there will be no opposition to his lordship's re election. By some oversight the writ was not moved for on Friday night last, and therefore the election cannot take plate until after the re-assembling of parliament. Otoneturrea.—A correspondent states that the appearance of Admiral Berkeley's address to the electors on Saturday has brought out on yesterday the two other can didates already spoken of—viz., Mr. Hope (the sitting con servative member), and Mr. W. I'. l'rice, late high aheriff for the county, who appears as a candidate in the liberal interest. Mr. Price's address is full and explicit. IigREFORDSHIRE.—Mr. Booker has now issued his address to the electors, asking for re-election. He maintains his ultra protection principles, and declares boldly the necessity of a return to protection. His convic tion is, that an actual " reversal" of the free trade policy is necostary. The contest in this county will doubtless be a severe sae. LXICESTKIL—During the past week addresses have been issued by Messrs. Ellis and Harris, the members for this borough, signifying their intention of retiring into private life at the close of the present parliament. On Monday night a large and influential meeting of the liberal electors was held in the New Hall, to agree to a requisition to two candidates for their suffrage'. After some discus sion, it was resolved, almost unanimously, to invite Sir Joshua Walmsley and Richard Gardner, Esq , to again present themselves to the constituency. SOUTH LINCOLNBIIIRP--Sir John Trollope, in his address to the freeholders of the southern division of Lin colnshire, says I have been induced to accept the office of First Commissioner of the Poor Law Semi, that my humble support may be given to a ministry which must have great difficulties to overcome in its present position in the house of Commons. It is obvious that the present parliament must be dissolved very shortly, and then the policy of the ministry will be fairly brought before the country, and upon the decision then arrived at, its future continuance in power will he ascertained." STARPOIG3.—It is believed that tho Right Hon. J. C. Ilerries will be re-elected without opposition. He has issued an address to the electors, in which be says : " I shall steadfastly persevere in upholding those political prin ciples which received your approbation when I last appeared as a candidate for your suffrages, which are the mire foun dation of all our most valued institutions, and the best safe guards of the highest interests, religious, agricultural, and eissasacrcial, of this great coui.try." SUNDERLAND.—Mr. George Hudson, a corre spondent states, has undertaken to return a second pro tectionist for this borough, in which his position, as chair man of the new dock company, continues, unfortunately, to give him considerable personal influence. But, though Sir Iledworth Williamson will, probably, retire from its representation on account of his health, au excellent liberal candidate will present himself in the person of Mr. Henry Fenwick, a barrister, who has also very considerable local influence; and there is every hope, notwithstanding Mr. Hudson's attempt to convert this great town into a nomina tion borough, that Mr. Fenwick will be elected. WARWICKSHIRL—Two reasons, says a corre spondent, are assigned why Mr. Newdegate is not • mem ber of the mu government; one, that he upiried to a seat in the cabinet itself and would not accept the inferior post offered to him ; the other that, iu consequence of the exer tions and success of the Freehold Lind Society, he would have had no chance of being re-elected. TIIE INDIA AND CHINA MAIL.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have obtained the contract from government for conveying mails to and from India, China, and England twice a month, and to and from Australia and England every other month. The Australian mails, via India, will be sent from this country in the months when then is no communication with Australia by the screw mail steamers round the Cape. The new contract with the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and with the new Australian Mail Screw Company, will establish a monthly steam packet communication with Australia. The Australian mails, via India, will be forwarded from England with the India and China mails. The port from which the whole of the India, China, and Australian mails be despatched from and arrive at in this country will be Sentaamplea. The port in the Medi terranean from whence the atieslenited nails will be des patched from and arrive at will be Marseilles. Both France and Austria have sempseed for conveying the India mail overland to the Iledherreseau, but the recent offensive at titude of Prime Sahwaemaherg towards this emits" has doubtless inlisented the government in overlookira ad pre sent the of the Trieste mute, in order to pad Mishima to emegonen. The of taiga mil Walsh any countr y r i orm i iimmee advantage, in a pecuniary view on mount of the Sub sad Mils it creator. The eontra i tie br e entered W into seen the ont and the P and Oriental *impair i Br seven years. The eM mobeet with the esmoesy does not expire foe a twelvemonth. The company is, therellsee, mare of a entreat hr eight years. The people of Implead end the Indian eammusity deeply intenelni is the dual sad milidesteey settleinent of this gramamassofataeendrement eimenniesties with lofted Clam, and a rapid memenimile Mb km tralia, and a the seetaiety of its being simedy semmiihed. The advanhigee tithe new postal armaments asesemint en the new entreat to the mercantile Mena tithe em pire no one eere seemly over estimate. OPPOSITION TO THE ENROLIIINT OP THE MILITIA. —Yesterday_ a meeting of inhabitants of Southwark was held at the Bridge House Hotel, Wellington street, London Bridge, to adopt measures in opposition to the enrolment of the militia ; Apaley Pellet*, Esq., took the chair. It was urged that the fear of invasion was idle, and that in any ease government had ample means of defending the country 'heady in its hands. A petition to parliament, embodylag these views was issued, and the meeting separated. THE NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY AND THE PA- I nos or ST. PANClLLl.—Yesterday Messrs. Swift and Ws i cataff, solicitors to the London and North Western Railway, forwarded circulars to the vestrymen of the pariah of St. Pancras, giving notice of their intention to dispute by all legal means, those items of expenditure in the accounts of the vestry of St. Paneras for the half-year ending Beth September last past, which they am advised are an illegal appropriation of the funds of the ratepayers. They will also dispute the payment of any items of expenditure con nected with the recent litigation between themselves and the vestry, or connected with the application to parliament in the last session, which may be or may have been paid during the current half-year. - THE AUSURT MIA TH MURDER.-GUILDFORD, WIDNISUAT.—The Investigation into the circumstances of the murder of an illegitimate child some twelve menthe ego, by being thrown down • deep well in • secluded of Albury-heath, was resumed yesterday )ig Mr. W eoie, the coroner, at the Drtininoad Anna, at 1rm7... T he e after • brief consultation, returned &verdict of al o murder against John Keen, and Jane, Ids wif s, ealeinltted on the body of the illegitimate child of the latter. Tug Minns RlPLES.—Testerday dm nom-sammaia sioned officers of the bet guards sad lime reglments at present in Woolwich genies, having peovhanlY Meg sup plied with the nossmary sereenshe hoz mad waist Who be. the pensioners' depot, alswohod te the Itorl Animal at half-part ten o'llseit e whom they wessijelped @Sara of the amps to width they bass. lash of tinseHism saleianed sneers wee aapplied with a Waif sad en aides up a statkm at WO yards sano MU the target, the uteisin which the Wile is leaded with the Wm* ball was minutely explained and shows Si thmt individual,. The Minh atneket sr ride most approved end ordered to be gene- 1 rally indminied Into the servile it a remarkably well ilnlehod alibis, and lights, end Immo easily used than the paremelen madasts. The flag peterday was at W il y= range, and the preedoe wee enesilent, every ball ellikiad the target, may striking the hell's-eye, and all within a very little disarm of it. The newrommissioned elan appear tench plumed with the new era, and its dm plielty and light yet ablaut appoaranee. THE REVIVED LEAGUE. (Free the Doty News.) Yesterday we announced the si=nt fact of therevival of the Anti-Corn-Law , and gave' besides the important evidence of its new vitality in the shape of a subscription list, amounting at once to l upwards of 27,0001. This renewal of one of the moat remarkable political comtiLnations of modern times must be attended by very ci;s4inct and important consequences. The new operations of this League of commercial men for the vindication of tine right • of free commerce, must follow very nearly the plena adopted by the same men on a former occasion, when carrying out an end similar to the one they have now to view. Then, as now, the object was to give poli tical instruction to the people; then, as now, the operations were based upon the acknowledged fact, that anything which the body of the people earnestly, fairly, and loudly demand must inevitably be granted. It is clear that, whilst preaching free-trade, certain principles of political economy and of practical go vernment must be discussed, and that this can lead to no other result than an amelioration of our legis lative as well as our commercial system. Hence the money subacibed with lavish but wise liberality for prosecuting the more immediate objects of the Anti-Corn-Law League must when used have the important effect of stimulating political inquiry and advancing political knowledge. Thus the efforts of the tree-traders will forward the views of their political competitors; aye, and serve eventu ally the best interests even of their political oppo nents. To show this it is only necessary to ask, how can free-trade be argued without reference to ex isting political arrangements ? and how can " things as they are" be described without exposing the ano nialies from which wo all suffer, and which, once thoroughly exposed, must, by mere weight of their iniquity, compel reform? To argue the necessity of union against the landocracy, it will be neces sary, on a hundred platforms, and in thousands of tracts, to show what kind and manner of men that landocracy really are; whilst the very showing them as they . exist, and exposing their boroughmongering, must in itself afford the best illustration of the need for improvement. To keep a corn law—a bread tax—it is requisite that those who profit by it should have undue parliamentary influence; or in other words, should have small corrupt and nomination boroughs. To have small pocket boroughs, large towns must be loft without representation—and thus , by glancing along the chain we see how free-trade and parliamentary reform are indissolubly connected. The possibility of a law for giving high prices to land at the expense of the labourer s lord proves the existence of legislative corruption. Therefore to argue against corn laws is to exhibit the need for re presentative reform. What difference need arise then between sections of reformers? They all de sire to lead the nation towards that point to which , we must eventually come, and which we year by year , approach more and more nearly. All reformers desire to give the people political instruction—to give them an insight of those economic laws which regulate all communities, though their provision may not be found in dusty legal collections, or may never have been discussed in any . parliament. These laws,--acting with the inevitable regu larity of the great rules of nature, for the regu lation of demand and supply, price and wages, plenty and scarcity,—cannot be mooted without im provement to all who partake in the discussion,—and , the more widely they are understood, the more widely must the demand arise for those changes in existing institutions, which lapse of time, change of circumstances, or human cupidity, have rendered requisite for the free development of our social and industrial system. The 27,0001. subscribed yester day may be fairly regarded then by men of all parties as a fund—be it called by what name it may —that must be so dispensed as practically to stimu late the political education of the people. The speech of Mr. COBDEN will be read with general interest. lie places the whole case clearly before us at one view. But, whilst explaining why he thought it better not to mix up other topics with a purely free-trade agitation, it was . quite clear that he saw what he thought it unwise then to dilate upon—the inevitable tendency of all political agita tion to create a desire for political improvement. We have said that such a political campaign as the one wo are now commencing, must be useful sot only to competing political reformers but even to the enemies of all reform. This it is not difficult to show, since for proof it is necessary only to point to that terrible page of history, written in words of wrong, of violence, and of blood, that tells the successive steps of the first French revolution. France, under the old regime, was owned by an oligarchy who kept the laws as best pleased their humour, oppressed and plundered the people; thought parks and forests, and game more important than men or industry, or commerce. They taxed and rioted and tyrannised in the most gentlemanly way in the world. They scoffed at reform, and ,neglected education; and whilst they used the people as the means of their own aggrandisement, they kept them in a state of brutalised ignorance—alike destitute of political freedom and political knowledge. When human nature could endure tyranny no longer, the people violently burst the bonds which their masters had refused to loosen. Once untrammeled they knew ' no bounds. Unchecked by a knowledge of consequences they destroyed all. The monarchy, the church, the institutions of centuries, were swept away as by the headlong force of a torrent break ing its banks. And when men recovering a little from their astonishment ventured to look round they saw, as it were, in the course of the unruly stream, not only the traces of destruction, ' but innumerable crawling and abominable things, which in their nature belonged to the depths and slimy crevices of the late pent up pool, but which i now, by its escape, were on the surface, revelling in a 1 prominenoo and power for which, by nature, they were never meant. Ravings of impossible theories and practices et horrible vices wore on all sides. ; The [pullouts* sated itself with victims, who, soon ' becoming too numerous for the knife, were drowned ' in hundreds to save trouble to executioners who ' deemed them unworthy of destruction one by one. , The beg& and breadth of France, searched and again for fresh victims, could at length ve no more; and then the offending oli ing almost exterminated—France--sick wit i r the excess of licence—sunk an easy prey to military despotism. And the moral of this terrible episode in the weld's history seems so plain that it would appear almost impossible for men to l' it unheeded, if day by daywe did not see cases in which the lesson is lost. Six words tell the story—lgnorance, Wrong, Denial of Redress, Revolution—a people increasing in num bers, kept in political darkness, politically oppressed, and refused reform, revolt. Just as the pressure, so the reaction • equal to the tyranny, so the cruelty. And as the world goes on, will these terrible lessons be again and again taught, until rulers,—be they single despots or be they . combined oligarchies, —see the wisdom of rendering populations politi cally and morally intelligent, as a stepping stone to making . them politically free. The best guarantee against violent change must ever be gradual and wise concession. And the best mode of contenting mon with proper and steady ameliora tions rather than violent disruptions is, by teaching them by books, by newspapers, by lectures, the great economic truths of political science. This is the task the League are once more about to assume under the necessities of the hour brought down clans by the presence in England of a Reactionary AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' WATCHES.—The most interesting clan of watches, to us, was that of the agricul tural labourers. We were glad to bear that agricultural labourers bought watches; a fact which we should hardly have inspected. The number demanded is rapidly decreer ing. If one hundred and fifty witches are made weekly, eight or nine of them may be for agricultural labourers; and the proportion was formerly much larger. They are of • wondrous aim; about two inches thick. There is silver to the vales of two pounds in a watch which costs four pounds. The thing looks as if it could never be lost —hardly broken ; and it is inconceivable that damp or soil could get in. On its broad face is painted • gay picture Speed the Plough, or the Foresters' or the Odd Fellows' Arms.—Diekoss's Household W.rda." _ LONDON AND SOUTH W Y.STERN RAILWAY.— Amount of tragic for the week ending Feb. 29:—Passen gen, 6,2901. 3s. 6d.; gouda, 2,3281. 18a. 7d. Total, 8,8191. 2a. Id. DIMINUTION OP PAUPERISM. Yesterday wu printed a parliamentary paper, from which it appears that the expenditure for the relief of the poor for the year ended Lady-day, 1831, for Bedfordshire, woe 39,4811, being a decrease of 10,9261. compared with 1848; and 26,2021. for H ontingdonshize, being a decrease of 6,3751. compared with 1848. WORKING PARTNERS. TO Till 11DITolt UP TUE ITl•klati. SIL—T he usefulness of "sleeping partners" has long been recognised by firms in want of ready cub, bat 1 the idea of allowing the sin ew an d power—the working 1 element of any company or firm—to command a portion of the profits accruing therefrom has not been so readily accepted. Of the dignity and power of capital every mer chant has a sufficient idea; but of that vital element in human affairs called labour many have but a p oor notion Thu labour market, we be ar , is nothing more than a market for the hiring of machinery worked by ficeh and ' blood instead of steam ; and this description of human muscle has received a wide assent in CAI country. Truly, • machipe man is undoubtedly but a machine that thinks —that can put forth, or withhold its energy at will, according to the treat ment it receives from the employer. You may hug and patronise your steam-engine, but it can do only its horse power of work ; you may cherish and call to your counsel your human machine, and forthwith a new spirit is in him, and he accomplishes double the amount of labour be wrought as an unregarded instrument. Therefore, as a matter of economy, as well as a matter of human justice, men have said, give to working men an interest in their employment. say to the stonemason at his work—if you concentrate your energy upon the work in band, and make it a successful and highly-remunerative contract, you shall share with me—the capitalist—the result of your extra energy. You shall have a vested interest in the success of the capitalist who risks his money in your labour. Of the wisdom of this fellowship you, sir, have the honour to be the first exponent among the daily papers of this country—the first to say tearlevsly, that is an alteration of the lass of partnership in this respect lies a great good for workman as well as master. To show you th..t this price plc of giving a chance profit to the labourer all well as to the capitalist is growing steadily, I will men tion an instance where it has been adopted, and with every reasonable hope of 111.1 C, esp. Let me preface what follows with an assurance that I have no interest whatever in the company I am about to mention, and therefore that my only motive for alluding to it is to show that the principles you have so happily advocated are already reduced to practice:. .. - _ - • The Metropolitan and Provincial Joint Stock Brewery Company, the works of which are at Brentford, has been formed on the plant you advocated in your journal last week. Here, after the shareholder+ have received a divi dend for the use of their cipital of five per cent., the regular workmen " participate in the kurplue profits in proportion to the wages earned." Now, sir, it appears to me that this attempt on the part of a new company that has to work in the teeth.'f strong monopolists, is worth encouragement. That the promoters of such a company should huve )wen able to get a subscribed capital under these circumstances, is evidence that the principle adopted is not altogether ono the practice of which can be set down as hopeless. 1 . 1114 Metropolitan and Provincial Brewery Company deserves notice. It is founded on a principle which we arc beginning to see is a righteous and a fair principle. It is the first j,iot stock company that has fairly placed itself betide the workmen by whose energies it hopes to prosper; and, therefore, I think it may be publicly noticed, in the hope that its ex ample may be followed by the promoters of other asaocia• tient. 1 am fully sensible of the dangers into which a rash dis turbance of the relations between employers and employed might lead thoughtless or enthusiastic men; but while the fact►—that capital must always aired labour, and that the capitalist as rightly claims his profit as the workman—while these facts ate clearly comprehended and emphatically pro- claimed, no body of men 1:4111 err iu saying to the workmen they employ—You shall share the golden fruit which has sprung from the sweat of your brows equally with those whose capital has maintained you while the fruit was growing. Your obedient servant. ONE OF A COMPANY. RAILWAY PASSENGERS' ASSURANCE COMPANY. Yesterday the fifth half-yearly meeting of this com pany was held at the offices, in Old Bread.strcet ; Sir JOHN DRAN PAUL in the chair. The report, of which the following is an abstract, was read by the secretary : . The directors report an increased amount of business during the last half-year, and a satisfactory result in the working of the company. 'file tickets which h,.re been issued during the sin months ending the 31st of December are as follows: Periodical tickets, 2,227. Double Journey tickets, 2nd class, 273; 3rd class, 19,471. Single Journey tickets, Ist clam, 29,520; 2nd class, 74,018; third clam, 133,468. The amount received for premiums is 4,1971 . 24.3 d., she's/Mg an increase of 1,0111. Bd. upon the previous half-year, and making the total receipts of the year 18.51 the sem of 7,3.521. 18s. The claims upon the company for sempensation, which have been made and adjusted during the past half-year, consist of 8 fatal cases, and 8.5 cases of puma *fury ; and the entire number of claims met by since the formation of the company consist of ID =ern, •,isa which an aggregate amount of 2,5801. has been paid, and 184 cases of personal injury, the payments en which, in various sums, have amounted to 3,2091. 3s , Raking a total paid in compensation en 194 claims, up to the 31st of December lut, of 5,7891. 3+., in addition to the sum of 3241. 151. 6d. paid fur medical expenses. The directors recommend that the propthrtors should receive in terest for the half-year on the amount paid on their shares, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, which will leave a balance in hand of 1,9131. 13s. to be car ried over to the next half-year." The CHAIRMAN congratulated the meeting on the suc cess which had attended this novel mode of applying the principle of life assurance. The importance of the pria ciplo was to be estimated not so much by the amount of business actually done, as by the nature and number of eases relieved, amounting, in a period of two years and a half, to 10 fatal, and 184 cases of injury, on ac count of which the total amount paid in compensation was 6,0001. If they considered the millions et persona who travelled by railway, and compared it with the mere fraction of those who availed themselves of the valuable • principle on which this company proceeded, the fallacy of all statistics to be found in ponderous blue books became apparent. He had met with very many who were scepti cal as to the merits of the system, but this was owing en tirely to want of inquiry on their part. It was often urged by parties to whom the advantages of assurance against railway accidents were put forward that they had travelled many thousands of miles by railway without experiencing any injury ; but, if that were not the case, how would it be possible for this company to offer compensation to the ex tent of 1,0001.: for the payment of three pence ?—(hear)-- and that there was danger of accident was proved by the number of cases compensated within the last six menthe. But, besides affording pecuniary compensation, another valuable feature of this association was that it afforded to their policyholders the advantage of the best surgical attendance. In the recent ease of the Biceater accident, a gentleman and his wife who declined to take the assurance ticket at first did so on re-consideration, and the consequence was that they received 1501. as compensa- tion for person►l injury sustained. In another instance, the family of a guard who was killed on the Edinburgh line received 2001., and an engineer who was severely injured at the accident at Frodehain Tunnel, and was paid a very large sum as compensation, had acknowledged in grateful terms not only the money benefit, but the great value of th 3 surgical assistance he received. With very Sew exceptions, the board had succeeded in arranging all the claims in a similar harmonious spirit, without having recourse to arbi tration. (Hear, hear.) The best indication of the stability of the undertaking was to be found in the steady annual increase of single journey tickets, of which the number issued in the last half year had been 29,520 first class, 74,016 second class, and 133,468 third class, being a very considerable enlargement of the number issued during the previous half-year. Every circumstance in connexion with the progress of the institution proved the sound ness of the principle oa which it was based, and that its be neficial effects were becoming daily more and more appre ciated by the travelling public. (Hear.) It was no small source of gratification to the directors to find themselves at this early period of the existence of the company in a situation to declare a dividend on the paid up capital at the rata of 4 per eent—(cheers)—which he trusted was but the first fruits of a more abundant return. In conclusion, he adverted to the loss they had sustained in the retirement of their late secretary, Mr. Beattie, to whose ability, judg ment, experivisce, and tact the successful position of the company wu mainly owing. Mr. JOSIAH WILSON, who expressed himself highly satisfied with the progress of the undertaking, moved the adoption of the report. Mr. O. B. HARRISON, the deputy chairman, seconded the motion, which was agreed to, as were others, re-appoint ing the retiring directors and auditors. Mr. HARRISON proposed a vote of 20 guineas as a con tribution to the Commercial Travellers School, observing that not only wore they much indebted to the commercial travellers, as being themselves amongst the best customers of the society, bat u being also the must valuable and sue metal agents. This resolution was seconded by Mr. J. WILSON, and carried unanimously ; and, after the usual vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting broke up. ACCIDENT AT TUE EUSTON-SQUARI STATION.— Yesterday afternoon an accident occurred at the Euston ackuare terminus, which, though fortunately unattended with very serious consequences, caused a good deal of Bars and some bruises to a number of passengers. The train due at 1 o'clock was coming down the incline from the Camden-station, without an engine as usual, when the spring of the brake gave way, and there being no means of arresting the progress of the train, it ran into the station at the rite of about 20 miles an hour, knocked against the platform, and rebounded with great force. The shock wan very gre-it, and esuseil several severe bruises to the pea 'engem Among them was the lion. Mr. Cavendish, whose (Ace was much cut ani bruised. GREAT NORTLIERN KULWAT.—RehuII of traffic fur the week ending Feb. 22:—Passengers, parcels, car. rages, horse., dogs, and mails, 4,2701.105. Bd. ; me rc h an di se and minerals, 6,1291. 12e. ltd.; cattle, 1721. Os. 2d. T o t a l, 10,6721.35. 941. Corresponding wink, 1861, 7,8994 be. Ild. LONDON AHD NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. -- Return of traffic for the week ending . • 1462 Pswengers, panels, esniages, . • mde i 22,3724. 60. Od.; merchandise, 17 1/111 -. 208.; 01110 1,083/. 13s. 6d. Total, 41,1111. week 1861, 41,0691. 30. 3d. C. 40,2041. 9s. 10d. te :1: • - vt z f i d. ) —367,86 W. 84. 3d. ; 86 ,8731. , - ILA .106 - 0 r 4'.• • , . i ~ ~