The Express. — London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1848. day, how it was hie intention to enforce respect to jot demands. - - Ina sugar protectionists ask for a protective duty of 10s. per cwt. for six years, and for the enforce ment of the West African coast blockade during that time, in order to increase the price of slaves in Brazil. They ask to be enabled to sell their sugar for 10s. per cwt. more than they could] if obliged to compete on equal terms with foreign sugar growers, and ask at the same time that means shall be adopted at the national expense to increase the cost of production, and coneequontly the price of foreign sugars. The full amount of the tax which the sugar protest tionists ask to have imposed upon the people of Gras Britaiu—not for the legitimate occasions of govern. went but to increase their own private gains— cannot be exactly ascertained ; but there are etine wherefrom an aianoxituating estimate may be made. The quantity of sugar entered for home consumption in 1846 was 3,231,916 ewts. ; in 1847 it was 5,790,4:42 ewes. Let us take the average of about 3.300,000 calm. As there can only be one price of sugar in the same market, a protective duty of 10s. per cwt. wot.ll yield 2,730,000/ The proportion of foreign sugar in the five millions and a halt of hundredweights consumed is somewhat less than a million; so of this sum rather more than 2.250,0001. would go into the pockets of the British sugar planters in the elle pe of increased pi ice s, and rather less than eeto,ooo/. into the public trea sury. The extent to which the price of foreign sugars would be raised by the operations of the blockading squadron we have no means of estimating, but what ever it might be it would increase to a corresponding extent the price of all sugars in the English market, and consequently be a tax to that amount on our sugar consum rs. And the whole expense of maintaining that squadron comes out of the pockets of the English tax-payer. The annual expense of that squadron is stated iu a return made this session to the House of CUTUUIOI.I t , l be 301,6231. But Lord J. HAY, when examined by the slave-trade committee, candidly stated that this was an under-estimate. All the vessels furnished with :ic, saes to capture slavers, and occasionally engaged in that task,are not included in it. The item of deteriutation in the hulls of vessels, and the wear of steam-engines, is greatly under-rated. And no account is made of the bounties on captures, or the expense of mixed-commission and vice-admiralty courts. It is confidently maintained by disinterested and eampeteut judges that our efforts to suppress the slave trade by force cost the country every year considerably upwards of a million. It is obviuue, therefore, that it the prayers of the protec tionists be granted, they will coat the country annually a sum which cannot be lees than 3,230,000/., and may be nearer 4,000,0001. This transference of about four millions every year, from the pockets of the general public to those of the parties interested in the erotection of British sugar, is ostensibly asked only for six years ; but in this limitation of its contineunce those who ask fur it are obviously insincere. They do not believe that they will be in a better condition at the end of these six years to compete on equal terms, or under a dimi nished protection, with the foreign sugar growers than they are now. JACOB Oatmeal, the mouth piece of the West Indians, admits that the plan of supplying free labour to the West Indies from Africa by immigration does not succeed, these colonies will not be able to compete with foreign sugars if the protection he asks be diminished ; and he speaks of this immigration as a mere experiment, as to the success of which he is extremely sceptical. The East Indian sugar growers do not complain of want of labour, and do not pretend to expect that they will be in a better condition to compete with foreign sugar growers six years hence than they are nosy. Past experience has shown that so long as oer sugar growers are protected, they will not beliee e teat the protection can ever be withdrawn, tied will not make ney exertion to enable them to get on without it. If tile protection is to last only for six years, it sill do those who ask for it ro goad ; and the return to a protecting duty of 10a per cwt. would ruin many. On the faith of an act of parliament orders for sugar have gone out over nll the world based upon the existing duties—orders, no doubt, also in anticipation of the led. reduction to ti..;:e place in July ; and, this being the case, it is the opinion of all acquainted with the trade that the im position even of un ea protective duty would be attended by wide-spread bankruptcy. Even the sugar protectionists would not ask for what cannot benefit themselves while it is sure to ruin others. The six years they speak of are merely meant as a foun dation for a claim to have the term extended at the end of that period, and the protective duty ultimately made pet manent. That tl.e parties who ask for a return to high pro tective duties on sugar are insincere in the pretence that they wish for them only to alleviate the pressure they mud experience during the transition from a restricted to a free trade, is apparent from one remarkable fact. The residents in the sugar colonies are unanimous in their expression of the opinion that if there is to be free trade in sugar there must be free trade in every thing else. And the first specific application they make of this prineieh is to the carrying trade. They demand that the repeal of the navigation laws shall accompany the repeal of the protective duties on sugar. But the principal witnesses who have been produced before the lords' committee ou the naviga tion laws, to express an opinion that those laws ought not to be repealed, have been selected from the iden tical great West India houses in this country who are moving heaven and earth to obtain the re-imposition of the 10s. duty OR fore ign engem The very men who ask for this protective duty are exerting them selves to defeat the measure which of all others would enable them to do without it. Can any one believe that these men are siecere when they pretend they only wish a temporary protection ? We have of lete Maud the movement in favour of Mr. Heath's motion for parliamentary reform called in certain quarters the factitious result of a local organisation. If ever there was a movement de serving of this appellation it is that clamorous one which is now aiming at the repeal of the Sugar- Duties Ant. That the West India body have a central organisation in London is notorious ; and the principal persons who figure at all the recent meet ings of the sugar proactieniets belong to this organi sation. Ever. the so-called meeting of the East India Company is no exception. Several of the prominent orators have a deep stake in the West India colonies. say, the truth is, that the deepest dabblers in the speculation of growing sugar in the East Indies and Mauritius are houses which, at the first appearance of decay in the West, left the seemingly failing house with rat-like precipitation, and transferred a consider able part of their capital to the East. Eatensive failures of no very distant date were fruitful in strange revelations on this head. It was shown that they were mainly owing to these houses havirg, without increas ing their capital, entered into extensive sugar specula tions in the East Indies, while they did nut relinquish those speculations in the West for which that capital was no more than adequate. And we have seen some of these parties present themselves as advocates of high protecting duties on sugar alternately in the character of members of the West India and of the East India interests, in order to delude the public into the belief that the parties interested iu protec tion are more numerous than they really are. It is impossible to look at the active interest which the leaders of the corn protectionists are taking in the sugar question, and at the manner in which leading sugar protectionists are lending themselves, in the capacity of witnesses, to whitewash and bolster up the navigation laws, without seeing that infinitely more than the mere question of sugar protection is now at issue. Any, the slightest concession in the matter of the Sugar Duties Act will be the first step in a retrograde movement towards the false system of protected trade. If even a temporary arrest meet of the progress of the diminishing scale of sugar duties be granted, this concession will be made the ground of further demands. The majority of the Hasse of Commons who make the concession will thereby avow their apostasy from the principles of free trade; and this apostasy will pro duce in due time its fruits—the perpetuation of the navigation laws, and the re-enactment of protectivel duties on corn. The great principle of free trade is , perilled on the issue of the contest respecting the sugar duties, and the slightest wavering or yielding on the part of the free traders in parliament will give vic tory to the protectionists. The questions of protective duties on Elarc-labour auger, and the maintenance of the coast blockade of Africa, are simply and solely questions of free trade or protection. It has been proved beyond a doubt that all our efforts to put down the slave trade by fiscal enactments or by force have proved unavailing. High duties on slave-grown sugar in England cannot shut it out from the market of the rest of the Isserid and so long as there is a market for slave-grown sugar our efforts to suppress the slave trade by force cannot stop it, though they increase immeasurably the sufferings of its victims. Such, then, being the position of this important question, it is not without grave alarm that we learn ministers are giving indications of a wish to compro mise it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL may rest assured that even by so seemingly slight a concession as suspend ing the declining scale at its present rate of Gs. tor two years longer, he would endanger the cause of national and liberal commercial policy. And ho would incur this risk by tampering with the existing law to an extent that can have no sensible effect beyond deranging bargains already concluded, and introducing a baneful element of uncertainty into all commercial relations. As to the consistency of such conduct on the part of ministers, really, after what we have witnesse d of their conduct in other respects it would be hyper-criticism to cavil at any incon sistency into which they may fall. ll•it we shall be curious in that case to learn how Earl GREY will explain his conversion to protectionist theories in the face of his despatches to Governor LIGHT of the let, and to Sir CLIARLES GREY of the 14th, of April last. IT is little more than a year ago since Mr. DUN COMM moved for leave to introduce a bill to repeal the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Bill. In doing so he made a moat effective exposition of the hard ship which they entailed upon the voters in bo-oughe, and complained of the injustice of subjecting them to a condition precedent to the exercise of the electoral right from which the county voters were exempted. But he was met at the very thresh hold by the unqualified opposition of the govern ment, Lord Joins Resew. delivering in its behalf a constitution.' homily to the house, wherein he at temteed to show that the inequality complained of was more imaginary than real, and that the conditions which had been annexed to the right of voting in boroughs had been resorted to in order that the state might have a guarantee that the 101. householder was a man of some substance, analogeus to thut which it had that the forty shilling freeholder was not a mere man of straw. Neither party, therefore, had a right to complain, both giving as slender a guarantee to this effect to the state as it was possible to ask from them. In addition to this, the noble lord insisted upon the constitutional right of the forty shilling freeholder to vote irrespectively of the payment of taxes; and upon the constitutional practice which had always subjected the borough voter to the condition of such payment before voting. But to do away with this difference between the two classes of voters was a proposition which to his lordship seemed totally inadmissible, and the very first opportunity was taken of telling Mr. Dueeoettie so. Shortly afterwards, in the course of the debate, Mr. Weeeev having taxed the government with not being sufficiently explicit, and taunted it with the silence et the ministerial bench, Sir G. GREY expressed his astonishment that, after the unqualified opposition which, on behalf of himself and his colleagues, Lord JOHN Besse:Le had offered to the bill, it should have been th..ugttt excise eery that any other member of the cabinet should say a word upon the subject. This was little more than a year ago, and the notice which stands upon the paper for to-uiebt is as follows: L.rd to repeal so much of the txistina IsAs r, es the ps ) went of iv:seised taxes as a condi tion for the reirittration of parliamentary electors. How widely his lordship must have opened his eyes within the year! Or is it that the moral hurri canes whirls have recently shaken the earth to its foundations have so cleared the political atmosphere that he no longer sees things in obscure outline, but in their real proportions? Has chartism Ind anything to do with his conversion pru hullo to the doctrines of Mr. DeNeoeftte? Whatever may be the cause here is the fact. His lordship is about to throw the practice of the constitution, tin which he insisted before, to the winds, by abolishieg, to some extent, the corstitational distinction wheel txi.ets be te 4:en the borough and the county vent.. llut it there was any truth in that portion of his former doc trines which regarded the two classes of voters as on an equality with each other, in respect of the guaran tees which they gave to the state, how is he to settle the account with the forty shilling freeholder, seeing that he is about to disturb the happy balance in favour of the 10/. householder?" Difficult as it may be to forgive the sudden conversion of a minister of state, we are equal to the task, on tee present occasion, and con gratulate his lordship on the step which he is about to take. But let us measure our grati tude by the boon which is to be conferred upon us. The rate-paying clauses are either defen sible or indefensible in tots. If they are defensible, why touch them at ali ? and if indefensible, why leave any portion of them intact? To repeal them altogether would be but a trifling boon. But small as it may be, his lordship proposes to give us only the half of it. It is only so far as regards assessed taxes that the change is to be made. The payment of poor rates by a day certain is still to remain a condition precedent to tee right of voting in a borough. It would be needless for us here to dwell upon the argument that you have no right to disfranchise a man for an omission for which the law already pro vides you with a sufficient remedy. It is worth while, however, to consider to what extent we are to be benefited by the proposal about to bl. submitted. The Times, in misrepresenting the other day, unwittingly no doubt, the aims and objects of the leaders of the new movement, asks, what good after all would be secured to us from the admission of 100,000 additional electors within the pale of the franchise? We candidly confess that, from this alone, but little advantage would accrue. Now, what does Lord J. RUSSELL propose to do ? From a return moved for in 1816 it appears that the number of persons omitted from the lists of voters for that year in England and Wales, by reason of the non-payment, within the specified period, of sews& d taxes, was 18,873, being 31 per cent. of the total number of borough voters on the register in England and Wales for that year, which was 331,547, and only 21 per cent. of the total number of voters, including county and borough electors, on the register, which was 828,923. Yet this is the per tentage which Lord JOHN RUSSF.LL pro poses to add to the franchise. Taking the 77/nes' estimate of what the addition of 100,004) votes to the electoral bode , would do, the value of the proposed government measure may be ascertained by the fol lowing formula. As the addition of 100,000 voters is to no goad whatever, so is that of 18,e73 to about the fifth part of no good. Again, let us see to what extent it is calculated to reach the real evils of the present system. No le:s than five-sixths of the whole number of voters emitted from the register in Eng land and Wales for the reason above alleged were omitted from the lists in Finsbury, London, Mary lebone, Lambeth, the Tower Hamlets, West minster, and Wolverhampton. So far as these five-sixths are concerned we rejoice at the prospect of their being placed upon the register. But their being so is about all that we shall gain by the proposed change. The evils which pervade our electoral system will not be touched by it. The five sixths alluded to will only add to the number of elec tors in constituencies already sufficiently large to be independent. The great majority of the smaller bo roughs, which are divided between corruption and local influence, will not be affected by the measure, there being but few of them, as appears from the re turn quoted from, in which it will cause any addition to be made to the register. To add a few more elec tors to the registers of constituencies already suffi ciently large and independent (too large, in fact) is, then, all the advantage which the country will gain from this new measure of reform. Does Lord Joliet RUSSELL really think that this will satisfy the public? The desire for reform must be very great and general, else, with his avowed pre dilections, and with his recorded opinions of last year, ho would have doggedly resisted it. Having yielded, can he possibly stop short at the paint to which he has recede d ? This proposed concession would have been something to have been wrung by a private member from an obdurate government, but, as a re form volunteered by the cabinet, it is pitifully inadequate. But perhaps the noble lord in tends to go with the stream, and is now merely launch ing his bark. If so we accept his measure as n step in the right direction, and as such only we trust that it is intended. A change proposed in the con stitution of Virginia was objected to by Mr. RANDOLPH. A friend remarked to him that the alteration intended was but a slight one, " A rat hole might let in the ocean" was his reply. If Lord done Rtteseet intends to try the experiment, and keep his eilaninespen until the waters flow in, good and well; if he ilsolgiss his measure as a seton, which will not be closed until all the bed humours of the constitutional system are drained off, we wish all suc cess to him as a political peestitioner. lint if his purpose be otherwise, if he take his stand upon this measure as the limit of concession, it will be but the signal for the surging tide of public opinion to throw him and hie cabinet, like scum, upon the boob. FRANC E. PARIS, THURSDAY, 1110 A.M. My despatches of last evening anticipated almost everything of importance contained in the journals of this morning. The proceedings of the Executive Commission yesterday, the ministers and their par liamentary supporters, of which I informed you, are the subject of general comment. It appears that much vacillation was manifested by the go vernment as to the course it should adopt, in con- sequence of the vote of the assembly admitting Prince Louis Iluonaparte, and surrrounding that per sonage with the inviolability of a representaiee. After the first meeting in the committee-room, which I mentioned yesterday, the government came to the Assembly, and the President announced that M. Pascal Duprat desired to put some questions to the members of the government, and proposed that the debate, of no great intenst then in progress, should be suspended tor the purpose. The Assembly, however, perfectly knowing the ob jectof the interpolations,resolved that the debate should not be interrupted, and that the government and its iends must wait. The cabinet then evacuated the assembly, and again retired with its friends to the committee-room, to consider what it was best to do. I Some thought that they had better do nothing but keep their places; others proposed to demand a dire, t vote of confidence ; others proposed a declare ,ten on the part of tho assembly that the vote ad miffing Prince Louis did not imply want of confi deuce in the executive government; others main tained that if the executive government really thought the reeoenition of the character of a representative in Prince Louis was incompatible with the public tran quillity, they ought at once to resign without further parley. Before these conflicting opinions the government hesitated and returned to the Assembly without any decision. Towards the close of the day M. Pascal Duprat (as I informed you last evening) postponed his interpellations to this day. The executive earn misslon and the ministers are now holding another council to deliberate on what they shall do. The assembly meanwhile seem to regard their proceedings with supreme irdifferenee, if not contempt. In the Salle des Pas Pe-clus yesterday evening a group of representatives were talking of the threatened resignation of M. Ledru Rollin, when several or them turned on their heel, crying " Quo diable l'emporte!" Inquiries as to who arranged the affair of Mon day were so urgently menaced yesterday, that M. Clement Thomas discharged himself of the responsibility by producing the written or der of M. de Larnartine to beat the rappel. At the moment when the environs of the assembly were completely cleared and surrounded by a "cordon militaire," a dozen drummers were kept under the open windows of the hall, beating the rappel in a place where the guards had already been called out. M. Emilie Thomas, whose t xtraerdinary enleee meat " by the order of the Minister of l'ublic Works will be remembered, after having in vain demanded an investigation into his coeduct with relation to the charges preferred against him by the government, and published in the Mialiteur, has sent a letter to the public journals, in which, after complaining that he Should he charged with the heavy responsibility of the faults and want of skill of sonic men whom he was " obliged to obey, to that point at least where conscience, that sovereign law of honest and honourable men revolts against arbitrary power." lie say!, " The furietiens I fulfilled 1 nee, pted gratui tously because I thought that it was a debt that every good citizen should pay to his co':ntry. The accusa tions of orgies and debauch must fall before the fact that my mother has Lever quitted the pavilion at eloececux during all the time that I stayed there, and that she has constantly presided in the house and at the table of the ateliers Nationaux." lie then speaks of the dilapidated condition of the pavilion of Mon ceaux, and says that so far from his apartment hav ing been decorated with precious pictures and rich ornaments, he had not a single lomeing•glass ; his table " was what it should have been, plain and simple ; all grades of the ateliers ;salaam% con prove this." Ile thee goes on to refute other charges of extravagance, and concludes by saying, " 1 intend soon to publish an account of my conduct of the ateliers national's, which I am convinced will fully justify me in the eyes of my fellow-citizens." The sub-committee of Public Works has proposed an amendment on the railway project, as follows : Art. I. Declares that the repurchase is of public utility. Art. 11. Authorise' the Minister of Finance to carry it into effect. Alt 111. The repurchase shall be on the (allowing cowlitions, viz.: Ist Class—The railways of Paris to St. Germain, to Versatile, (rive droite), Vers-iVes (rive gauche), Strasburg to Bale, Paris to Orh ans and Corbeil, Rouen, Rouen and lime, Paris to frontier of Belzium with branches to St. Quentin, Calais, and Dunkirk, Orleans to Bordeaux, Orleans and the Centre. The shareholders of these lines shall be paid after an average of the prices of the shares for twelve months before the revolution of February, in stock, at the average price of the same twelve months.-2nd Class : The railways of Montereau to Trqes, Avignon to Marseilles, Amiens to Boulogne, Paris to Srasbourg, Paris to L)ona, Tours to Nantes. The sharehold ers of these lines shall be paid on the same basis, except that the average of the 18 months pre ceding the revolution of February shall be taken. The shareholders who shall not accept tic se terms shall be cone pelted to refer their claims to arbitration, the amount awarded being alwa)s payable in stock. The state to have immediate possession. In other respects the project is adopted. The government displays great activity in the in vestigation of the " Buonaparte plot." Besides MM. Layty and De Pors;gny, whose arrest I have already announced, it is now said that are order has been issued to arrest Mrs. Eleanor Gordon, an English lady, known as a friend of Prince Louis, and who figured in the Boulogne affair. M. Tremblaire, who conducted a review in the in terests of the prince, M. Thomasin, the printer of the pamphlet of M. Layty, and 1)r. Savesnieres, a French physician who took part in the Polish struggle of 18:11, have also been ordered to be arrested. Yesterday morning the walls of Paris were pla carded with a profusion of addresses, signed, " Louis Napoleon Buonaparte," to the electors of the Seine, the Yonne, the Seethe, and the Charente Inferieure. They are dated London, June 11, 1818. The Gazette des Tribanaux states, as I informed you yesterday, that the Minister of Justice had; on Monday, sent orders to the procureurs generaux in France, to search for, and, if found, arrest M. Louis Buonaparte; but that on Tuesday, after the vote of the National Assembly, a counter order was sent off. The 5-sous banquet is postponed to the 14th July, the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille. The Commission of the constitution is at length ap proaching the termination of its Labours. It has decided on two points of importance: The magistracy are to be irremoveable. This was much debated, but was at last decided on as a guarantee of the independ ence of the judges. The " juges de pale" and the counsellors of tho " cours de cremation " and " des comptes" are only to be elective: the first by univer sal suffrage, the latter by the National Assembly. The constitution is to be revised by a special as sembly, elected by universal suffrage in all France, every four years. The members of this assembly are to meet under the title of delegates, and it will be their duty to render perfect the constitution. It is said the report of the committee will be made to the Assembly early next week. A letter, received with the despatches of our corres pondent states that the entire population of Bonlotus assembled ou the evening of Wednesday, about the hour that the Folkestone steamer arrives, expecting that Prince Louis Napoleon would arrive in it, and prepared to give him an enthusiastic reception. They were, however, disappointed. The Madrid mails of the 10th have brought us des itches from our correspondent. Although that capital exhibits the external aspect of tranquillity, revolution is believed to be fermenting there, and plots against the cabinet and its head are the constant topic of conversation. The decision which had been taken to dissolve the contract of the government with the Bank of St. Ferdinand was revoked. Our correspondent informs us that the report hich prevails of the Queen's pregnancy is not so utterly destitute of foundation as former reports of n similar nature have been. The evidence on which it is grounded, may in the opinion of the royal medical advisers, proceed from other causes; but it is certain that the Queen herself believes that she is iu that condition. -- 31auat0. ;ear 10.—Thrce per Cents., 211 mei; after 11 . 1 .., 21 1 cull. 1. Ire per Cents ,13 paper; alter 301.4, 121 tun. Ilaat , e% 3 paper; after Wm, 4 1 cub. Coupocia,3 cub. Rank of St. F ' erdlund, 70 cub ;73 paper. Exchange on London, at 00 dam 11 paper. The Naples maila of the Bth have brought de spatches from our correspondent in that city. A body of 2,000 troops had been sent into Calabria by sea, and had landed at Reggio and Pizzo. They Ibund no sign of any organised insurrection there. No preparation had yet been made at Naples for the elections, and the people manifested the greatest apathy, few taking the trouble to qualify. A body of gend'armes had landed at Naples, who had come from the coast near Comenza, aid had been di, covered by the insurgent population. Advices from Sicily announce that the French go vernment has acknowledged that of Sicily. The American Commodore Read applied to the government for permission to winter in the harbour of Syracuse. GERMANY. FRANKFORT, JUICY. 13.—The greater part of the members of the constituent miserably having left town fir the holidays the close of the proceedings in the sitting of the assembly on the 9th inst. have only been published to-day. After a long debate the assembly, by a majority of 275 to 200, rejected a recommendation to give its sanction to the treaty of peace about to be concluded with Denmark. AusTitiA.—VIENNA.—We are in receipt of papers from this capital to the 10th of June (inclusive). they in so fur guarantee the continuance of order there that they contain literally no news, and many official intimations indicating that public business holds on its routine course. • lrEnsettucn, JUNE 9.—The Archdukes Albert and William arrived here, from the Italian army, on the 6th, and took their departure yesterday afternoon to return to it. Almost the wl ole of the corps 11;pio -11101iglie is now assemble d here. Deputations from Vienna come in daily. Count Stadion has not yet arrived. Count Bombelles has published a declara tion respecting his interview with the delegates from Lien, in which he states that in his conversation with them he had recourse to evaa.ive answers, but that it was impossible he could have proposed to them to unite with the Sclavor haus. IIk:MAN.—We are still without our regular jour nals from this capital, and our latest advices are only to the evening of the 11th inst. The following cum munication adds to the news we published yesterday, land modifies some of its details: According to letters from Berlin of the Ilth inst. the chief topic of conversation in all political circles was the recent attack on some members of the constituent assemble in that city, on leaving the chamher. Petitions had already arrived from various places in favour of transferring the assembly to some other town, where it might carry on its discussions in perfect freedom. The late attack has been made the subject of discussion in recent rit:ioge of the aldermanic corps and of the town council, and has given rise to a division between the two. The former urged the latter to join in a mutusl address to; the assembly, denouncing the outrage in question as a crime. The common council not only refused to assist in drawing up a mutual address, but took the opportunity to publish a politi.al confession of faith, in which regret is expressed, tnat in consequence of defective civic ar rangements a greet number of inhabitants of Berlin were excluded from the franchise ; and in which, 1230reover, it is declared that the common council, in recognising the revolution of March as the source of the political regeneration of Pru , sia, will firmly maintain the arquisitions by that revolution, acquisitions (it is added) in which the above council discovers the pecu liar bases of the c •ns.itutional monarchy and of true popular liberty. After making ttese declarations the com mon council a serene* its determination to oppose anarchy as the incentive to ,eactieen, and prom's s to du all in its power to ameliorate the condition of the working classes. The op po,ition in the diet has drawn up a list of members f r a new ministry, in peito; they are the following : Pinder, T emme, Kirehmaner, Iteichenbach, Berends, and Leydel. At a nu merously attended meeting on the 10th inst., of the members of the Prussian Constituent Assembly, it was resolved to urge the government to take the are restart . steps for securing the freedom of de hate, and the personal security of the mem bet , . The Polish member" of the National Assembly in Berlin have drawn un a prote.t ogainat the official statement et General Von Pfnel, the royal commissioner at Posen. They indirectly set down es so many calumnies the excesses laid to the charge of the 1' .les, and mention several places in which greet atrocities were committed by the Germans. The works on the fortifications of Cologne continue with unremitting activity. Several ironmeestere in and about Konigsberg have discharged their workmen. BAVARIA —The Munich correspondent of the Cologne Gazette gives a melancholy account of the . depresseon of trade in the former city. The Bavarian ministry, it appears, is gaining ground, and finds warm support in the Chambers. HAN OV Elt.—According to accounts from I I anover lof the 10th inst. three battalions were ordered to march on the following day, or the succeeding one, to Schleswig-Holstein. They were to be followed by two heavy batteries. It will be remembered that I'russia sent a complaint to the Germanic Diet, re specting the remissness or refusal of Hanover to send its proper number of troops. Notwithstanding the opposition of ministers the Second Chamber of Hanover all but unanimously voted, on the 10th inst., a motion to the effect that if the Chambers be not assembled at the time of the demise of the crown, they shall be convoked within fourteen days after that event, and shall not be dissolved before the Expiration of the four weeks succeeding their convo cation. Should they not be convoked they shall assemble de jure, and continue sitting for a month. trbt Court. The royal dinntr party at Buckingham Palace yes terday evening included the Duchess of Kent, Duke George of Meeklenburgh Strelitz, Duke of Wellington, the Duke Duchess of Norfolk, Ludy A. Bruce, Baroness de SIAM, and Mr. G. E. and the lion. Mrs. Anson. The Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence, Cla. rence house, St. James's, yesterday afternoon from Frogmen lodge, Windsor. THE REFORM MOVEMENT. GREAT MEETING AT LEEDS. Yerterday, at noon, a great meeting took place at 1 Leeds, in support of Mr. Ilitine's motion for an extension of , eb Moral reform. The assemblage was convened by the Mayor. in pursuance of the following requisition, signed by , about 1,600 electors and other inhabitants of the borough To the Worshipful the Mayor of the Borough of Leeds.—We, the I undersigned, electors of the borough of Leeds, cannot longer remain idle spectators of the stirring events which seem to be crowding upon the , attention of the nation. It is vain to disguise the fact that we arc on ' the eve of taking another great step in our progressive march of elee toral return,. The glaring COTTUIIIUM of the present limited constitu ency, the unequal distribution of electoral power, and the acknow. lodged fitness of the people for the exercise of their right., imperatively I demand the serious convidcration of all. When a thing his become inevitable there is wisdom, if not even piety, In obeying as it were the lichee. of providence, and performing our task, or tour duty, with alacrity and eheerfulni . ; that a chance is necessary is evidenced by the stagnation of our trade, the starving condition of our operatives, and the 1 tut call of millions of our orderly and industrious fellow citizens for admission within the pate of our constitution. Excessive agitation is ever highly detrimental to trade and commerce, and, if lung continued, may paralyse, if not utterly destroy, them. Prudence and the interests of all demand a speedy settlement of the great questions that now agitate the country. Let none deceive them ' serve: with the fallacious expectation that this agitation can be stopped by aught abort of consummation. The moderate use and the eenrailidation of OUT previous triumphs have prepared us for another movement in our orderly march to rational freedom. Amidst the crash of empires and the fall of thrones, the English nation, ever loyal and peaceful, sublimely pursues its magnanimous count of political amelioration; its reward ought and must be liberty. Let us, then, add our voic, to the general cry for enfranchisement, retrenchment, and economy. Let UN convince Lord John Ituthell, who (lectured in his place in parliament, on uewlay night. May 23, that the middle and working clause generally neither required universal nor house hold suffrage, that he is profoundly ignorant of the state of feeling and opinion in this country. In order to ascertain toe opinion of the people of Leeds on these great questions, and with a view to petition the legislature to pass such laws a. will compose the miNds and sa tiety the reasonable expectations of the people, we humbly request your worship to call a public meeting of the inhabit:Lite of this borough. The meeting took place in the large area of the coloured cloth hall, and at one period there could not have been fewer than from 9,000 to 10,000 persons present. The MAYOR said it was well known that there had been lately held in the metropolis anti other places meetings, the proceedings of which had contributed to inspire the peace able inhabitants of the country with feeliags of alarm. In consequence of this some had gone so far as to ware and counsel him about the propriety of convening a large meet ing in this borough at the present time. But he had not hesitated for one moment to accede to the requisition which had been presented to him. lie knew how to distinguish between meetings which were held for tumultuous purposes or for purposes of intimidation, and meetings which, like the present, were held for definite and constitutional objects. In looking over the requisition he had been much pleased with the passage which declared that excessive agitation is ever highly detrimental to trade and commerce, for there could be no doubt that that was strictly true ; and he hoped, as the resolution expressed it, that they would persevere in't heir magnanimous course of amelioration without having to sub vert any institution. They did not want to pull down the old house for the Bake of building up a new one. Already the people of England were in possession of many of those franchises and privileges which other nations were only now ' beginning to seek. They had only to follow in the leading strings of experience to enaWe them to enjoy loose privi- I legea of which they had not yet got the full development. Let them get that tint, thea they could gn oatonmething further. His worship said he had come there to give the magisterial sanction to the proceedings of the meeting, and he hoped that every speaker would be heard fully and fairly. The Rev. A. CiILIIIII4T said that the first resolution, which he had the honour to propose, was ea follows : That In the deliberate judgment of this meeting, the House of Commons, as at present constituted, does not represent the opinion of the entire population, amongst the evidences of a Inch are especially prominent the exec... Use amount ot the national taxation, its unequal and unjust pregame npon particular classes of the tax payers, and the profuse appropriation of a large portion of It to purposes which the majority of the nation disapprove of, and against which the public voice has been loudly but ineffectuslie raised. Mr. Joust Houses had much pleasure in seconding the resolution. The resolution was put by the mayor, end was adopted unanimously. Mr. PUNT said that before moving his resolution he would read it as follows ; Tout the alnvat total absence of sympathy betwixt the people and the Commons I louse, combined with the unequal distribution of mem bers amongst the prevent electors, and the almost total exclusion of the operative class tram the parliamentary franchise, has moult a . deep anal wide-spread spirit of discontent through the community, must injurious to the public peace and welfare, and which this meet ing believes can only be removed by such a reform of the lloave 01 Conimaneln will constitute it a faithful and mewl repri.seatation 01 the opinions and interests of all climes. Mr. Plint said the present meeting was an attempt on the part of the middle chines to unite with the working classic ter a commove object, and he should rejoice if the union was effected. Though in many of his views he went further than it was propmed they should go at present, if he 1 , might allude to the next resolution, yet be was milling to go with the present movement as far as they could promote union between them. Mi. T. Moticiaw said he cerdially seconded the resolution. At present, 3.59,738 electors returned 413 members ; whilst 577,643 electors return only 155 Oscan"' ; but if there was • redistriliwion of the franchise the latter number of electors ought to return 378 members, and the former only 198 mem bers. The resolution was then put and carried. Mr. D. GREEN moved the third resolution, which ran as fellows : That whilst thin meeting recognises the right of every man on tatuird by crime to the parliamentary franchise, it earnestly invites the middle and operative classy to a cordial union In the effort to obtain a reform in 'be House of Common,, on the bads of heusehokl starrier (expressions of dineent), vote b) ballot, triennial intrliaments. and such n redistribution of member* as will give a rote to every man possessed of the household qualification, and will remedy the present groodv unequal and anomalous state of the representation ; and that whilst inviung the respective classes interested in such a reform to the vigorous, earnest, aid persevering *kw of constitutional means, this meeting would record its emphatic and unqualifted abhorrence of all other means, and more espectaty the resort to physical loose, be lieving that any departure from the legitimate weapons of public diecuoion and petition would not only retard the object aimed at and most disastrously ai ct all facial interests but wuukl strike a fatal brow at the very Muudation of order and government. Referring to expressions of dissent irons that portion of the resolution which referred to household suffrage, he said that perhaps he was as democratic in his views as most of those who wished for a larger suffrage ; but as a universal suf frage man he thought it was their duty to go fur the proposed suffrage as the only means of constitutionally obtaining what they wished. It was, in his opinio 1, the easiist way of achieving their object. Ile did not say that that was the extent of their rights; it was all that they could expect to attain at present, and if they did not join the middle classes they would not so readily acquire the larger franchise. Ile argued in favour of this gradual change, because the attain ment of the larger suffrage at once would cause a der gerous revulsion of feeling which might have a serious effect up it trade ar.d the commerce of the ceuntry. The people roust be won to the Rile( cacy of univie , al suffrage ' y argument and peaceful means. In this view of the subject he had much pleasure in moving the resolutions Mr. MILLS seconded the resolution. Mr. BROLiKE said the working classes would not be satisfied with less than the chaster. This was an important meeting, and it was now for the people of Leeds to say whether they were for principle or expediency. tie hoped that atter this meeting tie middle classes wougl put a ide their pi ejudiees against the operative classes, and that henceforth they would work harmoniously together. In this spirit he weal st to the promoters of this meeting whether it would not he well that they should be united in cuppott of a resolicior, like this: That this meeting rejoices to learn that the unjust system of I pis lotion complained of is about being brought before parliament for drv mis'ion, for the purpose of alarm:Mc it; and, believing the [rancid, to be the right of every man, begs to express its conviction that a vote should lo) given to all men of 21 yearn of age, of sane mind and un tainted with crime. lie suggested this for consideration ; he did not like to move it by way of amendment, so as to create any appearance of division. Alter some conference between the partite, Mr. FLINT said With regard to the effect of household suffrage, he would observe that even in the borough of Leeds household suffrage would give about 32.000 eicctcrs instead of the present 6,000 and odd under the Reform Act. heux!i he was himstlf a universal auffragisf, he would ask whether that limited extension of the suffrage would not give a most effective repress ntation to the working classes ? Whether that was so or uot, he would ask whether it would not give for one vote to the middle-class man two or three to the operative classes; and in that case which would hove the largest share ? The ri quisition for the present meeting had been generally signed u, on the principle of household suffrage he should not, therefore, take upon himself the responsibility of acceding to Mr. Brooke's euggistion, but must adhere to the resolution moved be Mr. Green. Mr. BlohiKE said that he hail no wish to divide the meet , ing. lit was as anxious as Mr. I'iint or any other gentleman to have a united vote, and he was sorry they had not de. eided to adopt the very mild resolution he had suggested. After what hid taken place he would not propose his reso lution as an amendment, but would allow it to he put to those who pleased voting for it or against it at their pleasure, but afterwards he would propose it as a substantive resolu• Lion, substituting for the words which ho had inscribed as qualifying the suffrage, the words adopting the vote by Whit, and the other of the six points of the charter. Mr. J. BAKKER, of Wortley, said he would vote for the resolution before the meeting, though he was for universal suffrage. The MAYOR then put Mr. Green's resolution, and it was carried by six to one. Mr. Beooe then moved— That this meeting having manifested its desire for a union of the ; middl,nal working classes, for amending the present unjust !system of legidation, deems it right to exprers its optima that no measure short of the !ranch se to all men of full age, of sane mind, and un tainted with crime, together with vote by ballot, annual porlmments, equal t leetoral dimriets, no property qualiticatom fur members, and pity meat of no, mhers, will do justice to all classes of society. Mr. J. BAHR EH briefly seconded the motion; and on its being put from the chair, it was carried amidst loud applan-e and clapping of hands, scarcely a score persons having held up their hands against it. Mr. WHITELEY next proposed a petition to the House of Commons, ter ich concluded as follows: Your petitioners therefore pray your ho n ourable house to take into its immediate consideration a reform of the reproantative system, on the basin of household suffrage, vat? by ballot, triennial parliaments, and such a redistribution of members as sill give a coke to every man warming the household qualification, and will remedy the pre sent unequalled anomalous state of the representation, as the only certain means of removing the discontent which exists, of harmonizing the several e IV& 5, and laying a sure foundation fur the national sta bility and welfare.—And your petitioners will ever pray. Mr. Alderman R. WILSON seconded the proposition, and it was adopted. Mr. D. Oriente then proposed a vote of thinks to the mayor for his services in the chair, which were carried by acclamation, and the meeting terminated shortly before four o'clock. MEETING AT WORCESTER. Yesterday, in compliance with a requisition to the mayor, a puthe meeting was held to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning parliament in favour of the prin- doles involved in the motion which Mr. Hume has announced his intention of bringing forward on the 20th inst. The meeting was held in the Guildhall, which was nearly filled, there being shout 1,000 persons peeler?, including a large number of chartists. The mayor, Mr. E. \Vebb, presided. Dlr. R. HARDY, who was an unsuccessful candidate 10. the last general election for the city, moved the first resolution : That the present state of the representation of the people in the Commune' House of Parliament is partial in Its nature, end in its practice trail. to clam legislation, and gives no security against op. presssive taxation. Ile contended, in the words of the resolution, that the present system of representation supported class legislation, and that it consisted of church and state, the law, the army and the m.vy. Taxation was imposed without consulting the wishes or interest of the people, who must pay or have th. it goods taken from them. lie did not want to rob the aristocracy of their right., but the people ought not in return to be robbed of tneirs. (Cheers.) The industrious classes were taxed heavier than any other, and the legislature, instead of laying the heavy burthen on the shoulders of their own class, heaped them upon those who were least able to bear them. He was, therefore, for an extension of the suffrage to the utmost limit to which it could be carried, and he impressed upon the meeting the ate. cereity of unity in their proceedings. The object of the aris tocracy had always been to keep one party in the state fight ing against another, and to follow t or principles said to have been enunciated by "good Queen aizabeth " respecting the Irish, v:z., " that the best way to rule the Irish was to keep them cutting each other's throats." He contended that in the adjustment of taxation property was made to pay no thing, while p'verty paid all. Mr..l. WALL seconded the resolution. He was an old re former, having been before his brother citizens is that capa city for 20 or 30 yeam. He had been a strenuous advocate for the Reform Bill. but he was now ready to admit that that Reform Bill had failed in its object in giving a fair repre sentation of the people. The motion was then put and carried almost unani mously, and a letter was real from Mr. Rufford, M.P., ex plaining that engagements prevented his attending the meeting. The other member for Worcester (Mr. Ricardo) had not yet replied to the invitation addressed to him. Mr. Town Councillor Atiaowastrrit moved the next re solution : Tuat her Majesty's Prime Minister having stated his opinion that the people required no extension of measure, of anal or political re form, this meeting thereupon declare its deliberate opinion that the elective franchise should be extended to all meat of mature age who have been registered as residents fur lbe period of 12 months; that the duration of parliaments should not be longer than three years; that votes at elections should be taken by ballot ; and that there should be en equal apportionment of members to population. Mr. Arrowsnsith, in the course of his remarks , avowed him self a chartist, and expressed his wonder at Lord John Rus sell having, with the charter petition before his eyes, expressed his opinion that the people were not d. sirous of futther reform. He expressed his tall confidence that with a House of Commons lolly and fairly representing the people, toe present abuses of taxation would be gut rid of ; and he called a number of items from the miscellaneous expenditure of the country with the view of showing their injustice. • Redress would never be obtained for the grievances of which • the people complained until they were better represented in parliament; and he therefore called upon his felloweitireus i to unite together in tapertiag Mt, !Dime, the tried tictal of the people. (Cheers.) He did not fl .tter himself that Mr. Hume would succeed with the present parliament; but, by supporting and strengthening lns bands, they would be paving the way for future legislation. He next urged the necessity of the ballot to ensure a fair return, and spoke of the existence of bribery at the last Worcester elec•ion. Mr. Eveurri, surgeon, seconded the resolution, using similar arguments to Mr. Arrowsmith. Mr. STEVEN/10N, the leedtr sf the Worcester chartists, next presented himself, end moved : 'feet in the present critical Mate of the country it is expedient and just to ail claseee of her Majesty's sulijecta that an Ile of parliament should be pareed with all possible despatch, embodying the whole of she principles contained in the document known aa the people's charter, an the only mesns of effectually and permanently maintain. ing the security of the throne, the protection of property, and the happiness of the people. (Cheers.) He fully agreed with the resolution proposed by Mr. Arrowsotith, as far as it went, but it did not go far enough. Mr. Yount), another chartist, seconded the amendment. On a division the original resolution was carried, though bv a small majority - The RtV. W. CROW, II ptist minister, next moved the adoption of a petition embodying the two resolutions carried by the meeting. He avowed himself an advocate for the intertets of the working classes, and a chartist—(•e Hear, hear," and cheers) ; but be would withdraw from any Do ty recommending the adoption of physical (tree. Mr. HAWKINS, schoolmaster, secentled the adoption of the petition, which he said embodied principles which, if carried out, would form an efficient lever with which to up set any tyrnnrical government. The petition was adapted, and, after the usual vote to the mayor, the meeting broke up. MEETING AT STROUT). A Meeting of the inhabitants of this Loren and neighbourhood was held at the Victoria WOMs on Wednes day evening, convened by t'.e desire of more than 200 et quisitionists, to consider the propriety of supporting the new reform league, and the intended metion of Mr. Hums fcr extension of the suffrage, vote by inapt, triennial parlia meuts, and equal electoral districe.“ A peculiar feature wan given to thi., cut of the numereue meanies for similar purposes throughout the country, from the fact of Stroud having offered herself as the political refuge of Lord John ' Russell when ejected from Divan, am having on subsequent occasions been courted by his lordship with success. The room, which will hold upwards of a thousand persons, was completely filled. T. PARSONS. Esq, was called to the chair. Ile Pik' he considered, at this momentous crisis of the world's history. the declaration of Lord John ltu•sedl was, to say the least of it, a most unfortunate one. They we re perfectly willing to re cegnise and be loyal to the Queen and eAi dient to the law., it they were just laws, and if there was the same willingness on the part of thole in owei M recoguise the existence and attempt the removal of those abuses which crippled the nation's energies, and &prised the people of their rights. (Cheers.) The Rev. Mr. YATES said that many would fancy be wee out of place in appearing at that meeting. but he was one of those Christian ministers who considered that in times like these his labours should not be devoted solely to th_ pulpit. (Cheers.) He came foresed in a friendly spirit to all, an advocate of those principles of religion, truth, and justice, which taught masters to act rightly by their servants, Kings to rule in the fear of the Lord, and the people their duties when justly governed to those in authority. Mr. Yates continued—l think Lord J. Russell will learn a lesson he sadly masts to be taught—l .I.h him to learn—from Stroud : he used to want to know our feelings when he wanted our votes—(" True," " That's it")—an•l we tell Dim now, firmly, decidedly. peacefully, but unitedly resolved, that we do want further reform ; that we must have it ; and, united together with one heart and ciiie mind, despite his or any other opposition, the measures we ask ter must and will be tarred. (Cheers.) The speaker then proposed the following resolution : That while this assembly views with extreme resort the conduct of those infatuated men who reek by outrage on persons or property to subvert the order of society, and avows it determination to support all just constitutional authority in the maintenance of pear, this meeting nevertheless deems it unjust, impolitic, Laid hazardous, to withhold on that account from a large number at her Nl:l.lmq', loyal subjects their civil rights. Mr. THOMAS le GAT, a working man, seconded the resolu tion. He was sorry thatworking men were so circuneit eneed that not one out of ten dared to act independently. The system of canvassing was nothing but intimidation and coercion, and he always made up his mired how he should vote before any of those gentry called on him. If a man could be twisted about thee way and this way, he had not much opinion of him, as he thought he only want, d the op portunity to serve himself. At the last election he saw a gentleman standing at the poll booth from eight o'clock in the morning until four, and if he had been asked what he was there for, he would no doubt hive said to thank the voters for my friend. But c old there bee any doubt that being a man of wealth and influence, his real object was to intimida'o all who came to vote ou the ether side ? Working men did not want to pull the Q. 11.11 off the throne, or to eceisliee property ; but they wanted their just politic el rights, which would alone quiet the people. (Chum) lie would test Lord J ohn Remelt that they were asst inished at his cot,- duet after all the professions he made when he came to solicit their votes at Stroud. The Rev. B. PALLSONS denied that the middle and work ing clams were the disturb. rs of society ; they never were, and it was impossible to point out in the page of history one instance where a justly-governed people had risen spinet their rulers. (Cheers,) The best agitator they had now was Lord John (hear), and the people of Stroud told him now that though they wanted nett!:, r pikes nor guns, they would hold their peaceable meetings and freeifgive ut tera+.ce to the e xprewion of their wants and the advocacy of their rights until :hey obtained justice. Mr. Parsons then moved the second resolution as fellows : That claw legislation, the unequal pressure of taxation on the mid dle and operative portion of the pnpul dins, the lavi-h expenditure of the public money, and the neglect manifested towards the petitions of the people on subject. of paramount importance, prove that the House of Common., as at present constituted, does nut fairly repre sent the population, the property, or the industry of the country. Mr. E. Lome seconded the resolution, and maid all the evils in church and state were caused by class legislation. W. BARHAM), Esq., moved the third resolution. He condemned Lord J. Russell, who, fifteen years ago, took re fuge among them, as the rejected of Devon, got elected by them, weni, back to parliament, and abandoned the cause of the people. The resolution was : That to allay a spirit of discontent, by removing the occasion for it, this meeting is of opinion that it In essential to the welfare of the community that there should ►e a liberal extension of household or residential suffrage; that the vote by ballot should afford to every elector the opportunity of free choice in the exercise of the franchise; that parliaments be limited to three years; and that the electoral dis tricts be made to hear a more equal proportion to the intelilgence and amount of the population. Mr. DRIELETT seconded the resolution. It was further resolved that petitions, embodying these resolutions, be forthwith addressed to the House of Com mons, and that G. I'. Serape, Erre, M.P , be requested to press nt, and hiraselt and W. H. Stanton, Esq , M.P., the members fur the county, be requested to give their warmest support to the petitions. MEETING AT BELPER. On Wednesday evening a large meeting was held in the Market-place, Bs.!per, near Derby, in support of the new reform movement. From 2,000 to 3,000 persons assembled. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said: Wolin in perilous times. God has ?wen us mouths to speak out of, and he has given some men power to stop those mouths; therefore be careful how you act. DJ ;not give the law any chance to lay hold of you. The law has left us A very , narrow passage, but let us keep in that passige. If any disturbance should arise, quel. it ; let us have a peaceable meeting, and whatever resolutions are brought forward shall he honestly put from the chair. The Rev. J. FELatx r ropneed the first resolution. That lord John Russell harnng in bin pl..ce in parlioment stated his belief "that the middle and working closes of this country, speaking generally, neither wish for the one treat reform nor the other ; that they arc neither amino. for the people's charter as proposed by the h-n. member for Nottingham. nor for that meat plan of reform which comes somewhat near the people's ple's charter, which is proposed by the hon. member for Montrow this meeting desires to exprms its opinion that the prime minis ter to either gristly ignorant of the wishes both of the middle and working easses, or E. wil!ully misre presented the known opinions of the people, proving thereby that he to utterly unfit to conduct the affairs of this great ration. Mr. 'r. Mgaxis seconded the resolution, denouncing Lord J. Russell's deeT,ration as a prilpahla falsehood. Throughout the country there was one gem sal c,mplaint of distress amongst the middle and working classes, who were looking to legislative changes for an amelioration of their condition. The riches of the country were produced by la bour, and were possessed by the comparatively few at the cost of the many. The middle and working classes bore the principal burdens of the state, with its enormous expendi ture, and it was time this injustice was put an end to. Great abuses existed in every department of the state — and would continue to prevail to long as the present system of class legislation prevailed. The aristocracy had been the law makers, and had taken especial ease to place the burden of taxation upon the middle and working classes. 1 he resolution was carried unanimously. The ltev. lituiroN (of Itipky ) nit tod: That in the opinion of thin meeting Ise Commons Home of Par liament does not represent either the Beller, the interests or opinions of a large majority of the British nation, on whom falls with most unequal add increasing pressure the greatest amount of taxation, and that such majority has no voice whatever either in the con trol of that burden or any other legislative enactment. The rev. gentleman referred to the outcry against chartism and reform. Some people looked upon those persons who ad. vocated the charter ascot throats—as men whose object it was to uproot all civil government. Nothing of the kind. True, there may have been some few charCsts, or persons professing to be such, who might not have used their tongues in the most discreet or proper manner, and whose conduct they repudiated; but it did not follow that because he and others were advocates of the charter that they wanted to destroy the lives of their fellow men, or to injure their property. For himself he agreed in the principles of the charter, and had no doubt of its ultimate success. Mr. WALLIS seconded the resolution, which was sup ported by Mr. T. MEAL IN, and carried unanimously. Mr. T. PALMER moved: That this meeting cordially aympathises with the movement cow bring made in favour of household suffrage, rote by ballot, ahem: parliaments, and equal electoral district.% MI pledges itaeV 'o co operate in secuntg there measures of parliameetary reform at a means for effecting retrenchment in the expenditure of this country, and accomplishing the entire success of thrifts fusdamentol prin ciples of political regenerahoo—nornily, equdity of taxation and just represent-tun. Mr. B. CLAY seconded and Mr. Jou:tens supported the resolution, which was carried. Two persons in the crowd then briefly proposed and seconded the following amendment : That in the opinion of this meeting it us essential' - • .„..• a 4 cordial union of all classes of sincere reforme . ~- • - i-. .i= fri. order to effect a real reformation of the •ii. - i i'' .tpi ... ,__ , bit Inasmuch as the working eJSACA ha rise • , ' "•. 7 .t: benefits of any former Mileage, we he . . .•. .y . • • 711'. ..7 : to unite with any party except upon isaf,ltatireirebie;'"fr' '• • untantetcrraoi tutd:ticreiore p:tdne kalirattaliftlirlik • • * ''• ' * ..i f • .. .• :SI . - - ' -4- * :; . ... • I I 1 ,