The Express. — London, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

StoOMIIT.-DDOWT atherdment pr . .!piuol, to add et the toed of elue , tte the she 1 . 4. .„ h . wo . ease the Wlng proviso : - Provided that nothing be this . i . peke One Shilling, with a Coloured gIaIDD COMDLIN,IIIII.I.I be cutietruoti to w.f.. G. r: • with the ectleohis. ' Riegravint awl aurnerneill Wooled+. hT John Leech, THE SOCCON n NUMBER OP lIE COMIC itis T()lt y o f ROME , f or th e ~c ; or epirdual fureolone of ter Roman eathoiie archbishops ired ! bishops la the Cubed kintelone."-illr. hr.:nth). (location T put, 1 ...rut the tar rt.. be there boded." 'll.e committee divided; Um erol %momment et 'Limn,. an.l Vsmilios. Ayer, :0 ; Nov, ill. A NEW MORTIILY IthRIuDICAL. ATEA. Bp the Autli, of •• The I: 11 11l .:•ry of . lard.' . heb.hbr, U. A. 11,. bert, Henry A. frFerralk lion. R. M. I Loudon: Prelbaly and Lew 11. Bourertrtet. Arieter..Thoromi C. ilu o tins, Goatee G. tErlahemy, Anthony Att . :new . sc. A. Ilushoure, Thais.. K. (bewail, Aka 'nor Illthetroner, It. R. Mope, Ale % c ud, Pechell, Mr 0. It. &Mittel MIDI surrey, It WADI, Sir kilt* Power, Dr. hart of I titans*, Mr ,rol J. Power. Nichols. wean. sir It. W. heating, It Wert Posy., Philip Rake, Stettin J. L mien, Mon.. wed Reyissids, John u s ueet. Regis del 5. M Cuilthh, W. T. Melts, Edmond B. Radon N.f T. J. Mahan. William 11. &A IM, John D e keno, Tee met Mahar, Netts '..1.1 V. FebnleliMl, William amulets, lion. C. S. Me-gbrr, Tirana Slaty, Francis Carbany, M. r„. ma'am, to, iiki. iiiiiesn. Michael Dimes; John T. lionseli, Willi.= lath*, John U. cyan, Jain" UhrPb:. P.S. Testy" E. K. GM Rich" M. Kurieys Sir D. J. Towneky, .1-bn Gibson Uo.T. M. Kennwt, Sir Pees TM limy, Jobs A. Cien!cl,,Weml.tott 0 , 11 ow, J. Younx, Sir John G rx ,., otle t r D. J. Hike n, Mr T. Grum, Wary 0 • N0ki1,.1.43 li...igh, Weld= &few. lIIIDI Vliehere.l, M. J. More, George It. Gransnr - Another anerudtheut pro,ice- 4 to UM at the cad of the e As. the MI owing proven : -... Prinith • I than nnthing in this set 'outlined Mall be c initrithl I . aff,t try , , hblehop orb shop, or etber Nilsen in holy exthill uf the eliu.a, .4 Wm.., oflic: air, in any dos ret, or bath i pnerohl sup...rime, Acne • of any convey,- bon of per. ni trot -.ins the human e .thove u lesion, aecordint to the miles siel doe 91ple of the char it of Rune. ID the Unued ytpego,,,u, an Me, txto.ed pre% nu. to the Vth .I.y of hey t mlto, 1t...:"- . Wr. gotkir :1-Qiediun bat,- Tee et the proviso be there eddied e • -The coineuttee dii id A. Ayer, 1:; Rues, 275. A A k:A. • =Themes •C. Ifolehow., i hone - on. treonnell, Jolts 1 gal Semen Hope. A rum!, ml. L.Motv, Anthmy Karl of Mower". mr lia;ph I Omen Wdliost Iliblie, Ilertin J. henueui. Robert Power, Dr. Wein. Reginald J. k..,,,a, B iiPcas licen .ids, JODI% ap t i t uu s , ilie. C. e . L.,. leo , . Uor. (7.:eil scholell.l.l. W. OMMIIIy, Matthew L. M.. ullaph, Wm. T. Scully, Franeie Dermas, John T. Masan, Wm. 11. Marie, John U. Kogan, Janie.. Maher, Neriso:us V. Talbot. J. 11. totheerne,Chieheiter Meagher, I boom Talon. Mosel K. Ten, llielihrd M. Mahon, To u'o. Tn Writ,. Juba S. &b um, Rt. Hon.T.M. Morrell, tot .141111 Wee .Prover, 1. R. Geoid, Wynn. ire Munre. Grate 11. lOwner. bid Juba Grace. 0. D. J. Murphy, Er: 1ei.... Geattan t lkury Nisreot, s.or Foley TIT saes. ODDI.y haw sehtleu, J. Rohe. Edmund B. GIR.Mir, O. 0. 0. tibeieu, sir ':iniuthy felbsts, Joao ISLE OF WIGHT ELECTION.' CT.OSE OF THE POLL Dawes (free trader) Ilontmt;ml ibrotectioni.t) A corn .pontlent write— that the %fitment wa, Y , TI great thwinx the day. T he polite were tt Mg their truneM right 1411.1 I. -eemingly aitlw o t any ohjeet other than the breaking of head..." At half pmt last afternoon one man had he n taken home on a -treteher, and "her" bruised, and the police had c-tired to the station. house. A mt-lanettoly eireum.tato—, which throws a gloom OVI the town, is the 'tulle's de ith of T. ca., Esq., solicitor. agent on the port of Mr. Hammond. The two parties hat. each their tale as to the eat.. ; the ntmt plausiole seem- to be that it was eaut,d by the excitement of the moment - be 'wine %üb;..et to a palpitation of the heart. An Moue., will Iw held. 'f he cleeta-t d ntlearoi had been followed by the piyullee and pelted with egg.. oat tufts of grass. l'A XTONI'd VLOWF.II Oa the 314 all! WtusbilebeJ. r.n '5, M . No. IA cf AX'rON'S FIA)WEIt GAI:I)EN. lly 1)R. P Lasuiat au,l Jowly lUo tnt l with beautifully eutuunal largo Plitia, aal Sao &naming. cut Wool. Volume I. ty bawl lueltub. price LI bra ItAir) :kid Liam,. 11. You,eric "net. Part Y. of 1110 COLLECTED EDITION of ne WRITINGS of DOUGLAS JERROLD tubliohed out', Dot h,d.. %laid. .11.• N... L. 2. I.llkll 1. 0 114011: thell4biot tlio Poo* Al Pleciairat ; .. 31 . 2 .11 h.....1c•01kr0 lo aud cafaur. IIA ItT XIV. of 11()USEI101.1) WORDS. A .1. We. Lly Journal. *mauled by CH %nu. omits.. IS be we -110,1 on the 31411 , e...1a. OW.e. No. b.,. V.oL 16itou .treut North ; nol all book 1111111 an 1 Ititt eyortlso. TO COILUESPONDP.STS. .► coed Edition .1" The Limos," enatelting Ito ono everi!”,ol Gurette," Is publiatmel ern, TerreLy sal I.iday night, uz umr tor pod. ,uprutentp,nterAled fur "The Keever.," Leas Joe E.,lss paper, tr.uo Met the ELI" 10, Ibuterrtv.btreet, ►y Twe o'cuok M tht clay et roblatatwa. MOIL WATRIL AT LONDON' BRIDGE. Tu■ Du—Ninnies. llh. 50. n. %Unmans. 12k. Om. Tio.rossenr —ll rns I. 13a Afternon, HA. 53a. LONDON, TrESDAT, MAY 27. TuE most startling, and at the same time the mos: fearful fact of modern tunes, is the utter ignorance in which the dominant classes and the authorities themselves ate, of the feelings, ideas, intentions or desires of what are called the lower orders. Louts Piiiweee was reckoned the most sagacious pcliti cian of his day; and M. GUIZOT . ,3 shrewdness who will question:' They had legions of police, secret and overt, together with myriads of functionaries to afford them information. Set they evidently knew as much of the lower strata of the Paris population, as they did of Crim Tartary. We do not think, that the Duke of WelddeuToN, Sir Meuse!) Nitric, and Mr. Feances O'CoNNott, knew much more of the feelings or the London lower orders on the famous 19th of April. We had another memorable example yesterday of expectation. amounting to complete confidence, that, the people of London would crowd by thousands and tens of thousands, to enjoy the first day's privilege of seeing, at a shilling fee, the contents of the Crystal Palace. A complete army of policemen were ready to receive the sovereign people: their advanced nerd extended almost to the end of Piccadilly, where precautions, in the way of marshalling car riages, began. Hut, alas! camages there were few, and foot passengers not more than ordinary. The opening of the Crystal faders fit a popular price had not stirred or excited the depths of the London papa lation —tio. not in one hundridth degree of what the Derby race on Epsom Downs had done.) And, instead of the artisan population flock ing to Hyde-park to honour Saint Monday, fur once in a rational was-, the masses held aloof. Some twenty thousand limiest people, or less, did wend their war to the Exhibition, where they wire quite as ortlerly, and about half as numerous, as the higher paying crowd of Saturday last. But crush, excitement, trouble, there was none whatever. If there did exist any greater annoyance than temal, it proceeded from the police, and front the orders which they had received to turn people to the right and left. and round all sorts of corners in the mast inexplicable way. Had the crowd been really great, this would certainly have increased the con ' fusion; as it is, it only increased pisiple's impatienee, and augmented their fatigue,einee, in order to get from one end of the building to the other, one had to go through a labyrinth, threading through merchandise, and encountering sights, those precisely which one did not want to see. The only use or advantage that can be derived from visiting such an exhibition must be obtained in freedom, freedom to stop, to examine, to turn back and compare, to go from the manufac t are of one country to a similar display of another. H visitors are obliged to tread a maze, or to keep moving at the bidding of a policeman, the entire benefit as well as pleasure of sitch an exhibition will be lost. We do not want to make repraches. We admit that it was natural to expect a great crowd yesterday, and that a greater force, us well as more stringent orders to keep passages clear and the crowd moving, must have been given. What we say. therefore, is merely advice fur the future, not blame for the present or the past. Perhaps, alter all, them is reason for nothing save congratulation at the paucity of visitors yesterday. Humour of a crush may have made the prudent defer their visit till a later day. For although the artisan class in the provinces have had no doubt their curiosity more stimulated by this Exhibition than their brethren of the metropolis, still the latter cannot be indifferent to 80 much that mast be inte resting and profitable fur them to behold in the Great Exhibition. With the iudwdrious classes, too, the disposal of a day is no such light matter. To numbers this is far more important than the difference between five I shillings and one shilling. In France, as in con tinental countries, they would have solved the diffi culty by opening the Pxhibition of a Sunday. Here, very properly, this is nut to be thought of. But, at the same time, the circumstance of there being no day but what each can steal from his earnings, or his business, or obtain from his master, must be taken largely into account. Thus by dispersing holidays, and by regulating the excursion trains from the manufacturing and populous districts, it will be possible to afford to the people the full enjoyment of the Exhibition, without more crush or polity interference than the holders of season tickets themselves suffered from. Whoever was at the Exhibition on Saturday last must admit that it was far too full for comfort, and much too full to admit of any visitor pursuing the task of serious or comparative inspection. The expediency of having issued season tickets at all is now much to be doubted. It has filled the Exhibition from day to day with a class of mere idlers, or obstructives, and literally leaves the payers of a shilling, who are rid of them, much better off I (that is, provided the police would leave them alone) than the payers of five shilling., who have come for the purposes of information, and who arc obliged to take the mere crush of fashion instead. Ma. BAILLTE proposes this evening to renew his oft-repeated efforts to obtain from the House , of Commons a confirmation of his views regard ing the government of Ceylon. The subject i s k rather fad and we can hardly cherish a hope that anything new or useful will be elicited by another wearisome discussion, such as we have had dining the last two sessions, and of which the staple may be said to be fiat contradictions upon every species of fact in every conceivable tone, from every section of politicians. The Ceylon question, as it is somewhat unmeaningly called.was a healthy and promising nettle two years ago, when first the member for Inverness took it under his care. Its primal power of sting ing was then admitted on all hands; and nobody seemed to touch it without being made to feel more or ken of its irritating efficacy. But from the moment that it was placed under glass in a select committee room, it began to spread and sprawl in the usual way, to lose all its original characteristics, and finally to run to seed in a marvellous manner, much to the disappointment no doubt of those by whom it was rashly hot-housed. Four huge blue books, utterly irreducible to any clear or conclusive account of what did and what did not happen during Lord TottaiscroN's adminis tration in Ceylon, but containing instead an almost unparalleled amount of irrelevant and im material allegations, counter-allegations. explana tions, and confutations,—is all we have for the money this absurd inquiry has cost us. Parliament was just as competent, or au -competent to form a wise and just decision on the doubtful facts of a distant case in March, 1549, when Mr. B.tutte first brought it forward, as it is now in the month of Mar, 18,31, after nearly two sessions have been spent by fifteen of its members in sending for witnesses across the I habitable globe, and setting them to worry each other's characters to death in a committee•room with closed doors. 'lie committee contained undodstedly some of the ablest and most experienced men in the lower house of the imperial legislature: and the record of their pmceedings bears abundant testimony to the assiduity with which they devoted themselves to their ungrateful task. hat the thing they had , 'been appointed to do was in reality beyond the' powers of any set of g entl emen sitting round a table' by the banks of the Tha mes . The blunder lay in supposing otherwise. A parliamentary inquiry into the minute details of grievances or revolts, in remote dependencies it an utter übsur dity ; and if the history of the Ceylon corn nuttee does not suffice to wake this plain to all degrees of understanding. nothing can. For! the sole result to which they seem to have come after infinite waste of time Lind toil, as expressed in their final report of the 21th July, I:350, was the ex- • pression of their deep regret that a royal commis sion had not been sent to the colony to inquire on the spot into the circumstances upon which, notwith- standing " their utmost diligence and perseverance, they found themselves unable to make n complete report," or to offer any specific advice to parliament. They (lid, it is trne, intimate, in terms sufficiently indicative of distrust and dissatisfaction with the general state of atffiirs as it had been laid before them, that the serious attention of the executive at' home should be directed to the consideintion of the .• changes that mig:it be necnssary for the better government of the colony." It admits of little doubt, that by this recommenda tion the committen meant to express their opinion in favour of a chnage of hands in the local administra tion. The miserable arptabhles and animosities be tween the principal civil seTvants of the crown in the island remitted it hopeless to look fur anything like united or efficient action so long as they re mained; and the want of dignity, temper, and con sistency betrayed by Lord . Younixtrrox in his private communications made it impossible fur him to continue in the posit fur which he ought never to have been selected. Lord ToRRIMAON was recalled, and Sir EMERSON TENNENT and Mr. WimmuesE, witti whom he had been personally embroiled, were offered appointments elsewhere.. The colony has long since returned to a state of tranquil industry; and the remembrance of the lamentable events connected with the insane insur rection of 181 a is gradually passing away. Mr. Rutin, however, cannot reconcile it to him self that something so very like nothing at all should come of the laborious investigation over which he so long presided. Accordingly he nos ;Oren notice of a vote of direct and unqualified censure on the ex-governor for having resorted to martial law in orda. to repress rebel lion, and on the Secretary of State for the Colo nies for not having reproved this resort to unusual • rigour. This is in fact fulling back on the original accusation of March, 11419, from which all the sub sequent branch imputations, :scandals, and charges sprung. The over-expanded brambln is to be cut down if printable to somewhat of its early dimensions, :11111 its many withered off-shoots are to be cast aside the the occusioa. Mr. !Wild': seems to forget that contraction of political interest is a much more difficult process than expansion. He likewise overlooks, we • suspect, the impossibility of getting the same buoyant element back into the same compact balloon out of which it was suffered to pass, in order to fill one of greater dimensions. Unless lie has new and unused !outcries in the shape of fact or argument, he will hardly be able to bring the House of Commons back to the condition of feeling in which they voted the select committee of enquiry in 1819. It' nothing has been elicited during its tedious and profitless investi gations to alter the point of' view from which the measures taken to crush the disturbances of July, 1844, in Kandy, ought to be regarded, there is no great probability that the hon. member for Inverness will he able to du much more than repeat over again his speech of March, INIU. Patliament and public opinion eon- I tarred in the sentiment at the time, that u sufficient ease for inquiry lad been made out, and the means were afforded accordingly for that purpose. But the inquiry has confessedly failed to establish ally thing beyond what Mr. Banta. stated two years ago, and which the House of ('ommons pronouneed wholly insufficient ground for a vote of swore. Nobody vindicates or approves indiscriminately of all the acts done by the military during the continuance of martial law. Courts martiad have been actually held upon some of those who took part in the pro ceedings adverted to ; and we are disposed to think that the uttention publicly coiled to them will exer cise a salutary influence ou those who may have the misfortune to be- placed in similar circumstances else where. But the idea of gihbetting a minister of state for the questionable severities of military tri bunals in a distant deismdaney, is absurd. 'flue select combine° refused to record any direct con- idcmnation of any part of Lord TORRINGToN's con duct, and rt Arliori the Houle of Commons are not likely to record a vote of censure for approving cruelty and injustice against Earl Oa v. avoid and avert the cost to the church which the proper performan ce of its duties as landlords, as in building and improving, would have involved ; it amounted to a transfer and devolution of those duties to middle men. Certain moral and equitable rights have arisen under a system which has been in op,ration, with very little variation in principl.., for more than two centuries and a half. And those rights are not now to he disposed of, obliterated, and given to the w inds by such episvoixa commonplaces as were heard on fhursday lam. Prelacy must descend from this clouds of words to the regions of sense before the question can be profitably discussed and milled. Now that the bishops and cathedral clergy are confined, in dwell- rat least, to something like fixed incomes, " the Christian people of this country " have, no doubt, an interest in the surplus of their estates such as they never had before ; for all such surplus goes into a common fund for the promotion of religion. The community will gain just in proportion as, by the better manage uent of tho property, the sur plus is mereaseil. This is, of course, high motive to improecthe managem en t ; b u t, and even holy us it is, it cannot abate to the church lessees one iota of their moral rights; and because in times past our ecclesiastical pastors and masters hare been wasteful Endsehish, we are not now to be unjust and greedy. But what do these rights amount to? What is their value? The bishops reply—to nothing legally beyond the existing tenure of the leases. Yet, prac tically, says Lord STANLEY," to not much short of 24 to 25 years' purchase." Now, it is quite true, that the church might run the leases out ; but era /sm. When run out, the church would get back the land exhausted, rained, worthless; for so improvident have been its leases, that church tenants are not liable to impeachment of waste; and this power to destroy the land gives the tenant an existing interest in it far beyond the fair ow fur the period his existing lease huts to run. It is idle, then, to talk of running out the leases. Parliament I will cut. if the bishops would, submit to see so large a proportion of the soil of England ruined by the folly of the church, and the proportion due to the lessees is the only question to be tuvued. Episcopacy, wise enough hi its generation, feels this; it, thereto's., confines its objections to a rigiit of per petual renewal. Practicully, though not legally, church lessees, have now that right ; and it is because they have it only practically, and not legally, that church lands are worse cultivated than other land. Fixity of tenure, whatever be the terms of the tenure, is indispensable to a proper use of the soil under tenure ; and on this gene rid principle alone a right of perpetual renewal on some terms is the soundest of all policy. For the church cannot at any time get again into the full pos session of the property its bishops and cathedral clergy have alienated in a ;gaud sound state. So, the church must be contented to part permanently with some part of its interest in that property that it may be beeserrod in a productive conditi o n f or th e genera l benefit. " Therefore," Lord STANLEY told the bishops, as previously we had advised the lessees, " this is not a plain, simple, easy question; lint one where A 01111.1• thing must be conceded on both sides." Exactly so. floes, then, Lord essitsues Bill con tain the elements of a just compromise? if you ask a churchman, or a bishops secretary, he will answer- No; it is a lessees' bill." a you inquire of a church tenant, he will reply—" No; it is a lessors' NIL" It pleases neither of the parties interested in it: and their einumon dislike of it on such conflicting grounds is probably the very strongest argument in its favour. AmoiTottrai. succession in the episcopacy, after having, for a succession of centuries, allowed the pro perty bestowed on the Itoman Catholic, and trans ti•rred by the state to the Protestant Church, to be so mismanaged as to have given its tenants pecuniary, though not legal power to compel the church to re new their leases on certain definite terms, and to have bestowed on their renewable leaseholds a value, according to Lord STANLEY, " not much short of 21 or 25 years purchase—Episcopaey, notwithstanding its divine mission and character, having so permitted the church's property to be abused, has (as we the other day anticipated it would) taken fright at Lord CAnusLes Episcopal and Capitular Estates Hill— . a measure intended to remedy, so far as circumstances and justice to others will now permit, the wrong done to the church by its bishops and cathedral dig nitaries. There is something very characteristic of episcopacy in this alarm. So long us the bishops and deans and chapters were principally dependent for their in comes on the tines arising from this waste by them of the church's property; (which property, says the episcopal proprietor of the great Paddington estate, " is held in trust for the Christian people of this country,") no one ever heard one word of regret or compunction fall from the prelatical lips which now cannot denounce too strongly the practice of renewal. On they went, renewing and renew ing every seven years on fines varying from one year to two years and a half annual value; on they went, depriving the church of the corpus of its mineral wealth ; of course, to the lessees a further and additional claim for perpetual renewal every time they signed, sealed, and delivered a new lease. None of them bold enough, for the sake "of the Christian people of this country," to run their lives against the leases as did Lord BRISTOL, when (in the rollicking days of Irish independence, wherein agist , mcnt tithe was destroyed) he was Bishop of Drainv. But no sooner have the episcopacy of England and the cathedral dignitaries been assured, and secured from the Ecclesiastical Commission, some thing like fixed incomes, irrespective of the proceeds of their sees, deaneries, and stalls, and are, in conse quence, no longer dependent on fines for revenues, than theyhave had a new revelation on the subjectof church leaseholds. The venerable " heads of the church' now begin to see the enormity of what they had before been doing; they now appreciate the gravity of their past ;practices; and, when Lord Calitistr. proposes to legislate in a spirit of compromise rendered necessary by episcopal and eapitular waste fur centuries, the right reverend Fathers read the House of Lords a homily on the sacrilegious impiety of alienating church property—they them selves and their order having in times past been the hugest of all its alienators. According to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, " they had received that property from their prede cessors, and were bound to transmit it unimpaired to their successors." According to CHARLES JAHEN• our own Diocesan, "it would be a dereliction of duty to sacrifice the church's rights;" nay, rising in holy fervour, " it would rob posterity . Whilst in the obstetric language of Oxford's grandiloquent prelate, the subject was "pregnant with the spiritual in terests of future generations." That the church's property has been alienated and wasted by the system of church leaseholds, which has prevailed since and notwithstanding the restraining statute of ELIZABETH, is a matter of regret to the laity, as it is of scandal to the episcopacy and cathedral functionaries. But for the waste and alienation, the church alone is responsible ; the system was devised, adopted, and persisted in, to gain present income at the expense " of the Christian people of this country;" it was projected and insisted in to Thi; discu"ssion in the Lords Will, perhaps, nhate a little the extreme pretensions of both. The church will have noted, how every temporal peer who spoke, except the Duke of liveet.Eutiit, rejected the extreme episcopal pretensions; and how the PRIMATE himself, whilst speaking in their support, voted against the Bish.m of OxFottn's amendment to get rid of the bill altogether. And the lessees, pow erful as they are in the other house, will sec that the legal right of perpetual renewal is a privilege for which they must prey the church substantially. With a view to this compromise the bill could not have been better disposed of than it was. on Lord it.r.'s own proposition, on Thursday evening. And when it conies out of committee, then will be the time to discuss the terms of the comprondse there to be arranged. got court. Ifer Nlajf•stv the Queen rind Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wah s and ti, Prince,. Royal, accompanied by the Trine. and Princess of Pntssia, Print* Frederick Willi ,m. and ti,. : l'rince.• lonti.l ..1 Prussia, the Duke and Duch— of S..se Cobount limbs, and Duke Ernest ut Wurtentlicrz. left Osborne for London at a quarter past t. n o'clock yesterday wonting. In attendance on the U t o.e.n and .the Royal party were the Viscountess Jocelyn, the lion. Beatrice Rpm. the Countess A. de 'lecke, Countess ' Louise Oriolla, 114M111(414 tic AV:tugetilleiin, Count hailer, Colonel the lion. (*harks Li. ist.-Colonel Fr ineis Duals Seymour, Mr. Birch, ijor Von Boyen, Count Golfe, Colonel Fischer, Lieutenant Von Heim, and M. B.' de Treskow. Ti c ' ;utted parts - in the Fairy Royal Eteam Yacht, commanded by Lord Al ilphus Fitzelareucc. to lloliort, awl quitted fitisport at ten minutes before 12 o'clock by a special train on the London and South Western Railway, n hich conveyed her Majesty and the royal circle to the Nine., lins station. tier Majesty and Prince Albert and tie illu.trion. party left the station in raven of the queen'. earn etre, escorted by • detachment of Lancers, for Buckingham Palace, where they arrived at a quarter pest two o'clock. The late..oit and Prince Albert and the royal party were nceived by the Master of the Morse, the Lord `Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Tice- Chameerlain, Lord (ieorge Lenin's. the Master of the I.itut.-Coloncl lion. Itoli..rt Boyle, and Lieut.- Colon. I Fr saris Seymour. The I)uchess of Rent, l'rinee Alfrcl, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Alice, Bole a, end Loni,a, and the Prince Or eft Osborne at a quarterlea.t nine o'clock ye.- tertlay morning for London. Lady Caroline Barington and the Marquis of Unnowle acre in atte inhume on the royal children. Th. , illustrious piety erossed from Cowes to (M Mend proe...d e d by the London ,11111 South AVc•tcie r ay to the Niue F.lms Station, where they arrived Shortly before one o'clock ; Prinee .Slfred, l'rinee Arthur, the princes... Alice, Mien% and lonia, attended by Laity Caroline Llarinzien :mil the Manlius of Ormond,, pro (ceding to Ilarkin ; rhaut Palace; and the Machina of Kent, accompanied by the Trio e of Leininge n, proceeding to Clarence Rouse, St. James's:. lief Maj..ty, oreompanied by the Princes% of l'rumia and the Much•+. of Cuhonrg Botha, took a drive in a n Open earrile soul Our yelderday aft, noun. Cul. Hon. C. Grey and Licut.-Culnie.l Hon. U. Ito !,: attended on horse back. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Prue. Prince Prederidt the Duke of Sane Cohoura Gotha. and Duke Wurttinhera, and attended by Licut -Colonel F. 11. S,ymotir, rode out on horseback at the same time. Cl/1010.1 Fi-cher and M. B. de Tr,kow were also in alt, udance. The Queen dinner party, last evening, included the Prince aid Princes. of Fru•sia, Prince Frederick William. the Duke and Duchess of SAM' Cobourg Gotha. the Duke Ernest of Wurtetuberk the Duette.. of Sutherland, the Chevalier Balsam (the mulish r), the Marquis of Ercadalhane. Countess A. de Ilacke, the Countess Oriolla. the Barone.. de Wangenheias, Count Pokier, Major Von Boren, ount Gults, Colonel Fischer, Lieut. Von Heins, and M. 11. de Th.kow. Mr. Iftaitrice Cross, secretary to the Commissioner. or National Eduration in Ireland. bad an interview. yester day, with the Chancellor of the Bulletlike'', at his official residence in Ifowninr-atrect. Sir E. Dishrowe had an intemew with the Right lion. Heart Labotteht re. yesterday. at the board of Trade. sir M. Ha. rington, Mr. Ilastie. M.P., Mr. Kane, and Mr. JeKrr , tran..eted Irwin..., yesterday, with the I'om iai•sioners of Railways, at the office 01 the Ilcatrd of Trade. Sir Rd. England had an interview with Earl Grey. yesterday. at the Colonial-01re. Drmatehes were r.ceiv, d, yesterday, at the Colonial. glace, from the Governor of the C.lnadas and the governor" of the other North American colonic. Despatches were also nveived from the Lord High l'ontrni.stoner of the lonian Islands and the Governor of Malta; also from the Governor* of the )lauritiu. and Southern and Western Australis. A grand drjeuncr printanicr demi-chaud-froid was g,•rn At Snyer's Symposium. yesteril by Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford, at which the following distinguished primal:mgr. were prreent —The Duchess of Bedfonl, the Hartwig of lurerness, the Duchess of Buckingham and Chasers, the l'onatesa Dowager of Morley, the Earl and Count,. Forteseue, Lady lisieh, I Russell - . Lady Caroline Hanford, lady aad Miss Macfarlane, Lady Ilislop, Lord Wench.% A. Ponsouby, Lord Itateman , Sir It. and Miss Ihmekmortors, Mr. (`. Throekmorton, Major-General awl Mn. lime Chiles, Henry Russell. Esq., Henry Hanby Seymour. Esq.. H. R. Grenfel. Esq., Chichester For ties.. k;wl., ALP., Lady Hall (I.lauvue), Mrs. A. Villiers. Wm li. Elliot, Mn. Weymouth, Miss Louisa Seymour. ere. The hand of the 2nd Life Guard. ( ler the superintendence cif Mr. Grattan Cook) was in Attendance during the isjeuner. ILOCESS Or THE EARL OF DERBY.—LIVERNAPI., MONDAY.—We have just learned that his lordship. who ad been for some time past in the ni, trupolis, and returned only a few days ago to Knowsley Park. was seized yister day morning by a severe and, it is to be feared, dangerous his life being for UMW time in imminent jeopardy, Lout an apoplectic tit. Every means were resorted to. sur gical aid was promptly obtained from Liverpool, and the gated accounts report that, although his lordship h,s been restored to consciousness, yet that his condition is mast pre carious. Under these cirrunistasees, Lord Stanley was tele graphed to London, and arrived by the 1 mail train this morning. proceeding to Knowsley. The Earl of Derby had !sou lately visiting the Oreat Exhibition whilst in town. in.l it is nut improbable may have overtasked his strength. the reply to inquiri, s to-day was that his lord ship was somewhat (setter, hating paseed a quiet night. l'Agt.t.tMENT.tilf REFORM.—Last evening a public ineetina was held in the St. Pancras vestry room, road. Camden-town, fur the purpose of adopting a petition praying fur a radical refonn iu the Common► }louse of Par liament. 61.017 C Bird, Esq., having been called to the chair, said that they had met together on the present "era al.n to Protest against the exclusion of at least live—laths of the men of England from political privileges. It was the duty of every one who valued his rights to exercise a proper control over the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but it did appear that John Bull, with his " glorious constitu tion," W. 1.6 difficult to move—it would require much to he done in reforming this con-titution. Lord John Russell would do no more in advaneing the Cattle of reform in his promit. d measure for the next se.sion than he had done by hi. famous letter, in putting down papal aggression. As nothing was then to be expected from the Prime Minister, it was the duty of the chartist body to appeal to the good lens^ of th,..ir fellow-men. Messrs. Rutty, Ernest Juue., a• W. M. Iteynold.s, and Thornton Hunt subsequently ad dressed the meeting, and a petition in accordance with its Objects was adopted. THE EXPORT TRADE OF THE PORT OF LONDON.— T•bterda , . according to a parliamentary paper, the de clared value of Bntish and Irish produce and manu factures exported from the port of London in 18.30 was 14,137,5271. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 27, 1851 FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAT EVEVINO. An extraordinary sitting of the chib of the Rue des Pyramidcs will be held this evening, in order to take into consideration whether it is necessary, ac cording to the terms of the I I Ith article of the constitution, that the motion fur the revision should specify the sort of revision, partial or total. proposed, and, in ease of n decision in the affirmative, which sort of revision should be proposed by the Rue des Pyramides. The Coin 11l ittee on Revision has adopted the pro positions of MM. Moulin and Morin, and appointed the former reporter. M. Moulin is in favour of fixing three months as the interval before the motion for revision, if rejected, can be brought forward again. M. Leo de Laborde has addressed a letter to M. Alfred Nettemeut, in which he describes the nature of the motion which lie had intended to submit fur the revision of the constitution, and which was re jected by the club of the Rue do ltivoli. The prin ciple set forth in his proposition is to return to the monarchy by universal suffrage. The Ikfrats, in a long article upon the question of the day, says that it advocates revision as iv disavowal and retractution of the revolution of February. It does not regard the dynastic side of the question, but the political side. 11%4 it wants is a good republi can government, a couple of chambers, and a strong executive. The Conseitiff iwsnel has broken silence at length on the decided declaration of the cabinet in favour of the law of May; but so far from abating his op position on that account, 1)r. Vi!ron attacks the law with greater vigour than ever: The law of May, according to him, has been and can only he a deceitful illusion, a mocking mirage ; and perver.e minds only could be sorry of its repeal. It is a n in fernal machine for lighting up civil war all over France. Yet the ministers adopt this law for their banner. But why did not DI. Faucher proclaim his flag at once, when he entered upon office, instead of seizing the occa sion of a casual incident of debate to announce the vital principle of his pulley. But the day would come wheu the ministry would rue this bravado. Before loog thin entrpde-t. to would prove a source of embarrassment ; and enveloped in the folds of its improvised flag, it would lose its freedom of action in the great debates at hand. The country would witness with calm contempt the furious storms that would shake the Assembly, and these violent passion• would cool down before the disdainful and re.,olute attitude of France. Then would have been a happy moment for the ministers to step in between contending parties with a great conciliatory measure, the repeal of the law of May, which, far from weakening the executive power, would attest its confidence an the Republic, which it was called on to defend, and in universal suffrage its only pacific force against all parties. Universal suffrage is a benefit, because it baffles the intrigues of parties. whose manfeuvres are thereby laid bare. It enabled France to choose Louis Buonaparte, while the republicans of the reille were push ing the interest of Cavaignac. A return to universal suffrage will disarm rebellion, because it will call off all the chiefs of the democratic party, who undetermined upon an appeal to arms, unless the law of Nay be ab roga t e d. Against rebel , lion the old governments had no resouree but grapeshot to-day the pacific and powerful pressure of public opinion, which finds its full expression in universal suffrage, is the stronge.t arm of power. Louis Napoleon, perhaps, has not the address of Louis Philippe in dealing with individuals; but he has an infinitely greater grasp upon the masses, who are always moved by his calm and simple words. Univer sal suffrage harmonises with his character. The lustre of his name suits it well. The law of May is thus a double loss. Mutilated suffrage l oses it s electric power, and the President loses his authority and prestige by not thoroughly carrying out his honest policy. A procession of twenty members, at the opening of the Assembly's sitting, deposed petitions for the revision of the constitution and the abolition of the law of May. The Assembly then proceeded to pass, I without any debate of consequence, from the ith to the 13th articles of the law on the national guard. The 14th article enumerates the cases of exclusion or exemption. M. Ilaudin moved an amendment, sweeping away all the principal restrictions intro duced by this article, and obliging all national guards without distinction to undertake the ordinary) duty. This amendment was rejected by 923 votes I ' against 193. Then M. Hennequin, in concert with M. Pascal Duprat and M. Napoleon Bonaparte, moved an amendment declaring that those citizens, for whom the ordinary service would be onerous I should only be dispensed from serving at their own request. The bill leaves their exclusion to the con- Reif de recensement. M. Hennequin ' in developing his amendment, sou g ht t o b r i ng th e discussion back Ito the ground of Saturday, by repeating the allusion to the words of Robespierre, which had drawn ap plause from the Mountain. Those words contained, according to him, nothing reprehensible, and it should he remembered that the Robespierre of the Constituent was a very different person from the Robespierre of the Convention. After M. de Itianeey had opposed the amendment, Jules Film rose to speak in its support. The organ of M. Guizot is shocked at the Presi dent having nude an application to the Roman government in favour of Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, in order that he may b e p erm itt e d to visit Rome for a fortnight for the settlement of his family affairs, and the removal of his wife. The President is scolded for not treating his cousin with the same rigour which met with the applaus me of the parlia ent when he closed t o th e Prince of Canino the doors of France. To-day General Foret reviewed, in the court of the Tuileries, the battalion of the 7th Chasseurs vbich is destined to juin the army of occupation at Rome. It will arrive at its destination about the Inch of June. The funds were rather weaker to-day. The Fives fell 30 centimes, and closed at 90-20. The Threes eluded at with a fall of lac. SPAIN. The Expowt, organ of Queen Christina, eontains a violent attack upon Lord Palmerston, taking for its text a letter of congratulation alleged to have been addressed be Sir U. 11. Seymour to the Duke de Saldanlut at Oporto. The fetter in question is said to have been sent by the British war steamer Italia lss, which returned to Lisbon with an aide-de-ramp of Saldanku. Sir U. It. Seymour is accused in this article of playing at. Lisbon the same game as Sir IL Bulwer at Madrid. MADRID, MAv 21. Fresh distnrbances have taken pluce to-day in the University. The students unpaved the court to pro vide themselves with missiles against the police. An officer with troops of the line having been sent to reduce them to order, assured the students that those who had been arrested yesterday shoeld be treated with all possible respect. Upon this the youths were pacified; still it was expected that fresh riots would break out no the morrow; and groups of students were seen gathering in a state of much excitement in the principal streets. ITALY. ROME. M ty 20. The degradation of France is now complete. The Atheist of the gran& tuition are commanded by papal sbirri ! What would the great Napoleon ex claim, could he fur one moment look upon the doings of his nephew's army, and behold pintoonm of French soldiers, not making the tour du mond., but the hut. prournade up and down the Corso, in broad day light, insulting, ill-treating, and arresting peaceable citizens. Ilbr the shapes of their hats or the colour of their clothes, and all at the imperious nod and heck of the papal police satellites! No one is safe from the ferocious attacks of these legalised ruffians, these mild instruments of the paternal ecclesiastical govern ment. Another English gentlemen, Mr. Brotherton. was recently overhauled in the Via del Tritone, and many other foreigners have been insulted in the streets in the grossest possible manner. The way in which General Gemeaus h.:Lilco-papal petrels are conducted is as follows—they usually consist of from twenty-five to fifty French aoldiers, heatied by two of the Pope's sbirri in plain clothes, who keep their eyes fixed on the passers• by, and order the column to halt as soon us any person excites their suspicions by the form of his walking stick, the cut of his hat, or the colour of his dress—white "wide awakes" especially, with black ribbons round them, and black clothes, ate sufficient motives for the wearers to be beaten or arrested. When any such unfortunate person approaelms, the sbirri give a wink of command to the soldiers of the (pawl, notion, who at once surround the offimder, and allow the 4irri to torment hint within the hallowed circle of French bayonets, in a manner equally creditable to both parties. The attentions of the abirri usually consist in gross personal epithets and blows, in breaking the walking-sticks or smashing the hats of their victims, besides taking them off to prison if all is not received in good part. All Rouse looks on with horror and dismay at such proceedings, sanc tioned and executed by the "generosity of France." as General Gemean terms it. Many unfortunates have complained that they were not aware that wide-awakes or mourning dresses were prohibited, there being no edict whatever on the subject, hut a thump on the head from a shirr. or a French corporal, is all the consolation they get in reply. An inoffensive young man, named Nlitinno Petti, has actually been imprisoned for wearing motuming for his father! -mourning being construed by the jealousy of the Papal authorities, and the zeal of the republican General Gemeau, into an allusion of grief at the extinction of the Roman )tepublic! A French gentleman, just arrived in this city, and staying at the Hotel d'Allentagne, was standing at the door of the English library, on the Piazza di, Spagna, two evenings ago, when he was much stir prised to see the curt *yr of gbirri and soldiers stop opposite to him. A black leather strap, which he wore round his white travelling hat, gave such offence to the surer that they removed it with their own hand, taking down at the same time his name and address, and bidding him mind what he was about. A party of French officers witnessed the whole trunsuetion, and when subsequently appealed to for some explanation of such treatment by their indignant countryman, could only reply with hope less and interminable shrugs. Foreseeing the great amount of annoyance to which British subjects would be submitted by being com prised in the recent measure of disarming and search ing the persons and the abodes of the inhabitants of this city, as decreed in Gen. Gemeau's proclamation, Mr. Freeborn, our consular agent, waited on the French ambassador, Count de ltayneval, on the 13th, and nquested him to obtain from the General per miasion for some of the English residents, such as hankers, who had valuable property on their pre mises, to retain their arms, for the use of which they had previously obtained license from General Rosto lan, as a guarantee fur their personal safety and that of their establishments. On the following day, how ever, M. de Rayneval, informed Mr. Freeborn that the measure was to be entirely without exception, that all previous permissions were to be considered as cancelled, and that General Gemeau was resolved to carry out his proclamation to the letter, notwithstanding which he held out hopes that British subjects should b e as little molested as possible by the domiciliary visits and the personal researches of the French patrols and their leaders, the abirri (with what result we have already seen). A gentleman belonging to au Eng lish banking firm in the Corso resolved to see what could be effected by a personal interview with the redoubtable Commander-in-Chief, and set out for his palace with that intention, but, finding him absent, he went to the Commandant de la Place instead, with whom he had an interesting colloquy upon the subject of international rights. The banker exhi bited the written permissions, not only for retaining arms in his possession, many of whic'h belonged to his clients, but also for carrying them on his person, granted him by General Rostolan on the oth of July, 1849, immediately after the entry of the French army, when the city was still full of armed men her tile to the priests and the French, and when, conse quently, things were in a much more critical state than now, the National Guard having since that period been disarmed and diasolved,l I (although the candid Oudinot, that Pecksniff amongst ' soldiers, assured the Romans that it was to be 'mine . diately reorganised) the people repeatedly disarmed, thousands of dangerous spirits banished, and thou sands more plunged into the languishing dungeons of the ecclesiastical government. Having been deemed trustworthy in such a critical period, and having given no cause for such confidence in Itun to be regretted, he hoped that his permission might be renewed, in spite of the General's recent proelama th" ferent light. He stated that the present moment was Co in lo a ne , Lo ry f the LiTighket Commandant lnfamry) viewed w d ed oki th r e lat.e case ( proclama tion. one which demanded the utmost rigour on the part of the authorities civil and military, and that the General was so firmly resolved to get the very last gun out of the possession of the Romans, that even the Roman princes would be constrained togive up their , fowling-pieces, although, instead of giving them up in the usual way, they would be allowed to hand them over to the especial keeping of the French police commissary, Jf. Mangin. Our countryman replied that the arms were times alley for the protection of his own premises iu the actual frequehey of burglaries. " We'll protect you from robbers," saitEthe Frenchman. " I trust so," rejoined the banker 7; " but a watchmaker immedi ately under me was robbed of everything he had in the world, a few weeks ago, in spite of the vigilance of your patrols." With respect to English subjects being allowed to deposit their arras in the house of the English consul, the commandant scouted the idea, declaring that in that case the house of every foreign consul would become a perfect arsenal, and wound up by stating with great enew, " The British con sul, like every one else, will be subject to the domi ciliary visits of our soldiers, and with ate (expletive), to the decree of a court-martial also, tf need be." Such a style of argument, strength ened by ouch genteel expletives, admitted of no reply front a peaceable citizen to a man in office, and therefore the banker was obliged to give up his arms, and those of his clients, to M. Mungiu, having obtained subsequently, from the courtesy of the Chef feat 31,fjor, the privilege of being placed uu the same ftsding n: the Roman princes. Mr. Freeborn himself, having gradually accumulated a large depot of arms belongiag to British subjects in Ins h ouse , !and not wishing to make it, as the commandant ex pressed himself, a perfect arsenal, packed them up in a couple of cases and sent them down to the Director ' General of the papal Monsignor Ituilni, who acknowledged the receipt of theta by an official letter, and will therefore he bound to restore them when applied for by the consul. see that Cardinal Wiseman's portrait in full pon tificals has crested quite a sensation at the Royal Academy. What will people say when they get Mr. Philips's large picture of the Pope, Monsignor Talbot, the patriarch of Jerusalem, amid the Sacristan„ which is to be packed off to-morrow for London, having been must ably completed by the artist after four sittings grunted ity his lfoliness at the Vatican? The first of the interviews was under rather painful circumstances; the Pope being much agitated by an accident which had just happened iu his private apartments, where a scaffolding had given way, pre eipitating three painters, engaged in restoring the vault, front a vast height to the ground. DENNIARK AND THE DUCHIES. - A letter front Berlin nays: — it.' oppression of the inhabitants of Sthl , swig by the Danish soldiery is very loudly complained .1. The Angles, lately ordered to doff their hats lowering th e m to the level of the thigh, resolv e d t o gn IsLeheasted. Immediately an order was published. that every cis Wan ou meeting a mili tary psrsou must halt and make front till the latter 11.1..e11. A mars lately returned from the Holstein army had mail, his ohl military cap, which h.• wore at his labour ; a hint Wild given him that such a vestige of the insurrectiou would give umbrage, and he at once laid it aside; but the matter had been r. ported, and the nest th.y he was haul,' up and re c‘siv,sl 1.4 blows with the stick, producing s,vere woands and contusions! At Bremen an edict has beam published prohibiting all political unions, end empowsring the e..urts to suppress offensive journtas and forbid the p u hli s h s rs an d printers of the same the further exercise of their trash,. NATIONAL REFORM ASSOCIATION. Yesterday evening, the fourth monthly ani,r, of this association took place at the London avern, to hear a lecture by Mr. C. J. Bunting, uu operatiie. of Norwi c h, on " Prevalent Objections t o the Lafranihisement of the Working Classes." Alter tea and coffee had bet u writs!, the chair was taken by Sir J °sit ca WALM 11.1 A the pre sideut of the association. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the prat'. Ahura slid he had received a letter from Mr. W. J. Pox, M.l'., UllO was unavoidably absent through a :severe demaatic affliction. Mr. liunting would be pkaawal to find him self supported on that occasion by souse who might well be called the pioneers of popular rights. (II ear.) Ile congratulated the audience on their presence; he feat no doubt they would go away instructed and improved. and would carry that instruction and improvement to ,then who had not the privilege of brill • plWent. Ile looked to those present, and to all refonnete r to become more energe tic, mote determined. and to unit.• more closely and mere . compactly in aid of th e great ob jects of th is ii-suemtion than they had hitherto done. (Hear, hear.) The time had enne• wheat they must exert themselves. The sniuieter had stated, iu his plum in parliament, that he we, ready to give au excision ne tlw franchise ; and the amount of that extension depended upon the people of this country. In the presamee of those ilscro aseembled, he would not obtrude any opinions of his own, further than what he believed absolutely eeseutial to the benefit and advancement of the eau, in which the y were associated. Ile would give place to others, mid le mild at once call upon Mr. Banding to wider:se them. (Cheers.) Mr. BUNTING was received with loud demonstrations of applause. After bespeaking the inalulg lace of the audience, on account of the difficulties with which his elms had to grapple, hr .aid that he had advocated the templet° entrant:hie...anent of the people, but felt it no inconsistency to support the objects of this association. lie had entire confidence in the mea by whom this tuovemmat was eon ducted, and the attenatit to extend the franchise to three mil lions of men was an important step in the right direction. The first objection to the enfranchisement of the working ela-ses was its incompatibility with a proper delir race to the rights of property. This objection assumed that the working classes were on unpropertied class. The fact was they were made so by taxatiam; ;and the present constitution of the House of Commons was a direct violation of the rights of property. (hear.) The objection assumed that the present representation was one of property; but hew wan the fact? Monitor, riled At 10,000 f, returned as in any members as Liverpool, rated at laa akin Were the property repreeentation to be carried out, Liverpool ought to have 160 members if Bonham had two. There were in the House of Commune 33d menabers representing boroughs rated at 0,210,010/., while other places rated at 70,400,0001. were represented by only 32t1 members; consequently thirteen-fourteenths of the rated property wax entirely at the mercy of the remaining one fourteenth. (Cheers.) The second objection, one re garded by the opponent, as their stronghold, was this : that the moues of the people were not sufficiently intelligent to be entrusted with the frauelliae. 'this he denied, and appealed fOr proof to the triumphs of art and industry in this empire. It was said the affairs of govern ment were of so complicated a character that the working classes could not pessibly cuter into them. At the risk of incurring the imputatiuu of vanity, he must deny the asser tion. All the great and beneficial changes made of late years iu legislation—catholic emancipation, parliamentary mud municipal reform, and free mule—had ' , prang from the popular demand, and were irrefraguble proofs of the ability of the working classes readily to cumin...he:nal politioal questions. Enfranchisement would do fume to remove the difference in intelligence between a town and a rural population than any education that could be de, rased. In the late excitement against papal aggressien, the good sense of the people had been couillently appealed to by even Lord John Russell; and even those who thought the working classes unlit for the franchise had penetrated all the narrow lanes and obscure alley, iu the city to obtain their signatures to petitions against the aggreseiens of the Pope. (Cheer.) But thn.working clients were not answerable for their own want of intelligence, if suck existed. The taxes on knowledge which operated !0./much to their disadvantage were not of their imposing. A further objection woe, that a large proportiou of the working claws were too in different to the obligations of morality to be entrusted with the franchise. In the absence of soy praxese test, he would assert that immorality was confined to no class, and was certainly not greater in the lower than iu the higherclasacs. Low lodging-houees, penny theatres, and the cheap licen tious literature, were referred to in support of this objec tion ; but it should be remembered that licentious publica tions were not the production of the working classes, and that the sale of these works received an impetus from the tax on newspapers. (Hear, hear.) Thu revelations of bribery committees proved that it was not the working these., only who were open to bribery ; nor hail they nay club. tor encouraging that kind of political alemoralimtion. (Cheers.) The ballot would remedy this corruption; end let thaw who objected to it as un-English, beware how they gave occasion for its use. The next objection, and one very strongly urged, was, that the working classes manifested great indifference to the obligatory character of the Christian religion. If there was any truth in this allegation, the reason must be Nought in the fact that the paid teachers of Christianity had trampled upon those principles of universal brother oa! which were inculcated by their great Master. (Cheers.) But he denied the truth of the assertion, and, • among other things, referred to the existence of Sunday schools, which were generally supported by the working classes. Another objection was the absurd political theories welding amongp, the working classes. pf this were true, those who excluded the people from the franchise took the most certain method to per petuate those absurd theories, for curb was the invariable effect of persecution. He denied that extravagant political notions prevailed to any extent among the working classes. , Another objection was, that the working classes had shown a disposition to resort to physical force in aid of their claims. But a cause ought nut to be condemned for the errors of some of its supporters, or the most righteous and just causes ever advocated must have been deprived of their triumph. (Hear, hear.) In this enlightened coun try there was no fear of any appeal to violence ; the mind of the nation was abundantly sufficient to re the triumph of just principles. (Cheers.) Besides the character of the people was wholly opposed to physical demonstra tions; and it might safely be asserted that the working classes generally were unacquainted with the preliminaries to the discharge of a musket. (Cheers, and laughter.) Thu attempt, in the majority , of cues, would be more dangerous to themselves than those against whom it was directed. (Hear, hear.) Again, it was objected that they ought not toolveressmuelth ffromtalel an impulse to the democratic principle as w chiement of the working classes, and that a mere representation of numbers would