The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-27 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 27, 1849. ipie dinner all the propeolip beogist &kali be divided w oo& neat, and that - she mashirs of the ameedades a wl ban its reftseal at sin prin. (Hear, haw.) p ia .mbeciggr it met 201., or 301., it 401, or 601., • a o wes to wltieb I de sot oseiertake to pledge myself, kens@ it is a s par hite many person get I mann ceatrol. se It hes hap w ool at Blemine that muck land &gem them a radiation fee ete little sel 201., bet I say o we easy be a Inky snidest. I will sot denies the publU Rw • peeN to an pledge es f pisseginw them lead es eqsal Wet (mows bow-) hlieu=ltavissajeksand she s emeed ',that theme may be se l o o m Tor mem to the anskisenies efthoeheneter then who weeks hails meneging things of tbiekinL lam very happy Wes wet eheireem bare • thheornien. (Loud cheers.) tee is en of the Mae s, awl I seed set tell you that he esep wee is Lieshard-tenet. (Hear, best.) The jag Weston MO responsible men ; not merely responsible g a fe nd penshey sernimatuters but men say ewe el dun I should be lumpy. wee I marine my will to-morrow. g g teem as treinges tee my 'laden nes every farthing I bei in the world. (Heat, bear.) That the ooly ton sae gm have in public matters. If you have not s o whose private charestete will boar mach a pet es that. r had bitter have nothing at all gone with them. ( Conn.) Hendee the trainees, you lave ebe burl ef direction. I have attended every inteting of r ho hosed of dinners when is town, and there is not one of the leadsmen I met at that board whom I should not be woe m moot in private life and to cell them my friends. I therefore, leaving myself out of the question, thot the sears of she asesentin are in truly responsible and wised hands. And here I beg not to be niesundirotood. We de not come here to puff ourselves off at the expense of other assonatious. There also Mime norieties formed, or forming, and no doubt their directors are ao honourable se shun et oar men:dation We are not se fez gone in England that we gannet tad honour and heavily enough for anything we want. You will get the strictest integrity for twenty llier a week so much as you wish to hire. (Loud cheers.) It bas been objected, and I confess there was some &Scully in my mind es the subject, that in worming an association of this bend you may got be able t• find ireehold property in convenient situations or of convenient size to carry out the movement. There may be that difficulty, but there are difficulties in everything undertaken in this world, and there slits) s will be. (Hear, ten.) Those who make it their Winne to turn a green eye ea our proceedings will no doebt and plenty of Amities ; bat from every inquiry I have made shin my connittion with the hoar i of directors, I believe that there will be no incu r rmontable difficulty in working otiose plea. (Hear, h )t un perfectly true that ia meeting to hay property you may not g et it at y our own dean. U you live is assent in this metr4polis you may not be able to bay belling land in the immediate neigkoorhood of year owe residence, but. you mum he conti et to go further from home, jest as you would in oilier investments. One man buys Spaniels Weds and eoother Rueiman end Austrian bonds. (Groans.) Gihers, again, buy rulers, shares, which are ranting all over the country, and some of them running away. (Laughter.) But give me a freehold immunize in the earth, which never doss run away, and it does not natter whether it is in my own parishes not, so that hem good title deeds acacias get my sent by the penny poet. I need not care then whether I over see it or not. (Hear.) With that proviso, that you cannot always get lend at year Ova Coon, I do not see any difficulty in qualifyiog • penes Is the county in which he results niilt a freehold trenching. Many people think Coat the only obj.et for which they should buy land is to build • house upea it, bat there are other ways of disposing of it. Gardens, for instance, than which nothing is more sure of a rent, and if you buy land in the neighbourhood of any town, that land is always leaves lag ID 'elite, for, whatever the corn-laws may have done to the agriculturist, you may depend upon it, that se hood grows cheep population will be isereasing in towns, tad town the land will be increasing in value. (Hear.) Whatever fo reigner may send as the shape of wheat, he cannot send gardeu round. (Laughter.) Naw, for the purpose of illestretioo, I will take the case of Sung. Many of you, I have CO doubt, come Irma the other side of the bridge. I will suppose, then, that our friend Mr. Russell, the iudeta rsolicitor of this asmciation, whom I have had the sawn of knowing and of co-operating with foe many years, heard that there is a bit of land to be gold in the nigh boeshood of Guildford. I will suppose that there is a farm of 100 acres of land to be sold within a mile o rr two of that Sown, and that Mr. Russell goes, with one f he din nom to I.ok at it. They get a valuer to test:dee it, and having learnt the price at which this farm can be bough:, they buy it; sail then, instead of letting the 100 acne to one farmer, they determine to cut it up into plots of one or two aeres. Now, if you wanted a test, and were to have the lowa bell tang, and the shopktcpses and mechanics of the town were told that this land was to be disposed of. I will . venture to say that there is not one of the plots which would not let for 40s. &leer. I knew the avidity with which the peasantry is out towns and villages take half an secs or an acre ut lead. It is an article which is in ereateT demand than almost any other. I could find :sod in WiltsLim whico is, I am sorry to say, let to the peanuts"or eight pounds altar. (Hear, bias.) lam supposing that a person wish id to buy as much land as would give him a county vote, but, living in a borough, did not require land fur his owie pur poses. Such a person might let his acre of land for 40s. iu the form of garden allotments, without any ditfi silty. And here I wish very much to guar a myseif ageiliet wh et has b. en a very popular but, in my opinion, a very pernicious delusion in the country. I would not have it %aortic' that i ova a par y to the plan of transferring people from their em,l eremite so that they may live on an acre of hied. (Hear, hear, and .been.) If anybody ever leaves a w.ekehop, • foundry, or a factory, and tries to live on even tee or three acres of inn t, Irby all I can my is that he will be very glad to get beck to his former occupation. (Laughter, and beer, heir ) No, no, we have no such scheme as that. (Hear, hear.) It a man has foll^ wed a particular pursuit, whatever it may be, up to the age of twenty or five.endowsisty, awl if he is still reining wastes or profit from that paned, that man hs t honer, as a general rule, stick to his purist. than WO to any other. (Hear, hear.) Is 99 casts out of 100 he will seemed better in that pursuit than in any other to which be can turn his hand. (Hear, hear.) But what we say is thee, that it is a very good thing for a man whole reeeiving weekly wages to have a plot of Isnd in adoitien. (Cheers.) Nothing can he more advantageous to the people ot this country than to have, betides their weekly wag's, a plot of ground en which they can employ themvelvee with the spade when they hove not at the employment that could be desired io their trade. With the proviso which I have mentioned— uarding myself against being supposed to be a perty delusionto which I have alluded—l say that it you have a freehold qualification in the neighbourhood of an agricul tural tows, at a distance from you, though in the same county, even in that ease the security will hug ad, the rent will be received, and the value of your plot of land will always be increasing instead of diminishing. If your ooject be to get a vote, and to bees along with that Vote a freehold pro piety, even et the worst, if you cannot get a hit ot garden ground In the metropolis, you can al •ays get ono in the county. The freehold being in the onny, you can claim to vote in any part of the county. If the prof erty be elute. d at one end, you era poll at the other. I have locked at this matter with some care, and, I will confess, with some susiicion, and I must say that I see no difficulty in the way of everybody qualifyiag, and obtainieg good security for his mousy. ) (Clre's.) Well, sow, I have txplaired practically what is the object of this seeociation, suppose now I go • little more l . widely into this question. Leaving our immediate prae tical object to others who wiil follow me, and wise Will StillWa any question that may be put to them, let to leek at this question generally. (Cheers.) Now, he we are s tandiog in the ancieut ways. (Chien.) Nobody can say that we are red I republicans err rnelatiemies. Here we are, in the ancient ways of this sewatry, trying to bring back the people to the enjoyment of some el their ancient privileges. Why, we have deg into the depths of four centuries at least to find the origin of this 40f. freehold qualification. But now, as IA the Pleollesbait y of our plan as a menu of effecting glen changes in the depository of political power in this cottony.hear.) That is the question. Cu you, by this means, effect a great clangs in the depository el political power ? Bemuse I avow to you that I c a n, constitutional and legal mear.s, ts piece, as far as I political power in this country in the hands of the middle and industrious classes. (Great and prolonged cheering-) When I speak of the middle and industrious classes, I regard them, as I ever did, as inseparable in interest. (Hunk cheering.) You cannot separate them. I defy any man to draw the line when the one ends and the other begins. (Hear.) We are governed in this country—l have sold this again and agile, and I repeat it here to night—we are governed, in tranquil and ordinary times, not by the will of the Indite and industrious deems, but by dames and it tenets which are insignificant in numbers melba importemeo in comparison with the great mass of the people. (Chosee.) Every session of parliament, every six months that I err' in the House of Commons, convinces memo?, and tore that we waste our time there—l mean the seventy or eighty inn with whom I have been accustomed to vote in the Howes eff Commons, and to wl om your chairman has alluded ia terms of so much kindness. I may we waste our time in the Hone of Commons if we do not in the reeves come to the people and tell them candidly that it depends upon them, and up= them alone, whether any essential agaelinration shall be effected. (Cheers.) I ;midst that in ordinary times we are governed by classes and interests which are ineignificent in real importance, as regards the welfare of the country. But they are emus and interests which, If we did not now and then check them, if we did not now and then, by the upheaving of the male of the people, turn them from their folly and their selfishness, they would long ego have landed this country in as great • state of cochineal as has hem witnessed in any country on the continent. (Hear, he, aid dune.) Take the class of men who ere ordina rily returned by the agriculture' counties of this country. It is one of those classes which are so petty in eonsperirat with the mighty interests to which I belong. What emild they do, dyes let them alone? Nay, what are they nobs( to on at this moment ? Why, at the very time when even the Austrian government is proposing to abandon the prin ciple of high restrictive tariffs when the govern ment of Russia has in band a reduction of duties; when America is participating in the spirit of ' the times ; when Spain, which some wicked wag has called the beginning of Africa—(laughter)—hat imitated the example set by Sir Robert Peel three years ago, these country members and members for aviculture' die tricta are thinking of nothing but how they may restore pro- tection. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) Surely such people must be the descendants of those inquisitors who put Galileo into prison. Galileo was imprisoned because he said the physical world turned upon its nis—whereas these men theist that the moral world shall not turn ; and, BUR to themselves, they would soon reduce England to the state in which Austria is now. (Cheers.) But is it a wholesome state of Mier that nothing can be done in this country in apt by means of great coogregatious of the people, forcing the representatives of tt e people to do nonething like justice, and to observe something lake common sense in their legislation? (Huh hese-) Nogg of importense is ever Ow is this smuttly tetedl -a osvan.years seand.np Sea between the pupas on du MIK sad those who Gall theweedves the people's repro nmeMius on the Mbar. Now I my that that la an absurd Male di *ir e mod that by conesitational end have mesas be Mort try to am and I Milieu that we have now beim os a medium whisk seek an 'bastion ma be eilMoi. (Chum) I os bore waiting at a sate's* to obi& I have gives mute Mention fir the sin years. It is mare than sin years duo it was ottempted M memo the ropes& et the earn laws ht=ed Mo fila besaideo; INN than sin Teen slum that of the tootles of the Asti-Coes Id yl : Leagarn a" adistba l Aida any to claim to myself the Masa: of Ent it. I rather think that Mr. Charles W Rochdale, reemansesded it before I massam4 it publicly. But from the 'mem that the plea &Mod woo pug both at a rut misting Is liaashrstar, I never dashing oldie ultimate repeal of the mu laws • although wadi *ma I could whieh we eould legally sad constitutionally sewn Ode abolition. (Hear.) I will give you the mull of oar labours M that time is two or three coaatin. You know that the West Riding of Yorkshire is considered the great lade: of path. foiling in this country. Is that great divides, ma bluing 37,000 voters Lord lamps* was, as yea INN OWN% I defeated on the que stion of free trade, sad two pralosttrobb were returned. I west into the West Riding with this les. I freehold plan. I stated in every borough and in every die tries that we net have 5,000 qualifications made is two I yeas,. They were made. (Hem, hear.) The silly = ora whe opposed us raised the ay that the -law League bad bought the qualifloMMas. limit • cry was ridicules". The truth was, tha , men bought Iba auldention with a view of helping the lessee to dada dm repeal of the mini laws—(hmar, hear) • aad you anew's* that In consequesee of this movement, L;tl Morpoth walked over the course at the next elemion. We took the seam I enuresis Smith Lneashire, • sad with a similar result. Oct men walked over the coarse at the nest election, although at the previous one we bad not &chance. My friend he map bet for Rest Surrey joined us in earryiog out our plea in his division ; and its adoption was there, also, attended with sateen. lam not sere that it would not have boat better in some respects if the con laws had not been repealed so sous—though, of clime, I should like to have had them suspended fur %brie or four years—(lsughter) ; for in that case we should have carried hall the counties et Ragland. (Hear, hear.) Now whoa I ease back from the continent, after toe repeal of the eora lane, I told my hived.—(l have i never disguised my feeliegsfrom that day to this)—as the re milt of constant reflection for six years, "If you want to make another move con stitutior ally and legally, you mast do it through the 401. freehold : by no other process will you succeed." (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Let us talk this matter over as men of common sense. Ask yourselves how do you intend to obtain rotornas ? Do you intend to try violence and fighting ? (Expressions of dis sent .) No, no ; you am the result of that everywhere that it has been vied. (Hear, hear.) Violence does no good to those who resort to it. I do sot mean to blame those in other countries who have not the means of meeting in assemblies like this because they do not pursue the same course as we do (Hear, hear) I do not blame them because, being without experience, and not being permitted to gain experi ence, they do not succeed when they make a bold and sudden trial of constitutional foram No ; I leave those to blame them who will b!mne us mealy for adoptieg mord tutional forms. (" Hear, hear,' and sheen.) These par ties who are intolerant with regard to the tailing ot Hun ;arises and Italians, and Ger.-mar I have had down upon m- in this country. (Hear, hem.) 'Every species of abase, every species of mit reprountation, every species of suppres Won was resorted to by theta tenth we breams strung ; and when we were both strong and fashionable we str. re be slavered with tt sir praise; and I confess I liked it less than tneir abuse. (Cheers and laughter.) No; we du not come here to censure other parties. (Hear) E.ighind is under no n. entity fr resorting to Moroi or violence. r neeston did all that o for us. and they were obliged to d o a it. (Hear.) During nearly the whole of the seventeenth century, Rag land presented a some of commotion almost as "mat as that which has been witnessed in Hungary, Germany, or Italy; and to the great sacrifices then made we owe mast every thiag that we peewee at present. (Cheers.) But L o go back would he to to the warfare of the seventeenth eetatury, descend from our bigh position after all that our aneeetors hays obtained for us. (Cheers.) Well, but se everybody admits that we must not go into e streets to fight, let use ask my friends what other step y intend to take ? Peti tion parliament! (Laughter.) Petition parliament to reform itself! (Renewed laughter.) Why, no; Si. clubs would not like that; it would not suit their cards. Laughter.) Nobody thinks of get'irg a reform of par liament by petitioning. Well, then, how are you to get it ? (Hear ' hear.) I find that every person is bought to the some dead lock ss regards substantial reform or real rib treachmest that I was when in 1843 I sat down to think of the freehold movement. (Hear, hear.) Y. , u mud sins at. the accomplishment of your object through the plan which the constitution has left open to you. Men of com mon sense, when they have a certain thing to do, look round for instruments for effmtine their purpose. In other countries men who resort top hysical force always a•lopt that p 1 in. If the people of Switzerland have to fight for diem liberties they retire to the mountains, and dare defend them ; ir. Hungary the army of the people, retreating from barren heaths, puts two rivers between itself and the enemy; while the people of lislland let in the water to drown their enemies. Than are the moans adopted by parties who have to use physical force. What are we to do who have to fight with moral fora ? ((Amore.) Why, here is a door open which is soof expansive that it will admit everybody who has the means qualify ing himself through a small 40e. freehold. These are our tacties—them ale our mountains —these are our sandy plafils —•hese 100 our dykes. (Chem.) We must fight the enemy by metes of the 40e. freehol t. (Much cheering.) Now, what chance have es of succeeding ? (Hoar, hear.) Ihe av paid a great deal of attention to this subject, end fr I shall which you will be 'annulled to find out how litde you h re ar e to do. Intl e first elute. how many registered electors ha w laths kir gdom altogether ? We have as near as possible, at this too menu, a million of registered electors for the whole kingdom. According to a value le return made on the motion of Mr. Williams, the late member for Coventry, the total number of county votes on the register in 1847 was 512,300. Now, how many of those votes do you suppose an the votes of occupying unman ? 108,790. (Hear, hear.) All that ' boasted array of force about which we have frightened our- Iselves so much amounts only to 108,720 tenants-at-will in , the 52 counties of Ragland and Wales. (Hear, hear.) Why ) , ' half the mosey spent in gin — ( a spontaneous burst of cheerswould —in one y e ar wou.d buy as many county freeholds as counterpoise these 108 000 tenant farmers. (' Hear, hear i " and cheers.) What resources have we to aid us n the process of quailing fcr these counties ? I shall surprise you again when I Micros you bow very few people there are who are q 4141 ed for the *unfits. (Hear.) I will take three for illustration —three or four of the coun ties at random. There is Hampshire : then are in Hamp shire, according to the lest census, 93,9J8 malts above 20 years old. The registered eleeten in the state county , amount to 9,2 l 3 ;so that ouly one-ninth ot the adolt males are upon the register —Omar, hear )—and 84,68-5 are not urea it. In Sussex there are of males above 20 years old 76,677 ; of registered electors, °sly 9,211, or ore-eighth of the entire number of adult melee. (Hear, hear.) 67,466 adult males are not voters. Take the purely e gricultural county es Berkshire : Berkshire has 43,126 males above 20 years old ; 5,24,1 or on.-eighth, was the eumberof registered electors. 37,8115 en not yam for the county. Indiddleeez the numb's, rated are es follows make ave twenty years old, 434.181; registered electors, 13,781, o r e one-seventseuth; 420,400 use WM. voters. (Hear, hear.) In Surrey the males amulet so 104,633; of these, 9,800, or one-sixteenth, is the promo- Nom or registered Weenies; and thus 144,833 are not voters. (Hem, hear.) Why if only one in ten of the men who are net qualified to vote in London and Southwark would purchase votes in the neighbouriag empties, it would almost suffires M early every good meanie that you and I entire. (Het. In mud numbers there are 16 millions of people in Engl and Wales ; there are 4 millinns of adult males above 20 years of age. There are 612,000 county electors in the 62 aunties of Beg'and and Wales, so that in round numbers at this moment there is but ose in eight of the adult males of ItarOand and Wales who is upon the county nester, and oven-eighths of them have no votes. That is our ground of bops for the future. It is to induce as many as we possibly ma of these uneninachised people to loin this association or some other aesociation, co by man me ins endeavour to pos sess themselves of a vote. Now, I do not dimuise it from you, there is a class in this country that has sot the means of finding money to purchase a vote. The great bulk of the agricultural peasantry earplug th., 10s. a week, it is impossible you can ninon say body of that clue can possess a vote ; but when I speak a the mechanics and artisans of oar great towns, 1 will my there is not one of them that, if he resolutely Ws to the work, may not possess the county franchise in a few years, aid having the county franchise he wail be in a position to help his poorer and humbler neighbour. Now, gun lemon, ' I gar perfectly well aware that this is work tha ti cannot be ' duo is a day, and U it could be dons in a day it would not be worth doing. I have no faith in anything that is done eery speedily. My opinion is, that no very great change in the policy of this country or the representation or this country will bdose in less than seven years. Most groat struggles have lasted seven years. The great war of independence in America took seven years. The great war in which our ancestors werelengaged against prerogative took 10 years. The Anti-Corn law contest lasted seven yeses. I think we might assert of than great public questions, that the no is that when you have e ff ected your eject you do not know how it, and haven the wmviotion that it is valuable and worth prourving. That is the great advantage of having So struggle some time for a great object ; and I tell you ma &idly., when I enter ou this 40r. movement. it is with tits idea it si ll be a long and great struggle. lem prepared, if health and strength are given to me, to give some time of every working day for the next seven years to the working of this question. (Cheers.) I do not propels this as an den • I do not propose this as an obstacle to any other 1 4411 whicit anybody may have in view. If anybody thinks, they mere carry rebrm In parliament by any other plan than this, I hope they will show us how they I would do it ; Ido not see any other way. Let no ono who has any other popular object or great reform to carry in this country—if they do not cooperate with to, let teem sot look disparsgingly at oar efforts, for I tell them that i= portion as din 40e. freehold qualification movement ,:just in that proportion will they find that the votes aka progress jut of Commons on all liberel questions will I make progress too. And when I say that it may be MOW sary to work for 7 years to accomplish this object—OM is e l to effect a great change in the depo s itary of public power MI this country (for this is the object, and I avow it), altheogh it may be nestssary that for these seven years there should be continuous work in this matter, it does not follow you will not rap the fruits log before the seven years are expired. They are wile people in their gonmatiorn, them whom we went la leinmea. They pm sup the cora laws, for the/ saw tie wed= sun trek& when we carded South Lmeaseemo Ile Wed Wig, Best Emmy, mad Ili& dime& I said, if we can eery this. smatim, they will give up *ma laws. I. ;mortice as yea stir pear selves kw di pad seemeesM, in ',speedos es Foulness powerfel, penvell Mesons 11111 W livery elms diesel that eels idea! bendy te ; m ee t fi g l i reas of the Ma' quaillealim v erses as may es el that dams US the regiake i r find itself milifraity ea= bi a ll . s• tim it has given deaf. - Take eking amid so elevate them I. the eyes ef Melt esentrymen is to kaow they had the VOWS of the taurloya at the knights of the shire were indebted M Mem ire their skiatien. Take the clam oldimentars. Mir = snts elisbeares h Ignored by the m members eaty membe ; the sod measure el justice they ma ask Is the removal erf March rates. (Cheen ) I do not believe there are tes meaty members who would vote for that moderate instal• matt of jestios—(from the meeting, "Not five")—perhaps sot Gm ; bet I bays heard the mom isselting Imps'se from scanty members towards &seaters oa that very question. Why Is it ? Because this aumeroes and really tells •atial body of ISM ham ant bad seltrespeet to Wthemselves by the pomades of enough the fan ged to protect their religions liberties by a idis eardel forrethenght sad prudent soonemy ia the mninies Mike dearest privileges el tree sea. All through the eresy you will dad great bodies al religions dissenters who sem Mi./a mak rum en, and, wield' always is the a momm who manage to keep theen seal=ithese easseess ebb& produce poverty sad degra dation, and these are the very men who apply to messes the franchise. We all them to place theorises es die toasty Est—not to give them the complete demist's and power in I des country. I say to no clam come an d ain exclusive power or inflames in the country; lam against elm legit Won, whether from bele, or above • but I say if you wafit to ' have your intertsueonsulted, your agitiman rightsreepseted, if you want no longer to have yew existence ignored in these counties then come forward and join such a movement es this, and ty every possitle seam promote the canon= of the qualification movement. Let nobody misunderstand me in conclusion. I do not come here to ask this or that astute change without having practical objects in view which I believe to be essential for the laments of this cottony. I believe such is the state of our national finances, that I look upon it as a perilous state; I look upon it as a disgraceful state. I say that these sztrevagant outgoisp of the government are utterly imonsistest with the prudent, cautious, marooned lives which the great body of this people are obliged to fol. low. I want to infuse the common sease which pervades the bulk of the people into the principles of the government, and I declare lus no other way of doing it bat by increasing the number of voters, and no ether way of going to the House of Commons which they will not refuse, but your joining yourselves and possessing the 401. freehold. Mr. Cobden concluded by moving, modest great cheers: " That this meeting is of opinion that the freehold land soy. meat, adapted as it is to the varied position and dr- COMIAMMOS of all cluses of the people, is calculated to inn prove the parliamentary representatitn of the country." M. WILKINSON seconded the resolution. It wee now @bout six months einct he assisted on this platform to establish the national reform emaciation, and they wen told that one of the moans by which that amociation meant' to accomplish its objects was by favouring associations of this description. If that society should have done nothing else pat invite such movements as this, it would not have acted in vain. The resolution was put sod unanimously agreed to. Mr. CHARLES GILPIN moved "That this met ling Is further of opinion that the freehold land movement is emi nently calculated, by encouraging saving and provident habits, to elevate the social and moral position of the working classes." It was very clear, es stated in he first instance, by their ex cellent chairman, that this was a movement which had two special characteristics; it was a political movement and a morel movement. He heartily sympathised with the p,li.i cal part of the movement; ha was an eased and sincere advocate for the extension of the franchise far beyond what mat beside him would extend it, but be content& that the most important part of this movement to him was its moral character. Mr. Oilpin concluded ea excellent speech by wishing the society every sumer, and espreerieg his con viction that it would ultimately Whine net only the pt li. drat but the moral entranchisment of the people. (Cheers.) A person in the body of the meeting here sddreese4 the chair, stating that he had saved a few halfpence at • time by his labour, andhe was ready to subscribe 101. in furtherance of the freehold land movement. He ems forward to the plat- form and paid down ten sovereigns amidst the loud cheering' I of the meeting. Mr. CASSELL announced his name to be Daniel Hop kins, of Billingsgate-market. Mr. W. C. HALL seconded the resolution, and conceived that he was aiding the landed interest by increasing the number of landlords in the country. He complained of the contempt with which the aristocracy treated tradesmen, allegina that the peers were nothing more than tradesmen i themselves. He bad mace bought a dead horse from a peer. Mr. CASSELL said he united himself with this movement not merely on account of its political aspect, but principally because he recognised in it a powerful instrument for the moral, soda', as well as political elevation of the people. ' It commended itself also to him as a financial reformer, as be thought it would be a most efficient means of getting down, and of keeping down, the national expenditure, ( Hear, bear.) There had lately been a great deal of excitemedt about railway mismanagement, and a cry had been raised for government audit, but how coati those men seek to audit the accounts of public companies who had their own ac counts in a state of this most hopeless cosfusion 1 (Hear, hear ) They knew that certain ra ilway boards bad prac tised a delusion by taking from their capital to add to their revenue, thus making the revenue appear erecter than it really was. The government board had prao. timed the contrary delusion in npresenting their revenue as less than it so uslly was. They stated their revenue to be fifty-one millions, while the sum raised from the people was ctually flay-eight millions, the balance being abstracted by 1 t oe plaoehorders on its way to the Exchequer. (Sliame.) A , flagrant instance of this was the case of the Woods and ' Forests. In 1846 that department was 44 2451., but the sum paid into the Exchequer was only 8,3061. ; si that the sumer). etracted on the reed was 35,9391. (Great laughter.) That was the establishment which had never made up their accounts since 1843, and who, when asked to do it, declared that they were totally unintelligible In the case of the accounts of Ceylon, the last audit occurred in 1839 ; although 150 clerks were employed in the Audit office, at the exoense of the people. (Hear, hear.) The oommirsioners of the Shannon navigation laughed when the were asked tor their accounts, declaring that they could sot furnish any. It had since been discovered that one person unhealed 8,0081., for which offence he was tried and transported 130,0001. of public money still remained unaccounted for. It was thus that the money of the people was squandered. About 191. had secured the franchise to the ,working men of Binniaghera ; but if 401. or even 501. would do so, there woul B d be good interest for ligeice, the e xpenditure of the mousy. y the spirit el sobriety, and virtue they would gee the present system down, and when they had It down d e p end u p on it they would keep it down. The resolution was then put and unanimourly agreed to. ltlr. COBDEN aid that he had had a motion put into his bomb ea which there would be no difference of opinion ; bat before he moved it he had so state that a gentleman in the body of the room had sent a note to him and asked, whether the first step in the right direction in this movement would net be a general registration of the land for the purpose ef meditating the obtainment of secured tiles to the free holders ? That was an important change in the law. He hoped to loathe time when the land would be as easily trans tared as railway shares or console. There was ao reason in the world why it should not, and he thought the 40s. freehold movement would help to bring that abed. At present there was no registration of deeds, except In Midges. I sex and Yorkshire. The next question was, whseisez a single act of the imperial legislature might am die. possess them of the proposed franchise by raising the I medtise to 401., instead of 40s. There well oar 1 gibe which the House of Commons could de, end ems things which they dare not do. Nobody demi to bring forward a :motion to nomad the 40e. freashise; it I was too old and venerable a am to be teached. He I should like it te be understood that, besides ualifying by 1 periodical payments, he thought the offices o f this associa tion would be made a Dort of register where people would , sad word what freehold property they had to sell; and he I thought that all people who wished to buy a freehold would have the opportunity of healsgg of property that was for sale, and be able to get a qualification, whether in the shape of rent charge or otherwise. The society would be the means of facilitating the enfranchisement of a number of claim. He would conclude by collies on gentleness to bear S ul c that this movement must he doss nag' ndividual effort. When en. gaged to the league agitation he used to tell his friends that it was no ass mere taking, and if the work they did in the Anti Cons-law League was nothing but what wee seen till the surface, the corn 'sew would sot have been repealed pis till doomsday. It was by work, by correspondence, tha businees must be done. They might not me him o f n the platform, but every day_ he would attend a board of this society, and would more somebody who might move a whole neighbourhood. (Cheers) It sense within their own power to do it of them selves, and therefore he hoped every one would se a• a. eider himself a missionary in the cause, and by bis man might do more good than all the talkers ea the plat. form. He begged, in conclusion, to move the thanks of the meeting to the Chairman. Mr. EBENEZER CLARKE seconded the motion, whfria was carried nasoinsously. He reminded the The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. meeting that the game was in their own hands ; he had not the slightest doubt of the success of this movement, if the system was acted ea by those who were foremost in condemning the system which they wished to see altered. It we. three years since he had acted on the suggestion of Mr. Cobden, by perchating four fr eeholds in the neighbour hood, which was - an moslleLt investment, and enabled him to exercise the fr anchise in support of the principles he pro. fused. He would take care not to rest until he bad the power of IlliTaiM hi! inflames in all elections in the im mediate neig h ood el Leaden. Three cheers and one cheer more were vociferously given for Mr. Cobden, when the meeting separated. A SLATE-STATE VISBDICT.—The Boston oftßmaci otor statPs that an inquest being hold recently on Wa d ly o female slam, whipped to death by her master, a jury of planters returned the complaisant and considerate verdict— . Died of apoplexy, brought on by excitement!" CHINESE IRON. —The vessel Minims arrived at the e port of Liverpool, from Bong Kong, has brought 2, pigs of iron, as a portion of her cur, consigned to a firm of seamenee. This is a very interamg imputatton from the Chinese empire. CITY QF LONDON CORPORATION REFORM. A public roasting of the inhabitants of the ward of Parrisideo Without took place last erasing, at Andertra's Betel, Fleet-street, " for the purposed adopting measures to wars as istessies of the sattaidpal franchise to aU par- Ilasiestery electors, and as egnalkasies of the repressaistiv• oysters la the various wards, and a therough refers et all night; shun is the adoinissatios of the corporate Shin of the City of Indoor." DV. IiSRAPATII moved that Mr. Rickard Taylor should take the duds; bet that yodel:um &disks, es the ground of saseqsaintsios with the intentions of the p Wes am vesibi the sawathur, Mr. J. T. Baera, barristers-law, was snanirsonelp called on to prssidek and the siestas' was addressed by bin Mr. JAIIRO ACIAND, Mr. 010103 Ft.tarrorr, sad Mr. MICRON) TLYLOP., on the following Tee011111011:—. " That whereas, the London Ceeporatkis Act, passed in the last sessiza of parliament, has bad the effect of reducing to an extraordinary extant the number et those enjoying the sausicipel franchise within the City of London it in highly necessary Meet there should be as extensiou'of the municipal franchise to all inhabitants end occupiers within the City of London, an lan equalisation of tte representa tive system in the various wards." Mr. J. M. TATLOR then moved, " That the following re. quisidon be adopted by this meeting sr d forthwith sub mitted for signatures, and that the same be presented to the alderman of the ward at the earliest possible moment." "To Bir James Duke, Bart., M P., and Alderman of the Ward of Farringdon-without.—We, the undersigned, re spectfully request you to convene a ward meeting of the in habitant householders and occupiers of the ward of Far ringdon-without for the purpose of adopting meassee s t o secure an extension of the municipal franchise to all parlia mentary *lectors and an equalisation of the representative system in the various wards of the City of London." Mr. MIZATATIi seconded the resoistioa, which was slim& to. The proceedings cloud with a vote of thanks to the chairman. BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY.- ST. LAWRENCE AND ATLANTIC RAILWAY COMPANY. - Yesterday, a special meeting of this company took place, at the allots in New Broad-street, for the !sepal of considering despatches received from the commissioner, abi des I. an arrangement he had conditionally !leered into. for the purpose tif affording aid towatds the completion of the St. Lavergne. and Atlantic Railway, and of deadieg thereon. ALBIANDIII GILLICIPII, Esq. took the chair, whet The SECRETARY read the despatches, in which the commissioner, Mr. Galt, gave his reasons for advising the directors of this company to aid the railway company. After some observations from Mr. CLeitma, as to the ad verieensent lint being sufficiently explicit, The SECRETARY read the report of the directors, which stated that, after considering the despatches of the commissioner. and the actual condition of the British Anse rictus Land Company, they advised the proprietors to sane tint the arrangement conditionally entered into by the commiteloner, as the only means of making profita ble, sooner or later, their undertektog. The agreement was, that the seminary of St. Sulpice, in Montreal. and this company should mutually bind themselves to aid the St. 'Airtime* and Atlantic Railway Company to the ' extent of 25,0001 each, making together 60,0001, by means of debentures en their security at 6 on cent., the principal being payable in ten or fifteen years. The effect of the con tinuanre of the railway would be to aid the townships in I which this company's lands are shaved. The government of Canada had passed a law that sehe one-half of a line of railway exceeding 75 miles was completed, the aid of the provinces might be demanded for the comeletion of the re maining half. Under this impression the corporation of Montreal felt themselves interested in taking part of the capital of the company to the extent of 126,0001. It was now discovered that the railway company were suffering by the !IMO of upwards of 60,0001. of expenditure over the receipts which they had expected from the allotment of shares. The directors, considering the immense ague the undertaking would be in developing the resources of the oompen's lands, and the town of Sherbrook in particular, advised Ike agreement to be sanctioned, as they °Doddered the security of a mortgage on the finished part of the line quite amp:. for the sums demanded. The CHAIRMAN flatly told the shareholders that this agreement to aid the railway compels, was the only way to extricate themselves from the liabilities which now sur rounded the land company. The subject had receiv d the most serious attention of the directors, and it was their opinion that this agreement wan the only means of the com pany retrieving its affairs. They must all be satisfied of the I great import-site of the railway being continued to the Atlan tic, when the province would come forward to complete one ha( of the line, the wealthy seminary of St. Salpice were ready we.h 25,0001., end the corporation of Montreal had *greed to issue debentures, and make their property respor.si ble for 125,0001. more. He might alai state that the citiz •na of Quebec had agreed to i•sup 100,0001. for the same purpose. To the people of Quebec the railway was of vest importance, at d to the British American Land Company it I wee also of great consequence, as it would enable them to king emigrants up to that city, and on to Melbourn and Sherbrook, the effect of which mast be the advance of those towns in wealth end importance. A PROPRIETOR asked it the 'greasiest was recom mended by the whole of the directors ? The CHAIRMAN said it was recommended by the great majority. tho principal affect of this agreement would the be to enable the railway company to e..mplete uue hall ot line, when they could go and ask the government for assist ance. There was upwards of 200,0001. expended on the finished part of the line, which was about thirty miles, over which they could have a mortgage, in his opinion quite suffiedent. It was true, the government would come in and override them all; but they would come in before the corpo ration of Montreal. Thus there would be ,the 200,0001. a l rea dy expended on the thirty miles from Longue,' to St. Hyacinth, and the 125,0001. of the corporation of bliontree I would then come in as an additional security. By this time they would be in a position to ask for the aid of government to complete the other hell of the railway. lie would ask if that wee not ample security. Mr. Scorn, Mr. CLARKS, and some other proprietors s trongly opp osed being made liable to any further (longed, on the part of the railway scheme, which, in their opinions ought to be left to the parties themselves. Mr. J. J. CUMMINS, ( thy director,) observed that a further liability in the way po oat would be the means of rendering their 20,0001. already spent on the railway available. This, independently of the great advantage . of railway communication through the company's townships, was his reason for joining in the security now proposed. Mr. PAYNDER (a director) regretted as well as the hon. proprietor, Mr. Clarke, that this company should be in volved in any f ar ther liabilities, but nreadieg the de spatches of Mr. Galt he had sound it to be the only mean, of their making this concern of any value ultimately, for be had always looked upon his property in it as a reversion to his relatives. It was true they had laid out 3&. a share and the thing was still unprofitable • but what, he would ask, coul so much alter the character of their land a I railway ? d He mast say that, after the most attentive con sideration of their actual position, he saw no other al•enua tie* but to support the recommendation of the directors. After some further observations from Mr. PEMBERTON (a director) as to the local importance sand railway, Mr. CHAPhtAN proposed that the tional agreement enteral into by Mr. Galt, the commissioner of the company, be sanctioned by this meeting, leaving any details to be agreed upon by the directors. Mr. WHITE seconded the motion, which was carried by a majority of 12 hands to 7, and of 26 to 18 votes. Upon tois decision a ballot was demanded, which was agreed to by the Chairmen. A vote ot thanks was then passed to the chairman and I directors, when the meeting separated. it REVENGE.—Yesterany, a cams WhiCh caned great excitement, and was the source °lamb interest, came before ' th eitement. Menchester magistrates, in which a young man named Charles Gooch, butler in the family of A. J. Wolff, Esq., merchant, Greeuheys, was charged with admiaistering some poisonous or deleteruum drug to six of his fellow airman, in revvege for suppoeed injuries which he had charged them w ith doing him, and which had led to his discharge t hem service. The prisoner had come Into Kr. Wold's ser vice as butler about • month ago, having previously held • similar situation in the family of • lady at Peterborough; he did not give satiraction to his master, and it was intimated to him, at the beginning of last week, that he would have to leave at the end of the month. He then became very violent towards the other servants, ac cusing them of being the cause of his discharge, and de clarinie that he would have revenge. On Wednesday Mr. Wolff paid him his wages, end, having heard of his conduct, desired him at ones to leave the house. The prisoner complied with this request, and left in the course of the the evening. At a late hour on Wednesday night, when servants bad retired for Mae hours to rest, the family were atermed by the intelligence that nearly the whole of the servants had bees taken ill, and that they were seivd with violist pains ia the Monads, accompanied with purging and sickness. The lady's maid and the cook were suffering in a serious manner, and Mr. Wolff directed that medical men should be sent for. Dr. Mellor, of nurling thestreet, tow street, Greenling, visited them, and made inquiry but as to food the servants had taken during the previous day, there was nOthing in that which could possibly account for their sufferings. Mr. Mellor administered such re list as he could, and visited the servants twice on Thursday, and twice on Friday, before they were sufficiently reeOlared to render it safe to discontinue his attendance. On Friday, Robert Ramp, the botanist, was in Oxford-street, Man chester, when he met the primmer, and they went to • pub lic-house, where liarrop told the latter how ill all the family had bean, and he informed Harm that he had given them something which was the cause, and there were two other of the servants which he yet intended "to do for." The prisoner went and loitered about Mr. Wolff's grounds, on Friday night and fisturday, end on the com been he was muni cated to Mr. Superintendent Taylor of the police, taken into custody. The servants described the conduct of the accused as being violent, and stated a belief that he bad caused their illus. by some drug. Mr. Hodgson, the megistrate, at first ordered the case to be taken. to the see sions, but afterwards disposed of the case summarily, for want of direet evidence aping the prisoner, by calling upon him to find two sureties of 101. each to keep *s pesos for three mouths. In default a bondsmen the prisoner was locked up. CANADIAN LAND AND RAILWAY ASSOCIATION. Thu Ant annual meeting of an amociAtlon, which dates its existents from somewhere about the middle of the year 1618, sad whisk has fur its object the amelioration of the social condition of the working classes, by providing more extensive fields for their employment and giving pro motion to their labour, was held yesterday evening at the Literary and Balestifie Institution, in John-Mreee, Fitzroy square. The objest of this mociation is to promote colonisa tion among tits working elms, to purchase and cultivate go vernment lends in British North America, end to form a rai.way from Halifax to Qaebse. It was commenced if 1843. The report stated that the legislative assembly on Nova Scotto had passed a resolution to allow, in aid of the railway, 20,0001. a year foe twenty years, the inhabitants of Halifax, 4,0004 a year, the government of New Brunswick, 20,0001 a year, and lands to the extent of ten miles en each side the railway, and the government of Canada, 20,0001. Thus making an annual grant for twenty years of 60,0001, with land to the extent of 6,000,000 acres. All that was wanting now was the guarantee ..f the imperial government for the regular payment of the sums granted by the colo nies; end the report added that a recant interview with gerl Grey gave hopes that there sums would be uaranteed when a su ffi cient party came forward to undertake the construction of the railway. Thus, it we believed, a great and important field would be opened for the labour of tbe surplus population of Great Britain and Ireland. It was &Nimble, therefore, to make this a work ing-clan movement. The chairman, in the emend of a lenateened address, made some practical observations upon the utility of oolunisation, and the benefits of combining it with the construction of a railway, to op,a up the resources of the country. He gave a fluttering detcrip ion of the coal products of Nova Scotia. The field, he believed, was larder than that of Great Britain, and with a =mutes et 60,0001. a year, which was ample for the capital required, he did not see how the undertaking could fail. At tne close of his speech, Mr. Wright yielded the chair to Ur. L J. Heneard, who, in eulogisiug the undertaking, described it as affording a practical means of emigration, and at the same time of profitable employment and permanent settlement. Mr. Ceniebell, the secretary, then read a list of the parties who had been invited to attend the meeting. They oomprlsed the leaders of the different sections of free-traders, ounservatim, and radicals. Earl Stanhope appeared to have been the', most prominent person invited : and the noble sail, in de clining to attend, expressed his readiness to take the chair at soy time at a great public meeting to be held in London, to test the question of how far the working classes were pre pared to advocate the principle of protection to industry and capital. The acceunu hawing been paned, a series of reso lutions were proposed. The moat important of them set forth the necessity for labour being protected, sad authorised measures to be taken for obtaining a bill or charter of incor poration during the next parliamentary session; and further, that in the meantime her Msjrsty and Prince Albert shou,d be humbly requested to become patrons of the undertaking. They were all carried, after which the meeting, which was but thinly attended, separated. ST. LAWRENCE AND ATLANTIC RAILWAY. A special general meeting of the North American Land C .mpany was held yesterday at their offices, New Broad-street, for the purpose of considering the propriety of granting a sum of money for completing the St. Lawrence and Attalla') Railway. Mr. A. Gillespie presided. The SECRETAIIT reed the report, which stated that the directors, having paid great attention to the several despatches teceived item the commissioner relative to the conditional agreement made by him on behalf of the North American Land C .mpany sod the Rey. Jcseph Comte, for granting aid towards the completion of the St Lawrence and Atlantic Railway, by advancing the sum of 21,0001., bearing interest I , at the rate of 6 per cent. per annuli, the principal to be payable in 10 cr 15 years, together with a copy of the said conditional agreement, fat it but their duty to state the opinion they had formed with regard to the propriety. under all the circumstances of the case, of ratifying the said agreement. The British and American Land Company were induced to take stock in the projected railway between Mon treal and the borders of the province of Maine, United States, whence it was to be cootinued to P. xtland, and form an outlet to the Atlantic, from a conviction of the advantage which the corporation would derive from the formation of such a toilsome, paring through a curvaiderable portion of their lands and e slits town of Sherbrooke, in the prosperity of which thereinto mdeeply interested, with thews imp irtant commercial cities. The t attroad was ooromemed, the directors of the St/Lawrence end Atlantis Company having the most perfect confidence in the ben. final result- I which would follow from its completion. During the last s. ssi .0 of the Canauian parliament an act was passed to the sif.ct that, whenever one half of any rollaway exceediog 75 miles in its total length shall have been complete:, the gua rantee of the province shall be given fur the completion of the remaining half upon the most advantageous terms; and the corporation of the city of lelontri al, after a full con sideration of the importance of the undertaking, and in order to entitle the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway C .m -puny to participate in the beach's, resolved to take an in• ferret in the capita of that company to the extent of 125,0001. Thus, encouraged, the directors of the railway were enabled to conclude the contract with Masers. Black, I , Wood, and Co., for the cempletion of the undertaking. It I also appeared, from the cocumeets pro ra ted to ths court, that alter these steps had been taken it VOA dis covered that the portion of the railway already made had incurred an expenditure of more than 59,0001. over and motive the means in the pcsseseion of the directors of the railway company. They had arrived at the conviction that it was the interest of the British American Land Com I pray to grant the aid stipulated in the conditional agreement with the seminary of St. Sulpice, provided the company seemed satisfied that with such grants of aid the railway could be completed. Um. the satisfactory completion of the mortgage for 56,0091., the court of directors of the British American Land Company were of opinion that ample security would he obtained to protect the company from any loss in grantiog the aid required, and that collateral advantages would be derived therefrom. They, therefore, condi t ion prounds,recommended the ratification of the said al agreement. Mr. CLARY, and several other shareholders, protested annum the funds of the company being applied to the ob ject set toith in the r. port, and, after same considerable time had been occupied in discussion, the chair:aro moved " That the directors be empowered to advance the amennt." The motion being put, the show of bands was in favour of the proposition, but, a poll having been demanded, the meet wan ;Awaited till Monday next, for the purpose of `et it. MURDER AT MANCHESTER ON SUNDAY.—A murder of a very cold blooded description took place at —del the Manchester on Sueday, in the open street and in daylight. A bricklayer's labourer, named Bernard Sheridan, living in quarrelling with his wile, and amongst other neighbours sal e Th of the a cellar in John-street, under the St . John's Tavern, Was eg ar tit O tee N E was STA co T n E ti g n . Dublin ALE () F po i r li ti l : n B o thesef LEB N who came to make roue was a young men, named John Saturday, in Master Litton's office, an The d seemed Muter to excite the as Hayes. Sheridan end his wife were emends the house in much interest u on the preceding day. the street at the time, end on Hayes approaching them, outset, announced tome if any peraon desired a particular lot Sheridan ran at him with a chisel and plunged it into his to be set up it should be done for the convenience of pur breast. The unfortunate man was carried to the Royal In- chasers. Aecordinply:certain lots were called for, and in firmary, whre he dd abouour o'clock the same after- every instance the minimum price at which it was arranged noon. The e deceased ie was a i s f ill ware , and has a sale might be made was exceeded , so tha t no adjournment left a wife and three children. Deceased was twenty txk place. Tne gross rental SOln was 70.51. a year, which four yews of age. An inquest was held on the body of produced 14,3 , 501., being upwards of 20 years' purchase. Hayes, at the It gal Infirmary, Manchester , yester- There were numerous competitors for the various lots, who day afternoon, when tbe following evident.* was gi : bid with as much animation as in the best days of protec- Wm. Tootal, upholsterer, of 24, Turnerooreet, said on Sun- tine. Some persons, desirous of getting bargain., alluded to day morning about twenty minutes after the morning err- the s wamping poor rate, but apparently without causing any vice time (ten minutes to one o'clock) he went into the John unfavourable Imprereion when as thbeee fact in th was made knowunion n Street Tavern, a beerhouse , near St. Paul's Church, that in the present year there hn e n Turner-street, Maneheeter. About ten minutes afterwards but one rate of a shilling in the pound, including the Gd. deeseeed and his brother came in and a person nutted rate in aid. The purchasers of the lota sold were Herm Richard Grind!,; soon afterwards I heard a cry of murder Hoed Cox, B. L. Guinness, W. E. Bolton, Daniel Thorpe, from the cellar underneath ; it was by a woman's voice. I Alexander findlater, end W. Vance. heard her cry out something else, but c ,uld nut tell what re taRANGE OUTRAGE.—A correspondent from Leniao she said. Toe woman came into the street. Two or three states that a few Orangemen, frustrated in a grand nightly minutes clamed before any one went out, aad Orindle muster at Milltown on the night of the 13th, enterel the Ahem got up to go to his dinner. He watched house of an innkeeper, named Murphy, walked up stairs, (kindle half way across John•street, and then all armed, and got on in a most boisterous manner. When he turfted round to the prisoner, who was in the laadlr rd .ntered the room to expostulate on their tibiae the street, and asked him what was the use of derly conduct, one of the fellows lifted a gun, which he abusing h is wife in that way ? I could see from i ce window a id was charged with two balls , presented it at him, swear el the beer-house to nearly the bottom of the cellar steps ing "he would blow his papist brains out." After smash where the prisoner lived, and I saw the prisoner standing ing the windows they all, with one accord, took up their there. After Orindle had asked the prisoner what he ill- guns and shouted they would shoot, wreck, and murder ell sad his wife in that way for, the prisoner ran towards thatcame in their way, as they did at Dollyle-bree. The ' Grindie. I had seen the wife come up the steps and show a neighbours were alarmed, and came in great uumben, when band had in- the ruffians decampe d to a house in the vicinity, belonging wound upon her head which she s aid her hus fleeted. The pr saner, when he ran at Urindle, had to one of the " Night Fowlers." The Rathfriland police a chisel in his hand, and he held it in a threaten- were immediately on the spot, but refused to make prisoners ing meaner at Grindle. John Hayes then lett us on the plea that they had no authority.—Belfast Vindicator. and went out, and soon afterwards I saw the prisoner strike him with the chisel. 1 did not see the prisoner's NDIARISM —On the evening of the 16th inst. Nue • ed 1 h • d • body nor face at the time, but I saw his the haggard of Mr. James Kenn in y, %re mi t z ie ut h : e s: t r e tous i strike the blow. The deuesed did not fall, but stud and respectable farmer, reliding iibr 'so the King's County, was discovered on re y atC o nnrs, leaning against the casting of the cellar steps. Tom . _ _ at ()nee ive t. e .seeno when th tone. prisoner stood on the cellar steps. Immediately 1 but workmen, who . g 41 ti the neighbouring people were on the spot, saw the stab I ran out of the house to deceased, of the district and . i _ the times which eachnio and pulled open he stir: and waistcoat. The blood was and endoavourtedetolztainng h d u inereased witli fearful rapidity, goshing out, and I asked him to come to the infirmary. meet gained ere lie said, "No; he was not hurt." 1 put my f elt hand to from the Wlnd being high and blowing unfavourably A.t the wound, t• stop the blood, and my right hand to 12 o 'clock p.m. the entice be gard, dwellin •house and a g -ed to b g N t 'particle his back, and got hi arrived u with me towards range of out.officee, wrre co m as _es. o a. infirmary. When we at St. Paul's church, • at see of the household furniture was saved. The damage is end top of ry. Turner.street, he fell from faintness and Ia of mated at about 3001. There can be no doubt but the fire, was blood, and I asked some people in the street to place him on malicious : because Kennedy had taken, about five years ago, my back, end they did so. I ran with hire towards the an ex e t naive farm from Hr. Hackett, of Pars tutelar., from. infirmary, and with the WietanCe Of Some Other persons I which a tenant nemed.Trae.ey the l an d , e A short succeeded in getting him there. When at the infirmary I time after he v got po e s e s i ii i s e sion td . th _ lend, K e n nedy entire assisted to wash the blood from his wound, which was a rouge o f e 011447011a1il rick maliciously burned; as was r in little below the breast, rather nearer t o, the left breast the ergo of turf value for about 301., and than to the right. After I maw the I yea srds tit of his al bl d • " h prisoner • terw . res •ua e dogs were pouoned—..sessag threaten Grindls with a chisel, I did nut see Gwarehan. his lace again till after he had struck Hay". I taw only A COMMUNIST TENANT.—Some disciples of com an arm, but the chisel was one with a rigged handle and curium have just been arrested under the following eir was the same I had seen in the prisoners ' - hand when he cuinshinces ; A man, who lodged in the house of a H. threatened Grindle. I believe it was the one produced, Gammache, being much in arrest of rens, was applied to re though at first I thought the blade wider. The prisoner on peatedly for payment, but his invariable reply was." I will being asked if he had any question to put to this witness, , pay you only half. Be fraternal, and weep% my o ff er." H. said, Did you not see deceased strike me before I stab bed Gammache, not having the same restates for the principles him ? Witness: No, I did not. The coroner was about to of communism as his lodger, called in rue aid of a huissi t rto take the evidence of the surgeon of the Infirmary when make a seizure, and exl his refractory tenant. The latter, our report had to be dispatched. when the inventory of his goods had been taken, resolved, DEATH 1N A RAILWAY CAESIAGE- - An inquest as his landlord would not take halt what was due, that he WY last week held at the Wolverton station, before J. Alter, s h ou ld have nothing, end applied to arms of his communist 1 the removal of his gcods. T h ey had Req., on view of the body of Mr. John Willis, aged 64, of friends to assist him a who a H. _ he lear nin g Kenniazton-common, solicitor, who was on tbe previous day aimed), removed a por 00, e..0 M. Gamer= ~ T h found dead in a railway carriage, on the arrival of a down what was doing, atte mpted 1 , p further proceedings. e train from London. It appeared deceased, who had been men fell upon. h im_, beat .im severely, broke two of the subi j ect to elioldectie dui left town for Grantham, bang at fir gels_ . and rev i of his right Laud and inflicted acme serious wounds the time in his usual state of health, and that he was totted in his heed.. o „o . e was found in the pumas of his insensible. An immediate search having r.a above by the superintendent of police. From the medi hours bleeding 0n . .1 cal evidence it at peareA that destea - .ed died of ispo?lexy, been mad y police, a _ .. h the t h e offenders wore strestel, and and a verdict to that tffect was recorded.—Urforri Cltroni;te. conveyed W ';•fi.Soll. altpdans. No v . 38 tge mond e . 'said sed i Inky b e um issito r t a bi s 11.D.4 -1 Kist p i dd I P 161117, loft weft neat was ake taw b elo w lauds. ; lei email; L aid ; wae ah Lard 3, 4 la Do va i iii , irw with 84. I, yesterday, wed la loft WI. seer Deb. Last eveuis e at the Cale. .ate sassier, frost the Ce. id Jalases aid red at dieser !Bawds', the Macsalay, me. eve. r EMENT. ,ONDON Towdad melt. i t eZ he gnat zoom g aat um I told Lemol 6, ea I to tahe isd immediate dorm, sad eon Wain* with • d•d Este of the btaio any UK .1 'ended by Mr. was called la ith▪ in the last few u, and ("penny ty duty as so ia- It, to avail.esy offers ka s hies rith, as wen men,—few is of principle— and out of it in I in that 'obit, etch would have hen in which I ry heeitatirs ae o preside on the p canna wh:eh I e evening is all discuss any dl.. the points of the he extent of the attentiun for a the e methadon, de law, oa au y nciatime nee of hemlines Xples of the sese their Rheum, I men the sins. political sabre tat lesperteate el r savings Ma the no me that while ndustry, sad self- Nut, we are hi' Idly, those pried. art in .ispensthis piping them to y. (Loud cheer ing my reason ?lag 0.7 Support I belong to what in oat, you will attentively sad me not mutt die *Wiest sgitatior. h great amebas t joining popular perhaps no greet Ice of rest abuses !that govsrameat as profligate tad till I ar t a: wlf-greb sever, sot whie profanes to feel that I pensive is cents fraught whk lam of my fallow sdgl esw e 1 and I a mock llathsese. coupled ,s whet &I c° l " Now, it is siege& down—w• have y belief is, that Ma ider them tall sad the theory of the a should be a- Noir, to sty Pry. (Hear, emit o to property, Ist stml strictly is Po' fint rethintioer stirs theories• as i I understand the d solely for blaring 'rob_ n and fries& hold Lead giteetje of that society. It • of oohing isdi• lis costrititaw, Os .sabled the hest wad tas Pee th • es thet wia 4 ▪ a &Pooh kr rota. Now we deal of the Birseedboo l ego, 21, eals•d_te t is a ' misty forme sentry who cheese* mg • ormamittel lb stimulate tbrMr.- 4 . 11841 . the of next sialm . h 1.• . We do net liell eigs : that, bat the bletropoilihsu a The object of that eonsparellw/ t the members of till In that szplauxills as of this snacking is oslculated to IP" join ataatistg.. amen who have gill ties will say ad Why, the OW* are sone a teat s seal +a rity , . under the Italthog d Pratt, the WW I ben of the weseese th of pulleriaat ase ga p sad we Flores to ,„ hi..lt bees - '— !this • aritiather,, lag Ad to Irwjir e per,setly 11106 te do it WOO Its e 1 0 1 e s 'parties l e s Ad to give die land. fie flat oar the Build/el _ if the estates ion will have the For; be retailed at i :hoor,' purchased Wl= that • great eat 1 !„;.. I depends first es 00.„,A m aim' the sool° o ' 7,11 lids oil the churl:La& ',possible thouvalisli the calculatioes_.,.. o* mye _r SIP * II to • 11 " . ` 1 • es_",,l o s ned lath* ow . "7 — aseeto of the head tt to the gh at 774 a snake to flag • I trteis sus. sol,:r flit that lt math should wo 10 2 ifit • pi,"ower lades of the us& Id• w All I y s a to so— ' ne Meths so • we SOUTHAMPTON DOCK COMPANY. Yesterday a special general meeting of the pro- prietors was held at the came tef the company, Bishopegate street Within, for the 14, 41 taking into consideration the expediency of espil ead paying o ff the mortgages and debentures granted by company in pursuance of their several acts of parliament, as they successively became due, and to authorise the raising of the requisite sum by the creation of a farther put of the additional capital sr joint stock empowered to be raised by the company's laser ; and that in order to meet the mortgages and deben tures wan due in the course of the year 1860, a suns el stock be eseeesd, net mos:edam 60,0001, to be entitled to a preference di end of 61. per cent. ; and to reset the de bentures eandise due in succeeding years, that further por tions of stock be created on such terms and conditions' may by future general or @peeled stoners; meetings of the com pany, from time holden, be determined. Colonel BARLOW is the chair. A report was read, from which it appeared that the irriga tors had upon former occasions (on the issue of the quarter shares in June, 1847, and of the 6 per cent. stock in De cember of the same year) fully explained to the proprietors the inconvenience of a capital consisting in part or money raised on debentures; and having experienced the advantage of converting even a portion of such floating capital into permanent stock, proposed now to submit the expe diency of completing that operation by the extinc tion, as they, successavely became due, of the whole of the remaining debentures of the employ. The directors therefore thought. it was important that mea sures should be adopted for converting a portion of their debentures into stock, and for that purpose a resolution would be proposed, authorising the creatinn of • further amount of capisal not exceeding 177.0001. stock, to be issued in such amounts and upon sect terms as general meetings of the company may from time to time determine. This operation would be spread over a period of seven years, at the close of which the whole of tee floating debt would be paid off, and the capital of the company would then consist exclusively of 600,0001. stock, with a power to create soothe r 100,0001. of stock should it be necessary to provide accommodation for increasing trade. It would be proposed to the shareholders in the first instance to authorise the issue of 50,0001. to meet the debentures coming due in the course of the year 1850, and to raise that amount by the creation of • stick which would be entitled to • preference interist or dividend ,of 6 per cent., to be offered rateably to the propels ' toes which ich th t e h e c e o z m is p ti a a n g y might raise "p i t t ht fur l t:e e r acu te :at which would be regaired in future years to discharge the debentures as they became due, must depend upon the cir cumstances of the times, and would then be regulated by , general meetings of the proprietois. But it was probable ', that the progressive diminution of the smount of the deltas , tun debt, and the improving position and resources of the company, would render such future operations practicable upon more advantageous terms. At the same time it must be borne in mind, that the present jams of • preference 6 per cent. stock involved no increase to the coping of the company, and was not raised to carry on new works, I l respecting the expediency or necessity for which there might be difference of opinion ; but was merely a sub stitution of such stock for a debt at 5 per cent. already existing—having already a prefer one over all divideed—and. I the payment of the interest on which was already more than provided for out of the actual revenue of the company. It I was intended that the whole of the preference 5 per cent, stock now proposed to be created should be applied exclu sively to the extinction of the company's floating debt. And although the directors considered it expedient, in order to spread the liquidation of the debenture debt more equally over a period of seven years, to renew a portion of those coming due in the course of the years 1850 end 1851, and thereby facilitate the operation of the ex incti'M of the whole of the floating debt, it was not intended henceforth to raise any additional capital on debentures. This report having been received and adopted, a series of reso.utions embodied therein were successively passed, and the meeting separated. DRAMA. LYCEUM. This theatre is very prolihe in novelties at present, but it might be as well, perhaps, it they were fewer in number and of somewhat superior quality. A very clever aid efficient company might be much better employed than in performing a set of farces (three or four of them in an evening) of the most in sigaificant kind, and having no purpose but to show off the peculiar manner of a few of tie principal actors. Another trifle of this sort wee produced last evening, under the title of " Drop tl.e Cur tain." The Ecene is laid in a military gaol in Barbadoes ; the dramatis persones are Sergeant Drag, the gaoler, his daughter Charlotte, his niece Susannah, Ton Binning/lamp& private, and a drunken drummer, Littlejohn. The doings of these worthies belong to the lowest order of force. Mies Susannah, who is a laundress, coming home from a " coloured ball," has found her room occupied by a drunken soldier, who puts oat her candle, and be comes so riotous, that in self-defence she chucks him out of the window, and in his fall he carries with hiin a piece of the window curtain. This roue in low life is the little drummer, who is about to be married to Charlotte, the gaoler's daughter. The damsel prefers the private, whose schemes to get into the prison form I the chief pert of the plot, such as it is. Thee, of course, there are mistakes and cress-purposes. The private incurs the suspicion of having been the noctur nal intruder into Miss Susannah's apartment; where upon his mistress Fete jealous, and the laundress insists on his marrying her for the sake of her repu tation. After a great deal of this sort of thing the truth comes out, by the little drummer producing tie window curt in, and a double marriage is the finale. The part of Torn Birmingham has been evidently made expressly for Mr. C. Mathews, who bustled through it in his usual lively off-hand manner. Mrs. Humby introduced some of her quaint humour into the part of Susannah, and Oxberry was very good in the little drummer. But the piece went coldly off; and though there was some applause when the curtain dropped, it was mixed with disapprobation. I