The Express. — London, England, 1849-10-22 00:00:00

Bite eriprefo. OUTGOING NAILS. The meld ria Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, li.dis, Hung-Kong, at., will be sada up on it. paving of October 24. The mails for Briti‘b North America and the United States will be steal up co the eveniug of Oct. 26 The pry nand. f r Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be sad. op ..n Oct 27. The Wirit India Mails, including Berands, Romans, Nastau, Mina eras, New Orleans, and Menlo-, and excluding thine for Madan, St. dun-de-Niraragna, New Granada, Chili, and Peru, will be made up on Nov. 2. The wails for Marini. the Etrazi4, and Buenos Ayree, teil be Emile up en Nov. 6. The mails fur o.braltar, Malta, Greeor, the lonian Islands, Apr, Ceylo., Inds, and China, out Soutiumptow, will be wade up on the morning of Nov. 20. NIGH WATIN AT LONDON 11.1D01. TIN T4l—Mond(. IDA Ma /Amara. $11.49m. To-resa,t—Nemag, Um. ...... Bltelassa. • \.Lim. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22. Tue project of an Aggregate Exhibition of the In duet, ial Prodoctie ns of all Nations meets with uni versal rayon , . It is obviously a right tl in; to attempt; obviously a grand thing to do. But like many obviously desirable sod admirable things, it is not easy of practical cccomplishment. The plieioules in praise of the design come easy enough to such as are accustomed to treat all propositions having for their aim the true amelioration of society, an passing topics of talk. The magnitude and variety et the elements that require to be combioed, ordered, and disciplined befor the great purpose cau be attained, naturally furnish materials fer tutermin dole dilation on the conflicting probobili lei and posibilites of success or f , imre. For our parts, we are little gives to this way of deal ing with questions that affect the future interest and present honeur of the couittiy. If we believe a scheme to he a mere delta on, we deem it a duty to say s t pWuly; if, on the other hand, we deem tt a sound, w're, aced realisable project, we Ike to give it a heart h cheer and a helping hand. Inst.ad of solemnly trilling, therefore, with the generalities of the saoject, let us ask what are the pm cse objects to be attained by the holding of what has been aptly called by a weekly contemporary " a Cheat Semple Mart"? And by what means may the inhe rent difficulties be overcome that stand in the way of its comprehensive and complete success ? If compirison be the first step toward eompetitiam and competition the surest pith to improvement, it most pure the best and most naive:really useful ends to cab's the local inventor, whose field of view is necessarily circumscribed, to become acquainted at a lessee not only with all that has been done by others im h's own branch of practical mience ' bet likewise with all those co - relative and subsidiary aids to discovery which remote and unknown corium rnries have rendered available. From the simplest improvement in the cheapest textile fabric to the subtlest adaptation of mechanic force to the perfecting of the most costly implement or the most exquisite object of art—the future progress of the industrial world depends in • mat dmree upon the multiplication of the means of example and suggestion. Pnnting and steam have doubtless done much to place within the mutual reach of inventive men the results of each others daily labours and nightly thoughts. But who that has ever been at beat devoted to the study of mechanism or the arts of form, does, not know the new wealth of ideas that is acquired amid the choice works of fellowntinds, ranged in all the glory of their new ness, perfection, and diversity The first aim of the oontempleed exposition must cocounsseegqwetly be the greatest possible variety both if eo•tribetors aad contributions. We think far less of its possible ex'ent than of its compassable diversity. Its miss will not, in our estimation, be the test of its success, but its quality, its comprehensiveness, its universality. We don't went a monster meeting of manufacturers and artists, but a full and complete re presentation of the industry of the world. Every Active and intelligent people can do something better or different from their neighbours. We want to see this, to examine is, to compare it with the substitute,orcoun terpart made elsewhere : to understand in what we are ourselves inferior co our more ingenious brethren, and enable them at the same time to imitate and rival, if they can, what we are able to do more perfectly. To afford an opportunity fur such an unfettered and impartial interratomial comparison is one of the noblest finite of the adoption of free trade. If the philosophy of competition be worth anything, it im plies, not that our indefatigeble island should be come the mill, or the loom, or the stithy, of the world, but that in the progress of the arts sod maoufectureis of all surrounding nations we should find our adventure, and they in ours. If they cease to make m nge for sale to us, they will cease to have the only po-sible mesas of baying our wares. We can hare no interest but in their p.ogrees ; only let to all j edge and see distinctly what each has the knack of doing bee, and not waste oar time in our ighbour's forge or farm. We are dispoeed to think that the most effec'ual mode of inductig the greatest possible diversity of competition at the proposed ,ihibitioe, will be the earonl and timely dissemination throughout the world, of the views and aims with which it is under taken. Much stress has been, we observe, laid on the public assurance being given, that several prises of value will be awarded for the best articles exhibited. We do not mean to my aught disparaging of this auxiliary attraction; but we are bound in frankness to confess, that we place comparatively little Arms on Ws portion of the scheme. It may do something in aid ;we hope it may. But let us not deceive mar selves. The constitution of a suitable and acceptable tribunal to judge, will of neoessity be encompsosed with difficulties. Award ae they may, there will be diappointmentsand jealousies. At beet the adjudication will give satiefection to a small minority of the worthiest and most meritorious competitors; and the main reliance mast be placed on the sounder am bition of numbers to win cosmopolitan fame and world-wide custom, than upon say tantalising hope that among an unnumbered crowd of competitors so many premiums must be distributed. Entertaining these views we regard with satis faction the resolve which has beta taken to give ample time before-hand for pomace in every part of the eivilieed world to become acquainsed with the purpose and the plan. The total absence of tie nipr impatience of projectors, which this implies, is no more than we should expect from the SWOP whence the design has emanated. It is one is every way worthy of the Prince-Consort whom name is alike sesocheed with the encoursvement of native art, and wi , h that freedom from all ideas of exclusive sem that befits his constitutional position, whether as regards the internal or the ex ternal policy of the empire. To participate in its ser rations without mingliag in personal partialiues Of rivalries, and to render the country em inent ser vices in those things aloes which all c lasses and par ties recognise as national,—this is indeed to fulfil hostourably and wortnily the expeetatioas which were early formed of the illustrious nonage whole ad vent amongst us ten years ego every body hailed with pleasure, and none have regretted since. Anions eonsmonly pronounces that her Majesty's ministers have appointed to the Deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral, in the room of the Bisho&Lf a LIANDA7P, the H us atn OT. HARRY HART Mi, of West minster and Rector of St. Margaret's. At the first blush this appointment might be con sidered a proper one. It has been recently laid dawn by those who have Outdid the subject of Cathedral doptere, that deaneries sad prebendal stalls ought to be the retiring pensions of la bo urers in the vineyard of the CI ureti—that they should be used to afford an "ohUns rum dirsitnt• • to these who have borne the heat and trillion of the day—taut they should be a means of affording a "learned leisure" to the more distinguished writers of our age and nation. whether upon purely scriptural and scelsaisstical topic., or on the various branches of the more »oondit sciences. By some straining of interpretation this aPlmiatsmat might be regarded as amain withta Una mown, and consequently night be spoke& d without retrettenaioa. Bat the rnarry of fit. Pad's, es it occurs to as, cupt to bean exception to ands which may be very properly applied to ether Cathedral preferments. At the present epoch in the Church. it is die emit to conceive es apooistesent more important thin the Deanery of 11 - . Pears. The whole system of St Para's Cathedral requires change. It has long been a blot and a byewotd, iarrad of an example to the Chinch. It was especially needful that a practi cal, able, earnest, and energetic man, a sound Churchman, and a firm reformer, should have been appoin'ed to recd. over the delibera tions of the Chapter ot that Cathedral. This was St ed'ul in the highest degree as re garded the Ca thedral its If; it seas, perhaps, still more needful as regarded the parishes in which the Chapter testicle' an influence. 'fk• largest parochial charges of the metrop lie are in the gilt of this Chapter. Cripple get., aid St. Panerar, worth nearly 2 0001. a year each, are usuely options taken by th- Canons. Edmonton, Chiswick, Tottenham, Barnes. the large palish of St. Luke, 0:d -street, are all is the gift of the Dean and Chapter, and are all livings of the first importance, and of proportionate value. The parish of Shadirell is in the patio rice of the Dean personall, whilst tie important parish ot Shoredi.ch is in the gift if the Archdeacon. But besides his cathedral duties and patrocage the Dean of St. Pattie has important duties in connexion with the secular arrangements of the church. He is ex efeeio a member of the Ecclesiastical Commis sion : he is es coffiein a member of the com mittee of the National Society and of a variety of other public bodies. In the City of London the Dean of St. Paul's occupies the first rack am 'eget Churchmen. His influence for good or for eel is felt far beyond the precincts of his oen Cathedral. Tne lets Dean, occupied with the drat es of a distioct and important diocese, to which the deanery was only, as it were, an appendage for the purposes of emolument, neither exercised nor car. d about this in fluence. But it nosy be a widely different thing should that t.uly humble-minded man be succeeded by a proud and pompous Churchman. We may have an insperitens in imperio —a new diocese within the diocese of London itself. Luckier at the duties, the privileges, and rrerrgatives of this appointment, we do net hesi tate to say that we view with some alarm the threatoned appointment of a high churchman and a tory to the Deanery of St. P,urs. It is an appointment tie coeseqrences of which no ote can foresee. We fear it is throwing back for another quarter of a century every reasonable prospect of improvement in the management of the Cathedral. The Chspter, as at present composed, is believed to be equally divided in metters seriously affecting the management of St. Paul's. It is not difficult to foresee into which scale Mr. Mutate will th - ow the weight of his influence. It hes only been within the last three years that anything has been done to improve Westminster Abbey. Everybody will remember the outcry which was made against the Charer of that Cathedral and the resistance they for a long time offered to everything like measures of improvement. It was not till the Bishop of OIPOID Came amongst them that they could be brought to consent to take any steps for setting their house in order. Mr. MILMAN is we of the four oldest Canons of Westminster, and he rever was regard-a as one of its reformers. Then as regards parochial duties. What is the state of the parish of St. Margaret's? Why, it is well known that Mr. MILMAXII curates were of the extreme Peseyite school; that he promoted to his district Church, situated in one of the most wretched parts of London, a clergyman who carries out the genu flexions and altar bowing., the candle worship, and chanting', and intoning., to an extent unknown in any other district Church in the Metropolis. Trois has gone on despite exposure, despite the bishop, sad under the authority of the Rev. Mr. MILMON. And this is the appointment of a "liberal" admi nistration! THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 1849. of principle should be done, but when unlimited liberty is tatted of I think that those who do so deceive themselves, and ran a risk of destroying what they wish to save. (lieu, he. r ) Libery in itmlf is not incompatible with the tem poral lOT r. igety of the Pup'. That liberty existed is the middle am, but it is the prineipla wi•ocated by Genteel Caseignac from this tribune, which is ahaolutely incoreps- Wart with the temporal Dower of the Pups. (Hear, hear.) Neither is the sovereignty of the people, perhaps, incompa tible with the temporal sway of the Pontiff, but it must only show itmlf tads, certain firm, and not have the p met of ranging everything aecording to its will. If things which are tuspossibleluid not bees sought for, all the liberties which Pins IX. bad granted w..nld now be enjoyed at R ime. The guilty ben the punishment of their fault; they have con founded the sovereignty of the prop!, with its abuses. (Loud approbation.) M. de Toequeeilile only demands one thing— .. Consults having a d liberative vote in matters v f taxa tion. I approve of the government asking for that, but I would not have them mate it An ultimatum. Teat demand in itself swan' vary trifling, but it is of immerse importance—it contains the 'thole principle of perliamen• Cary eorereirnty. It is the vote of the supplies which ren dela the English parliament en powerful. Do you believe that in France, when Louie XVIII granted the Chtrt• r of 1814, he intendeu to found parliamentary sovereignty Ca• tatuly not. But he woe led so it by the •de of the taxes, mid it would be exactly the same thing with the Boman eonsulta. Look at what occurred the first time that, in virtue of the Charter of 1814. Louis XVIII was obligiel to ask f r money. It wee for the SpaLish war. From that day parliamentary sovereignty was founded. It would be the some at Rome if the nor sults were invested with the right of wing supplies. Wh e in that Assembly a hullos y should arise against the Pope the supplies wouid be stopped, and by that meats it would be s night to drive the vveronient of the Church into a particular path. What remedy 'veld there be against an opposition whieh would throw the catholic' of the whole world into the moat difficult position ? The Pope would be nominally the head, bat in reality the subject. and of that pan of the mejority of which H. Vidor H ago is no organ— A *one from the centre—H. Is the organ of no one. (Movement.) M. Hit hittnT•lAMßltai—And yet by the path which you ere ;arming, you wail be forced to enme to constraint; since, ir,s, menace, foree is cosily er,ived at. Lock .hat force when employed against the popedom produced. Napoleon was great, and yet from his struggle with Plus VII there ae ailed to his a great disrepute, a great diseorirderation, and finally a great deft at. The Pope certainly has not as many pieees of cannon as you, but he pommies a moral power &Nairn which you will be worsted. It is the weakness of the Holy Qee which constitutes its insurmountable force against us. Is there in I i.tory a more consoling spectacle than the embarrefrvaent of forte when 'speed in a contest with weakness ? When a man strikeia woman. she can say " Saike, but in doing so you color yourself with dishcnour." Yet the church was far more than a woman, for it was a mother ! —(a triple salvo of applause)—the mother of hu manity, the mother of socictv ! (Renewed applause.) No, you will not succeed agair at the church, for it has infinite resources of defence, and is like a hmeiged town that 4:canoe ever be sadism. A Volna on the Left —The church no longer ex'sts. (Loud laughter on the Right.) M. DE MONTALEMBIULT—The chunk has an oil text, now pommies, written in an old book, invented by an old pope, called St. Peter—(gr neral laughter)—end with that word it w:11 conduct you to the end of ages. M. Victor Hugo has compared the force of ideas to the force of dogmas ; but he w-a wrong, for dogmas ha , e a mysterious origin, and they influence the mtnl. Find me an idea that has reigned for eighteen Centuries over a hundred millions of beli-ven. (He .r, hear.) It has Fran said that Oar flig was compro mised by the expedition to Rome. Blasphrmy ! It has not been so, for cause. (Prolonged appinuee from the Right.) History will eco justice to the leader of our army, to the worthy son of one of the giants of our old imperial glory. (Rmistmd skpoltuse. It will say what Piur IX. hi mse lf sa il t o his letter of thaaks) to General Ondinot, that the victory of our army was a triumph gained over the enemies of human society. That is the glory of MIT army, and the glory you surely would sot wirh to lawn by 'lunging yourstlf into a tissue of contss dictiona and taeousistervies. You wrull sadly tarnish that glory if you were to vise up opplsition ag..inat the tiara which you have rescued—if yon were to make cur rldiers, who have herrn the pro.ecton of the Pope, become his op press 1' —if you err re to exchange the • or) of C:eall qua net for such a miserable counterfeit as Garibaldi. (Immense sensation.) The sitting was brought to a close at • 'patter to seven, it the midst of great emotion. FRENCH LEOISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. After the tumult, in which our Saturday's report left the Assembly, had subsided, M. D. MONTALINDSZT said—l are asked to reply to the last speaker ;itis my wish and my duty to do so. I. am told that N. Hugo Is absent, but it will be diScult for me to fol low a speech so Impasiewil without some Mom sttaskinp the speaker, addreming to him questions to which he has not the right to object by the plea of his shame'. The duty of ea orator is not to allow an ammalsly to reseals soder the Mamie of each words and such ideas without replying to them. Allow me, Weever, to orals, sod you will judge whether I say anything insulting to any one. What I will say of the pcsaible future destiorof N. Hugo is this. Should he at some (were day go to Ruse, to there seek for solitude, for peace, and fee the repose of hie soul, he would find them under that statical government which he has new insulted. Yes, be will perhaps go there to seek and to enjoy those blessing*. He will then return Omaha to Heaven for having inspired the Christian powers with the idea of maintaining in Ramp one asylum agaiost the storms end vio , ence of polt. teal life. (Loud interruption from the bit) He will then repent of the speech which he has just Made, and that repentance will be his punishment. (Hear, bear.) Y. e, he will then repent of it—(resewed inteerap• des en the left) —he will repent having calumniated the esserated head a/the church, he will repent of having ca lumniated Frawe in arribeting to her such feelings with =to the papacy. lie has calumniated the Pope in at as to him violence and rigour. When will you find ate gibbets whisk he alludes to—where art the executioners and the torteree he talks or, leader the reign of Pies IX., or even under his predecessors ? A Vice—History swirl tell you. N. DB Morratztensav—Yee, and history will prove that for a long time pot there has not been a single pope who was tyraneical end oppressive— On the L-R—And the Borgia. (General laughter.) N. DB Motreatmumea—The pope always pardons. He is obli•hed to pardoa. A Veice on the Left—Yes, when he is p .id fur It. (Murmurs.) M. Da MOWfALINBIHT.—That is why, in the amnesty which you so insultingly designate as a pr scription, he Is compelled to make exceptions. But where, I will ask, are those phew and these gibbets of which so much has been spoken ? It beelike . , to the (aims nor to the gibbet that the Pope has recourse ; but he is e 'impaled to keel, at dye awe from his states certain men whom he would not punish as we do in Prase,. He is comp lied to adopt a preventive system, in order not to be driven to have recourse to a repressive one. It is th;s, however, which has formed the groundwork of the most impassioned part of the speech of M. Victor Hap. bat you forget, you men of the m ideramt no reromett, you forget that that is a two edged sword. Has not the President of the Republic, in accordance with the National Assembly, reseed to grant to other guilty men tit amnesty which is demanded by those whom yen now ap plaud ? You forget that Pius IX. has already granted as am nesty. That was the fi rst act es his at:erosion to the peal& eel throes. He gnat , dit to men Irks have int sat all per jured themselves—to men who swore to respeei his govern ment, and wno kissed his hand ea taking the oath. I will do that justice to oar demagogue , ' and to our terolutim %% they would sot have committed such an odi rat sacrilege. (Laughter.) And yet you blame the Pope for rot granting a more einirr• Malay, when he was so badly repaid far the arse. iu IX. has mot with what la mre poignant than misteetam—lte has nut with ingralteds. Onu conso lation, however, still remains to him: before he could have met with ingratitude, his harness must have fit the Omar* ~ l idoing pod. Happy, therefore, are those who give rise to ingratitude; bat wretched are those who are angraiefel, and twice wreathed be those who make themselves the &rents iit the crime. (Hew, hear.) The Pep hie m-t with un grateful ma not only at Rome, not *sly an Italy and Rnrope, but here; for it is to be ungrateful to despise such melees as he has rendered by pots .yawl's such a. the Monitarr will have enregiMmed as an instruction for the fu- ture. (Hew, beer j Allusion has been made to the mums by whom the Pope is surrounded, but I protest against suet remarks. (Mho things, we; either the Pope sea as be *lab peeper, and then the insults which are addressed to those amend him fall on himself, or he &ea sot act as he Wake peeper, and then he doss sot merit the derisive praises which yes bestow is him. That is en old rev,le %Maul pima of tads, wide% M. Victor Hugo ought to have centsideved beneath him. It was iavented by tee en foetuses* Loeb XVI. when he staameneed his career as a estormer-- A Voice ea the Let He betrayed Prance l (Murmurs.) M. de Keseretzusnav—lle was separated from all who surroanded hies—from his family, his Mende, and his m etals. The constant remark was, " The King means well, bet he %deceived by thee neer him," and after having is primed and easitleed all those who surrounded him, he was himself led to the -catfold under the name of Is tuffs pet (Sassadeeh) Ronan justice has three fee:area which preceding orators have perhspe too mush confounded. I will or ly notice the last of them I think that with regard to the %amoral emrereignty of the Pope mid the conduct of the Rogue ezpeditine, the question is tit eider by the ',Joe of the Assembly, which can only be revised by history. I dierefers, only occupy myself with veking what are OM MWls Wrest to Rome after the room of the Pope. lift? MO is, efe **least appears to be, weed is admitting Mat it will be impeesiblu to grant t• the R 'man people what the Minister of Foreign Affairs cells poliiieal lib.r'y. L^t us exanda•wkether there is anything else in the siontsp• opri , › Mae a hind of programme or diselaraion of the H ly Father skies ecaudas all the principles of the Ware rovernmest. It kr beest said, and I repeat it, that this moth proprio me tals@ leer principal gnarantees—reform of the lava, reform of the tribeeele, greater provincial and communal liberties thus em enjoyed in Francs, and in the fuarth p 1 ice the a - selarklaMma of the administration in this ems*, not that cc ekeleatige will be excluded, but that lairs will be admitted. Weald yes hen MI the high functionaries to be lam t You would then, perhaps, demand that the Pope himself ehriald Wefts to tee Iday ? (Laughter.) You might as well ask the Impswer of Rani% whose government is essentially mi uptarryy, to have his aeustry governed by lawyers. (Renewed lushest) Be has had a prang of iaf 'airy as his minister of flaansee, and they have sot bees badly 'assure d. I ezwrlth dame who dodge thee the Frew* gavernment legit on the fulfilment of all the prtrn;ses that hat e bees glees ; for mry thing tha ark b.; h • M. DVPILIT—That would be • representative sonereby. IL DI MOXTAL 333333 —ln a representative nannarehy the king it the real subject, but the nominal bead. That, ho , is a state which we do not wish for Rome, for the sovereignty of the Pope would be annthilated. Ha would twain@ what the Patriarch of Constantinople did, who loot dioity in the aids; of pet:Veil (scions, and the atoms of the:streets. (Heir, hear.) What did you go to Rome to eatable's ? It was a• 4 a POn reign, it mu not a respectable man • es Goners' Cavaignso hoe expressed himiolf, it was the pontiff, the P sr, the rintnal head of the church, and the d.rector of catholic cow cnroce.. It is necessary to maiotain him in that power ; for it is I" your interest; if the Pope makes the cone' miens which Y. Victor Hugo d made he will no longer enjoy the just sad a' popularity he I did at his first accession to power. If Popo Pius IX. is seen to profit so lulls by the sad experience whi , l2 he has gone through : if he is seen to again incur the dangers which he has already risked ; to re-establish parliamentary and deli berative power, I say that the confidence which we have in him will be shaken! What is it that reastitates the force of the Pope ? His motel power. But that power would be shaken is est , dolie opinion if the Pops was wen to re com mence that career ea fail of pm it to the (thumb, to himself, end to the charge of which, after all, he is only the de preitary. The Pope and they who support him find several objections to make against a deliberative consults. Who is it that demand such institutions ? Two kinds of men—the first are these who have destroyed these Institutions in France—the republicans of the wills. How ran they ink for Italy what they have d stroyed in France ? Why is it that they do this ? I find the reason in the Notionst, which a few days ago said The Roman people will not frankly and sincerely accept the new libeetit —they will make use of them to GT.I.OVI the prince and get rid of his authority." These men to whom I allude demand a representative government fur Italy. Gentlem.n, I am one of those who approve of that form of government hut when I see that the representative government, directid is Frain by men of the greatest Went, came to an end, as you all saw, by a surprise which overturned it at onto—(inter risottos es the Left)—when I beheld that great and superb government of France so terminated, by a surprise, I am °Alined to admit to =tali that it cannot be the sweerwas Persia in politics; and I think that the Pops may jest re ply to Fruit's :—" &lora recommending others to adopt the representative government, why did you not know how to keep it yourselves?" (Loud ajprobation ) A. Vorca on the Left—Yon want as absolute monarchy ? (Noise.) • N. Ds MoNVALlMßEirr.—Grntlernen, there is one outs. try in Italy_wisish pewees. the representative _government —namely, Fildlllollt. How has she used it ? The King of Sardinia bad given to his people the government now de manded for Hone. What d d the chamber do? It urged C' alts Albert to denounce the armistice; and, when misfortunes impervened, what attitude did it souse ; The Piedmonts.. chamber walked off on one side, as the Austrians entered by the other ! (Movement,) The oppo sition reamed. What has it dons ? It has rendered the government impossible, according to the avowal of every one. It utters its bravado,. at present, that the Austrians are distant, and it tenders the burdea of affairs insupportable to the devoted Min of the goverement. flash are the examples which are given to Pia, IX. by the oily representative go neediest in Italy. I forgot to mention, too, that for some time past they hays been ocespd d in Piedmont la torment ing the bishops. Do you suppose that that course is an lorieuragement to the Pope—that he does not see what is passing ? Do you imagine that all this is in favour of re presentative government ? And yet, in Piedmont, it ls not the clergy who direct affairs, but the laity—and, therefore, I say, that these men cause the possibility of a parliamentary assembly to be doebted. Had not Pies IX. himself given all liberties—the press ; a civic guard ; hate chambers ; the statute ? What were the remits of thus lib. rtiee ? The press dethroned him morally, before he wee so really ; the eiz:e go sad besieged him ; and after the anaseination of N Rood, we behold his successor constitute himself the jailor of the Holy Father. (Appiause.) The Pope, In according liberty table people, has oven proof! of the nob inns an d eseelkuce of his heart. Had not he dons so, you night &ten what his character really is, and believe thut his goverment was iocompatible with regress ; bat he did all that plan scald do. If, conseonsoolv, liberty is not now at Rome, it Is not the fault of Pius IX., but of those who overturned him. (Applause.) You say that the Pope has cheered No, he his not changed ; but he has seen, he has ;trollied by the tenable lesson which God has given him, ant, I add, that he would be inexcusable if that were not the case ; and, gentlemen, had changed, would he have been the 1111* OM Id* had done so ? Yesterday allusion wee made to the spec ay of the great liberal party. Do you sup' me that in this world liberty and progress are sow to bed on as fur. many ? Do you Jennies that a Woody light has soe risen for moray? (Sensation.) On! search obscure depths; pe netrate into the most isolated homesteads; interrogate those persona who have no; meddled with public affairs; probe their sonselenon, and ask them if they love programs and liberty as they loved it once? (Fresh movement.) Ask theta if their faith in them is not 'hakes ? (Exclamations on the Left.) I eon conceive the affliction this truth muses roi— -1 also feel it. Well, then, out of a thousand liberals yea will not find a single one at present who has not a hundred tines less ardour than he had formerly (Loud denial on the lift.) You cry out against that assertion ? Why, it is one of year own orators who has said so. (Hear, bear.) I only explain the phonniens, and the explanation is tole that the flag has been usurped by impure demagogues. (Roe sewed 'estimations on the ler., Can it be that you assume what I say to yeenelves ? (Laughter on the right) I re. peat that the flag of liberty has been usurped by impure demagogues, who have sullied its earn. On the Left—lt is the Jesuits who have destroyed it. (Affinities.) . M. Ds MORTAL 888888 —I say that everywhere, at the Capitol as at the Ba Mrs Footaiaebleau, at Frankfort at at Perth, the democratic poniard hes endeavoured to any out the affairs ef ribery. A Voice im the Left—And the roniard of kia:s! Another Voice—And the assassination of Marshal Ney ? And Oaring' ? M. Di MONTALSMSEIT—Yon mend= Galling. Don ouppme that I have two weights and two measures Was it Was it ant I who was the first to come forward and brand with reprobation the massacres of Galatia? I did so, sad I do aot repent it, As to there of Hungary, if what the journals say he true—(murmurs on the Left )—l condemn them, detest them. deplore them ; and I add that, after all, they are but acts of reprisal. (Nowneent.) Do you know what is is that extinguishes in men's hearts the flame of liberty ? I: is not tyranny, for look at Poland, where that sacred fides could survive a triple oppression Ns,—it is the demagogues of whom I spoke just now—(interrepdes on the Left)—it is, I say, these demagogues, who wage an impious and implacable war on human instituion—on the be... of all truth and all sound justice (Applause.) Look, what was pass , int is Europe than years ago. Liberty was everywhere ex , ere sing her power; kings came by tuns, perhaps with some ' uswillingens in cense cases(leughter)—hut still came end laid their crowns at she feet of liberty, demandiug from her a new one. The Pope himself, that living symbol of authority, the most august incarnation—(laughter on the Left; interruption.) The Pinennater—lt shall be marked down and take* note of, that demagogues cannot be attacked without excit- ing your murmurs, nor a reap orate authority be spoken of without drawing from you monied laughter and derision. (Hear, hear.) M. Da MONTALIUBBILT—Pine IX. had thought that he scald demand from liberty an additional ornament for hie tiara; bet you overturned all that, you stopped the current in its opens, and you struck down the liberty which had inspired as with so much confidence (Laughter on the You have no doubt deth and more kings, but eon haws wee certainly dethroned liberty. (fien.ati ) The Nage have nessended their themes, but liberty has not re assumed hen. I know well that you have written up the word on every wall and every corner—Goad latioleter)— beft from men's hearts the word is blotted out. Yes, that noble-spirited, generous' liberty which we loved so well— (ironinal laughter on the Left. " Yes, yes," on the Right ) The liberty te not dead, I treat, but extenuated, woikeued, fainting, Weid— a& the Left -Br volt ! N. Di MONTAL ZZZZZZ —By the partisan of the so- vereignty of aril. hear.) Me friends and it hailed with joy the forwarl march of Pius IX. but we have met with cruel disappo meet. Yep, the tr ial has turned not against Plus 1X., 0 but against liberty. (Applause.) Ah I how I should like to have thine desogogees, these anat • ehists, has before me, to all them once for all the tru hs whisk they ought to hear. (Norman on the left.) I w , old nay to then . " the greatest of your enact is not to have shed blood, which , however, cries out against you e, is not to have mattered rain over all Bump ; rift to have deerechented the world its ideas of liberty—(great sensation) — arid to have 'bond back towards its swans the current of Maas truths." (Prol-nged applause.) Toe he.. geetlemau then went on to say the. it was eneseery tin ell the Pope, end not constrain him. That without dot; t, 4 it he, the wish of the opposition itself, VOt Court. WINDSOR, SATURDAY.—His Excellency Abbot Lawrence had his fiat audience of the Queen this day, in the Castle, and had the honour of presenting his credentials to her Majesty, es Envoy Evraordinary and Minister Plea paentisry et the United 8 the. His Excellency was in troduced by Vacant Palmerston, G C. 8., her Majesty'. principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Ri ht Hon. Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, K.C.8., was presented to her Majesty, at an audience, by Viscount Palmerston, and tack leave, on proceeding to America m Envoy Extraor dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Static The Queen and Prince Albert walked at an early hour this morning. The Prince of Wales. and the other members of the royal family, took their usual things Her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess Canning, lady in waiting. and General Wan yes, equerry in waitaig, drove out in Windier Perk. His Rays! Highness Prime Albert went out shooting this morning, attended by Lord Water park, Major General Bowles, Vent: Colonel A. N. Hood, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. the Earl of Carlisle left the Castle this morning. Her Royal Highnsaa the Diabase( Kent dined with the Queen sad Prince Albert this laming Lord Waterpark has relieved Lord Cuaoys in his dative as Lad in Waiting to her Majesty. SUNDAY.—Her Majesty *Ad his Royal Highness Prins* Albert tab their usual early walk this morning. The Royal Family to* walking exercise. The Queen and Prince Albert, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service in the private chapel. The Hon. and Rev. 0. Wellesley oftidated. Her Royal Highness the Dachas of Kent also attended the service. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager passed rather an indifferent night on Friday, but appeared more com posed on Saturday Ripening, and slightly rallied in the after noon. Their Senna Highnesses Prince Edward and Prince Hermann of Saxe Weimar arrived at the Priory, &armor., on Saturday, the former from Windsor end the hater from the continent. Prince Edward of Sale Weimar left the Priory in the evening on his return to Windsor. Prince Hermann remained on a visit to her Illejenty. The Queen Dawager pained a tolerable night on Saturday. Sir David Davies is in constant attendance on her Majesty, and Dr. Bright returned to the Priory yesterday afternoon to attend her Matesty. There has boon no improvement in the state of her Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince Georg* left town on Saturday sight. Despatches from the governors of the West India colonies IMO received on Saturday at the Colonial•oilice. COLOIIUL APPOINTMENTS.—Liontenant George Bolt, R.N., late a stipendiary 'magistrate of British Guiana, 4 appointed seperi 'idiot of the pond settlement in that colony. Poreivel Ninon, Erg , is appointed colonial surgeon for her Majesty's settlements in the Gambia. Charles Francis Stout, John James Haddock, and George H. A. Porter, Batirs., are appointed members of council in the Virgin Islands. A P. Bent, Big ,is to have ins rank of Queen's counsel la the Virgin Islands.—Obsereer. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. Oa Saturday the Lord Mayor mad members of the Coen of Aldermen met fur the purpose of Making arrange. meats for the occasion. The aquatic procession and escort from Whitehall, the intended place of embarkation, to the Custom-houst quay, will to • great extent be the same ender of arrangement as was kept on the memorable visit of Koug William IV. at the opening of New L ndon•bridge. At present it is not certain whether her Majesty will embark in the royal barge or in one of the small steam yachts—Fairy, or Elfin. They have been ordered to be in the Thames by the later part of the week, and should the weather be unfavourable, it is not at all improbable that the royal trip will be made in the beau tiful little Fairy. In order, however, that there may be no disappoiatment is this matter, the royal barge is being re fitted sad re gilded with the greatest despatch at Deptford dockyard. The embarkation will take place about half-put twelve o'clock, within a short time of high water ; and in order that no interruption mty occur to the profiler of the royal party, a necessary f.rm, will be on the river, in order to keep the cannel dear of steamboats and other craft. The au thorities have expremed a wish to the several steamboat com panies that they will co-operate with them is maintaining order daring the day, and that no dangerous overcrowding of verde will be allowed. The firing of guns is to be strictly prohibited. The hes of procession is to be kept by the boated the revenue cutters stationed in the river that can be spared by the Deptford and Woolwich dockyards, the form of the har bour master, Captain R,wtand, and the whole body of the Thames police. It is net definitively Axed as to what part the deb authorities will take oa the water, whether or not they will go up to Whitehall in state, and escort the Queen down the river. In the event of seek not Wag the ore the whole of the eorporatiee barges and those of the different &impedes will be mooted in as favourable a posi tion as poesible between Laudon-bridge and the Count hues, so se to when of the royal lest pawing close to them. Of the sight on the river undoubtedly this will be the chief plat of Muslim It le warmly aseessery to mention that the Mgr* in the Peel and in the docks will be gaily &eked sea en this arseginous occasion ; and so great is the loyal ealhaeleens of the million that we have heard they intend to send a beat from each ship dressed out in colours, and to form a agile line, through with* the royal harp would pees The Stiord al" S honour will comprise the Hos. Artillery Compeay,et whisk his Royal Highest Primo Albert b colonel, The Lord Mayor having presented the City sword to her Majesty, the illustriose party will be conducted aloeg the platform attended by the high caws of state. The pablio opening of the building as the London Coal Esehaage will then be after watch the royal party will be conducted over the , and it is expected that her Majesty and Prince Albert partake of a sump tuous **taw served up la tke_grand hall. This will due the ceremony of the °pedals. The royal party will retina slug the platform to the Cubist Meese Quay, and re-ens bark on board the royal barge, and with the Admiralty, Trinity, and lichee bargee proceed to Whitehall, and thence to the palace. Should the weather be he, the spectacle wM be one of the most Palmated charac er. At the principal baildicgs on the banks of the river platforms will be erected to view the royal aquatic parade. The Fairy mew steemer, and the Elfin paddle-wheel veal, are ordered from Portsmouth to London, to assist en the above occasion. The funnel of the former need has been made to fall down to admit of shostiog the bridges, and the latter is having *Pint made is her's to enable her to do so likewise. Captain Crbpio, the second in comorsad of the royal yacht, undyed at the Admiralty on Friday, to reedwriestructioni from the board relative to the royal nay- Nation oa the 30th. the steam-yacht of the Lords of the Admiralty (the Black Eagle) has also been ordered from Portsmouth, probably to moist at the soya] ceremony, and arrived in the river on Friday evening.— Obeencr. TIM Hi aids, Ciptain Bone, sailed from Liver pool on Saturday. for HAIM: and New York. OFFICAL Rirrimin Intrrnirerforin.—The anthori tfeeof the revenue befog of opinion that such unnecessary expense sad labour attends ace pennies at present observed of lonia; to aU persons on their tint *datum to the public servile, sad to sant *Sore ors their prosnosion, a sew set of printed lantrostione for the oasis to whisk they may have bees •Proid_fad or prontoted. orders Ws been beard and prornsiprost that the %notice of haulm inewmaiono ad deemed psmonally to °SAW% be dhosatinsod. sad that in future cm the removal, promotion, sapertesaion, or death of an alter, instead of his institutions being oaseelled, they be delivered to his eues um in office, additional copies or in wadi Ins being, however, 'applied when neeewary in lien of those lost, or worn out. er otherwise unfit for at.. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. MEETING AT STOCKPORT. The annual meeting of the Stockport Parliamentary ii.foTlll Aseceiati'n was hell at the Lyceum, in that borough. on Prissy evening. A soirée was given on toe occasiou, and, besides the members of the associsti . a, the meeting was graced by the presence of a great sumber of Whs. A de mi-ad:in was also announced to be present from the Landon P elementary and Financial Reform Associsti ,n, to conk of Sir J shun Wslmeley and Tindal Atkinson, Esq. ; but the former gentleman from Gunn cause was not /able to attend. Among the other principal guests besides Mr. At kinson were James Kershaw, E-q.. MP. (one of toe s eine spottily's of the burnugh), Sr. Ralph Pi ndlebury, J hn Williams, Eeq , M.P., and Mr. Archibald Prentice, and Mr. W. finuttlevronh, se a depwetion In m the Man chester Financial ai d Perliamot tary &twat Aseociation. Mr. Councillor WILLIAMSON was called upon to preside, and, in opening the pr. ending- said the association whose anniversary they were me: t o ce lebrate, was emelt fished with a view to preventing the growth of monopolies, for the pur pose of securing the removal of abuses in the legislation of the country generally, and above all, to secure, os represen tatives of the borough, men who would do their best in the House of Commons to promote these object., and who would, The chairmen c ap.lcolonuprcli tte,cin.btyitillluieoviutodoll cheers.) on all occasions, vote fir reform and propene. (Lbeers.) oast, as i e g e t u r e . ant in the .r th h e e t s" atxt toTaanhedet affectionsCiue tray o t t s he the Prince of Wales, and the 7trit ' of ' t T he he ß P .s ri e n l "C'mt ' Family." a The CHAIRMAN said he had next to propose a stud mutt, which would call forth a response from Mr. Williams, the hon. member for Macclesfield. (Great cheering) It was "The people —may they, by making a wise nee of the sdnistage• of knowledge and good ineututions, elevate the character of their country awl wore their own prosperity and happiness." (Loud cheers.) J. A ILLIAMS, Esq., M P., immediately rue, and, :titer the is-manse and hearty chairing with which he was re ceived had subsided, the hon. geed: man said, Mr. Chair man, men and weeps of Stcaport,-1 am sot come ten to:Light to beody nmeliatents wi.h any party, bat timely to bear •eatioiony to the bent-Mend straight-torward manner in wt let your repre:ereative, James Kershaw, E:q , has perforated his duty in the Mouse of Commons. (Loud cite. n.) I fel o uoh innrealed in this meeting to-night, and I thank the committee for placing is my hands a resolu -I.n bearing upon the interests of the people. I have myself been a working men—ihear, hear)—and I rejoice that the working classes of Meoclesfild have, with honour to them selves, carried me to the proud position I now occupy on their shoulders. (Cheers.) And I trust that my conduct whether as a commercial man or as a politician, will never mum a blush upon their cheeks. if sympathies ere with my own clue, and that is, the great body of the people. (Cheers.) The creators f wealth—which we are, all of us, middle and working classes—talk no more to me about diatinetions of clam among the peole, when we are all of us of this work ing due. (Hear, hear.) There is nut a man on this plat form who does not owe his position to the labour of his hands or brains, and such a man is ten thousand times more wett able in my estimation than any other man. (Cheers) I want to form a pri'per party—a national party—(hear, heat) —I want all men to be united togethe'. I care nothing, as I told you before, about whips and tories; I should like to see both annihilated altogether. (Cheers and laughter.) The tones are brave, and honourable, and generous many of them. just as much as the whige, but both of them are going off. The whip are too ner veleta to live, sad too weak to die. (Cheers and laughter.) I third' I see, at this moenent, the whole band of them—the Greys, and Elliot., and Howells. I say they are, at this very moment, as • goverment, as feeble as the dying ; 1 my they are is cold and inanimate ,the sepulchre, to which they are tottering as feat as their weakness will allow them. (Laughter.) Well, now it is for us, the people—the Stock port people as the Macclesfield people—the men and women of England—to erect upon the tomb of both parties, whips and tories, at their funeral, the citadel of that party which inscribes on its banners those three charmed words, • Liberty, prosperity, and pewee." (Great cheering.) And when that party rises—l see them rising in the vista of futurity already —we shall say, " Farewell, • long farewell, to that species of greatness which has been fostered by their littleness," and has beset the safeguard of the slavery of the world. (Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN next proposed, "Oar melons, and pa triotic, and indefatigable representative James Kershaw, with the thanks of his constituents for hL attention to kis parliamentary duties." (Loud cheers.) JAMES KERSHAW, IN., M.P , roes to respond amidst great cheering. The hon. member said : Ladies and gentlemen, I am glad to meet you thus publicly, inasmuch salt affords n.e the opportunity of seeking some reference to the put of our political connexion—to the meaner in which I have discharged my duty to my constituents—and also to some of the questions of public policy, which are ooeupyiog the attention of contending political parties at the present time. (Hi at, hear.) Deprived of the valuable services of your late repreeentative, Mr. Henry Manned, for whose services I think this borough is under a d,bt of bodies gratitude—(cheen)—through the retirement of that gentles= from public life, you were celled upon, on the eve of a general election, to choose two iadividuale who should occupy the vacant seats in the Housed' Commons. My able friend, Mr. Cobden—(loud and prolonged cheering, the whole assemblage rising from their seats). I digest* for a moment to thank you most heartily in the name of Mr. Cob den for that cheer you have so enthusiastically given him—a ' nobler, a more disinterested, an bonester man it was aunt ' my fortune to meet. There he is, night after night, in the House of Cammons, toiling for your interests—and not for your Interests alone, but for the good of the whole country. I sae him, " Diet fins patriot thus, " Who made the welfare detonated his are." (land cheering.)—end I hope ere long you shall yet learn that be hos conquered. (Cheers.) I say my able friend Mr. Cobden was again put in nomination by the liberal party, whilst Mr. Heald was put in nomination by the con servatives to supply the place of Mr. Manland. I was then urgently requested to become a second candi date in the liberal interest (The hon. member then de tailed the circumstances of his defeat on that occasion, and of his subsequent election.) Mr. Kershaw then went oa to say, I make these passing allusion for the double purpose of re minding you, in the first place, of what may be accomplished by a firm and united body of patriotic men, zealous for their political rights; and in the second, prepared to defend them, and of thanking you for the proud position in which you then placed me. This brings me to the inquiry which you have a right to institute, " How have I discharged my duty to my conatituents ? " It was alleged against me by my opponents, that commer cial engagements would not allow me to attend as I ought to my duties in parliament. I expressed my determination that, health permitting, I would do so. Have I or have I not kept that engage ment? (Cheers.) A person who, for the first time, CAto parliament, has, I assure you, much to . One important lemon is to know when he ought to be silent. Many an aspiring man has ruined his reputation and influence, by too much talk. I am content rather to listen on most occasions, and in listening I can deliberate and decide between the two conflicting parties. However, I may just say that I have sm ken more freqaently, and at greater length than the parliamentary reports would lead ycu to suppose ; and when I have risen in my place in the house, I have always endeavoured to speak directly to the point, and have always had accorded to me a fair hearing. come now to a subject of far greater importance than either my attendance in the house, the number of my votes, or the observations I have addressed to it. I sided' to the character of those votes. I have recorded my votes in such manner as my judgment ap proved. It cannot however be expected that in the multi tude and variety of subjects whilst are constantly brought forward, that any man can, in every instance, give equal satisfaction to all. Amid the varying opinions, sentiments, and feelings of mankind, which must always exist, It is as much as can be hoped for from any man, that he uniformly votes in the spirit of his professions, and in accordance with the views of those who, in the main, agree with him In poli. tied principles, and who intrumei him to maintain, defend, and promote than. I am not the individual to relax one particle of the hold which eonstituences have, or ought to have, over their representatives ; on the contrary, I maintain that a member of parliament is under the strongest obligations to vote in accordance with the views of these who sent him thither for that very purpose, so far as he understands them, and can do so consistently with his avowed opinions. his deliberate judgment, sad conscientious convictions. (Applause.) Else, meat becomes of the prin ciple of representation ? What a curity have you for any one object for which you electeu him ? On the other hand, a member of a deliberative numbly mast not be a mere delegate—he cannot be. He is swore to consult, to the beat of kW adgment the stood of his country r a whole. (Hear. hear.) After all therefore, something must be le ft to the discretion and judgment of your representatives, and ham the importance of selecting men is whose opinions, judgment, honour, and poliPical integrity you idea you may safely confide. On these prtnciples it is that I am willing to be judged. I am not censeious that I have, on any single occasion, violated any single principle I ever professed, or of having acted contrary to my public de claration of political faith. (Cheers.) After reading a summary of hit votes from the Stockport Mercury . Mr. Ker shaw continued: From these matters, which have had relation to the past of our political connexion, I will now pass to the brief consideration of some of those questions of public policy which ere occupying the attention of political parties. First, there is the question of a reform of parliament, including the extension of , the right of votiug to a much larger number of our yy fellow.countrymen. 1 diem universal suffrage totslly impracticable in the present state of public teeliug ; but I have said that as Information and knowledge increased, as I felt eoufident they must, that in that proportion, at least, the right of voting °nett to be t :ended. (H..er ) I am rill of the same opi. loft. I am aware of the difficulty of sound and practical legislation on this point. It involves elementary, greet, sad important principles ; and I wish the man could be found who should salve the problem to the eatitfacti..n of the peo ple, and the good of the country. I am bound to say that the preent strewn is vicious, impolitic, ungenerous, and unjust. (Hear.) There can be no doubt that thousands of working men in this coantry might secure for themselves the right of voting, by property economising the money which now they foolishly or osrelts.ly mean. Take the hint,' -u to whom th a sut.j.et in any measure ap plies. Be wioi, be prudent, and y-u will woo earn for your , selves the undoubted ridlit and qu, rat p • .gpoion of your political privileges. (Floir, hear) Tritte —, r y • pi:doe, no policel buhjeet of moro vital importance than the states of feeling among the greet musts of the people with regard to ibis queaion. On the wise, timely, proper and just ' , lotion of this important matter depends in • great degree the safety, prosperity, and glory of Great Britain. (Hear, hear.) Are the great body of the working clans, of this country represented as they ought to be 1 that is the question. (Hear, hear.) I maintain they are not. . (Cheerio It appears by a return presented to the House of a masons in 1845, that there were, is round numbers, only one in sevente.ea rf the working men of the kingdom en titled to the franchise ; cud yet these are the men who manufacture our pods, build our houses, cultivate our Acid,. —who, is feet, create all our wealth; and still they are to be told that they are unfit to give a vote as to who should re. resent them in par:lament—to be told in effect that they had nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. (" Hear," and laughter.) They are tazed,they coutribute to the exigencies (Attie state, they are liable to be called upon to take arse to defend the country; they are liable even to be takto by a press g.ng. They are fit for every • thing but to have a voice in the national represents no which, to say the least, they are most deeply in terested. (Hear, hear.) They are treated es though they had not common sense to judge of the qualifications of some great man, who should aspire to the honour of serving them in Parliament. I might quote figures without end to show how the present system works, but I Dave perhaps detained you too long already on this point. But you must permit me to refer to a subject to which I Bennet help attaching considerable importance—viz., the mode of voting at elections. I have never hesitated, either in or out e of parliament, to give my hearty and unqualified support to the ballot—(cheers)—as an infinitely safer mode of preteetion to the voter than the present system. It is admitted that the ballot would prevent intimidation, if not bribery. My belief an that to a great extent it would prevent both. (Hear.) At present it is notorious that electors are both intimidated ana bribe d. The exercise of the right of voting is • solemn trust and sacred duty, and yet what ahimeful practices are retorted to for the purpoaeof Inducing electors to vote against their convictions and cormelence. It ' is the undoubted right of the voter that he should be left ab solutely free to use his judgment and vote for the man who , he believes wid best promote the interest of the country. I (Hear, hear.) And I contend that while bribery, corruption, and intimidation exist to so I.ree a degree as we know they do, it is the duty of a wise legislature to seek to establish that form of voting which would gre atly diminish, if not eradicate, these gross evil,. Why at it that in the club-houses in London, indeed almost everywhere, the members art elected by ballet ? Why, nosily that the nobles oral gentry attending those club& may exercise their judgment without painful consequences, and yet many of these rich men who seek the protection of this mode o voting deny it to their tenants and poor dependents. (Hear, hear.) It is said that a man who does not exercise his vote openly and courageously does not deserve one. Why this very objection implies that there is danger; elm what need of courage ? (Hear, hear.) There is often danger to the poor honest voter, and therefore I contend he has a tight to protection. (Applause.) Shortening the duration of par liaments is another topic to which you may expect me to refer. You have seen that I have voted against the Septennial Act. I have done so upon mature reflection. I believe there are great disadvantages to the people in representatives having so lone • lease of their scan. It is said short reckonings make long friends ; and I am sure that short parliaments would make better representatives. (Hear, hear.) A minister, if he has a large majority at his back, will be anxious to retain power, the members you may be assured are not fond of dissolutions, and thus the two motives operating together may be greatly detrimental to the interest, of the people and the welfare of the nation. (Hear, hear.) One word about financial reform. This may be regaled as one of the great questions of the day. It is a subject which deeply concerns the united empire, and not less event man wh e pats taxes or consumes taxed com modities. I might add, that it is • subject in which is in volved the integrity and safety of England. (Hear, hear.) He. Kershaw called upon all present to exert their utmost efforts to secure the measures to which he had alluded as the only means of enab:ing us to refuse to an extravagant government the means of supporting large war estallishments is a time of peace. He at down amidst great cheering. The CHAIRMAN said the next sentiment is "The Na tional Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association, and success to its effort+ in procuring the reduction of oar taxation and expenditure, and obtaining a better representa tion of the industrious classes in parliament." (Loud cheers.) TIN DALL ATKINSON, Esq , then rose, and was re ceived with loud cheers. He said it was true he was a stranger among them from the south, and he represented an important association, which had existed for some nine months in the mete .polit of this country. That association was embodied together for the purpose of ob taining from the hands of government, or rather from the aristocracy of the country, a large measure of parliamentary reform. He should trouble them for a short period instating the region why the National Associa tion in London was compelled to adopt parliamentary reform before the advocacy of financial reform. Some nine months ago a large number of gentlemen met together in London to concert upon the beat means of strengthening the hands of gentlemen in Manchester who had undertaken the laudable tuk of enlightening the public mind on the financial abuses which pervaded all parts of the system of gnvernment in this country. It was of course of importance that London should speak out upon this question. (Hear, hear.) They con vened a meeting, and brought forward a programme in which they made financial reform the principal feature. They went cau'iou'ly step by step, because they remem ber-el that London was the lest, in the great question of free trade, which responded to that energetic *meal made by our clear-beaded, farsighted brethren in the north. However important they felt it was that the pulse of London should be felt in respect to those great questions which had begun to agitate the public mind, and a meeting was called at the London Tavern, and the very first step which was taken was, when Mr. Osborne got up to address the meet. big to move as an amendment that the word "parlia mentary " should precede " financial " reform ; and, u there was scarcely a dissentient voice in the room, they were compelled to yield to that public ex pression of the opinion of the meeting which they had themselves convened ; and that was the reason why " parliamentary" preceded " financial " reform in the title of the London us seiation. (Hsu.) They held metropoli. tan mutinies, and the result was, that they could not get a building large enough to hold them. (Cheers.) One meet ing wes held at Drury-lane theatre, and many thousands attended who could not gain admittance. Public opinion having thus spoken cut in smut unmistakeable Meaner, that the people of London, et all events. looked for financial reform through the House of Commons 1p coming, what it is not at present--a fair and impartial reflex of the free and enli6t ened opinions of this country—the people of London had embodied themselves into an association for the purpose of obtaining from those who had now poem lesion of the institu tions of this country, a large concession of popular rights, more especially the right if voting for all thou who had been twelve months in porenion of a tenement. (Cheers.) That measure would admit four millions of electors within the pale of the constitution. They would learn that there was a temper abroad among oar Anglo-Baxon country men that would not much longer bear such a state of things as now exists—(cheers)—that education has been doing Its work (imperfect as the means are) — that the printing press has been doing in work, too, among the thousands, and that the result of all this was a spirit and a determination abroad, demanding that government shall not longer be for the advantage of the few at the expense of the many—(loud sheen)—but rather that the spirit which Bentham called forth shall be enthroned at its head, decreeing, instead of continued wrong and oppression, the principle of "the greatest happiness to the greatest number." (Great cheering.) The people of Stockport had as yet only done half their share towards this great work. They one reforming member only, they had created a ve pair of Siamese twine—(laughter)—and what he would recommend was, that at the next election they should try a leglialative surgical experiment, by cutting in two the petty ligature which bound a bed representative to their good one—(laughter)—place another good one by the side of their best man—(hear, hear)—and join them both, if they would, with the noble hand who were now getting condo tency and form in the House of Commons as a party, and were creating there already a better atmosphere, whereby there was a hope that even the present generation would be able to hand down to their children a better heirloom than they received from their ancestors, and which he trusted would lead to most important, beneficial, and lasting results. (Loud ewers.) ARCHIBALD PRENTICE, En., was received with loud applause, and mid he had to make a pleasing announce ment to them—which was, that he should make a very short speech. It would be bad taste in him, considering that ha bad had already en opportunity of speaking in that room to a large assemblage of the people of Stockport, to ray any thing ta occupy the time of the present meeting much mere. (Cries of "Go oe," and cheers.) As a member of the Manchester Financial and Parliamentary Reform Associa tion, he had great Omura in following r.Tindal Atkinson, and remising the eatnest co-operation of that association in the (kens he had named. Mr. Pesti ea then alluded to the speeches which had been previously delivered, and sat down amidst much applause. After a few words from Mr. Joan HAMER and Mr. LEECH, a vote of thanks was given to the chairman, and the meeting separated about eleven o'clock. FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY'S CONPERENCE.—TbO conference of the friends to this movement is fixed to take place at Birmingham on the 13th of Novi mbar. Sir Joshua Walmsley. Id.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Bright, 11. P., Mr. Scholelield, Id.P., and • number of local celebrities., have promised to attend. It is anticipated that much of a useful • character in the way of forwarding this movement will result from this at. sting. SUNDAY LABOUR AT TH4 POST-OFFICE.—The Mayor of B rmi igham has (upon a requi-ition being pre , s:wed to him) cellcd a town's wirehair, for the purpose of co .ablering the propriety , of adopting a memorial to the Lords of the Treasory, praying that the tramoulselon of mails and delivery of letters an Sunder may be entirely sue pendod tbr-ughout the United Kingdom. The Town Council having taken the subject of the recent Post-offlos minute into eobsideration, have, on the motion of Mr. Alder man Reach, resolved on the adoption of a memofsar to go vernment in favour of their proposed arrangement. THE LATE BISHOP OF LLANDAPP.—AL. St. Paul's Cathedral 3 e-tertiay afternoon a funeral sermon to *elle istCr- wary of toe late Right Rev. 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