The Express. — London, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

t'el preface to this fifth edition Mr. Disuatu admisisters a tole:soli et arp rebuke to the mireerity fa the Hoes* of Commons who voted against the Ices Bill: Do modem Jew, have los, is ender the odium • stages s ias hieval iatertemines. In the dark ego when w a g was sokaown, the weans of societi.a, undistuebed r oi, tradi Lamy esperisass. men strong, and their movie „sweated by mitt ham, were rem sorrily faradeel. Is v i a disatisg the 'override right of the thatch of b a ss to be the perpeteet relerittatOT of man, the writer *geed the . time bad arrived when some attempt should be tssds Mdo JialllCO to the rem whieb had headed Christie TIM oriole has developed la smother work ('Tea I Me views respeetice the great he we of Israel, which k o iodinated la • Cealettebr.' Ito sue Imo attempted to p e as the et, nor is refetattoa possible." ?hi. is pretty explicit, but it is merciful c unpaved w i t h the lash administered in " Cmingeby," to the hypcorPee who affect to argue political questions on theologies' rumples: Iso all for a religious coe," mid Toper. " mans „Law, Mid if srookusfisi, does wes Woofer, with &tallow, s a te see are in " Mr. DISRAELI expose the economical hypocrisies Obis perry as mlentlesely as their religious : What (humdrum tins' er merchants meant by conservative F isciphs it is net &Seto% to corjecture ; or West Ischia plaint. It was Ulu, bly clear on the has it es what eclair , s s od farmers sad their followen meant by cosservative prin. s e l s a What they mean by conservative now is o.ithe question, and whether conservative prind , Its m e an metatking higher than the P erpetuation of fiscal airing.- Mats, some of them very impolitic, nose of them very sepertaat Finally, Mr. DISRAELI bee typified the tones who sppolied the Itetortn Bill in Lord Monmouth, Mr. Ormsby, and Mr. Rigby; ar.d the caries who have tease/oared to wrest the Reform Bill to their own 'armors in Mr. Taper and Mr. Tadpole. If any one wishes to me the protectionist party de pleted se hypocrites in their religious profession., callotely and thievishly selfish in their financial and economical policy, base and false in their electioneer ing INSLONIV:SO, and to a man fools and fribbles withal, let him consult the pages of " Cooingeby." And it is this book that Mr. Diseaect has seen fit to pettish st the commeoctment of a reels. which the party is to devote to provincial agitation, and with this premium: The sweeps of the work was not questionable. Three ec asiderohle editions were told in this country is three ninths: it was largely circulated thr,ischout the collisions* Europe, and more than 50,000 swiss were required in the Valid States of America. Is the fifth year of its life, the wri'er bee bent called upon to preprint the fifth 'ration of a work for some time oat of prise, and which is now paired to Ms public is a form of easy acquisition to those who may wish to p ;PM IL Since the days of CORIOLARES, the i • moot sweet voices" of a party have not been asked in this fashion. "1 hare lampooned you, says Mr. DISRAELI to his followers. "at home and abroad, in Er gland, Europe, sad America. And now lam publishing a cheap—a people's edition of my bo.k, to give if possible more universal circulation to my envenomed exposure of your vices and weaknesses." The relations which exist between such a party and such a chief are the most anomalous on record. They throw, however, an instructive light on the character and position of the party. No one can deny to Mr. DISRAELI the possession of great natural Lrilliancy and high artrical accom plishments. lie catches with delicate tact the salient, soperticial characteristics of individuals and sccioty, and reproduces them in a graceful and strek'ng man ner. But he cannot reason and be cannot even com prehend a ptiuciple. He retails anecdotes and impro vises imaginary conversation with great felicity, and herein co. eats the attraction of his novel,. But the incidents and adventures in these works are as fantastic ant unreal as the dreams a schoolboy in dulges in of a heroic corer. Mr. Dismeett is in capitol° of harirg his views cf man and his dere inks matured and renuered real by experience. In all the 'higher faculties of humanity he is a schoolboy still, and will eocticue to be. He in this at least mem bles the Arcadian shepherd-boy of the poet, "piping as them/h Le could his combioati n a mature and vivid fancy with an intellect and moral serum withering before they have ripened, Mr. Dtseaent realists the old fable of VIT- EoNrs, who, having received the gift of immortality without that of p rpttusl youth, shrivelled up into a dry, elastic, chirping, tiny grasshopper. He is brisk nece and littleness inseearably united. What, then, are the qualities which have made a political notoriety of such a man? Unscrupulous sycophancy, and a vixen tongue. By the one he in gratiates himself at the outset; by the ether, he de tm the timid from oaring hint off. Wittig has recorded how DISRAELI first essayed his arts of flat tery OR Lord DURIIAII; "Coningaby" pirpetustes how he tried them on Louts PRILIPTE and Sir Itto BERT PEEL. These attempts were fruitless. His fin' encores was with " Young England," which lie has shaken off since he gained the ear of the protec tionist party. Affectation of sympathy and profound respect at first incein d this party to allow him to be one of their spokesmen, and irmer.sibly to sesame a leading part among them. And his treveterate at tacks upon PEEL for Pet offering him " a very subor dinate appointment" make them afraid to break with him. In so far es DISRAELI alone is concerned it would be waste of time to draw attention to these facts; he will find hi. level KO long by a natural process. But they are important as illustrative of the party which allows him to stand forth as their accredited mouth piece. The conscious imbecility of men who can fled so one among them capable to speak their senti meets bet one who has so cruelly exposed their in nate weakness and worthlessness; the gullibility that could be brought to relent after receiving sna insults by a few glcsing acd obviously insincere smooth speeches; the cowardice which emboldens the offender to repeat the insult in the ostentatious Coy be has now done:—it would be incredible that ill these shameful qualities should b.: found to per vade a b holy of some hundreds of English gentlemen were it not that facts es'ablish the degrading truth beyond dispute. Such a combination is no party, but a miscellaneous assemblage of idlers enacting a party foe their own amusement at a fancy ball. Toney can no more be re garded Is bawd fide aristocrats, ultra-churchmen, and protictionists than the Eton boys at the Montem done ribed is " Coniogiby;' could be taken for the Tin ks,Cruaders, and military officers whose drums they amused for the dsy. Their professions of a poli tical creed are as unreal as the Jecabitisin which it became fasnionablo to affect during the first heyday of the popularity of the Waverly novels. Such a combination cannot last. Tne first general election, at a time of real national excitement, will matter it to the four winds. The parties themselves will grow tired of keeping up the farce. That pol tical church cannot endure whole only tolerable preacher is an avowed and ostentatious unbeliever in its creed. In England, of all coui.tries in the world, confessed ahams speedily lose their attraction. gbe Court. Vicit-RROAL LoDot. Dtin.nr, AUGUST Royal litiOnses the Prince Albert yesterday visited His Royal Prince George of Cambridge at the Royal Barraeks. AI:01:111 9.—His Royal Highness the Prince Albert re viewed yesterday morning at eight o'clock the followieg Cavabyßaiseents The Royal Horse Artillery, the 6 Drogues Goads, the 6th Dragoons, the Bth Human. the 17th Lamers. The troops were under the command of His Royal 'Whams Prince George of Cambridge. At one Has , Majesty the Queen and His lila Highness 1 the Prince Albert attended by his Excellency the Lad- Lieutenant and the Counter of Clarendon, Vltava's, Jocily - (Lady m Waiting), the Marqois of Onnoode (Lord in Waitsp), the Right Hoa. Sir George Grey, Lieut.- Coloaeb the Hon. C. Phipps and A. Gordon f Equerries in Waidag) arrived at the Costle, where Her Majesty , and His R yal Highness were naiad by the Lail Steward , and us Lord Cbambirlsia, and aim by the mambas of the Lted,Ltenstessaat's Household. Her Majesty and hie Rlyal Mahan proceeded to the Thecae Room, where the following addresees were preseetal to her Majesty :—Fromthe Mayor lad Coepormi s of the City of Duhlia ; from the Primate and Prows of the Establtthed Church ; from the Arch. bishop of Dublin and Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church; from the Moderator, Ministers, and Elders of the General Arembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland ; bola the Presbyterian Synod of Ulster ; From the Society of Friends. Addseseee from the same bodies were likewise 'restated to the Priam. Her Mikity subsequently held a irfee. The Marquis of Ldadoederry, Gold Stick in Wait was in attendance. A party of distinguished gates had the hoenur of being Invited to meet her Majesty and his Royal Highness at dinner and in the evening, when a cou sin took place. AtOUST 10.—Hay Mejeaty the Queen yesterday reviewed tho garrison of Dublin in the Ptinoix Park. His Royal Eig. noes the Primes Albert accompanied her Majesty on lo , ratock, sad hie Exceilency the L.rd Lieutenant mode on 11 a they aide of the Queen's carriage. In the carriage with her Majesty were their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Prissier Royal, the Pdocese Alice, and Prism Alfred, and the Countess of Clareados. The lady in wab ins, rand of honour, and other member. of the loyal ante, followed in other carriages. The RIM Hos. B , r Get mg• Grey, and the triserrin in welting, attended oa horseback. la the &Lennon, his Itlal Highs's' the Peace A.bert, site ded by his Bacelleacy the Lewd Linditaaat sad Linn.- Cohan the Iles. A. Gorden, visited the Royal Irish Ads. deny, the Collin" of Surgeons, sad the Agricaltural Show. At 9 tido& I. the evening, her Majesty add s drowns room is Dub: is Castle. --- Arfild4 - 11 1 :11 - es - t - e - rday her Majesty and his Royal Mih ail. the Prises Alum , attended by kis Ruelleney the Lord 'Agawam% sect t h e ladies sad gentles*, of the royal house hold, tioueuted the Doke and Duchess of loinater with their ooespaey at s **Amer at Castes. At half-pest sin in the evening her Majesty and his Rnal Highness, soesaipanied by the royal children, with the nasal attendants, embarked es board the ruyal yacht Victoria sad Albert, and sailed Ln rut. Batson. ♦cocar 11.—Her Majesty's yacht anchored in Belfast Lough at a cynatter-pest 5 o'clock this morning —wind blowing fresh frea the Snub. This motaiag the Marquis of Donegal, Lord Umtatae t of the county of Antrim, the Gene. ral Jaw andia g the district. and the Myer of Belfast, cane on board the Voctoria and Albert to pep their respects to her Mattel. This afternoon her Majesty will proceed in the Fairy !aeht up the Lough to Belfast, sad there receive ad dressee end visit the tows. Earl Granville has WC town for Scotland. Despatches wen reetived yesterday at tho Colo sial, flies from the G owner of the Mastitis. sod Mao from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1849. Bats few months have )st elapsed Sig.:.ll She Association aantanced i•s (Kimono). Toe aspect of political affairs at the moment of its organLation was not generally deemed propitious. The public' mind wag restless and alarmeL Po litical events abroad had unduly excited at ones the hopes cad the fears of different stations of the 00111111112lity. The disunion of the working and middle *lames was beginning to bs looked upon as an insarmountable obsteastion to ire press, and a feeling of diseouragemmet prevailed WIMP, the most earnest reformers of all them Them dream deems, deemed se adverse by many, seemed to the estima tors of this Association bat additioaid reams fey the reit city of endesvouringto establish as organisation that should direct the public mind into those eonstitational shanneh which can alone safely guide political agitation. They sought ? therefore ' to !modem nets a saodiisatios and oce solidatton of th e various propositions advocated by political reformers as should unite the middle and working clams, in one comprehensive and invincible movement. Relying on the soundness et these views and the Ind. strootible strength of the great principles of reform, they launched the Asso ciation. Alter repeated deliberations, and having unsuited with the loaders of all classes of reformers, it was resolved to ad vocate the following reforms: 1. Such an extension of the franchise u will give to every male occupier of a tenement, or any portion of a tenement, for which he shall Do rated, or shall have claimed to be rated, to the relief of the poor, the right to be registered as akelector. _ _ _ . 2. The adoption of the system of voting by ballot. 3. The limitation of the duration of parliaments to three yean. 4. Bach a change la the arrangement of the electoral dir- Wm's shall produce a nun equal apportionment of repro- sestatives to orotußitsestr. :57 t . "117 al; 71 - it - ro;";i71; property v ialifieation for member. . . - of parliament. The enthusiastic response made to these p rop ositions at the first great meeting at the London Mellen, and the modera tion and forbearance evicted be the different clues of re formers, fully justified the confidena with which the are cation bad ban founded. The remarkable and unprecedented unanimity displayed on this, and every subsequent occasion, enables the associa tion to congratulate itself on having adopted a course which has thus happily led to the blending into an effective move moat both chase who consider that more, and thaws who con sider that less, than the change now proposed would be nearer the standard of absolute political perlection. The means adopted by she council to remotes the notice wary publicity, and to obtain the requisite funds, have been mad, with the closest consideration of the circumstances by which they were surrounded. The plan of agitation Litberto pursued Las been to visit in suecesetoa the various boroughs ; and public medium have been held in Lambeth, Finsbury, Merylebone, the Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, Southwark, sod West London ; which, with the ineMinx now hell in Westminster, will include eve section of the metropolis. With a desire not to exaggerate, the council can safely amen that they have bent everywhere enthusiastioslly greeted by crowded assemblies, held invariably in the largest buildings available in the localities. Such animating, because uaequivocal, success ensures the utmost vigour to the progress of the association ; and at the same time affords • triumphant reply to those who, ignorant of the condition and wishes of the people, or intereemd in misrepresenting tins, declare that they ate indifferent to those great political principles which are the criteria of a nation's energy, and an apathy regarding which is the sure forerunner or 13 decline. The principles advocated by the association, when tho roughly examined, will be found to be of • restorative and preeerrative nature. They have been consecrated through many generations by pains and patriotism, and, when completely developed, must tend to the well-being of every member of the community. The association does not propose to attempt the reorganization otsociety, but seeks only to effect such a reform of the Camaro.' Home oi Perlisment as shall admit the repro mutative§ of every class and ii.terest ; and produce an assembly competent to direct the affairs of this great empire in all its vast and oomplicited relations, SO as to command the full confidence of the whole people. The chief and, perhaps, the only formidable opposition that the association will encounter may be expected from those of the propertied classes who confound ref inn with revolution : persons who have net sufficiently examined the subject to be convinced that the trne sat guard to property consists in such a complete representation of the people as will ensure an equitable system of legislation. Dangerous and disorganising agitation can never cease, nor the turtm tem* caused by class legislation be annihilated, until the broad and sure foundation of a really popular representatLet shall be secured. If evidence of this position be desired, the council would point to the contrast between the condi tion of those countries in which real liberty bee made the greatest advance, and that of those in which, on the one band, the progress of the people has boon openly restrained by tyrannical despotism, and, on the other, the appearance of constitutional government has been studiously and rigidly preserved only to destroy the reality of representation by the t i i r i r o a tlersevaring and shameless corruption that ever dig the 11.121141 of civilisation. It now remains to urge oa the people the absolute neon city of their making an earnest and united effort to obtain those political rights which should be the patrimony of every civilised man, and without which the advantages and the blessings produced by science and civilisation are compara tively inoperative. It would be idle to attempt to conceal that much of the mese which waits to reward the persevering efforts of this association mast be the result of the individual exertions of the people. two emit practical modes of action should be ever borne in mind •. the existing registers must be closely watched and purified ; the county constituencies must be enlarged by the vigorous and simultaneous working, in every locality, of freehold qualification societies. In this movement the men of Birmingham set the ex ample, which was speedily followed by the midland counties. In Manchester, and in almost all other large towns, freehold land and building societies have also been formed; whilst in the metropolis this council bas aided in the establishment of one for the emancipation of the home counties. By the aid of them societies the forty-shilling franchise is brought within the reach of every industrious man placed above the struggle for the merest necessaries of life. A judicious investment of 201., which may be subscribed at the rate of la. a week, will thus secure an annual mourn to the sub. scriber of at least 10 per cent. upon his outlay, and plane him upon the register for the county in which his quahfica. lion is situated. The amount of individual aid thus brought to the com mon cause will be the fairest test of the sincerity and public spirit of the great body of reformers; and the vigour which the freehold-qualification movement has hitherto displayed affords every mown for a confident expectation that it will constituteoca of the most efficient means for the attainment of political rights. The movement having now become a fact of usequivoca import, and having ensured the support of the metropolis sort, and its environs, the council, in obedience to the necessity of its position, and i i compliance with repeated invitations from many of the largest provincial town', no longer hesi tates to extend the operations of the association to the whole kingdom. Its scope, like its object, is now national; and the council earnestly calls upon the enlightened reformsr in all wt. of the country at once to units with this great mettemest /or the 'suasion of popular rights. Mtheaseeplish the objects of the association it needs scarcely be mid that a large amount of pecuniary aid has now be- Nue Wisp-usable. Small subscriptions, if universally con tributed, will suffice, but it is necessary that the council ahaeld befurnished with adequate means of competing with the compact body of their interested opponents, who will &lag to the abuses by which they profit till the united efforts of an earnest sod indignant people shall inkerco their relinquishment. It is not within the object of the present report to dilate upon the results of this proposed change ; bat the council cannot conclude without reiterating tneir confirmed belief that it will tend to the preservation of our most valuable in stitutions, give stability and protection to property, elevate and improve the condition of all classes of the people, and consequently raise the kingdom toe height of prosperity and grandeur which amidst all its success. it has never yet at tained.—By order of the eauncil, JOSHUA WALMSLEY, President. All persons annually subscribing ls. or upwards, receive cards of membership entitling them to be present at all meet. ings of the asso iation, and to receive all publintions, vice , issued by the council; and the council is composed of sash members as subscribe 101 or moth yearly, aced other mem bers elected by the council for the time being. Sir J. WALMSLEY then said it is intended that this report shall be printed and circulated as widely as possible ; and ill: be as thoroughly approved of by this meeting as by Tour reception of it 1 expect it is, I hope you will show your hearty concurrence b r aupperthig the association from weh has emanated. (Hear, hear.) I shall now call on the boa member for Westminster to address you. Chute.) Mr. LUSHINOTON, M.P., presented himself amidst gum. al awariog. He said—Perkaps I may be excused it I advert be a moment to the disadvantage which has accrued to this meeting by the absence of Mr. Hume. This privation beweva, affords me the opportunity of paying a cordial, though inadequate, tribute to the merits and transcendent talents of that excellent men and aemirabl. statesman. (Hear, hear.) To turn to the immediate business of the evening, I i must observe, that so far from consider ing the delay which ha s taken place on the part of the Metropolitan Financial Association in visiting Westminster, as e mark of doubt or disrespect, I look open it as a mark of confidence. Sir J. Walmsley and hie council were sure of us. They knew that reform, whether prompt or tardy, whether ample or scanty—that reform. in fact, in every shape and measure was acceptable in Westminster. (Cheep.) They knew that our appetite for reform wes of insatiable voracity. (A laugh.) They knew that in West minster there were hundreds of thomsands ready to greet the council cordially and cheer them on in their noble and patriotic enterprise, and that their representative was pre pared to declare it as their opinion that the plan of this asso ciation is one of the beet steps that have ever been taken in the march of political improvement. Belying on these feel ings, Sir J. Wake/ley has done well in choosing Westmin ster as the arena of the first aggregate meetleg of the Re form Association. Under our present system the right of no man being taxed without his consent, is constantly violated. (Hear, hear.) Now the incontestable fact is the people of this country are not fairly represented. Such were the opinions of one et the most enlightened chancellor. England ever knew. The incontestible fact is, that the people of this country are not represented. Nevertheless they ere taxed—(bear, hear) — and therefore, as Lord Camden says, _they are robbed—(load cheers)—because they are not allowed to exercise that con trol over the expenditure which, according to the rule of nature, end every principle of justice, they ought to have. Sat in the House et Commons seven-eighths are opposed altogether to any reform. (Lsughter.) I have been in mu aoritise of 14 and 20 on important reform questions. The highest was only about 100, but the lowest seas when the Ploplie' Chance was proposed. (Loud cheers.) Be. sides the two talkie, awe were only 13 who voted for I', and of that baker's donne Mr Hume himself, and some testiest% I see atoned Me, formed a pert. I bold in my band a list of 21 prepositioas made in the House of Com mons for reform, ever, one of which were negatived by large majorities. You must secure an amendment of the electiss franchise you mutt have universel suffrage. (The occupants of the pit sal gallerOs here rose set none, cheering an 2 waving their hi& in the most en thusiastic moans?. The gentlemen in the boxes cheered, but remained seated, evidently in compliment to the ladies, whom they would have (neommoded by rising.) Uni versal suffrage is proffered by the omelettes without any limit beyond what is necemary to prevent its abase by the latermizturs of common beggars and common vagabonds with the honest and upright voter. Bet, to haws it made seem, we must also have the ballot. (Hoar.) In the other of the six points pat forward by the emaciation I cower almost as fully, although not completely, but I shall not run the risk of causing the least discontent by further allusion to them. Let us examine the operation of universal suffrage. la America it has introduced peace amongst all, and given universal satisfaction. We never hear of disturbances against the goverunes t, because the people are the go vernors, and the' will not rise up easiest their own &nth.. rity or commit the suicidal act of destroying their own insti tutions. (Cheers.) Then, look at France. (Chien, groans, and a cry of " Rome.") All I was sole, to say of Frame is this, that the ezereise of univtesal suffrage has preserved her from a gnat deal of evil. Before I aoudads, 1 beg to impress myself in favour of a society which has been formed for the parpose of veering to the industrious classes the mesas of obtaining votes by the purchase of 40s. freeholds. The plan is fraught with good, and I hope you will encou rage ant promote it every Wane is your power. ( User.) The Rev . T. SPE NCER mid that meetings et this kind were called by some agitation; bat he maintained that this was the natural order of progress in a free country. Men who would not meet in the dark, by meetings of this kind become of one mind, took steps, end thus the tattoo went forward. Without such moulage the government of the *unary could not properly be carried on. When Sir B. Peel said they ought to go to the cheapest market, he ought to have melded government is his catalogue of arti cles. The emperor of Russia gave the people • very espeestesse, vernment, but it wee not good. But in the %Aid States there wee a cheap governmeat aid a geed one. (Loud chute.) We hod no need of posing 66,000,0001. annually for governing the country. Ws should be better governed for 40,000,0001. The President of the United States was paid only 5,0001. a year, and the secre taries of state only 1,0001 ; and yet they did their duty quite as well as Lwd John Russell, or any of our ministers. (Hisr, hear.) He did not say he would redeem their salaries to that standard, hut that the expenses of the state ought to be reduced. He maw no necessity for paying Queen Ade laide 100,0001. a year ; or Lord Brougham, unless he ren dered greater services than at present, 6,0001. a year. The sooner such things were changed the better ; for unless the taxation of the country be reduced, no one could look fur ward to its continuing in peace. That reduction could only be accomplished by parliamentary reform. Besides the danger from taxation, there was the danger from this diseonteat of every man who had not a vote. lie believed he was waver more faithfully doing his great Mister's work than when Endeavouring to diminish the sum of human misery. (Hear, hear.) He believed that he who tried by removing evils to make men happier wee doing the work ottlod. (Hear, leer.) if • king upon the throne thought fit to inundate the House of Lards with peers who had no right to the position by bath or creation, he could not do • more unjust thing than was now dens in the Rouse of Commons under the present corrupt system of representation which /Lied that branch of the legislature with naval and military officers, pensioners, end a-ne of the nobility, until it had assumed the character of anything but the commons of the realm. The more they wished the people to be loyal and obedient to the powers that be, the more they ought to take care that the commons was amongst the powers that be. It was Lord John Russell's opinion that a universal suffrage would not, but that a limited suffrage would secure the best government. But there was • flaw in his argument, for he forgot that a great deal depeeded on who was to decide the question. The noble lord belonged to the aristocracy, and he might think one in every five or six of the male poputation the best constituency for securing the return of naval and military officers, and keeping up the high salaries paid to sue.' personages as the Queen 1) ,wager and Lord Brougham. Bat what did the people of Ragland think ? Lot every man is the country have that question put to him ; bee sum until every man, whether connected with trade, agriculture, or the mechanical arts, had an opportunity of expressing his opinion on it, fair play would not be done, and it could not be raid that they had a government suited to the wants and wishes of the county, anti for the good of all. He hat' been in Aviaries. he had been present at elections here, and he had admired the manly bearing, the tranquil, seltdrespect, the fearless demeanour of the electors: had he no known that aa election was going on, he should sever have eusteeted it, se quiet, so orderly were all the proceed ings; these electors had the vote by ballet—(cheers) ; —he might have voted himself had he chosen; there were plenty of balloting tickets offered him. He was asked— Wall you have the cold water ticket? (Laughter.) Will you nave • locoloco ticket? Will you have a native American ticket ; and he might have for the time taken and issued one of these tickets, though, of course, he should have been found out had he done so. (Laughter.) It was quite impossible to understand why the working man should be made to pay 60 per cent. of his hard earnings to the government, while the middle class man paid only 25 per cent, and the rich man only 6 per cent. (Hear, hear.) Why the working man should pry 10s. in the pound, while the middle clue man paid only 65., and the wealthy man only Is. Why the working man, whose tea cost of itself only Is. 3d. a pound, should be made by the go vernment to pay a tax of Is. 21d. upon every pound of that tea, as much as the wealthiest man paid, and even, indeed, more in proportion ? And so with sugar, and so with coffee, and so with tobacco, and so with every acetate'', turning the grocer into a tax gatherer of a moat oppressive description. (Hear, hear.) What should be the system instead of this was that every man should fairly and openly pay aorording to his means towards the support of the state. (Hear. hear.) Ile had only to say one word more, and that was to expellee the hope that there would not be found in the world any work ing man who wished to escape all taxation. (Hear, hear.) The CHAIRMAN said ; When we find men quit their own ranks to aid and su?port us, we ball them with plea sure and satisfaction, and more especially so when they leave the ranks of the aristocracy to aid the people. (Hear, hear.) We have such with us this evening, sad we hail their pre sence with eatiafaction. (Hear, hear.) Let it be mid that we condemn any particular set or section of men, for in ell classes, among all sects, in all parties, there are good and faithful friends to the people. (Hear, hear.) I introduce to you the tried friend of popular rights. Lord Dudley Stuart. The announcement of the name elicited general acclama tion, amid which there was demanded and vehemently given, " Three cheers for Hungary !" The CHAIRMAN intimated that an Hungarian gentle man was present, and would presently address the meeting. (Cheers.) Lord DUDLEY STUART said it wee indeed • proud thing for hiss to listen to teat glorious cheer which had been sent forth, not at his own name, but at the name of Haupt,' (cheers) ; it was • shout which would resound from the banks of the ,Thames to the banks of the Danube, and of the Theist, and he prayel that it might cheer the gallant patriots there, not in their struggle against opprend ,n, but in their hour of triumphant victory. (Cheers) But the meeting was 114401- bled, not to discuss any topic/ of foreign policy, though the enthusiasm which pervaded every heart, for ail those, in whatever clime, who were engaged in a noble struggle, had burst forth and diverted their attention for • moment trom the actual object of the evening. It was not for him to return thanks for that noble ebullitioa of feeling; their chairman bad intimated the presence of a noble Hungarian patriot, who would personally express his sense of the cheer which hal hailed his country's name—(hear, hear) — his appreciation of the noble episode which had thus charac terised that magnificent assemblage. (Chart.) He CM sidered that eve person of reflection in the kingdom must feel that • reform wan necessary in our state, and that the means of obtaining it wee reform of parlia ment. (Hear, hear.) What need of argument was there to show we required financial reform, when every schoolboy in the kingdom was aware that the expenditure of the country was 10 millions greater now than it was 10 years ago. (Hear, hoar.) The gnat evil of this country was excessive and unequal taxation: the remedy foe the evil wee parliamentary reform. (Hear, hear.) There must obviously be unequal conditions in every country ; every man could not be rich or proof cr one, and no legislation could place a man, in the receipt of 1001. • year, in as good a position, in a worldly sense, as the man who had 1,0001. • year ; but they were not to have a system of taxation which pseesed mon bard] y epos the poor man than upon the rich. (Hear, hear.) You may very well have a more equitablesystem ; you need sot have every article that the poor man consumes highly taxed. Thank God, by the asei-tatice of • league similar to that which they were now ass, noblsd to support, they had got rid of the tax on the staff of life. (Hear, bear.) But still every other article which the poor man consumed was heavily taxed. It was by agitation that all great ends were to be attaised— (hear, hear)—by that alone, steadily persevered in, and of perseverance when he saw the meeting of that night he could not doubt—could they effect their purpose of relieving the people from that crashing and unjust, because unequal taxation, which now bore them down. (Hear, hear.) He had been a most strenuous opponent, no doubt,' of the income tax, and it might be laid to him, "It you mean to take off other taxation such as this to which you Teter, there must be money raised to meet the obligations of the country, and you must come to direct taxation. (Hest, hear.) Now, it was perfectly true that he had opposed the income tax with all his might and main, but he had not opposed a property tax. (Hear, hear) He had not been told by the government, "We will take off the window-tax, we will abolish the duty on tea, we will abolish the rimy on tobacco, we will enable the poor man to have his comforts and necessaries at 'cheap rate, but we must have an income tax to meet the necessities of the state ;" he had been told no suck thing as this, but he had been told, that without the reduction of any other taxation, there was to be an in come-tax of 5 per cent. ; and remember, that on in- come tax was not • property tee. Reduce the duty oaten, and the Nessus would be as great from this source as it was now, and greater, with enormous benefit and comfort to the people. It was so with coffee : the duty wee reduced, and the revenue from the article soon grew greater than before, and so it would be in all similar cases. (Hear, beer.) Take tobacco, for inWssaoe, the source of much innocent enjoyment to the ppm man, and reduce the duty spin it ; the revenue would not only the same, and greater; but it might easily be sheens that, the change, a lugs amount of additional employment wo be afforded to the poorer inhabitants of the atetropolla sad of the country at large. (Hear, hear.) But how would they obtain Assn cies' re:ona J Nut by revolution. (No, no.) Not by out rage—not by violence. (No, no.) No, indeed, for then the remedy would be wone than the disease. (Hear, hear.) The real remedy was parliamentary reform. (Hoar, hear.) Until they made the Hume of Cammeas that which it pur ported to be—the real representative of the people— it was in vain to bops for any amelioration of their con dition. This was what the memistion proposed to Unit to effect. (Hear, hear.) First of all it would extend the suffrage, and give the right of voting to every man who was rated to however small an amount, or who otiose to claim to be rated. (Hear, hear.) He did not know how far the proposed extension of the suffrage might give them satisfac tion—(bar, hear)—but this he thoacht could not be de nied that it would offset a most important step toward, ulti mate good; for this, at least, it would offset, that whereas the Memorial body was now a minority of the adult male population, and the non-electoral body the large majority, we should by the change place the electoral body in the large majority, and render the non.electoral body the very small minority—(hew, hear)—aad after all, if this was not found sufficient, it would not prevent them from going further. Though he was a strenuous advocate for the ballot, and had voted for it &gala and again, and should vote for it whenever it was propotad, he did net like it. (Hear, hear.) No, he did not like doing things in motet. (Hear, hear.) Then why, he might be asked, why do you ota for it ? He would tell them. He voted for the ballot for the same reason that he built up a wall round his garden—to keep out intruders. (Hear, hoar.) He had a right to be secure, he had a rig ht that no man should come into his premien and trespass on his ground, spoiling every thing, and carrying off what belonged to him; and though he had much rather not be at the expense of building the wall, though he had much rather that the voters need not be protected by ballot tram corruption, from spoliation, from violation ; yet white the one protection or the other was needed, he was fain to resort to it, therefore ke voted for the ballot. (Hear, hear.) The next point was shorter parliaments. On this point he had very strong opinions--stronger, perhaps, than those of every honest and good reformer. (Hear, hear.) He be lieved that nothing was more important th an to leave shorter parliameats. lie did not thick the people would, under any eireurostanee,eontinnetobe properly represented without this primates. Three years was the period proposed by the age cation ; some might think that too long; but at all events, let them make the trial, and it would be much easier, at all events, to get membe're who had to resign thei; trust within three yews, to vote for • still shorter period, if ne =se xy, than to operate upan representatives, elected for the longer time which now obtained. (Hear, hear.) The fourth point relalel to electoral districts, and a most important point it was; no man could say it was just that • city furnishing forth so magnificent and soul-stirring a meeting es that before and around him, should have no more representatives in parliament than some little fishing town such as Harwich, for example ; the thing was so absurd, that the only wonder was how it had keen so long tolerated—(bear, hear) ; nothing could account for the phe. nonunion but that powerful engine, force of habit. In all these points he fully concurred, sad it was his antious desire as far as he could to aid in having them carried into laws. (Hear.) There was another point, not at first inserted, he be fiend, in the propositions of the association, but very pro early added, the abolition of the property qualification (Hear.) Really, here again he could or ly wonder that the people should have set down so long under anything so absurd-- (hear, hear)—the mere so, text: in one part of the kingdom it did not prevail, and that even in some towns of England there was no such thing. (Hear, hear) Why should the leer say to the people, you must only elect rich men ? (Hear, War.) Was it isnaeined that only such men were tit to legis late? (Hear, hear.) Why, be was so far from participation in this opiai m, that he saw no reason why there should not be seats in the House of Commons fur members elected from the working classes. (Hear, hear.) It might be said, per haps, that these m. occupied continually in the care of providing by this daily labour for the daily wants of them selves and their =umber, 'multi not be supposed to have leisure enough to acquire that degree of knowledge or bestow that amount of reflection on public sub jects necessary to qualify them for the responsible duties of legislation ; but did they think that among the rich men now eittiog in the House of Commons there were nano so occupied by their pleasures—by horse-racing, by field sports, by their tours to Pans or Naples, by the opera and other such matters—as to be disqualified, on the ease principle, from being legislators? (Hear, hear.) It was We belief that amongst these men, with their white waist mate and their kid glares—(laugher)—there were massy to be found not so fit to legislate (or tie country as many a bony-handed mechanic. He was satisfied that this great movement, originated under such auspices as those which inaugurated this association, must progress from day to day, from seek to week, horn month to mouth, till it triumphed in is glorious object. (Cheers.) How soon that triumph would ha attained he could not foresee; it might be accomplished very scon, or it might be retarded by some adverse circumstances, but come it must, and at no distant date. He hicasslf might not live to see this great reform acnieved, but c said Le feel that he had in any way aided its advancement, he should feel that he had not altogether lived in vain. (Chews.) The CHAL/1.3110N-1 am reminded that at the first meet ing of the Anti-Corn Law League, in Palace-yard, in 1838, I saw present one who has honoured us with his presence this evening, and who has from time to time been constantly and steadily aiding and promoting the best interests of the people—l mean Lord Nugent, whom I now call on to ad dress you. (Loud cheers.) Lord NDUSNT spoke as follows :—Sir Joshua Walmsley, Ladies, and Gentlemen,—l can assure you with the utmost truth—and the chairman knows with bow much truth I say it—that I did nut come here with the slightest intention of offering one observation to you. It was nut my wish or de sire ; but if I say that I meet the call of the chairman with anything but pride awl pleasure, I should begin my address to a party of reformers with a lie. (Hear, hear.) I (eel I have a difficulty to contend with at the outset, and it is this : up to this hour it has not been my good fortune and my honour ever to have met this aim tiauon. Your (Manama knows that this has not been my fault ; for at the formation of the association there were per sea= reasons which I need not enter into, which rendered it impossible for me to be protein. But I rejoice to meet you this night. I anticipate the greatest, the mat beneficial re sults from this association. (Ilea, hear) I know that the words of a great men of former days are true,—" When evil men conspire, good men must unite." (Cheers.) Nothing is to be done in this nation but by the union and combination et persons who're ready, in advance of every jot of their pens iples to compromise small, minor differences of opinion, an order to make head against the combination of corrup tion, self-interest, and tyranny, which is now endeavouring to stop the course of reform. (Cheers.) I attended this meet ing tonight, knowing certainly that the subject ,to be discussed was parliamentary reform, but not aware of the tone in which it was likely to be discussed, not having heard, or having any conception of, one word of your report. But in attending a meeting where you, sir, were to be in the chair, and those whom I en around me were to be present, I knew that I should meet friends linked with me for years in the cause of the people. (II at, hear.) I adopt, the =mortal weeds of Lord Camden, repeated by your re peensotative, who spoke early this evening, when he aid that " taxation without repri sentation was robbery ;" sad, furthermore, though I will call no man a robber, for I have no right to use • hard phrase towards a man because ha does not happen to see a subject in the same light that I do—(heer, hear)—yet I have a right to use hard words hypothetically against myself. (Laughter.) I may be permitted to Ray, then, that if, with my opinions, and as I view the subject, I found myself In the House of Commons ever voting for a ax, or for a grant of public money, and if I were not prepared on the next night, or oa the selfoome night, to vote for universal suffrage, I should consider myself a thief and • robber. (Cheers.) What is the property qualidcation ? I cannot understand bow it boars upon the question of the suffrage. In the early years of our parliamentary constitution, it was assumed that a certain money qualification was a test—a very imperfect one, it is true—of a certain amount of tate'. Boma and independence. But the intelligence and the independence were the things that were to have the vote; the money value was the test merely. (Hear, hear.) But you are here confounding the test with the thing itself. You look not for independence or intelligence in the voters ; you look only for the test, which has ceased to he so nominally— the qualification. (Hear, hear.) As to the ballot, I must again confess a slight difference, even with my noble and esteemed friend who sits near me (Lord D. Stuart)—noble not alone from the noble name he bean, but from the manner in which he has associated that name with the noblest of prin ciples. (Cheers.) I differ from him In his opinion, that if ?Inman nature were nearer perfection than it is, and it the difficulties thrown in the way of independence by oppression were less manifest, or less powerful, secret voting would not he desirable. I confess I should not like secret voting at all the less, even if human nature were much nearer perfection, and it no pressure were laid on the independence of the voters; for this reason :—ls the secret I am keeping, when I put my ballot-ball in the hoc, a manly secret ? I have a right to keep that secret from any man which he has no right to ask me. (Cheers.) Ask me what are my opinions or principles: I avow them. Let • candidate askme—" For whom will you give year vote?" I say my vote is my pro. petty, to be administered like every other property for the general benefit ; and I have as much right to put my ball into the ballot-boa, as I have to keep my will sealed till it is proved and administered. (Cheers ) But it is said the ballot is un-Baglish. Is trial by jury an un-English institution? (" No, no.") And yet, as a grand juryman, I have often taken the oath that I will keep my own and my fellows' counsel secret. Why is the oath of secrecy imposed in that case ? To gua rantee the jurymen from c-rruptinn, elven/non, or violence. (Bier, boar.) Apply then to elections that which you apply to juries, and tell nta not it is un English unless you are cils posed to strike trial by jury out of the English code of laws. h in ay th e e to face avow of t a he po se w p e ri d n u ci l poplepos,srtionnointo (thCehmee.re.ss he Now, government —the whip gevernmenl— ( hisses bareninftergmirnoanwtheestare:—souppplidposePowg4 Tar to l o ia ur nie co n n tar sc r e r n e ce fo s e m m. d to Pu ou lt r am co e u n n t t ary 7, to promote, to advance, and to stand by. (Cheers.) V. a government that opposes it we cannot, act. (Laud cheers ) The veneers-sin—the whip government—(hisses)—opposes financial reform. Financial reform we are pledged, to our consciences and to our country, to stand by, to farther, and to maintain. (Cheri.) With • government, then, op posed to financial nines we can held no com munion. (Loud cheers ) The government is pledged against judicial reform, against colociel reform. We,, p as lea r g e ea form to e th re at vplariatgeh includes parm withinlia j e t n iv ar d y witu re a f n o a na co , lonig are reform. With a government pledged against . any reform that is contht.scd within the category of paTaamentuy O f wi o f rni a isyn w o e r t s t s ai: :t h i e l;i ld bnuo n ti t+ nothing Eaankibbit:e. particularly a d t wi yoed t to ik o np theireak o n f . 0 ( n C seb h n e e e 1. ). 11 absence, is gees= with*. respect 1 feel for him ; and it Is the one il OS government who, hitherto at keit, has kept thecharacter of the woeful:eat above the disgrace and degradation of be coming an accomplice to tyranny. (Cheers.) There is one who has not allowed himself, in haste, by mistake, or from say other reason, to call the most glorious Engels that has been made its toe world for genturiee, " an insurrection," but has called it " the war between Hungary and Austria." (Loud cheers.) And are you not aware that at this hour Lord Palmerston has raised himself into the glory of being the subject of as intrigue to cast him from his position— (hear, hear)—that at this very hour there is an intrigue bettered by the criminals who have been ejected from their own country by revolution, fostered by the Metter nieha—(groans sad biases)—an latrieue, I will not say, among Lord Palmerston's sellaregues, but one directed to uno dermas him with his colleagues, for the pureose of substi tuting some foreign minister of • Metternich choice, one whom the Metternich Wass may think fitter to join a whig administration. His lordship concluded amidst If ud cheers. Mr. R. MIALL, who was received with much applause, said he regretted that the union of Mums which the auto elation had sought to effect bad not been permitted, by the state of political opinion, to take place on the broad basio of parliamentary reform to the fullest extent demanded by right and justice. (Hear, hear.) At the eammenument of last year he had hoped they were within sight of the consummation so devoutly to be wistaid. The course of events, however, io this and other countries, had considerably modified his views, not as to the end to be aimed at, but ItS to the means to be employed. (Hear, hear.) It had always been an article of his political creed, that every subject of the realm, contri buting to the support of its civil and political institutions, was entitled at least to an elementary share of political power, and he bad felt foe to be his) duty to take every opportu nity of distributing this award of justice to every man. He now gave in his humble but most hearty adhesion to this movement, simply because he believed it the shortest way to the ultimate object he had in view. He would go with the association as far as they went, believing that when they bad arrived together at that point, meet of them would be will ing to go further, and tel give to every men an equal share of political power. (Cheers.) It was moat important, in every political enterprise, to have clear and distinct con ceptions of what they sought. If, by • fairer and Sutler representation of the people, they expected to obtain • faultless government, a system of social government, or the elevation of every individual in the land to a state of happiness, they would calculate without thee host, and the first moment of aucecu would show that they had cherished a delusion. (Hear.) Representation could do for • people no more than the mind, intellect, and morals of the people could do for themselves; and they anticipated from a Home of Commas, perfectly reflecting the public mind and will, only • reflection of that measure of public wisdom and mo rality which might happen at any given time to exist. (Hear, hoar.) The Association was in pursuit of no melt delusion. Its simple but beneficent purpose was to deliver the nation from one of the greatest curses to which it could be exposed—namely, au impreinent of speech. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) The House of Commons was the na tion's organ of utterance ; and a very incomplete organ It was—perhaps it might be more properiy described as alto gether a malformation. Government we merit have, and government mat be paid for. Cheap government was do sirable, not in the sense of those cheap bargains which were often dearest in the end, but in order that there might be no expenditure of the means and re sources of the notion for the support of national institutions beyond what the necessity of the case required. (Hear.) We must have the various departments of the state, wish their several offices ; but there was n reason why those offices should swarm with gentlemanly idlers, or why the resources of the Country should be wasted on a number of persons receiving public pay, who performed no other ser vice than reading the newspapers of the day, tickling their faces with the ends of their pens, and sneerirg at every movement made in advance fur the popular good. (Cheers.) As he found it was growing late, he would not longer de tails the meeting. (Hear.) Mr. FEAROUS O'CONNOR next came forward and was received with much cheering. He said he cordially agreed with the sentiment quoted by the noble lord (L oel Nugent) that when bad men conspired good men combined. They were there that night to display a combination against those , who had conspired against their liberties and happiness. (Cheers.) He supposed that that awembly was Lord John Russell's bespeak, inasmuch as he bad stated that he was ready to yield to the pressure from without. (Cheers, in termingled with some hisses.) Nothing antagonistic to their cause had been uttered by any speak-r in that assembly throughout the night, and he should take core that he should not be the first to provide a horse for their enemies to ride away on to their discord - Imm. He was delighted with the evidence of fraterne , aoon between the middle and the working Mums, which tt-at meeting disclosed ; and he believed that the more it was car. ried out, the greater would be the facilities for removing the obloquy which had been so unjustly attached towards the I latter. (Hear, hear.) He contended that the stele which the working Muses had in the prosperity of the country entitled them to a participation in all the benefits of the constitution. By union and fraternisation tney would gain their object, and in ages to come, when nurses wished to frighten children with pictures of hobgob lins, they would exhibit, perhaps, 'menu! others, a bishop, and the child would exclaim, " What is that in the white petticoat?' (Laughter.) On seeing another, the child would ask ' what is that with the red coat and feather, and musket 1" And the nurse would answer, " That is a strong man who, in former times, used to shoot other men for the pay of a shilling a day." (Laughter.) The child would perhaps next ark who the little man was who was similarly dressed, and the sures might answer, " that little man is an officer, and he is so because he is fit for nothing else." (Laughter.) He would conclude by advising them to adopt union and liberty for their watchwords. If they slumbered on their posts, they most certainly would not succeed; and fur himself he would bury in oblivion ail ;bygone persecution and slander, and believe that he had not worked all in vain if he succeeded in briming about a union of the veritable middle and working classes. (Cheers ) Mr. CLARKE then came forward, and expressed much gratification at the indications presented by that meeting of R union between two claases which were hitherto deemed antagonistic in this Country, tunnel', the wealthy, middle, and industrious claws. (Cheers.) it the aristocracy of Prance had followed the example of the two noblemen who had addressed them to-night, they might leave escaped the revolution which they had precipitated by refusing to recog nise the third estate. He stood there as a plebeian, and he demanded that the aristocracy should recognise hie rights. He concluded by calling on working men, of all denomina tions, to railh round the standard of the association, and to extend to it all the assistance in their pow, r. (Loud cheers.) Mr. G. THOMPSON. M.P., next addressed the assem bly, and acid he had the satisfaction of informing them that he was the last man to address them, and he had bun called on to pronounce the benediction after the solemnisation of the alliance between the middle and working classes in the cause of national reform. (Loud cheers.) He believed that they then witnessed the most catholic exhibition which had u yet taken place, of a cohesion of elements hitherto estranged from one another; and, with the expression of that opinion, he would ask their permission to retire without delivering a speech. (Loud cries of "Go on.") What should he uy to them. (Cries of " Hungary.") He was sure that the ex hibition of feeling that night was sufficient to show their foreign vi.itins on that occasion that there existed in every British heart a warm sympathy with those who were 'tramline for the rights of Hungary. Having censured the manner in which the whigs dispensed their support at the Reading election, the hon. gentleman pre seeded to contend that, while denying the people the right to exercise the franchise, they were allowed to exercise an inauence on society, in comparison with which the influence of a vote was contemptible, and that there never existed • system of society in the world so well prepared for unlimited suffrage as theirs was. He untreated the conduct of the electors of Reading with that of the working.classes of the town who were non-electors, and showed that, in point of intelligence, manliness, and propriety of conduct, the latter were far more worthy of being entrusted with the franchise than those who were in possession of it. He concluded by calling on all who were in favour of reform in any department to joie their association, and enable them to form a grand and united organization, which could not fail to eaable them to obtain the objects they had in view. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then declared the meeting at an end as to all the purposes for which it was convened. Mr. WILLIAMS, late M.P. for Coventry, proposed a vote of thanks to the chairman and the council of the asso ciation, which was carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks on behalf of himself and the council, and entreated those who were desirous of advancing the cause of reform to recollect that they would contribute materially to its progress by enrolling themselves, and inducing their friends to enrol themselves, as members of the Financial and Parliamentary Reform Anociatioa. The assemblage then separated. ORGAN BUILDERS' BENEVOLENT IWITITUTION.— Yesterdsy the seventh annual meeting of the members of this associatim was held at the Freeman. es' Tavern, Gnat. Queen-street, Mr. T. Themes, one of the trustees, in the *tan. Mr. Woods. the secretary, read the report. It com menced by announcing the at. ady advance of the institution. although, at the same time, the committee had to regret the lOW of many who had assisted in funzinet the undertaking in 1842, especially the death of Mr. Jonn Gray, the treasurer, one of the originators and esrli• et benefactors of the bud-. tption. The committee proposed to rant annuities of irons 161. to 201., but up to the present time there hail been no. claimants upon the fund. The sum already raised towards. this object was 6481. 7s. Recently it bad been determined. cm to raise a fund towards erecting an " Organ Building.'" Retreat," and towards this object aeerlj 311. had been sub scribed. The total receipts of the near had amounted Ice 771.55. fed., and the expenditure to 131. 7s. sd. The report was unanimously aimed to ; Mr. F. Davison was tanked treasurer in room of Mr. Gray, and the meeting aspirated. THE FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY meeting at Cor bds's Temperance Hotel have issued the plan on whitki they have divided their estate near Sh'reland Hall, and which they have named " Votingham." The streets will be fourteen yards wide, well made and culverted. This: estate at Ward End will be allotted to the members on the. 24th of September nest. It is the object of the Directors to make their allotments profitable as investments, us well as cos , tarring votes, an object in which they have }wen very successful.—Birmingham Gazette. THE BRITANNIA BRIDGE.—OR Saturday the operations cenne,ned with the lilting of this gnat fabric to its permanent level, 100 feet above high water mark, wens commenced, under the superintendence of Mr. Stephen see.'s band of eagineen ; and the great tube is now makieg its way upwards. The raising is going on successfully at the rate of 6 feet a day, and the machinery is said to act admirably. AGGREGATE MEETING DRURY LANE THEATRE. YeAseday, the first aggregate waning of the Financial Reform Leanne was held at Drury-lane Theatre. The &Avert isewents announced that the chair wouid be taken ;t saves o'cltch, but tull two bouts tefore that tine the various avenues to the theatre were bckirged by hundreds of eager applicants for sdmiaeioo, and within a few minutes of na, the hour at which the dome were thrown open, the pit, the gelleris., the public bean, and, in fact, every part of the house except the stage, the stalls, and a tew private boxer, which were reserved for those who were to take an active ra t in the proceeding. and their immediate (mods, were filled to overfiewissit. The breach warieties from all parts of the metropolis, Norwich, Hemel Hempstead, and from wok set other puts of Ettglaud, contributed their ountSers to add to the mond forts of this popular dentoostra. ties is favour of (epitomical gcuroment. From ire Greenwich breath 120 of the MOM WM came up in pr . ewion, headed by Hr. John iVaie,their man. As the hour for eommencing the proceedings ap proached, the reserved seats began to Ail, and som Aims before seven every available space wee occupied, and the theatre became crowded to elves'. Is tie dregs rinds and in the private bean were a swathe, of a . ..wily-dressed ladies. At pr.-citify MTH o'clock Sir J. WALWILIT made his ip pearano, and amid the most enthusiestic and oft repeated greerings of the assemSled multitude proomded to take hie place as the president of the evening. Having taken the chair, The His. CHAIRMAN immediately rose and addressed the meeting in the following terms: Lodes and Gentlemen, —We have not, I em sorry to say, the advan tage of the preseneo of many able, earnest, aid maims men, whom I could have wished to see amongst es this evening, but I am sure they are yid' us in spirit if not in their bodily eresewee. (Cheers.) I regret to say that that Nestor of reform, to whom we looked for his at tendance at this meeting, end who did I know purpose to he present —Mr. Hume—((Lang continued cheerina)—he is ueavo)dably absent, bet I have a letter front him, ex plaining the cause ors his absence. We have also letters from other friends of the cause, two of which only I will venture to trouble you with readies. The first, as I have tai l, is fern Mr. Hume, and is dated Jersey, St. Httlen's, Au.ust 10, 1849; it proceeds as follows eiv dear Sir Josbus,—l am sorry to be obliged to write to you instead of pre seatiog myself, as L had intended, at the meeting on the 13. h, hut the packets do not admit of being in London until the evening of the 14th. If you wffl offer an excuse to the meeting for the &appointment, yen will oblige me, as every day I live and everything I hart ceneineee me more and more that there is no chasm al efficient financial reform. nor of any other reform, until the House of Coolness shall be reformed,_ and the power of the piemls in that house increased; and I am satisfied that sm elting less than the reforms, which the bill I propose to ask leave to introduce in the next session, will afford. I trust that the notice 1 have given mill induc., reformers generally to consider the situation of the country and the belpless condition in which the industry of the country is placed by the class legislation which hat so long existed. But as the reform is entirely in the power of the electors, I trust we shall find them alive to the dtry they owe to themselves, as well as to the non-electors. I shall persevere to urge reform on the government and on the Howe of Commons, bat =- Ire we have the support from without, and the aid of the electors, we stall not succeed.—Wishing you a good meet isg, I rennin, yours sincerely, Joanna Hume. Sir Imbue Waleasky, M.P. I have another letter which I shall read to you with mesh It is from Richard Cobden. (Loud chews.) fore I read it, however, I must ay that I hope the peer =pat forward Ise one part of his istter will cot be hal- The letter is dated " Euthowas, Sussex, Amuse 7 1849." It is to the following effect : Will you be good enough to express to the comminiee my regret that aen.w- from town will prevent my being prase% at the next meeting of the Metropolitan and Pectin mentary Reform Association. You have many years a, d work before you, and it will not therefore he anise to keep an army of reserve for another campaign. Ia the mtaa time, you are doirg battle eeroically. 'rho writer promises, besides, that he will be with es by sad bye. (Loud ehee re.) I have a great many letters hem other parties, but I will not trouble you by reading them. Amongst the various subjects of congratulation arising . ont of this brilliant and important meeting, not the Teat mg& filmed is the presence of so unusual a number of our fair oosuitrywomes. It is an evidence of the rectitude of our principles and the peacefulness of oar policy, and striking)y indicative of our early signal and complete success; and I am persuaded that I only echo the sentiment of every gen tleman present when I my that we thank them gratefully for their countenance. (Loud chars) Gentlemen, it is honourable to London that this association has so rapidly developed the necessity of uniting all classes in the attain ment of a Isrge, substantial, and permanent measure of reform; that, in the short space of six months, we have succeeded in inspiring confidence where distrust and preju dice formerly existed—(cheers)—)n uniting those who bad long been alienated, and is 'ivies form and conaisteacy to the demands for civil rights. And from this peace may there now go forth a national tallying cry, which will end in the extincion of abuses and the elevation of the masses to the tights of citizenship. (Loud cheers.) For this early effi ciency we are indebted to the zealous, untiring, and earnest labours of the members of oar council. (Hear.) They were told that the middle clams were apathetic, and the inseam skilled into indifference. They applied the teat of public assesiage to the assumed fact, and the result has been that DO building has yet been found sufficiently . capacious to Omsk" the *Damn& who have thronged to give their ad beim to the cause of freedom and advancement. (Renewed sheering. ) But, gentlemen, the great Skaters which distill geisha this movement from all others in the history of polite al agitation, is the momentcus fact that the link which was broke., and thus separated the two greet clares, has again been welded firmly, and I trust for ever, for the just purpose of social and political elevation. A glance at our parliamentary history will convince even the most sceptical of the necessity for a thorough reform of our repre sentative system. (Cheering.) The only great national measum which resolved the sanction of the legislature during the entire of the last imam was that crowning act of free trade, the repeal of the navigation laws. (Laud cheers.) But this did notar ise from went of exertion on the part of the members representing large constituencies . (Hear, hear.) Mr. Cobtea's motion for placing our warlike establishments an the basis of 1815, after 20 years of peace, and thus saving 10 millions per annum, was rejected by 275 to 78. (Cries of " Shame.") Mr. Hume's motion for the amendment of the national representation was also lost by 268 to 82. (Expres sions of marked disapprobation.) Mr. Bareley's motion for the ballot was rejected in like manner by 136 to 85. Mimes and groans.) Mr. O'Connor's motion for the charter was treated with no more newest. That was kicked out by 224 to 16. (Loud cries of " Shame.") Nor was Mr. Osboree's motion fee a committer to inquire into that abortion the Irish state church, viewed with more favour, though many of the Irish members supperted it: it was refused by 170 to 103. (Re newed cries of " Shame.") Ia fact, every measure ealcn lated to relieve the burden or elevate the condition of the people is treated as visionary and out of place, and will con tinue to be so treated until the Hewes of Commons becomes not only in terms but is re..lity the Commons' House. (Load cheers.) But, gentlemen, I feel that it would ill become me, in the presence of so many gentlemen of the Hoses of Commons, who are far abler and better qualified by expe rience than I am, to dwell further on this subject. (Cheers) The emotion for you is a simple one. It is whether you will continue to allow a territorial °Hear chy to subvert and ever-ride the entire spirit of the consti tation—(cries of "Nu")—or whether by the exertion of your moral power, you will vindi ate the majesty of the people, and ensure peace, happiness, and contentment, to every portion of the empire. (Loud and repeated cheering.) Gentlemen, I will nit detain you a moment longer, but will all on one of our council, and a most excellent member of it (Mr. Tomlin), who in season and out of season is always at our service, to read the repro* which has been prepared for your adoption by the council. Mr. TOMLIN proceeded to read the renerrt, but not be ing able to make himself heard in the mote didant parts of the hones, the task wee undertaken by Mr. G. Thompson, M.P. who, amid the cheers of the meeting, road the doew meat as follows : It is with the utmost gratification that the council have .0 announce to the lint aggregate meeting of members the in disputable success of the wsociation. lameessed with a deep sense of the responsibility incurred by undertaking to con duct so momentous an agitation ; and, conseisze of the evils to be apprehended to the cause of rational progress from faction, they have wide/inured to exercise the greatest cau lion is their movements, and have avoided stimulating undue hopes of success, or exciting expectations not to be realised. a