The Express. — London, England, 1849-04-14 00:00:00

sa g very styerly, was drawn op on the off side, and the w i ee te of tie claim came in contact with the cab with vi ,!ence. The 6.rce of the collision wee o great that remiss immedirely turned over, and the doused way s ada it. The eieetweed had received a fracture of Cra kie rib', and be died shortly afterwar " ds from the o a des of bloa CO his shot Verdict, Accidental FINANCIAL REFORM. sx COBDEN IN LEEDS. • [fox ora °wit LEEDS, PitIDAT Momenta. Our distinguished West- Rifling regreeentative Made k i g o t public appearance in Leeds, sines his elude.. o r a i majaa held in the Made Hall, Albkn-stren, lest alght, &too purpose of advancing the cause of noway and re fsegbavot in the national bonnet% The admission was_ be glow, aid despite the comparatively high prices the hall, g o s ort, stra, saloon, and gallery, were crowded by "inspect sill sod enthusiastic audience. Shortly after 'even o'clock, ;b. CoWee, accompanied by Colonel Thompson ad Mr. J. a Marshall (our borough representative) entered the gmbestra, and was eroded with several rounds of vociferous A g o olog, waving at hats and handkerchiefs, and other demon ologists) of jotted TSCOriTiOR. JAMILS GARTH MARSHALL, an., took the e air at To clock; and at that period we observed tempt the gentlemen on the platform—Alex. Henry, Eaw S.P., J. Wilkinson, Eol., E. Smith. Esq., (She ffi eld) ; : Rids En., Geo. Goodman, Esq., J. liansertso. Seq. B. Asian, libel. ; Aidermen Bower, Richardaon, M.cleo, and Diskall ; Messrs. W. B. Holdsworth, Ammo, Flint, and sway other of the leading liberals of the borough. After ns chin ri.ng which had greeted the entrance of the gentle- Des upon the platform had subsided, — The CHAIRMAN rose, and was received with loud 'e lbow. He said—Oeutlemes, electors of Leeds, it is with peat ostisfeetkies that, in accordaneo with the invitation of Ine SeandHAS who have convened this sessmbly, I meet you here to-night, and that my townsmen lave igen on this, as IS former similar oecasiona, thought good to eall ma to the past I now weepy. Ido not know that I peesr. more than linsitsalilleAtioa for filling that posek w is that I taws maylem is good earnest—as ray lin, I bops, spent amongst pen may testify—in giving my Mumble support to whatever IMPaseres appeared to me best calculated for the promo. gee et enlightened freedoms and the awed interests of the am of the people. It is net is: liminess, however, to final on the pose We must look to insurgent sad pressing M ae sad duties of the present aad the future. Vie have aidelled a great and noble week la abikiag off the fetters ed wafted the right arm of least% by aholiskieg that mien law which said to thorn mesa ion. " You shall tM work nor eat." Our arms are now free, or nearly no. There is more yet to be dome. be still something is erring win se. (Hew) It is this. We have a heavy burthen =on ego becks—l me an the weighl.of the enemies we hear. (Loud erns of "Hear, hear.") Now ut E re about to hear put to night mess quoting/ reopen berthas—why It amass there, way it is se heavy, are the stripe and hackles which bled it on our shoul ders, ist.d whether we onset Sad rose Mama of nalooalng see hoods. (Hear.) We may be told by some, sad wit h gnat truth, that sand= is not the gresfast sane of the pane of diem m, of prosporisn, sad a grime, amongst g ot population. sad that then an aeon owl more perm nest caws la the unfortunate ionises, the want of moral r:. awl of economy and teresight among our popula ,isf dests.) The teams Sham of the people me those win MU them that, after all, within themselves and by Mem /less ths greaten reforms are to be accomplished. (Hear.) OM is Is the long run a severe justice in the laves of No lan,. Men are perm . tted to enjoy just so much of liberty I a pr equity as they have merited, and no more. Why, it •go he sakeC do I lay before you what may appear to be so els a imam, at pretest ? Because I believe we shall be mss successful in its punned of both objects—financial and social re f orm—if we bear in mind their true relative position Ni their relation to etch other. (Hew ) They are nimetsly connected. Every public burden removed glees us more power to improve our condition by gar own voluntary efforts. and besides removes a foaling source of discontent from the minds of the people. (g e ar.) There is we strong instaace which I may mention 111 iliS erect necessity for the diminution of national burdens, la order to enable us more easily to meet the local expenses that fall upon us, and the increasing pressure of poor rata* which this great community, in common with others, is now W o wing under. ( User.) This is an evil that we must grapple with in good earnest if we wish to protect our houses fr om al approach of decay and ruin. I believe we shall most demaally seccmplish that, not by relying so much on what swum the government an do for us, as by cons peehasuive aad well-considered manures amongst our oless,—calling only on the gevernmeat to do that pan aids falls properly within its sphere, by removing defects Is ire law, both at home and in the colonies, and by Audis; that supervision and regulation to the voluntary saggration of the people which the government only has the as of affording. I have great hope that when English men seas thoroughly to understand the immense resources a/am for us in our colonial pt-nessions—when they under lain manage a voluntary emigration for themselves, they Mil led that they have gone far to solve that momentous =l.how is the pressure of our past ' to be 7 and permanently diminished. ( ear.) My eg- Imam has been called more particularly to this point, lately, Igsleerving what took place at a public meeting In thda sad also from having been entrusted with an interest fg to government from the able.bodied nee!. gi i ro W i paupers of this borough, who applied for aid to De ta esderrato to Booth Australia (Hear.) Thu maw • Mims of government, or rather that particular aid given for Gaon, prevented the assistance from being offered, but St marryiiig that answer to the unfortunaterapplicants, I was sub impressed with the melancholy lot of these poor men, Piing in vain merely for a field whereon to exiodse their honest industry. (Hear.) This, however, is a large stmt, which I must not go further into at present. The AN topic which will be urged upon you by the speakers *sight, is the necessity of renewed exertions to place as IMP a number as possible in the enjoyment of the elective ihmaise. (Cheers.) If we are really in earnest, this is the mil th at we mast drive. It will go home—there is no doubt dell about that. I will not occupy you at any length, there big se roomy gentlemen whom you are desirous to hear. I 11l anstmle, therefore, by expressing my hope that in those OMB Ise the promotion of these great practical objects on adds we are all agreed, we may renew and strengthen for the fetus that harmony and union of operation among all domes of liberals, without which our efforts must either D 3 M TS* or only productive of half their good effects. That Minas should sometimes arise, even amongst mw all of ll= are of liberal opinions, is but the natural consequence d that very freedoms and independence of individual mind ail character wan we all respect is each other. If we are wise, however we shall 11 , 4 allow any differences on these pi ate to interfere with our exertions or to endanger our truc es In the joint promotion of those great objects on which 111 an ail yeet I shall now proceed to call opon the rto move the first resolution ; and I have the to barns you that in the course of the evening you • . addressed by our distinguishsd visitor, Mr. Cobden, am honours us to-night with his presence. (The hon. gentle .= eencluited amidst loud applause.) 0. GOODMAN, ~ presented the first resolution: 'Om use mooed espesdiare has teem very greally_lnaressed der. IllMs lost hareem few, tans new mere by ten lIMMIR. annually t i iii ma ny that Ms WM toilet le mad tki• eqmediture mess . ditrra..z, pe sesisul t alr ei tgo i le s T i mm dem. M she milmemess of semi ad mfalmy IM il i • teme of mam as me wasumelly Ime eig may ; Set. as a temagmese at dues dremesumesu a em! awl Meg dis. seamaka vermin sil damn dew reed. _ n. 1.171ii)21:11; , Mein esminded ti. reselatlas, Mr. COMAE, es eIM, was reeled with enthusiastic ghats. He said : Mr. atakw aed gentlemen, I am easy tow Wag a lial• .at el ramie% and having had ta n t esamion es address an asonably of *Wads met at W , I Ml myself tether house, sad ma therefore law amble is speak bet la a minereatiosal way ; but as eis we mat here to talk over matters of business, and as it nay be card a sere of domestic inquiry into its affairs of fhs state—fdiems and laughter)—we shall be able to get on, I den ray, 'by resevving the cenvenational tom. In Let, ms situation now, as it somas to me, is very like that of ca ble railway 111111Nekold.n—(laughter)—who have had wa des is sell mestiate of the ',capitate?* to ant committees If inquiry into the 'maw sent of the dose (Chews and laughter.) And the people of England lave also had plait meetings to form financial reform msociatioas to in tree into the conduct of the government. (Heir, hose.) And really I think it was high time; for the rem Wes width has been moved, and in the send. mat of whisk I cordially concur, has messily told u that daring tie period since 1933 the nations], the public expend titre of the country has been increased imiszly 10 mil lims. It was quite 10 millions when we berm to appoint Sue eusentittms to inquire. (Leagliter.) Now, mark IRO —the increess is oar expenses Mass 1111.36 is as great as the shale min Gaiters, say mesh realm than the whole earn. Sham of the Unload States Is, the goverament of 20 000,000 sf the people these. (Cries of " gamma s.") Well, how hes this erlieo ? Beni people mount far this Is Gas way sad sera in another. We know that the messy has Ursa raised; ad, m it lea less my maid by this tomblike, that it bee lista fluty gest la warlike establithments. Eat how kik teat th is eamemlitare has game ea without{ Wag 'Wheel by sr _ Pam/ or wear ? if is simply imam, the people, 1146 . hulas misbelieve their attomlima *gm Se ow yew si their segnmulatima, the eid omega idea yeamiled helms the Mahon Am posed was ramthele sal the Sams made, glad the paella/mat gameligui, this Menem of illeni: i.....,_ itarezetly mad weakly, I Wine, km the pupas of of goveresment. (Hear.) Now, ditr‘7le aertr a panimg of the llahrm Ask time was II wry sualigabis mount of meramitemmt. I A den' &Wi liam to the Itabut AM that it wm like the new Mum s•volgag Mesa : brat I attribute it to the low pries of egri ellosva modems is 1836, tad a year sr two resifts. Molt derlar hst. bat if you look be* Is the last thirty yeas; tivin dad that whenever the prime of sitaral pu les bon lee the government expenditere has been amt Ewa ; mad, ea the contrary, when the times of agrl iehmesl has bun high --aetwitbetanding the ter n= n=& steals whisk has been coineidgat with that faet in ta.nategteriag sad sommercial Moltke —I fewest, that 1 6 2 , the prior of agricultural rodeos has bogs highest "f*Ssets of government have increased. This is so "mmu • that if yea take a list of the expenditure of the mid rat it parallel with the pries of corn for ire dun, yap, jos will find that the one is a pretty PM barometer of the diameter of the other. And the same ge I demised but the fact is this. that the !Mos' tt o fWs suet" is mainly in the hands of the Proprietors ; that in times of great excitement, which le tLrir very metre be evanescent, for the people can on Se als be in a state al reptiles fever—in tames of popular excitement, nedculit, the great communitme—..._ as I have now the honour of 'damming—lle grist and popular communities, eat Terse a great power, brows, when they express their opinion, it pith. r coivineee, or if it does not cavities, it alarms the agricultural interest into an sepieuenee in reform. But as the rural and landed interest was this country, when they ere doing well end getting they ate walla, for taxation to be high and ex re to be lavish ; but when prices tome down they leek kw a diminution of the national expetees. It is me tithe great advantages which I should calculate on from therepselei the corn-laws, that it will put the agricultural inteteet in the same beat with the rest of the community. (Applause.) Although they may for • time try to delude themselvee—or the landlord: may try to delude the tenantry— with the idea that they will get back protecti en again, and that they will return to high prices once more ; yr t when they are once convinced, and they will very soon be toe tinted, that they cannot return back to the tax upon corn, then in spite of all you may hear to thii contrary, you will see the members for the rural aunties walk into the tame lobby with myself and Joseph Hume. (Applause.) They tell us they cannot comnete with the foreigners in the present state of taxation, and . thetefort i afn very glad that we have been the first—that we, the pretenders, have been the first—that the magatheturiag districts have been the very first—to come forward awl air to help the agriculturists to reduce taxation ' • and 'sore, if they will co operate with " that those taxes shall be reduced which I believe presses par ticularly apes that interest. But I don't want this to be misunderstood. Our excellent friend, the obairman, very properly said, that we have burdens upon our shoulders which will impede us in the path even of free trade ; and to have the full advantage of free trade—it is, to be sure, not perfect freedom of trade yet, but I tappets we shall soca make it so—(applause)—to have the fall advantage of that freedom of trade, we must remove the burdens from over shoulders. Bat Ido not want it to p teeth, or to be under stood by our opponents, that we are making this outcry because we think we shall not be able as well to oom pets with foreigners without corn laws as with them. It was Aiwa) smy opinion, before the corn laws were abolished, that whatever tthatiou we miPt have to bear, and whatever our competition with foreers might be, you will bear it all better without the bread-tax than with It. (Aisp o lases.) And Imy so still. (Reiterated sheen. But if complain that, now, they an foe ) the first tine = l ulu eta petition, they can• not carry on Sok Wines without reffeetion of taxation, we have pissed aunaleee is opposition towards them, that we have been the first to come out and offer to Grid them in reducing taxation. I had occasion, last night, at Wakefield, to allude to the attempt that is now being nude to mire the outcry in favour of reaction; that the purple are tired of having corn at 45e. per qr. ; whereas, they would have had It at 70.. if they had bad the late sliding scale. (Chests.) I had ocessiou, last night, to say • few words upon this subject, because I am anxious that these people, these Cr::, who keep repeating words till they themselves them to be true—that they should not run away with the delusion that the people of the West Riding, who, more than any others, have contri buted to the repeal of the corn lame 2 l say I am onsious that they should not delude themselves with the idea that you are in favour of a return to the old system of corn laws. (Cites of " Rear.") They tell us all sorts of things have happened in cot sequence of the repeal of the corn laws. There is nothing that is mysterious that has happened, but it is said was is consequence at the opal of the corn laws. They have lately had the impudence to tall us that Inland is Bulletin in consequence of the repeal of the tax upon cam. I thought we had had some inquiries iota the state of Ireland before the corn laws were repealed ; I thought I had read some letters of Edward Spenser vim tensing • descriptioo of Ireland three hundred years ago, much the same as if they had been written yesterday. I thqugh• I had read something in D-an Swift which might have been received from a corespondent a week ago ; and I thought that there had been a Devon commission producing 3 blue books that disclosed a state of things most disgraceful to this country, and unparalleled on the face of the earth. (Hear.) And yet they now come forward to tell us that free trade has ruined Ireland. Why, if any country has been in a state of ruin for 300 pus, it is Ireland. What has ruined it? Ireland has been ruined because she wanted something better than potatoes for her people to at. And what has helped them to live? Why Indian cora, which was brought cheaply from abroad. Why ? Because you bad removed all obstructions to its importation. (Cheers.) I have heard that some graceless vied once said that the best remedy for the evils et Ireland was to let the Atlantic over it about ten feet for twenty-four hours. My nostrum is different. I say inundate Ireland with India* corn and good wheat, and that will cure them better than by letting the ocean upon them. (Loud applause, and a voids—"li you feed them, they won't wok.") Oh, yes, they will work, if pre will give them two shillings and sixpence a-day. (Vehement applause.) Well, then, gentlemen, these people who want to penneele us that there is a greet mutton is favour of another corn law, complain to us in spinal turd meetings in the south of the low prices of their produce. They any they have got sprouted wheat. I read this account in • retest of an agricultural meeting in Sussex, where one of the Deka of Richmond's friends got up and said, " I have bad to sell my sprouted wheat for 32e. 6d., and to give some to the pigs, as no the will buy it sow, but before • the repeal of the corn laws I could have sold it at a gocd price for the people to eat." (Hear.) This may be very well for the farmers, but you will not have to complain that inrtead of eating sprouted wheat, which might produce cholera or dysentery, or some bed disease, yen can buy good flour ; and I don't think you will have any right to complain or wish to go back to the old system. (Applause.) I can understand that • bad crop is a very bad thing for the Sussex farmers. We know that in the south sod welt of England we had had wet weather, which fell in the critical time when the wheat was upon the ground ; that in last autumn this bed weather extended from the Land's End to Kent That was an unfortunate thing for the farmers sod landowners, who had their corn c:posed and were ready to gather it up ; but in the north of England and on the east coast they were mom fortunate ; the crops ware got in in a good state. What I want to draw your attention to is this, that if these farmers in the West of England have a misfortune one in four or five years with their crops, it is just what every manufac turer has with his manufactures. Look at the change of fashions; look at the breaking of machinery; at the new inventions of machinery ; look at the dvil war I. Ger many ; at the outbreak in China, and many other things which happen in our experience—lcok at all them thing", which may operate upon and interfere with our trade and manufactures. (Cheers.) You must bear in mind, also, In this calculation, that when the year is prosperous the manufacturer does not come to the public to ask them to have • share in the balance ; be pockets the profits of the good year, and when from rain, or fire, or any other accident, the year happens to be bad, the manufacturer, I cannot say pockets his loss, but he puts up with it_, and does not come to parliament whining and saying he has had a bad trade, and wants the law paned to protect him and to make his trade profitable. We lay the same thing to the farmers—make your own arrangements—make your own bargains. We have got land to let, and you must take into consideration that you will have bad moons and bad crops occasionally ; it is your business, and not that of the public to see to this. And if you omit to take into account these things k it is of no use your coming, like children, whining to parliament or to as. All that we an promise hi, that when you have good profits we wont come in for a Ware of the profits. (Hest.) Some people ask, What has free trade done for us ? I have stated at Wakefield what I heel to night repeated in a parenthesis. From the bent opinions I have been able to gather, I believe if yam had not been able to secure the repeal of the corn laws when you did, you would have had corn at 70s. per quarter now—come say 724. (Hear, hear.) Before this year, you never knew a deficient harvest, with a falling market afterwards. (Hear, hear.) Well, free trade has done that for you, at all events; and whatever your other troubles may have been—whether your pockets are boring out at the bottom with railway charts— (laughter and applause),—whether your trade may be inter rupted for • t im e by the Schleswig Holstein quarrels, or the coarandons in Sugary sad Italy ; othestker them, or whatever other things, may happen, be mewed that you are better off with wheat at five awl thirty shillings • quitter—that you have more power le molosia your pe tition, and more thanes of averting the oils Often ethos ; that you are in every ' , upset batter off then if pa had the sliding sealtesad its onsentitant of wheat at ems* shillints a quarter. (Applause.) Now, 1 ham tamely said this that we may put ourselves straight, and hemp mmodem Mmight midi our appestats ; that we may undeautond bow we ar, owl Mothers know that we are saddled with the results of the mend et theserslain,and with hot trade so far as it has me.......( Leml endows. ) With regard to the miasmal =pendi a., meson, probably, thstl wpm' tosiewidesake ZoWammel knit the pet womanise to what II woo ill* I thee. and I maintain still, that I is propel( as the great ehject o a rroZei sab al Item that we timid revert to that period— (upplasse)—temmes I as assured that by the time we have got to that t r i ebo dissneden whisk we shall have had, and from tibia bee elready been let into this matter, we shell Me to get s gess% deal farther. (Great wPm as dna set get this all at ones ; I never e Ibsen gist it all at ones. It were despotic—if gnimesa abssinlio power in this ersatry—l don't. pretend ~ tondo mg we email est it all at own. My es ts the staliteas You must pat your colonies en s• On footing ,• sad I wet you to tell the so le -Ms how to go ours themselves. (Applause.) They will be very glad to pay their own enemas, if you will eeve this W smogs Othir own affaise—(:hears)—aud so long as you Mem diem that, they ars right is tax you for th ei r goommont, for their Whop thel in patting you to all the dray do. Well, this 'amine thbp so far off—twelve ftumml miles m att'a—that, as Ihath said, If 1 bed thews sos ja it out at ems. Bat what rwae Is, that public Oinkswldso use** itself as to mayhems the ex eative that they should tot about enranging those ur i rpdekly as smith*. We have mak sNg or two— we made some sniostion. The asmsafier of the um stated it at semsthirg like a nein Isis UM I MA Wt yam Itilkost I don't berth Mho lumens the Alltswey. ItwtilsurYe" he ie tslkYgapiesl the aria. a** (Awillsown) I wealorow bow really to tali to menithoneured melee like this ; beams whoa I rifillodli ts the if Closimms. they wan say, " Thb les two Sass; be hobs Os etas tuns is Yorkshire, mils quite a dOflssmt Mir bare." Now, I my, I &a's like the way in whisk Sees emotion have boss made; they has all Isms mob hem the lowest end of the male. (Heer, hear.) It seam to be tholesded. ban the way in which they law boss nom* to Wag fasosisl reform into &mate. Here is sedosiths la the may ; sod how de they go to work? They prdead tbs Zare rig to redoes 10,000 men. Would it not be that the simplest way would. have been to reduce 10 nglinute, or su may r egiments es would embrace 10,000 mes—end thus getting rid of the otherm—(sheen)7-ef Grid--of that proportion of the civil service which is NOMA for that large army—nithsein the ordnance stores la —in fact, redo:lei the whole seals of the military= THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 14, 1849. runt by one tenth ? Instead of that what do they do? They send orders from the Horse Guards to disearee 10,000 drunken mea and men of bad character—men who hove been put in limbo and flogged—(laughter)—keeping up 'he whole staff, the whoa establishments, the whole skeleton of the regiment, and leaving the PM number of <San. I wcnder if then are any drunken officers or bad characters atuors them? (Loud cheers.) They keep every general, and major, and captain stilt standing, with the same pay, though he has got tower men to look after. (Hear. bear.) What does all this mean ? I believe it means—and I may as well out with it at once, though I believe I shall each it when I get bath to London—it just means this th at the government lo upon this cry fewer fit, such as has been seen before. They say we must attend to this ay ; we must meet this demand—in appear mass at hest; we will reduce these 10,000 men to toasty them, aid give an appearaoce of economy • but we will keep the whole aeletoa standing like the scaffolding of a house, so that we may build up the edifies aria as moon as these Ithancial reformen have tamed tit& eyes another way. (Applause.) Well, now, I say this is calculated to lohg us into disrepute ; b ecause it seems as if this reduction is 'shaded not is piss upon the pow Only, but le else aliens lobed to let loose upon socdety Ina who an he of no use, but who may be man buthmsonte to keep than in the army. (Hear, bear.) The gems rule has been applied in the dock yards. They have been sending away from the dockyards shipwrights and others; and I have had letter upon letter Gem th ese dockyards, telling me of the scenes which have taken place when them men have been dismissed without castor, and it has been said, " That fellow Cbbden is the reason why you have bola turned away ;" and I hive got latter upon letter saying that it is my fault. But go to tie' deekyerda and see the number of supernumeraries employed there, the number of admirals and others who knsw nothing of their duties, yet must be kept without one shilling reduc tion In their wages—(har)—though they have got fewer MU to look otter. This, I maintain, is calculated to bring lonasial reform into disrepute. We have heard it said—l halos the Duke of Richmond said it somewhere—that if you w l i r e l I I Or: alai' d t he j w e a r myob Olureirouldi::lo7bawsuwaviillpaie,bebsaajnihdlike7seopktta"asbkinPoot-tesuudouienna:;Ptthembilentriitraulniryouthter: going into the workhouse, which I don't believe would he the ease with many, nobody pretends that you would ha ve t o keep the officers at thaw writhouse. (Laughter and applause ) Let us meet this fallacy, as you will hear of it after Ws even ing. If you had ail the men that are in the army to keep la the Teo:blame's, how mach would they cost ? Do you think they would cost seven millions sterling ? It dote not cost that, you know, to keep a million and a half of paupers in this country. Every man of the army, I should say, taking offi cers into account, costs 1001. a year ; but they would not cost 1001. a year in the workhouse. Now if any man talks to you of this, just remind him that oar reduction would begin at the other end. It is not our plan to dismiss the men and keep up the officers. I coeifeas, though I may be blamed for it, that I should like to begin with a field marshal or two. (Loud cheers.) Well, you know, they blame us exceedingly in the House of Com mons if we make this a question concerning the aristocracy. They ray it is not the aristocracy that is concerned in this matter. We are going to put this to the test by and by. I have told you how they propose to reduce the army ; here is a proposal new on the books of the House of Common b my indefatigable friend, Mr. Hume —( lend applause)—and the vote will come on befere long—before another month I pre diet—that we shall reduce the number of admirals from 150 to 100. (Hear.) I will show you how. We have now more than 160 admirals ; and, mark me, you can't employ more than fourteen of them do what you will with them ! (Laughter, and Hear, hear.) In the height of the French war, when we had a thousand armed vessels afloat, we never employed forty admirals at one time. You cansot now employ fourteen, though you have now 150. My friend Mr. Home's proposal is this, that there shell be only one post aphis promoted to the rank of admiral for every three admirals who may die, until the number of admirals is reduced to 100. Mind, at present, for every admiral dying there is one poet captain promoted. This reasocable proposal of Mr. Hume's is of by government, and it is talked of in the clubs of Lend= as something very little short of high treason. When that propoul gooses on keep your eyes on it, and look to the votes: They say that we do wrong when we call this ea aristocratical system; they say it is no aristocratical matter • we shall test it upon this question of admirals. You see ho w they prepare to reduce the army, and If you find that they oppose this motion of Mr. Hume's, I do not see that we shall be very immodest or audacious if we ray that it is am aristocratical question. (Cheers.) I have said that one way of reducing our establishments is to alter our colonial arum. Now there is another quieten I want to see altered. We keep too many soldiers in this country and in Ireland. Yon are aware that there are at this moment, as near as passible, 60,000 bayonets kept up is Ireland, at the expense of this country, and paid ouJ of the Consolidated Fund. I have heard qualified persona my that the 12,000 or 14,000 police there are the most highly-trained and fittest men in Europe In addition to these, the pensinere or invalids are liable to muster when called upon, so that we have altogether very nearly fifty thousand armed men in Ireland. (Hear, heir.) I believe this is more than the whole number of the British troops engaged at Waterloo. What an they there fore They are employed, I will admit, to keep down a very restless and insubordinate population; but why are they insubordinate ? Is the system of maintaining an armed force to be kept up for ever or not ? (Criss of "No.") Then who is to alter it ? I say that no government is deserving of support which cannot find the means of governing Ireland without the enormous and overwhelming expense of keeping up that army in Ireland. (Applause.) I throw that wholly os the executive government, and I say that that executive government is bound to resign—(applause)—and more especially do I say that this whig government is bound to re sign unless they can find means to keep the peace in Ireland without putting you to the expense of this army. I speak out upon this question, because I have been once or twice dragged through th e mud in voting for coercion bills for Ireland ; and I have, I confess, walked out of the house in disgust from coercion bills for Ireland. We want someting mere for Ireland—something more than bayonets and poor laws. (Cheers) Now, at this moment, there is a deal lull in Ireland; no political action; no political feeling. The people are too much horrorotruck—too much exhausted with their too interne sufferings to think of politics. There was a time more suited for a minuted' to devise measures for remedying the evils of Ireland. If it is the spirit of landlordism to stand in the way of improvement in Ireland—unless our minister in Ireland is in alliance with that spirit of landlordism—and ankle he will sub mit a plan to remedy the evils which afflict the man of the people, regardless of the sinister influence of the land lordism of Ireland—(hear, hear)—if he will throw hirostif upon the pe :plc of England, and *ill undertake to say "Here is a plan devised not to give a poor-law at your expose—not to give loans—not to maintain a great army—not to place a tem cieatrice over the evils of Ireland, but a remedy to the foundation of the evils, and give permanent hap plasm to Ireland." Let the government throw themselves ea the people of England with such a measure as this, and M they were turned out to-morrow by a vote of the House of Chtheions, or of the House of Lords, the people of this coun try will carry that government back to power ten times et then ft ever was before. (Vociferous cheering.) this is strictly a matter of economy. (Cheer.) • seellest drains made upon the people of this country hr the het four years have bean for loans and grants, and the expenses of military establishments in Ireland. (Hear, = I speak of the executive government, and I ray the same of the present Lord Lieutenant, Lard Cheendon. He is a nobleman of whom everybody de mo to speak well—(mar, hear)—but I would apply unto ▪ the Scriptural maxim " Woe unto you when all men got well of you "—(laughtee)—for you ere apt to stand on Ile pod word, and are not anxious to merit it by your • idlest Lord Clarendon is a nobleman whom everybody MI6 eggressim him Rut hie. I had a prestige in his Simlemileassee I liked his brother Mr. Charles ViAierr, be im I saw the elder brother. Bat it is not enough for the Lord Lieuteuant to keep the peace in Ireland with fifty mad bayonet., at your expense, and with no threatened Inewmesdon. That Is doing nothing to maintain his fair ha with this generation, or to hand down his name to I believe that Lord Clarendon possesses the views upon political economy and political matters gimerally. Let him apply those views to th e condition of tee th* nation. He has oaly to exercise moral courage, and be wtgldßave himself *swift ot redressing the evils of society in bind, where you have net fewer than 160 different hu ssies ter the lodgment of amps. It is generally a great en thugthent ; and the peopled this country should declare nol a minister deserves their confidence who is not able to a measure totally different from that of any man near in power. Lord John Rumen aye you cannot apply s passim he Ireland. guppies yea cannot get any plan to Wed all you desire in 10, 20, or even 60 years' let us, I asmtave s plan commensurate with the evil, and if it be t from grants or loans of money or rates in aid, so mask the better, because neither grants nor loans nor rates In aid ma aseemary for the regeneration or prosperity of behind. I have spoken of Inland; but I will oome now 11114 lab &MO MeMthat on delicate ground, that we have tee um semen is BegiaM. We have departed from the manias of our ancestors fa having soldien to keep the pews l a i=reL (Hear, hest) I wia not con fi ne myself to the that soldiers are kept to maintain the institutions of the MIIMUU I will admit, if you like, what I have heard Masi in the House of Commons, that soldiers are not kept to ' sainbia the institutions of the country, or to uphold the Sone; but I will say that it is contrary to our ancient oon edestioml maxima, sad contrary to the interests of the le, military arm of the country to keep hear.)~ s pines. I do not say that, in these path my sot have hiss necessary to employ the sailiteril me. egee. serve oda, bat I my that you have been meekwely & n o; Misses upon the military to keep the paw I with great mean upon the constant LIMON of the in the neighbourhood of all your large tewns. les% new my that it may not have been necessary to employ beep to kmp order; I run sorry for it : but what I with Ss bast Is, that something may be done to diminish the Drew thy for having resenne to the troops to keep order. (Hear, hear.) We have bed a return laid before parliament of the 11111/61f et kumelbs in this manta, sad the periods whoa they wean (Hear, hear.) It was a rotas imbed hr s *sot to that for which I will use It It to a view to show then of asesnmemb =et the sleeping-room., the rentiletlea, Ile and so on, together with the dale of she eeeilen of nwnylarrack. Now, it is to me a very fa tirade' and from it I learn that before 1790 suck a Wag m it_ barrack in the neighbourhood of a large town did Ist met. I scarcely find one in the whole list. We had 30 or 40 stations for soldiers in the neighbourhoods of our large seaports and arsenals sad fortified places bat previous to 1790 there wee scarcely a pe rmanent barrack for the use of the troops In the neighbourhood of a large town. It wee a maxim of our forefathers in those days, a maxim held by Lord Chatham, who declared that born the moment there is barracks raised in England, then farewell to the liberties and privileges of Enalishruen. It was the maxim °four "ore fathers that there should be no war. Then came the war of 1793, theFreechrevolu•i nary war, that was sueoesied by ni trust and excitement, and elmoat ittatiriecdon in our isountry, owing to the pies Aire (althea war establishment. Fri m 1793 the barracks spread rt:sidly over the country ; and I am sorry to ha say that for the t twenty - five years they 'sentiment spreading more rapidly than before. Now mark how the war spirit generates the spawn of Its own cures, ; lON how these barracks, brought forth by this war spirit, have brought their evils with them. Why, the first outcry for finanaLi reform stopped the expenditure of 100,0001. for barracks in Birmingham. It was down in the estimates, and it was withdrawn to make a show of concession. It was oily withdrawn, and will he found there again the next time you go to sleep. I attach es much importance is any man to the preservation of order, and think you cannot pay too high a price for It; and I repeat that, troops have been necessary to keep order in large torus, rather than have anarchy, I would say I would rather have them than not ; but what I want to see is whether we cannot do as our forefathers did, and as the Americans do now, keep we peace w:V . ount ""!". t'727ase ) For mark me, th ey are the inlet expensive desmition of pc lice that you can keep up. Let us take stock. In Leeds we have hone, foot, and artillery, a staff of offieers, a commo der and his aide deecamp, and the commander of the district. Why you could keep five times the number of policemen in your town for the same money. And when are our military called out? Only in times of polities! excitement. We don't want the troops to protect the town from the blackguard boys who break windows; and it ia thirty or forty years sinew an attack was made in your gist mills ; and in 1842, when the country was disturbed by the great plug riots, not a thread was disturbed from the enindle, and not a farthing's worth cf injury done. (Applause,) Look at the effect of depend ing upon the military for preserving the public peace. Take the case of Louis Philippe eighteen months ago. Who could have supposed any government mom mfr than that of Louis Philippe's ? I saw him about two yeas ago pass from his palms to the Chamber of Deputies, between a double line of soldiers armed, one line being regular troops and the other national guards ; and yet with this fifty or a hun deed thousand troops at his command, what was the end? He trusted to them instead of to public opinion, and they all fell from him ham a pack of cards. (Applause) I wish that we should look at this matter as a part of our financial reform movement, end aircid the old vague party cries withnrt rea son for them. The reason why old agitations did not suc. reed, Is, that the people were rot educated or taught what they wanted, and the reason for their demands. This we will now avoid, and in moving. like this, prepare our selves to learn what is better, and, taking warning by our French end other continental neighbours, take a better way for securing what we want. I will tell you candidly that I consider the extension of the suffrage to be part of the plan of financial reform. (Cheers.) I want to see more men en. listed within the pale of the constitution, and interested In keeping order ; and I want to see fewer men excluded who are interested at particular times in creating a fear of disorder, in order to obtain their political ends. I have always been of opinion that the most conservative thing to do is to extend the suffrage; beams. you give the surest guarantee of public opinion in enmities you do, and avert the danger of the stone overturning when you attempt to set the menial pyramid on its apex instead of its base. (Cheers.) To pot a stop to that increase of the army in the neighbourhood of large towns, the best means would be a large extension of the franchise. (Hear, hear.) I look upon the barracks in large towns as more than an expense—as a great moral evil. (Hear, hear.) Apply one test. Ask the value of land in the neighbourhood of barracks. Wherever you plant a barrack there a blight immediately falls people would rather go into the neighbourhood of • prison or a cemetery than they would carry their wives and children into the neighbour hood of a barrack. (" Hear, hear," and an exclamation, " I have property unlet near the barracks.") Here is I gentle man who speaks feelingly, for he has property unoccupied near the barracks ; and at is no doubt sensiely deteriorate.: in value from that cause. People seem to shrink from proxi mity to a barrack, but would they do so from • police station ? (" No, no," and " hear, hose.") Will any one tell me that it is dangerous to trust the hard working mechanic, living day and night in the pretence of his wife and children—these men whom we trust in warehouses and mills, on whose honesty we depend, and from whom we derive that upon which we live—is It not safer to trust to them for the safety and protection of our institution', than to depend upon those armed men who live in the barracks of which we have been speaking ? Well, gentlemen, I may have appeared to wander wide from the question of financial reform ; but it is a wide question, and if you will reduce your army and other es tablishments, you must alter your polity u regards Ireland, ettisd,and the colonies, and your system of interforiog People abr: ad lam free to admit that wan have some -1 ' times been popular, but this I must my, that the people have W ssepawer to make wars or to stop their going on. Nobody seem to have remembered yet that we are an island. We have not taken advantage of our insular position. Sins the time that Nelson destroyed the combined fleets of France and Spain at Trafalgar, we have been as safe from attack as if we had been in the moon. (Applause.) Yet after that we got involved in four or five hundred millions of debt. Two little powers quarrsl in the River Plate; and you have had far the last AU years a fleet of 2,000 men—a fleet large enough to protect all your commerce- 7 lying between Monte Video and Buenos Ayres. We next put the Queen of Portugal on her throne ; we had a fleet of 6.000 men in the Tague ; but as soon se I mentioned this In the Free Trade Hall in Manchester, we found that they were dispersed. (Applause.) We have had a hrge flee running to and fro, carrying menages between the Neapo. litsns and the Sicilians ; Just the same as if the Americans had sent a fleet last year to carry messages between the English government end Mr. Smith O'Brien. (Hear.) Now, the reason of all this is, thatif they did not employ themselves in doing mischief they would have no employment at all. (Loud laughter.) Since we have been looking after them at Malta, in the Tagus, and in Sicily, they have been so per plexed that I firmly believe that, by-and-by, the officers will insist oa coming home and lying in Portsmouth harbour; for it is utterly impossible for them to persuade the people of Eng land that they are doing good where they are. (Applause and laughter.) I was ignorant of the gross nature of all this ex penditure until I war put upon a committee last year to in quire into the navy, end upon another this year to icquire into the army ; and the chief good this does me is, that I am learning my lesson while they think lam sitting idle. (Ap plause.) Another re nit of di...committees and the investi gation to which this fieancial reform agitation has given rise, t' the exposure of the reckless waste and extravagance in our dockyards. (Hear, hear.) But it perhaps is act to be won dered at that ships should be ordered by persons who do not know what a ship should be, when every two or three years there is a change in the Lords of the Admiralty, one of whom is occasionally turned out to make room for a fresh one. In the cam of the pre sent Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. Ward, he is a person of great official aptitude, and he has performed his duties at the Admiralty so well that I should have liked to have seen him made Secretary of the Admiralty for life. Bat now he is ap pointed chief commissioner of the lonian Is'ands,and another secretary will come who will have his lemon to learn, and he will learn it at your expense. There is no remedy for this but to keep your establishments as low as possible. 1" Hear, hear," and applause.) We have raised this question, and whet we have said Is not only telling upon the governors nt, but upon other governments. There is not a meeting we hold, but reports of what I say are transcribed into the Pads melon ; are read extensively on the continent ; and if we suit ceed in reducing our army, I believe it will be only contem poi aneously with reductions in other countries; and, there ten I look on these peace meetings , an them financial reform meetings, with some complacency, as being likely to prove a moans of diminishing the baron of war. Gentlemen, I told you that I would talk to you in a familiar and c o n v ersational way, and I am afraid I have done usury inefficiently ; I have only, in conclusion, to recommend that you will carry out the valuable angles time' of your chairman, and qualify yourselves by votes. I am not afraid of the people ; but I should deceive you if I told you that we would be able to carry any extensive reform in the present constitution of parliament. If you want to ex. mad the suffrage, I wk you to do so by qualifylog yourselves fir votleg in the county. I advise you to follow the example which has been set yon in the midland comities by .Mr. Taylor and others. You cannot lay out 401. or 601. 'better than by the purchase of a vote. As a means of reform, I advhe any man, if ke hoe not a vote, dad if he has the means, to quil e ttk himself by purchasing • vote for county. Ea ly should he do this when he does not m em a borong vote ; and if be Is a borough voter he should min be =Um to gain a county frenchisit. And if this pro cess goes on, it will be the readiest means of carrying on financial reform, which sooner or later will come, and I hope it will come tranquilly • and that its program will not be dammed up until the flo:rd come,, tearing away its hanks, as on the continent, leaving everything in confusion and out of its natural channel. (Mr. Cobden reamed his seat amidst reiterated plaudits.) E. BAINES, E nt ., was greatly cheered on rising to pro pose the secon d resolution, which, he said, he had much plenum in moving. Mr. Cobden having made the speech to his resolution, all he had to do was to express his hearty ap probation of it. and his hope that as Mr. Cobden had pledged himself at Wakefield and he (Mr. Baines) thought he might consider he bad again pledged himself there—(" hear, hear," from Mr. Cobden ) — to bring forward lathe How of Commons year after year the important ques tions of arbitration, the non-interference with the quarrels of nations, and the reduction of their armaments, he aines) trusted all present, with the whole of the West bri Nd i tal constituencies would pledge themselves to beck him in year after believed (Loud cheers of Gwent.) If they did Ise, he fully believed that with such a leader and with musk a esuse—or even any cause—they must succeed. (Chun) bleolation ran as follows : !fret In the deliberate opinion of this oisatiag, this OPPrioaft 11•011112 of taxation is caused by ALL unneeemery and extravagant ea. posditure for the government and pomades of ear colonise; by a him external policy which Inds to the malainamm of • large navel sod wintery force, at bow add dread. and hy mem salnelhee•• I met and waste in the odulditasdas at toe puns =NM ml• play in the depezonems at the mew, envy, atitrima, ma labile weds fad eamilleg to tho Ira l c Ileilison t er NU. Ity leaving to OM the ef own the sweat of their o rs _l4 no law beem.te Mind affair's:at lautest gem* at maw astkaaa, ma by a arms ashram and eene4 fn all tamatos of adtpubtia aartisa, it is pradiaale to rears, at to the euenditant of DU. Amerman LIJCCOCH Noma the resolution. Col. THOMPSON, M.P., came forward to support the the resolution, and was received with enthusiastic and pro longed cheering. He said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, A period has been pointed out, not so lug ago either, because to some of us it seems only yesterday, when our establishments were thought to be great and magnificent,' and were allowed by universe' consent to be sufficient for our use and necessity. (Hear.) You have already made al groat advance on one important point. You have got free dom to remise your own industry, end to bring back in ex change for it the products of other countries. (Hear.) There is more to get yet—not on =ugh as it you had got nothing, bet there is that which is imp :mint still and you will have it, depend upon it, because there will b e no s t o pping it. (Cheers.) Tome will be opposi'ion, and my commie!, there fore, is, that you omit no effort—relxx not in anjt attempt that you can make to push forward to perfect success the beedona of trade aid c =mere,. (Cheers.) There are symptoms of an expectation in certain quarters, I cm tell you, that there should be something likes retrograde move- I meet en that head. I think they are simpletons who in dulge this expectation, whether they be lords or commoners. You exert yourselves—k-ey the government moving. Hu man affairs never stand still, and here is an opportunity to , advance in the right direction. Having goe one thing, pitch for another. Call out for financial reform—you have need enough of it. (Cheers and laughter.) There is not use of us but who could tell when he would be better off by a reduction of taxation. (Hear.) Why should we not expend that amount either for own use or for the use of but wives and families, which we are now obliged to give for something else? (Hear.) Sorely there is nobody. so deluded. Oar working classes are not so ignorant IS to have grown up to manhood without seeing that sooner or later the ark of Ole 9 , ,Britulien PPM eerteinly ern eta I doer Id that &tail ks wel is dime who are there wool. (Loud cheers.) There will be no violence—no outbreak about it. (Hear.) It may not come all at once—it mey come by degrees, but so surely as the child which was once weak grows up to the strergin of man, so surely shall those classes whom we now see iii the possetsion of political rights, ea well as those at a distance from them, arrive at the full enjoyment of all that they can desire. (Cheers.) And why ? Because it is so manifestly for everybody, good that it ehould be so. Rich men believe in it, and great men confess it. Is not this confession spreading and extending ? D we not see in our political proceedings that universal confession, that man, intelligent and wise, cannot for ever be kept from the enjoyment of political freedom ? (Hear.) What is the continent struggling for? For that very thing and nothing else. (Cheers.) Never give up the opioicn. Stick to the belief in what has been an ably pro. pant to you here, that you have a strong sympathy and fellow-feeling in the attainment of political freedom on the ewitinent of Europe, because political freedom brings peace, and harmony, and commerce with it. (Cheers.) It is not the people of Europe that are wanting to go to war with one another. (Hear.) It is the despots anti the aristocracy, unchecked by pope's' 'feeling. Ido confess lam Utopian enough—that is the phrase —to look forward to the time when men shall learn war no more. (Hear, and cheers.) We have been nearer to the completion of that prophecy than some have thought of. Wnat have sensible men to do with learning war, much more, at all events, than learning sur gery ? We may want surgeons still, but in the name of common sense let us have the fewest we can do with. You are not without co-operation in the gnat objects which we are seeking to promote. Lancashire and Yorkshire will now stand together, for I perceive that you have just destroyed that barricade of hills by boring through them, whereas when I was • boy it would have taken almost endless labour to climb them. (Laughter.) You, Lancashire and Yorkshire, are responsible for your own petition. If you allow yourselves to be defeated it must be because you are slack and careless in your efforts. If, on the contrary, you put your shoulders to the wheel and join heart and hand in this good work which has been set before yo u, depend on it there will attend that success which has elwa)s marked the exertions of the West Riding of York lire. (Loud and indonged cheering.) Alderman MACLEA was received with loud applause. He observed that he should take the advice of their worthy and excellent friend Mr. Goodman, and being • Leeds man, say little, or rather say nothing, but read the resolution, which he begged to move, namely : That this meeting respectfully arses on the liberal party in ' and the other towns of the West Riding, to seise every Stung occa- Men to represent its views upon these subjects to the legislature; to diffure among the constituency information on all matters email led with financial affairs. and above all, to prepare to give an unmistaker able manifeetattan of Its opinion on ?Meneml reform at the next elm ' tion, by vigilant attention to the registration, and by a persevering' effort to inereme its strength on the register of the county mutt ; teary. T. PUNT, Seq., seconded the resolution. A. H SNRY, Esq., M.P., lees to support the resolution, and war received with very loud applause. He maid hie avo cations in life had hitherto not been those of attending public meetings, or addressing public assemblies; and be was per suaded that, after the eloquent speech'' , they had heard that evening on these important and interesting subj. cts, with which he held, in common with the gentlemen who hat addressed them, any words which he could utt'e would have very little captivation for their ear,. (" Go on," " Cio on.") He had not been long in parliament, but what he had seen there had satisfied him that if reforms, financial or political, were to be effected, it must be by such lure and I enthusiastic assemblies as the present . (" Hear, bear," and applause.) In his short parliamentary career he had been planed for five months on the committee for the miscel laneous estimates, and after that time they produced the usual abortion of a blue book. (Laughter and cheer...) Having long been intimately connected with the trade and commerce of Yorkshire, be hoped he had done something to promote the prosperity of the county, end he, therefore, had great pleasure in standing before so many gentlemen whose opinions were in accordance with his owu. lie was proud to be a co-operator in promoting such objects as Mr. Cobden had brought forward, for be was no finality man, but was for going a-head. (Loud cheers.) He had, therefore, great pleasure in acting with his friend Mr. Cob den, and other gentlemen who held similar opinions, and begged to support the resolution which had been proposed to the meeting. (Loud cheers ) _ _ E SMITH, Elq., of Sheffield, also supported the resolu- Con. Mr. W. B. HOLDS WORTH moved the fourth resolution, "That the hearty thanks of this meeting are due, and ore hereby respectfully tendered to R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., J. G. Marshall, EN , MP., Col. Thompson, M.P., and Alez. Henry, Esq., M.P., for their zealous advocacy of financial reform and for their able am:stance at this meeting." Mr. Ald. BIRCIIALL seconded the motion. The name of Mr. Marshall being included in this resolu tion, it was pat to the meeting by Mr. Goodman, and adopted amidst great cheering. •• - • Col. illOMPSOilacknowledged the compliment on be half of himself and the other strangen, and, in the few ob servations addremed to the meeting, he called upon the sup porters of financial reform to imitate the example set by the West Riding of Yorkshire on the great question of the slave trade. R. COBDEN, Eq., M.P., proposed a resolution, which, he said, required no argument from him to recommend i• to the enth usi astic approbation of the meeting. It was a vote of thanks to their excellent chairman, who had given the weight of his position in favour of this movement, and who bad helped forward, by every means in his j ower—and he had great power—many mportant measures having for their object the elevation of the people in the social scale. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Cobden) felt that they were much indebted to him for his valuable co-operation in favour of financial reform, and also for the manner in which he had presided over their proceedings. (Hear, hear) Having discharged this duty, the hon. gentle man referred to the issue of the cheap tracts by the Liver pool and Edinburgh Financial Reform Amain:ions, which he strongly recommended to the careful perusal of all classes, es containing a mass of most interesting facts relative to the manner in which the public money was expended. The only other observation be would make in conclusion related to the necessity of obtaining, by every possible means, an increase of political power. He did not speak with reference to his own interesx in this county. lie was there by accident as the member for the West Riding. (An exclamation of "We'll keep you," and cheers.) He did not seek the distinction ; on the contrary, he was two thousand miles off when the electors conferred it upon him. (Hear, hear) No individual, not even my Lord of Hare wood, could be more astonished than he was himself, when he first read the announcement in the newspaper at St. Petersbargh. (Cheers.) Such being the case, he could have no personal object to gratify. They might do with him whatever they liked, and it would not in the slightest degree affect his political standing at another election, whenever that might happen. (Cheers.) But with respect to their common object, he advised every man who at present bad no vote, to qualify himself as fast as possible. He did net mean to deny th at they could obtain a reduction of ten millions with the present constituency. He believed that by agita tion they might accomplish the reduction in time, bat with the present limited amount of the constituency, and with the present insignificant amount of political power possessed by the people. they bad no gutrantee for the continuance of any financial re- form which they might effect, until a greater amount of popular control was exercised over the House of Com mons. (" Hear," and cheers.) Whilst he advocated finan cial reform, he also advocated parliamentary reform ; but as a means of obtaining both, he earnestly recommended them not to content themselves with passing resolutions in favour of either, but to make use of the instrument which appeared to him to be most providentially offered for their acceptance —the forty shilling ireeholds—(loud cheers)—and by acting on this recommendation, and keeping alive that spirit of inquiry which was new taking possession of the public mind from one end of the country to the other, he firmly believed that they would accomplish,. and at no remote period, the , great objects they had in v iew. (The hon. gentleman re tired amidst enthusiastic cheers) A. HENRY, Esq., M.P., seconded the resolution. Alderman BOWER moved that the proceedings of the meeting be advertised in each of the Leeds newspapers. Mr. KITSON seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, as were all the other propositions. • . . . . , The CHAIRMAN, in acknowled ging the vote of thanks for his services in the chair, said e was a reformer, sad not of yesterday ; and had always endeavoured to give all the support in his power to great measures of reform, and also to those now advocated by Mr. Cobden in the House of Commons. (Cheers.) He bad the honour of being one of the seventy-eight who voted with Mr. Cobden ; and also he had the honour, last session, of voting along with Mr. Cob den for Mr. Home's motion. (Loud cheers.) As he was honoured with the high trust of representing their opinions and wishes in the House et Commons, he hoped they would think his votes were admidated to give them satodsetion ; and it should be his wart endeavour to go on in the same *min of riving Wigan ea similar measures. (Load and reiterated cheerios.) MURDER M EAR Waneruirr.—Oa Monday after noon a murder was coma-Mad at Thorpe nex t Wainfleet, the victim being Mrs. Ward, the wife of Mr. Wm. Ward, a small farmer in the village. What renders the affai r : till more dreadful is the eircusutenee that the murderer appears to be her own san, who on the evening of the same day was committed to Spilsby prison, where he await. examination before the magistrates. COMMISSION BY TUE LORD LIROTENANT.—F. C. H. Russell, Esq., to be Major in the Sedfordsbacs ileg:m , nt M Militia. REPEAL OF TILE MALT TAX. WARWICKSHIRE COUNTY MEETING. A numerous mettiug of the agriculturists of Wit; wiekshire, convened by the high sheriff; upon you's:Lion, of the m anh n op ta ta . x c es h . air, Thos i. took place on Toursday, at the Shir e Hall, W arw i c k , f cr t h e purpose of passing resolutions and adopting a p e titi on t o v P h isin ar igh lian ie e th r n i e ff, t f :t r i ir th ec Het of H. the— repeallrin having t tsdke al meeticg, and then celled u p on Lard J. SCOTT, who cams forward amidst loud cheers, moved the first resolution, which wee as follows I. That the dialyse prevailing among the farmers of the United Kingdom has bees mainly caused by tie recent laws, which bring them Into unequal and unjust competition with the growers of foreign produce, and will inevitably Increase, to the ruin of the agricultural community, unless It be speedily arrested; and although no pi miles t reduction of tasatka sea be en equivalent for protection, still this meeting feels imperatively bound to call upon parliament, not only for the total repeal of the malt and hop taxes, but also for the Immo. Mate adjustment of the general and local tales, which prey unfairly 05 the cultivators of the mil! 0. WfiIIIDON, Esq., seconded the motion, Which, after some disturbance, having been carried, with two or three dissentients only, The next, which was as follows, was proposed by E. GREAVES, Eqi That the malt ma hop taxes prem.; with undue severity upon the skill and energy of the liritiM farmer, and are Alm injurious to the health, comfort, and morals of the laboaring community; and that this meeting pledges itself to use its utmost exertions to obtAn their immediate and teal appmL Mr. T. UMBEBB seconded the motion. The resolution was then put and carried. W. HODGSON, BK., moved the next resolution: That the farmers of the United Kingdom hiring been deprived by the operation of tree trade of the means of paying taISP, are not bound, when they demand an alleviation of burdens, to point out substitute for them; neverthelees, whilst oil other countries with which we have intereour,e are protecting themwives by heavy cus toms duties, it le the opinion of this meeting that a moderate import duty on all foreign productions wised be infinitely more just than the system now adopted, of taxing the produce of our native in dustry. Mr. BODDINOTON seconded the motion, which was carried. Several ether gentlemen, inclwiing Mr. Nominate, M.P., Lord Brooke, and Mr. Bpoouir, M.P., having spoken, a pe tition to parliament, embodying the resolutions, was adopted, end the meeting closed. DUBLIN. APRIL 13. Mr. Dufffs trial will not conclude till late this evening, if it does then. Lords Clarins, Dansandle, and Kilmaine are candi dates for the representative peerage. It is said that the tint noble lord will be eli ctcd. L,rd Edwin Hill contradicts the report of his rw signing the representation of the county of Down. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. WORCESTER CoLutoe.—There will be en election of two *embus on the foundation of Dr. Clark, at Worcester College, on Wednesday, May 9. ORDINATIONS will be held u follows:—On 13th of May next by the Bishop of Chester ; on Trinity Sunday, the 3rd of June, by the Archbishop of York and the Bishops of L'a. cols, Beth and Wells, Gloucester, Exeter, Ripon, Salisbury, Peterborough, Chich , Ely, Oxford, and Manchester; on the 10th of June next, by the Bishop of Rochester; on the Nth of July next, by the Bishop of Winchester; an the 29th of July, by the Bishop of Nor*ieh ; and, on the 23rd of Septembir, by the Bishop of Worcester. VREPERMENT.—The MT. A. TAYLOR, to the C. of Reap ham, Norfolk, dio. :Norwich. NAVAL DEVONPORT, Aram 12.—Sesgull, 6, Lieut.-Com. Small, arrived this morning from Falmouth, and came into horbour to male good defects and rt e, 6, has been br ught alongside the dockyard to be rigged sad s'ored, preparatory to her being commissioned to take the next mails to the coast of Africa Woohwten, Aram 13.—The First Lord of the Admi ratty, Sir F. Baring. Rear-Admiral Dundee, and ("metals:, Milnelwith Sir B. Walker, surveyor of the navy, andColotrel Irving, director of works, embarited at this port this morn ing, on board the Black Eagle, their lordships bring on an official visit to Sheerness and Chatham dockyards.—Ellin, et. despatch boat, intended to ply between Portsmouth and Gosport, was taken out of the Unlit' yesterday, and proceeded down the river on an experimental trial. She proceeds on at once to Chatham to be completed for con:minim. MILITARY. A CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM, dated Horse Guards, 6th inst., has just been limited, which is to have the effect of caneelli,.g a former one, dated March, 1838, respecting the raising of supernumerary men for regiments on foreign service. To avoid the expense and misapprehension which have arisen in carrying out the former memorandum, hence forth the following rules are to be strictly adhered to by the recruiting authorities. Regiments serving at home ire not to recruit any men supernumerary to the: home establishment, unless in soma special case, an explanation of the MINI to be forwarded to the Secretary at War. Regiments serving in India and at Mang Kong, are to have each fifty supernumerary men. Regiments serving in Cey:on and the West Indies, twenty supernumerary men. Regiments serving at the Cape, at :the Mauritius, and in Australis, tin supernumerary men. Uegimeute serving in North America, six supernumerary men. Regiments serving in the Mediterranean, his that at home, re to have no supernumerary men. (From List night's Cantle.) WAR OFFICE, Aram 13. 3rd Drag. Oda.—C.ipt. F. 11. BARRON, from the 4th Light Drags., to be mgt., vice Purefoy, who each. 4th Light Dr.igs.—Crept. E. B. rummy, from the 3rd Drag. Oda., to be apt., vke Barron, who exchanges. 16th Light Drags..--04. I. ILitnix to be lieut.. by our., vice Dims. dale, who veto; D. Itmax.se, Gent, tote me, by pur., vice Halton. Ist or Oven Itegt. of F. Oda—(pt. A. Tunoso, from the Pith F., to be lieut. and apt , vice t'dney, who eneb. 17th F.—W. 11. Esat.s, .Gent., to be cm., by pur., vice De Veulle, mcinoted ht the nth E. 24th F.—Ens. A. De Viroug, from the 17th F., tote beat. , by pur., Mee Orsham.wbo tee. 28th E.—E. M. lisi.vueirron, gent., to Ibe :mire, without put., sloe Walaii, mom. In the 73th F. 48th V.—Lieut. A. A. CHAPMAN, to be apt., by par., vice Sir J. E. Ilarrington, Bait., who ret. ; Ems. 0. N. 18ntam, to be aeut, by pur., vice Chapman; IL O. E. Watt, gent., to be ens., by pur., 'lce Latham. . —.-- 623141 B.—Ext. R. 3. E. Even), to be neut., by put., vtoe Wandesforttoy who ret. ; C. M. 8. L. Gwvisr., gent., to be ens., by pur., moo !Wed. . . GBth P.—Lleut. and Capt. and Brev..BlaL J. A. UNDT, from the let Oren. ltegt. of F. Guts., to he rapt., vice 'lipping, who exch. Ist F.—Ens. B. C. W. Slimier, to be my., vice Loftus, pram, 63rd I.—Ens. W.C. Swum, from the 67th F., to be lieut., by par, vice Gage, prom. 85thF.—Lieut. Mammy, to be cat., by put vice tiering, who ret.; Ens. J. OUDBMS, to be Scut., by pur sloe Ramey; 11. 0. Room, gent., to be ens., by pur., vice Glibbilyi. th F.—Lteut. A. LAXLY to he rats.. WIUI,Ut nor., Tine J. EdwArds. dee. ; Ens. G. B. Ness to be lieut., w ithout pur., vice Littky; 8. Comm, gent., to be ens., viie Nunn. 88th P.—Capt. U. ILunhros, from h..p. unit., to be capt., vice Could, mm. 91st F.—M. E. 0. Manrwsanto to be lieut.. by par., vice Dickson. mom. to the Ceylon Rills Rept.; R. Boieruwien, gent., to be ens., by pur., vice Muinwaring. th P.—Lieut. J. A. Story to be capt., by our., vim Deshorough. who rets.; Ens. 11. V. lermilorse to be lieut., by per., vice Sykes; R. C. NIADEN gent., to be ens., by pur., vice Stoneham*. Ceylon Ride Ile:pt . —Lieut. E. J. Mouses, from the 91st Itegt., to be rapt., by pur., vice Brevet Major Benner, who ret. Usarrseassi.—Brev.-Maijor J. Gotam, fro m the 88th F., to be major, without poi. SPORTING. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING. LATEST BETTING ON muitsDAT NIGHT. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. to 4 apt Honeycomb (t) (6 to 2 apt Nannykirk (t) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. Ito 2 agat Comm (t) 16 to I apt Pershill 6 1 Peep.o•-D•y-Boy (t) 30 —1 Do.the.lloye 7 1 Lugar 30— 1 Roby 8 1 Platcatcher 33 1 14 1 Executor 20 to 1 apt Blucher 25 1 Rathmines DERBY. 9to 1 alga Flying Dutchman 20 to 1 apt Osterley (t) 11— 2 Tsdmor 20 1 i fi , =ro 6 1 Nunnykirk 0 6 1 - TO 12-1 Honeycomb FRIDAY. MATCH, 2001.,10 ft. Dig. Lord Cliftlen's Lesdatone, Bet 71b (Robinson) 1 Lord Glasgow's Clerk of the Council, 7st 7lb ........(Flatmao) 2 Betting: 7 to 4 on Loadatone. Won easily by half a Length. Bun In 1 rain. 64 see. Maven, 3001.,100 ft. T.Y.C Lord Strathmore's Seraph, Bat 21b (R. Rogers) 1 Lord Stradbroke's Pyles., list 51b (Kaman) 2 Betting :6to 4 on Pylos (t). Won In a canter by two Ha. Run in 1 mia. 18 see. ANDICAP SW2EYBTAX-Eff of 15 son. earls, 10 it, for all ages. T.Y.C. Lord Lowther's Puleberrima, 3 yre, 7st (Dockery 1 Lord Glasgow's Clerk of the rtorA 4 yr., Bra 71b (Y. Batter 2 Lo rd Chesterfield's Chicot, 3 yrs, Mt 9lb (G. Oates 3 Lord Clifilen's 6t. Antonia, 4 yrs, Bet Lb (Emmen 4 Betting: 6to 6 apt Bt. Antonio, and 2to 1 sgst l' cher rims. A very well contested race with all four; Pulcher rims, who ran cut near the finish, winning only by a head, Chian and St. Antonio well up. Thhi race was not timed. MATCH.-1001. h ft. First half of Ab. H. . . . carorix CUP. 1 39 to 1 art Lady Wildair Doke of Bedford's &tall, Est nb (P. Butler) I lard °Lwow s f by Provoet out of Impertinence. Est Th. (Malmo) Betting: 6 to 5 on Retail. Won by a length. Rua in 62 see. MATCH.-1001. T.Y.C. Duke of Bedford's Dodd* Set 71b (P. Butler) 1 Lord Olusow's Big Jerry. Ist 71b (Platruan) 2 Betting : 10 to lon Saddle. Won by a length. Ilan in min. 16 sec. SWEEPSTAKES of 100 soya each, h ft for B•yr olds ; colts, • 71b; pan., 8:! . 21b. D. Id. (b subs.) Doke of Bedfc;rd's Sobraces (F. Butler) I Lord Orford's coy Cotherstone out of Mandane (11obloson) • 2 Betting *. Bto 1 on &broom, who made all the running. and won in a roster by four lengths. Run in 1 rain. 51 see. Serearwraxis of 100 son each ; h ft, for 3-yr-olda ; 04 141 , Bst 71b; (Mies, Rat 41b; 31b allowed, &c. Ab. M. (8 nabs.) Lord asesterfleld's Drakelow, Oct 41b 1 Lord Mares Honeyoonsb, 4441 b Mr. S. Stealers e by antics XII. out Set 41 b (=tied Yet 71b) ,