The Express. — London, England, 1849-11-03 00:00:00

Vie iftprefos. OUTGOING MAILS. TM image Sar Madeira, the Brazils, u 4 BaISOB Win be made up ea Nor. 6. The sills via Kamilla, to the Mediteirraiteas, Egypt, Orplii, ladle, liensg.lOneg, tap_ IrM be made up as the weds. ad Nov 7. The nest nails f v Lisboa, Spain, sad Gibraltar will be sea up_es Nev. 7. The West ladle eselallag Bermuda, Hevaitliee Noma. Meadaree, New Odom,zsd Melee, sag iseladiar time kw Madeira. Jaaa.deMieareetta. Neel Gruel* ward Tegs, will ha made up ea Net. 17. Gibraltar, Malta, Greese, s tr us = t ras , Nett, Cepiela ladle, sad Oda*. via will IMMO up cia aranalsi at Nov. " e . IRON WATTS AT LOIIIK‘TRIDOTA Ts Da • —SSA% Mangan. ah. al. I,4ramow—Naatag. Us. ...... Las, LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3. Ws shrank from noticing the Montreal petition to be allowed to whine British imareiguty for American annexation. flat wee • spark struck by an able and malignant hand over • large and well famished tinder-box. It is only, however, a breath from this country that could blow this spark into a Same. Better, in oar opiates, to have closed the lid and ignored the spark. Our eontemporaries have thought otherwise. They have played with it, read fanned it into a glow. The nue last week treated it asextremely carious, and with a respeot which is that journal implies an object of importance and Maur. no journal has evidently sines been remonstrated with by the Colonial-office, and informed that it had treated the Montreal remonstrance with too much consideration. It accordingly ecdeavoared, in its 1 yesterday's amber, to detract from the important:a and to represent the annexationist' of Montreal u a piqued and aninfinential few. - Of all this we should have taken no notice, bat for the announcement which the ministerial journal , sakes at the conclusion of its article, an aaiminsca mat that will be recd all over the United States and Muds, and which will excite feelings la both these enables &crams to the peace, and inimisa both to the character and grew* tit this country. We could wish to the leffies a little more pru deries, and a greater assmand et secrecy and temple. To judge from the following, lad Our is as nage- Innate and imprudent in his neweffisial communism Bons to the London press, as in kb official despatches to colonial governments. " If," says the Mal*, "wider the pressure of temporary ademeley. er hem an midst estimate of the benefits of repeat- MEM mss, Me Omens& pee, le deliberately propose to esebegge ths keen peaky that ay eels.; ever enjoyed for the softer's hoeses et hemiessmedt pert of an vawieltly sestsderafies, then let them smisase that the aoudad of the people of Sagland will be digested by agaves et re deems sad Menem skew. If they think chat they an do with. can Osesia, then, and than say, will they g o. up Naiads. Bettis elltheaderieg Camas they will take care not to sur- Nein MI jot of sea or bad. the ponession of whisk really eat ellhativsly concerns the minim, and oomeseteial be ef Great Britain, They will not cede Nova Seeds , NW ads Caro Brous ; they will not cede that end the herbals whit* most ever commend the mouths of tie St. Lawtesse sad protect the trade of the Athesis. Is porting from England Canada will lose the name els dependent reprises, to be brought more nearly within view of the force whist' might have perpetuated her indepesideam ;in looms her hold of Casa England will Mite we to lese oisly the respensibilitiss and expense of her relsaim. Bat wersppebeed that the deitsd fortunes of Casein sod the &resides ei bet penile make all such anti cipations as these wholly saperteses. We can conceive no language so arrogant, so impo litic, or so unprincipled as this. Sash views and an might be propounded by governments of the last century, or by absolutist politicians in this. But for Englishmen, and ministerial organs, to tell British colonists at the present day, that the English government in its colonial policy will be guided by "prudence and interest aloae," that is by selfish pni dence —that it will give up the entire provinces of Canada, if they like, because they are of no pcmible use to Great Britain ; but that the lox board shall not in any case bo given up, because it ministers to the power and commerce of Britain—is this a lan guage to hold to colonists in the present age? We really understood that no British statesman would think in the present day of holding colonize excepton the principle of mutual good to colony and to mother country. But if we are to avow that the government of both Cnnadi sod England is not only to Wok of England first, and of Canada second, but to make Canadian interests of no account at all—why, then, we say that the Canadians would be justified in de manding instant separation, and scouting and repu diating at once and for ever the supremacy of a country governed by principles so selfish and so rapacious. As to the Montreal petition, we never looked upon it except as the expression of individual spite. Its very cleverness and art bespoke this. But the purport of. this document, the question mooted- in it, is one that must eternally be started and kept alive by the mere propinquity of the United States. A war is going on between the monarchic government of Canada and the republican government of the United States—a war of rivalry, a struggle of com petition, to see which will best provide for the wel fare, and proiperity, and development of each popula tion. The struggle is a fair one. The Americans have many advantages that we have not. England has many advantages that the Americans have not. The only difference seems to be, that they use all theirs and that we use none of ours, giving to the Canadians the mere shadow of a govern ment, without cspitals or distinctions, share of place, consideration, representation, or any one of the many prizes and advantages of Bri tish life. Of course if we go on in this blind, stupid, and selfish way, the colonists will turn their backs upon us. Our idiotic tory statesmen imagined they would secure the attachment of the Cenadas by the implanting of tory principles there, by sending out Orangemen, and squires, and veteran officers, by erecting a church and endowing it, and communicat ing to the lay party connected with it an ascendancy like that which has alienated the Irish. We now find that all their fine tory sowings ban produced a crop of turbulence and disloyalty. The Orangemen cry " annexation' The Lord Roma of the new world are republ'ans. Tory and aristocratic mo narchy cannot, in fact, be acclimated in the new world ; and if monarchy is to survive there, or indeed in any of our colonies, it maths by being surrounded with repub lican institutions, that is, with institutions in harmony with the social existence of the people. But whatever be the form or the name of govern ment, it must at least pretend to direct the affairs et each country and each colony for its own interest", and not for the interests of say distinct moths, country. To tall British America, therefore, that we will treat it like the ox of the prairie, carry off the hide and the horns, and leave the carcess to be de voured by the American wolves—this is an outrage sufficient of itself to create a rebellion. If we cannot keep Upper Canada against the wishes of its inhabitants, aided by the armed sym pathy of the United States, we may depend upon it that we cannot keep the provinces around the mouth of the tit Lawrence against the whole of the northern continent. The French thought they were very sagacious when they took their station at the mouths of the two great rivers of America, th e Mit =' the Lawrence, leaving the English a St- Los important and intermedial parts of the 011111111•1. The rash was manitst i when the day of came, the holders of the continent sou the intruders from their enviable positions, me sabdued them therein. In the same way it would be the height of impolicy ell Ilea as mimesess is as to hold say portion of - Aleuries merely as we hold Gibraltar—for our con ; We may treat Spaniards so, bat not the an race. If we hold Canada, it must be for dr of the Canadians, and with their support. Ones we lose that right, and that excuse, we may depend upon it we shall be driven from the whole of the con duct, as indeed we deserve to be, if we hold any por ties mealy for the selligh interest. or peculiar advan tages of our island. We should, therefore, strongly recommend the Colonial-office, if it would keep Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, to do so by keeping Canada too; that is, by conciliating it and by governing it in some pint and with some po cy hoe preposterous, less blundering, less miserable, than its present. Let not Lord GUT or his organ, the Vona, lay to their lazy soul' the flattering unction that they an let go Toronto and Montreal,so trouble some to manage, and keep 'tallies as an arsenal and • packet station. Such an idea could never have germinated in the brtaet of a statesman, andconldonly THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1849. have been suggested by spite and despair. -in fact, it is a nounterblast to the Montreal petition, equally de fiant and reckless--eqsally devoid of *Weise sense, or principle—equally bsirayikg tbs best r rests, pesos, and dignity of. Zngieni sod ' 7 ' Tore iledestrions chronicler of royal dinners and drives, eteallost councils and visits to ministers of state, the Omit Newsman, has i n f or med the public tastes the 31st of last month " The Eadesiasticel 01011111111flefiers for England bad a general meeting at their. ellem in Whitehall-place." How saw of the bishops Iy came to town to cube, sesedni. which of the official commissioners wee present, wt what wee the business transactedAirises mot of course state. For these are sll partisan's] studiously concealed: though there la everyireason cm earth why they . 'tumid be made as patent to the' asontry ea is similar information on every other breech of its affairs, from the deliberations of pads- I met down to the squabbles of parish nitrite. I Bat, as the Home Secretary came to Low y. doe a few days previousl and as Sir Gleoaos GIST is both by office and by personal ajpointinent a member of the commission, it is very much to be hoped that he attended this " general meeting." Why, is obvioes enough. A very swims dotalcation in the funds of the Ecclesiastical Commission has, it has been asserted without oontradiction, been discovered. The indivi dual who miewropriated these funds has, it is further stated, confessed to the board the tread of which he has bees guilty ; and so far from any criminal steps having hese taken against him, he has, it is added, been presented by an Episcopal Commissioner, in the =of his colleagues, with a coigne for a °mai seta of money. Such is the statement that boo foe sees weeks born allowed to circulate unoon tradicted in the best circles of London scciety ; until at last it has become generally creoited. Now, if the statement be correct, a crime of no ordinary magnitude has been perpetrated. A person high in the confidence of the Ecclesiastical Commis sion mast (assuming its accuracy) have committed a meet scandalous breach of trust, and have defrauded the church of money confided by parliament to the safe keeping of its prelates, to be by them applied in the mitigation of that " spiritual destitution " which has for years been the scandal of the church of Zee land. What criminal proceedings have been takes by the Ecclesiastical Commission against the °Seeder P As Sir GEOROB GREY is by office at the head of the criminal pollee of the country on the one hand, sad as he ir, both in his public character and in his private, capacity, a guardian of the funds of this commissise e l we press this question on his attention. If no fraud have been committed it is due to Its character of the officers of the commission that $ formal and authentic contradiction should be gives to the report in question. While if a fraud hive ban committed, it is indispensable to justice that the offsnd.r should ba prosecuted. If the Ecclesiastical Commiasioneis can pass ovi r unnoticed an offence of this sort, the funds of the church can no longer be safely entrusted to them. For, while hitherto Job bery has been the sum of the charges made against their management of those funds, immunity to this fraud on their parts will render them personally and individually responsible in morals for peculation. It is bad enough to have the fonds squandered in palace building, in laying oat and adorn ing episcopal gardens, in exchanging episcopal estates, and in paying episcopal stipends corrupting in amount; but, in addition, to have the funds de frauded with impunity is intolerable. If the bishops and the Home Secretary can endure such a state of things, the House of Commons will not ; and a few months' cloaking and concealing the matter will only' . aggravate a are that must come under the considera tion of _parliament as soon as it ass mbles. Sir 0 GORGE GREY is, we submit, bound either to give • contradiction to the statement that the funds of the Ecclesiastical Commission have been defrauded, or to take some Moots to vindicate the law, if no such contradiction can be given to the statement. And the state of doubt which has been allowed to exist on this question exhibits a radical detect in the management of the Ecclesiastical Commission. Its whole proceedings, all its deliberations, the subjects under its consideration, the personages who sway its councils the reasons that influence its decisions, are all enveloped in secrecy. All that those meet inter ested in the multi of its measures know of them is when they are published in the London Gazette as the law of the land. Yet their poeerr, and the exec eise of those powers, are, in the strictest sense of the word, legislation—subordinate legislation, legislation in detail, if the commissioners choose, but still legis Wien. Now, legislation in secrecy is opposed alike to the constitution of the coat try, and to the spirit of the age in which we live. It municipal as- I positions are obliged to conduct all their affairs in open courts; if county magistrttes cannot spend a penny of the county rates in private, surely the FA el.sostical Commisioners ought to be equally amenable to publicity. The best administra tion LI church funds is surely as fit a subject for public opinion to be brought to bear upon as poor rates. Nay fitter ; for while the poor-rate is in its amount fluctuating, the legislation of the Ecclesiastical Commission is in its name permor.ent. Nor has the legislation of drt commission escaped the vice inherent in secrecy. It is one muss of Job bery ; it includes, doubtless, some good measures, some substantial improvements ; but not a m-asure that would not have been stilt better, not an improve ment that would not have been still more substantial, bad publicity attended its proceedings. Under the influence of pub:iciry, the division of its funds would have been unknown, palace building would have been checked in is (oleic, such scandalowi abase of church revenues as that perpetrated at Bialpip Wearmouth would never have been attempted, and in all human probability defalcations in the funds would never have occurred. To the other reforms indispensable in this commis sion publicity of its proceedings must then be added. COXWUNICATION BETWEEN RAILWAY CARRIAGES wins tx Mortote.—The Railway Clearing Rouse Com mittee, at which all the leading railway companies are represented by their chairman or other delegate, have, it appears, at the suggestion of Capt. Haigh, urged upon the railway companies the importance of giving facilities for the guards walking safely along railway trains when in motion, by which slaw, it is said, accidents may often be averted. flit, it will be remembered, WM the plan carried out by Mr Wyndham Harding, on the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, some years age, where it was the means of preventing several secants. It was also, after oomminicating with Mr. Hard. ing and receiving a great number of suggestions as to the best means of communicating between guards and drivers of railway train*, selected by the railway commini mere in 1847, as the system of communication butt promising success. It is to be hoped that it will now be generally carried oat. In the event of a carriage or truck catching fir., of as axle heating, a door d %lug open, or even suspicion that anything is way, the gaud 'mild be able to get to say part of a train at once. FOWL STRALERS CAPTOR= DT AID Or A BLOOD MOUND —Oa Sunday morning last, Mr. Robinson. of the Shaw House, Melbourne, discovered the lois of some choke fowls, and appearano s warranted the suspicion that they had been stolen. The bloodhound (the property of the Melbourne Association, and kept on Mr. 11.'s premises) was taken, with his chain snitcher', to the spot, sad it was evident he mould soon give some amount of the thieves. An. cordingly the police was summoned, and bet little time elapsed before the dog was again laid on the seent, and at great used, sad with mach music, he went away in the dandies of Tioknall, midway between which place and Melbourne they discovered the skins. heads, leer, An, strewed is the centre of the highway. Here the hound was somewhat at fault, bat again he took the sc-nt, and in a short time sea ed:d is forcing two of the depredators late an apple tree on the outskirts of Ticknall ; so terror MffillitAS were they, that they were speedily secured and summed to Melbourne, where the younger of them made a dean breast of it, by confessing. They had taken the fink (four in number) about 11 o'clock on the previous usaing, teem in the roost, end ski.ined them where the Alas, Ao.„ wer• found ; they then proceeded to a brick yard in Ticklish, and broiled them on the top of the kiln, this on flee; the gormandizers (whose names are James, Hull, sad Lent), then ate the greater part of them, having previously pariah , a of a hewing each while the fowls wen molting. Oa Junes being wilted how they relished their sleazily tepid, he replied the fowls were very " smok a; Fr the evidence of a boy bird-tenting in a fled KJo the Breadeteete Game, it appears the thieves were with him whoa the cry of the bound was first hued, and that they immediately ran with all speed in the direction where they were secured. An old mum was gathoting apples foe her dinner under the tree they so uneetentotioutly mounted, sad eta the could elicit ea explanation of their conduct their pur sues were upon them. One of the three offenders is still at large, sad the others stead committed to the sessions for trial. It is worthy of remark, that ever since the hound became the property of the Association, not a single cam of sheep stealtog has oecutred in the parish. although this was a Winos agate patviessly.—D:rbitshirs Chronicle. MILLI' CA. . We yeatirsidesr gave a summary ii tbd sew; &it the West bides. The fallowing more ample por de:elate hem Jlll6lllob will interest • Many of ear radars : FANNY or COLONIAL Dories ON WORTS: CAPTION TO DISIONANTS SNIPPING TO JAMAICA. Our dates frees this colony are to the Bth of October fissiesise), six days later than those last re -wind fa New York. The violent contest of parties has for some tines I beck made Jamaica very uncomfortable to the lan. biteats ;it has now expos ed all parties elliPLfilid =to the °obey to a s are in the annoyance. The law imposing a duty on exports expired on the >fothet September; no new import law has best aumetad; and in the preset state of relations between the Nome of Assembly on the one hand, and the Offense and Legislative Council on the other, it is impamible to say when one will be passed. All :articles may at present be imported into Jamaica duty I free; but whether this freedom from duties will last a day, a week, • month, or a year no one can o lL No London or Liverpool merchant shipping g for Jamaica, eat conjecture whether they will or will not be subjected to duties on their arrival there. The state of affairs is briefly as foliows: The last] HOMO of Assembly was dissolved because it would not vote the supplies far • whole year until a re- trenehment bill had passed. When the new house met, the island law, under which duties were im posed an certain imported goods, was about to expire. A retrenchment bill was introduced; and a law con tinuing the existing duties on imports was passed and sent up to the Council. The Council, on the 27th of September, punted resolutions declaring that they could not constitutionally pars such a bill. The Council sought to fortify themselves in this ridden by referring to • police bill, to continue in force fifteen months, which had been sent up along with the import duties bill, which was only to continue in force three months. On hearing of these reso lutions the House of Assembly *minted a com mittee to search the journals of the Council : the committee reported on the 28th that they had then found the resolutions just described. About the sane time a message was received from the governor, inti mating that the house was prorogued to the 29t0. This step was necessary, in order to admit of a ns* import bill being introduced. When the house met again after the pro forma prorogation, the retrenchment bill was spin intro duced, as also a bill sestantially the same that had been rejected by the council. to continue the rates of import duties under the expiring law for three months. At 12, p.m., on the 30th of September, that island import duties law expired. Oa Tuesday, the 2nd of October, the Import Duties Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be C3lll - that day se'nnight. But now a new complication arose. It was known that the house would not pass an import duty bill till the retrenchment bill had passed the other branches of the legielatnro. A 'pile meanwhile took place in the opposition (or, as it is called, the country) psrty. Some mix or seven members would not agree to the compensation awarded to the officials whose salaries were reduced. The consequence of this was, the re jection of the bill, which occurred under the follow ing circumstances. The house went into committee on the bill (which had been introduced by Mr. Mag nus). Mr. Girod, the leader of the recusant country members, proposed his scheme as au amendment,. It was lost; wily nine members voting for and thirty against it. The Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Magnus's bill was reported. A motion was then made, that the bill be engrossed, and read a third time that day three months. The recusant country membery left the house, and in consequence of their defection the motion was carried and the bill thrown out. A bill for prospective retrenchment, in troduced by Mr. Jackson, was then read a second time and ordered to be committed on Tuesday, the 9th of October, the same day on which the Import Duties Bill stands for committal. There are no duties on imports leviable in Ja maica at present. There cannot be till an import duties law is passed. The House of Assembly will not vote each an import duties bill as the other branches of the legislature will pan till a retrenchment bill is passed. But the house cannot itself agree upon a re treuohment bill. When import duties are to be re ante' ed in Jamaica it is impossible to foresee. Oa Friday, sth Oct., the House of Assembly, oa the motion of Mr. Jordan, passed the following reso. lotions relative to this awkward state of affairs: Resolved—" That in the present emberreseed financial circumstances of the colony it is neeeesary that this house should use every means is its power to prevent the loss of revenue which may be expected to arise from the expiring of the act imposing a duty upon imports, and to check or pre vent such an increase by importation without paying duty on the stock of articles open which duty has Flame") been paid, and will hereafter be leviefi as will Wattle the amount of such loss, and reader eddit onal direct tasytion unavoidable in providing for the exlgeneies of the public." Resolved—" That this house will, in passing the bill now before it to impose a duty on articles imported into this island, provide for the recovery and collection of duties upon all goods liable to duty thereunder which shall have beer imported from and after the fifth day of the present month of October." trbt court. • WINDSOR, Nov. 2.—The Queen and his Royal Migbaset Prince Albert took their eseastomed wary walk this saarsing in tie elopes. The royal fou ll y took walking sad pony attendee. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went oat Mullin this neseaing, attended by Lieut. Calomel lion. A. Gordon. Liont,Colonel Hon. C. R. and Mts. Phipps will hays the honour of joining the royal dinner party this :I‘ 3 n ea :r e f. LientAltionsi lion. A. Gordon has relieved Lieut.- F. IL Seymour in his Stay as equerry in waiting to Prises Albert. THE QUEEN DOWAGER. H TM Priory, Friday, Noe. 2. "The Queen Dowager was rather restless and bereaved by her cough in the early per: of the night, but slept towards the morning. " Her Majesty is &airmail from slight oppression this ~ DAVID Main, M.D." morning. The Queen will hold a pri” , council on Tuesday meat, the (kb lest, at Windsor Cie. Their Royal Highnemes the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg Birch visited the British Memos yesterday. His Sere= Highness Prince Hermann of Saxe ;Weimar left tows yesterday evening few the Continent. A imitation from the board of directorsof the Gerard, Woreefter, and Wolverhampton Railway Company, wansilffing of Mr. F. Raiford, M.P. (chairman), Messrs. G. S.Tbieseyeroft, Michael Grim:brook, and Wm. Mathews (direatere), Mr. Charles Bedford (solicitor), and Mr. Noel ?bases Smith (secretary). had an interview with the Com miesloners of Railways on Thursday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian minister, trans acted helium yesterday at the Foreign-office. Despatches for the Earl of Elgin, Governor of Canada, and foe the Governess of the other North Ameri can colonise, were seat off last evening from the Colonial °See. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Brunel, Captain 13 o•,ien Mr. Ward, and Mr. Blandtord, fir Trowbridge Trustee:, had an interview with the Commie.— ways on Thanday. of Aril- SWEARING IN OF TEI LORD MAYOR ELECT. — Mains= Parnoomb, the Lord Mayor Elec., proceeded, shortly alter ten o'clock yesterday morning, from the Gadd hall to the residence of the Lord Chancellor, to be sworn in before his lordship. The Lord Mayor El•ct was pre ceded by ens of the City Marshals, the City Pleaders, Under. Sheriffs, City Memerabrancer, the Town Clerk, and other civic fanctioneries. The Lord Chancellor signified to the worthy alderman her Majesty's approbation of the choice of the citizens; and after being sworn in the alderman and those who sooompanied him withdrew. (From last night's Casette.) Foam's-orrice, Nov. I.—lt in hereby notified that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affair., has received from her Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople a despatch inclosing a cir cular, dated the 14th of October last, received by his Estee:- limey from Ash Pasha, the Turkish Minister, announcing the blockade of the Island of Samos by &Turkish naval fora; and that such blockade would be effective in fifteen days from the said 14th of October. WHIVFJ44I-L,Nov.l.—The Queen has been pleased to order a corsgi d'aire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church of Llandaff to elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of Doctor Edward Copleaten, late Bishop thereof ; and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend the Reverend Alfred 011ivaat, Doctor in Divinity, to he elected by the said Dean and Chapter, Bishop of the raid see o: Llandaff. WarreffaLL,Nov.l.—The Queen hap been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal ap pointing the Rev. Henry Hart Milstein, M.A., to be Dean of the cathedral church of Sr. Paul, in London, the same being void by the death of Dr. Edward Coplestoo, late Dean thereof. Sr. JAMES'S PALACE, Ocr. 16.—The Queen has been pleased, en the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint Stapleton Charles Cotton, E.q., to be one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Denise, re tired. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. I.—The Queen hw been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint John Gordon, Esq., to be one of her Majesty's Honourable Conn of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Gilbertson, retired. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. I—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Benjamin Hammett Norton as consul, at Pieton, Nova Scotia, for the United States of America. DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 2.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Francis Smyth, .Beq., to be Colonial Secretary for the colony of Sierra Leone. Her Majesty has sesa been pleased to appoint Perceval Kirton, Etc; , to be Colon's! Surgeon for her Miejery's settlements in the Gambia. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM MEETING IN HORSELYDOWN. A meeting of the But Southwark Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association was held yesterday even ing, at the Temperance Hal', Fair-street, Horselydown, Francis Nub, Es in the chair. The CHAU:MAN q., , in opening the proceedings, stated shortly that he entirely concurred in the principles of the central association, and that therefore he felt great plersure in presiding on the present occasion. The time had come when the people should speak out, and not let tax upon tax be heaped upon them without protest or remonstrance. (Cheers ) Mr. C. SLEIGH was called on to address the mi eting. He said that not five months once the first minister of the crown had stated that the people of this country wanted no further ex. ension of the franchise, bat since that hour the whole unrepresented population of the country had, in numberless meetings, and in almost every locality, been expressing their impatience and indignation at their exclaims. (Cheers.) The declaration of the minis tire could admit of only one of two constructions. Either he was so ignorant as not to know the real state of the pub lic mind, or else he was es politically dishonest as to IiIiSUFS his high authority in its conceshnent. (Chien.) In either new of the ease, his conduct was open to the most serious reprehension. (Hear.) He (Mr. Sleigh) regretted to say that hitherto the middle clangs had not supported the views of the association so warmly as the working men, but now they were beginning to see that their interests were identical. Both Ott the future would work hand in hand in them:mon cane. (Chien.) What that muse was, and what they sought was, a thorough reform in parliament and ia the representative system, as a mass to an end, and that end was a thorough revision of ear deal and Anaemia' system. (Hear, hear.) It was latpnrtle to expect any economy in the expenditure I of the pespisfs meaty _so long as its distribution war left to Me WINO Only object was to get a finger is the pis. (Chem.) It was time, as Cromwell had said, that the pre met parliament should give way to homier men. [The speaker here gave the statistics of the representation welch have already been frequently published.] The conclusion from all this was that fifty-nine millions of property was re presented by the minority in the Commons, while six millions only had for representative the ma- I levity. (Shame.) They wanted, next, financial re arm—they muted direct taxation, eta as that the poor man with a pound • week should not be taxed as heavily as the man of • hundred thousand a year. They wanted such a change as should prevent the poor temptress being obliged to pay 31. out of every 4d. she gave for tea as • means of upholding the pension list. (Hear, hear.) The great complaint against the pension list was the inequali'y and unfairness of its distribution. They generally found that immoral services, or at best petty ones, were better pro vided for on that list than throes of the enlightened and de scry*. The Queen's dancing mister received 1001. a year pension, while the great artist Hayden had destroyed him self from sheer poverty. (Shame.) To return to the duty on tea, it would hardly be believed that it produced 3,000,0001. a year, all, or nearly all, wrung from the scanty earnings of the working classes. (Hear, hear.) If it were removed how much would be added to the luxuries and comforts of the labourer; but, above all, how much would bo added to the capitalist's means of giving him employ ment ? An intelligent merchant had stated before a com mittee of the House of Commons, that he could fix no bounds to the markets for our productions, which China would afford, if means were found to increase our consump tion of her teas. His (Mr. Sleigh's) opinion was, that if the duty on ten was repealed or reduced, every factory in the kingdom would be at once permanently in full work. (lit ar, hear.) He had only further to say, that the reforms he had indicated were to be sought by peaceful means only, and whoever contemplated the use of any other were no friends of parliamentary sod financial reform. Mr. EBENEZER CLARKE congratulated the meeting that they were met in a Temperance Hall, and hoped that the locality would point out to them a simple means by which they might repeal many of the obnoxious taxes. He had long sines repealed the wine and spirit and tobacco taxes, and he advised the working men he saw around him to do the same. (Hear, hear.) if theyonly followed his •d' ice on this pint they could not be long kept from their proper share in the government of the country. He bad faith in the virtues of the democracy, and no fear of their excesses. He had seen their intelligence and honesty pro ved in temperance and building societies, and he felt that the governing clung had only to put trust in them and they would not be disappointed. "As He would that men should do unto Lou, do unto them also." He lived in a wild district, Epping r where there were 10,000 acres of waste land, enough to the surplus population of Essex, but which \Miaow, mimmasagement,oaly. a shelterfor vagrancy. (Hear.) Some thought that the central association did not go tar enough—(hear, hear)—but why, as all were going the same direction, could not they keep company CURIOUS CiLRISTENDit3.—A sheet time ago Mr. as long as possible ? Mr. Clarke proceeded to explain the Hodgkinson, who is employed at the works in coanerioa objects of the ameriation—household suffrogs, triennial par with the Britannia Bridge, had the ceremony of christening Hamm% sad all the other points, of which the public are in performed on one of his children in the following singular fall possession. Their efforts, he said, if successful, would manner The child, a finale, was taken to the Mritaunie give them 6,000,000 instead of 1,000,000 voters ; and surely Rack, in the middle of the straits, where the ceremony was that was an object worth straggling for. (Lind cheers') performed by the Rev. Mr. Jackson. She was named Bri. Let only Sir Joshua Waleasley be able to any, when he ore tam& Ann Stephenson Hodgkinson, in compliment to the seated the bill to parliament, that the people of England de great week and the great engineer. At the conclusion of a mended it, and a change would soon come over the spirit of prayer, delivered on the occasion in behalf of the St. Stephen's. Lord John himself would find concession ex hTlerlefelene,lis exclaimed, " May this rock stand as firm as the pedient, and the Speaker would soon say " The ayes have Word of God."—Chester Chronicle. it." (Laughter and cheers.) ----- The only event which can invalidate the above is another prorogation or disc:Antis°, which may take place if the Rttrenchment Bill be rejected. In De Cordora's Circular, of the 6•1 of October, we are told that this state of affairs may continue till the House of Assembly has been dissolved, and a new, one elected, or till the governor is recalled ; or that it may terminate in a compromise in two or three weeks. Meanwhile the writer of the Circular sub mits the following cotudderations to shippers :- 1. All articles are now admitted island duty free Into Hinrston, the Import Bill having expired by lapse of time 2. Months may elapse baste mother import bill is iatro dated ; but, on the other hand,—.3. A week, a fortnight, or a month, may not piss over without tariff legislation. 4. The chasms are that the governor will not risk the danger and delay of another dissolution, and that, therefore, one of the two parties must give way to the other before very long —in which case an import duty bill will be the first con sideration. 5. Whether there be er be not an import duty, shippers must remember that this market cannot sustain any arrest quantity of perishable article.. The reduction in pia. must mass an Increase of business; but the mass of the people are poor, and the increase of consumption will not therefore be considerable. Another important question for merchants is " when did the duties cease to be payable " The Jamaica Mining Journal of 61 October states that the opinion of counsel has been taken on this subject, and that the following is the result: Previews Is the expiry of the Import Duty Act, and when es doubt imasisted that It maid expire before another bill esuld he passid by the legislature, various questions arose as te the wild at which genie arriving would be liable to dutp—is IMO petals. period the law ceased to operate—and rehashes's& In hood would be chargeable with duties, not. witheinadMi the expiry of the set? In order to resolve these doubts anuissl's opinion was obtained, and the result appears to he : 1. That tt.e act expired at twelve o'clock, p.m., on the 30th of September. 2. That goods imported after that bear are not subject to duty under that act; and 3, that the duties attach on the arrival of the vessel in port According to this opinion all the goods I. load at 12 o'clock o.m. ea the 30th September, as well es all goods on board ship in port at that time, are liable to the duties imposed by the expired act. It Is important, breams on a late occaden it was contended that the duties did not attach until the goods were cleared tar consumption. Some parties, it is true, then maintained that they did at the period of bonding. The present decision gees further back, and attaches them on t h e arrival of die vessel. Sante other polo% were raised as to the payment of duties under protest, the mode of recovering monies so paid, and the course to be pursued in case the Customs' officers should refuse to deliver goods in bond. The advice is, to pay the duties under protest, no particular form being wee* sary for this latter, and to recover by an action whist the officer who received the amount, for maser had and re ceived. In the else of a refusal to deliver the goods, an action of trover it is said would lie ; but the payment of the duties, under protest, Is deemed the best course to be punned. It may be nerremary to remark, in order to prevent mistakes or misapprehension, that the question of the payment of duties, under protest was raised in tt *event of the duties being con sidered to 'WA* upon the goods when cleared for consump tion. The goods aew in bond being liable to duty, such liability having been incurred on their arrival In port, there will be no payment of duty under protest, nor, we is, any attempt to obtain them without payment of duties to which they are liable. [For markets smiled page.l Mr. A. if LRAM' moved the following reed:Alen : That t' i 'peeing, cu..vh.ced of 'he absolute and imp°. ratios iseessity of parliamentary and financial reform, and approving as they As of the means used by the Nstional Remain League to aseonaplish the same, do hereby pledge themselves to give every moistens' in their power in tarry ing est the objects contamplated by that body, and never he rata:their Jo" until their exertions aro crowned with complete suocess." He coaled upon the meeting to rally round the Financial Reform Association, as it was high time that the people should obtain more extended representation, end en eco nomical management of their money. He conjured them to " Agitate, agitate, agitate," until they had obtained all the objects of the memiation. (Cheers.) - Mr. WM. HOWARD seconded the resolution, enlarging with great force and eloquence on the topics which had been urged by the previous speakers. He congratulated them, above all thior, upon the fact teat Austria had bees unable to raise owe shilling of her loan in the City of London. to enable her to cut the throats of bar Hungarian subjects. (This observation was received with the loudest cheering.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimouely. Mr. SHAND ',toyed— " That this meeting desires to express their approbation of the conduct of the liberal proem of the metropolis, especially the baity New, the Morning Advertiser, the Standard of Freedom, and others, for their consistent advocacy of the rights of the people. And they hereby pledge %hemostats to support theme journals to the utmost extent of their power." The motion was ascended by Mr. THTJETLS, and carried unanimously. GREAT PEACE MEETING AT THE FREE TRADE HALL, MANCHESTER. The third of the series of meetings commencing this week at Exeter Hall, London, was held on Teunday evening in the Free-Trade Hall, Manchester. It was one of the most crowded =entitle in that immense hall which has been held for some time. There could not be less than 8,000 persons present, and goraethotteands who had obtsiued tickets (issued on the supposition that many of the tickets taken by peewee would not be used) were disappointed of I admission. George Wilson, E.g., president of the Man 'heater Peace Society, took the chair; and there were pre- I seat—John Bright, Esq., M.l'., M. Horses Say and sou, M. Frederic Haunt, M. Peutnnier, M. Joseph Gamier, and Pre- I Went Malian, of Oberlin College, U S. The CHAIRMAN, in briefly opening the proceedings, said, we have not had to measure the progress of peaces principles by the slow and sober stages of former times, but by something very much akin to railway velocities. ( Land cheers.) Why, gentlemen, not long ago, in this town, the man who thought he was in favour of peace, scarcely dared acknowledge to much in any society in the district; he scarcely dared venture to tell the I world that he was iu favour of peace. It is not many years ago since it would have been held the height of bad taste to say he liked it very much, and should like to have more of it. It is not owo years since, in this hall, because Mr. Cobden—(loud cheers)—ventured an opinion that it was dm', sirable to originate measures for the continuation of the peace—it in not two years ago sines he caused an amiable nobleman in this district, not usually accustomed to get out of temper, to display great p.ssion, and write • letter to the papers condemning his objects, and stating his opinion that there w.e every reason to expect some floe morning or other the countrymen of our friends who are now here from Paris, would sail up the Thames and run away with the Queen and the Lord Mayor of London. (Great lauehter.) Some tam eludes have not been so nearly fulfilled as that was. We have had the Frecch since that time in London, tut, instead of taking our Queen, they sent us their King. (Great laughter and much cheering.) Any men wholmiks about him can come to no other conclusion than this, that the peace questions have become questious which will have to be grappled with in this country by the go vernment, end teat very shortly. (Hear, hear.) Mr. EDMUND FRY gave an account of the enthu siastic and hospitable manner in which the English visitors et the late Pace Congress in Paris were received, and the progress of peace principles in England. The ridicule with which their prepositions ears at first received he alluded to ; but described the proeress made when Mr. Cobden mode his motion on the subject, and found 91 supporters in the British legislature. The T,mes sneered at the Brussels Congress, but they proceeded with it, and, es • re sult, were led to believe that they had felt the pulse of the people of Belgium and France there more correctly, than the magnates of Printing-house square. (Applause.) The same paper ridiculed and at tempted to laugh down the late Peace Congress at Paris, but they received a more marked and enthusiastic reception than they had done at Brussels; and be adverted to the delicacy of feeling and the confidence which dictated, on the part of the French government, the dispensing of passports in their ease. He believed the result had been to diffuse a large body of evidence and argument over the world in favour o: their principles, w:th which many were probably mime queinted. He believed they had prevented, as the result of ibis congress they had done that which would prevent in future, either the rovernment of England or France from commi.ting the people to a war. (Applause.) Tne peopl of toe two countries had never gone to war of their own feelings : it WAS their governments that had done it : but there would be a new element brought to bear through this agitation which would prevent either of the two goveroments from committing the people to a war again. ( A ppl ewe.) Mr PRENTICE moved the first resolutipn " That this steeling, desiring internoti final arbitration as a substitute for the unchristian system of war, disapproviig of loans for the prosecution of war, and believing the. the permanent prosperity of nations cannot •be secured without a general disarmament, to juices to hear of the signal success which attended the European Congress lately held at Paris, and of the unanimity which prevailed in the deliberations of that large assembly." In moving this resolution, Mr. Prentice centended that the show of national defences, which were said to be necessary as a security *gains' war in a time of peace, were rather an incentive to hostile feeling, and too much expressive of defiance towards other nations to answer their preyosed ends. He illustrated this by his own experience whilst travelling down the Ame rican I. kes which divide our Canadian territories from the provinces of the United Stater. In every place where he .ad nip fellow-travellers put in on the Canada store there were soldiers strutting about, while rot one was to be seen on the American side. At Toronto there were soldiers; at Kingston there were soldiers; and at Montreal there were soldiers. They went to the little vi.lege of Se John, on the Lake Champlain ; close by that beautiful placid lake, where it seemed as if nothing ever dis turbed toe peaceful scene, there were Englisa soldiers strutting about. An American gentleman expressed his setosishment at the worse than folly of the English govern ment in thus provoking the anger of the American people. " We have no soldiers on our aide," said he ; " you can go about the States from one end to the other without • feeling of distrust ; but here we come to pay a friendly visit to you, and you cannot receive us wi.h confidence." (Hear, beer, and cheers.) There wss a better time coming, however. Mr. Alderman HERVEY seconded the motion, and it was earned with loud cheers. JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., was called upon and pre sented hims.lf amidst enthusiastic cheering—the whole audi ence rising to greet him. Ile said, If there be one charac teristic which has been mere commonly, perhaps I might say universally, attributed to the English people than another, it is that we are eminently a practical people. And yet, according to the dictum of certain very wise people, powerful organs, (or assuming to be such) of public opinion, we have latterly become • most visionary race—pursuing all sorts of unattainable objects, and neglecting in so pursuing them, many great questions which we might profitably agi tate. The night before lest some 6,000 people of ttis practi cal race met in Exeter Hall; they met for the purpose which has called us together to-night. They passed resolutions in harmony with these which are about to be submitted to this meeting. That meeting expressed the opinion of a vast ma jority, I do not hesitate to say, of the inhabitants of the great metropolis of this kingdom. Last night one of the largest buildings in the kingdom, the Town Hall of Bir mingham, was as crowded as this hall now is ; resolutions of the same effect were passed, speeches were made, and great unanimity prevailed, even in that great town, where the manufacturing of implements of war was no small trade. (Hear, bear.) The principles of peace were enthusiarically adopted by thousands of those men whom trade and inoustry to a large extent would be affected if wars were for ever put down. (Cheers.) And, to-night, this same practical race that was, but visionary that now is—(a laugh)—manifests its change of character oy meeting in this hall, where so many absurd meetings have been held before—(sheen and laughter)—aud I take it for granted, by what I have seen already, that these resolutions will be passed with equal unanimity,and you will say "Ay!" to that groat question which has been brought before the asffrages of the people of England—whether henceforth war shall be your security, war your object—military glory that only which shall be inscribed in your future annals—er that you will henceforth do that which you have en opportunity of doing—lead along with other great nations a wear of human improvement, and enabling us to date from the year 1849 • new era in the history of the human race. (Loud cheers.) But the question is worth asking whether it is a visionary and unattainable object we are pursuing —for, of all things on earth, I think his most unsatisfactory to be pursuing something we never man catch These great newspaper writers publish every morning what they call " leaden ;" but what, in my op!niois, are g lly found to be " lohowers." (Laughter.) But such is their versatility, and such the inconsistency of th. ir writings, that I verily believe of late the public press, so far has much less Uffiuencie on public puce l e a d i ng e p m i ,pinion n r : e thanbefore larticles a r e theit concerne d ,phnad:rmi, end d y year' s before a g ego. the Thewo world d fr L o ga n da very of favourable ground, for they professed to be working for en object which I believe every man living will admit to be a good one. Now, nearly all other great movements have met with opponents on the very threshold. Men denied that free trade was good ;they asserted that "short coot ' mons" Were good. Well, that difficulty we had to get over as best we could; but hero we have no such difficulty_ to surmount. War is an evil—peace is • great object. How to get it ? It's quite true that no friend of peace expects by the three meetings held this week to make it certain that England can never again go to war, but we expect to have created so much of opinion in favour of peace that it will be almost if not altogether impossible for any minister of state to involve the country in war again. Why what is our experience of war, this glory which shines so muck ia history ; blood without reckoning, treasure without reckon ing, wasted hundreds, poverty, taxes, crime. At this mo ment half our gaols and poorhouses, are the moarsoodo of the wan for the last fifty years between this country and France. (Cheers.) Were the millions that have bseaspent still in this country—had they been applied for the theremgh cultivation of our land, every acts of England would have been as a garden. (Chun.) Had they bean applied for the erection of substantial dwelling-houses, envy u._ in England might have had a house as good majority of rim middle class people now hove. (Ch ast e,) fact, words fail to tell, imagination fails to coneelvee7 amount of blessings to this country . and the world wh i ch we and the world have lost by the Infatuation and arms the wars which we have to senselessly waged wit h riots countries of the European continent. Well ie th▪ is true, we are at least not to be blam ed fee tab. — slues truths, for asking all men—military men as wee — a elieses—lor there are military men who hate war—(a ss ; Mar)—to coon mad dhows this grealquestion, to soot tiR fellowmen from every country, and ask them if thu s not been blood shed enough, and if it is not bienn ia T ▪ o adopt new principles end policy between nations. Tw question of arbitration has been snarled to tonight. I g oo , ran all that has been said with regard to the distussi oe el that question in the House 01 Commons; I have at this moment before my eye what I think not a bad illustration,' the advantages of that system. At this moment there is a very smell dispute—but a speck as yet—between this eons. try and the United States, with regard to a country whit many persons here perhaps never heard of, called the Mo o quint country—a most unpleasant name—(laughter); I b o p s it may breed no unpleasant results. At prams% there is as party feelirg in England, probably none in the Caned States, leading to a wick for that result ; hut bear in mind that in the United States there is a considerable party do. posed to be hostile to England—there are all the Irish. men our policy has driven to the United States. (Cheers) Politicians in the United States sometimes attempt to make capital by making burning speeches against Bag. land; now suppose that at this moment the atiattratiu system were in force between America and Ragland, no ne is the States would dream of making political capital mod it. Every one, instead of tbinking of ships and regiments, would ask, rather, if this question were not immediately tattled by the diplomatists on both sides, to whom wou ld t h e subject be referred for erbitration t (Chairs.) Thus the whole bent of public opinion on this question would be tune d into a perfectly harmless and innocent channel, in. stead of a feeling of party In either country, getting warmer and warmer until it was almost impossible for the govern ment to prevent a war. (Hear, hear.) There is a Cott is which an arbitration treaty between this country and Ame rica would be of the very greatest Importance. I no*, within the last five years the principles we advocate have pretreated so much in tne United Sates that it would be impassible for war to arise out et such a diepute as this; but it would be infloitely better if there were some recognised mode by which such questions could be satisfactorily settled instead of leaving it to the chance of creating discord and with the prospect of a bloody war, leaving the question as unsettled at lan as it was before the war began. (Hear, heir.) If this system were adopted there would not be any pretence for keeping up fleets and armies ; for it is but a pretence tow to a great extent. People have been too much taken its with it already to be saddled with it again. (Hear, hear.) Ministers and statesmen could not persuade politirisos by any sort Cf oratory that it was necessary to keep up large armies for the purpose of the settlement of disput , . which it was previously determined should be settled by arbitration; and if we had not these large armies and fl e ets there would be the greater chance for freedom all over the world, (Cheers.) Leek at Europe at this moment. The people don't rule—the monarchs don't rule—the armies rule, sad the armies alote. (Cheers.) Tbere can be no extension of popular liberty, no consolidation of popular government is any of these countries until this vast imposture of military force shall be exposed and destroyed. (Cheers.) And those governments, of course, if they used not military force Rao rounding them, would rule on other principles. The thrones, if thrones there still were, would be based on jan time and on the affections of the people—(cheers)—and every iostitution which it wu worth preserving, that has in o anything valuable, would last infinitely longer, and amid be exposed to fewer shocks and dangers than they ma pm. sibly be under this system of periodical convulsion to white these European countries are necessarily subjected (Loud che• rs.) But I have been requested to move a rem:dation which has especial reference to the gentlemen who are here from France this evening. (Cheers.) I really don't fluor how to express the strange chugs which has come over our opinions since we were children. I have an indistinct ides of what Frenchmen were when we read hooks some twenty or thirty years ago, and I believe it was a very heavy charge against them that they eat frogs—(laughter)—and teat they never eat anything better than sosipe maigre—klsughter and cheers)—and one Englishmen would at least beet tea Frenchmen was without contradiction. There were a geese many other et ries of the tame character. I believe we have been as much mistaken about them as we have bee* about some other parties. Our chairman has referred to the stories told us two years ago. A commit tee of the House of Commons was appointed to examine into the gelation of our defences, into the navy estimates. It examined a great many wi noses, and there wee one very manna whinge (I am nut sure, but I have re,ated something of his evidence here before); but I think you ought to know that Sir Thomas Hastings ea some °her person, said to be a erect authority at tee dock yards, who knew everything about naval matt:re and dos levees, were confident that the French intended to lend somewhere on the south coast; and if they c:uld not land there, to go round to the north coast. ( r. at laughter.) He wes driven by a curious question from Mr. Cobden and Sir James Graham, into a somewhat diffieelt p *Wee: They asked him where he got his information from-4 capital question to ark alarmists—(bear, heart;—std produced, as his authority, some unhappy Freedom, holding the distinguished, but unknown office, use Bissop et Madassecar. (Great laughter.) I don't kith whether you (the French) have such a bishop as that. but it woe all the evidence that he could show that the French were exceedingly hungry, and willing, and desirous, of eating up the English. (Laughter.) It was not considered good for their cone,. therefore they entrusted the retrenchment men upon the committee, that, for the sake of the character of this gentleman, the evidence 'toted not be published ; the More, by a vote of the conimiore, it en scored out, and you don't find it in the Blue. bo k, though it is not the less worth being known in a meeting ouch as thk. (Load cheers.) Well, now, we have discovered this great fraud—we Lave discovered, in fact, that FrencOmen, after all, are very much like ourselves, very touch dispoed, I hope, to follow the pursuits of peteefal industry, to mike all the good they can out of France themselves, and to allow us to make all the good we can out of England. And lem glad to see from ocher quarters symptoms of progress in our °tree , ian. You have seen la the papers that the inubstal of the Queen has himself proposed that there should be in for place, two or three years hence, an enormous exhibition if industry,—not of this nation only, but of all echoes. (Cheers) I think it is very satisfactory that Prince Albert himself has taken an interest in this question, sad is willing to give it the cordial unction of his high character and high petition, in order to induce other persons in this country to join in it. We had somethicg of this kind is Covent-garden Theatre, some years ago—not the productions of all nations, but of this cition—at a Wear of the Anti Corn-law League, which added I don't know exactly bow much to the funds of the confederation, bat I believe between thirty anti forty thousand rued'. I believe that the very origin of this proposition it, to be fond in that baser; for I know that our chairman, to whom sa much of the great efforts of the L:ague were owing, did es that occasion suggest the propriety of suck an exile:mica tt two or three gentlemen —to the late lamented Dr. Conks Taylor and Mr. Hall—and I see that to these gelatines fs now attributed the source of this great preposition. (800 , hear.) I say that if the people of the milieu couattin of Europe will send samples of the produce of their isdiriey to be exhibited at this great exposition—if they will act only send but come to see them—l hope we Aril he able to walk through the vast passages et this great hell, sad meet with the people of every country under heaven, sad see the products of their industry exhibited, and that having found how moot we are all like one another we shall all be ready to acknowledge how true die that God has made of one blood all the families list ng he n ar at t w y dwell on the face of the earth." (Loud cheers.) Ba t , whatever that I xhibition may do for industry, it may dem! believe it will do, influitely mere, and for that reason I b w r o s ul th el er gi h v ssa o it s m rs y s promote. (Cheers) The resolution I have to move states: ss aupe w o h rt ic i s n w f s avo is ti e r of That this meeting rejoices in the opportu: ity awoken ing our French brethren to the menu facturiog metropolis of England, and of acknowledgieg to them persellsilt It s . fraternal reception given to the English delegates at Ph! by the government and the people ; and exoreases a coin dent belief that conferences such as these Will Posed" , and to fuse all nations into one peace, bosh • erhood." The gentlemen who are here from France, whose tend to remove long-cheri hed fee ling s of haute rivalry hays boon handed to me are :—M. Horace Say, c ouncillo r _ t ha to t - u nigh gral t to of state; M. Bastiat, member of the Chamber of Depute" . (and I believe it is not bin first vi s it to this country); ta,. Joseph Outlier, secretary of the Peace Conyers; country); Peutonier, merchant in Paris (Cheers.) Well, now I think that is a fair representation; there is the legislation , there's the literary character, and there's the merca ntile ea t : dustry of Fruce ; here we have them represent , deraigh let us give them that welcome the people of Manchester liner how to give to all men that come amonest them. (Bat h°. elude and protracted cheering.) And I may tell these ga• en men, on behalf of this meeting, that if they go further north—if they visit Leeds or Newcastle, or Glasgow, ad Edinburgh, that the largest building in each of these towns I will be filled with an audience as resolute, as intelligent, as enthusiastic, as brotherly in feeling to them, as that I ere before me tonight. (Cheers.) For in every part of Bag land there are multitudes of men—ay, and of women toe. (Cheers.) This is a question which has is place upon the hearth and the home of the families of England. (Hew) I say there are multitudes of men everywhere who are ready to come together to discuss and legume about this question, and to proclaim that this corrupt, destructive system, shall be for ever abolished—that the time is come when the in telligent of every nation in Europe, when the beet men of every civilised country under heaven will join in one voice and declare Cif I may use the language which a great drama tist has put in the mouth of a French statesman) " Take away the sword—states can be saved without it." (Load and prolonged cheering.) Mr. NEEDHAM ! solicitor, seconded the resolution, and it was adopted unanimously. M. HORACE SAY, councillor of state, Paris (who was greeted with three hearty English cheers, ar d one cheer more), said: Mr. Chairman, ladies, and gentlemen, this day will for ever remain in my memory with a profound sentiment of gratitude, for your kind and friendly ft. copilots. It was with indescribable pleasure that we accepted the invitation to attend this meeting of , t he friends of peace. (Applause.) We felt happy to v isit eh! industrious and noble city of Manchester, where the.Aql_ corn-law League originated. From hence was gives T! impulse to financial reforms, which will not be stopped , any obstacles, and will end at last in an effectual delivera nce from heavy axes—in a general disarmament in Eees_P e t (Cheers.) Although the task is much beyond my abiliP am Cho ■nd , Ira that an a