The Express. — London, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

reg . ( EV kiss 1* ma Earl iraiL llla SM TM most. till" SW W NOP' N , Nr ►/117 0 A t;. th tt. th it U tm tt ti 1.1 a a • 1 1 It r• it e- -10 en b. - ar N. 1. E. toe ett aid Lir- tad of wed th- ell, the di.- the taA ago wee east slots, ono- moo Lod bard Earl ;oho !row [Mt ad- mato I the ed at "a lid it troll owe Tho wee Pe at 644 tioorte tattoo 0e led oral* lower POI Invent Pa w oblimp Sibs a teor , Be mod . lad 7 to Pot N oath the air TM Bey) " b, woo to Lao Lpfil W.. Wow-. PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL REFORM. NIEETINO AT THE LONDON TAVERN. Oat of the mot crowded meetings over held I within the walls of the London Tavern took platter yem it.'s, in hartherance of Use great tense of perbasseately and liaaseial reform (sa stated in yesterday's ~.) Lces helm the appointed hoer (1 o'clock) tt, urge room was crowded, sad the appeasers of .r .INbuts 'Wellesley on the platkum was the signal for tt.e most tumultuous ekemiag. The immediate objects of In: nutting were the statement of emanate aad as expiate& thin of the pleas ot the sasociationt lee the pew ; but tie stare question of parliamentary end Amnia re f orm was m•it fully catered Into by the various speatere who addneeed the dessely•packed and entimmiamitt memiag. Sir J. il.a.ateer, M.P., haviag taken, the chair, the bounces somineneed wile the madam of the treasurer's m ount", after which Tt.e CHAIRMAN said that he had teeeived many letters from friends of the cause, who were from various seams utoildit to attend, but the meeting should sot be detained by their perusal. Om or two only should be read by the hoe. t•ectetarv. It was idly reported that many of these geatle mcii were lukewarm it. the muse, but that wan wholly fade, as there was i et one of those whom he had 'mentioned who 1.0 not with them heart and soul. (Lend cheers.) He had elpected the pleasure of Mr. Roebuck's company, but that gentians° was kept away by a domestic occorream. Ihe tollOcrusg letter um tats reed :- 103, Wetbouroe-terrare, Jas. 7, 1630. us dear Walatee,.-1 hare been coollited to the home for • c up',e of nays with a c , ld, and ea a .try I can't be at Tour meeting. Ima enraged to appear in Buekinshamshire ou Weduesday, eau unless I nurse myself, so as to be well T hough to go, the prometioaists nail. say I as afraid. Ii; the way, what better proof could be had in the seam fits of an alteration or our representative system than is to 1,.1..0c0l in the .impie tact that the protectionist potty are I .1111114 Z to bar. mule opinion on their side in favour of a "...eel ot the cormlaw ? They tell as us look at the reaction u. the late elections t r Kidderminster and (heading, where a few hundred men, mere or low under influence, returned prof, ctionists. Now I would ask—how many members would thee retara in favour ot a bread-um it their constituencies number. d, as they might to do, 10,100 voters at ham t lilt necessity of placing the Rouse of Commons more under CA indueucs ot the p.uple, few will now deny ; the only floc is bow to accvmpii.ti it. I tan only say that whe t-ft it be attempted by a direct vote ot the 'low* of Com mon.. or by as 'sing as pmsiole ut the people arming them leiTt • with the Mas. 'neut./41 franchim—whatever plan may he resorted to shad con Mite to have my heart) support. Ali 1 a,. ot toe public is ..ot to delude the...selve, with the idea that a few liberal members ot the house can accomplish any. thing without the co-tieratiOn of the great mejoray of the people e.t ut doors. 1 restate, very tru:y yours, Sr. Joshua Walmary. 11. P. R. COBDEN. Leiters from W W. Sleigh, 11. D., and 11r. Henry Via. c. is res:nir been read, Inr CIIAIBMAX addressed the meeting as follows : Co.:: To of London sad tientlemen—lt is nine months sines Lit the h.oonr of presiding over a meeting similar to the necut. convened m this room. The object of that meeting was •o celebrate the birth of the Metropolitan Parliamentary and linaneiai Reform Association. I meet you to-day to oa.ora•ula.e you on the rapid and isuersaapled success of the movement which you t►en so cordialiy supported. Cheers.) Not many months had elapeed, after our meeting in Out place, Delon, we hlt it to be our duty to convene an segregate meeting in uniry•laas Theatre. By this time it ►w become evident that the feeling in favour tat reform wri.h had been displayed throughout the districts of the metropolis. perv►ded the country at large, and it was, there torn resolved to change the rata. of the asentiatton from th►t of " Metropolun" to that of " National." Subsequent events have confirmed the outdo= and propreety of that step, and have proved that when we became in name a " national" hosts, we did but anticipate the feeling and wishes of the British nation. (Meer, hear.) Sias, the great meeting referred to, the council of the use eistion have, to the eaten% of their limited moms, and the wanes at tteir command, taken measures in kee i .ing with the name they had al• Amid. 'deputations have. amongst other places, visited Northampton, N. mice, Newcastle-un- Tyne, Stu-de/land, N rth and death Shields, Carlisle, Pail. linesoek, Pink, Oleasm, Aberdeen, fleabiab, Staekiart, sad S natheatproa sad Ediebargh. (Load eras " liar, ham") In au isstaact hair', the repreeeata- tine ot the asexiatiee failed to meet • friendly mid cattle elastic reception. Large and iefluential committers have bees formed in all those pl ors to carry out the objects of be body. In the towns and ens. which have been named,. se well ae is many other plae. e, the friends of rept. montane, improvement are reedy for actin, and look to this assembly for counsel sad example. (Hear.) I think I may say with truth that the influence educe this sasociation has been able to enert,has been owing less to any peculiar merit in the plans which have been coecocted, and still less to the rant or talent of the individuals eoenectied with it, than to the eir culestenee that the country, at the time this society came into existence and promulatid its scheme et retorts, was already coneand of the neensity for the change proposed, and ripe tor a great and united movement in its favour. la a word, the feeling had not to be created—it was already engendered, and had but to b. developed and coo netzated upon some practical propene's. (Cheers.) ti.ntlenien, it, when the One was doubtful, the crooned of •L, oil(lcustion felt it to be their duty to advance, how mush so when they had the ucquevionable proof before 1:e m, that the friends r,f proerees is every part of the keg dote were with them ? They were drainers, however, to proceed wilt decretioe, and, in nominee, with the views opo ions of men et tem rkace and liniment in other parts of the country, they aseordiagly invited a sel-et r. ti tuber of their tried sspp ortan to a preliminary consultation. The meeting took place on the 20th of last month, when after mature d-litreratme, three things were unanimously agreed to : first, that a fund of not less than ten thousand pounds should be raised, to be devoted during the present year to the purposes of the associarion ; mainly that im mediate measures should be adopted to arose, b y y simulta neous meetings the entire country ; and thirdly, that a conference should be convened in London in the moan of March next. (Loud cheers.) What was jointly re solved upon at this consultation the council ere determined to carry out, and, if possible, secomplish. (Hear, bear.) A list of those who have already contributed to this fund will be read to you, and you will be invited to swell that Use by additional c attribution on the spot, that it may be known to the world to-monoirr that this great metropolis, forward ia every work of national philanthropy and commercial eater prise, is foremost also in this groat work of representative regcnerstioeL (Hear, hear.) Hiving at Nome length enun ciated the principles of the society, the speaker went ca to say : Finally, gentlemes, I call upon you to set a noble example to the co u ntry thi s day. This Is the first meeting of 1850, and, as is fit, it is held in the metropolis. Show the people of this great country what they should do, and, my word for it, they will do it. Tell them what they should give,and set them an example, and they will give it. Plan younelvee in the van of till, movement, and we will place millions of the people at your back. (Bear, hear.) The national response will be lowly, liberal, and unieensl, as your ewn con ceptions and acts are generous, comprehensive, and ma jestic. I now ant down expressing my hope and belief that this meeting, in its objects and its issues, will be one of the greatest and most momentous ever convened in this City. I dal. in the first place call upon our hon. secretary pro tens. to read the resolutions which were agreed to at the Cos saltation meeting of the 20 . h Dee. last. Mr TYNDAL ATKINSON read the following resolu tions At a meeting of reformers, convened for the purpose of conraltatioa, and r a preliminary to a national conferenos, held at the King's Head Tavern, City of London, on Thurs day, Dn. 20, It use moved by the Rev. T. Spencer, of Notting-hill, trended by Mr. J. Wade, of Deptford, and unanimously carried, that the report of the council be adopted and con firmed. It was moved by Mr. J. H. Tillet, of Norwich, seconded by Mr. Norris, of Bristol, and unanimously cured, that, a• the recent demonstrations throughout the country justify the conclusion that the nation is strongly in favour of the prin. oples of this association, it is now the special provisos of the sound to develop the feeling which unquestionably prevail., and that this should be done as speedily as pool- Lle, so es to produce a timely influence on the prreedinp of parliament. That it is necessary, as a preliminary mea sure, to extend the orgareatior. to every town in the king dom, and secure local committees, to pronto** everywhere the enrolment of members, the delivery of lectures, and the Loldiag of public meetings. That, to arrange this organisa tion, and to incite the friends of reform to active and simul taneous efforts, this meeting recommends to the council that the kingdom should be divided into districts, and gentlemen be deputed from the council to each of such districts, to en peziatend, according t i special instructions, the necessary ensaiearion, and report from day to day to the cottaciL It ease moved by Mr. T. J. Searle, of London, secondedby Mr. T. Clarke, of London, and carried—" That the council `re requested to consider the best means and the moot appro- Pr•ete time uproars the expression of public opinion, by embodying u • petition the principles of the sasedation." It WY moved by Mr. W. J. Hall, Lend's, seconded by !h. T. Pro, Worlabster, and nnanintou•ly agreed— lbst, for the purpose ell ferrying oat the objets of the vaisay.pol, an appeal be mode to the reformers of the sous- IF/ et large to raise a ear of at hint 10,0001. for the year lvlr" -- • It no moved oy Mr. *Pherson, of Aberdeen, mended ilt Wm. Hips, Leicester, and unanimously corned— lt.t It he a recommendation to the cotionl to soavese a sealuent of persons, delegated by committees or Publie seniors of reformers In all parts of the kingdom, to be &who ie Lianas, sot later than the month of Marsh next, iLdtL.l the 'members of the present consultation pledge :AK. A . iv to use their beet exertions to advance the objects •-•'• inure the MACOMB of the principles of the sasonatioe." pew CHAIRMAN end that the council had pre rooluvons, which would be severally sad . ..anted hi the meeting. "i• WALLEY, Mwe4., mune forward to move the ant rent • day sod was neared with loud cheers. Me said; The vela I hold is a 7 head is as follows : "Teat this wrestle, Ofietheld el the amenity of a aaamal 446 Mets% of the Veiled Leeds= °. the gaud " 41 / red Maedal reform, with a view to as earl sad sad ' adi tatat aapreamias of public opinion ow that subject would hoe.: as medial and emphatic approv.al Plana proposed 1 41_ ...voweil of the National Anonatioh for that purpose, 14 ' .1 Imago itaell to nadir immediate and eflldent co-open. aillsostas4l tbs. moronic: seed , 4. Ass,"thipl to do 1 .1.1.11 r „1 4 n7 p.litgai. (Reis, aear q Paean: 611 it th. uustum Nosaldies pe ts( that the people are beginnisg to think for thmentlme, sad that I.h first Teem he =2.11a is. ea the proem, esemicm. Hailers that tkreedinut the esnatry am shaking themselves — lQhem pentleo smeels• tines. They begirt to feel that iesseerte, not men, are sew revoked, and leek to them eleme to poem the happiness and improvement of the maws of ear people. (Cheers.) nation I am right in sayint that swept slants migift Kew want reermen throughout the meatry the Mum to fir of Sir Robert Peel would be hailed with Mew (Cheers.) Ido not wish to Mir up aged twine : I °sly wish that we shoal& a mp retest unikestanding. I would appeal to say Ineelllgent gash who hes been looking on calmly during the het three at her cam whether I am not right la iselseleg thst Lied John Russell's aristocratic spa )- age to strong to allow him is et Publis *- Mon on subjects whith ar Tr ift eheeme m semiier emmeeted with the rights of his ceder. (Chem) We ewe mush to the Rouse of Lords; hut, if I undemend snything et the genius of the English people, they will be led, and WO bring led, is quarters to which the wad mots usenet be applied, to inquire whether they an sot paying too large a pries for that order. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) Any one who has witnessed the sacrifices, greater than most of us are able to appreciate, to which Sir Robert Peel has submitted, in breaking off from that large and powerful party with which he was connected, will, lam sure, agree with me that the right boo. baronet is far b a tter able, or, at ell events, far more disposed, than Lord John Russell ea read the signs of the times, and more likely to carry out his convictions to their legitimate result. ("Hear, hear," and cheers.) The second reason why I rejoice in the existence of this association is, that the object which it p to secure is one which will promote peace at home, a r :r In crease the security of property. (Hear.) My third and last reason for supporting the emaciation is, that its design includes not merely the lessening of the burdens of property, but the transference of those burdens from the shoulder+ of those who are lees able to those who are better able to bear them, and thereby semering an incr.'s,* of the comfort, prosperity, and happiness of the great sum of the working classes. Now, I call upon the workiog men of England to unite with us in seeking to remove the pressure of that taxation, that they may be enabled to do their ditty as_ Tonnes, and to educate their own children. (Cheers.) My belief is that government is an evil—a positive unmixed evil—though a necessary one • and holding, as the result of all the investigation which I have been able to give to the subject, that abuse is almost found in connexion with abuse, I am anxious to combos the operations of this government within the narrowest possible limits. It is, in my opinion, den strut. to civil liberty to allow the government to meddle with mind, and degrading to the poor man to be told to go to the government for the education of his children. What desire to see is the reducing of the prctoure of taxation, in order that the working man may be able to educate his chil dren himself. Mr. LEAF briefly mconded the resolution. Mr. F. O'CONNOR, on rising to support the evolution, was received with loud cheers. He said that that meeting wag to himself • satlatactoey new-yeer'egift. (Laughter.) He could not offer the slightest opposition to the association ; on the contrary he stood there to brave the in sults of foolish men, who had taunted him for go-operating with it. Nino-tenths of those whom he addressed were pro bably working men. Had half a million working men met %hi y would have been attended by the staff of the Iron Duke instead of that of the press. He differed from Sir Joshua Waluseley when he said that previous labour had been in vain, and that the members of the association were the piougers. The working chute were the pioneers : it was they who had paved the way, and they now rejoiced to co operate with others. (Cheers.) The Chairman had told them th.t the bull-frogs were now beginning to croak, and that they would have the co-operation of those ball. frogs. They might hear them at public meetings, but it was a very different question how they would vote in the House of Commons. The votes of the few would there overpower the voices of the many. (Hear, bear.) The chairman had spoken much of home, but he had not referred to the sister kingdom, where die wbig government for years based its power in that country on the dire antagonism which existed between Celt and Saxon. (Hear, hear.) As to Sir Robert Peel, what did he care about Sir Robert Peel? No doubt he would base his power upon the aristocracy around him. He would give a peter to a marquis and take the stockings from the poor man. (Laughter.) They had heard a great' deal ab tut taxation. Let the law makes be the tax payers, and then things would soon b- placed on • right footing. (Hem, near.) Had the association confined itself to the reduction of taxation it would have had his co-opera tion; but when he saw who was its chairman, when he saw such men as Lord Nugent,Lord D. Stuart, Mr.O.Thonspeon, Ms. Lu•hington, Mr. Charles Pearson, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Williams,—men who had no interest in the reduction of wages—joining the association, he felt that it was cm the right tack. (Cheers.) It had been his great ob ject through life to organise the public mind, and he treated he might now look upon the chairman as the director of that mind. He had no re spect for the millowner or the money lord, none for those who lived on the blood and sinew of the poor ; bat he wanted to see an honest and faith ful representation of the people in the House of Commons then would the rich be poorer, and the pan richer. Talk not to him of the rabbishing 40r. freehold. He wanted to 'lomm:tin the men. (Cneen, and hisser.) Look at the state of the suffrage in Delia It appeared from a state ment la the Times, that in one county, amongst a pluda. tam of marl, 44)0,000, the proportion of the voters was about Ito 1,250. He wanted no revolution. (Hem, hear.) He had suffered more through the insanity of the people, than almost any man alive There would be a 'evolution to-morrow, if the bullfrogs were to make such • noise as to compel the mil:-owners to turn out ; but is such an event some would continue to live at ease whilst others were sent to • dungeon or convict ship. (Hoar hear.) He felt the greatest cctifidence in the conductors of the association He had ley, or the party with whom he was connected, give a vote opposed to the interests of the mass of the community. They were informed that a meeting was to take place on Wwwday neat at Aylesbury. Mr. Cobden promised to be there, Mr. Diaraeliwould be there, and he would take care to be there also. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) He thought be know something more of agriculture than Mr. Divaeli. He thought if they examined " Baron Mun- Mumma " and the "Arabian Nights' Entertainment'," and whatever the fancy of toe most fanciful writer c:u d produce on the most fanciful subject, they would not be able to Sad a more fanciful author or declaimer than Mr. Disraeli. The resolution was then carried unanimously and with acclamation. Hr. HOWARD, secretary to the Southwark 'Worm As. satiation, expressed his satisfaction at the present movement. He nod confidence is the plans of the association for the the pretest, and in their calculations for the future. (Hear, hear.) Southwark was the first place where a public meet- log had been called on this subject. They had not been idle since, for they held various meetings and entered into sub scriptions, and i.e was there to hand them their tint fruits in the shape of a new year's gift of 301. (Cheers.) Let them not mistake him. Thie sum was but the contribution of a dis trict—namely, of St. Olave, St. Thomas, and St. John's. They were going to hold meetings in 13, rmondsey, Rother• hither, Christchurch, St. George the Martyr, and St. Saviour's; and he hoped to obtain from thine meetings at least 1001.. in the shape of donations, which he would feel great pleasure in handing to the association. (Hear, hear.) All he would say in conclusion was, let them go and do likewise. (Cheers.) At this stage of the proceedings the Cluitattau announced, amid loud cheers, the following subscriptions, amounting to nearly 1,5001., which had been promised in aid of the fund of 10,0001., to be raised for the year 1850 : tilr Joshua %Left J. 11. Hutchinson, Esq. S 5 M.P. g5O IT. Dmiel, Esq. Rum. Morisy, Paq.... 50 iW.A. H. Howe, Esq. 3 William Ammon, Esq. 50 IL Kiely, Esq. 5 Richard Cobden, Esq., J. Home, Eaq., M.P lO ILP lO W. Ed Eel 5 A. Anderson,lsq.,M.P. SO J. Houghto wards, n, toq lO I Admiral Ns C. PAU.. A. Pellatt, Eaq lO 11.C.11. Stephen Bird, [eq. 0.. 10 M. Eacknore, Esq 3 Thome Prout, Esq. . Pommy. Willlmalilliaran Esq . . 60 MI 1. L Travers, Esq 1 3 1 W. Arthur Willa's., T. S. Hall, Esq. 1 Esq. ao C. shington, Lre , Rama Willdasoe, ILP Lu I 1104. ConrWilkimon, Eq. 10 B. D. Comina ad sq. HorecoWilklasea, gm. 10 B. MeV., Esq. W. S. Burls. Esq.._ 10 W. G. Aim", Esq. W. C. tileigb„ i5q....... 10 1 J. CoUett, YYpp 1 1 T. M'Entor, 5m..... 10 D. M.D.masli, Le ... 10 T. S. Watkloron, Esq. M. H. Remedy, Ift. 10 T. POWs, iv. R. Ashur., Sim_ 10 Lord D. Stuart, Lai M.P. 1 1 W. H. Roberts, Esq... 10 WC. Mseshighluo,Eaq. 1 W. Coningham, Esq... 10 W. D. Maull, Esq. ... W. J. Hall, Fp • 60 T. Clarke, C H. O. Robiastm, Iraq— 50 0. Shilllbeer . lO 0 Norwich su R. Russell, Req. lO per if. TiUett Nir J. Duke, Dert.M.P. 10 1 goose Friends ci fte- IL Wilke; Le. M.P 60 . . lona, at a .?shift 0.71105 a Eaq.II.P. le 10 J. IL BNth, MIX. 10 0 U. T. Atelier, Lt . . i 10 10 o.W.Wlleynolda lO 0 IL Viaoret, 1,4, C. M. Malty. g 9 IS e IL. Le Blood, Emq. lO 0 J. Orwell, hal J. Grommitly lip. 9O 0 D. W. Wit, En. 6O 0 blwas.elather (Lgeel) 00 0 as,. W. Linwood lO 0 • these lO 0 J. Yenbaw, Z , Y.P lO 0 El 11111 S &Si to Inikvesk, par W 111•6011 t. ftlii.. isq... 2. WWIOIIIIII4 Esq S W/11/.la Imem.lbq 1 30 0 0 . sl. 10 T. 0 u . J. 11.1=04 1/4 . J. /am Thrim Dm B . g, Hourls4, isq. lO 0 J. A. Lys% ft.— Mr. W. WILLIAMS said that, having been a then oa several former occuiess as • redensw, he wr= to aidnes them spin in that a n end wm rejoined he mos so many!! his iefioncitlems on thie most important esse, sine. When, about nine months ego, the ansolethea eon menced lie carer by promulgating its principles in this the largest room within the limits of Leaden, the ithwe, as that comment, with an numinous nano, conarmed theas principles, and they had sines bees responded to by the me mundane districts, end by nom kip and impsnant towns which had been mentiooed by the eheirsoon. The association conwierseed the sew year by coming be fore them win to ask for their support and aid in carrying out those principles, which had been so empha tically approved of t ai t were first Munched. If May had their and to the extent to which they im panel it wwfd he gi ve s, it would be giving s lull denial to the amenesa of their sainsaber, the PAM. In that the people of this esontry did sot weal say further extension of Moen. (Hisses.) Be ented is the House of Commons that the middle dames did not worst the reform proposed by Mr. Boas sad adopted by on association, and that the waking isms did sot went the chatter, or say reform approaching to that extent, and usher they came forward with 'lisle hearty 'LI and ee•ePetetiee, it woad be a mold t h e 'instilon so ands by their member in hie pima la pediment. (Rear, hear.) Would they easeden emether dielaraties whisk he made that Ids Mena MU &mid he • meal meows (" No, no.") What had thatpledenn ha dew for the. Bad it anweaplianil may ass st a t e r s = d whith it preheeM to do ? Net ehly had it set anythieg, but it left them wares than they were under the old kw system. I. the 1101 place r be ere=f aill eserept amistitueneles than tend:; the eid newelbemed parliament. Bribery and cotrAption were mere rile than wester the old ag• ( B .4sy, hew.) It had wet sweeeeded in serving for o t. API:o their jest paitioel rights. Why out of 7 millions of male adults is this sunny only 1,081,090 were en the register ; and allowing for those who were on it more than once--a id he knew persons who were entered twelve times he did not think the Waal eenetituency to be more than 850,000, or about one-eighth of the adult male population of the country. (Hear, hear.) Bat infinitely worse Stalinist, the Reform Bill created such • host of boroughs throughout the country, that 161,000 electors ro• tanned a majority of the home ot commons. (Hear, hear.) Bat how bad it dealt with the shims of London? Why it *enabled 67 of these boroughs to return 92 numbers of parlia ment, having only tae same number of electors as the city of London, which returned but four members. (Shame.) That was to ray, their member, the Prime Minister, had made a voter belonging to one of those rotten boroughs—rotten bonus they were sold to the hi gkort bidder—equal to 23 voters of the city of London. (Hear, hear.) Take Harwich as an instance. That borough, in the election of 1841, re turned two member to parliament with • coustiniency of 94 voters,_and tt was acknowledged before a committee of the ROSSO of Commons that 8,3001. had been spent—that was to say, MC to each voter. (Hear, hear.) Ws. that • eondition of things which they wished to make anal (No, no) Then, with regard to e xpenditure, what had this re form bill done in order to lemon it ? Let them only consider this important fact, that in the you 1830, when the Duke of Wellington was prime minister, and before the Reform Bill had been carried, the number of the army and police was lees by 105,000 men than on the 6th of Apnl last year. (Hear, hear.) The maintenance of this addl. Ronal force out them 4,000,0001. (Hear, hear.) He would not on that occasion enter at large upon the wasteful expenditure of the public money under the Reform Bill; but he could not help giving one sample of the reckless and prodigal manner in which it had been squandered. When the crown surrendered its vint estates a sum of 386,0001. a year was given to the sovereign. (Hear, hear.) Those estates produced in the last three years 1,187,0001., the whole of which, less the small amount that ought to be paid for collection, should go into the treasury. But how much did really go then? Only 313,0001. C. Oh, oh," and "shuns.") Tile remaining 874,0001. was kept back. (Hear, hear.) He lair. Williams) endeavoured in 1843 to unravel the mystery of this discre pancy between the vast amount of money received and the small amount which was paid in. He was able to get some of tke items, and amongst them he found that in the pre ceding year, 1842, there was expended on twelve royal palaces, olves royal parks, stables, gardens, stud houses, and dog kennels, no less • sum than 161,0001. which by right belonged to the people and should go into the Treasury. (Hear, hear.) Let them not Plante the Queen for that. (Hear.) She probably had not seen one-half these palaces, and as to putting her foot in them it was out of the question. She only occupied three out of them—(laughter)—yet they were kept up as a means of finding sinecures for the aristocracy. While there were six millions of men in the British islands disfranchised, he most conclude that the rights of the people were violated by the power of the aristocracy and money. (Herr, hear.) The object of the 'mention was to take this power of abuse from the privileged clroes and give enfranchisement to the great body of the people. Jeremy Bentham had told them moat " it is only by making the ruling law uneasy that the oppressed many have any chance of redress." Depend upon it if they came forward and supported the association they would pion make the ruling law uneasy. (Cheers.) Mr. Williams concluded by proposing the following resolution ; held from them. (Hear, hear.) When parliament assembled the minister would, no doubt, bring forward the old argu ment that the salons were too ignorant to exercise the franchise property. The resolution was then put sad serried. Ilr. D. W. WIRE proposed the following resolution " That this a with feelings of gnat madam lion the propoolireOltel regards with feelings of gnat satisfas. tic. the proposi tion of hold in g a national conference in Lon don daring the month of March next, and sells upon the friends of the movement in all parts of the country, to assist the council by selecting earnest reformers to represent these at that Important meeting." He said the gentles/tea who had immediately presided him bad talked of masses. He (Mr. Wire)_ hated this word. He liked the name " people ." ("Hear, hear," and sheers.) It was to the people that the council was about to address itself in all parts of the country: they knew nothing of working classes, Middle sins es, upper sinuses, or aristocracy; bat they wanted to mita all for the ascomplishmentef • great object. What he knew of the people of England °menaced his that if a right object were put before them they would purses and accomplish it by right and peaceable meas. (11w, hear.) What was the object of that emulation ? Why, to increase the number of those who returned members of parliament, or rather the °Neel was twofold—to purify the npresentatioa and to bring within the pale of the constitution the unrepresented names. At present two members were returned by ift voters and two by 16,000, and it was only by the two latter that the interests of the people were truly represented. Without the franchise the representation goad not be pull fled. Let them, when they obtained this franchise, examine and turn inside out thaw who presented themselves for elec tion. What was the constitution of the House of Commons? How many members were there connected with the army, thenavy, the law Every clams wee well represented: the people al- ne were unrepreseatei. If a captain in the navy presented himself, let him be told to take are of his ship. If • captain he the army came forward, let him be told to look after the discipline of his troop, with the view of preventing the outbreak of • mutiny like the recent one at Nottingham, by looking after the comforts of his men, and treating them as rational beings. (Hear, hear.) Let ait rd be treated with all imaginable courtesy, but let him be told that he had got hi s own h ouse, and was not wanted in the House of Commons, and that the lower house should no longer be made a place of jobbery for the aristo craey. (Hear, hear.) An extension of the suffrage would be followed by a reduction of taxation. They would not then see fifty-three of the finest colonies in the world—colonirs which ought to be increasing the strength of the mother country—on the eve of rebellion (Hear, hear.) Why were the colonies in that position ? A s k the irresponsible House of Commons. Who were sent out as governors ? (A voice, " Ward.") Were not the colonies made homes for decayed members of the aristocracy? (Hear, hear.) Would that be permitted by a pure House of Commons ? With such a house the cot rules would be governed at a vast deal less expense. Nearly all the troops might be withdrawn. What buriness had young states with troop'? Would it not be better fir the soldiers to return home, and take S. some honest employment, in stead of being trained to eat the throats of the people? (Hear, hear.) Make the colonies self-supporting; give them what they had a tight to demand, self-government, and, instead of being a harden to the mother country, they would be a blessing to her, and wou ld i ncrease h er wea l t h and prosperity. Than again, what jobs were perpetrated in the House of Commons ?Oa a great field-day they might hear the leaders of the two great parties, and behold the members on their right and left listening eagerly to the words which fill from their lips. But the discussion related not to the rights of the people, but to their own power in the House of Commons. Wnen the finances were dr/reamed, when hundreds of thousands were to be voted away, Mr. Williams would tell them that there were scarcely forty men in the 11011141 of Commons who would guard the purse-strings of the people. (Hear, hear.) Look to the system of tax ation. A tradesman's receipt for 61. required a 3d. stamp, whilst 200,0001. could be passel on a 10s. stamp. Why should not the rich man, who received his money in a lump, be compelled to pay in equal proportion with the poor man ? a (Hear, hear.) Not only was • reduc tion of taxation required ; its equalisation, sad the making it to press fairly and equitably on all classes of society, was an object of the highest importance. The reduction of taxa tion involved another benefit—namely, that it would in crease the comforts of the people. Was it right that th 2 poor man, who drank his tea, or rather he shoved call it his din coloured water, but which was still to him one of the neces saries of life, should be taxed for it in the same proportion u the rich man? Was it right, fair, or just that such • state of things should continue ? Mr. H. TAYLOR said that he had great pleasure in seconding the resolution which had been read by Mr. Wire. He wee Merck by the moral arguments of Mr. Mall on this subject. (Hear, hear.) He entirely agreed with him that the Howe of Commons at present constituted was not what it pretended to be—it was • sham, because they knew it was not a fair representation of the people. It was a mistake to suppose that the working citrus were slue abut out from a share of the representation, for there were market towns throughout the country as large as boroughs which had no voice at all, whilst the small boroughs in th eir neighbourhood sent representatives to parliament. (Hear, hear.) He agreed with Mr, Wile in rejecting the term classes; the fact was, that there was a general irijustics per. vading the whole which prevented g.n--ad government from being carried into effect. If they had had an adequate reform course it be iuppoesd that such an abomination as the este blirhed church would still be left in existence ? (Loud sheers.) If they had a fair representation of the people it would be demolished in one erosion of parliament. (Cheers.) Or was it to he supposed that whilst disease gad pestilence were aseribed to the went of ventilation, and so much said about the sanitary condition of the people, that the window-tax would be tolerated for a single year ? There were men who canted about those things who voted for the continuance of that tax. (A voice, " Lcrd Ashley.") Yes, Lord Ashley, who professed so much sympathy foe the poor, voted (or a continuance of that abominable tax. (Hear, hear.) He would not enter into the subject, which in a financial point of view, had been so ably treated by Mr. Williams, and in a moral point of view by Mr. Mimi, further than to say that the people should unite in one great effort to impress on their representatives and on those in power the necessity of further reform. Mr. KIDD, in responding to a call of the meeting, said that having been called on he felt bound, as one of the non electors and unpeivileged of the English community, to state his racoons why he thought the intelligence of the people should rule paramont in the senate. He would not argue the question of an extension of the suffrage as for or against the aristocracy, but on the broad and comprehensive grouad that the weal of the different members of the community was inseparable, and that the increased responsibility of every member of the state gave power sad strength to government. Whatever opinion might be entertained as to the value of increasing the suffrage, all persons were agreed that the telligeacs of Itogland must rule Englaad, and that the house ' elf representatives ought to be the reflex of that intelligence. (Hear, hear.) how, although he was ready to admit that the higher classes had a better school education, he maintained that the appreciation of right, the discrimination of worth, and the application of the naiad to know what was judicious and injudicious was as common to the labourer in the streets as to the member of the House of Commons or House of Lords. (Hear, hear.) As long as the people were not represented they would have to fight the battle over and over again. It was a libel to sayy, that the working classes did not ears for the suftrage, it was they, in fact, who kept it before the public mind for a great number of years. The CHAIRMAN said that he had received a note from Mr. Jones saying that he would be glad on the part of the social reformers to offer a few observations in favour of the association. Now, they were not there to discuss socialism— (hear, hear)—but if this gentleman would confine himself to the object of the association they would be glad to hear hien; if he spoke on socialism he would feel it has duty to stop him. (Hear, hear.) Neither could he allow any gentleman to address him from the body of the meeting. Mr. JONES having ascended the platform, said, that if the chairman had made no allusion to what he intended if I say, but few could have discovered what his epiniocs wore apart from the business 'of that emaciation. (Hoar, hear.) He spoke because he thought that men who agreed in the two objects this association had in view ought to unit, in giving im their a support to these two objects, but whilst so, they should guard themselves against compromising those opinions which they held ent ails these objects. (Hear.) He was there as the repn ssatativs of opinions which, whatever might be t of them in this country, were agitating Z that moment. He felt bound to say that Crd is aet a Moak& of taxatiee was the most important thing. He thought that the people suffered more through an excessive competition than through taxation. (" Hier, hear," and " Question.") Hs did not expect to find an agreement in his opinions any more than others should expect hint to agree in theirs—(hear); but in this they a ll agreed, that the people of this country sh ould have the control of their own destinies placed in their own hands. (Haar, hear.) Let them, there fore, unite in effecting that object, sad each party co uld pro pagate his own opinions at the proper time and plaw. (Hear, hear.) With that reservation he had great pleasure in giving his adhesion to the resolution, which was t h en put and carried unanimouly. The Rev. Mr. SPENCER roes to propose a vote of thanks to the chairman, and in dosng so said at he not only went to the full extent of the emaciation, but believed that, in the sight of God, teeny man la the kingdom who paid true had a right to vote. (Cheers.) He holland with the late Queen Dowager, that all were equal is the eight of Clod, and that It was an art of duty to the Father of all mankind that they should endeavour to sequin for altars those privileges which they panned themselves. Bat as had been already remarked, the working men alone had not to complain, for he might mention as one of the ea. lies of the present system, that by leaving Bath in order to live at Stamford hill, he had lost his vote • for, as were aware, the lithe, Wants of Chelsea and had no representative. (Hear, hoer.) Having exhorted the people to take example by the bees in their little commonwealth, he eaneluded by proposing a veto of thicket Sir Joshua Walsaaley for his proper and dignified sonduet in the chair. The vote was carried by acclamation. Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY retuned thanks, saying that the only object of the association was to make property safe, the country prosperous, and the people contented and ham(Lend ohms.) net assembl a ge then *operated. "That Ibis meeting earnestly recommends to the friends of parliamentary reform, toroughout Great Britain and the colonies, to furnish prompt and liberal .esistance to the council of the National Ass.ciation, by the holding of public meetings, the pa sing of resolutions, the formation of corn• mitten, the empl.ymaut of local agents, and the contribu tion of funds." _ . . HALL agreed cordially in the resolution which he had been permitted to second. He bad no doubt but that the sum contemplated by the ueociation would soon be raised, but he doubted whether it would be sufficient for the pur poses intended. The people should throw their whole ener gies into the struggle. The aristocracy had thrown down the gsuntlet, and it was for the people to chits it up. lithe) , did not they d ed to have our bread, to have an excise officer in their eeriers, a custom-houte officer in their kitchens, • soldier in their parlours to flirt with their wives. (Cheen and laught,r.) Mr. O'Connor had accused them of omitting Ireland, but he beefed to assure that gentleman that Ireland was not forgotten. Let the people only go with them in their par liamentary train as fares Holyhead and they would soon find a steamer to take them over to fraud. (Cheers and laughter.) They could then take Irish matters in head, but at present their hands were fall of the affairs of Eng land. (Hoar, hear.) He feared, he repeated, tt at 10,0001. would not be enouei, and he had a plan for more effectually raising the sinews of war. He would enrol a body of 240 gentlemen, men of into city and inde pendence, to be candidates for MU in pazhament. Each man should pat down 1,0001. (Laughter.) That would give 250,0001., and he expected that the people generally would make up the million. (Cheers and laughter.) He was ready himself to be the first to Ilan the round robin, and to pat down his subscription. (Great cheering.) The aristocracy had drawn the sword, but the people would make them sheath it; and by the oath Ma Spartan, he would never cease working until he had rescued from the fangs of agruping aristocracy, the parliamentary rights of the people of r.uglaud. (Tremendous cheering.) Mr. E. MIALL said that of the three estates of the realm, two were realities and one was a pretence. The monarchy had its sphere, its rights, and its duties, and her Majiaty the Queen kept her sphere, enjoyed her rights, and performed her duties. (Loud cheers.) fhe House of Lords, which was constituted witn a view identical with the eleva tion of the order, did—as no one could deny—fulfil to the utmost the intention of he institution. (Cheers.) The re presentative breach el our legislature was bat a sham, • fiction, a pretence. (Hear, hear.) The House of Commons professed to be born of the people, but it was is reality the child of the aristocrrey, having only the slightest possible tinge of popular blood in its veins. (Hear, hear.) If all the nomination members were sot aside, end those who were returned by similar irregular leftism:es, and having counted them up you would find that you had a majority of the' House of Commons. (Hear ' hear.) It might be said that although this was an anomaly, yet that the system worked well. For whom did it work well? (Hear,hear.) For the people or the aristocracy ? (Hear, hear.) If it worked well for the people, why surround it with pretence ? Why not give the nobles openly the power of returning 90 members and let the boroughs at once be exposed to open sale. But ; they knew better, that John Bull would not bear it for • moment. (Hear, hear.) Every one was aware that it was only by maintaining the semblance of representation such • system could be carried on. The conclusion he drew from this was, that where there was falsehood there was mischief, ; and if this fraud was mammary to the interests of the mill i tocrecy those interests could not be very consistent either , with honesty, common sense , or the interests of mankind. He objected to all shams. (Hear, hear.) And in this instance they had done a double mischief in deluding foreign people as to the sympathies of Great Britain. (Hear, bear.) lie believed that if during the lest year the sympathies of Great Britain had been properly known on the continent of Europe, the re-action would never have taken place, but the people, instead of with in/ under the soldier's heel, would now be rejoicing in the blessings of constitutional government. (Hear, hear.) But let them look at home, and they would see that this semblance was doing mighty wrong. The British House of Commons, under its semblance of nationality, dared to do what no despot :would attempt. Did any one think that Neck taxation as the people groaned under at present could ever be levied by a single despot? (Hear, hear.) This proved to him that the semblance of represen tationtatiou with the reality of nomination was doing an infiaity of mischief. For the people's best social interests, because he wished to see their industry raised to that position which it ought to occupy; for their moral interests, because he wished that every man might be able to walk abroad la the face of God's ' sun independent and self-reliant; for the sake of the happi , nese of posterity—he was most anxious that the present system should be put an end to, and that some reality, be it of what kind it might, should be substituted for it. The reality which he should prefer was that which would place unlimited confidence in his fellow-ooantrymen. (Cheers.) He would have none excluded who did not exclude them selves. But, inasmuch as it was absolutely aumeary that they should all unite in order to achieve ultimate vierwry, be was willing to unite with that association and to pledge hie self to do his utmost for the accomplishaseat of its objects. He rejoiced in the wise mesas which the council were em ploying for the attainment of their end. They would, he belt- ved, de something by the freehold land movement. He did not indeed think that that would prove lever suffi cient to overturn the present false poli'lcal system. (Cheers.) He disagreed with those who fancied that public &elution was of no use. To ovate public opinion —to collect it, to organise it and to bring it to bear at a given point—war the mode by which Englishmen generally had itoved the objects upon which they had set their hearts. (Hear, hear.) If they created an atmosphere congenial for the spread of this sentiment, he would defy any oligarchy is the world ultimately to resist it. (Cheers.) It was said that the minis try were already contemplating the concession ;.a, large portion of the people's domande. Whether they were sincere or insincere mattered not if they did but effectually perform their duty. (Cheers.) Let them, if they would met their facie is the right direetion—(laughter)—bat let the people tan ere that there was ,eleat lone behind to push them onward. (Cheers amllateghter.) The people of these name might achieve their when they willed it. Let them resolve apes it would be done ; let them make , that err Mainmast, and throve' its :Rl *, eldest would be eesenplbaled. ) (Her, bed N be den bided Os perk; nothing end be den the node, dent eine dad couseedea ass Is anther. What tb whaled wu not nerdy a NUM 41 hauls, bat a union at Made, that dude strain night as lint they were on. Whoa they had segued that, gm/ Ed p leeward Is the strength of the Ikay had each, and the lime would not be far adios eine would be a free, far, and fall repeeentation FIZZ Al' bIILS-IED NEW-TOWN.—Yesterday the resole- attended with disastrous realis e book° out th • P raalass dde pm*. (Cheers.) day) Illordai, a little before three o'clock, a On, nearly Kr. D. W. M. REYNOLDS, In n Yon, said it was a rudel to the ci • this country occupied by Mr. T. J. Peterken, • bread and deceit bate, and el t i t s z irl dl: den dead nisi • aneritp ler felling earrying au bermes at No. 7 Clarkso n - street sun • es dd. Per mime was tbsi sendemild New-town. Ia spite of the 'intim of the the To dented • =iv deg a edaessat Hanes weld not be subdued until the prettier were based =instep then dein by down, end the stock in tzade, &torah and wraziwil *PPM amen lo Sbe woe alwrigl6 f renw a tr d w i th . OW hails envided. THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT. Lut evening the fourth monthly aggregate nest ing of the members of the various tempt ranee associations in sad about the metropolia, and of penons interested in ad vances' , he slue of temperance, WM held in the large room, Exeter Hall. The special subject he consideration awn this occasion was, " Intoxicating liquors not necessary for working mmn, either to assist them in their occupation, however laborious, or to promote their health and happiness." The meeting was of • peculiarly interesting character, the whole of the speakers, with the exception of the chairman, belonging, as will be seen from the subjoined report, to the operative class, and in their own persons illustrating the blessings of temperance. Precisely at half-past six o'clock, on the motion of Mr. G. Cruikshenk, the chair was taken by JORIPII STURCIS, Eq., of Birmingham, and by this time the spacious hall was filled to overflowing. On the platform we noticed Charles Gilpin, Esq., Georg* Crnikshask, Esq., J. Robertson, Dq., W. Jansen, Esq., W. West, Esq., J. Christy, Bp., J. Cassell, E J. P. Ed wards, Esq., J. W. Green, Esq., J. Clarke, Esq., and the Rev. H. Robinson. which caused his head and his heart to ache, aad his mind to ' wander. (Cheers.) He was now 12 years older in point of age than when ►e signed the pledge, but be did not hesitate to say that in elasticity of temper and le eluag he was 12 years younger than then. (Cheers.) Not only was he him self, but be rejoiced to say that his wife and family also were all teetotallers. (Cheers.) Mr. WOOD, stonemason, said he was 20 year, of age when he signed the pledge He was now 33, and during those 13 yean, he had been professionally attended by a doctor. Mr. ROBINSON, a paper stainer, followed in the same strain, as did also Messrs. Mann, Finley, 8. , yt.olds, Buck foyers, Lalomer, and Grove, mariner. There was such a similarity in their statements, however, and such a repeti tion of fats, that we feel we should only weary the reader by Riving a detailed report of their several speeches. Oa the motion of Mr. CANELL a vote of thanks was pared to the chairman, and at the close of a collection the meeting separated. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said if he were as well qualified to address such a meeting as was then assembled aa he was peculiarly disqualified for the task, it would still be very much out of place for him to occupy more than two or three minutes of their time when their great object was to bear their working friends express their sentiments upon the question as to whether intoxicating liquors were necessary for working men. (Hear, hear.) Had he been invited to Wee the chair at a meeting where the speakers were to have been of the aristocracy, or even of the middle clam, he should have felt no difficulty in at ones declining the honour; but when he heard that the speakers were to be of the working clam, be cheerfully tra velled a hundred miles, and left his occupation at home, in inner is ,have the pleasure of residing at their meeting (Cheers.) He assured them he felt it no small privilege to preside over such a meeting. AN a nation, English ness were in the habit of speaking very much in condemna tion of one of the national vices of America, holding three millions of fellow-subjects in bondage ; but we should give them credit for that in which they excelled us ; and he must say that they wen going very far ahead in the question of loud abstinence . In the northers cities of America, twenty years ego, the intemperance was greater than in England, but, so far back as 1841, when he was in that country, • man would have almost lost caste in any of the north ern cities, if he had been seen drinking a cup of spirituous liquor. (Hear, hear.) At that time, in the second inn in Boston, where they made up upwards of 150 beds, there was nothing stronger than tea or coffee to be heel ; and in another city, where there were six hotel., the three largest were conducted on teetotal principles. (Cheers.) In conclusion, the Chairman intimated that every speaker was to limit his observations within the space of • quarter of an hour, and he then introduced Mr. PARKER, coach joiner, to the meeting—He said it was very gratifying to the committee who had called that meeting together and to his brother workmen to be allowed to stand before such a well-filled meeting. The 12 men who had been selected that evening to address them bad been chosen not because the committee believed them to be the beat men of their class, but because they had confidence in them that they would speak the truth honestly and fearlessly. (Cheers.) If the 12 named in the bill had been prevented being present, 12 others would have been found equally competent to address them ; and if every one on that plat form were to be silent by common consent there were hun dreds in that meeting who, with the same rude eloquence and with equal vigour of soul-inspiring truth, could lay bare this question before them. They m u st k now that great business was that of a coach-joiner—that was to say, that he made the different kinds of blinds, the glass frames, and the various boxes in read about• carriage. He had bean in his present employ between twenty-five and twenty :ix years, and he thought that was a pretty good guarantee for his respectability as a workmaa. (Hear, hear.) But why did he become • teetotaller ? From motive, of economy. Having a sick home, and desiring to keep his head clear, he was induced to take to water-drinking, to which he was more particularly led by reading the life of Dr. B. Franklin. I began that system, continued the speaker, on a Monday night and on Saturday I was in a most miserable state, and I found that water wouldn't do for me. Three years after, how ever, I went to a meeting of plain working man. I heard them speak of the evils of drunkenness ; in all of which I agreed. Then they recommended water as the universal panacea, but in that I did not agree ; and as there was a lull in the proceedings, I got up and addressed the meeting, and told them that water wouldn't do for me. Well, the teetotallers seemed posed, and none of them could answer. But at length a gentleman got up, and he very soon knocked all my arguments on the head, and said, if, instead of resorting to an insipid unintoxi catieg fluid like water, son had taken an agree able drink, you would have got on wry well." I went home that night and I ban some coffee, and with the aid of coffee and tea I have wanted strorg drink since. I cannot say that my family are much better oft than they have been ; but I have a happy hom e . I owe uo man anithing,l am something bef o re th e wor ld , an d I b al a i rs alibrarl welch opi me 701. to collect. I wou ld say to drunkards become teetetallen, and instead of wanting amusement away from home you will convert your home into an earthly paradise. (Loud che ers. • Mr. Mc CORMACK, blacksmith 's I, amtaerraaa, a par ticularly strong hearty looking man, next addressed the meeting. He said he was the son of very humble puents In the West of Ireland, and be had had no oppor tunity of obtaining education, so they must excuse hint if he made a blunder; but if he had been making blunders all his lifetime, he made • good one when he signed the pledge. (Cheers and laughter.) Some 16 years ago he had the honour of knowing their chairman— as it happened that when he left, his native home, Birming ham was the place where he put up. He was then a very intemperate man, and even two years ago little did he thiak that he should ever be addressing • temperance meeting. When he took intoxicating drinks, he was bad—he wasn't able to do his work; bat he didn't get drunk now—he never had siece he had signed the pledge, and he was now able to do his work as well as any blacksmith's hammerman in London, be did'nt are who he was. Some friends who used to know him said, " What, is that M'Cormack that used to get so drunk ?" Yes, that's the very man—teetotalism had done for him beyond all imagination. The man that had net • place to Lay his head had now a good house of his own. Mr. WEST, tellmonger or skinner, next presented him self. He owed, he said, • deep debt of gratitude to teetotalism not for reclaiming him from intemperate habits, but for pre venting him from ever becoming the oubje-t of intoxication. (Cheers.) He signed the pledge 11 years ago not because he was a drunkard, but because he feared he might become one, and because he saw the benefit of temperance. As a husband, he felt that he was bound to provide as good • home for his wife as that from which he had taken her. He viewed the question, too, in a pound, shilling, and pence light, and finding that his wages woul d not allow him to keep two houses—one for the publican and one for himself—he resolved to become a teetotaller. (Cheers.) Mr. ItPLACHLEN, glass blower, then addressed the meeting. He stated that he was a native of Scotland, that he was the offspring of low and humble parents, and that he had had to struggle with the world ever since he was nine years of age, wherefore his education had been extremely limited. When he arrived in London at the age of about 18, he launcher' out into the drinking customs of society. sad was taught to believe that unless he took a certain portion of strong drinks, he hould become a man or a workman. He had now been a pledged teetotaller six years. The busi ness he belonged to was a very hot one, and of course the throwing oft of perspiration engendered thirst ; but he worked harder and more hours now than ever he had done. ' He did not wish to make a boast, but he would state the fact that sines he had been a teetotaller he had worked sixty hours at a stretch without once laying his side upon ' a bed—(cheers)—and his wife, thank God, and his family, . seven in number, were all teetotallers, and he did net know that there was • man in that assembly who had greater cause to be thankful than himself, His circumstances were ' materially improved under the water system, and he called upon his fellow creatures as they wished to be happy, to be free, to be philanthropic, to do good for themselves and their fealties, to set their seal to the principles of total ab stinence. (Chasm) Mr. PHIPPS, • tailor, was the next in order. He said that as a clam tailors were the most intemperate men living. They complained of the bad atmo sphere sad bad ventilation of their worshope, and when they lett them they repaired for fresh air and good ventilation to the tap room. (Hear, hear.) He had himself laboured under that delusion for upwards of 20 years, until he acquired the habit and name of a drunkard. Both the name and the practice he abhorred, but he still continued in it until one very simple occurrence shamed him out of it. He went out with a friend cue day to do • little business which should have occupied about an hour, but what with fuddling about it took them the whole day. In the mean time some one called at his friend's house and in quired it he were at home. "No," said the wife. " When will he be in." " Oh, I don't know," answered the wife sharply, " for he's gone out with • drunken tailor." (A laugh.) That so disgusted him (Phipps), that he resolved his friend should never again go out with a " drunken tailor," at least in his person. (Cheers.) He in consequence took the pledge from Father Mathew on his first appearance in London and from that hour the drunkard a drink had never entered Ins doors either as a beverage or a medicine. (Cheers ) Mr. CURRIE, bricklayer then presented himself. He had been • bricklayer 40 years, and at one time was very into and', in very sad plight indeed. He bed now keen ia a teetotaller twelve yaws, arid fortune had ensiled upon him. From being a journey man bricklayer, he took to building houses—first, one, then two, then four, then eight, and at last a whole street. In addition to that, he had now got • good house of his own, he owed an man anything, he had 5001. to lay his hand on when he wanted it, and he had all the comforts which health and • good conscieuee could impart. (Cheers.) Mr. JOHN CS'ULL here interposed, and alluding to some articles which have recently appeared in the Morning Chronicle on the subject of labour and the poor—more especially those touching upon the state of the ballast. heavers and coal-whippers of the port of London—proposed a vote of thanks to the proprietors of that journal for the light which it had thrown upon the condition of that class of' men, and its exposure of the system of paying in public bones. THE CHINTZ TRADE. *f. JANSON seconded the proposition, and it was unanimously weed to. Mr. STEARNS, shoemaker, then addremed the stooling. Re wotked in a stall wider • publir•nouse window, and he had worked there for the last 24 years—for the last 12 a stem* teetotaller. Rs had been one of the bitterest op. pimento of total abstinence; bat also* he had signed the tee total pl he had found it a most beautiful - thing ; and mar pw he was that he had gins ap tar emu that drink THE EXPRESS TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1850. TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS. Stit,—A circular has recently been addressed to the leading upholstery houses in London by ore of the largest chintz furniture printers in Englund, in which it is proposed to deal with the trade and public direct on fixed terms. The circumstances which have led to this may be interesting to some of your readers, and will show strongly one of the beneficial effects of free trade. It used to be a habit with the manufacturers of chintz furniture, upon the production of a new pat tern, to engage such pattern to one or more of the wholesale houses, and in consequence of such mono poly an article purchased at about 9d. per yard, was often supplied to the trade at 2s. per yard, or even in some cases higher ; and, in addition to this enormous profit, the upholsterer was obliged to charle his own profit to his customer. The public were compelled to pay for all chintz furniture at from 150 to 300 per cent. beyond the manufacturer's price. Upon the alteration of the tariff, French and other foreign chintz were imported duty free, and being supplied direct from the manufacturer, came into fearful competition with our own high-priced articles. The natural felling-off in the demand for their goods caused our manufacturers to look into the cause, and they found that it was not owing to any superiority of make, or cheap ness of production, of the foreign article, for the English fabric is superior, and - can be produced more cheaply, but that it arose from the extortionate profit which the wholesale houses had by their mono poly been enabled to exact. The result is, that the manufacturers have, as shown by the enclosed circu lar, decided to abolish such monopoly, and to supply the public at a fair and reasonable price ; and by this dicision, and the consequent reduction of price, not only will the consumption of chintz furniture be very much increased in this country, but it will become and indeed is, already becoming an article of export. This sir, is one case in which prohibitory (or as they are called, protecting) duties were of advantage only to a very few monopolists, to the serious injury of the manufacturer and operative, the retailer and the public. London, Jan. 2. Yours, &c., J. B. PLATE GLASS. TO TEI EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS. SIR,—As you have given insertion to the letter which I addressed to you respecting the reduced price of chintz furniture, and the causes which have led to such reduction, I venture to lay before you the following corresponding facts in reference to the plate_ glass trade. This trade used to be confined to a limited number of manufacturers, who supplied the upholstery trade, through certain wholesale houses ca ll e d f actors, who generally silvered the article. The duties upon the importation of foreign plate-glass were prohibitory, and the factors were enabled, by 'combination, to establish a close monopoly, to such an extent as to lay down a tariff of prices at which plates of various sizes should be sold by them to the trade. This tariff increased in exorbitancy in proportion to the largeness of the plates, and in addition to such tariff price the retail dealer had to charge his customer w ial his own profit. On the change in the duties a large importation plate glass :rom contirient immtd_.tt‘ls took place, and wu offered at prices varyin--. 50 per cent. below the paces firer 13 y '7 from 30 to the factcm' tariff for plates of similar size. I have now before me a card which I recei v ";:sc from a French manufac tarer, within thr'; weeks after the alteration of the duties. the result was, that large purchases of foreign plate-glass were made. The English manu facturers were alarmed, and inquired into the cause. As in the case of chintz, so in this, they found that it was not the cost of production, but the exorbitant profits of the factors, which bad availed to raise the price of this article so greatly as to give room for an injurious or rather destructive competition from foreign importations. Advised of their danger, the manufacturers decided to sell to the retail houses, without such intervention, at a consequent reduction of more than 60 per cent., trade discount, aad 5 per cent. additional discount for cash. The charge of the manufacturer for a plate valued by the tariff at 1001. being 381., and as the profit of the retail dealer will be charged on the smal!er, instead of, as heretofore, the larger amount, the gain to the public will exceed 70 per cent. The cry has been, that free trade has ruined the English plats-glass manufacturers. The foregoing facts, and the increasing use of plate-glass, prove that these manufactures have hitherto been checked by the very duties which were called protecting; and that the effect of these duties has been to create and to sustain a very limited number of monopolists, to wards whose support the public paid upon every article of plate-glass purchased more than 100 per cent. beyond the sum which would have given a fair profit to the manufacturer and retail dealer, and also to any wholesale house, in cases where such an erste ! , pot might be convenient. I have thus brought under your notice two articles of commerce with which I am, in my own trade, beet acquainted. I could hope that those engaged in ether trades might supply you with similar information, for I conceive that facts such as those stated by me in this and in my last letter bear most materially upon the general question of protection. London, Jan. 4. Yours, &c. J. B. P.S. I ought to mention that plates, which are at all discoloured with sand-holes or with bubbles, are sold at a nominal rate of from one-fifth to one-sixth of the price laid down by the tariff, and which tariff is a printed list universally adopted by all the manu facturing companies. s TEE GALE OF LAST WEEk.—FEB.N ISLANDS...- - A correspondent of the Caledonian Mercury gives the I following details from personal observation :—On Thursday I morning last, about 35 sail had sought shelter under the Fern Island ; but from the fury of the tempest, and many I not being able to get near enough to the island, also from . parting, slipping, and driving, the fleet had by Friday even tog been reduced to fifteen afloat, and four sunk—viz. The Liberty of Leith, Captain Lawson (having been run into by the Britannia steamer of Leith) sunk at five A.Y. on Friday, alongside of the Arab, crew transferred on board the latter— ; by . eleven •Y. the Arab of Limekiln, Munro, master, having • pricked herself on the mast of the wreck, sunk on the top of ; her; both crews then transferring themselves on board the 1 Mary Key of Dundee. The Nelly of Montrose, Fershaw ' master, having rolled away her mute in the morning, was ; found to be in a sinking state, and by ten A.Y. the crew were ; conveyed on board the John of Dundee, Captain Roger, being hauled thrones the water by a rope thrown from the one ship to the other. By three P.Y. on Friday the dia . masted ship swung up under the stern of the John, and in a few minutes stove her, so that they both sunk together. The crews of both vessels had then to escape in the utmost haste on board the Margaret and Eliza of North Berwick, which vessel's chain were then overlaid by the wrecks, and conse quently had to be slipped on Sunday, when she stood out to sea with windlass broken in two. THE RAT HUNT IN PARIS.—The ecavengersof Paris dined together on Sunday evening at Berey, to celebrate their late rat chase in the capital. Some guests were present, and the cover was laid for 105 persons. Mr. Jahn Warton, of Lcudon, who had purchased 600,000 rat-skins at litc. • piece, sent 25 bottles of champagne, and the two moors of Grenoble who had at first been in treaty for the skins sent 50 bottles of fine Mason. At the second service two enormous parka de Chartres were placed on the table, weighing 2510. each, on the crust of which was represented a scavenger transfixing a rat with a lance. At the dessert M. Disire Ferran proposed as a toast " La Republique bonnets et so/free, ' and Mr. Geerget Romaine, "The complete gray rate rate continued 12 o'clock at night, w destri hei l l c t ti he on of gueethtse separated of Nor w ay N gre or: t a g y :to n d d h the um o b u la r c . k of J. Wartoa has paid 60,0001. in eons du tresor for the skins of the rats kWed during the 16 days' hunt. This sum was di vided amongst the 144 scavengers of Paris and their brigs diem all of whom have taken out a book at the savings bank, with an Inscription of 600 f., making up the difference th aim a res . They all refused to accept the gratuity offered by the municipality of Paris for the deslination of the rate. X.r. J. Walton Immo te make bake gloves of the skins • . ct.