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THE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,00 C/., in 80,000 Shares, of 051. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share Pro petnees ant rill information may be obtained at the Tempo ary Ores of the Company, 17. a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap lication to G. F. HOWE, Hon. Sec., pro tern. NO LICE. Now Ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., win Portraits, &c., 11. is., neatly bound', 1 SECOND AND REVISED EDITION of T HE LIFE and R EMAINS of THEODORE HOOK, Author of " Sayings and Doings," "Gilbert Gurney," fix. With Anecdotes of some of his Contemporaries. By the Rev R. DALTON BARHAM. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). Now ready, at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., SECOND EDITION OF ROCKINGIIAM; OR, THE YOUNGER BROTHER. " Rockingham, from first to last, rivets the reader's attention. Under the alluring garb of fiction more of wisdom and truth is con veyed than is often to be met with in works of professedly far more serious character. The author has studied the female heart with all the acuteness and accuracy of Miss Edgeworth herself."—Times. This work abounds in interest. From internal evidence, it must have been written by a person constantly mingling in tne highest Znglish society."—Quarterly Review. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-Street QT. JAMES'S THE AT It E. Season 1849. FRE)TCH PLAYS and OPERA COMIQUE. TO.MORROW EVENING, The Performanceswill commence at Eight o'clock precisely, with LE DOMINO :NOIR. Lord Elfort, M. Chateaufort ; Juliano, Si.Soyer ; Horace, M. Coudere ; Gil Perez, M. fsuguet ; Angela, Mdlle. Chart=; Brigitte Mdlle. Martial ; Ursula, Millie. Morel ; Jaciuthe, Madame Mancini Gertrude, ]tulle. To conclude with LES RENDEZVOUS BOURGEOIS. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, notswithstanding aka. Zreased expenses of the present eutertamment, the prices of itou are determined as follows: • Boxes • • • • •• •• • 6s Od. • Pit • • • • • • • .. 3s. Od. A m phitheatre .. • • .. 2s. Od, S u bscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; arid at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till live. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Last Appearance HlS but Gue of Mdlle. Carlotta Gee!. Wtll • T EVENING, be performed Rossini's celebrated Opera, SE NIIRAMIDE. Semiramide, Mdlle. Parodi ; Arsace, Mdlle. Alboni; Assur, Signor Coletti ; Idreno, Signor Bartolini ; Oroe, Signor Lablache. The whole to conclude with the much a mired Ballet of ELECTRA ; or, the Lost Pielad. The principal" ' , parts by Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mcllles. Petit Stephan, Marta, Thomassini, Julien, Aus:undon, Lamoureux, Mille. Marie Taglioni and M. Paul fagliont. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, price 10s, 6d. each. Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE —GERMAN OPERA. TO-MORROW EVENING • (For the last time) DER FE EISCHUTZ. Agatha, :Mile. Romani; Annchen, Mme. Marlow ; Max, Herr Erl, Casper, Herr tepan ; supported by a Band and Chorus, each consisting of 60 performers. Performances to commence at Eight o'clock. Private Boxes and Places may be obtained at the Box-office; and at/Mews. Jullieu and Co.'s, 214, Regent street. k.ATRF, ROYAL, LLAYILAKILL' , ... Mr. B. Webster, Bete Lessee and Manager. Old Bromptort. mts Will be performed THE HOUSEKEEPER. Sidney Maynard, Mr. C. Kean ; Fel cia, Mrs. C. Kean. After which THE WONDER. Don Felix, Mr. C. Kean; Donna Violante, Mrs. C. Kean. THEATRE ROYAL. AD.ELPHI. Under the direction M aflame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Will be performed RIB LAST LEGS. After which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE D'EVIL'S VIOLIN AND THE ItEVOLT OF THE FLOWERS. To conclude with the Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, ➢dr. Paul Redford. /LOYAL LYCEUM THEATKr.. tliker tho Management of Madame Vestris. Solo Lessee. Mr. Charts- tithe Ab. THIS EVEN tNI3 Will be performed a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Pantile ; Miss H. Gil bert, Misa Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. I ITo be followk by U.,ED UP. After wbich , KILL OR CURE. . - To onelude with THE WATER PARTY. Dress o&.; Upper Boxes, 43. ; Pit, 29. ; Geary, Is. NO talf-prlce to krr, part of the house. The New Itox-otilce, No. 2, Wellinsto7- street, , s open to the public wry lay, from Teti till six. PRINCESs'S T HEAT i.E. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will he performed a new Opera, entitled THE HEART OF MID LOTHIAN. Characters by Herr Meng', Messrs. 4'. Braham, Horn castle, and Weiss; Miss Poole, Miss Lanza, and Mdlle..Nau. After which, Mdlles. W. ant A. Neruda and their brother,Victor will perform on the Violin. Violoncello, and Pianoforte. To conclude with BOMB .4.STEA FURIOSO. ASTLEY'zi ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, The following eminent artistes form the greatest amount of female equestrian talent ever engaged in this or any other establishment at one time : Mdlles. Adelaide Ilinnie, Valentine, Louise Toulrnaire, La Jeans Josephine ; Miss Woolford, Barrand , Davidson, Avery, and La Petite Jeanette. • In addition to the above Mr. Batty has great pleasure in asnonnc ing that he has engaged that peerless equestrian Kerte Macarte, whose brilliant triumphs on the Continent and in America have ac quired for her the emanation of the Eque=trian Enchantress, and whose first appearance will be duly announced. Last Week of the grand Easter Spectacle. In active preparation, and will be pro uced at Whitsuntide a new grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOOJEKAT or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. , To be tollowed . by an inimitable display of SCENES EN THE CIRCLE. in which the drat Equestrian talent of the day will anpear. To conclude with the favourite Afterpiece of CHERRY BOUNCE. tiox-oMce open from Eleven till t our tags Manager, Mr. W. West. IMMENSE AND UNPARALLELED SUCCESS. Under the patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, her Majesty the Qeeen Dowager, h s Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS The Nobility, Gentry, and the Public are respectfully informed that this favourite place of fashionable resort is open every MONDAY, T 'JEsDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY. Representation of the SCORIMI NG of BADAJOZ by the British Army, under the command of the illustrious Wellington! The • distinguished patronage which this establishment has for a lengthened period enjoyed, and the triumphant success of each suc ceeding spectacle, has stimulated the proprietor to increased exer tions to maintain its envied celebrity. Messrs. DallSoll, by whom the present subject has been modelled, designed, and produced, have devoted many months to it, and the un rivalled skill which they possess, assisted by Messrs. Turner, Adams, sad other first-rate artists, have enabled them to produce a picinie unequalled for magnitude, accuracy, and beauty of execution. The ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT is extensive and varied, and has lately been enriched by several rare importations, including the splendid presents of his late Highness Ibrahim Pasha. The Embellishments of the New and Magnificent ORCHESTRA are now complete. REMINGTON'S JERIAL , BRIDGE. The BAND, conducted by Mr. Godfrey, has been selected from the most talented Artists in the profession. Among ethers of first rate ability will be fund—Mr. Baiter, Messrs. Richer, son, Collins, jun., George and Viotti Collins, GriesbaCh, Hardy, Egerton, Shearon, Cal k n , Winterbotham, Boileau, Stevenson, and Reynolds. The VOCAL DEPARTMENT will be sustained by a succession of the most popular and favourite Singers. First appearance of Miss Ellen Rowland and Mr. George Tedder. The FIREWORKS by the Messrs. Southby, whose skill in Pyro techny has been too long established to aged eulogising. REFRESIIMENTS.—The frequenters of these G adens have long complained that Refreshments from the Confectionary-rooms only could procured. Arrangements have been effected, and a distinct portion of the Gardens set apart, where Refreshments may be had of the first quality, and at the usual Prices. Doors open at Nine o'Clock.—Admission One Shilling. Children admitted to the Reserved Scats and . Shilling Gallery at Half-price. Feeding of the Camivora at Five. The Pelicans, &c., at Half-past Five. Concert at Six o'C!ect. Pyrotechnic Exhibition at Dusk. Mons. JULLIEN will give a Series of GRAND CONCERTS during the Season. Due notice will be given of his first appearance. THE WEATiIEit.--boN OFFICE, MAY 22. TEBBMODINTEI4 Lowest, 49 azhest, 65, Noon, 63 BAROMETER, 29.84. WIND W.S.W.—light breeze and showery. 1 - 1101 - 1 ATISH 41 . LON WI% rints Tam DAT —Morning, 23 win. after 1 Eventn , ,4G min. after I To-MoszoW— ~ ,n lng, 11 rain. aneT 2 Evening, 3. min. after 2 .. W., .b_ 4*. , A ,4 . -, -... --,-- .....F - A • 'le . . pm t r.4 ....,4 , -.. re ...., •- • ~. ~,,,.: ~•., . ,•,.., it 0 - . ~ " • ' ; '2) ,: ii - E u2,* . , ..,4::; 7 7,, , , :•• : -: •; , 7 ,_. Irentiv LONDON, TUESDAY. MAY 22, 1849. The committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the South-Eastern Railway Company have pub lished a report embodying the result of their inqui ries. It is an able and well-considered document, reflecting the highest credit on the gentlemen who, at the instance of their brother shareholders, under took that onerous and important duty. It is con ceived in a spirit of the utmost impartiality, and it would, indeed, be fortunate for all parties interested in railway property, if the committees appointed, or those which may hereafter be appointed, to report on the management of the several properties, were to exhibit an equal disposition to do justice to all men, with out fear, favour, prejudice, or affection. Hitherto it has been too much the practice to appoint on such committees persons who have evinced a strong spirit of partisanship, who have come promi nently forward as the direct accusers of the directors, who, in place of being selected as judges, should more properly have exercised the functions of prose cuting counsel. Such parties are more anxious to substantiate the accuracy of their own statements, to prove that the charges they had preferred were well founded, than to elicit the real facts of the case, and to deliver an unbiassed decision thereon. It is true that it • would he far more for the intereAs of the shareholders to show that their fears had, to a certain extent, been unwarranted, that the posi,lon and prospects of the companies were infinitely better than had previously been supposed, that the directors had been actuated by la disinterested and honest desire to execute the trusts reposed in them for the advantage of the general body. Such results, we say,.would be highly beneficial to the parties concerned, and would ma terially increase the value of their shares ; but it would not gratify the vanity of the accusers, or promote the objects , of a well-organized party, whose efforts are directed towards a general de preciation of railway property, that the Bears of the Stock Exchange may realise enormous profits at the expense of those who have invested the savings of their industry—the future provisions for old age and for their help'ess families, in those great national undertakings. We trust that a better rule may henceforth be adopted, and that the share holders who may be called upon to appoint a com mittee of investigation will select persons whose minds are uninfluenced by prejudice or bias, and who will return an honest and a conscientious verdict, ac cording to the evidence that may be adduced before them. The committee of the South-Eastern Company exhibited a sound discretion, and praiseworthy firm ness, in rejecting the attempts that were made to take the investigation, in certain respects, out of their hands, and thus, as they justly term it, " to subor dinate the duly constituted authority of the committee, to the unauthorised pretensions of individuals." Had they yielded in any respect to these strange applica tions it would undoubtedly have " impeded the legiti mate course of the inquiry," and introduced the " in jurious action of personal prejudice." And the favour• able result of their proceedings, and the consequent improvement in the value of South-Eastern stock, may, in a great degree, be ascribed to their judicious conduct in these particulars. The result of the inquiries has been completely to disprove the charges that had been so pertinaciously preferred against the Chairman of the company and some of the directors. With respect to the former gentleman this statement is made:— " Your committee cannot conclude this report with out special allusion to the - Chairman of the company. who, it must be admittedc' has been as it were on his trial. They have already sh iwn the utter groundless ness of the charges which have been alleged, or rather suggested, affecting his integrity in the administratioo of the finances of the company. They, moreover, feel bound to state their conviction that, notwithstanding errors of judgment, and an undue assumption of indi vidual responsibility, his conduct has been honourable throughout, and marked by a sincere, uufluiching, and —excepting in his character of a very large proprietor — a disinterested devotion to the interests of the South- Eastern Company." This is indeed a full, complete, and satisfactory acquittal of the gentleman who has filled that impor tant situation for nearly four years, and his valuable services will consequently still be available to the company. It was true that there might have been "errors of judgment." Sums had been charged to capital that in the opinion of the committee ought to have been placed to the revenue account ; there might have been "an undue assumption of individual re• sponsibility," but there was nothing to justify the outcry that had been raised to impeach his honour or integrity, or to call for his exclusion from the board. The same might be asserted with equal truth respect ing another gentleman who lately filled equally im portant situations, whose " conduct was honourable throughout, and marked by a sincere, unflinching, and excepting in his character of a very large proprietor, a disinterested devotion" to the interests of the companies over which he presided. Prejudice and personal hostility, however, prevailed against Mr. HUDSON, his character was calumniated, his motives misinterpreted, he was called upon to resign his offices, and the natural result has followed—the value of the shares of the companies have been materially deteriorated, while South Eastern stock has consi derably improved. It requires little argument to show which result has been most beneficial for the shareholders. With respect to the sums that have been carried to the account of capital in place of revenue, and which, according to the committee, during the three years ending on the 31st of January last, amounted to 107,9321. 14s. 11d., they state " that they feel called upon to deprecate strongly this mode of dealing with the sums forming this amount in the books and ac counts of the company; it is in their opinion at variance with every safe and sound principle of mer cantile economy." Although entertaining such decided views on the sub ject, they very fairly insert the letter of Mr. MAO - GREGOR, justifying the step, and " admit that there is justice in the reasoning contained therein ;" but "it is their decided opinion that such a course ought never to be adopted without the previous knowledge and sanction of the proprietors." Without in any degree entering into the much disputed question whether expenses of a certain character should be fairly chargeable to capital or revenue, we may state that the invariable practice, some years ago, was to charge to capital all such sums as were expended for the permanent and lasting benefit of the company, and which did not realise immediate profits. Thus the outlay in opening up new sources of traffic, which, though carried on for the time being at a loss, yet afforded a reasonable expectation of yielding an ulti mate profit—of running cheap trains for the purpose of getting rid of a formidable rival—of paying interest on capital not immediately productive, and a variety of other charges of a similar character. It was consi dered in some degree analogous to the case of a farmer who extensively manures his lands, or adopts a new course of husbandry, which cannot within the year repay the immediate outlay, but which will add materially to his future profits, and prove highly beneficial to all parties concerned. Such a person would not suppose that he was carrying on his busi • ness at a loss, or that he was living upon his capital, and consequently bound to contract his personal ex penditure within the narrowest limits while waiting for the fair results of this experiment. Neither did the railway directors believe that they were acting improperly in carrying such charges to the capital account, and thereby spreading the payments over future years. There would be considerable inconvenience in bringing iuch matters under the consi deration, of general meetings of the shareholders : a panic might be excited that would unduly affect the prices of shares ; statements of a very prejudicial character might be made that would prove highly injurious to the company's interests. The directors were, therefore, accustomed to decide for themselves as to the course that would ultimately prove most beneficial, and if they acted fairly and bona fide, without any sinister views of personal advantage, it would be hard to condemn them for following the ordinary practice, although that practice might possibly be "more honoured in the breach than in the observance." The committee, although adopting a more stringent view, fully and completely exonerate Mr. MACGREGOR from any personal impu tation ; and -in this respect we think they have acted judiciously and discreetly, in accordance with the real merits of the case, and the best interests of those by whom they were selected, and we have n• doubt that their opinions will, upon full considera tion, be adopted by the community in general when present prejudices have passed away, and an un biassed judgment is pronounced upon the railway management of former years. It appears by public announcement that there is to be a meeting held at the Mechanics' Institute, South ampton• buildings, this evening, to endeavour to obtain the repeal of what are usually called the taxes on knowledge, or those more immediately affecting the public press, namely, the Excise duty on paper, the duty on advertisements, and the abolition of the news paper stamp duty. This meeting is convened by the committee of the Compositors' Society, who invite the attendance of master printers, newspaper pro prietors, compositors, pressmen, machinists, &c., and it is stated that LUKE JAMES HANSARD, Esq. (for merly the Parliamentary printer) will preside on the occasion. Approving as we heartily do of the objects of the meeting, we are of opinion that if any immediate results are desired, or expected to ensue, it would be wise to narrow the field of application, concentrating the energies on one of the three grievances, namely the repeal of the advertisement duty. There are weighty reasons why it is preferable to select one im post for removal than several, and why the chance of success is thereby greatly enhanced, for not only is it usually found better to undertake one thing at a time, but it must be remembered that there are many sections of thie communit►, each putting in their claim for special relief from taxation. The growers of barley and the landowners require the abolition of the malt tax ; the growers of hops pray that the hop-duty may he taken off ; those who love ale and porter urge that both malt and hops may be duty free ; those interested in the trade with China ask that the Customs duty upon tea may be mitigated, which teetotalers and those con nected with the temperance movement strenuously se- cond ; the manufacturers of soap say, take off the soap tax ; those who establish baths and washhouses, and all connected with sanitary improvements, second the application. These latter also support the claims of the glass manufacturers, and the inhabitant house holders generally, who say, abolish the tax upon light by removing the window-tax. Each section of the community considers itself the most entitled to relief; and we should certainly be very glad to see them all relieved, but few things are less likely than any very sweeping reductions in the budget of 1849. Even if the Chancellor would spare from his estimates a sum equal to the united amount of the paper tax, adver- tisement duty, and newspaper stamps (something like a million and a quarter), it is still more unlikely that he would accord all the relief to one section of applicants ; but if those connected with the press urge strongly the importance of re- moving one of their three burthens, selecting as that one the smallest in amount, but really the largest in ha baneful influences, the advertisement duty, the hood could scarcely be withheld. The sum total which it yields (only about 150,0001.) is so inconsi derable that the inability to spare the amount could not be pleaded ; indeed, there would be no difficulty in showing that the deficiency would be quite counterbalanced by the increase in Excise paid on the additional quantity of paper consumed, by the increased number of advertisements, and in the increased consumption of newspaper stamps. the effect which the advertisement duty has in checking the prixtice of advertising is clearly pointed out in an able article upon the subject which appeared in Tait's Magazine in the month of June last. It is there shown that in the United States of America, with a population of about twenty millions, the num ber of advertisements inserted in various media exceeds ten millions annually ; whilst in the United Kingdom, with a population of about thirty millions, the annual number of advertisements is only two mil lions ; and the accuracy of the latter estimate is veri fied by a return recently made on the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, showing the exact number for the pre ceding year to be 2,020,100 for England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, yielding in the gross amount 153,0151. only, from which has to be deducted the cost of collection. If the removal of the advertisement duty were merely to increase the advertisements on a scale rela tively to the population, here would be an increase from two millions to thirteen millions, but the writer of the article shows on tolerably sound data, that allowing for the difference in pursuits of the popula tion on the respective sides of the Atlantic, that this would constitute grounds for a further thirteen mil lions, making twenty-six millions instead of two, or a thirteenfold increase. Here forms the basis of revenue more than covering for the little deficiency by the concession of what is sought, it being impossible for such an increase in advertising to take place without more or broader sheets, and without large numbers of persons interested in addi tional issues of newspapers, and of other parties in terested in obtaining additional newspapers. And here, too, is the interest of the classes appealed to in the notice greatly affected. But it is the inequality of this tax which forms the most unanswerable argument for its abolition. It is probably the only fiscal regulation where the minor is called upon to pay as much as the major. An advertisement of two lines is charged the same duty as one of two hundred or twice two hundred; and whether the advertisement has reference to the transactions of a large joint stock insurance or rail. way company, involving interests to the extent of five to six millions, or merely to that of an unemployed workman seeking occupation, or a poor nursery maid wanting a situation, the impost is the same. The inequality and hence injustice to proprietors of newspapers, magazines, or other channels of adver tising is not less than that to the public, for here too the minor has to pay the same as the major. He who issues only 1,000 copies of any number of advertise ments must pay into the Treasury monthly the same amount as he who issues 10,000 or 100,000 copies of an equal number. If the same inequality of payment were in opera tion with regard to paper and stamps, which exists as to advertisements, the question would have made itself more strongly felt, and would have earlier called for re dress, but no such inequality exists in those depart ments. No man is called upon to pay more than his relative share of consumption of either paper or stamps. Hence the argument of unequal pressure cannot be substantiated against either of these items. Indeed, with all the objections which may exist to the newspaper stamp (and which we have no disposi tion to underrate) it must be acknowledged that it is not without some mitigating circumstances. We are all accustomed to consider the penny postage stamp as a great boon. By it we are enabled to transmit a letter free of further cost to a oistant place, although in those cases the letter must be limited to half an ounce in weight. Now the news paper stamp accomplishes for the newspaper that which the postage stamp does for the letter, and this, without restricting the weight to half an ounce, a newspaper may weigh any number of ounces, pro vided the superficial measurement in square inches does not exceed that laid down by the statute, and this in ordinary cases is found ample, and even these dimensions may be doubled by a further one half penny stamp whenever it is required. But this is not the only superiority which the newspaper stamp possesses over the postage stamp; there is another marked superiority—that the latter, after being once sent to the post-office, becomes utterly valueless, whereas the former may be re-posted again and the . T samehus the n e p w r s i newspaper e o a f n fre in e de t fi ra n n i s te . a n g u a m in b ' er fr o a f nk t i i n m g es mission of newspapers through the post-offices of the United Kingdom forms some counterbalance to the disadvantage for which no similar set-off can be shown in the advertisement duty. The injurious effects of a penalty, or tax, upon the unemployed for endeavouring to obtain employment by making known their wants, which the advertise ment duty imposes, and the barrier which it forms to beneficial interchanges of various kinds, render it so objectionable in a moral as well as fiscal point of view, that the meeting would do well to select it as the primary object; for it should be borne in mind that, if either or both the other items are pressed in con junction with the repeal of the advertisement duty , the ground becomes then untenable that the de. ficiency would be made up by increase in the other departments. We know that the subject has already been brought under the notice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, therefore the question will not be new to him, and he will not be unprepared for renewed application. Moreover, not only have parties connected with the London newspaper press taken up the question, but large numbers of the proprietors of country news papers in England and Scotland, as well as in Ireland, and these, through the Members of the respective coun ties and boroughs with which they stand connected, are prepared to urge forward the measure. Publish ers and authors are not less interested in this question than the classes appealed to in the notice calling the meeting, for the expense of making known works of small price is known to absorb the total proceeds un less indeed the sale is very large, and thus a great im pediment is presented to publishing. Advertising is as yet in its infancy. An examination into the avo cations and wants of the different classes of society will show how numerous are their requirements, for though the poet said— " Man wants but little here below, nor wants that little long," yet if his wants are little they are very miscella neous. Some want employment, some want services; some want to buy, some to sell; some to let, some to hire; some to borrow, some to lend; some to solicit benevolence, some to find proper objects for their bounty ; some require pupils, some tutors or go vernesses ; indeed to exhaust the list would form a long catalogue. Anything which interposes a barrier to the interchange of the services or good offices of each other is baneful ; still more co that which inter. poses a barrier even to the attempt at interchange. The advertisement tax does both; moreover, it is unequal and unjust in its pressure, and so trifling i n the amount yielded to the revenue, that the concentra tion of the meeting to this point, followed up by a judicious course of action, could scarcely fail of being successful. In another column will he found extracts from a pamphlet now on the eve of publication, relating to our colonial possessions ; and, in a particular manner, TIIE SITN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is compa ratively quiet, sales only 290 hhds, including 125 hbds Barbadoes, which realised 39s 6d to 41s for low to good yellow; 13,000 bags Mauritius sold with much spirit. in some instances at rather higher rates mid to fine yellow 38s 6d to 41s 6d, grey 383 to 40s, brown 36s to 37s 6d, and very low 31s to 325; 3,500 bags Bengal only partly sold, without material change in values, but 2,000 bags Madras sold freely at previous rates ; good white 42s 6d to 43a 6,1, and brown 32s to 35s 6d. The stock of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,240 hhds, 287 tierces, 239 barrels; there were taken for home consumption 1,837 hhds, 137 tie rces, 257 barrels. The stock iu the same places is 10,646 libels, 1,803 tierces, 2,506 bare els. COFFEE —l4O casks and 130 bags Plantation Ceylon were withdrawrg above the market value; but 670 bags Native found buyers at 32s to 33s 6d for common crd. to auperiur quality; 100 bales Mocha sold at higher rates; clean garbled at 54s to 565, and fine old long berry at 76■ to 78s. Rust. —The quantity lauded last week at the East and West Docks was 289 puns 5 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 161 puns 12 hhds, and ex ported 38 puns 115 hhds. The stock in the same place is 19,052 puns 2554 hhds. RICE.-5,900 bags 3,700 pockets Bengal were mostly sold at 108 6:1 to I Is 6d for good and line white, 9s to 108 for mid to gond mid, and 8s to 8s 6d for broken; 300 bags pinky Madras brought Bs, and 200 bags Penang were partly sold at 83 for low white. SALTPETRE:.-3,770 bags Bengal were only half sold at is decline; 61 to 21 per cent. refraction brought 27s to 295. SPICES.-360 bags Black Pepper sold readily at the previous value of lid to lid for fair half heavy Ma labar. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 38s 9d to 39s per ewt ; and Town, 39s 6d. TEA.—The market is tolerably steady, with fair deli veries, though not quite so Firge as about a fortnigh since. Green is barely so high in value. DEPARTURE OF TIE COURT PROM BUCKINGHAM PALACE.- r Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by thei junior members of the Royal Family, and at tended by a numerous suite, lest Buckingham Palace this morning at five minutes before ten, in five of the royal carriages, for the Nine Elms station of the South- Western Ralway, from whence the august party pro ceeded by special train to Gosport, en route for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The escort consisted of a detachment of the 11th Light Dragoons (Hussars). to the origin of the present agitation in the Canadas. Anything that can at all tend to enlighten the public mind upon a matter of so great importance cannot but prove welcome to the community. And the quotations given by urselve4, from this bro• chure now in the press, will be found to throw considerable light upon the precise character of the Bill of Indemnity vk hich, as an enactment peculiarly obnoxious to the faction of Orangemen, and to magis trates out-at-elbow, and to all unprincipled adventu rers, led to:the insults offered to his Excellency Lord ELGIN, and to the burning of the Parliament House at Montreal. Particular stress, it will be observed, is laid by the pamphleteer upon the introduction of the name of Dr. WOLFEED NELSON into the measure as the principal claimant for compensation ; but even in this instance it still requires to be more definitively proved that the Government acted otherwise than with the most judicious impartiality. Although several official documents of an explana- tory character have already been laid before the Lords :slid Commons by the Administration, we are satisfied that a fuller mired of justice may be awarded to all parties in any way concerned in the transaction, by deferring the expression of a decided opinion until the arrival of the next dispatches from the Governor-General of the Canada►—dispatches which (it should not be forgotten) are promised by Lord ELGIN in his last communication to the Colonial Secretary. FARADAY ON ELECTRICITY.—Protessor Faraday is now delivering a course of h ctures at the Royal Insti tution, in which he is gradually unfolding his many wonderful discoveries in regard to that subtle force of u t h e gratification of he ar i ng t h e t hi r d o f t h e ser i es , an d we at were e nature—electricity , On Saturday afternoon we had delighted to observe that, notwithstanding the n e e r— attractions of her Majeaty's drawing-room, a nume rous and fashionable audience had assembled to pay their tribute of attention to the illustrious philosopher. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) This Was the first day of Trinity Term, but the Lord Chancellor did not sit in his Court at Westminster in consequence of slight indisposition. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Muter of the IL .11s sat at Westminster to-day it being the first day of Trinity Term. His Lordship heard motions, but no case of any interest came before him during the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) This was the first day of Trinity Term and his Honour heard motions. ROBERTS V. ROBERTS. The arguments in this case, which came before the Court upon motion for a new trial, occupied his Honour the whole morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His Honour did not sit today till eleven o'clock. The Court. took motions, but nothing of interest except to the parties concerned came before is during the morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor WricuAm.) His Honour having disposed of the case of Douglas v. Willies and the motions l , elore him, proceeded to hear the further arguments in the part-heard cause of Reynell v. Spry e, which occupied the whole morning. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first day of Trinity Term, the Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr. Baron Alderson, Mr. Baron Rolfe, and Mr. Baron Platt, took their seats upon the beach shortly after 10 o'clock. DEER AND ANOTHER V. HOORE. This was an action which was tried before tho Chief Baron at the last sittings after term, at Guildhall, and in which a verdict was found for the defendant. Mr. GREENWOOD now applied for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be granted, on the ground of misdirection, and t he im p r oper exclusion of evidence. The action was brought by the plaintiffs, who are attornies, to recover the sum of 261. from the defendant, being the costs incurred in a case of Moore v. Brooking. The defendant denied that he had given any authority to the plaintiffs to institute the proceedings, and the plaintiffs tendered certain letters which had passed between the defendant and his agent, and which they contended was a sufficient authority for thi m to proceed. On the trial the Lor d Chief Baron refused to admit these letters, and on that ground applic a tion was made fur a new trial. The Court took time to consider. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY•) The Judgks in this court were Lord Chief Justice Wilde, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Cresswell, and Mr. Justice Williams. No ease of sutlici, nt importance to justify a report cameos during the morning. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUAIrIER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at !rem 7,000 to 8.000 bales, including 6.000 American; 800 Pernam and ALaranhams, 44 1, to ' 200 Bahia, 44d, to 5t1.; 500 Surat, 3d. to 3irl.; and Levant, 9,1. to 1 lid. per lb. The market closed firmly. In Railway Shares only a limited business was dune. The fluctuating state of the weather proves rather in jurious to our home trade, although understood to be not unfavourab'e to the growing crops. The steamer Cambria is telegraphed as having arrived, and some 1 a- ticulars which we have in town are interest ing. The money market was in a comparatively favourable position, and although the cotton failure is still insisted upon, it appe a r s t o b e a d m it te d th a t th ere is time to put in fresh plants. The riots in Canada having been suppressed, there is no question of more immediate interest in the colony than that o. the great trunk railway. In the official re port it is stated:— The mails, troops, munitions of war, commissariat supplies, and all public stores would naturally pass by it, r across days t nearly, as the safest, speediest, an d c h eapest means of convey ance. If a straight line b e d rawn f rom C ape C lear, i n Ireland . , to New York, it w ill cut t h roug h or pass close t l io i n Ne u w l Yk m u r to Halifax. The latte r i s, t h ere f ore, on the di rect route; anday when be theseathe shortened branchvoyage O by three a i lhde A , o an t. sc ja steamers,is it is not improb a bl e t h at on that account,, t. completed, and other lines to connect on with those in the United States, the whole or the greater portion of the passenger traffic between the Old and New World would pass through Halifax, and over a great section of the proposed railway. But the great object for the railway its to attain, and which, if it s h ou ld b e a bl e to ac complish, cap ibility to pay the interest of the capital expended would be undoubted, is to supersede the long and dangerous passage to Quebec by the Gulf of St. Lawrence. To make two voyages in a season, vessels are obliged to leave England earlier, and encounter the dangers of the ice in the Gulf much so o n er t h an i t i s sate or prudent for t h e m to do. The loss of life end property which has oc curred from this cause, and returning late in the autumn, has been enormous. It cannot be ascertained, but pro bably it would have more than p a id f or t h e rail way. An opinion may, howev e r, b e f orme d o f i t f rom the rates of insurance, which in the spring and autumn are as high as 10 per cent. A much higher rate than to any other part of the world. The navigation of the St. Lawrence is closed fur about six months of every year. During the whole of this peripd all the produce of the country is locked up, and neces sarily lies unproductive on the hands of the holders. " The surplus agricultural produce of the year cannot be got ready to be shipped iu the season it is produced. In the winter of 1846-7, it has been stated on good authority, that 500,000 barrels of flour were detained in loetreal at the time when famine was raging I in Ireland. As soon as the season opened, there was such . a demand f or s hi pp i ng t o carr y p rov i s i ons , th a t t h e ordinary course of the timber trade N as deranged by it. " All this would have been prevented had the railway been then iu existence. " For six months in the year then the St. Lawrence would cease to he a competitor with the railway, and large quantities of produce would be certain to be tor warded by it. " For the other six months of the year it would have also the following Strong claims to preference:— Rapidity of transport, the saving of heavy insurance, cheaper r a t e o f freight from Halifax, vessels engaged .. in the C ana di an trade co uld make three voyages to Halifax for t wo to Q ue b t c . The trade which is now crowded into s i x months, to the great inconvenience of every one concerned, rend:-ring large stocks necessary to be kept on hand would be diffused equally over the whole year. ; It is moat probable that these advantages will be found s o great that only the bulky and weighty articles of commerce, such as the y very h eavy t i m ber, and a few other goods, will continue to be sent round b y the Gulf of St. Law rence. If such should prove to be the case, then the proposed railway would have as much or perhaps more traffic than a single track could accommodate. The cost of transportation, it is calculated, will no t . be t oo hi g h on tbis to admit of the above results being realised, and in that case more ciailly if the capital can be raid at a moderate rate of interest, it is coo siderial highly probable th a t i t wi ll ' even i n a comme rcial point of view, be a profitable un dertaking." The continental advices are again iof a complex cha racter; and this afftcis Public Srcurities, althou g h, con sidering th e f u rther great fall n the French rentes, the steadiness of Consols is a strong proof that no uneasiness is felt here as to our becoming embroil e d, and the abundance of money, it is concluded, will rather be i n creased . the more uncertainty pr e vails abroad. Th e arrivals of specie by private ships are constant, and must in the aggregate make up a large amount. Consols have been 91)1 to 21 tor Transfer and Account. B.ink Stock has vat lee from 1931 o, 195. The New Three-and-u• Quarter per Cents, have been 90 to 504. Exchesuer-tdils are 48s. to 475. p rem i um. Foreign Stocks are quite neglected. Spanish Three , per Cents. realise . 32k I, and Portu guese F our p e r Cents. have been 271. B uzilian are 77i. Mexican ex Coupons have touched 284 and 29. Dutch Two-and-a Halt per Cents. have b--en 47 to 47,1. In Railway Shares there is nut much d o i ng, an d th e prices of the English lines have varied but little, though rather in favour) buyers. The French Shares are again loner. Paris and Rouen have tallen 1/. to 21., Northern of France g, and Rouen ~nd liavie about P -,• • tic , .•;'• - ‘;.. , i,. •'f Loc , Pliicl-. l ', ani Stock 3 , ~., tent. Itedueed Ar.os ...... 89' : - i i4 B'% i,,e: Cent. Consols Annuities 907 , 44 .. 91 91 .ti ~.,•,- 3 1 ii per Gent. Ann‘i ... ':..,ong Alms. to ,x.pir: Jan. i 864 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 Ditto 30 year:, Jan. 5,1860 ! :dit. Bond., 1,0001 CI .nsols for Account • x.chequer Hills. 1.50. ee 2d. 1,0001. June 46 47 p 500/. June ... 44 p Small. June — Ditto Advertised, PRICES OF FOILEIG.tv FUNDS. 47 p 44 p 46 p ►RICE 774 ZETE O'CLOCK. tirazilian Bonds Ditto, Small — Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent — Ditto Deferred 3% 3 % t'l exican. per Cent. 1846, with Coupons 30% 30% Ditto, Ex Coupons Ditto, Account Portuguese 5 per Cents. — . Ditto, 4 par Cent 2 7 3A , panish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account . . i . . Ditto, 3 per Cent oividends on the above payable in London. 23% 27% 164 325,8 Dutch 21% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 47 47 3 / 4 48 Ditto. Der Cent. Certificates 74% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN PAID. 'AMWAY SHARES. AT OISE O'CLOCK. PRICE:.; lii,ming, Wolvern'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... 14%... . .......... 14% Br.stol and Exeter 9O ........... ... Csledonian _ 50 Do. New 101. Pref lO ..... 11% 1 4 xin ... 11 1 A xin Chester and Holyhead 5O ...... 14% l5 o,ton. Stanifd &sm. Anglia, 251., L & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 181., E. & H.... 18 Do., 3/. 10s. Eastern Couhtie5... Do. New Guaranteed 1 1 4 14; 11% 6 per Cent.. Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Do., Class 13 (L & B.) 22% 5 1% Ditto, Class C, ditto... 22% 5% East Laracashirs Ditto, New - ...... ...... 14 r..ast Lincolnshire 'mat Northern - Do., 72 A Deferred Do. Extension .. 25 ... .. 14 ..... ... Great Western 100 ...... 78 Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20 78 li% 15ayt Ditto, New 171. ~ 15 ... .. 11 Hull and Seiby .. ...... 50 ...... 96 . Do. % Shares (A)... 94...... London a Black wall l 2 l /8 4 14 London and N. Wb.tern 100 .128 127 127 Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 - 9% Ditto,FlithA ..... .. 2 ... 7',4 7 14 t.onci. etS. W. stern 5O ...... 344 00. Si.w 50i ... ..... 42 1 A.. .. Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Ilidiand .... .lOO ...- 63 6 7 1 / 2 ..... 11 96 1414 44 Do., do., 401. Shares,— 25 ..... 13 1 A'34 i ls N0rf01k...............100 North British ....... ... 25 .... • Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Thirds ...... 8 1 ," Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Bins— 11 Ditto ditto. Class B. 7 _ _ 13% 35 13 t, 53 , 8 3 % 24 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 S trewsbury tic Chester (Nor. W. Min.) S •uth taster. Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 Do., Scrip No 4 Smth Wales 3B ...... ...... •••....... Wear Valley 6 per Cent Guaranteed ... .. Do. do. do. ...25 York, Newcastle, and Berwick...., Jo Newcastle Eiden. 20 ...... 13 1 / 2 3 4 % l 3 si, DJ. tx.N.t—Preterence 8 ... 4 4 1 , 11 1 4 3 . York and North Midland 50 ..... 29 1 / 2 29 ..... ...... 29 1 4 Ditto, Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. 20 LA 20 6% 17 Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or- Vierzon) .. 12 Great Indian Peninsular 5 Lis Do. Do. ... . .... 10s. Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. Northern of France Paris and Rouen ... 2O ..... 18 18V 2 Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 Rouen and Havre ...... 20 Tours and Nantes .. 11 ..... . 3 ... 3 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of London.... ..... 10 105,4 10% trinro 320ition EPSOM RACES. (THIS DAY.)—BY EXPRESS. The Craven Stakes. Swordplayer ... 0 Black Eagle ... 0 Telegraph .. ... 3 Lepidus Swordplayer and Black Eagle ran a dead heat, and then divided the stakes. The Woodcnte Stakes. Mr. Gratwieke's b f Countess Major Martyu's The Swede Lord Chesterfield's Lampoon filly ... 1111. ... 2 bee ... 1111. 3 The Manor Stakes. Antagonist ... Miss Bunney ... The Miner ... ... Cockermouth ... ... 0 0 1 1 ... 0 1 0 2 ... 1 3 0 dr. ... 0 2 0 dr' LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 23.—Wind this day at noon, S, light breezt• and dull cloudy weather, with rain. RAMSGATE, MAY 21.—A large ship was seen on the 12th instant, with loss of fore topmast, by the Gilbert Munroe, Maclean, arrived off this port. Off port-21st, Gilbert Munroe, Maclean, St. Lucia, experienced a very heavy gale on the 1 1 th, from the south. LIVERPOOL, MAY 21.—Wind S.--Arrd. Alert, Crans town, New Orleans; Tucker, Chapman, New Orleans ; Marchioness of Qiieensburry,M•Cullum, Savannah. 20th. Janina, Johns, Calcutta; Libra, Muir, Porto Rico ; Free man, Bailey, Jamaica; Victoria, Le Gresley, Laguna ; Bombay, New Orleans; Lord Sandon, Walsh, New Or. leans ; Nathaniel, Thompson, New Orleans ; Cove nanter, Patterson, Apalachicola; Jane Hammond. Vaughan, Savannah ; Lydia Soule, Savannah ; Tuaca riosa, Farley, Philadelphi a; Colu m bi a , F ar b r , New York. 21st. Bellaris, Rees, Calcutta; Limena, Porto Rico ; Irlam ' Hobson, Hayti ; Friend s hip, Clel land, Cuba ; Ellen, Pentecost, New Orleans; John Fielding, Strange, Apalachicola. Std. Governor Varty, Calcutta ; Tusket, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Off port, Mary, Africa; Mary Ray, Demerara; St. Vincent, Shepherd, St. Vincent. CORK, MAY 19.—The Alexandrine Victoria, has been in collision with the Brig Mountain Maid. The latter had her figure-head, cut-water, &c., carried away. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) HAY PILAZIKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 41 ; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 51 Os ; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 10s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 41 Os ; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 16s ; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ lOs per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. W HITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 41 03 ; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 5/ Os; and Straw, 1/63 to 1/ 10* per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. 'p49. ~ , E i . ourt 0 l'''',‘i.'",uitto suy OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE TROPOLITAPi FINANCIAL AND PAULI A \tENTARY REFORM. AbbOUIA. TION.— (VMS DAY.) The first pubac meeun t ; of this asr.ociation was held dfternoun at the Llodon Tavern, liishopsote- street. It was most numetously attended, and amongst those who occupied seats on the platform we observed— Arthur Anderson, Esq., M.P., Ralph' Bernal Osborne Esq., M.P., John W interns. Esq., M.P., B. M. Wilcox Esq., M.P., Colonel Thompson, M.P., Lawrence Hey worth, Esq., M.P., George Thompson, Esq , M.P., J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., Thomas Prout, Esq , William Arthur Wildman Esq., Treasurer, W. Wiliiams, Eeq., William Clark, isq., William John Hall, H. Tindal Atkinson, Esq., Summers Herford, Esq., William M`Rae, Evq,, Frederick Gaskell, Esq , Robert Russell, Esq., Rupert Kettle, Esq., Sir Francis Knowles, Bart., H. C. Messingham, John Matson, Esq., T. K. Pritchard, Esq., G. W. M. Reynolds, Esq., H. G. Rubinson, Eeq., Samuel Harrison, Esq., J. M'Euteer, Esq., John Caeriell, Esq., G. E. Denues, sq., William White, jun., E. John Watered, Esq, D. M'Doneli, Esq., J. A. Lyon, Esq., John Collett, Esq., William Hewer, Esq., W. H. Ashurat, Esq., Richard Taylor, Esq., Ward, Esq„ of, Liverpool, Professor C. G. Kries, of Breslau, Jesse Cullum, Esq., James Barringer, Esq., J. G. Phillimore, E. q., Luke Embleton, Esq.,l)r.Kinnaird, Dr. Longstaff, Joseph Phelps, Esq., Edwin James, Esq., H. M. Drummond, Esq , T. Rhoads, Eeq., J. G. Rhoads, Dee., W. J. Harris, Esq., Rev. G. H. Stoddart, George Hyde , E,q., Joseph Sturge, Esq., Charles Gilpin, Esq., Thomas James Serle, Esq ,Wm. Whitaker, Esq., John Downes, Esq., of Ware, George Webster, Esq., A. L. Saul, Esq., J. C. Howett, Esq., T. Satterley, Esq., Richard Dixon, Esq., H. Harper, Eli.; Messrs. Roberts, Murray, Alford, Aitken, S. P. Clark, of Princes Risbo rough, Shillibeer, Colvin, Edwards, Harbord, Howatel, Manning, Harding, Hough, Coupland, Ward, Purvis, Allen, Landley, &c., &c. At one o'clock the:chair was taken by Sir Joshua Walmsley, the President of the association, who was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day, read the placard convening the meeting and then pro ceeded to speck as tollows:—Gentlemen, in taking the chair on this occasion, on behalf of the association, I have to request a fair and impartial hearing fur every man who may choose to address you upon the subject we have met to consider.—(Hear, hers.) Let me remind you that it is necessary that, in order thet each man should be heard, we must remain perfectly silent and at tentive, and I hope you will not call continually for silence, as she never came by calling.—(Cheers and laughter.) I shall first cull upon the secretary, the ho norary secretary, to whom we are deeply indebted fur the active and zealous service which he has rendered the association, to read a report which the council have thought it necessary to ptepare, that there may be no doubt or question whatever as to the objects of this m eting.—(Cheers.) Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON then read the following re port: — "The council have the gratification to state that the steps taken to establish a Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentary Reform Association upon a firm, en• during, and cumprehensive basis, have been attended by striking, unequivocal, and continuous success. " The council believe that success to be mainly owing to the conviction which is hourly forcing itself upon even reluctant and unwilling minds, that the present undue pressure upon the industry and capital of the country has its origin in the evils which spring out of class legislation. "'I he council are strengthened in that belief by the fact that the association, in existence scarcely three mouths, is daily receiving large accessions to its num bers, and already comprises the flumes of many of the oldest, ablest, and most distinguished advocates of the extension of civil rights. Funds have been contributed emply sufficient to meet the demands of the present. Numerous district societies, springing out of the central association, are iu active and vigorous operation in dif ferent parts of the metropolis, comprising several thousands of zealous and ardent reformers, all engaged in aid of the common object. And London, which in the early part et the year was behind the provinces in the growing agitation for Financial and Parliamentary Reform, now occupies that leading position to which it is entitled, not more from its population and its wealth, than from its public Epic and its pervading intelligence. " Deeply impressed with the conviction that no effec tual nor lasting relief from the present unequally impost d and heavy burden of taxation can or will take place until the taxpayers have a more aired influence in the election of the representatives who have to deal with the national resources, the council, after much anxious solicitude and careful deliberation, came to the conclu sion that the agitation tor Parliatneutary Reform should precede that for financial ameliorations. In adopting this policy, the council were tulle , aware that the great difficulty to be met and overcome lay in the difference of opinion which prevailed among their fellow-reformers upon the subject of widening the suffrage. The council, upon mature consideration, have decidedupon advocating such an extension of the franchise as wiii give to every male occupier of a tenement, or any portion of a tene• went, the right to be registered an elector; the only condition coupled with that right being, not the payment of rates, but the fact of being rated or having claimed to be rated for the relief of the pour in respect of the qua lifying premises. The effect of such a measure in strengthening the popular voice in the House it Com mons may be inferred from the fact that the present constituency of the United Kingdom at uld be increased by that addition of up ards of Leo miiituus of voters. The council seek to invest this extended right of voting with the shel:er of the beau!. ; and in order to keep actively alive that sense of responsibility, which, in the public business of the nation as in the private affairs of lite, secures the faith ful exercise of a power held in trust, they advocate the return to the old consitutional system of triennial Par liaments: while another and not less important change sought for in our representative system will be that which will give a more equal appe'rtionmeut of Members to constituents. The council believe that sueb an ex• tension of civil privileges is due nut more to the increased intelligence of the people than it is celled fur by the peculiar exigencies of the times; they believe that that legislation is fraught with wisdom which concedes duf fing a peno of comparative tranquillity rights which have been too lung withheld; and that no policy is more pregnant with danger than that which yields only to force what is stubbornly denied to a sense of justice. " Looking to the history of the past, the council be lieve that neither of the two great parties in the state will concede te' the popular voice the reforms demanded, until the appeal acquires consistency and force throi.gh the medium of a powerful and numerous combination of all classes of reformers. Under this impression the council enter into a well-considered system ut vigorous, extensive, but strictly legal agitation. They will en• deavour to enlist in the cause they have embraced all the available elements of moral power. District and periodical aggregate public meetings will be held, tracts will be distributed, aid will be imparted to the various metropolitan registration societies now in existence for watching over the interests of liberal voters, and impor tant facilities will be offered fur the acquisition of 40$. freeholds in the surrounding counties. " The council have now briefly stated some of the more important objects to be accomplished, and the means by which it is proposed to attain them. They appeal, in conclusion, to the two great bodies of the community—the middle and productive classes—for zealous co-operation, and active and energetic support. They appeal especially to the uaenfranchised masses, for whose social and political elevation the ass,ciation has been called into existence. And, deeply interested in the existence of order, the preservation of public credit, and the inviolability of the rights of property, the coun cil believe that no greater calamity can betel a nation than a protracted and obstinate resistance, on the part of the Government, to temperate and moderate demands for the extension of civil rights."—(The reading of the re port was repeatedly interrupted with bursts of applause.) The council whom he had the honour to represent had alluded with considerable anxiety to the result of that, the first meeting of the association.—(Hear, hear.) They had looked to it, indeed, with that anxiety which they considered proportionate to the interests at stake. Ho was persuaded that they would unite with him in expressing their gratification at witnessing that great and influential response which had been just given to the cause.—(Loud cheers.) That numerous and highly influential meeting was a proof that the middle classes of the city of London sympathised with the unenfran chitsed classes in their efforts to obtain an extension of the suffrage.—(Loud cheers.) He thought that earnest response was a sign uf future success, and that it would give new zeal and energy to the executive which had hitherto worked so zealously for the object which they had met to promote.— (Hear.) Under ordinary cir cumstances it might be desirable that he should offer some explanation why a comparative stranger, poss• ssing no local standing, nor the latent of many whom he saw around him, saould occupy the prominent po,itiou which had been `conceded to him on that occisicun Their time was, however, too \valuable and too important to give place to personal ex plans tione—(lit ar, hear) —and he should content himselt with saying, that as he did not seek the position, neither would he hesitate a moment to relinquish it when ever the interest of the cause they advocated should call for such a change.--(Loud cheers.) A declaration of their principles and several documents had been sent the objects of the association, as to forth by the council, but to avoid doubt and miscon ceptionainmeltit: 0 of r thoseth the m objects,ea su r s woleti.c councilh they had proposedthnufor theit desirableat just been received. That report . . prepaie and promulgate the reporit ld wh t i n c e h had i h h er ion ot the th i t a r rne c h o t un a c n i d l. concurrence odf that teriyt would ri d and he trusted zealous support of every reiormer.—(Hear.) There were those among them, and he hesitated not to deciare it, as one who looked even beyond those principles in the report—(Loud cheers) —who , desired to divide them in opinion. They had given tho best consideration to the subject, and adopted those means which they thought must desirable and advisable to carry out their great ob jects, vie., the greatest extension of tee sufft age aceordine to those with whom they had poe to deal. The policy of those who opposed theca would te to threw discord and contention into their rails. But they must avoid that, and must endeavour to prevent them Causing distrust on the one hand and tear on the totter. But it the people were uni•,ed their reply to all taunts et omit be. that tileY would have a full, tree, a n d f a i r tr i a l for their prin ciples.— (Loud cheers.) Th e property classde. a(anLtdidauigutisistittr:icgre.e)touiu. But tuh t tt o irth t ee o a e upss,, l a l e te e : i i itia tu isn t e i a o ss e e o o f f the nounced their policy and agitation as subversive cc o oc t; uu o nn r ct d rd e s ! ..... , their sufficient answer to all they could say.—(Hear, hear, and cheers,) He hoped they would nerer cease their agitation so long a , from three to four millietts of their fellotv• men, Who wee. e'ttitled to the franchises i f tliemst-lees, we're denied a vote in the diotrioution of those funds to wn " they hid eowrittutee. (Loud cheering.) Ihe pe pie, howr ver, were now better instructed—(te et) poss , tsed better kttowiedge of their own pow' R, (Lea.) —and if they could but be united—if they will not stiffer their oppottems to distract their councils, they c-old not lung be denied their full sod, lair participation of civil right..—(Bear, hea r ' ) The maintenance of order was so necessary' that it would almost seem a work of supererogation to say a word in its defence, was it not that men were either led away by their zeal rather than by . their judgment, which gave occasion to the enemies of reform and the supporters of things as theY, were to confound a desire fur the remo val of abuses with sedition, and progressive reform for revolution. They knew now that without ore der the best intentions, the first principles, were valueless. It was this conclusion that induced the utmost caution and circumspection in any Pr °- to fessions for organic change; but in desiring avoid Scylla they must be careful and not rush upon Chary bdie.—(lLar, hear.) In advocating their right s they must take care they did not perpztuate abuses which destroyed all connexion between the governors and the governed.—(Hear, hear.) There were few amongst them who did not feel the extreme pressure of taxation; they were, therefore, fully alive to t he abuses ttefore their eves; and there were few amongst them who did not look with fear to that wide-spread eel deep-rooted disaffection that pervaded a large asses °, the unenfranchised classes. Whichever way they loolt eu the political and financial state of the conetri, was most unsaisfactory.—(Cheers.) They saw a rap i d and continuous increase of expenditure, a thouglitle' s abuse of patronage, a sustentation of the army and nalc totally disproportionate to their wants, a system ° colonial government which had as many hues It e the cameleon (Great laughter) which bed 0° reference to the merits of the country nor the interest° of the mother country, and they saw a dogged resoltv tion on the part of their rulers to withhold the admix' sion of the people within the portals of the coa=ti' tution.—(Loud cheers.) Under such cirumstane ee it was the duty of every good citiall to seek that control over the public purse and of public affairs which reason and common sense assured there to he the basis of good government—(Cheers enforce eccnomy and retrenchment in every department of the State—to see property made to bear its prope r burden (Hear, hear) that education be place d within the reach of all—economy and self-reliance---0"1 that the House of Commons be made the just reflex 05 the public mind, and that self-reliance, econons9 s and peace should take the place of disconten t, extravagance, and coercion. (Loud cheering') They sought the accowpliahment of these thing,: by the mot loyal and peaceful means—(Cheers) —a ol " strong in the justice of their cause, calling tor the Or port of every class, 'creed, and party.—(Cheers.) she then glanced again at the objects of the Associatt °s : state d that each speaker would be limited to twat?, minutes, and said they would soon call large eveni n g meetings.—(Cheers, and a cry of " Govent Garden. ) He was sure they would be excused, under existing ei r , cuenstences, in not having a larger building en the P r e . sent o. casiou. On the next occasion of their meetill please God, they would have a larger.—(Cheers, a ti n cries of " We will have the House of Commons.") So ps gentleman said they would have the House of Cominat, He trusted that the House would be made truy a useful, and that it would, ere long, be te st i indeed the people's house.—(Great cheers.) The resolution he was proud to say would be proposed O ld man, whom it Witt, almost unnecessary to name, ala veteran Retormer, known to all tar better, he was 9 0 "." to say, than to himself, he meant Mr. Richard TN' lor.—(Great cheering.) A r st Mr. R. TAILOn then came forward to move the resolution, and was received with the most enthusieeth'e , cheering. However ill he was qualified to discharge k n .. duty assigned to him, still, as the honour had been e?" 0 ferred upon him of moving the first resolu tt° , he did not hesitate to do so. As an old 1 11 ° ; Habitant of the metropolis, and one w ee adopted the principles set forth in the report a l' o f Council, he could not shriek from the performane ° the duty that had been placed upon him.—(Hear, hear ' ,. He still held the opinions of his youth, and every 7 se that was added to his life he felt more and more t,,, importance of holding those opinions. He would 0° move the ,fint resolution, which was as follows: te e " That the present contest between the ad ,oo a of a searching reform in the national finances o°4 the Parliamentary representation on the one her e and the upholders of a system which favours the l, at the expense of the millions, on the other, it is ireP i u oa tent to strengthen and give effect to public oPT io g through the medium of an organised body, °°"- of reformers of all grades; and that the establisher:l I°%o the Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentary lie,„ o r Association is therefore a matter not only of expe dle " but likewise of paramount necessity."—(Cheers:) detail The resolution did not go into the question in of the objects of this association, but only meeting to agree in the establishment Of the e r tlo s for giving Effect to those opinions. Be wotil h e s* detain the meeting further than to impress upon t the necessity of such a mode of agitation as was v iol proposed.—(Hear.) What they wanted was to g effect to the power of the.people in the Commons' 1 100 , • called on t o n s which they were now deprived of.—(Hear, bel": 0 He believed that he had nut occupied more P'; i i five minutes of the twenty allowed to him, but be Milting to give the other 15 minutes to some youtiv" reformer, of whom he saw several present.—(Cheers.) Mr. W. J. HALL seconded the resoluti o n. beueei ts that the Reform Bill had been inoperative in a fi r =s' measule.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The `L i s toms, and many other things, required ref er t sf, tam ; they were the feeding places of the aristoer oot When he saw his fellow countryman confined l n a g ore through the prosecution of a Christian Bishop-o' oo a hear, and sheers)—he could not but ask the gee s ! , how long would a reform Parliament sanction su e , course? He did not blame the Bishop, but if the Pr a `lO were properly represented, all these things W° ll ' put an end to. He thought the time was now ! a d. when such a society as the present should be fo r a He concluded by seconding the resolution. th e Mr. ELLIOT moved, us an amendment, t 0 rae effect that the Association should be called tee' Metropolitan Parliamentary and Financial 10 0 term Association, instead o f t h e Metrolni s te Financial and Parliamentary Reform Aeso ol '‘,; t oil and he did so b, cause he w a s qu it e conv i nce d th°t,., e - to us they had Peril eentary reform they c o uld not h y r h etoe °Leah, financial reform. He wanted to see asystensot culonizatien and manhood representation carried ° ° ,,, t. eort Mr. B. OSBORNK said he had been selected to Support the first resolution, but as there was so slight adiffe-to it betweee the title of this association and that gi" -n c ea , " by the Gentleman who last addressed them, h e Wet' have no heeitatiou in seconding the amendmente --( s ave hear.) He saw no difference betwixt tweedleda° 3 :ol 4 tweedledee—(Hear, and laughter)—and be reachly secouu it, :hough he must at the same tl o env form the meeting and the mover of the amen ill! t that the council had already come to the conclude cede agitation tor Parliamentary reform ought to r o sin financial reform.—(Cheers.) He came now to th e he 10 6 business of the meeting. He could not forget that t 3 time he stood in that room it was to ad , 9 /85 tb e/I suffrages of the electors of Middlesex. Sin ce elf' he had not been so much amongst them as the the tors bad a right to expect, simply f °r o etitl i reason given by the mover of the si n,/ ment—that he was essentially a working„t (Cheers, and laughter.) He did not work by he gloried in this, that he attended to the inter'," Is' his constituents by night.—(Hear, an d cheer"*! l ede,,' had not yet arrived at that st a t e o f p o litical le i b e 13 4 1 ' main in which a man wa s sa id to lawai',i'rline: opinions.—(Hear, hear.) H e h a d no t °I at those opinions on which th e y re turned tn: to the Commons House of Parliament, and fi., ° " 0 07, constitution of that House he w as n o t lik e ly tO w o f./ them while he sat for the county of Middlesex.--4' s oo ll It would hardly be believed that there was now 100 0 thing as a popular party existing in the cut' , of Commons.—(Loud cheers.) There wer e be . ; tainly true and good men in that Hou s i , e ; 110: he grieved to say, that among them siekaestriore disease had been busy. The great P sorri of Reform, Mr. Hume—(Loud cheers) —he Was Fi =bees' n. say was grievously ill; the two Members for t al those honest and independent men, were 11„,°400,1 to take their seats; and the Honourable I °' OP iTohrereM4and dis trust 1) 04 repeated reformers themeelvete and he wryaslebognreeat apathyunderstood 'lO .OO l that at the present no leader, and no poP h be e the Houee of Coinmous.—( ear, ear, and c „ e re timuela t r h p e r r i e ne w ip a le s s n w o el p l o e p x u p la o r anci P e D d ri. ie l He who was behind the scenes knew that nog eighty lr o i n em e b v e e rs ry occasion in ec t lpsd nliebscrasndwhhoe who had been re - eef' utpon Liberal princip , did not hesitate t voted - with Mr. C :ii r ed it they had thought that the vote would hare t° shot out the Government, would have stayed h ° , H satisfiede ar, he hear.) T t h h e e y r • b.. 1 70:1-• gotp ho t wasgaatil ethert : hr t ee v u e et ghdhei voted ffity( Li. at all.—( il they should never rest s aid tied that gentle pressure from without which ue lye only influenced individual Members, but ef A e e pe t Ministers of this cou ntry .—(H ear, hear , and oil: cheers.) He had been muc h amused by af,, - ; ho in the newspapers that a M ember had sat 2 7..A. 7 :to 0 the House of Comm ons w h o turned out art- reval", a woman.—(Laughter.) He would not repen t god name, but although he did not know the gentl,e °3s o oe9 j had not the honour of sitting with him in the tedto he understood he was a good Conservative Old is ttl (Laughter) —and he had strong suspicions that t a b le fly not a singular case.—(Laughter.) Most respects d o it t amiehle old ladies held seats in that assembly. ° fo od:. ieeliug eatural to the weaker sex, they we re f o r ' - 4 rank, and mistook the principles of taxatio n u d principles of the Constitution.—(Laughter , a rgil cheers.) It wa s th e i r d uty, h owever , to 1 ) ,. ° t0 th ° „ r i House of those o ld l a di es , and send them bae'ciore places which they were more qualified to e er it fi b/ represent.—(Lau g ht er .) H e wo uld ask whe tb s iver fair that the Government, who had climbed to , r be i r o ,eo a popular cry, and who, as it were, had total° _ f cob ° , o ( into Buckinham Palace, on the shoulders .. 1 0 arid Bright, should throw cold water , upon a w . ", C . i ! o f financial retertn?—(Cheers.) How teas it that_ o ' m f,rop;., see ho wisdom except in a Lord, ' 0 0 0 C except in an estated gentleman I—(Crie pr e ot h. ar In fact, he thought the tendency 01 _ 1 ' st bar.r :c a day was to make the House of Commons a gr, e ,, o r ev0 5 0 % for died rabbits.—(Laughter and cheers.) but a oti.ed wile celled the People's House was nothing De! too ti_v d ever been done under the most despotic w e of petiott. In the year 1830, when the Duke Of d w ho 00 4 machines which raised a greater amounto in f t o t_ e_ r s ,ll ll o ii t; o l o turned out on the score of economy, b" Was got a majority, the public expenditure 5 Whigs canvassed the population . of thweire°s°Zotorlo:ool