The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-27 00:00:00

NATIONAL REFORM UNION.

A public meeting in connexion with this union
was held in the Amemblytoom at the Free-trade Hall,
Manchester, oa Tuesday evening; Mr. G. WILSON in the
chair. There was a numerous attendance. The Cnalums,
in opening the proceedings, mid they charged the House a
Commons with not having fulfilled the pledge which had
been given to the country on the question of pwiismenlary
reform. He was sot aware when parliament would dis-
solve. Rome people mid a diasolatios was expected to take
place very shortly, but he could not think that the House
of Commons would dissolve without making as effort to
give effect to the espgentests it had entered into. He
meted that it woad show that it had not outlived its
honour, and that it would take some step to prevent the
historian having to record of it that it was born at •
period of greet promise, that during the lint two years of
its existence it exhibited greatstrougth and vitality, and
that towards the end of its days it showed physical weak-
ness, and died when the sands of its life had ran out, leaving
the object of its life unacoomplished and bequeathing to us,
instead of a noble inheritance of regained rights, a lope), of
disappointed hopes. (Applause.) Mr. Alderman /11TWOOD
moved a raeolutios urging upon all reformers the iniportaecie
of combined action in demanding an extensive measure of
talons, and of establishing branches in omeectioa with the
association. He implored those poems who had the oppor-
tunity arid possessed the desire to aid the movement to use
their best esdeavoure in order to provide such roachisery
that, at the seat a•Ciioll, they might be prepared to make a
balm salsetios of men than three who sow occupied the
beeches is the House of Commons. Mx. J. W. KILLOS, of
OIdSSOL in seconding the resolution, said that whip sad
tor's alike had promised reform, but they bed does little
or sobbing towards that object. Mews. B. COOPER and J.
B. Toss baying been heard in support of the resolution,
Hr. S. POPS said that meeting wan held for the purpose'
of banding themselves together, not only for mutual
enthusiasm mid action, but also to purge their own
ranks from the rottenness that had crept into them.
(Applause.) They owed the defeat a the Reform Bill
of 1860 not to their opposite*, aloes, but to
the trembery and supineness of those who m-
antled to be their friends. The effect of Mr. Gladatoise's
speech had not entirely subsided, and it was sow air
knowledged by the administration of the **entry that
the it.. principle on which the anemias a political
power most rest wee that the exercise of that power was
the right of every rasa. (Applause.) Reformers demanded
that right. It would be • mistake to a aoropro-
raise. There wee an election coning, the question then
for releases to wont would be were they to be deluded
by fair prosaism, or were they to secure, at an emote, eases'
repesseatation of their principles in parliament He was
sot sure that it was necessary that the real radiosl reform
party in the House of Commons should be ia the majority ;
• minority coder the present aspect of the quashes could
make it imperative on the government to listen to the de-
mands of the people. (Hear, hear.) It word! be far more
important if they were to band themselves together
for the sake of securing adequate support to the indepeedeat
mss, such as the masher for Birmingham, who sit below the
purvey. (Applause.) What was the amiss a the cep
i preaching &moieties ? It was that the goveruniest and the
home bad so mina*, had moth* epos which to appeal to
the aountry but the personal popularity of the most oisprisi7
cipled 'Ottawas that ever ruled. (Applause.) Had Lord
Palmerston dose auythieg for the hberal party? He bed
demoralised it. (Hear, bear.) He (Mr. Pope) hoped that
the radish would have se terms with the whip whatever.
There were es politicises se absolutely &sprees and fatal
Ito racing as the whip. (Appleuee.) Alderman
GOADSST esid that what the
_people hod gained they had
pined by their own efforts. The-
whip only helped them
through if they mad thereby Bove their owe selfish in-
tonate.

COMPINSATION TOR "11111.30311 Houn," Ilf BAR-
arose.—Yastardsy, at the Lord Mayor's Oman, before Mr.
Cocornieekoor Ben sad • special jury, a oompossatios ems
was tried, "Hayward v. the lletroelltan Railway Cent-
yarn," to award • ems for the borne No. 17, &AMINO, is
which &lilies bed for some time resided, sod which was still
standing. Mr. Haw:dos, Q.C., sod Mr. Potter wen foe the
claimant ; Hr. Lloyd sad Mr. Hallway for the company.
Os the part of the claimant, a lady, warty 3,7001. wee
claimed, sad os the part of the company 1.500 i. bad been
offered, and the value gives was from 1,9994 to 2,200/.
Property, it was urged, had " goo. up" I. the City. The
lead, irrespective of the we, was worth 2001. a year.
In 1860 • pares* who nwd.. in &sax, sad who it wee stated
Gould sot have kaowa " what he was about." teamed the pss-
WWII at 631. for 21 years, sod on the mine day the Immo
sublet the premises at 125/. That lease had 17 years and •
ball to run, end the primipalquestios is the ore yea the
vase of the emersion. Hawkios said that Milton bad
resided in the home which the jury had been to view in the
yew 1646, after the renomination with his first wife. Mr.
Commissioaer Kerr told the jury that witoceees became in-
sensibly biassed is favour of the parties for whom they ap-
peared, and that was the olds way So acessat for the great
differeoce in the *Maim of the valuers. The jury evestually
awarded 3.2501.

PaasieaCEUYICAL SOCIETY or ORRAT BRITAIN.
—The following candidates passed the major eternisation
as pharmaceutical chemists yesterday :—Jobe Bailey, Loa
don ; Alfred P. lialkwill, Plymouth ; Thomas G. Gibbons,
Meachester ; WiWem Davies, Loodoo • Richard Fad: high,
Nottingham ; Marshall Heaney, Peterborough ; Evan L.
Hickey, Lando, ; William Joao, Loudon ; Thorne M.
Orpe. Loodoo I Joseph Sims. Hirwain ; Thomas Taylor,
Peckham; R. G. Thomas, Merthyr; nOOl7 C. Upjohn,
Orford; Robert F. Young,Griogley.on-the-Hill.
E Tae EXPLOSION AT RITH.—Tbe vestry clerk of
the pariah of With, Mr. Reeves, has reccived a corrinsuoiera-
tioa from the Home Secretary, Sir George Grey, to the
effect that his attention has been celled to the cironmeterne
that a public thoroughfare peens on the top of the film:
enthankosect, and crosses the landing stags close to the
door of a powder magazine, being literally sot awes them a
couple of yards from it, and on the sante level. Also that
piteous have frequently been seen walkieg along this
theroualdare smoking pipes. Sir George, therefore, sug-
gested that the ioltiti.itonta of Frith should take immediate
measures to divert snob thoroughfare. 'Miscommunication
hoe bees ooseidered at • vestry meeting, sad it was the
general °Maier that this Wilk way Amid sot be interfered
with, sod that the proper mod* to prevent aosidents was
the removal of the powder magazines. The ricer-wall still
requires constant &Militias, and 40 men are daily employed
es the spot to strooltbee the repairs already effected.
OXFORD AND TRARIA RAILWAY.—This railway,
which is IS miles in length, was opened for trace ea
Monday. It is • eagle lice os the brood gauge, startiag
frOm the Great Western two sale south of Oxford,
crossing the River Thames near Kesniagton Loci-bridge,
and having intermediate stations at Littlereore mud
Wheatley, sad affords direst oeutmaniernies from Oxford
to Wycombe, Aylesbury, and /I•Mtialeeed.
RUNNING BLOCRADI IN Tus CsAxszi.
Soothers Rights, a large Coefederata merchant vowel,
arrived in the docks yesterday to unship • valuable
cargo. She peened through the Channel with Reglith
colours, within sight of the Fedend mewl-war frigates,
Niagara sad fleoranteeto, wbieh are Maimed • few silos
from the Doves. .

THLNLICIO mg GODS.—Tbe Chineee government
publishes the 'Wool°v ha the Pekin Oatette of August :
"The report of the captured Nankashavisig be.. received,
loseedlese gratification was mooed by the tidiap. We
looked beak on the time when in the pienitude of their
power the rebels seized oily slaw oily, sad, ooai•lerisg the
aid afforded to our Imperial troops, we eieserely talked
lb. Spirits for their interference. By the aid thee afforded
moms crowned our arms• tbe rebels Will, arrested in their
proves% and the work (of extenniaation) we. ultimately
completed. It is therefore most needful that *asks be
offered to the gods for their ereistesto. Wherefore the
Board of Rites is directed to evmine into the services rem-
tiered by the diff greet rods, and to report to es. Bassect
this."—fforik Mae Hirsisl, Sept. S.

NORWICH,
Sir John Walsh= concluded the last
eMr. Halyard was poems Me is
ll spent man, bat menu toaressentlee. He
admitted that he had administered the holy communioe to
the monks in kis Amok (St. LIIITICON Norwich), sad that
be had been on rather friendly terms with Brother !gallium.
but be denied that he had ever " identified" hinted( with
the " English Order of Bt. Benedict." The ceremonies
Introduced into his church he justified as being in senor-
dance with the rubric of the Church of England. Claxton,
a ci decant monk, who seems now to have resusnad ordinary
attired rather a shabby kind, end who 'kited that he had
lift the " narroastery" as his "health could Dot stead it,"
was optimised, and staled that belied mem Mr. Hillyard and
many ether clergymen of the Church of England in the
eseasetery. Asatbar poem who bad anted as door keeper
at the racesetery, end who promoted a hageard end wild
appearance, gave evidence to the same effect ; but it was
shown that ie two indiums' at twist the clergymen alluded
to had VIM to the =mastery with the istentsoe of opposing
Brother Ignatius, and sot of sympathising with bun. A
stay about the Bev. 0. Caldwell (a okrlßlllatt who is at
premmt °Briefing as chaplain at the workhouse) having
" blared" a mask was emphatically denied by that gentle-
man. A *Maim* showing the adornment of the altar
to Mr. H yards church, and other evidence was quoted,
end it arm proved beyond all doubt that XL Billyard's pro.
osedinp had beau of • very " high " order, and that the
weeks had received special facilities and micouraeement at
his church. Sir doh. Waltham stated that his report on the
seas would be made with as little delay as possible.
'troths! Ignatius will return to Norwich en flatarday.