The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

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=e the great truth that whatever may be his per.
popularity with all classes of the country—and it as
undoubtedly great—there is also existing • deep under-
current of genuine dissatisfaction at the features of his
financial policy. I believe he will have the good sense to
see that the people of this country are resolved not to re-
Vethe words of the noble lord's amendment as • mere
and empty pledge, but that they are heartily weary
of • war expenditure based upon • series of deficiency
budgets, • war income tax, war tea and sugar duties, and
an injurious and oppressive malt tax, maintained
merely with a view of carrying out in the interest of
the most noisy section of the radical party a few clap-trap
reductions in indirect taxation. I cannot help thinking
that if Lord Palmerston be wipe he will endeavour during
the year of grace which the event of last week has un-
doubtedly given to his ministry to set his house in order
upon these matters, for depend upon it that the next time
betimes down the gauntlet and challenges the House of I
000111100111 to • vote of want of confidence, that vote will be
ed to in • very different spirit. (Hear, hear.) There
ifillsgrdone more wholesome reflection which I think we may
draw from the events of last week. I think those events
will teach the country how rightly to estimate the value of
that demand for economy which has hitherto been raised
as the favourite hustings cry of the who'd party, who have
now said in effect by their conduct, " Economy in theory is
an excellent cry for sham demonstrations, but so long as we
eau mooed in transferring the border of the
state from our own shoulders to theme of the
land and the working classes, by all means let
us say hurrah for Lord Palmerton and expenditure."
(" Hear, hear," and laughter.) I believe it is
an midoulitni fact that if Mr. Walpole 's amendment bed
been messed to a Origins, * tar the pester wanther
those 110 members who voted for Mr. &andel:Ts modem—
Mr. Blansfaid., by the way, himself included—would have
in their turn voted for Lord Palmerston, the very minister
whose warlike tendencies they affect to deplore, and whose
paw expenditure they pretend to condemn. (laughter.)
Now, gentlemen, I have only one more remark to make in
ixectlaston. I trust that from what I have amid you well
not regard me sillier as an advocate for a wanton and perm-
fume expeoditnre in the defames of *country, or as having
in say way a lemming towards the principles and policy of Lord
Palmentoe's government. Anything late needless or wanton
expenditure, much as the vote of a very lase s
sum for the completion of what I believe tote
unless fortifications at Alderney, or the modest '-
lion made the other evening for a rote of bOO,OOOl. for •
room for stuffed animals at the British Museum, will fad
in me as great an opponent as even the hon. member for
Lambeth, upon whose shoulders the mantle of Joseph Hume
has fallen. As regards the principles of Lord Palmerston's
government, although I freely and frankly say that in the
question of maintaining the national defences, and in the
leading features of his f • policy, be has proved himself
a fair expount of the national opinion, there are many
vital questions of conservative policy upon which I am
directly at issue with his government. TIN question of
church rates, upon which we gained this session so peat •
victory, so gnat and glorious a triumph—the question of
education, upon which the government were farad into a
humiliating compronsime—ead last, although not least, the
policy of the Chaneellor of the Exchequer, which cannot,
I think, be continued much looser without bringing the
country into:a state of great financial embarrassment.
Major Jervis, M.P., Mr. Peacocks, M.P.. and °then,
spoke at Nome length, and the procewlinp did not termi-
nate till a We hear.

BRITISH AND !FOREIGN UNITARIAN ASSO-
CIArzoN.

The annual meeting of this association wan held
yesterday, and was numerously attended. la the morning
• sermon was preached at Essen street Chipal by the Rev.
W. Gaskell, from St. John's Gospel, 18th chapter and 37th
versa.
After the conclusion of the service the meeting took place
in the chapel; Mr. J. A. TOILNER, M.P., pomading. The
report, which was read by the secretary, the Rev. R. B.
Alpland, referred to the fares operations al the society
in Transylvania, Madras, sad Italy. It she slated that
pecuniary aid had been led for religious purposes to the
Unitarians at Toronto, and Frankfort, and entered
into details with reprd to the distribitios of tracts in
various localities. Special mention was mad* of the fact
that the revised translation of the Old Tanana was now
completed. The income of the society during the year was,
it appeared. 2,673 f. 65., and the expenditure of all kinds
left a balance of 1861, en general, and of 2561. on Indian
account la accordance with • recommesdatiou in the re-
port, it was resolved to conduct the home miniceary
operations on a more extensive scale than heretofore, more
particularly in Scotland, Staffordshire, and the Weald of
Ifest.
In the afternoon about 300 ladies and gentlemen, members
of the ainociatica partook of • collation in Freemasons'
Hall ; Mr. J. A. Toms, ILP., as president of the 'emacia-
tion again taking the chair. Analog than rasa wore Sir John Booting, Alderman Jas. C. Lee-rears, Mr. James
Heywood, Revs. W. Oaken, Chas. Withstand, J. J.
Taylor, Thos. Y Dr. Mita Saint. Bac be, It. B. ,
T. . W.
Field, Mr. Francis Maas, Mr. A. Martin, Mr. W. Shah.
spore, Hr. J. T. Mast Ne. J. Treup, Mr. S. Sass, do.
Misr having proposed "The Queen," the CithituiLle
gave the first sentiment appropriate to the ocession—vis.,
MR aid Religious Liberty all over the World." As a
proof of the vowing libia/ity of the age, end the C4llll.
dace reposed in Mutations by their fallowsitiseas of other
denominations, he temested that Manchester had been
repressated by oo ism this four members el that body;
and he further observed that they whom he addressed were
the descendants of those whose struggles in the cause of
civil and religion" away were tang celebrated daring the
meant year.
Sir J. Bowsaw is rampaging to the taint, spoke dthe
spirit of free inquiry now abroad as the smaneipation alike
at the politieal and the religious world. Be Ind himself,
he mid, meetly wiinonad the weld rep of that spirit in
Italy, and weld testify that among those who wore mat
didinguithed for the insertion of their country's rights there
was the stamp* religiose feeling. He had sees some
vans written by Garibaldi which were full of religious de-
votion, sad which, if he were allowed to give publicity to
them, would elevate that gnat man still higher than he
stood already. The spirit of religious reform sow happily
prevailed among Buddha* Mahomedas, sad Jews, am
well as among Christie." ; sad amid all lbs controversies
width were bums carried no the tree of truth wee, he be-
lieved, taking deeper root. Ile wanted I. see men ler-
neatly proclaiming what they honestly felt. The strongest
teetroverwr was far preferable to enmities, as was evi-
dent from the fact that opinions which as altered is that
room half a century ago awned the speakers to be stigma,
Used as infidels sad Jectsbuni were now the basis of legis-
lation. tChwirs.)

The Cithanaithene penned " OurPorionead Teasben,
whether in the pulpit, the professor's chair, or the prem."
The Bev. W. Oaaccu. responded, and remarked that the
ripest of the recent donee in the Hone el Leath on Lord
Btrary's bill filled kiln with sedan man 'spatially the
declaration of the Bishop el Oxford, that be bad saver
met with • *Logic clergyman who laid he bad Damnation
a
to
waking the derianitioa imposed by the Ad ef
trloirmity. (Hear, bear.) U the number of obiorion
was so small as that statement implied the clergy were in-
deed sadly I. be pitied. seeing that the formularies of the
esta4lialied church made a man prams Calvinism in the
Thirty.nine Articles, adopt Armimanna with • strong
lofted= at Ronan in the Limey, exhibit charity
in the penes, and breathe demean= in she Athe-
nian lied. (Beer, hear.) He rejoiced that Unitarian
ministers were freed from such shackles, while at the same
time Impeotested, se he bad done in his serene that morn-
log, spinet the epnoas liberty which held that ell opinion
were alike valuable or important. (Hear, hear.)
The Bev. &nun Rama, in proposing " Prosperity to
the British and Perrin Unitarian Associatioa," mired upon
the assembly that it was the duty of ell who riacerely held
Unitarian doctrines to disseminate them to the utmost of
their power.
The Bev. H. B. ASPLAIM, ia responding, after expressing
regret that the immune of the sasociatioo was not larger,
remarked that it had pert been resolved to test the libe-
rality at the Urinal= body by entering as • boom mie-
notary work which required much greater mean,
sod which he believed would, if adequately sup-
' posted, be atteoded with very important results. Their
religious principles had this recommendatioa, that they were
of a practical character, and might be illueteeted in every
relation of life. A good Unitarian must be • good father,:a
good hathised, and • good cities.. (Hear, hear.) He con-
cluded by dwelling on the superior claims sad prespects of
home unions to those of foreign missions, and pointing
out the favourable *hangs in referenoe to Uaitarianism
which be had discovered by obeereatiosi to have taken place
in Olsegow during the lent 40 years, be having recently
visited that city alter the lapse of that period.
Yr. JAMS 111YROOD proposed the following :—" Oar
brethren in Amato', may peace be within that borders,
and liberty sod the twilit of love everywhere prevail," sup-
this enthuse by ardent anirations for the redden-
fiti:f peace in the contending States and the revival eL
their prosperity. His remarks on this subject were re-
ceived with the greatest cordiality.
The Bev. Dr. ditua, of Bolton, United States, with
whose name the sentiment was associated, said the simenibly
might rest assured that all their friendly wishes for America
were reciprocated there. (Cheers.) if recent events had
to any extent dimmed the kind iuterchange of feeling, they
might hope that nothing would be permitted to disturb that
deep undercurrent of affection—(loud cheers)—which
should ever bind in ass the peat mass of Anglo-Saxon
people on both sides of the Atlantic, who bad so much in
common. (Renewed chew.) He then referred to the
propene of religiose freedom and troth which he bad wit-
noosed during a two years' residence in Italy ; end after re-
marking that the convulaione with which that land had been
agitated had prepared it to accept • purer form of religion,
he observed that the eoandaions of • single year in ben own
beloved country had, in like maser, alieady done more to
free the enslaved than would have been don probably in
esaturies of peaceful times. (Loud and prolonged cheer-
ing.)
Alderman J. C. LAWRINCE proposed "Success to our
Home Unitariso Minims " and e x pressed his belief that there
never wise time when Wil great mass of the working people,
of this ocniutry were more inclined to the reception of
Christianity, if presented to them in a form in which they
could sympathies.
The Bev. W. CIIO9LEY, of Glasgow, in responding, gave
• sketch of the difficulties and prospects of the Unitarian
work in Scotland.

The tier. J. i'Airron HAM proposed "Our Silent ?dia.
sioneriea." applyieg that phraiie especailly to %recta and
places of religious worship.
The toast of "The Stewards" haring bees responded to
by EL E. J. WHITXNUIIaI;
The Ear. B. AtIPLAND proposed • vote of thanks to
the chairman, and with this acknowledgment the proceed.
irigs terminated.

AZIORNATOSY EXHIBITION OP IarDHETBr.

Last night a soiree was given at the Hanover-
square Rooms, ender the auspices of the Reformatory end
Refuge Union, for the exhibitMe of the wore.' of induatey
executed by the inmates of the several reforromories and
ragged 'schools in the United Kingdom. The Karl of
denregenosr, K. G., presided.
The company west rom room to room, inspecting the great
variety of articles exhibited as the handy work of the refor-
matory and reggediebool children. They wer4ll worthy of
the interest bestowed upon them, and cooverted the place into
• temporary bazaar. They also hail the opportunity of seeing
them at work, wood-turning, shoemaking (some of them
the tiniest of °riming), teilorieg, chopping fire-wood, &c.
The Marble& &amide was present a force, to polisLifthe
extremities of those who happened to come to the so, are
in • negligent style. Two Mods played • well-selected con-
cert, and a choir of the elifldren of both sexes sang several
popular songs daring the entenhaininent.

Littoomes-xtut Jogs IL—The undermentioned
gentlemen were thin day salted to the degree of Barrister-at-
Law by the Hononmbhs Society of Lincoln's-inn, viz. :
Thome Magni:a jun., Fag., ILA., Dublin (bolder of the
studentship of Michaelmas krill. 1861► ; John Forbes, Seq.,
(bolder yf a oertificate of honour Ant el!se, end the