The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-24 00:00:00

MEETING IN FINSBURY.

£ ve_ey amissrously attended meeting of the elec-
.= st Ibis lismsigli. was held last night at the Made Hall,
ShimeMisst, soiled to consider the steps seesesary to he
lass fa ormaezion with 'the Reform Bill of the now de-
tail ministry. Mr. DUNCOMMIL M.P., accupiodl the chair,
=by his colleague, Mr. Weldey, sad abort of the
ill rasa is the brwrogh.
Mr. DUNOOMBE was always ready to attend to the
wish. of his martitaests by sppop=tior prosistiag over
1 their meth. whoa his health him. It wadi
pl boss= him to astishase say adieu ea reselution
the amiss arightsosse to is 'ohms, to the
had sallsd Mem together, but be thstight distiaListobleaMl
be as qualm of resitot bwrowtoisee to a Wee mos&
tem,, sash m Fussbary,Mma the reproomilMsa of
the people. Binee Qs Rohm Bill was
the meeting wee well aware that a little incident altaltasa
place la the Howse of Comm& (A laugh.) The bill
gad Ito authors way now Weed ; they lad hese de-
Wbp their old eslissigim Lard Pabasesaaa. The
be y yra MrsAmsd hem 'fee sod mattered merely upou
astsft of words. mahrmi his wish was that the
's triumph had helm gained en a better question.
that that triumph had been gained, not merely
by esj.Mftc the weed " keel " and substituting that of
is rehrtmes to the militia, but on a motion for
lieferm Bill mere popular. (Cheers.) That
would have lees a triumph worthy of a statesman like
Lord Pshermsteu ; lest, as it was, it looked more like petty
pips mishit his rid canines than any hike to pro-
mote the iatesests of dm people. The Reform
Mill was new shaved hr this series of parliament
et Wet. Ho was
ea
able is esp whether Lord
Jehm hussell wood& ea his individual respaisibility, take
up the quads% bat, at any rata, the noble hail bad, in his

Vhle the Ines of mni= Ihme waths, inland
ileaties pair la the pethenies et en erode and
the Wenn if lisped. la the -ermaderai of the rep.-
.ealmtis Tberew Rehm DEL thee sheen, sc.-
Wad not of meets vane, but it wee wroth .peat deal
bilais eyes soma dairies tied dist whelk he (Mr.
seethe) had ben enwalley drtni the last nary
Du-
Wen via., as annala.a la the ashen DUI, was nen
wee la the ride.
asmagN imillowsd the that reselana p--" Thee la the
the bill moor beim the eine of
Lord Jona lank to Mewl the
=IV
adlof
sbeattana enrist
is psi ea Ind tiW
of teeny sad rinapt preedese et denim" MR In
Mkt the fast dememais of the papas ; sad this nen
ing avian the seareasseies throneheat the 'Maley
to intrust their repessentatives he penmen to IS
tee their seathisass to say ninny thatinot
peed
ithre fell, tree, mad Mr
of the ia the Casiessie Mass rof "
Mr. L esemeisil the rsesiatin. sed ana the
ohmage is the team of the Lead Jena I e,s l of lie•day
and the Lord John Renee ef twenty year
no 'ewe nee ought to osisain themselves into
tins, with the determination not to earry_the mese an
is. they received the right to vote. N. age&
kit I (Loud cheers.) The wintry ought met to be odd
upon to take any part in the war of the sesedneat. If in-
tervention did become necessary, let it be la behalf of the
struggling people of Hungary, Itrk, gml Germany, and
not of oonttal despots of tyrants, Sheep they might be
of the house of Coburg. (Renewed drew)
Mr. WOOD moved an amendment moisiying the points
of the charter, which was gelenillik but negatived
by the madame.
M of the promising' then were no lee than
kat simillaft to address the sastlag, each of them
mimed dasher of anatomising sew heartfelt grievance.
than alight seafasion arose but sees pacified by the judi-
dsras wader of the chairman.
• lir. DICK then moved a rider to the resolution, di-
eting; " Manhood suffrage" the only desirable and pos.
dbl. reform. It was seconded by a Mr. Bnazna, and car-
ried by a very large majority.
Mr. M'DONNELL moved the second resolution—" That
a petition, embodying the foregoing resolution, be presented
to parliament; that our members Thames Slingsby Dun-
consbe, and Thomas Wakley, Esq.., be requested to support
its prayer."
The motion having been seconded,
Mr. WAKLEY, M.P., addressed the meeting. 111 said
he bad no difficulty whatever in promising sincerely and
honestly to support the prayer of the petition. It was
nothing new that he should speak in favour of manhood
suffrage. He had always said that the people of this coun-
try were entitled as a natural right to the suffrage. The
change in the government had added twenty years to his
life, had made him a young man again. (Laughter.)
Ile was now again to fight with the old tories. How
could the tories believe that their system of government
could be tolerated ; that the people of this couatry
would stop in their program, or, cab-like, p
backwards ? (Hear and laughter.) IL as positive lunacy
for them to believe it. lie was, not lolsg ago, stopped by a
lunatic in an asylum, and asked to make a speech at a
public meeting about to be held there. On his inquiring as
to the nature of the meeting, be was told that it was to
remedy the wrongs under which the inhabitants of the
asylum suffered. On being asked what these were, the
lunatic bad replied that it was very herd that they, the few
sane individuals, should be shut up, and all the Irian
allowed to go at large. (Laughter.) The belief or the
tories showed him (Mr. Wakley) that there were many in-
sane persons to be found out of lunatic asylums. The es
tabliebmeat of the Earl of Derby in power, however, wee an
event that would be bailed with joy by all the dams&
powers of the continent. (Hear, bear.) They would be se
delighted as they. recently were with the removal of a cer-
tan Maga minister from power. (Cheers.) They wand
the new ministry, and there wield be few sae
with fondles staishiredeem Bet whet, he
did, nest be the elimistilen ef a eskiiter the samenesed
by ponies who did use permit ispesestetive govereatent
is their own mairrein r Ee waned the people of their
eager, and indeed the liberal party% he waited in order
to meet it. Let them rest quarrel about details—let them
Ural principles, wad, adhering firmly to them, take all
they said get, no mese from whine it came.lf the go.
wrensat did not deans the sesidease at the= the
=tro of the pen he is vitedd in
7tio vete pelentraity. Hs feasted tin the reform
coarlieseneles throweerat the country would instruct
then sop erntatives le pursue that coarse. (Cheers.) The
hrs. prinessa she wend the ameniatthat the free trade
MINIMPOS WON he el Its ands of the Earl of
Derby, cad esposnal bepe that the wise of the coun-
try would at saes demand beet the new ministers a full
sad explicit stalimsat of the mere of measures they in-
add to penes. No times to be given to the Earl
of Dolby to straesthea ble o toleration for a
year g be was ea ennywtaheszlie. and must berated as
err. (Cheers.) Is , the hon. member pre-
adult again, for Wane ad eolleague, to watch over and
deiad the popular interne. (Loud cheers.)
A vote of thanks to the Chairman was moved and carried
by acclamation.
lit. DUNCOMBE returned thanks, ridiculing the idea
dale terries, with old Maras amongst them, forming a
eneeessful administration. He asked to be supported by a
petition to the house similar to that which he presented in
1142, and which sop signed by three millions of the work-
ing classes.
After throe chafe for the member. for Finsbury, the
meeting broke up.