The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

ItF.PEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.

111Err1so 1N MARTLEBONE. butt evening, n
numerous meeting of delegates from the various metropo-
litan ti convened by the St. Marylebone Permanent
Window Tax l'inumittie. took plate at the Marylchone Court
!louse, for the purposeiif aiding the movement with respect
tutlu ri peal ofthe huh" tax. Mr. Metcalfe lowing takiu the
chair, Mr. lapel, the secretary, stated that he had received
communicatien. from Reading. Exeter, Dim, Tewkesbury,
Illseppertion, Ito,-ton, and several other towns, where peti-
tion. for the r. peal of the window tax were in course of
sign:our,. Th.. thank• of the meeting were voted to the
deleguti s conusiiing the recent deputation to Sir George
Gny, and delegates were appointed to attend the great
mettinii to held with the same object at Drury-lane
The litre on Wednesday.
MELTING IN ST. Lt-t 's PAnt4ll.—On the same
to, mutt. a crowded meeting of the ratepayers of this parish
a., b. Id in the Briti.h School Room, Cowper-street, to
rolisiih r tle• propriety of petitioning the government for the
removal of the window tax. Letters and statements were
Moonlit forward from Moors. Dunconthe and Watley, the
forrilef of whom is onto more enabled to attend the House
et Contemn•. Strong rciiolutions deprecating the window
lax, unit a petition to the legislature, were adopted. A re-
solution rundinining the present constitution of the Courts
of Sewers was also moved and carried. after which, with a
sole of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated.
TIIE DEMONs"THATHEI AT DittitY-LANE THEATRE.
—The parish,. of the City of Westminster have engaged
Drury-how Theatre fora demonstration to-morrow on the
rutin tid the window tax. Viscount Duncan, M.P., ha.
cons. mill to preside on the occasion ; and not only the
ruetnitailitan members, but all member., of parliament
known to be favourable to the movement, have been in-
vited to attend. 'The delegates from all the metropolitan
pAriAhes who attended the deputation to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer have also Lem requested to be present on
tin occasion. The admission is to be by tickets, in the
same manner as the meetings of the Anti-Corn-law League ;
but the uns tiny taken place in the day time, so an not to in-
terfere with the pertermances at present going on there.

int: EARL OF IVINCIIILSEA has published an ad-
(111 on the papal question, in which he says :—.• Fellow-
tountrynitn, brother protestants,—The milk-and-water
measure proposed by her Majesty's Prime Minister last
night against the recent act of Popish aggression is a gross
insult to the protestant feeling of this country. If you
value the maintenance of our civil and religious liberties,
let no tune be lost in addressing the crown for a dissolution
of parliament, and for taking the sense of the country• upon
3 question which involves everything which is dear to us as
Englishmen and protestants."
LIEUTENANT-GOTERNORSIIIP OF ADDISCOMBE.—
ut.-Colonsl F. Abbott, lately of the Bengal Ens
Mama, has been appointed Lieutenant-Governor of the
East India Company's Seminary at Addiscombe. Lieut.
Colonel Abbott had served many years in India, and was
particularly mentioned for his services in the Sittlej cam-

pip' of iiirro.
IWNOARCON ELECTION.—The Cork E.raminer
states that Mr. Maguire has been in active correspondence
with his committee, who have been making preparations
fur the approaching contest, which was expected to come
off in the course of next week, but which is now indefi-
nitely postponed.
TUE EALEIIIk EttatoN.—The writ has been re-
ceived, and Sheriff Handyside has fixed the nominative to
tike'pl ore first at Falkirk, on Tuesday (this day), at 12 o'clock.
be pilling a ill take place is all the burghs on Thursday,
..n.I the declaration of the result will be mad, t t Falkirk on
at 12 o'clock. The Falkirk Herald of Thursday,
speculating upon the probable result of the election, giivas
the following estimate of the majorities in the ' t
loirghs likely to be secured by the two candidates —Mews.
Loch and Baird. Mr. Loch—Falkirk, 50; Linlithgow, 20;
ilaruilton 10—Total, 120. Mr. Baird—Anane; 100;
Lanark,•lo—Tetel, 120.
SI a. Hamm, M.P., an chairman of the directors
"f the Killersey Jumbos Railway, is lashing the most
strenuons sander to be ambled Wises the webs at thst
Lae resumed with the Is peeible easy. Oa this assomt
he will not be able to Weal his parlisassatery duties for
week at two.—Cork Essiniess.