The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-26 00:00:00

TO 211 =ITO& OP Pll =PRESS.

Slit,—As it is currently repotted that my resigna-
tion of the chairmanship of the Midland Railway was
induced by a cognisance of some flagrant mismanage-
ment in the financial department of the company,
and by a prospect of the hue being unable to continue
the payment of its usual dividend, with other offen-
live particulars, I shall feel obliged by your inserting
this as a contradiction to such base and malignant as-
sertions, which could only have emanated from into
parties, with a view to depreciate the stock el
this company.
As regard. my resignation, I have only to state that
it was dictated from motives of policy, and far from
there being anything wrong in the company', &co-
conuts, I do not hesitate to say that daring the wised,
period of my chairmanship I never detected the slight-
est discrepancy in any of them. With retard to the
position and prospects of the line, I have a higher
opinion of its merits than some, and am only eaten-
ishtd at the present low prio3 of the stock; and I
fearlessly assert the, with one exoeption,the Midland
Line is without a parallel, and, as to railway invest-
ment, is unquestionably the Hetet, and will prove the
most remunerative of the very many now in ex-
istence.—l am, &c.,
Hyde Park Corner, May 25,1849.

The first meeting of the Blanchester Registration
and Financial Reform Assosiatiae, which wee called for the
purpose of sleeting the general council and officers, was held
on Thursday main, in the large room of Newall'e-
111111ORGE WILSON, who took the chair, said—Gen-
tle:ems the *sets of this association, end the mode by
which we to accomplish those objects, have been
emplaned premise
which were made before 8.000 people
in the Fro-Oa& Hall ; they were expressed In the resolu-
tions which emanated from that misting ; they are in unison
with the °pintos **detained by • number of maciatioas
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Iseedel redeem is various parts of the kingdom,
ma, ether sonesdations seeking. mare. (Hoer.) Toe
semmi reeshition sabots this principle—" That we believe,
▪ Insmial reform, however soon it may be obtained, can be
permanently secured for the people of this country, until
they obtain greater toutrol over the House of Commons."
(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, the third and charac.eristle re-
solution of that meeting was this That as we know fives
experience how false, how hollow, how delusive are all signs
of progress, unless you propose poetical measures, we pro-
pose to register sad make progress, from day to day, be
attacks upon the parliamentary register." (Cheer,.) And
I am persuaded, gentlemen, that every other financial or
reform association in the country, unless it makes this the
chief part of its objects, will never make that progress which
its best kinds could desire. (Hear.) If you want to strike
with miming precision directly upon the House of Cow
moo you most strike through the register. (Hear.) We
sent out the resolutions passed at the meeting in the Free'
Trade Hall to a number of the hot friends of free trade
and reform throughout the country ; we waited for their
replies, bemuse we felt quite sure that any association,
to be powerful, must have the support, not of the peo-
ple in one locality, but of the rook throughout the
country. (Hear.) We received their replies ; we acted upon
those replies so far as at once, seeing the opinion enter-
tained throughout the country, to delegate one of oar body
(Mr. A. Polities) to visit various pities', to expound our
views, to explain the principles of the emaciation, and
promote its objects; and we now ask you, therefore,
after the steps we have already taken' to elect the
council, and take the field in earnest. (Cheery.) The
Isms by which we shall pursue our objects will be left
I to to the discretion of the council, whom you will elect this
evening; but I shall say, briefly, we propose to sent out
esmpateat paws to expound the views of the amen-
, tioa, that we shall enter into correspondence—cot with
%deviations where that correspondence is illegal—but
with our friends throughout the country, and ask their
ea-operation and support. There are three ways in
which parliamentary reform may be obtained. In the
Ant place, you can ask all those—and there are a much
greater number of them than at first you might suspect—
ask all three who possess the qualifications, and who
are not already registered, to beecme registered. (Hear,
hear.) In the next, you can do that which the Lessee
and which worked such a wonderful change in the consti-
tution of the register, that if it had lasted two years longer
it would have taken nearly the whole of the counties in
England from the monopolists—you can induce all your
Mende, theu gentlemen who join with us in this move-
ment, to purchase county qualification,. (Hear, hear, and
Owen.) But the third, end lot, and greatest, is a new
element in these agitationt—an element which is a ,
which bas no political organhation, and which is to provi e
a means by which you shall enable the working classes, not
only without pecuniary lose, but to their perwlltal ;bettor,
to !promo enfranchised. (Cheers.) To a certain extent,
the building societies do this, and no man can look with
greeter ple‘sure at every prospectus issued of a beial-
tag echiety than I do ; because it is an indication of the
attention the working and lower classes are paying
to bettering their condition by investments. (Hear, hear)
But building societies are not formed rvestUilly for poli-
tical obi. cts. There is now, however, a society formed
which enables the working mm to acquire • vote, end that
for political objects, at the same time that it benefits him.
All honour to our friends in Birmigham for having made
this discovery. (Cheers.) It is the discovery of a working
man, and we are indebted to working men nearly altogether
for the success which has attended it. The Birmingham
Land Association, without entering into details as to its
constitution,—the Birmingham Land Association in its
broad features does this ; it purchase. • certain amount of
load, which it resells to the members of the immolation at
soot price ; and it is found that the members of the associa-
lion so far have purchased that land which will give them a
freehoM qualification for the ecuaty register at the rate of
IW. or 191 les. per qualification. (Chem.) Now at pre-
sent the Birmingham society numbers some 1,500 members,
bolding 2,000 shares. They have already purchased see
est .te which will qualify mo•co than 300 voters' and allotted it.
They have purchased another estate, wbkhthey propose to
allot immediately, which will qualify 300 more. They ore
increasing at the rate of 60 a month, and no man SEE
tell the end of such au areciation. Now, gentlemen,
if Birmingham alone did this, why, then, It would
scarcely be worth our while to give much attention to
it ; but already there are upwards of 20 assoiatios
formed in the midland counties and in Yorkshire, with
the objects of the Birmingham association. I will just
show you this at Birmingham they have 1,600 mem-
here, holding 2,000 shares, increasing at the rate of teo a
month. Suppose. throughout the whole of England—which
is no great supposition—if instead of 200 or 300 associations
ou should have only 100 (and you have 20 at the present
time), and supposing none to be formed in Lancashire, and
suppose that, instead of having 1,500 or 2,000 members, as
the Birmingham an: elation have, they bad only 500 each,
you see 500 members in kindred associations are 60,000
county votes! And the whole of the county constituency'
of England is under half a million. Fifty thousand votes
put on those counties which are recoverable where the
landed interest isnot all.power*l, would expel every man who
sits (or three-fourths of the counties of England. (Cheers.)
Here then are the elements of the new emaciation we are
met tonight to promote. I don't conceal from myself that '
it will depend altogether on its general seeps and action fur
its success.
JOHN BRIGHT, Esq., M. P., said Our chairman
has endeavoured to explain why we should attempt
to form an association for the objects which be has
explained. I don't suppose he will have satisfied some
parties who: are accustomed to cavil at everything like
a political movement. The question is always asked,
" What would you have next ? What is it you are for
Why are not you satisfied with things se they are ?" These
ROYAL NAVAL SCHOOLS. ineetions are generally asked by people who have been born
with silver spoons in their mouths—(laughter)—or who, by
Yesterday the annual general meeting of the sup- ,ome success of their own, or success of those who were
porters of the above institution was held at the Thatched before them, find their position exceedingly comfortable, or
Hose Tavern, St. James's-street. Rear-Admiral BOWLES at least so much soot at they don't wish it to be &curbed.
in the chair. (Hear, hear.) w, I th.nk that the best answer to these
The SECRETARY read the report of the council for the cavillers is to point out what those who have gone before us
year 1848 in which they congratulate the subscribers upon or have anted with us on former occasions have accomplished
the fact that they bave been enabled to carry 03 the school b movements which have been quite as much complained
without mooching on the invested fund", and that by of as this can possibly be. I find that eurythiag that we
observing attire economy, the expenditure had been brought have gained for many years past, perhaps in all past time,
within the receipts. In the last annual report to the general has been gained by a course of proceedings which these ono
meeting, in 1848, it was stated that they bad determined plahiing people, if they had lived in those times would ire-
not to revive the question of openieg the school to suredly have found fault with. (Hear.) Therein sae thing
other classes than the sons of navel and marine officers of or which we must nut forget in turning our attention to
above wardroom rank, but, instead thereof, they contemn- these past movements, which is the exceeding tardiness
plated increasiag the annual charge for board and tuition with which they passed on from their first corameneessest
from the then maximum payment of 251. to 311., being the to their completion and success. There has been an uso.
cost price—reservilig to themselves the power of admitting ciation here and another there, and meetings by the dozen
into the school at 251. tbe ems of those officers whose mans or by the more, and occasional contributions to a consider-
might not enable them to pay the increased charge. As this able amount; but the people who had the power knew that
latter only came into operation at Christmas last, the there was no firm resolution on the part of the population to
were not as yet in a position to offer an opinion combine and to force the Mangos whkh they were thus de.
as to whether or not this new regulation would ob- mandieg. (Hear.) Now I hare before expressed an opinion,
slate the necessity of revising at a future period which I hold now as fully, perhaps mere fully, than ever, that
the question of opening the school. The average there is a sufficient amount of opinion in this country, if it
member of pupil, last year was only 174 (of whom 146 was only combined and direded,to maks ems hose of paella-
were paying 261. per annum, and 26 were on the meet act much mote in accordance with*. directioa of the
gratuitous or reduced list), slthough the house, even in its public will, and much more honestly and advaatageostly for
presuat imperfect state, iscapabla of eatonusodatinte upwards the country, than it dose at present. (Hear, hear.) We re-
ef WO. Tha balance at the end of last year was 1901. Bs. 6.1., quire that this opinion should be combined. Last year, for
and they express a hope that funds might be placed at their example. there were a great number of meetings held in all
disposal for effecting the emplethe of the original designed parts of the country in favour of an improvement in the sys-
the building at New Cross. At present neither a so *1- tem of representation, and an immense number of petitions
room nor • eltarl is built, a room ultimately intended were presented. Bat parliament thought that was only the
as a class-room being used as a sebool.room, and the ISe:temente of • moment; that it had merely happened be-
library and unseen as a chapel. They state also that cause excitements bad taken place on the continent ; that It
the school wee steadily advancing in character and would die away
i again and that nothing need be done.
that they cantinas to receive most satisfactory letters (Hear, hear.) There s in the papers of to day a fast
from parents whose sorts had left the who& Several of the stated which it is worth our while to coadder for a moment.
pupils of the establishment had distinguished themselves by I allude to the sews brought bynexed to the Indianthe & maiWebl,
tattles high boom at the university, and by mous in the that another large kingdom is an
miens waits on which they had entered. The total empire. (Hear, hear.) Well, this process of &e-
-nemas" of annual stibeeriben was 867, and the amount of nexation fa India has been going on for a very long time ;
iavesend capital wee 8,3401. 45., to which is to be added the and it involves a vastly increased expenditure from the re-
dessii„ol 2001. fro. Amman Luca, which is payable venues raised from the population el India—raised by •
this year. Since the opening of the eMablishasent in Dam- system of taxation, for the most part, I don't hesitate to say,
berwell in 1833, 732 pupils bad passed from within its walls. the very wont which any government could possibly main-
after receiving the benefit of a sound religions and tam, and raised in such • manner, and to such an extent, as
education.
_They also state that the present to leave nobody in India besides the invading and the
lest Lord of the Admiralty has signified his intention to governing sheen, and the vast mass of prostrate and
soulless the haul sad pups payslips granted hob prw penperised cultivators of the soil. (Load cries of " hear.")
duessors in office. The marine cadetship was awarded last Now I believe we have outgrown the notion that it is an
Midsummer to J. R. Brookes, son oy the late Mr. Brookes, great advantage to us that the sun never sets on the Brill*
surgeon, R.N., who passed from his examination first in ma- dominions; and we have outgrown the notion that it is any
thematic,. The naval cadetships wars last year bestowed great advantage to us that one Indian kingdom or govern-
or' C. D. Inglis, son of Lieut. P. Inglis, R. 14., and A R. snot after another should be added to this empire. (Hear,
Tinkles. son of the late Capt. R. S. Tinklar, H. K. The hear.) There is no proof whatever that those vast and re-
Yerborringh stiMiseship was awarded to A.T. Denham, son mote dominion,, continually added to us, have ever tended
of Capt. H. IL Daiwa. B. N. ; this reward will, in future, to strengthen this country or to improve the material wa-
in conformity whit seraosesente made by the Admiralty, &ion of the population of the United Kingdom. (Hear,
and osermeill is by the -Bari of Yarborough, be given to hear.) But nearer home, there are still more afflicting signs.
the hey wen „hem the ant navel cadetship is bestowed. I had
on former occuloas alluded to the condition of Ire-
They seeemead, finally, that two of the by-laws, land. (Hear, hear.) And if any man tells me that our
Nos, 411 ma 54, the former of shish leaves the government has been • jut and a good and a wise govern-
semil me of extending the periods of admission and ' ment, that our aristocratic institutions can stand f trth to the
el the pupils, and the latter readers compe)- world and say, " Look around at the results of the wisdom
esey the dhiniesal el pupils whose parents are in sneer for with which we have controlled the destinies of a great ea-
se productive of pire" I would point to Ireland and say, " There is your
board and • Wiles, Mould be reminded,
incor.venience. condemnation written, not in insurrectionary movements,
The CHAIRKAW, having mood the aloptka of the report, for those were idle—but written in the condition of a papule-
Lint. Hammitt as an amendment that the portion such as the Milked world has never before seen; written
des of the report w related to the resciadiag of the bye in the depopulation of provinces—written in the famine-
law No. 48 should be omitted. Boys were admissible to the stricken millions over whom you:govern—written, ay, you my
institution from the ages of 8 to 14 inclusive, and were not see it in every ship that tracks the ocean, end bears away
retained nit after 18. This rule had been adopted after the exiles who fly from your shores ; and you might we it in
mature deliberation, and was found to work weal both in the records if you had the records, of the mortality of the
this and other schools. He believed that the admission of population which has been for a long time subject to your
boys after the age of 14 was calculated to inflict serious in ' Tale' (Cheers.) The fact ist after all that we have seen in
jury on the institution, and be should therefore oppose the the newspapers, and heard in parliament, that none of
present alteration as calculated to produce that result, us, I believe, can form an adequate lea of the state of the
The amendment having been mended, after a brief sins- population in the south and west of Ireland. (Hear,
elusion, was carried by a majority of One. The report, with hear.) I have seen a return from a certain number of
thee :option of the words indicated by the amendment, was union workhonies, showing that out of 1,600 persons who
then adopted. entered those workhouses within • given period, 600 of
them died within two menthe (Hear, bear.) And it is
After a vote Of thanks to the chairman, the prceiliainr
quite notorious that some men who bare been loudly asking
terminated.

G. HUDSON.

THE LORD MAYOR'S BANQUET TO THE

JII DGES.

Yesterday the Lord Mayor gave the usual annual
banquet to the representatives of the City of London to her
Majesty's Judge* and the bar of England. The entertainment
was ryes in the Egyptian Hall, to a select rather than a
numerous party.
" The levees cup—the great and time-honoured feature of
all eity_bangnets"—having been given by the toastmaster
(Mr. Harker) with stentorian lung and correct enunciation
of name awl title from lord to esquire, and esquire to my
manure end Indies end gentlemen all,
The LORD.MAYOR proposed the usual loyal toast% and
their having been honoured In due form ant with all
enthu Wm,
The LORD MAYOR had now the honour of propesiag
the health of a distinguished nobleman, for whom he had
long entertained—and he was sure every one present enter.
tained —the highest respect, and who he had the most
sincere gratification at seeing there as his guest that
evening ; he need comely say he meant Lord Brougham.
They could point back with pleasure to the early
of that noble and learned Iced—to the ability and
zeal which distinguished him as an advocate at the bar, and
to the Mere and large views to which afterwards as a states-
man he made that energy and ability subservient. If be
were to team the early path of Lord Brougham, it would be
to describe the active, energetic, anti earnest part he took in
carrying out every liberal and great measure which during
that weer was brought before the Parliament and the
country. This, however, was matter of hiatosy, and con-
gratulating himself on having the honour of r osiving so
distinguished an individual a. his guest he would ask them
to join him in drinking to the health of the Right Hon.
Lord Brougham.
The West being drusk,
Lord BROUGHAM returned his hearty thanks for the
manner in which his health had been proposed and drunk.
He felt a peculiar satisfaction at all times in partaking of the
hospitality of the city of London, for he had the high. sad
distinguished honour, an honour which he prized above ell
others, of being himself a citizen of Loudon—(cheer)—and
if anything could add to the gratification he enjoysd from
holding that position, it was in the r' &Mien that the
honour was conferred upon him at the same time that
it was conferred on a noble and learned friend of his, in con-
sideration of their having zealously, manfully, and suedes
fully, God be preiscd, discharged their duty to a distinguished
but persecuted client, who wet attempted to be run down
and sacrificed by a corrupt and profligate court. (Cheers.)
He need this language ad y, but not for the first time ;
for he never responded to the mention of his name at any
City meeting, nor had his noble end learned friend the Lord
Chhf Justice of England ever answered to any toast within
the City of London, without making the same avowal.
—(hear, hear)—that he gloried in the recollection that he
bad obtained the honour of citizenship in London for exposing
profligacy and corruption. (Hear, beer.) He was awara
that he was speaking these things at a time when public vir-
tee was at a low ebb, and when courtiership and profligacy
was more pendent than true patriotism ; but he did not
consider It was his duty to conceal his sentiments at any
time or in any place—above all, in the City of London, which
had ever been the cradle of civil and religious liberty—the
cradle inubich, in the glorious revolution of 1688, our liber-
ties were rocked emd nursed. (Hear, hear.) There.
fore it was that he gloried, and that kis noble
and learned friend (Lord Denman) gloried in belonging to
the City of London—end gloried especially in those events
which might be said to have begun, or at least to have con.
solidated, their connexion with that city. (Cheery) lie
must be allowed to add—whet, however, was of far less con-
sequence—that it gave him groat pleasure to meet
there today so many members of the learned pro-
feetion of which he had se long been a mem-
ber. Though few of those present he remembered r
his cotempusiles, it gave him pure and uomingled satis-
faction to meet so many of his brethren at the bar on such an
occasion. He would conclude by giving the health of the
Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress.
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks.
His Lordship next gave " the Attorney-General and the
bar of England."
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in returning thanks,
expressed his satisfaction that the conduct of the bar rest
with the approbation of the citizens of London.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of Mr.
W. P. Wood, and the members of the House of Commons.
Mr. W. P. WOOD acknowledged the c sulpha:eat.
The neat toast was " Mr. S. Gurney, and prosperity to the
trade and commerce of the City of London," which Mr. S.
Gurney acknowledged.
" The Aldermen of London " was the last toast, and Mr.
Alderman Thompson having returned thanks, the company
separated.

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for emigration from Ireland upon some government system,
declare that emigration itself le not necessary, or would not
be regarded as a remedy, for the rapid extinction of the
population by the mortality which is now in progress
does more for thinning the Irish people than the most
extended emigration could be expected to do. (Hear,
hear.) Now, can our present constitution remedy these
evils? Why, if it was only a nation that people would be
better off if they had an honest representation, If no good
argon .nt could be given against it, even that lotion might
be gratified. (Hear, hear.) But I propose this question not
upon mere imaginary grounds, and I ask, whether any sane
man, knowing what Is the working of our present govern-
ment system, can show that a remedy can be spplied by our
constitution, as it now exists, to the evils which I have so
briefly described ? Now, Just look back to any question that
ha- been already gained—to the emancipation of the catho-
lic', for example. Why, people in England asked whether
they wen honest grievanees which the catholic* complained
of, or whether those who held what they called such dread-
ful religieus opinions, had any right to a share in the go-
vernment ; and they let the thing go on to the verge of
a civil war, and then catholic emancipation was granted. ,
Lord John Russell moved, year after year, for a puns-
plenary reform; but a parliamentary reform of the most
meagre description was not granted till hardly any tory
nobleman's carriage could pan through a country town
or village without haring its windows and panels broken in
by stones. (Hear.) And when the reign of violent public
meetings, and almost revolutionary resolutions at these
meetings, and the reign of brick-bats—for it was little lemo—
ny e, there was no earnest proposition to improve repro-
natation
the rep.
natation of the people in parliament. There is one man im-
portant consideration that I am dispensed to lock at for a mo-
ment or two, which is, the effect of our present system upon
OUT population. Mr. Wilson has mentioned the number of
electors in the counties. I don't know the number in the
boroughs, but altogether, I believe, the electors don't amount
to more than one in five, or one in six, of the whole grown-up
men in the kingdom. (Hear) I will suppose, for the sake of
argument, that it is one in five, but I believe it Duet so many.
Now, four-fifths of the English people are not ignorant,
are not immoral, are not dishonest, are not idle—(hear,
hear)—are not the enemies of order. (Chests.) If there be
anything which this country has done in ancient or in
modern tione—if there be anything which stands upon the
records of its history, which is worthy that it should be
proud of, or that other nations should admire, certainly all
this has not been the work of one in five of the Briti.h
p ,pulation. (Cheers) What have we to say to those
other four men ; or, if von like, to those four millions ?
Suppose we were of them, and not, as probably the
majority of us are, of the one in five class. Is there any-
thing in our character, in our public or private conduct,
which justifies the one in insolently pointing us to the other
bide of the barrier, and saying, " Come not near us, for you
are less wise, lees fond of order, leas capable than we are of
giving an opiaion upon public questions, I aisle
to say who
is an honest, an intelligent, and useful man in our district
to go to parliament ?" Why, what should we sly it this lan-
guage we* held out to us? We should say this is an in-
version of the very order of nature. There is no such demar-
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the other four men brutes, and even your laws can't make
them so; and, therefore, this state of things shall not be
tolerated. (Great cheering.) I admit that there are great
numbers of the working slurs—l speak of the classes who
live upon wages—who do not sufficiently consider public
questions, and have not sufficient political interest ; but there
is a very numerous clue amongst those who work from day
to day at their honest, and laborious, and skilled occupations,
who understand this just as well as I do, and who feel pre.
cisely upon this point as I should feel if I were in their posi-
tion. It is for this great class that I plead ; and I maintain
that the interest's of this country would be more secure, so
fa!, le o- eee worth mewl-- if this erect des. with all it
virtues, was celled in within' e pale Of tbe constituting, and
that we might all work and act together for the sustentation
of all :hat is good in those institutions which our forefathers
have lett us. (Cheers.) Look at the sources of disturbance
in this country. Trades unions (I speak of those formed
upon false economical principles) have lost very much of
their influence ; a love of disorder does not exist ; a love of
plunder or of the destruction of property is not to bo found
to an extent worth mentimiog among our population
The only periods when you have disturbances in this
country is when men, feeling the political prescription under
which they live, combine, and excite each other by the re-
membrance of the description of their grievances, and then,
when there comes a period of great temporary suffering, from
vicasitudes in trade, or from the failure of the harvest, all
this breaks out and appears upon the surface in the shape of
partial insurrectionary movements. (Hear, hear.) Would
it not be worth something if we could establish a system of
zovernment under which the Newport insurrection in Wales
had not taken place ; under which the chartist riots of 1839
had not taken place ; under which that great and evraordi-
nary outbreak of 1842 had not taken place ; and, r which
those insane and deplorable, though very limited attempt* at
disorder in the spring of 1848, should not have tak place
and under which a few misguided men in Ireland would
never have been permitted to involve themselves in the awful
sentences which they hive suffered from attempting to create
insurrectionary movements in that part of the country t
(Cheers.) It bel.e.gs to as to do something to Krieg
about the advent of such a system. I understand
the object of the association to be this, to combine.
as far as possible, all the liberal, Caine,', honest, pclitical
opinions of this district, not for objects which the
censtitation does not sanction (hear) not for objects
upon which the strictest Christian morality will frown • but
for objects which I believe to be as tiered and as good as
ever called forth the energies and the resolutions of the
citizens of a free state. (Cheers.) We combine for the
purpose of bringing these liberal opinions to bear on behalf
of every just and good measure which may be submitted to
the legislature or discussed by the legislature. We shall be
able to bring about a very large amount of petitioning to the
House of Commons by organising a mode by which all VT-
eons agreeing with us in opinion shell state their opinions
at one time to the house, and we intend also to ray particu-
lar attention, of course, to the reduction of expenditure, and
to the improvement of the economy of our government.
(Cheers.) But I admit freely that I look to this association
with the greatest pleasure on this account, that I believe its
ultimate object will be, by the extension of forty. 'billing
treeholds, by the attention to the register both in btroughs
and counties, gradually but rapidly to give the people
increased power in the House of Commons—in their " own
house," by the theory of the constitution—and ultimately
to enable them to make such changes, with repent to our
representation, as, while It excludes none of those who now
possess the franchise, shall admit a vest number of those who
are now excluded, and shall give —stein, to the length of the
resolution which was propped in the House of Commons
last year by Mr. Hume—the franchise to a great majority,
at soy rate, of those who, from the present system, are ex-
cluded. (st Hear, hear," and cheers) The proposition that
we will make will net be like this ev stem which now exists,
by which a large class is excluded ; but it will be one which,
whatever be the exclusion proposed, will be an exclusion
to all Blares with equal fairness, and :one which will admit,
with equal fairness, all claws of the people. (Hear,
bar) Before I conclude, there is one point to which we
must tura our attention. We ean't go abroad to preach
purity of election and patriotism amongst constituencies, and
great wisdom in the selection of members,whilet we find the
boroughs in our own county in so disgraceful a position
with respect to their representation. (Hear, hear.) I
beg to announce that a number of gentlemen have
sent in their names, and I have in my hand a list of
more than 200 names of persons, which it is proposed
should be submitted to this meeting, as the general council
of the association. It is proposed that Mr. Wilson should
be the chairman—(great cheering) ; that Mr. Rawson, who
always took care that the league did not improperly run
into debt, and that its funds should be most judiciously
expended, should be the treasurer of the association—(re.
newed cheers) ; and that Mr. Hickin be requested, as be-
fore, to undertake the duties of secretary. (Applause.)
Mr. J. C. DYER, who was received with cheers, aid-1
think the asesociation is one that ought to receive the cordial
support of the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood,
and of this county. I conceive that, as it aims to attain the
object of giving to the people a more extensive command
over their own house of parliament, it ought certainly to en-
gage the sympathies and the earnest co-oration of the
inhabitants of this county, and especially of this town.
There is a consistency in all the proceedings of the
Qom dative dames, in opposing every reduction et
taxation, because the full profits and advantages of large tax-
ation go to be divided among themselves. (Hear, hear.)
Well, there seems to be no means of checking this, except
that of giving to the people a sufficient influence over the
House of Commons—over their own house. Whether this
is to be dose by the system which our excellent chairman has
so ably explained to v to-night, or by the old.fashioned
mode of making it dangerous to carry on a government of
mirrepreeentation any longer, I do hope that
an system may sueseed ; and I confers I have a much bet-
tor opinion of its working and propriety sines I came into
this room than I had before, in consequence of the lumi.
seas explanation of the mode in which it tan be made to
work; and if we can, in reality, get the House of Commons
reedy to represent the commonalty, let us accept it. Let us
nesept it in any way sooner than let it run on with such
well-founded and such universal discontent as now exists
usin.st the present system of r(presentation--egainst that
Haws of Commons which has so shamelessly set its face
spinet financial reform, and which has pertinaciously op-
posed everything which has a tendency to check the power
oldie governing clue. (Cheers.) If this association can word
mat a real reform of the representation of este country, 1
shall, for one, be satisfied to it work, insteed of the old plea
of agitating for a radical reform by making fJI datprous
to refuse. Therefore, I beg to second the appointment e'
the council—composed, as you have beard, of gentkm
eminently qualified to forward and carry into effectlhis gr.
movement. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN : I will now put the resolution. The
only improvement I have to suggest is, that the name
Mr. Dyer himseU may be added. (Cheer..)
The resolution was carried unanimously, and with great
cheering.
Mr. Alderman HARVEY moved "That the preliminary
proceedings of the provisional council be confirmed."
Mr. WM. MORRIS having seconded the resolution, it
was carried unanimously. The meting then separated.

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PLYMOUTH FINANCIAL REFORM
ASSOCIATION.

The first meeting of this body was held on tht
evening of Tuesday, the 23rd ixst.int, at the Mechanics'
Institute.
JOHN BURNELL, 8.q., was celled to the chair on iF
motion of C. B. Calmidy, EN., and ef,er some proliminar
remarks, in which he stated that evert, mm wh, contriba.,
to the public expenditure Imo intorvsted in the=tion
before them, be celled upon Mr. Nichols to #.

meeting.
Mr. Isaac Nicnot. then errom—le,d his addtes.
felt it to be an honour to On to ad I,ess the meetiogenpoi

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absorbing to of the der, the financial expenditure of
country. He divided the subject into three parts: Ist.
need of a governing power; 2nd. The amount of our
anal expenditure, and a necessity far a reduction therein ;
3rd. The effect of that reduction in a national point of
r. He traced the progress of society step by step until
:rived at the stage in which man is drilled, and he •
ed that ha proportion to the growth of civilisation
the necessity created for a wise and good government P I
the purposes of protection. He then trek occasion to
r to the movement making by the agricaltural interest,
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the restorati ea of that mis•called protection to native
ashy, and he concluded, after r. marking upon the mu-
I dependence of the various interests, whether agricul-
el, manufacturing, or commercial, that to attempt to
p or protect individual interests was to injure the
ole, and to allow the laws of fallible man to i
veil over the great fundamental law of nature.
then entered upon the consideration of the amount of
• national expenditure, and the necessity fur its reduction.
made a short analysis of the national debt, alto sing that '
annual charge of 30,000.0001, was by it engrafted on the i
Autry of this country. Therefore, whatever the revenue
tht he, this sum must be provided for out of it,
I in every government aniseed statement it would
found that this amount was either added
the sum total of annual expenditure, or
iucted primarily from the amount of revenue. To the
itinuance of the present annual government expenditure,
ilusive of interese, etc., on the national debt, of 24,000,0301.,
decidedly objected; and he added their determination
a to establish such a system of retrenchment and economy P
should secure to the nation certainly no greater expends- !
re than that of 1835, viz , 15,844,6491. He thought
saving could be made in the colonial expen-
tura, partly by a reduction of the military force in the
lonia, and partly by removing causes for revolt in some
them. He concluded his lecture by showing the
vantages in a national point of view of a reduction in their
.tional expenditure. He sat down amid loud applause. 0
use discussion enacted, and at the termioation of the meet-
g several other persons present were enrolled with the as-
dation.
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gCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
THE ENLARGEMENT, BUILDING. AND BE- .• • 1
PAIRING OF CHURCHES AND CHAPELS. .1
Yesterday the annual general meeting of the friends I I
f this institution was held at the society's offices, St. Mar- I
in's-lane; his Grace the Archbishop of Catrrattnurtv in the
hair.
The report for the last year was read, from which it ap- I! V••
oared that 12,9101. had been granted in aid of 40 new
hunches and chapels, the rebuilding or enlarging 11, and
lying increased accommodation in 43 others; making a
otal of 94. No less than 27.963 seats were thus provided,
4 which 23,071 would be free for the one of all classes.
,2151. was granted towards the erection of churches in 17
tar parishes, containing a population of 63,798 persons.
lid had been granted towards the erection of thumb's ! ,
n 136 districts, which were expected to be endowed by
he Eadesiastical Commissioners. These would give 81,206
eats, of which 62,293 would be free. For this purpose
18,23•51. had been contributed from the funds of the society. •
The society paid grants to 111 places to the amount of
20,0831. ‘Vith this aid 52 new churches would be built ;
20 parish churches had been rebuilt • and 39 parish churches
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hart been eelarged. The donations received during the year • •
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amounted to 2,183/. 20. 62. ; the remittances from the ' '
diocesan and district associations amounted to 2,1391.3,. 10d. ; •
legacies, 3691. 19s ; portion of the receipts under the royal
letter up to 31st Marc'', 3,3631. 15s. 9d. The state of the
moiety's feuds on the 31st of March last exhibited outstand- 4 ,
hie grants to the amount of 44,8841. ; value of the funds in
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toe ereiety's lianas, iumvt. ea aye., Maui 4 oluanCo ei
3,571/. 91. 10d. , . •
The report having been adopted,
The Bishop of LICHFIELD moved, and W. Concur, Esq.,
seconded, a vote of thanks to the chairman, which his grace i
acknowledged, after which the meeting separated. li' 1 I
BATHS AND WASHHOUSES FOR THE
LABOURING CLASSES.
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Yesterday a meeting of the promoters of these
establishments took place at the London Tavern, for the
purpose of receiving the seventeenth report of the committee 'I • ,
of work* and for other business concerted with the institu-
tion in doulston-erpare. The Rev. Sir HENRY DUKINFIELD
took the chair, in the absence of the Bishop of London, the •
president. , i
The report, after relegate the progress of the works from
the commencement to the present time, stited that the
committee had much satisfaction in reporting that under the I. I• I I
act of 1817 similar institutions are progressing in several
parts of London, and in towns in the country ; and that the
engineer to the company bad gratuitously supplied draw-
ings for establishments at Amsterdam, Bru'sels, Liege, and
New York, the designs fir all of which were copied from
those adopted in Goulston-square. The gross expenditure
on the works, including the purchase of the site, has been I •
22,6951. 9e. 4d., and the expenditure for print-
ing .. ,
and other sundries incidental to the establishment •
has been 3,9361.15 a. 10d. ; making together 26,6321. es. 2d. .
The orreries of working the establishment during the 18
months, from July, 1847, to December, 1848, have been I !
1,3581. le. 4d., and the receipts 9891.8 e. The sum required,
December 31, 1848, to complete the works, may be esti-
mated 1 '
at 2,0001, which has still to be raised by subscription,
or paid out of the weekly receipts from the baths and wash- I
houses, which it is now expected will exceed the expenditure e
by 10/. or 201. per wee k. With a view to arrive at a just • *
appreciation of the circumstances, a considerable deduction
must be made from the gross outlay for expenses incidental
to the formation of the first establishment on a large scale.
These expenses, and the Cairo. cost of the feundati ns. owing
to the peculiar position of the site selected, cannot be esti-
raved at lees than 5,0001., which, deducted from ..
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26,6321. se. 24 , leaves 21,632/. se. 2d. as the cost of the
buildings and apparatus, in which there are provided 96
baths and 84 tubs, with the necessary drying closets, and ' !
other conveniences.
From this sum another deduction of at least 3,0001., must
be made for the cast of experiments, alteration", he. Con- :
sidering all these circumstances, and with the knowledge
now acquired, the committee are sanguine that similar ac-
commodation might be obtained in other establishments in
London, for an outlay not exceeding 12,0001, and in the
country, where sites are cheap, for a still smaller cum, The •
first establishment at Liverpool for 8 baths and 20 tube, cost •
3,1001. The second, in Paul lane, recently erected, for 34
baths and 30 tube, cost above 10,0001. That in St. Mactin's,
• for 68 baths and 56 tubs, will cost 16,0001. ; and the expendi- 4 '
tare on the establishment in Goulston-equare has not been so '
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. excessive as it would at first appear.
• In the first eighteen months, from July, 1847, to Decem- •
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ber, 1848, with but few baths in working order, the receipts
: were nearly Itoool. From January lot to May 19th, this I
• year, the receipts have been 3151. 6e. 7d., from 23,332
bathers; but these receipts in the winter months afford but
little clue to the groom receipts of the year, which your coin- •
• mitres estimate at fully 2,0001. The ezpeasa will not ex-
i coed 1,200!., leaving 8001. to be applied from this depart-
' went to the liquidation of the loan account. In this esti-
, mato the receipts from washers were not included.
, Various resolutions were parsed, and amongst them it was
j agreed that endeavours should be made to obtain, by means •
e of subscriptions, the required sum of 2,0001., in order to
f complete the works now in progress,
1 The CHAIRMAN then gave the following account of the I
1 success which had attended the baths in St. Martin's. He
i thought the statement would be interesting although not 1
D immediately connected with the objects of the present meet- e
a ing. In a period of four months, the total number of bathers
amounted to 51,752, and of these 4,343 were females. The 1t•
. greatest number of persons who had bathed in one day was 0 ,
1,297, and the largest number of bathers on a Sunday morn-
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) lag (frem el o'clock until half-pant eight) was 685. _ The
f total amount of receipts during the time specified was
il 7721. t3s. 2d. lli
L, Certain statistics having bees detailed at some length, and
,e various formalities having beet gone Waugh, the meeting
d separated. I
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Ie THE QUF.EN'e BIRTHDAY.-In honour of this day,
l• the troops at Portsmouth, including tappers and miner., Royal
"; Artillery, Royal Marine Artillery, Royni Kernel, 77tirsed i II
of 9lstregiasents, and 69th depot, were reviewed on Thursday •
5- on Bentham-common, in presence of 10 er 12,000 persons.
) The ships were decorated with flags and fired royal salutes. l
Pt The Excellent's gun-boats were out under practice, and in
15 the evening the Clarence-yard boat brigade pulled out of h
Is harbour in review order. The day was fine.
: ASCOT Cur.-The rewards of the sueoessful in the
of forthcoming *Ascot end Goodwood rams are to be seen at
at Messrs. Garrard's, Haymarket. The principal prise, due to
,t, the munificence of the Emperor of Runde, is a large vase,
,to which might be turned into a candelabra, should it eat the
ti- fancy of the lucky acquirer., by the simple addition of braccie. 1
to At the base is represented the discomfiture of Hippol7tus.
ins The mere mention of the name will atones conjure up a richly
as •
chased and nude gentleman pitched from a chariot, horses I
sit snorting and monsters scowling and scaring : the latter are I.'
stn entwined in the upper part of the vase. The grouping
eatNS of the whole is ably concaved. The two other subjects i
are " The Spanish Bull Fight " and " The Sioux Indians."
en They are composed and modelled with that delicacy of Genie-
i,,`; tuns which silver allows, and do great credit to Mr. Cotterill,
irk the chiseller of these as Iso of the pnneipal piece.
1 THE TENANT FARMERS OF SOITTII NOTTS, who
lac were permitted to eject Lord Lincoln from the represents.- 1 I
pus lion of that division, and return in his place Mr. Hildyard,
of are by no means disposed to part with their political power ;
ten and the late election, peaceable though it was, has convinced t , ,
...at the great landlords that nomination in counties will not be
much longer tolerated. Mr. Bromley was returned only by
, Die a compromise between the landlords and their tenants. Mr. 1
• of Burrell, it is said, was the nominee, and Mr. W. H. Barrow
the farmers' candidate. Each party preferred peace to strife;
.cal but the battle will come soon. Gams laws, tithe., a church
which costs six millions a year, and tenant-right, will soon •
cry be struggled for ; and it requires net much judgment to per-
ceive that the party of the people will ultimately, in each
I, it case, be the victors, especially when they are aided by a large
extension of the suffrage, and the ballot, which the conduct
of his Fusco of Newcastle and Lord Exeter Las rendered !
inevitable.-Lincoln ;ternary.
INQUEST (YESTERDAY).-FATAL ACCIDENT ON
TRE HERBY NIOHT.-Before Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospits/,
the on the body of Hannah Cronin, aged 60 years. It appeared
lice' in evidence that the deemed and a relation proceeded De •-_,_
the night of the D. rby to wi*nets the return of the carriages dr
the from Epsom. There were several thousands of persons etrial..
me negated round the Elephant Castle Tavern for the same.
Lod 'num*, and whilst the deceased was running across the •:'
ton road she was knocked down by an omnibus. the driest , ed
the endeavoured to stop the horses, but before he could do v ps
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the off forewbeel passed over the deceased's body. She
Be I tak-n to the above hospital, whrre she died from the . ' pg
pin of the injuries.-Verdiet " Accidental Deatb." 4?:;.; ../...!:: 3, Go
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