The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-01 00:00:00

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PARLIAMENTARY
AND FINANCIAL REFORM.

MEETING AT NEWCASTLE.
Oa Wedgy mein s pabkia motto. was bold la
tM lasay. Rams, Nsheawreet. Newendeosa-Tpae. "is
ppm/ et parbalouslal7 NiegUi Wea!nr Y die iS m-
. 6601% sad a Modes el sae aselssal tairatles, whit& Is
asl abassla
ULT.! ir
str.iaas,Zeti., us."
having bass sated late Ike
*AL was rewired AIM Rash applause. Afwe akw wards
hem tM draw,
se. O. CHARLTON premed Ow Nest soulaeles as

IMMO:
That this wades whose to Henn& the pr de-
=hen this National ma Manna
Moodslion, bang of *aParHa ka thatnn the people of
gels diastry were ankle& by • fall, fete. sad VW reprieves-
na la the Cnamens' Moan of Perinnen, sad to ea no-
Naar gramones.
New be Mr. C.) knew that they ealy waled to Lear that
sessiedes it order in waving Oak Asian apprehatios,
and silo give • boson wellness m this. mesdames who hid
anilked their demestis sad mond owner to ans to the
he Berk to pat • Inds lido its them ; for they lived so seez
floalased, that they ended aunedhiag to quiams them sad
owes them fa= thole sties ofenfaiV:iy. Why, he asked,
wee dine net • fall, lair. sag reprossatatioa of
wary sass is the autos ? ke he like to see say per
who hired then stead up bolero that wadies" sad
One Ilk nooses why • single Ina sang them Ind so
right te exercise th• elective hanshise, whisk God, try
mare, brewed Ms with—who was toiling every day to
odd to the seamen stock of the aisle., and yet sot
Awn to have • voice as to how the money of the
satin Ann he *peat, (Applause.) He implored them,
thea, to give the premat depatatioa • Marty welsoue,
bonen they might to wan these areal laws. After some
farther obereations,
Mr. MAWSON seesaled the resolution, which was serried
auanimouely:
Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY rose amidst load cheering,
sad sei i—Mr. Charon, Inns sad gentlemen, I some not
Mae, it seem% to Jennie* you, or leer to you say moons
why you should ad and support that anxieties of which I
beers to be the npresestative in Newcastle on the present
mann ; because you seem thoroughly and perfectly to in
demand the subjoin Is Aberdeen, a short time ego, I re-
ceived a welcome which I shall saver forget. I waived •
welcome too, hem some of the softer sex—whom I an
always happy to see aniaapt us, because their pasties
assures us that we an in the right way ; sad I congratulate
you, sir, us bevies some of them pressen ea this
theasion. I sonntalate myself sad the society
to which I belong, oa W reception whisk you
lave bra pleased to give us, I shell return
with • grateful heart to report the mann. r in which
we have been resolved by tles toss of Newessele. This
swain inlay apart ef a great eassasertial and manufattur-
ina intensity; sad from this I expected within lees
than that they would claha for their fellow-nen a fall,
sad free rieneseatatton. I would sot acaosel hem you
that I look for somewhat farther methane them those whisk
Oa Nation) Parliamentary and Fineman' Rehm Amnia-
tale at present act upon, bat when we have &Mehra then
we may, it w• have shown by our geed anises that we
deserve it, fairly appeal to our countrymen for Isom Our
great of jest ia to unite the middle sad pretheing skean
Without that liana we can do nothing. The predadag
elates ban, for a long series of year, fright their
ewe battles, aid have fought it mesfaby—(disses)
but tkry have sot succeeded. Let us sever forget
that in fishing their own battles, they have been
fighting that of the middle claws also. (Cheers)
Without their assistance, we sheet! sever have ob-
tained that commercial freedom', that degree of reform which
we now pontos. (User.) To them we owe a deep debt of
amitotic And I am lad that the time has arrived when
the middle awes are to tipsy that debt of grati-
tude. Ism one of those who believe that the proascing
elegies of this country ere se fit for the franchise as the
middle ChM's themselves. (Chem) I believe that they
Donne as much intellimmee. Bat we mast sever forget that
It hat not been intelligence which has been roads the ben
of the frimehise hitherto: it has bean property, and pro-
perty &lona. It is often asserted that the people generally
are ir.t fit for the franchise, that they are not sufficiently
educated fur it i but I beg to toy that those who
make that summon know not the people. I am quit*
alive to the fact that there have been differences of opi•
Mott between the middle and the working claws; that
the produi lag slaves have taken tome means for obtaining
an secession of the franchise which they themselves now
reprobate. But if the middle climes will bur ia mind that
they hare f r many years k. pt the working donee in cab.
Janos —I hat theyUve not misted them in obtaining what
L their right, and improving their condition—they will, I
think, make axe and greater allowances for that irritation
whin, in some cases, has perhaps shown itself in a way in
which it ought not to have done. Sir, I hope that this
has wow ceased for ever. (Applause.) I hope that the
nano which has commenced between the middle and
pr dlicirg classes will be cemented la this town, as it
km been in every town in which I have had the honour
of app. aring on behalf of this meociatioe ; and I shall
show lapel' happy if I shall be the hatable instrument is
uniting that ink which had been broken—uniting it, I
nun tor ever, fur the purpose of social, and morel, and
tics' improvement. Sir, it is neeneary that I should explain
to you and to the meeting the preens Anita ef toe National
Patti onentery Finauclal Reform Asamistion. They
will seek en extension of the franchise ea will confer it upon
every adult male occupying a tensest, or any part of a
unseat, and who shed be rated or shell have claimed to be
rated to the relief al the poor. Aad though that may not
be all that some reformers may desire
_yet you will remember
that it yid be • very great, a very bread extension of the
framing,. I wculd beg of anyone holding such views who
may be hers to remember that othetssi, a is not compro-
mise; that ia aiding us in this eat/asks he is but promoting
his own views, however far he may go. An such the *dap.
tin of the versify ballot ; and we do so on the principle that
me* oaten to be protected, In giving their votes, against
penecati-a ; because for the went of that adoptixs, dr,
we lee is tbs counties, tenants at will driven to the poll like
sheep to the thimbles. Bat, sir, it is not confined to the
counties ; we ore the same thing carried on amongst the tail
eitbanies, we see it in our Lire towns ; we me the shopkeep-
inseam d, we re the nestanic desired to vote in
the way his master chows; we beer the poor man saying to
us, I would like to vote according to my couscienee, and
with you, bet I dare sot, for the eabeisteace of my family ie
depend. nt spot him who domino ma to vote in another
way. ." The vote now is not free; and for this reason we
advocate the vets by ballot. Ws farther demand that the
duration of oerliemeat be linl'ed to three yeer, on the
principle that "short reekosioge make long friends."
Though some of yea weald probably slink en year better
than three, those when assistaan we seek, sae whose aid is
ementilel to na, are set prepared to go so far as that, and we
wit take what we sea get, rather than what we would have.
(Hen) We seek also the abolition ef the property qusliti
sallea—(eisseve).-ead we do se bemire we that there
an a gnat member of intUlitmen (ally enable of taking
their ewe in the hone, of Wends, to their Wow men,
of acting as sprightly,nkonstly, as ably as tAoee who
bar bees bon with gnat star; and we think that they
should sot be .uledsd from it brines they haws to have
ben deprived of a great reties of the good tkiage of this
We. Tres would be great ha te, if we snide:airy
them; but they all fall into tampered with
the or I au now about to speak et, ad that is a more
aqua: apportionment of represeatadthe he the
smtedatioo.
Compered with this, other chaser are bat . The
people would not be hilly, fidelly, and heey venessated,
even with all these ether drawn sales we bad • 'ewe
equal apportiosiseat of members te the perakekm. These
an the principles of the useention; it has gives the
auntie* so then sad is fall alive to the
it has insured la then .'77-71180e
measures wan carried, they at ease the minim
of electen home oas sallies to about bar sialiess, se per•
her nearly I. ndlions ; they would gather • maja
Thy of the nate males of the teasers within the •of the
coostita•kra, width would be, I think, almost that our
extreme hinds as desire ; they would pretest the voter la
the @weir of his vets, mils! is wet laspormat ; sad they
would give the people ins Band essesel ever their remressa-
lathes. The ad that wend arise from this stale of
things I think would tee eatiolgalled by Oman emery ese
nowt. 1 that' yea will at ONO ND, my Meads, that, if
we lad a full, fair, and free repressatedes el the people,
that which is sew the went evil to se would mw—l speak
of elate yogi lades. Tat would gal, also, tbat Win portion
of your legislation whisk lea Menne to aerie toy aad
tonna &Hein west& theeive • very dilliment hropse ef at-
tention from what it sow does; that tenths amid be re-
duced and equalieed se that the poor men weld nin Walled
upon to pay more than literati preporink Dian lanstios,
as far as it could be serried
_wadi be salmillieled for
indirect taxation. But it would de MOM then it OIL It
would also relieve the anseiences of ear elesseang blow-
creatures from forced contributions towards the name of
doctrine. of which they do not approve. I rejoin te know
that is this town my fellow churehmea have send their
proper port—l call it not a noble per, bat I call it a just
pen—that they have relieved their datiag brethren from
say witributions to the thereat. IMO told that this is the
we her , sad I rejoice to hear It. I wish it were the an
all over Ragland. It is not so everywhere ; but with a fall,
fair, and fres representatioa of the people, that which we
seek would be the ease is every tows. It would emanipate
millions of our fellow mss hoes that which I all • la: ral
degradation end Finery. TM* hem entecink b eala
seventh of the adult sash mantis& ahead nun th•
power to control the ether larelaths or olasevenths
is, I think, a wasteens preposition. Bet, alien to
this, that the peopie's hear should be Waled ere ere
W control of the other hours, in se surprisine that onewly
would wonder that it .heedbar bees se long persainak
I have awned that the HMO of Commons is " beaded
over " to the other Ivan and such is the dent. We was
told by Lord J.ho Romell, in 1832—" If topressandes be
a garden of right, there is a right in hawse of Warm; if
it be a questioo of policy and expecting', thee do priory and
exptdi. ncy both loudly call for the Getman of Worm."
This was uttered eighteen years ago by Ha pr ine% Prime
Minister of England. I put it to this meeting whether it
dor cast equally apply to the present moment ? Have we
yet got /in of the rottsabororgh system ? Is reform not
yet seeded ? (Hear, hear.) I ace, la " Dod's Parliamene
tory Companion," borough alter been& neatissed, with
such remarks as time •
ellit= the Winne,' the
Duke of and gnat
Legume in this " Bridling* tri'lltireisonte degree
under the inguess"..7The Whitmore fatally." Caine, for
which the Earl ef embus% ma )the Marquis of Leas-
down!, si's; "the Maude of Lundwall has the lola-
nos in this borough." Take Ouservos ; "the Mantis

of Assigns's lathiest preponderates, he this bessegh."
Take Chatham: " the dockyard, ad ether
esteldhameets la this poet give the delder t:r thliV
emmidershie blase* over this weesthethey."
,Met:Dead-
" the phis establehdeb la this lure the ge-
eseemeet seasidualis Masai* ever the " Dover :
the Wardle of the Oboe Poets hex ocesiderable th-
awed' hare." Hiked The Dabs of Leeds tas soa-
siderable Meows la this borough." Ad se it gem ea
ter fre duty bemaghs, se that the peepie have no
be these *cell old* modes ease to *dr
own bed. Thee a dritsriel firklowasy have set thig
their eves hew; bast the metre' of the Mime bede. I
to.. Ina ladkra, la some kids, bgee maddsodielolthe
gess. Thee • Kn. Prise is said medial, to kedge
W dun el hew eddy* /Ir. Welektme. Thee mil
*thee that mil far reface:. Yea may see, from these
la fad, the way in year Wend are to be hellet
the had. • Mani eddy pebbled that
160 with 300,000 dodo. $ leemboth km seat by'
140,011;0°Ieshose elders. wile lfit atembee snood by the
other 180 dead—that klatillesero whisk
Pew. (Haw, hoar.) Sized
sad ills sekethe.
velempos. Hrisitel...2ll4V
half the baren6 gagehaisa of . =Mem
33 doehd -Ile ohm balled Idea. gepekelea of
Balled rade. upends al SS modem le palladeL
Now, let loth t our de beseept. Reerdestie
I believe. 'beet 80.000 inhablleals ; sad the elsolNins.
WA. are about 6.800 is debar. You dem to thethth
toms half. Mika a year; red prat 'hippie amenellste
360,000 toss. Yea Ned Iwe dash= to insmsfl ad
these add are seeetimes met in the opposite Miry
by two seeders, ray from Thetford. :soutanes 200 der
ton, sad •1100 population. Are thee *lop sad' es the
peso pk of this einurry ass tamely odd ft F Well, now,
I will sot weary you with these thiepi ; he day of them
yea are as well acquainted with as myself. Dat take
trff. We ere told by
_some that properly shoed
repnessaY to/. Well, we Sad, with respect M may,
aimed so mace iaequality as there L la
Half the maul vales of the peony is the kingdom ie
head is alas maths, sead/ag- 61 rpramntatters. The
odd half it la $1 swaths, siding 310 rem endives.
Oen eddy el the Howe of Ceadow, it selected, will be
dead to reread poverty of yearly nine of '
• • Os ailser half will represeat property of which
ryuwtyow • Y 178,000,0001. $o that, whether we take
pwploWs or pespeety, we see the same weakly, the
sad hsequally es regards the representalloe. Surely it
is time that sash things should be reformed. (Hear
I hid) tau see the remits of this state of things in
Seto Of Othdow--erhat are its effects ? A paper woo
=sashore ti the me age by Spectator, giving the at-
ui eof members at the 222 dividoos which took plus
lest year in the House of Cowman. It allows that some
WO If three members were present at nearly all of them ;
while was, who may be called good unladen, were pre-
seat at only 90 or 100. Now this is sot a fair way cif
judging of memben. It was put in to aid the government,
ley showiag how regularly its members have attended ;
Nessus, is fact, they are obliged to be generally pre-1
mat. I believe about 100 of these &Adorn were on
Irish onetime. Many of thus were on each onions as
whether a sewer should raa to the right or to the left,
er at a single angle—(heer, he ar)—whether a railway should
nut ea Lord So sad So's property or on the grounds of
the Hos. Kr. Such • One ; is what manner the wastes" of
erase turnpike reads should act ; and so en. Ido not
seethed it is sesessary that active members should attend
ea sash desions. My friends, if these things were properly
rtheleled, would it be so—would them things not be regu-
lated at home ? Should we go to the House of Commons
he sash atop at all ? We want not this cientralisition ;
we want to look after '&B3 things at home, in oar mutlici-
rwhere we understand them. (Load applause.)
watt to look after great public affairs, adopt of natiosel
importance in the Howe of Casinos,. (Cowers.) How Is
dray ef them men who have attended so often vote ? Try'
them by mks test as how they voted on Mr. Cobdea's
seetisa fer isidealog the tallow' expenditure by ten Mallows.
by that ; don't be led away by these fallulow
Maisdsnta That motion was lost by 175 to 78. Th tt was
dm a redestida of expenditure, for what your motion goes lot
Aright How did such men vote upon Mr. Hume's motion
hr asimprovessent in the national representation, that which
yea are ping for to-night ? It wu lost by 268 to 82. Suoris
year House of Commons at present. How did such men trait
Mr. Berkeley'" Duties for the ballot ? Its result wu 13d
to 86 ; so it was lost. Now, my ideals, there are some
Wart/its smog you ; and what hope is there for you ? I
am glad to see so pod a sprinkling of you in the meeting,
and to hear so freely a shoat from you. What hope have
you ?—listen to your doom—(laughter)—what was awarded
to you? Mr. O'Coc nor's aides foe the charter was lost by
224 to 16. (Hear, hesr.) Alt, and this was after 16 years'
bard work, daring which you had been asking for your just
rights. W. 11, then there was 3dr. Othorne's motion for
what was only an set of justice to the Irish—to inquire into
the state of the Irish church, when seven millions of perple
ere contributing to support the religioa of one million;
when one man has to pay for the retie= of another man ;
while religion shouti be free as the air we breathe. That
MOO loot by 170 to 103. (A voice sublimed, " Se mdalous.")
Othlbsee, every proposal that has had to its
Udall the antalioratioa of the condition of the pee-
pie of this country every measure that has had
Is, its object the reductioa of the taxatios of this
esaatry, has bees treated I. this way, and will
be treated so. Gentlemen, you may call out for reform,
yea msy ask for a reduction of telecom, you may ask for
Soweial reform ; but I will tell sou how to get rt, and
thatis only by carrying out the first resolution, by obtaining
a fall, fair, and free representation of the people of shb
mentry. (Chan.) We are asking for nothing but whet
is our own; nothing but what we have a right M}
wahine but whet the whip have promised us over and
seer again in times past; though these same whip see
allow their :organs to utter their Billinppte reveals,
men better, and abler, and holier than themselves. Dot
we tail than that we care not for it ; we shall go cm in
ear seers" '• we will n cease until we have a full,
and Stir, sad free representation of the people. (Load,
sheers.) These met call themselves whip ; they an a die.
roes to the name. (Cheers.) I have -Wird them 160081111
whip before ; but the term was too good for them. Let the
noble lord who sits at the lead of the Colonlaiedlos raid
upon the career of that noble man who OMB his fader.
Ho was • white, and what did he do whoa he tom Sr.'
Or y, in 1797 ? He moved, at that time. for Isseeshellsd
bye, for triennial parliaments, fora mere equal
nmate( the members to the population. He got that
modes 92 memben—more than we can tat in the home at
the outlet day. What did he distend? That dish we
have upon ear resolution as oar rallying cry, a full, fair, and
is.. representation of the people. That was the dig my
fa 1797. Let as try the party by their votes ad dims
saw. They may say that they are liberals, that deey are
wily waiting till the people knock loud er.ongh at the doors
elf the legbiatare ; but we have been knocking for sixteen
year", sad can get nothing. We understand tory promises.
They say honestly, "The few should govern the essay ;"
we sea understand that, though we do not approve of it.
The whip ley, " The people should govern ;" but they
new give them the power. They bare even refused to
abolish the rate-paying clauses in the Reform Rill, I
How have they acted with regard to the ballot ? To
many ca the treasury banshee we said, " You po-
wised to vote for it ; indeed you did vote for it formerly."
The nyly wee_" Oh, thins are different sow." They
sm. tem* not in words, " Our chief has turned spinet
14 la OD we must turn too." On Kr. D'ltyncourt's
salon he triennial parliaments they acted in a similar
woo One of their copse, the Globs„ has bun told to
it Mr. George Thompsce and myself in a most dine.
peke aad dhows's' way. We thous not to beady
weds with these paid scribes. Ours are &Serest dojo* to
Ode; we seek to motion sesseures, not mos ; we owe not
darker a ensure be hews* forward by a whip or a tory
—if it be a good cee we will rapport it. It le sot whe-
ther I am all that they would make me to be, or what
the me kind saaagh to sepposs me to be, it is the canes
we sthisewle, sad not the mon. They ahem my fried Mr.
Thisplas bat what are his sateedrats ? He has
, deep hew sedeeted with every good sad envy einem
awes; yet thus rascally hiding scribes amt write la this
manner easiest him. It is dkgrassfal
Willeroa who are paid by the emery should
thes Wash a pailesein merely for advecathig andi
measures whisk be believe* to be for the
Martlll,ths people of this country. We may, however,
spa edits ;ebbs eats of this party sad what have they
dew p They have outdid a heavy debt *pia the °Donny ;
they bee leseesesel our expenditure by tea Willow at the
Mel} they beep up a large standing array to cones the
i they be expensivee an expensive which they say is for
ef aide—bat we meat not such protection.
meth gratuities la Amelia ? They have
Med m▪
edia' with Imps*, satbseiathes ; they km
lied the NWer with eithahl Mier; the have brought
Os ekes le the verse of hisoresellso, sal sew el them
to iwilesellea itself, by their vafewt peewee. What
aithey &we
else ; 'theme bays lasesseed pinup to
easement they haTheyve rd Wee till thesis sl
pred& tewsk and emolameat wish the modem of Ask um
family *dee; they have fddlled every premise, at least I
haw sew scarcely that they have kept. They peaked us
oar thing and smother on Neste; but what did they give
es ? A giggle bill—a ausemin of the Habeas Cor-
pus Act bat dist dish we desire.
have beams the pelmet sews of their polt7=
opponents, and the pity se Owe Meads. (Hear, bear.)
Gentlemen, I leave this whip Is their fate. (Cheers and
laughter.) I think I weld take a vet of want of confidence
in dine whip ; I could vends new, if I might de so, Mr.
Chairman, to ask you, my friends, whether you have any
weibless in the whigs ? (Loud aloud " No, no.") What'
we want is neither whip nor tortes; we want a people's
home, we want the people to be fully, freely, and fairly re-
presented. (cheers.) They tell as that the people to not
dusted mSeutly for it. Take the ;musk of France, or
of the United States. Have they ansuitted any outrage ?
Have they contatived the pool atrocities which their supe-
riors in station have lately done ? Did any_of them, whoa
la 110,111 t, destroy their fellowmen ? In Franc* they der-
ided the ponfahment of death. (Applause.) They wiped
Idiot Meddle from their country ; have we dose so ? No.
Red ths ithesities committed during the last flee or six
woks wpm the patriolle Houtarlans. The authorities
have were hundreds of them in cold blood ; ben
hanged them, bays "bat thew have whipped their woman.
(Cries d "Shame.") Yet these are the eat who can tell
us that the people are rot It for the freathise. Do we not
place ser yeeperty in the power of the people; are they not
our seam sad addle,. : war sensate sad plimenen ; do
they au part our streets and our warehouse I And still
ere they act fitted to know whoa they ere well represented?
Are they not fitted to know whether they shall send Mr. Sn
and 8o to repressed their Weise it the theasious House
of Pediment ? It is a seeastmus than. Ide hope and trust
that the people of this esenitey A soda that little lord
who says that they do est wort the theribe, not only that