The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1848.

the grerritery spree= et relent, at Oros mad oars
aleenrosenseerhee seedier sedreese Gerd sn• be rolePtli
preened ; not, irked. et* • rev et ungenediNt tit. • at-
Wier el the Cid= Or mgrs. dr dry areal Ir.
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=dihog the part ewes if drew, kincirlf
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lest is seeptleg the hest eseedir wiert
I reek onlil seedhal sear re an be presumed, molar • '
nerdy era le Ana Ihtel fa tor der led even sin hers
keel re serserresat of the area.
The Orley ef Plariskas, es the senteery, berm rig
are were M warre=d a =diem pin sr Weeeseent to
be erred W refs is all care of hues= of the
boels. espreed presseitsepefehelers, gives* err
adobe than : " eggipst roe tor and sa ordeasse."
Prior living in lendleAl Miner tee, in root
merry tns, easy messed in Lg medial
eaidetasee In a dirt ogre dee dosing the day awl sight :
bat this is by me rem the area with peters =chi* in oil-
lark salts Meese at sandirshie dieter:se even eon vil-
lages. herr the advise "te apply 01109 for medical
essiestese" is of no avail. 11111111 the of collapse may,
and= likely to, era, in barn It prateleable with
the mop, to bring a medial tam to the bedside of
the patient. Per obese like this it woe sorely antesery
to asks seems provisloo, and it is kindly suasion
for the college to tell the individuals " who may naturally
look to them for advise led guidance " anew suck circum-
stance., "to apply at ease for m^dical asolotere ;" nor do
we understand the view walelt the college can take of their
duty to the public, when they neither blame the " advice
and guidance" given by the Board of Health to those who
may be placed in so painful and dangerous a situation, nor
theuredne offer better counsel.
The only point on which there is a positive difference of
opinion betws en the General Board of Health and the Col-
lzitr re ysirians, is On the use, during the prevalence of
e cholera, of green vegetables and fruit. In the third
offinal Wader, just issued, the Board of Health state the
grounds on which they ventured to recommend the tempo.
rary abstinence from such anklet of diet. They state that from
the wh,le teuour of the evidence which has come before
them, it appears to them to be proved beyond a doubt that
the effect of the diffusion of *be cholera poison in the atmo-
'photo, is to produce in great numbers of persons who
breathe suck au stmesphere an irritable state of the bowels,
which irritable state of the bowels is the most powerful pro-
disposing cause known to an immediate attack of the
Marne. See detailed evidence of this fact in the ob-
servation.

On this fact the General Board of Health ground their
recommendation of abstinence from those particular articles
of diet which are univirsally admitted to be unsuitable to
such an irritable state of the bowels.
Without any regard whatever to this fact, the college of
I physicians recommend the ordinary use of these articles of
diet. They advise persons living in districts in which cholera
prevails to adhere to that plan of diet which they have gene-
rally found to agree with them. On the onsciple sonic
omens sane, the fallacy is the absence of the siznis.
See " Decisive evidence of the general prevalence of B ,wel
Complaints in epidemic districts :—ln St. Petersburg ;"
"The Instructions issued to the people In Russia by the
official authorities;" Colonel Du Plat's " Statement of the
Experience at Warsaw," " Sanitary corresponding statement
of the experience at Hilton."
Among the authorities by which the General Board of
Health were guided in their reeommendstien are the fol-
lowing : —See be. Adair Crawford'. "Statement of the Experi-
ence at Bt. Petersburg ;" Official Instructions issued at
Hamburg ; at Berlin ; by Central Board of Health of Lon-
don; by College of Physicians of Lonlon, in Vial. See also
Dr Prout " On the green Matter of Plantar" Dr. Watson ;
Dr. Paris's " Account of Cabbage and Fruit."
Ask the presidentof the college,the author of the work "On
Diet," whether, if he were called to a patient labouring under
bowel complaint or predisposed to that disease. he would
prescribe cabbage and fruit a, art Hes of diet. Why should
he give ace advice, as president of the College of Physicians,
to the public ; and different advice as a private physician to
his patients in private practice ?

do it at a greet hazard. ("Hear, War," and "Give us the
safrap.") Yes, I repeat A—at a great bawd. Mew,"
and Mmes.) Were ws to understood by them weeds. the
advancement in moral swallows, or cauthutiosal
or more, thantesaion of the end arts of the peat e=t
the people, then, who would be Is
be swee t
than we aro ? Who would rejoic it ateniready llem we timid?
Bat if It h to advocate as incessemt dims% a mew of ma-
Moat e&tifiey we can't do so. We mast Woe it, and I
falat i so, we are npper g the soestitution of
01/ ad its best interest,. What hose this kind of
.=kW ter hate? Why, these who are competent
to hem eft whim yea kW ft vas Imaged it most
matedmily. 1116 al bow rim aeeile Nei* it prospers
waders Mats of shift ehi paha esehlesee, end not
in ogitatica and erho. Bat are we to lay
aside every other sea kmation ? Are we to refuse
• man, who, is weeds a the heseenak gentleman who
latel addremed yes Y this plass. earls high in public
malon who lea good wen wire has the universal respect of
the were Riding, who Is tkreagfl=tmenitat
able to with alldi its
varied business, and who beiniteerm rely n
Mime it, or are we to ratan rice far same *Mary theory ?
(Shouts of " No," and fakers.) Are we to tai the institu-
tions of the °pushy wader which we have hag lived and
been happy? (" Howes& we be happy whoa Nosh as you
are living on our arkeW 1") Chatham. I embed. as
men attached to these inglitutions, we ought not to kw any
risk whatever. (Anthems.) Then I would say that if we
consult the respectability sad character of the constituency—
(hisses and obeem)—lf we wish to rapport the character—if
we wish to give this great constituency due weight, and if
we consult the interims of the nation at large we have now
an opportunity of doing so. Now is the time, and Mr. Deni-
son is the man. (Cheers, and cries of " No, no.") I hope
and believe that the great mass of the electors of the West
Riding will support him and bring him nobly in as its repre-
mutative.
Mr. Damson said : Gentlemen, in compliance with the re-
quest presented to me by an influential deputation of gentle-
men residing in various parts of the Riding that I would
come forward to offer myself as • candidate for the honour
of representiog you in parliament, not having felt myself at
liberty to refute that request—(hear)—l now once more
appear before you for the purpose of soliciting your votes aid
support at the approaching election. And having now
launched myself upon your favour, I make you this promise,
that, as far as lam concerned, you shall have a fair
opportunity of deciding between my hon. opponent and my-
self, for to the poll I will "em—(applause)—not from any
feeling of vanity on my. own part that I shall succeed
but in order that I may give you and others placed in simi-
lar circumstances an opportunity of making your selection
between the two men. If I bad studied my owe ease and
comfort I should have remained quietly at home; and I
was perfectly content to have remained in retirement ; and
if I was not convinced that those who did me the honour to
wait upon mo stated truly when they said that there is amore
than common anxiety among' all classes—(oh, oh)—Yes, I
repeat it, among all chaff, flat I should now become a can-
didate, I would have remained quietly at polite. And what
is the meaning of that expression? I know very well
that there are mixed questions among all politi-
cians, and I tell you now that I calculate confidently
upon having the support of men who upon former
Locations have opposed me. And I will tell you why I calcu-
late so—became they have done me the honour to say that
while I represented them I did so faithfully—that I did so
honeetly, and that I did tee work like a god servant.
(Cheers and " No.") Now, you are perfectly at liberty to
so, " No, no," if you like ; bat I tell you that it has been
d, and 'that I am mere proud of that than of any other
compliment that has been paid to me during the course of
my life. I think that it is no small compliment
to have it said, at the close of a six years' service,
that the man who has represented the largest constituency in
the kingdom be, at all events, performed his duty con-
scientiously and independently, that he has broken no
pledges, and that he returns back to his retirement as good
and as honest a man as he was when they sent him to par-
liament. I know it is owing to that, and to that only, though
I don't protases to claim it, that there has been tendered to
me support from various quarters, from whence I hail no
right to expect kindness. It is from that con-
sideration, and that only, that I have not thougbt
myself at liberty to decline the request made to me.
That is my excuse ; I hope it will be sufficient. Reject me
if you think proper—elect me, if you like that better; but
if Ipo beck into retirement, my conscience will be at rest
that I have dew my duty in former times, as well as in now
coming forward to offer to represent you. (Hear.) If
ever there was a time or a period in the history of this
country when a member of parliament should go in-
dependently within the walls of the Rouse of Commons,
this is that time or that period. I shall go there, if lam
elected, with no strong party feeling, but with an ardent desire
to acquit myself independently. I have been asked if I will
support her Majesty's present government. My answer is,
that I will not promise to support or oppose the men, but I
will support or oppose their measures according to their
value in my estimation. I have no personal ambition to at-
tain in going to parliament; and I hays no personal objection
to the men who bold the reins of government, and as tonils
they conduct their affairs constitutional!, they s
have my support. I know no men whom could
wish to replace them. They do not form so
strong • government as I should wish, but as I
have no wish to supplant them by a tory govern-
ment, I would say, let us have • strong government; let us
have a strong whig government, if you like; nay, if the
voice of the people wills it, let us nave a strong radical go-
vernment; but above all things I say, let the government be
stronr, and let the country know what their measures are,
and have in opportunity of pronouncing its verdict upon
them. But I say that I have no objection to her Majesty's
present advisers, and their measures shall have my must
careful consideration. Thus for as to the conduct which I
shall pursue, if I have the honour of again representing York-
shire. And now, then, as to that principle of conducting our
foreign trade which is more especially called free trade. I
could—if I thought it right to detain yoa—l could ask some
gentlemen whom I see around and before me, if they tho-
roughly understand, and, if they do, if they will attempt to
explain, what they mean by, • thorough free trade. ("Tell
us what you mean.") I will tell you what I mean ; and I
will tell my friend below, whose face I know, but whoa
name I forget, that he may put any question to me
that he pleases. I am not come here to skulk
(Cheers.) If I do not like his propositions I
will tell him so plainly, and he may make what
he likes of my answers. Now if you mean by the term free
trade, the taking off the duties on all the articles of general
consumption to such an extent as will enable the Chancello
' Exchequer elan to r - the debts of the county

of the t. equer day to pay
and to pay the interest on the funded debt, then I will go
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer as far as he likes to go
in that direction; for I can see no reason why any man living
can object to any duties being extinguished if there be enough
to provide for the wants of the exchequer without them.
But 1 know Leeds men perfectly well. I know that if they
are Torkshiremen they are perfectly honest; and I won't
insult you, Yorkshirenaen, by supposing for an instant that
you wish to get all the duties off, and leave the public cre-
ditor to take his chance. (" No," and " Hear.") I know
that 1 am addressing men who have money in the funds or
money in savings banks; and you know as well as I do—
if you sweep off ell the duties now payable on articles bee tight
from abroed—where you will be at the end of the year,
when, instead of receiving your dividends as usual, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer will be constrained to say,
"Gentlemen, lam insolvent, and I cannot ply yea." I be•
lieve there are men who, though they dare not avow it, are
anxious that free trade may be applied to all those branches
with which they have no connexion in the state, and who
would be glad to see all the parties connected with them left
in the lurch. I have lived long enough to find out that ;
and therefore I will only be a free trader so far as free trade
can be carried out with due regard to the claims of the
public creditor. I will take my stand upon that, if you send
me to represent you; and I know that when the day of
revolution comes, if come it may, you will say, " This man
haa been an honest trustee." With regard to my opinions
on this point, I know it was said in 1847 (when they uy I
ran away from a contest), that !although the corn laws were
abolished, I would toe ready to revive them if I could.
But so far was that from the truth, that I said
on the hustings at Wakefield, at that sane
election, that he most be a madman who would revive them
if be could. It was carried by a large majority of the House
of Commons, assented to by the House of Lads, and
sanctioned by her Majesty, and 1 am not the man, in 184 e,
to try to revive those enactments. I will go further, and
my that he would be a madman who should try to revive
them • and that, from what I have seen during the last six
mantis, though I did oppose the repeal of the cora laws, I
am not sorry that they were repealed, because
I do not know what mischievous men might not
have done in recent times, in or 'er to effect
their repeal. Another point that seemed to have at-
tracted great publz interest, condoned Mr. Deuison, was
economy and retrenchment in the public expenditure. Upon
that Neat be had taken the liberty of saying in his address
that he thought it the duty of parliament to insist upon the
utmost possible reduction of expense in every department of
the state. He had no interest in keeping up high salaries,
or more sleeks employed than were necessary, and, therefore,
he would support any reductions that a committee
of the House of Coalman, lifter due inquiry, oh-iuld rep.irt
to be practicable. It was the duty of parliament to take off
the burdens from the shoulders of the working el as tar
as it could be done with safety to the state. either by a re-
duction of duties or diminution of salaries. Upon the ques-
tion of the endowment of the Roman catholic priesthood,
he said in 1847, and be would say now, that be shoull
oppose any proposition with that view, come from
what quarter it might. He could not conteive that
any proposition could be made far that object that
would be just toward all parts of the community—that would
be just to the church, and, at the same time just to the
people. They could not possibly endow the FLomish priest-
hood with annual stipends, without either taking away the

Mr. W. W. Yawwau than asked a series of questions, to
which Mr. Deni:on ran woven.
Mr. Rtypeau. ay" Inquired, with reference to the ease of
Mr. Shore sad the BOK" of Exeter, if Mr. Denison would
abolish all emdesisetiast courts t —Mr. Denison answered in
tbe
Mr. WHun (bead s2issof) said that Mr. Deelesn
eljeeled a the seirregt 10 the Mall" MOM 00'
mese they wemre Renot relleisedy intelligent lei imtrusted
but he weal pat it to the whether the waking
dame were set as mesh ea poilesilcs
, the middle lied upper sham Rief Rot
cheese to pia dr* Ihidt earn sleeve.
Atter Waring Ye gene ftmeene le peeve Clueesseelly el
the ballet, met at mmildftl ebeedems, be begged b brain
whether line hem esedidaie, if sleeted, meal eeppert • men•
sure kr the repeal of the law of erne sod prhaegeniture t
Mr. DINISON said he combd very eerily spend half an hour
in giving them reasons why be meld not assent to the pro-
position involved in the quads.; bat as time was pressing,
end many of their dinners awl be waiting (aka of " We
have none ") for them, be added, I at once say I cannot
consent to, and I will not support rush a proposition.
Mr. W. Batman said that though the answer was not
satisfactory it mast least explicit.
Mr. Baoox then ailed for three cheers for Mr. Roebuck,
and may he be the man of their choice.
The cheers were given aooording'y, and the meetiag
broke op about one o'clock. There were probably from 10
to 12 thousand persons present.