The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

gedesse osf the meetings of Orange lodges, and of ad-
of confidence in the lord-heutenant, with
assurances of readiness to come forwar government
d whenever
required and render every support to a governme
determined to maintain the peace and order of the
community.

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SCOTLAND.
EDINIIVROZ, bitARCII 13.
A public meeting, "to congratulate the French
Republic." is to be held here on Wednesday next,
Bailie Stott in the chair. Similar meetings have
been in Paisley and Kilbarchan. At the Paisley
meeting, the Rev. P. Brewster presided, and in the
I'
course of his remarks stated that there must be pro-
gress in politkal matters amongst ourselves. He
cordially supported the principles of the charter.
He was a loyal subject of good Queen Victoria. He
trusted that she and her descendants wou
tld e
rule ov
er
this er
this nation, and when the principles of h
were carried into law, then Victoria would be what she
ought to be, simply our servant; but if any what h
descendants act otherwise, then he hoped they would
be hurled from the throne like Louis Philippe. He
desired a hereditary sovereign to fill the throne, as in
that way wars might be prevented between rival
claimants, but he was not in favour of a hereditary

house of peers.
The address voted to the French was as follows :
Address from the people of Fiddler, in public meeting assembled,
to the heroes of the third French Revolution. —Men of France,
Deeply oympathisiug with your pot oufferingn and dieappointmenta
in the muse of freedom, we congratulate you on the glorious occom-
plishment of another revolution, by which you have a third time
won your libertine from a donotic government, and have reby
eet a noble example to the reel of the world of the Breeintible might
of • united people; while you bare at the Wee time amply vindi-
cated the sacred right of insurrecti u appeal to srmi.a the hut
G of the oppressed ; for stanceresi to tyranny is obedience to
God. We thank you for thie heroic achievement. We receive it an the
pledge of progress to the human family. It has already cheered the
arte of desponding millions. It boo rung the knell of &apothem i a
Europe. to etimulating and untencipaUng influence will greedily
penetrate to the remotest heads, giving hope to the Mare, and making
the tyrant quail in the midst of him power. By your puerile.. for.
• bearante to the enemies of freedom, you have stamped,. indelibly,
upon the people's MUNI the hih attributes of magnanimity and
Bevelsm and have thut conferred upon France an imperishable glory.
yo wise and pretend proclamation of " peace with the world,'
yon have placed the "ark of freedom" upon holy ground. Yoa have
strengthened the hands of your friends in every country, and have
deprived your enemies of all pretence for attaching you. Accomplieh,
we beseech you, in the same lofty and pure eptrit, the gout task
which you have aseigned to }wavelets, and which you have so aunt&
Mefeal begun, of giving free institutions to your' glorioun land," and
let no sophistry ever again prreuade you to Mud the liberties of
Franco to royal or imperial hands. Accept the &rumness of our
fraternal affection and high esteem and admiration.
The lilbarchan resolutions were of a kind equally
transcendental :
n.volves, lot, That we the inhabitants of Eilbarehan, In nubile
meeting assembled, melt cordially crest... Pilate the French people on
their triumphant achteranier.t of the resolution, rejoice with them
on the overdoes, of a despotic and tymetitical government, and
boil with feelings of delirlu, sympathy, and hope, the advent of the
emancipation of the bunion brined by the liberty of thouganht,-
beffemacnci-
pation of the Individual soul by freedom of inquir
rights of man,—
y d
suppression of all pi ivileges,— eqlity of the
the national family without piumgeniture anions de cluldre
the sovereignty of eitisens guaninteed by the elective
cleise,—representation one and universak—the people hi
tenth and justice reirrning, —politico abstaining from con
and founded on peace,—reliption of humuilty,—fraternity
smogs,
in of mankind to the age of reoon,—power.
strong in _nor ernment rased to the dignitv of virtue,
—such in the philoeophy which mug give sense and sold to all in-
stitutions.
Reeolved, That if principles as thaw embodied in the drat
resolution were adopted by rill government.. such Weeee of !Meale
and destitution af are
be in our own country by the toefill
an
tolling millions. would be entirely unknown. We, therefore, bail with
delight the recognition by the proviaionul goverment in France of
the rights of labour, and an attempt oa their part to organise it on the
basis of eternal justice.
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.
The Edinburgh special constables are to meet on Tuesday
evening, when the she riff is to submit a plan for their
manent enrolment. The Mid-Lothian Yeomanry were
out on Saturday, with a view of testing their readiness, and
they answered promptly to the call. On Sunday the depot
of the 27th Regiment (420) arrived in Edinburgh from Fort
George. They are to rehire the detachment of the 71st, in
Glasgow, which returns to Edinburgh forthwith. The fol-
lowing is the latest front Airdrie :
Ilatrosor Taw a.r.—Captain Holland arrived be
safety with his prisoner at the rural police station here, where •
large mob immediately collected, hooting the police, and crying to
attack the elation, and rescue the pi-wner. After undergoing an
investigation, he was conducted to prison, amidst hootings and
loud croak of " Itercere the prisoner." However, no 'lntent attempt
was Mille to carry the tliteat into effect. About eight o'clock a
report reached the authorities that an attack on the prism was
threatened. The party of infantry woe immediately called out,
and formed opposite the Court-house, and the cavalry is front of
the Royal Ilotel, and the town tall rung the warning for the
epeeist constables, who Amity murdered in red force. Dense
crowds had been congregated at various parts of the town from six
o'clock, and it was antlenoted that reinforcement". might Mire
when the meeting of miner, at Whiflet broke up. The sheriff a&
denied the crowd in front of the Royal Hotel, and desired them to
disperse. The provost performed a similar duty in front of the court
how., and the constables, about half-poet eight o'clock. comMencad
to disperse the crowd... The military were ordered to their quarters,
and the conetables, dividedlinto pasties, marched through the town,
and succeeded in dispersing them. A few stones were thrown at one
party of the constabulary, and six lamps broken. By ten o'clock. I
scarcely an individual was to be men on the street. The remainder
of the night passed in perfect peace.
The man who was taken prisoner lad night, gave his none to the
pollee as John Murdoch, but thin morning be admitted that his real
name was Cresson, and that he had been concerned in the riots at
Getegow. llc was accordingly despatched for that sty per tint
train thin mori,ing.