The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-21 00:00:00

'El)e Qrourt.

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Prince Albert visited the Duke of Cambridge, yes-
tcr tap, Cambridge-house.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen, yesterday,
at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Cambridge honoured,the performances
at her Majesty's Theatre, y,sterday evehin?, with his
presence.

DuAwING Roos.—The Queen will hold a drawing
run to ITIGITOW at St. IMAMS'S Pu!aco at 2 o'clock.

NATIONAL BRAZILIAN MINING ASSO-
CIATION. .

An adjourned general meeting of proprietors was
held yesterday at the London Tavern, to take measures eon-
-1.4 picot upon the report made by Mr. tt with reierenee
to th company's mines, and that report was referred to a
committee eon.isting of Mr. Hobson, Mr. Deputy Coney,
Mr. Ilarklay, Mr. Limn iway, Mr. ES,worth, Mr. Heath,
ar.d Mr. Davis. The proceedings then terminated.

THE REFORM MOVEMENT,

GREAT MEETING AT NOTTINGHAM.
:From our own reoorter.l_
NorrtNonAm, TrESDAY.—Last evening the Ei-
change hall of this town was densely crowded on the occa-
sion of a meeting conven,:i for the purpoee of forming a
branch of the " People's L ague" in this locality. and of
off eding the people g.nerally an opportunity of t xirmeing
their opinions in reference to the important question of the
extension of the suffrage The Right Hun Lord ItanelifTe,
of Bunncy, pr.side 1 ; and on the platform were numerous
members of tho body eur,torate and stint r influential inhabi-
tants of the town.

The noble CHAIRMAN, in opening the Proceedings, said
that he thought they would hear the few word', he hat to
say, when he called to recollection the battle fought
by the people in ISI2, on which occa.ion he declared his sen-
timents as a re'ormer to the utmost extent that reform could
pessi ly go. (Loud cheers.) Ile now sto-d bet,re them,
after that long 1 apse of time, grown gray in the service ; but
though he was more feeble now than at that time hi% heart
was still with the cause he had espoused. (Cheers.) Ile had
intended, from infirmity of health, to have retired entirely
from public life, hut having received such a requisition as he
had, and having been complimented 'or that which, perhaps
—though it wee a vain thing to say —he might i•t some mea-
cure des^rve—his pubilie consistency, he consented at once to
come forward and to preside :st that large meeting. (En-
thusiastic cheers.) And another reason to in are him
was, that after the declaration of his friend, her Majesty's
prime mini-ter, that there was an indifference, a earelsseness,
and a want of exertion on the part of the middle rind work-
ing classes on the subject of reform, he (the n.-Me chairman)
thought t was high time for him, and for every one who
was a sincere and honest reformer, to deny that,hy attending
upon occasions like the present. ( Rear, hear, and great
cheering.) Reformers had great difficulties to contend with ;
hut he hoped now the root was opening towards am, that
the sun was beginning to shine upon them, and that this &-
e'er. tion of the prime minister would have the rffeet of
showing at once, by meetings all over the country, that he
must be bah very blind and very deaf if he did not
find out now that the people were determined upon having
reform. It was sail, "There is no one so blind as
the man who won't see, and no one so deaf as the man who
won't he-r." ( Lauahter. ) Bet let him tell the prime
minister that through the vial' of the people he should hear,
and that tkAt voice st oold be responded to, and refi.rm
should come, and they should have justee. (Cheers.) It was
very tnie thnt we hart had a Reform Bill; and whet good heel
the Reform Bill done us? Why, none whatever. (Hear,
hear.) For himself, he looked forward to the real repre-
sentation of the people—to the time when the House of
Commons shou'd have, as it ought to have, come.' of the
public purse, and when it •hould lighten the burdens of Cl,
people, because they were the main apringfrom which every-
thing wan to arise; they were the source of industry and
w'alth (hear, bear) ; and nothing would give bile greater
pleamre, or make him go more contented to that bourne
from whence no traveller return*, than to see them a happy,
united, end prosperous people. (Great cheering.)
Mr. Geen,t•,e GILL (founder of the People's College)
moved the first resolution :
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That this meeting h. rind with sueprise and leered the assertion
of the premier with rests et to the opini,n of the middle and working
thane. in the mlO, et of th • framiii‘e, o-mt therefore feel bound to ex.
press their conviction that the time has arrived when radical changes
have brume isnperative.
Mr. E. HART seconded the resolution, which was carried
by acclarna.ion.
Mr. Alderman KNIGHT proposed the next resolution:
That whilM this meeting cannot but sympathise with all political
movements of a peacefal character for the extension of the alliTrage,
anal would abstain from throwing my obstacle in the way of their
promoter% they must still demand, in the name of jiedice and en-
lightened polit-y, the franebi.e for every mile inhabitant of thin king-
dom twenty-one Teta+ of age, of sane mind, an•t unennviebd of crime,
and hereby pledge themselves to seek for ouch other details as maybe
deemed erseotial for its caerci,c.

Mr. STZTENSON seconded the resolution. Ile quoted
several items of customs and excise, to show that out of
55000,000/. of revenue, about 33,000,0001. was contributed
by the working classes, in duties upon tea, sugar, coffee, and
other articles of consumption. Illustrative of what the
ploy man pays in tax ,tion, the speaker adduced a cue laid
before parliament in 1812 William Olddstone, a labourer,
earned Ila per week, and expended 7s. 7d. in food, thus:
1 oz. of tea, 2 oz. of coffee, 8 oz. of sugar, 8 on. of meal,
811 as. of flour, 7 pints of ale, and a quarter of • pint of
brandy. Free from excise and customs duties, these articles
would come to 2s. .14d., but they were taxed to the amount
of ss. 24d. Out of a yearly income of 281., the poor man
had to pay 131. in the shape of taxation, whilst the aristocrat
of 100,0001. a year was not called upon to contribute more
than 5 per cent. of his income to the taxes of the country.
(Shame, shame.)
The resolution was then put from the chair, and carried
ruin rlis.. . . .

The Rev. W. LINWOOD proposed the following resolution:
That this muting has heard with much satisfaction of the forma-
tion of a society In London called the People's League, hiving for ha
object the political emancipation of our tax-paying but as yet linen.
franchised millions, and expresses its earnest desire for the establish.