The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-03 00:00:00

STATR CHURCH.

lam hostile to the coaoec•ion of any church with the
state, and condemn, in the most unequithcal and unreserved
manner, the practice of the established church of this coun-
try forcibly p. seeming itself of the means of its dissenters for
the maintenance of doctrines and opicioes which they dis-
avow and repudiate. The morality of this practice I take
to be in direct variance with our Laws for the punishment
of felony.
MILITARY AND NAVAL ARMAMINTe.
I view with much admiration the growing feeling of the
country against our War establishmet to, and shall be meet
ensrgetic at all times in re bruhating them. Men *ere not in-
tended to slay and kill their kind. There is a special corn
mend, "Thou shalt not kill." 1 consider it the high• st duty
of government to pee terve the lives of those for whom they act.
To p the effasiou of blood, is the molt su'lme mission
that m,n can fill. It is in peace only that rational liberty can
exist, the arts flourish, end science subdue to the wants of our
sp,cin the illimitable resources of this gintie. In me, there-
fore, armies and navies wilt flad a humble and consistent an-
tagonist.
POOR-LAWS.
The principle of the present poeulaw I regard with un-
mitigated abhorrence, and would employ every legitimate
means for its alteration. The amount ot pauperism I believe
to be the result of the reverie' monopolies by which the re-
sources of the eountrr ere surround d, and to the removal of
such monopolk a, and the Rife and proper administration of
OW public affairs, I look for the elevation and independence
of that class of our fellow subjects, who, through the opera-
tion of our laws, are debarred from employing their labour.
and are thus reduced to poverty, such poverty afterwards
enbjectiog them to the torture and degradation of workhouse

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treatment.
Upon weevil other questions of public interest I will
delay consist nt until I sha°l have an opportunity of sal
than in ptrson, which shall he at the • ar lost pothilk. tam

THE OPERATIVE BAKERS' SOCIETT.—Lhat night
a crowded meeting of the journeymen and master baker, of
London, members of the above toasty, was held in the
Theatre of the Literary and Scientific Institution, Leicester-
square, to receive • report on the progress mode in the
objects of the societ'• viz.—the abolition of sight work
bakehouses. Lord It •beet Grosvenor, ELF., took the cheit,
and said that on the 17,h of last month he moved for leave
to bring in a bill to abolish work in bakehouse*, during
certain hours in the night, and thus to give to balz,rs that
portion of rest enjoyed be other classes of workman, but was
defeated by • large majority. The object of the bill was
not act by • single valid objection, ell the hen. members
who oppo.ed it totally mistaking its terms; and he had
every reason to hope that when the bill was better
understood, it would be more favourably received in the
House of Commons. Ile would *ugliest that they she'd
not abandon the bill, which was now supported ht the
masters as well as the journeymen, and that it should he
brouaht forward again next session. Arepat detain,/ the
oper►tions of the commit. ee was then read, and rea.lutiota
in fat ,or of the bill mentioned were corri.d unanimously.
A vote of thanks to tke chairman closed the proceedings.