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

efiance of such ,results. It was impossible that so large a
number of P. aeons could meet thou a large number of
bad oharvaers mining with the crowd; but he thought it a
most it .riehenest part of public journalism to characterise the
wort hag classes in the terms which had been used There
was no doubt but that the press were in advance of
the government, but then the working climes were
in advance of the press; and it behoved them to
let the press know that it was dependent on the pee-
pie for support, which they could show by excluding from
all newsrooms or reading rooms which they frequented those
newspapers which took part against them. One of the prin-
cipal objects of the meeting was to express sympathy with
the peat French nation for the glorious revolution which
they had just achieved. Ile deprecated any display of sym-
pathy towards such an execrable
manifest
tyrant as Lome Philippe,
and conceived that if any feeling of the kind wasmanifested
towanis himby the royalty of this country, it would be an
insult to both the French and English nations. Royalty in
this country had enough to think of in refereed to its own
affairs, and he would venture to say that if the people were
driven to desperation, the granting of timelv concessions
could alone ensure to them possession of the throne. Ile
urged the working classes to lay aside small
differences of opinion, and unite in the common
cause, as it was by agitation alone that they
could obtain their objects. Thy were Mewed
call as a
mob and a rabble by the aristocracy. He would to
their attention Earl litzhardinge's meddling with the tepe he
e-
eentation of West Gloucestershire, with refried to which
said Sir G. Grey attempted to stifle inquiry because • peer
of the realm was affected thereby. He would also have them
look at the three noblemen who held nearly the whole of
London as their property, and who enjoyed a revenue of
hundreds of thousands • year. Ile said, let them look at
the Queen with 400,0001- per snnum, and compare it with
the 6,0001. received by the President of he United States
for the same work. The executive of this country cost
1,000,0001. yearly, while that of America did not amount to
100,0001. Then the Comte de St. Aulaire, the late
French ambassador in this country, received 15,0001.
per annum ; while the new republ;can chargé
d'Affaires received but 4001. for the same duty.
He deprecated iu strong terms the recent expen-
diture of 150.000!. in embellishing what he called " the
mansion at Pimlico," and stated that, but for the recent
revolution in France, application would have been made to
parliament this 'session for a grant for a new palace. Ile
complained, also, that Prince Albeit should have 30,0001. •
year allowed him, besides 12.0001. or 14,0001. arising from
other sources; and that 100,0001. • year should be bestowed
upon the Queen Dowager, a foreign woman, who had no
sympathy with the English people, and who had used her
best endeavours to prevent the Reform Bill from being
passed. He concluded by expressing his opinion that all that
costly royalty must be cut down, as the only means of se-
curing the rights of the people.
The speech was received with hearty demonstrations of I
applause. It was interrupted, however, leveret times by
various incidents which diverted the somewhat tickle atten-
tion of the crowd. Several times the alarm was given that
the police were about to make a charge, which was followed '1
on the part of those who wire determined "to make a
stand" for their rights by a general scamper in all dime-
Lions. One incident, which cccureil during the chair-
man's speech, was particularly ludicrous. A baker's curt
was proceeding very quietly along the road outside the
common, when it was espied by the crowd, a huge portion
of whom save chase, apparently with a view of plundering
its contents. The driver contrived wu neither without
hi
wits or his whip, and to distance his pursuers,
and got safely off.
Mr. Withusts, a working man, proceeded next to ad-
deem the assembly. He moved a resolution expressive of
the sympathy of the meeting with the recent movement or
the people of France and the overthrow of the go
Tenement.. His speech was to a similar effect as
the proceeding. He avowed himself in favour nt the five
points of the charter, which he thought it Brae justifiable to
obtain by terce, if other means mused lruitless. He urged
on the ne cling, however, the preservation of peace and good
order, which he conceived to be the more necessary, as at
that time they might be said to be talking at the point of
the bayonet, there being an armed force within a hundred
yards of them fully prepared to take immediate measures
upon any tumultuous proceedings. He indulged in various
strong elm ssions concerning the police and authorities in
general, whom he accused of entertaining feelings
was
of
tyranny and enmity towards the people. The tesolutioit
carried by acclamation.
Mr. lone Creme then moved a resolution M favour of
universal suffrage as embodied in the people's charter.—Mr.
THOIIAB CLAIMS seconded the resolution.
Mr. ERNEST JONES, in supporting it, avowed himself one
of the delegates who had waited on the Provisional Govern-
ment of France on the part of popular prineplio. Alluding
in the course of his other remark, to the want of considera-
tion which he conceived to be manifested towards the people
by the aristocracy or th's country, he raid toot the aristo-
cracy denied them their political rights b,uause they consi-
dered them to be uneducated ; but he maintaiced that they
would always be ignorant ea long as the government only
taught them their letters by means of the A B C divisions of
police. The sentiment was received with violent approba-
tion, and the resolution also carried.
The next resolution advocated the rights of labour, " A
fair day's wages fora fair day's work," &c. It was also
carried unanimously, on the motion of Mr. DICKSON, se
conded by Mr. M•Geeem. The proceedings then termi-
nated in a vote of thanks to the chairman.
Considerable confusion then ensued, caused by the general
movement of the vast concourse of pemons on the commen and
around it, the number of whom could not have bars less
than 16,000. The mounted patrol continued as they had done
during the whole of the proceedings—to march round the
common. They contributed to keep the road clear, hut
the confusion elsewhere was very gnat. The po'ice
ware saluted with groans, yel s, and execrations, from the
mob, vh o surrounded several of he houses where they were
quarterted. They were not sufficiently disorderly to warrant
a iy emend inter;erence on the part of the officers, a'though
a serious riot seemed more than probable, and would doubt-
lees have ensued but for a preventative of potent force which
was thrown in the way by--the weather. Rain bad been
threatened all day, and indeed had fallen several times: it
had, however, reserved itself until the critical moment, and
now came down iii good earnest. The mob took the alarm,
and hurried off in different directions, detachments of police
being despatched to watch them into town, win re it was ap-
prehended that some disturbance might arise. All, how-
ever, passed off peaceably, and before four: o'clock every-
thing was quiet in the vicinity. Not a vestige of the mob of
the morning was to be seen, and nothing was left for the
police efficers but to file off to their several quitters their
services, as well as those of the detective police, whogn;ingled
among the mob in plainclothes, and the large body of special
constah!es who had volunteered and been sworn in upon the
occasion. having scarcely been called into requisition during
the whole day. We did not hear that the meeting had ad-
journed to any particular date, but it was said that • miles
of meetings of a similar description had been arranged to
take place.

INQUEST, YESTERUAT.—ALLEGED CHILD NIUE-
DM —By Mr. G. I. Mills, at the Victoria beer-shop, Keneal
New-town (adjourned from Wednesday) on the body of a
newly-born female child, which bad been found dead in the
water of the Grand Junction Canal, near •he Plough-bridge,
adjoining the Kensalgreen Cemetery. On the afternoon of
the 3rd inst., as J. Robinson, a labourer, was proceeding
along the towing-path of the canal, he observed •
brown paper parcel in the water, which be got out, and, on
opening it, found it to contain • dead female child. In-
formation was given to the police, and, on examining the
brown paper, there was found on it the words, " Miss Alt-
wood, Mitchtldever, Hants," and also the words, " black
crape," and also some initials on a kitchen table cloth ant
in
which the body bad been first wrapped. A police serge
immediately forwarded a letter to that addle..., and by that
mr,.ns hr traced that a your g woman, of the n tine of Fanny
Attwood, 25 years of age, was living in service in Uryan-
sten-place, 13ryandon.aquar,, where he learned that
she had been suspected of having miscarried on
the 2Gth ult., but that Lething had b.en said to
her on the subject, as she was on the point of
leaving the situation. She was accordingly questioned by
the sergeant on the subject, and admitted hiving given
birth to a child which had died almat immediately after its
birth. She was taken into custody on the charge of con-
cealing the birth, and stands remanded until Thursday next
at the Maryletione Police-court. At the first sitting of the
inquest, Mrs. Ommany identified the initials on the kitchen
tablecloth as her own handwriting, and Mr. Abercrombie,
surgeon, of Kemal New Town, deposed to haying made
• pust-tiortem examination, and found no marks of
violence or injury, either externally or internally, on the
body, w, ich was that of • full, sauna, healthy child, born
alive. The mother had evidently, not been attendril by a
medical nain.—The jury, after some discuasion, returned •
verdict that the dmaaed was found dead in the canal, but
whether it came to its death naturally, or from the effect of
violence, there was no evidence before them to show.

IRELAND. 1
DtsLTN, MARCH 11.
Mr. Benjamin Hawes has been returned to serve in 1
parliament for Kinsale.
The meeting of the Trades Committee last even-
ing
was very stormy. Many of the operative ,
classes appear in a high state of effervescence, ripe
for mischief, but there is a controlling power over
them in the influence of the peace doctrine, which,
however derided by some, is yet a moral reality.
The representatives of the three powers—Conciliation-
hall, confederation, and neutral citizenship meet
to-day, to arrange the order of the meeting.
Dr. Miley attends as an eideopus of the
laudable progress of union. The Young Ireland
gentry promised to inspire Manchester on the day of
aggregation, but they will remain at home " to pro-
tect the liberty. and soil of Ireland from invasion."
The procession on the 17th will be perfectly within
the law. No banners—no music—and, of course, no
arms. The trades will meet at their several lodges—
thence proceed to Stephen's-green, where, reduced
iuto sections, and each under its flag, all will move,
silent as the Greeks before Troy, to the Itotundo.
Then speech-making and high-resolving.
The provost and board of Trinity College met on
Sunday, after Divine service, when an address to the
lord-lieutenant was unanimously agreed to, expres-
sive of confidence in I,k excellency's wisdom, and a
determination to uphold the peace of the city under
the trying eircumstar in which the governmer.t is
placed by the armor .tablerconduct of the agitators
of " yours:: " ar.d " 0.. i Ireland.
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