The Express.
London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, MAR. 12.
THE Austrian cabinet hailing prepared a charter
or constitution to be issued simultaneously with the
dissolution of the K►emrier diet. In this charter Ike
emperor grants a kind of federal cooetitaties to all
the states of ifs empire, Hungary and Lombardy in-
cluded. Each province is to have provincial states ;
and this. states, as in America, elect the imperial
senate. The federal or imperial lower chamber is to
be chosen by direct election, and by electors
who pay eighteen shillings direct taxation in
town, and nine brine in the country. The
chief liberties of the person, the press, of
religious worship, and tolerance of arsociatiooe, and
of others recognised in all eanstitutional countries, are
promised by this charter, which is not only a boon to
the empire, bat a great concession to the malcontents
of Lombardy, as well as to the insurgents of
Hungary. The latter, however, will not relish the
clause abolishing all internal fiscal divisions, and
assimilating Hungary Proper in matters of taxation
and customs to the rest at the empire.

So fir in the debate on the navigation laws the
greatest stress has been Lid by the peotectiosiets on
their petitions, and especially on the numbers of
signatures to those from Liverpool and London. To
these Mr. HERRIES turned exultingly, and asked
where were those on the other side ?—where the ex-
pression of public feeling in favour of the rep al of
the navigation laws? Do the protectionists really
supper that the peaple of oar greet industrial towns
have just now (when, after a period of Leg and se-
vere depression, trade is bettering itself) got nothing
else to do than hold meetings to answer the very ab-
sordites that far seven years they devoted
their beet energies to overcome, and at length
got laughed and legislated out of existence ?
Do they imegine that London, Manchester, Birming-
ham, neffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Bradfarl,
Derby, Liverpool, Hull, and all our other great com-
mensal and manufacturing towns, really like to speed
time and some little money on petitions, and take plea-
sure in all the trouble and expense of getting up and
presenting such representations of public opinion,
when, tou, that opinion is perfectly well known ? The
people of this country have fought the battle of free
trade at home, abroad, and wherever any petted
interest took its stand. They know well that
protection has no strength left, and that no rem-
nant of monopoly can be continued. The indus-
try of England has shaken off its fetters—our mira-
culous machinery—our genius for invention—our
inherited aptitude, improved from generation to gene-
ration into almost perfect skill, grew too powerful for
restriction, and flung the burden off We are no
longer limited to special cora fields, or cane fides,
or coffee plantations. Our sickles ars in every
harvest ; from every forest we hew our timber.
Already free trade has called into action new enter-
prise, new energies, new relations with the world.
At bores its impulse is felt, and it is felt abroad—seat,
west, north, south, in every climate under heaven.
Wherever there were lands to till or mines to
work, or any fabric to manufacture, or the sun was to
be let shine upon the earth where for ages silent woods
bad stood, five trade has been as a talisman awaken-
ing the intelligence of men. There was no need,
therefore, for petitions against the navigation laws. The
people felt satisfied that, with so much of the world's
produce fres to be brought to our markets on equal
terms with our own productions, no government
could continue to allow our shipowners a monopoly
of the carriage.
Had Mr. lvtrcattoo mired for petitions, he would
have had them in abundance. Had he wished for
meetings, they would have been called for him in
every town throughout the kingdom that bad lent its
aid to the Anti-Corn-law League. The people are no
more in favour of a ship law than they wove of a
corn law; bet having established free trade not merely
as a principle, but a great commercial fact, they are
content to leave the details to be quietly worked out
in parliament. If, however, there were any
doubts
.as to the success of the measure, the
protectionists would soon be taught that there
has come no change as to free trade over
the opinions of the people of England—there has set
in no readies. They ere of the same opinion sewben
they returned the majority to the present parliament;
and as to the question Won us, they look upon ship-
owners simply as carriers, ships as one of the
appliances of trade ; sad they, attribute the postai=
of our commercial marine to the of our pro-
elections, and the multitude, wealfrrdaskill of our
loop...l.elation. The very idea of shipping as a special
is perfectly laughable: we might as well be
WOrcabs and omnibuses as an interest distinct

hem
Betltifelertle once protested interests, shipowners
amnredly have the least cause of complaint. Already
free trade has given them a rich return. Own, edger,
coffee, cattle, umber, provisions, have, daring the
lest three years, made them the most profitable time
within the memory of most of them. Many have,
over and over again, more than cleared the cost of
their vessels by the free-trade freights of those years
—freights, be it remembered, gained foe them in
spite of themselves. The shipowners, at all events,
have been coexistent; they have stood by every
monopoly, and resisted every increase of imports and
exports, bat still they have had the inersese, and there-
inseam with a spxetal ill grebe to demean the Wen-
mica of fee et trade principles to their own case. Railways,
said an eminent ship-broker at Liverpool, a few weeks
since, have scarcely In their *mint days been so pay-
ing a property as ships to their owners in these free-
Lan downers, &mem East and West Indian', have
scarcely bad time to develop their resources and to
set to work in earnest at improved and mamma pre-
destines. Bo far they have but felt the gar of war
petition, and have begun to start, and yawn, and
stretch themselves ; and it may be, that, from over-
sleeping, they have got into some troubles, and so
they snarl and grumble, and are oat of temper and
dissatisfied. But all bas been a harvest to the ship.
owners: the period of trial for others has been a period
of unexampled prosperity for them. They are not
'eked to compete with the world with only the old
amount of goods to carry. New demands have beta
Greeted, new markets opened for them • and mean.
while, so caught hold of by railways and revolutions
hes been the disposable capital of this end ether
conntrice, that speculation ha. been prevented free
running into ship-handing, so that the shipowner'
have had it all their own way. They have had
ample warning, too, that their monopoly was to fol-
low the rest, and even long since admitted it them-
selves, the very ground of their opposition to the
the
league being that if corn laws ware repe a led,
every ether probed's and go by the &era, and there
wadi sees be nesireigedem law. Bat in the exeitemest
of lading that thole Ws has come at last, the ship-
own,' seem to less eight of the fat that that
"nand Ask hole competition is at home; that the
sentionance of the navigation laws would, in the pre-
med shanienee of minqloyed °Waal, be the very
wont th=ohataceald betel Sem. They
_have called
to the pianos of their interest ;
ri:pi Id mirth of trade has already turned the
qu
irk eye of capital in that direction ; the caution
of late may peened, for a while, speculation
in ship building far a free sea, and, meanwhile, there
will be other fro/ But were shipowners to
pin another traeleallithe navigation laws, and so ap-
=to establish their assertion, that our one
esiehe owes its present greetnem
to prenetien, and can increase only under a
navigation Les capital would catch et the delu-
sion, then wield be an immediate vamklion in ship.
building, and sew shipowners would be taught with a
unsnap, this only English capital and energy can I

compete with Pregffistionois. TWA we cannot compete
with foreign shipping Is • Wig delesion. Never was
any ahmudity mem Wetly imisnsble, the fact being
that we do eampsto with them all mid bast them all.
The utmost as of the Lards, and the utmost in-
genuity of linesmen, were sushis to shake the
antheritygof the official tables : ohmg the heading
of the tables as they might, or transfer tle
moats d shipless countries to the protected
Mk of the table, or get up what contusion
they could about the repeated voyages of steamers,
.4ot thy did aseleavosr to make a smirked dist' nc' ion
between ems ship plag the same voyage twice. and
two ships =keg it ones, stall theligurss,with a most
sentinel' pmvasity, would prove the cornets's, of
Mr. Poirriz's statement,—that the harem of Sr
boasts and seamen is small where we have the seas
to ourselves, groat where we most foreigners In direct
cm:wadies. Mr. Vinson, in his clear and able
speech, showed ermolusively that trading straight
across between their own cosatries and this, we sue-
the French, Ciersiera, Prussians, Austrians,
Danes, and Swedes ; and that, thud re, we
have nothing to fear from competition with them in
trading between this sod countries not their own.
But, say the protectionists, you open new
ems to them, you let them into the
Asiatic, African, and American trade, you let
them ade about amongst our co!oeies, you
invite them to sail against es where we almost for
sees have sailed alone. Well, are there any, special'
Prussian, French, Rummies, or American winds in
those seam, or are our 'kips and sailors there inferior
to the rest, or by what magic, is a Prussian ship to
°Mail as in the Indian seas, or the Atlantic, or Paci-
fic Oman, when in their own seas and their own
parts we outsell them P But every country, my they,
will send ships into the newly opened lines of trade.
Be it so; they must leave their old lines open to us.
They have nut ships enough for both ; they have no
hidden fleets ready for them distant seas. True, they
can bead them ; but then the were of their own
carpenters, smiths, riggers, andwwbes, and the east
of their own timber, aid of all the iron and copper'
chains, ambles, anchors, ropes, hemp, and sails,
that we or other countries stiffly them with mast be
increased, and so the oast of the build and maxim!.
ion of their ships will be increased, and their posi-
tion es competitors in these new lines of trade made
more difficult than at home, and oar emcees in com-
petition by. so mock the easier. It won't do to say
that this rile in wages is mere theory; on the con-
trary, it is a proved fact.
"The wages of shipwrights," says Captain BRIGGS,
"are at the present time (1846), owing to the great
demand, 10a a day; they are ordinarily Bs. 4d."
But there is great mention of the American coasting
vessels, as if they could at once swarm into the Indian
trade, or take the plats of the line of packet; ships in
the English trade. It is forptien, that such rush into
this foreign trade would soon send them home again,
with heavy loss, from the cheapened freights ; that
the fittest coasters in the world are our own Indian
country ships—in short, the only wasters ready for
long voyages; vessels many of them of large tonnage,
strong, wed-built, mostly teak, and almost everlasting.
The repeal of the navigation laws will raise
oar native Indian tailors to the rank of British
seamen which should never have been denied them,
and so admit these vessels to all foreign ports on the
same terms as our own. All other increase of chips
for those long voyages must be gradual, and if we are
to buy our new ships entirely of foreigners, it will be a
puzzle to them, for some time, at least, to get any built
the themselves. Bat as our shipowners are so in love
with these long voyages, they should bestir them-
selves to prevent the making of the peered canals
across the isthmuses of Panama and Sues, and should
have a law passed that all ve-sels must for ever double
the Cape el Good Rope and Cape Horn.
It really is difficult to treat the subject as a
serious one. Nor is it an easy matter to believe
that the shipowners can be in earnest. It does
1o .k like a mere joke, the presenting of those peti-
eons frcen,Liverpool and London, though, after the pro-
cession of seamen, we can understand how they may
hare been got up ; but the difficulty is to believe
that men can look at those acres of docks, those whole
streets and piles of warehouses, those cities of ships,
those millions' worth of goods going and coming
from every quarter of the globe continually, and can
have any real fear of foreign competition, and real
belief that any other country can bring such means
into tho Sold of competition, or, above all, can mil us
off the asee—nor can they imagine that this supre-
macy of comme•cial wealth and power is the growth
of any or of all the long-trusted Totems of protection.
No, they are the growth of en industry, an intelli-
gence, a perseveranee, that has made us great beyond
and in spite of protection; and as long as there
are goods to be carried, and ships to be built, these
win giro us the first place as shipowners, builders,
and sailors.

The government measure dose, however, leave the
shipowners some just ground of complaint. It should
throw open our whole coasting trade, that we ma 7
have*. like advantage from other countries, and it
should allow the manning of our ships with seamen
of any country. The sailors' grievances, too,—the
perpetually vexatious system of registration, and the
tyranny el impressment—should be abolished, and the
Braman left like every other workman, at all times
free to seek employment where he can get the bight at
wages. If the state want his skill let the state Ray
for it, and not steal the man and make a slave of him.
There are rearms and arguments so fall, so over-
wheboleg, that we can well conceive mercantile com-
munities think it quite needless to petition. But
membire of parliament should not be lukewarm. The
Lords' are best on resistance, and the only way to
prevent their folly, is such a majority in the Com-
mons as they may think it prudent to respect.

Boos are looking up. Through every part of Con.
nought hope long unfamiliar has been diffused. Wild
words of recovering courage already are pronounced
with half-hysteria accents. Mute despair no levier
holds undivided sway amid the desolation. A video
in the air has been heard whispering •112 i. Tot
with the accustomed tone of authority, " as r
And mea who lately saw around them nothing hot
swift and sure destruction are oely too ready to list*
to any words that promise deliverance anywhere
or how. _ _ _ _

Sir-ROBERT Pm bits won the hearts of all the
trembling chiefs of rack.rentdom. Hitherto they have
hoped on against all hope, and have received no com-
fort. Mayo landlords, who elaborately set forth their
utter inability from want of means to discharge the
essential duties of their station, and thereby fancied
they were making out irrefragable claims on
aid, or at least sympathy, have for now a l'onraM
, found that there was ,no other answer for them but a
saucy lesson in lonia obligations from the knight of the
ruthless pen; or a public caricature of their private
woes In the columns of the specially informed organ.
If you cannot improve and employ, the sooner you
mush from the same the better. If you cannot realise
the ancient price of your estates, why then you must
oaly take what you ern get. It may be much, or it
may be little; but pray observe, dull Celts, that the
lower the pries, the faster you will find purchasers.
Unhappy lads_ and squires could only wring their
bnadm eperehlem agony, lock themselves up in their
*sedum measions, velem to pay rates, dismiss their
remelabloth Monroe, trust to the chapter of aoci.
dents, and wait for the end.
Meanwhile no change of owners seemed lady to
take place ay: did any very intelligible symptoms
mar of sae 'amp being nigh at baud as had
been presumed and prophesied. There are none so
hard to turodsCerith-se these that do not want to sell ;
end dupes* of the clam in question ever wish to
sell all they-palm in the world for the benefit of
misty in genera 8 ' an incubated land-
lord ever so self-den g and honourably disposed
with regard to the liquidation of his debts, it may be
fairly doubted whether he could be held in fora con-
seisistia boned to put hie property up to auction,
at a tires and =Ate circumstances when it was ocr-

taro to produce but ten or twelve years' purchase.
Thine are few estates in the Western Highlands that
are not dipped,more deeply than such a price would
be adequate to clear. And to expect that men will
of their own free will merinos the nominal ownership
(which, be it ever so delusive as a test of income,
carries with it, nevertheleu, social rank, and local
privilege and power), was et best an idle dream ;
bat being relied on as the rationale of legisla-
tion in the matter, it has been found to be
an erxeedingly mischievous one. That solemn
hoax, the encumbered estates bill, was framed upon
the sagacious theory that Connaught landlords bein
in a very hot frying-pan of embarrassment, would
willingly oblige her Majesty's government byjular

The depatationste replied that the coodition of the cowl-
-7 prevented empitniess from advancing loan en
Mer allsareallty. If the vestment would grant this com-
mittee sad thus memiled a• Merest in the undertakings the
sit
rani
ight eof thimble would be restored and abundance of
money nbe
After some further Ilismardoe, Lord Jour Amami. stated
that the appliession made by the deputation for the appoint-
moat of • salon committee had somewhat tam him by
surprise. was sot, therefore, prepared to state what
souse the gayety/meat might be dbposed to adept with
reformer 'to • abject which he admitted was of great im-
portunes, but be assured the de tube that the proposition
would recedes the Mort of ban llojasey go.
verumast. TM deputation then withdrew.

our in which surgical skill h required. Hesegaind,
miter period than is usual fn his preheats's, very std
practice, and was not loog in obtaining aka
eminence by election to a place in the council of tria—inau* •
of Surgeon,. Mr. White twice succeeded to the
chair of that beatitudes's, and was highly valued as
4
of the Court of Examiners. In consequence ci=
attacks, of gout, which specially affected his haage,""ark
White was necessitated some years since to reliegaisk
es an operator; but he sentinued to a very ew
Eretitbolgive the publis the benefit of his =perhaps se a suiting wren. Hie name ie one which willooe be loug ',—
Weed among the eminent men of his profession, whilEka—raa,
only adorned by his talents, but in the proof:he of whisk 4
was distinguished by a remarkable benevolent*. sts 0,a7
wee always at the command of men engHted in the rairealeWe
scions,, heaseature, or the arta, to whom not natmasatty kk
purse was open se his hand in the hour of theicdigeamo.
To Mr. White surgeons are indebted for many of the*,
portent improvements made of late years in their halm
meats. Those seedbed to the Baron Heurteloup are.
holier' almost all introduced under his auspice, ----s
CHOLEIA.—The following fresh outs trete Ts.
ported to the Board of Health on Saturday :—(ge„
Igtoow, 2 fatal; Kilbirnie, 2, 1 fatal; &hearten, 3 %I,
2; Island of Lewis, N.B , from 27th ult., 10,
fatal; Camped', 3, 1 fatal; Kilmorey, Arran, 1 fetal; go,
livid., 8, 6 latal.—Total, 31 new care; 18 demist
ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.-1 he tinned
general meeting of the members of this society and a iris.
quennial meeting for the purpose of declaring a beaux amt
pleas on Saturday at Radley's Hotel, Bridge skeet, Meek.
friar ; Sir T. F. Lewis, Bart., M.P. in the chair, yka
actuary read the statement of the director for the lea
1848, from which it appeared that the Petal map%
amounted to 213,7061. 19,.. 5d., and that after msetlag la
claims mad making considerable investments in Rove rained
',cavities, mortgages, and the purchase of policies, theft
mains on hand a cash balance of 16,3771.05. 2d. The laths*;,
tel sr assurance fund of the society was stated to mom ea
904,8601. 12e. 3d. These statements having beeit
oeived and adopted, the auditors of the society gee
reappointed, and a sam of 1401. was voted to the%
for their services during the past year. The bodiless
of the fifth quiaquenni il meeting of the society was then yea
carded with. A. report from the directors was submitted se
the meeting, in which they state that from the cowmen.
ment of the society up to December, 1843, which coupe,
headed four quinquennial periods, the number of pox*
issued was 6.001, and the number on the 31st of Does
last was 8,386, being an increase of 2,384, or, on an &vete'',
477 per annum, and a considerable increase upon the cow
bees issued in any previous similar periods. The glom
amount of premiums received during the but gee
years is 69,5301., or, on an average, 11,9061, pt
annum. The income from the premiums km des
increased from 90,6001. to 124,3211., being an average ie.
crease of 6,7841. per annum. The sum of 39,3521. has been pal
from the bonus fund in ready money bonuses and in the other
ways specified by the rules of the society. The total are el
the society amount to 908,0601. 7s. 9d , and the liabilities to
725,9211. 3e. 6d. leaving a clear surplus of 182,1391. 4,,
which the directors recommead shall be applied in the ill,
lowing manner —168,79 U. distributed in bonuses, sadly
remainder, 13,3451. 4s. 4d., retained to meet the palmetto(
annual contingent bonuses, during the current quinquesio
period.—The chairman, on declaring the bonus of 168,7te
congratulated the shareholders on the satisfactory ppd
of the affairs of the society. At the last quitscsmaid
meeting he had expmsed • hope that by plying ogeh
shareholders the society would be placed en a firm bulked
it would be admitted, on a consideration of the statarark
which had been submitted to them, that his anticiptisa
had been fulfilled. The valuations of the assets and
ties had been made on the principle adopted on pewee
divisions, which experience bad proved to be of the maim
nature ; and although large bonuses were not compel%
with their system of low premiums on the assume el
young lives, he thought it was matter for congratulate
that so considerable a sum remained for distribution se the
present occasion.—Mr. Roberts admitted that the accietyki
done well, but thought that it would do better if some hearths,
through the operation of which certain other societies la.
joked • high degree of prosperity, were adopted in their
ststutioa. He particularly referred to the power calked
by some other societies, by which the party insuring tae
appoint • nominee, who, on • transfer of the policy, ie m.
powered to receive the amount on the death of the amesi.
—lt was explained by the Chairman and other amber: the
the societies referred to enjoyed the privileges stated eahr
special sets of parliament, which did not extend to this or
pany.—The Chairman having declared the bonus bakes
mentioned, the directors of the society were reelected.—
Thanks were then given to the chairman, vice-alai:mama
directors, and the meeting adjourned.

PROPOSED VICARAGE AT RICHMOND.—On Fries:
night a numerously attended meeting war held in the Bee
lecture Hall, Richmond, to petition parliament againstpre
ing a bill now before the House of Commons, termed "T
Richmond Vicarage Bill," which is to sever it from Ma 3
toe, the vicar of which holds both livings, as well as the s'
Ham. The bill, which has been read twice, provides**
Richmond shall be a distinct vicarage, and that a Teddies
be provided with two acres of ground for • garden kir*
new vicar, whose salary will be 4001., paid out of the pm
rents, as heretofore. The bill is, however,• to give power Is
the select vestry to introduce church rates into Welland
for the first time, which will be levied upon the whets
rateable property of the pariah, including, u a matter
course, dissenters of every denomination. It also provide
that the rate shall be one of • shilling in the pound fat M
years, but so divided that it shall be only twopence is*
pound for any one year. To stay the further progress cello
bill was the object oohe meeting, and the speeches of Mr.
Sidney ihnith, Rev. r. Davis, a dissenting minister, aid
Moue. Whitely, holly, etc., in support of a petition, win
received with continued applause. A settee of res.:duties
were carried unanimously, to the effect that the law prepaid
to be put upon all denominations to support one sect ms
most Wqnitous ; that a most strenuous opposition shoidd be
made against it, and that Mr. C. Luthington, M,P., be M 1
quested to present a petition against the third reading en
Monday night.—Stuuda Paper.
CONSOLIDATION OP THE PRISON BOARDS.—The
superintendence of the several prisons udner the contract**
government and of the convict department is about to be
consolidated under one board, an arrangement that will
combine uniformity of treatment with economy in the
management of the prisons and bulks. No ideation
expense will be incurred, as the services of sou
of the prate* members of the boards of superintendence sad
of the suspicion of prisons will be made available in the pie
posed consolidation, which is to take effect from the beg*
Imes of the next month.— Observer. -

FIRE IN VIZ BLACKPRIARS-HOAR. Yeaterday
morning, about 4 o'clock, a fire broke out in the extend's
range of premises belonging to Messrs. Whits, Greened,
and Co., haberdashers, &^.. carrying on business at 63, 61,
and 66, Blaekfriars•road. The discovery wan made by a
police sergeant, who raised an alarm, and sentfor the egging.
After some trouble, the whole of the inmates, nearly fltty in
number, male and female, were aroused from their plumbers.
The building, however was so full of smoke, that the nisi-
dents made a precipitate retreat into the street in their
clothes. When the engines arrived, the flames were rung
(seriously in the first floor. The shop below contained the
stock in trade, valued at nearly 20,0001., and rtes
fireman were obliged to carry the hose of their
engines into that portion of the premises. An &bonding*
of water was scattered over the flames ; but they were ad
eztioguished until that portion of the premises in which the
disinter commenced was burned out, and the lower part
damaged by water, etc. Mr. Braidwood reports the
done as follows " Front sitting-room on first floor
g
burned out ; 8 or 10 yards of flooring and jointing
through into shop. The goods in south-met corner of dot
damaged by water, and upper part of house by auks og
heat. Forty or fifty feet of plate-glee broken." The fen
was insured in the Sun, Royal Eschaage, Legal and Cow
menial, West of England, Law Defender, and Norwich
Union Pitt-0634C

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SATURDAY.—WORKTIOrSE ECONOMY.
—Before Mr. Wells, at the King's Arms, Short's-ganinds
Drury-lane, on the body of Mary Reynolds, late an Ludo
of fit. (}tin's workhouse, aged 62. Elizabeth Werra,
another inmate of the workhouse, stated that on Thum
night deceased returned with her to the workhouse abOa
o'clock. She wee perfectly sober. Just as they entered the
hall deceased missed her footing, there being no lifikt, sad
tell head foremost down the kitchen-stairs. Witness ifl
after her and tumbled on deceased. She called for assistade;
the nuns came and removed witness, but deceased woods
dad.—Coroner: " Was there no light?"—Wither: "Nh
air, and the stain are very dangerous. The least thing Idol
throw any one down them:''—Thomas, the nramodri
°facer : The lights are extinguished at 8 o'clock.'
Coroner: " That's very ill-advised economy, by
human life has been sacrificed."—Verdict: "Madam'
death," accompanied by a recommendation from the jury
that the guardians should without delay erect a small doord
the head of the kitehen-stairs. The coroner directed Those
to forward the recommendation to the guardians.

THE ARBITRATION MOVEMENT.

MEETING AT DONCASTER.
A public meeting wan held in the Guildhall, Don•
caster, on Friday evening last, called in accordance with
numescusly signed requisition, for the purpose of adoptilif
a petition to parliament, in support of the motion
to be brought forward in favour of arbitration instead am
appeal to arse. The eliair was taken by W. Dunhill, Bni
the mayor, who =premed the pleasure he felt at being 031
upon to preside at a meeting called for so good a Purr°.
The Rey. W. JEBSOP, Wesleyan minister moved thefoli
resolution. " That this meeting is impressed with the im•
politic Johnsen and antichristian character of the predig!
of softiies international disputes by an appeal to arms; lina
warmly approves of the introduction of an arbitrationclans
in all treaties between Great Britain and foreign nations."
The resolution being seconded by Mr. J. CLARK, log
carried neat. eon.
E. FRY, Esq., a deputation from the Peace Coors
Committee, moved the next resolution : " That a petition bi
presented to the House of Common', praying the numbers
to adopt • resolution to support these lima'
The next resolution—a petition founded on the resolutions
—wu proposed by Mr. Councillor Maras, seconded bi
Mr. HASTY, and carried unanimously, as was also a vote og
thanks to the chairman, and the meeting then separated.

MEETING AT PONTEFRACT.
A public meeting of the inhabitants of the ancient
borough of Pontefract was held in the town-hall, on Satur-
day last, the 10th instant, for the purpose of adopting a pee-
tion to parliament in favour of Mr. Cobden's motion, for the
formation of special treaties of arbitration, to supersede the
cruel and costly war system. Resolutions in favour of arbi-
tration were agreed to, and a petition to parliament was
adopted by the meeting,

- - - -
REPEAL OF THE MALT TAX.
MEETING AT NORTH WALEGLAAL
Oa Timothy, ea ialtseatial mallet of
et purpose
lard-
pima%r tweet darseees, male*hem latemeeed k the pees-
visamen4 fur *a egricultere. was begrllthefethe=agealictrt:
vas hr • *al repeal of the melt but. The astasederm me;
pot mmomeue, ham eadmated that aat Ism that 030
pogo* wore press*. Jour Tama, Pat., was ailed to the
tisk .
Kr.- JAMES IMMIX I stead teeth• elemmes a e
sod abased* de the
Tnthis fret beam I' as it sleets
Onlt Is Oink* time la he pelmVe, sad eseandly,
oft* the enamor it is eresifg *preemies la feel
opes Lad further, lemoses I bans** U the malt
a, lee sogselod, it we/Kid teed mate le akellemte sea ha.
Is, the mein ofa large wawa say Wear amilenisa,
and pazthalady that peke ef then wkla sae sees
ead of 'aroma sappeet, regard, sad eammisseetka (Ap-
aisso.) the that Ist me ia of you a grist ma Wads
Wrote, pride of bag; let as rather use that
=lsla% and maserative, hem Mader rid pe-
al sews tetra wait* as ems ataek mad with sae
wrames *jest is view. There sheep ware, sad will be
mammal of opal* omega us. To *Mk the some
moo point we pun* althea albs. So it is that mem
beef la their optimise • bat *see is as reason why there
*said be the slightest' dams. eme* a mow ; or why
or should not canaestrato our 'amiss ea • guestioa I.
which we are all is deeply laterated. It is a miatesally
edmitted maim in *Utica' asmegry, that is peopertie• as
me duty cm ardek She asemempliM thlb
I'ber.) The bleary of the mak tea haw fhb we.
wan that for a period el II is Bela 17/0 a
1710 w average duty es melt Is • this king-
dom wee about 9d. per babel, sail the average
eiwiampthet per head as the mare pc=4,ewas Out
mil bleb& We peeks. If you iske the peeled of
rim Irma 1796 to 1646, during whirl deny ea
aa avenge el 21. Id. per board, the
torremptisa had idles he two Wale mid one pack per
heed ea the pepolatioa, whisk is just sea MU what it was
during the threw period ; la4atereede, dal* the last 60
years, the pegols of Me whit* the
buths mole reemOae the maw
ret the* the altered balks alike peepim, data.
statt I am Feared to allow this; boa I wlfl impel to you
as )mane.—es prattle* mum korai eels* with the woric
whether yott thith year labourers would
terolN if they Muhl get beer, or whether
the fay Naas why they do set Mak it ie bemuse it
Is bored their Fes* ! The Fneekmaa may
drink hi wise and the Italian his sear wise if he
10* Sc, bet beer mareakelars4 from salt sad hope I.
the sus ml beverage at aa Ilaglishmaa. The British
termer is mow placed is • pinkies antenna from
say that he bee occupied amoebae. The preemies whisk
we have so bag enjoyed is maw rammed, ad we are now
absat te eafte—reep, have aimed a Lld that has bees
threw spa le He maptllles of the whole weekL Daring
the *homes .1 Ste hortethe goads, it was adversally
admitted by ell pied* that wise damn laws were re-
pealed, the moil tat ma* semelesey be abolished. The
ma La boa boss repaid, bat the malt vas still remise.
(1101 a.) It is simply as • matter of judos that we sew
sok hr It. reseal. (Appberse.) We ea as haw we
may sok that jostles to whisk every mil ail every elm: as*
may gag juetlp oat*. Al we say is, give us fair play.
De sea take our memos ism waran amok mid tbea not as
Lm the haul, to AOC
_De sot depth. se el straw, eel
theysag we expect the used tea of ).)stem Tea all ea as
is Maki people with drop had, but is the same time
yes deprive us of this seems ef &sing es. I oasis
mast, that all we ask is that paths to whisk
wiry lagHelmaa is kirly sad lady Inithd, sad we
sow sell as yea to repeal the nob ass (Apples.)
Apia-, the malt tax, la SIMMS with 8U ether resaistiess,
siege the workbag ;lama es it tads to away sad surfeit
the dell is employment; sad when we leek* ear large sad
aseeesiag popekaties—aseing that it Mareesse as the rate of
IMO deily—ead that a way Lege smarties of the nu*
*pad it their kisser he their daily breed, it mums be
fleetly apparent to ell that every resteisdem ad every ar-
tier which at all impedes at Mien the free eireeletios adds
Lbws suet be removed. And how little de we generelly
was of this labour. If we hod ell the we**
Nered *a
dat oar cowed, of how little vahee mould it be
without the e* of the sea *um owe we me mar, I oa-
ts*, edanatiag, when we oak kr the repeal of the malt tax.
Ist we ere meshy the arguasst—where will pwlad a sub-
stitute br the amount raised by this tea twat the gears-
miat ef this eaustry ? The vitalism la a peat degree
mays spat tide peat To this I fay Hue It le We Ihr
$ll 4fiviss the mass ; but I will say that mask mambo dome
to the shape of eameasy sad retreashateat, sod el* men
by a panel minks of the mom of ear tszethm. I me
blip mere that we must have taxation ; bat w* poe-
ms is that system of bend tenths of wWi the malt
he hems • pan, and to milli lon assure*, bums it
peers with seek wedge seveirky ea the inimlekl As. ef
this awry (Applause.) Little heeded, almost ma-
dman of, but unceasingly it works its way. It eaters
the dwelling of every working man throughout the
hog* and breadth of the Lad. Go OM the sw-
ages of year own labourers, sad there yea will
to its efeas is the great abridgment, or rather
teal *saes of all the little sonforts whisk ap-
pear to be so requisite, sad whisk I malatais era
wows:, to weeks • life of lobar, toil, We privatise. I
am sad ever have boa a Mara steady, sad boast sup-
per* d the glorious baits** of my eswedly, bat we
sae ell me sad admit that as sivlikatiea it--the en-
lightenment pavans as edusation spreads, We ear
PeP916601 9114411499, shears most be mode heaths, to
tint, to meet the addition* shdme spa us. We must eat
la esesnieses with the spirit of the age Is width we the.
Bea I easeiste, I she say a few weeds is say Mast
Wawa I will ask you, have yea do* your duty is As
lee ? Do you think that if yea had ezereised the mars Nagy
sad perseverance which have bus displayed by ether dem*
the salt tax would have se lag remeimed It emblems 1, I
think we oast all admit that there has bees peat spiry
sad indilferesos moisiketed swag as. I seal aell a* yea
to read the pages of history,as your owa restheeties
mice to tell you that all great immerse have bona aseded
by pererveresos aad agitation. There is sae=
mae—lesta to depend upon youreslas, for
ma. there is nothing so heal to our well-being—whether li-
kable/Iy, or es a clam—es a dependence upon ethics, rather
thee ape ourselves. Consider the position la which you are
sow plead. With all the world loathing at your doers,
wlll you will kosher oa, aaniadfal et the shown which
are skies plats ea *Tory side armed yes—ausindhil of the
duty which you owe texTett, year famallies, sad to
year emery And la t you bead to the plough, yea
mit sot leek back on rood we*. Do net leave this
meeting ender an improules that year work is date. Leave
it rather under the hwyesselea that have shwas* a
straggle in which you are ialmmtoN le persevere and to
any tbrough. Yerawre, then, and soma she sad will
stead yea,lbr years is the swam of
imilittaileastiee, and ha-
mmier. I sow beg to maw the fat
Mat la 60E= et Ile add& alarr, with a IMha.
person er ssea, the prides of es women amazed
amid% the dee mm wale le me imarewee
beenieelt se It Imam thity .1 U. wpm ewe, me at
lathe teal Ike maim eel Smarr pedalo the am et the mare
Be. Ist ler.
eelayl male.
lIIIIPHEARD said MO he rose with great plea-
sure ts send the ressistioo. It bus OM auk
was ens of the best solids WM meld be mot it Mimic
cattle, sad that ens use pool mess why it dwell be Fo-
wled. There wee also setae ream why It Ault be
abolished. It wee stated ia the Hews of Lords, that werry
20,0001. of property la the peid la tam may II
years 1,600 t, wher:rs= traesey SlOOrsoi
6001. in the nun orlesded, thongs% HM
ousiderieg day melt asompuoikelp greater bug= to
beer Sea she assseyed Me u% - the tiresgest
pomade dig= 1) have this to re d The meatiest was thee pat ants! by soolasaatioa.
Kr. G. 00W211 sued the out osselatioa
Wet us is epos lo *ea le ONO* We gyres*, la
=hasp* se It premiss se hertay apes the tebserlog
eke sowasatty, sal aelere the nest seedy from prfaidag
• as Whose bemuse, the sly seleltloes is. tibias hem the
MY ea

It. said the malt tax le that is gelesiple. nth I men
die Is rand desely by the Ire et tls brag a tax apes MO
el the aserseein In& (Appian.) It ray be seid,
W bra rid by teeth that beer h lot a gory;
but I earth* that It is the astral beverage of the
intim *Me of this anally. Al all-wiss Provi-
ders kr grafted that the prodeldirs of diarist
sseatrise shall be sailed =I Waned te the ether
ad
lbess wraith Arileft*, ia the Iket Las we Sad
Se the all plamiss dee ; the was Ladies yaw rid
err and; 6 the wietheneliree the nye ad red is
..them realidee, Net red ether Weer see penes- I
tire, wthe satire these diner, have bees
reared by Ilea, begeefee, the slogged Is.
Id idea is it end Mee
beet the =tend beethige, I ateth
kW indite the ethenees melt tea the led tin it is en
Ni. L ag. (Agiges.) It be bees mist to work ia
de tells. an Isla leak bask te thus der with nth*
this tiled that en Valenta the wriesing end ens, sad
tea este di reeng, vrith ne Meseta lOW eel I an
retheabse with whet alight I Irk awe the brown jag
aed err it %Bid beer. I wend egged to try ram who has
W te bur his Ere la the labor of reelpiveLleeit
W at week ef . Ander
quargeg the thelleg=n abide. Ire
vales hew leather veferkiag a theastref
mei aiter a lin Ws week, sad I sea nese gee that
if 1 beast gorghea er this aseeklimeat I shield sat ban
diets bre easated the week se whisk Imes
(uir.) Is.. the thin mailable to a
te this thee 2;rl
ol nigh I weld bate porno. , eq. bed It
1.14 in el the sesserres emus sub to In I k ea-
-14.‘ essseigg, I matthil that the Its is *en be-
reft ark is me of the staple peedestrias of dde.=l.4
OW "'al
iiONES. Xt. CITOW,
"m• ale et are of the ands arida of the seesteinde
ithigib the el die pose. (keglers)
I wirearrive their a wiped erne re
In we rest leek le ausehr. (Appleese.) W. I sr
ingf le pledge net die, are MY =MO es up to
wows we as leek as leader. I tart at the stet eb•
that pea ray doped dr quad= seem la Ihis
misione alma upsa the ethrtinen keen amen
XL Owe ibis dieted ss the worthless earth of the
loshrusdeettela mien= ef the Hoer of Omens se
"aPooed nth their elle—thisk voting he the regal ef the
sera len ems Wain eel the withoppesid the NINA st 010
uses. sad etherwth Ilia whoa Ina ern thus, be red-
wive the eldemithea penmen for seven year we tee
(
a.MlX.samlisSaveld it was fatherly believed
the iselistere that s regain Ihkralt tax would be a good
"L▪ ad Sat the Gnus; bat it we aneowledged es all heads
bet it would benefit the labourer, sad nerd= ke mind

visa is its ebelltima with all his *art. (Applause.) He
bed peg p Cdr =t ythe ranatim, whisk was
10 thus r. I BALD wowed SIM mat reasistisa as knows :
That wastig pledges Wit to me Pajama ibuirseas murder
kr the NW Ind lompillide ispmal et lid• shosaless Input. • Mel-
atistal utile isemarS. and mini et the paps.
He salt the tidea was embed fa very mug tem,
bat ast, he Mesh% tee some to rimy Beene.,
add Whig of the mane era Me 'ajar- 11Le was
of sea* On they emelt an to maim pintas
nem. and lin Itres high Ilne they shield lean
aad pawn.. sM, It they did alk he nail art
brim isle** that may goliumast yield swiss*
this tea Oat hat posse& Elhesto had hem se
Met, se suleateh On Chet hid let Mon Mr veil., Is
le din Melt they OM se seashly to be as Wee-
pmple were begins*/ to *seine that they
did not *sat mar set grimness, hat they Reim sow
mins* snit and show thaw that they
vim detenalsed le in naelltutionsi *me is
their •
le peen* the NmMla of Oh law. lb.
via a We neadia had hem between the
tad the *MN. hat he ems* sew reshel
ma • llibisee basin This tea peened mess penitently
on the MresiMas dam, mad the Ipssiies awe was
*tem then tad the privileged darn. Ifs Wenn that
the parmigiana Mimes* le the ham elate. mad the
guest* wse. MO whisk ewe wend they ideedhy MOM
seine pmeeleg • seeped 'fhb shandies Ira P There
Mali be aefts ga
lls as to their anewer—end that is
was thair jein the **Men Mum
stroggn. (Mem) He hit that hey were la
steathed-
lag between the gemansat mad the poses, sad that
it was their delg as the middle mien to met themselves
in every ponlide way to asaellsrate the coedit* ef the
Me. (Chem) He Ism *Mu that he hit Maned
and mean when ens mad his fields la men, the
lemma 11110 was wane ismonmatby hen Meaday sacra-
ise flaterday sight take eat IM thy suet 0 brown
bread mad en it with/eat a little beer to wash it down ;
and he maid ask whether it was it beam nature to be
papt sash fan ? We this the kited of trealassat
ea* those ham of loyalty fee whisk this
had always bees OligedMl ? If they *ad
*ems poor nun were thestived ef OM amend
Amid they ass pat the eintima, why was ? aid=
set she take the non argent seeps IS pram ils im-
? A few years ego the Heals dOemans had sepealsd
tee, sad was an this ray deseMense ma adnidsa
at its be menthes ? What was the enema is had elhoweeds beta
re-imposed ? Why, simply hems he govemmat said,
earn the house ressiMl then resehdlen they wed& go eat.
Were they the. to eh dem under those dismilimems
gelid, mad Moly, mal to tate their Wares IS thdr beaks
Mae* osakiagi (Hear.) In then
-armn hemet nen
ia gnat eel hit qumethia-baying la-
beam actor than for whose weihme they sand. He was net
ma Masan fer the Wang Oineims, bat he did feel
that Om was toe pest a Mom at mem bstwan
sunk* et the Mem mad the basin elm, and he tea-
Oared that it was ash has, am it was their policy, Meg
what had nom ea the Oseheent to seaside to
tie people Mil .labs and pelearges se they were justly me-
taled to melee. -He mid net bat seaspetalmte then ea
Meg • palm& prom who had Isee Mardi el himeself,
nee had se isag sympathised el* the OM many.
He mad tub nashon the same of . to ben.
to Sir slagsall that was mile mod gmaseem Whet he
madman the ammo of hr. Wiedleam be sialleasd the
mans 0 lam if when his essay Welt justly he proud,
ad be Might his promo rawest thin ism Om rem
M bellow Mho was with them, sod dot be van whin, to
sums howard aad light their bill. mod! MOM man
their efforts. (Chem.)
hr. T. CUBBITT *sly seconded the mein*, which ea
rialeND—adir-i—iss.LailYpessen• tothismolA sal was
naked with weird
anestee. He amid yea nay ve-
nom* that when I Ind thehenme d repressating you in
prilmeat, I them* it right te sate he the repeal of this
tar. Ide net repent them, lOa task. (Mom) AM
iI was rightin it m
* essamim bow mash
yth* non Jewelled ams
he ama mese ye WINS Oa protest*
is ahe This. and I smoke the mark to the *ea
end am that I in armed ne with whet OW
Worm, is an a party mina. I have makmod it
a sink. I hays net nein ea it as a esse deeply
giyear Mem, ,and I means that I Mali lave
*self, raise that year Wend fees sonde mistake,
Gemmed mem yea ea the most ocanisa. I
have hema wad ever Mil he a Mady sad consistmat whip.
I have am advents' salrene epineas ; hat I trust that
in my ems asienmembsed I have ever pined myself the
friM of the seleallarin and of the Ammer. and (het mar
cm wham him in will give in credit he bake ma.
I de asst say this al an arrogant bout, bat I In smanmeed
that there are few pumas who have had the beam of eh
diesdng yea is this county who is mere emeneat with
the an* and requirements of the Man and the labourer
Assmyself. If *vs for a period of Alma yeses totally
npadisted myth*/ like pditimal setae* ea the sae
hand, se political sparing ea the ether, I trust I have
cultivated what to in is the diet mad met *petal*
mutt —a psi isimoloOles with you all, mad that md
feeling tt is wry jel lestallsa to and lify . Now Ikm
lesan mush sad may very seemerit d areensat hen yva rious
*Ms to the tight sod ash who have addressedm yea upon
the satinst 'fibs roped nails tea. Ihne Ma heard it amM
very searasnee—" shandetes." sad se ea; but I meld
mak 0 you what Ms we se m* Ma say of yea lean
at Mho? Tea mask *rover, be aware, that the
inhere mast he thsuithed with the MOMS • t van** it
the goverenesat of the emetry ; bat, la - Ilds, I
met may that they have eased themeless is this
ableminsa : they haves*, k sperm leignstetYak
this easst:s:ill it is year tkey am to sman ameil sal
show them your minims an psalm, that yen in
set to be spa.
Mr. WNW *ea aid, that the knew* heed the non
be was matheed den tax was ebnedeing ledhir,aed ewe-
s* tomb dm, sad be , height Ms meal
mad be a gran been to meekly isamemily. He mod
the aleph* of a pus, pasliennt nem " That the
*le as h easemem eimeenthe m an avenge to every
me Ittelsy nest hr Is , fa awe thma el
=lPliin seat. ham rafts. sod telteanikr.
sthe duty cm Mt proem* the hawse hes the
smut of bib problem halal shell
Week t mad the that im new gmesellyainOM Oaths*, he
Ihntsiag anis dielesegreat adhisaml miss ben* proms
of milk" Ilia Om MeV ea melt Is admit aad oppressive,
Masa as tt levies a heavy tribute ea the predate of ear
sera ask whilst is.. pm ant is allowed to be imported
ine this many at_e_asadeal
Mr. JOHN 1.0, of Ormerlght. sum * the said..,
wadi was supporta by Mr. A. itywo, and arrisd.
Mr. gy
m. 0001 0 &ahem amemi—x /let sin thanks
of the hos he gina le the guisma
maims, this they be remind M suit Mir mins
is sarryiag out the unladen that had been Meg*, and
that they have power to add le their ausalsr."
Mr. LARIMIL aim* the Mica; mein ams. con.
A sate of limas le the *deem emended the pro.
seeding&