The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-13 00:00:00

THE REFORM MOVEMENT.

MANCIIESTEIL—The number of letters received by
post, at Newell's buildings, Manchester, in answer to the
circular of Mr. George Wilson, was about 2,300 up to yester-
day, of which more than 90 per cent. are decidedly favour.
able to the movement, and urge immediate stops by exten-
sive organisation to carry it on. Our correspondent inclose,
a few more extracts from these letters, of which the follow-
ing area fair sample :—A barrister in London writes—" I
am right glad to find you in the field again for the assertion
of the rights and interests of the industrious classes of this
country against feudal domination. I bare every reason to
believe that you will find a more general response to your
appeal than was accorded to you as chairman of the
A gee.tleman at Burslem says :—" I highly approve of
all the objects you prepme in connexion with a I
new popular movement, and think that not • day
should be lost in commencing operations. The feeling
of the reformers of this borough will, I think, be decidedly
with you." From Carmarthen :—'• As to the feelings of my
neighbours on the four points referred to, I should say, that
to the best of my judgment, they do approve of them, and
would he glad to see them carried into effect." From •
merchant at Liverpool :—" I am decidedly an advocate for
all these points, if they can be obtained as an instalment.
My own opinion is in favour of universal suffrage, taking as
the process the granting of the franchise to every adult
male who can write his name and the particulars of his re-
sidence, &c." From a farmer at Norwich :—" We heartily
rejoice in the prospect of a Manchester movement in favour
of extended suffrage, and think the time happily clime."
From Bath :—" Go on and prosper—l will help you as well
as I can by subscribing and voting. The liberals here
would join any well concerted plan for obtaining the pro.
posed reform, and all the tones will op; me any plan."
From Homerton:—" I decidedly appnve,and think it is quite
time a stop was put to the reckless expenditure of the
public money. There seems to be in this district very great
and increasing dissatisfaction ; and I think the means pro-
posed would meet the decided approval of a decided
majority." From Stalybridge :—" The sooner such a
desirable object be set about the better; and such seem
to be the prevailing opinion of all (or nearly) mg:
neighbours and acquaintance with whom I have mamma."
From Southampton :—" To the annexed circular sad gene-
tions I heartily respond. Many moderate tonesthis
neighbourhood look more favourably on this movement than
they did on the anti-corn law movement."—From a
member of the Society of Friends, at Perth :—" So far as I
can judge of the feeling prevalent here as to the necessity of
a movement for reform, the numerous and influential body
who supported the Anti-Corn Law League are ready to rally
round the standard of such men as Cobden."

CHARTIST ASSEMBLY. ARMS. Yesterday, the
following resolutions were agreed to :
That it is clearly ranetioced by justice and warranted by humanity,
that unenfranchised and unrepresented people hare a claim for main-
tenance in the land of their birth, with -ut being subjected to insult or
injury by any members of society or by any government, and we call
Won the thinking members of the British legislature to consider the
propriety of finding industrial employment for all able-bodied la-
bourers, and to profitably develop our national rewurees. That inas-
much as we live in turbulent times.; as a European war la Imminent;
w Great Britain hes already been invited to take • part in it ; as we
mew likely in that ease to be exposed to descents from enemies pos.
mud of powerful fleets ; ard so the government themselves appear
M upset internal commotion, it is necessary that every one ebouki
flargred to protect his hie and property, the more an, the force
m illipasal of government in, as proved ty the military and police
eigusw, wholly inadequate to the repression of any movement ; it is
therefore recommended that every man Popp!, himself with arm., in
the exercise of his constitutional right, and for the maintenance of
pea and order.
The manner in which the memorial should he presented to
the Queen was stormily debated, when it was at length re-
solved that a letter should be sent to Sir George Grey,
asking him when her Majesty would receive the deputation.
SUICIDE OF THE Hoy. H. G. REDHEAD YORKE,
M.P.—Yesterday afternoon this gentleman was observed,
while walking across the Regent's-park, in the direction of
Gloucester gate,to pas something to his mouth and suddenly
stagger and fall. A valet, and a man named James Ewen,
who were mining, hastened to the spot, and found deceased
lying on his back on the grass, apparently lifeless. Near
the body was an empty phial without a cork, bearing on it a
label, on which was written the words " Prune acid—
poison." Several medical gentlemen were sent for and
promptly attended, and pronounced life to be extinct. On
the arrival of the police the body was conveyed to St.
Pancras workhouse, where, on being searched, a geld watch
and chain was found, together with a mane con:aiaing two
sovereigns and 18s. 6d. in silver, on the deceased'. p, non,
as also a card-case containing Cards, bearing on them the
name of the deceased and his address, 81, Eaton-square.
Immediately on this discovery Bennett, one of the aummon-
illg officers, hastened to Eaton.square, and shortly alter Mr.
Hildyard, M.P.,lwho resides at Eaton-square, attended
and identified the body. The unfortunate gentleman was
in his place in the House of Commons on Thursday evening,
and appeared as usual. He left his residence about eleven,
o'clock yesterday morning, without any circumstance occur-
ring to induce a belief that he contemplated so dreadful an
act. The deceased, Henry G. Redhead Yorke, re•
presented the city of York for many years, was about 45
years of age, and married to a daughter of the late Lord
Brandon. He was a well known political writer, and be-
longed to the liberal party.
Two FIRES occurred yesterday, which occasioned
much loos. The first broke out at 2, Bermoudsey-street,
occupied by a clothier and gateman, and with such violence
that iti mmediately set fire to the houses contiguous, and to
those' t s a opposite side of the street. The house in which
itberic was completely destroyed, and six others very much
injured. All the parties were insured.—Another outbreak
, destroyed the starch factory of Mc all. 0.12.11 d, Jones, and
, Co, at Battersea. The premises were insured.

BUDTILE ?CUING ON TEEL BREAKFAST TABLE.--.
A correspondent of the Gardeners' CAronicie says : "If I
want butter only for my own breakfast, I lay a sheet of blot-
ting paper upon a plate, and pour the cream upon it. In •
abort time the milk filters through, and the batter is famed.
If I wish to expedite the operation, I turn the ;paper over
gently upon the cream, and keep it in contact for a new mo-
I manta, and then press upon it, and the butter is formed is
less than two minutes. If you submit it to severe pressure by
a screw-preen, it becomes as hard as when frozen. I canner
think but the simplicity of this mode of proceeding would be
universally adopted if any better material than blotting-
paper could be thought of for the filter, the parer adhering
too firmly to the butter, and the finest muslin admitting
the passage of the cream."
SVIIIITS MANDIACTURED IN THE UNITED KlNG-
hom.—The total quantity of spirits manufactured in England
in the year ending Jan. 6, 1848, was 5,3.56,794
9 gallons; in
Ireland, 6,737,687; and in Scotland, 8,642,21. The total
amount of duty paid on proof spirits released for consump-
tion within the same period in England was
3,293,5891. 12e. 6d. ; in Scotland, 1,135,4281. 19e. Ind. ; and
in Ireland, 804,9841. Bs. The quantity of proof spirits im-
ported into England from Ireland in the year 1848 won
1,062,460 gallons, and the amount of duty paid
420,0421. Ills. 4d. Within the same period 92,488 gallons,
seen which 16,9661. 2.. Bd. was received in duty, were im-
ported into Ireland from Scotland.
DEATH OF "Tom Ciino."—Thomas Cribb, ones
champion of England, died at his residence in the High-
street, Woolwich, yesterday morning, aged 67. Mr. Cribb
had for some years carried on the business of a baker and
confectioner. The causes of his death were cld age and de-
bility. A subscription was annually made for him by his
old associates, which placed him in vi ry comfortable circum-
stances.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Met 12..
A very large deputation of noblemen and gentle-
men waited on the Earl of Clarendon to confer with
his excellency on the subject of the Irish fisheries.
The Earl of Glengall presented a memorial on the sub-
cct, and his Excellency having received it, proceeded
to discuss with the deputation the best mode of re-
viving this important branch of national industry.
He promised to aid by all possible means the exer-
tions of the deputation, and to communicate the con-
tents of the memorial to the heads of the government.
The attention of the Earl of Clarendon has been
drawn to the evictions in the west, and the infamous
modes too often resorted to by the sub-ministers of
in-justice to extend the solitude which reigns too
widely in Connaught. A favourite practice has been
to give a thickly-peopled village a bad name, and on
the strength of the fabricated disrepute, to apply
a sort of Lynch-law process, and clear out the rogues
without form or colour of law. A townland in Gal-
way was lately placed under the moral ban, and rely-
ing on the bad odour of the inhabitants, the Wilde,
with a large pow of Lynch-men, stole in before
daybreak and sacked the devoted village, levelling
fourteen houses to the ground. One poor woman
having heard of the clemency of Lord Claren-
don, sent a plain statunent of facts to hie
Excellency, who ordered inquiry, and finally directed
fourteen persons to be committed for trial. Warrants
are out against several others. In Limerick eviction
proceeds at a rapid rate. Fifty individuals have been
forced from one village, and as many families are on
the eve of eviction from groups of villages in the same
county.
The meeting of the tenant-farmers of Tyrone takes
place to-morrow at Dungannon. Charlemont Fort is
ordered to have its force in readiness to act should
events require it. The Ulster men, however, are not
fashioned to disorder. They will speak aed resolve
without invoking pikes and vitriol.
The address of the Repeal Association will be pre-
sented to Mr. Smith O'Brien at his residence to-
morrow, by Mr. John O'Connell and several members
of the repeal committee.
The annual meeting of the presbyterian synod of
Dublin took place yesterday in their beautiful new
church, Ormond Quay. The reports of the canoes
presbyteries connected with the synod having been
read, a committee was appointed to prepare an ad-
dress of attachment to and confidence in the Earl of
Clarendon.
A Nenagh paper, on the authority of a clergyman,
states that there arc at the present moment in the
hands of the sheriff of that county, writs or executions
against the goods and persons of every proprietor of
land in the northern division except two.
Tne accounts of the oat and potato crops from all
parts of the country are singularly cheering. The
breadth is greater and the growth more healthy than
for many years past. A sprinkling of rain, however,
would do much service to the bay crop, which is
rather light and of languid growth under the strong
beat of the last fortnight.
Mr. Mitchel, on summons from the Attorney-
General, is to appear in the Court of Queen's Bench
to-morrow, being the last day of Easter Term. There
is some speculation as to the cause of this move on
the part of the Crown. Yesterday the Attorney-
General, on being questioned by the court, declined
to state the object of his application for the atten-
dance of Mr. Mitchel. One of the rumours ie, that
the jury for the trial of Mr. Mitchel is to be struck
to-morrow. Accordiag to another report, the At-
torney-General is to apply, under-the lit and 2nd
William IV., chap. 31, for an extension of the term,
in ord• r that there should be a trial at bar. Other-
wise, Mr. Mitchel could not be tried until next term;
and, in case of conviction, he could not be brought up
for judgment until November. According to another
report, Mr. Mitchel is to be prosecuted under the
Treason Felony Ace.

THE CUFFS-STREET SAVINGS Baux.—This unfortunate
institution has been surrounded all day with a crowd ef de-
positors. Nothing satisfactory can be done until Mr. TOM
Pratt comes over and investigates the accounts. The defi-
ciency in the assets ascertained to day is about 20,001., but
the deficiency is not likely to stop there.
REPEAL AT ENN IeCOUTIIY. A meeting of repealer' has
recently !wen held at Enniscortby, to express the " syrn-
' pathy " of the parties assembled with the confederates
attacked at Limerick. This county has been always and I
yet deemed a stronghold of the " old " repeaters ; but on
this occasion it would seem that " moral force " suffered
somewhat when in the presence of enthusiasm and
fraternity. The only persons present whose pod-
tion gives ts their rentsments any weight were two
Roman catholic clergymen, the Rev. Messrs. Keatinge and
Doyle. The former rev, gentleman said "He was an advo-
cate for a peaceful movement—he came to assist them in a
peaceful struggle ; but if the struggle should otherwise ter-
minate, be was not afraid to be amongst them. His rev.
brethren also, though not with them that day, sympathised
with them,
_and would stand by them in such a eta uggle."—
The Rev. Mr. Doyle thought that the mode of proceeding
through petition and demand was a feeble way, and
would lead to the prostration of the people. He was
far from condemning the language held by the confederates;
he thought that far from leading to insurrection, it was the
best way to escape it. And he h' Id their policy to be rather
calculated to prevent bloodshed than to produce it. It is, I
believe, quite certain, that an overwhelming majority of
Mr. Doyle's rev, brethren disagree with him. Were it
otherwise, the time indeed wag perilous.
Tun REVS. MR. BERMINGHAM AND Ma. KIINYON.-011
Sunday last the doors of the chapel of Templederry, in which
the Rev. Mr. Kenyon was accustomed to officiate, were
closed against the rev. gentleman appointed to officiate as his
successor. The Rev. Mr. Magrath, anticipating the opposi-
tion, arrived very early at the chapt t, but a few persons—not
more than six—were already there, who et solutely barred
his entry. The rev, gentleman was ultimately compelled to
proceed to another chapel. On the ume day, believ:ng that
' the Rev. Mr. Bermingham would persist in his contumacy,
his parishioners made a collecti, as for him at the chapel gates.
' It is a circumstance perhaps worth remembering here that
' the Right Rev. Dr. Kennedy was scot ty his predecessor to
Bier, to supersede the Rev. Mr. Crotty, then clergyman in
that town,and who was in contumacy against his then bishop.
RMIORATION.—From the south and west the emigration
cwitinues to pour in a continual stream. From Galway,
Cork, end Limerick, emigration is unceasing—week after
week, month after month, since the spring traders first an-
nounced departures for the far west. Nor is it the feeble or
the necessitous who thus abandon this stricken country, but
the strocg, healthy, intelligent, and independent farming
class. Respectable is the epithet the Limerick Chronica
bestows on them. From Galway and Limerick the emigrants
seek the British settlements in Canada; from Cora the
United States. Within the last week there sailed from
Galway, 420 emigrants; and in the last month 2,237 sailed
(rim Cork, of whom .530 only proceeded to Canada. From
Limerick the numbers last week were 170 and 240.

SCOTLAND.

EDINI3URGH, MAY 11.

Mach interest is felt in Scotland regarding a go-
vernment loan to railways. In Aberdeen the feeling
amounts to anxiety ; 850,0001. has been spent on the
Aberdeen line, and only 16 miles yet opened; the
opening of the remaining 37 would give a wholesome
impulse to business in that quarter. The different
city and county bodies have taken up the matter, and
petitioned in its favour. A speaker at a meeting
' of the police board stated his belief that in Scotland
three millions of an advance would be sufficient to
complete the present lines and branches, and suffi-
cient to bring the capital already laidas.aptual
is " '‘c
A number of the electors of Dive* -41141 sen
up an address to Mr. Duncan,'-3111V.C.
expressive of their approval or.
career, and particularly as regal eJiltAtigOiejim.
I “ the recent coercive measures 4ttlio toteilpent2'74

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