The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY.

BOW-BTREHT.
WORKED:it/8H SQUABBLIta.—J. !input, aged 16, who was
lame, and walked with • crutch, was energise with assaulting
J. Taylor, an inmate of St. Giles. Workhouse.
Tee prosecutor, who carried Cl, lett arm in a sling, in
consequence of the injuries he had received, said this morn-
ing he was picking oakum, when the prisoner, who is also
an inmate, complained that he had more oakum to pick
than witneu, who desired him to mind his own business.
The prisoner became very violent, used threatening and
abusive language towards him, and before he could get
beyond his reach, held up his crutch, and struck him •
violent blow with the thick end upon his left arm, which was
very much cut, and was still very painful. He believed his
arm would have been broken it he had been standing nearer
to the prisoner.
The muter of the workhouse said the prisoner was a most
troublesome person, and had frequ ,ntly been in custody for
umilar offences. H. was the truor of the old men, and
repeatedly threatened to use his crutch over their heads.
Mr. Henry fined him 404., or one month's imprisonment.
The prisoner, on being removed, shook his fists at the
pros ,cator, and threatened to repeat his violence when his
term of imprisonment had txpired.
Tie prisoner was then placed in the ordinary cella ad,
joining the court; but he made such • disturbince that he
was compelled to be removed and placed in a cell at the
station.

A NUMBER, Or AGRICULTURISTS and others, among
them Bail Stanhope, Sir Edmund Filmier, M.P., Mr. Young.
Mr. J. Bell, Captain Marsha,., Mr. C. Wnatman, Mr. D.
&ratios', Mr. C. G Whittaker, the May. W. Smith Mar.
riott, Mr. Masters Smith. Mr. Pullout, Mr. Russell, Mr.
Horace Bryce, &c., met yesterday at Maidstone under the '
presideney of Mr. J. D. S. D nights, to pass resolutions and '
make speeches in favour of protection, Earl Stanhope read
a motion which he proposed to submit to the conaideration
of the National Association ; and which was substantially the '
same *a a protest be had entered upon the journals of the
House of I irds on the third rending of the bill for repealing
the corn law. The noble earl read the motion, as follows:
Treat all those who are engaged in any branch of Bri'ish
industry, either at home or in the colonies, are justly entitled I
to full and effectual protection against the competition of
foreigners in the British markets. That such protection I
cannot be any longer denied to them without extreme injus-
dee. without destroying the security of property of every i
description, and without incurring the drinker of a social re.
volution. That if such protection should not be forthwith I
restored, oil thole who are ingested in Britishinduetry should I
insist upon the immediate ed.iption of the following men- I
sures, nix.:—' 1. Tin repeal, of all the to es which fall di- I
reetly opon land—the land tax, the malt tax, and the bop I
duty. 2. The equalisation of the rates of which the occu-
piers of land bear at present an undue proportion—the poor '
rates, the highway rates, and the county rates. 3. The
repeal of the Tithe Commutation Act, which can no
longer be just or applicable. 4. The perrniesi•in I
to surrender any lease of land on giving six months'
notice before any of the stipulated days of payment. 5.
The permission to cultivate tobacco, and to prepare
miter from beetroot and other vegetables, without I
the payment of any dray on either of thou article*. G. The I
entire repeal of those taxes which are imposed upon articles I
of g I consumption, of the excise duty on soap, and of
the customs duties on sugar and coffee, the produce of British i
colonise; and on those sorts of tea and tobacco which are
used by the labouring classes. 7. An equitable adjustment
of the public debt, and a redaction of the payment stipulated
'n every contract, according to the proportion between the
ge price of wheat at the tine or making the payment,
and it. average price at the time of forming the contract, so
that such payment may be of the same value as was ori-
ginally intended and agreed to by the parties.' " The adop-
tion of the foregoing, and of complimentary resolutions,
closed the proceedings.
CULTIVATION OP FLAI.—On this subject a New
York paper says If it should turn out, upon further trial,
that fist prepared in a psrticular way can be substituted for
cotton, so as to enable Great Britain to dispense with our
southern staple, a mighty effect will be produced upon the
value of property in the southern states. The price of lands
and slave property will at once be diminished, and business
arrangemena entered Into upon the present value of that
species of property will, after they have matured, produce a
crash that will be felt over the entire country. A lesson
would thus be read upon the mutability of human affairs, and
the political coraiquenoes resulting from the change would
be moat JUT" taw. Should flax be made to supply the place
of cotton, thr,n will be exemplified the impolicy heretofore
Punned by the cotton states, of relying on one leading inte-
rmit to the exclusion of all others. If that great system of Ame-
rican iodr atry,first recommended by Geu. Hamilton, and sines
mauls". and eaforc•d by Mr. Clay, had been adopted here
WOW south, no such catastrophe could halal her. But, un-
fortwutely, that tystem was rjected. It is difficult to foresee
tha effects of this change. South Carolina,:now standing on
thri brink of seceesion' might be induced to draw back,
edould she look into the future."

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DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY, ACCOMPANIED WITH
VIOLBNCS.-04 Saturday night, about seven o'clock, Mr.
Whreler, nursery and (tediums, whose place of business is
in Northgaw street, Gloucester, was proceeding to his private
residence, situate at Longford, about a mile and • half out
of the town, when a tall man rushed upon him from behind,
and, seising him by the neck with both bands, made a
desperate attempt to strangle him. The attack was so sudden
and unexpected that Mr. Wheeler was at the mercy of his
assailant, by whven he was held for • few minutes, when
another man approached, and Mr. Wheeler thought he was
coming to his remits, but was soon undo:vivid, for his
=Gibed called to hint "to stop Mojave t". and the second
fellow immediately commenced an attack upon Mr. Wheeler,
and struck him violently in this face. A struggle ensued,
and Mr. Wheeler was rendered partially i ibis. and
knocked down. While on the ground he was robbed of Dia
gold watch and chain. For a short time it would appear
Ur. Wheeler was partly insetsfble, for he deal sot recollect
how the ',Abut tat off. On essalag to his senses he gave
telcrmation to the polio', and two men, named Gibbons and
Prosser, the former • heerhouse.luseper, and both men
of bad repute, were apprehended, and were yesterdry
brought before the magistrates. Mr. Wheeler ideocr.
fled Gibbose as the woad man, and witnesses cams
forward who proved that both men were seen together that
night ping towards the place where the robbery was
anted. About a dozen witness,, were IMMllisod, and the
inquiry accapied a soosiderable time. A number of women
eorroboristed each other as to the idectity;of Gibbons. Several
also spike of Proust as being the soma man whom they
had sees preeeedeas aka; the Lougford•road shortly before
Mr. Wheeler was attaehed, One of the wanes, named
Meadows, stated that about • quarter to seven o'clock she
saw the two irrigation going up the road, and beard one of
them say to the other " Come along, and d—n me if we
don't knock doing the Ant rasa that we aunt." The nails-
testa committed both prisoners for trial, sad Wood ball for
Oibboos.

THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE IN
ST. MARTIN'S LANE.-THE INQUEST.

Yesterday Mr. Bedford, oorener for Westminster,
sada jury of inhabitants of the] parish WA.. Martin', in the
Fields, assembled in the board-room of St. Martin's Wcrk-

house, for the purpose of prosecuting en inquiry into the
deaths of the three unfmtunate persons who loet their lives
on the morning of Wednesday last in the fire which occurred
at the Coach end Horses public house, St. Martireclane.
The jury, having been sworn, proceeded to view the re-
mains of the deceased, which, c.ntaioed in three utiles,
were deposited in the dead house. The sight wee a sickening
one. In the cue of the two younger deceased so terrible
b►d been the action of the fire that the human form was
scarcely perceptible.
The fleet witness ea/led wee
Mrs. Anne Tomlin, will proved the identity of the bodies,
deseribieg the deceased reopectively as Ruth Lowe, sired 18
years ; Martha Count, aged 9 years ; end Cornelia Butler
Caunt, aged 6 years. The two latter were the children of
Bet junto and Martha Cauca, of the Coach and Horses
public-house, St. Martin'rlane, and the former was a cousin
of Mrs. Count's.

Susanna Thorpe wu next examined. She said she came
to town en Sunday last, on a visit to Mrs. Ceuta, who was
her aaasin. Mn. Caunt end herself were in the bar when
the clock struck two on Wednesday morning, shortly after
which they both went upstairs to bed. Ruth Lowe and the
children had gone to bed some hours previously. Mr. CRUM
not being at home, Mrs. Caunt asked witnen to deep with
her. Witness consented to do so, and had already got into
bed herself, when she heard Edward Nuke., the cellannan,
who slept upstate', give an alarm. Mrs. Caunt had not got
into bed when this happened, and she immediately opened
the door, and found that the furniture in the middle room, on
the second floor, was oo fire. Witness got cut of bed and
went down stairs with Mrs. Canoe, to call for assistance.
Witness saw fire and smoke in the middle room as she crossed
the landing to go down stain.
Coroner—Does it occur to you how the fire originated
there ?

Witness—No, sir. I was in that room just before I went
to bed. I went to fetch my night drew, which I had left
nn a chair neat the wind,w, having slept iu this room on
tie tiree previous nights. I had a common candlestick in
my hand, when I went inm the roam. There were two
bed. in the apartment. I passed them b ith, but not closely,
and I have no recollection of any circumstance which might
aNrount for the origin of the tire. Tte nurse, Elisabeth
Watson, and the youngest child, an infant, slept In the third
room on the same fluor, which was entered from the middle
room,

A Juror—Did you attempt to get into that room ?
Witness—No, I did to;. I saw the middle room was full
I dimes, or I would have done so.

,
A Juror—Had the nurse been el armed when you went
down stairs ?
Witness—No, sir. Mrs. Count end myself went down
stairs first to call assistance. Mrs. Caunt atterwinds returned
up stairs, and brought the nurse and the infant down
Edward Noakcs examined—He and be was cellarman and
waiter at the Coach and Horses, and went up stairs to bed
about the some time as his mistress and the last witness on
Wednesday morning. Witness slept in the back attic. The
middle attic was used as a lumber room, and in the front
room on the same Boor slept Sarah Barker, the bar.
maid, Ruth Lowe, the took, and three of his master's
children. Witness had not been in bed more than •
minute or two when he perceived a strong smell of
fire. He immediately jumped up in bed and called
out to his mistress,: asking Der wh-ther she was lighting
a fire. As he got no reply he jumped out of bed, and open-
leg the door of hie room, called out again. Mrs. Gaunt at
this instant came out of her room, and replied, "Nu, Ed-
ward, the house is on fire. For GA's sake come down
stairs." Witness presently ran down to the second filor
landing, and then saw that the two beds in the middle room
were on ere. Witness made his way through to the little
room in which the nurse and the infant slept but they had
gone down stairs before he got thee.. Returning to the
third floor, witness roused the potnian who slept in the same
room with himself, and they tog,qter went into the front
attic :or the purpose of endeavouring to effect their escape
.hrough the parapet window on to the roof. At this time
the upper part of the house was densely filled with smoke,
and tits fire was rapidly exteading up the staircase. On
entering the Iront attic witness roused all the inmates, and
endeavoured to find the window, but owing to the density of
the smoke in the room failed in doing so for some moments.
At length Benjamin Gaunt, his master's eldest son, found it,
and witness having made his way to it opened it and
lifted Sarah Barker, the barmaid, and young Count
out on to the parapet. The potman gut out next,
and then witness, who was at this time nearly
suffocated. After witness had got out on to the para-
pet he crawled over the tiles on to the root of the next
Inane, dr,siging the barmaid with him ; and, through a eky-
light in this roof, all of those whom he had mentioned ulti-
mately
descended safely to the street. Witness saw the fire
escape at the second-floor window of Ms master's house as he
was getting over the roof.
Coroner—Are you prepared to say that the fire originated
in the middle room on the second Boor?
Witnen —I am.

Coroner.—Had you been in that room before going to bed
on Wednesday morning ?
Witsiess.-1 had. It was my usual practice to look under
the beds to see that no improper characters were concealed.
I did soon Wednesday morning. I bad no light with me,
the light tmen Mrs. bedroom, the door of which was
open, being sufficient for my purpose.
AJuror.—When you got out of the front attic window
on to the row, did you not hear the cook and the other
ehildren crying for assistance ?
Witness—No, sir. There was no crying out by any one.
The room was full of smoke, and we were all nearly staff,
cated.

Dominick Carr, sergeant 16 F, examined—Be and he was
on duty in Bt. Martin's-lane about eighteen minutes past
two o'clock on Wednesday morning, when he beam an
alarm of fire. Witness ran to the spot, and found Mrs.
Caunt on the pavement, just outside her husband's house,
with another female. Witness despatched messenger, for
the fire reaps and for the engines, sad, learning that there
were persons in the house, endeavoured to ascend the stair-
cue. Witness got up to the second floor finding, and
examined the bed in the front room, but found no person
there. The middle room was in fl Imes at this time, and the
smoke was so dense that witness could acutely see. The
flames were extending up the a:tic staircase, and witness
hearing no cries for assistance from above, teemed down
stairs very much exhausted from the heat and smoke to which
he had been subjected. Witness heard ere cry from the last
wittiest

Coroner—Did you see him
Witness—Not until some time alter. When I sow him
he was drunk.

A Juror—Are you sure of that ?
Witness—Yes; and I am not alone in that opinion.
Several of the jury remarked that they thought it wu a
pity such a statement should ,co forth when there was such
striking evidence of the most praiseworthy exertions on the
part of this man.
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Ou being further questioned as to how long after the fire
it was when he first saw Noakes, the witness said it might
have been three.quarten of an hour—perhaps en hour.
Some discussion followed here as to the working of the
fire escape, and the foreman of the jury pu al questieme
with a view to show that if the machine bad been at first
placed against the third instead of the second floor all the
parties in the house might have been saved.
Toe Corone-r avid, with every dispoeiticu to allow the
jury all proper latitude be must remind them that it was
travelling some chat ont of the record to inquire into the
conduct of parties with whom they had nothing whatever to
do. It was a very fortunate thing that they had fire escapes,
and if the peruse in charge of them did not perform their
duty, it was very desirable that the fact should be ucerteined.
But it was rather beyond the purpose of this inquiry to
pronounce whether the officer in charge had or had nee
performed his duty in placing the escape at the second fly „
window first. It was very difficult for • man in his sir
tion to tell what to do. At such a moment no doubt r uayy
Persons told him u to
hedo couldone thing,uA andsu, manyha cwisheda.ss .
doanother. A
the bu ar
t of his judgment, and no doubt the m, had done
so in this cue. '
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to

Sarah Barker, the barmaid, deposed to having been
alarmed by hearing Mrs. Canoe call out that the house
was on fire. She got out of bed, end arowied all the others
who were sleeping in the same r00t... She recollected
Noakes coming into the room and lir ueFf her out of the
window on to the parapet, but she tainted immediately
afterwards, sad remembered nothing, further. Witness did
not sae Ruth Lowe when she lett the room, and did not
know but what the had gone cloven stairs.
By the Coroner—Noakes was quite sober when he came
into our room. Witness also observed that be was sober
after he had brought them down to the bottom of the next
house.
John Short, eonduetor of the fire napet stationed by St.
Martin's Church, proved having attended with his machine
immedietely after the alarm was given. He first directed the
machine to the second floor window, through which be
entered. He found no person in this room, and es the fire
prevented his getting further Le came down, and having
thrown up the top ladder mace tided to the parapet. He tried
to make an entrance throve, the parapet window, but the
flames and smoke at this tirr.e shot through with such violence
that all his efforta were r.nathiling, and he again descended.
He heard no cries etale.ag from the attic window while he was
there.
A juror (Mr. Batsford, of St. Martin's court) wished to
know why the witness Noakes had not extinguished the fire
when it was confined to the middle room.
Noakes explained that when he entered the room both the
beds were enveloped in flames, and any attempt on his part
to exelapaish the fire mast have been useless. In feet (added
the. poor fellow) I had great difficulty in bearing the heat as
I pained through the room.
There being no further evidence,
The Coroner briefly charged the jury. It wee a meet
deplorable case, but be apprehended, AN the testimony
they had had from the various witnesses, the jury would
have little difficulty in arriving eta conclusion. Oats observe-
tion he felt called upon to make. The polio, sergeant had
stated that the witness Noakes was drank when he saw him.
In justices to that individual ha felt called upon to say that
the bulk of the evidence most distinctly proved not only
that he wee not drunk, but bad done all that Amid be ex.
petted of him under the circumstances. (Criss of " Hear,
hear.") With these remarks he should leave theme in the
hands of the jury.
The jary, alter consulting for a few moment', found" That
the deceased parties were suffocated in a certain fire, the
Mein
"et whke they hid no evidease beim then to deter-
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PARLIAMENTARY AND FINANCIAL
REFORM.

MEETING AT MILL.
[Prom the Leann Counties Herald.)
° An association having been f.,rmad in Hull during
• lest year, with the object of obtaining a reform in the partia-
-1 mentary and financial system of this country, its promoters,
in order more emphatically to announce to the public and to
i advance the objet: which they had in view in its formation,
determined on giving a grand soiree in commemoration of its
estalgistiment. Wednesday evening was fleet upon as the
' day on which it should be held, and to it wore invited all the
principal supporters of the principles advocated by the new
asrmietion, many of whom w. re, from circumstances which
they could tot control, unable to attend. The mires was,
therefore in mordant* wi'h these armpit, menu, held in
' the Music-hall, Jarrett street, which was completely filled
with townspeople and visitor, from Beverley end other of the
surrounding towns.
After the tea had been removed from the table, the chair
was taken by his worship the Mayor, T. W. PALXIR, Esq.
The SECRETARY (Mr. James Billiton) then proceeded
to read letters of spa gy which had been received from Lord
Dudley Stuart, M.P.; Joseph Hume, Bs q, M.P. ; Richard
Cobden, E q., hi P. ; J Bright. Esq., M.P. ; Colonel
Thompson, M.P. • W. Williams, Esq., M.P. ; J. W. F..x,
Esq., M.P. ; the 'Right Hon. 14. T. Baines, A/ P.; John
Williams; Eq., M.P. ; Merewether 'turner, Eq. ; the
Rev. Jame. r. etor of Althorpe ; and A. JBaunister,
Esq., sheriff or Hall.
The MAYOR having briefly opened the proceeding!'
Mr. WM. HARRIS, chairmen of the Hull and East
Riding Association, moved the first resolution, wtich was
seconded by
Mr. JAB. BRETON, the secretary of the Hull Association.
JAMES CLAY, Esq., M.P., on rising to support the,
resolution, was received with laud applause. Hs said—
With regard to the extension of the franchise, It has always
been my private judgment that that great object wield be
hest ell, coed by an educational test. 1 think so still, but, as
I have always been ready, in matters of detail, to submit my
opinion to that of the majority of the party with whom I
have the honour to act, I cheerfully adopt the being rated to
the relief of the poor as the basis of the proposed extension.
(Hear.) It is probable that the two plane would arrive at
one anti the same result as regards the franchise merely, but
my plan would have the advantage of giving a great
stimulus to education. In these principles 1 nee one more,
about which there has been a difference of opinion among
good reformers: I mean the abolition of the property
qualifization for members of parliament. Now, I confess
that to this point I attach the smallest possible value.
I believe that, qualsfiravion or no qual thation, the only
pranical guarantee that a constituency can have (or the good
conduct and faithful service of its representatives is in the
honesty of the man it chooses—and 3001 a year, ea far, at
least, as I know, does not snake an helmet men. But, after
all, these first five principles are only to be considered as
means to an end, and that great end I find in the sixth—" To
obtain by every legal means the largest possible reduction in
the expenditure of the national r . Here is the pith
of it all in the last parsgraph—like the postscript to • lady's
letter—(laughter)—and it u my Wooere conviction that this
" every possible redaction" we shall not obtain until we have
got the changes, or something very like them, which we
demand in the representative system. I will say further
than this, that I believe it is also understood that no very
large reduction in those erablishments can he t ff-cud except
Itri a change in our colonial policy. At present three-fourths
of our troops are employed as a sort of police in keeping
our colonies in order. Believing this to be the case, I
saw with greet pleasure, a day or two back, a paragraph
to the effect that the Colonial Secretary had announced
to the governors of New Soutn Wales and Victoria
that he should recal from the colonies all oar troops except
a mere guard for Sydney and Melbourne, and that he ex-
pected teat th. y themselves, as they had now a s. li-govern-
meat, would fiad their own protection—in tact, their own
police. Now, Ido believe this to be a most hapertant com-
mencement, and to be the beginning of a new era from which
we may hope, not only far very important reductions in our
own expenditure, but for improved colonial government.
I Mr. Clay then went into Ottsl.lS on the subject of purchase
of rank in the army, to prove that the ranks of (Bars did
not afford such snug berths as they were 'amused to tn.
As for the navy, he ecntioued, i s case was v-ry little
dissimilar from that of the army. I may here state, he
added, that the rotes on supply for the year 1580 for the
army, navy, and ordnance, were lees then those in 1849 by
the sum in round numbers, of 1,330,0001.; less than those
of 1848 be51,94J,0001. You therefore see that we have not
been altogether idle. (Hear.) I would eneetion another
saving, not so much for the importance of she sum, but
because it shows the praiseworthy spirit of economy which
we should encourage, to the best of our ability, in the
present administration. In the civil department, daring
the last twa years, there has been a saving in round numbers
of 183,0001. per annum effected by the consolidation of
offices and the reduction of salaries ; and the best of it is
that the public is considerably better served for the less
price than they were for the higher price. Alter some further
remarks Mr. Clay resumed his seat amide'. great cheering.
The MAYOR then introduced

Sir JOSHUA WALIMILEY, who sold: The Finan-
cial and Parliamentary Reform Aso, iation seeks to
attain for our unentranchised fellow-auljects their just
political rights—(loud cheen)—ond, as a consequence, the
renovation of the popular element in the House of Commons,
and a more equitable diatributioo of the ncional burthens.
(Hear.) Tee disserainatien of politico) troths and efforts to
unite tne middle and the productive classes in exertions for
their mutual interest are the means by which the association
seeks to attain its objects. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, it inters
its protest against five-sixtha of the adult population being
excluded from all participation in pollical power as a gross
and unjustifiable monopoly of the elective franchise. (Loud
cheers.) It affirms its belief that the large niej• city of these
so excluded—and I wish to he pram this tact upon your minds
—that the large majority of those so excluded are intelligent,
and are as capable of exercising the elective frimehise as any
whom l see hire to. night. (Hear, bear.) Ai.d it goes fur-
ther—tor it demands, as an act of justice and equity, that
they who obey the laws bear the burthen, and fight the
battles of the state, should be entitle 1 to :he rights of citit,ne
ship. (Renewed cheering.) Gentlemen, such, thee, are the
objects of the association, and such the moans by which it
seeks to eilist the sympa•hies of (miry true reformer, and
also of every one who profess' a to act upon the gulden rule
of doing to others as he would be done by. An equitable
distribution of the bur hens of taletion is all important
to those upon whom the pressure is In inverse ratio of
their means to sustain it, as every one of you must feel.
It directs, my friends, the domestic economy of every house-
hold, is every ounce of tea, of sugar, of c.ffee, of soap, of
tobacco, and every article in which the Excise and enstoens
dudee enter, and I need not tell eon they are legion."
(Cheers.) Bat it does more than all this. It restaicts our
liberty; it regulates the hours of I.lK:us ; it restelets the
means of education; it diminishes the comtorts, and it has a
that powerful influence upon the heaPh and upon the
domestic enjoyments, of the people. It is almost unnecessary
before such an assembly as this which l have now the honour
to address, to enter into any very minute &alai upon that
to which my hon. friend has referred—the inequalities and
anomalies of our retiree entail's eystem. They are known, and
lam persuaded their 'injustice is appreciated by every one
(hear)—otherwise •might not be difficult to show they are
neither based upor • justice, upon equity, upon property, upon
numbers, nor or ,a talent. (Cheers.) Mere nomination, er
the most ',feign .ficant, borough., containing not more than
200 or 300 else ;tors, are placed on en iquality with the largest
and most hal ,ortant places. Boroughs containing 100 to 230
electors sen' itwo members to the House of Commack and
my honcu' gable friend, Mr. Cobden, and his collesgue, are
seeunth!?' 4,000.0. Is this as it should be ? (Cries of "No,
system
no.") is this such that we, as Englishmen, should
blai .to ? To my mind such a system might have been
row .ted by some idiot, for no man of common genie could
e- . hove dote such a thing—to set equity, justice, and all
.son at defiance. For, gentlemen, I know of no system
eat can operate more as a premium for every species of
bribery, intimidation, and earful:di. n. (Hear, hear.) I do
not know one single advantage that any por,ion of the com-
munity can derive from it save one. There is one. I mean
those who desire, and those who at present enjoy
rather aristocratical privileges, acd possess irresponsi-
ble power and hereditary advantages—thoso alone can
be benefited who, not content with these, 'seek to
make the people's house a mere echo of the House of Lords.
The enfranchisement of the people would not only secure to
you the enjoyments, the bent fits, and the advantages that
we have already realised, :Mt they would give to and secure
for you all that could be possibly desired in the removal of
every commercial restriction. I would venture just to
enumerate those benefits which would follow the enfran-
chisement of the people—such fiscal and financial reforms as
would give unfettered 'cope to industry and perfect freedom
of trade. It would do away with the system of sinecures—
it would abolish th, m all; it would cis down all uncecessary
offices ; it would ensure the proper management of what is
called crown property, and the extinction of every useless
appendage to the state. (Hear.) Gentlemen, it would
reduce our warlike establishments; it would produce a field
economy in our arsenals and dockyards; it would be the
means of saving millions worse than uselessly spent on thank-
less and discontented colonies. (Cheers) It would produce
the good government of British India and there, indeed,
there is a great field for reform. (Cheers.) It would do
more than this, for it would remove from you unjust ecclesi-
astical imposts. It would secure a righteous application of
the wealth of the Irish church—(hear, hear)—and such other
'further measures of reform u would diminish the number

of ilrilletelaaaryo4;il:ll;;Tesee n t;;;;Ton7;;;indn:try.' iu fair
reward, and afford talent fur public .ervice a fair chance of
employment. Such would follow the extension of the fran-
chise ; but you will ask, and naturally ask, " How are we
to obtain this i" We are not visionary enough to suppose
that it will ever be attained by any other means than by a
fall, free, and fair representation of the people in the House
of Commons. We demand that, and we demand ft se a
matter of right. apart from the result'. Sir Joshua eat down
amidst loud and oft-repeated rounds of cheering.
Mr. TINDAL ATKINSON next addramed the assembly, and
was followed by H. J. *keel, Esq.
Mr. Alderman GRESHAM then moved that the perils-
mastery conduct of our »presentative, James Clay,
and his votes in favour of reform and the reduction of the
national burdens, entitle Was to the warm thanks and
earnest aupport of the reformers of the borough.
Mr. Alderman JONES suoaded the resolution, width
passed amid the most enthu.iestic apples**.
Thank, were proposed to Sir J Walzasley by Mr. Clay,
and Sir Joshua baying responded, other complimentary
speeches were made, and the amain eeparatod.

THE vecarr CAVALRY RacimeNT.—We believe
it is now decided that Lerd removes from the 3rd
to the lat Dragoon Guards, and that hiajor.Griural Boer-
Ulu noosed. to the 3rd Dragoon Guard& This arrange.
nasal, which we had before stated u to take place,
will psetably appose is to•night's Gantt,.
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