The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1849.

Dee of electors lo 1847 amounted 1,061,000. (Shame.) By
the system of household suffrage, therefore, they would have
the ossultwoy inameed from 1,061,000 to at least
5,000,000. (Hon, kw.) After the abolition of the little
holhwahl, for that was a most impala* pilot, wield not
them 6,000,000 electors Benin their power to wawa the
public good ? (Hear, hear.) He himself was of Wain
that say man of proper age was as well gadded ago the
female* ss be. There were 72101sestepied hawithin the
Tower Hamlets, and only 17,000 WWI& if the
62,000 bousts who were not *haw Asir Is. to-
wards Beetled, they bad Is view, it wield have as offset
that mast make a sacs( impression disingliont the whole
esa,try. Tyrants were able to oppress the pesplo beaus of
their disunion, but let the people suite rod eo.operatr, and
by that means they most establish their independence in
spite of ell °militias. (Cheers )
Mr, F. O'CONNOR., 111 P., next eddressed the madam
and was received with load skew He came not there to
throw the apple of discord wow, than, but to exited the
olive branch of peace. (Cheese.) If this had bean an
alliance between capital sad Wear be would sit have come
there, or U it was a maw weeds. of Swede& reform ha
would suet have been thsea, lint hewn it was an alliance
hawses seamed Lbw melba ems head sad nessual labour
on the be woo them. (Chagos.) Sc.. allusion
Whim made to p yiisa him that night. One gentleman
2250 f 100 pasoas going flew to MOW the How of
The CHAIRMAN hasp* Ile. O'Cinier's pardon. He
did est undasiMid that the heel anal* bad been made
to abated Woe. (Hear, hem)
Mi. O'CONNOR did not mien M athihnts to the speaker
Booking like an inclinatios to wee *waled fore.. All he
desired was, that he hoped me alneW- wadi ever again be
made to the real War le ediellitiS 411 phydeal force,
because a few wild perstaw, wbe ISM **wives Chardon,
had need violent language, which frightened any other party
from Maier with them. He believed that the taxpayer
would sever receive justice from parliament till he passaged
the hawking. He believed the waking dams wen new pn -
pared toadish to them (the saddle class) that they could not
do without them. The feudal system still existed is this
Bantry, end it mast be entirely done away with before the
people could be prosperous. Hew null they be prosperous
when they paid millions for the maintenance of an
army is time of peace, and paid such high salaries to
their fanstioaaries (Hear.) The Till4Bl—(kiases)-6 paper
which they might believe—(" No, no")—a paper which
they might believe, bat *high he did not believe,
said that they could not eat down these salaries tecause the
saints of the home elks sad the other offices would be ex-
They were supporting, then, a government et
Canine sad spite. But after all the real emotion for the
wackiest claws was the improvement of their social
ooedi-
tica. (Hear.) Now he did not think that their social pad-
tin could ever be improved till they pinemsed the politic I
rights to which they were justly entitled. He had
been a pdideal agitator lot twenty-seven years, and
it he could feel snared that he had succeeded an bringing
about as alliance between the intelligent shopkeeper and the
wawa labourer, width was feuaded upon their mutual de-
pendence, he &mill be mon than repaid for all his labours.
It was a comfort to him, on retiring into privacy, that he
had sever made a speech with any other purpose than that
et besefiting the poor. It was his pride that he had
never travelled a mile, act eaten a meal, at the
expense of the poor. (Cheers.) He had devoted
his time, his energies, and his efforts to their
care emit he had grown prematurely old, though not
too old to advocate a cause
_by which he thought the
anastry wadi be benefited. While in parliament he B.
Bend so man had ever possessed more of the pubic
deuce than he had dace, and he was proud to say that he
left the stage of public life with the character which he
brought upon it. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. L. HEYWORTH, M.P. for Derby, next addressed
the meeting. He was ens of the fourteen who voted the
other day for the charter, having ever looked upon his
fellow-maa as his brother. At the same time he could not
shut his eyes to the fact that, in France, universal suffrage
had sot been well applied. This showed that the question
was one of time, and in their own case he thought
the proper time bad arrived. It was partly be-
cause of their Bowan* with regard to Batten
of public expenditure that the people of France had
misused the franchise.
The resoled= was the put and adopted unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said that another resolution had been
proposed, having reference to the Freehold Land Society,
but is oonsequente of the full discussion of the first which
had taken pins it could not be proposed. He hoped, how-
ever, that the remarks which had been incidentally made
on that subject would not be forgotten by the meeting.
(Hear, hear.)
Os the motion of Mr. 071014 a vote of thanks was given
to the chairman, by whom it was briefly acknowledged.
Tho meeting then dispersed.

MEETING AT COWPER-STREET.
In cocceptenos of the early overflow of the above
meeting, and the crowds disappointed in obtaining admit.
tapes, the council determined upon holding another meeting
at the same time, in the large room, Cowper/41nd, City-
road. Notwithstanding the hasty and necessarily imperfect
arrangements made, the rant rapidly filled, and before the
torahs 'Pon of the proceedings was quite crowded.
A deputetion from the council and other gentlemen occu-
pied the platform, among. whom were W. A. Wilkinson,
E'q., treasurer of fte association; Sir F. Koowles, Bart.' C.
Wordsworth, Eg., T. Pads, E.g., J. Matson, Eq.,, Dr.
Bowkett, Mesas. Merge, J. Brown, Hughes, Lawson,
Carr, Dyson, Cox. ate.
The CHAIRMAN (W. A. Wilkinson) in opening the
proceedings, said that the large meeting resulting from the
overflow of the Standard Theatre proved the great interest
taken by the public in the present movement. The
chairman concluded by announcing that the council
had determined upon holding an agsregate meeting at
Drury-lane Theatre, which would close the meetings in
the metropolis for the pretreat. (Loud cheers.)
Dr. DOWKETT moved a reso:ution similar to the Brat
moved at the Btspdard.
11. J. ATKINSON, Esq., thought it was a good augury
for reform, that the first resolution wen moved by a gentleman
connected with the working clam, mad mended by one who
was identified with the middle elheeell. The union of the
two great bodies could nee be We highly rated. Liberty
had mourned with bitter teen ever the people divided
among themselves by a tortuous policy. The moment that
their union become complete throughout merry England,
the moment the middle claws evened to look distrustfully
upon the operative elamesedxst the memsat the operative
classes eased to look with won*, middle classes-
Wien they beam embodied Mean for freedom, then
dime email be on end of teetries. Ina short time the
mews of Leaden would make the movement national The
working AM would make the movement fashionable ere
long, sod Shea those who were standing outside would come
in in shoals. (Cheers.) Bat that could only be done by
coseeisice, but not compromise, Which was a distinction
that ought ever to be borne in mind. (Cheers.)
The council had also determined that the people should
have the protection of the ballot. (Cheers.) It
had been objected that the ballot was up-English;
but, es had been maid by one of their Mends, they
would make it English. Another point was the shortening
of parliament. If • master hired • servant, be could dismiss
him at smonth's notice, or a workman at a week's notice,
and why therefore should they not do the same
in the most responsible of all situations ? Another
point the council had in view was to put an
end to that system which gave to throe 191 respect-
able decayed human vegetables at Harwich as much
power as the 17,000 honest, hand handed voters in the Tower
Hamlets. Was it not absurd that the representative of •
place like Harwich—a mere nook in the sea, aid only kept
from being devoured by the ma by English mono —a place,
the representation of which was bought and sold like the
slaves were at Constantinople—that the men who had bought
such • bor sigh should have the same voles in the Hones of
Commons as Sir W. Clay and Mr. George Thompspn ? The
lest point which the council had in view was
the abolition of the property qualification, placing
the English representative upon the same footing as
the Scotch member, who was not required to have any each
qualification. The learned gentleman concluded a long and
eloquent speech amidst loud chews.
Mr. CLARKE, in coming forward, was received with
loud cheers. He looked with infinite pleasure upon the
Mg7Pwhich the movement was making. The chartists
osed.the middle claims because they thought they
were suffering under • geverameat which was a refit:
of the will of the middle dares; both had been in the
wrong, bat let them avoid their errors for the future, and
unite tor their common benefit. Foe himself, he would give
the association his utmost support, and advised his brother
chartists to do the same and to enrol themselves as members
of the aseociation.
Sir F. KNOWLES, in supporting the resolution, strongly
exhorted all clamors to union. He illustrated the prevalence
of the doss system is this country by the refusal of the dog's-
meat man to allow his daughter to marry the cat's-meat
I man's eon, inasmuch as the dog being the most aristo-
antic of the two animals, the purveyor of food for such an
animal should not allow such a =resilience for his daughter.
The roolutos was skin put and carried unanimously
amide loud cheering.
Mr. Towsenann then moved the next resolution, which
was seconded by Me. M'INTTRI, and supper.ed by kr.
THOMAS PAR" and carried unanimously.
Mr. MATSON moved and Mr. PARIS seconded a vote of
thanks to the chairman.
The CHAIRMAN, in reply, urged upon the meeting to
give the association their support by their pecuniary contri-
butions, and pledged the council to the utmost economy in
the administration of the funds.
The meeting separated at twenty minutes past ten.

NAVAL.
Woo Lima, 7 or.i 18.—Vesuvius, st,sloop, was taken out
of the Bain to-day, and will leave in a day or two for
Portsmouth and Pembroke, in charge of lit. Bellamy,
Master Attendant of this yard.

DESTRUCTIVZ CONFLAGRATION NEAR EPSON:
Lste on Tuesday evening a fire, which continued to burn
throughout the whole of the night, broke out in West street,
Ewell, about one millinfn the town of Epsom. The flames
when first discovered were ri-ing from a large barn, filled
with wheat, the property of Mr Stone, cern and coal msr-
chant. The fire wee not extinguished until property doom
hundred pounds in value was nndered wortWe,s, Mr. &one
having lost the whole of the corn in the barn, together with
the building, the stables, coach and cart houses, provender
stores, an.l three ricks of hay ; and nearly the whole of the
roof running over Mr. Pegden's malt-houses and drying-
rooms Is either burnt off, or cut away to prevent the fire from
spreading. How the fire originated is enveloped in mystery,
its progress being so rapid that it is extremely difficult t, tell
the precise spot where it began. Both partite were under-
stood to be insured.