The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-02 00:00:00

THE PEACE MOVEMENT.

A meeting of elm friends of peens was held in the
Tows Hall at Birmingham is Wednesday evening. There
was a em 7 large aneedues, at least 7,000 persona Wag
moue At mess e'en& the chair was taken by Mr.
)ouirs &mon. The following distiagaished foreigans
were at:—M. Morass Bey, IL Lees Bay, M. Joseph
parniar, If. Fronds Beane, sad M. Periled. Them pa-
tine= we mat eathasieedeally nelsomme
The CHAIRMAN, is nuns tee howtheasef the emeng,
reviewed the coarse sad progress of the pease mountent
Odes the past yew. Fe question hal the IMO se
sees tau a hold of the pular Mail. any .41
bbs meetings on the Mint whit& had been
Srgvghene the etheatry had been partied over by
.striaevases, sad resollitioes bad been amdmeudy posed
ink the expediency of all stars thitheeness leMeas Miss
and utile being settled by whimsies heeled et b the
.nerd. Hang expressed his emesilmelen that they hal
▪ isegth a platform en which all mid Most without vie-
=my principle, Mr. Steep pressend to read to Ow
a syseptis of the member el the ougesta alt
• sad then west ea to remark that at the senileguseda
Ludes oa liseday evegang, it hod leseadeterened ee ger-
m the subject is parliameat in the seed merlon, sad that
Mr. Cobden had expeessed his dearmileation to brio, OF
ward the subject. He hoped that the people would 'Mina
by petitions sod by every mesas is Manpower ; and that
the same pruceediug wan also take piece in the French
Banal Alsembly.
hi. BASTIAT—I will pledge myself to bring the subject
forward, (Caen.)
Mr. STURGE proceeded to remark that one of the great
objects Wash the advocates Open's had in view was to bring
the people of different movies into mean with eseh
other ; at present they were knows through their different
governments ; they mast not irides of each other by the re.
primaitations mute by a social public press, nor by the
belie, manifested la a Rouse of Commons controlled by
about 142 °Nous in the army and navy. The three meet.
lags is London, Bin:stapes', and Manchester, held ia
the course of the present week,ooald, be anticipated, be pro-
dative of most useful results. (Hear.) Our venerable
eased, John Ca-lbury missedw more then eighty years or
age, aad who must be satat the wonderful chugs of
feel's, on the part of the pads of Birmingham relative to
this quesion, will move CM ant resolution. (Cheers.)
Kr. JOHN CADBURY immediately came forward and
esid,—This immense (saltasseb:ge almost appals me,
and sashes me more deeply how inadequate are my
powers to addreas you. I hays been streak with the besott-
ed tone and kindly sesame whisk has pervaded the letters
remind ea this subjoin, bat septidally with that of the
Archbishop of Paris, and the Mire he Imprensa for the spread
ea the priacipinef aaiyersal pease. I hope that the day is not
far distant when we shall have an Archbishop of Canterbury
ealisted in the supped of this holy cause. (Hear.) At-
thugh I was an sereogst these present at the Paris Con-
gress. I took a deep lamest in its preetedioge; sad I, as
as Englishman, could sot but fad gratified at the
maid reunion which m nostrum, engaged in th..t
Tighten's minion, up at the bands of their
bream in Froths. (Churn) With regard to war,
I hue bees from my iafaney an messy to it : ter thirty or
Deny yeses of my Me I was in a raisins to witness V.' dried-
ha /stalls—die misery sad the wretchedness It entailed
spas thoasaada of twain. I well remember the American
wet—the horrible carnage of it sad the distress and the
bukreptcits resulting from it is beyond my powers of
elassigeson ; where's it our governineut bad began when I
find, we should have had friends where we made nothing
but hither foss. (Hear) I hope that now lam justified in
the aatielpnioa that a better feeding is springing up—that the
laws of better thisp is at hand—when then will pervade
the whole civilised world the helices of this immense as-
semblage, and whoa the words of the prophet shall be veri-
lied—"Oir swords beat into pruning hooks, and spears into
Pliolikellasni, and war heard of no more." (Cheers.) I
move with great pleasure the following reeolutioa:
" That this meeting cordiall welcomes the distinguished
*Mem who are present with than this evening, sad, at
the same time, seam them of its anxious wish heartily to
cooperate with them in say measure welch may ensure the
resumes of these filially Manes which now happily
exist between the respective soutrlls."
The Roe. JOHN ANGELL JAMES moan& the reel-
}ado.. If there sailed say one thing to convince
him that there was somethiag good and holy In this move-
mut, or that it was making progress, he could Sod it in the
binaleriag demouserumas of the Tines. sad the malignant,
bulk shallow sarcasms of the Quarterly Review ;
thee *undone is our political atmosphere did not
usually di-charge their bolts at butterflies and farrows
such gaugeable was, Welled, ample proof of the justaus
sad progress of the pan moves, at. (Cheers.)
The resolution haying been put, was unanimously coded ,•
Mr. James thereupon severally greeted the distinguished
foreigners, amidst Manse cheering from the midland* ; and
Mr. nobly afterwards formally introduced M. Baptist and
his colleagues to the meeting.
M. HORACE SAY roes and said—ln &defender such an
important assembly's this, it world be presuming too much
for me to pretend making anything like a rpeech. I will,
therefore, beg lean oaly to say a few words to thank you for
your good and kind kospiolity, and to some you hew mush
our sentiments sod feelings sun with yours. We unite
with you in one commas ides, which is, that it is a duty for
all people, and in the interest of every one to live together es
friends and brothers. lloh points were clearly and eloquently
illustrated by dm able orators we heard lest welt
in Landon, and tonight, in this splendid ball, they spoke as
rood Christians and good economists. Polling enemy
does nut ask of Guth n much sacrifice as religion does ; but
by proving to them that their o interest
completely ac
corn with the interest of humanity, it trade to the same
gad, the welfare sad self happiness of aIL (Cheers.) Speak-
ing a language whisk is not my owe, I could sot add
ay SZrainelits to those that have ben already mewed to
you. I will only repeat that an unmeant number of my
conatrymes completely puma, of your sentiments,
sad will certainly effectually go-operate to the triumph
of ear pulls priaciplee. (Loud cheers.) One of
oar devises will be "L' Mena flat la fore* "—" Union is
@Murk ;" and we may rely that the &bellies alliance of
Basked sad Frames will have sa immense influence is the
of civilisation. Saone will grown our efforts, and
rsTresesrely 'haw that all civilised anions in Europe and
America will come, by mutual conseet, to a general disarms
mat, before we leave to oar to.. the cans of managlegn
thejoolitio of the world. (Cheers.) I will suit express is
my owa nom and ia the name of my countryman here pre-
met, oar sentiments of gratitude for year attention. We
Mull be happy, when we return to Francs, to *ay what we
lave heard, sad how messy Meads we have mot. (Cheers.)
K. BASTIAT said—lnkabiteati of Birmingham, it is
sot only on the Sell of battle that courses is *summary. I
feel that eves a frioad of pesos requires it to dare to articu-
late a few w‘ rds before this WWII.' and important meeting.
But, gentlemen, in the name of my absent Meads, MM.
Lament, Viaer Huge, Mickel Chevalier, I thought you
would receive ems 'light 'aprons of what see the sentimeate
of sympathy sad
is
sot
they Uncharged me to bring to
you. Birmingham is sot poly a great mart of industry, it is
also a grand centre of intalleotual sadmistal saugth haw not
oaly acquired a num from its usaufacturso, but also from
its political influence. It is said that you manufacture a
large amount of firearms, but you have manufactured some-
Oleg better—electoral reform. Yesterday at the meeting of
Leann, one 'peaks' said that all reform aid sack other. But
fe sot electoral reform the base and the key of all others I
The eminent man, the great philanthealdins who presides
one as tonight, he who has laboured with so meek perse-
veres., and amp fee the abolition of slavery, en unify
that this escemsus mime fell only under the strokes of
eiseesral reform, sad to what end do all the efforts of the
ma Puce ANOCilitiOiN in England sad France serve, if they
is set Kee se echo in the legislature--the world would be
pursed by anis, sad recall by that class which is inte-
rested in heavy burdens untasseat, and woe. Glory then
to Birmingham—glow; to that noble dry that, by
electoral reform, has permitted the eludes of Mr. Cobden.
(Chan.)
M. J. GARNIBR and U. POTONIB also medially
addressed the meeting is French, expressive of their grati-
fication at the progress the peace principle was making.
The following resolution was moved and carried
" That this meeting fully urns in opiciou with the tem-
'aloes adopted by the late Congress at Pads, for the pre-
moths of penmen iaternatheal peace, and la penmend
that the co-operating ea sash maims by the pespb of 1111.
fsreut nations is smissatly calculated* Linen then pee
joker towards sesk other, sad Sealy to MAIM estheeed
sentiments of amity and good will."
The Rey. H. RICILARDS nut delivered an eloquent and
edging appeal in boar of the poem priasiples, sad, after
(ea the sauna Conatther Berawat) three neerty Men
bad has gins for the Freed' deleraes, the meting
Mks sp.
The hall was crowded dung the whole evenag, cad the
auditory manifested by their repeated sad enthusiastic cheer-
ing the interest which they tech in the objet.