The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-24 00:00:00

IRISH CHURCH MISSION'S.

ii meeting of this society was bell jester- I
erhall, to the purpose of reeelviag information
maim, who, at the request of the committee, had
nisei Army stations is the west of Ireland and
n eel lesser, and were present at the recent tour
istroa" of the Loud Bishop of Tuam, which in.
converts from popery.
▪of NEWCASTLE took the chair at 12 o'clock,
roeetainss were commenced by a prayer, at the
of wnieh,
Mr. DALLAS having been called upon by the
us-4 mid that about. three years ago the orie int-
oiiety had gold reason to believe that a change
over the salads of the Rumanists in Ireland.
er tete consideration the lynx-eyed jos-
h which every movement of the pro-
it the advanerment of truth Ireland wee
b the Jesuits, and also the injadisions
!which too many of their *rely efforts had been
I Muted, they deemed it advisabn, without re.
tug pob.ic appeal, to send forth, aid be wee lot
ray.urider the circumstanowt, secretly tossed forth
f mg-it.. to astertsin what was the real state of the
ie Irian Romanist*. The re all of the labours in
testiest/. rs ot God had hun sugars d mutualness's>.
tally justified the co. ti noes which had been re-
m. Though the people had bun bound with the
ens of mysrstition, though the fetter, ri vetted upon
rut placed there in their earliest rats, binding
nit the mind, and making them tremble at the
uffnsdi,g or disolheyinr the pries..., and even
one ar.otbsr, yet a very burn routine were I mail
listing. and Meeting that which they ware is tits
shipping at moo, and earnestly denting the
ne of tome one who would instruct them in the
dreg on these facts the Pees cheese for the labours
rug wee the extreme west of Galway, where the
▪ of P. prey hung over the people. Even in one
hd such. Numbs..s came to their schools, while
rod holy pleas of popery were deserted. Mr.
a, a man of the bi,thest character sad abilities,
nd been educated at Maynnoth. was ordained by
of Team son after the Christmas of 1(147, and
assented hit ministry in the district of Galway, a
e gospel was raised through the maintains
11WIT1, and the f..losring year there was a
tease of converts. Wnen th se results were
sod to the Bishop of Tuella he said
IMO by far too important to be neglee'red. After
tg their truth he propo.ed • confirmation. Accord-
esmasittee appointed himself end the Rev. Mr.
to go over to Ireland and wituen the prozeedin IS,
deseribed very much in detail, recounting with
e'en. r the eats of the wi ether on each occasion
In to Citifies and other remote p iris of the
Galway, observing particularly on the hardship
Whop endured in bring obliged to go round
crib in his terrine, instead of erossiagti a boat, dtc.
,isr tte enthusiasm with which they were met,
.4 that in Nis instincts the pool le cried nut " Here
IPrecenant Bishop of Tema, and sot the cursing
Iliesr, hear, and laughter.) No lees than 401
from the Roman Catbolie faith, and 47 not Roman
, hail been confirmed by dr. bishop, and resolved
ands the holy latllll3lolo. Seeing that the field of their
w.a so lez.e, and the number of peopli it contained
he thought eves 10,0001. would be a very small sous
!iye4 by the society when they rift-cud on all the
tees that might result from it, and considered that
..uld further more the %tiny of Gad, the good of the
lul sad, and ultimately the ben. fit of the Christians
el, teen the lab.san which the society had bees
d tar riginme and remote.
,OT. Mr. WILKINSON, who accompanied the
speaks', cotrobriated his account of their proceed-
lu Ay, and of the enthusiasm which had every-
t .wel them.

• Mr. BICKERSTETH moved a resolution ex.
thaakfalssas of the meeting to Goa for the en-
tent aim to the lab curs of the stciety and express..
wniit of the valtiAtil2 activities of the clergy,
it and other agent. i mailed b 7 the committee in
id Ireland. Roman CAtholWant, be htlii.ved, was
ire In in true Chririsnity, and the protestant reli
the only means by which the present deplorable state
meld be reseserced.
Mr. HOARE seconded the resolution, which
sail tarried.

moved the next resolution, to the
tt the laming reverently aeknowledgsd the hind of
:vity which attended the spread of divine
t zed and bruoihted country,
ildeloi prof guise the deep responsibility wider which
Cris isw were thtreby placed, sod would also
Ind easest:y pledge itself to increased efforts to
at society to meet the demands they. by made on it.
~.re 1 the matt movement as the first attempt that
use made to intro:iv:is the Protestant reformation

It M'S RILE, who rose amidst loud sheers to second I
r.i.4, mid that it called attention to the opportunity 1
by Pnaddenee to spread the blessings over an en-
sad benighted country, but be denied that it
ot Sister, which woe neither enslaved nor benighted_
6 3 Uiil it w' a Protestant. The perrnment had
.seit attemptod to govern Ireland through persons
t,Briiels seceridaney—a wane which kept alive in
etts of tie It onan hierarchy the hoi • of possessing
de- of all the conewnted lauds. It was in that hope
se kept up the agitation in Ireland—(hear, hear)—
•ftf re rout that hope be crushed, or the siltation
ed to continue. (Chests.) It wan by half measures
MI of the British vovPrassent that the monster was
I`l (Cbeen.) He wee happy to say, however, that
'fly Cons of a chaos@ H. repudiated protestant &s-
-ty, It the sometime popery must net be established in
I. The p.eple of England would consent to it.
i As was remarked by the Tadfee," the English
vas not catholic." (Chem.) If neither the
' o! political proteeteatisan, nor the ma-
' 14 popery by means of whig liberality,
'ran 'e, then it only r mai red for them to try the way
(id had pointed out, and adopt a Coristian mission.
1) The gospel of It. one was not one of glad tidings
Ira Si nu. It was "do or die, suffer or die, pay or
Y ,loircoess, en in all false religions, was marred as
,1 thine, although the Gospel proclaimed it as the
Carers ) Several Irish clergymen in the west
'dad had adopttd r• solutions which set forth
?on of action for the convereion of the catholic*
,t part of the country, and he called upon the
4 to join in that great work, and to send
rCr prayers for the a4ettts and IliiillloMlillll, and also
•' .a.ir pecuniary cuntmbutions fur the support of those
sad miftionaries.
PLUMPTRE, M.P., supported the resolution in a
if remarks.
SICK ESSTETII come forward and announced
tie rapturous applause of the somata' ir diet a gentle-
lie had listened to and been isosvineed by Dr.
e's oration bat put down his same kw 1001.
:e of thanks propwol by the En. Mr. Nona, and
1:,. Mr. J. C. CULtaIIIOUN war then passed to the

a. and kis gnaw Irvin ishaowlesiged the a.
the t ooth%Mps t,d es 4 o'clock.
anion was being made et the doors as we loft, which
to be prospering.

TWA CALLS TO TUB BAI.--A further all to
tu tents of the Hos. Ssei..ty or tree toner Tc mp!*
wk yesterday (November 23), Ind th comprise the
to irrational :—Robert Alexander Dalyell,
r 7 Caw, Cambriclye, M.A., owl George Ds
ULM Dales% Oxford, M.A.

WINO OF THE LIVERPOOL FINANCIAL
REFORM ASSOCIATION.

A metier of the friends sod supports?' of the
pies of Futeasial Relent was ►eld oa Thanday eves-
at the Cateer,hall, Lewd Nelwa•etaeet.
■ t►e 11144011 of Colossi WiLuatts, Mr. B. V. Yates
was caned to t►e chair.

The CHAIRMAN, in Meg to open the prodd
WWI received with the loudest ohemiaff. Bir=
Saes we last me, leer Ceuneil have men
but steadily, eaden-uring to forward the ague of
Fineacial Rakes, oa which the
ea prosperity of the maim
so greet y &pads. They upped Mr. ThomascM
of London, to deliver lectures the snidest at
York, Bristol, Reedieff, Bridgewater, Baster, Ipordsh,
Norwich, Colchester, Cieltaahass, and a few other plum.
Mr. Beggs is • Rae of talent, intelligense, sad patTiotiaat,
sad his lectures have doss much in diffusing informatics
sad ileitis( the spirit of inquiry. (Heir.) Your cons-
ell have else gear cm with the publiation of the tracts
whisk lavaboes diffused ever so large • part of the kiog-
dosa. Is these upesoally have been pointed out some a
the abases of the navy ; sad It has bees shown how,
swift Is noidesseuestima some of the ships of war have
only basalt sautes kw a you or two, some for • very few
=oaths, and some have abalutaly not bees is service at
all. Oar teases hue lattetly dwelt upon the great evils
@rides Hem indirect Thum' and pointed oat how our
somatente has been mippied, the esUal of the merchant'
Ming locked up is the payment of heavy duties instead
of bolas employed is Importing additional quantities rei
geode; hence the quantity of oar exports sad the
meet of oar muumeturen are diminished ; they
skews that the bad debts of our tradesmen are tnereessi,Ur
whoa they are so u» fortunate uto make a bed debt, they
loss not only the vales of the article, but also the large
mount of duties paid thereon. (Him, bear.) Owing
to the heavy duties, adulteratim, also, takes plane to a great
latent in 'one of the must its?ortaut articles of foreign pro-
duce, for example, tea. Instead of pure tea. we get • ma-
ture of sloe leaves, sad the spent or damaged leaves of
with a poisonous admixture of prussic acid, to give it the ap-
pearance of uses tea. Thus the comforts of Lfe are inter.
lasi with; boa what ill far won*, the morals of the native
ire corrupted—dreadfully morropted—sleo, by the smuggling
sad bribing of officers laaeparable from our present liaancial
system. (Cheers.) These evils you sill find admirably set I
furtk is our tracts; reed thee* tzars yourselves and circulate
them mama your neighbours. (Hear.) I should mentius
that we have beta invited to join some other bodies este-
b4sked to weak over the public welfare, especially the
London Financial Refuse sad Parliamentary Rama
Association. To that b Aly we heartily wish all eueeee ; but
as your wooed were appointed by you to forward hosts:Oat
reform alone, and as some persons might be prorcoted from
joining us it we added other object., they thought it most
prudent to adhere to the caigical plan. (Cheers.) Are
there not, at any rate in Liverpool, thousands of
families who have been on the brick of starvation ?
I What must be the peeps of the father of each a family?
All day long he searches for employment, but can find
sous. At night he returns heart broken to his home;
be fears to lilt the latch—no tire—no food—his children
run

4 not, se of old, to matt him, and " climb kis knees the
tried kiss to share." They spear not, iadeed, for that
would only add to his Cores' ; but their pallid counts
Dances and upturned imploring eyes ask ham the agonising
question, " Father, have you 'Nought us anything to eat ?'
With what anguish does her sink down upon his sordid bed,
owl as he 'its there ask himself, " Why is this ? And
when I do übtaia employment, shell some portion of my
wages (however small) be token from me, and wasted in
overpaid salaries, in unmerited pensions and sinecure's?"
And is it in some cases our aristurizy and oar nobles
themselves who thus " snatch the lean morsel from the
starving mouth?" When thoughts like these rack his
mind, it cultures a full measure of the Christian spirit for
him to diesel his prayers to Heaven, and exclaim, " lath. r
forgive them, for they know not what they do." Indeed,
ratted, they know not what they do, as regards them'
raves sr others. They know not how they degrade'
themselves in the eyes of the people in the
=ides of all their luxury. Do they ri fleet hoe
many pine in want—how many drink the cup of baleful
end eat the bitter bread of misery, sore pierced by
"don winds—bow many sink into the sordid but of cheer.
less poverty—did they ask themselves who has been the
cause of this sutfeting, and dal a faithful conscience reply,
that in put thou art the men o uraptian Welt would steed
appalled, sad iron solfaness grieve at the distress
it had cr-ated. When • merchant wants a clerk,
Lis first object is to find a person who undentands
the Diorama be is to transact: not so the government;
they have to pros ide for the nephew of my lord, gather cousin
tote or friend the member, whose parliamentary influence
they must secure. 8o the young gentlemen (of whoa' ebiliiy
in the chase it would be most unreasonable to complain)
are advanced to the Navy or Ordnance Board. One of
them was: try his hand at building a ship; and as the
knowledge of ship-bselding does not come by intuition,
she toms out t.,0 heavy at the bows, and Oar Ot sail
properly ; in the next be wisely revolve+ to avoid the first
Went*, and she is too heavy oft, and she cannot sail.
Then one is too long, and a piece must be taken out to
shorten her ; and another is too short, and she must be cut in
the middle, and a piece inserted to lengthen her. (Chem.)
And at the Ordnance Board, thoru is no one who ever
served as an officer In the (Nuance, as appears by et
tears from parliamentary papers, gives, a few days ago,
in the Daily NM, or the Frpreaa papers, which should
be in the hands of every friend of liberty. As to the
Woods said Forests, they are the ovum of each plunder,
of such robbery in open day, it is astonishing that public
Indignation has net sooner put an end to it. Happily we
have now at the head at that department a nobleman es
much diriogniehed by the integrity as the benevolence 41
his beset, and surely he will think it his bounden duty
to probe the evils to the b ittom, awl rooting out the cor
reptian, devote to the national use thou bandied' of '
thousands of acres which are the national property.
Let es& man do his duty, remembering that
the prosperity of nations depends not s) much
en the ability and acts of its public men as on the character,
width, and condition of its citizens; rad let Us ever beer in
mind chit whatever we wish to do well, we must do peace•
ably, and in aood order. (Loud cheers )
Mr. BRODRIBB said—Of ell the politic.) question'
which can be submitted to the consideration of a people, the
meet important to themselves, both directly and indir.ctly,
Is that of taxation. It affects them individually and is A.
teetively. It is the bads of the whqle social system. Pi ronsl
freedom and national greatness, or their contrary. are bowed
up with it. The great principles of justice and right are is.
volved in it ; and in proportion as these principles influence
and govern the whole system, so are the people freemen
or slaves. The labour of the peasant, the toil of the
artisan, the skill of the mechanic, the profit of the trader,
the gala of the merchant, and the [roduce of the spied- '
wires, are immediately and directly dependent upon it; sad
se these are fostered or impeded by it, so, indirectly,
are affected the remuneration of the learned profersiess,
the value of house, railroad, and canal property, end the
rental of land. The relative position of all elvers is
determined by it. It moulds the character of the peoplei
and gives form to 'their institutions. It makes them epos,
newest, generous, and free; or cunning, treacherous, selfish,
and debased. Y.iu see as Feu survey them a people actives,
energetic, and bold, conscious of their freedom in thought and
enterprise ; or inert, hesitating, and doubtful, the effect of
'Cost ems regulations and Excise restrictions, amounting to a
' system of espionage in all their transaction'. The land through
its influence is either covered with poor-houses and gaols, or
filled with cottages of eciaten.ment, and schools of science or
art. In the waters around our shores are hovering the pre-
ventive service of &marine police, tracking what it has created,
the dishonest and murderous smuggler; or on their bosom
are horse the free sails of commerce, carrying the industry
of an honest and civilized people to *very reuion of the
&he. The government is carried on by men of the
highest intellect and noblest minds, having in view alone
their country's good and her national greatness, or it
tisk+ into the patrimony of " family parties" for
sett ends, rated by far medians and coveuption.
It wi 1, perhspe, help us to form • more impartial
emissive, if we glance at the amount and general
beads of expenditure, before we examine the sources whence
it is derived. The amount of public expenditure last year
was, in round numben, 5900,0004. The general heads are
as follows, viz.:
Charges of collection £5,000,000
lute rest on debt
War expenditure (including Kaffir war)
Civil gomenmeat (including the miscall
Loons estimates)

£59,000,000

The charge, of collection I will diemisa without comment
But I may be allowed to ask by whom, and for whom es
peciel benefit, that debt was contracted, the interest of
which is a millstone around our necks to the weight of 28i
million pounds annually ? I think I may venture to assert
that it was contracted by a parliament of landowners, for the
especial b:nefit and protection of real property, and, as each,
is a burden which ought to be borne by lend. The next
Item, too, of eighteen millions and a half for war expenditure
must aloe be put down to the same account, for it is but very
recently we have been again and again told that such is rr
gaired to save us from foreign Inv .eion and domestic con-
fusion and anarchy, in either of which cases property would
be the sufferer, but especially landed property. which in the
event of a successful inyuion would be confiscated. The
expense of civil government then is the only item remaining,
amounting to 2,000,0001 , which can fairly be thrown upon
the people at large. Now, bearing this in mind, let us
tarn to the sources of taxation, and see how these hue.
dens are actually borne. The amount raised last year from
ordinary sources of revenue was 57,000,000 L, namely:—
Crown lands
Post-office 2,140,000

lueoms and property tax 6,600,04:10
Load sad assimoscl UM'S 4,600,000
Stamps
Customs and excise 37,600,030

£57,000,000

Now, Ibe you to bear in mind that the interest on the
debt and the war expenditure, amounting together to
47,000 000 i., are charts essentially for the protection of
property, by which I mean flied property, chiefly landed
property and the building. upon it. But out of this large
ens of 67,000,0001. what amount does lend pay se such ?
This is • Tel" prop r cinestiqn for the people to ask,
when they remember that It is the landed proprietors who
have claimed, and, till very recently, have exorcised the
exclusive Junction of legislation. Even at this present
mstne-t one very active section of the landownces is
putting forward a claim to be considered the supreme
interest in the state—that to which all other in-
tenets ere to give way. Remember that it was
nada the exclaim rale of them leadowaere that the