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

t 135,433 14

Pp balance of unappropriatrrl profits L 103,433 14 1
After some dincu•sion the report wee kireed to; and an
announcement was made that the dirid ud would be payable
on Mmday next.
Mr. HADDO moved a vote of thanks to the chairman
and the directors for their exertions during the past ball-
yenr, which was unattiranumly carried.
Votes of thanks were then pawed to J. W. Gillynt, Ems.,
the aeneral manager, and also to the malingers of the branch
banks; and the nesting separated.

THE DEER IN EPPING FOREST.-
POAC NINO.

A Court of Verderers for the foreetn of Waltham,
Epping, and Heinelt, in the county of E, sex, assembled on
Saturday at the George Inn, CbigweU, to receive the reports
of the ' Reeves," or sub-rangers, relative to the present
mate of there extensive forests. This ancient tribunal, which,
like other feudal court., had fallen into desuetude, hu heen
only rec ntly revived, owing to the wholesale encroachments
that, from time to time, have been made upon the royal
property. The present yerderers are Colonel Conyers, of
Copt Hall, .1. Maitland, Eq., and George Palmer, jun.,
Esq. Tric Earl of Mornington is head ranger, and, velar n•
ever demanded, s bound to furnish a fist buck to the royal
table. •
The court having been opened with the usual formalities,
the sub-rangers made th-ir reports, from which it was quite
evident that the forest laws have been most laxly adminis-
tered. There are, it seems, upwards of 1,000 head of deer
in these vast solitudes, and the number would doubtless be
much greater but for the constant incursions of what are termed
'• free foresters,' or poacher., who, acting upon the Malthu-
sian principle, take very effective means for the prevention of
over population. Under these circumstances, the C9111111ii•
slaters of Woods Forests resolved to put the law in force.
In order to settle the question, one remarkable case of en-
croachment was selected, upon which formal proceedings
were instituted. It was the eau of Attorney- General v. Hal-
lett," tried before the Barons of the Exchequer, which re-
sulted in the defendant's conviction in a nominal penalty of
1001., quite sufficient to establish the right of the crown.
Having obtained this solemn decision, notices were issued
from the Woods and Peewits department, announcing a
determinati in on the part of the commissioners to evict all
parties who might, whether through design or ignorance
of the law, have encroached upon any portion of the
royal property; and it was further stated that the ranger,
wr re directed to remove all fences or other erections which
might have been put up within the (tree boundaries. These
summary proceedings created no little alarm amongst the
n ighbouring landowners and farmers, many of whom ven-
tured to tt held their o ern" upon the absurd principle that
" possession is nine points of the law."
In this state of affair., application was made, in the first
instance, to Lord Moraingten, as head ranger, who referred
the p seats to the Court of Verdeters ; but the appeal tothst
quarter availed nothing, the verdere rs deciding that they
had nothing whatever to de with the threatened proceedings,
which emanated from the Woods and Pores!, department,
and the parties were recommended to apply to the comma-
bi men for any information they might desire.
The Verderers' Court is to mumble once every six weeks
is future.—John Bull.

SUICIDE. ON BlACagitialti-MUDGE.—Lest evening,
about six o'clock, the numerous parties who were crossing
over Blackfriai e-bridge were thrown into a painful state of
excitement, owing to a man, apparently shout 40 years,
but who was unktriwn, mounting the bridge end plunging
he id foremost into the river. The unfortunate man was
no,iced standing on one of the seats on the upper side of the
bridge when before en-king the fatal leap. Bull, one of the
ffiem on the Blau friars pi«r intrantly put off in a boat,
and rowed towards the deceased, and having overtaken him.
he put forth his hind intruding to lay hold of the hair of
his head and pull him into his boat. The tide, however,
was running down very rapidly, and the hair on the man's
head being too short for Bull to bald, the boat was carried
over the man, and he immediately disappeared. The drags
were afterwards called into requisition, but although the
river was searched for some distance the body was not found
at seven o'clock last evening.
THE SUBTEBRANISAN SURVEY OP THE SEWERS OF
ran MITSOPOLIS —A report on the subterranean survey of
the metropolitan sewers has just been presented to the com-
miesionen by Messrs. Aus•in and Smith, consulting engineer
and assistant surveyor. The report states generally that the
sewerage of the city of Westminster is in a rotten state, end
contains a large amount of foul deposit; that in Seagrove sad
Elton-squares the sewers abound with noxious matter, stop-
ping up the house drains, and mulling moat horribly; as
also in Grosvenor, Hanover, and Berkeley-squares, and that
even throughouttho New Paddington district, the neighbour-
hood of Hyde Park-garlens, and the costly, squares and
streets adjacent, the sewers abound with the foulest =sit,
from which this mat diluting t tit vi um is fossil M
ow.
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PARLIAMENTARY
AND FINANCIAL REFORM.

THE TOWER HAMLETS.
A great public minting, convened by the Metropoe
Mao Parliamentary and Pinsissiel Reiss Assodation, was
Mid yesterday mean. at the lhasthed Tamen, Blsornitelt,
k hrthersass of the objects whelk the seschalso seeks to pro.
awes air Joshua WALItiILIT. the Ileelliient, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN, in *peeing the pensediart, sea-
amass& by re a letter tres air W. Ckg, eth M the
smashers for the Tower Handets, i. whisk the hoe. gentle.
man pressed his regret that it did mot lie I. his prow ta
Saud the meting, idlers, that dada, the emit of dm sem.
sion he sheath net be k taws swept while weepaied in his
duals. Ile added that he was in four of
StalliftrF the
simiaWgtielk **llk
he
terd 11(1214111,f
eh," thilissiOftr.) The Chains. thou& that the met-
ier; ninth arse with kim that as fa as the asessiatioa was
enhenth *blotter wee eadeketory. (" Hear," sad laughter.)
Ile than reseeded to say the meeting was aware that an
sesiesho tad been formed In the metropolis for the par-
rotferweeding "the great object" of parliamentary and
Wares. That astociaties bed, on several cessions,
soballetth to the test a pablie spike in the metrepsils the
views mad grackles whisk they bad laid down for their own
,std it was magal for hint to dein thet so
ritre.resalt bad km sey. Their prinsipise—or
Tether their approolmaden to pils—(issar, \seri—for
he thine wish es essetras lers—hed *beady bra oresived
rage &umbers of the path with the Musa withwiess.
was to ...idler, the middle dams( to induce
the Wirelesses to sat with Hem, Sad » seaSsee them
that she wain. closes deserved their sprat, not only
boss. ask principle. ere last In theseriva, but becalm
theyhadhad evinced by their condost for a very long
el years, with some "debt exceptions —he sow
&peke of the productive .lame— that they were dun
lot the aujoyelas et civil drink TS members of the condi
weaM submit that evening their views sad prisiples, and it
would be fir the meeting to say whether
eathey were worthy
rset. (Cheers) That, however, would not be the
Lath ef their misedew (Cheers.) Although they hod sew
=Leler afieg
pest elysershmor::.l7baaadttropolis, thuyttaydentiolit yet
ln-
ended he ememae, es early se poseible, what promised ;tight be called
a smote, seeting in oats ef the patent therms.
Bias their last meeting saw &Scolds" had been
throw. I. their way. Many of she middle duos
had been alien s& from their tasks by assertioas,
that their objets was to destroy public credit by
tweaking lath with the stabile crudites. This was • foul
adamay, unworthy el the sores from which it emanated.
il
d earr4bzi.2 The semen 'sold set, and should air, be
hie dm every weed whisk any man in the buoy-
s., of spsesh might tatter—oot that be was aware of any.
tkeg whisk hid been uttered contrary to mend faith ; they
meet he judged by the declarations which they had ever
mode es• sued/ (Mr. Females O'Connor hem made his
which elicited several rounds of applaass.) The
ea ever ever declared that their great object was not to
essfty. bat to buildup ; not to in the rights of any, bat
to obtain NSW Om all. (Chore) None could be son
adeonsof netainies and sapperdeg the publis credit thaa
they were ; sone were sore interested in its malatonanes
than the producing classes. Wishes& mat, capital
would lee away, labour wield be mprodactive.
Never was there, in his opiaim, • fairer prospect of proms.
sive reform than at that moment. (Hear, bear.) The
middle clams wen disposed to aid is tasking a broad and
comprehensive extensioa of the trucks in a great di .rt to
raise the number of voters from one to four millions, to
obtain the ballot, sad a sore equal apportioament of mem-
bers, reseeding to population, to throw add* the property
quahfleatioa, and to limit the duration of parliaments to
three years. (Hear, hear.) Why did the chartist+ ask to
be joined? Let them join them. (Ch, ers.) Let them bear
I. mind that cosnesion was not compromise; let them be
wise as serpents as well as harmlws as doves. Let them
/mark what was pasting. Is high quarter they saw a dis-
rade. to repudiate finality. (.. Eloise, Naar," and amen.)
Ls them act accordingly. There was another use-
Satin connected in 'act, though not legally, with that be
then represented, namely, the Freehold Land Society.
He hoped that of that society numbers et working men
would enrol themselves as members, in order that they might
ths bescans, is works, with the stint constitution,
beshollsou el this country. la all ash amseciaties. let it be
/membered, it wee necessary to take can that its
were sea of »edam ; otherwise they would be Sl:eal=
Blinks. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. HALL this rose te ropes the following NNW
tbn
that the sheassof • reallyrermadalse Nam of Cammons, the
of eleel•Me.' of testian,
Csavetelsmsenirsegre isseLahlbs end the News-
gasser et thine ewe threseumieg dis
orders Mel tease peneleale meld preepseky ei this empire,
mew Om wasineeisa at the Meth end weetleg Mama he the
atiehment a/the shem adman by Me listregats lkilawaseary
sad ithwiciat Br hooded" a smith et moselloss Impart-
Nieto the stela
He rid that by direct and iadirest tenths 80,000,000/
per saes wee taken trots the people of this culinary. But
however the *ado* might suffer from the burden of taxation,
it was entirely Matsu to suppose that the anociation de-
iced to Swamp the national debt. No elms would suffer so
much from such a proceeding as the working population.
He wu old enough to remember, however, how the
greater part of the national debt was immured. The landed
property of this country wu mar gaged for it, although a
generous people had hitherto been mine the interest. The
lowest should, in h's °pis ion, be paid by Vs landed pro-
prietary, and if that were done the remaining burdens would
press very lightly on the national industry. Besides the in-
terest of the debt, the aristocracy had taken from the people
three or four hundred million' by means of the corn laws.
With reference to the ler d whets, that was nest important
matter, and he trusted that none of them would neglect to
become a freeholder, by which they would be able to
control their »preventatives, and in that manner the ex-
penditure of the country. It the working clams
err-operated with them for thb purpose sordidly end
truly, they would have their rersentatives, in a short tin.,
dated by larger constituencies, bribery would be checked,
the morals of the people would be imirrond, and harpists
would be senendly di fused. (Hear) He hoped this
wield enrol themselves in their realm. and enlist their puns'
as well as their persons in the eases advocated by this moods.
tits. (Hear.) Without the comperstion of the working
man he believed their efforts wt uid be amine. for the best of
all op-operation 11411 that of the hardworking man; but
with it he believed their menu moult be secured, and that
at so distant time. (Hear.) He b gged to propose the
Brut resolution.
Mr. OFFOB seconded the mention. He said that the
perk had been too long separated into classes,withenit any
Missal ground existing for such ',paradox. They mast be
united ; sad he, as one born and brought up awaking man,
tell Ws that, without units, they could never sateen
The prime minister war pulled forward by the radicals, sad
pulled back by the old tortes. New, that was sot a pleurae
position to be in ; and he would arises Lord J. Russell, if
the tones did not move forward, be should eat away with
the radicals. (Hen, Bear.)_
Mr. G. THOMPSON, M.P., came forward amidst load
cheers to support the noontime, He said he was happy at
being able to inform the vast meeting which was assembled
there, that in consequence of the present building not being
large sough to *stein the numbers who sought admission,
an adjournment of the surplus look place to the immense
room is Lower-street, and it wee announced that that vast
room was also crowded. (Cheers.) It was presided over by the
treasurer of the associatiou, but they used not be alarmed at
that fact, for he had left won' ispadas hem. (Laughter.)
The resolution directed their Steads to the essential seem
thy of a reel main bones the middle and menthe ekes.
He emakesed be did not antithiste the reelhaelan of *del
hopes without that tinkle, and he did net wee wills is nee
*lee geffied out without such • maim. (Hear.) The reel
seethe. ef adversity should ache them all friends, and
UMW thew against the COMMIS . (Hear, hear.)
He believed that those who press measure did
set math it as the Oblation sad Sewn, but as a
Meese teen end, and he therefore thought that the
disk had bees given to that Abet w the part of the
Ma. he himself and those when he represensdi aught to
bate theta en union on these tait md patent reads. He
saw me gems why their object. Asia net be asomplistesd
k• kW mirth That vest
we
a Osman
souk set without fear and wee a pledge of
their speedy felilleasat. (The het, taw treat late
Matthias' details of expenditure) I s Skim! In en in the
'Whom • rallemaa who had kairsres ted thesketin el
this erreatry—(.teen)—fesiki tubs ere that be bad come
there that 111•11111•41. not with ea apple it dim ‘rd, bat with
the thee breath of pees. (Cheers.) There was not a
swat» is the world which was so prepared for universal
strthene as this. (Heat, hem) He had visited countries is
which be thought the peer* were better %Went universal
suffrage. Hat he had sees it in °parades is the United
Mateo, the people of which come of the same stock and spoke
the saw language as themselves ; and so little were the
afraid of it, that shiploads of emierauts arriving on
the eve of ea election, had beta allowed to vote within 48
hours after landing. (Hear, hear.) The truth was,
their opponents would not give the people the suffrage be-
cause they dreaded—not their ' , but their inlaid
gess and their ind,pendent —sad he himself
would sever rest satisfied until every tax paying man in this
sunny received the unstrolled right of mine whom he
wished to have as his representative in the Commons House
of Parliament. (Loud and long continued epplaus.)
Mr. W. WILLIAMS (late M.P. fee Coventry) said the
reception which had been given to the council was worthy of
the men of the Tower ll.mlets ; and it must be Seems to
the. that their principles should be considered worthy of the
sapport of that greet district. The object of the aseociaion
was to make the House of Commons what Lord J. Russell,
in proposing the Rotorua Bill, declared that it would Seems
—a real spermatation of the people. (Hear, hear.) The
aristocracy moncpolised one breech of the legislature
stzliy, and by the use of improper. means they =mo-
paa
as, to a great stoat the scat, in the House of Coot-
nom The aristreratio concocten of the Reform Bill took
good care to have 216 buigniflcsat boroughs, with 161,000
electors, returning 329 seethes, In fact, 65 boroughs,
having. All together a smaller scastingacy than the Tower
Hamlets, stunted, like that borough, two members to
parliament. 113 how many cases had members bees
unseated far bribery t Mr. Roebuck once offered to novo
that in 1841 there bad been the roses bribery. A
committee was appointed ; sad it was proved that in
Harwich alone 94 electors received 671. ash for their votes.
(h.s.r, hear) By the comas of 1811 them were
then 4,774,000 erws,ie.: homes in Great Britain. It
was not too such to suppose that ea addition of 226,000
had bees male . since that period. That would give
5.000,000 of occup es, nit counting Insert, to whom it was
proposed to give the franchise. (Hoar, hear.) The num-