The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-20 00:00:00

THE LATE PEACE CONGRESS AT PARIS.

Last evening a public meeting took place at the
Borough-road Chapel, for the purpose of receiving a report
of the proceedings of the remit Pesos Congress. There
was a numerous attendance. Edmund Fry, Esq., one of the
deputation from this country to Paris, was present, as were
three &peel's from America.
B. FAT, iatroduced the business with a brief mune
of the promedinits at the late Correa. After noticing the
popular feeling heretofore prevailinr, that France and Bee
lend we natural enemies, and the effect produced 15 or 18
month* ago by the publication of the Duke of
Wellington's alaamiet letter, be observed that this had
stimulated the members of the Pesos Societe to greaten
efforts for the diffusion of their principles. The Duke's pe
dieted invasion bed been fulfilled in one sense, by the visit
of the French national plaids and others, who, in a manner,
took possession of London for • erode, and did what they
liked in it, paying however for all they pt. (Chews.)
These men had returned to their country as public bistros.
tors, and had done more to destroy the feelings of hostility to
England than could have been effected had the Duke boos
allowed to bristle the southern coast with martello towels.
(Cheers.) The way being thus prepared. measures were
taken for bolding the Peace Congress in Paris—the great ,
object of that gathering being to renege the people to do that i
which their governments never could nor would do,—to
secure the blessings of permanent and nnivenal pewee.
(lieu.) The first congress at Brussels had been eminently
successful in establishing the value of the principle of inter-
national communication. No sooner was the Paris congress
announced than the Times and other journals covered the
proposal with ridicule. It was said the novelty
,of the flirt meeting being past, there would I
not be more than 100 present at the second.
Seven hundred deputies, however, English and I
American, eft this country on the 22nd of August. (Cheers.)l
'They were enthusiastically received at Boulogne, and notes*
woo the formality of passports dispensed with, but the usual
siestas hexes inquisition was foregone—such was the
deMes reposed by the French government in the character of
thatreifters. (Beer, hear.) Arriving at Paris, they found
X, IMMO attention paid them by the evert, the
ball of St. Cecile being Owed at th
tai
ogee !swivel' the countenances of V UM;
Gimes, X. Coopers!, and other eminent Fremantle.
Their sittings occupied three days, daring which the pees
sad war quesfion was dimmed in el its ph an resein-
'Dens pawed in favour of the principles of natloaal addles-
' Des. (Bear, hear.) If no other rev 't followed from this
empens, one most intportant one Zuld be that the two
understood each other better than ever they had Imo
Bad this taken place fifty years ago, Pitt sad Nage-
leen could never have committed the two °matelot
M • twenty years' war. (Chews.) The next congress
email MU place at Frankfort, in September, 1850. In the
maneline, let the people of each country examine these
pm* principles by the light of the New 'Testament, end
tiff could not fail to native general support. (Hew.)
Xr. A. War tnn said the two Peace Congresses had me
I desoi their question, hitherto col fined so England and
Eineolei, a world's Win.qu Peace cowmen were now a
ISLA bat. (Cheers.) reforms were effected by
the people ; wed so 'must the peace reform. (Bear, hear.)
TIN old he
maxim, " In times of peace peepers for
war," though false and shard, wee still most popular. Its
absurdby was evident, for every one knew that the we.rl;ke
preparations of one country invariably led to greater peepers
Pons on the part of others; and theta there was a westant
and Managing rivalry in military expenditure. The only
remedy for this was a national agreement for • partial dis-
armament, which would be a double, benefit--by reducing
the national expenses, and increseing its proet.aatiga power at
the ems* time. The undoubted result ot untaia a mune would
he pesos, the wane end incentives of war ming taken away.
Sines 1816 Great Britain had expended !IS =Mime ruling
in preparation for war ; and aft*, all the Duke of
Wellington told them theee with nit defence, sad 40,000
Frenchmen might take ludon. (Rear, hear.) If this
were true let the people apply their good Anatolia= sense
to the subject and put an end to these useless preparations,
which absorbed 17s. 6d. of every pound of to either as
prism expenditure or the interest of the past. Lei Engladnd
set ast example of dlaarsuunent and, all the world woul