The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-06 00:00:00

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. ROEBUCK.
FINANCIAL REFORM.

On Thursday evening the reformers of Bradford,
Wiltshire, presented J. A. Roebuck, Bs q., with a tok-n
of their respect. A putlic dinner was held at the Swan
Hotel, which wm attended by many of the most respect.
able inhabitants of Bradford, as well as by several of the
electors of Bath.—Mr. Wilkies, of Bradford, presided, and
upon the removal of the cloth, the usual toasts were proposed
and responded to.
Mr. B.olf, secretary to the Bradford Reform Association,
then presented Mr. Roebuck with a piece of wool dyed cloth
of Bradford manufacture, upon which was embroidered In
gold letters the following:—" Presented to John Arthur
Roebuck, Bog ,by the reformersof Bradford, Wilts, as a
token of respect for his manly conduct in the House of
Commons." . . . . .

The Cirantirate, upon the subsidence of the enthusiastic
applause which followed the presentation, read an address,
and proposed "The health of J. A Roebuck, Esq., the able
and consistent advocate of the people's rights," which was
drunk amidst loud and continued applause.
Mr. ROZBUCK then said, I hope my friends of Bradford
will accept the grateful thanks which I now desire to return
them :or the beautiful present they have made me. I do I
not think, however, that I have only to return thanks.
will go a step further, and say that, being a public man, 1
hope the gentlemen present will not think I am about un-
duly to occupy their time. if I discus for a few moments
the great political questions which now agivate the country.
It must be plain to everybody that this country occupies a
very remarkable position. Whilst all Europe is ringing with
revolution, destruction, and disorder, in Baglend we have
perfect peace. What cause, then, for the difference between
this and other countries ? The first great cause is, that the
circumstances in which the people of this country stand are
markedly different to those in other countries; and the next
cause is the thorough downright Food sense of the people of
this country themselves. Incited to every species of
folly as they have been, they hays not yielded is
them as other nations have. (Hear, hear.) They have
already fought their battle of freedom, and they have gained
so many advantages that they will not risk the many bles-
sings they have to thank God for, by seeking the remainder
through violence and disorder. And I advise the working
men of this country, in particular, to give no ear to any who
would wean them tram their peaceful and great constitu-
tional alms, but to remember that every incitement
to violence is offered by a real enemy, or what
is almost worse, a very ill-judging friend. We all
know, indeed, that incitements have been made, but
the smallness of the numb'r who have yielded to them
have marked the solid sense of the great mar of the
people of this country. The magnificent 'prises offered
to the world by the people of this country is a proof that
they deserve the franchise which we reformers are desirous
to obtain for them. (Cheers.) But if we are to gain that
right it must hi by • ordisl co-operation.—The I d
gentleman then explaineu his vie,es on further
parliame.tory reform and educaPion, 110'l alluded

to the unhappy condition of Ireland. In refer-
eues to financiel economy Mr. Roebuck went on to
say:—Mr. Cobden. as your are all aware, has brought out
&pet. (A robe: "Area awry good one it is.") Yes, it
is , and nose eaa do harm by repeating the agates of
1 .In rand figures there were between viola and nine
millions more expended in 1848 then in 1830. (Hear.)
This has been done by a redeem parliament, this increased
expenditure has been brought about by the very gentlemen
who called themselves the reform administration, and
blamed the Duke of Wellington for his went of economy.
(Hear.) Now when is the change whisk has taken place
between 1830 and 1848 in this mastery? What has
changed ? We are peaceable in Hartland. In Ireland there
is quietness, such as it is welled. We ham peals in our
colonies. Not on in the Rua Indies; but then the people of
that country pay for their own wars. What then is the
difference by which this increased expenditure has been
created? Is any man here happier? Not a bit. It is
clear then tnet the difference is not caused by the
people. The mum is that there are fastened upon
this country the dependents and connexions of half o doses
reigning families, subservient to whose wants are the colo-
nies, the army, the navy, the ordnance; and all the other d
partmenta of the public service are made instruments for
their advantage. There is nothing more done, but there is
more expended. Unfortunately Mr. Cobden has not shown
how this expenditure has vino. I recollect that, in 1836, I
requested the administration to do pertain things in reference
to Canada, but was refused. There were then 2,000
soldiers in the colony ; but the minister of the day
thought that the colonies must be made to fear
us before they would love us; and the 2,000 soldiers
were consequently ineaued to 14,000—(Hear, hear) —and
the expenditure was, of course, increased in a corresponding
ratio. (lieu.) Instead of governing Canada in peace, as
they might have done, they ruled it with a large army, and
at this present moment they are obliged to do is 1848 what
I asked them, and they refused, to do in 1836. In tact, we
have now—as was observed to me by the best authority upon
the colonies not three weeks ago—we have now
Canada governing herself. (Hoer, hear.) We have
our colonies in all quarters of the globe ; and if
Mr. Cob ten had run his finger over them, and
noted down all the connexion. and dependants of the
reigning fami ies connected with them, a very curious book
lit would have made, and would be highly illustrative of aria.
tarratic dominion. We want an administration which shalt
embrace within its sphere the experience, the intelluzence,
and the virtue the representatives of the people may evince,
and not be the mere appanage of • few families—an alone
nistration which, though it may not be prepared to go beyond
the people's expectations. w uld be willing to consult the
peoples will and to yield to the people's demands. (Ore er..)
That thorough broad kind of administration which shalt
have the people for its tenodation, and the advice and intelli-
gence of all the people for its buttress—not composed of
nurslings, scarce fit to come from their mother's bosom, but
men of thought, steadfast, honest, practical men, who will
bring with them what they learn out and in their
own burins es, and apply it in conducting the business of the
public. We want not a red-tapist administration, but an
administration composed of men from the people ; men of
mind, end whose intellects are the topmost intellects of all.
(Cheers.) This time is coming. 1 see around me the hori-
son brightening. I have come down from the north, from
those palaces of workmen, those great marts of irdostry,
with my mind bib of hope, because I see hope in those who
are so well able to tonal the future by the pogrom of their
own individual wealth. They are full of hope fur the future,
and I now beseech my fellow-countrymen to compel the go-
vernment to carry on the of in of the nation as we carry on
our own private business, efficiently and economiesll) ; ex-
pending when expenditure is for the benefit of the
country. but withholding, as with an iron grasp,
when individual interests are only to be 'acetified.
If th:- people are united and wish it, the government must
concede, no matter whether Sir Robert Peel or Lord John
Rwsell be in office. (Hear.) I have now to thank yea for
the generally of your dealing towards me. I have often
thought, when not in eireet communication with my fellow-
s iuntry men, what could induce them thin to desire to meet
me. I thought that in what I have done my conda-t has
been honest if not very wise, and that it is in that
sense you have been pleased to express your ap-
probation of an honest course. (Applause.) If you will
allow me I will now thank you heartily, not only for the
beautiful present you have made me, but for the how ur of
inviting me to come among you to-day, and to assure you
that, in whatever relation I may hereafter stand towards
you, or should I @gain by any chance b come a repreeenta-
tire of toe people, that course which you approve now shall
he still pursued by me ; and by an example of honesty I will
endeavour, not only to win approval, but to show (abet, that
the people of this country are willing to mark their approval
of an honest course of conduct, no matter how humble the
talents by which that honesty may be supported.
The hon. gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud applause.
The " Health of Messrs. Hume and Cobden, and the re-
form members of the House of Commons," end several other
touts, were subsequently proposed. After some further con-
versation, the meeting separated.

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SCOTLAND.

JAN. 4
The mortality tables for Edinburgh. after having
hew =graded for three mouths, have iron resumed,
sad boa them we extract some statistics re
& h m gardia3
o We and that daring the first two months
thelen, the mortality for the quarter of 1848 was in
Edinburgh less than the quarter for 1847—in Leith
nt. Thu, the deaths in Edinburgh, daring
her, October, and November, 1846, 46,47, and
4s, were respectively 963, 1,263, 1,806, and 1,608 ;
in Leith in the ume periods, 136. 258, 236, and 486.
In Edinburgh daring October and November, 1 cue
of cholera recurred for every 246 inhabitants ; in
Leith and Newhaven, 1 in 69 ; in Loankeed, near
Edinburgh, 1 in 20. The disease is more prevalent
among frilee than males—of 603 clues in Edin-
burgh 181 were males, and 322 females. In Edin-
burgh the dimes, if not abating, is certainly making
little program; while from Leith it has evidently
gone. Yet, notwithstanding all the efforts that bare
been made to incubate sanitary principles, some green
blunders have been committed. In the @amongst*
churohyard,an old and densely packed place of 'opal-
tare, situated in a crowded locality, a pit nine feet
deep was opened for cholera patients,and the nuisance
detected by the immure of four coffins near
the surface. The sheriff has interbred, and it is to be
hoped that be may have power to abolish a practice
so usdn. The Glasgow circuit has been post-
poned from the 2w' to the 29th instant, owing to the
prualenee of 'bolas in that city.
Edinburgh is about to receive the infliction of
another merastie institution for the young. A Mr.
Daniel Stewart, it seems, has left a sum of money,
which, with accumulations, now amounts to 90,0001.,
and a palace is forthwith to be erected, in order to
te the crotchet of a well meaning, but evi-
rernrl;lllllnrellecting, person. Edinburgh already has
the following institutions for the maintenance and
education of the young :—Heriot's Hospital,
Gene Watson's, John Watson's, the Orphan,
Cremes, Merchant Maiden, Trades Maiden,
and Gillespie's; Donaldson's Hospital is about
finished, and is to throw open its wide
portals and immolate 300 children ; Fetter Endow-
ment is ripening; and, as if that were not enough,
Stewart's Hospital is forthwith to be erected in
Queensferry-road, within sight of Donaldson's, John
Watson's, and the Orphan. Now, when it is considered
that hundreds of children are already in Edinburgh
annually separated from their parents, and educated,
clothed, and fed in castellated erections, where
they become estranged from all natural ties,
is it not time that this folly were inquired into and
checked ? The best objects of the founders of those
institutions would be better gained by education only
being given, and food and clothing being left to home
arrangement. But even in this view a dispropor-
tionate attention would be paid to juvenile interests.
In Edinburgh we have no hospital for incurables, or
diseases of the chest; our infirmary is always behind ;
our schools for the blind and for the deal and dumb
are impoverished, and our maternity institutions are
but indifferently supported. Can posthumous bene-
volence find no scope in oonnexion with such estab-
lishments instead of dabbling perpetually with the
young? Or if these do not suit, is not the burden of
the poor and of lunatic pressing hard on the commu-
nity, and have not the present generation as much
need of relief as the next P

spw's to the of seine panicipators in tiala by joining is •
daese which wiwis up the amusements of •he evening.' A
missisr Christmas party perhaps Imo sot base enthused in
the_peovisees.
ROBBERY AND PROMPT RECOVERY OF Tll6
BOOTY.—Os Thursday forsawd Warmed's was oomsmani
sated to Mr. Boadids. aid of the doasolirs polies at
Medawar, that a widow. mama Leda O, se, Biqa.
strew, Calm*, had hoed Mead of • soma of snowy. Ma
Oregosm who dos acsompooda by Mr. Agor, • triad, stated
that about a fast ago hor hosbead dsd, add that
rxxvirtaa of his will sko woo pwaritioa of
This money sho dank kr sawrig, in •
smite nadir the bottom or dm air ,tareating the
mouth of tho creeks with • stow hosboad'i.
Wisdom had bowstaying with Wm, mad his miatiber, sad
bad dhow the wag sou imoodri. Oho riot torpoolod
thow.ll9lrww, add did am lash taw the WSW/ uatD day
INNS gado. Oa Thwaday Imam masks to Mks it out for
tie Formes of invostamot, ohs looked for her store, and to
Ur groat surprise and smeminsso Is was goes. She had no
warm to Nippon Um brother had taker die money, beyond
the hot that he lad bran thaw, and knew
Mime it was socretod. Mr. Beswick, however, hav-
ing • asap anspieloo that he was ths thief,
&giddied ado of his principal detectives to Burnley, where
lb. bitable resided. M'Mallen arrived there the same
tight, hood Greyer, as brother of the &awed, and took
bid into custody. During th. night Oregon mad. a coo.
holism If the robbery, told where the money was bidden,
add it was all recovered from a sough in a coal yard at Barn-
ley. M•Mullen brought the prisoner to Manchester yester-
day at 12 o'clock, and he will this day be brought Wore the
magistrate for elimination.
A GOLDEN DISCOVERY.—At the recent sale of the
affects 9f the late Rev. Miles Barton, of Hoek, among other
wades an endow chest was purchased by the Rev. Mr.
Prism, sf Long!.o., to whose residence it was removed. On
exuainiag the icterior, Mr. Price was surprised in finding
worsted *weir the sum of 2401, which had evidently re-
posed in mcarity for a long series of years. The treads
was immediately returnid to the postai.
DEVONB

As OLD MICK iiviirito.:Zoa Tuesday evening,
a man entered • shop at Ileavitree, kept by an old woman,
and demanded a pennyworth of treacle. This being given,
he asked be a sheet of the stiffest paper she had in the chop,
and whilst the adorable dame was looking with all curiosity
at his proceedings in plastering the brown paper sheet with
the treacle, the add thief suddenly prised the whole over
her face, and then safely decamped with some cheeses.
CORNWALL__

Tan LINGUA]) FLicr---ton.—The election of a re-
presentative for the borough of Liskeard, in the room of the
late 'assented member, Mr. Charles Buller. took place on
Wednesday. The tories bad made great efforts to indoor
some advocate of conservative opinions to take the field and
spend his money, but had been unsuccessful, and the only
candidate was Mr. Crowder, the eminent Queen's counsel,
who has for many years past been one of the leaders of the
western bar. That gentleman was proposed by Mr. John
Allen. and seconded by Mr. Antis, and there being no other
candidate, Mr. Crowder was declared duly elected.
The learned gentleman then addressed his constituents in
• frank and eloquent speech, in which he entered into the
consideration of Essay questions of great public importance.
He dwelt upon the tact that he had bean always in favour of
progressive reforms, and was a supp .rteur of the extension of
the suffrage in proportion as the people progress in educe-
Ws. On the suhjeet ^f retrenchment, the hon. gentleman
' placed before the meeting, in a very lurid manner, the
views of Professor Newman, Mr. Cobden, and Mr. M'Gregor,
giving his cordial adherence to the general principles of
retrenchment, reserving to himself the adoption of that
Gonne, which, on a discussion of the various measures before
parliament, he might think most conducive to the general
welfare of the country. The hon. and learned gentleman's
speech was received with great satisfaction by a crowded
audience, and at its close he was hailed with a burst of
hearty applause.
BI7ILAR MEMORIAL—On Thursday last, a public
meeting wee held at Liskeard, C. Childs, Esq., the mayor, in
the chair, when it was resolved, " That it is desirable by
some mane to evidence our respect for our late disthiruished
representative, the Right Hon. Charles Buller, by providing
'aortal, memorial of his worth." For this purpose a com-
mittee wee formed, and a sabeer iption list bee been opened.

A&I, a tens/.ration a further wifeututuwit of twn 'smiths
wJa agreed to; Pith a twattesatou of the baakropta' allow
sate of U. a week efteb.

They instructed him to sell it, and he did so to Mr. Jackson
sad Mr. Fetherein. The elder primer, when he rev,
mu the damask, said he should be 84116114 with fie. per
yard, but he knew it was worth • great deal more. Tne
younger Anoint cot off the picaof damask he sold to Mr.
Folksegill from a larger one. Witases wee paid his commis-
sion sometime by the elder and sometime by the younger
Asment.—He uaderwent a severe cross examination from
Mr. Pelham'. He ones sold two rolls of carpet for a man
who, he had sues understood, wee a convicted thi4.
The carpets mempured ninety yards. He never pat any
nosetioiss to the prisoners relating to the damask.—Mr.
Yardley said he should now commit all the priscners for trial.
Ilna Woo's. —Mr. D. Simeon, muter of the ship
Debnesia, was summoned for 171., the balance of wages
due to R. P. Hoff. The vessel, which was a steamer, was
built la ingiand fir the purpose of bring sent to the Danube,
and complainant was engaged as chief engineer to be paid
261. for the ran, sad there was • stipulation is the articles
that amok of this men should be provided with • voyage home
or receive 41. each. Whilst passing Gibraltar the defendant
met with an accident from the machinery, which disabled
him from further exertion, and he had to put in to Gib-
raltar to get cured. He was anxious to join the vessel
'gain, but was wad that it would be as mach as his
life was worth to attempt to resume his duties.
Hs therefore had to remain in Gibraltar till he
reeovered, when, finding that no provision had been
mad* for his return to England, be had to make kis
way home se he best could. He sued for the balsam:
of the whole amount of wages, wader the 18th clause of the
Merchant Seamen's Act, which entitles a man to Lis wages
though be should be rendered incapable of fulfllliog his con-
tract by natural Maness or hurt received in the performance
of his duty.—Mr. Pelham, for the defence, urged that the
injury sustained by the complainant was owing to his own
negligence; as a person of his experience in machinery should
have used more caution.—Mr. Yardley: De-you mean to
urge that as an argument ? Surely no man would be more
interested in using caution than ne who himself ran the
personal hasard.—The magistrate then made an order for
the attire amount.
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BINIVOLENCII —Mr. Yardley announced the receipt of
the following donations to the poor box:—The Mercers'
Company, 101. ; the Bari of C., 51. ; the Countess of P., 01. ;
Beta," 61. ; " H.M P.," 11.; and 6i. postage stamps, from
" C. O."

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