The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-19 00:00:00

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economic movement. The arguments and the
qeee- es at that meeting are models of what
suit ought to be—calm, eensib!o, co,ent, vtithunt de-
nudation of sass, or appeal ti stronger passion@ than
those of arithme.ic. We trust the groat mewing of
the parrot assoc:rion, which is to be held on Tom
gay, under the presidency of Sir JOSHUA WALICSLET,
will be marked with the same character, and will
triumphaotly attain the great end of awakening the
wholia.mc energies, whilst leaving unstirred the
&arms passion, of the people.

Tug shareholders in the Rasters Counties Railway,
whose petitions were pretended to the House of Com-
mons on Thursday. night, appear to us to have bees
rather premature in their application. The carom
they lay tr the charge of the ex-directors it their
company wue neither committed against the haw"
nor in their capacity of membera of the:homer. Teo%
it may be maid that being members of the legislature*
any stain upon their character reflects indirectly apes
it; but hitherto the Home of Commons has not ma-
&damn to exercise the functions of • moral poll:el
over its me mbers. Mr. Cuessmins's committee wee
appointed to inquire into the truth of certain al egm
lions which go to impugn the integrity if I
some unnamed members of parliament in that cowl
city. Lord Jowl Rennie. moved last night to base
a new writ issued for Limerick in the room of Mr.
Burnt O'BRIEN ; but the Howe of Commons left
it to a court of justice to inquire whether that
gentleman had committed an act of high tiesmateld
did not declare him no longer a member of their
until be had been convicted in due form other.
the proc edings spinet WlLxrs, recorded in the
warning peps of history, we question both the
expediency and the justice of allowing the Home
of Commons to expel any members for misoonduct
which hes not subjected them to conviction Is
a regular court of law for an infamising MEW.
And we question both the expediency and
justice of allowing the Home of Commas to
constitute itself • court of justice to try its mem-
bers for private donate. The assumption of such
powers by the house might easily be perverted into
an engine of political prouriptioa against a minor Ty.
Tee House of Commons, however, saw fit to receive
the petitions, though we scarcely anticipate that it
will take any action upon them. Certain members of
the house delicately insinuated to the parties incul-
pated that it might be advisable for them to say a
word or two in exculpation ; and the house, by listen-
ing to them and the petitions, tacitly sanctioned the
recommendation. In the case of Mr. HUDSON this
meld obviously lead to nothing. He was necessarily
tied down to the subject immediately before the
house, the spree. complaints of certain share-
holders in the Eastern Counties Railway. Bat these
shareholders do not speak with the warrant of the
company, nor do they state the whole of the allega-
tions made spinet Mr. HUDSON by the company.
Further, the conduct attributed to Mr. Moment in the
management of that Company's affairs is, with regard
to his character, but a part of his complicated opera-
tions in eonnectioa with a great number of railways.
Nothing that Mr. HUDSON could my on Thursday
night could possibly exhaust the charges brought
against him, or set him right with the public. The
same may be said to a Imited extent of the expla-
nations of his late colleagues. They could only
speak to imputations on their probity, emanating
from the few petitioning individuals. great body
of shareholders in the Eastern Cuunties were not in
the field ; there was no statement of their case made
by their authority, or to which they could be tied
down.
It short, the scene enacted in the Home of Commons
en Thursday night has very moth the appearance of
having b. en got up to save appearances. The peti-
tioners and the parties petitioned against exchanged
shots, as timorous duellists have been known to do
under the auspices of friendly seconds, who took are
that there should be no balls In the pistols. The &desis-
tence of such an arrangement, if any, was all on the
side of the ex-directors. They were only called epos
to meet the angry and unconsidered charges of
rash adversaries; and if ultimately there shall
chance to be no judicial investigation of their conduct,
they may hereafter sesame the airs of injured inno-
once, and say they openly met in the legislature the
sceusetiors openly brought against them. And
whether inn vent or guilty, respectable society—and,
above all, ari-tocratic society—will deem this a suffi-
cient ground for opening its same to receive them,
provided they come out of the 'Erie with money in
their pockets.
Bevy man of common sense sees that the receed-
Urge of Thursday evening leave matters exactly as
they read before. Of Mr. Beosnew we say nothing:
his part is a very subordinate and inconsiderable one.
Mr. He Dense has merely criticised some of the figures
in the report of the Enters Counties committee of
investigation. Now, with respect to Mr. Hopson,
the as stands thus. On the 16th of February last,
a motion was made at the statutory meeting of the
Midlands, for a committee of investigation into the
condition of the company's affairs. Mr. HUDSON, the
chairman, opposed the motion ; imputed all sorts of
improper 'actives to the mover and seconder; de-
clared that he would consider its being carried as a
vote of censure; and bad it rejected, only two hands
being held up for it. On the 20th of February, how-
ever, a similar motion was carried in the statutory
meeting of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Mr.
HeDSON not opposing, but offering to make
a considerable sacrifice in order to avert,
it. Ou 28th of February, a similar
motion was carried with only two dissentient velem
in the statutory meeting of the Eastern Ossanthis,
Mr. HUDSON bending before the storm, reflisimg te
appear, and sending in his resignation as &shade.
On toe 24th of April the Eastern Counties Oset-
mitts* of Inquiry published their report, in
which Mr. 'Hu mos is gravely inculpated.
On the 4th of May the report of the com-
mittee of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick
appeared, in which the charges against Mr. HUDSON
are declared to be substantiated; end he resigned his
office of chairman in consequence. A meeting of the
shareholders in the York and North Midland is to be
held on the 24th instant, and already, in anticipation
of that event, Mr. Hopson has • the",
chairmanship. We do not propose at present to
enter into the details of the accusations brought
by these various bodies against Mr. HUDSON; it is
enough to state that, if true, they are part and parcel
of a gigantic system of operations persevered in for
years by him and others confederated with him. So
grave an impeachment at the bar of public opinion (if
nowhere else), partially confirmed as it is by Mr.
HUDSON'S successive resignations of the poets be
occupied, is not to be tuned off by a side wind.
If Mr. HUDSON'S speech in the lime of Commons
on the presentation of the petitions against him is un-
satisfactory, Mr. WADDINGTON'S was infinitely more I
so. At an adjourned meeting of the Eastern Counties
on the Ist of March, he threw Mr. HUDSON over-
board altogether; talked of him in a most damaging
style of innuendo, and for his reward was
honoured with three cheers at the close
of the pr:ceedings, while the mention of Mr. HUD-
sores name was the ripe for three groans. When
examined before the company's committee of inquiry,
Mr. WADDINGTON'S evidence bore hardest a all
against Mr. HUDSON, though this did not save him
at the meeting d the 10th inst. from an ample share
of the suerauons vented against his former oelleepe.
But ea Thursday night Mr. WADDINGTON, when bee
to face with Mr. HUDSON, backed out of ens of the
most important items of his charge sesiast bin.
" The hon. member having denied it, I have nothing
further to say on the subject." The prescriptive and
proverbial character of those parties who turn King's
evidence will not suffer in Mr. WADDINOTON's hands.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—YeatOrday (Friday)
mains as adjourned easing of h 1 committee of this ion
tulles was held at the Bearimms, Partagal.strest,
esla's-ina lklda. Soma reads, bagasse having bees
disposed of, the secretary 'unattested that the subscriptions
sad donations oa the memiat of the ansimmary festival, as
Saturday Lat, ansouated to the handsome Mad of
2.0981. Si. W., Winding a liberal aollection made by the
pupils of King's Goners School, and forwarded by the Moe.
Dr Major. It was also stated that a large mamas had pre.
Mouly been subscribed by the students, as well as the pupils,
sot only of the college itself, bat from some of the sehosis
In monexion with it.
SW:GOMM) TOBACCO Is BcTrEa.—An ussumas
cue of asaugglina was detected yesterday monsing at the
Custom home. A ease of Data batter, ia the usual else
rdle, was entered for duty, and the Miters of the Customs
"rasa it to sacertaia the contents, which to all appearances
was sethfutory ; but upoa pluMag ate of the rolls the la•
strameat was obstructed by some herd subsume, and, on the
odious matting into the butter, loud a scull tin moister of
tobacco embedded in each top, Tame were in all about 100
rolls.

FRANKFORT, KAT DS.
There a•e eetirely dirinct patties in the movement
which has begun is Germany. In the fir.t place,
there is the party of the kings, their friends and
domestics. The cow t aid cabinet of Prussia afford

'1 HE COURT.

the best sample of this party. Toe king himself
affcc ing bio words about German good faith
( Deutseher Treue), while he betrays every b'dy in
tern, is the type of those feeble character who flatter
themselves they ere strong and energetic, when they
are merely brutal and devoid of ooesecietce in their
dealings with those who fer the time have no means
of defence. The Count of Brandenburg. an illegiti-
mate scion of royalty, is narrow-minded and nn-
idesod—a man who but foe his equivocal connexion
with the royal family would certainly never
have risen to any higher appointment than
that of a subaltern in the guards. He is a
perfect specimen of Prussian JusekertAsues—of that
woolens destitute of elevation of noel, that aristqcracy

which bus no higher ambition thaii to shine by cox-
oombry in dress and brisk frivolity of manner. M.
von Manteuffel is a man of distinction, and represents
the Prussian bureaucracy. He has neither extended
views nor elevated sentiments; but he is a practical
man, never looks further than he thinks be c iu reach,
and possesses all the energy requir4 to surmount the
obstacles, great or small, he may encounter on his'
way M. von Manteuffel in his person is very like''
the Emperor Napoleon, and perhaps be is of the stuff I
of which great men are made. The Prussian diplo
macy is probably even more than the army the vita
principle of the government, end Manteuffel is the
men to keep it working. Wrangel is a
brutal soldier, dietinguished only by his courage
and his ignorance. He obeys blindly his king,
and any one who commands his king. If the cabi-
net of Berlin consisted only of the parties I have
named, and especially if M. Von Manteuffel exercised
a preponderating influence over his associates, all,
would, likely, go well; fur then its efforts would be
energetically &meted to an end of poeible attain-
ment. But this is not the case. The King of Protei
sin is a kind of dilettante in the art of reigning and
governing ; even if left to himself, he would be con-
tinually
committing blunders which it would be im-
possible for Manteuffel to repair. But this dilettante
King, diplomatist, and statesman, has fail n into the
bands of another who rules over him despotically—l
speak of M. Von Radow:tm Radowits is one of the
most remarkable men you can meet with. There
are sparkles of genius in everything he saye.
lie is profound in his observations, and
possesses eloquence after the fashion of the
ancients, who led their hearers insensibly to
the point they swished, and obliged them to give
in to them after an obstinate resi-t.nce. Bat with all
these high qualities Radowits is romantic and fantas-
tic, full of the ideas of the middle ages, regarding
constituted authority u a kind of divine incarnation,
power as something self-generated, and not as we
ordinary mortals of the 19th century consider it, the
result of a good and regular government oontribu log
to the greatest possible happiness of the rutted pos
sible number of citizens. I will not take upon me to
assert that in all his romanticism, all his fsntsatie
notions, all his middle-age ideas, Radowits Is
sincere at battorn ; but there is no questies
that in all his 'nays and speeches, he plays
the part of a devoted champion of autho-
rity, of the powers that be. It may be that
this deep thinker only embraces these o;,init,no to
flatter the prepossessions of the King of Prussia.
This is the more likely, because it is certain that the
ultimate objects of M. von Radowitz are not to serve
the King of Prussia. He is not a Prussian—not even
a German, fur he is a countryman of K. s-uth ; bathe
1e also a jesnit—re ally a jesuit—alimb of the order of
Loyola. As such he assuredly seeks to lead the
King of Prussia, not to the end which the King him-
self his in view, but to that which the Jesuit and his
i
order
urine. This M. von Radowits, who is con-
reindispensable at the Court of Berlin, will be
the eon to ruin everything there. The jeuits are
Mrs vellum, and never fail to flock thither where
they scent corpses. There were jeanits of the Stuarts
—Jesuits of the Capita—Jesuits of the Hohenzol-
Urns ! M. Von Rsdowitz arrived at Paris a few days
before the fall of Luis Philippe, and left it to pay a
visit to Metternkh. Before quitting Paris he wrote
he Berlin that the throne of Louis Philippe was sa
Inn as if it were founded on a rock. Before ho
embed Vienna this rock had crumbled away, and
IL Von Itadowitz had scarcely time to feel astonished
at his mistake, when the people rose and drove his
friend Metternich out of Vienna. This man is at
present all-powerful in Berlin, and that will be
enough, in my mind, to ruin the Prussian cabinet,
which, after all, could net be saved even though
there were no M. Von. Radowits there.
I wished to sketch the other two parties alga, but
to-day I have no time for the task. Toe constitutional
petty and the republic= party divide the ground,
overegainst the royalist party, very unequally between
them. Taking Germany as a whole, there may be
about 5 republicans to every 100 constitutionalists.
The 100 would therefore be secure of victory were
the struggle only between them and the republicans.
But unluckily a republican need only show himself on
the field to make all the conetitntionalists take to
their heels. It was thus at Dresden and Leipzig; the
constitutionalists would not fight side by side with
the republicans, and the latter of course were beaten.
But had they conquered, the defection of the consti-
tutionalists would have enabled them to give the law.
In the south of Germany—in Baden and Rhenish Ba-
varia—the republican party is the more numerous,
and all our intelligence represents it as having the
upper hand. The war between monarchy and the
republic) has begun ; it will be long and bloody, and
no sue can foretel on which side will be the victory.

RIPRESIOFfATION OF SOUTH &SM.—We are
thorned to sins An tin report, espied into our paper of
Wednesday from illo Esau Herold, that Sir B. N. Buxton
Wads to retire teem the representation of South Bases is
milk* without ibusdation.
TZUNDUSTOIIMS AND DESTRUCTION OF PRO
hdlg.—On Thmalay Meadiester was visited by the most
Semi& thandeaftra which has beta felt for spy years.
was the atmosphere wilt electricift, and so
wen the awls of the lightning, that a portion
of the wain bakeglas to the vrareloosesel the la's Doke
• aurgaw:s tants were oompletely stripped, and the
heemsdialammi to pleas. Several nab also in the ism-
lfeellegthritood were struck by the lightning, but
little nanny was done, end no lives
were kat, though some severe injuries have been
Bight men were stack to the floor in
the Bridgwater warehouses, bat were not injured.—
On M y, donne a tempest which passed over Cam
badman» and Suffolk, while the flock of sheep, containing
about 14 soon, of H. Wilms, BK., of Stowlaupteft, near
Bury St. Edmund's, were retuning to the fold, they rested
seeder ea mit tree during_ the rain, and the shepherd ran
home for his eat. He had net left the fink more than a
minas what Were was a snit vivid flash of lightning and
a %remissness clap of Moaner. Fancying that the flock
might have sustained injury, be turned round, and saw a
groat number of them !snag one ear the other. Oa making
at ease lamas, he Lead that 21 of the animals had been
killed on tie spot, sad one wee needy dead ,• the others
got away, sad appealed to have received little injury,
though some of then lad their goats singed. The tree re-
ceived only partial damage, its trunk haying about six inches
of bark all the way down stripped off, and a few of the arms
slightly barked.
PAUPER lUmfOlanou.—On Frady the steamer
' Londonderry, from Ireland, strived at the lower quay, Glas-
gow, with a misallaneous ciargo, part of it cementing of en
importation of Irish paupers. Oat of from 300 to 400 satr-
aps matogen, who crowded the decks of the steamer, folly
• third part, at a very moderate calculation, were in each a
wretched condition. both as to apparel and physical strength,
that the idea of their ever supporting themselves by the
labour of their own hands, is entirely eut of the question. I
The attention of parties on the quay wee excited by the
wretched eppearanee presented by the majority of the linter-
tante individuals, who, immediately aft. r landing, weeded
thew way in scores to the t' Seagate" and Saltmaricet,
from thane, no doubt, in the majority of instances, to issue
forth 'umlaute of chanty ; and where, at some future time,
they will become, in all probability, pensioners on the public
bounty. Oa this subject a letter has been written by Mr.
Bashtoo, the re , of Liverpool, to Sir G. Grey,l3art ,
dated April 21,117,411 it has been printed, on the motion
of Mr. Cardwell, M.P. It represents to the home secretary
the resulns of the Irish immigration into Liverpool, and
suggests measures calculated to lemon the burden on the
public resources of the bermes and parish of Liverpool. The
accumulation of a vast number of halt naked end destitute
Isiah in that crowded commercial town has not only imposed
additional burdens on the townspeople, but infected the place
with a wet malignant pestilence. As a rem• dy for this
crying nuisance, Mr. Rushton recommends an extension of
the proaeions of the act for the removal of Irish paupers, so
se to render all Irish persons oace removed to Ireland uneer
the powers of that act who again return to England and
there beano chargeable, liable to punishment as rogues end
vseabemk, wad the limitation of the number of deck pae-
INSireft breedht in steamers fano Ireland.
FIRS SIAN BRADFORD.—On Thursday a fire broke
it in the woolhoose at the Upper Globe Mill in Mann
ham, Bradford. Engines were promptly on the spot, mad
the ravages of the fire wereanfined to the building in which
they were first discovered. The damage is estimated to so-
wn 2001 The mischief is supposed to have been occasion.
by the spontaneous eembastion of some greasy wol.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1849.

The Queen, neorimpanied by her Royal Highness the
Princess Augustus of ti-se Cobourg Goths, the Priam o•
Welts, and the Princess Alia, took an airing in an open
carriage and four yesterday. General Wemyss attended on
horseback.
His Royal Highnese the Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-
' Col. the Hon. C. B Phipps, and Lient..Col. the Hon.
Alexander Gordon, left town at half-peat 10 o'clock yester-
day meanie& for the Royal Military College at Sandhurst,
to attend the examination of the gentlemen cadets. His
Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palate at twenty
Awe minutes past 6 c'elook.
His Royal Highness Prince George visited her Majesty
yesterday at Beeltinghant Palace.
Prince Alfred, the Prisons Royal, the Prise= Helena,
and the Princess Louisa, took their usual exercise yesterday
in the reyal girders.
Her Wesel and Prince Albert, moompanied by the
Prises and Princess Augustus of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, ho-
noured the French Plays with their presume yesterdaiezt-
ing. The Royal suite cioesieted of the Countess of)
the Burt of Morten, General Wears, and Ltent..Cokinel
the lion. Alexander Gordon. Her Royal Highness •he
Brehm of Kent also honoured the performance of the
French Plays last evening with her prance. Her Royal
Highness was attended by Lady Augusta Brace, Lady
Fanny Howard, and Sir George Coupes..

Lord Portman had an interview with the Right
Hon. H. Labonehere yesterday at the office of the Boyd of
Trade.
Mr. French had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday at his official residence in Drweioc•street.
Despatches from the Governor of Van Diemen's
Land were received yesterday at the Colonial-0111m.
Despatches were sent off last evening from the
CeSonial-Office for the Governors of the North American
colonies.

OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Her
Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance at this
theatre with their presence last sealing. Their Serene
Highnesses the Prince Augustus end the Princess of Coburg
amompanied her Majesty. The &qui suite comprised the
Countess of De sert, the Earl of MorP.n, Colonel Gorden, and
Kent, Weicyss. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
ent attended by Lady Augnsta Bruce, Lady Fanny How-
ard, and Sir George Coupe,. also honoured the theatre with
nee. presence. We observed also in the boles and stalls his
Royal Highness the Duke of Brunswick, the Duch. ss of
Lords, the Countess of P.m:. Lady Blantyre, Min Swart
and Miss Ann Mackenzie, the Bsil of Hilemony, Lord and
Lady Poltinsore, Lord Brougham, Count and Conntesa de
Magri:, Baron Eugene de Oirlache, Sir F. Trench, Sir G.
and Miss Talbot, Lady Jodrell, Chevalier Drouet.

(Frees lett night's Gazette.)
COMMISSIONS STONED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
OP LINCOLIIISIIIII3.-0. H. T. d'Eynooort, 13.. q 0.8. Lis
ter, Rig., G Bkipwortb, E.q., and C. Fardell, Es., to be
Derity-Litu.enants.
ClinllssioNE SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
or LANABSIIIII3 —Lieut. G. Baird, to be captain ; D.
Smith, gent., to be lieutenant ; G. Lowden, gent., to be
cornet, in the Glasgow:and Lower Ward of Laaarkshim Teo.
raaary Cavalry.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT
or MoNTOOMMITSIIIIII.—Cornet D. Jones to be lieutenant,
W. D. Hewson, gem., to be cornet, is the Montgomeryshire
Yeomanry Cavalry Regiment.

FINANCIAL AND
lAMENTARY REFORM.

MEETING OF THE COLEMAN - STREET,
CHEAP, AND BASSISSHAW WARDS.
List evening a numerous and respectable meeting
of gentlemen connected with these wards was had in
Mason's hall, Basinahallstrut, to receive a deputation from
the council of the Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentai y
R -form Associatioa, and form a I imlar association for the
district. W. Linwood, E•q., attended u a deputation from
the e until.
Mr. W. G. SEED having been called to the chair, the
following resolutions were agreed to by acclamation :
" That, feeling that the House of Commons does not at
present represent the tax-paying millions, and that the un-
rival and exorbitant burdens imposed by the present system
of taxation may be regarded as effects of class legislation,
this meeting is of opinion that such an extension of the
franchise as will secure a fall ml fair representation of the
peop:e in the Commons House of Parliament, is necessary,
bith for the vindication of justice, and the attainment of
economy, in the regulation of the public expenditure."
Tnat, with the view to the sccempli'bment of financial
and p elementary reform, it is resolved to form an mooch'
don, to be called ' The Coleman street, Cheap, and Basis-
slum Financial and Parliamentary Reform Anxieties, to
co-operate with all associations throughout the kingdom in
every legal and constitutional endeavour on behalf of vs-
trenchment and retorts, and that the gentlemen present
constitute the onamittes of the said association, with power
to add to their number."
" That this meeting very cordially sympathises with the
Metropolitan Financial and Parliamentary Reform Asetreis
tins, and pledgee itself u so-operate with its council in their
efforts to obtain progressive reform."
" That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to the
council of the Metropolisn Financial and Parliamentary
Reform Association, for sending a deputation to these wards,
and to William Linwood, Esq., their representative, for the
eloquent and able manner in which he has explained to them
the objects of the association."
After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting
separated.

MEETING IN LEICESTERSHIRE.
A meeting of farmers was veld at Loughborough on
Thursday afternoon to consider the beet mode of bringing
before parliament the present agricultural distress.
Mr. WOOD, a surgeon, who occupied a small farm, moved
that a petition founded upon the resolutions be presented to
both houses of .parliament, end in doing so took occasion to
condemn the calling of harsh names, he., and recom-
mended the farmers to try what they could do for them-
selves in the way of improved cultivation.
E. B. FARNHAM, Elq., one of the tory representatives
of the division of the county is which Lougnboreugh is
situate, admitted that the malt tax wss oppressive, but
thought there were difficulties at the present time which
p led the government dispensing with the revenue pro-
duced by it. He was of opinion that no good would be dune
until they had a reviaion and a reduction of the public ex-
penditure of the country.
This announcement was received with loud applause; and
several expressions were made use of to the effect that go-
vernment must be compelled to carry oa affairs with less
taxation.

MEETING AT WREXHAM. 1
On Wednesday hat, a respectable and crowded I
meeting was held in the ancient Town-hall, Wrexham.
Mr. EDGEWORTH, being called to the chair, warned 1
the meeting that an attempt would be made to return to ,
protection, and read a letter, published in a Cloister
paper, signed by Mr. Leach, a Cheshire landowner,
eurioisly claiming protection to the land because
the country was over-taxed, bat deelarieg that
he could not see how any material redaction could be made
in the amount of that over-taxation. He then introduced
Mr. Prentice as an earnest labourer for the repeal of the
of
laws, and who would show them a vary great reduction of
taxes could be made in the public expenditure.
Mr. PRENTICE, in the course of an address of an hour
and a halts length, made a particular reference to the county
of Denbigh, and stated his belief, from what he had heard,
that, with due etiolation to the registration, members
might be returned to represent the interests and the
ittellect of the country and pledged to a sweeping,
bat prrfectly safe sad easily practicable reduction of
the public expenditure, and, consequently, of the public bur.
these.
G. GRIFFITHS, Es q., attar • few remarks on the nem-
sity of diminishing greatly the amount of taxation, moved
—" That this meeting having heard with auk plume the
able address delivered by Mr. Prentice, pledgee itself to use
Its beat exertions during the short period yet remaining be-
fore the 20th July to improve the state of the registerr the
borough and county of Denbigh."
The motion was carried unanintondy, end a vote of thanks
to the chairman having been proposed and carried by accla-
mation, the meeting was dissolved.

METROPOLITAN FINANCIAL AND PARLIA- ;
MENTARY REFORY ASSOCIATION.
The council of this association have issued the
following address. They coagratolate their fellow-reformers
upon the somas which has followed the first efforts to esta-
blish a powerful political combination for the constitutional
redress of great public grievances.
" In the impending contest between the advocates of a
searching reform in the administration of the large sums
annually raised from the labour and property of the country,
i and the upholders of a system which favours the few at the
cost a the millions, the important, of strength enias public
opinion through the medium of an organised body which
unites reformers of all grades of opinion is too obvious to
require c,mment. The council believe that at so period of
the history of the country have the eels of this system
roved so intolerable in their pressure, or so ruinous in their
influence upon the well-being of the people, as at this mo-
ment ; and a long experi,nce ha shown bew hopeless it is to
look for relief from either of thewso gnat partme in whom
for centuries the governing po bee
been alt mutely
reeve!.
"Satisfied that no material diminution of the public bur-
den., nor any a :usable improvement in the ands of their it-
portion, will or can take place until the Hans of Osallecas
is made a more faithful reflex of the opiates, eras, isi lo-
Wrests of the people at large, the mesa& here esimmined
that the means aod energise of the amedetims sbell in the
first instance be directed to the allaneelmt of es anima
reform of our representative
" That reform will consist Orr: smil as entrallna d tim
suffrage a will confer the right hobs wilampi se ma 'berme
up s every man of full age, not sabjestae may kpidlesWity.
who for twelve months shall have complied may teremelne. et
portion of a tenement, for which he sball be reds of dial
ream%
have claimed to be rated, to the relief elite peer LOSSleldb
the adoption of the 'system of Wing WO ; third'', the
[ limitation of the duration of In three man'y and.
fourthly, such a change in e arrangement of the electoral

districts as shall produce a more equal apportionment of
mons, Matins to omsdruents.
" The extent and character of the proposed reforms have
been the result of earneet end deliberate eenaidaration.
They are retarded as meteors' calculated to ensure the sr
sent and support of that great body of the middle and pro-
&wile* clam a, through whose combined inesenes the great
el &cgs in clif repreeentative instituti,ms took place in 1832.
"The council believe that no class of their fellow chinas is
more deeply interested in the speedy and peseeful seems.
pliehment of the reform now proposed then theaters wealthy,
whose p winos se.d pnperty can be endangered by nothing
so seriotely as by `
of',mimed reddest* to the juat and
wederato dminthl s large majority et the people ; and
therefore it is th.t the co operation of all amen is most
enilously invited for the accomplishment of the proposed
change while there is yet tines to effect it with that calm
dignity which ought to pervade the legislation of this great
country."