The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

the geneni estraweasse at the pattesezpenditann eat the eo. me-
ga.= eg mom ingeeneeniethig.dimentent, gad threat, slag res-
soden lasi the pellthsi arm waged as fa the essetres
teed. the ersibleatiga the OM. and w shoo. ho tee
setelemesst eft!, nesse adusatat bribe paitimmam.
eery end Mensisl Reform Aesedslies a sear et mamma. less
poem* te the state.
He thought that every mss should have • reason for eater-
ies bete any sort of agitatioa ; sad he should now premed
to obiw them what his urea was for supporting the present
atuesseet. Pegbege be might be allowed to say, as an old
ishabiteat sad telemeer Odes berwaell of Lambeth, that he
wee wail dg died three agitations. lie had bees en-
ema& in emerges agitations—ea •that for the Reform Bill,
3n that kw the pears y postage, and in that for the repeal of
the earn Leos—sadhe must repeat that he shined be glad
when thus agitations pseud. They talked of tranquillity.
He asked when should,they have been during the »vole-
rosary storms which had swept over the Continent if the)
had not already seined some instalment of parliamentary
reform ? where during the short goadags of the put harvest
if we had not been enabled to obtain corn from other wan.
tries ? (Cheers) Instead of the great mass of the people
being satisfied, he believed that the very greatest diseatioar
don existed at the wee of the franchise, and the want of any
due control over the expenditure of the country. (Cheers.)
/houwere there in eons• questa the treatment which the
of Messrs. Cob.. sad Hume had experienced in
the Howe of Cowman,
foest of 658 members, there
woes wily 70 er 00 who were nd to support them. Did
they with to wait until that dimatisfeetion found its expres-
sion ? Wattl Why, that was what M. Geis. and Prince
Metteraisit had doge- They waited, and what had
bees the result? (Cheers) If thou men had pro
posed, as they ought to have dose, timely reforms to
their respective countries, they would have bun spared
the scenes which they had already gone through, and which
might be still in store for them. (Loud Miters ) On the
watery, they disregarded the interests of the people over
whom they were appointed to rale, and they now saw the re- ,
evelt. Lord J.Ruesell, in his speech the other aight,aff,cted to
iaquire whether they wished to imitate thou countriy, and
to reduce Ragland to a state of siege. One of the statesmen
to whom he had alluded was reported to have expressed his
sunglasses. that the system on which he ruled could not
last beyond his own time ; but surely that very consciousness
should have spoken trumpet-tongued against Weems system.
(Hear.) The notions of this sureiation, on the contrary,
were strictly conservative; they desired to destroy no
dynasty; they sought to overturn no goverament, to subvert
no institutions. (Cheers.) Their aim WWI surely to pre
serve, by perfectiar, those institution width already existed.
(Cheers.) Why did they set se much store by floanand sa-
fer= but that they looked upon it as the means to an sad—
and that end, good government? (Cheers.) The diminution
of taxation was no doubt • great good. The evils of taxation
were palpable to all, bat the extent to which taxation, even
direct wades, premed upon the multitude, WIN not perhaps
evident to It was Lord Castlereagh who spoke of the
" ignorant impatience of taxation"—(a laugh) ; out he asked
what would that " ignorant impatience" amount to if the
effects of taxation were not ea easefully concealed Item the
public view ? He asked that meeting wheelies they
did not thick that Mr. Bright, after two such speseies as
he had recently made, was net better fitted to be the weeis•
ter of this country than men y of those who were pat gip re
reply to him? (Cheers, and enthusiastic erica of " Yes.")
He towels:laed of no indivi 'nal, but he did onsplain of the
present profuse expenditure ; and if he were asked where
be proposel to atop, be should say, stop nowhere whilst
any good remains to b- obtained. (Cheers.) Tun was
so such thing se finality in humus affairs—the Law of nature
was the law of progress—man was but an atom in the law of
the universe, and when he ceased to peogress he ceased to
islet. (Chows.) Judging front a passagespeech re-
medy delivered by Lord John Rumen he thought he had
gime right to claim him u one of them. (A laugh.) His
lerdebip said, "There is nothing in the Reform Act—nothing
la any opinion I have ever held, or in any opinion I hold
sow, which would debar me from seeing with sadist adios
say plan by which the admission of the working classes
could be still further extended, and the basis
widened upon which the representation rests." Now,
why, after such a vetch, Lard J. Russell did not
support Mr. Hume s motion the other night ha did not
know.
Mr. RUNT seconded the resolution with great pleasure.
He cold assure the meeting that no one was more sincere is
I the promotion of this object than hissalf. In feet, he was
nearly wens out in that cause.
Mr. C. PEARSON, M.P., next pressoted himself, and
was received with tremendous applause. He said: I pre-
sent myself before you this evening in the double capacity of
one of the Council of th Reform Association and as one of
the representatives of this borough. The Chairman has ex-
plained to you the preolse *Meets of the association. They are
orieribed in lour untsomm drawn up with great terseness by
Our Lancashire friend% men of business, who by means of
the Anti-Corn Law L ague won for the people of Engle• d,
free trade, and who are bound to carry out the principles of
tree trade, or they sill he justly chargeable witn brieging a
large portion of the community under drficultir s resulting
from frt. trade. (Hear, hear) This aseceialon is intended
to promote a reform in parliament and embraces bur prin-
ciples : the first is described to be the extend in of the
suffrage within certain dr finite limits—the traits of the
witted empanel either of a dwelling, or a part .f a dwell-
ing. Now, let me ask whether there is within the
four corners of the nation a single boron th in which there
who demand the ballot are less selfishly disposed thar, in
this ? Why was it that, at the last end the previous elec-
tions, you were enabled to choose as your representatives
those whom you thought were most fitted to represent you
honestly and fearlessly, without being persecuted and
trampled on by those who call themeelv-s your superiors?
(Hear.) It was simply because they knew you possessed an
independent spirit, and b cause you were too nuttier ins to
be brought under such intimate. (Cheers.) When is it
that landlords are enabled to tyrannies over tenants, nr cue.
'omen to tyrannise over shopkespers ? Landlords CIA
tyrannise over tenants when the 'polio.. for the t nannies
are more numerous then the houses the landlords hue to
let. (Hear, hear) Why, gentlemen, how absurd is our
present law of qualifi-ationf r members—for English mem-
bers of parii•m-ne. A Scotch member wants no qualifica-
tion at all. (Hear, hear.) A Highluder need not rinses
even a pair of breeks to qu ilify him for the House of Com-
mons. (Cheery, and much laughter.) The smallest amount
of what would be cote-idered inditreenesble in sa English
grumbly, is not neeemary for a Sutchenan to possess to
qualify him to take his seat in parliament. But with this law
of map rty qualification it may be asked, why did you elect
me? Did you rapt, eie I was encumbered with wealth?
(Hear, hear.) The whole history of my life con radices that
supposition. Wh I have has been in spite of expenditure,
not in consequence of saving. If I may be allowed to say it,
I have been too good, to) free a man to be possYsed of
much wealth. But when you elected me to the House of
Cosmos', I believe, when I took my seat, that I presented
a better qualification then one-half who sit there. I gave
my own houses in St. Jim es-park, and Ito k tholes out
of my pocket 3,0001. w.,rth of Exchequer Bill., and mid to
the clerk, " Put it in as part of my qualification that I have
lent the government 3.0001." I put back there Exchequer
Bills into my pocky, but how long I kept them there those
who know more of me than you do will readily gum..
The CHAIRMAN hen intimated that Mr. Pearson,
having a duty to perform in the House of Commute, to sup
port the Parliamentary Oaths Bill, for enabling Jews when
elected to sit as members of the house, which was on for
the Sed readieg that evening, he was about to leave.
A person in the body of the muting wished to ask the
hen, member a question b-fore he left. He (the speaker)
was a working man, and he woke as one Mr. Peareen
at
his eked. had prom'sed to engage the Victoria Theatre to
meet his oonstiturt to, and to give them an annual amount.
He had net den. so, thereto,* he bed told a falrehood.
("Oh, ho.") W m the hon. gentleman's parent promise to
resign his seat if called anon at the end of the third yr ar, to
be taken in the mu sense ? (" Oh," and cheers.)
Mr. PEARSON reminded the quellat that there were
pertain extiressions gentlemen could not listen to mach less
answer. (Cheers.)
The preen replied that his apology must be that he
was a working man, and therefore not used to speak other
than plainly what he meant,
Soma confusion here ensued, many pumas calling on the
hon. member not to offer any explanation, while others
insisted to know why the promised annual account had not
bees readmit
The CHAIRMAN hoeing sutheeded in restoring order,
observed that the question which had been asked wee
irrelevant to the basin.se of the meeting—but se the hon.
member for Lambeth did net object to mews? it. end as
many otitis aonstituents would nn doubt wish to beer the
answer, he (the chairman) would give him the opportunity
of Meier the required exp'anation.
Mr. PEARSON admitted that he had not met hie sup-
porters last year at the Vittoria Theatre, it wafters, but he
should be happy to do so next year. when the a-el./miry of
his election wain came round. (Hear, hear.) There had
been such a lull lest ymr in political matters that he did not
like to incur the chance of playing " a beggarly areolthe to
empty boxee," and, therefore, had not put trowel/ to 201
expellee in engaging the th• atre for the purpose—bat if the
gentleman who asked the gaud. would nature him a good
house next year he would remise that the house should be
engaged. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the other ques-
tion, whether there was likely to be any lire of menory—
he hoped be might he allowed so to Bail it—(hear, and a
langti)—with regard to his prom's* to vacate his vat
should his constituents withdrew from him their enefidence,
his answer wee, that he wished to be their nivreentative
may se km, as he possessed the fall goolidenee of the oleo-
ten. (Hoar.)
'The hoe. gentleman then retired.
Mr. DOULTON, in the few obserreinns he wee about to
make, would not long detain the meeting. He feared that
they were lee likely now to get just., from the House of
Commons than when whir... sad WOWS were in rank
. Now both parties were united, and their great
vet war to swamp all the privflesee of the people. (war.
hear.) He rejoiced that this association had been formed,
bemuse he looked upon it as ululated to unite ~e 1 honest
reformers in the effort to obtain the franchise. There
wee no use going to the House of Commons, for although
there were some good men there they were swamned
W the tyrant mahwity. He recommended evF ry
person permit to this the Freehold i and Sudety.
Mr. T. COOPER said he was aim lively in Inv* with
many of the speeches he had heard. bat he *veld net sat
quite so gnat for the nesiedges. Hemet say that he ad-
mired muck more the tome Odle speabers than the objects
set before the meeting. Heald est mama es areas any die-
uthea, but, as a °huddle'. had gild ter his 'Added I
creed, he should not feel Judaea if he tIM ass phial, ex-
press
his opinion. The 70110111 HORS said nothing about the
abolition of the property qualifisatirea. (The Chairman ex-
=that he had referred to it is his speech.) He was
glad of it, sad eared nothing about the paymeat of
members, as, if he was in outlaws% he thought he Auld
be ebbe to ewe his living. (A laugh.) With reaps. to the
1 resolution for triennial parliaments he eoald not my musk.
as differed with all who bad spokow ao alb parley of oa-

avenging the tearklas teen to buy freeholds. He did not
lok tor success in that quarter. (Dissent.) He wind how
sere the nerving stockinet en of Nottingham and 1., inner,
and it.. distremel es of Preston, who were starving,
famishing, every generation weaker than the last, how were
they to purchase lend' It made him indignant to be told
that the puthase of land was ths only ri ad to the franchise
He for one would never buy land to obtain the franchise;
neither would he advise a man of his order to do so. (A
voice—" How else are we to get it) " Loud °been.) Bow
did they wan to money to purchase this land? (A
winking man—" We will save it from the gin.shop "
Great sheering.) He did not wish to breed disunion. (Hear,
hear.) The men of London might get it, but how was it
with the men of many of the manufacturing towns ?
A Person on the platform (whose name we understood
was Townsend) advised the working classes to hold beck
until they saw the rights of labour recognised. He for one
would not advise them to trust the middle climes too far.
(Interruption.) If the working claws did not look to them-
selves they were sure to be deceived by the middle chosen
The Rev. J. BURNET said that he had been requested
to offer a few remarks to the consideratiou of the meeting in
connection with the objets that had brought them all to.
'ether. He would say with regard to the resolution that
complained of the pressure of taxation and the extravagant
expense' of give cement, that although he regarded govern-
ment as one of Um most important features of society, as,
in fact, an ordinance of heaven and a necessity of the earth,
and although be believed that no community amid exist
without it, yet still he thought they were justified in ez•
pectins such government reasonably cheap. (Hear and
cheers.) It was not because en article was really veuable
that it was to be over-paid for. (H-ar, hear.) Govereasest
was no doubt a very valuable article, but there was norm
why theoutlay should be beyond all proportion to the vales.
Nay more; he was satisfied that a reasonably cheap govern-
ment would bas better and more efficient than an overpaid one.
(Hear, hear.) An overpaid government would multiply offi-
cials, increase salaries, and extend its patronage by all
sorts of irregular means. Lord John Russell might
soy, as he bad said in the House of Commons, that he was
taking a certain step, but not certainly in consequence of
anything that was going on out of doors—he was far above
being influenced by anything that went on out of doors, but
I he would pursue his own course within that house like
an independent statesman. Did Lord J. Russell think
that the constitution of the country was confined to
the inside of the House of Commis'. H. wished
Ibis lordship would de all the work of the
oometlnitiim within its wells. Let him gather the
taxa within doors and not go beyond them for a giggle
peony of the 60,000,0001. of annual taxation, and be (Br.
Burnett) would give three cheers for the people within the
doors. (Cheery.) It was absurd for a British statemsaa to
talk in such a manner about " the people out of doors."
Toose were the persons who paid Lord John Russell his
s,lary—those were the persons who contributed the taxes of
the state—they were the peoph that tilled his lands for hiss,
and that ministered to his comfort and very being. Then-
fore, for a 'Woman to talk lightly of the people out cif
doors was the most unsafe, the most unsound, and the meet
Issuling policy that could be pursued. (Loud cheers.)
He called upon the meeting not to believe Lord Julia
Russell when he said that he did not care for any
thing out of doors. Let them consult his lova-
skip's own book os English government, where he ,
spoke of the thunder of the people beginning at Inverness
sad rolling on to the House of Commons, and added thet
mas minister of the crown dared to neglect that thunder. '
(Chan.)
The reeolution was then put from the chair and carried
asauintously.
Mr. THWAITES proposed the next resolution
Thatosems of the mast powerful mass tar the pinestal mona-
d dm grestekgsses new might to bsolliestskthe lietrop&
Sedan Meaed een-
nazism visit this ahead as it is title varied eselttons
and eiremstamossisissint dames ef the , Is ealcu-
lend to Welt gnat make noon •he of the immune
ever which its upends's§ la extend, that this swedes strongly
recommends every rehearse, whatever ble mews away he, to avail
himself nth. gnat advantages whisk this embeg
It might be asked how could he easeistently move a reso-
lotion such as that when he believed, as he did, that the
great and !moue question of the franchise could be
estisfactorily (study settled until they recognised the great
principle of manhood suffrage, by which alone they would
remove that bone of contention which at all events partially
interfered with the harmony of their public meetings, and
do justice to a large class of the community
that had 101 l
been ends led without the pale of the franchise. (Cheep
lie would very briefly give the reasons which induce
him cordially to move tl is ra solution. While
he held intact all his own former sentiments on
the question et the franchise, he did confess, as one who
had looked into the effw et and temper and tens of the public
mind, that unless some means one hit upon by which all
claws could unite in the accomplishment of that one primary
object they never would accomplish what they sought.
(Ciweers ) The middle classes might complain of the pres-
sure of =talon, and of their members not tsirly speaking
out their sentiments. The working classes alms might cons
plain that they were secluded from the franchise, but to
long as they kept apart and acted without union, the aris-
tocracy of the country would continue to ride over them
with rough shoe., and to laugh at all their barking. (Cheers.)
They car. d nothing for demonstrations at public meeting.
unless then were a symptom of union 'mange% all climes
that taxation had reached its height, and must be re-
duced. He held that all governments were the servants of
the people, and when servants became saucy they orght
to be dumissed. He wouldn't spent his time in trying to
educate Lord J. Russell in their views, but he would let the
people unite, and let them give a practical contradiction to
the insult which Lord J. Russell had passed on their repre-
sentative in the House of Common!, telling him with the itn-
pudei;c • which was peculiar to his class, that he—the man
who was destined at no distant day to take no mean part in
the government of this country—(cheera)--that he, and
those gentlemen with whom he acted, the cotton lords,
might be exceedingly shrewd and wise on subjects which
they understood, but that when they came into a political
atmosphere, and bad to deal with comprehensive questions,
they were narrow-minded and bigots I. (Laughter and
ironical cheers.) After some further obeervatieos recom
mendatory of scion between the middle and industrious
classes, the speak. r concluded by observing that whilst he
remembered with prelude the measures of civil and red-
gi aus liberty pith whicia the name of Russell was assn
tie rd, still they could not endure that he should iasult
their representatives in the House of Commons, for when
he insulted those men who fairly represented the people,
and who were a just reflex of public opinion, he did in point
of tact insult the great body of the people themselves.
(Cheers.)
Mr. STEVENS, as one of the unrepresented portion of
the community. concurred with the preceding speaker that
it would be infinitely preferable to go for manhood suffrage
at once, for by doing so they would rally such a phalanx of
opinion around them es no minister and no parliament could
vesture to withstand. (Cheers,) 5.111, however, he gave
his unhesitating adhesion to this sasociation, because he saw
at its head good men nod true, who had been true in sun-
shine and tried in toe storm, in whom he felt as much
confidence se he bould feel in any public men
is these slippery time*, and whose very names
were a WOWS and herald of victory.
Mr. SOUTHEY bad tett r. d into the association not only
to show his sympathy with the working classes, bat as iden-
tifying himself with the principles
of the charthr. (Loud
cheers.) He adopted those principles rom neceseity, because
he found the governing aristocracy arrayed against the peo-
le for 'he purposes of plunder, and by means of taxa-
tion to draw from the working clues. the means for support.
ing eh, junior members Of their own body. He adopted the
principle. of the charter, therefore, as the enly means of ob-
taining a cheap arid economical government.
The Rev. Mr. GREEN was noxious to expedite his entire
-"vote in the objects the association was formed to ao-

ootnplish.
The rsselation having been put and carried,
A vote of thanks to the Chairman wee proposed by Mr.
W. WILLIAMS. and married with acclamation.
The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment,
enured them that be should always endeavour to deserve
their good opinion. He wished some of those who had been
alluded to had been present at this meeting, for if they
had been he was sure some of the truths which have been
told would have gone Itnm- to their und•ntandinp, and there'
w ould no longer be differences of opinion as to whether
household or manhold suffrage should be contended for in
the lbstTheece. They
thecat deal with things as they found
them. ouncil of meociation had thought and de.
liherated much on the matter, and he believed they had
taken the right course. They had no o'ljection to be pre.sed
on, but while they we:• pressed on, he would call on the
people who pe:seed to look to themseivee, to look to
the men they sent to parliament to represent them,
and to enneider the sorry agars that some 84 membas cut
spinet 270 or 300 on the other aide.
The SECRETARY then announced that the next meet-
log of the society would be on Monday evening next, at
Sadler's Wells, 'her which the meeting repented.

HENLEY REGATTA.—FIRST DAT.
Th, re wets nine races on the card, including a match for
601., and three entries for the grand sight-oared noe—snal-
cient to satisfy the mat craving appetite for sport.
The MATCH for Mk between Mark Cook of o:ford, and
T. Cooslite of London. M. Cook, blue, 1 ; T. Combos,

DIAMOND SCULLS, for amateur gentlemen. First beat:
T. Northman, London, crimson. 1; G. P. Edwards, Thames
Club, green, 2; J. G. Chillingworth, Twickenham, dark
blue, 0. Beyond best : O. Bagot, Trinity College Cam-
bridge, 1 ; J. B. Parson, St. John of Mats, Orford, 0.
Third heat: C. L Notain, 1. It weea race over, Mr.
Gilbert Bast withdrawing.
Suva& Wassail's. for sondem/It amateurs. Pair oars.
First heat : Oxford—T. L. Cavendi.h. T. H. Mitchel, Orion
Boat Club, 1 ; Cambridge—T. W. Richard, A. W. Blom-
field, Trinity Coll.ee, 0. Second heat; London—BF. P.
Edwards, F. Marsha's, Thames Club, 1; Orford—J, H.
Haling, F. Class, Orion Bon Club, 0.
THE LADIIIV CNALLEIOI PLan. 01111kT EMIT
OAIIID YAWS. Cleatitnieli atelatinill. Oxford—The Bt.
Jobs of Malta. 1; Cambridge—finond Trinity Boat Club,
0 ; Ozford—The Orion Boat Club, 0.
ficrtu.sse CONTENT for the MAINPZACS Brim
Wssist and Scums, for gentlemen of the University of
Henley. First beat Mr. J. Gibs, dark blue, 1. Mr. W.
Ingle@ was to have coetended against the above, bet was
withdrawn. &son& heat: Mews. A. Ire, red and white,
1; B. Moen, whits, 2; G. Ovary, light blue, O. It was a
very mini race througlint, the two starnmost men rounded
very gallantly, Mr. ltoore being a nod second.
The sports are to conclude this day, when the chief
feature will be a street eight oared nee, a four with the anal
heats of the nulls sad pair oars, which will, no &alit,
alowi a he day's play.