The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-14 00:00:00

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

SWEEPSTAKES of 100 Bova each. D.M.
Loadatone walked over.
SWEEPSTAKES of 50 am. each. R.M.
Tiaiphone 1
Dams

MATCH, 200. T.Y.C.
Sable beat Lovelace.
HANDICAP of 15 sovs. each. D.M.
Marquis of Conyngbam 1
2
Sagacity ..
Duplicity .. 3
MATCH, 200. A.F.
Tisiphone beat Wilmot.

CHARTIST CONVENTION.
THIS DAY.

The delegates re-assembled thin morning, at the
usual hour. Mr. M'Orath presided.
A number of letters having been read from various parts
of the country, congratulating the convention on the course
which it was pursuing, and expressing hearty concurrence in
its principles,
Mr. LUND moved a resolution for the adjournment
of the convention until the 24th instant, the executive
having full power to act in the meantime. After urging
the expediency of the measure which he proposed, he made
some general observations defending the Convention from
the charges brought against it of being favourable to
physical force measures, maintaining that its principles had
always been of a pacific character. fie said, however, that
unless something was done by parliament to-night to
meet their demands, within six months all peace,
order, and society would be at an end. They were about to
send missionaries throughout the country, and he had great
hopes of the cause deriving considerable benefit from their
exertions.
Mr. LORRY seconded the resolution, which was opposed
by Mr. Ernest Jones, Mr. Culfay, and other gentlemen, who
maintained that it was out of order, as they had passed a
resolution agreeing to sit until the meeting of the national

assemby.
Mr. Sravntutost supported the resolution.
Mr. Weer read a letter which stated that, at a meeting
held at Sutton in Ashfield, a resolution had been puled to
the effect that, in the event of an attack being made upon
the convention, by the " base, brutal, and bloody whips,"
the people would rise tad avenge them. In opposing the
resolution, he made some general observations con-
demnatory of the manner in which the petition had
been received by the House of Commons. With regard
to the validity of the signatures, he maintained that
the 13 clerks employed could not have unrolled the petition
in the time during which they were said to have counted the
signatures.
Mr. CtiPPAY thought the Chartists had overestimated the
number of signatures, while their enemies had under-
estimated, them ; but he did not attach any great importance
to the question.
Same conversation ensued on the question of adjournment,
and a deputation was appointed to wait on Mr. O'Connor,
reouesting his presence. That gentleman, however, arrived
almost immediately after the deputation had set out.
Mr. O'CoNNon (who was received with most vehement and
prolonged applause) then entered into a statement of what
had taken place in the House of Commons last night upon
the subject of the petition; and threw himself upon their
i
protectiou to confirm him n the withdrawal of his notice
regarding it. Upon leaving the house last night, he
had sent his friend, Mr. Jones, to demand an explanation
from Mr. Cripps, and that gentleman had made an apology
which left him perfectly satisfied.
A resolution was pawed, confirming Mr. O'Connor in the
course which he had taken.
Mr. KYDD then moved for a return of the number of sig-
natures to the national petition from every district, the
numbers to be supplied by the delegates of the respective

places.
Mr. A➢AMS moved an amendment to the effect, that they
pledged themselves to prove that more than the number of
persons who had signed the national petition were in favour
of the charter, if the government would consider such
evidence as sufficient reason for granting it. After a long
discussion, it was urged by several gentlemen that the above
resolutions were unnecessary and useless ; and an amend-
ment was carried " That the subject be not entertained."
The morning sitting was then adjourned.

MEETING OF REFORM MEMBERS.
A meeting of members of the House of Commons
was held yesterday, at 14, St. James's-square, at which it was
unanimously resolved—" That it appears to this meeting that
a more cordial understanding and co-operation are urgently
required among such members of parliament as are favour-
able to the extension of the suffrage, an equitable mange-
ment of taxation, a reduction of expenditure, and the general
advance of reform principles hrough Great Britain and
Ireland; that Joseph Humet , o
b ut
e chairman ; that
Richard Cobden, M.P., be deputy-chairman ; that Sir Joshua
Walmsley, M.P., be honorary secretary; and that the com-
mittee have power to add to their numbers."
The requisition calling the meeting was signed by the fol-
lowing members of parliament : Joseph Hume, R. Cobden,
B. Osborne, Sir Wm. Molesworth, Lord Dudley Coutta
Stuart, Henry Salwei, William Jackson, John Williams,
G. F. Muntz, Wm. Fagan, George Thompson, J. Paulson,
Win. Ewart, W. J. Fox, Thoe. Watley, Right Hon. C. T.
D'Eyncourt, Richard Gardner, James Clay, Francis Mowatt,
B. Wilcox, G. P. Scrape, James Kershaw, John Bright,
James Wyld, M. Sullivan, J. P. Thompson, Lord Nnt,
Sharman Crawford, John Reynolds, Wm. Scholefield,uo Regi-
nald Blewitt, M. Power, John Greene, J. B. Smith, James
pdkington, Timothy O'Brien, Capt. Pechell, Alexander
Raphael, John F. Wawn, W. P. Wood, Percy Nugent,
J. P. Locke King, E. P. Bouverie, Thomas Meagher, Sr
Joshua Walmsley, John T. Deverenx, John Macgregor,
Charles Hindley, and Charles Cowan.

THE POSTMAN BRADLEY—The Lords Commis-
sioners of her Majesty's Treasury hare, upon the recom-
mendation of the Postmaster-General, granted Bradley, the
letter-carrier who was so brutally treated in Mitre-court,
Wood-street, some time ago, while in the execution of his
duty, the sum of 1001. per annum for his life. Bradley will
receive the amount quarterly, in the form of a superannua-
tion allowance, he haying been dimharged from future duty.