The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

endaager the megorehy, the flows of Lon* and the ntae
!dished church. It sem certain the Buell& people acre
sever win attached to the person of their sogeretgu than
at the present moment. (Cheers.) As to the Bowie of
Lords, the best mean. to secure as safety WAS attention to
its own Istisines4 mid an absence of inteeferesee with the
rights of the people. ar, hear.) At prevent, the Moose
of Lori. was deprived of its proper function ; for there
was no hots legislation to check. (Cheers, and laughter.)
The established church would probably continue to suffer
more from its false friends and unworthy members, than
from the attacks of those without. (Hear, hear.)
After s nue further remarks, Mt. Bunting, iu conclusion,
olwerved that any attempt to re-impose a fraction of the
bated food tax world gis.• the greatest peoible impetus to
the demand for p erliamentary n•fonii. (Cheer.)
Mr. liU 'M.P., was loudly. che creel on rising. Ile
moved That this meeting, tu tendering its thanks to
Mr. Bunting for the able and practiesl lecture which he has
this evening &live red, declare its (mini )))) that at no period
threugetout the history of re-form has it lwen to imperatisely
the duty of all the friends of political progress to increase
their exertions to effect a thorough reform of the Coalmines
louse of patliwn, it, and that it 110101't • them especially to
rally rounith.. N.itional Reform Association t hest means
of securing the rig:it-of the people." As one of the oldest re-
formers present, be looked hack with pleasure to the progress
that had been math, impel feet aq it 1,1'.14, and doubted not
that it was the earnest of still more taluahle changes. They
denaitohli outhiag novel. extravattoot, or daogeroin, hut
simply that the constitution should be rettored to its origi-
nal principles. (RIM, hear.) One most vital objection to
the extension of popular rights was the desire to keep a
monopoly of political power amongst the classes who now
enjoyed the pried.;;. of taxing the people. (Ilene, hear.)
No .me rouli visit the Crystal Palace without nth et-
ing how unjust i• was to .1. ny to the er• at.ws bi all thy. !
woollen tho riFhts of citizens. (Cheers., No country was
equal to this in induetry and intelligence and yet the
fratohise was sour' TA stn, tell hem then in r.:i)• part . the'
continent, except the semi-harleiroos regions of the north.
(Hear, bear.) iron great ohj• •t of the Exhibition was to
obtain improve-mots in mar hinery ; and would they refn.ee
to iinpn.ve tied gosi rum, nt tax-imposing machine,
the house of (:.,moor (Hear, hear.) Let it
be roade what its some imported, the boom of
th, people ; and the industry of the country would
no longer suff e from an undue pn ...ire of tssation.
lie, as tepreweititive of a S. borough, had no high, r
tualtiestios than any of I.e. why should not
the caw. be so gs serially r h•swo4 . tttoitlemsn
eowelieled by q oseig tle. great mrutili, Atom he had
derived from ) hi th.ket on. of Mr. Boutin..

Mr. 1.. EN: SVIs 1111—irit; coo

Mr. COBDEN, M.P., was neje.' with enthusia.tir
()terrine. IF said h., had the erdated pieraeure in ad ling
the titivate of his thanks lea Uwe• of the g, adlemen se lin
had mended him, to Mr. hunting for his able address.
11, had never L.,1 the pleeisein, of listening to a eloter-
resew d, re- levied, and thoroughly ......entive untu-
:tent than he had put given them on tha melee et of refolia
of parliament. If there was no other proof in existence
that the el le drat which easid be hail sprung Iva. fairly
eestithel to the...genie. of the franchise, Ise had given abun-
dant peed iu leis eon 'wrote on that occasion. (Iliac, hear.)
Ile (Mr. Cedeleu) hail taken thi*, the Art opportunity. of
appearing at a reform meeting, after the recent deadareteen
swede by thi• prime minister, that he woukl he prepared in
the ~at ...seem of parliament w inteoeture a measure of
darn, in deelane that he etneidered this question which
the 3-14.13ti0n boil in hand cs the most practical question
that politician hod to deal with. ((flew.) And in dein': in,
he week" sa) to his friend. roe ry when, thenightut the coun-
try, -to all the • lilt,. w• re practical men, unel with
when he had the honour of combating on other questiooa,
that they would forfeit their rh3rireer a. a practical people
untie, bct0....4 ...ew and the nest spring they threw them.
'lves into this luesti,m of parliament:we relent' in a way
that would preAe• to the- world that the had
0.4 hot that of attribute of their nation -•t hat they knew
how to ueirre the proper tine for doing their own work in
the sr own way. (Loud cheese.) He would say, mentos.,
that he took 'hi. ipentim upart (ruin all rafter questions.
11.• did not emit it to be a party question at all.
They abould a. sir hare rented fres trade lead they not
Permeated it Irma party. Ile wanted to have ell the gnat
intelltete in the thew of rOIIIIIIOIIS on their aile, as the/
were n ow. Fo. instance, fee trails elepewl.•.l on Sie. Jam,
Graham, quite: is much a. em lewd John Itnw il, ti defend
it ; it eseell nut afford to part with etiter of three. lie
whaled to ere Vr, Glatbettle. gran into the avec befall with
thr Charles Wed, Mr. I:enliven with tit. LaSeauchere, and
Mr. Sieliwy Herbert with Mr. James Wilson. And they
need not le ahneed to leave the free trader. on the &leve-
ls., that th, y were sealing free trade a party .iLleoti ,s,
(liner, he er.) Muw, they WA a pre.dAe uf a prows.) le im
1113.1.- 114.. t year by the h. oaf the wevernmett. Ile de
not mead wheels. r Lord Jul.,, Ititesell was in power nett
Jr.4r or not -till, his tied main that the (joie W.u. =SW
ooh, 11 a new fief air Bill might he prtpo...l by the head of
the e......neserat tastily talented the character of the it queen
trait in. a peat tieal question before the reentry. Betwom
whether tee se at nit of oh, or re1.1.4111e1l in, they had a
Ter, larg,• p.rty eisesperating with them for a 1t1e..0.1111 of
reform.; an I it wrath' &mewl upon the people oral of dues
what that 16 1 11., should be. (Ilesr, 11,3 r.) SOUP- refuel
woo Antlut ') telispeleable ; fur they Lail come to such a
dead lock in Vey House. 01 Commons that they could nit go
on without it. They Amulet he eddied to come to the
people not to re-adjust the beelanee, ea as to throw
a prependeres,r into cow wale. for at present, nobody
knew on won It side it auuld be on any oar eisseetion sub-
mitted to the 'menu. All Coe existing parties had atone to
der, hail fa". a to runts, and had hewn. mere rubbish in
the was of p preen.. (Hew, heir.) There• must
be. retrain of parliament to enable any piny te. govern at
at (Cheers.) What w. that reform to ? The. it veteran
friend (Mr. Hum .) had doue on this matter what he had
done eni at t all other great public gut-strati* fur the last
3.lyears, hi had gut hold of just the right thing. (Cheers.)
And when 11,, the her. of a hundnel lights-or rather, the
hero of a lh.,uvnd defeat. - (cheer. and laughter)-when he
who hail ha: th, honour of teeing in mot.: minorities in the
Mouse of Cowmen. than any other liviug lieu--same before
then, with all the ardour, nenfieltnee, and enthusiasm of
youth, and told them that he was perfectly satisfied with
the pager and prospects of events--then wits not 3 )own,
111.6111 there plesent, or in the countay, who meat nut feel
eteenulateel with equally sanguine anticesettiou to rent to the
bre. h with their veteran friend, and help to carry this
.tire Me. (cheers.) Wheat
Called he. pine •• the little chart.,," with a slew to diens
tear it. It hail four petite in it, and three of them were
already in I-entente. Howehold audiare was the old
Bain Iran. hew in this country . • it sea" stout at old an
Alin .1. (Ch. re) Ile began to adminester the affairs uf
our pared.... by lurawholel suffrage. (Heir, hear.) It was
aseumeel that the head of a family was the proper party to
earn tee ptelilege duties easel leen pettier rights; and there-
lOW lantrehold nuttr.iet• wan the franchiee.ed our old Anon
weeders. but a very good precedent still existed her it.
The :mode ipal .fain Of our boroughs were (*rein'
on by house hold euffrage ; and if the et was one
thing that more ii•torlished end excited the envy of
fumigates fon the reatineut of Europe tint ther, it
was the nierhanion of our local institutions, our boroughs
gad pariete, when all ~Main relating to the taxing of
the people. end the protecting them le). puliee, wire car-
rid Oil toy the people thee:lves upon a system of nib
seventeen:. • atletut nnuiring the ittervention of the
central government et all. (Hear, hear.) In other countries
on the eoutient, mutinipalithe sent up per.oiliesil returns
to the central geTeneMent, and everything mud be signed
and supervised by the minieter of the interior. Bet we
it ter heard ut Mamie-der, or Liverptiol, or even the
anidted histough in the kingdom, aenelinq up blue-bnoks
to the House of Comtnuut, or calling on government to
help them regulating their own affaire. They were
pereeth, well managed by the people themsellee.wito bad
huuerhatd suffrage, somewhat 'wadded, it ea" true, by a
too lung erne nee • het the• principle was recognead ; it was
already in eai.teme. 'Then hlr. Home would haw a better
disteileutent of the franchise. What Mr. Hume said was this:
that to give Manchester two member., with an annual rated
rental of nearly .1 million and a half (fir it eternity' a mil•
lion and a quarter seine time ago‘. and to give another
place, honest all annual rental of 20,1M11, two membyrs
also. was an absurdity which no man of plaineentinwa *ewe.
could telerate longer the he could help. (lire, hear.)
They had a precedent for this reelestribition in what was
done in the new borough, when they were laid out for the
muuicipal frritehise. Ihe boundarie ael the wards were de-
termined with reference both to population and tu property.
This had been doe at teutelisetee, er hat it was ti et in-
corporetel . the eOUlllll.4Ollt n took the cOUlinnutil ratio of
rating and population. In a pour ward they took a larger
district ; in a rich want in the centre of the tutu, a *malice
our If Lord John Iluen•U wished to e reale esthe-
te.= in favour el hi. scheme 111114144(111 the present electoral
butly• lie meet heeled,: the ballot, there would by to en-
thanadie support of any measure without that. (lien,
hear.) And without the present electon were enlisted in ;
its support, no new measure of reform could be carried.
la the comity constituencies there was no .111.t.ire for an ex-
elision of the suffrage, but they were aawt anneals for ,
that protection which the ballot would eine Liberalism in '
illse counties always took the direction ut she ballot, and a
new reruns bill without it would hardly enure popular
euppert. (Hear. hear.) He sea confident that free trade
might be defended against the attack. of protectionists
without any refine bill which did cwt ie.:lade the ballot.
But, irreepeetive of these coneideratione was it tot obvious,
fon: the prone-drags at Falkirk. Harwich, and St. !
that the ballot was demensle.t by the ea utituencies
as u protection against intimidation anil corruption?
(ttlieen.) If a rotective to anal' erantituences it might
be not has SO in large One*. He had bean told by gentle-
men from France that the ballot was there regarded as the
moat coneervative of their institutious ; to it the men of
order looked for protection from the red republieenism and
socialism which were rampant tit the streets. (Hear, hear.) .
By its means universal suffrage hail returned the most con-
wereative chamber cur ainenshied in Frallef. lie. there-
Aare advocated the ballot as a lent...tilos to the many against !
the rich and priedeged few, who ezereiseel more waver*
over the electors than the mass of the people could possibly
do. If the franchise were extended, it must be dams gamma
conditions that all who poimuud it might ft ely eatitekie It.
(Hear, bear.) As to the property qualification, he tleinght Bit
people might WM, be trusted to elect w ran they ow.
He would repeat that the question of reform was the meet
practical of the day. Legislation had come to a den krek,
oven in the matter of the budget; as the goverment bid
kept up such an c ttravagaut eapenditure. that there wee a
glorious opportunity fur a 'third ministry to come in mad
reduce the einem of the people. hear.) Eves if
the ...adagios left out of *Mir title liaaterial rolona,"
promotion of parliamentary mho.= • on'al b. eidg‘kaew
ware all Asir objects. (Loot sheen.)
The osaabagion was then put and unanimously sisolod•
Throb inn Tined to the chairman by acclaimed.. mat
Se main this equated at skims lat:pset l 0 ea*.