The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-04 00:00:00

MANCHESTER, Atagusi 3.

Ekrocz-Exinuicas.—Ther• was a ratiter brisket, market
than for
stack aeri ease dayse pa, and prices went decidedly Are, with bat
=le &

BIRMINGHAM. Astrut 3.

patSTOCK szCQa.ttoa. This "'what was languid, the
& maninsting no disposal= to come ht as bayou Just sow.
lihresosbary aad Itirstlagham 8.% were doss at 4j Or., and Soap-
shin Voices at 4 dia.

LEEDS, Augwt 3.

litocoi-Zlouxoz.—Titars se• so few isles this morning
Mat am flat bealaas paaliaral. Aiwa Re mad tlia somas yester-
day, ea taimaial7islaaid 17e.babag asellaad to Takata at 117 sad Now Zest
Leassaarai at

BRISTOL, Rapid 3.

STOCK-BIOIANOIL—There was. rather sere business
doing, prlnclpgly in Cheat Western new Mamie. which dosed M 41
di& dagAelatit lad Weymouth were does at 141 el&

CORK MID Woontroao —La ordiatry general taatitina
of thill ooloPon7 was roolowned for yostroday at *air aeon,
Delaharstrook hot a stall ipot numbrr of inasabass did aot
attend to ocestitato a meeting.

Tux RESULT Or FEMALE EMIGRATION TO NEw
Routs WALLS —Out of 60 orphan girls who were not to
Moreton Bay Iron the latest em'gra•iea 'MN 49 are already
mirrie4; the Arti...tb, upon Ming asked " why she renssined
simile?" said, that al,hough a••e hid reerived an excellent
ff r she could net get married bemuse there was not a
lridewnitt f.r her, hut she wee anxioa•ly waiting f the
next dr, sit of Ustmi,r by lit le difficulty +mild he
ova.. This is a Int.—Australian Sportsman, March SI

gft Q'rprefigi.

OUTGOIIVG MAILS.

' The mail■ for Viso, Opoine, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadia, and Gibraltar,
will be ankle up or. the 7th of August.
The malls, via Marseillte. to the Mediterranean, Egypt, ('Seine.
Tndia, Hong-Kong, Ike., will be made up es the evening of the th
Auguet.
Mans tar Retinas North America and the United Mates will he
made up on the evening of the 10th of Augest.
Ibe Moot Mina Matt►, exclurnaa beatitude, Nassau. haa••o,
Hondante, New Orleans. sad Mexico, ono including those for
Madeira, ht. JaiM-o►Niteragaa, New Granada, Gilt, and Pero, will
be made up on the 17th of Asyut.
The male tor Madeira. the &sails, and Beane Ayres, will be made
up th the 4th of etptember.
the owls tot 011tralvar, Malta, Ontecw, We kal'ot lolanda Finn.
Ceylon, lndie, and Chian We Southampton, will be made up en
the nmenhig of the Seth of August.

LION NATAL AT LONDON /IND /0
T•r Ms —Nan1..414 ear put I . ationsana, 21 W. past I.
2.46a...5r —14,212,„ SS ma. put 2; Aftwaisets, 10 Nu. past I.

LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4.

IF we were to estimate what has been effected in the
way of promoting good government far the colonies
during the late session by positive legislative results,
the prospect would warrant utter despondency. We
are not, however, entitled as yet to test the pro-
gress of the cause by eo high a standard. They
whose in• mories carry them back for some ten yo are
can bear witness how rare it was to hear a word of
sense spoken in either house of parliament ott colonial
topics, and how imp:risible to ob sin a patiert he ar-
ing on the subjects. The protectionists had taken the
colonies into their hands, and ideatifiel the ciuse of
the colonies with that of monopoly. The liberals,
without giving themselves the trouble to reflect, took
it for grant-d that this assumption was quite correct.
Both in and out of parliament a confused notion pre-
vailed that colonial interests meant slavery, and sugar,
and convicts. The subject was distasteul. Downing-
street profited by the mistake, and had every-
thing its own way. It is an immense stride in the
right di'ection to have got rid o' this rubbishy mis-
conception. If we can show that colonial subjects
have been dismssed during the past eenion with in.
trlligence, interest, and a growl, g sympatby, we may
rest satisfied that considerable progress has been
made even though we can point to no immediate
tangible results.
Passing over many incidental discussions which
evaporated in mere talk or the appointment of a corn-
' mitten (which is little better), we find on the list of
divisions eight in which colonial questions of more or
less importance were at issue. One of these, indeed,
was notbing more than a negative put upon a crotch-
etty &citrates,' resolution which Mr. JOHN O'CON-
NELL endeavoured to substitute in lieu of a motion
for emigration returns, bat the rest are all interesting
and suggestive.
Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII.B motion for a colonial
commission of inquiry was supported by 91 member's,
Itellers included, end opposed by 165. Mr. ROEBUCK'S
bill for the better management of some of our colonial
possessions, was supported by 75 members, and
opposed by 118. Mr. SCOTT'S motion for a select
committee to inquire into the financial relations
between Great Britain and her dependencies, was
supported by 36 members and opposed by 83. These
divisions and the discussi ins which preceded
them, bore upon the general colonial policy of Greit
Britain.

The four remaining divisions were on questions
relating to special grievances of particular colonies.
Mr. BAILLTE'S motion for a commission to enquire, on
the spot, into the steps taken to repress the late in-
sarreetion in Ceylon, was supported by 35 members
and opposed by 92. Mr. HUMB'S motion for the re-
duction of civil expenditure iu British Guiana, and the
introduction of responsible government into that
colony, was supported by 19 and opposed by 96 mem-
bers. Mr. ANSTET'S motion in support of the inde-
pendecce of the judges of Van Diemen's Land, was
supported by 26 members and oppost dby 74. Mr.
HARRIES' motion, condemnatory of the measure
passed by the Canadian legislature far indemnifying
those who had suffered lotrs.a during the rebellion in
that colony, was supported by 132 members and op-
posed by 293.
With regard to the three divisions on questions re-
lating to t:.e general colonial policy of the empire, the
first and moat important remark suggested by them
is, that from the begiuniug to the end of the session,
in every effort made to place our colonial relation.
upon a more (getable and satisfactory footing, the
part taken by ministers has been purely and unmiti-
gatedly obstructive. They oppose;! Mr. SCOTT'S mo-
tion, they opposed Mr. ROEBLCK'S, they opposed Sir
WILLIAM MOLESWORTII'S. And, while they
were thus opposing, right and left, all
proposed reforms, from whatever quarter they
emanated, they did nt.thing themselves. A bill,
it is true, was introduced by them for the
better goreroment of the Australian colonies, but
withdrawn without even subjecting it to the test
of discussion. When we ext. nd our view beyond the
areas of the House of Commons to what ministers
have been doing in the way of reforming colonial
administration elsewhere, matters are not much
mended. A bill for amending the representative
legislature of British Guiana has passed the Court of
Policy under their auspices, but that measure has
been rightly described as merely intended to create a
free black interest t) counterbalance the planter in-
trest in the colony, and to enable the colonial office
to play fast and loose between the two.
It is satisfactory, therefore, to obs, rye that, against
the cold, inveterate dircouregement and opposition of
government, sound views of co!onial relations and
cailonial administration have made steady pro-
gress in parliament in the course of the session.
Mr. Scores motion, the firet in order of time,
sec ived least support. This may be accounted for
partly from the sense of the house that a committee
was but an indifferent instrument for attaining the
obj• ct in view ; partly from the disadvantages of Mr.
SCOTT'S position. His motion was taco liberal to be
supported by his patty, end his connexion with that
party made independent members distrustful, and
enabled the combined HAWKS a. d GLeOsiONE cliques
to bear him down. A stronger minority rallied round
Mr. ROEBUCK, though a consciousness of their im-
perfect understanding of colonial affairs withheld
many from cordially promoting a bill which would
have effected material changes in colonial govern-
ment. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH'S motion, the
third in point of time, was support( d by nearly 100
members, in spite of a most active and unscrupulous
opposition on the part of government. It is not
merely on the progressive increase in the number of
the reformers of colonial administration indicated
by these divisions that we build our hopes.
The liberal, comprehensive, and well-reasoned views
expressed by Mr. ROEBUCK, and in a still more
marked degree by Sir WILLIAM MOLLSWORTII, have
set many to reflect earnestly on these subjects who
hesitated to commit themselves by their votes. Large
and more statesmanlike views of colonial relations
have been disseminated in parliament, the fruits of
which we confidently predict will be visible next
session.

The divisions on special questions relating to the
colonies are hiefly remarktole as indicating the un-
tenable ground maintained by ministers, and their
misgivings as to the possibility of long maintaining
it. Ministerial influence has been successful in post-
poning a searchicg investigation into the atrocities
prepetrated by the local government of Ce 3 inn ; in
sanctioning for a time a ernes violation of the inde-
pendence of the bench in Van Diemen's Land; and
in withholding from the inhabitants of British
Guiana the constitutional right of being taxed
only by their representatives. But these vic-
tories—so disgraceful to a ministry professing to
be reformers—have besn achieved by means which
cannot long be available. Their majority in the case
of Ceylon was purchased by the promise of a edy
and real inquiry, the performance of which will be
exacted. For their majority in the cave of Van Die-
men's Land they are mainly indelred to the (not
unnatural) prejudice felt in the house against any
propsial that comes from Mr. ANSTEY. They got a
vote in their favour on the Guiana question, but so
conscious are they of their false position there, that
the; are actually promotinif in the colony a measure
—a sham and delnsiee one it is true—which, if real,
would conc-de what thsy refused when asked by Mr.
Hums. There is too much finessing in this game of
ministers to be successful in the long run.
AAA here let us give them credit for
their one good act durieg the session in
relation to the colonies. They fratkly and clu-
touely resieed the proposal of Mr. HERRIEB
iudirc rlv to withdraw the bison responsible local
g Terenm r. whi-h h s bees c i ferred ut on Cm tea.
The •rtyli in t:m dealing of ministers with
eJI uil cp... tuna we CALL !CC that they know

what is right, though in moist cites they ta 4.
what is wrong. Their manly bearing on the
dion question,. contral'etlw the sir e•tkint.,thofthe,
and equivocation on the eves iove of Guiana, Ceyk"
and Van men's Laid, bettay That it is so, 13
i{noranco they tin, end not even nut or pli"11
in eioning. 'they are afraid to ma k. tie exertion Ts.,
quired to en.ble them to ge: into t• e right poi;
they dare not emancipate themselves ftotta the (4
n:at-office Ur:can:l azy.
The practical and comprehers:ve
vomited by Sir WILLIAM NiOLESIVakTII
his lead'ng allies —the eteAv !1i in th,
number of adherents to their iva..dard—slerys
all the sheepish vacillation of minim-rs fn t
defence of old abases—all corear to justify the hqs
that a new era of colonial goverommt i. dorsi,
upon us. It is high time. Rece:.t en:nts Lave rsimi
new questions and paved the any to new piny
nesions in Csnada. A f.eneral spirit ut diayishe.
tion pervades the Australian setilcmci,t4 ',lapetus,
the contemplated arrangements for cm,vice- iraaa,
pirtation, and the Cape ts in a blaze. In the Wig
India colonies it is impossible, as yet, to sty w
may be the political results of the emancivenion des
blacks and tie abolition of prrtection.
.11e n latices
of the coloniee are eve ry where widergotng a chasm
and the whole system of colonial adrun ist avian mia
be modified so as to cot f witb the new relaticts,
COE eZOUrt•
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, atteak
by Lady Anna Maria D.wson, barontoa B,,eth, sad sir
Ge.rse Calmer, left htr resideoc.:, Clare: ea It inse,
gt
James's, at one o'clock yesterday afternoon Le T. nhwa.
WtIIP. Mar Royal Flightless travelled by the 6 uth &a ye
Railway.
1 he Chancellor of the Ex"h,que, returned to tm
on Thur-clay timing fro Guernsey. The iisht hos bete*
left his micleuee in Downing street rday fur his mak
Mickleton Hall, near Dancarer.
Despatches were r•ceivei yesterday at the Cols. ,
Dial-, Mee from the Governor or Giwaltvr.
Despatches were rent off yeiterday evening frog
the Colonial•offim for the (Leeman of the lia:o
rim provinces.

(From last niat.t'a Gaut lel
FOREIGN•OPFICE, Auc. I.—The Queen hu been
pleased to approve of Mr. Saul Sa!otoop as consul at tit.
Helena for hot Majesty the Emperor of Austria.

THE NEW TWO.SHILLING PIECE Olt "FLOROI.'—
Lut night's Gusetto contain. a proclam ;be ,ds e (me m.
bottle, July 30, directing that the taw two shHn.g pup
"shall be current and lawful nr.ney o: Greet lintaa and
Ireland." This new cal° is :o be co lcd a 11000. Toe pro.
clams:ion recites that " su,b florin, or :cave* of I
pound, has for the obverse Oar eau, crowned. vita thi
scrip ion' Victoria IL- gine,' and the date of t'te year; sad
for the reverse, the ensigtri arm irial of the tai ed Kiap
dom contained in four shilds, cr.aswiie, ellen shield est.
mounted by t- e rcyal crown, wit!' the :cp. is the centre,
and in the compartments between the shi. lds the nstioag
emblems of the rose, thistle, and shamrock, surrounded by
the words :One Ft rin ene Tenth of a Poutd,' and witk a
milled graining round the edge : and whereas peer of dim
money of the above de-cription hare b. en coined is tar
Mint, and will be coined there, in pursuance of orders imsed,
and to be issued."

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO
IRELAND.

PROGRESS OF THE ROYAL SQUADRON.
CIIESILION, THVILSDAL

• -----
The Queen's fleet, bound fur Ireland, taus observed
late hat evening s. euniug aw y to the westward in excelled
style. Toe royal yacht bad cleared the Bill oh Portliest
before 9 o'clock. She was well out at see, probable debt et
nine miles distant. The weather it as all that coal: he wished.
Two steamers were clew: in the wake art the Victoria sad
Albert. Thu appearar ea of the squadron a. that late period
of the evening ;as most unexpected, as i. sedgensrelly lap
polled that the royal yscht would hav,: put into Portland
Roads or Weymouth Bay for the night. Her Majeety's
steamer Lightning arrive I cif Portland in the eree:y part of
yesterday trom Guernsey with Sir F. Baring, Bart., Fiat
Le rd of the Admiralty, Sir C. Wood, Bart., Cliancellorofthe
Exchequer, R-ar-Adm. Dubdiu., and Mr. Parker, tot Stens
tary. of the Admiralty. Their lauding immediat ly at the weeks
of the breakwater led to a In hef that they hc.:l arrived like:
to receive her Majesty in the event of her inspectiaa this
great national undertaking, or to join the Loyal squids.
Be that as it may, however, all doubts were speedily odd
rest by the royal Stet being observed er me miles dieted bra
ing away to the wcrwara, without making say *brads%
the Lightning or to the harbour authorities. The Chugals
lor of the Exch. quer and the Lords of the Admiralty ft.
mained at Portland, and after minutely insp. cting the work
of the intended breakwater for the Victoria Harbour of Re-
fuge, Portland, as it will be called, left by the lad naiad
the South Western Heti 'say for Landon.
EXMOUTH, DEVON, TIVIIIIIDAT.
The master of the Water Witch, from B.:Meaux' whisk
brought up in the roads this more:log, reports passing the
Queen's yacht and the steamers Arming the royal 'quads
between 11 and 12 o'clock last night, to the southward. It
was a brilliant moonlight night. The r. pal yacht had,
beedes the two coloured aigeals on eats pad Ile-box, a bright
light at her bow and mother in her fere di Ring. A strong
el ire of light also glittered thro !gh the Art,: cabin windows
She was carrying sail, and tearing in a S.S T. course. The
squadron quickly passed, and within the hour disappeared in
the westward, and would be fast clearing Star. Point and
Bolt Head, the pramiuent headlands of this part of the
Devonshire coast.
__ _

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY NIGHT.

Anxions inquiries have been made throughout the day re.
specting the progress of her Majesty's squadron to I.eland,
it being expected even if the royal fleet dol not run into the
Sound for fuel, that one of the packet steamers would put
in to signalise the dockyard autaurities. To the surprise of
all, however, nothing was heard of the progress of the rsyal
tioet till late tonight, when it was asctrtaine c that the Vie.
toria and Albert, with the accompany log war gatemen, had
passed some miles outside the Eusiyatone lighthouse, in the
early part of the morning, at daybreak. by the mail this
evauing from Falmouth we learn that her 2.11. sty's yackt
was off that place about 5 o'clock, but a considerable dis•
lance out at sea. .

From the circumstance of the squadron net putting into
Falmouth,it is almost certain that her Maj.s,y dettrmiaed
to proceed direct to Cab. The distance Ito a Q,'airne to Fab
mouth is 200 mil, s, which was accomelialma in little mom
than 13 hours, by the royal yacht, and in the event of its
continuing at the cams *pet ci, her Majes'y would reach the
Cove of Cork by 8 o'clock, perhaps sooner, (tbis Thundsl
evening) twelve hours b. ( :re her expected arriv.d.
Encurtaimmi.—The Cumberland Parquet ens It b
the intention of the Whitehaven Steam Navigation Cora-
pixy to rue their steamer. between tois port and Dublin and
13eliast and back, during her Majesty's approaching visit to
Ireland, for single fare', in order to afford an opportaaity to
the inhabitants of Whitehaven and the surrounding distriet
to obtain an opportunity of seeing the Queen during this
royal progress, without drawing too heavily on their purees.
This liberal concession will, we have no dcubt, be appre-
ciated by a large multitude, who will eagerly av them-
selves of the cm.sion to catch at least a pasting glimpse of
the royalty of England—almost the only really popular and
beloved sovereign in Europa. We are glad to add that the
railway companies running trains to Whitehaven have alas
consented to gratify the public, by seconding the efforts sf
the Navigation Company for the accommodation of oar
Cumbrian friends, by charging only single fares."

[ln our Irish news will be found the letter of our Dublin
sod Cork correspondents, descriptive of the preparations in
those skies for the reception of her Majesty.)

SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNGARIANS.
MEETING AT BIRMINGHAM.

A preliminary meeting, with the 'view to get rap
requisition to call a town meeting, was held in Birmingham
yesterday, Mr. Hamm DAWSON, M.A., in the chair. The
attendance was numerous; and a committee was appointed
to take the necessary steps for carrying out the objects—
that is, to Kenn the recognition by the British government
of the national independence of the Hungarian people. end
adopting such other measures as may ne thought necessary
for assisting them in their struggle for Ithetty.
It was further rewired that, with a view to diffuse correct
information span the subject of the Hungarian struggle, the
"dente/aim of independence" recently made by the di
facto government be published, with explanatory, historical,
and geographical notes, under the direction of the chairman
of the committee, and that a series of preparatory public
meetings be held in the wards prior to the meeting to be
called upon the requisition for the same purpose ; and also
to organise district committees, to collect subscriptions, its

SYMPATHY WITH THE HUSGAR/ANS. A short
address, expressive of sympathy with this brave and hamie
people, hes been forwarded to London,with a small subs:zip
tion for the benefit of the Hungarian refugees, by the
tradesmen frequenting the Lion Inn, at Totnes.—PiymotriA
PaPer.
ADMISSION TO VISIT THE HOUSE OP LORDS.—
Notice has been issued at the Lord Great Chamberlain's
Office, that, "in eonerguenes of the prorogation of parlmi
ment, and the resumption of the works at the Rouse of
Lords, all visitors are for the present excluded.
THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Yesterday, the Nineveh
Gallery of Sculptural Antiquities in the new building, wr
opened to the public. It is situate immediately beneath the
Syrian Gallery. The whcic of the valuable sculptural re-
mains recently discovered at the ruins of Nineveh, end Pur;
abased by the trustees of the British Museum, at a •00 "
several thousand pounds, are now thrown open to public in-
spection. The alebrs'ed Portland Vase has bean restored,
and is ones more in the Museum. The last portion of the
I building remainittg unts.,is ied,ealled the Tuwnly 0 Mary,
eviAly Apnroaa,in4 completion, and in a dls the lust
0 ,rt of the old Mutiturn, Grcxt ituaien-,trce,, will
I be removed.

PARLIAMENTARY
AND FINANCIAL REFORM.

HEFTING AT ROCHDALE.

On Wednesday evening a public meeting was held,
I. the People's Icstitsm hoot isle, fur the Purpose of con.
'begrime the above quiet:kin. Upwards of 1.300 persons were
reset. J. TIRIDALO, Esq., chiefeonstable, occupied the
clear
Mr. PRENTIrE pointed out some of the greener abuses
which prevailed our present system of government,
and mete seggestiros far their ,start. Mr. Prenles went
on to onomorme tnerasae of shameful extrevapnee is It.
army and navy ezpenoiture, when Mr. Brght boniest mi-
tered the hall amidst mush spplause, be thanked the meet.
kg fee the anentie.wi h whist. at had listened to his expotl-
the et abases. Be thought be had proved the Roomier ot
museive reform% and to wee sure they would listen with
*mere to Mr. Bright, while he showed how inch Worms
night be effect. d.
Mr. BIUOHT, wile was roe it'd with hearty cheers, said,
I am este, arty lead to be here to-tight to most so many of
sy add ecqesiatanose and fellow-townemen, on • matter of
ggek great importance an that which has been the subject of
the lecture of M. Prentice ; sed there fa a great mire:time
_.tea additional sa• isfaction —*het the object for which we
are assembled is one about which it is almost impossible that
wean disagree; and this sea leads to one etnecl.mi en,
which le, if possible, more satisfactory,—tbat, being agreed
ups what we are ant mhled shout, in all probability we shall
be wadi more likely to be 'umlaut than it it was some
knotty and doubtful point over which we quarrelled by the
lig. The •annuttertaret of the meeting was tor a
Ware on the question of fioantial and pealiamentary
rearm. I she aid be very sorry to see the finan-
cial brought forward re• • meetleg like this, and
the parliamentary excluded ; and I think it would
limbo the beet way of diecureleg the parliamentary tin
Ira something also were to be mil about the financial.
Fortunately, there is scarcely anything which goes more
to prove the necessity of parianeentary reform than the total
absence of an like economy, regularity, sad honesty,
k the expeditere of the pablictexem. (Chosen) Now, in
Reoltdade, as well as in most other p ire of the canary where
Imply'', live, en opinion is eatertaised by them who think
upon these subjems, that governments ere made for the
people, and not the people for the take of the governments.
(Bear.) Beta very contra,. opinion a ppears to exist in certain
ether quarters; and front the emeduct of the ruling clues. in
Miscount/ for a long period past it would appear thee they
thought they performed ell the dative of government if they
ermined from the people the Ligiteet amount of tuition
which the people would quietly pas; and if they mansged
tee vry on the government geocraliy without transgressing
the limit of that amount of tares which they wield safely
Collect. Now, I am happy to sly that public &use-
net has been es turned to this go/elem. that they ate to
finale, to consider how it is possible to retrench their
'erudite/es. In fact, they ere being driven to a'
seine into which a great many of the people in
th,s room bare been driven within the last four years,
that of asking their extreme considerably km, because
their income hod fallen off to a considerable extent. Bat I
will not go into the qu, Mien of extravagance here, for that
hes been sufficiently dwelt upon in detail ; but I will merely
state that, for many yews past, there has been a continual
Wrenn in the expenditure, and, although it was stated in
parliament--elontstless many of you One moo it in the
speeches of ministers—l think I have heard Lord John
lessen say it—that within • pertain number of years es
any millions of taxes have born given tap, you said find ,
that the actual sweat of money ?<caved from the country
b not only no! diminished, but his setually been Ineeettsed
sad very rapidly, from the year 1113 i to 1848. It is on ,1
MOM to so, woo eoesp'sla of oxineagenat, that a certain'
evi has been remitted if a certain other tax has raised so
meek snore mosey. (Chan.) It is so answer to the tax.
mere of the tummy that the government S. not extrava-
Tepee, if we end they are 'pending more than they were
speeding before. It Ise satisfactory thing to find that taxes
Venom equally levied, or levied in a more scientific man-
see, so that a wrest sum is paid with a lees drain upon the peo-
ple; and our question is not anemia d at all, and our
demand is not answered where government persica still
in spending • lamer sum then is mammary; because,
rely upon it, ear ry pound goveraesset e :prods more
than is neeemary for their wants, is so much taken from
the funds out of which luhour and WARM are found, and
does so mach to drive honest men to the workhouse—and
Moo who suffer most, to crime, to exile, and to the miss
basses which follow of of employment and poverty
in this end ell countries. Now do not imegine that lam one
of those who believe that perliaternt can do any extraordinary
things for anybody here. I believe that when parliament
liss given perfect freedom to the twittery of the people, and
whin it preserves life and propery within the kingdom,
almost all that it can do beyond that, is se to carry on the
deportment% of government, so that it require as little
se possible of contributions from the people is the shape of
hem; that taxes shell b bait en equally according to the
ability of the people to par them ; and that the sums thus
rosined shall be expended with that economy which is
possible, so that you eta obtain an efficient discharge of
the puhlie service,. I have no idea that parliament can
raise wig's, or can gin sly improve trade by any peti-
ole? legislation—sleep: knits, it alone. It cannot make

istimesbwor, or better intni.hed. It eannet make noes
sneer; It cannot make them educated ; it cannot make
thou moral and industrious; it cannot, in fact, gine them
era's; and you map rely upon it that what every man
can &for biros( It is it. oitely Rester th in sr hing that per-
itonea can do for I. jut (Louder:eon.) But, admitting this to
be tine—and say min who tells the workiag-classea or any
ether classes to the contrary deceives and betrays them—
admitting a is to ba true, there I. cimething that parliament
ma dO, and we hays a rigb• to demand that it shall be done.
Well, it can do the. It can make that amount of retrench.
Mal which we believe to he necessary, and which paths-
seat itself mow eeknowledies as rot only necessary, but to a
stasiderable extent nreetizable—(hear, bear)—and it can
shay a great sod prevalent discontent throughout the
meaty, by battier one institutiors upon the affections
sad Minn' of the erect mew s of the people, instead of
hew, ea now, a system by which mix out of omen of all
the grows nits fa the United Kingdom are entirely excluded
from say participation in politeal power. (Chen.) Now,
I fin morally certain that, via in the a. xt Ave yeass, by au
Male co-operation with each other, we may so change the
representatme system in this country as that there shall not
be three men thereafter the; will ever meet together to pea
lion pardament in Leone tf a reasoaellieg of our Tertian-
Me system, or complain that they are unjustly excluded
fen political power. (Cheers.) But then, in attempting
to do this, we must take into mesideration the opinions
which are prevalent—opinions whisk are altogether against

soy eisissipolitkal proceeding in this sanely. Ws mart
Wake by what means we era brag tegether be largest
smaaat of influence, in • rder diet we may sit directly and
Memel, open the goveromint ; and we mot discover by
what pawns we may, (Lot force ouradves, at least worm
ourselves within the pale of ;he constitution to such an ex-
tent that, being there, we may open the doors for the ad-
makes ef a v:st number of others to follow us, (Cheers.)
Yea are aware that, during the last stoics,
Xe. Buse ham suhmitted resolutions similar to those which
helms submitted I. previous se,sions. I am not going to
dhow any points of them hers—that is, how far the "sifter,
shall be extended ; with what alterations or undet what pee
is drunistanees ; but li thick it I. desirable to explain,
wry briefly, what these reso'u.ions wen, in order that we
any judge how far they who were parties to them are really
IlliSaS to wafer political power %pop the people. Thais
realities' weal to Ibis extant : —That the franchise should
be conferred upon all householders ; and in our Cale, that
landed all persona who were in lodgings to distinct that
they claimed to be rated for the poo-. It was not intended
that the payment of rates should be made a point to entitle
a au to the hematite, as it is now, but that all pereons
liable to be ran d—on the hocks as rani—should be en-
titled to the franchise. The principle apes which it was
Used was this—that, nnhai poly, in this country then is
atlas which is not rated for the support of the poor, b
cause it is itself the poor and the pauper clams; and it was
thought that if out of ten men, eight persons, or nine, or
seven were called upon by law out of their industry to sup-
port some other peon who wee in idleness, at least it was
right that thees persons coo called upon to pay out of their
industry should have a voice in the Reeking of the laws by
which, if they an good laws, the pauper ears is small ; sad
if they are br.ii laws, the pauper class is liable to be very
namenne. Well, there is one great difference between
Ibis sad the system that at present 'sins. Notbirg,
pelhaps. was aver devised ap re absurd in principle than
a 101 suffrage. It purposely tee odes almost work-
ing man. When the &Ilona Bill was being diaeuesed by the
cabinet in 1812, it was kr a considerable time a question whe-
ther the saffraje should he 201. oe 101; but finally a 101.
suffrage was fixed woe sad eked upon know-
ing that it would exclude five out of every six of all the
"gown men in the United Kingdom. It was a purposed sad
intentional exclusion of the great mama of the population.
(Rear, bear) Well, now, the penpaieitio Mr. Hume ash-
ratted does sot 'meted" any class; whatever exclusion these
is, is see that operates as mesh Waft the rich as ups*
those who are less rich ; sad it would @Wade the sea
of a peer who had not a house, and was not rated, as
much as it would exclude the son of a peasant. Than
fore, whites'r be the exclusion—be it wise or unwise, I
ea not now d'scuring it—it is an Cla.UPlioll equal to all
clams ; and none mid osv it was unjust, or levied against,
and imposed om, a particular clay. But to pun on to the
freehold, which I viola to explain, as I have heard it to-
fairly represented. We a:snot now discussing whether that
is the poetise suffrage we will have, or one more extended or
more hated. Wren the p tity in favour of a wide extension
of the suffrage becalms* piiwerful enough is the country and
is parlastneat to have a mii lery in "Moe who declare,
es Lord (key declared in Ib3o, treat " he was prepared to
move for a Lase mann of parliamentary reform," then
will be the time when all honest and earliest reformers wiU
pre for each a settlement of this question as shall meet
wits the largest amount of peblie support and
madam. It is use of the great remelts of the
Reform 8.11, that having ma's a great move seventeen years
ago, none sea ray that it is non reasonable to make another
more sow. When the sera qu stisn was discussed, men
opposed ae ea •t a mend that we were wrong is primer pie,
sad that the pita; we thought of would rain the mantra ;
bet 'oboe', soya we are wrong in principle sow; and whoa
we ask that lateiligan t, industri prod. at, and end uly rem
of business—a thousands tt rionhout the country—Anvil
be admitted within On. pen of cur constitution, from whisk
they are at pre.eot exidiled, we support this apse
• treat ventage around, with good hope to work ker
that which a its sty der. *ln nether deny ; and all that
is wanted is Lois. With t. ? .r. to theme two gnat dive. •
se? s—t', • two eltv!si In of h: with niih
sr a if p so -.l • an. nti o it, t e p id to the topintrig.
; it .6 also to be h.p d that to the bor.itighs is

Laneashire the same attention . ill he paid. Now, looking
at the resells of attention to the registration, essay will re-
collect that the elections in this b)ronah, SOWN 25 leen ago,
were dieereerfal to the common seam and morality of the
town. Lock at the enormous expeaditian of money—loak
at the return made to parliament, which was notoriously
against the almost unanimous votes of the populietion of the
borough. But wha- ha. been taw result sines this time ?
Why I can pain* to Mr. Walku, who si • there • he accom-
plished it all in working the rt gistrations in the most ad-
mirable mincer, until, at the lest elution, I tight the whole
espouses were ab0u..151. k awl I have uu doubt that at
a future el Pion you will fad a majority in favour
of thorowtheoiog hlanl pinions doubly, If not trebly,
that by which Mr. Crawford was first returned for this ha-
reuah. This, then, was dour, m •sit than anything else, by a ,
constant minute atter 'too to the regi-tration. Well, suer
we intend, in our tour in Laticashim, to pay this attentive.
I and we hope in the coigne of no very long time to wipe ofl
from this cow.ty the disgrace that we have so J• 701• new
bee of men unrepreseoted. But we Lotted further to extend
our esti beyond the limits of the county, and cuter
Use eorreepenideneo with the committees at Lords,
North Cheshire, with the people of Birmingham, as well as
with the association formed in London ; and thee, through
all pelts of the country to stimulate and ottani.' • system of '
attention to the regi.ter such as we intend to parole in our
own county. Then we come to the question of the 40e. ,
franchise; and here two things are to be done. The Sot
or one at least, is to cell up in el those persons, whose opi-
nions are roppoed to he in harmony with our own, and who
are able at once to qualify themselves for toe county ; to ask
them to do so upon the same scum—l do nut mean in the
same hasty and shan't convulsive manner in which it wee
done in the year 18444. on purpose to abandon the corn
law—nor that men should join together, g e into a neigh-
bouring panty, and buy large prepeny there, for the sake
of qualifying themselves—but that we should ask them
in their own county to spend tweuty, thirty, forty, er
fifty pounds in cultivation, and thus pay the county in
which they live. In Lancashire there are thousands who are
qualifying themselves, and we hops to establish ie all the
awes, in this town, the example, what is called a freehold
Inn! society, upon the pinciple of the s :ciety ehtablished in
Birmingham, and which has had followers in a great many
other towns—a society composed of a great number of men,
principally men who lip upon wages. Prudent, saving, and
sober men, awe liiipat and political is their feelings, shell be
invited to join this society ; paying ia subscription., se they
are able, somewhat upon the prineiple of your own building
societies ; but with the serves object of qualifying every
member. In Birmingham, in Coventry, ante in some (Misr
town, the directors of time societies have purchased pl-4s
of land close en the borders of the towa-8, 10, 14, of 20
acres. Getting all these plots of land at once, they obtain it
at a price which hi very much lower than if a party of
person were to cocas in and each boy a plot. The land
being bought, a street is run throughout and across it,
thus dividing it into such shim se will asks each plot woe th
some 40s. or 50r. a year. Then by some niede-1 suppose
of drawing lots—these pieta come into the poesemion of
the various subscribers to the society. If a man can rakn
as much money, he may build a cottage, or he may let the
land to another on lease, the land being worth to him 40..
a you, clear. He becomes thus • frerlholder of the cone",
entitled to be registered, and to vote as mach as it his estate
extended over half the county it elf. I have heard object-Hoes
to this ; I have heard men say, " I won't go and get a vote in
that way ; I ought to hive a vote as a man, sad I will bay, a
vote that way or not at all." I cannot help a man like that ;
he will not help himself. There are very few good things in
this life that men would give no: if we make any progress in
the world we must make it by our own exertions. Teter
are obstacles at every step, every die of our lives, whatever
position in life we occupy ; and to it is in the obtaining ,1
political rights. We know that there is a party in this
country, a large and powerful one, that is very much afraid
lest the people should get their political rights, inasmuch a.
they know that, whenever this takes place, the people will
have a governmeht tarried on not for the sake of clam in,
tenet, but with a regard to the welfare of the whole people,
and they tear, therefore, the admission of the people to poli-
tical power. Well, you cannot coax them to give up their
ponies' power, and by soft words induce them to surrender
it. The asexietion which has been formed in Man.
cheater hopes to have branches is all the surrounding
town sad vill.ges. Why 'should it not ? The men who
are concerned is it are well-intentioned and honour-
able. Not exclusive in their objects, they ask nothing fur
themselves which they are not freely willing to give to
ethers. By going round and visiting the variGus ly,rou•ks
in this county, they will he able to form a committee in each
for the purpo.e of combining for registration and the esta-
blishment of freehold land eccieoes, by which vast numbers
may be invited to purchase themselves into the franchise.
Suppose this was to go on in Laneashiu and Yorkshire;
there are mere than three mihims of people in the two
counties, and not a more industrious population in toe
kingdom, nor one mord able t e exereise great political in-
Hoene... Why should it be that from there two counties,
there should go a sirgle man to parliament who is rot
in favour of ngid economy, and of the admission of the
poop!s to political porer ) (Cheers.) It con only be
because we do not use the instruments that are in oar
heads—because we are divided, to some extent, end don't
put shoulder to shoulder, tor the purpose of carrying hoe
effect them principle. which, nntoriously, the vast mein-
rity el the people hold. It is because I wish to express
these opinions— to state here, as I have stated them else-
where, in the House of Commove, and not less boldly
than in this hall, or on any platform—it is &those I hold
these opinions, and that I believe the very safety of capital,
of industry, of profits, of wages—the safety of everything
which I. valuable in this country—depends upon our going
on in secordatue with the intelligent opinions of the public :
that I have come here to-night, foe the purpose of be-
seeching those men, every one who may hear roe, to give his
cordial and hearty support to what I believe to be one of the
moat honest movements that ever was set on toot by honest
men is any free country. (Loud cheers )
Mr. BRIGHT having taken his seat amidst a hunt of
cheering, Mr. is,Con Saloon, jun., moved, and Mr. LP/a-
line seconded:
. . .

" That this meeting resolves to co-operate with the Man-
chester Financial and Paliamentary Reform Assiciation,
and that the to:lowing pentltmen be appiated the cum
mittee to carry nut the shave objects: Mr. John Petri.,
chairman; Mr. George Ashworth, Mr. James Twiedale,
Mr. Jao.b Bight, fun.. Mr. John Hoyle, Mr. Thomas
Ashworth, Mr. Thomes L'vesey. Mr. Charles Walker, Mr.
Robert Pagan, and Mr. Henry Lag."
The resolution was carried.

Votes of thanks having. bten given to Mr. Prestift, and
to the chairman, the niceting separated.

MEETING OF LABOURERS AT SWINDON.

A meeting for the promotion of !Ws object was bed
in a field at Swindon New Town, tsar to the railway am-'
patty's factory, oa Monday lut, and was well attended, from
three to fine hundred persons, chiefly of the working claws,
being present. The chair wee taken by WILLIAM SPACM-
, MAN labouring man, who exilained the object of the
in
I .aailig in a eleu and sensible address. He was followed by
a person of the name of WATSON, who recommended his
brother workmen to join the London same:lotion, as by hr.
biting thumelves, u universal suffrage men, they would not
be so likely to attain their object on by gradually getting it
thrush thou who, although they do sot go so far u them-
selves, yet are travelling in the same direction. Mr. MORIU.
SON, a chartist, next spoke, end also expressed his willingness
to assist the Londe n easociation. & vote of thanks was
given to William Bushmen, and with three hearty cheers
for him and for the cease of reform, the meeting separated.

NARROW ESCAPE ON THE MIDLAND LINE.—A
correspondent hes •oretuded to us the following statement,
to show the importance of time ready means being prnided
for ralway passengers, in cases of danger communecatiug
wi b the guard :—" On Wednesdayweek I was a passenger
by the halt-past seven sm. train on the klidland line. All
went on well until we had palmed the Royston station. I
soon after observed the carriage in which I sat was filling
with dust. I changed my seat, and opened the opposite
window, in the hope that the dust would blow out. I then
said to a person in the seine compartment of the car rises
that the dust came from underneath, and soon aUsr I
felt titers was something wrong. The carriage began'
to shake, and the oscillation increased in triplet:toe until
I could not keep my seat. It i. impossible to convey
any idea of the strong motion which in a short
time it Required. I immediately showed at the top
of my voice, Btop, stop.' Being in the carnage next to the
luggage van, in which was the guard, I succeeded in making
him aware of our danger, but he could ant make the engine-
man hear hint, though he shouted until he woo mutually
hoarse the next day. We remained in this terrible eta*a for
at kat' five minutes, the train the while goiog at from 26
to 30 stiles an hour. Eventually the train was stepped. We
Rot 0111' • end on examining the carriage I found that the
hook which connects the springs was gone, sod the tire of
the fleet wheel es the right side was also gone, whilst the
carriage itself was off tha line." It has long been suggested
—among others by the late George Stephenson—that a tem-
porary be:l-wire would, in the majority of seek eases as the
above, answer the perms: it might with ease be conveyed
from carriage to carriage, and also be constructed in such a
manner that it could be removed almost instantancondy in
sue mews were taken from or added to the train. We
trust that railway companies will turn their attention to the
matter.—Derby Afereww.

SMUGGLING AT 800TIIAMPTON.-At the beginning
of this week a small vessel ease up Southampton-water
aka was overhauled by the °Serra, but nothing liable
11 s duty was Clod on bawd. She then &mimed a few yards
off Southampton for two days, this IBM on board of her ap-
parently unconcerned, and no one suspected that anything
sets wrong on board. On Wednesday she was »Iva very
deliberately up Itchen Creek, when she was pounced upon
by the us °Roan, and nearly 130 tubs of eontnbend
spirit were found on board of her. It app.», that daring
her quiet stay at Southampton some of the sailors got drunk,
and wan overheard to say something which caused suspicion.
Incormation of this circumstance was given to the revenue
officers, which led to the seizare. The smuggler escaped on
Ending the officers coming towards their vessel is the Itchen,
but four of five per-on- have been apprehended ea suspicion
of being ones, reed in the translation.
SUNDERLAND DOCK.-RIVAL CLAIMS. We Un-
derstand, says the Sunderland Herald, that the sum of
four vausand puede nubeen awarded by the referees as
,
' the value of the sea beach and part of the town anon
re-
quired for the dock. The proportioes of this sum are to be
litigated between the Lord Bite/ of Dorhans, who is lord
of she man", and owner of the aril and minerals, and the
freemen and stalling/re, who e aims to be owners of the 'AI
and h..rh.g. of tha town minor. We he sr also that nine
thow.and out& h :a b. to award. d •cr the freemen a; d
I scr. ten hat chrtioo of the rao.a rola...red far the Pensnk r
Breach Railway.