The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

cept it was the desire of the meeting. A gentleman from
the Gloucester Journal applied this morning I. be admitted
to the room, and he was admitted on the same distinct un-
derstanding. Earl Fitzhardinge's letter is not, therefore,
public property, and we cannotlet one party see a communi-
cation from another.
The deputation retired for the third time and alma"
im-
mediately returned,
when Mr. Bluzsoi.Tie sad, " Mr.
Grantley Berkeley will write to the meeting." .
The CHAIHWAN.--The question before the meetoii; is the
consideration how far the position of the Liberal part; in the
I division has been Erected by the recent publications in the
papers, taken in connection with the letter just read front
Earl Fitzhardinge.
Mr. NiewoLsos said one most important object was to as-
certain the fact that there were independent electors in the
oounty, for it had been generally questioned. (Hear.) The
nine gentlemen who met in that room in September last, and
their honourable member, had, unintentionally he believed,
conveyed to the country generally the impression that one
lordly will ruled the representative of the division, so far at
least as the Liberal party was concerned ; that the Liberal
electors might perhaps be goaded into rebellion in defence
of an old and valued representative, but that generally speak-
ing they were quite passive, in fact were not the first but the
last and least in the matter. Their firstduty was to put them.
selves right with the public. He believed there were hide-
pendent electors in the county. (Hear.) He did not believe
that the middle classes, whatever their superiors might have
done, had done aught to give credence to the idea, that they
would give in their adhesion to any man who did not act in
accordance with their honest opinions, or that they were
under any improper influence whatever. They knew the
political principli s of Earl Fit/herding., and they approved
of them: had he been a commoner they would have been
proud to elect him, and they had no objection to take a
younger brother whom they might suppose to have been
pretty much under his lordship's guidance, but though
they liked that noble family, and though it was to them •
proud satisfaction to have them as leaders, they had never,
and they would never recognise them as dictators. (Cheers.)
It had been said by an eminent authority that large bodies
were like the full whose head was pushed forward by its
tail; now the Liberal electors hid no objection to be
the tail, provided the head moved as they directed—follow-
ers they might be but not slaves. (Cheen.) They were
willing to giro precedence to wealth and rank, if wealth and
rank concurred with them ; they were quite willing to be
the working men, and to give all the honour and to pay
all possible respect to others, but they would rather net have
the name if they had not the reality of representation.
(Cheers.) They would rather not be represented at all,
than not Ise represented by the object of their free choice.
(Hear.) There were other matters to come before the
meeting, and he would no: at present take up more of their
time. It was their first duty to show the public that they
were independent electors.
The CHAIRMAN invited any other gentleman present to
deliver his sentiments. They had not come with any regu-
larly prepared resolutions, but if any were proposed, he
hoped it would be unanimously.
Mr. NlestoLswe said he had hastily sketched out a reso-
lution, which he would lay before the meeting to deal with
it at :t thought pruper—During the conversation which
ensued, the following letter was handed
. .

King's Head Hotel, Nov. 3.
To J. Bennett, Esq., of CbashilL —Sir : I address SOU on observing
that your name ta at the brad of the requidtho. sin Modeling • prirnoe
meeting, as I am cos, informed, here this day. Though your
circulars are printed, and headed " West Gloucester Representa-
tion," you refuse me admittance. I then take this hurried opportu-
nity, the only one you give me, to state, that I object to such a con-
vention as this, as being improper and unconstitutional, and open to
iruspirio. ,n that the custle inituence ha. been at work. 1 deuy that
it can be a fair meeting for nay poliarnl purpnse, 88 regarda
myself or the constituency generally, for other reasons an well
as the one that Mr. Josiah Hunt is in the chair. lie has already
written and published a riulmf ldtrr ayainst me, totally throw-
ing overboard all other interests In the county but the one he ad-
vocates. 1 object to a.l and every meeting on public question•,
with a view to the representation, that it is necessary to guard from
free discussion, with a locked door, and I protest signing the injurious
fact of the presence of two reporters of the press, whose report your
deputation informs me that the meeting will control or suppress al-
gether, ea suits their pleasure. I must, perjurer, content myself fur
the present with this hurried statement of my belief, that the meeting
la called on erroneous grounds, but under a good sounding tanner;
that I must suppose that the meeting is aware that Mr. Granville
Berkeley, the " nominee" of the meeting of September, was to be
at the Caustic but night, and that as 1 had no intimation at the Con-
vention, and therefore no opportunity of writing a studied or delibe-
rate letter, such as the one sent by Earl litaharclinge, but which I
am refused a sight 01, I am nut able to refute anything whirl. may
/lore bee, falo•ly Gorged to your notice, and to my prejudice. I tell
you, your present proceeding, en far as it has gone, is in no way cal-
culated to "secure thin unanimity" your pre,ent letter states to be
so desirable. I remain, faithfully yours,

ICA TL :T F. DUO( V.LEY.

Mr. VISOER said they would receive the letter as aproteat.
If it had been a public meeting there might have been some-
thing in it.
The CH A 'AMAX said, after Mr. Grantley Berkeley's letter,
he could not but leave it to the meeting to decide if he (the
Chairman) was a proper person to remain in that position ;
if they thought otherwise he hoped that some one would
immediately move that he leave the chair (cries of "No,
no"). He said the next question to etm.ider was, whether
or not it was desirable to put Mr. G. Berkeley into nomina-
tion at the next election.

Mr. HlCks remarked that they could not say whether he
should be put in nomination er not ; all that they could de-
cide was whether or not they should aupport him. Mr.
ISGEIL did not think the matter required much considera-
tion; they had only to look to Mr. Grantley Berkeley's
letters and acts. In many respects he was a good member ;in
many others he was not; and, above all, was the fact of his
being ready, on account of some private matter of his own,
to throw the constituency over. That fart was before the
public, and even if all other matters were thrown out of con-
sideration, that must weigh with them ; they ought not to
put the honouralde gentleman again in the position of being
able, on account of some private pique, to turn round upon
the Liberal electors, and perhaps shut them out of the repre-
sentation altogether.
Atter some further discussion, resolutions were passed. 1.
Regretting the proceedings of the nine gentlemen on the
15th of September last, and Mr. Grantley Berkeley's letters
on the subject, as conveying an unjust imputation that the
electors were under improper influences. 2. That the meet-
ing viewed with dissatisfaction Mr. Granticy Berkeley's
public conduct on the corn and game-law questions. 3, That
the necessary steps should be token for obtaining a correct
representation of the Liberal electors of the county. After
which the meeting separated.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Nor. 3.

VIOLENCE TO OFEICEII.I OF THE BOARD OF WORKS.—
Mr. O'Connell, in his speech at Conciliation-hall, of which I
forwarded a sketch on yesterday, adverted to the violence
committed in the county of Clare upon some officers of the
Board of Works, and be earnestly exhorted the people to
abstain from excesses at once foolish and criminal.—The fol-
lowing proclamation has been issued by the Lord Lieutenant,
denouncing those outrages as no less criminal in themselves,
than cruel towards the destitute people:
"To THE INHADITANTN 09 THE BARONY or UPPER TULLA, COrXTT
CLARE, AND THE ADJOININU DIETNICTS.—The Lord Lieutenant has
learned with the deepest concern that occurrences hare taken plate
in the barony of Tull, and part of the adjacent districts, which
have obstructed the operation of those mean• of employment fee the
labouring poor in their present distress which the Lemslature intended
to afford. Large presentment. have ben made for ptiblic work- in that
barons*, a great proportion of which (exceeding 20,0001.) has already
received the approval of the proper authorities. Ilia Excellency
looked with confidence to the commencement and preoi of those
works, as affording to the industrious and wellsiilgeed Ihe mesas of
immediate employment, and a prospect of continued support during
the approaching winter. Competent officers were provided and
employed in the necessary arrangements for setting the works in
operation, some of which have already commenced. His Ex-
cellency has, however, learned that the preparation, made
have for the present been frustrated by a system of insubordina-
tion and outrage, which endangers the lives of the officers and over-
seers, and deters the poor and peaceable inhabitant. from Ithouringon
the works. The Lord Lieutenant desires most earnestly to point out
to the people the serious consequences to themselves from ouch a
course of conduct. The obstruction to ofßeers ui the discharge of their
duties, creates in the first instance confusion and alarm ; bt has the
ulterior effect, &heady apparent, of necessarily suspending all further
preemie in the work.; and, combined with the outrages committed
on private persons and property, must preclude may attempt for the
soutinued employment of the destitute pour. The work. in the dis-
trict have in consequence been suspended. Ample arrangements have
been made, and all the powers placed at the disposil of the Executive
will be exerted for preening the live. and properties of the peaceable
inhabitants, repressing outrage, and bringing to justice the dis-
turber of the public peace and the perpetrators of crime. But his
Excellency woold hope that the good sense of the people will resume
Ito influence—that they will see the follyand the crone they are guilty
of, in thus wantonly inter feriug with the means provided for the sup-
port of the destitute in tics time of distress, and that he will have the
satisfaction of receiving full assurance of their return to a better
course of conduct—of their cordial acquiescence in the arrange-
ments made fur their employment, and of their determi-
nation to refrain from further obstruction or injury to persona
in laving out or superintending the public works. His Ear. racy
will then gladly direct the immediate resumption of those works, in
the conviction that they will prove the means of preserving the people
from that destitution and ruin which a perseverance in their poet line
of conduct must, he fears, inevitably produce.—Dublin Castle, Nov. 2.
By his Excellency's command, T. N. KLEINDTON.
ADVICE FROM THE COMMISSARIAT TO THE LANDLORDS.
--The following letter of advice as to the mode of operating
upon the food markets in remote districts, has just been
published
Commissariat Relief-office, Dubin Ca, le, Oct. 27.
Gentlemen—l have laid your letter of the 24th instant, before
! Comminau-v-General Sir Randolph J. Routh, with the resolutions
! adopted by relief committee for the barony of laehiquin, propos-
ing that 2,000 i. out of the suns presented in barony sessions for
relief works, be allocated for providing cheap food : also
that all available home corn now in the country or in the hands
of speculators be purchased by government for the supply of the
population. I am directed to state that the Commireary.Gerwral does
not feel called upon to express any opinion with respect to these reso-
lution.; but he desires, to take this opportunity of drawing the atten-
tion of the committee to the ooneideration of means for establishing a
loan fund to augment the supply of food on sale in the district. In
the Dromholm and Roesnevlugh relief district, county Donegal, loans
exceeding 1,0307. have been placed by landlords in charge of the com-
mittee, to be employed with the erthnary relief fund in purchasing
food ; and if lone can be obtained by your committee, he recom-
mends that all the food purchased should be placed for wile with inch-
, victuals of character, allowing them 51. per cent. for storing and selling,
and fixing a price sufficient to cover the find cost and all charges, in-
cluding thecommisaion. Ile desires to refer the oommitteeto the acoom-
panying papers on the means of providing cheap fool from home corn,
and begs to observe that, were the committee to employ a fund in
providing food at prices under the rates which traders should charge
fa order to makes fair profit, a pressure would be invited which would
soon exhaust the fund, and the business of traders would be stowed,
or so diminished as to leave no inducement for the competition on
which the community must mainly rely for eubeistence. It Ls further
to be observed that the present high prices tend to econcoaine con-
sumption, and must oleo induce the importation of rumpling. I have
the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
W. &was; EateetAl7.
To Hugh 4Thoghlen and John Oakum. Esgs.,
Belief Committee, Ennis.
ZNOLISH TESTIMONY TO IRISH DESTITETION.—At a
meeting of an agricultural society held in Cork, on Satur-
day, the following speech was made:—" Mr. Watson, an
English gentleman, spoke of the advantages which the soil
of Ireland possessed for the cultivation of green crops; and
' stated that he had taken some pains, by personal observa-
tion, to discover the amount of distress which existed
amongst the poor of this ce;untzy. About a week ago, he