The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-29 00:00:00

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LANCASHIRE.
MEETINO OF THE MANCHESTER AND SALFORD RE-
'Ea LEW). —A meeting of this body, sympathisers with their
countrymen throes the Channel, was held on Monday even-
ing, in • private room belonging to them in Salford. -Nearly
600 people—all the room would hold—were crowded toge-
ther by right o'clock, and at that hour the chair having been
taken by a working man named Anderson, another work.
man, John Flinn, moved a resolution to the effect that state
prosecutions are unjust and impolitic, and that:all laws which
fetter free thought are unjust an a well-governed state. He
alluded to the state of all Europe struggling for freedom, and
said government here met demands for reform by state
prosecution and threats of the gibbet. There were 50,000
Irishmen in London, and 30,000 in Manchester : was it
likely they would stand quietly by and see their conntrymen
butchered ? There was a power in Ireland to face any danger,
and the first shot at that power would be the signal for
levelling the aristocratic power in England with the dust.
Joseph Barlow seconded the resolution, defining sedition as
a telling of the truth, and said if they were satisfied with
being ruled with a gag in their mouths they woull become
nothing more than slaves.—A young man named Dixon sup.
ported the resolution, and said the confederates in Dublin
did not now sale men to petition, but to arm. Tke confede-
rates of Manchester had pawed a resolution proclaiming
that they would eatabliah a national guard in Manchester.
(Cheers.) That cheer proved to him that the repeaters in
Salford were prepared to go along with those of Manchester
and Ireland. Were they to see every other country on the
face of the globe raising the standard of liberty and them-
selves eontiuue to be slave ? (Cheers.) The only way to
make an impression on government was, to let government
see they had something in their heads of which it had cause
to be afraid. He suggested the calling of a meeting of the
confederates in Manchester neat Saturday afternoon, to send
delegates to London. From that meeting government would
know there were 40,000 men in Manchester deter-
mined to have the charter at the point of the
bayonet —The resolution was carried unanimously.—
J. Hoyle moved a resolution condemning government for
the Irish prosecutions, and pledging the meeting to assist
their Irish brethren in their struggles against government.
—Pierick Rea seconded the motion, which was supported
by J.O.Clarke, and carried.—Daniel Cochrane moved a com-
mittee to call meetings and raise subscriptions, which was
carried.—John Pickering moved that every country had a
right to an independent government, and that it was unjust
and tyrannical on the part of the English to withhold from
Ireland that government which a majority of her people de-
manded.—Mr. Win. Dixon moved an instruction to the com-
mittee to assist in getting up a meeting to loran a national
guard, and raid the time was come when they must break
through the aw.—Mr. Flinn seconded the motion, which
the chairman resisted on the ground that there was sufficient
moral force to gain what they were seeking, but the meeting
overpowered bins, and carried the motion.—Dixon said, give
him the musket, he would soon have the vote.
INCREASE OF POVERTY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Is MANCH Eirrua.—On Thursday, the foilowing startling sta•
tistics were laid before the Manchester board of guardians
by a member of the board (Mr. Hough), in moving a vote
of thanks to the officers in their employ during the past year,
f.r their services, and the manner in which they lied endea-
voured to discharge the extraordinary duties impesecl upon
' them by the great and prolonged sufferings of the working
classes. To show how greatly the exertions of their officers
had been increased, he said the number receiving oat-door
relief in the quarter ending March, 1847, 1,1111 25,15.5, at a
I coat of 8,2661. 12s. bd.; quarter ending June, 43,139, at
I a cost of 13,5301. 35.; September, 42,658, at a cost of
15,778 i. Os. 2d. ; December, 38,5.52, at a cost of 13,736/.
; being a total of 149,504 eases, at a cost of
' 51,311 L 4s. 9]. He said all these oases had to be regularly
visited and reported, and he believed in no instance had a
I relieving officer been unprepared with Lis booko written up
at the weekly meetings. To show the amount of labour, he
stated, that in one week (that ending July 3), 9,396 fami•
lies, comprising 23,062 persons, were visited and relieved with
a total sum of money to.be paid them amounting to 1,488!. 9a.;
whilst in the same week the Manchester workhouse
contained 1,371 persons; the Tit-street branch. 540 ; the
Prestwich, 110 ; the Canal-street, 156 the Marshall-str. et
Fever Hospital, 192 ; the Millgate street do., 388 ; and the
Swinton schools, 643: or a total of 3,400. The medical
staff, included in this vote, had administered aid go promptly
and successfully, that of 13,869 patients attended in the
Tear, not one had preferred a complant. There bad been
4.071 patients in the hospitals attacked with fever, and of
these the deaths were 592.—Mr. Rickards, another member
of the board, said there ought to so fl.rth with this state-
ment another, showing to the pour at what a sacrifice of
comfort, and even more than comfort, this relief was afforded '
by the classes who had to pay for it and this statement
woe that in order to enforce the rates during the past year, I
2,766 summonses had to be taken out Worn the magi-
grates, and that 563 householders bad to be sold up—
This last statement excited some surprise, and the chairman
said he thought 563 warrants of distress mignt have been
applied for, but not executed.—Mr. Rickards said he nod
applied to the clerk, the churchwarden;., and overseers, for
the figures, and was assured that that was th: number
executed.
CHESHIRE.
COMMISSIONS BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
Cit ESIIIILE.—C. IL B. Legh, Esq., to be Captain ; J. Fenton,
gent., to be Lieutenant; W. D. Nicholls, gent., to be
Cornet; P. Darker, gent., to be Lieutenant; iu the King's
Heriment of Cheshire Yeomanry Cavalry.

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AN INSOLVENT SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS'
INIPKIBONIIIINT.—On Friday Mr. Franeillon, the judge of
the Gloucester county court, held a court at the Shire-hall to
hear cases of insolvency, when Samuel Hooper, formerly of
Tinley, and afterwards of Brockthrop, farmer, applied on his
petitton to take the benefit of the act. The i.solvent's land-
lord opposed his discharge under the act on the ground of
fraud. It appeared from the examination that on the in-
solvent receiving notice to quit his farm he sold off all his
stock and effects, which realised 6001., and when the land-
lord applied for his rent (2501.)he was told that there was no
money for him, as it had all been spent already in the pay-
ment of other debts. These other debts were all due, or
al'eged to be due, to the insolvent's own relatives, and the
judge, after hearing the case, expressed his conviction that
these were fictitious debts, and had been concocted for the
purpose of accounting fee the application of the 600/. ; but
that even if such debts had been really owing, their payment
to the disparagement of the landlord amounted to a frauoie
lent preference, and as such was sect rely punishable by law.
The judge further commented in indignant terms on the
suspicious and co,,tradictory statements made by the insol-
vent and his wife, and be concluded by ordering Hooper ti
be imprisoned for the longest period authorised by law,
namely three years.