The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1849.

FINANCIAL AND

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

MEETING AT BERKHAMPSTEAD.
A seettLif the County of Heetford Edam Re-
MO held at the Goat Ina, at Gnat Bah.
O
misseday evening, Mr. J. HALL in the chair.
. DO the secretary, attended to explain the
*este rya the society. Be referred, at aaamerabla
IniW As berm expenditure of the governmese, and =-
how It bad anon. • Be spoke of the largo increase
astay awl navy, the disproportiosate =abet of diem
as 'elevated with the nutter Di men ; the high selsries of
officers sad their eseneske with the aristocracy ; the et
elusive character el the colonial governments ; the large-
ness of salaries to government officers genetelly ; the Wee-
ails and long dandies of pensions : der on the improper
objeses on whisk some of the large pinata= have been
bestowed. Be neat adverted to the necomity for =dia.
sustary refeent—alleded to the =pante of election eon-
tests, to the anomalies of the existing freneitiss, to
the =comity for the ballot, to the evils of long podia-
meets, and to the antsk distribetion of eleatoral power, de.
Be thin proceeded to =plea the plans of the society
showed the importance of attend's, to the qualification and
registration of electors • urged the elusion and non.eleeto s
to bend themselves together, and end petitions to !parliament
in favour of faandel and parliamentary raker= He invited
the farmers of the meaty to join the society ; and refuted to
extracts from the 'peaches of Eul Grey and of several tory
county members to show that no hope remained es to the
restoration of protection.
A resoled= approving the objects and plane of the society
was unanimously passed and a petition to the Holm of
Commons for ithencise and parliamentary refute was
adopted.—lieveral members were then enrolled ; and, thanks
bating been voted to the chairman, the meeting broke op.

NAVAL

PORTSMOUTH, MAT 17 —Orrick& sailed during the night
for Davenport. Apollo. troop ship, with invalids from Me-
diterranean, arrived last enniag at 8 o'clock. She bring*
SO news.

MILITARY.

THZ VACANT COLONILMEIL—MaJoraosoraI Mr John
Grey is (as we anticipated on Monday) to scooted to the
eoloneloy of the sth Foot.—Maor-Geueral Eradiates,
C. 8., the inspecting talker of cavalry, is to succeed the late
Sir Robert Thomas Millen, as colonel of the 15th Raman.
—lt is said that Major General Hare Claws, C.B is to
succeed to the 73rd Foot.—No saeoessor has been yet named
for the celoseicy of the 28th Foot, vacua by the death of
8k Edward Paget.
laarrawurv-Gattlutu. SIR Gronaa Anion IS, It is
stated, to succeed the late Sir Edward Paget as Governor of
Chelsea Hospital.
MAJOIVOINERAL SIR JOSEPH TRAMMELL, who MR-
moulded the cavalry at Chillianwallab, is, it is said, to be
appointed a Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. Major-
General Which, who abo distinguished ►imself in the rt cent
Indian campaign, is to be appointed a Knight Companion of
the Bath, and Colonel Colin Campbell, of the 98th Regi-
ment. is to receive the same appointment as the last-man
timed calor.

SPORTING.

TATTERSALLII.-THIIItBDAT.

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The run yesterday was all in favour of the meat arrival
at Danebury—Chatterer—and so strong was it that in less
than a ample of hours 7to 1 was taken freely ; the outlay
was heavy. The Flying Dutchman remains precis) yas on
Wednesday, vis., at 2 to 1; 9 to 4, or evea less, would have
been taken: his companion, Elthiron, as the odds will show,
was out of favour. Nunnykirk wu backed for several
hundreds at 4to 1, bet Manor did not maintain the posi-
tion he occupied on Wednesday. Scarcely any business was
done except on the four leading favourites. Very little was
done on the Oaks ; but Glues and Sister to Arkwright may
be selected as having been most conspicuously in favour. The
latest pries* were--
MAT.
I tot ept Thins Dutchman II to 1 eget The Knout (t)
4 —1 Nnonyldsk (t) 30 I Hosoyeomb (t)
II I Wiese (t ato 1) 30 -- I Old Don Tucker
7 —1 Chatterer (t) SO —1 —cold Fez (t 1000
13 1
111 1 ffithira (t) 66 1 Iletapir
1 Valicen (t nOs 1)
By the &Pk of Mr. apse, several bete taken by Wm In Ida own
pas, but ea 1111110 Wit of other patios, Pocono ?obi.

3 to I opt Jobs Ws lot
11 3 Olson (6 to 1 t
T— 1 Chultsabetty)
13-3 —Slater to ArkirTiOt
(t to 1)

6 to 1 apt Woodlark (t)
16 1 Lady 3 (t)
13 1 Lady (t)
16 1 Wort Country lose
1e 1 —Eve