The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-14 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1848.

into consideration, and ultimately eitOohed OM to interfere
with the nuctiog, if it were conducted in a peaceable man-
ner; but that City attempt et a procerion through the streets
should Ir. prevented. This determination of the authorities
was, we believe, communicated to several of the chartist
leaders, and haw were posted and circu aced to make the
aatne k Every proau mail measure was also adopted
by the Lord Poiret, sherd, and other otficiels, to secure the
peace of the et y and to entente compliance with thtir pro-
clout 111 l .
isee tune appointed for the meeting was half-past six
u'elock, but at •tt hour seemly a thousand pi nons had as-
s. mhled on Vie Links. A small platform we erected for the
acconitivioation nl th, speakers, .1 Ireton it we early emu.
pod, but the attendance not being very lar.ra, the proceed-
togs del not .°m alt nee till after wren o'clock. Meanwhile
the orators itw tel ooking wistfully around for their fol-
lowers, their eyes be •g mainly direct. to the Meadow-
wit ace they exceed to see their Leith friends
emerge in pompous procezion. At lust a cheer was heard
Irmo the, weer, *hot teamed out to he a 11/117 of twelve or
fourteen persuna with a couple of 8 nes, which they had un-
furl. d *kin they enteral on the go n, and accompanied
with a pate of thooto.s met a drum, whose discordant
sounds were emitted lolly when they toed r. acaerl within 100
yani• m inn hit tings The clortiet lead. rs seemed to be quite
in at I rat toy to delielet on receiving Vie vast accession, and
cheered the ploy Tacit; r mely. Tone or four additional
flife, Leh with half a dos n of follower. or so, afterwards
came = ecultiag in by the side of the Links, but of the ap-
proach of the L centred. rav a there we yet un indication.
Seversl eosirl.l. h triog a,h, el out to those on the hustings to
begin, oboist hel -past oven,
John Wont, n ow of some notoriety, was called to the
chair. Ile opeaed tee I roccolingo in a 'peed. comparatieely
mild tool weeded, tie *hoer tenor ut which showed no great
teiret her martyrdom. The tulle. fluent speakers, however,
male up for the lack of pluca on tar p ertof the chairman.--
Mr. 11.eoki.ie having delivered a tolerably seditious harangue,
ho ao-enereeded by o blin man of the name of Cockburn,
a chartist of the physical torce school, who argued that ea
the goo romen• ruled by force and fraud, the people wool.'
he juotitiol in u lug the some inArume is to obtaintheirjust
rights. The next sp, ak.l was Mr. Hamilton, who we very
I,C-01111 ft/ everything save the people's chatter, and
eh., roues. ll el the me. tom to orpieuine themselves into
Cub. tel sections, and to obtain meeske:o and bayonets so as
ts he ready to &lend themselves °gainet the attacks of their
oppreeaoro Or. Convents and Mr. M ecru° of Leith also
Adele. aed the or etiog in senile strains, and rmolutions
were a.tooted empreolog as oniehment at the proloand igno-
r enee or wilted tool MI. i 'us cal-ehoud which Lord John
Newell uttered, when he declared the people of this country
11 i•Nee winded the re furor a merited by Moore. Hume,
C b len, and Co., nor by Ferretti.. O'Connor ; and pledgin
the meeting not to rent con:raced till the charter becomes
-be low of the land.
Att r the speechifying W. eon, laded, the Chairman an-
nounced th it in ord. r to wee the lie din ct mute emphati-
cally to Len., J ihe Russell's statement, it woo proposed to
'eke the number ut those present, and he there fore re-
qu.strel that they shout t form thenwely. s into procession of
six abreast and marl round the links to be counted. The
re solution was at mice age. eel to and acted upon. Never was
a tabor step Wt. n. Scarcely a Worth of the aesemblage ac-
know!edgeel themselves to he chartists and j..ineel the procee-
pi ni. Ott being numbered it was f and there were only 300
Mee, which, at the roe of six per tile, gave 1,800. But, in
(sc., th number includes a greet number of boys and lads,
And glows the tad row of six while frequently it consisted of
three er four.
Th s sad result, of course, we too mortifyinz to he acknow-
tedg.O. A hoe xuhterfug, was the only alteriative, aid one
was soon invented in the mind of the cowardly chrarm in.
lie accordiemly !stood up sod jokingly remarked, the as they
wens not yet acquainted with military order, the nearest
way to are at the truth was for the crowd to stand in a
built A:11.1 itif measured. Some of the spou'ers then came
down, and Jet pretending to pace round the spot, the rot
doulroble John Grunt, the chains.' in of the meeting, haul the
tr• par Ile itnpudeuce and effrontery to declare that there
w. to 43000 chortler* present. The atmouncemeut
only excited delimit in t o minds of more than
hell of thoo• present, though, no dould, the small con-
temptible uoth r which colotittord the proceeton could
easily swallow this croweing test of teeir gullibility. At the
utmo-t or dos not think the whole assemblage on the ground
exceeded 8,000, and of these, as was indicated by the selected
standard ut the chartist leaders themselves, they had no
r ght to drain more then 1,1100 as their follow. re, ebout 300
or 400 of whom were palpably below 21 y. are of age.
Af er giving three cheers for the charter the meeting re-
p armed. Out reaching th • font of the main avenue to the
adoes, a portion Oi the crowd having thrown some stones
at a b.tdy 04 sped.. rotistamea who were parading at that
point, the lato r charged, and pot them to rout in an instant.
A. Forrest-street a party of police and of special constables
were drawn across to present the mob pawing along, which
has the effect of greatly hastening its dispersion.

PROVINCIAL
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
LlNCULNSllloo.—Orateful ahuwera are exercising a very
benefit:ill Lllit2. uce °line Cm wheat cr ma around Lincoln,
which up 0 all aorta ,•t land look exceedingly healthy, and I
grow with oum aig rapidity alriway there are some por-
tions o, whoa. an ear. For th • turnips the daily shower",
have halm vo, ry twasonably. In the imnediate vicinity of
Stamford the cutt.ng of h.ay h u b•-en commenced. There is
p of an g.uu. dune.• it ergilahina .11 nearly ill kinds,
including a fair 'fled ,it fruit, particularly gooseberries, so
that a prottuutore autumn may he antmipxted.

LANCAMIIRE.
THE CHARTISTS DE MANCHESTER having been
prohibited Irma me. tins in Stevenson-square, ae they in-
Dried t•t have dune on Mond y night, and from whence
they would haee been driven by the heavy rain which began
to fall about 7 o'clock, assembled at the City Music-hall,
Camp-field. Toe doors were thrown 'tun at 8 o'clock, and
Ike %entry, which coniains seats. was filled in a very short
time ; but the holy of the hall, which was tnt on this octa.
aims lurnieheil with a single ferm, filled hut slowly. LIU,.
groups .f men asiembled in front of and around the hay-, and
seem dto be engaged in conversation. The authorities, in
order to he we pared fir an emergency, placed a body of
cinetahles in the Deanegate statiewh use, and we believe
that :he spa ci of the district were in a house within call.
There was not. however, the sit-Meet necessity for the ser-
e ens of either one body or the other. A m eting 4.1 the
working ceases solver more quietly assembled or dispersed.
TORKeIIIRE.
THE WEST RIDING CHAKTIeT NIEETINO.—The
meeting of ehartht- un 'l'upshaw Moor, neer Bradford, of
*tech we published a notice yesterday, broke up peaceably
soon after three o'ciotk, after pas ing the three s s duties a
otettioned in our rep rt. About the time that the Brad-
Med Region o' the m• e• in; was expected to retch that town,
the megistrates went rut with a body of police and special
unstable., attended by Oen rid Thorn, the command. r
the district, whh detaclinsents of cavalry, moun ed yeo-
manry, and infantry. to see that the promise given not to re-
turn throegh the town of Bradford in procaul n, wits II .g.
and music, was ....served. The appearance of this imposing
free had the effect of int. rropt Mg the previews array, I.ut
all paned off quietly. Two fl.gs which had been furl.-d, hut
were earrit d erect along the lice of en itch, were wised by
the aut realties, and tit posited in the court-house at Bradierd
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND ROBBERY AT Ileit1:0-
OATE.--On Monday morning, about half-past five u'elepelt,
ono n the 'etnale servant of Mr. Todd, hoot and mho. mak. r,
at High Harrogate, opened the homes do-it, a man ru-hen
within the house, and, seizing hold of her, tied a hue,
celourel handkereltler over her mouth, to pr. vent her sere .w-
-ing. He then commence I ',fling her pockets. but tiot.i.tit
limit of value there, he drew ni roe ir, and attempted to cut
her throat with it, inflicting two revere gashes. When he
had frightened the y ur.g woman one 01 further resistance,
he hastily ransack. d several of the drawers, tr or which he
removed several articles of silver plate; but hearings whim It
(which was suppwed to have been given by an ace .ceplu
sweated n. ar) he suddenly decamped, leaving the built 4.1
the proparty behind him. hut taking with him the handker-
chief wt:ich he hid tied round the girl's mouth.
A SUBTERRANEAN FIRE.—A• Lower Haugh, near
goth.rham, on the . state of Earl Fitzwilliam, an eaten-
nice bed of coal beneath the village is On fire, and has beet,
in that condition, burning with greater or has inten-Py. fur
at least twenty y. are A geotleman residing in Sh.fliald,
whom curiosity induced to visit the locality one day dud
the present week, has published, in the Sheffield Tenses the
following particulars :—The coal in certion places bow ti
out—that is, it comes up to the tutus of the ground ; and it
was at one of these b,nsets that the fire oi-tweedy 0.114-
rtteneed, haying been ignited by a " clamp "—(a fire for
burning stoats intended for roar. material.). The subt. era-
neon fire has continued to advance in various directions
up to the present time, its prie sue being maul
Tested by the appearance at internals of formica and
fiemes at the surface of the grout.d ; the epreed
of which Ilan generally been stopped, however, hy puddling
the eruptions with clay, &se A feeling of aeperto wen. as
to the ultimate fate of the village has always continued to
prevail, anti it is stated that a good. many years ago t :e de-
struction of the mausoleum of the W, ntworth family was
threatened by the approach of the fire, but hapaily the eels.-
catty was averted by severing the bed of coal, tor which pur-
pose a shaft was specially sunk. Latterly the work of de-
structi.n appeals to have been going on with unwonted ra.
pidity, and naturally enough has crewed a c tete-spending
degree of alarm. Out informant cow two beautiful detached
cottages, the foundation of which is no much undermined
and sunk, that one or both of them bad ceased to he occu
pied; thew ails of one of the cottages had quite separated,
awl the building must nave tumbled down hal not means
been retorted to for keeping it together. Tne ground,
in several large tracts, it one huge hotbed, and .there
the heat is not so intense as to destroy vegetation,
the villagers turn it to very gond account in rais-
ing early crops of vegetables. Feu wete seen some
weeks ag t fl writhing luxuriantly in the open air; and po•
tames are no forward, that one crop has been already enured
cud a second crop got into the ground. The expelled earth
is quite warm, even in the depth of winter. The unnatural
beat engenders a disagreeable smoke, which is continually
ascending and alulterwilig the atm diphere, doubtless to th,.
detriment of r distal health; and the houses in the word lo-
unges see often tilled with warm air strongly charged nil
sulphur, rendering them, as habitations, little better than t
coal-pit. The cellars are worse. It is is .recticable to het p
food in them—not unfrequently they cannot ha entered an h
safety. How long this extraordinary condition all Alia* s
to centinu no one can tell ; but it any means for atio•
guisbing or amsting the tire could be applied, a regard for
the welfare, and even the safety, of the intitbitants—i. avibg
the property out of the question—demands that it should be
done without further loss of time."
WARWICKSHIRE.

SIR ROBERT I'EEI. OFFIZiATED YEATEI•Dt.T al
chairman at a pnulic meeting in thrminahitha, convened t
Oommuer the bat •atiall at acantlveted4inn um +scrim W 4