The Express.
London, England, 1848-09-08 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, SEPT. 6.
According to 1101110 economists " Sco.land's *DAV'
is or will be the workhouse system; yet it is gaining
ground. Last week the foundation stone of • union
workhouse for four parishes was laid at Dalkeith with
masonic honours, delegates attending from uo fewer
than 16 lodges.
The total losses caused by the late rio's in Glasgow
amount to 8,1551, which is to be rained by a special
tax of 20. per pound on rentals above and lid. per
pound on those at and below 101. Claims to a much
larger amount were preferred, but the authorities
subjected them to a thorough sifting.
The Edinburgh county police have been directed by
the intelligent inspector to send in parochial returns
regarding the state of the potato crops in the county
of Edinburgh, and the reports are rather favourable.
The weather continues excellent.

The Glasgow executive are awakening to a sense of
the necessity for unitary improvement. Yesterday
two hundred landlords received summonses before the
sheriff to show cause for their neglect of their tenants'
health.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASIIIRt.

BOLTON ELECTlo74:::onYtieeday evening, Mr.
Ainsworth, forsome years M.P. for Bolton, and a liberal,
issued an address to the electors soliciting their suffrages,
and on Wednesday morning he commenced a canvass. A.
meeting of the conservatives was held at the Bwan-hotel the
same forenoon, C. Briggs, Esq. s dicitor, in the chair, when
it was resolved to bring forward B. Blair, Bsq., who was
mayor of the borough in 1848. D. C. Aylwin, Esq., a Gl-
oat& merchant, who has Orr some years been in England
agitating against the Bad India Company's salt monopoly,
name from London to offer his services is the conservative
interest ; bet on finding that a townsman was proactitier
determined not toenails a division In the ranks by
a candidate. The nomination Is fixed for Tuesday next.
LprzepooL.—Yesterday being the anniversary of
Brazilian Independence, the Affonso, steam.frigate, which
lately rendered such meritorious services on the occasion of
the burning of the Ocean Monarch, and which at present
lies in the 'Moyne, at Liverpool, was decked out with flags,
&c. The °Mean also gave a rkje4ner to several of the mer-
chants and other gentlemen of Liverpool connected with
Brasil.

ITAFFORDORIRE.
FRERROLD LARD FOR WORKMEN.-A publics
meeting was held at Wolverhampton, last week, in order to
promote the estioliehment of a society, on the principles of
that now in existence in Birmingham, for procuring for
members a plot of freehold land and county vote, by memo
of small weekly payments. Alderman Ostia took the chair,
and the meeting was addressed by Mr. Taylor, the secretary
of the Birmingham society, who described that institution as
being in a most flourishing condition, and entered into the
detaas of its operations, eta' ing that for a weekly payment
of le. 7d. per week, continued for about fire years, or until
the amount reached 191. or 201., the working chases might
be elevated to the franchise, and put in possession of a piece
of freehold land hinging a certain rental of from 41e. to
50s. yearly, and in suns cues considerably more. Menial
to the evense of conveyancing, he asserted they got that
done, including the cost of the stamp, for 21. Mr. Taylor
enforced his arguments by advising the working clams to
refrain from drinking and become fresholden.—Tho Rev. G.
Stokes expressed his spprovalof the society, which ha viewed
not in a political light, but in a social and religious one, sad
expressed an opinion that the society would improve the eon.
dition of workmen, make men and masters better Riau*
toed to promote temperance principles, and inculcate a love
of order. A considerable number of tines present enrolled
Omissive* as mambos, _

wisp

• Bnt, R. Pm AND TER CURRENCY REFORMERS OF
BIIIMIGNAIL—M7. Thomas Glutton Salt, the indefatirle
exponent of the principles of tha currency reformers the
Bimini/ham school, has addressed a letter to Sir R. Peel, on
the 'abject of the right hon. baronet's remarks in his speech
kpea Mr. Harries' motion, with respect to some portion of
r. Salt's evidence before the Hengelo( Commons committee.
On the subject of inconvertibility Mr. Salt thus addressee Sir
Robert : During the whole of the war a sufficient issue of
ineenvertible paper money did, as you well know, maintain
remunerative prime and full employment for labour. With
this great fact in evidence before you where was your warrant
to treat my evidence so lightly ? But Leine see what follows.
Under the paper system the oountry was powerful, prosperous,
esalisleff, end loyal. The prosperity of the country wee
proved by Its power of paying tales. The preparation for
year bill began in 1818—to 1819 it was finally passed. The
whelp some was changed. An unparelleled depression of
=rEed the =Levy with ruin and insolvency, end the
were at once thrown oat of employment the
permatry firing the ricks, the Luddites breaking the ma-
dam:try, the blanketeers and colliers marching to London,
the )Sato-street plot, the Peterloo massacre—misery, bud:
vow, disorder, and diedintent everywhere, gave fearful
evidence of the agony that was convulsing society sad
• its entire dissolution. Wu all this suffering,
so un led in Its extent and severity, the effort of
your act ? Was it, indeed, this act that did convert the
wealthiest and mat industrious nation on earth into a
. .

Sams of disaffected and desperate insolvents and pas.
pen ? The rain followed the act—the suspension of the
act was the remedy sought. In 1822 Lord Castlereagh
brought in five bills, all tending to the soapension of the
operation of the act of 1819. And unequalled prosperity
followed. If the evil was not in the bill, how came It no
closely to follow its enactment? Why was its so/pension
the only remedy ever Nought ? Wherefore was its suspension
followed by each a burst of prosperity ? The i,sue of paper
money did restore remunerative prior, and the full employ-
ment of labour, the contentment of the people, and their
attachment to the institutions of the wintry. The re-
newed operation of the bill was marked by a revival
of the national calamities and • discontent. It is fur-
ther in evidence that to every subsequent period of die.
teem the only remedy resorted to by each succeesiva
government was still a relaxation of the bill, even down to
the Chancellor of the Exchequer's letter of October, 1841,
and the relief obtained has always been in proporn to the
egree of relaxation. The ezperionshors enseie has been
repeated daring 30 years always with like results. Whoa
the vast calamities attendant on that gigantic error see ND-
Bidarid, the persevering attempts to co seal their source frank
public indignation are explained. Renee the counting rat
of the house, the portended scorn of the Birmingham
opinions, the ridicule heaped upon them, the oheirge of freed
brought spinst them. Al these things bee, me clearly em-
planed, and excite no surprise • but I do wander at the and*.
city that would continue to maintain a system so fatal. An
error so persevered in becomes a crime. It is a crime
which, if persevered in, the laws may recognise." After
advertise to what he, of course, considers the fatal
mistake of Bir Robert—the fnisg, by his bill co 1819, gold
as the basis of oar system, instnd of libelee the n
credit on the broader basis of • • '

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