The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-08 00:00:00

Vbe Colin.

WINDAOR, TUESDAY.—The royal dip. tr party at
the Castle this evening will include the Duch,. 0, tent, tu
Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, and the Prim ere Eliza
of Hobanlobe Langenbourg, the Princess Mud- Hohea-
lobe Se.billingstunt, the Marquis and Marclimo..., of Aber_
core, Baroness de Speth, the Dean of Windsor, sad the ltev.
Lord Wriothaley Russell.

Earl Grey arrived in town yesterday evening from
Hoick Hell. Northumberland.
Sir G. Grey arrived in town laid night h • m Falls-
don. Northumberland.
Despatches were sent off yesterday vt ,^g from
the Colonial office, for the Gotemor of Ceylon I iong Kongo
and Malta, _ . .

The Chancellor of the Exchegner creed at his
official residence, in Downing-street, ywcrday creLiug, from
liirkleten Hall, Yorkshire.

PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBER, Somgg,
err-dot:Ba, Nov. G.—The names of those eho florid.
noted by the council of his Hoy.d Highness th Prince of
Wiles to sets(' the office of sheriff of the cowry nt
—Sir Samuel Thomas Spry. of Tregols. Kniet ; i 1 raphrey
Willyams, of Carnanton, Esq.; %Warn Dautna,. f

TILE PROTECTION OF TRAUT.
Yesterday a special general meeting of ti.. London
Association for the Protection of Trade was hi I,i it Exeter.
hall, called by the solicitor, Mr. Clipperton, no tee rcquiii.
tiers eff 32 members, to receive and consider a r vort from a
provisional committee of subscribers relative to tie proceed-
ings recently adored by the committee of tuai....ensent of
the association in having voted the amalgnme- .0 of the
association with another society without the c.o. amuses M
the association, in discharging all the officers of ee abaci*.
lion, impending the business of the aseociateo. ed in die-
solving themselves as a committee without . htg given
notice of either of those intentions in the seen., ,s for the
meeting at which the important proceedings • adopted.
and also in contravention of an existing by. c, • the com-
mittee of management, and also to page ouch resolutions
thereon ma the meeting may deem expedient.
Mr. COTTAM having been called to the chair •Lcalled to
the meeting the purposes for which the Protect-, of Trade
Association bad hien formed, among which se i• t o appoint.
went of a solicitor, who, after two arnication • le; ,he setae.
tart' of the eseociation for the payment of debts lee to UMW
b era, was to apply professionally for the debts in
unpaid. Mr. Cuttam mentioned that, i,et oven June
and Septemoer, 1849, the aseocittion, be its own
applications, had collected 2,15141. of debts. and that
in the same period, the solicitor had further c i:locted the
sum of 1,6541 14.. 9d., having further given mem-
bers on many matters in 920 cases—his sslary for these and
all other duties being 100/. a year. Mr. Cottem w-tit on to
state that, without any desire to that tff ,et oar tit port of the
association itself, certain differences which hot ,rfsen, h„•
tween the secretary of the association and the so idler, had
given pportunity for a scheme, on the part or ght of the
committee, for special reasons, to amalgamate . n the
of London Trade Protection Society. the objet,, of which
were wholly different from those of the westee a3oeiation,
and then to throw overboard those who, sati4e 4 with the
pa.t course of the west-end useciation, wished o..untinue it
on the same footing a: heretofore. Ile details' tee manner
in which the members of the committee, to at, in he re-
fs reed 'tad, by surprise, and wholly without'the coo.
eurrenco of the general body, dissolved, of their motion,
the committee of management of the 'Joachim.... effieharged
all its dicers, and amalgamated it with th toy society.
This proceeding the chairmen charaeteriw.. .ts at once
opposed to all precedent, and wholly destructs the well.
ascertained interests of the west-end asseciet .1, and he
called upon the meeting to express their ape tan on the
buhjett.
Mr. BLAK CYAN read the report of the provonal cow
mittee, which related, at considerable lenge. the re-
ceedings of the committee " against the ex. lain et as
usurped r!ght on the part of a section of t Lit. . ummittse,
io arbitrerily end unjustifiably abolishing the se r, body by
which it had been created," and etrenzly Org.& apes the
members of the astociation to reinstate that buoy %malts
previous basis.
Mr. 0 WEN,
_a member of the late commit!., in ',com-
mending the adoption of the report, vindicated ht r. Clipper.
tun, the late solicitor, from toe imputations rowel against
him by Mr. Owen, the law secretary, imputations which had
been pronounced by a sub .committee, after time inquiry,
wholly unfounded, an acquittd, however, which hail not
prevented Mr. Owen from effecting the dissolution of the
late committee and his own transference, in company with
his eight friends on the committee, to the City Society,
leaving the West•enci Association altogether prostrate. lie
trusted the proceedings of that meeting ,ould raise it up once
more.—The adoption of the report was carried unanimously.
Mr. GREEN s, in movingthe second resolution, t xpresied hie
feeling that the S members of the committee, with Mr. Owen,
the secretary, had acted in a wholly unjustifiable manner to
the asseciatten, and that the association might csmp'etely to
repndi ite them and their proceedings. It was monstrous to
suppose that an important body like the essociate it, number.
ing 2,000 members, whose operations hitherto had been so
efficient and satisfactory, were to be anr.ihilated at the men
will of a knot of eight or nine individual members to suit
their own particular views. Mr. Greene read an opinion
obtained from Mr. Creasy, the standing cuuaeei of the asso-
ciation, that the amalgamation was, under the circumstances
attending it, illegal, and would not be sanctioned by a court of
law or equity. The resolution proposed by Mr. Greene was
as follows ,
That eight members of the lute committee of ft:easement were
perfectly unjustified in Ramming a right to vote the a nsigimation of
this saeociation with another sot iety; that curb a precedent, if Fana
tinned, would be highly dangerous to the security of nth r public in.
stittnions. t0j0ti....8. to the of the r0h1.....00
to pioutote the personal views of interested parties. That inasmuch
aa thin W,SO'lation is supported by nearly 2,000 members, this meeting
is incapable of approving or sanctioning the conduct of the late mm.
mittee, who have attempted to notice Its distinct existence, and have
rurrendered its premises, books, pipers, and property to soother cos
elety, so considerably Inferior in its number of subscribers; u 4 that
the committee having no power within itself to vote the abohtio of
this aseotiation or Its =ale: motion with another iceiety, that the
same was dose without authority, and is hereby declared by this
meeting to be saki.
Mr. Hien seconded the resolution.
At the request of a member in the body of the meeting,
the Chairmen here read a letter from Mr. Groom of the
City society, announcing that the amalgamated society would
confer upon trade the same advantages which it had derived
from the late association, more especially as to the cell, ction
of debts. The Chairman, however, added that in the
society's circular which he had received that morning, no-
thing was said on this subject.
Mr. CitEKTON, of Oxford•street, then proposed the third
resolution, for the appointment of a new committee of ma-
nagement, pursuant with the advice of the sten ing counsel
of the avocation.
Mr. asitsza moved as an amendment that the association
be dissolved, and that the amalgamation with the City. society
be confirmed. This amendment was not persevered W.
A member then mewed that the meeting do adjourn, with
a view to the pretence, on another occasion, of the members
of the late committee, whose conduct aas impugned.—The
amendmentwas negatived, and, after some discuseion respect-
ing Mr. Clipperton, whose re appointment as solicitor was
objected to in several quarters, the oriiinal resolution was
once more pat, the list of the proposed committee being
given and agreed to.
Mr. linen then moved the appointment of Mr. Coasts as
president, in place of Mr. Alderman Copeland, M.P.,
signed.—The motion was unanimously adopted.—Mr.
Cae-
TAM said he would accept the trust, always ready to retire
whenever a more worthy successor should ho di sized.—
The thanks of the meeting having been voted to the chair,
and acknowledged, the meeting separated._