The Express.
London, England, 1849-04-14 00:00:00

bet there is that which is imp :mint still and you will have
it, depend upon it, because there will be no stopping it.
(Cheers.) Tome will be opposi'ion, and my commie!, there
fore, is, that you omit no effort—relxx not in anjt attempt
that you can make to push forward to perfect success the
beedona of trade aid c =mere,. (Cheers.) There are
symptoms of an expectation in certain quarters, I cm tell
you, that there should be something likes retrograde move- I
meet en that head. I think they are simpletons who in-
dulge this expectation, whether they be lords or commoners.
You exert yourselves—k-ey the government moving. Hu-
man affairs never stand still, and here is an opportunity to ,
advance in the right direction. Having goe one thing,
pitch for another. Call out for financial reform—you have
need enough of it. (Cheers and laughter.) There is not
use of us but who could tell when he would be better off
by a reduction of taxation. (Hear.) Why should we not
expend that amount either for own use or for the use of
but wives and families, which we are now obliged to give
for something else? (Hear.) Sorely there is nobody. so
deluded. Oar working classes are not so ignorant IS to
have grown up to manhood without seeing that sooner or
later the ark of Ole 9,,Britulien PPM eerteinly ern eta
I doer Id that &tail ks wel is dime who are there wool.
(Loud cheers.) There will be no violence—no outbreak
about it. (Hear.) It may not come all at once—it mey
come by degrees, but so surely as the child which was once
weak grows up to the strergin of man, so surely shall those
classes whom we now see iii the possetsion of political rights,
ea well as those at a distance from them, arrive at the full
enjoyment of all that they can desire. (Cheers.) And why ?
Because it is so manifestly for everybody, good that it
ehould be so. Rich men believe in it, and great men
confess it. Is not this confession spreading and extending ?
D we not see in our political proceedings that universal
confession, that man, intelligent and wise, cannot for ever
be kept from the enjoyment of political freedom ?
(Hear.) What is the continent struggling for? For that
very thing and nothing else. (Cheers.) Never give up the
opioicn. Stick to the belief in what has been an ably pro.
pant to you here, that you have a strong sympathy and
fellow-feeling in the attainment of political freedom on the
ewitinent of Europe, because political freedom brings peace,
and harmony, and commerce with it. (Cheers.) It is not
the people of Europe that are wanting to go to war with
one another. (Hear.) It is the despots anti the aristocracy,
unchecked by pope's' 'feeling. Ido confess lam Utopian
enough—that is the phrase—to look forward to the time when
men shall learn war no more. (Hear, and cheers.) We have
been nearer to the completion of that prophecy than some
have thought of. Wnat have sensible men to do with
learning war, much more, at all events, than learning sur-
gery ? We may want surgeons still, but in the name of
common sense let us have the fewest we can do with.
You are not without co-operation in the gnat objects
which we are seeking to promote. Lancashire and
Yorkshire will now stand together, for I perceive that you
have just destroyed that barricade of hills by boring
through them, whereas when I was • boy it would have
taken almost endless labour to climb them. (Laughter.) You,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, are responsible for your own
petition. If you allow yourselves to be defeated it must be
because you are slack and careless in your efforts. If, on the
contrary, you put your shoulders to the wheel and join heart
and hand in this good work which has been set before yo u,
depend on it there will attend that success which has elwa)s
marked the exertions of the West Riding of York lire.
(Loud and indonged cheering.)
Alderman MACLEA was received with loud applause.
He observed that he should take the advice of their worthy
and excellent friend Mr. Goodman, and being • Leeds man,
say little, or rather say nothing, but read the resolution,
which he begged to move, namely :
That this meeting respectfully arses on the liberal party in
' and the other towns of the West Riding, to seise every Stung occa-
Men to represent its views upon these subjects to the legislature; to
diffure among the constituency information on all matters email led
with financial affairs. and above all, to prepare to give an unmistaker
able manifeetattan of Its opinion on ?Meneml reform at the next elm
' tion, by vigilant attention to the registration, and by a persevering'
effort to inereme its strength on the register of the county mutt-
; teary.

T. PUNT, Seq., seconded the resolution.
A. H SNRY, Esq., M.P., lees to support the resolution,
and war received with very loud applause. He maid hie avo-
cations in life had hitherto not been those of attending public
meetings, or addressing public assemblies; and be was per-
suaded that, after the eloquent speech'', they had heard
that evening on these important and interesting subj. cts,
with which he held, in common with the gentlemen who
hat addressed them, any words which he could utt'e
would have very little captivation for their ear,. (" Go on,"
" Cio on.") He had not been long in parliament, but what
he had seen there had satisfied him that if reforms, financial
or political, were to be effected, it must be by such lure and
I enthusiastic assemblies as the present. (" Hear, bear," and
applause.) In his short parliamentary career he had been
planed for five months on the committee for the miscel-
laneous estimates, and after that time they produced the
usual abortion of a blue book. (Laughter and cheer...)
Having long been intimately connected with the trade
and commerce of Yorkshire, be hoped he had done
something to promote the prosperity of the county, end he,
therefore, had great pleasure in standing before so many
gentlemen whose opinions were in accordance with his owu.
lie was proud to be a co-operator in promoting such objects
as Mr. Cobden had brought forward, for be was no finality
man, but was for going a-head. (Loud cheers.) He had,
therefore, great pleasure in acting with his friend Mr. Cob-
den, and other gentlemen who held similar opinions, and
begged to support the resolution which had been proposed
to the meeting. (Loud cheers ) _ _

E SMITH, Elq., of Sheffield, also supported the resolu-
Con.

Mr. W. B. HOLDS WORTH moved the fourth resolution,
"That the hearty thanks of this meeting are due, and ore
hereby respectfully tendered to R. Cobden, Esq., M.P., J.
G. Marshall, EN , MP., Col. Thompson, M.P., and Alez.
Henry, Esq., M.P., for their zealous advocacy of financial
reform and for their able am:stance at this meeting."
Mr. Ald. BIRCIIALL seconded the motion.
The name of Mr. Marshall being included in this resolu-
tion, it was pat to the meeting by Mr. Goodman, and adopted
amidst great cheering.
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Col. illOMPSOilacknowledged the compliment on be-
half of himself and the other strangen, and, in the few ob-
servations addremed to the meeting, he called upon the sup-
porters of financial reform to imitate the example set by the
West Riding of Yorkshire on the great question of the slave
trade.

R. COBDEN, Eq., M.P., proposed a resolution, which,
he said, required no argument from him to recommend i• to
the enthusiastic approbation of the meeting. It was a
vote of thanks to their excellent chairman, who
had given the weight of his position in favour of
this movement, and who bad helped forward, by
every means in his j ower—and he had great power—many
mportant measures having for their object the elevation of
the people in the social scale. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Cobden)
felt that they were much indebted to him for his valuable
co-operation in favour of financial reform, and also for the
manner in which he had presided over their proceedings.
(Hear, hear) Having discharged this duty, the hon. gentle-
man referred to the issue of the cheap tracts by the Liver-
pool and Edinburgh Financial Reform Amain:ions, which
he strongly recommended to the careful perusal of all classes,
es containing a mass of most interesting facts relative to the
manner in which the public money was expended. The only
other observation be would make in conclusion related
to the necessity of obtaining, by every possible means,
an increase of political power. He did not speak with
reference to his own interesx in this county. lie was
there by accident as the member for the West Riding.
(An exclamation of "We'll keep you," and cheers.) He
did not seek the distinction ; on the contrary, he was two
thousand miles off when the electors conferred it upon him.
(Hear, hear) No individual, not even my Lord of Hare-
wood, could be more astonished than he was himself, when
he first read the announcement in the newspaper at St.
Petersbargh. (Cheers.) Such being the case, he could
have no personal object to gratify. They might do with him
whatever they liked, and it would not in the slightest degree
affect his political standing at another election, whenever
that might happen. (Cheers.) But with respect to their
common object, he advised every man who at present bad no
vote, to qualify himself as fast as possible. He did net mean
to deny that they could obtain a reduction of ten millions
with the present constituency. He believed that by agita-
tion they might accomplish the reduction in time, bat with
the present limited amount of the constituency, and
with the present insignificant amount of political
power possessed by the people. they bad no
gutrantee for the continuance of any financial re-
form which they might effect, until a greater amount
of popular control was exercised over the House of Com-
mons. (" Hear," and cheers.) Whilst he advocated finan-
cial reform, he also advocated parliamentary reform ; but as
a means of obtaining both, he earnestly recommended them
not to content themselves with passing resolutions in favour
of either, but to make use of the instrument which appeared
to him to be most providentially offered for their acceptance
—the forty shilling ireeholds—(loud cheers)—and by acting
on this recommendation, and keeping alive that spirit of
inquiry which was new taking possession of the public mind
from one end of the country to the other, he firmly believed
that they would accomplish,. and at no remote period, the
, great objects they had in view. (The hon. gentleman re-
tired amidst enthusiastic cheers)
A. HENRY, Esq., M.P., seconded the resolution.
Alderman BOWER moved that the proceedings of the
meeting be advertised in each of the Leeds newspapers.
Mr. KITSON seconded the motion, which was carried
unanimously, as were all the other propositions.
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The CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the vote of thanks
for his services in the chair, said e was a reformer, sad
not of yesterday ; and had always endeavoured to give all
the support in his power to great measures of reform, and
also to those now advocated by Mr. Cobden in the House of
Commons. (Cheers.) He bad the honour of being one of
the seventy-eight who voted with Mr. Cobden ; and also he
had the honour, last session, of voting along with Mr. Cob-
den for Mr. Home's motion. (Loud cheers.) As he was
honoured with the high trust of representing their opinions
and wishes in the House et Commons, he hoped they would
think his votes were admidated to give them satodsetion ;
and it should be his wart endeavour to go on in the same
*min of riving Wigan ea similar measures. (Load and
reiterated cheerios.)

MURDER M EAR Waneruirr.—Oa Monday after-
noon a murder was coma-Mad at Thorpe next Wainfleet,
the victim being Mrs. Ward, the wife of Mr. Wm. Ward, a
small farmer in the village. What renders the affair: till
more dreadful is the eircusutenee that the murderer appears
to be her own san, who on the evening of the same day was
committed to Spilsby prison, where he await. examination
before the magistrates.
COMMISSION BY TUE LORD LIROTENANT.—F. C.
H. Russell, Esq., to be Major in the Sedfordsbacs ileg:m, nt
M Militia.