The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

TER MONETARY STATEIL—A very important meeting of
the merchants and bankers of Birmingham was held in that
town en Friday night, for the purpose of " sticking on the
Cet daraagement of our menetary system, and on the
remes of averting the calamities which have invariably
remelted therefrom" Kr. Aid. W. ilehMefleld was called to
the chair. In meal the the &airman said it
was isspewilde far the Sam net be fully
sensible to the remaehabie wiper= lir anneelary world
presented at that moment. The prepurty of the country,
their houses, their goods, and their memetactives, were just
as good and really as valuable ae they were twelve maths
ago ; their railways, too, were in ma emally lourishisnomm-
dition ; but, with all this, it wee meelly certain that Wk
money value had deweemdl. This, In lde *aim, vas maid
by the very pelt Mrs* whisk edged he set anew eye-
tem. If goveramest would allow them opig *Adler, in
locks, in hinges, and in other articles eimaatestere, he
believed that, in a short time, they would be 4MEM1N2.21.5
off the national debt; but, if they IRITE
to pay for everything in gold, he beast that,—kdme
very long, they would (Intl even the Merest of that
debt difficult to pay. The Birmienbmt oracle hat been
laughed at because they dame& la epideadiet that
ference was epos madam of ilea only
; they ado mod
moue as to the prima*. Ha, tut aid, was Jelest that the
pries* entreaty metre emit net be imintelaid ; labor
wee not pretested as Ira r pee (whisk sow het ell the
protection), wog iimeteens aide would be the result.—Mr.
T. C. Mk,, as eatemhe sesoidasteass, Laid that those who
had vised the weeking of the bid of UM, most be sm-
ith* et lb emblem Ahem. Is bell theetM at the time
the math es deal art as asthma* as ego* the sidefiP•
Lion had boa gime ether the nosh Item delft tot la.
vengelddee d }ape mosey, ittog hatether hem bed! thet tat
wait *odds . hem the the
leak lielsiastdlia Ad, ia nth, piper 1111 of the
ad of the wee whoa gold was aehaliteted, eat den that
time they mom let prosperity, lies It wee sesseeisilisy a
teade art a meet pea* And it was remark-
= tea et
t thee miss eeearred regulesly every ten pees;
they had or sr eight ran of adversity, and this two
or three years of doubtful prageetty. Now it was
clear that the are of all this was the gold en I
the paper messy agenda( ; sot so frightful wog
it in its emsespeome, that imeiveacy, misery end
even death weal the malt. Under tie fatal kil
of 1819, when the pit saw went at,
mtlisedErer woe
wsweat,ithdrawn ;
ware *s ant yet, whoa day Feasted w
Litwin
weal
ated es bles
they hatthey peddled bet cede pisartlit the baled*
tam the per Mt, le whisk toe et an panda(ast the
never) essayed. sell tabs as • modems et
the weeper in width It siessest aenidrmi Iowa& Thole
was a sum of 6,0101. mint r sollevelboilithes of the me-
Wee ; the wobbeass was arommi I sot, apes a modal
inquiry, it was eseertathet that dime way se bee doa
10,000 families in the town, a ire *divide& te
each, in a Mate of the meet abject iseiftelles ! And amr,.,
regardless of the experionco of the pad, the geverneesth wog
abed to pimp the delft Ye a lisa danitely wino
thee it was at that dm. id et the legishasse de do
wig, by acme Wane , a mew emu. It hat
talisted suffering tad teeth, nee. asessier, ea the worths
demo, Ike it wee rate la entity whim pimple died from
em sad heath. boa*. In previous mime, widower
*5 plea amp to esitela points, they halted. In 1825,