The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-10 00:00:00

MANCHPATER.—The Collegiate Church Ward Re-
(nem Association are getting up a petition in favour of Mr.
Ilunit's motion, and it is now indeed in coons of signature
by the houschobiers of the ward with every prospect tit being
very generally adopted by them. There have been two or
three meetings at Newsa's-buildings during the week of th-
committee appointed there at a late influential meeting of
parties favourable to Mr. Hume's scheme, to consider the
best means of petitioning from Manchester, and it hat been
finally agreed that (airily petitions should be adopted, the
parties being recommended to give their addresses as well as
names. The committee have been influenced to some extent
in this recommendation by the fact that great discredit has
lately been thrown on general petitions by frauds, u was es-
pecially the case in the great chartist petition. The follow-
ing circular was also adoptol, and copies are to be despatched
in the principal towns of the kingdom :
kr wall's Budding', Manchester, June 6, 1145.—Dear thr,—Yon are
ISO doer aware that Mr. flume Ilea given WOOS of a 11160 a for leave
to beli.g in Wes to effoet • return' In the repreeentabon of the
in parliament on the following basis The extension tit the c •crtr'irfi
franchise, so as to intiudr all householder.; the protection of clarion,
In the exercise of the (rancher, by the ballot; the limitation of the
duration of parliaments to a 1.4 r NA not exeerding three )can; and
the effecting of a more equal distribution of the electoral power by
means of electoral districts. The tiny tired for the dietuasksa of Mr.
Ilume's motion in parliament is Tuesday the folk of June, and, so the
time is abort, It is recommended, where public meetings hare not
already been held on the subject, that petitions should be at ones pre-
pared and despatched from associations, manufactories, workshops,
and families, and that they be signed by all persons above the age of
eighteen years. E ich petition shoal be folded so as to be open at the
ends, endorsed with tiles mods, •• Petition to parliament," and sent
through the pun for presentation to your own representatives, or to
with other members of parliantent no the petitioners may think best.
—I am, deur file, yours obediently, lirotoe WILSON.

GREENOCK, JUNE 7.—A preliminary meeting of
electors favourable to the new reform movement, under the
guidance of blesses. Hume and Cobden, wee held last night
in Melvin's Coffee house, when it wee resolved that a public
meeting of the electors should be convoked without delay. in
order to give en expression to their opinion upon the motion
to be subluitted to the House of Commons by Mr. Hume, on
the 20th init. At the meeting last night almost all the gen-
tlemen present were in favour of the universal suffrage basis;
but no the scheme of Messrs. Hume and Cobden is the only
one now before the country that seems likely to succeed,
they express,d their readiness to co-operate heartily in its
furtherance. A requisition is in course of signature to the
acting chief magistrate, to call the meeting, and names of
the first respectability are adhibited to it with great ear-
diality.

IRELAND.
Dummy, Jcmit 8.
The meeting of the Dublin chartists on Whit-
Monday is not likely to prove very formidable. A
good-sized tarpiralin would cover them front the in-
clemencies of the weather.
The Limerick Chronicle, in noticing the probable
candidates for the Irish bishopric, intimates that the
choice will probably fall upon the Rev. Dr. Elring-
ton, son of the late Bishop of Ft rue, and a fellow and
Regius Professor ot Divinity in our university. The
Chronicle, which is somewhat of an authority on
church matters, enumerates three candidates, viz., 1
Dr. Elringtoe, high church, Dr. Hinds, low church,
and Ikan Hoare, evangelical. The three are sup-
porters of the national education system, and all have
writtea in its favour. The chances of the Regius
Professor will, it is said, preponderate, because of the
two last vacant English mitres having been dis-
posed of to evangelical ecclesiastics.
MILITARY AFFRAY.—There was a conflict yesterday be-
tween some of the 13th Regiment and the townsfolk of N.-
nigh. The quarrel originated in a dance-house. A party ot
the 13th, in pasaiog through the streets, were hooted. Tee,
went back to the barracks, and having obtained reinforce-
ments, returned with their bayonets. Passing through a
narrow defile in the suburbs, they were saluted with •
shower of stones, and cries of " Up with the barricades!"
Before thia opposition the military retreated, conveying se-
veral of their wounded comrades. Eight, 1 understand,
were seriously injured.