The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-16 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

REPRESENTATION OP MANCHESTER.—A meeting of the
Committee of the Reform Association was held on Wednes-
day afternoon, when it was resolved, almost unanimously,
that Mr. Bright should be requ.stcd to allow himself to be
put in nomination for the borough at the next election, and
that, if he consented, a meeting of the liberal electors
should be held in the Free-Trade Hall, to consider tho
propriety of the nomination. There were only two dissen-
tients to the vote, one on the ground of Mr. Bright's opi.
nions as to the union of Church and State, and the other
on the ground that his election might cause the country to
believe that Manchester was desirous to destroy the aris-
tocracy. The Manchester Times of this morning (Friday)
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We trait that those gentlemen and others who, like them, fear
that the church and the aristocracy might be annihilated by the
eloquence of the Rochdale 04ton-claimer, may yet pee it their duty
to give him their support. We think that the church and the ark.
tocracy may be safety left, to take of themselves; and we can-
not bring ourselves to believe that they will crumble into duet
at the sowed of Mr. Bright's trumpet. The utmost
o mischief " be ma do, in these duectioes, may be to
prevent say fresh essupliestions, in the shape of new endowments,
of a system dist at some Mum time will be thoroughly reformed.
and to Wader the IMO& extension of privileges to the aristocracy
which ma be ielobleesse to the community. it may sot be
able that that y the country abould believe, ham Mr. Bright's election,
that Manchester wishes to pull down theater& and yam the plough-
share over the ate of the Home of lords; kat still Ins (taint& it
weld be that. by Mr. Bright's ritinNik Ma "mar, aboald Men

that Manchester is rtwily to submit to further inter*: enoe with
liberty of conscience and ftirther extensions of injurious erisweratie
privileges."
The deputation appointed to wait on Mr. Bright consisted
of the chairman of the meeting (W. It. Callender, Esq.) and
Alderman Kershaw, Fag., Alderman Burd, Esq., Alderaum
Kay, Esq., LieJ. Wilson, Esq., W. RawsnutEsq., and Samuel
Lees, Esq. They expected to meet Mr. Bright at the League
R 901114, Manchester, yesterday evening.
Tux DEFECTS OP TUB LIVERPOOL PORT-OFFICE afferd a
constant text for complaint in the local papers. It is alleged
that at present the post-office management rem wes the great
manufacturing towns of Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Stafford-
shire to the greatest possible distauce from each other. Tilt e,
for instance, it takes as long to forward a letter from Liver-
pool to Runcorn, as it does from Liverpool to Southampton!
By this means business is, of course, extensively injured.
The post to the Isle of Man, also, is an illustration of the
carelessness with which the postal affairs are ordered in this
neighbourhood. A resident in that island may transmit let-
ters from one town to another daily, but the post-oltice con-
tract with the steam-packs t company only stipulates for a
conveyance between that island and Liverpool three times a
week in the summer, and twice in the winter ! Here is a
population of at least fifty thousand, only six or seven hours'
sail from Liverpool, and yet it is only twice a week that they
can correspond with Englund; and ad badly are the sailinga
managed, that it generally happens in the winter that a letter
does not reach in time to have a reply before the second poet.
From Liverpool to Dublin there are two mail steamers daily.
The government boat seldom carries more than a dozen pts-
sengers, but she is always a firsteless steamer, ably com-
manded and well app Anted. Now, there would be more
passengers than this to the Isle of Man. Why, then, asks
the Lirerpool Courier, does not the Post-office have a more
efficieut communication ? Doubtless, because the Dublin
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post bears on the Llndon accommodation, and the Isle
Man does not extend its influence much beyond Lancashire.
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TILE LIVERPOOL CVBTUNIS. REVEN I:E.—Al:aid/It the
complaints. says the Liverpool Standard, of declining com-
merce, which reach us from every quarter, it is gratifying to
find that the port of Liverpool stilt keeps on the cern tenor
of her way, improving her position. The accounts fer the
present quarter, coded the 10th instant, give an increase
over the corre,ponding three mouths of 1846, of 118,205 t.
The following are tho receipts during the three mouths of
both years:
1545.
Jut), F258,518
Aurust 217,261
beptember 387,203
Giving 1:897,883 against £1,018,353
in the quarter of lOW, showing the above surplus.
Taking the tkree quarters of the year now ended the ac-
count will stand as follows:

1848.

£25i533
324,283
437,784