The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-23 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OP THE EXPRESS.
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SIR,—We E;re---n;dijbliteat7o you for able
article in your publication of t ia morning upon the Traffic
Bill, but you have not noticed the impracticability of the
London brewers carrying on their business if the bill passes
into law. In one day we have sent out 3,000 barrels,
which employed 190 horses and 100 men. If this work
was Lobe done between the hours of one in the morning
and nine o'clock, in the most part in the dark, we should
require three times the number of horses and men, and
the liability to accidents would be greatly increased.
Practically, we should not have more than four hours to
supply our customers, as they would not be prepared to
receive their beer until five or six o'clock:7.i am, &c.,

A. LONDON BRBWBB.
Brewery, Spitalßelds, Feb. 22.
P.S.—The 300 men would be always employed in night
work, and would be kept from their families.

REFORM MICTINOR IN THE PROVINCES.—Last
evening a large town's meeting was held in the Tem-
perance-hall, Leicester, to consider the government's
proposed reform resolutions. The chair was occupied
by Mr. T. T. Paget, and the assembly numbered
about 2,000 persons. The borough members, Mr. P. A.
Taylor and Mr. J. D. Harris, who bad been invited to at-
tend, sent letters of apology for not being present. A
number of addresses were delivered, and resolutions were
unanimously adopted, expressing an entire want of
confidence in the present administration, and an
opinion that the peace, order, and good government of
this country require a speedy enactment of a reforn bill,
which shall secure a full and fair representation of the
working classes is parliament. The meeting also recorded
its undiminished and entire confidence in Mr. Gladstone,
and called upon the reformers of the United King-
dom, of all shades of opinion, to unite their
efforts in supporting the right hon, gentleman ea the
leader of the liberal party in the House of Commons.
We learn also by telegraph that a successful meeting in
favour of reform was held last evening at Devonport, on
the occasion of the inauguration of a branch of the Reform
League. The hall was crowded by respectable persons,
chiefly artisans in the government establishments of the
town. Resolutions were passed, amidst deafening cheers,
declaring that the conduct of the present government in
its treatment of reform is an insult to the well known
wishes of the people, besides marked by a very despicable
desire to obtain office by any means ; and that under these
circumstances the meeting declared its conviction that the
liberal majority of the House of Commons would be jus-
tified in proceeding at once to the expression of a vote of
want of confidence in the ministers. Another resolution in
favour of the Reform League's principles was unanimously
passed. Mectin were held on Thursday of theWalsall branch
of the Reform e, and at York, the Is ter being one of
the largest assemb es which can be remembered in that
city, at both of whit resolutions, in substance the same as
those referred to above, were adopted. Sir W. Hutt
addressed a meeting of his constituents on Thursday, at
Gateshead. Having referred to and commented on the
" Resolutions," he said—" What are we to do! (A voice—
" Kick them out.") Are we to swallow heaps of reso-
lutions, and follow Mr. Disraeli wherever he would
lead us, under the assurance that he is going
to bring the subject of parliamentary reform to
a satisfactory termination ? (Cries of " No, no.") I say
with you No, no. (Hear, hear.) I say that if this plan,
under ordinary circumstances, were proposed to us,
our course would be simple and plain. We ought utterly to
reject it. (Hear, hear.) But in the emergency in which
we are placed, I think that we must take a different
course. I think that it is the duty of the House of Com-
mons—and that it is especially the duty of the liberal
party in the House of Commons—to endmvour, if they
can, to shape out of those unpromising materials a real
and an effectual reform bill. And if, gentlemen, after an
earnest and sincere endeavour to arrive at this end, we
should find that it is wholly impracticable, well, then, I
say that the time has arrived when the liberal party must
step forward. (Cheers.) They cannot have in
the House of CoMmons a better advocate than Mr.
Gladstone. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Let Mr.
Gladstone introduce again, with certain amendments, the
bill which was rejected in the last session of parliament.
(A Voice.-" Let him go further.") And in the conjunc-
ture we have arrived at I have no doubt we shall carry
the measure triumphantly through the legislature. (Hear,
bear, and cheers.) Mr. Gladstone is not titularly—is not
nominally—but he in really now the leader of the House
of Commons. (Cheers.) Hs will be the leader and the
Prime Minister of England—(a voice—" Yes, he will,
soon")—if the nation's confidence—if his own singular
training fur public life—(cheers)—his own unimpeachable
honesty and integrity— (hear, hear, and cheers)—his
earnestness of purpose and wonderful atioompliakments—
his great sagacity anti incomparable eloquence—are any
qualifications for that duty. (Loud and protracted
cheering.)
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FOOD cures dyspepsia, indigestion, coughh. indium, consambez,
debility, constipation, diarriura, palpitation, nerrona
liver, and stomach complaint& Cure No. 5ti,413.-4' Some, July
11,1860.—The health of the Holy Father Is excellent, es
Inc., abandoning all other remissible, he has confined especially
entirely to Du Barry'. Food, and kis Holinesscannot praise
this excellent food too highly."—Clazette du Midi. Du harry and
Co., No. 77, Rogent-xtreet, London, W. in tine, at la ljd.;
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