The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-02 00:00:00

AN INDIGNATION MEETING.

Under the attractive heading of "Great India'.
ration Meeting," advertiseroenta, handbills, and pestles I
have beta extensively cirealated within the last week, in-
ening the public to attend a meeting in St. Martin's-ball,
to unite in an expression at hyligaitine at some injustice or •
=me w whether of a public or private natant.
lc or f the gentlenuin whose name was op- •
mended to the • and bills, Mr. Thomas Haw-
Inns, did not think it nersisary to taunt therein any infer.
motion. The reverser and mystery in which the Mel- •
tenon was involved, coupled with the intimation that the •
admission was to be free, brought together at the appointed
hour, eight o'clock, 0011110 two or three hundred
people, who after indulging for some time in expressman
of impatience were relieved by
Mr. HAWICINIc who came upon the platform unattended,
and having cast aside his outer garments with true
theatrical gesture, commenced in a Intel voice to assure the
people of London that be always kept his wont and that
when he MIA better known he should have not 40, or 100,
but 10,000 of them attending his meetings. He did not
come to lecture them; they had had lecturing enough. He
came to tell them of the farce that was continually pilled
at Westmitister, and how they, the holmaile, were ground
down by those shove them. He had searched the shams
to the lottom, and was determined to mamma them. It
wee the people of the Isle of Wight who were
at the bottom of the Os minable system which he
denounced and trampled under foot. (A laugh.)
His wee no private wrong. He had seen in the lions' den
what tiles hail all seen nail all suffered, but not one of
them had hat the courage to denounce it. It appeared from
a long rambling statement, that having applied for a sum-
mons wind • person whom be described as a swindler, he
bad been summoned next day at the suit of that swindler.
The justices, it seemed, had refused his application where-
upon he had written a letter to the clerk Of the jusiices, on
amount of which he was sued for libel at Westminster. He
however pined the verdict, but the justices refund to
dinner him. He appealed against them to Mr. Walpole,
the then Hoene Secretary, and the then Lord Chancellor,
who (obi him they could do nothing. This was the system
id wish he complained. lu the coulee of a long incoherent
harangue it occasionally dawned out that his presence had
something to do with the game laws, the commit-
ments under which had fallen in the Isle id Wight
by hi. exertieus and constant interference from sixty-
seven to twenty-eight per annum. The audi-
os's,— who had evidently imagined that reform
in parliament was to be in some way or other brought
loader iliecunien„ and evidently sympathised but in the
most infinitesimal degree is the onenplaints of the orator,
hut who were amused by hi. assurance that he had bearded
some justices (whom he named) on the bench, and kicked
another lsso named) along the streets of Glastonbury—
seen declared their diecontent 1., unnintakable signs, call-
ing fur " The Pe gale's Charter," Parliamentary Reform,"
mad isquinng what they were to he " indignant" for.
The speaker was awakened by this hem his own to the
peorst cries luxe. and proclaimed, as he mid, in " words
el Ire. the fact that if the House t'onoinius remained
as it was. the country was ruined. A Gallic invasion was
imminent, and the people would not fight against the
enemy wale.* they were treated with justice, and were per-
mitted sonic share in the government of the onuntry. No
country could long exist under a system of corruption such
as existed iu England, and unless the people united to re-
form it the country was het for ever and eve'.
When the speaker occluded. a young man walked upon
the platform, and, taking ott his hat, was about to address
the meeting, hut Mr. Hawkins seised him by the collar, sad
with the determination and strength of a manse hurled
him down the step* into the bed, of the ball. There were
some slight indications of resenting this "the indignation"
went, ; lout the feeling of the majority was sumrise' and
before they had recovered, the gentleman who had caused it
threw his cant over has arm and marched away in trimnpli,
kicking the list of the unfortunate 'right whom he so
sufornornly ejortoil, and which had been left upon one of
the platforni snits in the hurry of his exit, far into the

.hat
A fto.r Mr. Hswkins hail left two or three persons en.
dessoon.l 'peek on the subject of reform, and one aug.
gaited r r.,olution in favour of universal suffrage, but the
atten.lants of the ball interposed, and by lowenug the gas.
lights +p-sally cleared the building.

METROPOLIS GAIL—The select committee herein f to abstain from that trespass; but it has been
bee been nominated. The chairman is the lat. Home Seers- less known how we are represented in Egypt and
tart', the Right Hon. T. 14. Hitcourt, and the members— Syria by persons who make a great fuss about being
Yr. Packe, Leicestershire ; Mr. Turner, Manchester; Lord -• •
R. Cecil. Stamford ; and Mr. North, Hastiirts. Let tta hope English gentlemen. Happily there are many who
that this dente-vexed question will be satisfactorily settled. spontaneously make allowance for the time their
It l one of the most important perliamentary inquiries of
late years, and of equal interest with the water question Mohammedan crews will want for religious °beery-
of 1852. I ancee; who remember not to peas between the men
LuNDON RIFLE BRIU•DE.—A meeting of the 'at prayer and Mecca, When it is just as easy to go
council was Kehl at head quarters yesterday. The Lord ~. , them who , ..
Mayor, who was in the chair, announced that his Royal "'"'"In" "'" ; den themselves the little in-
Mayor, the Duke of Cambridge, Commantling.in-Chief and dulgence of ham and sausages in laying in their
Homiriry Colonel to the brigade, had fixed Saturday next, ' store,. who, in short, do as they would be done by
the rith not., at 5 p.m., for an inspection of the regiment on '
the parade ground, Hone GUAM,. it is expected that the in dealing with persons of a different religion. But
carps, which sunders above 1,600 member% will musters there have been others—dozens and scores of our
11,,01iV as ~900 strong A the inspection. Lord Grosvenor, .
Lieutemut-Colonel Commandant of the Queen's West. countrymen—who have done more mischief than'
~, i ...... Volunteer Corm, has kindly consented to keep the any diplomacy can repair by a senseless selfishness
' ground. The council, laving previously resolved that the 1 and ill-nature which will live in Egyptian tradition
I weltw of the loriinide generally would be beet consulted by
Major ever. They are always fancying themselves
I pi...mooing according to seuiontr, now recommend Ma, , for - • .
Versa Clew for nomination too her Majesty's Court of Lieu. , robbed or conspired against, and therefore indulg-
kailltr, /41 loientenant.Colonel oof the 09001111 battal • •
iiir. Al.h.r. chain, f,,,..ntrckd . „poet to the effect ilia nig in a "shy atthe Arabs," or in getting somebody
the entire sum sionwrilel by resident. in the Wards of bastinadoed. They kick their men away from
Cripplejete Within mod Without towards the Rine Corps of their prayers, or refuse to give them time for the
tie City of Loudon amounted to the sum of MST Os., that
140 gentlemen hail alrewly joined, and that he hoped in a duty. They "can't be bothered with that sort of
few mouths this number would have considerablyincreased. i '‘ stuff" while they compel their Arab cook to
WIIITTISuTuN CLUB. —A grand volunteer ball, I broil ham two or three times a day and the drago-
nod,: the pstrunage of Viiwouut itanilagh, colonel of the
Smith Middlesex Volunteers, and other distinguished ' man to serve it. The recent incident at Cairo is
fficer, une given last evening at the Whittington Club. ; only one more outrage added to a thousand little
The an otitminenta were excellent, roil as a comequence the known at home, but keenly resented on the
an... 6 'soot toff in a spirited manner. Upwards of three
hundred visitors joined in the exercises of the ballroom, spot. To most readers it will appear incredible
amid nwienlnthed themselves with in excellent "PP". I that Christian gentlemen should enter that marvel-
I.'" * ""*""is4itas car" was represented ma the seam"' lo and most imposing alabaster mosque, and stand
and the viriety of uniforms, augmented by • few of the us
I " n-gelsrp," gave a general lifeline's to the fetes, while it between its pillars in any other but a devout and
afforded mem. of coropenitive criticioni to the on-looker.. silent mood, when its marble floors arc thronged
The folio il.e• do not nominate until that late hour which
1, nooletinitelf de. 104414 A rather an early hour. with eager worshippers. The mere eagerness of

ING, MAY 2,

Mtusulasaetworship is enough to excite • reverenee
and sympaly in angbut inveterately light sad selfish,l
minds. it the eenduct of • party of Englishmen
—a large party, we are told—has been what Sit
C. WOOD related in the House on Friday night
Let our readers imagine • group of turbaned.
strangers making sport in Westminster Abbey
during service, singing Nile songs, setting up the
dances of the hareem, and mimicking the officiating
clergy, and they will be aware of the gravity of
the case. There is no evidence that anybody
else behaves thus in Egypt. The French are
more popular there than we are, and deserve to
be so, by their manners, whatever may be their
ulterior aims. The Americans do not seem to
know very well why they go up the Nile,
and this may amuse the natives ; but
they are, for the most part, considerate,
and everywhere notorious for their repub-
lican good temper. The English alone are
establishing the character of neither fearing
GOD nor regarding man ; and when that character
is established in any Mohammedan country it
is certain to spread to all the rest. In India it
is prevalent already ; and we shall never bring our
national mind and will to bear on the good govern
meat of India till itis better known at home than it is
at present how outrageous are the manners of the
generality of Englishmen to the natives of India.
In the present case Ministers have taken imme-
diate measures to secure the exposure and the
' future harmlessness, we hope, of the offenders.
There are Mohammedans in a country not far from

Egypt of whom they might learn a lesson before
they proceeded on their voyage. It might be useful
to send them to the Lebanon, as the guests of such
a chief as ABOU Bass, who would teach them
moaners.
It is not long since he entertained a party
of Europeans who were much taken with his son
—a noble child of seven years old. At supper the
guests asked for the boy, and were told he was
asleep. It was the father who told them so. After
an evening of revelry, they slept well, and were
to depart in the morning : but the host had a
favour to ask first. He would not disturb their
pleasure the night before, and had therefore
restrained his own grief and his wife's, and said
that his child was asleep at the moment that he
had been killed by an accident. He now told the
fact, that his child might have the honour of the
fullest attendance at the grave. Here is a lesson
in manners which even Christians may humbly
receive.