The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-10 00:00:00

8411347 H 0383JVANCE.

SOUTHAMPTON. WEDWUDAT.
A public meeting fur the purpose of furthering
the above object wee held at the Royal Victoria Amokly
Rooms lye cso niug. The Lord limtiop of WINCHIIITSZ
presided; and on the platform were Lord H. Choi
the Vas. Archdeacon Wigram, Mr. Digry Beyinor, tit
the Mayor of Southampton, and the principal clergymen of
the town and district. The laxly of the room wee tilled to
excise. Prayer having been offered by Archdeacon Nigro,
The Lord Bishop of WI,: enter ite introduced the subject,
and stated that It was well to look at the movement in • prac-
tical point of view. He frequently made she inquiry bow could
we best promote the due observance of the Lord • Day, and
what were the beet means to be need for the sumer of an
object so well worthy the consideration of every Chrlaiian.
He believed that but little good would Arise from their effete
unless they had with them the voice of toe public, therefore
that opinion should be obtained and be brought to bear upon
this movement. This was a question of mercy; and its
effrct• bad bean felt in London clam the movement had been
awabliehed. - . .

Mr. E. PALK (Mayor), after Wale Obliervaticna beuiog
upon the •nbiec_,, proposed • monition, nominating • com-
mittee to act in Southampton.
Mr. E. BKYAN (a stale-cutter. of Lambeth) seconded the
proposition, and declaimed against excursion trains on
Sundays.
The Yea. Archdeacon WIORAX. in a forcible addrera,
movid that the oonsioittee take step. for memorialising the
direct...re of the London and South Western Railway against
the running of excursion trains on the Lord's Day.
Mr. Jooru Powxxx (a Igndun cob-driver) seconded tie
resolution.

Lord Homy CHOLMONDLLET proposed a Tote of thanks
to ihe right rev. the ottairusan, and advocered the paymant
of wages as Friday *Truing, and the kiaturday half hohday
movviurnt. _

Mr. Diu NT SEYMOUR, M.P., seconded a vote of thanks to
the chairotas, and wed, a powerful appeal in favour of the
objects of the meeting.
'rho LORD Battu, haviarr returned thanks ths Bea.-
diction wan pronounced, and the meeting separated.

PROPOSED CDURCII DEFENCE ASSOCIATION.-At
a meeting of clergy end laymen bold at Cambrit.lo on Mon-
day lose, it wee proposed at tt the persons plot lam theta-
whew into• Church Defame Atteedation ; sad also that
the objects of the swot:tenon sh.ml4 be—l. The circulation,
by means of pamphlets and newspaper Fanciest, of information
reeptcting the poettion, rights, and cloints of the church. 2.
The furnishing replies to all *Wel Its made upon the church,
and especially thine of the S-mety for the Liberation of
Religion from State Omani. 3. The presentation of pen.
Done to perlienient in all canoe when each • course should
seem desirable.

LONDON GENERAL OMNI Et'S COMPANY (LI-
rD). TrFdlle receipts for the week ending Nov. 6,
10,6011. Os. 11d.

Gloucester discloses an amount of wid..:speeed and systamatio
corruption, which demonstrates the total failure of the Corrupt
Practices Prevention Act, and tends to bring representative
Institutions into contempt and this committee, without
ref!retrt to the opinions or interests of any political party,
mem:deed of .the people to CO-OrteeT: -WWI Mein O'etc
ace on all those who ars striving to promote the moral im-
exertion* for the ballot, tie most cMclint means of checking
this, melpesctice., which !wk.. our elections the occasion of
spreading immorality and degradation amongst all classes of
the people." A letter from a correspondent at Exeter wee
read, which stated "that the liberal candidates for the muni-
aped election. in Exeter had been defeated, and that in one
albs wards a sabscription for the Ballot 3 xi ty had imme-
diately brat set on foot, and 30 membre. 11“.1 been enrolled
is as many minutes, and that it was intruded to make the
movement general through the whole city."
TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION.—iesterday there
was a great demonstration of the various Wee* of the tem-
perance benefit clubs of the metropolis, known es the " Ori-
ginal Grand Order of the Total Abstinent Sae of the
Plieeniz." There were three distinct procession,, the various
meurters leaving their respective l•dge.hotte.e et.ut five
o'clock, and proceeding to Lincolterinn-fidde, where the
grand aggregate procession was formed, and where, ac-
companied by several bands of music, they marched
to Exeter Hall. There are some female lodges, one
named after Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe : but these did
not appear in the procreator.. The number of processioniste
was maculated at 6,000-19 lodges Icing repreronted. At
Exeter Hall, which woe crowded by an entbahatie audience,
the platform was exclusively occupied by the Sons of the
PLeeeix," who, gaily decorated with critosoa near. medals,
rosettes, tricoloured ribbons, dm., ant fronted by a dais
formed of the banners of their lodge.. pre-ratod a ray telling
appearance. The chairman was an engineer, !mined 11014
Letongieg to the " Water's. Lodge, end the meeting was
addressed by various "working men," in eperchee appro-
priate to the occasion. Between the epeechea melodies were
sung, chiefly of • temperance character, and the meeting ter-
ruins.ed a little after 10 o'clock.

NORWICH EPISCOPAL PALACE.—The additions
and repairs which have beta fort some tone in prni,oreas at the
Epiecopci Palace, Norwich, me now v topleted. Pert of the
old buildings adjoining the catLedr.ti hss born retnovtd. so
that the venerable fabric stands uut more tingly and dis-
tinctly than formerly. The old chapel in the palace has
also hien reeti.rod and fitted up for Divine service. The
poilice bad been aufferid during the administration of pre-
minas bishops to fall into a dilapidated condition, sad the
repairs were sot made Lefton, they wery needed. The host of
the new works is defrecod by • otortmma of e portion of the
remotes of the PM of Norwich, to Is paid off in a wirier of
jeans in the usual rammer.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. The win-
miner, at its fortnightly meeting yesterday teorning, had the
gratification of rot eiviog a sixth donation of 1001. fur invest-
ment from John flatbed, Bp., of Hraywicko lodge, Maiden-
head, and a commotion for the genre' tourpoces of the
hospital, through the hands a Prufeettor Erachern, one of
lb. someone of the institution, of 60 guintas from W. H.
Whitbread, Esq., of Southill, Bedfordshire. On the other
hand the txuawittee found that the expeneoe of the year
endings 31st October last had exetteied the receipt., by
nearly 6110/..' and that the moot streuttou• exertions of the
friends of thu hospital in procuring aid would be required to
justify the investment of recent legacies Mites& of I brit ap-
plication in the payment of debts.

LRTSTAL PALACLHALF-CROWN
ItIPSDAY, Nov. 9.—Admiasions on Payment, 693; by
aeon. tickets, 1,195; tonal visitor', 1.790„

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Loan MATOS'S Dew is not deed yet, and the dee-
perste effete ef t►e Show to look serious and sensible
in the eyes of mankind, condemn it, we fear, toe lin-
gering decay. The men in armour, whose helpless
exposure staid' the impossible yellow horses with
pink eyes might have aroused the leeghter of a sober
population had not the sentence of doom—enoriguri
le 6,l4l6ml—which was written on the brow of beery
champion and knockkneed charger provoked cos.
miseretion these have stalked away into the land
when all things are forgotten, and in their stead
what have we now? Why, the merest peneele
peitee esastablse, drums and fifes of the Royal
Lewin Militia, and the bead of the London
Ride Brigade. The BeantLeal is gone, but " the
• Usetal essoarsies itself." Really were it not for
the Ueda, City Marshal on horsehtek, sod the LORD
MATOR'S Beadle, that " humour " which ill obese.
treat foreigners are unsimous in attributing to
Englishmen would have been absent altogether
from the spretaele yesterday. The happy mixture
of the grotesque with the solemn, and of the comic
with the pompous it was that secured the reveren-
tial sympathy even of street boys ; but it requires a
finer and mmt, sensitive taste to appreciate the fan
of " the Gentlemen of the Loan M.tent's House-
" hold."

Let us not be accused of levity or of indifference
to our country'. greatoess. It lie intelligent
foreigner was here in the body between Charing-
cross and l'ornhill, we trust his attention was at-
tracted to tne baud of the London Rifle Brigade;
he will then understand how it happens that the
" Champion of England" has been melted down into
a more modern and serviceable material. The Lord
Mayor. Show, as it is in 18.19, may have derne.
r►ted in the eyes of Goo and MAGOG ; but tt is
more appropriate to • Corporation which, if it does
not solicit, at all events anticipates reform.
The Show, however, is only a part, and a trifling
part, of the solemnities of the 9th of November.
Suppose it blocks up a main thoroughfare for a
few hours, bewilders nursery-maids and tests the
early promise of candidates for reformatories, it
creates one morning's harmless and not unwelcome
diversion to the ceaseless moil and toil of London
life, without imposing too much on the imagination,
or disturbing the fancy, or unsettling the business
habits of the town. Country people like to come
and see it, sod our foreign friends rhapsodise about
It in magni hoe! generalisation; and so perhaps we
could better spars a ..".titer festival- Besides, to what
great purpose do the pCialailiall and the visit to the
Judges—to what ee the banners, and trnmPotata,
and sta.
carriages, and chignons, and beadles, all
converge? and to what consummation do they
come ? Who that has penetrated the secrets of the
British Constitution can hesitate for a moment to
reply ? A Dinner, to be sure—a Public Dinner i
the supreme beatitude of all well-regulated Britons.
What a brilliant national institution it is rtz
blazing room, the groaning table, the stuffy dig-
nitarier, the condescending grandeur of the "parties
in authority, the he►vy meats, hot wines, and tepid
soups, and tavern songs, the universal flow of soul,
as lost follows upon toast—who but • heirless and
heartless iconoclast would wi►h all these bright and
beautiful symbols of our comfortable and corpulent
nationality to be ruthlessly put dowo by the dull
and leaden hand of reform' There is but one step
from your houest City feat to the sugared
water and sweetmeats of a Pr ffst de la Seine.
But we should beware of discussing a banquet at the
Guildhall an • gross and sordid spirit. Con-
sider the occasion; see how we are surrounded on all
hands by toe good and great. A stream of carriages
has b.en wetting from the other hemisphere a new
world of high life, ready to lay the tribute of
ropey, fui loyalty at the feet of the new Monarch of
IPheapsidi . The idleness and fashion of the West
are conic t,i pay homage to the shop:messy of
the East. City madams and suburban misers are
about to enjoy the exquisi•e privilege of talking
with Mit norm of State, with foreign diplo-
matists, with generals, admiral., and bishops,
actually face to face. The Lotto 3.1.tr0a
himself—whom French novelists are wont to de-
scribe as a sort of Suzerain over and above the
British throne—is about to receive from the lips of
Cabinet Ministers intimate mysteries of State; not
mere open secrets which the peen his vulgarised,
but grand revelations of iaternation .1 policy and
domestic aimioistration. Last evening, however,
we are obliged to confess, this part of the perform-
ance was rather meagre, and only those whose
expectations were most moderate can have come
away without a certain dose of disappointment•
The new bins Sl.troa's cup of joy and pride was
doomed to lie dashed with • drop of bitterness, and
ID the midst of all the glories of his accession he
was obliged to submit to the common fate of his
bumbler 1..10w-men. It was his privilege to begin
his reign co tin eighteenth birthday of the redone
of Wags; and it was that suspicious coincidence
which •arced the splendour of his bas-
sinet. lie had Ministers of State by his side; but
there wen Ministered Slats " conspicuous by their

"absence," and among those whom Windsor claimed
for its own was Lord PALl...arms himself.
It was impossible that the Paint Minima
and the FOREIGN SECRETARY should not be mined ;
and even the learned and instructive Bir CORNE-
WALL Liwts, even the well-graced CIIANCELLOR of
the ExenEntria, could hardly atone to the company
for the vacant places at the board. Fortunately,
the Hong SECRETARY had something to say which
all were glad to hear, and he said it pointedly,
clearly, and decisively. He told his Lordship, and
►is Lordship's guests, that her MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment had not yet received any formal invitation to
enter into Congress on the affairs of Italy, but that
in any case Great Britain would decline to enter into
any emigress save on the distinct understanding
that the will of the people of Italy should be re-
spected. These words of good augury will be no
novelty to the readers of this journal, but they will
be echoed throughout Europe, and will strike a chord
of patriotic hope and confidence in Italy at a moment
when all Italy is looking to England for the sus-
training sympathy and generous moral succour of
the greatest of oonstitutioaal Governments, and the
foremost of all free peoples.
Mr. GLADSTONE'S sympathies are happily too well
known to need any public confession; he was, there-
for*, able to disport himself with all his masterly
grans and agility on the financial corde sensible, sad
his audience was in no condition to resist his deli.
cats and dainty menaces of taxation, barbed with
fine yet serious pleasantry. Perhaps the most dex-
serene stroke of judicious tenority was the HOME
Ilacarranv'e promise of a Reform Bill at the open-
ing of next session. This warn indeed filling the
"loving cup" overflowing; for at City banquets
the charm of a statesman's eloquence is apt ticonsist
be extracting from party politica a sublimate of die-
interested and exalted devotion to " our common
" country," as the charm of ecclesiastical eloquence, at
• public dinner, in the mouth of a Bishop or a llama,
consists in what Madame DI Sanwa would call a
" thickening" of religion—with turtle and old port.

THE GARIBALDI FUND.