The Express.
London, England, 1859-09-09 00:00:00

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tea afraid to read the extrsot that has been seat to too by

some gentlemen who wished particularly that I would refer
to It on this occasion. (Cries of " Reed it.") " There were
two soldiere, but of one of them ft is stated his beck when
they began with him was covered with a mass of large red
Waked boia, which bled profusely at every stroke, and
reddened the ground under his bet." The amount
proceeds —" Upon which the cat wee ordered to
be withheld for a few momeete, when, finding
his punishment not at an end, he gave vent to
"applications for mercy, and partly moseded in
taming himself from the straps with which he was bound.
Time punishment was again ordered to be ontinued,
whim at every stroke hie cries and exclamations were meet
lismatable, inasmuch that officers end men swooned away at
tie deka:dog spectacle, and had to be curled out into the
=Jar. Om officer and upwards of twenty non-commis-
Akan and men long in the service fainted; others
stepped their ears end aimed their eyes lest they should
beam unsaved, and be subjected to the reproach and
Alla& of their comrades." (Shame.) lam told that
soma person emulated with this military—meution, shall I
sell it—(bear, hear)—has written to the papergin some de-
gree to modify this statement; but, If the mein facts are
true—sad they are hardly called in queetion—l ask you,
who are a fsir repreeentation of the people of the
Wait Riding of Yorkshire, as the West Riding
is a fair representation of the intelligence, virtue,
and greaser of the people of England—l ask you, is it
with your consent ? (Loud cries of " No.") Do you believe
that the coastitnenciee of England, polled man by moo,
would permit the son of any one of those electors to have his
back thus fl igged and lacereted 2 And for what? Pm the
crime of alarming himself from the beau ke—possibly, I do
not deny it, though it is not proved, with the intention of
desettiog. Look how they are entrapped. I ask what kind of
men they often are? How suddenly and how foolishly they
commit themelves, and la it to be wondered at that now and
then they should wish to escape? But, I ask, &royal williog
AM same 200,000 of your countrymen should be degraded
le • widen which is not exceed'd in humiliation and
by that of any slam in the Island of Cuba under
hued et the planter end his delver I" (Cheats.)
it Ipb2y essamsding the appointment of Lord Clarence
Pepe to the Secretaryship to tho Admiralty, Mr. Bright
prosesded to refer to the " predigest" t xpenditure on the
navy, end to the "century of crime" through which wahine
=i in India. Until parliament, he sad, ceased to be the
ment of the Rouse at Lords, or of the great territorial
proprietors, there was no remedy. With regard to India the
government had learnt nothing. "They have abolished the
Ran India Courtney in name as governors of India, and they
have constituted the Queen aof Eogland monarch and ruler of
, 2OO millions of people whom she has never seen in Asia ;
but the real government of India still presides ion a council
composed almost exude of the very same men who formed
the Council or the Directory of the late Eat hada
Company. Inland of its being presided over by one of its
own members It Is presided over by a tieeraary of State.
Daring lest year Lord,Stanley presided over that rouncil, and
at the present moment a nountryman of yours, Sir Charlie
Weed, presides over it, but with that single &Seance, I give
yen soy word for it, I cannot dint ister in the men, in the
immures, in the policy, or in the intention", any single
abase whaboever in the government of that great empire.
(Misr, hear.) And ro I presume it will go on until
sem great revolt—some other great oatattrophe." As
to ibuences, out of the 70,000,0901. which will Le raged
Nis year in team probably not 23,000,0001. nor my-
: thing near It, would be rased directly from property
of any kind ; the gnat bulk of the taxes was laded nom
articled consumed by all the people of the country, and every
working man in good empbyrnent, with fair wages and a
moderate amount of comfort, pays a very much
larger percentage open his income then do say of the
richer sad moon powerful population of the kingdom.
Mr. Bright continued—Yon have a government with all the
power of on abeoluts government, but without the reeponsi.
badly of en absolute government. You have a government
which amulets of Most four hundred great, some of them
rich, all of them titled families, and they are assisted and
balreseed up 4_oll the untitled territorial poesemots through-
out the United Kingdom. They ruts Lou, and they tax you,
and they spend your taxes freely. (" Rear" end laughter.)
Now, 1 have not the slightest anicsoeity against these people.
(Rear.) I like them to be in their own, but their own ease
is net, to my thinking, governing me without my coment—
(lasigheer)—nor governing you without your consent. Let
tbea have, thee, fair ploy In the country. Let every mm, be
his blood as old as, I was going to my, Adam—but then the
bleed of all of us atuld be se old as that, and I suppose, like
old wipe, it may be kept too 214—(tauilitt r)—but lot Atli

blood be as old se is the bout of those who apse over her
with William the Conqueror, let them have fair play
in the country, but let everybody aloe have fair play
also. I do not And among this due arty pea.
eminence either In art or in literature, in industry, or
in come ar fa the science of legislation, or In the prso-
tics of elm litratia.. I never met with • lord or a man
of title, or a man of family, or a OMB of "Wood," or • mu
boasting of his ancestry, but I could match him Ia any at
his qualities to which I have referred—(much laughter and
cheers)—but notwithstanding this that clam has ruled us
for 170 years, and the time fn say opinion, not of their final
extinction bat the time when they will be reduced
to a participation with the whole people of the country
la the government of the couatry, I hope la tepidly draw-
ing Web (Hear, beer.) What has been gamed reeult—
and with. this I shill oonclude my epaeoh--ef the legislation
and the -.ion of your governing ohm for 170
"Md. of

years? When they took herld oiryonr gO'vermaent your
national debt ma • more nothing—not more than 600,0001.
or 600.0001. They have raised it Is the suns of nearly
800,000,0001.—a sum exceeding in amount, I believe, all the
other national debts of all the other kingdoms of the
globe. Your taxation la greater—mach greater than that
of any other nation of equal numbsr in the world. You
have had, I Wirth, ince that time more years of warfare
than any other nation In the world pretending to be civilised
and CheiAlem bee experionord; and, at the same brae, you
have a larger per center) of your population without any
visible property then is to be found in any other Christian
nation of the globe. Well, until anybody am overthrow
these assertion% and can prove that I ante what is not tros,
I sok you, can any man say that this him been a wise, and
Jost, and paternal, and moral government al fig" great and
important kingdom? (Haar, hear.) Look at your vast
industry ; look at your hews of labour; look at the wonder-
ful productiveness of your indeatry. All this which you
have done has enabled you to bear three vast burden+, but,
In coneequeure either. burden., of this bad legislation, and
this mal-adminietration, yoo, the people of England,
although your condition of late her been greatly
improving, you are not in the enjoyment of the
melte of your industry to anythine like the extent you
would have been if you bad had for 170 years a government
that oould fairly claim to be jut and economical In the
' expenditure of the remota' of the country. (Hear, beer.)
Well, now, what do I ea ? likinstios to anybody? No,
lot the Mat. I have never shown myself, as ft is termed,
the mere dastagorm who panders to the cry of an ignorant
prejodket Daultitude—(hear)--agalnet hi. own light and
knowledge and conscience. I have been se free to withstand
what I Mt were the errors of the people—(hear, hear)—es
I em now reedy to withstand and to condemn tai mom
and the injustice of the government; but I may that if the
people governed—uoleu we are less virtue= and leoe intel-
ligent than even our rulers donee us by telling no that we
are—if the people governed, matted of a aloe% the nation
and humanity would gain. It is for this, and this slope,
that we demand a better and a free representation. We be-
lieve it would be the highest wisdom, looking a little ahead,
for our governiog class to concede It, and we are as convinced
se we are of oar own existesoe, that the permanent power,
'relate, peace, and grandeur of this nation depend upon our
obtaining that withal we sesklll belt and free tepretenta-
tios of the whole people in the parliament of England.
(Prolonged cheers.)
The resolution wee carried with math cheering.
Mr. CROSBI.6Ir. M.P., movedind Mr. BATNZA,
seconded the third resolation "That tha tranquil state of the
country at the present moment, and that the existing condi-
tion of our repo &Motive syeteen, which has been condemned
by the leading statesmen or all parties, reader the resent •
favourable time for the settlement of the reform question,
and in the opinion of this meeting it will be the duty of all
shades of slither" end earnest reformers to units in misting
to carry the best bill which it may appear practicable to ob-
tain in the ensuing emeion of parliament."
The motion was mated, and the pomading' concluded
about 10 o'clock with votes of thanks Its the speakers and
chairman.

The new branch of Sir William Armstrong%) fac-
tory at Woolwich, under the superintendence of Mr. Ander•
son, has been titled with a couple of 30 horwpower engine*,
which were satisfactorily tested yesterday, end will shortly
be put into operation. Notwithstanding the limited mows
end hithert, contracted means at their disposal, 120 gone are
already in form, sad are beteg rapidly put through the
various grades of congeal:dot. to be completed by the end of
the year.

The Channel fleet left Torbay at 11 o'clock on
Wedneiglay morning.

Yesterday the three-gnu battery, to sweep the
entrance of Weymouth harbour, was completed; the royal
Reglement have commenced erecting a 60-gun battery, which
when complete will be mounted with Armstrong's long-raege
gene. The works for the protection of this part of the coast
are progressing rapidly.
Examples of the new liberal ideas which pre
vail in Russia have bees often quoted of late,
and the foUorring is another Instance : The works
of Mickiewiez, which were so severely prohibited is
Russia that the very reading of them entailed the punish-
ment of exile, have just been reprinted at Warsaw, whams
the surveillance in each matters was even more sleet than at
flt. Petersburg. The translation of the works of the great
poet by M. Clef/Ran Oetrowaki is now freely circulated in
the Russian empire. This justice was due to the poet, who
had in his writings, and particularly In his Thatless 96p-
litre," prepared fur the great measure of the emancipation of
the serfs.

A Swiss journal announces the arrival at Geneva
of theists ehapelmaster of Abdul-Medjid, accompanied by
his wife, formerly sn inmate of the smells cad a geed
favourite of the Sultan, but who had contrived to make her
same. The lady is said to be no leas remarkable for per-
med beauty than for musical talent.
CELHORNE GARDEN3.—The "third juvenile fes-
tival" attracted a large attendance to these delightful gado no
yesterday ; bat much disappointment was experienced with
respect to the out-door ammereestsowing to the unpropitious
este of the weather. On this mosaics the weekly prow were
the competitors in the balloon race." At the imment the
signal was given the whole of oar " once-a-week" contempo-
raries emended, the Oivil tiervire Orono taking the lead. At
eight o'clock bat night Mr. Spencer, who he 'swaged to
walk 1,000 miles in 1,000 boors completed the 410th Mk •
end although his looks bear I/repeats. of &time:he Mb;
emollient of performing his task, which will not be cotelittled
until the Srd proximo.
DEATH OF LORD JAMES STUART.—Lord Jame
Stuart, M.P. for Ayrshire, died my suddenly this morning
(Wedeorda)), at Dumfries Roan, Cannock, the Ayrshire
seat of the Bus family. His lordship, who had been stays
there foe some week* put, was at Ayr ram let week,
for hie years, seemed to be hale end homy. Lard James
sat in pabament for nearly fifty years. His parliamentary
common with this district, as member for the Ayr
burghs, commenced shortly after the passing of the
Rotorua Bill, and he combated to represent them till
1834 when be tetrad into private life. At the general
election of 1857, the liberal party In Ayrshire, anxious to
wrest the representation of the county from the conserve-
tires, and thitking hie lardthip the moat likely person to
command the undivided support of the party, solicited him
to allow himself to be nominated as a candidate; and the
result was his return to parliament as member fin Ayrshire.
His loedehip enjoyed the respect of all partite, He was an
amiable, Mod-booted man, molly acceseible,and wee ever
anxious to promote the welfare, not only of all around him,
but of the whole district with which he was connected. He
was brother to the late Marquise Bate, and meta to the pre-
eat youthful marquis. Flu kedabip's son Colossi Stuart,
is M.P. for Ceedifi.-01aegoto Roma, .foe'resal„
MR. SIDNEY HERBERT AND THE Pl./CR.OIOE
Hertz Coers.—The following letter hes been reeeiv,d by
Lord 'Vivian, dated 26th August, 1859 War-office.
August 13th, 1869.—Deer Lord Vivian,—l hear irl,h great
eatidaction of the exoellent spirit which has been manifested
by the inhabited. of Penzance. A volunteer corps, composed
as that appears to be, and including ell the leading and moat
infieentkil people., has every sign of permeate= about it.
They have set an exmlient scampi., sad me which I hope
will be extensively followed. Omen! Flay reports from
Hyatt, that the volunteer offices who had mme tens have
beaten any efficers be bee ever Webers under instruction—
so greet he been their seal, se well as inteeligene. Alto.
settler the volunteer movement is doing right well, and
tedeifj Mg the einister prophesies of its opponents, fer there
are no Indicatioss of sleekness among those who take it up,
but an evident determination to acquire a thorough know-
ledge of their duties. The government, I can maitre you,
fully appreciate the value of this public spirit, which hes
nowhere shown itself more effesnally than among 'one
! Cornish neighbours, and I am verry much obliged to you for
! your e melons in the matter.—Believe me, yours truly,
• SIDNEY HELLBENT."
COUNTY 010 MIDDLESEX REGISTRATION.—The
huinges of the various courts is expected to be of MA
longer duration then nand, In consequence of the great nem-
I km of objections that hays been weds, both by the Coos/ova-
-1 tive sad Liberal Registration Aseociatioor there being 3,000
needs by the couservattrn and about 2,030 by the liberals.
ITHE ROCHDALE BOROUGH AND COUNTY REGlS-
matiorr.—These let by days the liberals of Rochdale
i have begun to express their engem and indigestion at the
I manner in which the borough and county registration has
been managed. None of the overawe 1t.,, received any
claims or objections on 'behalf of the liberels neither have
they received any objection. for the county ; the copse-
' game is that the conservatives will have it neatly all
lUM own way. It la alleged that the neon why no county
objection, have been soot in is that the parcel containing
I the objections arrived from Manchester late in the evening
of the 25th ult., End when the porter arrived at Mr. Walker's
office with It the place was closed. It was taken beck to
the station and delivered the next morning, when the ob-
I jealous were too late to be saved upon the overseers.
I Au regards the borough no cm seem to be able to ext lain
why objection and deices were not sent la.—Neuchatel.
Owardian.
MUSEUM Or THE LATE HUGH MILLER,—This
ir.teresting, unique, end most valuable colleotioa has been
preserved to the capital of Soothed. The price is upends
of a thonsend pounds, of which government contributes
five hundred, tits remainder being sends up by eantribations
born the Diet& of mime and the admirers of ens of her
unit gifleil tong— !flint%