The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-21 00:00:00

OF JAMAICA.

Sir,-1 have the honour to transmit to your excellency
the copy of an address to the black and the coloured popu-
lation of Jamaica, which has been adopted by the com-
mittee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society,
and forwarded to the Irlbsionsnes in the island with a
letter, of which a transcript is also enclosed. The com-
mittee venture to hope that the circulatioa of the address
may be productive of good results.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) L. A. CHANKROVZOW, Secretary.
27, New Broad-street, London, August 16.

[TWOPENCE

THE REFORM AGITATION.

CLERICENWELL-GREEN. —A public mee • , COl'
vened by the Clerkenwell branch of the Reform
was held lest evening on Clerkenwell-green, Mr. Ceffej ~
in the chair. Mr. right proposed the first resolu-
tion se follows :—" That this meeting pledges itself UP
claim, demand, and insist upon the right of every person II
who is expected to defend the country, pay taxes, and
obey
_thellaws, toe share in the government of the stets"
Mr. Arun seconded the resolution, which was supported.
by Mr. Brooke, and unanimously adopted. Mr. Mackay .
proposed the sett resolution:—" That the working men
tnd others composing this meeting pledge themselves to -
support the objects and principles of the Reform League,
by enrolling themselves members, and by all other legiti-
mate means." Mr. Campbell seconded the resolution, "
which was agreed to. Mr. Whitford moved, and Mr.
Longniaid seconded, the third resolution :—" That a peti-
tion, signed by the chairman of this meeting, be presented
to her Maesty the Queen, by a deputation from the
Clerkenweli branch of the Reform League, requesting her
to dismiss her present ministers." The resolution was
carried unanimously, and the pp mks terminated. •
SMISTEWICIL.-011 Saturday evening a meeting of •
the working men of Sinethwiek was held for the purpose
of considering the question of parliamentary reforms:midi
committee was appointed, and after the usual vote
thanks to the chairman the assemblage dispersed, •
lusty cheers for Gladstone and Bright.
Bruminutum.—The arrangements for the great
out door reform demonstration in Birmingham en Monday
next (the Mb Instantries now nearly oomplete, and gm:
=promise of a • hly seemdul gathering.
t of the comic is
tione carried on between the
Birmingham brooch of the Reform League and the prin-
cipal towns of South Staffordshire and East Worcester-
shire, indeed, leave no doubt that the gathering will
be one of the largest ever held there since
the days of the old political union. Mr. Bright
has accepted the invitation to attend. A depu-
tation from the league waited upon the hon. gentleman on
Saturday to desire his presence, and he at once promised to
come. Other leaders of the reform movement will also be
present, but the committee have not yet put the finishing
touches to their arrangements. It is intended, in addition
to the open air proceedings
I, to hold a meeting in the Town-
hall
in the evening ; but whether this assembly will take
the form of a town's meeting or soirée has not yet been
determined.

MEETING AT GLORSOP.—An open air reform
meeting was held on Saturday evening, in Norfolk-
equare, Glossop, under the auspices of the local branch
of the National Reform Union. Mr. Son. Woodsoek took
the chair, and, in the course of hie remarks, ridiculed the
fear of the propertied classes, who said that if the working
men ware enfranchised the whole power of the country
would be centered In them, and that one of their first acts
would be to divide the land of the rich, and swamp those
institutions under wkich we have become a great and
powerful nation. He contended that working men had
the deepest interest in peace and good government ; and
that, as a nation, we had grown great and prosperous, not
because of but in spite of the laws which stupid torvism had
imposed. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr.
Mark Price and Mr. John Wainwright, who attended a
deputation from Manchester, and resolutions were passed,
expressing confidence in Ituesell, Gladstone, Bright, Stuart
Mill, and those liberals who, in parliament, earned out the
pledges given on the hustings ; but condemnation of those
recreant liberals whose votes brought back to power a
party to whom the people never had and never can have
any confidence.