The Express.
London, England, 1859-02-02 00:00:00

MEETING OF LANCASHIRE REFORM
DEPUTIES.

Yesterday afternoon an exceedingly large and
crowded meeting was held at the Assecohlproom, Pees
Trade-hell, Manchester, being a conference of reformers Ix
Lescashire favourable to the wend principles of Mr.
Bright's bill. Kr. Bright, M.P., was present, and wee
received with most enthusiastic cheering.
The foliewiag isqa had been received from Mr. Bosley,
M.P.:

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"Hayeslsigh, Manchester, Jan. 26, 16.59.
"My dear Sir,—Having been long engaged to proceed to
London on Tuesday next, to fuldl an important engage-
ment, I cannot, I regret, base the honour of attending the
Reformers' Conference on the evening of that day. Again I
beg to emus you that I shall feel it to be toy ditty to amid
In obtaining as comprehensive and judicious a reform in the
representation of the people of. this country as the legislature
clan be induced to yield. Allow me to take the opportunity
at thanking myj liberal friends for the honour of electing
me a t of their Reform Associetka.—Believe
me te•rwsta. most faithfully, "Taos. Buttzy.
" George Whom, Esq., &a"
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Oa lhoinetion of Mr. J. C. DUI, SOCOSHISCI by Mr. BAR.
Tr( (Mayor of Salford), Mr. George WILSON WY SIZISSH.
monsly voted to the chair, amidst load than.
Mr. 111311 T ASHWORTH, of BOBolla.ornigratulated the
smiting on the infitientisl abarseter of deputations sent.
ormornded by moving • renoletkm to the tint that Mr.
Bright's me m* deserved the support of this county, and
that the Comes wee disposed to give it all the support in
their er. (Choirs.)
Mr H Mayor of Salford, seconded the resolution.
114. BRIN11:14141M.P. for Bohm supported the reeolu.
ties, and said he should have been powered to go with
Mr. Bright U ho had gone a little further. He did not know
bath vild hays asked for manhood rem% because
=trseldom gave all that was what. He believed
ma wee • man who stood barns the 000ntry with
the same ithainat of confidence that ha spoke the sentiments
of the pest mess of the people, and he believed that the
people arm hod sea an able advocate before. What he
winged we • power at his bark—(heat, hear)--and if this
bill wee lost they might depend it would he their fault, and
not Mr. Bright's. (Cheers.)
BoCeaseoX GLADSTONE, of Liverpool, rose amidst
grog cheeriag. Ha repetied Hirt t.iverpool bad not been
ht the foregronig espy Question, ilk. NT boil, rneg
he come them to give hie feeble help because be thought it
wadi be • stigma on them if they remained silent. He
'peke per himself gad sot for others, and he asked whether
it wee Uttar to wait till (pester evils had developed them-
selves is war politica system, or to apply at once • remedy
while there wee time t (Hear, hear.) In Liverpool there
wee Monroe • considersg• difference of opinion. Of counts
ken the old tortes there was aci opposition, but they knew
how that opposition was to be dealt with, end that If the
people were firm and resolute in their demand, not the bITIOS,
nor even the Times newspaper—which, after all, wee • tory
—with ell the briefleaa barrister. at its back, and preechige
ministers at its back aa writers, could stand against the argu-
ments wilt:trots tad to sorb a measure of reform s• Mr. Bright
now pr . He did not profess to speak either for the
tory or e old whig party of Liverpool, but beam to that
meetiog as one of a considerable pholaux of theme. advanced
&Aerate to express their most grateful thanks to Mr. Bright
far his distinguished services on this question. (Chsere,)
orEr V C HY, of Liverpool, and Mr. T oursos, of Uay,
sear Lea:Amor, heartily supported the resolution, which was
curried mar intously.
Mr. BKIGHT, M.P. on rising, wee received with loud
cheers, He to explain the circumstances under
which he first agreed to prepare a reform bill, and the ILO-
. ties. by which les bee been guided. The members of the
Manchester ochoell had b 0 selfish mg in view. "They have
taken up the great wimples of political economy," said the
honourable gentleman 'and want to see them carried out.
They web' economy for Suffolk a• well as for Manometer.
& mhsiszl I should be ashamed to go to the House of
to represent sectional and special interests—to be
Ili organ of the shipowner', or the cotton manufacturers, or
the Jthithighone manufacturers. I would go there boldly
annul swessely seed truly, so far as my power and intent-
pith molded tee, to consider all the questions that came
before the bee with referenos to the great interests of
every pertion and class of the population of this mighty
empire. (Cheers.) Them is one other point with regard
to this scheme on which 1 would make a remark. It Ia
this. If you would look over the population tables you
would dad that the population athlete great boroughs is in-
creasing three them,- bolieve, as rapidly as the population in
counties. If it were possible to show that there wee • single
figure in favoured the counties, or in favour of the b Roughs, I
ask you what will be the cam ten years boom f Since the
passing of the Reform Act the population of this county
hes increased about 700,010. The population is now over
2,000,000. When the census Is taken in 1871, I have no
doubt that it will approach 3,000,000, and in that state of
things make your calculation, in regard to the boroughs sod
the Quagga. (Onset cheering.) We are not legislating se
f we were all tide bound. (Ilear.) In the great bulk of the
agricultural counties, during the lost fifteen years there has
boon no increase whatever in the number of elector. What.
ever increase has taken place has taken places in the manu-
facturing and mining mintier, and so it will go on as long
as coal end iron will last—as long se your cepio.l
Is not absorbed and squandered In wan. (Loud cheers.)
As long as your intellects are clear end your hearts ere
honest and earnest ao long will the commerce of this country
esa.sre, ALA
great manufacturing counties, with all their vast interate,
making infinitely greater propene than it is poseible for the
agricultural population of England to make. (Cheer.) Now
I venture to say that my echatoe is a moderate whew. of
reform. I do not think that any man who is in favour of
representation at all, who has any reliance upon the oharrnter
of his countrymen, who believes in the perpetuation of free-
dom through • real parliament—l do not think that he esn
deliberately std conscientiously condemn the proposition
that I have laid before the public aeons unjust to any motion
of the people, or likely to tend to the weekening of any
institution of the country for which the people care
one tingle farthing. (Loud cheers.) As to our friends in
the House of Lords—(laughtar)—they ought to be very
much obliged to use for discussing tits question with the
public. Their own position is not pert umlarly enviable with
regard to it. You °Werte tham coming out at octal-science
meeting', at mechanics' footstool., in Ingo village. here and
there, doing, of coures, a certain not essay appreciable
amount of good—(greet laughter)— telling the people all
those things which, as we all know, every Sundeyoichool
goober can tell them just as well—(oontinued laughter)—
coming on to platform., descending, shall I say, from their
altitude, to come munagst coninem Wan. But now, when
the whole country is discussing this question—when every
oewspeper is filled with it—when the population from ow
sod of the county to the other is expressing its approval—
More or lorm--e1 W. insecure, not one of them
gentleman preemie himself upon any platform, meets
the publis, faces the beteg of popular opinion, help.
in the deliberation of the greatest question that can pocaibly
be discerned by a fors people. Non, we have no idea, out the
thalami, of nieddllog with the House of Lade. (Laughter.)
Reference habeas made to whatwas dose is peat timee,whan
dr power of the crown woo limited. But that was& limita-
tion-by met of pmkeseest. We are not proposing to limit ths
mow of the selstocraoy by act of pultoment. (Hear.) We
have them as thirn aro, with all tha power. the Preece P14"0.
the law% the priWeges, the curnowis, which public opinion
permits them be enjoy. Bat we my, " Roe I. another house,
mend ornate higher isterwits than the interests of soy aris-
tocracy. The eonatitution has no tame regard to the crown or
to the ereeteceeey than It has to the, people. The peo-
ple are the scot durable part of the kingdom. Pei-
vileges are but the people me immortal." (Loud
sad thaaahig.) What we ask, then, I.
this—we
claim It by the constitution that the Room of Commons shall
bo constituted hot with inference to whether it shill be con-
rooked for the Ronne of Lords or sot, but that it alkali be
mode a rod, mthenlablo, sen.ibly felt ropresontation ill the

great body of the topple of this kingdom. (Chasm.) We
ought as much as possible to endasvour to understand this
=; all do not understand it, and great &litho-
re mde great blunders in tepid to it. (Laughter.)
We ought to make up our minds whether this MiSUM as •
whole is 'jest measure recognising just principles, sdequate
to matt great meats, end worthy of the support contained fa
the immietihis raedutkm of • great people. (Loud cheers.)
There is nothing that it right to be ices which this country
amain do. (Cheers.) Two or three counties like this
have made the marvidloos change which we me is England
compered with what It was 100 years ego. (lissr, ham.)
Your ruling chases, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mae& at the table, art delighted I. hear that your delft ere
ou every era, that your masalsonave are flourishing, fist
people are employed and traapil, that the taus Sr.
peerws ia with a oonstantly faersesiag volums. (A laugh.)
All this they were delighted to Lear, mad they recophe the
octof Lancashire sad Yorkahire. Yet I Bat let
et hemmed see how much of IDA bow much of heart
work, and bead work, aed tasiety, me required to produce all
tEseepand results. (Hem, boar.) Do am let us bear of it
only la the budget, lout let = give to this population, so
great, as powarfol, so renewasd, so hmelitibis when salted
—let atilt, to them that—for ere salt mops then what the
serteall, the boasted, if yes like the glorious constitatka of
the otelaky, declares to be their right. of
clean)
The proceedings were thee breoght a 01•0111/i06 by a
vets of thanks to the chairmen.

'',4-Itzfolut 'frame'.

On Monday evening last a crowded meeting was
held in the Town Hall Darby, to take into considerattaa the
, question of parliamentary reform. There were hundreds
who were unable to obtain ad eneum& The Maros (kr.
Gaisby) presided.
Mr. Councillor BEM moved, and the Rev. W. GRIFFITH
woonded, the follewing resolution That in the opinion of
this meeting, the House of Commesos now cmairected,
does not fairly ropewalk the people of the United Kingdom,
who, by the nioresse of Wel -ligeace, are prepared fora large
examine of the suffrage; and thane measure of renew will
be acceptable to the country unless ft embrace household and
rating suffrage, vote by ballot, trios's' parliaments, and a
more equitaWdistrlbutioa of repreemeition to population.
Mr. REYNOLDS (II *bertha) shoved, end Mr. HOLT
(reartist) seconded, the flollowng smenbarnt :—" That the
present state of the repeseentation in the Commons House of
Parliament is grossly delusive and *on; that this meeting
deema it desirable at the present stage of the reform move-
ment to re-affirm the right of every responeible citizen to a
voice in the government of his sountry, end it declares that
no measure for the etnandinent of the reproeentatioa will be
@statutory that does not ID elude resfdenYal manhood e
namely, az months' residence, the prebection of the vtftret
equal electoral districts sad triennial parliaments."
On the show of hands the amendment was carried by e
large majority ; as was a petition to parliament, moved and
nominal by two Nottingham Matisse
Mr. Dew, ILP., observed that se the petition bad been
placed in his Made be would Feast it, but could not give
k his support. He mutt regretaid the worse which bad
been adopted by the meedsg.
Mr. Baez& M.P., else addrmed the meeting,
his °pinatas to iesahcal saws, and his willingness
to retire from the represealedon of Derby, if his political
view, were not naelefeetary to the eledcw.
A vote of thesis wee gives to Herm Hess sad Beek for
intending', end to the Meyer in peweiteg.
The mestiag, whisk was a stony no, this separated.