The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

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thavathdl *I4OO4IIa6PC.Aa t e 110440 iltigkringy
to the multitudes at the ham of our social scale. But why
is yit? 1' Ak°lPie comes it that we are not in that
digger ? How is it that we are not now filled with eanfir
Mon and dismay ? Who was it that destroyed the curse of
the corn laws, and who was it that fought desperately to
maintain that curse? (Cheers.) Why, surely you know
that we who are accustomed to assemble in the Free Trade-
hell were largely instrumental in destroying it, and you
know that no man was more forward in its support than
sho man who is now Prime Minister of England. (Cheers.)
U this be so, if we, the party that we represent en this
platform to-night, if we did much to promote this pros-
perity, are we not fairly entitled to offer ourselves m ed.
Amore on the question of the franchise ? (Loud sheen.)
,What Is called statesmanship is like no other pro-
lusion. In other professions failure is acknowledged,
and it shuts a man out from distinction and
sepreinacy, but Lord Derby at this moment is Prime
Minister of England, whose failures are in the annals of
England for 30 years past, (Cheers.) In 1834 Lord Derby
left Lord Grey's government because he would not permit
even an inquiry into the excessive revenues of the Irish
church, but the lush church is doomed to destruction.
Omens.) In 1846 he left Sir Robert Peel, and became the
leader of the tory protectionists, because he would not
consent to the abolition of the corn laws ; and since he has
been foremost in opposition to all good things in parlia-
ment Lord Derby is not the leader of hie party in a high
sense-he is not its educator, he is not its guide ; but he
is iteleader in all foolish contests in which, to its ignorance
and its selfishness, it involves itself with the people.
(Great cheering.) Only three or four days ago I opened
a • book which professes to be • history of the govern-
ing families of England, and which is composed of
articles, interesting many of them, which appeared in the
Spectator newspaper. There is one of them on the Stanley@
of Knowsley, and they are certainly one of the governing
famThes, seeing that Lord Derby end Lord Stanley are
bothtn the cabinet. But on opening this book I found
this curious fact, that during the agitation of the Reform
Act, I believe in the year 1831, Lord Stanley, the present
Lord Derby, is stated to have leapt upon the table at the
meeting where there was a number of reformers assembled,
to urge upon them the necessity of refusing the
payment of taxes till the Reform Bill was passed.
(Laughter.) Well, I was not there to see—
I have heard the story several times before, but I see it
recorded in this volume, and I therefore take it to be
accurste. The same Lord Stanley came forward in 1852
to stem the tide of
.democracy ; in 1859 he wan the
bead of a government which introduced a reform hill et •
meat fraudulent character ; and in 1866 he is the head of a
party which has destroyed en honest franchise bill and
overthrown an honest and patriotic government. (Cheers.)
The newspaper@ which write for his party tell us that
Lord Derby and his government are not in the least de-
gree disabled or precluded from dealing with this
reform question. I hope no reformer dreams of such
things. If you like you may trust your life
to your most bitter foe, but I will not do so
if I know it. We had free trade from free traders,
for when Sir Robert Peel repealed the corn laws he was as
good and sincere a free-traderuif he had spoken free trade
for the previous five or six years from this platform on
which I now stud. Lord Derby is not a reformer, nor
will he introduce a reform bill in the character of • re-
former. If he does introduce one it will be as before—it
will be some juggle ; some dishonest trick, something
base, like the means by which they overthrew the bull of
Lord Russell's government. If that bill bad posed,
moderato as it was, I undertake to say It
would have been received in every part of the
United Kingdom with the liveliest satisfaction. It
would have given to the working men, and to
numberaiof them, a partnership in the state ; and I be-
lieve that the nation would have been happier and stronger
from the paining of that bill. (Cheers.) But now dis-
content is growing everywhere, and will continue to grow
until that discontent becomes • great peril in the country,
unless a satisfactory measure is introduced and passed
through parliament. I charge Lord Derby and his friends
with this—l say that they have brought class into conflict
with class. I say that they have done much to separate
parliament from the nation ; that they have made the
House of Commons the reviler and not the protector of the
people ; and, further, that they have frustrated the just
and benevolent intentions of the crown. In conclusion, I
venture on something which may be deemed as the foretelling
of what is to come—l say that the men who are now in
office cannot govern Britain—the middle classes and the
working chum will alike condemn them. They cannot
govern Ireland—in that unhappy country their policy has
produced a state of chronic insurrection which they can
never cure. They will be expelled from power, and their
policy will be rejected by the people, for it is on broad
and just and liberal principles alone that England can
maintain her honest, but now unchallenged place among
the nations of the world.
The honourable gentleman, having spoken for very
nearly an hour, sat down amidst enthusiastic cheers.
A vote of thanks to the chairman, proposed by Mr.
WILFRED LawsoN, and seconded by the Honourable
LreLrn STANLIT, brought the proceedings to a termina-
tion.

REFORM MEETING IN MARTLEBONE. —An in-
augural meeting of the Trinity district branch of the Re-
form League was held last evening in the Cleveland-hall,
Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square; Mr. J. Cunnington In
the chair. The hall was well filled. Mr. Picard proposed
the first resolution, as follows :—" That this assembly, now
met for the purpose of publicly inaugurating the formation
of the Trinity Branch of the Reform League, views with
feelings of the highest disapprobation the unworthy,
although successful, schemes and subterfuges by
which the really moderate measure of reform
in-
troduoed by the late government was overthrown,
end especially reprobates the conduct of those false-hearted
members of the House of Commons, who, in the course of
the debate on the bill, so basely and calumniously us.
duced the industrial classes of this country. This meet-
ing, therefore, pledges itself to demand--and, by enrol-
ment as members of the league—by unceasing efforts,
and by all other legal and constitutional means, to obtain
the extension of the elective franchise to every resident
and registered adult male person of sound mind,and uncon-
victed of crime, together with the protection of the bal-
lot." Mr. Ryle seconded, and Mr. Platen supported, the
resolution, which purled. Mr. Henrietta moved—" That
this meeting is of opinion that a reform of the present
House of Common. is imperatively needed; that whether re-
gard be had to the intimidation practised in the counties, the
corruption and undue intluence practised in the boroughs,
or the exclusion of the working classes from the franchise,
the present state of the representation is alike unjust, per-
nicious, and unsatisfactory. It therefore resolves that its
untiring energies shall be devoted to the attainment of a
remedy for such gross and scandalous abuses." Mr. G.
Mantle seconded the resolution, which was supported by
Mr. Bradt ugh, and carried. The proceedings closed with
a vote of thanks to Earl Russell and the supporters of
reform in parliament. _ _ - •

THE 10E8 OP THE MAYFLOWER.—The following
particulars have come to hand relative to the distressing
event which occurred off Ronlogin during the heavy gale
of Friday night. The brig Mayflower, 202 tons burthen,
from Sunderland to Treport, laden with coals, came ashore
about 10 o'clock, nearly opposite the Etablissement des
Rains ; and notwithstanding the lifeboat lay at ease, within
a cable's length of the unfortunate vessel, no aid mid be
afforded, an 1 four even out of a crew of five perished mise-
rably. It seems that the captain of the brig, which was
in a very had condition, finding her almost waterlogged,
tried to make the port, but, being ignorant of the
course, steered N.E. instead of S.W. The brig broke to
pieces directly she touched the shore. Her critical position
was visible to thousands. Some men of the Rhine, which
had just entered the port, and some of another of the
London steamers, which was Ipwg inside, rushed
to the shed where was the lifAt apparently
ready for every emergency, on the east jetty, but it was
locked up and no key could be found, and when at last the
key was brought, these men, being quite inexperienced,
could make no use of her, only one French official being
present to direct their operations. In the meanwhile, the
crew of the brig were beard shouting and screaming for
help in vain. The captain, a good swimmer, had time to
undress himself, but was drowned in hie attempt to go
ashore, and his body, stiff end stark, was found at daybreak
on the sends. The remaining four, one of whom was a
poor sailor boy, dune to the mast and rigging. One by
one they were engulfed. The sailor boy way alive when
the sole survivor, a Sunderland man, called William Hoyt.
der, was rescued by the French gendarmes. Another
sailor still breathed whes earned into the Humane So-
ciety's house, but help came too late, and after one or two
paps he expired. All the bodies have not been reoog-
niaed.

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THE PI

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MANSION-HOUSE.
A genteablookingyoung men, who pre the woe
Jake Williaat R , and who dawdled himself
being a surgeon's assistant, wee brought up in custody
ashamed before the Lord Mayor (on his own contortion
with stealing two Bank of England notes for the pearries
of Meech, and also surgeon's diploma, under eiman4
Maness disclosed in the evidence.
From the testimony of relics-constable Jonakhan Pope,
622, it appeared that on Saturday evening, at • quarter to
seven o'clook, the prisoner came to the Bow-lane station,
where the witness was on duty, and stated that ha wished
to give himself up into custody tor stealing two 51. Bank of
Penland notes. He was asked where the notes had been
from, and the prisoner replied that they
to • Mr. James Whitworth, his fellow araistanbtelan!
home of a surgeon (Maas name wasnot mentioned) at lEbbir
Vale, near Newport. Monmouthshire, on the 14th of the
present month. The prisonerfurthet stated that since be had
been, in London he had been staying at Haxell'sHotel in the
Strand, and that if he (the officer) went there he would
find a leather bag belonging to him which contained, be-
sides some soiled linen, a surgeon's diploma granted to Mr.
James Whitworth, which he bad stolen at the same time.
He (the officer) went to the hotel, the proprietor of which
refusedtodelivernp the %gen the ground that the prisoner
owed a bill for a week's board and lodging. One of the
servants at the hotel was now in attendance with
.it.
When the prisoner was searched at the police-station only
threepence in money was found upon bun, but he had in
his possession two duplicates for articles pledged to the
amount of 2/. Mb., a 'pipe in case, a pnne, a gold ring, a
pair of gloves, some memoranda, and four keye, one of
which opened the bag now produced from the hotel, in
which, as described by the prisoner, the diploma was
found.
In reply to the Lard Mayor, the Inspector who toot the
charge stated that on Saturday night he bad despatched a
tel to Newport, stating the surrender of the prisoner,
and he had since written there, but as Ebbw Vale. where
the robbery took place, was some distance from Newport,
there bad not yet been time for him to receive any reply.
He must therefore ask for a remand.
The Lord Mayor accordingly remanded the prisoner (who
had nothing to say, and who appeared to be greatly de-
pressed) dll to-morrow.
James Weight, 46, described as being a warehouseman,
wan charged with stealing two sable skins, one value 287.701
two marten skins, value U. 125., the property of Messrs.
Culverwell, Brooks, and Co., of 47, St. Mary-are, hide
and skin brokers, his masters.
Mr. George William Jones, a clerk in the establishment
of the prosecutors, proved that tits prisoner had been some
time in the service, but being suspected he had been stopped,
and on being searched the skins produced were found -con:
waled under his shirt. A constable was sent for, but in
the interim the witness, in consequence of the previous
loss of similar property, asked the prisoner who was the
receiver of this sort of goods, as, if he gave up the name of
the receiver, the firm would not prosecute him. The pri-
soner, knowing that a constable had been sent for,' said,
" No, you have sent for the boy in blue (the officer), end
I know whatto do ; you will get nothing out of me." The
officer then arrived, and the prisoner was given into
custody, and conveyed to the police station, where it
seemed lie had attempted to commit suicide by making an
incision in one of his wrists with part of a broken eyeglass.
The attempt was, however, discovered by detective officer
Hawks, and nothing serious followed.
The prisoner was remanded for further inquiries.
George Broom, who described himself as a Custom-home
agent, having a desk in the lobby of the Custom-house,
was summoned at the instance of the Board of Commis-
sioners, for making a false declaration in relation to a box
containing fish intended for exportation to Rotterdam.
Mr. Beverley, from the office of the Solicitor to the Cus-
toms, appeared to support the summons, and stated that
it was issued with reference to a declaration appended to a
document known as a " shipping bill," presented at the
Custom-house on the Gth Sept. last, by the defendant, who
had appended to it the declaration that the box contained
112Ibs. weight of turbot. The box was shipped on that
declaration, but on arrival at Rotterdam it had been
opened in the presence of the captain, and been faxed to
contain salmon, with respect to which there was no duty,
hut there were certain restrictions as to its exportation.
One of those was that no salmon could be exported after
the 3rd Sept. in each year without a certificate as to the
legal capture of the fish, and of this the defendant must
have been cognisant, inasmuch aa twenty minutes before
he presented the shipping bill for turbot he bad presented
one for salmon, and had been told the regulation.
After that he returned with the shipping bill in
question for turbot, and for this he received
the requisite "stamp note" to authorise its shipment.
In consequence of some information which reached the
Custom-house, a telegram was despatched to Captain
Henry Strannack, of the steamship Waterloo, on
which the box had been shipped, and he on arrival opened
it as directed. and found it to contain six salmon. The
board feeling it important that the declarations made at the
Custom-house should be accurate in all respects, had
thought it right to institute this proceeding.
The defendant said he was an innocent participator in
the transaction, having been employed to pass the requisite
papers by the owner of the box a Mr. Briggs, a salesman
in Billingsgate market, for which he had only been paid
eighteen nce. He knew nothing of the contents of the
pe box, and he should be glad to have the case adjourned in
order to secure the attendance of Mr. Briggs.
After some discussion as to the mode in which this dam
of business was conducted at the Custom-house,
The Lord Mayor assented to the adjournment of the
case, and directed a summons to be issued for the attend-
ance of Mr. Briggs to-morrow (Wednesday).
GUILDHALL
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Mr. Joseph Tirebuer,;—:-prmier, carrying on business in
Windsor.oourt, Monkwell street, was summoned before
Alderman Dakin for refusing to teach the complainant,
his legally bound apprentice, his business.
Mr. George Lewis, jun. appeared for the complainant;
and Mr. Besley for the defendant.
Mr. Healey took a technical objection to the summons,
is it only mentioned one of the complainant's masters
instead of the two.
Mr. Lewis contended that as the act complained of was
the act of only one, the two need not be summoned.
William Henry Barg= stated that on last Saturday
week he bad some words with Mr. Joseph Tirebuck, and
that be told him to go home, and be said he wished to do
so. On the following Monday be went to a friend to get
some advice as to how he was to act, and on Tuesday went
beck to biz work, bet Mr. Isaac Tirebuck would not let
him come in, and he then got the summons against Joseph
Tirebuck. Joseph was not present when Isaac refused to
let him come beck.
Mr. Bestir/ renewed his objection, and
Mr. Lewis asked permission to withdraw the summons,
and take out a fresh one, but to that course
Mr. Begley objected. He asked for the summons to be
dismissed with costs.
Mr. Lewis contended that costs were only allowed when
the proceedings were frivolous and vexatious, and not
when a summons was dismissed on technical grounds.
Alderman Dakin dismissed the summons, and awarded
21s. costa He then granted fresh summonses sgainst the
Messrs. Tirebuck and cross-summonses against Dargan for
insolent language sad absenting himself on Monday.

CARPENTERS' STRIKE AT MANCHESTER.