The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-01 00:00:00

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Iletrepotitaa— 6,577 4,172

THE DIIPPATS or THE HIPORM ACT.—Lot
night a large meeting of the inhabitants of Finsbury,
convened by the Clerkenwell branch of the Reform League,
was hold en Clerkenwell-grean, to protect against the eon-
tinuance of the ratepaying and lodger clauses in the new
Reform Act. Mr. Edmond Reales, the president of the
league, who acted as chairman, and spoke from a waggon,
which served the purpose. of a platform, dwelt in his
opening address upon the injustice and misery occasioned
by the obnoxious claws, and contended that so long as
they remained in force the Reform Act would be a nullity
ao:p=s the vast majority of the working clauses. He
their nature, and subsequently read a letter
from Alderman Lusk, M.P., whose attendance had been
looked for, stating that, though unable to be present, he
completely sympathised with the object of the meeting. Mr.
Melon moved and Mr. Brighty seconded, the following
resolution:—" That in the opinion of this meeting the
seventh clause of the Representation of the People Act,
1867, abolishing composition and requiring the occupier
in boroughs to be rated, and not the owner, is a deltbe-
rate violation of contracts entered into under the sanction
of previous acts of the leislature, proved by long cape-
rienoe to be useful and beneficial, both as regards the col-
lection and the payment of rates ; has inflicted the most
cruel hardships upon the occupiers of small tenements,
called compound -householders, under the pretence of con-
ferring upon them the elective franchise, and bas imposed
moat vexatious and additional trouble, likely to be
accompanied with great lees and expense, upon parochial
authorities ; and that such clause ought to be forthwith
repealed." Colonel Dickson supported the resolution,
which, having been carried, another was voted, as pro-
posed by Mr. Weston, and seconded by Mr. Osborne, viz.,
That the attempt ade by the clause to exclude from
the household franchise the poorer class of householders
by subjecting them to the personal payment of rates, and
the restrictive conditions attached to the lodger franchise
under the same act, are unworthy expedients for perplex-
ing and hindering the full, free, and inexpensive exercise
of a great constitutional right, and preventing the establiah•
merit of the household sad lodger franchise, pure and
simple ; and that such expedients only tend to give in.
creased force and value to the labours of the Reform
League, in seeking to obtain manhood suffrage and vote by
ballot."
HOSPITAL POR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OP
rue CRear, Baoserros.—On Sunday last an appeal for
funds in aid of this charity was made by the Rev. W. B.
Mackenzie, after the morning and evening sermons at St.
James's, Holloway. The rev. gentleman stated that the
hospital had proved of great benefit to his poor pariah-
Loners ; and that be had frequent applications both for In
and out door letters. He was enabled to speak with un-
qualified approbation of this inraluable institution, where
the patients were treated with exceeding attention and
cars. 1,245 in-patients and 8,802 out-patients had been
under treatment in the past year. Two hundred and ten
beds were in constant use, and many applicants were wait-
ing for vacancies. The yearly expenses were very heavy,
more than double the amount of the annual subscriptions;
so that collections and additional contributions were neces-
sary for the support of the charity. The preacher's earnest
and feeling appeal produced a sum of 37/. la Id. in the
morning, and 28/. 31. in the evening, making a total of
651,45. ld. _ _

SHOCKING MITRDEN. IN IRELAND. —The Athlone
correspondent of the Preessan's Journal reports that at a
place called Ballybay, about three miles from that town,
on the B.osoommon-road, a brutal and cold-blooded mur-
der was perpetrated on Saturday. A poor old woman,
living in a lonely hat by the roadside, who carried on a
little traffic in was found murdered on the hearth of
her desolate habitation,eggs a tongs clotted with blood being
alongside her, which is supposed to be the instrument
made use of by the perpetrators to accomplish their horrid
purpose. Subsequent reports state that • atone of im-
mense weight was placed over her head, and a large beam
across her body, and that her throat seemed to be cut.
The supposed murderer has been taken and is now lodged
in the brideiren.
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