The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-29 00:00:00

CHEAP OAB.

At a crowded meetin• e f the Commissioners for
PavingWlaiteekapal-road,Mr.Wesits in the chair, pursuant '
to special riquisitial, a memorial was presented on Monday
last fr. as the Oteat Central Oes C.asenters' Company for
leave to lay down their males and pipes within the jurisdic-
tion of the constnieriagirs. A deputatias trim the company
wee beard io support of the memorial, and Mr. Timotty
Tyrrell, clerk to the City Court of B•wen, sad also solicitor
for the City and chartered gas companiev, against it. It was
then Reanimously received, that the prayer :1 the memorial
should be granted, the eempeny agreeing to light the parish
wit hie 12 a natio, on requisition by a public vestry
The most crowded meeting of the Commi-boner, for'
Paving Bigh-street, Whitechapel, which hoe been held tor
the Let 18 years, took pleat on Wednesday evening, par.
event to apt cad adkiurnment. A resolution of the board
which had been formerly passed to refute to entertain any
application from the Great Central Gas Consumers' C.III
pony until they had procured their bill, was at ore.
rescinded. A memorial, under the seal of the company.
was read to the meeting, and a deputa.iou from tie dine-
ton r.eard ; the meeting then, by • majority of 15 to 3,
granted power to the company to lay their pipes and mains
aleag the roads, within the jariadietioa of the eonunissionere.
Mr. Tyrrell aria made his appearance at this meting to
quite as little purpose.
At • meeting of the paving board of Mile-end Old town,
on Wednesday, permission was grant. d t, the c--ropany to
lay their pipes and main,, by a majority of 26 to 5; the
sue* success aecompenied the apphcalon to the parish of
Bromley. It is anticipated that they will be ready before
September next to supply the 6 400 consumers who have
contacted to take their gas for five yearn.

THE
tIANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

MANCHESTER, Maims 29.
The annual meeting of the members and friends t f
ha Muchtster Peace Society was held in the Friers. a'
Meeting hour, last evening; Mr. Alderman H in
the chair. Several influeetial member of the bsdy of
Friends were seated oe the platform. The report of the last
year's proctedittgs, which was read by Mr. 'testis's, stated
that a tract on the subject of puce or war bad been left in
every hoes., shop, and warehocse. whboet any inteetinagi
exeeptit n, in Manchester and Salford. Of this series or
tracts the committee state that, is Manchester and other
tower, the whole number distrbeted was 140,000. Atten-
tion was direct. d to the cost of cur war establishments, but
with an acknowledgment that the war estimates for 1850
were three miliitins lees than he espenditur• of 1848. Re.
firehee was made to the Austrian and Russian loess, and .ri
the conduct of Rajah Brooke in exterminating what Were celled
mounded pirates. A brief urine was also given of the
Peat, COneren at Brussels in 1868, and at Paris in 1849;
and the rport spoke in hope'ut terms of the progress of
pacific principles, intimating, however, that no great things
can be elite ed with an loco taie of 701. a year. It seemed
that another peace convention was to be held at Frankfort in
August, at which many Americans were expect. d The
committee ejake with thacklulneis that the revolutionary
storms on the continent did not reach our shores, sod the
report cioncluded with an appeal for more vigorous support
to prosecute the peer: campaign.
Mr. T. DALTON moved, and Mr. T. BINTON secondtd,
the adoptioa of the report. The resolutien was carried una
nissoesiy.—Tr • Rey. J. Prrnsa moved the second resole-
which was 'Hooded by Mr. W. BTOILLO... f the
London Peace Sulety, and supported by Mr. G. Tmoureom,
, who said—
He was 4-lighted to find himself in the midst of thou
whom a scornful and unbelieving nation denominated
fanatics ; glad to be amongst those who were labouring to
exhume an Argots and long buried portion of our blessed
...bristianity —love for one another. 'rears was somethiee
in the object that meeting had in glow which invested the
whole with suhl mitt' and grandeur. (Cheers.) Though
bum -lit' and self-die:rut busses thou who expounded any
great truth, hopefulness and boldness may at the same time
be assumed. It was not for them to fear the ridtcule and
opposition of men who reverendtd opinions only in yr portion
t. the p,pularity of the preacher. Truth was as pure and
puseloas in the bosom of the begat, as in the soul of the
mismatch. (Cheers.) Pure began at home, and settled first
Is the depths of the man's gold who had received the doctrine
of the Piaui, of Pewee. The battle-field we. a seems the
most appalling; the opposing hors gathered there were per-
usal, Its known to each other; and as to the subject in
dispel, had neither knowledge nor passion. Take any one
of those soldiers hue brought tog. Ott rto weirder ugh other and
we should behold one of the noblest of all created beings, a
neaten fearfully and wonderfully made, possessing a soul
endowed with the same faculties as those poeseseed by an
Isaiah and a Devid, a Daniel or a Paul, a Milton, or a Bacon,
or a Locke. Who could calmly contemplate the destruction
of such a being without a pang? If no right minded men
would think of wantonly dogtrot lag any plus of exquisite
and weird mechanism—s t\ of togs, and springs, and
pulleys ; a thing that felt sot, hoped not, loved not, hated
not, worshipped not—wbet Milt the deplorable state of
mind which could emotion the diminution of the being
suable of these sympathise and aspirations ? He could
tweseire of no authority whisk man had, either in his indi-
vidual or segregate amity, for taking the life of his fellow.
He was utterly opposed to the indiction of death-penalty in
any form, or under any circumstances. If this dread power
was to b exercised, let it be placed is the hands of one
whose judgment was lafallible, whose feelings could not be
warped, and who did not exercisethis poser but I. obedi-
ence to a deep conviction and feeling of absolute a..
comity, end the highest responsibility. There were seamy
enesereghig signs he mould =esti= warrantiag the beluf
that the eau* of isteesational peace was advaneing,
and, is coulesioa, he would eay—psewneett,
and mieseengers of peace, in your holy OMNI. iwmr.t:
afraid of martyrdom, for thotigh you shssM pad* bus
every atom seattertd to the winds, He Ise whom yea die*
woutd raise up allOtiefir advocate to semi through the wait I
the mismaage of pease. Remember that those who have
perithett in • good eau have done most for that awn.
Yee, humanity sweeps onward— where to-day the martyr
studs, on the morrow Judas crouches with the silver Is his
hand. Fur not—though the cross stands ready, and the
crackling fugue burn, while the booting snob of ysstsrday
la silent awe return, to glean up the scattered ashen in his-
tory's golden urn.
A position to ths legislature was aftiewatels asloptist.