The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

ev:t•oweers and tithe-owners of Kest have
ken gathered together in a mural Barham Dowse.
uglier likewise were brought all their retainers mad
„I„,ett. ,phi • • together with acme hundreds of Is.
rst,., who were, it is. said, paid the usual rate of
etgoi on the occasion. The whole assemblage
.0* weepmed congregated punctually, demeaned
'l3.o:l.:Jet soberly, and returned to the places whence
0..,‘ bud been takes, quietly ; the net result being
attains of protectionist rhetoric in the county
et, sod anoher uomeat.iog petition to perils-
r...cll:: Lir what th
is not in the power of pediment to

lt.
rhe tithe and rent owrers aforesaid vet forth, as is
...,*ott of ouch persons wten in difficulties, that
have long been accustomed to live luxuriously out
ibe said sources of income. They don't attempt
n: their business is with kern" and the fact
*ith liw prices they cannot hope to get as
tont or tithe out of the farmers as heretofore.

(re corneot be a doubt of it. Shopkeepers won't
,'..,se wheat, wheat won't pay high rent, and low
• won% keep the wirecerllars full in the houses
• persons and squires built. All this may be
.as.g rip granted; nobody that we know of thinks
disputing the point. Tao whole question, there-
• resolves itself into this how are the
Of/UTlllog millions who constitute the im-
r.ere majority of the orlon to bo persuaded
. lttd. for their loaf when they find they can
for 0;e1 ? We respectfully suggest to the pro.
i‘,..omet agitators that it would be expedient for
!tem to apply their intellects (each as they are) to
i dispensable preliminary ; inasmuch as it seems
r.lscier•ly obvious to all dispassionate on-lookers,
• .1. until the wondrous conversion of the multitude
. have been accomplished, it would not be
f• emdent for parliament to entertain any proposition
raising by one third the price of food.
The noble, gentle, and rev, rend orators who figured
Tuesday last on the rural stage at Barham Downs
:car to have been in some degree conscious of this
'h. They dilated on every topic except the one
h no doubt was uppermcE in their thoughts.
• I.ci,IIINGTON recited a rhodomoutade expression
.. • 'Ad to the late Lord NIELBOURNR. about tEe
of any minister who would venture a dosAi
...ri no to ask the two houses of landlords to our-
'..tder their Iterative monopoly of corn ; but not a
Id the worthy gentleman say expanatory of
• en for rivetting anew on the neck of tree nation
. er.tly shattered chain. Sir NORTON KNATCII-
fo::Iwed in a 13114 comically inconclaeive
t Id his hearers that Mr. Felt-
s. scheme of a " wool league " was wild ;
• the only reason he pee for so stigmatising
eta that he really " thought there was something
He wished to express his abhorrence of every
of intimidation or undue influence; and there._

begied to suggest that all fanners should
..en the traders in country towns to withdraw
toe.= from them if they did not come forward
:.vJur of dear atd scarce food. Finslly, he was
see that a committee hid been appointed to
e into cfficial salaries, because he was firmly
..aidid that no result whatever would come of it!

imal all his absurdities, not one word did the
::i4h baronet articulate about the reimposition of
on favign earn.
Elm-Attu Daus° declared that they ought
c to look their difficulties in the face, and act
n tirur a: d d:cision, rrhere they had made up
minds as to whst muse they ought to pursue:
ert.en the notable time was likely to come, Sir E.
di,* not Teutore even to hint, much less
to tell. He could recommend nothing more
,:•::al for the present than a petition to her MI-
•o dismiss Ivr ministers—am if the House of

ba I not the real power of determining who
constitute the adminudration. A pious and

:Ale parson, theßev. Mr. MOORE, nest addressed
auditoiy, choosir.g for his text the expos!-
! .2 of 1"61, which he denounced io chcste and
,gant terms as "the great imposition on all na-
• 325: He owned that personally he had no desire
stalid ill in the estimation of Prince Aumax,
v!.ose motives he had no scruple in 'lading
X the •Klrs. h was the tendency and
.effect

tv universal celebration of peso* ind industry
le.:ch the reverend demagozue feared. He called
Lord (taut "an incarnation of b.le," and avowed his
.4 femme. for Lord Anzantsge over the present Sect,-
'L7 for Foreign Affair,. But neither dl4 this polite
: .41Cas orator hazards word upon the one thing
= starving duty on cern.
Lord SONDES undertook to present the before-men-
n..4l address to the Queen, only cot just now; and
• or Mr. YLT mrraz declared himself satisfied to leave
the question to be disposed of by—Providence. We
presume there will be co dissentient from
a proposal savouring so deeply of resigna-
; Toe meat sceptical leaguer could hardly demur
ressotable a suggestion ; and we have no desire
to dwell spot a theme that ill befits associations of
party bitterness or scorn. It only remains to cote
that the totorious RICHARD OASTLER re-appeared a'
the des* of the day's performance, having been politi-
ci..y exhumed far the occasion. Oar readers will not
expect that we should occupy their time by any de-
rripion of his &splay, which can only be likened to
that of a celebrated pantaloon whom necessity com-
peted to resume the avocations of his youthful days,
alter his :imbs had grown stiff by age and disuse.
What a farce must not the entire of such proceed-
ings seem in the shrewd eyes of every intelligent
Lrrio:r in Kent ! Here are a knot of tithe and rent-
Lime's meeting together with • flourish of county
!run:pets and drams, to plead, as they pretend, the
of injured agriculture; and the only Let they
,enture to assert broadly and distinctly is, that they
.:.dividually and collectively are afraid of a diminu-
ton of income because they know that when the
price of all consumable commodities has fallen 30 per
crtt., owing to free trade, the occupiers of land can-
to• afford to pay the same money rents they used to
do. But do they allege that they have relaxed their
peep on the produce of the soil? Not a bit of it ?
ir_ey continue to exact, while they acknowledge the
:-,justice; and after talking for four hours of various
,`.am projects set up to amuse, and gull, and pacify
indignant farmers, they solemnly declare that
think it best to leave the reversal of free trade
and the restoration at high prices " in the hands of
Providence."

COLIMOR, LOnnoN.—Yesterday afternoon
" • sneueJ meeting of the preprietors of this institution, and
• :be annual distnbution of prizes to those students who
's dietinguished themselves in the medical and theelo-
.:-.1 departments, took place at the college, his Grace the
%Shim:top of Canterbury presiding. The annual report of
:LA council was read la the theatre of the college, the most
chairman being supported by Earl Howe, Lord Red
ee.ek, the Bishop of Lichfield, Sir R. H. Inglis, the Rev.
lir. Jilt, D.D , zed Mr. Cotton. The following prizes were
*ten distnbuted, with an ai propriate compliment to sash of
trentlemen Irons the a:ehbishop : Setior (Scholarships--
:r• C. Pardey ; second year ditto, Mr. S. B. Partridge.
Beholarskips-31r. A. Playas. Mr. W. Lanefonl, and
;fr. F. N. Mummers. Daniel Bcholarthip—Mr. T. F.
/ludwiek. Anatomy—Prise, Mr. A. D Smith; certiflwri,
31r. C. M. D. Ltrapriere and Mr. Edward Liddon
Physiology—Prise, Mr. J. E. Spender; certificates,
Mews. A. D. Batith, J. H. 811 v. Ater, E. Liddon,
and C. Rerhwell. Chemistry—Prize, Mr. W. E. Misr u.
Chemin' llsitipelation—Pr se, Mr. Coulee Pardey. Bar
gery—Prise. Mr. George May ; certificates to Mears. E. A.
IL Head, R. WI !Lipson, sad E. D. Erezard. Botany
!'rise, F. W. Hesdmad, Beg ; certificate to Mr. S. B. Par.
1..1ge. Medicine—Prix', Mr. R. Wilkie.' .0 ; certifies:is,
141... m. W. Hewett and Robert Fowler. Midwifery
Prize, Mr. Edward Sierra:a ; certificate, Mr. Robert
I .wler. Fore* sit Medistine—Priz.., Mr. %Vm. Hewett ;
terifmatss, Mews Robert Envier rad J. 8. Bias. Coa-
ts-wive Aardomy—Prize, Mr. F. W. Headland; certificates,
'en. T. C. Beale and J. S. Biggs. Medical Clinical--
Waster emelest: Prise, Mr. R. Wilkinson; certificate,
Ur. J. C. Dieldaseo. (Summer Serion): Prize, Mr. T. C.
h fiargical—(Winur &raise): ht pr sr, Mr. W.
I:.ratt; lad prize, Mr. E. A. H. Head. The folle
• ,t the pr.s.o. given for the divinity a.udeb In the the school
• • %elitism .—Wareeford Prizes—let prize, Mr. Geo. May;
pr.se, Mr. A. D. Smith. D athe's Prier—let
_prize,
Ar. J. K. Spender; 2nd prise, Mr. B. A. H. Had.
f.,,essies—Mr. L. S. Beale, Mr. R. W. Breetere Mr. J.
11.1).,Cressemll, Dyer, Mr.
II Harley, Mr. H. Hensley, Mr. T. Marley, Mr. Chaim
Ps" / , Mr. 8. /L. Pittard, Mr. J. B. Ruek, and Mr. H. H.
At the conelusion of the ceremony, the Earl Howe
it P.a.& aid Sir R. H. Iseie seconded, a vote el thanks
••• lima the Arehhialsop of Canterbury. lila grace re-
and the meeting separated.
tt iNirrow iNnY.—Yesterday a return, obtained by
!4" fire.therms, was printed of the number of houses in
4,41,6, Wale. and Scotland, tha•grol with dutice on
"owe la end: class (according to am numbero( windows
Le Ls"). and the amount of duty collected, and the net
" • “v• they et reived in each suet: clue for the year end•
'►;te 4th April, ihl9. The r umber of Imam, charged io
dety we. 440,183 in Englsnd and Wales. The
68— eta of duty 'reseed was 1.7b6,43...it, and the net
dety received was 1,010,631 J In Scotland, the
t. is., er of boa's &trod with duty was 36,657. The
az.."."t 41,', seemed rets 137.1;7W, sad the act amount
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