The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-30 00:00:00

STMPATET WITH ITALIAN EMANCIPATION.

On Tuesday afternoon a meeting, called by the
Lord Provost in terms of en inditentbd requisition presented
to him, wee held in the Merchants' Hall, Hutcheson street,

Glaagc;w, "to conaider the propriety of expressing sympathy
with the present condition of the people in many state. of
Italy, and their anxiety that the rule of non-intervention

ab4id be racognieed aa the international kw of Europe."
The hall waa filled by a highly respectable audience. Among
the gentler= preeent were the Lord Provost, Walter Bu-
chman, Esq., M.P. ; Robert Dalgliab, Eq., M.P. ; E. H.

J. c. 4.1; Eq., M.P. for the Ayr itirglis; H. E. Crum
Ewing, Eq.; J. A. Campbell, Eq.; •Pmfeesor NieheC
Walter Crum, Esq. ; William Murray, Eq.; Jamas M`Cle-
laud, Eq. ; Andrew Bannatyne, Esq.; W. P. Paton, Esq. ;
0. 0. Smith, Eq.; Councillor Couper, Councillor Fowler,
Councillor Allman, Rev. Wm. Arndt, Rev. W. Croakey,
John M'Adam, Esq. ; J. J. Lamb, Eaq of Paisley ; Robert
Sultana's, Eq., &c. _ .

The Loid fiovotte having been moved into the chair,
rid—Ciontlamem, I am not sure if it properly lies within the
province of the chief magistrate of a city to take the chair at
special political meetings. For myeelf, generally epeak-
ing, it has been my &mire to avoid what might appear the
uncalled-for exordia of the influence belonging to the
position I have the high honour to hold, in furtherance
of my own views, or in gratification of my own incline-
nations. But, gentlemen, on the present occasion I am
under neither embarrassment nor doubt. The requisition

sent to me shows Wit Ws moiroommt atiglootio with
no mere seethe or party. I ind m Aar iipoolition the
signatures of amserratims, libung ommooovoilmooleigs, libe-
rals, and, in the phase of the el, odionomil carafe and,
apart from polities, I find in it names, taws tompoote
over the whole world—or, whet is the moo dor —orbs*.
over British enterprise, British coninierce, &kink mairstoe-
lure., British engineering hare made their wa oda-
bibbed their supremacy. It was no cause of em
then—it was a great privilege you conferred epos ma, in
Joking me to preside here. The subject before you is, I con-
mink adequate to the interest it has excited ; it is at once a
diets and a solemn one. I am sure you will discuss it
'Mb 'moderation. I believe that the counsels you are about
6, odor directly to our government, and it may be indirectly
and koopoettolly to foreign states, will commend themselves
111Wir *On lid wisdom. I know further that them
sum &vet ow with them the weight due to a apt:sta-
mens empearthe et opinion on the part of the great city
lobos aim on the present occasion I moat willingly am. I
ark grnatlemen. for the honour you now do me.
SOCIIANAN M.P., seconded by Mr. J. A. CAMP-
SILL, proposed the first resolution as follows That the
armed uiterfereqpe of foreign Powers with the internal Wiry
of independent Rates does not tend to secure the happiness
or advance the prosperity of such states, but has been, on
the contrary, a fertile source of revolutions and seem'
wan; and that the gelatins condition of Italy, as affected
by the continuation of such interference, is the cause of
serious alarm to Europe." The resolution was carried by
acclamation.
Professor TheitoL moved the second resolution That
as the British State and nation hue, through its wide and in-
timate relations with other Stoles, the profoundest interest
in the preservation of peace, it behoves it, with every earnest-
near and energy, to endeavour by its moral influence,
through its diplomacy, or by whatever mean, may seem just
and expedient, and which promise to be efficient on the oc-
casion, to Abele the cessation of existing interferences, and
to prevent all future aggressions of this description.'
Mr. DALOLI6II. M.P., seconded the resolution, and it woe
unanineousluterried.
Mr. 11. E. C. Ewing, seconded by Mr MURRAY, of
Monkland, moved the third resolution se follows:—" That
petitions be addressed to the House. of Parliament, re-
questing their sanction to the principle that the law of non-
intervention, thus understood, ought to be accepted and re•
sported by every power in Europe, and that the presentation
of these petitions be entrusted to Lord Lyndhurst and Walter
Buchanan, Ever The resolution was carried with applause.
On the motion of Mr. CKAVIT RD, M.P. for tlie
Burghs, seconded by MT. WALTER Cause. a vote of thanks
was given to the chairman, and the meeting, which was a
very enthusiastic one, separated.

Our correspondent at Turin, writing on the 26th,
says._" Mr. Bright is at present hen, and of coarse he will
have an opportunity of ►ttending the Charobar while the us-
citing discussion on Spirals is taking place. Ile looks In
better health, and is, I believe, going to spend some time in
the neighbourhood of logo Maggiore."