The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESQ, WEDNESDAY HONING. JANUARY 16, 1850.

THE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.

Mattozarria, Jur. 16.
These lea good &mud today in the market for yarns
sad sloths, ►ut the must of beldame ben not been so large
as was expected, owls( to the coast••tly edvancirg rave
whisk spinners and ansaisfasterers feel controlled
to ask i• consequence et the rise of oottoa. An-
other reuses far • more limited extent of busker
is that the stocks et yarn' and light fabrics most
in deemed are far towards being eakausted, whilst
the rundown of them are already soda order—many of
than for weeks and month to cone. non Is no woudet
that the advance of prime has • tendency to check business,
oboe it Is borne in mind that the advance within the month
pest, from the lowest plat, has bees something like 16 per
mat. The priacipal transaseiens are for the home trade, •
rood deal of cloth being takes by misters. There bare
bees scam transactions for India, but semis of our mar-
chants have succeeded is aiming rather ►e•vy contrasts
with producers before the adeause were or considerable, and
an now buying for immediate sad preening orders with con-
siderable caution. Buyers for Italy and tCe Mediterrasuan
an operating sparingly. The very eassiderable advance
spat the raw material will au cloak act as a very
serious clog on our trade darts; the whole of the
slater and spring; sad as this is the mond short er
within • few years, it will probably draw the attention
of our trading community more seriously to the necessity
of sessirieg better supplies by extending, if possible, the cul-
tivation of cotton to o her dimes. and rendering the supply
se peer:Brim than at present. Our Chamber of Commerce
have • special meeting on this 'abject on Thursday, and it
may be expected that the subject will then 'e brought before
that commercial world in • more deflate' form.

It was rumoured here to-day, on good authority, that a
conmaiseion agent front the neighbourhood of Bevil) had
alwcond.d, taking with hint 2,0004. belonging to his
creditors.

THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN SUFFOLK.
Thomas MaeEutaw, Esq., baying visited the
locality of Or. at Yarmouth, ua his mission threaded the
'eaters counties, at the request of some friends kindly eon.
tenttAl to deliver a lecture on the principles and objtsts of
the Reamed Reform Association, at Gorhaton. Handbills
were accordingly issued on Monday last, announcing a lec-
ture to take place at the Guardian Angel in the evening,
sad notwithstanding the *bonnets of the notice, the in.
clemency of the weather, and a report industriously circu-
lated by the loflllll that half-a-crown would he charged for
admission, the large room was filled. Mr. MscEnt er was
aceompanied by a deputation of reformers from Yarmouth.
Mr. H. Rosins, jun. (a pilot), was called to the chair, and
The lecturer prod:end. d to detail the circumetances wh•eh
bad led to the formation of the National Reform Society, and
the emu late weeds which had attended its a Huta up to the
mem lime. He took a vises of the different departments
of government expecditure—in the army, navy, colonies,
&e., demonstrating bons facts sad figures that the present
extravagant expendi. are of the cation, was only kept up in
water to preside places and pensions for the eons and dukes-
ters of the aristocracy. He also exposed the injustice and
inequalities in our system of indirect taxation ; cor.cluding
by drawint a forcible comparison between the expenses of
the governments of Great Britain and the United States.
Toe lecturer was badly applauded throughout.
C. E. BARTRAM, Esq., meet d the first resolution :
" That the press at unequal and oppressive system of taxi.
tin presses unjustly on the industrious many, to add to the
sfito.nee of the indolent few; and is opposed to the princi-
ple. o! justice, morality, sad sound national policy." (Ap•
planets.)
The Rev. J. PIKE (independent tainis.e-) seconded the
resolution, which was sapported by Mr. T. J•ciesok, and
un mucous!, agreed to.
Mr. PAGE moved the a at resolution:

"That the meeting, tielb.vini that a therousli reform of
the House of Commons is the only means of obtaining and
securiog popular rights, pkdges itself to co cpetats with
the N stional Reform Assowation fir the attainment of that
object."
The resolution wis seconded, and also unanimously
agreed to.
A branch sasociation having been formed in Oseeston
the first of the kind in the e misty of Suffolk), witn ?dr.
Rundle for is president, and Mr. R. Dye for its secretary,
tce meeting wporated.

ADVERTISIMENT DUTY.—We are glad to ray
that this 'obi et has gained the attention of the metropuli-
ma press, though we are sorry to see the Tama dealing with
the matter is rather • personal question than as one affecting
the mercantile and industrio-s classee—ths advertising com-
munity—and one of very considerable lamest to the into-
M§ of all public journals. We hope yet to see a general
csmbinaeion among our brethren of the provincial Dress fur
the pumas of pressing upon parliament the policy and
justice of repealing this tex, which yields but a small amount
o. revenue, but which is adverse to the interests of news-
, apers, and, at the same tior., to all those who wish for
publicity in matters coun.cted with their trade. We
hoes plenty of men is th. House of Commons, of all
parti s—from D eraeli to Colonel Thomson—to advocate
the c .use of the press; and if the borough and county
riper, spesk out tajon the question, the Chancellor of the
Hach. quer will scarcely rteist so fair a claim.— /pew ids
Eons es*

TIIE WEATHER, THE PARKS, &T.—The rivet Con-
tloued with lIIISIO3IOi bed ity throughout Monday
night,the thermometer a. the Ruyal Humane S aitty's
Iteceivieg House. in Hyde park, falling at toe period as !ow
as ten di gr..es b. low frees ag point. Towards morning the
'Noun easterly wind which had prevailed daring the pre.
nous twenty- our boors moderated. As the day adv.nced
it veered round to the northward, and the temperature,
thiugh still very low, became less intensely cold. The
parks were fully as much crowded as on the pre, loos day,
sad many thousands enjoyei the diversion of skating on the
Serpentine and the various other ornamental waters
During the afternoon the drive on the northern hank of the
Serpentine was crowded with carriages filled with company
attracted to witness the scene. The gay again passed with.
.eut any accident worth chronicling. To-day the frost is sue-
ce•ded by a rapid thaw accimpa..ied by small rain.
ROBBERIES AT LEEDS, AND DISCOVERY OP TILE
STOLEN PROTESTS IN LONDON.—Yekterday John Akroyd,
William Rhodes, Joseph Kitchen, Christopher Petler,
Matthew Sellers, and Benjamin Wooller, were brought up
at the Leeds Coon-hcase, before C. 0. Miele., Esq., and
Thomas Hebden, Esq., under the following circumstances.
Mr. Read, chief constable, stated to the bench that latterly
several robberies bad taken place in Leeds and the neigh.
Lourhood, the produce of which had been sent out of town
without the police being able to trace out the semen A few
days ago he received information of a parcel being left at the
railway station by the prisoner Sellers, who gave instructh as
for it to be sent t• Loudon by the night in. H. He imme.
diately scot Inspector Child to make inquiries, and
that cfficer ascatained that the parcel contained silver
plate and other articles, which had been stolen from the
noose of Mr. William Wood, a gentleman residing at Potter-
newton, near Leeds. The prisoner Kitchin, he should be
able to show, had been in c•rresposidence with parties in
London, to whom the parcel had been directed. He bad
also evidence to show that several of the prisoners had been
aeon together near Mr. Wood's house on the night of the
robbery, but he was not then prepared to go fully into the
ease. After Inspector Child had found that the parcel left
by Sellers at the railway station contained stolen pr.Terty,
that officer was despatched to London, where he arrived by
an earlier train than the mail, and he (Mr. Read) had since
received from him a letter, dated London, Jan. 12 In this
letter he stated thet he had succeeded in apprehend.
ing a man named Thomas Kay, a notorious character,
formerly residirg in Leeds, and a man named W. Green. It
appeared that the parcel sent;by the mail was delivered about
11 o'clock to the prisoner Key, the parcel being addressed to
" Mr. Thomas !Wright, No. 10, Plessannplace, West.
square, Lambeth ;" and, en receivi n g the parcel, Kay signed
his name to the railway delivery book "Thomas Wright."
Inspector Child, who was accompanied by Sergeant Goff,
of the London police, were present when the parcel was
delivered, and at once took Kay into custody, whilst the
parcel was still in his posseesioa. On searching Key's
house 18.51. in notes and gold, a gold watch, and other Yalu.
able property were found. After this they went to another
bones and apprehended Green, at whose bowie they found
two pieces of cloth. one invisible green and the other black,
which would probably turn oat to have been stolen from
some of the warehouses in Leeds. The prisoners had been
taken before the lion. G. C. Norton, of the Lambeth
police-r ffic , who, on bearing the Ac's stated, remanded the
prisoner. till Thursday. This being en, he (Mr. Read)
asked the justices to remand the prisoners in custody here
till Saturday The prisoners were then 'emended to that
day. The prisoner Petier, who is in bad health, was allowed
to go at large, on finding bail;for his appearance. Hitches
is a son of a respectable innkeeper, In Marsh-lane, Leeds;
but the other prisoners are all men well known to the
police.
EXTENSIVE MANUFACTURE OF BASE COlN.—There
seem to be at present one or m.xe mints of hese cart at work
upon an extensive scale in London. From tine to time
within the last few weeks .be Manchester police have re-
solved notice from the metropolis to be oa tee alert, as
parcels of base half-crowns and 6s. pieces were being de-
spatched ro trusty molts here. Accordingly Mr. Beswiek,
the chief superintendent of pilot, set two detective officen
to watch the London. road railway station. A brown parcel.
evidently of coin,_ eeriest Nem London on Thareday night
at the stalion. Tie direction, " Jobs Thompson, at Mrs.
Heron's, Temperances Hotel, Lever street," wit. copied, sad
Mr Berwick, iaith Megan. Buckley, Gee, and Porter, went
to the hotel . arly in the morning. In an upper room they
found a atm in bed, who gave his name W. Brown. In
a room adjoining they found two persons sitting at the fire.
who called themselves John and Louisa Thompson. In
the lap of the woman was s bundle of bass hear-crowns,
and a large quantity more wrapped up in parcels of eight
cub lying OR the bed. The brawn cover of the parcel
(c high had just before been delivered from the railway) was
also foetal. They were taken into custody. Altogether
the amount of base meaty found was 141. IN, which
Tnoraps in imputed Mr. B...wick was the entire gitautity
received. The coin is one of the beet imitations ever ens
anted, and it is difficult to see the difference between it and
the well-worn good half-crown. They are dated Grave
111., 1817; Champ 111., 1819; and George IV., 1826.
The
they
Inorecliont in their composition is bismuth;
and they are finished on by electro-pleting. Their " ring"
is identical *ilk the genuine silver, which makes it all the
more necessary for the public to be on their guru& We
believe that the steps taken to watch these desperate Nyasa
well base th.• arse, of eh.cking their operations in this
quarter. Similar parcel.of base money have teen dropped
recently at various 'Winne on the r.ilway between Lon.
dace cad Masolester.—Mancheeter twestor.

PROTECTIONIST MEETINGS.

MEETING AT BOTLEY, HANTS.

•
A anoassou meeting of farmers and others resi-
drat la Heats wee held on Monday afternoon, in the Market.
ball, Bridey, foe the purpose of adept's( immune for the
protection of Beitish indastry. Mr. J. WAnstax, of Steeple
Court, was milled to the chair.
Kr. 3. BLOnwaLL moved:
" The present meetug, viswirg with alarm and spore-
Itemise the losses whelk the adoption of a tree toad. in
tarn has iafileted on the aelealtural capital of this emintry,
and believing that the continuance of the game evil policy
will materially ec:pple, if sot entirely ruin the present race
of farmers, sad involve all other interests depending ea
agriculture, resins sew their best exertions to remove the
grievance esemplabsed of."
Mr. H WOoLhaIDOn emeaded the resolution.
Mr. JOHN Ts/MONGER BILESS, of Brusledon
Bridge, rem tomee the following amendment " That the praukal and permanent relief for apical-
tarsi distress is the immediate sad total repeal of the malt
and hop dative, a revision end reduction in the national and
supervision in the local taxation of this country, an equitable
adjustment of the tithes, a recognition of tenant right, and
a total repeal of the odious, tyraesioal, and demoralising
game laws."
Is proposing this amendment, he did so in vindication of
the priaciple which had been inculcated is his bosom aben
a boy—the greatest ponible good to the greatest number.
He firmly believed that promotion was clean gone for
ever—(oh, oh)—that it would return till they also had
a return of the belied in witches and wizards, and
the restoration of the old Inquisition. He considered it
thoroughly futile, end a waste of time and labour to be
tslkiog about protection, and diverdng their attention from
the real quest.on, which, he agreed with Mr. Blundell, was
me of taxalon. They were labouring under a severe
weight of taxation, national u well as local, and their ob-
ject snspht to be tdremove that. In 1815, when the corn
laws were passed, they were promised them things—steady
remunerating prices and • n spikes the
Cis, gn grower. Now in all' these they bed utterly failed.
(No, no.) During that time more farmers had been ruired
than et any other period of British history. During that
time they had had six or seven parliamentary committees to
inquietfato agricultural distress; and about the middle of
the period a general scramble for bread—and this was
during the glorious times of agricultural protection.
Looking at his own neighbourhood, within a radios
of three and a half miles, he could, in 1831, pointout 50
farms occupied by 50 farmers ; in 1845, there were only 12
farm' occupied by as many farmers. Where were the IS
gone ? The small formers :had been mined, brought down
to the workhouse, sr sent to the hulks. In 1846, the corn
laws were repealed, and what was the predicted result?
Why, that they would be all ruined, that the labourers
would be all starved, manufaeturen rotund, and all the gold
sent out of the country. Yet, what did they now see ? Th, it
exports increased ten million during the year ; sixteen
millions In the coffers of the Bank of England, a larger sum
than had been known for years, and the labour-
ing dense consuming more of the necessaries of
life than was ever before known. (Some interrup-
tion was here offered, which the chairman eupi res-etl.)
Some gentlemen appeared to dispute this, but here was the
proof. There was an excess in the revenue last quarter—in
the excise department alone, as compared with the mere-
sponding quarter of la.t year, of 371,8991. Then, look at
the vast amount of breadstuff' imported from foreign parts
during the year—nearly four millions of quarters. A revision
and ri titration of taxation be was sure they would all acquiesce
in; audio also would they, judging from the clamour roc 'ntly
raised on the question of county rates, in a supervision of
local taxation. Then came the question of an equitable
adjustment of tithes—and what said that eminent antrwrity,
Baron Gilbert, on the original purpose of tithes? One-third
was to go to the priest for his own support—one-third for the
relief of the poor—and ore-third for the repair and building
of churches.

Mr. T. FALVEY seconded the amendment. He said Mr.
Ekless had told them that sit committees had sat since 1815,
on agricultural distress. The present Duke of Buckingham
said, in his place in the Rouse of Commons (then Marquis of
Csandos), us the year 1835, that if something was not done
tonsils,. the agriculture all the capital of the farmers of this
country would be destroyed. In 1822 more farmers
were sold up in this count and the neighbouring county
of Sum:, than could hi again in any one year fur
twerty years to come. (No.) There was a wholesale de.
attraction of farmers and farming maid in that year both in
England and Ireland. Mr Falvey proceeded to argue at
pest length in support of a revision of both national and local
taxation, a general and great reduction of efflial marries,
and general financial reform, and for a repeal of ti e gsme
laws, no which he renters, d with great severity. Ile also
referred to the silk and other manufactures, which had
grown in importance aed magnitude since they were rele,wd
from the " protecting " c—re of meet. and entvended
that the stamina of the English people would a'way •
be found sufficiently powerful, if left to its own resources
to compete successfully with the foreigner.
The CHAIR id AN, in putting the rissolu.ion, said that Mr.
Falvey's arguments were sound, but that until they ob.ained
a revision and reduction of taxation they must have a small
protective duty.
The amendment was then put and lost, the original mo•
ties, bring carried by a large majority.
The following resolutions were subsequently adopted :
" That the legislature having evinced no disposition to
adopt any measures calculated to enable farmers to meet
the foreign competition—having disregerded the petitions of
agriculturis's for a repeal of the malt tax, and a removal or
re adjustment of the enormous burden of local taxation
which now so disproportionately presses upon them —are of
opinion that the adopiun of the principie of a fair and just
protection will be to the advantage of all deem of the cem•
inanity, and the most practical remedy that can be offered."
" That for the reasons embraced in the foregoing ',solu-
tions, this meeting, entertaining no expectation of substan-
tial relief from the present parliament, it is resolved that
an address be presented to the Queen, praying that her
Majesty will be graciously pleased to dissolve the present
parliament."
" neat in order to collect and express the opinions of the
aglieulturiete of the neighbourhood, and preserve the com-
munication between 'hem and others in different parts
of the kingdom, a society be formed, to be designated the
Beaty branch of the Society for the Protection of British
Industry."