The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-25 00:00:00

FAILURE OF A PROTECTIO
AT IPSWICH.

About 600 proteotioniaft signed a ',nation to the
Mayor of Ipserkei. reguarda" him to convene& meeting of
the rate payers of the town, in order that the present
46i distress he the cesatry " might be censidered,
astellablaJejesty be petitioned to dissolve the $ par-
liament. The desire was that the nestle' ahoald be held in
the omen number of the tows hall ; the neyor, however,
greatly to the denary of the proteritioeiste, that it
should be held la the open air on the Corn-bill—a• area wide
immesh to orsonsmodete every rate payer. From that
moment a 'read protectionst failure was certain. This day
(Wednesday), at one O'clock, the proceedings ocreamenced,
I end the result of them was a most triumphant vindication of
th• principles of free trade. There were between two and
three thousand persona present, and in the voting the pro-
tectionists were beaten by at least twenty to one.
Mr. TONNEREAII rose and proposed the following reso-
lution :—" That the agricultural and shipping interests, the
colonial, trading, and other great interests of this contery,
for some time peat have been iavolved in internee suffering
and difficulty; and that the country generaly is rapidly
cep reaching to general distress and rule, front whi:h no
relief sin be expected until the present policy of free trade
is abandoned or greatly modified, or a system of justice
against foreign competition bs adopted; and that such a
reduction in saltation be made as the country has • right to
deemed." The speaker said, whatever reeking the meeting
might entwine regarding free-toads, he bad no doubt they
would all vote for diminished taxation. But the question, after
all, was, how had free trade affected Ipswich, far they had nn
basins= to sunder its resales ou ins kingdom generally ?
(Laud derisive laughter.) This was the point he wanted
toss to settle, as his great anxiety wee to give them the
' means of expressing their calm opinion. Tun must be
diminishes' taxation, and especially would he call upon them
to seek the removal of the window tax (Cheers.) The
speaker added afew other remarks, from which it was diffi-
cult to tell whether he was a protectionist or a free-trader.
After a scene of great confusion, during which an immense
ires•tradie loaf and • smaller one were barns in triumph
before the people, the speaker resumed his seat.
Mr. MEADOWS seconded the resolution ; but bad such
difficulty is making himself heard, in consequence of the
unpopularity of his sentiments, that he was speedily nom
pelted to sit down.
Mr. GEORGE ALEXANDER (banker), a free trader,
said that the resolution which had been proposed by the op-
posite party was so +worded that he could almost go with
very word of it. Bat he did not approve of it, as he knew
it to be clap-trap. The object of the party who proposed
that resolution was nothing more nor less than to oust the
present ministry for the purpose of baying a keen ')se-
ine; having for their &Pot the returning protection mem-
bers to parliament. (Cries of " Shame.") If that was not
tie object of the requisitionists, why did they come
there and ;$4 the meeting to petition for • dissolu-
tion of parliament ? (Immense cheering) That
was their object, and nothing else. lie telt greet
plums in moving an amendment to that resolution.
It was to the following effect : That this meeting, while
it sympathises with the agricultural and shipping interests
of this king tom in the depression and difficulties naturally
experienced by them at the present time, as is invariably the
case during a transition state, and which we trust will only
be temporary, we boil with delight the continued prosperity
of all the leading branches of trade and commerce through.
out the country." The reading of the resolution was re-
ceived amidst deafening omen.
Mr. E. GRIM WADE seconded the amendment.
The amendment was carried.
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During the delivery of Mr. °dimwitle's speech the utmost
:chasten% was frequently occasioned in the meeting. The
protectionists had two oil paintieurs, on which were depicted
the alleged evils of free trade. Thaw were raised on pales
and were guarded by • number of picked mew. Whim they
were espied, an immense rush was made to them, and, after
a severe struggle, they were torn down and not to atoms,
amidst triumphant cheering. 3 ton after, the hearted" loot
was attacked, and • tremendous battle ensued ' • it was
wrested from its stand, but the loaf was secured and borne
in trineassh bi fore the platform aad exhibited before the
noes of 'the protectionist 'peahen, many of whom were
afterwards pelted with the " s•aff of life."
Mr. OLIVER PREN TICE, a free trader, meted the
following resolution :—" That this meeting prays her Ma-
jesty will direct the full development of free trade' in the
removal of all existing burdens, and establish in all depart-
ments of her Mojesty's service the most rigid economy
and tetrenehment with a view to lessen general taxation."
Mr. WALLACE seconded the resolution, which was
carried.

A resolution proposed by Mr Rteunnoottn, and seconded
by Mr. MACPMIIISON, demanding on extension of the fran-
chise, was also carried.
Mr. LILLIRGSTONH, a protectionist, objected that all
the persons wto voted were not ratepayers, and made some
offenxive remaiks regarding the conduct of the Mayor.
His WORSHIP made a spirited and energetic reply,
after which Mr. Ldlings one apologised, and tte meeting
concluded.

REGATTA AT LOWEsTOPT.—On Monday an iM-
men,e attendance of visitors from Yarmouth, Norwich, and
mast of the towns in Norfolk, Suffolk, and Cambridge, was
drawn Lowestoft, to the regatta. It is only within the
last two or three years that railway and other facilities have
ran !eyed Lowestoft accessible to the public and within that
period its popularity has been extraordinary, and its sub-
stantial prosperity not less so. Upwards of 14,000 persons,
of nearly every rink in life, poured into the place on Monday,
equally to the benefit and gratification of the inhabitants,
*nese local pride was not a little augmented by the fact of
the prise yacht of the day, the Fanny, haying been built on
the sp it, and sailed by her owner, Mr. William Clay. In the
evening about one hundred gentlemen eat down to • splendid
dinner at the Royal Hotel, one of the numerous and basun
ful structures erec .e 1 by Mr. Peto, MP. for Norwich. In
his absence through indisposition she chair was taken by
Mr. Roney, secretary to the Eastern Counties Railway,
under whose presidency the festivities of the night were
brought to a close with eclat.
inn LIVERPOOL BURGLARS.—On Friday night
last Thomas blotch, one of the prisoners charged with a
eerie, of burglaries in the neighbourhood of Liverpool,
w.is apprehended at Leeds. It will be recollected that
Match made cis escape from custody while being conveyed
from the police-court to the bridewell. In the early part of
last weak, information reached the police-office in this
town that a serious burglary had been committed at Halifax,
a jeweller's shop basing been broken into, and property to
the value of upwards of 1,0001. carried , ff. The manner in
which the {.remises were entered was by cutting circular
holes in the woodwork, and it immediately occu-red to the
detective police here that the thieves who were concerned
is the robbery must have some connexion with the burglar
Match. Au officer was accordingly despatched to Halifax,
and male • tour of the neighbourhood, but without meet-
ing with the object of his search. However, on Friday,
Murphy, the detective officer, had occasion to go to Leeds
to convey a prisoner who had been apprehended in Liver-
pool, when be fell in with Mutch, and placed him in cue
tody.—Liverpool Mercury.
ALLEGED VIOLENCE OP TORN-OPTS AT MAN-
CRZWIER —Five cotton spinners (Hargr , Bullis, Win-
ter, Lowe, and another), lately in the employ of Messrs.
Richard Birley and Brothers, spinners and manufacturers at
Manchester, were yesterday brought before the magistrates
on a charge el intinsidai in. Blesses. Birley have bees
making an experiment with a view to economising
labour is their establishment. It has been the custom
to employ • great number of spinner., each spinner having
a piece, to assist him, whose duty it is to piece broken
threads; but Mean. Birley having made an experiment in a
room where viscera were employed, by which they
found that these piecers might be dispensed with, gave them
notice to leave the establishment. It was understood that
the notice would be afterwards extended to the whole
of the other piecen employed in the establish-
ment, and the spinners feeling aggrieved at the
e &arse which was taken, gave notice also, and
" turned out" about seven weeks ago. The eons,-
venee has been that other men have been employed who
submit to the new order of things, and the prisoners way.
laid these new hands as they left the works several nights
last week, and entered into • resonstmos with
them on the impropriety of " taking the bread out
of their months" (to use their own homely expression.) Ac
seeding to one witness the prisoners celled the new bands
knobstieks," and threatened if they did not leave Messrs.
Barley's; employ, to " kill," or " make them so that they
could not work ;" but this evidence was not borne out by**
statements of the other witnesses. Mr. S. Heelis, attorney,
conducted the case for the prosecution, and Mr. W. P.
Roberts addressed the court for the prisoners, appealing to
the peaceable conduct of the turn-outs for seven week. as evi-
dence that they did not wish to resort to violence. He did
not deny that the prisoners had endeavoured to persuade the
" knobsticks" from lowering wages by taking work at
Means. Birley. The alteration at Meson. Birley's would
hays the effect of turning out of employ ninety-ono women
and children, throwing extra labour upon the men retained
without incresee of salary, and a saving would be
effected of 2,0001. per annum. It was not won-
derful it in each a IMO a hard word or
two fell from some of the parties aggrieved, bat
he thought the fact that no actual violence had been used
by the old hands towards the new ones ought to plead very
powerfully in their favour. The magistrates, titer a long
consultation, committed the prisoners to herd labour for
seven days, manning them that • much heavier punish-
ment would fellow any future interference with the hands
now working for Melon Birley.
EXPLOSION OP FIRE-DAMP AT AIRDEIL—REs
PORTALS LOBS or Lisa.—Yesterday (Tuesday)
,evening, in-
telligence reached here (Glasgow) from Airdrie of the explo-
sion of fire-damp in one of the pits there, and the consequent
sacrifice of many line. The facts, as stated by our informant,
we subjoin, without vouching for their accuracy. Yesterday
morning, about seven o'clock, the town and neighbourhood
of Airdrie were thrown into a state of the moot intense ex-
citement, by the explosion of fire damp in one of the pits,
attended by great Wee of life. It is believed that there were
twenty-two pelves in the pit at the time--one ally of whom
had escaped the general destruction. Ile happened to be
near the foot of the shaft, and was thus monied to escape
almost unhurt. From the probable situation of the work-
men at the tithe of the catastrophe, it is conjectured that all
have periatici. Up till a late hour in the afternoon, when
our ialorirant left, nine bodies were said to have been got
out of th'a pit. How the accident happened will probably
never be ascertained. We understand that it is the practice
for ore of the miners, with a Davy lamp to examine the
date, of the air in the pit every morning, before the work
wearneseen. We know set whether this precaution bad
'seen taken yesterday morning, ea it seems the pence' who
"del*" that duty IS e killed. Davy lamps are
sot in ordinary has by the, who seem to pester Ives
safely—though it may be men waveniently—ewnetraoled
onee.—Glargoto Daily Mail, July 24.