The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.

The Grit grand metropolitan Meeting Orftwened by
the National Charter Aesopian°a was held yeseseday
Maine at the London Tavern, Bishotiegato street ; Mr.
y. ()Vox&Oa, )1.P., it the chair. The meetiag wee a
awry crowded one, cossistieg &hunt sulasitely of the
arerlueg elegem
Tee CHAIRMAN congratulated the meetly on the
„ablest proven of autism. Sr Joshua Wallasley was
tae of the etworeite. He had declared his adhesion
t. hie coestitimute at Bolton. It was now clear to any
tat( ding penes that the only mesas of snaring their
vi.mita *one was the adoption of manna suffrage.
Le. teem resseuther that they wen not yet nay the better
ior worm or free trade, nor could they le so without the
„gray. When parliament met Lord Joh& Russell would
c.ne forward and propose a large eat/Rake of the (ran-
abae. He well keen, however, that the measure would
b. throws out in the Lords, mid his tole object was to lave
• ety with while' to go to the custry at the ant
abebaa. (Hear, hear.) fla by as he (Mr. UCos-
a r 1 e:rod on the wateli•tower the pecp!e should not
be defrauded. The questio• had been asked, on
what ground he bed assumed to be the lender
of chartists' t His coniesissi re was greeted to him
I.!,ti, when the radicils of L mdcm, amaatrt whom was
p, wade, authorised him to represent t . (Hear,
beer 1 The workies classes had 'tithe dr beta disunited,
a.. 1 t• was up to their diuicion that the tower of the eirtgo-
er rested. They bed hituerto been abused. but he would
t ke cue that heacerherdi they should be neither abused suss
soul. (Cheers.) As the result of 28 yesn' • xperieuw, he
ueelared that if 20,000,0001 wire %Intik off the unatioa to.
sort..er, without the pewee of warding representatives to
parliament, the people would au. beattit by it to the extent
ad ore farhiag.
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Mr. REYNOLDS then moved the following resolution:
tt That ia the opinion of this meeting the alarming and
downward tendency of the labouring and general ammonia]
interests of the United Kingdom and the colonies is the result
of la present unjust and unequal system of government,
tromotisit, as it due., the turnips interests of a small faction
..t the expense of the people at 1-rge; and that this meeting
'sperms Its deliberate conviction that tbe only safe and
ed. Oval remedy for the colonies i► independent responsible
government, and fur the United Kingdom sorb a &nage of
our representative system as will place the House of Cam
sums under the direct eosinl of the nation, and by the ad-
mittal of the satire stale adult peadation within the p,l• of
irte slect-ral franchise, and whin W 0,4 be acooniplished,
most ea:nekton', to this meeting, by the enactment of the
people's m.arter as the bans of a nature constitution."
Se said the necessity for • zone,* reform was proved by
mar., facts, by the resent letter. in the Morning Chronicle,
the pauperism which was stamped on the features or
the pi,olation. They might depend upon it that the re-
i,tne v., rued by the +Ws wank, be th- sms/Isst possible
modicum which could be ad at paper. ( dear, hear.) Tee
a-yeasty of the country WY sow on its last legs, but it
grout.i Lot r. sign its um rp powers without Booking • des-
hive st.nd. (H• ar, hear.) This ins. • asomentous peri .1
in E history. Au aldose* between France and
Ao..ries aught trod to a destruction of British pow. r. Serb
toss tee p %don into "'bleb tai aredoersey would drive
cm. aun•ry. In order to pretreat such • catastrophe
thespeopie Sat raise their voices ana declare united, their
,),...sadaimon to have free institutiorai themselves and to
Or leinitations to the colonies.
Mr. "I'd RATH seconded the resolution. He s id it was
ti it enounh merely to attend meetings ; they must rads
a.e3 w tors a supine people. The resolution asserted that
tue troletcy of the people of this enuntry wa. downwarets
It night be questioned by some *homer teat wes owing to
te • e, ?Asti of an unjust and iniquitous parlOuneat. He
li••• el thin there was not atingle ill which afflict. d the people
welch was not traceable to bad poreerament or bad leguktien!
They had • Best Indian emp.re the inhabitants of which,
I; properly teemed, would be their b-it customers. But tee
unions:de people of that magadicent country were a
• roared down that thew were now the most wretched in the
• er: I. Let them look to the c induct of their govern. r• in
do lonian blames and Ceylon. (Hear, beer.) AU thin.
lan& at home and abroad woad be remediod it they bad
the charter. It was time for the people to be stirring, fur
ml other patties wen on the move. . .

Mr. YE:OWN. who was received with repestei cheers
tor inereut.ns !dwelt rue his long to eat, said
-n0 seeing been bound in nowt security to on of rood be-
r.voor lor tbs.,* yeare, and having mount t. add idea he
care In.. a comitatabie home aner suffering so wag a eon-
-6 -suet is a and end—be would not soy a d trop—but ab-
et. rely wet cell, he woulu not on the pretext a.. Minn dee
n there long It was with great pleasure that hr wit-'
c. and the seal displayed by the listener, and bend the
e ailments ro b aa.7 expressed by the r airman .red tree
who followed Ns, is al of whien he cordially concurred.
Seine smog its toutpl. 5. •gn ranee of sexist d in Eu-
rope for the last In months, con having be-n al to -es a
IMlg•Apif of t, 11." 'he stna.l.l: pi.c. of pruipd pa sr in
his possess on, or to ask a smsle quest.on iv. n rei.ung to
tee weather on to the htiltn tf
tutees (shanie). the few r. maze he should
wake most necessarily be of a ge-.,f41 nature
Ttey had bet nt hi that En„land was Foul down Ha
lair wed It .o t. • 1t..., beams* he knew, aeon Ise was put
‘lk IMO9O. th• r. were 1.,100,0110 romper. in Mankind,
30.,11.0 of ',moat'. al let.oiden living as 6.. a ekek, end
♦toe Oue •h.e reneriptions of lab-avers living a reel
tie•nr. Ile b. 1... thin was owing to bed legislaiiou—to
-.1.• atone more, in far, a .Ikb their bag net's had been
Cue rd ay no. who weer their serrates, for the pr pie
uk. amnion, and Muir rephte..intivee were merely
n-ir rinks. The. had feudal landlords, and sailowners. and
-nt kers. end in,n•yoteelteve—thos• • ho, lestavi 01 siding
• 'be 1.011,011P1N of sue people mane use of their post in, to
c:-u.. t .er owl pschts. (Hsu.) Pesch ibis:' could
• • centi..e• of tn. people bad their chaster end their AMP.
be lot- ad to the abetter as • iteppiss s:ohe to a bit
asi:o—the organisation of lab's: and t better

motto' M tee laud." (Cheera) Is het p.utisirTtie
ly al SW as a seam of raakiag a people sodaily better.
r, same mord and more Chrimiaa. (H at, hoar.)
fa Tenet 1111 th,oalit iwother rev- lutists was peresary, aid
ailed it would bo a moral owe. He hoped the people
.saki he Emote eawarb to pia their tights ssorsl meta s.
ab. HARNEY Lest schitemed tha meeting iu latitheetton

I be temarhasina e two earthe laoteatnt,rtoawa
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i..trie they meld have no hops from tse ecneine.ativut to be
pved by t►e whir, and even that, at the hood of whisk
r•.r J. Helmsley stout, could not satisfy this, ►maaae at re.
1..r0d the payment of rates—that was to my, a moony
he.r.) Now, that was opellostable,
.cauee at was the poorest portion of the commode,
tut mond must in need of the franehim.
main, the reform party ild WA attach to their
p..■ the principle of the payment of menthers, which would

them to select their ibembers hum —the
case. ( Hear, hear.) Now, his wevietisa eras, that_
ey,
tee Trellis( claws, would never be properly treated till
they were reprwratad by persons of their own order. (Hear,
hoer bot, notwithstanding this, he was very glad to see
sti.• little retool znevement, because be was sure that the
.trect curter would sow Weer. He thought it would
bt meth totter if they had cue great organisatioa
wee for all, because there would Otter be tree-
in this country ae lose as injustice cot
.a... 41 to he inflicted ea say party la the country.
the recent ravolutioas in Europe had no other use,
thry would et lees: have this benefit, that the peop'e
would *a mother occasion treat their pitiless and re-
conelies secures se they deserved, and show them that
sere; which they showed the people. (Hear, hear.) He
veered them to be neither peotectionista sot free-traders,
brit rharti.tr, or if anything different, let them be
s..artiets and thenelaing more. (Hear, hear.) He be-
..eved that if t••••• landed azia:ocracy had heretofore
warred them with wk•pe, the aristocracy of money, if they
t .41 the power, woithi 'outdo thin with scmpions. (Cheers.)
ice, had been told that the land ought to be free, that it
cadet to be bought aid sold like anything else. Bat he
•'.thied the right of any sea, or even elite state, to dispose
•.1 the lead. The rent of that land, it managed by the state
tr the benefit of the people, would afford ample mesas for
the education el the peev ~ sad for providing everything
eta which woe now pr.evided for by taxation. (Hear, hear)
I t (4 no other reason, yet for the sake of our foreign relations,
the charter ought to be carried. He woe one of thew who
tad advocated war on behalf of Hungary. (Cheers aced
Maws.) The result of a contrary course had been the ise-
Ftwomiut of Koseuth. He should glory in the fact of the
r.,weeks biewacking thirds/pr. equare. Why? Senses
the aid/weep sad the waded claw, would be compelled be
go dews ea their kiwi to the working claws for their
assistthee. The eloater would then be curled. Let jostles
be dew, sad the pe.pls of all nobs would do their
in definite of the coar.try ; but, without
ponce, the people would resemble the donkey in
tee fable, who, vibes threateaed with the enemy, coked
why ha should can for them ? Like Samos, burying these- hetet in the ruins, they might be diexamd to aid rather'
than repel the foreigner is his efforts to pull down the
preont eyetw.
KYDD said he repeated his statement which he print-
made 04 that platform, that the demand of maiming ...trap mu based on the moral principles of the rallies
thwer. • Cheers.) TOON who refined a reform browse le **thug. bad to take cheap when it ceased to be velem.
He agreed is the statement of the resehtliem, that
tee tweet, of this enemy was dowawards.
he nt.luti,4 woe thee put and carried unanimously.
Kr 1.1.4 kg proposed the following :
het in order to make effective the demand fer the enact-
r,t-tt of tie people's charter, it is necessary that the friends
_A %at should forthwith form themselves into as
few, e•re-thoe for that purpose; end that this meeting hereby
upon the working classes, to aopt the alum
"lirerterl,ll
es the one most essential to theidr moral, social,
"4. thvatiOn.
ie
,0.4 he or/retied to hive heard some observation in
-.ton of the efforts made by other bodies. (Hear, ryi t chertoth ant anything it meant liberty, and ne
Ti this world we to hideous as the deepsitissa of
, ) hitherto the middle claws bad
''tt"ror, the working dames acid the franchise ; and
';'• Et found en emaciation coming forward
l'"•l",iag
41 to en/rat:chime 4,000.000 of the people,
not COIMIIt to met a stigma upon it. (Cheers.)
not
not the leas with his ow" class because be
. very p •paler thatimesth which was uttered is
~:l ,•tio. The Ficascial lieteres Assoc/aim prcreed
L.* four militias data. (Cries of " No, no, 'aid
' tiede repotted his amertion. Ina voters
eteonly to use has
and if the four wilie *hen eofranehised, refused to share the franchise with
. one million, it would be the act of the isejs
should nut complain of it.
ChiF.N said it was gratifying*. lied that whaeareef
the „ p• •
ow there might be am apt them me art
f were rte
tall in favour of universal suffrage. MINS
4. as Caw: wched his wife to be, not wily Eller
bet above thspicion. (Hear, hear.) He Mani

with Ns. Cot lea with wised to tke iseproyekty of ha sk-
is* at the door of parlisawat. It was all my well fur Mr.
Cohdes to toy that 1111 w. hot he did sot do so whoa he
Mimi' was *Min adatissiou to tho legislature. (Dow.)
Mr. DICKSON supported tits sesslatisa, whisk was pat
awl earned saaairaawdy.
A vote of thanks wee them rased to the Chairman, Mr.
lil'Oretle (who took the their which had Imo mita by
Mr. O'Cooares), for which be retssued thanks, sad the teeth.
sekarated.