The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-13 00:00:00

THE
MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS.
MANCRZSTER, APRIL 12.
The late preeeedinge in connexion with the R.•.
Dr. Niko, of sorb a palatal rhizome% hors lid to a r
of - olia!orro, • ' '

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A Gnat -••••••re, whisk wee held at Li a verpool,
poster lag, whit tweelatieas ware pawed, dierrowieg all
moat :ion with, et Arlan etteswiunkia with, kiss, tad
ordering those readatiese to be made public
List *reales a pahlie afttiosof upurstde of 2,000
penes, was held It Mt. OpeashowiiWU, Wesh.leatßa„
is favour Nparileatentery sod ilaaaekl Morn. Eisharryd
deatotr, Req., took the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said he hoped the gustiest they were
stet to dimes evestiag 11'0%11 he brought to the sue
sweetest issue es the sag cern-law aphides. Nothing,
however, could he 'Mated without sel•ed earaestarre sod
hard week. As regarded finsaetal retorts, he was not di►
pond to take emu the wages of thole who had worked, bat
to destroy the tame for whisk there was no work at all.
There ware Reap ask= einettares
which aught to be sbolisked, sad saythleg M could do to
paten sod to that system oforatroazzrlopted for the
advaatette of the Taupe some tho soy, Ito would
do with ell hie might sad will.

BBNJAYIN GLOVER, Seq., Roved the Ant moie-
ties.—

that it is the °Finks of this unties drat than has bees
tad still is mash aaassassasy szpeaditan so the pan of the
British geversoksat of tits pablis hada, sad to noway that
and other griminess, a more equitable sag 'itemise tepee-
natation of the people la the li.sue of Cannons is squid,
called for."

The appearenes of the pressen meeting was sertainly
satisfactory to those interested in this question, as It showed
that there was in the town as urgent desire to obtain politi-
cal rights and privileges. The resolution he had read said
in the list place there had been an annemesary
expenditure on the part of the Beirin government
Tame wee on the part of the government an intention to
economise la Weis expenditure, aid some little imam of tax-
ate, had been already knocked of. It proved that the
government were beginning to tool that the people would no
longer uunely beat to have their Wads unnecessarily squan-
dered. Bat though we might messed in reducing the
expenditure, as the resoled's justly mid, they
must also have an attendee of die trenches.
There were a number of moil, of whom he owned he was
one, wh , would never net satisfied in mitotic. this question,
until they had secured for every mien as earnest veins in
meant the laws ho was called upon to obey. If the people
of this country contributed ai.anally 60,000,00 W. in the
shapeolt tame to goveram• at this that illy million ought to
b laid cut for the health of the people. It was right that
the people should have some coatrol over their anants ;
and be called upon theta to am every effort to obtain an ea-
ten:on of the Mine/Also, as the mac direct mean, of ob-
taining that metre& (Loud cheers.)
Mr. BAY seconded the resolution, weld was
retried unaissoss4.
Mr. CHATWOOD moved the second resolution—
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" That it is the opinion of this meetieg, that in order to
carry out the beferoniontistied etiolation, a parliamentary
mud llamas' reform lialkseiStios, Similar to those stready
ospeierd in other plases, mat be forthwith Instituted in the
town of Bury I. sone:ion with the association in London."

eonsideved change to be the characteristic of the present
age. The world was ea the move, and he was glad of it;
and amidst all the mutual= and strife which had been
eahibited within the last two years, the question of puha-
watery and Mandel reform was taking up a suspicious
pasitioa. (Cheers.) And he hoped, if he lived twenty
rem longer, to witness the funeral of the mgitation fir that
reform—aa agitation which had existed in this country from
about the year 1215. (Chien.)
Mr. DUNN having briefly seconded the resolu'ion, it
was carried amidst load cheering.
GEO. THOMPSONEeq., lI.P. said the universal cry
of the country was We have reacted the limit of ende-
mics as regards taxation." The Chancellor et the Exche-
quer himself, if be stood to-night on that platform, could
not but admit this. No other people ou the face of the
earth ever bore cash as amount 05 taxation as the people of
this tout try had dom. The whole object of taxation wsa
to support a government whose duty it was to give liberty,
protection, and justice to all, and one would think it would
not require sixty-one millions te do that; for this
was the amount of taxation collected in the United King.
does for the imperial purposes. If they compared our go-
vernme lit with others what did they find t TM, had a
republican government on the other aide of the A'lantic,
where 22 millions al men were ruled bp a president elected
Irma the peop'e. Tau President had Me ambassador, who,
by the way, theueltt no small beer of theasselvee—lseae-
taries of state, his po tinsateruneral, his army and hie'
navy, while the whole government expenditure was only
equal to 4. Id. per head. If they ernne to Bastes, with its
absolute emperor and despotism—Nichclas everywhere with
hie huger in the pie maintaining order—(laughter)—
the expense of governing them was only equal to
9s. PA per head. In France the cost was
about 244. ; but in E 'gland, with all its Williams,
wisdom, calculation, and ecenomy, we were paying, at the
lowest estimate, 45i. all round fur cur government. The
reams Gitlin he did not herniate to say, strange as it arght
nosed, was became they had a House of Commons. No
despot could ever have taxed the pe plc half so mach.
(Chasm.) Mr. Thompson then gairs• lively picture oldie
Mamma of our present representative system, and in
essclusioa, expressed a fervent hope that he night be slice
to see the My whoa the lessebise would be extended to the
great bulk of the people. lie seated himself amidst loud
shiers.

Mr. RICHARD OWEN moved the appointment of Mr.
Benjamin Glover as the delegate from Bury to the reform
continuos in London on the 23rd a• d 24th Mat. The mo-
tion wee wended and carried nuacimonaly.
After thanks had been voted to Mr. Thomyron and the
chairman, the proceeding, terminated.