The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-31 00:00:00

THE LORD MAYOR OF YORK AND THE
INVITATIONS TO THE BANQUET THERE.

The Manchester Guardian, of yesterday, nye :
" &weal paragraphs hare appeared in the papers respecting
the strange omission to invite Lord Loadtaborongh to the
late banquet at York, Fives by upwards of a hundred mayors
to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of L and to which
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and acme of the royal

and theftWm eostatittee of the tent:ovum'

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wen invited as guests. There is at least one other omission
of a like kind, which we should be glad to see the Lord
Mayor of York explain to the satisfaction of the public.
A tentlemaa whoa the Queen selected as one of
the Royal Commission, therein honouring not only the
individual bat this great sad important community
whoa he may be regarded as represent/mg on that
oommission—this is the very gentleman whom Mr.
Seymour solicitor. of Yak, and now filling the ales
of its chief magistrate, has selected for the most extra-
ordiaary slight that could be offered. In pertinaciously ex-
cluding Mr. Seeley, the President of the Manchester Cnam-
her of Commerce, and a member of the Royal Commission,
from the list of gueets—not of his gusts, bat of the guests
of more than one hundred mayors, who were the reel
givers of the banquet—Mr. Seymour has been infelicitously
comprehensive in the extent and variety of his discourtery.
It is an (denim spinal the mayoral hosts, who have thus to
sutra from the imputation of iehnepitaliry and personal
slight oust upon th, tn by the Lord Mayor of York acting is
their name. It is an insult to the royal commission itself,
implying that one of its members wee not worthy of a seat at
the banquet. It is a slight and an insult to the community
of Manchester in the person of its representative en that
coenrausion. It is a wanton and unprovoked slight on an
individual standing high in the respect and esteem of his
fellow•citisens, and honoured by his sovereign. It is a breach
of faith with hie fellow-hosts and with his colleagues of the
committee, for which Mr. Seymour ought to be made ante•
nable, so far as their disavowal of all participation in thie
matter can fix the discourtesy upon him and him alone.
In Ude case we know that the committee had me share in the
blame; indeed, as soon as the omission was made known to
them, they insisted, in opposition to the Lori Mayor of
York, in doing what they could to repair the mischief. They
resolved to send a special messenger to Mr. Seeley, with a
card of invitation; but as this reached that gentleman's re-
sidence near Manchester within twenty-four hours of the
banquet at York, whilst the iovitations generally had been
issued a month previously, be had no course before him but
to &Ilia, the tardy and hurried invitation."

THE FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETIES'

MOVEMENT.

A public meeting, in furtherance of the above
movement, was held at Loughborough, yesterday evening,
when the lire, free school room was cr ,wded to excess.

116. J. BARROW, manger of the Lotghborough branch
of the Nottinghamshire 'link, presided ; and the secretary
reported that, although the Loughb3rough society bad only
been established two months, it had now 180 members, who
were subscribins for 209 shares.

Mr. J. TAYLOR, of Birmingham, addressed the meeting at
great length, his speech occupying about two hours in its deli-
very. After explaiei•g indeed the rules of the society, he said
—Some time ago he attended a meeting at Derby to assist in
the formation of ♦ society there. He was abused very much
the next week by • tory paper in that town, which led to
his attendiog a second meetieg, and the result was, before he
left the room on the second wilt 600 members were enrolled
in the Derby Freehold Lend Society. (Cheers.) The Bir-
mingham society bad purchased a quantity of land at Is. Id.
per yard, and another estate at 21. 14d. per yard. There
was no better investment for the savings of working
mm than • freehold land society. Everything else might
run away, but the land could not, and, besides raising men
in the social scale, it secured to them the political rights
which they were to anxious to obtain. After the Coventry
society had been established three months he had the plea-
sere of joining the members in entering upon their first
freehold estate. (Cheers.) Similar results had attended the
operations of societies formed at Cuticle, Dudley, Stour-
bridge, and Wolverhampton, and he hoped soon to hear of
the &erne sooner attending the Loughborough society. He
had himself procured freeholds which made him • voter in
seven different counties ; but he did not mean to atop there ;
he was a member of the Leicester society, qualifying for an
eighth vote.
At the close of the meeting 21 now members were en-
rolled, making a total of 202.