The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-10 00:00:00

their sue la the veriest plates white were ern to the arks-
beetnny,they would be lied to train then artistries'.
tene. (near, hear.) mead all kis life bra ea adverse
fee him rade, .ad he bad, es the revises
te evesdailild Mr.
his face' that his sehems for eq rates
was a humbugging scheme. (Ch) re ) marl and
temente did LE row in the same boat, bath were interested
is the readjustment of taxation. Rome years ego the repeal
of the malt tax was earnestly adreard In that county
by the Duke of Backinglar. (Hier, bear.) There was
at the present time great inditeresses ea that subject.
(Hear, hear.) He Mitered that the landlords did rot want
to have that tax repealed, braew they nosived the lion's
share of it, either in pansies& or alphas fur their younger
elm. (Hear, hear.) He had sera it stated is the papers
that the hasn't ea the tends was to be reduced hem 3 to 24
per cent., sad that alteration would add 2,600,0001. to the
revenue. There bad aho been aarsouseed • minim of
2,600,0001. in the expenditure, end it had bees stated
that uthe 6th of April neat, the ter ra&
lion of the ananeial year, the Cleaseellor of
the Hultman would have • surplus of 2,600,0001
The queue° was, whu should give way the rams;
the landlord, or the tax-receiver
The CHAIRMAN then invited any person who desired to
speak
Cronpposition to the resolution to 00•1411 forward, and
there gno response, it was serried maid panel aria
=Woe, one hand only brag held up against it.
Mr. TAYLOR, of Birmingham, had come there as •
working maa of Bizmiaghasn to tell the meeting what had
Men Mc by his elms la the midland counties, and to endea-
gems to War them to follow so good an example. They
had jest_ passed a nenlatios, but what was the value of
that F? What eared the Hoar of Commons about Chair
mein leaf (Hear, hear.) The question for them
now to consider was, how they would carry out
the object of their moieties ? The answer wee simple—
teeth the 40s. freehold movement. (Hear, hear.) That
Mal the maly way to in.ke an Larnaca on the a 011,.. of
Oserneas. Did they in.agiue they would ever haw carried
the repeal of the corn laws if Lancashire and Yorkshire had
not been no.? (Hear.) His belief was that the claims id
the working WOWS would never be recognised by the British
Parliament, and that no sidecar' of taxed= would rise
pla • Raul the people could stand in the position, not of
opponents to the landlords, but of landlords thenuielves.
(Cheets.) There was no aiAlculty In this. He was • work.
log man and earned his bird by the labour of
nu hands and the sweat of bis brow, yet he was,
at this moment, the possessor of seven 10s. freeholds,
and exercised the right to Tote in as many counties.
(Cheers.) He was now getting the !mochas is the same
way for three others, Leicestershire, Hertturdshire, and
Derbyshire, each of which Le hoped at another election to
waist in winning over to the side of the people ; and if they
would only establish • freehold land society is Bucks, he
and many others of his townsmen would join it, and smut
in rescuing that county also from the hands of these who
now misrepresented it. (Cheese.) The 40s. freehold more-

went was the only mass al thoroughly Wu:min the Holm
of Common.

Mr. WILLIS (manufacturer, from Luton), neat ad-
dressed the meeting. H. regretted that it was found
sary to discuss again a question w►ich he had hoped and
trusted was dead and boned fur ever. Seven years since be
1 bad accompanied Mr. Cobden en his attempts to prove that
protection woe of no benefit to any clam of the community.
He inked the farmers, then, were they really sincere in wish-
, in` the return to protection, as it they wee., they must
expect an immediate revival of that egitatiou wh.ch he had
hoped was for ever buried ? Ho was prepared to prove that
protection b-re on the labourer, and ou tuin oaly. Who ate
tne bread Woo paid for it 1 The question was
asked by landlord or tenant, but the answer would be the
labourer, _ _ _

Mr. GIBBS proposed thinks to the chairman, also to the
High fineriff,aud te the gentlemen of the deputation.
Mr ROBERTSON (Luton) secon.ied lesolution,
which was canted unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN returned thinks, and the meeting
separated with three cheers for Mr. CAdess.